skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I love the push for more accessibility in games. Game Maker's Toolkit made a series of very good videos on the subject that illustrate what's actually possible:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NGe4dzlukc&list=PLc38fcMFcV...

I am toying with ideas of games that put particular focus on certain senses as a key part of their gameplay. But these discussions of game accessibility always make me feel a bit like a bad person for wanting to make games that are exclusive by their very nature. So where is the line between cool ideas that don't translate well for people with disabilities and gratuitous exclusion that could be avoided?
Thibaud's comment almost seems sarcastic- given the extent of the replication crisis [0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replication_crisis
> All your crew and all your materials are ultimately coming from Earth

Wait till we start making LOX (and later, I think, metals) on the Moon from regolith. The process is old and tested on Earth, the missing part is actually experimenting with this on the Moon. And as soon as we have more or less robust Earth-Moon transportation, this will become important, as it will significantly simplify near Moon operations.

Do you know NASA runs, right now, competitions for e.g. lunar ice extraction and purifying?
Maybe, but Han Shot First.
It would probably be difficult to find a salvage company willing to take on that much legal risk.

Maybe the guy could have made some calls down to Somalia and convinced some pirates that a big prize was ripe for the taking if they were willing to take a road trip?
Quality of reporting on arstechnica has notably gone down over the years, while bias has visibly gone up.
Yep - your options trickle in over a vesting period.

Typically there’s also a ‘Cliff’ at the start - a period during which no options are available to you.

addendum: the ‘standard’ Silicon Valley stock option deal is: 4 year vest, 1 year cliff.

Eg: first 12 months, no options

Day 1 of 13th month - 25% of your options are available to you

Then the rest of the 3 years vest at a regular pace with the remaining 75% of your options dropping on a monthly cadence

The exception being Amazon who basically give you nothing for 2 years and then ramp up significantly.
Could you go back and tell 17yr old me know that there's something better than ASP.Net out there? I was doing .Net trying to dodge the Microsoft stack running early versions of Mono and everything, anything to dodge PHP and Java.

I'll gladly receive that education, I have a hard time believing any of those frameworks are as sophisticated today as Rails 2.0 was back in the day.
The name is too similar to google in my opinion, mooglemail/googlemail..just inviting trouble I think
"reasonable users" is doing a lot of work here. not everyone desires the same level of discourse you do on every site they visit. /b/ has just about the bare minimum level of moderation needed to comply with US law and a lot of people seem to enjoy using it.
> All your crew and all your materials are ultimately coming from Earth

This is the key state differentiator.

If you bring everything from Earth, it doesn't make sense. (So why are we doing it now?)

But once you start procuring resources from outside gravity well, things look different.
I really like that site. Have used it multiple times to find dark spots for photographing the milky way.
However, I don't understand why the default overlay is from 2015, when there is newer data available. First thing I usually do is switching to the most recent overlay.
San Jose, California does this for the Lick Observatory at Mt. Hamilton, although I think they're switching to blueish LEDs. The sodium-vapor lights are frequently mistaken as yellow traffic lights though, in my experience.
> Update: Should have mentioned earlier, data needs to be accessible at all time. It’s user generated data that is downloaded in the background to a mobile phone, so super low latency is not important, but less than 1000ms required.

> The data is all images and videos, and no queries need to be performed on the data.

OK, so this definitely helps a bit.

At 10PB my assumption is that storage costs are the major thing to optimize for. Compression is an obvious must, but as it's image and video you're going to have some trouble there.

Aggregation where you can is probably a good idea - like if a user has a photo album, it might make sense to store all of those photos together, compressed, and then store an index of photo ID to album. Deduplication is another thing to consider architecting for - if the user has the same photo, across N albums, you should ensure it's only stored the one time. Depending on what you expect to be more or less common this will change your approach a lot.

Of course, you want to avoid mutating objects in S3 too - so an external index to track all of this will be important. You don't want to have to pull from S3 just to determine that your data was never there. You can also store object metadata and query that first.

AFAIK S3 is the cheapest way to store a huge amount of data other than running your own custom hardware. I don't think you're at that scale yet.

Latency is probably an easy one. Just don't use Glacier, basically, or use it sparingly for data that is extremely rare to access ie: if you back up disabled user accounts in case they come back or something like that.

I think this'll be less of a "do we use S3 or XYZ" and more of a "how do we organize our data so that we can compress as much of it together, deduplicate as much of it as possible, and access the least bytes necessary".
Give everyone night vision?
Covid-19's indirect effects on the human biome
It's mentioned in your link, but I'd like to call it out more clearly: NASA has also recently selected SpaceX to be the sole launch provider for the initial Lunar Gateway, and the sole launch provider for resupplying it as well.
Unfortunately, this happens in all kinds of communities, physical and digital. A place is hip because creative types concentrate there, contribute to each other, pushing each other's boundaries to create new things. Consumers notice these new things, come in to consume, but make no effort to contribute back to the community. The creatives eventually move on either because they've become unwelcome or realize they have not much new to learn, and the consumers are left behind wondering why their community doesn't feel hip any more.

I never try to take for granted when I'm involved in artists' spaces, FOSS projects, hacker spaces, etc. The point is to continue a cycle of learning and contributing back, not consume until all the resources are sucked dry...
What a life, wow.
Chips become obsolete very quickly, and car makers create new models every year or two. You are not going to keep a year worth of inventory. Not convinced maintaining more stocks would have bought them much more time.
Yes, that was also a swipe and should also have been omitted. Especially because it clearly broke this guideline:

"Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
All of it. C++ is a superset of C.
I believe you are 100% correct that when the M1X chips are released they will clearly differentiate the pro market. At the same time it would be impressive of Apple if the X chips capture MacBook Pro, iMac Pro and Mac Pro markets all with a single chip as well. So (as you point out) the article is only half the picture as it’s missing the pro lineup. And yet the article’s main point is true that Apple is satisfying an absurd number of products with (likely) only two processors.
> for whom its their own fault if they get sick

You appear to be focusing exclusively on individuals instead of on the fact that spreading to to those individuals also rolls the dice on new mutated strains that could kill another half million Americans and cause major vascular and neurologic harm in millions more, including those who are already vaccinated. Protecting the intransigent from themselves also protects everyone else.

> for the rest of their lives

This is a straw man. Everyone advocating for mask use has the goal of stamping out the disease so that wearing masks stops being clearly beneficial.

> The idea being thrown around that people should continue to wear masks ... is just not justifiable.

From a public health perspective it would be. On one side we have the potential for significantly reduced viral transmission (all oronasal-route viruses, not just COVID19) across populations and fewer people getting sick and dying every year, and on the other side we have your pretty smile. Everyone who decides that they can still interact socially without spitting on each other has actually a perfect justification for wanting everyone to continue using masks.

You appear to be communicating in very immediate self-oriented terms ("_I'm_ vaccinated", "odds of _me_ having", "_my_ face") while the people you're arguing against are focusing on a bigger scale of effect that accounts for what happens when the virus that killed more than half a million people in a year in the US alone and which appears to cause serious long-term harm in survivors is allowed to mutate in unvaccinated people.
Yes it is! Obviously it's a slightly harder problem if you don't know the distance from the surface and you can't provide your own illumination.
>If you're willing to pay 10x 2019 prices you can probably get whatever chips you need. Many companies are deciding that's not worthwhile.

The problem as I understand it is a company like TSMC sells capacity for the some time period - like a year. The automakers thought people wouldn't buy cars, so they relinquished their slots. Turns out car demand exploded, so they went back to TSMC and said "hey we need those slots" and TSMC said "sorry your slot already got sold to nvidia".

Chrsyler could offer to pay TSMC 10x more, but that that ultimately wouldn't do much, the slot is gone and they would have to buy the capacity from nvidia. nvidia is in no position to sell because they are also facing extreme demand. How would it look to nvidia if, while gamers across the world can't get their hands on 3080s, they sold their fab capacity to Chrysler for $$$$?.

So money isn't solely the issue here.
> For ~$1M you could target the current model year of any brand of car in the world and develop a remote attack to simultaneously target every car of that model year at rush-hour and engage the cruise control at maximum speed, engage the anti-lock braking to disable the brakes, and, if applicable, engage the autosteer to turn slightly into oncoming traffic as these researchers [1] demonstrated could be done 5 years ago on a budget of only $80k.

If it were that easy, why hasn't a hack happened with a massive loss of life yet? Most big breaches involve credit card numbers or other personal info.
Did largest gathering of humans in the world - Kumbh Mela, which I think is still happening, played a big part in this spike?

I mean folks come from all around India into 1 super-duper-massive gig of high density, they largely ignore any safety measures including masks (at least from photos I saw), and then happily go back home. Sounds like the best way possible to spread virus literally across whole subcontinent.

Even without any new indian variant spreading, this must have left some significant effect on the numbers.
Indeed, we need a strong regime to overlook and approve everything, on each and every commentary platform, to make sure that wrongthink does not occur, otherwise, we might have a totalitari- oops, too late.

Nothing has more of a "Whoever fights monsters ..." vibe than the endless fixation on Nazis. I suppose we will have to amend the Four Horsemen of the Infoacalypse from "drug-dealers, money-launderers, terrorists, and pedophiles." My vote is that we put "Nazis" in place of "terrorists," given that a well-known anti-DDoS service decided to revoke protections for Stormfront while still providing services at the time to ISIS. Yes, that ISIS, the slow-motion, lovingly filmed execution of infidels ISIS.
There are contracts that might prevent that from happening, just like lead times don't disappear, even if you outbid everyone else (if it was a bidding issue).

Throwing money at a problem to try and solve it can be impossible in various ways.
I don’t understand how a demographic as technically intelligent as HN could make the flawed assumption that GBs of RAM in isolation of the entire system is all that matters. Consider the fact that iOS devices ship with half the RAM of Android devices and feel as responsive, have better battery life, and have better performance.

The Apple stack is better optimized to take advantage of the hardware they have. Indeed, one of the reasons is because they have so few SKUs to worry about it focuses the engineering team (for example, in the past, internally engineers would complain about architectural design missteps that couldn’t be fixed because 32bit support wasn’t dropped yet and was pushed out yet another year). Now, obviously in a laptop use-case this is trickier since the source code is the same as the x86 version. It’s possible that the ARM code generation was much more space efficient (using -Oz instead of previously likely set at -O3). It’s also possible that they have migrated over to iOS frameworks in an even greater part than they were able to in the past, leveraging RAM optimizations that hadn’t been ported to macos). There could also be RAM usage optimizations baked around knowing you will always have a blazing fast NVME drive. Now you may not even need to keep data cached around and can just load straight from disk. Sure, not all workloads might fit (and if running x86 emulation the RAM hit might be worse). For a lot of use cases though, even many dev ones, it’s clearly enough. I wouldn’t be surprised if Apple used telemetry to make an intelligent bet around the amount of RAM they’d need.
It's Never Been Easier to Make an Adventure Game
I don't think that's the right set of incentives:

1. Different industries have different paces; it might take 25 years for any NASA software to be fully developed in the first place, whereas if you haven't made back your money on your singleplayer videogame after 10 years, you probably won't ever make it back. Point is, there is no flat duration that is fair to every work out there.
2. almost by definition, the stuff we care about is more profitable and will therefore be kept under copyright longer.
3. I wonder whether copyright expiration is actually helpful for software, when it doesn't provide you with source code. I'd like to see some mechanism that incentivizes the IP owner to publish source code after their copyright expires - perhaps by offering a conditional extension to the copyright duration in exchange for putting the source code in escrow?

Really, I don't think software's IP type should be "copyright" in the first place. It doesn't make sense to cut and paste a binary like you would with a book's text.
What I couldnt find out so far is what the chip manufacturers are producing instead of automotive chips then? There must be another industry which has a significantly increased need or will get a lot of chips earlier than planned. Wondering which industry that will be.

Cant be the GPU market either ;-)
It's hilarious after all these years shitty journalists still believe Anonymous is a hacker group rather than just some kids trolling.

I mean imagine if Facebook had the option to be anonymous somehow on their platform and called everyone Unnamed who hadn't finished their registration or didn't want to.

You'd see Unnamed responsible for nation-state sponsored terrorism and manipulating the votes of other countries. What a joke.
Somewhat of a hot take, but - I think using a search engine is a basic part of computer literacy and should be taught in schools. The number of times an older person has asked me a question I could just google is crazy.

Probably the funniest anecdote: at my very first internship, an older engineer (50's) walked up to my desk and handed me a sheet of paper with a short description. He requested that I turn it into a SQL query and send him the results via email. I got the data back to him within 20 minutes and he was very impressed. Spoiler alert: I didn't know any SQL, I just copied and pasted something off of Stack Overflow. I think I was 19 years old at the time.
After reading the replies, I should clarify something. When I see some of those old commercials today, I too think they are appalling. Fred and Barney smoking Winstons? On a kid's show? 9 out of 10 doctors recommending Camels? Ugh. But they sure are interesting to see again.

Some of the other ads were great. A live report from the computer room where the Remington Rand Univac Electronic Brain was predicting the weather? Awesome! And a big step on the way to today where I can use Weather Underground forecasts and talk to you over radio and light waves on our personal supercomputers.
Can anyone recommend a succinct "why is mobile safari so bad" article?
Yep you got it. Usually you vest 25% of your hiring offer per year, so after four years you’re fully vested. Some companies skew it towards later in the four year period to keep folks from jumping ship after the first payout (“golden handcuffs”). I’ve seen Amazon’s stock vesting schedule set at 5-15-40-40.
I love that the grand masters of surveillance capitalism is messing up their browser. At this point I don't understand why any geek with some pride would chose Chrome over Firefox.
/b/ is a good example of a forum that is only trolls at this point, and as you note it does have some moderation.

Some of the other forums on 4chan might be better examples, but even those have some moderation. Forums like /tg/ have managed to hang on alright, although their total post volume per day is quite small compared to /b/.
Moderation always appears highly selective no matter what - this is a psychological inevitability (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...).

The truth is far more boring than your speculation, which I suppose is a consistent problem with speculation. We moderate guideline breakage when we see it. Moderation is inconsistent because we don't see everything (as pvg already pointed out). https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...

There's also some selection involved, but it's more along the lines of "do I have the energy to make a post about this one", "am I prepared to deal with howls of protest in this case", and "is it borderline enough to just let go".
Yes!!! Finally --- it is about time that someone made a modern alternative to isc.ro which is full of security problems (e.g. passwords stored in plaintext; your rack is randomly generated on the clientside) and looks ugly.
This guy seems to have pinpointed the problem: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FyMCoQmsv-I

The problem is unoptimized apps running on Rosetta2.
Googling is an essential skill but What was it like back then when there was no Google at all?
Rovers, boats, drones, planes, helicopters, submersibles, all done with Arduinos or similar. It seems it can be done if one really wanted to. When I think about all of the things my drone can do that are seemingly more complex than a non-self driving car can do it seems more than plausible. https://ardupilot.org/ardupilot/
> Most beginning programmers don't start with C

Except literally every indian engineer. They teach C to mechanical and chemical engineers for some reason. (It's not an elective)
It already is. But otherwise I agree.
This guy seems to have pinpointed the problem:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FyMCoQmsv-I

The problem is unoptimized apps running on Rosetta2.
I'll have dinner with virtually anyone, and I'll try to understand them. I also have a lot of historical books, including one written by a genocidal dictator who killed a lot of my countrymen. I try to understand him too.

If you're expecting to convince people, it sounds like you're putting in the wrong effort. The goal of a conversation is understanding, not agreement.

"Here, let us rationally discuss the issues, but regardless of what you say I'm going to go back and vote for [their candidate]" is exactly how a conversation ought to go. If your expectation is different, it's not them. It's you.

If I fly to Japan, my goal is to understand Japanese culture. My goal isn't to Americanize it. And vice-versa. It's no different here. You're not going to successfully impose your values on other people.

"If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the results of a hundred battles" - Sun Tzu
> those agencies would be allowed to prioritize where their time and resources are best spent protecting the public.

If you trust the police to decide how to distribute their resources, I have some pretty bad news for you.
Excellent! The fact that there's something as basic as the Boolean Math node [1] kind of shows that this is something evolving into that direction. I will definitely look at it and search for the C-code on GitHub. Thanks.

[1] https://docs.blender.org/manual/en/latest/modeling/geometry_...

Edit: Hmm, it appears to not have a C++ API.
Lessons on product-led growth and self-serve from Notion and Dropbox
You would need a phd for that.. or it would likely be doing low tech stuff in deep tech company
Hawaii
https://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/2021/04/22/why-are-visitors-cr...
Imagine being salty about a guy who rarely posted on a Martian chicken breeding forum
Starship can come back from the moon to LEO then the crew transfers into a Crew Dragon and lands.
> We show that beyond the first 30 days of illness, people with COVID-19 exhibit higher risk of death and health resource utilization. Our high dimensional approach identifies incident sequalae in the respiratory system and several others including nervous system and neurocognitive disorders, mental health disorders, metabolic disorders, cardiovascular disorders, gastrointestinal disorders, malaise, fatigue, musculoskeletal pain, and anemia.

> To our knowledge, this is the largest post-acute COVID-19 study to date involving 73,435 non-hospitalized patients with COVID-19, and 4,990,835 controls (corresponding to 2,070,615.52 person years of follow-up), and 13,654 hospitalized patients with COVID-19, and 13,997 patients hospitalized with seasonal influenza (corresponding to 12,179.05 person years of follow-up). We leveraged the breadth and depth of the US Department of Veterans Affairs national health care databases — the largest nationally integrated healthcare delivery sys- tem in the US — to undertake a comprehensive high-dimensional com- parative approach (relative to control groups) to identify the 6-months health outcomes and clinical manifestations in COVID-19 patients who survived the first 30 days of COVID-19 illness.
Stallman is a prophet, not a king.
> What? Gateway is planned to be in a Halo orbit at L1.

Can you provide a source for this? I’m not seeing anything that says gateway is ever expected to even get particularly close to L1.
I advocated Hasura at a prior company I worked at, and came up with a plan to add it incrementally to our existing software. I think this is quite doable.

Why do you see it as an all or nothing choice?
We're not allowed to raise prices in respond to supply/demand for consumer products anymore. The public cries "price gouging" and you get canceled.
Chip shortages are at a point in the US were government contractors who already have right by law to jump ahead of anyone else in line when ordering and can probably pay whatever price they want are still being told that new shipments won't come for 16 months.

There just are not enough of them being made.
We are having a similar problem, and certain chips simply aren't available at any price.
I was under the impression it was Japanese cars' superior quality/reliability to price ratio that caused them to take over the industry a few decades ago. Just in time might allow for lower prices, but would it also have resulted in the higher quality?
I think this can be a game changer especially for beginners who are getting into Rust