skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m open to it, but I suspect it would be difficult to figure out all the things we’d miss even on a biological level. You don’t think people would read about planets and realize what they’re missing? I think they would curse their ancestors for ever leaving. This feeling of leaving some paradise and forgetting what we’ve even lost is a core theme of genesis, it’s as human as anything in civilization, and it’s only going to get stronger if we explicitly abandon where we came from (I mean this metaphorically, I imagine we’d be happy on earthlike planets, even if we do miss earth’s sun or whatever at first).
Would you say that it's also important to have infrastructure in place for renewable natural gas? Most natural gas companies have set goals for moving to percentages of renewable natural gas in the near future. The same cannot be said of coal plants.
I worked on a government contract that Boeing lost to Ford Aerospace. What happened was the top few executives that interfaced between Boeing and NASA were replaced when the contract was taken over by Ford. Every other employee simply left Boeing on Friday and were Ford employees on Monday. I discovered this after asking why all the secured and padlocked cabinets had Boeing asset tags on them. So even when the government tries to "do the right thing" by switching contractors it may not mean much.
https://www.invidio.us/watch?v=oRLON3ddZIw
> We generally don't build stadiums costing hundreds of millions so a billionaire can bring in Ballet.

I specifically pointed that out -- but I get it, you said 'billionaire' where I said 'team ownership'.

As your the other point, yes NYC built Lincoln Center to the benefit of generations. But they also put about $2.5 million annually into the New York City Ballet's operating budget. (Which is absolutely fine -- but don't kid yourself that they're self funding.)
Angular – RouterModule.forRoot vs. RouterModule.forChild
Yes, it sure does! Well, after 30 years, my memory of the particulars is a bit hazy. (:
Eh, almost every Canadian knows the made-for-TV movie version of the story.

I'm glad this piece of history survived, though!
Astronomers & cosmologists like to play games where they try to sketch out how a tidally-locked world might, just might, be inhabitable. I tend to think it's balancing on a pretty high-dimensional knife's edge on cosmological time scales; there's all sorts of directions that various resources can fall out of the habitable zone and not be able to come back.

For a terrestrial example of the sort of thing I mean, see things like https://www.astrobio.net/biosphere/earths-breathable-atmosph... it is thought that a lot of resources vital to life on Earth would have left the biosphere before life could even get going if Earth, or before the biosphere could progress very far, were not tectonically active. Trying to put together a habitable eyeball-planet seems like it has that problem to the tenth power to me.
The problem is that the atmosphere and weather is global. Meaning that snow that falls on the cold side will never melt or evaporate. Therefore there's probably no liquid water.

Liquid oxygen is dense enough for icebergs to float over to the warm side, but there won't be any oxygen before life can start photosynthesizing, and it would boil off long before ice could float close enough to the hot side to melt or evaporate. Liquid nitrogen is less dense than ice, so that doesn't help. Most other plausible liquids (methane, ammonia) are also less dense than ice.

It's difficult to say life would be impossible on a tidally locked planet, but it's certainly very unlikely. Remember that it took Earth something like two billion years to develope life, and this place is downright cozy.
Lawmakers Pledge Era Will Pass in Virginia. Then What?
Methane decomposes in the atmosphere... into CO2.
Is it possible that it was an A/B test with one variant showing the "sponsored content" byline, and the other hiding it?

I'm remembering the Stanford study in 2016 that showed 4 out of 5 middle school students weren't able to distinguish sponsored content from the publication's own content.

Maybe an enterprising Teen Vogue marketer decided to push that number up to 5 out of 5.

https://ed.stanford.edu/news/stanford-researchers-find-stude...
No, not really.

Practically, an iPhone battery is replaceable in you average mall tech shop in a mid sized town. In the 5/6 era, it was a 30 minute job if you’re being slow and careful. (I’ve got 3 screen replacements and 2 battery swaps under my belt from that era).

My understanding of the AirPods is that the complexity level is more akin to component level fixes for a main phone board. I’d expect that there are people who can do it, but they’re rare, and they’ve got specialized equipment, and it’s probably not worth it for an earphone battery.
Interesting, although I believe most neural nets nowadays have moved to use linear (relu) activation, which again removes the need for exponent and would work really well with fixed point.

Here's a reference using 16-bit fixed point neural nets http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7011421/?part=1
Why Was Qasem Soleimani in Iraq?
I read recently that Calvin Harris (music celebrity) made his first album on an Amiga.
What about pics from space? I see the curve. I don’t think every country is making fake pictures. Also there are plenty of amateurs with balloons and go pros and I don’t think they’re part of some grand conspiracy either. Also gravity.
I grew up in the town with the only uranium enrichment facility in Germany (operated by URENCO). That is where they feed gaseous UF6 (Uranium hexafluoride) into gas centrifuges to split it into a gas higher in U-238 and a gas higher in U-235 concentration. The process is repeated for the enriched U-235 containing gas. I got to tour this facility and visit the centrifuges with my high school class at age 16. (I joke that since then I glow in the dark)

Not far away (20km) is the temporary nuclear waste storage Ahaus (pretty similar to Gorleben).

About 60km away is Lingen where the company Advanced Nuclear Fuels converts the UF6 enriched in U-235 to Uraniumdioxide UO2 for direct use as nuclear fuel.
The nuclear power plant in Lingen uses this type of fuel among other power plants.

At this point URENCO is still operating in Gronau, however it appears that Advanced Nuclear Fuels now primarily exports nuclear fuel to other countries.

None of the raw uranium ore used in this process comes from Germany. There is plenty of controversy around the sourcing of uranium by URENCO and others.

Sources:
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urananreicherungsanlage_Gronau
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transportbeh%C3%A4lterlager_Ah...
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brennelementfertigungsanlage_L...
The idea of "tactical" nuclear weapons needs to go away. Nuclear weapons are strategic by their very nature. In my opinion, any use of nuclear weapons at all should result in a full strategic nuclear response against the offending country. Otherwise there is no credible disincentive against using nukes in casual warfare.
Live your idea ;)

I built https://egghead.space exeggdly for this - absolutely some pun intended ;)

Just look at this awesome idea: https://egghead.space/sketch/iKGw9vQ9Qmub39Djz1ZR/Fallout+4+...

I never managed to bring it beyond alpha stage though and no one ever used it.

Main problem for me was that I always got the feeling it looked just ugly. I'm not a designer, so that was really demotivating...
Or they could, you know, not destroy your settings when you update by hand.
This millennia is not ended yet, so it is too early to count total number of victims of nuclear accidents.
https://github.com/google/gemmlowp
Sashimi/sushi slot nicely into $$$+ pricing range because the small portions and emphasis on presentation are very similar to the aesthetic often found in high end gourmet restaurants, which tend to serve things that are beautiful, tasty, and tiny.

At least where I'm from there's bimodalism in Japanese cuisine if you count sushi rolls, which can be had dirt cheap (pretty localised/internationalised though). I like cheap sushi here because the cheap sushi game is usually locked down by koreans, so the rolls end up being this blend of kimbap and sushi rolls.

Dunno about Korean restaurants in the west though, have only been to Korean restaurants in Korea.

edit: Wish I was from/lived some place with nice cheap Italian sandwich shops etc, that must be amazing.

To edit further, I think western consumers' perception of a country (as well as what you said about the country's population) affects price as well
> I recently engaged in a fun, joint Psych Spectrum roller coaster with a stranger on an airplane. We were on the runway, getting ready to take off, and I was doing my typical “I know the flight attendant said to turn all phones onto airplane mode but the whole policy is really quite inane so I’m just gonna keep texting until we take off and I lose service” thing, and a woman next to me decided I was an asshole and loudly told on me to the flight attendant, who was busy and didn’t hear her. So I did the only reasonable thing—I stealthily turned my phone onto airplane mode, re-opened my texts, and very out in the open, started typing a long text. The woman—my new eternal arch-nemesis—took the bait. She saw me texting and again got the flight attendant’s attention, saying, “Excuse me but he’s still texting.” When the flight attendant asked me to turn airplane mode on, I showed her my phone and calmly explained that airplane mode has been on this whole time and I just like to get some texting out of the way during flights—texts that don’t send until I land and re-connect to the internet. The flight attendant said, “Oh then that’s totally fine—my apologies.” I replied, “that’s okay,” and did a little “it’s amazing how awful people can be right?” sigh. Satan watched the whole thing and then just sat there silently, hopefully very embarrassed. It was an unbelievably satisfying, triumphant moment.

Not the main point of the article obviously but man, the writer makes himself sound like a bit of an asshole with this story. Didn't encourage me to listen to his other opinions.

Edit: I kinda regret making this comment since I think it detracts from discussion of the article itself, which is very thorough and thoughtful in general. Maybe this is a meta Psych Spectrum commentary.
What I find an interesting design choice about Go’s approach (using ‘defer’) is that they are executed at the end of the function — not the end of the current block:

https://play.golang.org/p/q5n0P-mKrmS

This means that if you were to alter a function by placing parts of its body inside a loop, you may accidentally introduce O(n) buildup of deferred statements. This means that you could also be piling up resources associated with those resources (e.g., O(n) file handles).

Because the number of ‘defer’ calls is thus unbounded, it may be the case the compiler needs to generate code to store the list of pending closures on the heap. This may already happen for bounded functions if the compiler is unable to analyze it. In those cases it may thus be faster to resort to traditional C-like error handling.

Optimizer passes for eliminating this overhead were added to Go 1.13: https://golang.org/doc/go1.13#runtime
Highly recommend this as well. His audiobook for the Storm before the Storm is also very good for the Republican period between the Gracchi and Marius/Sulla.
Absolutely. Maybe I'm using the word learning an an unusual way. Anything and everything you observe that you remember is what I meant by learning, including putting two and two together.
>Processor design pitfalls - Designing a high-level ISA to support a specific language of language domain

Is there an equivalent pitfall in designing the ISA to support a specific Virtual Machine?

For example, wouldn't the performance of a server processor when running the Java Virtual Machine be a key factor in determining its commercial success? I've always wondered whether the failure of Itanium wasn't at least partly caused by the shift from binary executables to bytecode with the contemporary success of the Java language. Even when JIT compilers were used, they were probably too simple to take advantage of the VLIW architecture.
The Cult of Remute
56 Ways to Break into Startups
Sitting in the stacks of the Internet Archive is a collection called “Catalogs”
I may be misreading/misinterpreting their comments, but the gist I got was that while natural gas isn't great, it is better than coal. And if we only focused on going for great, we'd still be coal only.

I might be misreading, but I don't think they were advocating avoiding solar/wind/etc. (just that they weren't easy wins).
The one thing I remembered from school about vi was:

:q!

Figured that would be useful to know in future.
Unfortunately with scientific computing the only place I see D could be writing custom performance critical algorithms but then again for university folk it is more straightforward to do it in C++ or C since there are plenty of code snippets lying around.

There is excellent mir library but its documentation is subpar, no tutorials or any examples too. There is Netflix Vectorflow small deep learning library but only for CPU and only feed-forward networks, so it works for some specific narrow case. There is fastest on earth csv parsing library TSV-utilities from one of the ebay engineers but I have only learnt about it when I started looking through D website resources, also no tutorials. There are tools but using them needs more time investment than alternatives.
The ethical thing, of course, is to seize the property of wealthy individuals and let the woke illuminati determine how to distribute the spoils.
Just note this is from 2016, although a lot has changed TS is transparent about their changes if your looking for them. However this is a YMMV argument, hence why most publishers in the JS community. If you understand where JS drops and TS picks up then usually it's great, but if you're trying to force JS into a strongly typed language... you get this.
Wasn't there some guy who was crowdfunding a rocket so he could go up and see for himself? Whatever became of that?
Been there. Almost nobody uses it. But from what I read in the newspapers, the few times it does get used, it seems to have more than its share of crashes.
everyone on HN should read the entire series.

It's a commitment, but there is no better writing happening right now.
Came here to say the same thing, you beat me to it!
Off topic, but Sony really needs to get better with naming their products.
The origin of life, why life is evolvable, the evolution of the complexity in a eukaryote cell, and multicellular consciousness/intelligence are to me big unanswered questions in science.

Although, life can be reduced to chemistry and chemistry to physics I feel we are missing some high-level self-organizing principle of the universe.
Does he? Not sure I agree.
TL;DR: political polarization in the USA has measurably increased, and this is bad for the country and its citizens.

However, some data suggest that that two-thirds of Americans fall into what they call the "Exhausted Majority", people who are fed up with both major parties, and politics in general.
They already reject plenty of rides, they just don't do it until they get to the pickup location. I've had drivers I've called in oakland cancel my ride to my face once they see that my destination is over in SF. Usually saying something like "I don't go over the bridge". Pisses me off every time.
CVE are assigned from the year the vulnerability was found. Not when it was announced.

However, a CNA like Firefox does not allocate CVE as they need them. They first ask Mitre for a block of X CVE to use as they need. They probably got a new block in September.
I wouldn't be surprised if we develop brain uploads sometime in the next 400 years, at which point the focus on trying to recreate earth-like environments anywhere will look silly.

There's probably a lot of other advancements over the next few centuries that we can't imagine. Our current view of space colonization is probably going to have as much of a connection to the future as the Tower of Babel had to the Apollo program.
You don't send a message if the receiver can't understand it.

People need to have a point of contact with that extrapolated future to became a popular science fiction work, even the culture in the far future fiction is usually pretty similar to our own (or at least, the one of the moment where that book was written).

Present works (not the ones with inherited universes from old ones) are updated to our current expectations of the future, so you have sentient computers and other "possible" technology, and probably in 50 years we will have a different set of standards and not something as naive as what used to stand as possible 50 years before.
So it's like the Bluenose of aircraft?
The hyperreal.
If you are responsible for very expensive scientific equipment, that will likely get unusable for years or even possibility of damage, fully dependent on goodwill and promises... you voice your grave concerns and get dismissed "bah just stirring anger to serve some interests"

Until SpaceX gets some senior astronomers onboard with some plan, I'm not convinced.
It makes me feel like I should wash my hands with soap and water after handling.
I also use D for data & ML at work (Netflix) when standard python workflow doesn't cut it anymore. There's just so far you can go with the typical "call a popular python lib interfacing with a C++ backend" paradigm before hitting a brick wall.
These calculations are full lifecycle including everything listed. I belive the big difference here is related to energy used during fabrication of the solar panels and the mining of raw materials.

These are all per kWh so capacity factor of wind or solar is not relevant for this metric
DNA as the molecule of encoding information for heredity is also "merely" a discovery of an ancient biological system. However, it's not as though physics predicts the existence of DNA specifically, or CRISPR, yet these things are important for understanding biology, and in the case of CRISPR it's been turned into a technology that humans can use. Which is why I have a lot of complaints about the commonly held belief such as this one:

> merely be elaborations of basic principles that already exist, rather than elucidations of any as-yet undiscovered principles.

This is not a meaningful or thoughtful examination of even chemistry. 3D structure of proteins is "merely" an elaboration of physical properties, yet "physics" doesn't have the tools to make much progress on solving the 3D structure of a sequence of amino acids, despite it being a purely physics process.

Is the world "physical" in the sense that probably don't have new fundamental forces of nature? Of course. That doesn't mean that physics helps understand much of the physical world, because the "elaboration" in the "merely elaboration" has nothing to do what physicists or other scientists consider "physics."
Maybe it wiser to spend some profits of nuclear industry on problem of nuclear waste first. We already has tons of waste. Chornobyl and other sites are still waiting for a solution.
> continuously move our head around in multiple dimensions. A car can't do this

Doesn't isn't can't. There's no reason why car-mounted hardware can't move just as much as eyes do.
D is nice, but again, its tooling is NON-EXISTANT

where do you write your code? VIM? ok go fuck yourself
You're being a little dramatic
Let me halt you right there...
https://hackaday.com/2017/07/29/injecting-code-into-mouse-fi...

Aimbots these days look almost indistinguishable from good playing. The point isn't to be perfect. It's to give some kind of competitive edge. If you can take even 15% of the effort away then you can focus on other things.
It's an and, not an or. People get good at living in space. Some of them move next to a new planet because it has resources. Some of those people have to go to the planet to exploit those resources. The rest stay in space. Now you've got a populated planet. Maybe they'll do some terraforming. I'm not sure what will be practical, but it's not hard to imagine that at least some basic terraforming is probably feasible just by constructing life forms that can live on the planet and further move it in a direction intelligence likes, even ignoring massive, energy-intensive interventions.

Not all the space people have to move to the planet, just like when North America was populated it didn't depopulate where they came from.
Part of the German public and political class can be "scared shitless" until they're blue in the face, they have no leg to stand on.

If I were Belgian, I sure would remain deaf to a lecture about energy and the environment, by one of the worst European contributors to CO2 emissions and emitter of deadly fine coal particles causing dozens of thousands of deaths now

Germany, this is so out of character for you. You have the resources and smarts to be leading this effort instead of clinging to one terribly misguided populist decision 20 years ago. Until you do though, I would keep a low profile on these matters.
I reached the same conclusion. We need a way to be able to explicitly say "this piece of code here is a standalone unit that is independent of everything else until we have to coalesce results of computation", or "this unit manages those other units and coalesces their results".

Erlang's OTP captures this pretty okay-ish with their concept of processes (preemptively scheduled green threads that get aggressively multiplexed on all CPU cores) but I feel we can go a little bit further than that and have some sort of shorter markers in the code, say `actor { ... }` or `supervises(a1, a2, a3) { ... }` or something.
Its bluetooth, there will be bugs and crappy implementations. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluesnarfing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluejacking
"And my emacs config, of course, though that's hardly distraction free." :D love to read this :D
Literally the next paragraph he writes:

“But that’s not what happened, because her aggressive tattletale move immediately threw my Primitive Mind into a rage, plummeting me down the Psych Spectrum. This banished my Higher Mind to the closet of my subconscious, allowing my Primitive Mind to come up with a genius-yet-psychotic plan for revenge. Which worked, and made my Primitive Mind feel deeply satisfied in a very not-grown-up way.”

His entire point is that the average person acts like an asshole some of the time and like a kind person some of the time, and that it is incredibly easy to cherry-pick examples to paint someone in a bad (or good) light.

Which is exactly what you have done here, proving his point!
I'd humbly recommend you Kon Sathoshi's "Paranoia Agent".

Wikipedia link (warning: spoilers ahoy): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paranoia_Agent
As with many things, Richard Feynman did it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19761433
Sennheiser has a cable and earpad replacement program, last I checked (which was admittedly years ago). They aren't the type of company to rely on planned obsolescence in order to make more sales.
The Challenge of Hitting Goals That Have a Time Lag
Pedantic, but I think on the initial screen this should say "Enter your birthdate" (or "date of birth") rather than "birthday" - the former is when you were born, the latter is the thing you celebrate every year.
I’ve got a DeskMini system with a 3400G. 1.9 Litres + a power brick is manageable under a TV.
That was fun, thanks
I don't feel that's the core reason but you do bring up a good point; some technologies are too good for their time and get swept in the history books due to nobody having a clue how to utilise them properly.

Not sure if that's the exact case for Itanium but your argument fired a neuron. :)
Tactical nukes are those that one uses against military targets. Of course, they kill over some radius, but it's not a given that they would affect civilians.

You may be thinking about strategic nukes.