skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not the inertia that does the job (that keeps things going, actually) but the compression and shedding the compressed air that will slow things down. But for a big rig doing that idling it won't be enough, especially not on a descent with 25 tons pushing you downhill.
I too have learned the value of "turn it off and see who complains" as a last-ditch effort at determining who is still using something and why. It is remarkably effective. However, in at least one case it did take almost an entire week for someone to notice and complain.
This is correct. You can apply for a green card whenever. I did mine a few months after getting my H1B.
I had delta in late October and omicron in early December. I was PCR positive for delta, although I had a mild case. I wasn't allowed to take a PCR test for the December infection, because it was too soon after my delta test and my symptoms were very mild. I did test positive multiple times on LFT, my symptoms matched the 'ultramild' omicron (scratchy throat, slight cough, lower back pain). The day I tested positive for omicron was 4 days after my friends had gathered in a pub, of the 30 of us in attendance 27 tested positive on the same day. The group chat was wild. Some of those that got PCR's were informed they had omicron.
It depends on what you're optimizing for long-term as a member of the software industry. Pure monetary compensation? The US remains the only place where salaries for junior developers begin in the early six figures and climb higher with career progression. Security of living? Probably not. A culture of entrepreneurship and a support network for your own entrepreneurial desires? Yes.

Overall, I would say this is a great place to start a career as a foreign national but far from a perfect place to retire or even raise a family, unless you happen to be quite well off by that point.
Theranos couldn’t deliver reliable tests using other people’s equipment, let alone the magic box they pretended to have invented. Their claims were pretty much impossible to fulfil.

There are Teslas driving on the roads. Starlink is serving customers. SpaceX is delivering payloads.

Like him or loathe him, Musk has delivered multiple times.
News article: https://www.infoq.com/news/2022/01/etst-migration-from-react...
I don't see anything in OP's comment about second mansions or the homeless.
So how would you persuade people who don't believe in climate change for religious and/or short term economic reasons that climate change is is a very real and extremely serious medium term threat?

That's what the facts strongly suggest. Implying that people who use facts in argument are being rhetorical is - rhetorical itself.
The scale of the planets and the kind of environments they can have is genuinely impressive. It doesn't look like procedural generation like No Man's Sky. The cities and environments can be placed and this allows for actual planetary scale with multiple biomes which has never been done before

Of course this also causes lots of difficulties in dev since it's a ridiculous scale and being multiplayer, there's even more complexity. Plus the performance seems to be terrible sometimes
And the fact that there's a chain of other responders disagreeing with your take suggests that it isn't.

Either way, I don't have a horse in this fight. You may as well be right in your assessment.

The fact of the matter though is this - the original blog post is completely uninteresting. If you have wealth and money - you can pretty much build anything anywhere. There's nothing in that house that is a technological marvel/achievement or anything in its construction method that warrants unique news coverage on HN or elsewhere.
Even if I were to accept all of the fearful arguments against cryptocurrency, a prohibition of cryptocurrency would still be the greater evil in my view.

Even if it is 'irrational' as described by some behavioral economists, how can we accept that the behavioral economist who is accusing the consumer of irrationality is himself entirely rational.

The premise is nonsensical in my view. Differing actors employ their individual agency towards unique ends which cannot be evaluated from a position of imperfect information. Value is subjective.
They're on PC on Steam, no need to play them on a phone!
Looks like they are jumping on the whole "Meta" train, with enough expertise to make a dent.

I would be astonished though, if people used a web browser in virtual reality to do serious work.
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This is a great thread! I'm wondering if creating an ideas-people matchmaking site for it makes sense- it could be a collection of ideas along with their stage of development (idea only, prototype ready, production ready, etc) and a similar collection of skills/people who are willing to/interested in projects. All opensource/free of course.

I'll be up for putting this together if someone wants in on this. I'm a generalist with mastery/expertise in [python, go, nosql dbs, aiml, bigdata] have product and business experience as well.
I resonate with your views. I’ve not been around that long but I often visit old threads to get a perspective.

For those looking for an example to drive this home, look no further than the most hot button thread on HN when President Trump was elected. Inspect the quality of discussion. We were so much better: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12907201

Note: As sad as it sounds, I need to clarify; I have no political position or axe to grind. Just showing how we used to have discourse about difficult topics and I chose an extreme example to convince you.
Okay, well what's your suggestion then? People are always very eager to say they treat everyone with respect and dignity, and they want to make everyone feel welcome and accepted in the classroom. But it seems like if we ask them "Okay, how do you make people feel welcome and accepted in your classroom? What specific practices have you put in place? How do you measure this impact? How specifically will you adapt in the future?" then that is very problematic for some people. They don't want to answer those questions. They'd prefer to leave it at "I treat everyone with respect" and leave it at that, which is a meaningless platitude.

> with highly refined, and in places, what can only be described as ideologically charged evaluation criteria

I will keep reiterating the point, but this again overstates the role the document released by the Berkeley DEIB office plays in the faculty hiring process. At all levels, individual departments and the college dean have full discretion on what searches are conducted and how applications are evaluated. Individual faculty members are free to fully disregard any and all DEI concerns when voting on a faculty hire.

Yes DEI statements are required in the application. No the DEIB office at Berekely doesn't have control over how that statement is evaluated. They have some thoughts, but they are just those -- impotent thoughts of the DEIB office to which you are ascribing far more weight than they deserve.
I have wondered the same thing. My guess is that they use three axles with 6 tires, whereas the common North American trailer has two axles with 8 tires. The axles are mounted on a sled so they can be moved forward or backwards depending on the trailer weight to achieve the required weight distribution.

Euro trailers appear to be shorter and probably carry lighter loads, so they need fewer tires and maybe do not need to be adjustable. But not really sure.
At this point, the average wacko NFT-based game probably has a greater chance of success than Star Citizen. Although you'd probably have to use to some advanced mathematics to determine the difference between these two extremely-close-to-zero chances.
it occurred to me many years ago that star citizen is a meta game. the game is watching a game come together. plenty of people get a kick out of all that this encompasses. unfortunately, it wasn't sold this way but maybe out of necessity. furthermore, i'm not even convinced that they anticipated this.
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"Reductionist arguments are the enemy of useful."

"Minimally viable is the enemy of class action."
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That's because they subsidize their cost [1].

It's probably not smart to praise value/cost, when the company is literally trying to take over the metaverse.

[1]: https://uploadvr.com/zuckerberg-meta-headsets-cost/
MB trucks are an entirely different kettle of fish than the consumer and light transport stuff. It all changes above the 3500 kg mark.
You can't, because land within commuting distance of a major city is going to have more people that want it, and be more expensive. You need to go farther out. I'm not super familiar with the Washington coast, but in Oregon places like Lincoln City, Yachats, Coos Bay, Otis, etc.
My opinion is that we are seeing a mass depoliticization across many if not all communities. Paradoxically, people are becoming less capable of engaging in political discourse, while clinging ever more tightly onto simple pieties and tribalistic lines in the sand. Ironically, this rigidity is perceived as people being "too political", because it manifests as an increase in anger and communication breakdown. In fact it's the opposite of political discourse.

When it comes to the pandemic, the immediate cause for this change, I think people also come out on either side of one basic disappointment. On one side, there are people who feel they've been massively betrayed by their fellow citizens who have not been cooperative or compliant with the recommendations of experts. On the other side, there are those who feel massively betrayed by regulatory institutions and media they feel are untrustworthy and captured by corporate interests, unelected health experts who have made policy misjudgements, and a wealthy class that has profited from the crisis that their institutions have exacerbated.

Although it's possible to recognize truth in both of the above sides, it is not common in the wild. The division is very primitive, having to do with our responsibilities to our fellow citizens, our relationship to authority, fundamental rights over our bodies, and the expectation of transparency in our institutions. You'd think we would be able to start from some shared assumptions and common ground on these issues, but it's almost impossible today to have discussion about it without one or both parties instantly devolving into anger, fatigue, frustration. We've lost the collective ability to even articulate one another's positions about the pandemic response and other basic civic issues, which is, I think, one of the few things that marks political discourse as different from base tribalism.

Given how effective we know "influence campaigns" to be, I don't think it's an accident that we've arrived here, but that's another issue altogether.
This is definitely not the case. This publication has multiple posts about the supply chain and port affairs. Software/tech people sometimes forget that we live in a very specific world with very limited scope, and sometimes forget to take our blinders off when interacting with the “real” world.
Congratulations.

But it does seem risky making a public post about this.

By using the word “hacking” and the implications in the post that the lawyers painted a very sanguine view of the qualifications as well as the admission that the lawyers wrote the reference letters and just had the “highly successful” friend sign, seems very risky.

The US government has revoked greencards and naturalization in the past for what they consider fraudulent applications.

I am definitely not saying or implying that anything was fraudulent, but you never know who might read your post and decide that it seems suspicious and worth doing an audit.
If an accused criminal can get their case dismissed because of a technical error (ie, rights not read to him/her, chain of custody broken, no warrant, …). Then why isn’t this exfiltration of coin using the code outlined in the smart contract the same thing?

it’s the responsibility of the smart contract creator(s) to make sure all edge cases are covered and thorough exhaustive testing is performed.
My house has 350A split across two meters because we have a ground source heat pump which has a special electric rate. I don't think we ever actually use that much power.
I thought about switching to one of those mobile internet providers, but it wasn’t available in my area, which I don’t quite understand. My providers network is certainly available, as I use it on my phone daily. Maybe it’s using some different band?
That I didn't know, interesting.

That said, I cannot recall Google ever having a breach, a la Yahoo, Sony, and basically most other companies. Does that mean everyone else should use who Google is using?
Ehhh that list of game dev costs seems really suspect; Star Citizen is only notable because they released dev costs when everyone else holds them tight to the chest. Personnel counts have ballooned in the era of motion capture and full voice acting; you’re often doing a whole lot more movie things like mocap, script writing, juggling a bunch of actors, etc. in a game than for a movie. AAA video games over the last 10 years typically have as much if not more budget than tentpole movies (and corresponding revenue draw).
Sometimes you can take a CDL course for cheap. I did years ago and it was fun.

I wouldn’t get the license though as even minor traffic violations can become a pain in the butt.
I wasn't arguing, I was just adding nuance. Now I'm arguing though.

The nuance between ground station coverage and satellite coverage is extremely important for understanding spacex's business plan, which is relevant to your comment since you were saying "I don't really understand the business plan of SpaceX with respect tostarlink", with the implication that it doesn't make any sense. The difference between ground station coverage vs satellite coverage is the difference between "we're still building out the infrastructure, but we have the hard bits in place" and "this business model never scales because we need to launch way more satellites just to have basic coverage over the continent". It shouldn't be surprising that they're not done scaling the ground infrastructure, but that's not an impediment to their long term business model, because it's not the expensive bit.

> Even if you had a ground station with infinite bandwidth there is no way a single satellite can have the entire network linked through it.

This is a straw man, no one ever suggested that the entire network would be linked from a single satellite.

Rather the primary purpose of inter-satellite links is that you can expand coverage to areas away from ground stations. You route the traffic to a nearby groundstation (or better, a groundstation close to it's destination) with bandwidth available.

> but you can't really run 100+ mbps pipes like that.

Yes you can, I don't have numbers for starlink's inter-satellite links, but in general that technology is at the ~10gbps / laser link range, each satellite has 4. Light travels through space faster than in fiber, so if routed intelligently this actually lowers ping too.

> This is completely different than something like a military communications satellite where both ends of the connection are communicating through the same satellite.

Ironically, this actually describes how the current system works (as long as you treat the endpoint as a groundstation, and not an IP address somewhere on the internet).

The future system is more robust, even if there is no "other end" to talk to locally, spacex will (with inter-satellite links) be able to route you to an "other end" anywhere around the globe.
I have actually had a fair amount of fun playing Star Citizen. To my knowledge it's the only game you can actually mess about with friends on spaceships where you aren't limited to merely controlling the ship (i.e. Elite Dangerous).

That said, it's clearly well out of proportion to their funding. Some of the feature creep implies such horrible judgement by experienced game designers it would have been hard to predict.
People like to post their opinions to the world. It feels good, and feels like you are being "heard". But for most it stops there. Not many care to debate online because a) it takes time and energy vs posting something you've had in your head for a while and b) they know almost no one changes their mind online.

On top of that, HN doesn't notify you when someone replies to your comment... so maybe they just forgot.
> Or were they just writing hearsay to push content and get clicks?

I think this is a very uncharitable interpretation. It has been decades in the US and Canada since cab overs fell out of style and thus you can't buy ones that take the same trade-offs as your average conventional truck. Comparing trucks designed for completely different regulatory, geographical, and practical constraints isn't going to net something useful so we have to make estimated guesses. It seems like it would be similar to comparing the fuel economy of an an unladen F-150 with an unladen F-350; They might do similar things but in practice there are so many capability trade-offs that it isn't a particularly interesting thing to do. As they said:

> that is just in theory – in reality there are too many factors to consider.
It doesn't make sense if you are actually following the science and not The Science like politicians are. Over 2021, natural immunity was dropped so hard in the US that the vaccine passports/requirements popping up here make no allowances for recovery from covid - it's vaccination or nothing.
If he has older monitors or multiple monitors that can be significant load. My older Dell Ultrasharp 24" monitors are around 80-100 watts each last I measured.
Isn't becoming an instructor just getting a job?

> I repeat: if you're skilled enough to be reading HN, you have the kinds of skills that are tantamount to magic for others that don't have them.

Sure, but having skills isn't at all the same thing at all as being able to make money with them. The people willing to pay, whether they consider what they're buying "magic" or not, are usually going to find a lot of other people before they ever find you.
European semis all have a bunk beds, for two. They don't feature a kitchen though, and in the evenings the truckers gather in truck stops which serve humongous servings. These truck stops are all along the freeways all over Europe.

There is a maximum vehicle length though, and a maximum weight, the former ensures vehicle maneuverability, the latter serves road stability, bridge specifications, optimized no-waste parking provisions for pass-through parking spots in said truck stops edit: and ferry capacity. Ireland, Finland are connected by Ferry.

Manufacturing is pretty much internationalized, reusing parts and designs globally. Freightliner and Daimler are one company, for example.

Fuel economy is indeed a point, albeit the combo of trailer and truck define the overall fuel economy. As the trailer usually is equivalent to a standard 40ft container, the ideal truck has a boring standard form, too.

The text is German, the pictures are self explanatory-ish though wrt optimal and sub optimal wind résistance:
https://en.vda.de/dam/vda/publications/FAT-SCHRIFTENREIHE%20...
Story time! Back around 2008 when we were developing the first version of AWS CloudWatch (which was then code-named "Granite") we had two problems to solve:

1. What should the API for PutMetricData look like?

2. Where should we store that data?

(you know, minor issues)

At the time, we decided that #1 was more critical than #2 (and of course #2 depends deeply on the answer to #1), and that the best way to solve it would be to do some learning-by-prototyping - stand up an internal version of CloudWatch to dogfood with some other Amazon services and be able to go to prospective internal customers with a "working" service that they could kick the tires on, not just some API docs and paper prototypes. So I quickly hacked up an implementation of "GraniteDataStore" called "InMemoryDataStore", which would store every PutMetricData request in a HashMap and nowhere else.

When I sent the code out for peer review, my reviewer was aghast at the idea that we would stand up a service that would knowingly store different copies of the data on every server, and lose it all on process restart. I responded by renaming InMemoryDataStore to FakeInMemoryDataStore, but that wasn't enough. Finally, we settled on a name of (if memory serves) FakeFakeFakeDataStoreThatLosesAllYourData and that was enough to get my merge approved.
> Almost nobody wants to see what their friends are doing online anymore.

Fact. I unfollowed pretty much every person connected to me on facebook, and now my feed consists primarily of posts from 'This cat is C H O N K Y', 'Foods with threatening auras,' and the like. Huge quality of life improvement, second only to basically never using Facebook at all.
> Or any country really.

Ha, really? What are some iconic German or Kazakh vegan dishes? I'd say the opposite is true, most countries have no vegan main dishes.
"As of today, Igalia has secured partial funding over the next two years"

Wondering who is funding the project, or does this mean they use their own money to fund this? That sounds more brave than Brave imo. Good luck!
Also at this point EVERYONE is going to be infected by COVID. It's a highly contagious respiratory virus that's not only carried by humans, but animals too. This fantasy that all we have to do is vaccinate everyone and we will be alright really needs to die.
I had a similar thought; why design a pile of boxes like that? Seems weird to me.
I keep hearing this, but this is not a problem for the vast majority of people in the world. And IPFS is not a silver bullet for it anyway, because of the learning curve required to roll your own publishing stack. You can already host your own decentralized Mastodon instance without any blockchain.

Why is it that the numerous famous people that have gotten kicked off Facebook and Twitter never set up a blog or Mastodon instance on their own domain or use a platforms not controlled by American companies? It's because they know that the big platforms is where the people are, and trying to rebuild it all over again is not a waste of time and resources.
So the real Star Citizen is indeed the friends we made along the way!
Where do you think the paradigm will shift to?
Can't rule it out, but if Alphacode gets to top 1% in five years, that's when it can basically do algorithms research. We can ask it to come up with new algorithms for all the famous problems and then just have to try and understand it's solutions :O
That density means there is no way that Starlink will be able to service more than a couple percent of your town any time soon.
Like a shared knowledge base? I hadn't thought about it like this before, but thank you. As I'm writing this all the possibilities are just flooding my mind. I will be looking into this for V2. Thank you so very much.
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Just as with Facebook it seems I am guilty until proven innocent. If you want to believe that they intentionally enabled genocide in a foreign country with politics that neither of us could likely begin to understand, then fine. I have been more than clear, and yet you ask for more. How can I offer explanation to the decline of a regime? Is it not obvious that mental health has been in decline for decades? Or that economic inequality is ever-growing? The average lifespan is in decline. Houselessness is on the rise. You balk at genocide? Our government regularly commits genocide on the scale of the holocaust [1] [2] [3], _with intent_.

Who should be held accountable for all of this? Facebook? What a joke. If they are truly guilty, regulators have all the power in the world to hold them accountable.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indonesian_mass_killings_of_19...

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genocide_of_indigenous_peoples...

[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_invasion_of_Pana...