skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I tend to assume the issue is not that they can't explain things, but they don't want to. Plenty of companies spend a lot of money creating manuals to explain exactly how everything works, and then hide them away so that potential customers can't look at them.

The most common reason seems to be a desire to force you to talk to sales.
"I'll give you [back your] money, you release our hostages" -- but that doesn't fit the agenda as well, does it?
They're also assuming the movie is set in our version of reality, even though they know it's not, because there's 2 space stations that are closer together than in our reality.

Also they're missing the point of the film, and of science fiction, it's not about predicting the future, it's about exploring humanity via putting humans into extreme/unusual circumstances.

Why is Dr Stone in space? What's she running from. What killed her child? (Gravity). What do humans do to survive, and how is that related to evolution?

And most importantly in the 3d version, why do things fly out in front of the screen, yet also hit an implied camera lens in a different shot?
Which papers? That's really counter intuitive to me. I'd expect that a higher atmosphere concentration would have a higher rate of loss because the solar wind would grab more of it.

Does this mean that mars is losing atmosphere faster today than it did 500million years ago? That's really fascinating!
From your comments I feel like you gotta be familiar with Kim Stanley Robinson's novel SF _Red Mars_ (if not you'd like it), but here's how he tries to make you feel better about your NASA budgetted job, while agreeing with your basic analysis on things like terraforming and many other things you've said (the plot of his earlier novel notwithstanding, he's partially doing penance for it).

> However, even if slower, terraforming Mars remains a great long-term goal; but long-term meaning like ten thousand years. Which means we have to get our relationship to our own planet in order for anything interesting to happen on Mars…

> The main project for civilization now is creating a sustainable way of life here on Earth. That’s the necessary first step; anything beyond would rely on that succeeding, so exploring space is less important now. That said, space science is an earth science. What we learn around the solar system can often illuminate the project we have here of keeping this planet’s biosphere healthy. So I like the space program, and feel it is not funded out of proportion to its importance. Robotic missions are already doing a lot of what we need done, but humans are better at many things than robots, and it’s more exciting to see humans on the other planets than it is to see robots. So, on balance, I’d like to see more investment in space science and less in areas like weaponry. Our taxpayer bailout of the banker gamblers who lost their bets in 2008 cost us about ten thousand times the entirety of what we’ve spent on NASA.

https://www.publicbooks.org/earth-first-then-mars-an-intervi...

This interview in particular is worth reading for this whole topic being discussed here.
The case for canceling student debt – all of it
He's a con artist, that's all
That is the problem. The protocol doesn't dictate how prior messages in a thread should be included or referenced. So any given thread is a hodgepodge of different solutions, making for an ugly, unreadable mess. Some clients try to clean this up, but it's basically an impossible task when you have no way of knowing what other clients will do.
Every time I want to memorize something, I either open an issue against my fake repo (created specifically for this purpose) or add another comment to an existing issue. It's a good idea to create 1 issue per topic and just keep adding separate comments. Cross-references can be added for the linked concepts. Github markdown is quite rich. There are features (like "<details>") that can be found only there. There's not much to say actually. Try it out - you will figure out what works best for you.
This looks like fun! Well as long as my boss doesn't force me to do it...

I wanted to know what the program looked like live, but I couldn't find an actual screenshot (just the mockups). I think it would be a good idea to have a few screenshots of the actual Zoom interface with people playing the game. Otherwise there's no way for me to get a sense of what it feels like without waiting for a group of people to play with.
> For example, such a ledger can be used to create a tamper-proof security-camera footage log.

What's the use-case here - who are the untrustworthy individuals that society needs to protect itself against? Societal trust is currently rooted in people - it will not be switched over to machines/distributed ledgers any time soon. This is why people can write affidavits/get sworn in to say "That video's legit" under pain of perjury. Frankly, there's little money in turning over trust to a blockchain when there is an individual/organization that can be interrogated. It's not perfect, but trying to perfect it has (evidently) diminishing returns
Many of those agencies seem more interested in making systems less secure so they can get in easily than in protecting systems from outsiders.
> Sometimes, those workers are paid below market rate

I like this justification above all the others; it seems both fair and easy to reason about. If I quit a $200k/yr job to work at a startup for $100k/yr in cash comp, then my time investment, or risk, is $100k/yr, and my stock compensation should reflect that financial value based on today’s valuation of the stock.
> When a claim of "open source" is wrongly made in the interest of marketing, the expectation should be for this misrepresentation to be called for.

On the other hand, nobody has a monopoly on the “open source” concept, or even on putting the “open” qualifier in front of things. Broadly speaking, source code ranges from completely closed to completely open, and it is difficult to argue that code under a CC licence is not more open than, say, Windows’. Or indeed the usual calculator operating systems.

It is like the free software flame wars all over again, this time with the OSI in place of the FSF.
Yes, except Tesla is still holding a massive amount of bitcoin. Maybe they want their books to show a loss next quarter?
Adobe is dropping PostScript Type 1 font support
> There is no model for instellar transit.

There is, but extrasolar objects don't have engines and do very low energy transits.

We'd need a large habitat, a power source that can last for a couple thousand years and a lot - and I mean a LOT - of reaction mass to accelerate it and to brake it when it arrives at its destination. Ideally, it'd be preceded by numerous robotic probes that'd chart the worlds ahead for possible refueling stops (that could add a couple thousand years to the mission) and have a number of possible targets lined up on a reasonable trajectory so that if the next system is not really that hospitable or doesn't have anything worth doing a very large delta-v for, it can just press ahead to the next destination.

Another thing it'd need is a lot of determination to build it, to seal it with a population, test it for generations to make sure the ecosystem works and is stable, and then send it out into the unknown without any possibility of returning to Earth. It's very long term engineering we rarely do.
Figurative, it's easy to ignore when those power plants get started in third world countries, when it's NY it's suddenly much harder to ignore the reality.
As someone else said, it's in production. Also, there are many, many forks of the EVM in production that run on proof of stake mechanics (Polygon, Binance Smart Chain, Skale, Qtum, xDai, etc). The main thing you have to worry about with move to ETH2 is contentious forks of the main chain, like if POW miners revolt and start a fork or a blip at the merge point that takes the chain offline for a bit. The ongoing ETH2 consensus and validation mechanic is live already. ETH2 also has client diversity, with 4 different implementations written in four different programming languages (Rust, Go, etc). There is some world class talent on the ETH core team. I have full faith in them and their testing regiment. But of course there is no such thing as risk-free.
In which case he’s guilty of securities fraud, and is going to have a very bad time.
Why not build in abstraction?

If you have a middleware that lets you swap providers, you can start off with a ready made solution and switch if necessary.

Obviously, this still means you need to maintain control over your data; but that's surely something a startup will do in any scenario, right?
fwiw, I moved my prod env from a VPS (at linode) to fly.io twice in one week. Once to try it out and get a feel for what I was getting into and the second time for real. Took about 90 minutes each (plus some thinking time and doc reading). It's a small app without a ton of data to move nor a lot of traffic at this point, so take my experience with a grain of salt.
How SpaceX lands Starship (sort of)
Hey Dennis. No it is not. We use offline open source models to create dependency trees and tags and our semantic engine takes off from there. After that the semantic structure gets transformed into code.
I thought there couldn’t be anything worse than airport wifi, but there it is.
And the group originally though responsible for this was actually just a ransomware-as-a-service partner here, and seem a little embarrassed about the while thing. Basically they said "yeah, we don't want our partners doing stuff that big so we'll ask them not to in the future." Hopefully that doesn't stop the full weight if the US intelligence services from coming down on them and every single other ransomware scammers they can find... And outlawing payments to these terrorists.
Compared to the current option where I have an emulator app on Android (or whichever other app you can think of) which isn't on IOS at all, only because Apple chooses to not allow most apps.

Maybe others think differently, but the friction to purchase a new phone and adapt to a new ecosystem is more onerous than downloading yet another app.
Then why didn't they use a simple email masker? Or a throwaway email account.
You can sequence yourself properly (and it's more information that way), but this way you can get called upon to donate if you're a match for someone somewhere in the world!
Trust your first impression of him trying to big brain about the pandemic, that's his whole shtik - compelling blather. Probably you're not a human population history researcher? That would make it very hard to see through his sensationalism
Another term for VC is risk capital. A diligent investor will only put what they can safely risk into the market. While your correct that money indirectly represents time, you’re overlooking the incremental utility of money. An investor logically values each incremental dollar less, purely evidenced by the fact they were willing to risk it. An employee on the other hand will turn those funds directly into shelter/food/health.

Seems like a false equivalency to value investment assets at the same level as the money you need to survive.
We can do both at the same time and we should.
The funny thing is that we know already quite a bit about how to exploit them. Now, putting that into practice is another matter.
Yea, exactly. It can handle different ways of saying something, like your example. Additionally it understands coreferences like he/she/it/the/etc (not perfectly though). But it gets better with time :)
I recall reading previous HN thread where they said they were / would permit / encourage others to build compatible component.
The question “what makes us human” is a deep one that has vexed philosophers for a long time. I don’t have the answer. If you have the answer, forgive me if I take it with a grain of salt.

I do think it’s possible that our best hope for navigating the transition beyond the singularity involves transplanting our humanness to another kind of life form. I’m not necessarily talking about uploading… more about a staggered intergenerational transition mixed in with life as we know it. I realize that to some people, this will continue to sound like crazy talk, until one day it isn’t. It’s ok if you are one of those people :-).
A little late for us. We ended up switching away after being a very early adopter. The downtime, slowness and poor search really did it in for us.

Hoping for the best to the team, you’ve grown so fast it’s incredible!
True, but at least the magnetic field could redirect solar wind (or, at least, its protons) to impact head-on and replenish Martian hydrogen instead of pushing the atmosphere away.
I agree with that. The way I look at is is that Mars has the resources needed to support a population and interplanetary travel, whereas the asteroids are (probably) where the lucrative mining opportunities are. Eventually we may colonize the belt, but if so we'll probably do it by using Mars as the local gas station and supermarket.
Results differ wildly between browsers and even between runs within the same browser. It detects application I do not have installed and does not detect applications I do have installed. For instance it detects iTunes, XCode and Sketch, but they are Mac-only application and I am on Windows.

Honestly, I believe it does not work at all.
I thought the point of Bitcoin was that the transactions were visible to any that cared to look.
According to the book “Creative Selection” (by one of the original Safari devs). They tried with Gecko first, but the POC didn’t went far: the build system at that time was messy and they couldn’t get it work. So they switched to KHTML, because of the nice code base. That internal fork evolved to WebKit.
Parachuting for charity: is it worth the money? (1999)
Telling people that you bought a certain stock isn't illegal wtf. Have you watched CNBC or Bloomberg? They have hedge fund operators come in and praise or criticize stocks that they have bought or sold short.
See my song from 2009, "IE is Being Mean to Me Again": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTTzwJsHpU8
Not that you're wrong, but think of the hundreds/thousands of 3rd party scripts that are injected into the pages of every commercial web property you visit - what are the backgrounds of all of the devs who wrote them...
When I do that it just shows up in my mailbox again a few days later :/

Maybe I need to hand it to the USPS worker vs drop it in a mail collection box....
Global nuclear war would neither wipe out humanity nor leave the earth in any shape nearly as bad as Mars, either in terms of temperature, radiation, atmosphere, soil quality etc.

Similarly, any asteroid impact of a size that the Earth has seen since life appeared would neither wipe out ALL of humanity nor leave the Earth in a shape as horrible as Mars is in right now.

Edit: we know this for sure, because even after the asteroid that wiped out the non-avian dinosaurs, human sized and larger animals survived and thrived through the impact and fallback, despite having no access to any kind of technology or preparation. If the cold-blooded crocodiles could do it, I'm not worried about our chances.

Solar flares do not count as earth-ending events, at worst they could destroy our current electric networks and kill and strand maybe millions, but they are not in any way civilization-ending, nevermind life-on-earth ending as far as I know.
Golly. All those things (just like payments) are available much cheaper other ways.

I am not a cryptographer, but the cryptographers I know and trust all agree on that.
Though you seem to think otherwise, nothing in your post contradicts anything I wrote.
Yep, plus one to this. A lot of people are quick to either rationalize his behavior as either awesome or stupid, but I think Musk is really a misunderstood mogul who's intention is to turn a profit, not deliver on his ridiculous worldview.
"myopic focus placed on the bitcoin networks energy consumption"

It is not myopic to look at, and call out, the elephant in the bedroom
Deepnote has native Postgres cells :) you can mix them with Python too.

Disclaimer - I work there :)
I discovered fly a month or two ago, and I've been incredibly impressed. The dev experience is really nice, and the team is super responsive.
That's because films are about people, not science.

I would really like a scientific paper that showed instances where intuition, common sense and "love" don't mislead you, and sometimes you don't have to follow the more methodical procedure and check your blindspots.

Actually most science is intuition, followed by checking if it's correct.

Intuition misleads people all the time, and letting people in the spaceship after the xenomorph has infected them is illogical, and really bad.
At this period in time, before Vitamin C was discovered, fresh meat, in particularly raw meat, was critical for survival. The canned food didn't contain vitamin C so scurvy was a constant problem.

The competent explorers learned the habit of eating raw meat from the inuits.

That said, the walrus hut was built by Nansen and Johansen after leaving the ship.
That is not bitcoin
If there are more people who are equally qualified and willing to do the job remotely for less than the on-site team in Silicon Valley is, then the market for remote people to do the job is more employer-favorable than the on-site market.

Why should they pay person X more than needed to get the level of talent they want under the conditions they're willing to offer?
And an entire programming discipline.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dataflow_programming
> While not inherently a speed improvement it increased the effective range of mariners by a ton resulting in effectively the same thing.

There were loads of innovations around the shape and profiling of ship hulls depending on conditions in which they operated. Same for sails and stuff, not to mention doing away with rowers. This improved speed quite a lot on top of range.
Except they do. Blockchains rely on a majority of actors not getting together to commit fraud. This is somewhat reasonable but still a real concern at the kind of scale Bitcoin has; getting 51% of the children in a class to gang up on someone for the lolz is trivial.

They rely on the mechanism which converts from physical to digital being reliable and trusted. Vaccine passports on a blockchain provide exactly 0 assurance that the pharmacist wasn't bribed.

They rely on the blockchain software being free from bugs and no-one-but-us trapdoors. Ask the OpenSSL community how easy verifying crypto code is.

Blockchains are not a magic solution to all trust problems.
If you think Mensa people accomplish little, wait until you see the general population
Broad generalization: Unions that existed when segregation was still a thing generally have a less diverse membership than newer unions. I’ve mentioned it before here, but this historical holdover is one reason why US unions are dysfunctional relative to those in other countries.
Yes, but it would cost millions of times more resources and energy, and it will not be achieved until well after such technology becomes trivial to deploy everywhere on Earth.
For the record: That's not what I wrote about above.
> based on today’s valuation of the stock.

This is the tricky part, especially if you are very early.

Really what you want is the (statistical sense) expected value of the equity be something like the opportunity cost, for it to make sense for you. But until the company has been around for a while and through a few rounds, valuation is mostly a fantasy...
The best advice I can offer is to stop thinking of learning you made a mistake as an attack on you personally and start thinking of it as an opportunity to learn. Here's a true story to demonstrate that...

Years ago when I was young an older, wiser, man told me "You can learn something from everyone" after listening to me complain about someone who "didn't know shit about what I was doing but constantly pestered me with their advice".

My first reaction was to think the old guy was wrong because I'd met a lot of dumbasses by then. But after pondering that for a few days it occurred to me that if he was right I'd missed out on a lot of opportunities to learn and the only way I could prove him wrong was to look for what I could learn from everyone I met, and I hadn't been doing that.

The very next day that guy who I'd been complaining about came over again and started giving me advice while I was working and one bit of the advice he gave me that day made me a shit ton of money for a lot of years.
Grovara Continues to Scale B2B Platform – Continues Pursuit of Alibaba for Trade
Not being able to subscribe to netflix from an Iphone sounds like a less convenient user experience.

The obvious answer that satifies everyone would be to a) allow alternate payment processors if the developers choose to forgoe the 30% or b) give the big companies than can roll these processors a lower cut to incenivize them to make one.

But if the answer was that obvious, this case would not have started.
So what? There is more malware in the App Store than on floppy disks for the Atari ST too.

The Debian repos are not a software store.
It's been said a few times here, but it's important so I'm calling it out on the top level:

Don't roll your own auth.
But do feel free to use a battle tested auth library / or framework hosted in your own app.

Then you get both benefits: 1. You don't have to put your destiny in someone else's hands, and 2. You're not getting the risks associated with building your own auth.
Thanks for the response. Very impressive, and best of luck!
I bet he is already being investigated. It is highly unlikely that regulators haven't noticed what he is up to.
REBOL
Fun fact: getting a DNA sequencing is illegal in France and is punishable by a 3750€ fine. I find this frustrating that I can't legally access my own DNA.
Apple looking at US$60b windfall through new privacy campaign: claim
Totally. Many boats have too many thruhulls. I have:

- Galley sink drain
- Galley sink raw water in
- 3x transducers (came with boat, kept them where they are, definitely a liability)
- Water intake

Too many for my liking. I think I could get rid of the speedo and one transducer and live a little more comfortably... maybe next year.
$186M of profits, 200x growth, and a $4.6B valuation?
And the fictionalised version is good https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manhattan_(TV_series)
Yeah, but now there is also a massive bounty out for these hackers. Money needs to get out at some point and that's when they'll get nailed.
> We have several hundred million years left, and we've only been around as an intelligent civilization for what, 100K years?

This sounds wildly optimistic, considering our chronic inability to fix our behaviour before it results in excessive damage. Never mind the occasional asteroid.

> 200 years ago nobody would even think of flying on Earth, and yet here we are, taking it for granted that you can get almost anywhere on this planet within 24 hours for a couple thousand dollars, and within a century of inventing the car we landed a robot on freaking Mars.

The myth of Icarus is a bit older than 200 years. So are Leonardo da Vinci’s drawings. Plenty of people did in fact think of flying, most probably before they had any way of writing it down for us to read.
The original publication was at Harper's Magazine, not CNN, but this infamous quotation has dubious provenance and veracity: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Ehrlichman#Drug_war_quote
I was super enthusiastic about this until I saw that you're doing it all in Repl. Love it or lump it, you're not going to be writing or deploying any practical Python scripts on Repl, and it's a bad idea to market this as any more "correct" than just interpreting the scripts on your own machine: particularly when the latter is almost objectively more educational and useful.