skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> For rural homesteaders and suburbanites alike, no matter where they live on the globe, fast, reliable internet connectivity is on its way - from outer space

It's particularly interesting if this kind of internet connectivity will be available in places like China and Russia. Would be delighted to see it.
I think I misunderstood pensions. I suppose it is much more like a 401k, so when it says pension, that's probably almost exactly a 401k deposit except to NYSCR:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_State_Common_Retireme...

Guess these things are rather hard to understand as a financial layman. I don't know which interpretation is correct, or if something else is more correct.
Don't shoot me, just trying to make sense of what the other guy wrote.

I believe that he's arguing that even if he said that, he shouldn't be punished. Only doing bad things is relevant.
TBH, I has been participating in open source since the 1990s, and I never seen the actual stigma like you describe. Yes, OSS projects were laughed at, dismissed as hobbyist and unserious, insinuated to be low quality and "worth exactly how much you pay for it" - all that happened all the time. But implying OSS people are mentally ill... maybe somebody did it, but I've never seen it. And I did work with people from Microsoft, Oracle, etc. - albeit from the parts that were more OSS-friendly. But I think if it was indeed that widespread I'd hear about it. RMS certainly had a reputation to be an unusual character - even in OSS circles - but I didn't see it wielded as a weapon agains OSS - at least not until the cancel culture started.

And yes, there were plenty of assholes in OSS (as there were outside) and it was mostly young people, many of whom confused being rude with being honest and direct, but I don't think it had anything to do with either Microsoft or mental illness. It had to do with being young and unexperienced and trying to form a new culture online where none existed before.
LIKE LOOK AT THIS https://twitter.com/sarahmei/status/994010501460865025?ref_s... please lets stop giving a platform to this fake mentally ill people that are at best cointelpro like figures made to destroy free software
Only if the supporting electronics (whatever's watching the sleep/wake button) have zero power consumption.

It looks like they're using an STM32 for this, which I believe can be made to draw approximately zero power if it's just waiting for a button to be pressed.
Honestly... I wish I could wish the same on you when you inevitably need to depend on others, but I don’t have it in me. I’m not even mad, I’m just amazed that people who think this way are so unthreatened they think they can say it outloud without consequence.
Stallman clearly has issues as many have attested. But reading these specific excerpts of his now... they just read like tone-deaf pedantry. Sarah Mei's response to someone else who pointed this out in a leveled, non-confrontational manner, of

> That means you are also racist, misogynist, and a colonial apologist. Nice job

just comes off as needlessly toxic escalation intended to shut down dialogue.

I have several autistic friends and see this sort of interaction now and then. They will state some observation or make an argument rooted in logical pedantry, not pushing any political agenda (or, supporting certain politics but trying to cast it in a more logical framework). Someone takes offense at this and accuses them of being racist/misogynist/whatever. They are hurt. The conversation is not advanced. Both sides lose. Chalk it up to "normies" just... completely not understanding the autistic approach to the world I guess. I wish political activists were less reactive against those who just want to explore -- and ultimately strengthen -- ideas.
Commercial intent is not consent to be tracked and tagged. Would you visit a Walmart if you knew it had cameras tracking your every eye movement, even if they claimed it was anonymized?
The only thing I knew about 'tag manager' before this was that it was always blocked by NoScript. Your comment made me go look up what it does and now I know that I will never unblock it.

Apparently it lets people drop in random code from a bunch of different analytics platforms, so it's pretty much guaranteed to consist entirely of the sort of stuff I have NoScript enabled to block in the first place.
Love seeing those vintage development tools! Does anybody have a demonstration of an old microcontroller toolchain (8051 assembly etc.)?
https://github.com/linux-surface/linux-surface/wiki/Supporte... has a matrix of Surface devices and how well they work with Linux.
...I wonder how many prisoners you could save money on by telling them if they stay in the local Marriott and don't leave ever, the government will pay all their bills.

Heck, I'd take that deal.
Eh, this goes too far.

Old organizations grow slow, new organizations can cut corners and the survivorship bias makes it seem like what they do is obvious and anyone not doing it should have known better.

There are problems with these old organizations that had much of their foundations built on an initial project with unlimited funding to get to the moon as fast as possible. Those problems aren't easy to fix. Some of those problems are because funding is dependent on continually changing legislation and on top of doing things, the government-space-industrial-complex has to manage the government relationship.
My main concern is that you won't get anywhere near of lab-time. It is a huge part of EE education, and I honestly probably spent 30% of my time working on lab projects.

More importantly - many of those lab projects require:

1. Expensive equipment. Spectrum analyzers, big motors/transformers/generators, etc.

2. Bespoke/boutique setups for things like automation projects , that simulate real-life processes. Schools spend a lot of money on these things, and have in-house engineers that perform maintenance, updates, repairs on them. These are normally not things you can just build over the weekend, and then use for self-learning. Hell - in many cases, Bachelors Thesis projects consist of building stuff like that, and then validating the generated data (measurements, etc.) by theory.

Sure - one can simulate A LOT of things today, but there are things you need to work on with your hands, in order to learn something useful.
To be fair, it's a lot easier to isolate an island than multiple international hubs for many different types of people (LA, SF, NYC).

Also having leadership which denies anything is bad until a major sports league (NBA) takes action doesn't help.
Actually, I think it makes exact sense since "think of the children" is now such a ridiculed phrase in mainstream media and thought.

We actually should, often, think about the children, but people did not like this excuse when it was used to argue against the vulgarity of music, television, movies, video games, etc. and now when it actually mattered we didn't care.

Like the boy who cried wolf.
> it's super unlikely that FB is using the filenames in any way

You mean other than storing them forever?
Cloud Foundry PaaS on Kubernetes
Yes. https://medium.com/@thomas.bushnell/a-reflection-on-the-depa...

(Above is a piece by someone who worked with RMS for years, explaining why it was not this one event that got him canned, but a long pattern of poor behavior, which he partially bore witness to)
Release v1.8.2 · Denoland/Deno
I know quite a bit about military history.

> There are people who would die for their country,

We call them heroes and give them a medal and commemorate them with a statue. Because they are rare.

> Hell, historically people died to BUILD or FREE their countries.

It's pretty rare for people to do it knowing they will die.

(People more often will risk death because of the value of the gain they'll get if they don't die. That's selfish behavior.)

> and nobody has a gun to their head.

Armies historically execute anyone disobeying orders to advance or show cowardice in the face of the enemy. The Soviets had blocking battalions ordered to shoot any of their own comrades who did not advance.

Armies are trained and organized around the concept of forcing men into combat. And it starts with conscription.

They quite literally do have a gun to their heads.
CNN is not comparable to Fox News like that.
FinTech doesn't always mean global mega bank. There's lots of small scale start-ups that fit into the financial services category that wouldn't/couldn't afford full time InfoSec roles.

Outsourced CISO/InfoSec is a valid and reasonable thing for some companies.
Buying an object, any object art or otherwise, for any reason. At least gets you that object.

Buying an NFT gets you a digital token. That token can say anything it likes but that is all you get.

Until NFTs are somehow anchored to ownership of the thing they mention... I don't see the point.

Do we need governments to provide a NFT Enforcement Registrar or something? Kinda defeats the purpose of "no central authority" then...
telegram groups allow for thousands of users.
To me having a particularly heavy rocket to be man-rated is like stepping into Shuttle problems again. That is, trying to make a system both very safe and having a large mass payloads.

Why to have a larger than necessary rocket, which has additional problems with just getting stuff to orbit - FH is more complex than F9 - to carry humans, who requires extra care?

Much better, from the point of safety, is to have a moderate-sized launcher human rated and specializing in bringing humans safely to orbit. After that it's much safer to use whatever means of travel are brought to space by any other launchers, those with focus on economy and less on safety.

A counterargument is usually a variation of "it's very expensive", but that's just, roughly, because human life is valued cheap enough to allow for suboptimal choices.
Terrifyingly, this isolation makes it easier to manipulate and polarize the population. Paired with capitalistic engagement-hungry algorithms, I see a dark future.
It's worth noting that their "standby time" measurement includes the screen being on at 1/2 brightness and maintaining a Wifi connection.

The processors in the Raspberry Pi don't support power management, so as far as I know, it's impossible to sleep a Raspberry Pi. The best you can do is to suspend to disk, at which point a battery life test would be relatively meaningless.
This is hideous. We should not let people like this dictate the direction of our industry.
I think you have been reading too much hogwash instead of reading actual government contracts to understand the basis of cost, and the system engineering, standards/requirements, testing, certification/validation that drive cost.

Example: 1 screw from Home Depot

vs.

The contractor shall provide one screw similar to Aeronautical Standard AN500A416-6

Aeronautical Standard AN500A416-6, Machine

Fastener Length:
Between 0.344 inches and 0.375 inches

Head Diameter:
Between 0.389 inches and 0.414 inches

Head Height:
Between 0.161 inches and 0.170 inches

Head Hole Configuration Style:
Round

Head Style:
Fillister

Hole Diameter:
0.046 inches

Hole Quantity:
1

Internal Drive Style:
Slot

Min. Tensile Strength (psi):
> 60000 pounds per square inch

Thread Diameter:
0.250 inches

Nondefinitive Specification/std Data:
I type and 5s style

Screw Material:
Titanium 6Al-4V

Screw Surface Treatment:
Titanium 6Al-4V

Thread Class:
2a

Thread Direction:
Right-hand

Thread Length:
Between 0.344 inches and 0.375 inches

Thread Qty Per Inch (tpi):
20

Thread Series Designator:
Unc (coarse thread)

The contractor shall provide an indefinite quantity of between 1,000 and 1,000,000 units, not to exceed 10,000 per week, at Bagram Airbase, Afghanistan.
One easy way to avoid this kind of mistake in your own product: make a clear distinction between your publicly-facing web site ("corpweb") and your web app for logged-in users. Preferably, they should be served from separate infrastructure.

Corpweb should be as static as possible, except for whatever third-party JS the marketing professionals think is necessary. It's their job, they know what's best.

Your app should have zero third-party JS except for technical analytics (New Relic, Datadog, whatever).

(This distinction can be fuzzier for free services, and for consumer stuff with non-sensitive data; Backblaze is neither of those.)
LOL, worked at a place and we uploaded all of the inventory for Facebook integration. We charge millions to customers for this data but "we need to show up on Facebook" wins the cake.
Just so we’re clear, you think... housing and feeding and imprisoning and (I’m not gonna jump to conclusions about any other things you think are involved in keeping human beings in prison) should cost less than $15,000/year? If I’m understanding correctly, how do you think that’s achievable?
Given Backblaze's good track record, I am assuming this was default FB pixel tracking behaviour. A company like BB should however know better than to use FB tracking on their paid products.
This argument doesn't seem applicable to Stallman, since his problematic arguments had nothing to do with his work, and since many people were willing to collaborate with him. The argument against him seemed to be that it's wrong, "exclusionary", to have a community figure who anyone finds too offensive to collaborate with, even if the community members are largely okay with him.
If you actually did that you would induce a much higher number of prisoners, so I’m not sure we can make that kind of comparison since the costs would quickly become unmanageable.
This has been widely discussed on this site and is a pretty contentious topic.

For my view, consider a very bright problem solver, who bursts into tears every time a person watches or criticizes their code. Do you think that's relevant to performance?

Certainly is a balance, but studies like this usually wilfully ignore all of the other aspects of software work, that aren't sitting in a chair alone writing code.
> writing a garbage collector has been harder than I expected.

That is exactly why I have chosen to use a library for (shameless plug) Next Generation Shell. Edit: Well, not exactly. I did expect. At the start of the project it looked roughly the same amount of effort as the rest of the language (at least some early version of the language).

The library: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boehm_garbage_collector

This decision can be reviewed when performance or other requirements become clear. Meanwhile I have invested relatively small amount of time into integrating the GC library.
I think this report is where the information comes from (specifically the mouse over on the second graph):

https://comptroller.nyc.gov/reports/nyc-department-of-correc...

It paints a very different picture than the headline as we have all read it.

One might interpret the headline as out of control spending. The break down of cost per inmate seems outrageous and supports that idea... but what really seems to have happened is a reduction of inmate population without a corresponding reduction in employees. I would guess things are most explained by not wanting to take away people's livelihoods and increase unemployment.

Is "prison population reduced by 50% while employees remain constant" anywhere near as outrageous of an interpretation?"

Should we fire 10% of the DOC workforce every year?
Exactly my point. If you don’t get to know them, it’s just a one-way performance that may as well be video.
I’m unsure if there’s any evidence to support this claim.
SpaceX absolutely competes against NASA in SLS case - SLS is so absurd even deep pockets of USA taxpayer can't prevent SLS losing in comparison to SpaceX solutions. Of course, NASA can use more regulatory heavy handing - they had approximately that unfortunate experience with Beal Aerospace - but we'll see if NASA will get to it in the current situation. So far the forecast isn't that dark.
A lot of police work is not security work. That is the fundamental disconnect. People tend to want basic security protections. Do they really care if someone is secretly taking drugs if it doesn't lead to security threatening behaviors? Only a very small moralizing and authoritarian few.
I’ve never seen anyone use Mypy.
How did Facebook feel about you publishing the algorithm publicly? Specifically the Sharp+ version, as it seems that some part of that originally derived from existing Instagram code. (if I understood it correctly - or was it just an additional sharpening matrix? regardless, it sounds like something they might have wanted to keep proprietary)
The key to not discriminating based on ability is to be sure you are endeavoring to enable a person to do something to the best of their abilities and not insisting that the only people allowed to do something are those who are best suited for it. But there is a separation between "not an ideal candidate for this job" and "not reasonably able to do this job".

Indeed, sometimes the person with the disability can be better at the job because of what they have learned in an effort to overcome - this is why you don't just slap a label on a person and declare them unfit because they match a description.

Being tolerant, respecting differences, however you want to put it does not mean being blind to outcomes.

People sometimes don't get this.
So expressing sincerely held beliefs in a personal forum like his own website is in and of itself "toxic"? Many of RMS's beliefs are indeed well outside the mainstream, but as far as I'm aware nobody has ever accused him actually doing anything abusive to anybody.
When a piece hits the ground, a point is added for every line you were holding the down button. So, you could probably just take the height difference of the ghost piece and the real piece and add it to the score. Remember to set carry when subtracting =p

I'll bet by directly moving the piece coordinates you bypassed this.

I really like your ghost piece =)
Once again, brevity is the soul of wit. Well played.
"the freeloader had to take the class again."

If only that were the norm. Unfortunately freeloading is typically rewarded in university assignments.

People say "that's real life" - well, no. In the workforce there's some accountability and the freeloader will get fired while you get promoted.
> Sarah Mei then went through the board members involved one by one, digging into each of their histories, and tweeting what she viewed as fire-worthy infractions.

What a [negative adjective removed at moderator's request] human being. Worst of all, she probably views her activity as a worthy contribution to society.
CFR vs IFR

https://www.methodsman.com/blog/case-fatality-rate-vs-infect...

What I can tell you is that the CDC now provides an “infection fatality rate” parameter in it’s planning scenarios. They range the IFR from 0.5% in their best-case scenario to 0.8% in the worst-case scenario.

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/hcp/planning-scena...

https://www.webmd.com/lung/news/20201030/covid-19-infection-...

A new study conducted by researchers at Imperial College London found the COVID-19 infection fatality ratio is about 1.15% of infected people in high-income nations and 0.23% in low-income nations.

The new study confirms that the coronavirus is deadlier for older people, with the risk of death doubling for every eight years of aging and ranging from 0.1% for people under 40 and 5% among people over 80 years old. The disparity between high and low-income nations is due largely to facts that high-income nations tend to have larger number of elderly in their populations whereas low-income nations’ population tend to skew youngers.
Actually, it just comes off as ex-post-facto rationalization of doing something hasty and mean.
John Carmack, of Armadillo Aerospace fame (and Quake too), once mentioned how they helped some NASA specialists in a project where their flying platform Pixel was involved. John said, that collaboration was the first opportunity for at least some NASA PhDs to actually work with flying hardware - years spent in NASA before that were all about papers.
This is a sad thread. I guess institutionalized cheating is a very real and acceptable thing. I remember "cheating" once during a physics exam. It wasn't "cheating" really. He said we could use the internet, and it turns out a couple of the questions were on the internet. It's not ethical, and I shouldn't have done that, but technically it was allowed.

Thankfully I was never the type of person who had to cheat their way into prestige. I did that because I was an immature kid. What's worse is that I was smart enough to solve the problems anyway, but I was just lazy.
I've seen GTM take down production multiple times because of marketing shipping random JS with no approvals.

Some random guy in his basement assured someone in marketing they could handle our volume? Chuck their tag in and watch their website get DDoS'ed with millions of requests per minute, which takes out our website because marketing made it fail loudly.
Yet another casualty of blue checkmarks identifying a systemic issue and then using it to go after individuals while actually defending the system.
Before delving into accusations of maliciousness, might I suggest you first review the annual budgets of the relevant public health agencies? At least a hundred billion dollars have been spent by my government during my lifetime on public health. Some of this spending was overseen by the very same officials you see on TV condemning others for their poor performance. The budgets they were given feel to me like more than enough money to be prepared for a foreseeable respiratory pandemic.
Those super fast Rust solutions are somewhat interesting for their use of SIMD, but honestly with the complexity of the code involved, they might as well have written it in Assembly.

Also, side note, was the Crystal CSP solution only run with a single worker thread? Unless there is some bottleneck caused by the IO I dont understand how the CSP solution runs slower than the otherwise identical non-CSP version.
I think both are true but mostly the first. Human evolution has sped up dramatically in the past 15,000 years, but it's still very slow.

Arabic numerals, literacy, maps, bayesian reasoning, etc are unnatural, but better ways to conceptualize the world around us and these tools and others have steadily become more prevalent throughout the population.

Maybe quicksort hasn't permated through much of society, but binary search has! People born 100 years ago became comfortable flipping through phone books and quickly finding a name, whereas that would have taken a conceptual leap for most born 200 years ago.
There is a big difference between Guix and Nix and this area. Guix only accepts packages that can be fully bootstrapped, unlike Nix. It's a lot more effort, but it means everything you install in the official Guix channel ultimately comes from a ~300 byte, auditable binary seed.

Nix is more lenient when it comes to packages vendoring their own dependencies outside of Nix proper.
> 1. If you have a good test suite, mypy adds less value than it costs.

> 2. If you don't have a good test suite, you really need to get one.

> How am I wrong?

You're not wrong, per-se, but there is an excluded-middle fallacy here:

If you have a good test suite (that already includes tests for the types of returned values), then mypy may indeed add less value than it costs.

If you don't have a good test suite, you do indeed need to get one.

However.

Mypy is very likely to reduce the cost of adding a good test suite, as it obviates the need for making type assertions in the tests by instead allowing those assertions of various types to be made inline with the code as type annotations.

This makes the remaining functional and unit tests shorter and a lot more readable.
AMD most definitely started outperforming Intel in performance per dollar in the last year forcing Intel to implement huge price cuts to remain competitive.
A bit of a shame that the Miniconf talk he linked to was taken down on this old post.