skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not a customer - but I've seen screenshots of their app for doing just that, along with alerting.
> these Elect

Again, a statement dripping with derision, that is actually just sticking up for the rights of assholes.

> how do they get to decide who's an asshole

Peddling a message harmful to others.

> what is the procedure for the rest of us to appeal

"appeal" is for crooks, not wankers being thrown out of the pub
I think its similar enough to "closure" to re-use that word.
Sure, but having driven ships with those, they're not as maneuverable as they could be. It takes time to deploy the pods and often they aren't available at high speed.
They don't just want developers, they want full stack developers and full pancake stack cooks! This field moves fast, gotta keep your skills up to date.
Wow, sometimes this site really needs to exit the stratosphere and come back down to earth. I live in the Midwest and you can comfortably pay a mortgage on a sizable house, all utilities, all necessities, and still have a shitload left over to play with on a salary like that. By no means do you have to "eke by."

I think the issue is a lot less that the Midwest is less competitive and a lot more that the cost of living in a West Coast tech bubble is exorbitant.
I'd prioritize the multimedia stacks, have a rolling age limit for old hardware support and phase out plans. But I'm welcome to more experienced linuxers telling me why this is a bad idea.
One more that I know of:

Atom understands your code better than ever before - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18349013 - Oct 2018
Say, we have our N blocks. We make these into the nodes in a graph. Every node is connected to all other nodes.

An edge leading from A to B is a case when block A precedes block B. The weight of that edge is the AB overlap. Note that the same edge may have a different weight in the opposite direction, because it will be that of the BA overlap.

So what we are after is the heaviest path through this graph that passes through all nodes exactly once. This can be reduced to finding the heaviest cyclic path for a specific starting point (and excluding the cheapest edge from the solution and then iterating through all points). This is pretty much TSP with an inverted goal.
Solutionism seems like an apt term. In addition, solutionists may feel bound to their ideology and unable to see problems caused by their solutions for what they are leading the types of feedback loops you describe. People double down on their beliefs when presented with opposing viewpoints or even contrary evidence all of the time. Interesting observation.
You don't have to reinvent linux to do that
If you're not aware, check out Interstella 5555: The 5tory of the 5ecret 5tar 5ystem. [0]

This is an animated movie set to the album Discovery. No dialogue other than the music of the album. Done by Toei Animation, a notable Japanese animation studio.

You may have seen the music videos for One More Time and Harder Better Faster Stronger. They were just part of a full narrative arc.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Qxe-QOp_-s
With all the noise around NFTs right now, my immediate thought was "Hmm so treat companies like NFTs, where investors bid on price"
Nothing about "interplanetary streaming" needs to be invented. The limiting factor is the size and power of the transmitter on Mars (or wherever). The MRO orbiter for instance is the highest bandwidth probe we've sent to Mars and it maxes out at about 4Mbps when Mars is closest to Earth. When Mars is farther it can only do about 500Kbps. That relatively prodigious rate requires the use of 34m receiving antennas on Earth.

So if you wanted to stream video from a GoPro on a Mars orbiter you could do so with current technology, you'd just need to build some big-ass antennas on Earth and then build and launch the Mars orbiters. Besides being technically difficult (because rocket science) it would be really expensive.
“It worked! On to the next task...”
Nope. Still remarkable that a president would comment officially on a NASA finding like that. It's the closest thing yet.
Despite ZZT being 30 years old, the Museum of ZZT (mentioned briefly at the end of the article) has attracted a small but vibrant community. Zeta sets ZZT free from DOS and DOSBox, and because Zeta can be even compiled to JS, games can be published to places like Itch.

Example: The King In Yellow Borders, a horror game: https://stale-meme-emporium.itch.io/the-king-in-yellow-borde...

The other massive shot-in-the-arm for ZZT was asiekierka's disassembly and reconstruction of the original Pascal source code: https://github.com/asiekierka/reconstruction-of-zzt (Tim Sweeney allowed the reconstruction to be released under the MIT licence.)

As an accidental 30th birthday celebration, the community remixed the first world - Town of ZZT - and Dr. Dos livestreamed the first half of it just the other day:
https://museumofzzt.com/file/t/TOWNRMIX.zip

Also, Dr. Dos was recently interviewed on "Preserving Worlds", discussing ZZT, the Museum, and Zeta: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhCYQI_XBl0
Ah, that's helpful. "Safely repeatable, with no side effects" will be my new answer if anyone asks.
Re: braces on their own lines, one practical advantage of doing so (leaving aside subjective anesthetics like symmetry) is that source control (at least got) will be able to automatically distinguish and merge changes to the header and the body independently, since they're no longer adjacent.
that's a rough one to defend when this exists: https://www.wise.us/
Matchmaking, promotion.
It's a great idea. But this probably works best as a bounty.
The vaccination locations are the largest group of people anyone I know how been around in a year. Dozens of people coming in and out of a room every 15 minutes, plus having to sit next to strangers for 15 minutes to make sure you don't have an adverse reaction is a larger risk than most take ever.
OK, we've taken the bug out of the title above. It allows the whistleblowers to squeeze in, which is nice.

It might be good to have a non-terminological discussion now. Though this subthread isn't too bad.
one candidate just got bumped to the next stage based solely on the fact that in they had a “Making awesome pancakes” in the CV, which made me laugh.

And there you have it--the hiring algorithm in a nutshell.
Mars is dominated by linux machines, ai and machine learning. As I stared at the landing I thought what if it drops into the crater and cannot climb out? At the same time I was really hoping I would see also little antennas poking out from the ground underneath or little martians running around hiding from the new strange visitor. What's the first mission?
Suspended was, to me, one of the coolest games ever. Back in the day, on my C64, as a young teenager, I ended up with a pirated copy of it.

I had no map, instructions, and it made it even more incredible / awesome. I was at that age where you can actually feel your brain 'expanding', where you can feel your capability to handle complex logic and math problems growing. And Suspended made me really, really think.

At the time, I thought it was immense fun. I wonder if any teenager today, would ever even try to get into it, or, would ever enjoy it.
This clearly shows DevOps engineers are in high demand.

If you don’t mind may I ask how was your experience as a DevOps Engineer. I would love to know as myself I’m exploring more about this field
Cache data as best practice?
Sorry but no. Create fast read models, if you need them, yes.
> In recent years, scientists have figured out how to grow blobs of hundreds of thousands of live human neurons that look — and act — something like a brain.

This concept makes me substantially more uneasy now after reading the "Lena" short story that was on the front page earlier [0], involving a digital copy of a person's brain that was subsequently duplicated and simulated millions of times over a period of decades (or longer). The idea seemed like a cross between the original Lena image and HeLa cells[1], with the added factor of consciousness.

Sure these "brain organoids" probably can't think in the same way or scale that humans can, but still, we're growing pieces of human brains...

0. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26224835
1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HeLa
They're Going for the Jab Passport Now
HTTP response flow diagram [image]
A Retrospective Look at Mac OS X Snow Leopard
...meaning that to reduce the number of cases evenly, we'd have to choose people to vaccinate by random, but we're not doing that; we're choosing by risk, and those at higher risk of severe disease are less likely to contract an infection because they move around less and meet fewer people.

However, we could speculate that perhaps we should in fact put more priority on the groups that have most infections, not highest risk? Because the restrictions impact their lives (of young people) most.

However, I'm quite sure that the priorisation of old people will continue, except possibly in places where priorisation is done by money (the rich purchasing vaccinations).
If it's just you using it, what additions does gitolite bring (genuine question)?
There's a ton of media from previous mars missions. Can't comment on why you didn't see them
Because in the absence of quick intervention (i.e. Volcker), it's a feedback loop.

The basic money equation from macro-econ 101 is MV = PQ: money supply * velocity of money = average price level * quantity of goods sold. Under normal conditions, V is assumed to be constant, and so you either increase the money supply to keep up with greater economic output (M ∝ Q) or if you increase it too fast, you get inflation (M ∝ P). This is "ordinary" inflation: it's predictable, controllable by the central bank, and follows roughly linear equations.

When people notice and then start to assume inflation, their behavior changes. If you know that your dollars are going to be worth 20% less next year, you have an incentive to get rid of your dollars as quickly as possible. You'll spend them as soon as you get them, because they'll quickly become worthless otherwise. This shows up as an increase in V, and it means that even holding the money supply constant, you still get inflation (V ∝ P). Moreover, because the cause of the increased price level was increased velocity of money, this feedback loop becomes self-reinforcing: the higher prices go, the quicker people want to get rid of their money and turn them into hard goods. At this point the central bank has lost control of the economy, and you have hyperinflation.

Looking at data on a few dozen instances of hyperinflation, the threshold seems to be ~20% inflation annually. Below this, consumers write off inflation as annoying but don't change their behavior significantly. Above it, hyperinflation seems inevitable: there are very few instances of sustained inflation above 20%/year where the government has later managed to bring it down, and it usually ends with hyperinflation, a currency crisis, and the replacement of the currency (and usually government) with a new one.

We've observed price increases > 20% in a number of industries this year: commodities (listed above), housing, food, and labor is getting up there. It hasn't filtered down into CPI numbers because those are averages, and inflation is flat or even negative among some demographics. But prices in fundamental industries tend to bubble up eventually, and if the Fed is focused on bringing back the stagnant parts of the economy while other areas are raising prices at 50-100%/year, inflation will cross that threshold throughout the economy before they can react.

(Incidentally, historical incidents of hyperinflation usually happen in the transition between a command to a market economy, the two most common examples being when wartime gives way to peacetime, and when communism gives way to capitalism. The transition from a pandemic economy to a normal economy has many elements in common with that: there's a large shift in consumer demand while the economy has been optimizing for pandemic production for the last year.)
I wouldn't want to work for you either - so thanks for letting us know.
interesting, I didn't know using graphQL could help remove so many design debates (compared to rest). But yeah it makes sense since with rest you have to keep thinking about whether or not you'll extend the /foos/{foo_id}/bars/{bar_id}/baz or say put it on its own resource /baz/{baz_id} etc...

maybe I'll investigate graphql a bit more, I've just heard it was really complicated to implement the resolvers for the queries so people weren't using them yet.
Yeah that's what I think, but it could also encode something longer. I am not sure on the parachute what is a science feature and what is an easter egg.
So long as we can then claim there aren't enough heroes and it would take two decades to train more, I'm happy. It's the only possible thing we could try.
As someone who lives in a fairly seasonal environment, how can I help?
It’s an island and regularly shut down air travel to control infections coming in?

The “lockdowns could work if we just tried” view is falsified by the situation in Germany. If Germans lack the discipline to do it, then nobody can do it. Some countries like Australia got lucky because their geography made it easy, but it’s not practical elsewhere.
Early minidisc players/recorders will forever be a unique and coveted item for some folks. Sony made a curious 'mistake' in those early units where they added recording functionality AND a fully digital S/PDIF input with zero copy protection or restrictions. You could plug an early portable minidisc recorder straight into a digital audio output from a high end (at the time) CD player to make digitally bit-perfect rips of CDs, or plug it into the digital output of a mixer board to make great live music recordings. You could even get a minidisc drive for computers and copy off your bit-perfect music rips to upload and share on the internet. Very, very quickly Sony realized their mistake and later minidisc players removed S/PDIF inputs (but left the outputs). Nowadays HDMI, etc. have all baked in copy protection to the wire protocols. So for a very short period of time minidisc was this odd little thing that was an enormous threat to the future of the music industry.
Sorry. I removed the part about 320 kbps being an average, since I realized it was wrong, but you were faster :D.
Kim Dotcom, US and NZ Supreme Court All Agree to Court of Appeal Referral
The Perseverance team is also hosting an AMA today (https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/lpzbzo/were_scientist...). We live in exciting times.
All it would take is a popular authority telling a good story to get a million people to "upload" themselves.

Consider our present xray into the public psyche.
Which DMLS platform are you using to print these components?
In real life the engineers don't police themselves.

Before a bridge, house or even patio deck with a foundation is used a safety inspector needs to give approval.
How timeless is timeless advice?
> The US Navy reports that the Hospital Ship Mercy treated fewer than 200 patients in total.

Mercy treated 77 patients and was not reconfigured for COVID, Comfort treated more after being converted to COVID just before local cases dropped from their peak for the wave the ship was present for.

It completed reconfiguration to take COVID patients on April 7, just before new cases in both NYC and NYS started rapidly dropping. It almost entirely missed the time it was needed.

I think they are both evidence that both the response and the systems for utilizing new resources wet optimized for the real needs, but neither shows that healthcare systems weren't overwhelmed.
I'm curious about videos specifically. I've seen a lot of high-res images and animated GIF style videos but nothing like this.
What you're saying isn't quite true. Perseverance's mission IS to find signs of past life.

See:
https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/mission/science/goals/
Not universally true. I would assume that an average Series D startup has way less risk of evaporating to zero than a seed stage startup. With that in mind, the risk hedging might actually work in favor of "six bets rather than 30". But you will need actual numbers to do that risk assessment, and I assume VCs do that.

Let's say you invest $300mil into 30 seed bets, with each bet having a 10% chance of returning a 10x, 15% returning a 3x, and 85% of going to zero. But when you invest that same amount into 6 series D bets, each bet might have a 50% chance of returning 2x, 30% chance of going to zero, and 20% chance of going 3-4x. If you do the math to calculate the average expected payout using these numbers, you will get an expected average payout higher for the latter scenario. And assuming each bet is completely independent from another, it seems like a pretty solid hedge.

Numbers are obviously made-up for illustrative purposes and are not the source of truth, but it shows a pretty good hypothetical situation when doing 6 bets is safer than 30 bets (given you have the same amount of money to spend on those bets). But, I think, it is fairly commonly agreed on that a Series D startup is way less likely to go to zero than a seed stage one, thus making a singular bet on a Series D startup much safer (but also less profitable in case of a success). Given many enough of those bets, the risk becomes pretty manageable and, imo, less risky than seed stage investing. I am not trying to say that what I am describing is the case, I am trying to say that it is a realistically possible case.

Saying this as someone with no experience with that model whatsoever, so anyone is welcome to correct me if there is something glaringly wrong or missing in my assessment of this.
I think "human in loop" designs are a good idea at a high level, but a big practical problem you run into when you try to build them is that the humans tend to become dependent on the computers. For example, you could say this is what happened when the self-driving Uber test vehicle killed a pedestrian in 2018. Complacency and (if it's a full-time job) boredom become major challenges in these designs.
For people holding crypto assets which they don't plan to sell, it's a valid way to borrow other assets for use. Potentially for other investments. Definitely not just for criminals.

And overall, it's a demonstration of a financial product which can only be built in the space of decentralized finance. I do not know of another tool which allows anyone around the world to borrow significant amounts of money anonymously and without an account. Whether it's a net good for the world I don't know, but I do believe it's a powerful technology and space.
Despite what the article said about no programming required, ZZT was a very fun early programming environment. The creatures in the game were literally called Objects and passed messages to each other to activate each other's functions to store information, move, sing, shoot, etc. By doing this in conjunction with the easy level builder, it was possible to manage fairly complex world and story state. Alan Kay may have approved, if he ever saw it.
ZZT holds a special place in my heart. I played the shareware "Town of ZZT" as a teenager, made my own (very incomplete) worlds, and had fun with the programming language, ZZT-OOP -- a very quirky beast.

Every few years I have a silly notion I want to write a similar game but with a real programming language like Lua (or one of my own creation). Then I sketch up the easy stuff for a bit, but give up as soon as it gets hard. :-)

I think there's been something of a resurgence of ZZT stuff in recent times, thanks in no small part to Adrian Siekierka's work, particularly his "Reconstruction of ZZT", a reverse engineering of the lost Turbo Pascal source code. That project is incredible to me -- the reconstructed source code, when compiled with Turbo Pascal 5.5, compiles to an executable file that's byte-for-byte identical to the original ZZT.EXE. His description is here: https://blog.asie.pl/2020/08/reconstructing-zzt/

One fun thing I did do was take Adrian's Pascal source code, and write a Pascal-to-Go transpiler to produce a Go version of the same. It kinda works: https://benhoyt.com/writings/zzt-in-go/

There's also a fully functioning Rust port, which was written before the reconstructed source was available: https://github.com/yokljo/ruzzt
> Just, how? A pickpocket can steal your passport and anyone, even a police officer on the street could have a hard time figuring out if it's actually you or not if your photo looks remotely like the thief.

A pickpocket needs to come close enough and risk being caught. It does not scale very much. Falsifying them, whilst not impossible, is also risky and also does not scale. Particularly if the thief needs to look like the person on the photograph.

> How is it easier to steal passport crypto keys (not the passport number) from a secure government database than someone's passport off the street?

That is not the problem (although it is a problem: secure government systems are breached with some unfortunate regularity these days). But for it to be practical, people need to have the keys with them, i.e. on their phones or computers, where protection is much harder to guarantee. Putting them in an air gapped unique device is much better, whether it is something like a Yubi Key, a chip in a passport, or a chip card.

> Also, the authorities can cancel your stolen passport, but the pickpocket will still own it physically and can use it to enter places like nightclubs or worse (other than airports and hard borders, nobody checks the passport electronically vs the government database, they all just glance at it and call it a day).

I don't think anyone seriously cares about night clubs. Most of them accept non-chipped drivers licenses or old fashioned paper ID cards anyway, which is practically no security at all. The point is that the hurdle is high enough to avoid teenagers going in.

> I have the feeling you have no idea how secure passport crypto chips and NFC chips are and you assume all passport crypto keys are some databases sitting randomly on the internet.

Which random smartphone maker would you trust for this? Do you trust all the links in the chain?
Something does not need to be "sitting randomly on the Internet" to be breached.

Besides, I am not sure what you assume about my assumptions. Cryptography is fine. Cryptography on everybody's phone for this application is a terrible idea. Your passport does not need to be on an Internet-facing device.
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I liked what another commenter said about adding tiers for devs with higher S/O rep. So if the dev has a higher rep, they can make more $ per minute. Something I'll look into adding.

I don't think anyone is going to make much money off of it starting out since I don't have a large supply of questions coming in yet, but there are a lot of underemployed devs out there who would be happy to make an easy $15 bucks an hour just googling answers for people and telling them what to do.

I think a lot of poorly-received questions on S/O are the result of people not knowing where to look for their answer, or being intimidated by reading the docs or source code. So they post the questions hoping someone can guide them.

Call a Dev isn't a competitor to S/O. S/O is a wiki. Call a Dev is basically Clippy in human form that you pay per minute.