skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unfortunately development does not exist in a vacuum.

The Date(TM) can have a slew of dependencies that chain react down the line. Perhaps your client's training was booked months in advance with flights and stand-in schedules all based all on some dev feature being available in class. Or hard to reschedule subcontractors were booked six months ago for Pen-Testing and The Date(TM) is slipping. Things like this have costs and consequences beyond technical software debt and in many cases come with enforceable penalty clauses which you don't want to trigger.

Yes, there is always a tension between the hands down best guess of what was possible when you made the commitment vs the actual critical path as revealed by experience over time, but you live with those unknown risks and degrees of certainty and proceed. You Meet The Date(TM).

I also think Radical Transparency plays a role here that was lost on the 'successful' PM referenced in GP's story. If you cancel weekends and duct tape together things you need to fix later to meet a date then everyone involved should be 100% clear on why it is so important. And agree. There is a reason some activities are called Sprints. You can't do them all the time. A Sprint is a defined burst of energy- maximally applied. Anything else is a different kind of race. Business as Usual, is a marathon for instance. But, occasionally, you need to produce a Sprint to Meet The Date (TM). Point is that the GP's PM-in-question might have accomplished more with better honesty relationships including a well thought out & generous TOIL [1] program that could compensate for the off chance that some institutional shortsightedness at an earlier planning stage- where commitments were made that may have seemed like a good idea at the time- proved more difficult than anticipated and resulted in a need for Sprints.

[1] https://citrushr.com/blog/leave-absence/what-is-toil-and-how...
This has nothing to do with individualism and everything to do with the internet creating "global communities."
But this launch system still needs the projectile itself to be a fairly complex rocket capable of delivering several km/s of delta V and of steering the payload onto a desired orbit. That still implies electronics and mechanical systems onboard even if you're carrying only bulk cargo.
Ahh, I should have seen that possibility (that yours was first). Still, I like the direction you're both going. The web needs this!
Boycotting all unethical companies is simply not possible, by design
> maybe mention this as well in the README?

We've tweaked the readme, I hope it's clearer.

It would be great to provide this for gcc too. The project is new and we've just started out. I know less about gcc's build system and how hard it will be to apply these techniques there. It seems as though it should be possible though and I'd love to see it happen.

To infer the object->executable dependencies we currently read the compilation database and produce a stand-alone link.sh shell script, which gets packaged into each manyclangs snapshot.
So call out articles from those organizations that are creating a false narrative. "Getting ahead of the curve" on articles like this only serve to muddy the waters even further and create more opportunities for bad faith arguments.
I was on a project that used Google's Enterprise captcha v3 (passive mode, with all that "AI" jazz) and it was hot garbage. We tested against it using a simple selenium script and even though `navigator.webdriver` was true, it still gave 9/10 "likely a human".
I'm about 30. That's almost exactly the plan. I have a security clearance and I live in Colorado so a lot of space-adjacent jobs are available to me. I'm trying to get into software on a satellite program, make some connections, and see what comes up along the way
Never shake a baby elf!
Unfortunately in the wake of recent[0] news and overall history I don't feel comfortable at all about making something like this integral part of the terminal and thus giving it access to basically everything?

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29245080
100% agree with you.

Crypto is as much, if not more, a social movement than a pure technology solution at this stage. Whether or not the blockchain, tokens, DAOs, etc. are the "right" approach to things, the fact that there are millions of users and many who are coming up with ideas, building products, etc. is something that is hard to ignore.

I was in the Discord group for Constitution DAO and it was really interesting to observe how excited, hopeful, and positive about the future people were. I think the world needs that, especially post-COVID.
Just curious how did you leveraged your devops experience and transitioned to sales engineer
I think we are well into semantics now but my understanding of dark patterns as a concept is things that only succeed due to trickery or intentional obscuring if what’s likely to happen that aren’t actually illegal.

They’re technically OK but we perceive them to be unethical and unfair. Which is why they get a special name.

If they were not technically allowed they’d just be fraud. Much like your robbery example isn’t a “dark pattern” because it’s a felony. We already have words for illegal stuff.
This is similar to claims that cameras are obsoleted by smart phones.

It's only true insofar as the timeline being examined starts at the peak of the consumer camera frenzy. But well before a large chunk of consumers had point-and-shoot cameras, amateur photography was very much a thing. And still is.

Blogging existed well before social networks, going by its earlier name of "weblog" or even "home page". There was a frenzy where many people started blogging on tools like blogger, blogspot, wordpress, etc; and then many eventually switched to forms of self expression that had more gratifying feedback loops. But the characteristics of the original demographic of bloggers haven't changed and many quality blogs still exist (with new ones springing up) where there is a motivation to communicate in long(er) form and focus on substance, not so much community building or gratification.
That sounds amazingly delicious and I wish I could buy that.
There is such a thing as "large" and "small" as related to measurement and impact.

But a change in a base parameter of the laws of physics is different. If a change of 1/10% in the value of one parameter is detectable, than it is "a large change". If a change of 200% in the value of another parameter is not detectable, then it is "a small change".

But the fine tuning argument relies on defining an absolute idea of "large" and "small". In the fine tuning problem definition, 1/10% is "small" and 200% is "large", and it's the parameters themselves that behave strangely, since one parameter produces visible results for "small" changes while another doesn't. Get rid of the absolute ideas of "small" and "large" numbers, and the fine tuning problem goes away entirely.

> Moreover, I find it unfathomable that the scale 1/g64 would be relevant anywhere in physics – I certainly can't think of any examples!

My point about 1/g64 was that, for all physical quantities, there is some scale at which they can vary without measurable differences. I took such a fantastically small number exactly to make sure I'm not risking a case where the factor I gave as an example would in fact cause detectable differences.
how about PagerDuty, Divvy, Slab? I once worked at a company where the CTO said 'elixir is an unknown quantity and I'm not sure we want to rely on it' and here we were using three critical services (one financial!) that were running on elixir.

> there's little jobs that's all

wasn't an issue for me. I applied for five elixir jobs in a limited sector (fintech) and got an offer.
Hey thanks a lot.

Network effects will definitely be the #1 challenge. I considered integrations—I first tried Pony as an email service, actually. I wanted it to be as accessible as possible. This led to a lot of problems, specifically you get this asymmetry and confusion of some people being on Pony and others being in instant real-time. All of our existing platforms come with norms and expectations, and using a non-instant integration was often perceived as anti-social, which was really unfortunate because I was trying to build something pro-social. You also lose this effect of it being a special place.

Anyway, it is hard to get people on, but fortunately the idea seems to be unique enough and resonate enough with that there's already a seemingly dedicated (albeit small) userbase. It suggests that maybe network effects will be possible to overcome. Everything has to start somewhere!
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Absolutely. I've written books--both self-published and through a publisher--and, to be honest, they probably impress people professionally more than they should. But the money has been in the noise for someone with a decent tech job.
They are totally not, because whenever you need an app do something, like, display a message sent to you, the 'official' way is to do it via push notifications. But if your user doesn't use Google Play services, you have to make the app run in the background, which is increasingly difficult in Android (and impossible in iOS).
Use whatever language you want; there is no large codebase that's easy to maintain.
Ruby is strongly typed anyway... The runtime complains if you mis-type something just as a compiler would complain. In fact, linters just catch it as you type (plus any other typos).

Mixing it up with JS (which is weakly typed)?
It would be way more convincing if the Arthur used primary historical source documents to justify this as a myth. For example, if he could find an old architect who wrote that the spiral staircases were for aesthetic reasons or for making the climb up easier, that would be more convincing.

Instead, the author argues from almost first principles and bulk observations, which seems to be unconvincing logic in establishing historical intent.
Pepsico and Toyota are sponsors for elixir events on the regular.
Also worth noting is that there are 11 copies, and only 1 is in private hands.
Companies would still pay even if making ransomware payments was a felony. The ransomware gangs would not go away, companies would just have a bigger incentive to hide ransomware attacks.

These groups aren't going to go away even if 95% of companies suddenly stopped paying, deploying ransomware costs next to nothing. There's also a huge incentive for ransomware actors to punish this sort of regulation.

> The ramsomware crisis is really bad now, and it keeps getting worse.

How come everybody is crying about the "ransomware crisis", but you never hear about a "BEC crisis"? BEC losses are bigger than ransomware losses, and they keep getting worse.
I think it’s just preference really. I don’t think Django is better I just prefer some of it’s choices.

For example, I really don’t like that rails implicitly imports stuff into the namespace.

I like being able to follow the imports explicitly at the top of the file. I feel like there is way less of “where does this come from or what IS this?” when working with Django.
Borg, bup or restic are relatively popular incremental backup tools that reduplicate with chunking.
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Lee Drutman talks a lot about this in his book, "Breaking the Two-Party Doom Loop." [0]

Short version: there used to be much less "party discipline" in US politics. There were lots of sub-factions within the two big parties that would vote differently, depending on the issue. So, it was common for bills to pass with (say) 50% of Democrats voting for them, and 60% of Republicans.

In the 90's (according to Drutman), the parties started being much more "coherent" -- like, all Democrats would favor a bill, and all Republicans would oppose it. This makes it much harder to pass legislation.

[0] https://www.amazon.com/Breaking-Two-Party-Doom-Loop-Multipar...
We Entered the Chinese Red Ocean EdTech Market and Survived
Was that hotel franchised or owned by Marriott? If it was franchised, the "corporate management" is obviously not Marriott.
I'm still not convinced[1].

1. https://www.bmj.com/content/363/bmj.k5094
Bowing to protests, India’s Modi agrees to repeal farm laws
If you ever get the urge for playing it again the Warcraft 2 package on GoG even comes with the IPX patcher you need to play on modern windows.

WC2 is still my favorite of the bunch and it's joy to have a game with old friends from time to time. I also play WC1 in dosbox from time to time.

I still have many fond memories of playing WC2 with friends across town via modem to modem. We were lucky that our dads were gaming friends that often played WC2 together over modem so we quickly fell into the same habits.
I wouldn't chalk that up to individualism as much as to the idea that the Internet has caused people increasingly to identify with groups that don't correspond to physical proximity.
I'm still surprised there is so little backlash against going through the touchscreen for all the controls.
Lack of a dedicated on/off/volume knob for the soundsystem is such a dealbreaker for me.

Anything that adds more steps to a process is not an improvement. Maybe there is something I am missing.

The other controls that are normally on sticks on the steering column would be annoying at first but I think I might get used to that.
Keeping science reproducible in a world of custom code and data
> Anyone running an edtech company here? What do you use? Or do you build everything custom?

We created a LMS from scratch at Primerlabs.(https://primerlabs.io)
Though it had different requirements, because we create conversational courses.

If you are starting with video based platform, I recommend not focusing on creating a LMS from scratch and use tools (zoom, google sheet/form) etc. based on your requirement and create small tools to fit as your grow. For community you can use discord or discourse.

Creating an LMS from the get go is time consuming and does little for your business. My 2 cents.
One could argue that Quicklaunch doesn't practically require much peak power either since you have means to store hydrogen and oxygen in tanks over time if you generate them in trickles. The fact that firing it generates high peak power is no more relevant for practicality than the fact that firing a handgun generates high peak power. It's just combustion.

As for size, honestly, that doesn't seem to be much of a problem. You still have exclusion zones, and I'd argue that the exclusion zone around a spinning device like Spinlaunch proposes would have to be fairly large in all directions. Quicklaunch doesn't have a failure mode where the payload goes sideways at its full speed. Even if Quicklaunch were on land (which it wasn't planned to be), it would still probably require a smaller exclusion area.
The emulation community also has "ROMsets" — collections of game ROM images, where the ROM images for a given game title are all grouped together into an archive. So you'd have one archive for e.g. "every release, dump, and ROMhack of Super Mario Bros 1."

These ROM-set archives — especially when using more modern compression algorithms, like LZMA/7zip — end up about 1.1x the size of a single one of the contained game ROM images, despite sometimes containing literally hundreds of variant images.
I love that they supplied 4 citations for the opening assertion: "Propulsion is a critical subsystem of many spacecraft [1,2,3,4]". Glad I didn't have to take that on faith :)
Meanwhile Wise charges $7.5.
this crypto topic is balls
Not really.

As the ion energy approaches relativistic, the engine also starts approaching the behaviour of a photon thruster. If your ion drive is solar powered, the system as a whole then starts to behave like a solar sail made from grey paper rather than shiny mirrors.
You've reinvented UUCP
Great idea, heads up that this is a feature in Coinbase already (recurring buys).
An army of deepfake talking heads is coming for online videos–and it wants you
HN needs more content like this.

> Within a matter of hours of publishing this post one kind gent on a discussion forum had already publicly declared it as “drivel” – it’s odd what folk will get wound up about on the internet.
Yeah, but that's a bad thesis, don't you think? There's a much easier explanation than the twist on freedom is slavery the author is pitching: surveillance state is easy and it makes greedy people rich.
I had to look that up. This was the nicest explanation I found, but if you recommend a different one, please post. I also found stuff on Kerbal, but I'm not clear how real that is.

http://www.astronautix.com/l/lantrmoonbase.html
Lots of 127/8 outside of 127.0.0.1, both for development (running multiple services on conflicting ports) as well as for production use (either due to port conflicts, or simply ease of use if you stick to default port when, for example, setting up multiple DNS servers (to separate recursive resolver and authoritative server).

I recall a lot of use in routers as well, but haven't personally used those setups.
This would work about as well as appeasing the Nazis did
I know two Black technical journalists; they are both blocked by various industry people. Their articles are sourced almost exclusively from investigative reporting/leaks from lower-level employees. Meanwhile super antagonistic while journos will weirdly be omitted from block lists.
> States and corporations are bound by law and to a great extent by public opinion

In theory. In practice, corporations do risk analysis and compute liabilities and flout the law all the time. Particularly environmental laws. One disaster after another. Coverups, bribery, corruption, evading accountability. You're living in an alternate universe, because this one is full of malfeasance and screwups from huge organizations with zero consequences.
The only company that has found success? Umm, that was maybe true in 2012. Might want to check again.

For example:

* Axie Infinity (https://www.notboring.co/p/infinity-revenue-infinity-possibi...)

But there are many.
It depends what kind of individual freedoms you care about. I've seen surveillance capitalism expressed as the freedom of people to enter into agreements where they get free cell phone games in exchange for a trove of personal data.

Like you I would welcome some state intervention here, but I have to recognize that this is me lessening my commitment to the values of individualism.
So, you’re telling me there’s a massive inequality in the system controlled by those with wealth and everyday people basically can’t participate because there’s no room for their petty needs.
> discriminate members from the first workplace.

Well, no, there isn't. Organizations can and do get sued out of existence for specific types of discrimination.
Microtransactions are typically higher.

https://www.paypal.com/us/webapps/mpp/merchant-fees#statemen...

In the US, PayPal is a 4.99% + fixed (US: $0.09).
This is solving a different issue. Aerospike engines deal with the fact that rocket engines need to be different in an atmosphere vs in vacuum. Nuclear thermal rockets (NTRs) are not really envisioned for being used in the atmosphere, the risk of a blowup is too high. I consider them a wonderful technology which could really open up new possibilities, but we first need to nail down the challenge of affordably getting to orbit.
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I agree it suggests that possibility. Now what?

IMO, you have to look deeper to try to understand the drivers of the suggested inequality for fixing the drivers is what fixes the system.

What are the filters or moments that create skew between interest and eventual accomplishment? How do we remove/reduce them?
I would say, firstly, the construction industry has a reputation for going over-budget and over-time. The difference is they are much less likely to have stuff that's not fit for purpose at the end of it (although there are exceptions).

The reasons for that?

There's thousands of years of experience in humankind of various types of construction and in-depth knowledge of the materials. Whereas in software we've only got 60-odd years of experience and the materials we use are generally untested.

On top of that, when they use new materials in construction, there is a legal and engineering requirement to test those materials before they are used generally. In software we just go "ooh, look new Javascript framework" and dive on straight away.
My guess is that it's the younger average population in Africa combined with general higher resistance to sickness from lower sanitation standards in some areas.

But that's just a guess.

Continent Median Age
Europe 42 years
North America 35 years
Oceania 33 years
Asia 31 years
South America 31 years
Africa 18 years

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/mapped-the-median-age-of-ev...
Someone uses “greedy doctor” as an example to talk about an easy to understand version of the Control Problem, and the comments make it into a discussion of healthcare systems.

I’m starting to think most readers on HN don’t really read the articles and go straight into the comment section..
It is because Web3 changes the business model and economic incentives. I would suggest reading this:

https://onezero.medium.com/why-decentralization-matters-5e3f...
I do think nuclear energy is part of the picture, but it is not immediate. TerraPower is working on a reactor in Wyoming that will be ready in 7 years at a cost of $1B, which is considered quick and cheap for the industry[1][2].

Based on everything I've read, I think we need to do a bunch of different things all at once to address global warming and reduce emissions as quickly as possible. Yes, solar and wind are intermittent sources, but they're cheap and available now. Yes, we need to upgrade our grids to be able to handle all of the new electric vehicles. We also need to change over building heating/cooling. Find better means of making concrete.

You may not have meant only do nuclear, but I see politicians saying "nuclear & carbon capture" as if that's going to get the job done, but I haven't seen any analysis that supports those things alone doing the job.

[1] https://www.dw.com/en/scientists-pour-cold-water-on-bill-gat...
[2] https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/nuclear/bill-gates-fund...
Yes, the level of sacrifice is what shows how much intent and merit is behind a standpoint.
Tesla Subjects Women to ‘Rampant Sexual Harassment,’ Suit Says
Cool stuff.

In a meta note, that article seems to have been translated by Google.
I seem to have run out of disk space during the initial configuration of downloading the blockchain. Oh well.
The "HN hug of death" is a sign that your infrastructure is not adequate.

A regular flu year was 1.5% hospitalization. We're drowning with .5 more after years and years of reducing hospitals capacity.

I can't comment on Ireland I don't know the situation but I'd bet it's the same than in France: not enough beds when something is a bit out of the ordinary.
Well, castles were also used as bases to dominate the country side. And to show of wealth. The dominating part was made easier by bwing easily defended, turning them into ideal bases of operations. How someone could argue castles weren't military buildings, I don't know.
> pent-up demand and desire to rewrite the rules around ownership & sovereignty

Can you expand on this? I've never seen these things as anything new just the same old get rich quick stuff we've seen forever but this has me curious.
> put a midget in the machine

Please don't use this phrase.

I'm sure you don't mean it badly, just a reminder.