skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is something special to these classical movies.

The naked gun with the queen of england is my all time favorite, for all comedies. The baseball match is unforgettabble!
Any engineer that thinks metaphysics is “b.s.” is uneducated in the schools of thought that made engineering of any sort possible in the first place.
> Besides, 11 people representing a country is just a ploy to entertain people. There is zero level of relationship between the players and the rest country.

Aside from the legal requirement that they be citizens of the country they play for, and that once a player represents his country in a competitive match, they are bound to represent that same country for the rest of their lives, barring some extraordinary situation where the country itself breaks up or ceases to exist.
I'd be interested to know how much of the income is generated by his web properties, and, how reliable is their income in the future. If that goes away, can he still be cash flow positive?

Dividends from index funds might be 2%? The S&P overall generates about 2% dividends. Capital gains may double that, but are not reliable as the market goes through its cycles.

Interest from cash is likely 1% at best.

From the spending analysis, he's spending ~$6,000/month, or, $72,000/year. With a $3,000,000 net worth, his minimum cash return is 2.4%.

Assuming he's keeping up with inflation, which I'd say is really important given that he's likely got another 30+ years of retirement to fund, he should budget another 2%, and target 4.4%.

I've been stymied, like many investors seeking fixed income, by this protracted low interest rate period. Municipal bond yields are poor, all cash and govm't bonds have very poor yields. I tried peer lending, but was let down by the service company. So I had to get creative.

Over the last 3 years, I built a dividend portfolio that currently yields 6%. All the stocks in the portfolio have a history of at least 10 years of increasing dividends, and I expect that the 6% will increase by about 0.2% annually as they raise their dividends.

With all that said, it seems like he could get a better cash yield with a different mix of investments.
Not communism. Totalitarianism.

> We don't know a perfected totalitarian power structure, because it would require the control of the whole planet. But we know enough about the the still preliminary experiments of total organization to realize that the very well possible perfection of this apparatus would get rid of human agency in the sense as we know it. To act would turn out to be superfluous for people living together, when all people have become an example of their species, when all doing has become an acceleration of the movement mechanism of history or nature following a set pattern, and all deeds have become the execution of death sentences which history and nature have given anyway.

-- Hannah Arendt, in "The Origins of Totalitarianism", which I recommend. She also wrote

> The outstanding negative quality of the totalitarian elite is that it never stops to think about the world as it really is and never compares the lies with reality.

and

> The fanaticism of the elite cadres, absolutely essential for the functioning of the movement, abolishes systematically all genuine interest in specific jobs and produces a mentality which sees every conceivable action as an instrument for something entirely different.

You cannot decouple censorship and surveillance from that basic derangement. And how that combination in turn would kill enthusiasm, the ability to think new things, there's also many things said and written about that but I didn't save those because they seemed rather obvious.

> The fallacy is to believe that under a dictatorial government you can be free inside. Quite a number of people console themselves with this thought, now that totalitarianism in one form or another is visibly on the up-grade in every part of the world. Out in the street the loudspeakers bellow, the flags flutter from the rooftops, the police with their tommy-guns prowl to and fro, the face of the Leader, four feet wide, glares from every hoarding; but up in the attics the secret enemies of the regime can record their thoughts in perfect freedom — that is the idea, more or less.

-- George Orwell

He doesn't explain why it's a fallacy. But there's things to read on the subject, of course.

I'd guess that just like very sociopathic individuals are essentially just feeding on and destroying others to buy some time before they fall into the black hole at their own core, so it is with power structures made from that foundation. Cancer cells die after they killed their host, an organism made out of just cancer cells wouldn't exactly fare better.

That doesn't mean they can't eat the whole world and be the "most innovative" or the "most alive", all opponents being dead. They still will not innovate or be alive in any interesting sense of the words. People who cannot even face themselves cannot say or see anything interesting about the world.
Returns don't lag like that. If people were that unhappy with the keyboard, they'd take the Mac back. Apple can read HN or the like all day, but if laptops are leaving the door, then they have no reason to change anything.
I meant balanced as in, here's another perspective to provide balance to the sides, not that this individual perspective is balanced.
Yeah, I share the same sentiment. 200k+ for a few minutes in zero-g just isn't enough for me, but if it we're a few hours in zero-g as we go around the globe once? That'd be awesome and I'd easily justify that price.
Define "success".
The selection part works on individuals, what changes from selection is the frequency of alleles in the population. By not having children the alleles you carry will become rarer in the population of the next generation (all things being equal).
Costs per passenger for a reusable vehicle like this are largely a function of launch rate. Launch a few per year, it'll lose millions. Launch a hundred, and they'll make plenty of money.

Additionally, you should highly doubt this kind of outside estimate of cost per New Shepard launch. It sounds like they used the same costs as you would expect for a fully expendable rocket like Falcon 1e class (same first stage thrust, for instance), even though New Shepard is fully reusable.

And lastly, these suborbital New Shepard launches are also a big advertisement for orbital New Glenn launches which are orders of magnitude longer in duration. New Glenn could also take people around the Moon or, with the (eventually) reusable "Blue Moon" lander that Blue Origin is also developing, to the Moon's surface and back. So there's actually a lot of upsell, and I believe they've been explicit about using New Shepard to upsell for eventual orbital flights.
Bezos has, for about a decade now, laid out his intention to have Blue Origin put what he calls the heavy lift infrastructure into place to dramatically broaden the use of space for industry. He relates it to the way Amazon didn't have to invent credit card processing, build fiber optic networks, invent operating systems, invent the microprocessor, create UPS and Fedex, et al. before he could start the company. His goal is to provide core space infrastructure so new businesses can be built on top of that. Long-term he believes it's a practical growth requirement to move industry off of earth, that if we don't do so we're condemning ourselves to stagnation.

https://www.geekwire.com/2016/jeff-bezos-blue-origin-space-i...
My favorite movie ever.

The statue scene in which he is hanging onto it .. LOL
It replaced magsafe, which is a superior technology.
yep -- sadly, I've heard that sentiment over and over.

edit: I should clarify - I've heard that sentiment a lot, but now that I think of it, the "it's BS" part usually comes from a place of frustration due to time constraint.

..which leads to this article about why software is late: https://www.computer.org/cms/Computer.org/ComputingNow/homep...
> If yes, then in my current company I've learnt to script the hell out of them (though not too early — only once you see how the typical pattern/path is shaping up). Good automation (a.k.a. scripting) can help a lot to reduce brittleness of deployments.

Can you elaborate on how you accomplish this? I read the checklist manifesto a few years ago and started using checklists for things like checkins, code reviews, etc. I figured these kinds of lists could be automatable, but I was never able to come up with a UI that was easier than a pre-populated textarea.
> Nobody asked for USB ports when they had serial/parallel ports, or for the floppy drive to disappear, or to lose the VGA connector.

I don't recall being annoyed by those changes. In particular, the VGA->DVI transition was handled really well. Just about everything was DVI-I and would accept a VGA signal over a DVI cable, so you just bought a VGA->DVI cable and continued using VGA.
Their model is not exclusively space tourism. I imagine this is either PR or fundraising (or a mix of the two).
I'd rather go to space than the mariana trench just because of all the unknowns going into the deep sea would make me paranoid
Why would you need to quit? Like all social media you can unfollow people. Follow what interests you. If someone gives you FOMO unfollow.
Not quite Marianas Trench levels of remote, but the first place that springs to mind is Antarctica; I'm not familiar with the organization of the various research stations, but there is presumably some number of support staff needed on-site to keep everything running.
> mobile devices also do not necessarily need AV1 encode support anyway

I wouldn't be so quick to dismiss it - video chat is a great use case for an improved codec.
HHS vs ICAN [Failed to file vaccine safety report in 30 years] [pdf]
To add another point: I've had a 2017 MBP for over a year now and I don't mind that it only has USB-C plugs. I have an adapter for the rare cases when I want to plug in some older USB device.

I actually really like their push towards USB-C everywhere. The only major device I own that doesn't use USB-C is actually my old iPad. If they killed their proprietary adapter in favor of USB-C I'd be very happy.
So, using known, trustworthy, lightweight, manueverable equipment is the same as using an unknown, untested, heavy, potentially and likely more dangerous submarine is the same thing? Just because nothing had been tested on kids?
Real life Ocean's 11? This seems more like The Bank Job (2008)!
Valid point. Going into space, by comparison, is time-tested and a solved problem. You will know exactly what to expect from the start.
One could make a similar series about the Soviets stealing from the US.[0] Maybe not so dramatic, though.

Or about Israelis stealing from the US.[1]

0) https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/spies-who-spilled-ato...

1) https://consortiumnews.com/2016/09/11/how-israel-stole-the-b...
Mine was 4-5 yo when he first saw it, and got it very quickly. Some people are just wired for this sort of puzzle I think.

He also loves Gravity Maze: https://www.thinkfun.com/products/gravity-maze/
Definitely, they should put a SCSI port on the next version.

Weren’t we having this discussion when they dropped the floppy drive? Should they keep USB-A forever? When is it ok that they drop USB-A? The original move to USB-A was met with resistance to people then that were angry that suddenly their ADP or other older devices wouldn’t connect — but then device markers saw the advantages of USB and quickly moved to embrace it. They are starting to see the advantages of Thunderbolt 3 and eventually, USB-A will go the way of the serial port — but not without the requisite hang-wringing and “get off my lawn” first. In 3 years, nothing but dollar-store junk will still use USB-A.
If you like that humor watch the very short lived Police Squad! Pretty much the same thing.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Police_Squad!
Take up less space in your bag.
Papier[0] for my daily checklists. It's convenient because, as a web developer, I spend all my time in chrome.

I'm still working out a system for managing longer term checklists/goals/plans/etc. To that end, Natrium[0] (which I just found out about in this thread) looks interesting.

I'm also still working out a system for managing activity-based checklists for processes like checkins, code reviews, etc.

[0]: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/papier/hhjeaokafpl...

[1]: https://natriumapp.com/
So basically a “dongle?”
> I don't see how having a loss leader for viewing space is going to work out for them financially. What are you going to upsell?

I see a lot of the same mistake being made in this thread. Confusing short-term vs long-term.

The tourist business is a meaningless part of the long-term strategy that Bezos is pursuing. Short-term it might bring in some revenue as they pursue building ever more powerful rockets. You're better off entirely disregarding anything Blue Origin does as it relates to tourism, it's a momentary toy for stage one; it's not where they're going. As a side, it also has the simultaneous benefit of enabling Blue Origin to get paid to work on dealing with civilians in space, as they seek to push further in the general direction of building infrastructure in space over decades. To go that direction, they'll have to build-out systems that are extremely well designed for non-astronauts. If your vision is to have very large numbers of people in space, your requirement can't be that they're all as well trained for space as astronauts are today.

Bezos currently has $143 billion of paper worth to utilize. It's not going to be spent on a $50 million per year space tourism business.
Mac probably uses whatever python FreeBSD uses. Most BSDs still use Python 2 by default.
Mainly PR - at $200k/person, you'll be losing millions on every flight.
(author here)

I knew Nix came before NixOS but was interested in both for the possibility of managing servers. I'd have made significantly less progress starting from Nix.

I can see how Guile would be an improvement over the Nix language, but have tapped out my patience on related topics for a while.
“The whole wolpertinger thing” is a metaphor and a literary device. This isn’t a technical manual.

I don’t know why you found this hard to read. The writing is clear and understandable. The dismissiveness of your comment and the fact that its out-of-handedness is based on nothing objective suggests that you’re not the target audience, especially since, in contrast to your comment, the thoughts in this article are researched, decently sophisticated, and exposed in a discursive manner.
Where did they dismiss them? What’s with the attitude?
Blue Origin is building a new full sized rocket motor that will power SpaceX’s main competitor ULA. Blue Origin has also announced that their next rocket, “New Glenn”, will be an orbital class rocket competing with the Falcon 9.
Often so busy it's like merging on to the expressway with someone behind you honking, you look over your shoulder, it seems sorta alright, so you go ahead.
Macs with USB but no SCSI connector were a big cause of complaints where I was back then (I worked around lots of designers with SCSI Syquest and Zip drives, and all their client archives of high-res photoshop and page layout work on them), and _everybody_ in my circles thought Apple were insane for leaving floppy drives off... (These were a long time back though...)
This is a simpleton's way of looking at an issue as complex as this. It's intellectual laziness to try to water down geopolitical/historical motivations by claiming that "ooooh they did it for the oil!".
>Consistent UI

I feel like UI is one of the things that shouldn't really be complained so much about. If you're talking about apps, then it's sort of hard to have a consistent UI when everybody's doing Electron apps or using other frameworks like it.
Satya is already wayyyy more succesful as a CEO than Steve Ballmer ever was. MSFT stock price took a big dip after 2000 and never recovered in Ballmer from 2000 - 2014. He was a decent CEO in the sense that he didn't kill MSFT like Marissa Mayer did to Yahoo.

He missed a ton of opportunities and messed a lot of things like Nokia and Skype acquisitions that barely panned out. He let Apple and Google steal the mobile show when Windows Mobile had been the smart phone king for a long time. Microsoft used to be #1, now they are behind Apple, Amazon and Google.

Granted, he was good at milking the Windows and Office cash cows that had been gifted to him from Gates era, but he spent an insane amount of money on things that never panned out.

MSFT has a lot of money in the bank account so I'm sure they'll be fine even if they put a rock in the CEO seat.
Coincidentally enough, I had Future Sound of London on when I checked this out. Very appropriate!
A Parable by Dijkstra (1973)
Yeah, it probably covers operating costs and maybe even a decent chunk of the rocket. Wouldn't come close to touching the big items, R&D, etc.
Non-orbital flight takes ludicrously less power and rocket than getting to orbit. Flying six people per flight would easily be profitable on a per flight basis, ignoring development costs.

And the development stuff is already a paid cost, and a part of reaching the real goal of AWS, but for space.
I was agreeing with him!
Except you don’t need to, generally. Setting up a phone doesn’t require a computer connection and, since USB-A phone chargers are ubiquitous, it doesn’t make much sense to go Thunderbolt 3 on iPhone’s default cable yet because the days of the iTunes setup process are long gone. The primary use of that cable that comes with iPhone is for charging — and it does include a charger. Unless you are the .025% of iPhone owners that do development, your complaint really doesn’t matter. With AirDrop, AirPrint and iCloud, there really isn’t much point to connecting to a computer for the vast majority of users.
One of the greatest comedic actors of all time! I loved him in Naked Gun and Airplane!
That's terrible for the amount of superfluous text that has to be written for this test.
>The 'oldest currently active international sports competition' is actually the annual hockey game between the Royal Military College (Canada), and Westpoint - or so I'm told.

International cricket pre-dates that. The first official international was between Canada and the United States in 1844, with 10 - 20,000 spectators. The K.A. Auty Cup is still played from time to time.

Perhaps a case could be made for cricket helping prevent nuclear war, as India and Pakistan manage to play each other in the various forms of cricket, though there isn't any love lost between the fans.
No products are created in Shenzhen. They are cobbled together from components designed and manufactured by others. This is not creating, designing. It is building something, I suppose.
I have been doing this for the past three years with a game based on the film adaptation of my favorite drug adventure book.

Don't forget to save all of your work locally, on the cheapest hard disk with the highest failure rate. That way, when your hard disk fails 2 years in you can start from scratch.
This article honestly reads a lot like propaganda from the Chinese government.

It never even mentions the Great Firewall (unless I missed it?) and only barely mentions the security and censorship issues involved in writing software in China, even claiming that the reason it’s difficult to talk about security and privacy is because “so much of the grand technological experiment in China is still unfolding.” Right; I’m sure that’s the main reason.

The article also breathlessly mentions that “there are still parts of the rural US without cell phone service, places where you feel untracked and like you might disappear. Yet even in one of the poorest provinces in China, QR codes will follow you from towns to villages.” Even if you assume that’s something that everyone wants, to ignore the implications of having that technology available in a highly invasive police state is irresponsible (in my opinion).

Finally, I thought the line that “its strength is in extreme open-source, which stands in stark contrast to the increasingly proprietary nature of American technology“ is completely laughable in a country as notoriously insecure as China and in an era when use of open source software is probably at an all-time high in the US.

(Edit: added newlines for clarity)
> Jordan Peterson isn't exactly a friend of communist parties

I never said JP would embrace any communist ideology. I was merely pointing out that you should see and think before you make ignorant claims without any actual data or seeing things with your own eyes.

> Xi's bullying of Taiwan

I don't understand why you keep saying bullying. For a tiny little island still holding claim to the mainland, China is being extremely nice. (Imagine Mexico government still holding claims to States that U.S. has taken by force, how would U.S. government react to that?) All I see around me is Taiwan business taking advantage of Chinese market and Taiwanese employees enjoy the fruit of China's development. There may be frictions, but it certainly wouldn't come near to the level that U.S. is exploiting it's neighbors in the continent.

Hope you would stop being a hypocrite before pointing figures.
I use Racket for small internal web site for the T.A. in my university (about 500 users).
The first part of your comment is unresponsive to mine; the last part is pretty rude & factually wrong (we are not motivated to implement an effect system right now; we understand the theory).

Sticking to the first part: an effect system is not what the user I was responded to was talking about. They were talking about building do notation on top of type classes with higher kinded polymorphism, which cannot effectively abstract over the monadic operations in Rust.
> I don't recall being annoyed by those changes. In particular, the VGA->DVI transition was handled really well. Just about everything was DVI-I and would accept a VGA signal over a DVI cable, so you just bought a VGA->DVI cable and continued using VGA.

Just about everything was USB-C and would accept a USB-A signal over a USB-C cable, so you just bought a USB-C->USB-A cable and continued using USB-A.

I don't see a difference. Except the part where you say the transition was handled well. I didn't feel good applying that to USB-C...
The New Story of Humanity's Origins in Africa
Yeah if I want to feel freefall for a short time, I can just go for a tandem jump for 0.1% of this price. I even heard of indoor skydiving being fun and supposedly they are opening one here in Vancouver, BC next year.
No he means CPython. While the meaning of the annotations are ignored at runtime, the typing library still has to be imported and typing annotations evaluated (as it evaluate that the type annotation has a value of List[int], not to check that the value tagged with the type annotation actually has that value).

As a result, in CPython 3.6 a module that has been type hinted will import slower than one that doesn't.
org-mode

https://orgmode.org/manual/Checkboxes.html

* TODO Organize party [2/4]
- [-] call people [1/3]
- [ ] Peter
- [X] Sarah
- [ ] Sam
- [X] order food
- [ ] think about what music to play
- [X] talk to the neighbors
I doubt it. I don’t see any semiconductor fabs in Shenzhen. Or any software companies.
Good to see a voice of reason. All too often I think the left and the right make strawmen of each other's positions and attack them with vitriol. I don't know how we're supposed to discuss and understand complex issues in a complex world when people want everything simple, black and white where good is white and black is evil. The world is complicated. We need calm, deep and reasoned thinking more than ever.