skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They are listed with numbers about payload to (quite low) LEO. Apollo CSM and the Lunar Module were launched into a much higher-energy trajectory. The Saturn V could have launched 140 tons to LEO, it just never did. IIRC the most massive thing it ever launched was ~90 tons of Skylab.
It contained a private key!
Imagine how much room there would be if we broke up Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Microsoft and Google. Having another decade of cut-throat tech competition might be good for us.
I think you're being disingenuous about what constitutes "most people" in the context of desktop computing, but alright fair enough, I I seem to have read more into your comment than was intended.
I think we need more than an either/or. Not many employers in the US allow a person to set their own hours and locations.
It's not a coincidence this version called "Big Sur".
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25074959
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25078034
Throw in a Handshake domain and bases should be converted from the URL angle.
Not only the fees, but also just a completely substandard final product. Every time I have used one of these services (pretty much only when I get a promo code) it arrives late and cold. I would be furious if I spent an extra $5-10 on my meal for that to happen.

On a side note, I've noticed that most restaurants around me will add $3-4 per dish when using Uber Eats vs. just calling them directly.
Seven principles that shape customer experience at Divio (and why they work)
For me, the value of a module is that you can describe a set of multiple types and the functions that operate on these types, all in one place. In OO, there is essentially one type that is "special", the type of the class you define.

The power of the Ocaml module system is really in the functor, which the article only touches upon. You define a module and refer in its definition to types/functions of other modules that must be provided at the time you construct the module. Even better, you can define relations between the types and do type substitutions, e.g.: to construct this module, you need to give me 2 other modules, each with a specific set of functions, and for which type t1 of the first module, matches type t2 of the second module, while the actual type of t1/t2 does not matter.

See https://dev.realworldocaml.org/functors.html for more examples.
A lot of "standard" PCs are also mostly used just for media consumption.
For those interested in Peter Turchin's theories, as explained by himself rather than in the (somewhat sensationalist) manner in this article, the best book for a Hacker News audience would probably be "Ages of Discord", his latest. Here's my Goodreads review, if you're curious: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1796955228
I wonder how much of that is for gaming. The growth and demand for high end gaming parts has been unprecedented. Ie Nvidia's 3080, just about impossible to buy, chaotic launch, and AMD's 5900x - very hot property now.
It's even more lopsided. AWS is a short term lending institution, it isn't pay up front.
> No, you put your brand on the chairs and if the customer likes them they can buy from you again.

In what way is this different than putting your phone number inside your car where the passenger can take it down if they want it?

> And I imagine Uber does forbid selling other services during rides. If not, I feel like Uber rides would be full of people pushing multi-level marketing.

I can't actually find the Uber driver agreement on the internet, but pyramid schemes are illegal, and drivers who peddle scummy garbage to passengers are liable to get bad reviews, so there is no reason to expect that a lack of this would have to be because Uber prohibits it.
Export/save to a 3D format, please.
Use the same method to verify in dev as in staging (Docker image). If you don't know it works in staging, then you didn't know in dev either.
More than half of my Ubers in Las Vegas were pushing other services, handing out business cards for me to cut Uber out of the loop for the next ride, offering to take us to strip clubs for free, or something else.

If Uber wants to crack down on this, it's openly happening in Vegas.
VPNs are almost always over UDP.

See IPSec (most common VPN implementation): https://www.cloudflare.com/learning/network-layer/what-is-ip...

See Wireguard (increasing popularity): https://www.wireguard.com/
Conformal Geometry
You ar going to have to stick to FP theory and stand back from computers if semantically invisible mutability under the hood disturbs you a lot.
I would say the same thing about very few Americans being able to afford a $25 per person visit to Chili’s, outside of special occasions, but I understand what you’re saying.
Definitely impressive to see the losses getting narrowed so heavily. Assuming they function like ridesharing and much of the cost is variable (labor), then they are a lot closer to profitability than some of the other comments here seem to think. This balance sheet looks remarkably better than ridesharing ones.

I am cautiously optimistic about their ability to be a sustainable business.
I got fed up with Win10 last year and finally switched to a Mint distro. I run a software development company that works on the MS stack. I stuck with Mint for six months and finally switched back to Windows.

I didn't find it particularly difficult to set up. Some things are much easier (TAP drivers for connecting to multiple VPNs and running side by side remote sessions to difficult workstations across different networks, for instance). Even setting up a Windows virtual box was no biggie.

There's two reasons I switched back: 1) lack of consistency across applications is hampering to productivity, and 2) lack of stability in the application/tooling is hampering to productivity.

I gave myself 6 months to let myself get used to it, and there's a great many things I loved about it, but in the end it was less of a hurdle to deal with Win10's oddities than it was do deal with various inconsistencies and "usage maintenance" of getting having a suitable, productive workspace across Linux (and yes, I realize a large part of this was due to the fact I essentially run an MS-development shop and therefore have to work with MS tooling, but on the other hand, everyone working in any end-user business scenario has to work with Office documents, etc.)
I found this post to be incredibly confusing and thought provoking at the same time. I wanted to say it doesn't belong on the front page of HN (and that it kind of feels like it was written by a person losing their mind), but the more I read the more I thought. I don't have anything to add, I'm really just curious to see comments from others.
Yeah, the Julia devs are quite interested in removing our last few GPL dependencies and replacing them with something in pure julia. It'll take time though.
You can endlessly strive to mold yourself into the kind of person your employer wants you to be. There will always be some further improvement you could be making, some way in which you’re still just not quite up to scratch. So, think about where you will set your boundaries.

This world will endlessly push you to do better, be better, always and only by its definition of better. Decide what “good enough” looks like to you, because by their lights you’ll never be good enough. It’s not an escalator, it’s a treadmill.

There is a quote from an old song I like: “they keep on pushing til you push back harder”.
Does anyone have experience where newer kindles or other e-readers keep them awake less than other ones? I have a 1st generation kindle paperwhite, but I still feel like the front light on it keeps me from getting sleepy versus just reading a physical book.
In high school right now; my calc teacher links to this all the time when the textbook's explanation/examples are unsatisfactory
This was marvelous. I really wish I could wield words like this person.
Obama also promised to close Guantanamo immediately after his inauguration. He was still at the Capital.

Seeing him fail to deliver on that promise changed my opinion of him completely.
the increasing number of bugs with every release

I don't think that's new, early versions of OS/X were riddled with problems. I remember my first iMac would kernel panic every time I unplugged a USB stick, even after ejecting it.
Possibly we're just talking slightly at cross-purposes here, yes. I was intending to comment on the idea that the additional features that a service like Stripe offers for recurring billing management were difficult to implement directly -- the scheduled charges, pro-rating of changes, retries on failure, etc. In other words, the extra features that Stripe is apparently now going to be charging everyone for.

I don't think this stuff is particularly difficult to get right, having essentially done it myself in the past. Indeed, I've never actually worked anywhere that directly integrated with a single payment service without at least some degree of isolation/abstraction. (This is also why features like Stripe's recent customer portal are of little interest to us. Directing a customer there to update their details means they can only change them to something else we use Stripe for, but we don't want to be locked into Stripe like that, we want to offer each customer the full range of payment options we support wherever they are.)

The harder things to implement these days, at least in our experience at my own businesses, are the mechanical integration with all the different payment schemes, where you really do need a specialist service that provides the required access, and the tax and compliance issues, where the ever-changing landscape makes outsourcing this aspect of the setup more and more attractive. But you can get the first of those with many different services and you need something like a merchant of record or one of the dedicated tax management services for the second.

Presumably for some types of business fraud prevention is also a big deal, but again you'd get the basic checks with many services that let you charge a card or the like, and I'm sceptical about how much these fancy AI-based big-data-crunching models are really improving performance. In any case, for those of us in more niche markets, there is little scope for someone to defraud us significantly anyway and the risk of anything bad happening has been very low over the years.

So in the end, with the way the industry seems to be moving, I can see an argument for just outsourcing basic payment processing and then handling the automation and tax/regulatory stuff in-house (for example, if you already have a dev team to implement what you need and you're already set up in some other way on the tax/regulatory side). I can also see an argument for outsourcing just about everything to a merchant of record service. But I think the case for the middle ground model that most of the payment services we've been using over the past decade or so operate is getting weaker all the time. And since they all keep forcing us to do major integration work just to keep the same functionality we already had from breaking and putting up their prices, I can't honestly say we've been feeling a lot of loyalty to any of them lately, hence our ongoing investigations of possible alternatives that I mentioned in other comments.
From quitting my Rails developer job to becoming a successful Solopreneur
Where is that 10x reduction and the ~1.5B per launch from for the Falcon 9 comparison? I mean Falcon 9 certainly was cheaper than the competition even without reuse, but I'm quite sure the difference wasn't as large as you're stating there.

The Falcon 9 did disrupt the industry for sure, but you don't need a 10x price reduction for that.
Amusingly, I was precisely working today on extra-nice error messages for module type errors in OCaml. :)

My reaction to the title was "But they are not exotic, I use them every day!"

It's definitely the feature I miss the most every time I work in other languages, even presumable "advanced" ones, like Haskell. One notable attempt to add them elsewhere is "modular C"[1].

[1]: http://cmod.gforge.inria.fr/
Mechatronic archeological velociraptors with 10,000x redundant fly-eyes, running tamper-proof signed binaries on Apple silicon, linked directly to all social networks via 5G, could rapidly respond to digital fingerprints suggesting potential destruction of history. Sadly, if the archeoraptors project the extinction of mankind, to protect our legacy, we would all be shredded to confetti by diamond-hard 3d printed talons, and they would then squat on our remains like suffocating geese incubating cracked eggs that will never hatch, for all eternity...
Why are you even participating in conversation when you have not researched this at all? Uber doesn't forbid selling other services. Your point stands on flimsy sticks that are purely from your imagination.
So minimum wage shouldn’t be a thing? The problem with this thinking is that some people are desperate and don’t think about the choices they make. And without minimum wage, for example, companies would do a race to the bottom and people worse off would have to accept it.

And Joe absolutely does have the right to object to it. If I see someone paying someone a $1 to mow a lawn, I can say they deserve more.
Reasonable.

> Is the idea that any job should be able to provide for any rent and any bills?

No. We live a society of free will and choices. It's not reasonable for me to expect that _any_ job will allow me to live _any_ kind of lifestyle. I am firmly in the middle-class. I expect my job will allow me to pay my housing costs, but I don't expect it to pay for a brand new car every year and especially not if I spend all of my discresionary income on... something else!

It is reasonable for me to expect that a full-time job should allow me to have a roof over my head, food to eat, etc. I should make a living wage. There are examples of independent organisations that calculate what a living wage is and what constitues a living wage. (https://www.livingwage.org.uk/ in the UK for example) So I'm keen not to get in to an argument about what constitues a living wage, because people smarter than me have spent much longer than me considering it.

I am also not an expert. But I do know that europeans like myself look at the world of work in the US with abject horror, even when things here are not perfect.
So much this, OSX remains a great tool for devs on X86. As much as I would love to move to Linux full time, I also don't want to think or deal with OS issues when I'm trying to write my code. OSX is far more polished than any other unix-based system out there, and there's a ton of support for any issues you might have.

I also love homebrew, it strikes a good balance between something like apt and windows-style installers. Toss all that together with the ecosystem that apple offers with it's other products (being able to send texts from my laptop via iMessage was a revelation) and you have one hell of a value proposition. There's a lot of valid criticism against apple but I can pretty much guarantee that 99% of the actual devs who rail against them use a MBP for work.

People have to understand that these are not your bargain-bin windows laptops, these are premium products. You wouldn't compare a Ferrari to a Toyota Camry, nor would you treat them the same or expect the same level of "performance" across all use cases.
He doesn't, but parent was too busy walking like a duck to notice.
Will they prevent changing hosts file as well?
He’s a tenured professor at that! How many of those spots are available to go around again? Sounds pretty elite to me.
A lot of this is investor pressure and price/dividends at any cost. Consulting has a lot higher margins and is easier to fire in a downturn. They gave up the fight a long time ago. Invest in the future or you won't have one.
I think it would be possible to avoid this issue by acking the inner TCP packets on the send end of the tunnel. This way the sending application believes that the package has been sent successfully. Because the outer TCP will ensure reliable delivery there should never be a need to retransmit a packet for the inner TCP.
It's a sort of complex but fairly well understood demographic trend globally if you want to look into it. There's not really one clear cause.

In general more educated people and professionals have kids later and have fewer of them. Having kids earlier is also a significant barrier to completing education and entering a high income profession so there's an effect there too. This isn't all of it just the two most clear examples.
A few grocery stores around me have done it (Iowa!). Those spots are typically empty - or if close to the door filled by a gas car (ignoring the electric car only sign). Most people with an electric car don't need to top off their car when they are shopping - they just charge at home. The only people who need to charge someplace other than home are on a long trip and that is less than 5% of all driving. This puts a ceiling on demand for chargers.

Even ignoring the above, state laws often give the local utility has a legal monopoly on selling electricity. Stores that have a charger are giving away the power to whoever uses the charger. Until the law allows some sort of profit from having a charger it doesn't make sense to have one.
I guess Apple's ARC needs all the help it can get to catch up with tracing GCs, there is a reason why everyone else in the industry went with them.

https://github.com/ixy-languages/ixy-languages
Software-wise/productivity-wise apple is pretty bad though.

Snapping windows to sides(and to quarter of the screen), splitting windows across multiple monitors are two biggest offenders imo. Microsoft dealt with them perfectly. Also, using shortcuts to move windows between different monitors, and maximizing windows.

Also Mac is constantly running slow for me, to the point where I need to reboot it every couple of days. Opening a new tab in chrome can take seconds.

I've never had problems like this on windows/Linux.
I know so many CCC people who have trouble to make a living or are (un/happily) employed by companies that went all in Apple, Google, Mirosoft, AWS.

Many for sure are brilliant brains but they lack to monetize it. To break or stop near-monopoly/walled garden systems you have to dismantle them through the market. Build better/cheaper (primary) alternatives which are free and open (secondary).

IMHO mainstream only values convenience and price, freedom is only a "nice to have" item and when it requires more work it is a no-starter.
Even if their algorithms threaten to destabilize society by amplification? Bear in mind these platforms come with many forms of moderation already.

So I believe we're mostly talking about a spectrum of what mechanisms there are and their consequences. Ie. is it OK for the entire planet to bully anyone in public until they lose everything? This is actually hard to prevent, if no mechanisms to do so are in place, while communication is as "free" as possible.
Population grows exponentially. Number of scientists should, too. The question is the exponent.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bait-and-switch
The Eye of Providence: The symbol with a secret meaning?
Ask HN: Our new engineering leader apologized for being a white man
A new executive joined the engineering team at my company. He's a white man. In an engineering meeting to our team, they made it clear that they were committed to diversity, and then apologized for being a white man and not "helping out in that respect."

Part of me wants to shrug it off as a flippant personal opinion. But, as an engineering leader, this person plays a significant role in setting the tone for the engineering culture, and normalizes certain expectations. So the other part of me finds it alarming that a leader is normalizing the expectation of being apologetic for existing at the company with an "undesirable" identity. Nobody should have to apologize for their gender nor their skin color.

Am I way off base with this? We have yet to have a 1-on-1, and my opinion about this person's behavior is starting to fester to the point where I feel like I have to bring it up. But if I do, how do I do it tactfully? I have a feeling that my position can and will be strawmanned as "oh look, a white man who is upset about losing power." I just don't want the expectation of having to apologize for my immutable characteristics.

Help!
Executing Categories
One of the (few) perks of going blind has been reading articles with Voiceover on my phone. I can now read while doing most tasks or walking around. If my vision got restored, I'd still read 80% of the time this way, I think. Seems like a hard thing to learn if you're not pushed into it, though.
I'm pretty sure when people make these comparisons they assume you'll illegally not declare the GST (tax)...
This is what prop22 essentiallu tried to accomplish.
The author brings his own toxicity by a) trying to milk his relationship with the angular team (he hated working with so much!) on twitter and b) making inappropriate and confusing jokes about an unpleasant topic (would he be allowed at that summit despite being a conaultant?). Igor and him just seem to be a really bad mix.
I wouldn't be surprised if Biden got it continued. Though if he is serious about his build rail talk he won't. Time will tell.
That's not what I said. I didn't say the government should get involved. I asked why it's ok that that a private company controls and censors us.
I've been using it for a few weeks already. tldr: It's slightly worse than Google photos in most respects and quite a bit worse for albums.

* The AI is fine, although not as good as Google's.

* Albums are far less featureful. The shared link doesn't even show the album title. You can't add text or locations like you can on Gphotos. This makes trip albums less good IMO.

* Scrolling and UI seem faster, although I have far fewer photos.

* Desktop upload is nice for people who have non-smartphone cameras

* Albums list can be sorted by Date Created or Name. GPhotos default sort is by the date of the most recent photo.
* Adding and removing from albums seems slower, but is also async, so /shrug

* Selecting multiple photos is much harder- Google allows a Press, hold, swipe gesture to select multiple photos. Amzn doesn't have that on the app. On web, they do have shift+Click, though.

* Different photo layouts is nice

* The shared photo screen is very aggressively in your face about advertising amazon photos. GPhotos has no ads.

* AFAICT, Amzn does not share the accounts/names of signed-in people who access shared content. Gphotos leaks this info to anyone who views the shared content. It's one of my main problems with GPhotos.

I have not really tested the "Groups" feature (which seems to be the equivalent of shared albums).
If I got a Thinkpad I'd switch to Linux. I absolutely can't stand the Windows UI.
> people who got bored

One of the Uber drivers I had when visiting New York rolled up in a expensive
German SUV (Mercedes IIRC) and was very well dressed.

Chatted and found out he was a lawyer by day, but drove Uber in the evenings when he was bored.

He didn't _need_ the $10-12 bucks we paid for the trip to the restaurant, but he did appreciate the chat.
To me it was the day they removed the discussion filter functionality from their search engine. It was a purely advertising driven move: from now on people searching for a keyword couldn't anymore filter for other people talking about that thing but rather they would be inundated by shops selling that thing or shills promoting it.
That plot however was probably much older, since the obvious wonderful alternative, Dejanews, wasn't available anymore for having been already bought by Google many years before.