skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Mercury has a some great advantages for a Dyson swarm:

- It is extremely metals and mineral rich, perfect for building the billions of giant mirrors required for a Dyson swarm.

-It's already really close to the sun, so you don't need as much energy to get your mirrors in a lower solar orbit, compared to earth.

-Because it's close to the sun, it receives a lot more energy too, which can be used to power machine and...

-It has no atmosphere and little gravity, so the swarm can be launched with simple electromagnetic mass drivers.

-It has plenty of water, so the few human operators required to control the machines remotely in real-time can live very comfortably at the poles (or in deep trenches in lower latitudes).

I agree that human colonization of Mercury is going to remain very limited, only because of the trouble of landing there. But you won't find a better planet to mine and launch billions of mirrors.
LN has 75k channels right now and 3k BTC locked https://1ml.com/

Did the GP provide any specific reason why LN can't scale other than "here's a link to youtube from 2018?"
My ex was obsessed with League of Legends. She'd escape to that game whenever life got tough, though she played it frequently regardless. I can understand how video games in general offer an accessible form of escapism to those who are suffering IRL. I wonder if there is any benefit to it though.
Do you know of any good ways to find these ultra-local sources of goods efficiently?
1 - Hide your ETL logic in REST APIs and use common microservice patterns for monitoring, logging, etc...

2 - Use PythonOperator to call your APIs.

It's working really well for us.
I'd assume from the government of the country which the vessel is flagged under. For example needing a Merchant Mariner's Credential if a US ship.
Yes but I never had the copyright in the first place. This isn't about the copyright. I know I don't own it. This is about control of the project.
Screen Sharing and Privacy
Um, which network? Internet? any communications/social net? My stack of tech journals unread, novels unread, tech books with interesting sections unread, and the code projects waiting for feature additions and bug fixes could easily last at least a year, if not a lifetime...
I would like to buy shares too, but not if an IPO would mean SpaceX changing into something substantially different and less good than they are now. I don't know that there has to be an inherent conflict between meeting shareholder expectations and being a positive influence on the world, but empirically it seems that few companies are able to do the latter at the same level post-IPO.
> Compare this with a vaccine that promises N years of immunity.

Except that they've backtracked: it no longer promises "immunity" and apparently it no longer promises "years".

The vaccine doesn't have to be the best possible. It's obviously hard to make a good one; the problem is, the biggest players are the ones best suited to put the work in for a good vaccine, and if they don't choose to, it's possible they can just swallow up a smaller player that does manage to pull it off.

There's been so many conversations on HN about the antitrust situation with the big tech corporations; is it so hard to consider that maybe there's a similar situation in biotech?

Consumers aren't looking for the best vaccine; they're looking for the first one available, so they can be less scared about dying. That's the metric that's visible and desirable.
Notion Reaches raises $275M at a $10B Valuation
I think ships are a bit like the wild west... one of the last “anything goes” jurisdictions. The cruise industry especially goes to great lengths to avoid regulatory oversight at all costs.
Local BuyNothing groups are great for this.
You can't "buy less stuff" when the things we're talking about are necessities, often times food and critical supplies like fuel. Container ships don't just ship you game consoles and televisions.

And even if you managed to reduce all private consumption to zero, commercial consumption probably makes up an order of magnitudes more than private does. It doesn't matter what YOU do, you can't change the scales that these ships operate.

The only thing that will fix this is government intervention and fines that make it less cost effective to abandon the ship than to deal with the consequences.
Is it due to rsync doing deltas itself?

Do you revision control this content somewhere?
There actually was such a situation during the wars near Suez Canal - the Great Bitter Lakes Association or the Yellow fleet [1][2]

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_Fleet

2. https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/great-bitter-lake-ass...
OpenVaers is a public reporting tool - anyone can type data into there. Unfiltered, it is basically junk, and claiming it as data against the COVID-19 vaccines is dishonest scaremongering.

https://www.factcheck.org/2021/03/scicheck-viral-posts-misus...
I think the tech companies will keep their headquarters in Ireland even after this - Ireland is still not going to raise it's corporate tax rate above 15%, there's inertia, and Ireland is now the only native English-speaking country in the EU (except maybe for Malta).
You're right. HIV isn't just another communicable disease in someone with an undetectable viral load, it's just another untransmissible disease [0].

[0]https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/27209...
A ban? Fine, whatever, their house their rules.

A cease and desist for making a browser extension that automates a process that any user could themselves do with no special "hacking" required? Absolutely absurd, I hope there is no legal basis for this threat.
This is absolutely not how it works. You have a fundamental misunderstanding of the RNA vaccine mechanism of action.
Yeah the first one is a risk. I've met one whom I had to take over the code of when he left and psh, I wished he was a dumbass instead. He could produce shitloads (but would never test, interestingly), do stuff I honestly can't do, but do you really need to bitshift instead of doing a modulo to save 1 CPU instruction ?

The amount of obscure waste of programming complexity made us actually just abandon the thing he spent years on to just not do it. And everything works fine and we still make money and we're just probably a little bit less clever about how we do it. We also have a lot more time to listen to users and solve their problems, rather than gloat on our genius and solve our own created problems :D

Your second example is inspiring and I hope to meet one to learn from too !
I remember seeing a few articles on the mainstream Reddit boards (/r/coronavirus and /r/medicine) studies coming out of Israel and Japan. But some say it's not peer reviewed yet?

https://www.science.org/content/article/having-sars-cov-2-on...
Yeah, it is rather power-hungry but I'll likely be on shore power most of the time I'm using it. For the times I'm not, I've budgeted for much more battery capacity than a typical yacht would need as part of the liveaboard conversion work.
Even decades after reunification, the socioeconomic differences between areas that used to be East and West Germany are still very apparent.
But you can "buy less stuff" in general. And that will reduce your impact.
HN: Are Red Hat certifications worth it?
Are any of the RedHat certifications (https://www.redhat.com/en/services/certifications) worth taking given that I have access to them through my employer? What is the quality like? Do any of them particularly stand out? Have you experienced any career benefit from taking them?
Thank you. Yeah, I realize it has a different purpose, but I guess I'm more concerned about not getting bitten than about killing mosquitos en masse :)

The point about harmful poison is very valid though. Definitely good to know and to avoid extended use. I'm less keen on buying it now, even though the protection from bites sounds promising.
If there is a legal basis for this threat, I guess most browser extensions are at risk.
Since much of the Internet is social activity, I'd try to replace it with some real life socialization.
I looked into Datasette before starting ROAPI. From a product/use-case point of view, to me Datasette focuses more on quick and easy ad-hoc data exploration type of work. ROAPI focuses more production ready online serving of static datasets. So I would expect users to use ROAPI to power micro-services in production with high QPS.

From a technical design point of view, ROAPI authors owns the full stack end to end from query parsing, data format parsing to query execution because I am also a maintainer of Apache arrow and it's sub-project datafusion. The whole project is built with Rust end to end from scratch. Datasette is mostly a wrapper around sqlite. It translates user actions into SQL queries, then execute them on sqlite. In ROAPI, we work at a lower level. We translate REST APIs, GraphQL and SQLs into datafusion logical plans and execute them. Datafusion is also a analytical compute engine optimized for columnar data, so it will be a lot faster for OLAP workload, while sqlite is optimized for OLTP. I also plan to add other type of query capabilities like nearest neighbor vector search for ML applications, etc.
Except you are at the whim and mercy of Tesla to keep providing updated support using lidar. They will probably just not use the lidar any more and merely use the cameras(which you also have) like they are on the 2021 Model 3/Y
It's only illogical if you ignore second order effects. Think of it this way: if knowingly exposing someone to HIV is a felony, are you more or less likely to know your status? From a health perspective, the priority is getting people to get tested and get treatment. Those laws run counter to that.

Not only is HIV treatable nowadays, it's also not particularly easy to contract, especially if the person is on ARVs. Let's do a thought experiment. If you're the receptive parter in anal sex with a partner with a detectable viral load, what do you suppose the chances of contracting HIV are? 1 in 5? 1 in 20? 1 in 50?

It's 1 in 72 (1.38%).

What about if the insertive partner is undetectable? Same thought experiment. 1 in 100? 1 in 1000? Trick question: it's 0%.

https://www.aidsmap.com/about-hiv/estimated-hiv-risk-exposur...

Making it a felony to expose someone to a disease that is treatable and only has, at most, a 1.38% of even being contracted is just wrong headed, a carry-over from a time when we didn't know much about HIV and when we didn't have safe, effective treatments.
Orion has Keychain sync (won't re-use your Safari keychain items obviously) and you can use Sign in with Apple
This piece by the actual developer, linked within TFA, seems better:

https://slate.com/technology/2021/10/facebook-unfollow-every...
Maersk's insurer, or more likely, legal team wouldn't permit something like this because of the liability they'd carry for enabling it. It wouldn't get past that point to a discussion of region-specific employment restrictions, not that they matter here per your comment.
https://www.spec.org/jbb2015/docs/designdocument.pdf

SPECjbb is a large, Java benchmark. The idea is to create a "realistic enterprise system", and then measure the number of requests before 100ms latency is violated (aka: critical-jOPs), as well as maximum throughput (aka: max-jOPs). The general model is on a hypothetical Supermarket: each time a POS system scans things, the Headquarters has to double-check the status of coupons, report back to the POS system and determine if coupons are still valid.

These hypothetical messages are GZipped XML that's getting passed back and forth between distinct JVMs, across the Grizzly-based non-blocking HTTPS server (default).

The benchmark artificially shoves more-and-more requests through the system until the 100ms response time is violated (ex: the system is beginning to show signs of being overburdened). Then it continues to shove more data into the system until the maximum throughput is measured.

It involves many JVMs doing many different tasks and communicating over Java-APIs. Thread pools, IPC, sockets, XML, HTTPS, encryption, the whole shebang.
The probability of mid-air collisions actually went up in step with the finer granularity of GPS systems.

> The navigation paradox states that increased navigational precision may result in increased collision risk. In the case of ships and aircraft, the advent of Global Positioning System (GPS) navigation has enabled craft to follow navigational paths with such greater precision (often of the order of plus or minus 2 meters), that, without better distribution of routes, coordination between neighboring craft and collision avoidance procedures, the likelihood of two craft occupying the same space on the shortest distance line between two navigational points has increased. [1]

It got to the point on many routes where regulators had to mandate an offset in opposite directions along common flight paths to effect "lanes" of traffic. [2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Navigation_paradox

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_lateral_offset_proce...
They're the same thing if your day-to-day productivity requires invention, as it does in Carmack's case (and I would argue most programmers)
Hard to read this comment and not see it as putting an equivalence between these two points. How are anti-Semitic conspiracies regarding miscegenation comparable to annoying virtue signaling by white people?

The comment doesn't regard sort of right-leaning conservatism, these websites cater to the far right, anti-Semitism, conspiracy theories, racism, etc. Not the ambiguous, "having an afro is cultural appropriation" sort of racism (or what far left/idpol people consider racism may be), literally people calling for ethnostates and even genocide of groups of people. That's the problem and part of why these sites die, because they get populated by extremists who get kicked off of the larger, corporate platforms.

That's the problem. Nothing to do with "sensitivity online" or whatever, unless sensitivity includes being bothered by fringe ideologies that most of the population don't accept.
It’s probably because extension was recording usage of Facebook. They are cracking down on any type of user data collection even with user consent. Which is ironic but in some way makes sense to avoid another Cambridge Analytica.

Edit: to clarify confusion, author of the extension worked with university to collect user data to use for study: https://slate.com/technology/2021/10/facebook-unfollow-every...
It should include Hep C at the least.
A verbal agreement? Wouldn't it just be a he-said-she-said scenario? Or do you think people will have a written agreement? And even then, diseases can spread even with a condom. And, I would presume, the perpetrator will claim it was an accident it slipped out.
As someone in the fintech industry, this isn't accurate. There are a sizable number of services that offer no-monthly-fee, no-minimum-balance accounts. The real reason people are often unbanked is that these types of accounts tend to have extremely high fraud (or at least attempted fraud) rates. As such, their KYC requirements as well as their fraud systems will kick out people, for example, who have a substantial past history of overdrafts.

I'll be blunt: it is extremely difficult to service this population of users profitably. Their balances are low, they're more likely to use less "automatable" forms of service (e.g. no direct deposit but instead sending in physical checks or cash), and their fraud rates are much higher. Which, given that, is why I'm very much in favor of a government service that would provide banking services to this population at cost.
> 11. One of the biggest differences between a senior engineer and a junior engineer is that they’ve formed opinions about the way things should be

I don't like this one. IMO it tells you nothing and assumes everyone shares the same culture of pushing opinions.
Sure you can. Maybe not forever, but for a really long time. At least long enough for you to turn a serious profit and get out.

As the saying goes, the market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent. TFA isn't really about markets, but the same principle applies. People aren't rational, and can deny reality indefinitely.

The reckoning comes eventually, but even when it does, it's almost always messy and unclear. You're practically never forced to admit that you're wrong, even if it's obvious.

Going with reality is the safe bet. But real winners, and real leaders, can look for an edge by skirting the safe bet. Maybe reality will slam them in the face for it, but it may not. If it always did, we wouldn't have to write articles about it.
There's an other Steve at Apple who loves that kind of tinkering however.
Neither the techspot nor the slate article link to the tool the entire article is about.

Here is a direct link to the tool:

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/unfollow-everyone-...

Why do news organisations resist linking users to the source of news so heavily?
Agree. If I were the interviewer I would probably do the same. Asking about how people spend their life can also reveal a lot about their personality as well.
That keynote is great. It feels like looking up and seeing the sun from the floor of a deep hole you've been too focused on digging.
> Fine, whatever, their house their rules

When they are the de facto form of communication for a significant percentage of the population, it starts to go from "their rules" territory to "society's rules".

Can you imagine being cut off from the phone system 40 years ago because you were selling answering machines?
It must not. "Being underwater" is a state that describes the value of your asset vs the loan. If your house is worth more than the mortgage balance then you cannot be underwater even if you don't rent it at all.

In the current situation, when the realty appreciates at >10% per year (in Austin, at least) it's not a very smart decision to sell or renovate the house if you cannot find a tenant willing to cover all your expenses.

For example: Zillow shows my house appreciating 10K per month, my mortgage+tax+insurance is 3K, assuming Zillow is in the right ballpark, it makes sense for me to keep the house even if I can't find tenants for 3K (similar houses in the area used to rent for 2K-3K last time I've checked).
So you admit we are comparing two edge lords from opposing sides of the political spectrum. Thank you.

You started this by mis-categorizing an edge lord as an "extremist".
XML would be truly semantic
As far as I can tell, Jon and Scott are Microsoft dev evangelists. It really isn't their place to step into .NET Foundation issues.

It might be even more weird if they did try weigh in.
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Introduction on Doing a Symbolic Execution
Like it or not, when interviewing for a job, you're doing a sales presentation. A good sales presentation doesn't open by saying what you want. It opens by finding out what the customer's problems are, then you demonstrate that you can solve them, then when the customer is sold the price negotiation starts.

If you want to vet a company's benefits and culture beforehand, which is a good idea, do the homework first and research it before getting into the sales process.
I manually unfollowed almost every friend and every page I followed a couple years ago. My feed is now a very limited selection of gaming and media posts that I enjoy immensely. No politics at all and almost nothing in my feed from actual individuals that I know. I ended up enjoying Facebook again, even if in a very different way.

It was a tedious process and a tool like this could help a lot of people find their own value in the platform by getting a fresh start. Sadly, FB has no interest in that and would rather corral us in ways as to maximize their own benefit, not ours.
Silly and unnecessary law. The law they're amending arguably already made such contact illegal, this bill only adds two additional subsections specifically listing condom removal and subsequent touching as being offensive. Laws such as these should be written broadly, not narrowly/specifically. By including these two subsections the Legislature is indicating to defense attorneys everywhere that the existing broader language somehow did not already deem "stealthing" as harmful or offensive contact, which can be used to argue that a bunch of other sexual acts are not harmful or offensive contact unless specifically mentioned in the broader section. Good job busy body legislators!

Edit: On further reading this law also makes it an offense if the condom falls off during sex. "A person commits a sexual battery who does any of the following ... Causes contact between a sexual organ, from which a condom has been removed, and the intimate part of another who did not verbally consent to the condom being removed." So if you cause contact after condom removal, regardless of how or why that condom was removed, you are now liable for sexual battery. Fantastic! /s

https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtm...
I know this sounds weird but are we getting to the stage where you need some sort of legal agreement before you have sex with someone. I knew someone who after taking loads of drugs had sex with someone, regretted it and accused that person of rape. I don’t really know what to make of this particular thing but I’m pretty sure drunk people have sex and condoms fall off all the time, how are we to know that person deliberately removed the condom?
Discussed yesterday too

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28788821
Beta tester here, "Sign in with Apple" works in Orion
Yeah, I haven’t pulled the trigger, but they’re by far the best $/watt I’ve seen.
Due to some fun things happening all at once, I have been without internet at home, but for a work phone, for about four months. I'll get around to doing something about it but I can keep myself entertained, surprisingly.
Cross-functional collaboration: what is this and how it works in IT
Yes starship will open up a lot of opportunities, however the market is not large enough unless spaceX creates it themselves.

Falcon 9 already launches more than 50% of all Payload sent to orbit today.

They will have the launch airline or cargo service company too not just build starship and get regulatory approvals, promote, sell tickets/capacity and provide customer service etc.

All risky steps in a possible side use case for the starship program. Realistically none of this happening before mars missions start likely 2030s.
First facebook tries to take down the entire internet with their bgp spam, and now this?
I imagine it's more so, at least according to the article as well, that this extension is automating user interactions.

As an example of automated user interactions: It's clearly not allowed to use an extension that will automatically follow on Instagram in order to increase your follower count.

Sadly, although this extension should morally be categorized differently, it falls into the same category per their rules — automatically following is treated the same as automatically unfollowing. (In fact, a common feature of automatic follower bots is to automatically unfollow afterwards).
> There's been so many conversations on HN about the antitrust situation with the big tech corporations; is it so hard to consider that maybe there's a similar situation in biotech?

Sure there is. Sure there are. You hear about them when the antitrust law goes into effect. And? We obviously don't live in a world where all the software is intentionally filled with bugs, so at best you can use that as evidence that the antitrust laws are doing _something_. You can hardly use that as evidence that they are ineffective and there are trusts everywhere.

> Consumers aren't looking for the best vaccine; they're looking for the first one available

Apparently not, since they seem to get angry if they've used the one that "lasts for 6 months". Certainly there is no practical durability information right now, but are you arguing that once there is, they won't flee to the one that promises longer-term "protection"?