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SpaceX usually deorbits their second stage rockets over the ocean in a controlled manner. The article you linked is about a one-off case where the rocket engine failed to re-light and ended up reentering in an uncontrolled manner.

There's a big difference between something like this happening due to an accident, and it being done on purpose as a matter of course.
> It has ordered Facebook to review the decision and "justify a proportionate response" that is applied to everyone, including ordinary users.

Are they serious? "Ordinary users" cannot mobilize thousands to storm the capital or spread mask propaganda at a massive scale.

The sheer amount of people that can be afected by Trump, the scale of it- warrants extraordinary measures to prevent him.
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Popup blocking is basically standard and expected, don't see why ad blocking couldn't become so too.
How well does Manta.com work for acquiring customers for a small business owner?
Roman medicine long, long predates scientific medicine, and was quite magic-oriented.
The parent did say “I suspect the real issue is that it offered an explanation (not a justification)”, which is close to the point I was making.
> Why would Facebook, as a private entity, be required to provide such?

OP didn't say that Facebook is required to do that. Note that Facebook is also not required to have an oversight board or anything similar.
For a new generation of 10000 every day.

https://xkcd.com/1053/
If you re-read the comment I was replying to I don't think your comment as a reply to mine makes a lot of sense.

I'm not arguing what's good and bad, nor what should or should not be in the Go language.
I think the argument that corporate rights are unassailable when it comes to censoring people from monopoly or near-monopoly platforms is a little disingenuous.

I don’t mean that you can’t make the argument, I’m just not sure it’s a thing that anyone but the staunchest free-marketeers actually believes.
IMHO "based on a true story" applies also if you're sticking to literally true facts but intentionally omitting other facts and misrepresenting in order to get an entirely opposite impression. I mean, you're twisting the story, but it's definitely still based on that story; and only facts can be true or false, but the interpretation, ethos and "spirit of the truth" is essentially arbitrary; you may consider that the facts drive home a particular conceptual point, but everyone is free to try and use them to drive home an entirely opposing conceptual point. It's a lie if the facts are not literally true, but representation and alternate interpretations of them is permissible even in nonfiction, and absolutely fair game in fiction.
I don’t think the informed technical opinions are nearly as rare as danluu characterizes them to be, to wit: “it’s rare that a thread will have even a single comment that's well-informed”.

I do agree that the farther you get from computer tech, the more frequently you’ll see patently wrong comments (aviation is my eye-roll inducing topic here), but on computer tech topics, I’d say more than 50% of substantive comments have positive correlation with correctness and more than 30% are actively good.
Here's a project bringing Boston into Cataclysm DDA. The visuals of MapSCII could easily pass as screenshot for that game.

https://old.reddit.com/r/cataclysmdda/comments/n32lj3/real_w...
"HN comments are horrible."

Proceeds to list pages of awesome comments.

Claims topics he's informed about have mostly wrong comments.

Doesn't give any examples.

HN comments are a conversation/discussion not a contest of who is right/wrong, and it's great to have differing viewpoints as long as those views don't degrade into logical fallacies like ad hominem, ,anecdotal, or others.

There are way less logical fallacies on HN than other sites which is what I love about it.

I think some people just want an echo chamber.
> hypocrites in the future

Hate to break it to you, but most people call them that now. Zuck funded democratic positions for the election, removed relevant content to the election (hunter Biden laptop, senate intelligence report, etc), then banned the then sitting president.
How is it different from snapping the speedometer in a car for clout?
Maybe I misinterpreted the cause and effect here, but is there a meaningful difference between a Snapchat video with a "speed filter" and a cellphone video of somebody driving fast that includes footage of their car's speedometer? Is any speed gauge likely to make people drive fast, and therefore open to litigation?

Edit:

Here's footage of the Speed Filter in action:

https://youtu.be/Bk45g_5l6m0?t=68

https://youtu.be/SUcvsHxaX_o?t=100

You'll note that neither of them have any special display for reaching fast speeds (IE "incentivizing" driving over the speed limit), and that the first one even says "Don't snap and drive".
> (e.g. home address).

Have you considered contacting the kid's parents about this?
Radiolab did an episode on it:
https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/articles/faceb...
I need to update this for the latest generics syntax, but I wrote this a while back: http://www.jerf.org/iri/post/2955 "Why Go Getting Generics Will Not Change Idiomatic Go"

I do not understand the people who think that functional-esque programming is the only and best way to do things who are apparently just sitting and waiting for Go to be able to do it. Are you forced to use Go or something? This is an honest question, btw, and I am legitimately interested in answers. If the only reason or the biggest reason you're not using Go is that you can't import map-centric programming into it, why not use any of the many languages that support that rather than griping about a language where it's still ultimately going to be bodged on? Again, honest question, because there's no shortage of such languages.

My perception is that Go isn't that popular that there's a lot of people forced to use it against their will because it's just The Language.

Anyhow, even after generics drop, it still isn't going to be any fun. I expect to use a map here or there often enough that it'll be nice to have it in the standard library but there's no realistic way that it's going to become "the best way to program in Go". If you're waiting to try it out after the generics drop, I would suggest trying something else instead; Elixir, Nim, Crystal, Pony.
We have speed limits on e-scooters and e-bikes, it's only path dependence that means we don't have them on cars, despite the obvious difference in risk.
I'll bet you created the environment with Elastic Beanstalk, whose job it is to (among other things) replace instances if they fail.

When you stopped the instance in EC2, EB did its job and created a new instance.

You eventually figured this out and killed the EB env, and the instances stopped reappearing.

But the Elastic IP address assigned to your EB env is still on your account, and it's no longer free of charge, because you don't have a running instance.

So you will be billed about a €/mo until you delete the Elastic IP reservation.

This is ridiculously confusing, and ridiculously common.
> Twitter has been doing well since its Trump ban.

Really? Not everyone agrees... (might not have anything to do with Trump though)

Twitter stock plunges on user miss and low guidance PUBLISHED THU, APR 29 2021 4:05 PM EDT

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/04/29/twitter-twtr-earnings-q1-202...
A speedometer does the opposite of encouraging unsafe behavior by alerting you to the unsafeness of that behavior. The filter in question encouraged unsafe behavior by incentivizing such behavior for social engagement, however absurd you think that incentivization is personally. This is a bit like saying a frat house hazing isn't wrong because no one actually makes the kids drink, the social incentive remains dangerous.
Conversely, if you know that using utm_ parameters will break for a large number of your users, you just won’t use it, no?
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Such regulations are flagrantly violating First Amendment rights of freedom of association and freedom from compelled speech.
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Agreed. In fact, some dashcams have built-in speedometers (via GPS tracking I believe). Should manufacturers be forced to disable them and/or face liability in case someone uses a dashcam to capture their dangerous driving?
Hidalgo was another “based on a true story” that wasn’t true

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2004/03/is-hidalgo-reall...
One of the discussions that always forms when talking about formally verified software is the whole verifying-the-verifier scenario. AKA, all of the reasons why you still can't trust it. And while that is an interesting conversation to have, it does a disservice to the practical benefits of the software verification process.

The Linux CVE database was recently analyzed and it was determined that 96% of the vulnerabilities would be mitigated to at least non-critical status, if not completely eliminated, if linux were a microkernel architecture. Now throw in capabilities oriented security, and most of non-critical exploits become non-exploits. Throw in formal verification of the kernel, and you've basically eliminated everything except for hardware exploits.

Assuming mass adoption, what seL4 effectively does is turn million dollar black market zero days into billion dollar zero days...possibly more. A million dollar exploit probably isn't even a line-item in the FBI budget. A billion dollar exploit would be a "needs-congressional-approval" type of line-item in the national US intelligence budget. Unless your job revolves around protecting the nuclear arsenal of a major nation-state, you won't ever have to worry about OS vulnerabilities, and you can rely on the security characteristics of the OS to drastically narrow down your attack surface.

To me, that is a pretty big deal. It is slowly becoming a moral imperative that we start adopting this sort of security as a core standard.
sel4 has a Haskell version that they write before the C (granted, not sure how a ghc generated binary would be verified) but would the problem be tractable in that case?
You can buy a wd mybook and extract the drive, it’s cheaper than buying nas drives and if you get >= 6tb they should be equivalent to wd reds. You can checkout r/datahoarder over at Reddit, there’s much information on the topic.
Usually they wrote us a check for the wrong amount at some point and end up with a small balance remaining in their account. We don't want to just forgive and forget every time somebody owes us $0.16, but if it's been there months and it's going to take extra effort to get it from them, it's probably not worth it.

We do try to determine where the discrepancy started and watch for indicators of a bigger issue.
He was clear that the film was mostly fiction but evidently wasn't clear the same was true about his book and his work for the FBI...
I used Z3 at work to check equivalence of two sets of firewall rules https://ahelwer.ca/post/2018-02-13-z3-firewall/
Not at all. Major apps and OSes put a "choose your race" message on their UI (and very strongly direct people to make that choice). This does not mean there was pre-existing latent demand for this.

What this shows is if you inject the concept of racial self-identity onto cartoon symbols, and afford people a way to navigate that selection, people can do that. Not that anyone wanted this, or that this feature is beneficial.
But we now need a version with elbows.
Good. Leaders of terrorist, fascist insurrections should not be allowed this kind of public platform, nor should businesses be required to carry speech from the worst among us. I hope Facebook is successful in justifying the ban in the 6 month timeline they've been given by their oversight board.
I think the tracking landscape is such that you can't trust ANY of the companies involved in it. I personally divide tracking companies into those that were caught doing something shady with the data and those that are doing it but were not yet caught.

School apps should not involve ANY tracking, regardless of your opinion about the company.

Kids require special protection because they don't yet know how to function in the world and can't make informed decision about whether they want or don't want to be tracked and in fact for these kinds of apps, they are not even consulted or asked to consent.

Schooling is obligatory. I can make decision whether I want to use the internet or not and whether I want to be identified, but kids don't make that decision -- they are being forced to use the software provided by schools.
There is a possible case of fiction being taken as a _historical_ text: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historia_Augusta

At one time this was taken quite seriously, and it's still an important historical source given how little is available on some of the time periods it covers, but it's unclear what it was _supposed to be_. It clearly wasn't intended as a historical text.
As a Queen fan myself I think the movie was just a way for Brian May and Roger Taylor to cash on Freddie's legacy.

It's full of wrong facts and misplaced events (most famous is the HIV positivity disclosed before Live Aid (1985), Freddie discovered his positivity in 1987) and John Deacon role was taken to the minimum level.

They won 5 oscars.
I think we've seen this before.

Comments, everywhere are terrible. Heck, this one probably is.

But I like HN more than anywhere else (so far). Maybe rot will set in, and the sun will set on our relationship, but not yet.

I find many comments to be quite correct. Not all, of course, but many.

The ones that I like, are the ones that make me think "orthogonally."
Every country has some of this, the Dutch example:

https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zesjescultuur
because the service accesses the link and follows the redirects and then returns the final link to you, with tracking removed
Like anything, great things die with popularity, or at least become just good.

When I started reading HN ten years ago it was a vastly different culture among users. Or maybe I just didn't recognize the underhanded asshole tones.

Either way, HN is still good enough compared to any alternatives I know about. I guess that's just life though.
Only relatively recently has NVIDIA implemented B-Frames into NVENC. If I am not mistaken, AMD still does not have this capability. I am not deeply well versed in this space though, but if memory bandwidth is such a huge bottleneck, how does the CPU do it so efficiently comparatively? GPU surely wins in this area? Is it just designed that way so that consumer cards can offer realtime speeds? I'm not sure why this couldn't be configurable in some way.
How do we know Abagnale and Logan aren't working together on a hoax hoax hoax? ;-)
Reproduction is in fact a biological imperative - your gene line will die without it. People don't eat food because they know they'll die if they don't, they eat because they're hungry. Biology tells the animal what it needs to do. There is a natural drive even if it's not technically a requirement for the individual animal (human) to survive in the environment.
What sources did you use to inform this view?
Since we're throwing blame around how about the parents take actual responsibility for their shitty parenting?
The problem is, what to do when your account hits the limit? The subtle point about EC2 is you can’t actually shut down servers and have them come back up later unless you have a specific configuration - which not everybody has, so you can’t simply power off systems and not destroy something. Not insurmountable, but not trivial either. You also can’t say that there’s a limit except for an incompatible subset of products, nor can you ask users to be okay with randomly destroying things - the mere rumor of that destroys user trust in something. (Who’s still shy about using EBS despite the last major incident being back in… 2016? Also that outage was limited to one region.)
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I can't think of one. There are already far too many of them to view at once on a phone, so adding more doesn't make things much more disorganized. Storage capabilities also grow faster than the standard adds new symbols.

Frankly I think it's a bad look when people suddenly become very passionate about opposing updates once they are reminded of the existence of dark skinned emojis. They're just silly little drawings, people. If someone is so upset by others being able to send silly little drawings that vaguely resemble themselves, they should do some introspecting.
It seems like this is a consequence of the Long March 5 using a variation on the "stage and a half" design where the main engine fires from liftoff to orbit, with side boosters being discarded in a suborbital trajectory. The Atlas Rocket family (prior to Atlas V), Energia/Buran, and the Space Shuttle had a similar design, with a bulky central stage left in low earth orbit, where its will probably deorbit in an unpredictable location. Fortunately, in the case of the shuttle, the engines were on the orbiter, so only the relatively light fuel tank had the problem, while the Atlas used a balloon tank[1] which relied on the pressure of its fuel and oxidizer for structural integrity that would presumably collapse and break up in an atmosphere.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balloon_tank
To you and sibling comment: oooookay, you're thinking from the position of an obfuscated link sharer/sender, not receiver.

You want ClearURLs (or something else) to always resolve to a canonical link, so that you're easily able to share this canonical URL, and to never have a tracked URL in your URL bar so that you don't share it by mistake. Makes sense.
Because this software cost about dollar to make (it sucks).
I think if a social media organization encouraged a #highspeedometer hashtag they could also be liable. It's not the filter or the speedometer, it's that Snapchat set up a defacto social incentive for speeding.
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A filter that broadcasts your speedometer to your followers live is different though. Almost like watching a live race car driver.
> You seem to be imagining a ‘universal-ish intermediate language’

To clarify, I do not mean that each developer would be using a different language -- they would all be writing "Python", they'd just using a superficially distinct syntax that each finds most pleasant/familiar/ergonomic.

> Remembering whether blocks are delimited with braces, indentation or e.g. ‘then/end’ is a no-brainer.

I tend to find the same, at least after an initial learning phase. In fact, I sometimes find distinct languages with similar syntax confusing since I subconsciously expect the same behavior and packages too.

Having said that I've taught and TA'd Scheme, Java, Jess, and block languages like Scratch & Alice many years ago, and in those cases a significant number of students found unfamiliar syntax to be a major hurdle, especially if it was one of their first two programming languages.

Also, judging by the volume of online complaints about Python's semantically meaningful indentation, Ada's array indexing, and Lisp's parentheses these kinds of conventions do seem like a concern even for experienced developers.

> one would still have to deal with all the non-language parts of the environment, like the library, packages, the build system.

Right, that would be the point, to be able to use a language's library/packages/build system without necessarily using its original syntax.
I assume size (ie it's not big enough to be a dildo, which Romans also used), but also we know that Romans used phallic amulets commonly: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulla_(amulet)#Roman_boys
I'll bite, I down voted because you seem excited about the inevitable clash between laws that are almost certainly unconstitutional/ill conceived/partisan, and social media companies.

It seems like a gigantic waste of time, at best, to try and enact and enforce those laws. Also, it's going to open a gnarly can of worms when someone weaponizes them by running for office to get themselves unbanned from a platform.
Or, they'll beat us in the next (current) space race by moving fast and breaking things.
probably because it worked so well last time.
Trump started his own website yesterday. Its basically a blog where you can share the post onto other platforms like facebook and twitter.

https://www.donaldjtrump.com/desk

Will they ban reposting anything a former president has to say? Will ISPs block his website. Is Trump going to prison like Navalny so he can't run in the next election? They went after Rudy recently.

Trumps already repurposed "The Big Lie" as his own catch phrase for the last election. Half the country believes the election was rigged with the help of big tech and lying media. If the Arizona audit confirms wide spread fraud. Then basically the USA is no longer a democracy.

The current regime in the US capital is surrounded by the military for their own protection. Which Tells me they still don't feel secure in their power. Usually that translate to violent suppression of their political opposition.
Everyone draws the "code that I like looking at"-line at different places.

Despite our wishes around that, functional constructs do have a hierarchy of abstraction vs power, and skipping a layer is the type of design that backfires in the end, like with Java doubling down on the collection APIs without introducing monads explicitly for users.
Not only did it make sense, McDonald's spent countless millions of dollars and years on influencing public opinion to make the general public believe it was about an elderly woman being clumsy. And it all turned into a joke until more people stepped forward.
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Heroku is very simple - you just create an app and "push" code to a repository tied to the app. You need to write code of course, but they auto-detect the language and prepare the environment or platform for you (so platform as a service). They tried to appease the geeks by making everything powered by CLI - but otherwise its just point and click for deploying apps.

Tinkering with nginx is good, but what if you want to add a database, a cache, a logging service? What if you want to automatically build code when you push to github? What if you want to easy clone multiple environments (for staging, prod etc) without never doing an SSH into server? What if you want to have versioned releases that you can easily rollback to a specified version or push a branch into one environment and another branch into another environment? And you get a workable subdomain for every environment you build with SSL enabled. All of that can be scaled down and up with literally few clicks.