skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I suspect we have a few groups.

I think that's pretty much accurate, and what I saw when I was at the Job Faire in Browning last month, most were surprised by how extensive my experience was before I applied to get there: I worked for one of Kimbal's companies, I did a short stint at the Mars Desert Research Station, and got to know the Director and was asked to come back under her on a crewed mission etc...

Most were there to dip there toes and see what it was all like, but some of us were kool-aid drinkers for sure.

I met a SpaceX engineer in S. OC at an inn/out years ago and struck up a chat and the way he spoke about it was inspiring; despite the commute, long hours, fears of possibly going bankrupt before every launch (this was before Falcon 9 was recoverable) he seemed very fulfilled: like this is what he was here to do.

I got to stay after hours and hang out with some the crew in Browning as they were having dinner-lunch and it was the same vibe--smiles everywhere and just a really warm and inviting environment as you knew you among similar 'crazies.' I'm not sure if its cult-like or not but it was one of those rare moments I've had in Life where people genuinely wouldn't want to be anywhere else than where they are.

Money can't really buy that, and that is probably why I'm so drawn to it. If you're there trying to have a cushy work-life balance in any Musk corp you're deluding yourself.
Is it a sane thing to do (cram every bit of knowledge in your head)?

I have a feeling that it's futile and could even be a bad thing for mental health and sanity.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Payload_fraction

Launch vehicles tend to scale payload capacity at a greater rate than dry mass. So a small launch vehicle like RocketLab's Electron might have a wet mass of 12,000kg at launch and an LEO payload capacity of 225kg (225/12000 ~ 1.8% payload), the SpaceX Falcon9 has a wet mass of 550,000kg and an LEO payload capacity of 22,800kg (22800/550000 ~ 4.1% payload).

This just tends to mean that, very generally and with exceptions, larger vehicles can get mass into space with less fuel.
Will be interesting to also have macOS as guest with Vera Crypt & encrypted volume etc.
NASA Found an Unusual Hole on Mars That Scientists Say Could Contain Alien Life
Since governments set budgets on an annual basis, there’s no way any UBI program passed in the US would be funded and set in stone eternally.
It seems to me there are generally two trends in coffee. The kind of hipster-y home-brew space, where people use an aeropress or something similar (hand filter, chemex, french press) and spend a bit more on fresh beans and a grinder, and the high price coffee machine, where you spend hundreds to thousands on a machine that can do it all but does not necessarily produce good coffee on its own.
It just seems the coffee industry has succeeded in making people believe that good and easy to produce coffee requires expensive equipment. The many discussions I had where people insisted they needed an expensive machine because 30 seconds hand grinding and pour over in the morning was "just too much" and would not believe that fresh beans from their local roasters are actually cheaper than some pads or pods.

Of course, not talking espresso here, where entirely different equipment is necessary.
> After all, who doesn't want to hijack unary minus for the purpose of as hackneyed rendering of EBNF?

Ha!

> Anyway a serious answer to your comment would be to create a field or ring concept.

Yeah, this is true. We really, really struggled to create a set of traits for numerics, even regardless of these more advanced ideas... so it's unclear this would work. But it's certainly closer than I had thought :)
Everyone does trial and error. Look at every major aviation achievement, were those done on the first try?
Just make a new account.
This article from October 2019 also does a great job explaining the enormity of vision.

https://caseyhandmer.wordpress.com/2019/10/29/the-spacex-sta...
Actually 21 million or 45 million does not make much difference. There will be still order of magnitude between influenza and covid-19 (CFR 0.2% vs 3.4%, and mind you, 3.4% is an early estimate and subject to change in the situation where new cases are still coming in and people are still dying, if you observed then CFR for covid-19 was around 2% when it was rapidly growing in China and did rise to current level when the new cases started to slow down; many people warned that it will be much higher actually but these people were hushed down; you have to use your own analytical mind to choose what is more closer to the truth).
Some smaller keyboards (including laptops) make the control key small or add an "Fn" key to the bottom-left corner (Apple does this). I tend to hit Ctrl with my left hand, so mapping caps lock to Ctrl makes it more reliable to hit.
I understand that the article is written by CloudFlare, a CDN company with its own interests.

Not sure what you mean by that, but Zack wasn't writing something to further some secret interest Cloudflare has in the structure of URLs.
And what if Amazon feels like changing Fargate or charging differently or deprecating it or... Whats your strategy for that?
Hey kids in school memorize baseball scores, league position, all the characters in Star Wars. It's very normal for people to remember/memorize things. A trick to do it more efficiently isn't going to drive anybody crazy.
I think it's important to study the details of different implementations before making any conclusions, positive or negative, about basic income. Yeah, one of the challenges with a test like this is knowing there's a finite end date.

Another aspect that is often ignored in these discussions is the question of whether recipients continue to be eligible for basic social safety net type of services. I've heard the libertarian approach to basic income is essentially a replacement for the services we consider "welfare", and that's what we're seeing out of the proposal in California where recipients receiving other assistance would be ineligible for this kind of income. Medicaid, for one, is a strike against eligibility.

I haven't looked into Ontario's test in detail, but I doubt the recipients gave up their single-payer healthcare to receive basic income. Also makes me think that BI is only so popular because we rarely dive into the details of what happens to existing social programs, a question that will surely turn the UI/BI discussion more divisive.
> dig mx t-mobile.com
; <<>> DiG 9.9.7-P3 <<>> mx t-mobile.com
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 39537
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 1
;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION:
; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 512
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;t-mobile.com. IN MX
;; ANSWER SECTION:
t-mobile.com. 31 IN MX 10 tmobile-com0c.mail.prote
ction.outlook.com.

Office 365 mail?
It's not possible to encrypt 51GB of real-world data in 1GB space for the same reason that compression algorithms can't achieve 51x compression ratios. Given that, such a scheme presents some challenges if you want to maintain plausibility. Either,

1. Each filesystem lives within an allocated area and knows not to overwrite its neighbors' data.

2. Some filesystems (the real ones) are privileged and know their actual allocated area. Others (the decoys) think they own areas of the storage volume that contain hidden data and therefore have the potential to overwrite the hidden filesystems if they are written to.

In the case of (1), you need to be able to explain why your computer has unallocated areas filled with pseudorandom data. That is never going to pass the plausibility test, imo.

In the case of (2), a lot of effort needs to be put into making the decoys look normal while not letting them overwrite the hidden data. There are a number of strategies you could use here that would work, but it will never be as convenient or simple as dual-booting and the more convenient you try to make it, the less innocent a hard drive will appear under close inspection.
Yes. And it should. It's your commit history, so it needs to be a history of your commits.

One day you'll find a commit labeled "removing comments" that breaks something because the dev palmed the trackpad while hitting the delete key and lopped off a line of code. You want that to be something you can find with a bisect.

It amazes me to see a bunch of discussion here from people arguing that one should throw away history so that some silly graph view is prettier.

History isn't meant to be pretty. It's meant to be history.
As I replied to the first comment asking the same thing, the sentence preceding the statement you quoted explains what needs to be done:

>so perhaps these states that allow self-driving cars need to think about adopting traffic laws specific to self-driving cars and figure out who those tickets should go to and the proper punishment

Police can't just make up traffic violations that don't currently exist and Courts can't begin dishing out punishments that don't exist for violations that don't exist.
People are already complaining about taxes too high and lazy welfare recipients. With UBI this would get even worse and I agree that most likely it would get voted out very quickly. If we can’t even get universal health care, robust social safety net or secure retirement going without political fights, forget UBI.
> this seems just like another tool that will be used to put the non-elite at a disadvantage. until proven otherwise - I can only think of negative outcomes for ex-felons, low wage workers, people of color, and the likes coming from the usage of this app by the rich and large corporations

You lack imagination. This will be used by HR, attorneys, private investigators and others for all sorts of purposes.

- Were you really out sick? According to our partners at Foo Corporation, you were eating a churro in front of a movie theater at 10:45AM on the day you were out.

- Why were you talking to <x> in the parking lot after work?

- Our security provider identified you in a social gathering with 3 other employees, or engaged in a PDA with a fellow employee. You are out of compliance with our fraternization policy and are terminated.

- You get a 30 minute meal break. Why were you leaving the men's room at 12:45?

- You were arrested for shoplifting in 1993, we are refusing entry to <x> stadium.

- Your grades have declined, and you have been seen entering your dorm after 2AM 40% of the time, scholarship revoked.

If anything, this will bring the routine harassment that individuals in authority inflict on people and elevate it to a centrally controlled, legal practice.
Same here. This "it was a dark and stormy night" style is bad writing. I read a lot, I like reading novels. This is just an empty structure. In this particular case the bad writing almost killed an interesting subject.
But this is from Canada, don't they have universal healthcare?
It's interesting to see that the map reshapes as you move through the decades. Germany splits into two and then goes back to one, Africa and the Indian subcontinent get progressively decolonized, etc. It's not perfect, particularly in east Asia (Taiwan is always independent and Korea is always two countries, and neither are ever colonized by Japan), but what's there is fun to see.
“Facebook knew my Modem router admin password.”
The fact that Ternimal.app and iTerm2 use different keyboard shortcuts for clearing scrollback buffer (⌥⌘K vs ⇧⌘K) is a constant frustration of my spotty use of Terminal.app. I would instinctively hit the iTerm2 shortcut, which brings up a connect to server panel or something.
That’s kind of a lot. $876 per year for a toy cluster that might not do anything...
Well of course if you define it narrowly that's true, but computer vision has many more safety-critical applications, most obviously self-driving.
I totally misunderstood your comment. I thought you meant it would track you and take a picture of you and create art out of those pictures. Reading your comment again I'm not really sure how I came to that conclusion at the time. I thought that was a really dumb idea, but turns out it was mine the whole time.

Your actual idea is much cooler.

To expand on your idea, it would be cool if every time you blinked or looked away, it wasn't a completely new picture, but the same one that is subtly changed, such that it slowly morphs over time, but only as you aren't looking. I suppose you could pre-generate quite a few steps in advance and then mete them out gradually.
It's been a while since I used Anki, but I'd suggest marking or suspending the notes you don't want to ever see again. Then you can keep them suspended, or if you marked them, you can delete them completely. Should do the trick?
Implementing Gradient Descent from scratch in pure Python
They changed the default path outout of applets like get-childitem. Microsoft employees stated that this would break many older scripts, but it wasn't listed as a breaking change.

It's unlikely to ever reach even generally acceptable levels of compatibility with the built-in version.
> The three-year, $150-million program

Three year. Would you quit your job, and move somewhere cheaper if you knew the money will run out after three years, and you'll have a three year gap in your CV?

Are there really no lottery winners winning lifetime monthly payouts to study?

Because, if you gave me 5x average earnings for three years, I wouldn't quit my job. But if you guaranteed the money for the rest of my life, i'd pursue different activities (fun, good for me, but non-productive for society).
Guess What? There's Now a Subscription for That Too
Unfortunately, due to Mars' lower gravity and lack of a magnetically active core, not only can it not hold a substantial atmosphere to begin with, any such atmosphere would inevitably be blown away by solar winds.

So there's that. Maybe we can put a big dome around the whole thing like Planet Druidia.
That’s what I expected this article to be about - it looks like it’s actually a long-form sales pitch for ANTLR training (but still worth a read). I’ve never been fortunate (or unfortunate) enough to be called on to put together a real compiler since school, but I’ve spent a lot of time working with “lite” parsers like JAXB and Hibernate (or variants thereof), and I’ve come to the same conclusion: I’m better off just hand-rolling my unmarshalling code than dealing with the gaps left by code generators.
From a developer perspective, k8s seems ripe for disruption.

It does a bunch of junk that is trivial to accomplish on one machine - open network ports, keep services running, log stuff, run in a jail with dropped privileges, and set proper file permissions on secret files.

The mechanisms for all of this, and for resource management, are transparent to unix developers, but in kubernetes they are not. Instead, you have to understand a architectural spaghetti torrent to write and execute “hello world”.

It used to be similar with RDBMS systems. It took months and a highly paid consultant to get a working SQL install. Then, you’d hire a team to manage the database, not because the hardware was expensive, but because you’d dropped $100k’s (in 90’s dollars) on the installation process.

Then mysql came along, and it didn’t have durability or transactions, but it let you be up and running in a few hours, and have a dynamic web page a few hours after that. If it died, you only lost a few hours or minutes of transactions, assuming somone in your organization spent an afternoon learning cron and mysqldump.

I imagine someone will get sufficiently fed up with k8s to do the same. There is clearly demand. I wish them luck.
"Granted"?
Yes (actually, it's center -> top -> bottom); I just didn't want to make the comment longer. Anyway, in Emacs, it's something I frequently do without thinking.
Couldn’t agree more. Know someone in the art history field, and all their academic texts are insufferable. People aren’t trying to deliver a point in the simplest way possible, instead they engage in some sort of linguistic masturbation. Obscure words, lengthy sentences, intricate syntactic constructions, etc. I assume this is some sort of a signalling method: “You can barely understand what I am taking about, and you don’t know half of the words, so I must be smart and this text must be important.”
This is at the "think of the children" level of argumentation.

Give them an apple watch, it'll do a better job as an emergency device, without compromising everyone's privacy, and at a fraction of the cost.
A Variable Fonts Primer
That first link has a picture of the "gun", which appears to be a PVC pipe of the type used for a bathroom sink drain. It wouldn't hold water pressure, never mind an exploding bullet. And it's the wrong diameter for a gun barrel. I wonder if there is actually a metal pipe inside that (with the PVC for a nicer grip or something), or if this is another thing the police dramatically mischaracterized.
He Raised $120M Without Venture Capital and Then Defeated a Boardroom Coup
K8s is complex. For this reason Cloud providers sell it as a service.
K8s and microservices are a trend topic, so it is true you must think with your own head before creating microservices at will.

But I think the article is a bit too negative.

For instance, in my humble experience the application server is always a bottleneck before the database (i.e. if the database is Oracle or PostgreSQL).

Microservices move a bit of complexity on the client side, ask for smarter clients and offer a lot more resilience and fault tolerance.

The article focus only on scaling and forget the "Single Point of Failure" problem.
> Stablecoins may not be practically subject to these restrictions

Presumably they are subject to these restrictions in law, it's just that right now they fly under the radar.

So ... you're advising people that stablecoins are a good way to break the law?
You realize that your quote contradicts your own claim don't you.
Yes, usually to stay rich.
Read my other comment down below, it's not free labor since they are paid through the use and consumption of goods bought by their partners.
This is true. Do you think under those conditions, the ship would have symptomatic employees serving food or sharing bunks with asymptomatic employees? That really goes against the idea of quarantine, so I'd like to see evidence of that instead of assuming it.
blink> dig mx t-mobile.com

;; ANSWER SECTION:

t-mobile.com. 31 IN MX 10 tmobile-com0c.mail.protection.outlook.com.

office 365?
The fallback is to use something else less convenient--maybe k8s, nomad, some other provider's container-runner-load-balancer-thing.
It's a little hacky, but you could just suspend the card
Not a bad idea, it's a good way to save the few healthy/surviving ones if coronavirus (or nature, or humanity itself) ends up wiping all of humanity.
Genuinely curious, is it possible to make atmosphere in Mars just like in Earth? Isn't this because of Earth's unique gravity that we have an atmosphere? I'm not a physicist so please excuse my ignorance.
That’s a fair point. He does have a bias to sell that story.
One main perk of amazon or online is the reviews. Now I don't just go by review alone (I have read some 3/5 books that I really enjoyed), but they definitely put more weight on my decision than looking at covers or spine of books.
Nowhere has universal healthcare. The basic healthcare is bad, so you can pay more to get better access, or go to the US for actual good care.
You can use System Preferences (Keyboard -> Shortcuts, “App Shortcuts” in the list) to change any binding in any menu item in any app. In this case you could force both apps to use the same keys for those commands.
Maybe for the plebs. The wealthy are already bulwarking their own privacy using legal and technological means. Giving up on protecting privacy for everybody just turns it into a luxury good for the wealthy while stripping it from those that can’t afford it. This creates yet another vector of inequality in our society.

Edit: Since you used the “information wants to be free” phrase - commonly invoked with the copyright enforcement controversies of the 2000s - it’s important to note how that turned out. From where I sit, I see a lot of large, powerful companies stealing ideas and content from small creators with no repercussions while small creators are under the thumb of automated content ID systems (see YouTube). “Fair Use” in video content is effectively dead - YouTube and their large media “partners” hold all the cards.

When information is “free” those with all the lawyers get to set their own rules.
> most money is spent on housing and health care

In Canada?

Would not an increase in demand for such things lead to a corresponding increase in supply? Or is there something I don't know about supply restrictions in Canada?
I won't dispute that a vendor could walk away with that conclusion. I will dispute that they'd be correct to do so.

I suspect that everything I'm about to say is just violently agreeing with you, and every point I'm about to make is already obvious both to you and to most of the people on HN.

But it's still worth saying -- if you can't protect advanced users, you can't protect normal users. A technical user is (usually) going to be safer about what they install than a normal user, they're going to recognize weird software behavior, they're going to react more quickly to threats, and be less prone to doing dumb things because a random website told them to.

Making power users like Krebbs feel safe is the minimum bar. Krebbs should be the easiest person in the world to secure, because they're already being careful. So if Krebb's isn't willing to install software, then the security model is utterly broken, not just for power users but for everyone.

I think there's some value in attacking app store monopolies from that angle -- pointing out that they're not just a threat to user freedom, they're also security theater. They don't work. Whether or not Krebbs actually got that point across effectively... :shrug:
I use the suspend card (or note) command for this. Press @ when your reviewing and it will suspend the card and you won't see it again.
Yes, and many municipalities have rent regulations
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Discovering the brain’s nightly “rinse cycle”
A homeless man I befriended to some extent once took me to a shelter in East London. It was scary how many people there were. I stuck out like a sore thumb, and felt I drowned in a sea of eyes alternately a million miles blank or like daggers. Perhaps a similarly welcoming feeling to admission to some prisons. My friend introduced a well kempt, multilingual man with an education, an admirable history and sincerity who had simply fallen off the society's radar. The most of them seemed to be just getting by on little more than hope and memory, they were not just the aged, the mentally ill, desperados and addicts. Without an address, it is hard to get back in to society. I learned more in that visit than I cared to about how globalized first world societies treat their poor. Really humbling. It shocked me.
Reinventing the integrations page for SaaS companies
Controlled inflation and QE are good things, that help keep the economy ticking.

Where you see governments 'stealing value', the rest of us see sensible monetary policy.

God save us from idiots who would hand said policy to a handful of software engineers and a self-interested mining cartel.
Sure, it is the job of the CTO to steer juniors in an appropriate direction. But, and I hate to say this, isn't it also the job of the CTO to help source funding and it seems VCs like to go after the buzzwords?
We already have a pilot project - the Alaska Permanent Fund, it's been running since 1976.
Do not buy the Thinkpad X1 carbon 7th gen. There is a battery issue, Lenovo upgraded the bios 2 times by now trying to solve the problem but seems to be a hardware problem.