skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Doubtful considering how long it took to put JWST together. What, 30 years almost?

Granted a lot of that was scope creep but nonetheless, I'm betting it's not launch capacity that's the bottleneck.
The food we eat is a major environmental factor. Genetics plays some roll, but probably not enough to account for a 5000% rise in 75 years out of the 100,000 year existence of modern humans.
Airbnb’s $10B Engineer Is Tackling the Lodging Giant’s Toughest Projects
If all of the useful information in a web page is mined and given away by a third party in an automated fashion, such that the copyright holder is deprived of revenue, then that's not the intention of 'right to quote'.
This is one of the big issues with MFA: you should ideally never create a single point of failure in the second factor, so you want two hardware tokens, a hardware token and a fallback TOTP, etc., but also ideally the ability to have fallbacks that do not rely on email or SMS.

Most websites including financial ones fail on the second point. And it worries me because SIM swapping is real and does happen to people you know.
If it were simply marketing, then everyone would be doing it
I switched all the old people in my family to iOS/macOS almost 8 years ago or so, and tech support time went down to zero.

Troubleshooting is usually just turn it off and on or take it to Apple store and get it fixed or get a new one. The new screen sharing feature is nice too because now you can show them where items in the menus are and whatnot.
Unlike the sibling to my comment, I appreciate both this and the GP.

I was all in on MS as a kid/young teen.

Eventually I started looking at the actions of Microsoft, and as stupid as it is, felt betrayed.

I still don't trust MS, and still hate the direction Windows is heading, I will probably never daily drive it again.

However, comments like these give me hope that MS can turn itself around. Maybe some day MS will be the company I thought it was!

Tl;dr: Thanks for making changes!
Documenting the complex relationship between humans and psychoactives
There very specific times you can launch to establish desired orbits. Typically these windows only come once every month or two.
I dont know how long they have been in development, but if it is their first attempt, then I would say that they are doing pretty good. The chips that these are being compared against chips that have 40 years of development dollars poured into them. May be if they keep at it, then in a xouple of years it will come out competitive.
It must depend on the person. I discovered the things I love (writing, teaching, programming, dualsport motorcycling, GIS) by stumbling across them, then honed (a continuing process for life) those skills because I love them.

Did I choose those things? Or was the moment of discovery the moment of choice?
How has Microsoft reformed? Windows 11 is more intrusive than ever, it changes default programms more frequently to their desired programms and it is so annyoing to switch browser. THey still are the same old.
For many years, one of the biggest sponsors in MMA was a small, niche, industrial product. It was cheap and made the owner of the brand happy, so bought the ads. Arena naming rights probably aren't cheap, but at a small company there might not be many people who have to weigh in on the decision.

https://mmajunkie.usatoday.com/2014/01/so-what-is-a-dynamic-...
I backpacked through China and stayed in youth hostels. Highly doubt they were bugged. They didn’t even have heating (we used electric blankets)
The problem with this method is that you don't know what you don't know.
There are plenty of pitfalls to the attitude that tourism will grant enlightenment, but I agree that some amount travel is crucial. Experiencing a different society (the everyday bits, not just the facade shown to tourists), even for a short amount of time, helps to humanize the people living in that society (or really, any society other than your own). Never straying from one place for your entire life is a great way to cultivate the attitude that the only "real" culture is the one that you're familiar with. In a connected world, empathy for people outside your own immediate sphere is important, and even a small amount of travel to a small number of places will generally suffice to begin developing this sort of empathy.
Dude ... we basically have the same job.
I take the 50% off so other people do the technical work.

And without knowing specifics on what you do, if it is helping open source then I am grateful. In no way did I want to denigrate your work. And I understand where some frustration might come from if the effort is not properly acknowledged. Yet, there is nobility in knowing to have helped society in a quiet way.

Do you know the golden rule?
"The person with the gold makes the rules."

Things only become problematic when the organizational roles start to draw power from the golden rule and build a little political fiefdom to uphold their power according to their values and skills, say, lawyering. And given the different voices in this HN thread, I'm not the only one to have noticed such effects in some previously technical communities.

[sarcasm mode]

Let's see what happens once you become the person distributing the gold. Then it shouldn't be hard to extract some respect out of the grubby dirty hands of the code contributors.

[/sarcasm mode]
Let me add some nuances to this claim.

Even if “every step is observed” is exaggerated, the surveillance system in China is pretty extensive: it can target journalists and international students among other “suspicious people”, and can compile individual files on such persons using 3,000 facial recognition cameras (in a single province) that connect to various national and regional databases. [1]

And this surveillance system is part of the bigger tracking program, which the Chinese authority has used to harass and intimidate journalists [2] (see this comment for more [3]).

And according to the memoir “A Promised Land”, even Obama and his staff were worried about Chinese surveillance during their stay at the Beijing hotel (see this review [4] or this summary [5]):

“To make calls involving national security matters from the hotel, I had to go to a suite down the hall fitted with a sensitive compartmented information facility (SCIF) — a big blue tent plopped down in the middle of the room that hummed with an eerie, psychedelic buzz designed to block any nearby listening devices. Some members of our team dressed and even showered in the dark to avoid the hidden cameras we could assume had been strategically placed in every room. (Marvin, on the other hand, said he made a point of walking around his room naked and with the lights on — whether out of pride or in protest wasn’t entirely clear.)” [4]

And I agree with other commenters [6] that the situation worsened significantly after 2018 as Xi was consolidating power, so experiences before 2016 or so may not be representative of the current trend (when Xi may get more terms).

[1]: https://www.reuters.com/technology/exclusive-chinese-provinc... "EXCLUSIVE Chinese province targets journalists, foreign students with planned new surveillance system"

[2]: https://www.newsweek.com/china-harassing-intimidating-journa... "China Harassing, Intimidating Journalists With Surveillance Built to Curb COVID-19"

[3]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29685703

[4]: https://georgetoparis.medium.com/obamas-a-promised-land-on-c... "Obama’s “A Promised Land”, on China"

[5]: https://www.bannedbook.org/en/bnews/baitai/20201121/1434392.... "Obama recalls his first visit to China and was under surveillance"

[6]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29684626
The calculator I used in school was infix but, unlike this calculator, had:

- single buttons for common operations like +, * or sqrt

- no shifted parentheses

- display-style input of fractions and exponential so you got some visual clue if your brackets weren’t totally wrong

- single (sometimes shifted) buttons for functions like cos/tan/arcsin/…

- specialised shift operators which mostly meant inverse or hyperbolic

GNU Calc has most of these (+ and * are still shifted but all common operations are shifted. Parentheses are not used because of RPN. Display-style (‘big’) presentation is optional but ugly ascii art. Press H for hyperbolic, I for inverse).

I think gnu Calc is lacking a bit in entry of algebraic expressions but I don’t think speed crunch is better. I’d like to see something that let you place a ‘(‘ somewhere ‘backwards’, or in other words a feature for ‘I would like to parenthetical use some of the past expressions. Please let me interactively choose them without fiddling with cursor movement commands.’
"All Of The Marvels" by Douglas Wolk – he read (or re-read) all 27,000+ comics in the main Marvel superhero storylines, and limns their distinct themes and narratives in a very lively style. And with a lot of footnotes!

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/549063/all-of-the-m...
Excellent thread !
Surprise the web site is available in English.
One suggestion, set the overflow to "scroll" so the scrollbar is always visible. When I open a section it appears, adding like 10px on the right and all the content moves left.
Definitely.

It's also not helping that Facebook seems to be shadowbanning me sometimes and not showing my content to my own friends.

This seems to be a new widespread problem since a couple months ago, because I click into some friends' profiles and see things that were never in my feed on those days.
Please say the fact and source it with the article instead of just linking to it.

The reason you don't say the fact is because there is no fact in that article.

What in that article proved to you that Brexit caused this? What explained the 4%?

A comparison of post-Brexit, pre-pandemic GDP numbers is more reliable:

https://www.businessinsider.com/moodys-brexit-impact-on-gdp-...

The pandemic clearly caused a drop in the GDP when it hit, Brexit did not. You have to PROVE why you think Brexit caused this dip in 2021 all of a sudden.

You can't just say, oh look a dip finally happened, these things take time to kick in, it must be that thing I think was going to do it.

All the way until the pandemic Brexit GDP was steady, not following the doomsday forecasts, only when the pandemic hit did the GDP drop.

You can directly attribute shutting down the economy to a drop in GDP. You have not attributed anything to Brexit.

- edit because I'm at my limit -

First off, the point was the GDP was stead in 2018, post-Brexit, pre-pandemic.

The reason you can't use 2021 GDP numbers directly is because we shut down economies due to covid.

You linked two articles with the same "prediction", they did not have any facts linking Brexit to anything.

Feel free to get angry and give up, but do note that nothing you have linked proves Brexit caused the dip in GDP at all.

I'm not claiming anything, I can't prove a negative. You have the burden of proof if you are trying to say X caused Y.
Titles like "Learn X in Y minutes" fool impatient people who don't take the time to follow links or read more than titles into believing the incorrect notion that it's possible to do what the title promises. They never get around to reading the actual articles or disclaimers that it actually takes a long time and a lot of practice to become proficient or even competent in a programming language.

Then they think they can learn programming languages by reading Twitter instead of writing code, and claim on their resumes they know languages they've only read a few blog posts about.

Those are the same people who complain that they hate Lisp by parroting tweets that it has "too many parenthesis", even though other languages have much more complex syntax, much less powerful and more limited and difficult to use macros and meta-programming facilities (like C macros and C++ templates), that force you to use an ugly mish-mash of even more inconsistent punctuation line noise like brackets, braces, escapes, quotes, backquotes, obscure operator precedence and ad-hoc parsing rules, and a myriad of other hard-to-learn punctuation that makes the code much less readable than Lisp, without realizing that there is actually a point to Lisp's clean simple parenthetical syntax.

There's also a long sad history of impatient people not wanting to bother learning JavaScript, but believing that they can simply learn JQuery or React or some other popular "silver bullet" library instead:

Can you get away with learning jQuery only instead of JavaScript?

https://www.quora.com/Can-you-get-away-with-learning-jQuery-...

Should I learn jQuery first or Javascript?

https://www.quora.com/Should-I-learn-jQuery-first-or-Javascr...

Is it necessary to learn JavaScript before learning jQuery? [duplicate]

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3183545/is-it-necessary-...

Why You Should Learn jQuery Before JavaScript

https://learn.onemonth.com/why-you-should-learn-jquery-befor...

Why Beginners Should not Learn JavaScript through jQuery

https://www.codementor.io/javascript/tutorial/learn-jquery-j...

Do I need to know JavaScript in order to learn jQuery?

https://www.quora.com/Do-I-need-to-know-JavaScript-in-order-...

How is it possible to learn jQuery without first knowing JavaScript?

https://www.quora.com/How-is-it-possible-to-learn-jQuery-wit...

Can I learn React.js if I don’t know JavaScript?

https://oprearocks.medium.com/can-i-learn-react-js-if-i-dont...

Do we need to fully know JavaScript to study React?

https://www.quora.com/Do-we-need-to-fully-know-JavaScript-to...
They are both behind a login for all practical purposes, right?

If you want to see search results on stuff only you have access to, that should be a special feature by Google: you let it log in using your credentials and crawl away.

I don't have access to it, so I'd rather get results that I care about. This is SEO at its worst, masking results I do want to artificially inflate their ranking.

Maybe I am not looking for a NYT article on it, but instead a wikipedia page. Or a university's history department coverage. Or an actual scientific study. Guess which one will rank higher today while having less objective information?

Now guess why that is? Artifical SEO for paywalled content.
Important goals can take long efforts to achieve. For something as novel and complex as JWST, I don't find its quarter-century development time surprising or odious.

Cathedral Notre Dame was begun in 1163, took 182 years to complete. We moderns recognize it as a thing of beauty (pre-blaze), but I'm sure it was a tour de force for technology of the times, with many unexpected problems that delayed the project.

I'm glad each project's sponsors saw them through to completion. I hope humanity continues to sign up for hard goals that take time to reach.
I was a little disappointed, because I'd watched the animation last night.

The only differences were in the first 4 seconds (before it hit the clouds) and after the spring launch, when we caught the solar panel deploy in the sun with earth below from the 2nd stage. At least everything went as planned!

I was surprised at the timeline and how rapidly it slows before reaching the L2 orbit. It's already fallen from 4mps to 1.7mps in the first few hours. Even though it takes 30 days to reach L2, it will be 30% of the way there in the first day.

https://webb.nasa.gov/content/webbLaunch/whereIsWebb.html
Shell has only moved because they didn't want to pay dividend tax, and post Brexit the UK has decided that being a tax shelter for multi-nationals may not be the worst move. Whether that is true in the long term remains to be seen, the fact that Shell moves their head office may not be worth as much as losing the rest of the Euro clearing that is happening in London over the next decade or so.
This is only partly true. Home values have skyrocketed due to near zero interest rates- people can buy more home when paying less in interest, so more people can buy.

Where I live, this has resulted in long wait times for contractors, shortages in materials (lumber more so than most) to become significantly more expensive, and- as you mentioned- land priced jumping up quite a bit.

Also, even if you intend on living in the house, states vary. Between MN and WI, one allows plumbing, the other allows electrical, but neither allows you to do both (I forget which is which).
In a way I'm glad that this is not taken lightly. We all need to be informed and calm, but mega-corporations should be held to higher standards. They should feel breath of an angry mob once in a while. I imagine, that if reactions to things like that would be just "meh, it's probably just a mistake" it would not be resolved as quickly or it could just be ignored. But now that it is all cleared up let's go home and Merry Christmas.
Do you expect Starlink (or equivalent) to radically alter this space?
This one snuck up on me. After being long aware of this project and how massively ambitious/difficult/cool it was and how much trouble it was having due to that ambition, subconsciously I must've parked it away as "not going to happen for a while".

Time has passed while not paying attention, and it has actually launched. Well done to everyone involved!
They're dead, they're beyond caring. Honestly this "sanctity of the dead" concept is a bit antiquated. Cremate the bodies, recycle the physical goods, move on.
Thank you for the full transparency, sadly we may hear for years of people saying how Microsoft blatantly ripped off someone else's copyright, but that's probably okay, those people probably wouldn't use your projects for whatever reason anyway, when in fact it was a bot meant to keep you guys from releasing code prematurely without a reasonable license to begin with (at least that's what it sounds like?).
Against Octopus Farming
The Brexit vote, according the architects was never supposed to pass. It was a stupid gamble that ended up benefiting the opposition.
> but of course it's a mistake not to rack up billable hours ;)

Doesn't making a contract shorter rather than longer imply significant rewriting?

“Not that the story need be long, but it will take a long while to make it short.” — Henry David Thoreau
aswrwb, care to hook up?
You are not alone!

But take some time to make a nice dinner if you can. Little things make a big difference.

Merry Christmas.
Interstellar Probe: A Mission for the Generations
What kinds? What’s the best process to do program synthesis? The more I write programs by hand the more I think it should probably be a first-class design consideration for new programming languages
This isn't true; Ruby has no set literal. Sets are provided by a default gem but there is no built-in syntax for them.
Exposure to Traffic Noise Linked to Higher Dementia Risk
So they are going to run code at your home instead of using data directly. Maybe I'm missing something but this sounds bit naive to me. Most of those crypto solutions sounds just like detour with similar result in the end.

Like you can have decentralized web now, you can host your video on your server. Maybe even p2p. Just the reach would be probably minimal. And you can have your own bitcoin wallet. I was downloading chain to my wallet ten years ago and it was slow. Most people will chose some centralized service even for crypto.
Most processes for that type of thing come about only after someone has made a mistake.

Source: experience in the industry. Including having made a similar mistake myself a couple of years back (and receiving a fair bit of internet hate for it)
Uhm, you go to a web site you subscribe to, and look for it there.

Google is not your private search engine. There is a lot of paid content that Google cannot index and thus search for you: that's a natural order for me.

Now, I am fine if Google shows those results for you. But it also shows it for me, and I ain't a subscriber.

Now, I understand Google is not what it used to be, so it's simply a bad search engine for me. Writing is on the wall, though: they are losing the geek out there, and while they won't be gone anytime soon, they are Microsoft of the 90s (living off of their monopoly).
VSCode isn't the only alternative to Intellij. Sublime and VIM and emacs are also options, though I suspect emacs is probably a power hog- I haven't really invested a lot of time in learning to use it, though.
Yawn. Christmas is ostensibly a religious holiday, yet those from all faiths and cultures celebrate it. I am an atheist and it is my favorite holiday by far. I know Jews and Buddhists and Hindus who celebrate.

It is a cultural holiday, not a religious holiday. This is a very important point.
Asperger's has been eliminated as a diagnosis altogether.
Not even a clone, it's the original code that was released by EA and ported for the OLPC project
* for articles on popular and well-documented topics

On the other hand, once you get off into the weeds (dead-tree citations, thinly visited articles), Wikipedia's reliability alters significantly.

Unfortunately, it's not always clear which sort of article you're reading.
> If we are serious about ramping down the use of fossil fuels, we should start with the eliminations of vehicles that we don't need, such as cars.

Whenever people state things like this it shows that this person is out of touch with reality.
The obligation you're not living up to is to HN, not to Microsoft. If you want to participate here, the onus is on you not to be knee-jerk; avoiding knee-jerkism is the subtext of like 3/4 of the site guidelines.
That's not at stake here. What is at stake is whether a country can join the EU and the later change in such a way that it is no longer compatible with the basic criteria for joining in the first place. This includes adherence to democratic principles, a free press and so on, and by dropping these the country is essentially de-ratifying their original accession.
What's surprising to me about all the negative reactions Microsoft receives, especially on here, is that from my point of view, they are currently the most open out of all the big companies (Google, Facebook, Apple, etc). I cannot remember a time Apple has admitted to anything or made any effort to have anything that could be considered open, but they do no wrong in most people's eyes, where even a simple mistake by Microsoft gets turned into some nefarious narrative.
At that point just use LyX https://www.lyx.org/
You can do all those things meaningfully: I think it's really about the end product (physical or not) - if you are making something you don't believe is useful to society, or don't have control over how your efforts are being used downstream, then it can easily become inherently meaningless.

There are basic needs: clean water, clean air, infrastructure, transportation, logistics, etc., etc. And also "non-tangible ones". You can get much more authentic social respect if you work on products/services that people unambiguously like and need.

I recommend, for example:
- Biomedical: signals, images, ... (I've done a bit)
- Anything GIS, urban/transportation planning, geo-spatial analytics, cities, etc. (my chosen specialty, very fulfilling).

There's lots of number crunching, but also human-entry string processing (fuzzy matching, etc.). Actually, very versatile programmatically. And then there is fast graphics (OpenGL, etc.) - not my favourite part, actually, but you can outsource it partly.

You get to work in very multi-disciplinary groups, so you can really assess where you want to go long-term. I was surrounded by people with very similar training to mine - technologically it was pretty good, but topic-wise it was a bit of an echo-chamber.
I suppose this is meant to be wry humor, but it just comes across as depressing. I've been married for 20 years myself, and yes, sometimes my partner's habits can be irritating, but I mostly thank my lucky stars we found each other. Especially since I'm no angel myself.

The author needs some therapy, or maybe just a divorce. Although it sounds like she'd be just as unhappy with another partner, or single.
I am really glad to hear this. As it happens, my main post-retirement has been to learn Swift to try out CoreML. I'm really enjoying learning this so far.