jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Maybe.

But keep in mind that SpaceX's lineup of launch vehicles will probably allow them to capture a rather substantial segment of worldwide launch contracts.

This is not a small market.

We're talking about many billions of dollars. And their vehicles are both more capable and dramatically cheaper than the competition. It seems highly likely that they will be rolling in billions of dollars of profit in a rather short period of time.

Take billions of dollars of excess revenue per year, roll it into more R&D. Take additional billions and an engineering base from a newly formed space tourism industry and add that. And then maybe it doesn't look so crazy if SpaceX is sending humans to Mars on their own dime, independent of any government funding.
It is always odd to me that Mac users tend to always call non-Mac computers "PCs", as if all PCs were basically the same, and as if Macs weren't personal computers.
So many people fail to realize your last point.

The reason Osama bin Laden wore that united states military jacket is because it was given to him during the CIA armament of the afghanis against the russians...
I think fools can still regret. I'm changing it to "the magnificent and sharks" in the version I repeat.
How about just running lynx in a terminal buffer in emacs? That should work just great for Hacker News.
This reminds me of Stoicism. Something that is simple but definitely not easy. Something I struggle with.

> It’s important to remember that this is an exercise and not a rhetorical device. He doesn’t mean “think about” misfortune, he means live it. Comfort is the worst kind of slavery because you’re always afraid that something or someone will take it away. But if you can not just anticipate but practice misfortune, then chance loses its ability to disrupt your life.

http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/blog/2009/04/13/stoicism-101...
Is there going to be an app for this?
It's just as easy, it's a small snippet of code you paste at the bottom of your site. However, the site doesn't have a pretty design like Google but that's why I prefer it - it's simple and works with NoScript.
LOL. These are made for refugees.

If you want them too, you are going to have to make it from scratch. They are open source, so that should not be a problem
We've learned a lot from and since Chernobyl. Chernobyl came about because the people running the plant made a string of willfully stupid decisions to try out a safety feature for the plant. This isn't to say that democracy isn't superior to single-party rule, but that no one would invest in building a modern nuclear reactor and play fast and loose with safety procedures.
In part Microsoft HAS to release a statement saying don't do. So that later it can claim it is not responsible for something and it did everything in it's power to stop these activities.

You can imagine someone somehow coming to harm and Microsoft getting sued because it a massive cash cow.

Of course this is being generous to MS and given past form I'm sure they will not hesitate to protect themselves from positive publicity and the possibility that people may consider the company to be cool and innovative ;)
Knowing the age of something at a given time in its own reference point isn't contradictory, thus we can know the age of the Earth, etc. It's is contradictory to say that now, in our reference frame, the [supernova, black hole, star, etc.] is x years old. The only thing that makes sense is to judge how old the object appears to us, judging from the information (light) that's reaching us now from the given object.
Nice idea! Cool tech sounds a bit like inspired by Svelte reactivity (https://svelte.dev/tutorial/reactive-declarations)

Anything to show?
Negative will take a look!
Yes. Guardr. Someone will keep a close eye on you using lots of fancy technology.

(but they sell your data to Toothly)
Do they code for covid19 even if someone got hit by a car and just dies in a covid19-treating hospital?
> Competent Mayor Bill de Blasio

> @GoodNYCMayor

> ... Pizza is eaten with the hands. It’s a parody my friend.
What’s the most likely place to catch coronavirus? I would posit it’s probably hospitals. If an elderly person needs to go to a hospital for any reason these days, I would guess they get taken to one full of other elderly people with coronavirus. I wonder what effect this might have on the results.
That’s right it is using logical decoding. Thanks for the tip - I’ll update the readme so it’s more exact
If 5000 people die a day in average before the virus and 6000 people die a day on average after the virus would you say that the death toll is 1000/day or would you test all 5000 and say that any who had the virus were included in the virus death toll?
It’s the same thing when it comes to quality. A lot of lip service paid but no one sees it as anything exciting.
"Okay, let me tell you the difference between Facebook and everybody else; we don't crash, ever! If the servers are down for even a day our entire reputation is irreversibly destroyed."
And instead makes me feel uncomfortable storing my data with you. Doesn't seem like a worthwhile tradeoff
Well shit... I use that data for langpop.com :-/
I totally agree with you on minimizing the controversy until incontrovertible facts have been found.

In my personal experience, assuming bad will on another person's part kills all chance of civil discussion and severely hurts your chances of finding more facts, because people are on the defensive. Not to mention how hard it is to remove that sort of egg stain from your face.

that'll be 2¢ please!
As of 2 years ago, it was hosted on a "3.0 GHz Core whatever, 12 GB RAM, 64-bit FreeBSD 7.1" - it's certainly not a shared machine. (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=516122)

rtm is the sysadmin for HN (yes, that rtm: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Tappan_Morris).
Everyone loves pagespeed and github far more fun than view source!

Are you suggesting you dont want things minified?
Very true. And the medium (among other factors, like literacy) has a self-selecting component: you're not going to take the time (money, etc.) to make clay tablets out of everything. There wasn't a clay-tablet-Twitter back in the Neo-Sumerian Empire.

As modern medium becomes a) cheap, b) ubiquitous, and c) durable, there's no reason to "edit" ourselves. Maybe that's a good thing: it would give future anthropologists a treasure trove of information. But again, my concern is that we'll end up with so much quantity that the quality data/recordings/thinking get subsumed, and future humans think we worship cats. (All those photos! And captions! And videos! I for one bow to our feline overlords.)
> Break up the pharma companies

For many politicians that would be seen as a "courageous decision" (hat-tip: Sir Humphrey Appleby)

> and let them only be at-cost (!) manufacturers

Won't it be hard to find investors if you do that?

> move all R&D off to universities

I think the "D" in "R&D" might be the problem in this approach. Universities are great at many things, including research, but based on my experiences (science PhD two decades ago in a research group which worked on anti-infectives) the scientists there aren't necessarily very good - or even actually interested - in development as such. We partnered fairly closely with $bigPharma at the time, and they funded a fair chunk of our work.
Yeah, and that's literally the least you can do. You can't 'fix' people, but you can certainly do a HELL of a lot more than complain about or simply reject people as un-'fix'-able. Seriously... air quotes aren't enough: don't say fix people. You don't fix people, you interact and engage with them. Or as ChrisAntaki says: you talk with them.
sounds like a red flag
See my other reply, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8839174

I wonder if the 980 would make that much of a difference, or if the i7 is that different. You'd think CPU wouldn't matter so much, and I did get high speed memory.
The whole idea of a free service is to generate good will and potential customers. If you have a crappy free service, it generates bad will and discourages potential customers. So you are forced to maintain a decent free product, at least comparable to those of other people offering free products. An important thing to remember is that if you are offering a free service, your potential evaluation customers are likely to try out the free service before calling you, so if it is bad, you probably will not get the call. And, in general, maintaining decent quality is not free, although admittedly how expensive it is really depends on the details of the situation.

I do agree that this analysis is wrong. It is common for companies trying to grow in market-share within a highly competitive end up losing money, if Box's problem was that it could only grow by losing money, it could just pick a "good enough" point and then scale back market share growth and instead concentrate on inside sales.

I suspect that Box has other problems, and free business models often do have holes in them (people usually underestimate the costs of a free service that does not scare away customers), but there is far better analysis of free business models on the web than this article.
> Robots don't actually need to be creative; robots only need to approximate creativity well enough that humans can't tell.

It's at least up for debate whether these are actually two different things, and therefore whether what you're describing is actually any easier.
This p5.js thing actually looks pretty interesting. I was actually taken aback with how well they handled interactive objects overlaid on their demo video.

The title's unnecessary though. Sure, the video's kinda zany and the chroma-keying's terrible, but that's no reason to discount their technology. What they made was cool. It doesn't deserve ridicule.
How is this different with angularjs 1.x ?
You are a set of eyeballs or "impressions." Maybe you won't click on the ad, but you were displayed it, which is a success in and of itself.
Curious, is it actually " just like flipping paper pages" as the website claims? Might have to pick one up...

My kindle has slowed to a crawl and freezes often after the latest on-device shopping bloatware update that Amazon pushed out.
Billy Bob is a name stereotypically used to refer to someone to imply that they are rural, ignorant and/or unsophisticated.
Billy Bob (short for William Robert) at one time was a common set of first names for Americans that lived in country areas.
This is actually crucial. When I go to see cat pics, I don't want to discuss whether Evil Jew Bankers Are Stealing America's Future.

It isn't an offence thing. It's just ... boringly dumb. It's just like I'm not going to start a conversation in this thread to review my basic backstitch.
But we aren't talking about governments, we are talking about Reddit and it's userbase.
Isn't the better idea to simply remove the keyboard noise? I think a few services do this already...
Myself, I would be more worried about any keyloggers, or wifi/cell interception, "man-in-the-middle" devices being left behind...
> I wonder if you could build a working IBM PC clone today.

Yes you can! There's the NuXT[1] which is a full system, or you could use PC-104 designs to build something approximating an IBM PC-type system from a later generation.

[1] - https://monotech.fwscart.com/

[2] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBsv-jRiIT8
I was thinking even just merely about physical security while this was going on. One bad actor going from room to room planting listening devices would take a short bit to weed out no?
Yep, plus the configuration of the laptop could possibly be of value. Depending on how it's setup, you could see the AD domain name, naming pattern of usernames and domain computers, setup and names of network drives, group policy settings, etc. Nothing too crazy on its own but could help facilitate a larger breach. Having a portable computer that's already configured to connect to the network you want to breach is possibly pretty useful.
Try https://soundcloud.com/cum-town
You're wrong to the degree SSL becomes a requirement burned into browsers, which seems highly likely and is partially true already for certain domains. Unless you're going to argue that being forced onto the non-web is not suppressing your ability to communicate, but if so that's a tough argument to dig into here.

edit: I should add here the thought exercise is that you are participating in speech that is legal and ethical but are overruled by SSL cert providers and are unable to get a root signed cert from anyone (or whatever other means of preventing SSL.) In that case, even if you are not hard blocked, having your speech be passed around the internet in cleartext also seems like it affects your ability to communicate in a negative way.
"Bush administration and passed a budget during Obama's first few months."

Who came up with the content? Was it based on the Bush administration's proposals, or the new Obama administration's proposals? The Obama administration was hardly even staffed out for months.
Much like him, I absolutely despise the "happiness is a choice" crowd - it is incredibly difficult to convey to a person that doesn't suffer with this, how crippling it is to be able to recognize something logically and yet succumb to your feelings anyway. It sucks.

I appreciate the author's sharing of his techniques, I wish more people would as eventually we might find insights into the condition that we don't already have.

The only part I'm not sure about, is whether or not it is an advantage as the author proclaims - more often than not, the highly successful (creative) people I know always focus on the positive and are relentlessly pushing forward. I, for one, wish I had a little more of that.
I agree. Facebook having complete ownership and control over my identity is a scary thought. The site is far too reckless and cavalier with its banning of people, business sites, apps, etc. I've read far too many accounts of banishments without any given reason or response to complaints...
Diversify (intellectually).

It's great to have deep focus (especially if you're in science and tech), but all the other stuff -- especially any creative arts you can actually perform with your own lung, lips, muscles and tongue -- can bring great benefits also; not just intellectually, but in terms of building and sustaining a basic, intrinsic sense of self-worth and confidence in a world that seems hell-bent on tearing it down every turn.

That -- and of course: meditate.
I now think Facebook is going to give us Artificial Facebook friends. Modeled on your interactions with your Facebook contacts, combined with the data of a million other connections, it will be more attentive, always available, knows just how to cheer up your mood, or find you things that interest you when they are going viral. This may be many years out, but Zuckerberg needs to think about this future too.

Something fell into place for me when I read this interview. Like when Google bought YouTube, it took me a while to realize that Google would own internet video. Facebook is sitting on a huge pile of social data. With social graphs and tagged faces the more obvious ones, they also have a huge corpus of natural language and personal likes. With this one could create AI that is much more down to earth and friendly to communicate with. It may posses a form of emotional intelligence. It may have knowledge on social interactions, status, moods, human relationships etc. it knows what makes us tick.

Contrast with Google which basically indexed the entire internet. I expect an advanced future interaction with Google AI to be more factual. The kid you want to do your homework for you, not the kid you hang out with later, who suggests new Jazz songs for you to listen to when it starts to rain outside.
> This is the most obvious effect - if you’re returning 800 columns instead of 8 columns from every row, you could end up sending 100x more bytes over the network for every query execution.

In theory, this makes sense, but 800 column is already another problem for your application/system. What if you need to select 196 of those columns, what are you going to do? What kind of SQL or Java/Python/NAME_HERE_OTHER_LANG code are you going to write to select those fields?
This is far more convincing than anything in the article
exactly, top 10 that arent bitcoin are attacks not only on bitcoin itself, but on your bitcoin as well :)
> if you strip people of the ability to debate and discern facts

If you dare to debate and discern the wrong facts, you get a hit piece published on you like Slate Star Codex. Or you get fired like the NY Times reporter Donald McNeil Jr.

It seems some of the media play an enthusiastic part in stripping people of that ability, not in protecting it.
But that argument only holds true of you rely on the column order. Most modern applications just specify column names where this doesn't matter.

A lot of best practices from 20 years ago are no longer valid. Like the excessive normalisation. These days data storage isn't always the major limiting factor anymore, in many cases it's better to have less tables with more data.
It's still cheap in the grand scheme of things.
You make it sound like an economics problem when it's ultimately an engineering problem. Energy companies already do many things to keep the grid stable, but you can't rely entirely on supply side solutions else you are forced to over-engineer the grid to handle extreme demand, a cost that's inevitably passed onto consumers.

This is going to become more important as electric cars become mainstream—without some incentive for consumers to delay charging their vehicles during extreme peaks, we're going to be paying for some fairly hefty upgrades to keep electric grids stable.

Focusing on demand saves everyone money, because it means we can do more with existing infrastructure. In my case, if I'm willing to react to price spikes, I can reduce my annual energy cost by literally hundreds of dollars. For me, it just means occasionally delaying use of the dishwasher or dryer by an hour or so. And by occasionally I mean a handful of times every year.

It's far less onerous than the regular peak/off peak pricing I've dealt with in prior decades.
All the browser vendors handle IDNs a little differently to combat visual spoofing issues.

Chrome only shows the Unicode version of an IDN if all the letters appear in one of the languages you've told Chrome you read. So, if you add French to your list of languages, Chrome will show the "real" Unicode domain name instead of the Punycode.
I found that site hard to navigate, and a bit outdated.

For anyone who want a very spesific example of how cool demos can be, here are some of my favorites:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXMs54NUBOI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOYpKnl1B_g

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OO6dtjxbHzs

Going to see these demo-competitons in Norway in my childhood was certainly a big inspiration to learn coding.
The points made below about Disco a great. Similar confusion came up on Twitter with regard to CloudI. As a result of that, I updated the README with clarification on what LFE py is not for, and what you might use in those cases.

Disco is brilliant stuff (I greatly prefer to to Hadoop), and the fact that it has a distributed file system should really clarify its use cases (any why one would choose to use it over something life LFE py which doesn't have one!).

(As you can see, I can't help myself from saying great things about Disco :-))
Trusting wikileaks to do this reliably is about as sensible as trusting governments to only keep secrets when strictly necessary. Both sound excessively trusting.
Additionally, his turnover went to almost zero since a 40 hour workweek was close to a vacation for a lot of people at the time.
Yep classic stereotype american culture and urban planning. One of the main things i dislike most about the bay area. Cars come first.
As you probably already know, RTGs were of course commonly used in Antarctic weather stations in the past, by both the US and others:

https://www.stuff.co.nz/the-press/news/104291748/radioactive...

The last was removed in 2015, as far as I know.
It's a garbage bandaid rule that encourages people to seek sources that have already editorialised the title for them.
They did, but it's currently down:
https://twitter.com/signalapp/status/1343990404669124608
Perhaps, but he has been using an XPS 13 since at least 2016.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/linus-torvalds-reveals-his-fav...

https://www.zdnet.com/article/look-whats-inside-linus-torval...
Are you saying that the android auto code has access to the OBD2 bus (and possibly canbus)?
> To cooperate on batteries and cars...

Oh you mean it isn't about an acquisition like the title sneakily implied?

> The title would be more helpful if it included that information

Do you really expect any better from these people? I pretty much expect clickbait headlines or misinformation from news, news wire, etc.
> Another video showed a police officer allowing a rioter to take a selfie with him inside the Capitol

The alternative for that officer was violence. While surrounded.

The lies coming out of the media (which normally lie he took the selfie with the protesters) at the moment are insane.

Sure, "Trump deliberately attempted a coup".... because he's mentally ill.

But the media is actually pulling off a real coup by consistently implying it was even close to happening. Feeding "Multiple European security officials" who feed them back.

How did the "5 people dead" reported from the media actually die out of interest? We know one, filmed from many angles, all the rest? These ongoing media lies are outrageous.
This is an interesting article. In fact I really do think all any of us do is heuristics - where "A heuristic is a mental shortcut that allows an individual to make a decision, pass judgment, or solve a problem quickly and with minimal mental effort."

I think this is how all of us are when we are doing something.

I also think this is existence is a free will experience.

That might seem incompatible, but I think our free will is engaged in selecting what heuristics we can choose. Alternatively, you can say we are programmable creatures, but we get to choose what programming we run.

I would also say, that the heuristics/programming we mostly run is that which has been provided to us by default - a consequence of our education and situation.

Not many of us take the time to review our programming - or to engage with the more 'meta' elements of our experience. I daresay, that the principles we run are not really coherent. Eg, we are reasonable, we do the right thing, we also take shortcuts to get what we want, or save time, etc. These are examples of principles that cannot all be true!

If you were to ask me, the best thing we can do in this life is to consider our values. Are these truth and reason, personal gain, saving time, etc. What means most to us? And the review the heuristics/programming we run according to those values. At least we have a foundation for our programs that we selected ourselves, rather than running the programs that were provided to us by default!
meta: usually i don't see comments > post score unless the content is poor.. this is good news from apple though, what gives?
Apart from your comment and its replies there’s only one other conversation containing the word ‘privacy’ and its about how people want to be able to use cash so the credit card company can’t see all of your purchases. Doesn’t sound too unreasonable to me (nor does that appear to me to be limiting you in any way) and I don’t quite understand why you didn’t reply to them instead of posting an apparently ‘opposite’ rant.
That isn't nice. Not always succeeding at something is different than saying others should do it but you don't have to.
Also, warmer temperatures will benefit a lot of diseases in a lot of places.