skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But this cache is usually not easily transferable to someone compared to them just cloning a repo

right, so they need to download "stuff from the internet". it Doesn't matter much if that stuff is from a remote repo or hosted by a package repository. Except if it's architecture dependent, in which case you definitely don't want to share across architectures. Not to mention they may already have a viable copy in a proxy or cache

> You have the source code to all of the dependencies in your application

I'm afraid I still don't follow

> How many forks of a dependency do you use? Just using the master branch and upgrading along that should be good enough for 99% of your dependency

Well, if I was expecting things to not break I'd never follow upstream master for a dependency.

But the question pertained to merge conflicts. If several people track the same remote and check in dependencies into VCS I'd expect annoying merge conflicts

Or are we perhaps misunderstanding each other? I'm not sure I follow what you mean by forks. Releases are typically on different branches or tags
Anyone else was thinking that it has been a while since we’ve had dramma about NK and, well, regret thinking that now? :).
Maybe the issue isn't that NPM and GitHub are taking that decision, but the risk of network-effected monopolies. Same discussion as with generic social media and FB/Meta.

A more distributed network benefits everyone. So if this rubs you the wrong way, why not take the opportunity to consider defaulting to alternatives (even just a smaller player), or even self-hosting?
We’ve a massive problem here in Western Europe (UK and Ireland) with people parking on the footpath (sidewalk). They’ll put all four wheels up blocking the passage all pedestrians rather than use their driveway or a legal space. Unfortunately there is little to no enforcement.
There are non-nuclear options for ICBMs.

The most interesting is Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminal_High_Altitude_Area_De...

Basically you launch a missile that intercepts a high altitude missile and launch an object at it in a 'hit-to-kill'. It's been fairly successful in testing according to the link.
Send the car on an errand and have it come back, or even send it “home” and summon it later. (I’m deeply skeptical that we’ll have level 5 self-driving cars in my lifetime, but if we do, we won’t need to pay $50 in today’s money to park anywhere…)
This is really cool! Have you thought about exposing a11y APIs?
Illegal by violating what laws?
Exactly. If you're potentially activating missile defenses, you probably want all civilian air traffic out of the sky. For their own sake.

Give the timing, uncertainty, countermeasures, and consequences of not intercepting... "Your flight leaves 30 minutes later" is a small price to pay vs "Passenger airliner shot down."

Airliners carry less than 1,000 people. Usually a lot less.

Nukemap says 10kt on downtown LA would result in about 71,000 immediate casualties.

Would you want to be in the air when someone at NORAD has to make a call on something that may or may not be a passenger airliner?
Mercure is an alternative to WebSocket that is especially useful for REST/GraphQL APIs.
It's a protocol that builds on HTTP and Server-Sent Events thus is supported out of the box by browsers, mobile apps and IoT clients, and it doesn't suffer from most WebSocket limitations (e.g. header/cookie based authorization works):

https://mercure.rocks
Religion is often passed down from parents to children, and people historically tend to believe whatever their parents do.

But in modern secular societies, family is less influential, and people get their information from other sources. For example, most people go to public schools, which teach from a secular perspective. They consume secular media and participate in an increasingly secular, globalized internet culture. It is increasingly possible for a person to completely abandon their parents' ideals and integrate themselves into a different community.

For that reason, I would argue that people today are likely to find other ways to spread their ideas other than passing them on to their children. This might be through art, including stuff like spreading memes on the internet. It could be through career, such as publishing research in a journal. Or through politics and activism.
I highly recommend keepass + syncthing. Avoid some third party having access to your password store while keeping it backed up wherever you need it to be.
Please at least let it reach orbital flight before we start dreaming.
I doubt an anti-Earth maintained at L3 would de-stabilize anything at L1 or L2, but L3 is anyway unstable, so such a planet would soon get far enough from L3 to become a problem for L4 or L5, not to mention for itself and Earth.
I'm not sure I've ever seen a screen showing 10% as an option. I frequently see the options

1. 20%

2. 25%

3. No tip

4. Custom tip

Dark patterns.
From the original article:

> The NORAD spokeswoman said the normal sequence following the launch was followed: The missile launch was detected, and it was assessed not to be a threat to the continental United States. The standard practice is for FAA to have a constant liaison in the NORAD ops center, therefore would have been aware of the quick assessment.

I presume the "quick assessment" is not an instant assessment, and the FAA rep present may have passed on the "there's a missile and they're assessing right now" to HQ while it was going on.
FWIW, it isn't 15 minutes of inconvenience. It's far, far more due to the traffic propagation. A 15 minute pause can result in hours of delays due to a traffic wave[0], which affects airliner takeoff scheduling as well. FAA definitely knew this and took it into account, which makes me even more curious as to the validity of the threat and what made them issue a ground order.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traffic_wave
An unusual ground stop was issued to some pilots for a short period of time following a North American Aerospace Defense Command alert of a launch of a North Korean missile, a US official said Tuesday.

The official says it was not a national ground stop and may have been issued by a regional air traffic control facility.

“No warning was issued by NORAD HQ,” regarding a potential threat to the US, according to Captain Pamela Kunze, the chief NORAD spokesperson

I'm confused. Did NORAD do it or not?
Watch out! Another "bug" of the LastPass happens when you export your accounts.

I have exported all my accounts via the web interface, and the three times I've done that it export a truncated CSV file with about 30 lines, while printing the whole file content in the web page you access. That means the CSV you downloaded probably is not complete and you have to copy some lines from the web.

I was lucky to investigate a weird warning, about some missing fields in the last row, that SQLite gave me after importing all the accounts to a database.
The blame here falls on Google, not the website developers.
If you want to maintain control over your distribution, you must self-host it.
Everybody has their "celebrity heroes" of science & engineering I suppose. For some it's Nikola Tesla, for others maybe Thomas Edison, Alan Turing, Charles Babbage, Richard Feyman, Albert Einstein, whoever. For me, my first "celebrity hero" was Charles Proteus Steinmetz. I somehow stumbled across a biography of him in the library at my high-school, and was just totally enamored with Steinmetz.

As I recall, there was a story about how we went out boating or something once, and decided to scribble out some calculations while he was out there. To his dismay he realized he'd left his log tables back at the office. Somehow he sent a message to someone to fetch them for him... and by the time they got back, he'd worked out all the log tables by hand and gotten back to work on whatever it was he was working on.

Definitely an "engineer's engineer".

And for what it's worth, my second "celebrity hero" was Nikola Tesla. I wonder if the two ever met? Something like that would probably make for an interesting "alternate history" novel, or an episode of Doctor Who.
Except that the value of huge-p isn't known at compile time in the blog's described use-case, it's known at runtime, so constant propagation to remove the extra conditionals may or may not work. It depends on when those lambdas actually get compiled, doesn't it?

If they get compiled and close over huge-p one time, then the inner conditional remains and gets executed every time. Thus moving the branch outside the lambdas and returning the correct lambda based on the value of huge-p. For a single boolean this is trivial to do by hand. For n booleans and 2^n combinations, it's less trivial to do by hand, thus the macro.

EDIT: Nevermind, with what you added and rereading I get what you're talking about now.
Ask HN: How much money to realistically expect from a technical book?
Hello HN,

I have been writing a technical book. It's similar to Clean Code, but a little broader as it places a larger emphasis on systems over programs.

I've spent the last two years on the book, after being forced to change my typical outdoor fishing/trekking/hunting lifestyle due to COVID, mostly as a means to keep my sanity. As a very slow writer, I generally write about a page a day. At this rate, it will take me another year to feel the book has reached 'completion'.

With restrictions in my state being lifted, my partner is less and less a fan of me working on the book for long hours at home (chuckle), and I have no good answer to the question of "will anyone even buy this?".

Has anyone here had success selling a technical book like this? Was it lucrative? I'm not hurting for money, but it helps me answer some questions both for myself and my partner.
Doing work incorrectly is still doing work. The presence or absence of a failure state doesn't matter, what matters is the time and mental effort you have to expend.

It's not a lot of effort, but $1 also isn't a lot of money.

>On top of that the exercise of calculating the tip is beneficial for your long term mental acuity.

If you can honestly say that you think most people enjoy doing math, I don't know what to tell you.
DPRK certainly has strategic ICBM's that currently threaten the West Coast. Hwasong-14/KN20 tested in 2017 could do it, and more recent developments are adding payload (so you can mirv) and a bit more range to hit the rest of the US. Once you have enough payloads to overwhelm THAAD, which isn't too difficult considering the ~$1B/interceptor price tag, it's pretty clear that given reasonable numbers of existing DPRK capabilities, they could successfully certainly land a nuke in Anchorage, Seattle, perhaps LA.
They're actually moving their focus from strategic missiles to tactical nuclear missiles now (despite ongoing strategic development). KJU has been discussing his desires for large numbers of tactical nuclear weapons as part of the DPRK strategy, and they're making lots of progress in that direction.
Trackpoint/Nub/Nipple. If you're trying to make a small laptop, rather than crippling keyboard for the sake of massive giant trackpad, Trackpoint is the way to go. Granted, higher learning curve for many, but very rewarding in the end.

Yeah, this is the current issue I'm having. I can't bring myself to by a laptop without some form of Trackpoint, which rules out pretty much all but a very small subset.
That's what I commented about this particular situation in the second point, right down to the caniuse reference. The first part about a cutoff point was in response to "Regressions are regressions. You don't get to make excuses if you unilaterally changed something for someone" which is not true or the problem in this situation.
That sounds pretty plausible. Also, how far does the EMP wave from a nuke travel? Would it minimize the potential damage to flying aircraft if they were on the ground compared to in the air? Or would it be a moot point and if in range of the emp, the blast itself would do more damage?
The Lutema does not claim to have an internationally recognized standard, which is why it "passes" because there is no way to fail it.

The pass/fail column can be considered more of a "is this manufacturer lying?" field. Perhaps it needs another value if it doesn't claim any standards.
The W3C CSS Color Module Level 4 working draft[1] has a useful, if brief, overview before it ploughs into implementation details.

[1] - https://www.w3.org/TR/css-color-4/
Inflation might play a part in this. USD is worth half of what it was in the 90s.
> They're talking about nuclear-tipped anti-ballistic missiles;
blowing up an incoming nuke with an airburst nuke of your own.

High-altitude airbursts produce essentially no fallout; fallout is from tossing irradiated ground debris into the air from a ground burst or near-ground burst. Other than the missile itself and it's target, there's nothing for a high-altitude airburst to make fallout from.

> We don't have them currently, but both the US and Russia have tinkered with the concept.

“Widely deployed”, not “tinkered with”.
What made you determine that a specific 1 hour window was a solution?
Have you checked this thing I commented? Just to know if it's just a personal problem or it is global: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29896882
> Capability doesn't create need, in either a technical or economic/resources sense.

Of course it does! Today we have all kinds of needs that people 20, 100, 1000 years did not have. That's because the capability to do something created the need for it.

For an obvious example, people need iphones. Nobody had one 20 years ago.

For another, deodorant wasn't needed 100 years ago. The need for it was totally created by the ability to manufacture it.
The tipped minimum wage is so small that it is basically zero. If menu prices rise then that same 15% tip rises as well. Comparing the tipped minimum wage and the ordinary minimum wage is not really a complete story.
NORAD disputed that per The Drive's article.
Secret-handshake-capnp: SecretHandshake secure connections for Cap'n Proto RPC
F-16 jet goes missing off western Taiwan
Sadly most companies assume develop software is more important than maintaining, this can be reflected in salaries from software developers compare to operations teams
> Would you let a random coder come in

No. But I would a proper Engineer. The same way I don’t go seek treatment in a mall, but rather in a legitimate medical clinic by real MDs.
If anything, it served as a great test of that system. But from the sounds of it, NORAD declared this a non-issue and yet a portion of the FAA still proceeded with the shut-down. So whether this was a pass or a fail depends on who has the final authority over shutting down airspace.
Google should, due to their inability to keep their devices up to date, SEO-down people who use modern features?
> and eight theme park rides/attractions

(1) Heimlich's Chew Chew Train, (2) Flik's Flyers, (3) It's Tough to Be a Bug, (4) Monsters, Inc. Laugh Floor, (5) Mike & Sulley to the Rescue!, (6) Living Seas w/ Nemo & Friends, (7) Crush's Coaster...

What am I forgetting?
EMP, perhaps?
No. Mercury's L4 and L5 points are dominated by Venus and Earth perturbations, much as Mars's are by Jupiter.
Well, except for those carrying bin-Laden family members.
If that's a hard requirement, you should consider adding it to the guidelines because it is currently undocumented.
In the book Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia by Christina Thompson there is an entire chapter on Tupaia and Cook, as well as another chapter on Polynesia navigation:

* https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/40536236-sea-people

Part of the mental model is (generally) that instead of the boat moving, it is the vessel that stays still and the ocean and islands 'flow' past it. Kind of how folks used to think the Earth was at the centre of the cosmos and the heavens moved (which is still used as the basis for celestial navigation with a sextant).
Modern slavery is a fact [0]. Xinjiang is specifically mentioned. Wu Mao is also a fact [1]. Both sources are wikipedia. What is your preferred source of facts?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_slavery

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29893724
I've been thinking about other transit modes for medium and long distances and I'm having a hard time thinking of great ideas for where I live (central Texas).

Public transportation is one, but the last thing many of us want to do right now is get on a crowded train.

Bicycles are great until it gets too hot or too cold which is a pretty large chunk of the year. They also aren't an option for many of us with health issues.

Ride sharing and taxi services are available, but they can be more expensive and unreliable.

In smaller neighborhoods I think electric golf carts can work, but the range isn't great and they usually don't have heat or air conditioning.

I saw an older Waymo video where the car was somewhere between a golf cart and a regular car. I think something like that has a lot of promise, but nobody is making them.

If downtown areas get rid of free parking, I wonder if that would just push business out to the 'burbs where there's unlimited parking? That's not great for cities either.
Imagine trying to write your online exam and this happens.
https://www.fragomen.com/insights/president-trump-imposes-ba...

The ban has been lifted, but there is a backlog
haha thats so dumb I'm never going to write it that way or say it that way outloud

fortunately the point of language is to quickly convey a shared concept so as nobody will be confused I think we're good here

edit: also one of the variants on boarding passes is just TSA PRE without the check, just as your wikipedia article says. so they've created their own colloquialism.
Really or is that just what you’re used to? Many people buy cases with corners that protrude thus protecting those flat panels from drops. If anything that seems closer to an ideal design, let alone looking at the ergonomics of how to hold a tablet.

IMO, these designs seem geared to upselling cases rather than anything approaching an ideal.
Skyglow, atmospheric distortion, atmospheric absorption of specific frequencies, wind, the Earth's inclination, orbit, and rotation (limits time-on-target for any specific target of interest), local conditions (static electricity being a major issue for the ESO in Chile, given elevation and lack of humidity, all electronics must be static-tolerant or resistant), etc., etc.

Not that space isn't also hard, but each environment has both affordances and limitations.
Wasnt it rather that it would take 10,000 years to recover to restore the galactic civilization after the crash ?
This is the first project I've ever seen with an excuse to declare as many dependencies as it does.
I think this is a bit different. This was a very sudden, multi-region (4 Air Route Traffic Control Centers: Seattle, Oakland, Los Angeles, Honolulu) ground stop with controllers telling pilots they could not continue maneuvering and had to land because of a national security threat, and maybe they'd be scrambling fighters[1]. I think some of that is just controller speculation, but at the very least they didn't think it was at all routine.

[1] https://twitter.com/thenewarea51/status/1480982996337496067
> hordes of projects that are funded that are clearly useless

I don't understand what your point is. It's not like industry is immune to funding ideas that are clearly useless (Juicero) or even fraudulent (Theranos). If you have a way to fund only good ideas, I think that would be quite a breakthrough. I mean, look around you: this community is set up around a good-idea selection engine that itself struggles to consistently identify good ideas. Bad ideas are a part of getting to good ideas. If you really had a 100% fool-proof way if identifying bad/good ideas at the pre-funding stage you wouldn't be here talking about it -- you'd be using it to make a ton of money.

Also, I would challenge you to point to a NSF funded idea that is 100% clearly, objectively useless. Something so clearly has no plausible utility whatsoever. I think this would be very hard to do.

> are you really claiming that driverless cars weren't immediately obvious as valuable?

It's true that industry could have but they didn't, and that's the point. It only became attractive to industry after the public sector dumped a massive amount of R&D into it and basically proved how to do it to industry, and that's not a coincidence. Before the the DARPA grand challenges it was absolutely a question as to how viable the idea of driverless cars were. This story is not an uncommon thing.
How much of that time and money was R&D and prototyping, and how much of that was the bespoke production of this single unit?
I've always pronounced it G-unicorn. As-in, say G first, then unicorn. Like Geeunicorn.

That's how I've heard others pronounce it too.
I was like 5 the first time I flew alone, and my family took me to the gate on one side and picked me up from the other gate. You never needed a ticket until 9/11, just a simple security screening. When I was young, I forgot my Cub Scouts pocketknife in my pocket (2 of them actually) and they let me into the gate area with the knives. As long as it was < 2-3 inches for blades, they didn't care. Now we have a whole slew of intelligence agencies slurping up our data, we have hijacker-proof doors on the planes, we have bomb detection devices throughout airports "smelling" the air, etc. but we still need to remove our shoes and coats and everything else from our bags and get felt up by a TSA agent.
>The lack of visibility street parking creates in densely developed areas is a major safety hazard for all.

I believe that when used right*, "lack of visibility" can be a very useful design feature to get drivers to Slow The Fuck Down. In general, North American fetishization of "clear lines of sight", leading to removal of supposed "obstacles" like trees, bushes, etc., leads to streets that are far easier to speed on. Places where planners know how to plan properly (i.e. not North America) use everything at their disposal to make it intensely uncomfortable to speed, with features that send speeders to the auto shop before they gain enough speed to send pedestrians and cyclists to the hospitals.

Parked car lanes on alternating sides of the street can be judicially used to force a previously straight street to meander, for example. It's not as good as other solutions, but it can be useful.

* For example, grade-separated cycle lanes, placed between the parked cars and sidewalk (rather than between parked cars and the street) significantly reduces, and with enough of a buffer completely removes the dooring risk for cyclists.
I wouldn't be that scattershot, and would instead include "github.com" in the key and value. This is because you may actually want to to SSH clones of non-GH repos, such as if you also deal with Gerrit.
I am happy to tip based on social norms, but I despise dark patterns, and that's what's being used here to try and inflate tips.

Nobody is rationalizing a larger tip saying, "I will tip more to avoid doing mental math." What is happening is they are busy getting out of a cab and being forced to either spend a minute or two fighting an annoying touch screen to enter the amount they'd like to tip, or to just give in and give 20-30%.

Note that suggested tip amounts did not center around the cultural norm of 20%. Instead, that is the lowest suggested tip. This is weaponized behavioral economics put to use, in this case to push up tips.
Reasons:

1. The software creation process moved from designing software to "growing" software. With iteration time moving from months to weeks. So there is no conceptual integrity.

2. MVP turning to final products. Basically quick and dirty code become the foundation of the architecture, with no time to refactor.

3. Short tenure time. I think that avg tenure time for young developers is less than a year. Hence, the knowledge of the code/ domain / abstraction is lost.

4. Market value speed over quality. Software managers are compensated for delivery and not for quality.