skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Simulations of certain things are still a problem today, even though less than it was in 1960-s. For example, trans-sonic aerodynamics is still hard. I'd imagine a good simulation of Raptor's inner flow when Starship does active maneuring can be a problem, especially if you also need to take into account material properties under dynamic loads.
The Nedelin catastrophe was an ICBM test run of a rocket with hypergolic fuel that exploded on the launch pad; there was the 1980 launch pad explosion of a (military) sattelite launcher that killed 44 people and injured 43. The Russian version of the article says that hydrogen peroxide filters were produced with catalytic materials, this was later fixed after another launch almost failed in the same manner (it doesn't say how that blast was avoided), initially they suspected an action of the ground crew to have causes the blast in 1980. Both blasts were kept secret until Perestroika in 1989. both explosions were on rockets with hypergolic fuel.

The Russian wikipedia article also has a list of 'other failures' - these are fires in an ICBM silo in Russia in 1960 - eight dead; the US had a fire in a Titan II bunker in 1965 that killed 53 and another one in 1980 that killed one man; also Brazil had a fire of a liquid fueled rocket that killed 21, also on start preparations. (and another blast in Plesetsk in 1973 that killed seven http://www.plesetzk.ru/index.php?p=1973&d=doc/disaster - wikipedia doesn't list everything)

Rocket fuel can be very dangerous stuff! At least liquid methane/oxygen aren't hypergolic.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1980_Plesetsk_launch_pad_disas... https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%B0%D1%82%D0%B0%D1%81...
Untrue, rupert hates microsoft and currently uses gsuite extensivly for newscorp
To use a more modern example, this seems akin to saying that, when someone is falsely convicted of a crime and is imprisoned as a result, appealing their judgment with fresh eyes and consequently acquitting them is "rewriting history." Yes, this example involves a living person, but that doesn't seem specifically relevant to your concern of "rewriting history." The entire act of pardoning someone is reversing a small fraction of the results of a prior action, not pretending that the prior action never happened.
I'm not trying to convince you, I just wanted to answer your question. I don't think it's possible to convince you in the space of one comment, and if it is, I'm not the one to do it. This is a centuries-old argument with absolutely no expert consensus that seems to get more difficult the more you study the issue.

If you want an easy to read modern political argument you can read Break Em' Up by Zephyr Teachout. If you want a more academic approach I would look up the syllabus of an antitrust course and read some court cases, but different syllabi will probably give you wildly different conclusions. Supreme Court cases from a couple decades apart will give you different conclusions. As I said earlier, there is no right answer, it's about balancing inherently conflicting rights and deciding where to draw the line.
It's awesome to see Wilbur Lab's playbook on their continued success across different types of businesses. Very inspiring!
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Sadly, Bill Godbout (mentioned) lost his life in the 2018 California wildfires.[1][2]

[1] https://www.theregister.com/2018/11/18/bill_godbout_obituary
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18445340
> Brand name helps with perception

That used to be true with Amazon. Not anymore, not for me. Now I have to decide if I trust and endless array of 3rd party sellers. It is often just easier to buy from a manufacturer’s website since I know I’m getting the real thing and it’s not expired or otherwise screwed up. Maybe I pay a few more bucks, but I’m ok with that for a lot of things.
(Exception: books and used)
Is it less work if a team of law enforcement officers standing within the Idaho section of the park just move any evidence and throw it over the park line and we can all pretend the original crime just happened in normal Idaho?

Yes, what I'm describing is illegal, but how would your prosecute it?
I found the PDF in this presentation on reals, complex numbers, quaternions and octonions enlightening.

What I learned in school was that we have complex numbers and vectors. Vectors have their own peculiar two types of products, dot-product and cross-product. Complex numbers you just "multiply".

I always had this question in the back of my brain, aren't complex numbers and vectors really the same. Why do we need both?

SEE ALSO: https://nautil.us/blog/the-strange-numbers-that-birthed-mode...

Turns out Hamilton invented Quaternions but then "Hostilities broke out when a Yale professor named Josiah Gibbs defined the modern vector."

So vectors are like handicapped quaternions
Could you possibly share some screenshots, including of the gmail integration etc.? Or are they already there just I couldn't find?
Gah that hurts. Not that it concerns HN, but I immediately thought 'oh, that's neat I have to mail that to friend x', and then while composing the mail in my head I halfway through realized he's been dead for a year. :(
s/DWT/DTW/g
The Ariane 5 failure was due to the faster trajectory of that launcher causing an integer overflow that the Ariane 4 (which the software was cribbed from) did not experience. I'm not clear how you encode that in a contract.

The sad thing about this is that if that code had been in (say) C the launch would have been fine, since no integer overflow would have been trapped, shutting down the guidance computer.
BlackBerrys been doing alot in the software space these days, i don't think they've been "keeping it alive" with these stock shenanigans
The N9 was only two years behind the Palm Pre!
Let’s see an article about measuring manager productivity.
Probably `Cadabra` came from `Abracadabra`: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abracadabra
well, imagine the military is with Trump, and says to the civilians: It's okay we'll take it from here and then a bunch of military vehicles show up to arrest all of congress who is against Trump. It's kinda like that a more "professional" coup.
Don't give them any ideas, maybe Nokia and Windows Phone will make a comeback there too and the WSB crowd will send NOK to the moon next
You have too much trust in people's wholesomeness. We all know the internet is for pr0n ("...so grab your d##k and double-click...").
Just because something is illegal doesn't mean it's a crime.
Cloudflare Co-Founder Michelle Zatlyn on Hiring, Fundraising, Scaling [video]
man, SN10 was a little close. Maybe they didn't have anywhere else to put it?
Lets assume that is the case.

That is where they should spend their cash to produce something of real value that can be reused. Simulation close to perfection is the end game. Not sending something chunky into space.
They should patent the space based solar power station.

Yes. They actually got a freaking patent for this. In 1973.

47 years later, I’m still waiting to see it. I guess the 20 year patent rights has now expired.

The key thing missing is an actual solar based power station.

They should also patent a time machine while they’re at it. Since it’s not like they actually need a real working time machine to secure such a patent.
Check out the Aiaiai TMA-2 for a modular headphone system.

https://aiaiai.audio/headphones/tma-2

Or the Print Plus 3D printable headphones.

https://www.print.plus/
It is closer to "Deus vult" than "Think of the children", one is ridiculously presumptuous and the other is simply manipulative.
That's perfectly fine. If you need to distinguish between them, then you should do that. There's plenty of code that's different though. I would say probably most of it.

The semantic differences seem to be local at best. In any case, there's plenty of code that legitimately doesn't concern itself with any of that.
>ps. amazon employee #2

Please tell me you held onto your stock
No. Fauci actually admitted to having misled the public on the herd immunity thing:

He said he hesitated to state a number as high as 90% weeks ago because many Americans still seemed skeptical about vaccine.

“When polls said only about half of all Americans would take a vaccine, I was saying herd immunity would take 70 to 75 percent,” Dr. Fauci, who took his first dose of Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine Tuesday, told The Times. “Then, when newer surveys said 60 percent or more would take it, I thought, ‘I can nudge this up a bit,’ so I went to 80, 85. -- https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/dec/24/anthony-fau...

Further, this statement was made at approximately the same time that the UK variant was being discovered. There wasn't time for new R(t) numbers to be estimated. He was admitting to misleading us before the UK variant.

> Go straight to the science.

Yeah. So the model for herd immunity is well known: HI=(1-(1/R)). And we also have a good estimate of R(0) from CDC, about 2.5. That yields 60%. Following the science directly tells us that Fauci was actually telling the truth before, and it's today that he's lying.
If you sell Bitcoin on Gemini for dollars, you can instantly wire dollars to your checking account at your bank. (Haven’t tried Coinbase, so can’t say).
It's really infuriating because it effectively means that new DAWs or other other apps can't host VST2 plugins unless the developer happens to have a license and a copy of the SDK (Steinberg doesn't issue any VST2 licenses anymore!). Considering how many VST2 plugins there are which will never see an upgrade, this is really an unfair disadvantage. Of course, Cubase will be the last one to drop VST2 support...

Some people have rewritten/reverse-engineered the VST2 headers. Steinberg claims this is illegal, but I'm not sure this would hold up in court.

Finally, the whole VST2 debacle is a great example of why people shouldn't put all their trust in a single company and why industry standards need to be open!
Worth noting also is the company qualifier. To exclude universities from innovations seems arbitrary. Another line of attack is asking how much profit Amazon got from these innovation vs. how much they paid back to the various education systems that produced the skilled labor required.

Jeff Bezos bragging about this is for sure illustrative of the dissonance billionaires have over the value of their companies.
> the early internet- content discovery was really hard for users.

It wasn't as good as google is now, but search engines of the time did allow for discovery.
:-) was the standard smiley-with-nose, :^) was a lot rarer
> You can take out a loan on an existing mortgaged asset after you built some equity into it, especially if the asset increased in price during that period.

Is not a mortgage very similar to owning X% of a thing? Like, if I had a mortgage for $100,000 and I've paid $10,000 towards it, it's almost akin to owning 1/10 of the house (which would play out in the event of liquidation, all other things equal). That real estate tends to rise in value as an asset class is tangential to the topic of usary. It seems plain to me that there is a concept of the current value of something versus the future value of something, with the difference being expressed as interest (to some degree)?
Are we advertising for broadcom now?
Yes, Notebookcheck is a fantastic site.

The German press seems to be more cynical about marketing, c't Magazine is great, but no longer available in English.

The Register is also a good less technical site if you want to cut through BullSh_t in IT.
Browsers also tried to autocomplete <word> as www.<word>.com (and .net and .org, iirc) and send you there if it resolved. At some point they switched to sending you to search engines instead, but i bet there are flags somewhere in Firefox' bowels that will still do that for you if you really want.
Mellanox ConnectX-4 EN has been ~$1000 for awhile now. I'll pick Mellanox over Broadcom every time (even if they're owned by NVIDIA now).

https://serversupply.com/NETWORKING/NETWORK%20ADAPTER/100%20...
All vectors are not complex because complex numbers involve the square root of negative 1. Complex numbers can be treated as vectors, but vectors are not generally complex.
I wonder how much that was linked to trust? People were leery about online shopping in the beginning, and a name like books.com sounds a little too generic.
No, it was the last minute engine swap.
No. It's way easier today to test than to solve that problem.
Curious to know if this would allow me to run client submitted java at runtime similar to how you can execute javascript in a sandbox ( ok i know it is not fully secure) using graaljs or nashorn?
Right, but if you knew to that level of specificity back then, search was just as good in most places. Now, selection was lower, somewhat obviously.

As then, though, if you are not specific or willing to lean on a name brand, search is effectively broken.
Since tone carries very badly let me say up front that I'm mostly just confused by this entire discussion.

For now I stand by my assumption that OP wanted the fonts to be bigger because they were too far from the screen to read them at their current size. Though I fear I can't see why their reason for wanting fonts to be bigger would matter. I could have omitted OP's reason for wanting the fonts to be bigger but I thought a brief description would help keep the discussion related to the article.

The main thing I was advocating was that software should allow fonts to be bigger regardless of physical size, but clearly I've somehow allowed my argument to be horribly misconstrued.
Once you know how to write, you can make Babylonian cookies!

https://www.penn.museum/blog/museum/how-to-make-cuneiform-ta...

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/15/science/cuneiform-tablet-...
There doesn't seem to be any fundamental reason why that had to be the case. I'm not a react expert, but it seems like it would have been more obvious to me if null and undefined were treated the same. The distinction should be whether the key exists in the object.
Sounds like you've somehow managed to divine my attitude toward people on my own side (whatever that might be), without me ever having mentioned it.
>to be fair

...taking a flyer on an utterly unproven vaccination strategy was a huge, huge risk and had it not come off there would be no vaccination strategy. Relying on being lucky doesn't seem like a "spot on" strategy to me.

"We gambled everything on red it and came up so we deserve credit for the strategy."

edit: This is in relation to the additional time between first and second jabs that was untested in the strategy - for which this result suggests we no longer need to be concerned that the vaccination might be reduced in protection as we were before this data came in.
Yeah that was true by the time of his 1999 interview on 60 minutes, when the interviewer joked about him driving a cheap Honda:

https://www.news.com.au/technology/innovation/this-jeff-bezo...
I was paying for the subscription but then they cancelled Google Music. Ad-free youtube was just a nice perk of that.

The replacement in YouTube Music premium* does not come with the bonus of no ads on youtube videos, which I think is some straight crap. I had forgot they existed, damn near.

*Unless there is another tier of subscription I haven't noticed.

Time to look into adblocker for my phone.
I'd argue Pixel has been pretty successful for them.

Nest and Fitbit were decent acquisitions, Google as a whole is doing ok.
I've had Sony MDR-7506s for about 7 years now, two cup replacements but otherwise going strong. I've also had my Audio Technica ATH-M50 for a solid 12 years, one cup replacement, sound great and work perfectly.

I have basically worn one of those two pairs of headphones every single day at work since I bought them; I guess I've just had good luck.
> I can't say that the TypeScript that I've written has been any more bug-free that the regular JavaScript I've written (or my team mates).

Probably just means you are smart and good at testing at some level ;-)

For me the biggest benefit of TypeScript is probably when I debug or extend other peoples code (i.e. all the time) and I don't have to hunt down calling functions to see what gets passed in.

I mostly work on large projects written by other people over the course of years and often this simple thing can save me several minutes several times a day.
The "customer" is at the heart of everything, not the ex-customer (or wanna-be ex, according to Amazon).
Neither of those are the reason, speaking from experience both as a family tech support and as a web dev. It’s because everyone recognized the big “e” icon. My brother got my dad a Mac and he already knew the main browser was Safari, but he still called me (knowing I had used Macs for years longer) and just asked:

1. What the hell is Safari (no kidding he didn’t even say hello).

2. Can I use the Internet Explorer?

Edge now (correctly) accounts for this by... having a big “e”-looking icon and basically otherwise being a skin over Chromium.
> Jeff Bezos should have remembered

Who cares? It's getting into deep time (internet-wise), memories fade, do we care, I don't despite opening my first Amazon account ~1998. It was called "something", big deal. Not everyone has photographic memories of these things, perhaps Paul does, but wasn't asked to recall those memories. Again, who cares? And they might have worked through twenty other names after Paul left. I'm 54 I would have trouble remembering exact details of important things from 25 years ago, and Jeff is older than me, so give the guy a break, it's likely off of his event horizon until he writes "the book".
I think that's a TRIGA reactor? TRIGA reactors uses a uranium hydride fuel. The hydrogen in the fuel heats along with the fuel, which increases the temperature of the thermal neutrons, reducing reactivity. The strong and instant negative feedback prevents an SL-1 like accident.
And if anyone believes wp381640 is joking, this lesson seems to have been learned the hard way: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nedelin_catastrophe
Ouch, harsh. I prefer to think it just makes me look unconventional.

This reminds me of an article I read about a phenomenon of zoomers being bullied for using androids instead of iPhones. Seems silly to judge anyone by their phone to me, but you know - middle schoolers are mean.
I spent many hours coding purchasing and inventory systems for our company in the late 80's on our AM-100/L.

I tried to get it working again just for fun in the early 2000's but it had some hardware issue and Alpha Micro was less than enthusiastically interested in helping me with technical information. Ah well.

It's still sitting in a storage room to this day. Probably hopelessly defunct, but I just can't bring myself to get rid of it.
Jeff Bezos to Step Down as Amazon CEO; Andy Jassy to Take Over
Apple IIs had a (mostly) backplane architecture. It wasn't an uncommon thing.
Reminds me of good old time (2010-2011), when my 1st job was doing BlackBerry development.

I wonder if BlackBerry Messenger is still functional?
> I'm sure you can find a copy of the vst2 sdk somewhere on GitHub if you can look hard enough for it.

A simple Google search will do :-)
Sometimes I think I'm wasting time on HN, then a comment like that comes around and it makes it all worth it.
Great. Can they stop bothering us with captchas now?
I find the idea plausible that theories regarding extraterrestrial life are unfairly dismissed within the profession. And it would be such a tragedy to miss out on real evidence of alien life just because, institutionally, scientists are not allowed to consider it.

But can we put any stock into Avi's opinion on it, given that committing to the 'Oumuamua solar sail idea has been very lucrative for him, in the way of media attention, book deals, podcast appearances etc.? It is a little ironic to talk about other scientist's egos while promoting your own book.
Really? Dude please share your workaround.
It's interesting and crazy to me that Gobo is still going. I played with it back in highschool in like 2004.
They will get a single rocket from that ideology and get stuck again in the loop later on with any big modification.
From reading about it, Drizly has partnerships with retailers in 1,400 cities, which might be easier to get if you just buy the company than working 2-3 years to get to this level, and fight the market share with a well established company.
The rest of the world didn't have area 51 military testing 50+ years ago producing sights no one had ever seen before. In a desert with clear skies.

That triggered a cultural phenomenon. Tons of people like to make fake photos and videos and tons of people want to believe aliens are visiting us.
They solved the problem of unpredictable load times at compile time? Using just LLVM? How?
Total Emission = total of chain emissions
If considering only emissions at the power plant, then all chain emissions need to be considered: production, parts, including fuel development. EVs have considerably less parts. For items used and created via reclamation, those processes also need inclusion in the chain. Replacement items (oil, batteries, ...) and their disposal process should also be included in the chain. Is there any hope of an inclusive study?
A Solution for Democratizing News Reporting
Hey all. A few friends and I were brainstorming solutions to the bias news problem that seems to be in all the headlines today. We’ve created a quick landing page to put up while we develop our prototype (should be done by the end of the month).

We’d love to get you all’s feedback on the landing page and, if you want to, the solution we are proposing.

We built the landing page in like a day. So, it’s still kinda a draft. But, we’d love to hear you all’s feedback :)
You are right. Looks like it is just trying different permutations of the compiler flags, not actually trying to generate optimization proofs using machine learning. The latter is what my comment is aimed at.
The typical convention these days is:

- /usr/ is read-only data. /usr/bin/ contains OS-supplied binaries, /usr/lib/ contains OS-supplied libraries.

- /var/ is read-write state data and will persist between boots. /var/log/ is for log files.

- /run/ is read-write scratch on a tmpfs, and will be cleaned up between boots. So, UNIX sockets and other temporary files go here.

- /etc/ is per-system configuration overrides. There is a goal to move to "empty /etc/", meaning you should be able to remove all files in /etc/ and still have a functioning system.

- /opt/ is "vendor space". The OS should never touch /opt/.

The names are weird, but that's the intention behind the new scheme. If you want to change configuration, the default config might be shipped read-only in /usr/, but it should be overridable in /etc/. This is why systemd ships read-only unit files in /usr/, which are symlinked into /etc/ to be "enabled".
I've used these for over a decade as well, still my favorite headphones.
Slightly tangential, I am under the impression that the CHERI project has actually identified security bugs and reported them back to FreeBSD.

https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/research/security/ctsrd/cheri/
Thanks for the e-mail! I'd tried support@startupschool.org but the e-mail bounced.