skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Something like Looking Glass (3D without glasses) could be the next hope for the TV manufacturers.
Maybe I'm being naive, but I would expect a larger portion of profits going to R&D from companies with a smaller portfolio of products in an industry where you're expected to have a large one.
Ok, we've changed the URL from https://www.airspacemag.com/daily-planet/stellar-mystery-how... to a different popular article that seems to dwell on topic somewhat longer before the aliens show up.
This is my thought. I suspect these are asteroids. The tell is whether the stars show up on plates, say, a year later. If so, then they're not asteroids.

However, that seems to have been ruled out in the Astronomical Journal article:

"Given the exposure time of 45 minutes of the POSS-I E red image, if our object were an asteroid that quickly moved out of the field, it would have left a stripe (and not be point-like)." (Page 5)

"The exposure time for the red image is about 50 minutes. If the object were an asteroid and was quickly moving through the field of the red image in a few minutes, then it would be elongated on the plate. However, this object is point-like. In addition, the candidate is anomalously red and not seen in the blue band, which further decreases the likelihood that it is an asteroid." (Page 13)
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401(k) is an amazing system, because it's accountable. The only use for a traditional pension is to hide the liabilities for someone else to discover later; or perhaps avoid the liabilities completely by declaring bankruptcy. 401k solves the problem by putting the assets with a third party immediately.

Maybe there's some way to have an insurance product to handle cases where people live longer than normal. That could be an improvement. But that should be handled by a fourth party.

That sounds like an annoying number of parties. But trust me -- mixing up of money for today with money for 30 years from now is just not a good system (in the private sector or government).
Pensions are insured by the US gov’t up to a limit, I believe around $60K per year.
That doesn’t make chemical sense. There is a huge energetic cost to smelting ore to remove the oxides, vs. landfill material that is exactly what you need but just needs to be sorted and cleaned.
Must be brand new, since I just set up an iPhone 7+ on the latest OS and I got a password autofill suggesting from Firefox Lockwise on the system Apple ID prompt (not during the setup flow, it was an alert dialog from Settings, if I'm remembering correctly).
> I fear computer science is often encumbered by a corrosive culture of "good enough" with respect to performance.

I feel that's more of a "software engineering" mindset.
>Every election system that allows more than two candidates or allows people to skip voting has this flaw.

This is completely false, there are plenty of voting systems out there that allow for more than 2 people to run, yet still require a majority to vote for you. Here's a playlist explaining several: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLNCHVwtpeBY4mybPkHEnR...
> The reason FB and Google pay well is because when they were startups, they were paying WELL

100% this. Most people didn't work at Google or Facebook back in the day in the hopes of winning the lottery. Those companies paid really well, had the best benefits, culture, and mostly they were working on a ton of challenging problems unlike most of the "giant tech companies" of the time.
There’s a much simpler example in armed attempts to take the Principality of Sealand
The possibilities of Bloomberg money & commitment to invest in digital/experiment are huge. My political digital wet-dream: an org with enough $$$ to get access to bid-stream + processing/compute/intelligence + large audience graph tied to voter data = biggest coup in voter profiling and targeting ever.

Modeled issue/turnout scores updated in near real time using a large % of every individual's entire web surfing/app usage history. Even a user graph graphed to 20% of voter file + bidstream data would be an unimaginably ginormous amount of data.

Like imagine receiving a field call & digital ads after reading an oped on universal healthcare by Bloomberg in nytimes, receiving call about that issue that night and a series of healthcare digital ads following you everywhere after reading.

it would be 'fb is listening to my phone' level of effectiveness - and as I'm sure nearly everyone here would say creepy/horrible.

i think a lot of DSP/players are now afraid of working in politics, but perhaps someone like beeswax or hell directly from IPONWEB would do it for the right money with the right protections built in. i bet bloomberg could also call up Oracle who has sucked up all the data companies recently.
(Not that I disagree with the sentiment) What office layout would you prefer?
Founders should be willing to give a lot more equity to the first employees. I don’t get the logic of not doing this. You want your engineers to feel as if they have ownership in the equity that you’re building. It’s such an easy way to keep engineers engaged and productive that it baffles my mind that it’s not done more widely.

I hate working for BigTech. Startups expect too much and compensate very little. The sweet spot for me has been medium sized public companies that offer great compensation but need solid engineering to grow their market share.
New material answers call for high-frequency electronics
I'm thinking if you concentrate 10 powerful lasers at one point in the atmosphere it would be possible to generate a plasma that could be moved around at speeds that would be impossible for an aircraft. What I don't know is if that would be detectable via radar, which supposedly this phenomenon is.
If someone was to build a Dyson sphere it would be done with distributed autonomous robots or drones and could easily progress very fast given that the required resources were available. I'm not convinced this is even a possible explanation for missing stars but they did move on from theory pretty quick.
We're an "integrated" system. The body / brain contruct is something we invented. It's what human do. But we are not a body with a brain, or vice versa. We are body+brain. Period.
> I have no desire to expend scarce brain cycles trying to keep up with who wants to be addressed in what manner.

This is disrespectful. You might think that this disrespect is warranted- that's fine; one must make judgment calls about what to respect and what not to respect. It's still disrespect. Be yourself: own it :)
DasKeyboards do not have French layout.
life expectancy in 1935 was severely dragged down by infant mortality.

What was the life expectancy at age 18? At retirement age?

If you made it past childhood, you were pretty likely to die far later than 61 years.
Came for the BUD/s, stayed for the Patstone.

You'll get what I mean if you watch this documentary.
We launched the ISS over 20 years ago. If you look 20 years down the road from Kitty Hawk, we had already built tens of thousands of manned aircraft and fought a world war with them at that point in time.

Apparently, 20 years of progress and "promise" ain't what it used to be.
consider signaling. if you only eat "real food", you give off a vibe (not proof) that you're some mix of: educated, with disposable income, purveyor of quality

this is largely the same with other quasi-positive labels (esp. political ones). lots of $$ to be made here, as people generally want to reinforce both their own and others' perceptions of them.
Is a man not entitled to the sweat of his bro?
The fact is that there are a bunch of younger programmers willing to work for a startup regardless of the comp. Founders naturally try to exploit this.
According to [1] xterm and mlterm achieve the best values for latency.

1.: https://lwn.net/Articles/751763/
only if you play golf in the highlands.
>Racism? It's Japan.

Perhaps racism isn't the right descriptor.

Japan has a caste system that puts India's to shame. It's smaller in the number of people living in the lower tiers, but the effects are amplified to a high degree.

At least India puts some effort, futile or not, into forcing representation for its untouchables.

In Japan, a member of the untouchable caste is actual, literal, human garbage especially in the western parts of the country.

It is illegal for parents to investigate the background of their children's potential marriage partners in order to determine if they are a member of an untouchable caste.

Investigations still occur regularly.

Anyone who claims that it is not still a problem is either lying, or is a Japan-obsessed foreigner whose impressions of the country are based on a weeklong trip to Tokyo.

I'm willing to bet that many of the children refusing to go to school are those with the "wrong" family name.
> The US is the third-largest nation by population. It stands to reason its prison population should be in the top three.

The US has the highest incarceration rate in the world (that's prisoner:population ratio.) And there's a big gap between the US and #2, and a bigger gap between #2 and #3.

> China executes many of its prisoners.

Not really, maybe around a tenth of a percent annually. It has no significant effect on the statistics (leaving out political prisoners from the count does, but even correcting for that China wouldn't be anywhere close to the US.)
Except, it doesn't have to work like this. If a nation is being exploited via loopholes of some sort, she has the freedom to close those loopholes. An increase in small personal nations would necessitate a change in policy (mostly around taxes), but would not be disastrous.

Aside from taxes, most other laws exist to prevent one harming another. If someone goes to an island in the ocean, why ought we to care what he does there? To put it differently: many cities have regulations against shooting off fireworks due to safety concerns. Few rural counties do, because while people can still harm themselves, there aren't too many others nearby to injure.
>It's a silly idea, but just a shower thought I've been mulling over.

I can't answer your questions, but I can add some more food for thought to think about...consider the impact of ones microbiome in turning genes like this on/off. So you may have the "selfless gene" as you call it, but by default it is turned off, so you don't warn your own of the predator, now same exact hypthetical, but it just so happens you ate something that introduced new viruses/bacteria into your microbiome, which happened to change your gene expression and turn on the selfless gene causing "you" to warn your kind of the threat. Did you really warn them, or since the gene was only turned on by your particular microbiome at the time, are you just a host being controlled by trillions of bacteria and viruses?
Ah, I see you have yet to meet my ex.
Background on Mainframe Zork
http://www.deblauweschicht.nl/retrogaming/mainframezork.html
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The US has basically 2 geopolitical threats - the EU and China. Destabilising the middle east might have inconvenienced them and denied access to the oil reserves there.

Apart from that silver lining, the US's adventures in that region have been expensive failures that have presumably spawned a generation of hatred and fear, and provided a cover of distraction from issues that might actually matter (like dealing with a debt burden that is on par with the World-War II response, or the dissolution of civil liberties in response to a threat that was extremely mild by-the-numbers). And the sheer futility and pointlessness of all the death, maiming and redrawing of maps is just breathtaking.

Imagine a world where political issues were dealt with starting with the largest and working to smallest. In this world, every debate would be mentioning the fact that entire countries are being persecuted for no particular gain. Mysteriously, this issue is not one of the most hotly debated issues (although it does get attention). Eg, when Trump talked about withdrawing the last few troops from Syria that was considered controversial. Would that more important people had courted more controversy before Afghanistan and Iraq.

All that is the long into to the point: I think GP meant that more American voters need to be exposed to war to generate the appropriate political response. The whole last 20 years of American military action turned out to be no-brainer bad ideas and people are still acting like they were defensible in some sense. The major anti-war voice in the Democrat primaries seems to be a veteran, which suggests that exposure to the situation on the ground helps form anti-war sentiment. If everything is automated, more idiots will think that the last 20 years of military activity are somehow appropriate and not crazy and less sane people will have the needed exposure to argue with them.
Because Public School is run managerially. Public School Principals have long been managers not educators, and quite frankly most teachers have the same mindset.
Seasteadding today seems a lot more like the ambitions of billionaires for their own benefit. I am not convinced they are interested in new forms of governance insofar as they are just interested in a tax-free region where they can skirt regulations on an absolute level.

I might be convinced if the discussion around these new societies they want to build were more focused on egalatarianism. Otherwise, it sounds like the societies they want have already been built and tried around 100 years ago with company towns like Fordlandia.
I like your reference to catabolic/anabolic processes. Alas, you then made some incorrect claims.

>you can't lift weights and gain muscle (i.e. grow) without also gaining fat

Of course you can. I'd be happy to share my Google sheet of daily weight, losing about 0.06lb/day, and my BodPod measurements showing going from 28% to 20% body fat while gaining 2.5lbs of muscle mass. Sarcopenia would have taken another 0.5lbs of muscle in that one year period.

Drew Baye has several articles on losing fat while gaining muscle[0]. In the first few pages of Body by Science[1], Doug McGuff defines health as (1) the absence of disease and (2) a balance between anabolic and catabolic processes. Except McGuff makes it clear that almost the entire population in the developed world lives in a catabolic energy state, eating way more than we need, never flushing the stored glucose out of our muscles, the tank is always full[2]. But while that is happening, sarcopenia [catabolic] is removing muscle mass as we age.

[0] http://baye.com/building-muscle-losing-fat/

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Body-Science-Research-Strength-Traini...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2PdJFbjWHEU
Thanks for the tip! I’m a backend/systems engineer and this is exactly what I need to make functional frontends when I have to.
You mean 'determination'? There are lots of determined, unsuccessful people.
Personally having also worked at monorepoCo, I would only recommend it to another company with a good enough system to support it. I’ve heard of places trying to implement it with git sub folders and hellacious branching, to great lack of success
I was waiting for the sedentary left to show up.
Gifted to all new hires, lent to all interns (gifted if finished ;-) : Why Programs Fail, by Andreas Zeller. http://www.whyprogramsfail.com
I understand the no js/plugins, but why not a static site generator?
Static site generators (at least most) are the only "new" technology that seems to make things simpler instead of more complicated, and SSGs are a massive time saver regarding themes, sitemaps, robot, optimization, etc.. and there are no dependencies at all.
It also helps me writing.
I run `hugo serve` that autorefreshes in the background, then I have split up my screen with right being my vim and right my browser.
Takes 1 second to see the result of what I am doing.
Dust on the optics or on the film during development.
Bird Academy
Are you suggesting that a 320 won't pitch up if you firewall the throttle at low indicated?

You have two massive sources of thrust below the centre of gravity. If you advance the throttle it will create a nose-up pitching moment.
The US population is nearly 5x of the UK, has a much larger area and perimeter, and is more wealthy (7.8x total GDP, 1.3x per capita). This no doubt makes drug trafficking not only easier, but also much more profitable in the US vs UK.

It would also appear illicit drug use in US is more prevalent than in nearly every other country.

Edit: I'm not sure how relevant this is to what you posted, but figured I'd bring it up because I think it's an important thing to note in the general conversation.
Here's the thing, why should I need to keep changing my behavior to stay head of the advertisers? On some websites I interact primarily through the keyboard, but on others I use the mouse because I'm doing a lot of scrolling highlighting.
They're trans fats: https://www.heart.org/en/healthy-living/healthy-eating/eat-s...
Big deal - x86-64s running Linux regardless of what CPUs and OS are named. Both are sort-of continuations of VIA's Centaur stuff (and I'd be surprised if they weren't still involved at some level).
I'm not a supporter of Bloomberg's candidacy, but we need to thank him and other tech leaders who are contributing to Democratic politics, especially the political infrastructure we so desperately need.

Critics are right to be skeptical about rich people spending a lot of money in politics, but that doesn't automatically mean every big money tech political initiative is in the wrong.

In the eyes of tech critics, tech is either not engaged enough in politics, or we're donating too much to political organizations, or we're turned away from directly giving money to Warren and other progressives.

Can someone tell me what critics really want the tech community to do aside from cease to exist?
I'm immediately reminded of Sealand:

https://www.sealandgov.org/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principality_of_Sealand

https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2019/08/se...

They tried everything: hosting servers, their own currency, their own crypto. It never really took off, but it was a fun and interesting effort.
Jarvis, an Alfred Alternative for Windows
Added some proper legal now :)
> Unfortunately, this is our reality.

It's not. Sanders is going to stomp Bloomberg in the primary, with a tiny fraction of the resources behind him that Bloomberg has and a magnitude more of the public support.

Trump won while spending a lot less money than what Clinton vaporized in her election campaign. He decimated the formidable Bush money machine right out of the gate, humiliating Jeb Bush as a weak candidate before the first inning was over.

This is increasingly the era of populism. It's raging all over the planet right now (Trump in the US, Brexit in UK, SD in Sweden, riots in Iran and everywhere else, and so on). The establishment candidates, such as Bloomberg, can't win under any scenario no matter how much money they burn.

Sanders and Warren are the only real competing candiates to Trump, as they're both populists. If the Democrats make the mistake of running Biden, he'll be embarrassed in the general election. Spending $500m vs $1 billion versus $2 billion will not matter in the least in 2020.
He says he ended up working for Palantir anyway, so he dodged the bullet then chased it down to dive back in front of it again.
Another big iff here: iff the true owners of the company permit you to do so. Most startups do not permit this, afaik, which further indicates what a longshot it was that he turned down an offer from one that does.
Dynamicism and innovation has always come from the frontier.

There's a lot of space out there -- the frontier never closes (well, a speed-bump once we fill up the solar system).

So of course individual colonies eventually will fill up, stagnate, and calcify. But we won't run out of land, the way we have on earth, where there's no room for new ideas -- because every useful square foot of land is claimed by a nation-state with guns and rigid ideologies.
RTCode - Real time code sharing web application
He probably confused profits and revenue.
Here's a few things, in no particular order:

Some of my favorite spots in Addis:

1. National Museum of Ethiopia - Lucy and other early humans
2. Mount Entoto
3. Ethnological Museum - Haili Selassie's palace is here
4. Shiro Meda - street vendors. Take a Ethiopian friend to get the best deals.
5. Yod Abyssinian Traditional Restaurant - Traditional music and dancing. Worth going at least once.
6. Addis Ababa Golf Club - Fun place to catch lunch outdoors with some green space in Addis.

Outside:

1. Simien Mountains National Park
2. Church of Saint George
3. Blue Nile Falls
4. Danekil Depression
A small thread from 2010: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1683554
Some will, some won't. Just like on earth, new forms of government will evolve. What we _do_ know from our historical past is that small communities can do much better at self-government in most cases. It's always harder to screw over your neighbor than a random guy from the other side of the nation, and easier for the neighbor to get redress.

More importantly, I don't think the possibility of a bad outcome ought to halt the progress of mankind in perpetuity.

Interesting thought: many suspect nations with frontiers flourish due to having an "escape valve". I am curious to see what an unlimited escape valve will enable.
Sounds like it'd open up some security holes.
Also Winter World (and the other two books in the trilogy). Fun read. Very similar in style to the The Expanse.
Pick your poison; I also have a Twitch channel:

https://www.twitch.tv/AngeldustLive

I'm not a social media user and I currently don't keep a public blog. There are many interesting aspects of Angeldust to talk about and I have many war stories from this and previous projects that would make for an interesting read or listen.

Just this evening I talked on my livestream about my rough introduction to SIGPIPE randomly killing my server processes. I can understand that a YouTube or Twitch livestream isn't the most convenient format for hearing these stories, but it's currently my most warm and entertaining way to share them.

Streaming is a highlight in my life, while writing out stories feels like work. Very faintly I'm crystallizing a plan to share knowledge in a written way, but for now I think the livestream is going to be my preferred way for requesting and telling stories.
I'm aware of the 2016 situation. What I'm saying is that the 'popular vote' is not actually a vote. The vote for president is based on 538 people who are eligible to vote, and in that vote Trump won.

Now, I know some people have issues with that only a very select group of people are allowed to vote for such a powerful position. But my counter point to that is where is the real differences compared to rules that say you have to be 18 to vote or you have certain legal status to vote. All of these laws can have an attempted justification made under the same argument of 'that's the way we've done it', 'it is how the Constitution says it should be done' or even 'if enough people wanted to, the Constitution can be modified to change it'.

>in terms of assigning points to the contestants

Is it actually assigning points? I thought it worked by states picking the 538 voters who will vote for president. In 2016 there was some debate on if those 538 people actually had to vote the way they said they would when they were picked, but from my memory the conclusion is that they do not. That's why I think it should be counted as the actual vote for president and not an assignment of points.
I recommend playing with TLA+ if you want to see how discrete math can map into compsci; you model everything in terms of discrete states and use logical predicates and set theory instead of "types".