skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Arecibo isn't remote. From San Juan I can get there in 40 minutes and it's directly off the 22 which is definitely not an easy freeway to be shut down short of a hurricane. It's also directly in between mayaguez and san juan both of which have a ton of students.

I guess I don't see how using 1-3 million dollars to operate an educational center is nonsensical. It's a central area between major universities, fairly flat terrain, northwestern coast so it's generally not going to see the worst of the storms and also has some existing infrastructure.

With that said it's a tragedy that they aren't going to rebuild the telescope in it's original glory.
I’m listening to Superfans by Pat Flynn now. It is about practical approaches to growing a fanbase or a user community.
> Testing this is also impossible, correct?

Possibly, I do not know, but the burden of proof lies with the one making the assertion, or writing the definitions that describe reality as it is (as opposed to reality as it is hypothesized).

> Either way we couldn’t set up the experiment precisely enough to rule out determinism.

Guessing when one reaches the limits of our epistemological limits and stating the guesses as facts (if(!) that is what has happened) does not seem very scientific.

> So, is this science or philosophy?

If science is not resilient to valid epistemic challenges, it should perhaps adjust its marketing message accordingly...although the genie seems to be well out of the bottle on that front, and I sense little intention or desire to put it back in (quite the opposite, if anything).
Is the World on Fire?
> and you can't get out of it by sending ASCII binary?

It's a minor point, but I doubt you'll find many people who can decode binary ASCII in their head (especially in contexts like tapping), not to mention that you'll need 7/8 bits per char instead of the ~3 Morse code uses.
It's frustrating that isn't addressed in the article.

Does Arecibo do more than other comparable telescopes? Or will science and humanity go on? Is it worth the billion, or $200m, or whatever, to rebuild in the name of science?
Running Kubernetes Node Components as a Non-Root User
Macintosh Used by Steve Jobs, Late 1987 at Auction
> The self-declared vaccination prophets are quite exhausting to deal with.

This is no less true of the self-declared anti vaccination prophets, and their cousins the lab leakers. The one area in which "both sides" tends to be true is that there are condescending extremist never-shut-ups on every side of every issue, and even their allies often find them exhausting.
So we are reading "Bitcoin has failed." for the 24982424 time and this time from a VC that writes on medium? Bad take.
China Delays Indefinitely the Release of GDP and Other Economic Statistics
Not in Firefox!
Monopoly? I thought so too, until I found out that Walmart is the largest grocer. This is a merger of #2 and #3 (at least in the West - Safeway (Albertsons) isn't even #3 nationwide).
Short of writing a novel, what would be more clear than the clear indication that it is Not Safe For Weaklings? If you don't think you're strong enough to handle it, don't venture in. Seems pretty straightforward.
If anything, Albertson's took their acquisitions lower-end.
Fame can have a long half-life — Billy Joel still regularly sells out stadiums, and he's 40 years on from his peak cultural relevancy.

There's no denying Kanye's words still have an impact, but his star is dimmer than it once was, and he knows it.
Honestly, my answer is: don't use serverless, or at least have a non-serverless way of running your code locally, preferably outside of a container/VM. Otherwise you have no way of running or testing your code locally, much less attaching a debugger; IMHO this can slow down dev cycles so much that it cancels out the time saved by adopting a serverless architecture.
I've seen quite a bit of this style of fraud on social media and the web at large. Does anybody care about it? I don't see it stopping
The "S" in "SRE" is pronounced "ess" which would take an "an" as the article. The title is grammatically correct. You would also say "an FBI agent" or sending "an SOS message."
The cultural aspect definitely shapes both the meaning of living at home in Italy vs US and why people in the US tend to look for these psychedelic escapes more than others.

As a US alien I noticed that drug use is way more normalized and less scary than where I was. Everyone knows someone who does/did hard drugs or someone who’s a functioning alcoholic. That was not the case for me at all before coming to the us.

A 15yo that smokes weed is a given in the US. “Well yeah of course that happens”. It’s like when a kid says “well everyone is doing it” but at a society level.

I also think Americans are more lonely and the parental figures are usually seen more negatively than in countries like Italy where mama is sacred and the grandma is god.
In the US you can be at a party with people you barely know and they’ll be talking shit about their parents nonchalantly and you’ll have people agreeing like “FACTS”.

Even in comedy, how many comedians use their bad parents to make people relate to them and laugh?

That cultural difference makes living at home in Italy much different than living at home in the US. You don’t want to disappoint that Italian mama, but in the US is whatever, parents suck and I’ll do what I want.
I would not expect humility from a guy that unabashedly dated a 17 year old when he was 38 years old.
Soft deletes can be thought of as a combination of versioning and timestamps. By using the Sixth Normal Form (6NF) with timestamps in the key, you get those for free, but this kind of schema may be a bit too complex for many simpler applications.
I don't think that this specific issue is "hate on people for their mental health" it's more that, mental health issues of powerful people playing out in headlines and prime-time media will never not be uncomfortable to watch, a tragic and unnecessary spectacle.
Not technically "win32", Saada wrote it to experiment with the new-at-the-time Windows 3.0 API (still 16 bit) while at Microsoft.

It's now in the public domain and should run under Wine on Linux, as well as 32 bit versions of Windows:

http://lkbm.ecritters.biz/cotw/download.html
Lots of bugs survive dry periods by basically becoming inactive. Ticks do it too
>Where are those people now?

Children have been told their parents abandoned them, and given to russian families.

https://mobile.twitter.com/AP/status/1581364032019132416

https://twitter.com/biz_ukraine_mag/status/15710832493253140...
Haven’t looked at the internals or the API, but I think for starters, Hasura is designed for working on any Postgres including ones that have existing data, especially modern Postgres offerings (crunchy, alloy db, neon, Aurora, cosmos Postgres, timescale, yugabyte)
I'd add that this extends to data processes as well. Lean pipelines with rigid schemas are great and all, but you're really going to regret not having something more malleable once the system has grown and you have an onslaught of requests for new fields to be added to X solution.

Blob storage is cheap. Just dump the whole database and sift through it later.
Hmmm, with row level logging, do you usually supply the row level log directly to auditor? It feels like a lot heavy duty work for auditor.

Or perhaps, my misunderstanding is that I conflate the term audit log with something else? I thought audit log is like "Bob has logged in at time XXX from location YYY".
Thank you for that insight. I‘ve never worked a conference center and had no idea that was something known
Huh, I always figured the flawed or sometimes even detestable nature of the characters was part of the shtick. Like It’s Always Sunny…
There's also a fair amount of lambdas where you can just invoke the lambda handler yourself without anything special other than a compatible version of python/node/etc. Variations of things like:

node -e "console.log(require('./index').handler(require('./event.json')));"
> Plenty of ways to make money without being useful—or by being actively harmful—to someone else.

I don't equate, say, "making money" with "stealing money". I mean the way people do things within the law. Inheriting is different; the money is already made. Interest is being useful to someone else, via the loan of capital.
Why rebuild it? While cutting-edge when it was originally built, my understanding is that computationally combined arrays of smaller dishes are today considered superior to what Arecibo was, for radio astronomy.

I’d be interested to hear from folks with expertise whether that is right or wrong.
> I store all the footage locally on a giant hard-disk array in my basement; I’m the only person who can access it

That's good.

It sounds like he didn't even put a camera in every room, so the headline is rather sensational.
Previous post with same link: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33211721
Apple Blocks the Taiwanese flag emoji in China
Season 1 is already out on HBO
You can't talk about grocery stores in the US without mentioning the roles of "dollar stores", "pharmacies" and the food desserts that created such a demand for these alternative grocers. Maybe traditional grocers moving upmarket is a reaction to the low end needs being serviced by these market gap-fillers.

Edit: Fixed one spelling mistake but not the other that I was called out for ;-)
If a network can successfully detect a fake, then it will be incorporated into GANs to produce images that are no longer detectable as fake by the discriminator. This is the whole basis for generative adversarial neural networks.
I believe the guitar player demographics is now roughly at gender parity, at least in the UK/USA, so presumably whatever it was was cultural and the culture changed.
Why are employers increasingly being so hostile with their workforces? Truly this is becoming a them-vs-us situation with management and board vs their own employees. I can't see how any of this is healthy or helpful. I put a lot of the blame on finance-centric growth-at-all-costs customer and employees be damned thinking. I think it's toxic.
Medium-hosted content is blanket blocked at my place of work (a US federal government facility, though I don't know if this is a local firewall setting or something national). So yes I am disappointed when content is only on medium.

Thankfully using Google Cache or Pocket can usually still get to the content, but requires a tiny bit of extra effort.
My first employer, Electronic Data Systems (EDS) had a repayment agreement which stipulated that any employee accepted into the Systems Engineering Development (SED) program would be required to fulfill three more years of employment following successful graduation from the program or be required to pay for the cost of the training. Each year of employment fulfilled after graduation reduced what the employee owed until the last year satisfied the obligation. I forget what the amount was but remember that they changed the terms of this to make "time served" retroactive to the first day of employment.
That depends.

Some files are files that are part of the web site. They are put there by the developer(s) of the web site. Things like maybe the logo image in the header, or that cool rotating flaming skull in the footer. These files just go on the file system of the web server.

Some files are user uploads. A person writing a blog post wants to upload some images to be inserted into that blog post. For these sorts of files I just use whatever object storage system makes the most sense given the circumstances S3, GCS, etc.
They're two separate points.

1. Other countries have more ambition, hustle and grit on a cultural level.

2. Our institutions are decaying.

Maybe let's add a few more.

3. Oligarchs run the country.

4. People don't care and will defend our mediocrity.

Separate points. But all pertinent.

Also, in many ways, the attitude from our government does shape cultural attitudes as our federal government is by far the largest employer in the country.
This is what happens when we glorify corporations. They become too powerful, and thus employee-hostile.
I believe that was the plot of Goldeneye.
Ah hello, author here! I wrote this up last week and posted it to Reddit (didn’t expect to find it on HN!) and I should probably say the same thing I did over there — this is a list of things I have learned are important, based on my own experiences. I’m sure others have had different experiences leading them to different opinions (sometimes even opposite to mine!), which is good, and I’m enjoying reading all the viewpoints here :)
No, "an SRE" is correct here; it's actually "a SRE" that would be bad grammar.

Whether you use "a" or "an" depends on whether the next word starts with a vowel sound, not with a vowel letter; since the letter "S" is pronounced "ess" in an acronym, you would write "an SRE," but "a Site Reliability Engineer."
Okay this might be an overkill but my images are on CloudFront. I store them in S3, which get served through the CDN. It’s practically free at my scale. The actual blog is a GitHub pages site.
You can go surprisingly far with a $5/mo Digital Ocean droplet and the Cloudflare free tier. Just host your website the boring way, put CF in front of it and they will cache and serve all of your static content for free.
I thought so too, and yet I can't count how many times I've heard the phrase "the science is settled" when it came to any pushback on the prevailing narrative surrounding COVID or mRNA vaccines in general.

Even just the argument to support mandates has completely changed, and yet too late for those who lost their jobs.
>You can do MCMC like AlphaGO and see ten moves ahead.

The existence of adversarial attacks shows that most neural networks have pretty bad worst-case performance. Thus sticking GPT-3 into alpha-beta or MCTS could just as easily give you an ungeneralizable optimum, because optimizers are by nature intended to find extreme responses. Call it a Campbell's law for neural nets.

The actual AlphaZero nets are probably more robust because they were themselves trained by MCTS, although they still don't generalize very well out-of-sample: IIRC AlphaZero is not a very strong Fischer Random player.
Heck, one could connect a Commodore 64 to the Tiki and get synced frames.
Very similar to my setup using a base Debian net install but with dwm instead of cwm. I even use a lot of the same command line tools/programs.
https://youtu.be/ZiAjERMwMWw?t=606
think with me, what are you doing if you have wifi printer And smartphone and little child?
Like Arcan as a concept a lot. Wish it got more attention.
I think it should be fine, provided you are meeting/exceeding performance objectives. That should be all that matters to an employer.
I think you are right.

Have you watched "Comedian"? It's a documentary which follows Jerry around as he struggles to re-enter the world of standup comedy. It was released in 2002, so this is just a couple of years after his show ended.

He clearly is not happy and is extremely hard on himself.

One quote I remember: after a show in a small club in New York with which he is very unsatisfied the club owner says something like "You looked like you were having fun", and Seinfeld replies: "That's my job."
Agreed, this seems like they chose a hypothesis destined to be forever unprovable.

> they used the same data to independently test the same prominent social science hypothesis: that greater immigration reduces support for social policies among the public.
Crowdfunding comes up whenever those with resources are indifferent to those with need.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33232914
I'm glad to see exceptions being discussed. I had a coworker who applied an almost religious adherence to YAGNI. We were building the next iteration of our build system and were applying the lessons of problems we had in the previous iteration and a coworker maneuvered management to take over the project and threw everything out because YAGNI. He wanted to start from scratch and get direct proof of problems for everything we designed into the system, throwing out all of the years of experience in supporting our build system and the limitations it had.
> The problem is when people stop at it.

Why is that a problem?

> There is nothing between you and the edit button.

There is, though, be it time, lack of knowledge, resources, or discouragement from or disagreement with other wiki editors.
People probably just don’t default think of universities. But yes universities have a history of funding stuff exactly like this. And it absolutely fits into their operant model.

Maybe the way for us normies to push for this is to donate to our alma maters and write letters/emails to alumni associations and administrations to propose joint funding of this across multiple schools.
S3 has no minimum fee. For a small site they'll probably send you a 4 cent invoice each month. You can then throw cloudflare in front of the S3 box for free.

Alternatively, as others have said, you can just plop them on the server and call it a day.
Evidence and experience say this isn't true. No platform has ever hit this balance.
> implication and conclusions don't need to be explicitly stated.

But you would do well to ask, because you got it totally wrong.

The commenter said that they are against this type of libertarian idealism. Because the result is that it isn't a flat democracy. Instead folks like Musk end up with huge amounts of power.

Specifically you need to understand what they said here:

"If power is concentrated in government, it's as bad if it's concentrated with an individual with his own private police force."

The implication is that the commentator wants power evenly distributed. The opposite of your wrong accusation of the commenter wanting power concentrated in a majority. Nowhere was flat democracy mentioned. You invented that line of thinking.
we know that kandinsky saw af klints art before he made his own. her work wasn’t rediscovered, it was deliberately not shown for 100 years at her request. many artists saw it for a brief period while she was first active and it had a documented impact on them
Fire cooked our food, what are the benefits of deep fakes?
There are rare cases, it is worth remembering, where the training is extremely expensive (both in cost and in time before the employee is a contributing productive worker) and not available in the public market. To spend $10K or more on those early unproductive phases and then have them leave sucks.
Reminds me of early ~00s when I used to manually partition directories and choose optimal file systems for each one.. like reiserfs for /tmp etc.
Me too.

I took it one step further: I don't have an image-heavy site, so I degrade the resolution to make images as small as possible, then embed them in the HTML as base64 strings. Very portable!
It's not broadcasting an exact replica though, it's instructions to recreate an approximation of the original image. If I look at an image describe it and have someone else or even myself recreate it later that in general isn't copyright infringement, that's just a normal process in art. A more extreme example is the Fairy Hope image and the original AP but even that is more similar to the original than the output created by stable diffusion. Approximate recreations aren't generally copyright violations.

On the subject of trademarks the issue is as far as I know even more on the end user because the protections on them is around use in commerce and consumer confusion not about just recreating them like copyright protections.
I agree will all of this, but it's very much because my tooling make it easy to do so.

In some other stack, setting up good logging can be annoying and I understand you wanna take the shortcut.
This should be straight up illegal. No ifs, no buts.
Never give your password to Apple. They make it sound like your machine will be wiped if you dont, but I always refuse and I’ve never lost data.

I back it up just in case. Never ever give your data away.
Is Morse code binary, ternary or quinary?
I don't go to comedy shows. I hate them.

Seinfeld is so.much better for 3 reasons.

1) I didnt expect.to laugh at every episode, but when I did, whoa. Mostly the big funny arcs delivered.. I have never achieved the same with another show.

2) it was not only about the destination (laughs) the journey waa entertaining.

3) for non NY city folk, and particularly suburban folk, you would learn very quickly about the culture of NYC (or maybe any large metro?) I would go as far as deeming it mandatory viewing for anyone thinking of moving there. I think this is true even 30 years later..

So yea, for us it was not onlt about the laughs. It was a well-worth journey where you actually learned a thing or two.

That was very hard to find in most sitcoms of the 90s. Maybe even today.
There is at least some mismatch between the "relational databases" and the soft deletes.

While for some fact tables (time series) it is easy to implement the soft deletes, for other dynamic workloads (e.g. when both fact tables and dimension tables are updated) it can become a messy nightmare to keep the referential integrity up-to-date with the dangling soft-deleted records.

Sometimes it will be difficult to decide if the long-ago soft-deleted record should be maintained, if the dimension is maintained.
If you’ve seen the workforce, I would argue that employers are dealing with some of the worst employees in US History. I’m not joking. Demotivated, constantly job to job, easily bored, poor health, poor “Work ethic,” drug use, alcoholism. Both employer and employee probably share blame for this.

This might not be apparent in Silicon Valley, but it is much more real for the rest of America.
When did I dismiss the opinion? I’m saying you’re way of engaging the topic is part of the very problem you’re claiming to highlight.
Attack Surface Reduction by Dynamic Compilation (2019)
I guess many, if not most, great artists would immediately agree.
I think that's very unlikely, they said and repeated that they are not using private code. People catching them lying on this would be very bad for GitHub.
FWIW you can still buy Arecibo merchandise here

https://ao-galaxy-eshop.myshopify.com/
He's not known for his business acumen, that's for sure
for https://prose.sh we use https://imgs.sh
Eye for AI – Become a prompt expert without trying too hard
Disney warns France that future blockbusters could bypass cinemas
Or... Just make public transportation work? Is this just that difficult to get on the anglosphere or something?

I still cannot grasp what people are trying to do with this, really. Why are they trying to do public transports... With cars?
You guys do realize most of accidents come from urban/chaotic areas, right? You don't have to use a car to solve this.
Part of why af Klint is interesting is that some of her abstract work apparently preceded Kandinsky’s. They were at least working in parallel for a time.
Yeah, it does suck.

Sometimes doing business sucks. Holding on to your employees against their will in return for money also sucks for everyone involved.
I replied using a comparison of 12-TET, to scales with unequal steps. The post I replied to, used only the perspective of modern keyboards when talking about transposing music.
They're going to create a lot of shareholder value.
Thanks for answering the question by not answering the question!
I have never seen anyone praise or laud the benefits of scroll behavior overrides. It seems to universally be a negative if not hated, and always distracts from the content. Always.

And it required extra work to yield this negative behavior!

So how in the world does this end up happening? How could a team be so profoundly detached from reality? This site's behavior is so incredibly ill considered that I marvel that people worked on that, people approved it, people said publish, etc, without one person stepping in and asking what in the world they were doing.