skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreed. There is a bunch reasons we are still reliant on chemical rockets, and this silly thing does not solve for any of them. There are so many things that can go wrong here. The vacuum they need to pull in that HUGE chamber is not trivial. Even if they could... I want to see how they propose the exit. What are they planning to use that is strong enough to hold the vacuum, and yet can be punched through by the projectile? And even if they manage that... the aero forces around the exit will be insanely turbulent. Snake-oil. Again. A shit-load of money spent on not much more than a movie set.
The object is not a point mass at the end of the arm, it's a line. Different parts of the line are moving at different relative velocities & accelerations relative to the centre of rotation, and thus when released the rocket not going to go straight.
> Hard disagree.

Well, then I'm thankful people can still develop and test out radical ideas despite others not wanting that.

This is how all good tech develops, like PDFs. It just tends to be through the internet now.
> If it makes you feel better, your SSN is dumped into thousands of leaks already, most likely.

Actually, this reminder does make me feel slightly better about giving my SSN to Privacy.com.
Which boundaries are these? I’ve not hit them. But then I don’t use the api features.
Yeah, it's interesting. I was under the impression that the majority of leather is used for cars and furniture. But I don't see any auto brands here. This appears to be focused on the shoe industry.

I tried to find a breakdown of what leather is used for, and came up with this instead:

https://blog.bizvibe.com/blog/top-10-largest-leather-produci...

Italy imports and exports more leather than anybody?
Magnus Carlsen wins longest world chess championship game of all time
I use Alton Brown's recipe, and I've sampled at various ages. Personally, I couldn't tell the difference between 1mo up to 1yr. 1mo is the best, IMO, but you want at least 2wks to meld the flavors.
It's not really about transportation. Cattle are transported live to slaughterhouses near the port, before global export. However leather "subsidies" the industry because it makes the cows more valuable: this is how it contributes to deforestation.
> All I'm doing is claiming that the American approach leads, in the end, to greater and more permanent personal liberty.

Well, that's just it: Europeans would look to America and claim the same for them. (Specifically with emphasis on "in the end".)
I took an informal poll of foreign students at the US university I went to. Regardless of major, they all took Algebra in 6th grade. This was quite some time ago.

I was interested as I was ready for Algebra in 6th grade, but was unable to take it until 8th grade. If you don't get into Algebra before high school, there is no chance of taking a reasonable calculus class before college, which puts you way behind the curve if you get into an engineering program.

I went to a state university that had a strong engineering program. The students that I knew who were having difficulty and eventually dropped all had first seen calculus at the university. These were smart, talented people, but they were not given the chance to succeed.
Can confirm. Am cofounder. I used Demigod to get everything in my habits really tight so that I could find 4 hours EXTRA every week in my life to learn to paint. I did it, it worked, and after about 3 months I made a pretty good painting as a gift for my friend. <3 to Demigod
Might it be a biochemistry thing rather than diet? I eat very few processed carbs and sugars and enjoy deep, restful sleep with most off-the shelf magnesium.

L-theanine is fantastic too with my morning coffee. Alertness without the jitters.
How do you test for things if you can't see them?

Does God exists? Does wind? We look for effects.

No. I am not going to go that route, because helpfully Webster dictionary defines race as:

"any one of the groups that humans are often divided into based on physical traits regarded as common among people of shared ancestry"

But that is not biological race definition. Fair enough. From biologyonline ( https://www.biologyonline.com/ ):

"(1) A group or population of humans categorized on the basis of various sets of heritable characteristics (such as color of skin, eyes, and hair)."

Now, I get that it is a touchy topic in US, but what heritable characteristics does Obama possess that are visible to the naked eye?
My grandmother who lived to her mid 90s did a lot of arm exercises to get the blood circulation going. She would stand up and just fling her arms up and down.

Saw this earlier this year (it's a body airbag for old people in case they fall. Invented by a Chinese so eastern way haha), reminds me of the bike helmet some Swedes demonstrated a few years back

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9W6wNfzsIE
I meant they've possibly been done, just that I don't know either way.

> any claim about the genetic component kinda falls apart for me based on them as the children were in the same pregnant mother at the same time.

They do somewhat control for pregnancy by comparing identical vs fraternal twins, and finding a higher correlation in intelligence between the former, as well as a far more similar brain structure in regions known to be related to intelligence (frontal cortex).

Anyway, it's impossible to get rid of all confounds via twin studies. But this doesn't mean that twin studies provide zero evidence. It just means the evidence can't be fully conclusive. It just strongly points in the direction of genetics.
Definitely agree. There’s no reason for me to believe that I’m good at teaching. My students’ failings could be mostly a reflection of my own failing in teaching.

I don’t dismiss the value of anti-racist policy and attempts to rid myself of negative biases that affect my students. My compliant is when I’m told, and I have been told this by an educator, that the act of requiring knowledge of algebra is itself racist. That’s when I feel we’ve gone too far. I don’t necessarily think algebra should be required but the reasoning for getting rid of that requirement shouldn’t be because black students are not passing it at a high enough rate.

My belief is that far too many people are going to college. The degree therefore is being watered down. If we lived in a country where everyone had guaranteed access to food, shelter, and medical care then the emphasis on college wouldn’t be so pronounced and colleges could then concentrate on what’s needed.

I don’t believe your comment should have been downvoted. Thank you for sharing your experience and thoughts.
Depends on the category... I think that especially Cada and Cobi have good quality in all kinds of vehicles and planes, Qman and Wange are more into buildings and other stuff.
40K for a .com domain? do you have users? does your income justify dropping 40k in a domain? you can hire a couple of devs/designers/ux overseas for that money. Or is vc money you dont care to spend? Not judging (well, a little bit) , I really what to understand the mindset behind "40k for a domain is reasonable", on an early stage startup. I wish you luck, im i will for sure download the app. I also think "demigod" gives a "fake guru grindset" vibe.
So all human activity prior to March 2020 was murderous, evil and so forth?
Sad to hear. I wrote the original AppleScript documentation and worked closely with William and Warren and the rest of the AppleScript team. It was one of the few teams I worked with in Silicon Valley that had a real sense of community, with regular outings to our favorite taqueria in Mt. View and that great Indian restaurant in the Sunnyvale strip mall, and also impromptu music sessions with William on guitar. He was a great guy who died much too young.
I think this is all fine and dandy until the new Innenminister is starting his or her work early next year.

They will project the concerns of the civil service and somehow carve out enough special regulations that will all but hollow out any such rights.

I really want to believe that the majority of the coalition parties believe that they are saying, but that's not how politics are made or put into practice.

E.g., after Zimmermann, there was great hope that Germany would be a lot less conservative in it's interior policy, but following interior ministries have not really become much less conservative.

Here's to hope, though - Cheers.
Because flu doesn’t fill our ICU’s to overflowing and burn out our medical staff. The number of deaths aren’t the only metric that should concern us.
> But in public school they've decided at some point that a math teacher doesn't need to have a math degree.

For anything pre-high school that would seem sort of overkill. A "good" teacher in the earlier grades is more of a function of how well they work with children.
I've had multiple physicals and my vitamin D level checked. I'm in great health with a resting pulse close to 40. I would love to find a root cause here and address it but I haven't found a doctor who has seen anything obvious. I'm with you otherwise. Any ideas?
DeSantis proposes a new civilian military force in Florida that he would control
Most memory-safe languages I've used self-host their compiler and standard library (i.e. they're written in the language itself).
For equations, I kind of like:

. x .
log ( --- - sa )
e ` m '
y = ────────────────────
2
r
I feel like almost any new kit I look at is composed of big specially-molded bricks that would seem really odd and difficult to find a use for if they were deconstructed in a big box of bricks. Maybe I'm misremembering or am being too harsh on the newer kits, but I feel like the Lego sets I grew up with in the 80's and 90's were more reusable. I had the sense that every Lego kit I bought was also giving me cool new tools to build bigger/wilder spaceships and trucks, whereas these just look like a nice weekend project with no application thereafter.

https://www.amazon.com/LEGO-Legendary-Mountain-Awesome-Build...

https://www.amazon.com/LEGO-Creator-Adventure-Building-Creat...

https://www.amazon.com/LEGO-Champions-McLaren-Building-Piece...
Yeah, it's getting a bit dark these days.
So my father-in-law passed away from dementia recently so I've been thinking about this a lot. Some family members could not be arsed (to borrow a phrase) to really care for him over the last several years, and from their viewpoint he was a burden. Some could, though, and to them he wasn't a burden, but a way to express their love. And looking back his long decline of course had a negative effect on a lot of people, but I don't know if it would have been any less negative had he put a bullet in his brain 5 years ago.
No, there is just history to the word you might not know, some extra meaning. Race fundamentally refers to the idea that there are different kinds of people. Which is why 'interbreeding' comes up, because some people used to believe that a black person and a white person having a child was more like crossing a horse and a donkey than say a person with light hair and a person with dark hair.

There is some real ugly history here.
It will also drop the average test score at public schools, thus getting the woke crowd to lower the standards again! The cycle repeats itself.
I'm usually on the lifting restrictions side of the argument, but do you honestly not see the difference in health risk of contracting the virus x times vs potentially (x + y) times? So far it seems like immunity is not permanent..
Yeah, a lot of negative comments, from people coming up with all sorts of multimedia use cases, when there is clearly a market gap and plenty of people that want work houses without multimedia capability.
"No leverage"
"Our hands are tied"
"The bribe was too large to refuse"

Our grand-children will hate us for being cowards and short-sighted profiteers.

https://www.wionews.com/world/joe-bidens-son-helped-china-ge...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Israel_Public_Affairs...
To my reading the posted article makes only passing reference to the California recommendations, and gives positive emphasis to a number of focussed initiatives or programs.
Speak for yourself. I've been WFH mostly for over a quarter century. No fate but the one you make and all that stuff...
> Can you explain the significance of not being a Kennel Club breed?

Well, the Kennel Club rates breeds in terms of their conformance to "spec", which is a lot about appearance. Inevitably, breeders breed to the spec. Border Collies aren't bred to any spec. (Collies are a different breed, which I believe is rated by the Kennel Club)
Don't forget the danger of the commute itself. Also a small chance that it could kill you.
Still less than a week after the previous CEO steps down, especially unexpectedly, is incredibly fast.
this is such a strange comment for me, and I beg people not to reflexively downvote and instead join in for a discussion, but I'm part / have been part of communities where people ROUTINELY achieve remission from disease the medical establishment deems incurable

I can go in further details if people ask, but lifestyle intervention has DRAMATIC results for many people, myself included, and results not provided by drugs or any commonly available medical intervention

Let me give you an example, RE: cancer and diet, look up "Andrew Scarborough brain cancer" and you'll find a detailed account of someone treating incurable brain cancer with diet and lifestyle; and this is someone working in the medical field (actually, precisely in oncology)
even bariatric surgery seldom produces thinness. It only makes a very obese person only mildly obese, optimistically. The diet and fitness industries are worth billions of dollars, with pitifully poor results to show for it. Biology is fighting all efforts to make humans thinner.
Work for a company of any size with multiple offices and it's pretty much impossible to avoid. On a given day pre-pandemic I'd typically be on calls with people in at least 4 different offices plus some remote.

Of course, it's easier to have everyone on a floor or two of a building with a small company.
Enough with the absurd hyperbole already. Trump's presidency was neither an Alex Jones conspiracy nutfest or an Adolf Hitler madhouse of dictatorship. It was mostly mediocre but hardly worse than many previous presidency. Possibly better than some even. I'm no fan of that guy in so many ways, but he lived up to very few of the insane worst expectations that were created when he just entered the office. The world certainly didn't go to hell because of it. If anyone promoted idiotic unfounded conspiracies during his presidencies, it was the media endlessly harping about Russian collusion in his victory, but never being quite able to provide solid evidence of a single aspect of that particular conspiracy theory. Or the obsessive fixation on the new boogeyman of "misinformation", which suddenly has become a global problem according to many media sources and politicans because, oh god forbid, a candidate that they didn't give their formal benediction to happened to win a major election.
All the colors in a design are chosen to look good together. Changing one major color could necessitate changing all of them, and likely also icons and image assets. Even photos could be tuned to the contrast ratios of the design.
A lot of the people doing deforestation in the Amazon are incredibly poor, and deforestation is the only option to them to increase their standard of living.

However, to say we are preserving the Amazon as a "landmark" is not quite right. Globally speaking the best use for the Amazon is as a carbon sink and biodiversity hotspot. What should be happening is that the global community should be paying for this benefit: a big capital flow from the whole world to Brazil. But they are not, they are just free-riding.
You hit the crux of the problem here.

Our brains compensate for sleep deprivation by releasing increased dopamine in the striatum, which is involved in motivation and reward, and the thalamus, which is involved in alertness. On top of that, one of the effects of sleep deprivation is a reduction in your ability to tell how sleep deprived you are.

If you're sleep deprived, you're running on a natural high. If you get just enough sleep to get close to rested, that extra striatum and thalamus dopamine stops, and you also regain your ability to perceive yourself.

That feels really bad. Not only do you forego the high, but you can feel every bit of the lack of rest. It's like the end of a bender. The only good thing is knowing you're making progress back to relatedness.
No kidding?
https://fsfe.org/activities/publiccode/publiccode.en.html is finally taking shape!
Roughly. But in theory it is easier/cheaper to harness that energy in a ground based system (like spinlaunch) than with a complex and traditionally unreusable rocket engine.
> I do also feel like a top down flow is more conductive to "process-oriented" or procedural design. I've done my fair share of procedural visual scripting with nodal systems such as UE4's Blueprints, PopcornFX or Blender's Geometry Nodes and none of them feel as "natural" as Houdini's.

I agree with this. I've never used Houdini, but I have used Max/MSP and after using that, always found the horizontal visual programming systems very clunky and, as you say, they just feel like they take up a lot lot more space. Of course, Max's nodes are quite compact in comparison to something like Blueprints, but horizontal ones always are because each additional input/output makes the node one connection taller, while with a vertical layout you tend to fit many connections in the available width (of course, connection labels aren't clearly visible in that case, but I find that's something you get accustomed to).

Personally, I greatly prefer a vertical layout for visual programming systems.
For those interested in understanding what it looks like on the flip side - from the generally underserved side of things - here's an interesting article.

Middle-school students embrace endless summer ... of linear equations

https://edsource.org/2017/middle-school-students-embrace-end...

The Effects of the Elevate Math Summer Program on Math Achievement and Algebra Readiness

https://www.wested.org/resources/effects-of-elevate-math-sum...

Khan Academy in 7th Grade Math Classes: A Case Study

https://www.wested.org/resources/khan-academy-7th-grade-math...
And Captain Disillusion's excellent analysis (Beware 240p ahead.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLRbTtd8IKM
From what I'm seeing yes, although it does go further.

Imagine where every bar was a different length while still keeping a pulse. One might be 3+2+2 then 4+3 then 2+3+2+3 and so on.
vaguely reminds me of praetorian guards. they always worked out well, didn't they? /s
Maybe we need a reformed "Teach for America" style program, where the government gives scholarships to students getting double undergrad major in Mathematics and Education, if they agree to teach in inner city schools for X years after graduation.
Listening to the likes of Gartner.

They pretty much said words to the effect of software development would all be outsourced to India back in 2001 and I took my hands off the keyboard and focused on the process side of things.

Fast forward 20 years and devs are in crazy demand.
You can change the wake word to a couple options. I suppose they assumed that people who knew Alexa's would change the wake word. But then they moved from branding them "Echo" devices to "Alexa" devices. I believe they had several 'A' names, "Computer" and "Echo" as an option.
> This is the perfect compromise.

Except then you are geographically tied to a location.

I've been working remotely for about 10 years now, so well before Covid.

I now prefer to live in a low cost of living area, or travelling and working from places with a low cost of living.

As a software engineer, every single thing I do is timestamped, logged, reviewed, deadlined, etc ... so it's not like I can be lazy and slack off. I still have to work, I should be able to do it from anywhere.
Static linking is now allowed as libvips is licensed under LGPL and imgproxy is licensed under MIT.
What’s wrong with dynamic linking BTW?
This is semantics, no? Couldn't the obstacles be so large that it's practically the same as forbidding?

When I read "they're not forbidden", I take that to also mean that there's few new obstacles.
Introduction to TypeScript for Vue Developers
What? They want one to pay for learning vi/vim? I think, it should be the other way around, that is rewarding ppl for choosing to learn it and keep the knowledge active in their memory.

Especially true now, with so many reasons not to use it AND the sufficience of :help and vimtutor for the rest of the reasons.

I find that the best teacher in this case is a necessity. Find yourself on a basic command line with no nano or the likes, just good old vi, not even vim. Then go on with that important mission you're on! Traumatizing? Yes, but a chance at adaptation too.
Shot in the dark and I'm not a doctor but you could look into getting a genetic test for atypical cystic fibrosis. It's increasingly diagnosed into adulthood and recurrent pneumonia is one of the clues.
Not a neovim user, but given that it has built-in LSP support it doesn’t seem too far off from the features of VSCode.
It’s certainly a reason not to use it in production though.
Ah, so you stir it while heating or dilute it enough or something and that prevents coagulation?
> is it really more important to preserve it as a landmark than for the land to go to use

The Amazon has 10% of the worlds biodiversity, I wouldn't exactly call it a landmark, this isn't historic preservation - and the land is already "in use". Also I'm not sure that "the people of the country" are buying and farming cattle on large chunks of the Amazon, I'd assume the economic gains are highly concentrated amongst a few companies (this is conjecture). Either way, lowering demand for cattle raised in the Amazon would be one way to make this less common.
Let’s hope that right to own body holds up against push for mandatory vaccination.
Technically, the activity of lumbering golems constructed by unthinking strands of DNA seeking to make copies of themselves, and if it weren't for that meddling virus...
This is a straw man. My original point (root level comment) was that the authors of this plan do not believe there are any innate differences in math ability, full stop. A reply to my comment supported my position by showing that obviously there are examples of people who are extreme outliers in terms of math ability. This proves the point that there are differences in innate math ability.

Your reply is that we shouldn't design a state-wide math program for extreme outliers. But no one said we should! We only said that we should design a math program that acknowledges a diversity in innate math ability (as proven by the existence of extreme outliers, and the many, many less extreme outliers).
I'm a solo game developer working in Unreal Engine. I typically buy environments and props from the Unreal Marketplace and modify them to meet my needs. Unreal's built-in modeling tools are usually enough for my purposes so I rarely open Blender, but when I do, I am so appreciative that this software exists and is free to use.

It's incredible how far Blender has come. I remember the days when time between significant releases was measured in years, not months. The progress they've made in recent years — particularly since Epic Games gave them a $1.2 million Epic MegaGrant — has been impressive, and encouraging to watch.

Thank you to all who fund Blender, and thank you especially to the people who make it. You're making a difference in the lives of many indie developers.
> all children must always be at the same level up until their last year

But that's not what's happening, so, again, what does that have to do with the actual changes being made?