skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not really related to the GPT-3 thing, which seems cool, but a point of confusion and / or criticism:

> if warranty = lifetime, then price/expected lifetime

The #4 item showing for me is a tape measure, which costs $20 and has an estimated monthly cost of $.28. That means you are estimating this tape measure with a lifetime warranty will only last 6 years.

The #3 item showing for me is an iron skillet, which costs $180 and has an estimated monthly cost of $.25. That means you are estimating this skillet with a lifetime warranty will last 60 years.

Later on down the list you have another cast iron skillet, which cost $20 and has an estimated monthly cost of $.29. This means you are estimating this skillet will last less than 6 years. I happen to own this skillet. It's made of solid iron. I promise you no one who is taking care of this thing at all is going to see less than 10 years of use out of it. I plan to hang on to mine for decades.

What's the basis for this estimation? Pretty much every one I've seen seems completely random and mostly unjustified. E.g. if my tape measure with a lifetime warranty breaks after 5 years I'm definitely taking it in for a free replacement, so what's the deal here? (My high quality tape measures have never broken that quickly anyway.)

All that said I think the implementation of "badges" was really neat and what I can see of the GPT reviews so far look pretty good (although I'm a bit worried that scraping certain review sites may lead to a garbage in, garbage out problem). I'll be checking out your site again in the future.
The dates and countdowns for the 4 steps of Boris' roadmap out of lockdown
I'm interested in using org-journal, a minor mode for Emacs org-mode, which supports collapsing. https://github.com/bastibe/org-journal

* Tuesday, 06/04/13
** 10:28 Company meeting
Endless discussions about projects. Not much progress

** 11:33 Work on org-journal
For the longest time, I wanted to have a cool diary app on my
computer. However, I simply lacked the right tool for that job. After
many hours of searching, I finally found PersonalDiary on EmacsWiki.
PersonalDiary is a very simple diary system based on the emacs
calendar. It works pretty well, but I don't really like that it only
uses unstructured text.
Is 18 the drinking age in this story?
You have to repeat that once a month to break into the middle class, assuming you have to pay for all your own healthcare, retirement, insurance, etc... What a dismal existence.
What do you mean by "fat, front-heavy pens"? I'm genuinely curious. The article doesn't have a ton of close-up photos and none of them would seem to match that description.

The pens they do show have a profile that reminds me a bit of the Montegrappa Elmo, which I have and love:

https://www.montegrappa.com/en/cluster/fattoperte/myfirstmon...
> It's gross that the decision not to fix this carries an apparent implicit economic calculation

Spending money will remain economic decision until we can have government agencies fueled by the righteous indignation of their critics rather than having a line item added to their budget. Until you can convert that indignation into legal tender, agencies will remain subject to old fashioned accounting constraints.
That's not exactly the same. Splice returns an iterator, it doesn't modify the collection in place.
Their list is of people eligible for a program that would give them an early release, so unless the inmate enrolls the prison would be acting in good faith. Almost like the law was intentionally worded to limit their liability.
...?

The article is about a very specific service handling state for if you've seen a message in a channel. It has nothing to do with processing user content.
People put Github on their CV because employers like candidates who are interested enough in programming to do it in their spare time (for better or worse). My Github is my personal tool to interact with the open source community for practical purposes and to host my own projects, not a professional profile built to impress you. I just put it on my CV for your interest. Not everything I mention on my CV is done solely in service of getting my next job.

>GitHub is there so you can present your code to the world in an organised, documented, and personalised way

Not really, it is not a portfolio. It is a tool for programming and collaboration.
I didn't want to
The amount of worthwhile short games and art created with ZZT in the past has always made me feel rather astonished. That people are still making new, high-quality productions in it in the present - even moreso.

By the way - If you're a ZZT (or MegaZeux!) user from the 90s/early 00s and still have archives from that period of any kind - that is world collections, etc. - we'd love to hear more! A common misconception is that we have preserved almost all ZZT worlds ever released to the public. Unfortunately, that's not true; while it's getting better thanks to modern efforts (with hundreds of previously unknown worlds archived in the past two-three years), archives especially from the BBS and AOL-centric eras (1991-1998) remain particularly spotty.
Unfortunately, some of BIND's complexity is accidental. BIND took the controversial decision to act both as an authoritative DNS server and a resolver. Yes, they both talk DNS, but their role and risk profile is so different, it would have been better to have two development tracks.
A diverse notification setup seems wise - otherwise yea, I think solving the balancing problem is going to be an ongoing struggle. The one hour limit sounds pretty wise!
As a life long sufferer of cold/flue (once every 3 months bout lasting for over a week), I tried various natural things on myself. I probably have found solution that works for me. Allergy/cold free from 2015-6 ( go only when I deliberately tried to get it to find out if it works) and worked during 2020 too. Even worked for my family too. I even wrote to CDC director about it (but no response). How does one go about does one go about finding efficacy on others? I'm into software so have no clue. tia.
NASA engineers encoded a message in Perseverances's parachute design
It's mentioned here:
https://youtu.be/gYQwuYZbA6o?t=1172

Some early stabs at it:
https://twitter.com/lqqkout/status/1363982243010473986
That seems... a bit much IMO. I personally prefer containerizing things. Such as Node.js’ way with node_modules. Then I can put my project wherever I want. Downloaded dependencies can also go in ~/.cache because I don’t plan on editing them.
Thanks! I think that is the one.
Doubtful. But even if that was the case... with no professionals and no ranking system, no formal studies and a small community... in practice it is just a casual game.

If you play go at an amateur server, you will have to play thousands of games, read books, and put a significant amount of work... just to play at an average level. And even then, a professional will still wipe the floor with you because they started playing as kids. Professionals represent a much larger population of players from which the majority were not good enough to become professionals.

Diplo is just a casual game you play with friends. Like UNO, or whatever. Like Go used to be 3000 years ago until it started being taken seriously.
Two sources with knowledge of the situation say that roughly 80 to 100 employees at the company’s headquarters in Woburn, Mass., have been let go, and that Terrafugia’s intellectual property and further development of the Transition, a light sport airplane designed to be drivable on roads, are being moved to China by owner Zhejiang Geely Holding Group, which bought the company in 2017.
I love it, and I think $45 USD an hour is great (it comes to $7,200 USD a month) which is great for the part of the world I am in.

My worry is about the payout, which apparently requires Stripe. Personally I would be happy to receive payment in some crypto (even a stablecoin), or Paypal. But having to setup a stripe account seems overkill for me.
You are just wrong: in the early 90s 55% of US whites were opposed to interracial marriage (compared to 13% opposition in 2013) [1]. In my view this one shocking and outrageous stat is enough to refute your point. But also look at the political world then. Ron Paul was selling virulently racist propaganda in 1992 while serving as a representative [2]. Someone simply could not get away with that today - even Steve Scalise would call for them to be expelled from the House. In 1990 David Duke came dangerously close to becoming a US senator (after serving four years as a representative) and in 1992 was still very powerful in LA politics. This was the era that Rush Limbaugh rose to great fame (and he certainly had the most racist major radio program the country had seen since the 60s). Hatred towards homosexuals was standard - it was rare even for even snooty liberal art films to treat gay people like human beings (showing off drag queens was representation enough).

The country has become more progressive since then (despite the Republicans specifically becoming more reactionary on the whole).

[1] https://news.gallup.com/poll/163697/approve-marriage-blacks-...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Paul_newsletters
AFAIK, the base algorithms here are custom-fabricated ASICs. If your adversary can custom-fab ASICs to break hashes in your PW manager password in PBKDF2-SHA256, no reason they couldn't make one in whatever harder algorithm you could come up with.
Project Calico: Kubernetes Security as SaaS
I still can't get over the fact this mission has legit good cameras on it.
Awesome!

A small thing I'd love to see - the ability to collapse all files in a merge request. Right now the only option is to expand all. We have a lot of generated test files and it nearly crashes the browser when they're all open. Right now I have to collapse each one individually, sometimes dozens of files.
The main problem with REST is that it never developed tools even on the level with what we have for GraphQL.

Somehow everyone rushed to implement GraphQL schemas, and no one rushed to implement JSON Schemas for example. And JSON Schemas with the right tools are a much more powerful instrument.

Same goes for linking, and the rest of HATEOAS.

At a company I worked we had an internal tool built for most of this stuff which took a lot of problems with HATEOAS away. Unfortunately, we never opensourced it :(
What am I missing? What is wrong with those? I read the complete review and honestly, if I didn't know better, would have thought that a human wrote it.
Most of the higher rated accounts have their cred built up from asking good questions rather than good answers.
Does anyone have a good overview of how the plug-in community is transitioning to Python 3 overall? I've only noticed one I regularly offer a new version ahead in anticipation of v19 and even that was fairly recently.
> everything that does not in the most direct way result in value added is demeaned, discounted and cut

Yeah, back when I was working in pure research every time I met someone at a party and explained what I was trying to solve the follow up question invariably was "what is the application?". In general, in my experience, people don't value the pursuit of knowledge or understanding the universe, they value product.
The article lays out the points as if they exhausted all their Go options and ran into some deep language problem. I agree with you that this isn't a huge deal in Go, and could have been solved without a language, tooling, etc. change.

It reads like a tool (Rust) looking for a problem.
Nice one! I ran both BIND and tinydns. I loved how tinydns only did authoritative DNS, whereas BIND mixed two different servers, with completely different risk profiles: authoritative and resolver.
If you enjoy building it why not ask if you can do it full time backed by your employer?

Personally I'd ask for a share of future profits or for a leadership role if any future team built around the product. Definitely don't give it away, but I'm sure there is a win-win arrangement here.
The comment that spawned this thread is here and suggests phone privileges can also be taken away by mistake in this system: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26227031
Well, you're considerably more likely to run into a wild colony of "Africanized" hybrids than you are a great white shark, for one thing. For another, while I wasn't around at the time, I understand the movie was more made in response to sensationalistic reporting than a cause of it - I might be wrong about that part, though.

That said, my understanding is that A. m. scutellata x A. mellifera hybrids aren't unusually aggressive in nest defense by the standards of social hymenopterans generally, but only by the standard of the European honeybee (A. mellifera). I can't claim close familiarity with the relevant literature on bee hybrids, but from what I have seen, their nest defense behavior seems roughly comparable in aggressiveness to that of many yellowjacket (Vespula, Dolichovespula) species. On the other hand, a wild bee colony is likely to be one or two orders of magnitude greater in size than a wild yellowjacket colony, which means that a comparable level of aggression in nest defense could pose a significantly greater hazard.

Using the figures from the Wikipedia article [1] and its relevant source [2], it looks like A. m. scutellata x A. mellifera are responsible for an average of around 15 human deaths per year since the introduction of A. m. scutellata into Brazil in 1956. So I don't really see that there's very much to worry over here, in any case.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Africanized_bee

[2] https://www.si.edu/spotlight/buginfo/killbee
WeWork Co-Founder Adam Neumann Nears Settlement with SoftBank
I'm so dependent on Singulair and Zyrtec daily but it's so hard to get actual allergy treatment. I'm so excited to hear about this treatment because even with great insurance in the USA the doctor experience has been abysmal. How can I get started?
zzt allowed you to do anything you wanted, same with unreal and unreal script
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That didn't stop thousands of businesses from being closed.

But regardless, the narrative is just as important. After some threshold of vaccine distribution, people need to be convinced that it's ok to return to normal life, and that they don't need to cower in fear in their homes or wear masks for years and years just because we haven't completely eliminated covid. There's a cost to all of this.
> was so hospitals don't get overrun. That's clearly not happening right now in most places

Citation needed.

Up to 3 weeks ago, California, the Southeast were in field hospital territory.

Anecdotally, Alabama hospitals have been in overflow since July.

Georgia re-established a field hospital in January at their conference center [1] hospitalizations only stopped dropping beginning at the end of January

[1]https://www.11alive.com/article/news/health/coronavirus/geor...
I'll be a bit vague to protect my coworker's privacy, but the scientist was fired for other, unrelated violations, and my boss was brought in to replace him. I think he was leading an arm of a "U" grant, so he wasn't the only senior PI on it. Since they handled it internally, they couldn't just demand a reimbursement. On some level administration knew that the project wasn't moving forward, but once we started asking around, it was clear that there was no effort to start the project at all.

>But I totally agree that maintaining software that people are using should be funded and rewarded by the academic communities. A possible way to do this is have a supplement so that after a grant is over, people who have software generated from the grant that is used by at least 10 external parties without COI, should be funded 100K/yr for however many years they are willing to maintain and improve it. Definitions of what this means needs to be carefully constructed, of course.

I think that this is a great idea.
BLIT is available online http://www.infinityplus.co.uk/stories/blit.htm it's a fun short read.
Microsoft throws Google under the bus in European news fight
I only started using it a few months ago. It's such a natural way to edit code, it only took me about a day for it to become reflexive.

Now it just feels vaguely annoying to work without it. It's fine, it's just one of those ergonomic changes that nags at you a bit. Kind of like the opposite of that feeling of taking off uncomfortable business clothes at the end of the day. Or what I imagine people who are better at vim than me keep talking about.
This is what I was thinking. That sky crane has to be as barebones as can possibly be made. Every single bit of mass on it is something that could be better used elseware.

Tradeoff of course is if you skimp on the mass too much you'll get an unreliable sky crane and the whole thing is a dud.
I thought they were pitched as a service opportunity. Regardless, it's a small team that only operates at the federal level, state and local budgets are much more limited.

"Salaries at USDS vary, but don’t exceed $170,800, determined by your experience and skills." So, they do have a relatively low top salary, but it is very difficult to do any salary for the government based on skills versus age (disguised as years of experience). At best you might find adjustments for degrees earned, which don't translate well to actual value.
Certainly. Infrastructure is actually one of the biggest technological challenges for flight electrification. This is one area where hydrogen / fuel cell might have a leg up since it can physically/geographically decouple the power distribution from the airport itself (whereas for battery electric, unless you want to swap tens of tons of batteries between flights, you need charging infrastructure at the airport itself- and charging many 747-sized planes simultaneously at C-rates of at least 1 would require an obscene amount of power).
It's a good thing he absolutely insists on being sesquipedalian, because it limits his audience.

He seems to fancy himself as Tech Faulkner; I'd rather be Tech Hemingway.
Well, on codementor you can give a refund. And that would erase the session (and the rating, if you received one) from your history. I think it's better than tipping. Tipping, at least to my European ears, sounds like this voluntary thing as opposed to paying for a service.

BTW, what happened to your service? Or, probably better to ask, how far did you get and why did it fail?
Interesting to note that population of central boroughs of London (which is used as a canonical example of population growth and overcrowding in Europe) is roughly half what they were 100 years ago. e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Borough_of_Islington#De...

And likely decreasing now again, as people find less cultural benefit of living in an expensive city during an ongoing pandemic.

I don't think population size or density is really the problem - the problem is poor planning to account for probable changes in population size or density. Consistent 2% growth should be relatively easy for politicians to anticipate and manage.
Potentially unpopular opinion: I much preferred the zombie apocalypse objective game that Fortnite was in early access. Now it's just a generic battle royale.
It looks like Elon Musk isn’t moving Tesla out of California after all
This is very limited guideline. Nothing really new here, all those topics are covered all around for a decade.

As usual only CRUD counts, no mention of operations, patch, links, aggregation of calls, ways to document API, token duration, rate limits etc.

Adequate for todo list maybe.
We only serve the United States right now. If you search around Canada for a "sublingual immunotherapy allergist" you might find a physician doing this in Canada.
> Example: Login.gov now supports local and state government partners. Congrats, your constituent IAM needs can now be met by a federal team that is efficient and competent.

Outside of functions that are joint state-federal to start with, states tend to treat the federal government as just another outside sovereign (and one whose Administration is intermittently actively politically hostile), which is worse than a private contractor in terms of being able to get them to uphold their end of a contract.

So, not someone you’d outsource to unless you were more concerned about having someone else to blame if things go wrong than actually being able to assure that things go right.

> How many unemployment systems, prisoner tracking systems, DMV systems do you need? These are common components across governments.

Mostly, not, because while the names may be the same, the actual laws setting the system requirements tend to be radically different.
A parallel universe is the ink brand. Growing up Bril was the "cheap" and popular brand. But the best one was Chelpark.
Should a lot of vehicles have fundamentally different controls now than when they were first invented? In particular, should we move away from controls which map onto how control surfaces or other physical parts move, and instead focus on controls that describe the desired motion? Quad-copters are pretty easy to fly, but they would be really really hard to fly if you were supposed to manage the thrust on each motor. I've never flown one, but I understand helicopters are challenging to fly, and controls do map onto actually actuating the swashplate and tail rotor.

I don't understand how a gyroplane flies, or why pulling back on the stick causes immediate problems. But ... should autogyros have controls where you describe the motion you want, and let a computer figure out the actuation?

I think there's an analogy to software here, where generally we're less error-prone and more productive if we can specify what we want by expressing higher-level, declarative relationships, rather than demanding that humans always think in terms of the low-level operations that will need to occur.
There doesn't seem to be any incentive against challenging, so what's to prevent some black box bureaucratic software pipeline to take in any challenge and automatically label them as "verified"?

Any "third party" that doesn't belong to the prison-industrial complex becomes part of it if they get involved with this.
What do you mean with legacy target? I mean, this is not going to run on a Nintendo 64. Is it?
I've always wondered what the guy is shouting. Is it something in French, or just "Wow"?
User-defined passwords are a bad choice for an encryption KDF. I'm not disagreeing with sibling xxpor's tl;dr that worse is better here; getting everyone on password managers would be a huge net win for personal security. But debating the choice of KDF is missing the elephant in the room: that user passwords simply lack enough entropy for use as secure key material. It's like debating which kind of paper you should use to repair a huge hole in your bunker with a paper mache.

That said, asking the user to manually type full-size generated keys between devices is simply a nonstarter.

But what if the user stored their passwords in a private Matrix room? Matrix' solution to sharing encryption keys between devices is by being the communication channel by which users approve new devices from existing devices; upon approval the room's encryption key is sent to the new device encrypted using the new device's public key. That is, the room key can only ever be seen by the devices themselves. (I think this is a reasonable summary of encryption in Matrix, please correct me if I'm mistaken.) This is basically using a Matrix room as a general distributed, encrypted data store. Thoughts?
A good live performance from an artist like that is all about visual and rhythmic synchronization with the lights and the dancing audience and about live EQ and effects tuned to the sound system in the venue. So no, it won't be the same.

If you get utterly fucked up with perception altering substances it won't really matter though.