skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> SpaceX doesn't just sell NASA RnD back to them. First of all, non of that RnD was anywhere near production level, and specially not at the prices SpaceX wanted offered. A lot of the NASA archtecture were simply fundamentally unusable or unpractical, specially if you wanted to use it in a commercial market.

Saying that they "resold their own RnD to them" is not copy-paste Ares-1.

ULA, Nasa, defence contractors at large had decades of experience with kerolox rocketry starting with first American rockets, which they threw away, and Musk picked up at the cheap with their engineers. And it was a very safe, and sound decision.

The same for returnable capsules, and orbital vehicle expertise.
How do they do it? How does carrier actually know that traffic is coming from tethered device rather than phone itself?
There are 7.8 billion people on Earth. A vaccine that saves a few million isn't worth making billions put their lives on hold plus all the collateral damage that causes.
> Blue Origin effectively has no requirements to make a commercial return.

But do they have any requirement to make a rocket? When will New Glenn fly?

Will they ever produce something that does something useful? I hope they do, we need competition in commercial space flight.
May's deal was the worst possible Brexit deal, except for all the others :)

It would have been about as good as Brexit could have been, conditional on reducing immigration bring the primary goal.
The title is misleading at best. He wants the banks to invest in his buildings. Which they don't want to because they don't see it as profitable.

"You don't want to give me money? RACISM!" - USA 2020
Gandhi was a British citizen, with a law degree from Oxford IIRC.
The gut is a second brain, kinda...I have always been fascinated by this book:

The Second Brain

https://www.amazon.com/Second-Brain-Groundbreaking-Understan...

Author is Michael D. Gershon M.D., chairman of the Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology at Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons at the Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center in New York City.
It's a parasite, not a predator. They can't live independently.
Open Source Projects: Why Security Still Matters
My Life Pouring Concrete
Assuming no major repairs required.
Thomas Sowell interview
The Second Brain, according to Michael D. Gershon M.D.
> That's incredibly tautological.

It's not, because markets are defined by economics and not brands. People keep asserting over and over again that a brand is not a market, but nobody is claiming that, they just happen to coincide in this case.

What defines a market is whether there are substitutes. If you have an iPhone and need an app, and you could install an Android app on your iPhone, then iPhone apps and Android apps would be the same market. But since you can't, they're not.

Notice how this doesn't apply to random Walmart products. There may be a Walmart brand of motor oil that only Walmart sells, but you can go to Amazon and buy a different brand of motor oil and still use it in the same car. The relevant market is "motor oil of the spec that works with your car" rather than "Walmart motor oil" and Walmart doesn't have a monopoly on that.

But for the market "apps of the spec that works with your iPhone" you can only buy through Apple, so they do have a monopoly.
It's almost a famous joke from behind the Iron Curtain. The original was actually slightly different:

Q: What's the difference between capitalism and communism?
A: In capitalism, man exploits fellow man. In socialism, it's exactly the opposite.

(Note: original as in, the question was phrased in terms of what's the difference, and the answer famously began with "in capitalism, man exploits fellow man", which was a standard formulation of propaganda texts. There are, of course, countless variants, as with any joke.)

It was a tongue-in-cheek way of pointing out that, even though they claimed to have eradicated the exploitation of workers by the owners of the means of production, all that Communist regimes of the time had achieved was to replace it with the exploitation of workers by the state, for the benefit of a small elite that ran the whole system. Once you cut through the propaganda and the jargon, workers were still being exploited (in the Marxist sense) by a small group of wealthy individuals.

The exploitation of man by fellow man was a pretty famous, and often-invoked part of Marxist doctrine, and one of the first things that were covered as part of political education courses in schools, workplaces and so on. Besides making the point above, it also mocked the stiff, pseudo-scientific Marxist-Leninist propaganda speak. Most of the people in charge of "political education" were uneducated party activists -- the kind of people who would, indeed, say that "in capitalism, man exploits fellow man, whereas in socialism, it's exactly the opposite" with a straight face, without understanding the double-entendre.
I know what you mean. I picked someone from the public timeline a few days ago and started to try and make sense of their argument.

Within just a few back and forths I realized that this person was either just bored and trolling, or I was unable to understand their perspective and it was relentless.

I still didn't block them, or their instance. I saw their message in the public timeline, it didn't arrive directly to me in any way.
It's not a website. It's a webdoc? I think this is amazing. Who says the root of a domain has to return an index.html?
What point are you trying to make? The article makes it pretty clear:

It didn't happen and Mr Rice believes the fact that Ensley is a black neighbourhood was the main factor, especially after being asked questions about the "demographics of Ensley".
In mastodon the individual platforms are run by individual administrators, who decide what is permissible and what not. You can't force them to have to list or federate with your instance just like you can't force someone to listen to what you have to say.

It's not authoritarian, it's free speech as a principle. You can say what you want and everyone who is willing can listen. Everyone else doesn't have to listen. That is free speech.

You aren't kicked of the platform, you can still be part of the fediverse, in fact, there is plenty of instance that are willing to uphold the "no moderation free speech" fake principle to host trolls and alt-right who federate with everything that is legal.
Gargron wrote one: https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2018/06/how-to-implement-a-bas...
When hard work doesn’t equal productive work
I use threading (->>/->) macros in Elisp too. Might not be "idiomatic" but to me malleability of LISPs has always been the biggest selling point. Although I don't see threading macros a lot, functional libraries are pretty popular in newer Elisp packages.

Now there's a different discussion to be had about laziness and immutability but for a lot of stuff it doesn't really come into play.

We have laziness in Clojure but don't think we have stream fusion. Yet the functional approach works just fine for most things and is preferred.

Even in JS which doesn't even have built-in laziness most new stuff uses a functional approach (underscore,lodash etc) wherever possible too.

CL is just unique in that it has a very long history and a huge standard library. They have many of these monolithic functions that other languages simply don't have built-in.
But in this case they do matter. When you give someone your phone number, you give them the possibility to contact you. And then it should be securely, if it's possible.

A check for "aliveness" of a number can be done without Signal. Just call and see if it is ringing. You get the same information. Your Signal profile name and picture, however, will only be shared when you accept it.
This looks great! I think I may pre-order, but I’m only a bit hesitant. I know Apple brought some of the bigger ARM-on-desktop news... is the future already here (or in a few short months)? How’s life on ARM’d Debian?
That is like saying that ISIS were just politicians like any other until they lost the war.
The result of the project on that blog will be something that looks very, very different from the PC compatible! The only thing it will share is the "personal computer" name.

You probably could build an ISA bus IBM compatible PC out of microcontrollers, and port one of the open source BIOSes to it, but the utility of such a thing is questionable.
What if the banks have properly recognised the value?
Python Monthly – What happened last month?
Web Developer Monthly – What happened last month?
The skies here in Portugal are a beautiful blue colour. Before, because of the stable air created by the Azores high pressure weather system, they would criss-crossed by the contrails of all the passenger jets flying over.
I guess I’ll cast my contrarian vote to say I might start using this for a while as my first look at the HN front page. I like seeing snippets of the article before clicking through to read it. In fact, I like that idea so much, I think a site that cached quite a bit more of the article so I could just read all the front page articles in a row would be pretty rad.
Gutenberg is also open source and built by WordPress.
I assume he is not easily coming back either way.

Hence does this detail really change the brain drain discussion?
Machine Learning Monthly – What happened last month?
and probably most of most historic importance, hypertext-navigable content editing. (note that Ted Nelson coined the term "hypertext" in 1963). I often wistfully hope that some group of people will retrace the steps made by that generation of researchers, and evolve a better medium than TBL-derived efforts.
Well. If they like government intervention so much and they want government’s help so they can get their perfect no tradeoff device, why not go all the way? Encourage the government to fund and create the perfect phone that meets all their needs. I’m sure all of the technologists in the EU government and US government can come up with the perfect “Five Year Plan”.
We don't need yet another CAD interchange format.

I have been working on STEP (ISO 10303) for 35 years. Every few years someone comes along to a meeting and declares that we need to start again and adopt their new model, they waste everyone's time for a bit then go away again.
you can dismiss almost anything by that logic.

why do we need 100 implementations of SQL parsers & relational dbs?

why do we need to have 4 different js engines? graphics APIs? memory allocators? operating systems?

why do we need 100 different companies making slight variations of a smartphone?

why did i write uPlot when there are already 100 js charting libs out there?

> Log-scaling axes seems like one of the most fundamental features in any plotting library.

the overwhelming majority of line charts in this world are not logarithmic. the only things which are "most fundamental" are axes lines, axis ticks/labels, series legend, chart title and connected datapoints.

if you've ever implemented anything even as simple as a log axis, you would realize there is not just 1 way to do it, despite the math being the same. there was no way for me to simply "use" someone else's already-invented log axis because it would not fit properly into uPlot's architecture. so it had to be re-implemented.

> How many dev hours are wasted implementing logarithmic axis scaling for the umpteenth time?

rest assured that the amount of dev hours "wasted" on this feature is many orders of magnitude less (see what i did there?) than it took to re-invent yet another message board that you're using right now :D
Apple Silicon Developer Transition Kit
How to Build an ECommerce Website from Scratch
Ya. What he wants is conformity.

Which is a good filter, for better or worse.

Think sororities and fraternities recruiting pledges. For better or worse.

I've long accepted that I simply don't fit into most orgs.

"Oh yea, JIRA Agile SOA dynamic typing FTW, woohoo!"

I can say the words. But most people sense on some level that I'm lying.
Multi Class Text Classification with Deep Learning Using Bert
The one thing I found interesting was that there's no attempt to control distribution of extensions by signing or having an app store style review process... but surely that's not far away.
PrimeNG 10 Begins Lighter, Faster and Stunning
> people that want innovation and people that want stability

Ha! very true. You should see what some people can make in Autocad,
Yes, this is also my conclusion. To a great extent, it's a lottery. As a contractor (in the UK), I look for new roles every year or two on average, so I end up applying for quite a few. Most of these roles involve agencies, so the CV has to meet the arbitrary requirements of both the agency, and the end client - and these are often quite different.
Interesting collaboration, looking forward to hearing more about this. Korea only right now, correct?
One could also say that Google has proportionally more to loose from the advent of privacy consciousness in people and companies - namely the latest moves by Apple.

But at the end of the day, with most people still using Chrome and giving away their browsing history to Google without a second thought, I don't think Google is too worried at this point.
I'm 99% sure that word was chosen because it's the onomatopoeia for a mastodon blowing its trunk and it's very similar to the word "tweeting".
Iran cover-up of deaths revealed by data leak
Yeah this is basically "sell to Microsoft or get banned". That obviously helps Microsoft's negotiating position.
Forcing a foreign business to "sell or close" is an insult to the rule of law.
I mean, that's basically why the comment agrees with what I wrote, I think. You're free to federate with whoever you want and other people are free to federate with you or not. Nobody is forced to listen to what you have to say, it's entirely voluntary. Ie, actual free speech.
The best parametric 3D CAD kernel now has SolveSpace, and it's open source. Much better than ACIS and OpenCASCADE.
It's very young though.
That's what people don't understand about TikTok and how the CCP works. Data gathered aren't the main issue, this app should not be analysed the same way as Facebook. The CCP will use it like they use anything else, as a tool to promote their own view.
Try Kermit.

http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/ckbinaries.html
I think many people are still thinking of this as a temporary crisis that hopefully we can forget asap and turn back to "normal" as if this part of 2020 never happened. It is understandable as this crisis has not been easy on anyone.

However, I would dare to expect more from a long term policy perspective. There are many things that were unsustainable with our socio-economic lifestyle long before the Corona crisis. While we can not prevent the impacts on the individual people businesses, we could use the funds that are rightfully mobilized to aid them to shape a "new" economy that is more aligned with the coming climate crisis.

We did this in the past (also much too late) e.g. with the coal mining sector in Belgium. For a long time we tried to keep that activity alive just because 'jobs, jobs, jobs'. It took decades before politics was ready to stop trowing good money after bad, and create regional re-conversion funds to turn those local economies around and give them a 'new' economic activity model that did have a future.

This is why I would advocate a scenario that spend on those people/companies impacted in industries such as aviation to turn them towards to other more sustainable parts of the future economy rather than just keep poring in money to let them cling to an ever more precarious activity.
> An annoying diet is a bit different from "hey this segment of people should just not exist", isn't it?

It is this constant mis-representation of opposing views that make these kind of discussions so unbearable. I've wasted already, what?, an hour and a half arguing about something that has nothing to do with the original topic. No wonder things are so polarized. Instead of trying to reach for common ground, the default behavior is to distort the argument, dehumanize the other and to try to "beat" the opponent into submission.

> wherever you draw the line, it's still a very different category of belief

You only mentioned the part about being Vegan, but I trust that you are smart enough to look at the part where I mentioned religious differences and figure out where I would draw the line? Hint: atheists can deny my beliefs all they want; what they think of me or my religion makes absolutely zero difference in my life.
The "+" meant to indicate "or later", Centos 7 or later

And not building your own is less about ease of deployment (you could rebuild packages and add your own repo).

Building your own disconnects validation and maintenance.
So maybe you don't build your own because you are serious.
Yep.

The point is - as I see it - a little different, the valuation is lower (or in this specific case next to nothing) because the bank does not want to invest in a black neighborhood (racism) or because the bank has historical data saying that black neighborhoods (in general or that particular one) have lower value (pragmatism)?
I agree that it helps (though I'm probably more pessimistic about how much it helps). I wanted to counter the assertion that "There's no way it can be banned today, though" (which I should have quoted). Even a disconcertingly non-trivial number of western lawmakers make regular noises about requiring all encryption to be backdoored.
Yes she reckons the enzyme works both for FOS and GOS. Things like onions and garlic were an absolute no-go before she found the enzyme. Now she can eat them

She has to take an enzyme pill before each meal that includes this group though.
It's fairly harmless so she doesn't mind, it's just a bit of additional cost on our food.

If you're motivated, you can follow a protocol ("food challenges") to know which group(s) you're sensitive to. The idea is that you have a zero fodmap diet for a few weeks and then slowly reintroduce small amounts from each group and see how you react. It is not an easy task to figure out meals this way and to keep motivation so I'd recommend being helped by a dietician.

To the best of my gf's knowledge, there is no such enzyme for fructose intolerance unfortunately.

Also, if you want to know more about each group and which food is the most problematic in each of them, Monash has a great app for that. You've probably come across it already, otherwise search "Monash fodmap" on your app store. It's great to know if you can have a little bit of something or nothing at all and to educate yourself
I don't get it.

Since when does one need permission of USA President to make the deal?

I mean sure he could block the app in states, but I figure microsoft could still use it outside ?
Thats a fair take but when I look at my leftie social circle they all had gap years in New Zeeland and love shopping in New York.
Have you SEEN the price of working 8088/80286 boards on eBay?! :D

Anything that gets people building more homebrew computers is a good thing in my book.
There's no law in China.
Don’t know why you are downvoted, unless it’s not true.

Cavalry looks very interesting!
In the age of J.K. Rowling being called TERF could probably majority of population be called TERFs, I see such labels no longer useful. And unless you subscribe to notions such as guilt by association, ancestral sin and similar I don't know how is conduct of developer's spouse relevant.
Not necessarily the same attacker but unless the flaws that led to the attack are patched then copycats will target them now they know they will pay up
> Many people are robotic [...] going through the same steps day after day, file after file, and any change to the workflow is cause of extreme frustration,

Work in semi-related process automation, and this. So much!

Software engineers can't begin to understand what happens when you change a hotkey, when someone has been doing something 100 times a day for 10 years.
The Gordian Knot in Housing Politics
They must have the most atrocious, darkest, GDPR confirmation dialog. It's absolutely impossible to understand what you opt-in to.
It's long term a fixable thing. E.g. electrical planes will make this more sustainable for short hops (i.e. most business travel). Whether that's battery or some kind of fuel cell is up for debate of course. Both might ultimately play a role.

The big realization with covid 19 however is that a lot of air travel is actually completely unnecessary. Businesses are adapting to having meetings online instead of in person and learning that they can work globally without having to bring people locally. I've now been on several projects where I worked with people on a daily basis that I never met in real life. This is becoming normal.

A long time ago, I worked in a multinational that definitely was spending a bit too much on ferrying people around the planet to attend meetings. The most extreme version of this that I witnessed was a bi-monthly "sprint" planning with 13 teams in one room flown from basically India, Europe, etc. to Chicago. And yes, this is just about the least agile form of scrum that I've ever encountered and also about as much of a waste of time and kerosene as you'd expect. Also, I've never seen that many post-its in 1 room after that meeting and hope I never have to deal with that level of corporate insanity again.
Moderate amounts of almost everything was sustainable.

Nothing is moderate about our current day consumption and extraction, and moderation is not compatible with our current socio-economic "growth or death" model.
Ah yes, the "computer as glorified typewriter" blog post. Needless to say, I think these appeal to people because:

Encourage consumption (of old/novelty hardware)

Promise of "productivity" (the holy grail for hn commenters)

A pip on your shoulder for being different/special

Deflect from the hard problems internet addiction and procrastination, to "hey do this instead"
I was curious too, so quickly checked on Zillow. In this neighborhood, the land is up for sale at ~$1/sqft[0] which is what the bank estimated. Many homes in the range of $30-50k, but the article says his properties are 100 years old and half are not inhabited, so the cost might be near the lower bound.

[0] https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/2121-Avenue-I-0-Birmingha...
LibreDWG comes to rescue, and for better formats JSON is widely used.
I think the problem is the hens are watching the fox design the coop. They've been invited to participate, but the fox has unlimited resources at its disposal for research and planning while the hens are of meager means.

So yes, it may be unkind to prejudge the fox, but based on years of prior malice towards all poultry in the yard, and without fully understanding its plans, we have to assume it won't turn out well for us chickens.

Cluck.
Not to mention _literally_ portraying the chancellor as Superman. [1]

[1] https://www.thenational.scot/news/18620765.bbc-slammed-portr...
I certainly hope all the people who signed that letter are safe and sound. Autodesk can come down pretty hard on their critics:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJwG-qt-sgk

https://www.blendernation.com/2014/10/28/blender-conference-...

>Blender Conference: Ton talks about Autodesk, ceiling crashes

>While Ton was talking about Autodesk during the Blender Conference, part of the ceiling of the Balie came crashing down, hitting him on the head. So remember folks: Autodesk is watching! ;-)

>Here's a picture of Ton after the event:

https://media.blendernation.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/T...
Thanks, doing the gods' work here.
Not if China don't reciprocate the openness of the market (which they don't). Only fools will let them steamroll like that. I'm no Trump fan but this should have happened decades ago.
No because I wasn't commenting on the technical aspect. A proposal can be both technically sound and wildly monopolistic at the same time.

Not everything is a pure engineering problem.