skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Calling it a joyride seems like typical rage bait du jour. Space is a worthy project. Projects need goals to rally around, and this was a goal being accomplished. Who cares who was on the ride?

Furthermore, making it all about the richest few people misses the point. More useful to focus on the goal (regain U.S. space capability, and expand human space capability overall) and remember that there are tens of thousands of people involved in this.

Further-furthermore, you could make this same argument about any major development being a waste of resources if you just ignore the ever-expanding light cones of benefit that the whole human race gained from them.
The Queen’s Gambit on Netflix certainly increased chess awareness in popular culture.
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If that does happen then there was never going to be a way to fix this but no one is worse off. If that doesn't happen then the problem is at least somewhat fixed. Sounds like a good argument to give it a shot.

I'm generally all for Devil's Advocate, but when it comes to giving workers reasons to _not_ demand more, I need to see some really compelling evidence of serious harm before I'm willing to tell people to reconsider.
Rotation matrices are still ubiquitous even in systems which use quaternions: if you want to apply a dense linear transformation to a vector (be it a rotation or otherwise), pretty much nothing will beat (in terms of speed) a matrix-vector multiplication. For instance even if you work out the rotation matrices using quaternions, an engine will end up shipping a rotation matrix to a graphics card to actually transform the bulk of vertices in a scene.
Not everyone is familiar with all aspects of (pop) culture.

Giving a brief explanation helps the parts of the audience that need it, and everyone else can just quickly gloss over it.

I am sure there's plenty of stuff that I found obvious that you don't know, and vice versa.
Shamelessly plugging (professor) Isaac Arthur's brilliant Youtube Channel. Haven't seen anyone else make the most realistic compilation of humanities next 100, 1e6, and 2**4**4 years from now.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZFipeZtQM5CKUjx6grh54g
From what I've heard it's hard to even get diagnosed with it, a lot of doctors aren't even aware of it or it's full extent. This is something that will take time before we can really assess how widespread it is
Trust me, what I'm doing right now isn't productive either.
I think you’re basing this on the 75 tonnes estimate, while 250-1000 tonnes was suggested to be more likely.
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L2 is much more of a scapegoat. With L3 even if your reactions aren't warmed up you can probably manage a perfectly good slow/stop.

Do you have a link that leads to that actual study?
It’s a demonstration in golang of what the vuln is. The assumption (not a bad one) is that golang devs may not be familiar with Java things and happenings. I can actually use it and simulate what an attacker could do. So it lets golang devs play with the problem.

The problem with this vuln is that since this library is a Java library that’s used everywhere, remediation is going to have a really long tail. There are a fuckton of apps that use this logger and it’s owners are not aware of it. Or it’s used in a part of a stack that’s not tracked yet… nobody can really tell.
>A tabletop game is limited to (essentially) what you can make with cardboard and flavour text.

Maybe for board games. But for tabletop rpgs, I think it's different.

Games like Dungeons & Dragons are limited more by what you can describe with language and reasonably bookkeep without slowing down the pace of play.
Slow moving traffic on highway is not very fun though. I prefer my car to manage that for me.
a 1% escape rate seems egregious
It's also the easiest solution and probably the only viable one right now.

The difficulty jump from "Mostly straight line highway driving" to "good fucking luck city streets" is extreme
Everyone hit a brick wall once they ran out of wood close enough to chop and make charcoal out of for iron production. It was coking coal that started off the industrial revolution.

Once coal was being mined, it was possible for Newcomen to build his horribly inefficient steam engine. It was many years later Watt improved his model of the engine, but even then it proved impractical until the precision boring of Wilkinson made it possible to seal a steam engine piston against the precision bored cylinder he made.

So, you need a huge surplus of fuel, plus time, plus the invention of precision all to happen as preconditions for a steam engine that works anywhere other than at the top of a coal mine.
How big would the card have to be if you could actually encode the music on the card as some kind of QR code or visual binary representation.
Chess is in many ways, the perfect esport. I'm sure I'll take some flack for calling it an esport due to its rich history and the fact that it was not originally a "video game", but in 2021 those lines are blurred. In my opinion, it checks all the boxes.
It's also a myth that losing more people is what matters. Wars are won and lost on morale. Losses have their effect through their impact on morale long before they start to restrict your fundamental capabilities.

Compare the quote attributed to Ho Chi Minh:

You will kill ten of us, we will kill one of you, but in the end, you will tire of it first.

He won and we lost. It's not because we took more casualties.
I guess the implicit question is why such obsession on fighting and weapons on the coins. Anthropologist David Graeber has a fascinating perspective (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZIINXhGDcs).

He posits that our present assumptions about money (first there's barter, then coins and fiat money, then credit) is actually backwards. And that primitive societies rather had interlocking systems of informal credit between everyone instead, since everyone knew everyone and you only really needed to settle the difference very infrequently.

And coins only really came into play as a supply logistics mechanism for traveling armies. Since a band of people traveling through town can't participate in the informal credit system. And so the taxation system created in such a way that the food producers needed to acquire an "external" currency the army had. And that this was shown archeologically where concentration of coins were denser around militarized border regions of various societies around the world.
But what's a good alternative then? What if the internet connection has recovered? And you were at the, for example, 4 minute retry loop. Would you just make your users stare at a spinning loader for 8 minutes?
Advertising is needed to protect good products from the advertising of bad products?
What's wrong with HTTP is that there's no real benefit to using it in a real-time environment. There's no point. We use reliable UDP abstractions today to accomplish this. Everyone does. There are countless articles on why TCP didn't work for video games, or of the ones that use it today, it's in an extremely limited sense.

I can't think of a single reason why you would go out of your way to serve HTTP over UDP for the purpose of communicating to a user agent for s/video games/virtual reality/, because no one has done that in over 20 years and if it was a good idea, it would have been done by now. But no one does it. Because there's no point.
The fact they compare his space flight to the billion people who live in squalor shows the average person who lets that billion live that way is a stain on humanity.

This billion are just a punch line to use as an comparison about CO2 for the media. To remove them from their abusive and shitty lives means in practical terms increasing their CO2 output.... if you want to reduce the world to CO2 which is messed up in itself.

Jeff Bezos has created a trillion dollar company, the average person just consumes, breeds and dies leaving behind more to consume, breed and die, they push nothing forward.

Good on Jeff Bezos for exploring the unknown. He also put the top two oldest people gone in space. He's a dick for attacking SpaceX, but that's off topic.
You could quite easily use this technique when your child is in bed, before your usual bedtime. It would be an interesting thing to try in the evening when you're stuck on a coding problem.

It's only really useful if you can get to that stage of N1 sleep quite quickly anyway so it wouldn't apply to all people. I don't think it's the domain of childless millionaires.
Its politics as usual making up whatever and that was covered on right wing for profit trash outlets. Just like now the right political media is pumping out the narrative of the VP being a horrible person. If you believe any of it ok that's you but time shows it's all fabricate political maneuvering so its all b.s.. Crap that i ignore and live life happily and far away from! Why waste time on made up crap? There's lots more in life to enjoy then plugging one self into for profit manipulated media machines where the viewer or reader can never truly verify the veracity of any of it. Only truth is the majority of it bias and for profit.
It's the part of driving that people hate the most + the stakes are very low (no pedestrians/cyclists, and the accidents are just fender benders). Perfect low-hanging fruit
God, some of those coins are so beautiful. It's really hard not to idealize ancient civilizations when we're staring right at some of their best and most beautiful propaganda.
In my country there is a difference between insurance that covers others on the road (mandatory) and insurance that covers damages to your own vehicle (optional).

I'd imagine insurance companies have something similar internally when calculating premiums, as a $1,000 20yo Toyota involved in an accident could cause the same amount of damage as a $150,000 Mercedes with this tech to others.

That would be the part that would become cheaper as they will see over 1,000,000 miles the Toyota would have a higher rate of incidents than the Mercedes which has all these safety features (if it does what it says).

If your insurance also covers damages to your own vehicle, of course that's going to be more expensive, as repairs to the Mercedes will be much more expensive than the Toyota.
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I'll be honest, I had a quick look at Shapeless, and couldn't see how you'd apply to ensuring an entity serialized correctly.

But I'm keen to learn more :) I always prefer compile time to run time errors.
https://archive.ph/pgLFB
Thank you for expanding :) I can kinda see your point.
Lesson to build your services with Docker and Terraform. In this setup you can spin up a working clone of a decently sized stack in a different cloud provider in under an hour.

Don't lock yourself in.
> This congestion immediately impacted the availability of real-time monitoring data for our internal operations teams, which impaired their ability to find the source of congestion and resolve it.

Disruption of the standard incident response mechanism seems to be a common element of longer lasting incidents.
yeah and if you are an anxious person like me, (i may be on the spectrum, i have some social issues), writing code in front of people makes me very anxious, it takes me back to my childhood when my dad would scream at me for being dyslexic, i got my b’s and d’s mixed up.

i know that is not what is happening during an interview but, it’s how i feel. and this prevents me from getting ahead in an industry i am madly passionate about
I wonder if your insurance company will feel the same about your enjoyment, once the technology threshold is crossed well enough and they realize that automated driving is the new rail.

Or, would you be willing to pay higher premiums or even extra tolls and taxes in order to drive yourself?

I think this will eventually be a question that fails over into economics while people are arguing about it. Insurers will be in a good place to influence the future of automated driving.

Humans as a group can't even not drive drunk, still. Individuals are not predictable either. Our taste for control will have to be worked around. (Hopefully in ways that allow us more time to...for example drive in VR, on a better course, with an even more stimulating feeling of presence, while we are driven around...)
Generally, most logging frameworks have two parts, the format string, and the parameters. A good logging library will also avoid calling str()/toString() if the log isn't emitted (for example, if it's a debug log but minimum level is info).

You have something similar when building database queries, generally you should have a base template into which you insert arguments. The library generally should take care of escaping things and also preventing things like SQL injections.
There is a manager I knew and has a big profile on LinkedIn he is a sociopath.
Dropping the facade, why not if society can decide that someone born with male sex can identify as a woman and receive the social rights and government privileges reserved for women, why can't someone do the same with age? If it is just a matter of social decision, what are the different factors to grant one but not the other?
I'm from the UK originally, and now live in Northern Europe where we regularly have -20C or more during winter.

It's crazy to me that if there is even a light dusting of snow, the UK comes to a halt. Where as here, it's just life as usual. You just get on with it and go about your day.
You’re comparing apples to oranges. Level 2 and 3 have enormous gaps in terms of how you design, what are your failures modes, liability, redundancy, etc, etc.

Comparing autopilot to level 3 system is like saying that fly is more advanced organism than a dog, because it can fly.
The project comes across as arrogant. Perhaps it's just me.
More interested in listening the related story: "Was organized crime behind the demise of Twin Cities streetcars?" Featuring a picture of the ceremonial burning of the last streetcar, after a tour with local politicians. (Haven't listened yet, but I know what happened. GM did nothing wrong.)
When I lived in Beijing, I took a taxi to and from work daily (from northeast to northwest Beijing on the 4th ring). It is really nice being driven around, you just chill and use your phone (would have taken the subway but being stuffed in with no available seating wasn’t very relaxing). Driving isn’t fun for a lot of people.

In cities where taxis are more ubiquitous, why isn’t level 5 simply replaces the taxi drivers with computers no? Then it’s not really a new paradigm, just that (a) traffic might flow better and (b) places where taxis aren’t cheap and plentiful (most of the USA, much of Western Europe) get to have an experience similar to a middle class lifestyle in a developing country.
fascinating. He discovered hash tables after he released TurboPascal 1.0 and used them 2.0; https://youtu.be/K3qf8gRFESU?t=3265. So perhaps Anders of TurboPascal 1.0 can't pass certain leetcode challenges :)
The comment reminds me gpt-generated content: some plausible individual phrases but no sense as a whole (the beginning contradicts the end)
Can't please everyone, the next commenter is going to complain how some article assumes everyone knows the basic rules of baseball.
Just look at the way MSM including NPR handled Jussie Smollet case.
This isn't the first time I've read something like this.

However, it's not satisfying at face value.

The reason is that as a consumer of health care services, I see two trends.

One is fewer and fewer actual doctors - a group practice I go to seems to be built around a single doctor and lots of nurses or physicians assistants. The doctor only gets involved in really exceptional cases.

The other is that everybody, whether a doctor or not, seems to have an incredibly packed schedule, like they need to see dozens of people per day.

So if they're making so much money, why is it like this?
Seems best to start low until the system proves itself. At 60 km/h on the Autobahn, the minimum speed, you don't need a system that can overtake or even switch lanes.
You claimed that the best way to make oil consumption more eco friendly was by reducing the environmental impact of extracting it, rather than letting high cost motivate consumers to switch to renewables. Now you've backtracked to supporting natural gas to replace coal. It is true that switching from coal to natural gas is a big win for CO2 emissions, but there are clear diminishing returns on that. Since 2005, the US has already gone from 50% coal power to 20%. The problem is that our current levels of oil and natural gas consumption are incompatible with hitting emissions targets. The mere act of burning those fuels at the current rate already puts those targets out of reach -- before even considering the cost of extracting them.
I believe "no taxation without representation" referred to the fact that colonists were British citizens, but had no voice in the government

permanent residents can choose to become citizens and thus gain the right to vote; the colonials had no such option
The point is that a regular user is unlikely to ever need to go to GitHub and run a script on Windows or MacOS.

However, it’s still surprisingly common on Linux.

The truth is, though, Linux today already has the capabilities to make these things far more seamless than Windows or MacOS. The problem is that since the user base is so technically inclined already, they don’t see these as problems. Or if they do, they don’t see them as being important enough.

And that’s why I think the LTT challenge has been so successful in getting distributions, DEs, etc to make changes because it does a good job of showing the developers which of these issues, that may seem minor to someone with a technical background can be a complete deal breaker for a regular user.
I've had similar experiences in really really old European hotels :)
> The most noticeable struggle is the player’s exploration speed, which will cause her to wake up when walking fast for too long.

> The exploration speed restriction serves the implicit goal of the game, which is to unearth beauty.

I wonder if this actually works as expected. My first thought is that this sounds like either a “push your luck” mechanic or just a frustration akin to all those game interfaces with “beautiful transitions” that just make you annoyed because every menu press has a 2 second delay.

I haven’t played the game so I can’t say one way or the other or if this nails it and gets the desired effect. If anyone has I would love to your perspective.
That is called a hypnic (or hypnagogic) or myoclonic jerk, it's pretty common just before you fall asleep.
Kasparov has the longest tenure as world #1 from 1984 to 2005, 21 years. Magnus is currently at 12. Kasparov has the most consecutive tournament victories at 15 and 9 years of winning every super tournament.

Comparing Magnus to Kasparov is kind of like comparing Steph Curry to MJ. Could it happen? Yes. But Magnus has to go out and do it. I think if he can beat Firouzja he makes a better case but tying Caruana and Karjack at classical wasn't all that impressive. Beating the great Anand was.

(Actually, MJ is probably a bridge too far for even Curry. Maybe LeBron is a better comparison.)
Good satire. Code can be art too. Everyone here is taking this way too seriously.
Ask HN: Public access to CDXs (or their indecies)?
Until recently, Markit (https://www.markit.com/markit.jsp) had public historical data for their CDX indecies, now that url just redirects to some marketing page (https://ihsmarkit.com/index.html). And i've gotten silence from them after contacting them about what is going on. I was worried when they got acquired by S&P and my fears came true… ha

I was wondering if anyone else knows where to get CDX data that's public or information on the underlying?

Not interested in the option adjusted spread indecies like that from BoFA and made available by stlfed to the public (unless there is an argument to be made why it should be ok to substitute it in).

Thanks.
It was very clear from their post that they were criticising STS from the perspective of an engineer in AWS within a different team.
In India their immune systems are probably stronger in general due to a general lack of sanitation. My mother grew up there, but after living in America for 30 years when she went back to visit and ate the same street food as her family she was the only one to get sick. They often warn visitors, in fact, to be careful around street food. While people from there can handle it fine, people who are used to dealing with an extremely sanitary environment, like Americans, cannot handle it. I wouldn't be surprised to hear there's a similar tolerance they might have to coronavirus infections. It's also why autoimmune disorders are more common in the first world than the third world
this recently happened to me for the first time ever and it was surreal and terrifying, except in my situation is was bedbugs, not spiders. Never had it happen before until randomly a few weeks ago when i was feeling stressed about moving into a new apartment in a new city far away. Woke up sweating and was hallucinating that my room was infested. It was horrifying.
I’ve heard a lot of doctors are still using pagers because mobile phones are banned and considered to intervene with medical equipment
This feels like it's a common thing in large enterprisey companies. Execs out of touch with technical teams, always pushing for more for less.
Sure the server hardware itself might cost only $5,000 a year, but it can't just be left there on its own forever, as seen with the ongoing log4j vuln. Either it costs that much and puts their entire network at risk, or it costs a lot more due to engineering costs for maintenance.
> Will non-profits take them over completely at some point?

No the broadcast frequency is too valuable. Right now TV stations are just holding on to their spectrum until they get a chance to sell it to cell phone companies and cash out.
It is. And to add, all automation that we rely on in peace time can often complicate cross cutting wartime incidents by raising the ambient complexity of an environment. Bainbridge for more: https://blog.acolyer.org/2020/01/08/ironies-of-automation/
Thanks, I had heard of the philosopher though didn't know anything about him. What I was getting at though, was that the misleading title made me think Kropotkin was somneone who had escaped, like, yesterday. And I thought "Kropotkin who?". There has been some Biden-Putin theater in the news lately that I haven't paid attention to, so I thought Kropotkin being locked up must have something to with that.

TLDR: Dan G, can you fix the title to say Kropotkin escaped from prison in 1876 rather than just now? Thanks.
> A once in a hundred year weather event would be enough to keep a population going.

The concept of a tree that propagates by tornado is hilarious, but somehow not unbelievable.
It was pretty interesting to read that Carlsen figured out how to defeat the opponent's training, and the best move, from the computer's point of view, wasn't necessarily the best one to take.

I hosted Garry Kasparov at Google in 2017 (his London talk is the one on YouTube, not the visit I did), and he made a point of saying that there was no way to defeat the computer now, and the best players would work with the computer rather than against it. I'm not sure this is exactly what he meant by that, though.

The article's capsule summary, "Though Kasparov argued that Deep Blue had cheated" is pretty superficial. One thing he said was that IBM did not allow him to study Deep Blue's games ahead of time, as he would for any human opponent, and IBM suddenly changed their approach from a friendly, collaborative one to being out for blood. I'd have to go back & read the book again to remind mysel, but I think he was also suspicious about IBM's handling of Deep Blue during the match.
The majority of Canadian cities have the latitudes of the Russian South, and many Russians migrate to the south for the "warm climate". Cold is such a relative concept