skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you're counting just the Apollo program, your numbers seem high -- the entire program cost "only" $25B in 1973 dollars, or $106B in 2016 dollars.

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

Or maybe up to $200B in today's dollars: "In 2009, NASA looked back at the cost of the Apollo program in its entirety, and arrived at a figure of $170 billion in 2005 dollars (or around $200 billion in today’s money)"

https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/186600-apollo-11-moon-la...

But each Saturn V launch cost a few billion dollars in today's dollars, so you could deduct ~40B if you only care about making a few launches.

Though still well out of reach of a privately funding company that has no real return on investment (it's not like an asteroid mining mission that could bring back a trillion dollars of minerals).
Doesn’t YouTube and social media provide best content recommendations targeted to individuals interests? As far as I can tell, it’s great in theory but leads to echo chambers, people getting lynched, or living completely disconnected from reality.

Great idea in theory, and the people peddling these technologies are even convinced they’re changing the world for the better.

I’m not trying to antagonize you. Good intents lead to hell or something like that.
I didn't know Wolfram Language had support for RDF and SPARQL!

I'm always baffled by the expressiveness of the language. I think the platform is extremely underrated. How is it not the silver bullet we're all looking for?
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The internet I grew up with was a champion of free speech and exchange of ideas. No matter what they were. It’s very sad to see that it’s being taken over calls for censorship on so many different levels. I do find the nurtrality aspect to be very hypocritical though. The same communities that demand ISP infrastructure be kept neutral at all costs will often support content censorship in numerous other ways.
Almost 2,000 previously unknown bacteria discovered in the human gut
I would like to see a version with Javascript and http://observablehq.com.
Counterpoint: Nobody owes the Saudis a publishing platform to push their app. If they want to fully self host it on servers within the geographical borders of the kingdom, they can. Good luck getting it to install on the majority of non-rooted iOS and Android devices.

I would encourage anyone running any 'cloud' based services for the Saudi government to discontinue serving them as soon as possible. This runs the gamut from basic DNS hosting, VM hosting (google/AWS/azure/whatever), email and managed service hosting (office365), everything.

They're welcome to have a go at fully self hosting everything for their own citizens on their own ISPs, inside the kingdom, with netblocks they don't advertise to BGP upstreams.
>Cuisine, fashion, religion, basic attitudes, lines of acceptable thought, how to behave as an individual, how to behave in a group, how to behave as a leader, how to behave as a subordinate, acceptable vices, social progress

Not sure if you're doing this intentionally, but these are all the things Americans definitely don't share in common or agree on, even within the same cities and states. In fact, we have never disagreed more on the subjects you listed. Largely because individuals have become increasingly atomized due to the internet age and a multitude of socioeconomic trends.

In fact, I'd posit that it's not very likely that the average american shares much with his neighbor culturally, outside of entertainment, even if they superficially seem to have a lot in common. It's more common to seek out a specific group(or faction) that you can relate to, than to form a local offline community with people physically near you.

>What it means to be American in Idaho is something quite different than what it means to be American in Hawaii

And yet there are all sorts of people in both Idaho and Hawaii. Many of whom agree on little and share almost nothing in common. I'd bet that even in a small town in Idaho very few citizens would agree with more than two of the things you listed.

In general, I'd have to agree with the person you're responding to: shared, common American culture is mostly the lowest common denominator entertainment we get through TV and Internet. For example, recognizing references from "The Office"
I'm not sure if you're aware of this, but China is the only country outside the US with an independent tech ecosystem. To the point where they're buying pieces of Reddit, even, I heard somewhere.

Tencent, qq, weibo, Baidu, Alibaba, taobao, and I'm sick of typing but the list goes on.

It started with protectionism but pride goes before the fall as they say.
There's a good writeup here when it happened on GDAX at the end of 2017: https://medium.com/@bitfinexed/meet-picasso-the-painter-on-g...
Thank you for the kind words.

I believe that children learn from observing their parents. It sounds like you are off to a great start.

If any of your kids are close to fitting the cadet/midshipman profile, make sure to encourage them to consider service academies. They are not impossible to get into.

I think all of the academies have week long summer experience programs for HS Juniors. My daughter went to two of them and confirmed that it was a good fit for her.

My oldest graduates and commissions this Spring and has had a wonderful experience, including spending a semester studying abroad, a couple of shorter overseas trips, internships in DC, and so on.
Hey - thanks for explaining that to me; I was under a different impression of how it worked, and your explanation has really cleared things up. Now I know a bit more!
Ask HN: What web browser and search engine combo do you use for personal use?
and why?

Mine are Firefox and DDG but I was thinking of giving Startpage a try.
Is this sarcasm or serious? If serious, how does this work in practice on older phones that don't get oa updates but do get play store updates?

I see this mentioned a lot on reddit, but unless there are no security updates happening through android itself it seems ill informed.
Oh, I completely agree. It's just easy to overstate Rust's guarantees, which doesn't do anybody any good.
Conceivably if we were to go to the Moon today, it would be substantially cheaper.

This seems contrary to experience. In constant dollars, a jetliner today is 5-10X the price of a jetliner of the 1960s. Mass transit rail miles are >10X. The solutions may be better, but they don't seem to be cheaper.

Launch costs do seem to have fallen quite a bit in very recent history though. So maybe?
This quickly leads to unintended consequences. What happens if a large group of people (perhaps wearing red hats with a four letter acroynym) decide they want big tech to step on a flower you hold dear?
That seems like a much harder sell -- telling people they are going to be the first people to colonize another planet is exciting. Sending them on a sightseeing cruise around the moon (without even stopping) seems less interesting since even if the trip is "free" (paid by others), it's going to be risky.
I'm going to be that guy. The Internet was better in the late 90s early 2000s.
Like contract testing? https://docs.pact.io/

That's more for HTTP communication between services but I wonder if you could build something similar for libraries.
I don't buy that. Even chimps go to war between different bands, so we've likely got that in common going back at least 6-7 million years when we shared a common ancestor.

There's not a lot of evidence for war, but there's not a lot of evidence for anything. Very little survives over time. So I don't think a lack of evidence is meaningful yet.
Yup. I'm a 10-year reddit user. I looked at the default FP recently and it's all about memes. Stupid animaladvice stuff. Only images. If they re-design this into 9gag I wouldn't be able to tell the difference.

It used to be about r/askscience, r/atheism, a lot more textual stuff. I know the best experience is in subscribing to the right subreddits, but it's quite a shame the default front page that newbies land on has become 9gag.
Ask HN: How do you manage exotic tech?
For example, if you're Richard Hendricks (HBO's Silicon Valley), how do you get your staff to execute on your new exotic compression algorithm? Or, if you're Larry Page, how do you do get the Jeff Deans of the world to build Big Table, etc?

In other words, if you're running a business that requires pushing the edge of innovation; how do you ensure that the project actually succeeds and creates business value? How do you prevent these projects from devolving into endless black-holes of research?
Outcome 4 - Saudi mobile phone carriers partner with Chinese device manufacturer to deploy custom built versions of Android with 'play protect' ripped out, and Absher app as a non-removable default install.

Basically think of what you could do if OnePlus went fully evil and built an 'evil' version of OxygenOS, their custom android variant.
Japan is a democracy with basic rights like freedom of speech. China is currently an extremely censorship heavy totalitarian state. It doesn't seem unreasonable to be concerned about such a repressive state gaining increasing influence over our media via these types of investments.
Just like I paid extra for a nice PSU instead of the very cheapest, I would pay more for ECC.

The cost difference for ECC amortized over the life of the hardware is negligible compared to the annoyance and time spent trying to work out what's causing those random bluescreens/reboots/corruption.
I'm surprised at the negativity on this on a startup accelerator's site where "a small chance of success" - Gimli style - means game on.

At my org, we've had one of these round 3 candidates give a talk about it and the interview and training process they went through seemed like no joke. It seemed to me that if you were to start a company with the final selectees, it would be hard to fail.
Survey says a third of us would do it: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2179922-a-third-of-us-w...

I fucking would. It's the ultimate adventure and I have nothing here on earth.
But unlike alchemy, space colonization is actually technologically possible, it's just prohibitively expensive and would likely take global cooperation to make it possible -- which won't happen without some clear extinction threat to Earth and given the response to the threat of global climate change, I'm skeptical that enough people would believe scientists claiming that we're a decade from a life-ending asteroid strike.
I know that you read the mailing lists, just spending a week on bugs, or following any major or minor discussions on hackers should be enough for you to figure a couple of them out, but I'm not going to personally call anyone out by name on hacker news.

my comment, which is based on the multiple interactions I've had with the community, stands as is: some fantastic people, and a few aggressive bad actors that spoil things.
Is this a novel definition of "library"? To me, library code is called by my code while my code is running. So, most libraries are dependencies, but lots of dependencies are not libraries. Test, code coverage, or documentation tools might be dependencies, or as npm would say instead devDependencies, but they are not libraries. Similarly, webpack is what we might call a build tool, which is also not a library.
Koches, Waltons, Mars's, Johnson's, Newhouses, Catgill-Macmillans, Coxes, Pritzkers, Hearsts.

The first link is shot through with holes, I would not know where to start. The Fed's Survey of Consumer Finances says otherwise.

The second link is obvious on the face of it - in a country with 325 million people, if you look at 11 million firms, the majority are not run by 1%ers. The data parameters make the outcome a foregone conclusion. Of course the owner of the median firm out of 11 million will be more middle class than the heirs who own a lot of stock in Walmart.
Neutrality is a moral viewpoint in itself. It's the viewpoint that nobody is actually wrong, that simply by being a country you have a right to have your moral views respected. In the specific case of app stores, it's the viewpoint that everyone deserves to have the things they're doing made more efficient, and that helping anyone speed up their work is virtuous.

(Neutrality, by the way, is IBM's present defense of Dehomag's actions in World War II: there was a market opportunity in Germany, market opportunities are not inherently immoral, and by the time Germany's morality was beyond the pale, it was too late to say no. See https://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/1388.wss .)

And this isn't really neutrality, anyway. It's neutrality between the views of the powerful. The morality of Saudi Arabia is in scope; the morality of the Unabomber isn't. The morality of the LDS Church is in scope; the morality of Jews who object on religious grounds to the actions of the state of Israel isn't. The morality of China is in scope; the morality of non-authoritarian Communists isn't, because they lost all the Communist countries to authoritarians.
The McCarthy '63 paper referred to seems to be here: http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/basis1/basis1.html
> since most things Internet are US-based

What is meant by this?
True, but it can be difficult for public relation on one side to censor LEGAL speech you disagree with locally (here in the US), and yet accept worse conduct remote. Same argument about Google in China.

Though I guess it only make sense if you consider that both practice bring profits in.
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> greglindahl

Call me uncouth, but I don't know who "greglindahl" is...?

EDIT: Ok - I have an idea now who "greglindahl" is - but I wasn't able to find any reference to writings about the Jacquard loom?

But Lovelace was writing about the Jacquard loom in relation to computation; was greglindahl's writings of the same style - that is, were they in relationship to computation?

If not, then of course there'd be no reason to mention that writer.

But the fact that Lovelace did write about the context of computation in relation to the loom, makes the idea that she could have been mentioned salient.

I'm not arguing that she should have been mentioned, but I can understand how someone could think that might be a worthy addition to the piece.
Another hugely annoying bug that I cannot get over is that it doesn't respect umlauts such as in German typed via US keyboard even when using the Apple way of doing it by holding the key and selecting. Maddening.
I think the public can make a difference. It was done with the TPP.

A more effective and simple solution is mandatory eVerify. What is the cost of illegal immigration? For example there's no study on the cost of deportations. There's about ~180k people deported annually? https://www.cnbc.com/2018/04/05/crossing-attempts-at-us-sout...

The expense of schools has to do with the ever ballooning amount of administers, not teachers. Spending on admin increased and decreased for teachers. As of 2016 more than half of those involved in education are not teachers. Furthermore few countries outspend the US per pupil. In several states education is paid for via bonds and not out of the general fund. The country doesn't have a tax collection problem, it's got a spending problem. As long as people can vote to spend other peoples money, they will.
Most people don't share OP opinion, after a long day of work they want to look at cat pictures. Clickbait farms earn more than traditional newspapers, for the simple fact that more people read them.

As for "best content recommendations": The problem is that everyone has a different opinion on what is good content. So the money is in figuring out what you think is good content. Advertising and Social media companies are great at this: they gather as much data on you as they can to figure out what they think you like, and they show you that.
SA is diversifying as they know their oil empire is failing.
Another thing they share is they have almost all the same requirements as trains, and thus, inevitably, similar costs.
No offense taken, but curious how you see it as supremacist.
Be the change you wish to see in the world. Smartphones are now essential, so you can't completely avoid doing business with at least Google xor Apple, but you can absolutely give up one-click shopping. I've never used it. I've never had Amazon Prime. It's been multiple years since I last bought anything at all on Amazon. I've used Uber less than five times (and Lyft none), and the last time was over three years ago.

Don't act like these services are essentials. They're nothing but tiny conveniences. And while your individual boycott won't have an impact on their bottom lines, their entire existence depends on hundreds of millions of people in your exact situation, giving in to defeatism or not even caring in the first place.
I don't think I'll be able to prevent them from making that demand simply if I don't make demands either. (I certainly don't think that they're not smart enough to realize that a demand could be made until they see me make one, for instance, nor that they're that exact shade of polite that thinks this is an illegitimate tactic until they see it used at which point it becomes legitimate.) So I don't think this is, in any way, a consequence.

Even asking big tech to step on them seems to have a better chance of accomplishing my goals.
And llvm-exegesis:

https://llvm.org/docs/CommandGuide/llvm-exegesis.html

"llvm-exegesis is a benchmarking tool that uses information available in LLVM to measure host machine instruction characteristics like latency, throughput, or port decomposition.

Given an LLVM opcode name and a benchmarking mode, llvm-exegesis generates a code snippet that makes execution as serial (resp. as parallel) as possible so that we can measure the latency (resp. inverse throughput/uop decomposition) of the instruction. The code snippet is jitted and executed on the host subtarget. The time taken (resp. resource usage) is measured using hardware performance counters. The result is printed out as YAML to the standard output.

The main goal of this tool is to automatically (in)validate the LLVM’s TableDef scheduling models. To that end, we also provide analysis of the results."
Counterpoint: Apple has been censoring apps it morally disagree with here in the US.
Make it more inhabitable for others, and maybe do a little research when not too busy just trying to stay alive? People volunteer to spend months stranded in a small research base in Antarctica, and they aren't even colonizing.
That's what I thought, but it nonetheless merits quoting Bob Taylor, no less, from same web, "So, who really did invent the Internet?" [1]

Perhaps the most serious rebuttal on the theory of Pentagon origins (otherwise known as the big bang theory of Internet origins) came from the person who was in charge of the Pentagon Arpanet project at the time when the Internet supposedly began, Bob Taylor. Writing in reference to a mailing list invitation to attend the 35th anniversary event, Bob Taylor explained.

"In February of 1966 I initiated the ARPAnet project. I was Director of ARPA's Information Processing Techniques Office (IPTO) from late '65 to late '69. There were only two people involved in the decision to launch the ARPAnet: my boss, the Director of ARPA Charles Herzfeld, and me.

Numerous untruths have been disseminated about events surrounding the origins of the ARPAnet. Here are some facts.

The creation of the ARPAnet was not motivated by considerations of war. The ARPAnet was not an internet. An internet is a connection between two or more computer networks."

Said page then goes on with a lengthy discussion of five alternative theories of the Internet's origin, which seem to depend mostly on how "internet" is defined.

[1] https://www.nethistory.info/History%20of%20the%20Internet/or...
As long as people enjoy the products well enough in practice they'll agree (enough). Diamonds, Chocolate, borderline slave labor with no environmental laws providing cheap electronics to name a few.
Lulz, I'll share a very similar experience. The first time I took mushrooms, I felt like I had been contacted by a feminine god that conveyed to me the underlying structure of the universe, which was a hexagonal pattern that I could visually see. I believe my eyes were open, but I was staring at a light-fixture (which you shouldn't do, obviously) so this was essentially a closed-eye visual. In the context of my thoughts, "the underlying structure of the universe" meant the nodes and edges which fermions and bosons move around on over time. The hexagons I saw were 2D, but this wasn't a problem for me since I don't take it for granted that we actually live in a 3D universe (string theorists posit something like 11-14, but there's at least one proposed model of a 2D universe that is equivalent the 3D rules we tend to use, and it's perfectly conceivable to me that 3D space is just a useful model that evolution came up with). When I was coming down I fully appreciated that my prior belief in a feminine deity that spread psilocybin-like life throughout the universe to convey the underlying structure of the cosmos to us denizens was ridiculous, and I haven't since taken that thought seriously, but that honeycomb pattern is etched deep into my brain now (if it wasn't already).

Edit: I'd like to add some links that touch on your perception of the hexagon pattern as a representation of the inner workings of the brain. These are super-not-rigorous. They're the collaborative work of people who have had similar experiences of some sort of representation of thought while on entheogens, and I thought you might find them interesting:

https://psychonautwiki.org/wiki/8A_Geometry_-_Perceived_expo...

https://psychonautwiki.org/w/index.php?title=8B_Geometry_-_P...
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You are very right: the problem is that our brains are wired so that we prefer content that confirms our beliefs, we stay longer on the platform and are happier (which means advertisers make more money). Platforms have figured this out and are abusing it.

The concept is called filter bubbles and there is an old (2011) TED talk about it: https://www.ted.com/talks/eli_pariser_beware_online_filter_b...
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There is evidence of war in the past 10,000 years, little before.

Prior to 500 years ago there was little modern contact with the Americas, Australia, parts of sub-Saharan Africa etc., so observation of lack of conflict in hunter-gatherer bands there is more evidence. Obviously I mean hunter-gatherers, not the Aztec warriors.

I don't see what chimpanzees have to do with humans, unless chimpanzees are sculpting Venus Madonnas and drawing buffalo on caves.
$1M is nothing when you could double it in a few years.
Anyways good luck with your startup, and you can always go back, and take your quitting just as a vacation (many of my friends and I were doing the same thing, it's totally normal).
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Firefox and DuckDuckGo as well. I occasionally use the Startpage !bang '!s' if I can't find something with DuckDuckGo.
Earth is a death-trap since no one lives forever, some people just like the chance of doing something more substantial than working a 9-5 job every day and then dying on the same planet they were born on.
See also: https://www.reddit.com/r/undelete
Something similar to this is discussed and championed in The Humane Interface:

https://www.amazon.com/Humane-Interface-Directions-Designing...
Wasn't this already a top news yesterday (BBC article on the same subject)?
Retaliatory unprovoked attacks are not acceptable either.