skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
First rule in government spending: why build one when you can have two at twice the price? Only, this one can be kept secret. Controlled by Americans, built by the Japanese subcontractors.
What’s Making All These Mysterious Space Signals?
Maybe your manager actually cares, and wants to know. It's a question which you are free to answer however you wish. Tell them how you really are; answer the question! Then it won't be a "generic".
You're giving your data to Apple instead of Google.
> I'd think the average number of people there each day is much closer to the relevant number.

Yes, and that "average number of people there each day" would include all the non-residents/tourists in the city. Which is a non-trivial number at all for NYC.
> Then pay them with state money if needed.

We can't. The radical pro-small-state finance minister fights tooth and nail against any additional debt in order to obey the holy debt ceiling that a bunch of idiots wrote into the constitution about a decade ago because they didn't understand the difference between a national budget and a company budget.
You can achieve the stated goals of anarcho capitalism or anarcho communism with policies that have nothing to do with these movements.

In fact the problem with anarcho capitalism is that the freedoms it provides are also the rope on which it hangs itself. It is the dodo of economic systems with no sense of self preservation.

Getting rid of the rope involves taking away some freedoms that nobody should have, but that would go against the spirit of both anarcho capitalism and libertarians.
Look at SpaceX's rockets. They cut costs by what, 10x? over NASA's? A part of that was not trying to build 100% the first time, but to accept failure and iterate.

My dad told me that Pratt&Whitney made the most reliable aircraft engines by putting them on a test stand and running them at full power until they broke. The engineers would figure out why it failed, redesign the part, stick that on the engine, and continued running them at full power.

It's straightforward, inexpensive, and it works.
>"You are free to assemble with whoever you please."
>"You are also free to un-assemble, and nobody can force you to assemble if you don't want to."

We are mostly free to assemble or un-assemble. The government absolutely can "force you to assemble if you don't want to", and that underpins many civil rights and anti-discrimination laws.
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actually, this is good news for the Danish children.
> I adore Rust for every use case I’ve tried it out for except for network service

thats hilarious, my daily driver language is elixir which is the goat for network services. I saw rust as the perfect compliment for that where I need everything else.
In particular if it's a serialized piece, like episodic television, and you meet "an old friend" of a major protagonist character (or in Star Trek a commissioned officer on the finitely-staffed ship) they've never mentioned before, the new character often literally exists to be a source of adversity and loss for the major character.
I hear you. But a redirect is a good solution in that case.
I've been wanting to suck in Jira tickets to my own database so that I can full-text index them along with code, docs, customer requests, Slack, etc. Then when you're looking for information, you only have to go to one place.

(My ulterior motive is to write a blog post that's like "how I used the product I make at work to index all information at the company". I can usually just do a linear scan across the backlog to find the issue I want, but hey, when marketing and software combine, I can't complain.)

If there's some service I can buy that does this, though, I'd rather use that.
I like HN continues to cheer these authoritarian government mandates when there is no proof of any harm to the consumers.

You know why Europe can't produce a Google or an Apple or a TikTok or Intel or AMD or NVidia despite having a Billion People?

It is the same draconian regulations that thwart innovations.
You seem really defensive about this for some reason.
Bing translator mixes up month names in dates
> It's a lot easier to increase n3's through consumption of chia seeds

It depends on your genetics. the genes FADS1 and FADS2 will dictate how much of those short chain omega 3 you can turn into the long chain omega 3, like EPA and DHA, which ate the reason for the metabolic reversal.

Also since Omega 6 and Omega 3 compete for the FADS1 and FADS2 activity, eating less Omega 6 will always help.
I think it is do with company culture. It is an email and docs heavy culture so a lot of collaboration happens on that.

If they were chat heavy like most other organisations seem to be, they would put more effort into building features that others seem to want.
Everything kids used to do with PCs that teachers didn't want them to is how they eventually became programmers.
Why do people believe in these (clearly fabricated) conspiracy theories that 8chan/8kun made so popular? Do people really so desire to kill each other and destroy their societies?
Putting a proprietary Chinese-manufactured chip in the critical supply chain for a product you're designing isn't a good way to future proof your business.
At least derive some joy from the fact you are far more perceptive than most identifying the negative traits of humanity. Most never have a clue and just exist…
At time of writing, bing translator translates this:

January 2022
February 2022
March 2022
April 2022
May 2022
June 2022
July 2022
August 2022
September 2022
October 2022
November 2022
December 2022

to the following German:

Januar 2022
Februar 2022
März 2022
März 2022
Juni 2022
Juni 2022
Juli 2022
Oktober 2022
Oktober 2022
Oktober 2022
Oktober 2022
Dezember 2022

At least it gets 7/12 right?
I have no vax and I have not cought a cold all these days. What I am doing wrong?
There is something to that - there's a concept called "Quantum Nonlocality", which says that an accurate description of an entangled quantum system must be nonlocal - to predict what will happen, we need to look at the whole system at once.

But nonlocality is different from the capacity for communication. To make accurate predictions about the measurements, one would need information from the earth and from mars. However, the results of the measurements cannot be used to transmit information.

These two concepts - what is necessary for prediction and what the results can accomplish - often line up in the classical world, but in the quantum world they are quite distinct. So your intuition has merit, but it reveals quantum nonlocality, not quantum superluminal communication.
For all practical purposes, in C# with nullability checks enabled, null is not a member of every type anymore: T? includes null, while T does not.
I meant that it's counterintuitive to think about scheduling breaks, but it's actually very helpful thing to do. Thanks for the feedback. I will see if I can make it clearer in the article.
What's scary is that we might not invest any resources either to deal with or reverse climate change, because the billionaires in charge are planning to jet to New Zealand until the waters recede (they're not generally very bright).
That is also true to some extent.

I would also say that it is a product of the federal government in recent decades gradually losing its ability to keep people on staff (or pay them enough) to build the knowledge about how to run/build such projects themselves. And cost-effectively.

If you recall the earlier days of aerospace, aircraft, etc., technical experts in the military would basically tell Lockheed, whoever, exactly what they wanted to design, or would be equally qualified to set out the specs and be deep in the design.

Over the last decades, that capability (I believe) has largely left the government/public institutions. We have essentially outsourced the design and building of aircraft, spacecraft to private contractors, and when that happens it naturally costs more to do, to pay them to do that job (and take on the risk of doing it). After all, they are profit-seeking enterprises, while if that expertise had been kept in government, it would not be.

If you take it by examples, the era of WW2/shortly-post-WW2 military aircraft was when Air Force/Navy/Army aircraft engineers helped design planes that contractors would get marching orders to go build (of course with their input). Nowadays, we're in the era when Pentagon procurement office tells LM / Boeing to go design us a plane to these outcomes, which are cobbled together from 4 different branches of the military and uncoordinated generals' wish lists.

And we're surprised that a fighter program ends up costing $2T.
Sailplane is basically more wing, isn't it? I don't see how that needs an engine in its past, but I could understand material constraints.
Many issues with this analysis, some others have already mentioned, including:

• The 'domains' collected by the source, as those "with the most referring subnets", aren't necessarily 'websites' that now, or ever, respnded to HTTP

• In many cases any responding web server will be on the `www.` subdomain, rather than the domain that was listed/probed – & not everyone sets up `www.` to respond/redirect. (Author misinterprets appearances of `www.domain` and `domain` in his source list as errant duplicates, when in fact that may be an indicator that those `www.domain` entries also have significant `subdomain.www.domain` extensions – depending on what Majestic means by 'subnets'.)

• Many sites may block `curl` requests because they only want attended human browser traffic, and such blocking (while usually accompanied with some error response) can be a more aggressive drop-connection.

• `curl` given a naked hostname likely attempts a plain HTTP connection, and given that even browsers now auto-prefix `https:` for a naked hostname, some active sites likely have nothing listening on plain-HTTP port anymore.

• Author's burst of activity could've triggered other rate-limits/failures - either at shared hosts/inbound proxies servicing many of the target domains, or at local ISP egresses or DNS services. He'd need to drill-down into individual failures to get a beter idea to what extent this might be happening.

If you want to probe if domains are still active:

• confirm they're still registered via a `whois`-like lookup

• examine their DNS records for evidence of current services

• ping them, or any DNS-evident subdomains

• if there are any MX records, check if the related SMTP server will confirm any likely email addresses (like postmaster@) as deliverable. (But: don't send an actual email message.)

• (more at risk of being perceived as aggressive) scan any extant domains (from DNS) for open ports running any popular (not just HTTP) services

If you want to probe if web sites are still active, start with an actual list of web site URLs that were known to have been active at some point.
What laws were broken here?
I think you are correct. Coal gave Britain a leg up as early as the 14th century but not for steel making. It's fungible though coal was being substituted for burning wood. Which means probably more wood to make steel. Also more land can be used as pasture.

Basically England was boosted by the energy input from coal.

One thing about Sweden for a long time. They had a lot of trees and very high quality iron ore. Which I think is the reason they were so powerful during that period. Sweden cut down all their trees to make steel.

When I think of steam engines I think also of simple franklin stoves and pressure cookers. People tried to make both of those long before steam engines. They are both much more efficient in terms of the amount of fuel consumed but the cost was too high for that to pencil out.
[1]. https://www.ge.com/gas-power/products/gas-turbines/7e

> Its multiple-fuel combustion system allows switching from one fuel to another while running under load.

Note that gas turbines are very flexible with fuels because it's a continuous combustion process and done at very high temperatures. That means you don't care about flamefronts, knocking, octane figures, etc. All that matters is that whatever you burn ends up hotter that when it started, which is kinda the definition of a fuel. Also, no expensive high precision parts of the engine touch the flame - all combustion is over by the time you get to the turbine blades (which are film cooled anyway, so even the combustion gases don't touch the blades)
Oh hell, cachaça in general is such a strong liquor. I remember when I was in Brasil last I went to a restaurant where they had a bottle sitting in the front with little cups just to pour yourself a shot if you wanted one, almost like where you'd find free mints and toothpicks in many other countries. It took me by surprise that they'd have such a strong liquor sitting in the front of a place to drink for free after lunch like that, but when in Brasil... Would love to try some with jambu in it. Reminds me a little bit of salmiakki koskenkorva out of Finland [1], which is salty licorice vodka, salted with ammonium chloride, not NaCl, which definitely has a bit of a weird effect on your mouth.

Amazing cuisine in that country and the people are incredibly nice and friendly. Would love to return some day again.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salmiakki_Koskenkorva
You haven't mentioned which country.

It might derive from the classic "how do you do?" to which the correct reply is simply "how do you do?", certainly similar phrasing is common in the UK, e.g. "you alright?" or indeed "how are you?" You're not supposed to actually reply...
I'm not sure how being a democracy makes it any better, since it might very well be a tyranny of the majority. Democracy hardly guarantees the freedom to leave.
> Paul Moore noted that marking it as deprecated did not work, nor did ceasing releases in 2015; "I'm not at all sure 'tell people not to use it' is a viable strategy for getting marked as 'not critical'."

Apparently you need to encode some dead man switch in your code if you want to stop supporting it.

Like blowing up X years after the last release or deliberately not working on some future version of Python/Ruby/whatever. But OTOH these automatisms are more code and code that might go off when they shouldn't. They make code more brittle.

Then somebody would need to actively step in and change the code to make it work again.
XRP: In-Kernel Storage Functions with eBPF
You know what's funny?

Literally any use of any technology that requires transfer of any EU personal data to a company that has any presence in the United States, is currently illegal for anyone in Europe.

But we're playing this silly game where data protection authorities slowly realize "oh - Google - they have US presence right? Let's ban them," and then this flows down to EU businesses.

The reality is the law is clear: any use of ... Google... AWS... MSFT (even with EU hosting)... Notion... Salesforce... GitHub... Atlassian... All of this is currently obviously illegal in EU.

So we now live in a weird world of, everyone is breaking the law, who do we call on it?
Now all we need is for social media companies to have users do the tagging. Then the data they sell will be even more valuable!

Oh. Shoot me now.

Note to future taggers: I am not suicidal.
come on, it is hardly no different than microsoft buying tons of game dev studios and publishers...

wait...

(this is an ironical comment).
First thing is that it doesn’t sound like you have a common goal. If Maverick’s goal is “build the coolest thing” and Copy-Paster’s goal is “generate code as quickly as possible”, you need to find a way to generate a shared understanding of what you are doing as a team. That could take the form of a set of principles, a set of metrics, or a cool team name. Somehow, you need to focus the team on a higher level goal than the fragmented set you have now.
You also need to find someone who the Maverick respects. If it’s not you, is it your boss or a senior dev in another team?
Denmark has a difficult relationship with the US

An extraordinary Danish Radio report exposed how scores of children in Denmark, many of them orphans, were subject to CIA-funded experiments for at least two decades.

The purpose of these activities remains unknown, as authorities continue to actively suppress the truth of what happened in the 1960s and early 1970s.

The startling exposé is based on the work of documentarian Per Wennick, who was one of 311 participants in the mysterious trials. The children never learned the objective of the tortuous assessments to which they were exposed, even after they ended.

According to Wennick, when he was 11 years old, he was asked at an authoritarian orphanage in Copenhagen if he wanted to try something “fun” at the local municipal hospital. It was vaguely described as an examination of how children “feel”. Believing it would be a welcome diversion, he acquiesced and even received a small sum for his participation.

Wennick went on to undergo a series of regular tests, which included being forced to listen to recordings on headphones of loud noises, screams, and statements intended to scare him. Staff strapped him to a chair while electrodes were placed on his arms, legs, and chest, measuring his heart rate, temperature, and sweat levels.

These experiments continued until 1973, when Wennick was 24-years-old. However, a decade later, while in a hospital due to a skin complaint, he learned his visit—in fact, his every contact with healthcare services— was reported to the Danish Psychological Institute for reasons never made clear to him.

Fast forward to 2018. While at a film festival in the United States, he saw the documentary "Three Identical Strangers," which tells the story of triplets deliberately separated at birth and offered up for adoption to families of differing socioeconomic backgrounds, in a covert and highly unethical scientific “nature versus nurture” study.

It occurred to Wennick he too may have been unwittingly caught up in a similar experiment.

Continued at https://thedissenter.org/cia-funded-experiments-on-danish-or...
If they want privacy they shouldn’t be a public figure and trample on others’ privacy. And protesting isn’t harassment.
People love feeling special and part of a unique in-group, that might be simply it.
Yeah, there are defnly people guzzling fish oil on that assumption.

I would be cautious though -- it's a novel dietary regime, and seems likely to induce a lot of oxidative stress...

Certainly in mice it seems to.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3435540/

From that study:

> It appears of utmost importance in medical and nutritional practice to formulate and handle n-3 PUFA-rich foods or supplements with the greatest care to avoid any PUFA oxidation. This can be particularly relevant in patients suffering from acute or chronic diseases who increase their n-3 PUFA intake because of their reported health benefits.
Are you doing ESP via Arduino in the web editor?
I've modified it slightly over time, but the base is pretty much this recipe:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrXPNq3QdfY
I'm not sure you're correct.

Consider fabbing chips. Fabs spend an awful lot of time verifying the produced chips. I've seen estimates that verification cost exceeds fabrication cost.

How much of the development cost of JWST 2.0 would be spent on verification? I honestly don't know but I would guess it's high.

Another factor: part of making a production process is predicated on how many you'd build. We had a process for making Saturn-V rockets based on the number of Apollo missions we planned for. If you then up and decide you need 500 Saturn-Vs you might have to go through a whole new process for something that will scale that high.

Yet another factor: the launch vehicle. If you decide to do JWST 2.0 in 10 years, what launch vehicle will you use? The same one might not exist so the new mission will have to be designed for what is available.

And another: materials science changes. We don't make the same materials that we did 50+ years ago for good reasons but those materials are a key part of the design of something like Saturn-V.

So I imagine JWST 2.0 would be cheaper but 90% cheaper? I'm not convinced.
I don't like to sweat. I did construction work with my dad in the Texas heat. When I looked at careers, I chose one that I can do indoors.

I'm not saying that is good, I'm saying that is a strong value statement that I made when I was younger. It's hard to change values, even in the face of evidence.

I think people should find exercise that they enjoy. I have struggled with this due to other physical limitations (in addition to my weight) and my attitude and cognitive behaviors. I now enjoy riding my bike, hiking, and swimming.
I always thought they should have planed to build and launch two of them in case something happened to the first(unlike hubble we cant get people out to L2), if you are building one, then building the second is relatively cheap.
> Within a few months of the Ritz-Carlton announcement, satellite images showed that a series of large buildings was already under construction, surrounded by expanses of greenery that stuck out sharply from the desert. It was a new palace for the crown prince, where he’d soon be spending much of his time.

How many palaces for this dude? He already has one spare $300 million palace in Paris [1] and a $500 million floating palace [2], lol.

1- https://www.cnbc.com/2017/12/18/crown-prince-bin-salman-has-...

2- http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/16/world/rise-of-saudi-prince...
The techcrunch piece is just cheerleading for something that might happen. It won't be more than a slice of SV anyway. More likely is that SV VCs invest in ventures headquartered in VA, CO, TX, and other defense-friendly ecosystems.

Meanwhile, SV (and especially its VCs) are really only interested in money. Just like most other sectors. If it's bad for US security, that's secondary. Get us in a war, where the source of profits shifts, that'll shift too.
When I worked in engineering at Boeing, the cost of a forged part was the cost of the tool&die machinist making the die. The incremental cost of doing the actual forging was a rounding error. The dies do wear, and the parts get larger and larger until they're out of spec and a new die is sunk.
It's locked-down Linux under the hood and all sorts of stuff can be unlocked on it.
Ask HN: People who write a blog for fun, who do you have review your articles?
Are there any good communities out there for hobbyist tech blog writers? Everything I've seen so far is just for people trying to make money off of their blog and is all about SEO/monetization. I write my blog just for fun, and I feel like it would be nice to get feedback and advice from people in the same boat. None of my friends are really into tech, so I hoped HN might know about some online communities?

Thanks,
I think the big problem is that our regulations are too strict for US companies to comply to without breaking US laws. I have a feeling that if the US had insanely good privacy laws, EU probably wouldn't have too much issue delegating to US companies.

There is no winning scenario by continuing to use foreign products that are subjugated by foreign laws, so might as well try to get something done on the inside. That or declare privacy dead already and move to the next thing to lose control over.
removing gas from the french energy mix, good.

removing gas from the french energy mix, violently, out of the blue, bad.
It's only bad data if it does not include what it claims to include.

If the dataset is defined as inlinks, and it is inlinks, then the data is good.
Use of an object after the destructor has been called is UB.
Dreams of John Muir – Imagined by DALL-E from OpenAI
Using "Trump supporter" to smear a guy is really childish
It's a conversation starter; an act that's both a surface-level kindness but also useful in the sense that it can let you direct the conversation to a topic that's been bothering you lately, and that they potentially have the resources of helping you with it.

Soft skills are powerful if you know how to use them. :)