skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have been, rather annoyingly, been downvoted quite often in the past for being really clear on "dark matter," which is to say that astronomers study --broadly-- stars and their assemblages, things that emit light. Dark matter can encompass anything that doesn't shine like a star, be it exotic particles or just cold interstellar gas, little black holes, whatever. It isn't necessarily some Star Trek shit. It is just stuff we can tell exists by its gravitational signature on things that do shine -- light matter, aka stars.
Obligatory Bill Hicks bit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbAAVLcMzr4
Figuring out what's actually true is hard.

But, large swaths of the very same media which are staunchly pro-Zelenskyy today wrote at least occasionally about "Ukraine's neo-Nazi problem" or "Ukraine's far-right problem" not all that long before the war.

I believe those stories about as much as I believed the "Putin is losing badly and needs an escape hatch" stories they posted every few days for the first 3 months of the war (and about as much as I believe the "Russia is running out of troops" stories they post now). Maybe there's some truth, maybe not, hard to say.
JS definitely doesn’t help, but it is a surprisingly fast language with modern runtimes. The problem lies elsewhere.
Since there is no air in space, can the Air Force truly run the program?
If you want people to repair things more often (as opposed to throwing them away), then you need to figure out a way to make those things more expensive. That's the (IMO) biggest reason why people used to repair things more often.
First, print it all out, in one big long piece, use tape if you have to... so it's all on a single large piece of paper... mark it up with pencil, pen, etc.

You have to be able to physically navigate something like that if you are to have any hope of sorting it all out.

Next... some things will be poorly named, or just wrong. Fix those.

Remove all dead code, and comments. They're in your GIT repo if you need them back (plus the original listing you marked up!)

Find and mark up ALL side effects. Nothing outside the module should break if it were run with the same arguments twice. If that's not the case... it's an IO procedure in disguise.
"Personally, I like that Python has kept the GIL so far because I would never run a 24/7 server in Python and I am happy to use it very frequently for single-threaded scripting tasks."

Just as a side-note - my prior gig used Python on both the Server and Data Collection industrial systems. It was very much a 24x7x365 must-never-go-down type of industrial application, and, particularly when we had a lot of data-sources, was very multi-processing. Was not unusual to see 32 processes working together (we used sqlite and kafka as our handoff and output of processes) running on our data collection appliances.

Our core data modelling engine would routinely spin up 500 worker pods to complete the work needed to be done in 1/500th of the time, but we would still see some of the long term historian runs take upwards of a week to complete (many hundreds of machines for multiple years with thousands of tags coming in every 5 seconds is just a lot of data to model).

I say this mostly to demonstrate that people and companies do use python in both large-processing intensive environments as well as industrial-must-never-stop-24x7 mission critical appliances.

I don't ever recall any of our engineers looking at Python as "a scripting language" - it was no different to them than Java, C#, Rust, Go, C++ or any other language.
Ask HN: How do you break up your day in WFH land?
All the things they say on the internet are true about WFH. While massively helpful and it has truly allowed me to spend more time doing outside activities (like taking up Tennis), the monotony is fast setting in. I have tried moving locations, taking walking meetings, it just feels a lot of rote.

So HN - what do you do to break up your work day so every day is not a loop of the former?
> Every runner practices and runs to win the race. Every fighter also fights to win a championship.

This is definitely not true.
I was doing soundcloud via the paid Daftcloud App Store app. But switched mostly to the poorly promoted but growing "Dj Mixed" collection of edm on Apple Music.
Cloud-Native PaaS in a Box – Gopaddle Developer Sandbox
Because I haven't seen it mentioned and I think it is a very well-executed game: Pan-Am is quite fun and the event deck gives it a good deal of replayability.
You've touched on regulation being one source of this problem. But do you think prices will become more normal if regulations disappeared? What do you think is different between the US health care regulatory structure, vs. those in other countries? Can we have the same desired effect with regulations that are easier for hospitals to follow (so as not to be dependent on Epic)?
That’s a great looking life you’ve got there, full of promise… it’d be a shame if anything happened to it.
I am excited to announce the community edition of gopaddle (Now available as a microk8s add-on). Inviting developers to try out & benefit from a life time free edition of gopaddle on microk8s.

https://medium.com/@vinothiniraju/cloud-native-paas-in-a-box...
While extra-territoriality is not a new concept, it’s absolutely false to say that the CLOUD Act didn’t grant sweeping new powers to US courts. That’s a truly absurd claim that makes me question whether you’re commenting in good faith?
“I’m practically ready to settle for someone who wears a bag over their face and is a mute in order to just get by in life as long as they can pay the bills…”

“Parent” was a charitable interpretation of whatever darkness this is.
Because your adversary could send a bunch of tiny objects in the opposite orbit that impact at around Mach 40.

You can for example destroy every single satellite in geostationary orbit by launching 1 payload of junk going the wrong way. Worse this isn't recoverable geostationary orbit is simply useless on the scale of hundreds of years. Dodging with delta V becomes a continuous problem you can at best simulate geostationary orbit with constant acceleration.

Geosyncronus is a slightly wider range of orbits, but not enough to be safe..

Laser weapons in space are again a fun sci-fi idea, but hardly practical.
A couple of my go-tos are Solar Fields and Infected Mushroom. Both are electronic; former is calm/ambient focus, latter is energetic/driving focus. Both have huuuge discographies that you can just put on shuffle

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ldYxgJQG_E

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQmvPQ0MmiY

Solar Fields actually did the Mirror's Edge game soundtracks too, if you've played those. Really nice mix of ambient, almost meditative sounds. Often there's a super long, repetitive, pulsing buildup to a brief higher-energy section at the end of a track

Infected Mushroom is a wild mix of heavy Israeli dance-electronica, trance, and even rock, with a dash of metal here and there
> Why not just sell discounted "non-returnable" versions of products, the same as you can buy discounted non-refundable airline tickets?

Because the feeling of security the return policy gives customers makes it much more likely that they'll buy something. Most of the time, people buy things because they want them, so they won't return them even if they can.

From a customer's perspective, having the return option is preferable to not having the return option. From a store's perspective, 150 customers buying the product and 5 of them returning it is likely preferable to 100 customers buying the product and 0 returning it.

Additionally, forcing people to make an additional decision (whether to buy return insurance) is a great way to cause analysis paralysis and sell 50 instead of 150.
Parallel construction isn’t illegal.
I went through a period of listening to zelda soundtracks + rain/storm sounds for hours every day at work. It was very calming and there wasn't much to focus on, which let me focus on my work. Video game soundtracks in general can be excellent programming music because they can be looped infinitely and are designed to be in the background of some other task.
As someone who has taken a conscious expressed interest in becoming intimately familiar with the world of social interaction and emotion, critically examining this mindset is the first step toward realizing that growth. The "measurable equals real" assumption while a fine heuristic, is just that, a generalization useful for making quick judgements, but leaves a lot on the table - empathy, emotion, personal interaction among them.

Maybe you haven't had the experience of feeling perpetually unable to connect with people in an emotional capacity and the ennui of an over quantified and systematized mode of being. Like many others, I have. The difference is striking. Dropping an absolute reliance on Cartesian rationality opened the door for real human connection. What I gained by balance, I'd never willingly give up.
I think it predates that nomenclature. Google around for "perceptrons" instead.

https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~lin/papers/hpca01.pdf
Note that this tech is similar to what's used by Novavax (and that HPV vaccine Gardasil); both use virus-like nanoparticles.

The main innovation here appears to be the use of a variety of spike proteins instead of just one.
There's a lot of good sources. I recommend reading books like Clean Code and Domain Driven Design to know what good code looks like. Then read Martin Fowler's refactoring books (or even the blog) to morph it into that. There's a lot in these books that I don't agree with. Don't be too dogmatic. Just improve your toolset.

The immediate approach is to figure out what the function is trying to do. Write a test, perhaps manual if necessary. Manual meaning you run the function, what happens? What appears in the log? What shouldn't happen?

Is there anything in there you can write a test for? Pick the low hanging fruit. I like to tackle validation first, because they're pretty important, easy to test, and get messy fast.

Extract it into another function. Sometimes you want to extract it into a class. Write a test on this function (again, manual is okay). What's the input? What's the expected output?

Then you have lots of littler functions with their own expected inputs and outputs.
What about the Preview app on MacOS?
Godot is a beautiful project. It's open, it's fun, it's a tiny package. To the devs who work on it, thank you. You make the world a better place.
They leak because the sacrificial anode rod corrodes away. The difference between a 5 year warranty and 12 year warranty water heater is a few inches of metal.
A Twitter thread on Russian Military supply logistics in Ukraine
Engineering Stack Overflow with Roberta Arcoverde
> unlimited shit delivered

Europe farmer’s protest: https://www.google.co.nz/search?q=manure+protest

> sweatshop level of insanity

Turkers: https://www.vocativ.com/410794/are-virtual-sweatshops-the-fu...

> capitalist duty

toil? profit? consume? capitalist heteropatriarchal citizen’s duty to literally produce people? work while experiencing pleasure?

> consume people

Accept Cannibal diversity today

> planet be damned

Worship beastly numbers
Your house is private property while cities are not (well, unless the government privatised all the public spaces and roads etc.)
Apparently locals (Veneto region) and anyone visiting family are exempt, so hopefully that alleviates most of the financial burden for Italian people.

Hopefully it also boosts income for the city and benefits people actually living there in a meaningful way.
Luckily I am not getting a lot of unsolicited job offer letters via LinkedIn.
> If you're a woman seeking an abortion in a state where it's illegal or severely restricted, you could be the target of malware from your local or state government or law enforcement. In Texas, you can sue anyone who aids and abets a woman who attempts to get an abortion for $10,000, which is enough to get someone to trick someone into installing malware on a phone.

Can we stop spreading these lies?
Knowing what I do about bureaucracies, the organizational problem it solved was more strategic than just that. To be agile enough to respond to space and cyber, the Executive branch needed something (like a startup) growing and changing and above all, adapting fast.

That administration was persuaded that the only way to counter China was to become more adaptable above all other things, and nobody in the military was doing it fast enough to meet this crititcal need - so they did what they knew worked, and he created a new competitor for all their budgets, and also made it the place that had to solve security in the biggest problem on the horizon, space.

I'd say to other orgs (to adapt an adage) that if you think space force was a solution without a problem, the problem may have been you. ;)
Your airplane analogy is apt, but it cuts the other way.

In fact, FedEx likes to buy out Boeing facilities so that they're not "completely reliant" on Boeing for anything.[1]

As for the more general cloud v. on-prem debate, I usually don't like analogies, but the plane analogy is good because jets and logistics-management systems are two things that FedEx needs to handle extremely well to compete.

So, what does FedEx actually do wrt jets?

FedEx both owns and leases them. It mostly owns them outright. Its owned jets are a mix of new-ish to very old (think DC-9s). It also leases and some financing magic (such as some big lease agreements for new 777s a couple years ago).

The reason is that FedEx generally gets excess value from owning rather than leasing, but there are some circumstances where leasing makes sense.

Same goes for "cloud" deployments. The correct answers to cloud "versus" on prem for large organizations like FedEx - "it depends," "that's a false dichotomy," and "it's almost certainly a mix of both" - are neither interesting nor simple, and so those answers don't get execs' attention...or headlines.

For FedEx to brag about taking an extreme position on cloud deployment is breathtakingly foolish. If I were an investor, I'd want to hear something like, "Based on a careful analysis, we've decided to shift certain specific operations to cloud-based systems. We plan to maintain control over the infrastructure and operations of mission-critical systems that have demonstrated resilience." (I'm assuming the latter are systems like the financial institutions rely on, where purpose-built stuff like mainframes using IMS have demonstrated near-zero downtime and darn-near-bug-free software for decades, because FedEx, like banks, needs to handle lots of simultaneous transactions in real time without error or deadlock.)

[1] Example: https://www.ch-aviation.com/portal/news/102874-fedex-to-take...
It is a fair question. I've been doing this, with a maxed out 2018 mac mini through the blackmagic eGPU to the XDR Pro display as my main workstation.

I have the 2018 macbook air as my portable. It's abysmal, but I can use it to work on the couch if I have to.

I am going to try the M2 air to replace both the laptop, the mini and the eGPU. Quite a lot of hardware traded out for one single solution.

I don't like keeping multiple machines up to date and spending time doing the same updates or having to go back to one to push some branch I forgot about.

That said, I'm counting on the MBA M2 to deliver graphics to the XDR on par with the blackmagic and if it can't I may return it, get a cheaper M1 MBA and either wait out the M2 mini or pick up a studio.

I do have a second 4k monitor that I'd prefer to be able to drive--I can with the Intel box and eGPU. But I don't really use it and with the XDR it isn't really necessary.
Ask HN: How do you build a real startup, and not a feature?
A few times, I've eagerly shown something I've put together to people and they respond with enthusiasm. Then, as soon as I show it to some "seasoned" people (I don't know them too well, just strictly professionally) they tell me that I'm just building a feature.

This always stings me, because I end up shelving the project. I've done this a few times in the past, and years later I still don't see the type of product I'd put together in the wild.

Can someone with startup experience tell me what people actually mean by "don't build a feature"? Thanks
Unless I'm reading the wrong site, it looks like the visa application fee for someone eligible for the US visa-waiver and ESTA looks to be $14. Not sure if this was an intentional US-3W joke though. Non-VWP looks like Tourism B-2 and $160?

I wouldn't have guessed China and India are third-world. From a quick search, both seem to have visa costs. Thailand, Turkey, also. Someone from China visiting the UK seems to cop UKP100 for a Standard Visitor visa. I'm pretty sure I've paid visa charges for various not-overly-third-world countries in the past.
Even in git, amending doesn’t rewrite the actual commit though. It creates a new one. You can find the old in your reflog. Think about it, the commit hash is based on the contents, so it must be changed on any content changes. It’s only after pushing that history is written in stone.

So you can say git never removes anything either.

The biggest issues with data loss in git is before you have done a commit. There, many actions can nuke your changes because you mixed up two flags, trying to rebase before commiting, etc. As long as you have a commit though, the reflog will save you from failed rebases.
Lot of US-built tools use this format and it is very annoying. From Photoshop to Googlesheets to WhatsApp, Month always comes first. I tried for around 15 mins to change to date-first format in Google Sheets and failed.
Variants of this have been tried.
What are you hoping for?
Interesting to read mention of MUMPS

I'd never heard of it -- until I was at an afterparty at last year's AWS ReInvent and started talking to an older couple near us over some drinks.

The guy was well to do and had been in technology a long time. We had a great discussion where he told me about things like MUMPS and other tech I'd never heard of.

When they left, his wife gave me his name. Looked him up, it turns out he was C-Suite at a company nearly everyone has heard of (but is not known for being a tech company).

Makes me wonder how many billions of dollars are being pumped into tech I wouldn't recognize the name of.
>Although, desert solar farms are a very bad idea...

As an ignorant doofus, care to explain why? Sticking solar panels in otherwise empty land seems like a good idea.
> American healthcare works well if you have money and better than anywhere else in the world if you have money and a chronic condition.

Citation needed.
I think impostor syndrome naturally emerges from the way we usually interact with those around us. Everyone puts their best face forward, emphasizes their strengths, and downplays their weaknesses. In fact, it's often a requirement for promotion.

I think the cure to impostor syndrome is to talk to those around us who we trust. By talking to others, we can much better see the full range of their skills, and hear an outside opinion on the full range of our skills. The difference is usually not as large as we thought.

I'd love to hear others techniques for combating it too!
Interesting then that a religious society like the U.S. (>80% consider themselves religious) does not actually support helping others. This is particularly striking for law enforcement, who have no obligation to help, and then are free to choose not to. Last month, cops watched a man drown, and that's apparently perfectly fine https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jun/06/arizona-man-...

Humanist secular societies (e.g. France, Germany, ~30% religious people) instead have a culture and legislature that makes helping others an important duty; law enforcement and also civil citizens have a moral and legal duty to help, and it would be morally and legally unacceptable to watch someone drown.
I visited Venice in the 90s within a few years of a trip to Disney World in Florida and I was definitely struck by the similarities, so this doesn't surprise me at all.

In both trips, I took a train to a dock and then boarded a small ferry with a bunch of other day-trip tourists and packaged tours, and we were all unloaded in a center area where we could spread out to all the attractions and rides / museums, churches and gondolas as the case may be, and the shops in both places were filled with the tackiest overpriced souvenirs possible.

The €5 to €10 ticket price doesn't compare at all though.
So you are essentially saying Python is obsolete. It's used for decade old code and for new code you should use go or rust.
“self-defending orbital satellite”

That's what I was objecting to.
> very laborious business model.

> buys them up < 10% of the retail price then puts them up at 90% retail price

In other words, the labor he puts in is worth the 80% of retail price. Or seen differently, he's a business that uses labor to turn a worthless pile of mixed products of questionable usefulness into sellable product.
For “security” reasons, many sites force downloads of pdfs instead of letting browsers read them, so people get into the habit of using their system viewer.
Me. too.
Incredible!

Handling 6000 requests per second and 2 billion page-views a month with:

- Monolithic

- On Prem

- Multi-tenant

- .NET Web App

- Single App Pool (9 Webservers)

- Running at 5-10% utilization

- SQL Server running on 1.5 TB of ram

- Question pages are not cached
Is there a website which tracks which of the major libraries; pandas, requests, django, etc support each major version? I remember there was one years ago for python 3.6? Been a long time!
Find a company that lets you go into the office! WFH is massively overrated.

But seriously, lunch/coffee with friends is always a good option.
How long does the protection last ? Waning immunity is a thing with Covid, if I observe correctly.
Seems very reasonable to me. The advice is very dubious, but presented as absolute truth with no nuance. That’s bad, and, applying it more generally, if there’s one thing from the first row of tips that’s bad, it’s unlikely to be the only one.

This sort of thing reduces confidence. I can also say from looking through a number of others that they often lack nuance, and present a solution to a possible problem, without contemplating why that problem arose, and whether the solution is actually the right solution. (e.g. image distortion and background repeat are both a bit weird when you think about them, and the solutions offered are blunt and often not very good with no suggestion on how they could be improved. And flexbox wrapping basically assumes that horizontal scrolling is bad and needs to be fixed, which it isn’t always, but somehow also misattributes the scrolling in the diagram, making it seem as though it’s the flex container that’s scrolling, when in fact it’s just overflowing and causing its parent scroll area, probably the document scroll area, to have a scrollbar, and that is more likely to be problematic if not managed deliberately; but it also completely neglects to mention the more likely problem with flex overflow, which is your items not triggering overflow, but instead being squished narrower than intended, and that is the thing that would actually be worth while describing the solution for—flex-basis and flex-shrink.)
Sigh. This isn't your fault. But COBRA is retroactive. EG. You have 60 days to find new insurance with a new employer. So you don't have to ever pay for COBRA. IF / when something happens - you pay all the missed bills and you are covered. That is the entire point of COBRA. People paying for COBRA are using it wrong or can't find employment in 60 days.
So much for the freedom of movement, I guess.

Darn those people-who-arent-me wanting to go to the cool places I want to go to. They should be kicked out so that people like me can enjoy the places without all that riff-raff running amok