skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You'll have large shadows defined by where buildings are in relation to the pylons and the shuttle would not be able to descend below the roof line in many areas outside of a subdivision with low 2 story houses depending on how tall the towers are. In addition you can't really do this anywhere there is going to be air traffic with the current systems as you'll need to shut it down whenever a helicopter wants to fly through.
The Geographic Distribution of US Profits Abroad
Can you be more specific than a 280 page document?
Noooooo, please tell me that it's not true - it's the foundation of many of my experiments delivering huge performance and flexibility compared to anything else...!

Where did you read/hear it?
Extrapolating based on known evidence and having a fossil record to confirm that extrapolation is not faith, it's evidence based logical reasoning. I didn't see the sun rise on the 3rd of June 1924, but it's not faith to believe that it did so.
It's a big cost if you and I want to get in on it but probably not that great for a tech giant to invest a couple billion and skip the pre sdc years.
Now let's try to generate some pics of the lunar landing sites.
This line of thinking seems right and what I assume most would take away from this incident (Maybe I have to reevaluate my line of thinking?). I'm surprised to see so many people making this a black or white, 1 or 0 binary choice out of this whole ordeal.
> People maintaining proprietary/closed-source code cannot use crates.io, and instead are forced to use git or path dependencies. This is usually fine for small projects, but if you have a lot of closed-source crates within a large organization, you lose the benefit of the versioning support that crates.io has.

I'm surprised that making people run their own registries is the preferred way to address this, instead of implementing versioning support for git dependencies.

There's many bad things I say about golang, but "I wish this module system additionally required me to host a language-specific package repository" is not one of them.
> we'll have self-sufficient Mars colonies and space colonies in the next few decades. The funding is economics-based this time around rather than taxes and government projects, making it less volatile and less likely to be cancelled

Lunar and asteroid support colonies, sure, but what is the sustainable profit model for Martian colonies?
S-1s only list >5% stockholders - you'll note that the co-founders have been diluted down to 7.1%. Y Combinator has definitely been diluted below that amount, that being said random back of the napkin (aka pulled from my ass) numbers for their share count is probably 700,000ish so their return is pretty damn good.
>Three months ago

Why did it take three months to write this blog post?
> Ah, gotta love Nazis screaming "you have to tolerate my intolerance!".

Wow! Just casually name-calling someone a Nazi, because of a difference of opinion is just so damn 2019.

Here's a quick thought experiment for you - name ONE conservative who you DO NOT consider a Nazi. Just one.

And then maybe you'll realize that the problem isn't that the opposing philosophy is actual Nazism, it's that you've been trained to open a debate with the accusation of "You are a Nazi because you disagree with my politics. Prove otherwise"
Well, it depends. The EU doesn't like free speech; archive.org is not exempt (April 10th):

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20190410/14580641973/eu-te...
Birth of a child. Death of a dog. Epic wins.

Yep, checks out.
If I were running Wikipedia, I would make some effort to programmatically archive online citations, like archive.org does. Imagine some government persona mis-tweets something that leads to article-worthy historical consequences; if twitter deletes the tweet, can that person sue to have it removed from wikipedia because it made her/him look bad, on the basis that the original citation link doesn't work?
>You’re talking about whether the targets think it succeeds in doing so

No, I'm 100% not. You haven't been paying attention to any of my responses. And you just made it clear that you wish to stay ignorant about the point I'm actually making, so I don't see the point in continuing with someone who will not communicate in good faith.
I have a strong feeling that Uber will be launching their standalone mapping service soon
Did anyone else notice the object flying by @ 54:26? What was that? Looked bigger than a piece of dust, was moving much faster than the upper stage and payload. Is that normal? Did it pose any risk?

https://youtu.be/TXMGu2d8c8g?t=3265
Indeed, I prefer noise. Silence makes me feel ill at ease, like nobody's around, like something terrible could happen and I have no recourse to anybody. I don't feel safe in silence, but whenever I tell anybody this, I'm poo-pooed as being silly.
I always find the ArrayStoreException funny. I've written a lot of Java code over the years, including a fair bit pre-generics, and yet I don't believe I've ever triggered this exception.
It may be ad-hominem but its also worth knowing. I know Shockley was a eugenics nut, it doesn't diminish his work on the transistor with the others at Bell Labs. For Hardin, his racism informed his field of study. I find it hard to go past the impact of decisions about aid and welfare he made, based on his views because the commons metaphor went to the same place.

So yes, it has aspects of Ad Hominem but not solely. You can't divorce this from his work, the way you might for e.g. Shockley.
It's also a beautiful display of human ambition and looking to the future :)
How on earth could they have not solved the drone ship landing video feed issue yet? Is it really that hard to keep a video camera working near a landing rocket? Even if the feed cuts out, can they not just record it locally and rebroadcast? It makes absolutely no sense.
We should put up a page highlighting controversial, publicized wiki pages as they are historically significant.
Crying is nominal.
Wow... the effort that went into this article is impressive! Great animations and explanations to decompose what is a pretty complex subject.

Nicely done.
None of those describe a moat. Google is better than Bing. Hulu has a different offering from Netflix (and a lot of people use both). No idea what different distances of grocery stores have to do with anything.

None of those describe a 'moat'. Something like Facebook is a moat. Instagram. A messaging app. Anything where your participation increases the value of the whole offering and hence you'll be locked in, else you lose a lot of value (e.g. from all the contacts you made in the aforementioned networks)
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Especially arriving, and also departing, I think Uber with "door-to-door" service may be a better answer. Luggage above carry-on would be hard to take on multiple-stop public transportation with a walk, and especially arriving in evening after a tiring travel, I often want to get directly to my lodging and freshen up.
Indeed. They even have a verb for it: oversighted.
What? The article literally starts off by explaining that 98% of dieters fail to keep their weight down long term, and that dieting bodies go into starvation mode, impeding weight loss. That's the bit that no one talks about. That diet and exercise doesn't help a fat person get thin and stay thin.

The one cure they fail to mention is bariatric surgery. It's the only scientifically proven method of long term weight loss.
I really hope this will get old eventually, that means we have truly entered a new era for space launches and hopefully space exploration.
Very funny. I also am often in a discussion where I develop some theory about something and only after a while start thinking "Huh? What am I talking about? This makes no sense.". Happens to the best of us.
* Two boosters landing (mostly) simultaneously, the center core landing later downrange due to the higher altitude and velocity it commenced reentry at
If Capitalism is so flawed why is there a net immigration from more socialist countries to more capitalist ones?
Amazing and beautiful engineering. Imagine the satisfaction and the feeling you get knowing that you are part of a team that made all of that soar through the sky and back home safely. /applause
By your previous logic, if the Journal happens to have an bad cook at its on-premises cafeteria, McDonalds would be entitled to call "unfair play" and shoot down the article about their awful burgers.
Just because he prefers revealing truths about one side over another (which -- presumably a lot of entities are like that) doesn't mean those truths aren't important to reveal. Yeah it's a political act, but it's an extremely important one and one that deserves protection. Was Snowden obligated to reveal information about 3rd party hackers to make it fair for the NSA?

You seem to be under the impression that he's obligated to be fair. But outside of things like the New York Times what political speech is ever fair? The only obligation I think he has is to not lie or fabricate evidence.
You miss my point. Root Cause typically does what you are doing, focusses on technology and in-the-moment behaviours and remediation.

I wanted to go above this to a higher layer: Had the regulatory environment the FAA has mandate to operate run better, then Boeing could not have asserted "same type" for such a huge change to the flight dynamics of the aircraft moving its CG with the new engine.

The "root cause" is not technological, its the compliance processes, and the desperate desire to artificially re-create a "level playing field" between Boeing and Airbus
That’s discussed in the article
Bigger issues to take care of...
I seem to recall that Robert Zubrin's book "The Case for Mars" suggested selling Martian deuterium to Earth. That idea is tied with "mine the Moon for helium 3" as the least plausible business idea that otherwise-smart people can suggest with a straight face.

EDIT: he also shared this idea in articles.

https://space.nss.org/the-promise-of-mars-by-robert-zubrin/

Deuterium, the heavy isotope of hydrogen currently valued at $10,000 per kilogram, is five times more common on Mars than it is on Earth. Deuterium has its applications today, but it is also the basic fuel for fusion reactors, and in the future when such systems come into play as a major foundation of Earth’s energy economy, the market for deuterium will expand greatly.

Martian colonists will be able to use rocket hoppers using locally produced propellants to lift such resources from the Martian surface to Mars’ moon Phobos, where an electromagnetic catapult can be enplaced capable of firing the cargo off to Earth for export. ...
Comply with a commercial operator or use free software. Make sure to buy hardware which supports such from the get-go, especially make sure the hardware can not be disabled or crippled by the manufacturer for violating some nonsensical licence. In plain English this now means "don't buy Apple hardware" as this platform is hostile to free software (e.g. T2 chip which shuts down the machine when 'unlicensed' software (read 'Linux') is used, etc).
Except it isn't everywhere, so their moat isn't complete and is eroded by the fact that you need to rely on local transport options in a lot of areas - I don't think this really counts much as a strength of theirs, and I think their current attempts to operate in so many markets and their reliance on a lack of enforcement/laws that can change may make this more of a liability for the company.
> (Despite all the blithering about edge cases, they haven't been big problems in practice. The serious Uber and Tesla accidents were not edge cases. They were blatantly obvious obstacles: a semitrailer, a fire truck, a fixed barrier, and an isolated pedestrian on an open road.)

> It's not easy, and it's not impossible. It's just hard, like television or xerography. Those took decades from first demo until they worked well. This doesn't fit well with the startup make-money-fast model. It does fit with the big-company R&D lab model.

Amen, and to my view, that's probably a good thing. As much as I think driverless technology will be a boon when it eventually arrives fully, the interim is damn scary. I would much rather have a decade or two of intervening half-solutions that actually provide well understood levels of safety. If a company was willing to shoot for something less than the moon, we might have been on track to have specialized carpool lanes that support driverless conveyance (e.g. buses or taxis) within major cities and possibly within 30, 50 or even 100 miles of them, depending on the metro areas and funds to adopt them. The problem is, who is willing to fund research into or consider implementing at a city scale technologies that required infrastructure investment when there's all these players acting like they'll have a perfect solution in a year or two?

I would much rather have a more modest but well understood solution in place in 3-5 5 years and a good beginning for a stable and trusted fully autonomous system in 10-15 a than the broken promises, and IMO incredibly optimistic PR we get now that serves no purpose other than to steal market share of money and public perception.
Those markets are also lacking tons of cash to literally buy the market. And those competitors easily develop their own network effects. It doesnt look like there is huge lock in here, of the scale of e.g. facebook. There is a case to be made that uber is replaceable.
> Is it really that hard to keep a video camera working near a landing rocket?

Yes.

> Even if the feed cuts out, can they not just record it locally and rebroadcast?

Yes, but then it wouldn't be a live feed. Which is what they typically broadcast.
Code like that is the bane of my existence. Give me `T2 function(T1)` every time. Besides being overwhelmingly clearer, I can use it in just one line. The other needs at least 3, more commonly 5, lines packed around it, so
less than 20% of your code actually does anything useful toward the problem it is supposed to solve. Five times longer means you have five times the bugs.

Besides being horrible style, operating on references cripples the optimizer. "Avoid accidental copying"? What good is that if it's slower than if you did the copy?
haha, my wife automatically handed me the box of tissues when i put on the spacex live stream just now..
The things we are spending money on (besides arguably defense) have next to nothing to do with working at international scale. Furthermore, while I'm not advocating we return to the era of AoC, the power granted via the current Constitution does not bestow the power, size, and scope of things that the current federal government has embraced.
They won't go to prison in USA because they'll never go to trial in USA. Hint: they're Russians who live in Russia. Even if they did show up to a USA courthouse, the trial would just be indefinitely postponed, like for instance the trial of Concord Management which was supposed to start a year ago. Mueller didn't give them a day in court, for a year, and now he has retired.

Don't waste too much effort defending Mueller. Just like with e.g. Comey who was praised before he was reviled before he was praised, alternate orders on Mueller will soon come through for you. The war pigs are not pleased with his performance.
What do you do if your boss lied to a client?
Our company had a group meeting with a client about a product we have. The client asked a specific question about our product and our boss told them "yes it does that", knowing full well that the functionality didn't exist.

I called him out on it later in private, and he defended himself, but it never sat right with me. People say fake it till you make it, but is that really what it means...
This sounds right.
That's how conspiracies work. Each participant does only a part of the overall conspiracy. If I forge a document and give it to you so you can sneak into a secure area and commit a murder, I am not just guilty of forgery, I am guilty of conspiracy to murder.

They guy who drives the getaway car is guilty of murder as much as the people who walk into the building.

This is the entire point of conspiracy law. Driving a car is not a crime! But it is if you're conspiring with other people who are committing crimes. Otherwise, you would be able to take part in a murder and be let off, because all you did was act as lookout.

If you and a friend plan to poison someone, and you buy the poison and give it to your friend who then poisons the target, you are guilty of conspiracy to murder, even though buying the poison may not actually be a crime. Prosecutors may legitimately not have anything else on you because that's "all" you did!
> Are you deeply uncomfortable with the thought of govt jailing you for literally doing nothing?

Yes? I’d be concerned for anyone who isn’t. And to be clear... he didn’t crack it. I’ve run password hashes through rainbow tables for shits and giggles. Should I be dragged out of an embassy next?
democrats are against ID laws because the government and employers together have made it too difficult to get an ID for the working class
> I personally believe that companies should focus on self-driving trucking rather than self-driving cars and pivot into ride sharing after a few years of successful freight transport.

Really? I work in the SDC industry and I have the opposite opinion. Unless the self-driving trucks are all driving on dedicated roads (which won't happen) I would not want to share the road with them while they 'experiment'. IMO, the greatest threat is not to the occupants of the SDC but to the other vehicles, pedestrians, and bicyclists.
Well... the first amendment doesn't mention the people. It just says "Congress shall make no law..."

So I'm not sure the same logic applies.
WL publishes documents with minimal context and no subtext, no added commentary or presentation whatsoever. Which shows how dependent on presentation has news reporting become. What Assange accomplished should be viewed as a priceless resource for journalists, reams of data and pure info, in unedited original words, there to speak for itself. If "fake news" is the grand enemy today, then the feds are after the one and only purveyor of hard facts without color, what they purport to favor in reactionary ideology.
>Yes.

Great, I guess that settles it then.

>Yes, but then it wouldn't be a live feed. Which is what they typically broadcast.

Because streaming delays aren’t a thing?
The United States itself does not respect international law and does not permit its soldiers to be prosecuted in the ICJ under any circumstances. Therefore there is no reason to afford it any similar consideration.

International law is largely a myth due to the extreme power differential between the United States and most other countries. The only hard and fast rule is that might makes right.
"ridiculously ..." what? ridiculously large? ridiculously ridiculous?
At least initially, I think ticket sales will do. With ticket prices floated for like 20 years before any go on sale, the target price is like $200,000 or so and the idea is that many people will be both willing and able to sell their Earthly possessions and go.

They will produce multiple exports from Mars that are most likely going to be scientific data and software, things that are easily transmittable back to Earth (unlike rocks etc).

I would also imagine the more distant future profit models will be similar to on Earth; people will buy and sell goods and services there, just like they do here. There will be Martians who want to go explore the rest of the solar system, so they will build that tech as well.

I could list more and maybe I will but I gotta run. There are limitless potential sustainable profit motives and economic activities that will happen on Mars; until we go and establish the colonies, we can only speculate the exact nature of them. But given that millions of people are saving their money clamoring to move to Mars ASAP, I imagine there will be millions of ideas for generating income on Mars.

Where there are problems that people have, there will be solutions that people will pay for. And there will be millions of people on Mars - so I expect millions of problems and millions of solutions.

Edit: I imagine sports arenas will be built, and new sports created/adapted for Mars (the moon will surely be popular for this too). There will be Martian olympics and various other games that nobody on Earth can do - but will surely pay $20 to 'livestream' ppv.

I'll keep thinking about possible _differentiated, diversified, and large-scale_ revenue sources for self-sufficient colonies on Mars to consider prior to and during their founding.
I'm wondering what exactly Google will use this home delivery by drone tech for? Their Google Express service is nice but it's not their main business and this makes a lot more sense if it was launched by e-commerce giant like Amazon. I'm just wondering how Google will convert this tech in a viable business?
They already programatically replace reference URLs with links to archive.org for those URLs.
Coffee not essential for life, Swiss government says
They are going to get hammered on taxes, though. The IPO price sets the income they are taxed on while the price in 6 months determines what they actually take home. The result is that if you’re in California and the stock price falls to 30ish, you effectively take home nothing.
At the risk of sounding super weird and creepy this sounds like a fun group and I love pizza, mind if I showed up?
You are prescribing the problem as the solution. Journalists being unwilling to hold political feet to the fire is what caused the buildup of weaponizable secrets in the first place.
Yup!

One is from the engine bell, one from the widest part of the body by the landing legs, and the third is the grid fins.
The end result sync animation is cool, like being able to click the text to scrub to that part of the video.

But I wasn't sure how to use the Create form so I couldn't figure out what the tool was and how it worked.
Downvoted so hard.
Jawdropping.

At this point, how far ahead is SpaceX from any other launch effort? 5 years? 10?