skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Something that might not be obvious for people not following space flight closely: this was a launch into a polar orbit from Florida. In the past these would have launched from Vandenberg airforce base in California because there is a clear path towards the south from there.
So, how is SpaceX doing that now? They are conducting a so-called „dog leg“ maneuver. This trajectory leads the rocket further out to the east over the ocean before it turns south. This is to avoid to fly over land/populated area. This had not been done in decades if I remember correctly.

More stuff: the first Starlink satellites for polar orbits also launched on this flight. As I understand these were the first ones to have inter-satellite laser links too.

(I can’t imagine what an improvement cheap and high bandwidth satellite Internet must be for stations in Antarctica.)

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1353408098342326276
Users have to make the same choice with any other social media service.
I find it very difficult to stay hydrated with plain water. Even unsweetened tea is much easier for me to drink, and I can drink lots of it's at least lightly sweetened. And it doesn't help that our rural water has a faint bad taste.
>So he’s a scientist.

Yes, not an engineer.
Is anyone else blown away by how fast these M1 MacBooks are?
"better" is subjective and looking at one lens like noise in isolation is faulty.

California stopped having prescribed bans as frequently because they would violate air quality rules and now they have wildfires so intense they need to evacuate heavily populated areas every year. Complaining about freight noise from trains would be a net negative if what you replaced it with was an equivalent amount of trucks, which are far worse for urbanism.
For all the folks commenting "oh, but you can still buy a house for 30,000 in XYZ city" -- no, when calculating inflation you have to compare likes.

If a loaf of bread cost $0.10 in 1950 and now you're like, well a slice of bread in Vietnam still costs $0.10, thats not really a good argument.
For all the folks commenting "oh, but you can still buy a house for 30,000 in XYZ city" -- no, when calculating inflation you have to compare likes.

If a loaf of bread cost $0.10 in the US in 1950 and now you're like, well a slice of bread in Vietnam still costs $0.10, thats not really a good argument.
In my experience, the writing of developer docs is much less important than:

- making it easy to find what I want (good search, helpful table of contents, etc.)

- lots of examples for every method signature or REST call

- complete use-case writeups with runnable examples

If you noticed I said examples multiple times, then I think I've made the point I intended to make.
Related:

"What are the actual differences between Scheme and Common Lisp?"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25895669
There are a couple of comments about it here, but I think this point in the paper deserves emphasis: they say that "well-being rises with income" in the sense that well-being increases linearly with the logarithm of income past $75,000. The logarithm they use seems to be base 2 in Figure 1, so that means a person making $500k is roughly 17% happier than a person making $75k. 20% isn't nothing, but it's not much either. Especially since I think a lot of people in tech can get to ~$100k with a lot less effort than ~$500k.
I'm working on an open-core product [0] right now, and an aspect I find missing in the article is that you can generate trust by showing how the internals work. This is especially beneficial if you work in an area like us. Of course, you need to make sure your license is set right and you need to think about where new features go, but it's a valid use-case.

[0] https://pirsch.io/ open-source core: https://github.com/pirsch-analytics/pirsch
I wish we also had SD card readers we could attach to old IDE or SCSI controllers instead of old hard drives. Given the low speed ancient controllers and CPUs can do IO at a modern microcontroller could probably do any complex mapping without problems.
We don't know how much those reactors cost to build then (it was mixed with the military nuclear program and the paperwork I understand does not exist to disentangle the spending). They are cheap now because they are not being charged for the cost of their construction. We do know that France cannot afford to replace them now; new reactors would be far out of the running economically.
That $163K house in 2000 at 8% mortgage rate cost you $1196 in principal and interest.

That $324K house in 2020 at 3% mortgage rate costs you $1366 in principal and interest. (assuming 100% financed, decrement both amounts as you see fit)

That's only a 14% increase in monthly payment over 2000, while general inflation has increased by 56% over that same time (all using your figures above, with the exception of researched mortgage interest rates for 30-year fixed mortgages). I'm not saying it's not hard now, but it wasn't easy then either. Life has pretty much always been a struggle for most people.
Your statement is illogical on several levels.

This is not a tertium non datur situation.

If donating money is ‘neutral’ then not donating money is ‘neutral’.

I’m not joining the discussion on whether or not this is a charitable act, just pointing out (since this is HN) inconsistencies.
Hot summers. Well, yes. It's Texas. I saw 113F one time.

High cost of pool maintenance & landscaping. Most people scoop their own leaves out & add chemicals. Also, xeriscaping is a thing so you don't have a $500 water bill.

Rude people, bad drivers. Got to give him the bad drivers part. But I rarely met anyone rude. He should have tried being friendly & waving first. "How y'all doing today?" works almost every time.
Land is not cheap in many places
http://archive.is/jdrZd
Seriously... a zen master who reprimands doesn't sound very zen. :)
I have written a quite detailed explanation of this here: http://roguetemple.com/z/hyper/dev.php
This really is a classic tragedy of the commons issue that requires government intervention of some form. We have to put a price on fossil fuel externalities and push alternatives. Markets are short term optimization engines and can’t price in what they can’t “see.”

Market fundamentalism is the doppelgänger of dogmatic Marxism and is no better.
Ok sure, how much does that cost? First we need to invent the tech, and find a zone that is stable and won't leak, and we have to be super-duper sure of it, then you need to transport the dry casks there and lower them into the mantle.

But the facility still needs armed guards "forever" so that terrorists or rogue states can't go and get some radioactive magma and use it as a weapon.
> RawTherapee… gives little guidance as to what's best for what

Not sure about that. RawPedia is chock full of information relevant to pre-production (calibration, etc.), photography and post-production techniques, along with advice on development tool usage. I’ve learned a lot from it, which will stay with me even if I move away from software itself. It’s one of those tools with educational documentation that doesn’t just explain what the tool does but actually teaches a lot about the problem domain (similar to docs for DCamProf, which has the same maintainer).

> RawTherapee can edit jpegs and tiffs. Filmulator only edits raws.

Most software can consume DNG but almost nothing, except for camera firmware, can produce it. RT’s ability to edit 16-bit TIFFs output means it can participate in diverse workflows with other raw processors.

(For example, I use Siril to combine multiple exposures, and then can still apply a RawTherapee profile with all the numerous curves, Lab, film emulation, CIECAM and other power tools that get my pixel data into output-referred image state. Of course, some controls behave differently with a 16-bit TIFF than when a DNG image, but it’s not that difficult to adjust to that.)

Filmulator, on the other hand, can’t be used other than at the very beginning of the workflow, which takes away from its flexibility.

That said, RT sort of stands alone so far, and more open-source software that can compete with it can only be appreciated as far as I, a happy user, am concerned.
There is an NY&A freight facility for trash loading in LIC. It was part of the Bloomberg administration's push to stop landfilling trash locally and take it out of the city in an environmentally friendly way.
Based on your username I’m assuming you’re around NYC. My wife is from West Islip on Long Island and faced a similar quandary as she was coming of age. $2000 a month to rent a crappy apartment in the mid 2000s, so she moved out to the Kansas City metro area. We bought a 2200 square foot house in the suburbs that cost us $245,000 just a few years ago, maybe $300,000 now.

I’d say the stop-the-rat race mentality is to move to a smaller city, unless you’re literally working on Broadway or some job that’s uniquely tied to a large city, there’s plenty of jobs and lots of space out in flyover country.
There is actually a very significant and large cultural symbiosis between Brazil and Japan with quite a bit of travel and interbreeding between them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazil%E2%80%93Japan_relations

> Now, more than 1.6 million Brazilians are of Japanese descent, making Brazil host to the largest Japanese community outside Japan. At the same time, Japan is host to the third largest Brazilian population, most being of Japanese origin.

There are quite a few Japanese citizens now living in Japan that grew up in Brazil, and have one or two Brazilian parents and speak Portugese as well as Japanese.
This is a naive view. Most companies try to limit or restrict the scope of what they must open source. With the GPL, depending on the version, how the code interacts with your project (static linking, dynamic linking, IPC, etc.) you may or may not have to release your code under the same license.

In particular Google's strong anti-AGPL stance has caused a chilling effect for adoption of AGPL projects at companies, hence why commercial licensing is frequently an option.

Finally, you can believe whatever you want, but ultimately it's the lawyers who decide, and your ass (assuming you're an IC) isn't the one on the line when shit hits the fan. Lawyers don't like GPLv3 and they don't like AGPL.
Your reasons apply equally well to the phone industry before the iPhone came out.

Apple could easily do this...
Similar here, my 5 year old laptop doesn't support it. I'm willing to accept lower performance if a nonaccelarated software route could be made to work
Ask HN: Python repo for abstractive summarization anyone?
I noticed that I don't read the entire news article anymore. I look for most important details, but they are scattered and not always crisp. I have looked around for APIs and toolboxes. They aren't at par with what ML stacks (NLP/BERT/Deep Learning) has to offer. Can anyone suggest what is the best package/tool/API to do summarize news articles, say in 5 bullet points.
The Racket distribution comes with several languages.
You were probably using the socalled teaching languages, which are small subsets of real Racket. Using a subset of the real language allows better and more beginner friendly error messages.

The real Racket language is a general purpose language with all the bells and whistles you could ever imagine.
Building new stuff, learning a lot, arguing on HN, honestly the same as before haha
I always see FOSS to get super fast traction (Elastic) and userbase - hey, because its free - and then later the same people complain that their lunch got stolen. Elastic could have grown (or not) organically with closed source software but that's hard without community help and being able to hire top developers to build your product. FOSS seems like a great way to market/PR your name out there because free is popular. I compare this, perhaps not perfect analogy, to Uber. Offer cheap rides, gain popularity while burning investor cash and wipe out existing industry/competition. Then, investors complain they can't monetize it. No shit! In the case of Elastic, the rest of the world benefited from it atleast.
Your website was way faster on mobile data, kudos.
It's cheap in most places.
GPL variants are more defensible but make open-source-as-a-marketing-tool way less effective. Developers know they can't use GPL software for work, and OSS companies need them to use tooling at work so they become leads.
Yeah, but you're comparing a house in the city to a house in flyover country. If you want to make a good comparison, i'd say --

What was the median price of a home in the US in 1980 vs 2020. Then, what was the median salary in the US in 1980 vs 2020. Thats the real comparison.

No reason to note that houses are still cheap in some far off country, thats not really a convincing argument.
I don't have much hope for Bluesky.

Twitter could re-enable RSS if they really wanted to show that their interest was genuine.
Yes, the immediate problem I see with this new study is that it presents the relation between happiness and income as almost linear, which is, on the face of it, almost unbelievable at lower income levels. Can you really believe that going from dirt poor to OK doesn't make more difference than going from very rich to very, very rich? I myself can't without further evidence. I can believe there is no plateau as such, but a linear progression requires explanation.
I have worked for several years with WordPress. Everything you say is true if the devs are incompetent. Then yes, the variety of ways one can shoot themselves in the foot and completely dead with the system is astounding. I have seen horrible wp installations galore myself.

However that is not fault of the tool itself. There is nothing preventing a competent dev or small team to set up staging and qa environments, a ci pipeline if they are so inclined, write proper tests, be discriminating in the plugins they install and the quality of code they write. And the start threshold for the system is incredibly low, the fact that so much boilerplate functionality is _already there_ saves a lot on development costs and allows you to focus on functionality that really matters.

TL;DR if your wp installation is bad, it's not wordpress, it's you.
Yeah it's enjoyable, there's really no need for anyone to have this much money.
>phone service was inexpensive

Maybe in your very local calling area--not actually sure what local phone bills were like--but long distance, even to a few towns away in the same state were very expensive. Today, I could probably call London from the US (just using my regular domestic plan) for less than I could have called Boston 40 miles to the east in inflation-adjusted dollars in 1970.
Although I am an advocate of the “just say hi” school of IM, your message above is a constructive way of explaining how you’d like me to interact with you.
What part of "this assumes a breeder reactor" did you not understand?
The first one of these videos is not about non-Euclidean geometry, though.

There are many cool 2D and 3D non-Euclidean games already existing and several cool new projects in development, see: https://medium.com/@ZenoRogue/non-euclidean-geometry-and-gam...
Lovely landing page – there seems to be a sudden abundance of google analytics alternatives by small teams and indie hackers in the last year, any insight into why that is?
Refurbed Thinkpad/Latitudes, spec it out to the max (RAM, storage) with the leftover money. It would still come out to less than $1200.
Normally, I’d agree, but I think a seismic shift in the industry warrants some patience.

If you can’t wait, this is sound advice. However, if you can, it’s likely worth it, on this rare occasion.
Here's the doodad:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B08Q7V4V4L?ref=ppx_pt2_mob_b_...
Good lane keeping and collision avoidance could be a lifesaver in some situations. Same for having other driver assistance features like good adaptive cruise control and auto-steering - long trips can be less fatiguing when the car is driving itself most of the time.
> Would your experienced well-being have been higher in 2008 with half-million in income?

Probably not by much. All I really wanted was a basic place to live, enough food on the table, and a reasonable expectation that that'd continue into the future. My job was already doing what I would do for fun beforehand.

"Would your experienced well-being in 2020 be lower if you were making $100K/yr?"

Yes, because those things - food & housing security - are increasingly precarious on $100K/year now. You can still live on $100K/year in the Bay Area, but you're a couple years of rent increases from being priced out, and forget homeownership.
Well, cars can park (and stay parked most of the time). Cars generally do not go offroad.

Also, cars do not go 8 km/s (30 Mm/h, 17k mph). That really compensates the actual satellite size. And a single debris can ruin your day at these speeds.
This has no relevance to parent's issue: how to avoid reads that cause expensive page faults when writing to a file-backed page.
Boring doesn't work if the solution you've picked has flaws that the new technology addresses out-of-the-box.

You'll constantly get into arguments about why we're not deploying the new upcoming thing that obviously fixes the issue.

At some point you'll need to switch over anyways, its better to get production battle experience by trying the new tech early and rolling it out where it makes sense.

It avoids internal factions and the "shadow infrastructure" that was mentioned.
The Supreme Court can and does severely constrain or expand what the writing is interpreted to actually apply to - you see this all the time around 1st, 2nd, 5th, 10th US amendments. In theory, a whole amendment could be neutered or nuked that way.
This is a small point to argue. Even if you choose to distribute your source on-demand by CD in an envelope with postage stamps on it, the next logical step is for a customer to just put that code on github. So, what then is the difference?

Putting it on github (or a zip file on your website) is less of a hassle.
Lose your job, lose your income. That happens increasingly frequently as the pace of change heats up in various industries.
Earn money without invest 20 us par day
Less demographically challenged countries are not a renewable resource. The chickens will come home to roost at some point. Sure you can bet on someone else doing the work to mitigate that problem but a lot of people are doing just that and leaving these problems untended and unsolved. Progress and easy living are not inevitable, everyone has to put the work in for things to continue improving.
I would also point out that there is an endless stream of oil-field brines and related contaminated waters available for processing should anyone want to have a continuous source of raw material.

The industry, in its never-ending quest to monetize waste products or to place the cleanup burdens on someone else (the public usually) is currently trying to get Texas to agree to allow pumping of these highly contaminated wastes into aquifers.

Any time you produce oil or gas you always produce some waste water with it. Volumes will vary from well to well depending on a lot of variables unique to a field or a well. This water, or most of it, is not all water from production if I read the article correctly, a lot of it is flow-back water from the fracking process. That means it is not water that would normally be reinjected to help maintain formation pressures to allow continued production. It is water pulled from public and private potable water supplies including, lakes, aquifers, etc. This water should have been reserved for human consumption or for use in farm or ranch maintenance.

T Boone Pickens set in motion the whole idea of gathering rights to large volumes of water and selling it to users far from the source. This really set the stage for the massive over-use of public water in fraacking in the Permian Basin and other related areas that saw a large fracking boom.

The potable water is gone now, polluted by the O&G industry, and now they want to be able to just put it back where they found it and let God sort out the contaminants. Disgusting really.

But, it sounds like a great opportunity for someone operating in the water treatment space to test and validate options for wastewater treatment and for recovering chemical and mineral contaminants from non-potable water.
Personally, in the context of fully autonomous self driving cars, I can’t see how ownership would make any sense any more. If the car can drive itself off to find a charging station somewhere densely packed and leave the streets free of any parked cars, imagine how much space would be reclaimable.

I see how it would take a shift in mindset, but the liberation that I think would come with the freedom for the car that drives you to your destination not needing to be the same one that drives you home... I think that’s revolutionary.
> Whether or not WFH+regular get togethers is a good solution depends on the organization and its dynamics. But it absolutely can make a big difference.

Agreed. I'm hoping this does become the new normal, but it is a difficult balance to strike for leadership. There are different types of personalities, lifestyles, and life stages within any employee base, and there absolutely is a human need for connection even at work, which for some people can only be found in their specific circumstances in physically going butt-in-seat.
This feels right - the benefits of living in the city were always more about being close to other people for nightlife etc than being near the office anyway. Most people always did leave central London/NYC/etc in their 30s when they start a family - Covid may have temporarily changed some people's plans but I do think it's temporary.

But office space in major cities is looking pretty vulnerable I think. Moving from planning space based on everyone spending 5 days a week in the office to planning based on work from home 2/3 days per week on average allows you to give workers more space per head (for their days in the office) while also still using less space in total and saving money - it's a win/win. Not everyone will do this but it will be widespread enough to make a real difference I suspect. There will be knock on impact to that in all the businesses which serve office workers too. And eventually it probably feeds into a change in the mix between office space and residential which could (via more supply) put some downward pressure on residential rents.
I assume this is somebody (possibly harishv7) who is just testing the market to see if anybody would by this. But as stefanmichael pointed out, there is no reason why anybody would need to buy this. There doesn't seem to be anything here that is unique and not freely available, with the support of a community of developers already working on it.

If I'm wrong, please let me know, but I'd suggest if you're going to take this approach, ask yourself why somebody would use (and pay for) whatever you're thinking of building, instead of what is already out there. Then, tell us what that is! Because that doesn't seem to be on the page.
This would have applications in video compression as well...
It is HN, part of YC after all, so you'd expect to see a higher percentage than most who have large amounts of wealth through startup related exits, like me. On other fora, probably not.
Digital information written directly into cells’ genomes using CRISPR
And the answer is yes.
This is reminiscent of anti-scraping lawsuits: "you may only access LinkedIn using the LinkedIn web application; it is a violation to access it using curl". Ironically, Google's position in that regard is likely to bite them here, where someone else wants to use unconventional clients.
I am interested in LISP-type languages, but I have a serious case of decision paralysis.

GNU Guile? Common Lisp? Clojure (JVM)? Racket? Judging by my understanding of the difference between Common Lisp and Scheme, I think I am more of a Scheme type (I prefer C over C++, I like Go more than Java, etc).
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