skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let's be objective: SpaceX has radically lowered the cost to get to Earth orbit, and commands a majority of the worldwide launch market. They are simply more efficient than other launch providers, so much so that they are branching out into global communications (StarLink) to capture more revenue (global comms is 10x the market size of the launch market). They don't need to go to the Moon to succeed. There is no market to get to the Moon unless nation states make one. Musk is building his own market for Mars logistics demand.

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

> SpaceX's market share increased rapidly. In 2016, SpaceX had 30% global market share for newly awarded commercial launch contracts, in 2017 the market share reached 45%, and 65% in 2018.

Tesla, according to the opinion of a single auto industry expert, has a 7 year head start against legacy automakers [1]. They sell every vehicle they build, and combined, legacy automakers have shed almost 40k jobs in the last year as they attempt to transition to building EVs to compete against Tesla.

A reasonable person might conclude these metrics indicate an achievement of some level of success.

[1] https://cleantechnica.com/2019/07/27/auto-experts-tesla-has-...
> Tax-funded UBI is theft, slavery, and extortion.

Our law creates both property rights and taxes. Taxes aren't theft because, by law, that money is actually the government's property. If you want individualistically overrule our law to make taxes theft, I might as well do the same to make your property mine.
Yes, fair. But that doesn't make it more effective vs. simply washing your hands with warm water & soap.
> non-productive for society

Why? I feel like a lot of people want to do things that are productive for society, that we have too little of right now. Things like producing art of all forms, building things, increasing their level of communication with those around them, participating in community events and activities, etc. Sure, these things aren't economically productive, but they're still productive for society, which is the gap that I'd like to see filled, whether by UBI or other forms of providing more security for the general population.
> Yes. Someone needs to work to produce the goods and services they use, as well as fund their UBI. The more people who opt out of working, the harder everyone else must work to compensate.

Workers are more productive now than they ever have been.[0] Productivity was up 253% since 1948 seven years ago. For decades they’ve been promising us the 20 hour work week, and it’s here. In fact it’s only 15 hours comparatively.

The point is: you don’t need everyone to work full time everyday for a society to maintain a healthy standard of living.

[0] https://money.cnn.com/2013/03/07/news/economy/compensation-p...
It's definitely very difficult. I'm striving to learn a new language,improve at chess and olympic weightlifting but that's a much lower level of purpose than building spaceships to reach Mars. I hope that I can find something in my career that fuels a burning desire like some of the SpaceX employees
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I don’t get the point

1) we are plain in the middle of a mass extinction event, expected to get much worst in a decade or two. Wouldn’t it be good to solve that first?

2) we need a 4th industrial revolution to survive global warming as a civilization. Wouldn’t be better to fix that first? (No, electric cars won’t suffice)

3) is it really necessary to spoil astronomy/night sky to finance one’s dream? (No, vantablack won’t solve the issue)

4) our technology presently rely on mining 100+ elements. Does anyone here believe one can mine all of those on an a planet that misses an atmosphere? Using Earth ressources for a “colony” seems a dubious idea.

5) has anyone an idea of the CO2 equivalent cost of bringing one person to mars?

6) there is growing evidence that there is life in the Martian underground. Should we take the risk of destroying another biosphere?
I generally favor markets but one of the main reasons we have a federal government is to do everything required in this type of situation. Stay away as much as you can, but be there when we need you.
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Insurance policies :)

Good point, actually the 100MM may have included brick and mortar.
Sticks to your hands. That's why I prefer washing my hands, because they feel clean afterwards.
I have to ask, why do you assume that people are using hand sanitizer instead of washing their hands? In the case of a pandemic, I would like to disinfect my hands mostly in places where there is no access to running water. Like, in my car after being in a public place, or at my desk.

This feels like the coronavirus-related version of that infamous Stack Exchange response where you say "I must do (thing) because of these requirements, what's the best way to do it" and people respond with "Don't do (thing), do (other thing which is arguably better but does not satisfy the requirements)"
I'm skeptical to believe the service is any more scalable than it would be with regular instances and multi az. mainly because in my experience scalability has way more to do with network topology and the architecture of how requests flow, rather than the tech for implementation.
It's sold as a service because it drives compute. Compute is one of the top money makers. The more people who buy into things like k8 that are essentially VM deployment launchers the better. The providers aren't emotional about this like 90% of the posters here. If a new flavor of the week gets people to launch VMs next year then that will be sold.
Resource allocation that favors public wellbeing over market efficiency.
The “new” thing (if you didn’t know it before) is that GitHub applies a collapse/expand behavior to <details> elements.
The risk is that you start getting looked at for regular large transactions.

The platform does require trust, it requires trust in the banking system and in the person you're transacting with. Not sure really what it achieves apart from delegating trust from a central authority to a disparate set of individuals. I'm not convinced that's a good thing.
Usually I think these "modern design" complaints are whiny, but man that new BMW logo looks so flat and lifeless. It needs something to make it pop. Also the lack of outline and white lettering seem a hassle to use on anything.

I always thought the Red Hat breakdown of what/why changes of their logo was really well done:

https://www.redhat.com/en/about/brand/new-brand

https://www.redhat.com/en/about/brand/new-brand/details
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Gotcha. If you're looking for subnamespacing, HNC offers self-service subnamespace creation, have you looked into that? https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/multi-tenancy/tree/master...

(My apologies if we've chatted about this before in another venue, I'm losing track of whom I've already talked to)
Hence "Yes, the math is more complicated than that". The practical tweet-sized outcome is about the same though.

The other thing missed by UBI advocates: money is merely a representation of value, it is not value itself. Someone living on $UBI (and I expect a great many would) has all their basic needs met without their effort ... except that those basic needs are not provided without effort. This badly distorts supply-and-demand. $1 costing a UBI recipient nothing, prices rise by $1 - knowing that the $1 cost nothing to obtain; to wit "easy come, easy go".
Anecdata: series B startup. First year was a single VM with two docker containers for api and nginx. Deploy was a one shot “pull new container, stop old, start new” shell command. Year 2 onwards, k8s. No regrets, we only needed to make our first dedicated ops hire after 15 engineers, due in large part to the infra being so easy to program.

I used GKE and I was also very familiar with k8s ahead of time. I would not recommend someone in my shoes to learn k8s from scratch at the stage I rolled it out, but if you know it already, it’s a solid choice for the first point that you want a second instance.
at least it's not "Neomorphism" or whatever you call that braindead trend
That picture of the "pipe gun" found is total rubbish... Who builds a pipe gun out of a plastic pipe? It would just blow up in your hands.

I can't tell from the photo what the device really is intended to be, but it might be just a DIY container for keeping tinder dry.
I noticed from using Anki so much for everything that when I include answers in other questions titles I learn the material better. Your comment would obviously be faster because it is less cards to add, but I think my brain would be more likely to forget the concept that way. Personal preference I guess.
There is in fact a pretty long history of biomimicry in aviation though. I've met many aerospace engineers (including a former NASA chief scientist) who would take your question very seriously. The answer may well be "no, that isn't the only reason", but it's not trivial to arrive at that answer.
But lack of personnel to do jobs would bump the wages due to demand and that would quickly find people ready to fill them in
> bet 10 times

The point in option 1 and 3 is to illustrate that betting 10 times isn’t an option in many systems. You can’t say you should always do something because the risk reward is favorable. That’s still gambling, and sometimes a stupid decision.

The average outcome of a gamble is not the likely outcome of taking it. And even ignoring that, it’s still a gamble unless you can confidently run it at sufficient scale to hit the theoretical distribution.
If you search around, there is a handful of specific GitHub markdown tricks that (for some reason) they don't officially document on their own help docs. Here is a few I found quickly searching:

- https://github.com/mxstbr/github-markdown-tricks

- https://github.com/shaunlebron/github-markdown-hacks

- https://grantwinney.com/cool-markdown-tricks-for-github/

- https://ourcodeworld.com/articles/read/162/tips-and-tricks-t...

If you just search "github markdown tricks", you'll find some others, as well.
Cool story bro but let's just think for a minute, why do you need an assembly line of spaceships now/near future when you don't even have one? when you ARE far away from sending an human to orbit Mars, let alone land one there? I'm talking about the actual realist act of doing that, not a pseudo Hollywood story of sending a "suicide mission", for what? Seriously, for what? When the day comes ( it never will, in those terms ) I want to see who actually steps up.

All of this assembly line talk is "idea guy" talk trying to keep all the plates spinning. Mars is just a pretext for other more mundane/ego/profit driven things.

And what I criticize is this mass stupidity driven romanticism where nobody calls him out on his Starship sized bullshit.
> The end does not justify the means. Forcibly removing someone's money and transferring it to another person can never be justified. Tax-funded UBI is theft, slavery, and extortion.

Unrelatedly, I have also proven beyond a doubt that Ray Charles is God.
Your comment is accurate but I think its the fact that GitHub styles it in that way. I do wish it was possible to use markdown-types of elements in this way so that it could fallback on non-GitHub rendered web pages, or still look good in a text editor vs. HTML tags all over the place.

Maybe something like

^ Header

^^^

Collapsed

^^^

Similar to code blocks with the ``` syntax. I dunno.
Having worked with ECS 2.0 when Fargate was released, the setup was much harder to use from operations standpoint the moment you needed anything more complex (not to mention any kind of state) than k8s. Just getting monitoring out of AWS was annoyance involving writing lambda functions to ship logs...
> The end does not justify the means. Forcibly removing someone's money and transferring it to another person can never be justified.

I agree. For that reason we should redistribute wealth from lazy rent-seeking shareholders and landlords. Billionaires and shareholders are legalized slave owners and should be treated as such.
I have no sources for this, but I've heard that actually 70% is the optimal concentration, and that above that the alcohol is less effective. Something to do with not having enough water content to dissolve stuff, or something.
How long did this run?
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> tank mass scales with a lower exponent than tank volume

I'm confused here. How are they not both cubic?
Sleep deprivation is physical torture.
Yes, absolutely. It is like an infection or something. Once you catch it you only can communicate in logos of hip tech brands.

Edit: punctuation
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And now I feel hopeless again. How can someone get better at so many things so fast that too in tech?? I still myself noob after all these years.
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Instead of being fatalistic and bemoaning the problem, you'll find yourself in a better mental space if you just apply yourself to solving it. Yes, you will only start with small steps, and yes, that will be a great risk, but in the end it the only chance we have of making things work.
You assume the price is at equilibrium.

If there is gouging, that's definitely not the case.
Sometimes the cure is worse than the disease.
It's actually a stylized Bavarian flag, the propeller story is a myth
One other thing to add to it: The community in the experiment were not self sustained. What I mean is that extra money was pumped into this experiment.

In real life the money needs to come from that same community, which boils down to increased taxes on labor. I would love to see the statistics on work incentive when your taxes double on that same work.
There is a lot of things to do other than consume. Even if it's learning to write poetry
> People dropping out of the workforce doesn't reduce the demand for those goods and services.

It might, if the price of labor goes up and makes those goods and services more expensive.
Reminds me of the business trying to reduce our spend on VMware licenses while keeping the same architecture.

A high level person actually asked me to reimplement vCenter :|
> doesn't prepare them to do anything

Wait, what? I mean, I guess that just watching your parents work doesn’t “prepare” you for work any more than watching TV does, but that’s because it’s completely unrelated. Watching your parents go to high-powered executive jobs doesn’t “prepare” you for work in the 21st century either, education does. My father was a police officer (they don’t make much money) and my mother stayed home with us - they both encouraged us to study so we could do better than they did. Watching my father go off to a dangerous job every day didn’t “prepare” me for work, but it did help me grow up with a sense of “work is part of adult life” that I wouldn’t have gotten if he’d spent every day watching TV and drinking beer.
Well, the thing in Germany is that (1) there is actually a decent amount of new housing being built in cities but (2) there are often strict limits around where you're allowed to build, what you're allowed to demolish, and how high you're allowed to build. And during the past 5 years, demand has vastly outpaced supply. Property prices and rents in cities are absolutely insane, and there is no indication that that is going to stop.

And the reaction to it from people is quite... shortsighted? From my perspective. Often the exact people who would benefit from a better housing market vote for parties who are more restrictive in terms of new buildings. There's this perception that new buildings are only being built for "rich" people, which is true, but it also means the rich people aren't competing for your shitty apartment anymore. But somehow, people don't really think about that.
I'm afraid you might be falling into the exact trap I have described. Realistically, how many such cases have you seen? And of those you have, how many did actually implement such a complex solution and ran it for a long time without either closing down or transforming to something more suited to their needs?
> Sure, it looks nice on BMW’s bronze-hued electric i4 sedan concept, but what about on a white BMW? Or a letterhead? Or on a sign for a BMW dealership on a highway?

Is the author really concerned that BMW's design team didn't think about how this logo would be used in such fundamental ways? I can guarantee you that they did.

You can personally like or not like it, fine. But if you're going to write a judgey article about it, at least take some basic steps to try to understand why the choices were made. Companies don't just have some intern change their logo up for no reason at all.

And that headline is obnoxious.
You're bolstering my case. "Malnutrition" is, obviously, below the line I'm trying to draw. Meet the line, and you fundamentally want for nothing, no "reduced lifespan and health problems". Humans have a natural lifespan; what is the minimum necessary to support that (aside from externalities brought on by personal choice or random $#!^)?
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I re-read, and your claim was "derived from NTSC", not that NTSC itself was 60/1.001 fps. So, yeah. NTSC itself was (30 frames or 60 fields) / 1.001. "Derived from NTSC"... yeah, that could be "60 frames".
Isn't that the default behavior of <details> in html documents? Am I missing something?
People providing those things wouldn't need as much as they do now.
I think it is called rationing.
>To use different phrasing,

I don't find this style of discourse productive. Why do you insist on putting words in their mouth in an attempt to lead them down the discussion you want to have instead of what's being presented? Asking for clarification on why you don't understand their statement could be more productive, but I don't think you're interested in that anyways.
It evaporates too fast. It's a problem I always have with isopropyl alcohol, you've got to move fast.
This isn't markdown, it's HTML. For the love of God please don't do this. We already have HTML.

Emacs has been able to collapse markdown for a long time now. There's no reason why that can't be implemented in other renderers.
Interestingly there are couple rockets that are close to "strapping couple rockets together" for various reasons:

The R7 rocket

- mostly to avoid engine ignition in flight & due to having a lot of nozzles you need to fit on a rocket

- this was then kept for Soyuz even after an additional stage has been added that is started in flight

- Soyuz 2V uses a more efficient engine & uses only the central stage

The proton Rocket

- the central tank has the maximum diameter you can ship via rail from the factory to Baykonur

- by mounting smaller tanks around it that are shipped separately you can avoid building an overly long rocket, that could be fragile and unstable

Saturn 1/1B

- basically a stop gap using existing Jupiter and Redstone rocket tankage tooling

- strap 8 Redstone tanks around 1 Jupiter tank and you get the S-I first stage

Delta IV Heavy/Falcon Heavy

- you have a rocket that can launch by itself with smaller payload or by strapping 3 first stages together can launch a bigger payload

- better economies of scale as you can doe more with a single rocket design instead of maintaining 2 separate one (big and small)

- in Falcon Heavy case you can also save all the first stages from more demanding trajectories where you would otherwise have to expend the regular F9 first stage

OTRAG

- make dirt cheap and as simple as possible standardized "rocket tubes"

- strap a lot of them together

- fire and jettison in the right order to achieve orbit (check your staging! ;-) )
4) People take preventative measures.

It's not that hard to have some extra cleaning supplies, non-perishable food, and water around. I don't understand the desire to have the government spend a multiple in tax dollars for what I could just keep in the house myself?
Such a serious matter and no one replies. This is an odd community.
A lot of work today is pretty much bullshit/meaningless; I mean look at 85% of the US insurance / medical billing professions are useless and only exist because there is manufactured bureaucracy. Bullshit Jobs is a great book looking into to this. Also UBI shouldn't be disincentivizing work, it should be allowing people to explore more fulfilling pursuits.
I bought a Thinkpad P52S last year and installed Pop_OS. It's built on top of Ubuntu and I highly recommend it over Ubuntu. I used a macbook for ~7 years before this, and then Ubuntu for a ~1 year. Pop_OS is much more similar to macOS that anything else I've tried.

With the Ubuntu Tweaks tool, it's been a dream to run. Required very little configuration, shortcuts to switching

I primarly use it for Python (virtualenvs) and a little docker.

I bought the P52S because it had all the hardware ports (Ethernet couple of USBs, a SIM card slot and a proper HDMI port. If those aren't important to you, you could get by with a lighter Carbon.
To be fair, its quite simple to do this.

As part of your config, you would specify a reverse proxy service, and a couple of app aliases. Then you would bring up the new deployment under one alias, and shut down the other.

But yeah, its nice to have that kind of stuff (and much more) built in. docker-swarm also offers that out of the box, but my experience leans more towards k8s here.
I've noticed a curve model happening on Amazon.

First it was basic medical masks that went out of stock. Then people realised DIY/Building masks are the same if not better, they went out of stock. So the next step was half face respirators for spray painting. They are now either out of stock or overpriced.

Same thing with hand sanitizer. Wipes and small bottles. Then larger family sized ones, then industrial acohol cleaner and aloe vera.

Its very fascinating, its almost like early adopters vs. mass consumers.
Many people choose to live like this.

Not being chained to the day job to pay the mortgage to keep the roof over your head and the children's school fees paid is very liberating.

I have a proper house, yet once quit my job and went on a hike with just a handful of coins and a tshirt. That hike turned into a 3 month trip round Europe. My total earnings and expenses were probably sub-$10 per day, and I rarely had a bed for the night, yet my quality of life was arguably higher than my current 9-5, 6 figure job.
When cryptographers talk about "security through obscurity" they're talking about cryptographic algorithms and protocols. So even systems that aim to prevent "rubber-hose" attacks could benefit by avoiding algorithms (like AES) who's security is based on obscurity, even if there are parts of the system that are obscured.
I've never made the association with a crash-test dummy locator marking before, but the abstracted rotor by itself is reminiscent of that for me.