skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the idea of colonizing Mars only makes sense in the head of a teenager who read to much bad sf. Our whole idea of spaceships crossing empty space and founding colonies on other planets is just a projection on the past successes of the age of discoveries, when actual ships crossed the oceans and reached new continents. But those continents were perfectly habitable, with tons of resources, plants and animals that forever changed the way we live. While Mars is utterly barren, inhospitable and dead.

On the other hand, I admire Musk for being a great engineer and businessman with the dreams of a teenager; even if the idea of thriving colonies on Mars is a cheap fantasy, I understand that you need to set yourself exciting goals to drive your ambition.
Of all the wealthy 'out of touch' people to complain about, you choose the one guy with a risky but rewarding vision that will benefit all of our species if achieved, instead of everyone else sailing on their super yachts and buying elections and molesting children?
Two aspects in favor of mini-starships

1. economies of scale: if you manufacture 12 engines smaller by a factor of 10, the total manufacturing cost is not going to be 20% higher, but most likely 2-3 times lower.

2. engineering knowledge: more smaller engines means more engineers. Some of whom would leave to start their own startups, or to join Blue Origin, or Skunkworks, or some other aerospace company. That's not necessarily good for SpaceX, but it's good for humankind. Maybe some would go and fix Boeing's problems :)
Thanks for the info, I guess I should read more into it and educate myself.
It's not beside the point when the point is "he was trying to make non-americans feel bad".
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> cost-of-living-adjusted salaries for big tech in SF, Seattle, and NYC are higher than anywhere else in the country

... if you do not have children.

Consider how much you would have to pay for a modest 2000 square feet house in SF or NYC.
This doesn't have the bed adhesion issues that SLA and DLP printers have, so much more delicate structures can be built. So it will be perfect for constructing microtubial networks that form the support structures for growing biological material. If used to make soft robots with embedded sensors, we could construct artificial coral. Measuring is affecting, is constructing.

3d printing is currently on the human scale of "can I hold it, and interact with it", while scaling up will eventually enable us to 3d print buildings and megastructures, scaling down will enable intelligent matter.
I wanted to illustrate the fairly "wide dynamic range" available. A lot of typed, GCed languages require significant effort to write highly optimized code anyway, and the optimized code rarely looks like the idiomatic one.

But even with idiomatic code the performance is quite good - the JITs are very high quality.
Middle East respiratory syndrome is the disease. The virus is named after the disease: Middle East respiratory syndrome-related coronavirus (MERS-CoV).
> may be simply due to the cases being newer and that more of the current cases will ultimately be fatal

That's the big unknown. "A small percentage drops dead on contact" would be one extreme, the other and much worse would be "almost everybody enters a slow but steady decline towards death which can take months"
If we had historical data on pneumonia and flu deaths there, we could compare current rates to that, and if the current rate was significantly higher than usual then it'd be reasonable to count the excess as COVID-19 deaths. I don't know if that data exists though.
That is one reason why a lot of serious environmentalists are such ardent fanboys of Tesla - Renewable generation is already extremely cheap, but it has less utility without some adjacent means of storage. It's really energy storage, not sustainable generation, that needs to get cheaper to muddle through the end of fossil fuels. Funding energy storage research by attaching wheels to batteries and selling them above market rates is a pretty genius bit of economic hacking when seen in that context.
> higher than anywhere else in the country.

Anywhere else in the world. For example, in London you’d probably pay at least 50% of your current rent, but only receive 25% of your current salary.
People have done studies like you propose, but long term studies always lag improvements in treatment. You can’t see 20 year mortality statistics for 2020’s cancer treatment options until 2040.

CDC supports screening for breast, cervical, colorectal (colon), and lung cancers

Screening for ovarian, pancreatic, prostate, testicular, and thyroid cancers has not been shown to reduce deaths from those cancers. The USPSTF found insufficient evidence to assess the balance of benefits and harms of screening for bladder cancer and oral cancer in adults without symptoms, and of visual skin examination by a doctor to screen for skin cancerexternal icon in adults.
https://www.cdc.gov/cancer/dcpc/prevention/screening.htm

PS: Showing differences in overall mortality based on differences in treatment for an uncommon disease requires truly massive study’s. Failing to show a correlation is expected with noisy data and insufficient sample sizes.
There are libraries, such as Dinero.JS [0] or Decimal.js (handles decimals as strings). Alternatively, don't use decimals and always convert everything to cents.

[0]https://frontstuff.io/how-to-handle-monetary-values-in-javas...
Is 'Starship' even a real thing? Last I heard, it was an empty stainless steel can ('aerodynamic model') that blew over in a strong wind. Has that changed? Are they actually going to try and make this a real launch vehicle?
I see 2 bed apartments in Columbus Ohio for under $800 a month.
Yep https://www.seattletimes.com/explore/careers/can-you-get-fir...

And hmm, that's an interesting comparison. Contractors in the US are also paid significantly more than employees.
> The point of the economy is to enable long, comfortable and happy lives as best we can

Comfortable and happy, yes, but I can assure you That nobody who is dead has any opinion on how long their life was
#0000ff doesn't exist in nature. Human beings don't see color directly in hexadecimal values - indeed, additive color (RGB) as broadcast from a monitor and subtractive color as exists in nature are physically different processes. Rather, the perception of color is subjective and error prone (see a HN subthread on the color brown[0,1] or other examples of color illusions like the viral dress from a few years ago, or the red-grey illusion[2].

Blue is a social construct because what "blue" means is taught to us by the culture around us, and different cultures classify colors differently[3,4]. If one culture considers blue and green to be the same color, and another considers them distinct, that's not merely a disagreement over taxonomy, but concept.

[0]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22324298

[1]https://news.ycombinator.com/reply?id=22326975&goto=item%3Fi...

[2]https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/wnkq5n/this-picture-has-n...

[3]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue%E2%80%93green_distinction...

[4]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_relativity_and_the_...
Do you have any evidence for this? Have you seen data covering hiring evals for many different candidates? Or is this just your own bias telling a story based on anecdotes and rumors?

I’m not saying this never happens, but it’s much easier to tell yourself that the reason you didn’t get a job was because of some unfair factor beyond your control than to admit maybe you just failed to meet the bar.
The Further Adventures of Betelgeuse, the Fainting Star
Poverty and loneliness are terrible. Being dead is fine because nobody who is dead is unhappy about the fact that they’re dead.
That’s because everyone dies! The article avoids mentioning that cancer rates have risen as other causes, particularly infections, have declined over many decades. The average lifespan has increased globally. In developed countries this is largely due to improvements in cardiovascular drugs/treatment and cancer drugs.

The standard survival rates are quoted as 5 year survival unless the cancer is particularly aggressive eg pancreatic. The statistics around cancer are very high quality and public in most countries. However, I suspect data will not influence your view.
Should we wait until we get a warp drive engine? Because thinking of reaching anything further than our solar system with our current physics (not technology- that we can improve by building stuff) is more silly than trying to cross the Pacific ocean with help of a floating rubber duck.
I would say this list must very unreliable, I have seen one guy whom I can confirm exaggerated his salary because he likes a lot of attention and speaks at events, and another one who stated their monthly salary instead of annual, both from Nairobi.
Ask HN: Why 'MacBook-Pro' in my terminal changed to 'Huawei'?
Hello. Recently I bought a new MacBook Pro 16 in Russia. This morning my terminal changed the prefix in front of each command:

"user@MacBook-Pro" to "user@HUAWEI_Mate_20-1a2d"

Does it mean that my MacBook is fake? Did the following:
- Compared serial on macbook and "system information" on "checkcoverage.apple.com" - Good
- Compared exact hardware config matching official resources
- Compared that manufacturing date of my battery is less than manufacturing date of macbook (via coconutbattery)

Does anyone know any way to validate the mac or the cause of this weird change?
Using Webhooks with Alexa Skills with Zapier and Voiceduck
This seems to actually be about the hough transform which finds lines, and making that into perspective. That's pretty far from a universal computer vision algorithm and 'russian scientists creating neural network eyes'.
If you’re going to insist on proper jargon, you might want to refresh first. Comparative advantage [1] in X means you suffer a lower opportunity cost (forgone profit from what you could have done) to produce X than others.

A canonical example would be the doctor who is a better secretary than their secretary (produces more value per hour, looking only at secretarial value). The secretary still has a comparative advantage in secretarial labor because they forgo $0 of doctor income to work that job, while the doctor would forgo $100/hour they could be earning as a doctor in order to work as a secretary.

This is true even though the doctor has an absolute (or competitive) advantage in secretarial work.

The real test for whether something is financially optimal is if you have a comparative, not absolute advantage.

Uber not having a competitive/absolute advantage in SDCs would also be a reason not to do it, because of the details of this case, but comparative advantage is correct as well, though perhaps an unnecessarily strong criterion for the point I needed to make.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparative_advantage
A random hacker is not likely to intercept your HTTP message. They would need to be on the way between your browser and the target site.

A more realistic case is an enterprise network or an ISP.
Indeed the original tweet could have been more US-centric than I originally read (the replies came from all over the world, I pointed out Nigeria because there was one reply from there)

My main point wasn’t that he was trying to make non Americans bad but rather I don’t believe his premise that he was disclosing his salary information for a greater good of helping minorities and disadvantaged people.

Again I support disclosing salary openly but disguising it as an act of social good sounds distasteful to me.
> If they are radically different, you won't be able to use them together later.

Why would you want to use them together? Their differences reflect differences in the underlying business areas. If those businesses need to somehow be combined, their representatives will have to come to a common understanding of how to translate between them, and then that business understanding can be reflected in a corresponding way in the code.

> Bob doesn't grok what Alice did when he goes to implement something in that area, and ends up introducing a bug of his own.

The biggest barriers to understanding are length and indirection, and they're the only way to make code consistent. It's easier to understand code that describes the unique problem that it solves in a unique way than code that tries to force that solution into some generalised framework.
What a short-sighted attitude. Colonizing Mars opens the door to a lot of advances in many, many fields. At first it will be difficult and expensive as it has happened with every new advance in the past. Precisely because of it, people will think of ideas to improve all the process and related problems. And presenting those new problems that we aren't facing now can lead to solutions that could be used in other common areas that we are used to and are kind of stuck.
When I was a junior sysadmin in London I earned 26k;

If not for a senior engineer talking openly about salary I would not have had the guts to ask for a significant increase. At the time the very senior people in the company were earning 75-85k, and the mid-levels between 32-45k.

I was fortunate enough to be taught very well, I became senior in that company in a very short amount of time, but I never got the raise that the seniors got, but when I was looking at other companies, I knew what I was "worth" realistically. I'm eternally thankful for the internal culture at that company during that time, because I would not have had nearly the amount of confidence necessary to ask for such a (seemingly) large amount of money.
Love the optimism. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Filter
My company did a pan-company investigation into how much people were being paid, and found that in every job title Women were being paid on average 30% less then men.

With that in hand it's clear that it makes more sense to employ women.
The author claims fossil fuel will collapse in the 2020s...not here in Providence, RI. Stand in any parking lot or on any road and count the number of EVs, it's less than 1%. There are no charging stations at hospitals, downtown, apartment buildings, condos...

Meanwhile, there are a ton of shiny new luxury ICE vehicles, even in my lower-middle class area. These vehicles will need gasoline for all of the 2020's and into the 2030's. And we still don't even have 2% of new vehicle sales to EV.

The idea that Rhode Islanders are going to be not using IC engines in 2030 is laughable. We've locked in a ton of natural gas electricity production, we have shipping ports without charging for ships, and an airport that uses NO battery EV planes.

We have a LONG way to go before fossil fuels are gone, probably 2050 for 75% of applications, and 2100 for 95% of applications. This makes sense: we've been on fossil fuels for literally hundreds of years...you don't dismantle 100's of years of infrastructure in a decade.
Yes, I do miss IRC - generally speaking.
I genuinely miss my LAN forum though. I've spent a lot of time talking to different people from my city there, playing video games and just socializing. Ten or twenty years later we've met each other a few times in real life, and the nostalgia is strong in everybody I see.

I was heartbroken when I've realized that one of the forums was hosted by an ISP that is no more. I've got some content archived, but damn did I feel weird like some part of my life is gone, wiped off the face of the internet.
I know a lot of people. This is based on conversations with those involved in the hiring process at various companies. They are proud of it and see it as not only a plus, but a social benefit, which causes people to be very boastfully vocal in social situations

Very strange time we live in.

I do agree with your second paragraph, but this isn't regarding anything that has happened to me personally
I tend to think that’s true, but I can’t say for sure. I do think someone working remotely while living in an ultra-low CoL place like Vietnam might come out ahead, but that has serious downsides as well, particularly if you ever want to move back to a developed country. You’ll have lived well in Vietnam but you won’t have built much wealth compared to your SF/NYC/Seattle peers.
>A very long time

I suppose, if you consider 120 years a very long time. Given the scale of the problem though, it seems obvious that the time to think seriously about replacements now, not in 119 years.
I get a 20 minute drip of Pembrolizumab every three weeks. I had it done two days ago. 28K per infusion.

The cancer has spread since I have been taking it. But I don't know if the cancer is spreading slower with taking it or not.

I'm 1.5 million deep in medical bills from the last year. I no longer open my mail or answer my phone. I am just waiting for the day I go in for treatment and they turn me away.
I've seen links to hubs taken down like this link to a specific item, so if there is a discrepancy there is isn't consistent. Either a few slip through the cracks and you've seen them or I'm only seeing the other portion for some reason.

Mentions of key hubs like pirate bay don't count as linking to them IMO though might effectively be so as the mention might clue some to their existence. Discussing the matter completely without mentioning those places/services would not be practical.

Tools for removing DRM have valid uses. Minority uses, sure, but still valid. Whether removing it for your own transcoding & platform shifting purposes, rather than distribution, is morally OK is a complex discussion (I say yes, lawyers will almost certainly say no!), but if you allow that then the valid use list grows.

Bypassing news filters is usually a case of exploiting them giving different responses in different cases to improve, for example, their Google rank. This is against the engines policies. You can of course argue that "two wrongs don't make a right" but then equally one wrong doesn't either! I'm not sure if the scientific publications matter is the same or not, I'll have to submit to your expertise/experience there.
Wearable Microphone Jammer
This looks nice!

One thing I don't like from the examples is `eval`ing a string containing bash with assert[0], instead of using bash directly.

Is it possible to simply use `[` in tests?

[0]: https://github.com/Checksum/critic.sh/blob/bccf5b853409fcf44...
I’d be really curious to peer into the financial literacy across the wide range of salaries in here. I have no idea where my experience falls, but I feel like I goofed up for the first several years of my career and slowly built up better habits and understanding. “Luckily” I wasn’t making 6 figures 3 years in so the bad habits were only so relatively bad ;-).
That person is likely not in the US. We put the $ before the digits.
"...low price ($499/year). This price includes the use of the full Qt for Device Creation product, but not any distribution licenses – these need to be agreed separately."

What does this mean? I can download Qt and develop an app, but I can't give it to customers?
Literally yes, but it's a very reasonable fear based on a very prominent level of uncertainty and doubt in quite a few of Signal's / Moxie's decisions.
I have a few interesting questions ... to be fair, I've done no science or math to make a conclusion but there would certainly be a sense of irony involved.

1. Could the green-house gases produced to launch a civilization to Mars be the final straw that breaks our eco-system's back?

2. What are the moral implications of terra-forming Mars and moving a small population there, knowing that the population remaining on Earth is doomed?

3. If you're willing to allow an epic depopulation of the Earth, why not stay here and let it happen?

4. If any of the above are true, why would you expect the (current) larger population of the Earth to fund the colonization of Mars?

I realize this is a very dystopian view ... and that I read/watch too much science fiction, but if this is a novel (or a Netflix original), the Mars population moves back to Earth after it's "recovered"

EDIT: I'm not against the StarShip, SpaceX or Musk at all - in fact I'm a big fan as I was in elementary school during the Apollo missions and believe that SpaceX in particular has reinvigorated the passion for engineering and tackling big problems. This is only a Gedankenerfahrung.
Sounds vague.

I’d say do like bill gates and put the billions directly into worthwhile causes instead instead of suggesting the trickle down will be unquantified but amazing.
The idea literally came up as I watched my wife split proceeds from a workshop she held with a couple of other instructors.

Seemed like a hassle to translate the % splits to actual amounts, figure out/confirm wiring details, and then decide when to wire...I would also think the other instructors were wondering when their share was going to hit.

So I stood there thinking, what if she could pre-set percentage share, and have software split the proceeds on a per payment basis so she doesn't have to worry about getting the split amounts right and the disbursement of proceeds. Her partners wouldn't have to wait either.

Felt like the software solution would be killing many birds with one stone.

A light bulb went off in my head, as I registered a problem, and as any sane individual would nose-dived into building an app!

My wife isn't using it at the moment as her yoga studio/business is in Japan, and Stripe doesn't allow for a platform to be in a different country then its connected accounts and I chose the US to release.

The users aren't being charged to use the application. The app will absorb the costs and lump it into a fee that is charged to the final consumer.

That all said, maybe this doesn't generalize outside this particular example and the problem is too specific to her situation...

In summary, the app is for any group that is receiving proceeds from the sale of a service or product, that wants to avoid the hassles of splitting proceeds after the fact.
a) Most people don't need to get there that fast

b) Plane takes longer than 2 hours when you factor getting to/from the airport and passing through security. Plane is obviously still faster to Munich, but to Paris, Amsterdam, even Bordeaux? I am not so sure.
There are plenty of deserts etc. that can be filled with solar panels. Those could generate LNG gas which could fuel cars, ships, airplanes, etc, and be used for electricity in times the sun doesn't shine. The only issue here is cost, because you need to put in 3 times as much energy as you get out. So even though solar & wind is cheaper than any generation method now, it has to get 3 times as cheap as alternatives. So the trend of it getting cheaper and cheaper has to continue, but I'm sure we're getting there eventually.
I believe they have ended up with a freemium model where some big companies are paying them heaps, but the vast majority of users are paying them nothing. It must be a tough way to run a business. Especially one with loads of expensive software developers to feed.

I used to have a commercial license that was around £1k per year. But when they offered LGPL I moved to that. I haven't paid them since. And now the commercial licenses are much more expensive. You wonder they could come up with something that people like me would pay ~£1k per year for.

I really hope Qt company doesn't go bust.
This should be marked as dating from 2009.

There was a discussion of an earlier iteration of the poster on Lambda the Ultimate, where Van Roy defended some of the choices he made.

http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/2410
I have read such arguments probably hundreds of times by now. Stuff like "Australia is only 1% of global emissions, why should we suffer the cost of going green?", "China and India produce way more CO2 than the US, the problem is not the US".

It's getting ridiculous; everybody is shifting blame to something or someone else because we all think small chunks and, obviously, each one of those chunks, individually, doesn't contribute much in terms of percentages. If you think this way, nobody will ever get anything done.