skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’ve been following testing progress on /r/spacex and it’s a lot of fun having such a detailed view into the whole operation as these Starship prototypes are built and iterated upon out in the open.

Elon has said chance of a soft landing is less than 50%, so I would expect a very eventful livestream. Personally I’m hoping to see re-light and some sort of flip, with limited damage to ground support equipment. IMO a soft landing is too much to even hope for.

The engine re-light is non-trivial because they will be fed from a separate header tank at the tip of the nosecone at that point.

It would not be surprising if this didn’t actually happen tomorrow, there’s a million things which could lead to further delays. If it happens at all this month it would be thrilling.
Tezos is getting ZCash-type privacy features in a few months and has been running ETH 2.0-type PoS for years. Oh and has on chain governance.
While I'm generally in favor of what SpaceX is doing, I don't think your point holds up in any sort of constrained environment. Could there be a marginal (or even reasonable) tangential benefit to other industries? Of course, but not as much as if those industries were the primary focus to begin with.

With limited resources, you have to prioritize or else you can run the risk of being spread so thin nothing is adequately funded so nothing really gets accomplished. You can't fight a war on all fronts, all the time.
For those who aren't following this religiously like I am, here's the Tl;Dw:

SpaceX's falcon 9 is pretty big, but Starship is massively larger. It's also made cheaply out of steel in a huge garage in rural Texas. The engines are the most advanced ever made (arguably). Tomorrow, SpaceX is going to try to fly the prototype 12.5km up, then have it freefall, falling sideways. At the last moment, it will reorient itself and land on a landing pad.

Or, it will explode stupendously.

It's going to be awesome either way.
Farm product prices, redistribution, and the early Great Depression in the US
The only people who do whaling in Canada are the First Nations, and they do it in Canada's territorial waters:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whaling_in_Canada

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aboriginal_whaling

They generally eat it, make art, and perhaps use parts for traditional clothing.

Japan on the other hand (a) has no Indigenous peoples following their traditional ways, (b) often violates the waters of other countries, and (c) has no basis for scientific inquiry (as ruled by the ICJ):

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whaling_in_Japan

You don't see Intuit fisherman in the Southern Ocean off the coast Antarctic, but you do see Japanese fishing boats.
Same with NY
Ya, I agree it is kind of a random article. I'm guessing that because it is about crime in SF and SF being a kind of hub for tech, there is a natural draw here.
Uber seems to be selling bits and pieces of itself every year. Perhaps it is wise to raise cash and focus on its core business.
Why cant they just patch Hexchat + Pidgin to support Matrix ?
> the 21st century started prematurely in 1989 with the invention of the world wide web

and the fall of the Berlin Wall.
Well I did it. I made art myself, even special one. I made one of the biggest perler bead art in europe with about 70.000 beads (maybe even the world?). Would I appreciate my artwork? As some kind of skill - yes (having immense duration and boredom), as something that has a special intrinsic variable beside being bigger than other pieces - no.

I'm aware that every skill and talent takes some kind of luck to "make it". I just say that art lacks any objective qualities and is just based on choices of some elite circle that don't even match public opinion.
It feels like the author reinvented the `style` tag.
IANAL, but if I am not mistaken, German law requires telecommunication providers (above a certain threshold) to provide law enforcement with a way to look into customer communication via the provider. Meaning here, they need to implement a way for law enforcement to look into any mailbox they can come up with a warrant for.
Archimedean Oath
The US had surveillance programs for years that were know of by lots of people and kept under wraps.

Trump not tweeting it out is more unbelievable to me. But he did recently say he heard UFO's are real. And Rubio made comments about UFO's above our military bases and how it's a national security threat.
Ah, fair, it does seem like a valid criticism from an environmental/efficiency point of view. Though maybe it can be made less wasteful if establishments also add tents and other shelters that can better trap that heat.
Yeah german here you are correct.

> Tutanota will Beschwerde gegen den Beschluss einlegen, diese hat jedoch keine aufschiebende Wirkung

Tutanota wants to appeal in court against this, but is forced to comply (right now).

> "Tutanota sieht sich nun gezwungen, bis Jahresende eine Funktion zu programmieren...dieses Postfach zu überwachen."

Tutanota sees no other possibility than to program a function (until the end of the year) that can monitor this inbox.
and that nothing else will change for the other users

> "Für die anderen Nutzer soll sich dadurch nichts ändern, ihre Mails sollen weiter standardmäßig verschlüsselt werden"

For other users nothing changes.

> "betrifft die Überwachungsmaßnahme nur die neu eingehenden unverschlüsselten E-Mails"

Only the new mails will be stored unencrypted. Already encrypted mails can't be unencrypted and it's only for this inbox.

> Für die anderen Nutzer soll sich dadurch nichts ändern, ihre Mails sollen weiter standardmäßig verschlüsselt werden. Gleichwohl sieht Tutanota eine einmalige Umgehung der Verschlüsselung als Datenschutz- und Sicherheitsrisiko für letztlich alle Kunden an.

For other users nothing changes. Tutanota sees through this "onetime" circumvention of the encryption a big risk in data protection and security for all other users.

And I agree. I won't feel good using a secure mail provider that promises to encrypt all my mails so that nobody else can read them, knowing they once had to implement a backdoor to circumvent exactly that.
It’s not the default, which may play a big part. In addition, justification is an awful way to align text[1], making the composition uglier and harder to read, even if you don’t consciously notice it.

There are ways to work around those issues (all of them hacks: deforming characters and spaces in between), but even most professional design software doesn’t support the full range of features. Last I checked, Adobe Illustrator didn’t support that kind of granularity (though Adobe Indesign did) and neither did web browsers.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typographic_alignment#Problems...
I really hope this benefits the area of the country where my parents live. They pay $60 a month for 5M service (from a local Co-op that's the only game in town) which just isn't fast enough for my mom's dream of a work from home job.
The cargo issue is real. A backpack or shoulder pack is about it on a bike. Maybe baskets on the back for light stuff (straw, pots).
I can't speak to San Francisco, but in Seattle at least, I never saw any flyers or graffiti telling LGBT people they were unwelcome and should leave town, nor did I ever encounter political discourse that LGBT people were somehow ruining the city, or scapegoating the LGBT community for local issues. So in my personal experience as an LGBT software engineer, I wouldn't be surprised if San Francisco was the same way.
Sounds like a job for Lenny: https://www.vice.com/en/article/d3b7na/the-story-of-lenny-th...

However I know your plight; I decided to escalate things with one of those "extended vehicle warranty" companies who swore up and down they removed my number, and said "We haven't been calling you". My caller ID on the device and records from my carrier proved this to be a lie-as the meme goes.

I calmmly asked for a mailing address for their offices so I could send them proof they had been calling (I wasn't about, but I wanted to see if they would) and that's when the asinine threats and pretend legal jargon began.

the person went on ramblig for a good 2 minutes it felt like.

"So what's that mailing address?"

They hung up on me.

Haven't gotten a call since.
That's my guess as well, but that's a very, very strange definition of working from home.
Only by some San Franciscans who've been sniffing their own farts for too long.

Everyone else thinks that The Bay is culturually homogenous.
When you threaten to resign the other person may decide they don't want the headache of having you around.

She had already sent an email asking other people to stop their work on diversity. It's at best naive to think that Google (or any employer) would give her a few more weeks to lower morale or cause trouble.
> lack of job, nutricion, housing, clothing, health coverage

Minimum wage is enough for this.

And the link you shared couldn't get the analysis more wrong just to come up with clickbaity title. They are taking average happiness of state and average wage, and even then the data doesn't look like it is plateauing.
I truly hope that Matrix+Gitter becomes the defacto standard when it comes to chat for open source communities. I think Discord is a bit ahead in terms of UX and features, but Matrix is catching up fast. I noticed that Element recently added support for Communities, which is sort of like a Discord server!
If you say so. As an outsider (although I used to work close, in Sacramento, for 5 years), I only can say that I did not hear anything about substantial govt participation, similar to post-war infrastructure projects, or recent push for green energy.
But, of course, I will be glad to find out that the Valley is the coproduct of some govt program, not only a lucky star alignment.
Well for client side code running on a website, it’s your only option. I guess nowadays many client support web assembly, but for all practical purposes you need to use JavaScript to do any client side web programming.

On the server the advantage is much less clear-cut, but a lot of it boils down to “we want to use the same language for the front end and the backend“. Although in my experience this is actually a horrible idea, and tends to result in very messy code and lots of work arounds in practice.

Anyway for me personally I continue to use JavaScript because of a combination of wanting to build lightly-interactive webpages and because that really is what the job market demands. So many companies are dead-set on hiring someone with node, react, and whatever other JavaScript experience. I tried taking it off my resume at one point because I kind of hate it, but if you’re at all involved in full stack web development it’ll really hurt your career if you don’t do JavaScript.
One thing I enjoy about these things is that I completely forget what I wrote, and I go back months later and find some bits funny. I just laughed at the pricing page saying:

NO ONE CAN OWN IMGZ

IT IS MINE
Why would they need Uber? There are hundreds of similar taxi apps
Japan retrieves asteroid samples in hunt for origins of planets
True. Not much has really changed beyond more confirmation that anything plain text can be and will be fall into the hands of third party actor/government. Although certain jurisdictions at least in theory have barriers to this e.g Germany vs Switzerland.
This story has been discussed before - See:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16494280
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20144870
A database of 400 places where to promote your startup
Well, what's the problem with eating, say, gorillas, if done in a sustainable way?

You don't need to be a card-carrying PETA vegan to find it quite off-putting to eat self-aware social animals with some of the world's largest brains.
> Literal nonsense. That's not what "libertarian" means.

That is exactly what libertarian means in practice. The ideology, when implemented in a democratic society has no mechanism to combat this kind of regulatory capture. It becomes just a shorthand for "People with money get to keep it, people without get to pull themselves up by their bootstraps."

Autonomy from government is only welcome by actual libertarians when it comes to autonomy from obligations towards government - but reliance on government is sought out when it comes to protection of their wealth by government.

Stop looking at symbolic virtue-signaling gestures, and start looking at what policies actually affect real people's lives, and why those policies are in place. The SFBA is a great place to live if you are self-reliant (wealthy), and can afford its smorgasbord of world-class private services, for anything from education to transportation to healthcare, to legal work, to housing. It very quickly becomes a far-from-great place to live if you have to result to public options for any of those things - because they range from either 'on life support' to 'non-existent'.
Not sure about the AI side of the project, but the graphics are seriously impressive!
Oh sorry, my bad. I'm just triggered from seeing that argument so much. I agree, we need to terraform earth first. 1) stop the damage from getting worse 2) if it doesn't reverse itself, we may need geo-engineering, carbon capture, orbital mirrors, etc
Cold is fine.

Getting robbed at gunpoint isn't. That's the real Chicago you have to contend with.
>Roads were absolutely, definitely the issue, and the article slides that in while pretending to refute it - bicycles 'called for improved roads' not because they didn't need them, but because they did.
Ever try to take a beater bike out on a rough trail with washouts and rocks? Its murder on the rider and the bike.

I don't know about that. I pretty much grew up only having crappy second hand bikes and spent more time riding through forests and trails than streets. There was a couple summers where pretty much every day was wake up, get on yhe bike, meet my cousins and friends and spend all day riding through the forest.

I never had an actual mountain bike, or even bikes with working brakes sometimes, i've taken bmx's through mountain trails, bikes where the chain pops off every half hour, some pretty sketchy bikes. Street riding actually freaks me out more. I don't like being on roads and sharing lanes with cars. Give me a rough forest trail on a bike any day over that.

>Here's a more interesting question: why are bicycles nonexistant on post-apocalyptic stories?

Bikes are pretty handy in Cataclysm DDA for town raids.

I guess a logical, in universe reason could be the extra calories spent on riding a bike wouldn't be worth burning in an environment where food is scarce and conditions may be brutal.
Even 1% is huge.
Go look at the title: do you think your household income qualifies as "tech elites?"

The rest of it: I'll let you have the fact that the VAT in California is called "sales tax" -it's the highest in the US, FWIIW. And you evidently are incapable of addition and subtraction, so discussing the rest of it is irrelevant.

Which is pretty much why I want you to stay there. Too many like you. Stay there and enjoy your utopia; you deserve it.
To put it another way, if this were true a secret base on Mars would be by far the least important and surprising detail of this story.
His father was a seed investor in Zip2.
Most big cities are segregated, both economically and racially—and the economic segregation amplifies the racial segregation.

The exodus of middle class Black and Hispanic people from high cost urban areas drives some crazy income distributions in places like San Francisco: https://statisticalatlas.com/place/California/San-Francisco/.... If your apartment building, restaurants, etc., are places mainly populated by those making over $100k/year, there will be a vanishingly small number of Black people in those places. (See table 10). Contrast somewhere like Atlanta, where a third of households making $75-100k/year (a very comfortable income in that city) are Black.
There's a trail I like to ride on in Utah that's an old railroad grade. It's part of the Great Western Trail now, but is not heavily traveled by hikers. I've never seen a single other hiker or biker on the trail. It's overgrown now, and has narrowed down to a singletrack trail. But it's easy to ride on, even without a fancy full suspension bike, because over 100 years ago, it was graded for a railroad, so it's a gentle slope, and all of the big boulders were removed. Even though it's been derelict for a century, it's still gentle sloped and mostly free of big rocks. Most of it is overgrown with shrubs, but the occasional hiker is enough to keep a footpath clear. It could be ridden even with a city commuter bike along most of it.

In a post-apocalyptic world, bicycles would definitely be a great way to get around. The roads would get cracked and overgrown, but with moderate traffic, they'd develop into smooth single track trails. What to do once you run out of tires and tubes would be the bigger problem.
Not my field of expertise, but seeing that generating the voice is one of the biggest costs, have you think about generating it yourself with something like https://github.com/mozilla/TTS running the process in commodity hardware?
>first stage it's comparable to something like one modern Olympic games event cost.

To continue on with the steelmanning, the first stage is probably a drop in a bucket compared to the entire effort. How much freight do you think it would take to colonize a planet with a population large enough to be relatively self-sufficient? Just the payload cost would be huge and that's just to park it (not to assemble, maintain etc.) I think the steelman argument would be to focus on things immediately needed, like healthcare, before space adventurism.

Edit: to put a finer point on it, the commercial space industry is essentially subsidized by the government precisely because it's not currently economical. In other words, if the government wasn't a customer there would be no commercial space industry. There's nothing inherently wrong with this because it's how high-risk industries often get started (e.g., the airlines), but the fact that it is subsidized by the government points to the fact that it is (currently) inherently uneconomical
My German is extremely rusty, but the whole dispute here seems to stem from the discussion wether or not the company has to comply with what we normally call 'lawfull-intercept' as part of telecom regulations. They contest the notion that they are a telecom provider.
Cost for fresh food or even just generic ingredients in the US is crazy low. I'm in Canada but am from the US and there is a non-trivial cost difference in things like milk and veggies.

Bigger problem is that low-income folks don't have the time, the access, or the urge -- marketing aimed at low-income folks works as well as on any demographic -- so they miss out.

If you're working 49 hours a week in 2 jobs and taking the bus home, are you gonna have the time to make steel cut oats and organic quinoa with mushroom broth, or are you going to hit the easiest thing on the way home, aka a quick burger at McD's? Quinoa ain't bad, but it doesn't hit the spot a the way a burger does either.
It’s a Heinlesque story.
Right, but it depends where. The EU does not say much about how France runs most of its overseas territories, including French Polynesia and New Caledonia. Less than 10% of France’s surface area (land+sea) is actually in Europe.
Oh really? Then why is markup written with the Tailwind build process in mind fundamentally incompatible with every other CSS framework/no framework? I've switched entire sites from one traditional framework (e.g. Foundation) to another (e.g. Bulma) in a matter of hours. With Tailwind, that'd be nearly impossible (and the @apply trick in external stylesheets actually makes that process worse, not better).
It was wifi, my connection speed with speedtest over wifi was 100Mb down and 30Mb up.

I should probably note I was also sitting next to my wifi router, so I’m not sure that a wired connection would’ve made a noticeable difference.
> a thousand Elon Musks

This may well be his next project.
My top picks are Ramen Parlor or Ramen Dojo.
MicroStrategy Proposed Private Offering of $400M Convertible Senior Notes
I've written thousands of lines of React components and stylesheets using Tailwind. Have you?
Car companies do that for the really standard, commoditized stuff. But they try to do it on their own for the cutting edge stuff. Toyota developed their own hybrid technology, and it paid off for them big time. Having a better hybrid system than anyone else gave the Prius a serious leg up in the competition. Honda's done similar work with variable valve timing, GM did it with automatic transmissions, etc.

I think, though, that that's a tangential point, because Uber is not a car company. As others have theorized, Uber has an interest in developing it themselves because self-driving represents an existential threat. They have absolutely no defense against someone else using self-driving to do to them what they used gig economy labor pricing to do to taxi companies.
How to do that is explained in the first link.

On the implications they note “Doing the opposite of what a computer tells you isn’t quite free will though!”
> Uber's competitive advantage now is their mindshare, app experience, and subsidized pricing. With or without self driving doesn't really change that.

I think the last one is their big problem: Uber has their current market-position by selling below cost, and they've locked in a lot of things like compensation at the assumption they were profitable to a much more fanciful degree. Once the VC money runs out, they're going to need to raise prices and it's a lot easier for anyone else to compete with them since they're all renting the same Waymo cars and all of the drivers are running multiple apps anyway. Uber has some economy of scale benefits but they also have a reputation for mistreating drivers and a lot of expensive real-estate and staff which local competitors don't have.
That's just not true. Way before Uber IPO'ed and started aiming at profitability next year, self-driving cars was the big thing for Uber's future.

(Disclaimer, I worked at Uber 2014-18).
Good point. Also I guess the tourists who visit Vegas and bring their money come with fossil fuel based means of transportation as well.
Aliens in hiding until mankind is ready, says ex-Israeli space head
Has anybody managed to get Azure support on the phone? Do they honor their SLAs?
I have the highest support plan (Professional). I've opened Critical severity tickets. I specifically (and in an increasingly more desperate tone) asked them to call me back - that's an actual option when you create the ticket.

Nobody called - and this is way past the SLA.

With AWS, they call you back in 5 minutes and they solve the problem. Azure support so far is like a ghost town.

What's the secret sauce? How do I manage to get them on the phone?
Consistent hashing is a routing algorithm, not a consensus algorithm.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consistent_hashing
Correct but from the article

> So hatte im Sommer das Landgericht Hannover entschieden, dass Tutanota im rechtlichen Sinn keine „Telekommunikationsdienste“ erbringt oder daran mitwirkt – und deshalb auch nicht zur Telekommunikationsüberwachung verpflichtet werden kann

In the summer the Landgericht Hannover judged that Tutanota isn't a "Telekommunikationsdienste" (telecommunication providers) and they also don't take part in one. That is why Tutanota calls bullshit.

> Das Kölner Gericht sieht Tutanota dennoch als „Mitwirkenden“ bei der Erbringung von Telekommunikationsdiensten. Folglich müsse das Unternehmen die Überwachung ermöglichen.

Cologne now says the opposite and says they "take part" in providing telecommunication without clarification.
I think that depends on the potatoes. On some it'll feel like you're just chewing on and swallowing paper.
They can sustain it as long as investors are willing to shovel money into Uber... and no longer.
Right, it is called netlon, and some even have it as fixed mesh. Didn't think to mention that earlier.