skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Visual styling/consistency handling is so cheap it looks like a 30/70 mix of Trek and Wars(to be fair more of generic scifi than the established Wars theme), a bit painful to watch Patrick Stewart not entirely because he's merely playing an old man, Robots being handled as subhuman class not as Data was in TNG -- weren't they just another intelligent and equal species?, if I may be allowed spoilers no appearance of one key person of TNG...

Last but not least, gave me serious doubts in current Federation leadership for not conducting mass extinction plan of every human with DNA traces of the Soong family, especially those with relevant doctorates, for the safety of our quadrant.
Excerpts:

"1. Create an environment of psychological safety"

"6. Hold yourself and others accountable"

Now, not to get all lawyerly (I am not a lawyer) or anything, but...

How exactly do you do #1 if it conflicts with #6?

?

And...

How exactly do you do #6 if it conflicts with #1?

?
The consultant doesn't need to prove it. The prosecutor does, if it gets to that point – but first there would be a police investigation, and the police have a variety of investigative techniques at their disposal.
The X-plane program does fundamental research. All military and commercial aircraft have benefited from that research, in the same way WW2 German designs also influenced the world.

X-57 is fundamental research, not an effort to create a final product. The closest program similar to it is the X-29, which investigated forward-swept wings, canards and augmented computer systems to control them. (Nobody wants forward-swept wings because a failure in wingtip rigidity or the computer software destroys the structure.)

As a commercially-rated airplane pilot and informal aerodynamics student, I think the wingtip propellers are questionable, and the retractable inboard propellers sound like a maintenance and operations nightmare.

What's weird about mounting propellers at the end of the wing is that you lose half the lift of the propeller wash over the wing, over a normal placement.

What's misunderstood about wing tip vortices is that regardless of what the loss is, that flow comes from the entire wing producing lift, so is unavoidable. There are already passive techniques like winglets and fences to direct vortices that don't require daily maintenance.

And we know from the Osprey that complex propeller systems fail too often. A dozen propellers means an order of magnitude more inspections, replacements, ground time (AOG), etc.

At $83,000/hour to operate, a V22 Osprey is more expensive than an A380. Also, read the section on "Design Challenges":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_Boeing_V-22_Osprey

Additionally, there is no "urban air mobility market" in the USA, and never will be, due to regulation and insurance requirements. In a showdown between the FAA and Uber, the FAA will always win, and the FAA reserves the perogative to change its mind later, as in drone regulation.

To give you an idea, it was easier to start SpaceX than it would be to get the FAA to allow "urban air mobility." So regulation is the real challenge, not technology.
Dolt is not Git for data.

Git take existing files, and allow you to version them.

Git for data would take existing tables or rows, and allow you to version them.

A uniform, drop in, open source way to have an history or row, merge them, restore them, etc. that works for Postgres, Mysql or Oracle in the same way. And is compatible with migrations.

You can have an history if you use big table or couchdb, not need for Dolt if it's about using a specific product.
His goal is to subtract value from as many conversations as he can in parallel, and waste as much of everyone's time as possible.
The Division (a game I worked on) is quite well optimised for multi core.

In fact it’s one of the reasons we made our own game engine.
This made me think: Given that most of society uses technology, but it's the "nerds" that define much of how it works, how does that affect culture? Some things that may be niche, becomes part of the mainstream as it's the niche group deciding.
We should build the services anyway.

We can design radios that use spread-spectrum / low-probability-of-intercept / below-the-noise-floor techniques that can make the services both harder to identify, and (more importantly) far, far less likely to interfere with anything else on the same frequencies, which is what the FCC actually cares about.

If this is useful, and if people actually want to use it, they will, and then the cat will be out of the bag and we can make a case for legalization.

It's easier to ask for forgiveness than permission. They're never going to give you permission for something theoretical. People have to be using it and not willing to give it up, like uber, and then they'll go "gee, I guess we need to figure out how to make this work."
Leonardo da Vinci was considered one of the greatest geniuses of history long before the painting was stolen from the Louvre, so Mona Lisa was not "an obscure and unimportant piece". After all, there was a reason it was stolen in the first place.

It might be the theft which made it generally known and iconic even among people who don't care about art.
Zoom booms as demand for video-conferencing tech grows
Just because you don’t have symptoms doesn’t mean you can’t spread it. What you outlined, wear a mask and carry on, that’s exactly the mentality that IS spreading it right now.
Cloudron 5 Released
Marshal structs the right way in Golang
Corona Risk Analysis by German Government 2013 (Page 55) [pdf]
MicroPython Program: Update Covid-19 Data in Real Time
Sorry a bit slow on the reply. You can check out version control for data with DVC here https://dvc.org/
Like said elsewhere -- we don't know what would be the "safe enough" method, on another side, desperate times...

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

Still, there is a nice bit of history behind the concept, as an example, the story about how Britain learned about the method:

"It would not be until Italian physician Dr. Emmanuel Timoni of Constantinople promoted the practice that variolation began its spread through Western Europe. After coming across the practice in Constantinople, Timoni wrote a letter describing the method in detail which was later published in the Philosophical Transactions in early 1714.[6]:77 His account would become the first medical account of variolation to appear in Europe. Although the article did not gain widespread notoriety, it caught the attention of two important figures in the variolation movement, Bostonian preacher Cotton Mather and the wife of the British Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu."

"No stranger to smallpox, Lady Mary had lost her brother to the devastating disease. Soon afterwards, she also contracted smallpox. Although she survived, she was left with severe facial scarring. While in Turkey she came across the process of variolation as it was practiced amongst the people of Constantinople. She first mentioned variolation in the famous letter to her friend, Sarah Chiswell, in April 1717.[7]:55 in which she enthusiastically recounted the process, which in Constantinople was most commonly administered by experienced elderly women. In 1718, she had the practice conducted on her five-year-old son, Edward Montagu. The procedure was supervised by the embassy doctor Charles Maitland. On her return to England, she had her four-year-old daughter inoculated in the presence of physicians of the royal court in 1721.[1]:90 Both variolations proved successful. Later on that year Maitland conducted an experimental inoculation of six prisoners within the Newgate Prison of London. In the experiment, six condemned prisoners were variolated and later exposed to smallpox with the promise of freedom if they survived.[2]:45 The experiment was a success, and soon variolation was drawing attention from the royal family, who helped promote the procedure throughout England. However, variolation caused the death of Prince Octavius of Great Britain, eighth son and thirteenth child of King George III in 1783."

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/smallpox/sp_variolation.h...

"Variolation was never risk-free. Not only could the patient die from the procedure but the mild form of the disease which the patient contracted could spread, causing an epidemic."
Before git came along monotone was looking like the best DVCS.

But it had no chance to compete with Linus’ marketing power.
Are you referring to "calculators approved for standardized tests"?

$100 for a Ti-84 is definitely a price anomaly.
> When you look at complicated systems and clever solutions - most likely it took a lot of time and resources to implement it, but all you can see is the smooth result. It is easy to fall into this fallacy because complex solutions always require a lot of work, testing, and iterations.

I used to have this problem all the time with the managing director:

MD: Company X has a really nice and simple help system. Why can't we do the same?

Me: We can, but we need a product owner, a designer, a developer and a tester full time on this for at least a couple of months.

MD: I don't understand why we can't just copy what they did.
Non binary data can be saved as text - for example you can have an SQL database dump. You can put that text into git. What does this solution add to that simple idea?
Obviously, there's the iconic K&R, which some people don't like for its terseness. I loved it - pure and to the point. However, the second book that made a huge impact on me was "Reusable Data Structures For C" by Roger Sessions.
If you internalize these two books you'll be a highly competent C programmer.
https://www.amazon.com/Reusable-Data-Structures-Prentice-hal...
> But our customers told us that it was hard to justify paying for open source code, they got lots of questions from their managers

This is, unfortunately, a real problem. I've worked in huge companies that will happily shell out hundreds of thousands for Atlassian crap, but if you were to suggest paying less for a better product that could be got for free you'd be laughed out of the room. What's more likely is the fact that it's free would be used as its main selling point.
Nobody wants to respond to your attempts at sealioning. Quoting text to you isn't going to change your mind or behavior.

Everything you've written here is inconsistent and contradictory, and you desperately try to derail the conversation and change the subject whenever anyone points that out, then you run away when you realize you've painted yourself into a corner and are getting called on it.

Just look at how many downvotes and flags you're getting, and how many of your postings are light colored, dead, and hidden. You're well on your way to a shadow ban. I wonder how long it will take you to figure it out that the only people replying to you have "showdead" set to true, because they love to see you floundering.

If somebody's paying you by the hour for trolling, then they certainly are not getting their money's worth, because the moderation system is working, as the text in your posts becomes lighter and lighter until your posts are hidden and nobody sees them, thankfully.

Go back to Gamergate where you came from, mistermann.
I'm using a python script and a template to merge source files into ape.c so it's quite similar to sqlite's amalgamation. It's not as simple as joining a lot of files together though because there are dependencies between files and all global variables and functions need to be declared static.
You probably know them, but oshpark is great!
You pay by the square inch, which was really fortunate for me because I needed a (very) small pcb for a project, and they made and shipped it to me (to Germany!) for less than 2$ at the time. Though I think they since implemented a lower bound on size/price.

Also, the purple/gold finish is gorgeous.
It’s interesting that Japan didn’t have a writing system and China didn’t have a name. Then Japan adopted Chinese writing system and Japan gave them a name. Weird.
I think it's past time to introduce "IANAE".
You can nitpick any comparison like that by pointing out the different ways the metaphor breaks.
Nihon
The Fedora Git forge decision
Github was made because people wanted to use Git really bad, but the UX wasn't there. Git was already successful at that point.

Git succeeded because it was good. Github just made it more accessible.
Reminds me of the days when the iPhone only did ringer volume unless sound was playing. In meetings you’d panic and have to ramp the volume way down after it starts blasting out.
The thing is, pretty much everyone knows the two tracks from ‘Hotline Miami’, but Sun Araw has plenty of other heady stuff on the early EPs.

E.g. ‘Canopy’ here https://sunaraw.bandcamp.com/album/boat-trip

All of ‘Heavy Deeds’: https://sunaraw.bandcamp.com/album/heavy-deeds

and ‘On Patrol’, which is full of this deep sound: https://sunaraw.bandcamp.com/album/on-patrol

‘Off Duty’ and ‘Sun Ark’ too.

Stallones later switched to guitar noodling and more spacey compositions, which aren't so groovy—though also interesting sometimes.

He also made an album ‘Icon Give Thank’ with M. Geddes Gengras and The Congos, which is pretty much Sun Araw plus actual dub: https://youtube.com/watch?v=HWvqL-pbH2U
Houseparty's privacy policy: “opt-out has no value”
I've given my email to Meetup with permission to contact me. I'm not so sure this permission allows group organizers to export my contact details. I can see it could be both legally and ethically questionable.
Seems about communication gone wrong.

i) Medical masks don't help much for the general population, and don't protect the one wearing them very well. (Masks need to be exchanged, worn properly, …).
ii) They create a false sense of safety.

Especially in countries where a mask isn't common, I can absolutely understand. The masks work when everybody wears one. But then, the current scarcity comes into play. Recommending everybody to wear a mask just doesn't work out, then.

Anyway, I agree that it should be possible to supply (shitty) masks to everybody and save the good ones for our health workers. In Germany, many hospitals now sew their own masks…
Creator of Redis on How to Be More Productive (2017)
Front End Code Quality Musketeers – ESLint, Husky and Lint-Staged
Substack – Publishing Made Simple
Menu > make available offline. Should now ahownin "offline" in your drive.
Excerpt:

"Substack makes it dead simple to start a newsletter and get paid for it."
Potential data breach in the Bay Area?
Two recommendations:

Stars of the Lid - The Tired Sounds of Stars of the Lid: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MaSi7Gut7xM shop link: https://boomkat.com/artists/stars-of-the-lid

Thomas Köner - Daikan: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICcK6Li5OfM shop link: https://boomkat.com/products/daikan

(disclosure: no affiliation with boomkat or the artists, i just love the music & think it is worth supporting)
>They hate each other in a way most people probably cannot understand. Many would not pass up the opportunity to rid the world of what they see as the most evil upon its face unto the very last minute.

That really isn't true, which is largely why the First World War was characterised by immobile trench warfare. A group of experienced and highly motivated soldiers were perfectly capable of breaking the lines and holding territory, as demonstrated by Stoßtruppen and Arditi, but most soldiers weren't experienced and highly motivated - they were barely-trained civilians who just wanted to go home in one piece. They might have occasionally fired a few shots over the barricades to show willing, they might have chosen to risk death in a charge over the lines rather than face certain death by firing squad, but they really didn't want to be fighting and certainly didn't want to risk death or live with the consequences of having killed.

Snipers can achieve remarkable combat effectiveness, partly because of their marksmanship and fieldcraft skills but mainly because they're actually shooting to kill, due to an innate or acquired psychological difference from ordinary infantrymen. Most infantrymen weren't really trying to kill anyone, which is why the overwhelming majority of combat casualties were inflicted by artillery - it is psychologically far easier to fire an artillery piece at a grid coordinate than to fire a rifle at a human being.

The burden of sustained combat or psychologically-informed training can increase the propensity of people to kill, but it's not a natural psychological state. Ordinary men under prolonged stress sometimes become hardened killers, but they're more likely to become disaffected and depressed.

Modern military strategy is based on this reality - a small proportion of elite infantrymen at the tip of the spear, supported by vast numbers of men in support and indirect combat roles. Tanks, aircraft and drones provide firepower, but just as crucially they provide psychological distance from the act of killing. The significance of psychological distance is a crucial but often overlooked aspect of the Milgram experiments.
Shouldiwearafacemask.com
There are a bunch listed here:

https://github.com/pirate/wireguard-docs#wireguard-setup-too...
Crudely speaking, something like this could allow components built for React to easily be used in Angular apps. Where's the harm in that? Any existing framework can adopt the standard, and new frameworks can be built upon it. A new one pops up every day, and honestly, I'd love the ability to use some of the thousands of React components from the shiny new framework I'm trying out. I don't get all the fuss.
Today is the day to change your life – Motivational Speech
Clean code has always meant to simple, easy to understand, not elegant.
> Madness.

Outliers, therefore newsworthy. If these very few haters were able to get a final confrontation, there were also many who did want to stop the fight.

What happened during an unofficial seasonal ceasefire in WWI? Seasonal greetings were shared, between enemies. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ceasefire#World_War_I
I love this UI! And, as a huge JRPG fan, also the idea behind it. Best of luck that you don't run out of health before finishing a few high-level quests!
> Ultimately, I don't exactly regret it but I certainly wish that we weren't so convincing that we convinced ourselves of a market opportunity that we couldn't access or didn't exist at all.

How should you really know this without trying?
If you aren't convinced, where should the motivation come from?
I've been doing Go for a while now, and more and more I find myself just writing out really dumb looking code. Add a new line, write another short-lived variable, treat the guy reading it - me - like he's a complete idiot. I don't work in a team at the moment, but what I do now is the groundwork for something that will likely be used for the next decade (UI work, back / front-end).
Nah. Two points:

1. What this situation has already shown —on so many levels— is that we humans as a large group can’t be trusted to behave appropriately. Lots of people do follow the rules... but enough don’t, that it means the rules have to be stricter for everybody, so that the troublesome few don’t cause too much of a problem for the whole.

2. Your infection control proposal doesn’t stand up to the real world. Yes, if you could guarantee excellent N95 mask usage, and guarantee excellent hand washing (and other infection control measures - surfaces-hands-face) in everyone not locked down, and guarantee that no vulnerable people had to come to work or were exposed to people that had, and guarantee that people out in the world maintained strict social distancing... then maybe your proposal could work. But per #1 it’s super unlikely that this would be executed anywhere close to 100%... and failures would lead to more people getting sick... and then more people dying.
Being Norwegian (occupied by the Nazis during WW2) I'd like to chime in with my anecdata - my grandfather served as occupation police in Germany for a couple of years after the war; when the Berlin Wall came down, I was eleven years old and visiting my grandparents. I had been put to bed, but then my grandfather comes and tells me to come to the living room with this weird, strained look on his face; I duly followed him, expecting bad news - some death in the family or whatever.

He nods to the television and tells me that tonight, I'll stay up until the newscast is over - because tonight, the war finally comes to a close.

My grandfather didn't do feelings very well - but for most of that night, he wept with relief and joy. It is to this day the most powerful experience of my life - seeing the impact this event had on my otherwise stoic, accept-anything-in-its-stride grandfather.
This is a camera, not a computer. This monorail 4x5 camera is pretty much still the state of the art for studio large format photography.
The Other Microbiome (2013)
Yeah, I used a windows phone for 18 months. There were some fantastic ideas in there and when it worked well it felt like the right way to do things BUT: in practice It was a mixed bag, where the back button would take you at any given moment was a mystery (last app? Last state within current app? Something in between?) and other components also had the feeling of being overloaded in terms of possible meanings. I get the impression that they lacked clear guidelines around usage, not an issue when components look different but when everything has the stamp of official OS look and feel divergent behaviour undermines trust in the whole system.
Happened automatically on my device, probably because I have macOS running in dark mode. It's a feature. Switch your OS to the color scheme and language you prefer and websites / apps should adjust accordingly. Should. We're not quite there yet.
I don't want to spoil ST Picard, so I am just asking if you seen this DS9 episode https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Paradise_Lost_(episode)
and what you think about how Federation reacts when it is panicked. IMO ST PIC is showing a similar panicked reaction and if you watch the full show you will see it is optimistic and is very Trek.
> weren't they just another intelligent and equal species?

This was hotly contested in TNG[1], and it is my belief the issue was never really settled as Data was the only known non-biological humanoid android, and if I recall correctly his sentience was questioned couple more times throughout TNG and DS9, and maybe Voyager too?

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Measure_of_a_Man_(Star_Tre...
I think they could find funding and use-cases, if they had something like lincensing and terms of use backed into data to track lineage.
E.g. "this columns contains emails" and is revokable. Or when you publish data, "this column needs hashing/anonymizing/...".
And if you track data across versions and can version relations, you can create lineage.

Overall seen many of these lately, waiting for one to really shine. But not because I think it's a grand problem, as I can version my DDL/DML even/code, but I see some need for it because I have a lot of non-tech people working with data throwing it left and right and expecting me to clean up after them.
They're using Apache Cassandra which only got transactions in v2.0 and they're "lightweight transactions". It's not really designed for very strongly consistent data. I wonder how well that really works for financial OLTP.
I initially thought the same, then again I realised that it is a game in a way:

- There are objectives.

- You can make choices, e.g.: subscribe to the newsletter or not.

- The game's outcome will depend on your choices, e.g.: main quest of getting 100 newsletter subscribers will be a bit closer to done.

True, it's not a video game, the action takes place in the real world. But it might still be a game.