skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I usually agree. However I got a Logitech MX Master 3. It has a magnetic scrollwheel instead of a mechanical one. That also enables it to have a little button to switch between clicky scrollwheel and free-spinning scrollwheel. Super handy!

Its battery lasts about a few weeks with above-average use (12+ hours per day, 7 days per week)
Teen Scams Kroger for $1M
There are thousands of gas stations in michigan. no way there are 40 in detroit. Google maps doesnt show every single one
I think we can expect legislation to be drawn up soon. They try it every couple of years anyway, now they'll use the lawmaker's fear of another Capital Insurrection attempt to finally get it passed... the same way they used 911 to punch other holes in the 4th Amendment.
I have one and I like it. It's not the best for gaming if you like lots of buttons but otherwise it's great.
You can put an image behind an login. The page or whatever content that's behind the auth wall doesn't even even have to be aware of that wall.
Largely because it's a fantastically expensive undertaking, and hasn't quite borne out the fruits that were speculated about over the years. USA provides a huge bulk of the funding, expertise, and personnel required to keep the program running. That's not to say that Russia, Canada, Japan, etc. don't do their part, but it's really not as much of a truly global joint effort as you might be led to believe.

Then there's a genuine question of what this enormous expenditure truly buys us. NASA's budget has been strangled for decades now, and robotic probes and missions to other planets have been perennially delayed due to cost, while their scientific ROI would truly be much greater than for ISS experiments in many cases. Don't get me wrong, I'm a huge fan of the ISS and manned spaceflight in general, but this kind of money does require serious explanation to Congress to justify the costs. Oh, and there's the entire money pit that is Artemis/SLS that stays on NASA books.

Also, why now? The private space industry is at what seems to be the beginning of an inflection point with heavy launch capabilities (SpaceX Starship) looking likely to drive down costs by over an order of magnitude. A single Starship might provide 800 cubic meters of volume, and the whole ISS is 1,000 cubic meters. Why not wait for that to come online and then launch many many ISS' worth of volume to several labs?

Lastly, the privatization of launch vehicles in particular has a lot of people questioning if private industry might be better able to step up to this challenge of manned orbiting labs. It has a potential to expand the range of solutions, massively decrease costs, and provide efficiencies that NASA might not be able to provide. When you don't have to manufacture space parts scattered all across the globe, it's easy to see why this could be cheaper and more efficient.
This is a whole genre of easy to write enraging articles.

1. Think of something crazy upsetting someone could say.

2. Find the 3 people who have already said it on Twitter.

3. Write your article quoting them, and watch the clicks and rage roll in.
Earth has stayed habitable for billions of years – exactly how lucky did we get?
> We'll produce electricity from oil, coal and gaz?

Yes, it's still better because you can move the electricity production to another source, but you can't move the petrol production the same way. If it buys time, it's still an approach to a better future even if it's not immediate.
Electric Cars Are About to Become Cheaper Than Gas Ones
aka trash software ;)
Betteridge's law: "Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no."
I was just talking to my coworkers about this. If you're providing an engineer a laptop for 3 years and paying them a large salary, why would you skimp on $400 on the 16GB->32GB upgrade for free productivity?

Same for the current COVID situation. Providing every engineer with minimum dual monitor and a proper desk is only going to provide you with output gains for very little investment.
Press release by the author of Lifespan.
Are you responding to the wrong comment? I do that every once in awhile. The whole point of my comment is that this isn't part of an effort to take Parler down.
That extracted wealth should flow back into the country and translate into well-being of your citizens.

Not just continue lining the pockets of the president's closest friends.

I'd rather have our military strong on the borders of our country and outside of it. Instead of having that military power used to strong-arm Russian citizens (and yes, the opposition is among them).
I don't think that is the case!
why "duck" though?
The whole point of continuous deployments is that they are continuous. This is in contrast to processes that require approvals.
Nevertheless those opinions are not widespread among minority groups, which was the original point.
You are correct I forgot to add the second link. It is fixed.
Try replacing "politically correct voices" with a proper noun. Who specifically is it that tried to cancel Christmas? And if you asked them if they are actually trying to cancel Christmas, would they say yes?
I imagine only goats would be agile enough to feed that way.
>> But, in general, the recruiter is not your friend and not there to help you. Them not disclosing information is to their advantage, not to yours.

I think that's an unhelpful point of view in any but most commoditized-labor situation.

The more rare and hard to find your combination of skills and experience, the longer the recruiter has spent looking for you, and the more motivated they are to get you the best offer possible to get you in the door. It's not in their or your interest to lose you to save a few tens of thousands of dollars.

>> You make it sound like if they don't tell you what the range is, they are somehow doing you a favor. No, if they don't tell you the range it's not because they're nice or whatever, but because they're trying to get you to sign on for the lowest amount possible.

Again that kind of only works in the most commoditized situations (eg: "hire anyone with 6 months experience with React" or whatever.) The more specialized the recruiting search, the broader the range becomes: for example, "we need someone who knows technology X and Y, has been in industry A and has shown attributes B and C" they recognize they may end up hire a more junior or a more senior person and expect different things from them. So the role may pay 250 or it may pay 500 based on who you are. If you're in the 250-level experience range, it's meaningless for you to hear that it can go up to 500.
Huh? Their "thinnest laptop ever" (the air) isn't the only laptop they sell. The macbook pro is almost all battery and its quoted at 17 hrs web browsing / 20hrs of video playback. thats massive.

I think apple deserves criticism for a lot of things they do, but their battery life is fantastic. (Well, unless you've got half a dozen electron apps running. But thats not apple's problem to solve.)
The unexpected benefits of having multiple lovers [video]
Widespread charging points in newly constructed parking areas will happen when required by building code and enforced by local governments; and likely not one minute before.

The construction industry is brutally competiive and cost-centric; things are included because they are required or because of customer demand, almost never just because they are a good idea.
Maybe for some readers:

Likely GC abbreviates garbage collection.

Going way back, some programming languages have permitted dynamic storage allocation, that is, a programmer using that language could during execution of the program ask for storage, that is, bytes in main memory, to be allocated, i.e., made available for use. Later the programming could free that storage. E.g., early versions of the programming language Fortran did not offer dynamic storage allocation, but some programmers would implement their own, say, in a Fortran array. Then for pointers to the allocated storage, just use a subscript on the array name. The array might be in storage called COMMON which to the linkage editor was external, thus permitting all parts of the program to use dynamic storage. The programming language PL/I had versions of dynamic storage AUTOMATIC, BASED, and CONTROLLED. The programming language C has storage allocation via the function MALLOC and freeing via FREE.

Well, first cut, intuitively can think of garbage collection (GC) as automated dynamic storage freeing.

In the case of the original post (OP) of this thread, what is going on is, in the .NET languages, C#, Visual Basic (VB), F#, etc., can, e.g., in a function, allocate storage, e.g., with the VB statement ReDim, likely use that storage, have flow control leave that function, leave the storage allocated, and, then, have garbage collection notice automatically when that storage will not be used again and free it, i.e., make it available again for allocation and use. In addition, likely the code for some programming language features need at least dynamic storage and might use GC for freeing.

The broad idea of garbage collection is old, in several programming languages goes back decades. E.g., in PL/I, AUTOMATIC gave automatic storage freeing.

Why should .NET implement garbage collection, that is, why bother? Otherwise sometimes programmers forget to do the garbage collection themselves resulting in allocated storage growing until it is too large. One of the old examples was from cases of handling exceptional conditions; in some cases the code that got control did not have the data to know what storage should be freed.

GC has some challenges:

First, in a rich language, it can be not easy to know what storage should be freed. So, there can be some bugs in GC implementations.

Second, GC takes time, and maybe in some situations, that is, in some programs, takes too much time and results in, say, noticeably slower response time. One place where GC tends to be unwelcome is real time programming where want the software to respond in no more than a few milliseconds to external events that occur at unpredictable times.

One of the main ideas for GC implementation is reference counting where the programming language compiler inserts extra code that, for each instance of appropriate cases of allocated storage, keeps track, say, just a count, of essentially how many variables in the code (for each thread of execution) might use, reference, the storage. Then for such an instance of storage when its reference count reaches zero, free the storage.
Ask HN: Should I quit software engineering?
Broad question, but I’m asking myself some tough life questions. I think many on here have done the same. I’m a relatively good engineer, I make 300k at Amazon. But I struggle immensely to stay motivated and complete my software tasks. For years I’ve been on the brink of being fired due to being really slow at work, which is primarily due to boredom, hating the immense complexity, the constant learning. Racking my brain all week dominates my life and stops me from expanding my life on my own time. At 30 years old, I recognize that this is unsustainable. What are my options? I can’t get this pay anywhere else, and I’ve worked so hard to get my current position. Software feels more and more competitive and I feel more and more like a run of the mill line worker.
Nope - there'll be not much difference.

It's not just the getting things into space that's the hard and costly part. Modules take years to design, build, and test.

That's why the current trend moves towards ever smaller and thus cheaper satellites and big launchers like Delta IV Heavy, Ariane 5, and Falcon Heavy barely see any action at all.

Starship would enable single-launch space stations, yes. But there are no single-launch space station designs yet and building one will either take time (ISS/MIR) or end up being much more expensive per person day due to weak design (e.g. Skylab).
> I don’t think that’s true. Socialism tends to focus on socializing control of the means of production, defined specifically as the physical instruments that enable but (though they experience wear) are not consumed in production.

That's how the political-economic philosophies developed over the latter part of the 19th century and the 20th century as they grappled with praxis. But the original universal credo, which Marx only later popularized and which today is still the defining aspiration of anarchists, who otherwise can't agree on much of anything else (excepting anti-statism?), was "from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs". That's a darned good abstract description of the FOSS community. Though, software duplication has de minimis (if not zero) marginal cost so I'm not sure what substantive implications there are in terms of organizing traditional industries or regarding the basic efficacy of currency-denominated price signaling in such industries.
With beavers, the case (aside from joy of re-wilding) was clear regarding their effect on up-stream water retention. Beavers are net beneficial in uplands, preventing flooding, at a cost of marginal land usage loss near the stream due to ponds, and less aggressive but nonetheless pretty wet flooding when beaver dams break.

With predators, I am unsure what the (quasi?)economic argument would be. I think the environment is healthier with a population of top predators. its possible it would stop rampant deer problems, they eat the living bejesus out of young trees. But the young trees in question are mostly monoculture, cropped trees. We're not talking native forest here mostly, the caledonian forest is a tiny percentage of the plantation state of most of scotlands forestry. (or was, I left in the 80s. I am probably out of date here)

A lot of 'beautiful' landscape is totally manufactured, including grouse moors. The de-forestation of britain across the industrial revolution, and then the highland clearances to replace upland small tenant farming with sheep, was about replacing the landscape with .. other landscape. Forestry Commission plantations are a bit soulless, but Edinburgh Universty has been running forestry management degrees since around 1917, and the need for timber in WWI. A lot of "restore nature" is really "put it back the way my grandfather had it" not "put it back to the doggerland days"

I like wolves and lynx and beavers and storks. Lots of tourists like them. I don't know (absent CAP market support to farmers) which is more net beneficial longterm, the destructive farming patterns, or the tourism. Both have up and downsides.

Non-british resident. I could get "what do you know" answers back. They'd be fair.
This sounds like an opportunity for an independent app unifying all of those and gathering/displaying real usability data. I don't think it could make official app stores due to having to reverse-engineer payment APIs of others, but... maybe something open-source and side-loaded?
Calories are too cheap to meter

In the Western World. 2 billion people are deficient https://ourworldindata.org/hunger-and-undernourishment
I didn't get that info from there
Okay. Why.
While I agree that this is obvious low hanging fruit, there are plenty of housing in areas with relatively sparse street lamps
funny thing, I just discovered the singer Brad Cox [0] searching for the original Brad Cox Wikipedia page and I like
his songs

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/user/bradleycoxmusic
This is a great mystery of electric vehicle charging: why is it so hard for anyone but Tesla to keep most of the chargers working most of the time?
Does it reinforce pcj50’s point though? Your shitty experience was with the state run by the party who wants good government and your good experience was with the government run by the party who “isn’t allowed to criticize bad government” or whatever.
Its become political. If you are prepared to consider the possibility that hydrochloroquine could be beneficial, it means you are a Trump supporter.
Sound like something Ed Dillinger would say in Tron.
Is it really out of their control? What happens if they say "Google Search and Google Play can't be the same company in France"?

Option one, they separate to keep the market. Probably not, but maybe if the whole EU does it.

Option two, Google is banned from France and some competitors take root. Those competitors are not going to limit themselves to the market in France, so now there is more competition everywhere.

Either one is a pretty good kick in the pants that would increase the level of competition.
What's the problem with card payments in germany for non-germans?
Infusing Open Innovation in the 5G Era
5G continues to be the buzz in telecom circles - opening a whirlwind of new possibilities across industries and creating an environment conducive to entirely new use cases and experiences, brought about by high-speed connectivity and reduced latency. Despite the pandemic and knock-on global recession, 5G remains on track to become the quickest generation of wireless cellular technology to be widely adopted. And Asia Pacific, in particular, holds the greatest potential for 5G, with technology analyst GlobalData predicting that Asia Pacific will account for almost 65 percent of global 5G subscriptions by 2024.
I must say that I felt quite enlightened after reading this. I never quite noticed this.

It's certainly an interesting thing to look out for.
Sometimes. A connection from a hotel catering to westerners to a corporate VPN in Europe or North America is probably fine.

Change either variable, to a "normal" hotel/office/home or a public VPN, and the connection can become very unreliable, if it works at all.
Looks like it's just a basic tutorial on Statiq. Doesn't really answer the question of "Why should I, a .NET developer, use this tool instead of my normal workflow".
Tesla has said they are willing to license the Supercharger network. That said, superchargers are not immune to being broken either. I find that many if not most have at least one broken stall.

I got free supercharging for ordering an early Model 3 and didn't expect to use it, but it has been a lifesaver during covid when I suddenly lost access to work charging.
In the United States there are several large charging networks who work with businesses to install their branded chargers. The rates are set by the business and you use the network's charge card or App to activate the charger. I've seen a couple, and used one charger that accepted credit cards but those are definitely the minority.

I only ever used one network, ChargePoint, and they sent you 2 RFID cards in the mail you could put in the car or on your keychain. You could swipe them on the charger or use your NFC equiped phone with their App. I accidentally swiped my phone once without opening the App and it opened up Google Pay and let me pay that way as well. There are a lot of free ChargePoint chargers, I encountered those mostly on government property.

Allegedly the larger networks are interoperable now to some extent but I've yet to use that. Since I moved to California I've only charged away from home once.
This is currently being done, and is called sprouted fodder.

The livestock (cows, chickens, pigs, goats, etc.) eat the roots, greens and the remainder of the seed. Each type of livestock requires a different amount of fiber, so the length at which the seed is sprouted differs; chickens only get sprouted a few days, just long enough that the enzymes in the seeds break down the starches and make them more bio-available. While cows will have something that looks closer to grass.
> This reminds me of the Buzzfeed story circa 2012

2015, and, like, every media outlet in the country, not just Buzzfeed.

> I was really curious to figure out who all of these Christians were that held this opinion and, lo-and-behold, it was one single Christian from Arizona.

No, it wasn’t.

Now, sure, it became a controversy because of one internet (and former radio and TV) evangelist in Arizona, who already had substantial attention because of other campaigns he’d launched that year, but it got picked up by a lot of the publicly Christian political and media voices already engaged in the “Christians victimized by secular society” narrative, (including eventually President Trump, because it was active that long.)
>> It's not just the getting things into space that's the hard and costly part. Modules take years to design, build, and test.

Using the traditional approach, yes. But SpaceX is proving that there are other approaches that yield fruit far faster and also for drastically less money.
Haha fair enough. I like ducks, and thought it was a memorable name that had the domain available :)
That's like claiming that digital money can't be fully decentralized. And it indeed wasn't possible until Satoshi figured it out. There's no obvious reason to believe that a fully distributed social network isn't also possible. A requirement would be that any individual would have full agency for all operations on the network. Once you've got one agent that has special power over another agent, it's lost.
I totally get what you're saying with your anecdote and agree that taking action can often be helpful at reducing anxiety/stress/depression.

Another anecdote is that sometimes "just power through" is a trigger phrase that leads down a path of shame and self-criticism which only serve to fuel deeper depression/anxiety/stress and so forth. There's a cultural myth that people who struggle are weak and less than people who are successful. Depression can really amplify that story. When I'm in that place I need to scale back expectations, find something (anything) I can do that's healthy, and cut myself some slack. The truth is we all struggle and success has many dimensions.

The "just power through" line isn't wrong, in fact, it's exactly what I need to hear sometimes. But it can also be exactly the wrong thing. I think it needs a heavy dose of empathy and compassion along with it.
That analogy makes very little sense, because an airline carrying Parler employees is in no meaningful sense an operational part of Parler's business, while AWS clearly is. I think you're reaching.

It doesn't much matter; this case is dead in the water.
After all that twisting you're doing, not clear if you understand what the ALv2 is about. It is what it says, not whatever subjective "spirit"s you're trying to twist into it.
You are absolutely correct. It bothers me to this day that "I want my weed" is a bigger reason for stepping back on the War on Drugs than "I am tired of police murdering people in no-knock warrants for entire streets with zero repercussions." I don't understand it, and it makes me sad sometimes just thinking about it.
> Why it doesn't happen so much in meatspace?

I agree with everything you've said, but I'd also offer "evolutionary adaptation" as a reason not to be a dick to people who are close enough to physically attack.
According to the Bekenstein bound, the maximum entropy in a given region of space is proportional to the area of a surface containing that space, not its volume so to really future-proof it, we should probably go with per mm^2...
> but how do we multiply & speed up that effort?

I think it's pretty much politically impossible. The first big space push was mostly a political pissing match (i.e. not really driven by doing it for its own sake). It's pretty easy to come up with other major challenges that most people will consider more important that also aren't getting funding ... so private industry looks more likely to get some traction. States might get interested if/when those efforts start to get more interesting or threatening.

Mars in your lifetime is implausible, but not impossible I suppose.
> So long as "everybody" truly believes the Governments threat to effectively ban ICE sales after 2030

Does "everybody" matter in this case? The reality for the manufacturers is that they need designs, standard, deals, factories, production lines ready years before 2030 if the ban actually happens. So it's really a question whether they believe the plan, or are they ready to call the bluff and go out of business if they're wrong.