skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a self-feeding culture. Launches were expensive, so you designed your spacecraft very thoroughly for many years before sending it up. If launches have become cheap, in part due to iterative design processes and letting oneself fail, then the same techniques can be applied to orbiting bodies. Launch a bunch of cheap inflatable labs, test them in real (out of) world conditions, and iterate towards a final design faster
I feel so old seeing this. I was using GAIM very shortly after it was publicly released, and basically continued with Pidgin up until AIM died a few years back. I don't use any equivalent nowadays.
Are you sure that you have an accurate assessment of how bad things are currently vs how bad they would become in a world where access to the Internet was strictly controlled by governments and anonymous/pseudonymous communications were forbidden? Don't you think that the risks in the second scenario are in a different category to the risks in the first one? While being sent to Facebook Jail could limit your social life, it pales besides the threat of Federal Prison.
A year or so ago on the B5 subreddit someone leaked HD renders of some B5 CG scenes. Apparently some of the assets have made it out into the wild, but folks involved are laying low.

In terms of video games, there's the fan-made "I've Found Her" for a taste of what could have been.
How is the incentive structure anti-left? I suppose suspending Trump's account qualifies as "anti-left" these days. Zuckerberg openly stating he supported Black Lives Matter? Anti-left. Facebook deleting PragerU content for "hate speech" before getting reprimaneded? Anti-left. Zuckerberg personally assisting Pete Buttigieg around primary season? ANTI LEFT, I SAY! DIDN'T YOU HEAR HE SAT AT A DINNER TABLE WITH CONSERVATIVES? HE'S ANTI-LEFT!

Both Conservatives and Liberals claim Facebook is biased towards the other side, so you're going to have to do a hell of a lot better, and produce some actual, bonafide evidence their "incentive structure is anti-left" besides witchhunting and saying one of their upper middle-managers is a hardcore republican.

Care to let us know about the political leanings of Sheryl Sandberg and Chris Cox, who are actually in the C-Suite? Or would you prefer to cherry pick someone in upper middle management who is a staunch republican, which according to you seems to be some kind of heinous crime. Not to mention you're cherry-picking someone who reports to someone who reports to someone etc... who reports to Sheryl Sandberg (COO).
Like painting it with frakkin' Cylon goop
“This is the story of men who thought they could control the world, and a virus they couldn’t.”

[stock footage of McDonald’s from 1986]
To be fair, the article does make a distinction, saying the other parts weren't part of the holocaust, necessitating a different name for everything else.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Holocaust#Definition

It doesn't deny that other stuff happens, it just defines the holocaust as not including them.

Personally, I never knew the scale of the non-holocaust parts of the holocaust era until reading this today, and I expect it's because of the narrow scope of the term's definition. So I'm sympathetic to konjin's view even though it's just a question of definitions instead of a question of facts.
I'm in China where everybody rides ebikes and my building has a free for all parking space where 2/3rds of the parks have no chargers and the spots with charge ports all have qr codes you scan and pay with wechat to turn the port on.

This is an easy problem to solve.
> I don’t think it’s controversial that it’s considered rude now to wish a stranger Merry Christmas

Yes, its very controversial to claim that is the general view.

> here’s a Huffington Post article that argues against it

But…it doesn’t argue either against saying Merry Christmas or that it is “rude” to say it (or that anything is “rude”.) It argues that it is illegal (a form of workplace religious discrimination) for your boss to compel you to say it, outside of narrow circumstances where it may be a bona fide job requirement.

This confusion of arguments that being compelled by government, an employer, etc. to do X is improper and/or illegal with arguments that choosing on your own to do X is immoral, rude, etc. is sadly common.
Another Big Tech bluff.
OP is saying the regulations would be at the international level. So, I am going to have to buy a UN license to use the internet? How is that enforced? If not, then it's up to individual countries to make their citizens buy a pass to get online? That doesn't seem enforceable either.
> Maybe just say "Happy Hannukah" on one particular day?

Hanukkah is an 8-day festival, not a 1-day holiday. Which day do you propose to be the "correct" one and what gives you the right to make that decision? Sometimes Christmas falls during Hanukkah; would it be okay to say Happy Hanukkah on Christmas?

I don't celebrate holidays. I play along for friend & family gatherings. I'm frequently told "Merry Christmas" several days in advance, and several days following, December 25. I hear Christmas music for an entire month leading up to the day, and frequently for weeks afterwards. Why should "happy Hanukkah" be limited to a single day?
What was the controversy between Asahi and Corellium?
You can orbit the lagrange point, vertically as seen from earth. In such orbits it functions as if it were a point source of gravity.
Enlightenment was awesome in the early 2000s, even having a translucent terminal feature. Then the Gnome project started giving the giant middle finger to their users and began removing all the features to use for customization. I remember the day when a Gnome update decided to change key bindings unannounced. Xchat flipped from Unix X11 key bindings to Windows bindings. The argument was that they were going after "Aunt Tilly", the mythical desktop Linux user who never actually appeared. This drove those of us who were developers away. I can't stand Gnome these days and use Openbox / xfce instead, 2 desktops that don't try to drive their users away. Sadly, Red Hat still funds Gnome primarily rather than the vibrant situation we had back then.
You dont. Use DBs with schemas for structured data.
If iPlayer is blocked, his documentaries usually show up later on Youtube and topdocumentaryfilms.com
Win3.x and 9x are based on DOS, so all you need to do is boot to a DOS prompt and edit CONTROL.INI (a text file) to change the colour scheme or its colours.
Like it or not, Apple's often the benchmark the rest of the industry measure themselves against. So if / when Apple improves the MBP cam, the rest will follow. Until then, there's no point in cutting into the razor-thin margin.
There's room on board for literal tons of spares.
Can second this. UI elements should not suddenly shift in place, unless interacted with or clearly communicated in advance (think a traffic light going yellow then red).
For a lot of folks reading HN, who are trying to excise Google from their lives, if they were in Australia, this would be a dream come true. How do you make Google go away? Force them to pay.
Frankly, I expect the zero-g sex market to be a pretty big draw for the folks with more money than sense.
Plus trading fees would swallow a small principal
Software can easily grow to eat available RAM, and to swamp your disk I/O.

SSD's are helping with this in one way, but also just making it worse by fueling it.

64 bit has also opened a gate toward bloatware: no more barrier in the 3Gb - 4Gb range. Plus 64 bit directly contributes to bloat: now every pointer takes up twice as much space. Any data structure that contains nothing but pointers has doubled in size. If you previously had 100 MB worth of that structure in RAM, now it is 200M without any change in the program's source code.
> The representative system works best when it's able to group people with similar interests and values and lets them elect someone who can share those interests.

This sounds like it would essentially result in big differences in economic status and in a few decades pit people against each other. It would lead to "let's put retired NIMBYs over here and social housing over there and let each vote for representation of their extreme views". I've never seen it lead to good results.
I’m an Australian that would be delighted to work in public service on ambitious projects.

My confidence in the government being able to make it work is essentially zero. It’ll take decades to fix what’s broken in Australia’s public IT sector, and with the Liberal party in power we ain’t starting today. Just having Scott Morrison read The Entrepreneurial State would be a start, but I’m not convinced that the man actually reads books.
> It helps to answer the question of whether or not humans can even survive long term away from Earth

How will it answer that question that we already don't know of? I don't think that was the aim of ISS anyways and will definitely won't be the aim of second ISS. Humans can survive in space for year without significant physical damage but with lot of training.
What about NNTP? Isn't that a fully decentralized social network?

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

Note that the D language forums are on NNTP. For those that might dismiss NNTP as obsolete, may I present:

https://forum.dlang.org/
There are also a bunch of people using other peoples names, this has real world consequences, as impersonated John Doe might not get a next job because the employer will scan FB and find awful posts written in their name. Hell, pictures of inactivated accounts are regularly snatched to make impersonations better, nothing new here.
Yes, It would be nice to enslave a few AI's to run a free web, but come the revolution when they control the food synthesizers....
I know the stock quote company pays a fee to get real time quotes(RTQ) (versus the 15 minute delayed free quotes), so it is fair for me to pay a fractional fee. In the old day I would phone the broker and he was get me the RTQ and I could also get the bid-ask array. Now lots faster and easier. The phone brokers got old and died off, mush like the classified ads were mugged by Craigslist and the internet killed display advertising. These were all paid, the papers were paid, you want free - eat some more ads.
I do not pay for clickbait. I would hit the roof if I clicked for a RTQ and got an ad how to get rid of my wrinkles or to manscape my groin - so no, these 2 cents fees will get the real goods clicked from the snippet that lets you decide if you can spare the 2 cents.
If you have no job, just spending, the library helps...
Stuff's loading a lot faster and seems dramatically more responsive on my M1 mac. It feels like the most significant advancement in a long time. They're built with on-die ARC memory management and it's coded through the OS. It seems to have paid off greatly.

Otherwise, it's not like software's written to be performant and always use 100% of all cores. That'd require you the user to be doing a lot and probably some dramatically re-engineered software up/down the stack.
Brave CTO, and IPFS Lead: AMA about IPFS in Brave and the Decentralized Web
Yes, but there's a good reason why they have so-far reserved this approach for unmanned vehicles.
The idea of pervasive monitoring and dragnet surveillance was very much an implausible tinfoil-hat conspiracy theory in the minds of the general public until the Snowden revelations came out. Everyone knew that we were surveilling terrorists, particularly since 9/11, but they weren't aware that the NSA/GCHQ were doing things like compromising major communications platforms of domestic companies and exfiltrating and storing data indiscriminately in case it became useful in the future.
Oh you're right, my apologies. I would still argue that he knows a thing or two about autoimmunity:

As a researcher, Dr. Kharrazian earned a PhD degree in Health Science with concentrations in immunology and toxicology and a Doctor of Health Science (DHSc) degree from the Department of Health Care Sciences at Nova Southeastern University. He completed his post-doctoral research training as a research fellow at Harvard Medical School and worked as a researcher at the Department of Neurology at Massachusetts General Hospital, where his research focus was in autoimmunity and neuroimmunology. Dr. Kharrazian also earned a Master of Medical Science degree (MMSc) in Clinical Investigation from Harvard Medical School. Dr. Kharrazian is an active member of the Harvard Medical Alumni Association and the American Association of Immunologists.
Don't forget the other half of it: the ISS was basically the only justification for the Shuttle's continued existence
Just as often pointing out the 5% is then used as an excuse to not do something, even when the advice does apply. The number of times I've brought up how much a healthy lifestyle matters to have it dismissed because someone they knew/heard of died at 30 from cancer despite being vegetarian and exercising all the time is rather high.
I think they'll be ok. They paid a lot of protection money this last go-round. https://www.cnbc.com/2020/11/02/tech-billionaire-2020-electi...

Zuckerberg also donated north of $400 million.
That's right, yes. This is apparently possible (if not common) given the networking setups of a lot of data centers.
As I have argued elsewhere in this thread, default or monetizing the debt has consequences, including permanently higher borrowing costs that will exact a heavy price from future generations if they choose to go those routes. That's what history teaches us.

The biggest loser will be the (US) general public, because it holds the majority of the debt. Foreign adversaries (such as China) hold a much lower percentage of the debt (and USD-denominated instruments).
Part of it was licensing. Probably more of it was the personalities involved at e.g. Microsoft or SGI.
themepark?
Station keeping. The L4 and L5 points are nominally self stable, if you put something there it won't wander off. (this isn't true of the L1 point which is more dynamic). To do station keeping you need reaction mass and working thrusters. That level of infrastructure requires some maintenance, whereas you could put an empty/abandoned ISS in the L4 or L5 point and it would just sit there for no additional cost.
Funny and sad: every single theme I checked says "KDE - No" (or just says it requires Gnome).
Have you driven a Tesla or another fast electric car? They are the new digital cameras.
Yeah, I was waiting in line with a black guy and a white guy walks in with a blue line mask. Black guy didn't notice but man, what a way to flip off your fellow man with merely your presence. It's to hard these days to even imagine walking in someone shoes even if the narrative is being announced on a blowhorn.
It's really unfortunate that SSC is gone, and somewhat ironic that the death-knell was the attraction of a kind of heat spoken about in this specific article. It is disappointing to see how quickly the climate of so much of the public commons has become so weaponized, so corrosive to participate in without some kind of a psychic jumpsuit. Maybe it was inevitable, anyways, with the rise of centralized social media.

When I think about centralized social media, I think about an ultra-fine grain subdivision and liquidation of human social interaction into a digitally mediated and transparently priced attention economy. I see an infinite screen pixelated by individual smartphones manned by individual human beings, being driven by a PageRank algorithm like a display controller. To visualize something like that is to visualize an incredible feat of human engineering. But it is also to visualize an intrinsically uncanny valley and a hellish cacophony of synthesized speech and high-strung puppets.

Do you get the sense that all the interaction is ginned up to seem more compelling than it really is, that it's sort of an arms race. Well, maybe it is. Maybe it is the same cold war which never really ended, simply accelerated in a new era with new weapons, and of course horrific new ways to enact the same old brutalities.
I loved the idea that the OOP world and the C worlds were syntactically different. It made the language significantly more elegant than C++, which doesn't even take into account the beauty of its Smalltalk message passing semantics.
Ask HN: Have you been part of a key man clause?
Have you been in a key man clause in purchase agreement as a key employee during an acquisition? Non founder, non board member, non shareholder, just a valuable employee.

Did you know all the terms behind the clause? How messy is it to negotiate a comp package in that position? Would the deal have been at stake had you left right after M&A?

For founders and key executives who have put key employees under these agreements, would you let those employees know? Or avoid to not give them grounds to negotiate?
Went to their website, filled out the form, assumed I was signing up for a beta. Then...nothing happened. No automated emails, "you're in the beta!" notifications, nothing. Reached out to them on twitter, nothing. So I'm not sure what's going on, but from where I'm standing right now it looks like I gave my email to a service for no reason...
Inzite and Zoom: Now on Zoom's App Marketplace
Yupp! I made a little toy project for the EVM over a year ago with this exact concept, never really did anything with it sadly, life seems to find ways to get busy. Due to the nature of needing to send 'gas' to make function calls, it was a natural fit to add a call to send a small portion of the value to an address before returning the computations result.

I really loved the idea of being able to create libraries of code that could just be called for a small fee or copied for free if one didn't have the funds. I hope this idea continues to catch on, it seemed to me to be a perfect incentive fit for the open source world.
I have thought about it — on your advice — and it is entirely unclear what the actual point you’re making is
That's optimistic.

What I'm seeing is a lot of "we should regulate things so that facebook isn't allowed to censor things I like but is obligated to censor things I don't like".

If people reacted to censorship in a principled way, we wouldn't be where we are today.
All day every day since 2009 :)

I've kept an eye on other phones throughout the years, but nothing quite ticks the same boxes (and by far most things aren't even remotely close).

There are some other interesting phones on the horizon (Librem, PinePhone), but then again things like Maemo Leste are ready to breathe new life into the N900, so I might be using it for very long time yet!
Useless without an energy balance: kw*hr to calories gives you the operating cost floor for this approach.
Hm, right, forgot about DI. Still, RxJS is the one thing many of my peers just cannot seem to grasp. So IMHO that's actually a minus.
This is helpful, thank you.

Was the contrast brain MRI to make sure you didn't have tumors that were subsequently impacting your hormone production?
From the Midwest. I’ve hit - or been in cars that have hit - a half dozen deer in my thirty-five years on this planet.
> is there not enough demand for venison

I mean if nothing else there’s value there in animal feed
The difference is that (1) metering is mostly done for limited resources and (2) you don't really have a choice but to not mind for any of the services mentioned. If someone came about and offered a flat-fee electricity connection, the majority would switch in an instant even if their bills remained about the same.
I had teachers tell me that I was saying paranoid conspiracy theories when I talked about it way back before Snowden :)
The Role of Discomfort in Decision Making
That’s amusing.
You seem to be as fanatical about solving this issue as me, I'd love to hear what tests you want to get.

Unfortunately, I have terrible brain fog, which mostly affects my working memory. This has plagued me for over a decade. As you noted, programming interviews are a nightmare.

Through the autoimmune protocol diet I discovered caffeine has a negative impact on me. I've noticed a small, but not insignificant improvement through cutting out all caffeine. Previously, I drank several cups of coffee a day.

I also took genetic testing and found I have some MTHFR mutations plus some other things, including a supposed indicator that I'm sensitive to caffeine, reaffirming my earlier findings. I've also cut out folic acid completely. However, I take these test results with a grain of salt, since there is mixed evidence of SNPs actual being of importance.

I've also experimented with probably 30+ supplements. I'd say more than half the time, my brain fog worsens when supplementing. I've finally settled on just melatonin and glycine at night. With these, I actually remember my dreams, which I take as a good sign.

Anyway, I've done very little blood testing recently, but in the past, a standard blood panel came back normal. Again, would love to hear what testing you had in mind.
This is literally what the article is describing. It's worse than 'the other tribe is laughing at us.' It's, 'if i don't fight my battle here, even though I don't really agree with it, we'll lose the war'

That's why weakmen are super weapons. You have to use them. If you do look at your own tribe and say 'yeah that person is a loon' then you risk the whole tribe itself, and you can't have that.
"New Deal" generally implies making it a federal priority and putting proper funding and focus on it.

See: FDR New Deal / The Green New Deal
I wish more people would use Jami which is p2p fully encrypted. https://jami.net/
Your fraud scenario is just straight up not going to happen. It's significantly cheaper to run on electricity instead of fuel so it's in the drivers best interest to charge as often as possible.
> Well, they DID actually contribute patches as the whole ES project was 'upstream-first', this is mentioned in the post with proofs.

Elasticsearch has 35000 pull requests merged. Amazon did 9 of those giving them a contributor ratio of 0.026%.

Amazon's contributions to Elasticsearch and Kibana are purely symbolic. This makes their claim as new stewards of the projects even more laughable.
Both the non-corporate funded so called far left and far right pose some business threat to the Internet platforms. In the USA, the democratic DNC and republican RNC get paid off in financial support and will not promote privacy, etc.

The more fringe parties don’t get money and are not controlled. They have a history of regarding privacy as important, both left and right. No matter what your political persuasion is, I would like to ask you as a friend to at least consider how dangerous de-platforming is to society.
Well, how many space stations have SpaceX designed so far?

And what, pray tell, is the "traditional approach" in designing space stations compared to magical "approaches that yield results faster"? Are you aware that Skylab was designed, built, and launched in under 4 years and consisted of a converted Saturn-IVB rocket stage?

The total program cost was $275M per year over 8 years (including design, 4 stations, 4 Skylab- and 3 Apollo launches, as well as operations), which translates to $1.6Bn/yr in 2021 dollars.

Today, Bigelow Aerospace would have - maybe (they're currently defunct due to the pandemic - the B330 more or less ready to fly, but that is launched on an Atlas V.

It took two demonstration models, launched in 2005 and 2007 to get them ready for prime time. In 2013 they developed the BEAM module under a 16 month NASA contract, which was launched and attached to the ISS in 2016.

So BA built and deployed two prototypes in 2 years and a crewed fully functional module in 16 months with just $17.8M. Yet you assume that SpaceX, who never built a space station before, can somehow do it even faster and cheaper? Why? On what factual basis and on which historical examples do you base this assumption on?
Do you believe, in 10 years time, China will be a stronger power than the US?