skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What do people make out of the fact that this is an MDPI article but from a reputable group?
I am somewhat, too. I do think it can be done, but we should look at what causes fatherless households. Is it people having kids too young, and now seeing divorce as an option? Maybe we should stress not having kids until you're ready? Is it because they're jailed? Why are they jailed, etc. It won't be fixed until those things are fixed. Instead of, say, forcing a father to stay around due to societal pressure, we should fix why they'd be absent in the first place.
I'm »still tempted to write umlauts like 'Mot"orhead' old.«

But also a "use a font that has a proper capital ß" hipster.
Neither poster makes convincing arguments; you can find anecdotal reports of nearly any diet producing seemingly miraculous results, but any consideration of one's eating patterns should be based off peer-reviewed research.
According to the blog post, Chu spaces can be used to model essentially anything! I want to know whether that modeling is actually useful. (Also, that link is broken for me.)
>Car manufacturers, if so inclined,
could optimize their cars for crash test
scores instead of actual safety.

I think it's fair to say that cars are incredibly safe compared to 40 years ago. But crash safety compromises new cars in so many ways, it's a bit of a pity.
Sure, but my car doesn't offer any way of feedback so I can tell them it's broken now. Are they testing the weird intersection layouts found in my suburb of Chicago? Further, why doesn't the alert threshold vary based on whether there is an obstacle or vehicle in front of me (they already detect this for other functions)? It's possible that these problems are going to be solved, but the software that will be released on MY2026 will be largely finalized by 2023 (2024 at the latest) which is coming up fast. While I'd love to believe that all of the safety systems are built on the same modular software architecture and I'm going to get upgrades on my MY2026 (which basically only happen in govt-forced scenarios right now), I don't have a lot of faith in this. It would be really nice to see safety systems evolve over time to get better, but this hasn't been common in any ECU to date and I don't see it becoming common unless the government also mandates it along with their fancy surveillance.
> Saying Musk is a fraud is very much "trendy" these days, but I feel like it ties in a much wider social transformation where for some reason we can't separate the artist from the art.

There is a huge discrepancy between the financial value of Tesla and the presence of Tesla products in the market.

The other FAAMGs you cannot turn your head without seeing one of their logo (both in your house and when walking down the street).

Where can you see Tesla logo? On twitter and the financial headlines.

People are not stupid, especially here...we all know what Musk is trying to do which is basically the same he has always done. Trying to divorce his net worth from the concrete and practical impact that his company is having on the world.

He does so with promises of technoutopian dreams. This stuff might fool the general population, but don't work in here.

As the saying goes "it takes one to see one"
> I have a hard time finding interest and value in human space flight in 2021

It's impossible to predict what tech can come out of such efforts that will be of use here on Earth in the future. The amount of money going to space exploration is peanuts so I think it's well justified if it has even a trace of potential to improve future of humanity and that has been true historically - e.g. satellites (GPS, weather, etc), medicine (MRI), and whole bunch of NASA spinoffs and more.
Firefox and Safari on iOS 15 both render all the glyphs attached to the base character. Vivaldi, Chrome and Firefox on Win10 all render them stacked and overlapping the parent and child comments.
The problem I've found, with relying on online search based knowledge, is the level of bitrot that affects on-line resources.

My technique to combat that has been combining my own notes and making use of Pocket to have copies of resources that I think are interesting.
The blue zones literature has a bit to say about this.
What's the basis for your assertion that plant based is somehow healthier? It's absolutely not and you'll be lacking in a variety of vital nutrients. A balanced, varied diet is best.
Thrilled to hear it! As someone who has primarily written back-end code, I found Svelte to be the most accessible (readable, good/simple docs with lots of examples, easy getting started instructions, clear conceptual framework). Eager to see what comes out of this.
https://www.popsci.com/california-coffee-cancer-warning/
Catch up in terms of hirability/company usage.
> If it had been a crewed flight, the crew would not
> have boarded at that point.

SpaceX is unique in the field of human spaceflight in that they fuel the manned vehicles with the airmen already on board. It took quite some convincing to get NASA to allow this on NASA flights.

The advantages are that if there is a problem before the astronauts are strapped in, firing the LES on a loaded rocket will seriously hurt the astronauts and ground crew. Also, with less time between propellant loading and launch, denser, super chilled propellants can be used. This provides significant margins for boostback and recovery of the first stage boosters.
You're totally right on the OC vs OT- we couldn't use OT when I first put this together, as the StackDriver plugin wasn't compatible. We also found it didn't work out-the-box with a load of our stuff (notably the GCP client libraries) while OC did.

Another commenter has pointed out things have moved on quite a bit since then- that's really good to hear, and we'll revisit this when we get some time to make the shift :)
At 60, in a country and industry that has experienced unrivaled growth over his lifetime. It is surprising given that a very basic balanced stock portfolio over that time frame should have returned phenomenal results.
And if it were, stop anyway! Humanities classes are sposed to help us engage with content like this, but stem students often don't take them seriously (
100% a K.I.S.S. is their old non-javascripted Gmail interface that never needed a loading bar.
Fair enough, overly cynical on my part
I recently started trying to understand non-cryptographic hash functions and pretty much every text out there ends up referencing Knuth without really explaining it deeply. Hashing (not hash tables, just hashing) is a subject that pretty much every book seems to ignore and just go with the "here, use this hashing thing because Knuth said so [TAOCP volume 3]". I had to buy it.

That said, I also read other chapters when I had the need to understand specific things.
Sincerely try it and see how it makes you feel, then decide. Make an effort for 3-4 weeks, making sure to get enough calories (https://cronometer.com/ is a good resource) and have support from your friends and family. I think only first-hand experience could really convince anyone.
G-Code Explained – List of Most Important G-Code Commands
It's a good article but some parts of it don't ring true, or perhaps things have changed since it was written (in 2001).

For example, the investor director a VC appoints to a board does not generally get any stock options - just a fee for attending board meetings (generally paid to the VC firm, not the individual). It also feels unlikely that a VC today would appoint their own CEO - it does happen, but it is far more likely that they would either back the existing management team or not invest at all, such is their view of how critical the team's quality is to the company's prospects.

The author also describes the VC and its appointed CEO taking ~75% of the company. I've never seen anything like that happen - investors usually end up with about ~30% stake, regardless of what funding phase you are at.

The paragraph about the 'down round' scenario is bizarre. There would need to have been serious failures in the company's/founder's legal work to allow this type of retrospective revaluation to occur. I've never heard of anything like this.

I guess the reason for these oddities is because the landscape was very different in 2001, when we were just emerging from the dot com boom, but I'm not sure. Can anyone else comment?

Anyway, overall it's a really good article, and the final parts ('Fixing the problem') was pretty insightful, since things like this have actually happened since then.
POSIX "Fully portable filenames" allow all characters except 0x2F (/) and 0x00 (NULL). That means file names can include line feeds, backspaces, EOF, etc.

"This is `a

perfectly vali'd.\010! file name\377, despite the weirdness"
Even if the sample is truly random, this is not a controlled study and there are correlated behaviour.
Worked (sorta) for tobacco.
I'm not advocating for this style of management thinking - in fact I despise it. But this is how many(most?) managers think, especially at big companies where productivity is not measured, or worse, measured poorly. In these circumstances, it's very very hard to get them to offer you a raise, and even if they do, it would be to prevent potential bad behavior (you leaving), than rewarding your good work and expertise. In fact, if you perform head and shoulders above your peers, the cause of the raise will still be the first reason - you'll get pissed off that your work isn't recognized, which will prompt you to consider leaving, which the management will try to prevent.

That's why the people getting raises won't be the ones who do the best work, but the ones, who complain about their salaries the loudest, or go to interviews and get counteroffers.

Remember - you are probably getting paid as little as the company can get away with paying you.
I call it the habanero trap. There is no ñ in "habanero", yet a lot of people say "habanyero", probably by analogy with "jalapeño".
As I see a couple of mentions on GRID (https://grid.is/) on this thread, I thought it might be interesting to share a little bit about how we see this space.

First of all, Rows is a fantastic tool. They are really onto something, especially in how to work get structured data out of other systems into a spreadsheet and then work with that kind of data in the "spreadsheet way" that we've all been trained in. This is a pain point of current spreadsheets and one that Rows is addressing in a really nice way.

If you think about all the things that spreadsheets are used for - which is a lot - it still generally falls into one of three categories (https://medium.grid.is/the-3-types-of-spreadsheets-3d021356c...):
1. Numbers and calculations
2. Small databases
3. Business processes

What Rows does falls mostly into the realm of small databases and business processes. And while each has their own approach, I'd say that most other "next-gen spreadsheets" are also focusing on these (big and important) use-cases. Airtable (https://airtable.com/), Spreadsheet.com (https://spreadsheet.com/) and Smartsheet (https://smartsheet.com/) all play mainly in this area.

GRID is focusing on the numbers and calculations use-case, allowing people that have already built a model or pulled together numerical data in a spreadsheet to better explore, explain and converse about them.
The more you know, thanks!
This story seems really weird by modern standards. The silk washer gets a great deal. The traveler could likely have offered far, far less because the value he saw wasn't obvious at all to the silk washer.

Traditional storytelling would probably have suggested that the silk washer was naive and suffered for it, but he comes out great in this story. The traveler takes a huge risk in assuming this will prove to be a hugely important military asset, and I guess comes out ahead, but he was already in a position to pay this dude hundreds of catties of gold so... did it really make a difference?
So how would chocolate and coffee rank.
My second brain keeps moving. For example, I have a great setup with Notability on an iPad. Except after a few months, I start typing stuff into Workflowy. No reason, I just reach for a different tool. A few months later I'm in a random text file and then back to Notability. I don't know why I do this. One thing that sorta helps is implementing the Jonny Decimal System so that all the different pieces can be indexed. But, I make it harder than it needs to be.
Ah, I misunderstood what you meant by "aren't unique". I would have phrased that as "names aren't treated differently", or something similar.
I was taught /usr/local/bin

/opt is for standalone packages, so if it’s a single file, no.

/bin is only for stuff needed on single user mode, so probably not (unless that’s what the binary is for.

/usr/bin is going to typically contain files installed by your package manager and should probably be left unaltered by human hands.

The deps I would assume /usr/local/lib but it hasn’t ever come up for me.
Oh god yeah, as a city-dweller who walks everywhere, that's a terrifying thing to promote. Good example.
For one, the very article we're discussing.
>equity somewhere along the way that would have had a big upside

That's more about luck than hard work and good ideas.
My CO2 sensor self calibrates to show 400ppm as outdoor / minimal concentration. I was very upset to find out that it's not correct. In the last 5 years outdoor concentration rose from ~400 to ~420. Guess my kids won't be able to maintain < 500ppm.
I would prefer it was China or Russia, if then had a grunge with me, the bar would be higher for them to do something that affected me. Americans can put you on some secret list and generally ruin your life on the basis of nothing
Communications with outside counsel is (more) protected by privilege than with internal.
The thing is, it only expands the choice to those who are borderline on that group already. It doesn't magically make the choice be available to everyone. For instance, say you're a single parent household and you have to rely on buses. You don't really have 'choice' even within a voucher system. All it does it allow those who can transport their kids to take them elsewhere, making the school that's left behind worse again.

So basically it goes from those 'with a lot of money hav[ing] a choice' to 'those with some money having a choice'. It doesn't fix the underlying problems at all, and would actually make them worse for those who are left behind.
It's not a question of "can OP get a job without a degree". I agree with you that they can. The question is "is OP better off in the long term if they drop out or if they finish their degree". I think that sometimes it doesn't matter too much, and other times dropping out it harmful, but it's never really better apart from a very very narrow and rare set of circumstances (e.g. Bill Gates dropping out of Harvard to start Microsoft). If a person has a similar opportunity that's much more attractive than university, then sure, I'm all for dropping out. But if you reason is that you hate your classes, that doesn't seem like a good enough reason to me (especially if you want to stay in the field).

A couple of other factors

- Regret from not finishing the degree. Many people struggle mentally with having this unfinished thing in their life and it bothers them for years. So much that many people go back to university later in life just to finish it.

- Not everyone hires like you. Some companies won't give you time of day without a relevant degree. Especially given that OP mentions ML a couple of times and those jobs often require an advanced degree not just a bachelor's. Dropping out might close a lot of doors for OP if they're really interested in the field.
> Cancel the SLS/Orion program

I sure hope they do and give that money to either SpaceX or pretty much any other promising startup around (can't think of any with the payload requirements needed for a moon/mars mission).
Comparing Offshore Software Development Rates by Country
> So, if you don't see a point in going to Mars, perhaps you also don't see a point in, say, a company expanding operations in new cities or new countries.

I think there is a middle ground between the two. But Im just not excited to land on Mars, just as Im not excited about people on the space station. I dont disagree it can have (and does have) some value, but the value seems disproportionate to the media, money, and return on it is all. I can't fully explain why either, which doesnt help for internet discussions, but I just see closer issues that could use billions and focus on.

> Spaceflight can very well have a large role in saving the planet from climate crisis.

I would like to see this explained, or the forethought on it. Not to dismiss it but it seems like much of what we are doing now is for the sake of doing it. Maybe a mini-cold war with China. But just to say it very well may doesn't convince me this time around is all.
This looks super useful.
Oh, I'm absolutely not kidding. I've tried to do the OneNote thing, or get into org-mode, or manage collections of bookmarks. Too much overhead, not enough value to justify the work.

So I have a browser window per "thing" that I'm dealing with, with a whole bunch of tabs, and when I'm done with the thing, the browser gets closed and the tabs go away.
This made me think of a local pilot who didn’t load his load correctly and when he went to climb some of the load shifted back in the plane. The sudden weight caused the plane to nose up and the plane lost lift and fell to the pilot and passenger death. Something as simple as a missing strap can bring down a plane. I can only imagine the amount if potential disasters on a rocket.
This is a self-report survey about historical diet. It's basically meaningless regardless. People that think they're healthy will report that they ate a lot of foods they currently think are healthy, not what they actually ate. This is true even if people are asked days later, much less years.
You claim “ There's a large class of space flight problems you can't giant rocket your way out of.”
…but every single one of your examples is wrong and proves the point that large rocket DOES solve it.

For example:
> The closest they come to closed-loop anything is 93% re-use of water; a Mars mission (by NASA estimates) would need 99%+.
Oh, really? Why precisely do you think NASA estimated 99%+ water recycling would be required? Because MASS.

>trace volatiles
In fact, ISS has had trace volatiles measured in real-time for years: https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/20070030106
ISS sends samples back to validate the instrument because ISS is a testbed. It isn’t absolutely required.

> there's no food that stays edible for five years

Wrong. Anything will stay edible for 5 years if put in a deep freezer. And canned food lasts a LOT longer than that. “Oh, it’s not as yummy and the nutrient profile changes”, well sure. It’s nice to have fresh food. But the claim no food stays edible for 5 years is trivially false. All of us have eaten food that old, and the radiation environment isn’t enough to change that equation massively.

ISS can withstand long periods without resupply, and has done so when there has been launch failures. If you can prepare for it ahead of time, it’s just a matter of having a sufficient spare pool on-orbit instead of just having the spare pool on Earth. In other words, MASS.

Waste management is annoying if you don’t have canisters to place the waste in, but again, that’s also just MASS. You can put the waste in double sealed containers and then just place it outside the airlock. Can do that on orbit, so that’s actually one advantage Mars has over ISS.

And I don’t see why Mars can’t have a full time ground crew, too. Time delay annoying but not in any way a showstopper.

In fact, a large rocket solves these problems so completely, people who should know better still haven’t wrapped their heads around just how completely it changes the situation. The water recycling thing you repeated is illustrative of this. It literally is just mass.
Kale is #1. I go to my local juice shop and request kale juice instead of running wheatgrass through their machine. I get a rush everytime after I drink it. This post by aan goes to a PAYWALL, so you cannot make a determination what foods gave the best results. Note: Palmitic acid has just been shown to feed metastatic cancer (found in palm and coconut oils, also found in all carnivore diets). DHA from fish oil recently found to kill cancer cells.
The meta point here is that spaces are the type of thing that work fine ... until they don't. This class of bug is best avoided entirely, especially if there is an easy workaround (not using spaces).
Thanks for sharing the cloudoptimizer.io link, first time i've seen it. Looks great.

As an aside, if the developer is reading this, looks like the example command on the api page is missing a closing ' (single quote) after the <your token here> segment.
https://cloudoptimizer.io/api
I have this problem as well. The more I try to settle on a single system, the more my brain wants to run wild.
Why would you want to live there? I can imagine the moon being a place for mining, industrial operations and as a staging base for outer system missions. But a place to live? No, sorry, if a place fails the test that Antarctica is more hospitable and commodious I can't imagine people living there without a specific purpose. And, just like Antarctica, the high cost of keeping people alive there is going to always (OK for at least the next couple of thousand years) limit the practical population.
> The whole movement is really good at making you feel dumb for following safe and conservative career advice like "do something practical, save your money, and retire eventually (maybe)". Why sit through yet another technical interview when you could just buy the right stock/cryptocoin?

But wait, actually, why sit through yet another technical interview when you could just buy the right stock/cryptocoin?

It seems to me that a lot of would-be conservative, career-driven tech workers are discovering that they can make more money flipping jpegs and meme coins than writing code for a big company.

Meanwhile, people like us are doing the "real" work of... using machine learning to increase engagement and sell ads for crap people don't need? running A/B tests to see which button configuration causes more UGC? optimizing conversion funnels for ad campaigns?

I've come to the sincere belief that the people involved in SHIB or NFTs or any of that are actually contributing more to society than most software engineers that I know. They're trying out new ideas about property ownership and forming new communities around new values. They're doing something of questionable value, but the vast majority of tech workers are doing something of negative value.

Regardless of the topic, if your conclusion is that "No, it is the children who are wrong!", chances are you're missing the point.
Thanks dang! This was the right move.
So there is a (at least short term) benefit to the web3/NFT scam train. Good for you Godot!
> Even in the case of the 737, the MAX proved we didn't
> understand a 737 thoroughly enough to ensure safe operation.

Actually, we did. But it was thought economical to ignore proper engine placement and weight distribution, and make up for it with automated elevator trimming.

Economical being a conservative word. Designing a new airframe for the newer, larger, more efficient engines would have been very expensive.