skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wooden missiles are a thing too, or at least partially wooden. The WW2 German Rheintochter [0] surface to air missile had beautiful wooden control surfaces.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rheintochter
I'm reading this chain of responses and still haven't seen anybody saying the obvious: that poverty is not the same thing as not being rich. Instead, you keep digging in the misunderstanding, reaching absurd conclusions.

In most first world countries, there is basic free education and children can study for a job with enough pay to provide for a decent life style. That's not to say that there're no problems. There are. Often accomodating immigrants from poor countries. Also because declining population and pensions and all that.

But do you want to go full socialist because only rich family children get to the most expensive colleges? O_o
It is kind of grass is greener on the other side.

If you have capitalism, you end up with communist revolution, if you have communism, you end up with capitalist system.
There's many programming languages where multidimensional arrays of floats are a natural language construct. From low-level (e.g. Fortran) to high level languages (e.g. Octave/Matlab, Julia). Even in C you can work with multidimensional arrays of floats, but it is a bit cumbersome. This is not the case for Python, where the language cannot express in itself this data structure, and it needs external library support like numpy.

EDIT: I'm always very surprised by the wide acceptance of python/numpy for numerical algorithms, as it seems a notion quite foreign and awkward for this language. Python has excellent native support for string processing and advanced data structures like dictionaries, but those are mostly useless for numerical computation. If you want to do math in Python, you need to write libraries in other languages and provide a Phython interface. This is what scipy does, and it is a very good job, but it does not feel "natural" from the point of view of the language. If Python was a good scientific programming language, the most natural way to implement scipy/numpy and all that would be using Python itself, but this is not at all the case.
No, Volvo gave us seatbelts and the Tucker gave us safety glass. 9 years after the free market created seatbelts, the government mandated it. Mandates have never and will never manifest technological/scientific advancements out of nowhere.
You bet :)
At the beginning of this lockdown I was excited about how great it will be to dedicate commute time to hobbies.

With kids at home only time I get is @ 1 AM.
I was really on the fence about bit coins, but after reading this I finally decided to pull the trigger and cash in on my 401k to ride to wave. Surfs up!
It's extremely consistent. I'd say that's the only consistent way to do it, if you want to preserve the semantics of JS objects. Lua does pretty much the same.

> Saying that they're objects is not reasonable.

This is a fair point, in the alternate universe where JS objects have different semantics.

> in most languages lists are objects, and they don't also do key-value pairs at the same time

This is a dynamic language we're talking about. You are very welcome to think dynamic languages are inferior choices, an opinion that I personally would share, but that's a discussion for another time. In the context of JS, that behavior is neither unreasonable nor inconsistent.
What was newsworthy in the campaign emails that justified dumping a guy’s whole inbox?
I’m not so sure about “high-quality” being possible for all. “Reasonable quality” I’d agree with, but truly high-quality education is incredibly labor and resource intensive to provide as it must be tailored to the student to a significant degree.
I am in the same boat as you. While it is very normal for parents to be defensive, I found the comment a bit unnecessarily aggressive without an immenent threat (heck, we're on some comment section on the internet here, not a dome in hunger games battling for survival).

But then again, I have not had children of my own, so I can't relate to the need to defend my offspring.

And from friends I know that parenting is really hard with lots of sleepless nights. Perhaps the parent commenter just had a bad day.
People don't seem to take action based on these things. I was concerned about not being able to buy vitamin D because of so many articles positively correlating it with good COVID-19 outcomes... but had no trouble buying it recently.
Tesla Model S erupted ‘like a flamethrower’
That's not actually the only claim/result in that briefing; but yes, I agree that it doesn't seem representative for the question you're asking. Do you have any better citations? It doesn't seem like there's a conclusive answer from the academic community.
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I understand what you’re saying, and technically you’re correct. However, the quote I referenced is typical of the coded language being used to justify and advocate for much more extreme policies of redistribution that I’m not convinced many would agree with.
Economic inequality within a developed nation is one of the least important kinds of inequality. I'd trade one standard deviation of income for one standard deviation of pretty much anything else, such as intelligence or attractiveness. The average person in a developed nation lives better than the kings and emperors of the past in material terms. They had a bigger dwelling, but I'd much rather live in a modern apartment than in a medieval castle. A rich person today can buy a $1200 phone, and a poor person has to make do with a $200 phone. That extra $1000 only marginally improves the quality of the phone. The $200 phone today is still better than the $1200 phone of 10 years ago. The medieval king had no phone, heck, he probably didn't even have running water. The food he ate was worse. We can eat bananas every day, the king perhaps only saw a banana on one of his paintings. The healthcare he had access to was way worse. The transportation he had access to was way worse. The entertainment he had access to was worse.
There is a problem with passing down wealth. If you split the wealth among all children it will become insignificant by the third generation. This is generally why the first born son received the entire inheritance in the past.
Kstar fusion device maintains 100M degrees for record 20 seconds
"With trillions of dollars of cash sitting on the sidelines looking for return and trillions more being pumped into the market by governments around the world, nothing is too expensive. Instead, what’s more important is finding that which is unique. That of which we can print no more. That which is finite."

The trillions of dollars in QE are mostly hoarded in banks, not pumped into the markets. This is evident as M0 has increased greatly, while M1 hasn't. The purchases made in QE are mostly government bonds, the revenue of which is mostly spent on government salaries and entitlements. That's why there is very little general inflation, there aren't any big sums of new money flowing into consumer goods.

The trillions of private dollars chasing returns are still mostly risk-averse. It's not venture capital. It's not going to small business or home-owners. It may have gone into government bonds before, now it's going into the S&P. That's asset price inflation.

Buying commodities such as gold (or Bitcoin) as a hedge against inflation is irrational, when assets such as stocks are both inflating in terms of price and appreciating in terms of actual value, at the same time.

Of course, irrationality has never prevented prices to rise, but when your fundamentals are based mostly around "greater fool theory", you should perhaps reconsider your allocation.

"It’s only a matter of time until people figure out that bitcoin is the ultimate collectible."

I wouldn't deny that there's a certain sentimental value to owning one of "only" 21 million Bitcoins, but I wouldn't personally put it anywhere near five figures.

For comparison, like many others, I enjoyed playing the original Super Mario on the NES as a child. It came on a cartridge of which about 40 million units exist, with a current value of around $10.
> The USA is Russia's chosen archenemy

is an extremely US-sided view.

Speaking to Russians, they'd tell you that they'd love to get along with the US, but that Americans only have 2 modes of operation i.e. be submissive to US like the EU is, (that certainly is the case with the EU as someone living there I can conform, just look at the weak EU response of the US pulling from the Iran Deal for example), or be an archenemy that needs to be vilified & threatened.

They'd tell you that NATO is threatening their borders & that the US would never tolerate Russian troop buildup in Mexico.

Take the 2016 US election as an example, everyone freaked out. Hardly anyone ever mentioned that the US started meddling in Russian elections more than two decades earlier.

Granted, I think the current 'setup' with the US being the archenemy suits the Russian government just fine for domestic audiences, which is especially ironic as it actively hurts real, independent, democratic movements.

It also suits US defense contractors, 'cyber' experts and various grifters offering to combat misinformation.
To risk assess wether you have strong roots in the UK, and so are unlikely to overstay and work illegally in whatever country you’re visiting.
Grose's A Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue (1785) mentions the army custom of a marriage over the sword, the officiant, an NCO, pronouncing "Leap rogue, and jump whore/And now you are married forevermore." And somebody in Great Expectations is said to have been "married over the stick".
My means tested solution is if someone tried to take my resources I will weigh killing them against the consequences of killing them. Their life would have no value in the calculation.
Biggest and pretty serious difference I see is that, in the past a lot of devs from EU moved to UK for contracting, as that's why the most money was to be made. Now I suspect it will be impossible or impractical. However, I don't follow the details anymore but this probably aligns with the end of contracting boom anyway (due to IR35 tax regulations).
Ask HN: How do you avoid procrastination while using the internet for work?
As a programmer, I need to use the internet a lot (Stackoverflow, github, etc.) and sometimes I find myself, almost unconsciously, going to a page that is totally unrelated to what I do at that moment (the New York Times let's say) completely derailing my train of thought.

What are you tips / tricks to avoid that?
What Dan got right:

Brooks clearly missed the boat when he said, "Well how many MIPS can one use fruitfully?". I'm not sure where the fault lies on that one. A recent article [1] bemoans the slowness of modern software.

What Dan got wrong:

Both problems discussed were created by computers. A large collection of machines generating logs is possible to analyze, but that possibility comes from massive investment in tools designed to parse, extract and report on linear and structure data. Brooks covers this in "Buy vs. Build", although his example is closer to Excel than ggplot.

Also, if you are dashing off a python script in a single wall-clock minute, you either write insane amounts of Python for purposes similar to this or are way smarter than the average engineer. In Advent of Code (where Python is popular), the fastest solution to the easiest puzzle (Day 1) this year was 0:07:11. [2]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25386098

[2] https://adventofcode.com/2020/leaderboard/day/1
It seems like a major brand changed flour suppliers, falling under the FDA-required amount of iron, and thus not being allowed to import it. I don't think that is indicative of any wider issues, except that the government might be interfering with your food a little bit too much.
Ok, spook
Sorry, I should have said “the trouble with OP’s idea”. You wouldn’t get a full business subscription to news orgs for less than $500-$1000 a year, which consumers won’t pay.

A bundle of consumer news might work, but you still get the adverse selection problem that the clients most interested also tend to be the clients interested in standalone, expensive subs. So it’s hard to get NYT, WaPo, times of london, etc
Tbh I’d expect any browser plugins to break much much sooner than they are ever going to remove or make breaking changes to bookmark exports. Especially export bookmarks as HTML. Pretty sure that the HTML format that browsers export bookmark as has stayed pretty much the same since the days of Netscape Navigator.
I have a Synology NAS at home and it has apps that let you do exactly what you said: it has apps to automatically backup photos from phones and then you can easily share them in a pretty nice interface. And one of their photo organization apps, Moments, also automatically clusters all faces and runs object detection on your pictures, locally, on the NAS. And it just works.
We use electron and the complaints about CPU or memory are more theoretical than practical problems. It's not easy to package electron for each desktop but it does work!
Another anecdote:

Subway bread cannot be technically called “bread” in Ireland because there is too much added sugar in it. Ruled by their supreme court:

https://text.npr.org/919831116
From europe, this rings very true.

I wanted to get a larger house with a garden before the pandemic (which is ridiculously expensive given the rent / value ratio in Europe is a joke) and the pandemics reinforced that tenfolds.

How long before the government lock us in our tiny homes again?
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Show HN: Four years of profitable side-projects
Had the exaaaact same experience

Horrible horrible support. Incredibly frustrating doing all of the steps on phone support to even get someone to come out. They advertise it as better than an Apple store, but after the first year you have to mail it in with a two week repair delay

I now use a MacBook with zero issues, while the XPS never worked properly (they forgot thermal paste after the first repair) and it died entirely after barely 2 years. Huge waste of money
> Probably a long time.

I'm not sure about that. Some companies are already discouraging use of terms such as "sanity", "dummy", or "blind" [1]. Discouraging words that can be somehow linked to social disadvantage seems like a "logical" next step.

[1] https://developers.google.com/style/inclusive-documentation
I also enjoy hiking and walking. So much that I’m planning on living in a different city every month (air bnb monthly is great) this upcoming year. One of my top three favorite activities is walking around and exploring so I figured why not?
Citymapper is so much better in Paris where Google Maps is very poor for public transport. I'm extremely impressed.

It can not only tell you which exit you need to take (extremely important in Paris) but also which car to board to be the closest to the proper exit or line change.

Multimodal routing is also extremely impressive. They properly implement the city bike sharing system including how much bikes and empty spots they are available at each station.

As most of this is public data, I don't understand why Google is not exploiting it. My guess is that Citymapper originated in London and therefore as a deep understanding of this way of using public transport while Google Maps is mainly developed in the USA.
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Technological improvements can also make it easier to deal with conceptual complexity, by allowing us to express ourselves better.
+1. The grandparent's statement is a paraphrase of "from each according to ability, to each according to need", which is a classic communist slogan.
You say inclusivity isn't the real reason for the change. Then what is it?
Umm... I don't get it.

There is much more natural matter entering our atmosphere by way of dust and meteorites. This one says about 40 thousand tonnes each year:

https://skyandtelescope.org/astronomy-resources/astronomy-qu...

Granted, not all of this is aluminium but I can imagine there is more metal raining down than all man made satellites combined.

As to space junk which is matter floating on specific orbits around Earth, it does not matter much what it is composed of. If they hit each other at multiple kilometers per second it doesn't matter if it is made of wood, paper or steel. The result is from kinetic energy being released, not the composition of the bodies.

I think the goal should be to make less satellites, smaller ones and maybe also built in a way that would make them less prone shattering into multiple small parts if hit.

Less satellites -- satellites should be shared. We shouldn't be in a position where every company that decides to send thousands of satellites can do so at will. I think the number of satellites at various orbits should be limited and controlled the same way the electromagnetic spectrum is being controlled for common good. For this reason we should think how we can make as many possible uses with small amount of satellites and this I think should include some sharing schemes (the same way we share EM spectrum).

Smaller == less cross section for collisions, less matter spread in case it collides.

Less prone to shattering == further prevents or slows down any chain reactions from part of one satellites hitting another satellites.
For those that believe people are poor because they did not work hard, I am curious what importance you attribute parenting to the outcomes of children?

Every parent I know invests a significant amount of time and often money in raising their children, and there is a significant amount of empirical evidence that parents play a significant role in how children develop. Do you simply believe the evidence to the contrary? It does exist, I am aware. It often seems to measure obviously superficial interventions, in my opinion, but I understand the debate.

What is the level of parenting beyond which there is no additional return in terms of economic outcome?

Because from what I understand, parents play a significant role in not only cognitive development (reading at an early age, for example) but also in terms of setting expectations for their children.
Of course, excel can be used to read csv files and do basic analysis but in my experience it takes too many steps to import a csv file and it doesn't handle datetimes at all well ie. iso8061 format - 2020-12-29 13:29:10. You can also set the first row to be a column header and do basic filtering etc but it's all extra steps when a dedicated viewer immediately gives me the overview that I'm looking for.
So what? Just because IPv6 does does not solve all the problems in networking it's trash and we should abandon it? No thanks. Where I live, ISPs are starting to share IPv4 addresses between several customers, which creates many problems.

And QUIC over IPv6 is still a lot better than QUIC over IPv4.
Very cool!

Small Feedback: The "Show HN" tag does stand out a lot - giving it the vibe of something like a site administration announcement or an error message. Maybe you could consider toning it down a bit?

Otherwise, great work. Let's see if I can replace normal HN :)
Self-hosting apps seem like the way we're going to go in the future. I do like the use or Archive.org to help the end user, and the rest of us at the same time.
Haha, awesome. I'll have to sift through this later!
Discussed several times here:

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23886501

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11931747

Also articles on shipwrecks, e.g.:

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15617028
If you have a high-dimensional array then in your latter convention if you had to specify the “remaining” axes you’d need to provide a lengthy list. That’d be user-hostile.
I honestly don't see how it would work out. The vast majority of boomers are not rich. They were doing fine because they lived in an era where job training was easily available but if they lost their job before retirement they end up just as poor as their kids. They might own a nice house but it's not always where you want to live. You sell it and then go somewhere where that money is probably only enough for the down payment.
Have you heard of Western Europe? It's not a binary choice between "eat or be eaten", "the poor are just lazy" vs. "force attractive people to have sex with unattractive ones", "brave new world" utopia.

Western European programmers still live very well, they just aren't as rich as in the US. And the high taxes do moderate and blunt the cutthroat competition to a degree, which results in less crazy work life balance etc.

Of course these debates get very heated because everyone wants the system that would give them more. I was born to poor parents who could afford their own education because it's free here. My relatives had a social net to bounce back from during rough times (primary school teacher). It's not good for a society to have a large portion who feel existential dread and that the only way up is taking huge risks that often require initial capital.

The reason it is like this in the US is because it's not a nation. It's just atomic families and people from all over the world, tolerating each other and minding their own business. There is no feeling of solidarity, especially across races.
It's not a conflation anymore than me calling my recycling bin "trash". It's just a slightly more general term used when the distinction is not important because the meaning is completely obvious in context.

People who think space junk cannot polite the atmosphere are the confused ones, not the author.
Work perceived as immoral is associated with higher wages
IPv6 was over engineered. The fact that you need several hours to understand it while you get IPv4 in 5 minutes doesn’t push for adoption.
No, the authors are debunking the popular theory that poor people are poor because they don't have the skills/gumption needed to not be poor. Turns out that when you give them a productive asset (a cow) that lets them be not-poor, they're perfectly capable of staying not-poor.
I traveled to Beijing and Shanghai and Google maps was effectively worthless. Apple Maps on the other hand was accurate and included accurate mass transit directions.
Here Comcast started giving out "static" IPv4 addresses to dynamic IP customers, which is the opposite of sharing IPs... I can change it by spoofing my router's MAC address though.
Related: the part of cheese that's not the rind is called the paste.
For me it depends on the strain. I usually have three or four different kinds of flower on hand and I recently picked up one called rockstar. I'm quite experienced but the latent effects of that strain is too much for me. I smoked a bowl last night at 9PM, its nearly 24 hours later and I still want to go back to bed. And I already guzzled three mugs of coffee. Good shit but hell no on a work night. Never have I had a strain that beat me up so much the following day.
Non-mobile link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graniteville_train_crash
julia --lisp IIRC. It's part of the Julia parser so a working version is in every Julia installation.
Agreed - I think their plausible excuse expires after they get look of the person and I guess whatever "documents" or images they were checking them against the facial-recognition matched them.

Btw, I'm not saying they look the same. I'm saying at a casual glance or quick look, or grainy-surveillance footage level, they do look strikingly similar.

Another factor though we may not be considering in general regarding facial-recognition is identity theft. I've dealt with that sort of thing before, and if you're not careful the government might get really confused as to who the "actual" person is, and who was the one that stole the identity is. Again, not the case here, but it is something that police need to consider.
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