skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The most accurate measuring device at the jet engine MRO I worked at was a CMM. It had an accuracy of 2 micron, 0.00008"

It was a robotic arm that lived in a temperature controlled room. The parts it was to measure were left inside the room to acclimatise. When they were at the correct temperature, you would put a part on the largest granite block in the southern hemisphere that was so flat they used lasers to calibrate it.
Then run the program for the part. The arm would move into position and then a little probe would touch the part to get a measurement.
It was used to measure things like warpage of inner diameters etc.

Funny trivial, if you ran the wrong program the arm would end up colliding with the part causing the probe to break. There was always spare probes kept because this happened. $20k each.
I mean a website, not actual paper.
I dunno man, im getting kind of jaded as I get older. "True moonshot" to me seems more like cheap clean water for everyone, or a real way to sequester carbon, not a way for rich folks to get to their country cottages faster.
Curious how strongly apparent size correlates to youth.

I am guessing that especially in the extreme deep field,

the distant couple-pixel dots correspond to the back of the room i.e. the oldest/most distant galaxies,

so this is in some real if crude sense looking through a core sample of cosmological time?
We've banned this account for using primarily HN for ideological battle and ignoring our requests to stop.
Every book that about better writing that I read, talks about this.

Cut all the clutter, use simpler words, be personal. Do not write in a way that you do not talk.

For example, first few chapters of the book

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/53343.On_Writing_Well

talk in details on the topic.
> I agree that the basic human need of shelter should be more affordable.

Affordable where? In West Texas or in Paris? Today, Paris' population is ~2M and the residential buildings cannot be taller than 50m by law. If 10M people want to live there, is it a "basic human right" to build 10M homes for them by replacing existing Parisian building by skyscrapers? What will that do to the existing fabric/culture of the city, and who gets to decide what is allowed? Existing residents or the would-be residents?
Nail / head I think; a lot of western devs, especially the HN crowd, has the luxury of moving to the next 'cool' thing every couple of years. But they did write code, they laid the groundwork, and it has to be developed further on.

Billions of LOC of Java are lying around and there is a need for an army of developers to look after it.
What programming technologies are you fascinated by, really interested in and love?

Answer that and then I'll suggest projects.
With Classic McElice, at least right now, the computation time for a keypair is a bigger problem than the size of the public key. It will get faster with better implementations and hardware use. But now it takes many seconds on a Ryzen 9 3950 to generate a keypair. I had to build a system with background threads computing keys and having them ready for quick response when a connection is made.
If anyone is interested see: https://github.com/kareldonk/QuantumGate
And timezones. Some classes are synchronous and often deadlines times unsuitable.
Attention control is critical for increasing/altering motivation (2012)
Well things moved pretty fast back then, but in my recollection, Netscape had progressive rendering (i.e. you didn't have to wait for everything to load before the page was rendered) and Spyglass didn't. I believe IE 1.0 (derived from Spyglass) also lacked that feature. Spyglass might have worked OK on a university network, but over dialup, progressive rendering was a killer feature.
>let us not compare a 50k used Cessna to a 500k Cirrus?

why not? the original post was that innovation can't happen in aviation because of regulation. if we're shifting the argument to innovation doesn't happen because it's expensive, that's a much more solveable problem.
>How long before this discrimination will be considered unacceptable and all "offline" communications will be frowned upon, so to speak?

Hopefully immediately on a distributed team. No one is going to keep you from having beers with your local buds. But making decisions while having beers with your local buds should absolutely be out of scope. That's how distributed teams operate.

Which comes back to my earlier comment. If half the team goes remote, the half of the team in the office can't just pretend those who aren't in the office don't exist. And management needs to take action if that happens. So, yeah, if a choice is given to not be in the office, that's going to/should affect you even if you're fine with going back to business as usual.
I don't think there are usb-hubs that can work with the idea of one slave to multiple masters. Do you know of a USB hub that would work to connect one keyboard to multiple computers? That'd simply be against USB protocol. KVM switches are the devices that allow you to connect one slave to multiple masters by giving you a control of what master the slave should engage with at any one time.
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To view the majority of human beings as livestock, metaphorically or not, really shows the kind of person he is. Everyone is for the most part unique and will have bouts of aggressive independent mindedness. No one is constantly questioning the system or breaking rules, Paul would like to think that's what he does but in reality he is more of a conformist than he thinks and if he saw himself this way he would probably not use the term 'sheep' to describe it.
> Stars are of the order of thousands of star-diameters apart from each other

no. they're millions of star-diameters apart.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_radius compare it to a light year. note that the nearest star is 4 something light years away. the average is about 5 ly.

> while galaxies are of the order tens of galaxy-diameters apart.

i think that's low, but harder to define.
Good/decent with Python, Java, Go. Not a fan of front-end web, unfortunately. Really intrigued by Go the most, and am into back end server work, and would _like_ to learn systems level stuff but need to learn/read a lot more before that.

Thanks!
To the original poster .....

If you are being welcomed in to this project then you should take up the offer and then do some serious hard work fixing every possible issue you can in the github issues and asking guidance from the project maintainers as much as you can when you get stuck.
> How many people buy electronics knowing that they will be worth 30% less within a year?

Hasn't this been happening for a long time? Plenty of computing equipment had done just this.
Well, let's try to explain general relativity, shall we?

First of all, the universe is expanding. A good visual is to paint stuff on the surface of a balloon. Everything on the balloon started off close together. But as the balloon expands, things on the surface of that ballon get farther apart. So it is with the universe.

Where did this happen? Everywhere, and nowhere. The balloon is an analogy for the structure of the universe. The balloon exists in a 3-D world at a time and place. But all notions of time and place are defined within the structure of the universe. So I'm describing what happened everywhere. All places used to be close. And now they are not.

Now the Big Bang theory is this. If you play that tape backwards, everything that we can see was once really close together. But still had all the same stuff. So the universe was a hot, dense place. Then it began expanding, and got large and cool and fairly empty.

So if everything used to be close, why does light only now reach us from somewhere that wasn't that far away originally? Well look at light as being like an ant crawling on the surface of the balloon. At first your journey doesn't look far, but the balloon starts expanding and the trip gets longer. You keep traveling and it gets longer still. That's exactly the plight of light from the early universe.

Did that help?
You could not be more wrong. pg reads more, and more widely, than almost anyone I've met. And I've met a lot of well-read people.

It eternally boggles my mind how people jump to completely false conclusions like this.
Net-A-Porter is probably the prima Perl in London at the minute and have been for decades - although I think they started migrating to Modern Perl with microservices in 2018ish.

Photobox were still on a 10+ years old Perl system in 2018 when I left - development velocity there was only really hampered by an insane belief that rewriting into node.js microservices would solve every problem and the ORM + Object system being a ~10yr old handcrafted abomination from someone who had left 5+ years ago.
So stop allowing US-resident employees access to EU, UK & Swiss data.
I'm not exactly sure what you mean, but it sounds similar Popper's standard response to the paradox: that we should reserve the right to use force to suppress intolerance, but it should be a last resort. And I agree.

However, I'm not sure what kind of "regulation" you're referring to, because if you mean that, say, only the government gets to decide when to use force to suppress intolerance, there's the obvious problem of "what happens if the government is intolerant?"
the operative word here is "valid"
Gasoline (I'm not a petroleum engineer so I make no claim about certain additives) is fine down to any earthly temperature. It was used extensively in 1930s antarctic expeditions for this reason.

The pony motor can be heated with a gasoline blow torch (yes that's a thing) to start easily. Then it can heat the coolant (and through that coolant the oil and cylinder heads) of the main engine so that the main engine may start easily. Depending on the size of the pony motor it may even be able to provide cabin heat.
Looking at their proposed map and one of the destinations is the Yosemite Valley floor.

Not just no... fuck no. I absolutely do not want what is an already awesome place to be fucked up even more by someone installing an airport (vertical or not) in the middle of the valley floor.
Did that ever guarantee you wouldn't get commingled inventory? The only guarantee I know is to buy amazon basics products. Unfortunately using this as a strategy to guarantee a minimum quality provides perverse incentives.
Get around "sign up if you wanna read" modal w/ window.bc.jQuery.fancybox.close(); jQuery('.fancybox-lock,body,html').css({overflow:'scroll'})
I answered none of the above precisely because associativity doesn't apply to an operator that maps 2 vectors to a scalar. But it still felt wrong.
This looks really cool. What are some ways to contribute without owning a wristband, specifically to any of the Java-based apps? Thanks!
Check out the Dan Luu blog linked in the first paragraph of the article [1]. He tackles exactly this and does a really good job at explaining it and citing sources.

I might butcher this, but there’s an excellent part in there where he takes a look at the papers that showed discrimination in sports and how teams that discriminated less, actually had an advantage and performed better. For decades, teams were hiring less qualified white players and actually were leaving money on the table. Looking at sports data is nice because there’s tons of it and it’s easier to evaluate “employee performance”.

The issue with ignoring those NC A&T students was that those recruiters didn’t even bother evaluating them to see if there were a few rockstar developers in the group. Had they given them a fair shot and evaluation, we might have made better hires overall.

[1] https://danluu.com/tech-discrimination/
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It helps to have all of that along with a head start in capital. Most people don't even have any head-start capital to get themselves to a position where they could sustain a niche startup that could build into another empire.
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Please calm down. I didn't call anyone a liar. Eyewitness testimony is notoriously unreliable. That applies to naval aviators as well.

See the links in my edit for what I'm referring to.
There are oceans of people with those same bootcamp credentials. For hiring managers willing to hire bootcampers, but you are just one drop in that ocean.

Over time you will have a harder time finding work, you'll get lower salary offers, and you'll be passed over promotion.

If that's the credential you have, it'll have to do. But if you're choosing whether to pursue a full-blown degree, the answer is clear. Yes, absolutely, yes.
I got a feeling customers are more "sentient" than stock holders that can't care less about the whys or whats about the company. It is just another stock in the portfolio that is traded at market equilibrium among other stocks.

The customers has to do a informed choice.
Again, ideologically motivated pseudoscience: they make a bunch of dubious assumptions, focus on Central America to arrive at the inevitable subject of migration to the USA. Due to their assumptions, the outcome of their model is predetermined and they've "proven" we can either choose to accept climate alarmism or billions of refugees in our countries.
PostgreSQL cloud native High Availability
Playing Ticket-to-Ride like a computer programmer
Space isn't quite transparent, and a closer analogy would be to ask if you can spot bacteria and other microorganisms because something sentient the size of a whale
"scaled up to space" would be unrecognizable as such to us.
But it looks so totally predictable. It's not really possible to subscribe to all the good ones, so we 'll need an aggregator. Congrats, we are about to reinvent RSS. But if we call it UXLRBAT nobody will find out.
In cases like HPC and other performance-centric workloads, mainline kernel just doesn't have the hardware support needed for more exotic stuff like Infiniband and Mellanox cards, high-end SSD etc. Oracle got tired of waiting for sufficient support to be included which is why IIRC OEL UEK was created.

If such hardware isn't being used, then yes, sanity should be questioned for supporting Uncle Larry's Linux.
The main one is the outrigger canoe, but celestial navigation must have taken a while to master too. The earliest examples of astronomy come way later than 40000 year ago...
This was literally the rationale behind the relaunch of reviews in Google Maps in 2010-11, and what you describe was exactly the internal demo that got the project staffed and funded. I'm not sure how much of it still exists, but for a while, when searching on maps, there were little tags on recommended places that said something like "recommended because people like you also liked X".

That project never really reached its full potential for other reasons, but it turns out that even with a lot of data, it's hard to make big gains in ranking over just using the aggregate of all users. The intersection of two people's tastes is sort of surprisingly not very helpful.
> I think that you'll find all four types in most societies, and that which quadrant people fall into depends more on their own personality than the beliefs prevalent in their society.

Personality is a real topic of psychology research, the current model is a five-factor model https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Five_personality_traits

But the distributions are not bi-modal, so in reality most people are near the center of this quadrant with (I assume normally distributed) outliers.
The homepage of https://thedispatch.com/ also is a custom domain. Although clicking on a few stories seems to take you into individual newsletter domains hosted by Substack.
In limited situations that is happening now: https://www.garmin.com/en-US/autonomi/

Autoland has achieved FAA certification. It’s now available on select G3000® flight deck-equipped aircraft. And it’s coming to more soon.
If theY ignore fraud the fraudsters will naturally increase their activity.
search google for "biggest golang open source projects".

notice the number of github stars on these projects:
https://awesomeopensource.com/projects/golang

https://www.reddit.com/r/golang/comments/82m6zq/open_source_...

https://awesomeopensource.com/projects/golang

https://www.infoworld.com/article/3442978/10-open-source-pro...
IMO the more charitable reading of that is "everything [I've heard about the] protestors doing", in which case the blame lies on biased information sources, not directly on our fellow commenter.

So, again IMO, a productive reply might be, "Data shows that most of the protestors are peaceful, but I do acknowledge there are some bad actors that are getting the bulk of the attention. Maybe we can brainstorm solutions to this attention bias at the same time we try to solve these other problems."
One other important thing is that in many places railroads used to have more features like more tracks and electrification.

The interesting thing about American railroads is that unlike all other forms of transportation in the US, railroads pay property tax. Therefore, to reduce tax bills and improve their books for mergers, many railroads tore up their improvements.
Funny how most people in this thread consider themselves aggressively independent minded, but when the silicon valley prophet releases his monthly creative writing piece disguised as a scientific discovery they defend and praise it tooth and nail.
Go do REAL client work/ side work. You're half-brother's cousin's neighbor desperately needs a site/ app / script / etc, and you should build it for them. Contrived projects that lack the messiness of the real world tell you virtually nothing about an applicant.
They just render the whole page inside a frame. If there was a resize on the page, the frame itself is resized as well, so you should see pretty much the same thing as the visitor.

Note that this doesn't handle browser inconsistencies though. So something like that wouldn't be reflected in the "recording".
>90% of the people who read the headline won’t click... if you want to inform those >90% of people of a pertenant fact (Apple is starting to produce iPhone 11s in India), make the headline say it.

(Only reading the headline isn’t laziness... that’s like saying browsing library bookshelves without reading each book cover-to-cover as you go is laziness...)
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Define "work ethic"? It's a highly subjective term.

And I'm 100% sure that a country of 212mil will have a lot of talent. But engineering isn't singing or contortion - you need appropriate education and right conditions.
You can finally see your home team play baseball on a streaming service
Have you ever worked in a restaurant? I've worked in multiple.

There's a reason Karen is a meme

There are a real lot of very entitled people in the world that will complain on review sites and their opinion is not really justified. The only barrier is having an account and picking a number of stars.

In the past you had to be a restaurant reviewer, like you worked for Zagat or something, so there was a barrier to entry.

The same thing can happen to Uber and Lyft drivers too... If you are very unlucky and your first ride gives you a bad review pretty much forget about it.
You can get very good developers from these companies, and you can get it in volume, you just need to insist on it.

When you ask for Sr.managers, 2xmanagers, 2x Asst. Managers, 2x Business Analyst (with MBAs). You are quickly adding up costs for non-functional heads. The only way to remedy that is to go cheap on developers and bloat their numbers to match the overhead.
Google maps does this, for me at least. If I look at a restaurant in the app, it'll give a little XX% match score based on their algorithmic impression of my taste.
I am a big fan of The Dispatch (https://thedispatch.com/). It is news reporting and opinion from folks on the center-right.
True, but children can run much faster than a permitting process.

Maybe in the cabinetry case there was a giant van with a company logo parked out front.

Either way, permits shouldn't be required for non-disruptive (and a van being in someone's driveway is not disruptive), non-structural changes to a house.
Credential rankings, from best to worst:

MS CS

BS CS

BS not CS

Bootcamp, associate's degree, liberal arts <-- weak

It's true that motivated, passionate and smart are the most important things, but there are plenty of people who are those and have a degree.
There's not a cheap off the shelf solution because most companies offering comparable mass-email services spend a significant amount of resources to fight spam and care about deliverability rates.

Nice to have the option available, but making this too easy can be an organizational footgun if someone doesn't know what they're doing.
Another potential issue is how ordinary people could interpret this article, incorrectly thinking that any depression can be fixed by pursuing goals.
> California is building a high speed rail line.

Allegedly.

> But there is an enormous amount of reflexive opposition from NIMBYs, Conservatives, and Libertarians.

The greatest obstacles to California's high speed rail project are vote-buying politicians and the voters who do not pay attention or understand what they are doing.

Conservatives and libertarians may have a lot to say about it, I gather that's because it has been such a colossal money pit boondoggle affair; but you may have noticed that conservatives and libertarians don't exactly hold a political majority in California, so I doubt that their objections are a major obstacle to its completion.

The plans they actually began to build with won't even produce much of a service, the target speeds are disappointing and there are so many detours from any meaningful corridor; and we haven't even seen the reality of it yet, which will probably be even more disappointing than the low expectations.

> ...Republicans have killed the projects to replace them _twice_ simply because they are rail projects and passenger rail is 'bad'

Well, I'm going to go out on a limb and say that was probably not why they excluded that project from the budget.
I agree - Biden is also launching his made in America campaign which will only push things further.

On your point of 2025 I don’t think that is quite right since they would need to grow by 150% in 5 years with the US not growing at all (both would be very unprecedented) but the overall point remains.
Vet accepts the third, and may (I forget) accept the first if err is redeclared or simply assigned.
This isn’t really much of a shift in Apple policy. They seem to be doing this to avoid import duties and take advantage of some other government incentive. I think they also assemble iPhones in Brazil for similar reasons (?)
Parts management is a pretty significant part of the UX I would have said!

I have yet to design a PCB where I didn't have to create basically all of the components myself.
There was a section on this in the sci-fi novel Three Body Problem. The students force a professor of physics to recant his claim that relativity is a legitimate theory, and he refuses, then gets beaten by students.

I remember thinking at the time it was such a bizarre piece of fiction, then I later found out this kind of stuff really happened.
You can think of it as "The Twitter mob needs to destroy N people every day".

If they find genuinely bad people to destroy, they go first. But if not, pretty much anyone will do.
There are MVCC systems with serializable, strictly serializable, and even externally consistent transactions. FoundationDB and Spanner are both externally consistent (with geo-replication in Spanner’s case). CockroachDB is serializable, though not strictly serializable. Single-master Postgres can do serializable transactions as well.
There's really no need for it. You have a US passport, I assume, which is evidence of your US citizenship and I don't think it's any less valid because it was torn.
I should also note that law is not universal and when advising people on the internet it should be noted as such. In Poland for instance downloading games dumped by others is perfectly legal, only sharing isn't.