skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Watch the full interview here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oc9CogVgXN8

The projection of decreasing launch costs is really exciting. From $5K/kg to $3K with sights on $50-$100. Huge implications! If launch is $1M, you will spend that much to design your satellite. At $50K launch, you spend less.

I couldn't help but think of this analogous to web tech. It used to cost millions to launch a dotcom. When it came down, we found a Cambrian explosion of startups and the web really got going.
The story I've heard is that the original lightbulbs filled with soot and darkened well before they burnt out. Edison guessed the soot was coming from the filament and was charged, so he placed a charged plate across from the filament to attract the soot before it could stick to the glass. It worked, but the bulb was much darker than before as the charged plate siphoned a lot of current off the filament.

That device would have three conductors, which you can see in the photos. Two for the filament, one for the "plate." Later, a fourth conductor called the "cathode" was added to be heated by the filament (rather than pulling charge directly from the filament) to make the first diodes.

There's something funny about how modern active components are designed to reduce how much heat they consume, but the first active devices required an active heating element to function at all.
Eclipse Foundation Moved to Europe
How the PDF Played the Longest Game in Tech
How so?

With a VM image, the process can be as simple as, yum update, snapshot, then update the configuration to point to the new AMI ID. And if you're using a tool like packer to create AMIs, the process might be to kick off the CI/CD pipeline again.
Is that in staten island?
> Good testers just think differently than software engineers.

I'm sure in some cases it's useful to detect all possible crashes, e.g. to make an app as secure as possible. In other cases I'd watch out for diminishing returns; perhaps instead of "think differently than software engineers" it would be enough to "think in the similar way as product users".
That interpretation is backwards. The "default state" of these websites would be getting sued into oblivion. 230 protected them from that, providing they act as neutral platforms. As they have continually expanded the list of content which is not allowed, whether or not they are acting as a neutral platform is being called into question.
From 15,000 MySQL Connections to Under 100: A tech debt tale
The issue should be whether there is a linking and not the nature of the linking. I mean if "over HTTP" was a get-out-of-jail card then you just need a C-ABI => JSON standard, and then you can link any library you want and only the server-linker needs to be opensourced (and probably would be as BSD).

I believe this is why the GPL uses the term "derivative".

> This is similar to newspapers who claimed that having links to their site, violates copyright.

Making links to their site might violate the license by which they allow you to browse their site, but it doesn't break copyright. If the on their homepage had a pop-up "You must agree not to not share any links found on this site as a condition of using this site" that would be analogous.
I'm absolutely NOT being sarcastic. In my time at Overstock, I prided myself on a mobile-first bundle that was 200k... for the ENTIRE app. The time to first meaningful paint and time to interactivity were fantastic. This was especially true for 3G and emerging markets. There is NO WAY, I'd add 30k so I could select/iterate DOM elements. I simply see that library (as well as a few other common ones) as part of the problem we see in JS development.
that’s fair, but my point is that the analogy of linking to a newspaper article content doesn’t really apply to this. it’s apples:oranges.
why are we starting with the assumption that anyone needs to receive and moderate posts at the scale facebook does?
Anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity is on-topic here
It's not compulsory, but it's encouraged and the tools have been updated to make it easy to opt-in.

It's a good thing for Allies to do, as it normalizes the use of preferred pronouns in society and supports those who may need it more than others.
Once I was told: if you line up 100 Germans and 100 Americans which are on vacation and tell them: the first one to reach the top of that mountain gets a million dollar. 100 Americans run straight up the mountain, 97 die of cold weather or from falling down rocks. But one reaches the top at first.

The Germans go back to their hotels, plan the trip, shop the needed equipment and set off according to their planned route and timetables. 99 will get to the top, but no one will get the prize - because the American already has been there... sums it up.
I wonder how long Fitbit would have been able to survive on it own. Something tells me not very long.
This looks really cool. One suggestion, each job listing is too wide across the screen on a desktop. Adding padding would help.
I had a Fitbit Charge 3, and had to replace it about 3 times IIRC in a little over a year period. The 3rd replacement happened a week after the warranty expired, which to their credit they still replaced it. But it once again died shortly thereafter, at which point I just bought an Apple Watch. Mainly for the ECG function -- my wife had bought me the Fitbit after I was diagnosed with atrial fibrillation, so I figured I'd rather have something that could help me check more than just my pulse to determine if I was out of rhythm.
Maybe re-read my comment.
He deleted multiple tweets including the one I quoted:

> We're not talking about some NSA-built crypto processor installed on an SSBN, but an old $50 piece of consumer kit. There is no way it's hardened against the last ten years of USENIX papers that have never been used in practice
A news and celebrity pundit industry that operates in a capitalist fashion has companies that employ people. They have a profit motive and face market competition. This shapes their behavior. News organizations that tell both sides of a story do not provoke the sensationalism and outrage that news organizations which tell only one side. So they don’t get shared as much.

The market literally selects for more one sided clickbaity outrage articles.

Meanwhile social networks compete for your attention and “engagement” for clicks on ads so their algorithms will show you the stories that are the most outrageous and put you in an echo chamber.

It’s not some accident. It’s by design.

If we were ok with slowing down the news and running it like Wikipedia with a talk page, peer review, byzantine consensus, whatever you want to call it — concentric circles where people digest what happens and the public gets a balanced view that is based on collaboration rather than competition with a profit motive - our society would be less divided and more informed.

Also, Apple and Google should start charging for notifications, with an exception for real-time calls and self-selected priority channels/contacts signing the notification payload. The practically free notifications creates a tragedy of the commons and ruins our dinners!
The same Soviets who started the war -- sorry if history hasn't smiled brightly on the Soviet war effort, they were gladly in the Axis when the conflict began.
The raw files off my D5600 are roughly 30MB each. If I took 100 photos a day, I would need +1TB every year to keep all of them. The battery is good for about 600 shots. Someone who does photography professionally can easily blow right past that on one job before accounting for their second shooter's files.
As a group they more often value personal and property rights above government institutions. A more common view in rural areas where you can be quite far from community/govt. services. After seeing months of property rights violations by large groups of people doing the same/similar in D.C. seems reasonable. It’s simple trespassing on govt. property. If someone does something malicious there should be repercussions for them but nearly everyone just trespassed.
> For the study, researchers followed 41,058 adults in Sweden for an average of 18 years. None had Parkinson’s at the start of the study.

...

> A limitation of the study was that participants reported what they ate over the previous year based on memory, rather than their diets being closely monitored. Also, diets were assessed only once at the start of the study, so any changes in diet during the study were not recorded.
While you’re right that your data might be safer with Google, the fear or unease is with Google having even _more_ data on people. Too much data in the hands of one company.
Nuking your RSUs will also make an enemy of every other person in your company with RSUs. You might not be fired, but you’ll likely lose most of your social capital at the company.
The last two paragraphs seem strangely familiar. Almost like I have read it somewhere else before.
> The posix programming interface happens to be the C library

Not exactly, the POSIX API is a superset of the C standard library.

https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man7/libc.7.html

> The term "libc" is commonly used as a shorthand for the "standard C library", a library of standard functions that can be used by all C programs (and sometimes by programs in other languages).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C_standard_library

> Starting from the original ANSI C standard, it was developed at the same time as the C library POSIX specification, which is a superset of it.
Like I mentioned in another response, my bundle was 200k. 30k would have been significant bloat.
Sure, that’s a political problem with the idea, but MD not wanting DC is a Constitutional problem.
Having to deal with data scientists, I absolutely agree. The thing that I've seen that lands in the "lab" vs production distinction is that these people expect their data to be pristine. They flip out when the world isn't as perfect as their models want. Leads to me as just a normal software developer having to do the data analysis and figure out how to clean it up.

I also end up having to be the one to talk to data vendors to understand their data feeds and essentially translate that for the data scientists. Having to sit in the middle is annoying for me and suboptimal for the business.
According to modern zeitgeist, if Facebook can't be trusted to moderate their users, Facebook should be deplatformed and shut down.

Edit: wow, that blew up. For the record, I don't think Facebook should be shut down, and I don't think Parler should have either. I'm rather anti-social media, so I've never used either. We should have better reasons for doing things, and stick to them. Section 230 exists for a reason.
Sounds like a use case for some of those humanities majors.
"protection against public cloud providers offering open source products as a service without contributing back".

I have no issue with whatever license they choose, but let's be honest, its not about contributing back to these projects, its inserting a poison pill clause that they know cloud providers can't meet.

Specifically, by contributing back they mean, per the license: "If you make the functionality of the Program or a modified version available to third parties as a service, you must make the *Service Source Code* available via network download to everyone at no charge, under the terms of this License."
Since I'm using libp2p in Go for a side project, may I take this opportunity to ask how this could work in principle for a decentralized network? The way I see it, this seems to be impossible but maybe I'm missing something.

For example, in my network, anyone can start a node and the user has full control over it. So how would you censor this node? The following ideas don't seem to work:

1. Voting or another social choice consensus mechanism. Problems:

- Allows a colluding majority to mount DOS attacks against anyone.

- Can easily be circumvented by changing host keys / creating a new identity.

2. The equivalent of a killfile: Users decide to blacklist a node, dropping all connections to it. Problems:

- Easy to circumvent by creating new host keys / creating a new identity.

3. Karma system: This is just the same as voting / social choice aggregation and has the same problems.

4. IP banning by distributing the blocked IPs with the binaries in frequent updates. Problem:

- Does not work well with dynamic IPs and VPNs.

Basically, I can't see a way to prevent users from creating new identities / key pairs for themselves whenever the old one has been banned. Other than security by obscurity nonsense ("rootkit" on the user's machine, hidden keys embedded in binaries, etc.) or a centralized server as a gateway, how would you solve that problem?
this is literally the worst parallel I've ever heard. guns are deterant against serious bodily harm. You've obviously never been in a situation when someone else was threatening your life. A better assumption is maybe Parler was a deterant from suppression. I love how parler criticism existed in 24hrs after "trump" ban. I was on the platform for months non of this hainiss violence or racism was ever in my feed.
I think the concern centers more around Google's horrific customer service and wanton axing of services.
I mean, you've basically nailed the challenge:

> if I were to have offered pronouns in the last say, 30 introductions I made in person, most of the other parties would be baffled, ask why, then may think they have to coach their language around me.

This is exactly what we're trying to correct. And while you may (I'm assuming this is in reference to you) be able to weather the "ginger menace" remark, I'm not sure how well that translates elsewhere.

To wit: I once had a new friend call me a terrorist in a similar manner to the aforementioned "ginger menace" introduction after a few times of having met. That was the last time we spent time together.

I feel pretty odd using the phrase in quotes. Mind if I stop? I recognize it's probably not offensive to you, but I hesitate continuing to use it.
> Facebooks willingness to moderate their content

Facebook moderates content only when it draws too much attention, but either way Facebook profits off said content as their algorithms promote it (because said content generates "engagement").
The Death of the Dream Job
It's not so simple as "what comes first?" (theory or experiment). What generally happens is that we stumble upon something, build a rudimentary but useful or interesting piece, then try to understand it, generalize it, and expand it (and usually succeed, with science). Both happen iteratively.

Information theory came after the telegraph and early communication systems. However, we could not have built modern communication devices without Information theory (the insights and design principles). We build, then we theorize, then we build better, etc. it's not a simple procedure. Computers were developed similarly: there were all sorts of ad-hoc logical apparatus, we built boolean theory to explain it, and then we did all sorts of experiments trying to build computers. Their architects were largely mathematicians with very good ideas of mathematical design principles (and creative new mathematical ideas), not a group stringing together electrical elements and seeing what happens. The same goes for the development of ML/Deep learning, and many other technological marvels.

Although "accidental" discoveries do happen, they happen from a methodical set, with knowledge, intuition, and good priors.
Wear OS needs work but it's not garbage. Given enough RAM it's usable. The Fossil Gen 5 for example is somewhat fine. The issue is more with Qualcomm releasing garbage CPU. Google releasing a watch would help in the same way the Nexus line helped with phones.

What WearOS needs is man power and an easier time getting the fix they need in the Android tree. It's not however a lost cause. With the improved activity monitoring provided by Fitbit it could be nice.
This is my biggest concern, not even the data.
Google locks your account and your entire life is disrupted!
Why do jQuery at all now? IE 11 is no longer supported. All major browsers are evergreen and, except for some small edge cases that jQuery didn't really support anyways, they are pretty much completely unified in the APIs they support. If you are really worried about that 1% difference, then you can use tools like babel to cover those cases.

The only reason to reach for jQuery, IMO, is familiarity. If you don't want a framework, then just write vanilla js.
One of the core dilemmas to me in this argument is that the way we do it now exports the problem to others who have less resources to deal with the impact. Countries breaking, millions in jail, hundred billion $ spent etc. [1]

[1] https://transformdrugs.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/CTC-Ec...
So to be clear... Despite trying to avoid big Californian tech companies my health data is now going to Google, my chat data to Facebook and my insurrection attempts to torrent websites?

Please make it stop....
I wonder if Swift would have happened if they went with gcc? No Lattner.
www.gettrumpybear.com
No. Can the cleaners job be automated ? Yes
Can a good/creative developer be automated ? No

The skill you bring to the table is worth a lot more than their skill. Although everyone in the world is important, some are more important than the other.

Its the Google that changes the direction of the world not the general guys.
Wow. This passes for science?

We really need a safe, unobtrusive device that can record body's micronutrient intake on a daily basis.
I can't stand this aspect of newer cars. It also means you're often hosed if you want to update the infotainment system.

I've driven a model 3 and I find the gigantic tablet to be not only distracting but impossible to safely interact with while driving. Maybe I'd get used to it but I heavily rely on the tactility and feel of buttons and dials to know what I'm doing while keeping my eyes on the road.

It was not a pleasant surprise when I was looking at some mid 2010 Ford Super Duties and wanted to research what it would take to add in an Apple CarPlay head unit. (wasn't added an option from the factory until 2017). Turns out if you get a Lariat or even a well optioned out XLT you get saddled with a touch screen that integrates nonsense like the HVAC and heated seats. The interface is dreadful and you'd be stuck with it for the life of the vehicle. Thanks for nothing Ford.
How long before it's killed by Google?
> Those who believe in conspiracy content are people characterized by a psychological tendency to take shortcuts whenever they can in order to minimize their efforts in learning and understanding new things

I dont think it is that simple. I remember reading finding that smart highly intelligent people are more attracted to conspiracy theories. The complexity of those theories and details those rely on attract them.

Also, I may be wrong here, but I remember reading that Parler was funded by some pretty rich people. If that is true, they should be able to pay for tech know how.
This article makes a lot of points, but nothing that implies actual stagnation? I wish the writing was more concise and to the point.
Things change, i thought my Whatsapp data was safe from TheZuck.
You’re missing the crux of the argument: auto-currying. In languages like Elm and Ocaml all functions are single arity which means a multi-arity function is just a partially-applied single arity function thus you can treat all functions as being single arity. This also means the pipe operator can be implemented as a higher order function being, as such, first class. Languages without auto-currying have to resort to macros.

Clojure also doesn’t have auto currrying, but makes up for it by giving you 6 variants and creating a consistent default library for sequences and associative structures.

So, the pipe first operator is just a dirty hack.
I did and I also deleted my account and data.

I’ll probably get an Apple Watch but I’d prefer something eink and “dumber” with just clock, heartrate, steps, stairs and GPS, no accounts and no forced uploading to their servers would be ideal.

I love the FitBit device though. If there’s some opensource way to keep using it without Google being involved I’ll probably try that.
> Most countries in the world don't have chip fabrication facilities in their country and they do just fine.

I don't think that Huawei is doing is doing just fine.

You have to think about scenarios where countries are opposed to the US for one reason or another.

The Patriot Act being renewed for 6 months and thus putting Cuba in the embargoed countries even more than they already were should be a good second example.
That's the broader point about universal welfare. If there is no friction in someone moving from a place without it to a place with it, of course people will try to claim it from any place.

So unless they set up some kind of residency requirement or collect biometric info from the homeless and register them as NYC beneficiaries, I don't know what would keep homeless people from coming from other areas (other than, of course, a lack of money or transport).
You said a lot which I appreciate. I will just say, my claim is not that most or all is disinformation, just that disinformation should be on the table when trying to make sense of info being fed to us from the matrix.
Multiple branches of US military are pouring tons of money into AI/ML, so they definitely want to get in to AI.
I had the exact opposite take, that him talking about that is (further) evidence he's a bit off his rocker. Not that being off his rocker is necessarily a problem. In fact, it might be the only reason he's doing interesting stuff with his wealth instead of just trying to turn it into more wealth for the sake of a high score.
What does it mean for Elasticsearch Service on AWS?
> Given enough RAM

This is the problem. A smartwatch should not be burning a lot of RAM. It has a battery the size of a dime, it should be doing very little with processor or memory. Wear OS is too bloated to the task.
They are just one technology step behind. And from now on the large fabs will take turns in who is the leader. That's all there is to it.
> if you are willing to read lies, you deserve to be deceived.

What if you don't know if it's lies or not. Which party is responsible for a solution? Should people "wake up" first or should we as a society punish those who prey on the unknowing?