skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have to say, your mention stolen input (and I'm assuming focus) got my attention. Is this something that Wayland can somehow remedy?
This might just be evolution. For development, at least for me, the experience was never install a distro and some packages from the distro and start coding. There was always something that would require a bunch of bespoke installations. Libthis or libthat out of date. Files in the wrong place in the distro (or upstream developer's config). Old version of the database server.

Now, I think there's a pretty nice balance going on. Seems like the distros do a good job of getting you to a working GUI and command line, and we've had all kinds of new tools show up for getting to the latest/greatest for development. That said, I think the distros could do a much better job helping devops and admins understand how to use tools like apt and yum. Then there's the whole container thing, which really does give us a more universal way to distribute software (ok, maybe not snaps).
Okay, we'll need an rtl-sdr, a raspberry pi, a battery, a keypad, and a screen. We can 3d print a case, or put it in a project box. Both can be ruggedized later.

I found this for the keypad and screen: https://wiki.dfrobot.com/I_O_Expansion_HAT_for_Pi_zero_V1_0_...

There are separate options for keypad and screen, e.g eink and a number pad, but for a first pass this might be enough.

An rtl-sdr won't plug directly into a pi zero w, so we'll need an internal adapter. I know that HATs stack, so if there isn't a hard requirement for an rtl-sdr, we could find an sdr hat to put between the pi and the keypad.
The dangerous bit is the fuel - and that can be cut off from the engine and/or jettisoned.
On the other hand, I don't care which license class you are, whether you passed a code test or not, or even if you just got your ticket yesterday.

Welcome to the hobby, it needs more folks like you (if nothing else, it'll help out the signal-to-noise ratio!).
I find it pretty easy to be romantic about nearly anything. There’s very little romance in the day to day of programming in industry though.
Sarcasm is also somewhat passive-aggressive.
Is anybody aware of an approach to build a probe that can least much longer on Venus? The pressure can probably be handled but how do you handle the heat?
A simple first step done sooner is better than a complex first step done later. Also, seems like there's a lot to learn about space habitats just by building another one - we haven't made that many yet.
> I ask because I broadly understand ERCOT to have delivered the lowest prices and the highest reliability over the last decade.

Until they didn't. Until any money savings you may have gotten over the last decade was eaten up by what will be the cost of the burst pipes and flooding of your house.

How are ERCOT's prices compared to El Paso's?

> El Paso Electric said they always try to prepare for the future and after a winter storm in 2011, the utility company worked towards replacing and upgrading their equipment. Many generators now have antifreeze protection.

> "We went from plus-10 degrees which was what the original equipment was designed for to a minus-10, so currently everything we install or upgrade is done to a minus-10 degree sustained temperature," said Louie Guarderrama, director of operations for the utility company.

* https://kvia.com/news/el-paso/2021/02/15/el-pasos-not-seeing...
> we see it in our food bills

I saw this too but ppl point me to govt figures for inflation and its never matches what i experience personally.
It seems rather disproportionate to blame such ills on the movie industry.
Hmm. I’m not 100% sure I follow so I’ll restate and see if we can go from there. I’m saying:

1. The market price is set by people deciding to buy bitcoin, and

2. Bitcoin miners will invest in equipment and energy up to whatever the market price is

3. Thus, at a market price of X, at current mining rates, the miners will have costs roughly equal to 6.5 * 6 * 24 * X per day, or C

4. So to maintain a given market price, $C must enter the market at any given time, to covet the costs of the miners.

5. If less than the miners costs enters the market in money, the price will drop and miners will exit the market until their new cost structure is in equilibrium with the new price.

In other words, as new coin at a given break even point enters the market, that dictates how much new capital must enter the market to keep prices steady. If more capital than that enters prices rise, if less then they fall.

This is so because unusually in the bitcoin network marginal cost equals average cost as the network adjusts difficulty based on miner effort. So I think this makes things kind of backwards and breaks our intuitions.
The original french work was translated into English by .. the author of "master and commander" Patrick O'Brian

The film has a stellar cast. Its a good adaptation of the underlying story. Its grounded in ugly truths. Its a classic redemption story. The book was a worldwide best seller phenomenon and that gave the movie makers swing to get budget.
Anecdotal, but I’ve always known there to be two types of coders. Those who do it for the money, and those who do it to solve problems and make things.

My observation is the ones who do it for money get burnt out and want to get out, the other kind never stop wanting to learn and just keep having fun.
"Stealing ideas" is also incorrect. A long running misconception doesn't make it not a misconception.
Thanks! Yeah the covers are awful. I didn't want to host so many images so I used the external image urls returned by the Google Books API.

Someone else also commented about using the back button over double clicking. I'll work on that next :)
I've considered doing this, but it's not possible for two reasons: all my banking apps require using a smartphone. And second, I'm a web developer and need to test sites on a phone daily.

There's also one killer app I don't want to stop using: maps (Google, Apple, Open Street Map, doesn't matter which).

However, I have switched to NextDNS and locked out a large chunk of the internet on the phone. That helps.
The author makes interesting points about Toyota’s stock levels going up and seeming less “just-in-time” but misappropriates the changes to an abandonment of lean.

The goal with lean philosophy is to hold no more than necessary and ruthlessly cut back on excesses/wastes in the process that yes includes excessive stockpiling.

It would seem the work they’ve been doing upstream with suppliers is actually giving them better visibility into how much stock is necessary to hold. When you dig down I’d say they’re still acting in line with a lean approach.
For some reason, products made of minimally treated hemp or linen are more widely available.
Many teachers start as people full of hope, devotion and altruism, but after years of receiving low compensation for a brutal amount of work and seeing their friends building wealth while they can hardly make a living, many teachers turn to the "dark side". Like the ones in the video.

Teachers have to deal with kids from households with bad, low or no parenting and that's something they cannot do much about.

Then, they have to comply with the standardized programs and examinations which are a disservice to students because it's just bureaucratic cargo cult that doesn't work.

As a result of all these difficulties that are completely out of their control, they develop indifference, resentment, some are extremely passive aggressive, sarcastic and toxic. Many of these behaviors can get you fired in other occupations, but as a society, if you are a teacher, we are OK with this.

Despite all these difficulties there are teachers that are still willing to persevere, but the system is built to break the spirits of teachers.
Cathay Pacific face mask exemption for first, business class flyers
Maskers are straight up fascist assholes.
Sometimes I wonder how the world would look if that wasn't in the bible. Would people have behaved differently?
While what you say is true for Sanskrit is true, that Sanskrit is in a way fixed, it doesn't mean Sanskrit stopped evolving, it has certainly evolved since the time of Panini, just evolved in a way that doesn't break the rules set up by Panini. That however is a topic for another discussion as the vedas aren't composed in Paninian Sanskrit.

As for the vedas, specifically Rigveda (which is the only one I can comment on with some expertise) we have what we can call different recensions of the text. These texts, independently transmitted, differ very little from each other. This fact alone strongly indicate that even while they've been orally transmitted for many generations, they are more or less uncorrupted by the act of transmission.

Much more could be written on this subject (and has been). However, english isn't my native language, it is late and this comment could go on and on…short story is: memorization and oral transmission seems to work!
Thank you! I did consider adding the Economist, but they've put their articles behind a paywall/sign up unfortunately.
Yeah, same here. It’s really nice to be able to spin up a clean Ubuntu VM on any provider, and just adding your repo, key and being an apt install away from deployment. Makes it super easy for us to deploy dedicated instances for Enterprise customers as well - no exotic dependencies and no problem if they want on prem or wherever else.
It did from the perspective of saving STS jobs.
We can build beautiful things but we can’t build them in a beautiful way. We marvel at our pyramids but dream of the arch, of Chartres. Until we eliminate the goose wire and tinfoil, it will be hard to feel satisfied.
I think the spike in suicides and reports from students and parents that kids are not doing well without social interaction speaks for itself.

So too did the school board; they were saying things that simply should not be said by people in a position of power. Some of it certainly went well beyond merely flippant.
>I'm not going to spend my day verifying your bug.

It's not my bug. It's their bug.

>your experience so far has been anamolous compared with lots and lots of other folks

Or perhaps those "other folks" just didn't bother to check it properly? Just like you didn't bother? Looks like rarely some one cares too much about the quality these days. I do care. There should be some love in making product and some respect to those who use it.

If I thought this problem is specific to this machine only I would not bother to write about it here too much. I have some experience and knowledge for goodness sake . I've seen Disk Utility not functioning too many times already.

I expected intelligent people here to be able to listen and take note and realise that it's not some stupid machine that doesn't work. I've seen too many bugs already and this machine is just another example of it.

You say it's a "hardware bug"? Does it really makes any difference? Even if it is? I think it's about quality, in that case software quality and another machine would come if not with the same problems then with similar problems.
We live in distraction because we give attention to what does not matter which, if we let our hair down, is the external world. The imperative of dying to the external world is a process of rediscovery of what does matter.
Yes, the same is true of e.g. GHC the Haskell compiler. There's nothing stopping you from using dynamic linking with GHC on Haskell code (i.e. your haskell app links to a haskell shared object), but if the language ABI isn't stable, you just rebuild all those shared objects with every new version of the compiler anyway. In fact you don't even need to use a different compiler version: aggressive cross-module inlining also reduces the amount of sharing you can do (even, potentially, down to zero sharing.)

So you rarely save disk and every app has different shared objects loaded, and even assuming you use one compiler for everything, it may not matter at all. If anything it's worse because it can negatively impact startup time. In practice, ~everyone compiles Haskell code statically, and only dynamically links to libraries that have exposed a stable ABI. I'm not surprised people do the same for Rust.
It’s slightly different for marine radio, where it follows the MIRPDANIO mnemonic you might be thinking of that?
Anyone care to elaborate? I don't understand what he means, but I feel like this is an interesting thread to pull.
> There are no bounds.
> clever to return undef if you were out of bounds

You can see how this is getting confusing.

> So there is no error to catch.

Thing is, you're already catching the error because "Little code could actually tell you are past the end" and "return undef if you were out of bounds" - you're just smooshing the error under the carpet into an `undef` return rather than bombing out with an OOB error (which is what I think GP was actually after.)

(If Little returns `undef` for OOB and `""` for in-bounds-not-set, you can detect the OOB access error in your own code but that hasn't been made clear, I don't think?)
If it’s unacceptable to lock up, then turn off virtual memory. Swap is not a security hole, it’s a feature doing exactly what it was designed for. Swap is the explicit design tradeoff of the system you bought, and it’s the default behavior because most people prefer that their system work slowly to a system that stops working. Fortunately it’s an optional feature, and you can turn it off.

> I open lots of tabs, in lots of browser windows, on lots of virtual desktops, but so what if I do?

Hehe, the expected outcome of this behavior on an 8 GiB machine with default settings is a slow computer. You can blame the browser and spend your time frustrated if you want to, or you can choose to avoid asking the computer to use 20 GiB and then complain when it swaps, by requesting less memory and/or disabling virtual memory. It’s not that fair to go on and on about some vague abstract idea of malicious web sites and blaming the browser for not protecting you, if you are choosing to open lots of windows, browsers, desktops, tabs, and web sites.

> It’s the browser’s job to provide protection here.

If you study the browser design, and if you compare today’s browsers to those of 5 or 10 years ago, you will find that all the browser devs are actually bending over backwards trying to help you. They’re not perfect, but all of today’s browsers are pretty amazing in how well they handle low resources - but - the browser is just an application that does what it’s asked to do. If you use a web app that consumes 1GiB, the browser tries to accommodate your request. How is it supposed to know you want it to cut off the app instead of do what you asked? What if the app asks for more memory in the middle of what you’re doing, do you want it to lose your work??

The OS is the software locking up your computer, not the browser. Everything you’re talking about can and does happen with regular applications. Even if you got your wish of a browser that protected you from yourself, it wouldn’t solve the problem that landing in swap locks up the machine.

> There is no possible computer upgrade that will fix the issue.

I disagree completely. I never have the problem you’re talking about, and I use dozens and dozens of tabs all day long every day with multiple browsers. $100 in RAM right now could double or triple your capacity, if you don’t want to disable virtual memory nor change your browsing habits.

Yeah there is no solution to fixing the theoretical problem that some software somewhere can ask for more resources than you have. That’s not the issue you brought up though. In practice, the issues you’ve raised about browsing are quite easily fixable.
I wager the sexual success of most young men does not hinge on their social media read/write frequency.
How does a rigid, comprehensive, and prescriptive grammar ensure accurate oral transmission of linguistic works across generations? How does such a grammar prevent semantic shifts across time?
Find the Hard Work You're Willing to Do (2018)
Ask HN: Android app (or GitHub) for API data change notifications?
I need something that can query a set of rules at predetermined intervals and display a notification if the data has changed since last query.
Great film made by people who had long history of making great films.

"Rushes" or rapid prints of the days shooting were b&w and I have no idea if that changed, but as high contrast pushed (speedy development) review footage maybe just mechanistically it influenced shot design?

There's another doc somebody did analysing raiders and treasure of the sierra madre shot by shot.
This is unamerican, but so is Joe Xiden and his pedophile son.
I think the list of packages that need lovin', needs lovin' itself. It seems this list is abandonware.

If you look into the details for some these packages, you will see that it is a dead discussion forgotten even by the person who initiated it, a decade ago.

E.g. the discussion about Libreoffice is not about Libreoffice at all, but Apache Open Office, and you can see that there are people who have offered help, but the OP never responded to their offers.

Just click on the links on the package names and read for yourself.
Looking at orphans by installs and I remember using some of these 20 years ago, but do people even use libgpod and xmms anymore?
I realized some more information would be needed for people genuinely curious about the relationships between monetary aggregates and inflation. A good summary is this essay, by the Federal Reserve:

https://www.federalreserve.gov/faqs/money_12845.htm

Basically, in the beggining the Fed was charged with keeping the money supply from growing too quickly, but it found that

1) it was unable to control the size of the monetary aggregates because these are determined by the lending, repayment, and asset allocations of the private sector. All the central bank could do is encourage various allocations by adjusting the interest rate. For example when rates are low, there is not much point in keeping your money in bonds or savings accounts, so a greater proportion is kept in demand accounts as the extra flexibility outweighs the pittance in interest you'll earn.

2) the size of the money supply didn't have much to do with inflation anyway.

By the 90s, they stopped trying to do this and they even stopped tracking some of the aggregates, as they were just irrelevant to managing inflation.

Inflation is managed by interest rates and the money supply is endogenous, created or destroyed by the financial sector in response to consumer tastes so all the federal government can do is try to incentivize those tastes by adjusting interest rates.

If people want to keep their money in bonds, they shift their assets to reduce deposit claims and increase bond claims. The result of this asset re-allocation is that any excess is pushed back onto the financial system and sits idle as excess reserves in banks, not creating any inflation, not "chasing goods", or causing any trouble for anyone except a small number of people who read the statistics about excess reserves and start worrying that the excess reserves will make a run for it, break out of the banks, and start bidding up the prices of goods and services.

I can understand why a reporter would have this view, but really we should see things a bit more clearly. People spend more when their wages go up so they can afford to buy more, or when interest rates fall to encourage them to borrow to buy durable goods because the financing costs are cheaper. They don't spend more as a result of whether Citibank has 1 trillion or 4 trillion in excess reserves. That is completely irrelevant to anyone's spending decision, to any firm's investment or production plans, and thus to inflation.
Python was such a nice thing - then they punched everyone in the face with Python 3 by destroying backward compatibility.

Making language designers happy while wasting millions of hours of language user time is the wrong trade-off.
I think it should be obvious that I am responding to the claim "they could go faster with a single larger engine." no-one is arguing against redundancy (in which matter, ETOPS is just one aspect.)
you do realise alcohol is legalized, but teenagers don't have easy access to it, right?

Legalization is not the same as free distribution. It is not like you would see Psychedelics available in every store for everyone to buy, regardless of age or without prescription.
Probably true, but I'm trying to be generous.

It's been a huge political boondoggle.
Isn’t falcon heavy the least cost effective spacex product? Wouldn’t super heavy make more sense?
The dead comment below you says:

> I have some stoner friends from high school who were really smart and gave up in college and now work mediocre dead end jobs and live in really low cost of living areas.

> They're happy. They're far from dead. But that potential they had is completely gone at this point.

What entitles you to their potential?

People may want to change the world, or may just want an entry level job that keeps them fed and housed while spending their time on drugs/videogames/what-the-hell-they-damn-want-its-not-my-problem

If really smart people decide that working in construction and smoking weed is their call, who am I to say otherwise?
Tesla files to expand Fremont factory, make Model Y 'tent' permanent
It's a question of context. It's fine to say things like this to your spouse or your friend. But is it acceptable to do so in a professional setting like this?

Some people are just like this...they will happily bitch and gossip during a meeting, and it creates a really toxic atmosphere.

There are ways to discuss these things in a professional manner. Always assume that what you say in a meeting will make its way out of the meeting, because (surprise, surprise), most of the time it will.
It's very likely that they're an AvHerald reader. It's the absolute de facto gold standard website in its field, and sensationalism and drama is not appreciated -- a large chunk of the usual audience are aviation professionals. My dad was a pilot, and I've got some few hours myself. You can bet that if either of us watched this event happen, we'd mentally be documenting it as best as we possibly can, both to try to predict any useful information (e.g should we try to move!), and for any subsequent investigation.

The excellent safety record of aviation originates from a detailed and pedantic paper trail that is written in blood. It's by learning as much as possible from every incident, without fear of censure or blame, that makes the skies safer for everybody.
Yikes, Bezos alone completely dwarfs that number. Not to mention the actual power Amazon has that they don't.
Why would you need a package for Eclipse. Download it is a ZIP, extract it in the location of your choice and run it from there. (Portable app)

I have been using it like that almost every day for 15 years now.
I think change would be good. After 30 years software I have a very strong craving to do something totally different. I never got really settled into the corporate life so I am pretty exhausted with it now. Programming would probably be still fun in a different context.
That SLS program was terrible was clear before it started. It actually lost NASA own internal evaluation by a large margin but because of how the requirements from congress were designed, NASA couldn't not do it.

https://www.reddit.com/r/SpaceLaunchSystem/comments/kt1vlf/r...

But while people love to talk about the Shelby thing, its overrated. Congress in general love SLS, its not about Shelby. House Democrats actually pushed for even more SLS budget then the Republican Senate.

Its just a terrible design for a rocket, terrible executed at an absurd price. Everybody involved should be fired and the contractors shouldn't get a new large contract until they prove successful at smaller contracts.

It consumes a perverse amount of NASA budget every year that could be invested in amazing programs that NASA has.