skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know how we can stop this. Majority of Australians don't understand the implications of our constantly eroding rights because they are spoon fed bullshit by our media. When 95% of what you hear is cheering on the liberal party here, nothing can change.
Found an even better source!

https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/20140008868/downloads/20...

This paper discussed the Monte Carlo method they implemented to plan and control the orbital insertion.

At page 16 they discuss nominal burn times. The MCC-2 burn has an associated deltaV of 0.712m/s. (That is the first of many burns which happen in the unfolded state) Of course the real value will depend on how accurate the previous burns happens to be, but it provides a rough estimate of what we can expect.
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I wish HN would remove the user-submitted title box, since it just encourages you to put your heart and soul into something that then gets overwritten by the mods anyway.
Interesting implications and parallels for arguments about Section 230 in the US.

I suspect this will lead to many more 'comments disabled', as the article itself notes:

> One of the difficulties for the media groups at the time was that Facebook did not allow them to turn off the comments function.
users = User.objects.all()
for u in user:
print(u.name, len(u.comments))

This is fine if you are working with a small data set. It is inefficient, but if it's quick enough, readability trumps efficiency IMHO.

Django ORM has a succinct way of doing the "SELECT COUNT(*)" pattern:

users = User.objects.all()
for u in user:
print(u.name, u.comments.count())

And you can use query annotations to get rid of the N+1 query issue altogether:

users = User.objects.annotate(n_comments=Count("comments"))
for u in user:
print(u.name, u.n_comments)
I'm extremely glad I don't work 90h/week, nor have I ever had to (my contract says 40h/week and that's usually how much I work - if I do overtime (rare) I usually get to adjust for that on a different day).

However, I'm not very invested in my work, and I genuinely wish I could work in a team with such esprit de corps and shared sense of purpose as the original Mac team.

I wonder if the two can only ever be had as a package deal.

I.e. if you are so invested in your work (probably a good thing, all else being equal), does it inevitably end up expanding beyond 40h/week (probably a bad thing, all else being equal)?
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I am American, and I was reading “compulsory voting effectively prevents what is the worst part of American democracy - the unceasing efforts to stop people voting” as a claim that, applied where those efforts occur, compulsory voting would be an effective and adequate remedy, rather than “In Australia, compulsory voting exists and the efforts seen to suppress voting seen in America do not”.

AFAIK (which, I’ll admit, isn’t very far—my knowledge of domestic Australian politics is more of a very light random smattering than the result of any focussed study), you are correct that those don't tend to occur in Australia.
FBI says Chinese authorities are hacking US-based Uyghurs
The US has been well-served by our constitution. Sure, we still have issues, but it's a massive barrier to power-hungry bureaucrats.
They won't change until they have competition.
Instead of a time series it computes them all at once
Ridiculous. Stating a political opinion on your personal social network account shouldn’t cause you to lose your job.
What does the healthcare look like at these places? Is the climate habitable? Clean air?
It was not only founded by the captives, but also by the captors.
Microsoft acquires web-based video editor Clipchamp
> These new laws being introduced if used in the spirit they are intended could be good.

That "if" is doing a lot of work. Gov't power will be abused. That's like, rule one of government.
Why?

- Apple devices running iOS 14+ are querying HTTPS RR for some time now, and they work on normal DNS setups.

- Google Chrome just enabled HTTPS RR queries over standard DNS on version 92.
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For US folks, The Liberal Party is Center Right and further to the left than the Republicans, Labor is Center Left and further to the left of the Democrats.
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What profound political effects do you think would probably be caused by these attributes being different?
Convince others and keep fighting. There has to be a minority opposition.

By giving up the opposition you create totalitarian state.
> How important is this

This should be at the top of the post honestly
Isn't this more whinging about extreme first world problems?
see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28349745
And Tasmania (the Australian island state right at the South) was the prison island for the worst convicts. It is now probably the most conservative state in Australia. It's like the phenomenon where the bullied becomes the bully, but on a societal level.
> It's not like you'll learn more, you'll just work more and the job becomes your life.

I wouldn't do what you did but if you were doing any kind of intelectually demanding work it would be astonishing if you didn't learn more than people working 40 hours a week do. Double the hours is unlikely to lead to double the learning but 1.2x? 1.5x? Perhaps as an upper bound 1.7x?
I think I'm a relative optimist about global warming because there are a number of possible climate engineering interventions which seem fairly cheap and could plausibly buy us another decade or so.

I can imagine a future where perhaps India or China decides to act on their own to this effect, risks be damned.
I’ve spent a bit of time in Australia. When I compared the caliber of people who worked in tech and venture to those in mining and law enforcement, it was night and day. There’s a TON of smart people at companies like Woodside, and lots of smart people at the Australian Federal Police (to the extent where the US and other countries rely on them for help in tricky technical situations). The tech and VC crowd seemed to get off on the size of a funding round, or how tight they were with the founders of Atlassian, or if they knew some guy from America with a “successful exit,” or other complete nonsense.

With a dynamic like that, the law enforcement people are always going to point to the tech and venture people and say to politicians, “are you going to take orders from these clowns, or are you going to listen to us?” And now that you’ve got the climate activists antagonizing the mining companies, who are responsible for a very significant percentage of the economy, you’ve got two extremely savvy and powerful groups working together.

If Australian tech people want their government to take them seriously, they’re going to have to act in a manner that is as professional as those at the AFP, and they’re going to have to hit people with an economic hammer that can match the force of mining. Yes, it’s not fair that things are this difficult, but that’s life.
This is why I hate CSV files. Trying to reformat huge blocks of data is a job that Awk does well. The associative arrays let you build structures that let you do the heavy lifting. For record processing, Awk should be one of the first tools you look at.
> It’s not going well, they literally have concentration camps, ask for papers, don’t let you leave your homes, etc.

Anyone who thinks this is actually what is happening in Australia is falling for propaganda.

> they literally have concentration camps

Offshore detention centres for refugees seeking asylum is a stain on Australia that cannot be excused or erased.

If you mean the quarantine centres they are finally building then.. they are nothing like concentration camps. They are a better alternative than the hotel quarantine system they have been trying and failing to make work until now.

And within 12 months we'll hopefully have vaccine rates hight enough travel for vaccinated people can get back to normal and they'll only be needed for people who choose not to be vaccinated and choose to come to Australia.

> ask for papers

I assume this is asking for vaccine certification? Seems reasonable, given our failure to get enough people vaccinated quickly enough.

> don’t let you leave your homes

I think this refers to home quarantine? That people in quarantine aren't allowed to leave their homes seems kind of the point?
Sunshine is the best disinfectant. Looks like the press attention and the #freebritney movement actually did help move the needle in this case.

Her leaked audio testimony from this summer's conservatorship hearing is quite moving if anyone is curious to check it out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVrhKBhMrEI

edit: also, text transcript: https://www.cnn.com/2021/06/24/entertainment/britney-spears-...
https://www.americaspace.com/2012/06/06/top-secret-kh-11-spy...
Look at the satellite temperate record I showed. It is the only believable record at this point, because of terrestrial temperature manipulation by people like Hansen. The linear trend is 0.14 degrees per decade over the last 40 years.

Read Spencer’s book for an alternate point of view. Global warming is real, but it is not catastrophic.
I never said anything about someone giving their work away for free. Roll it into tuition, whatever, but this predatory textbook cartel hustle has to stop.

The professor is giving a class, they're going to teach all of what is in the textbook, and for those who can't write it themselves and use ones written by other professors, they can give out that PDF, they don't have to write one.

I was simply responding to this:

> It's not like there is a cheap alternative that the professors can switch to. All new edition textbooks are expensive. They can't specify out of print editions because then you can't guarantee that your students can get access to them, and the textbook companies update the problems in the books just enough to make using a different edition from the one specified impractical.

in the parent comment. I'm pointing out that there is a cheap alternative. We have had digital documents for decades, there are ways to keep those documents up to date without rewriting the entire document, there is no excuse to have a publisher and distributor for educational companion text documents for students in classrooms. It is glaringly obvious that the status quo with textbooks is artificially maintained even though technologically there is absolutely no reason it has to be this way.
Corollary: Have your interviewers be experts in the specific are you're trying to hire.

If you need a ruby engineer, don't submit them to a generic hiring panel. Have them spend an hour or two talking shop and doing some pair programming with one of your most expert rubyists. Master craftsmen can pick each other out in a second, but a whole hiring panel can fail to spot both bullshit and greatness.
This is true, very true, People often project their own prejudice by labeling/accusing others of the same prejudices. Nothing much can be done about these people other than avoiding dealing with them on a personal front.
I’m not getting a play button on the low-static version. I did manually copy one of the mp3 URLs [1] and it sounds great though. I’m on iOS (Safari on iPad) if that makes a difference.

[1] That saxophone sounds great on headphones! https://archive.org/download/78_all-by-myself_don-cherry-gra...
Everything but taking care of the cause? Pollution. Deforestation. Etc. Here’s a good start: https://www.epa.gov/ghgemissions/global-greenhouse-gas-emiss...
Actually the 2 sets of settings is understandable. They probably had to give it the "modern look" but for compatibility and how users were used to the old "control panel" they had to keep it too. And now you have both!
>If this is the only accessible form of financial gain - why wouldn't they?

It's not that they shouldn't care about their property portfolio, but it shouldn't be the only thing they care about.

For example, the AU government has given away millions to polluters with no appreciable return (https://australiainstitute.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2020/12...).

It also has a terrible track record on human rights.

And that's just the last things I read... there's plenty more (this mandate for instance).
Stolen Inventions
It's actually true if you interpret it as an abusive family. Boundaries aren't respected, always put company's interest above yours, if there's a culture problem (say harassment) it's actually the victim's problem, etc.
The executive summary says:

> The lessons from history should be kept in mind whenever we are told by government officials that “tough,” liberty-limiting actions are needed to protect us from dangerous
diseases. Specifically:

> • Coercion and brute force are rarely necessary. In fact they are generally counterproductive—they gratuitously breed public distrust and encourage the people who are most in need of care to evade public health authorities.

> • On the other hand, effective, preventive strategies that rely on voluntary participation do work. Simply put, people do not want to contract smallpox, influenza or other dangerous diseases.

Empirically, that's not true anymore. A lot of people openly state that they'd prefer to get covid than the vaccine, because they'll be fine, And it may even be true that they'll be fine, but they'll go on to spread it to a lot of other people in the process.

So it makes sense that they would revise their view in the face of new data. As their tweet points out, but not quite so bluntly, people who get infected from unvaccinated partying carriers and die cannot really exercise their civil liberties.
Voting at all in an unegaged populace is bad. Might as well just have a dictator
>there isnt any db load going on here

This is shifting the goal posts. Your initial comment claimed that there are no database queries being made.

In any case, you've amended your argument, I have no further comments.
That's not court; that's an IPR [1]. In court you have a jury of ordinary citizens; in an IPR you have experienced patent people.

As for defense strategy: you're right, but Unity might want a quick hit. They don't want a lengthy proceeding where they might lose.

[1] https://www.uspto.gov/patents/ptab/trials/inter-partes-revie...
I suspect until just recently it was because of the negative gearing policies, but now that Labor has officially scrapped any changes I feel like the differences between the parties gets thinner and thinner.
I think you’re misunderstanding the quote. You’re right but so is the quote.

Strong men fought for our rights, fought for the allies and which led to long lasting peace and security.

These are the times that breed weak generations who have no moral compass and have been squandering basic rights and civil liberties.
Wouldn’t that reduce the available sunlight for photosynthesis? The problem is that we’re trapping more heat per photon.

Reducing the amount of photosynthesis might reduce the carbon fixation by plants. Not sure if that’d be a good idea.
There is a Google earth pro but they made it free. I believe they still have many people active in the GIS space developing products. For example they have a Google earth studio, which is an animation tool.
https://www.google.com/earth/studio/

Earth engine competes with esri datasets
https://earthengine.google.com/
So strange that the vision of an astronaut (or astronauts) high in orbit, operating cameras at the behest of NRO, seems so lonely and futile. Yet to be an astronaut on ISS and its predecessors seems more like worthy communal work. Why the shift is perception?
EVs obey supply and demand, they only mark cars up if they can sell them that way.. they will of course steer people to what makes more money for them.
Are there any Australians here on HN? Who in your country is pushing this BS? What's the selling point? What do media say?
The extra carbon in the air has already made plants more productive so there’s some offset already.
Simply moving my USB mouse consumes 10% of my CPU. Computers these days...
Born in AU so bias is to stay, which leads me to push more for political change required to try to address these problems. Most of your 10 years has been under a particularly bad (and honestly corrupt) federal gov.

Country has a large state capture problem from largely mining companies but also other special interests that have lobbied and . Anything that might threaten those interests is being pretty heavily targeted, including action on climate[0] (See "Gas led recovery", and the use of funds intended to renewables used for things like CCS/CCUS and "blue" hydrogen.). And this is bleeding into laws and enforcement.

Then there is the constant resistance to a federal anti-corruption agency as well as reducing the influence of money on federal politicians (see backbencher/ministers resolving door with lobbying firms).

The conclusion I've (sadly) come to, is that (in the short term at least) more money needs to be thrown at smaller parties and independents to try to combat this. Unlike the USA, Australia has precedent of minority governments and compulsory voting combined with a preference system means that gaining even a small number of lower house/senate seats can make a disproportional impact to the policies being set around Australia. Both major parties are so similar but just switching from Blue to Red is unlikely to result significant change in policies for some of the issues you've raised.

[0] https://www.watoday.com.au/national/western-australia/wa-cou...
The same is true of any patent, even the hardware patent in Flash of Genius [1]

[1] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1054588/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0
> I wonder how much Australia is influenced by people who loathe the US and move from it to Australia because it's far away and yet Anglophone and "western".

No, you don't get to blame Australia's insanity on the US. They're fully in control of their own destiny and are one of the richest, most privileged nations in world history. Australia will have nobody else to blame if they plunge further into fascism from here.
I’m not arguing that the frame shift is identical to rockets, just that assumption breaking probably is a way to avoid such risk laden events like this launch. For example, finding a way to create a flywheel to drive costs down, or a way to take smaller steps, or a way to incentivize more disposable missions that will build on each other but can tolerate some failures. I’m not an expert but the reason rocketry is moving forward again isn’t because of “move fast and break things” per se but from a rethinking of foundational assumptions in general about how rockets “must” be developed that led to that methodology being discovered as a useful one.
You seem to have assumed that I'm a 100% test coverage no matter the context or costs person, and ran with that. I hope you've enjoyed fighting that person, but that's not me. Have a nice day.

edit: I feel like I should remind you that I responded only to the first 2 paragraphs of that comment I'd quoted. I wasn't trying to shame you for editing your comment or anything, just trying to clarify what I was responding to.
In Russian they have the term 'political technology' [1], which means the manipulation of elections by legal means, such as creating momentum for a candidate by means of opionion polls with biased/framed questions. Now according to wikipedia, the second trick in the list are doppelganger candidates. I didn't find a proper translation of the Russian term 'political technology', how do you say that in English?

Correction: 'political consulting' is probably the correct translation, however it doesn't convey the same cynicism expressed by 'political technology'.

[1] https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9F%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%B8%D1%82...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_consulting
In my country we still have a old school communist party, and despite their radical ideas like saying north Korea is a democracy or support maduro in Venezuela, when you hear their political campaign is all about raising minimum wage and a restricted House market. In the other way, when we look at the far right party, it's all about how the immigrants are eating tax money or defending a small government with a total control for one leader.

So it's not that radical left doesn't exist, it's just that they drop their guns and what's left it's not that loud.
The US's other priorities precluded a win in Afghanistan
Ya, but I’ve seen those same responses 4+ years ago. I had to give up on using it for a project years ago as they didn’t support some things and closed the PRs
yeah most that pollution is toxic still... so cooling isn't the only thing we need to fix.
> In Minneapolis they want to dismantle the existing police force and replace it with another. A big reason for wanting to do this is to get rid of the problem cops.

So throw out the whole bunch because of a few bad apples? And what happens when the replacements have problem cops? Do it over again?
Thanks for taking the time to call out obvious casual prejudice, that you did it so articulately and humanly for someone retreating further and further into the facile impression of a robot speaks volumes.
Joshua Fluke [0] has a channel on youtube and he is talking about all these overwork inefficiencies and tricks companies pull to squeeze as much as possible from their employees. His channel has grown over time and he’s getting a lot of negative attention from exploitative CEO and he’s not shy about calling them out.
[0] https://m.youtube.com/c/JoshuaFluke1
Using a browser extension may erode the benefits by increasing your attack surface.

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On your last question, I think it does end-up expanding.

I currently avg. 90hrs a week at 1/3 the pay than my last one that scored better X times on many metrics.

However, although quite draining from many aspects, I enjoy it more and am kinda more happier.