skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Once a falcon 9 second stage has burnt all its fuel, a crew dragon is left in LEO with very limited delta v budget remaining. To intercept the space station it needs to be launched into a very specific inclination and at a certain time. It's very much unlike a jet that has a thousand km or more of range and freedom to change direction and altitude at will.

Unlike a fighter aircraft or multi role strike aircraft that might need to change directions or mission on the fly, or extend its mission on a spur of the moment decision by refueling from a tanker, the crew dragon mission is planned out meticulously to the tiniest thruster detail in advance.

Not that military missions are not also planned down to the smallest detail, but systems are also designed to work within the needs of a rapidly changing tactical environment based on opposing force actions. Aircraft intended for tactical roles that can be air to air, air to ground strike, radar suppression, etc, need a great deal more flexibility.
> My daughter wouldn't praise the usability of a mouse and keyboard, but instead if she could download it in the app store while walking around the neighborhood with friends.

One of these is an issue of what you can do in the game. The other is an issue of where you can play the game.
> We currently support meetings on Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, Zoom, Whereby, team.video, Skype, BlueJeans, GoToMeeting, and Cisco Webex

I think there _is_ support for Webex, even though there's no logo there above the fold.
Generally active sabotage is frowned upon as opposed to winning in fair competition.
It absolutely is. Most people live with someone else. Living by yourself is a luxury.
Kongregate, what a trip. I saw 'Kongregate' in the title and thought 'hey, I have games published there!' As a teenager, using MochiAds to get paid for some flash games was absurd - this was something I was just "good at", and honestly, what really introduced me to software development as both a passion and a career.
Ah thanks for that
Development and Licensure of Vaccines to Prevent Covid-19 [pdf]
I think what Substack is doing is really exciting, but it remains to be seen how large this phenomenon will become. I heard on a CNBC interview that there are only about 30 writers who make a living income from Substack right now (don't know if it's true or not).

"Pay money to support the creator" can work - Patreon is doing around $50M in revenue annually. Bundling can obviously also work with many big and established examples. But it strikes me that the two models attract a very different customer, so those who subscribe to a specific Substack newsletter may or may not be enthusiastic about buying a big bundle of them down the line.
I’d pay $1/year to block my uncle’s right wing conspiracy drivel without blocking his posts of my cousin’s kids.
It turns out the real border wall was the friends we made along the way.

That is: if auto workers are being paid that minimum wage by foreign automakers, that's gonna be a massive boon to Mexican household incomes, which improves the standard of living for at least some people, and in a dramatic way. This money will, I reckon, go straight toward things like entrepreneurship, higher education, and other things that help with upward mobility on a generational scale. This can (and I hope will) translate to less emigration pressure, since fewer Mexicans will feel the need to move north for US wages if they're already being paid US wages, and fewer migrants from further south will feel the need to continue across the US/Mexico border if they could instead settle in Mexico for similar pay and much lower cost of living. This could persist long-term, since a better-educated and more innovative population can give the Mexican economy one hell of a jumpstart (and, importantly, help whip up a generation of Mexicans with the technical education to keep up with the inevitable automation push).

I'm curious how this will play out long term, but it seems reasonable to me that we should pay workers according to the value they create rather than merely the cheapest employers can get away with paying (and contrary to what the far-capitalists might claim, these are rarely if ever in sync, especially when talking about outsourced labor; a worker in Mexico is not inherently worth different than a worker in the US, so why should those two workers be paid differently?), and I'm oddly optimistic about how this might play out.
> Isn't it obvious that it's faster to find the mute button on a TV remote control with 5 buttons than on a remote control with 50 buttons? I experienced that just yesterday.

It would also be easier to type vowels on a 5 key keyboard with only vowel keys, but then you'd be limited to only typing vowels.

I have one of those awful ~10 button remotes, and it takes about 10 key presses to "add a show to my list" on Amazon, because the remote hides the "green" button behind a soft menu. It was also definitely not "easier" to find that button the first time.

Degrading functionality to make certain functions "easier" or "more obvious" is a bad trade-off far more often than many UX designers seem to assume.
>we already look at the world which is very messy and navigate it without a problem

Well, when it comes to complex and confusing environments, it's better to be in a
"TWISTY LITTLE MAZE OF PASSAGES, ALL DIFFERENT"
than a
"MAZE OF TWISTY LITTLE PASSAGES, ALL ALIKE".
Flash posed a threat to Apple’s walled garden.

Apple wants you to download an iPhone app (and buy the iPhone for that)

If all a user needs to do is open a browser tab, on any device, and have an good app-like experience they hardly need an iPhone.

The web never really caught up with the experience flash gave the user.

And Apple benefited.
Funny this doesn't come out of Microsoft.

Vaguely relatedly, MS seems to be making another little push into Windows Containers after seemingly forgetting about them. 29 days ago a new Github issue tracker! https://github.com/microsoft/Windows-Containers
What a wussy excuse. This should have been a no-brainer decision: do we quietly compromise privacy so that our users can have little icons on their browser tabs? How absurd.

Duckduckgo chose compliance with the inconsequential minutae of bigtech over its primary pain point. This is indicative of misalignment between stated values and the values demonstrated through actions. If you guys made this call, sacrificing privacy for something so banal, it doesn't bode well for what's going on in the rest of your operations. That means the problem isnt technical, its cultural, which are unfixable, therefore it's pretty much over. Good luck to regain trust once you've been outed as a put on.
My motto: Be the somebody in "Somebody should do that."

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Between personal and professional experience, I can boast over 20 years spent tinkering on, hacking on, and programming with Linux. This means that I am comfortable walking all over the the stack and am familiar with everything from low-level execution details to high-devel user interface philosophies. With an eclectic background, I find it hard to reduce myself to paper and a few meagre words; however, give me a chance to meet your team, and I can guarantee we will find common ground and mutual value.

Qualities in my ideal team are strong communication, mentorship opportunities (both recieving and giving), as well as maximally valuing, using, and sharing each others' skills. I would love to work in a non-C-like language such as Haskell, Lisp, J/APL, Forth, Prolog, etc.

I am bursting with the desire to offer my skills and knowledge. Let's make it happen!
Sorry, I replied too fast to see your part about raising rates. Yes, that's roughly in line with I propose. We raise the tax on the land to exactly how much rent you land derive from the land. And then you don't tax the structures on top at all, since we want to incentivize people building on top. This is the Georgist policy of a land value tax.

I don't doubt there are places where rent-seeking from land is not occurring. But we still need to address the places where it is a problem. And this will remain a problem as long as people require land to live, as long as centralization to cities keeps occurring (which we want more off, given its benefits).

My point is not that being a landlord has no risk or guarantees absurd returns. Rather, I'm saying that the returns from land do not come at all from the value that the landlord provides, so we should make sure those returns go back to the community that created them.
Maybe a good VC play. Build a good alternative to Turbotax et al., force them to acquire you, sleep in bed of money.
Neat link, thanks!
The original URL, the highly memorable http://www2.warnerbros.com/spacejam/movie/jam.htm shows as pretty consistently available on the Internet Archive since 2003.
Algebra results in numbers. Calculus results in functions. Businesses that plan well know when not to invest in automation changes.
Google Glass 3.0? Google acquires smart glasses maker North
come on dude. I thought you got a better answer.
Good question, maybe the article link changed? This article talks about the company's valuation: only $70 million as of Tuesday's close, but up a lot today after this news. https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/01/business/yrc-federal-loan/ind...
> I'm a co-inventor of STAR voting.

Utila? I think I ran into you on Reddit yesterday. Good to see you're also on HN. Small world (if not, then from your tweet I met Mark).
Can’t you still open a browser tab? Web apps do exist. How is that any different?
Agreed if muting the TV along with 4 other things was the only thing we do with the TV! Having a numpad to explicitly punch in the channel number, dedicated prev/next, input selection, volume and a bunch of other buttons doesn't hurt. If you compare 5 buttons vs 50 buttons to find something - what about the counter argument as follows: If you need to do 50 things but only having 5 buttons to do it? Wouldn't it get frustrating? Having to dig into menus over and over and over hundreds of times a day? What about doing this for 5 years everyday? It gets tiring, right? I would take 50 buttons any day over 5 buttons, without a doubt.

I think it made me think about an important point - frequency of use. It has to be taken into account.
They need to run international ad campaigns, what's that tell you?
It is also worth noting that 'speeding' has only a very rough correlation with risky driving behavior.

A road that meets MUTCD standards is usually guaranteed to have at least 15% of drivers speeding on it by design.
New Mac Ransomware Is Even More Sinister Than It Appears
You say the problem is AI policing followed by an example of preemptive incarceration.

Hello, mister/lady, our 100% unbiased system has automatically determined that you have commited XYZ crime, would seem more appropriate.
https://github.com/braver-browser/

A Brave fork meant to address this issue. Time will tell.
As I said, they're just one step short of buying equities. They're throwing money at investment companies and buying corporate debt, this can have no other result than inflating the stock market.
I wonder how tone deaf you have to be to leave this response and think you're doing the right thing.
I understand we’re suppose to take your word but it’s making me skeptical now about the actual intentions. If DDG truly cared about user privacy then you shouldn’t transmit user information for something as trivial as favicons.
On Scruffy Spaces
It was unsound in terms of having single points of failure in the flight computer. When a cosmic ray bit flip can send you into the ground, you cannot carry passengers.

The safety analysis was turbo hosed, the documentation was shat, they hid the issue from operators and regulators alike, and went out of the way to not make simulators.

They removed previous generation's safeties (the oh shit yank back hard electric trim switch override), and removed a level of granularity in terms of capability to isolate the flight computer from the trim motors (which they have to do because they can't certify the plane to carry passengers otherwise), they have electrical control and power circuits to the trim motors too close together, and not sufficiently protected from a thrown turbine blade.

The aerodynamics (without MCAS functional) fail to pass airworthyness requirements for passenger transport that have been in place since time immemorial, and critical structural components (pickle forks) are showing alarming degrees of premature failure given their design lifetime.

Explain to me how a plane that doesn't at all implement graceful degradation to a fundamentally safe configuration is not "fundamentally flawed". Explain to me how plane's assembled from components that are failing well before their designed lifetime (and yes, I understand MTBF) is not a sign fundamental flaws. Even with all the fixes they're doing, the design shows an astonishing lack of good engineering sense. You don't keep around an awkward, unpredictable, unergonomic tool built by someone who demonstrated a willful disregard for doing Generally Accepted Engineering Practices, and who have repeatedly been found to do stupid things like leaving tools or metal shavings to foul or clog up filters, damage gaskets/seals etc.. You bin it, and make/get one that won't kill 200 people a failure instead. I don't give a damn how expensive a mistake it was.

There are lines you don't cross. Supporting bad business is one of them. Bring on the Depression. Maybe it's time we all figured out what good business looks like all the way around again.

And no, all that isn't belief or mere opinion. It's fact laid bare for all to see. You can fly on them and risk your loved ones if you like. I know the mentalities that drive those types of boondoggle and I'll have none of it. Show me a massive culture revamp in Boeing first, then I'll consider it again.
The Hidden Costs of Low Quality Word Embeddings
I'm Polish - a post-Soviet block country - and I enjoy a good statue toppling! Why has it taken the US so long to start removing statues of racists, slavers, and shitty men from the bad times when they still had power? Poland changed all the street names named after bolsheviks and everything. Like, in Philly where I live there once was a mayor whose campaign slogan was 'vote white' and he still had a statue dedicated to him until a month ago.
interestingly enough the average facebook user spends 60 minutes per day on the site. That's about two full weeks per year. If having to pay one dollar for the service isn't even worth it, that tells you something about how much people actually value their usage of facebook.

One of the simpler ways to fix social ills and misallocated resources is to utilize the price mechanism.
> Yes. The key word there is intentional.

In what universe is replacing floors full of accountants with a room full of computer(s) anything other than intentional?

"Oh, whoops, we bought these computers on a whim, and now all of a sudden all but a fraction of these accountants are completely redundant! Total accident, who would've guessed it?"
I've been thinking how to convert my fuel intake so I can siphon petrol out of it and into a mini-generator, for camping. Only problem is the generator itself and fuel smelling up the car.
A Guide to RISC Microprocessors / Register File Management
>"To manage the register windows, SPARC has three special instructions and two special registers. The instructions are SAVE. RESTORE, and RETT (return from trap). The registers are the CWP (current window pointer) and the W1M (window invalid mask).

The CWP serves the same purpose for the register windows that the stack pointer serves for memory-based stack frames.

The CWP determines which window is current (and, by implication, which windows are previous and next). The WIM determines which of the windows in the register file are "valid" or available. For the register windows scheme to function properly, there must always be one invalid window so that overflow and underflow can be detected. Overflow (trying to allocate a new window when the register file is "full") and underflow (trying to deallocate a window when the register file is "empty") can occur because there are only a few windows on-chip (typically seven or so) that are trying to contain an arbitrarily long run-time stack. By always having at least one window marked invalid, a program is guaranteed to bump into the invalid window as the CWP wraps around the circular window file. When a program tries to use the window marked as invalid, a hardware trap is taken to a routine that either flushes some of the register file contents to memory or restores some of the register file contents from memory.

In essence, only a portion of the top of the memory-based run-time stack is always contained in the register file. Another reason to always have one window marked invalid is to support fast trap processing. SPARC traps automatically decrement the CWP. In the case when all but one of the windows is valid, the trap-handling routine will be guaranteed free access to the window marked as invalid; there is no danger of the trap routine clobbering valid data in the register file. The RETT instruction automatically increments the CWP."
I think one of the reason is - women don't switch organizations frequently after stability in personal life
Braver (https://github.com/braver-browser/) is a Brave fork meant to address this and other issues.
The Sun as You’ve Never Seen It Before: New NASA Video Took 10 Years to Make
I’m very familiar with the numbers. Solar bed cover is good for a few miles per day - which may be all you need in an emergency.
Indeed. And when documents say "Unless low memory usage is top requirement just use regular JDK for better performance." It does not give much confidence in native solution.
I might get downvoted or something for this, but have you seen the most recent episode of Patroit Act with Hassan Minhaj?

His last episode was all about why tax prep companies mislead customers and the Patriot Act team set up a site that points to free tax filing services. Characteristically, with a vulgar name: https://www.turbotaxsucksass.com/
I think this is right. It's called supply and demand. Both parts matter.
Do you mind if I ask how you know about this? Is it an industry you work in/around?

I'm always curious how people discover these kinds of business ideas.
It's cool, but I see that it requires WebGL.

I wonder if it could be done without it.
Peppering (Password Storage)
Yeah, this is going to be a major selling factor for a whole bunch of on-site service industry companies (carpenters, framers, roofers, electricians, plumbers, welders, etc).

Even a 2.5kw generator is pretty big: 2'x1.5'x1.5', weighing 80-100lbs. This takes up a significant chunk of space in the back of a pickup truck, plus requires two people to load/unload if necessary. Having power so conveniently available is pretty compelling, especially if it doesn't mean giving up 1/6 of your bed space, and only having the (I assume) significantly quieter truck engine as noise.
Mishima Yukio is considered by many to be Japan's finest post WWII writer. This is certainly an interesting article that brings up one of his lesser known interests but that glosses over some of his other actions for which he gained some notoriety, including mounting a failed governmental coup and committing seppuku (ritual suicide). [0]. Fascinating individual.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yukio_Mishima
Seriously the IRS should just mail you filled in forms, they have all the data, you can mail back amendments. Or online. There's absolutely not a single reason any third party needs to be involved in this.

Canada's been experimenting with this lately [1].

Frankly, as a rule of thumb, if something is potentially big and impactful, and isn't well suited to being funded by a VC, it should just be a government service.

[1] https://www.canada.ca/en/revenue-agency/services/e-services/...
What analogy does a bathroom have to a messenger app?
High Agency Product Management
What year was your first car? Mine was a 1992 Honda and I think the all-button UI was definitely better than the run-of-the mill today.

How many people in their 70s or 80s do you know that are on the side of touchscreen controls for vehicles? People I have known in that age range like their iPads and iPhones but drive cars with buttons.

The big reason for physical controls is you can find them without looking by feel and spatial location. Provided you have some experience.
"College for adults" captures the feel a bit better imo. (Wife's phrase.)
It's an awesome idea. I wonder if it could be crowdfundable. There are more than enough people out there that hate the system.
When I read the title, I thought it was an electric truck with an onboard generator to recharge the batteries.

This is pretty cool too.
VCs were skeptical, partly because it did not fit their concept of a tech company. Government were uninterested because it sounded like a food company at its core masquerading as a tech company; we were more like a recipe app that directed ads internally. At the time, the buzz was that Uber, Airbnb, Alibaba held no stock, and nobody wanted to invest in companies that needed a warehouse, even though everyone wanted to invest in e-commerce.

Banks actually called us up and asked us if we wanted to borrow money because we had steady revenue. Our delivery and food supply partners were actually interested in being early stage investors, so there's that route.

We started with about $2500, most of it going into salary. Suppliers were happy to send the stuff direct to customers when we started and let us pay them the money due once a month, at a smaller profit margin. As we started selling more, we'd keep a literal ton of stock on hand.
I'm not sure what you mean by bringing up HTTP method. The two main ways I know to get to the results page are to enter a query into the website or the browser search bar, and both of those seem to issue GET requests. They also both produce real URLs without any intervention. What defaults are different for you than they are for me?
When you launch this, I would recommend not including the phrase "cybernetics jack-in" in your marketing materials.
Somebody thinking they are "safe", inside a monoculture, could easily get caught out saying or doing something that turns out (now, or in a few years) to be racist, sexist, homophobic etc., (or overly politically correct, for that matter), even as a joke, slip of the tongue, or ignorance.
> fundamental issue is recognized by society

I don't get the impression that the issue is completely recognized by society though. We see articles all the time in the news about how the real estate market is going up. Clearly, most landowners currently have an expectation that they should get some return on their land ownership.

That's why so many advocate for restrictions on building in their communities.
right sorry -- didn't mean to say that they'd never get caught, rather that you can't read source
We now have DOS emulators in the browser[0]. Do that with Flash!

[0] https://archive.org/details/softwarelibrary_msdos_games