skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Vertical landing is a parlor trick that isn't that hard and has been done before (McDonnell Douglas DC-X). It is a huge waste of fuel. You loose half of the payload capacity in order to land these things. In the long run it is not economically sustainable.
Why do they have to enforce VPN check for Netflix originals? It seems that Netflix does not own rights for Netflix originals? Wouldn't it be easier to simply say some videos have restrictions but these videos do not?
For many real world applications, you'd need to load classes that isn't known at compile time (e.g., a user supplied database jdbc connector).

I wonder how AOT can deal with this scenario. Is it possible to AOT but still have the fallback of classloading at runtime?
The Evolution of Reddit’s Architecture (2017)
It's a literary conceit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conceit ergo fictional addresses have been used, and madey-uppy corporate name referencing key idea from economist Adam Smith.

edit: Well, I liked it. I don't think it grossly oversimplified the issues.

Clearly big tech operates monopolies. Probably Google/Alphabet should never have been allowed top buy DoubleClick. Facebook definitely should not have been allowed to buy Instagram and WhatsApp. Microsoft still has a desktop monopoly. As the article says Amazon controls 40% of online commerce (in the US). Imagine controlling 40% of bricks and mortar trade. The mind boggles. Apple has competition in every area but they lock their users in to their ecosystem in a way that is not seen in other markets. Imagine if you bought a car and then you had to keep buying cars from that manufacturer because switching brands was too much of a hassle. Or banks. Or whatever. Netflix has competition so they're fine.

It's not a crime to have huge valuations. It should make people sit up and take notice. I don't think FAAAM will reform themselves. If it wasn't for open source and Linux things would be way way worse. If the regulators don't do their job it'll be up to people like us to build open source products to neuter these companies. Probably we should be doing that anyway.
1. Your homepage should give me a better sales pitch about what I can do with your product and why I need it, not just how I do it. Explain your value.

2. All content is focused at English audience except the pricing details. Use a dot decimal sign $12.34 not $12,34

3. I would make the connection to your open source project explicit. It’s an asset. Sentry.io does this well

Congrats on shipping!
No, Itanium failed because Intel made the error to allow other companies to compete on the x86 space with their patents cross licensing deal.

Competition from other architectures was always there.
* >The University of Naples, the first university in Europe dedicated to training secular administrators,

* >Naples became part of the Kingdom of Italy in 1861 as part of the Italian unification, ending the era of Bourbon rule. The kingdom of the Two Sicilies had been wealthy, and as many as 443.2 million ducats were taken from the old kingdom's banks as a contribution to the new Italian treasury.

* >by 1884, Naples was still the largest city in Italy with 496,499 inhabitants, or roughly 64,000 per square kilometre (more than twice the population density of Paris)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naples

I had no idea that Naples had been that advanced. Building on that history, they should have a huge potential. Unfortunately, I don't see how they can recreate their strategic advantage the way they do.

The Mediterranean Sea was the Internet before the industrial revolution. Naples is an expression of that network effect. Which network can they offer today? Won't they suffer the same problem as India, that they educate programmers who will take the first opportunity to move to Silicon Valley?
I think it is - it's a 6502-ish CPU implemented, along with the rest of the logic, on an FPGA. It's just that it can run 40x faster than the actual CPUs.
This is a very locational consideration. In areas that regularly have snow and ice, everyone will have winter tires on their cars, studded if icing conditions are expected, or even snow chains, and a big crew of snowplow operators will keep the roads relatively clear of snow at all times. Starting with salting the roads in preparation for cold weather, and then sending out the crews the moment there is a few millimeters of snow on the road.

I have never experienced a "snow day", although there have been days with problematic traffic conditions due to snow. (Usually due to an experienced or unprepared driver going off the road on the first day of snow).
> I now think identified use is on the up. It makes for better dialogue.

I haven't seen this at all. It oppresses ideas from surfacing that are currently seen as unpopular by whatever vitriolic group, which leads to a large misrepresentation in the public discourse because the only ones supporting it usually have "nothing to lose".

Identified use is great if you don't want any controversial discourse and just need a quick way to verify identity (reduce spam, coordinate local events, etc). Otherwise it's just a recipe for reflecting popular opinion given the online community's proclivity for reaching for pitchforks.
You don't have to guarantee a minimum speed but you have to advertise the relevant parameters that you can reach at least a certain percentage of the time. Saying just "up to" should only be allowed if you also use it for the pricing and the clients pay what they can. Saying "unlimited" should be allowed only with the dictionary definition. And all "limiting" conditions should be advertised the same way as the main offer, not small font on a buried page.

So the offer could look like this: "Up to 50Mbps, with 20Mbps offered at least 50% of the time between 06:00 and 22:00. Limited to 200GB/mo after which the speed is dropped to 1Mbps."

Also throttling and prioritizing types of traffic makes sense when you reach capacity. But if you suddenly find more capacity for someone paying extra by throttling others more or throttle indiscriminately and lift the limits for a price then you are not doing network management, you are are squeezing for money. And this should also be clearly stated when advertised and while doing the throttling.

As a customer paying the requested price I want some SLAs. I want to know what to expect for the service and be compensated for not getting it. I want to know realtime if my traffic or service is being throttled or not when I use it.
Rules and robots
So how else do you propose to have a reusable rocket?
Smashing it into the ground or sea doesn't quite work.
I was baptised in -40 C weather. The temperature inside the church was just above freezing. My parents did take steps to ensure I was safely warm when outside, but there was no question of staying home.
This looks a lot like the actual C65 keys. The cylindrical tops were all the rage in the late 80's.
Sorry, I poorly worded that (and even used the word literally. Sigh). My bad.

I meant that we invented computers to do mathematical calculations, of which timezones are a great example.

Getting rid of the timezones doesn't mean we get rid of computers. It just means all benefits we get from using computers for timezones are now lost. and we have to do mental calculations to figure out what 4:30am means at any given location.
It probably wasn't much better before.
Really? There are worse EU cities regarding security.
> I roll my eyes every time someone talks about the "premium price" of Apple hardware. Apple hardware is not all that much more expensive; it's just not subsidized via tracking/profiling (loss of privacy), and subsequent advertising, the way the competition is.

I understand your sentiment about the price being subsidized with vendor lock in, advertisement and data gathering. But the point on the price might be true for the US only.

In most of Europe, as well as in my country, (let alone poorer parts of the world), a used, cheap iPhone can cost as much as two months of the rent money for a small apartment; a new iPhone/Apple device is out of the question.

So the dilemma for most people either no smartphone or an Android smartphone.
Right it's also gpl my bad.

The fact you can download and build it doesn't mean much in general tho.
There was an anti-soviet joke popular among soviet intelligencia 60-70 years ago.

"Before the revolution, Tula province only had one writer - Leo Tolstoy. After the revolution, Tula province has 100 writers, all of them card carrying members of Soviet Writers Union; so situation with literature is now 100 times better".
Specifically the interests of the unborn cannot be represented in a market. The unborn have an interest in the use of resources and the exploitation of the environment, and it is a legitimate moral interest, but they are not market actors and their interests cannot be accounted for in a market framework.
Same opinion here. Was going to try it out, but got scared away by the registration form
It's both similar and different in many ways :)
But I think adding support for it alongside IPFS wouldn't be too much of a pain, as superficially they work in somewhat similar ways. Primarily Dat is targeted towards sharing/storage of research data, which I think would be a cool thing to spread support for.

It has a browser that allows people to easily make and navigate sites, called Beaker. It has some really interesting projects built around it, and as marknadal says, it supports changing the contents of locations etc.

I believe Dat works over Tor currently, which is interesting. However finding info on successes/problems with the various P2P stacks and Tor is a bit hit-and-miss.
I've been thinking that too, but I remember something in his works along the lines of (paraphrased of course):

"Although my philosophy/guides/writings may not work for me, they may work for others."
I recently transitioned to architect from lead engineer and it’s been very jarring. My day to day went from leading a few meetings here and there and smashing hard bugs to near constant meetings with people higher and higher up the food chain (just yesterday I was presenting to the president of our parent company). Where as 3 months ago I would say “sure, I can do that” and then fire up vim and go to town. Now I’m fighting with sr. Directors and asking them “What is this in service of?” And I do very little coding outside of producing proof of concept work. I do like it but it’s just entirely different work from what I’ve been doing the past 8 or so years.
Support for Reflection and Dynamic class loading isn't possible yet, which could be a big downside.
I hope 1.0 GA release lands with it.
sorry, I meant:
why did my startup failed: I was pretty much working alone
what did I learn: build a team
Great feedback. I was just about to write a comment regarding 1. above - it feels like you might have brought a bit too much of your open source roots into the presentation and too little of your business oriented foundation.

Of course this depends also on who you want to target as potential customers - who do you want to target?
More like decision tree/rules engine with pattern recognizing neural networks underneath. You detect features and then take largely pre-programmed actions based on those features.
Add parachutes and dump them in the sea.
Would love if someone knowledgeable could point out from this list what are the most apparently easy or simple problem statements.

i.e. problem statements that someone who has a degree but is not a mathematician would still be able to appreciate. I'm really interested in this, but reading through the list it all sounds really "deep" =)

I was wondering what was the most surprising problem to not have been solved yet.
If only Space X had asked the experts on the Internet before pouring so much money into building reusable rockets...
Thinking about meritocracy in open source communities
Can't say as a developer I've ever felt crippled using Firefox over Chrome.
Is TLA+ is the culmination of Leslie Lamport's approach to describing state machines?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p54W-XOIEF8&list=PLWAv2Etpa7...
Interestingly in the UK the "mysterious, secret, and occult" has been resolved by the state with the maxim : "so it belongs to the Queen" (as the head of state, not personally!)
This kind of throttling is done to squeeze more money from anything crossing their network. All ISPs want a piece of the pie so they will charge at both ends anything coming in and anything going out to you.
We are starting to do that, and for very simple operations, it works (like scripts for maintenance that we deploy remotely, and run as cron jobs). So far no big surprises, but we were very careful.

The big minefield is that you do not really know which libraries will go boom and where, as any place could make use of class loading.
Half of Elon is apparently a treasure of humanity, and the other half is some giant unstable douche. How do we arrange an intervention such that the guy getting high on Joe Rogan and harassing expats doesn't bring down the guy doing the good stuff?
Yes, and in the last 50 years carbon emissions have skyrocketed, while wages have stagnated.
We are depleting the resources of the planet and polluting at an unbearable pace.
We have to change the economy and protectionism for me can be a good measure. If protecting the environment or health is good, why is protecting the economy bad?
What is the opposite of protecting? attack? If so, why does protecting something lead to a trade war? should not it be to attack an economy?
This area is full of self-righteous words like "free market" or "trade war". We cannot question something that is free? And a war is something that has to be fought at all times?
We need to see through this.
That's an interesting perspective I hadn't thought about before. At the same time though, it is certain that her every move while on the site was being monitored, recorded and analyzed – just like everyone else's.
A bit ironic that Yusaku Maezawa wants the mission to be about "World Peace" when the $200+ million he most likely spent could be better served on Earth. Just call it what it is, a wish to be part of something bigger.
How a guy smoking a joint can trouble you is beyond me.
It's not always possible to pull over. If it's snowing so heavily that driving has become dangerous there probably is no shoulder to pull over to, much less a shoulder you can safely pull over to. Source: I've been in these conditions. You do the best you can.
My first startup failed because of doubt I had in the product and because of poor coordination with my co-founder.

My finance co-founder and I wanted to make an IoT device for kitchens. I made a prototype with 3D printed parts and an Arduino. My co-founder was going to market and seek investors. While working on the prototype I found out that there were tremendous numbers of edge cases that would make a marketable product far too complex and my co-founder didn't do the things he said he was going to do. So I stopped working on it and me and my co-founder mutually decided to end the project after completing the first prototype.

Two lessons I learned was to make sure to find a co-founder you know can deliver on their promises and to work on something you're really passionate about, not just something you think will make you money.
"I want to call my Uncle Steve in Melbourne. What time is it there? Google tells me it is currently 4:25am there. Does that mean I can call him? I don't know."

Google can also direct me to other very intuitive tools like this: https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/sunearth.html
The root problem is SSL/TLS was largely promoted, for years and years, as conflating two concerns:

1. Can an arbitrary third party eavesdrop on my communications?

2. Am I communicating with who I think I'm communicating with?

It is now extremely easy to handle use case (1). Use case (2) is still genuinely hard, because even extremely technically literate security-savvy people can still easily be phished (my current go-to example is this talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZjW12K0IHgo).

Compounding the problem, many people insisted, for many years, that use case (2) was the overwhelming majority of all the value of SSL/TLS, and use case (1) was at best a tiny microscopic fraction of a fraction of a fraction of what was useful about SSL/TLS.

Lest you think I'm exaggerating: I've spent years arguing with people, including right here on HN, about this, and being condescendingly told that identity verification is the crown jewel, and that if I'm not going to make use of that then I might as well literally just go back to plain unencrypted HTTPS, because apparently that's actually better than using SSL/TLS without identity verification.

Also, I really recommend watching that video I linked. It's a security engineer at Stripe, talking about how she ran some pretty successful campaigns within the company. Whatever you may think of them, they're not unlettered philistines. But even things like your "Expect-EV" wouldn't have helped -- she cites an example of people noticing their password manager wasn't autofilling, because it knew they weren't on the expected domain, and then users manually copy/pasting the credentials out of their password manager anyway. There just aren't any easy "just do X" technical solutions here.
It failed because I was an idiot who thought he knew it all. It also failed because my co-founders were my best friends so the "partnering" wasn't based on skills or what you bring to the table, but rather the fact of us being friends. And finally I've fought my incubator/accelerator who were idiots enough to fight me back and it was almost a bullying tournament, I'm glad we solved that and everyone carried on with their lives.

I've learned a lot, to listen more and to choose wisely, not to spend any money before knowing what it will return to the company and also not to over promise. If I have to do it all over again I would but with the mindset of "I want to change my self first" before thinking about changing the world.
Space X doesn't need Elon. Gwynne Shotwell [1] and Tom Mueller [2] are doing a great job.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gwynne_Shotwell

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Mueller
Is it your general feeling about registration forms or there is something particularly wrong with my form? Thanks
Comparing Italy to India is a disproportionate
>>Real IBM the thing we think of as IBM actually died, and instead Zombie IBM took it's place (zIBM).

That would be true for any company once their core set of products go out of trend without replacements.

Lets say tomorrow Google/Alphabet loses its search engine business, there is nothing much they can do but financially engineer the company in a way that is useful to share holders, which might include going into businesses many Google people now consider beneath their station.

IBM that way is an incredibly well run company.
A friend of mine quit his job when they essentially forced him into management. To your point it would have been a slight increase in salary. But much more work that he didn’t enjoy and considerably less flexible work environment. You’re right these things should be obvious to companies. The things most good programmers enjoy and value are rarely the same things that managers, even good ones, are looking for.
> Are you okay with gyms selling more unlimited memberships than the number of machines they have?

Yes, but with a gym, you can switch if you keep seeing overcrowdedness. Not so with an ISP that has a monopoly.
By rail kilometres, yes, but not by usage. Virtually every line experience heavy traffic (cargo, RE) is electrified, but there are many lines covering branches of the network where no heavy traffic occurs, which is not electrified.

That's what this hydrogen train is for; it's base (LINT) is one of the most common trains used on those "backroad lines".

(Coincidentally, the lint is also one of the most uncomfortable trains to ride if you are larger than a twelve year old boy)
Many of the most famous works of classical art in the world were transactional and "eagerly public" in their time. The great artists of the renaissance created many works entirely funded and instigated by rich benefactors or the church, and which were intended for the consumption an awed public. But nowadays we don't look at the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel and think about the politics of the patronage relationship between Pope Julius II and Michelangelo. That's a historical issue, of no importance when considering its long-term artistic merit.

Great art transcends its origins, no matter what they are. Indeed, perhaps art is made greater by transcending its origins, just as it is by transcending the limitations of its form. The art created by this project probably won't be great, because most art isn't great. But it certainly could be. And, if so, your a priori dismissal of it will look about as informed as a contemporary renaissance critic dismissing a masterpiece as just another piece of church-funded propaganda.
I was always pretty proud of my now defunct side project's flow. You could build the whole page right from the homepage, but to save it you had to register (otherwise who would the page belong to). It had a really great conversion rate from click to account, but a poor rate from account to paid customer hence why it didn't work out.
That actually adds more mass than the extra fuel required for propulsive landing. And significant refurbishment of engines is needed after they've contacted salt water.
> In fact it's against the law for them to do that.

No it isn't.
As counter intuitive as it may seem, the universal basic income is not there to 'eradicate poverty', but a final Neo-liberal hail-Mary to save their socioeconomic market ideology snake that has been eating its own tail.
I found that going to http://dribble.com/ and trying to copy some of the designs was the best approach. You'll only learn with practice.
You can't downvote a story though - or do you think people flagged it instead?
I actually kind of agree that EV certificate inspire more confidence when buying something on a dodgy website that you never heard about. But for that one needs to be tech savvy enough to even recognize what an EV certificate is and how it is different from a DV cert, and I am sure that even most developers aren't sure exactly, let alone the wider population. So I doubt it gives much benefit to any website.
Waymo's purpose is to not kill the meatbags. Unlike Uber, Waymo has been very successful at this. Also the claim was that the car cannot turn left on its own which is completely wrong. There is merely a very high safety margin so that the car will only drive when it is sure that no collision will occur.
Yeah, my memory of Path is that they spammed all my contacts in the first week of having it installed and then I uninstalled it and never went near it again.
This is actually a pretty good writeup. I think the best teams are more aggressive than what the author suggests.

The only thing you don't need to do is swear and the only thing you need to really add is a better solution:

"That's a terrible terrible idea! It's bad design because of x, y and z. Instead, why don't we do a? We can write tests for it and we'll need to refactor the module, but it's a clean solution. We could also do b as a quick fix. I mean if we have to, we can do c, but I think we should try to do a."

You should not be afraid to say ideas are terrible. On a corporate team, just don't swear (in slack, you can in person. It's about professionalism) but if you say something is terrible, say why, defend your argument and be prepared to offer a better solution.
May have left the EU. No clear plan for doing this has yet been presented, and doing it without a plan looks like immediate disaster.
The amount of car accidents is higher on mondays after the switch, this alone is a reason for me to abolish DST. Your body needs 2 weeks to fully adjust after the change, i.e. a full month a year your inner clock is out of tune.
Most use cases of ActivityPub would be better off as Atom or RSS feeds
Improving DataView performance in V8