skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That is an interesting advanced project, but it is hard to find a consistent 1-page section in all of the languages.
Glad to hear this will soon be a thing.
While I disagree with your opinion, as I think it is a symptom of a broader issue, your explanation about the unclear options and outrage manufacturing is spot on.
Atmospheric drag causes a relatively speedy deorbit if not actively resisted. The starlink satellites use Hall effect thrusters to maintain their orbit. If a unit fails, it should deorbit in under 5 years. If the thrusters work, they could also force it to deorbit much faster. The risk comes from debris from a possible collision being ejected into a higher orbit.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orbital_decay#Atmospheric_drag

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starlink#Space_debris
And there are other ways to make things hard to trace. Buy for cash on localbitcoins. Go via a privacy coin. Go via a sketchy exchange.
I should add that the CNC machined parts in this robot were US-made because we happen to have our own CNC shop. If we did not, frankly, I probably would have sent them to China for fabrication. The math is simple, if I have parts made outside our shop, the cost, when compared to China, is between 2x and 5x (if not more). It also takes weeks to get parts...unless you pay an insane amount for them. I can get beautifully finished CNC parts from china in three days or so. This means that, in the time and for the cost of making these parts outside our shop I can run two to five design iterations by using CNC parts made in China.

This is just one layer of this reality. There are many more.
The behavior changes you are describing are incredibly regional. For much of the US, we're already back to "near normal" and have been for ages.
The question is whether you want to deal with the STD health problem or not. Moralising doesn't get you anywhere.

People are engaged in this behaviour either way, it doesn't require subsidy.

What you do by enabling everyone to self-monitor is solve the collective harm of harmful viruses spreading.

So do you want to preserve your moral sensibility, or do you want to stop the spread of viruses?

I think it is perfectly reasonable to say, of people who choose the former, that they aren't very praiseworthy people.
Paper money has a lower bound of material value equal to $(toilet paper - utility value for the comfort of toilet paper over a dollar bill) per square inch.
As I posted a couple days ago, I have my doubts about whether Madoff actually was that worried about prison. Seems to me like he lived like a literal king until he was 70, then went to jail. Maybe 70 year old Madoff didn’t want to go to jail, but 40 year old Madoff may have been more than happy to make that deal. Seems to me that someone who was trying to avoid jail time would have spend more effort trying to ameliorate the situation rather than cover anything up.
Here, let me google that for you: https://www.google.com/search?q=ponzi+scheme+definition

Pon·zi scheme

/ˈpänzē ˌskēm/

noun

a form of fraud in which belief in the success of a nonexistent enterprise is fostered by the payment of quick returns to the first investors from money invested by later investors.
Heya, I see a few recommendations on this thread for Toastmasters.

Would you mind sharing a couple of key insights that you learnt there?

Thanks ^_^
It's like building a structure in the middle of the plains where it'll sit untouched for decades, versus building a structure on the beach where the incessant waves will grind it to bits in short order.

Objects in low orbit don't stay there. They're slowed down by the atmosphere, and re-enter in a few months or a few years. Only if they're healthy enough to orient themselves, and have the fuel to do it, can they perform the re-boost maneuvers necessary to overcome atmospheric drag and stay up for longer.

So, a satellite which loses control, or gets smashed into bits which can't individually control themselves, just becomes fodder for the drag. It gets swept out of orbit by the wisps of atmosphere out there. Low orbit is very "clean" in terms of junk, because junk simply can't linger there. Just like there aren't a lot of ancient ruins on the beach.

The exact degree of drag is unpredictable because the exosphere is subject to a lot of variables, hence the "months to years" ambiguity. But they don't stay out there for decades or millennia, like junk in higher orbits.
It's an interesting position to take, that preferring not to have your mail on some other physical location than your home must mean you're a spammer... I guess you use a service to recieve your physical letters too ? Because having an actual mailbox at your house is weird?

My E-Mail will always be hosted on a physical server that I own, that is located in my home, and I'll fight nail and tooth to keep it that way. It used to be quite common, so much so, in fact, that my first ISP sent a letter apologizing for blocking outgoing port 25, and detailing how to access their relay box.
South Korea expanded rapidly during a military dictatorship in the 1960s and 1970s[1]. A large chunk of of their economy was (is??) tied to huge conglomerates with major ties to the government known as Chaebols[2].

> The only thing government did was not to come in the way of the people to have better life through hard work.

At least in the case of South Korea, that is demonstrably false. There were, and are, lots of links between these large, successful international Chaebols and the government. Without government support, and protectionist measures shielding them from foreign competition it's unlikely they'd have grown as large and successful as they are today (similar to China today blocking foreign Big Tech companies from operating in China, to grow their own national champions).

I know less about the other Asian economies you mention, but the "East Asian Model"[3] runs contrary to what you say about hard work alone.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Park_Chung-hee

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaebol

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Asian_model
I would think that if there is any language that could be a viable alternative to English for programming, it would be Chinese: more native speakers than any other language, and with a writing system distant enough from that of English that learning English might actually constitute a significant barrier. Spanish is just not there. Yes, there are a lot of native speakers, but it's close enough to English that it's probably not going to be worthwhile to most Spanish-speaking programmers to participate in the alternative ecosystem (not to mention that it has less economic clout than Chinese).
Most support BLM the concept, few know anything of BLM the organization.
Adult debate groups are tremendous for improving on this. They're like youth debate clubs, but obviously for adults.

Reduce focus on the setting, increase focus on the ideas.

Think less of the people you're talking to, as you're almost guaranteed to be overvaluing their potential opinions and undervaluing your own. That imbalance - to the extent it exists out of proper alignment - can be a large reservoir of anxiety.

Based on what you're describing, you're almost immediately overvaluing the mere potential opinions of others, before they even exist (prior to their expression). I assume this means you have a strong need for approval, which isn't an easy thing to reduce. I would remind yourself that there are many ways to achieve approval, including by intellectually stomping your opponent in a debate of ideas. Again, that's where debate clubs are very useful to building up that perspective, you get to see that there are other ways to get a positive outcome rather than acquiescing to the opinions of others. People can like you for many reasons; being liked for being weak isn't a positive (and people that like you for being weak and deferring to them, are monsters to not be respected); being liked for intellectual fortitude is a positive; you can have either outcome, but only one of those is good.
Congrats on building this!

Interesting concept. Just looked over the website for a few minutes. The screenshots looks nice, but would be cool to see a few examples. Maybe a longer video that goes through the details. Or a playground with a few pre populated stories which one could play around with and change to see how the application is modified by the AI.
I'm gonna go way out on a limb here and guess that the author wasn't a fan of the GPL to begin with, and is hitching his wagon to the FSF news cycle.
China’s first facial-recognition lawsuit ends with new ruling and questions
The page didn't mention retries, exponential back off, etc. Is there somewhere where it shows how that sort of thing is handled?
My all time best healthy recipe is oats, protein shake and some fresh fruits.
Your question is: would a company based on youtube be hugely profitable without AI? Answer: probably not, but who cares other than the shareholders of Alphabet? I don't really think I should base my decisions about software based on how much the owners of the company are making.
oversimplify much?
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I didn't write it was a secret shipment to the UK.
Just that they have hidden 15M doses, that could be used to protect lives. And considering that they were obligated to provide few M of vaccines to EU countries makes it a good case against AZ.

Is reducing the total amount of vaccines to EU from 500M to 200M in the whole 2021 also a dodgy political narrative against AZ?
Verizon lobbied against govt stopping spam calls because they sold an anti spam service at high profit margin.
Or a class system for prisons.
Other countries have $10k speeding tickets for the rich who ignore traffic rules. It’s not such a fantasy, it’s a real world way to reduce emissions and automobile deaths.
FYI, you can link to specific frames (screens) into a Figma project. (Share button -> "Link to selected frame" checkbox).
>> That’s exactly what Epic, for example is asking for.
>And most would be satisfied with less.

So you lied when you said ‘no one is asking for this’.

> If I was wrong, you’d have been able to respond with an example.

> Qubes OS.

You do realize that isn’t completely secure.

> Last time was the EBook settlement.
That was over five years ago.

So what?

> I guess you aren’t aware of Epic’s case.
Epic's case isn't getting very far

Complete bullshit. Their case is proceeding as they planned and oral arguments are to be heard soon.

> and it's quite possible that it would not have arisen at all if Apple had shown any interest at all at managing it's own opening rather than putting itself at risk of being opened by others.

You do realize that doing something because otherwise you’ll be forced to, is the same as being forced to?

Also, that paragraph is an amazing piece of Orwellian writing. Have you considered writing for an authoritarian politburo?

> Erm, you do realize that these technologies have nothing to do with preventing scam apps in stores, right?
Sure they do. They are all examples of products that are differentiated from others in the same space by their focus on security. Thus, in the realm of competing app stores, there could be stores that exist that focus on secure, privacy-focused apps, just as there are already app stores such as F-Droid that differentiate themselves by focusing on FOSS apps.
One could reasonably expect that if iOS supported multiple app stores, there would be stores that tried to focus on the luxury high-end aspect of the platform by offering carefully curation. Third-party app curation services already exist.

So you expect users to choose between thousands of stores?

> The counterclaim, that a single scam free store would have all of the apps in it is obviously false because the premise is a future with multiple stores.
Actually, the simplest counterclaim is to point at the current and past existence of alternate app stores such as Cydia or the Altstore, which do in fact contain apps that customers want anyway.

They don’t have all the apps and they aren’t scam free.

Also they are tiny experiments used by enthusiasts and are completely unrepresentative of what will happen when several billion dollar corporations and VC backed plays open stores.
Corporations (which are usually the payer of fines for bad behavior) don't fear prison because they can't be physically imprisoned. You can't put Exxon in jail. And, lawmakers deliberately make it so damn hard to pierce the corporate liability veil and hold shareholders or directors personally liable for the corporation's actions.

So, we need to both move more towards prison and start digging in to which actual people inside bad corporations were responsible for deciding to do wrongdoing.

"BigCo settled and paid an insignificant $20M out of their river of money" is not very satisfying to read. "Joe Bigshot, former SVP at BigCo, was sentenced to 5 years in jail, and had to sell two of his nine houses to pay the $20M fine" is much better.
Sounds like a good solution - stop viewing them.
Hello from Kharkiv, article is largely outdated.

Russia invasion consolidated Ukrainians. Only NATO could bring peace to my country. Crimea with Russia returns to its native state, land without much water. That was a reason Crimea was handled to Ukraine, on its balance, it was not "present".

Putin is trying to distract from internal problems — rising prices, peaceful meetings breakdown, his Palace [1], dying in prison opposition leader Navalny. And on top of it Baiden called Putin a killer. He is playing "strong leader" again. Full scale invasion is higly possible, but only because RF government is insane.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipAnwilMncI
Cellphones Make and Break Human Connections
I thought the main issue was that antibiotics make the livestock put on weight faster, and the dose to do that isn’t quite enough to kill of the bacteria? So the bacteria get a chance to evolve immunity?
Almost regularly. Use Google Doc and notes app.
If I have to get through boring material, like technical manuals or things written in a tedious fashion, I use a text-to-voice synthesizer (balabolka on windows). I have hacked balabolka to use the Cortana voice, and over time I have increased its reading speed. Now 'she' sounds like a chipmunk on meth. If I need to get through a book, I buy the paper copy, then obtain a pdf and run it through the synthesizer... I read the book while the synth squirrel-speaks the words. If I find something interesting, I'll turn off the synth, then slow down and go over the good spot in slow motion, reading and link-think what I'm reading to other things I know.
Flutter on AppleTV
This doesn't make sense.

1. The GPL doesn't do enough against current problems.

2. So the solution in the license area is to go to licenses that do even LESS against current problems.

3. Magic regulation will fix all problems.
Very much this. My son has ADHD (full neuropsych eval) and he has attention issues, but his main challenge is executive functioning. Daily routines do exist, but are achieved through literally months of repetition, not by conscious effort to identify and organize all of the things that need to happen before school, after school, etc.

Establishing and sticking to a formal program to read books is literally the hardest thing he could do, but when he finds a book he likes, he'll stay up late to read it, and would stay up all night if we let him.
> The cancel culture folks lumped them in with MAGA anti-vaxxers (I blame both sides)

Agreed
If we're just handing out everything for free then I'd argue it's also better economically for people (and particularly kids) to have free eye care, free dental care, and a million other things I'd rather see subsidized over free Syphilis tests.
Doesn't that incentivize you to graduate as many students as possible, even poor quality ones, so that you can recoup the costs of as many past ISAs as possible and sell them off quickly?

Otherwise, how does a student that doesn't land a job and whose ISA will never repay fit into this model?
My prediction: Start giving perpetrators of financial crimes real prison time and you'll see major prison reform within a few years.
Tho I cannot get proper VS Code installed :/
Can you give a rough estimate of what fraction of space waste is due to differing orbits of satelites? Like very low vs low vs geostationary? I don't know the gradations between those either.
It's my understanding that efficacy cannot be directly compared like this, as it's a function of what variants were around during the trial, amongst other things. I believe Vice produced a good video on this recently.

Importantly, don't all vaccines currently authorised have 100% protection against death from COVID-19?

Edit: it was Vox, not Vice, and the video is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3odScka55A
> You can use the limit command to see default size of the stack segment on your machine. On mine it is eight megabytes which is almost nothing.

Sure, but this can be configured :) Someone in one forum said they were able to set their system's stack size to "unlimited" and were able to utilize more than 500MB of stack space in a quick test

> However, in functions that use alloca, or Variable Length Arrays (VLAs), the layout of the call frame is potentially different in each function call. Therefore, the compiler has to insert code to keep track of where all local variables are and it also makes some compiler optimizations harder.

> For example, if you only have 100 bytes left but want to create a 200 byte local variable, you would allocate a new stack segment, perhaps twice as large as the old one, copy the old stack to the new segment and continue from there. Unfortunately, it would be a major performance drag since you would need to check that you have enough stack space for every dynamic stack allocation and for every call frame.

This is the closest I've heard to a real explanation so far. Still- if the downside is just performance, would the cache benefits not potentially outweigh the performance downsides? I'm not a compiler engineer, but if I were I would definitely do some experiments around this. Maybe people already have and it's known to be a dead end?
I’m not wondering why they used options, but how we know they used options. (The screenshot shown just shows the stocks, but I’ve seen it reported elsewhere that they were options so I don’t doubt it, just wondering where the source of that is)
Agreed. Most medications work by correcting a chemical imbalance. If I understand it correctly it kind of makes our brain work more like that of someone without ADHD. With similar balances.

So I do see ADHD medication as similar to eyeglasses or hearing aids. A correction for the way our brains work.
This is probably one of the bigger issues holding me back from adopting Deno (at least for personal projects anyway). I'm sorry, I don't want to go back to early 2000s where we're copy pasting random links to script tags. Those days are over and for the better. NPM has proved pretty much undeniably that people prefer the simplicity of just typing in the name of something to install it, and import it. Does it have issues? Absolutely. I'd rather those issues be resolved than completely throwing away the concept though.

This feels to me a bit like if a new browser came around and said "DNS is the root of all evil" and only allowed you to directly type in the IP address of websites.

You can make all kinds of excuses, like "oh, but you can keep a list of your own!" or "hey, you can install this plugin that gives you DNS lookups back", but ultimately as a user I'm gonna say "No thanks, I'll keep using a browser that doesn't needlessly complicate my day."

I'm usually an early adopter for this kind of stuff, and I really like a lot about Deno, which is why this situation just makes me very sad.
Coinbase from YC to DPO
It's kind of illogical to say that the GPL doesn't protect enough against cloud services, and to bemoan that the GPL does not enforce good Open Source citizenship, and then… advocate for MIT-style licenses.

Those licenses don't do anything for most of the "problems" he raises.
I dislike RMS' opinions, therefore.. the GPL is dead? A little bit of a leap there buddy.

Cloud providers profiting from free software is an important issue, but it is largely orthogonal to the continuing need to protect free works in numerous traditional use cases
While not underdeveloped, huge swathes of Eastern and Central Europe have seen tremendous economic growth since the collapse of the Soviet Union and the institution of liberal democracy through the region.
Moralism? Or just moralism you disagree with? Because I assume you have morals.
Regardless of the credibility of Weiss (as indicated by others might be sus), this essay reads almost like a primary source you'd read from the time of early Christianity, or during the Justinian plague. Looking back, they're events that seemed to have happened, but the accounts greatly exaggerated. Since we're living through it and can see the evidence, it begs the question of how exaggerated were the old writings?
A for loop is not too interesting application -- it is not what Java optimizes for, and chances are you didn't benchmark it correctly.

To optimize your program in a low level language you have to basically have a whole plan for the architecture of your program beforehand, and every major change to that will break your optimizations. Also, don't forget about non-standard object life cycles, which is really common. Complex C++ programs basically employ their own GCs, which will be inferior to any one included in the JVM.

Of course low-level programs have their place (plenty of), eg. audio processing, embedded, million other, but the average business/CRUD app will be faster* both to execute and to produce in Java, as well as better maintainable.

* With enough time a competent team could of course write a faster version of it in C++, but it's not a good use of their time, and you would be surprised how hard it, especially with ever-changing requirements.