skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes. Early NASA rocket stuff really was partially just a thin veil on top of military ICBM development. Basically all countries follow the same pattern (this is why the US gets so worked up about North Korean satellites - if they can put a satellite into space they can also put a nuke in your face).

Starship is poorly optimized for ICBMs though. Its WAY too big and probably way slower than ICBMs as well.
> Not sure how frequent it is in other countries, but if you see a ridiculous/incoherent job ad from a smaller company, it might be for a job that's already filled.

That's a required step in the US for converting a worker from a temporary(ish) work visa (H1-B) to a permanent residency visa (green card). They have to prove they can't fill the position with an American.

Which is stupid and terrible system. By the time that step is reached, the immigrant employee has probably been settled in the US for 5+ years. It would be a giant injustice if anyone gets hired for those job postings, because that would fuck over the immigrant employee, so the candidates have no chance.
can someone please make an ode to "write in C" (1) entitled "Write in Rust"

(1) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJ81MZUlrDo
I'm attacking an institution, not individuals.
I don't think any of the birds in the header image are actually named after people (loggerhead shrike, Eurasian sparrowhawk, Eurasian tree sparrow, and I'm not good with owls but I think it's a little owl.
Don't you want to shop like a billionaire (in an online flea market)?
Especially once you start mixing in immune system priming from prior exposure and vaccination.
I'd like to recommend https://github.com/ardov/huetone (https://huetone.ardov.me/)

It has a unique UI that I haven't seen before in similar tools, allowing you to see the relative L/C/H across all of the colors in the palette using graphs. It makes it much easier to create a palette that looks cohesive.
If they go through with in-orbit refueling, shouldn't it be pretty close to the same in both directions? My, I did physics because it was a degree requirement, layman's understanding is that the work is going to be pretty much the same in both directions.
To your point #1: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/23/business/kohei-saito-degr...
Every ad I've seen from Temu is either AI-fabricated non-existent products, or real products with impossibly low prices. I wish somebody would sue them into the ground for false advertising.
"Employment" on that list is among other items of "Not permitted travel purposes" that hint at an obvious implied context for the said purposes, i.e. the United States. You are not allowed to visit the United States for the purpose of employment while on a visitor's visa. A digital nomad typically is already employed and doesn't visit countries for that purpose.

Having traveled to the US a number of times and been asked by border agents, I've explained that although employment not being the purpose of my visit, I often work on my computer for my own business, in my own country. After a brief exchange to clarify that my activities in no way involved US businesses or clients, I was cleared. I agree with you that the rule might seem fuzzy, but based on the questions asked, the intent has never been.

In the many years that I've traveled, it's historically been the same in any countries that I've visited. Even the ones where it's currently suggested that the issue might be blurrier (coincidentally after they start issuing nomad visas). Meanwhile, no one can tell you specifically what exactly constitutes a "digital nomad" and what makes them "not a tourist". I think it's unfortunate that instead of asking for more clarity from regulators, travelers are playing along by repeating the suggested tropes.
My kid has an Amazon kids Fire tablet. It allows parents to prevent specific apps from appearing on the home screen, and it seems to work fine, but it doesn't allow any kind of keyword blocking. For example, I have blocked a bunch of apps/videos/books by the YouTuber 'Blippi', but he releases new stuff all the time, and the new ones often pop up on the home screen. If I could preemptively block everything containing 'blippi' (or any other keywords) my life would be easier.

Regarding YouTube, the YouTube Kids app lets me block videos and whole channels, and it's great. But there is no equivalent functionality in the main YouTube app. On various devices (e.g., Roku, Google Nest) the kid sometimes manages to find some YouTube channels I'd rather they didn't watch. But I have to manually intervene each time, I can't just block those channels from being watched or recommended in the future. YouTube/Google obviously know that it's valuable to block videos/channels, since that feature exists in the kids app, yet they omit the feature from the main app, even for a paying customer like me. It is obnoxious.
I feel a need to point out that a force of armed men pointing guns at you with their fingers on the trigger is very much a deeply traumatizing and frightening thing to go through. We also have occurrences of swatting incidents leading to the deaths of innocents (links below). I also want to add that during a swatting incident, having your dog shot on sight isn't irregular, as they are considered a threat while sweeping through your home.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_Wichita_swatting

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/tennessee-man-targeted-...
Music AI could be worth $3 billion in 4 years
Wait.. Microsoft over-reaching?!?!?

Perish the thought.
Right, but if "2x median" reflects a range between 1.0 and 3.0% growth, is it really that insightful to call out specific sectors? There are always (mild) winners and losers in every distribution.

Note also that population growth in the US is something like 0.3% for the past few years, so calling 0.9% jobs growth "flat" seems a bit spun?

I mean, we both know what's going on here: there's a desire on the part of multiple posters to try to deny these numbers are good numbers, probably for political reasons. And I guess fingering "government" and "doctors" seems like an easy way to win that argument (i.e. "real people's jobs actually bad"). But that's just incorrect per the numbers. "Real people" are doing well too.
You might look into building in the open.

At 20, 50 or 60, one constant is that building something for too long is the opposite of what generally leads to any traction.

Put it out there, post about it on platforms discussing what the app does, ask randoms (but your target audience) to try out the app for feedback, already.

Get out there, it's exhausting for introverts, but the web makes it less daunting than ever. Only Apple stuff and maybe tesla sell all by themselves.

What's the app going btw, does it run?
No, the issue is it happens at all. Just because others are worse changes nothing.
Interestingly whenever this kind of thing comes up, I also hear cryptocurrency critics use the energy argument to deride blockchains in general.

They don't seem to understand that Bitcoin alone accounts for 98% of all cryptocurrency energy usage due to its uniquely energy-intensive algorithm. Hypothetically if Bitcoin were shut down, crypto would be as energy-efficient as any other distributed/federated technology.
This is why we need a Super Secret Journalism Organization to monitor and report on the other Super Secret groups.
There's another guide [0] for wire wrap technique (solderless, cold welded connections to square posts [1]). Used extensively in telephony switching/patching in the past, as well as digital circuit construction like computers. Quite nice for prototyping, although qualitative sockets/posts can be hard to acquire at a reasonable price nowadays.

[0] https://workmanship.nasa.gov/lib/insp/2%20books/links/sectio...
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wire_wrap
I've had the rare privilege to meet the Pinball map creator (or at least one of them), an awesome person that has been maintaining this project for a long time. Definitely give them some support if you're a Pinball fan.

Portland was the original base location and then IIRC they expanded to other cities. Portland's reputation as the pinball capital of the world is well founded.
Just use AliExpress
> I'm saying that when people start proposing and planning colonisation of a foreign country, genetic extermination usually follows.

And I don't disagree with you.

What I'm objecting to is your hyperbole; on further thought I don't care much for your throwing around of this "genetic extermination" term either.

"Extermination" implies a third party is involved and has a hand on the gas valve. A more appropriate euphemism would be "genetic extinction."

Genocide is explicitly defined as "the deliberate killing of a large number of people from a particular nation or ethnic group with the aim of destroying that nation or group." The immigrants are not arriving onshore and butchering the natives.

Words have meaning and this one does not invite ambiguity. A genetic clique disappearing because of cross-breeding is not goddamn Genocide. It's just Nature.

And again, I'd argue they're doing it to themselves. They just handed the title of Miss Japan to a Ukie. Now this. Nobody's making them sell out to foreigners. They could just as easily halve their pointlessly-bureaucratic workweek and subsidize childcare.
But a load balancer doesn't have to be user-facing. It might just be fronting an internal API or microservice
I support transparent-to-the-author content moderation, and I suspect that is in the future for today's major platforms, whether they want it or not.
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Entertainment increases happiness and is a positive for humanity, even if I personally don't enjoy the entertainment. There is no comparison to wasting energy doing worthless make-work.
ICBMs sit in silos for decades and are expected to launch on mere minutes of notice. The requirements for starship are somewhat different.
For a bad actor, this is easily work-around-able using various local persistence mechanisms like evercookie. https://samy.pl/evercookie/
Wishing death on a political opponent in a venue where they're sure to see it and might view it as a threat. Joking about someone who foolishly brought about their own death. They're exactly the same thing!
The Chinese stopped subsiding shipping a while ago, it's why you have to actually pay for shipping on aliexpress now.
But it is pretend internet money! These people are trading "a proof of work backed cryptocurrency", pretend internet money. It is indeed, by convention, worth real dollars, but there's no underlying thing except bullshit.

It could have been a sqlite db file on a raspberry pi somewhere, keeping track of digital jars of goat semen that people then pay real dollars for. But no, instead we're wasting one Australia worth of electricity on Bitcoin.
I don't really understand what the difference is between the government owning Starship vs contracting it. Are they thinking they would operate the thing without any support from SpaceX? Would they have their own team of engineers or whatever dedicated to Starship support? Would these people need to be trained by SpaceX?

Once the rocket is launched and full of the US gov's people/satellites/supplies/whatever, what difference does it make who owns it?
Will try it out, thanks!
Empirically they are not. What you mean is that you don't like to be faced with the reality revealed by these stories and the comments.

But this attitude explains a lot of the abusive flagging that goes on here. Stories get flagged because they make people feel ick, and they feel ick because they previously took positions that were wrong. So they flag. And when asked, why do you flag, they say "I don't know, I just don't like it", forgetting that the site exists supposedly to help drive intellectual curiousity. You may not like these stories, but other people do find them useful and you should not interfere with them.
> The answer to so many of the problems posed by neoliberal capitalism - and the opportunity for a vastly better world - lies in placing a hard limit on the wealth that any one person can accumulate. Because nobody deserves to be a millionaire. Not even you.

It won't cure envy.

Nearly everyone alive today is a "millionaire" compared to people living a few generations ago in terms of standard of living. Absolute standard of living continues to grow but that is invisible if you compare yourself to your peers.
Would you be ok if this tool was named sensibly, but was developed in brainfuck?
Word is the worst very popular program for the inverse reason of why Excel is the best; the extent to which a regular user can easily determine and or modify "why something they see on the screen appears the way it does."

In Excel, you click on the cell and see either e.g. the number or formula used to get the result you see.

In Word, well, it's just difficult to figure out exactly why a thing looks the way it does.
I believe the argument is that it increases redundancy and resilience of the renewable power supply...

That redundancy is otherwise uneconomical to produce (if there isn't the demand).

When that redundancy is needed, that power can be redirected from the miners. Presumably the miners are expected to behave and switch off at such times, but there is no reason why that expectation can't be legislated.
As a fan of Ursula K. Le Guin, the central theme is one sorely missed.

This has been a controversial critique in terms of karma (up and down so many times it has leveled out.)

It’s a bit crass, though my reply was regarding the relevance in today’s world (dirty secrets we don’t confront) more than the author’s shake up.

Le Guin’s social commentary is still pressing in our day.
Seriously, isn't Temu just a more expensive AliExpress?
I have lyrics from this song tattooed along with the albums artwork. Always good to see another In Flames fan....
This is really going to impact how I play Wingspan.
The movie is an obvious satire. I've never understood how people get proto-fascism from the book. Even assuming it isn't a satire itself (and I could be convinced either way) it dwells on the military in a conservative society but the society it describes is also a democracy that doesn't even let active-duty military members vote.
Help us out, what was there to notice in the last year?

This Tweet says something I want to be true, but it doesn't help me determine whether it is true and it doesn't help me learn.

In the example shown in the video, what algorithm is being used? What reward function? What exploration strategy?
Carl Weathers, 'Rocky's' Apollo Creed and 'Mandalorian' Actor, Dies at 76
The whole gist of democracy is to start with the assumption that people are immoral and anti-productive. But if we pit them against each other, half of the immoral people will cancel out the other half. It takes only a tiny fraction of informed, intelligent people all arriving at the same solution (because it's correct) to nudge the result in the right way, most of the time.

It would be nice for that to work, because it means that you don't have to overcome the automatic argument of "I'm not immoral and anti-productive, you're immoral and anti-productive". You never have to tell anybody they're wrong or bad. You only have to tell them that they're not in the majority, which is an objective statement.

It would similarly be nice if we could have an objective but blame-free way to resolve the meta-question of electing representatives. Or at least, to have people say to their own partisans, "Hey, this is obviously unfair, could we tone it down a bit?" But the reply is always "If we don't do this unfair thing, the other people will do MORE unfair things, and then it will get even worse".
I like this idea. And something similar for evaluating blockchains and sticking with a relational database instead.
Not really. The Starship is not designed to stand on the launchpad indefinitely, ready to be launched in a few minutes. That makes it mostly useless as an ICBM, because you can't launch it before enemy missiles hit it.
Why settle for the 2nd best flea market?
Atilla was known as the scourge of God, but opinions are still divided on whether the name or the man or tribe was Germanic, Mongol, or other. Seems likely they were a surprisingly heterogenous lot, literally mongrels. Fascinating and surprising how little we know for sure. Source: insomniac Wikipedia binges
Until it started doing this Starship thing and literally blowing up money regularly.
I'm also a fan of this person's videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdIpuCznir4

He's using Rizin/Cutter and goes into some of the details of the COM file format.
It doesn't get less curious that "I try to bury discussion before it even happens and can't even explain why". You should be ashamed that you spend so much time here yet fundamentally do not get the rules.
I think if someone was to read the original story and have a smug takeaway, like that of the trolley problem being solved by killing the single person, they might get upset at confronting the alternative of "why were those people placed on the tracks?".

I think this new story is important, because as a society we do often rest on the idea that a certain level of suffering cannot be avoided. This idea allows one to rest, no longer worrying about what could be done for those suffering, because after all, it can't be avoided anyway.

This new story confronts the comfortable idea that nothing can be done, it says out loud, "what if leaving isn't the only alternative to forgetting?".

This harshly confronts comfort, and makes people upset. Similar to how highly "politeness" is held in modern politics, such that you could have a rude man like Trump and a polite man with his same views, and those who despise Trump would then approve of the man with identical opinions but a quieter mouth.
An unintuitive discovery regarding the speed of canned air [video]
So, it isn’t just my company that does all of the above. I guess that’s good to know. At least we aren’t the only dysfunctional ones.
As a birder, that is some good refactoring and QoL improvements for identifying birds.

I would not want to keep GoldenPalaceDotCom monkeys [0] equivalents in the bird world.

0: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madidi_titi_monkey
How would someone even calculate this? Aren’t all bitcoins mined initially completely anonymous by design? I’d like to see the math behind this calculation because it seems more likely to be a made up number to support some kind of agenda.
iPhones share with contacts if you bring phones close to one another. No need for QR code.
In my experience, they're legit, but only for first-time customers. They basically eat the cost of the difference to get you in the door.
They didn't consult.

They made open source go lobby them to avoid having to block the EU. That's the exact opposite of asking open source, in advance of legislation, what would happen if they did X.
Any car. Doesn’t have to be electric.
Reminder PinDuoDuo, of PDD Holdings like Temu is, hire android reverse engineers [1], and have been had their app removed because it contained malware[2]. Don't install the Temu app.

[1] https://github.com/jonatron/randomstuff/blob/main/Screenshot...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinduoduo
He can be both a nitwit and a genius.
I wandered around New Guinea for a month in 1984. It was fascinating. This article, though brief, makes good points about the human tendency to put stock in rituals. It makes me wonder about some of my own rituals.
Hey - you are right and I should have included that essential point. I was focused on other issues, but the whole thing makes me angry.

The all-volunteer, professional US military, for all its advantages, loses civilian familiarity with the realities of the military and warfare - people seem to know Call of Duty, where killing is like shooting baskets.

When I see people glorify the military, soldiers and warfare, or talk about it like a sporting event ('win' and 'lose' (my bad) should be banned from the discussion of warfare) I feel very uneasy: First, people have those extreme, romantic conceptions of things they don't understand; when there was universal conscription, the military was a stand-in for bureaucratic absurdity (e.g., Gomer Pyle, MASH, expressions like FUBAR and SNAFU), not glorification; war veterans generally (IME) are not war mongers. Also, I feel a little queasy; I think, 'it creates (intentionally, in the hands of some public figures) the public mindset that makes it easier'. And finally - again, maybe intentionally for some, maybe subconsciously for many - it shuts down the actual experiences of veterans; it makes clear that there is only space for the 'glorious' version of warfare and anything else is almost antisocial. Finally, it all lets people put warfare on the back burner, which IMHO is how Afghanistan and Iraq lasted so long.

My (very amateur) policy idea is that the US should bring back universal conscription but only for the reserves (and no exceptions, as a hard and fast rule). Sure, it's not as optimal as volunteers, former active duty, etc. But then there would be real skin in the game for everyone, and everyone's families and friends. They'd understand the military, and what warfare was about. I hope no more hyping war with China (or Iran!).

I'm very sorry about your friends and for what you lost. We need to do far better with how seriously we take warfare and how we treat soldiers when they come home. It's really absurd. Thanks for sharing your experience.
> They killed at least 561 people

I don't know anything about this case, but "561 deaths have been reported in connection to" does not mean they were all indeed "caused by". They may have reports of anyone who died while using the device, from whatever cause like old age. Now they will investigate and hopefully conclude something.
I thought writing code in vim was debatable, but emails...you went to far for me.
I was in the field at the time and I agree. I thought it had to be what the big boys used. Then I realized that my job involves huge amounts of structured data and our MySQL instance handled everything quite well.
I hear your points, but can't git, CI tools, IDEs like DataGrip all be used to test and deploy the database code too versus letting some db admin create functions or procedures with no version control? Also, with things like RDS or readonly replicas, couldn't more analytical queries be done directly in the database versus busing data around?
IPv4 clients are a different problem, with a different solution -- NAT is for outbound connections. Of course, plenty of services you want to connect to could only support IPv4.

IPv6 internally doesn't stop you running public IPv4-accessible services.
There are upsides though. It does add to grid resiliency, as the loads can be easily shed. It does make more funds available for investment in the industry. It's not clear that reducing loads would lead to quicker investment in renewables.
The bleeding won't stop, until the rates drop.
It doesn't have to. The point isn't a perfect society, the point is to prevent resource hoarding and the accumulation of totalitarian power. When we allow wealth to accumulate we are also allowing power to accumulate.
Honestly something like this needs to happen, since the whole 'anything goes including illegal and dangerous products' setup these sites have going on is utter insanity. Cause let's be real here, if any site other than Amazon sold the kind of products Amazon allows, they'd probably be sued or shut down. Same with any company selling such things in their physical stores.
Employees care about their pay is so reductive as to be meaningless. Any action any employee takes can be labelled as such.