skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I thought the primary benefit of the sky-crane method was avoiding kicking up high-velocity rocks and dust that could damage the lander, by direct impact or by falling, during the last moments of the landing? It might allow for more sensitive instruments and tools, with less protection on them.

For example the helicopter was slung underneath the latest NASA lander, and though it had a protective shell, you still don't want a rock to whack that

Arguably, though sky-crane is cool and clever, it isn't so much more complex than a system in which the rover must drive off a landing platform after it is safely down. That also has a lot of moving parts and opportunities for failure

But if a sky-crane lander lands successfully, at least you can be sure it isn't already covered in grit and dust
Hopefully soon the front page of HN can be cat pictures. Here is one of my cat to start things off: https://i.imgur.com/uovszMA.jpg
if a company is unable to pay people a wage with which they are able to live comfortably
the company should not exist
> With a few notable exceptions, such as HN, a different opinion/worldview is wholly unacceptable

I don’t see any difference on Hacker News. Dang does an amazing job moderating and people are somewhat more civil to each other and more curious on average but the culture here strongly weeds out people who are not comfortable with aggressively stated opinions.

I like it here but Hacker News has a culture that suits the people who come here. Only approved non-conformity is tolerated. This is true of every community, to pretend otherwise is kind of silly in my opinion.
I've recently learned that the Fatah (Mamoud Abbas being the palestinian elected leader) and the Hamas are rivals and there is violence between the two camps. Iran also have a lot of influence with those affairs.

When you have insurgents who hide into the population, it becomes quite problematic. At some point, Israel might want to make palestinians understand that as long as they consent to be human shields, and as long as they agree with people launching rockets from civilian places, it won't prevent them to bomb civilian buildings where terrorists hide.

Israel wants Palestinians to not tolerate rocket attacks. As long as the Hamas aims rockets towards citizen, it's hard to argue that Israel shouldn't counter attack when the Hamas is using human shields.
`set -e` has a couple of surprising corner cases and in the details is pretty hard to understand. The documentation in `man bash` for the `set -e` flag is 28 lines in my terminal, and the other flags are 2 or 3 lines.

One such corner case is in pipelines. Only the last command in a pipeline can cause the script to terminate.

Another corner case is `foo && bar`, often used as an abbreviated `if`, will not exit when `foo` fails.

It is not a significant task to just add `|| exit $?` after any command whose failure should cause an abort.
Your user name reveals your intentions to be unproductive.
It's worse than that actually, `set -e`/"errexit" is disabled for function calls in ifs. Meaning this:

set -e
fn() {
false
echo "didn't exit"
}
if fn; then
echo "fn() succeeded"
fi

will output

didn't exit
fn() succeeded
> It's easy to hire people, you just have to offer better wages.

There is nothing easy in just offering better wages, not least in industries where the bulk of the costs are wages and where productivity is often low.
This website is filled with 30 and 40 year olds who rerolled the life dice into successful tech careers so it’s not too late.

Obviously a large part of that is the boom in tech so I don’t know how reasonably those people could have become doctors or air traffic controllers with their famously long start up time and forced retirement ages respectively.

The more interesting cohort for me would be 25-35 year olds (with special emphasis on females) wondering if it would be enough to convince large swathes of new parents not in professional track careers to exit the workforce and care for their own children instead of using daycare. This would be a real net positive for society if it occurred in my opinion.
If you count body as a part, then yes.
That's not a very sound line of reasoning... What has having ones computer got to do with not being silenced by your office being leveled in an airstrike?
The Wikipedia data for yellow fever IFR [0] claims that the data are based on "optimally treated patients". The problem in some of the countries where a vaccination certificate is mandatory to enter is that they do not have healthcare infrastructure to adequately treat patients. Somewhere in the past I have seen statistics that during some African yellow-fever outbreaks, 25–50% of those infected perished, which is why states were so insistent on this vaccination specifically.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_human_disease_case_fat...
We’ve lost the plot here. Lumumba assassination was in 1960... 60 years ago. Since then, China had a Cultural Revolution, murdered their own people in Tiananmen, taken over by force and oppression in Tibet, Xinjiang and Hong Kong.

If we are comparing the character and proposed world order of China vs. US (or whoever else), we should be focused on the present: that which is actually on the table to choose between.
You drink 5L of water a day? (assuming 180lbs, 28ml Oz that's 5.04L)
Solzhinitsyn is fairly authoritarian and pro-Putin. It is odd too talk about him as if he would be pro freedom and free speach. He is not.
Sorry. Saying that region is a mess full with strongmans, dictators and other unsavory people on top is not racist.

North of Africa is a mess. A lot of Sub-Saharan is ruled by strongmen. And even the places where there is actually democracy the state apparatus usually tries to rig elections in favor of current rulers.

Both by territory and population I am willing to bet that the people that live in countries with free and fair elections with peaceful transitions between administrations are a minority.
You dont have to wonder. Look at regions with poor levels of mechanization and you will find farmers in pretty bad shape.
I’d argue what is happening in the US is already a country wide test. People are taking the benefits rather than going to work for marginally more. It is not a good outcome for society. And high benefits countries like France know that very well. Lots of harder job openings there are never filled even though the country has a permanent large unemployment. I like the idea of UBI on paper but I feel it is counterproductive in practice.
I am still trying to figure out what useful purpose our Scrum Master has on the team. Lesson (maybe)? You can shuffle JIRA tickets all day and earn six figures.
Really, slippery slope fallacy over employers providing food to workers?

The free food does a good job of keeping me in the building. I honestly can’t understand why anyone would be opposed to office perks.
What do we do when automation reaches most jobs?

Create artificial jobs to keep people busy?

Now that I think about it, that seems to be what we have been doing for some 30-40 years now.

By artificial jobs, I mean jobs that if they disappeared, life would go on pretty much the same. This was in fact quite visible during all the lock-downs. Many many people no longer worked and all the essential and many non-essential things where still produced.
Yeah it's why I say "which wasn't addressed until recently"
Advanced Driver-Assistance Systems (ADAS): A Case for FPGAs over ASICs
The similarity between the two probably helps explain the plethora of programming blogs versus the absolute desert that is the hardware/circuit based blogosphere....
Nobody has yet to explain the incentive for minimum paid workers to go to work once UBI payments becomes equal to a minimum paid job.
Many years ago I ran vim as an IDE for several years and was quite happy.
Eventually it got bloated and I just could not keep it functional without massive time investment.
Maintaining indexes was biggest issue if I recall.
> no skills are being trained, no discipline is being developed, and no experience is being attained learning customer service and the basics of business economics.

You're saying that like people on unemployment are only those about to enter the job market. That's not going to be the case - there's lots of people with existing experience who lost jobs. And realistically only a small fragment of that group would advance so the whole missed experience is a bit sus.
By "drastically different" you mean "has maybe two differences that are not too different to weird stuff manufacturers do to keyboards"?

Note: removing # in favor of £ is apparently standard for UK keyboards: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_and_American_keyboards...
do you have any hard data or research to back that up?
According to Al Jazeera (who's offices were also in that tower), there were sixty residential apartments in there. Sixty families at least have lost their home, possessions and memories.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27157672

I’m not proposing keeping the mandate.
> The CNSA is severely underfunded in recent years

Source?
The media wasn’t interested, but now it doesn’t care. Today every person is media conglomerate (at least until YouTube bans them)
I've worked at so many places that have no planning process and no organization. Right now we all put what we're working on into multiple Google docs manually (docs are scoped to different time ranges and teams, and they overlap in scope) and as the team has grown there's issues with the cursor moving around. There's also no follow-through on whether things in the docs get done.

I would pay 6 figures to have someone step up and impose some kind of order on the process.
>Admittedly were not as close to those limits as it seems since "nm" quoted on CPUs etc is no longer a literal size of the object. But we're getting there...

nm process numbers are based on the theoretical feature size that a planar transistor process would need to be equivalent to the used process. Since this number is purely theoretical the lower bound is zero, it can go well below the plank length.
Most of these are ridiculous. Really shows how childish politics are sometimes.
There's a lot of hypocrisy in the so-called moral objections to UBI. I don't hear of any comparable moral requirement for employers to offer a decent living wage and working conditions because under capitalism labour is merely another commodity to be bought at the lowest price.
Meh. Don't like CNN/NY Times? There's always Fox News/Reason/The Federalist. Your voice isn't heard at Harvard? Well, there's Hillandale College and others.

It would be hard to find a point of view that can't be found in print or on line today.
This offer was made to random users. Not to performers that live from it, whether porn work or not.
"That information was just resting in our servers"
I’m confused what you want research about. That death and new generations enable our much faster social evolution and inherently improves the bus factor of all our systems? Do you need research to see this?
Yeah silly Palestinians. If they only stopped tolerating people putting their lives an property in danger...
Asserting that UBI == pity says more about your own biases then the actual policy itself
> “work should be optional and the basics of life should be provided for all [via the work of others]”

The answers to this are:

provocative: work is already optional for holders of large capital - if it works for them, why not the rest of us?

humanitarian: everyone deserves decency (and we have enough to go around)

utopian: we are/will be rich in everything we need, so we do not need to work for basics - we will only need to work for the betterment of ourselves, our culture and civilization

practical pessimist: if we don't give the poor enough to keep them on board of the system, they will oppose it and we will have civil war

practical optimist: if we give the poor what they need to live without a fight, they can focus on working on themselves to lift themselves up - it will be a win-win situation

practical realist: taxes (and exemptions) and benefits are so complex, it would be cheaper to use UBI and probably fairer as well

I'm in the practical optimism/realism camp, although my lizard brain sometimes gets angry at some of the "the poor deserve no better, it's a fair system - they just have to work"-people and will use the provocative argument.
* Rust is 2x faster, but uses only 1% of memory of Java

* 25x faster than Python on ML tasks

* Rust and WebAssembly can be 15x faster than compiled Scala

Source: https://www.secondstate.io/articles/performance-rust-wasm/

I think the last one (rust-wasm) is crucial. It's supported by Cloudflare Workers. Seems to be the platform of choice for many new Web3 projects ;)
Yup, people who actually lift their way out of poverty are not a reliable votebank. You see this happen a lot in the U.S. where minority groups have been trapped for decades by the Democrat party especially. First with sharecropping and segregation then with class warfare, either way they're kept down on the farm.
You could but no one would because they make more money not working. It equates to basically paying the company to work.
Except there is not enough redistributable capital around to let it happen.
Even if all U.S. capital stock ($70T) was distributed to everyone evenly, it won't let people out of poverty (sustainable income derived from this will equal to about the minimum wage per adult). So even the most terribly unfair capital redistribution imaginable will ok, maybe pay for food stamps for everyone, but hardly much more.
It is very sad how under-appreciated and underpaid teachers are (especially in US). I know my son's teacher works a lot of hours just by knowing how much responsibility she is expected to take on for her class. And she gets paid a fraction of what I get paid. Sometimes when I am having beer with my team-mates during team happy hour on company time, I realize how lucky I am.
This entire thread is about politics. First comments where about China threat to Taiwan. Second was about how Taiwan should not move fabs because keeping resources in Taiwan helps ensure US protection. Then there are people bashing on the EU (as why would you put fans there), the China Belt & Road, comments on Trump, etc. It is the nature of a thread like this on this topic. While you may not enjoy the nature of the discussion, the topic of how China handles Taiwan and the western reaction is a valid topic when talking about TSMC.
This is wholly contradicted by decades of Chinese statecraft and diplomacy, and more recently and directly by Xi’s repeated, insistent rhetoric about unification.

They badly want Taiwan. Not at any cost, but certainly at the cost of hundreds of thousands of lives —- especially those of the ‘ungrateful’ and ‘unruly’ Taiwanese.

The existence of trade between them in no way contradicts those desires.
I read it and I think racist countries should be always called out. Mods should pin articles about concentration camps at every post about China. It's a disgrace that they want to silence it just because the rich have China involved in supply chains.
The TL;DR I got from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26722655 was "team secretary".

(That's a subthread off of a _rather_ interesting Ask HN)
Software is a machine. You don't ask the other mechanics if you can go and replace a faulty part on an engine they rebuilt last week. The engine is broken, you fix it and move on.
Not alone. The BMW i3 has an aluminum frame.

The Tesla model 3 and model y are steel by the way.
I've been using Whimsical[1] for drawing charts and diagrams and i'm pretty happy with it.

I also use Markdown for writing documentation with Vim, very rarely i convert it to PDF with pandoc.

[1]: https://whimsical.com
Now write a blog post about how to feel good as a single mother of two with two jobs, who never had enough money to relax.
>"We don't need e mobility, we have the best combustion engines!" Tesla owns VW now.

VW is one of the biggest EV manufacturers. Maybe you should pick a different example.
Small customers give more credibility, they cannot waste money and your product must deliver value.
An Effective Git and Org-Mode Based Workflow(2015)
I wouldn't bother trying to tease anything rational out, it comes across as trolling, the grandparent commenter also says they are from an Islamic country. I guess we all stand on the shoulders of giants sometimes.
Interesting the patent is from 1980.

Back in '74 I used to carpool with a grad student who had built an experimental pair which were already amazing.
Future of Technology in Africa
The results have been in for a long time now: If you pay people to stay at home and do nothing, people will stay at home and do nothing.
SaaS is trash
>How did they manage without chiropractors?

We've always had charlatans pretending to have solutions to our problems before chiropracty and homeopathy, we had traveling salesmen peddling fish oil as a cure-all and of course the power of prayer.

Not sure if it speaks to the gullibility of humanity or craftiness of private enterprise.
An Ivory Tower Architect Clusterfuck (2020)
>the second it becomes a US state

Putting the cart before the horse, that US could occupy this land before China defends it. Also, this is such a nerd bro theory, as if only you are clever enough to see the game being played...the US government could somehow completely fool their citizens into being bait for a war, moving to a disputed territory that inevitably will be a battleground, or again that anyone on the mainland will suddenly want to die for newly settled territory, conned into war so to speak. These square-jawed, grass-fed people are just very stupid, is your claim?
That's where my taxes will go. And I have to pay almost a grand a month for private healthcare because of incompetent NHS. Maybe I should move to Wales to get some of my money back.
> If I remember correctly, ones Rupert Murdoch famously said that it’s impossible to find a phone number to call

Others have pointed out that the quote is false, but the real question is: why should EU answer to Murdoch phone calls?

He's just a billionaire with no political relevance.

People who really mattered had phone numbers to call, for example Henry Kissinger was a close friend of Gianni Agnelli, principal shareholder of FIAT.
More UBI nonsense...

1) Nobody wants to pay for it

2) It therefore can't be tested (since it won't be paid for)

3) Everyone knows UBI can't work
Thank you for deciding for me how much should I work for.
Rant disclaimer. Proceed at your own risk.

I want to like Rust, if only because anything has to be better than C++. C++ is godawful and it sucks that all these decades later it’s what serious big software is written in.

But I haven’t found the explanation of Rust and it’s trade offs and philosophy written by someone who can write serious Haskell and Lisp and C++ and is like “Rust. This is the way. Here’s how and why.”

I’m sure there are much better blog posts than this one that shed light on how parametric as opposed to ad-hoc polymorphism is natural in Rust with no runtime cost. Or how Rust’s nested angle-bracket hell to get a pointer to a piece of memory is actually a deep and profound algebra that exposes std::move for the fraud it actually is or whatever.

Where do I find the explanation of why Rust is less awful than C++ written by someone who has written a lot of C++ out of necessity, doesn’t take non-browser JS seriously, doesn’t think 8 boxes need kube, doesn’t stand to make consulting revenue off having been involved in Cargo, and generally uses C++/Python because they’ve got work to do?

Where do I go to see the light as someone who has some idea how brilliant Eich is and also knows how ridiculous it is to use JavaScript when you’ve got an alternative better than Lua? (I’ve written a JavaScript compiler, I know how unfortunate node.js and Electron are).

I want to be sold! Sell me!
I smell a Nobel Prize.
> If your manager has objections that's evidence it was a bad idea

You're just pushing responsibility for saying "no" onto someone else. I would look at the concept of "ruinous empathy" - sometimes being too facilitative and not giving feedback isn't good for anyone.
> "there is no need for subsidies but countries should accommodate new fabs"

No chip factories get built in Europe or North America without significant subsidies.
You appear to know your market rate. I’m guessing OP wrote the article for those that don’t yet.
I first read this speech a few years ago and read it again just now and, while I admire the force and clarity of the writing, the speech is frustratingly long on generalities and platitudes and short on ... anything concrete? Our leaders are feckless, our youth are directionless, our forefathers were wiser and deeper and more spiritual, the powers that be ignore the wisdom of their people, nobody will talk about this -- it's the sort of speech that's been given repeatedly throughout history, and part of that is because the gaps in it are nicely filled by whatever prejudices the listener has. It's not hard, for example, to draw a line between the ideas of this speech and Solzhenitsyn's eventual boosting of Putin, who was just the man to acquire immense power in the name of getting things done and some vague alignment with tradition and Christianity.

I do, of course, admire Solzhenitsyn's courage and work. Part of the speech's moral force is probably lost because I read it instead of seeing him speak it. But as a piece of writing, I struggle to find anything new or incisive in it.

Oh, and fun fact I learned reading about him this morning: his son did his undergrad at Harvard, and is (or recently was) a senior partner at McKinsey in Moscow [1, 2].

[1] https://www.castelli-international.it/online-interview-with-...

[2] https://web.archive.org/web/20180614021146/https://www.mckin...
> If the operation failed, they'd probably postpone the whole announcement till a more "proper" time, since nobody even know they tried to land the rover.

What? Here’s CNSA’s official Weibo account announcing yesterday that the rover will land in Utopia Planitia between May 15 and May 19, depending on local landing conditions.[1] A brief Google News search turned up reports from before the landing, e.g. [2] quoting a speech delivered on the 13th by a Chinese Academy of Sciences professor at Beijing Institute of Technology mentioning that the rover will land on the 15th.

[1] https://m.weibo.cn/7480894382/4636823021945182

[2] https://ezone.ulifestyle.com.hk/article/2957353/中國祝融號火星車將於本周...

Edit: And here’s People’s Daily posting the same CNSA announcement yesterday: https://m.weibo.cn/2803301701/4636812058297556 A search of “天问” there turns up regular updates too, pretty conclusively debunking the “nobody even know” claim.

Given that your first piece of evidence isn’t sourced (yet) and I can’t find anything on it (maybe the space tech graduates flocking to IT part is true, but few sectors pay better to begin with, so that’s not a good indication of underfunding; it’s not like NASA pays anywhere close to FAANG), your second piece of evidence is easy to check and doesn’t stand, and your third piece of evidence is circumferential and akin to Kremlinology, it’s hard to take your conclusions seriously.
Exactly the kind of comment I was anticipating...and I find it quite annoying, because it misses the point I was hoping to make. Which is that even when you have everything "picture perfect", it required me to find another way to relate to life. And I believe that is true for any kind of experience most people are having in the world day to day.
You'd get both the UBI + wage/salary, I'm not quite sure how that translates to "basically paying the company to work".
The age of glyphosate, an antibiotic that has been sprayed so much that it’s testable in the rain and in sources of groundwater at this point. The effects of long-term antibiotic exposure are up still being learned. But it clear means a gut biome disruption.

Thanks Monsanto. Err... Bayer (same people who sold Heroin over the counter 100 years ago)