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> And in my opinion, I see the last two launches as indeed amusement rides for billionaires and a strong argument for better taxation policies.

How would different taxation policies prevent Bezos from spending a very modest share of his wealth on what he wants to do? He has $204 billion. What he has done with Blue Origin can be replicated for 1-3% of that.

Is the plan to take 99% of the Bezos fortune through government confiscation and forced sales of Amazon stock? I ask because only a small number of nations have ever behaved with that level of brutality toward private wealth, all were - without exception - totalitarian genocide machines with zero human rights. How about we not keep repeating the mistakes of the past.

Even Scandinavia - the region that arguably created the highest standard of living in world history - would never dare to behave that way toward private wealth (Scandinavia is overflowing with billionaires and adores private wealth). Nor would Germany or France.

What's the premise then, no fun if you're rich? Which board of comrades is going to be responsible for dictating who gets to do what? Are we abolishing the bourgeois, 20th century style? I think I've read this story before. There's only one way to prevent someone like Bezos from doing Blue Origin, only one approach politically that can be utilized to accomplish that (skeptics will argue there are utopian approaches to mass property confiscation that are humane; there aren't, once you uncork that genie, extreme violence and genocide always follow).

So if you've got $N wealth, you're not allowed to own a boat. If you've got over $1 million you're not allowed to fly in a plane for fun or convenience, nor may you experiment with creating new types of planes.

Perhaps if you've got over $250,000 you may not experiment with new types of technology period. That includes software and hardware. No fun for you. I say so. I have decided to draw the line there and my Socialist board of comrades will enforce it. I have no interest in only restricting the fun Bezos is allowed to have, it should be taken to its logical conclusion, so everybody gets to enjoy how the system will really work in the end.
It really gets better every year.
We're discussing "posting nudes like people post FB posts". What about that made it sound like commercial activity to you?
AFAIK last time it was when the eu and germany pushed for ukraine regime change. ended up with ukraine getting invaded and loosing territory. so germany better stay out of east europe and so should the eu. the only way to win is by economics. thats how the us eventually won the cold war. also germany is not particularly popular, considering its bullying tactics and it being one of europes largest polluters, eu corruption it supports and so on. all i want is to make sure the most effective tools are used against hungary, as that country is a symptom of a much deeper problem. germany should let established powers deal with hungary and get into it before it messes things up again.
I think your example is interesting because it shows just how much we’ve all been spoiled by software. If you have a great idea for a piece of software, you can code it up on your own or in a small team for more-or-less ‘free’, minus time and opportunity costs. As soon as your idea has a physical component, though, you have to start worrying about manufacturing and logistics and materials and personnel and space, all of which are costly and time-consuming and finite. What if your idea requires negotiating for land rights to build infrastructure? What if you need to build an assembly line to manufacture your product at scale? If you’re competing against a counterparty with effectively infinite money, you might need all of the lead time a patent gives you to level the playing field.
How would that stop, to go up-thread a bit, "an advertiser … that was using JavaScript … to fingerprint user's devices and if an Android device was detected a fake media player or fake CAPTCHA would trick user's into accepting push notifications for fake virus warnings to install questionable apps from the Play Store"?
Can you give me a method of contacting you? Can be a throwaway email.
There are two subsequent sentences in the first paragraph. One is complete bullshit, while the other has correct reasoning. It really doesn't help when skeptic articles do this.

> The very notion of dowsing — that an above-ground stick will react to the presence of something hundreds of feet below — breaks the laws of physics.

Really? It breaks the laws of physics? Tell that to my gravimeter. Oh you are saying a human with a simple wooden stick is not a gravimeter? Idk they are quite complicated. They can be many things. Maybe they can be a gravimeter too?

> Every single controlled test of the practice has failed, yielding results indistinguishable from chance.

This is the important bit. We know that "dowsing" doesn't work because we tried it many times, carefully, and so far it never worked better than chance. It has nothing to do with breaking the laws of physics.
Try the experiment again. But use balanced "T" shaped rods instead of "L". Ley lines should rotate the rods regardless, right? This removes gravity from the equation.

Also, non ferrous.

Also, film it from above so you can see if several people, on several passes, get the same movement at the same location. Ley lines shouldn't move, right?

Sounds like you could solve this in an afternoon.
This [1] gets close to that.

[1] https://www.hhs.gov/about/news/2021/07/01/hhs-announces-rule...
Two Natural-Language AI Algorithms Walk into a Bar
I don't see this sort of joy-riding as a material competition to what SpaceX is doing.

It's not even clear to me that that is their objective.

These sub-orbital flights are not interesting - scientifically nor engineeringly.
Well the author wrote an article and got it to the HN homepage so the execution is there too.
The brutalist website design for this new product is suffocating. Tried it on many browser widths on my desktop.
As much as I like to criticize the NYT, I think this is unfair. The original article makes it clear that it's BS. The article says clearly, "scientists and groundwater experts make clear that the dowsers’ methods are unscientific and amount to a kind of hocus-pocus".

What I think people don't understand here is that the NYT doesn't just come out and call people assholes. A traditional journalist is not supposed to insert themselves into the frame to that extent. The highfalutin' journalist approach to the problem is to paint a sympathetic picture of the asshole in ways that make it clear that they are an asshole.
Found another one from the same author of the original takedown request (Max Chistyakov, at the top of the submitted github issue):

> So, I decide to reach you before lawyers and publishers start working and physically found you. I recommend you to delete public repo and npm package. May be formatting your disk will be nice for you too.

from: https://github.com/alewin/CliChords

Just wow.
I read the article. I think it made it pretty clear that dowsing had no basis in science.

To me the article was more about the people / desperation...

Sometimes I think people believe that almost any portrayal that isn't entirely negative of a thing they don't like is 'both sides'.
> [...] Char is not a byte. Byte is not a char. [...]

In this paragraph you seem to be confusing the C's "char" with the much more fuzzy idea of "Character" which has like 13 valid definitions.

C's "char" is abstractly defined as the smallest addressable unit of memory available on the machine (required to have at least 8 bits), and historically there have existed 8-bit, 9-bit, 16-bit, or even 36-bit chars. In today's practice it is universally taken synonymous for (8-bit) bytes since all hardware is 8-bit by now. Some people like to be pedantic about the distinction between byte and char, but I most often do not, especially since char is the generally interoperable type in C (with respect to type punning etc.), while uint8_t to my knowledge is not.

"Character" is sometimes understood as "Unicode codepoint" (typically represented as a 32-bit entity, or even as a UTF-8 encoded slice of bytes) or in some cases understood as "Unicode glyph" (probably represented as a slice of codepoints), sometimes understood as even other things.
No problem. See I'm being downvoted for what I guess is perceived as "tone policing". FWIW, I've read the cathedral and the bazaar many times over the years myself, and I don't think there's anything controversial in the paper itself. That said, some people have sensitivity as to where information comes from, so it's good to have that context when recommending any particular work.
Like the cars and pedestrians in GTA. I was trying to create the biggest pile up of wrecked cars that I could, and they kept disappearing whenever I turned my back in them!
Wright brothers were certainly not dirt poor, but they weren't barons either. They were only able to build their planes because of their experience building other mechanical things.
So what's your point then? Of course stuff changes in 20 or 30 years. Everyone wanted to join the EU. They've joined, and for the last 20 years the elites are reaping the benefits.

And that doesn't change the fact that there is a very strong anti EU sentiment among the Eastern European population. Did the EU screw them? They did not. Who did? Those same politicians now blaming EU for 30 years of their own corruption, suppression of freedoms, stalling and maintaining status quo.

Here we had war which ended 26 fucking years ago. No war can do as much damage as corruption and incompetence. And somehow EU gets blamed for it. I understand that EU is no saint, but what we have here is a disaster happening in slow motion.
I recently acquired a PinePhone, and Manjaro + KDE Plasma was installed out of the box. It was awful, utterly unusable. I brought it to its knees without even trying to, not even from poking and prodding with internals, just from trying to use the thing; I got it to crash outright once, and twice got its graphics stack basically bricked until manual restart, in two different ways, all in less than half an hour.

I have found postmarketOS + Phosh, Arch Linux ARM (dreemurrs) + Phosh, and Ubuntu Touch (all via https://xnux.eu/p-boot-demo/) to each be considerably more not-simply-broken; they’re merely—ah—“minimal”, that’s what I’ll call it. I haven’t yet tried KDE Plasma under a different distribution, but will eventually, because fairness demands it.

I know they said this stuff wasn’t ready to be a daily driver for any but serious enthusiasts, but I didn’t expect it to be quite as bad as I found it.

I’m still going to persist. I am discouraged, but not dissuaded.
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Is the choice meaningful? Or just something you have to type out?

In the casting example, it's meaningful: there are several ways to "round" a float, each having different consequences. As a programmer, you have to make a choice driven by some business requirements, and encode it (preferably only once for a given business concept).

Sometimes, however, you can modify the source of the float - push the decision upstream, so that your code always gets an int the way you like. This is one way of reducing glue code, but it's not always available.

Anyway, a different type of glue code - I think the most common one, one I call "code bureaucracy" - is reconciling concepts between systems/modules. One system produces data that's almost, but not quite, like what the other system wants to consume. Sometimes it's literally the same data, but named as two separate concepts with separate ownership. This kind of glue code can grow in size rapidly as a consequence of following seemingly good design practices, and often feels pointlessly wasteful.

Imagine you're writing a 3D video game. You decide to use a library to load 3D models. You give it a data stream, and get back a list of (x, y, z) points. Unfortunately, despite containing exactly the same data, perhaps in exactly the same memory layout, that list of points is not a proper "list of points" as the rest of your game logic understands it. You're faced with 3 options:

1. Change your game to use library's format for representing 3D data. You're reluctant, because it would tie your system to the API of a third-party component. It would also be difficult if you used another library (perhaps for physics handling) that used its own "list of points" representation.

2. Change the library to use your game's format. Not the work you wanted to do, and the library author won't be interested in it anyway.

3. Write glue code to convert between the formats. Can be as simple as switching out typesystem labels, or as complex as translating each point in a loop.

For obvious reasons, everyone will choose option 3. What's curious is, though, that the reasons are more social than technological. You don't want 1. because it will make you dependent on a third-party system. That system's author won't accept 2., because it'll make them dependent on you. Hence, option 3.

The exact same thing happens internally, within subsystems developed by different people, and even with code of a single author, across abstraction boundaries. It's an ironic example of Conway's law: system design reflects social structures designers live in. After all, there is another option - one that is rarely thought about, one that's sometimes considered a violation of good design - one that's socially expensive:

4. Get together with the other system's author (and possibly with other users) and agree on a common representation you'll both use.

It breaks abstraction layers. It breaks ownership separation. It breaks responsibility division.

It also eliminates hell of a lot of glue code.
As opposed to a corporation with effectively infinite money preventing the development of 3D printing as an industry and a hobby because they sat on their patents until it expired?
I work as an IT guy in a bank. I hate my jobs, and pandemic makes it worse.
I think pandemic has driven the company to change its business. This forces the people to work on anything to save the business. Work more hours for urgent project, conduct different roles.

I see my friends from other companies like ecommerce work more hours too. I think pandemic has made us working more hours, and it makes people unhappy with their jobs.

To deal with it, I need to understand this situation was caused the pandemic and keep sanity and health in check. I don't think changing employers is a choice when expected reasonable working hours to not hate jobs. I know when I change job, I will still work more hours.
Have you really tested it on 109 languages?
In this case it doesn't matter, because there's a car in front anyway.

I don't know how much the system can ignore or mislabel people and still drive safely, but right now it's not really safe and it's not necessary to have the car drive while improving object recognition.
They will probably pick some pieces that have repeated viewing quality. Most pieces become boring after seeing them day in day out. The ones they still enjoy after seeing them daily are something special. Looking forward to see the list.
Yes it is. Also the raspberry pi power situation is far far worse.
They mentioned that the rocket uses LOX/LOH as fuel, which makes it zero emission since a launch only produces water.

That's quite interesting.
Ask Switzerland, or, on a larger scale, China.
My father-in-law wrote five books during his lifetime. To his credit, they were ok. But he refused to ever work with an editor. And thus none were ever published.
> How that ever persisted into the 20th Century and to now is perplexing but probably says a lot about human nature.

Because if it costs $1,400, and if it works then you make hundreds of millions of dollars, then even if you believe the chances of it working are close to zero it's still economically rational to try. Those kinds of returns are literally like getting a chance to go back to 2010 to buy bitcoin.
How does work like this get funded? It's awesome, but it seems so far removed from... let's say "profit". And there are several teams competing in these things. Are there places that really fund advanced work like this, or is it mostly graduate student underpaid labor?
it's absolutely insane, they claim several thousands (!) of VMs and each autoscaling group having their own load balancer. Just the cost worth saving when they have only 10-20% wasted resource and an ingress controller instead of multiple hundred ELBs pays for several years of development (+ headcount to maintain).
I second that. Looks to me that the author is more knowledgeable in T1 than T2, and is almost categorizing the latter as a subspecies of the former, for example:

> Some type 2 patients wrongly associate insulin with personal failure surrounding diet or exercise

Well, I don't want to be that person, but to me the association is tangible.
> we'd be better off without intellectual property at all

So there's absolutely nothing at all to prevent a situation where you put time and money into developing something, and as soon as it gets legs, a megacorp instead of buying you out or licensing it from you, just copies it and pushes you out of the market?
Let me ask you this, if you are going over the speed limit or drunk driving and crash into someone else is that an accident or intentional?

And why is it that everyone here is defending using the term "accident" by suggesting that car crash or wreck is not a correct description?

In drunk driving for example, you intently operated the vehicle impaired and caused a crash. If you drive over the speed limit you are intently operating the vehicle recklessly. We do on occasion use the term vehicular homicide when describing these actions, but it depends on whether someone was hurt or not, even with the same action being taken (drunk/speeding/etc.).

My point of contention is that "accident" assumes no intent or reckless behavior. Crash and wreck just describe what happened.

There's a reason that accident was injected into our vocabulary. That reason is that we generally accept that accidents happen in society. We don't accept crashes or wrecks. If a lot of car crashes are happening and society doesn't accept them, you better figure out a way to re-categorize them.
Thanks for website edit! Fixed.

We don't rely on XBRL for parsing. It's not very consistent/reliable and its mostly for numeric content. We've definitely considered integrating ratios both into our dashboard. It isn't a current priority because ratios are already well supported elsewhere.
No they didn’t! Economic growth was anemic compared to what we’ve seen since we left the gold standard. Not to mention the economic panics that occurred every few years - “ From 1880 to 1933, there were at least 5 full-fledged banking panics: 1893, 1907, 1930, 1931, and 1933. Including the savings and loan crisis of the 1980s, in the past half century, there have been two.”

— https://www.moneyandbanking.com/commentary/2016/12/14/why-a-...
Annotations are super useful.

Please consider storing the annotations external to the PDF. For example, Okular wants to save these to the PDF itself. This doesn't work very well with a read-only network drive (read: corporate environment).
We use AWS ElasticBeanstalk with Docker images for our app infrastructure and it has served us well. I think it ends up being similar in that it pushes docker images to EC2 containers. It may not be cutting edge but affords us all the conveniences of docker images for deps while not needing the deep knowledge (and team resources) Kubernetes often requires.
That used to be the case but in the last ten to fifteen years the prestige press has been moving away from these norms (under the influence of a generation of journalism professors that became dominant ten to fifteen years before that.)
Walk before you run.

I very much doubt Blue Origin intends to freeze rocket development after this launch.

Blue Origin now has a successful manned flight under their belt, and a revenue stream.

While it might surprise some here, Amazon started by selling just books...

It feels like similar attitude comments on that would have been "They'll never compete with Walmart. Real retail stores sell all kinds of things."
LOL, so often....

I tell them instead, "Great idea, you should learn to program so that you can write it."

While that sounds snarky, I am sincere. I explain to them that is exactly why I am a programmer: I wanted to write my own computer games so badly that I learned programming in order to do it.

I should add, since developing for iOS, now it's "I've got a great idea for an iPhone app!"
I don’t think I made that argument and I didn't mention porn, streamers and content creators have to be interesting

To me it’s no different than guessing who was approached about joining a sorority

Or who orders pumpkin spice lattes

In this reality it doesnt preclude them from doing anything else professionally, simultaneously or in the future. It is true that some people will try to exclude them, it is also true that it becomes more benign the more that other people have potentially revealing content out there

I find that reconcilable, and reinforcing that any performer or consumer affects from this kind of labor should be addressed as any other kind of labor
Ten million authors throughout time, and maybe the scurrying multitudes of the social media scene, might suggest that just communicating the idea renders substantial value all by itself.

Unless you consider successful communication an "execution" phaze.

But ya, if we're talking about "making machines". You could call that a way of communicating via solid example.

It reminds me of the generative art scene. So many valuable ideas communicated via relatively lightweight example. More lightweight than, say, a whole big game.
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I’ve had an idea for a mobile app for…eight years. I legitimately think it’s something that people would find useful and so far I’ve not seen anyone tackle the problem the way I’ve thought to do it. But..I’ve built nothing. So yeah as of now it’s useless. Hurts but it’s true.
For a blog? That is not their main service is it?

You don't need Kubernetes for a blog. If you do then something is wrong with your whole backend stack.

Perhaps they are the smart ones who want to save money and not burn millions of VC money.

The one that REALLY needs to use Kubernetes is actually GitHub. [0]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27366397
Yeah I could totally see the director of engineering at my old company gleefully writing a smug blog post about how they don’t use technology X because they don’t go for all the hip new trends (translation: we actively avoid anything trendy even if it’s good, and we have an extreme NIH attitude). As a result, everything from search indexing to queuing to RPC to deployment is 100% homegrown and you need a training course in how to use everything, everything has specific experts that you must consult, and everything is in need of debugging sometimes when it should just be standard tools used everywhere.
Do/Did you use some specific method or orchestration product to set it up?
Caching is the key here, it could still be making database requests which are blocked, unless it's using async.
Ok. Makes sense. Thanks =)