skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cheap debt always results in buying and building. Building has been especially expensive lately, so buying became more popular. Both can be speculative, at large or small scales.

How is this "control"? What makes it unfair? Maybe all those recently listed properties were undervalued compared to expensive construction.
I truly think you’re giving way too much credit to those people.
School in general should be modularized so that you can pick your own path. It isn't necessary or sensible to think that every student will or should be at the same point in every subject. The predictable result is that some students are bored as they are held back while others become frustrated as they fall hopelessly behind. Usually the latter are punished (if not publicly shamed) with bad grades simply for having less experience with the material and/or taking longer to master it for the first time.

"Tracking" was supposed to mitigate this to some extent, but it tends to be a) used across the board for multiple subjects and b) used as a means of sorting students into winners (who are richly rewarded with status and additional opportunities) and losers (who are deprived of rewards and benefits rather than offered additional help and assistance.)

Universities use a modular approach to great effect: you can usually take any course (even graduate courses) if you've completed the prerequisites. And there are multiple ways of fulfilling graduation requirements.

A limitation of the university approach is that for a given course in a given term, everyone in the course is usually still in lock-step. Sometimes this is mitigated by offering multiple versions of a course with different time scales (usually an "accelerated" version for people who are familiar with the material and/or want to devote more time per week.)
If you are into visualizations, you also might find my debug visualizer extension for vscode helpful:

https://github.com/hediet/vscode-debug-visualizer

When debugging JS, there is a nice way to provide visualizations for application specific objects without touching the application code.

Combined with time travel debugging which allows to step backwards, it is really easy to understand complex algorithms:

https://github.com/hediet/vscode-delorean-js-debug

The visualization library is independent and open source. There is also a rust cli and a web playground. I'm very open for contributions! (especially new visualizations)
It's even older than 02007! You could put your filesystem on a ramdisk in CP/M in 01979 if you bought a third-party utility, though this needed bank-switched RAM to be really useful in CP/M: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silicon_Disk_System

Dataram used to sell RAMdisks ("BULK CORE") for PDP-11s starting in 01976, but those were hardware devices, so maybe we shouldn't count them. See First also sold them. I'm not aware of earlier ramdisks, but at and prior to that time RAM would have been magnetic core, which changes the value proposition a bit: a core ramdisk is more like an SSD than anything else, because RAM contents weren't lost if power was lost.

And ramdisks were a standard feature of Atari DOS 2.5 by 01985: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_DOS

It was also common to use ramdisks in MS-DOS around that time. Bankswitching was part of the reason: starting in 01985 you could easily put several megs of bank-switched RAM on a LIM EMS board in even an original IBM PC, but most application programs couldn't use more than a meg at all (or more than 640K without difficulty), so a ramdisk was an easy way to get some use out of it.

And it was common to netboot SunOS in the 01980s; this usually involved making /tmp a ramdisk and NFS-mounting /, /usr, maybe /usr/share, and /var.

And the PalmPilot only had DRAM for its filesystem from 01996 until they added flash support in PalmOS 5.4 in 02004.

And most LiveCD systems copy the CD into RAM at boot time these days. And Linux usually boots from an "initramfs". I'm typing this on a Linux computer with "tmpfs" ramdisks (named after the SunOS facility, but not used for /tmp itself) mounted on /run, /dev/shm, /run/lock, /sys/fs/cgroup, and a directory in /run/user. Amazingly, there's a discussion about whether Fedora should default to swapping to a ramdisk now: https://rwmj.wordpress.com/2020/06/15/compressed-ram-disks/
I seen a video on this today, (megaprojects) and I thought the same thing and wondered how deep it goes.

Like something about the sun shield being the width of a human hair, someone put the idea forward, something about how many motors are involved in unpacking, someone put the idea forward. All the way to the Ariane rocket.

Is for example, the Ariane rocket so good that the person in charge is sipping tea and eating biscuits the night before launch, or is that person biting their nails to the bone hoping that it doesn't go wrong in some way with a 10 billion payload on board?
> Beware: if you tax an organization, at least in the US, it will insist on its Constitutional right to representation.

First off, the first line of the article: “A mayor in Canada...” Canada isn’t the US.

Second of all, even in the US, organizations as such have no Constitutional right to representation.

Third of all, in both the US and Canada, citizen members, including citizen heirarchs, of the Catholic Church are already fully represented, taxing the Church just decreases the funds tbe people who support the Church have free for political activity, assuming they want the Church funded at the same level.
And thus was Iain Banks' Culture universe born.
I don’t think it’s a great example of using existential threat for sales, when the whole thing was sold as a cost saving. Pretty much everyone at the time just wanted more F-22s. I was a technical advisor on the project.
And wild animals die of small infections and deal with parasites all the time. Success is just being able to live long enough to reproduce. Being able to clean ourselves improved our health a lot.
> If you block some content the way gmail blocks spam, it won't be censorship.

Are you thinking of the spam folder? Because the primary way that gmail blocks "spam" is by never delivering the email at all. Not to your spam folder, not anywhere.

I learned about this when I was unable to receive email from a personal friend.
This is a perfectly legitimate comment, but I would go one step further: throw Mark Zuckerberg in jail. While it may seem to be an industry wide practice I believe that he is above and beyond the most predatory and cynical of the practitioners of these things. Remember how Facebook lied to advertisers about video metrics for 2 years? Other companies will look at fb's success and say 'hey, I have to do that too'. Not realizing the only way they're successful is because they have a wanton disregard for any decency whatsoever
AFAIK there are no formal rules on dress code in the Netherlands parliament. There was (or is?) a member of parliament who attended in jeans and a T-shirt (because that's what the people he represents wear).
Likewise radio stations' playing songs back to back without a gap. "Stairway to Heaven" deserves a second or two of silence after finishing.
Meta-Analysis of metastatic media machines. Say that one three times fast.
It's not directly selling the data, but when you target an ad, and a user takes an action on the ad (sometimes that's a click, sometimes it's just loading a beacon in the ad, sometimes the user may need to transact after a click), the advertise can correlate the targetting with the user.

That's not exactly selling the data, but it's close.

Disclosure: former Facebook employee, not in ads except for an ill-fated project that afaik hasn't launched and all my ideas were considered and rejected.
Moskowitz is a known crank.
I really like the style of your visualizations!

I built something similar while learning for my algorithms course ate university. [0]

It not fully polished yet and not algorithms I had planned to implement are done yet. But I learned a lot doing it and some algorithms like "rotating calippers" or delaunay triangulation are really fun to watch.

Usage: click the canvas to create nodes, drag from their border to connect them. Click the "algorithms" tab on the top and select an algorithm to run in the right sidebar. The use the slider to step through the result.

[0] https://algorithms.laszlokorte.de
> This attitude makes me kind of uncomfortable.

I think the point though is that security warnings need to be actionable and high-signal. Experienced folks are absolutely tuning out the security warnings on npm install, because 95% of the warnings are like the examples in the post -- I know they don't affect me/my use case and there's nothing I can do about them anyway. The effect is only compounded for novices who run "npx create-react-app hello-world" and immediately see something incomprehensible about a vulnerability in react-scripts > webpack > watchpack > watchpack-chokidar2 > chokidar > glob-parent. It either discourages them from programming entirely or it teaches them to ignore security warnings.

I don't disagree with your overall point -- e.g. we should absolutely teach novices "here's what XSS is and how to avoid it" early and often. But if a dependency manager is going to surface a vulnerability alert every time I install dependencies, the alerts should be 1) high severity (to the point where I should actually stop using the package if I am unable to patch/upgrade) or 2) at least immediately actionable. The current npm audit implementation does the opposite -- 95% of the alerts are totally irrelevant to my actual security posture, and the suggested command to upgrade a vulnerable dependency is unreliable and can actually downgrade to an older, even-less-secure version (!).
The international community agrees that human/animal hybrids are abominations—we shouldn’t make them to preserve the dignity of the human, despite their creation being well within our scientific capability.

Theoretically, how would we create human-animal hybrids? That’s a strong claim to say it’s within our power.
Light rail with no separation down main roads exists in a lot of places (including San Francisco) as the right of way is already available.

In Redwood City there's a freight line that runs down the middle of a residential street with zero grade separation or fencing or anything else. You can drive over it if there's no train on it. Unsurprisingly it's a poor neighborhood.
would it have had enough thrust to work in earth gravity?
I don’t want to get the vaccine until it’s out of emergency use authorisation and the consequences (long term) are more well understood.

Howeever; this title had my reaching for the phone to call my GP, until I realised it’s probably bullshit ha ha
DAG based pipeline design pattern helped DoorDash scale with recommendations.
Thanks! I’ve been trying to find a place where people debate and discuss with less rage. Hopefully this is the place. Though I think my upvote is gone haha. I’m interested in learning about your test results!
Retired people are not included in mortality by job
It's different as ST is a chip manufacturer. If you make clones, chances are they'll only work with their chips, so you end up ordering from them anyway. Win-win. Boards could have an open license though.
> at least one more tome each.

Super-uber-duper-friendly suggestion: Proofread your comments before posting them.
Based on some comments from the Arduino co-founder [1], their Pro boards are "designed to be embedded in industrial equipment, robots etc". I'm not sure anyone in industry takes that seriously, though.

[1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/electronics/comments/neh8o9/done_as...
I had an offer in December that was 33/33/22/11
“especially among cell phone users with cumulative cell phone use of 1000 or more hours in their lifetime (which corresponds to about 17 min per day over 10 years)”

I don’t think I know anyone who doesn’t use their cell phone for at least 17 mins a day. Ages 12 to 99 included.
Great move. Joining a new company always involves a leap of faith, and this reduces the risk somewhat of the fit not being satisfactory. I hope that all companies that offer equity will do the same as DoorDash.
The "free market of ideas" sounds like a great ideal. But it gets really messy in practice. What should such a "marketplace" look like? I'm happy to have a free and vigorous exchange of ideas among my friends and me gathered around a dinner table; we're bound by mutual trust and respect to operate in good faith with one another, even in disagreement. How should we try to scale that to a global communications plaform? Is that even feasible?
I think that NASA's budget, unlike many other federal agencies, is actually highly beneficial to US Taxpayers due to the large amount of IP/new inventions generated. Similar to DARPA, there are huge ROI factors that come in from an organization that researches, conducts science and engineering efforts on a massive scale, resulting in technologies that consumers can use economically.

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

NASA's budget is one of the smallest slices of the federal budget, and for that amount we receive a great deal back in benefits.

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

Due to the huge amount of technologies generated, and refined from these large prestige missions, I do not consider them to be a waste of funding.

One great example are the weather satellites generated by the NASA/NOAA partnership, such as GOES-R, and JPSS, and their predecessor missions in GOES & POES, to name a few. While they are very expensive they equip meteorologists with the rich data needed to make accurate observations. These observations directly impact human life, both by guiding evacuation decisions, knowing tornado tracks, and also, farming decisions. This same data is used for supply chain management, and there are a number of other uses for it.

Although many commercial media sources will be happy to provide you a weather feed, they often do not tell you that they have a backend connection to NASA, NESDIS and NWS, in order to provide their own weather data, or data from a research satellite. Or they'll provide you a customized photo which is actually a tailored version of imagery from GOES-*.

Because of the incalculable costs of an earth impacting asteroid, or a Carrington-dwarfing electromagnetic storm https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrington_Event , outward looking to see more of the cosmos is one of the best things we can do to ensure our survival as a species. The more we look out, the more we are able to prepare for such an event.
Once cannabis is legal in Mexico it will be added into NAFTA 2.0 deal
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I'm all for big game hunting but taking down Google would be a gutpunch to every Gmail user ever
I dont really get how people see the progress of the last 10 or even 5 years and then imply that things won't improve all that much further than that for a whole generation.
Substack hosted a workshop for fiction writers
It's not (which I suspect you are hinting at knowing). People will find anything to use to further a political message, including an innocuous video game.

I posted a Stardew min-max guide[1] awhile back and got grief for it that it was violating the spirit of the game, which, for the complainers, was to relax. Uptight people gonna uptight.

[1] https://github.com/nathan-alden-sr/stardew-valley/blob/maste...
Irrelevant former CEO to a bloviating mess of a site says what?
Gas-Terminal: Environment for Smart Execution of Google Apps Script
> We've taken a species, the wolf, and made it smarter

In what universe is a dog smarter than a wolf?

I think you got the correlation between animal domestication and their intelligence backward :)
It's unlikely that we'll ever be able to put the genie back in the bottle.

The potentially limitless power of AI is going to be too much of a temptation for some governments, militaries, powerful individuals, and various groups to resist.

Ban AI in one place and it'll just be developed somewhere else.

That's not to say we should simply march forward with our eyes closed, but efforts to stop AI are highly unlikely to succeed.

Jacques Ellul[1] talked about the almost inevitable and freedom-denying aspects of what he called "technique" (really the relentless drive towards efficiency across all disciplines) in The Technological Society[2].

Ellul's thought inspired the Unabomber, though Ellul himself never advocated violence as a response. As we all know, the Unabomber did not himself stop technological progress... he did manage to spread his ideas a bit, but that hasn't seem to have had any effect either.

I'm completely against violence myself, and unequivocally condemn terrorism of all sorts (including the Unabomber). Not only is it unethical and immoral, but it's ineffective and counterproductive.

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

[2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Technological_Society
Let’s Make Google a Public Good
ISTM is “It seems to me”. I had to look it up so thought I’d post it for other Luddites like me.
I assume it refers to holding a cell phone to your ear while transmitting continuously on cellular radio. Not reading Twitter, etc.
Not optimizing for profit is a very privileged position to be in.

Are people with poor backgrounds supposed to think that selling some ads is worse than having your family suffer? I can make a third as much and maybe do something better for society, but what happens then if the industry collapses?

I'm not coding killer drones. I'm working for an ad company.
Most people in Somalia probably don't have the disposable income to invest in stocks...

The notion of having the money to invest in stocks is made from a position of privilege
So was STS (Space Shuttle). . .
Likely referencing https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-01001-2
well unless the tzdb does not drop dst values past a certain time, it would always work if non utc values are used.
Evolution of YouTube (2005 – 2021)
I upvoted two of your comments. I think the upvote on your comment above disappeared when I replied to it.
Counterfeiters. As in, people who harm your reputation by using your name to sell inferior goods.

They send the design files to a dropshipping company, put up an Aliexpress listing claiming the goods are endorsed by Arduino, then collect money without actually having created any value (other than to connect a factory with no quality control to a user who thought they were getting a working chip).

This is about a flood of sellers illegally using their branding - too numerous to make chasing them individually accross jurisdictions.

Saying "Design files available on request" means they want some evidence you have a use in mind that isn't "make a buck ruining everyone elses day"
Yeah, that's what I said: You have to open up the dev-console. Which sucks for a document download.
For those that study the human brain, my understanding is that it kind of already is “just form fitting.” Ie, there are subsystems that just do basic stuff, and together each of these systems eventually add up to a prediction system (consciousness) that is in service to the rest of the brain, which in turn has a mutualistic relationship with the rest of the body.

In this sense, “strong AI” already exists, with or without computers, as a global ecosystem driving towards…nothing in particular. Insomuch as computer systems augment the ability of humanity to continue to reproduce long-term in a mutualistic way, those computer system will themselves survive.

You might say, “but why wouldn’t the computer find a more efficient path, foregoing humanity?” Well, humanity supports the infrastructure for computers, and computers support the humans supporting the infrastructure, then this is already local minima. Arriving at a different reality for “strong AI” will be the result of a random walk tending towards components that are capable of existing in the long term, aka “evolution.”
I'm here asking, not here answering.
F-22 theoretically can do a vertical take off as well. (not landing).
> Nothing in the current fleet of new capsules have arms or airlocks.

True, but a docking adapter with an airlock that works with starliner and dragon is technically feasible. That said, it would still likely require recertification, as its inclusion would effect abort modes.
I could imagine them saying something similar about self hosting compilers.
commenting to say this was a beautiful, straight to the point landing page. We see lots of landing pages with sections of copy that just don't look great
More like "if I can choose arbitrary values for my variables I can make the equation say whatever I want, regardless of what the real values should be".
Places Are Increasingly Getting So Hot That People Just Die
Ban all AI and machine learning research. Death penalty mandatory minimum for breaking. Full nuclear elimination strike against all nations that do not also enforce it.

There's your Butlerian Jihad.

I would press that button now, a thousand times a thousand times.

You lack the vision to even understand the magnitude of the threat or you wouldn't be asking the nonsense questions you do
He/she probably meant "its easier to point a real problem than to find a real, stable solution"
Are there any games you'd recommend by him?
I’m unaware of any launch system that gets many tries at failures - it either gets what needs to be done relatively quickly or it gets cancelled. The number of tries you get is usually single digits.

Everyone fails a few times at a minimum.
But that was just like saying what F-35's mission is to fly high in the skies, sorry.

This sort of proves my point, no one knows which exactly research JWST will do upon deployment, because original mission goals mainly became obsolete.
I think the term 'jihad' had less baggage back then.
"Modular learning" reminds me of this video: https://youtu.be/GyV_UG60dD4
In the end there is just paint/words. The question how to find and apply the right/wanted paint/words involves many aspects. By training one aspect it doesn't improve the other, but it may or may not improve the overall outcome.
All depends on where the destination server is. If the destination is in the U.S., you might benefit from your traffic being routed through Apple's private network.