skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Depending on how you count, it does. The 747-8 freighter can carry 240k L of fuel [1], and 308k lbs of cargo [2], so 1.3 L/lb. The Falcon Heavy can launch 120k lbs of cargo into low-Earth orbit [3], and according to the grandparent, is carrying 1250k L of fuel (including oxygen, which is an essential component of "fuel" in this case), so 10.4 L/lb. Still, that's better than I expected. And if you want to go to Mars, you can take 30k lbs, so 41.7 L/lb, for only 4X LEO, quite the bargain!

(Interestingly, the average cost of a 10 hr 747 flight is about $40k [about $14k for fuel, which is about 33% of costs], compared to $90m [estimated] for a Falcon Heavy launch. So one order of magnitude more fuel, but almost 4 orders of magnitude more price.)

[1] https://www.reference.com/vehicles/much-747-weigh-8b0c48a1d8...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_747-8
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falcon_Heavy
[4] https://www.quora.com/How-much-fuel-does-a-Boeing-747-or-777...
[5] https://www.quora.com/How-much-of-the-cost-of-an-airline-tic...
A disappointing end though in my opinion
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13644959
Not sure I agree with the premise, but I think there is a point to be made. When was the last time people griped about the absolutely horrible culture of Amazon and Facebook? It wasn't that long ago, but I don't hear anything any more. I don't even know what it's like to work at Amazon of Facebook (I had one friend who worked at Amazon years ago and loved it -- data point of one), but last year the general consensus around here was that you'd have to be an idiot to work in either of those places. 2 years before that it was Netflix. I heard they just chew you up and spit you out. Now? Not a heard a word for ages. Today it's Uber. Tomorrow it will be someone else and everyone will forget about Uber. If they are smart they will capitalise on our poor memories.

Were these horrible places to work (as commonly reported)? Are they horrible places now? Who knows (certainly not me).
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Exactly. I have seen several core business rewrites that didn't make it past the "We must create the one true architecture that will allow us to keep this software from turning to spaghetti like the last one" phase.
Depends on what that data means. Endorsement does not mean X knows Java. I would take it as X is somehow related to Java.

This is very useful and a collective statistics while being completely useless for individuals.
Society and structures do tend towards centralization (at least on a local or short-term scale, not a physics guy, but entropy seems to say something over time).

Concepts like path-dependency seem to have an explanation for this, but they also stand in contrast to "access to the maximum possible future opportunity space". Many structures are clearly sub-optimal; organizations often crystallize in ways that maximize nothing at all but short-term laziness. They centralize by choosing paths that are convenient, not necessarily those that offer the most opportunity.
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> Practicality aside, how stupid do you think I would have to be to start a massive witchhunt against somebody who has had allegations made against them by an anonymous person?

They weren't talking to you they were talking to the person who asked for the witch hunt.

Although somebody does know exactly who this is and never should have let it slide. Those of you with your head down, it's time to go over your boss's head and say something.
I MITM my own connections for filtering purposes. It turns out to be the most effective way of blocking and changing crap in not just my main browser (of which I use several), but those embedded in other apps, for phoning home or otherwise.
rofl ok dude
Title is just wrong. Netflix has 2x the downstream traffic. Youtube isn't even on the subscribers chart because they have more than an order of magnitude more.
Put it on the endpoint. You already need protection on the endpoint to protect against malware, etc and MITM solutions only cover assets on the internal network. What about company laptops?
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I have noticed that with some Electron apps in the past, but I had actually never noticed that with Discord. I thought it was native for the first 4 months I was using it because it was just done so well, no lag and such. The one thing that usually gives away electron apps is their lack of custom right-click handling, meaning a right-click will give you the generic context menu you would normally see in a browser. Discord seems to handle all right-clicks with their own context menus which is why I never caught onto it at first.
Michelson-Morley experiment failed to substantiate the existence of ether. That was 1887. Much after that, in 1905, Einstein's special theory of relativity stated you don't need ether and any medium for light to travel, as long as one abandons the idea of absolute time.

The comment by Mordehai Milgrom, " the emperor has no clothes, that dark matter is our generation’s ether." rings true to me. So far no dark matter has been found by LHC.

They used to say 95% of the universe was dark matter. Now they say 68% is dark energy and 27% dark matter. Still only 5% normal matter. Could it be that there is 100% normal matter, 95% of which are transient and temporal in vacuum? If we were to follow Milgrom, and not invent substances, it seems plausible that we still have more math work to do.
What counts as a subscriber for YouTube? Somebody paying for YouTube red? If so I'm amazed that it is that high!

Or is it people with a channel? People with a Google Account that use YouTube in last 30 days? Random logged-out users as determined by cookie tracking?
Let's not make excuses by blaming this on something like a widely-spread yet widely-derided culture. This behaviour is inexcusable, there is no excuse here. If you see something like this, as a man, you say something, and you stand up for your coworker. Otherwise, you lose your man license.
This headline is gibberish. Looking at the article, NF has 2X the number of subscribers that YT has. Which, as ryanobjc observes, isn't particularly suggestive of anything.
Note also that SpaceX is going to start flying cargo in a derived-from-Crew-Dragon Dragon, so they'll have more experience with the changes in Crew Dragon, and can practice propulsive landings on Earth for cargo before trying it for crew.
It was cleaner than their original design, but still a wildly dirty, and stupidly inefficient device.
I also meant 1000s of csrs, customer service representative, replying on my phone. Every support or billing issue submitted through the app is answered by someone. More often than not they're trying to use low cost call centers in Asia and Latin America.
Sorry, butchered that. I was trying to say the figures are less exact depending on how hard you want to hit the earths upper atmosphere. ~8.2km/s if you want to end up in earth LEO ~8km/s if you want to get back to the earth. You can also save a little if your sending an unmanned craft and don't care how long it takes or skip low moon orbit.
Being born wealthy doesn't require much expended effort from the recipient of the wealth.
> I disagree that the Chinese started from scratch. From where I am sitting they started at the exact same place SpaceX did, using the research and know-how from a well funded and storied space organization to bootstrap their goals.

We can count it different ways. Besides having millenias long history of rocketry, China modern space program started with von Karman student:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qian_Xuesen
Title incorrect.

There is only a single datapoint on YouTube in comparison to Netflix. Netflix has nearly 2x downstream data use as youtube, not subscribers.

YouTube isn't in the subscribers chart.

Surprisingly Amazon beating out Netflix for total subscribers... But I think that could be just st Amazon prime overall
Social justice fundamentally needs an economic basis to stand on. If you want to stop sexual harassment, install a financial penalty.

* The internet was supposed to democratize this stuff. People like Balaji Srinivasan say the FDA should be replaced with Yelp for drugs. Why isn't Glassdoor more effective? Why wasn't Uber's toxic work culture public knowledge, gorgeously pinned to the top of Google's search results?

* When people like Mike interrupt meetings to tell his subordinates not to be a "whiny little bitch," presumably it makes all the quiet, thoughtful people in the room teem with unease. Ideally every instance of this adds a quantum of incentive for them to leave the company. How can that be encouraged?

* Do unions offer any protections to a group of Uber engineers who decided tomorrow to just walk out together?
With SSL MITM, Intrusion Detection Systems aren't even effective.
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BlueCoat makes me cry. We have an application running inside the firewall of one of our clients that communicates with a HTTPS REST API hosted by a server in our datacenter. The connection must be encrypted because it handles confidential information, but when it passes through BlueCoat's TLS proxy, the Authorization header gets mangled and it can't authenticate against our backend. Higher-ups decided that it would be better to try to convince the client to let our app bypass their proxy than to implement a custom workaround for BlueCoat users, but the client never let us through, so the only solution we could implement involved manually SCPing the required data between client and server.
Me as interviewer: have you heard of the XOR operator?
The good fight (which is like the sequel) is turning out to be quite good though!
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Another way to look at that statement is "All values that do not lead to continued existence are competed away", which is basically exactly what the theory of evolution says.

We know that this statement is false, BTW, because of the existence of organs like the appendix, which AFAWCT are completely vestigial.

Also, it ignores the part of the dynamic where new values are created because they allow you to throw some other values under the bus. Cooperation, empathy, creativity, intelligence, and pretty much everything that makes us human are all examples: our non-primate ancestors didn't have these, but the evolution of them allowed us to fight more fiercely than a lion, move more quickly than a cheetah, live in colder places than a penguin, and go without foraging longer than a bear.
But this is just the power of "no". Like the robot's dilemma

If you're a car careening down a road. You're going to fast, and an accident is about to happen, but you can, say, either hit a group of male toddlers or a slightly smaller group of female toddlers. How do you choose ?

Your answer is simply "No", and that's just not acceptable. Does that mean anarchism ? You must choose, because the real world needs to exist and the economy must keep working. Without it, we wouldn't be fed, wouldn't be able to move any significant distance, wouldn't be anything.

The problem with the "no" answer is that a this refusal to choose, in the economy, would match in the dilemma with first hitting all the boys, driving back and forth a few times to make sure you've got them all, and then get going on the girls. That's what shutting down the economy would do. One might assume this is not in fact what you intend, so what are you going to do ? What is the superior alternative to capitalism ?
At my workplace where we have to do tls inspection for regulatory purposes we provide an internet-only wifi network for employee personal use where we don't intercept TLS. This network is fully isolated from the corporate network and corporate devices join a different, more monitored network. I believe this strikes the best balance between regulatory compliance and employee privacy. People can still use personal email or do online banking while at the office without inspection, but no corporate data can be moved en mass off company servers.
Borland C++ 3.1 (mentioned in the article) does have templates, although it doesn't have nested templates. It also didn't have namespaces (i think that was added in 5.0, which was still released before the first C++ standard).

Keep in mind that the C++98 mainly standardized what compilers were already doing.
Definitely it's the more likely assumption that simple cronyism is at play rather the unfolding plot of a dystopian novel. I'm not sure that it's the safe assumption though.
I worked on contract at this department and was declined a contract renewal when I was reprimanded for identifying a DOCUMENTED zero-day in of our scripts that managed some lofty systems. I was also reprimanded by the same manager for suggesting configuration management tools since he couldn't bill out the build time for that service vs. my time building each machine by hand.

The whole place is a disaster waiting to happen.
Ask HN: Who is switching away from MacBooks this year?
I noticed that a lot of my colleagues were thinking of switching away from the Mac and onto Surface Books or Surface Pros. I've had a Surface Pro for the last six months after having MacBooks for two years prior, and some bugs aside, I am really happy with it.

Who else is thinking of doing this?
The video display is probably the very simplest part of the Virtual Reality experience. While it's directly responsible for a large part of the experience, it's not actually what needs to be standardized.

Everything else, from the various ways to perform head and motion tracking, to the myriad of input devices and controllers, varies wildly. Coming up with a standard cross-section of these features that most platforms support seems like an excellent idea to me.
Miller overstates his case. Aside from the total failure of the mentioned BGI project and it being beaten to the punch by the first IQ GWAS hits being released by the Western SSGAC consortium that very year (Rietveld et al 2013), Westerners practice a good deal of that 'Chinese eugenics' (look at Down rates, assortative mating, fertility rates by education level, and the practices of sperm & egg banks), and his (and Lynn's) estimate of the benefits of embryo selection of being 5-15 IQ points is considerably off because the upper bound set by heritability & average number of embryos in IVF is ~9 points and then half of them are lost to various steps, so even universal use of IVF would not deliver more than maybe 4.5 IQ points (see https://www.gwern.net/Embryo%20selection for my more detailed analysis of limits). I don't expect Chinese women to use IVF much more than Western women - there are limits to the tiger mother thing. (CRISPR, likewise, is greatly overrated.) The real discontinuous changes would come from technologies further down the pipeline: induced pluripotency to allow creation of hundreds of embryos to select from, iterated embryo selection, and genome synthesis.
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The Outer Space Treaty was only meant to prevent governments from claiming ownership of celestial bodies. The SPACE Act echoes that:

>It is the sense of Congress that by the enactment of this Act, the United States does not thereby assert sovereignty or sovereign or exclusive rights or jurisdiction over, or the ownership of, any celestial body
Real-world software can be messy because sometimes you just have to get stuff done within time constraints.
That's risky, they don't need the truth they just need to be able to defend a liable suit.
I couldn't stick with the Surface and ended up coming back to my mbp. I guess I drank the koolaid hard!
Just like the moral failure Sinclair refers to, HNers are pyschologically resistant to the mention of YC in a negative light. Expect an automatic 4 downvotes, just FYI.
There's no discrimination issue here. Just like one can support a given law, they can oppose it too. OK Cupid's move has nothing to do with free speech at all, and I believe in neither the sincerity nor the aptness thereof. Eich's actions were legal, peasurable or not, and within the protection of basic human rights.

(WRT same-sex marriage issue, I believe that civil unions should replace all kinds of marriage we've today and it should be left to the individuals to decide what their partnership(s) mean to them, wrt their philosophical/religious stances.)
Thanks, I'll try to get in touch with them.

I'd love to help on the recommendation engine. I'm (for two years now) at the top 1% of users.

I also happen to live in Brazil, to be a native portuguese speaker and the recommendation system absolutely sucks. I get a lot of articles regarding startups and Trump, but absolutely nothing in portuguese and/or about Brazil.
In hindsight, what would you have done differently with the architecture of this software?

It's got alot of moving parts - do you think it is overengineered?
For reference: The Vancouver police department recently hired 16 out of 2500 applicants. This is even with a large number of baby boomers retiring. You pretty much need a 4 year degree from a good school to be hired, they are quite selective. Whereas the RCMP will take almost any reasonably fit, under age 35 person with a high school degree and clean criminal record check.

Joining the RCMP is a crap shoot because you have no control over where you will be posted after finishing the academy. It could be 8 years of purgatory in Moose Jaw.
In particular it's the case that some of Antarctica has been cooling: http://www.asoc.org/advocacy/climate-change-and-the-antarcti...

Change is a good word, except when it causes the general public to be confused about what the average is (warming.)
Just to be clear: I have no way of knowing the facts and am just commenting based on my memory of what I read.

What he says doesn't contradict what Uber said.

Uber let him go for not revealing the accusations. They have no way of knowing what the results of the investigation were.
Endpoint-based MITM solutions tend to be even worse for security, since they have a larger attack surface (and generally seem to be really badly implemented). On the plus side, some things can be done locally without MITM.

From a privacy perspective, it doesn't really matter if the monitoring happens centralized or not.

In the cases where I've seen strict filtering laptops were forced through VPN connections to HQ, where the gateway then decides what parts of internal and external networks they are allowed to access.
The "mention" is one sentence: "Racism is common at every
level of Russian society and is at times explicitly voiced in Russia." This is true. How can this possibly make you suspicious about the article's main topics? You wrote a lot about nothing.
Wow.. okay thanks.
$3 billion is from the Saudi sovereign fund..
What gives away electron to me is the really giant non-native UI elements. Its like everything is as bloated as the underlying system!
There is a Chinese diaspora that fled famines and wars to many parts of the world, and the current generations no longer identify with the mainland Chinese. In fact there is a strong resentment for mainland Chinese in many parts of the world where there are significant overseas Chinese precisely because of the qualities laid out in the paper (i.e. racist attitudes, overbearing smugness from the nouveau rich etc)
That jump!
Get that thing away from me!
- The US is currently bombing 7 countries. Tensions are heating up in eastern Europe due to Russian aggression and NATO expansion in the region. This is happening no matter what just because the American empire is losing power and regional powers are attempting to flex more muscle.
- I honestly don't find nationalism to be an inherit evil. Nationalism is a tool in the political playbook just like any other. I am not saying that going from 0 to fascist is ok, but we have been sitting at about a 4 for a while now and it probably just got cranked up to a 6.
- The Xenophobia has always been there. Growing up after 9/11 my family stuck american flags on our cars as a precaution against vandalism. I think what people are seeing is the lower 'deplorable' classes finally got equal access to mass communication that many of us have enjoyed for years and we are seeing those old tensions getting pushed to the front of our political dialog. Before now people in well to do areas could just ignore it. Also xenophobia isn't a unilateral thing, race relations in the US are terrible and small groups of every racial demographic make life hard for non racists in other demographics. I also think a lot of this, at least on the internet, has to do with push back against what is viewed as an overbearing cultural force from the political left. It's now edgy to be an ironic neo-nazi on the internet and if you tweet nazi memes at a journalist you might end up on the front of the NYT.
- I'm fearful of Wilders more than anyone else up and coming on the world stage right now. Trump I think is overblown and I don't know much about Le Pen besides some of the questionable history of her party and her role in 'reforming' it.

Me being an Iranian american is relevant to this because we are one of the number one groups of people targeted in times like this in the US. Iran is a hostile geopolitical power to the US domination of middle eastern affairs. We are frequently singled out for likely 'terrorist' activities because of the mix of Islam, skin color and the past few administrations have been hinting that they are edging for conflict with Iran. If anyone is going to get rounded up into interment camps in the US it will probably be people like me.
Rejecting anything it doesn't understand sounds like a bug to me.

It sounds like a perfectly reasonable behaviour if the goal is to "fail closed", to provide more security in a fashion similar to a whitelist.

If it sees that it's TLS, it should attempt a protocol downgrade.

I don't remember the exact details but I recall reading that TLS has a mechanism to prevent version downgrades, precisely to defend against such "attacks", so the connection would not succeed in that case either.
"What he says doesn't contradict what Uber said. Uber let him go for not revealing the accusations"

What he said directly contradicts what Uber said. Uber said there was an accusation. He says there has never been an accusation. These are direct contradictions. 1!=0.
The title was editorialized. TLS 1.3 is a working draft and Chromium is just doing field trial with it.

A few days ago there were other issues with this causing Chromium to stop working on *.google.com so it's not just about middle-boxes.

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=855434

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=693943
Be civil. Don't say things you wouldn't say in a face-to-face conversation. Avoid gratuitous negativity.

When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. E.g. "That is idiotic; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3" can be shortened to "1 + 1 is 2, not 3."
I don't think group conflict is a very well solved problem. I don't think we are able to achieve that, either. What I can see is when there is a group conflict, after the extra energy is vented, and the groups involved are still there, they look for mutual interests and fall back to that base and go from there. Race issue is one big example of this. We do have some system works better than others. But putting it into a bottle with absolute right mark on it may not be the best way to go under current situation.

I'm probably biased since I'm Chinese. I agree with most part of this report. The author did a lot of good homework. But I think his thoughts to work out those strategies need some update to better fit in the world today and tomorrow. There are similar parts and there are different parts.
But even if they say that they're not storing or sending it, how feasible is it to verify that fact?
My general rule of thumb is that if they don't announce a price it's an acquihire.
The appendix is not vestigial.

But your argument could have used Art, which is vestigial other than as a signalling mechanism for pattern abstraction ability and excess resources.