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> i feel pretty guilty for being so underwhelmed because I sure as hell couldn't build an engine and airframe to do that but I am.

Given Bezo's bank account, you don't think you could put together a team to get a rocket into space?

Let's be realistic, no one person built this or any other rocket. Apart from Money, and perhaps short/bald man complex, Bezo contributed little overall. Yet all of the media has been about Bezos going into space.

When Richard Branson came along to steal his thunder with the SpaceShipTwo launch just before him, Bezo showed his colors by dismissing the achievement as not "real space". I have doubt Bezos is still salty about it and planning to get back at him.

IMO, none of these billionaires should be celebrated for these achievements. We should be celebrating the people who put them there but those individuals receive almost no mention.
> You can always check out relevant section using the online book or the pdf.

You are right. I misinterpreted your original comment. This is certainly a drawback. In the future, I plan to reduce redundancy, by offering skippable sections. However, in some cases, it is entirely unavoidable and that certainly sucks.

> The externally imposed constraints of the Primer system defeat the greatest advantage of self-learning; that the student can control, prioritize and take ownership of his learning program

Though I understand your POV, I disagree with your premise. I believe more options, leads to worse effectiveness. The lesser decisions you have to make for yourself, the faster you can complete/perform a task.

Primer makes a lot of decisions for you. There are no ten courses for machine learning, just one course. No ten courses on Python teaching the same thing, just one. There is less course content overlapping when you go from Python - I (which covers basics of Python) to Python-II (Object-Oriented Programming)

Thank you for your feedback.
Any idea where to find the answers? These are extremely intriguing to do, even now.
I think you're fine. The GP is just threatened by your everyday social intelligence. It's not that you're superior to him, it's that he feels inferior or lacking compared to you.
> that the computing model would be anything at all like what've developed

Perhaps. I suspect, though, that it would be subject to the same information theoretical constraints which would provide convergent evolutionary pressures.

It seems at least likely that some level of optimization would be useful if there is any type of cost (energy, materials, resources, space) to the computing substrate, whatever that may be, and that would lead to similar optimizations to what we might be able to imagine.
Amazon claims its more than just a name change, that they learned from Lumberyard, but very little of Lumberyards code is in O3DE.
Hello there in Poland : )

Indeed, in the US, there are museum guards who only work in museums. Sometimes, they are called docents. As with most things in the states, however, there is a lot of regional variation.

What's especially interesting here is that an organisation is treating its employees like human beings, as you said. It would be weird for any museum here to say, "I think people would like to know what our employees appreciate in art." Not weird in that it's unthinkable; weird in that it just never happens that way in the States.
I don't agree that "great servers" are making 100K because of tips, but instead it is because of the generalized percentage gratuity. Just because the food was $150 doesn't mean the service was great, and just because the tip was large, doesn't mean the service was good.

In my experience only half of the population tips based on percentage, and it's generally those who eat at high end places, or seem to be more affluent. The rest tip based on "service" and that could be 5% on a $150 bill, or 20% on a $15 tab. I've seen both, and I think your example only applies to a very small percentage of wait staff.
Attacks like this break multitenant computing environments. It's not a threat to your desktop computer or your phone. But it can be a very big deal for hosting environments.

It also breaks sandboxing. To whatever extent you're trying to run programs that are somehow jailed, so you can download and run them without worrying about them taking over your system, kernel LPEs break those assurances.
Hip Hop, Blogs and NFTs: Unbundling, Remixing, and Reintegrating Media
Interesting that you believe the government's job is to coerce people into taking jobs they otherwise wouldn't.

Or did I miss the post where you were complaining about aid to other tax brackets and businesses?
Yeah they probably have two income that get pretty close to 130k, or they get government subsidies and credits to make up the difference. Raising kids is extremely expensive but also subsidized heavily, and those are probably not accounted for in the "required salary" from this tool.
Ask HN: How do you make “fun money” on the side?
I was on a work visa in the US for the longest time and wasn’t allowed to earn anything outside of my paychecks. I just became a permanent resident and so have a lot more options open to me.

I don’t want to build the next hot startup, make a billion dollars or anything of the sort. I have a great job and my employer is pretty cool about moonlighting as long as there are no conflicts and it doesn’t affect my work. I want to commit 1-2 hours a day and some weekends — all from home — to try and build an alternate income stream, partially for the experience and partially to earn some money.

I am skilled in all things tech and programming, but that’s about it. Has anyone had any luck in this area, or have stories to share?
Note that SpaceX hadn't even launched its first rocket in 2004. They didn't reach orbit until 2008 and yet sent crew to the space station over a year ago already.
Google Drive for desktop is returning
Wages/insurance/tips are an ongoing concern of food service work, but I want to set that aside and talk about the other half of the article. Customer entitlement is out of control and anybody who works with the general public will tell you it’s gotten even worse since the pandemic—and it wasn’t trending in the right direction before. Flight attendants, park rangers, government clerks, the anecdotes are everywhere, in whispers and on social media.

A good friend of mine is a doctor and he has a hair-raising story for me nearly every day, often indistinguishable from fast food customers’ behavior. I’m trying to get him to retire before he gets shot by somebody who was told they’d have to wait 3 days for an appointment.

What’s going on? I have my own theories but I want HN’s take.
Is it the structure that's important? Or is the structure just a way to combine certain amino acids in a stable manner and its the combination of acids that we care about? Or is structure just a way of saying a specific permutation of amino acids?
Tell me: why do we use backhoes to dig ditches instead of armies of workers with spoons?
It shouldn’t be, but just be aware that you’re asking people to put themselves in harms way. I’d rather grin and bear a jerk customer than get shot by one waiting outside after my shift because I personally had to kick them out.

I totally agree abusive customers are a huge problem though.
I have to admit, I'm a bit concerned about Blender's future development.

I've been a Blender user for 15 years, I jumped on somewhere before the 2.4 redesign.

There have been some really awesome advances in Blender over the past two years. Things that really changed my typical workflow in an absolutely good way, Eevee and all of the node work for a couple amazing new additions.

They've also changed a lot of things, namely keybindings, UI, certain modifiers, that had been done in a certain way, and that I'd committed to muscle memory, for over a decade. Those changes also had the effect of breaking years worth of accumulated tutorials and bookmarks as the workflows they mentioned are not longer relevant.

It's intensely aggravating to spend 10 minutes figuring out how to do something that you used to know how to do with the flick of a wrist. Especially when you fall back to searching how to perform the action and only find 4 year old stackoverflow posts which state the old way to do it.

I've even recently taken a weekend reimplementing the old full color icons, which required a full custom compilation, due to the lack of contrast in the new uneditable monochrome replacements.

I fully admit this may just be my initial steps into the grumbly guy who doesn't like change in my software. But I can't help but compare Blender to Firefox.

Awesome tech and a great mission, sometimes aggravating UI and workflow changes, important relationships with would be rivals.

As someone who is also still on Firefox, my opinion is that loads of cash didn't necessarily turn out great for them either.

For me at least I consider my custom hacked up, modified keybindings as best they can be, Blender to be nearly feature complete for the work I do. It's awesome that it being opensource has allowed me to nudge it in the direction that works for me. Like I said though, as a long time user I am a bit concerned.
Yeah, I hear that. I wonder if there's a cart/horse issue here where the greatest value for low level unit tests is when you have a well-documented, thoughtfully architected system. Then the tests are verifying intentional behaviours and helping ensure the longevity of the system as designed.

I don't think I have this experience first-hand, but I could certainly imagine a scenario where a well-intentioned person added a bunch of unit tests to a badly designed system, and they ultimately ended up just getting in the way and causing confusion when it was time to rethink it.
Nor those forgivable PPP loans...
Clearly, as stated in the article, people respond to their individual perceived risk for taking or not taking the vaccine (and their perceptions are linked to the groups they identify with).

I really wish articles like this would discuss statistics from elsewhere in the world. Are right-leaning individuals more likely to avoid the vaccine because of things that Trump said? Or is it part of being right-winged (perhaps a distrust for government and a disposition to see conspiracies everywhere, much as the left seems predisposed to see -isms as the cause of most problems). If we compared people not under the US influence -- perhaps from non-English speaking parts of Europe, Asia, and Africa -- we might be able to tease this apart better.

I also think the efforts to combat misinformation are sorely backfiring. It is so frustrating that communication on the big tech platforms is being censored; nothing helps science flourish better than by shutting up the people you disagree with, right?
I think the Shake Shack founder tried the no tipping-- increase prices route at his fancy restaurant and ended up reversing the decision.
I wonder if tipping took a huge hit in 2020.

The kinds of people still eating in person at restaurants were often not paragons of conscientiousness in the first place. And I could see a lot of people cutting back on tipping when just patroning a place could feel like an act of charity in itself.
It’s way too risky to do that in today’s environment. Companies get sued or spark angry Twitter mobs.

Starbucks is a recent example of a company that had to do major damage control after asking some non-customers to leave their store.
on a beach... nowhere.
Related: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9Cec9Fb6JI
I've quoted it before but I will again just because I hate superdeterminism so much:

First, the logical flow: Bell’s theorem proves that no local, realistic theory can reproduce the predictions of quantum mechanics. It does so by considering a very specific situation of entangled particles being measured by spin detectors set at different angles. Critically, the angles of these spin detectors are assumed to be set independently from one another. ...

Experimenters have tried to ensure independence for all practical purposes with elaborate techniques: independent quasi-random number generators running with different algorithms on different computers are one very basic example. On more advanced experiments, they use quantum sources of randomness, and try to make sure that the choice is only made once the particles are in flight.

The trouble is that in principle, there will always be a point in the past at which mechanism used for the angle choice, and the mechanism used to produce the entangled particles were in causal contact with one another. (If all else fails, then the early universe will provide such a point.) The super-determination thesis says that any past causal contact can in principle provide correlation between the settings of the two detectors (or the detectors and the properties of the particles), and is the source of the violation of Bell’s inequality.

Here’s a deliberately ridiculous example. Once the particles are in flight, I throw in the air a box of Newton’s notes on alchemy. I select the one that falls closest to my feet. I roll two dice, and use them to select a random word from that page. I match the word with its closest equivalent in Caesar’s commentary on the Gallic wars, or the Iliad, or the complete works of Dickens, my choice of work depending on the orientation of the Crab pulsar at the moment of measurement. I use the word position in these works to select a number in this book A Million Random Digits (take the time to read the customer reviews). And I use this number to set my detectors. I repeat this for my other measurement runs, but I substitute in Dan Brown’s Da Vinci Code for Dickens every third go.

Superdetermination advocates would tell me that there is in principle a causal connection between my throwing the papers in the air, Newton, Caesar, Dickens as they sat down to write 300, 2000, and 150 years ago, the Crab pulsar and the RAND corporation’s random digit selection. And that it’s possible that these things have conspired (unknowingly) to make sure that my detector settings and a particle’s spin measurement is correlated in a particular way in my lab in a law-like way.

I can only reply that yes, it’s possible. I cannot prove it wrong. But I can find it unreasonable. And I would be tempted to call these people philosophically desperate.

https://www.quora.com/Why-do-some-crackpot-scientists-go-aft...
No, Dragon and the Falcon 9 launch crew to the ISS and both are "land" (well, splashdown for Dragon).

Though as far as I know, the Crew Dragon vehicle has been new every launch, with re-used Dragons being used for future missions. I don't know if this was the first flight of that particular New Shepard Crew Capsule though.
The way environmental legislation works in the U.S, if some environmental non-profit wants to start throwing spaghetti at the wall to stop infrastructure construction, they can stop it basically forever by tying it up in court for decades.
I think the end game for Bezos and Branson is space hotels, which benefits no one except themselves and their investors.
Indeed, that is the purpose and action of the Horoscope column running in every newspaper.

It doesn't matter which "sign" gets which advice; all that matters is that different people get different advice, and get different advice this week than they got last week. The whole birthdate apparatus is purely a randomizing device.

It is a remarkably sophisticated psychological technology that keeps people from getting stuck in ruts, and not paralyzed by indecision. It just doesn't do what its promoters think it does.
Designer Diary: The Accidental Game Design of Hashi
How to inspect elements that hide on mouse move
> Some Rust developers argue that even "size as i32" should be avoided, and "size.try_into()" should be used instead, since it forces the programmer to treat an overflow explicitly at runtime, instead of silently wrapping.

It's important to still have the option for efficient truncating semantics, though; some software (e.g. emulators) needs to chunk large integers into 2/4/8 smaller ones, and rotation + truncating assignment is usually the cheapest way to do that.

But, importantly, this is a rare case. Most software that does demoting casts does not mean to achieve these semantics.

So I wonder — are there any low-level/systems languages where a demoting cast with a generated runtime check gets the simple/clean syntax-sugared semantics (to encourage/favor its use), while truncating demotion requires a clumsier syntax (to discourage its use)?
Obviously, we should write economic policy for the masses based on the Temporarily Embarrassed Millionaire theory for restaurant waiters.

/s
> The employers aren’t raising their wages either

They are. It takes time but they are. I work in a business that is having a hard time hiring entry level healthcare workers because Walmart and Amazon warehoueses is now paying $15-20/hr when it was only $12 pre-covid. Walmart and Amazon would only raise wages if they truly had a labor supply issue, which they do, we all do.
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James Webb is doing observation literally impossible to do from ground
Amen to that! It's been exciting watching the city come back from 2015
the fact that Car and Airline Lobby will not let this happen

I think another factor here in the US is the government bidding process that results in driving up costs, time, etc.
1. Jews were ethnically not white.

2. PEW research states that.

3. The vast majority of the Islamic and Christian conversion happened under Islamic and Christian colonial rule.

I guess the problems you are referring to is the hallmark of Christianity & Islam which preach for the wiping out of nonbelievers.

If anything must change it is the Bible and quaran.
I hate when people make comments that assume no one will call them out on obvious BS.

I was part of Nintendo's dev program in the Wii days, grand cost was 0 dollars a year. NOA lent us dev kits worth thousands of dollars and we had direct forum access to software developers working for Nintendo.

Sony and Microsoft will do similar.

You're talking about arrangements where Sony is acting at least in-part as a publisher, not indie titles going up on their shop as is comparable.
11- Student's t.test in R programming
The usual lizards are looking to score a piece of Starlink.

Mark my words, these astronomers are pure astroturf.
I worked in hospitality for 10 years before formally getting into software engineering.

The customers can suck, yes, but more often than not your boss has the same sociopathic qualities of that mythical asshole geninus founder except you're not working at a startup, you have no equity, you're being paid bare bones, and the boss is not a fucking genius.
Have you looked at the Onyx boox series? They have an e-ink tablet in A4 format (though no color yet)
"The researchers hypothesize that GPT-style generative models, and similar types of language generation frameworks, have been used to produce much of the text in the flagged papers; however, the way that a generative model abstracts its sources makes this difficult to prove, and the chief evidence lies in a common-sense evaluation of poor and unnecessary synonyms, and a meticulous examination of the submission’s logical coherence."

This sounds extremely unlikely.

First, scientific fraudsters are typically extremely lazy; they do not use fancy methods like writing generative models of fake data to ensure the numbers, say, add up to 100%, much less neural nets. (Do we believe that someone would go to the effort of setting up GPT to generate fake papers and then be satisfied with results like 'profound neural organization'? Easier to write such garbage by hand!)

Second, the given examples are so bad I'm insulted on behalf of GPT: 'profound neural organization' looks like a word-by-word calque using a thesaurus or particularly antiquated machine translation (in a "the vodka is good, but the meat is rotten" way), no contemporary AI involved; GPT would not generate such garbage.

Third, if GPT was generating these papers, it would be easy to detect by looking for top-k signatures, using GPT-targeted classifiers (they get >90% accuracy), or looking for stylistic tics of GPT; that they don't provide any specific GPT-like aspects of the text suggests there are none.
In the US the government is constitutionally bound to provide just compensation for anything they appropriate for public use.

I doubt the Chinese government is likewise bound.
To be fair, it isn't entirely fact based - the article highlights someone who collects / collected unemployment.
Same thing with planes except you start way outside the city.
idk about maya I was thinking about flash when I wrote this. but same with blender. python api a bit clunky but ui is really amazing. really made me appreciate artist-coders as they have a really unique ui
Based on the discussions therein I can see where my thinking was not quite on point, or I did not explain myself properly. YES a question could be a a form of a hate crime, I can think of examples where asking someone a question that be interpreted (probably rightfully) as a hate crime. I was thinking more of non-hateful questions, such as questioning authority.
A zero sum concept of blame isn't really helpful IMO. It's better to just try to figure out the policy consequences without the moralizing.

The simplest model of utility (linear in money) basically says "people will take these jobs if they pay $X more than unemployment." With unemployment in the US paying $300/week more than it used to, jobs now need to pay about that much more than before to stay competitive -- about $7.50 an hour. So for a $15/hr job, the employer needs to pay $22.50 now.

A perhaps more realistic utility model has diminishing returns to money. The classic example is log($). Put simply, "people will work a job if it pays X times what unemployment does."

In that model, the $15/hr job at 40 hours/week pays $600 before tax. Say unemployment used to pay $300/week, so the job paid 2x unemployment, and now with the extra $300 of supplemental employment benefits it pays $600, so the job has to bump its pay up to $1200/wk or $30/hr to stay competitive.

That's a modeled kinda space of policy consequences -- wages go up 50% or 100% or there will be employment shortfalls even before thinking about childcare shortages, reduced immigration etc. That situation can be spun as "benefits too high" or "pay too low" to score political points or drive policy, but these effects are clearly explanatory either way.
When you have people like Greene poisoning the well of information with blatant lies, a fully hands-off approach would result in a degradation of information.
That’s a fairly high end restaurant in NYC, San Francisco, etc (e.g., servers at Zuni did about $70k/yr including tips [1]).

The person in the article though is in the back of the house. Those workers almost uniformly make minimum wage across the country.

[1] https://www.sfchronicle.com/food/article/Legendary-Zuni-Cafe...
> no advantage to bypassing Philadelphia

Trains spend a lot of time speeding up and slowing down. A single stop adds much more than five minutes to total transit time. [EDIT: Apparently this doesn't apply to maglev. This could be a game changer for HSR in the American political landscape.]
Maybe a cut in VAT would help? Although that probably doesn’t help in the states …
> Which raises the question of why anyone would work, if doing whatever you want and still living a comfortable life was an option.

You work to be able to afford nicer clothes, more vidya games, fine whisky, more-comfortable retirement when you do stop working, vacations, better school for your kids, a nicer house with a view, and so on.

The carrot remains the same, the stick is just somewhat smaller.
Most likely you'd have to complete apprenticeship in order to qualify for a license
Why would they only get $20 an hour? If they really are the best at what they do, high end places can and will pay more.