skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But wouldn’t it take a while?

The Moon's Hill sphere is just under 52000 km in radius. This is the distance at which the Earth's gravitational influence is greater than that of the Moon. Using Keplerian orbital mechanics (i.e. KSP-style patched conics) as an approximation, a circular orbit at that distance takes about two weeks. This is the longest possible orbit around the moon (approximately), and therefore an upper bound on the maximum amount of time it can take for something to shoot up from the moon and fall back again.

EDIT: A couple of things to note: in the absence of other bodies, my argument wouldn't apply, as the Hill sphere would be infinite. I'm assuming here, for simplicity, that anything that exits the Hill sphere doesn't fall back. This is not entirely accurate. It's possible that something might enter orbit around the Earth, and hit the moon at some point in the future, but I'm ignoring that.
He moved back right before preschool (at 5 years), I guess I shouldn't have used that term - it means both "younger than school age" and "preschool program age" which is a year before school here.

Problem was he couldn't even go to kindergarten as he would be completely unmanageable for them and couldn't socialise well - in large part due to language issues.
We used something like this in the early 2000s called Blade Runner. Scary times on the Internet.
Where does the article say that YC has lost value?
If a company asked this I would put "gavinray [I don't give a flying fuck what you call me]".

Happy to use other people's pronouns if it makes them happy, it really makes no difference to me, and clearly it's a big deal to some people so I've no problem obliging.

But if you ask for something this stupid, company-wide, IMO you're due what you ask for.

Because there's my pronoun. Call me he/she/they, or a goddamn Attack Helicopter, I really don't care.

I have had to go out of my way to break the habitual "Hey guys" -> "Hey all/Hey folks" though, and I don't find that one unreasonable.
Ah, the memories! I brought this into school and a few of my mates wanted copies. Word got out amongst the teachers that there was some program being used for shenannigans by the pupils. I told everyone do delete it but some didn't realise it'd end up in their recycle bin and the network admin found out. Saturday morning detention material, luckily I didn't got caught :)
Religion minus the formal concept of God. In other words a democratic religion, where the rules have no grounding in an externality, and can change rapidly based on who currently has influence.
The real problem is that their are no real replacements to apple products.
"Portable" until you rely on signals behaviour, file systems, threading, file locking and other stuff left for the implementations.

Windows NT POSIX subsystem was for ticking check box on DoD contracts.

Had Microsoft been half serious about POSIX in NT like they are nowadays with WSL, Linux would never had taken off.
Proctorio's awful reviews disappear down the memory hole
That isn’t clarifying.
Context: there was this tweet [1] that showed how co-pilot generated word for word he famous inverse square root function from the quake code. The tweet generated some press and as a result copilot added the function name to the blacklist of slurs so this won’t happen again

[1]: https://twitter.com/mitsuhiko/status/1410886329924194309
Supporting that many companies is easier if you don't really support them. Toss them a little cash, tell them to get a shared house in SF for a months-long hackathon and hope for the best. After the first 12 months, start looking more closely at the fraction of startups that got anywhere.
It does mean equality of outcomes among the people who use the word:

"Equality means each individual or group of people is given the same resources or opportunities. Equity recognizes that each person has different circumstances and allocates the exact resources and opportunities needed to reach an equal outcome. Nov 5, 2020"
No kidding. My potted Schlumbergera got nibbled by a mouse on the 9th floor. :-( I'd been nursing that plant back to health for years.

This wasn't a regular occurrence up that high, but still.
> there's at least some basic decency in companies

I would exercise caution with this perspective. They stand to gain a bit of mind share from this action as it's a popular position to take. I am not saying virtuous companies don't exist. In general they act in the best interest of their bottom line (in this case public image).
I want to used BO to prank my mom. Having a background in computers, once she realized what was happening she dove for the network cable. I’d never seen her move so fast.
Why people eat horse dewormer
Looks with disbelief from GrapheneOS on Pixel.
I left for university in an English-language country, where I now live. Similar to you, I've spent half my life abroad. I've since realized that if I went back, I would not be able to properly comprehend business contracts or the fine print on things like my internet bill. 25 years ago, we didn't even have home internet where I lived!
> This is the next batch of folks who will be doing your IPO paperwork:

No these are not the next batch of people filling out your IPO... that article you picked is like half a dozen randos attending an optional one time event that from the selective information they gave doesn't even seem to represent progressive views. Then soundbites were taken out of context by a hardline conservative outlet and you were told that this is what the left stands for. Can you honestly tell me that you believe progressives want to mandate that you begin every day chanting "i am tango-unchained and i am racist"?

Back to the article, what did the rest of that conversation look like besides a single screenshot? Is there any context where it might make sense to say "i am racist" without literally wearing a white hood. Maybe those words are being used to capture concepts that are more difficult to explain than firing someone based on the color of their skin or telling your daughter she shouldn't marry outside her race. These aren't dumb people and they made the decision themselves to say these things and I'm sure had good reasons that made sense in the moment.

The professor screenshotted here has like 22 years of legal teaching experience. Don't you think there's a chance he was having an interesting conversation about intellectual concepts and was taken out of context? That article you posted never asked these questions or got the "other side" and asked him to explain himself. Instead we just have quotes from a few conservatives that were offended by the training. It kind of reveals the purpose of this article.

It's fine to have ideological disagreements, but to frame this article as representing a movement let alone a generation of thinking is dishonest and hysterical.
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> I would think a similar thing could be at play in "high-functioning", able-to-be-suppressed-with-constant-effort Tourettes cases: without the diagnosis (or rather, with a negative diagnosis), nobody around you will tolerate a Tourettes outburst from you, so you just have to "suck it up" and mask it as hard as you can.

Tourette's can't really be suppressed consistently, it comes out eventually, and suppressing it now just makes it worse later. It is very hard to hide -- believe me, I've tried. Also, see the comment in the above thread -- one pretty strong giveaway is an entire lack of facial tics and other classic tells. I have a ton of the "famous" Tourette's symptoms -- coprolalia, echolalia, palilalia, even a small touch of the dreaded copropraxia, not to mention at times extremely exaggerated arm movements (beating my chest like a gorilla is the most common). However, my first tics, and which continue as a constant background noise, are small facial grimaces, nose wrinkles, blinks, making tiny grunts, etc. It is extremely anomalous to see someone present with "Tourette's" and not have any of those low level tics, but all the "fancy" ones.

> Charitable interpretation: women are underdiagnosed with Tourettes, because some combination of hormonal and social factors generally leads to them generally being higher-functioning — i.e. "leaking" the symptoms less. But actually, they're still being impacted, just silently (i.e. their dopamine is being drained faster by having to "fight the urge", much like someone with OCD.)

I'm more than willing to keep an open mind, but look at the effect size.

Swinging from 1:4.3 to 9:1 is a change of 38X. That is RIDICULOUSLY huge. I'm happy to postulate that women are undiagnosed to some degree, but a swing of that size, that is that sudden, and which lines up so closely with a specific group and a specific female influencer, based primarily on observed novel physical symptoms, charitably speaking at least merits a little scrutiny, wouldn't you think? A mere 1.5X change would be enormous, 38X is astronomical.
> For example, it appears to be a woke idea that mathematics, science is some human (more specifically, white) invention and we should explore “alternative mathematics” or “alternative science”.

Do you have a source for this? I’ve never heard of either of these terms, the closest being the “alternative facts” of one of Trump’s press secretaries.
Maybe doing a cross cultural study would help determine if it’s mimicry (a social phenomenon) or there is something else by going to cultures that are different from ours and seeing if some of their kids get affected. Indonesia, Congo, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, etc.
It's much clearer in German. Rape = Vergewaltigung. It contains gewalt = violence. Stuff like "rape by deception" as a court ruled in Israel because a Jewish Israeli woman had sex with a man she though to be Jewish but wasn't shouldn't be considered rape (I'd argue being the wrong ethnicity while having consensual sex shouldn't be a crime at all).

Now we have rape and we also have rape rape, like, the real rape.
We use the Wi-Spy DBx dongle for spectrum monitoring / analysis.
I would suggest to actually look at the Faust website and you will see that they are completely different types of applications.
AFAIK The core is freedom, i.e. a lack of coercion of any kind.

If, to be yourself, you need to claim someone else property, then Libertrarians would say it goes against the core principles of liberty, because to execute this claim you exercise coertion.

But as long as you do not exert coercion on no one else, you're free to be yourself anyway you like.
Article is from 2016 about the npm left-pad problem
Thank you. I will surely look into this.
I would say the not popular opinion around here that applies to most tools on UNIX, and I have used plenty of flavours since 1993, when I got introduced to it via Xenix.
I went to a decently progressive elementary school, and the kids were absolutely racist by second grade. It'd be nice if we could just ignore race, but that's not reality yet.
> We're lucky that our first and second-person pronouns and our plural pronouns by fluke of language evolution just happen to already be gender neutral.

Is it "a fluke"? You generally know a lot about the first and second person in a conversation. You know yourself and you see who you're talking to. There's no need for more precision for the first or second person. When trying to point to a specific individual other than one of the two interlocutors, however, finer distinctions help. That doesn't seem like "a fluke" to me. That actually seems to make quite a lot of sense.
I live in Tokyo and drive an old kei car.
Despite being not very powerful, it does provide me whatever I need. Driving it on highway (about 100km/h) feels alright, of course it’s not as quiet or comfortable as bigger cars, but not unacceptable. I am sure newer models are much improved.
Many car parks here have height/size limit, or even kei-car-only space, and it’s just easier to park even for regular places.
I find myself feeling more responsible by driving a small car, when I stop at the side of a road, it occupies at most half of the lane, so another kei car can bypass easily. Maybe it’s a Japanese thing, but unlike SUV’s “getting higher up to see more”, I am more like “I am as small as everyone else so I don’t block people’s view”.
I wrote this dumb little shell script to use multipass + podman to replace docker-desktop.

https://github.com/jedahan/podman-desktop
This is correct with the caveat that there's no "they" there.

Or like people say, there's identity politics and then there's actual politics.

Or yet another way of putting it is that class differences trump fake differences in the real world but academia and the media focus on fake differences.

Hierarchies and social strata exist and persist over centuries. The problem of economic inequality is a tough nut to crack. We have pretended to ourselves that there is decent social mobility and that economic inequality is not too bad. But it's bad, so – hey – let's focus on non-issues of race and gender and whatnot.

Some call "wokeness" radical egalitarianism – enlightenment ideals taken to their breaking point and beyond. People urge us to focus on reaching some utopian ideal of equality of outcomes. Better to focus on reducing economic inequalities. But entrenched interests will not share the pot without being forced to, I believe.

This is the defining struggle of our era – of every era really. The struggle between those who have access to opportunity and wealth and those that barely do.

It's a lie that we've had a bunch of popular revolutions. We've never truly had one. A landed aristocracy and merchant class has held sway over us all (systemically) from feudal and aristocratic times down through to this era of nation states – be they communist or capitalist, doesn't matter.
> with more tiktok videos of "stimming" and flapping their hands on YouTube.

I do wonder why people view this as offensive or obviously fake though.

I am a pretty well-adjusted adult who has not been formally diagnosed with anything, and I still "flap hands" when I am in private/can hide it from others. It's hardly performative.
I don't think that works

I might be off here, but I imagine console.log early exits if there's no console open, so it doesn't call toString

If that's the case you can just write to the console in a loop and immediately know if one is open
Why would they want that?
In The Netherlands we had this problem with vehicle plate scanners. At first, they were strictly for vehicle tax purposes. Then later it came out they could be used by our three (well, four) letter agency in extraordinary circumstances. Then the police could request access in extreme cases, then less extreme, and now the ‘requesting access’ is nothing more than an automated process that is logged.

Build it and they will come.
Hah! For a second, I thought from the HN title that this was written in 1927.
1. It needs to start somewhere.
2. Schools have been shown to cure some of society's ailments. One example is providing free pre-k education. Check out this infographic http://www.urbanchildinstitute.org/resources/infographics/pr...

IMHO more money needs to put in education.
Private property rights, or being manifestly in control of the fruits of ones labor.

Or the exact opposite of slavery.
If a group wants to organise a non property right town or city or country, that’s fine by libertarians. If everyone is making that choice freely.

So freedom is the core.

What you are talking about is more Austrian economics.
Forget about yields, increased resilience to drought etc could be the big news if exploited. Deep root systems and resilience could dramatically reduce necessary irrigation & fertilization. Hardy plants need fewer inputs, deeper fertilization means less runoff, and deep irrigation means less evaporation.
It varies with the company you are at... but building pipelines is just one of the ops tasks typically. Ie, in your gitlab-ci.yaml example, ops would have given you the template (assuming you were going to be the one committing it) that your pipeline had to follow - so it was uniform with the thousands of other pipelines in the company. It's unusual at most of the shops I've been at for devs to ever build their own deployment pipelines. That might be OK at a smaller shop, but once you have 100+ deployments of any type, the devs have lacked ability to keep it all uniform at scale.

A better way to put it... most of my colleagues in an Ops roles already did development for 10-15 years, and moved on to developing the tools to deploy other people's products. Additionally, kubernetes isn't everywhere - they also build pipelines that produce AMI's, GCP images, and write the terraform/cloudformation/HEAT/etc to deploy those things. If you wonder "who automated blue/green deployments?", that's your ops team.

Also, in your example of "human kubernetes" - ops builds those clusters, and monitors those node pools. If you half less than a dozen clusters, or less than 100 nodes among the pools - you might not even have an ops team.
If you ask me, the problem lies in SQL datetime (without timezone) data type, not golang.
As an ill-conceived means of holding both privacy and oversight at the same time?

The main sticking point (as you know) isn’t what it looks like now, but how small a leap is required before the privacy is stripped away and all that’s left is oversight.
Any outcome that diverges from the percent population means the institution is racist. This is literally the foundation of woke culture

1) More blacks are incarcerated than their representation in the population. Therefore the justice/police system is racist and must be abolished (BLM)

2) Minorities cant get loans in proportion to their representation in the population therefore the financial system is racist and must be abolished. Banking must be taken over by the govt

https://www.sierraclub.org/articles/2020/12/follow-money-how...

3) Minorities cannot achieve the same scores in math and science, therefore math and science are racist and must be abolished.

https://money.cnn.com/2016/09/06/technology/weapons-of-math-...
etc etc. This goes for any disparity of outcome by race.
Why is this getting downvoted?

This is a legitimate issue, and I'm not even the political/social-justice type.

(I don't mean the company forcing putting pronouns in your username, but for trans/non-binary people to put it in their profile name)

Had an instance at a job once where someone joined, I spoke with them and they were really nice + helpful. Maybe 2 months later, I went looking for them and they didn't seem to be at the company anymore.

Turns out they had changed their username to another gender along with profile pic, now used a different pronoun.

I felt like an ass when I read back to intros and learned that they didn't prefer the pronouns their name/pic implied when they joined. Quite literally "assumed their gender" and they never corrected me about it. Hope it didn't bug them, but it probably did.
> Is there really such a thing as a mentally sane person?
Yes.
This is a fantastic library and I use it in Python.

For command line, if you haven't experienced GNU Units, I highly recommend it. [1]

[1] https://www.gnu.org/software/units/
> You don't consider better software, better service, better results, better everything to be innovation?

That’s just not accurate. I agree that for a while it was true in the days of Napster, audio galaxy etc, but it isn’t anymore.

But you are missing my point. Other than in improving ways to do piracy itself, piracy doesn’t lead to innovation.
reading this it sounds like it comes from the same time as the Black Book of Carmarthen which has Merlin in it with the Apples of Myrddin - or at least the generally acknowledged source of the Merlin character.

So it puts parts of the Arthurian Merlin earlier but does not give an earlier root character?

on edit: link to wikipedia black book of carmarthen https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Book_of_Carmarthen
Feynman was Silver Age of quantum physics. Dirac was already middle aged when they met.
Despite all the flames; there's plenty of actual honest "this is what I think and why" that wouldn't be tolerated elsewhere because its a controversial topic. That's worthy.

It may not be pleasant now, but perhaps its the fertilizer from which some flowers of enlightenment will sprout.
Currently, WASM calls ultimately execute DOM API commands, so there is no performance benefit for DOM manipulation. This is expected to change, but I don't know the details.

I can't explain why, but WASM files end up much larger than an equivalent JS file. (And often larger than a NPM/framework-based etc JS bundle) Also, a build step.

Perhaps someone else who's used WASM more recently, or used it with a language other than Rust can comment.

It's nice being able to use whichever language you wish, but IMO not worth the downsides in its current state.
I believe it's mostly for very low voltage batteries, otherwise the cable length shouldn't be that much of a problem.

I believe it makes a lot of sense to invert the structure, and place motor behind because they have a solid axle already, and prevent it becoming too rear heavy given it's a cargo van.

I also can't really imagine how power electronics, moreover for such a small car can get so big.
Understanding Git Merge
A lot has changed:

* batch size
* remote participation
* international companies
* YC's size and # of partners (vs a few principals)

so to say demo day has lost it's impact is a big stretch (not that the story even really says this). There are too many variables.

The real story is that being part of something exclusive and successful is viewed as more valuable than something much larger and but no more successful. No kidding.
Synology offers the same feature set as Drobo. It actually ended up being what I went with. They offer lots of different sized devices.
Legitimately who cares? It's not like you have to sacrifice anything by just saying you'd like to be called he or whatever. It's an incredibly easy thing to do.
> Reusing inodes is not that uncommon among filesystems

I've been through that hell before and it completely sucks.

BSD UFS will reuse an inode occasionally if you replace a file in a dir by delete + create (which makes sense, if you only cared about the efficiency of the dir structure).

But this meant that my caches which were keyed by device + inode + mtime, would fail to detect a file being updated.

As an obvious workaround, there was a 2 second delay into the system which seemed to fix things at first (apc.file_update_protection), but then it also stopped working for some people.

Because they were pushing data out to nodes through something like an rsync which also pushes an mtime update.

Anyway, the eventual workaround was to cache-break by ctime as well as mtime.

But it was hell to debug (months with 1 SEV1 ticket), because it would take a lot (a lot) to even triage the issue to the filesystem of why the file updates aren't going to the cache (& requests failing with API mismatches as the symptom).

Would not spring this on people without an explicit warning.

PS: Looks like ext4 does reuse them, whoa
its not free!
It does seem that the "equality of outcome" criticism mostly is coming from spaces inhabited and informed by people like Jordan Peterson, Ben Shapiro and Dennis Prager. From what I have seen it is mostly used as a strawman because, as you mentioned, I too have not really seen anyone seriously arguing for equality of outcomes (if anyone has examples, please share).
You're using the word "scanning" strangely here. Most people would consider the perceptual hash checking of all images to be "scanning".
I know plenty of people who were hired as mid-level C# developers, kept being a mid-level C# programmer, and will be happy to be mid-level C# programmers (with salary increases of course) for the next 20 years.

If you work in an risk-averse industry like banking or aviation, you're not likely to experiment or learn anything new on the job.
Gaming as you said
Gardening, I grow edible stuff in my backyard. It's physical and rewarding.
Cooking, necessary as I have kids but I try to get better, cook different things...