skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am genuinely confused by the sentiment of my fellow commenters saying that this press release sounds like “satire”, “butt-hurt”, “whiny”, “sour grapes”, and “aggressive” [0][0][1][2][3].

I have the following questions for you all if you have the time to answer them.

1. What should an official press release from an leading official of a country’s national space program read like? If you have one or more examples, then please do share.

2. Should this official press release make mention of the opinions of foreign space scientists / foreign space officials and address those opinions, or should this official press release make no mention of them?

3. If one of the long-term goals of space travel is to colonize another planet in order to avoid human extinction in the case of a catastrophic world war, then is not nationalism in human space flight antithetical to that goal? Quote from Elon Musk: “If there’s a third world war we want to make sure there’s enough of a seed of human civilisation somewhere else to bring it back and shorten the length of the dark ages” [4].

4. One of the shortcomings of Soyuz seems to basically come down to some form of “it is old”. Given that this forum is Hacker News and we routinely have posts about how some specific instances of old technology have no modern viable successors with similar track records, or old ideas being rediscovered in newer technology (e.g. language features that existed in Common Lisp for decades), why does the sentiment for Soyuz so differently with with that of old technology like older programming languages or older but still used chip designs?

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23478044

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23478215

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23478087

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23478013

[4] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/mar/11/elon-musk...
Couple of guys in Israel just got 6 months of probation for running the world's largest Botnet for Hire.
The Limits of Applied Superforecasting
You can also shift your body weight...

Its hard to describe physical movements. When I was a kid people tried to teach me how to punch by saying "use your body, keep your arm relaxed". And I was like, wtf does that mean??? I only learned how to punch after a lot of experimentation on my own, and a few "a-ha" moments.
Have to be careful with this or may end up with a no-knock warrant served on your home at 3:00 am for whatever illegal things someone you shared your IP address with.
I would be even more cynical and say that $3 million is more than enough to cover all of Wikipedia's expenses and that the rest is bureaucratic fluff.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3112115
I can't find it now but I saw a before & after picture of Cuban street life. For reasons Cuba got smart phones all at once, recently. The before picture shows a lively scene, in the after picture everyone is alone, staring into a phone.
Virtue Signaling Is Underrated
Similar database of internet radio stations: https://www.radio-browser.info
That's true. Wikipedia has this to say:

> Federal prosecutors alleged that Ulbricht had paid $730,000 in murder-for-hire deals targeting at least five people,[29] allegedly because they threatened to reveal Ulbricht's Silk Road enterprise.[37][38] Prosecutors believe no contracted killing actually occurred.[29] Ulbricht was not charged in his trial in New York federal court with any murder-for-hire,[29][39] but evidence was introduced at trial supporting the allegations.[29][38] The evidence that Ulbricht had commissioned murders was considered by the judge in sentencing Ulbricht to life, and was a factor in the Second Circuit's decision to affirm the life sentence.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ross_Ulbricht#Silk_Road,_arres...
Really what I want for my side projects is just to be able to push my projects to github, and if they have a manifest file, they should just automatically spin up on a subdomain with the same name as the repository. I don't see why it should be any more complex than that, and I'd be happy to pay a small sum every year to have that.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impostor_syndrome

"... five subgroups this syndrome often falls into.

- The perfectionist

- The superwoman/man

- The natural genius

- The soloist

- The expert"
> If SpaceX to launch 5 launches per year it would take 35 years to prove same kind of reliability.

I mean, sure, but they've done nine this year so far already, and have plans to launch upwards of 30 by the end.
NCs are hard, and to Corey's point it's not like an employee can leave and go to any industry while fully utilizing their skillset. I'm sure Brian could go into something completely not related and do well, but would still not do as well as he could if he had stayed in the same field. Agree mostly with Corey on this one (trust me, agreements are rare), but as always he ends the post with

> If you think I’ve gotten it wrong, okay: make your case on Twitter!

Absolutely NOT. Twitter is a cesspool where the Twitter mob will attack any well-meaning and well-intentioned argument and is the last place anyone should use for any meaningful discourse of any kind. Twitter has been around for how many years? What problems has it really solved other than giving morons a platform to announce their superiority.
The thing about punching down is that, because of the power differential, you don't hear back when you've gone too far. You may even get the victim smiling and laughing along with you, for their own safety.

But people remember, and talk among themselves, and your name becomes known, and maybe one day there's a huge backlash. And the backlash looks disproportionate, but should really be considered in proportion to the decades of incidents it's in response to.

(You can see this happening in real time with statues of racists, especially in the UK)
I’m thankful for PHP. I don’t use it on regular basis or even as my main programming language, but I do use it for side gigs and smaller projects to earn extra cash.

It’s fast, easy to get into and does the job for me.
Yeah, bye.

Over the past few weeks, I've seen police officers indiscriminately spray pepper spray at peaceful protestors. I've seen them spray pepper spray at journalists. I've seen them point guns at unarmed children. I've seen them shoot cannisters at the face of a helpless man in a wheelchair. I've seen them ram cars into crowds. I've seen too many of them put their knees on the back of the neck of far too many black men. I've seen them do all of this while their colleagues stood by and watched. I've seen them do all of this while their colleagues vocally defended these 'bad apples'.

It's time to reform policing in the US. It is clearly not fit for purpose. If more of this seemingly endless supply of money was spent on improving community initiatives to address problems before they become problems, we would need fewer white men in riot gear with assault rifles breaking into the homes of innocent black men and women to shoot them in their sleep. This madness has gone on for far too long.
There haven't been many experiential leaps in consumer hardware since 3D graphics on 60Hz 1080p displays and touchscreens, wifi became established in the early 2000s.

VR is still firmly in enthusiast space.

NLP/speech recognition has subtly come amazingly far for consumer products but most people don't use it (or just aren't aware of it) due to the social stigma of talking _to_ your phone in public.
You need a 5th PI in front of the SSD providing a network file service.
The Pine folks have been doing fantastic work over the last several years. Does anyone know of ways to support them other than buying products? I don’t really need these gadgets right now, and don’t have the time to tinker, but want to encourage the ecosystem from a long-term perspective. For example, I’d love to give them some money and become a long-term member/shareholder/something. I don’t really care for the rate of return; I’m more interested in a reason to stay engaged with the organization as its products might mature into my use cases, and help them along the way.
I really like where you are going with this!

Is there a way to reach out to you and discuss this further?

I am on Twitter @twishmay.
Something I vaguely remember reading in an app (maybe it was the "internet radio" app or its description, from https://f-droid.org?) said there is a maintained list on the internet, of stations, like maybe in xml. (edit: or maybe where I read that was about the "radiotray" linux desktop app.)

edit: Ah, another comment has mentioned "Similar database of internet radio stations: https://www.radio-browser.info ".
It's mostly american media extending its culture through social media, and local media fishing for narratives.

I know it because I'm spanish, and speak also french and portuguese. Witnessed all the transformation.

Some academic theories breed in french universities were imported in the US around late 70s early 80s, got spinned a bit, got communication theory slapped on, and just got transformed into narratives for the average activist.

That's how I see it. And it clearly gained traction circa 2010 with social media. Nowadays you can clearly see how the US internal affairs frame goes hand with hand with this narratives, matching most of the times weirdly with local issues, like this George Floyd thing.

I'm 32yo so basically lived through the transition.
You put radio... on the internet.
I'm pretty sure Obama's administration pioneered the double-tap, where a drone strike is followed up several minutes later by another one, which is intended to kill those who are providing aid to the fallen. This is considered to be a war crime. He caught flak contemporaneously for this issue, and not just by Fox News, et al.

I'm generally a strong Obama supporter, but this is one area that I feel like his actions were totally indefensible. I'm not surprised by his callous attitude on the subject.
Bleeding off 8km/second (5miles/second) all the way to zero movement - just by moving through the atmosphere... doing that without heating just seems impossible.
Used EV Batteries Could Power Tomorrow's Solar Farms
Interesting thought. Will the functional yield really be much higher? Because there could be more wasted chips?
Here's a demo of UBports Ubuntu on the Pinephone:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Ne6G0-hn9g
I don't personally buy this. If prices were the most efficient way of determining what we should do for other people, why does the government already subsidize certain medications? Or agriculture? Or public development/education? College education becoming increasingly expensive proves this false, I believe.
I think saying that marketing isn't AWS's strength misses the point. As the VP of product marketing he most likely had access to revenue by porduct line. As a result he would know which segments of the product suite are growing quickly, showing promise, and which others have missed the mark.

That information is extremely valuable to a competitor that is trying to catch up to AWS'. This information can also be passed along verbally and be 99% as a effective as having an up to date detailed revenue breakout spreadsheet.

So in this case he is taking some "secret sauce", which can be disclosed without ever being able to prove that it was.

Imposing an 18 month window where that person can't work at a direct competitor is sufficient enough to make that information somewhat stale and no longer as effective.

I'm personally against non-competes, but I did want to point out that there is cause for concern here. Also, as the VP of product marketing, he could have gone on to any job he wanted in any other cloud provider that wasn't a direct competitor, such as say Slack, Twilio, Box, Dropbox, I mean the list is pretty long. So it's not like his hands were tied in the job market. And certainly he signed the agreement originally, and should have modified it before hand if he was concerned. So it is possible that his boss at AWS is a bit irritated that he did not live up to the agreement that was signed. And as a VP you can't really claim that you "didn't know" about the non-compete since you will be doing a lot of hiring and imposing that very same clause on all of your hires.
Add to that the fact that there's no easy upgrade path since shaders don't work between the old and new pipelines, and it doesn't appear to be possible to support both in the same app (enabling one while disabling the other, depending on the scene).

We're in an awkward position where we'd love to support the new features coming in URP/HDRP, but beyond plugin support we would also have to break compatibility with all of the asset bundles our users have contributed.

We managed to write scripts that fixed most (but not all) compatibility issues between Unity 2017 bundles running in 2019, but it's just not feasible to do the same for bundles between the old and new pipelines.

Really, it feels like Unity isn't supporting the developers who've been with them the longest and is instead chasing shiny new tech at our expense.
I wonder if inflicting permanent disability without leaving any obvious physical traces on people that the police see as their adversaries is in fact part of what makes these devices attractive.
Do folks here really find the "Defund *PD" to be a binary rejection of police departments?
They did admit to hack scada system in a "clinc" - a some what serious offence that can have lethal side effects.
If you knew you could hurt others when you intentionally messed up - then probably it is a good idea to lock you up for a few years, because clearly you are very bad at thinking, no matter to what conclusion you will come in 10 minutes.
He didn't just slip and hacked medical systems by accident.
Study Finds Asymptomatic Covid-19 Carriers Might Not Readily Spread the Disease
I have tried to get Plex up and running with my ~20 TB collection but its library management doesn’t work for me. Fails to load files, categorization is horrible and many other problems. Kodi (XBMC) has perfect “point it at a folder and don’t worry about it” functionality. It just doesn’t have the remote capabilities I’ve found as good as Plex. What am I doing wrong with Plex?
One way that fails is when you are trying to nurture talent that really isn’t where it needs to be yet.
Completely agree. Looking for one myself.

Would you have any thoughts on what Feedly could do better?
Nissan Computer vs. Nissan Motor over Nissan.com
I really wish there was a way around this, I'd love to offer free wifi, but don't want to deal with illegal content that might flow through it.

I've considered using something like PIA that claims they don't log, but not sure if that would help.
I think, this one was already posted here some time ago: https://www.discovermagazine.com/environment/in-russias-spac... Basically poor people recycle rocket parts as building material for their needs.
No, they coerce you into leaving yourself in these countries.
From the article, it seems more like these are only acceptable as the court cases are still pending.
well, it shouldn't be "legal" for one or cartel corporation to mediate between content/data and its users. its downright dystopian.
On the other hand back in January I thought many millions would have died by now, based on Gabriel leung's talks on coronavirus. I never bought into climate alarmism.
The whole point of my post is to suggest that it's now easy (soon even easier when it's not a beta feature) to run everything from a durable external SSD. You don't even need a microSD card inserted anymore.

Ideally the next Pi gets some interface that allows more integrated storage, like eMMC or NVMe, but even with USB the speed and durability justifies annoying cabling situations.
Many people here don't understand the genius of Php. The language thrives of the ability to put out functionality that can be easily used by as many people as possible, even if it is not polished or technically perfect. This raises the ire of lots of programmers from "serious languages", which will usually take years to figure out the best syntax, the perfect framework and tooling environment, etc. While they're doing this, Php programmers are writing billions of lines of code to support millions of websites all over the world. Like many others, I sometimes hate the ugliness of what comes out from Php, but there is no question that it works to get the job done without having to learn the thousandth latest framework for language X.
I have a hard time finding uses for my 1 gbps FIOS line. Which is surprising considering the bandwidth I had with my first modem (which is also my username).
10 Years of Falcon 9
The default is the whole domain (and it also works with other sites, like "amazon.com query"), but you can also change the keyword for it. For several years I've had "wp" as the keyword for wikipedia searches, and it works in both Firefox and Chrome. I just type "wp whatever my query is", no tab needed, and it will take me directly to the result.
People throw tear gas back at police all the time. shrug
Agreed. I've had "en" as my keyword for Wikipedia searches on Chrome since 2008...
A Single Session of Exercise Alters 9,815 Molecules in Our Blood
"The vast majority of people I know at the director-and-up level, when they are leaving a company and looking for a new gig"

And where are they going to go? Outside of FAANG they might find the pay is substantially less.
I would like something different:

garanteed bandwith + max bandwith

You buy a 1gb line with 50mb guaranteed. That would allow you to use it in the night to a full extend while your ISP doesn't need to provide 1gb all the time
These predictions are, pardon my French, utter bullshit. Steve Keen made a very severe (and quite funny) critique of Nordhaus' method to reach such conclusions at a recent OECD meeting:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtKW3OK2_lk
Rapid warming may destroy/displace >= 90% of life as we know it. It's happened before and we have records of it below the surface. Also >= 10°C is seen as mass-destructive even if slowly introduced. We're not potentially heading there before a couple of hundred years, but the cascading nature of unknown effects doesn't make such scenario too unlikely and even a middle path will be largely destructive in the meanwhile.
Devices covering a larger area could be used in a kind of modern day barricade.
I've always disagreed with that rule, but apparently for opposite reasons from most people. I think that punching up and punching down are both bad, as a rule of thumb. They're great comedy in certain situations, but as a rule of thumb, I think they're to be avoided.

As for when they're appropriate, it's about A) the potential damage that can come from it being misconstrued or B) the potential damage that can come from you doing part of it wrong. It's more common for there to be potential harm when "punching" down than up (hence the rule of thumb), but there are situations where it's fine or bad in either direction. But a lot of those situations are only in a context of real trust, for example with friends you don't have power over who know you well already, or a comedy club where it's understood that it's all for laughs.
~~without justification~~

FTFY.
> What I'd like to know is if it will work with the battery compartment empty on AC power only.

The Pinebook laptops can work without a battery while connected to AC, but not out of the box. A simple hardware mod is necessary to enable this, that's documented by Pine.
Ask them if their roomba has free will.
> I find the 'control' part of this iffy. People's actions are caused by their thoughts, feelings and beliefs, but their thoughts, feelings and beliefs are themselves caused by various other things.

That trips most people up, but it goes right back to our first discussion about cars also being "not real". If I say to a coworker, "I got in my car and drove to work", and they reply with, "Well that's impossible, because cars don't exist, nor do day jobs", that's kind of nonsense right, because there I am at work, standing in front of my coworker with my car in my parking spot. It's a category error, and it's the same error made when people say that a choice wasn't really ours because it's dictated by the movements of particles.

The fact that thoughts, feelings and beliefs may be caused by deterministic underlying physics is actually irrelevant, which is why Compatibilism is compatible with determinism. What matters is that thoughts, feelings and beliefs counterfactually dictate your choices, and so, by changing thoughts, feelings and beliefs via moral feedback, you change behaviour.

Moral blame is that feedback. The type of control that's needed is simply not the type of control that you're assuming it must be. This is the mistake incompatibilists make as well: they assume the type of control needed has certain logical properties, but these properties have been shown to be flawed.

Now what consequences follow from blame is a completely separate question (of justice), and I mention this because it trips a lot of people up: they assume blame entails punishment, and given they cannot justify punishment when some things are simply beyond one's control, they want to do away with blame itself. But that's unnecessary, because blame by itself doesn't immediately entail retributive justice with punishment, there are plenty of other forms of justice that would serve equally well.
I agree with this, personally I use gradle with kotlin script which is just the normal programming language but behaving as a REPL
You can also permanently turn off the new look while you're logged in.
Catholics believe that marriage ends only with death. While obviously a civil divorce is possible, the actual sacramental marriage is indissoluble. One of the consequences of this belief is that Catholic couples are considerably less likely to get a civil divorce than other Christians or atheists[1].

[1] https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/catholics-continue-t...
Can you use noindex to stop Google from crawling your site but allow other search engines?
Oops! My math must've been a bit broken. I'll update that part.
Will automakers be able to make anything but EVs in the next 2 decades? Which automaker is in a better position for this future than Tesla?
I understand there is some truth to that claim, but how real is it?

Sentences are delivered by judges. There have been prominent examples of judges bribed by prison systems to deliver harsh sentences, but that doesn't seem to be the norm.

Am I naive thinking that most judges deliver the sentence they believe is just, and that if something needs to be reformed, it's their perception of justice and not just the prison system?
Not sure about folks here, but my ultra conservative family believes that Defund === lawlessness
The Brock Turner case, while horrendous, is not representative of how rapes are prosecuted or sentenced.

Skimming through your link, I don’t see anything involving someone with a single joint being incarcerated for anywhere near a rape charge.

Some of those sentences may be out of line on their own, but you also don’t have people being put away for 20 years for being caught smoking a joint.
ShutDownSTEM asks researchers to work on racism today, instead
All renewables except hydro (which Germany doesn't have the geography for) are intermittent.

It's impossible to go 100% renewables unless there's a breakthrough in battery storage.

By the time that happens, it will be too late for climate change. That's why phasing out nuclear without having any other solid low carbon plan was irresponsible.
Consider the field of Oceanography!

Try hacking an underwater robot to navigate under ice from a ship during a storm. Or adding software on a remote buoy over dicy network connections to help it survive a hardware failure.
Work every day knowing you are helping us to understand the worlds most precious resource better.

(shameless plug)
https://careers.whoi.edu/

Most importantly work in a field with people who are passionate about their jobs!! It removes all the backstabbing when there is a higher common goal.