skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I buy around 3 times as many books as I finish (although I do finish many books). There is a special pleasure in browsing second hand book shops and pick up stuff you like the idea of reading.

It also used to give me tremendous pleasure giving a friend, a colleague or even a random encounter a book I myself had enjoyed at some point, although after the emergence of kindles, that became less and less appreciated (although some will still accept recommendations).

I pile up books on my desk, on shelves, next to my bed, and it gives me pleasure just looking at them. I hate accumulating physical possesions except books.

I look at my shelf (and my desk, and next to my bed) and it's a monument to things I have had fleeting interests in and things that are life long passions, stories that sits so deep inside me that they have come to define part of who I am, but of course also stories that were mere dreams and left no mark (although I have another pile in a corner for those books that I intend to get rid of... One day).

I love books, it has been the one constant in my life since I was very young child.
Dealing with and relying on ULA will be the Bezos' space endeavors undoing. Similarly as if Russians agreed to the original Musk idea back then - there wouldn't be SpaceX today.

Technically going hydrogen way Bezos cornered himself - the turbine would be extremely expensive and reliability is an issue, and by not doing it so far they are very limited by expander and tap-off.
Interesting insight into op-sec failures when trying to hide...

> It had no telephone lines or Internet service.

I wonder how the CIA got this info from Abbottabad Telecom. Pay someone? Hack into their systems? In my imagination it's someone local going undercover to work for them and extract the info. People think being a spy is James Bond stuff but it's infiltrating a... telecoms company.
I don't know about quickly, learning takes time.

The process I learned is from video games in the 1970s and 80s. Do your reading. Learn from the experts, watch what they do. They're not your heroes, you're going to have to top them at some point. Practice, but don't even start to practice until you've done those other prerequisites. Losing is not failure if you learned something from it.
Sounds like a really good use of Common Lisp and Esrap.
Someone buy this man a beer. Couldn't have phrased most of that better had I tried and I've been arguing these points with staff for years
COVID has not been cheap either - it has cost hundreds of billions [0]. You could fund twenty crossrails for this amount of money.

[0]: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2021/mar/22/a-year-of-c...
I know the history. The connection to slack channels seems absurd.
In other news: "Student drivers put Public at Risk"

Beta driving automation with a knowing driver may be less safe than the current shipping automation. But without statistics showing there is a significant additional risk, simply declaring it irresponsible is ... irresponsible.

What would be irresponsible is shipping software to everyone before beta versions were tested by volunteers.
> Is modern encryption a challenge to those old machines?

Ooooooh yeah. It's got some serious overhead on single core systems several-hundred-megahertz systems without the instructions that are used to accelerate encryption these days. AES is what modern CPUs use to help with that. It wasn't until Power7+ before encryption was accelerated on that class of CPUs. The latest Mac to use Power CPUs was discontinued 6 years before that.
The Gold standard
I agree. There's also the issue that typically the token minorities really seem to be sanitized of their actual culture too. They're white characters played by minority actors. And as a result, it feels patronizing to the viewer and the minorities.
This is just baseless speculation. Also that's a great reason why the federal government exists.
It's not racist to point out higher amount of crime among many migrant populations. Often such populations are poorer and less educated than general population, both of which are attributes that correlate with higher crime rate, and also ones mostly determined by your parents wealth rather than your own actions.
Brexit was a choice, while the fiscal, monetary, and societal response to COVID was necessary and unavoidable.
Personally, though, I would have taken with me as passengers the chief mechanic and the chief engineer, just to ensure the rocket works well!
I'm using `HN Enhance' an Addon for FF under Linux.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/hn-enhance/?u...
Mac OS 9 has virtual memory (it uses virtual address translation and it can swap pages to disk), but it still has a single address space that is shared between every application.
They have a more focused approach that simplifies it a lot. Where others build whole self-driving cars Comma uses existing interfaces and sensors in the vehicle. That's far less complexity to worry about.
He's always been a big space nerd.

"While at Princeton, Bezos attended O’Neill’s seminars and ran the campus chapter of “Students for the Exploration and Development of Space.” Through Blue Origin, which he has called his “most important work,” Bezos is developing detailed plans to realize O’Neill’s vision." - [0]

[0] https://www.princeton.edu/news/2021/04/16/documentary-featur...
From the site:

> You can build an interpreter or a compiler, so long as it can run or build examples of code in the programming language you create.

No you create a language, but it needs to be able to run. So need to either build a compiler or interpreter to make the language do things.
What a confused and muddled post, trying to touch on psychology, philosophy, and mathematics, and missing the mark on basically all three. I'm quite bearish on AI/ML, but calling it a "parlor trick" is like calling modern computers a parlor trick. I mean, at the end of the day, they're just very fast abacuses, right? Let's face it: what ML has brought to the forefront -- from self-landing airplanes to self-driving cars, to AI-assisted diagnoses -- is pretty impressive. If you insist on being reductive, sure, I guess it's "merely" statistics.

Bringing up quantitative vs qualitative analysis is just silly, since science has had this problem way before AI. Hume famously described it as the is/ought problem†. And that was a few hundred years ago.

Finally, dropping the mic with "I don't think we're anywhere close to consciousness" is just bizarre. I don't think that any serious academic working in AI/ML has made any arguments that claim machine learning models are "conscious." And Strong AI will probably remain unattainable for a very long time (I'd argue forever). This is not a particularly controversial position.

† Okay, it's not the same thing, but closely related. I suppose the fact–value distinction might be a bit closer.
In computer science the first author does the work and is usually a PhD student. The last author is usually the professor that pushed and helped develop the idea, provided funding, and probably wrote or was heavily involved in writing the paper’s abstract, intro and conclusion sections — the bulk of “framing” the work.

But there are exceptions. Some profs are less student-oriented or don’t like delegating so much, and remain “individual contributors” deep in their careers. Those tend to publish nonzero number of first- and single-author papers.

Edit: I’ve noticed that in Theory and Algorithms, profs tend to take first author even though the student slaved out the proofs. That field is kind of an outlier in that it’s close pure math, and I think borrows cultural artifacts from math research.
That aeon story is about Sabine Hossenfelder doing a "talk to a physicist" job. She sounds awesome at it, very impressive!
> One thing I’m always curious about is why we are so concerned with plastic waste.

Because of virtue signaling.

That's literally it, it doesn't matter how effective or ineffective something is, what matters is that politicians (and companies) are seen to be taking a stance against pollution (regardless of how sincere or effective that stance may be)
One pilot died, the other bailed out successfully.

Branson didn't fly on the first flights because SpaceShipTwo is a completely different beast to New Shepard. SpaceShipTwo is a pioneering space plane with MANUAL controls. New Shepard is basically the absolute most boring way you could claim to have "gone to space". It's vastly vastly less interesting and ambitious compared to what SpaceX and even Virgin Galactic are doing.
TheSilo: A Marketplace for Data
Pointing out why a theory is implausible and lacks evidence is a “dude relax” moment? What?
Ask HN: Is DevOps handbook still the go to for modern DevOps?
It’s a bit of an older book now. I was curious if there’s a newer version or perhaps other recommendations for building and running a DevOps organization. Thanks!
Nope, a proper lava cake is a layer of cake surrounding a layer of ganache. Under-cooking a chocolate cake is the lazy way.

Also a soufflé has a high % of whipped egg whites versus a typical cake which has unwhipped eggs but a bit of baking powder.
simmer down there american
Tbh, i think it's just advertising for a book disguised as news.
There was MacSSH, supporting SSH2 and up to MAC-SHA1/AES-256, but it required System 7.5 and 32MB rather than this project's System 7.1/2MB: https://web.archive.org/web/20071016100910/http://pros.orang...
I use YNAB and this was always so daunting and the worst part of falling behind on reconciling imports. Then someone on r/ynab mentioned the transactions page:

Account -> Your Transactions
(used to be Account -> Your Payments -> Transactions)

It was life changing in that I didn't have to waste time going through the purchases page trying to figure out how things were split. Wish target would do the same, it's worse with the they apply discounts.
I've been a solo founder with a full-time job for almost 4 years now (currently working on https://onlineornot.com).

My schedule has been pretty much the same over that time: I keep a trello board with backlog/TODO/in progress/done columns, and I try to work around 2 hours each day.

My best hours are in the morning, though I also exercise 3 times a week, so my work schedule is normally:

- Monday evening

- Tuesday morning

- Wednesday evening

- Thursday morning

- Friday off

- Saturday morning

- Sunday morning
I don't see how?

> You can build an interpreter or a compiler, so long as it can run or build examples of code in the programming language you create.
Taking Literature Personally
EPA Analysis of Lithium-Ion Battery Fires in Waste Management and Recycling [pdf]
fails for me every time for lobger reports, i can get 1 year report when i try for past 15 years it's a fail always
If he publishes an article telling their job, age, etc, and the court publishes a judgement saying that "he published an article telling their job, age, etc", then you can figure out who they are from his article, but not from the court's judgement.

I'm sure I'll never understand how this is "the court claim[ing] for itself the right to "harm" these people in the same way for which it chose to imprison Murray."
Django 3.2 Async Support: What You Need to Know
Turns out monetary expansion does cause price inflation: “ 1849 Sky high “gold rush” prices at a fashionable eating house in San Francisco: Corned Beef & Cabbage (1.25), Sweet Potatoes (50¢), Apple Pie (75¢).”
>Cheap clothes, cheap flights, cheap music, movies, cheap food, longer life expectancy, bigger homes with smaller household sizes, cheap washing machines and various appliances, all with far fewer working hours, and far less household work while you're off-work.

So, not much then.

For the consumer devices, cheap = disposable, as opposed to consumer devices you bought and could use for decades.

Likewise, cheap clothes mean diminishing quality (regardless of price bracket, from $5 items to $200 brand-name ones, they are all most often than not made in sweatshops in the developing world, often with the same materials and processes). Plus tons of clothes thrown, which is an environmental attrocity.

(As for cheap music and movies, that's a byproduct of one basic delevopment: high speed internet, which enabled a new delivery method. Not the best example of an increase in productivity, not to mention those are passtimes).

As for "longer life expectancy", all accounts I've read say that we got that early on in the 20th century, so 100+ years ago, and it was due to running water, bathrooms, hand washing, and a few such things. Low hanging fruit. Certainly not due to the last 70+ years of "increased productivity".

Meanwhile we pay more for healthcare, housing, and education (the 3 things that matter more), wages have stagnated since the 70s, and work-life balance has gotten infinitely worse, depression ever more prevalent, the middle and working classes have collapsed, and so on. No savings and no chance of retirement at any reasonable age for the majority as well.

>I'm often surprised about this idea we've got it worse off.

Probably it's from people who are not impressed by more and cheaper trinkets.
I did use the performance branch. And I had a chat with a few people in the automerge community about the performance numbers I was seeing long before I published to see if I was doing anything wrong. I tested a few different versions of automerge but in this test there wasn’t much performance difference between 0.12, 1.0.x-preview versions (which are built from the merged performance branch) and I tried the unreleased automerge-rs. When I ran my tests timing numbers for automerge ranged from about 5m with the old non performance branch down to about 4m20s or so with automerge-rs. Still far from Yjs’s 0.9 seconds.

I just checked and it looks like automerge 1.0.1-preview-4 has landed. I wrote the post benchmarking preview-2. I’ve been knee deep in diamond types lately and haven’t been watching. Fingers crossed there’s some more performance improvements in the pipeline. I’d love to do a follow up in 6 months showing much improved performance.
It didn't have to have manual controls, and in fact the fatal accident was caused by moving the wrong control.

Automated controls are more ambitious than manual controls. Note that the Apollo 11 was supposed to be totally automated, but Armstrong saved the mission by overriding it and doing it manually.

> most boring

Well, until the automation goes wrong, then it is briefly very exciting.
Yay! article validated, tried and true practice: pen and paper

Welcome to the FPN Nuthouse: https://www.fountainpennetwork.com/
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/labor-productivity-per-ho...

Are you sure about that? Are you measuring in absolute GDP per person or rate of growth per person?
https://scoopwholefoods.com has stores in Australia, Singapore, and the UK, although I'm not sure if it has yogurt.
Possibly dumb question, but is there a reason you couldn't just pour vinegar into a top loader and wash in that?

Also, why apple cider over white vinegar?
If this were a courtroom, sure.
> No difference in mean Ct values in vaccinated and unvaccinated cases

This refers to registered cases. Registered cases ~ symptomatic cases above certain threshold of symptoms (e.g. if you only have running nose or no symptoms whatsoever, you won't report anything).

Suppose you have two separate groups of 100 people, one with all vaccinated, other with none vaccinated. In each, 1 member is sick and gets in contact with everyone. In unvaxxed group, say, you get 20 symptomatic cases, 30 asymptomatic cases, and 50 are lucky. In a vaxxed group (an example), you get 3 symptomatic cases, 10 asymptomatic cases, and 87 are lucky. Now according to my understanding the slide statement above applied to this though experiment says that every one in the 20 symptomatic cases from unvaxxed group has the same chance (individually) to transmit, as everyone of the 3 symptomatic cases of vaxxed group. But because vaxxed group has 6x less people on stage 2 who could transmit further, overall transmission rate is also almost 6x lower.

E.g. the statement talks about sending chances, and not receiving chances. And overall transmission depends on both.
What does “relife” mean? The manga/anime about going back to high school? Did you misspell “relief?”
Getting In
>Wouldn't you have to perform gain of function research in order to create vaccines for not yet existing viruses?

And he would have gotten away with it too, if it weren't for those meddling HN users.
2650 tabs open right now. I'm sure I had more open in the past. No major performance impact. If I click on the "List all tabs" button it takes a second to render the list. The PC is 5 years old, not even close being state of the art.
I agree that the current fanboi bucketing on Blue Origin is dumb, herd-mentality, kicking-the-weakest, bs. People need to grow up.

I think it's genuinely interesting to compare two well-funded, privately-led space companies and their results. What is it that has allowed one to make such substantially better progress than the other?

It's clear that SpaceX is a tough place to work, and Musk has very high expectations that go well beyond a hard-worked 9-5 5 days a week. That said, Amazon is not an easy place to work either ... so is Blue Origin a driven workplace culture?

Perhaps it's just that BO got distracted by the sub-orbital hop goal, and should have ditched that (like SpaceX and the Falcon 1 and Falcon 5) and just gone straight into New Glenn? There's something to be said for aiming high.

Perhaps it's just bad luck? BE3 seems ok, but BE4 appears to have some issues. Maybe SpaceX got lucky with Raptor? Or perhaps the difference is just the staff -- one good hire could be the difference between the fairly quick success of Raptor vs. the delays with BE4?

Ironic as it is, I will give Musk some credit for keeping his ego out of the cockpit. Not that he's short of ego, but (so far) he's resisted the urge to launch himself.
The post specifically asks about learning things quickly. This is directly proportional to how uncomfortable one can be without quitting.

If someone is dissuaded from learning something because they need to be encouraged, then that is contrary to learning things quickly, at that point its just regular learning.
Time Crystals
That's because "good" depends on who you ask.

The free market produces for the masses.
I quit my software engineering job to drive from Alaska to Argentina for 2 years and then to drive around Africa for three years. I have not worked at a desk for 6 years now, and I live on about $20k - $25k.

I've never been happier. I have so much free time to spend how I please, and I just don't buy crap I don't need. Yes, I've got house mates and I can't afford to live in some expensive city and eat out every night, but those things have never made me happy anyway.

I ride my bike, I throw the Frisbee and I snowboarded 97 days this past winter (a luxury, for sure) My dollars per day spent is extremely low.
Most USA members think the world's largest supercomputer is in the cloud which is massless zero volume dark matter, and the Federal Reserve is a government agency which processes coffee payments.
Yes exactly. You replace the chunk with “he” and “llo” then insert the extra item in the middle. The result is [“he”, “e”, “llo”]. The code to do all this inline in a b-tree is pretty hairy but it works pretty well!
In my case; I found a job that was specified as "100% remote, even after COVID" - so I'm not super-concerned about that. Yes, employers lie, and in 1 year or so, they could easily come back and tell me I'm fired because I can't come on-site. (there is also a component of my job which could require me to go on customer site and work there; which I'm willing to do as long as they pay travel expenses).

I get that I'm very lucky to have landed such a gig. I hope many more do. Because when a worker has to bear the personal cost of sitting in traffic for 2+ hrs per day (burning gasoline and polluting the world while doing so), because his boss is uncomfortable with not being able to physically scrutinize his underlings - that's bullshit.
that wasn't an original plan, but they were prohibited to sell selfdriving kits, this is the workaround that works
Tenants prepare for unknown as eviction moratorium ends
Microsoft got in trouble for less than this in the EU and had to start offering firefox as an option on standard installs.

E: Just saw the /s in parent's grandchild.
The dev shops that are actually worth the money have more work than they can handle. They typically get their work by word of mouth and have no need to be on a platform or aggregator.

There are many horror stories, so I would be remiss to not warn you to tread carefully.

One thing to do is find someone who is actually happy with their MVP. Another would be to use a "no-code" or "low-code" solution.

Depending on the business, you could even make your first sales with only a PowerPoint. Knowing the type of business and what you are intending to sell could help us make better recommendations.
"Biocompatibility", as a material property, is largely a mirage.

Certain materials, in certain specific forms, don't provoke a reaction, but the identical material in a different shape is as bad as anything else.

Canonical example is PTFE, which I have heard described as "biologically inert". A perfectly smooth surface of PTFE might be ignored by the immune system, but a fiber of it poking this or that membrane usually will not be; and once scratched, it has numerous sharp bits.
uBlock Origin is available for Chrome and Chrome-based browsers.
GDPR is about privacy and security, not interoperability. It was (and still is) a very controversial set of regulations, so shoehorning in more requirements would have made it even more unpopular.
Great suggestion! Good list of job boards on that site: https://civictech.guide/listing-category/job-boards/
There is regulation where e-commerce companies can only charge you after they have shipped the item. That may be why it’s appearing as separate charges.
"This is water", by David Foster Wallace.

https://youtu.be/8CrOL-ydFMI
> what ML has brought to the forefront -- from self-landing airplanes to self-landing cars

I am not aware of any ML in flight controls. Being black box and probabilistic by nature, these things won’t get past industry standards and regulations (at least for a while).
It's very likely a deliberate and precise execution of the legal requirements to shield themselves from legal liability, under the advice of lawyers. At each step, from the coding to the hardware development to installation and configuration the responsibility is clear.

The installer of both hardware and software ends up being responsible for the use of the system in a way that is much more legally clear than other automation systems or even consumer software. Deliberate and informed choices are made by entities completely outside the plausible influence of developers.

It could get tricky in cases where the installer is not the end user.
I think you misread, maybe
Yes TikTok increases the joy its users experienced, otherwise they would still be doing what they were doing before.

I do think people are much happier than they were 20 or even 10 years ago, largely thanks to the increased joy brought by better apps. Can that continue until people are "overwhelmed with the pure bliss of being alive"? No clue, doesn't seem likely, but it's certainly possible.
If you’re interested in learning more about Yjs’s internals, I interviewed Kevin for 3 hours on zoom and got him to take me through Yjs’s code. He’s a great guy.

The video of that conversation is here: https://youtu.be/0l5XgnQ6rB4
Radioactive particles from nuclear testing are in every organism too. Just because something exists doesn't mean it's a disaster. You'd need science to back up a feeling like yours otherwise you're probably just regurgitating what popular opinion has indoctrinated you with and that's whatever's widely emotionally satisfying to believe.