skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Way to be! It's silly how often employers overlook the "I just really want to be part of/build this" factor. People with that make for excellent teammates.
*Trademark. Copyright protects creative works.
Weathering the Weather
You need to improve reliability and have a mobile crew you can dispatch on an emergency. Most mechanical engines do not need a maintenance crew on-site all the time, including the much larger and more complex electricity generators and the disaster-prone airplanes.

About pirates, no, they work will become much harder if you don't have anybody they can point a gun to and tell to stop the ship.
Ask HN: Is Cipro Safe?
I was prescribed for an infection and the warnings seem crazy. Lots of people online say it messed them up bad. Is this stuff safe? Hoping there’s some classic HN interactions here where a world class expert weighs in.
As a herbal observation, it seems like such a scam that medical pamphlets will list possible side-effects, but not frequencies.

Knowing that one person in one thousand saw some issue is very different from 20% of people. Especially as almost every medication I've ever seen advertised has a list two pages long of possible side effects.

How is a person supposed to make an informed judgment?
We wrote an article about pros/cons of online solutions vs WordPress vs CLI solutions vs Kit55 a few days ago: https://medium.com/@mickey_55/kit55-an-unconventional-tool-f...
I dunno about 10x engineers, but there definitely tends to be a person who knows everything on many teams. I noticed over time that if I need to ask a random question about project A, I always ping the same 1-2 people from team A for most As... then I feel bad that I'm always bothering them, start asking someone else, get vague/incorrect/lazy answers, and go back to the same person anyway ;)

I don't think it is always a senior person though... it's often a junior engineer who's been there a while.
I appreciate this methodology for getting stuff done, It's how I do my programming work, but I really do want to just "learn math" for the fun of it, like a puzzle, not make work. I was reading Descartes and he was writing about how the practice of math structured his thinking and I'd like to try to recreate that in myself. Maybe creating a project would be the best way to do it, but that seems like work rather than play to me.
The 13” screen enables me to do split windows and multi task effectively. I don’t see split windows working well on an 10.5”. Having said that - iPad’s can connect to external monitors so 10.5” might just be a perfect size. K33g over at GitLab (who is also a core committer to golang) uses a 10.5”

https://twitter.com/k33g_org?s=20

> I still find magical everytime I pick it up

So magical. I love mine so so much. If it could run Xcode natively it would be so much better and I would not need to carry around my M1 MacBook Pro.
Is it a simple checkbox in the preferences dialogue or do I need to edit a config file for that?
I believe the parent was referring to Codecademy itself.
I love how hacky this solution is (yet inspiring that it drives a business).
probably purchased after they started making money.
Thread on Twitter.[0]

[0] https://twitter.com/KariByron/status/1451606781319385096
You basically want Cinema 4D mograph. Unfortunately, Blender does not do that at all, unless you use Animation nodes addon, which works, but it's an addon.
For the curious: https://www.t-mobile.com/coverage/coverage-map
Great questions.

Yes, we match the raw string to a merchant with extra static fields (URL, icon, logo, Merchant Category Code).

In our mind, merchant enrichment unlocks many possibilities. The most obvious one is to have a nice and modern bank transaction feed. But our customers also use us to lock company cards to particular merchants, group by merchants to see where people are spending the most, and more. Would love to hear if you had other "step 2"s in mind!
I think I could summarize thusly:

Companies are lacking in real leadership, and this is more apparent when labor gains a little more power.
>denialism

more like corruption
It doesn't matter if Starship can't do all of these. It will still be likely cheaper and more capable than NASA's SLS, even if it's capable of only launching one time.

Remember, SpaceX is engineering a production line to make Starship, not just prototyping Starshipp.
Love them! Reminds me of Larry David opening a Coffee Shop in Curb your Enthusiasm.

I call them spite-sites.
For anyone familiar with old style Apache/Java/Axis/Web Service stacks they know that feeling of bombastic claims, massive amount of Java classes and tons of 3rd party dependencies. This language has that vibe to it.

TBH I am not sure in world of sophisticated, lightweight Rust or Go based network/cloud libraries, frameworks and services this kind of anachronism would work.

One set of users I can think, who find it modern are those who
do not know of any newer version of Java after maybe J2SE 1.4.2. And those who think EJB 2.1 are at cutting edge of enterprise programing.
Again, the question I would ask you to consider: you previously had a smaller screen with a larger bezel. Your fullscreen “safe area” app will have more pixels displayed than it did before but instead of a solid bezel you'll have a strip of pure black with a black camera notch in the middle.

Everything which supports the notch (i.e. the system menu, apps which choose the custom display path to display things on either side) can use that extra space to display whatever makes sense (e.g. on many pro apps there'd be no reason not to extend side panels since they're going to be less than half the display width anyway).

In all cases, you have more pixels visible than you did before — it's just a question of how much more — and the primary drawback is that you have an almost imperceptible difference between the black of the camera assembly and the black of a micro-LED display with very high dynamic range. This just doesn't seem like a huge problem to me.
Codecademy was filed as a trademark on September 6, 2012. When they did that there were some pre-existing similar names around (eg CA Code Academy filed on September 7, 2011). It's probably the case that they couldn't get a "Code Academy" based .com domain or something too. Plus portmanteau names for startups were trendy back then.
FLCCC and doctors now labelled quacks have been pushing this for months.

Clinical successes of alternative, outpatient treatments have been directly disparaged by the FDA. I have zero trust in the institutions meant to protect us.

Dr. Pierre Kory has been using this for months to treat both long-covid patients as well as vaccine injured patients.

I hate to bring this stuff up on a technical forum like this, but some very disgusting incentives are at play with our healthcare system and the pharmaceutical industry, that need correction.
As it happens, one of the violations the TSA admitted to was the part of the patent that covers putting advertisements in the trays.

(It boils my blood that the patent system rewards the people who essentially “call dibs” on ideas like this, instead of the people who build things.)
So the "invention" is stackable trays on a cart? :-( I guess it's not just software patents that have become problematic.
I guess this counts as novel and non-obvious then:

> One embodiment of the present invention may be a system including a security scanning device through which objects may be passed, having a proximate end and a distal end, a plurality of trays, and a plurality of tray carts adapted to receive the trays, wherein the plurality of trays are provided in a first tray cart at the proximate end of the scanning device, and wherein the trays are adapted to be passed through the scanning device at the proximate end, and wherein the trays are received in a second tray cart after passing through the scanning device at the distal end of the scanning device, and wherein the second cart is adapted to be relocated to the proximate end of the scanning device.
The TSA is anyway almost entirely security theatre: https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2014/01/tsa-bus...
> Interestingly I found myself using ultra minimal distro vm, and installing nearly nothing on them (qubes os) and just shard the apps

Isn't this basically the idea behind snaps? Or is that more docker-like?
New ads same as the old ads.
You can still run whatever business logic from cron to decide whether you took the day off or you have the resources to open. Offloading the timezone logic to cron still makes sense, since running tasks at the right time is exactly what it's for.
MacUpdater uses several techniques to detect updates. If apps have "Sparkle" feeds we use those unless they’re outdated (happens more often than you think). Same for other feeds types.
But most software (we support two dozen types, not just apps!) doesn’t use appcasts so we use a mix of automated and manual methods to find new versions, including a large database.
For thousands of the most popular apps, we also support updating them directly from inside MacUpdater, even if the app doesn’t have that support (we always use official URLs which can be verified before updating). Thats especially practical for things like "Calibre" without update-function.
Or, you know, buy a $10 dongle.
New technology opens evolutionary window into development of the human brain
I have a bit of mixed feelings here:. If it was JSON or XML, you could use existing tooling to work with the format. Say, using jq to extract metadata from a full folder of kicad files or generate files or components from a shell script.

Sexp's are a step forward, but they are still only half of a standard. Charsets and escaping rules need to be defined, etc..
> Going via traditional publishing is a fools game

That depends very strongly on the publisher, and if you go with one of the industry leaders than it can be a very useful decision to go the traditional publishing route.

No Starch and Manning are both excellent publishers with fantastic teams. You'll get lots of attention from experienced editors, teams of talented people assisting you throughout that process, and very nice distribution channels. I've known many authors that have worked with these publishers and none of them have regretted it.

If you purely care about the money, then I think self publishing for a niche audience is probably the best route, though you have to put some extra energy into marketing. The math just works out that much higher royalties on a smaller audience means more direct income.

But if you want to make a really excellent book, and would like to be able to walk in to a Barnes and Noble and see it on the shelf, then going with an experienced, quality publisher can make a notable difference.
That's exactly my point. This guy is pissed that NASA is not planning properly because Starship will unlock the ability to send millions of tons all over the solar system but in realty starship is only one of hundreds (thousands?) of advancements that will need to be made before we can think of sending 100's of millions of tons around the system.
Hundreds of ancient Maya sites hidden under Mexico reveal a mysterious blueprint
No, the article argues for a very complex tag, which still doesn't provide enough information (like data rate specifications) for a browser to make an educated guess for the available optimum. Note that these are totally diferrent concerns: defining the viewport (which belongs to the tag) and its endpoint, on the one hand, and technical specificity of available media on the other hand.

(Putting all information in the tag is a bit, as if we were to define in an image tag, whether the image was encoded progressive or not, what size the color pallet is, etc. However, we can't put this in a video header, as this comes too late, as we decided for a specific source already. But there's the 300 "Multiple Choices" response, maybe, we may build on this.)

Edit: What really matters to an editor of an embedding document is selecting an endpoint (like "example.com/videos/cute-cat1") and defining its visual properties, probably responsively and by means of CSS. An editor is not concerned with quality levels and bit rates vs bandwidth, actual display size, etc. The editor even isn't in any position to make a suitable decision for every situation beforehand. Available options should be advertised by the endpoint and the browser should select adaptively the optimum to fill the viewport on its own behalf (and not by delegating this to the providing host by means of a handshake, which makes things not only unnecessarily complex, but also leaks information).
I don’t know about the 20-25W figure, but I do know that Intel’s TDP figures are not maximum TDP like Apple’s are. Intel chips are well known for blowing through that TDP under load, whereas the M1* figures are absolute, as far as I have read.

In short, 35-45W is a pipe-dream if you’re pushing the chip. I personally doubt it gets near 200W though…
Dropbox have no immediate plan to support Apple's M1 Silicon natively
Space is becoming a religion for atheists, with SpaceX serving the role of the church and Elon Musk in charge of it as the techno-utopian Pope.

No wonder really smart people like Bill Gates, Warren Buffett and George Soros are staying out of it.

The amount of mass that we have to bring up there to live and thrive and be happy is so enormous that Nobel astrophysicist Kip Thorne and Christopher Nolan had to essentially cheat their way into the epilogue of Interstellar. The hero of the movie finds the answer to the problem of how to lift humanity off the Earth into the Gargantua Black Hole, which by definition is the place where all the rules are off, and there is no knowledge of what really happens in there, so that Kip Thorne could, in good conscience, allow it in the script.

People who love space should work on mind uploading and laser transmission of the aforementioned upload. That's the only way we can manage to lift ourselves.
> They are the standard bearer for the personal computing industry.

That they are indeed. HP has a whole line of laptops named "Envy" for a reason.
It would be great if <video> tag element could work some things out. There are alternatives to this that work better. Still, the tag is broken. There's nothing we can do up until it updates sometimes.
So the use I put mine to when out and about without wifi are a figment of my imagination.
Take a look at IanHubert's lazy blender tutorials: https://youtu.be/JjnyapZ_P-g. They're a minute long each, so not useful as tutorials. But they do a good job of showing generally what Blender can do, and how an experienced artist approaches solving a particular problem.
Big discussion at time of publication:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28767854

(411 points/22 days ago/135 comments)
When was the last time someone touch-typed F9?
That definitely aligns with my experience. My soccer coach in college started our morning practices with a 1hr run. I had my best runs (time/perf) the days I was able to take mini cat naps or zone out as I ran. And in retrospect I think it applies to all my workouts. Unless I was concentrating on learning a technique, generally being in some sort of "empty" state makes me feel more effective and efficient with physical activities.
All anecdotal fwiw.
>> A space-adapted tractor needs better paint, a vacuum compatible hydraulic power source, vacuum-rated bearings, lubricants, wire insulation, and a redundant remote control sensor kit. I can see NASA partnering with industry to produce and test these parts, but that is no way to service the institutional overhead embodied by a team of hundreds of people toiling on a single mission for a decade.

If one function of NASA is to redistribute pork spending around the country, that seems like an even better way to do it. Rather than have contractors that strictly focus on NASA activities, use existing companies and fund projects to make space-capable versions of existing equipment. That also means the money can be shuffled around more as needed.
Thank you. [hands pressed together]
Well, I agree politicians find it annoying that a company can mass manipulate their constituents. However, they are perfectly fine if that same platform lets THEM mass manipulate their constituents. This isn't about manipulation, it is about control and power.

I think people would hate an internet without 230. Everyone is just acting like a kid tattling in kindergarten to get their way. The thing that gets lost is that Hatebook, etc. are mass manipulating because it is insanely profitable. Make it less profitable and the algorithm will change. This is why I feel the solution is a tax on digital advertising revenue. People will never choose paid over free w/ ads at scale and rules like this could offer users a more pragmatic choice.
Why isn't the legislative not at fault if they have the power to change but won't?
The reasons you cite for having this long copyright could apply anywhere.
So what's the difference between Germany and the US. Shouldn't we want this changed everywhere.

I'm really trying hard not to whatabout this but tone of understanding at the copyright laws in Germany just got to me.
Blue Origin said it would be 16, Musk has claimed it won't be more than 8.

https://wccftech.com/musk-rejects-blue-origins-claim-of-16-s...

It ends up being ~100,000 launches over 10 launch windows. Elon has talked about building 1000 starships (presumably you would need less boosters)

https://www.tesmanian.com/blogs/tesmanian-blog/1000-starship...

Anyway, it's absolutely the case that transferring a million tons of cargo will require a new way of thinking about the scale of launches.I would also not assume that the refueling launches have to all take place within the window, that's a bad assumption to start with. You would start your refueling launches well ahead of the window.

added point - I do think the article overlooks that while Starship will change things, the timing is likely to be slow enough that NASA will be able to adapt. They do have ridiculous timelines on some of their projects, but just like everything else, they will just rewrite those timelines if new solutions present themselves.
> Just because you can push out X TFlops at 20W does not mean you can push out 5X TFlops at 100W.

But it does mean you can push out X TFlops at 20W for 5x longer given the same battery than you can at 100W, no?
> Interestingly enough, upcoming Go 2's generics

It will be Go 1.18, not Go 2.
I dislike emails that end in "Thank You In Advance" with such a passion. It's so presumptiout to assume that I will agree to whatever the request is; OK, I might, but don't thank me for something I haven't yet agreed to do, you're just implying that I have no option but to agree. These emails have the lowest reply rate in my mailbox.
Performance of UI is mostly single threaded
This is an interesting article but it needs a big disclaimer.

They are designing a self-driving boat without using sonars not radars due to their budget. It's fun but of little relevance to the real world. Most of their problems would be solved or at least heavily alleviated with access to the relevant sensors.

Still, that's quite impressive for a college project built on a shoe string.
Wow. I really hope that's not really the takeaway biotech people are getting from Theranos.

Firstly, Therano's investors were mostly not tech VCs - I can only find one in the list actually, unless you count Larry Ellison in a private capacity. Theranos got a lot of money from non-tech investors like Rupert Murdoch, Walgreens, private equity etc. One reason they had to do this is exactly because tech VCs know to stay away from anything biotech related - the people who work in that space should be wondering why.

Secondly, Holmes did fake it to make it. That's the point. Faking it was sufficiently easy that they went years before the scam fell apart, they even got their machines deployed!

What's the software equivalent of such a large scale, 100% fraudulent operation? I can't think of any offhand, because it's normally pretty clear early on whether software is working or not.
short interview:

https://news.yale.edu/2021/10/27/microboone-shines-flashligh...
Is urban cycling worth the risk? (2016)
Perhaps, then, "nature" is a somewhat dated concept that is no longer especially useful to have in such broad circulation, given that it encourages folks to exclude humanity from analysis and understanding of the "natural" system?
I think it's reasonable to think NASA should currently being doing exploratory thinking about "how would we build something like a space station, lunar base, or Mars mission if Starship is available within the decade", though. Which is what I think the author is advocating; to get a few years out in front, rather than waiting until Starship reaches the point where it can't be ignored.
I don't think "Microkernel Architecture" is the same as "Modular Architecture". I've only heard the term "Microkernel Architecture" used for systems that have clear public extensions points that enables users to choose which plugins to run or even add third-party plugins.

"Modular Architecture" is more broad in my opinion and rather a description of internal structure. A "modular monolith" for example is modular but doesn't necessarily have a "core" nor is it required to be extensible with plugins by users.
>and belches that "what else could you expect from population X anyway" before leaving - us all now unsure how to proceed. :) Can we be consistent?

Well, it has a certain historical consistency. Not sure I'd call it belching - Adorno, for example, quite known for such summary judgments, had impecable high class manners in every other way :) Exceptions, of course, know who they are. But this insistence of never generalizing is the enemy of thinking - which should be about trying to see above the particularities of individuals to be of any use.

But yes, I probably should give more context.
Waldorf Frommer is the lawyer firm that represents the publishing house S Fisher Verlag who brought project Gutenberg to court, WF are also notorious for mass-sending letters to supposed torrenters, threatening them with a lawsuit and asking for money ("Massenabmahnungen"). Glad that they lost. https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frommer_Legal
Is it from people talking about themselves? If so, I'd default to believing it's honest. When people get a setback like that a huge amount of them believe they failed as human beings. Not doing so requires a large amount of introspection and wisdom.

If it's people talking about other people, without the emotional baggage, then I agree, it must be either irony or some evil one trying to control people.
Yeah flagging is the most extreme, for things that really don’t have anything to do here. It’s rare that a flag-able story ends up on the front page, to be fair, but a COVID magical cure or a propaganda piece for the usual quacks would fit all the criteria to be flagged to oblivion.

I don’t flag random projects, just ignore them (I know some people here like them, it’s not my thing but it is harmless). I downvote obnoxious comments about how something needs to be rewritten in rust in unrelated threads, though.
> and prints billions of money to fund the likes of Musk, Bezos, and so on

That's not how monetary policy works but ok ...

> also runs the other investments and public policy decisions

So you don't like some things the government does and therefore anything the government does is bad and we can have no argument about what spending is good and what is bad?
The proposed bill would not make this distinction though. Both of these would fall under the “personalized recommendation” umbrella, and so would Gmail and a ton of other services.
Probably a "horse dewormer pill", which is what all the Trump supporters are popping these days instead of getting vaccinated and wearing masks, because they don't trust doctors or medical science or vaccines.
Codebedandbreakfast with the YC founders saying “no that’s not quite right, how about…”
Calibre is Amazing!
Dropbox Sync does not natively support Apple Silicon