skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Seems to me it would be easier to design a craft to dock with it and bring back to an easier for humans to reach location. Then push it back out to where it needs to go. I'm sure there's some delta-v math to determine the fuel requirements, and I'm guessing it would also make a huge difference on how fast you wanted it back.
I wondered the same thing. I once read this commentary on project management (disguised as a StarWars fanfic)[1] which makes me pessimistic. However I'm in no way involved so I'd be curious to hear what someone more knowledgable thinks.

https://m.fanfiction.net/s/11685932/1/Instruments-of-Destruc...
Sorry, not interested in hardware that turns into a coaster if I don't follow it's very obscure setup instructions. Hardware factory reset or no thanks.
Well, all the tech advances brought by doing R&D of JWST happened already ~15 years ago and already are at the market. But its just the same thing as with R&D done for F-35. With notable exception F-35's R&D is still work in progress because of upgrades, while JWST will remain a piece of late 2000s tech to be taken out of the attic in early 2020.
I got a little annoyed I couldn't just go hard initially and eradicate the virus like Aus/NZ do whenever theres an outbreak(NSW being a notable outlier but not quibbling). No Matter how strict I was initially, there were still at least 5 cases a day...

Why is there no option to have Contact Tracing & QR Codes? Even initially in the pandemic that's how Taiwan got on top of it. Why can't we do mass testing & localised lockdowns?

I know it's a game, but I feel like the USA/Europe don't even really consider the measures in place that have had the most impact on curbing the spread in places that went for elimination.
I'm not really talking to you. I'm talking to some other HN reader who thinks this is an actual debate between two reasonable sides.

Every time a security practitioner has to make a new decision, that opens up the possibility of making a mistake. Therefore, it is good practice to limit the number of decisions that you have to make.

That's why the standard policy for firewalls is default deny, and you have to make an affirmative decision to let packets in.

That's why we make cost-benefit decisions about blocking policy.

Does it cost NASDAQ to block Tor exit nodes from reading their blog? Not materially. Anyone that desperate to read that material anonymously can ask the Internet Archive for it, or get some other proxy to pull it for them. None of their actual or potential clientele will feel the need to use Tor.

Does it benefit NASDAQ to have a general policy of blocking Tor exit nodes? Yes, it definitely does. If you want to probe a site's security, Tor and rented botnets are the sources of choice.

I don't know whether NASDAQs security people are competent or not in general, but in this specific example, they made a good choice.
just for everyone to keep in mind wrt to link previews on fb owned products

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/10/study...

> Instagram owner Facebook said in an email that its servers download only a downscaled version of an image, not the original file, and that the company doesn't store that data. The email also said that its servers run the JavaScript to vet it for security. Mysk, however, said that the video demonstrates that Instagram downloaded a 2.6GB file (an Ubuntu ISO with the file renamed to ubuntu.png) in its entirety. He also noted that most other messengers strip out JavaScript rather than downloading it and running it on their servers.

https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/link-...
> Should we just abolish the idea of a free market of ideas?

Yes, please! This has never existed in the past, and continues to not exist in the present, and seems to me logically impossible to ever exist in the future.

Just like many would not consider Fox News to be "fair and balanced", but instead consider this slogan to be a dishonest attempt to obscure Fox News' bias, the sooner we give up on the "free market of ideas"-style sloganeering the sooner we can approach problems like those discussed here with any sort of honesty.
Wise (formerly TransferWise) valued at $11bn in direct listing
If you thought estimating software projects was hard, try estimating a friggin space launch.
Ask HN: Advice for career change after FAANG
A few years ago I have been lucky enough to land an internship at a FAANG (in EMEA) and to get a full-time offer after graduation. I now have a few successful years under my belt working there full-time. While I have had a chance to learn a lot about working in a team, mentoring others and leading projects I feel like the technical work just hasn't been challenging enough.

So I decided to use some time this year to apply to other companies. After a few months applying and interviewing, I have been successful at a few of the companies I applied to. Sadly the offers I received all represent a steep decrease in my compensation, upwards of 40% of my current comp.

I have read often that switching jobs is one of the best ways to getting a raise, which gave me this sense that taking any offer that offers less money is a bad career move. Is it just that FAANGs are special and that I would need to get myself an offer at another FAANG? (it's hard to even get an interview at some of these). If I cannot secure another FAANG offer am I destined to accepting a pay cut at some point in my career?

If the latter is true, would it be a safe choice to stay at the current FAANG position I have until my RSU cliff and then find something different?

The reason I ask is because I received an offer from a company that I would love to work at (one of the big tech companies but not a FAANG). I have given them my current comp and they have already suggested an increase from their initial offer, but even with this increase the comp is still not even close to what I am making. Comp isn't everything to me, but I cannot help but feel like I would be making a mistake taking it, even if it means a few more years of slogging through the FAANG job.

Any advice and personal experiences much appreciated.
MDPI is a low-quality journal with a sham peer-review process.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MDPI#Controversial_articles

https://www.universityaffairs.ca/features/feature-article/be...
I hope this issue is the motivator Microsoft needs to finally do something

Yes, finally, this will be the defining event that finally gets Microsoft to give a flying fuck about security or about code quality. /s

Anyone remember this stuff circa January 2002?

Gates Finally Discovers Security
https://www.wired.com/2002/01/gates-finally-discovers-securi...

To quote from that: Bill Gates' directive that Microsoft emphasize security features in its product is a major strategy shift, but some experts wonder if there's anything behind the words.

Now, 19 1/2 years later, Bill's directive will finally be taken seriously? Maybe once we hit 1,000,000 "critical" security flaws in Microsoft products? How many more before we hit that number? Does anyone even bother to count?
In times like these it is important to recall the literal definition of "conservative" and recognize how such an approach hinders society's progress.
I think that is the case. They are applying ML to all the clips too, which is served-side. They also say final renders are server-side.
If hours are available, you can do that. Many US schools fill your day with mandatory courses and it’s hard to get an open hour for that. My second high school had an 8-class day which did allow for that option, if the classes were available without conflict. My first had a 7-class day and as a freshman I was told I couldn’t take Spanish unless I wanted to skip lunch (which I didn’t).
It has a thrust-to-weight ratio > 1, but it can't really take off vertically in the same sense as the AV8B or the JSF. The F22 still needs some appreciable runway so it's really a "short takeoff". I think the thrust vectoring maxes out around 25 degrees, where the JSF can be configured to 90 degrees.
Wise (formerly TransferWise) prospectus for IPO [pdf]
>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.

Again, if there is no threat (perceived or real), there is no need for a weapons system, period. Think of it this way, if there was a proposal for a cost savings for an anti-spacecraft/anti-asteroid system mounted to the JWST? I'm saying no, because there is no credible threat that would prevent. You need the threat first, in order for the cost savings of a program to have meaning if the basis of the program is threat mitigation.

>Pretty much everyone at the time just wanted more F-22s

Not really, unless you're only talking about a specific branch. Only the Air Force wanted F22s. As was stated by another commenter, the JSF was needed because it was because it fulfilled desires that other services had that the F22 does not provide.
His parents got sent money, and he got zero-interest loans as well. While the family bootstrapped from initial small investments and hard work, there were financial support that functioned both as security blanket and strategic fund to draw from in specific times of need. Not everyone around him were that lucky, and he observed the difference.
Space/Science/Military spending do not seem to follow the normal rules of civilian production nor schedules. Alos, once the satellite is built and launched, there is the ongoing budgeting of the actual operations of the satellite. The budgets are limited in those capacities as well.
1. They are also missing antijoins. There's not a dedicated SQL keyword for it, but I think it's worth mentioning (especially if you're going to talk about union/intersect/except).

2. Actually -- and I suppose I can't blame the article -- but from title I was expecting to see HashJoin, MergeJoin, NestedLoopJoin, etc. I.e. join implementations not specifications.
Like it or not there are young children watching YouTube. YouTube doesn’t give any useful way of controlling the content that children see beyond its default recommendation engine. You can’t as a user easily block a channel (just report it, or dislike, and hope the recommendation engine notices).

So, if you accept that children should at least be somewhat monitored/guided in what they watch, this is a problem.

Of course, someone might say that parents should be monitoring the content anyway. That may be true, but doesn’t always happen in practice. And it’s a constant fight against the recommendation engine in any case.

YouTube has become the default way to share video content online, there is no way to “opt out” of the recommendation engine, and they do their best to push low value content at children. So in my view, yes this is a problem.
> U.S. Churches tax exempt status is typically as a 501c3 non-profit and that strictly forbids direct political activity.

No, it doesn't. It prohibits direct or indirect campaign activity (a prohibition which, in the case of Churches, is widely flouted and for which enforcement is near no existent), but allows a variety of notionally non-campaign political activity (which, also, is a fictitious distinction, and essentially all activity undertaken of this type is direct activity targeted at advancing particular candidates or parties electoral prospects, and tends to be particularly focussed around particular elections.)

> Removing the 501c3 designation would mean that they no longer have a reason to refrain from direct political activity.

Removing the 501(c)3 designation would mean that not only was the church so affected no longer tax exempt but donations to it would no longer be tax deductible, so it would need substantially more donated dollars, each of which would cost donors more (because of the lack of deductibility), just to be where it was status quo ante. So they'd have less money to spend on the political activity they already freely engage in.

> A Church does not specifically need to be a 501c3 organization to be tax exempt

It does for donations to be tax deductible; also, “churches” are an enumerated subtype of 501(c)3, but not of other tax exempt categories, so while being a church ipso facto qualified you for 501(c)3 status (and for exceptions to some rules applicable to other 501(c)3 orgs) if you are willing to abide by the subset of rules actually enforced on churches in that classification, it doesn't automatically qualify you for any other tax exempt status.

Of course, all this is irrelevant to the article which is about Canada, which has not yet become a region of the United States subject to the US tax code.
As someone who has never used Facebook, why is their marketplace more trustworthy than Craigslist?
We all have anecdotes with regards printers 8) I think that nmap still refuses to pound away at the JetDirect port ...

... OK I've just tested that against my home HP MFP and 9100/tcp shows in the results.

If lpd does it for you on Xerox printers, then fine: use that. I was discussing HPLIP ie getting rid of a Hewlett Packard thing!
Nothing in the post you replied to was a justification, and in fact starts with "As privacy-invading as it is".
They spent years biking together in China. Their Instagram and YT is very interesting (and the comments are full of blind China apologists).
https://developer.apple.com/app-store/review/guidelines/#4.5...

4.5.4 Push Notifications must not be required for the app to function, and
should not be used to send sensitive personal or confidential information.
Push Notifications should not be used for promotions or direct marketing
purposes unless customers have explicitly opted in to receive them via consent
language displayed in your app’s UI, and you provide a method in your app for
a user to opt out from receiving such messages. Abuse of these services may
result in revocation of your privileges.

In practice it's not enforced, though.
i think the people who are complaining that this is "rambling", or "poor quality data analysis", or "just an ad for her startup" are missing the main value of this post - the pointer to the amount and variety of demographic/economic data that is out there and freely available to run through data analysis tools. i found it pretty interesting to think of building a weighted map of the country that way.
Life Advice: Become a Billionaire
Steve Wozniak Speaks on Right to Repair
Not really sure how this follows.

The lowest scoring group in this study also happened to have the highest mean BMI. Obesity is generally considered to be one of the strongest predictors of life expectancy and cardiovascular health (or lack thereof). Being strong or agile doesn't decrease the damage to the cardiovascular system caused by obesity.
Also the Amtrak line right down Embarcadero in Oakland that runs right down the middle of the road in the traffic line. I often think of a certain scene in Inception when I see that.
> No head of state is in control of the military.

In France the President, the head of state, commands the military, and not the Prime Minister, the head of government.
How about face-to-face? That's how we used to do it before we all carried phones.
SHL Scouts
It's ironic because Arduino is all about FOSH, except for the one thing that might actually get used in the "real world."
It's widely known open plans are bad. Companies do this to save on money. This is the same as builders selling condos with loft look, another gimmick to just save money.
'x' is too close to the English 'sh' sound to work.
I think this is a great jab at my argument and its main weakness. But I stand by it, because even in your example we have seen that countries that go for decriminalization and offer elective treatment do better. Compare Portugal's successes with decreasing hard drug use with US's failed war on drugs.

Do not criminalize the things that make your society worse at scale, rather ensure the positive incentives draw your population in a better direction. I.e. carrot, not stick.
> wouldnt
Not sure sure this "distortion" is temporary though. There's going to continue to be a shortage of more senior engineers for years to come because of their relative scarcity. Fact is... if you're senior/staff/principal now assuming you stay competitive you're in luck.
> Even a measly 5 degree change

Let's remember that a 5 degree change in plane shifts the satellite over 590 km. If we pretend for a moment that satellites in LEO were evenly distributed, that 5 degree slice would contain the orbits of 53 of them. In reality, satellites tend to be placed in similar orbits.

Also your equation is for circular orbit inclination change at constant altitude, in practice you can do much more efficient plane change maneuvers by going into a higher and more elliptical orbit, changing inclination, and then returning to your original altitude and eccentricity.
Wow do you seem to have some kind of agenda to push. One that's dogmatic about personal responsibility and a smaller government... Where have I heard that before?

Government isn't the problem, it's problems are just a reflection of sickness that infects the culture of its citizens.

W all bear collective responsibility for that sickness and that's what needs fixing, that's how the world is made better.
PostgreSQL doesn't support this; IDK if it ever did.
Despite the authors experience, she still percieves goal 1 and 2 in the wrong order. When the primary stake holder in schools the parents/voters make the biggest complaint the most is when its because a school is closed for a day, forcing them to leave work / miss thier tv show.
The second most important stakeholders, the government, set a standardised curriculum so they can have thier authorised inspectors report to the primary stakeholders the government school is either "excellent" or "outstanding"
The teachers the third, can talk, unionise, move to private education, they can try have high personal standards but they choose to not have a choice in improving the system of schooling, unless they are some religious school which has greater agency but they generally only utilise this to bolt on thier respective ideology.
the stakeholders of lowest importance, the children, get what thier given, and probably should be a bit more thankfull about it.
Subreply

It's been featured on HN before:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23814517

And also featured more in the past under its original name Sublevel:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8111691
You're suggesting that humanity in it's current form could survive the expansion of the sun and make it to the eventual heat death of the universe?
This is good progress.

Just two months ago I declined an offer from a known and well funded startup because of a one year cliff on equity.

The recruiter didn't seem to be able to discuss this matter and I asked them to make sure to bubble this sort of thing up their food chain. I never heard back afterwards.

As an "old timer" in the industry a one year cliff makes absolutely no sense to me. Its like working for credit, which seems very backwards.
I definitely did the same way you definitely commented a copy/paste twice :p
an important consideration is that SpaceX hasn't in fact, gotten 100 tons of equipment to mars yet.
Once the clips are on their servers, editing is probably fine, as long as they're using some kind of edge compute for low latency. In fact that's great for people who don't want to buy a more powerful computer for video editing. But if that means you have to saturate your uplink for 24 hours before you even start editing then that's borderline unusable.
> but does it really neccessary to use 137 pages to illustrate a very simple issue?

No, but the issue wasn't that simple in 2013.

> half millions time already, if the maker use the slides carefully, wouldn't it save a millions of hours user's time. And life?

hundreds of thousands by that math, it also took me about 20 minutes to read through it.

> The presentation itself is a huge distraction.

I think Tristan Harris was aware of that and that also probably is the point.
"X has never existed perfectly/completely, therefore X should be abolished."

Do I understand you correctly?

And what are you suggesting it be replaced with?
None of that is unique to humans. Plenty of other primates and fowl have similar systems.
Charlie Munger has an interesting take on Ma. I don't know exactly what to make of this.

https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/markets/stocks/news/ber...
I'm not making the claim it's a universal standard, but there are likely indications that some researchers are a different pedigree from others. A researcher reporting the same kind of low grade vulnerability probably shouldn't carry the same reputation score as other researchers.

I don't think there is a perfect way to do this, and I don't think there is an absolute standard that can be applied. It will be unfair to some people, but the system should have options for resolution when there are egregious mistakes. I'm not making the claim either, that the views of the data you are interested in are the ones I might be interested in. A good system would provide some different levels which itself is an incentive towards better research that would break through.
My concern is where and how this data is collected.
> Pretty much everyone at the time just wanted more F-22s

The Navy and Marine Corps didn't, especially after development of the Naval variant of the F-22 was cancelled in 1991.
I tutored home schooled kids for years (and many other kids and college students as well). I'm sure some of it is selection bias of those who reach out to a tutor in the first place, but I strongly disagree that homeschooled kids are socially stunted (agreeing with parent's comment). Rather, they seem to be quite capable of interacting at a far more mature level than their public school peers.
Create a landing page. I will write a couple of posts saying that Sam Altman and Paul Graham are the smartest guys this century and we will be soon launching a a show HN, new YC company.
Ham comes from pigs =)

Put originally it was a pejorative used by professional telegraph operators to make fun of 'ham fisted' amature radio oporators who were bad at morse code.
The Czech Republic at one point tested the whole population, which helped with temporarily reducing the number of new infections IIRC.
My assumption would be from a little perspective of it being good HFT job training that it probably isn't but that it's still probably a very valuable learning experience just in terms of getting your head in that domain.
It scales up just fine, but individuals have to take personal responsible for their feelings.

As long as we allow folks to flip out and go crazy over bits of text, or even images appearing on their screen that they don't like or are offended by, nothing will will work.

You see, in your situation, if you don't like what somebody is saying you uninvited them from the table. But on the internet, folks demand the offender be removed from the internet -- this won't scale.

What nearly all social media needs to do is simply hide users or content from somebody when they "flag" or "report" it. This scales nicely.

But no! we demand they remove it from the internet and ban them from contributing anything further. This is liken to getting into a argument at the dinner table, being offending, and then killing the offender so they can't offend you again, verses just ending future interactions with this person. Yeah, you might see them at the store, and yeah, they might have have to look away passing them in on the street, but the majority of the content you don't like coming from them is removed from your life.

But that is not good enough, you want this person to not be able to share the ideas, topic, or crude joke you did not like with anybody else.

I don't know what it is about the internet, but folks seem to think they should have way more control over what others do than they normally would in the real world.