skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Every entity I interact with online collects my data. The saving grace is that they don’t often compare notes. I do not want any entity to have all of my data, even if it has my ssn redacted
They were included indirectly. The Dynetics bid proposed ULA's Vulcan Centaur as the baseline launch vehicle with SLS as an option. The Blue Origin bid baselined New Glenn but included Vulcan Centaur as an option.

So both other bidders proposed a ULA rocket either as the primary or back-up launch vehicle.
The argument was "general purpose computer" which would include games. It's not exclusively a gaming device
Yes, all this is part of a larger problem. But it can be fixed or at least mitigate it as much as possible
I never said anything about converging or not. My GP's post simply points out that having repeated computations with arbitrary input is wasteful.

"Your argument is as invalid as..." ROTFL

Wake me up when Bitcoin moves to a PoS consensus

(Btw, I recommend whoever is reading to also steer clear of PoS coins... If you want to invest, look elsewhere)
I think OPs comment is accurate. He does lose his ability to be used as a moral compass. He might still be funny and have interesting insights but he is not a moral compass.
Pretty much. Their main geopolitical rivals in Europe imploded thanks to WWI and WWII. Had Europe not levelled itself, the USA likely would never have caught up in terms of economic superiority, and the USA would've remained a strongly isolationist middle power.

(Now keep in mind that the prospect of a peaceful 20th century Europe is unrealistic. Europe was a warring tinderbox at the time, and even if WWI and WWII had not happened, a conflict of similar scale likely would've broken out in Europe regardless. Any number of destructive conflicts could've broken out, including a Soviet invasion of Germany and Western Europe. In short, it's really hard to construct a timeline where the USA wouldn't have been catapulted into superpower status due to war in Europe)
> The fact you are warned in advance that something bad is going to happen doesn't make it less bad. Just more manageable.

Exactly, it was very manageable. They could have avoided writing a whole library (FastAPI) knowing it was going to break inevitably. They could have raised concerns during three years.
For me most of my BTC is in a multisig contract between 3 physical trezors in another continent, so actually I am not able to change my decision just because the price dips. Still, as I'm planning to change my portfolio, I'm afraid more of the execution risk than the volatility.

One thing I can tell you is that banks hate people executing the Kelly strategy, as they expect wealth of people to be predictable so that they can issue loans against it to other people.
If this isn't a sign of a super-frothy market top, I don't know what is.

There's too much capital chasing too few investment opportunities.
Oh please no; give me a hard fail I can localize and fix rather than some kind of awful brownout where various parts of the system just go slow and break things just as badly anyway.

Plus you'd need to be way in the guts of the TLS implementation to achieve this; if you're already there, start generating noise a week ahead of the expiration instead.

Or better, none of the above and automate.
I am also surprised, and somewhat heartened by this decision. They are basically saying they are committed to going to the moon... they aren’t going to “give it up”. However, they are implicitly saying it is not going to be a place they are going to spend a ton of cash. This is no longer a job shop, but instead a steps to making real progress.
What a vacuous article; even for one that actually takes a look at the history -- the "how did this come about?" It's as if it's been blanched, and the result taken as all there is to know---a skin-deep truth.

The U.S does not have "the best research universities," it simply has the most "prestigious ones," that continue to survive and thrive due to centuries of compounding network effects (and a little of help from the 19th century American middle class and a lot of help from the wholesale philanthropy of our robber barons).

Research had been considered a dilettante endeavor, meant only for the betters, until those lower down the ladder decided "I want that," and went off to try and "learn" their way into becoming cultured (see: gentlemen).

And not even a single mention of how the real "university revolution" (where being an academic is now a middle class job, instead of simply an upper class past-time), were spear-headed by Fred Taylor and Fred Gates. Both of these preachers-turned-family-office-managers were vital for the adoption and expansion of "scientific" and "medical" schools of thought (in order to fuel the industrial and allopathic medical industries -- to make more money and get more bodies).

Skin-deep this article is.
There are business niches everywhere – I should stop being surprised when one becomes visible.

> But the [sports/trading/collectible] card boom had made the current growth unsustainable. PSA was receiving 500,000 cards every five days, which was more than the company took in every three months before the COVID-19 pandemic started. The number of packages received per month rose from under 18,000 this past November to nearly 30,000 in February, and it eventually caused the system to buckle. In its statement, PSA said the company had grown from 421 employees in January 2020 to 783 this March, still not nearly enough for the surge that has happened over the past 12 months.
This is funny to hear, because a lot of the CS research I care about, namely compilers, comes from Europe, particularly IIRC ETH Zurich.
The use case where said binary is shipped to GCE instances hundreds/thousands times per day, for stress testing and unit testing of cockroachdb.
Seems they're working on it, at least[1].

ULA has never designed a crew spacecraft. They're just launching it.

The Starliner is a Boeing product.

Not sure your point here? Is that supposed to be a negative thing? Both companies have a massive amount of aerospace experience going back decades.

And yet why did NASA chose SpaceX over dynetic, which is full of old companies?

SpaceX is an 18 years old company who developed the Falcon 1, Falcon 9(with further 4 iterations), the first Dragon, Dragon 2(with Cargo and Crew variant). They also achieved reusability with supersonic landing, an industry first.

Boeing mismanaged their Starliner program to the point that they failed their test flight due to program mismanagement and now have to wait years before they can relaunch Starliner, and thus SpaceX was able to start their commercial crew contract first. Boeing also drastically mismanaged the SLS program. As it is years behind schedule and cost billion of dollars.

Lockheed Martin? I don't know much about except the constant controversy surrounding their F-35 program.

I'll have to say this: decade of experience means not much if you're slow, inefficient, and do shitty jobs.

It's not like SpaceX lack decades of experience either. They have industry veterans too, not just fresh graduate from schools. One of the reasons that they were able to get anywhere in the early days was because they have folks who knows the space industry and able to work with the military.
Man, all I can say is you are working for a bad prof then. I can't imagine any of my former advisors/colleagues/etc punishing me for declining to be a co-author.
I'm not sure a rocket landing could blow a rock into a stable moon orbit. Blow them to escape velocity maybe.

But if a rock is "in orbit" after being blown upward and away from the moon's surface, then wouldn't its "orbit" pass beneath the moon's surface?
10 years too late but better late than never...
Y'know Washington Post tries too hard to show that its independent journalism. One time I saw it saying some -ve about Amazon.
The duties on smokes here just cause more people to move to black market chop chop. Another example of idiot politicians refusing to address the underlying causes of addiction and instead fellating themselves over how smart they are banning something
I don't like this insistence that "as long as you read both sides you will be better informed"

If my news all comes from huffpost and breitbart, I won't be more informed than someone who just reads the New York Times, just angrier and disaffected.
It's a tool to build and host websites, pretty big difference
Good luck with the letter. It's hard to convince someone who's certain that they already know everything.
DevSecOps Is in “Arrested Development” Phase
Yeah, that's why Epic Games have been transparent enough to post this incident report: not to provide some explanation to their customers, or some information that the rest of us might be able to learn something from, but so that people on HN can make entirely unfounded accusations about the state of their organisation based on (at best) weakly correlated behaviours and symptoms.

Be reasonable: you know nothing about how Epic Games treats their IT staff or whether or not the team is adequately resourced. I wouldn't say certificate expiry is something that happens particularly often, but I have seen it happen, and it's been simply an oversight rather than an indication of some serious systemic issue.
Technical pros and cons. They way it works is that when you use their login you get prompted to register with them, which is done using a phone number. From what I understand they do not keep the phone number, they just send my site a token that says "yep, this person = that phone number"
These browsers make up less than 4% of market share and their actions are largely meaningless. Only fringe users (IE readers of hackernews) use these browsers.

If you're looking for info on adtech changes outside of chrome, look at safari. Apple has been making big pro-privacy moves for a couple years, and they actually have meaningful market share.
"SLAM" is this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simultaneous_localization_and_...
Spacecraft can dock with other spacecraft, they don't need a station to facilitate that. It's especially nonsensical now that Starship was chosen, since Starship is much larger than Gateway.
Controlling what market? The browser market?

A large part of Apple's brand, at this point, is security from snooping, personal privacy, etc etc. It makes sense to control the browser on the iPhone for privacy than it does to seek to eliminate browser competitors. Safari isn't a crucial part of their revenue, devices with the security promise are. Furthermore, the browser seems to be the key space where use privacy is violated from, via cookies and other tracking software. If Apple want's to say they have a pro-privacy device, controlling the browser makes sense for that goal.

It just doesn't make business sense for Apple to be attempting to control the browser market. Maybe you mean they are controlling some other market through the browser, though.
Oh agree that there are a ton of other reasons for it was just curious. And to be honest I don't know any of those companies. Vaguely familiar with Klarna, no clue on Revolut, is hellofresh the originator or the follower of Blue Apron?
Prevent abusers, single stable identity per human, but you can't cross-reference the identifiers and they don't store anything.

... color me suspicious. I'd read the technical details, but I can't seem to find any through the wayback archive.
Sorry - my company is an audio social network. Because we don't use a camera for our live streaming many of our members tend to be shy and possibly privacy focused.
Understood, but from that ID how can they query what sites people have visited? I thought it was just "I belong to this cohort" with no knowledge of what that cohort is?
Boeing also bid on the original contract, but was kicked out of the competition at an earlier stage. Their bid was rejected because it didn't address key requirements in the contract solicitation.

A senior NASA manager, Doug Loverro, is accused of reaching out to Boeing and trying to help them amend their bid to avoid it being rejected. For a NASA staff member to offer help to one of the bidders is illegal, and due to that, Loverro was forced to resign from NASA, and is now under criminal investigation. He justified his actions on the belief that without Boeing in the lander procurement, the lander was dead. I guess today's announcement just proves how wrong he was.
The Case for Supercore Inflation
Context if you first read comments then check article: this is here because the site was down right after it made it to the front page.
You're not the only LibraryThing user around - we get drowned out in these HN threads because the UI isn't sexy.
> Can all be gamed.

Yeah, it’s uncomfortable that often the fame comes before the actual quality, because they gamed it. But then there got to be a start. Self-PR is one major critical weapon in the country that pushes freedom to the maximum extent.
Do you support organ donation being opt-in as well?
I actually would like a better algorithm for suggestions. I can scroll fifty pages of their basic suggestions before I hit something I’m interested in and don’t already have. I would really like to fetch their catalogue and try the Netflix search improvement contest, but for books!
I agree. I think it's worth pointing out that investing in crypto-currencies is really no different from investing in any currency say Euro. And when you have money in a US bank-account you are (typically) "invested" in US Dollars. But see below, that really is not investment, but speculation.

Investing in a currency/cash is speculation in the sense that currency itself does not produce anything but its value can go up and down. Investing in a currency is like investing in roulette in casino, you may win and you may lose.

So, keeping your money in bank for ~0% interest really is gambling/speculation too.

But, from the point of view of the individual investor it does not matter if you are "investing" or "speculating". In both cases you may win and you may lose.
> can anyone point me to high profile megacap EU startups

Don't waste your time looking, there are none or almost none.

EU is simply not geared (anymore) for this type of endeavor to succeed:

- finance infrastructure for this is non-existent (VCs are a joke in Europe, both in terms of size and in terms of the type of stuff they invest in)

- risk-taking is simply not a cultural value anymore

- administrative burdens (taxes, labor laws, cost of labor, hyper-restrictive regulations, etc ...) are such a gigantic drag that most people potentially potentially capable of starting such things either walk away, or move to a place where they can actually conduct business (historically, the US, although it's not as good as it was).

- at least in Western Europe, (Germany, France), people are so very comfy in their social cocoon (social security, retirement, social programs), the whole notion of "making it" (e.g becoming truly financially independent) is *very* hard for them to even understand. Net effect: no motivation, no GOOG/FB/AMZN/TESLA/SpaceX

- the US has a "let the tree grow first, we'll regulate once it bears fruits" attitude towards emerging and potentially disruptive tech. The EU on the other hand has a "oh, my god, this is potentially very disruptive, someone ought to legislate, and quick".

When you try to propose a SpaceX sized idea to a bunch of smart engineers in EU, the immediate reaction is a non-stop list of detailed explanation why the plan simply can't happen. Having really big plans in the EU is a guaranteed way to be classified as complete bozo.
Mirror in case of paywall:

* https://archive.is/Agb9M
Ask HN: Career advice for software engineer/analyst at med-tech manufacturer
As the title says, I'm a SE at a mid-size ($100-$200m rev) med device contract manufacturer. It's cool to play a part in how info is collected/analyzed/managed here. We have a strong mfg eng culture, but SE/data mgmt has not been a high priority until I arrived, which can make my job frustrating.

I've done cool projects with .Net stack that clct/org/anlyze data from the factory. I was alone for about two years and after much convincing, we recently hired a second SE.

Started on an agile team at a marketing tech co, then built dapps at crypto consultancy with Node/React/Solidity and did product dev, tech writing, architecture and engineering. It was cool, and I found that I love going through the full SDLC to build something interesting/valuable. Then I did some consulting and ended up in my current gig that way.

I love the idea of helping a legacy mfg co modernize their digital ops--especially a company that makes the stuff that we make. But, it is frustrating. I have a lot of reg documentation, long approval times, and training users how to use the software and getting their feedback... which isn't bad... everyone is nice and it's a change of pace from a typical environment where you rarely get to interact with your users.

At times, I find myself questioning if this is a good position for my career. I have an atypical background (been interested in econ for a while, did equity rsrch for a hedge fund in high school/freshman yr, left school after death in fam, did bootcamp instead of more college) but I love learning, and I read tech blogs, etc. every day. I stay in touch with the veteran SEs I've worked with in the past and for advice, but a lot of times I still question if I'm doing the right thing for myself, the company I'm at, and now the engineer we recently hired....

So HN: does anyone have experience working with/for a legacy manufacturer trying to improve their digital ops? Also, what advice might you have for my career path?

Cheers.
We agree that social media should GTFO of children's lives at least! I'm just responding to the parent who said the kid's "friend groups are arranging to meet in the park or whatever via WhatsApp". If they are arranging these things and leaving the kid out, that doesn't sound like very friendly behavior to me.

Back when I was a kid and dinosaurs roamed the earth, we made after-school plans in 4th period math, because we were all in the same class. If my friends suddenly started making plans in a class where they knew I wasn't present, I'd start questioning whether they were really friends.
Imagine if cigarettes were legal for all ages. It might fair to call on both cigarette companies to stop selling to children and also to call on parents to prevent their kids from smoking.
There will always be exceptions to generalizations. One or a few exceptions dont't make the generalizations less valid.
I tend to disagree. Good universities (as well as other schools) feed students’ curiosity and sense of exploration. Bad ones just push them through an educational assembly line where they graduate at the end. The former boosts students’ self-confidence and personality development, the latter doesn’t.
depends on firms and their work contracts and definition of "internal recruiters"
We would definitely have to make some product changes, but the pitch (which I kind of get) is that we differentiate by using a privacy-focused, non-profit identification method, thereby signaling we value our users' privacy. Given the issues with Clubhouse of late I think this could have value.
One way inflation can start becoming persistent:

> That is, each time [the seller] resets the price it will mark it up both to make up for past inflation and to get ahead of expected future inflation. If it changes prices once a year, it will raise the price 10 percent on each reset.

> And if there are lots of price-setters acting this way, it means that overall prices will rise at 10 percent a year, even if there’s no new inflationary pressure — that is, even if supply and demand are balanced and the economy isn’t overheating. This is pretty much what we mean when we talk about “embedded” inflation.

> Now suppose that policymakers want to bring inflation down. They have a problem: inflation has a lot of inertia. To get it down they need to give sellers a reason not to raise prices as much as they have been in the recent past. They can do this by pushing the economy into a recession. And if the recession is deep and long enough, the economy can be purged of inflation: not only will sellers stop raising prices as quickly, but they’ll begin expecting lower inflation in the future, which means smaller price increases, and so on. Eventually the economy can be reflated, at a permanently lower rate of inflation.

> That is, however, a hugely expensive process, as we saw in the 1980s. So you really don’t want to let inflation get embedded in the first place. But how do you know if that’s happening?

And what may happen when the post-pandemic 'recovery' starts:

> So I expect to see a lot of price blips outside food and energy — some resulting from “base effects,” that is, recovery of prices that were depressed during the worst of the pandemic, some resulting from those bottlenecks. You can already see some of that in the latest consumer price report. For example, ordinary rents rose only 0.1 percent in March, but lodging away from home rose 6.6 percent.

> What this suggests is that in the months ahead the numbers won’t speak for themselves. Headline inflation will surely be a poor guide to what’s really happening, even worse than it was in 2011-12. Even core inflation as usually measured may be misleading.

> This doesn’t mean that we should discount inflation risks entirely. It does mean that we’ll need to kick the tires on whatever inflation readings we get, and try, as objectively as possible, to figure out whether or not they’re actually reason for concern.
In my experience even Eclipse does a pretty good job of importing Maven projects without needing to tweak things.
I don't agree with this, but there is evidence that kind of supports it. The W3c group set up to build on privacy sandbox that came up with floc/petrel/etc wrote an open letter to the w3c advisory about how google was refusing to work with the group.

https://www.theregister.com/2020/07/17/aggrieved_ad_tech_typ...
My understanding (could be wrong) is that it's all open source and they don't keep any of the users' data themselves.
I feel this deeply, especially the final paragraph. Feels really depressing sometimes to think how much of what we define as "value" can seem essentially predatory.
"You cannot rehabilitate a person without rehabilitating their self-esteem, their perception of being a man or a woman,"

Oddly enough, the 1st time I came across this idea was as a high school student in Marvel Comics' Secret Wars -- when X-Man Piotr Nikolayevich Rasputin/Colossus was healed. After his healer repaired the damage with her glowy magic hands, she proceeded to have a relationship with him. Meanwhile at least one onlooker concluded, that in her culture, this was all just a part of the healing process, and felt sorry for Piotr who had the wrong idea.
No, that's probably a scam. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZaijNcRuzsQ
> If it possibly might end badly, it must never happen out of lab.

This is an absurd line of thinking. You can always make up some infinitesimally unlikely outcome for any action. The fact is mosquito-transmitted diseases are a real problem, the risks you are talking about are not.