skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I played through 40 hours of Cyberpunk and I'm about out of content worth doing. Geforce Now is great, but it has a caveat that make it dicey: ≤1080p only, and the window it creates cannot be resized. You're stuck with stretched 1080 if you're on a larger monitor (though it at least preserves aspect ratio when stretching).

Graphics are excellent, I was running on Ultra RTX (remember, 1080p) in most of the city and getting 50 fps, and latency was around 20-30ms. For how most games play, it wasn't really noticeable. $5 a month is a great deal, though I do wonder how Stadia stacks up. I certainly could have used the better resolution.

It also works on iPad/iPhone and Android decently, if you want to play anywhere. I didn't have any issues trying my iPad, though it appears you're stuck with controller input on that.
Sensitive enough that the randomness in the photon pressure on the 40kg mirrors is a source of noise they have to contend with[1]:

First, we observe that [quantum radiation pressure noise] contributes to the motion of the kilogram-scale mirrors of LIGO. This observation is also made in the Advanced Virgo GW detector. It is remarkable that quantum vacuum fluctuations can influence the motion of these macroscopic, human-scale objects, and that the effect is measured. This is quantum mechanics at its experimentally most macroscopic scale.

There's some great info in this[2] paper about the detector, sensitivity and performance of Advanced LIGO. And yeah it blows my mind every time I think about it.

[1]: https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.01519

[2]: https://journals.aps.org/prd/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevD.102.0...
Kara Swisher: Facebook's Attack on Apple is Tone-Deaf
Wood burners triple harmful indoor air pollution, study finds
There is very little real open world in it, certainly not even close to GTA.
It was only a year ago since the most recent, one of several, leaks associated with AWS/S3. Have people forgotten?
Yes, the 90% was a stand-in for my subjective impression

> incomes and lifetime earnings are statistically higher for college grads

Yep. And my interpretation (possibly biased) was that, in a world where nearly all information can be found online for free, the value of college as an environment for gaining professional skills has diminished greatly, but it still gets used as a (perhaps lazy) gatekeeping signifier by hiring departments. I still think there's truth to that, but there's probably something to the networking aspect as well
That's one of the reasons I'm not really interested in the Artemis program.

I'd rather fund Starship to get that massive launch cost reduction and then start looking at returning to the moon.

Being able to ship more hardware means you don't have to make it as reliable since you have spares. That further drives down the cost of R&D.
But with some exceptions (perhaps most notably his late The Tempest), the elements of his plays mostly categorize them as either tragedies or comedies. Not to suggest there's no ambiguity though and certainly the fact that the source material differed from his play does at least raise some question.
Has anyone been following the earthquake swarm near Mina, NV?

https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/map/?extent=37.4453,...

They've been having moderate earthquakes for months. The location isn't too far from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_Valley_Caldera and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paoha_Island

What are the chances we could see a new volcano form in Western NV in our lifetimes?
I am pretty sure that Microsoft is then allowed to use the "no backdoor" edition internally...for the rest the "backdoor included" edition.
I'm excited about io/fs[1]. As a newcomer to Go, one of my favorite things is the excellent I/O interfaces. I can write code to take io.Writer's or io.Reader's (etc.) and my program is suddenly both a CLI app, a Web app, and a Whatever app with minimal effort. (The effect is similar at lower levels too. For example, I can log to a file or to memory with a one-line change.) I sense a lot of potential in applying this interface-based design on filesystems themselves.

[1]: https://tip.golang.org/pkg/io/fs/
Agreed. Never felt that their own bug tracker is impressive compared to other online services.
It's just messy and not easy on the eyes. Maybe a different team is working on it?
Taking global view: Amazon CTO Werner Vogels forecasts new directions for cloud
Analyzing Minard's Visualization of Napoleon's 1812 March (2014)
I got a hearty chuckle out of this, thank you.
It might also be that slag might be closer to smelters than ore, reducing transport costs.
> I think what the "legacy" news media failed at more than adapting was effectively communicating the time and effort that goes into serious news gathering and reporting

I think what they failed at was actually putting in the time and effort. I read news stories every day that fail to include basic pieces of information. How many news stories have you read that say "The Republicans proposed X dollars and the Democrats proposed Y dollars" that don't make any sort of historical or international comparison? It seems to me that "serious news gathering and reporting" would include comparing the amount of money to similar situations in the past or to similar situations in other countries, and yet, I almost never see that. The word "stenographers" has become more and more common for a reason - news stories, particularly political news stories, increasingly include quotes from the few active actors on the topic today, but no serious research or serious context outside of the people who literally called the reporter.
Had to have a recent loss to learn this, but in the funeral home's options package was to send some of the ashes to space for $2500. The director skipped over that page quickly, but it was a picture of a Falcon 9 taking off
Sorry, I wasn't referring to the book specifically. Just talking about my experience during these kinds of conversations in government and the corporate world.
While not leaving tech, I’m just like you a contractor. I’ve negotiated to work 25-hour weeks and it’s done wonders for my mental energy.

It has also allowed me to spin up a second, non-tech venture (a print shop) with little to no stress since my 25-hours a week is more than enough to keep us afloat.
The kernel is not what makes fuchsia special. There are plenty of kernels out there. The code around the kernel is far more mission critical to the success of the fuchsia product.

In fact, if you remove the kernel, Rust is the main language of fuchsia already.
I don’t know Ron Conway personally - there’s different news in different circles about him. Less flattering include:

* https://www.google.com/search?q=ron+conway+sf+propositions

* https://www.sfexaminer.com/news-columnists/hes-back-ron-conw...

* https://missionlocal.org/2016/10/billionaires-back-bid-to-ba...

So while he maybe a great VC, that’s only one aspect of a person.

Def a weird article.
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(Beginner/very part-time meditator here.)

Just start. I think most ‘courses’ will address this concern — it’s kinda the basic tenet of meditation, that you‘ll notice thoughts but that this is okay. You train yourself to notice them, observe them, and let them drift by.

Personally I like Headspace because I find Andy Puddicombe’s voice delightful. But of course there are a million meditation resources, many free.

As someone who never thought I’d be a meditator — and whose first experience was in a packed auditorium with Sam Harris at the front, which was amazing [0] — I can’t recommend it enough. This thread has me wanting to get back in to it. (Because, like anything else, the act of just doing it is half the battle won.)

[0]: At the global atheist conference, whatever it was called, in Melbourne, c. 2012? Anyone else there?
Agreed. I am so tired of this company acting with impunity.
Sad thing here is most people in asia in the middle and upper class brackets (hate the terminology but it is what it is) are hypochondriacs, I seen behavior around health that would warrant mental confinement elsewhere, I imagine in this scenario many beds were occupied by people who could of handled it at home, sadly those that really needed it missed out.
For a standalone app, DataGrip is just too bloated and slow.

Native apps like TablePlus is so much faster to work with.
Simply not true. Poorer households give a larger proportion of their income.

> It is clear from the graph that when put in the context of their individual budgets, donor households towards the lower end of the expenditure distribution tend to give away more of their money to charity than donor households in the higher expenditure percentiles. On this measure, poorer donor households are more generous than richer donor households, those in the bottom decile donating approximately 3% of their budget compared with those in the top decile donating roughly 1%.

http://www.cgap.org.uk/uploads/Briefing%20Papers/CGAP%20BN7%...
> A system like this with thermal cameras could find injured people much faster than a search party every could.

This is done a lot, you are not used to the idea of 'Swarm/Formation' so you are using it to cure everything.

One long range drone with thermal cameras (and other wavelengths) is all you need. No formation is needed or wanted.

I still rarely see even one drone used. We need to start with one, if its useful.

I can give you many locations with invasive species, swarms won't solve that. Unless you give the swarms guns.

But one drone with a gun would kill pests fine. I think even with hunting humans most killing wouldn't need formations.
The first claim is a strawman and deserves no further refuting.

The second is...true. Everything we do is something we can learn life lessons from. And chess is a lesson in concentration and focused mental activity, which remarkably few things are.
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uninformed guess: every commit is a version bump, every push to master is a major version bump?
ESA uses an OpenSparc fork, LEON.

http://www.esa.int/Enabling_Support/Space_Engineering_Techno...
Even the damn tiger!
Streamers can ban whoever they want. As can their delegated mods.
Donate to Sci-Hub:

https://sci-hub.tech/donation/

They accomplished one of Aaron Schwartz's dreams.
Honestly I've found it to over-promise in terms of its capabilities. When working on code with a complex type hierarchy, features like click-through definitions show the wrong thing, which has resulted in lost productivity for me.
Will you be here all week?
That also seems quite likely.

That or slag is much lighter per lb of refined product, reducing the transit cost. Iron ores are incredibly common, but they’re also very heavy, what with them being literally rocks.
The upper stage of an F9 or FH costs $10m and is expended every time. The fairings also cost $6m ($3m per half fairing) and are pretty tricky to recover. No part of Starship will be expended every time, it’s all reusable. The only marginal cost per flight is the fuel and operations costs. They’re not going to reach 1/28x with the early models, maybe only 1/10, but eventually they’ve got a reasonable chance.
Steve Wozniak Schematics for Prototype Apple II Computer Sell for $630k
Dominion warned cards might need to be prematurely removed from voting machines
Then run on an airgapped computer with custom firmware in its hard drives.
The author doesn't dispute this at all. He's a chess grandmaster who is not mystifying chess, but pointing out how a lifetime of rigorous chess playing has taught him the value of concentration. He acknowledges that the very same thing occurs in people in other disciplines, athletes for example.

It's not an article about the virtue of nerds but about the combination of attention, flow experience and concentration, in the face of a culture that neglects all three but the latter in particular.

And I think he is very right and chess can teach us important lessons here, as can programming, or craftsmanship, or participation in the arts among other things.

Particularly important is the point about autonomy. Making concentration and understanding of our own mind through games like chess a priority is liberating. Through things like chess it is possible to move from being distracted by external rewards towards understanding one's own cognition the focus of life, without which no genuine thinking is possible.
The navigation is somehow fucked up
My understanding is that certification is the bottle neck, in both time and cost. No one wants to spend the money or time to flight certify something new when something already battle tested will suffice.

But your comment makes me wonder if the private sector doesn't have those certification requirements?

The other differentiating factor is that the private sector is not sending multi-year (indeed multi-decade) deep space missions, where the need for battle tested systems is paramount.
Trash isn't full of valuable materials though. It's full of food (mostly water by weight I guess) and paper and plastic with a little bit of other stuff mixed in.
Pre-order, I used to do that all the time. After awhile I got tired of having to go back and get a refund when the game/movie would not come out for at least 1-2 years after the pre-order. Now I just wait, and usually wait for a sale. By the time the price falls the big crazy bugs are usually worked out. The only time it made sense to pre-order is if there was some sort of merch to go with and even then it better be some nice swag. Now I have a box full of useless junk that no one really cares about (even me) and a set of games I forgot about a long time ago.
Likely depends on region. I never experienced queues as a paid user in the midwest.
For the nth time, design patterns are descriptive, not prescriptive. They're a guide for when you're facing a type of problem which has been encountered thousands of time before, not a blunt tool to be jammed mindlessly into every possible scenario.
Agreed. I just quit using it and thrown in Vim key binding to xcode instead.
> On the other hand, assuming we could indeed send our manure for $1400/kg, would it be the most reasonable way to get rid of radioactive waste? It sounds like a Simpsons episode, but the cost seems so low that it sounds like the next step.

It sounds awful at first glance, but I wonder what the environmental impacts actually are of nuclear waste de orbiting and spreading evenly over the atmosphere. Normalized out per kwh, environmental radiation release might be less than the equivalent coal power plant? I'll have to break out an excel sheet later.
I mean other than its systems?!
Mutually Assured Destruction relies on the victim knowing that they've been destroyed.

Lots of these so-called "Cyber weapons" are operated by actors who are very effective at leaving no trace.

It's been in the background before but in the reports about this SolarWinds issue the "leaves no trace" angle is starting to be emphasised much more.

Not knowing if or what has been compromised means that the attacker can choose when or how to use the information they obtained and the victim will be surprised, even a long time down the line.
The number of [nucleic-acid-delivered] gene therapies in Phase II & Phase III trials right now is huge - because of this progress in delivery [of nucleic acids]. Gene therapies for the eye, for hemophilia, for sickle cell, many many cancer therapies all rely on the ability to 'deliver' nucleic acid payloads to cells. Of those, only 3 or 4 have been approved - and all in the past 2 years, but there are a huge number that are behind that tip of the iceberg - quite precisely because it's relatively straightforward to do 'same thing but with a different sequence' once the first one works.
It works by essentially installing a whole "remote VSCode server" in the container and connecting to that. So all of the extensions and everything is installed in the container. Then when you open it up, it just mounts your source code, files and config files into that environment and connects to it.

It is definitely somewhere between architectural overkill and very useful.
This is a very thoughtful comment, thank you.

I would love to be a fly on the wall on the corresponding AMD strategy meetings :)

I think to not focus on x86 right now would be a tremendous blunder on AMD’s part. And at the same time ignoring ARM for too long will give others (like Nvidia) time to setup shop and capture the market.

I wonder how much of the Zen architectural “backend” is amenable to be reused with a different ISA (I don’t even know if such thing would be possible). Perhaps they could have a very low-effort initiative to try something along those lines.
If the goal is to make life-changing amounts of money, the example they showed in the table means that it would be foolish to early exercise: if you win the ipo roulette, your life is going to change pretty significantly and in a very similar manner whether you make $4m or $6m. On the other hand if you get the more typical startup outcome, you're going to feel a big difference between making $0 and losing $100k...
The reenactment of him being "summoned by his boss" at 3:20 is hilarious.

7:19-7:41 is another funny scene.
Not sure if I follow?
If you are able to swing a part-time or freelance situation, really try to do that first. 10 hours a week as a software contractor is probably more money than 50 hours for the average job. Spend the rest of your time hiking, repairing motorcycles, or whatever else you please.
It does, thanks.

I’ve always wondered, how does the commit hash get in to the actual version number? You don’t know the hash before you commit, so now to get the hash in to the public commit version you have to commit again, which changes the hash!
They mentioned that "virgin" and "incel" had already been banned, so people need to find a new word to hurl at each other.
Don't you worry. When the virus goes away, the technocrats will be patting themselves on the back for having succeeded in finally getting rid of it. And they will move on to save those left alive from economic deprivation. They will again succeed as they generate grim consequences they will again ignore.
From your comments and the article, seems like the WGU model could completely disrupt the normal 4 year university experience, for self motivated learners.

Of course, if the goal is 4 years of fun social life and putting off "adult" responsibilities, the WGU approach is counter productive.

But for people who want the benefit of a degree as an employment credential, looks like this is the fastest and cheapest way to attain it, and I don't think many other existing four year colleges are prepared to compete with this model. Their cost structure doesn't allow it.
That's really interesting and confirmed with some light searching. Thanks!
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Why would any business allow a Chinese employee access to user data from the west. That's nuts.
Mandelbar over the complex numbers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tricorn_(mathematics)

Mandelbar over the split-complex numbers: https://imgur.com/PkzY7B6 (admittedly, a bit underwhelming)
Ask HN: Why is Ask HN functionality broken?
Not every post that starts with "Ask HN:" ends up on news.ycombinator.com/ask, and not every post that ends up on /ask contains "Ask HN" in the title. What determines this functionality?
Intransparency and closed rooms. Financing rounds with undisclosed value, less or equal to the last round. Financing rounds that are less than 3x of the last one. Too many financing rounds with slowing growth. Growth of less than 50% per year. Hiring Freezes. Founders leaving. None of this is a hard criterion, but more than one of them and the chances of your equity being worth something quickly appoaches zero.
At the risk of asking a stupid question: why have queues instead of raising prices until demand gets nearer to the level of supply?

Not that I would want this of course, but I'd also want free bubble gum and the gum companies... they're there to make money. Why not chip makers? I don't see auctioning systems popping up, I see people in in queues for a GPU, "out of stock" pages, and purchase quantity limits being imposed.
Anyone know if there are technical restrictions on third-party battery packs? As in, if you don't buy the cryptographically-signed (or whatever) OEM approved battery pack, it won't work? So if you buy a used electric vehicle today, what are the odds you could buy a new, lower cost battery pack in say 5 years, when the current one reaches its end-of-life?
Personal license is already low...
You'd be paying in the range of $10/mo.
I'd rather complain to companies like Adobe to ask for $50/mo with their domination because of their proprietary file format.
sigh the point is that the interesting bit is the Matrix client, and we are not cheating and using some preexisting Matrix SDK but doing it all raw so people can see how it works.

The web framework is irrelevant.
It wouldn't suprise me if a lot of the details are classified
A better (IMO) link:

https://theconversation.com/fragments-of-energy-not-waves-or...
From my experience it eats up more memory. My project i avg around 1.2 gb in VS. vs 2.5 in Rider. But the application is much more responsive.
Shakespeare had some plays that had at least tragic elements--Pericles, Cymbeline, The Winter's Tale. Maybe The Tempest.--with happy or happyish endings. But he mostly didn't do "Hollywood Endings" on his tragedies. So the something may simply have been "great source material but that ending has to go."
I think it's trying to frame it that they want to be that type of angel for someone else.
Photo credit is NASA 1950. Most likely a von Braun design, but not a V2.
As an aside : In India, we refer to cannabis as ganja [0].
In case you are concerned about naming...

[0] https://www.google.com/search?q=ganja+meaning&oq=ganja+meani...
If they really had access to everything for the past several months then that doesn't say much for their competency.
I was about to start a SW design literally the first day back next year.

Not any more.
This take implies that no medicine for deadly diseases can work because otherwise we would have evolved the medicines ourselves.

Also, COVID-19 has not been around "for millions of years." Other coronaviruses, such as the common cold, have. The evolutionary benefits of defense against the common cold are fairly different than benefits against COVID-19. And immunity against one coronavirus doesn't grant immunity against all other coronaviruses.
Thanks for asking this, it's super-important to understand it. If they're not infation-adjusted, then there's already been a (very slow) exponential reduction in the cost.

I think they are inflation-adjusted. Here's an inflation-adjusted source that explicitly lets you pick FY2021 dollars as the reference:

https://aerospace.csis.org/data/space-launch-to-low-earth-or...

It puts the Saturn V at $5k USD/kg, the same as this article.

What's interesting is that it shows a general downward trend a little more clearly than this one does, but the Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy are still very shocking outliers.
Fallout 4 is a great comparison point. It had the bones of something great but the soul was gone. No factions, no interesting NPCs or side quests, no lore. Just a big empty sandbox to shoot stuff in.

This seems better than that at least in that the soul is a lot better. And it has cool lore and factions and NPCs. But where Fallout 4 had fun shooting and RPG mechanics this seems to have pretty poor shooting. Poor driving. Unbalanced RPG mechanics.

Ultimately I think they need to do three things:

1) Fix bugs

2) Rebalance and improve core gameplay (shooting, RPG mechanics, NPC AI, etc.)

3) Add a bunch more content

And it will be an absolutely fantastic game. No Man’s Sky turned the ship around. Can CDPR do it? I’m hopeful. Maybe if they get rid of the people who pushed for this premature release they’ll have a shot...