skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Doesn't require you to believe it based on bad evidence

What about the promise that you'd be able to have your present day quality of life on Mars?

That's basically the equivalent of "if you pray enough and donate X money to the church , you'd go to Heaven".

Ironically the same people who stand behind the concept of "the big lie" and categorically deny the "lab leak theory" , have no problem believing in the above nonsense, even though the probabilities of that happening is many orders of magnitude lower than an election being stolen or a viral agent being accidentally released in the external environment.

Curious.

Nothing in the entire world is more dangerous than a person with lots of book smarts but zero street smarts

When lots of book smarts people with zero street smarts are being recruited by a cult leader the most terrible things happen.
Slightly off topic: “Travel speeds are back to 1960’s with incredibly low tech airport security process” - Peter Thiel.

At this point, we need to throw the baby and the bath water, discard the entire security theater and have some SV company innovate in this area.

Edit: I suspect the downvotes are because I quoted Peter Thiel. Very reasonable.
Agreed - passion is great when aligned with the business direction, but can be downright toxic when in conflict.
You've got a valid general point about the scapegoating of NPEs. But it isn't applicable here, where the lack of building being referenced is the seeming impossibility of doing anything novel and non-obvious with plastic bins.

If you click through to the patent filing (linked elsewhere in this thread), the claims are quite easy to read. If someone notices something novel in the claims that I've missed, I'd love to be wrong and learn about some fantastic new invention for plastic bins. But all indications are that this is yet another utterly bullshit patent that should never have been granted.
Even with Starship not existing SLS is a mistake.

It doesn't do anything that you can't do in other ways. We already have distrusted rocket launch.

SLS is holding the moon architecture hostage. There is simply no need for it.
"and the rest of the evidence is mixed."

That means it (probably) doesn't work.

They've given Ivermectin to a lot of people by now - if it was a solution, then it would stand out.

The Oxford trial will give us a better answer but I'm doubtful.
Its a nice and short introduction to SAT and especially SMT with a real world example written in SMTLIB. If anybody is interested or has any questions, let me know. We are planning to post more about SAT and SMT as they are part of our core technology.
Yes, this is a thing. There are some good tutorial videos out there, and it looks pretty great. However, it's more overhead and more individual things to keep up with, whereas an M1 Air can do more for the same overall volume of equipment space.
Maybe there's some detail omitted to us in this comment, like what if this were part of some developer extension. No idea, but just thinking.
Thanks for your RPi content Alex. Even though I'm not really active in the space, I still enjoy reading/watching about what's going on.
Fantastic work.

Would you have anything to help a kid build a blog and learn by doing it?
> they're not going to under cut their Falcon 9 that intensely

Once Starship is tried and tested, I strongly suspect they will flat out deprecate Falcon. Fly the missions that have been paid and scheduled, and then bin them.
I see where he's coming from. Some fathers think they're mothers.

Was the article shared for the purpose of creating outrage?
If so, it failed.
Google Public DNS - Frequently Asked Questions:

https://developers.google.com/speed/public-dns/faq

"Where are your servers currently located?"

"Google Public DNS servers are available worldwide. There are two answers to this question, one for clients and another for the DNS servers from which Google Public DNS gets the answers it returns to clients.

When clients send queries to Google Public DNS, they are routed to the nearest location advertising the anycast address used (8.8.8.8, 8.8.4.4, or one of the IPv6 addresses in 2001:4860:4860::). The specific locations advertising these anycast addresses change due to network conditions and traffic load, and include nearly all of the Core data centers and Edge Points of Presence (PoPs) in the Google Edge Network."
Covid news is propaganda. I suggest you all pick up a book on empathy on how to talk to marginalized communities that have dealt with state backed violence for decades.

By participating in and distributing "covid news" you are perpetuating a harmful atmosphere to those attacked by the state.

Trigger words include "covid", "covid-19", "masking", "vaccine mandate", "vaccine", "mask mandate", "lockdown", "stay at home orders" and more.

Please exclude this harmful language from your vocabulary and please stop distributing "covid news" on hacker news.
Yikes, I think I would want ABS well ahead of 70 mph. I’ve done some traction training on a motorcycle and it has made me 100% a believer in ABS if the statistics hadn’t already.
Orbital flight vs suborbital flight is a bigger step then you might think. For orbital flights the vehicle is traveling at least 28,000 km/h where as to reach 125 miles above Earth, a suborbital vehicle only needs 6,000 km/h. This can dramatically effect the survivability on reentry. Orbital and sub orbital flights are very different.
I have to believe that there's a marketing strategy at work here: leak details in highly controlled environments where you "beat" the competition to imply that your next product is better across the board. In the months that pass before your product rolls out, allow the internet/shadow marketing agents to perpetuate the idea that the next release is going to beat everything else.

Roll your product out with a huge array of confusing names like i9-115479k that nobody can really follow. Nobody has the money to buy all of these products, so nobody can truly claim that none of your products are better than the competition, even if none of them offer a better price:performance:consumption ratio.

And even if somebody does call you out on it... well, don't worry! The next release is going to be even better. Just you wait.
> This attitude/mindset seems so petty and disappointing.

True, but not as disappointing as the attitude of the go language creators and maintainers.
GitHub Sponsors is great but there is still not enough people and companies willing to spend money to support free and open projects.

It's a lot easier to get them to give you free services worth thousands of dollars than donate 20$ per month.

Another problem is that the people building these projects are often developers who focus on the technology and completely ignore the marketing side of things. Or simply have no idea how to do marketing. Which makes it finding sponsors almost impossible.

Our project is a good example of that, I've been trying to fix the marketing issue for years and I'm still struggling https://github.com/jsDelivr

If anyone has any ideas how to make it more attractive to companies to support us please let me know, I would really appreciate it.
You are not wrong - placebos are a practical way to blind a study.

The best way to blind, however, is no treatment, but no treatment only gives you the efficacy of the treatment, and not what you actually want to know, the efficacy of the 'active ingredient'.

See e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Placebo-controlled_study#Natur...
"Who Turned Out the Lights?: Probable Parallax and the Magnitude of the Fixed Stars"
First Bitcoin. Then GameStop. Now Tiny Tungsten Cubes
NASA budget will not change that much so the money will still be spent. You can compare launch cost like that.

And while it might use all 50 states, in reality the waste majority of money is spend in a very few locations as paying labor is huge part of the cost.
CMV: As much as I hate the TSA (and security theatre in general) this is a bad patent and feels more like a loss than a win.
> Which book?

I believe it's used as an idiom.

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/in-my...
I can't offer you any sources, only what I've gathered and synthesized over the last decade or so:

Climate change is going to make the world hotter and drier, on average. You want a place that is currently cool and rainy. Think oceanic climate zones. In the US, that's the PNW, and the Alaskan Peninsula. The only problem is that area is extremely vulnerable to major earthquakes. Second best bet is the Great lakes region. Third is northern new england, around lake champlain.

When it comes to other areas of the world, NZ comes up a lot. There's also places like Portugal, Galacia (sp), Ireland, the UK, and much of the Scandi countries.
There is some potential to automate navigation for ferries travelling on short fixed routes. But trained crew members will always be needed to deal with emergencies such as fires, man overboard, flooding, mechanical failures, etc. It's just completely impossible to automate that stuff.
A lot of what I watch is digital broadcast TV. And the only connection my TV has is through HDMI to my computer. Even my dual ATSC broadcast tuner is driven by my PC so I can do all sorts of "smart" stuff like picture in a picture, split screen or watch one channel while recording another.

Privacy is only half the issue. Freedom is the other half. Most manufacturers control what you're allowed to install on your "smart" TV. And most can't record either.

How "dumb" is that?
Wow, talk about a tempest in a tea kettle.
Bikeshedding like this is why Linux will never achieve any significant market share for average consumers. (Because all that mental effort could have been spent on solving some real problem instead of philosophical conformity.)
And the reason why it pissed me off was, I thought my mikrotik router or raspberry pi + pihole got compromised. I spent two hours trying to track down the problem, reset all dns setting on gandi, resetting and updating the router etc... just to find that it worked fine on my phone on MNO's network...then I digged further and found if I switch my dns to anything other than 1.1.1.1, it worked fine. So I don't care what features they are flinging at this point, dns being hijacked is no good.
Is this a Samsung app that you would never see if you have no interest in smart apps and leave your TV off the internet? Because if so that's easily avoided, Netflix would also profile me and advertise content to me through its app, and I don't plan to ever open that one either.

This screenshot looks like a streaming content interface, and data mining you has been a fundamental part of all these services for years, right? Not saying it's great, just that this isn't new or unusual. Of course they're tracking what you watch for advertising purposes.

Or is this a fundamental part of the UI for a Samsung TV that you need to interact with for daily use even if you don't want content through Samsung? Because that would be unacceptable. I wouldn't buy a TV if it required an internet connection to function.

My favorite type of advertising is traditional TV commercials that can be fast forwarded or muted and fully skipped. There's never going to be a net decrease in advertising. Digital and streaming are just making it harder to skip, keep strictly separate from content, and receive anonymously.
Russia has always struggled to export goods effectively due to relative lack of easy access to year round ports.

They also don’t have effective investment or capital use due to corruption.

Also, it’s a massive country and moving things around is hard, especially with the often unco-operative weather.

So many reasons.
Incorrect and well established that:

1. CA truck emission standards preclude about 40% of chassis from entering CA ports until they meet standards.

2. CA regs, until this week, prevented stacking containers more than 2 high.

3. Ports not short labor, in fact they just added a night shift - well underutilized b/c 1 & 2 above.

RE: Coal

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-10-26/coal-pile...
Europe's Digital Services Act: On a Collision Course with Human Rights
Items 2 and 3 are definitely what a 'CTO' is.
Really like what the site is doing, however the styling needs some work though.
Sssh! If you tell foreign courts and litigants about VPNs, they'll stop accepting "we'll block it in your country if you get off our backs" and start demanding international jurisdiction.

At that point "it's legal in my country" will no longer suffice for anything online (which is basically everything). Everyone will need to be in compliance with the most restrictive subset of the law. Just in the realm of copyright, the public domain would be dramatically curtailed. All you would need is one rich country with strong legal ties to other nations and an appetite for perpetual copyright, and you would have a judgment mill by which you can make using any public domain content extremely risky.

The current status quo of country-by-country blocking may seem silly to people who know how to evade those blocks, but it makes courts happy and walls off the worst effects of copyright maximalism.
Not everyone knows the government has ‘March in rights’ when it comes to national security concerns. Eg it can decide that it needs to immediately use certain technology and violate IP in certain circumstances.
How does bandit differ from finch and mint?
> Orkney’s excess renewable energy could be used to produce hydrogen, which would then be stored under pressure and used to power local transport, such as a ferry fleet.

Maybe not actually powered by renewable energy but potentially so.
Show HN: Apple-Maps-Like Trees on Mapbox GL JavaScript
"Not common sense" is not the legal test for patentability. But it is in effect incorporated within the requirements that a patentable invention be novel, have an inventive step, and be non-obvious (assessed without the benefit of hindsight).

The US Government could dispute the patent claim if they think the so-called invention is not an invention.
dang seems to be fairly cool headed, despite the deflagration often directed at him, for being, a bouncer, babysitter, teacher, help manual, advocate etc.

i hope it all stays at work most of the time.
It is incredibly energy intensive to produce, as in makes Aluminum seem easy.

There are many issues with the Russian economy around effective scaling of things, and while there was a time where massive amounts of electricity were easy to get and use, that time has passed and much of the infrastructure that produced it in the past is rotting and failing.
Similarly, Intel often states TDPs of 25W, 45W, 65W, etc... while peaking actual power usage at nearly double those numbers during "power boost."

So unfortunately TDP has basically become a marketing term and we're back to literally measuring power usage instead. Which of course gets complicated when you consider that different machines have wildly different heat management systems.
> Is that not a forbidden

You will have a bad time with real software engineering if you take those rules as mandatory. Software engineering rules are like algebraic math postulates, they create common ground that let you explore and communicate some things. Not like legal rules that disallow you from doing something.

Anyway, "layers" imply on single-way dependency. If you have completely independent code, two-way or multi-way dependency, it's something else.
Make it non-readable for the program.
> Who are all of these poor developers Apple should be standing up for?

Well, there's the FlickType guy[0] who got kicked off the app store only to have his product completely cloned by Apple. Then there's the Hey! email people who went to hell-and-back just to get an inoccuous update approved. Not even a year ago there was a class-action lawsuit against Apple by developers[2], and Apple's "compromise" was to charge less for a service that was provably garbage. They know their 30% cut is illigitimate, that's why they backed off so quickly. Even still though, they charge certain people 30%, others only 15%, and then the big companies like Netflix get away with 0%[3] because of insider deals that other apps cannot benefit from.

So fixing that would be a good start. Then they need to allow for alternative payment processors (as pressure mounts from countries like South Korea and France), and hopefully get rid of their asinine sideloading requirements that do nothing for the user except make it harder to get the functionality they want. These feel like non-negotiables to me, and as a developer I have no intention of supporting their software or using their hardware until it's fixed.

[0] https://www.inputmag.com/tech/apple-blocked-the-flicktype-wa...

[1] https://www.engadget.com/apple-basecamp-hey-email-app-store-...

[2] https://www.axios.com/apple-settles-developer-class-action-c...

[3] https://twitter.com/TechEmails/status/1444367219509637123
Surprised nobody has mentioned or compared it to the Radxa Zero.[0][1]

Spec of the Radxa Zero ($15):

CPU: Quad Cortex-A53 1.8 GHz, 12nm process
GPU: Mali G31 MP2
RAM: LPDDR4 512MB/1GB/2GB/4GB
Storage: eMMC 5.1 8/16/32/64/128GB and uSD card
HDMI: Micro HDMI, HDMI 2.1, 4K@60 HDR
Multimedia: H265/VP9 decode 4Kx2K@60
Wireless: WiFi4/BT4 or WiFi5/BT5
USB: One USB 2.0 Type C OTG, one USB 3.0 Type C host
GPIO: 40Pin GPIO, ADC/UART/SPI/PWM
Others: Crypto Engine, support external antenna, one button

Spec of the RPi Zero 2 ($15):

CPU: Broadcom BCM2710A1, quad-core 64-bit SoC (Arm Cortex-A53 @ 1GHz)
RAM: 512MB LPDDR2 SDRAM
Storage: None, MicroSD card slot
HDMI: Mini HDMI port
Multimedia: H.264, MPEG-4 decode (1080p30); H.264 encode (1080p30)
Wireless: 2.4GHz IEEE 802.11b/g/n wireless LAN, Bluetooth 4.2, BLE
USB: 1 × USB 2.0 interface with OTG
GPIO: HAT-compatible 40 pin I/O header footprint
Other: OpenGL ES 1.1, 2.0 graphics, CSI-2 camera connector,
composite video and reset pin solder points

The Radxa seems to be better value. I'm looking for a backup device for my RPi Zero W v1.3. The Zero has been such a amazing companion for me. I use it as Wi-Fi repeater on campsites such that we can all have internet simultaneously. Over the years I added temperature sensors, light sensors and an entire cooling system for the photovoltaic system. It now keeps track of the ambient temperature in the tent and fridge and sends me an SMS if the gets too high. Endless fun.

[0] https://forum.radxa.com/t/introduce-the-radxa-zero/6550

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=huAKEbyPcBc
I would argue those who read HN are not 'most people', and if we subset those who read HN by those who comment on HN, I would believe my statement is even more true.
if computers taught me anything.. it's if you can do 1 thing really really well perfectly, it's not a ton of work to do it 10x or 100x in parallel.

We don't have enough data to know reliability of say Falcon long term. Is it 99% successful? 99.9%? 99.999999%? Doing a ton of launches, you really want to work on the 9s, so 0-1 of your launches blow up, not 100+. But once you do, you just copy paste it baby and go to town.
"like writing or being able to do basic arithmetic."

It really is not.

The vast majority of people will never have need to 'code'a line of anything, even in the modern workforce.

More common, yes, ubiquitous, no.

If there are >25 Engineers, the CTO generally won't be coding in production unless they kind of have a very special passion for it.

I do believe however that the CTO should be technical, unlike some examples here. When the are not I feel it's political, for better or for worse.
JPL is the only NASA center that is staffed by non civil servants and managed (under contract) by a private organization (Caltech). By law this gives them certain flexibility that other NASA centers aren’t afforded (e.g. Caltech has lobbyists in Washington DC). It may make more sense to categorize JPL with other Federally Funded Research and Development Centers such as Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory.
I have twin two year olds. Early on, I had to do a significant amount of work because there is two of them. But even with that work helping my wife, I still did not need any parental leave. Newborns are easy for a father... Just change the diaper, feed a bottle, and comfort them. Now that my kids are two years old, I need to spend more time with them teaching them things and I am sure that will grow. Maybe mothers should get leave right after birth and father's should get it as the kids get older to teach them more things?
It's been that way forever. I live in a third world country, for me $40 is a week's expense (total, including food, bills, and so on). If it wasn't for some, ahem, less reputable means of obtaining learning material, I would be carrying boxes in some warehouse right now.
I suppose it's not fair, but I was disappointed after reading the title, hoping that the article would be an assessment on whether changing the container stacking rule has made a difference yet. There seems to be a fair amount of skepticism that the stacking rule was having a large negative impact, so I was excited to see an assessment of how/if it's made any difference.
The Toxic Effects of Branding Your Workplace a “Family”
> It seems like the most obviously stupid idea in the world to say that whether an action is legal in your game depends on whether the player was thinking good thoughts or evil thoughts when he took it.

It can actually be worse than this: some rulings depend on what might be the range of reasonable actions for players similar to the players in front of you. So your ruling can be different depending not only on the partnership's methods but also their general level of skill, and your judgement about whether they might or might not be expected to be aware of some subtle inference that could be made about the board situation.

Although the tournament director's immediate disciplinary authority is plenary and unreviewable (so they can penalise or expel from the tournament players they consider to be cheating, or excessively rude, without comeback) judgement rulings are subject to appeal. So the final decision might (in particularly serious and important cases) be made weeks after the event by a panel of directors who have never even met the players involved. On the basis of sometimes sophisticated/arcane reasoning. See the commentary for appeal 16.012 in https://www.ebu.co.uk/documents/laws-and-ethics/appeals/EBU-... for example.
yes but aurora db is very expensive
For sure both.