skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Decide who you want to contract as, a developer or a product manager? Then decide if you want to go direct or through an agency. Then get legal protection, insurance and contracts. Watch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVkLVRt6c1U
> If there's a permanent Moon base - so what? Does anything really change? How? (What - in practical and economic terms, as opposed to symbolically - did the ISS change?)

There are a lot of benefits from the ISS:

There's the joint effort between otherwise adversarial countries. Even if it's just "symbolic" the most optimistic view of this would be it's been a contributor to preventing an outright war.

There's also the inspirational aspect that gets people interested in STEM with a very concrete and exciting application (even little kids find rocket launches exciting). More people interested in and entering STEM fields means more technology advancements. I'd argue this is not just a "symbolic" benefit, even in the case of inspiring kids where it can take a decade or more for them to graduate and actually start contributing.

There are also lots of real,b practical improvements to life on Earth. Sometimes it's just another use of technology developed for space, which otherwise wouldn't be pursued or funded, such as improved ways to grow plants, water purification, and remote medical and surgical procedures. It's not that these aren't possible to fund purely for Earth-based applications, but the trouble is the people with the money and skill don't have the need, and vice-versa.

There's also been unpredictable discoveries, such as bone density loss in astronauts leading to better understanding bones at a cellular level and treatments for things like osteoporosis. There's also a bunch of discoveries from experiments in zero-gravity: growing microbes, crystal structures and in fluid dynamics.

It's a good assumption that being on the Moon will have similar technology advances and (currently unknowable) discoveries.

[1] https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/news/15_...
That trick is hard enough when using radio telescopes connected to the mass of planet earth, with enormous wavelengths in comparison to what JWST is doing. It's position is known fairly accurately but even the telescope will undergo various vibrations from for instance the equipment on board and the course correction burns which will have a pretty significant effect on the satellite body.

The mirrors are dynamically deformed to correct for some errors, I don't think - but I also don't know for sure - if they are going to do long baseline tricks with the orbit, it would make good sense to do this for paralax shift measurements (which give you a good idea about the distance an object is at), but the orbit of the earth around the sun would be far more useful for that because it is so much larger.

Anyway, there are people on HN that are far more knowledgeable about this stuff than I am, I take it the designers and operators of the JWST are top in their fields and that anything interested laypeople can come up with has been debated, accepted or rejected a decade or more before this conversation, they're far from stupid, as evidenced by the incredible performance so far. Let's hope it stays that way and that the insertion burn goes well, that's the major scary thing that will happen next and the delta-v is nothing like the launch so I would assume that it will all go well but at the same time the telescope wasn't as fragile back then as it is now.
Management à La Google (2006)
We had a similar thing going, people could set up a packages znc bouncer but the general rule was to assume everything was pretty much ephemeral to anyone not there. the best part to me about irc rooms is that they are allowed to be considered ephemeral, just like hallway talk and coffee breaks.

If something comes of the discussion. Update docs, post the chat log in the wiki, send an email with cliff notes and ask if others care to discuss, halt and get the right people in the room.

When you decide, 'hey, we have an idea, or a change in direction' you'd then document or make the case in a way that is more clear and user friendly than a mile of ephemeral chat. This is the same reason people send out meeting summaries instead of transcripts.

We've moved to this point where nothing is ephemeral. But a random chat isn't a good way to understand why things are being done. It's just too much to parse. And at some point new people are looking for a needle in a haystack and they just kinda checkout.

I thing documentation should be intentional, the why should be clear in a doc that doesn't waste time and is formated in a way that we have come to understand as the best practices of technical documentation. You'd start with a quick overview of both the problem and proposed or adopted solution and the reader can decide if they need more info.

Especially with remote work, I think it's important to have ephemeral areas for discussion without expectations that everyone keeps up on the whole chat. Thinking every team member needs to know every word of discussion is ludicrous.
> C++/JNI bridges hassle

For the projects I worked on, the bridges were automatically generated, so no hassle for the developer. Admittedly we built our own code gen system which of course was not free.
Why would the developer of any software that comes explicitly without warranty be hold responsible for downstream breakages? It's not as if one could force people to upgrade to newer versions and they can always keep depending on the old releases.
It's doubtful the utilities are going to leave money on the table if there is a significant uptick in nighttime electricity usage due to to charging.

I'm not sure I'd want the lifetime of the most expensive component in my car being used to supplement the grid. But not only that, the incentives for feeding power back into the grid are under attack from the utilities:

https://www.theverge.com/2022/1/8/22872236/california-clean-...
> The simple reason is, wallet based authentication & authorization is more mainstream than pgp today.

So what, the killer feature is its UI isn't as shit as the program world famous for having a shit UI

Besides if that is your metric, JWTs are definitely more mainstream than blockchain stuff.

>Think of freenode transfer a while ago, if the identity, moderation, ownership of channels, etc data was stored on the blockchain and controlled by the user. The community could migrate to another IRC service which fetched data from the blockchain and each user could get the same account they had on freenode by verifying they owned that data.

Kind of hard to have a secret cabal channel if membership is public. Does this mean to ban someone from a channel you need to pay a transaction fee? That sounds fun from a channel op perspective.
In broad strokes, what does one typically do here? Say it’s for a cheap job, maybe $20k, where it might not make sense to litigate.
Absolutely my own experience too. Are you implying that this sort of working arrangement isn't actually common outside of this country? I didn't know that, I presumed we just did what other countries did too.
>>>> States are administrative districts

>>> this is false

>> Not exactly

> Yes, exactly

There's a legal definition of "administrative district" I was unaware of that necessarily excludes States? If so, this could be one of the most interesting conversations I've yet had on HN. If not, this is the silliest conversation I've yet had on HN.
> After all, you don't care if your colleague likes heavy metal while you love rock

Blasphemy! Madness!

Heavy metal all the way, duh!
1password 8 is also very good, being built in Electron with a Rust backend.
Funny story: I knew someone who trained their cat to do this. It was all going well, the cat had been using the toilet successfully for a number of weeks. That is, until the cat fell in the toilet one time. From then on it refused to use the toilet, but had become accustomed to going in the bathroom... So the cat started popping in the bath. And no matter what he tried he couldn't stop the cat from doing this. At least the story is funny from the outside perspective. Perhaps less so if it was your bath and your cat haha.

On a more serious note, I believe it is not advised to put cat poop down the toilet, since our sewage treatment systems are not capable of dealing with toxoplasmosis from cat faeces
Would you mind sharing what air purifier model you use next to your Litter Robot?
Curious: What kind of performance is gained by this over just using awk?
It might not be a stolen card. Note that it simply says "someone else's card".

Maybe it's a corporate card, somebody in accounting decided to cause trouble. That goes along with why he's not mad at Robin--he realizes Robin was acting in good faith and the card owner is causing the trouble.
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kon-Tiki_expedition

> dominant European approaches that has lead to what feels like a runaway explosion rather than the long, slow burn of human history?

This is why mentioning colonialism is not irrelevant to the article, because it seems like the Polynesian development was not quite so rooted in thousands of years of invasion support or ship-to-ship combat, which encouraged escalation.
Slack, Spotify, and Obsidian.md are other apps where I couldn’t really care that it’s using electron.
yeah no but i appreciated your take. no need for forgiveness. thanks for sharing your perspective.

> skilled labor

tangent: i'm curious what you think about this:

https://twitter.com/arne__ness/status/1478805922306744320

https://twitter.com/faithfxl_wyfe/status/1478998605935558657
Stross just blocks nazis and terfs even when they are polite about it. This pisses some people off who see JUST ASKING QUESTIONS!
xcode is the opposite of a tool and it is somehow getting worse with age. apple has exactly one job and apparently it's to make xcode into a hot pile of garbage. flutter is like terraform. Is dart a good language? No, it's a piece of shit. Most languages are. Dart, moreover, is the reason the google ads dashboard melts your laptop. But it saves you from the peril of directly gazing upon something much, much worse.

ios devs all have stockholm syndrome and will tell you 'it's not that bad' as they upgrade their dependencies for the 60th time to keep up with some unnecessary framework change aapl is forcing them to do because nice app store ranking, shame if something happened to it
The purpose of all vaccines (including those built with mRNA technology, many current day vaccines using a "killed" virus and even those using a different but related virus whole like the original "vaccination" with cow pox) is to teach your body's immune system about something so that it might react appropriately immediately when it sees that thing, or something very similar in the future.

The effect of teaching the immune system to attack something is difficult to predict because it is a natural system and we don't entirely understand how it works, only enough to get better at teaching it new things. In some cases it's so good at destroying related things that it produces "sterilising immunity" - a vaccinated person can't get the disease at all, even if directly exposed to it, in other cases, as seems to have been the case for COVID-19, you get something useful but much less effective.

AIUI There's no reason we know of why the platform (the mechanism by which we tell people's immune system about a new thing to be attacked) would influence how effective the defence put up subsequently is. The vaccine is not in your body when you're attacked weeks or months later by a virus, what's left is a "memory" of what should be identified as foreign and destroyed. So, it would be expected to depend on how AIDS works, and perhaps on exactly what the vaccine is teaching the immune system to attack, not on how the vaccine is manufactured.

Think about the difference between identifying wanted bank robbers with a hand-drawn picture of their faces, versus a still from a CCTV camera. It might be harder or easier to recognise the CCTV still, but we wouldn't expect them to do more or less jail time when identified by one method versus the other.
This is why antidepressants should only be used during periods of crisis when a person is at risk; in my opinion, for no longer than 3-6 months at most, after which they should be tapered off and transitioned to a more sustainable long term treatment modality.
Does the Mirtazapine make you sleepy all the time?
> MS has a market cap of 2.3T, I think they could swing it without too much of a sweat.

I could imagine that the rightsholders are aware and would want to exploit it by charging fees significantly higher than what they'd normally charge for something like this, and thus Microsoft isn't biting.
It really look like nearly all the component's are there for household robotics. You have computer vision, robotic hands, boston dynamics like robot control. Can't wait for my first household robot ;)
No, I'm just petty and small minded.

On the other hand, when someone confidently opines about a lot of things and then rejects mild corrections (I literally just said something like "thing isn't part of B, it's owned by the same parent company"), you wonder what facts are feeding into those opinions.
> it's on the way out.

I disagree. RSS is still the standard for following podcasts
I agree and for me it is, but what I learned from that experience is how powerful and influential our emotional state is. It really made me feel like a psychopath at times because I would understand how I "should" feel or do in a given situation, but without a strong emotional signal it felt like it didn't matter what choices I made.
That's why he made a statement — That doesn't mean it was intended to deceive, just why it was necessary to take a stand publicly.
You don’t have to be logged into Gather all the time, just for the time when you’re in the meeting. It’s effectively a better way of breaking into small groups that’s more fluid and natural than breakout rooms.
There was a list of all known ACME servers, but it's now defunct (boo!):

https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=https.dev

its last snapshot:

https://web.archive.org/web/20210126194059/https://docs.http...

source: https://github.com/https-dev/docs/blob/master/list-of-acme-s...
Yes it brings up uncomfortable questions about free will. Like “why did he murder that guy? did he choose to do it or did the chemicals in his brain force him to?”
The flex test that the wings go through is pretty incredible:

https://www.wired.com/images_blogs/autopia/2010/03/index.jpg
Far ruder to not get a vaccine that saves lives.
The problem with this kind of algorithm is that it doesn't generate worlds; It generates infinitely tiling neighborhoods of the smallest unit of space. It's principally impossible to make a locally-infinite world globally interesting. There is no structure. It's just structured noise. Fine for a bit of generative art, not so much for interactive game worlds.
Judging by Cinematronics and the long chain of purchases, closures and divestures, it wouldn't surprise me if there wasn't anybody who even knows who the hell owns the rights at this point. Unfortunately for Microsoft, they're very worth suing and consider it not worth it to have that exposure over Space Cadet Pinball.
The tone and approach here is exactly what I'd expect from a man whose chief complaint as a band leader is that jazz musicians interpret his music too much and classical musicians follow it too literally.
As I don't have access to the paper, I pose this question:

Won't elite chess players (regardless of gender) be faster to recognize and quit if they realize the game is over (regardless of opponents gender)?
This almost feels like it might be a bit cleaner opening an "Issue" per blog post/article post, automated via GH:Actions.
Wait, cat food is not pasteurised and sealed in the tin?
Some people also have a quixotic definition of "facts", and figuring out if that's the case can be exhausting for popular users with thousands of followers.
My gut would be that his benchmark would be highly focused on number of memory access. And heavily empirical. Agreed that it would be neat to see.
Tell HN: The disparity between employees and international contractors
I live outside the US and am a programmer in a US company. Starting this job two years ago coincided with a cancer diagnosis in the family. Treatment has gone well in private hospitals, but insurance doesn't cover oncology drugs, so we pay for them out-of-pocket.

We make around 110K USD a year combined, and have spent just under 200K on medical bills over these past 24 months. We have taken out loans to get by.

Public hospitals here are a mess and are almost always out of stock of oncology drugs, most radiation machines are out of service, etc. Combine that with sanitation malpractice and it's not somewhere where you would want a loved-one treated (even if they had the oncology drug, which they don't).

In hindsight, our family should have had private health insurance coverage that includes oncology drugs. None of the local insurance providers do this, so I've looked at international providers (Bupa, Allianz, BestDoctors, etc). My budget is so tight I can't really afford to sign up for one of these now, even though it might help prevent a repeat situation. Also, they won't provide much help for someone who already has cancer.

We've looking for ways to increase family income. I signed a non-compete with the company I work for, and I'd need to check in with them before starting anything extra. My partner is looking for a better paid job, but English is the big barrier to get a remote job like me.

I wish my current employer provided employee-sponsored health insurance for me and my partner. They do that for their US employees, but not for international contractors. In an ideal world they would also cover our dependents, which would include the family member who has cancer.

Countries like the one I live in have always had these problems. It's just that now as the world opens up to remote work, the difference in circumstance between one employee and the next can be great. While you might have dental, vision, health insurance, 401K matching, your teammate working out of a developing country might be struggling to pay hospital bills and have enough for basic necessities.
I don't really understand your tone. I think you are mocking me, but I'm not sure why you think you have the necessary context to do that in an effective way.
Brother MFCs support IPP Everywhere (aka AirPrint), so you shouldn't need drivers in the first place. If the UI doesn't let you use the IPP Everywhere driver, you can add it with

lpadmin -p myprinter -E -v "ipp://<address>/ipp/port1" -m everywhere

The printer's web interface should give you the exact IPP/AirPrint URL to use.
Two steps to success:

1. Set up a local development environment. (what I call "setting up shop")

2. Read the source. Understand all of it. Debug it. Take it to dinner. Read it at bedtime, coffee time, sexy time. Don't wait for "buddy" to come teach you.

If you are too tired/unmotivated/unable to do those things, just rethink your career. If you do those things, congrats you are a hacker so what exactly is the problem?
The entire ms365 e5 suite. Monitoring, Comms, compliance, calendar. All in one.
Wings don't just go missing. It would require multiple failures for a wing to "fall off" an airliner.
would be awesome if they had fluidic circuits which harnessed coffee drips for computation
Sorry to post here instead of the original post (i.e. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29601130 ), but I saw it too late before discussion was closed.

I just wanted to say I enjoyed the youtube link. It's good to see another metalhead here :)
Exactly --

You use Upwork to facilitate international payments and for proof of work via their spyware when you don't trust the contractor. These two do neither.

You have to be obtuse and believe they just gave Upwork $1k from the goodness of their hearts... or there's some sort of scam. I don't know what the scam is; just this behavior is irrational to the tune of more than $1k if there isn't a scam involved.
There is another fantastic explanation (an “exploitable explanation”) by Nicky Case of this same phenomenon here: https://ncase.me/polygons/

Interactive, web-based, explained. Highly recommended.
Looks like qntm just updated the UI to include a Wordle-style keyboard (and also renamed it from "Adversarial Wordle" to "Absurdle") in the last few minutes.
'I am forever advising people, "Why hit Reply when the Block button is right there?"' - jwz
> I think you have a rather Utopian view of Kazakh government

No, I simply don't have a dystopian view.
That may be a bit harsh, but nobody owes you a conversation and people with a ton of followers have to do something to manage the SNR. It's not obvious what the right answer is, and almost anything you do will have false positives.
Speaking of Accelerando, here's a similar retrospective of his about 2018 :

https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2018/01/the-cra...

(The first chapter of Accelerando is about a two decades in the future 2018.)
Abstract answers it, it's in relative terms:

In contrast, female players’ behaviour differs little as a function of the gender of opponents.
that's really funny. because i did this for CYA reasons.. with different methods, but mostly with screenshotting or autohotkey stuff.
I love this. This is a good step towards governmental transparency.
This is literally the thing twitter was designed around.
I got to use an SGI Octane for a while and fell in love with its keyboard, just the right amount of clicky. I later acquired an entire box of 'em, so hopefully those will last the rest of my lifetime.
There’s no such thing as “receiving the key”. At best, you can coerce the forwarded agent to sign things w/ a key that it has. It will never give you the key itself; that isn’t part of the agent’s available behaviors.
Thanks for commenting about this issue here. I had accidentally removed the CSS code for pre, code, etc. in a recent commit. Fixed it now.[1] You should no longer see this issue after a hard refresh.

[1] https://github.com/susam/maze/commit/1d58e13
One of my pet peeves is that .gov, .edu, .whatnot often refer to US government, US education, and US whatnot. That's less than 5% of actual internet users.
And then there's .com, which mostly refers to global commerce!
No it isn't. The only thing they have in common is something being a problem.
Many big OSS software projects host chat on IRC, e.g. Linux, NixOS, Neovim, OPNsense, sway
I would think so!
This is cool I will bookmark it. I'm a terrible typist. I'm also teaching my 7 year old to type so this can be handy. I have something I built myself years ago and have never really circulated, that is more for beginners (it tries to help you with finding the keys and knowing which finger to use):

https://pianop.ly/misc/typingtutor/

One thing I experimented with is giving you both a "total speed" and a "best 15 seconds" speed.
I think some are using leadership to mean the led/lead a project in a tactical sense. My understanding of the term leadership (or leaders as most others are using) is thought/strategic leaders.
What's the usecase?