skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What makes you think it sounds possible? Unless you're one of a very small number of people in the world who actually work on this kind of thing, "sounds possible" doesn't mean a whole lot. I don't work on the spacecraft, but I do work on the rovers they carry. Based on my limited expertise as someone in an adjacent field, the ability to send any spacecraft to another star on human timescales is not currently possible in any sense whatsoever. The ability to send a "spacecraft" weighing tens of grams to our nearest neighbor might be possible within my lifetime. The ability to get a voyager-sized probe to another star within my lifetime is as far outside the realm of possibility as anything can be.
IJ asks Supreme Court hold police accountable for destroying home with grenades
Let's stipulate that this reader is an idiot who didn't think to do that before asking. Is there a single reference you can provide from the exhaustive entries?
I'd say scheme fits into the python niche rather well. It's faster, easy to learn, and usually has good C interopt (or great interopt in the case of ones like chicken).

<stands on soapbox>

Scheme: fix your damn documentation

I have to know that SRFI (scheme request for implementation) is a thing. Then I have to look over hundreds of them to find the one I want (do I want SRFI 69, 90, 125, or 126 for hash tables?). Then I have to find that obscure doc somewhere that says which SRFI are supported. Then I have to read the specification doc as the only source of documentation on https://srfi.schemers.org/.
Ah, well at least it's using Microsoft's pre-existing AutoUpdater (the same one used by Office if you don't get it from the App Store)
Article seems to end just as it's getting interesting.

When there's a tension between city as investment vehicle and city as a place for living what's the tipping point? And what's the next stable equilibrium?
> regretted

But not enough to lift a finger about it

> > Andrew "Andy" Grove was a Hungarian-American businessman, engineer, and author who had a net worth of $500 million dollars.
Not in general. A kinetic striker would require as much energy to reach the satellite as the satellite used to get there. Something fancier, like a targeted laser, to my knowledge doesn't exist with anything like the wattage needed to punch through atmo and still have effective kill on anything that far out (assuming you could solve the targeting problem to resolve the beam that tightly in the first place).
Forcing usage of constructors is hardly more readable IMO.

Which bug is easier to spot?

cat = new Cat(1, 2, 4);
cat = Cat.builder().eyes(1).legs(2).heads(4).build();

Additionally, from the examples in that post, records aren't valid JavaBeans either, so they can't be used with the myriad of existing tools/libraries that expect beans.

From my first impression, it looks like records don't really address many of the reasons we use Lombok and its ilk, so many of us will just ignore this feature. Or do like I've done in the past couple of years, and just ignore Java altogether.
There’s a huge technological leap between s tiny laser-propelled fly-by probe and a ship full of humans stopping in that system to settle.
It's not even clear we'll be around to argue about this in another 1,000 years, let alone another 100,000. It seems like our ability to destroy things is outstripping our ability to fix them.

Part of the Fermi paradox they skipped in this article is the idea of a Great Filter which prevents life from evolving or creating a space faring culture. The assumption is that we're past the filtering event, but it's entirely possible that we haven't reached it and in some unknown future our race will cease to exist.

Imagine a technology which would allow a single insane being to destroy the entire planet, or at least all intelligent life. We're not too far off from that point now if you consider modern political power. If that point of technological advancement is inevitably discovered prior to the technology required to become a space-faring race.

The idea of an individual or small team of scientists creating a world-threatening virus or triggering nuclear war is not that far outside our current state of affairs. Interstellar space travel is likely at least 100 years in the future.
Or, it doesn't require mysterious force or effect - it could just be an emergent property of how matter interacts. For instance, basic rules of atomic forces lead to complex behavior in the aggregate, such as life, foam, planets, etc. Not sure why this wouldn't apply to universal size structure as well.
HR's primary existence is prevent lawsuits between the company and the employees.
My 3 most life-changing developer tools are the Fish shell (because of its autocomplete), the TabNine autocomplete plugin, and a clipboard history manager which is essentially system-wide autocomplete.
>Tolkien was creating an alien world; Jackson gave us a familiar Sort Of Middle Ages Or Something.

As I understand it, Tolkien was trying to create a national mythology for England, so he wouldn't have intended the setting to be completely alien, as he wanted its archetypes to resonate with his own culture.

Also the main reason the films seem like a familiar medieval fantasy setting is that Tolkien basically invented the high fantasy genre and its tropes. I think one movie reviewer even panned the Lord of the Rings as being too generic and derivative, when in fact everyone else has been copying Tolkien for decades.
This is actually one of the more interesting questions in space exploration in general. It has been ever since someone tried charging NASA for parking on the section of the moon they claim ownership of.
The difference you cite between the per-patient and daily cleaning, disgusts any human who learns of it. The only studies showing that sort-of clean scopes are safe were funded by the scope manufacturers. This is problematic.
While we are at it, I really recommend checking out all the base tunnel projects currently in progress or recently completed:

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

Massively cool cutting edge technology, even before Elon involvement. ;-)

There is also a huge amount of interesting videos on Youtube about these projects, all the way from the initial tunnel boring/blasting all the way to final outfitting (imagine installing rails & electric equipment in a 57 km long tunnel - no wonder it took 6 years of multi shift daily work, etc.).
It's a complicated question, but there are echoes of it in "Why does the US get the privilege of having their flag on the moon, just because they could get it there and nobody can take it back down?" or "Why do people have any right to the land they occupy, merely because they got there before other people did?"

First-mover advantage is real.
This comment scares me.

My wife did a deadlift when she shouldn't have. Next thing we know she spent a week unable to move and came close to not being able to walk again. Ever.

Turns out that the possibility of your vertebrae popping out and pinching the spinal cord is NOT to be taken lightly. It hasn't happened to you, but if a bunch of people with back problems take your advice then you WILL cripple someone.

Yes. Exercise is the best thing for a back. But know what is wrong, what works, what helps, and what doesn't. Don't just be a cowboy and pray.
Whatever it's doing it takes the same inputs and gets the same outputs, how else would you call it?

Do you agree at least that a xor gate is doing math?
I cannot see any of the videos.

For all the videos, I get this on a black background:

Sorry

Because of its privacy settings,
this video cannot be played here.

What is that? Anybody else seeing this?
Not a Ph.D., but I have some idea the bar is lower for psychology.
People naturally have a strong preference for ideas they agree with and strong aversion to ideas they disagree with. Coupled with an enormous diversity of information sources, people now can effectively do their own editing of facts.

Now one may argue that news sources have some obligation to be balanced, fair, objective, whatever. Ok, sure--I wouldn't disagree with that. The problem is simply that that's not what most people actually want, so there's a huge market for biased news.
Arecibo and VLA aren't affected by starlink at all. Those are radio telescopes. They don't even need to wait until nighttime to observe. It's only an optical/ir problem.
> it applies only to employers using threatening to terminate in order to coerce political activity, not actually terminating someone for political actions.

So your idea is that it's not okay to threaten to fire an employee over political actions, but it is okay to actually fire someone over political actions? No worker protections protects against both. Read it closely:

> No employer shall coerce or influence or attempt to coerce or influence his employees through _or_ by means of threat of discharge or loss of employment to adopt or follow or refrain from adopting or following any particular course or line of political action or political activity.

It prohibits both discharge and threat of discharge. The argument that Mozilla did not threaten to discharge Eich, and thus discharging Eich because of his political activity is not relevant. Both are prohibited.
I've been mulling this over: given the constraints of information travelling at lightspeed and physical objects travelling at a lot less, what if it simply doesn't make financial sense for any actor in a market economy to colonize the galaxy?

What if the ROI of space colonization even at multi-decade or multi-century timescales is negative? Then why would anyone do it?
Sorry. they talk about making up for the entire carbon footprint of their existence, most of which is solely in the pacific north west.
> I have incredibly cynical views on corporations due to their strong incentives to put the bottom line before everything else.

Yes, and I get the reasons for that, but you have to retain the ability to step outside your biases and see exceptions, even if the biases are logical and usually correct. Otherwise you go through life treating everything and everyone as a stereotype, which won't be accurate.

It's not the case that a public company is legally forbidden from taking any action that can help the world more than the bottom line. They're openly taking the action anyway, it's not like the presence of sincerity in their motivation increases their legal exposure to shareholders.

https://www.lawschool.cornell.edu/academics/clarke_business_...

> As the U.S. Supreme Court recently stated, "modern corporate law does not require for-profit corporations to pursue profit at the expense of everything else, and many do not do so."
Do you have any citation for the "huge strides" TBC has made already? The only concrete numbers I've seen have been apples to oranges, either not normalizing for cross section area, or comparing just the cost of TBC digging to complete projects.
The satellites are not only small, they are also fast. A fast moving satellite can only occlude a 100 light years away object for a couple of microseconds before it passes. This is absolutely negligible for an astronomical observation lasting seconds to minutes. And even if you launched billions of opaque satellites they couldn't come close to blocking a big enough percentage of the sky for this to matter at all.
It'll block a star for ~1/2500th of a second (assuming a three meter blocking radius, and 7500m/s) - I wouldn't be surprised if that went undetected 99% of the time. At most it would read as a minor brightness fluctuation, right?
> Lisp won't do this because it's then harder to blur/merge/change the distinction between code and data, which is the very power of Lisp.

Though it has tried a bunch of times.

> Some people have a certain kind of eye and/or brain that allows them to read Lisp quickly

Could be that or that one just needs a bit of practice - as it is the case with many thing: riding a bike, driving a car, learning a foreign language, mastering a new dance, ...

> 60 odd years without catching on in the mainstream is evidence of this

That you observe two things does not mean that they are necessarily in a causal relation.

> I also personally find them difficult to debug

One just introduces variables like in your imperative example:

(let* ((a (af param))
(b (bf a))
(c (cf b)))
c)

Now you'd see the variables and their bindings in a debugger.
It won't be embarrassing if no one else in the room can spell better than you. (I once had a Chinese professor forget how to write a certain character while writing on the blackboard. He just laughed it off.)

It's also not clear to me that spellcheck will lead to people forgetting how to spell, since it's all about notifying you of spelling mistakes.
From the first example:

private final double price;
private final LocalDateTime sentAt;

Can't help but notice that they won't be able to trade at exact decimal amounts whose fractions aren't sums of powers of 1/2.

Also wouldn't Instant be better for a timestamp?
Maybe I’m misunderstanding it, but the Fermi Paradox always seemed hopelessly naive and myopic to me. We understand such a small percentage of reality, but more importantly, everything we learn and observe is through our human perspective.

It seems more logical to assume that the universe appears empty to us because we are the only organisms like ourselves, and that other life forms exist in ways that are simply incomprehensible to us at the current level of scientific understanding.

Edit: To use a metaphor I’ve just thought of (and think works): many people assume that meeting extraterrestrial life will be akin to Europeans landing in the New World. It’s more likely that it will be akin to the discovery of the atom.
Hyperspace with Alicia Boole Stott
That makes the relationship sound adversarial, when really there's mutual benefit to SpaceX and the international astronomy community. Astronomy can use cheap lifting capabilities.
Whoa, really cool!
I forgot about CES because I've never been to that one.

It still sort of amazes me that CES hasn't collapsed under its own weight. Comdex did. CeBIT finally did. I thought it was finally going to happen about a decade ago when Microsoft pulled out; that's the usual "emperor has no clothes" moment. But it kept on going.
Kettlebells help the back in other ways as well...
Likely too boring and old school data warehousing, but this is what the notion of rollup/aggregate tables achieve. You define a table that's the result of some sort of an aggregation query (time is almost always involved: minutely, hourly, daily, monthly plus other business-specific dimensions) and at the conclusion of each corresponding interval you insert the next respective batch.

e.g. insert into rollup_clicks_hourly select hour, count(*) clicks from clicks where created_at >= ? and created_at < ? group by 1

Then from a reporting perspective, users/dashboards/etc read from the highest relevant table that meets their criteria.
The files in ~/.ssh are usually initialized with restrictive permissions, so how do they end up getting exposed? The only way I can think off-the-bat is that someone absent-mindedly commits them to their git dotfiles and ends up copying them over to another machine when they do a `git clone` command.
It’s not complicated. The answers to your questions are, “Because they can.” Possession, control, and force carry much more weight than some would like. It just makes those without power, authority, or any other stakeholder equity uncomfortable.

The US is not a super power because it asked politely and a committee granted it permission. Similarly, SpaceX will move forward because anyone with the authority to challenge them allows them to proceed.
My thoughts exactly. For someone responsible for a system to do this is such an act of gross negligence, and demonstrates such a lack of competency I would be remiss to keep the person at the company were they my employee.
> deep speculative optimizations

my new blog title
While it's too early to tell if any patients were harmed by these contaminated gowns, the hospitals impacted reads like who's who that includes Stanford, Stanford Children's, Northwestern, NY Presbyterian, Kaiser, BJC HealthCare, Rush, Jefferson, and Adventist Health.

In addition to the potential for patient harm, this recall will prove costly to hospitals, and ultimately patients. I have it on good authority that some hospitals have been forced to limit the number of elective surgical procedures as they scramble to secure acceptable replacements. Given that it is common practice to include these gowns in "surgical packs" (kits of sterile supplies and equipment used during a procedure), many facilities impacted by this recall will also need to tear down existing packs, re-sterilize equipment, and rebuild packs. This is a non-trivial process that takes time and is prone to human errors that could lead to case delays and/or cancellations.

Big picture: these sort of recalls are more common and widespread than one would think. In the last year alone, medical devices ranging from baby warmers to IV infusion pumps were recalled due to serious patient safety issues. For proof check out https://www.fda.gov/safety/recalls-market-withdrawals-safety....

Take home point: while it may be trendy to fund biotech startups, it'd be great to see a VC-backed company disrupt the medical supply chain with the goal of delivering safer products at lower cost. If someone out there is up for the challenge, I welcome the opportunity to help.
That is why I use Pascal

20 years ago it was advertised as the safe C alternative.
Thanks for the correction, I do appreciate it.
Nice job. This is awesome.
You are right of the unarguability of US manufacturing against Imperial Japan's, but that inevitability still doesn't eliminate the time recapturing territory that had Japanese presence. Their no surrender policy made island recaptures slow, brutal and ugly. Even with carrier provided air superiority.

Had they got to Hawaii, I imagine the experience would have been similar to all Japanese occupied territories -- famine, brutality, extensive forced labour and systemic murder. So long as the troops are fed, and enough comfort women can be found, nothing much else mattered...
depends on the goal. I've parachuted for a charity event before. It's more about the awareness than anything as well. You tend to use an event that attracts people because of some interest factor and it in turn generates more awareness to that charity as well as more sponsors. It's not just about the skydiving after all. Think of it as a form of marketing but for [marketing to] people interested in people doing something stupid.

Edit: I should say I did this as an A-license holder
Any sort of joint pain is an extremely complex phenomena, and back pain in particular is one of the most complex. It's almost never a case of "this mechanical structure was injured resulting in this pain". There are tons of studies out there showing a significant percentage of the population has disc herniation and zero pain while another significant percentage of the population has serious back pain but no structural injury visible on a scan.

I'm dealing with this personally in the contest of a shoulder injury diagnosed as a torn labrum. My research has turned up a number of NIH studies showing that something like 70% of the population over the age of 40 will show a torn labrum on an MRI regardless of whether they have any symptoms and concluding that the tear showing on the scan likely has absolutely nothing to do with the acute cause of the recent pain.
It actually does go to hire contractors. The dirty not-so-hidden secret is that HFH sets aside houses for volunteers to work on.

The majority of HFH houses are actually built by contractors without any volunteers messing shit up.
I understand that, but in my experience HR is more often than not the cause of most of those lawsuits.
It's amazing how often you find companies/individuals asking for personal information/documents over email and SMS. I've been on the hunt for a flat for the last few weeks. Being in NZ, I used the TradeMe platform where many of the landlords/listing owners asked for Passport scans, employment letters, bank statements etc via email before evening looking at the property.
No mention of how that information will be secured and how it will be discarded.

They've likely received hundreds of messages with personal information, all stored in Gmail inboxes. What happens to them after they're sighted - I wouldn't know.

I don't know what the 'adult' industry is like but I suspect there's some sites that verify their models by similar email/SMS mediums.
Java could really used keyword arguments as a replacement of the Builder pattern:

cat = new Cat(eyes=1, heads=2, legs=4);
Intel does not support a fabless semiconductor business model. Lots of other chips are necessary besides CPUs.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22062790.
Why are suffering, illness, and death not terrible things - especially if we have the happiness of a life well lived as a contrast?
Scheduling for the Android Display Pipeline
The two projects are on such opposite ends of the spectrum that it really makes them incomparable. Big Bertha was the second biggest boring machine ever built, and also in a risky location. On top of that it was built by a company with no experience in building boring machines anywhere close to its size.
Please don't take HN threads further into flamewar. It helps nothing.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Was listening to a podcast that was talking about fitness - the name escapes my memory at the moment - but I remember the guy said something interesting in passing: that a 100% bodyweight fitness regimen is fantastic and would be all you need ... except it doesn't develop lower back strength. For that he said, you need weights.

He didn't elaborate anymore than that but anecdotally I related to that statement, all I do is at-home bodyweight fitness (can't afford a gym membership atm) and yet I still from time to time strain or carry lower back pain from random activities.
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Also not being a legal scholar, the distinction being that a felony is a much more serious crime and lands people in jail for long periods of time. Which is why I think this could be an over reaction when a data leak may possibly be a mistake or ignorance. I understand that the nature of the data may be sensitive, but I don't think it makes sense to ham handedly punish people for something they aren't directly responsible for. Like someone being hypothetically hurt by someone else because of a data leak they may not even have known about.
That's roughly my interpretation too -- there's no way Japan could out-manufacture US industry, and the difference in materiel, ship building and aircraft production wins out, even if Midway had been a catastrophic US loss.

I suspect a couple of years longer is much nearer the mark than a few months as the Japanese dug to never surrender, but second guessing history is a no cost game... Who knows what other dominoes would have fallen, and where, in the extra time.
I wonder how much it would cost to get a decent camera on one of those Starlink launch missions just so it would beam down some distortion free, high-resolution pictures to the masses.

Although I doubt that would provide meaningful data to professional astronomer.