skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When interviewing a while back, I was asked to reflect on my failures. Only then did I realize that failure was not in my mental model of my experiences. I had a hard time thinking of a "failure". It's not that I had never had any, it's just that I had been so accustomed to the idea of thinking of them as learning experiences rather than failures. I wouldn't say I'm the most accomplished person by any means, but I certainly have a tried-and-true way of getting through so-called "failures", and part of that has to do with not even including failure in my vocabulary of my experience.
Yeah, right… What was that Linux Distel trying to copy maxOS again? „Elementary“? All rounded rectangles and the same 50 shades of gray, but not a single label had the same margins to its button.

Design takes more than a „skin“. Besides proportions and font rendering, it’s also about behaviour.
Jim Simons on Origins Podcast: Math, Code, Hunting Talent, Stocks and Science
A negative learning curve coupled with Chernobyl doesn't create a very compelling business case right at the end of the 80s.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S03014...
The Night Technology Betrayed Me: A Halloween Horror Story
And then immediately talked about host slave issues which are not physical but logical and processing. Perhaps you don't understand what physical means?

Truthfully there is nothing to be gained for me continuing this exchange because I in fact have plugged a Keith McMillen k-board into an op-z and a circuit rhythm and noticed it working perfectly, so your truisms are just that you don't know any synths that are battery powered usb hosts, a problem which is entirely unrelated to your inability to understand the difference between physical connectors and the logical models and data processing issues you described as physical in some weird need to repeat what I said while insisting I am wrong.

Have a good one.
Starship would allow the US to quickly and cheaply replace any lost infrastructure in space, therefore that vulnerability would be mitigated. (I'm not sure this would be an advantage for long though. Once a working cheap launch system has been demonstrated, it will soon be copied.)
> "occasionally a patent is granted that isn't valid"

ROTFL. It's more like "with software, the patent is virtually always invalid."

I'm sure there are people better than I am, but I can invalidate practically any software patent. And I did it for Google, including in Germany in the Google Maps case of 2014.

The average time an examiner is given for a patent is a day and a half (old data). That is not nearly enough time to find the "relevant prior art." So what the patent offices are doing is handing out worthless government "monopolies" and making tons of money in fees while they're doing it.
Games may do even better by forcing you to change your character into monster. Can't argue if you're the killer.
I was thinking about potential customer segments that can be tested...

1. Startups (5-50)

2. Regular offices (excel, salesforce,...)

3. Bootcamps/Universities (kind of virtual tutoring. hired by institutions, not students, they wouldn't pay enough)

4. General Open Market of Everything Expert (would be hard to get started...)

5. Scientist looking for coding help (probly wont have money like students...)
This is not good advice because WSB and superstonks generally advocate making highly speculative trades which are highly likely to result in losses.

I would recommend Bogleheads[0], especially the wiki. It's not sexy but that's the point, they advocate getting rich slowly by investing in a few diversified funds and then forgetting about it.

[0]: https://www.bogleheads.org/
MiniTokyo3D: Real time map of commuter trains
lol, the opposite of this actually
Before research into sustainable energy, David MacKay had rediscovered Low Density Parity Check (LDPC) codes in early 90s, perhaps the most common type of error correction codes used nowadays in commercial systems (alongside with Reed Solomon codes used for storage).

He then worked on sustainable energy long before it became fashionable.

His early death was a significant loss. He blogged cheerfully from hospital til few days before his death

http://itila.blogspot.com/2016/04/perhaps-my-last-post-well-...

Rest In Peace David MacKay.
Echo the other answer to this. If you know where to look, you can find what they searched.

I'm not saying it was a thorough search, but it was a search.
If you're so sick of those comments then what are you doing here, with your 50 day old account telling people off that have been here for many years?

This community has been a bit sharper than most when it comes to the kind of side-effects that seem to be part and parcel of the tech world and if that's not to your liking it confuses me why you would join.
Earth gets hit by 170 000 TW of sunshine every hour. That's more than the yearly global consumption of energy.

If we could capture only 1% of that, we'd have 80 times more than we need, from just the sunshine reaching earth.

This makes the photovoltaic cell and related technologies more interesting than nuclear to me. A way more abundant energy source with none of the downsides of nuclear is clearly within our reach. It's not even unknown technology, we just haven't made the infrastructure to capture it yet.

Nuclear seems to me to be similar to Coal in that we may think it's a good idea now, only to discover later on that it actually killed us due to things we didn't think about. Or didn't want to think about.
They are also similar in that we who get the benefits today are leaving the problems with it to future generations.
The main takeaway from this article is that the militarization of space if moving fast. There is this document called the Outer Space Treaty that was written at the dawn of the Space Age. It has never been updated, and was written for a world divided into two Cold War spheres of influence.

The world today looks nothing like the world of the 1960s. It looks a lot more like the world of the early 1910s and 1930s. Multiple countries vie for advantage.

> Since 2015, Russia, China, India, Iran, Israel, France, and North Korea have all established military space programs. China’s and Russia’s space commands are close on the heels of the United States, and according to the Secure World Foundation, the United States has idled certain of its offensive-technology programs while China and Russia actively test the same capabilities. ...

There's a theory of what causes war among major powers that goes like this. Wars result when one side miscalculates how the other side will respond. You can see elements of this in WWI. Certainly the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor fits the bill. And it almost did us in during the Cuban Missile Crisis.

Combine multiple players jockeying for position, a close connection between space and nuclear weapon command and control, and a new domain that blunts the advantages of incumbants, and you get a fertile breeding ground for crisis.

Then there's the "use it or lose it" angle to consider and the fact the US has the most to lose in all of this:

> All military assets are surrounded by a “use it or lose it” ethos, says Joan Johnson-Freese, the author of Space Warfare in the 21st Century and a professor of national security affairs at the U.S. Naval War College. Once conflict begins, all holdings are seen to be at risk: you need to fire that missile before it’s taken out. “The military is taught to assume the worst, and to react to it,” she told me. “Because space assets are so far away, and there is a high potential to not be sure what is happening, high risk and threat must be assumed.” This is commonly referred to as “the tyranny of distance.” When the rules are not plain, whether in peacetime or war, the situation is “exponentially” more dangerous. ...
We've always been able to talk with those humans though and most of the times we fight them for their resources, not their bodies.
A cyberattack paralyzed every gas station in Iran
I hear you. I am not criticizing Halloween, since I take part in doing all of these. I did mention costumes going to landfill though, not just pumpkins.

What I mentioned doesn't have to be taken to extreme to say nothing should be produced and moved around! By that analogy, the only way to save the environment is to stop living.
When nuclear power plants kill people, we call it an accident.

When coal powered plants kill people, we call it normal operation.
VoldemortDB is actually real: https://www.project-voldemort.com/voldemort/
Half of those games you listed are actually game series. Most people can probably name Mickey Mouse, a movie character from the 30s.
Find me a better promotion of laser safety than this video by styropyro: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbzbIGkPW-o

No amount of warnings could be as convincing as seeing a cheap "medical" laser that can ablate metal... even through the safety glasses that were supplied with it.
The remark about paying compensation was slightly in jest. I do think it's unreasonable for there to be a fee for issuing a patent as well as invalidated one though. Expecting perfection is a long way from expecting their incentives to be aligned with the desired outcomes.
This is a nitpick.

For clarity: the company/vendor is Ableton, their flagship product is Live. Ableton Live is its full name. Ableton Live. Compare Apple Logic Pro, Steinberg Cubase, Image Line FL Studio, and so on.

Respectfully, please try not to refer to the product as Ableton, e.g. "I made […] in Ableton". It was done in Ableton Live, or just Live in a pinch.

(This used to really wind me up back in the old days, but I've calmed down about it. I can't begin to imagine how the Ableton marketing/branding teams feel about the mismatch. Maybe it's just me, this isn't a hill to die on.)
No pumpkin
It's either that or extinction at some point so even if people don't live long enough we have to start looking over the horizon of a single human life-span.

BTW, the best argument for longevity research that I've come across to date is that if people lived for a thousand years suddenly there would be a lot of support for stabilization of our eco-systems.
> How do we know that this demand for dollar assets is irrational? Because the returns the foreign sector gets from the US is too low in comparison to their own investment opportunities domestically.

I like your general analysis. But must pick a nit here. In any market, you don’t have irrational players at scale. I would say assets in the rest of the world are nominally over valued and at high risk of devaluation. Rest of the world overly concentrates there wealth in real estate without equivalent property tax structure to the usa. This is at risk from new property taxes (already proposed in China), and people simply moving around (electronically if not physically, though both are risks). if I was a land holder in China or india, me diversifying by buying us assets would make a lot of sense. And a rich person in the usa, it is even more risky to own land in China and india (outright disallowed, also at risk for new property taxes, etc).

The usa will be fine as long as the top 5% of the worlds merit and Capital gravitates towards the usa. i would simply pay attention to the Uber wealthy (musk, bezos, gates, page etc). When they start relocating together into the same place, Pay attention. Right now they are mostly in the usa, with some minor presence from page in New Zealand and Singapore, and maybe London.
Can anyone explain how this is better than just importing a singleton instance where it's needed? I've never really understood the point of dependency injection.
Its not directly a technological problem, its an economic problem. Even the optimistic side of the cost analysis for nuclear power must assume that the reactors are operating at full power as much as possible.

The operating cost is essentially independent of power output.
Any examples for those proper OSes? I can only imagine those often critized for being walled gardens, namely iOS, Android, and proprietary hardware like gaming consoles. On any UNIX used as a desktop, you will not have trouble finding a list of running processes.
Christmas so far outranks Halloween in consumer spending, I can't imagine anyone worrying much about the paltry 10B we will spend in 2021 on Halloween. Christmas will be 100x bigger.
Of course it will change. It will continually change because we are now on the path of endless vaccines.

I understand the booster is the same formula as the existing shots. Which means the boosters will do as well or worse than the original two shots.

The mRNA vaccines trigger an immune response to one specific protein associated with the wild type virus. This puts tremendous evolutionary pressure on the virus to mutate, which has already happened. Now we have the Delta variant which the vaccines do next to nothing against. Why? Because the virus has obviously found a way around our vaccine induced immune response.

So looking ahead a month: you won’t be fully vaccinated until receiving a booster, which will fail miserably. The formula will have to change which manufacturers will be more than happy to provide of cour$e. And there will be a new round of shots (number 4 or possibly 4 and 5 together).

Natural immunity looking better every day eh? The one concept that is forbidden to speak about is basically our only way out of this.
I would start with bogleheads. I also always recommend people start with bogleheads and learning about 3 fund investing.

However I feel they are slightly too conservative especially if you are young. If you are following their bond advise right now you are getting crushed for no good reason, and Warren Buffet would be the first to point this out.

But still, having the majority of money in a total market fund is sort of a “no brainer”, and reading this will explain why.
Spent the last few nights hacking together a fuzzy parser for a superset of CSS that expands nested rules like SCSS does. First time trying a fuzzy parser; it doesn't know any details of CSS selectors or property values. But it does know about comments and strings so it seems fairly safe. It's working out surprisingly well so far and is around 200 LoC.

https://github.com/multiprocessio/cssplus
Trivia: "Per ardua ad astra" (through hardships to the stars) is the motto of The Royal Air Force (first independent air force).

But when it was coined, I don't think they were concerned about satellites being blown up.
I was a terrible sight reader. My teachers never taught me is that sight-reading is a skill that has to be practiced, just like other piano skills.

I bought a ton of books in this series and started spending time every day playing them:

https://www.amazon.com/Bill-Evans-Jazz-Piano-Solos/dp/145840...

I'm classically trained but really enjoy playing these. They're hard enough to be challenging yet not something you have to practice for months like many classical pieces. An especially good thing for sight reading is that instead of lots of fast passages like in a lot of classical music, there are lots of chords where you have to read and play 8 notes on a beat. With time (I did this for about a year), you start reading entire chords by sight rather than individual notes.

Working to get better at sight reading makes learning new music much more enjoyable. You could probably do it by reading a lot of classical music below your playing level too, but for me, the jazz stuff is a nice break and something different.
I thought this was partially explained because the AI aliens were advanced but extremely limited in number i.e. there were only a few hundred left. so they need humans and human resources to make up for their limitations in numbers.
I used to be deeply immersed in Warcraft lore. WoW helped me kick that habit, ironically. I think though if the game had good stories told well, more people would be interested in paying attention. And people are interested in WoW's story. Or else there wouldn't be as much squabbling about the latest way in which Blizzard butchered the story.

FFXIV shows how much many players want to care.

Some of my favorite story-based experiences in gaming were in an MMO (The Secret World).
No. One of the six things article complains about is repeating the same trick to death. Lord of the rings did not repeated the trick from other books, it created own.

It does not fit other points either. It does not uses meme humor. It does not allow you to ignore the story. It has individual human voice.

It does not fit the thing article is complaining about at all.
Whether you like Ableton Live or not relative to other options is a matter of preference, but regardless, the folks who run Ableton are pretty cool:

- run by real musicians who play shows, it came out of a scratched personal itch

- so far, good new owners of Cycling 74, the bug squash numbers in the last couple of releases were stellar

- totally hacker friendly, they know people release disassembled Python code for control surfaces, and basically said "we can't support individual users doing this, but we know it's out there and won't do anything to stop it" (this was what actually got me on the bus!)

- really good educational outreach initiatives, and they give away a very capable light version for peanuts (or free with many controllers)

I find their prices high, all things considered, but am happy to be a long time customer, and as a serious musician musician (university educated, etc.), I think it's great that it has become such a gateway to appreciation of instrumental music by making music creation a more accessible hobby.

And the fact that I can script the heck out of such a full featured commercial product in Scheme by writing a Max/MSP external is fantastic (plug, I wrote Scheme For Max, which allows you to run lisp in your Ableton...)
"Courage is mastery of fear, not absence of fear" --Mark Twain (b. 1835)
>the long-term benefit should be what it is held up against.

how about the long term risk? we havent even figured out how to deal with plastics in the ocean and in our bodies let alone responsibly harness the atom. we're talking about a waste product that does not cease to create a danger for hundreds of years at minimum. Reactor 4 at chernobyl is predicted to be "safe" in 20,000 years and before you say thats an exception id like to remind you that ALL high level nuclear waste has a cooldown of tens of thousands of years and it is routinely generated in the pursuit of the electron today.

The Roman empire only lasted 1500 years. these nuclear byproducts last so long that modern scholars cannot unilaterally agree on a simple means of warning the future inhabitants of whatever society exists, let alone passing on any tips or tricks for processing or salvaging these lethal artifacts.

we are talking about a waste product that outlives not only written but spoken language and dozens if not hundreds of civilizations and the stalwart of the atom --the United States-- still couldnt even manage to get Yucca mouuntain together as a disposal ground after two decades.

nuclear isotopes do not have a rate of return. they do not care about profit or equity or economies and will without remoerse kill you all if you forget them.

waste is currently stored in large pools at your local nuclear plant that require constant cooling. once these sites are inoperable they will require the care of generations for millennia before with a clear conscience you can say 'nuclear power was worth it'. that the atom will be taught as a religion is less far fetched a premise to a Fallout game when you realize in 12,000 years the only means of conveying the lethality of our hubris will be as such.
If I had to guess, probably 80% of the stuff I've received over the years as Christmas gifts ends up getting used very little and then unceremoniously put on a shelf or in the trash. And that may be a generous estimate.
> Russia and China have aggressive ambitions to be able to dominate space and aren't restrained by any code of ethics, something China is also doing in artificial intelligence research (not bothering with "frameworks" and "guiding principles for responsible AI").

Are you implying that the US military has a code of ethics it follows more than Russia or China? I would advise you to read up on the recent history of latin America and the Middle East if you believe such fantasies.
To be fair, iOS updates also feel ancient compared to the Android live-update method which just requires a slightly longer reboot. On Android, I sometimes ended up on major releases and didn’t even notice because it just showed up upon my next reboot. On iOS I’m stuck without a phone for 10-15 minutes, which isn’t usually a problem when planned but feels rather archaic.

To emphasize, this isn’t really a serious issue for most users, I’d imagine. I just wouldn’t want to see this as the model for improved Mac updates.
Most Linux distributions have a similar mechanism.
Get a job that you enjoy & pays the bills and then focus on your personal life
What you will then get is an unsustainable set of shortcuts that threaten your energy supplies at crucial times.

ie, what's happening in Europe now[1]

Germany went on a spree, dismantling their nuclear plants after being scared by Fukushima. Fossil fuel plants tool their place. Subsidies to unsustainable alternatives and penalties on polluters made it so it was not profitable to increase energy supply on sources such as natural gas and fossil fuels that could ramp quickly in response to demand.

And the price of natural gas in Europe went parabolic.

[1] https://www.euronews.com/2021/10/28/why-europe-s-energy-pric...
Right. It doesn't entitle the holder to any rights, it's purely a collectible.

Again, owning an NFT doesn't mean you own the underlying work, and owning a baseball card doesn't mean the athlete works for you.

The idea of the floating signifier comes to mind. [0]

> With a baseball card, I clearly own the physical card, and can put it in the spokes of my bicycle if I want to.

Sure, but they both share the property of scarcity, and in the same way. The originator could in principle dilute the scarcity by issuing more (printing more baseball cards or issuing more NFTs for the same underlying asset). Is there anything of interest that changes by making it physical? I suppose the ability to destroy, but I think that's about it.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floating_signifier (not a great article in my opinion but I don't know of a better one)

Also, I made a typo earlier: Dorsey's NFT of course sold for $2.9m, not $2.9.
Correct. The PTO (speaking of the US here) takes in way more money in fees than it spends, and doesn't even get to keep that money to improve its searching.
> Seems like the writer is just hating AAA games

He's not alone. But I don't hate them, they bore me to tears. Same goes for the current Hollywood blockbusters.

> But I'm also curious what zombie movies does this guy watch that have a so so much better story than TLoU

Zombieland :)
I think parent means to write "pacemaker".

What makes this modification much worse than a pacemaker? I can see why it would be bad to be dependent on an internal artificial device, but not why it would be worse than a heart device.
Can you give an example of what you'd learn from wallstreetbets or superstonk that you wouldn't learn from more main stream channels that would make you a better investor?

I follow those channels almost daily and I'm not sure I've learned anything of value from them that would make me a better investor.
I'm aware of the Kessler syndrome but never made that particular connection, I always thought it came down to a feed forward mechanism that started with a single collision, but it makes good sense that the chances of such collisions go up as the number of launches increases.

So effectively, roughly paraphrasing GP's comment is that if the launch rate remains constant at its current historical high level (and it could easily go up further) and this leads to more objects in space (which is a safe assumption) then the moment of the triggering of the Kessler syndrome gets moved forward in time, would that be correct?