skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It was a test launch with a high chance of failure.

Why the hell would they put an actual payload into it. Are you also angry that the Apollo missions didn't put "useful" things into space when they were launching hardware with sensors

Putting an actual payload into the maiden flight of the Ariane 5 made into a very expensive test failure.
This is such a toxic, selfish modern view.

For most people, even with shitty parents, your still parents sacrificed for you and raised you. A loyal human would not abandon them without great reason. Cutting contact should be a last resort, even if that means slightly worse mental health for yourself. Yes, you do owe them some minimum of respect and kindness if they showed you the same in raising you. That leads to better outcomes for society.
> Also, there have been no deaths or serious injuries, so it's hard to argue that safety was actually compromised here.

Safety was compromised due to the Heinrich/Bird safety pyramid, or accident triangle:

> It shows a relationship between serious accidents, minor accidents and near misses and proposes that if the number of minor accidents is reduced then there will be a corresponding fall in the number of serious accidents. […]

> The theory was developed further by Frank E Bird in 1966 based on the analysis of 1.7 million accident reports from almost 300 companies. He produced an amended triangle that showed a relationship of one serious injury accident to 10 minor injury (first aid only) accidents, to 30 damage causing accidents, to 600 near misses.[3] […] The numbers used by Bird were confirmed by a 1974 study by A. D. Swain, entitled The Human Element in Systems Safety.[3] The theory was later expanded upon by Bird and Germain in 1985's Practical Loss Control Leadership.[1]

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accident_triangle

The more minor things happening, the greater the probability of a major incident happening, leading to greater chances of a death down the road.

The whole point in going hard on the small things is to help reduces the odds of things escalating because it's easy to get sloppy in one's thinking over time, and you can get 'risk creep'.

* https://risk-engineering.org/concept/Heinrich-Bird-accident-...
>"today might be a good day to call your mother"

The OP doesn't qualify their premise with 'might'. ('May' only applied to video chat, specifically). The title is imperative, and there is a general claim of importance.

I'm not bothered personally, I just agree with chriseatons assessment of the tone.
The big lesson here is that how your treat your children will be how they end up treating you in your old age.
Thanks for the interesting comment, but I have to say: Marketing helps science too. If SpaceX achieves all its goals, then perhaps the marketing stunt was worth it?

Still, I wonder if Elon knew such a satellite was a possibility. I would assume yes, but I'm not sure.

How much work would it take to create a LAGEOS-like satellite? Presumably they're not just lying around. I couldn't find how much the original LAGEOS satellites cost.
I too choose to not use anything that radiates electromagnetic waves on the off chance aliens detect them.
Didn't Google sponsor some work to run Photoshop under Wine? That's ages ago, so it probably doesn't apply to modern Adobe stuff, but sitll, I'm curious, can't you use Wine for that? Not saying it's silver bullet, but usually popular programs gets love from Wine contributors. Sadly, Richard Burns Rally is not that popular. :(
I remember hearing this on freakonomics. I really enjoyed this solution although I rarely use it in practice.
In the same way that people can read words and have their minds blown, people can read words and have epiphanies. Zen koans are examples of this.
Agree.

"A safe haven for free thinkers and polite politic" is very much in the eye of the beholder, methinks.
A pretty awesome adventure to get it working!

I admire the perseverance.
that's a great point!
tech seems to lead to magical voodoo incantations to get things done vs principled understandings
We gladly paid one 800 € for three hours of work.. fixing a botched stored procedure on IBM DB2. Gray haired DBAs with the right blend of dev, ops and most importantly business domain knowledge (something many people in IT seem to overlook) are worth gold
Two new JavaScript experimental features that I'm in ️love with
Two JavaScript experimental features that I'm already dreaming of implementing on my codebase.
> As far as I’m concerned we might very well be just processes that can in theory be copied and recreated. In that case the person in the thought experiment would exist twice at a single point in time and then diverge into to different persons due to different environments and probabilistic processes in the body.

This already happens, though before the formation of any memories. We call them identical twins.

The divergence is more limited than you might imagine. One striking experiment found that if you separate identical twins and give them the instructions "just draw whatever comes into your head", they are likely to draw the same things.
You've been downvoted, but it's worth pointing out exactly why you're wrong: I am talking about salary, which means that folks are compensated not based on a number of hours spent working but on the overall impact that their work has on the organization.

Also, I have been salaried several times in my life, and in each case, I was expected to do various things outside of a 9-5 "workday" sort of framework. Without being too self-oriented, I think that I earned the salary commanded. I've never been compensated even $200k/yr, and my highest is about $150k/yr. Even those of us that are well-paid and well-respected for our work are not paid enough to justify the time that we lose to work.
The comparison to 9/11 is motivated by "look how much we changed things and how much we spent because of that." If we changed that much for something less devastating, we should be willing to change/invest at least as much for this.
> Someone cleverly pointed out that Windows changed from "My Computer" to "This PC" in recent years.
- arwhatever on Microsoft has removed the “use offline account” op... (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21104910)
Yes, this is the grandiose technocratic elite who believe they can save the world. A bit exaggerated, but I find these kinds of comments scary, misguided and naive, as well as very revealing of the underlying ideologies and oversimplified & mechanistic views of society.
The most popular subreddit r/science is now on Twitter
Only reposting the top 20 most upvoted post of the day.
You don't even need to have natural resources.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_involvement_in_r...
We already have quantum computers, at this point that’s not new physics it’s engineering.
And if the well established frameworks don’t settle your thirst for understanding quantum mechanics, thats about philosophy not physics.
I blame the lack of philosophical and logical training of the sort that teaches how to spot fallacies, what a good argument looks like, how to outline one's thought process, etc.
This is such a toxic, selfish traditional view.

Your highest duty is to your own self and the people you care about. That may or may not include the people who raised you. You can define and be loyal to family that you choose.
The game already has an base installation size of 150GB and contains an offline mode that reduces the level of detail.
Yes, I’m curious about this as well even though its an imperfect world where there probably isn’t an ideal, free environment for expressing their opinions. But if the alternative is staying furloughed then their opinions are of interest regardless. After all, they’re witnesses to how the place operates.

What Elon is pushing for seems...no different than what Germany has been doing for at least two weeks? If I’m to understand, people are saying they’re gonna cancel their orders because the company is arguing for a response that is in line with a country (even praised by the American media[0]) that has done a decent job with its pandemic response? This doesn’t seem to be the hill to die on just yet.

Reminds me—not being from there—I’m always amazed how warm southern California is in the winter compared to say, many parts of the mediterranean. I mean Los Angeles in January is warmer than Tehran. Too bad the factory isn’t down there.

The play should be to avoid a shutdown when the second wave hits, no? You look at the warm far eastern asian countries: Philippines, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, Vietnam, Cambodia. They have a combined population of 580 million with less than 2000 combined deaths. 7 times the population of Germany with a fourth of the deaths of Germany. If they had four times the deaths it would still be impressive, considering they’re mostly dealing with it with less healthcare infrastructure.

I do think warmer places would fair better when the second wave hits in the fall. Southern California would be better for a factory. But Texas in that regard would work as well.

[0] https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2020/04/an...
And you might get it!

At the same time, being free later won't give you back the time you don't have today. Neither my friends nor my parents will last forever.

A few things have driven that home for me recently. The world won't hold still while I try to change my life. And I have to work with that limitation, rather than race against it.
You're grasping at an interesting point, one that (paraphrased) is similar to fundamental teachings in Zen Buddhism. But you've gone about it in an unnecessarily hostile way, hence the downvotes.
Linux on the Desktop as a Web Developer
Not necessarily. Gaslighting can simply be descriptive, and different subcultures associate different emotions and intensity with c*, particularly outside of the US. (But also inside the US.). For example, it can convey dismissiveness, not anger.
Amazon will now deliver to the trunk of your Honda (2019)
“Once they’re gone you’re pretty much alone”

All this says is how you feel about your life, many of us out here have completely different situations, including myself
> I wish they had considered going back decades ago

Considered what? You've said they had a hard life.

Edit: Oh, I misread that (parsed it as "considered, going back decades ago", thinking you were implying you wish they had considered the effect of their actions). Yeah, I think for many older immigrants who were forced to emigrate from their homeland because of warfare or economic collapse, going back makes sense if conditions have improved.

They don't want to go back now? Or too old?
Co-founder of SideQuest (Shane Harris) on helping VR devs succeed [audio]
Is Nozzle design actually a method of determining Solid/Liquid?

I know that the design depends on expected stage of flight use and things like exhaust velocity, but i didn't think just seeing a nozzle would be enough to make a determination,
> If there are largely no changes between humans in recent millennia, then the differences in testing scores are due to cultural biases in the construction of the test and the education of people.

Not being sarcastic, I suppose things you see in IQ tests like spacial manipulation are culturally biased in that certain cultures give kids shape-in-the-hole toys, teach them shapes, have geometry classes, etc. You could say improvements in intelligence scores are teaching to the test. You could also say we're standing on the shoulders of giants.
As a solution, I would love to see more food supplies and restaurants selling larger bulk amounts at discount. That could bring in a new set of consumers, and reduce the number of trips/exposure.

A restaurant could sell 10 meals worth for 10 * original_price * 0.5 and make more per order plus use up more ingredients. Farms could sell cheese by 5lb packs, eggs by the dozen dozens, meat by 10lb packs, etc.

It's not worth the whole ordeal of going to a restaurant to get a small portion of food, pay the same price as a sit-down experience, and be hungry again in a few hours.
And on top of that, even without disruption it tends to provide more varied, better quality meat.
Looks like there’s been no work on it since 2018 either.
The Hidden Magic of Main Thread Scheduling
Electromagnetic waves will die off and become indistinguishable from background radiation after a certain distance. Not so much for physical objects.
Shane Harris is the co-founder of SideQuest. SideQuest helps gamers find and install games and apps for the Oculus Quest that are not on the official Quest store. SideQuest is growing in popularity and as of today has over 280,000 monthly active users.

Some of the things we talked about:

- How SideQuest got started

- Solving the discovery problem on SideQuest

- Oculus Quest store curation strategy

- Making SideQuest work as a business

- Fighting piracy

- Finding the best ways to support developers

- Next use cases for VR after gaming

- Future iterations of the Quest and other VR headsets

- Oculus' potential plans to support indie devs more

- Importance of social presence in multiplayer VR games
No, I don't think it can (completely).

If you procrastinate, you lack discipline. No technology can change or give you discipline. You have to work on it and you can't let yourself say no, it's a mindset.
Wait til you have kids then you'll have something in common. I hardly saw my parents for 15 years, now its weekly.
I know you jest, but of interests, there's a phonebooth someone set up for folks in Japan who have lost family members in the 2011 tsunami to "call" and "talk" to them.

Scroll down to "Really Long Distance".

https://www.thisamericanlife.org/702/one-last-thing-before-i...

Everything we do for the dead is a ritual for the living.
Doing the wrong thing is not categorically better than doing nothing. If you're paralyzed on one subject, change focus to something else you can make progress on.
A Metric Learning Reality Check
Its Lego! You dont have to wait for Lego corp to realise your dreams.

If you come up with a good design on their website they apparently sometimes publish them.
Mu. America doesn't have the cultural uniformity that other countries do.

(In my experience, though, more than once/week seems excessive. Do you not have other family/friends to catch up with, too? Do you spend an hour on the phone every day?)
Manipulation whether in good or bad faith is one is the biggest problems in the US. It’s is coming from both sides. Don’t vote for those who will manipulate you.
1) Isn't that tick rate not frame rate? Is there really a tangible benefit to rendering 140fps over 60? I always read that beyond 60 had huge diminishing returns and was hard to detect as a human.

2) Is it really necessary for anything beyond a competitive shooter with bullets flying around? Outside of the bullets, fighting games are as or more precise than the average shooter and 60fps continues to be the standard there and I don't think >60 tick rate would bring any big value to a fighting game. A 60fps game with no buffer can already yield situations that are close to or beyond human execution (see: Melee)
"Our results show that when hyperparameters are properly tuned via cross-validation, most methods perform similarly to one another"

"...this brings into question the results of other cutting edge papers not covered in our experiments. It also raises doubts about the value of the hand-wavy theoretical explanations in metric learning papers."
The Federal Reserve isn’t the only central bank and some central banks like the BOJ and Swiss Central Banks are buying stocks directly. The Swiss Central Bank is buying US tech stocks heavily.
The black hole would interact with many gas particles, not just one. How many would be reasonable? Well, Jupiter is a gas giant and it had to form somehow.

Yes, conservation of momentum is the right way to think about that.
Adult learning: it is never too late to learn
Please don’t work countless hours so you’ll get some free time later in life. Work hard for today for a vision you truly believe in.
I think the point "Health care officials and government don't respect the public" is worth some deeper consideration.

As a thought exercise, I'd like to put myself in the shoes of that public health official and see what my responsibilities are. I'd know for a fact that, without extreme measures, there will be a huge death toll. And I'd have working experience to know for a fact that, if I come right out and advocate directly for those extreme measures, the public will revolt against them.

So here's the question to answer under this thought exercise: how do I respect the public? It is my role to mitigate this public health disaster. How do I do it?

There's a libertarian or anarchistic streak in US society that views anyone exercising the kinds of roles considered in that thought exercise as an illegitimate use of power over the individual. I have a hard time with that, because it seems to me like it precludes all the tools we use to answer crises like COVID, all of which require people to play those kinds of roles.
This is generally what I’ve been seeing and hearing. Places that typically sold to restaurants are struggling while others are unable to meet demand.

It’s just a failing of our supply chain systems. Lots of cheese is sold out on grocery stores in NYC.
yes, I didn't want to sweeten or soften the message just for the sake of avoiding the down votes. I didn't see any excessive hostility than what needed for conveying my message.
this is at best an incomplete assessment and at worst ahistorical

others [1] would argue that it was american auto manufacturers' anti-union zealotry (and the decisions they made in the production process to combat the unions) that lead them to shoot themselves in their own foot.

[1] Schwartz, Michael, and Joshua Murray. Wrecked: How the American Automobile Industry Destroyed Its Capacity to Compete. Russell Sage Foundation, 2019.
How is your comment helping reply the OP's questions?
Hmm, I don’t think I ever used a resolution lower than 800x600 in the 90s, and mostly used 1024x768. (Although I only really started being aware of these things in ‘96 or so)
Anyone familiar with the Infiniband's approach to exposing IO via rx/tx queues [0] comment whether it seems similar to io_uring's ring-buffers [1]? How do these contrast against each other?

[0] https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/server_nw_virtual/2-10...

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19846261
And this even though we've outsourced inflation.
> unnecessary childish

Remove that and you'll get a better reception.
> The UX of this solution is poor

Not surprising if you ask me, have you installed an applet for it? Do latest Yubikey even allow installing applets? Why are you using PIV for this?

I was using https://github.com/philipWendland/IsoApplet with OpenSC and smartcards since 2016, no issues.
Could a black hole orbit our tiny yellow dwarf sun? Even if it were tiny for a black hole it would be hard to imagine that it would have less mass than our sun. If it had more mass than our sun wouldn’t our system be a binary system, and if so it would suggest a black hole is not really a satellite of the sun.

How small can a black hole be and still qualify as a black hole? I guess a better question is what is the least massive black hole observed and what is the smallest current theories allow?

I have no idea what I’m talking about so all of that is probably wrong. I am just not able to wrap my head around it.
The issue here is that doing something without being forced to do that thing does not then mean you are interested in that thing.

If you have many good / attractive options and you choose one, you probably have an interest in that thing.

If you have precious few, not great options, and you choose one, it does not necessarily indicate the same.

I shouldn't need to provide copious examples for this to be obviously true. Money is only one of many motivators, but it is often strong enough on its own to overcome your interest (or lack thereof) in something if it means you get paid for it.

Take another example: many women throughout history have chosen sex work. That does not mean that sex work interests them. It just means they decided sex work was better than alternatives, for whatever reasons.

Doing something of your own free will does not mean you have a genuine interest in that thing. It can (and often does) just mean that thing is better than alternatives, for a multitude of reasons that are not "I find it the most interesting".
This, the new AMD CPUs, nVidia 3000 series, Alyx, and the new generation of consoles (which means a large number of new games the coming year) means the stars are aligning for a new gaming rig again this year.
> the US epidemic is still large and still growing

Rt is below 1 in all states except Minnesota and Nebraska [1]. So the US epidemic is still large, but already shrinking. With that said, when lockdowns are eased, Rt can increase again.

[1] https://rt.live
This is true but only in the narrowest possible sense, and one wonders why you felt it was worth noting.
After building a number of [1] projects that are powered by Google Docs, I recently realised that it also means that countries (like China) where Google is blocked, won't be able to access your content.

https://upstart.me (powered by Google Docs)
Perhaps "call the person who has been the best mother to you"
Know that on any solution it’s enough to have 1 or 2, 3 “degrees” of variability (tuning parameters, variables of chouce). The rest can and should be randomly constrained with respect to the chosen trio (or pair) of parameters.

Pick your favorites and change them every now and then.

I prefer hardware constraints such as “it has to run on commodity laptops with OS among the big ones of Windows/Linux/OSX/*BSD”. Or it has to be pure Shell script. Or it has to fit on 3 A4 pages.
The important fact to consider here is: How much does a LAGEOS-like satellite cost? I couldn't find the answer.
Elon has already made it cleared he wants all businesses open. If he could make that happen he would. But there is one place he can affect and that's his own.
A nice counter may be a font that uses ligatures to replace benign impotent words with their more forceful and blunt equivalents.
I think the shipping is especially delayed because I don't live in the contiguous United States
Mozilla research shows some machine voices score higher than humans
Yes, we are all going to die. This is not a helpful observation.

What you should be asking are two questions: what impact those deaths happening all at once has on everyone else when the medical system is overwhelmed and how much earlier are COVID victims dying than they otherwise would?

In the latter case, the early studies suggest even elderly people are losing at least a decade early. That’s a lot of time to casually blow off the way you’re doing even before you consider the younger victims. Maybe you’re young, healthy, and low-risk but do you really have no older people you know that you wouldn’t want another decade to share time with?

https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2020/05/02/would-mo...

https://abcnews.go.com/Health/people-coronavirus-dying-10-ye...
>Do I still have a duty to call my parents multiple times a week, despite us never having anything to talk about

I don't think it's anyone else's place to decide what your duties are, here. On the one hand, feelings of duty can cause us to try too hard to do something which doesn't bring any goodness to anyone involved. On the other hand, cultivating emotional generosity is often deeply satisfying, and this could be (or not) an opportunity to place someone else happiness above your own interests. Every situation is different.