skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> In a real life investigation where the outcome can bring legal sanctions that destroys a person's life or career the opinion of the investigator has weight, but that opinion is irrelevant without evidence to connect the dots

Truth is not under the monopoly of legal systems. Legal systems make use of truth to deliver justice, not to make sense and meaning of what is going on at large. They don’t orient us as a society regarding what is important to pay attention to. Besides, you can’t be suggesting legal investigations catch everything there is to investigate, nor lack of due investigation doesn’t destroy lives either. Nor every conspiracy is readily codified in law. Laws change and get applied as a function of what we bring into attention or not.

Conspiracies by nature rely heavily on information asymmetries. It means most of the time we don’t even know what to investigate. That is why conspiracy hypotheses are crucial to be vigilant about the possible connections even with weak evidence. It is a preliminary exploration of the problem space; reasonable people don’t suggest we prosecute people based on hypotheses only. We are talking about a process that might or might not lead to an investigation but not an alternative to it.
I was actually surprised how "small" a lot of the bombs we've used are. Combining SF w/ the largest Nuke designed in the USSR is maddening though - the entire bay area essentially gets flattened - hard to imagine that.
Sounds likely. I don't remember the cover, but I remember the "railroad track" diagrams.
It's pretty much a reskin only, with relevant software (i.e. modem) installed. It might be a different WM as well (I don't use Ubuntu Desktop so I can't compare) , but it's nothing too unusual.
Crew Dragon is commercial in the sense that NASA wants to pay for it, and shopped around for a better vehicle than Soyuz.

But frankly, there is basically nothing that humans could do in space in a money-making way. Machines are just so much easier. They can fly for years via cheap orbits, don't mind the cold and the vacuum, etc.

The whole idea of colonizing Mars is not about commercial viability, it's about reaching a new land outside of control of Earth's governments. Very much the same as founding Massachusetts or Pennsylvania was not a commercial enterprise, but was an attempt to gain more freedom, even in utterly alien and inhospitable places.
Thanks for writing this! I just recommended the first half of your article to a friend who's been wanting to get into game development. The second half was super interesting to me, especially the manufacturing of the cartridges.
I used to bring the C64 Programmer's Reference Guide to our community pool to read in between the pool, games of Zaxxon, and eating Combos.
Malaria isn't the only disease carried by mosquitos but it's the most significant one. Malaria kills 400,000 per year, but that's not all it makes 2,000,000 each year very sick and weak, unable to care for themselves or their children and leads to tremendous human suffering.

I hope that someday we can eliminate this terrible disease. Perhaps this rather unusual approach described in the article will finally be a practical solution.
It is NOT different this time. Things will return to normal in a few months.
Was a pandemic really a black swan event? I'm pretty sure researchers had been warning about the possibility of one for a long while, plus we had SARS, H1N1, Ebola, etc. Of course, they're not exactly the same as COVID-19 but it's not like we didn't know pandemics could happen
>Isn’t the language just a tool?

Yes. But to learn the data structures and algorithms you have to practice coding them. What language do you code them in to teach them? After awhile most code looks the same.
https://letsencrypt.org/2019/04/15/transitioning-to-isrg-roo...
it depends on how much heavy lifting and if you care for the safe return of a bomber crew but the gun barrel atomic bomb is very easy compared to other higher yield methods such as soviet layer cakes or teller-ulam methods
There are plenty of inhospitable places here on earth where you could set up your anthropology experiment— deep under the ocean, for example, heck there was even a series of videogames made about this exact scenario. :)
> A standardized external battery format, automated/mechanical battery replacement

Nio does this with their EVs:

https://insideevs.com/news/426014/nio-power-battery-swaps-50...

https://www.topgear.com/car-news/big-reads/power-shift-batte...

The idea is the easily replaceable pack gives you the option to charge, swap, or upgrade the battery as you like.
I thought it was awesome. I'm going to create the electric car market no-one thought possible and many companies paid to lobby to create laws to stop.... and put it into space.
> A human astronaut could probably accomplish as much in a week as a Mars rover can in a year.

The estimates I've seen for a human mission to Mars are about 100-500 times the budget for Curiosity. So even if astronauts could accomplish things 52X faster (and I'm skeptical they would), it still wouldn't be as cost efficient. And that's even before you factor in the fact that the Mars Rover is going to be doing work on Mars much, much longer than a human mission would (Curiosity is going on 8 years).

Human space exploration is a solution in search of a problem. People don't seem to be rationally looking for the best way to get certain information from Mars or for the best sources of materials that could be obtained with future technology (there are many overlooked terrestrial ones) and soberly deciding that astronauts are the best answer. They seem to start out with the goal of defending human space exploration, and then searching for problems to try to justify it.
On the ISS you can produce higher quality optical fiber than on earth [1]. A demonstration fabrication unit is already on the ISS, and NASA has recently published prices for using the ISS for commercial tasks such as this. I suspect many other manufacturing methods can also benefit from zero gravity, and as launch costs drop more of these will be explored.

1: https://upward.issnationallab.org/the-race-to-manufacture-zb...
Knowledge pays: Reversing information flows and the future of pay equity
"i.e." is functionally the same as your use of "IOW"; IMHO, FWIW.

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/ie

IOW made me think "I often wonder", but it didn't fit so I had to look it up: "in other words". I think i.e. is cuter.

/digression/nit-pick
even with ublock origin it showed my company's website. how?
Would it be exciting to terraform a planet or go to another star system and observe life there?
Yes. Most if not all websites with typical "by continuing to use the site you agree to..." terms will drop cookies and fingerprint the user on their first visit, breaching their own contract. They do it even if lack of consent is made explicit by including Do Not Track in the HTTP headers.

These terms are obviously an attempt to get away with questionable behavior. Instead of simply not doing bad things, they insist and point people to the legalese when they complain as if it excused everything.
Well, I was there, and I say that while it might not have been the zeitgeist, it was certainly an idea and concern that was known and discussed publicly, both in political rhetoric and in fiction.

You can debate until you turn blue, but it's lazy revisionism.
This one is. None of those other diseases have such a long time period where people are presymptomatic and contagious, and that's the only reason that COVID-19 is out of control.
Basically its super hard to get a nuclear bomb to detonate all of its material, because the force of the explosion tends to just blow the nuclear material away before it can become part of the runaway chain reaction. From what I have read you need extreme precision and carefully placed essentially "counter explosions" around the core to keep the material close enough together in the chain reaction long enough to get high rate of conversion of the material into as much energy as possible

The "crude terrorist nuke" assumes that terrorists aren't going to be able to get that precision and technique and will only get a very small yield because the bomb will blow itself apart before the chain reaction can consume all the material. After all nation states took many, many tries to get it right
I didn't downovte, but asides like, "sounds awful" and "nasty" definitely read as judgemental. Your other comments on this thread make you seem much more open minded than this one did.
> He will not suddenly experience collapse when let out of the box to greet Schrodinger.

How do you know? What would you expect to be different if that was what was happening?
My point is that there's still large government involvement. The permits are just one example. Another one would be the military contracts that require contractor employees to maintain clearance levels and create financial dependence, or the government owned launch pads they lease.

All of this combined means that SpaceX is still highly dependent from the goodwill of the US government.
Yes but sadly people are still people.. they will take their problems with them.
True that, but that would point to the need to do this outside of NASA.
I think your take on this is very wrong.

An open source driver written once will work for all future versions of Fuschia. Right? That reduces the effort for open source developers enormously.

Most security flaws come in above the driver level. Right? Being able to update the OS, despite the hardware manufacturer's laziness, is a huge boon for everyone.

Fuschia is open source. Drivers written for one Fuschia (say, the one Google controls) should work for another Fuschia (say, the one you and your friend forked.) Right? That's a huge win for you.

Whatever incentives you have imagined that hardware manufacturers have, time has proven those incentives don't work. It's far better to take as much control away from them as possible. They will do the minimum amount of work necessary (write new drivers). Then we can all exploit the hardware + driver + Fuschia system.

It has always, and will always, be possible to build propriety drivers. This is minimizing the blast radius of them never being updated, as much as possible.

For these reasons and more, we should all hope Fuschia is successful.

The Android developers who have tried to live on top of Linux are sick of the problems that Linux brings them. Fuschia is an open source direct response to those limitations. It's stunning to me that you would wish them to fail.

"then any improvement that could be added to Fuschia could be added to Linux". Explain to me why we still have BSD? Not all problems are solved by Linux. The sooner you accept that, the better off we will all be.

It's like you're wishing Clang would die, because we can always just improve GCC. That's demonstrably false. Just like saying everything good in Fuschia can be added to Linux. No, it can't.

"We don't need a new operating system whose only advantage is that it's easier to write proprietary drivers."

Wait, if it's easier to write propriety drivers, doesn't that lower the barrier to making low-cost phones? Well, Christ, sign me up. Do you have any idea how many billion people have a low-cost smart phone as their first computing device? If we lower the cost even more, that will broaden the reach even more.

Do you seriously not get that the other major phone OS is completely closed source? Maybe put a little faith in the people who have developed the most successful competing operating system that's open source?
Grokking Simplicity: Taming complex software with functional thinking

I’m cheating a bit because this is only under 200 pages because it’s a work in progress.

It’s such an easy read, but does a great job at explaining the value of functional programming for building real-world applications without getting bogged down in monads, currying, and complex type systems.

Once it’s complete, I’d make it required reading for any new junior/intermediate devs on my team (or anyone unfamiliar with functional programming).

[0] https://www.manning.com/books/grokking-simplicity
https://www.space.com/bigelow-spacex-tourist-flights-space-s...
hi guys how you find this article ?
My goodness, I should have just checked the manufacturer's website. Thank you!
> It's too early for much of the newly printed money to have spread out into the economy

No, it's not, though if it was that would be another argument against the claim that food prices were an effect of monetart-policy-driven inflation.

> We won't know how much inflation printing the money caused for some years

If monetary policy had that much lag there'd be little point to it at all.
> An open source driver

Lost you already. Since Fuchsia uses a pushover license instead of a copyleft license, the vendors' drivers aren't going to be open source. Look how many companies today don't open-source their Linux drivers, and they're breaking the law by not doing so. It's going to be so much worse when there's "nothing" wrong with keeping them proprietary.
It explicitly is.
That was just hand analysis of the data flow together with Google Diagrams.

As I mention in the article, dependency analysis has, IMO, not received the widespread attention it should. I like Fabian Giesen's article if you want an introduction.

https://fgiesen.wordpress.com/2018/03/05/a-whirlwind-introdu...
I wonder if compromising your own account can be seen as unlawful. It's much like teenagers being found to break the law by making nude photos of themselves: they are found in possession of prohibited materials, even though they obtained them in a lawful way. Cracking your own account in a lawful way could possibly be done by a court order, but otherwise your actions are prohibited by law, even.though there cannot be a malicious intention.
That goal was reach in the middle of the last century.

EDIT: And so far this goal has been a dead end.. Voyager 1 has proven it self to be a better explorer then Buzz Aldrin or Yuri Gagarin.
What little I ever read about this, the crudest trigger mechanism is the “shotgun” system (I’m assuming you are talking about this):

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun-type_fission_weapon

Can an organization get that amount of material as far as we know?
I think it's nicer if it used ctrl- bindings instead.
Yes, it's useless insurance. The interesting thing is that useless insurance is illegal to sell in lots of places† - to consumers, but here the insurance was sold to the root CAs which are huge corporations so they don't care that it's useless because they only bought it as a PR exercise.

†This is the root of a huge scandal in the UK that resulted in banks refunding people years of fees for a product called PPI which they should never have been sold. As a secondary effect this resulted in annoying spam from firms who'd help you claim your money back. By the end I almost felt sad I hadn't fallen for the original scam, because I was being inconvenienced by all the spam but (since I hadn't lost anything) not getting a pile of cash as a refund.
This is a reason why USSR never adopted a end-to-end PAL like US did.

There's a lot of information that the USA only nominally had PAL. The military implemented PAL on orders from the President, but then set the PAL code to 00000000.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6819969
I don't know that obfuscating the mechanics of a problem with in-crowd names will help spread the word well.
that is a tough one, yet lets try to think like an MBA, an exec from RyanAir - with Starship payload to LEO of 100ton+ (and actually we need less than LEO) and pressurized volume of 1000m3, the Boeing 747 would be a close match, so giving the very short flight time we can do a really tight cattle class of like 500 passengers, which brings us into the vicinity of $10K/ticket :) I wonder whether we're reaching the stage where suborbital will start to put out the very long distance passenger air out of business the same way like long distance passenger air put out of business the long distance passenger ships.
Seriously, $6 for 30 min at ~100mph is pretty amazing. There are lots of cars that are less fuel efficient.
Didn't they have data being piped to Facebook?
Their pricing doesn't scale well either, IMO. We have several hundred hosts running and for some of the smaller instance types it costs just as much to monitor than it does to run the entire machine.
Idris barely made it out of experimental status and was dog-slow. Not sure when you'd choose that over Haskell for production software.
eh, as torque and prop size goes up... tip speed also goes up.
If somebody develops a private space station

Bigelow Aerospace? Looks like they just laid everyone off.
Perhaps we should republish Eliot under a female pseudonym?

But yes, fair points, and I'm not disputing there was sexism! But to describe the situation as "male only" is overstating things significantly.
Aviation gets us from a place where people live to another place where people live. Everyday people are still not going on tourist visits to Antarctica. There is no reason to believe everyday people will go on rockets that takes them to space in any foreseeable future.
How would this affect a code signing certificate issued by Sectigo last month?
See: per site isolation, Firefox X11 exploit, etc
The "hybrid" as used in this article referred to a partition scheme that combines a "Lomuto partitioning like algorithm" together with a "Hoare partitioning like algorithm".

This amplifies the the strength of each scheme and mitigates the weakness. Ie. Lomuto does too many swaps, but naturally fits a branchfree implementation. Hoare is frugal with swaps, but is rather branchy. The "hybrid" here inherits the frugality of swaps from Hoare's scheme, while benefits from the branchfree implementation of Lomuto scheme.

What you seem to describe here is the classical and well-known hybridization of divide and conquer algorithms. This is also used and implicitly implied when branchless bubble sort is discussed. But the "hybrid" as used in the article wasn't meant to refer to this.
but a good sci-fi writer can
Not much afaict. For mathematics, it's usually Coq, maybe Lean or Agda. For scientific computing it's Python or Julia.
I can kind of understand what he says about adjusting the time from the BIOS settings, but most people doing anything with BIOS/EFI settings nowadays are technically involved enough that understanding UTC shouldn't be a dealbreaker.

The dual-booting arguments are weird because if anything, dual-booting becomes potentially more complex with the RTC set to local time. Both operating systems might e.g. separately adjust the local-time RTC for daylight savings since they can't know the other OS has already done that.

If he had just said "well, this made sense with the positions from which Microsoft was doing things back in the time and we never got around to changing it", that'd actually make more sense than making kind of plausible but almost certainly irrelevant arguments for still doing it the same way.
You make a lot of good points, but it's not quite as grim as the picture you have drawn.

NASA had a great deal of knowledge from previous projects which they shared liberally with SpaceX from very early on in their development. Engines such as the Merlin are heavily influenced from NASA IP.

So in essence NASA still is a clearing house of knowledge, and much of the info learned by NASA and SpaceX to date continues to be shared with other providers to the benefit of all.

I do agree however with the sentiment that SpaceX can sell seats or rocket flights in a way that NASA was never set up to do.
So did Tesla and Better Place. Neither do anymore.
It's really interesting to do this with normal television shows, too! And both ways -- w/ only visuals or only audio. It really draws your attention to elements you would not have otherwise noticed.
Ok, so it’s another example of over-optimized, inflexible supply chains. That makes sense to me relative to the other COVID-related shortages.
It is. The other one is Just Read The Instructions.
these issues probably did not cause a lot of problems for production software
Because then Tyson and companies with common investors/board members will threaten to pull advertising dollars.
Does anyone have a link to a video of the booster landing? I could only find a still shot.
I think there's two separate things going on here.

On the one hand, the world is full of horrifying inequality, which you highlight and indeed perhaps understate. Inequality within America, inequality within China, inequality between Americans and Chinese, and of course a multiplicity of other permutations. As you say quite correctly: "Chinese people want good jobs that pay well and have good work life balance too." And so they should!

On the other hand, there is imperialism. The Chinese government is an imperialist government, I think there is no doubt. It makes sense for governments of other nations to attempt to limit the growth of power of that government. Of course, those last two sentences make just as much sense when describing America, too.

My point is that most of the conversation, in the article and in the comments thread, is about the relationships that societies have to each other. And most of your comment is about the relationships that individuals have to their lives. I agree with the majority of what you said, I just don't think it's directly relevant.

I'm not even saying that China "shouldn't be" imperialist (though I wish China and America were both less imperialist, but I might as well wish to fly by flapping my ears). I'm only saying that if you think you'd enjoy patting a tiger, and you think the tiger would enjoy the pats (the pats could be win-win!), that doesn't mean that you go pat the tiger. (is China the tiger and America the would-be pat-er, or vice versa? doesn't matter!)
Am I banned?
I probably wouldn't until/unless Idris 2 gained some steam, it would probably be Ocaml.

I was thinking more along the lines of dependent types, because the kinds of problems where you'd really really need strong static types overlap with the need for dependent types, which Haskell has some support for (and Ocaml but less so).

But if I needed to prove something I'd probably do it in Coq since it interops with Ocaml fairly well.
Protesters in Chile using Lasers en masse to disorient, neutralize Riot Police
Because it means you're a bot with a default user agent, and they've probably had some bad experiences with those.

Well-behaved bots use descriptive user agents.
Certainly, when people are seen as a form of capital.
Rust Disassembly: Part 1
Well, to be fair, you also had W. Richard Stevens if the guy sitting next to you behaved like a certain bodily orifice, or if the man pages were either too dense or too sparse. The key was to be able to read source and build a mental model of the system you were working on. That usually took a few months to a year depending on the system.
Ironic since the Culture is anti-capitalist. xD