skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are exactly zero colonies on Antarctica. Literally all sites are 100% dependent on regular deliveries of all supplies, excepting air and maybe water, from overseas, with no plan for that ever to change, and no permanent residents.

The usual term is "outpost", or for a larger operation, "base".

There are no undersea outposts, even. Construction crews sometimes encamp for a few weeks for big hazard pay. There are two (count 'em!) low-orbital outposts that get literally all supplies except sunshine from the ground.
>What do kids have to do with anything?

What do kids ever have to do with anything? They are the next generation that may or may not want to be involved in whatever they might be getting inspired by.

>The goal is to get to space affordably and reliably; the shuttle failed on both fronts SpaceX is succeeding at.

Shuttle had ~135 missions (number from memory) with 1 failure at launch. The second failure was at re-entry, so assumption is that the mission deployed whatever was being deployed (if that was part of the mission). How many missions has SpaceX lost payloads on? >1? If we do percentages, sure, but to say that 1 failure at launch is unreliable is just farcical.
Maybe there's a case to be made for a multi-language kernel. Rust is the first step. Maybe it'll make sense at some point to keep Rust, but add another language.
That's not the problem though. The onus would be on you to prove that your machine generated the output and that it wasn't based on the training data but just on your input. Otherwise the generated work isn't yours.
iOS: Drafts
There was book written a while back that criticized aspects of trans rights movement.

Many Americans called it hate-speech, yet the book was freely published in many countries with anti hate speech laws.

Publishers and distributors were more willing to sell the book in countries where hate speech is illegal. After all, it’s not like it’s hate speech.

One downside of having hate speech undefined is that anyone can claim your words are hate speech.

One downside of having hate speech defined is you can stay bad things, and as long as it’s not hate speech, it’s not hate speech.

Edit: I actually read this book. I would be horrified if it was outlawed or even boycotted.
Yes, of course. But making the stdlib more sane would dramatically improve things. Deprecating the dangerous methods and requiring unsafe keywords to use them coukd still be done
Inventory financing is a severe pain in the ass for small businesses. It makes moving up to the next level incredibly difficult.

Math example:

You sell something for $20, and it costs you $5. You have free shipping, which costs you $3. Shop and CC fees are maybe $2, so you're netting $10. Then taxes means you net $6.

So if you sell 10,000 units you've netted $60k. But to make that $60k you need to spend $50k up front to buy the inventory, and maybe $2k more to ship the inventory to you. Then you need a place to put it, so maybe $1k/month.

So when you need to order your next batch of inventory you need, say, $52k. You haven't made that much yet, because your inventory has a 2 month lead time. So you use money from the 60k in "profit" to buy inventory, leaving you no profit.

At that point you haven't made anything. It looks like you're making money, but you aren't. Maybe you dip into your tax reserve fund to buy that inventory, but the fact is that you probably haven't paid yourself much, if anything.

This is the brutal reality of small business math.
It does not allow direct sharing of sub-trees, as in a single tree displayed and updated in 2 locations. It does have an easy facility to jump between cells with the same text, which is a form of linking. It also has tags which can be used with this.
You don't want to have given incorrect information on your CV, and writing a different major than you have is clearly incorrect; you could pull a browser and write Computing, like Computer Science, though. Do list relevant coursework, and people can figure it out. If it's really the 3rd best school in the UK for computer whatnots, people should be familiar with it and understand already.
Does the U.S. consider it to be a provocation too far to equip Ukraine with weapons systems that can strike these Russian missile batteries in Russia? It is ridiculous that we are tacitly tolerating this war by Russia but apparently we are afraid they will nuke us or someone.
I’m under the impression that programmers’ salary progression typically compares quite favorably to classical engineers’.
It got the sea mammal question right for me.

> What is the fastest sea mammal?

> The fastest sea mammal is the dolphin. Dolphins are known for their speed and agility in the water and can swim at speeds of up to 45 miles per hour. They are also excellent jumpers, often leaping out of the water as they swim. In addition to their speed, dolphins are also highly intelligent and social animals, known for their playful behavior and vocalizations. Other fast-swimming sea mammals include whales, such as the killer whale (also known as the orca), which can swim at speeds of up to 30 miles per hour, and certain species of sharks, such as the shortfin mako shark and the great white shark, which can swim at speeds of up to 60 miles per hour.

It also knew about the sailfish when asked directly

> Is a sailfish a mammal?

> No, a sailfish is not a mammal. It is a fish that belongs to the genus Istiophorus of the billfish family.

I wonder if there were incorrect statements in the context that biased it.
That's the point. If you don't want that, then don't do it to your suppliers.
Right my bad, I was thinking of storage engines in general. And of course maturity doesn't mean lack of innovation - which is still happening in the relational space.
I run a small data consulting company and whenever I find an open minded data scientist or analyst I tell them to consider data and software engineering or business analytics (learning about real business problems). DA, BA and SE roles are harder to find, manage more complexity, but most importantly are closer to having an impact as they are the ones close to prod. It’s a hard pitch, especially for juniors, AI and DS are very hyped but it’s hard to guess how much they will grow (or not). My current hunch is that AI and DS will be productized in libraries and services, so the majority of companies will not need people fully dedicated to build models.
https://archive.ph/cdDf2

You are right, what a bummer. I appreciate the correction, though.

Justice, liberty, and freedom for all.. also just a toothless slogan?
> Basically it’s hard to be fully precise, (...)

Not really. Just put together a benchmark and let it speak for itself.
no shit, but thank you for the unnecessary clarification
> Tesla is doing an excellent job of validating* P. T. Barnum's claim.

And an excellent job of showing how useless the FTC is.
Do you think this has happened while libel and defamation laws? If not, why are those laws different?

I simply don't understand why I could be sued for saying "[individual X] is a pedophile" but it is fine to say "all [race/religion/gender/sexuality Y] individuals are pedophiles" even if that individual X is included in that group Y. Aren't you defaming individual X either way? Why does including other people in your defamation make it acceptable?
> which tbh sounds closer to something in IT support and seems highly likely to be understood as such by most clients/employers

This is an assumption that you're making, and it isn't true.

> is there anything to stop me from calling it Computer Science on my CV?

Use the actual name of the course, don't make stuff up. Also, Imperial isn't a sole exception, a few of the Scottish universities use "computing" too.
I’ve never seen a “software engineering” degree on a resume as an interviewer in the us.
I think you'd find that most code matches (some) other existing code.

Some code, like the famous fast inverse square root, is widely shared. Even trivial code is often just copy-pasted from a popular SO answer.

Other code is driven by something like convergent evolution. It ends up similar to other code because of the limits of well known algorithms, language syntax, APIs, boilerplate, common coding styles, etc.

In other words, I doubt most human programmers would pass a "copyright check" against all existing open source code.
A group of researchers published a paper on this topic, "Energy Efficiency across Programming Languages" [0]. They have tables listing the relative energy usage and memory consumption.

It's just one paper of course, but the energy results weren't too surprising. C was the baseline. C++, Rust, and Java close behind. Languages like C# and Go near the middle, and then Python, Ruby, and Perl at the bottom for most energy used.

[0] https://greenlab.di.uminho.pt/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/sle...
Apparently Keller was on the board until 2008 and remained an FTE until 2013. I suspect he still had plenty of influence over Southwest's direction.
Radically. TreeSheets is much more focused on being tree-structured, with all forms of subdivision being part of the same "hierarchical spreadsheet cell" paradigm.
I seem to recall other threads about this but other than the following, I can't find them:

Why Gates and Jobs shielded their kids from tech - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16251875 - Jan 2018 (9 comments)

Anybody?

Edit: there are these:

Silicon Valley’s supposed obsession with tech-free private schools (2019) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30746379 - March 2022 (116 comments)

A Silicon Valley School That Doesn’t Compute (2011) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18340767 - Oct 2018 (22 comments)

A Silicon Valley School That Doesn’t Compute - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3145080 - Oct 2011 (40 comments)
Have to do the grift you see...
Go and Python have a quite different set of strengths. Python heavily leverages operator overloading and other metaprogramming features that Go does not support (well).

If you pick up Go expecting it to be a "more efficient Python", you will be sorely disappointed.
Show HN: RSS Brain
I wrote an RSS reader called RSS Brain recently. The motivate is the current RSS readers either don't sort articles by priority, which makes it hard to read posts from HackerNews and Reddit, or sort it with some "smart" algorithm which I don't trust. I also like the Google News feature that can show related story from different source, but the sources are not configurable and the algorithm is not transparent either. So with RSS Brain, I implemented these features:

* Recommend related articles from the feeds of your choice. It's backed by ElasticSearch and the algorithm is described on RSS Brain's website.

* Option to sort articles by upvotes and time. The algorithm is similar to the old Reddit and you can find it on the website as well.

* Save search terms into folders so you can filter the articles.

I've been using it for a while and found these features very helpful. So I want to share this on HackerNews. The frontend is written in Flutter so it has cross platform clients, even though the web version don't feel very "web native" because the level of Flutter web support. I guess only time can improve that.

I don't have enough hardware to scale it up so it's currently in subscription mode to limit the users. I'm going to open source the code (maybe non-commercial license) once I think it's ready so you can host it by yourself. It's still in early stage and haven't been tested by a lot of people. So any feedback is helpful. Thanks!

Update: Added a scroll down hint in the landing page. Thanks for the feedback.
The answer is that the right to free speech does not provide a trick to get around other laws. How close to violence do you have to get? That crime/tort is usually called "assault" and (IANAL) the standard is usually on the order of "would a reasonable person thing he was about to be subject to some kind of physical attack". So brandishing a knife and saying in a serious tone "prepare to be stabbed" would count. Saying "I think anyone whose favorite band is 'Green Day'" would probably not.

We also have laws and civil actions for fraud, defamation, slander, libel. For all of them a key component is that you are lying to achieve some end- take money, or ruin someone's reputation.

These lines are actually very easy to draw. If the thing you are bothered by and trying to outlaw is the thought behind them then they are protected. If you are trying to stop something that would be considered criminal or a civil tort regardless of how it was achieved (stealing, making some think he is about to get hurt, ruining someone's reputation) then it is not protected.
Good to know the alleged crime wasn't centered around FTX, a computer-based "exchange" and internet website.
What is up with all of the policing of people's entertainment? There's some moral superiority going on with thinking a silly documentary of one guy's life work is going to harm some "vulnerable" population that isn't even statistically significant to begin with nor would cause any long term harm given the attention span on a single topic nowadays is shorter than 24 hours. Will this documentary be relevant in a year? 5 years? 10 years? Probably not.

Another way of thinking about it is the show Ancient Aliens has been on air for over a decade. Did you know it is still running after its 15 minutes of fame and memes? Many articles talked about it being "fringe", but rarely did we call it conspiracy.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/the-idiocy-fab...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fringe_theory
More on financial relationship between IPFS (Protocol Labs) and Consensys (Ethereum co-founder):

https://consensys.net/blog/press-release/consensys-raises-65...

https://www.reuters.com/technology/blockchain-firm-consensys...

https://consensys.net/blog/press-release/protocol-labs-colla...
Calling them evil is not prohibited, but if you say they are evil, so we should kill them all. That's a different level.
> Since most programmers have computer science degrees, why don’t we call ourselves computer scientists?

Because they aren’t doing scientific research, they are applying the products of such research to design (and build; with software the distinction is less significant than with many physical items) products, so its somewhere between architecture/engineering and constructiom, rather than science.
Python's been my main language for 22 years now.

Whenever I think I should switch to faster, more efficient language (C#/Go/Rust/...), I am repeatedly blown away by what Python lets me do, with an incredibly ecosystem of packages, and all the ergonomics of incremental development from a REPL.

Case in point is my current project: building a parser for PDF bank statements from all UK banks. I can match a 10page bank statement against a library of 100 templates, and then extract its data in a standardised format, in around 50ms per statement.

That's broadly comparable to the time for load the source file from cloud storage.

And that 50ms is processing pages sequentially, using a single core on my little laptop. Plenty of scope to parallelise if I wanted to.

The reason why I'm still using Python, to borrow a slogan from Bruce Eckel long ago, "Python fits [my] brain".
Yes and she's 7, so 1) her friends have probably already told her that phones are better, and 2) she's probably aware of her dad's attitude and therefore isn't fully open with him about what she's interested in and what she does at friends' houses.

And FYI the statement has not been removed, or it's been added back in.
What was determined to be bad acquisition policy?

My understanding is that early contracts were awarded to ULA because SpaceX wasn't certified for military payloads. That, combined with your statement, implies the certification process levies bad requirements. Do we know what these bad requirements were?
"retarded monkeys"

Yikes
There are image-stabilized cameras and lenses around, and they've been around for awhile. Modern mid to high end cameras all have image stabilization on the sensor, and most longer lenses have stabilization as well to achieve between 3 and 5 stops of achieved stabilization.

You're not going to get a camera in your binoculars, but you can get a stabilized camera with some long lenses. If you pay enough.
This is a demo blog post that loads every demo across the site, so it won’t be light.

Making claims like this is like claiming SpaceX can’t go to space because their lobby isn’t aerodynamic.

Also the prefetching is Next.js standard practice, not only does it have nothing to do with Tamagui but it’s is good for performance.

The homepage gets excellent lighthouse scores despite being an order of magnitude more complex than your average app due to showing off every feature in the library.
"Do you really think your product or service is going to change the world, or are you just bullshitting us?"
Hey Fernando, thanks for all your work on dripsy, moti and solito. So nice to hear things from you about this library.
I had a friend raised like this in a millennial context. Strict diet of restricted TV and computers, 1 hour a day for each. Cable TV was banned, network television only. Books were all him and his sibling were allowed to interact with. He was homeschooled for a bit.

In high school he discovered World of Warcraft, through chance. He started playing at school. Then sneaking over to friends houses to play. Then did everything in his power at home to play WoW. He became hopelessly addicted. For 2 years all he could do was play WoW. It had a huge effect on his grades and his friends. While I don't know all that happened, I think he was just unprepared to deal with modern digital consumption appetites that the rest of us grew up with.
I find the general defaults in most Wayland compositors to be much more pleasant than X-org defaults.

Libinput and Pipewire in particular solve a huge selection of issues I would routinely run into on linux machines in the 2010's.

Not limited to wayland, but definitely pushed by wayland and developed in tandom with a similar set of goals (renovate mostly legacy spaces that are critical in the end-user space).

I have also - not ever - had to touch a terminal/file editor to make an external display work with wayland. Which... is just hands down pleasant. And frankly an experience that does not exist with X. For the most part - I just plug it an and things work as expected. Including much better scaling/hidpi support.

Honestly - not having to mess with conf files for basic input/output has been a hallmark of my experience with Wayland.

I enjoy quite a bit more deep diving in linux than most any typical user (I run arch as a daily driver and host about 15 apps in a k8s cluster in my basement - I'm not afraid of some configuration), but I'm tired of wasting time making devices work like they should. Personally - I don't find that experience enjoyable or satisfying. I'd like my mouse/touchpad/monitor/headset to just work when I connect them, and wayland based compositors seem to get those mostly right.

I switched 5 years ago - back when screen sharing was still... rough, and a lot of the benefits weren't present because major applications (namely - browsers) were still running in Xwayland. The experience today is just downright pleasant. I enjoy my wayland boxes far more than my work macbook, and the last hold-out has been a Windows 10 box for games, which thanks to valve and wine will not be getting upgraded to windows 11.
Okay. I was referreing into software engineers, not data engineers :-)
Certain media is reporting strikes on airbases that are bombing civilian infra as “escalation”. There’s definitely no shortage of people who believe Ukraine having territorial sovereignty is too hardline for negotiations.
The "fair" argument sounds like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nash_equilibrium

While the "no" argument sounds like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Best_alternative_to_a_negotiat...
Depending on the industry 30 or 60 days net may help or hinder you even further.
If two people are making exactly the same claim, and one has a strong defense and the other has a weak defense, is that claim a fact or opinion?
This is my guess, I have no direct knowledge here.

Imperial College London's "Computing" degree is described at https://www.imperial.ac.uk/study/courses/undergraduate/compu... as a program where you can "study the engineering of computer hardware and software alongside the mathematical principles of computing." So it's not just computer science. Compare this to the "Electrical Engineering and Computer Science" (EECS) degrees at MIT, UC Berkeley and other places.

As for changing the name on your CV/resume, whether that's okay depends on the hiring customs for your location and field. That said, I think you're overthinking it. Prestigious schools and employers and people sometimes use unusual names as a mark of distinction. You can get a "Computer Science" degree from any fifth-rate night school, but all the fancy employers you'll presumably be eligible for after graduating should know what a "Computing" degree from Imperial College London is.
Doncaster surgery sends cancer text instead of festive message
> Your free expression can suppress my freedom of expression

How does even harmful speech (e.g. your examples) prevent your freedom of expression?
They were told "we" would colonize, and believe it without thinking.

The bigger question is how the liar benefits from the lie. Pumping stock value is the usual guess: (Tesla stock is only now starting to correct, and that largely because of the Twitter debacle.) The fusion-energy startup business runs this way.
I found an video showing off the image stabilization.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvsy4SMrsT4
As someone who tends to have unconventional needs of support (because I already figure out anything that is a more normal request), I despite chat bots with a passion.

They never have any idea about what is going on, and add excessive delay getting to someone who can actually look at and override or fix whatever broken thing in their system is causing the problem.

Hard to say if they top voice call mazes though.
The last time I was monitored in an ER, I noticed an analog trace for respiration. I asked if this was done by some non-contact [impedance] method. I was told that some EKG chest electrodes also served to measure bulk resistance.
> They agreed a per-unit price. But they thought a unit was a bag, when it was actually a case of 6. So they thought they were getting 6x per bag.

The problem with this interpretation is that it would mean that the entire second half of the story would realistically have to be a lie. Once they realized that they were getting 1/6th of what they thought, they would have to find a way to get out of the contract or go bust, which is the opposite of what they say happened. As such, it's too much of an accusation to make with essentially no evidence.

There's definitely something odd about the unit pricing and unit ordering though.
I find it strange how you’re so proud that you’re teaching them a very niche - and outside system administration and programming obsolete - way of interacting with computers. There are excellent GUIs to learn that will make them more productive with computers and also make them feel like they have some skills that may actually impress other kids instead of making them look weird.

These kinds of projects read to me like using the kid as an excuse to build something that the parent thinks is cool. And then it starts to make sense, because you obviously think that the command line is cool and look down on the kids which use touch screens. The bad news for you is that the child’s social circle decides what’s cool, not the parent.
do you mean to verify that it is free or to cause it to be free
If someone uses the F-Word on me I apologize, ask him to explain where my proposition is unfair and ask him for a fair deal
quite a significant difference for the complete population of Europe where basically no everyday purchases are made by credit card