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And why not?

At the rate SpaceX is moving at, they may have the world's largest orbital launch system by the end of the year. That's not even "Elon-time" anymore, it's totally within reason that they could have their first orbital Starship launch this year.

When Starship becomes commercially viable, things are going to change fast for the space industry. And that little Starbase in Boca Chica is going to be a busy place.

(And in the meantime, we get to watch all the explody tests, which is excellent entertainment!)
Weird website. It seems almost GPT-3 generated, or translated using Google Translate. Who uses the term "Planet Energy"? Why is it capitalized? If OP wasn't an old account I would assume this post is spam.
Correct.

Reading further up this comment chain:

"I think he means that uploads beyond your free Google storage are not free anymore, not even for Pixel users."

Future photos, after June, will not be "grandfathered". Only existing ones are. This is the part of the service that has been canceled.
This is a fantastic example of why it pays to be wary of subscription software. The price and terms of the deal may change at any time, leaving users hanging or without time to procure an alternative.
Thanks! I was planning to post another Show HN when Distributed Press is more ready for people to play with. Right now the API key is manually generated, but hey hit us up if anyone wants to play with alpha software ;)
Improving Print Logging/Debugging with Line Pos Info and C++20
So is Bill Gates' mega-mansion.
Because this rich tech billionaire brought about humanity-changing innovations so maybe what he says deserves some attention? Why does _your_ opinion matter?
"you need to clean up your diet and do resistance training at least 3 times a week for an hour, and be consistent."

It takes a lot more than that. A good diet and moderate exercise will keep you in a slim/lean shape, but it won't get you Hollywood ripped.

Actually having a muscular looking physic requires aggressive training, or naturally doing activity which requires lots of muscles (Dancing, climbing, acrobatics, sports).
You don't need a beefy rig to play games. The majority of developers are already struggling to produce art assets that can put a strain on top-tier hardware. The PS5 launch was dominated by two games: Demon's Souls, a jaw-droppingly beautiful game that made great use of the hardware, and Bugsnax, whose graphics looked like it could have been a Gamecube game (don't take this as a denigration). The hyped PC game of the past two weeks has been Valheim (having the fifth most-simultaneous players of any Steam game ever), whose graphics compare favorably to Tribes 2, a game from 2001. A select number of AAA studios have the resources to invest in pushing the graphical envelope; everyone else can get by just fine on five year-old hardware.
Is there a "best time" for someone to provide saliva? Is this dependent on schedule and/or age? And is this different if you are doing intermittent fasting?
Bitcoin doesn't have to use so much energy. The difficulty level is what causes the high levels of energy consumption. If we could get all the major mining groups to dismantle some % of their machines, we could reduce energy consumption with a very small cost to the group. This could reduce energy consumption, while also preserving the value of Bitcoin. Maybe Bill Gates can start signing checks to the miners? You get 10K for every machine you video destroying.
How has he not acknowledged how expensive physical settlement between banks is? A brinks truck carrying funds between banks, the bankers managing this process, all the and all of the human capital required to support the entire process?
Why? If something uses more energy for the transaction than the value of the item I am buying or selling I call that ridiculous.
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Is this true of print articles as well?

Before, when the articles had to fit a particular surface on paper, there were rules to write the article in a way that it could be comfortably cut after any paragraph and still make sense. So the first paragraph would contain a high level overview summary, then the details would pile up.

Of course it's harder and more time consuming to write like that, but it avoids the overly embellished style that many internet publications (be it newspapers or blogs) have nowadays.
Ethereum is supposedly changing over to proof of stake, but it's been a years long process
I'm with you up until the last part.

If people want to gamble with their money and get something out of it, that is their right.

I just wish people with money had a little shame and didn't spread this fairytale of these crypto currencies being anything other than a lottery ticket. The question 'how much is enough' from the movie Wall Street often comes to mind every time I see some rich scumbag like Chamath promoting bitcoin on TV. Haven't you got enough fucking money? Apparently not and so it goes.
It’s a great example of how people will use an easy quantification just because it exists. There’s a popular mindset that seems to think you can’t argue against numbers and math because they’re cold and scientific. Who cares if its a stupid number, it’s mathematically/scientifically correct!
Not once Proof of Stake is adopted next year (hopefully).
Peertube is an alternative. You usually host your own instance (or if someone is generous, they can five you some space) and it is fully decentralized. It uses ActivityPub and works with p2p. Recently they introsuced livestreaming and cross-instance search.

https://joinpeertube.org/
What about 0 percent interest rates? How much environmentally damaging malinvestment across the globe has been caused by risk free money?

Think of how carbon intensive the concrete, steel, manufacturing, power generation industry are. Not to mention the population boom beyond our earths carrying capacity needed to perpetuate our ever increasing monetary scheme requiring never ending growth where deflation can never exist.
NEO, Dash, QTUM, Algorand
Yes. Ethereum 2.0 "promises" to fix most of them though. We'll see.
Cardano and Polkadot iirc.
It seems to me that they try to make their matter-of-fact stories into quasi-prose. This doesn't work and result is mostly just boring.
I think tech has never been as open and welcoming as it has liked to believe. There was a lot of high-minded talk about the way technology removes barriers and makes differences invisible, but much of that came at a time when tech was almost exclusively the domain of white men. We didn't see racism, sexism, etc. because there weren't many black people, women, etc. to be subjected to it.

The more that are present, the more opportunities arise for that previously latent trait to become visible. It's not everybody -- far from it -- but it's more than we thought or hoped.

I suspect that your D&D group was mostly white and male, like mine. And if there were women in it, you might try asking them now about the things that they tolerated but didn't like: misogynist jokes, subjected to comments about their appearance, maybe even being assumed that they'd clean up.

I don't intend that as an accusation. It's an admission: I'm certain that this went on in my group, and I'm pretty sure I was part of it. Not that it was intolerable; they would have left if it was that bad. But it's part of my overall suggestion that it's probably not as rosy as we remember it being.

I point that out because I think the change was less about Google shifting from nerds to preps, but that the nerds are finding more opportunities to act like the preps. Not all of them, and not all the time, but enough to be a small but constant trickle.
I find it hard to believe that Bill Gates has actually quantified the environmental cost of U.S. dollar transactions...

Why do we continue to bend the mindshare knee to the guy behind the Windows Registry?
They're moving toward PoS, which should help with that: https://ethereum.org/en/developers/docs/consensus-mechanisms...
Why doesn't management create more incentives to build products/services that last? Pay a "maintenance bonus" to make in someone's financial interest to maintain and improve existing projects.
>The terminal is an untrusted device.

Untrusted by who? You?

The terminal is a trusted device in the payment system, and in most cases is the only trusted device in the store involved in the payment chain.
>Its probably being cancelled out in the basket by healthcare and education prices skyrocketing. Oh wait.

If you go to bls's site, you can easily tell what it's being canceled out by. From the looks of it, it's mostly being canceled out by low energy prices.

https://www.bls.gov/cpi/tables/supplemental-files/home.htm
What you've basically created is automated change control, but lacking some change control features. You might want to add a set of features specific to managing change control, because otherwise I'll have to build a change management system around this.

> You run an AWS CLI command in the terminal and it goes to Runops instead of AWS

Most enterprises are wary of handing over control to a vendor, especially if it's the underpinning of all operations in the company. I suggest a self-hosted/Enterprise release. After a few years of trying to make it work, the Enterprise will gladly pony up more money for a hosted cloud solution, but the self-hosted will get you in more doors.

> We do everything using Lisp. The CLI uses Clojurescript; the REST API uses Clojure.

Do you expect regular people to be able to contribute to or modify this? Do you find a lot of Lisp/Clojure devs out there for when you need to expand?

> Painless audit trails: No need complex for ETL to connect trails from Cloud Trail, Database Audit Logs, Kubernetes audit, etc.

You still have to audit those things. If a hacker gets in to your infrastructure, you have to know what they did.
This is silly. Consensus (probably, I am doubtful of PoS) isn't free. You get a choice between bitcoin mining and military force. Which do you find less harmful?

Edit: I should clarify. I am saying that the status of the USD as a reserve currency has led to lots of US military action.
Ask HN: I am only reading highly cited works, regardless of domain. Opinions?
Hi everyone, around last year i started a collection of highly cited works(books and journal articles). I’ve advanced my collection with around 600 items that i want to read and it’s increasing with around 2 items weekly. The point is to get through a lot of fundamental work that has pushed a field further, paradigm change(The structure of scientific revolutions) and expand my understanding through the eyes of these works. In the past year i went through a few books and a few dozen papers, while taking notes, learning and just thinking. At the same time, i used some open source software to build a search engine of the ebooks (>90% of my collection) and whenever i’m looking for a concept, i can read through the results from my selected sources to get a better understanding of the concept and obviously, context.

I tried to google a similar effort, but i did not find anything. Hoping to get at least near the front page to get a lot of inputs from as many perspectives i can get.

Thanks for reading
Ah, so the guy who has 133 billion dollars, doesn't want the current economic system to change? Shocking
I say Bill Gates is bad for the Planet.
The reality is PoW is the only consensus mechanism that is secure today. PoS is not secure. It will never be secure. It takes energy to secure money, it is that simple.

We will spend as much energy as is needed to secure the bitcoin monetary supply - the economic prosperity of the planet is at risk!

For all those folks out there begging for PoS bitcoin, it will never happen. Your misinformed opinions of environment/energy and your demand that I choose to spend energy in a way you approve of is oppression by the ignorant.
PoS coins are worthless rubbish. There is only bitcoin.
“Natural Is Better”: How the Naturalistic Fallacy Derails Public Health
I can't figure out what anyone means by "virtue signaling" anymore.

It seems more like the phrase "virtue signalling" is used when someone doesn't like a thing and they just label it as such...
> It enables people cut off (in one way or another) from traditional banking to actually have an account.

You mean like M-Pesa[1] but much slower, much more expensive, much more wasteful and much more hyped?

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M-Pesa
I think it's an elitism in the writing style. If you can write densely, it signals education.
What is up with the comments in this thread? Feels like tons of them are bot written. Weird attacks on Bill Gates and Microsoft all over the place.
When viewing a message, you can tap on the '...' below the address information and near the buttom of the menu will be a show headers option as well as an option to show the raw message.
Ask HN: What is your strategy for significant passive income in 2021?
Is it too late for creating content on YouTube?
This will undoubtedly feed the flames of the conspiracy theories surrounding Gates. There seems to be significant overlap between crypto enthusiasts and online conspiracy theorist cranks. I wonder if he knew this before he made the statement or just has no idea how he is viewed by some segments of the public.
I don't think you're wrong (I don't know enough), but it's quite the caricature of entrepreneur culture to say that podcasts are doing journalism better than the journalists.

NYT is one paper, from one city. The scope of print journalism is vast and probably defeats podcasts 100 to 1.
People have done the math, and the carbon cost for a credit card transaction is several orders of magnitude lower than that of a single bitcoin transaction
Right up until you have to implement, debug, or enchance these lower-level packages yourself. Then suddenly

* 95% of your users can't contribute or even understand what's going on, because they don't understand the language it's written in

* even if you do understand, you have to write in a much less expressive language (you came using Python for a reason, but end up doing all the hard work in C)

* performance gets lots at the boundary between the languages (which is why Julia nearly always outperforms Numpy)

* error messages and bugs often fall through the crack of the two languages

The fundamental argument "you can just use Python, you just have to write all the hard stuff in not-Python" is very strange to me.
> A little notice would have been nice.

Serious question: why? So an episode doesn't show up in your feed one week. I doubt I would even notice in the first place, much less jump to being concerned about the hosts' health or much less jump to feeling put out by the lack of warning.
This is almost obvious for a company made up of senior, capable developers. Hopefully no one else takes this as advice because things are already bad enough without giving people license to forgo testing or design for loose coupling.
Incorrect! Greece did not invade Turkey in WW2. It was itself invaded by Italy & Nazi Germany in WW2.
Wow, check your decency bias. Having lived in California with rolling blackouts becoming normal in the last five years, it’s hardly fair to say that Texas has a uniquely bad electrical grid. Texas got hit by a freak weather event that people weren’t prepared for. We can have an interesting discussion about why they weren’t prepared and what could be done about it, but to imply that Texas grid is unreliable in general is just silly.
Bill Gates' decades long history of shady business practices and embrace, extend, extinguish are not a "conspiracy". There's no reason to listen to Gates on this topic (he's not an expert), and it's very likely that he has financial reasons for saying what he's saying.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celtic_Interconnector

Looking forward to this coming online. Very beneficial for Ireland after Brexit.
I have no intention of using Hemingway or anything like it, but I think it is obviously targeted at business communication, not literature, so it's unsurprising that it would find issues with literature excerpts.
There's no indication that they are building any sort of structure to "catch" the first stage booster at the landing site.

edit: It was pointed out that the integration tower to the very bottom is a likely candidate.

This seems right as the proposed launch layout is slightly larger given the larger size of the booster.
In particular, drawing on an example from OP, advocacy sometimes includes things like "doing the legwork to be part of employer matching programs".
Even if it used force to establish said borders in the first place? Israel as the nation we know today only came about fairly recently, and it was only established as a modern-day state in 1948.
Economies do not necessarily have to follow differential equations with highly volatile second derivatives.

In fact, historically, they haven't.

This is only possible because of the volatility of capital markets that lead to even higher volatility in production which leads to volatility in general markets which leads to volatility in capital markets again - there is a loop of unstable prices.

And this loop is the unique and defining feature of capitalism. It didn't exist before capitalism, and in experiments like those of the Soviet Union, it didn't exist either, because there were no capital markets at all.

What you're describing is a behaviour of capital markets, but due to a lack of perspective it's described as a behaviour of economies in general - and it isn't.
i really like the new yorker, but it is 100% pretentious and it seems like the people who read/collect the magazines always fall into a bucket of "look how smart and well read i am"
But the priorities are different when you’re doing anything related to computer animation/VFX/image/video editing. If you’re mainly using the professional software that’s not only on Mac but also on Windows (such as Adobe/Autodesk products), then Macs might seem more like a luxury rather than a godsend, since raw performance is more important to your workflow than anything else. Though it’s a bit different for audio production, since it doesn’t require as much production as video/animation so you can get away with using mainstream Macbook pros, and Apple’s audio drivers and the ecosystem around it are top notch. And obviously you might want to use a Mac if you use Logic or Final Cut Pro, but they’re (surprisingly) not that widely used in the professional world.
Thanks, I had assumed that the banks organising CDSs were setting things up but the actual final transaction was directly between the two parties. So were they really in the middle selling the CDS and offloading the risk onto the likes of AIG - who was presumably thought to have zero counterparty risk?).
Agreed, but from the images I've seen, the EastMed doesn't "dip down" under the Turkish EEZ (in the corridor between the Turkish EEZ and the Egyptian EEZ), it goes straight from Cyprus to Crete. Maybe the images are simplified, though.
I read this headline, and thought....

How disappointing (and unsurprising) that Lebanon is not included in this group.

That country has suffered so much recently, COVID, Economic Depression, Bank Holiday, Syrian Refugee crisis, Explosions...

and yet their politicians can't seem to do 2+2. Horrible.
The irony is that the exact society destabilizing grand visions of the future billionaires advocate for are some of the main drivers behind people embracing Bitcoin. If you push a "you own nothing" WEF approved dystopian tech oligarch reality don't be surprised when people adopt an asset that cannot be confiscated by the government.
He's this guy --> https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/12/business/jeffrey-epstein-...
Billionaire says XYZ bad for environment. I cannot help thinking: what a hypocrite.

Poor people are much better for the environment than rich. Not even considering private-jet flying super rich.

I think BG has no business telling others what's good/bad for the planet.
Apache Kafka for GDPR Compliance
So I'm guessing you're fat?
PED is a broad term for Performance-enhancing drugs.

There's two big categories, SARMs and Roids. Everyone knows roids, you take them, you get big. SARMs are lesser known but tend to lower body fat while preserving/gaining muscle (since normal cutting routine you will lose lots of muscle).

There's also fat burning drugs which are their own third category with DNP and Clenbuterol being the most common. Both are very dangerous and have a host of side effects, these are what hollywood/celebrities use to slim up fast.

It's a fantastic research rabbit hole to go down, and they're much more prevalent than you think.
Is anyone aware of an open-sourced codebase that uses a highly restrictive standard like this? Probably more like likely just plain MISRA, since anything developed by Lockheed using this doc would be classified I'm sure.

I've seen standards like this shared a few times, but never seen the code they actually result in.
Voodoo Finance for Sick Markets: Stocks and Covid-19
Holders angry at climate change point because they want to triple their investments.
(Can't believe we have to use "old"/"new" delimiters here either, while Google gets to pretend it's the same thing.)

Well, there's also the "old old" Google Pay...or Wallet, or whatever it was called when I tried to use it. That didn't work well, thereby helping to accelerate the end of my Android experiment. But apparently, according to a friend at the time, the new Google Pay worked much better. But not well enough, obviously, because now Google is rolling a "new new" Google Pay.

I quit using a lot of Microsoft products because of rebranding bullshit like this. Which one do I use, and why is this one better? Oh, if I'm going to go to all that trouble, I'll just try a different product entirely, then.
The industry loves testing because the industry (big handwave, encompassing a huge pile of heterogeneous software development houses) is in the business of risk management and scaling practices.

If SO needs to double its engineering base tomorrow, can they? A well-tested infrastructure means you can trust engineers less deeply familiar with the system to make improvements without breaking pieces they aren't familiar with. The tests provide a bit of a behavior-expectations guarantee (not foolproof, as there's good language theory indicating why unit testing can't be sufficient for proof of correctness, but better than nothing). Without it, you have less safety net if junior programmers change component A failing to realize that component F deeply removed from it was assuming some behaviors of A.

One piece of this post worth noting:

> Currently, we’re trying to change this. We’re actively trying to write more tests and make our code more testable. It’s an engineering goal we aim to achieve, but the changes needed are significant.

... and that means if they have a reason to massively scale-up tomorrow, their codebase isn't starting in a good place to make that change. They've made a first-to-market risk tradeoff that they may have to pay for if they need to add a bunch of new engineers right now and have them operating independently by Friday.
Actually, why isn't there a Wikipedia-like open system for scientific publication?

It doesn't seem to be too hard technically or operationally.
I'm not talking about the increase in value, I'm talking about housing expenses.

There is/was a rent moratorium in the US, which would have reduced housing expenses in practice.
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This comment may be too meta but this post just made me appreciate Hacker News so much! Classic creative hacking guided by nothing but pure curiosity. Love it!