skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Generally, it’s helpful to follow the 80/20 rule and time-box whatever you’re willing to allocate per week and no more. Do this and only the most valuable things rise up. People have a funny way of filling up the time they’re given, so constrain the allotment.

epc’s advice on limiting and gatekeeping your time availability is a good one. Also, keep in mind that long email back and forths are micro-meetings and avoid that trap whenever possible. A piece of advice I got as I was running five teams was: “Do you ever see executives answer these emails? No, they just have the conversation and they’re done with it.”

Setting time budgets for meetings and gatekeeping your availability means “No” is your friend. Used well results in focus. I find it helpful to consider urgency and importance as the criteria for prioritization.
They are not specified as EEA countries. The EEA is specified as the constraint for the supercomputer's location - Iceland and Norway are given as two possibilities, but after that constraint.

How would you phrase that part of the article if indeed any EEA country could be the location of the new computer, and you wanted to include Iceland and Norway as two candidate countries?
I'm curious: how many people did you lose because of the shift?
> EULAs are legally-binding in the United States

Not generally. Specific ones may be, but so far it's always been on a case-by-case basis.
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Google removes 500+ malicious Chrome extensions from the Web Store
That's because its less about that and more about allowing a certain income class to have exclusive access to certain kinds of investments.

A VC firm that offers nothing more than money (larger % of them than you'd think) doesn't want to compete with tons of syndicates consisting of average retail investors.

The "accredited investor" gatekeeping allows them to provide very little value and say "doesn't matter, you need us because we're the very few that are allowed to invest in your company".
> The online banking CRUD interface might have up-to-date data, but it isn't an API, and being behind some weird proprietary single-sign-on setup makes it pretty hard to scrape, too.

That’a why they also provide an API. They are required by law to do so (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Payment_Services_Directive)

> I don't think there's any bank in North America that requires 2FA to login to your online banking.

This is required by the same law.
The only reason accredited investor exists is to reduce free market competition. If everyone could invest in UBER when it was $1 a share it would not make billions for the "accredited investors" when it went public.
These coin offerings are generally violating securities law.
Starlink launches are heavy and I wonder pushing the envelope reduces the margin of error. The last successful barge landing with Starlink crushed the leg core as it came in hot and heavy.

I’m sure these tough landings will help SpaceX.
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Official document describing the amendments: https://www.sec.gov/rules/proposed/2019/33-10734.pdf
I don't think so. Understanding what goes on underneath the hood is really what differentiates decent coders from great engineers. Compare the data structures of Subversion to those of git. Or look at some of the work John Carmack did in video games. That requires depth.

If your goal is to be a carpenter who puts together housing frames, you absolutely don't need depth. You're also interchangeable and get paid union blue collar wages. On the other hand, if you want to be a craftsman who invents new wooden things, you need depth in some direction, be that structural engineering, artistic, or otherwise.

There's a ceiling you hit unless you learn much more of this stuff. The direction is your choice (but new APIs ain't it -- we're talking depth).
"I have seen desperate mechanics try to warm up their engines with a naked flame in the hope of inducing them to start."

-- "Stuka Pilot" by Hans Rudel, pg. 50
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The question of games as simulation is actually a very interesting one, and in my opinion, the one true way of viewing games -- every game is a simulation of some fictional universe, and the player's primary goal is to understand, interact and finally abuse that simulation to achieve his goals.

Sandbox MMOs are the end-game, but I don't think we exactly need them just yet -- we can get 80% of the way there in a much simpler fashion -- you don't need true simulation; you just need sufficient simulation. You don't need world-modification, you just need sufficient world-interaction. You don't need environmental destruction and creation, you just need environmental reaction. The true goal is a reactive, but self-stabilizing, environment.

For example, the mistake Ultima Online made with their simulation was to make the environment self-containing -- which lead to catastrophe as soon as the assumptions were violated (players hoarding resources, and not feeding it back into the system). They had the simulated, editable environment.. but it wasn't self-stabilizing (or even stabilized by GOD aka Origin Systems), and it badly needed to be.

Dwarf fortress makes the interesting modification of allowing, accepting and even encouraging catastrophic environmental reaction -- losing is fun. A sandbox MMO obviously can't do the same, because it'd be too detached from any individual player's interaction, but there's clearly variation that can occur in how you run the simulation

But currently most games don't understand that simulation is the one true goal, so they don't even get close. We're not at 80% of the way there.. we're more like 10%, except in a very few titles. EVE is probably the only thing that makes any real progress towards it.

But anyways that's far more advanced than what Spore needed to be a good game. Spore didn't need to be an advanced simulator in each of its stages -- it just needed to have some legitimate reactions to the choices you made. It needed a basic simulator in each stage, but really the only simulation with any merit was stage 1 (the bacteria or whatever). After that.. nothing you did mattered except for stats.
So Chrome is getting something Firefox has has for years. I've had third-party cookies blocked for the last decade. Plus Privacy Badger.
I think the assumption is that even in the case of "trust fund babies" who inherited their wealth, they will have been exposed to enough info about finance to potentially understand the risks.

Neither the existing nor the upcoming changes will protect someone like a lottery winner. Unless they seek qualified advice in setting something like a family office up, in which case their intentions are good at least.
You're right with it not targeting the droneship directly from afar, but today's webcast [0] said "soft-landing on the water right next to the droneship". In other words not the full speed missile impact scenario. I'm eager to get news/details as well.

[0] https://youtu.be/8xeX62mLcf8?t=1531
There are levels of survival I'm prepared to accept.
It's the same problem as it is with most anything. They want to use huge databases, but to do that usefully you need an unrealistically low false positive rate.

Even if the rate was actually really good -- something like 99.9% accuracy -- if you apply that to a database with a ten million people in it, you get ten thousand false positives, which is crap.

If you pick one of the matches at random, they want to be able to claim that it's a 99.9% chance that it's them, but it's really a 99.99% chance that it isn't. Or worse, since it's possible the true perpetrator wasn't in the database.

Even for things like DNA that theoretically can do better than 99.9%, you can't get much better than that in practice because before you can, the error rate starts to be dominated by human error rather than coincident matches.
The subject is asked to wear the EEG device and control robot by mind

Have they succeeded? The paper does not answer that. Unless I missed a link to a video where someone wears an EEG headcap and controls a real robot.
Guess you don't understand the changes at all then because this has nothing to do with cashing out of companies. There is nothing here that makes that easier (not that it wasn't easy before).
Check out Markdown Preview Enhanced https://shd101wyy.github.io/markdown-preview-enhanced/#/

This has support for mermaid, slides etc.
I've always expected an Edu-Startup to crack this problem by pairing an existing hyper-addictive game to more traditional homework.

My parents used to make me do quick one page math worksheets. Each sheet which took about 60 seconds earned me 5 minutes of time with "Command and Conquer", and to this day I'm able to quickly do Math in my head that most people would need to put on paper. My abilities drastically drop off at past the Algebra level.

If kids today had to memorize 5 new phrases in French while they were stuck in an Overwatch lobby, or something equivalent to get than new skin in League of Legends I think it could be a very powerful learning tool and not require the hands on effort from the parents.
Anyone paying attention to the FNP saga, have known for a long time that there is more to the tale of their civilisation than we have been willing to admit.

The FNP had the worlds largest trading network for tens of thousands of years. They had a form of crypto key exchange which guaranteed peace between the tribes. They farmed and tamed the landmass of the Australian continent with fire, turning it into a self-replenishing paradise for many millennia. They still operate human-kinds oldest, productive ore mine - Wilgie Mia, 30,000 years old. Theirs was the first school in the world - Gabarnmung, 35,000 years old - recently re-opened for the traditional owners after a few decades of neglect during colonisation. As the article states, they have the longest record of history passed down through oral tradition of any human group - 37,000 years is a long time to be telling the same stories. We (Europeans) can hardly do it for 200 years ..

There is so much to learn from these people - alas, it requires a very bright, scientific mind to do so, because the prejudice against them has been so rigidly enforced in modern Australian culture that it is an uphill battle. However, I would really encourage anyone with an interest in the longest history of humankind, to learn a few of the FNP's songs and stories. They are truly an amazing civilisation.
At $31k, the Leaf does not have fast charging and has a range of 149 miles. Want "Quick" charging at a peak rate of 50KW? That's the $34k Leaf, which still has a range of 149 miles. Granted, this comes with a tax break, but comparing MSRP to MSRP, the SR Model 3 looks like the better deal at 220 miles of range.

To get to 226 miles of range with the Leaf puts you at $38k. To also get intelligent cruise (standard on the SR+ Model 3 at 40k), you will need another couple thousand dollars on the Leaf.

The tax break and dealer negotiation do make the Leaf cheaper, but the list price alone really doesn't.
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Yes. No core has done 5 launches yet.
At this point I'm absolutely convinced that anything bad for adtech is good for society. Absolute profit driven evil.

An entire industry built around psychological manipulation for the sole purpose of convincing people to consume products that they likely don't need, while simulataneously setting the stage for an Orweillian surveillance state... No one with a conscience should be working in adtech.

And there are far more insidious consequences to adware. I'm just speculating, but I have a feeling that when non-technical society is bombarded by ads, its capacity for critical analysis of information is reduced. Given the ubiquity of ads, and the many decisions that humans must make personally and professionally every day, if this is true it has a seriously negative ripple effect which permeates much of human endeavor.
This is what stops me. Where I work I need an autogenerated table of contents.
"The competent programmer is fully aware of the strictly limited size of his own skull; therefore he approaches the programming task in full humility, and among other things he avoids clever tricks like the plague. " - EWD 340 [1]

[1] E.W. Dijkstra - The Humble Programmer, ACM Turing Lecture 1972 (https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/transcriptions/EWD03xx/EWD340...)
fwiw, the so 2019 survey had react and vue almost even with a slight react lead in loved, dreaded and wanted each: https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2019#technology-_-...
Jesus so how do you protect yourself against something like this?
A year ago, we decided to make the game we wanted to play
Which raises the question of whether securities laws are beneficial in this regard.
If you're nearing the top of becoming "the most famous" on these platforms, buying fake followers for your competitors -- to get them removed so you ranked higher -- well, that's quite a novel concept. Certainly not ethical, but I'd imagine it'd be quite difficult to track down who actually purchased the fake followers. How do you prove you didn't buy something?
Would it do so in just a few years though?

The pragmatic approach is to invest in both tools and research.
Yeah, kgdb has been mainlined for a while.

In Windows land, windbg has supported this setup for forevers too.
The law about copyright on recipes is more complex. Certain kinds of recipes (e.g. ones where the description of the steps is somewhat lyrical) are probably copyright-able, and so are collections of recipes, such as cookbooks. Photographs accompanying recipes are also copyrighted, so if you explain your recipe in pictures or video, that is also copyrighted.
I did this with good results, using warm white and daylight white LED strips, a couple of PWM dimmers, and an arduino, at a former apartment a few years ago. I have a similar setup now but it's a single LED strip featuring both color temps, with its own remote controllable dimmer for brightness/color temp; I haven't bothered to automate it.
We don't typically see that with ransomeware so I don't know why we'd see that with other types of extortion.
I'm pretty sure it pre-dates the first landing, it's an important safety feature when aiming the booster at land.
Is there a similar rule of thumb for how accuracy tracks with the added resolution?
Is this a broadside against Facebook's trackers?

Does anyone believe for one picosecond they will block their own cookies? I switched to Firefox when I tried to block all 3rd aprty cookies on Chrome and found some (Google's) that just wouldn't disappear.
It’s surreal. We observed from the Canaveral AFB entrance observation bleachers, and I think it’s easier to appreciate if you can get closer to the landing zone pads (either with KSC’s “Feel The Heat” tour tickets or being a SpaceX employee).
Maybe they're trying to cut the fuel they take closer to the limit?
In my experience, the best team structure depends on the organization. Certainly for smaller orgs and startups it is possible to hire a small set of engineers with the necessary abilities to handle the reliability work.

In larger, more-established organizations, scrum teams tend to gravitate toward feature development in which it becomes difficult to prioritize reliability work even if the skills are present. With very many feature development teams, it becomes difficult to hire for a programmer that has the primary skill desired and the ancillary skill of reliability and systems operations.

I'm currently of the belief that in most orgs, a team should be dedicated to this. There's the ongoing operations of a service, which I think is a shared duty, and the infrastructure engineering components necessary to abstract the infrastructure sufficiently well that it is uniform across feature-development teams and also reliable, scalable, and secure by default.

As with anything, the devil is in the details.
I know one guy who thought it’d be like yahoo and drop. I think he lost a bunch on shorts...

That being said I never bought stock in google or facebook and clearly I should have and even put my 401k in early growth us tech.
Even with recipes, if the description is h baroque enough, you will not be allowed to copy it.
"Reveal Codes" IIRC.
I can see how you might think that, but to be more clear we are moving out of this market - I'm trying to be helpful to the OP (and anyone else who's looking at this market) by sharing our experience.

A Google search is going to yield a lot of great other companies for static hosting like https://netlify.com (which even supports this exact functionality of drag and drop uploads) and https://zeit.co just to name a couple, not to mention a graveyard of other services who've tried to do similar things over the last 5 years. You might even notice that we've changed our messaging to focus on file-sharing and direct links - not website hosting.
I’m not South African, my husband is. I picked it up from him. We use it around our home quite a bit. I was replying to a South African. Whilst talking about South Africa. I'm fairly sure nobody's upset about it, more intrigued.
Stardip?

They also plan to make a trip to Mars.

SpaceX has a lot of stuff on the drawing board and may or may not execute on any of that. For now what you have is a two stage to orbit vehicle that can be topped with a man rated capsule.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX_Dragon#NASA_Commercial_...

Good old 'parachute & splashdown'.

Starship is - for now - mostly fiction with some parts under test, if and when they plan to do their second stage controlled and re-usable landings you can be sure there have been very large numbers of landings without mishap or SpaceX will blow all their credit in one RUD.

So let's wait until it is 'on topic' before spouting off, there are plenty of possible reasons why this landing could have been aborted, a very large number of those possible reasons hinge on the state of the drone ship (platform stability, for instance) which might have worked just fine if the landing had been attempted over land on a pad.
Doesn't accreditation largely influence how securities are marketed? Isn't the liability issue with accreditation on the security seller, and not on the buyer? Why would we want more shady investments marketed to people, even if some what's marketed today turns out to be shady?
I would love for this to be true, but I'm suspicious because the figure of a women "troll" which trows her breast over her shoulders also exist in Scandinavian folklore ("slattenpat").
Adding a schema meta language just creates unnecessary complexity. Instead of 1 language now there's two.

If you're going to invent a new language like json-schema, you might as well skip to json2.

People who care about schemas already enforce this at the serialization layer where the objects being mapped to implicitly are the schema.

Pushing the schema down to the protocol just adds complexity and bloat.
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On Firefox (Linux), middle-clicking opens a new tab to the site indicated, not the malicious one.
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Wow looks cool
Cold oil lubricates better.

It has higher viscosity, meaning it takes more energy to move it out of the way. As it warms up, its lubricating power decreases, but not too much, and its viscosity decreases, enabling better engine efficency. A cold engine is less efficient, but only for a short time, until it heats up.

Oil too thick to pump rarely happens in normal life. In arctic and subarctic conditions people use electric heaters to keep the oil thin enough to pump.
It's hard to appreciate the scale in person too, it doesn't look real (I was there). Like the other poster said, it's surreal. But the sonic booms help remind you the boosters are large and moving very fast.
Fascinating Things I Learned in 2019
The space shuttle also flew for along time without problems. Until … it didn’t.
Welcome changes to the accredited investor rules. Of course, would love to see them go even further and let just anyone invest — but this is already a step in the right direction.

In all my dealings with the SEC (from working at multiple regulated investment platforms, AngelList and Republic, and now as a VC), it's become clear to me that they're extremely pragmatic and want to support innovation and create a level playing field for everyone. They have great intentions, but are obviously quite careful and conservative about their approach.

I think it's important to note two things:

1/ The stated mission of the SEC is "to protect investors; maintain fair, orderly, and efficient markets; and facilitate capital formation." — the last part is important, and these changes go towards furthering that goal.

2/ The SEC is a civilian enforcement agency. They do not write the rules, they are here to interpret them and enforce them. They issue guidance, monitor, and sue entities that break the rules. The rules are written by congress. Even if the SEC wanted to change a rule, they could not do it without following the laws written by congress. At best, they can slightly tweak their interpretations of the rules (as we're seeing here).
CBOR (https://cbor.io/) allows custom types, but it's a binary format and not anywhere near as popular.
And to add, regarding the feature requests:

- OpenID support is definitely on the near term horizon. I actually need Google Oauth support for myself... and adding a few other providers, including OpenID will be part of that development. Ldap, I'm not sure... perhaps one day, but having that won't scratch my own itch and we're still in the early days.

- Insights has a full API for communication that is used by the frontend, including for creating/saving charts and soon for dashboards. Userless API access is also one of the next things in the list... and with that you can create as many charts/dashboards as you would like. I personally already use the insights API in my work's backend for autogenerated graphs. The backend Rails app talks to Insights and passes the data returned to the "insights-charts" package, which embeds a React graph our admin backend. The only thing needed is to copy the query (button in the top right) and modify it as needed before making the request for chart data.

- Import/export would indeed be good to have!
> We do not collect the URL or content of sites you visit.

I was very concerned about this, but this is all I needed to hear. Thank you. This addresses a real market need.
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Infrastructure costs, they are absolutely massive compared to what you need for planes.