skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I will forever refuse to spend my 0.5 BitCoin just so one day I can say to my grandkids in a creaky old voice, "See! I mined that myself on my own computer in a couple of nights!"
What could possibly go wrong on a spacewalk?
I suspect this has more to do with fact that walkable areas are much more likely to be located in city centers with higher overall real estate prices than with the desirability of walkable neighborhoods.

One also has to consider that new families with young children are high on the list of demographics looking for suburban homes, and are likely to have less money, so suburban homes are cheaper by necessity.

Cul-de-sacs wouldn't be so bad if they had well-maintained pedestrian lanes that cut between them and neighborhood shops instead of big box stores.
At a security conference a couple of years ago in Melbourne, a speaker said that for entertainment, he used to set up a Tor exit node and time how long it took to get the not-legally-enforceable ceast-and-desist letter from the authorities. Apparently he had it right down to a couple of hours.
After it chemically burns and then ignites you, yes.
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Good for you! Is there any reason for this?
This is so exciting. Not quite a moon landing, but still feels like watching a significant moment in history.

Does anyone know what specifically changed to allow a landing attempt on land as opposed to barge? Was it just that they gained enough confidence with the barges that they would at least be able to hit the target (and not crash into a building or something), or was some regulatory clearance received or something? Or something about this launch (ie lighter payload?) made a return to land feasible?
Thanks! Here's the link about 9 minutes in when it begins:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5bTbVbe4e4#t=9m20s
I doubt it. I recall reading an article about antibiotic resistance in Denmark. They were nearly able to wipe it out completely by changing the way antibiotics were prescribed to people.
Large extended family and circle of friend staying touch?

I don't use but my wife does, because our extended families are on it. Grammas, cousins, high school friends, that couple across the street, the realtor, ... etc.

Could they use email? Probably, but they don't they use Facebook for whatever reason.

Personally I don't have an interest in it but like hearing once in a while how so and so is doing. I usually communicate via email, google chat, or phone.

One thing I never quite got was Twitter though, just never really saw an interest it, never understood it...
AIUI from /r/spacex last time, the reason we didn't have live video from the barges is that they simply did not have live video from the barges. They didn't have the bandwidth for it that far out to sea. If they could have provided it, they presumably would have. After all, they released the video of the Falcon Punch afterwards, and had this one blown up it would have done so live.

But they really upped the PR game this time, that's for sure. I assume somebody must have had a look at the viewer count numbers from the last few and put 2 and 2 together on the opportunity they were missing out on. A nice job of it overall.
"It's also pretty hard to pass a function to a Unix command."

On this and a few other points, it would be interesting to allow a process to call out to the shell that it's running below ("... if any" being one of several issues with the idea).
Here it is: Creators of Ember talking about moving away from two-way data binding: https://changelog.com/131/ (skip to 0:43)
LMAO "falcon punch"
Oh, of course; it's empty now. Most of the mass was fuel, and that's gone. Now most of the mass is at the bottom.
I think the OP was simply saying this webcast was so phenomenal that the others pale in comparison. That's not so much a slight on the previous webcasts as is it a compliment of how great this one was.
When you can't breathe your concern about the environment goes up markedly. The reason you don't see as much concern in the US is we've already tackled the obvious, major problems.

At one time in the US there were rivers you could set alight, but that was a long time ago.
Your link has a little extra on it :)

https://what-if.xkcd.com/58/
Not mine, but irresistible.

Presumably the sting of the term is now entirely gone. Nothing succeeds like success.
> an educated, independent thinker, someone who really tries to engage and understand the world and has discovered interesting opportunities which they pursue

That certainly sounds like an attempt to insult those who do use Facebook.

> but can you image the great minds and innovators of our generation [...] updating their FB?

Absolutely, the same way that great minds of past generations had friends, went to social events, and wrote letters. Facebook is just the latest and easiest way to maintain the social bonds which are important to nearly all of us (including so-called "great minds").

I don't post status updates often (probably once a month), but I log into Facebook multiple times a day. It's great to see what my friends are up to and what they care about.

If not for seeing my friend at SpaceX post about today's launch, I probably would have missed out on watching it.

Get off your high horse. If you don't want to use Facebook, that's fine. That doesn't make those of us who do neanderthals.
No, no, no.

The amount of power wasted by BitCoin indirectly depends on the monetary turnover of the system. Because if somebody can spend $1mln to perform 51% attack and move around $1bln, that will likely be done.
Hence, the power wasted is proportional to the turnover of the system. Otherwise, it does not work.

Also, when a bank charges me 1% for a wire transfer, they pay salaries from that money and some people buy food. The power burnt by BitCoin is actually literally immediately irrecoverably physically wasted.
This would be fine and good, except banks create money when they lend through the money multiplier effect.
Not really... terminal velocity is terminal velocity. There is a limit to how fast you can fall through the atmosphere, regardless of how far up you start falling from.
> ...what is the use case for a program that operates on arbitrary user defined types?

That's not what's going on. Neither C nor C++ really permits that.

We're just talking about the relative merits of using printf and friends vs. using iostream to format data for the console or disk.

In either case, you have to write the code for your class that massages the class's internals correctly, but the question is, do you write to the ostream extraction and istream insertion API, or do you write to the substantially less well defined printf-and-friends API?
Looks to me like they are trying to use the Android strategy of a free OS to the competitors who could be wiped out by Apple/Tesla/Uber, since this deal is apparently non-exclusive.

I can see it now: Ford - the new Samsung.
Seriously. I can understand non-engineering-types calling SSL "SSL" still, but there's a point at which I will begin to date or discredit people's knowledge of "SSL" if they're still referring to it as such (and not to one of the libraries like polar, open, boring, etc.) I don't generally like being a pedant, but SSL and TLS are different things that attempt to solve the same problem, much like WEP and WPA. Most people don't call WPA WEP anymore.
Blame it on zoning. If it were not for zoning, you'd see more urbanesque-like building of office space.

Cities inherited their industrial zoning so they developed the urban architectural development.

But people didn't like how businesses and industries were involved in making products with dangerous processes which sometimes resulted in public danger, so they came up with zoning to restrict and segregate business and industry away from areas where people lived.
I've always wondered about this when talking to friends of mine who are psychology grad students about the studies they work on. Since most of them rely upon volunteers attracted via mechanisms like flyers put up on a university campus or the raffle of a free iPad in a college town, aren't these types of volunteer-based studies going to tell you a lot about college kids and (potentially) very little about the general population?
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I think the original point I made stands. Hosting on Amazon's platform essentially means I risk my revenue on Amazon's uptime. Actually using their infrastructure like S3 means I don't just risk my revenue but actually get locked in. Amazon is not willing to do the same, according to their total crap SLA. That tells me a lot. And to top it all of, Amazon is famous for "eating" businesses of their customers : use their infrastructure to see how one of their customers do business, then take it over.

So if it's all the same, I'd rather have a decent SLA. Furthermore this sounds a lot like Amazon's not in fact giving me anything.

Your point is that they'll do the right thing because otherwise their customers would leave. Customers you said in the previous paragraph they give "the most conservative amount they can get away with, and they are "getting away" with it just fine so why up it?".

Sounds like they really care about customers doesn't it ?

> You have the "guarantee" based on thousands of other business using the exact same infrastructure without serious service failures.

I can get that guarantee at 1000 datacenters and colo providers, at least. Some of which have a decent SLA. But even among cloud IAAS, both Azure and Google provide both Amazon's guarantee, and better SLAs.
You can make pretty much anything seem equivalent if you abstract it enough. You've basically just equated MVC with any program that does IO. I can't see how that's a useful thing to do.

Just looking at what you said though: why would you represent a transformation (something inherently a verb/action) as a model? "Model - Input -> output format transformation". It operates on models, it's not A model.

Also, claiming the view as input/output is pretty reductive. How do I represent a lexer as a view? More importantly, why would I want to?

Fun experiment, find the views and controllers in here: https://github.com/llvm-mirror/clang
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Personally, the biggest laugh I had on /r/spacex was when the CRS-7 failure study came up and they had to remove the word "strut" from the list of terms that caused comments to be automatically put to moderation - it was banned because of all the KSP jokes, but suddenly the rocket really found itself in need of moar struts.
The problem is this is kind of a catch-22 for drug companies. If they only release a new antibiotic in IV form, meaning it will only be administered at hospitals, they don't get enough volume to make money. So why research the next one?

In general I'm a pretty free-market guy, but this is one area I'd like to see the government more involved, both in subsidizing new antibiotic development and in making sure we have a stock of antibiotics that still work.
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I think the reason is because then there would be no way for new coins to be mined and given to those who are rewarded for ensuring the security of the network.
The real estate is much more expensive downtown in most cases and, like many urban cores for a variety of historical reasons, you're probably stuck paying for expensive private schools if you have kids and want them to have a good education.
You'd think Canada would have more major data centers. They've got a lot of extremely cheap hydro power. You could surely lay ultra-high-speed fiber along the same right-of-ways that the transmission lines use. Also, it's cold as hell more often than not, so cooling is less of an issue than putting them out in the desert somewhere.
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(Note: Since most HN readers are technical, this comment is being downvoted by bitcoin enthusiasts among them. You won't see many replies from them to this comment, since their reaciton is political and not a technical statement. Still, I'll keep it up. This comment is currently at -2.)

To put this into context, by comparing it with a centralized version, an equivalent number of actual transactions could be done at a bank with a crud app running on a $5 complete desktop PC which the Raspberry Pi foundation just released[1]. It is a 1 ghz computer with 512 MB of RAM. It draws up to 0.7 Watts.

Wait, wait, wait. did I say an equivalent number? Since Bitcoin is limited to 7 TPS (7 transactions per second), I should modify this to 100x more transactions (700 transactions per second), if you wrote it in C, or if not a hundred times, then at least ten times as many in python. If it were a crud app running at a bank, a $5 computer could do 100 times the transactions that 650 Phash/s of wasted effort collectively give. And 40 megawatts.

Bitcoin is a supreme waste of resources through the proof of work hack. It is like emulating a GPU in a CPU...in javascript. I mean, sure, you can do that. You can run Open GL by emulating a GPU in single-threaded Javascript.

But it's a stupid, wrong solution. The basic idea sucks. It's bad.

(by the by my target price for btc is $600,000 based on a comparison with how bad gold is physically, and the market cap of gold. :-P.)

I love fiat currencies, they're one of the great achievements of modern civilization. (This sentence isn't ironic, it's actually how I feel.) Despite my target price I don't hold any bitcoins at all. I hope some of the numbers I've given can put into perspective why.

[1] https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/raspberry-pi-zero/
What GCC and RMS did (and I suspect their goal was all along) was to change the Overton Window [1] of acceptability for open source.
Remember this was still the time that Solaris was not open source, and Microsoft was borging competitors . It was not definitely the Visual-Studio-is-open-source time.

By creating a hard line, and building a compelling alternative to proprietary compilers, he introduced a seed of change in the minds of young programmers at that time .... All of whom are senior management now and share a belief that things like Protocol Buffers should be open source.

In fact, its interesting that Android is inducing this change all over again (not Linux). Its a viable answer to "its not as good as an iPhone,why should I buy it".

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overton_window
Maybe it's because a lot of Germans have already experienced a total surveillance state and what that means for their freedom/well being when the information is turned against them, or, at least, remember the stories from their relatives who did.
One other reason is professional where you follow "leaders" and amateurs who will one day become professional "leaders" in whatever activity one might be interested in like, professional development, hobby development, etc.
It has always been the case that a single company could 51%-attack the network. No regression here. In fact the cost has continually increased over time. So, yes, progress.
Yes but returning capital to shareholders would have the same effect too.
Is there a summary argument that also takes into account the wealth transfer from poor tenants to rich landlords that is created by making everybody rent instead of buy? If interest and tax writeoffs are a ~$140bil/yr subsidy, are there economic or social benefits greater than $140bil/yr that make it worth it?
I guarantee our ops team will not make infrastructure buying decisions based on the quality of their aerospace side-projects.
You could try reddit. It has subreddits and multireddits (packages of subreddits) on all sorts of specialized topics you can subscribe to. I'm not a computer scientist but you can search/explore suggested multireddits by topics, and subscribe to lists curated by other users.
ASan and UBSan are the same in the two; both the GCC and clang instrumentation shims were contributed by Google, and the resulting instrumentation is the same.
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I think it was all in good fun, and everyone is making way too big a deal out of it.
> for a pretty good reason: protection from foreign competitors

How do US patents protect from foreign competitors? Are you referring only to the US market or otherwise? Depending on the industry outside of the US might be a far larger market so I don't know how successful patents are in this area. I'm curious as to the data about this.
Do you have data to support this? I too live in Brooklyn and have found the opposite to be true.
Isn't the argument above that he was wrong? He may have been morally right that free software is an inherent good over proprietary software, but that's sort of a given for this discussion.

He was tactically wrong in taking an expansive view of both what free software licenses should enforce and what fell within their realm of enforcement. He was hoping that GCC would be so much better than the competition that people would use it despite it being GPL, and for a long while (e.g., NeXT's Objective-C patches) it was. But the GPL, especially the GPLv3, was perceived as way more onerous than Stallman expected it would be, and eventually it became worth people investing heavily in a competitor just to avoid the GPL. If he had aimed a little less high with the GPL and admitted a plugin architecture / documented IR for GCC earlier, then LLVM may never have taken off.

Alternatively, he was tactically wrong in thinking that strong copyleft was required to achieve the goal of software freedom. Note that the clang in the NDK "is now a nearly pure upstream clang," not because they're required to, but because the pace of modern software development makes it genuinely easier to voluntarily submit changes upstream.
You might not, too. The LA district shut down. The NY district, which also received a threat, did not. Why? And why the difference in response?
That's probably the most awesome thing I've heard tonight.
> The building across the street had a downstairs area that used to be another deli/coffee shop, but at one point but when rents went up, the owner couldn't afford rent and closed, but it had been sitting vacant for around 3+ years by the time I worked there.

I've seen that happen too many times, and have to wonder what the hell the owners were thinking. It feels like sweet justice though.
Or you could just buy bit fury
The idea that each project we tackle is unique and a special snowflake is an illusion.

In reality, most of the factors that influence the outcomes are exactly the same. Same team, same knowledge, same approaches, same psychological biases, same methods, same politics, and so much more.

Those are the things that influence timelines most; not the project itself.
Another option is to hack 51% of the hashrate.
The third one is to own it from the very beginning.
Can someone explain exactly what Bezos/Blue Origin did, and how it is different than what SpaceX did?

EDIT: Here's a video that compares/contrasts: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8c7RUjNFDo
>This is what I think is happening at Apple. Now some of you may disagree, because you’re still Apple fanboys

Because if you disagree with me, it can only be because you're blinded by your loyalty, not because your experience is different from mine.

Beyond that, I have a genuine question: why are users so stupid? If it's so obvious to this person that Apple's UI is a series of design failures, why do users continue to buy them, year after year? Both as brand new devices and as replacements for broken ones, otherwise rational individuals continue to purchase substandardly designed products.
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Hopefully it won't be anything like the Shuttle. The Shuttle was bleeding edge in a dozen different ways. The engines were extremely high performance and that made them fragile.

SpaceX seems to build things a lot more low-key. They don't use fancy propellants, their engines aren't particularly efficient, and overall they seem to go more for robustness and simplicity.

(Simplicity doesn't really apply for a crazy-ass landing scheme. But aside from that....)

Obviously it remains to be seen, but I think it's likely to be a lot more gas-and-go than the Shuttle.
I assume if you're spending 30K+ you'd at least want to test drive it. Also I'm sure if you got in touch with any car dealership near you, they'd arrange the above for you.
Do you not have paid parking buildings there?

I live somewhere that we have a CBD but no "downtown" as such. If you wanted to park at the building, good luck, and if you wanted to park on the street, it would be better to shoot yourself early.

But there are quite a few dedicated parking buildings so for $15 a day you can park there, with only a 10-15 minute walk to work (if you didn't want to catch a train in, which I will never).
What a colossal waste of electricity. Great, they've created a general ledger and currency formed by individual untrusted participants, but who in the aggregate are trusted.

What about this: Why not just diversify your risk by doing transactions or investing in currencies/assets across a diversified set of untrusted counterparties? Same net effect, and a lot less electricity wasted.
There's a neat trick for making spaces more user friendly, more traversed and more desired: Grids.

When a space doesn't intuitively tell you which way is North, what is behind the building in front of you, whether the road to the left or right will continue straight or curve and meander, how to find the main road etc, you create a fairly user-hostile space. Cities and even suburbs (usually inner city suburbs) with grid-like layouts tend to have more foot, bicycle and car traffic whereas most other layouts favor only one of those modes.

Grids are easier to intuitively interact with than shotgun-spaghetti layouts, removing the primary barrier to increased usage.
I wish more people would talk about this.

I'd love to live downtown, and am actively trying to do so. But it's the worst decision I could possibly make in every measurable metric.

Living downtown triples my housing costs. Even if I downsize 50% of my current living space, moving downtown would still double my housing costs. Working downtown cuts my salary by ~15%, and I'd loose my good health insurance for some fake HSA. I'd love to raise my child downtown, but the school systems are significantly worse in every metric.

Yes, I could give up a car. That would save me about $350/month in total expenses. But to live downtown would cost me an extra $1000/month in housing costs, and cut my income by about $900/month (pay cut + benefits reduction + increased taxes). Loosing $1,900/month to save $350/month is insane.

And taking public transit, while slightly cheaper and healthier than driving, would increase my commute time by 2 hours every single workday. (How much is an hour of your time worth? How much is 40 hours per month of your time worth?)

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I'm still trying to live in an urban area -- it's been a goal of mine for my entire life. But it feels like all of society is working against me for trying to do this.

Our perverse incentives are setup in such a way that suburban sprawl is the most rational choice for non-subsidized individual households to make in the vast majority of the US, despite all of the problems associated with it.
The achievement is landing a space-capable booster vertically, after an actual mission above 100km, which can then be reused.

Who said that was the achievement? What is important about that achievement?

The important achievement is dramatically reducing the cost of sending things into space (such that they will stay there). SpaceX's rockets achieve this, Blue Origin's don't even attempt to be in that league. Using your Everest analogy, Blue Origin was the first to climb some lesser peak nobody cared that much about (still, nice job), then SpaceX climbed Everest, and Bezos said "welcome to the tall mountain club."
1GW is a large sized power plant.