skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder if the Nintendo releases of a variety of gameboy consoles in transparent/colored plastics prior to the iMac was any influence at all. Certainly they gained popularity with the release of the transparent purple gameboy colors.
I'm guessing they mean in general. HN crowd doesn't cancel people, but HN is also a public board with a somewhat peculiar fan following on Twitter...
I don't really understand why wooden junking floating around space is any better than plastic. Microbes won't be able to break it down like they would on earth.
yeah what's up with that,. why are sites I know I visited not in my history? Why is their omni bar so awful? etc etc
the nose fairing -- which protects the warheads and the post-boost vehicle during ascent -- on the Trident II submarine-launched ballistic missiles is made from some beautiful Sitka spruce (and some glass, but it's mostly wood).
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For me the biggest thing was that the tapes had been sitting for 15 years, then discovered and treated as though they were something valuable. If they were so important, why were they forgotten on a shelf for 15 years?

Wait until you have to clean out a parent's house with a rooms full of stuff saved because they thought the grandkids might find it interesting. Here's the reality: they don't. My mother saved boxes and boxes and boxes of photos. None of them ever sorted, or put in albums. Just thrown in boxes. Saved for decades. Was it hard to throw them away? Yes, a little. There were a lot of moments of my childhood there. But if I asked myself honestly, was I going to do anything with them other than put them on a shelf at my house? The answer was no. I'd advise sparing your kids that burden.

A friend of my mother's had saved every canceled check she ever wrote. Boxes of them, because she thought her kids or grandkids might be interested in them some day. Their reaction was likely: What's a check?

If you really cherish something, and it regularly brings happiness to your life, by all means save it. But do it for yourself, not for what you think your descendants will find interesting. And if it's been in a closet for 5 years, ask yourself why you are keeping it.
Most automakers had them, they were just optional and so people didn't spend extra money on them and kept getting flung out of their cars.

Volvo had them standard, but Volvo has also never been above 1% market share in the US [1]. If a tree falls in a forest and nobody is there to hear it, does it make a sound?

[1] https://knoema.com/infographics/floslle/top-vehicle-manufact...
Someone(s) competent to cover up aliens would also be smart enough to muddy the waters and lull us into complacency. I don't think the conspiracy theorists are wrong not to treat minor, easily-stageable signs of transparency/incompetence as extra evidence against their beliefs.
Seems like many people are new to this concept and feel skeptical so here are some useful resources:

* Kurzgesagt: How to Cure Aging – During Your Lifetime? (7:20)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MjdpR-TY6QU

* Kurzgesagt: Why Age? Should We End Aging Forever? (6:48)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GoJsr4IwCm4

* Why we should cure ageing (11:30) - Heads up, it's a book intro
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNn-2TXzSaA

* Ageless: The New Science of Getting Older Without Getting Old (Book, not yet released in the US)
https://andrewsteele.co.uk/ageless/

* Lifespan: Why we age and why we don't have to (book)
https://www.amazon.com/Lifespan-Why-Age_and-Dont-Have/dp/150...

* Google talk: Why We Age and Why We Don't Have To (55:13) - By the author of the book
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9nXop2lLDa4

Edit:

* If you wish to contribute to this kind of research make sure to check out SENS: https://www.sens.org/
Pro tip: You can link directly to multiple active sources. The following link marks all sources as active automatically. It is surprisingly harmonious: http://listen.hatnote.com/#uk,en,fr,sv,he,as,pa,ml,or,pl,sr,...

You would have to click all 40 checkboxes manually otherwise...
> “You understand what I’m saying? We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin. And then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities,” Ehrlichman said. “We could arrest their leaders. raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did.”

- John Ehrlichman, Counsel and Assistant to the President for Domestic Affairs under President Richard Nixon
Broken up maybe? Long lengths, I'd agree.
Having been around for quite some time, it appears to me that the OS X generation is completely unaware of how Apple used to be like, and whatever "openness" they had during the critical business years was just for survival, nothing else.
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It is an abstraction, that much is true. But formal languages are built on top of logic. The formal abstractions force us to stay true to logic and that is why they are effective.

Hence the term "formal language" over just "language." All language is an abstraction over something. The term "formal" indicates a deep connection with logic. What this means is that formal language is developed with a set of axioms, so as long as the axioms hold true the rest of the language does as well.

The same cannot be said for other abstractions.

Too put it plainly... formalism is abstraction, but not all abstractions are formal, don't trick yourself into believing otherwise.

>Down there at the bottom of everything? It's humans. Subjective, emotional, informal humans.

The baseline is not humans. We are one part of the universe not the center. Logic is the baseline. Logic is the thing universal to not just all humans, but all living beings and all things. This fact has been repeatedly observed to be true and therefore one is more wise to hold logic as a universal truth rather than a anthropocentric view of the universe.
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Netherlands used to take a similar approach as Norway, but since earlier this month the schools and kindergarten are closed. Not because many children get infected, but because parents are much more likely to stay at home when the school is closed. So they're using kids as a way to keep people at home. Kind of crazy...
What electron apps can’t be done as chrome pages with local file system access?
I've no idea how much Niacin is added in America, but you can have too much. Since we don't eat much corn here in Europe, packing food unnecessarily full of this supplement could be dangerous to health:

Niacin Toxicity

Symptoms of toxicity include: Flushing of the skin, primarily on the face, arms, and chest *This side effect may occur at doses as low as 30 mg/day. Itching. Nausea. Vomiting.
Well, I think some students will be switched on enough to spot inconsistencies, and so it makes sense to acknowledge them and not have the student feeling that their mental model is wrong, when it's not, or that they shouldn't expect any consistency, when they should
> You can do proof-of-work on L2 state just like L1 which would enable light clients.

The more I think about this, the less sense it makes to me. Do you have a reference that explains how this would work? It sounds like you're talking about building a blockchain on top of a blockchain, which doesn't seem practical.

Surely it would be better to handle decentralized consensus once in the base layer, so that the layer on top can focus on other things? Think IP vs TCP: TCP doesn't come with its own solution for relaying packets across network boundaries. It relies on IP for that, and instead it focuses on providing reliable streams.
There's danger in speaking your mind on the internet when it's tied to your name. I dont want my employer and whoever to know my opinions on everything. I don't see why anyone would want that.

I'm not worried about HN, it's who else finds my HN account. It may be possible to identify you through your writing soon enough. And there's not so many software engineers in the US. Not worth the risk.

I don't see why making wild predictions is a problem?

I don't have any static social media accounts besides placeholders I use for work related stuff. Every 3 months or so I clear my history and start fresh. Paranoid? Probably. But I don't like the idea of leaving a digital record of so much of my life
For someone living in a suburb but having work and daycare in city a work-from-home might actually make commute worse (or it would for me, if I had to work from home).
I honestly don't think self-driving cars will ever happen.
Semi-OT: I wish someone would make flexible building blocks for fastening/connecting such parts, i.e. something like Lego or Fischertechnik but better suited for electronics. Many people use 3D printers, but they seem wasteful for printing temporary cases for such projects. Wood is a possibility, but not so quick to work on. There has to be something better than duck tape and rubber bands...
It seems that regulations are often a little more lax on products produced domestically.

Can we trust states with major pharmaceutical industries to regulate pharmaceuticals? Major car production centres to regulate emissions? Major chemicals companies to regulate chemicals?

I'd be a little suspicious, living next to such a country, if they insist on my adopting the regulations they wrote, which of course their industries all successfully meet to the letter.
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Thanks for that example info.

In every state/county website I have looked at, it has somewhat comprehensive information for the distributors of the vaccine. But nothing for the consumers. It is all from the logistics point of view -- down to the distribution point of "hospitals are going to get it". After that, nothing. Total absence of information.

Unanswered is the major (but simple) question of, "how do you apply/request to get the vaccine?"

No answers on that front. For 330M people waiting to find out how. It's kind of an embarrassment.

Edit: I acknowledge we're in an unprecedented time with a vaccine developed at unprecedented speed. But I have a feeling this is not going being managed well. We had months of warning that a vaccine was coming. And months more until the general population's turn is ready -- and I bet we still won't have good information.
Ehh, not really. I've used both Macs (old 15" rMBP, 12" Macbook, M1 Macbook Air) and Thinkpads (T450s, X1C G7, T14 AMD) and Lenovo just frequently drops the ball on things like display, speakers, touchpad and battery life.

Apple has also made some poor decisions in various areas in the past like poor thermals, power-sucking dGPUs, and of course the butterfly keyboard. The M1 Macbook is very nearly perfect though, and I don't know how any of the PC vendors are going to top it.
After the Mass Delisting, Will XRP Come Down to the Dip?
I really love nix and nixOS and I‘m also using homemanager on my macOS machine and an WSL instance. But I decided to turn away from it. Using just the nix packagemanager on a distribution feels off and doesn’t bring you all the benefits. On macOS it can be very frustrating to find a programm that is in the mix packages but not available for macOS. Plus some tools tend to be very outdated and use very general compile settings (light theme etc). I also have issues how libraries etc are linked. I have a rust project that for the love of god I could not compile on a arch installation with nix package manager managing all tools (rustup, git, etc). It was failing with some error around a standard c lib. It was working fine on a popOS installation with nix so I have no clue what went wrong where. The rabbit hole is very deep with nix. It is very very awesome but you also leave behind the conventional way of Linux when going all in. I played around with nixOS and really loved the idea and how easy it is to reconfigure the system from a single config. But if you don‘t want to write custom package overrides and dable with nix-expressions I would not use it as a dotfilemanager. If anyone knows a good way to integrate nix with arch that does not feel like a strapped on solution I‘m all open.
For those who haven't been to the US, I was blown away that some cars use brake lights as the turn indicator - good video on the set up (and issues): https://youtu.be/O1lZ9n2bxWA
No, it takes a lot of energy to get out of orbit. But unless the satellite is in a few very special locations in Earth's orbit, its orbit will naturally decay over time and eventually fall back to Earth, usually burning up in the atmosphere. (Above low-earth orbit this could take a very long time, but now satellites are required to be designed with deorbiting in mind)

Often some parts of the sat still make it to the ground, but SpaceX's Starlink sats for example are designed to fully burn up in-atmosphere within a year of deorbiting.
The article mentioned that small aluminum particles are left in the upper atmosphere after burning up. The wood would presumably not have this problem.
Dolt has peaked my interest to say the least. Would love to know the story behind it, and also what are the use cases for it?

By the way, I can't click your about page, or the menu button (Firefox android). It just refreshes the page and goes to the data repositories on your main page.
Always fun to see zachtronics pop up on HN
I've had my dotfiles in git for 7+ years. Work on Windows, Linux and macOS. Conditionalization in BASH is dead simple.

EDIT: 12+ years at work.
I'm not sure I buy the wisdom of warehousing the second dose rather than giving more first doses. An eager allocation strategy seems like it would result in higher vaccine throughput, and it's unlikely to result in an out-of-vaccine situation for the people who received the first dose given the production rate...
Fun fact: "pasta" literally means "paste" in Italian (and most languages from Latin).
This seems like a huge loophole, like basically you can only use this "small court" to go after people who can't afford federal court. So it's more likely that big media will use it to more cheaply go after small infringers who won't be able to afford defending themselves in federal court. But if you're a small artist, and try to go after a big company, they'll just reject the process and go to federal court, which the accuser can't afford and we're back at square one.

Anyhow, I hope I'm misreading this, or there's missing details here, cause if not, this seems like a step in the wrong direction.
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Moving off the orbit is not as easy. You basically have to slow down in order to de-orbit, and that requires rockets. These end of life rockets adds to the weight of each satellite which adds to the cost of launching them.
Are you objectively sure it’s subjective?

Ethics must be objective/universal, although cheating it is common and alluring.

Because ethics are universal the rules make sense even for children. It is wrong to lie, steal, rape, and kill, while it is right to honestly tell stories, receive gifts, have sex, and give life. In these words definition lies whether the receiving party partakes voluntary or is forced to.

Legality on the other hand is defined by who controls most guns. If might is right, why should not the strong group genocide the weak?
Europe was really penny-wise/pound foolish. Instead of doubling down on all promising vaccine candidates, they ordered too little of the expensive vaccines (18 USD vs 5-7). Adding to this some more backdoor politics that led to buying just 300m Biontech doses because Biontech was perceived as the "German" vaccine and Sanofi (the "French" vaccine) also had only 300m orders on the book.
What exactly is the disaster? The only holdup was that the EU countries did not want to use emergency use approvals so there is only a single approval so far (Pfizer). The procurement seems okay. Austria where I am has orders from Pfizer until end of Q2 for 25% of the population alone.
There is Yunohost https://yunohost.org/#/ which is a open source project, whose goal is exactly that, personal server for everyone, with popular services that you can install from a web interface and that you can run on a dedicated server or a Raspberry pi like computer.

There is also nextcloud which is more a all in one product.
I found memory leaks in the Golang app using “pprof”
it actually reminds me of the Logitech G15 that I had over a decade ago (or G19 as the later model). The screen can be used to show some stats like CPU and RAM usage, or for games some kind of extra information like your health, your ammo count etc.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logitech_G19
I strongly disagree. Almost every single system has webhooks which by definition are user supplied URLs.
Assuming you don't mean to literally blow up the satellite,
unless you have enough fuel to boost the satellite to earth escape velocity (expensive), it's not going to "spiral away" but get boosted to an elliptical orbit where the highest point ("apogee") is going to be at a higher altitude, but the lowest point ("perigee") is still going to be the same low altitude it started from. You could do a second burn at apogee to circularize the orbit and thus keep the satellite at that altitude all the time, but that's more fuel again.

IIRC per a video by Scott Manley they do this for geostationary satellites and maybe at medium orbits, but for low-earth orbits (the majority of satellites) the extra fuel requirement goes against the cost advantage of LEO.
Graveyard orbits for GEO, and forced atmospheric drag for LEO.

Now, what happens if the propulsion is broken? Or out of fuel. Or the drag mechanism failed to deploy? How does any sophisticated deal with the physical reality of it not being able to move itself? Self retirement assumes the happy path that everything goes according to plan without breaking in a radiation rich environment moving at thousands of km per second.
I think game engines are the most complex software category to be engineered. They aim to simulate reality for a given piece of hardware. It seems as hardware gets better game engines implement something closer to the physics equations that describe the universe. With some AI as shortcuts for biological formations, we'll soon have to reinvent the wheel less and take less algorithmic shortcuts whenever we need a basic simulation with gravity, lighting, materials etc.
Prove this fact formally for each qualification. Resolve the debate once and for all. You can't, which is my point.
I feel like you're not engaging in a good faith discussion here. Above you falsely accused me of dishonestly misrepresenting the initial capacity limit. I believe I demonstrated in an objective and indisputably way that you were mistaken. Rather than acknowledging your error about Bitcoin and the inappropriate insult, you've simply changed the subject.

What purpose is there to continuing the discussion if you're going to do that?

> clearly intended for this to be a temporary limit

This is in a thread with him loudly urging people to NOT change it, in a message responding to someone saying that it could never be changed. Saying that it isn't impossible to change something does not mean that it is merely temporary. A concrete retaining wall is permanent yet can still be torn down if people choose to do so.

What do you think of his much later statement that "Bitcoin users might get increasingly tyrannical about limiting the size of the chain so it's easy for lots of users and small devices."?

> I did try to have an open discussion on r/Bitcoin, but what I found was that answers to my questions were removed, and even my questions were removed.

Where? If you demonstrated the kind of apparent bad faith approach you've done so here-- perhaps you should consider that you might have earned it?

If not, you might have just been made roadkill by an overactive immune system-- that subreddit was utterly mobbed by an endless stream of shill sockpuppet accounts arguing a particular agenda. :(

> I did see that Adam Back was challenged to a public debate on these issues

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sealioning But also... who cares what he thinks?

If you wanted to see debate there are literally hundreds of kilobytes on the subject written by people who have been actually involved with developing the Bitcoin system.
FWIW, here's the Canadian plan,[1] since there seem to be a good number of us Canucks on HN and it's natural to wonder/follow/compare with our close neighbours.

Some key points from the Canadian plan: (page 11)

* Canada has access to 7 vaccine candidates and regulatory authorization for 4 of them (Pfizer, Moderna, Janssen, AstraZeneca)

* 6 million doses (out of 38 million Canadians) to be delivered by March 2021

* "Pending regulatory authorization, Canada is well-positioned to immunize 100% of the population in 2021."

* general population vaccinations begin in April 2021 [2]

[1] https://www.canada.ca/content/dam/phac-aspc/documents/servic...

[2] https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-covid-19-vacc...
Seeking revenge, with premeditation and planning is not unique to humans. A lot of animals also hold grudges against others and humans. So there must be some sort of evolutionary advantage that might not be too obvious.
Plants from the nursery are often on the verge of being root-bound (if they aren't already) and getting nasty J-roots and the like.

Up-potting is important for overall plant health, regardless of what kind of pots one chooses to use.

Personally, I can't imagine needing to worry about having appropriate inner pots to go along with everything.
Bucatini alla amatriciana or bucatini alla carbonara. But I'm not sure if you will be able to find Guanciale (a derivate of pork jowl or cheeks) and Pecorino cheese. You can replace Guanciale with cubes of -smoked- bacon (please forgive me italian readers) and Pecorino with Parmigiano Reggiano cheese (that should be more easier to find).

Important: as shared by other HN users, remember to put the pasta out of hot water a couple of minutes before the cooking time and stir it on a hot pan with the sauce for the last 2 minutes. Make sure to add also a few tablespoons of the hot (salted) water you used to cook the pasta, this helps to make the cream effect.
How does tape reading/writing wear out the physical medium? Any practical limits?
Wow those diagrams are extremely well thought out and clear to understand. Saying they’re just blue boxes is a huge understatement. Visualising highly conceptual topics like numerical programming is not an easy skill, and the more the better.
The same argument was surely made by slave owners since the beginning of history, but westerners managed to abolish slavery, and after that industry was invented
This is indeed a very interesting question! I’ve also asked myself that time and time again, along the path of slowly discovering what this FP thing is all about over the course of my career. It does look wonderful, it does save you a lot of effort in some cases, where “some” is a vast swathes of computational problems. And its so damn elegant.

A lot of examples are thrown around were a bunch of lambda calculus can result in 10-20 fold reduction in source code size. So where’s the catch?There has to be something wrong right?

Well recently I stumbled upon a clojure conf talk that tried to tackle precisely this question. https://youtu.be/QyJZzq0v7Z4

The short of it is that its more of a historical inertia and chance than any specific hidden gotcha. Fascinating talk.
Of course! There's good uses for everything.

It's all this talk of poorly susbtituting emotional bonds with simulacra that annoys me.
Seems like a motte-and-bailey.

Oh, it's for couples! Now let's go back to selling our subscription model AI anime girlfriend
I actually thought the 10k price tag was extremely reasonable based on the article write up. Yes it's beyond most personal users - but that is not out of the reach of even a small group of people (be it education, maker spaces, or small business). I would have expected an extra 0 on the price tag.