skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some updates after some further googling:
- the NRX A6 engine was tested for 1 hour, but based on the observed corrosion, NASA extrapolated that the lifetime of the engine could be 2-3 hours ([1] page 10). That would reduce the fuel cost that I estimated above from $50MM per trip to Mars to $20MM per trip.

- nuclear thermal rockets can use different propellants. In [2] Nasa looked at some other propellants that could be available on Mars, such as CO2, H2O, CH4, CO, N2, Argon, NH3. They conclude that CO2 would be very convenient, H2O even more so (but were not sure at the time how easy it would be to source water on Mars). CH4 would be very appealing, but one would need to overcome some coking concerns. The other fuels were all inferior (except for H2, obviously).

- nuclear thermal rockets are not intended for takeoff from the Earth [3]. The intention is to be carried to space with chemical rockets, and use them for trips starting in LEO.

[1] https://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/199100...

[2] https://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/199100...

[3] https://www.energy.gov/ne/articles/6-things-you-should-know-...
You're right, determining what's newsworthy is a biased process in and of itself. But that doesn't mean throwing the baby out with the bathwater, neutrality is still something we should constantly aim for, even if it's a moving target.

For example, if a media outlet compare actual vs expected turnout for a Trump rally and report that turnout was "lower than expected", it would be plainly biased not to do the same comparison for Biden. The lines are obviously going to blur at some point (where 'balance' involves publishing something far less 'newsworthy'), but it's a lot like the definition of pornography - you know it when you see it.

Besides, most modern media outlets are blatantly pushing their own narratives anyway - I'd say it's far more important that we fix this before moving on to the smaller problem of selection bias.
For me, I find that I have to create the conditions for it and it'll naturally come along.

Taking the quarantine for example, I initially thought I would have an infinite amount of time to read new subjects and practice on topics I haven't for awhile, but I quickly found myself spending most of my time on video games. After adjusting my schedule of daily workouts, cooking, sleeping, and everything else I thought was mundane, my motivation to start reading one esoteric security topics and browse new open source projects came back up. Like what other posters are saying, you have to take care of the rest of your life first, both physically and emotionally, and then you'll naturally be creative and daring.
Sure it does, when opposition to mask wearing, social distancing, and other such precautions are part of that political orientation.

(Plus, Trump's rally was indoors; protests are outdoors. We've got quite a bit of data now indicating outdoor transmission is less likely.)
Less is more. The simpler your code is, the easier it usually is to change to meet new requirements.

If you need to push every variable through 15 layers of interfaces and factories and generators, you'll have a bad time.
Evolution and the Human Soul
If I understand correctly, this is just the same behavior as iOS's "dyld_shared_cache" which is basically all the system shared libraries stuffed into a single file.

https://iphonedevwiki.net/index.php/Dyld_shared_cache
I was curious about that as well. The official ARM site doesn't list one but another distributor lists the related ISBN as epub.

https://www.vitalsource.com/products/operating-systems-found...
> But I think the shift to use of shame for society regulation is a positive development

> If there's significantly less violence, it's a win.

Don't try and back away from your claims once you've made them.

And taking this debate from the point of view of the world as a whole is disingenuous, don't try to latch the damage done by one onto the overall good done by others and claim a net good for the first who caused the damage.

Also we aren't comparing now to the 1960s; yes now looks fabulous compared to then as does it compared to the purges in the USSR but we arent comparing those; we're discussing the recent devolution in free expression as pointed out in the blog this post is about.
So am I right in thinking that this is for browser only apps, as it doesn't include a server? At Yazz Pilot we made the ability to output apps as a HTML file, but to have the whole dev environment client side is pretty amazing!
Starting to crack.

All things considered I'm in a good spot - stable job that has allowed WFH since the beginning.

But, the lack of looking forward to anything is really wearing on me. Work ends at 5? Nothing to do. Weekend rolls around? Nothing to do. Looking at my calendar? Nothing for the next year.

I fill the time with random projects, biking, reading, or video games; but it's really just become "filling the time", not getting any enjoyment out of them.
If silence is violence, then destroying a person's ability to maintain employment is also violence. And should be treated as such by the courts.
Germany recruit and attracts a lot from Eastern Europe, specifically Romania. This definitely helps keep salaries lower
> It hasn't proven too confusing for many people to form a distinction between "the web" and their choice of browser.

That’s because swathes of people simply conflate the two. To a lot of people the icon for their web browser may as well just be called “The Internet”. I’ve heard that some single digit percentage of Google searches are people searching for Facebook.

I think you give too much credit to the level of technical knowledge of the average person.
The competition being (non-exhaustive list, comment if you know of others I might have missed):

SimpleAnalytics.com, Plausible.io, Matomo.org, GoatCounter.com, and (shameless plug but WIP) Chiffre.io.

However, while there is a competition to gain users and market share, ultimately these platforms are in competition against Google Analytics and other giants of the surveillance industry. The only risk if one of them grows too fast is that it becomes the new giant. Google used to say "don't be evil", after all.
I think it's currently more the right wing rejecting science (climate research, epidemiology etc.) as a tool of the "deep state"...
Duo is a much better choice for family video chat than Meet/Hangouts
Nix seems to be heading toward a critical mass in Germany. I use NixOS for my work computer, and couldn't imagine using any other OS. I keep a LinkedIn search open for nixos, and almost all of the hits are German. I'm interested in what kind of an organization might try out something like IHP? I've had a tough enough time introducing Typescript and more functionally oriented patterns in my team, so my guess is that organizations that would seriously consider IHP probably have a significantly different corporate culture.
Well, that's a bit of a strawman. There are very few people who think we shouldn't spend any money on blue sky research. It's more of a question of how much we should spend, which blue sky research we should fund, and how those projects are set up. There are neuroscientists who are critical of the Human Brain Project, not because they're against funding of neuroscience in general, but because they don't think this particular project isn't well designed. There are people that are supportive of a lot of the work NASA does, but don't think human space flight specifically is a good use of their budget.
Well, the OC was confused as to how letters can be translated into an actual phone number. This should be obvious to anyone that has ever dialed a number on their mobile phone, i.e. OC.
Honestly, I feel like I'm living a blessed life - I have remote work for a good salary while many other people are unemployed, sick and dying, or fighting systemic racism. Personally, I am suffering from PTSD and depression, and still feel that I'm in a better place than many others. So I'm working through my own problems, wishing everyone else the best with theirs, helping where I can, and just accepting the difficult time the whole world is going through.
LOL. Good questions.

1. Haven't found the time to fill in the privacy-policy, terms-of-usage pages. Been swamped with feature work.

2. No, you'll never get ANY emails from us.

3. Product is free for individual users. However, there are plans to release a paid enterprise version later in the year (with SSO, customer-managed-encryption-keys, customer-managed-storage, team collaboration features etc).
Regulating speech via social means is strongly preferable to regulating speech via legal means, in my opinion.
Turn mobile screenshots into mobile mockups
Thank you guys. Appreciate your inputs.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snAhsXyO3Ck
i found the above inked CGP Grey video to be helpful i watch it once a week to keep things in perspective.
hope this helps others too
> Apple sticking with Intel and now reverting to a terrible proprietary cpu architecture

Are you referring to the ARM instruction set generally being more open for custom instructions? Going by the number of licensees and producers of ARM silicon, I'd say ARM is less proprietary compared to x86 which is basically just produced by Intel, AMD, and a Chinese licensor AFAIK.
I'm just talking real-time performance and power consumption, not accuracy.
>> everyone want's to find a Einstein equation

Yeah, I've been thinking that for a while. Ever since relativity physicists have been looking for weird or counterintuitive explanations for things.

This is why they like Dark mater, dark energy, many worlds. Spooky action at a distance, string theory.
Thank you for stating this as clearly as you did. I'll probably get downvoted for comment, but my reaction to reading this essay was to be angry with Tracy. She repeatedly put herself in situations where she had to choose between family and company (or at least thought she did), and for what? Regardless of gender, if you want to have a successful family and you want to have a successful high-growth startup, you're going to have a bad time.

This idea that rockstar CEOs can magically have everything needs to die - if you pick that path it comes with sacrifices that you need to recognize up front. Either you're going to be a bad parent/spouse (applies to most of the male CEOs I know) or you're going to be a leader who doesn't inspire confidence in employees (let alone co-founders, from personal experience). If you want a well-balanced life, consider other options like a lifestyle business or the corporate ladder.
It was a serious low point for me when all of this started. No friends or family in this city, long distance relationship collapsed, and my only sources of interaction with people (our physical office and my gym across the street) closed down.

Since then I've done a few things to help pull back some sanity...

* I took up running. Every day I try to run a little farther and take a new path. Last Saturday I was able to do a 20k fasted AM run. It was the first time in my life I was able to run that far without stopping.

* I filled my duffel bag with jugs of water and used that for weight training instead. It doesn't really take the place the gym but it's better than nothing.

* I started taking flights to the bay area to visit my family in 2 week cycles.

I'm physically fine right now, but like some of the other people here I wish I had some friends / co-workers / general people to hang around and talk with. If you're in a similar situation, in your 30s, and live around Boston, feel free to drop me a line at this username at gmail. I would be more than happy to come out and chill.
According to the book "Poison Spring: Secret History of Pollution and EPA," GMOs are primarily developed in order to genetically engineer crops that are able to withstand chemical herbicides and pesticides: "Glyphosate is a powerful driver of genetic engineering. Its creator, Monsanto, has bioengineered 'Roundup Ready' soybeans, corn and other crops to resist Roundup's killing power" (p. 205)... "All genetically modified crops harm the natural world and human health, in large part because they (by definition) invite and encourage the spraying of toxic pesticides" (p. 212). Quoted from E.G. Vallianatos (2014) Poison Spring: Secret History of Pollution and EPA
https://www.amazon.com/Poison-Spring-Secret-History-Pollutio...
Yup. The worst on Zoom and Google Meet is:

a. the person with feedback or background noise causing the video to flip to them

b. someone displaying their lunch for everyone to see

c. Zoom specialty: obnoxious video backgrounds

Zoom helps you block trolls, but does nothing for the pain of having to listen to someone's feedback during an hour long meeting. And you often don't want to interrupt the meeting to pester people about their microphone.

It's a similar problem to Slack. We have some people who overuse @here and various similar sins, and Slack's answer is there's no reason to block, just fix your company.[1]

What this misses is there's a broad range of behavior between pleasant and malicious. There are also a broad range of social remedies we normally use to deal with this behavior.

Most of those social remedies don't work well online. It's surprisingly hard to craft a written correction that doesn't come across as an attack, especially if you're senior and don't want to unintentionally throw that rank around.

[1]: https://twitter.com/stewart/status/624239660529684481
> Apple sticking with Intel and now reverting to a terrible proprietary cpu architecture

ARM is more open than x86. In fact, you could start your own ARM chip design company today. Which is something you cannot do with x86 at all, even if your were to do a complete takeover of AMD or Intel.

> Before they dropped powerpc for intel, no one would have considered using a mac for dev work.

DHH wrote Ruby on Rails on a Powerbook. Microsoft did all the development of the original XBox on PowerPC Macs. A lot of developers used macs before Intel, and they will use them after Intel.

> They had a good ten years as the best dev environment but as they say "The King is dead, long live the King".

Given the Frankenstein horror show that is Windows with WSL2 and the terminal lack of a polished working GUI in Linux, Mac is still the best dev environment unless you are doing some platform specific work.
Lessons-Learned from Migrating Our Build System to Bazel
Ohh dear..that page is really shocking. What a sorry, shameful history.
There really is no reason for the NYT to expose his therapist-name. Scott is far from anonymous in any sense that matters - his identity as a blogger is very public, everything he does online is connected, and people can and do scrutinize and criticize it when appropriate. The public's interest is well served.

Scott's blog will be sorely missed. Some of the best writing on the internet.
It can be a good antidepressant, but definitely won't help anxiety. I've recently quit coffee as well and it's done wonders for my anxiety.

https://www.goodrx.com/blog/does-coffee-caffeine-cause-anxie...
This is the first I've seen branding considerations described as "chilling".

Your definition of that word seems absurdly broad. Is it "chilling" that Coca-Cola can't name a soda "Rebel Red" because it would remind people of the Confederacy?

Or is it just that brands have to be pretty tame and appeal to the lowest common denominator, and issues of free speech are secondary to people actually liking the brand?

Who is trying to make ideological points through their brand anyway? And what point is "Riot.im" making that society is now losing?
Well, seems like we're living in interesting times, but as a curse, doesn't seem so bad.

Having a relatively secure job makes a lot of difference I think. Mine has stayed consistent, with a few months of working at home, and now back in the office with a skeleton crew.

Thing is, I never swung for the fences. I've stayed in jobs that didn't pay as much as I might have left for, but they were secure, and allowed me to build up, so now in my early 50's I make at least 1/2 as much from investments each year as salary (total 200K+ a year living outside of a major metropolitan area). My spouse did the same, so together we're doing fine financially, and I think that security helps our piece of mind a lot. We've always been saving for the rainy day, and now that it's here, we're coasting a bit.

So we do what we did before anyway - head out to the woods, bike, hike, play board games, the random video game, and keep up our garden and yard. We're simple people with simple needs so we're easy to please. Probably the only thing we miss is travel - we used to head south to Mexico or South America every two years, and that's on hold, of course.

Oh, and zero, zero, zero social media and mainstream news. I mean none. I think that helps me a lot. I don't even enjoy NPR. If it's not something in depth and reasoned, I don't even bother. The world at large really holds very little for me, except places like here (HN) where there is technically interesting ideas to explore.

I feel for the folks that are struggling, though. I can completely see the "There but by the grace of God go I." I really like seeing people step up to help in this thread. You're my heroes for the day. Thank you.
I don't think "not on a large scale" is a good argument. Small groups of people can be incredibly powerful. The people who founded our country could all fit in the same room together.
Just hired someone. I focused on character—looking for hard worker, resilient, and utter honesty—and intelligence, assessed through a fairly difficult coding challenge requiring recursion to solve.

If you’re a software engineer, recommend reading Code Complete and SICP while you have free time. For working on your character, one path would be following the book of Proverbs :P
The US scares me both in Corona terms (cases seem to be moving up whereas in most of the world they've been going down a lot), and in terms of what looks to me like extreme entitlement of the police forces, literally demanding the right to kill people, rejecting any attempt at accountability, and attacking peaceful protesters against police violence.

Several US police forces make it look like the only way forward is to completely abandon existing police forces and start over. I really hope the protesters win this, otherwise it seems to me you're basically accepting a police state.
Agreed! Would be a great weekend project for a junior developer or someone trying to break into the industry.

All the steps are there, just not the packaging.
Wishing I was more into yoga and meditation at this time like I was 3-5 years ago, but last night I stepped barefoot onto the lawn and did some Tai-chi-ish moves. Dolphins are bringing gifts to shores to try and lure humans back. The natural world misses us. Our sterile environments are not the optimal. Get barefoot on the lawn, it really helps.
Well I mean they could but they would have to provide actual data (similar to what I cited) to back it up. Just because people can make absurd claims is not a good reason to entertain them.
Nothing wrong with it. Answered here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23613510
Western attitudes to Africa need a reset
Without a strong and supportive community, renaming a company is hard.
Riot is in a place when they can afford doing it (not money wise... community wise)
Good project, I'm curious to know what the new name will be
Opinions and Facts, Power and Accountability, Wonder and Awe
I agree. I also have been wondering a lot lately about where does all the tires that wear away each year go? Street sweepers, the oceans? Millions of tires each year. It’s frightening to think what that does.
I feel you. Try not to put too much pressure on yourself. I've been having a lot of ups and downs myself. Not having anyone to talk to I've been almost by myself for four months with occassional walks with a friend. But the sum total of my human face to face contact is about 4-5 hours a month. This is just not enough for most humans.

Plus there is the added stress that if you slip too much you could end up back into a bad job market. The only thing one can do is to find other healthy diversions and keep diet / sleep / exercise on track.

I hope my managers understand and won't judge my performance at this time.
I get the overall point you're trying to make, but for the person who was going to be that #5 shooting and gets to live instead, that's a positive outcome for that person at least.

Overall there's certainly a larger discussion about the use of force, and maybe tasers contribute to that in some negative ways, but most of the time they're used everybody gets to live at the end of the day.
As I will finish to move to The Netherlands in July (began moving in February but get stopped with the closing of the borders on the Belgium side), we had to cancel your trip to Nicaragua and we plan to tour a part of the country by bike instead during my partner holidays (I will probably still be jobless during that time).
Actually one reason we may see Pomelo here is that the universities in this city attract a lot of Chinese students, and there are a number of shops and restaurants that have sprung up to cater for them.

How it's eaten does seem to vary by country. I've never tried the pith either, but would like to sometime!
"solving a problem that doesn't exist" ... um I nuked plenty linux machines by removing the wrong file early in my linux days. Hell I nuked a couple OS X machines when I first got Mac. Turning off SIP isn't that hard ... if you consider it hard you probably need to keep it on.
That may well be the case - I have more problems with the air, I think, than the heat. I've experienced comparable heat before, but a breeze, or stepping into the shade would provide some respite. No such luck in Brisbane!

Also the seatbelts! Oh god the seatbelt buckles in summer
I think the “hackintosh” (as we have intended it since Apple’s transition to Intel in 2006) effectively died yesterday.

The idea that “Macs” will be relatively generic x86-64 machines made by a specific company to run its OS preferentially is gone. Macs’ inner workings will go back to being comparatively exotic, as they were in the PowerPC days and before: incompatible with the prevailing wintel hegemony, which for Apple has the pleasant side-effect relieving them of many competitive forces (but I digress).

In future getting macOS to run on non-Apple hardware will be far more difficult. The Ax series SoCs are ARM-based but contain loads of Apple-specific implementations and additions. Think of the T2 chips and the Secure Enclave. Those won’t be turning up on commodity silicon before the relevant patents expire!

Look at it the opposite way: how successful, really, have efforts to get Linux running on Apple’s iPad, iPhone, and AppleTV platforms been? Why? Because it’s undocumented. That’s what ARM macs will be like in the future.
Pakistan: Five of a Family Slaughtered in Punjab
Not in every OS or programming language, it doesn't.

Linkers just need to somehow find the binary dependencies across the link path/staging.
Aye, same. I was a Bernie voter before it was cool, and now it feels like I'm being beaten over the head with left-wing propaganda daily.

Given that we're less than 6 months out from an election -- the election -- it's not a surprise. Lots of propaganda, foreign and domestic, is going to go hard all summer.

See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overton_window