skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, the spacecraft just has a bunch of extra fuel and is going to use slingshot trajectories to catch up to Apophis after the asteroid's Earth encounter. Though it will be close enough at that point to accurately measure the asteroid's position to find how it will be perturbed by the gravitational encounter with Earth. When Osiris-REX reaches the asteroid it will use its thrusters to ablatively remove the top layer of the surface to get a rough idea of its internals.

Galaxy brain time, Osiris being the Egyptian god of fertility, agriculture, the afterlife, the dead, resurrection, life, and vegetation chasing down Apophis, the Egyptian god of chaos is pretty neat.
Which incident is this? I can’t find it online. The closest I can recall is when they lost some number of EBS volumes. We were affected by that, but ran snapshots (to s3) to recover the affected servers.
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OP made it to the top:

https://99bitcoins.com/bitcoin-obituaries/
Sure:

class Ptr:
def __init__(self, x):
self.x = x

x = Ptr(None)

if x != None:
# Go's `%v` print directive unpacks interfaces.
# We'll use `x.x` to emulate the same here
print(f"{x.x} was not None")
Actually I had just done a bunch of researching on Penrose around the time I was having that conversation with Jack, in fact I think I'd watched these two lectures within a few months of that conversation:

Quantum Biology: The Hidden Nature of Nature - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADiql3FG5is

An Introduction to Quantum Biology - with Philip Ball - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLeEsYDlXJk
10 years or so? Try 20. https://web.archive.org/web/20000815063229/http://www.mozill...

Yeah, they used to support embedding. But it kept being under resourced, with bug reports and patches often being ignored.
This is a bit tongue in cheek. We all know what it means in common parlance, but it's a very slushy term. The word implies that it is a status, or a process, which makes conversation even more confusing.

But ultimately, there's only one race -- the human race. Talking about a minority as if they are a separate race is extremely unproductive. I think what we really intend to discuss ethnicity.
China disciplines Alibaba Cloud for not reporting Log4j flaw to government first
Hmm. It set in back when I was playing WoW and realised that the effort I was putting into gaming the auction house was exactly the same as the effort I'd need to make money flipping items on eBay or something. After a while I couldn't make myself care about the in-game goals because I could just be using the same effort IRL for far more significant reward.

Then a few years later I spent a bunch of time playing Factorio, to similar effect. Downside: Suddenly flipped from "wow this is awesome" to "man this game feels like a job, it's no longer fun" to "uh, my job is basically this game so... yay?"

Now between the two it's really hard to get excited about something that isn't managing a real life business and building useful IP. Am I old? :P
The emails purported to come from individuals, but were (1) written in an aggressive, legalistic style, and (2) directed at individuals who were not subject to CCPA and not equipped to deal with regulatory demands of it.

This caused significant anxiety on the part of the individuals who received this email, since it implied they would be subject to legal action if they did not provide a sufficient reply. It caused them to take significant action -- e.g., to research the law (that they aren't subject to), to determine if/how they could comply with a CCPA data access request if they had to, to consider retaining legal representation, etc.

It came off as some kind of scam or mistake, but one that had to be taken seriously.

You could read some of the blog posts from people who received these emails to understand the effect it had on them. It might also help you to read the email they received and imaging receiving the same for a site for a personal blog or one-man shop.
Congrats Zach! I owe you a lot. I started using Codecademy in 2011 or 2012 when I was in high school and it was one of the main tools I used to teach myself programming. Fell in love with the hobby/profession and it's what I'm doing (and still love doing) 10 years later!
People aren't upset about it being annoying. People are upset that it read as a threat and resulted in people spending money to hire a lawyer because they thought they were about to get dragged into court.
Like Toyota, it is an attempt to not invest in battery R&D and shifting manufacturing to EVs. They’re holding on to their ICE investments until the bitter end.
I remember going into someone’s office at microsoft after I first joined (back when everyone there had an office- it’s all open office now) and seeing a Dreamcast on someone’s shelf and being really confused. He explained he did most of the DirectX port for it and told me some of the details about working in it. It was a fascinating look into what might have been.
Yes, that is how I would respond to a request inquiring as to what my GDPR practices are.

The requestor here isn't asking for access their information for GDPR reasons. They are asking what my private business operations are, which are not part of what I'm required to disclose, so far as my understanding goes.

Separate from the above, if I run a US based business, why would I care if the EU wanted to try and sue me for breaking a law that has no jurisdiction over me?
Sooner or later it's going to happen in a large country like the US as well, it's not a matter of IF, it's a matter of WHEN. And that's going to be quite amusing to see unfolding.
Handlebars seems to me to be the right level of abstraction - it's done for me quite well in the past. And if I reach out for a web framework again I think I will not stray far.
Good luck with your search
Generalized Parser Combinators [pdf]
Not OP, but this couple has written a bit about working on tech projects while living on a sailboat: https://100r.co/site/working_offgrid_efficiently.html
I loved Dokuwiki for a time and it suited me well. These days I have a few specific pains with it though.

* Even though it’s just plain text files, I’ve been unable to move it to another server (you can’t just copy the folder because of its indexing system). There’s more to it.

* It’s somewhat difficult to update and requires frequent security updates

* It’s design, and all the available templates I’ve found look pretty old

* It’s native format is not MD
I don't think OP was implying that it's not hard work, but that many folks act as if there are no perf tradeoffs with generics, when there are.
Owners of captal don't take income! Simply take an negative-interest loan using your captial as collateral

Only the working class are dumb enough to pay
In the US, we have reasonably good survey information at the occupation level, see https://www.bls.gov/bls/blswage.htm

It’s big downsides are that it’s missing information about seniority/tenure, benefits and might struggle with uncommon pay methods like stock grants. However, with other resources like Glassdoor I feel you can get a decent picture of the pay situation for a given role in the US.
Flashcards? That's doesn't seem to have much to do with ending a phone addiction?
By far most games on Windows don't run on OpenGL or Vulkan but on Direct3D. Game consoles also don't use OpenGL or Vulkan but have their own APIs. Metal is "just another" platform-specific 3D-API, it's not an exception but the norm.

In reality, "cross-platform" 3D APIs don't matter much (for games). What actually matters are distribution platforms (for instance: Steam), and if a distribution platform promises good business, games will be created for it.
When google said they were no longer giving way free storage I bought the cheapest 100GB google one plan for $20/yr. Last night I saw the renewal email and cancelled it. After nearly 10 years of Google usage including drive, email, and pictures (I rarely take videos) I have only ~30GB. Almost 15GB of that is in drive which is a simple "my docks" kind of backup and dumping ground. I'm moving my drive stuff to a cheap VPS running OpenBSD. Then I'm going to remove all photos and video from 2-3+ years ago. Then I'll just use the free plan for photos and email for the time being. My VPS will do the rest.
I agree that you didn't tamper with the quote, but you clearly weren't rebutting it either. Rather, you were rebutting the idea that Go's type system contains novel features, which the author didn't allege.
I had been doing a bunch of research on quantum biology around the time that I had the conversation I mentioned above, that's probably why at the time I wanted to discuss it with him. I think these two lectures are pretty good and I'd watched them around the time I was discussing this stuff with Jack.

Quantum Biology: The Hidden Nature of Nature - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADiql3FG5is

An Introduction to Quantum Biology - with Philip Ball - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLeEsYDlXJk
The Risk of Vaccinated COVID Transmission Is Not Low
I like it but was resistant to the glib claim contained in that ‘spectrum is scarce in the U.S.’.

I can’t speak for microwave spectrum but I know a lot about the land between 50Mhz and 1 GHz because I have travelled with a scanner and I can say that UHF/VHF is crowded on the west coast but practically fallow on the East coast. L.A. seems to have more hams speaking Cambodian on the 2 meter band in a few blocks of L.A. than you hear total in the NYC metro area. The TV industry killed whit spaces because there are no white spaces in LA (get 100+ digital sub channel with a cheap antenna) but even in ‘crowded’ New England you find that the nearest city is too far to get good reception but too close for them to put a transmitter in closer to you. It is almost all white space on the east coast even in crowded areas…. Go to the mountains 200 miles inland and it is a RF dead spot bigger than most countries.
iirc, the "wobbly track" you mention was the copy protection on the Saturn: http://segabits.com/blog/2016/07/12/sega-saturn-copy-protect...
Apple is a company that has rigeous processes and hierarchies. It also operates efficiently. So we are back to the start, both company types can thrive or die. Indeed, it is the brilliant leaders (at any level of the organization) that bring excellence. In one organization that may be knowing what to hack or where to take a shortcut, in another it may be knowing how to escalate things through the organization to push through an idea. The processes keep the train on track and on schedule, the escalation path is to still have a way to change tracks in time. The first takes a protective manager, the second a leader that knows when to ignore the rules. You cannot only have the protective managers but you also cannot change tracks every other day. Hence the enterprise.
it's not obvious, could you clarify why does it make a difference whether there are more people sharing such data with you? For instance, if I believe that open-source projects have to be released with a public domain license (effective zero license), it doesn't matter if others want to follow my example, I can still apply my beliefs onto my projects to my own percieved benefit.
Possibly, but I'd bet the results would be way more accurate. If I got an email from a university I'd heard of, phrased like:

> Hi! We're trying to study CCPA compliance of random sites. Could you help us by answering a few questions?

then I absolutely would have replied, and would have replied honestly. People generally like to be helpful.
I am a subscriber and I will admit I hate so many things about the app, I genuinely don't know how a company the size of MS can make the UX mistakes it does.

Anecdotally though, I haven't seen the issue you mentioned with the download speeds. It always maxes my 150Mbit connection (probably pitiful for some parts of the world admittedly) so I've never felt a need to backup games because I can re-download them whenever. I'd be interested in hearing about this 'changing home computer' limit too, I've got my game pass running on 3 computers right now so I'm curious if I've hit the limit.

As I mentioned in another post, I am a daily linux user and want to see it become a wonderful gaming platform. That said, even with the UX issues of game pass, it's hard to argue on the price point. For a none techy who doesn't care about OS choice or brand loyality, I think it's going to win in the long run.
The sexier the blogpost, the less believable it is for me. Make this page in Times New Roman or Computer Modern typeface, preferably in a PDF format, and I am automatically convinced :-). It just means that they have better things to do than aesthetics!
This is an issue that none of the cloud providers have solved. I had 250,000 CD rips from various record labels at one point. I had full authorization from them, but it looks like I'm a massive pirate.
> This can be true at the same time as "linux would need to be installed by default for that to change dramatically", and in fact the latter almost certainly is. There's strong scientific evidence for the claim that default values matter (e.g. with organ donation rates[1]), and no reason to believe that that wouldn't apply to Linux, as well.

Of course changing the default to Linux would increase numbers overnight, that's not what I'm arguing. What I'm arguing is that it is possible to increase the numbers pretty dramatically just by making a good product and that Linux Desktop isn't actually that great. If you want more people using Linux Desktop, the best way to accomplish that is to make it better.

> The majority of Linux users will happily tell you the flaws that it has.

Maybe, but by far the loudest members are the evangelists. That's what the outside sees, and that's who you invariably end up interacting with when you ask questions.

> False - you're conflating "available options" with "number the user has to care about". A quick Google search "which linux distro should i use" will have Ubuntu topping most of the lists, which is the one users should start with. Not a problem.

https://distrochooser.de/ is the first link I got for "which distro should i use". It's like one of those "which DBZ character am I" tests. https://linuxnewbieguide.org/overview-of-chapters/chapter-3-... is the second. But hey, let's say it is Ubuntu since that isn't unreasonable. 20 minutes later that Ubuntu user will encounter their first Arch user while asking a question about why Network Manager is doing something silly, who will naturally advise them to switch to Arch. I've been using Linux Desktop off and on for 20 years now and this hasn't really changed much.

> As someone who has asked hundreds of Linux questions from a half-dozen different sources and never once gotten this reply, this is definitely false.

Just more 'Works for me! (tm)", another common thing in literally any discussion about Linux. By saying that this is false just because you have not personally experienced it you are dismissing anyone who has had a different experience.

> That's not the case for Android or Windows - why would it be the case for Linux?

Actually it kind of is the case for Android, but since they have a unified package repo it isn't as noticeable. Regardless, my assessment is based on notable "Linux installed by default" manufacturers like System76 and Puerism using in house distributions instead of just Ubuntu.
The article was updated with years for each console to try and make the timeline clearer. I think the initial error stating the the Nintendo 64 was released after the Dreamcast was the biggest error.
On the whole you can infer the wealth of someone from the type of home, the type of car, etc, and if you're trying to get money from someone, someone with large assets is likely to be far more lucrative than someone with a large salary
I wonder how much it used to suck when the power company wasn’t as regulated and would do stuff like “we detected illegal activity so we shut off your power.”

I’d like some balance because I don’t want Google and Dropbox to suck as much as my power and phone company. But do want some regulation around lack of due process and “bundling” where a YouTube comment can result in my GCP account shut down.
How exactly did it imply that?
But can others get them ? I mean imagine I'm Youssuf Fofana (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Ilan_Halimi#Gang_o...) and I decide to be smart and kidnap for ransom only high earners in a low security district to get tolerable rewards, I could optimize kidnapping to get the lowest risk/reward ratio much more easily, as I d know exactly who earns how much.

I dont mind telling people I trust my salary, but I mind telling people who want my money ...
If they can’t do basic grade school math, it’s probably safe to assume their entire education is extremely limited and they’re functionally illiterate. Like can’t balance their check book illiterate. So I wouldn’t expect them to have the rounded peripheral knowledge needed for a top tier education. Why would we want people with such poor educations teaching children?
Linux started out in in Usenet. Any woman, for example, could have posted the sources that Linus posted. Even with hypothetical sexism, this woman could have used a pseudonym. I bet that most people hadn't met Linus in person for many years.

Yet very few women have done any of this. I do acknowledge that in some communities like Python there are so many weird people (especially the hypocrites that say they are inclusive are often creepy and boorish politicians), but the Linux people have always been straightforward. No weirdness there.
Likely the USB-Cable from XU4 to HD controller - exchange it. Hardkernel confirmed that their cables were poor quality and resulted in many disconnects. Mine were gone after exchanging cables.

I have to say my Odroid only runs once a week - started remotely through IPSEC for offsite backups. So it is not a 24/7 setup.
Well, compared to Go, Rust, PHP, or many other modern tools, C is garbage in terms of build experience. Speed is important, but its not the only factor.
That only works because Norway is a tiny homogeneous country .

(yes I know some Norwegian will angrily reply about how that's false, I have plenty family that emigrated there from West Africa but let's be real... if the US is the melting pot, Norway is the slightly warm shot glass.)

Add in large amounts of diversity, not just in terms of race but also in terms of socioeconomics and suddenly it doesn't work.
There's actually a whole field of study that uses tools from quantum information theory to successfully model cognitive and social situations. This doesn't require any assumptions of "quantum physicality". It just makes sense to model probabilistic, reflexive, slippery-to-observe systems with tools that were designed for this. Quantum theory has really great tools and they work well.

I realize this isn't quite the answer you were looking for, but I thought it was worth mentioning.

I personally think this idea that there is some obvious categorical distinction between hard "physical" quantum phenomena and classically probabilistic ones is a fallacy. Quantum theory is in some sense just probability theory with more features.

More and more researchers are catching onto this and I think that's really exciting.
I believe the real issue isn't the research ethics per se, but rather pent up frustration on the larger topic. I posted this in one of the original threads:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29607123
This is the same argument as ”if you want higher taxes why don’t you donate money to the state?”, which is of course a non-argument.

Taxes (and thus income) is public information in several countries and they don’t appear to be Orwellian hellscapes.
You'd rather optimize for compile time, which you do (maybe) 1x, over runtime, which you easily do >100x?

You're focusing on the developer, not the user, but this is a user tool :(
Along with others I joined Codecademy shortly after launch after seeing it on HN (2012). My coding journey started much earlier, having no direction and trying to learn from one of those giant Visual Basic books I talked my parents into buying from a bookstore in the mall in the 90's. Went to college (early 00's) with hopes of learning there, but I was too far behind and not really interested in the focus, so switched to a business degree.
Graduated and started work as an Accountant and hated the repetitiveness, so picked up some VBA and Access.

Real breakthrough for me was the Codecademy Python class and the benefits of the short form format. Get frustrated, take a break and come back fresh the next day or two.

That along with seeing Wes McKinney's Intro to Pandas talk around the same time ('13?) changed my career.
I see you like to game on hard mode.
>The controller shall provide information on action taken on a request under Articles 15 to 22 to the data subject without undue delay and in any event within one month of receipt of the request[1]

The legal obligation may not have applied in this case, but it absolutely exists. If someone submits a request to you for their data, you are legally obligated to respond.

[1] https://gdpr-info.eu/art-12-gdpr/
Just in case the author is listening, I'll play the grammar nazi: it's "woe unto," not "woe onto."
As long as you don't touch the very first bytes most images should break nicely
This is the article, I think I read linked here in 2012 that started me on a journey of learning magic.

Since then I've traveled all over the world studying with Master Magicians. Lovely to see the article again, I haven't read it since.
I'm not your inspiration, thank you much
It is if they silo you off without notifying you and make sure no one else can see you and keep taking your money. Now I don't know if tender is doing that provably, but that was the thesis.
You're mistaken here. "non-traditional" doesn't mean "novel", it just means "something that isn't traditional". For example, eating cereal for dinner is non-traditional, but that doesn't mean no one has done it before.
I’m guessing what they meant is the Windows version of the Xbox Game Pass, very recently renamed to “PC Game Pass”.

Microsoft has been moving gaming on windows and xbox as a united front quite a bit in recent years, they seem to have come to the conclusion that keeping things console exclusive isn’t a priority any more (still exclusive to environments they control, of course).
> I don't think it takes a "special individual", it just takes a bit of willpower and attention.

In my mind this is a statement that contradicts itself. Having the prerequisite willpower and attention is the special attribute.
I don't doubt this concept could ferry people around. But its safety margin is razor thin. 60s reserve? That is barely time for an operator to figure out where to ditch.
Amazing — didn’t realize minimum feedback arc set had a low exponent solution in this case. Your comment made my day, thank you!
I was unaware one could do this, a quick Google suggests CD-R booting only possible out of the box on early Dreamcast models as a fix was introduced?

A dirty but effective copy protection would have presumably been to just make use of the full 1GB of storage the retail Dreamcast GD-ROM discs had, making them to large to copy to a generic CD-R.
Just a note on the test you're pointing to:

> Learners wishing to enroll in the Mathematics - Intermediate Additional Basic Qualification course may take this test in lieu of official transcript(s) showing proof of successful completion of a minimum of two full university degree credit courses or the equivalent in the teaching subject.

Ontario teaching licenses have qualifications for various grade levels and subject areas. This qualification is intended for people who intend to teach mathematics in grades seven through nine, and the sample test questions reflect that. I very much doubt this test is the one referred to by the courts. If it is, the qualification would be irrelevant (assuming test results reflect the ability to teach a subject competently).