skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A 200 year timeline is likely far too short. There's nowhere on the planet a human (or any multicellular Earth life) can survive without an active life support system. Every square meter of living and farming space needs to be enclosed with powered life support. There's no lubricants, easily accessed water, or even raw materials for heavy industry.

Even if Starship was ready to go tomorrow zero percent of any of the infrastructure needed to keep humans alive on Mars exists. The infrastructure needed to let some Martians be self sufficient only exists in artist renderings.

Getting a hundred tons of crap to Mars is the easiest part of the problem. Building a reliable toilet that won't clog and kill everyone or an air filter that never breaks is hard. Having enough food and medical supplies to keep people alive after a crop fails is hard. Building a factory that doesn't need a huge supply of oil-based lubricants is hard. Crowing crops in shitty soil is hard. Shit just building a big sealed structure is hard.

I don't find any claims of colonizing Mars believable because there's only lip service paid to boring infrastructure. Infrastructure can't just be patched in later.
The human retina will perceive flicker above 200 Hz even if you won't consciously be aware of it.

There are a lot of anecdotal stories out there where people get a reduced sleep quality after switching to LED lighting in the bedroom. Is there something deeper to the story? Quite likely. The question now would be whether this affects everyone or if those people are outliers.
>I'm a diesel

Low RPM, loads of torque?

I'd hire that!
And by that logic what will happen if they smoke one ? By your logic such people will have to stop before a certain threshold. What's the threshold ?
Does JS have something like array.iter?
Yeah Tile even has the same network tracking effects that extend widely beyond bluetooth range. They've done this for a decade at this point, IIRC.
I'm doing/have done this!

I took my current job (in communications) in order to get better at outreach, marketing, etc. for when I work for myself since that's what I was the weakest at as a freelancer. I'm also interested in tech ethics so I took a job in politics so I could become more familiar with how the sausage is made.

Now I'm looking for a swe job so I can get more experience working in teams of devs since most of the tech work I've done has been solo work.

I'll let you know how it worked out in 10 years?
>Isn't that what a.Business Analyst does?

Not if you have any sense as an engineer :)
Were there withdrawal symptoms in your case? If so, what were they?

Years ago I read that withdrawal symptoms are an essential part of the definition of addiction, but probably "addiction" has become a somewhat broader concept since then. The article says you "might" also experience withdrawal symptoms, and I don't think I've heard of people addicted to gambling, for example, suffering from any specific withdrawal symptoms, though even quite mildly addictive drugs like coffee can have recognisable withdrawal symptoms.

EDIT: For the avoidance of doubt, I am not claiming that addiction requires withdrawal symptoms.
I too have been working on public transit for my city in the US and several smaller cities that I visit that tend to get ignored by the big apps.

Most of these cities have real time data, but it is from a 3rd party vendor that either tries to lock up the data or has a terrible app.

For example, the one for Steamboat Springs Colorado, a small little ski town, uses a 3rd party vendor for real time tracking information. But the app from that third party vendor is slow and frustrating. On top of that, it is a single app that supports 30+ small cities. If you search for "Steamboat Springs transit or bus" in the app store, that vendor's app doesn't even come up. As a tourist, no one has any idea that an app even exists for their public transit.

I wrote an opensource app that supports multiple real time vendors backends which I can whitelabel for different cities.

https://gotransitapp.com/
Considering year old mobiles are able to perform on-the-fly language translations in photos even via awful cameras, i find it weird that screenreaders still rely on such hints.
AWESOME!!! YES!!!! It's all about the most simple structures.

There is a flaw in the B+R minigame, which is that perfect play leads to a draw, or rather people playing forever and getting board because they don't yet know the 50-move rule...

Although apt adults will quickly realize the optimal approach, many will still get pieces captured, so someone will win and lose, and they can play again until they realize the optimal approach. Then it's time to move on to the next minigame!

I still haven't figured out if Pawn Wars resolves to a zugzwang situation based on who moves first. And King Opposition took a while for me to grok, even though I knew how to queen a pawn. Interesting to think about all these things, even if the conclusion is predetermined.
Well, you can blame my bad programming for that :)

When you press backspace, the focus shifts to the previous cell, deleting the contents of the current cell. When you've entered < 5 characters in the current row, the focus is on the next empty cell. So the first backspace only takes you back to the previous cell, and the second backspace clears the last entered character.
Sure, there's many ways to skin a cat. Given the option, I wouldn't choose either of these, and instead use something like filterMap[1] which I think conveys intent better than a fold or flatMap.

Btw, I'm assuming that the original map questioner wasn't solely using flatMap for side-effectful iteration, which reading again, I'm a bit suspicious about.

1: https://gcanti.github.io/fp-ts/modules/Array.ts.html#filterm...
People on the ISS have similar issues and it doesn't seem such a problem.
Is it hard to buy a SIM card in much of the world? I can walk into one or about ten shops within 5km of here and buy one instantly. I think the price is ‘free’ but you pay something like EUR 10 to have credit on it. If you want to be anonymous, you can wear a hood and a mask and pay with cash.
I wish I had a higher-res version, to ... Maybe I'll just draw it later :)
Has the fuccboi killed literature? Millennial authors are slaves to their egos
>Yes, I will present my viewpoint

You can, or, alternatively, you can simply acknowledge you’re not the intended audience for the article, and that you may have over-stepped rhetorically in declaring a complete absence of value with respect to insight or novelty in the article; which is there, and obviously so.
csv.vim's author is very prolific. Beyond the awesome plugins in his personal GitHub¹, he seems to end up on the other end of the merge button for a bunch of other vim things too. And then when you go poking around in $VIMRUNTIME he keeps popping up again and again.</fandom>

¹ NrrwRgn and unicode.vim deserve a special mention IMO, but others are great as well!
/r/China has unfortunately become increasingly dominated by Americans who have little to no knowledge of China. It's one of the most bizarre national subreddits, in that it's become a forum for people outside the country to hate on the country.

I speak Chinese and know lots of people in China. That's how I know what's going on. I'm not reliant on Reddit threads. My friends in China have been doing normal things throughout the pandemic, like going to restaurants with their elderly relatives or going to crowded tourist venues (inside China). They can't easily travel internationally, because they will have to quarantine on returning to China, but they can live a pretty normal life inside the country.
Model Predictive Control
That's shockingly good.
Just because NH is a subdomain of YCombinator doesn't mean it's "run by" or "is their" site
Put a lawyer in the mix and everyone loses their minds. No offense to lawyers, they’re just doing their job, but I’ve seen the group pick the absolute worst option over and over because a lawyer mentioned maybe something might be possibly questionable. When debriefed after shipping the lawyer couldn’t understand why no one pushed back.
If I’m understanding correctly, the thief kept all addresses and their keys in something like Google Drive and the US gov simply reached in and took them.

Pro tip: it’s a bad idea to keep anything in cloud storage you wouldn’t mind sharing with the Feds
In the kitchensink demo, the keyboard doesn't show when clicking the input, on mobile.
clarification: from what is now called Iran
Irate’ Beijing Olympics announcer loses his mind over Ayumu Hirano scorecard
Exactly. Being held accountable, and knowing you are being held accountable, could likely stem some amount of bad behavior from the start, and at the very least it makes bad behavior harder to conceal.
I think you replied a level too low.
Visidata is such a gem of software! A real good example of what kind of UIs are possible for "power users"
> get a working SIM card is a pretty substantial

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I think that number was across the entire population, so includes children, etc. Probably came from either Piketty's Capital or something else (weekly reader of The Economist plus a lot of econ books)

Still, 79k for adults, inclusive of retirement accounts, home equity, etc. really isn't much.
We're now capable of programming cells to produce arbitrary proteins at will, how cool is that?

Also please do look through the playlist in a sibling comment. Michael Levin's research is truly badass. He has grown tadpoles with an extra working eye on the back, and recently he has regrown an amputated leg on a frog.

There's an astonishing amount of untapped possibilities in biology that are opening up only now as we finally have the right tools.
Automatic streaming from rpi camera to twitch and local storage https://github.com/For-The-Birds. Currently pointed to a bird feeder https://t.me/moscow_birds

Latest weekend project: 32 bit clone of PDP-1 Minskytron https://github.com/yekm/mtronpp
Not sure how you make this more obvious, perhaps I'm just slow today, but I failed because I didn't twig that when I got a letter in the right place it would make the right hand number go _down_ as well as incrementing the left number. I.e. I thought the right number was the total correct letters rather than just the count of letters that were correct _and_ in the wrong place.
If you have 340k and have put huge efforts into online dating and failed, it would be trivial economically for you to hire a professional photographer to get you a better dating profile (most people have shit photos, and you likely do too), it would be trivial to book some sessions with a dating coach (mainstream, not red pill style / PUA stuff) to give you feedback on your profile or real world interactions. You could also afford a personal stylist to do a wardrobe revamp.

Put those monetary resources your brain has afforded you to work.

If you were able to get laid at bars in the past, you are good looking enough. Your profile is just likely bad / has poor photos. And I know that sucks but its the real world.
Follow the Science?
Do they have policy against you buying your own car again? It would be funny to sell it to them and then buy it for cheaper earning money this way.
Same, I was once drunk and I thought my backpack was stolen (it wasn't), because I didn't see it in the bar. It turned out it was in the car that was parked quite far away (15 min.). That saved a whooooollllleeeee load of anxiety.

Recently I had to go at a moment's notice and needed my wallet. I couldn't find it, but I airtagged it, so I could. That saved an awful ton of stress, which helped me in keeping my head cool. The moment's notice was really stressful, searching my wallet for 5 to 10 minutes in a time-pressure sensitive task with stakes that are too high for my taste would only have compounded my stress.

So in that sense, Apple is helping me preserve my sanity at moments where I could otherwise lose it. There only have been these two situations for it, but IMO that's worth it. I have one on my keys, my wallet and my backpack.

And of course, I've used it dozens of times because I'm too lazy to go search them. That's just a convenience feature. The real reason I have them is to reduce stress.
> You have to trust Apple that this will always be the case.

You're right of course, but I'd argue this is true in either case. If you're using an iPhone you're trusting Apple is doing what they say they're doing and there's not much you can do about it.

> Your model should be to trust no one. Don't take anyone at their word as it's subject to change at any time. Especially not a corporation which is easily manipulated governments (look how they bend to Russia and China).

I actually agree with this general idea (I work on urbit fwiw), I just think in this case you already have to trust anyway. If they're going to lie and do something differently that's bad - I just think that's independent of this policy and the policy specifics matter.

As it is unencrypted iCloud is a worse state imo, but as I said elsewhere reasonable people can disagree with this. The specific policy as described though isn't worse - it's people's assumption that it increases risk of an abusive policy that is. My take is that that risk is there in either case and really independent of this policy.
I fear the day AI will give superhuman consistent correct answers and nobody will be able to determine why it is right or how the correct answer was found.

Maybe someday we'll get an answer from a machine which superhumanly mostly correct and we'll be unable to tell if it is right or wrong. If it is a question whose answer will influence important decisions, considering the machine answer will be close to a form of religion.
Sure, the type of family one grows up in has a tremendous impact on one’s outcome in life, but Elon deliberately moved to the USA to have access to opportunities Americans have access to. Location matters too.
I just finished the book yesterday. I rank it #1 on my all-time SciFi list. I would say A Fire Upon the Deep is #2 and Dune #3.
not surprising. they lure programmers to Amsterdam and then work them to death on their ancient perl system. we used to laugh about this back in the late 2000s. all these big tech booking companies are scum anyway, like expedia too. the base databases they all connect to are ancient and use regex to parse out of giant text fields. previously they could see each others booking info so prices would stay more competitive but then some airlines started pulling out to make their own about ten years ago (they were all jealous of southwest who started after these databases were created so they have their own). lots of dumb tricks in the airline industry, like sometimes two one ways cheaper than round trip, how soon before flight to book to get best deals, which airports are cheaper on certain days, etc. company i worked at had former travel agents that got paid lots of money to help us program these things. it's completely arbitrary.
My kdice/dicewars clone written in Elm: https://qdice.wtf

No ads, no plan to monetize.
> "Whether there's any link is an open question."

The link has to be shown to be causal and we have a lot of data (more than any other vaccines in history) that is showing the vaccines to be very safe. If all you have is narratives spun around raw data that was never meant to show causality, then you don't have an argument. Provide high quality, peer reviewed research.

> "That is patently false."

Describe the mechanism
I doubt very much that a journalist would publish something about stalking their also works in journalism spouse without everyone involved being on board with what went on. I think it's written to highlight how creepy it is, with the occasional “I got my spouse's consent for all this” interludes to make a point that it's often used for non-consensual spying.

Articles don't normally highlight the virtues of the journalist where that's not relevant to the subject of the article.
FE can tolerate 10-20 ms of timer slosh, unlike e.g. audio synthesis.
As a business owner, do you want to be concerned about one company's potential whims? Or 50?
Certainly not my area of expertise but would it be possible to arrange the turbines in such a manner the phase of the sound waves they're generating cancels out the harmful infrasound?
How is that paradoxical? Bootstrapping a self-sustaining colony on Mars will require getting a massive amount of payload to the red planet. Once bootstrapped, yes that will no longer be required.

Nobody is arguing that Starship is sufficient, just that it is necessary.
Not News: GoFundMe just proved Bitcoin’s use case

News: Protesters migrate to crypto fundraising platform following GoFundMe ban
Then the hallway oughta be safe enough.
> I will still never understand why companies do this.

Specialization and economies of scale. Best Buy's core competence isn't phone customer service. A phone customer service can specialize and develop tools and processes that Best Buy couldn't. They can also serve multiple companies with a smaller workforce due to increased utilisation rate (a bit similar to why cloud hosting has become so popular).

> Also, the fact that they are generally the lowest paid is also bizzare.

It doesn't require skills or training, almost anyone who can talk is qualified to do phone customer service. I had many friends in high school whose first job was phone customer service.
Yep, LAC[0] (fork of GL-117) even has a thread on YSFHQ forum.[1]

BTW, I think YSFlight is more related to ACM[2] & Vertigo[3] flight simulators, instead of GL-117/LAC.

As for more advanced open-source flight simulator than LAC, take a look on Marek Cel's[4] Mscsim and FightersFS.[5]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27073052

[1] https://forum.ysfhq.com/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=8496

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22549969

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27598269

[4] https://github.com/marek-cel?tab=repositories

[5] https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=github.com/marek-cel
This reminds me of my course project from a database class. ui-optimizer-postgres [1]. It's more of learning tool. It used gtk to allow you to modify the plan in real time. This was 6 years ago, so my memory is a fuzzy.

Write up: https://github.com/josephmate/ui-optimizer-postgres/blob/REL...

[1] https://github.com/josephmate/ui-optimizer-postgres/tree/REL...

PS: Definitely don't use this in production because the DB blocks, waiting for someone to confirm the plan ;)
Scary. If it improves a bit more, people will start questioning if the machine has soul or rights.
A huge part of addiction is the rituals surrounding the use of the addicting stimuli, not just the immediate gratification of the stimuli.

I recently watched a video of a decades long heroin addict describing his life. He said that he came home from rehab once and just the smell of heroin in his house was enough to make him nauseous and craving it.
Ah, yes, I think the instructions should be a bit clearer about that.
I would suggest using the Jeremy Singer-Vine Tutorial: https://jsvine.github.io/intro-to-visidata/the-big-picture/v...

I had always wanted to use vim to do some CSV viewing and editing, but I never found a good solution. This plugin looks pretty amazing from the demo, but I would still recommend VisiData. It does tables in a more natural way. Plus VisiData can handle many different file types. Menus were recently added to VisiData which helps make it more approachable.
Flicker is a side effect of a common method of variable LED dimming. It's not intrinsic to the technology. You can run an LED at a low level with zero flicker.

But I'm thinking of the tea light replacements that are sold for use in jack-o-lanterns. They intentionally "flicker" in a candle-like way, instead of the kind of flicker you describe.

LED devices can also produce a wide range of color temperatures (esp when filtered and diffused), so there's no inherent blue light problem.
giphy and a couple similar sites are the ones I hate. It's so goddamn hard to get ahold of a gif that's actually a gif, these days. Why does gif search take me to a site that makes it nearly impossible to see a gif? And then doesn't include "duplicates" from other sites that would actually give me a gif.
I've been working on a side project that aggregates state gov't survey data on lakes/ponds (currently just one state) that includes water quality, depth, size, fish species, invasive plants, etc and allows me to search it and see it on a map. I use it to find good remote fishing spots for species I want to target. So far it has worked great and I've only shared it with a few fellow anglers.
Informally discussing and idea or approach. At work i can walk over and ask and we can brainstorm a solution, calling a meeting or typing it out in chat is just not the same.
iOS SSH client Blink is now free
No, don't do this. They basically just fired you, time to move on.
> Could there be something else common among slave practitioners apart from religion

Cherry picking again, are we? So now we are looking for an alternative explanation - but only on the evil side. The existence of Christians who opposed slavery does not prove that it is in any way central to Christianity, or exclusive to Christianity. That's not how logic works.

How about spinning it the other way around? Giving man 'dominion' over everything that creeps on earth, throw in a bit of manifest destiny and some appropriate bible quotes - voilà! A perfectly fine Christian justification for why slavery is the Christian way to do things.
https://www.christianitytoday.com/history/issues/issue-33/wh...
https://time.com/5171819/christianity-slavery-book-excerpt/
etc.

On the other hand, the humanist Enlightenment in France led to the French revolution, led in turn to laicist France granting citizenship to former slaves in 1792 on non-religious grounds.

So yeah, there was something else among both abolitionists and slave holders, which is my whole point.
Everyone in office takes an oath to uphold the constitution. The Supreme Court gets the final say, but it is still the responsibility of everyone to do what they know to be correct.
Yes, at least via websites like Zapier, integromat etc. I haven't looked at it yet, but I'm sure it's very possible to do it natively from Amazon via webhooks too. So I'd say 95% yes!
Cybernetics Thought Collective: Hans von Foerster
Contact tracing is actually a perfect example.

Early in the pandemic the tech companies came together to create a privacy preserving bluetooth exposure notification system that relied on phones and a clever design to prevent this kind of tracking panopticon you describe. See: https://covid19-static.cdn-apple.com/applications/covid19/cu...

The HN response was ignorant and loudly knee-jerk without understanding how any of this worked. It was stuff like this that caused this to fail to get adopted (see: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25629304 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26957763). This is partly why I ignore HN on topics like this.

Instead, we ended up with governments just doing it via data brokers and other types of way more invasive tracking.

Our response to encryption policy like Apple's that doesn't decrease privacy could lead to a similarly bad outcome.
Blue checks typically mean large (sometimes rabid) twitter followings. Sometimes that’s fine but often their engagement in a topic can really derail it. Blue checks in practice mean more than just “verified account”.

Side note: anonymity can often improve the quality of online discussion. See: “breaking the social media prism”
oh this is brilliant, I've often had to really dig into github to find out this information!
> is it useful to describe myself as a coffee addict?

I don't know whether it's useful, but it suits the definition.
We do enjoy this coffee, we do drink it regularly, and we do crave it when we don't have it.

I'd say addiction sums it up.