skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Obviously dependendent on your location, but…

There are loads of in-person astronomy clubs, for example there are three large-ish ones near me(Cambridge, UK). Many of them offer open nights to introduce newcomers, and they tend to be quite welcoming¹. The open nights are a great way to get a taste for equipment too, as you can play with all the toys the regulars take along.

I don't attend my local club, but the mailing list they run is an absolute treasure. Being local they'll often be on top of news for local starwatch nights, offer advice about dark sky locations, have used equipment for sale, etc.

Other than that I agree with pamoroso, just dive in and have fun.

¹ With the caveat that some of the people can be kind of quirky, and some can simply be snobby equipment collectors.
A few more choice banned words: "first-class function", "native speaker", "red team", "dumb terminal", "dummy value", "sanity check", "see", "freshman", and "housekeeping".
> If this framing doesn't escape moral conflicts then it's no better than utilitarianism!

It is if it recognizes that there is no magic framing that escapes moral conflicts. Utilitarianism claims to be such a framing, so showing that it doesn't actually deliver those goods seems to me to be a contribution worth making.
Of related interest is my Typesetting Markdown series (skip to the later parts to see R and annotations):

https://dave.autonoma.ca/blog/2019/05/22/typesetting-markdow...

I've been working on an editor that can interpolate string variables to replace those scripts:

https://github.com/DaveJarvis/keenwrite/blob/master/docs/scr...

Many Markdown publishing systems put YAML headers into Markdown documents, which feels like mixing presentation with content. With KeenWrite you can do:

keenwrite -i filename.Rmd -o filename.pdf -v variables.yaml

Meaning, if you wanted to apply a different set of values, you can supply a different file, without having to modify the R Markdown source. (Of course, you can always write shell scripts to concatenate the YAML header prior to processing.)
TLDR, gravity is a conservative force, and we are at the momentarily weightless stage.
The physical reality of time is limited to the concept of time differences - how much time elapses between two events.

On the other hand, the notion of assigning a particular label (e.g. "9 o'clock" to some moment of time) is arbitrary and determined by social consensus or political aspects, physical reality plays little role in that.
They are similar financial instruments, so I think it is a good comparison. Of course the value of one can go up or down much faster than the value of the other. Value of tulips COULD have gone up for six years instead of six months.

Similarly the value of gold can go up or down much faster or slower than the value of oil for instance.

But with gold or oil there is much more "intrinsic value" than with Bitcoin. It seems to me that Bitcoin has zero intrinsic value. You need a bigger or as big a fool to get your money back. Not saying that Bitcoin might not be a good investment, but currently it is down 31.65% in a month. It is not a good "store for money".

Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice shame on me :-)

https://www.google.com/search?q=bitcoin+rate&rlz=1C1CHBF_enU...
Unlike JavaScript however, Python is strongly typed.
Cloudflare and Twillio are special, they are dev tools. Classical business rules dont apply to them
I can read the post with no JS what so ever.
This is usually true just as a function of what the job is, for better or worse.

I'm a senior eng on track to staff, and the fact is that code is rarely a scalable enough output. Often the problems I'm solving are hard enough that they take a while to investigate, so if they have ultimately easy solutions, it means I write a one change a week or something. And in a lot of other cases, I'm doing something "the first time" and then making sure that everyone knows how to do the and process. So I'll write code once, but it'll be used as an example by tens of other engineers.

The thing that I work on where I write the most code (a cleanup of tech debt) won't really help me get to staff unless I scale up the approach, which would require me to shard the work out among a bunch of other people. Because of the scale staff eng works at, writing code becomes less integral to the job, and often a somewhat negative signal.
Mdsvex: Svelte in Markdown
I guess, I do appreciate you responding. I just get frustrated when folks refuse to look at the downsides of a chosen path, regardless of that path (capitalism or whatever). Everything in practice is different from theory / idealism. That doesn't mean it isn't the thing, it just means that's reality.

But refusing to acknowledge that means we can't fix it. It implies we just need to lean more into capitalism (or whatever we want to call USA's goings ons) to fix it, when that's what got us here in the first place.
It's been my ambition to support Gemini and Gopher down the line.
Craft and deploy bulletproof embedded software in Elixir
Uck. I get that people can feel that way as opinions are often way worse, but tshirts? Haha
Who determines those mappings though? The guy who created levels.fyi? and based on what?

(P.S. I know the creator of levels.fyi is here on HN, thanks for creating levels.fyi and for everything you do!)
> Given that you will find Twitter users with ‘hexagon’ profile pictures, its going to get much harder for them to ignore them.

On the contrary, it's now easier than ever for third-party clients to segregate NFT users from non-NFT users
He still tweets regularly, I find his tweets very funny sometimes.
https://nitter.net/YossiKreinin

https://nitter.net/YossiKreinin
Yeah they’re a rough universal indicator. Unless you can mention a better one that’s just as simple I don’t think the counterpoint you’re making is very strong.
> Utilitarians don't necessarily believe that pleasure is perfectly aligned with utility.

Then say "maximizing utility" in place of "maximizing pleasure and minimizing pain". It doesn't change the fact that utilitarianism says there is just one value worth pursuing, whereas other deontological systems say there are multiple values worth pursuing. The latter seems to me to be far more in line with reality.
But we don't do the same for any other cause of death. For example, we don't track "obesity deaths". Are we downplaying literally every other cause of death in the world?
- In this pandemic-y world people retreat into what's comfortable, and older music can be one of those comforts.

- In this streaming world it's easier than ever to listen to 'new' old music.

- There's plenty of new styles of music that isn't on the charts. Yet.

And I'm aging out of the demos those music company heads market to (and many of them beat me to it)
Law isn't code and it isn't crypto.

Judges aren't the only interpreters of law. They're simply the authoritative ones (ultimately). The law needs to be relatively authoritative so that people can make decisions around it. The whole process is actually a lot messier than such statements and there are usually valid arguments and evidence, but in general we should err on the side of least harm: which means if a law is poorly written, people might get away with something lawmakers wanted to stop. This can, and has, happened, and lawmakers deal with it by updating the law or crafting new ones. (Of course, I also think there is a distinction between the 'intent' of a law and what lawmakers intended and I really only object to basing decisions on the latter.)

Why? Because if an interpreter screws up, we update its code (or ours); but if a person screws up, we throw them in prison or fine them potentially devastating amounts. A person ought to be reasonably secure in acting in accordance with the law.
This is comparing actual pleasure and pain with expected pleasure and pain. It says nothing about why actual pleasure should be capped but actual pain should not.
Its not. I am using stablecoins to hold currencies I wouldn't be able to hold because of capital controls.
Replying to myself:

Wow, had no idea the Sendgrid situation had gotten so bad.

In that case, Mailgun.
Crimes against programming aside, I love these sorts of things!

Have you worked on anything else that's quirky like this?
That was necessary but not sufficient for him to have built what he has. He deserves credit for what he has done.
Good point on the small target audience.. It really is a shame because this is a great looking project.

I think I should write a web app that handles the SHH connection on the backend and renders the SHH app into HTML so that they can be enjoyed by the masses.

=)
Too much analysis of software giants. It's all industry specific.

2/3 Intel founders were about 40. Sam Walton did not own a store until at least age 35. Bell founded AT&T, maybe in historically relative terms the most successful tech company ever, at 37. Jensen founded Nvidia about 30. Warren Buffet bought up Berkshire in his late twenties.
Thanks for you reply @tomxor :)
Sorry to hear that your cult ideology is failing to suppress reality. What's the corruption index on the countries you listed with "low gun related deaths"? Oops, they're all below 50. And half are surrounded by countries with gun violence rates that are 5-10x higher than the US. Significantly higher when you break up US gun violence by race. Extremely significant when you use data from before states started reporting hispanic gun violence as white.
> Q: What happens if the coding ninja misreads an email and codes up the wrong thing

Who codes based on email requests? Either way, yeah being able to read and understand technical requirements is required. But you can't compare that to say people replying back and forth to get you access to a system, to get them to remediate a vuln,etc... much less technical material that can't be skimmed and isn't organized.

> Scripting is* programming.

Of course it is. I didn't say otherwise. Scripting helps but is not a requirement. Even if it was, you don't need to know how to code properly, just enough to wrangle data a bit. Excel is much more useful than python.

> Arguably, if you at least recognize that your behavior is metric driven (ie. "How can I game the system?"), you are thinking like an attacker.

I mean things like KPI and SLA. how is that thinking like an attacker? You are not thinking about anything attackers are interested in. A good example would me gaming the system by "remediating" incidents within X period of time. If your objective is that metric then inevitably you will sacrifice dedicating adequate time consuming analysis and remediation tasks to meet that metric. Just block the domain and reinstall windows. If anything was there it is wiped. Except if you looked deeper they rotate domains and the malware spreads to USB (infects again when they plug it in after your remediation).
Most arrays do not have declared bounds, that's why a runtime check is necessary.
ActivityPub would work well for this, as there are several implementations of the standard, it can be self-hosted, and is already used in the comment sections of some video sites. I wonder if someone has already written an HTML embed that does this exact thing for arbitrary sites...
I would assume the Swiss have received the necessary firing weapon training (which surely comes with a lot of safety measures drilling) which could have an impact.

I would also assume that the Swiss don't just allow anyone to join the military and thereby obtain an assault rifle, but that there is some psychological screening, that would prevent an unstable person from joining the military.

Meanwhile, in the US such a person just walks up to the gun shop and buys a firing weapon.
This is largely false.

Almost all these scams involve various forms of money laundering to/from US institutions and through US persons. Plenty of routes for enforcement here.

Many / most including fraud carried out within the US against US persons using US infrastructure (including phones etc). Plenty of opportunities to go after the "bulletproof" hosts and those who accept terminations from them (SIP -> T-Mobile etc).

Plenty of opportunities to put MUCH MUCH more pressure on countries like India which tolerate this scamming of US persons.

Beyond that, new rules, for example, if you want to terminate overseas SIP calls into the US, you have to post a bond relative to your call volume. Folks can file claims against that bond. If the bond was not posted (or not checked), then the upstream provider is on the hook. Upstream providers can deny service to entrants who will not post bond and who originate call volumes internationally.
> I still think the best solution to this is still a startup that can create tractors that don’t require repairs by a first party.

Do other tractor manufacturers have Deere-style DRM? I imagine some don't.
DNS hosting?
I don’t want to be cancelled again so I won’t share specifics but think south park level humor
Absolutely. I often joke that my work as a data scientist is mostly creating bar graphs for people. The actual analysis is often reasonably simple, its the aggregating of the data that is hard (its messy, its not all in the one spot and there is lots of it).

So start with querying your big data to say what the top three event types are. Then slowly crank up the analysis complexity, but not too much. The data engineering has lots of scope for real solid and obvious applications.
If you have to ask the question if something is crashing, then I believe the answer is no. Faltering? Sure. Crashing? I seriously doubt it. Are we due for a crash? Probably. Am I about to go stake money on it crashing? Nope.
Why can't we say that the original code is wrong then? The whole point of having something be UB rather than implementation defined is because the language committee believes that it represents a bug in your program.
WordPress as a Commons
You are right that I've oversimplified things, but you are wrong about the effects of my oversimplification.

What analysis study is the price of factories and associated costs. A growth company (like Rivian) is buying new factories and on the path to make 200,000 trucks / year. There are discussions about whether or not that will happen, but you can see that the price of those trucks (and the factory equipment to make those trucks) is going to vary by inflation.

> I would expect that any business strategist worth their salt would account for inflation in their projections

Yes, they do. But when expected inflation __changes__, those effects are calculated to cause a change in prices today.

The price of the old factories don't change, they were already bought long ago, and are at worst in the form of a bond (ie: based off of old money from 2014 or whenever the bank gave them that money). The price of future factories goes up.
This would be great if it automatically generated `<device>.<user>.search.domain.vpn` DNS names for all of the devices.
I don't think the point is about how many people actually perform military duty, but about how the US military culture works in practice.

Switzerland for example has a heavily compulsory military duty but IMHO a less violent, less patriotic, less indoctrinated and less glorified military culture.
> Yeah thanks to this logic and eu diktats we have less powerful lightbulbs accross europe.

Philips LED E27 2000 Lumen for 20 Euros: https://www.lampe.de/philips-led-e27-120-watt-2700-kelvin-20...

If you need something more powerful you should look for photography equipment.
Except that inflation does not affect everything, or more accurately it affects everything differently.

Inflation can be viewed as a change in supply /demand ratios. So car chips supply goes down, demand for cars is constant, price goes up.

Lumber Mills closed during lockdown, supply of lumber constrained, demand goes up, price goes up.

But the price of lumber, and cars, are not really linked.

Yes, some commodities have knock-on effects - food and energy being prime examples - when oil goes up that tends to impact large areas of the economy because large areas have oil in their supply chain.

So, whole average inflation is a useful benchmark number, it may, or may not, impact a companies future earnings, or more precisely, it may not impact earnings and costs in the same way.
https://archive.is/ra3p9
A little psychological manipulation and marketing gimmicks (including overdressed people and marketing directed to CXOs) goes a long way.
None of this probabilistic reasoning matters in the face of the anthropic principle. If there are infinite universes, we could easily be in the mostly stupidly improbable one possible, since we are not observing (and cannot observe) all possible universes, let alone an average one. This why a whole ton of speculation is completely meaningless, because we clearly live in a stupidly improbable universe that is already "fine tuned"--and that's not a problem. It doesn't mean there has to be God or anything. In fact, the settings of our universe imply nothing.
> If bad laws are okay

The reason I asked if people are checking vaccine passes when their friends visit them is because I don't actually believe this law exists at all, not because I think people are breaking it. It's possible that New York does require this, but if it doesn't, I think "You're prevented from accessing some non-essential buildings" isn't fairly analogized to "You can't leave your house".

> If you needed that paper form to register to vote, then I'd agree that's a problem.

If people's right to vote is contingent on the availability and non-discrimination of a web service (which can and will change without the need for any further legislation to pass) then we've already lost the battle against disenfranchisement.
Charm's libraries for the CLI are just awesome. I think these guys are really breathing new life into the CLI and make it look appealing for all kinds of applications. Chose their bubbletea library for a CLI file transfer tool (https://github.com/ZinoKader/portal) and found it a delight to work with. Super easy to make something that looks and works great.
I agree with the others about the shortcomings of React, but one thing to consider is the benefits of it's popularity. You'll find way more tutorials, articles, forums, etc for solving a problem in React than for any of the others. Not to say the other frameworks and tools don't have considerably large user bases and helpful communities - they certainly do - but you're just more likely to find solutions to niche problems when you Google. And if you can't find something on Google, you have a larger community of users that might respond to a request for help with your scenario. Plus there are more components and plugins than for other frameworks.

That being said, it's probably much easier to learn and more fun to use some of the alternatives.
Tesla advertises their technology as being on the cusp of Level 4/5 applications but legally (when defending its actions to the California DMV) argue that it is and will continue to be a Level 2 (i.e. limited driver assist) into the future and that FSD beta should not fall under regulations concerning testing of L4/L5 autonomous vehicles.

Perhaps most importantly, all legal responsibility falls on the driver, regardless of the fact that the car can cause accidents faster than a human can realistically react even if paying perfect attention.

https://www.jurist.org/commentary/2021/09/william-widen-phil...
And Allen:

Microsoft co-founders Bill Gates and Paul Allen first met as teenagers in the late 1960s at Lakeside School in Seattle, when Gates was in eighth grade and Allen was in tenth grade.

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/07/02/microsoft-co-founders-bill-g...

See also Levy: "Inside Bill's Brain Calls BS on Malcolm Gladwell's Outliers Theory":

Inside Bill's Brain lays the Gladwell Theorem to waste. By delving into Gates' very early life, Guggenheim reveals that, basically, Bill Gates arrived on Earth as a Martian. From the instant baby Gates joined his well-off clan, he understood there was a giant impedance mismatch between his cosmic intellect and that of the world. There's an amazing moment when he recounts the time his parents had him take a test to get into an exclusive private school for the sixth grade. He asked himself, did he want to go, figuring that if not, he would purposely blow the test.

https://www.wired.com/story/inside-bills-brain-outliers/
jailing drug dealers and users because they jumped a turnstile is different than jailing drug dealers and users because they were investigated for that specific substance.

the former policy is broken windows theory, which you started with in your other response, the later is a nationwide crime bill that was not an extension of the broken windows theory. It did not go after low level offenses it did other things like expanded capital punishment and reduced higher education for inmates. Also, criticizable things.

people mostly look at the effects of both of those policies and say that the long tail effects, due to the structure of our prison system, result in just disrupted families undermining the productivity and security of our society in that way. For example, people of some races don't have father figures so often because the fathers are all imprisoned. When released, the father cannot reintegrate due to ongoing marginalization from the workforce and access to capital, and the child grows up emulating bad influences. People might not have created an adequate way of fixing that, but for now they are just saying the older ways that exacerbate this problem are not good for our society or the people immediately affected.

the crime occurring now is alarming, these upticks are from an all time low in violent crime. so its disengenius, to me, to wnat policies as if this was the 80s and 90s again just because "crime is up". I would like to see inspiration for other solutions.

but I think we've gotten off topic, I don't really think that any of this prevents a "random discharge of a gun". Even a licensed valid concealed carry holder - or owner - has the capability of doing that, or someone in their home does.
That was one of the general ideas [1] driving a platform I created years ago. It never took but I keep it going because I'm still fully behind the deeper philosophy [2].

I'd be very interested getting some help to make it successful if anyone has a passion for the idea.

[1] https://valme.io/c/gettingstarted/faq/pkqqs/the-genesis-of-v...
[2] https://valme.io/c/gettingstarted/faq/kqqqs/how-valme-works/
Weirdly I literally saw this for the first time this week. I’ve been programming in Python for 8 years!
Idk as somebody who has worked at both Facebook and Google, the chip design going on at these companies is at the top end in innovation. Apple is even better. Certainly wouldn't be a bad outcome for civilization.
I’m a little bit confused at the assertion that “cart” and “cat” are phonetically similar enough to need an extra letter. They’re completely different sounds to my admittedly en-GB ears.
You can have laws on the books. Prosecutors have all the discretionary power: discretion NOT file a case to please their political allies, discretion to file a case using flimsy grounds to seek revenge against their political opponents, etc.

As long as federal prosecutors don't care, "the law of the US" has no teeth.
> Unless someone can convince me, in a simple way

Seems like you're happy with your own theories.
Ehh...I get why tech people are suspect of Palantir but they're just disrupting other government contractors.

And from my limited experience working with the government, they absolutely need / want / rely on having companies hold their hand as they insist on doing things the hard, slow, and very custom way.
I expect roads to adapt to make self driving car's easier to run over time. Both in terms of handling people, other cars, signage, and obstructions.