skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But it is the most expensive carnival ride! What we saw today is the birth of space tourism. That’s what made the live stream so exciting. Right now it’s still expensive but with the super re-usable approach of Virgin Galactic costs will get lower and lower. In the future (years) it mit might only cost a few thousand bucks for a ride. That’s also why the live stream was so “commercial” - to show you the future where going to space (even if briefly) is nothing more than a plane ride with Dave and Mike as your pilots.
Spent at least three years of development, but couldn't be bothered to spend 15 minutes to write up how any living soul would use it without downloading and compiling the project to see help text from the .exe.
I'm a programmer – how can I help SciHub?
Yes, you are right I did not try to search for it myself before writing the comment. However I did just try and it is harder than you might think to search for something like this. I suspect if I had a better understanding of British English I might more readily stumble onto an appropriate phrasing that turns up a source.
There are many varieties of these carpets available for purchase on Etsy [1] including the design in this article [2]

They’re quite fascinating but I can’t picture myself displaying it in my home, not sure who’s the target market

[1] https://www.etsy.com/search?q=afghan+war+rug

[2] https://www.etsy.com/listing/1040160135/303-beautifully-hand...
WSJ and NyTimes are papers that many people might read both of, they both provide different high end perspectives. USA Today is more like…I’m not really sure why anyone read it. Maybe if they wanted a very drab ultra-produced version of the news that uses more modern fonts, which is sort of the market they were going for on their introduction in the 80s. I don’t see much overlap between the high quality New York papers and USA Today.
So it's offline then?
> Unfortunately about 60% of CO2 emissions from cement production is simply the CO2 released from the conversion of Calcium Carbonate (CaCO3) to lime (CaO).

Isn't this irrelevant?

It's not like we just produce cement to stockpile it indefinitely. When it's mixed with water and used to construct useful things, that CO2 comes back out of the atmosphere as it "cures".

What am I missing here?
How to Explore Altered States of Consciousness Without Psychedelics
The hinge of this analysis is on the word "outperformed". Performance of what you're measuring exactly? If our sole performance criteria was churning out LOC and subsisting on adderall, any new grad can kick ass. But you wouldn't entrust them multi-million-dollar man-hours of headcount to a steer multi-quarter project to actually work and bring in money. Without such steering, any code is mere dead matter, for which the performance of making is irrelevant.
If you have $1M and have it invested in a no-load S&P tracking fund (historically approx 9%, and hope you don't have a down year), then you'd have $90k/year income on the interest alone.

After taxes (long-term capital gains, let's assume the 15% or 20% bracket, unless Biden gets his wish to increase that), most likely around $13,500 (@ 15%) per year, that would be reduced to $76,500/year, which is $6,375/month.

On the other hand, if you have a "safe withdrawal rate", as fma suggested, (and which seems to be very wise to protect against down years which could permanently reduce your nest egg) then that income would be halved, requiring approximately double the initial investment to result in a $6k post-tax income.

And as far as it being "the idea of living off the interest on your wealth is pretty insane and unattainable", this is just categorically untrue; many mid- to upper-class families in the U.S. with two incomes make in the $300k to $1M range, so even if they only put away 4% to 10% in their 401(k) or other retirement plans for 30 years, they'd easily make that number.
You can't attack others like this on HN, regardless of how bad another comment is or you feel it is.

Also, could you please not post flamebait and/or unsubstantive comments generally? We're trying for something a bit different than internet default here, to the extent possible.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
These types of articles are supremely boring. What’s the point being made here? There isn’t one. What’s the idea being conveyed!? There isn’t one!

This is literally the same as writing a long article about how “Kanye West has lost his touch”, while failing to define what someone who has “their touch” is, who has “their touch” still and so on.

I truly dislike the kind of people who view this information as having any relevance.
It's funny how often I see people talk about the US arming ISIS, then posting articles about how ISIS was armed with captured weapons some of which was US in origin as if that supports their point at all.

And it's especially beside the point because ISIS only ever had small arms, some light weapons, and captured vehicles. None of the complicated weapon systems that the these defense companies produce as their bread and butter. There are plenty of things to criticize them on, but acting like they profited off captured ISIS humvees and M4s is absurd.
EDIT: i gotta admit, you sound like you've got more experience with teaching R than me. so perhaps my opinions here are a bit strong for what they're based on, i.e. tutoring a couple of non-programmer friends and my own learning process. still...

> My experience is that this weird evaluation order stuff is only confusing for students with a lot of programming experience who already expect nice lexical scope

fair point, but for the most part, R itself does use pretty standard lexical scoping unless you opt into "non-standard evaluation" by using `substitute`[1]. so building a mental model of lexical scoping and "standard evaluation" is a pretty important thing to learn. after that, the student can see how quoting can "break" it, or at least be able to understand a sentence like "you know how evaluation usually works? this is different! but don't worry about it too much for now". and i think dropping someone new straight into tidyverse stuff gets in the way of this process.

> and even then, base R isn’t any simpler: the confusing evaluation order is built into R itself at the deepest level.

i mean, quoting can't really work without being deeply integrated into the language, can it? besides:

- AFAICT base R data manipulation functions don't use it a lot. [2]

- for the most part, R's evaluation order can be ignored (at a certain learning stage) because it's not observable if you stick to pure stuff, which you probably should anyway.

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[1] http://adv-r.had.co.nz/Computing-on-the-language.html#captur...

[2] admittedly, stuff with `formula`s is similarly wacky, and if you're doing stats you're going to run into that sooner or later...
Prime Minister’s letter to Gareth Southgate [pdf]
The Greenest Way to Grill
This can be done locally in the browser with qifi: https://github.com/evgeni/qifi
If I had a nightvision telescope which i used to spy on others I would certainly not be blogging about how I use it to spy on others.

I am often apppalled at the ability of executives to completely flounder their one responsibility. Crying in a blog and oversharing does not develop my confidence in this persons leadership, but I suppose crypto trading might have already been a red flag to warn of the nature of this article.
Probably should also run it in a sandboxed tab and delete all site related data after use. It is possible for sites to detect network connection and sync data when a connection is re-established.

EDIT: you could also just run the local server in offline mode and shut it down before you re-connect.
“Raw throughput” like what? Mashing on the keyboard? Then - sure. Sorry but that’s just not true ime. On some tasks jrs are even infinitely slower than srs because they just can’t make any headway at all
Thanks for the insights! I believe that if you have a small studio/room as a student would, a four-year plan would cost closer to CHF 150. I know that a 1-year one would be much more expensive, but we're working hard on changing that.

I agree that unless we offer significant savings, students are not an ideal market for us, but maybe when we get furniture back and we renovate it, students might be especially interesting since we can furnish their rooms for a big discount.
A private browser window should take care of this problem.
Neat. Works with Unicode!

Feature request: giant passwords like that one that was posted on the side of a building.

I ran it with network off and saw the code, so it looks safe.
Thanks for the suggestion, pretty much everything political on reddit is heavily brigaded.

A look at retalk's homepage shows similar subforums to reddit like /ufc /funny and /todayilearned so it's more of a reddit replacement than a niche political forum, HN style.

The discussion appears to be civil as well, but everyone has there similar opinions and no reason to argue so that's not saying much.
Not really sure what use knowing my wifi password would be unless you were specifically stalking me anyway.

You have a password and an SSID for somewhere in the world (maybe, if they didn’t lie) or if tracing IP addresses, somewhere in a neighbhourhood or city).

Seems about as useful as an MH 370 flight data recorder password (if such things exist). Yes, you could break into the black box with it, but that’s not the real problem.
maybe books by Vonnegut don't qualify, but Kilgore Trouts stuff does.
"Because every physical thing has a start."

Does it?

Everything we know about the world is either due to observations or inferences from our observations. We have not observed what was at the start of the Big Bang, nor prior to it, so for all we know whatever that was was qualitatively different than what came after, and really did have no beginning.

"Some time-bending supreme being that creates time and existence itself can overcome that "start" because of it's super powers."

That's the claim.. but that claim seems to me to be no more convincing than saying "because magic" or "just because".. might as well say that about the "physical thing" at the start of the universe.

A being that creates time has its own additional problems besides.. such as how could there be anything before time? What does that even mean?
Everything that exists comes [X]. [X] causes all that happens. Nothing happens apart from [X].

It doesn't matter whether [X] stands for "matter and the laws of physics" or "God."

All you've done is make the turtles impersonal. The stack is still there, and it's every bit as inexplicable as it was before.
Heh - short of it is I originally created this "throwaway" account years ago, I just forgot to throw it away. The initial impetus was yes, I was commenting on something controversial, but then I just forgot/was too lazy to switch back to my original account so I just left it.
Agreed. I just went through finding a new job, and I was a little worried about it, given everything I've heard about ageism in this industry. Far from that, I had loads of recruiters contacting me, and on the whole this job search was the easiest and fastest I've ever had. One interviewer commented on my age, which felt a little odd since it was something he brought up, and not part of the conversation. But, I don't feel like it hurt me, even in that situation. People were generally very cool.

At my old job, a YC startup, I was the oldest person on staff. Older than the founders, the VPs, or any of the developers by at least a few years. But, I can also remember being the youngest person at my first job, and on balance, I think my age was more of a professional liability for me back then than it is now. It wasn't a huge issue in either scenario.
Has anyone noticed that in the UK, posties work for the Royal Mail, whereas in the US, mail carriers work for the US Postal Service. It's a curious inversion
I do wish there was an option to safely disable all connectivity in a browser tab (forever) like with Javascript or camera access.

Yes, saving the page, disconnecting your network connection, then deleting the page would work, but it's a real bother.
This used to be called Reddit. Not so much anymore, since they started optimizing for advertisers instead of users.

I don't think there are going to be very many places like HackerNews. "Hackers" as a subculture are bolstered by the fact that Internet based modes of communication and work (not just forums but also things like Github) are seen as interesting and productive. Plus the people capable designing such a forum are likely to be software people; it's a bit more difficult for a skilled mechanical engineer to quickly set up a forum. So it's no surprise that many of the forums are software/"hacker" oriented (e.g. Blind, Lobste.rs, HN). Any forum built by software engineers for other people seems doomed to go the way of Reddit rather than the way of HN.

However, I'll give a shoutout for a great community forum that I've participated in, and that's ChiefDelphi. But that's super niche (it's focused around the high school FIRST robotics competition).
Someone else locking up and managing your data for you is great until you want something not in the playbook.

I'm sticking with text files and such, which I can manage myself.
That might be what's already happening behind the scenes though. They tell you you're at 10% but that's actually 30% for example
I suspect is an allusion to this quote:

> Yet while many self-help books are about making you feel good, or at least providing you with the tools to feel better, this isn’t quite the same with DiAngelo’s work. There is a Lutheran-like emphasis on the need to purge yourself of racism. And there is a distinctly pessimistic strain: “Racism is so deeply woven into the fabric of our society”, DiAngelo writes, “that I do not see myself escaping from that continuum in my lifetime”.
I hold an extreme view on the "work at home" situation: my working at home not only improves my life, but also the lives of those who work in jobs that causally require their presence (baristas, doctors, construction workers, etc.).

You're absolutely right, though: the office is a fantastic place to get a regular social fix. I absolutely understand where you're coming from, because social experiences are as important as food and water to humans, but here's the thing:

The concept of an office wasn't created to solve human socialization.

Why not try and solve the socialization problem, and ignore the notion of an office? Set up a lunch group with your street, see if you can create a coworking space in your apartment/condo building, rent a coworking space close to home, or something else. As a socialization solution, offices are a comfortable rut/local minimum.

You can absolutely have your e-commute, as well as your social experience. The problem is that we've been doing offices for so long, that we kinda forget that we need to rethink/replace what they were doing.
> If I want to move a file from one folder to another then I just drag it across. Easy.

Even this is easier with scripting, especially if you're already used to thinking in wildcards and tab-completion. Scrolling, hunting for files, dragging, clicking: these are inherently clumsier and slower steps, optimized for new-user intuitiveness and simplicity over efficiency. The upfront investment of making your brain think in CLI is fairly high, but once you've done it, there's vanishingly little reason to bother with file browsers. I don't think I've used one in a decade, even with (eg) Nautilus's ability to match wildcards with ctrl+s.
> she (the narrator/commentator) commented that it was late because it was really far away

Sounds like it might have been a joke? I'd giggle for sure.
They do show up, not the connections themselves, but the initiation, no?? At least I always see lots of 101 Switching Protocols responses on sites that use websocket, it might be some sort of nonstandard gateway though. Never used it so dunno.

Of course even if that's the case, you gotta load the website with the network inspector already open, to see the initiation.
But how else will people blindly enter their wireless credentials into a honeypot?
Everyone I know has them. I haven't heard of any being lost.
Luckily, you don’t have to believe - you can see for yourself by opening Developer tools in your browser and monitoring requests under the Network tab.
> To be honest, I would be much more afraid of google touching an open source project for that matter

Google has thousands of open source projects, including the Chromium web browser, the Chromium operating system, the V8 Javascript engine that Node.js depends on, Kubernetes, Golang, the Android OSP, gRPC, Tensorflow, Authenticator (2FA), etc.

The track record you're apparently referring to, of commercial products being discontinued, is not really that relevant to this. The issue in that case is that they are services that users come to depend on, and then are forced to switch away from. There's not really a comparable scenario in open source. The worst case is that the original sponsor stops paying for new development. If the project is viable enough, forks and other sponsors are likely to arise.
Please make your substantive points without crossing into flamewar. The topics is obviously sensitive; most of us here don't know anything about it, and are here to learn. I understand what it's like to feel provoked by another comment that you consider misleading, but you hurt your case when you attack the other like this.

In particular, the word "lie" implies not just being wrong, but intentional deceit. Since we can't know others' intent via internet comments, that's rarely a fair word to use and it mostly just escalates flamewars.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
I think even the tracking is not an issue for most people. It's just the intrusive nature of the ads. If I'm reading a news story I do not want to have to dismiss a popup/overlay every 30 seconds, have a video suddenly start playing, have a lot of blinking, flashing, and movement in my peripheral vision, have my back button hijacked to show me ads when I try to leave the site, etc. If there were static ads in the margins and a clean readable column of content in the center and no other foolishness I would tolerate that.
Just a FYI/PSA: Fritz!Box routers by AVM do have that option right in their WiFi-settings page...

Also, there are lots of offline QR generator apps...
What other business in the entire world bills large, random amounts of money without explicit, informed consent?

Also, does your insurance cover these random bills or is it copay/80%?
People promoting to remove people as solution aren't understanding how ecosystems work.
This is a great idea and I wish we had this in the UK. I was quoted £65 to replace my failing, right AirPod and £130 to replace both of them when RRP for new ones are £160.

I'd much rather replace the batteries of my existing ones then buy a new pair but with such a small price difference to get a pair it doesn't seem worth it.
It's just the Discourse in action.

For whatever reason, AirPods, of all things, have become a go-to example of environmental waste and throwaway culture.

It's bizarre to me. I'm fairly confident that for minutes of pleasure / embodied energy, AirPods score higher than almost anything else I own, certainly among things with a battery and chip. They also last multiples of the time I would get out of wired earphones, which always die in a few months from work-hardening the copper wires until they break.

My model is this: some people just hate Apple. It's an identity thing, phones are very personal and bring out tribal instincts (blue vs. green speech bubbles!), and AirPods are a visible signifier of "team Apple". So some people just, don't like 'em ¯\_(ツ)_/¯. The reasons are downstream of that.

I also think that, since the only consumables are the battery and speaker membranes, it's great that someone wants to replace the batteries when they go bad. Membranes as well! Making consumer goods last longer is virtuous.
Yeah but if you don't like it, you can just leave it alone and it's perfectly functional. That said I use Pop_OS! which is gnome based and fine. I like the defaults just fine. I have used all sorts of DE over the years, in the end I decided I didn't really care :) . KDE is fine, Gnome is fine, xmonad is fine.
There’s DataTau which is focused on data science

https://datatau.net/
Nomogram
I think last I got any message from a recruiter was more than 6 months ago. Granted I have nothing in my profile besides photo and a listing of the companies I worked for and position. Plus some endorsements and recommendations. But I would have expected that any recruiter could infer from the companies I worked for and endorsements enough. Maybe just an European thing. I'm mid 30s and have always been a top performer. All jobs I had so far were me applying on the company website. I don't understand where's that shortage I keep hearing about.
It works on my stock android photo app.
Teacher is totally right. I used to be a movie buff, I started with the best movies and drilled down like. If I like a movie, I will check director or hero/heroine and start watching their flims. This started in 2004 beginning of torrents. I almost all movies, I ever liked in a 2tb hard disk. Nowadays I just re-download for better print but even I am not sure why I am doing I do it. When it started to hitt downturn is, at a point I was watching movies just to understand what the director is trying to tell as someone has produced this movie. I slowly started to cut back like I don't watch movies if it's more than 130mins and started cutting down the time.

If is say what's my best its mostly the ones between 1980 to 2005. Everything after that was too much CGI or it was like okay movie.

Like comedies I liked were Encino man, son in law, first few parts of police academy, jury duty.

Action movies Conair, lost in space, broken Arrow, specialist, assassins. Desperado.
useradd -m luser

iptables -I OUTPUT 1 -m owner --uid-owner luser -j REJECT

Now log in as luser and run your browser.
Active nation-building in Afghanistan has lasted 20 years, compared to ~7 in Japan and I'm not sure exactly what you'd count in Korea.
No belief is required; the source is available.

Open your network tab and watch for traffic if you want. Or turn off wifi after loading.
Yep, I kind of wish browser permissions let you gate access to the network just like they do the camera, mic, location, etc. (Though, network permission would probably need to be enabled by default to not break the Web.)
I’m such a huge fan of that functionality. It doesn’t always work perfectly (i.e. pick up someone nearby trying to join the network quickly), but when it does, it’s such an awesome example of tech making our lives better in such a simple but helpful way.
Toomics Mistakenly Requests Google to Takedown Its Own URLs
I lost my first pair just recently, in four years of having them, after a redeye flight.

Knock on wood it'll be the only time!
Scientific Dialogue: Robert Endre Tarjan/Donald Ervin Knuth
The source code is here, so run it yourself.

https://github.com/bndw/wifi-card
Very cool and nicely executed! Love it
What frameworks do you like?
If I remember correctly from playing with this stuff a few years ago, there’s a simple text format for WiFi SSIDs and passwords that’s recognized by both iOS and Android, among others.