skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While being a bit harsh, this is indeed overall one of the biggest issues foreigners actually have: if you accept language and culture and adapt yourself into it, you love it. If you reject it Europe/that country is not your place. You will never feel home then or create a social web outside of the expat community.

I have seen so many cases of both cases here in Europe.
NASA certainly has their share of "jobs programs." The SLS is a prime example. Not NASA's fault: when congress gives you money and tells you to work on something, you work on it.

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

> I still think NASA deserves much, much better treatment.

This is certainly true.
Not to me. He answers the questions honestly, bluntly and without the condescending sandwich feedback technique that many here employ.
I'm not really equipped to predict anything, but I think recent surge in popularity of simple RISC-y[1] architectures like ARM will allow the WebAssembly standard to stay small yet efficient. I'm hopeful, but standards often have a way of not keeping up with the newest technology so we'll see.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reduced_instruction_set_comput...
White space is bad for readability anyways. I don't think that would be doable.
They are often used to maul people maliciously by cowards so yeah also bad
There's another, more capitalist reason: wages in most of those countries are lower than wages in China. It's not because of "changing preference".
I'm not sure I'm comfortable with calling that a silly bias unless I heard his explanation. Point taken though - I'm weary of this genre of content producer.
Really? I was under the impression that even the average person living in a poor European country (e.g. Moldova, Belarus, Kosovo) has a worse quality of life in most ways compared to, for example, someone living in a rural trailer park in Mississippi (an especially poor state) making minimum wage. What are some notable examples?
Not sure where this really leads... The history of humans is sort of a tale of techno-optimism: fire, metals, plumbing, antibiotics, and so forth. Yes, technologies do create detrimental effects, but techno-pessimism or even techno-neutrality would have been a bad survival strategy so far.
The one that had the biggest influence on the design of the shuttle was probably the plan to launch into a polar orbit, rendezvous with a satellite, capture it, and land as it swung around for the next orbit. This require massive cross-range capability, in order to be able to glide back to a suitable landing site in the US, putting lower limits on the size of the wings.
Just think of ant colonies and how productive they are for so few working workers...
Indeed. The Economist had a great article about this in their Dec 2011 edition. The article is behind a paywall, but the gist of it is that two effects explain the uptick in people changing jobs: (1) surges of job demand in new sectors boosted or entirely created by the pandemic (2) people who postponed job changes in 2020 (which hopefully will be considered as the worse year of the pandemic), effectively creating a backlog of job changes that got processed in 2021-2022. The economy just changed much faster in a few years.

Link to the article for the subscribers: https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/evidence-for...
Oh sure, I get that. Any effort to change policing in America is always going to be treated like it's extreme, period. I've seen press reports arguing that merely holding police funding steady and not increasing budgets is "defunding" them.

But I think thesuitonym is still right to point out that this is inconsistent with how these words are regularly used in other contexts. There are people directly under their post arguing that no, defund literally means removing all money, the dictionary says so -- and that's just a really silly argument if we look at how the word is used most commonly in politics.

When people across multiple political parties are arguing about defunding everything from schools, to the IRS, to NASA, to the military, to the Post Office, it's just not honest for people to argue that in this specific case we should should look at the first result in Webster and ignore everything else.
I usually do

def red; “red”; end

The new syntax is a bit cleaner

def red = “red”

But it looks too much like

def color name = “red”
name
end
Very cool writeup!

Unfortunately, the bar graphs at the bottom of the article have different y-axis scaling, but even so:

It's sad how Firefox' performance pales in comparison to Chrome.
I call BS. Dental care is completely private in Canada and appointments are easy to find if you're willing to pay.
> Getting a #1 ranking is INCREDIBLY difficult and generates millions of views.

I might just have lucked out, but my random framework made it to #1 (based on http://hnrankings.info/26722051/, didn't know about that site until dang linked it now). HN does not generate millions of visitors/views, even including all the random bots that start scraping your site. I base that on log analysis without any CDN or similar, so pretty sure I'm not underestimating. There might be a large secondary effect based on things shared on other social networks that posts like mine do not get, but just getting to #1 on HN is not millions of views in my experience.
> And of course the imagined mission never happened.

There were 11 classified (ten successful) DoD space shuttle missions:

https://www.space.com/34522-secret-shuttle-missions.html

That's roughly 8% of shuttle missions.
I found out some interesting option to learn something new. Maybe somebody will be interesting about the topic same as I am.
There are plenty of independent radio stations who curate diverse shows of both modern and older music. The best shows are the ones which lean towards mostly modern music with a few classic songs sprinkled in. They find the new artists who become the classic “old music” that everyone else discovers 5-10 years later. One great example is https://kexp.org/ from Seattle which has thrived for over 25 years with exactly this variety of music, with years of recorded in-studio music available for streaming.
I went the opposite direction; I was at a cool hipster startup, but since I decided to re-pursue academia part time, I switched to a stable megacorp [1] so I would have a consistent bit of funding for the degree for the next 4-6 years. Roughly the same base pay, but way better stock package.

I feel like for me, the boredom of COVID made online education about 10x more appealing, and with the articles about WGU popping up, I decided to finally finish my bachelors.

[1] I made sure they were ok with me doing a half-time PhD before I joined.
Blocked outside of the US :/
Solving the Advent of Code challenge in G-Sheets
Neither are US and China, but we still have tons of Chinese immigrants powering our tech economy. Maybe they're coming more through student visas, which may be of less interest to the Russians.
> If Germany or Austria or the Netherlands were constantly being insulted on the world-stage

This would be a fair argument if you, as an American, weren't ignoring the fact that the USA is the worlds #1 cause of terror, war and torment - in countless other sovereign nations, whose infrastructure was torn apart so that Americans could feel good about themselves and their country.

Austrians, and Germans aren't dropping bombs on innocent people every twenty minutes. Your perception that America is unjustly criticized belies the fact that just maybe, you need to travel a bit more to see that a lot of the world is seriously fed up with America's bullshit. The point of travelling is to try to understand that a bit better, and I hope you do that. In the same way that I generalize about America being a shit-hole - Americans generalize, and then drop bombs.
It doesn't work well for multithreaded applications because of the difference in memory model. It uses some heuristics to try and not issue memory barriers after each memory access, and sometimes gets it wrong at the expense of correctness.
>I've completely lost the brain-dead nationalist mentality that had infected me in my earlier life

Looks like you gained a different one though.
You can but most people will give you shit for not speaking German. Some of them are extremely rude about it too. Even/especially if you're quite obviously a tourist.

And where the hell are the non-smokers hiding?

That said...NY's Central Park doesn't have shit on Tiergarten. Literally one of the most beautiful places I've been on the planet.
Text version without “Cookie Consent and Choices”: https://text.npr.org/1075115539/
This strange mentality that -- "If it filters a lot of people out, it must be a good question."

If they politely (or perhaps not-so-politely) decline your request - that doesn't mean (as you seem to presume) they have no imagination, cannot think outside the box, or are perennial quitters.

More likely it's because when you ask questions like that, you're coming off as incredibly cocky and pretentious. And because they're serious professionals with lots of pertinent stuff to talk about - and really don't see a need to join you in what amounts to an unsolicited 4-hour intellectual masturbation session.
There are still biases against new world wines. But its really about finding a something you really like from a less known region. Everyone has preferences, so find one that matches yours.

That said its often hard to find those. I like red wines from the regions near Capetown, SA. You can get some of it in big wine stores, but its hard.
I've lived in three different US cities and in each, walking to get groceries was normal and not challenging.

I made my reply assuming the parent comment meant literally what they said. If you are reading another meaning into it, that's fine and I don't disagree. But they also don't contradict my comment, so why frame it like an argument?
> Europe is civilized. America is a wilderness

Europe has 3x the population density of the US, so this definitely tracks. Europeans (and some US city-dwellers) have so much trouble understanding the popularity of the car here, because they don't get the scale of the wilderness. I routinely hop in my car and in under 10 minutes I'm in places that public transportation will never reach. I can't even fathom how terrible the quality of life would become for me if I had to rely on public transit. Great if I'm going downtown, but I rarely do...
In your first post you wrote: "I've gained Immense amounts of respect for humanity" yet you turn around and write this.

You were a tourist here. You lived in Los Angeles. Yet you somehow feel emboldened to call a nation of 330M+ people "A huge shithole"? And you haven't met any nationalistic Serbians? Sorry if I don't take you seriously.
> Any kind of societal, economic, human and environmental ill is caused by capitalism, so anything that tries to solve actual problems instead of eliminating or weakening capitalism isn’t doing enough

My entire life (40 years) has been feeding me the exact opposite propaganda. In the world I've lived in, capitalism is the answer to all of our ills. Things are only broken (like healthcare or education in the US) because they aren't capitalist enough. It's not really a surprise when the winners of capitalism own the news.

I'm personally glad to see another angle. I thought that was one of the things we liked about the internet.
So Chinese companies stealing ip is nothing to be concerned about because of the Opium wars?

The current human rights abuses like forced sterilization of minorities, body part removal of prisoners or the past abuses of chairman Mao are on a much grander scale of evil where do they fit into your worldview?
the media has spent the last 10 years telling us being fat is acceptable. then covid comes around and how dare you mention losing weight as a partial remedy (78% of those hospitalized with covid are obese). they want us fat and guzzling food products (i.e. chemicals) so we use their allopathic slash and burn "cures".
I am running most of my webservices of my unraid nas it runs a cheap passive cooled ASRock J3355B-ITX with 16GB RAM and 2TB SATA Cache with a 80TB JBOD array. All in a really nice compact Fractal Design Node 304. When all HDDs are running it sips 90W at standby 15W.
> Show us who is doing this for the purposes of advertising and how it is worth the effort and can be relied on.

Why would an advertiser do this? Advertisers are typically in leauge with site operators. Site operators just tell them this data (maybe with rare exceptions like superphish). Advertisers don't do this because they don't need to.

Advertisers are not the adversary tls is meant to thrawt. You don't use the lock on your door to thrawt the person who you invited in and opened the door for.

> Not every site requires SNI (yet "modern" browsers send it anyway).

Its difficult to tell if a site needs it or not at the stage where you send it. The current solution seems to be custom dns records (e.g. what ECH is doing last time i looked)

> Tell us how to reliably^1 translate any IP to a domainname at the same speed as one can sniff SNI, and with no extra effort.

The traditional answer is to just sniff the dns traffic.

Otherwise (e.g. if using DoH) just create a db of popular sites you care about. This is not trivial, but still quite easy and the easiest part of the attack being discussed by far.
I think the common denominator is, code that is harder to read and understand than it needs to be. (That also makes it harder to maintain and update than it needs to be.)
When the number of hash values (at least 2^128) exceeds the number of atoms in the observable universe (10^80), it's never going to happen.

... unless the hash function is broken, in which case it's not cryptographic anymore. Note that the birthday paradox doesn't apply when one of the inputs is trivial.
Being calm and relaxed on stimulants can potentially mean there is some arousal disorder: sleep apnea, narcolepsy, delayed sleep syndrome, or just chronic sleep deficit. Maybe concussions (mild TBI), amphetamines work for that too. Even depression is possible.

ADHD is just most likely because it’s so common, with sleep apnea being close second. I would rule out ADHD and sleep disorders first.

Potentially also, UARS, which is also form of sleep disordered breathing but not commonly detected with current technology (and also not easy to treat), some physicians do a full nasopharyngeal endoscopy under propofol anesthesia. I believe it’s incredibly undiagnosed and probably accounts for more than 10% of apnea cases, but most patients are thin instead of obese and so nobody suspects apnea-like disorder. If you needed braces or needed corrective jaw surgery UARS should be ruled out.

ADHD can be somewhat objectively measured with some tests like CPT, but that would also often show abnormalities in sleep disorders.

If your measures of attention, and sleep study, along with wakefulness maintenance test, if warranted, are all normal, and your pulse and blood pressure is normal, and by normal I mean very close to ideal 120/80, with hr below 70 - maybe you are just a mutant.

See a good neuropsych that specializes in sleep disorders. Stanford is one of the better centres for that. They will know what to do if it’s not a sleep issue also.

dx of ADHD and good response do not preclude the possibility of other disorders.

you can obtain treatment that way, and investigate other causes later, you may have to wash out from stimulants for a few weeks for the CPT and WMT, and preferably for sleep studies also, because they increase muscle tone and if your sleep issue is due to some neuromuscular issue, stimulants may partially obscure it. (This is still in research, and most physicians won’t tell you this, as it’s not yet standard of care in most places afaik)
If there's multiple ways to do the same thing that's usually a BAD thing in terms of language design. Especially if some approaches are just newbie traps that experts learn to avoid, or if deciding the best method is a really subtle context-dependent decision. The ideal design is that the language encourages the one obviously "good" way to do it.
A bunch of land owners/developers and some subset of the government in Santa Clara wanted to kick out the airport so the land could be developed and to make the surrounding land more valuable. Killing all the GA traffic based out of there would do the trick. Banning the fuel would kick out GA. Don't pretend that it was some altruistic pursuit. They only went after the lead because it has a ton of existing ideological baggage they thought they could capitalize on. The FAA looked at the big picture and laughed at them.
Not trying to be a dick, but not sure how this is relevant to HN. Personally facebook could be down for a month and it would have 0 affect on my life.
Ah, I misread. I thought you said import from Denmark. Can you not buy caffeine pills in Denmark? A quick search gives conflicting info.

I don’t know what I would even do with liquid caffeine. But again, I don’t want caffeine badly enough to be looking for alternative ways to get it.
I haven't touched Windows in over 10 years (Linux only) and foobar2000 is the only piece of software I miss. It wasn't the UI or anything. Amarok is probably better. It was just how solid the software felt. foobar2000 was the only thing I could trust to send the right bits to my soundcard when I wanted them to be sent. All other audio software felt like the actual audio part was an afterthought and a hack that just barely worked.
I tinkered around with the idea of building an app that would get daily images from the space telescopes and the Mars rovers, as it turns out - NASA has an API dedicated to them (search for it, really easy to find via your favorite search engine).

I never ended up building anything from it quite yet (maybe soon), but the possibility is there, and the data is free to obtain. You have to register for an API key, but again, it's still free. The photos are updated quite frequently if I remember correctly.

Same thing can be said about the National Weather Service. You can get your weather forecasts in nice JSON formats from NOAA, all whilst not having to sell your data to The Weather Channel, or whatever alternatives exist for weather apps on Android.
If anything there is less. Residual radioactivity is unused explosive potential, they try to minimize that.

Modern bombs are also fusion bombs which have even less radioactivity.
I think the key is: paid vacation days.
> But a lot of sites never get to that point, especially given how fast servers and SSDs are these days, so SQLite seems like it can get you further than you might realize.

SQLite on top of NVMe with WAL mode enabled is about as fast as it gets. We've been doing this in production for years now.

We don't have a scenario where we would find ourselves writing more than 2 gigabytes per second to DB/disk, nor do we ever think we would encounter one with our product, so we have committed ourselves to single instance SQLite architecture. Saves a lot of time and frustration when you can accept your circumstances and go all-in on simpler solutions.
Google Is Forcing Me to Dump a Perfectly Good Phone
defund verb

: to withdraw funding from
We recently had a President talk about “shit hole” countries. Roughly one half of the U.S. cheered or at a minimum were passive about such a comment. I use the term “shit hole” country to refer to the U.S. partially as a joke to see Trump supporters get huffy when saying this.

For a nation to be as wealthy as we are and to be in the state we are in I think it’s fair to say the U.S. is a shit hole country. Our patriotism and propaganda blind us to this fact.
This was a really frustrating experience moving into a new townhouse as the first-ever occupant. It took nearly three years for the city's property records to be correct and propagate everywhere. We couldn't even pay our property taxes at first, and the US Postal Service would not process my move request, insisting my address did not exist, in spite of me being physically in the house.
> The simple fact that the US doesn't have universal healthcare, and refuses to do anything real about it,

What is funny, is how many Canadians come to the US for faster or better treatment. No more 3 month wait list to get a basic procedure. It's almost like there are pros and cons to every system, eh?
Parent comment:
> It’s really sad to think about how well NASA works when you consider how little funding they get and how hard they have to fight for it. It’s honestly quite ridiculous.

Sibling comment (dmd):
> I saw a study a few years ago where people were asked how much funding various agencies get, and the majority of people thought NASA was more than 10% of the federal budget; some even went as high as 25%. (It's less than half of 1%.)

Your comment:
> [NASA’s] $23 billion dollar budget is only 3% of the size of the DOD budget.

NASA’s budget is about half a percent of total DoD budget, but that doesn’t tell an accurate story. Most people assume NASA is synonymous with the total or almost total US space budget, but its less than half. You can do the math in 2022 if you would like [0], but in 2013 NASA’s budget was $16.8B [1], and the total space budget was $39.3B [2]. According to that article, in 2013 every other nation was supposedly under a $10B space budget [2], but can’t really speak to the validity of that. I think it’s reasonable to say we spend a decent amount on space compared to others. All that said, not opposed to an increased space budget, more space is good in my book.

[0] https://comptroller.defense.gov/Portals/45/Documents/defbudg...

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budget_of_NASA

[2] https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2016/01/which-countries-spend...
> That "waste" in execution efficiency is often worth it for the sake of representing helpful abstractions and generally helping developer productivity.

That's arguable at best. I for one am sick of 'developer productivity' being the excuse for why my goddamned supercomputer crawls when performing tasks that were trivial even on hardware 15 years older.

> The real win here is when we can have both because of smart toolchains that can transform those high-level constructs and representations into the most efficient implementation for the hardware.

That's been the promise for a long time and it still hasn't been realized. If anything things seem to be getting less and less optimal.
Their upcoming outphasing of extension manifest 2 goes somewhat further than that. With this, they will also remove one of the primary APIs these content blockers require to function.

I was wrong to assume everyone knew of this, and should have included a proper reference.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/chrome-extens...
If you're paying either way might as well take a trip to the US where the skilled medical professionals inevitably migrate.
"and I get to see the USA from outside the decadent, rose-colored bubble from which it is usually experienced."

This. As someone who moved to the USA ten years ago, you do not understand "the bubble" Americans live in until you see it from inside and out. People here live on a stage with absolutely no idea that a global audience is watching them. People also can think and say things in absolute confidence which are considered ludicrous by 99% of the rest of the world.

I for a long time could not wrap my head around why so many people actively reject the idea of free health care, but it made me realize how little I appreciated when I had it.

... and it's scary how things just seem to be getting worse here with no real hope for improvement without massive reform. Reform that can only happen if something catastrophically bad happens in the near future.

edit: and I don't mean this in a critical way, I mean it objectively as possible.
Am I the only one whose mind is blown that there is no official download I can click to install on Mac?

https://git-scm.com/download/mac

I tried brew and it seems to have the old version; another download link gives me a 5-month-old version. Why is there no official click-to-install release?