skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I dug around and didn't find an official SpaceX statement. The cause was a poorly constructed struct they bought from a 3rd party company.

> Compare their statements about the cause of the CRS-7 explosion to NASA's.

Did NASA's and SpaceX's statements differ in content?
While I can appreciate some healthy skepticism on how widespread the practice is, welcoming honest input from rank and file members of any company can be extremely valuable to improving the quality of products, and many successful companies realize this and encourage such feedback
Britain has food banks
Don't forget the Lyttle Lytton! Same thing, lower word limit.

http://adamcadre.ac/lyttle.html

The earlier ones are better IMO but the "found" category is always good for a laugh.
If you sell your house you have to move farther out from the city to afford something nice.
Dawn of the Neobank: The Fintechs Trying to Kill the Corner Bank
They recently clawed back more of "crown land".
Its very long, but I enjoyed Thiel on The Portal (Eric Weinstein's podcast) a few months back:

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1-peter-thiel/id146999...

I don't know how this compares to talks he's given, but there were a lot of small ideas in there which I thought were really interesting - like the idea that we're in a period of relative technological stagnation compared to a couple decades ago. And how obvious this observation seems to both Thiel and Weinstein.
FedEx Delivers Billions to the Taxman
Scrum: The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time
I think you got that backwards.

apple is blocking exec flag on mmap'ed blocks because of security concerns.

Malware _relies_ on that ability to avoid static analysis.
Im interested how what looks to me like a fairly standard web store could have such an enormous amount if developers working on it. Is there some kind of insane complexity behind webstores I am not seeing here?
French and Castilian and friends are standardized against some spoken variant. And spoken languages inevitably change over time.

Latin is standardized against the writings of the classical authors, and to a lesser degree, the medieval authors. These authors, being dead, can't change.
McNeil/Lehrer News Hour (later just Jim Lehrer), and the Nightly Business Report were decent news programs, don’t remember a lot of bias, but I haven’t watched in a long while though.
SO to apples PDF veiwer. I don't own a Mac but I use my coworkers. Take a paper write your signature, then the webcam will scan, de crust and add your signature on a doc!
If you hit ctrl/cmd-z after it automatically changes something you can keep going like you used to. e.g. try typing `foo`, and then hit ctrl-z, it'll revert it to plain text. I've found that useful for getting around the autoformatting.
Yeah, I was excited by Slack initially, but now I see it as a menace. It's the open-office plan of the virtual office.
The new line[0] has not been rolled out as well, its a daily discussion topic[1]

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confederation_Line

[1]https://www.reddit.com/r/ottawa/comments/dx576w/the_lrt_has_...
Most of the time toggles are done poorly in that I can’t tell if they are on or off. There’s no consensus on if that is left or right. Or lit up or darkened. It is maddening.

In my opinion the right way to do toggles is to have area below it that is either enabled / expanded for On or grayed out / collapsed for Off. That way I can also read what the toggle implies. I suppose that can be done in mouse over if there are space constraints.
Then the principle would be that it is okay to do business with China if you don't kowtow. That works well for selling to China but it can only work for buying if there is a distributor outside of China which would just encourage buying direct from China. A general boycott doesn't work with the kowtow principle because an individual or company in China isn't in a position to be able to state their opinion of the government.
Haha, that reminds me of whenever one of my friends and I used to come across a door. We'd both hold it open and say "you first, I insist" and stand there. One time, I believe it went on for a solid 20 minutes.

(Other... "unusual" behaviors include standing in the pouring rain for an entire hour till the other gives up, passing the party leadership onto each other for a solid 10 minutes until one of us starts the game queue...)
If you don't pay anything the project gets to decide to what extent serving your interests is a worthy goal.

You don't have to fork it to fix it personally. You may also consider putting your money where your mouth is and organizing an effort to fund the change you want to see in the world. If you succeed the world will have additional value it wouldn't without it and owe you kudos. Everyone likes options. If you fail you ought to move on you have no basis for complaint. I think this is informative.

Open Source is Not About You

https://gist.github.com/richhickey/1563cddea1002958f96e7ba95...
Probably not as much as needing to stay close to family for childcare. Childcare is hella expensive.
Is that not what I said?
We can add "believed he had detected radio signals from Martians" to the list, too. I understand that Tesla was a great deal more intelligent than myself, but I'm skeptical of idols and heroes, and he was thinking in a different time without even having a thorough general education by his own time's standards. I can actually understand his belief about Martian radio signals, given his limited knowledge by modern standards and the fact that he probably lacked the statistical analysis to determine what patterns were relatively likely to appear by chance. He was undoubtedly very intelligent, but I don't think "Tesla believed it" is a compelling case for something being probable. It is interesting as historical trivia.

John von Neumann might make the list of "more intelligent," depending on how we define intelligence... not that I'm trying to idolize him, either!

Edit: To not be a total downer, I'll add my favorite Tesla quote (from 93 years ago):

> When wireless is perfectly applied the whole earth will be converted into a huge brain, which in fact it is, all things being particles of a real and rhythmic whole. We shall be able to communicate with one another instantly, irrespective of distance. Not only this, but through television and telephony we shall see and hear one another as perfectly as though we were face to face, despite intervening distances of thousands of miles; and the instruments through which we shall be able to do his will be amazingly simple compared with our present telephone. A man will be able to carry one in his vest pocket.
It is driving me absolutely nuts.

The changes are so obviously ill considered, and, without having the data to prove this, I believe it’s trying to solve a problem that very few people had with the previous solution.
> doesn't fall on the side of being a fundamental right that people are being deprived of

What does that have to do with this? Anti-trust laws are to protect competitive forces in the market, not human rights.

Allowing these companies to have limitless control over millions of jobs with no regulation whatsoever gives us the crappy situation we have today. Someone could have their developer account terminated by accident/laziness, and then that person's entire livelihood is destroyed and they're left with no recourse because Apple/Google can't be bothered to even answer the phone. The Play store is an endless sea of malware, adware, and spyware, and any attempt at making a competitive marketplace is hopeless and instantly attacked by Google (remember Fortnite installer fiasco?). There's so much anti-competitive and clearly harmful (for developers and consumers) bullshit going on in these two stores every day that it's ridiculous that there still is not any strong regulatory action against them.

> I personally exercise a bit more restraint in saying that things call for government intervention.

Good for you. I heard that a lot in college. People who just took an economics class for the first time felt compelled to "pick a side", and everyone always picked that same side as you (me too). Yet that decision is made so so far detached from any real life problems or data that it's effectively arbitrary. If you feel that this characterization doesn't apply to you, then please contribute to the discussion with some actual substantive arguments and not hand-wavy virtue signaling.
That's a good one. For those who don't know, the O-Train line was an old freight line converted into a light rail line. If you ever want a good laugh, take a look at where the original O-Train line terminates on either end. It stops juuuuust short of an EXISTING rail bridge to Gatineau (hundreds of thousands of residents and tons of government jobs) and on the other end juuuuust short of the international airport. I will never understand why, to this day, city council isn't talking about where the O-Train can already go.

By all means, they should extend light rail in the other direction, but come on guys, the rail is already there and we're not using it!
https://everydayastronaut.com/stainless-steel-starship/

Edit: "So in summary. SpaceX chose stainless steel over carbon composites because it’s about as light, it can handle higher temperatures which means less heat shield is need, which then makes it lighter, it reflects heat which means even less heat shield which again makes it even lighter, it’ll be cheaper and quicker to build AND it’ll look FREAKING AWESOME."
This is a curious statement. Assertiveness does not require that you be explicitly or even implicitly empathetic nor does it require you to use "I" statements. In fact, deliberately using language where you are making a topic personal (by using "I" language) is the opposite of assertive in this context.
Are you sure it isn't endless spending on new roads and destruction of tax base by expanding the suburbs?
Hey, that's from my city! :P

Yeah the O-Train was cheap, but it honestly showed. The stops are few and far between, and often in the middle of nowhere. I'm in this weird zone where I can walk for a solid 10 minutes right along the tracks and not encounter a station. Makes it useless for me.

Ottawa just rolled out its 2nd line a couple months ago, and it's been a bit of a disaster in terms of costs and technical issues. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confederation_Line
How does letting Trump take credit make Apple money?
Preach it.

It seems every text input box across the product line has a different input method: BB, Jira, and Confluence. You'd think they might standardize with one to be less user hostile.
Hi, thanks for the words, I just wanted to get it out, upvotes or downvotes don't bother me.

I also understand that this may not apply to other people's experience in the Silicon Valley, thererfore I said that your mileage may vary.

The bigger question is - Why should we allow Chinese nationals in America (even more so in Australia) to supress free speech and promote CCP ideals? Its one thing to do it inside China, a whole another level to spread it across the world as immigrants.
Migrating from Heroku to Kubernetes via GKE
They do, and it infuriatingly looks worse than

- just

- a

- simple

- list

If I needed anything more complex that that, Slack was already the wrong tool
That is a fairly recent development, while the opposite has been status quo for multiple decades.
"Oh, God. I've lost him. And I never told him anything. I just wasn't ready, Marcus. Five minutes would have been enough." --Henry Jones, Sr.

(five minutes, not 30-60!)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Np4OojYGixI @1:00
If you have substantial liquid wealth, the best ways to hide it include art (portable/small objects with stable/increasing prices) and foreign real estate in desirable areas in municipalities with strong property rights.
The 'wh' sound /ʍ/ isn't the same as the Swedish 'sj' sound /ɧ/, but depending on the realisation (like how it's pronounced Stockholm) it can sound fairly similar. The 'sj' sound is more fricative.

Also, some English dialects (such as those in Ireland and Scotland) definitely still pronounce 'wh' that way, I refer to the following article for an overview:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pronunciation_of_English_%E2%9...
The fact that PDF is immutable is a huge advantage.

In Polar we have taken the perspective that immutability is an advantage and is going to be the basis for our group collaboration around documents.

We ended up building out annotations on top of PDF including text highlights and area highlights which can then be commented on:

https://getpolarized.io/docs/annotation-sidebar.html

Some of our users keep asking for editable documentation and I think the main win here could just be using markdown which I'm thinking about adding.

The biggest thing that's needed though, for scientific use, is latex. Fortunately, there are plenty of markdown implementations with latex support.

PDF is amazingly good for printing documents but honestly 90% of the complex printing requirements aren't needed for regular use.
most of these people are one hit wonders.
I never knew about this. My laptop seems to have 8-key rollover for most (?) sequences that would be natural for your hands, but drops as low as 2-key for unlikely combinations. Any idea what's going on?

http://gadzikowski.com/nkeyrollover.html
>I think if this is mania, it’s controlled mania in a way?

That sounds like hypomania. If you're relatively smart it's like a superpower, but most medical professionals do not believe its something you can control.

I know nothing about you and you could very well have experienced a spiritual awakening, and if so I'm happy for you. From what you say a lot of this stuff sounds pretty recent; if you've lived like this without the heavy down periods for many years then it's likely not what I'm talking about.

I just wanted you to know that if it is mania or hypomania, in which case you will eventually come down, you'll be OK. You'll get through it and it's OK to get some help.

All the best to you.
If this was the case why does the NSA issue warnings about things from time to time?
carnivore boomer to you
Forcing WebKit-only enables Apple to selectively disable key features in all browsers on iOS, preventing web apps from competing against FaceTime (WebRTC, Fullscreen API) or iMessages (Service Workers).

Instead they need to go through the App Store, driving up development costs (the Swift learning and/or contractors) and decreasing potential competition.
Big differences between expert and novice brains reveal a better way to learn
I also liked the fact that he points out he'd like to see innovation not just "in some iPhone app" but more broadly in different fields.

I think this is a good point, there isn't enough going on in other areas, like he said people ride the 100 year old subway distracted by their iPhones not realizing the world around them is unchanging mostly.

It's true in some ways, who will build or even demand the better faster subways of the future if 99% of the people don't even realize they're on the subway.
It's been a while since I did pressure vessels but it's usually 2.5 times for proof and 3.5 for burst. Then with added safety you usually need about 4x to actually see a "planned" failure. This is most likely a construction fault.
Slack’s Drafts (“Where did that channel go?”) feature, misses the mark
All I am able to find is this "intellisense" (i.e. editing time) plug-in:
https://github.com/microsoft/typescript-lit-html-plugin

Where is the plug-in that does compile-time checks of HTML tags and attributes?
I’m just curious about the ssl proxy + api modification part in general - got a ref for that for a more mundane application?
Actually, Stage 2 of the LRT project will extend the Trillium line down to the airport.

Crossing over to Gatineau is a very tricky issue though, because the bridge is in terrible condition and would require major renovation before it could support traffic again. There's some details here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_of_Wales_Bridge_(Canada...
Argh! Oh, well, bye bye usable Slack, hello full of individual PM review bullet point features unusable frustrating senseless Slack.

Glad my only use is a comms channel for my Ingress group.
For those interested (in 2014!) I did a rather simple analysis of CPU caches and for loops to point out some pitfalls:

https://austingwalters.com/the-cache-and-multithreading/

Hope it helps someone, I tend to link it to my co-workers when they ask me why I PR'd re-ordering of loops & functions OR when they ask how I get speedups without changing functionality.
I can see myself being one of these irritated people. More than once, I've posted (maybe not even on Twitter; maybe on a support channel of some sort) something like "why did it take me 30 minutes to figure out how to do X?" And people, particularly the developers or people in the community, will reply with "just do Y and Z and you can do X". This irritates me because I didn't say "I can't do X!", I said "it took me 30 minutes to figure out how to do X". I.e, a usability problem, not a functionality problem. And the fact that it doesn't register to them that this is what I'm complaining about is all the more irritating ("yes I know, but the point is..." from your example), because it feeds into my bias that they have a blind spot about their own UI.

As to whether I'm just venting, I suppose I imagine that on Twitter the developers might hear my complaints. (And yes, as such I should always remind myself to keep my complaint relatively respectful for this reason).
The rust belt is only one part of the american economy, and China is not the only explanation of their fall. The Canadian maritime use to be a fairly wealthy region, until the fish ran out. Now it's been like the rust belt for a long time and one of the poorest regions of canada.

Other parts have become ascendant, such as our software & service industries. The american auto industry also killed themselves, mostly because peaceful Japanese competitors out competed them.
Wiki.js 2.0.1 Released
It’s very annoying how it handles backticks via some sort of autocomplete.

Questions I ask myself about this:
- Why is this not an “opt-in” feature? I could see it being useful for people not acquainted with markdown-like syntax

- What PM / UX’er thought this was a great idea? I’m sure there was internal feedback that this was less than ideal
It's a totally different ball game though: this isn't about NIST recommending a shady algorithm with mysterious parameters, this is about a well-known standardization process that accept submissions from cryptographers all around the world where anyone can review the proposals and make comments.

I don't care what they end up selecting as the winner (and to be honest, I'm so ridiculously paranoid that I don't trust Keccak, for instance), I just think that having a competition where everyone is spending all their energy into looking for flaws on the others candidates is a great thing.

Next year China will announce a similar standardization process. Do I trust China? of course not, but I really welcome this initiative anyways.
> Even the simple act of two people wanting to go through the same door at the same time is an impossible conundrum.

I believe that the optimal solution to this problem is to offer, and then if there is a counter-offer, take it. If the other person is offended then they have followed the letter of the social law but do not understand it in their hearts. In addition, it is often polite to take what is offered to you.
On the plus side, maybe in a future update they'll make it so that we can do ```somelanguage and the box will have JS active with syntax highlighting and tab indentation appropriate for <language>. Slack's thing hasn't seemed that bad to me. It's true I've deleted a few stray back ticks, but it's so easy to edit mistakes it's not that big a deal. Especially if you use both Jira and Slack, the absolute shitness of Jira's issue text entry UI is a different order of magnitude and Slack's input box seems fine.
It was. It rendered to GTK which renders to native widgetry
I haven’t seen an mention if anyone was injured. Was there someone on the cherry picker?
I used to work in media in the early 2000s. Some newspapers still do pretty good journalism. TV stations though are all but gutted. General managers and publishers used to be able to stay afloat purely on national advertising. But when cable tv targeted insertion and then internet that money dried up fast and local media companies then had to turn to local businesses.

Most local businesses don't like exposes on them and their friends so that stuff had to stop.
Amazon Starts Marketplace for Teachers to Sell Online Educational Resources
This is being actively developed by Microsoft and others. Check out https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/technology/own-your... and https://identity.foundation/
Not sure why I'm being down-voted for the parent comment, but this is an obvious way to get around a lot of software limitations.

I didn't state this was a valid/legal/good path or trying to defend anyone whom does use a hackintosh. The truth is that there are people who can't afford Apple products to develop and they will abuse this loop hole until they can.

This comment wasn't rude or aggressive, but I was merely proposing an alternative solution. The down-votes are more aggressive than the comment could have even been misconstrued.
Your asterisk example works OK for me. As does the blog writer's "when you do `foo()` it foos the bar".
Native UI has an austere, functional beauty that graphic-designer-infected web-native UI lacks

Plus I don't need half a dozen chromium processes just to run it
Pragmatically every vote is useless. The chances that the election outcome will come down to your single vote are infinitesimal. Every individual vote is a protest vote lost in the noise. So anyone reading this should feel perfectly free to vote their conscience.
Yeah but they would not be active.
Agreed, isn't slack only popular because of "cool" tech startups picking it up initially?
and people don't realise that china becomes manufacturing powerhouse not because of low costs. there're are many places in southeast asian alone which are much more cheaper in every aspect. What china has and other places dont have is, highly efficient logistics, very pragmatic kpi driven and arguably more efficient and definitely more business friendly local government policy makers and administration, end to end supply chain for almost every industry, well educated, very disciplined and hardworking workforce, and a unique culture that promotes perseverance, resilience, discipline and self improvement
Keep walking your path my friend.
I didn't really want an extra blank line between them.

Still...I could have swore I had tried that anyway. Huh.
Masculine and feminine have merged into 'common'/'utrum', used mostly for animate objects as pointed out by a sibling comment, although not all animate objects (e.g. barn, lejon).

Neuter has stayed as is.

There are, however, remnants of the masculine/feminine distinction left: e.g. klockan is ofter referred to as feminine (hon), and the "-e" in "storebror" (as opposed to "-a" which is used for utrum today and feminine in the past).
>PostgreSQL is a textbook relational database

Except for using the OS Page cache and not managing the buffer pool (very much) itself. It's the only database that does it that way.
Tl;dr: sell things in the marketplace and buy things from users who put up things to sell in the marketplace until users are organically selling and buying from each other, and make sure the whole platform doesn’t suck. That’s basically it.
I read this was a manufacturing pathfinder.

Manufacturing and assembly of high strength hardened steel is near black art.

Pathfinders do exactly what they say, they lead you through unknown territory to the outcome of the manufacturing journey you embarked on. Often things go boom, you find out why, add it to your corpus of black art knowledge, and keep pathfinding until you run out of budget / succeed / change mission.

So as manufacturing pathfinder, this is what success often looks like.