skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This anti-space exploration position is basically a meme now and is so unoriginal and tiresome.

Where's your anger when it comes to movie development, international tourism, stadium construction, the cosmetics industry, and the rest of the endless list of nonsense that is more wasteful and less beneficial than allocating a tiny proportion of Earth's resources towards rocket tech?

I hope to hear this cynical take when the next Spiderman is announced! (I'll be holding my breath, though)
yah, and i’ll just point out again[0] that firms try to get big to shield themselves from the consequences of their actions. we need regulations that aim to right-size organizations, rather than the grow-at-all-costs we have now.

[0]: a longer treatment i just posted as it relates to uber/lyft: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27914112
Hopefully a few hundred peer reviewed papers might change your mind.

https://www.givedirectly.org/research-on-cash-transfers/
Joe Rogan needs to know about this as soon as possible. The guy loves talking about chimps on his show.
You can have ubi without inflation. See Alaska permanent fund
Out of curiosity, how much would you pay for a password manager with decent performance?
There's a hilarious scene in Ned Beauman's "The Teleportation Accident" which revolves around Serge Voronoff’s monkey gland-grafting procedure. It's a wonderfully strange novel, set in the 1930's and richly marbled with the era's frenetic sexual, artistic, and scientific experimentation.
Welcome to the circlejerk, pal.
> I am skeptical than anything short of 20% would make an impact on any major attribute of an area.

That's not how market pricing works for things like property since the supply is basically fixed. Changing the available supply by even 5% can easily cause the price to change massively.

Let's say there are 100 homes in an area and normally 95 of them are lived in and 5 are up for sale. Anyone wanting to move to the area has 5 homes to choose from, so competition will force the price down to some level acceptable to the sellers. Now let's say that instead of 5 homes for sale, 4 of the owners decide to keep them for Airbnb rentals instead of selling. Now there's only 1 home on the market so if you want to move there you have to pay whatever the owner is charging or else wait an indefinite period of time until another home opens up. So the price will rise to the highest level a would-be resident is willing to pay, even though we only changed the availability numbers by 4%. In effect, property pricing (including apartment rentals) is determined "at the edges" so to speak.
> This reduces demand for new devices and pushes the price downward.

That's not right.

In the common case of a multivendor industry where production is not limited by resource constraints, reduced demand raises prices due to economy of scale.
Tkwintrack: Inspection tool for developers of Tk GUI's
Jeff Bezos donates $100M each to CNN contributor Van Jones and chef Jose Andres
Sure, that's one possible dynamic. The more I see, the more I believe the empty internet theory though.
It’s stressful to know you’re unwelcome
Don't comment on disqus threads unless you got VPN. disquss admins can get the email and ip
This post is correct. Also in addition, there is a factor I did not really cover which is the round trip time between you and the exchange. During that time the best bid/ask can move away from you, and even though you sent a marketable/aggressive order, it may now not be aggressive. The examples here are in a perfect world, but in reality it's a bit more complicated!
DT770 80 Ohm is fantastic. Although I wonder if 32 Ohm would be a better option since 80 Ohm needs an amp to boost the volume. It was just not loud enough for me when connected to my Mac.
From the AirBnB link:

> Often, in the weekend, It will be available the entire apartment in exclusive mode for the guest!

oh boy, a chance at "exclusive mode" is exactly what I want from my off-peak Milan vacation :^)
Maybe it has to do with everyone owning a machete, and using it on their neighbor...instead of working together to build a nation.
I don't think this is great advice.

You can think about the mob coming after you in three groups:

(1) People who aren't listening. Their minds are closed. They are angry or mean or otherwise won't listen no matter what you say. They don't care if you apologize or not.

(2) People with an agenda against you. They are going to keep going after you whether you apologize or not. But they probably actually like it better if you don't -- that inflames the conflict, keeping it going or expanding it. Their agenda is usually served the bigger and longer the conflict lasts. Also, as long as the conflict is going strong, the people from (1) will keep chiming in, but they will lose interest when it dies down.

(3) People who were actually offended or hurt but have an open mind. These are the people you can reach with an apology. These are the people you need to talk to to understand what actually offended or hurt them. You might be able to do even better than an apology and understand where things went wrong. Remember, if you're not a dick, you don't actually want to hurt other people. This is your opportunity to stop doing that. (And if you are a dick, maybe you deserve your internet mob, at least partially?)

So: Talk to people. Apologize sincerely if you can find a way to do it. You won't stop the mob, but you might take some of the energy out of it and you can stop hurting some people.
Yep, we used to setup these things with a bunch of different systems using our collection of Ansible playbooks. The playbooks are complex, so as to handle all kind of edge cases. Furthermore, since they are developed over a long period, the coding convention are not uniformed; it's quite hard to teach the new hires how to use and contribute to the playbooks.

We probably replaced tens of thousands line of Ansible code with a few thousands line of K8S code. We found the new code easier to maintain: because K8S is much stricter than Ansible, it's harder to deviate from the norm. Granted, we might be biased because K8S is all new and shiny, but so far we haven't regretted moving to K8S.
The next wave of Facebook Bulletin writers
Do you mean fastest-loading in the browser (from initial key press to auto-fill-in)? or just fastest loading app of its own?
In Victorian England, memento moris were a thing. Little skeletons you'd keep on your desk to remind you of your own mortality.

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

https://www.atlasobscura.com/categories/memento-mori
About time. As a civilization, we desperately need a monolith or two to show up right about now.
> Amazon draws a lot of profit (presumably) from millions of cheap plastic objects from overseas which will break and end up in landfills in some poor country.

So you're saying he's found a way to make carbon sequestration profitable at scale? Maybe he is a hero.
It's a pretty amazing pattern:

1. Poor people are living in crappy conditions in boarding houses.

2. We solve this problem by banning boarding houses.

3. Now poor people are living in the streets.

4. ...and we're OK with this! Best I can tell, it's because now there is now no landlord profiting on the poor!!

There are plenty of similar examples.
Incomes went up for the lowest earners because of the trillions the government pumped into unemployment. You’re right that all this money gets spent and funneled up to large corporations, except now these large corporations are buying property en masse and aren’t significantly raising wages for the lowest earners, especially not enough to keep up with the inflation caused from all the stimulus.

I guess the point is these corporations need to be taxed at higher rates so low earners aren’t being shafted by our broken economic system.
Sci-hub-p2p needs help with indexing & seeding on IPFS
Seconded. In 1987, Windows was not "hugely popular". It wasn't on anyone's radar. This was still DOS-versus-Mac era, with your Amigas and Ataris and held-over 8 bit micros on the sidelines.
Apes apart weak.
Quebec nursing home often gave morphine rather than treat Covid-19 patients
Related: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Ea3pkTCYx4

Key insight can be summarized as "code the perimeter"
The restrictor piece inside a faucet or shower is easily removed.
A lot of human life is dilluted in our group/system.

Trying to reach out for more is high risk high efforts and I believe our biology mostly tailored us to coast.

Less work more safety sounds like an obvious evolutionary benefit.

That said it's not necessarily the best way to live.
That's a red flag.
Well then if it's so easy, then why doesn't everyone just start their own businesses? There's no risk after all. Get a loan from a bank and start a small business -- millions of people do this around the world! Easy. Guaranteed wealth, right?

>If a business fails and closes down its employees will be out on the dole, and that's the best case scenario. They lose their health care, possibly their homes and other possessions.

No, best (and most likely) scenario is that they find a job elsewhere a few weeks later while they collect unemployment. The business owner who likely had no savings because everything was reinvested into the business is actually screwed. You keep thinking every owner is Jeff Bezos but there are millions of small to medium business owners who risk it all for the chance to make it big. It's not "one less luxury auto". It's their entire livelihood.

Since you think that employees should share in the equity when a company is as successful as Amazon, I take it you also agree that employees should have all of their past wages clawed back when the company goes out of business, right? It's only fair. If they helped take the company to success, then they must have also brought it down to failure as well.
couchsurfing was fun for a while

turns out the problem was money all along
Medication Use Patterns in Covid-19 Positive Patients
I'm glad billionaires like Bezos exist. They can choose to fund grand visions when people who need votes either don't, or they do and the funding gets cut after the next election.

This is one of the ways China is able to execute long term strategy better than the west, they can maintain focus.

We're not able to do that without a significant necessity (winning a cold war).

Get over your jealousy of the billionaires. Some people are luckier than you, smarter, work harder. That's just life.
I'm reluctant to ask for that much, though, when things open back up you'll be the first with your head on the block
Looks fun. My corgi will chase my Arrma Senton, but both are slower.
Very interesting. What libraries are out there for animations? Can I use python to make cartoon videos for my kids?
How well would putting the phone in a lead box work.
For what it's worth, my Firefox on Linux performance problems disappeared as soon as I switched to Wayland. Touchpad scrolling is now smooth and responsive, like it is in Windows. I also force-enable WebRender, since I think it's disabled by default on Wayland, but I'm not sure if that's as big of a contributor as the change in windowing system (for some reason.)
Or a person's interest to have the means to be a part of production without spending their entire life commuting?

I'm sorry - I don't think we should build a million skyscrapers in Kethum, Idaho and Jackson Hole, Wyoming so that tourists can enjoy it more cheaply.

I do think we should build more housing in major cities.
You'd be able to find children based on strength, amount, time of day and angle and play kids ads.

I feel like it would be a bad idea.

Shopping centres can have tracking based on WiFi. Track how much fluids are bought and where.

People leak data everywhere.
IANA GPU expert, but AFAIK modern GPUs are pretty much are that already: massively parallel general-purpose CPUs.

It's the GPU driver layer that takes either the compute or graphics instructions and converts them into the particular instruction set/microcode used by the "CPUs" in the GPU. In a sense that code is "recompiled" (but may be cached) every time a "program" is run.

[0] is a post that talks about reverse-engineering the interface to the GPU in the Apple M1, a lot of which consists of what I've just described, so reading that series might help understand.

[0]: https://rosenzweig.io/blog/asahi-gpu-part-1.html
> A very tightly managed society, but completely depoliticized with almost no ideology to speak of

Where did you get the impression that Singapore is completely depoliticized?

Take a look at https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Kuan_Yew and see the struggle of Lee family's rise to power. And the economy power controlled by the family https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ho_Ching

Human together is politics. You cannot depoliticize unless everyone lives in complete isolation.
Yes, perhaps that's it.

In that case, in my scenario I would not be good releasing my library as BSD.

To my mind, writing a library according to a specification is not a derivative work of the specification. (I think a derivative work would be something like an annotated version of the specification, or a new specification that adopted parts of the original specification.) But like I say, I'm no expert on this so could very well be wrong.
>Musk is creating a constellation of satellites that can provide global internet

And is a good example of creating negative externalities, lots of ground based astronomy (a field that has contributed immensely to our collective scientific knowledge and pushed technology advancements forward globally) extremely difficult due to those same satellites that create interference. Yes, global internet is good, but funnily enough this satellite network creates the need for more astronomical observations be done from space/orbit.. Handy that he is in the business of selling that service as well..

So while I agree his rocket technology is a great advancement and has spurred others to create similar reusable first stage rocket tech, these efforts were already underway. Musk might have accelerated this through risking his personal wealth when creating SpaceX but this was not a one man effort and people should spend less time attributing these advancements to one person.

Hoping "competition" in this space returns to helping orgs like NASA achieve scientific goals (rather than private joy rides), but that would require convincing govs to spend more tax money on these organizations..
Would you consider proprietary solvers or optimization software in that category?
It's not just about the sun dying out. A large asteroid could strike at any time and wipe us out. If that is going to happen on Earth with probability p and we make it to Mars then our chances of going extinct due to that cause shrinks to less than p-squared (it's less than p-squared because Mars is smaller than Earth), which is many orders of magnitude smaller than p. Diversification is extremely important to our long term survival as a species.
> then everything is a competitor.

Assuming a time horizon of hundreds of millions of years, efficient fusion, bandwidth limited sub FTL communication, and optimum computing substrate being extremely cryogenic then …

Space near stars starts to look toxic. Rather than seeding the universe the goal is to construct an ever larger mega structure in the void as there is no efficient way to transfer the truly enormous amounts of data between structures at least assuming no AI wants to effectively be alone.

Granted start looking hundreds of billions of years into the future and stars look wasteful so destroying them to conserve hydrogen starts to be relevant.
> a re-invention of the role of the mainframe.

A publicly accessible mainframe, where anyone anywhere in the world can script the provision of machines and other resources with little more than terminal and a text editor.

That would have been utopian science fiction in the heyday of the mainframe.
I wish that were so.

Multics made a big splash in the literature but in terms of use it was an obscure os on an obscure mainframe. It had nothing on TOPS-20 or VM/CMS.

Unfortunately many of us are suffering with Kube.
I for one welcome our new chimpanzee overlords.
They are called apodments now.
Haha, thanks man.
Pelosi is vile. Martha Stewart got a hard slap on the wrist for lying, I believe Pelosi is guilty of much more serious crimes. She has zero integrity.
Bet you 99 out 100 lawyers won't ever apologize...and the last one is mute.
JP Morgan Chase don't agree with you in 2014:

"48 percent of all US employees work for small businesses, down from 52 percent in the early 2000s."

https://www.jpmorganchase.com/institute/research/small-busin...

The NYSSCPA didn't agree with you in 2017 either:

"Since 2014, the latest year for which there is census data, this is no longer the case. At this point, 39.2 percent were employed at either a large or very large company, while 26.5 percent worked at mid-sized companies and 34.3 percent worked at small companies."

https://www.nysscpa.org/news/publications/the-trusted-profes...

Atkinson & Lind ("Big is Beautiful") didn't agree with you in 2019 either, specifically taking on what they call the "myth of small business as the engine of job creation"

https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/small-business-job-creati...

The Small Business Administration didn't agree with you in 2020:

"According to small business statistics from SBA, small businesses make 99.9% of US businesses and employ 47.1% of US employees."

https://smallbiztrends.com/small-business-statistics
Or to quote Operation Ivy, “All I know is that I don’t know nothing!” I believe Socrates’ whole schtick was that people don’t know much except for maybe some super specific knowledge and he spent his life making a public spectacle out of proving this.
It's not a bribe. Van Jones will likely quit his job as a CNN commentator. Why would he stay?

It's a strange donation tbh. Also CNN is a very partisan news source and Van Jones isn't a "middle of the aisle" type. I personally find the Jose donation fine but am kind of put off by this donation to a CNN "journalist".
There is a lack of funding for enforcement. Where I am, the AirBnB market is huge, has led to unprecedented house price growth, and there were already rules requiring short-stay properties to be licensed...85% of properties on AirBnb aren't licensed, and department is a handful of people that are somehow meant to monitor tens of thousands of properties. I have heard of councils employing people to check but that means: looking at properties online, going to the area, trying to work out where they are, finding out where the property owner is (AirBnb have said they will refuse to comply with any requests from local govt).

The rules have been made more solid now. They are introducing a very punitive fine and some areas can have no short-term rentals but AirBnb has thrived because they exploited regulation. Local govt has to be in control (although where I am, the reason they didn't introduce anything even stricter is because the tourist economy is so large...so...it is tricky when there is money coming in).
I grew up during the monolithic Windows XP / 7 era, so vintage computers (especially 80s) has fascinated me.

Glad I’m not alone!

Haven’t acquired any myself yet, but I’d like to. In fact I’m glad to hear you’re having fun with the C64 since I figured that would be my first one.

Recommendations?

The lisp machines are really cool, and I believe the MSX has been mentioned.

However one that I keep coming back to with fascination is the Sharp X68000, a Japanese computer based on the Motorola 68k.

It used hardware very similar to late 80s and early 90s arcade games, and in fact has excellent ports of things like Street Fighter 2.

But the whole aesthetic of it, along with what it could output for graphics and sound - as an outsider, it looks like it was way ahead of the US and UK computers of the time (the closest contender being the Amiga).

Would love to pick one up and try writing some code for it someday, although I expect I’ll need to brush up on my Japanese.
This sounds surprisingly similar to the (old) anti-Uber argument wrt taxis.
This very much sounds like a typical Relational Database (to a degree), with the language thus being SQL.
Albert Einstein's Brain
Narco submarines are already getting quite sophisticated:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narco-submarine

No doubt this will happen to drones too.
You mean like Uber?
They violated… and people would be pissed to see them go. So companies hope to be the rule breaker that gets too big to fail.
> AirBnB is clearly used to create illegal hotels and that's the problem

I agree. It shouldn’t be illegal.
Churchill once said "If Hitler invaded Hell I would make at least a favourable reference to the Devil in the House of Commons." Both sides might be imperfect, yet it may have perfect sense - obligation even - to pick the right side.
Right. I'm wondering what the hell this donation means. Van Jones isn't an activist and is a partisan commentator. This country has been divided by people like him in the news media constantly turning out better ratings by instigating and propagandizing.
Death is a very long way from being the worst thing that can happen. That's why a lot of torture methods are about keeping you alive as long as possible, or doing something horrible and forcing you to live with it. Not to mention illness robbing you of you mind and body, or personal loss making life unbearable.

I personally think of suicide not as a decision to die but rather a decision not to live. No one wants to die but it is very conceivable that one could be in a situation that no longer is worth the effort to sustain. Side note, I do not feel this way now but when younger I certainly felt like being alive wasn't worth the trouble and had to go through a process of convincing myself it was.
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich is a short novel by the Russian writer and Nobel laureate Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, first published in November 1962. The story is set in a Soviet labor camp in the early 1950s and describes a single day in the life of ordinary prisoner, Ivan Denisovich Shukhov.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Day_in_the_Life_of_Ivan_Denisovich
There is already a tool for that: a General Strike. It's easier to pull off too and brings governments to their knees in weeks if not days.
Going to post a lovely update for docker swarm here - Swarm simplifies/reduces the possibility space compared to K8, but i consider that a feature not a drawback. With Mirantis actively hiring and extending support for SwarmKit, it should be considered a viable 'batteries included' alternative to K8:

https://github.com/docker/roadmap/issues/175#issuecomment-82...
My example was still for a law school. You've gone back to film school again.
I’m definitely not moving any goalposts I know of!

I thought the point I had been making, as had others, is that by default this is an easy footgun.

There are all sorts of things that can be added on to all languages to help - if you know it’s a problem worth solving, etc. which is inevitably after you’ve footgunned yourself with it bad enough you felt the need to research how to prevent it.

Other languages just do the safer thing (or most compilers
By default warn at least about common footguns) more - which is the whole point of this thread?
Another alternative in some areas of Los Angeles not mentioned in the article is Metro Micro that seems to be newer: https://micro.metro.net/

Though I've been taking Metro buses as they aren't currently charging for that.
Source code has been compelled in discovery in many, many lawsuits.

Perhaps you've heard of Oracle Am., Inc. v. Google Inc.?

Or SCO Group, Inc. v. International Business Machines Corp.?
Translation:

> Hello villagers from Mihe Town,

> Communication has been cut off by the heavy rain. The emergency management department deployed a Wing Loong UAV above you in response of your emergency need, and it can restore mobile network for China Mobile. Due to limitation on the UAV's flight time, this mobile network can only last for 5 hours. Please report your status to your relatives as soon as possible. Wish you safe!