skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I do not believe that. The hardware and software is expensive because regular stuff will fail in space and you can't call some guy to just go and replace parts. I know it was done but it was expensive and risky.

Radhard stuff is expensive, but not that expensive. Also space missions don't need all that much compute - they carry only as much as is needed to operate the hardware and maintain a radio link with Earth. You don't use more than you absolutely need to, because more compute = more power demands = more waste heat => need more thermal management => heavier satellite => need to cut down mass (or power demands) somewhere else => ballooning R&D costs => ...

Look, I'm not making this up. It's widely known in the industry. See e.g. [0] and [1] for the first two references I could find. I actually learned about this concept from some NASA report that featured a beautiful flowchart, but I can't find it now for the life of me. But the phenomenon is real, and that's why SpaceX has been a big deal in space circles for years now. More and cheaper launches translate to a qualitative difference in how we approach space systems.

> There are many existing communication and navigation satellites but not that many space telescopes so I think this proves that launching shit is not prohibitive expensive

Communication satellites pay back for themselves in rent the owners can extract from the users. Navigation satellites are first and foremost military projects with huge implications for national security of the states that own them - which gives them almost infinite budgets. Space telescopes are research platforms funded by taxpayers, most of whom don't understand the importance and don't care to. Astronomy can't afford space telescopes at current prices.

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[0] - https://www.thespacereview.com/article/1121/1

[1] - https://www.thespacereview.com/article/1918/1
That's true, but not that relevant. There are people with all kinds of last names, e.g.: https://www.boredpanda.com/people-with-dirty-last-names-prob... .
Or because their expenses rise.
In contract law, “third party” is a term of art meaning a party which is not a party to the contract. So the fact that Tesla is not a party to the developer’s agreement with Apple makes it a third party.
I regularly consult for teams, so I guess that's similar. The big thing going is that it could take a very long time to learn to build something. Even for seniors, it can be a week or more, if there was no focus on onboarding.

However, it's always been very useful. Normally you hear of 'buzzwords' - kotlin, reactive, functional, dependency injection, architectures, all these things, but tutorials give you little to nothing. But once they're used in a project, the value (and downsides) are immediately clear.

It's also useful to learn some things, like how the caching works, why this thing is a bottleneck. Or some habits, like one person has their set of tools and configs which turned out to be really powerful.
ArangoDB 3.7 – a big step forward for multi-model
People have mentioned you can ssh into it, so it might be possible to make changes to the /etc/hosts file.

That's assuming the device doesn't use straight IP addresses for whatever it's communicating with. That's possible, but pretty unlikely.
I couldn't disagree more. Most users didn't even pay, for goodness' sake.
> As currency nobody would want to spend it as they gain value over time

The problem with this argument is that you have to spend money. You have to spend it on food, lodging, entertainment, and so forth. Even if a currency is deflationary, people still have needs.
Oculus allows sideloading, unlike Apple.
You spoke to soon, it's all buried now. The system works?
As a tradesperson working in metal fabrication and driving a 4kW laser cutter as my primary role at work where I have the ability to cut up to 20mm carbon steels, 20mm stainless, and 8mm aluminium, and 10mm copper & copper alloys. Our other workshop can cut much thicker carbon steels with CNC oxy and up to about 50mm stainless with a CNC plasma cutter.

All these tools are pretty much just glorified files and coping saws.

Kinda need something you actually want to build in order for them to be of any use. They tie in nicely to creativity in general.

My advice would be to pick up some other hobbies, wouldn't really matter what it is you'll soon start seeing things you could replicate or do better with customer design.
A hilarious and unlikely scenario would be if Apple just pulled the plug on in-app purchases and forced everyone to charge an upfront fee for their apps.

While the downsides are fairly obvious - there are a few things that this would improve.
The government could also just announce they're imprisoning anyone who owns Bitcoin. Coinbase, Kraken, Gemini, Grayscale all shut down overnight. Everyone rushes for the exits and drives the price down below $1. If it is ever to return it would be as an illegal product.

Now I don't think this is going to happen just because enough people in government own BTC at this point, but it's not impossible. And it has nothing to do with the resilience of the computing network. You could mine Bitcoin over TOR or I2P to keep the network alive but it won't matter.
There's no need to ban Zoom itself. Just stop all money from the EU going to Zoom's accounts.
I think lot of these analyses are post hoc woo-woo psycho-babble.

I am a 3x entrepreneur (1 failure, 1 moderate success, 1 ongoing) and IDK of anyone who got to product market fit using the "start with why" or even "start with who". As some others have pointed solving a "problem" involves looking at the who, what and why conjunctively and iterating like a demon.

Most businesses are just winging it, but stick with it and iterate furiously.My 2c.
I don't think that e.g. confidentiality clause in the rental agreement preventing the disclosure of the rent is unreasonable. It's not exactly the same thing, but I think it's fairly similar.

Also, I find the idea that a blog post is an easy fix for the public not understanding what the developers are paying for with Apple's 30% cut to be a huge simplification. At the very least a major ad campaign would probably be necessary, and even that's probably only gonna reach a subset of their users.
According to https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/ per-1M total cases in US: 18k; in Spain (highest of EU large countries): 9k. About 2x difference not in US favor.
Actually, roughly 55% of annual demand is for "practical" uses: jewellery and industrial products. The remainder for storing in vaults (by investors or central banks).
https://www.statista.com/statistics/299609/gold-demand-by-in...
My ~/public_html 25+ years ago :-)
> No, it wasn’t, it was written by a police officer.

The ad was posted by a police unit conducting a sting operations designed to catch child predators, and not only did the underage girl depicted in the ad stated repeatedly she was 13 years old but she also sounded like "an immature teenager".

> Did he not repeatedly explain why he thought the person he was talking to was not 13?

The convicted sex offender acknowledged he was fully aware the girl he tried to meet for sex was 13 years old.
> primarily an e-reader

It has no capability to be used as an e-reader? eg ePub's, etc.

Ouch. That outright kills the idea of this for me. :(
Forgive my ignorance, what is mil-plastic?
Owners of the Big Soviet Encyclopedia received replacement pages and were instructed to update their copies with scissors and glue to remove the article about Beria after he fell from power. Gives me the same vibes.
if you look at how expensive gold is you would typically compare it in relation to other assets such as real estate or the S&P 500 and not to CPI. that's at least how I would make up my mind when is a good time to buy sell/gold. Gold/precious metals are an asset class and BTC/crypto-assets are an emerging asset class IMO
also I think it is not fair that central banks only focus on CPI and not asset price. for me as a millennial it matters a lot that real estate price in central Europe are today 2x compared to what they were 10 years ago. also rent is mostly not reflected correctly in CPIs
Sounds familiar to me. Had two big antibiotic treatments after dental surgeries last year. This did not feel right.
How did you get rid of the problems? Change in diet?
A really good workflow engine could really improve many corporations in my opinion. Yes, there are solutions like MS Flow (renamed now) and IFTTT, but I think both services are lacking, especially for debugging problems and their cloud nature is heavily annoying and is no good fit for many corporations.

For basic stuff like SIP phone rings and isn't answered -> mail to XY. New, urgent QA process -> inform all relevant participants... there are unlimited use cases.

Workflow engines need to be integrated with on premise user management like AD services to really shine. Cloud solutions are penalized here or need to interface Office Online. Of course there are better solutions available, but MS is widespread in this landscape.

No code workflows can be really good and dependable. That does NOT mean custom code should be excluded. MS made a custom HTTP request a "premium" feature in Flow. Of course the product can only fail with this approach.
It's safe to say Modern Monetary Theory is rejected by most if not all mainstream economists.
It being a smaller company has its risks for sure. But having the product be their sole focus, rather than it being one among a hundred products of a large company that's ready to throw it away at any time, that too has its advantages - a lesson many of us have learnt the hard way.
> The conclusion I'm left with is that the balance sheet is largely irrelevant until the demand for US Dollar decreases.

I agree if I change this to: the conclusion I'm left with is that the balance sheet is largely irrelevant (towards any inflationary terms) until the demand for US Dollar denominated debt decreases and is followed by increasing money supply without the increase in debt (government $ denom, corporate $ denom, and individual $ denom on net) and without increasing derivatives notional outstanding on that debt.

> The real question in my mind is exactly what would cause that to occur?

When intl banks get more comfortable with issuing debt (secured and unsecured) in non USD terms, I then would expect demand for USD fall as well so long the US maintains a trade deficit.

With the sunset of LIBOR in 2021, I expect things to pick up more on this front (Not everyone thinks SOFR is sufficient or lacks collateral to participate to the degree they currently need), though that's not stopping banks and OTC market making entities in various derivatives that extend credit in some form, including the use of cryptocurrencies.

A big problem with EM's is a lack of acceptable collateral backing the debt (arguably, this is the issue with the current global monetary system), investors wouldn't mind argentinian debt if they could have those debts backed by sufficient collateral in the event of default (sans the IMF bailout assumption of course, though some creditors continue to get hosed every time the default).
PacBell/Tel had two competitors for the seven dwarfs (RBOCs) that Judge Green created from MaBell, those competitors were GTE and Quest. GTE did pick up Bell Atlantic (and NYNEX) while Quest picked up US West. GTE then merged with Vodafone to become Verizon (and recently bought out Vodafone). Quest became CenturyLink. PacBell simply licensed the retail rights to the original AT&T name.

When the federal government breaks AppStore off of Apple and forces it to compete with qualified independent app stores, they will have learned from that fiasco and probably have language in the settlement (consent decree) that does not allow it to go around buying up the other app stores and eventually change its name back to Apple. Apple without AppStore will be a media company, since hardware sales aren't/can't be enough to sustain growth (unless we find a planet of aliens), especially if we are losing the Chinese market to another cold war.

Incidentally, there is another case precedent: Disney. There is a reason Disney no longer owns Grauman's/Mann's Chinese Theater in Hollywood, its favorite venue --Disney/Paramount lost an antitrust case that prohibited them from owning both the means of production and the manner of distribution (sound familiar?); however, President Trump has recently terminated those 77 year old consent decrees meaning Disney can do what it wants now. Ironically, Disney might become a suitor for Apple's media business if it doesn't workout. For example, NASA and its contractors buy thousands of Macs from Apple but some phat idiot (won't name names) thinks it's a good idea to have an AppleTV+ series about "what if NASA didn't win the space race" wtaf?!
> You can perform a practically unlimited number of transactions per second with gold.

But but but - there's a hard upper limit!!! There's barely 3x10^19 atoms in 1 gram of gold! /s

(Obviously we could trade electrons, protons, and neutrons on a side chain to scale transactions up by almost 3 orders of magnitude...)
You know you've won an argument when they resort to calling you names.
This is a relief to hear! The only downside with the RM1/2 for me is the lackluster epub/PDF functionality, but if it is possible to put koreader on it without interference with existing functionality, I might just sell my Kobo e-reader and use the RM2 for all my reading and writing needs!

I pre-ordered the RM2 a couple a months ago and just got an email notifying me about a slight COVID-related delay. I don't really mind, I am confident that the company can deliver without to much fuzz.
> There was no age mentioned in the ad.

The underage girl featured in the ad repeatedly stated her age. When he replied to the ad, the convicted sex offender prompted her about her age and she made it quite clear to him that she was indeed a 13 year old girl. That fact didn't discouraged him from trying to have sex with the underage girl, and he proceeded to try to meet the underage girl with the express goal of having sex with her in mind, which ultimately led to his arrest.
You might want to check the publication record of the author, Andreas Rossberg: https://dblp.org/pid/90/3425.html
RFC8890: The Internet Is for End Users
Now you C me, now you don't
The 87k are the verified cases, there are a magnitude more cases. So there is some herd immunity in some areas which may with the current or possibly a bit more lax precautions be enough to keep the new cases at a fairly low level in the fall and winter. Still of course no full herd immunity in all areas.

Some epidemiologist say that we'll live with this virus for 30 years and that pretty much everyone will get it sooner or later. If that is the case some countries have only postponed the inevitable.

Or vaccines or better treatments will soon be available and distributed to a couple of billion people, in that case the harder lockdowns saved some lives or months/years of living.
If you have sources, then why not correct Wikipedia?
I can't find any good references to the debate concerning explicit vs implicit inflation targeting, as opposed to inflation targeting more generally. But here's what Greenspan had to say 2005:

> To date, we have chosen not to formulate explicit inflation targets, in part, out of concern that they could inhibit the effective pursuit of our goal.

https://www.federalreserve.gov/boarddocs/speeches/2005/20050...

And in 2001:

> A specific numerical inflation target would represent an unhelpful and false precision

https://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/12/business/greenspan-reject...

One of the arguments against inflation targeting, whether implicit or explicit, is that it invites asset bubbles--financial markets know that so long as the CPI[1] doesn't budge, they can go wild. But that's a somewhat different debate.

I think the basic argument against explicit targeting is that it hinders the Feds flexibility. With implicit targeting there's a degree of uncertainty and so markets arguably respond better to abrupt or unexpected changes; whereas with explicit targeting the Fed has to be more careful and gentle because markets will more heavily leverage against that fixed number.

[1] Or whatever measure they use; I don't know if it's CPI specifically.
Stories from developers who have switched from Mac to Windows
This is somewhat related - I am working on https://makely.me - if you have a 3D printer you can earn money printing people's custom orders. Could serve as inspiration I guess.
Maybe. But you're gona need gasoline to trade with Bullet Farm...
"Makers asked me over the last year about printing smaller parts for the Raspberry Pi Recovery Kit"

Whatever that is.
(a) Anglo-saxon poetry was beat-oriented and heavy on alliteration, wordplay, and external references. Why would rap[1] not be a suitable[2] choice?

(b) "People who actually fight in wars ... have always spoken in a more dignified[3] way." Pray tell, in which country's military have you served?

[1] it's done more than Milton could: popularised poetry in the hood.

[2] A cousin thread mentions "... an age when the sword was as fair and just as the High Court is today," which reminds me that the gangsta subgenre is slightly fonder of popping caps than filing briefs. (Compare OG Sinatra's "My Way" for commercially successful overclass braggadocio. Or, more recently: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTU2He2BIc0 )

[3] Those who prefer their argot middle class might try Nice Wicket Average's "Straight outta Surrey":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSflRlHPay4
>As I’ve written here, there’s even more to write about this utter stupidity and I’ve put together a good deal of it already today for publication tomorrow.

Hopefully with more clarity, as this is opaque and suggestive as duck (sic)...
India's new design PHWR-700 was a few years late to come online. Plant at Kakrapar came online in July and another plant at same site should come online next year. Plan for 10 new PHWR-700 is still in progress, but original goal of 2022 will be pushed by a few years now.

https://www.msn.com/en-in/news/other/india-e2-80-99s-first-7...

https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/science/india-to-b...
Yes, it was, thank you.
At some point I gave the Collatz conjecture some thought and understood the probabilistic intuition of why it should be the case. Although I obviously couldn't prove it, I decided to write my thoughts on why it is intuitively obvious [1]. A few months later I received a comment mentioning that a proof has been submitted based on the same intuition [2].

[1] http://nocurve.com/virtual-lab/contemplating-the-collatz-con...

[2] http://nocurve.com/about/
Yes, but one would prefer spending money using an inflationary currency since holding on to it devalues over time. As long as inflationary currencies exist, people will prefer to spending those first before deflationary currencies.
PETG shatters more? Are you guys using colored PETG? Pure (transparent) PETG will buckle before it shatters, and is much stronger than PLA for me.
As described in the article, we are living in a period known as the Great Moderation, a previously unforeseen time of financial stability, low unemployment, and lack of Major depressions. Bringing up autocratic developing countries isn't a great counterexample to the level of welfare we've been privy to in the developed world.
I'm curious, what are the "good" methods for discerning/filtering quality of people? How are "good" and "bad" quality of people categorized? (binary? spectrum/distribution?) How can you estimate/measure the quality of the filter/method with precision?

I assume no filter is perfect and mistakenly filter out "good" quality people too, so if this method isn't good that suggest there's a metric and a more efficient method out there. In your personal experience what worked better?
Yeah, ray-casting and CCD are missing currently, mostly because I didn't have the time to implement them yet (though I did implement them on ncollide/nphysics (https://nphysics.org) so it is mostly a matter of adapting/rewriting them to fit in Rapier.)
From what I understand: The in-app experience is not changed for me as a user. It doesn’t make my standard app a better app. An ad is consumed by other people on many other devices including browsers on a desktop. So I think it’s very reasonable it’s not handled like an in-app purchase. It’s more like a purchase of a physical item in the amazon app.
It’s true that this is not simple and reasonable people can feel differently about this.

> Where do we draw the line though? If you're about to shoot someone and get stopped last second, should you just walk away free to try once more?

Being caught in the act is different. I guess the equivalent would be to catch them with their pants down with a minor.

> Should we be sending the signal to possible future criminals that "you either succeed in your crime, or you get as many chances to try again as it takes"?

These people, having committed no crime, are not criminals. Putting the basement nerd with socialisation issues in the same bag as actual rapists is about as helpful as saying that a grandad who smoked weed once is like a cartel boss.

> I think intentions, to the extent that we can be reasonably sure of what they are, should be taken into consideration more than the actual outcome of an action.

The main question is “would they have raped a child had they not come across a sting operation”. You can’t punish someone for thinking something.

> The article presents a very one-sided story of some guy who didn't mean any harm to anybody and didn't believe the person he was talking to was really only 13. Assuming that that's really what happened, the poor guy probably learned a lesson and won't be as careless again (asking for some form of ID could have prevented this whole situation).

I thought the article was fairly balanced. It explained why the law came to be written and how traumatic some of the actual assaults are. It also shows how the law is abused to punish people who haven’t done any harm.

The poor guy, as you say, won’t have a second chance, and just had his prospects of doing anything useful in life slashed, and went to serve as profit generator for a prison-operating company. He’s also now much more likely to turn to crime because he can’t have a normal life anymore. He’s also not alone.

There was obviously conflicting information between what the “girl” pretended and what she showed, which is not particularly unexpected if you’ve had any kind of relationship over the internet.

They also arrested him on the doorstep before he had any chance of actually checking, which he claim he was going to do (remember, it’s the Internet, a picture of an id is no more proof than a photo or a profile text).

> The whole point of a trial is to determine an appropriate punishment for a crime that serves to deter others from repeating it. Anything beyond that is just barbarism.

Beating some people into the ground to make an example is barbarism. Particularly if these people are not particularly likely to do what you accuse them of doing. How would it square with the fact that they get harsher sentences than some people who’ve actually harmed genuine children?

This is without even considering that harsher sentences are not much of a deterrent, because the people doing this sort of thing do not expect to get caught, so don’t factor punishment in their risk analysis, if they do any.