skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Difference is SpaceX welded some tanks on a field. This program spend 20 billion over 10 years designing the whole system on paper with very little iterative testing.

This not a prototype, this is the actual rocket that should fly. It has already spent over 1 year on the test stand to do 1 static fire. SpaceX did 3 static fire in ONE DAY last week.

Consider this, when SLS started development SpaceX Starship literally didn't exist on paper, the engines didn't exist, the facilities they were built in didn't exist, they didn't even have approval to build facilities.

So SpaceX designed a totally new engine, a engine mass manufacturing line, multiple new test stands, designed threw many iteration on the Starship design, build a totally new private space port with a huge manufacturing facility. All of this was done for a budget that is less then what SLS gets PER YEAR and not just a little less.

One year of SLS development could have likely funded all of SpaceX research and development over the last 10 years.

NASA simply should not build its own rocket. And even worse they should not blow unlimited amounts of money into these contracts while they are showing absurdly bad performance. In fact, I think the government should systematically be compensated with stocks of these companies when they go over budget and over time by this amount.

The whole program is political, it serves no function. Payloads like Europa Clippers are fighting politically for the right NOT to launch on SLS. Having SLS around forces NASA into suboptimal moon architectures. SLS is a political straight-jacked for NASA. With the SLS budget alone so many amazing project could be funded, it is hard to even comprehend.

We can 'cut the slack' on this issue, but the issues keep coming and the rate of delay is pretty crazy and the cost are even crazier.

> Let’s not forget also that it’s NASA who have also drastically changed their strategy and have enabled private companies like SpaceX to shine through their partnerships.

Fantastic, totally agree. Lets do more of that, and less giving Boeing and LM money for not performing well.
All the comments seem to be aware of some context that this fits in to. Anyone care to share?
"Soon may the Wellerman come" remix:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zDTaeqUEWNQ
I never tried to actually type, only to enter words letter-by-letter with a stylus (on a PocketBook). Obviously I would prefer it to be fast enough to handle typing but I don't want dynamic visual effects which modern UI/web designers consider a norm and I don't need it to play realtime games or videos.
I wonder who they're hosting with now? Interesting that it wasn't reported. I'd assume the hosting company would want to shout it out that they "support free speech" or something like that.
Targeting is a piece of the puzzle. As an advertiser I need frequency capping, brand safety, page quality, geo, etc. Ignoring all that.. I still need to measure results.
Sorry, meant to say, its a VW Jetta.
One thing I've learned from running a Hackerspace: no, it's not possible.

There is no possible window that's relatively short (hours) and will fit everyone who wants to participate. For any day and hour you pick, someone will be permanently excluded (because of e.g. their job, studies), and other people will miss it regularly due to irregular life events.

And ultimately, there's no point in doing that if the activity itself doesn't require for everyone to be doing something together. Such a posting isn't a team meeting; it can be done asynchronously.
AM/FM is really up to the handset manufacturer, some phones have the hardware turned off by the manufacturer.
> When was the German Democratic Republic a dictatorship?

If someone wanted to leave the GDR, were they able to?

If not, why do you think they weren't able to? Why do you think people wanted to leave, and why do you think people wanted to stop them? Why do you think they had to literally shoot people to stop them leaving the country if it wasn't a dictatorship and they were welcome on the other side?

Are you confused about the 'Democratic' part of the name? North Korea also calls itself 'Democratic' today.

Read some history:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics_of_East_Germany

> Elections were held but were effectively controlled by the SED and state hierarchy, as noted by Hans Modrow [communist premier of East Germany] and others.

The last premier of East Germany was literally convicted of electoral fraud after unification.

> Modrow did not deny the charges, but argued that the trial was politically motivated and that the court lacked jurisdiction for crimes committed in East Germany

It was a dictatorship. Any reasonable historian or even person there at the time will tell you this. The literal Premier himself didn't even deny it.
It's really not. I was forced to do everything on *nix systems in university. I mostly work in C# on Windows in VS today, which is not something a single class in my university was taught in. We run our code on Linux, but I really don't need to interact with it much. We model everything in our stack using Terraform. I do use WSL-2 a bit when I need to, especially when interacting with the AWS Cli or Docker and similar.

It's just a good desktop and dev environment that stays out of my way, has sensible defaults, and doesn't require endless twiddling to be productive in.
I have never heard of Cardano and Ethereum seemed to market itself as a way to run the internet and government inside of blockchain while the reality was it was never used for anything but speculative investment.

Cryptos have basically burned the idea and the general public will probably not care of any future solution since all of the previous ones were scams or not very useful.

These cryptos all promise the world and deliver nothing.
Sorry, meant to say, its a VW Jetta
Given that the Pleiades are, I believe, the only cluster in the sky large enough to act as a constellation, it's certainly not irrational to treat them as both.

A cluster could be treated as a constellation, but not vice versa.
> I now think of devices the have failed as if they has completely disappeared form our universe.

I interpret this in the same way as “The network is compromised.”

It may not be literally true but you can avoid pain by always assuming it is true and acting accordingly.
I think many THINK they will (or are) doing that - and perhaps even did at one time - but the ability has slipped away.

The collection continues, however. I have to catch myself in some areas doing the same thing.
Unconditional Loops Are Unconditionally Awesome
Correct. That’s why google is working with Facebook/other major players (or at least acting like it) to create solutions to the problems they’re creating.

Not working, because all the other members of the w3c group wrote an open letter saying google is abusing their power/etc.
It would probably incredibly brutal and many would die early on, but as long as enough people survived the initial transition and found some sort of stability, humanity would carry on. Even if conditions were generally terrible, just a few areas where the survivors can grab a toehold could be enough. The prospect of a grim, untimely death for yourself and everyone you love would be rather motivating.
Had NASA engineers actually build a better design for Space Shuttle, lots of budget would have been available to do more. The Space shuttle could have done much more much better things if it was designed differently.
Just to play devil's advocate, that's the whole purpose of patents, to prevent progress by others.

On the other hand, the gain is that E Ink Corporation decided it was worth investing in developing and commercializing the technology knowing they'd have exclusive rights for 20 years, and quite possible only because of that. If they didn't have that guarantee, it might not have been worth any company developing it in the first place.

Now I'm not familiar with the history of investment in e-ink specifically. But I'm curious if there's anyone here who is: if patent protection wasn't available, would it have been worth it for any company to develop it, knowing it might be copied a year later by a competitor who would then undercut the original inventors (not having to pay for the expensive R&D)?
I'm leery of any all encompassing systems that you can supposedly turn off with a single toggle. For example, you would think that not having a FB profile is the ultimate opt out but they have all your data as a shadow profile.
>> Where does that end? Go make your own domain registrar? Go make your own ICANN? Go make your own ISP? Go make your own internet? Go make your own microchips?

Correct. DIY.
Whilst the efforts to create something are not nil, and I do want to acknowledge that, there is a problem with the contrast being so low.

Low contrast webpages do appear to be all the rage with newer designers so perhaps I can point out the problem with that with two small anecdotes.

I, like around 1% of the population, am "blue-black" colour blind. Not something that generally affects me in day-to-day life, but the colours I see are darker and less contrasting to what everyone else sees. 1% of the population is not an insignificant proportion of the world. The lack of contrast is such that all the bylines dissappear. Worse, clicked links also dissappear. Yet, because the from-domain text is higher contrast, it remains visible.

As for the comment box/button... Almost felt like it was deleted. Took me a moment to confirm it wasn't hit by a display none.

Second anecdote. Everything except .title has a font-size set relative to the browser, which is good. Optic neuritis makes things noisier for me, so the base font-size of my browser is set a little higher. Which, unfortunately, makes that 24px decleration stick out like a sore thumb. It doesn't scale like everything else.
Thanks for the feedback, I was wondering why it got flagged.

I don’t necessarily agree that the title I chose fits the definition of editorialization, as I wasn’t expressing an opinion, but I could understand if people though of it as clickbait.

Edit: anyhow, apparently getting downvotes again. I’m a bit of an ignoramus when it comes to what makes people get upset, but given the current climate of fear, I’ll just chalk it up to that.

Would greatly appreciate a moderator taking a moment to explain to me the nuances, but again, given the current climate, I’ll avoid posting anything security related.
Maybe short-sellers could do it if there were a big enough market for lending Tether to short-sellers?
Street-for-free is key. If it won’t disappear quickly it’s probably not worth anything.

(Smaller items I give to Goodwill as it can be hard to see what they are on a drive by)
BND is not a private organisation but a part of the federal government. They are a secret service. That's why they can get away with it, they cannot be fined, sued or even investigated properly in such matters.

And while one of the lessons of Nazi Germany is keeping the secret services on a tight leash, that leash has become longer and longer during the cold war. Nowadays, I do not think there is any effective control of Germany's secret services anymore.
I've looked at syncthing, however it doesn't have an iOS app.

Regarding nextcloud - it only seems to do full syncronisation like dropbox does. How can I store large shared directories on the server side only? eg, my FreeNAS box has ~20TB in it, and I'd like to be able to access it as a shared directory, but obviously not sync it to my laptop.
Possibly the same outfit that hosts Gab: https://www.vice.com/en/article/4ad7dp/parler-finds-refuge-w...
This sounds far fetched but I was surprised to learn how precise timing can really be. I believe it was a conversation about bluetooth proximity unlocking. Computer clocks are fast enough to measure distance to an object in human distances at light speed. That still blows my mind.
Probably this:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25598190
Nice find Simon. It's a year old but I hadn't seen it.
Who actually gets to see stars anymore?

30 years ago seeing stars was a common occurrence for me, now, due to light pollution ?Seems like a rarity.
My local group encourages a 24-hour waiting period to equalize the opportunity for group members to claim items. Generally, the people who really need a certain item don't have enough free time to constantly check the group, or are working the sorts of jobs where they're offline for long periods of time.
I'd call that regress.
Now I’ve an idea for a Craigslist free type app that only shows you free items in an X block radius - like Pokémon Go or similar.
What a bunch of nonsense. Please actually inform yourself before just saying things.

NASA budget has actually gone up over the last couple of years.

SpaceX got funding from NASA. So literally part of the funding NASA got was from the NASA budget because NASA bought things from SpaceX.

And SpaceX gave NASA some of the best deals in the history of spaceflight.
>An few innocuous auto run usb

autoruns have been disabled for USBs since windows xp SP3
I'd like to disagree. I think an employer (or any person) has a right to place a video camera any place on their property they could otherwise hire a person to sit and watch. This person can see things and testify to them, essentially functioning as a meat video camera. Why do employees expect not to be seen by their employers in working areas? or public break rooms?

How is placing a camera different than hiring an overseer?
Virgin Orbit launches 10 satellites to orbit in landmark test flight
I keep seeing references to sea shanties everywhere, but I haven't been able to figure out why either.
Which browser? I find Firefox performance unacceptable on ubunutu. I’ve got an nvidia gpu, it feels like Firefox isn’t using it.

Chromium works ok, but I don’t like using chromium.

Do you only have the one 4K display? I guess it depends on the apps you use, but I’ve had to set special scaling settings for individual apps, and that breaks down with multiple mixed-DPI displays.

Yes Bluetooth audio works, but at least on ubunutu I get a long list of MAC addresses and not device names, which has poor usability IMO.

I’ve also noticed Ubuntu with gnome in particular is slow to start apps, and doesn’t give any indication of whether the app is just slow to start or has failed.
Sea Shanties are a big TikTok meme right now.
I understood your claim. I hoped it was based on facts vs what you imagine others think. Thanks for clarifying.
Most people who get wet shoes just accept it as part of life. They don't get on Google and ask how to prevent wet shoes because they don't want to go around wearing kayaking shoes all the time.

The fact that there exists normal-looking waterproof shoes isn't something that they know about or would search about
There are mirrors: bibliogram.
Publishers are allotted a certain amount of api calls per (user?) in theory to prevent that.
To be fair, registers aren’t used exclusively by one employee. At grocery stores, when someone goes on break, someone coming back might take their spot. That happens multiple times a day. And for restaurants, almost every employee uses the same few registers.

The only way to know who is stealing is to either watch the drawer or to count the cash every time the employee walks away. Of course, most places go with the former as the latter is too time intensive (especially during a rush). The better solution (IMO) is to just count at the end of the day, and if there’s a discrepancy, mark it down. If it happens multiple times, you can compare who was at that register for each of those days and narrow it down.
The evidence is literally in the link: Dec 14th was the day after Solar Winds hack was revealed. Dec 14th was the day that PyPi began experiencing an outage, as indicated in their status page.
SpaceX, Rocket Lab and Virgin Orbit have now all reached orbit.

But Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin hasn't yet. We'll see if their Gradatim Ferociter (Step by Step, Ferociously) approach pays off in the longer term.
For whatever reason, old-timey Sea Shanties have become a popular music genre among young people in the last few weeks. In particular, a song called The Wellerman has become wildly popular.
Do you know why the app did not appear in Safari’s preferences? And how did you fix it?
> a raid is a raid

Nonsense. There's a world of difference between a couple of cops knocking on your door and a full squad of fully armed, fully armoured militarised faux-soldiers busting down your door and threatening to shoot you, your family and your pets - and often following through on those threats.
I thought it was more of a crypto lottery frankly. A whole bunch of people started buying it and it's become like this gigantic game of chicken, where you don't want to be left holding worthless BTC.
I get why it may seem that way when we're on HN and there's selection bias going on. But if you look at all major browser the Safari users are going to be the lowest % extension use. That's what Apple is. An ecosystem where users don't configure anything. You can go out of your way and do it but that type of user is not who they design for.

Just look at, https://www.zdnet.com/article/apple-neutered-ad-blockers-in-... - The safari userbase either didn't notice or didn't care when it's extension functionality was gimped. And this is not a unique event.
https://github.com/w3c/web-advertising

Has more details for a lot of the proposals.
Money makes it a competition. Trading or giving makes it a relationship
Christina, Vanta founder here.

Very much agree with you about SOC 2 == obvious best practices if done reasonably!

That’s one of the “secrets” of SOC 2: if you speak some compliance, you can make most of the SOC 2 work for you, implementing best practices, getting the rest of the org to prioritize them, etc. (This is what we like about SOC 2 at Vanta: it can turn meaningful, difficult-to-measure security work into high-pri sales collateral.)

If you don’t speak compliance and have a SOC 2 consultant who doesn’t speak engineering, you’re more likely to end up with absurd arguments and bookkeeping (“but you have to use a WAF there’s just no other way!” etc.)
This probably works really well during covid! /s
just goes to show bugs dont matter, whats the penalty after you're rolling in the cash
A fair point, despite the downvotes. The DDR could correctly be described as a one-party state, a totalitarian regime, or a puppet state of the USSR, but not a dictatorship. Some good evidence for this is that you can't (without Wikipedia's help or a very serious background in European history) name a single leader of the state, the dictator.

I don't think this is just a pedantic point. It's good to push back against the labelling of "everything you don't like" with the most convenient wrongthink labels: see the trend towards labeling $BAD_THINGS as communism, terrorism, or more fashionably these days, fascism.
Seems a lot like simpson paradox.
Epik. But I wouldn't necessarily count on them to stay there. Epik hosts thedonald.win, and recently told that site it needs to get its content under control or it will be kicked off [1], so there are limits to what Epik is willing to host.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25808529
Perfect thanks,
Extensions don’t appear unless you go to the develop menu and turn on ‘Allow unsigned extensions’.
Yeah, it sounds like something like this would be perfect? The excitement of the hunt and fresh box opening and then days or months later give it away and begin the hunt anew.
Not taking side on the topic here, just a quick note on the dicatorship classification.

While some folks think a dictatorship requires a single person or small group in charge, it is widespread opinion in Germany, that the GDR was is in fact seen as a "dicatorship by one party", the SED. Mostly (to my understanding) this is based on the lack of separation of powers found in the GDR.

The "dictatorship" question is regulary a topic of more or less philosophical but most certainly emotional debates with each side being sure they are right. I cannot tell the percentage of "dictatorship"/"non-dicatorship" proponents.

(I am no history nerd.)

edit: pls replace "that the GDR was is in fact seen" with "that the GDR is in fact seen" in your mind
> Stay safe

And dilate
EU approves sales of first artificial heart
My impression from reading HN is that innovators of various fields are celebrated. In a lot of cases, the innovators will only be relevant or interesting to a few.
Will Tim Cook kick out Twitter because we can read daily homophobic, racist, hate, etc. messages on that app?
And then you have people storming the Capitol not wearing masks, live streaming their crime, and shouting their name (even politicians did it[0]) We don’t need surveillance when the criminals are already idiots.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derrick_Evans_(politician)
I loved the darker 'dishonored' version
It bothers me too. I've learned that listing something for free on Craigslist attracts the people who will demand they you wait for them to drive 4 hours your way or complain that it's not in perfect condition. But listing a table for $10 instead makes regular people think it's a great deal while filtering out some of the hoarders.
Migrate your channel from YouTube to lbry protocol
And The Irish Rovers just few hours ago premiered their "The Wellerman" lyrics video, filmed in New Zealand, in 1977.[0,1]

[0] https://twitter.com/TheIrishRovers/status/135089392047392358...

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhYPCb4RQDc
Yup, it's mentioned here: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/safariservices/saf....
> scalpers, vultures, and hoarders

But without the negative connotation, because the obligation to give the item away after waiting for an arbitrary period means that if you can't find anybody who wants it, at least somebody will get it who knows how to resell it better than you do, and will thereby deliver it to someone who will enjoy it.

edit: the "I Haul Junk For Free" person serves a function.
Also, it was not published in "Nature", it was published in "Nature Climate Change".

Now "Nature" (the publisher) has many journals, and many of them has a name that starts with "Nature", but they are different journals, with different teams and different qualities. https://www.nature.com/siteindex#journals-N
One thing that is interesting though is that it seems like BTC mining would increase with the price of BTC. If each BTC is more valuable, it becomes more feasible to use more energy on mining rigs. Am I wrong?
I agree with your point on a whole, I do want to add that tamper monkey does indeed work on Safari so you could just add that line of JS there
I remember using povray too. Officially it required a 386 pc but it could be recompiled for 286, which is what I did. My PC had a IIT 2c87 coprocessor that had special 4x4 matrix multiply instructions, so of course I modified povray to take advantage of that.
> Are you implying that the list no longer has a good intention?

Most of the time I run into blocked sites they seem to be blocked because of copyright infringement, not phishing. The only phishing sites I've seen in the last year or so are custom tailored. For example, I had to deal with a compromised MS365 account last year where the bad actor spun up a custom phishing site using the logo, signature, etc. of the victim.

So IMHO the intentions are no longer pure plus the effect is diminished and being worked around.
The IPv6 ULA Registry
> that requires some sort of audience to segment by (typically user id).

You don't have to be logged in to be tracked. Facebook Pixel is one way, via a unique 1x1 transparent image on each page.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_beacon
A DNS record lookup points to ddos-guard.net which provides both hosting and DDOS protection (like cloudflare) and is based in the Netherlands.

I don't think they care much about Parler or free speech for that matter. They might not care much beyond the likely big hosting bill they are being paid. Free market at work, nothing to see here.
Less active the last several years, but it's still around:

http://www.povray.org/

https://github.com/POV-Ray/povray