skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I fell down the Soviet photography rabbit hole, and it's so much fun. You can just experiment with different lenses, cameras, and focal lengths for a fraction of the cost, and usually without sacrificing much quality. I picked up a Zorki 1 off Ebay for peanuts, and it works perfectly. It's small, has a collapsable lens, and just lives in my jacket pocket all the time. It's quite heavy, and every control has a very satisfying mechanical feeling. You can also pick up lens adapters (usually m39 for rangefinder, and m42 for SLR) to use Soviet glass on modern mirrorless cameras. The Helios 44-2 is a really really good lens for the price, and is a great companion to my Sony A6000
> Life belongs on planets.

Well, life belongs into the environment it's adapted for.

Planets are just a collection of physical and chemical parameters that can be emulated without life "knowing" or "caring about" the difference.

A culture of bacteria in a petri dish couldn't care less about the nature of its habitat provided it gets the nutrients it needs.

You argument already falls part with regards to humans: we can take the same idea and argue that humans don't belong in houses and that cooked food is unnatural and therefore wrong. Same difference.
As an undergraduate in physics I was spared from any absurdity like that, but I knew professors got emails and the like for those types of things. However, the most amusing thing that I heard about was that our department (Physics and Astronomy) would get calls inquiring about their horoscope. Which caused us every year to change our name to Department of Psychics and Astrology on Halloween.
I too am waiting for the realization of the Disney animated series Tail Spin
It seems in Big Sur the file you need to edit is not writable. So you need to make it writable first, edit it, and then change permissions back to read-only.
The barycentre being inside of one of the things in the system is also an arbitrary threshold, isn't it?

The barycentre of the Sun and Jupiter isn't inside of the Sun.. so does that mean Jupiter doesn't orbit the Sun?
>Big tech is so ingrained into our daily lives that I feel powerless.

No, you are ingrained. You seriously need to look inwards and realize your horizon is really narrow. The world is bigger than Silicon Valley and one app store. Yes, they are intrusive and have too much power. Just like other empires of the past, there are cracks and their cracks have been growing the past few years. All startups are about finding the cracks.
> Since you expect to be be typing in a command line, moving your finger to touch the key is probably not very efficient.

Why is this not very efficient? Isn't moving my finger to touch the key equivalent to a single key stroke? How is a single key stroke less efficient then many key strokes?
Facebook chat seems to have been created in 2008, but I'm pretty sure AIM had chatrooms when I was in highschool, which would put it at pre-2006. Not exactly the same thing, but the foundation was already there - AIM already had user-made profiles as well.
> many ad blockers nuke ALL analytics scripts, even if they have nothing to do with google

That's because you don't need analytics scripts to see if people visiit your site - you have the original page request for that. Analytics script collect additional information beyond that, which users that block them have deemed to be not acceptable.
Perhaps some form of nuclear power can be part of a sustainable energy solution, but that doesn't mean expanding nuclear power is a good idea right now. Building, running, and maintaining a nuclear power plant is a formidable engineering challenge. So is dealing with its waste. The biggest fallacy is that just because we've been able to get by with temporary waste storage and haven't had a disaster so far we'd be able to deal with much more over much longer periods of time. Nobody who's serious about this or any other topic just assumes infinite scalability. Show proof or GTFO.

With newer plant designs and better waste handling we can come back to considering expansion of nuclear. AFAIK there are just too many problems still unsolved, so that would be premature. In the here and now solar and wind seem vastly preferable. Also, the remaining problems with wave/tidal power, while far from trivial, seem likely to be solved before the remaining problems with nuclear. If that happens, there's no reason to take any risk with nuclear.
http://archive.is/RGd3c
> Where are the stories about people born into poverty, still in poverty, and not likely to be anything but poor for the rest of their lives?

Thomas Sowell says that it's actually a pretty small percentage of people like that. Most poor people are young and most rich people are old. Young people become older and the vast majority work their way up the pay scale to some extent.
With no code chill at all? Not even for artifacts which, presumably unlike what your team works on, lie in the critical path for revenue generation aka checkout?

If so, that's very impressive, but also very atypical. Source: I work in high-volume ecommerce, have friends and colleagues at other companies who do likewise, and no one I've talked to about it works anywhere that doesn't implement at least some controls on at least checkout-path deployments during holiday prep and through holiday proper. It isn't a tech debt thing, it's just good business sense: the time of year when people give you by far the most money is the time of year when you least want to risk causing problems for people who want to do so. The problem isn't untrustworthy systems or bad engineering culture; the problem is that anything short of perfection has a measurable impact on revenue, and humans achieve perfection with less than perfect reliability.

Even where I work, that revenue impact can easily amount to a major problem if we let a significant bug slip through. People buy our product for its own sake, and will do so from Amazon or Walmart or wherever if they can't get it direct - but our margin on sales through second-party vendors is nothing like as good as on direct sales, so we still take a hit. For Etsy, it's much worse; on sales through other storefronts, they get nothing. Too, a bad enough break during holiday will also risk some fraction of their subscriber revenue from sellers who, fed up at losing out on what would otherwise also be their highest revenue of the year, might go elsewhere.

It's easy to talk shit about tech debt and bad engineering culture, I get that. It's also poorly founded in fact, and evinces an apparently questionable grasp on some fundamentals of the business, besides. I don't know whether you have represented yourself well or poorly by creating this impression, but it is the impression you've created, and if that bothers you then I might suggest trying to do otherwise next time.
I’m curious of the legalities of price testing. VWO suggests [0] never offering the “exact same product” at a different price for legal reasons. Your service doesn’t appear to change plan benefits or names, only prices.

[0] https://vwo.com/blog/ab-testing-price-testing/
On the contrary, social media and messaging platforms live on trend popularity alone. Features or bulk accounts ever created are mostly meaningless. MySpace stopped mattering once everyone moved to Facebook. These aren't driven by technology, they're driven solely by popularity.

Once people move on, you might as well shut it down.
Yup, the body is so complex that sleep and good diet and low stress are abstractions that evolved over millions of years to simply “make us better” at doing what humans do.

Over the long term, nothing beats it.

But there are performance enhancers in pure performance and also in spiritual/mental aspects that can make you see problems in different ways.

Best of the former is adderall, a good one of the latter is shroom microdose.
Worst? You mean _highest_? These people will be caring for your kids in their nursing home.
This doesn't seem to be strictly true - the two-line solution worked exactly as expected for me on 11.2.1. I used nano instead of vi (personal preference), but it worked nonetheless.
It's an ok read but...

>Also, the idea that it's fine that keys have a bunch of useless travel because you can pre-depress the key before really pressing the key is just absurd.

It isn't useless travel. If travel was useless we'd all use touchscreen-like or mice-button-like keyboards. The Apple keyboard keys are the worst possible keys for gaming. Lots of competitive gamers switch out switches in their mice because they get misclicks just by resting a finger on a button. Travel might be too far on some keyboards but it is way way worse using something build like the Apple keyboard. Many (all I know) competitive gamers also add rubber rings to their keyboard switches which adds to the feel of how much (little) keys needs to travel.

IMO it is wrong to measure latency including key travel because of the above and because we don't move our fingers equally fast or precise. This means no-one can get the same result every time and never across different people (repeatable and reproducible results). It basically make the tests in the article useless unless it is the only test or the only tested keyboards, IMO. There's a good reason input latency is not normally tested including human movements.
in one specific case I will willingly describe where that is precisely the reality that needs to be faced. (hardly gladly will I recount my experiences, I am barely past the stages of pure shock, I became homeless as the result of extensive almost decade long criminal harassment following when I accidentally uncovered a systematic fraud in government. ironically - actually I am pretty sure intentionally - the fraud is in housing and crosses the institutional walls between central and local government and into the world of QUANGOS and charities ostensibly helping the homeless but inextricably involved.

the systematic enfranchisement of fraud in east London public housing authority and agencies intertwined and inseparable from hard drug dealing, is maintaining a permanent and pernicious status quo where under housing in consequence is denied by individuals who are officially homeless and who collectively by reason of being sufficiently well financially provided for by exceptional and exclusive permissive authority, exist en masse as a block preventing both the most needy to get housed from the street and the eligible and worthy to move on into permanent housing that they can sustain.

the situation is naturally more complicated than this, but essentially these are the conditions that have such a deleterious effect on the public : the mode of cash money available for spending to the majority cohort is greater than the average free for spending cash income in London as a whole ; the percentage of technically "homeless" people who are housed ostensibly only temporarily but effective permanently on the doorstep of the City's financial center who are habitual beggars is greatly in excess of 50% and I can attest closer to 90 percent in my own experience ; income from begging frequently exceeds USD 1000 per week. ; organised crime is permeated throughout every corner of the entire environment these people - indeed any homeless person - encounters.

I'll simply respond to any questions rather than drown you in the details straight away. of course, into this vipers' nest fell lil'ol'me who was raised by a Great Depression banker and brought up learning accounting from my pay dissecting the over valuation applied to the pension fund of his newly commercialized thrift which was paying their former board manager and one time gm responsible for their greatest historic growth, just 82 British pounds a week supposedly index linked... this ain't over quite yet due to the pandemic messing with case progression, so you might hear more yet.. I can rout out plentiful public sources meantime if you're particularly interested although if you are please forgive me in advance for being rather circumspect about who is who and the whys and wherefores, because this is long ago passed into the physical danger territory for not merely me but including anyone who has helped..

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The rest of his thread:

>That probably sounds like it'd be annoying, but it took about 20 seconds to fix, and it's not as annoying as forgetting the feature is there.

>We always give talks that show off the fancy stuff. Maybe one day I should collect together all these everyday little things and talk about them instead.

>I would need some new jokes to keep it interesting, I suppose.
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“We all too often have socialism for the rich and rugged free market capitalism for the poor.” -MLK
The News Media Bargaining Code is not yet law, and didn't even pass its final reading until after Facebook enacted their ban, so Facebook was under no legal obligation to block links to news websites. They were in compliance with local law regardless.

What Facebook did was a blatant attempt to influence the legislative process. It was the equivalent of a nation enacting an export ban due to threats of tariffs.
It's not feasible in earth's atmosphere, but seem to be feasible in mars: https://www.nasa.gov/directorates/spacetech/niac/2017_Phase_...
no mention of the krasnogorsk k-3! one of the cheapest and most popular 16mm non sync movie cameras around...
> It doesn't exist. ... No. Sacrifice is required ...

That is a very myopic view.
Life is short. As you mourn John's passing, take a moment to reflect on the relationships you have built over the years. Take some time to reach out and tell someone you appreciate them.
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Ever notice how those ads say something like "qualifying customers". If your credit score is in the toilet you're not getting any of those prices.

The domestics, koreans, nissan and mistu will lease to anyone with a pulse but if your credit is bad the monthly rate or requireed uprfront payment is gonna climb quickly.

You might as well need the president of the local yacht club write you a recommendation to get a sub-$200 lease on a Toyota, Honda or other middle class "look how financially prudent I am" status symbol. Anyone who doesn't have good credit AND the ability to put a good chunk of the lease down up front is going to be paying a "this is our polite way of telling to you to drag across the street to the Nissan dealer" price.

Also, those promotional rates are just that, promotional rates. Often times the details work out such that taking a higher rate on a lease and putting less down up front results in a lower cost per duration of ownership.
No, I don't need 10 accounts
The same could be said in the 1800’s where mills were popping up all over the place. Nothing was standardized and everything was designed and built by craftsmen.
Who said I want to manipulate the truth? Challenging does not mean the job required a male; the study was about the interpretation instead of the intention.

When I mentioned gender-neutral job descriptions, I referred to ads to balance using this gender-coded language instead of eliminating any of them. Bias towards any gender is gender bias.

And I agree with your point regarding requirements, that's why the article mentioned writing the actual requirements instead of a long list of things that are not in that job.
Again, these famines are also entirely a socioeconomic crisis, not actual lack of food. If Sudan wasn't a terribly run place at war with itself on two fronts, it would not have food shortages. If Somalia had a functioning government at any point in the preceding two decades, it would not have food shortages. Supply chain disruptions occur all the time in the global food market, but in non-basketcase countries there's enough resiliency for this to never reach anywhere near "death sentence" territory.

>What do you think these countries have in common?

Terrible authoritarian governments that buy off its impoverished populaces with a mirage of huge food subsidies, while stealing most of the wealth of their nations for themselves.
I imagine no one cares about those stories for the most part, other than Jack London and Anton Chekhov.
>Odd, then, that the entirety of a photographic industry spread across the largest country ever formed and spanning more than 60 years can get judged off first impressions.

A lot of people come judge anything out of the Soviet Union off that first word.
Does integer scaling matter for text or images? Or is it just for UI elements drawn on a pixel grid?
> they would need to have inherited to feel financially secure

It seems ridiculous to most of us, but I can see how it happens. I grew up pretty poor - my father was a police officer and my mother didn't work because she had to watch the four of us. But I graduated with a degree in CS in '95 (if you're thinking about graduating with a degree in CS, try to do it in '95 because that may be the best possible year to do it) and am much better off financially now than my family was when I was growing up. Still, I keep worrying about my kids: I can pay to send them to college, but I can't afford, say Harvard or MIT. I have to keep reminding myself that they're far better off than I was at that age and I managed to turn out OK - I think part of it is that I end up comparing my situation with the people around me, many of whom are far better off than I am.
Hmm, for long distance prediction it might be wrong, but for short term predictions, everything seems to get worse. Microplastics, trash in the ocean, warmer ocean, bees dying, etc.
Queue my first truck. My uncle gave it to me. S-15. The bench seat didn’t lock, it slid forward and back when breaking or accelerating. Hard left hand turn and the keys would fly from the ignition and land on tue floorboard of the passenger seat (this did not turn off the truck). During the same hard left, some electrical thing would connect or un-short and my radio would temporarily turn on until the end of the turn. It ate oil and did not have a dip stick; thus you estimated how much oil to add daily. If the headlights were on, the gas gauge was zero. Oh, and it could only be pop-started (meaning I had to always park on a hill and get the thing rolling to get the ignition to pop start - it did not always work). A boyfriend of my mom’s showed me how to arc the starter bolts with a screwdriver- and I could now start it on flat surfaces! That was great. I eventually didn’t add enough oil and seized the engine. This is Southern California fwiw.
What is an “algorithm”? It depends whom you ask
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I once read about a lightweight, two-wheeled chariot model which reckless rich men raced in the night and crashed. I was expecting something similar.
I disagree. For mega constellations it’s about cost per kg to orbit, and for reusable it’s about launch rate. If you build too big, your launch rate isn’t high enough to get the full advantage of reuse.

I think Starship is awesome, but even Falcon 9 is so big it leaves some room for something a bit smaller.

8 tons is in the Soyuz/R7 range, which is what the other megaconstellation is using. And it has had well over 1000 launches and still holds the record (in the 70s and 80s) of the most number of launches per year for a single rocket type, which makes it a good target class for size of a reusable rocket.

8 tons is about where Falcon 9 v1.0 started out, by the way. How many customers wish they had that built the smaller falcon 5.

Additionally, a smaller rocket is useful for some human spaceflight applications. If you only need to launch two astronauts in orbit to fix a satellite, it’d be nice to have a smaller rocket option. An 8 ton first stage reusable rocket is also big enough to eventually have a reusable upper stage and still carry a a couple astronauts, their space suits, a small (Gemini-sized) vehicle (possibly integrated with the reusable upper stage), and some tools and parts to repair the satellite. Launch costs could in principle be less than $1 million, which is about the propellant costs alone for Starship.

Starship is awesome. But we don’t have JUST 757s and 777s. We also have smaller utility aircraft.
I’ve long thought that something just under 10 tons, partially or fully reusable, is a good market opportunity. Makes a lot more sense than tiny rockets for megaconstellations.
>> I'm upper middle class and I've been able to save so much money by getting rid of my car.

Because you probably have job at a desk with a computer. You don't physically do much and so your per-minute presence at work isn't mandatory. If you are a few minutes late the world is not going to end and your workday rarely starts before 5am. You can handle the ins and outs of public transportation and/or you can afford to live close enough to walk/bike. I have a job that, while it pays well enough I have to be physically present (military, long story). While I am paid well enough I will get into real trouble if I am not on time every day. Sometimes I'm on call and have to get to work within 30-minutes of receiving a phonecall. I'd like to ditch the car, but I don't see any other reliable 24/7/365 transpiration options. Some of the people who work under me, and earn considerably less, are lobbying for "have own car" and "have own cellphone" to be listed work requirements. That might make at least some associated costs tax deductible.
> Is there any evidence that they do this?

Evidence is a high bar. But I can tell you my f...ing smart tv asks me on behalf of tv stations to accept cookies when I switch to some german tv stations. Yes, I'd say they are tracking what I am watching. That is with TV over satellite in Germany.
No, it was a fixed cost thing. I ended up doing much more work that initially had planned for, as you can imagine :)
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The usage really differs depending on the size of the company. For larger companies, they tend to have entire pricing teams and the pricing is never "Done". In this case we are adopting a subscription-based model and are trying to optimize prices in a very granular fashion (per country, tradeoffs between usage-based and subscription based fees etc.). Those customers tend to need experiments for the rest of their company's life.

Then there are smaller companies. Think Seed or Series A companies that focus on getting prices in the right ballpark. For them, we provide a lot of value at first by finding the right price (and country adjustments) at first, and then provide a bit less value when they found prices that seem to work well. We adapted our pricing to reflect it with a low-ish subscription fee to maintain our infrastructure and show localized pricing to their users, and an experiment-linked usage based fee. We're happy with this system as it aligns well with the value we are providing.

Later we will add dynamic promotions (think personalized time-limited promotions based on the user's usage of the app, or country holidays promotions) to increase conversions and help companies be local at scale, which should help us generate ongoing value, even to smaller companies.
I use pocket on my ereader. I see a lot of ghosting and slowness sometimes. Not sure if there can be an low power eink version.