skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have a soft spot for Buddhism teachings. Don't know ehy. But I don't have the habit of meditating. It comes easy to me to let go of things. I do okay to let go of emotions but some emotions stick and it takes an effort to kind of pull you away to not sink with them. You can't ignore that. You have to make that effort.
There's also https://www.medicines.org.uk/emc for for summaries of product characteristics but I'm not sure if there's an API or dataset.
It indeed is!

I wonder why/if most sites make it intentionally difficult subscribing to them via RSS...

I only found https://www.rekt.news/rss/feed.xml by guessing the URL, couldn't find it in the source (or i'm blind/overlooked it).

That being said, quite a few sites could use more prominent RSS-icons, although i suspect getting your email is more valuable to them..

And then we'll end up with (more) this: https://theoatmeal.com/comics/reaching_people_2021

Newsflash: can't have your cake and eat it too...
It is the modern day take on f'ckedcompany.
Well, to be fair, the technology and broadband speed promote out each other. If broadband would not have been available to some people, Netflix would've never started streaming. Similarly, once we get low-latency 10 GBit networking, new services will pop up that require these bandwidths.

Which is to say that we should really start and get them _good_ speeds now, not something that is somewhat acceptable now.
Ah yes, the Temporarily Embarrassed Millionaire theory, but for astronomy. How amazing!
I used to head out there annually for... convention stuff, but I quite liked the city when I was passing through. Conditions there seem to be improving rapidly, too!
Too bad that most projects are so full of integer size and signedness warnings that people get warning fatigue and just completely ignore them.
That seems pedantic. Just because technology has lowered the requirements for becoming an astronaut, that doesn't change the definition.
Cheap space launch is the cause of, and the solution to, our light pollution issues.

50,000 satellites would be impossible to launch without the recent step change in the wholesale price of launch. And even 5% of that number of space based telescopes will decrease the contention for valuable instrument time enormously.

Particularly if the next generation space based telescopes used tethers or precision formation flying for extremely large simulated aperture size, we'll start getting phenomenally amazing data. (Even some of the largest ground based telescopes will be possible to compete with in space using large formations of connected satellites.)

So all of the hue and cry around Starlink is really just growing pains. It will hurt some of the science temporarily (particularly around sunrise and sunset), but in the long run, cheap launch is really what the field of astronomy needs to continue to have better and better instrumentation.
Realistically they probably don't need to do that. The filings are usually pretty heavily lawyered up and the lawyers are pretty lazy on language updates.
Isn't this only valid for certain types of ideas?
What about the ideas for gravity and relativity?
This is fantastic. I hope it's paired with a livable wage.
iPad Pro and iPad Air USB C Hub 2021
Does the FCC co-ordinate with other FCC equivalent agencies around the world? Or is everyone just doing their own thing?
> Walmart almost doubled Amazon's revenue last year,

Eh... that's not really true, it's about 1.45x the revenue, not 2x. And that's not the whole picture.

Revenue for 2020:

Walmart: $559 billion

Amazon: $386 billion

Operating income for 2020:

Walmart: $20.6 billion

Amazon: $22.9 billion

Net Income (business/total) for 2020:

Walmart: $15.2/14.9 billion

Amazon: $22.1/21.3 billion
> really permits instantaneous connections between far-apart location

The phrasing in this article is tricky, as it wasn't FTL communication that was proven; just that there are correlations between things that would require FTL communication, were they classical processes. This is an important point: https://xkcd.com/1591/
Anyone have any success building this on an M1 Mac?

Really cool software and feature set.
> denying pharma an incentive to ever develop them is not the answer

Research needs an incentive. It doesn't have to include a for-profit pharma company. Quite a bit of the research is publicly funded anyway, so why not publically fund the clinical trials as well? The answer, of course, is that people who are making money off the current system won't let things change.

Ignoring the people dying because they can't afford to pay for the research is heartless. A previous post suggested "almost nobody is that heartless about children", but it appears the people in charge really are that heartless.
That sounds really cool, I hope you manage to work on it :) would love to see it
Investing in large infrastructure projects is a political deadend in American democracy with term limits. A politician needs to expend their political and financial capital on a project that won't complete until well after their term is done, at which point the fickle electorate will associate the success with whoever is in power at the time.

I'm just bitter about the tunnels into NY Penn Station.
For long distances satellite is in principle faster than fiber since the speed of light is significantly lower in the latter due to the high index of refraction.

Fiber's advantage is bandwidth.
Its a function of the stability of the bank partnership model and the success of baas apis like galileo, combined with the economics of debit interchange for institutions under the Durbin amendment cap.

Partner banks get more deposits and use their fat interchange rates to attract the developers/promoters of new products.
Highways are far more useful than HSR. They can connect much more than hub-to-hub, they can be used 24/7, they can be used by a wide variety of vehicles supporting a wide variety of industries. HSR is just for passengers.

If we were designing the interstate system today, that's actually a fun thought experiment. What would we change? I would probably focus more on throughput -- cars can be half as wide and still seat tons of people, 5 lane highways today could easy be 8 lanes of narrower cars.
No, your country is bankrupt
The future of text messaging is live
As if millions of people around the world are benefiting from low cost satellite internet.

Space should be open for all - nobody should be able to restrict vision. I won't be surprised if we have to use weaponry to remove these satellites in the future. Space boundaries will be a hot topic in the future.
So, let's allow to launch a few more satellites in order to set our observatories on the far side of the moon ?!

How much ? Surely having only 1 or 2 would require a planetary consensus, so let's say every country can have one or 2 ?

Or simpler, let's everyone who has enough money to do it ! Yay !

Coming In : "how we came to pollute the far side of the moon"
I mean… funding is good, but heck, Adobe is one of those companies that doesn’t have a great track record of being nice, fair or kind. See for example, their “year subscription billed monthly” lockin.

What’s in this for them?

…because I flat out don’t believe for an instant they’re doing it out of the goodness of their hearts.
If you had a biology degree and were a mailman, would you call your profession 'biologist'? No. That's absurd, as is calling people who write JavaScript, most of whom don't even have computer science degrees, engineers. It's nothing but grandiosity and ignorance of what engineering is.
> Just because normal jobs suck, doesn’t mean sex work is good.

Just because sex work sucks doesn't mean that you improve sex workers conditions by criminalizing their work while creating no legal opportunity.

Criminalizing sex work just makes it suck more, and the reduces the best case for people for whom it was their best available option (whether or not it still is.)
Yes. What made it take this long?
I believe that the outcome would be this:

You would go to court to sue Amazon. They would claim the suit should be dismissed because you had agreed to mandatory arbitration. You would claim you had NOT agreed to that clause, because you configured your browser to render different text before clicking on "I agree".

The court would then declare that since you had represented to Amazon that you were agreeing to it, they weren't responsible for what text you had changed in your browser, and the court would hold you to the contract that was supplied to you.

This isn't even a slight stretch. A stretch would be when Wells Fargo opened bank accounts for people without their permission -- then blocked a class action lawsuit arguing that the terms and conditions for the account (which the customers hadn't signed up for) required arbitration instead of class action lawsuits.[1]

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20210428120303/https://www.nytim...
> Exfiltrating classified tactics, techniques or technology for the purpose of supplying a rival power with a tactical advantage would be a good working definition.

Not particularly good, IMO: Knowledge of what resources you have where seems pretty damn important, and that's neither "tactics, techniques or technology" AFAICS.

> Whatever definition is used if it includes leaking war crimes to the public and youre ok with that you are signing up to putting the pieces in place for a fascist dictatorship.

This ever so conveniently ignores the crux of the matter, namely that he (at least according to his accusers) leaked so much more than just "war crimes".

> That is not an exaggeration.

Given the above, it's a huge exaggeration.
Ok..? In the case of computer games, I don't think unfettered use is a good thing.

This isn't "juvenoia", I was born in and am living in this generation.

The vast universe of freely available junk and time wasters available now is a radical shift from even my early childhood, when there were distractions, but they were not purposely made addictive by teams of psychologists and programmers to increase the profits of huge corporate advertising behemoths (à la TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, etc.).
> "...what do you do once you get there?"

car rental, ridehailing, metro bus/train, taxi, friends/family pickup, etc., just as with air travel.
I always struggled with this concept, why not stop at 0 when the account is overstretched? Here in Europe, for most people I would say, it's quite rare that the account goes to 0, and if it does, the transactions simply don't go through (unless it's a credit card). Isn't that asking for borrowing money at no fee? Don't get me wrong, I absolutely despise predatory bank charges, but wonder if that's a bit much to ask a a consumer (i.e. no charge for borrowing money I don't have?). Or is this just about the penalty fee for going into overdraft, and not the actual fee for loaning of money?
I've always thought implicit parameter conversion in general (narrowing or otherwise) was fraught at worst, and code smell at best. If some function takes a size_t, why are you passing something other than a size_t to it? If your eventual call into "code you don't control" takes type X, make sure the value that you eventually pass is type X all the way through the code you do control. Even casting is kind of the lazy way out. I used to be pretty dogmatic about this and more than a few times got called a pedantic nitpicker (size_t is just like an int, bro! Don't worry about it--we got to ship in a week!). You can probably find serious bugs in any C or C++ software project simply by turning on the implicit cast warnings.
It’s expanded the first time it’s used (in the sentence preceding the one with the abbreviation).
For astronomy, aim up. The closer to the horizon the longer their visible before and after sunset. The sky rotates at night and at different times of the year so the overwhelming majority of things are still observable without any satellites.

Also, this is almost exclusively about about wide angel shots. You can still do ultra long exposure closeups of various things, at worse you might need to cover the shutter for a few seconds while a satellite moves into and out of the shot but even that’s generally avoidable.
I don't know if anything has changed necessarily, but anecdotally I think the business model has been validated in a high profile way. Accruing returns on stored money (like RobinHood) has largely supplanted the wave of "fresh take on charging you transaction fees" model of Venmo and Cash App.
Do you think Copilot doesn't represent a step forward since the advent of AI?
"Lying For Money" by Dan Davis has several chapters about financial fraud. It's a great read.
A Shinkansen going from Boston to DC would be massively profitable.

And I'm talking above 120mph. None of this 70mph "high speed" slow stuff.
I'd like to have gone for the ride, but it was rather underwhelming, and slightly absurd, from the spectator POV.

Four dingbats going for a 10min joyride in a mobile lounge strapped onto a dick-shaped rocket.

Still, I'm all for billionaires pursuing daft dreams like this rather than just buying big yachts like Larry Ellison, or not much of anything like Bill Gates. At least Bezos is putting on a mildly entertaining show for us to watch.
Think of it as XP.
For context, if the plaintiff needs to personally cover $150 of the arbitration fee, that puts their cost in line with what it would typically cost them to pursue a case in small claims court.
Amazing read! Ideas without execution are worthless, and mediocre ideas with great execution win markets all the time.

Many people sit on great ideas waiting for the right time & conditions (speaking from experience); if you think your idea is worth something, go out there and do something about it yourself, do anything, it is truly the effort that counts.

It feels particularly exploitative how "idea guys" will come to developers and designers and expect them to toil away for peanuts (or _maybe_ equity), it happens very often and you know 99% of the time it's not gonna go anywhere.
> In this case, the author is using "decolonize" to mean to liberate the work from private ownership and make it available to the public.

If that's the case, it seems like jargon for jargon's sake. IMHO that sense would have been much more clearly communicated by using a word like "democratize."

The situation kind of brings to mind slang, where people often invent unneeded new words mainly as a way to signal being fashionable or being part of a group.
Internet makes it fairly easily to publish your short novels on a personal website. You are not going to make a profit or be marketed but at least your work is now out-there. Reading qntm's ones [0] got me to buy his self-published books.

[0]: https://qntm.org/fiction
Sounds like training for enterprise sales or class action lawsuits?
Its been a little while since I shopped there, IIRC their search engine is generally good, but if you see high prices come up, just make sure you're looking at the price for the EN version and not the ISO version.

EN just means the regionally adopted version of the standard. For all intensive purposes EN and ISO are typically identical[1][2]. EN is ISO with additional Z Annexes as applicable.

[1]https://northridgequality.com/difference-en-iso-14971-part1/
[2]https://www.wearwell.co.uk/whats-the-difference-between-an-i...
Yeah, I'm not going to go do your research for you when literally ten seconds of Google search (yes, I do know what "literally" means, and no, I still won't waste the ten seconds doing your search for you if you can't be bothered to put forth even that much effort to support your assertion that I've never come in contact with these stereotypical FUD-spewing corporate product fanbois) can find you countless examples of exactly the type of hateful posts I describe. I've already wasted far more than ten seconds on this and now I feel bad for having even tried to engage in conversation on the topic.

If I cared to dig up actual examples I could link, I've numerous trolls that follow the word "Linux" around gaming forums spouting Ballmer-era anti-Linux FUD at every opportunity, just to begin the endless thread of examples, but the entire mentality sickens me and I'm actually trying to extricate myself from the Troll-pit that keeps wanting to drag me into pointless discussions of why A is better than B, when the true fact is that operating systems are tools to launch and run software. Use the one that lets you get your job or activity done in the way that works best for you and leave other people to their choice of tool if it's workin' to get their activities done for them.
Weird Things Recorded by Drone. Records
Chile peppers are growing in space, NASA says in ISS first
Batteries aren't the only way to store energy. Here's another
So if I go on an ocean cruise I'm a Sailor?
Well, that's a solvable problem. You just need a classifier to filter good code from bad. I would imagine they're already using analytics on the popularity/usage of the repos to weight the training data.
>"Finally it was decided to use military pilots from mostly a PR point of view."

I suspect that decision making process was dramatized in The Right Stuff. Test pilots make sense for several reasons: they already understand aeronautical concepts, are used to g-forces, have experience with state of the art machines, have a high risk tolerance, and are already familiar with following orders.
I think you've hit the nail on the head!
2021: the year GPUs became unavailable, just like websites about them.
Because these countries joined an organization with X agenda which now has Y agenda. This change (and demonization of anyone against it) is what gives politicians like Orban ammo.

If the EU were more decentralized, none of these political parties would exist.
Forcing somebody to AA is the worst way. You go to AA when you're desperate enough to do crap like "surrendering to a higher power". The thought is incredibly repugnant to me, and it's no wonder they don't stay. If they're not desperate enough to volunteer, the program isn't aimed at them.

It's so much better to find the motivation to quit on your own. And congratulations. The people who do that often find that they can partake casually. AA people often know that they could, if they chose to, but they make a point of not choosing it.

If nothing else, they've gamified it with the chips, and we all know how motivating that can be. And as with the gamification, it has downsides.

Anyway... congrats again.
Weaponry doesn't remove a satellite. It turns one satellite into 1000.
Maybe the same reason why Google keeps Firefox alive - to be able to show there is no monopoly in some category of software.
That's true. "Terrible" is in the eye of the beholder.

Many, many companies make bank, by taking classic ideas, and executing them well.

It's like Joe Cocker made many obscure songs into mega-hits.
I know nothing about Lisp, so at the risk of talking past eachother....

I never said macros were required. I said implementing this type of code without OOP required more boilerplate, and MLJ uses macros to reduce that boilerplate.

As I understand module imports in Julia: Each module developer exports a list of publicly facing objects. Obviously "fit" and "model" would be among them. If you import two modules that both export a new "nn" subtype of shared parent type "model", and both extend "fit" and "predict" and etc to accept their own subtype "nn", then you have to manually specify which module you are referring to every time you call nn, or fit, or predict, or whatever. Is that wrong? If I just import PyTorch, import TensorFlow, and then call "mymodel = TensorFlow.nn; fit(mymodel, mydata)" then Julia doesn't know that the "fit" I am calling is the TensorFlow implementation and not the PyTorch implementation; what if I had WANTED to use module A's "fit" on module B's model, and they intentionally adopted the same abstract type system to enable this interoperability? So instead I have to write "mymodel = TensorFlow.nn; TensorFlow.fit(mymodel, mydata); TensorFlow.predict(mymodel, mynewdata)". Obviously the extra typing is mildly annoying but the bigger problem is potentially introducing bugs by mismatching modules, and the developer's cognitive overload of having to keep track of modules. Python style OOP is a more elegant solution to the namespace problem and results in more readable, maintainble code, at least in my opinion. Anyways, maybe Julia has a more elegant solution I'm not aware of, if so I'd love to hear it.
Light pollution would be easier to deal with if there was no atmosphere smearing it all around.

(Potential repliers please ponder the difference between "easier to deal with" and "trivial".)
Everyone wants in on the game. There's this really big piece of the pie where fees and interest come into play. Every transaction has fees and some people carry balances that generate a lot of money in interest. It's how credit card providers can offer rewards.

At some point in our future we'll probably see the end of these rewards cards because the government will likely regulate it. Which I think is actually a good thing, because it's the people with the least amount of money that are footing the bill for those of us reaping the rewards.
Your critical responses focus on parsing the meaning of "astronaut," or on the true utility of the job with respect to other non-human test pilots.

I leave all of that aside, and agree with you on egalitarian and emotional grounds. The term in America rightly has implications of public service - of deserving the fantastically unique opportunity of exploring space on behalf of all Americans by virtue of intelligence, diligence, and impeccable ethics. Topically, this might be compared to Olympians: though all extreme athletes perform extraordinary feats, Olympians carry an extra responsibility to represent us as a nation. So too with people called "astronauts."

Whether or not one agrees with this understanding, I believe it is the practical understanding underlying your (and my) insult at the use of this term.
That's cool! And some languages like Go don't even allow implicit widening conversions: https://play.golang.org/p/a5C5jsHypmu
Ben and Jerry's to stop sales in Israeli settlements in occupied territories
You missed my point. Said another way, "mathing out correctly your existence to guarantee survival" generates a type stress no one warns you about. Consider yourself now warned. Twice.
https://www.fdic.gov/consumers/overdraft/

Overdrafts have been opt-in by regulation since 2010. What banks have done is try to trick people into opting into "overdraft protection," which is really just the old system that allows a customer's checking balance to drop below 0:
https://www.wellsfargo.com/credit-cards/features/overdraft-p... As long as a customer takes no action or just says "no," they won't be allowed overdraw their checking balance.
Rumor has it that the Evergiven was a trial to see if Bezos could cross the Suez canal on his smaller yacht.
But what if something I want to click is near the horizon? For example trying to get a shot of the sky with mountains in the frame. Avoiding the parts where the satellites are is not a viable solution most of the times.
Color me skeptical.

> [0] "Descriptive data showed no general decline in binge drinking across European countries. In contrast to our prediction, the association between binge drinking and computer gaming was not negative [b = 0.26, one-sided 95% confidence interval (−∞, 0.47), P = 0.98, Bayes Factor = 0.21]. We found the same pattern of result in a secondary analysis on six Nordic countries that have experienced declines in adolescent drinking recent years. In analyses with covariates reflecting engagement in other activities, we only observed statistical evidence for an effect of going out."

[0]: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/dar.13226?af=R
> but secondly the auto-antibodies that caused the destruction of the beta cells can often be detected in their blood.

That's actually really interesting, I still have got much to learn (and you seems to know that stuff pretty well, thanks for sharing!).