skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It can’t monetize as effectively without users logged in.
Did the migration last night with tune my music[1] and it worked flawlessly. Also, they didn’t want yet another account to spam mail me for months.

[1] https://www.tunemymusic.com/
I wouldn't say so:

Two of the authors - Erich Gamma, John Vlissides - clearly had a background in C++.

Ralph Johnson - clearly had a background in Smalltalk.

Richard Helm - not enough information.

They said -- "We chose Smalltalk and C++ for pragmatic reasons: Our day-to-day experience has been in these languages and they are increasingly popular."

They said -- "Our patterns assume Smalltalk/C++-level language features…"

So when the original Design Patterns book was written, which features did C++ have "that didn't come to Java or Python for almost a decade" ?
The point of life is to enjoy as much as you want. If you want to prove you are the most noble - yes there is a way or most educated, yes there is a way too. You can decide to maximize and minimize whatever you want. Your question comes off as if "What is the point of Life (as decided by someone and I am trying to figure out)". The answer is there is no point set by anyone other than you (or who controls like, if you were in specific countries/area domicile).
I didn’t know this was the case, took a vacation/sabbatical for a year and suddenly couldn’t apply to FAANG anymore because I missed the “graduation cycle”.

I feel so stupid, if I had known then I would have never taken a sabbatical.

In the years that followed I went almost into a depression because of it. Because I worked so hard (obtaining multiple masters) to try to get a shot and never got one. In retrospect, I feel my approach to FAANG was a much riskier endeavor than I realized.

And then it got complicated. People on HN offered to refer me. It never fully worked out. Here is why:
* Sometimes I screwed it up by not strongly chasing after it

* I wasn’t a recent enough grad anymore, I needed to interview for E4

* One time an acquaintance of mine offered to give a referral and then ultimately didn’t but before he didn’t, I declined a referral from a HN’er to the same company because of it

I am working at an okay company, but I feel stuck. I want to work with people that want to treat the company they work for as if it is their own. I want fellow colleagues to be entrepreneurial. I am missing that.
I understand why, but a lot of social media has gone this direction. It feels like a bit of a bait and switch over time.

The deal was we give them free content for eyeballs to serve ads and they give us a platform for exposure. Requiring login as well is a long trend I don’t like.
Would it be helpful to maybe discuss which step of the discussion that people are getting tripped up on?

The core of this particular argument is the following:

> Think about it like this. We have 3 variables:

> 1. Inlet Gas Flow rate (measured by mmscf/d but easily convertible to pounds methane equiv.)

> 2. The VOC content mass % of the inlet stream

> 3. The Loss Rate through leaks in valves, fittings, etc. This is the fraction of the total inlet stream is lost to the air

> We simply multiply these three items together to get:

> 4. The VOC emission rate in tons per year (US short tons are EPA standard)

> Since we know #4 (The PEA told us), we know #2 (Pipeline Quality Gas is always <0.1% VOCs, and usually lower), and #3 is a range (with modern cryo plants at the lower end), we can simply go backwards to calculate implied flow rate

#1 is what this post is trying to calculate, to see what is or isn't reasonable.

#4 is the PEA: https://www.faa.gov/space/stakeholder_engagement/spacex_star...

And is basically the starting point of all calculations. Just Ctrl-F "45.8", the number that ESG_Hound uses in his excel-spreadsheet. That gets you to page 44, the number seems to check out. This post is trying to answer the question: when they wrote this PEA, what assumptions did the engineers make?

#3 is a reasonable assumption that doesn't change much.

The last variable is #2: which has two paths:

1. 99.9% pure pipeline methane -- When we plug in 99.9% pure methane into the calculations, the numbers are absurd. This is a "disproof by absurdity". So we know it can't be 99.9% methane from standard pipelines.

2. Maybe its "raw" methane from a well (varies from 3% to 10%). -- When plugging in these numbers, we calculate a 4.77% VOC rate, which suggests that all the calculations in the PEA were done __ASSUMING__ raw methane.

Now sure, our model isn't going to be the same model as whoever prepared this PEA. but we're probably going to be "within the same magnitude". Calculations, when done independently, will rhyme.

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It seems like a simple argument to me. What part of the discussion are people getting tripped up on?

When using 99.9% pure methane, the amount of Mega-scf of natural gas goes completely out of whack with any reasonable excel-sheet formula. As such, 99.9% pipeline methane cannot be the source of SpaceX's methane (at least, not with the assumptions listed in the PEA).

Does anyone have a problem with any of the assumed numbers? #1, #2, #3 or #4?

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So the QED is: SpaceX, when they wrote this PEA, assumed they'd be using raw, untreated natural gas straight from a well. Why would they make this assumption? Is SpaceX planning to set up a pre-treatment natural gas plant inside of Starbase?
I had absolutely no problem starting my career at a major tech company as a self taught developer. The severely disadvantaged were actually the CS grads. They really wanted everything to look like OOP Java and until somebody mentored them otherwise their code was either verbose Java or (if not writing Java language) some kind of mysterious curse. The big employers preferred to hire CS grads to write Java even if it’s garbage because they were easy to find and you knew what you were getting.
> Electricity markets have been exhaustively researched for ~2 decades (the type we have in the US) and even longer for economic power systems in general.

Do you think these cost functions properly price disruptions? I'm saying this because the US is an order of magnitude less reliable than in Europe, and most of these costs are pushed onto consumers. E.g. When the power goes out and I have to throw away food or lose a day of work, PG&E has never compensated me for that. It's externalized. Now imagine a scenario where lots of people rely on the grid to charge their cars.

I'm really skeptical of the obsessive hyper-optimization that's going on. If you have a situation where there is an extremely cheap energy provider that is highly unreliable, it could drive out of business the more expensive, reliable provider, and that needs to be taken into account. The zero or negative spot prices that were common in Texas as a result of windpower look to be an example of that pathology at work.
Hmm, no I don't think Georgia or South Carolina are too far north, I'd be more worried that their coasts look pretty populated - and generally I'd expect that to be doubly the case around river mouths.

To put some numbers on the "north"ness.

Boca chica is at 26 degrees north, which gives you 416 m/s free velocity (1500 km/h) [1]. The southernmost point of Georgia's coast is at 30 degrees or 401 m/s, the southernmost point of South Carolina's coast is at 32 degrees or 393 m/s.

Actually calculating payload to orbit is more work that I don't really want to do, but you can find someone else who put in the work on this stack overflow question [2], just for different latitudes and a different rocket. 28 to 30 degrees is roughly a .3% change in payload capacity in their model.

You're definitely not the first to suggest Peurto Rico, but I think you have the same problem of there not being enough empty land [3].

[1] https://www.google.com/search?q=%28%282+*+pi+*+6378.14+km+%2...

[2] https://space.stackexchange.com/questions/998/how-much-of-an...

[3] https://www.quora.com/Why-don-t-we-build-a-rocket-launch-sit...
Micah 6:8? He has shown you, O mortal, what is good. And what does the LORD require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God.
Thinkpad t14, intel version, 48 gigs of ram, 1TB ssd, win10 with wsl2.. using it for ~6 months now, i switched from osx, no complaints so far
Same. I don't see how a connection to random server X should eat more battery compared to Google.
Instagram/facebook have locked up public intended content behind login as well.
Just for you, I fixed up this line in the book to make it clearer. Issue reports about things like this is docs and clarity are always welcome!
All because the market mechanisms don't pay sufficiently for consistency of supply, allowing cheap solar to take all the load when the sun is shining.

You can run nuclear some of the time but it doesn't make sense to pay for it by the minute. Turning it off will make more money for the generators because prices will skyrocket. Regulatory failure all round.
That's how some of our engineers started.
> requiring replacement even if you only use it occasionally

I'd say especially if you only use occasionally, given how many times I sometimes had to run the head-clean on the last inkjet I used, every time it was left alone for a couple of weeks.

At the time I ran a B&W laser for bulk (and letters & other documents that needed to be crisp) and the inkjet for occasional photos and other colour work. I now just have a colour laser and on the rare occasion I need better photo quality I get a print done commercially.

Be careful on your selection of laser printer though, some are far more expensive than others wrt consumables, and/or far less reliable, especially as the not-silly-expensive-for-home-use end of the market.
Ironically I couldn’t see Amy’s tweet when signed in I had to sign out!

“ You’re unable to view this Tweet because this account owner limits who can view their Tweets. ”

Limited to friends and completely anonymous people I guess!
Would help if you could be more specific here but aside from hardware (macbook/iPhone) there's alternatives (not just competitive but also plain better ones) to just about every service Apple provides.
Ghost ghosted their trial customer. Perhaps the reason of the name
Back when lastfm still had a radio it had a ban button and that was essential (think it got removed after getting bought)
Have any actual data support this claim?

Because reality generally disagrees with your assessment.
I'd like something similar for Netflix. Let me click a "never show me this again" button. It would unclutter the interface so quickly.

I suspect the reason we'll never see such a feature is because it would be quite revealing how little content Netflix has that is of interest to any one person, and how much filler they have.
iOS WiFi SSID bug. I think it's worth reinforcing first the critical security principle Bruce Schneier captured when he wrote that: "Attacks always get better. They never get worse." Okay. Recall last month Apple iOS WiFi SSID bug that we had fun talking about. That was the one security researcher Carl Schou tweeted: "After joining my personal WiFi with the SSID '%p%s%s%s%s%n,' my iPhone permanently disabled its WiFi functionality. Neither rebooting nor changing SSID fixes it." And of course that led to the discovery that they had not sanitized the SSID string prior to presenting it to a function, you know, some version of printf which was interpreting those percent things as things to be expanded and looking for parameters on the stack or from the caller that weren't there, thus causing a crash. And the concern was, as Bruce points out, attacks always get better. So maybe this could be leveraged into such an attack. https://www.grc.com/sn/sn-828.txt https://twitter.com/vm_call/status/1405937492642123782?lang=...
It's worth one dollar because, at least until now, Tether has sold as many as people will buy for 1 dollar, and bought as many as people will sell for 1 dollar. I get that everyone hates Tether, and I'm not a huge fan myself, but that doesn't mean that high school econ gets thrown out because you're emotional.
Have you read about illusion of control (search for elevator door button for one well known example)? If we take the idea that recommendations are really hard and dislike button doesn't help at face value, wouldn't it still improve the user experience to give them the illusion that they can directly affect the recommendations?

I'm not really convinced about recommendations being hard, though. Pandora could do them a long time ago, Netflix had good recommendations at one point but not since they dropped the star ratings and at some point Amazon wasn't that bad either.
Here's a yt channel about a small sour dough bread baker. Although I think they started by buying out another one-person-garage operation. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPYHRKEqMycep7r5kO-1org
>All of the objections you raise could have been remedied in the recently-enacted legislation across the country. All they had to do was require state-funded schools to put the same info found on a DL or CCL on their student ids.

I can hear leftists screeching from here over this proposal. That's exactly what Republicans want... Now student IDs can't be issued to illegal immigrants, need the same verifications required for DLs, which is White supremacy or something.

> school in most cases already knows this information because they need it to verify the tuition rate for which a student qualifies.

Which is hilariously inaccurate. I knew many students who feigned residency to save themselves tens of thousands.

>But GOP-run state legislatures didn’t do this and the reason why seems obvious given the public intonations coming from these individuals.

Because it was shot down by Democrats. Republicans just want to bring the US to the 21st century and match what the rest of the first-world countries are doing. Anything else is regressive.

Nonetheless, as far as Texas is concerned, students can get a free voter ID that qualifies, so the student ID point is moot.
They could just ask. I promise my answers will be more accurate than any AI guessing for me.
I’m pretty sure that comment is saying the red flag is NOT having an unrelated job (given they don’t have tech experience, which many understandably won’t). Def ambiguous tho
Not at all. If someone says "I have two peer-reviewed manuscripts ready for publication: one proving fermat's last theorem in 10 lines and one proving that P=NP in 5 lines" then it is fine to say "You are lying". If the person is using non-standard definitions of "peer-reviewed" or "proving", then that is their decision one consequence of which is that they should expect to be called a liar.

In any case "they do not want me to live" is clearly a lie -- or are you going to introduce me to some new bending of language under which "they do not want me to live" does not mean "they want me to die"? Perhaps it means "they do not want me to live in the way that I want to live"? If so, as I said above, a risk of using language in such an extremely non-standard fashion is clearly that people will entirely reasonably mistake your statements for lying. Any attempt you make to tell me to do more research into what people mean by their words is just devaluing language and damaging communication: there has to be some rough consensus on semantics! That's what a language is!
I don't live in the US but I doubt that's true in most places given that adult porn is way easier to access than gore. "Pornhub" is a household name, on the other hand, assuming they're not particularly interested in gore, chances are most people can't cite the name of a site specializing in distributing real gore.
If you liked those, might want to give One Step From Eden a try. It's a mix of deck building combat + real time action, quite fast paced and is technically well done.
This is exactly what Kanidm does, and there is already some ideas around application password validation via the LDAP facade.
> That means removing the GIL would all of a sudden break a lot of code

So par for the course for the PSF?
Hmm, define privacy.

Some snails mate while hanging down from a tree branch by a thread of slime. That's about as private as a snail can get.
I assume they are working on it, and in the meantime employees are going out of their way to help where possible in a way that doesn’t scale.
From Ghost CEO's email:

> Years ago, when l was younger and knew better, used to be very aggressive to companies on Twitter and lecture them about how they should do business. It was awful, honestly, and I regret how I behaved.

Even ignoring the obvious typo, it is a little condescending indeed.
Here's hoping they get ahead of everyone else technology wise.
> You don't get bootcamps for doctors or airline pilots.

There are essentially bootcamp programs to get pilot licenses. Most people I know who have or were pursing a license would do a couple hour class once a week or so, but you can also sign up for bootcamp style courses where you do a focused, 8ish hours a day, 5 day a week program for a month or so and assuming all goes well, end up with a pilot license. Of course, a license doesn't get you a airline job, you'll need to do additional training and acquire flight hours.

Software jobs don't have hours requirements like many professional fields (usually through license requirements), so that makes it a lot easier to get in.
It would be great if people could choose what software goes on a $20 Bluetooth speaker with a built in mic.

There would be huge kudos to Amazon if they had so much confidence in their product that they also let you choose:)
> Something that would be like CDK for k8s could actually be amazingly useful.

Such thing surely does exist: https://cdk8s.io. And here's the relevant announcement blog post: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/containers/introducing-cdk-for-....
I previously explained why this is a terrible idea:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28058184
> This does make sense, but it is odd that the existing gas market is not sufficient.

Its not very clear why the PEA is setup in this manner at all. We know that SpaceX wouldn't ask for something from the regulators unless they had a plan for it, but that's about it.

I think it would have been reasonable to just pipe 99.9% pure methane from some other producer (it is Texas after all, surely there's a supplier out there willing to sell a bunch of methane to SpaceX??).

What's absurd is that the PEA calculations seem to be calculated from the standpoint of a raw-mining operation, and not pre-treated methane. This implies that SpaceX is planning on purifying its own methane, instead of buying it up from a large market that already exists in the area.

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I'm sure rocket fuel needs more treatment steps than commodity natural gas. But starting from commodity natural gas probably would have been easier, rather than starting from a well?
Yup - cancelled my Spotify account a year ago, after they changed the UI for the 15th time, making features that I wanted to use harder, and pushing things on me that I don't want (podcasts). And introducing bugs constantly in some of the non-default features that I used a lot (eg. changing playlist sort order was broken at one point). Add to that their shuffle playing the same ~20% of songs in my playlists, and never hearing the other 80%, for some unknown reason. Then being gaslit when I tried to report "bugs".

It was just constantly frustrating to battle them, so I switched to Tidal, and it's been amazing. The UI is just simple and lets me play music, and nothing has broken in the last year. The only changes have been minor improvements that make it even easier to do the one thing that I want: to play music.
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The radio feature is awesome to discover new music. You can make a short playlist of a few songs you like, and start a radio from that. You can later tweak the playlist to change what you get in the radio while it’s playing.
A "dislike" button would be helpful, but what I really want is a "I already own this album / track, and your recommendation is completely spot-on" button.

You recommended this to me, and I agree 100% with your recommendation. Now that would be brilliant.
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Not OP, but I think they're suggesting to spend a bit more time listening to customers, and a bit less time thinking that you know better what they want then they do themselves, even if you believe that your experience and expertise would make it that you do.

I'm using the impersonal "you" here. Don't know if you do that specifically, but OP seems to complain about software workers who do have this tendency, and seems to think that eventually leads to losing the customer.
Oh happy days :) Spotify recommendations - at least for me - are generally useless. It feels like "here are some palatable suggestions. You might not actually like them but we're confident they're inoffensive (in a not at all interesting sort of way)." Mind you my range of musical styles is wide. But I went 2 or 3 weeks listening to Daily Mixes and heard nothing at all worthy of my attention.

I hope Google does similar with YouTube. Why does it keep suggesting things I've scrolled past 5 or 10 times?
I did this to send someone a birthday message in 2010 or so.
Fight the global warming: compile your C# apps ahead of time (2019)
For normal moderately inclined orbits the boost is still greatest at the equator, just always less than for non inclined orbits (until you start launching retrograde).

The soviet launch site was indeed chosen for other reasons than maximizing payload... in particular I think I recall that it was largely motivated by avoiding launching over China, and being in an empty enough part of the world that it's unlikely to kill to many people (despite launching over land).
There is some logic. It's heading towards MMT

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_Monetary_Theory

Many people misunderstand what MMT actually is, cherry pick parts and call that MMT. It's interesting concept, I dont think it will work but many do.
I think this is actually a great argument for incredibly stringent anti-trust that prevents companies from getting very big at all. Successfully scaling inevitably produces extremely undesirable outcomes for anyone not invested in the company, including customers who have to integrate the heavy level of process into their usage, employees who have to deal with all the process but don't personally reap much of its benefits, competitors who are edged out by economies of scale more significantly than other competitive edges, and reactionary regulation to harms caused by all this that tend to create both more entry barriers for competitors and more process. Scale and automated processes are a means of reducing risk for shareholders and rigging competition, and preventing them should be a priority for everyone who isn't already wealthy enough to angel-invest (And probably those who are too, ultimately, although this does not bear out in the short term)
How could people dismiss real world data that you didn't share? You only shared your interpretation of it and people pointed to lots of ways that this interpretation could be wrong. What data is this? Did you conduct a survey asking people if they “want” a dislike button? Or did you just measure usage frequency of the dislike button and decided that people didn't want it because it wasn't used as frequently as the like button? How could low usage frequency mean users don't “want” it?
No, I definitely didn’t mean SWE. I quoted the post I was replying to and they said ‘developer.’

Honestly, it seems like a bootcamp is a great way to get introduced to the possibility of an entry-level job as a developer but not an SWE.
>>since the treasury can always buy them.

Inflation will have a say in that... Zimbabwe here we come.

I cant wait until I need a virtual truck load of dollars to buy a loaf of bread because the "treasury can issues the currency"
You must be blocked… either for a reason, or part of a block list or I blocked you accidentally when blocking ads which has happened a few times. What’s your username?