skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hmm... God comes down, allows the person that tries to convince me to fly and zaps us to another planet where other lifeforms are. If there aren't any others, then he zaps us to a planet that God thinks is simply amazingly cool (and comfortable enough for us humans). God tells us something that humans may found out in 100k years from now. It doesn't have to be knowledge that is valuable for me to use right now. It should be knowledge that I am able to verify.

Obviously, the number 100k is arbitrary.

Oh, and it should be done in such a way that I can know 100% that it wasn't because of some weird mushroom/drug trip. God is all powerful, I'm sure that shouldn't be a problematic requirement.

This is extraordinary enough. At least, with evolution theory, I actually am able to see this to some extent. It helps that I've played poker as a hobby and had to think about probabilities on an emotional level a fair bit.

There simply should be no room for doubt. Whenever I'm able to understand a mathematical proof, then I have that feeling as well. Mathematicians also can make quite some extraordinary claims. And then they back it up.
Now unflagged. Good.
META: Not sure why this was flagged/dead? I just vouched for it. Is it because it's political and not strictly about tech/hacker news?

I'd argue that current events have a direct impact on all of us and this absolutely warrants discussion. Furthermore, I'm not sure I know of any instance where a President has disseminated writing like this. It's an interesting change, since it means that former Presidents can continue exerting influence.
"Thanks for pointing out this mistake. Since we currently have no quantity surveyor, we would like to hand over control of the Planetary Quantity Survey repository to you. This is an open source project with no pay which requires 80 hours of thankless work a week. Good luck!"
You're right. If I remember correctly, we've never made it to space with physical controls. They probably weigh too much.
Mind naming names on the “incredible division head”?
It isn't virtue signalling that is bad. But people since antiquity have made their vices virtues, for example everyone knows the guy who brags about doing drugs (bragging about a vice like is virtue), or politicians who virtue signal. Both of these people are two sides of the same coin
Maybe you could, but would you want to?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBvIweCIgwk
Especially when the lion's share of said experience apparently boils down to raising campaign money from donors.
Take my above post with a grain of salt, as I don't think I need to tell you that I was not going for an objective viewpoint, by any stretch of the imagination.

I just wanted to explain to anyone who was wondering why people would be willing to pay $200 for more RAM unnecessarily. It is be because we are trapped in macOS and there is no good alternative (again, an opinion, not objective). Many people have commented confusion on why we subject ourselves to pricing like this.

Windows UI and Linux Subsystem is a whole other set of things which I disagree with, but I don't want to get into it. All I want to say is that I grew up with Windows, I used it for decades, and it took leaving it for me to realize how much more fun software development could be without Windows.

For gaming purposes, I can be found using Windows, no problem. Either way, this is a very subjective discussion that has been beaten to death by different sides over the decades, so we should temper our expectations on whatever productive discussions can be had over such topics, and the best I can say is that I am happy that we, as users, ultimately have freedom to choose, rather than be forced into a monopoly.

I personally think Linux (smartphone, desktop, laptop) has the biggest delta and promise as of recent, so we should all cross our fingers and hope for the best for an open-source, generally usable OS for everyone.
Local politics have the most impact on people, but get the least attention. Shouldn't it be easier to engage folks on a local level via social media, electronic voting, campaigns, etc?
I'm seeing free E-books. That $2.5k must refer to their services.

I just downloaded a free book. In the intro it says:

> Free forever. Syncfusion will be working to produce books on several topics. The books will always be free.
Any updates we publish will also be free.
The Universal Right to Life
One of the loopholes has been transfers to children and grandchildren. There are residents in our town who pay 1970s property tax rates just because of who their parents or grandparents are. It’s a perversion of the nominal American dream.
That sounds a bit vague :) I read into it that open source users get the latest patch release, as in 5.15.3 for example. But major/minor releases are first served to commercial users, like 6.0 and 6.1.
Yeah JSX has its clear advantages. But I wanted to offer runtime only solutions as well. Tagged Template Literals is still the best runtime only solution for Solid, but I've got HyperScript too. Just remember it's reactive so wrap expressions in functions. JSX compilation sort of hides this detail from you.
Google’s “overpromising” led to Stadia “disappointment,” says RDR2 publisher
> Being able to talk well, having confidence and being popular are all positive factors

It's a problem of information access, advertising, and news media that changes an electoral process from a meritocracy selected by the electorate into a popularity contest.

Without those factors, there's no reason that an informed, rational populace would select an unsuitable candidate. They'd use their information about the candidates to select the most meritorious option.

Instead, popularity and advertising have surprisingly become more important than suitability and merit. It's not obvious that this must happen, and I think some regulation, process improvement, and innovation in this area could change the electoral process into a more reasonable one.
Feels kind of misleading to say that humans lack no organ for hibernating, and then bring up at the end that hibernating animals have a different bowel structure to prevent sepsis.
Login.gov | REMOTE or Washington, DC | Software Engineers | Full-Time | https://login.gov

Login.gov gives the public simple, secure access to multiple US government services through one verified account. We're working to fix online identity for US government services. The Login.gov team operates like a startup within the government, working in the open as a distributed, agile team. The core product is open source, hosted in modern cloud infrastructure, and built for scale. Tens of millions of people have Login.gov accounts, and we aim to be the preferred entrypoint for all government digital services. Our users include people accessing benefits, applying for government jobs, serving in the military, and collecting funds awarded through grant programs.

Find us on Github: https://github.com/18F/identity-idp

The Login.gov project began as a collaboration between 18F and the U.S. Digital Service (USDS). Today it's part of the Technology Transformation Services (TTS). You'll join other software engineers delivering better public services through modern technology.

* (opening soon!) Site Reliability Engineer: https://join.tts.gsa.gov/join/devops-engineer/
* (opening soon!) Application Engineer: https://join.tts.gsa.gov/join/application-engineer/

The above postings open on a revolving basis. If they're not open, just email us at jobs@login.gov or joinTTS@gsa.gov, where we can answer questions and accept your application.
I discovered this with green card as well, one of the conditions to keep it is to not have permanent residence abroad. What this means is completely up to the border agent talking to you on arrival. There have been grandmas that have been away for 20 year that were fine, and there have been people coming back after 3 months that were in trouble. I once came back a month after last time and was almost denied. Border controls are just very arbitrary, and it is up to the mood of the agent.
That’s changing rapidly.
I don't know about that. My old MacBook Pro (non-retina unibody) was dropped on a corner and the most annoying consequence was that in order to change the SSD I would have to angle it just right.

My current 2013 model does have its share of scratches and two small dents but it works as well as 6 years ago. I'd much rather have a dented metal case that stays together than a cracked plastic one.
Sure they can decide, depending on how the decision process is set up. If they can vote on proposals and decide by unqualified majority, for example. You'd get a decision every time. (If you assume a tie-breaker rule like even votes mean no.)

Of course the question remains whether decision by unqualified majority is a good thing.
Yeah, I'm hoping we can get around it with just a telemetry command (we've got two-way telemetry radios) to reset the EKF state.

Full motor cutoff/checkpointing is a fun one. One thing I've found that seems to seems to exasperate the issue is picking it up when it's on the ground, adjusting a camera or something, and putting it back down on the ground. That's an almost guaranteed way to get a "high accelerometer bias" or "compass skew" error.
Lots of it’s weight is in its butt. It will land fine.
> They Called it WinGet? are you serious!?

How many products have "Git" or "React" in their name? Does everybody accuse these people of ripping off Linus Torvalds or Facebook?

> Then people like you will kill off exactly the things they leech off, by pissing off those people who made them from their goodwill.

Because I don't want to pay for the air that I breathe?? Mmkay.

> I don't know, has he? Why raise the question instead of answering it.

You should be answering it because you're the one accusing Microsoft without knowing the whole story.

> You're curiously willing to defend microsoft.

Whenever I see imbalanced, ill-informed or illogical conclusions I speak out against them.
That is super annoying.

Doesn't quite fix the problem, but you can drag multiple apps at once in a stack https://9to5mac.com/2017/06/12/move-apps-drag-and-drop-ios-1...
FTA:

When she and I spoke, it was 35 degrees Fahrenheit below zero (without wind chill) at her lab in Fairbanks, at 2:00 in the afternoon (just before sunset). Suddenly my case for hibernation felt trivial.

All subsequent temperatures are in that unit unless otherwise specified
> are very inspired by AppGet.

This is "ripping off" now? Maybe they did steal it wholesale, maybe not, but I haven't seen any evidence (nay, even allegations) of it.
Kinda surprised this isn't common knowledge here, or that people think its localized to SV?

Here's a link: http://verdantlabs.com/politics_of_professions/

Software Engineers: 79 Democrats for every 21 Republicans. Similar story for engineering overall (The most "conservative" engineering profession being chemical engineering)

IT: 71 Democrats for every 29 Republicans.

You can blame it on SV but the truth is our industry's age skews young: We are 38 years old on average compared to the workforce average of 43. Source: https://www.visier.com/clarity/four-common-tech-ageism-myths...

Young voters and college-educated tend to vote more Democratic: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/11/08/us/politics/e...

You could argue the fact that the profession is predominantly male might mitigate some of this but the problem there is that the gender gap closes once you look at genders on a college-education basis: https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2018/11/08/the-2018-mi...

What I'm trying to say is that if we assume political affiliation does not correlate with skill (it doesn't AFAIK), and you hire based on merit, and you hire nation-wide, your software development team will skew left. And if your hiring focuses on major urban hubs it will skew even more left.

If you want to introduce artificial "balance" you are going to have to do affirmative action for political beliefs. This is challenging, as it's trivial for any individual to lie / reinvent themselves as a desirable political hire. If I wanted a job bad enough, and I knew they preferred hiring a certain political persuasion, I absolutely would pretend to be whatever they wanted me to be.
>Guarantee that everyone complaining about it here has never had to implement, or be accountable for the BOM cost of, a USB-C power negotiation system.

Huh, evidently this hasn't been sufficiently abstracted into hardware/software modules? I find that sort of surprising given the maturity of the problem, though I guess some things just aren't that simple.
> non-standard proprietary nonsense

Right, forgot this is Apple we're talking about
Campaign Zero: End police violence in America
I've paid for plenty of GNU/Linux software. It has to be Free Software though, otherwise I'm not interested.
Yes, this is a major factor that's often overlooked. I grew up doing child-level hacking in the 80s and then got into real hacking in the 90s as the commercial internet was first starting to blossom. While the reality I inhabit now as a programmer is dominated by the Internet, my habits are more like pre-Internet programmers.

If I were to make an accurate account of all the time and energy that goes into my most successful and well-engineered software products, the majority of the productive time happens "offline" from the Internet and/or even my laptop's screen.

I spend a ton of time turning the abstract parts of the problem over in my head while doing "nothing" (or during the mundane tasks of everyday life), and even when I do get in front of a screen, I still spend a ton of time just sketching out notes in a text editor - basically arguing with myself until I've managed to jot down some good conclusions on how the design of a Thing should be done. Most of those notes get thrown away eventually, as they materialize into resultant source code. I have sometimes spent weeks or months turning an idea over in my head or in these textual debates with myself before a line of code is ever written.
It's against the rules to post a pre-launch in Show HN
With React your Component re-renders over and over and your Hook dependencies explicitly whitelist change. With Solid your Component is a basic function that executes once closing over state getters with its Hooks, which are the only thing that run over and over as needed when state changes.
What’s funny is that the Hertz website became so bad that I gradually stopped using Hertz (former Presidents Circle guy). Never knew that it was because they fired their entire team and replaced it with an offshore team.
You bring out some good issues. Three things come out to me...

1. What we post through most social media platforms is direct messages rather than private messages. It's a subtle semantic difference but an important one. The things we say there isn't private. I remember reading about banks getting access to direct messages on FB. I'm not suggesting governments should pilfer this information. I am suggesting we should not have an expectation of privacy.

2. There is a semantic difference between "because technology" being used to avoid warrants and a government looking at what one says in public. I think this is important because pushing for and informing the public on one does not inform or solve the other. The "because technology" angle needs far more general society discussion.

3. There is another angle to the security/privacy discussion. In order to keep privacy one may need to not engage with certain things in certain ways. For example, if I don't want my neighbors to know what I'm doing in my yard I need to live in a place with a natural boundary, like a rural area. Being in a rural area means I'm not living in a city. It's a trade-off and always has been.

I totally understand the issue with abuse and the 'because technology' situation.
Good thought; it seems like something the EFF (or maybe the ACLU) would be interested in producing or publishing.
There is a fix for this available. I believe it's in 5.5. My distro (mint) doesn't have it in their kernels utility, so I'm sticking to 5.0.0 until they do.

(Note: It took me ages to find any information about this - https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/intel/-/issues/673 is where the bug is supposedly fixed)
Which part of it was historic? The part that we'd already done before, or all of the other parts that we'd already done before?

I guess if you consider funding coming from a source other than the government historic, then the launch was borderline mind boggling.

Agreed about "Bob and Doug". But then again the bravery, training, and talent of the astronauts weren't the focus of this launch. This was all about Elon and SpaceX.
I don’t have to posit. It’s not in the constitution.
SEEKING WORK | Remote only (USA-based) | Frontend: Angular, Vue, Ionic, more (https://seiyria.dev/resume.pdf)
Mobile: Ionic w/ Cordova

I work exclusively with JavaScript/Typescript and work on a lot of open source projects (https://github.com.seiyria). Previous open-source projects I've worked on include:

* bootstrap-slider (a popular slider component that fits in with bootstrap)

* IdleLands (an idle MORPG that accrued thousands of users over a few years)

* more - check out https://seiyria.dev/portfolio & https://github.com/seiyria

I'm available for any work you might have. I'm pretty quick on the uptake and I can either build your frontend or integrate with your team to help them do it more effectively.

My availability is 30-40 hours per week.

Feel free to email kyle+hn@seiyria.com!
Yea, to this day though I don't know how you can configure Adobe Acrobat to autoforward slides.
True. I think the reasonable assumption would be a low-pass filter that removes high frequencies altogether. A gaussian filter wouldn't be a particularly good idea.
Yes. Plenty of projects have gotten "in trouble" for copying code and illegally changing the license, either inadvertently or deliberately. The punishment is generally a complaint, and the remedy is that they fix the attribution. Examples:

- https://github.com/Lutando/Akkatecture/issues/19

- https://github.com/Grover-c13/PokeGOAPI-Java/issues/490

- https://github.com/dsiguide/dsiguide.github.io/issues/14

Such problems do not end up in court for two reasons.

First, it costs very little to bring a project into compliance with a permissive license — all you need to do is give attribution. It's not like GPL enforcement, where you have to choose whether to open source your proprietary code or to purge the GPL'd code from the project in order to achieve compliance.

Second, the culture of permissively licensed open source communities is such that they don't generally want to foster a litigious environment which would frighten business users.
Yeah, no joke. There are several hundred occupations in the original report: https://www.bls.gov/iif/oshwc/cfoi/cftb0326.htm

They likely picked the most dangerous ones.
Apache Foundation Month in Review: May 2020
In this article the word "hacker" is actually used in the original meaning - nothing to do with breaking into systems.
Commercial value may be for filmmakers who would no longer have to worry about getting waivers from people in the background of live shots. (Not a lawyer.)
No, you're not.

And did you expect asking this question here on HN to get you a real answer to your question? Or did you just feel like getting a quick internet ego massage?
> "When I showed it to my wife, the first thing she said was, “They Called it WinGet? are you serious!?” I didn’t even have to explain to her how the core mechanics, terminology, the manifest format and structure, even the package repository’s folder structure, are very inspired by AppGet."

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/AptGet

I wonder if he mentioned his name was inspired by the extremely more well known and 22 year old default package manager in linux that happens to be called apt-get.

I mean honestly if he's saying that as justification in his blog post, I'm immediately off his team. That's insane. Obviously a layman would think the name was ripped off if they didn't know about apt-get.
Agreed. I was following Debian mainline releases but grew tired of out of date packages and putting my hopes and dreams into *-backports. After migrating to testing, it's been smooth sailing for well over a year and I've grown to appreciate a rolling release cycle.
Ask HN: CS puzzle books for high schoolers?
A friend in my network recently posted a well-known CS puzzle on Facebook:

You have 12 coins, one of which weighs more than the other 11. You have a balance, and wish to use it to find the heavier coin. You may only use the balance three times. How do you find the heavier coin?

This is a great puzzle for an early CS learning because it gives some intuition into the general strategy of divide-and-conquer. It also nicely extends to harder variants: can you do the same for 27 coins with three weighings? Is this the limit? Why? Can you prove your answer?

My question for HN is: can you recommend some puzzle books that focus on CS puzzles like this one that are suitable for a bright high schooler? (The bright high school in this case is my daughter.)
It does when you kill the entire company. It’s like losing your house in a game of poker — the problem wasn’t going all in with pocket aces, it was putting your house in the pot.
Imagine going into hibernation at the beginning of february this year and waking up now.
> No, the Hubble and WMAP are some of the most-cited experiments, and ISS the least.

Just because the experiments aren't as frequently cited doesn't mean they didn't happen at all, or that they're unimportant.

> The wikipedia article has a long list of experiments, but the question is, "Do they actually contribute anything?"

This one is vital to our understanding of how space radiation affects embryonic development, which is critical for space colonization: https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/experime...

Or this one, which tested various fire suppressants in microgravity to determine their effectiveness, which is critical for manned spaceflight safety beyond merely the ISS: https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/experime...

Or this one, where the Michael J. Fox foundation partnered with NASA to conduct research on the ISS to replicate a key protein involved in Parkinson's disease (LRRK₂) in microgravity, allowing for much larger and more uniform growth patterns than possible on Earth: https://www.michaeljfox.org/news/parkinsons-protein-blasting...

Or this one, which evaluated the risks of microbial contamination on interplanetary missions (which could jeopardize the search for extraterrestrial microbes on e.g. Mars) by examining microbes that survived on the exterior of the ISS: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22680691/

> Can you name one scientific result from an ISS experiment? I can't.

That only goes to show your lack of willingness to educate yourself on the matter. Like, a search engine ain't exactly hard to use; I was able to pull all those examples within a couple minutes.

> Humans aren't colonizing anything in space. You've read too many scifi books.

No, I've read "too many" research papers and NASA reports. Evidently you have read none.

Humans absolutely will colonize space. Obviously not right this second, but humankind has been making baby steps toward that goal for as long as it's known of the existence and the vastness of space, and there is no reason to believe that will somehow not continue to be the case. Earth won't last forever, especially at the rate we're destroying it; permanent space colonization is therefore not just an economic and scientific boon, but absolutely imperative for the long-term survival of our species.
A gentle reminder that these are the same publishers who also advocate that harvested tree pulp industry does not impact the environment. As evil as they come. ;-)