skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The YAML is due to Digital Ocean, not Nix.
In case anyone missed it, there's a link on the page to a larger list, which also gives links for the individual documents: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1wS6O7-ZoFL7Cfjgt-kdh...
You're mis-reading the text.

The reduction in cost pertains to the try/catch (defer/recover) mechanism, not error returns.

The cost of error returns has not reduced since Go 1.10.
What's a computer code?
Just to clarify: this is about insurance for the payload, not the booster. So, the insurance costs only depend on how likely the insurance company thinks it is for the satellite to be blown up and how much the satellite costs, not how much the launch costs.
Yep - pushing air away for 12+ hours at high sub sonic speeds might indeed be less efficient than a sub orbital flight where you exit the atmosphere in a couple minutes and cover most of the distance without meaningful air resistance in the vacuum of space.
Sounds great, if I could just upload a solo file and then have a binary pop out I'd easily pay 10 or $20 a month for the privilege
I honestly am not at all sure what you mean by much of that.

Demographics don't change the fact that if you don't automatically update software, many users simply won't. That's bad.
Aye, there are two definitions. They are not reliant on each other.

The word "lead" also has several definitions, among them: the metal, and the thing you use to walk your dog. A dog needn't be involved in the former, nor the metal in the latter.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/lead
It's quite nice of Apple to strip this by default in Safari—didn't even realize it was a thing until I switched over to Chrome to see what you were talking about.
> The USA today very much resembles an oligarchy (class-based rule by the rich) being pushed rapidly into social media-driven democratic mob rule.

Agree with the first part, disagree with the second part.

It's going to remain an oligarchy, but the circus of 'mob rule' will be utilized to make sure the oligarchs remain in power.
> Will starship land with enough fuel to take off and return to friendly territory?

No. If you want it back, you land at a friendly base. The nominal use would not likely to be for insertion but logistics, like a really fast C-17.

It's intended to be quite cheap to build, however, so it's not impossible that it could be used one way (in a very high-value operation.)

> Can starship land in Earth like gravity on a standard concrete area?

Yes. They're doing that right now. Taking off from a flat pad, however, is unlikely, at least in current configuration. A "tactical" version with pre-main-ignition "hop" engines, like planned for the lunar lander version, might allow such ops (providing you can provide large quantities of liquid methane and oxygen on site!)
Huh, interesting. Probably explains why I haven't ever seen it: I never use sleep.
i recommend Roberto Bolaño and Gaito Gasdanow
While it isn't used often in conversational English, Common Lisp has a nice way of describing different ranges:

for x from 0 to 10 ;; closed, [0,10]
for y from 0 below 10 ;; (half-open, [0,10)

"below" is unambiguous, as 10 is not below 10.
I've updated my post to clarify my argument as it missed some important details. To me the value of history is trivial to state, but it's the relationship people have with it that can become a problem. There's a lot to learn indeed, but it is a mental trap as well that causes people to overestimate their own importance.
>the risk that Hunter Biden might be trading off his family name versus the risk that white supremacists might attack the national capital in an attempt to overturn democracy.

Aah that hurts man... I almost wanted to correct you but I convinced nothing will convince you anymore. Consider yourself a victim of the media. Greenwald therefore was right.
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As a famous software philosopher said (I think it was Uriel): errors are wrong.

Or, to put it more clearly: there are no errors, only conditions that you dislike. It's better to not burden your programming with your emotional shortcomings, and treat all conditions that you may encounter on an equal footing.

You try to open a file; the file may or may not exist, and both cases are equally likely and you get to decide what your program does in each case. No need to attach an emotionally charged label like "error" in one of the two cases of the conditional. Or worse, as some emotional fanatics do, to bend an otherwise clean programming language by adding features (e.g., exceptions) that help support your sentimental disposition.
I suppose I'm rather surprised to hear it done so flagrantly, if I am to explain my disgust at the use of language here. FOSS is a beautiful thing. How many people's live s are made better by it? Countless.
Such an object would function as a sail—one powered by light, rather than by wind. The natural world doesn’t produce sails; people do.

What about jellyfish that move about the oceans pushed by wind?
> And having the power to ignore the convention is good, too.

Mistakenly not handling errors is not "the power to ignore the convention", it's "the language is half assed".

"The power to ignore conventions" is being allowed but having to explicitly ignore the error, aka that the second and third cases trigger errors, and that you'd have to write:

y, _ := fmt.Println("Bar")
println(y)

_, _ = fmt.Println("Qux")

(also note how you can not use `:=` in the second case, because that requires that there be at least one new variable on the LHS)
Overton Window 201

Moloch is always and everywhere.
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1 hour meeting -> meeting start at 9 and is expected to finish when it’s no longer 9
1 day vacation -> vacation start on January 20 and is expected to finish when it’s no longer January 20.

Ultimately, it relies on conventions, but I guess now you can see how this one relies on something which has some consistent pattern.
I'm afraid maintenance costs will quickly eclipse any money saved by buying a second hand rig due to the rather hostile marine environment.
Sarcasm is a bit different that what aboutism, but I’ll grant you it’s not mutually exclusive. I pointed out other well known affairs that invested parties also would try to cast doubt on. Denying that the ruling Russian oligarch is corrupt is not credible without big proof, which was not provided.

I assume you think navalny faked his novichok poisoning or do you at least admit Putin is ruthless and attempts to poison his enemies.Putin’s henchmen poisoning navalny is fake in your opinion right?

Edit: ps please downvote me and this whole comment chain. This isn’t an appropriate chain for hacker news. A bunch of unsupported statements against widely believed concepts and also political of nature ? Got to have strong supporting material for that or it will devolve fast in here.
Sounds like you have all this backwards. If the rumours are true, it's TSMC with all the power in this situation, not Intel. TSMC selling their services to the highest bidder because they have the best tech is the free market at work. It's the opposite of anti-competitive. Intel is the one going to pay up (to TSMC) for their mistakes. Incidentally, AMD outsourcing its fab came with inherent risks, one of which is this.
In the linked chat with Lex Fridman, Loeb also mentioned how such objects are likely to be zipping by essentially all the time.
It'd be great if by the time we spot the next one (of whatever nature) we had a probe/robot/something able to catch up with it (or better, catch it!)
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You make an excellent point. I shouldn't have been sure about the author's intent.

Thank you for pointing out my error.
Honestly 0-based indexing is one of the most annoying things to teach. In sciences, people really don't care about programming arcana: I have never found anyone who found 0-based indexing natural or intuitive.

In fact, much of the vehemence in favor of it seem to be more about programmer shibboleths, to make some people feel they are in a special 'in-the-know' club (certainly if the r/programmerhumour reddit is anything to go by).

All I can do for scientists is tell them the advantage of learning a programming language outweighs the weirdness.
I too find the key to communication is to ignore the definition plainly being used by those I'm talking with in favor of a secondary definition that allows me to manufacture a needless gripe out of the thin air.
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For a fantasy classic, you could try John Crowley's Little, Big, which was reputedly the late lit critic Harold Bloom's favorite novel. Bloom notoriously hated most fantasy novels - the Harry Potter series in particular - so that's a noticeable endorsement.

For an older fantasy series, you could also try Mervyn Peake's Gormenghast trilogy (starts with Titus Groan), which actually predates the Lord of the Rings and has a crowd that thinks it's better written. I think Neil Gaiman has worked on a TV series adaptation.
What can aging in dogs, elephants or flying foxes teach us about human aging?
Who in their right mind would work for Trump?
The world is too large and complicated to say that people should not hold an opinion unless they have all the facts and have personally evaluated arguments by primary sources. No one ever has all the facts and society is necessarily based on trust and trusted sources.

You are asking your reader to have as much or more evidence to form an opinion as to convict someone. Actually much more. In a trial, the juror does not get to see "all" the evidence and interpret it for themselves.

I don't need to attend a 40 hour trial and then spend additional research time evaluating exabits to form an opinion on about Dr. Gebru's situation. I'll freely admit I don't know the details, have not read internal documents but I have read the claims and Google's defense against them.

Her claim that she was fired for "embarrassing them in a paper" does not seem extraordinary in any way. Their defense that she resigned as a result of one simply "following the logical chain of future events" seems like legalese hand waving. Their refusal to accept a simple "I am not actually resigning" from her seems to codify her claim.

That is enough right there for me to be very comfortable in forming an opinion. Her following claim that the firing was racially motivated now also seems plausible and I would need more than a "no it wasn't" from Google particularly in light of the firing people who protested sexual harassment and unionization.
Can or should the headline of this HN post be updated to include (rumour) or (speculation) or (unconfirmed)?
> Some researchers do want to make a name for themselves and publish before the patch, but those are minority. And publicly attacking a big corporation is quite risky so they prefer presenting the bug as general problem in the technology.

That doesn't sound right to me. The industry norm for security research is 'responsible disclosure', which is intended to give the vendor reasonable time to implement the fix, while eventually publishing the knowledge for all to know.

Unless they're simply being paid for their silence, I can't imagine a security researcher wanting to keep quiet about a major achievement like that.

> bugs in hypervisors exist, see CVE's for Xen for the past decade

Sure, but I'm talking specifically about the big 3 cloud providers, not vanilla Xen. Amazon in particular have gone to pretty extreme lengths with their Nitro system.
I've been using it for the last few weeks, and it's been pretty good so far. It doesn't suspend music tabs when they're not playing (which TGS did automatically), but nothing much to complain about.
Anecdotally, I use xidle[0] and xlock[1], and have found both to be very reliable. xidle supports locking the screen by sending it SIGUSR1, which is really useful since you can trigger it from a process that doesn't have DISPLAY set.

The trick on laptops is to block on sending the signal in the script you use to suspend, so that when the laptop resumes the display is already locked.

0 - https://github.com/steinex/xidle-linux

1 - http://sillycycle.com/xlockmore.html
It's hyperbole. Welcome to the Internet.
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The convention is to reuse err after you’ve handled any previous non-nil values. That does leave room for forgetting a check. I’ve made that mistake many times, but the errcheck linter finds the mistake every time.
(Specifically: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velella)
What difference does it make if there is an alternate meaning to the word than the one they are using?
Apparently it's about computer science / information technology contributions to science as a whole:

Fortran compiler
Fast Fourier transform
Biological databases
General circulation model of the climate
BLAS
NIH Image / ImageJ / Fiji
BLAST
arXiv
IPython Notebook / Jupyter
AlexNet

Interesting that they do not list the internet itself.
I don't think I can think of any non-profit more deserving of donations than the ACLU in my opinion.
Here's an early use of the word "flamebait" in rec.autos.tech (Usenet) in 1995:

https://groups.google.com/g/rec.autos.tech/c/1WGLn35Et70/m/b...
> go to any website you'd like. Why is the lack of an app on the App Store or Play such a major hindrance?

have you ever been grateful you received a notification on your phone when a message arrived that was of great interest to you? Does your web browser do that, or do your apps do that?

you are smarter than the obtuse you are pretending to be to make your argument.
https://github.com/ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox/wiki/Security-Overv...
>I am not a fan of corruption but it's undeniable that he played whatever cards he had in life and played them hard.

His parents were a Diplomat and a Businessman and he graduated with 2 engineering degrees from Berkeley. So we should be lauding him for winning a game of poker when he was dealt a Full House? Lol
If you can pinpoint which pages are affected (in most cases you can), you can just add that range to the blacklist.

Can work in the meantime, before you have a new machine.
Please stop down voting posts like this. If we want HN to remain a welcome space for civil discourse for everyone, we need to respect other people's candid statements.

Remember, Trump won 47% of the popular vote which likely includes a large number of HNers. We should not alienate those people.
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I watched it this morning with the same kind of enthusiasm that i might have for the morning weather; seeing Falcon 9 land is just normal, even though they exceeded their landing envelope by landing in high winds.
Avi Loeb wrote the book and who I am talking about. There isn't ambiguity about whether I was talking about the article writer or the person the article was talking about. Read the article again, there is a particular person talking about Oumaumua and then assumptions about alien natural selection.
I can see why you'd think that but in practice I assure you that your concern is unwarranted. I've been using Nightly Firefox exclusively for almost ten years and I honestly can't remember it ever crashing (excluding the times when I was manually futzing with experimental about:config flags back in the electrolysis days).

As for the developer edition, it's literally the version that they expect web developers to use; it's not half-baked software by any means.
> This seems like an incredibly likely vulnerability to me and I am not surprised that even "elite" programmers missed it.

Was that a typo? Seems to me it should be an incredibly UNlikely vulnerability for "elite" programmers to miss it. If you meant that as written I don't understand it; please explain.
"Tell him we'll convict in the Senate if he fucks around" is access, even if it's not direct face-to-face.
But I also reject the notion that there are forced labor camps. As I said via my sources, the evidence for forced labor is very dodgy.

Ajit Singh: "‘Forced labor’ stories on China brought to you by US gov, NATO, arms industry to drive Cold War PR blitz" https://thegrayzone.com/2020/03/26/forced-labor-china-us-nat...

Some people go to prison for being extremists. Some people go to mandatory reeducation for being extremists. Some people are wrongly convicted, with the prosecutor not having done its job well, and that's wrong. But you can't compare mandatory forced reeducation (like a super-boarding school for adults), and instances of lazy prosecutors, to concentration camps; that's a totally different level of crime that's not even in the same ballpark.

You just conjured up the word "holocaust denial". Not sure whether you are implying I am like a holocaust denier. But don't you think that such a serious accusation, requires serious evidence? So far I haven't seen you addressing any of the actual content that my sources discuss.

Again, if you argue whether people should be treated as humanely as possible, then I agree. But you can't brush terrorism and the US involvement in Afghanistan, under a carpet and pretend like they're not relevant and like they're wholly-independent issues. Again: what else is China supposed to do? It's easy to say "choice x is bad" without considering whether there are better choices. Has anybody found a better solution to terrorism? Even France is now talking about things very similar to Chinese reeducation camps.

Do you also denounce the US war on terror as an equally, if not bigger human rights violation? Do you believe the US deserves the same treatment as the one you think China should receive? If you do then I'll believe you are arguing in good faith, because selectively enforcing human rights is how it is weaponized nowadays.
> both cases are equally likely

Both cases are not equally likely, though. Also, this article is not about the philosophical approach to naming errors versus exceptions. It's about the performance of two technical approaches to handling exceptional/unlikely circumstances.
> The company insists on software to scan that my PC is "secure", so I give them a finger with an almost virgin Windows install. Their crap can work only on Windows, so I don't actually have any choice.

Maybe this software actually is crap and you know this for a fact. Maybe whoever is in charge doesn't know what they're doing. If so maybe ignore this comment.

With that said though, the principle to only allow "secure" systems for remote access sounds absolutely reasonable.

Having been on the other side of this situation, I have to say users like you are a real pain to deal with sometimes. There are always a few who "know their stuff thank-you-very-much", and feel that they need to "give the finger" to whatever measures are taken to secure things.

Try to see it from the IT-sec guy's perspective. Maybe some "crap" endpoint security software on the PCs isn't the end of the world if it helps keep things secure?
Great Suspender eventually added functionality to use Chrome's native tab discarding as well and so they stopped updating Great Discarder.
First, taxes paid isn't wasted money. It's (theoretically) going to those who need it. Tax havens, along with other tax avoidance schemes, are pretty popular with the rich, which means governments are on the lookout for them. It's not as easy as you think. For example, if you're American, leaving for a year doesn't do a whole lot.

Second, countries are locked down now but even after this pandemic is over, your limit is 90 days. If you're from a Schengen EU country you can get a residence in Monaco and just spend your time traveling. But again, I've heard that if you've ever paid taxes in France, for example, it might not be possible.

There are cruise ships that exist for this purpose. Spending a year surrounded by those kinds of people would seem like a special sort of hell, to me, personally.

If you can live abroad, generally, that's a great experience. Leaving family and friends can be a big cost for some people but if you can do it, it's recommended.

Traveling is like meeting someone, living there for a couple months is like dating them, and longer is like moving in with them: you get to know them intimately, all of their idiosyncrasies and it influences you in ways you can't avoid. You end up being a different person, usually for the better.

Like with everything, it's different per person. I always say: don't do anything just for money if you can help it -- and you usually can.
It's recommended to run it on a compressed filesystem like ZFS. On mine it's using ~75GB for ~3000 URLs. It varies greatly depending on the content, usually the vast majority of storage is from video/audio ripped with youtube-dl.
Sea Launch did ride a semi submersible platform to the equator for every launch. But indeed, it was not profitable in the end.
I watched Ancient Aliens so clearly the answer is Yes

/s
The blame for what he was forced to do belongs with the officials that were violating the constitution. They should be exiled for failing to uphold their oaths. Instead, Snowden is in exile.

Snowden was just the first honorable American to come across the information and he did his best to expose it safely, by giving it to journalists to release, after consulting with the government.

We can't expect whistle blowers to do a perfect job. There will always be some mistakes. As long as they act in good faith and reasonably, they should be protected.
The CDC, even after years of Trump's reign, is one of the best or the best funded organization of its kind. Iirc when they bungled the development of the covid test they had 100x the budget of Germany's Robert Koch Institute and probably a similar budget ratio against South Korea CDC. Both of which got on top of developing and deploying tests, including fixes, in a shorter time frame. I dont have a lot of faith in them, I think we should be looking for actually competent leadership abroad
The current high end AMD parts are multi chip modules. The CPU dies are made at TSMC in 7nm but the IO dies that glue multiple CPU dies together is made in the Global Foundries 14nm process.

GF has basically given up on 10nm and smaller nodes.
I would add that washing with water is normal part of board production. Fluxes are designed to be water soluble and a lot of fluxes are washed with water with addition of saponifiers.

It is also normal to wash a board in ultrasonic cleaner after any rework or at the end of production process (especially in small scale production).
Age of Ambition for how people outside navigate it. How China Escaped the Poverty Trap has some very good stuff on incentive structures inside the CCP.
I just started to watch the 1993 series Star Trek new generation. The show has some interesting ideas regarding advanced civilizations vs the primitive ones. One of which is called the prime directive prohibiting any star fleet from intervening with the evolution of primitive people.

In one of the episodes “who watches the watcher” the USS enterprise travels to planet Minkita 2 for a rescue mission and encounters a primitive species of humanoid. By accident, they exposed themselves and their technologies to the people there. Now, those people consider star fleet personnel as god. Without spoiling much, Jean Luc idea to refuse them this thought is interesting and worth thinking when it comes to our scenario here, don’t you think?

(I have to say that I am now big fan of the Star Trek series with Sir Patrick. How could I miss it all those years?)
Probably. Also, given that I’ve read it was a computer used for presentations, my bet is that it just has a couple of boring PowerPoints on it.
s/natural world/inorganic matter/
That's a neat tip, thanks for sharing that, this is the exact use case I was looking for.

I was hoping to kick the can on learning vim macros down the road, and so here we go...
Mcconnell does not leak, those quotes coming out in public were pressure campaigns. It's unknown obviously what was directly said to him.