skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Windows just works. I can't remember the last time I had a driver issue with wifi or had an issue with new hardware working. Every game targets Windows first, so they all work without any extra work. My computer is a tool, and I don't want to spend any of my free time configuring things, like I have when running Linux in the past. I spent enough of my time at work doing that!
Most of the rockets listed are 2-stage rockets. The first stage never makes it to orbit - it just falls back down to earth after dropping off the second stage.

The second stage often does make it to orbit, where it deploys the payload and then usually becomes orbital debris. A few upper stages (falcon 9, for example) do a small engine burn to reenter the atmosphere where they burn up.

Collecting upper stages would be... hard. Every rocket is on a different trajectory. Making some vessel that could 'collect' them would have to visit every launch trajectory that they'd each taken, which is a lot of orbital maneuvering and coordination. Then the problem of docking and collecting the stages and packaging them for reentry would be a whole series of ridiculously tough engineering challenges.

The upper stage is much smaller than the first stage, so it's usually significantly cheaper than the first stage.

Basically, recovery of the upper stage is much harder than recovery of the first stage and has less upside.
I found a bit of time to do some digging. My conclusion: US transportation is about 7x the emissions of the products we import from China.

The embodied carbon in Chinese exports peaked in 2008, and has been decreasing, the most recent estimate I found was 1.4Gt in 2015 [1]. This is already less than the US transportation emissions of 1.7Gt in 2015 (from the EPA PDF I linked above).

And the US share of that 1.4Gt is only about 18% (409/2273B$ [2]), for about 0.25Gt of CO2 equivalents.

[1] Fig 1C https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/201...

[2] https://wits.worldbank.org/CountryProfile/en/Country/CHN/Yea...
You can not scroll faster than images load. You can maybe jump via the scrollbar faster to a page position than images load, but that's it.

That's at least with the HTML5 async image standard in Firefox. It's up to the browser after all, so if yours loads images too slow the issue might be there. And sure, if the images are huge they will take a long time to load, but that's also covered by the core web vitals.

A site I built a while ago is a good test case for that imho, https://www.sustaphones.com/. Long list, many small images, loaded from a CDN. I can maybe provoke a flicker with the scrollbar, but not with regular scrolling.

Edit: That's for broadband. With a 56K modem or something that's of course a different story. But loading a bunch of images in advance on the modern web is also not a good option then.
> I'm gonna be honest I don't know what the audience is for a product where you risk losing your entire life savings because you typed a wrong word in a smart contract.

Some of crypto's loudest voices are young, college-aged people who've recently read Atlas Shrugged or Catcher in the Rye and are certain that they will never be the ones to lose their keys.
I wonder how such countries' laws define "work". If my interactions with a website are used in an A/B test, am I an unpaid tester? If I sit in a restaurant in winter and the thermal radiation of my body saves them some of their heating costs, is that work that I should be paid for?
Facit Homes, Wikihouse, and the Plywood Frame
A $250k market cap token goes under and it makes the front page of HN. I think that sheds light on both the bias and extent of knowledge of the average HNer with regard to blockchain tech.
Thank you; the example helped clarify for me.

Yes, any time there are shared resources, concurrent tasks can hit synchronization points, and end up bottlenecking on them. Of course, I'd contend that a point of synchronization is a form of serialization, but I agree that the tasks being synchronized would still be described as concurrent (since they don't causally affect their ordering). But such a synchronization is a necessary part of the algorithm you're choosing to use (even prior to SMP support), or it would be completely unnatural to include it. I don't know that it really invalidates the OP's point, that the language didn't remove the bottlenecks you introduced?
When trump was banned, many actually did say that it would go this way and were upset due to that.

I may hate what you (anyone) have to say, it may hurt me to hear it, but i will do whatever I can to defend your right to say it! Because unlike many who cheer this on, I've lived in a country that followed this to its logical conclusion (USSR). It was not fun.
> Essentially, the problem is that the software is made to fit the developers needs, not the user needs. If they both have the same needs, that's great, if they don't most people are better off with a commercial solution.

The first part may be true, but the second doesn't follow. In the case of software like Windows, etc, can you say it actually fits the user's needs? I mean sure, if Windows does what you expect and Linux / macOS don't, sure, it's great. But what if it doesn't?

I really hate non-resizable control windows, what can I do about it? I also hate the pure white interface that burns my eyes. How should I go about tweaking it? The list of ways Windows annoys me is extremely long, and I don't feel like I have any say in them. The same goes for macOS, though to a lesser degree.

This software seems to be made to benefit the "developers" (MS). People have been complaining about telemetry in Win10 and MS just ignores it.

You could argue that since I'm still using my 2013 MBP and basically only use Windows when I have no choice (gaming), I'm not really a client any more of either MS or Apple.

I guess in the case of bespoke software, or even in a case where each client is big enough for a company to listen to them, then they may steer the software's direction.

But for a random consumer OS? I really don't think so. My client is a fairly big European company, and they use Windows on their employees' desktops. There are ways in which Windows annoys them, but they have exactly 0 ways of changing this (other than dropping Windows).
It's a great point that these small launch vehicles will never be able to compete with larger vehicles like Falcon 9 on cost/kg. It does seem to me that launch factors besides costs (such as those described by others on this thread) leave room for small rocket players. I think a big question is how many players can exist in that small, dedicated launch market. It's also exciting to see how some of the small launch companies are exploring ways to differentiate themselves to carve out their own protectable segment of the market.
Still haven't found a way to digitally sign a pdf with a smart card on Linux, unfortunately. If anyone knows how, I'd love a tip. Last thing I absolutely can't do except on Windows, and it is required by a lot of DoD processes I have to follow.
To me there are about three tiers of this basic insight:

1. Inheritance causes all kinds of issues so you shouldn’t use it.

2. Actually, inheritance is fine as long as you do it right (e.g. Liskov)

3. Actually, getting part 2 right is difficult, and the heavy risks of getting it wrong aren’t worth the minor benefits of inheritance.
> Censorship is the suppression of speech, public communication, or other information.

Censorship can be self imposed, eg Hollywood.

And please don't throw ad hominem attacks at groups of people. Not only are you incorrect but it's childish.
The thing about Bitcoin right now is that it is being used for good AND nefarious purposes. So you get some level of "hiding in the noise".

Add in the ability to move it around the world easily, its liquidity and transaction volume and you have just about the perfect grey / black activity currency.
> Conspiracy theories are the bane of any society.
Can you provide some examples of this? I'm having a hard time understanding how or why conspiracy theories are so problematic.

Have they always been problematic? I would love to hear some historical conspiracy theories and their deleterious effects.
I would argue that many criminals don’t care if you know who they are. Plus cash doesn’t “scale”. Try ransomwaring millions of computers and cashing out with untraceable money.

Criminals don’t care if there’s a record of their transactions because trans-national law enforcement is basically non existent. You got ransomwared from Ukraine? Nobody cares. Until, apparently, you cause havoc across the eastern seaboard by infecting a few corporate machines associated with a gas pipeline.
Everyone is supposed to write or run some sort of browser filter for 'polite'?

How does that work?
I'll take an FDIC insured bank over some new cool crypto project any day of the week.
No, "monitored" critical thinking is not critical thinking by definition. And no, just because something implies nefarious acts by people in power doesn't mean it's wrong. Conspiracies do exist, the government has and can do evil things. See Operation Gladio, Project MKUltra and Operation Northwoods as examples.
Heh, just found out there's one for numbers https://thisnumberdoesnotexist.com/
The Coming AI Content Storm (Movies)
As of today, the audience is "people trying to get rich fast".
So https://thischemicalprobablyexists.com might be a better title?

I'm not a chemist, I've an undergrad degree in physics/mathematics. Intuitively, your answer sounds right, but I'm not in a position to judge for sure.
This is the standard dissembling. We went from “I have got the truth! Your client is guilty!” to “He’s a smart guy, seems guilty.” Only two paragraphs. Astonishing really, that people are willing to invest themselves like this.
For the same reason US coverage of Olympic Games are 24/7 spotlight on American athletes.

Shauvinism, exceptionalism, and provincialism.
I'm just gonna leave this here:

https://youtu.be/CS9ptA3Ya9E

It's a dark comedy sketch that has an answer to your question.
Do you have a source for '95%+'?

https://www.forbes.com/sites/haileylennon/2021/01/19/the-fal...

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/01/24/overall-bitcoin-related-crim...
Technically, it's neither. Unless your programming language directly supports ECS, you're not going to be implementing the relationship between entities and components as either proper inheritance or a collection of data members, because neither of those can be changed dynamically.
It's almost as if each generation of humans has to relearn the lessons of the past.
> Why is it unjust when literally the entire U.K. population is in support of this position?

Obviously not "literally the entire U.K. population" if someone in the U.K. isn't following the rule.

This is a complex subject and I'm not going to get into it here, but the Cliff's Notes version is basically that the U.K. government is not a party to this transaction, is not harmed by it, and does not represent (as in: having a formal, revocable agent/principal relationship with) anyone who is either a party to the transaction or harmed by it, and thus has no standing to interfere. The justice or injustice of the matter is unaffected by whether the government's interference would be popular.
Well, someone did spam my counter:

https://imgur.com/7h5uFoY
Thankfully he's not being charged re: the Guccifer 2.0 hacking.
Thank you for sharing your approach, I find it very interesting. I've worked in some systems that also optimize for "serendipity"[1], which is just optimizing not only for ranking accuracy but also for adding new relevant content into the mix. (I believe you need a lot of data for this to be viable though)

> I think the concerns about ML causing echo chambers/other problems, while not completely unfounded, are overblown

I disagree that it's overblown. This is a widely discussed topic in ML research, especially around recommender systems [0]. While I do agree that ML systems have enormous potential in augmenting human capability, we should be addressing possible flaws such as the one mentioned.

I'm personally interested in how to solve biases in machine learning systems, as it impacts so much of my professional work. But I also think bias, or echo-chamber, isn't unique to ML since we see it so much in the world and institutions that surround us, but we are in a unique position to address these problems directly on the systems we create.

[0] https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.03240
[1] https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11390-020-0135-9
Agreed. I'm all for mitigations when used somewhere where the security could be an issue but for use cases where raw computation and performance matters the most it should be easy to disable this stuff
what makes it different than another landing page builder? the differentiating things are not clear
That last bit sounds like a feature.
There probably have been previous discussions about those projects. But yeah, the project relating to this headline is not news worthy. It's HN; go figure.
Ask HN: Good books and videos to learn about incentives?
I am looking to gather a collection of resources that helps me understand about Incentives and Human nature. Specifically, I am looking resources that helps me design incentives to get certain outcome. Rewards is one strategy but don't necessarily work in all cases.

Can you list any good books to learn about and design incentives?
I think quite a few people who find crypto objectionable will also consider many, even most of the weirder technological outgrowths of the stock market to be every bit as objectionable.

As we've repeatedly learned, to the detriment of most people in the world.
A transcript for Eben Moglen's talk is available at http://moglen.law.columbia.edu/publications/berlin-keynote.h...
I've built my own flashcard app and I ended up just syncing a journal of all your actions on a device (creating/edit cardings, evaluating them) and having all your other devices play those back to get to the "shared state". I store data using SQLite as well. It works pretty well for me.

You're definitely right about students being unwilling to buy software. They're already cash-strapped, so they're very unlikely to pay for an app, let alone a monthly subscription.
Should rename to 'This Chemical Might Exist'
Society as whole, interest groups, governments, banks, retailers and their discounts, forums, HN, itself relies on FOMO and network effects. The only thing making it hard to quit is that value provided by FB as a address book to the individuals who use it is worth the trouble it causes. That's just economics. There's always a choice.
They can, and if/when people start claiming this move from YouTube is a First Amendment violation, that's a great counter-point.
@dang, could we get a black bar today please?
I’d like to see some research to back that up. Here’s an article that says otherwise:

https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn11711-smarter-people-...

Common sense will tell you billionaires aren’t orders of magnitude smarter than the rest of us.
Can there ever be 'bug free' software? As a lifelong programmer, I'm starting to think that it's impossible to write perfect software free from bugs.
Yes, this exactly. Use timezones when displaying something to a user and otherwise not at all, imho.
Oh man, I have a rabbit hole for you.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhizome_(philosophy)
Users definitely don’t want to be exposed to spam much less have to take action against it.
We can do better than pinky swearing. Each lawyer gets mining fees when they enforce a contract fairly. "Fairly" is defined by consensus, where each lawyer is forced to predict the consensus before voting in a private ballot that is only revealed when the rewards are issued. Lawyers who predict the consensus get rewarded. If you start it off with people who are trying to be fair then predicting fairness will lead to the most reward, and it will keep going until the majority defects.

The collective is incentivized to continue being fair because if they weren't, nobody would use their coin, and the rewards issued to fair lawyers would be worthless.
Because there's nothing interesting about them. They're just another variation on the same ol' "we peg our value to the dollar(*)!" pitch.

The interesting stuff happens when they fail.
> it may be gone for hundreds of reasons next time you try to access it.

And you won't even know which video is gone unless you've taken a copy of your playlist (my favourites playlist is about 25% holes after 10 years.)
I agree, anyone pushing against our free speech rights should be censored!

Sarcasm aside, there is no man fit to play the censor. Real life is too complex to oblige by naive rules.
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There are certain right-wing conspiracies that they don't want people hearing, even in the context of them being "debunked".
Did you just re-invent law from first principles? ;)
Unemployment rates are determined based on surveys of 60000 households every month. Its not based on qualifying for unemployment benefits.

https://www.bls.gov/cps/cps_htgm.htm#where
I've wanted to use TSX for years... it's great as a way to get atomicity for non-primitive types in a lock-free way. Could be super useful in trading.

The issue is it's been YEARS now that intel claims it's ready then turns it off in chips shortly thereafter. It's basically vaporware at this point.
No, making your game slightly less sexy is not censorship if it was your own choice.

If you decide not to say something, this is not impinging on your freedom of speech, it is you using your freedom to make that decision. Some people call this self-censorship which I do not count as censorship.

When I decide not to talk politics at the office or at home party that might be self-censorship but in reality is my own choice.

Yes, censoring trolls that say vaccines are harmful is still censorship, regardless of how sure you feel about being right.

Understand that any idea had to start at some point with a single person or small number of people. Women demanding their right to vote, it had to start somewhere. It also means everybody else was of another opinion.

Suppressing speech, beliefs, just because you don't agree with them risks to cut those movements before they have ability to gain traction and in effect slow human progress.
What other sites are willing to store and easily distribute years of HD video for free?
With XBox I'm unable to play offline games if Xbox knows it needs an update, even if I have the network connections disconnected. There's no logical reason for this. I was in a situation last year where I had purchased an Xbox with a game that was allegedly playable offline but was unable to play it because the Xbox Live service was down (but somehow the console knew it was lacking an update).

In light of this, I don't trust that some future outage of a Microsoft service would prevent me from logging in to or using my own computer, which is totally unacceptable.
Or because it's your own kitchen and not a Michelin star restaurant you can just mess up literally every step of the process, still get something delicious, and people's reactions will be "wow you made these? They're so good."
I think you have an overly generous view of most people!
I hazarded a guess that a bit more than 500 people suffer from diabetes in the US -- more like 34 million. If you could get one in a thousand to agree to take political action, that's 34,000 people.
It requires proficiency when you want to go or receive international, but doesn't enforce it as the single language that could ever be used, e.g. domestically. There's no point in pretending there's some magic filter that would enforce it.
> I never played it, so I might be wrong, but isn't that why people play DOA in the first place? To see sexy women? So how's that trolling?

There's a fair number of players who were hoping that DOA would become an esport: akin to Marvel vs Capcom 3, Street Fighter 4, or Smash Ultimate.

There's a discussion that must be had about DOA's excessive "sexiness" and whether or not that is hurting it from becoming a mainstream esports game. DOA 6 focused on the "cinematography", which caused an outrage because their fans wanted more emphasis on the sex-appeal (which was absolutely the focus of DOA2 through DOA5: "boob physics" was front and center in a lot of marketing)

Now don't get me wrong, the discussion should be had. But... this isn't about censorship at all. This discussion ultimately comes down to the skirt length and bust size of Kasumi / Marie Rose (and other characters). To derail the discussion by yelling "censorship" is unnecessary, and unhelpful hyperbole.
This isn't in the name of 'security.' TSX has been functionally broken in every architecture that implements it.

From the article:

> A memory ordering issue is what is reportedly leading Intel to now deprecate TSX on various processors.

And from the Intel document linked in the article:

> The default RTM force-abort behavior can be optionally disabled by setting MSR bit TSX_FORCE_ABORT.SDV_ENABLE_RTM=1. However, when RTM force abort is disabled in this way, RTM usage may be subject to memory-ordering correctness issues. Due to these issues, this unsupported mode should not be
enabled for production use.
Mouse chording, ouch. (I firmly believe it is the worst idea in the history of personal computing.)
When I was young I remember when I showed Excel to my parents, they always calculated through the numbers because they didn't trust computers.

Maybe we have a similar phenomenon with blockchains nowadays... Of course there will be errors in the source code somewhere, it is software written by humans!? It is just a matter of creating another level of abstraction as a safeguard in the smart contract, maybe even with 4 eye principles...
> If a developer (lets say, Koei Tecmo games), decides to make a video game (such as Dead or Alive 6) slightly less sexy than a previous video game (such as Dead or Alive 5), is that "censorship" ??

Is it in all releases or just the US and European releases? I remember people complaining that just the Western releases of some games were censored.
Except it is censorship and it's happening because a vocal minority of Western audiences demanded it.

https://nichegamer.com/2018/10/27/new-sony-censorship-policy...
Presumably the OP was asking about YC companies that are growing and hiring. The majority of those don't take advantage of HN job ads, and the question is why.

We need to do a better job of making this option better-known to YC startups. It tends to fall through the cracks on both the HN side and the YC side because everyone's busier with other things.
That NYT uses secondary metrics like clicks on a website. Pretty strong evidence that the primary metrics (how many people actually work) doesn't go in their favour. The business insider talks about unemployment, not exactly the same thing as how many are working but it is a way better metric than website clicks or anecdotes.
Where can I get some of this high paid, asynchronous, uninterrupted, and self-scheduled work?
I think it's still pretty surprising...
Cash is the ultimate anonymous method of payment.