skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would argue the fact that the rules were first created 230+ years ago is an argument in favor of reevaluating them not an argument in favor of them being infallible. The laws were written before social media, the internet, and the foundations go back to before any real form of mass media. What is the harm in questioning if our laws are setup in the best possible way?
"The team is speculating that the greater reliability may be connected to the fact that there were no humans on board, and that nitrogen rather than oxygen was pumped into the capsule."

That does sound plausible. But I do wonder how much might have been due to extra care. If I were the sysadmin on the project, I probably would have spent extra time on component selection, cable seating, burn-in testing, etc. Lots of pressure for it to do well.

Edit: Unrelated, but this picture is funny to me. I don't think there's enough room to slide that server out, so I'm not sure what he's doing. https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/800/cpsprodpb/48D6/production/...
Thanks for such a thorough answer! Somehow I thought the network costs would be worse. I have a micro with some room to spare, it's quite possible I could pull this off at very little marginal cost.
Yes, in the US. If the person makes the transaction without your permission, it is considered fraud and is legitimate grounds for a chargeback, even if you provided them with the means to make the purchase (credit card information, account credentials, etc.) in the first place.

In the US, you may also want to file a fraud report to the FTC and to your local police department.

https://www.ftc.gov/faq/consumer-protection/submit-consumer-...
In summary, Bellard took pieces of JPEG, H.264, and H.265 and combined them together into a tiny and highly efficient image codec. Were this anyone else, I would think it's extremely impressive; but it being Bellard somehow makes it seem like par for the course, given everything else he has done...
Agree. If it were true "work from anywhere" and the preparation was all in place and the employee was going in with the right tools and set up and the mindset of being a true remote worker, we might not see the same drop in productivity.
Do you think the second amendment should provide for an individual right to own nuclear arms?
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> One big anti-pattern I've seen with ORMs is that developers who don't really think in terms of data and relationships use the ORM as a kind of object serialization usable only from the application. Rather than thinking of the database as something useful that could be queried and accessed outside the context of the application, they write objects out to various tables and then re-import and re-construct them once they're needed again in the app, often with dependencies that are in code or even yaml configuration files. The upshot is that you simply can't use the database as anything other than a persistence tier for an app. It really would be no different if they had simply given the objects and id and pickled them to disk. The resulting data store really is that inaccessible and meaningless outside the context of the app.

> As a result, if an analyst wants a report, they can't write SQL to get those reports, even though the persistence tier is, if perhaps in name only, a "relational database". And when the app goes away (as it inevitably does), they'll still want to know, say, how many beakers and test tubes were ordered by a lab tech who participated in 100 or more experiments per year with at least one faculty member from radiology between June and December in 2007.

> But because they don't really know SQL, they see no value to it, and they're honestly just kinda irritated that they don't have an object database, which is what they understand a database to be - a way to pickle and reimport objects. The application outlasts the developer, and the data outlasts the application.

I'm on the developer's side here. Databases are too big and complex to be used by more than one application; if you have a database then it's really important to have a single owner for that database, or you'll never be able to evolve the schema. If you let an analyst write their own queries against your database, you have no control over what queries are running from where or for whom, so you can't so much as rename a column. And sooner or later your production system will lock up because an analyst wrote a query that they didn't realise had too many joins in.

If it's important to have an archival record of your data, put that in your design constraints and build it into the system. Even then, I probably wouldn't pick an SQL database as the system for doing it with.
Thinking about it on my walk just now, the original Kennedy Moonshot had a visible, realistic antagonist: Soviet Russia.

The Soviets beat the US to several space-based accomplishments, calling into question everything including political and economic systems. However, the Apollo program to get humans to the moon and back again was not a direct attack on the antagonist; it was an in-kind demonstration of power.
Now Nvidia is armed to the teeth
Let's be clear about who should be "just defending themselves" from whom:

"Trump frequently accuses the far-left of inciting violence, yet right-wing extremists have killed 329 victims in the last 25 years, while antifa members haven't killed any, according to a new study"

https://www.businessinsider.com/right-wing-extremists-kill-3...
"...work on things without needing to spin up an entire environment on your computer"

For me "spinning up the entire environment" comes to clicking the icon of whatever IDE I decide to run for whatever task I am about to do. Is it such a big trouble?

I understand that it has good value for teaching to the point until students have to accomplish something more serious then some glorified "Hello World".

As for access from anywhere - I can access my development workstations remotely from anywhere with no problems (thanks to NoMAchine ond/or RDP) but since I also lug my super duper laptop anywhere I rarely need to enable this kind of access.

But then again I am a cloud luddite. I own all my computing/development resources (well I rent some remote dedicated servers for backup/standby purposes). Other people have different attitude which is fine. I just hate the idea of my stuff residing/being controlled by any other entity but myself.
I use WireGuard via Tailscale. it's been a breeze since switching from a self managed solution on my Pis. generating the keys, syncing them across the Pis, syncing the Pis keys to the clients, all too much work. Tailscale has automated this.
I think a big reason is that the alternatives are worse across some dimensions. Credit cards are especially bad, since they are trivial to steal (and its at best painful to address fraud, and at worst you can lose a lot of money). So, basically paypal hides your credit card. But, as the OP noted, other things now count as your credit card! In his case, his Facebook account connected to Paypal connected to his bank was, effectively, a credit card that got stolen.

And sadly there are people (on this thread) who still blame the OP. Of course the payment wasn't authorized, and the OP is very articulate about what happened. At the end of the day, money middle-men are very effective at pointing fingers at one-another, the effect being that the user will throw up their hands and give up. (This happened to me once and cost me about $15k, and I was unable to recover any of it). But what makes it even worse is how conditioned we all are to accepting blame for what is, ultimately, an authentication mistake made by the financial institution(s).
That's common for tech demos, especially software demos. Hardcoded values, scripted paths, etc.

Nikola's presentation was something else:

> "We will have a chain on the seats to prevent people from coming in just for the safety. I don't want someone to end up doing something and driving this truck off the stage," Milton said. "This thing fully functions and works, which is really incredible."

He specifically boasted that it was a fully working machine. That's a lie.
You're lucky

For many people on HN, it's going to be the opposite. A smaller than desirable city apartment and an office which the company has spent money on to make it comfortable, well-lit, good facilities etc.
> Employees always figure out how to abuse productivity metrics.

If people can abuse your productivity metric, then it's a bad measure of productivity - not a fault of the worker.
Windows 95 style shadows are good enough for me.
They should have probably prepared two tubes like that, and flipped a coin to randomly dunk one in water, and leave the other one up?
Out of the side projects that I know of which made it past the MVP stage most had one thing in common: they solved a problem that the person who came up with the idea had.

Sounds obvious, but I've seen a few projects fail because the developer couldn't relate to their users.

Side note: quite often this lack of motivation is simply a matter of impostor syndrome.

The other day I managed to break out of that by looking at a "how to" of something from a field foreign to me.

It was a step-by-step demonstration of how a certain drawing was created.

My first reaction was: "this is amazing - I wish I could create such awe-inspiring things".

Then I remembered that I've been programming since I was twelve and am fully capable of creating things that might be as impressive to people who are not in my field as that artwork was to me.
I just found out I have cancer.

i am completely numb.
Maybe design electronics that are happy at higher temperatures?
I’m describing logistics.

And we were talking about whether we should, not whether we can. “Demand” can be a lot of things. Demand is not a justification.
If that’s what he’s doing, that’s even worse than a debit card in terms of risk and lack of protection.
> The pi4 even overclocked isn't a great number cruncher, and I don't think the gpu acceleration has landed yet..

Well, you do get about 96 Gflops. That was pretty respectable hmm... 12+ years ago.
Not surprised in the least.

My hypothesis is that we won't see a massive shift towards WFH with the exception of a few big name tech companies. Most employers will require people to be in the office, at least a part of the week.

And even those companies who say "ok" to WFH, will start second guessing their decision within a couple years.
Read your employee handbook and IT regulations thoroughly; personal use of company equipment is almost always forbidden and doing so for profit doubly so. Whether looking at emails from your startup counts as the former or latter is subject to interpretation by HR and the legal department.

In practice, many (most?) people do check personal email and more on company equipment and nobody much cares ... unless, one day, the company has a reason to want to know what you've been doing (for example, because you had a side startup you haven't cleared with them first (check you employee handbook) or your manager randomly decides he doesn't like your face anymore) and then the rules apply full force and it's game over.
No, I wouldn't know. I haven't worked for a company in a long time, big or small. I would imagine there are similar problems at start-ups, but the smaller scale would at least give you the chance at a fair shake.

For me, the bigger an organization is, the more these problems arise.
Microsoft probably has enough money that they could leave the original one in, and pop down a new one with the new green energy.

(Of course, individual projects still have finite budgets.)
There are no CDs/DVDs that are first surface mirrors. There is always a protective plastic layer on the outside, same as with any normal household mirror (except it might be glass in a household mirror; regardless, you will get internal reflections). This is the structure of a CD/DVD: https://cdn4.explainthatstuff.com/layer-structure-compact-di...

I don't know where you got this idea from that CDs/DVDs can be first surface mirrors; they aren't. If they were they'd be really bad at their job, because one of the hallmarks of first surface mirrors is that they're incredibly fragile and do not stand up to any kind of handling whatsoever. That would not work for CDs/DVDs for obvious reasons. More info and diagrams here: https://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/pub121/sec3/
I wouldn't say zero chance. Even if for sake of argument we take it as true, both the statement "There is zero chance of seeing a dramatic breakthrough in life extension within our lifetimes." and "People alive today may live to be biologically immortal." can be true at the same time.

Every minor advance medical technology that effectively increases lifespan gives those living more time on the clock to hit one of those major breakthroughs. If we had a sudden breakthrough that allowed us to reverse some aspects of aging resulting in a lifespan increase of 20 or perhaps even 10 years, I would think that those additional years plus the new public attention would give enough time to find further improvements. Eventually you reach the point that the average human lifespan starts increasing per year by more than one year. At this point even if you don't yet know how to make people biologically immortal you're going to drastically decrease the chance of death to the point that many of those alive will live to be biologically immortal.

To a lesser degree this applies to all sorts of medical advancements that increase lifespan. All sorts of things could combine to allow those currently living to survive long enough to make use of true longevity treatments. Cures for cancer, alzheimer, and other such symptoms of aging brings us closer to this possibility. At this point it's a lottery game and I wouldn't bet against at least some people winning the jackpot.
Huh? Why can’t you assign a port/s to the CPE? You can even implement a port knocking scheme if you’re worried about some service/s on your home network being wide open to the world.
I feel the same way. It’s been nearly 30 years since my undergrad database class and I used what I learned in that class yesterday mocking out a schema for a personal project. We didn’t touch any real dbms in the class but rather did most of the class work using relational algebra.
I predict there will be a systemd-style debate about removing X11 by 2030 and it will be completely gone by 2040 (since someone mentioned 20 years). There won't be a single non-composited OS available at all and people born after 2000 won't really remember anything else.
I've thought about it, but haven't tried.

As an experiment, we once tried converting an OCRed dictionary (this one: https://www.sil.org/resources/archives/10969) into an XML dictionary database. (There are probably better ways to get an XML version of that particular dictionary, but as I say, this was an experiment.)

Despite the fact that it's a clean PDF, and uses a Latin script whose characters are quite similar to Spanish (and the glosses are in Spanish), the OCR was a major cause of problems: Treating the upside down exclamation as an 'i', failing to separate kerned characters, confusion between '1' and 'l', misinterpreting accented characters, and so on and so on. And for some reason the OCR was completely unable to distinguish bold from normal text, even though a human could do so standing several feet away.

So I did think of extracting the characters from the PDF. If it had been a real use case, instead of an experiment, I might have done so.

Write-up here: https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W17-0112/
I know that InVision (InVision app.com, a remote-first company) has an entire team dedicated to planning their yearly offsite. I can imagine many other companies choosing to hire a company to help plan offsites. Great idea :-)
If you buy a house now, you know that in 20 years someone will need a house. (Assuming you select a nice spot, and do all the maintenance work.)

With a cryptocurrency, you don't know if you choose the correct one. Will Bitcoin or Ethereum win the race? Which fork? Will they survive the transition from mining to fees? Will a PoS coin win?

Why a cryptocoin is better than a bank account or a treasure bond or a tracker fund?
That last one is easy, at least: ban ad-driven social media as a business model.
Maybe that's why people are feeling lonely. They think their voice should reach thousands of people while they simply don't care about those thousands. How can I expect someone to care about me when I don't care about them beyond a useless number or marketing campaign?

People are thinking of others as consumers while expecting to be treated as a friend?
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We need a better word than "paternalism" for "not inclined to use a pandemic as an excuse to give trillions of dollars to the rich".
Why the hell is this off the front page?
Picture in picture videos used to be done with chromakey. Playing a video in one window on top of another window isn't some new thing compositing provides. You could do it in Mac classic or Windows 3.1 or BeOS.
> in a world collapsing around me with no short or long term future.

This is just your world-view being shaped by your “news” sources. Maybe get off of social media for a while or only follow people who do not talk about politics/current events.

> but if I was working in finance? No way.

People who say this tend to underestimate the importance of finance. For example, enabling easy mobile banking for tech illiterate people is going to have a much larger impact on society than 99% of the apps already out there. Another: imagine if you can fix budgeting for the 90% of people who don’t bother.

Don’t shit on fields you don’t understand. It makes you look ignorant and blocks you from even realizing the opportunities in the world.
People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and
diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public,
or in some contrivance to raise prices.
—Adam Smith, observation on urban guilds, 1776

Are we out of imaginative new ideas for organizing society?

We have the ability to organize a social heirarchy more generally across the public thanks to computers. The necessity for highly specialized master/apprentice guilds looks limited to a few areas.
> Climate change driven fires the size of a continent?

More like bad land management.
Just for the record, Craigslist is a for-profit company and makes quite a lot of money. Very different from Wikipedia
The Cleveland Clinic is only the "best" because of marketing. Think about it. Are the best and brightest REALLY clamoring live indefinitely Cleveland? Yeah right.

The best hospitals are likely in California. Doctors want to work in California so bad that they actually take LESS money. It's called the sunshine tax.
You said it yourself:

> it’s a theoretical minor violation of privacy

Their goal is to protect privacy. It makes sense to me.
If I want to add WebRTC capabilities to an existing server, what's the simplest way of doing that? This is for a game, all I need is an unreliable RTCDataChannel
And if Europe develop a company that threatens US leading tech / surveillance companies like Facebook / Google, or becomes the leader of the next tech wave, be prepared for US government actions to take it down. See: Japanese semi conductor industry in the 80s, Alstim, Bombardier, Tiktok.
Breaking Bad was a great trip in Chemistry basics.
And yet many companies insist on the disastrous open floor plan. No privacy etc.
I don’t get it. How does one even measure productivity and that too on a daily basis? How do they know that productivity fell on Mondays and fridays? Are they stalking their employees and tracking their every keystroke?
I want that world as well and generally agree with you, but the reality of modern life can be complex.

Think of the biology of the human body or practically any other industry. I've been out of college for about a decade and have moved roles several times at my company and I've only managed to learn a sliver of the complexity of my department. We have public documents that are thousands of pages long and that doesn't even get into the software. It's true that a much simpler solution exists like the industry did prior to computers, but it was probably an order of magnitude less efficient. Now we save large amounts of money at the expense of much higher complexity. You need a lot more people because each person can only specialize in a few things and has to abstract away the rest and trust that other co-workers are taking care of the other parts that you don't understand. It's frustrating, but I think most industries have this. Think of a nuclear power plant. There are hundreds of systems and processes. Is it even possible to learn them all in a single career past a bare minimum? What about outside the plant? The plant connects to the transmission grid which is operated by an entity and you have power marketers which sell your plant's output into a market which is operated by another organization running sophisticated software to optimize the region. There are several regulatory bodies involved from the NRC to the State Utility Commissions, to NERC & FERC that all have some regularory jurisdiction over you. Once your electricity gets on the distribution grid it is handled by utilities and so forth. The world is just insanely complex.

Could it be simpler? Yes, but there is an efficiency cost to that as well. Chuck Moore's chips are cool, but do they solve any current problems? If they were significantly better, people would be jumping on them. The reality is they're probably better for some niche uses. Certainly not enough to leave the confines of Windows or Linux with a traditional toolchain. Even without all the inertia it would be a tough sell. I don't know anything about complexity theory, but I imagine computer science is under the same rules as the rest of the universe. This also might be where Chesterton's Fence is relevant. We shouldn't argue to take down the fence when we don't know why it was put up to begin with.
The point is that outside traffic isn't even reaching anything you even have control over, because you don't have a public IP (i.e. the ISP won't set up port forwarding for you). Let's say you wanted to directly send a packet to my phone. There's no way we could make that happen even with both of our cooperation because my phone doesn't get a publicly addressable IP.
I thought my team became "medium" when I went from managing two people to four.
what's still really confusing me about this second wave is the extreme discrepancy in deaths. If one looks at Germany or France (https://covid19.who.int/region/euro/country/fr), despite numbers that even outpace the first wave, deaths are almost negligible. Did we really miss that many people in March/April or did something else change?
Chinese virologist posts report claiming Covid-19 was made in Wuhan lab
This looks nice, though I can't work out why it's an "ultimate" podcast app.

Have reported a bug with the RSS useragent.
IBM's (and other tech company) lawyers have been holding this decision off for some 40 years. Late coming; too bad there's no punitive damages chargeable against upper management bonuses.
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Only for yields below 100 kilotons.
Fortunately you're wrong, and the Supreme Court already addressed this. Freedom of speech doesn't mean you're free to say anything you want at any time, and it never has.

>As the Supreme Court held in Brandenburg v. Ohio (1969), the government may forbid “incitement”—speech “directed at inciting or producing imminent lawless action” and “likely to incite or produce such action” (such as a speech to a mob urging it to attack a nearby building). But speech urging action at some unspecified future time may not be forbidden.
> I'm making more in the stock market than my job.

Assuming you’re talking about trading - enjoy it while it lasts, but don’t quit your job to do it full time. Unless you have an actual edge of information, you’re just gambling and will eventually get steam-rolled by the event you’re not expecting.