skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
None. If you want a heavier satellite you simply have to pay proportionally more to launch it. Nobody outside of government agencies comes anywhere close to the maximum load of a single super heavy launch, and even that "battleship" approach to satellites is giving way to smaller devices. So the mass isn't really the limiting factor, rather it is cost. Doubling of launch weights for a price, being able to launch at a 50% discount, won't result in any spectacular technology. What will happen is that big communication satellites will be given large fuel tanks, longer service lives, that ironically might reduce the number of needed launches of large satellites to geostationary orbit. NASA will be able to more cheaply explore the solar system. While people wanting to launch on the cheap will benefit, they generally won't have the funds to push any technological boundaries.
Are there any good alternatives to the big three? I'm looking to build out a platform with as little dependence on Google/MSFT/Amazon as possible.
You have to fail to move forwards. A lack of failure is a sign of a lack of trying anything new.

Hasn’t SpaceX proved that?

The negative commentary around this seems a little in contrast to how we’d talk about a SpaceX “failure” on HN.

I know NASA and SpaceX are very different, but Elon is the king of drifting deadlines too. And SpaceX do fail, but they do a good job of “owning their failures” and they keep moving forwards.

Should we cut the NASA team a bit of slack?

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.

NASA is big, wasteful, bureaucratic yes, but they are changing, slowly... and this “failure” is not the stick I’d choose to beat them with.
What most people do is get a seedbox, and source via torrent to the seedbox, and ftp to your D drive = free but illegal, except for the annual seedbox cost.
Dozens of seedboxes.

Or you could buy it as needed via stream subscription?
Papers-with-Video – Chrome Extension to Add Video Summary Icon to ArXiv Papers
Touch Bar is interesting - it's really nifty, but I feel like touch typists hate it, and non touch typists love it.

My personal totally long shot wish is that Apple would switch to an ortholinear keyboard (because everyone else will do it too then).
Take a look at some of the “worst” new cars you can buy. The ones with no options. They still have power windows, air conditioning, fuel injection. If you grew up in the 70s and 80s it’s like a miracle that all cars have those things now.
I feel like Kuo has been subject to a honeypot.

I don't think there's any reason to bring back old ports or magSafe. I can totally understand getting rid of the touch bar though - but I don't even expect that to actually happen.

Given how long the god awful butterfly keyboard persisted, I don't expect these less awful feature (and some, like USB-C, is positive) to go.
Thanks for the info.

As more carmakers offer completive battery electric vehicles, maybe Tesla's more subtle deficiencies will garner more criticism.

The wipers and lack of Carplay/Android Auto seems to be a universal complaint. I can't think of any mainstream cars that start over $30K and don't offer Carplay or Android Auto.
CDPR pays its junior developers $700/month
Ysk Google play audiobooks can be downloaded without DRM. audible books are protected but are very easy download and convert to mp3
I've done pretty extensive work in all three major cloud providers. If you were to ask me which one I'd use for a net new project, it would be GCP -- no question. Nearly all of their services I've used have been great with a feeling that they were purposefully engineered (BigQuery, GKE, GCE, Cloud Build, Cloud Run, Firebase, GCR, Dataflow, PubSub, Data Proc, Cloud SQL, goes on and on...). Not to mention almost every service has a Cloud API, which really goes a long way towards eliminating the firewall and helps you embrace the Zero Trust/BeyondCorp model. And BigQuery. I can't express enough how amazing BigQuery is. If you're not using GCP, it's worth going multi-cloud for BigQuery alone.

But there is something to be said of AWS. Their SDKs are complete and predictable, their APIs are very fast and consistent, and AWS IAM, while having a steep learning curve, never leaves you guessing around what your principals have access to. For me, the real challenge with AWS has been introducing multiple AWS accounts. Governance just flat out sucks when you begin to scale past a handful of accounts (but it is getting better).

Azure on the other hand, has terrible consistency issues between their APIs, their SDKs are awful, and it just feels like the entire product is an extension of the MCP System Administrator persona of old, where it's expected that someone's job will be sitting in front of a UI and clicking around to get things done (the whole blade thing with their portal has to be one of the worst user experiences I've ever seen). However, I do like their Logic Apps, and Azure Policy with auto remediation (when it works as advertised -- ref API consistency and how long it takes for things to propagate through their system) has tons of potential. But they still have a ways to go before I'd consider it for my workloads.
huh, even better, although guess I'm behind the times.
Until keys become cloneable they will never gain popularity.

Nobody wants to re-setup every site ever because they lost their laptop that they kept it plugged into, so they won't. either this means using their backup until they lose it without even revoking the original and then swearing off the entire concept while telling all their friends to do the same, or just not using hardware tokens after the first lost of keys.

Also the "back up code" they will also get, guess where thats going! save as -> downloads or print2pdf -> downloads.

When it comes to personal account security by end users, hardware tokens will never take off, and this is why they get so much hate.

There is a real problem here that really needs to be really solved, wrt to end users and phishing/hack resistant credentials, and as long as we legitimize the lie that yubikey solves it, we gimp progress towards actually solving it.
They should really just sell both version, I bought the new mac air precisely because it doesn't have a touch bar.
makes sense, disrupting an existing industry then been frugal is great and yes definitely sustaining over a period of time is the key.
They are using "outpaces" to talk about performance, not market share. AWS remains a gorilla there. Especially if you net out Gsuite and O365.
The narrative can even make Gandhi’s killer a hero if it so wishes.
Yes, that’s generally why companies don’t like leaks around new product announcements..
That was an interesting read. Thanks. I'm not sure how the linked article expresses more than an alternate translation, though. It says that benei doesn't "necessarily" translate to sons, which doesn't rule out the translation but merely suggests an alternative. The word elokim also refers generally to God, as it says, but can be translated differently. It's an interesting alternative, but the claim that the translation "sons of god" is specifically wrong only seems to be based on the declaration of a single earlier source.

> It gets passed around as legit probably because it enforces the idea that Christ is a son of God.

I've never heard of that before. Not sure where you would have, or how it even does reenforce that idea.
> I’m not a moderator, but I ask you to please try to better further the discussion with future comments.

Please don't go there. You're both adding to the discussion, maybe some strong words here and there, but this turn of phrase you used is a huge conversation destroyer.
>The great thing about Emacs is that everything is a buffer[...]

It frustrates me endlessly that this one simple, almost self-evident piece of Emacs wisdom failed to gain traction almost everywhere else. Even the venerable Vim drops the ball hard here, with the various "widgets" it uses in its interface which have slightly different semantics and behaviours.

Every time I get a shitty modal with some text I can't copy paste, every time I have a crappy edit box lacking basic editing capabilities, every time I get some large text dump I can't search through with normal editing commands, every single time that happens I pray to the altar of RMS for him to smite the heathens and bring us to the age of enlightenment.
> They are inefficient and conflated machines - two things that tend to be contradictory with software engineering.

They are a monitor with some processing ability, and we ask Apple to push ergonomics to the max.
IBM, if you're feeling lucky
Note that intel has always excluded “turbo” from the tdp and amd switched to doing so with the zen2 rollout (and continues now). I don’t know if apple does the same or not.
Mine is a newsletter that I send out each week highlighting a few curated articles from my site that were published the previous week.

So not specifically a newsletter business, but we have a lot of subscribers who primarily interact with our content based on this newsletter so it is an important part of our business.

We have some advertising in it which more than covers the cost of producing it.
Android FRP is also bypassed by various tricks like this. (usually involving starting Talkback, going into help, there clicking on YouTube video, clicking something to open browser...etc)
English does whatever the hell it wants, doesn't it
I would define it as a positive feedback loop that is a mix of authenticity, energy, personality, desire, boldness, desire and will. There is perhaps a better word for it, but generally a person that exemplifies some of the strongest characteristics of human life as instinctively recognized by humans themselves.

As a corollary, such people tend to be naturally charismatic, but I would venture that this is a direct consequence of their other traits. One arresting definition of charisma I have heard is that it is a measure of how much you can delineate yourself as an entity in the world and how you can use that to affect reality. Life-affirmation and a zest for living draw directly into that.

Note that I don't necessarily include intellectual brilliance in the equation, though it obviously helps.
> It appeared to during the civil rights movement. I'd like to know what is different about this?

Support for a political group is a choice, skin colour isn't
Coinbase unlikely to do an exit scam?

You mean IPO?
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/coinbase-ipo-will-be-controve...
Funny I have been thinking about this a lot lately as a small company CEO who is looking for hungry people who want to learn. I might just start this if I can get my lazy butt to do a bit more outside of the business. If you think about it, it could be a win win for both parties. I get to mentor people and whoever seems to be the person I would like to hire, I hire them (unless of course they go to another employer :)).
> Even the iPhone 11 is USB-A

Not sure what you mean - the iPhone 11 is Lightning, which is usually plugged into a charger not a laptop. I doubt many people plug their phones into the laptops anymore - syncing has been done over wireless for many years now.
dissolving relations with Russia, china increasing space capabilities, and few if any western friendly country capable of preserving western allies space interests means US investment and ramp up. the only other capable space program to fill the void and protect western allies interests is the EU, except they are farther behind and are showing no interest, and instead are insistent that there is little need and that china and Russia will never even dream of restricting access or hindering space activities.
I agree and I’ve come to the conclusion that the highest moral purpose any intelligent beings can aspire to is to broadcast the information “You Are Not Alone!” by any means available.
Amazing how ethics (especially around software freedom) are shunned on "hacker" news.

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

[edit: let's the downvote fest begin...]
The Muse (YC W12) Is Hiring a Senior Designer
The big problem for me is trust. I don’t care what the feature set or performance is; I don’t trust Google enough to bet a business on it. And I’m not even worried about Google being malicious; I’m worried about them being mercurial and changing/removing things I need without warning.
I get what you're saying, but is a hospital likely to employ a surgeon without a degree in medicine?
Doom 3 holds up pretty well actually. People revisiting it via YouTube with the original game often disagree because of an unfortunate bug that causes the image_downsize variables to increment, so despite cranking the settings in the menu the texture settings are at minimum. As far as either the player or viewers is concerned since the setting is at max that's just how the game must have looked.. It further contributed to the falsehood that BFG Edition looked 'better'. It can be fixed with an autoexec but Dhewm3 fixes it.

If you want to scrape back some of that nostalgia you could replay Goldeneye in 1964 GEPD. It boils down to being an emulator that overclocks the emulated hardware to brute force 60 fps.. framerate being the biggest problem with these old N64 shooters. Other things like adjustable field of view, properly hooked and responsive mouse/keyboard support make for a slick experience. It trivializes 00 Agent mode but playing in 007 Mode and turning up the enemy AI accuracy and response times can drastically even things out. The emulator can do the same stuff for Perfect Dark too, though that game at least has the remaster on Xbox that is quite solid.
Most of these threads mention excellent technology, but piss poor product management.
There is sadly still new code written which uses the old API. I just inherited code from 2019 which uses the old text me API.
I don't follow? I wasn't implying that this is a good thing, or that it makes tech people special, and certainly not that it makes them superior.

Edit: here's an xkcd more relevant to what I meant: https://xkcd.com/309/
Russian surnames have gender. So a female surname would be Isaeva, but the male Isaev.

English writers that want to avoid what happens to a Russian family name when involving several members (it's complicated) take the smart way out and do it like this:
"after the Isaev family relocated" [1] https://theamericanreader.com/4-june-1855-fyodor-dostoevsky-...

But the reviewer at the guardian (or is it the writer of the book?) goes for "When the Isaevas moved" when writing about husband and wife. If you can't get the surnames right, how much trust should a charitable reader extend towards the review?

If you stumbled across "Hemingway she wife" in an essay on Papa's love life biography, instead of "Hemingway's wife" how much trust would that carry?

Source: I first read the D-dude at nine years of age, in the original, and then went back to him on multiple occasions. What a downer. Also, genius. I prefer Pushkin, the only optimist of Russian literature, but you gotta respect Dostoevsky: how much ahead of the time his realism was, and what an influence he left. And then lots of people simply enjoy his work. If you haven't read "Crime and punishment", strongly recommended.

As for his love life, I read many opposing viewpoints, but I prefer to limit my judgement to the work, not the person. Too messy. Unreliable sources.
Oracle Cloud if you want to relive the nineties.
Plus, iPhones already support webauthn via Face ID, and I assume MacBooks will support it via Touch ID at some point.
For those interested, this is a much longer but also much more in-depth read on the issue: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/12/09/blood-and-soil...

(Beware, previous posts on this topic have been brigaded on HN and Reddit. At least HN makes it somewhat easy to spot in the discussion.)
Disappointed but not surprised when reading this. To be really honest, I can't remember the last time I read something that criticized so called "techbros" and actually said something reasonable.

As for the U2F devices, the idea of just leaving them in, the small yubikeys and all that, seem to just be a bad idea from the get-go.
But that is the whole point, they managed to get the system to an undesireable final state {create new user}. The narrator should be part of the validation.
To me, it depends on the language. An IDE helps a lot with verbose languages that have somewhat complicated environments or runtimes. Like Java. I can fly with VIM and Perl though.
Agree, I just imported all my 2F secrets from andOTP, which worked great. Having biometric access and a working cloud backup just makes it that little bit more accessible so it's actually a pleasure to use.

I also love that it has an option for a super-compact view. The default one takes up way too much space.

It's perfect, just donated a few beers to the author as well. You can do so, too: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/beemdevelopment
https://github.com/caseykneale/how-to-exit-vim

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Coming from a place where search warrants do have be executed with the oversight of the owner or their representative, police would still expect to enter without delay.

In a situation like this there may be a pause until the owner or lawyer arrives, but during that pause the people would not be permitted to be in the to-be-searched location without police supervision; the owner has the right to supervise police while they are searching, but they don't have any privacy right to do stuff there before letting the police in; if the lawyer's presence is required then whoever is in that location would let the police in and wait for the lawyer together with the police officers with neither doing anything until the search commences. If noone is present, then the police may seal the door while they wait for the owner or their representative to arrive; or, alternatively (e.g. if the owner is on the run), there is a process to recruit neutral witnesses from the community, e.g. having your neighbours supervise the search and sign off on what was taken out during the search.
I don’t mind failure and I understand there are going to be setbacks. I just wish they would fail faster. I love NASA and all they’ve done but 10 years of SLS without a launch makes me doubt this thing will ever get off the ground. With a new administration, I feel like we’re one setback away from the whole thing being cancelled.
Actually: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_speech_in_the_Unite...

> Freedom of speech, also called free speech, means the free and public expression of opinions without censorship, interference and restraint by the government.

You're welcome to check how the principle of free speech is protected in other democracies as well. I think you'll find it's largely the same: it's about government interference, not the freedom to say whatever you want within any business.

> My very first comment was not about Parler but in general. Which you keep misunderstanding.

No, your first comment was implicitly comparing the content of the article this thread is based on -- which is about Parler -- with the ACLU defending Nazis marching in the streets.

Which is an absurd comparison that ignores the historical definition of free speech.
It's no substitute for reading the code for a useful bit of software, but I always like to head over to https://learnxinyminutes.com/ to check out the short code examples/overviews to get a feel for a language.
My values certainly informed my decision when I last purchased forks. My values are that the design should lean towards minimalism over overt decoration, that they should have appreciable weight, and be likely to last a lifetime.

I could have saved a few dollars by getting those really cheap forks you see that are obviously just stamped out of sheets of steel, but cheapness wasn't one of my values. Instead I got forks that have never bent, or rusted, or tarnished, or shown any signs of wear in almost a decade of use. Plus they feel nice in the hand, they look good, and they don't have flowers or birds carved into the handle or any of that nonsense. It was also a nice bonus that I found them at a Target a mile from where I live. I hate shopping, so that satisfied a tertiary value by not making me visit a lot of stores.

It's the same with editors. Most people value price above all else, so there's no business in selling editors any more. Back in the day I used a rather nice commercial editor called VEdit. My Dad must have bought it, because at that age I never would have. It had a ton of features, and came with an inch-thick printed manual. I don't recall how extensible or introspectable it was (I was 12 at the time, and didn't care about such things), so probably it wouldn't satisfy my values today. On the other hand, it satisfied (or cultivated) values that I didn't even know at the time that I had. When I discovered VEdit's hex-editor, I started using it on everything. I explored how file names were stored in directory entries. I hex-edited some games to change their messages. I learned quite a lot from those sorts of things, so I'd say that it was money well spent.

But you're correct in saying that editors are not alive, and cannot themselves have values. However, the people who develop the editor certainly do have values, and those values affect the choices they make when they write code. If those values are similar to your own values, then the developers of the editor will make similar choices to the ones you would have made if you had been developing the editor. Thus, the editor will fit you well.
Developer Relations: decoding the what, why and how of DevRel hype
I wanted to disagree with the headline. Then I read the article and do see their point.

I’ve been a big proponent of Signal for years and donated for the first time during their outage.

But I do think this is a conversation worth having.

I’d also like to understand more about this:

> In fact, the Signal server code [0] hasn’t even been updated since April 2020. You’re telling me it’s undergone no changes?

[0]: https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Server
it is more of team building & family time means the employee and company in itself is a family and that makes the difference for the outings for employees, trusted vision-driven folks out relaxing and enjoying in between the work. This definitely has a great impact on team morale.
For companies and groups, organizations that want to replace the functionality of Slack, self-hosted Matrix (using the official Synapse software package) is becoming an increasingly viable option.

https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/tree/master