skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm interested to see what's viable to send to orbit now. Can a solar shade be put up which blocks light from hitting our poles and prevent some climactic change? How about rocketing asteroids back to LEO for processing into valuable minerals?
EVs Could Soon Cost Same as Gas Cars as Battery Costs Drop
I had the exact same thought! LOL

Now I wonder what exactly about the headline made all three of wonder about sending poop to space? I guess poop is a universal answer to "most ridiculous thing that weighs under a pound"?
Nope. They advocate immediate disclosure of zero day exploits found by government and mandatory policies against stocking of these vulnerabilities for using them as/in cyber weapons.

That book contains no corporate backing/advertising.
Confused, how is NOBUS supposed to reduce any attack surface? NOBUS means you don't patch vulnerabilities that you believe only you have access to. Wouldn't that expand an attack surface (or leave it as-is)? How would a refusal to patch decrease attack surface?
Were there any warning signs, that you could recognize, the second time around?
Looks like Apple M1 support is live in this version:

> Go 1.16 adds support of 64-bit ARM architecture on macOS (also known as Apple Silicon) with GOOS=darwin, GOARCH=arm64.

A bit ahead of what I think most people expected. This should accelerate a few other projects progress. (Docker being the big one)
If consumers didn't preorder and waited for games to come out and get reviewed fairly before buying, then this strategy wouldn't work.

False advertising only works because consumers are buying games based on promises made in advertisements instead of based on the quality of the game that is actually released.
You fell into a local maxima or made an assumption that got you tunneled visioned.

You can definitely have N number of choices contribute to 2 or more endings and still have every choice matter.

You can have 100 choices with 3 options, and have all of the make an impact on the ending and still only have 2-3 endings. Or any number of endings between 2 and n (in your case the 12*10^m.

Have each choice do a +1, 0, or -1 to some internal metrics.

You could call this a good or evil system, but it could be a ton of different things. They could be doing +1,0,-1 to corpo, streetkid, and nomad rankings.

Some choices might do +1 to streetkid and nomad, and 0 to corpo, you could have any number of combinations. Or you could have 1 choice do +10 to corpo.

Then at the end, whichever had the highest score would be your ending. Or you could do if highest was 10-30 points, you'd get 1 ending, but if your highest was 40+ youd get super ending. Like if you were mostly corpo, but still a bit others, maybe you become middle management in final cinematic at corpo X, but if you were like ALL IN on corpo choices, maybe you'd become new president of some corpo Y.

That way every choice matters, and you can still have a few different endings. And the 'vanilla basic ending' being where you are choices were mostly neutral, or what they guessed majority of playerbase would choose.

But what OP was saying, is that 98% of questions have 0 impact on anything. Which makes them not impactful and not matter at all, and that often is boring.
Likewise with Japan right?

I've said this from the beginning of the pandemic - elite technocrats have led from the start with hubris and moral surefootedness.

Any opposition is dismissed as lunacy.

And yet every solution is complete immiseration with little recognition of the tradeoffs and costs of the "solution".

Which so far - hasn't solved much otherwise they wouldn't be treating it still as a disaster.

How easily they destroy the livelihoods of everyone in hopes they're solving things. Well guess what - if there's any chance lockdowns and job deprivation doesn't help - you'll not only have deaths, but also economic (and spiritual) depression.
It matters because while most of the blame is on CDPR some should go to players pre-ordering without realizing that getting such a massive game to run well on a 7 year old PC is not realistic. PC gamers would not expect this to run on such an old system for sure.
Epstein goes through many other examples of learning environments in the book, most of which I found to be very entertaining and informative. To be clear, Range is not an academic article, and is very much in the 'pop-psych' genre like Gladwell or Talib. That said, it's well worth a Christmas vacation to read through. Gates had it on his best books in 2020 list for a reason (though it was published in 2019). Pick up a copy yourself from the local library (if open/online) or you can buy it yourself:

https://www.amazon.com/Range-Generalists-Triumph-Specialized...
Without third-party tracking advertisers buy specific audiences, so a bike helmet seller would buy ads in some outdoor magazine sites and ride-tracking apps. The incentive to pester the user with the same ad is minimal.

With third-party tracking and retargeting that same advertiser just buys access to the same user via an agency which would pester the user with retargeted ads throughout their network in hopes that at some point, after X amount of views, the user will feel inclined to perform the monetizeable action (e.g. finally click on that abandoned cart and purchase the bike helmet).

In this system each property on the network is relegated to showing as many ads as possible, since each ad is essentially a lottery ticket. You might resurrect the cart and finally buy that bike helmet on nytimes, instagram, Angry Birds - whoever commands your attention at that moment.

Companies who complaint about Apple tend to hold a vast amount of such lottery tickets. Companies that do not, tend to have access to specific monetizeable audiences they can sell access to.
Microsoft designing its own ARM-based chips for servers and Surface PCs
Not the same as entanglement means you can’t have both parts at the same time, you just need to decide which one you’re gonna “use” while the other is destroyed.
JetBrains is a Czech company because the founders lived in Prague at the time (maybe they are still living there, no idea).

Most of the staff is Russian though which sort of makes it a Russian company I guess?
I feel a situation like this would almost guarantee a Kessler Syndrome style event.
I don’t necessarily disagree with the characterization per se but I don’t think it makes for a convincing argument to most people who don’t particularly care about morality when dealing with what a corporation does.
A hot cup of Mocha [audio]
I am glad my personal site license enables such awesome. Jetbrains is a wonderful company and I hope they continue to retain agency over their customer focus.
Several years ago I had attended YC’s startup school at DeAnza in Cupertino. I think it was 2011-2012.

Ron was there and his one comment that had struck me was, I’m paraphrasing, that he only invests in young founder’s startups. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I'm wondering what a "privacy respecting" dns could possibly have to do with breaking a web archival service.

edit: huh

https://www.reddit.com/r/pihole/comments/ao51ko/problem_with...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19828702
If this doesn't lend to home office and flexible hours, I don't know what will.

Get access, pass it on to HQ for exploration. If it's valuable, office hacker gets to be employee of the month.
Design Patterns are a massive code smell. I always prefer simple code over extensible over-engineered frameworks.
That first photograph is incredible
maybe the url should be the actual source: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-12-18/microsoft...
I think that undersells the advantage. You have to carry a qubit over, but it could be done even before know what you will need to send.
They are designing for full and rapid reusability (like an airplane) and unlike the Falcon Heavy, the second stage is not thrown away, but also fully reusable. Seems plausible to me. If I remember correctly Musk estimated $2 million cost per launch, with about 1/4 of that raw fuel costs.
Something to ask yourself: does it have to be out of tech, or out of coding? Below are some options that leverage skills you've possibly developed.

* Writing technical books, columns. You can leverage your skills and teach them to others.

* Speaking engagements at conferences. This one requires some reputation, or reputation building, or social ins. It can be lucrative, and gives you the social aspect. Evangelizing a particular technology can go hand in hand with this.

* Fiction writing. As a consultant or senior dev you learned how to tell a story, or pitch a product/approach. That translates to fiction writing. If you are an avid Fantasy or Science Fiction reader then you could try your hand at writing what you love to read. It will take time to get good, just like when you learned programming or other tech skills. This also involves a lot of socializing during marketing, signings, etc. - especially if you are self-publishing.

* Transition into management. The skills you learned are in high demand for leading a team of engineers, and senior management is often looking for someone who's been an engineer and is looking to move into management.

* Change careers to something opposite - woodworking, etc., but keep your hand in programming by contributing to Open Source software. This allows you to build a reputation in the Open Source world as well.

Happy holidays and I hope this helps you in some small way
Our back-end team sometimes adds calls to a new service that they're building to test the load, a lot like this! So the idea was in the air at OkCupid, so to speak. And with such a big new piece of infrastructure, I knew there would be problems, it's just how it works. So I wanted to get something into production really quickly to have something to troubleshoot against.
Cheap means "of a low price", so a price can't be cheap, just low.
MediaFire will be classifying accounts as “abandoned”, and deleting the content
It is $2 a sticker (1 sticker per normal bag, 1.5 stickers for large ones) here in Western Massachusetts, USA and you have to drive your trash and recycling yourself to the "dump" (town transfer station).
Not sure what the point of this is. It reads more like a Press Release to generate more buzz for YC, as if that was needed.

You are going to select one company from YC who is already selected from the cream of the crop, so that you could mentor them?

I mean this is something that you can just email YC about doesn't need to be blasted to everyone as a press release.

I mentor a lot at Techstars. We went through Techstars, had a great experience, and so I try to help other companies. I also mentor outside of Techstars, and generally just try to be as helpful as I can to anyone that reaches out, time permitting.

I'm not writing press releases about it.
I dont have the link to the price analysis, but I believe the re-usable falcon9 becomes profitable after the 2nd or 3rd launch. The disposable falcon is profitable on the first launch.
Going from the lowest price and highest payload for the Ariane 5... $165,000,000 / 20,000 kg = $8250/kg, or still not really competitive.

And in fact, the source spreadsheet [0] lists a few members of the Ariane family - so I think it's charted.

0: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1TPewJ64QNVtM5sbRDIXu...
Very interesting article.

Focus, especially in our modern society, is a quality/trait that is quite difficult to re discover as adults.I say re discover because I "think" children have more focus than adults.

My hypothesis is that we lose focus as we get older due to the amount of interests and setbacks we get as we grow out of childhood.

What I am trying to say is that we should not find focus but choose our goal/interest and just focus on it.

An interesting article on focus and achieving personal goals is https://leveragethoughts.substack.com/p/set-your-personal-go...
It's not clear that there's a distribution problem here, and it seems pretty obvious to me that giving them to the highest bidder would make whatever distribution scheme we have even worse.
Where would I be without RubyMine?
You’re right to be confused. NOBUS assumes that other parties do not have the means to find the same vulnerabilities and/or weaponize them with same effectiveness.

It also layers this assumption with “we can prevent it at the firewall level so we can actually patch it while they can’t” idea.

As we all know, it’s an absolutely brilliant(!) idea.
I'm using the native swipe-back gesture on my phone, not the back button in the top left (which I don't really even think you need).
I'm making the assumption that your small business is the one linked in your profile.

Does your advertising NEED to target individuals? What if you instead targeted Facebook groups for new parents, Youtube videos titled "How to Potty Train", Instagram posts with relevant hashtags.

There is a big lie that Facebook and Google keep selling people. Advertisements do not need to be targeted at individuals, they need to be targeted to content. You don't need to advertise to 20-30 y/o female college graduates. You just need to target content that new parents would look for.
> Do you work in academia now?

Nope.

Yes, there is value of being able to get the first job. Though the value isn't really quantifiable, and it changes over time. Plus the first job typically has other requirements besides a degree, all of which are valuable for the purposes of not getting rejected before an interview. I was just curious where "90%" comes from. (I'm comfortable with it being symbolic, representing your feeling that it's a majority. I just wanted to tease that out and clarify.)

To your original point, for better or worse, incomes and lifetime earnings are statistically higher for college grads. I didn't realize the difference was as high as it is, but the Fed recently published that in the U.S., incomes are roughly double for bachelor's degrees over non-graduates, and roughly triple for advanced degrees. That means that there is a large financial value wrapped up in getting the degree, one way or another. It might have a lot to do with networking, and it might have a lot to do with the credential and social signaling. I'm certain there's some of both. But this value is definitely a must to know about before deciding to forego a degree, and probably a very good thing to keep in mind before choosing an online program over an in-person one.
This brings to mind a great video which I've posted here a few times: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CO6M2HsoIA

What happens when technology progresses so much that anyone can make a swarm of killer drones? Will politicians no longer be able to go out in public? What about a distant future, when enriching uranium can be done in your garage for cheap...
I did not realize that it was Swing, since they're not using the Metal L&F. I always wanted to like Swing, but the look and feel were never very good. IntelliJ feels great.
Indeed. And it seems that it is quite separate already UI wise. So why not.
But to see/interpret the effect on the first particle, you need to know what the measurement on the second was, and that information needs to be transferred across the galaxy by conventional means.

Honesty quantum mechanics sounds more like a bug in the universe or some quirk we just don’t understand yet.
To add on to that,

The only “important” accented letter is “é”. In most cases “è” is completely redundant as it follows the rule that if the next vowel is a silent “e” then the current “e” takes the \ε\ sound. “Ê” makes the same sound but is there for historical reasons. We can determine if we need an open “e” sound by applying like 2 rules (the aforementioned one and e followed by two consonants is always open) and by memorising some of the multigraphs which are part of the phonetics as it is.

Removing “é” makes it harder to determine pronunciation and makes it easier to confuse tenses, eg “il a mange”, if you’re reading you might “a” and misunderstand the tense (he ate vs he eats). There aren’t any consistent rules for the use of “é” apart from the start of a word.

Personally speaking, I rely on “é” a lot more than I do on “è” and I’ve been tripped up by a missing ’ on “e” many times unlike the other one.
Yeah this is what I meant, thanks for helping explaining it so well.
> You cannot add features and features and get each user a new chip every 2 year.

Except we can.

Video games continue to get more graphical enhancements: and people continue to want to buy stronger GPUs (Raytracing, VRS, etc. etc.) so that its possible for them to see these improved graphics.

Be it high-framerates for esports, or 4k graphics, or virtual reality, or raytracing. Video gamers have always pushed for better-and-better.

There's nothing wrong with being excited for these new features. It probably sucks to reprogram these engines every few years to take advantage of these features... but that's a job lol.

There are plenty of video-game developers who don't care much about the latest-and-greatest graphics. Instead, they build a "retro" look and try to compete on gameplay alone. That's also good and fine (and I usually tend to buy these games instead).

But I don't think there's anything wrong with someone out there being excited for say... Minecraft Raytracing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_4QaWbntUQ

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I mean, they're games. They're supposed to innovate and excite us in new ways. They're entertainment. Some developers choose the graphical route, others choose gameplay. Nothing wrong with that.
I was just watching a video where they made the claim that the slag from steel production 100 years ago has more metal than some ores, so it's becoming worthwhile to re-mill slag.
I think Linus knew what he was doing at the time when he created the tool :D
Microsoft products themselves should be considered malicious.
Adding value, not taking someone elses work which they gave away free and thinking that because it has value You are entitled to charge for it.

Eg. Someone makes and shares a WP theme for free, then another person comes along, changes the font size and lists it as a premium theme. Even worse another person pays the 2 bucks for the "Premium Theme" then rents it out to a unsuspecting customer who builds their own WP site and pays the company a recurring 0.30/day or 10$ monthly fee for using said theme.

No value added just parasitic marketing.
> twitch is just trying to protect the streams and donations of female content creators

I don't know a lot about twitch, but are you telling me that the content creators can't throw bans at people in their streams? That "Twitch" has to authorize this globally? That seems like a really bad idea.

I would have thought that Twitch would simply track who gets banned in individual channels and then apply global bans to the idiots who get banned across multiple channels or multiple times.
Part of the problem is that it's not quite that high, and it's also a moving metric. Apparently the cost of a Falcon 9 launch is down to $28 million, which is ~$1,200/kg thanks to reusability.

″[The rocket] costs $28 million to launch it, that’s with everything,” Couluris said, adding that reusing the rockets is what is “bringing the price down.”

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/04/16/elon-musk-spacex-falcon-9-ro...

As SpaceX uses their Falcon 9s more, the cost will continue to fall and approach consumables plus the amortized cost of the 1st stage.

The Starship is the same idea, but with larger payload and better reusability. Realistically it'll be somewhat expensive initially, but as they improve the design and reuse, costs will drop.
Geoengineering projects will probably require a lot of haggling in committees, mining asteroids does seem to have some momentum (pun intended)[1] though I would personally worry about moving some big metallic asteroid to LEO, wouldn't want to make any mistakes...

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asteroid_mining#Proposed_minin...
Senior engineers frequently align with poor management.

For example, in March 2018, Jeff Dean defended Google making Tensor Flow video analysis software for the US military (to use to decide which Pakistani families to assassinate [0]). He calmly and normally presented the technology. When he presented his rationalization for the project, he blinked continuously. I think he was lying.

Having a senior engineering position in a large company does not imply integrity.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drone_strikes_in_Pakistan
Movim tried this with xmpp as backend.
That's because the publishers are dependent on Google, because they have no discoverability of their own. It's a systemic problem but it's not Google's problem that they are the only discovery platform for most media outlets. Those brands don't have the inherent value or reputation they think they do, or it wouldn't matter where they were on google results.
Unfortunately you're right. "Gamers" are a fucking wierd bunch, they'll send death threats to reviewers who dare not to give "their" game glowing reviews. The one you mention had "gamers" literally replying with GIFs and videos which could trigger a seizure.

I use gamers in quotes because it's obviously not every gamer who does abhorrent stuff like this but it is certainly an issue within the "gamer" community.
It's surprising not to see that anywhere — it's the natural question.
Even in places where that is true, that typically only applies to employees "blowing the whistle" on illegal behavior, like violations of labor codes or hazardous conditions. It's not a blanket immunity for anyone with something negative to say about their employer.
to expand on this I sort of have to expect, if this whole kind/unkind thing is to mean anything at all, that any reasonably large area of human endeavor (sports, programming, politics, law, music, etc. etc.) will have some sub-fields that are either kind or unkind, although I suppose some areas (like politics or business) might skew extremely towards the unkind.
It's a real problem. There's a worldwide shortage of high-end fab capacity. That's not an easy business to enter. TSMC is spending US$20 billion on their newest fab. They started in 2018, and they expect to get parts out in volume in 2021 or 2022.

If you want to duplicate TSMC, you'd need a huge amount of money. TSMC is valued at around US$500 billion. Anyone not already a major fab operator would probably fail. They'd have to go through several generations of fabs to catch up. Meanwhile, TSMC is moving forward. China is trying to catch up.

There's never been an industry like this before, where it costs half a trillion dollars to be a player. Not just to be #1, but to even be in the game.
Or can get a ride share to a suitable orbit.
This is a very long post with some useful strategies.

One of the biggest obstacles I've observed in the juniors I mentor is their mindset about focus and attention. Those who think that motivation and focus are external factors that come and go at random struggle the most.

The key is to recognize that attention and focus are skills. Like any other skill, they can be improved over time through deliberate practice. Simply accepting that attention span is malleable is the first step to improving it. Once you realize you're in control and can level up your abilities, you've cleared the way to improving.
> Jin also shut down meetings regularly in China on behalf of the Chinese government, and sometimes gave over personal information of Zoom users outside of the country to the government, according to federal prosecutors.

I hope those victims are safe
The Macdonald Triad
I'm by no means a Shakespearean scholar but, in the context of his many earlier tragedies, wouldn't Lear with a happy ending have been something of an outlier?

>just read the plays!

And watch them!