skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s possibly their right to do so (depending on if these ‘declarations’ survive the Polish and European courts). It’s also the right of conference organisers to go somewhere with a less unpleasant government, though.
It’s all because of card fees. It’s not economical to charge $0.5
What Having a “Growth Mindset” Means
so it's not a completely made up language like klingon but just a dialect of english? sounds entertaining for an amateur linguist to study!
Ouch, please don't be a jerk on HN. I know it's common on the rest of the internet, but it will get an account banned on Hacker News. Would you mind reviewing the site guidelines and taking the spirit of this site to heart? We'd be grateful. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

graycat is an elder here. He has an interesting history in technology, I dare say more interesting than most of us ever will. He deserves better than your reply (as would any other HN user). Check out these posts:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12404220

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5600111
I found him through his chat with Sam Harris: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFQ5H3zpkMU
Mike Duncan for President!

And an episode of In Our Time, every once in a while.
But the national government is pretty bigoted, and seems to be treating the anti-LGBT thing as a crusade right now. Seems like reasonable risk reduction for the organisers, if nothing else.
Re-reading the parent, I think he meant that in general not OotW specifically.
They use mercury lamps. I took one apart to use the lamp as a wavelength standard. Don't try that at home, the sterilizers have interlocks to prevent accidental eye and skin exposure.
While Google has many fine products, I don’t think any of them can replace your parents. :)
Encyclopedia of Mathematics
Last year I picked up this book Truckstop Rainbows, and it was great. Late soviet angstsy gen x snapshot
I suppose that you first need to identify what's causing your self-esteem issues. I've had a problem with always looking at "the big picture," and consequently, seeing how little of a difference I ultimately make.

I'd recommend reading The Conquest of Happiness by Bertrand Russel [1]. Some great excerpts:

> When I was a boy I knew a man bursting with happiness whose business was digging wells. He was of enormous height and of incredible muscles; he could neither read nor write, and when in the year 1885 he got a vote for Parliament, he learnt for the first time that such an institution existed. His happiness did not depend upon intellectual sources; it was not based upon belief in natural law, or the perfectibility of the species, or the public ownership of public utilities, or the ultimate triumph of the Seventh Day Adventists, or any of the other creeds which intellectuals consider necessary to their enjoyment of life. It was based upon physical vigor, a sufficiency of work, and the overcoming of not insuperable obstacles in the shape of rock. The happiness of my gardener is of the same species; he wages a perennial war against rabbits, of which he speaks exactly as Scotland Yard speaks of Bolsheviks. […]

> But, you will say, these simple delights are not open to superior people like ourselves. What joy can we experience in waging war on such puny creatures as rabbits? The argument, to my mind, is a poor one. A rabbit is very much larger than a yellow fever bacillus, and yet a superior person can find happiness in making war upon the latter. Pleasures exactly similar to those of my gardener so far as their emotional content is concerned are open to the most highly educated people. […]

> To all the talented young men who wander about feeling that there is nothing in the world for them to do, I should say: “Give up trying to write, and, instead, try not to write. Go out into the world; become a pirate, a king in Borneo, a laborer in Soviet Russia; give yourself an existence in which the satisfaction of elementary physical needs will occupy almost all your energies.”

Now, you probably don't want to go that far. But the point is: your life doesn't have to be grand or world-changing in order for you to be happy. You probably won't end up in the history books, but there's still a lot of cool things you can do before you die. You probably won't be the next Charlotte Brontë, but maybe you can write one book. You probably won't be the next Florence Nightingale, but maybe you can donate to the Against Malaria Foundation and save a dozen lives.

[1]: https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.222834
The hidden persuaders by Vance Packard

I read this book as a kid, it changed how I view the world and I've never forgotten it's lessons. It shows how the ad world is working hard to persuade you. It convinced me to always question what are represented as facts by ads or the media. A healthy skepticism has served me very well.

Most people never deeply question and Packard is correct that there's an entire industry trying to persuade you. Not just what product to buy but which college to attend or which company to work for and yes even which political candidate to vote. Those very same hidden persuaders, some of the brightest minds in the world, are working on the web still trying to persuade you to click.

The closest way to bring it to HN world is PG's famous essay The Submarine that talks about recurring themes in the media such as 'suits are coming back'. The public relation professionals planting those stories are also hidden persuaders.

http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html
I think the dean would freely admit this. If elite colleges had a perfect admissions process, they would never fail to admit people who go on to accomplish great things. But they do. All the time.

The issue is that they have a limited set of things to go on. And high school performance, test scores and extracurriculars just aren't a great predictor of success, but they certainly better than just picking students randomly.
He made his billion from PayPal (software) and really went serious to make a dent in hardware.

I really wish more billionaires, govts and VCs poured money into serious hardware and manufacturing.

It really seems like US has lost its edge in manufacturing. 90% of the things in the mall/online seem to be from China.

The economy may be doing great today but really not a great sign of the future.
> The military is labor heavy, and production is mostly domestic.

Russia is decades behind in high-tech and has only limited access to western technology in many areas. The country largely lives of selling natural resources. There is a many years ongoing embargo on high-tech in many areas - also from the EU. There is basically limited technological cooperation with Russia in many high-tech sectors right now.

The result is that Russia has only a few somewhat competitive areas in military technology and needs to invest a lot of money into those: Nuclear weapons, rockets, space technology, etc. Selling those weapons helps their industry a bit.

This affects for example how much money they have to deploy even tanks:

https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/22600/russia-cant-affo...

For example they have only a single old aircraft carrier:

https://www.newsweek.com/russia-admiral-kuznetsov-murmansk-f...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NmUpZDb3W0Q

The US OTOH has none or ten whole carrier fleets...

Russia has submarines and a lot of nuclear technology. From time to time an old one sinks. The older ones are rotting somewhere...

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-48897468

That Russia has cheap clothes for their soldiers, or can mass produce tanks for their soldiers does not help them, if they don't have a competitive high-tech industry. Keeping the nuclear weapons (rockets, submarines, launchers, spy satellites, ...) is extremely expensive and where the money goes.

For the West it's much easier to cooperate on technology and weapons.

See the list of carriers: most of them are from US, NATO or allies.

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

It's clear that 65 billions USD doesn't buy much on the world market, even though the costs at home are low. The rest of the economy does not support their high-tech needs...

It's not that Russia has no competitive weapons, but the breadth and depth is simply not there. Russia selectively chooses areas where they develop competitive weapons with their more limited resources.

True, the Russians don't reveal the full scale of military costs. But the US does the same:

https://www.thenation.com/article/tom-dispatch-america-defen...
At our cafeteria they have installed a big screen to display the meal choices of the day. There is the little popup saying that windows needs updates, another saying that the antivirus software cannot connect to the internet, and some other blinking junk in the corner. That is, when it isn;t kicking into screensaver mode or is just BSOD. So under that 1000$+ LCD arrangement is now a whiteboard with a marker on a string.
what did you find most useful about it?
Bribing is bad. Lobbying, that is completely ok, because that's a lot of money.
You realize trolls can wreak havoc with traffic today if they wanted to?
React Admin has the concept of data providers which can be swapped out.

https://marmelab.com/react-admin/DataProviders.html#availabl...

So for example, you could start with Hasura back end (GraphQL) and later swap to a custom JSON API without changes to the UI code. As for the react-admin framework, it's been around for a while and has regular frequent.
Excuse this ignorance from C# land, but how does one get by in C++ without ever writing "new"?
I remember looking at both Python and Ruby when I was getting into dynamic languages - this was the time when Rails just showed up, and Ruby was suddenly getting a lot of attention.

I vaguely recall that Python documentation was generally much better at the time, and especially so the parts on writing extension modules. With Ruby, it felt like the English reference docs were largely an afterthought - you pretty much had to get a book on it to get far, and the more advanced sections (like extensibility) were especially lacking.
https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/foundmyfitness-rhonda-p...
What I found to be the most interesting observation is that the majority of the grains found have an age very close to the assumed age of the Sun itself. This kind of implies that the the cloud that the Solar System formed from was mostly seeded by the event that began cloud collapse.
> even go super old-school and run a web server at home. It's not as if we're short on options in 2020.

Though it's old school, it's incredibly difficult to run server at home now at least in India. The network I connect to is behind a NAT which is behind another NAT. At least that's what I saw when I tried to host my blog on Raspberry PI at home over a year ago. Ultimately I gave up on that endeavor. If anyone has solution that doesn't involve third party, please suggest.

I think I will have to wait until my ISP implements IPv6. That could take another decade :/
Absolutely! I think both sides got what they want and I'm pretty happy with this, as are both of them I imagine.
My favorite Murder, I ended up bonding with coworkers I had nothing else in common with when they started and gained some amazing friends who I would have never otherwise gotten to know
How it Began by Brad Harris. Beautifully written and piqued a whole new level of interest in the history of the modern world.
TIL four EU countries (plus three micro-states, but they have open borders) are outside the Schengen area. So I stand corrected.

But I see that they are all expected to enter the agreement. Does anyone know how long this will take? Romania and Bulgaria have been members for close to 13 years. What's taking so long?
> That said I am not sure when Crystal becomes production ready or 1.0.

I don't doubt a lot of newer tech solves many lingering problems that are still present in older tech but that's the crux of the issue right there in your comment:

We work for money and we have to get stuff done in acceptable amounts of time. And our bosses want us to write with technologies they can hire for, in case we get fired or killed by a bus.

I can't speak for everyone but now, at 39, I already have a bit of a fatigue and burnout when it comes to trying new languages. I just want to sit down and fix a problem (or create a feature) without having to sift through a forest of competing tech for days or even weeks.

Please note that I am not berating Crystal in any way. I know absolutely nothing about it. I am simply unwilling to invest in learning my (I think) 9th language. Elixir and Rust do me pretty perfectly lately and this is going to be the case for a while.
Looked exactly like KSP
1) the Dragon initiated the F5 booster shutdown when its sensors detected that it had reached the pre-programmed abort velocity
2) the Dragon initiated the escape according to the abort sequence, not by ground command
3) the fireball was initiated by structural failure as the F5 broke up due to aerodynamic forces, not by the range safety destruct.
4) All of these abort sequence actions were explained in SpaceX's live stream.
I'm not sure that migrating to systemd is as hard as you think, I've done it on my Debian release train, and I've also done it with Ubuntu, after migrating from Sys-V to Upstart, no less even...

It's actually standard policy from what I understand on the distros that are in the RHEL family, that upgrades between major version of releases are officially not supported.

So, Fedora is nice, but if you're using RHEL, be prepared to rebuild everything from scratch every 2-3 years, I guess?

The same is true for Amazon Linux -> Amazon Linux 2.
EconTalk with Russell Roberts has been huge for me. He is a free-markets, small-government, classical-liberal kind of guy and always brings on interesting guests to talk about a variety of things, including views that he disagrees with. Often the guests are promoting a book that they recently published, but the books are interesting too so I don't feel like it's "too promotional".

https://www.econtalk.org/
He means you're statement isn't objectively true.

(But I would say that containers used right, do objectively make our lives easier.)
Foundations of Decision Analysis by Hubbard.

Sounds interesting, but I couldn't find this in a quick preliminary search. Do you have a link handy? The only book titled "Foundations of Decision Analysis" I came across was by Howard and Abbas.

Also, not sure if this is related to the Hubbard you refer to or not, but there's a gentleman named Douglas Hubbard who has written some really excellent material in this area. I consider his book How To Measure Anything to be one of the best / most important books I've read, and it's one I recommend to pretty much everybody.
I would imagine that LED backlit LCD screens are some of the longest lasting computer parts in the world. Gauges are physical devices and can go bad too.
> I am skeptical that full self-driving cars will happen in the next few years, but he is completely wrong when it comes to the long term

I think when someone says 'will never happen' they mean 'not in the foreseeable future'.

Obviously the environment, usage and science can change such that full self driving could happen. I mean in the 1600s nobody could imagine a Boeing 747 flying loaded with hundreds of people, sure.

But the hype around self driving (by all the dreamers) has been that it's more or less 'right around the corner' not in 30 or 40 years or even 20 years.
If you're confortable with Laravel PHP, check out https://backpackforlaravel.com/.

I've used it for a couple of projects over the last few years.

The OSS project has really gone a long way since the earlier days (it was actually called Dick).

Seems to be quite popular too:

500.000+ downloads

14.000+ developers use Backpack every month
I don't think that extraordinary skill and power are linked at the language level. Within a rounding error, an "extraordinarily skilled" developer can probably be just as much of an asset to a company with an "extraordinarily powerful" language as they could with an "ordinarily powerful" (read: mainstream) one. Now, super-skilled folks might like playing with Lisp or Haskell or what-have-you (and if it affects your ability to retain them and get value from them, you might want to let them), but their skilled-ness is usually transferable to other languages if the need arises.
You're not really using IPFS here. The gateway that responds to the requests over at teetotality.blog is the one that actually communicates with IPFS, then forwarding the content to you.

The traditional web works with the concept of timeouts set by the owner. So if you request some content, and it's unable to find it within X seconds, the request gets cancelled.

IPFS (the network, not gateways) works differently, as the use case is different. Basically, there is no "requests". You simply put in a "ask" in the DHT about who has this content. If someone finds someone who provides the same content, then it tells you about it.

IPFS in itself doesn't have any timeouts, as the model is different. The use case is basically "I need this content, no matter how long time it takes and from who".

So, the difference between DNS addresses responding with different times, comes up to the maintainer of the gateway. Sometimes it's more connected to other nodes (like probably ipfs.io's gateways are) and sometimes they employ a longer cache for content (cloudflare's gateway have a long cache) and it makes the resolution time faster/slower.
Andy Kessler's How We Got Here.

Only a few hundred people have rated it on GoodReads, but if you wanted to trace a march of technological progress from swords to the Internet, it does a good job. There are definitely other stories you could tell about this accelerating sweep of technological change, but this one was a solid rapid overview and really stuck some ideas with me about how changes compound (or completely swerve to a new goal) over time.

The original tweet is more about how domain experts would rely on books nobody outside that domain has heard of, so maybe I should be thinking more about textbooks that stuck with me. Sources of Chinese Tradition, the Tractatus, and A Mathematical Theory of Computation all left pretty lasting influences in one way or another.

Sources of Japanese Tradition discusses the origins of Tendai Zen Buddhism, with some bits on Dogen, who once wrote something like, "If you want to achieve a certain thing, you must first become a certain person. After becoming a certain person, you no longer want that certain thing."

That's a pretty good tie in to Kessler's view of the last several hundred years of human progress. We were repeatedly solving some other problem, which once we had the tools to solve that, it became nearly irrelevant compared to what else we could do now.
Nowadays in atomic physics frequency-quadrupled diode lasers are commonly used for accessing DUV wavelengths. They produce a lot of power and have narrow linewidths, but are very expensive (>> 100k€). Here is a chart from one manufacturer that shows commonly accessed transitions: https://www.toptica.com/fileadmin/Editors_English/15_downloa...

In the paper the authors only demonstrate pulsed operation of a bare laser diode. To make it usable for atomic physics, they would have to achieve continuous-wave operation with feedback from an external cavity. This might be pretty difficult to do.
Blobs in Games: What I did in 2019
> There hasn't been a lot of study on this topic* but what little there is shows that 3% of errors found can be mitigated with type systems, where they do not exist, fixing these classes of errors takes less time than it took to use the type system.

It seems to me like you're cherry picking evidence. Copy-pasting from a previous comment I made in another thread (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19530274):

There is plenty of evidence showing that modern type systems reduce bugs considerably.

In Airbnb, they found out that 38% (!) of bugs could have been prevented by using TypeScript[1].

Another scientific study discovered that TypeScript and Flow could prevent about 15% of bugs in committed code [2]. And these aren't even measuring reduction of bugs in non-committed code!

Stripe is also writing their own type checker for Ruby and engineers have reported an increase in productivity[3].

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19131272

[2]: https://blog.acolyer.org/2017/09/19/to-type-or-not-to-type-q....

[3]: https://sorbet.run/talks/StrangeLoop2018/#/
It's not just planes; I've noticed a lot of things seem to get better over time, then take a nosedive (pun not intended). I wonder if it's an inherent property of systems to do this, or if it's the result of some perverse incentives to have "progress" at all costs.
>It's inherently subversive of any central and stabilizing intellectual tendency and I think most critical theorists admit their goals as being such.

It's very hard for me to read that as anything but a good thing. It's one thing to say that critical theory has no value, but it's another thing to say its only value is subversion. Nevertheless, if what you're saying is true, then there is no better critic of critical theory than critical theory itself. There are central principles of critical theory (and Horkheimer wrote a whole book about it), and there are results produced by critical theory that the authors present as true (sociologists have taken up the concept of the culture industry and Marcuse's idea of one-dimensionality, for instance). I'm skeptical of the idea that CT is subversive of any tendency - no critical theorist repudiated empirical investigation, for instance. When they do criticize, they don't want to completely do away (Adorno had praise for the enlightenment project). Habermas has been one of the loudest voices against "postmodernism".

> productive operational work (in science in policy or otherwise) always has to maintain some initial set of working goals and assumptions to guide and rationalize action

That's true, but if critical theorists do not question these working goals and assumptions, and the very nature of instrumental reason, who will? It seems to make much more sense, for human emancipation and rationality, to examine what we take for granted and against what background we're working. "Maximally orienting towards further action" is precisely the uncritical approach CTs stand against, where in the same breath we guide the Ministry of War "maximally" towards "further action".

>no they're not worth taking seriously except as a means to an end.

Not only do professional philosophers of all stripes disagree, but career activists agree - a famous critical theorist (lowercase) once said that philosophers had hitherto only interpreted the world; the point is to change it.

>the problem of interpretation in foundations and the way they want to internalize Hegel, while still having the aims of scientific inquiry in mind

Scientific inquiry has many prerequisites, Hegel himself a harsh critic of pure empiricism. The difference in prerequisites is what gives rise to the Anglophone science and the German Wissenschaft.
"Excuse Me Sir, Would You Like to Buy a Kilo of Isopropyl Bromide?" It's a memoir by chemist and businessman Max Gergel, full of hilarious and hair-raising anecdotes about how a scrappy small American business could operate before the EPA and OSHA existed. It's also powerful if anecdotal evidence for why the EPA and OSHA were ultimately necessary.

Excerpt, brief review, and link to PDF of the full book here on Derek Lowe's excellent blog In the Pipeline:

https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2010/05/27/ma...
I like watching Sam Harris in difficult conversations just to see how to keep a calmer, cooler head. I think his meditation pays off.

For example, his debate with Cenk of The Young Turks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVl3BJoEoAU