skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I wonder if any of the "in-silo, ready to launch at a moment's notice" ballistic missile platforms could be repurposed to carry a bunch of communications satellites.

That's basically what the Minotaur rockets are.

> The Minotaur I and II are derived from the Minuteman missile, while the Minotaur III, IV and V are derived from the Peacekeeper. [1]

It's not quite the same thing as repurposing the actual ICBMs in the silos, but the parts commonality is quite high. In a true emergency, they may even be able to convert ICBMs, although it seems unlikely that there would be an emergency so urgent that ICMBs would need to be converted into satellite launch vehicles, but not so urgent that the ICMBs wouldn't be used for the intended purpose.

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1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minotaur_(rocket_family)
At least on the Google side, I've been frustrated because the app requires the GPS to be turned on, despite swearing up and down that it's not using the GPS data. The Google/Android help page that explains "why" you need to turn on Location services says that Android requires Location Services to be turned on for the Bluetooth part to work.

Q: Hey Android, why did you force Location Services to be on for your Exposure Notification service to work?

A: Because Android requires Location Services to be on in order for Exposure Notification to work.

I did not find their explanation very compelling.
Is the difference due to changes in the operating system or is it due to differences in hardware usb vs ps/2 inputs?
I found https://www.mercatus.org/system/files/helland-tabarrok_why-a... enlightening. (Not an economist, just a person who wonders why college costs so much compared to cars.) I am a prof in a SLAC and I can assure you that I am not floating in money, nor is the college.
'No' is a stretch. The Minitaur space vehicle was launched on reused peacekeeper ICBM's, which were removed from service in the early 2000's - and there have been launches since.
This is how OpenShift 4 does things. I too thought it was strange at first but now with some experience it's quite pleasant.

Can be a beast to debug though if you haven't done it before.
ONSITE on Abbot Kinney, Venice Beach, LA Los Angeles (but remote for now).
& ONSITE or REMOTE in Florianópolis, Brazil.

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All documentaries are edited to tell the story the director wants you to hear.

You have no idea whether the interviews are with a realistic sample of the customer base. All it takes is focusing on a couple whackos to make the entire customer base look similar.

And if you made that documentary, who would you focus on? The normals, or the outliers? If you want the most entertaining product that will make you the most money, you’ll choose the outliers.
Glassdoor says they earn $30k - $64k yet lots of us earn more in our comfy office jobs typing code into a text editor, kinda puts things into perspective.
Are there any open source real-time operating systems?
We’re looking for senior software engineers (iOS & backend) to help rebuild the entire signup and login experience here at Uber.

In the past, each product team built their own signup and login experience. While this led to fast execution, it became harder over time to launch new growth and security features across all product lines (Uber has dozens of mobile and web apps!).

Opportunities:

- High business impact: This is a mission critical team. You’ll directly be driving user growth. Signup and login is one of the most visited user experiences here at Uber.

- Ownership: Lots of unsolved technical problems (eg: single sign on, smart lock, biometrics). As part of this effort, we’re building a reusable identity library to handle our future identity needs. Help us build this from the ground up.

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backend - https://www.uber.com/global/en/careers/list/62077/
1961 now, still including the 'Chinese bit'. The Kalashnikov is the later modification I think.

https://twitter.com/textfiles/status/1300882097150795779

You won't find any references to the Kalashnikov prior to 1948 ;)
Mainly on the optics. I know that’s shallow but I’m commenting on how it looks because perhaps that’s a symptom of something deeper.

Maybe people involved on these projects are so oblivious that it never occurred to them that they may be contributing to something that could be borderline unethical.

What’s kind of ridiculous about this is that you can tell these job requirements were written by a lawyer or similar. People that are trained and presumed to have a somewhat acute skill to evaluate the ethical complexities of a situation.
Is it feasible for mortals to get hold of and run QnX as a desktop OS?
Yep, agreed. I mentioned the CX 48 because it's the first one that can somewhat reasonably be used as a monitor.

MicroLED is another promising tech that has a lot of OLED upsides, but no burn-in issues.
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Not so often. Looks like 9 cases of AMZN in the last year compared to over 3000 for Amazon.

Incidentally, abbreviations are not a good way to work around HN's title limit. The idea is to find a shorter meaningful title, not to use tricks to squeeze more in. This is nearly always possible.
On the other hand, the brain is famously warm and wet. There's a limit to how much local state the brain can practically use to compute, given how messy it is.
> In 2020 the sitting US president was impeached

Coming from someone who has used this against Clinton many times, having a congress with majority control by the opposition party pass articles of impeachment along party lines isn't really that big a deal.

> a global pandemic

The global campaign to make people aware of it would not have been as effective without modern information infrastructure. Think about Google, facebook, etc. and cell phones roles in that.

> the worst civil unrest in the US in 50 years

I'd like to see the data on that. Also, I feel it's over-hyped by our access to information. Anecdotally, I took a road trip up the west coast of the US a month or so ago. San Diego, LA, Santa Cruz, Portland, Seattle, fairly thoroughly exploring each city. Didn't see one protest. Not saying they're not happening, just saying a vast VAST majority of the population in these places are not protesting/rioting etc.

> massive wildfires all over California

we have these every year. Again, the VAST majority of Californians are not affected by them. But people that don't live here probably believe all their friends that live in California are affected because of the information provided. My GFs parents for example are very worried about us. We're like 100 miles away from them ...

> the most contentious presidential election

EVERY modern presidential election is, 'The Most Important, most contested, election of our lives!!!!'

Just think about the Trump admin. without Twitter.

It's like we're out of the 24 hour news cycle and into the hour-to-hour/minute-to-minute news cycle.
Interpreted C++ for GIS with Jupyter
Either disassemble your monitor and lookup the ICs, find someone who already did it, or try to write about 100 000 times and see what happens... :)
Best I can get for $500 now (~£377) is an 8GB GTX2060 - 5x fewer cores, 1/3rd the RAM, 2/3rd the memory bandwidth of the GTX3090 which is £1399. Plus I really don't want to upgrade my PC again for at least 5 years - just done that and been reminded of why I hate it.
That's still not what the commenter is talking about. The problem on Amazon is that you can buy a product that is listed as "CompanyX microSD Memory Card" and you will receive something that was not actually manufactured by CompanyX. AFAIK that will happen rarely if ever at Walmart. But yes, it's possible that CompanyX will make lower quality products in the future.
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Senior health insurance broker. Mega sales company that relies on technology heavily to achieve economies of scale. Technology team is medium in size (50 people total I think? So you will be well known and have a big impact)

HN relevant roles:

Director of Paid Media -- Management role, manage millions of dollars of spend using an analytical and data-driven focus. Recruiters will probably look mostly at similar past experience. Must be or relocate to Kansas City

SE III -- Java and Kotlin mostly, working on projects that route calls, bid on leads, process applications. Remote possible for this position. Recruiters will be looking for keywords from job post, interview process is fairly low effort but takes a while.

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I would imagine there are passengers who caught this guy on camera. Would love to see some footage.
None with a GUI. I never released mine, and it's so far behind the times now it would take major work to get it ported to the 64 bit era and even then it would still be a C based OS.

This would be one way in which the Rust crowd could really make a difference.
Professor solves and explains 100 Computer Science Exam problems in a row
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Annals_of_the_Heechee
Even if you yourself did not do that, if others did it would be good for you - say a friend gets a backup and then has an incident. A friend restored from a backup is better than a dead friend.
And userland[1], and finish a phd.

1. https://github.com/hishamhm/userland
We aren't going to shelter in place the virus away!
It seems like it will be the same as packages:

> Container Registry is free for private images during the beta, and as part of GitHub Packages will follow the same pricing model when generally available.
Seems extremely expensive, especially the data transfer part. Just a quick calculation at $0.50/GB we would end up spending $10,000s in just data transfer costs vs $0 with AWS ECR (transfer within region is free).

Guess this would work out okay for storing some development images but definitely does not seem feasible for production use.

Unless I'm missing something? There's some fine print about it being free within the context of a github action, but this doesn't really seem clear. Does my fleet of ec2 instances pulling down the image after a new deployment count as within an "action"?
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Is this the kind of example you were looking for?

with Ada.Text_IO; use Ada.Text_IO;
with Ada.Containers.Bounded_Vectors;

procedure Main is
package BV_Integer is new
Ada.Containers.Bounded_Vectors (Index_Type => Positive,
Element_Type => Integer);
use BV_Integer;

Vec_Max : constant := 10;
Vec : Vector (Vec_Max);
begin
Put_Line ("Appending some numbers...");
for I in 1 .. Vec_Max loop
Vec.Append (Integer (I));
end loop;

Put_Line ("Appending another number...");
Vec.Append (Vec_Max + 1); -- this raises an exception.
end Main;
Did you read the article? Or are you just regurgitating to Fox News talking points?

Sweden - on both health and economic measures - has fared nearly as worse as the United States (read: not great).
Yes, that was my only reason for employing the abbreviation. In any case, it appears that the mods have chosen to switch out the title with a different one (my original carried an excerpt from the job posting which is now removed).
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Technologies: Go, Python, JavaScript, Linux, SQL, Docker, and more

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it's React, tailwind on UI, the Backend is nodejs, express, mongodb.
You literally made a claim without providing any evidence. Just because the CIA created something doesn't mean it's false. Do you hear yourself? And I'm the one being downvoted...unbelievable.
Kessler syndrome basically?
Since that article gives a lot more information than https://web.archive.org/web/20200901125228/https://www.amazo..., we've switched the URL to it.

Submitted title was "AMZN scraps job ad targeting “labor, activist groups, hostile political leaders”". Please don't use titles that way. If you want to say what you think is important about an article, do so by adding a comment to the thread, so that then your view will be on a level playing field with everyone else's.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...
Look at Perdue University - no change in tuition in 9 years. What are they doing right?

https://www.purdue.edu/newsroom/releases/2020/Q1/purdue-anno...
There are a lot of families living on a lot less than that. Go to the poor area of your town sometime. Where the blacks, hispanic, and immigrants live (sadly the stereotype has a lot of truth behind it). Notice that there are a lot of kids living in the small houses with bad paint. Notice someone fixing a 15 year old car outside with just hand tools. Hope that the violence problems in those areas don't get you. In general I find such people making the best of their lot, nice people who want the best for their family. They don't have much to live on but there is enough for food (except when drugs are involved which is all too common)
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This practice isn't really unique to Walmart. You have to be wary of this at pretty much every major box store including Amazon. Target seems to have this down to a science. You have to know the exact model of the thing you want. The whole thing sucks because most of the time I would be happy to make expensive purchases direct but they don't want to make enemies of their resellers by undercutting them so they won't even price match.
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MixRank processes petabytes of data every month from web crawls, Google Play Store, Apple AppStore, and dozens of other sources.
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I'm Scott, the founder/CEO/CTO. My email is scott at company name dot com.
Idk. People say this but are sports the real cost driver here? Many sports programs in the US pay for themselves and more or might be close to break even.

We also have Title IX (1) which in some cases will lead to increased costs. Not to mention we have, you guessed it, a Title IX coordinator at every university that has to comply with Title IX who probably makes $50,000 - $100,000. If you think about other programs at universities, you’ll see quite the glut of administrators.

https://www.womenssportsfoundation.org/advocacy/what-is-titl... (1)

The US education system is really just screwed up by free, guaranteed government loans. If we just made loans dischargeable then most of our issues would go away overnight. The issue you have here though is that we are concerned about access to affording college for those who have to take out loans, but this route we have just makes college increasingly unaffordable. It’s a viscous cycle. I think stopping it is the way forward.

Most likely sports are going away at US universities. Big football programs will stick around though because the make a killing and people generally love them. Men’s basketball too because it’s relatively affordable. For reference, as I’m watching Bloomberg there was a report that came out suggesting star quarterbacks at major Us football programs at the collegiate level should be compensated at around $2.4 million dollars. We won’t have a men’s rowing team, or women’s volleyball anymore though. Kind of sad since these are also used as Olympic training programs. But maybe we will change how we do things. I think the US will start losing a lot of sports talent though because the infrastructure isn’t there outside of the university system.
The larger the organization, the more likely that it will leak information...
A Theory of Human Motivation (Maslow, 1943)
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What does it mean to bin a chip?
And each of those has been greatly modified, specifically by adding various upper stages. Rather than repurposing ICBMs, Minitaur uses an ICBM rocket motor as the first stage of a very different launch stack.
> The cost is low for the student but it's pretty high for the taxpayers.

That is a supposition that proves to be false. The same happens for health care. To have a centralized state sponsored education or health care system allows it to be more efficient that smaller for profit institutions that have incentives to increase cost to the students as their profit depends on that.

Also, I would like to notice, that for European tax-payers it is an investment. That money spend in education brings back way more money that what the original cost was. So, to just talk about "cost" misses the point.

> bouncing in and out, not bothering to finish it or prolonging it till their thirties, etc.

Not true. I have never been in a classroom where anyone was above thirty, probably no one was over their 25 anniversary.

But, that is my personal experience. Can you provide some data about that? I have not been able to find any statistics to confirm your statement.
The bill already had a provision preventing division of a lot that had a tenant in the last 3 years.
Thanks, I was more wondering what the relationship was between something like Debian GNU/linux and bottlerocket. From gp description it sounds like there's no "GNU userland", just the Linux kernel and some utility functions in rust - enough to launch containerd.

So if I have a heterogeneous collection of servers - I could install Debian, and run docker on Debian. It sounds like bottlerocket would more comfortably run on top of a hypervisor abstracting away the actual hw a bit? Eg on top of xen, kvm or VMware?

Obviously the Linux kernel can be made to run on a toaster, but maybe bottlerocket isn't ideal for that purpose?
I was pleased to read about his paper. He's a somewhat libertarian leaning economist, and came into his research with some notions about what was driving costs. What he found did not match his earlier ideas. He wrote about what he did find. That's how things ought to be.