skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The second fault was the CEO’s. He didn’t even try the app once before presenting it to the investors.

That says it all regarding maturity and/or professionalism, that’s the number #1 job of the CEO.
Professor says we could already build a floating space elevator
Is tracking the Virgin spaceship really that much more difficult? The size of VSS Unity is about the same as or larger than many communications satellites, and the craft has enough power, since it doesn't need to operate autonomously for years.

Is this really the edge of our ability to innovate here? We can send people to space but we can't reliably get good quality audio and video?

Meanwhile Starlink promises 300mbps down and 30mbps up [0] with dinky low powered consumer-grade dishes beamed to satellites a quarter the size [1] of Virgin Galactic ...

[0] https://www.teslarati.com/starlink-2x-speed-update-elon-musk...

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/Starlink/comments/g9aot6/what_are_t...

Size of Intelsat for reference: https://www.teslarati.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/MicroGE...

Is externally mounted antennae the primary issue? Perhaps.
That is indeed good. I used a bit of Perl a few years back but it has slipped out of my mind.
There is a wikipedia page for the iTunes Store which details the history of various ways the licensed/sold things over the years.
Did you read the linked articles?

Just because people took our money and weapons doesn't mean they're good people on "our" side. Violent pederasty was a common practice in our allies - that we protected. Huge amounts of corruption was a common practice in our allies - that we protected. Even killing Americans to increase protection payments was not uncommon.

Please, by all means, explain how such people could integrate into American culture and life? I'm sorry we got them involved, it was a huge mistake, but that doesn't mean the right thing to do is ship a milita commander who chains young boys to his bed and rapes them to America.
Most fundamentally, a lot of us are humanists, not nationalists.

But more narrowly: Gates Foundation focuses on straightforwardly preventable diseases. These are diseases of extreme poverty that are nearly or entirely absent in the US. The US's problems are of a different nature, largely stemming from inequality in access to healthcare which is a political problem.

It seems rather ghoulish to look at one of the most effective charities in the world, that has no doubt had an impact on millions of people, and say "I want those $$ to stay in the US instead" when we are the most wealthy and powerful nation in history. We need to fix our own political issues, not shame Gates for doing truly good things elsewhere. You want to help the US? Vote for people who want to help the most vulnerable among us vs the most powerful. Our government and society has the resources, they are simply being directed with deliberate inequities.
It got a lot easier for me to find new jobs after my resume was two jobs I held for three years. The tech job market also got a lot hotter around then, but hearing how hard it is to break into the industry, those six years really make a difference.
Nice, thanks! But I wouldn't say "0 friction" as you need to know emacs, org-mode, how to manage a server, and install WriteFreely :)
Because every physical thing has a start.

Some time-bending supreme being that creates time and existence itself can overcome that "start" because of it's super powers.

That sounds dumb but it's more convincing than saying yeah it's just always been here. How has it? I'm too dumb to wrap my head around that. Everything has a primary mover unless it has the super power to transcend that.
* Do more to dampen the overwhelming point advantage given to mediocre quality comments that garner more upvotes only because they were posted early.

* Similarly, do something to curtail or discourage posts from getting hijacked by a mediocre early top level comment.

* Design comment ranking features with cognizance that users are trying to get visibility for their comments, and this incentive sometimes distorts the conversation. For example, I might wonder, what gives the most visibility for my comment, top posting, or posting right under this highly inflammatory comment that is getting a lot of attention, or posting under a mediocre comment that was early and was therefore voted to the top despite its low quality? I may choose according to my desire for visibility, instead of choosing according to where the comment fits best. Do something to counter this. I don't know exactly what, though… it would need more thought and possibly months of experimentation to find the right recipe for success here. But at least, as a basic starting point, recognize that this is a real dynamic, and then from that starting point, try to design comment ranking behaviors to address it.

* Lightly penalize comments that start with forms of "TBH" or "genuine question."

* Leave it text based, as is. The visual design is fine. Great, even.

* Auto save drafts so a stray touch on a touch bar or a mobile back button doesn't nuke what you've written so far.
Ours seem to be the conventional beige too. Maybe custom rubber bands were costing too much.
"Save" us from what exactly?
On the plus side I feel much more sustained focus in work and enjoy endurance activities like mountain biking steep hills that I used to have to suffer through.

I can practice piano for hours. Working on my bike I’ll have a hydraulic brake caliper fall apart in my hands in a puddle of mineral oil, then just muddle my way through until my mistake is fixed. I used to get so frustrated by things.
> It only takes one bad apple to spoil the lot.

I don't see how that applies to government. A corrupt person in DHS spoils all the other people there? And spoils people in the the Dept of the Interior, and in Congress?
iOS share password functionality has really simplified things for guests. This is a neat idea for an AirBNB or similar short term rentals.
I've also done some eldercare. I will be dying at home. All relations know that under no circumstances will I end up in a retirement home, or worse. That's a fate worse than death.

I've asked my family doctor to help plan ahead. So that it's my decision. Like getting a home euthanasia kit. Or whatever.
This is probably safe, but I really can't bring myself to do it.
>"Why Use unikernels?

Unikernels are fast, secure [PDS: More secure than entire OS distros -- but still not provably absolutely secure -- a "step in the right direction" towards better security], increase server density and eliminate devops. Unikernels can boot 2 orders of magnitude faster than docker and run software up to 20% faster.

>"Unikernels by design help prevent many types of remote code execution attacks and you can run thousands of them on commodity hardware."

>"Massive VM Consolidation
We can provision hundreds to thousands of virtual machines on the same hardware."

PDS:

Opinion: A step forward from AWS/Azure and most other current cloud hosting offerings...

Also, more energy efficient/environmentally friendly, more "green" -- than running an entire OS in addition to an application -- possibly up to one or two orders of magnitude more energy efficient, depending on the application, how it's coded, and what it requires the underlying OS to do, and if those underlying OS dependencies can be removed, thus removing the need to run the underlying OS, thus saving all of that energy...
A single cargo ship moves hundreds of thousands of goods across the planet.
This space flight moved a handful of people up and down.
Sounds like health insurance!
Capitalism: You Wouldn't Trade It for Anything
My 'final resort' would involve a tank of nitrogen fwiw.

No part of my hindbrain is upset by switching breathing gasses, and by all reports there is no more pleasant way to check out.
Yes, I think LKY - basically the father of Singapore - summed it up best:

> Air conditioning. Air conditioning was a most important invention for us, perhaps one of the single inventions of history. It changed the nature of civilization by making development possible in the tropics.

> Without air conditioning you can work only in the cool early-morning hours or at dusk. The first thing I did upon becoming prime minister was to install air conditioners in buildings where the civil service worked. This was key to public efficiency. [1]

Without AC, most of the cities in the tropics would not be anywhere near what they are.

It also brings to mind the importance of AC. It's not a nice-to-have. It can be as essential as heating is in cold climates, and unfortunately it's very clear from the ESG crowd that they don't realize this. They probably won't until we've seen massive death tolls during a heat wave.

---

[1] https://www.vox.com/2015/3/23/8278085/singapore-lee-kuan-yew...
Yes, I have looked at the Wikipedia page for the iTunes Store. It does not claim that, at any point in time, iTunes terms would have allowed you to buy a copy of a song. They only sold you the right to listen to a song for undetermined amount of time. If you have a source that claims the contrary, please link.
When I'm searching on Google it is because I am looking for information on some topic. Sometimes it is just idle curiosity, but sometimes it is because I have some actual need for the information to solve some real problem where the information will save me time or money.

I don't see how it would help me if Google failed to show me information relevant to my problem just because it is paid information.
Spaced repetition program - I think I have had one by accident, organizing and tagging all the photos I've taken since 1997. If I took a picture of it, I can likely tell you all about the events surrounding it.

My wife tells me things we did, and there aren't photos of those occasions, so I know I'm not remembering everything.

The photo albums our parents and grandparents had were spaced repetition.
> paying a single rate would create a very lopsided team in terms of geography

> the incentives would lead these places to be dramatically over-represented relative to higher cost of living places.

vs. the not-at-all-lopsided and equally-represented status quo, where everyone lived in the same high-cost-of-living city?
> For one CEO like him, there are 99 CEOs nicer I will gladly rather work for.

That's an interesting planet. Here on earth 99% CEOs seems to be power hungry sociopaths.
> Here is a very efficient method for moving power: a copper cable.

Right, texas natgas producers should just run a copper cable directly to places like Singapore!
Congrats to the team but what a rushed job.
The live stream was a disaster and I’m sure it had to do with Branson vs Bezos.
It was so amateur and commercial.
I bet Bezos will demand a far better demo of the new spaceport service.
Observing non-red rubber bands doesn't make a person more likely to have a link to a Wikipedia-accepted source article about it, right? So the person suggesting a Wikipedia edit may just as well Google it themselves.
ZSA Moonlander Mark I review: the ultimate customizable ergonomic keyboard
Why do we need a separate business for this?

Apple should be made to pay for it.

If anyone finds an Airpod on the street or in trash/landfills, they should be able to take it to the nearest Apple store or mail it and get 20-40$ back for it.

This should be the law for _all_ and any products, not just electronics.
Large corporations have cleverly shifted the responsibility of recycling on the consumer, while they get to reap all the profits and benefits. This was recently well explained in a John Oliver segment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fiu9GSOmt8E
At peak altitude when the video/audio link failed, the commentator, referring to the lack of comments from Branson:

“We’ll be sure to capture his magical words and share them with the world when they are available.”

Had a hard time keeping my breakfast down. Geez. Seems they should have purchased time on the Starlink sat network for comms.

This was followed by:

“Remember the day, remember where you are, remember who you shared this with, and remember the name Virgin Galactic, because today, space is Virgin territory.”

If over-hype leads to business success, I guess they are on their way.

The professional, highly trained pilot/astronauts were referred to as Dave and Mike. Every mention of Branson was Sir Richard Branson.

Amazing tech, but $250K for 6 minutes of weightlessness? Not exactly democratizing space. It might work out eventually, but hard to see the payoff for the massive investment to date.
This is a nice idea! I once whipped up a shell script to do the same thing.

UX feedback - disable autocorrections on the input fields [1], you may want to trim white space as well.

[1] https://davidwalsh.name/disable-autocorrect
Biden launches action on "Big Tech, Big Pharma, and Big Ag" – can it be real?
> Just the steam turbine part of a nuclear power plant is more expensive than renewable

If you are building a new nuclear plant to target the Rankine steam cycle at a lousy ~140°C inside an enourmous concrete bomb, you are doing it wrong.

The cool kids are targeting the Brayton cycle at ~700°C and atmospheric pressure.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TMSR-LF1
Gaussian Processes from Scratch (2019)
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>...If anyone came to the office five minutes late, he cut their pay to a half day’s salary.

Again, highlighting the importance of who you work with over what you work on.

There is nothing to be gained by teaming up with the wrong people, irrespective of how much effort you put in.
Not so common these days and for me personally a shame as was always a good source of freebies in that respect, I had to buy some a while back and ironically the quality of bands the post office use are pretty darn good compared to the ones I purchased (which all turned to crud after a few years and kinda dried out for want of a better way of explaining how they went).
Thanks.

Yes, at the time I wrote the original comment, in the Wikipedia page linked there was a comment in the lead section of the article: "The Royal Mail no longer uses red rubber bands.{{Citation needed|date=June 2020}}". And given that the comment I was replying to seemed to be from someone local I thought they might be in a position to have or find a reference and update the Wikipedia article with that, since other comments here seemed to agree that the rubber bands are not currently red.

However that sentence has just been removed:

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Royal_Mail_rubber...
Proof of stake instead of proof of work
Just learned about Mikyawaki. This is why I look at the comments. Thanks.
On ios it works fine with the default camera app, but what about android? I'd guess support varies depending on vendor?
Running it on Firefox with web inspector opened, I saw no network traffic at all after the page loaded, so it wasn't sending the network name or password anywhere off my device.
So, no discussion of free software?
Yes, your alternative is to buy new AirPods from Apple at $70 each ($140 for a pair) when the battery life becomes a problem.
So they sold you a pure audio file with no DRM, but that somehow was only intended to be a totally unenforced "right to listen to a song" they had no mechanism to terminate?
6 months out, we're still getting random bills from our baby's birth. Only difference from first three is I know to expect it, so I'm numb to the insanity.
$4 in burkina faso will protect a family of 4 from malaria

$4 in america will buy a latte.
That’s not even close to the status quo for most distributed companies—-it definitely isn’t for Gitlab.
Why would a newspaper send money to Blendle for a
someone clicking a link directly to their own site?
I would pay for a search engine that never showed me results from a set of domains that I could select. There are so many mainstream media sites that I would never read but they bury the interesting content.

I.e. "never show me NYT, Amazon, Pinterest, or any site that is a scrape of StackOverflow or Wikipedia"
Are there any tools to run an untrusted client side web application isolated from the internet?
You just made me realize that there will eventually be social media exclusively available to the rich people.
turn off wifi/unplug network cable?
I'm trying to understand how this tutorial works, I noticed it doesn't make any network requests when run one of the examples, but then if I edit the code in an example it does make a request. Is this the magic of next.js and server-side components at work, and do you have a real edgedb running on the server side that is used to pre-render the page and also handle updates? I would love to hear more about how this setup works and even look at the code if it's available.
This must be satire. A CEO taking writing lessons and maybe trying too hard, I give it 8/10 satire.
Neat. Are you going to apply Floyd-Steinberg to moving images? It is good for still pictures, but I wouldn't use it for real-time graphics unless I was deliberately going for a "jittery" effect. Consider a spatially stable dither like Bayer's or https://pippin.gimp.org/a_dither/ instead.
>They got rid of the only people that, assuming it was your error, wouldn't have made it twice.

In some traditional legal systems, if an object causes a death, an anthill for example, the aggrieved family may put the object on trial. If the antill is found "guilty" it's destroyed. This is true for a car, a bat, an appliance whatever. The object doesn't need to be defective or inherently dangerous, just assigned blame.

Companies can be similar to this, especially at the executive level.
This method picks up "most" requests, but not all. eg. websocket and webrtc can be used to exfiltrate data but it won't show up on inspector.
We've banned this account for using HN primarily for ideological battle. That's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for—therefore we ban accounts that do it, regardless of which ideology they're battling for or against.

Please don't create accounts to do this on HN. It will eventually get your main account banned as well.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I've heard, anecdotally, of people losing their airpods often. I haven't yet, but curious how common that problem is?
The government figured out the ad-sponsored business model well before Facebook and Twitter. I only receive junk mail, but I guess it subsidizes package delivery that I actually want.
Houston Tunnel System
to make money from the transaction?
Honestly the feeling hasn't completely gone away but I've slowly stopped thinking of myself this way as intensely as I did before. What it took was strong mentorship from a really good boss and exposure to all levels of the stack and strong architectural and technical principles to building robust applications. Taking some interviews I felt much better about myself than I had in years cause I was actually able to answer things that I couldn't have a couple of years ago

I hope you find that place in your life too. It's a lot of relief when it happens
Please don't take HN threads further into flamewar, regardless of how bad another comment is or you feel it is. It only makes things even worse.

This is in the site guidelines:

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
The subhead says it's an imaginary memo.
Remotion – Create videos programmatically using React
Which version of minecraft can still be modded? I'm seriously asking cause my son has been playing it on xbox which obviously cannot be modified and I was trying to find which pc version to get but it's so confusing I am not sure which or if any official version still allows modifications
and never plug back in again ;)
In 2017 Germany I made net ~570€/month (~1€ more than minimum wage) working 15h weeks in a supermarket for around 3-4 months while studying. It was pretty mindless work (apart from always looking out for the use-/sell-by dates) and also nice working in a colder part (dairy and frozen products) of the supermarket during the hotter months.
The custody of the Occult has been narrowly kept as time marches forward.
> “A younger-looking face creates impressions of higher physical and mental fitness,” the authors write. “Our results suggest that these impressions may indeed be a powerful driver of favorable employment outcomes.”

It is possible that there are other explanations. Older developers may want better salaries, better working conditions, be harder to manipulate, etc.

Good leadership is going to hire people that fits in the culture of the company and have the needed skills. Whenever the candidate is younger or older does not matter.

Bad leadership wants cheap employees that obey orders and don't challenge authority. Younger, more inexperienced developers will fit this category, even if they are technically skilled.

This is as good a theory that any other one to explain the fact that recruiters want younger developers.
I had 3 small packages arrive this Friday, left on my door and tied together in a brown rubber band. Like you, I have never seen a red one either, blue one's yes, though rare.
> 90/90 is lethal, isn't it?

If you stay out in it without taking any precautions for long enough, it could be. But that doesn't mean that as soon as you step out of your front door in the summer in, say, Houston, Texas, you fall over and die. Millions of people in the US (quite possibly billions if you count the rest of the world) live in places where the outside conditions are 90/90 (or worse) frequently in the summer.

> it's some pretty extreme conditions you chose

As I have already posted elsewhere in this thread, 90/90 is a condition that is commonly tested for HVAC systems; it's not at all "extreme".
That sounds like a horrible place to work. I think the OP’s instincts are correct to lay the blame at the feet of incompetent management. As a general rule you can pick two from: fast, cheap, and good. But you can’t excuse the kind of behaviour where you blame people for your failures and treat them so poorly.

I’ve seen far too many non-tech managers and founders discredit the needs of their team: expecting the moon and paying them less than market rate.

That’s how startups make money: undervaluing talent and paying them less than market rate so that their exit is profitable. But you don’t have to be that callous and exploitative about it.

If anyone sees these kinds of behaviours I hope you get out as fast as you can. It’s not worth the BS and the therapy bills.
This is as insufferable as someone refusing to refer to Athens, Georgia or London, Ontario without the state/province name, even in casual conversation near the place. Or saying that morpho butterflies aren’t actually blue, they just look blue.
Thanks for the tip, added in https://github.com/bndw/wifi-card/commit/1924298335692eebc79...
who would believe such as statement that info is not collected or sent?

I have some prime real estate in Florida to sell you if you do!
The Java version is what you are looking for.
$10 000 Physics Wager Settles the Debate on Sailing Downwind Faster Than Wind
Yeah you’re right. But I care about this stuff a lot. I love tech, I love the life it has afforded me, and I want people to have a good experience, even if it is something as simple as billing software!

Obviously Amazon has some huge issues to overcome, both culturally and policy wise. If you keep bringing issues up, I’ll do my best to get them in front of the right folks.
So much this. I'm still hoping for the work-from-home revolution's best possible side effect: the leveling of the political playing field as safe districts get flooded with politically urban expats.
That line of thinking is a bit of a pet peeve of mine, although I think at its root it is purely semantic.

If you understand the physics of a ball rolling down a hill, the concept of motion doesn’t become truly odd to believe. The concept is still there and still matters, you just understand it in more detail.

Evil is another such emergent abstraction. The meaning is there regardless of the details of what lower level details it emerges from.