skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think that even Rh(null) blood, unicorn tears or HP color ink liquids are commercially viable to launch at prices around 10-50k$ per liter. And that if that whole assembly will work at all at prices they are advertising today (1/20 of comparable commercial rockets, but it will have very small payload).

PS: I don't have numbers, but I'm guessing that F9 hitchhike Transporter missions cost less per kilogram, compared to the imaginary numbers for non-existing full scale Spinlauch.
>Improve documentation for the next person. That person may be you.

So important, can't stress it enough.
In this case someone that isn’t having a pleasant effect isn’t still using it
> Why don't we all just look at the past 10 builds we delivered for them, admit that the best-case never happens, and stop pretending like it's unacceptable to take longer? The point here is that they keep accepting it.

It's theater, mostly. I think some people think they have to do this. How did they get you to keep delivering when you did? It was their threats/complaining! If they stopped doing that... there's no telling how long it might take you to deliver.

Given that every project you've called at 4 months has delivered in ... 4 months, for the past 7 years... your estimating/delivery ability is still tangential to their managing of the delivery by regular barrages of threats, complaints and haranguing.
Th notion of "Ethical Consumption" is a completely unworkable concept that's been long debunked.

See here for example, there are many others:

https://www.marxist.ca/article/why-there-is-no-ethical-consu...
Not really: you can't use the service alone, without any other software. The software is not open source. And finally, the user has no control over which apps/services can send them a notification (or really, a device wakeup) at a given moment.
One could, in theory, write a git-clean filter (like the one used for git-lfs), that teaches git various heuristic approaches to "take apart" well-known binary container formats into trees of binary object leaf-nodes.

Then, when you committed a large binary that git could understand, what git would really be committing in its place would be a directory tree — sort of like the "resource tree" you see if you edit an MKV file, PNG file, etc., but realized as files in directories. Git would generate it, then commit it.

On checkout, this process would happen in reverse: a matching git-smudge filter could notice a metadata file in each of these generated directories, and collapse the contents of the directory together to form a binary chunk; recursively, up the tree, until you hit the toplevel, and end up with the original large binary again.

Since most of the generated leaf-nodes from this process wouldn't change on each commit, this would eliminate most of the storage overhead of having many historical versions of large files in git. (In exchange for: 1. the potentially-huge CPU overhead of doing this "taking apart" of the file on every commit; 2. the added IOPS for temporarily creating the files to commit them; and 3. the loss of any file-level compression [though git itself compresses its packfiles, so that's a wash.])

I'm almost inspired to try this out for a simple binary tree format like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interchange_File_Format. But ELF wouldn't be too hard, either! (You could even go well past the "logical tree" of ELF by splitting the text section into objects per symbol, and ensuring the object code for each symbol is stored in a PIC representation in git, even if it isn't in the binary.)
Own your calendar. Have enough time carved out for "deep-focus" time, 2-4 hours of uninterrupted time, plan dev tasks to line up with these and aggressively block out time as needed.

Keep detailed notes when in meetings, find a system that works for you where you can easily index and search things.

Keep detailed notes about your contributions, what you've done, how you've helped others, discussions led, etc. Invaluable for performance reviews and promotions and in general seeing where you're spending time. I used to keep this in a public .plan file, now-a-days it's shared doc that I let my managers see.

Do not sacrifice your health. Carve out time for exercise. Carve out time for learning. It's sometimes nice to work late for that big block of quiet uninterrupted time, but schedule it on your terms and only once or twice a week.

Know your toolsets. You should be able to easily execute, test, profile, and debug. If this is painful, then investments need to be made on your codebase.

When building systems, focus on interconnectivity and getting a base skeleton working first and then fill in details. Avoid "big-bang" integrations, they never work, and can result in last minute surprises. Strive to have the skeleton component building and working daily as you add in details.
I believe there are new calls to boycott because of Peng Shuai's disappearance. It seems so strange to me that this is such a mystery. Can't reporters go to her home and ring the bell?
Which doctor is selling disability insurance?
Keyword being sometimes. Are we debating exceptions that contradict the existence of the problem at large ?
Yup, that's the one. And I agree, it's really good for general use, and if you know how to use the tools right it's arguably better than AI dungeon.
Experienced something similar here. NodeJS node-sass would crash with "rdrand failed". Super weird experience to have to apply a BIOS update to fix a node_modules build failure, but that's 2021.
I feel like blogging isn't dead, though I do feel feel like "building your own website to post your thoughts" largely is. Obviously there are outliers, but I remember the late 90's/early 2000's where there were thousands of individual sites across hundreds of free/paid web hosting companies, a lot of which existed because they felt like they could express themselves more easily.

IIRC that was more or less the genesis for Something Awful and The Best Page in the Universe, but it does kind of feel like now there's only like a dozen sites I ever go on now. Reddit has more or less subsumed forums, Medium (and a few competitors) has more or less subsumed blogging, YouTube has more or less subsumed any other video host, etc.

I do think that overall it's better; even if there's less diversity in sites, these sites do make it easier for the non-technical person to share their opinions, so you could argue there's an increased diversity of thought, and I do think people view the late 90's internet with rose-colored glasses, but I still kind of miss it.
Chris Rock had a good bit about this a couple of decades ago with alcohol and marijuana. To paraphrase, if you want to figure out which is worse, just ask the kids if they'd rather have daddy come home drunk or stoned. Drunk daddy yells and stumbles around and breaks stuff and throws up. Stoned daddy giggles at cartoons and orders pizza.
> The Last Day is a story set a few decades from now in a world like our own but with one catastrophic and enormous difference

Do you need a catastrophic difference to get a dystopia? This works as well for me:

> The Last Day is a story set a few decades from now in a world like our own.
Building such a thing as a Matrix client might be an interesting concept.
Interesting idea tho.
Alternatively you can watch the video on mute with captions turned on, which is my favorite approach
This all depends on being able to make that detailed task breakdown at the _beginning_ of the project. In my experience software development is an endeavor where that level of understanding is seldom present at the outset.

Typically, at least in the fields I've worked, at the beginning you may have answered the question "is this even possible"? (but not always), but your task breakdown consists of a small set of "figure out how to approach X" tasks, and a scattering of "well-understood thing we know we need to do sometime". In this context, it's impossible to estimate the project. The best you can do is to plan roughly what work to do in the next few days/weeks, then re-group to see what comes next. I believe Agile incorporates some of these insights.
> Historically, completely agreed

Even historically speaking, that's a stretch. For a long period of human history, survival meant being able to plow fields, wrangle horses, chop down trees, hunt wooly mammoths, fight lions and all the other things that my ancestors would be ashamed of me for not being able to do. Men were expected to, and did, protect and provide for women because most men find those tasks easier than most women. Not even the hardest feminist would call that protection "discriminatory". It's only been relatively recently, on a grand scale, that most women could perform the tasks that needed to be performed to survive. More or less as soon as that happened, most of civilization became egalitarian almost overnight. There was some pushback in the 70's but as Bill Maher pointed out "we couldn't understand what you were rebelling against! Men in my father's day used to say 'I'll be damned if any wife of mine ever has to go to work!'"
Side note for those who don't know: most Marriott properties are Marriott-managed, not Marriott-owned.

It usually doesn't matter, but on policy questions there can sometimes be some friction between owner preferences & Marriott corporate preferences.

Usually this is over things like "Your food and service isn't up to Marriott quality, because you're under investing." But I imagine politics is also a sensitive point too. Regardless, Marriott corporate usually wins, as a hotel-without-the-Marriott-name prints less money.

Edit: Although in this instance, from the scarce details, it sounds like it was divergence from corporate policy by local management. Which, if you're putting management teams in ~7,900 properties, is probably a thing that happens.

Basic summary: https://marketrealist.com/2014/10/why-marriotts-hotels-have-...

Marriott Intl page for franchisees: https://hotel-development.marriott.com/
..."ahead of time" does not mean much to me, just that someone at some point was off, maybe some hero projections.

On the other hand, "on time and on the budget" means a lot, that all lies got aligned at the end to make it all look like truth - that's a success!
It's not that it's dead but unless you gain the necessary viralnes and or name recognition, you will just be mostly writing to yourself. It's a market dominated by a handful of large winners. It's always been this way and no evidence to suggest things are getting easier.
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Constitution of the United States: Sotheby's Auction
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Maybe I'm too pessimistic but at first I only see a big corporation (with an history) putting the blame on the local management.

Maybe it's due to my bad English, but I'm not able to find any sign of actual "overrule" of this decision. Is the WUC was finally accepted at this Hotel?
For algorithms, I can't think of a book better than CLRS, honestly, unless you want to read The Art of Computer Programming by Knuth. For data structures, a great book with a huge amount of detail is Data Structures Using C and C++ by Langsam and Tanenbaum.
My naive understanding: The appeal of a space elevator is that all you need to get to space is the energy to climb the elevator. But if Starship is able to hit its "fully and rapidly reusable" goals, it will have basically achieved the same thing: You can go to space on Starship for not much more than the cost of fuel to get there.

The next question is which version is more energy efficient. Again, my very naive understanding is that they seem to be kind of similar. The space elevator is less efficient than you might think, because you can't just run electrical wires up and down it. The weight would be a problem, and resistance losses over such a long cable would be high. Instead, you might send power through the air with a big laser, but that also comes with efficiency losses, in the same ballpark as rocket engines.

And of course, Starship has the obvious advantage that it seems like it actually might work with current technology. I think this comparison is an interesting way to highlight what a big deal it will be, if Starship does work.
From my pro-crypto viewpoint, this was the outcome I hoped for. Raised a very credible amount of money from a large number of donors in a very short period of time, which shows the potential. And Sotheby's was willing to work with the group and confirmed their ETH address as proof of funds (you can't just show up and bid at the highest end auctions, you have to prove you can pay if you win). That's all very legitimizing.

And the concept of a DAO has gotten massive exposure, which is great.

But without the messy administration woes a win would have entailed, and which no doubt would have led to disagreements and bitterness.

And which, frankly, DAOs are not yet ready to handle. The frameworks just aren't there for it. DAOs are fine for experimental use with cryptofolk who are used to the chaos, but it's not time for the normies yet. It's too early for a particularly adhoc dao to deal with the masses.

As long as the funds are returned promptly, this was the ideal outcome from my view.
I discovered Slowly just over a month ago. Really surprised about the lack of spam and the interactions I've had.
https://imgur.com/a/oBEj3Jy

Try to find a not-russian site with as many people discussing this stuff. It really do be like that sometimes.
They don't tell me these things, either. Sorry.
And everyone will get a free unicorn!
Wouldn't that be solvable by assigning a Pony-managed reply-to address? That way Pony can still manage how it sends back the replies to you.

I really like email as a comms platform and think that it could greatly benefit Pony.
Facebook’s new Messenger app for macOS is native and built with Obj-C and AppKit
Very few drugs doctors prescribe for depression, or anxiety, get you high.

After trying at least 7 antidepressants over the years; I sometimes wonder exactly how much over Placebo do they work.

My doctor finally came clean one day. Antidepressants at their best might give you a bit more energy.

I noticed he started prescribing bupenorpine off label for treatment resistant depression. I understand why. I think he got tired of seeing patients not responding to traditional antidepresssants.

Most psychiatrists will not deviate from the old standbys though, even the progressive doctors.

(I can offer this. With time you will start to feel better. Everyone's biology is different. My depression when it hits sometimes takes a few weeks/months to lighten up, but it always lightened up, and wasen't tied to situational circumstances.)
Isn't that just a mutual fund with 0% interest for all but one person?
Yeah, I bet you'd get similar results with this methodology if you were instead focusing on "microdosing" with alcohol all day.
Biden to have routine colonoscopy, transfer power to Harris
The one I linked uses no Javascript! It POSTs to an endpoint that returns the HTML of the page with the results.

Now I feel bad for sending extra traffic to them.
The IPv4 systems that need to be updated - the hosts - will not be. Not in a year, not in ten years. This plan is a non starter.

v4 should, at this point, basically exist as fallback prefixes for the devices that will hang around the next 30 Y without proper v6 support etc.

Routing in the small is not hard. I am absolutely baffled that people are claiming BGP is some kind of super hard thing to deal with. BGP has a ton of problems and lots of ugly duct tape (rpki, etc.) that is just done poorly but it isn’t hard.
Will they do a next study lasting 10 years on addictive effects of microdosing and putting you on a path of wanting highly potent stuff gradually?? No they will not, smells like a study funded by someone to prove a point on their sales pitch...No doubt the researchers could have been under a NDA for limited disclosure of observations / the funding provider reviewing information first before anything is published. Just like antibiotic resistance develops, addiction too follows the same path...
Can Austrians now apply as refugees to other EU countries?
I think there is another factor that has to be considered: An increasingly risk aware or risk intolerant population.

I believe that the general population is more fearful of threats, and therefore more willing to sacrifice privacy for perceived security.

As you say, crime rates are declining, but technology has enabled the population to be informed of every crime in every community, so the threat perception is greatly increased.
This study is non-blinded, non-RCT based on individuals who self-selected through social media, self reporting symptoms through an app.

While I'm hopeful that psychedelics may prove to be a treatment for some mental health issues, but this study doesn't tell us much.
Eh, that was a very unfortunate way of phrasing it.

I used to work at startups and take my job very personally, this let to working crazy hours and not having boundaries between my personal and work life. I get the point about caring too much.

You mileage may vary. After burning through my savings, and feeling like I forgot how to code (it was so strange), I found a more stable, and somewhat less exciting job at a SaaS company, and scaled down the role to something more hands-on. This gave me the financial stability I was seeking but also allowed me to spend more time with the people I care about. I also tried to force myself to just do something less "productive" (e.g. play a video game, draw, go for a walk). I know that I was really lucky to be able to do that.

I hope you'll feel better soon.
Replacing the IDPROM on a SparcStation Voyager – the goggles do nothing
Atutor was my favorite when i researched the LMS space a decade+ ago
Agree! I think the problem is twofold.

First, it's not "low-code" or "no-code", it's high-level code vs. low-level code vs. non-traditional non-text-based code like labview. But it's still code, there's always the code.

Second, learning "code" or "coding" isn't the problem in democratizing "programming" in the first place. Code is the easy part. Software engineering, architecture, debugging & troubleshooting, logic, math, configuration management, project management - that stuff is the hard part. It's of absolutely no help to have a bunch of smart domain-experts happily "no-coding" away in matlab or labview or excel or ms. access and then stumbling right into the same bad engineering practices that you might find in struggling projects using traditional tools.

That's because we don't need "coders" or "programmers" at all. We need people to be engineers. And part of good engineering is picking the right tool and system to use, not jumping on the next over-hyped fad.
You realize that Tesla is moving their headquarters to Austin, is worth 1.1 Trillion dollars, outsells all of their competitors combined in certain categories, Silicon Valley is just a label given to a certain area and can't "end" and Theranos is already a failed company right?

What you are saying seems more like a line out of a comic book than something that has matches reality in any way.
I like him a lot, but recently in his tweet he didn't even know how pressure varies with area in a nozzle. I do think he should learn a bit more.
> FP-adjacent languages like rust

What does that even mean? Rust is very far from having anything to do with FP. FP implies immutability and heavily shared structures. Rust hates shared structures with a passion, it requires ownership. You have to jump through some massive hoops to get the same benefits of shared data structures in Rust.
If being put out of work could be made to be less of a dire situation for the worker, some of these climate solutions might still be viable.
HN doesn't want to talk about the control problem, HN wants to discuss health care. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I feel like most of the complaints that make people think blogging is dead is because it's hard to "build an audience", but I've never really understood why that matters. I have had a blog more or less non-stop since 2001, and never once was "building an audience" a goal. M

Some people hope to actually make a living with their writing. Some are..look at all the people with 1000s of subs on Substack.

How can insights be useful to others if no one sees them. That is the whole point of having an audience.
Magic requires memorization.

Memorization is not consistent between teams/team-members.

Memorization is also the fastest skillset folks lose if they step away from the language/toolset for a while (it degrades rapidly)

Worst of all - The RoR ecosystem (6 versions in) requires memorization about which set of things you need to have memorized for this specific version of the framework.

I'll take some boilerplate code EVERY FUCKING TIME. The magic becomes a curse.
Well, sure. Put another way: discrimination is highest in professions where a group is discriminated against the most, and ignoring the strongest sources makes the overall effect weaker. Not big surprises. Do we want to do that though?
I don’t think creating detailed estimates is a waste of time. Planning brings clarity to engineering.

However, PMs weaponize estimates against the engineers and that ruins the whole exercise.

Also, teams should use a betting market with real money. People deserve to be paid extra for being right.
Thanks, ill look into it some more. I trust Not Boring but something could be up. tbh tho, people still call bitcoin a ponzi scheme. None the less, there are definetily more profitable companies in the space besides just Coinbase ;p
This is such an oversimplified view of how medicine works. I'm not even sure how to begin a counterargument. In medicine, bad outcomes can occur without being sure of the cause. For example, let's say a patient who currently smokes gets lung cancer. Did the patient get lung cancer from smoking, or is this a sporadic non-smoking related cancer? There's no way to definitively find the answer to that question. But for the sake of discussion, let's say it is due to smoking. Do you fault the patient for smoking and not quitting? Or do you fault the doctor for being unable to convince the patient to quit smoking?
> If more black people are poor, then more black people will be helped by such policies. If we want to help the poor, let's help the poor.

But I don't think the causes of poverty are universal, and for lots of black people, they are racially driven.

Discussing policies around the "poor generally" while banning discussion of race means abdicating any attempts at integrating schools, means that it is impossible to address discrimination against pepole with black sounding names (50% less likely to get a callback), means that it is impossible to discuss ongoing discrimination in the housing market (rampant, https://projects.newsday.com/long-island/real-estate-agents-... is a great resource if you want to see what racism in the urban US in the 21st century looks like).

None of those problems - all of which are likely large proximate causes for the racial disparities here - could be addressed if we are only allowed to talk about class and not race.

No compelling reason for why any discussion of race should be taboo has been provided. If the people who are discussing race in this manner are the "most racist", they're doing a pretty bad job at it given the massive disparities benefiting white poeple in pretty much all sectors of society in the country.

It seems ridiculous to me that the solution is to stop discussing race at all in a country that had legally enshrined anti-black discrimination within living memory.