skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm surprised it's worth so much given that it would be trivial for Airbnb to add this functionality within its own website. It does make me wonder though - has there ever been a company that's built on top of another that was or is worth more than the company it's building its stuff on top of?
China's Vanishing Muslims: Undercover in the most dystopian place in the world
If you have a couple hours to spare, pull up the home page of foxnews.com or cnn.com and try to find the first article that isn't 1) broad national/global news (news covered by 100 other major outlets with the same facts that don't originate from the site), 2) submarine or bald-faced marketing(including viewpoint marketing), or 3) fluff human interest anecdotes(Jeanne Moos I'm looking at you).
> recycling is what sends the trash to Asia were it's then tossed in the ocean.

That isn't true (and was never true). Trash in Asia that ends up in the ocean is local trash.

Even back when Asia bought recycling from us there wasn't much trash in it, and even the trash that was there didn't end up in the ocean.

The stuff in the ocean is what litters the streets, and then goes in rivers during rain storms.
It isn't upvoted enough to receive HN's hug of death but seems like it already has.
It appears someone has gone insane and has decided to blame his woes on the author of curl.
It's indent by two spaces. Guessing your style:

int main(string argv[]) { string buf;
while (buf = <>) puts(buf);
return (0);
}
Pretty nice view of the burning engine from inside the plane,

https://twitter.com/JacdecNew/status/1363245241109782528?ref...
cached version: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:Bl5oCr...
If you have a long text and it is corrupted, it’s really hard to tell, particularly before the invention of checksums. Is this a hapax legomenon or did someone just misspell a word? Even things that should be clear like “is this part of the text or part of the commentary on the text” get murky: there are several parts of the Bible where scholars will say things like, we think this was meant to be an explanatory comment but it got put in the main text by mistake.

Oral tradition can make these problems better because if one person has a distorted view of the text, they won’t be able to be certified as a reciter by their master. The Indians in particular had various checksum methods, plus a tradition of teaching how to pronounce things, which all would have made the text drift much slower than “a scribe messed this up and the only way to tell is to go to another region and see if their copy has the same words or not.”
These businesses are not 'web sites'. They are operating entities. The 'web site' is the front end as it is for many other companies, it just so happens tech is a more important factor.

What they are doing is actually directly operating a ton of rooms, you have to do that in order to get to a certain standard.

They are actually closer to a hotel operator than to AirBnB.
There is enough landfill space effectively forever. It's really not a problem.

> What makes you question the need for recycling?

The environment makes me question it. Everything I've seen shows recycling anything except metal is bad for the environment. We only do it because it makes people "feel good".

The right thing to do with:

Metal: recycle it

Glass: bury it

Paper: bury it

Plastic: burn it

Everything else: bury it
Interstellar’s is great. I also like The Social Network’s, especially given the film’s subject matter.
The reality is no one is even close to SpaceX, SpaceX went from launching it's first orbital rocket, the Falcon 1 in 2008 to launching the first Dragon capsule into orbit on the Falcon 9 and recovering it in 2010. No launch company iterates or advances like that, no one. There simply is no Lyft to SpaceX's Uber.

The closest private competitor to SpaceX right now IMO is Rocket Lab. They are the only company that has an orbital rocket that has a path forward for reusing the first stage right now. Rocket Lab's rockets are already pretty cheap for launching small sats and when they start reusing their first stages they might be able to get their cost per Kg to orbit close to what SpaceX can offer right now. But Rocket Lab's rocket is tiny compared to the Falcon 9, even SpaceX's first rocket, the Falcon 1 could put more payload into orbit than Rocket Lab's Electron rocket. It's not clear if Rocket Lab has any plans for making a bigger rocket.

Blue Origin is the only other company (besides the Chinese) that is currently building reusable first stages. Blue Origin's BE-4 engine also looks really promising and was designed from the beginning to be reusable. I think a lot of people are giving up on Blue Origin because they have yet to launch anything into orbit and they've been around longer than SpaceX. If Blue Origin does get it's New Glenn rocket off the ground and can recover and reuse the first stage they have a good chance of being cost competitive with the Falcon 9/Falcon Heavy.

The reality though is if SpaceX is successful with their Starship/Superheavy project they will be so far ahead in the cost/reusability department it will take a competitor a decade or more to catch up. Keep in mind part of what makes Starship even possible is the Raptor engine which SpaceX started developing in 2009. It's likely SpaceX has spent hundreds of millions of dollars just developing the Raptor, the Air Force chipped in over $40 million to the Raptor program at one point and SpaceX has built over 30 Raptors already at a cost of about $1 million a piece.
They were being factitious, a concept that apparently eludes you in multiple contexts.

And your jump is laughable for multiple reasons:

a) It's a poor application of logic to imply not knowing Copyright vs Trademark would affect their ability to use an off the shelf license like Apache License 2.0...

The entire point of an off-the-shelf license like the one they used is to not require an understanding of the minutiae of copyright law

b) You're wrong anyways, the phrase is not something that could be trademarked.

Short phrases can be trademarked when they're "inherently creative" or have developed enough secondary meaning that they can be instantly tied to a product or service

"bullshit-free" passes neither bar, so it can't be trademarked.

Ergo you've actually shown that you yourself, do not know enough about licensing to be questioning their facetious use of the copyright mark. It's laughable you'd try to question that at all honestly.
Trump to speak at CPAC next week
Source( haxx.se:“I will slaughter you”) HN comments - 1 day ago

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26192025
The idea of electric fuel pumps is certainly interesting and I guess it works for Rocket Lab, but the idea of tossing out batteries as you gain altitude [0] just feels wrong. Maybe batteries are an intermediate step to decoupling the fuel pump from the turbo part, like the M-B F1 tech [1]?

0. https://space.stackexchange.com/questions/24570/what-was-eje...

1. https://www.thedrive.com/news/34152/how-mercedes-amg-will-us...
Or an engineer?
A specific location. Waypoints used in IFR approaches are given unique, 5-letter, usually pronounceable, names.
The demand in A.I that people thought is not possible
https://youtu.be/ND3jAFBBqas
Where does the power of the dual citizenship come from? If I have a passport each to two countries A and B, and am attempting to enter country C - is the benefit that I can present myself as a citizen of B and will be bound by some B-C covenants, regardless of whether I am a citizen of A, or is it from the fact that C doesn't know that I'm associated with A and only knows about my B loyalty because of the passport I presented?
That discussion is probably no longer relevant, because you can see on Salsa that people are pushing patches to the packaging: https://salsa.debian.org/apache-team/apache2
It seems though that people like this kind of thing, so it will get worse. Even in jobs that require focus like software development. Many people seem to like the bustle of constant chats in Slack instead of pre arranged meetings, face to face adhoc talks, open offices, living in a big city, notifications etc and then on a more technical level: setting up and configuring things that have nothing to do with the task at hand (which is writing code to answer to a business demand), spending strange amounts of time on 'automating their pipeline and processes' (which appears to be never finished and so is a perpetual distraction), checking out or even changing their stack/tools every week to adhere to the latest hype (which came from distractions like reddit and hn) etc etc.

Not saying good or bad but not sure if people will ever like a life without these things even though they feel it is far from optimal, productivity wise.
I wish the author went into more detail about how to come up with "high leverage side projects" that help cultivate the type of fundamental CS knowledge he emphasises.

Most of the suggestions I see for potential side projects are for some kind of consumer-facing (web/mobile/desktop) app - probably because most people in this context are prioritising the potential of generating side income, but this sounds more like what the author calls "plumbing" style backend/API work rather than something that would develop fundamental CS skills.

So, any ideas? I've seen https://github.com/danistefanovic/build-your-own-x which is a great collection of ideas all based on piercing an abstraction by building your own version of lower-level tools. Are there any other categories of side project that someone who wants to move technically deeper than a full-stack web app would do well to consider?
You compare different lineages and use standard linguistic techniques for detecting language change. It’s not perfect, but with long texts you end up doing the same thing because it’s rare for written things to last more than a couple of hundred years without extremely good luck and often it takes just that long for a text to become popular enough for there to be enough copies for you to find and compare.
Microsoft/IBM?
Vertically integrated government owned and operated utilities have imploded too- notably Ontario hydro failed due to costs related to their nuclear plants, and the rate payers had an extra line item on their bill - $10/mo? - for I don’t know how many decades to pay down the stranded debt.

I don’t think markets are the right tool for electricity generation transmission and distribution - too much coordination is required between the different functions, central planning optimizes the outcomes, and the lead times are so long on significant projects that a high $/MWh for a week in 2021 isn’t going to result in a new nuclear plant.

There are natural monopolies in distribution and maybe transmission as well.

100% regulated even if there are private players is the way.
Well, I'm sorry if the quotations are misleading. I find it difficult to insert long quotations on HN, while making them look like quotations. So I tried to pick good, representative but short ones.

Could you show me how you would do it? Post something and insert long enough quotations (from the part I partly quoted) that they are fair and representative, and still clearly look like quotations?
Competitive free markets for electricity don't exist in general, because the last mile transmission is a natural monopoly. A monopoly isn't a competitive free market. That's the same reason the government itself is so bad at everything -- it's a monopoly that doesn't have to respond to competitive pressure.

Generation can be a competitive market. It's not a natural monopoly. But it's interfacing with the one for last mile power transmission.

The problem you have then is that it's susceptible to regulatory corruption and incompetence. That's not the same thing as "insufficient and lax regulation." The problem isn't that the regulation was lacking in intensity. There isn't a volume knob where you can turn up the general amount of regulation and solve the problem. You need to fix the specific defect. Adding a bunch of other irrelevant rules does nothing.

In California that defect was that the generating companies bought up their competitors and purposely shut down a lot of generating capacity because the regulations were written in such a way that they could only charge high prices during a supply shortfall. So they manufactured one.

There are different ways to handle that. It was plausibly a violation of existing antitrust laws, so the problem wasn't even a lack of regulation, it was a lack of enforcement. The monopoly could have used a different pricing structure that pays generators a given amount to maintain idle generating capacity in case of a shortfall, causing it to be more profitable to not destroy existing generating capacity. Or any number of alternatives.

None of this is incompatible with the idea of having a competitive market for power generation. And it's also still not the thing that happened in Texas.
Aviation regulations are written in blood. SRE regulations are written in lost weekends.
No problem. As a follow up I stumbled across this 2010 article which re-examines (and confirms most of) Reisners comments 25 years after his publication. https://www.pnas.org/content/107/50/21263
I think M1 is a perfect example of why one might want to consider Apple's hardware and software in isolation, rather than a single integrated piece. There isn't currently another ARM laptop with the same performance characteristics.

There have been other times when I thought apple hardware was more interesting than macOS. I don't think macOS is bad per se. There are times when I find it pleasant and times when I would greatly prefer something else. The attitude we're describing -- why use Linux when there is macOS?? -- strikes me as a little odd, because there is a built in hostility and assumption that everyone shares the Mac fan's opinions and preferences, universally and in all circumstances.
Technocally, the proper tool is "max units per buyer".

People who insist that prices are the only control point tend to be those most unfamiliar with the practical dimension of finite resource distribution.
There's an old science fiction story, where the aliens invade, not with flying saucers and ray guns, or hypervelocity near-C projectiles but by spreading what is essentially a pesticide globally that is tailored to affect human behavior and so nobody realizes what is really happening. There's no spaceship hanging around to hack into like in Independence day, there isn't even anyone willing to consider the idea that what is happening might be extrinsic.

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

Same author wrote a short story about a scientist who developed a tailored virus to save the earth from ecological destruction:

https://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/last-flight-docto...

"The tape recorder they put by his bed functioned right on through, but if anybody had been around to replay it they would have found little but babbling. “Gaea Gloriatrix,” he crooned, “Gaea girl, queen . . .” At times, he was grandiose and tormented. “Our life, your death!” he yelled. “Our death would have been your death, too, no need for that, no need.”

At other times, he was accusing. “What did you do about the dinosaurs?” he demanded. “Did they annoy you? How did you fix them? Cold. Queen, you’re too cold! You came close to it this time, my girl,” he raved. And then he wept and caressed the bedclothes and was maudlin."
Blue Origin builds the engines for the Vulcan. That will be their money maker.
Being a us dual citizen has the disadvantage of continuing to owe income tax to the USA even while living in Europe. Also many international banks cringe at opening accounts with “us persons” because it exposes them to a lot of onerous requirements. Can make banking somewhat a pain.
if a nation-state wanted to attack btc, they'd simply make transactions between its currency and btc illegal, and prosecute citizens and exchanges which transact with its citizens
This is true. There are no clean solutions.
Why we spend a lot of money on stupider shit imo. How many billions of dollars are invested in sports every year? What about video games? Porn? Travel for leisure? The list goes on.

How is space exploration different than these arguably frivolous activities? Should humans not use any resources for things that don't address these pressing issues you are talking about? I believe there are enough resources and wealth on earth to do all of these things, however, I, like you, disagree with how exactly the resources are being distributed. However, I don't think we need to single out space exploration, which I believe has potential for progress and expands human knowledge, as something we shouldn't be doing because of this unequal distribution.

I do agree with your sentiment about space increasingly being for the rich, with private companies and space tourism on the rise. However, I don't think all space exploration is and has to be this way
Deepfake detectors can be defeated, computer scientists show for the first time
Kinda.
While the 2018 incident was "contained", it still resulted in damage to the fuselage.

"Two small punctures were found in the right side fuselage just below the window belt with material transfer consistent with impact from pieces of an engine fan blade"

(From the link in parent to this thread https://avherald.com/h?article=4b4e8ca7&opt=0)
Hearts of Iron 4 and 3
Hundreds of Chinese patients died in 'redundant' drugs trials
Griddy is its own thing; it lets consumers buy at wholesale prices which is pretty unique. The great majority of people in Texas have fixed-rates and are unaffected by the price shifts. Traders and providers are eating the brunt of it (and some have gone bankrupt)
Well, presumably something happened on Venus to convert large amounts of carbonate rocks to CO2? How would we rule out the possibility of that happening here?
I 100% support disability augments. I don't see why the processing can't be localized to a device.
My guess is that people don't want to upvote a post with quite so... inflammatory a title without looking at it first, but are getting blocked out by the hug.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/nov/29/macos-hig...
From my comment lower down https://youtu.be/eE9-FcJnQGA which includes masses of this film transcoded to b&w
maybe related to a large number of planes sitting idle due to covid - come back in to service after sitting for 9 months and unexpected degradation has taken place
We use a decade+ old version of log4net. It suits us just fine and I’m not even sure “vulns” are something we would need to care about in debug logging software.
> It does make me wonder though - has there ever been a company that's built on top of another that was or is worth more than the company it's building its stuff on top of?

How about AirBnB building on top of Craigslist?

https://growthhackers.com/growth-studies/airbnb
Somehow I think ISRG is not going to try to secure funding to rewrite core Windows components.
Howabout ban the use of any packaging material that hasn't been proven safe? Allow human trials by corporate executives that wish to risk their health determining safety?
I do enjoy programming. It's like Legos for adults (though I still own a large Lego collection as an adult too). But I'm also resonating with some of the other negative comments in here as well. I love programing when I'm able to love programming. Years ago, I watched this Dan Goldman RSA talk about motivation (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhJ4CDCfASI) and I began actively looking for a job the next day. For me, I've found his three points on motivation to be key: Autonomy, Mastery, and Purpose. When I'm not able to enjoy programming, it's because my employer has violated one or more of these and treating me like a horse.
Azure blob storage expoit-BugBounty write-up
Japan also does not allow its adult citizens to have other nationalities. Those who have Japanese and another nationality from birth are required to choose one after reaching adulthood or risk losing their Japanese nationality [1]. Those acquiring Japanese nationality are also required to renounce other nationalities if possible [2, Article 5].

I know someone who was born in the Soviet Union and, after living in Japan for many years, became a Japanese citizen. She had problems renouncing her previous citizenship because the country where she was born no longer existed; she said she had to bribe someone at the Russian Embassy to get the necessary documentation. She also mentioned being detained and questioned when trying to enter Canada on her Japanese passport for a short stay because the Canadian immigration officials thought she didn’t look Japanese. She had no similar difficulties when trying to enter Japan itself.

[1] http://www.moj.go.jp/ENGLISH/information/tcon-01.html

[2] http://www.moj.go.jp/ENGLISH/information/tnl-01.html
How ridiculous that this man suggests pursuing legal action.

It's an expression of frustration. No reasonable person would interpret that as a genuine threat of violence.

If this is enough to get to the poor sheltered 'victim', I hope he never plays a multiplayer video game, expresses an unpopular political opinion on social media, or nicks someone's car in the parking lot. It's part of life.
Yeah but not if they rush the rebuilding and complete it in a few days. I suspect that's gonna require too much duct tape and bubble gum.
I had a vague impression that the processes that produced fossil fuels would probably not renew in due time, because the existing layers have something to do with the inability of microbes to break down lignin long ago. Once the capability evolved, the same process can't repeat even if one waits a long time?
> OpenBSD on an M1 Mac Mini would be a great home server.

That does sound really nice. Once the price on SSDs comes down a bit I'd love to replace my Dell PowerEdge T20 Plex/Time Machine box with a Mac mini with stackable TB4 enclosure containing a few M.2 SSDs. It'd take a fraction of the space and power while being much more responsive.
When people talk about harmful elitism in ham, this

>They will be a part of the problem, not a part of the solution.

is what is party behind it.

Are you saying cellphones for everyone are harmful because emergency lines are usually ddossed during an emergency? Yes there is a difference in channel access but cheap radios provide you with the very important capability of being able to listen and most people are not stupid, and abusing your radio will end up killing the battery anyway.

Ie. you are overestimating the issues caused and not taking into account all the positives they provide.
I posted this as an independent post for visibility, and it was killed within minutes, can't even access it.

I understand the side of the debate that begs sticking with Gecko as an alternative etc etc, but, is it really off-topic here to show people the realistic comparison?

A Mozilla hard-fork of Chromium would be a huge kick in the nads, emotionally, but it certainly would accomplish many of the things Firefox would need to reinvent to hope for parity ever again.
http://archive.is/SpIsv
The mention of Puerto Rico giving citizenship after 1 year is funny. I thought it was part of the US!

I wonder what the conditions are for PR citizenship!
https://www.freepascal.org/

Free Pascal tries to be compatible with Turbo Pascal and is ported to dozens of systems.
I'd rather be part of the noise than part of a community that admires snitching
Don’t allow VSCode to auto fetch from repos
The plane landed and didn’t blast enormous holes with ejected compressor blades. That’s a successful failure.
It doesn't feel like it's the best use of their talents, though.
How do you find the timezone change if you work remotely for an American company?
In the dark, it looks so alien and surreal.