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Personally, I dislike all this interest in space.

What has it done for the actual planet we live on? Day by Day we destroy this planet wasting resources that are finite and yet we dream to live on another planet. Why? Just so we can do the same?

How much toxic waste is in the world today? How much obsolete technological waste is there in this planet and why are we not investing the same amount of money on cleaning this planet? I'm sure I'm going to be down-voted for being pessimistic but its the truth.

Outer space is for the rich who've outgrown expensive yachts and will be that way if not forever. If we can't handle society on this planet how are we suppose to handle it on a new planet? You really think once technology is supportable they're going to let us use it?

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Called it, first downvote. If your going to down vote, at least post and justify why rather then hiding behind a click of a button because you can't face the truth.

Second downvote. Only proving my point. To those who downvote your the problem in this world. Are you afraid to accept that we are destroying the planet we all live on?

Third downvote, Why are you living in denial? Stop being a coward and justify why. What has the rich ever done for us?

Forth downvote. Yep. Seriously, no one's going to rebuttable?

Fifth downvote, And people ask me why I am cynical. Does no one on HN actually care for this planet? I do, I spent all evening picking up litter in my own time. It's raining and cold, but I'm still out there tidying the mess that folk make of the planet.

Why the flag? -- There's nothing offensive, nor crude in this. It's my personal opinion that I can't seem to shift for the reasons in my reply. I thought HN was a less-bias platform then others. I thought HN allowed you to post your views to encourage discussion in a balanced fashion.
> While I think its comical that the author casually recommends people to go "speak at conferences"

Why's that comical? If you have something interesting to say, go for it! Even if you don't, there's no harm in applying.

Most people are way more interesting than they think they are.
To be fair, it's actually a pretty entertaining article, and if you haven't read it, it's definitely worth taking the time for it.
Right, in some of these attempts cues are learned before the participants fall asleep, so that they react to it while dreaming. One could argue that the distinction is subtle, and La Berge could've found the results these groups are showing today, had he ran the experiment. Nonetheless, experimenter->dreamer communication during sleep as suggested in this paper is AFAIK indeed new.
Sure, if we look only at select historical data regarding overall suffering, this almost makes sense. Should we also use this method to address modern times? Should we apply it to, say, crime rates, (irrespective of the theories behind underlying causes)? You and I both know that this only leads to accusations of "white supremacist" talking points.
Cost of entry. But wait until hardware gets cheaper
I have never read quite such a lazy comment on HN. Do your own research, instead of grifting off other people's opinions.
> ...no direct control over...work quality any more...

This is important. Just a few days ago here on HN, there was a good discussion on how deliverables quality on seemingly "mundane" device chargers (in this example, one that was arguably for early Kindles) can vary wildly, while maintaining the same price point, with the sub-standard quality yielding more profits to the seller, and higher-quality units yielding less profits.

This is a impedance mismatch between what the buyer knows and values and what the seller knows and values. With a time slippage between the time the buyer makes a decision and when the buyer's organization figuring out the real ramifications. By the time an organization has outsourced enough to lose competency to not even know the impedance mismatch and time slippage exists or scope it if they're aware of its existence, sometimes they will find might be cheaper to in-source in the first place. My personal rule of thumb going in to evaluate these decisions is if the procedural complexity surrounding such software artifacts rises above a certain level, it is likely better to keep it in-house. Where that level is lays the art of business, it is largely experience-based.
"You could"

But I didn't. I tried. It didn't happen.

I have to face facts, I might just be a worker bee.
the mere annihilation of all life is not very ambitious. It is achievable with todays technology. There is only excitement in originality, wiping out humanity may not give the same level of satisfaction.
I assume no such thing. Degrade is more than just smaller, though that does come first
Ironically, you haven't actually fairly described or interacted with the points of this person you disagree with. And you even quoted them out of context to misrepresent them as not providing quotations of Scott openly advocating eugenics, when they did exactly that just a few paragraphs after the line you quote.
how would this apply to disparate aircraft on different maintenance cycles?
Sorry I wasn't clear.

Being beneath the surface provides radiation protection.

Specifically by digging out tunnels beneath the surface of moderates size asteroids, putting down butyl ruber tubes, and laying tracks within. By having the cars on the track go around the curved track an artificial gravity is induced.

But you can stop the space train cars, step outside, and there's no deep gravity well to make getting things to and from there so expensive.

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I'd also like to make it clear that the Asteroid Retrieval Bus, the mission that was canceled, is the reason the lunar gateway concept exists. Having the lunar gateway but not asteroid de-spin and retrieval is putting the cart before the horse without intentions of getting a horse.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_and_Propulsion_Element#A...

>The Asteroid Redirect Vehicle... ...mission was cancelled in early 2017 and the spacecraft's propulsion segment became the Power and Propulsion Element (PPE) for the Deep Space Gateway, now known as the Gateway.
The person needs care and help and patient kindness. The person wants to resemble the late Terry Davies of Temple OS. The person isn't a serious threat from a sentence. The Internet is the threat. That's the fear.
This is a weird take. There are stores that literally grant you that right, today. I'm pretty sure that even in the US, a court is not going to grant a musician the right to force you to delete the MP3s you bought off Amazon music. What is the basis for your belief that you don't have a right to the file you bought? Or are you disagreeing with the existence of stores that operate that way? Or with... basically the entire history of hard copy distribution, like cassettes, CDs, vinyl...
Why is that suprising? Serving static content is easy
Short sellers are the only sheriff in town in a rigged market
- Accounting?
- Finance?
- Law?
I dunno, I think this notion that software development is uniquely technical is pretty misguided.
Most of those high-level epigenetics findings are on shaky ground.

Even if true that their children had higher rates of obesity this could easily be due to nurture - e.g. those Mothers could've been more likely to stock up on food at home and feed their children more due to the trauma, with the methylation explanation being post-hoc.
Entertainment. He’s holding court with his fans.
Blue Origin seems to be targeting a slightly different market. I'm not sure exactly what that market is yet, but its public goals have always seemed to lean further toward crewed vehicles than SpaceX's have.

I think it's still too early to be able have an interesting discussion comparing the two companies.
"Handheld" is overly constraining if range is a concern.

A radio you can carry on a bag and an antenna you can carry in another bag can work similar stations 50 miles away on VHF if you're willing to go up a tall hill on each side and elevate the antennas with telescoping poles.

Similarly for (unreliable) worldwide communication on HF (with the antenna being a roll of wire).

A luggable or car mounted radio is orders of magnitude better than anything you could handhold.
> not surprisingly, language evolves!

It sure does, did I say otherwise or was that just the easiest straw-man you could attack? I contend the word in its current form is evolved to not include piracy. Not surprisingly, evolution of language can go many ways, not just the way which supports your argument. Cheers!
Anyone have links to Linux binaries?
We’re not running out of land tho.
Thank you, this is just what I was looking for. I like reading non fiction, but have found it incredibly hard to determine whether the contents are actually correct, since most reviews are not done by subject matter experts. I am tired of reading and enjoying psych books only to find out that 90 percent of it is misleading or untrue.
Apple needs open source hackers to port all open source software to M1 chips for free before locking them more down.

To be honest I just ordered my first MacBook Pro as well, so I guess I’m part of the ,,problem’’
I see lots of positive comments, but has anyone actually checked out the reviews or did I hit 2/2 bad apples? The reviews amount to some meta info, often largely citing the author. There isn't any reviewing of the science really. Or is this not supposed to be a scientific review, but just regular book reviews from people that happen to also be scientists but aren't judging the scientific content from their professional point of view?
Yes, but only the messages on your device. Once you run out of room on your phone, switch to another phone, use your laptop, etc, all that history is gone forever, and obviously not searchable.

Element actually does encrypted search a bit better than Signal. Signal stores every message it receives, in its entirety, forever (unless you tell it not to, or course, but then you can't search). That makes search dead simple, but it also fills up my phone with hundreds of megs a month. Element stores messages on the server, so old ones don't need to stay on your phone (only your keys). But you can still search the entire history because the client indexes every message that comes in and stores that index forever, which is much smaller than a bunch of media files, and even the plain text.
This is pure sci-fi. We don't have the technology to travel within our solar system in any reasonable amount of time, let alone to bring back and mine an asteroid.
Already asked this, but where are you getting this interpretation? Not only is it now how most license agreements for music stores read today, it's also simply unreasonable.
may i suggest that if this is the case, they should also pay for fire insurance and health insurance subsidies, and maybe also life insurance subsidies as well...
Their launcher is only suborbital which is much simpler and smaller than an orbital vehicle. They have plans for a larger orbital reusable rocket but because they're less public so it's hard to know if it's anything beyond an engineering drawing at this point.
I'd be interested to see a conversation between you and the Pijul author. He hangs out in the forum at https://discourse.pijul.org/ and the chat at https://pijul.zulipchat.com/.
That a great nuclear power collapsed without destroying the earth is a miracle
Second Citizenships, Residencies, and/or Temporary Relocation
At page 3 there is apache2 with more than 300k installs. The maintainer stated no more interest[1]. This seems like low hanging fruit for a massive supply chain attack.

[1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=910917
I am not suggesting that you are under the impression that the film industry is only located in California. I’m sure you’re well aware that isn’t the case.

My point is that in reality all sorts of people make all sorts of films, many of which are valuable sources of inspiration and comfort for their audiences.

And yet despite this you are quite obviously engaging in a definist fallacy by suggesting that only those films and shows that bother you personally are representative and thus the entire film industry can be rightfully condemned.
All of what you said is true, but the meaning of tenure is that you are paid a salary by the university and get to keep your job. That's a very generous protection and it's offered to encourage free discussion and exchange of ideas, which is what the University is all about. There are professors who choose to ditch research and make teaching their calling, even at research universities.

Universities are not very well-run when compared to your average fortune 500 corporation, and there is a lot of skullduggery that goes on inside of academic departments, particularly those that do not receive a whole lot of research funding, such as the humanities. The path to tenure is brutal and is full of pitfalls (in fact many positions are explicitly not tenure-track; there are many, many adjunct positions where folks are paid a pittance and forced to sign very unfair contracts that must be renewed periodically). Even with all that being said, academics do enjoy a degree of freedom that those in the corporate world can only dream of.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kegworth_air_disaster

- 8 January 1989

- The Kegworth air disaster - British Midland Flight 92, a Boeing 737-400

- Pilots had an engine issue and shut down the good engine by mistake.

> The pilots throttled back the working right engine instead of the malfunctioning left engine. They had no way of visually checking the engines from the cockpit, and the cabin crew — who did not hear the captain refer to the right hand engine in his cabin address — did not inform them that smoke and flames had been seen from the left engine.

> Several passengers sitting near the rear of the plane noticed smoke and sparks coming from the left engine.

> The pilots mistakenly shut down the functioning engine. They selected full thrust from the malfunctioning one and this increased its fuel supply, causing it to catch fire. Of the 126 people aboard, 47 died and 74 sustained serious injuries.

I have no idea what the best way to communicate would be, but this is an example of an incident where it could have saved lives. It would be good if there was a protocol. (Perhaps requiring the captain's address to mention which engine they believe has the issue).
It's also blurry on a 0.7k screen, for what it's worth.
...and yet, very rarely done. That the correct technology for a news site (static content) was done, is the surprising part.
That's true, skyscrapers and cruise ships are pretty marvelous in a similar way. When I visited the Met in New York I was most fascinated by the building/complex itself. How many individual pieces, how many workers, how many design elements and functional considerations...

What makes software even more romantic is the "living" aspect of it. When you write a new text or build a new skyscraper, you incorporate the learnings and knowledge gained from prior work, but with software you actually embed a functioning copy that lives on and interacts with the new work. Repeat enough times and soon the "git blame" equivalent for your processor reflects an incomprehensible network of creative work from so many different people and times and organizations that mostly had little to no connection to each other.
Useful for human life on earth? Yes, through scientific advancements similar to what happened with the Apollo missions. Useful for human life on any other celestial body? Absolutely critical
Long-term, humanity will die. That's the reality of the situation, we'll never travel beyond our small solar system, even. We can't technology our way out of fundamental physics problems.
> A single quantum jump made by a nuclear component can thus pump up to a million times more energy into it – or get it out again

Is this different than nuclear isomers? Are they saying they made progress controlling them?
Long-term, there's no solution at all. In the short-term, it's a waste of resources that could be put to better use.
Fantastic. OpenBSD on an M1 Mac Mini would be a great home server.

As for desktop, I love cwm on my thinkpads, but macbook touchpads have won me over. That said, if arcan gets to a usable state on OpenBSD, I wouldn't mind sinking a few weekends (and/or crates of beer) into helping with improving touchpad/gesture support. X11 is just too daunting to have me bothered.
>The author’s foregone conclusion appears to be that since his conclusions are bad, so too must be his reasoning

I don't think that's accurate at all. She explicitly states that she's critiquing his reasoning and spends the vast majority of the essay doing that.

Although it's worth pointing out that a conclusion being incorrect is good evidence for either the reasoning or the premises of an argument being incorrect.
Yeah, I think a number of people in California's Department of Information Technology had similar stories prior to 2010.
Show HN: Peppa PEG – An Ultra Lightweight PEG Parser in ANSI C
After reading the [PEG Parsers series] written by Guido van Rossum, I started thinking writing a PEG Parser in ANSI C. Here are the reasons:

- It's FUN. I've made several parser libraries, such as JSON, Mustache, Markdown, and I think I can take the challenge now.

- I haven't had any opportunity to work on an Open Source project written in ANSI C.

- Having a PEG parser in ANSI C can benefit whoever is developing a parser, as adding C bindings for other programming languages are not too difficult.

And after SIX months' development, my project is now kinda feature complete. It's named Peppa PEG and you can find it here:

https://github.com/soasme/PeppaPEG

I have learned quite a lot during the journey of creating it, such as gdb, valgrind, cmake, etc. And I wouldn't make it to the end without learning from some awesome projects, such as pest.rs, cJSON, etc.

Appreciate any feedbacks! Thank you!

[PEG Parsers series]: https://medium.com/@gvanrossum_83706/peg-parsers-7ed72462f97c
What does that have to do with anything? That's just deflecting by posting something weird.
There is a saying, something like "once is bad luck, twice is a coincidence, three times is enemy action". So, if you get more than two big planes crashing in the same day, it's likely something like Al Qaeda (sp?) on 2001/09/11. If it's two planes, it's likely bad luck.
> Just a few days ago I was thinking of adding a dns block for it.

In your profile you’ll find noprocrast, maxvisit, and minaway, which you can use to limit your time on the site.

> But that 1% of the links is sweet

You can use RSS feeds to be notified of stories with over N points[1] (or another rule), lessening the desire to look at everything.

[1]: https://hnrss.github.io/#activity-parameters
ARM was going to bring back a moderate sized asteroid the size of a small car or so. The reason this works is that there are no deep gravity wells involved. The delta-v needed to move things over long periods of time is feasible if difficult.

To be explicit, the ARM mission propulsion bus, canceled in 2017, is now to be the main component of the lunar gateway program. But it's like putting the cart before the horse with no intention of getting a horse ever. All this talk about lunar gravity well exploration is just sour grapes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_and_Propulsion_Element#A...
isnt the pain of running long distance a distraction too though?
Their New Shepard seems very tourist friendly small and cheap because it's only doing a suborbital hop.
Yep, anyone dang doesn't agree with when there is a political argument in the name of decorum.
Texas Crisis Exposes a Nation's Vulnerability to Climate Change
You say this:

> Although a multiplexer can be built with standard logic gates, the implementation with transmission gates is more efficient.

But why is that? Sorry, my knowledge of electronics is still pretty limited.

Also, in footnote 2, you’re missing a period (47174 MHz) :)
But since it only speeds up part of the design process, they can’t build the hardware much faster than before and cycle time is very slow. If you’re going to worry about this at all, you should be a lot more worried about AI-designed software.
SpaceX IS the Lyft of orbital spaceflight, and currently have about 25% of the global launches and ~60% of US launches

There are about a dozen companies with rockets. The big dogs are:

United Launch Alliance (lockheed/Boeing) -USA

Northrop Grumman -USA

ArianeGroup (airbus) -EU

Mistsubishi -Japan

Khrunichev -Russia
Was there ever any doubt?
I am interested in how he A/B tests these things. I've never seen non-clickbait LMG videos, so if they're constantly testing they must not be up for long. Or they test on their forums or something like that.

(I know it sounds like I'm confirming the theory that videos don't get recommended if they're not clickbaity, but I only rarely get LTT recommendations in general. I do specifically go to the channel and look for things to watch every so often, however, and it's there that I don't see any non-clickbait test versions.)
and yet no good video of a UFO.
The 1998 game Barbie Riding Club and Windows Appcompat DB
Qs:

Anyone tracking the quantity of these events as it relates to the pandemic?
Has there been an uptick?
If so, can it be correlated with maintenance crew availability?
The countries which are the most preoccupied with recycling plastics, such as the US, are also the least likely to throw they trash into the ocean.

Plastic bags do no harm buried in the landfill, and we’re not running out of land.
Depends on your local council. Recycling is a very local issue, and so it's something communities can and should tackle head on.

But you are right, the amount of councils sending recycling to landfill is very sad.
That is kinda amusing.

On the other hand, someone telling other people how to handle ageism should definitely be prepared for such a question.

Conditional on the person I replied to's comments, if he/she is 60 I can perform a particular probability update, if they are 20 then I'll perform another probability update.

tl;dr : if you tell people how to handle aging, your own age becomes relevant.
That’s fair and a reasonable contradiction. Though I’d say that’s more in line with the huge range of optional keywords in SQL that are more a matter of readability preference than syntax.
I don't think it's clear from the OC that even if they weren't using the wrong HTTP response they would want an update to succeed if it is the same value, at which point 409 could be a reasonable response code.
There is ageism in tech, it’s very real and people have to plan for it. It’s not as old as people think it is. It’s way lower than official retirement age.

It’s like any other problem, there are solution options. Some people switch to management. But ageism affects management too.

Focusing on the age doesn’t help I any matter. Age is simply proxy for stagnation to most people. The common euphemism is you can’t teach old dog new tricks.

Focus of solving problems and delivering solutions utilizing latest tech stack and design patterns. Effectively demonstrate these dynamic abilities and open the doors to opportunities.
I'm a bit unsure what to think. From the article:

> "When you have the same kind of findings repeated ... and you keep coming up with the same finding, I think you can begin to say that the data is pretty clear"

But also:
> By 2019, more than 30 studies had examined prenatal exposure to different types of phthalates ... Not all of the papers had found consistent results, especially in the area of cognitive development, but the report's authors said that might be due to difference in study designs and children's ages.

While this finding certainly seems plausible, and the credentials of the project members are impeccable, I am a bit suspicious that they may simply be evaluating a large number of chemicals across a wide range of outcomes, and reporting on the noise.

Is there a theory on what the causal mechanism for these chemicals to cause these neurological conditions are?