skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It turns out those polled are not good at knowing verifiable facts like:

What share of U.S. immigrants receive unemployment?
What share of U.S. immigrants are Muslim?

Why do people even hazard a guess at this stuff? Does your average Joe registered voter really think they have such a handle on immigration in their country that they think they know the religion of everyone coming in and who is receiving exactly what benefits?

Talk about the Dunning–Kruger effect...
Let’s Put an End to Prosecutorial Immunity (2018)
That's exactly what they do.

https://www.ajc.com/news/state--regional-govt--politics/here...

> The notices are generated after the state compares the list of people who submitted a change of address form to the U.S. Postal Service with the state’s overall list of registered voters.

> Voters who receive them are asked to fill out the form and return them to their local county elections office. The notice says a voter will be declared “inactive” if they don’t respond within 30 days. Several advocacy groups including the ACLU of Georgia, however, say not all voters should face that consequence.

https://www.npr.org/2019/12/20/790319853/are-states-purging-...

> Now, in Wisconsin, it's a whole different case. It's the state that wants to wait until after the 2020 elections to remove some 234,000 voters who appear to have moved. They want to wait because they've run into problems in the past using Division of Motor Vehicle change of address records to clean up their lists.
It's also one of the few fields with demand so high that the number of software engineers in the world doubles every few years (5years iirc).

That's a lot of junior engineers. We're vastly outnumbered by juniors and complete beginners.

If you aren't helping juniors, you'll fast run out of seniors to work with.
Imagine someone was at a BLM demonstration, possibly did some light rioting (spraypainting, flyposting, damage to vehicles), and the following morning wakes up with respiratory symptoms and tests positive for coronaplague. Now the contact tracer calls. Anyone would think this is a sheriff's ruse, trying to find out what his circle of friends is.
I'll never forget manually flying at 150 feet at 150kts for hours, using the keyboard only, trying to evade all the radars along the way, sneaking up just to the outer edge of your missile's range to the target, popping open the bay door, launching, slamming the bay door back shut and turning hard around, throttle to the firewall to get as far away from the scene of the attack as possible (still at 150 feet off the ground if you could manage it), then trying to sneak back out a different way than the way you came to evade all the aircraft the sim sent up looking for you.

Then you get back and have to land perfectly or else you just die and have to start your character all over again as a 2lt. You could, of course, hit ctrl-alt-del and reboot the machine so your character wouldn't die, because it didn't save anything until the very end of the mission.

I'll also never forget how amazingly better the game was when I got a color monitor and could see that the game had colors -- I couldn't see half the controls in black and white.

It was a surprisingly hard game, actually.

BTW, both f19 and f117 are available on steam. I still pull them up and fly them occasionally just for nostalgia.
“If there is no solution to the problem then don't waste time worrying about it. If there is a solution to the problem then don't waste time worrying about it.”
-- The Dalai Lama

I've spent a lot of my career working to correct projects that have been in a terrible state and had the privilege to mentor and help pull people out of bad situations.

One of the big things I try to do is to get people to think about what they care about and how much they care. Good people do a lot of harm to themselves by caring about the wrong things: they want to be the hero in their story, but forget that six months from now nobody will remember the sacrifices they made.

One part of this is to accept the amount of work that needs to be done is only impacted in a small way by the work you've done today. If you work 8 hours or 16 hours there's still going to be too much work tomorrow.

Working longer hours generally does nothing than hide structural issues. By encouraging teams to cut their workload from 60+ hour weeks to 40, you are forcing these issues into the open.

For those that are ever in a bad situation I'm happy to listen (my contact details are in my profile), sometimes you just need somebody with an external perspective.
Nick is, without exaggeration, the finest hacker I've had the pleasure to know and work with. Its hard to believe where Notcurses is considering he just started working on it at the end of last year.

The quality and quantity of his output is nothing short of astounding. Poke around his wiki/github, its worth it.
I see nothing but praise for Clojure and for good reason. I experimented with it a bit a few years ago and it seemed to be a more practical and useful version of Lisp, although I say that as someone who wasn't that experienced in Lisp more generally, with only some small experiments in Scheme. Something just as significant was that the ecosystem seemed to be quite sane and I got on really well with Leiningen for example, if you were considering diving in then give it a go.

I personally won't consider it now but not because of the language or the ecosystem but because of the runtime(s). For me the layers of abstraction are too much complexity to not be justified.
The net effect was that the death rate was vastly higher in Sweden than their northern Scandinavian neighbors. Over 4000 deaths more based on population size. Not having more aggressive stay at home policies doomed thousands more people to die than were likely if you had followed policies of your neighbors. Sweden has now joined the ranks of the worst performing countries in Europe based on death rate. The UK, France, Spain, and Sweden.

Here's the opportunity Sweden missed: The disease had an early outbreak in those other countries, it was already raging before the countries shutdown (Spain and Italy were overwhelmed). But as we saw in Finland, Norway etc, if it wasn't raging, by shutting down you could tremendously reduce the infections. I know Sweden tried to protect elderly in sr citizen homes as we call them in the US, but you failed. People could still go out to bars and restaurants, your economy was somewhat more functional that other countries, at the cost of currently 3-4k extra deaths.

It's a terrible situation, but in my opinion the wrong one.
I haven't said that you downvoted me. Not sure how you come up with this? If you look at the sequence it was:

You: "Notice how those posts turn grey?"

Me: "I won't be writing in a way you want to get upvotes from you.".

You: "I didn't downvote you :) Its not possible to downvote responses to your own posts.".

Making things up is certainly unnecessary and commenting on someones writing style is certainly rude.

Again, that's my view, it doesn't have to match your view. We can both have different views and express them freely.
The quote isn't real. It's from a Cambridge dissertation in 1907 attributing these attitudes to the ancients. With that said, let's assume that Socrates did say something like this. What exactly happened to Athenian democracy in the generations after the death of Socrates?

"Athens, 404 BC. The Democratic city-state has been ravaged by a long and bloody war with neighbouring Sparta. The search for scapegoats begins and Athens, liberty's beacon in the ancient world, turns its sword on its own way of life. Civil war and much bloodshed ensue. Defining moments of Greek history, culture, politics, religion and identity are debated ferociously in Athenian board rooms, back streets and battlefields. By 323 BC, less than 100 years later, Athens and the rest of Greece, not to mention a large part of the known world, has come under the control of an absolute monarch, a master of self-publicity and a model for despots for millennia to come: 'megas alexandros', Alexander the Great."

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

https://phys.org/news/2009-10-athenians-history.html
Well, universal basic income
I think I've confused my terminology, as "main booster" usually means the first stage as a whole, but I used it to refer to the individual SSMEs.

But I think _you're_ referring to the SRBs.

In both cases (SSME and SRB) they were re-used in some fashion, though I agree the SRB re-use was not a good solution.
> train

In most cases this would amount to simply pressing a key and reading data off the screen.
That is where it gets hard, but I think its doable. And just to play with the thought experiment you would probably weigh things. Like would you want to see any car accidents on your street within 50 feet of your house? Maybe yes. 2 miles away? Probably not, but may be if they have a fatality sure. Car accident of a friend in another country? Maybe. A train wreck with 100 deaths in your state?

Basically you can adjust the likelihood of something showing on your feed by severity weighted by location and friend graph (showing less severe things closer to you and more severe things further away). This matches how I think humans actually process information.
Quickly editing, reloading, and refreshing from anywhere. Also the persistence between shells and a dot file loading.

Another nice thing is you environment bar secrets are only exposed during command execution when they are needed. (See how the .jumpfiles.secrets.sh is used)
It's also largely an experimentation ground for some upcoming Hof features.
Yeah, share both common concerns, centering around the JVM (which I love, and have used and studied since it launched, but it is baggage).

There have been a number of attempts to build Clojure on top of Go (I worked on one), and another on top of Rust. Both lack the dynamic runtime ergonomics that Clojure leverages. Clojure is also seeing significant performance benefits, both runtime and startup, from the Graalvm, but that also will have limitations.

I am wondering about D, which should be sufficiently low level from a systems perspective but may also have sufficient dynamic capabilities.
You know, this isn't a great way to teach in general, but I wouldn't mind it being "in the mix". There's a fair number of people out there who can program but don't have the discipline to understand a somewhat exacting specification.

Someone else writes of all assignments getting a public test suite, which sounds great most of the time but is even worse in making sure that students can understand what an assignment is actually asking.

I'm about to start teaching a middle school competition robotics elective. One of the two difficult grading measures is going to be tests (both closed book and open book) about what the rulebook says and means. (The other will be documentation. All the rest will be subjective and easy and squishy and "easy A").
"struct3r5.com: a free online curriculum for budding structural engineers"

Now I'm scared.
Now that you mention it, I'm sure this was no coincidence!
Living in an autocracy is perfectly comfortable up until very moment it no longer is
Yes, and this was a big part of the success. If someone else had built it, they might not have used it, which would have given it a much rougher time adoption wise.
If the drones spend a decent amount of time on the truck it doesn't need anything too exotic. You will need to outfit the trucks with beefy alternators/gensets though.

There are still several issues with this scheme. The drone needs to be autonomous enough to know when to take off, which partially involves knowing the trucks current and future route information. It also needs to be able to navigate safely in low level flight to the destination, and be able to safely drop the package off. The original prototype delivery required homeowners to build a small helipad in their back yard to get packages, which is impractical. The drone then needs to be able to fly back to the truck, knowing exactly where the truck is and where it will be in a few minutes and possibly land on a moving vehicle with enough precision to hook up the charging system and somehow select and attach the next package for delivery.

When you look into the details this is a horrendously complex system. Some of the tech isn't really there yet and the rest requires a whole elephant load of integration and testing. There are loads of things that can go wrong. The truck might get diverted around roadwork, or be in an accident, or there could be kids playing in the yard when the drone arrives with the package and nowhere safe to land, territorial birds may attack the drone, or the battery pack on the drone might fail and catch fire, a no-fly NOTAM may appear suddenly over your delivery area, or so on and so forth.
Professionally for something like 7 years now. It’s good stuff.
Fast_rsync: An optimized implementation of librsync in pure Rust
Yeah the notion is there for me to capture all the things I want to make sure students know, its a quick way for me to jot down notes and reorganize content when I notice common struggles among students when understanding different concepts.

Eventually, I want to have a fully integrated experience and I have all that planned out. I'm just waiting for more students to join our engineering team and start contributing.
To me the biggest surprise was the designer's embarrassment, and the failure of a re-designed successor.
Getting started with the Perl version of tumblelog on Ubuntu
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_entrepreneur
Oscillating near the racial distribution of the population should be good enough.
...isn't the whole reason of this discussion revolving around events causing "ridiculous paranoia" being realized? No, I don't think I'm being too paranoid. Even if Signal is open source, it means smack if you don't know what's actually running on the servers, or what's in each AppImage and running on your phone.

If you have your servers and employees where the government can reach you, you can be compromised, because ethics and morality go out the window when it's about your safety and that of those you love.

Analog is always safest, because it's what the world is grounded in. If you don't like inking over an image, then burn the faces of it using a blowtorch, or if you're worried the ink is still there, you can stamp out the faces using a hole punch.
First off, kudos. I think you are actually making world a better place.

I am commenting partially to easily go back to it after work ( this day is a little hectic - sorry for the generic comment ).
"I think it may be too overwhelming for students to learn different languages and learn the high level concepts at the same time."

That would take literally years.
Writing Better Stimulus Controllers
Why did this get flagged????
Thank you for this.

We’re the shutdowns and working from home government mandated, or due to people just doing it?
Essentially, yes. Russia got all the nukes[1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisbon_Protocol
I love clojure the language but hate the tooling.

Also a lack of documentation was always a problem, especially around clojure script.

I also don't like smug community. When you say about the lack of documentation and get told that's a good thing, clojure is meant to be hard to learn, it's not for everyone and maybe you just aren't smart enough...

Hmmm. That attitude might put people off.
Does it really though? Money doesn’t care about people. Why should that annexation be harmful for the market? Why do 40 million unemployed a dent? They’re not the ones spending money because this crisis hit bottom first.
Thanks for the follow up.

I agree that people want to adjust what other people can read, but this is where Facebook can really sidestep this by making things user preferences. Because it sounds strange to campaign to force Facebook to "override a person's explicit preferences about what to show/hide".
We've already had a JSF launch a missile from an Arleigh Burke over the horizon and guide it all the way to the target.

This stuff that was science fiction a decade ago is now reality.
Showtime for Photosynthesis
Yeah, SSMEs didn't have contact with salt water and were easier to refurb :). In general, they were a work of art.

I thought you meant SRBs because they too were advertised as reusable, even though in practice, they weren't.
Yeah. I wasn't disputing what you're saying. I'm just disputing the point I was replying to where they talked about getting returns.

That thesis makes sense in some markets such as lifestyle products and services catering to a market segment. Fashion and entertainment are a perfect examples.

In the context of technology however, there's nothing about building the next platform as a service for example that would lend itself to be more successful if it were built by a specific demographic. If that were the case, investors would already be chasing those opportunities.
Fortunately everybody is able to access crime statistics, not just White Nationalists.

Statistics have a habit of turning people into White Nationalists though, so you are right in a sense.
I'm more concerned about the space junk aspect of it. My understanding is that as satellites collide they produce millions of tiny deadly particles. If we have enough of those in orbit then it will effectively trap us on earth.

I'm all for faster internet, but not at the cost of making space travel impossible.
I wonder if they can equip the passport office with software that compares your face with the photo; software face recognition is based on measuring the geometry of the face, and if there are strange differences (that the human eye can't see), the software should flag it..
Even for those of us living in a suburban area, it will be great having another option to use as a bludgeon against Comcast. Right now they can just laugh if you say you're going to cancel due to a rate hike, because they know the next-fastest provider is 4 Mbps.
Walmart Employees Are Out to Show Its Anti-Theft AI Doesn't Work
I may be missing something here but the example given of finding the midpoint between to points across the antimeridian seems at best misleading. The formula given, averaging each coordinate, does not work for spherical coordinates as this post demonstrates. And the correct formula for doing so is never given.
This site is amazing. I had a real problem with nerves during interviews, I did about half a dozen practice interviews on the site over about 2 or 3 months, while I was brushing up on algorithms and data structures in my spare time. It was great, if you have issues with interviews I recommend the site.

One bit of advice though, don't just jump into a mock, make sure you prep by studying first for a few weeks.
Congratulations on the launch. I am not really sure the world needs another website builder but your pricing looks attractive for small businesses outside the west.
I don't think the audience for this article is meant to include people that aren't familiar with GPT-2/GPT-3.
Alcohol and cigarettes are always on the black market close to US military bases. Prices are always cheaper for service members and their family on base.
At least our aircraft can self-designate though, they don't require a laser on the ground.
Indeed. NZ & Aus exchange about 20% of each other's tourism in a regular year. Sometime in July we should see open borders across the ditch, saving a good number of jobs in travel and tourism sectors. Job subsidies have been timed to maximize this 'bounce back' economy as well.

China, Singapore, and Qatar seem to have less-lethal strains if their recent numbers are to be believed. Perhaps in lieu of an early vaccine we might see weaker asymptomatic strains as providing a safer path to herd immunity. Someone here from these countries might be able to explain their low death rates in more detail.
That is not my point. It can be Geo limited by the OS.

If !(in China) _disable_

Although even that will cause unnecessary headache for hardware and OS vendors and will/might still lead to new security issues and backdoors.
Some embassies use self-service robot/kiosk.
See our Hof project, working on that too.

Jumpfiles got ephemeral VMs and k8s last night, so if you want to enable consistent dev envs and debugging, there are some options. Email me if you'd like to know more about what we are planning and some of the more leading edge capabilities.
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What tooling has given you problems? I think that some tooling assumes familiarity with the Java ecosystem (which is a problem for many things in Clojure land), but otherwise it seems pretty solid to me.
You underestimate the problem.

First you have to add something like 40 km/sec to go from Earth orbit to escape into interstellar space, and then you have to add another 20 km/sec to match speeds with Oumuanu. That's 60 km/sec, which is 3 times the speed and takes 9 times the energy.

Pioneer and Voyager got to interstellar space with gravity assists. But those work best when you barely get to a planet's orbit, then it picks you up and you go close to 180 around it. (Thereby adding 2x its velocity to your own.) Once you start getting to the velocities needed for Oumuamu, you just shoot by the planet and don't get much of an assist. (Assuming, that is, that there is an alignment between the planets and a random interstellar visitor. Which is extremely unlikely.)

I stand by my statement. We do not have good enough rockets for this maneuver.
I was going to say you can use YouTube to learn anything including plumbing from plumbers. My plumber recommended it. It's how he got his start. According to him, when he started plumbing years ago, he lied about his experience and used Youtube at worksites to learn on the job.
erm any IT professional that has had to deploy windows 10 using MDT or SCCM? The never ending new versions of Windows 10 that need to be deployed. Windows 10 should have been the LTSC version right out of the gate. None of that chaffy Microsoft Store they are back peddling on. And all the other issues that have came along since the OS release.
Deorbiting them so their periapsis intersects with the earth is not hard from LEO.
We tried that once - see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23411356.
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Interesting, could it be that I heard of this term before and I appropriated it without consciously remembering it? Let's say a terminology appropriation.
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Founder here. This is so nice to hear. Thank you for sharing it.
bikeshedding? on hacker news? no way
Yeah they were always quite intense w/ German passports anyway. And the tech seems quite sensitive.

e.g. Movember caused the airport gates to flunk me
Just pushed a new version,ales it much easier to plugin your own custom stuff. Still need a good example of this on GitHub...

Take. A look at the Hof leap, there are some examples of jumping to a dir, found something, and then hopping back to where you were. Super useful for building tools you are working on but don't need the extra shell session
Yes thank you. My examples were explicitly things that they already do in production. They were not random examples.
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I have been using it professionally since the first Conj and I still do. We have a ton of Clojure code where I work. I still love it.