skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The US has a very high standard for "defamation" against "public figures" and a very low barrier to be considered a "public figure". By US standards, the diver was a "public figure", and Musk's insulting comment was not defamation, because it was hyperbolic (comparable to when Hustler Magazine published a fake ad about Jerry Falwell having sex with his mother in an outhouse).

Bottom line is that it's very hard to win defamation cases in the US. The Tesla engineer might have a shot because she was not well known, and Tesla accused her of very specific acts (moonlighting, unapproved travel) and they knew those accusations to be false. On the other hand, these were not exactly crimes, so who knows.
A nice try to make an explosion sound like a success - reminds me of the Soviet times when the Party was never wrong!
> 50% is insane. 5% I'd be able to understand, but not 50%.

I'm hardly anti-vaxxer, but I'm going to wait this one out until a lot of people went head-first into it.

I take my vaccines like I take my software upgrades: no pre-releases of system-critical ones.
>You publish all your recipes under a permissive license.

(Setting aside the fact that it's an analogy and recipes aren't covered by copyright...) Why does it have to be a permissive license?

>A restaurant chain starts selling your dishes, using your name, but, because of their scale, cheaper than you can afford to.

Why is it okay for them to use your name? You can release free software but not let just anyone use your trademark. (See: Firefox, Red Hat, etc.)

>I don’t see that smaller restaurant staying in business, unless it starts making new recipes it keeps for itself.

Well in the case of actual small restaurants, clearly publishing a recipe book isn't necessarily catastrophic; after all, many do. Stretching the analogy this far doesn't make the point very well.
It's not all about the First Amendment, but if someone is going to equate two things that are treated differently under both American and other (UK, for example) laws, it's a relevant point. Also, Google is a company headquartered in the US, so US law is somewhat more relevant than other law.
I looked for the dominion api that lets you add weight factors to people’s votes, haven’t found the code though, its release has been blocked for trade secret reasons or something?
That’s irrelevant to this discussion. Saying free speech excludes a limitation on free speech as defined by a specific country means anything that country excludes is therefore perfectly acceptable.

It’s the same Doublethink that defines income taxes as exclusive of payroll taxes by naming a subset of income taxes as income tax.
I believe it was burning through the copper liner due to fuel starvation (oxygen rich which makes it SUPER hot)

http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1613/496/1600/Merlin1C_Ch...

Seriously getting downvoted? That's what caused the issue.... Elon already tweeted they had low fuel pressure...
More bullshit. Do they not ban for bullshit on Hackernews?
That's because it isn't the norm currently, just like online shopping/mail orders wasn't the norm.
> those have to be rewritten from scratch if someone wants them for FF also.

What? Why are they not standard WebExtensions?
That was spectacular! I'm completely blown away by how audacious and bold the Starship project is. Sending a rocket that massive into space and then attempting to land it back on earth, with the intention of using it to eventually send people to Mars and back. Just thinking about how much force those thrusters must have been exerting to propel the ship and pull off that flip maneuver gives me chills. I can't wait to see how fast they'll take to build and send up the next one. Props to the people at SpaceX for getting this far!
Just amazing to watch.

The flip down to gliding just looked so bizarre and futuristic.

It's the big WTF I got from first seeing Grasshopper stop and hover in mid air and land again. That's not what rockets are meant to do!

Except of course they are meant to do it!
"There is nothing more mysterious than blood. Paracelsus considered it a condensation of light. I believe that the Aryan, Hyperborean blood is that – but not the light of the Golden Sun, not of a galactic sun, but of the light of the Black Sun, of the Green Ray."

What the hell is this shit?

EDIT: Nice, it's a quote from a neo-Nazi: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miguel_Serrano

Can someone please get this garbage off HN and back to 4chan where it belongs?
Unconstitutional? How?
I suspect that the 80th percentile best restaurant investor would be better off becoming a 20th percentile retail investor in tech.
Interesting community for clinical work in this field: https://horizons.nyc/

Includes psilocybin research
That's the main thing to remember: the main thrust of their iteration and innovation is to build the machine that makes the machine. To pump out Starships (and Raptors and Super Heavies) very rapidly, repeatably and cheaply.
What about users who own Chromebooks?
> The government has more power to push out convincing misinformation in vast quantities than anyone else.

Really? You don't think that the mass media is at least in the same league?
The merlin engine uses TEA-TEB which causes the green flame seen on Falcon 9. The raptor uses electric spark ignition, which is harder but doesn't require any awfully poisonous chemicals and you can't run out.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX_Raptor
I really don’t understand why, given contemporary patterns, we have Linux monoliths anymore.

Surely for servers and sysadmins, building out ones own OS artifact would be trivial in this cloud world.

Perhaps there’s some disruption to be had; Gentoo As A Service.
“a bunch of curious nerds comment there” beats well over 80% of new sources. Of course the Fusion Power discussion board that still uses PHP4 powered text boxes will be way better.

Of course we must be aware of our "me,me,me" tendencies, its a good warning.
Good point. We allow judges and juries to do this. It is much more tractable problem in the case of statements about individuals. Also, it avoids questions of legal standing (who has suffered injury and is allowed to sue).
A PhD would imply first hand experience of academia. I don't think they're using it to signal any particular level of intelligence.
I do wonder why we want humans on Mars. Given the huge amount of fossil fuels that must be burned on this planet to get us there.
We may find Mars is dry and arid when we get there, and so is Earth.
More info about Starship

https://www.spacex.com/vehicles/starship/

> As early as Wednesday, December 9, the SpaceX team will attempt a high-altitude suborbital flight test of Starship serial number 8 (SN8) from our site in Cameron County, Texas. The schedule is dynamic and likely to change, as is the case with all development testing.

> This suborbital flight is designed to test a number of objectives, from how the vehicle’s three Raptor engines perform to the overall aerodynamic entry capabilities of the vehicle (including its body flaps) to how the vehicle manages propellant transition. SN8 will also attempt to perform a landing flip maneuver, which would be a first for a vehicle of this size.

> With a test such as this, success is not measured by completion of specific objectives but rather how much we can learn, which will inform and improve the probability of success in the future as SpaceX rapidly advances development of Starship.

> This past year alone, SpaceX has completed two low-altitude flight tests with Starship SN5 and SN6 and accumulated over 16,000 seconds of run time during 330 ground engine starts, including multiple Starship static fires and four flight tests of the reusable methalox full-flow staged combustion Raptor engine. Additionally, with production accelerating and fidelity increasing, SpaceX has built 10 Starship prototypes. SN9 is almost ready to move to the pad, which now has two active stands for rapid development testing.

> SN8’s flight test is an exciting next step in the development of a fully reusable transportation system capable of carrying both crew and cargo to Earth orbit, the Moon, Mars, and beyond. As we venture into new territory, we continue to appreciate all of the support and encouragement we have received.

> There will be a live feed of the flight test available here that will start a few minutes prior to liftoff. Given the uncertainty of the schedule, stay tuned to our social media channels for updates as we move toward our first high-altitude flight test of Starship!
It's a test flight. Musk gave only a 1/3 chance of mission success before the flight.
RUD = Rapid Unscheduled Disassemble

For the people not familiarized
People forget that the OSI and the people behind it neither own, nor invented, the term 'open source.' They want to give you the impression that they do and they did, but they don't and they didn't.
> without having to use Deno

But you need to use ncc? What's the relevant difference?
Life-long Californian as well.

There is such a high degree of historical segregation in the state, that sheltered white folks definitely do have a big shock when they, say, hop onto the Purple Line to visit Watts Towers. It's just so different, and I think people don't know how to process it since they have no frame of reference.

It's a shame, because historically African American parts of Los Angeles have a wonderfully rich history that is much more than just 'Crips and Bloods.'

Glad to hear your perspective.
I feel what you’re saying is an exaggeration. In highschool history class we definitely had conflicting viewpoints on the causes and blame for WW1, varying perspectives on the use of gas in warfare, the arguments about the ethics of bombing civilian targets in WW2, and the debates about the necessity and ethics of the conflicts between “western” and communist powers during the Cold War. This hardly unleashed “chaos” - it was an above average but otherwise normal Canadian highschool history class.
I would say "Trump won only because Russia interfered in the election" is a direct, explicit claim that the election was illegitimate. I'm not saying I disbelieve it or that I believe the current claims of fraud, but there is a clear equivalency here.
Google cannot put me in jail.

What a low quality response. I'm done with you, please do not reply to me further, here or elsewhere.
Not only that, but there's often comments about how people moving from CA to TX are fleeing the results of a presumably left wing tax code to enjoy the benefits of a presumably right wing tax code, but it's not that simple.

CA is as expensive as it is in large part because of NIMBYs and tax schemes that were absolutely the product of right-wing ballot initiatives for the most part. OTOH, a large part of the appeal of TX is that it doesn't have a state income tax, but the state is absolutely on the dole. IIRC TX takes in ~$150b from the Federal government, but only pays ~$100b into the system. CA (like NY) pays more into the system then it takes out, so about ~$50b of the annual budget of TX is literally bumming money from other states, albeit indirectly.

Which is a roundabout way of saying, the narrative about people moving from CA to TX often makes it sound like a narrative about left-wing economic policies vs. right-wing economic policies, but the reality is that CA is expensive in large part because of right-wing economic policies and TX is cheap in large part because it's basically on welfare from the Federal government. Which is fine, the system should allow economically healthier states to help the less successful states get by (looking at you KY), but it's so counter to the narrative that usually surrounds these stories that people tend to sweep it under the rug. And also TX is hardly an economically unhealthy, depressed state in need of assistance from the rest of the country. It should step up and stop being being a bum, because AFAICT it's not a bum but rather a state with well above-average prospects.
It goes both ways. Try walking around Town Lake in Austin (where I live) wearing a MAGA hat and the tell me how much more diverse and tolerant folks are in the big city.
I just wanted to note that the problem you mentioned is being actively addressed by the Ruffle team. As you mention, it will continue to get better with time.

(Related Internet Archive post on their new Flash collection: https://blog.archive.org/2020/11/22/flash-back-further-thoug...)
Agreed, I had the exact same reaction as you did, and I even made a comment in this thread quoting the same part of the article that you quoted.

Also, I share your sense of feeling like it would have been more constructive to summarize whatever the key argument is supposed to be and how it connects in this thread.
Timestamp for the flight: https://youtu.be/ap-BkkrRg-o?t=6480
I'm not the person you were arguing with. I don't like seeing the discussions here devolve into name calling.
Why Do Things Fall?
Pre-Robinhood, were we (as a society) really only a polished-product away from mass adoption of stock trading in general?

Like, is it really true that prior to Robinhood, most people outside of the wealthiest ones avoided stock trading only because it was so hard to use any of Schwab/Fidelity/Scottrade/Etrade/etc.?
"It isn't Zuck's fault nobody else is as competitive as Facebook is.... I look at you MySpace and Twitter."

Social Networks have natural Monopolies.

Not that I believe FB is necessarily a monopoly in the economic sense, but it's not quite right to talk about 'competition' in systems that are designed to have one winner.

If there were 5 Twitters for example, one of them would eventually dominate, one way or another.
Perhaps you'd prefer "no substantiated evidence"? There's none that has stood up in the multiple court cases so far.
This still requires a node runtime. As far as I understand, the deno usage creates a single executable - batteries included.
I’ve never seen such a cesspool in HN. This (low) level of debate here is novel.
Ok, I accept that you are not willing to look beyond the current state of legal affairs, regardless of whether Google/YouTube is so large it becomes an example of a de facto public space. And how to treat these kinds of platforms with regard to freedom of speech is an ongoing legal discussion — far from being over.

Let me make it simple for you: Sticking to your (in my opinion very limited) model of looking at the world, how do you make sure Google doesn't become a puppet of some government now or in the future? Do you really think the people in that organization are able to handle the amount of power they have over a reasonably long time without getting corrupted? Would it then fall into your narrow definition of freedom of speech?

Our current state of law is not equipped to deal with that kind of behemoth and needs to evolve.

Btw.: It would help your argument to avoid provocative statements like implying that I might not be grasping a concept. Your text looks like you are trying to defend a political position.
This is certainly possible. I've relaxed and loosened up on 0% beer as though it had alcohol when I knew that's what it was too.

I strongly suggest with little evidence that if you took 10 people who had previously taken MDMA and gave them placebos at least 9 would know it if not all 10. A single digit percentage of the control who don't know they got a placebo probably renders it pretty useless.

The BBC did a doco [1] on MDMA as a symptom mitigator for parkinson's disease with a stuntman who had it bad but liked to party at music festivals and saw it completely alleivated the symptoms. They did the two trials thing with him, take a pill (once mdma, another time placebo) and try to perform specific tasks in a gym and grade how well he could do it. The cameras got him saying something like this to the boffins in white coats: "I know this is the real thing because I can do it all easily and THE MUSIC ISN'T LOUD ENOUGH!!!"

[1]https://www.bbc.co.uk/science/horizon/2000/ecstasyagony.shtm...
Copper burns green, and the engine contains a lot of copper, so I think we saw a malfunctioning Raptor burning itself up.

Other answers mention TEB starter fluid but I don't think that's right, because as far as I know Raptor has spark ignition only.

edit: Elon Musk just tweeted that the immediate cause of the crash was low pressure in the fuel tank, so that would make sense, as running oxygen-rich would overheat and melt the engines.
Sorry but it looks as if you had a view and then googled articles to back this up. The second article is about IP theft and gives no reason to doubt TSMC's integrity. Nor does it give any reason to think Taiwanese companies are worse at opsec than e.g. US or Dutch players.
You're missing the context that the people attending the Unite the Right rally heavily displayed Nazi iconography (swastikas and more obscure neo-Nazi symbols):

https://youtu.be/zcoYKuoiUrY?t=1862

If you're okay with marching alongside a swastika, are you really a "very fine person?" As Shaun puts it, "the acceptable number of swastikas at the rally is zero."

Another excerpt (https://youtu.be/zcoYKuoiUrY?t=2538):

Speaker: "Did Hitler do anything wrong?"

Crowd: "No!"

Speaker: "I love my people!"

Crowd: "I love my people!"

Speaker: "One more, one more. I want everyone to repeat after me, pay close attention because this is the first precept of the true alt-right. Remember it. Gas the [slur]s, race war now!"

Crowd: "Gas the [slur]s, race war now!" "Sieg Heil!" "Sieg Heil!" "Who brought the ovens?" "[Laughter]"

Do these people, or anyone who associates with them, seem like "very fine people?"
I wish there was a FOSS license with a clause along the lines of:

- if your company makes >X revenue a year, give us some of it.

Ofc, they (FSF/OSI/DFSG) would have to relax their FOSS definition(s), but with more projects dying in this way hopefully more FOSS organisations will take heed and think about this.

Ofc, the wording of the license has to be precise enough to avoid something like fobbing off the servers to technically be controlled by subsidiaries with 0 revenue.

Ofc, the license would have to figure out how to share revenue with major contributors too.

Contributors already contribute to for-profit open source projects without themselves getting paid, so this license would make the situation strictly better for them.

Laws and definitions have to change with the changing times - the technological economy is different today than it was 20 years ago when tech companies weren't so big or able to throw their weight around. Staying true to the original spirit of FOSS and sharing, means that we have to find ways to support independent FOSS business.

The loudest arguments I hear at forcing the FOSS definition to remain static and blind to revenue, is from big tech companies or wealthy people being paid by big tech companies, because it benefits them. People working for a small FOSS companies understand the realities of competing in today's tech environment, and understand that revenue-sharing far from stifling FOSS, will allow it to flourish properly.
Have you ever taken NAC (N-acetyl cysteine) supplement - try taking it daily for 2-4 weeks to see if that helps you recover; search NAC + MDMA to see anecdotal evidence, there's lots on Reddit.

People can fuck themselves up on any substance if abused, that friend may be able to undo the damage done with MDMA via Ayahuasca ceremonies - perhaps via the neurogenesis that is seen with Ayahuasca use to recreate pathways that may have been lost due to excessive MDMA use. Not a doctor.
That was awesome. I really thought it was going to blow when it started going sideways...then realized that was all part of the plan. Even the landing explosion was a fitting end to a first flight.
You know, we're hiring software engineers over here! :)

If that was your (or anyone else's) reaction and you'd be interested in learning more about what we're doing and how you might fit it, I'd be happy to chat! I'm a manager for one of the software teams here - we're always looking for great engineers who care about the mission!
Ultra Minimal Assembly Language
The answer, which is surely obvious to a person of your intellect, is that people wish to disentangle themselves from the institutions which gave rise to colonialism in the first place and have perpetuated it in indirect fashion, eg by the reification of private property and the legal infrastructure surrounding its disposition.
https://github.com/paradoxxxzero/butterfly
Not sure ncc is an equivalent. I think nexe or pkg are comparable, they bundle a runtime into the exe whereas ncc just reduces the code down to a single distributable code file in that you still need node installed to run it on the target host.
Raptor doesnt use TEB. It uses spark ignition
It's easy to underperform if you buy options that can go to zero on an incredibly short time horizon.
More likely to be a flying guillotine.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/secret-u-s-missile-aims-to-kill...
It's ironically pretty straightforward to install Firefox on most chromebooks, through the Debian container/VM, with opengl + audio passthrough.
this is nothing new and has been going on for decades, Texas vs CA is capitalism vs socialism, check who is winning these years. Don't forget CA has the best climate and seashores, otherwise people will flee like hell.

sadly for those liberals who moved to Texas they can wait for one second to make Texas more like CA, the socialism ideology is a life long brain damage with no cure.

Please don't california my texas!
I thought the raptor was going to use a spark plug.
New company mantra to be had right there.
same business case as Internet Explorer being inseparable part of Windows 95 Kernel thus they HAD to be bundled together...

I'm sure stuff like these sounded fine in decision maker heads...
so true, repeating false accusations against Trump for 4 years ( of 'racism' and other made-up evils) worked marvels for the Dems.
Which it does not use
Yes, I found a flaw right away.

Not all problems that startups are solving are equal. If you want to build a Tesla competitor you're not going to be able to do that without raising money (unless you happen to already be a billionaire).

If you are building an app, yes the author may be right sometimes, where you can often find product market fit without the need of a large influx of cash.
Shout out Tim Dillon?
Caltech launches virtual world-based campus as pandemic-era social space
It's doubtful that Google leadership thought Gebru had no leverage, or else they would've already removed her.
https://onezero.medium.com/survival-of-the-richest-9ef6cddd0...
California budgets from mid year. So 2020-2021 and that is projected to have a $26b surplus. There is projected deficits beyond that, but not sure anyone can say for certainty how fast the economy will recover
> So what happens if gorhill's account is hacked or he gets tired of working on the extension and sells it to the highest bidder?

Approximately the same as would happen if the developer of a traditional Windows* application were hacked or sold out, except less serious, since they wouldn't have access to the underlying filesystem. It's not a non-existent risk, but it is a trade-off I and many other people want to be able to make. uBlock Origin being FOSS and popular considerably mitigates the risks. (Not to mention that I trust gorhill not to sell out...)

* or Linux (except that in Linux most software is distributed via repositories, which lessens the risks, somewhat; OTOH uBlock origin is also available via the repositories, for instance on Debian[0] and Ubuntu[1]). I'm not sure about sandboxing on MacOS.

[0] https://packages.debian.org/stretch/webext-ublock-origin

[1] https://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=webext-ublock-or...
It's not that their users are too dumb. It's that weapons grade psychological tactics work and they don't want to be a part of that.
> Emacs does these things right in a way that virtually every other IDE-like editor does wrong.

?

> the wrong way VSCode handles File / Open by default

?
In a sense the RUD might make it easier - now they just sweep up the debris and test SN9. If it hadn't RUDed, they would have to somehow dispose of SN8.