skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hey guys, thought I'd show you all a project my friend and I have been working on for the last 4-5 months. We call it "Rockets of Earth" - https://allrockets.space/

It is a website to browse and explore all the orbital-class rockets of the world. You can filter rockets by company, country, etc. and even see which ones are rated to carry astronauts. Once you select a rocket, its page shows information about its payload capacity, fairing size, cost, launch stats, etc.

You can even compare rockets and see how they stack against each other! And there are some really cool pictures thrown in. Hope you guys like it!
Nice updates!

Though #1 (Single Founder), in my opinion, they still care unless the founder had the previous success startup, or had a team working with him/her.
Baby boomers and the housing market on the cusp of Covid-19
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> We’d been concerned about the privacy issues around using a Google service for some time, and this was the kick in the butt we needed to move off of them.

Do you think this would have ever happened without a financial incentive?
In practice the Civil Rights Act didn’t accomplish all that much, as I’d say the de facto racial segregation in the US is now even larger compared to the 1950s. The progressive white component of the US population decided that the fight had been won by the late ‘60s and they moved on to other endeavors.

The racial riots from the early ‘90s should/could have been a new sign to re-open the fight but nothing of the sorts happened, by now most of the black population is resigned with the horrendous status-quo while most of the white population doesn’t find the current status-quo at all horrendous, at most they protest against some punctual anti-black population actions which they only see as individual abuses (the Ferguson case, the helpless Florida kid case etc).
Does opportunity cost really exist when print money? You can print 3 billion to do this. Or not. Unclear if it would change the inflation of our currency.
Hydroxychloroquine Probably Isn’t the Answer
He also claims his intention is to troll people.

> Once his stories go viral, the Facebook comments burst forth. And that’s when Christopher Blair the fake news writer becomes Christopher Blair the crusading left-wing troll.

> “The mission with the trolling first and foremost is we pull them into the comments [section underneath each fake article],” he says.

> It's then that he starts on the offensive. The faker becomes the exposer, weeding out and reporting the most extreme users among his fans.

Since Trump got elected, I would say that he ended up trolling himself.
If anyone knows, I’d be interested in more details around the windows thing.
Bootstrapped, launched and sold two startups as a single founder. Launched a third one with academic cofounder . Was asked by VC "how much of a Prof is your Prof". Spot on as it turns out too much. Just saying...
Probably https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generic_array_logic
In an alternate timeline, people complain about how much it costs to refill the proprietary wax cartridges for their fax machine.
I just checked... there are still online fax services.
Very strange. CBP enforces federal laws generally, but there still must be legal authority for confiscation.

This does explain, however, the involvement of Chinese consuls general who have been thanked for successful shipments from China. CBP cannot confiscate diplomatic mail.
You can take a picture, convert it to PDF, and fax it... all on your phone. Some apps offer this for $$$, but it's possible to get it all done for free using websites (take pic -> convert to pdf online -> fax with faxzero.com). Some paid apps even mimic a scanned copy by having you take multiple shots and reconstructing what the paper looks like into PDF automatically.

The government will always be slower to respond to change, so it's sad to hear a story like this. However the author had an excellent opportunity to educate its readers, but instead focused on the fear factor ("...he had to go to a Staples store in the middle of a pandemic...") - no, he didn't have to do that. Pretending the only way to send a fax involves finding a fax machine is disingenuous.
> So you think FaceTime and “green bubbles” is the only reason that people spend more than twice as much on iPhones than Androids - even though cross platform chat/video call apps like WhatsApp and Messenger are far more popular - even on iPhones?

The camera, blue bubbles, and FaceTime (audio as well as video). Brand and ecosystem are secondary, UI/UX are fleeting, and there seem early indications that iPhones may become seen as "grandma's phone" like Macs in the mid '90s. Scale effects and supply chain are contingent on demand.

> WhatsApp and Messenger are far more popular

Grandma only knows how to use FaceTime.

> iPads are the only tablets that actually sell

> Also, the personal computer isn’t nearly as relevant

Agreed, iPad and Mac sales are basically irrelevant compared to iPhone, because tablets and desktops and laptops are almost niche compared to the scale of mobile worldwide. No indication that any post-mobile devices (i.e. watches, glasses, goggles) will approach the size of the smartphone market.

> So you built an iOS app because of Safari and Apple’s evil lock in but you ended up spending money on an Android app anyway. So it was irrelevant because you couldn’t go to market with just a web app anyway....

Yeah, in 2016. We were contending with iPhone 4s and the first generation of Android phones that could reasonably perform browser-based video calls and overheating handsets and draining batteries after 20+ min video surveys and no WebRTC support from Apple yet and a bunch of 3G.

I didn't start thinking about Apple's potential antitrust violations ("evil lock in") until evaluating re-entering the video chat space in 2018.

In 2020, with contemporary hardware, one shouldn't still need to download some native app in order to perform a video call.

> Again there is an existence proof that isn’t true. Not only does Apple not force

I specifically said funnel, not force. The strategy is to get developers into the sale pipeline and on the radar for competitive analysis. Zoom has considered handling payments through the App Store, but decided against it because they support multiple platforms and have the resources to build their own subscription infrastructure.

> There is an existence proof that you are wrong about the Justice Department “forced” Microsoft to unbundle IE and Windows. IE is still bundled with Windows over 20 years later.

Hah, yes—but now you can delete it!

> Swift wasn’t introduced until 2014. Any startup that was crazy enough to use Swift then was making a very bad decision. Also the performance and hardware of the average Android phone is still crappy.

I should have said "native iOS development." Swift over Objective-C felt like a good decision, we worked with strong contractors who were motivated to use newer tech, perf was good, the code was clean and didn't require much ongoing maintenance, our CTO was able to jump in later and make changes efficiently. It was just a huge distraction to need to build an iOS app, go through the App Store, etc., but we wouldn't have been able to get traction without it.
Wow, awarded contract to TCS. That’s going to go well.
We had a similar idea, but didn't follow through. Here are some non-obvious use cases that you may find interesting

- Price comparison for the same item at different local stores
- Localized demand estimation for brands
- Referrals for items not available in the traditional distribution model (eg. Organic/Handmade goods)
Emulating an STM32F4 in QEMU to test ARM assembly
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Gate Array Logic. Field programmable, eraseable and re-programmable, consolidated logic chips.

Commonly used to replace 74xxx chips they do glue logic in classic 8bit computer designs like the Apple II

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generic_array_logic
^ why you shouldn't use supersets
I love this idea of a proofing box with temp control using a heated mat. Thanks for sharing it!
I started started hearing loud typing and realised I was using the headset's microphone!
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Strange as it may sound, I do wish to star in legally made porn where I perform orally on male horses and large k9.

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I have a digital signature for all my online interactions with the government. In Sweden, for example, there is a system named BankID that is used to access your bank account or pay your taxes.

The last time I used a fax was one connected to a Windows 2000 server in a small company. So, I will use a scanner and use the shares fax printer. Thanks is almost 20 years ago.

I am surprised how low tech the USA is. I would have expected something like that in a small countryside town, but never in a major city.

What's the reason for such a sad state of technology? I do not find it reasonable nor cost effective.
That person is also a jerk (in my experience)
Spain says EU has to rise to coronavirus challenge or will ‘fail as union’
Either it happened or it didn't. Shrodinger's Cat doesn't apply to the seizure of goods at the border.
The issue is not "why don't they upgrade the system" but the issue is "does it do what is required of it by those who sign the cheques"?

Sadly, being a "hostile environment" for claiming benefit is exactly what large numbers of welfare systems the world over are designed to do.

It has taken a decade for America's Underclass to claw its way back to parity - given how many more people are affected this time round, I doubt any country, even US can afford to stall so many of its citizens for so long again.

We can mail everyone a cheque. That might be the simplest solution all round.
Define 'afford to do so'.

If you mean 'anyone who has exploited the community around them to the point that they themselves come off as a predator and danger to the community', this would very likely explain why they could 'afford' to build a castle, but might also shed some light on WHY they might practically require a castle, or soldiers.
You're right - there's no reason to pay 3 times more for something that does the right job.

The problem is aftermarket cushions may not do as good of a job at passive noise reduction.

Follow the link and check if you have the right number of clips on your aftermarket cushion. Obviously this isn't the full picture but is certainly a large piece of it.
As a beginner, I find a tool like this useful for understanding the general schedule and a visual depiction of the steps required, without taking the precise timing too seriously
> 7. Choosing the Wrong Platform

> But there is a trick you could use if you're not a programmer: visit a top computer science department and see what they use in research projects

Please don't shoot yourself with this suggestion. From my personal experience Academia is so distant from what is relevant or practical to the industry.
nowadays people just link to twitter posts as some sort of reliable first hand source
This is tweeted generally as fact; it needs to get cleared up.
To be fair, the majority of people can barely resize an image, let alone take a good quality clear photo, convert it to pdf, and then have the knowledge of online fax being possible.
I’ve used their accelerometer (LIS2D). Performance and specs are great - it was just a pain to develop the embedded interface with it because the documentation had a bunch of mistatements and was missing critical information (a weak pullup on a certain line caused a bunch of current consumption - took days to figure out). Also they had an off by one bug in their LIFO queue that took a long time to figure out. Once you getting it working its great. Last time I checked they still hadnt updated their documentation with what I reported to them...
> They need a journal of failed chemistry because only the working stuff gets published.

I think there's theoretical value in this, and many have tried, but the incentives/disincentives for doing so isn't favorable. Here's some reasons why I think it's difficult to motivate people to publish negative results:

1) Negative results, while important in advancing science, don't get you grants.

2) Negative results need to be peer-reviewed -- there are "good" negative results (good protocol, failed result) and "bad" negative results due to bad data collection, wrong conclusions (bad protocol, failed result).

3) Given that it's so much easier to get a negative result than a positive one (as in anything there are only few ways to be right, tons of ways to be wrong), the volume of papers to review is orders of magnitude higher. Reviewers have to really sift to find the needle in the haystack. Between teaching classes, sitting on mindless committees, writing grants, mentoring grad students, etc. academics don't have that kind of time.

4) It would incentivize poor/mediocre labs to publish a lot of negative results to get their pub count up (these are the ones that currently publish unsubstantiated positive results in fly-by-night journals).

5) Bad faith authors may publish fake negative results to throw others off a promising line of inquiry.

(Note: some of these disincentives also apply to positive results in journals today)

The current method I know for exchanging "good" negative results is word-of-mouth, usually during post-conference drinks at the bar. (works for tech too!) I'm not sure if it's possible to arrange incentives in such a way as to make publishing "good" negative results worthwhile.

EDIT: there are exceptions. If the space of solutions is known a priori and bounded (say only n ways to do something), then publishing n results if even all n are failures is worthwhile. This situation doesn't come up all the time (the solution space is often open), but when it does, it's worth publishing all n results.
The article talks about Feistel networks and the most famous Feistel cipher, DES. I wrote a spreadsheet where you can examine every bit of the computation of DES encryption: https://www.nayuki.io/page/des-cipher-internals-in-excel
what's tcs?
What sort of container are you using for the rise/bake? I use a similar low-effort recipe for focaccia but I find it tends to stick to the tin.
The US is far beyond containment at this point. As are many other countries right now, as well. Only when the cases go down again due to successful measures is containment an option again, as you need enough resources to trace contacts and test every potential infection.
This is kind of the opposite of Hyrum's law, actually, in that the protocol promises one behavior but what's actually universally supported in the wild is only a subset of that promise.
How much oil demand is elastic though?

Over 10 years people can buy less gas cars and more electric cars. But over a month, the car in your garage is either gas or electric. Not that many individual things that can do both. Maybe some power plants, where say neither coal nor oil generators are at 100% capacity...
For what its worth I have also seen the same behavior with Jabra wireless headphones, they might use the same chip/stack under the hood though.
Honestly I would not have thought to look for a phone app that does faxes and hell, twenty years ago I ran a system auto-sending faxes and tried to build a start up on it.

Yeah Inthink going to Staples was reasonable.
In my book, “Not best practice” doesn’t imply “never do”, but web scraping should be your option of last resort. Doing it well takes ages, and time spent doing it will often detract you from your goal.

As I said, in this case “learning data science” likely doesn’t require web scraping; it just requires some suitable data set.

The OP claimed in another comment that that doesn’t exist, but (s)he doesn’t say what dats (s)he’s looking for, so that impossible to check.
Our New Normal
"Ms. Steffens said that Connecticut has had to resort to recruiting retirees who knew how to program in COBOL, a nearly extinct computer language."

I work at fortune 25. We are training college grad COBOL. It may be endangered but it won't be extinct for decades.
Yeah I love those. They highlight features xyz on first page of datasheet. Then on the last few pages its like btw features xyz dont work on rev A-F. And your supplier doesnt know what revs they have...
His previous novels had many tropes. In fact, most stories do, and it should probably not stop one from writing them. You will be hard-pressed to find stories without numerous familiar tropes.

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Literature/Rule34

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Literature/HaltingSta...
South Africa needs to make sure all citizens can afford to stay home
IMHO, breadboards should come with warnings, to the effect of:

* Keep this thing pristine. Dust, corrosion, liquid, or any other indignity will invisibly poison the breadboard and take its toll on your sanity later.

* Use only DIP legs and 22-24 gauge wire. Shoving a TO220 into these spring clips will spread them and take its toll on your sanity later.

* Decouple, decouple, decouple. The distributed inductance of a breadboard is nontrivial and if you're not putting a nanofarad next to every logic chip, you will summon ghosts.

* Buying cheap breadboards with subpar contact plating will yield exactly the sort of performance you'd imagine. Breadboards are supposed to be an EASY way to build circuits, not a CHEAP way. You get what you pay for.

With all these things in mind, they're quite good at what they do.
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In my experience in European research, you don't get research funding if you don't work on something relevant or practical to the industry.
Tata Consultancy Services (I think).
You usually don't rise from programmer to CEO unless you are the owner of the company.
Is there a standardized set of TCP "test vectors" anywhere? Even an informal de facto standard test like what SSLLabs is for TLS?
I think this drug has become too politicized to be able to have a factual scientific debate.
Well they believed they would see supersymmetric particles at older colliders as well. The problem now is that the Higgs mass anchors the valid range for "natural" supersymmetric models. Last I checked most of those where ruled out now. That still leaves the problem that the Higgs mass is unexplained. So the obvious step is to do Higgs precision measurements, which is what they intend to do with electron-positron colliders tuned to the Higgs mass.
I've applied for jobless and other benefits on new York and never used a fax machine. I'd complain that the job listings are choked with spam (e.g. A job listed in Ithaca is really in Syracuse, nope, really in Atlanta) but other than that their systems work OK.

The leader of my friend's coven wrote new printer drivers for 390 mainframes because IBM couldn't be bothered to support enough printer ports that NY needs to support the mandate of turning around paperwork in 2 days.

NY really does it: I get my tax returns freaky fast compared to the federal gov. Drivers license and car permit renewals are fast, permits to stock tripod grass carp, whatever.
'Fake news', 'yellow journalism', and 'public relations' are all just euphemisms for propaganda. At best they describe particular forms of propaganda.
Not sure if intentional but I really loved seeing Recipe.vue open and with comments and logs...
I'm trying to learn how to generate charts with SVG and D3, this is helpful.
marginal niche - avoiding competition goes against what peter thiel speaks about in zero to one (Competition Is for Losers).

wonder how the two ideas square up.
This feature makes sense to me. When I watch YouTube videos, I tag them as watched by voting up or down.
Instead of making this another US vs Europe "we did/but they did" slapfight, try reading my post again.

EU countries instituted export regulations from their own countries, they didn't ban exports, they wanted to at least regulate how much left the country.

The US intercepted already agreed upon shipments, by swooping in and offering a much higher payment and strong-arming companies like 3M. The blame lies both with the US government and the manufacturers ignoring existing deals and agreements in favor of cold profit. And the US government also deserves blame for not recognizing the threat earlier, which they are now using as an excuse to screw over the rest of the world. Again.

Another important point is that companies like 3M are US based, adding yet another imbalance of power in this relationship.

However, my main point is why do we accept this fragile global JIT supply chain? We are we relying on essential products having to be shipped across the globe?
All cities have bad parts. San Francisco is somewhat unique amongst places that I've visited, in that most of the tourist traps are either in or are immediately next to the absolute worst parts of town.
The thing is, it's not.
> What website hosts the best arguments?

It is not an argument at all. It can be evidence to support an argument but it is not an argument by itself.

> And since an argument is always hosted on some kind of computer (be it a webpage in a server or your brain), can you answer if a computer can explain itself? [42]

I don't think that has any bearing on the subject at hand, nor does it make any sense when taken seriously.
To Swedes, it's the rest of the world engaging in a reckless experiment
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> So for example, "3% salt" just means 3 grams of water for every 100 grams of floor.

I think maybe there's a typo here with "salt" vs "water"?

I've had a hard time with these percentages. 3% salt means 3 grams of salt for every 97 grams of flour, but that doesn't seem to be how it's used in baking. Same with water: 100% hydration is half water, half flour, because they're talking in ratios rather than actual percentages.

I guess the important part is that these are percentage ratios, so it's really 3%:1 salt and 100%:1 hydration.
Any love for NoSQL here? Many have all the same capabilities as Postgres/major SQL tech but have a format that removes the need for an ORM.
So is the general consensus that we can safely update now?

Honestly I'm not great at noticing sound quality differences, unless there's a huge difference. But this one seemed to affect so many people I stayed away.
Which is really, really a shame.
Minimalsim is only true when you are substanitaly reducing consumption, essentially where your live is not iterating around money but around lending, helping each other without money by helping back etc. Lets and barter systems might help. Once you arrive at that point you will suddenly feel the society fighting against you.

Society accepted minimalsims is a kind of minimalsim where your net consumption remains where it is now.
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Isn't it just a string? can you do nested queries? secondary indexes? really anything beyond just querying the key-value pairs?
You are commenting on an article that is nearly as apolitical as I can imagine one being to say that politicization of this topic makes it impossible to have a debate rooted in science.

Isn’t this precisely an injection of politicization into a summary of scientific work?
I agree with you on that first part , it was a contrived example to illustrate the point, but in practical terms, not so helpful.

I also agree with subjectivity as being it's own interesting topic of conversation.

Universal imperitive to prevent outbreaks having no possible subjectivity though? that's just bait.