skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
USSR was perhaps 80% of the way to the Moon flights. They had a spacecraft, which in the form of Zond flew around the Moon and returned with first animals from Moon's vicinity to Earth; a lunar lander, LK, which successfully completed 3 LEO test flights; and a big launcher, N-1, had upper stages tested (their smaller size allowed to do that easier than for the first stage). USSR also had automatic probes on the Moon surface and on the orbit around the Moon, with works toward later Lunokhods and automatic soil return.

Had Korolev been alive, he'd probably both realize the shortcomings of existing systems (chiefly engines on the first stage) and workarounds (one of Korolev's last directives was to enhance cooperation with Chelomei, leading to Proton-Zond circumlunar launches). If not the first, USSR would at least had manned landings, and then the question would shift to comparison of lunar infrastructure; by that time N-1 could be debugged, planned upper stage with hydrogen put in place and Barmingrad (a Moon village project) given go ahead. While expensive, USSR's manned Moon project costed about 6 times less than Project Apollo.

A big takeaway from N-1 problems was that rockets should be tested on the ground first; it costed a fortune, but Energia was tested on the test-stand in full and flew both times successfully. Which makes more troublesome recent ideas to launch SLS without comprehensive testing of launch stages on the ground.
Live subscriptions sound like like staging, not dev
Therefore this is happening with Instagram as well, of course.
Relevant bit here:

> Given your feedback, we have made the decision to roll back all planned changes related to internal use rights and competency timelines that were announced earlier this month. This means you will experience no material changes this coming fiscal year, and you will not be subject to reduced IUR licenses or increased costs related to those licenses next July as previously announced.
That sounds like the right kind of system. The next step is to build this awareness into things like the HVAC system, the refrigerator, the car charger, etc.

Finally, a point to having internet connected appliances!
I would have thought that Uber had proved that you can't just throw money at the problem.
> SoftBank fellas said that autonomous cars will be ‘won’ by those who can outspend everyone else.

Listen to them more. What else do you expect fund managers to say?

We will not see any real self driving in our generation, and may be not even after. That is much more for practical consideration than that of technical possibility.

Second to that, just how many self driving and AI startups are plain fraud? The amount of companies getting 9 digit valuations with nothing more than OpenCV hello worlds should make people to at least scratch their heads
I think the corporate types are assuming that throwing money and engineers at the problem is going to "win" it, but I'm not sure it will. Google has plenty of both of those things and they seem to be stalling at the moment, or the very least they're not confident enough to go out and claim the market for themselves.

I think the engineers have been probably been wildly optimistic as usual, and the last 5% of car autonomy is going to take as much effort as the first 95%, or maybe double that.
Norway have produced on average more energy than we consume the last 70years, but we can not call ourself green anymore because the CO2/energy certificates are bought by Facebook, Apple and other large energy consumers in Europe that want their green stamp. The problem is that Norwegians still feel they are green because we produce so much green energy, and don’t understand (?) the link with money. Because of that Facebook and Apple (++) get these certificates super cheap.
Announcing Linkerd 2.4: Traffic Splitting and SMI
What offends me the most, as HN reader (in EU), is clicking on links to articles only to discover they're behind a paywall or require me to accept cookies or other analytics crap, especially when they come with "Pardon the interruption" and "We value your privacy" modals. Isn't the article on a freely accessible personal blog somewhere?
What’s happening right now is that renewables are being paired with an increasing number of gas power plants. Since gas power can ramp up so quickly they’re a good match until storage can take over.

So I think we already have the solution to the problem you’re describing: just pay to maintain a decent amount of the existing gas power plant. If they’re only there for backup, the impact on CO2 emissions will be negligible. You could even make the gas from renewable sources, since in this scenario the cost of the gas itself is negligible compared to cost of keeping the power plant operational.

This is incidentally another reason (current) nuclear is a dead end going forward. They’re a bad match for renewables. What we need isn’t more base load, we need more peaker plants, load following plants, backup plants and energy storage. Nuclear isn’t a good solution in any of these categories.
That’s how my wife quit. Just drop a level a month, then finally go to 0.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20423819
Quiting vaping is quite likely to be easier for actual chemical reasons - Tobacco contains not only nicotine but an MAOI which seems to add quite a bit to it's addictive effects.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16177026
You can poach all the employees you want, nothing changes if the management is still thinking SOAP and XML is the latest in technology and alienating your customers is better than giving them a good product
Fair. And as was suggested, there's parts of the world where if you don't want all those government and societal benefits, you can totally just fuck off into a forest somewhere. I'm pretty sure you can do that up here in Canada but there's lots of ways that can kill you. It is a pretty romantic concept, I'll admit.
Ways to Fool the Masses Giving Performance Results on Vector Computers (1991)
Huawei is actually one of the very few vendors which do provide the Annex K functions. I can only name Cisco, Intel, Embarcadero, HP and Microsoft who also do so. But Intel very badly.

The report is right to call out Huawei engineers to bypass these checks. They probably had the same attitude to bounds checks as all open source developers and industry practioners.
VisiCalc, a humble Spreadsheet Program
Why are people still trying to use non-Enterprise versions of Windows for serious work?
Write your congressperson. The SWAT team probably gets funding from the Department of Homeland Security to “combat terrorism”. Clearly the terrorists have moved online, so perhaps some security funding should go there, too.
How you got from "offer public housing" to "abolish private property" is a mental path I'd like to explore. I really mean it. Because it seems that a lot of people seem to mix up welfare state with communism and I'm trying to understand why.
That shim layer makes sense. The real problem here is the lack of documentation. You can either reverse engineer aplication behaviour one application at a time to create your own layer or you can try to reverse engineer the database of hacks, which is skirting reverse engineering restrictions in the Windows EULA. Either one is time consuming.
In England the most commonly used bits of the mental health act are Section 2 (28 day hold for assessment and treatment), Section 3 (6 month hold for treatment) and Section 136 ( a police officer can take someone from a public place to a place of safety for a 24 hour hold for assessment). There are also forensic sections of the act and there are community treatment orders.

Section 2 and 3 require two doctors and an approved mental health professional (AMHP). One of the doctors has to be specially trained in using the MHA. The other doctor should be someone who knows the patient. The AMHP is usually a social worker who knows the mental health act law and is there to protect the rights of the patient.

There are legal requirements placed on the patient's local MH Trust. One of these is that when that patient's nearest relative tell the trust about concerns and asks for an assessment under the act then the trust must consider that request.

A person detained under the act is provided with an advocate from an independent advocacy service. This is free legal advice. If they feel they are being unjustly detained they can go to tribunal to get the section overturned. And that process is also open to relatives too.

There are no fears that your loved one will be shot and killed if you involve the police.

I don't know anything about the US law, but it seems somewhat complex and expensive. There are laws at the state level, and at the county level. Some states say that the harm to self or others must be "imminent" which is a pretty high barrier to meet. Most states allow a forced treatment in the community option, but California requires the counties to adopt that law. So for California where you live decides whether your family can ask the courts to force you to take medication in the community.
Move over, Monopoly: Hasbro's next big growth engine is Magic
In communities like HN there is always been a belief that compromising privacy is not actually required to keep people safe. Whilst I generally agree with this, I don't think it is set in stone. The threat could evolve to the point where this kind of tech is the only realistic method of detection at scale. That would be a scary world to live in. We would loose our privacy and eventually our security as attackers evolve. This could happen, but probably won't because terrorists are still very limited in numbers and talent.
I think the point is to make sure that no one dies or is hurt - the FDA takes a very strong view on preventing injury and death, not always weighting the opposite side of the coin of people who are already dying or being hurt (ex. taking years to approve drugs that have a high likelihood of helping more people than they hurt, but not doing so until being as close to totally sure as possible to try to prevent new deaths/injury)
> but the upside is exponentially greater.

See, I don't think most people care if they are millionaires or billionaires. And you can become a millionaire on a software dev salary.
It would be very interesting to see what kind of storage capacity these agreements specify
Someone else dug further into this https://stackoverflow.com/questions/31120222/iptc-metadata-a...
Plaintext passwords huh, that's about as bad as it gets when it comes to breaches. The only upside is that this data is from 5 years ago so _hopefully_ a percentage of this breach is outdated.
May it's not what it does but that it is written in COBOL?
What's exactly an IPTC instruction? Seems to be this https://iptc.org/standards/photo-metadata/

It's also not clear what the data contains. Is it info about the original account? The account downloading the picture

I would not be surprised if this was being used to prevent fake accounts being created with pictures taken from legitimate accounts.
I love the recommender experiment with a "popular-niche" slider. I want this slider almost everywhere when not searching for a very specific thing I'm already aware of. It was a great feature in last.fm, and I miss it in other streaming platforms.

This is especially useful in something like steam, where you get the front page full of suggestions... that you've likely already seen many times, or heard about because everybody played them. I can't find anything interesting on the normal recommendations, but after going 100% niche I've added 3 games (from 2014-2016) to my wishlist.
You can create hospitals that are designed to treat people who are mentally ill.
Even though it covers much more than Corbato and the time-sharing system, The Dream Machine[0] is a great read if you want to learn more about the history of the computers and the Internet.

[0] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/722412.The_Dream_Machine
Forcing one group of people to pay dearly for the benefit of another group, who did not cause their ills, and actually have done a great deal to help, through paying taxes that has already gone towards their welfare, is definitely not the right thing to do.
Maths for web dev? You don’t need any maths beyond what you’ll learn in junior school:

Arithmetic

Basic algebra

Basic Boolean logic

That’s it. You’ll mostly be wrangling interfaces and/or api/DB plumbing. Making things testable and repeatable. Reliable. Etc.

In my experience most programmers are useless at maths. Mathematicians and programmers are mostly separate populations and it’s relatively rare to find a solid programmer that’s also a solid mathematician or vice versa: totally different set of aesthetic preferences.

Meanwhile you will find plenty of programmers that skim a book on graph theory and think they know something. Or mathematicians that write crap matlab code and say they can programme.
There is zero reason tech should be clustered in a locale

Presumably because the end-product (and some intermediates) are ephemeral and can be transmitted losslessly long distances in little time at low cost?

Perversely: that's just what leads to greater rather than less concentration in industries. Especially where there's a great deal ofhumam interaction and collaboration required.

Since the end-products are ephemeral, they can be distributed to any point on Earth. But clustering of creation activities, returns to scale, even a small component of ancillary support services and infrastructure, and even small gains to round-trip interaction rates, reliability, or flexibility, favour concentration over decentralisation and mean that any one locale which gains an edge over others sees path-dependencies and positive feedback encouraging yet higher growth. Only when frictions develop (say: high costs of housing), or regional differentiators (language, cultural, regulatory regimes, say), do you see a formation of alternate hubs.

Zipf's law / power functions still strongly favour the formation of small numbers of such hubs.

Film, banking, and publishing have very similar tendencies.
Which reality do you live in? Edu? Library?
Siwa Oasis
However, you don't see banksters on bankernews complaining how small their fine is.

They realize that'd be biting the hand that feeds them. From all the big industries, only tech seems to have an active desire to watch itself burn.

If it is not yet obvious, taking large amounts of money from tech companies will impact everyone, including tech employees by forcing job cuts and lowering salaries. Doesn't matter if you work at Facebook.
If that was actually the case, you would expect the number to decrease slower (my guess being that online dating would still be increasing at the expense of all others). After all, being creepy or being rejected were already off the marriage numbers anyway, so it wouldn't affect this graph.

It is clear (both through data and through basic anecdotal observation) that dating at work became dangerous to your career, specially if you are a men. So even the cases were it was done in a polite and non creepy way, are rapidly disappearing.
That algorithm literally has race condition faults.

It needs a movable memory fence that stretches from East to West.
It's a plateau, not a drop. Nothing became less attractive; the shift from offline to online dating just stalled for a few years.
What's the logic behind restricting anybody from smoking what they want?
There is a fairly big practical difference between cigars and cigarettes. Cigars (like pipes) aren't traditionally inhaled into the lungs, so if you have genuinely gone from cigarettes to cigars and you aren't inhaling you're probably a lot better off.
This technical report is nonsensical, and asks for continuation of widespread insecure practices. The authors (the glibc maintainer) should be removed from the committee for spreading such harm. He simply doesn't like secure practices, and continue to use sometimes checked calls. If he would have some technical competence he would implement the needed safety checks seperated into compile-time (no performance penalty) and runtime (when the compiler doesn't know). He only does the first, and leaves all the dynamic cases unchecked.
But then he would stumble over the inability of gcc to properly handle compile-time expressions.

See eg. https://rurban.github.io/safeclib/doc/safec-3.5/index.html
Most of the more expensive EVs come pretty close to that and seem to be competing on getting the numbers better there. E.g. I think Tesla is planning to break the 400 mile barrier pretty soon. 300 mile is pretty normal already. Most EVs charge pretty quickly to about 80%. 20 minutes to half an hour gets you plenty of range. Mostly EV owners don't charge to 100% unless they are at home or doing some overnight stop.

I think most normal drivers on a cross country trip need bathroom breaks, lunch/snacks/drinks, leg stretching etc. every 2-3 hours. Great opportunity to plug in and recharge enough for another 2-3 hours. Range anxiety is mostly irrational and mostly a non technical problem as your car probably has more endurance than you.
Argo also released a relatively massive 250GB dataset recently: https://www.argoverse.org/

The problem of Perception has a long road ahead at any of these companies and Argo is taking a very long position with this funding round. The headcount growth is rather worrisome but other than Aptiv there aren't many fleets that span multiple continents.
This is exactly the approach we're using for hackerpet (hackerpet.com)
You could call it high opportunity cost, but only in the sense of life goals as viewed from later in life, not the usual financial sense. I recognize clearly now that at the time I was just drifting through life without any real sense of purpose. Youth is wasted on the young, as they say.
The "neural network of neural networks" thing is a bit of lavish exaggeration TBH, because a network of networks is just a larger network. The human brain has about 100tn synapses, which I think is a less obscure statistic to marvel about.
Mosquito Laser
Not sure... I haven't actually owned a TV since 2002! My roommates several years ago had one with cable, and it really was necessary to flip channels to find something interesting and there were still ads. I just didn't have patience for it.

I generally get what I want from Amazon or a local equivalent, either streaming or just buy the seasons of shows I want (e.g. Halt and Catch Fire) and watch it on my 27" computer monitor. Sometimes, if there's a group, I'll use a projector.
No indication of what it means. Has anybody tried to download the same picture from two accounts and see if the data changes? Maybe this is some data they embed into the picture for bookkeeping when inside their infrastructure and they forget to strip it when they let you download it.
It would in theory be enough to embed a random unique ID and keep the associated data on your own server so the actual data doesn't leak.
I suspect there's a lot of caching involved as well. When making a purchase you probably don't need all the info to go all the way to the bank and back.

Stolen/lost cards can simply be flagged in a master db/table and can be rejected quickly for example.
God I wish I could be alive 436 years from today; when the self-driving cars might actually be able to give me a run for my money.
> all we've got is jazzy names and concept car mock ups.

You should actually watch the videos. Does that Taycan look like a mock up to you?

The VW ID.3 is not a jazzy name. They had 20,000 pre-bookings a month ago:

https://www.electrive.com/2019/06/05/vw-marks-20000-pre-orde...

> For now I'm skeptical.

It doesn't matter if you're skeptical or not. Volkswagen is not spending 80 billion euros on EVs for the fun of it:

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-volkswagen-electric-insig...
Being able to take risks can be seen as a good thing, too. It may help class mobility.
Aren't roof solar panels very inefficient? They can't track the sun and you can't have good density from them either. Furthermore, they don't work for office buildings and apartment buildings.

>Not to dismiss it entirely but arguing cost increases seems a bit far fetched in light of current trends in the market.

I think what the parent was saying is that because solar and wind don't reliably produce energy, we will need redundancy. As the market share of solar and wind grows we will need to increase the amount of storage and power generation far beyond what we normally need to operate.

Let's say you have a city that uses 1 GWh of electricity per day. If you were to generate all the electricity with natural gas then you need to have 1 GWh plus some extra for redundancy to fulfill the needs of the city. If you generate 5% with solar and the rest with natural gas then nothing really changes. If the weather is bad then the natural gas plant will step in.

As the share of your solar power generation grows toil need more and more redundant storage and solar power generation. If you rely 100% on solar power generation and the weather can be bad for a week in a row over the city, then you'll need storage that will last for more than that entire week. Not only that, you'll also need extra power generation capability to be able to fill and maintain that storage.

Just to put this into perspective: the US uses about 10 TWh of electricity per day.
How do you think the system have to be restructured or bolstered to accommodate 100% of the people?
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What kinds of queries/aggregations. Write throughput? Reliability requirements?
It's an option, though. And one that might be cheaper or more practical than expecting everyone to buy giant lithium-ion batteries in case they want to go on a road trip.

You don't really need to convert a "large percentage" of roads, just the major highways that people use for long-distance travel. Of those, you wouldn't need to convert the whole length, either. Maybe you'd electrify one mile out of every ten or something like that.

Electrified roads could also be a huge boon to long-haul trucking.
Fair enough, that does make sense and sound cheaper. I guess the only thing going it vs your evaluation above would be the environmental impact. You wouldn’t need to affect that barren field, you’d be using already compromised land. But yes, the support structure costs would be prohibitive and possibly have a higher environmental impact in production vs just razing and sunblocking an unused by humans field. Also there is the aesthetic side where many streets might be improved with shading, where not many fields are improved by appearance of arrays of solar panels.
Uber proved it's possible to burn a lot of money on a team that is ineffective due to needless infighting and excessive internal competition.
Not a fine. A settlement pat on the back.
Not in the US, no. It would also be a career risk to do this, because some employers do credit checks.
Insults like this are very annoying to read. If you think the moderation is too strict and is hurting HN's environment, then say that. There's no need to be so mean about it.