skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
BO has plenty of funding, and lofty ambitions far beyond New Shepard, but they just haven't made much progress toward achieving them.

I haven't done the math, but it seems like Starship is potentially an incredibly cheap heavy lift rocket even in total or partial expendable modes, e.g if SpaceX fails to realize their full reusability goals. At this point, I think BO and others are only falling further behind.
200 cars traveling between L.A. and Phoenix vs. one train traveling at 350 MPH? Why would we ever want that?
Wrong - Apple built a system where their devices need to be taken out of the cloud before selling them on. Which takes about three taps and less than minute, so I'm asking you again, why blame Apple here?
For one thing, you can't manage files over the same protocol you use to serve them, with HTTP, without extra application-layer add-ons (WebDAV or custom web file management junk) FTP can both serve and manage, all over one protocol.

"But why wouldn't you use some other method to manage your files? Why combine the two?" I dunno, but WordPress is basically that (managing your blog's/site's appearance, content, and server-side plugins, over the same interface/protocol that serves the blog/site) but for blogs & websites, and it's damn near the most successful Web project ever, so there must be something to it unless that's not a big reason for its success (and I'm pretty sure it is).

I can certainly see the appeal if your main focus is serving files, or providing file-serving hosting to others (say, other departments, or to paying clients, or whatever). One daemon to configure for the whole task.
Huh, I remember learning Yuri Gagarin as the first person to space. I don't think I even remember learning/reading about Alan Shepard.
Interesting. My dad worked for Montgomery Wards in a warehouse and has lots of stories about Montgomery Wards setting up various traps to tempt employees to steal. Usually it was something like leaving high priced jewelry in a seemingly unwatched area, but there would be a security worker nearby hiding in a refrigerator box or something along those lines. This was in the late 1970s.
Together Price helps strangers share subscription passwords
That all sounds good, but when you look at the details you discover it is worse than what we have.
https://archive.is/2021.07.20-123758/https://www.bloomberg.c...
Your account seems to be using HN only to get involved in flamewars about ideologically contentious topics. Can you please not do that? It's not the kind of site we're trying for here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Wikibase
IIRC you still need to use a special flag to enable it, right?
Thanks for the amplifying information.
I see, I actually answered the wrong question, sorry about that.

I'm also a bit confused by why it can't be used to send information but here's a try:

In the above scenario, if the particle (pair) has completely random spin, one that can only be observed by detection and not by some sort of construction, then each observer sees a completely random bit, regardless of whether it gets "flipped" by the "non-local" observation/communication of the other particle. They'll only be able to discover the correlation after the fact, if they compare notes and thus have to meet up, destroying any non-local benefit.

Put another way, if you have a bit with probability p of being 1 ((1-p) of being 0) that you're communicating over the wire but the wire is so noisy as to flip it with probability 1/2, then you won't be able to recover what the transmitted information was.

You'll be able to discover the correlation between the bits if you compare notes after the fact but since the "wire" acts as a completely noisy channel, you can't recover the transmitted bit.
Shrug!

It's commercial infrastructure, not a fetish.

You saw the same arguments when the Python Cryptography library started adopting Rust to replace memory-unsafe C code in their C library. People running, like, DEC Alphas in their basements for sport were furious. It was on the front page of HN for several days. It blew over, because nobody really cares about those people in a durable, meaningful way.

Same situation with FTP. It's dead. Stick a fork in it.
Okay, whom? What common factor do they share? Is it a government service?
>Yeah they probably have two income that get pretty close to 130k

yeah if you check the hourly earning chart, the hourly wage required for a dual earner household with 2 adults and 3 kids is only $32.29/hr.
I don't think lock-in should be a problem for most startups - in the same sense most startups don't need kubernetes.

For almost everyone, I'd say: just pick a cloud provider, stick to it, and (unless your whole business model is about computing resource management) your time is almost certainly better spent on other things.

I'm working at a company that had moved into AWS before I joined and I don't see it ever moving out of AWS. Of course we have some issues with our infrastructure, but "we're stuck at AWS" is the least of my concern. Any project to move stuff out of AWS is not going to be worth the engineering cost.
And yet every case they were able to investigate to conclusion was a forgotten order, and not a single case could be confirmed as brushing.
I was under the impression that in NTFS files under 4k are stored in the MFT. I feel like they might have chosen 10k to break this barrier and end up in filespace land.

edit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTFS#Resident_vs._non-resident...
There's something amusing to me about the idea of an industry that "used to be" sustainable. Guess it wasn't sustainable after all.
No one in my or my wifes family works in any other formnof emoloyment. And believe me they are not software developers.

Yes, that's not a good proof, but you also did not present any sources.
Subway Passengers Trapped in the Water
Maybe the argument is that the bank never had the right to sell the copyright in the first place?

The whole story just reeks of greed to me. My personal opinion is that the photos should be in the public domain.

America's copyright system is so broken and stupid, it's pathetic.
"Buddhism is fairly centered on self-improvement"

That's one aspect central aspect of some types of Buddhism, but compassion is also central in many forms of Buddhism, particularly in the Bodhisattva traditions and teachings of the Mahayana branches of Buddhism, where the goal of self-improvement is sacrificed for the sake of easing the suffering of the rest of humanity.

Community (the Sangha and the lay people and every other sentient being) is also very important to many forms of Buddhism, and many Buddhists are socially active or at least engage in charitable works which are as much about helping others as anything else.

That's not to mention the selflessness and the giving up of attachment to goals like "self-improvement" at higher levels of Buddhist practice that is also emphasized in some forms of Buddhism.

"idolatry being generally seen as respectful reverence, or at worst as lucky charms"

There's lots of idolatry throughout the real practice of Buddhism around the world. Lay Buddhists in particular (on whom monastic Buddhists are so dependent, and without whom monastic Buddhism would would largely cease to exist) often pray to the Buddha for protection, luck, cures and wealth, and worship various gods and spirits. This is all Buddhism to them, and Buddhist monks are not free of such beliefs either.

In Tibetan Buddhism belief in gods and magic is widespread, as it is South East Asian Buddhism. Buddha is effectively treated as a god in Pure Land Buddhism, where he is prayed to for salvation and in hopes of being reborn in what is essentially paradise.

Claims that Buddhism as a whole is secular, atheist, not idolatrous, "scientific", etc, are not credible. Sure, some forms of Buddhism are (particularly the kinds that have been created for Western consumption), but many others aren't.
Building your first startup AMA Event
What if the timespace simulation is aligned not to a grid but rather to one of the many fractal forms we seem to keep observing in nature?

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_spiral

* http://thescienceexplorer.com/nature/8-stunning-fractals-fou...

* https://www.treehugger.com/amazing-fractals-found-in-nature-...
Seems like an oversimplification to me. If the owners could simply raise prices by 20% and suffer no economic consequences, I have little doubt they would. Thus, I can only surmise that it is not as simple as that.
Covid has made me question eating out at all.

It’s trivial to cook something that’s better tasting and healthier than fast food, most cafes. With all the practice in the last year, it’s not hard to come close to my favorite upscale restaurants for 1/4 of the price.

I don’t need to find a recipe, I can “just cook” now.

Eating out seems like an antiquated division of labor given how streamlined procurement (grocery delivery from anywhere), and no commute have made my life.
Never married, never had children, didn't leave a will. The courts decided who owned his works, and that's that.
Passing the Puck and Startups
>"Living wage" may include having enough margin to save such that one may retire .

Doesn't seem to be.

>[The living wage model] does not provide a financial means for planning for the future through savings and investment or for the purchase of capital assets (e.g., provisions for retirement or home purchases).

https://livingwage.mit.edu/resources/Living-Wage-Users-Guide...
I'm still stuck on SATA, don't see the point of NVMe because there is no application I want to write that needs that disk speed.

I use my servers as MMO backends, partly they will serve files, but mostly they'll do real-time networking and db stuff... some AI for the monsters and validation for anti-cheat so I need CPU more than fast storage or network.
The Discovery of Pulsars [video]
Weren't these people rather privileged? Just being able to draw on paper was a big thing back then iirc.

But yeah, if you have just 20% or even 10% free time, if it's bugging you enough you'll keep thinking about it.

Now, having the means to realize that is a whole different story.

Ideas are aplenty, even among people with the actual skills to execute them, but the social and monetary capital is lacking.

Can't do shit without help and money.
Thanks for this! I've used Headless Recorder not only as a tool for completing tasks, but as an educational aid in learning how Puppeteer/Playwright actually works. Seeing the code it spits out is a huge shortcut in learning to craft your own scripts.
If only they’d learn that resistance is futile. Anything else? Irrelevant.
You assume A LOT, personally I’m tired of the “don’t use kubernetes” edgy blog posts that have very little substance to offer and mostly seem like people who haven’t studied distributed systems

Kubernetes isn’t perfect but it’s the best we have. Losing air to what?
You can start a new hobby and learn it well to make those extra bucks. One exmaple can be hydroponic gardening.
Read the Amazing Benefits of Hydroponics here. You will get an idea on how you can create a business out of this small and simple hobby.

Benefits of Hydroponic Farming

https://howhydroponics.com/top-14-benefits-of-hydroponic-far...
Your opponent has disconnected [no bong clouds please!]
The USSR didn't even bother with suborbital flights.
There's a reason that there's only 3 flights to suborbital ranges that are considered manned spaceflight.
If this holds then things should start to break down once we get some serious entanglement on the way (VLHC anyone?).

And let's ignore that most of the supposed optimizations that quantum mechanics was allegedly bringing happen because of entanglement and not in spite of it.
Why not also have a launch facility at fiji? You could even book a return trip.
He is >"..."calling [on?, ed.] all Israeli CEOs specifically in hi-tech to stop the hiring madness [of 'offering wages and benefits that were too generous'] "<???

Which sounds like an anti-trust violation (in the USA at least) to me, e.g.,

https://www.nelp.org/blog/federal-trade-commission-enforce-a...
Well, I guess I haven't really asked around how many cooks have died. Long story short. That's just not a statistic I've personally gathered (and such a statistic would be socially awkward to discuss).

A lot of what I was talking about in the top comments were just the anecdotes that I could personally verify with these spot-checks.

Waiters / Barbers / etc. etc. _ARE_ afraid of dying. Not necessarily the ones serving you, but their former coworkers aren't coming back because of the fear. Maybe dead-cooks have something to do with it. But I can say for sure that front-line workers are willing to talk about their fears (or their viewpoint on the fears of their former coworkers).
Ugh, a WHITE american. They are the worst. Also, what is a racist like you doing in a thread about mindfulness?
The only reason Orban is the way he is and Fidesz exists is because of the overreach of the EU.

Study the history of Orban himself. He isn’t just some random right wing nut. He was a part of the first wave of liberalization in the 90s and was very pro-West.
Everything is a cache
See here for some notes from the WSL team why certain filesystem operations that would be fast on Linux are slow on Windows:

https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/873#issuecomment-391...

https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/873#issuecomment-425...
Licences can give the right to sublicense under the same terms. But the GPL does not, and each licensor gets the licence directly from the copyright holder.
> In 1976, an overhaul of the Copyright Act enshrined stronger protections. Today, artists generally receive copyrights to their works by default; after they die, the protections pass to their heirs for seventy years. During that period, whether you’ve purchased a negative for pennies at an estate sale or a print for millions at Christie’s, simply owning a physical image does not entitle you to reproduce it in any form.

Well, the mayor that bought it, did before such law. His rights to the photos should be considered according to the law that was "available" at the time.
"western people sometimes come in wanting things to be intense, clinical and goal-oriented."

That describes me exactly. I spent forever look for a "quantified meditation" course.

I even kept a mediation journal where I could track how many times I lost track of my breath in a 5 minute session. I started out around 50 and was desperately trying to get to 0.

I even used an app that counts taps, that I would rest under my finger, so that I could mark each failure as quickly and easily as possible. Without trying to "remember" the count of failures because it would distract me from the breath.

I felt that if I could get to 0, that I wouldn't be ready for enlightenment, but I would at least achieve ACCESS CONCENTRATION and be able to enter the stream. At that point, it could become a spiritual practice, but I wanted to develop sufficient concentration abilities and conquer my ADHD before thinking too much about what mediation was actually for.

It's been really hard for me to let go of the idea that my meditation needs a score to track my progress.
If you are open to sharing, what did you do, if anything, to make it through the year of crisis? Did you stop meditating like the author, seek outside help, continue meditating or something else?
Science-Based Medicine's Coverage of “Irreversible Damage”
Yes, and the first suborbital crewed flight was in May 1961. A bit more than sixty years ago.

The gap between the Wright Brothers' first flight and Apollo 11 was about 66 years. (I realize aircraft and spacecraft are not very similar).

I think almost everyone interested in space flight back then would be pretty disappointed by the slow pace of development since Apollo, until things picked up recently.
just remember that _you_, presumably a tech worker making great money, would easily pay $10 instead of $5. Many others are extremely price-elastic and will literally give up years of patronage for Denny's or something with a move like this.

One could argue that they could market to a higher-earning clientele, but that might not exist where you are, and they'd still have to pay to (maybe) earn that market.

it's a huge catch 22.

i feel like i should add that I usually tip 50-100% (since COVID started) regardless of service and want to see restaurant workers paid much better across the board. tips are not commissions.
you do not get unemployment if you quit your job voluntarily. when managers say employees leave in order to collect unemployment, it's a lie.
The point was to make it clear that non-finacially viable ideas are not culled.

I play around with many ideas for fun, implementing them knowing full well there is no way to monetize them.
I bet it’s next to impossible to prove copyright in this case.
You would need to track down every last contributor and create a legally valid authorship evidence that is recognized under German legal doctrine.
I would bet that having a email or even full name in a git repository is certainly not enough.
This is exactly why for serious open-source projects that big companies depend on, they always creat a legal body, usually consortium and formally establish legal ownership of rights
I don't see sex work as "drug dealing with intimacy and attention" any more then, say, twitch streaming; or podcasting. The whole media environment has been retooled to incentivize super-unhealthy (but perhaps unsurprising given our decades long trend towards individualism and isolation) parasocial relationships
> do not believe in the possibility of a "General Theory of Productivity." I'm highly skeptical of attempts to quantify the precise relationship between error discovery stage and cost in a way that is generalizable, although I think it might be possible given a large group of engineers using a highly homogenous process, tools, and accounting. Google is pretty close to this (common dev infrastructure across tens of thousands of engineers), and even across Google this kind of generalization would be extremely difficult.

I don't think you are incorrect, but I think a lot of the aspirants behind ESE just want to have a better sense of what works and what doesn't; I'd even welcome negative results! The current state of things is to read 100 opinionated people and their blog posts. And given enough time, you'll encounter someone who swears that after drinking their morning coffee and jumping on one foot for 1 min, they enter a VRChat standup with their team and hit max flow. There's just so little knowledge right now about what works and what doesn't that I'd welcome more clarity, especially negative results.

> As a result, academic research into productivity can be difficult to generalize

I think defects are what we should measure for, not productivity because of the subjectivity of measuring productivity. But even measuring defects is complicated. The best way I see to measure defects is to ask a Team Under Test to document bugs that they encounter along with resolution times, but this is not only expensive, but something I doubt most corporations will be willing to share outside of their walls. Perhaps open source projects can try to store this data, like curl's stats [1].

[1]: https://github.com/curl/stats
The former two (rsync, scp) are a lot more complex than ftp(s), since they both rely on at least some subset of ssh, plus some other stuff. They're not really suited for safely linking to unauthenticated downloads, either.

https doesn't let you also manage your files with the same protocol/daemon without other stuff on top of, or alongside, it.
Indeed.

"Your honor, the defendant is distributing my copyrighted work without a license. Make him stop please."
It's going to need to be more than 20%. There are no shortage of jobs where servers make enough to live because they make unreported cash tips.
That quoting Rick and Morty in no way means they think they are intellectually superior or anything remotely to that. It can very well happen that some topic simply makes you remember a quote and you think it's fitting and you are also glad when someone else recognizes where it is from.
Judicial poetry.
It's very common. All that needs to happen, as just one example, is the variable of the smaller type being used as an index into an array. You might get an out of bounds access, or even just an access to the wrong element.
But think of how easy OTA updates will make apprehending criminals!

For instance, if a government needs to institute a lockdown to prevent spread of a novel virus, they can just disable all affected citizens' ability to drive anywhere inessential, and the original software doesn't have to support it
Most eye opening part of the pandemic was the fact that in the US the majority of people dubbed as essential and forced to work were also the people paid the least. Grocery workers standing there with 2 masks on making minimum wage while the rest of us waltz in take what we need and return to the relative safety of our remote work. Then making fast food workers essential instead of paying them unemployment was just taking things to another level of pettiness.
FTP has been related to web browsing since the beginning of the web 31 years ago. For maybe a decade (the first third of the web so far), most of the WWW was on FTP servers—not just most software downloads, but also most HTML pages. Web browsers are a much better interface to FTP servers than dedicated FTP clients, because you can click a link on an HTML page (either a statically generated directory, possibly on the FTP server itself, or a dynamically generated search result page) and get the file from the FTP server.

There are a few people commenting with nonsense like this:

> You can configure Firefox to open "ftp://" links with the client of your choice. This is a non-issue.

That's absolutely useless if the client of your choice can't render HTML and the ftp:// link is to an HTML file.

The fundamental idea of the WWW project was that it provided a universal, uniform interface to all the information on the internet, regardless of protocol. This move amounts to Firefox abandoning that vision. Abandoning Gopher was maybe reasonable—there just aren't that many Gopher servers out there—but FTP is still a widely used protocol.

More broadly, this is a tradeoff between the traditional vision of the WWW as a vast library, in which human knowledge accumulates over time and becomes accessible to all, and the strip-mall vision of the WWW as a means to sell people things they don't need. This move amounts to burning down a wing of the library (or, at least, its card catalog) because it wasn't profitable enough. Or because people keep getting mugged there, I guess.

This kind of intentional functionality regression is precisely the kind of thing I use free software to avoid.
You're getting downvoted, but it's true -- CEQA is a great example of how well-intentioned environmental legislation can be abused by basically anyone to stonewall any project for any reason.

A common-sense change might be requiring minimum quantities of local signatures to limit the potential impact of a small opposition.
I remember way back in the day with ftp.cdrom.com [1] this was an important browser feature. Nowadays this is totally pointless and mind-boggling that anyone still uses FTP at all (SFTP should be used now). And more-so http is resilient for resumable file downloads with range header requests. Also people can develop an extension.

1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walnut_Creek_CDROM
The majority are also available on HTTP.

It saves a lot of confused users at other government / scientific institutions, where the firewall blocks FTP.
Maybe. Every time Intuit integrates another app into their main QBO product, it makes things worse. To some extent, when they are separate apps that connect to QBO, I get more control over what data transfers. When it’s integrated, they tend to make automatic adjustments with no ability to edit them. Obviously this is a choice they are making to do things a bad way, but my point is just to share a counter example of integration being a net negative.