skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wow. Just wow. I like Hacker News like the next person. In fact, I'm here all the time. But it's a business expense for Y Combinator, is it not? That's not a charity. These folks may do great work, and I like it a lot, but isn't it also just their job that they get paid for. There's people that go above and beyond in a lot of companies, many of them sadly less visible, while you make it weirdly (to me) sound like something special, which I just can't see. It's a great website, though, and a major part of my internet diet. So, thanks to all involved, community included.
Awww I’m disappointed his solver started in a bellyflop position. Would be interesting to see if a vertical position at higher altitude and higher velocity could discover the bellyflop maneuver.

That would also require a variable initial fuel. Which is itself dependent on takeoff.

Ok so now solve the full loop from launch, peak altitude/position, and return. :)
I listened to a podcast recently (most likely planet money) talking about essentially malpractice insurance for police departments. For those municipalities that are too small to self insure for cases that go to court for things like wrongful death, they need to get a policy. What was interesting is that it followed one of these municipalities with a chief that was trying to turn around the department in terms of over aggressive policing and was having a really hard time of it. Then a neighboring municipality got hit with a major judgement against it and their insurance went through the roof. Suddenly there was very strong monetary incentive to not end up like them and it became easier to get officers to change their behavior.

To your point, one if the things they talked about was that it was also in the insurance company’s interest to give tips to help lower risk of major litigation. I tend to be similarly cynical in terms of fault and blame but I wonder if policies related to cyber security will have similar incentives to help secure things as judgements get bigger in this soace too.
Dumb question 2: How do you taint tokens when a "coin" is divided arbitrarily? As in, there are no minimum unit of a "coin"?
I'm willing to bet that Bitcoin mining will be 100% renewable (compared to 40-70% depending on whose numbers you look at today) before ICE vehicles are all gone. I'm basing this on the fact that miners are incentivized to always seek the cheapest source of energy and that renewable/stranded energy is only going to become cheaper over time. At one point, hydro/wind/nuclear will become much more cheaper than coal/fossil fuels, it's inevitable.
It's an extremely rare problem for now because it's a new technology that has barely been explored. Like all technologies once it goes more mainstream people come up with new ideas that were never thought of because they weren't possible before.

Blockchains solve the problem of needing a shared database among people that don't trust each other. Most of the best use cases are removing middle men.

Some examples that are being worked on right now:

Trading of any financial asset - why do we need Robinhood / Fidelity etc to trade shares? If shares in companies can be listed on a blockchain then people can trade them anywhere anytime directly with each other even when they don't trust each other.

Larger markets for digital goods: Many games have started putting their items on Etherum (or layer 2 solutions) so that players can easily trade them without the developers needing to run their own marketplace. This can then extend to being able to use items across multiple games, or trade items from one game with items from another.

Now there's ethereum tokens that allow the original creator to get a cut of all trades of that item. This opens an interesting funding model where a company could create an open source permissionless game where you download the client, connect to the public chain, play and acquire items, trade those items with others, and the game creators gain funds based on a cut of all trade happening around the game which allows them to further development. Then because it's open source people can create forks with their own art styles and mod the game easily and people can participate in the same world with many different clients.

There's so many cool things happening in the decentralized finance space and I think we're going to look back on this decade as the decade where software started to eat wall street. Many of these firms are merely middle men facilitating trades amongst untrusted parties, and blockchains can do that so much more efficiently than them.
"With the usually apathetic voters/stakers"

What makes you think eth stakers are apathetic?
They can, but it is very unlikely.
Thanks for the study link.

Is the article asserting that they can feed the world this way? Also the word climate didn't appear in the article either but I might have forgotten in the few hours since I read it. I saw the story more as a calorie supplement like a victory garden in WW2.

I garden in a small space like the article quite a bit as well and find that worm compost from cooking scraps is sufficient for keeping my soil healthy without specially purchased fertilizer. I imagine most households have quite a bit of organic waste products produced from groceries and could support a modest garden in their yards too.
No. This American fascination with “health” is very odd. My grandparents in Bangladesh lived as long as the average life expectancy in the US today, and they’re not even remarkable. Once you have antibiotics and make it past child mortality, you’re very close to hitting diminishing returns.
Heh, sure... but hopefully not with unneutralized disease carrying pathogens.
Hah, that's a cool idea
I recently went through a job search, and no recruiter was willing to pitch big numbers to me up front. I used levels.fyi and word of mouth to figure out who would be most likely to negotiate.

The market seems superheated compared to last time I did this (~3 years ago). Lots of capital flying around, and a lot of it ends up in tech. Hard not to feel like we're in some kind of bubble.
Oceanic plates are indeed quite young compared to the continental plates. Oceanic plates are made from heavier materials and subduct below the lighter continental plates, so they only live millions of years while the material making up continental plates lives billions.
Python developed despite tech giants.

It's only recently after it became very popular all tech giants started investing in it.

Similar are many other languages like Ruby, Haskell etc.

Rust is developed within a corporate world of Mozilla, like Go language in google, so its natural it will embrace corporate world and companies like Microsoft, Amazon which will in time decide it's future directions.
It's never dumb to call out the confusing usage of acronyms, especially not here where the problem is endemic.
:%s/thinking/computing/g
Vicky is about the best case scenario for a counter based metrics db. I am routinely impressed by the things it accomplishes but monarch & irondb from circonus use histograms as their base data structure which means they avoid all the hacks that counter based tsdb have to deal with. The obvious one in the Prometheus stack being having to pre-declare your histogram bounds.
Do you think this service would be fun for kids 8 or 9 years old who are tech savvy (e.g., can create Minecraft mods)?
Congrats Alicia, if you're following these comments.
Slack is the legacy dinosaur now. So adding a dramatic feature shift like this to a mature product will be problematic for a big old project like them. They've got "enterprise" clients to consume their focus.
Java GC is only efficient if you allow it to be wasteful.
I'm regularly running hundreds of different ocaml programs on a single machine and I trust ocaml GC to actually collect the garbage.
I would not trust tens of java processes in default GC mode, which seems to be tuned for cases where a single process own the whole machine.

Hopefully, the multicore GC will be as good, or one will be able to disable multicore abilities when not in use (which is going to be most of the time, I believe)
They only did this because Fauci is GOING TO BE ARRESTED!

Fauci is a fucking terrorist - I hope he gets stoned to death on live tv.

FUCK JOE BIDEN, FUCK FAUCI!
As an NZer, I learned to appreciate that joke more when I moved overseas.

There's also the line "our accents are completely different" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2gii2nenUg
This is great, thanks for your post.
This is why the torbrowser/firefox "try to make everybody look the same" approach is doomed.

Adding white noise is the only solution: "try to make your fingerprint on each website for each brower-restart look as different as possible (a) from your fingerprint on every other website and (b) from your fingerprint on the same website on a previous browser-restart".

That's the best you can do anyways without rejecting first-party cookies.

Brave does this, and it is the right way. I just wish Firefox would wake up and clue in to this.
Thanks, i'll check it out.
Could you:
1. Point me to the source that says, " if anyone ever holds more than ⅓ of the total supply (as is the case with Ethereum's founders currently holding 65% of the overall issuance, for example), they can indefinitely control the chain through their re-org capability."
2. Point me to the addresses of Ethereum's founders? Presumably it's then 65% of 115 million eth.

Would honestly love to see the details.
Ask HN: Building a YT channel for solo devs. Got questions for Q&A vid?
Hi HN,

I am building a Youtube channel to provide knowledge, skills, and insights to build beautiful mobile and web apps and give a behind-the-scenes look as I build out my own solo dev business. I'm a software engineer and data researcher who's just made the leap into her own business. I am currently under contract to develop an app that I can hopefully showcase soon. I'd like to solicit community questions in case people have questions for a solo developer so I can create videos addressing these questions as a resource. So, if you have any questions you'd like addressed in the channel, please let me know!

Best,
Alia
America has an enormous obesity problem which contributes to a significant number of Covid fatalities. When we tell Americans to get healthy it's mostly targeted towards those people.
I'd also take Monarch's query language over PromQL any day.
I avoid notion because it's so slow, but I can't use minimal because there is no Android app.
I think you run into a blurry line of what is the healthiest possible. Everything has a risk tolerance.
Yeah, there was a similar comment from one of my greybeard coworkers. That one of the biggest changes he had to get over as engineering moved on over the years was the gradual shift from very symbolic, human friendly (one might say 'elegant') mathematics into more brute force, pure crunching techniques.
I really hope it was satire but I can’t tell anymore. If not, I guess now we add “dehumanization” to the list of horrible effects of wearing a little piece of cloth on your face. I really don’t get why so many people are willing to die on this particular silly hill.
Probably not that dissimilar to people getting pregnant when on birth control.
I don't know if anywhere in the United States enforces mask wearing with some kind of law - but assuming they do, doesn't this severely complicate things? How do you tell quickly and easily if someone not wearing a mask is vaccinated or not?

Where I am, there is an app I can use to display my vaccine records - and I believe they are working on an even more 'convenient' version that shows something similar to a red or green QR code - but this has obvious downsides and potential future repercussions. Even with this, they are hesitant to say "It's ok to take your masks off in public now" as it'll be so difficult to enforce.
I'm similar. My memory is very dependent on spatial reasoning and I've sort of innately created strategies as I was growing up while my photographic memory was losing its strength.

For example, I remember linear information, like dates, by instinctually visualizing circles within circles. A circle for the years, circle for months, then days, etc. with specific times as sections of the circle. There's no particular reason for where things are on the circle though. For example, the month of May is at 12 o'clock or at the top of the circle while January is at 7 o'clock. For years, the current year is always at 12 o'clock. Same with the current day of the month, with weeks being sections of the day circle.

Hours and minutes, on the other hand, is like Penrose steps with each of the four sets of stairs being quarters of the day that I travel on as the day continues.
I agree that there will likely be exceptions, but long-haul isn't one of them. The trucking industry is already subject to a lot of regulations around mandatory rest stops, so there are well-established break points along every major long-haul route.

This has lead to things like [1] where it is significantly more economical for long-haulers to electrify their existing fleet than continue using diesel fuel. I suspect long-haul will reach 90% electrification long before last-mile trucking and private-use automotives.

That said, I imagine you are spot on regarding farming - and pushing industry to less restrictive jurisdictions.

[1]: https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/apr/29/swap-...
Hyenas are actually more closely related to cats than dogs.
I stopped eating dairy for a few days and had a glass of milk with a severe reaction, used to drink a glass a night. Wonder if it is because all the bacteria that would process that lowered?
Tinfoil hats are the joke. Tinfoil itself isn’t that funny. :-)
We don't expect public figures to be humans anymore. You're never allowed to make mistakes and some video of you from 2-yrs ago in college can be a reputation killer.

This is a very irrational mindset and we'd have no great minds of history because they were immature at a young age.

People constantly grow, learn, and improve themselves. They also make mistakes or act emotionally.

I feel like we've entered a social media era where only the flawless and speaking within socially acceptable Overton window are given a chance.

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

This is the death of radical aka experimental thought.
I came out of college super excited about machine learning because the math was so interesting and there was a sense of boundless utility and applicability. I came to realize that, at least in industry, the utility is mostly ad targeting and other stuff that doesn't really matter, and other than that ML is mostly overpowered for the task. There is not much socially positive application of machine learning, mostly socially neutral or negative. Some positive, sure, like there's some in medicine, but my understanding is the hardness there is not algorithmic.
Hackers Are Having a Field Day with AirTags
Don't Amazon's interviews have a reputation for being relatively easy compared to other big companies? At least as of ~2 years ago that was the sentiment.
> a much more useful study would be to canvas areas and determine what people eat - as large amounts of home cooked meals basically indicate that there is some source of staples

This methodology doesn't lead to the conclusions you're trying to find. It's not valid.

Assume that most people who aren't cooking meals at home from basic staples behave the way they do not because they can't find the staples but because they don't want them. What would your study find? What would it conclude?

All that said, it is certainly true that Los Angeles Hispanics eat large amounts of home-cooked meals.
> I actually found this video where a hyena basically took what it wanted from a leopard before the leopard took its prey up a tree. (Warning: predators with dead prey.)
> https://youtu.be/cYzogF9IVLI

The two animals were surprisingly "civil" given the amount of damage they could have inflicted on each other...
No, you said eidetic memory comes in grades. It does not, it is a binary ability the same as perfect pitch. Obviously there is more to memory than an ultra rare ability, but that was never part of this discussion.
If you watch a video of a booster or starship coming down you can see the engines twitching around, pretty cool
Do you plan to join the bandwidth alliance at cloudflare? Data prices are quite costly. It's the same as GCP/AWS.
How is this not the top story on every single news aggregator in the world right now?

This is like the BEST news since the vaccines were approved. This is a HUGE deal. Great job, CDC!
Is Tenor still independent?
Cross-Module Inlining in Guile
With their charter (scope of their power), and with their budget, and with their actual (not nominal) level of accountability? Sincerely, no, I don't think so, and I want to make sure you know that I'm taking your question seriously. It's a good one, and a difficult one.

This is debatable, of course, but in my view secret services ("intelligence agencies") and secret police (the FBI) are a deal with the devil for societies in general: in the long run much, much more harmful and costly than beneficial. You're taking human beings -- brutally fallible and power-mad like we all have the capacity to be -- and telling them "here, you have a special hall pass to cheat, lie, steal, and kill, but promise to only do it to those guys over there, okay?" Can we really be shocked when, a few years down the line, they forget everything after "but"? Note, too, that this hall pass is both legal and moral, couched as it is in the language of patriotism ("national security"): it's wrong to kill, but this is for your country, so you're good. (Incidentally, things like this really show that Ian Fleming was a pretty good satirist - "license to kill" is much more macabre and darkly funny when you realize that it's real.)

It may sound naive or even callous to say that nothing the NSA does is or can be legitimate - yes, al qaeda could kill Americans if the NSA doesn't spy on them or if the CIA doesn't lob a Hellfire missile at their daughter's birthday party. But we citizens make these kinds of decisions all the time, explicitly or implicitly.

Take automobiles as an example, or the legal status of alcohol - we've decided that we're okay with hundreds of thousands of people dying every decade in return for using those things. That's on all our heads, as I see it. I'm not certain, but I'd put money that there's no threat the NSA looks out for that, absent the NSA, could wreak as much havoc on the US as car crashes and whiskey (and that's not even counting the interaction of cars and whiskey, heh). And if there was, it'd probably be attributable in whole or in part to how the US has behaved out there beyond our shores. In fact I'm shocked sometimes that the rest of the planet hasn't been more out for our blood given what we did in the 2nd half of the 20th century alone. This isn't to be a mouth-foaming hater, by the way - I love this country very much. But a lot of ugly shit goes down on our dime, and in our names.
iOS does in-fact have a sort-of file system. It’s heavily tied to iCloud and I don’t think it’s really meant for sync thing style files. But it’s not like drop box is much different in this regard.
Yup. A lot of the rules were made in this awkward middle ground between health organizations' recommendations, politics, and need to be enforceable (the later made worse because the ADA in the US makes it really hard to enforce anything since you can always just say "lol health issues!" and no one's allowed to check).

People have been constantly trying to "reason" behind certain rules. "Why do I have to X if Y is allowed, it makes no sense!" when most of the time it's purely so its possible to enforce something.

In this case as states adopt this recommendation, you can essentially assume any kind of mask rule is null and void and it's now just a suggestion, because it's now completely impossible to enforce anything.

Fortunately vaccines are readily available in the US now, and while not perfect for people who can't take it, their risk should be much, much lower (unless they're in Florida, in which case, I feel for them).
Reminds me of the Queen’s Gambit where the protagonist plays chess on a hallucinated chess board projected on the ceiling.
Agreed. Also C-levels get parachutes and a bunch of custom clauses to help ensure they are compensated even in some pretty lopsided scenarios.
As someone who is subjected to slack, I kind of hope this happens. I have my doubts they ever will though, or would be able to do it well.
Tried it on Chromium edge and it doesn't seem to work
Even companies that "don't negotiate" will often find ways to make exceptions for people they really want.

They want equitable policies, and they want to take candidates' leverage, but ultimately they hate to lose someone they've decided they want.
Some more on single year equity grants here: https://www.levels.fyi/blog/one-year-equity-grants-vesting-s...

This seems like something more later stage, high growth companies are adopting. It’s simply much cheaper for the company to give out single year grants. Basically a challenge to the whole "rest and vest" culture.
Yeah, critically the rocket engine turbopump already produces very high pressure kerosene and liquid oxygen; so why not tap off some kerosene there instead of building a separate hydraulic pump system?
That is kind of like saying there is zero downsides to wearing a helmet or a bulletproof vest in public. It’s fine if you want to do it, but people not wanting to do it is also fine. The problem is both sides often have a degree of judgement that their way is better.
Honestly the more I think about this post the more hilarious it becomes. The first round I contemplated the internet of things and found it hilarious how a toothbrush would come with a smartphone app. The internet of toothbrushes. Hahaha

My second round of thought was that OP blindly followed his doctors advice, thinking his doctor was acting in his best interest, and spent a whopping $180 on a toothbrush. I love the comments pointing out how the doctor is likely paid by the toothbrush company to push a product.

The most interesting part is people are having the realization that people in authority that are usually seen as trusted (such as doctors) are capable of acting in their own best interest at the expense of their clients. It reminds me of a YouTube video I watched recently about starwars Lego figures. For years, Lego claimed they were unable to sell starwars figures individually because of licensing issues, and their fanbase believed them. But recently it came out that they were legally allowed to, but decided not to because it would be more profitable for them to force their fans to buy entire Lego sets just for the figures. The realization process that this youtuber goes through is comforting. He realizes that an authority figure (Lego) was takin I'm too fuking lazy to type this shit out. You get the point. Connect it to your government representatives on both sides and realize they don't care about you.
Borat does a shakedown.
There is a whole album of Debussy performing his works, including the one ("La soirée dans Grenade") linked in the article.

Complete Recordings by Debussy: The Composer as Pianist | Piano Rolls & Acoustic Recordings, 1904-13

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2fgqT8wtcY

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The article on "Welte-Mignon reproducing piano" is fascinating, going into quite extensive historical and technical detail.

http://www.pianola.org/reproducing/reproducing_welte.cfm
Apparently Vitalik has 333,000 ETH https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaeldelcastillo/2021/01/11/b....
Which would be 0.29% of the 115 million current supply.

I guess Joe has the other 64.71%, or perhaps there are a whole bunch of other founders that I'm unaware of...