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The article in the Washington Post hinted that NASA might not require them to pass this particular test (automated approach to the ISS and docking).

"It was unclear whether NASA would require Boeing to fly another test mission without crews onboard before allowing its astronauts to fly in the Starliner. Bridenstine said he wouldn’t rule out a mission with crews onboard, pointing out that the space shuttle had been piloted by astronauts, not computers."[0]

While Boeing makes noises about how there's no systemic problem with their ability to write software in general, earlier in the same article NASA comes to their defense by pointing out that if the craft was manned then the test would have been... saved? That seems strong to me but that is word used in the quote.

"NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine said at a news conference Friday that the failure would not have been life-threatening had astronauts been onboard. He said that had the spacecraft been crewed, the mission might have been saved. “They are trained to deal with a situation where the automation is not working according to plan,” he said."

[0]: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/12/20/boeing-...
"`Freeside,' Armitage said, touching the panel on the little Braun hologram projector. The image shivered into focus, nearly three meters from tip to tip. `Casinos here.' He reached into the skeletal representation and pointed. `Hotels, strata-title property, big shops along here.' His hand moved. `Blue areas are lakes.' He walked to one end of the model. `Big cigar. Narrows at the ends.'

`We can see that fine,' Molly said. `Mountain effect, as it narrows. Ground seems to get higher, more rocky, but it's an easy climb. Higher you climb, the lower the gravity. Sports up there. There's velodrome ring here.' He pointed.

`A what?' Case leaned forward.

`They race bicycles,' Molly said. `Low grav, high-traction tires, get up over a hundred kilos an hour.'"
That sounds smart. They use tons of water anyway in the desert to keep solar panels clean. I'm not sure if it's captured but using it for agriculture would be nice. Maybe the process of greening the environment could even reduce how much sand gets blown around, so even less water would be needed for cleaning.
I'm paying for Cloud Storage and I'm also willing to pay more for more Cloud Storage :)
The notes of the tutorial are well included and answer all the questions I ask myself while reading, it's making the tutorial much more enjoyable than the ones I usually read. A great read if you're interested in Rust but haven't played with it yet IMO.
But what does that gain anyone? If the Linux/GNU ecosystem were re-licensed to MIT/BSD/Apache2, what would be lost?
Well, everyone is of course entitled to her own experience, but for what it's worth I think Booking has been one of the most interesting place I've seen, not in small part because of how data driven they are, as opposed to myth driven like most IT business/people.

One of their mantra was indeed "we are not an IT company", which I came to understand as "we don't want to hear about how things ought to be done. We do not bow to best practices. We rely on measurements not culture".

After a few years in a big corporation where you couldn't change more than 3 lines of code without 2 code reviews and approval from 2 managers, without ever considering the customers or the final product, moving there was such a relief!

Usage of a runtime typed, interpreted language for so many loc in production was of course concerning (esp. Perl which syntax and semantic are sometime surprising), but the attitude considering of caring more about measuring and controlling every possible effect than following the best practices of the day is invaluable.

This is definitively a place I would recommend to any engineer willing to learn.
> I fear computer science is often encumbered by a corrosive culture of "good enough" with respect to performance. We have a lot of baggage and urban myths about performance, from maxims about optimization handed down from the first acolytes of computer science, to modern opinions about UX that over-emphasize simplicity, to a repertoire of clever psychological countermeasures for under-performance such as animation. It's a shame that more people don't appreciate how much more enjoyable computing is when latency is nearly zero.

I wouldn't blame this on computer science: it's really just a long way of saying you get what you measure. It's not that computer scientists don't care about performance, or that human factors / UX isn't an entire field, but simply that most projects don't set performance goals or prioritize them and unsurprisingly most time is spent on the things which are used to judge someone's job performance.

This is especially true when you see how many issues are shared across teams — in this case talking about Windows it's important to remember that during the Ballmer lost years, Microsoft used stack ranking to force managers to categorize a set fraction of people as low performances and reportedly those rankings heavily favored new features over maintenance improvements. In an environment like that, if the change requires coordination across teams it probably just isn't going to happen unless someone very senior makes it a business priority.
Ok, glad we agree it'll still pitch up.

Sure, the difference is that a 737 Classic, NG, or MAX with all of the nannies working can be flown into a stall with lots of throttle at low speed whereas the Airbus cannot. The pitch-power coupling on a 737 is far more problematic than on its competitors.
My example of this: I have yet to meet a junior EE candidate who understands the need for decoupling capacitors in digital circuits

That says a lot about the state of education. I'm not even officially an EE, and only did some embedded hardware stuff and some electronics as a hobby, yet I know what that's about.
Could you please stop posting unsubstantive comments to Hacker News? You've done it a lot, and we're trying for something a bit better than internet default here. If you wouldn't mind reading the site guidelines and using HN as intended, we'd be grateful.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I didn't know that was a thing. It looks like most are 250 euros or even double that. It's a fan with a metal plate right?! Or is there some built in fridge-like construction to exchange the heat?

There is also one result for 50 euros (1.7/5 star average) but alongside the 250-500 euro results that doesn't seem like it'll be the same thing.
> Although “The Star-Spangled Banner” would not become the national anthem until 1931, it nevertheless turned into a wartime litmus test: the failure to perform it, on whatever grounds, was to risk being accused of treachery. Theodore Roosevelt bluntly demanded that any musician who didn’t play the tune be deported at once. Sure enough, after failing to conduct “The Star-Spangled Banner” at a concert in Rhode Island, Muck was arrested, branded a civilian enemy alien, and transported to an internment camp at Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia.

Land of the free?

Reminds me of the Dixie Chicks getting blacklisted for opposing the Iraq war.
these comments seem woefully out of touch with the situation compared to /r/space. This guy seems to have made some mistakes but they are painting him in a much better light over there.
The figure of 1 million is given by Greenpeace which is not regarded to be even remotely authoritative. Even the figure of 6,000 is disputed. The WHO produced a figure of 4,000 [1]. In particular these estimates were projections about future cancer rates and similar illnesses. Now that we've actually advanced the clock 35 years we can make meaningful examinations of the affected population. As of 2005, less than 50 deaths due to illnesses attributed to radiation pollution from the Chernobyl disaster were recorded.

Furthermore, even if the worst-case figures in the ranges of the tens of thousands are taken as fact nuclear is still the safest forms of energy production.

1. https://www.who.int/mediacentre/news/releases/2005/pr38/en/
Caveat emptor. This document may be of historical interest, but I'm willing to bet it doesn't have much relevance to macOS now.
Yay you're citing lottery winners, the most engineer efficient unicorns in the world, in a lottery that you can only buy 5-8 tickets in for your lifetime.

What I mean by 'go do the best thing you can do now', doesn't exclude working for yourself or starting that company that becomes your biggest thing also.

But if $500k/yr as a staff eng at bigco (north dakota) is your best thing, there is no shame in it. It's doubtful you can reproduce that although working for yourself in 'nebraska'.
Interesting. What's the point of leaving the ove light on? is it to keep the stuff at a mild temperature?
In a heated discussion thread we forget that web forums and bulletin boards are not the best place for realtime conversations.
Easily explained: FB is the one who actually went the extra mile to start spying on its users and report thousands of cases to the police. Now the police have become lazy, they want more of that.
One of these days I should try plotting a map like these for Ryan North's books, "To Be Or Not To Be" and "Romeo And/Or Juliet", two choosable-path adventures based on Shakespeare.

(I've already filled a spreadsheet with the data for "Romeo And/Or Juliet" while I read it, in order to see all the paths)
> your chances of survival dramatically increase.

Well, until something goes wrong and you're in deep space beyond any hope of rescue.
> Trees don’t make choices. People do.

There are philosophies that believe otherwise.
https://blueseed.com/

nginx bad gateway.

No updates since 2014 or so.
Twitter declares recently available APNG support a bug and disables it
95% of Cryptocurrencies Are Illiquid
That story is heartbreaking
Wrong trilogy =) I was talking about https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B07N32K12H/ref=ppx_yo_dt...
In my experience, lack of proper ventilation is a much bigger problem than background CO2 levels.

In other words, this article only holds under the assumption that ventilation stays as bad as it is. If we improve ventilation, we can get an improvement much bigger than the increase in background CO2.

The article even says so:

"In a 2002 study, researchers tested the air in 120 Texas classrooms, and found CO2 levels above 1,000 ppm in 88% of them. In 21% of the classrooms, the concentration exceeded 3,000 ppm." -- current background is ~410 ppm (possibly higher in cities) so even a doubling + better ventilation would improve the situation in most classrooms.
Thanks a lot! I'll be looking forward to it ;)

And yeah, I discarded tagged template literals when I first saw them, but they've certainly gained my love + trust since then. There's a really interesting optimization option for them because the first argument (string array) will always be the same instance for the same callsite so you can cache and make things really performant using that.
I left my job to do an MS in CS
All I can think of when I hear about Go now is garbage collector ballast, a hack for which Go has no proper solution see https://blog.twitch.tv/en/2019/04/10/go-memory-ballast-how-i... and https://github.com/golang/go/issues/23044
> Tree Shaping.

Tree mutilation
In the US at least, you do not need to register a trademark to enforce it, just like you do not need to register a copyright, and one of the specific things trademark law lets you do is prevent people from misrepresenting the origin of a product bearing that name.

Neither the BSD or GPL license families grant a trademark license.

Therefore, Hyperbola should immediately cease distributing all software that doesn't have an explicit "You may use the name of this software for whatever you like" license and where the original authors might want to go into business with that software, on the grounds that such software is non-free, just the same as it would judge software with no copyright license as non-free. That Rust and Firefox have trademark policies does not make them less free than un-trademark-licensed names anymore than having a BSD license makes code less free than unlicensed code.
I don't have high hopes for something designed by committee.

The Chromium team are experimenting with Low-latency (desynchronized) canvas, although I haven't been able to measure any differences in latency, the only difference is that desyncronization will cause some render issues.

I guess latency is a "full stack" problem where you have to design everything with low latency in mind. eg. keyboard, keyboard driver, render framework, gfx driver, and screen.

Here's an interesting article:
https://danluu.com/input-lag/
You're absolutely right — I annualized net revenue which I interpreted as "net" but certainly is not profit. I've corrected this and will put a note about it.

I'm sorry for the mistake. I'll do better next time.
Not a single mention of Katamari Damacy in this whole thread? Players of that game all know it was because of the King of All Cosmos and his clumsiness!
Popular chat app ToTok is spyware
And yet, most reports place the lives lost due to the Fukishima disaster between 0-200 people - which zero being the most common estimate. Ironically, the decision to close nuclear plants following the Fukishima meltdown likely lead to more deaths than the meltdown itself: https://www.economist.com/asia/2019/11/07/was-shutting-japan...
Today I was unable to take a picture in a photo kiosk
We’ve simply found a new way to make a company town without calling it that.
lol, read what I actually wrote. You will note I was replying to a comment which included "1b. There are other services, ... that the bad people can use immediately. This is not about stopping the bad people from encrypting their messages...", etc. I replied in that context using compatible language.

Do you believe it's impossible for an MP or any party's researcher to break the law? If not, they should be subject to the same oversight as all others on whatever service.

The numbers using the internal party communication channels will probably be in the hundreds. Not half the country then. I would have said exactly the same were it any party. The hypocrisy is risible regardless of who. Even, perhaps especially, the one I just voted for.

Since Magna Carta in 1215 the principle has held that every citizen, up to and including the sovereign is subject to the same law. Not every citizen except the current administration. Exceptions must be justified and are regularly tested in the courts.
Sounds like an Epstein dream
I tend to see that maybe the most interesting and exciting stuff about "Next Big Things" are left untapped and will re-emerge to the future in niche markets that could benefit from these concepts.
What an incredibly short-sighted article, I have so many points of rebuttal I'll offer just two:

- Firstly, millions of people can now listen to brilliantly-performed classical music and no- or low-cost. As compared to the few who could afford the luxury of the concert hall or wait for the radio to play such music.

- Secondly, the idea of the lone, genius composer is obsolete. Conservatory-style composition classes focus on teaching classical harmony at first, later expanding into modern concepts and compositional devices. This may seem to lead to the image of a Beethoven-esque composer, writing notes and conducting ensembles and orchestras, but the reality is that the composer of the 21st century is more of a collaborative structural-architect who grapples with technology as much as with harmony, melody and timbre: designing instructions and working closely with performers who provide, in turn, virtuosity.

I grew up listening primarily "composed" period music for ensembles and orchestras, and still have a great and profound love for it, but I have an increasing admiration for modern composers and musicians who have embraced all the aesthetics of their surroundings and the influences of their peers. Modern composer/performers/musicians have enriched music for us in all styles of music from pop to alternative to country. It's a wonderful time to be a listener, and it doesn't require a Rachmaninoff concerto to be impressed (though, we can still be impressed by Rachmaninoff..)
Yes — some execution is hidden, for sure. I, personally, try to be ultra transparent with the team: here’s our bank account, here are deals in-flight, here are the VCs and founders we’re talking to.

The value I aim to provide anybody that works with us is all the things I felt I was missing when I was a startup employee. I wanted to understand how deals happen, what personalities are like, how things work. As we grow I can’t share entirely as much — a piece of minor bad news can hit me pretty hard emotionally and it’s not fair to subject the team to me being upset or a hothead over something that will blow over — but I do try to encourage folks to learn as much as they can.

Even if somebody were to be entirely disinterested in founder-level execution, early employees have a super easy, instant warm introduction to any investor on that company’s cap table downstream. You might not be using that aspect of your startup career yet, but it certainly can help you if you wanted to use it.
I guess the free market has spoken!
Please don't take HN threads into gender flamewar. Nothing new or interesting will come of it—only a nasty slide into tedium.

This is in the site guidelines: "Eschew flamebait. Don't introduce flamewar topics unless you have something genuinely new to say. Avoid unrelated controversies and generic tangents."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
A startup won't solve climate change and contributes to another global problem - inequality.

If we want these problem to be solved we should rather encourage people to be active politically and figure out how to tax carbon emissions worldwide and make sure the tide actually raises all boats.
It might make more sense during the ages when programming is still considered a speciality, then CS as a major has some virtue and it’s largely a pre-req. Of course nowadays the bar is low enough
We obtain data from public data sources. Therefore if a person doesn't want to be prospected, all she needs to do is erase her data from these public data sources. That being said, we have a process to speed up such deletion.

More about that, here: https://megaboost.io/pages/gdpr.html
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It seems strange to fork the least advanced kernel in common use today. OpenBSD still doesn't have a unified page cache (like literally every other mainstream operating system does), and it still implements SMP using a "big kernel lock" strategy from 20 years ago.

The opposition to Rust is also strange. Yes, the trademark restriction is annoying, but it's not fatal: the existence of projects like Pale Moon and Waterfox show that forking projects in the presence of trademark restrictions is viable. (I still think Mozilla is really shitty for applying these restrictions in the first place though.)

Technically, Rust is a good thing. A way to structurally prevent memory safety defects is a major advance that occurs only rarely. Rust is the only game in town for memory safety if you also want low-level control over the machine. Giving that up over a trademark is just luddism.

> Grsec is no longer free software

I really hate how various corporate forces in the Linux world have made is socially unacceptable to sue people out of existence for blatant GPL violations.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21863079
It's surprising to me that you apparently have to fight for memory usage for these cases when using Go.

A while ago I ran a (quite naively written) nodejs application that maxed out at ~700k WebSocket connections per server - using only 4GB of RAM. Here CPU became the bottleneck.
“REST for design tokens” is alluring because it’d be codebase-agnostic, but it would be incredibly risky & maintenance-intensive.

Design tokens evolve. Builds would break when schemas change—or if you hacked around that you’d forfeit the advantages of typed languages on iOS/Android. Untyped Javascript/CSS would silently break and start to decay the minute changes are made on either side of the server.

There are ways to wrangle “single reference point” for design tokens without introducing a network dependency.

See the open-source project Diez, a polyglot native transpiler for design tokens. (I’m a project maintainer)

https://diez.org
A guillotine is a tool. You can use it for chopping watermelon or heads.
And pretty much all pulses

Regarding olive oil, it will store fairly well if kept in sealed in the dark, however it definitely loses its kick after the first 6 months
Another significant differentiator:

We're the only vendor in the entire space providing a cloud native, on-premise option, compatible with any cloud vendor (no lock-in to AWS, Azure or anything else)
The comment was significantly more generic, which makes for worse discussion, especially on divisive topics: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu....

One thing to look for is whether a comment remains anchored in the specific content of an article, or has become unmoored from it. Most of this thread retains at least some contact with it. Even the parent of the comment I replied to (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21866584), which is pretty generic, has at least a wispy string connecting it to the OP. But https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21867096 just goes into talking points.
You realize they use React as well too right? Java and other tech helps them do the same thing.
They probably should have just created a minimum wage+ that is minimum wage plus like 40-60% to cover insurance taxes etc. And if it's a per task job the burden would be on the company to prove the tasks aren't is less than minimum wage+.
So this is an existing Linux distro? Honestly there is basically no context at the link so I thought this was a brand new project.
That settles it, I'm throwing away my eyeglasses and not doing anything a bear wouldn't do.
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I want to add a +1 to this.

It's shameful that talented engineers would spend their productive years building a dystopian future because "the comp is very, very good" or for other equally immoral and unethical reasons. It's "I got mine, good luck getting yours" v2.

I don't think history will look kindly on these folks.
>it is hard to suggest instrumental error - much fainter stars remain detectable in both epochs.

I think if there is an instrumental error it would more plausibly be the opposite. That the bright stars are artifacts in the images.
I also work 32 hours a week, for a major US municipality.

I could reduce to 20 hours a week (for half pay) and still receive full health insurance.

If you are planning to retire in just a few years (or if you’re a new mother!), do consider 80% work for 80% pay.
The plane vs car analogy is one I'm going to remember!
Yes, but babies and children do not ride in business class.
How to See Systems
> > What she meant by “safe space” was that she was happy to be in an environment where difficult subjects can be discussed openly, without the risk of disrespect or harsh judgement.

The quote literally says difficult subjects (read conversations) can be had within this space. Obviously we have different interpretations and my comment is adding my own perspective to it.