skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
First, I favor space exploration and think we, as a society, should spend more money on it than we do now. Second, calling this 'realistic' is nonsense:

>It's not pessimistic, it's realistic. [...] on a 100,000 year time horizon.

It has been 65 years since Sputnik was launched, so you are projecting out 1,565x that duration into the future. I'm sure you picked a nice, big, round number, but I think it's really important to grapple with how immediate all of space travel has been against how long our horizon is as a species is.

The first record we have of homo sapiens is from 300,000 years ago[1] - so 3x your time horizon. The founding of civilization could be pegged around 4,000 years ago with the founding of Babylon[2]. 100,000 years is about 25x the duration of the existence of civilization.

So I agree that space exploration must come at some point, but I actually think the most "realistic" approach would be to *ban* space exploration until climate change is under control. Fixing our impact on our own climate has fewer technical barriers and is a larger limiting factor to human survival than space. If the time horizon is really 100,000 or 10,000 years, then addressing climate change would be a blip on that timeline.

[1] https://theconversation.com/when-did-we-become-fully-human-w...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babylon

Edit: accidentally a word
Even if we manage to get human carbon output under control, we know that historically the earth has gone through very extreme natural climate changes.

If we want to keep the earth habitable by humans over long time-scale then we absolutely need to learn how to do minor terraforming. Much better to experiment on the moon or mars than the earth.
The phone number is probably the best worldwide ~1 to ~1 identifier. I say keep it, for now at least.
But as above mars and the moon are not necessities - climate change is
This is the reason I have always stayed away from AWS and stuck to Digital Ocean/Linode. I'm sure I'm not the only one. But I am always surprised to see people complaining about this and still using AWS.
I suppose it would have to take off for Pizza delivery before they become inconspicuous enough to make illegal deliveries. Like my sibling comments say, a delivery driver or bike courier is a lot stealthier than a drone for now.
I have a phone number. I never pick up the phone, it doesn't even ring, but I will happily provide it if I have to. I can get SMS verification messages. I don't think I understand why one would feel so strongly about it.

What's the advantage of not having a number, over having a number that doesn't make your phone ring?
I was thinking more like bank/govt websites that go down for "scheduled maintenance".
Event Horizon Telescope captures birth of black hole jet in Centaurus A
...according to the "democracy" club. Syria in the last decade has been the target of one of the most ambitious disinformation campaigns involving NATO governments and media (including Reuters, BBC, Bellingcat)[1], so I would exercise extreme scrutiny with regards to these claims.

[1] - https://telegra.ph/OP-HMG-Trojan-Horse-Part-4-Undermining-Ru...
You are right, but Apple does try to rewrite most things in memory safe languages and have been doing so for quite some time now. So it is not exactly GNU/Linux.
I suspect Bezos's PR person came up with this after that stupid you all paid for this comment he made.
Quick Googling gave me values of 92K for the average SpaceX employee and $18.37/hr for Tesla's lowest unskilled labor rate.
Set an SNS alert to sent an email/SMS message to your phone if your monthly bill goes over whatever $X you decide. I've had this set on my personal account for years and it isn't too hard to configure, most of it is just point and click via the SNS and CloudWatch GUIs and is pretty foolproof.
I'll believe Russia is a democracy when Putin is no longer in control.
is it? a good portion of the post is spent explaining why E.164 isn't that great and why the author thinks it should be phased out.
Tasteful. LSI-11 for the likely cheapest PDP (though we weren't -11 fans)?

X.25 may have been legendary, but certainly not mythical! It was what the UK academic network ran on long ago, and worked well, but was steamrollered by IP (which ran over it for a while). I was rather surprised at how primitive computing/networking was at the US equivalent lab when I spent a summer there. I wouldn't know where to look for kit now, but it's surprising what lurks in the bowels of academic establishments! I've seen suggestions it's still in use in other environments. There was something of a competition for the most obsolete bits found by out Field Support.

Edit: There's probably assorted X.25 in Jim Austin's collection, specifically on the GEC 41xx: http://www.computermuseum.org.uk/
Not comparable because its not a VPS. I.E its a hourly billed system you can run GUI apps on. It is not a web server.

Also its not £ /month. It's hourly. To run 24 hours a day the cost would be 3x more.
I still remember the nonsense cost of IBM PS/2 i386 for like $14,000-$21,000.

IBM approached PC revolution with a dinosauric mainframe mindset and that killed it.

For them.
For those who like me didn’t immediately understand what was meant by a “player piano”:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Player_piano

A player piano (also known as a pianola) is a self-playing piano, containing a pneumatic or electro-mechanical mechanism that operates the piano action via programmed music recorded on perforated paper, or in rare instances, metallic rolls, with more modern implementations using MIDI

—-

On the same site as the OP, there’s a sort of introduction to this topic:

https://www.player-care.com/mybook.html
Yes, slovenia, but in other countries it's probably the same, just with different prices, and at some price point, it becomes expensive enough to eat out, that you'd rather choose to cook
> My point is that they have a fundamental right to act based on their conclusions, even if they are wrong.

100% agree!
you know. deep down inside: we are all code monkeys. Also, as much as people like to call it software engineering, it's anything but engineering.

In 95% of cases if you want to get something/anything done you will need to work at an abstraction layer where a lot of things have been decided already for you and you are just gluing them together. It's not good or bad. It is what it is.
No, it doesn't. The value of cash is decided by an open market. Crypto is proof enough that all you need is liquidity and a market for something to be exchangeable like cash.

Privacy is a universal human right. Your ignorance of that fact and your state's refusal to accept that is another issue entirely. But history is quite clear about what happens to countries and citizens thereof that continually encroach on private human rights.
It's seems pretty unlikely now. But what about once the Mar's colony has been established and growing for 300 years+ ?
If you have any interest in the origins of the personal computer you should track down the sublime documentary series "Triumph of the Nerds" by Bob Cringely. You an find various versions on Youtube.
> to see real user testimonial and real company logos on your landing page to inspire confidence

I agree, I got this before. All reviews are real, userTrack was sold on CodeCanyon before (1000+ sales) and unfortunately when the item was removed all the reviews are now hidden/gone (that's where the 4.7/5 rating from the footer comes from).

I would ask some of the existing customers to write a testimonials (or simply quote their emails, most of them, when contacting me, start by saying that they love userTrack), but I don't really like publicly sharing who is using my product. I think the list of customers should be kept confidential and respect their privacy

> The FAQs accordion shouldn't close when you click inside an individual panel

Thanks a lot for this feedback, I will look into this issue!

> I'm interested in how paid software distribution will work
I should write a blog post about this. I created my own distribution system:

* License and file distribution system (downloading the app) in a NodeJS app
* Automatically link the Paddle payment API to generate a license when a purchase happens
* A public GitHub repository to store and validate file integrity hashes for the downloads
* Some example scripts (cloud-init, bash) to automatically set-up userTrack on Ubuntu servers
* I am working on a Docker image
* The product multiple variants that I can build (WordPress, Regular, Agency)
* The product a 7-day trial version that can be automatically upgraded to the full version
* For each version mentioned above there is also a BETA channel, so I can test or ask specific customers to update to the newest beta version without publicly pushing the new release for everyone
* There is no versioning yet (the download system always returns the latest version), but I am considering adding a flag so you can choose which version to download

> You should show the expected $5/mo hosting cost on DigitalOcean on your front page. That makes the setup very clear -- self hosted, cheap

This is a good suggestion, the only issue is that different customers use different ways to host userTrack. For example, for the WordPress version you can just add it as a plugin to your existing installation, no extra monthly costs. Others already have a shared hosting, so adding another LAMP application costs nothing.

PostHog is actually pretty new and seems to have a similar feature set (around 2 years old, compared to userTrack that is 8+ years old). I do sometimes check their progress but overall I couldn't really take an in-depth look at their platform as it feels very complex and more developer or data-analyst oriented.

Thanks a lot for sharing the feedback, I loved it, really helpful!
It's not even just the automation. There's so little demand that GA is really stuck in ancient standards.

I flew 172s for a while and I was really surprised how old most of the tech was. Built with rivets, engines still using leaded (or lead replacement) gas, still using manual mixture like an old car with a choke. Even the wired microphone in a modern (manufactured in the 2010s) C172 still has this ancient feel about it (not to mention that you couldn't use it anyway as the prop noise is way too loud to use a radio without headphones).

The instrumentation side definitely has caught up (like the Garmin G1000 glass cockpit) but the whole airframe + engine combo seems to come straight out of the 1950s. I imagine this adds to the cost as a lot of this tech is no longer mainstream so there's no economy of scale. You can see this in part costs too, and in the price and availability of AVGAS (some airports here really don't want to carry it anymore and if they do it's really expensive).

I've heard of C172s been retrofitted with modern turbodiesels with full FADEC but I really don't get why they don't come like this out of the factory these days. I did see that some of the lighting tech was upgraded though: The later ones did have LED beacons. But most of the tech was very old.
No, similar bugs are found and fixed all the time and no one cares. Also no plausible connections to the ransomware attacks. Which usually need a remote vuln. or targeted attack especially against people.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McDonnell_Douglas_DC-X

I also believe that Blue Origin had VTVL working before space-X

in the early 2000s there were one or two other scale VTVL projects that were working, I can't find info on them now.

also Masten: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5b9LnzjGgU
They seem to really miss feudalism.
Oh, no one is questioning its success as a pyramid scheme. In that regard it is extraordinary successful. It is all the widespread actual use that still is missing. (And I’m sure you can provide some anecdotes about someone using it a lot, but that doesn’t change the data.)
BBS Offline Mail – Slashing Phone Bills with Sparky Herring's QWK Readers (1992)
I reacted the same way when I read that part too, but the rest of the comment illustrates it well with the failed attempts data.

To go back to the analogy, it's as if they try to jump from the window, but there's a safety net that blocks them. They're stuck inside and the fire is mysteriously gone.
Scotland does not have 8.4M people, it has around 5.5M people.

Can you post a source for the 5500 claim? For reference, we had around 5500 deaths in Scotland in total for 1 March - 4 April [1], so to get an extra months worth of deaths would be a big deal.

[1] https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/march-death-rate-lowest-f...
Next month, Nvidia will be including this code in their drivers as anti-mining measure.

Seriously tho I'm interested what chain of events led to this possibility; it sounds like it might be something minor that some makers changed from a reference design...
This reads like someone who turns off Javascript in their browser and then complains when every website doesn't bend to their niche use case.

There are other oddities: The author complains about the security of SMS verification, but then goes on to complain that even more incredibly insecure workarounds don't work. And then the author attempts to be in some sort of position of authority about the reliability and other aspects of the network and carriers, while fully admitting that they don't even have a phone number or smart phone.

There are certainly valid complaints around SMS verification, networks, and carriers, but this article seems out of touch.
Super volcanoes, nuclear wars, asteroid strikes and bioweapons makes earth about equal to living on Mars or the moon. You could build all the same things on earth instead, for a fair bit cheaper.

Malicious AI would almost certainly affect the moon or mars more heavily than earth, since on earth you can survive without high tech solutions
Bought my first cell phone a few months ago. It’s a flip phone. It lives at my desk, I do not carry it with me.

But I suspect what you’re actually asking is “when’s the last time you went 12 hours or more without an internet connection.”
> Enforcement isn't a farce, its just focused on workers because employers are powerful and workers aren't.

I don't think many companies are powerful against ICE, especially small restaurants... there are probably political reasons why they choose to target employees and not employers.
Yes, though once you factor in expenses like healthcare or contingency savings — both of which are also arguably necessary for a secure life — the line becomes more blurry.
Any non-trivial python module is going to be broken up into multiple files and have an __init__.py which you can explicitly define what's imported and exposed. You can hoist a single file module into a folder-based module if you need direct control and don't want to split it apart into multiple files yet too.
Yeah, mobile platforms are moderately better.
The dredging wasn’t done by the archaeologists. They’re just taking advantage of it.
Hi Andy: if you see this, I'm the other 4d polygon renderer! I read the kubernetes whitepaper after RC and ended up spending a lot of the last year on it. Maybe if I had asked you about working with Borg I could have saved myself some trouble. Glad to see you're still very active!
Yeah it has firmly kept me away from AWS, Google cloud, and similar.

I use Vultr or Digitalocean if I need a server somewhere because at least it's just a pre-set cost.
According to this video[1], Compaq's portable also bested IBM. It was Compaq's first product, and everyone thought IBM's upcoming portable would wipe them out, but they held strong and counted on IBM to have production problems, which they did, so Compaq held onto this segment.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEMhpInIACk
A guide to R – the pandemic's misunderstood metric
I don't know much about it, but Intel's clear linux does not use icc this is in their FAQ https://docs.01.org/clearlinux/latest/FAQ/index.html#does-it...
I love the West Wing but "pioneered the West" is a really interesting way to frame Columbus and Spain and France and Britain and ultimately the US doing what they did in the 17th-20th centuries.
As compared to caffeine alone? Or as compared to nothing?
Nothing else is as close to being so widely-available and easy to obtain for almost anyone, almost anywhere, and usable by as many people. I don't see anything poised to replace it as the LCD of near-instant communication.
But eventually, you sell that capital to repay the loan, triggering a tax event.
Was this a school for gifted kids? I tried teaching some very basic python in high school once when someone formed a "computer club" and it was a total waste of time. Nobody was capable of understanding it. Maybe younger kids are just more receptive but this experience solidified to me that understanding programming is something that some small subset of the population is capable of and can't really be taught to the others, same as my compsci professor and some studies said, and my experiences working tutoring suggested.
> You're mixing together useful complexity with useless complexity.

> Complexity has high costs

Complexity management is the central theme of building any large, valuable system. We would probably find that the more complex (and correct) a system, the more valuable it becomes on a relative basis to other competing solutions. The US tax code is a pretty damn good example of complexity intentionally taken to the extreme (for purposes of total market capture). We shouldn't be surprised to find other technology vendors framing problems & marketing their wares under similar pretenses.

The best way to deal with complexity is to eliminate it or the conditions under which it must exist. For example, we made the engineering & product choice that says we do not ever intend to scale an instance of our application beyond the capabilities of a single server. Consider the implications of this constraint when reviewing how many engineers we actually need to hire, or if Kubernetes even makes sense.

I think one of the biggest failings in software development is a lack of respect for the nature and impact of complexity. If we are serious about reducing or eliminating modes of complexity, we have to be willing to dig really deep and consider dramatic changes to the ways in which we architect these systems.

I know its been posted to death on HN over the last ~48 hours, but Out of the Tar Pit is the best survey of complexity that I have seen in my career so far:

http://curtclifton.net/papers/MoseleyMarks06a.pdf
Funny to imagine. I did the opposite and spent the first 20 years of my career paying for my birth family, and only now am waking up to the idea of starting my own (family and career). This is a difficult shift in mindset. But ultimately you are right. His obligations to his parents were different but no less serious, maybe more so.

By the way, I claim no hardship or victim status. It gave me a lot of courage to do things I would have been able to do otherwise. The problem was when things settled and they needed me less, and I no longer felt like I had to do anything crazy. Then it was like, “this is it?”.
I'd pay 25 cents an article, if they can get together with a few other content creators and decide on a shared micro-transaction system.
cope harder
this is the only reason I use Firefox on mobile. but I also use nightly, and it does support uBlock Origin.
I avoided to setup Two-Factor Authentication (2FA) with mobile phones anywhere because i had the distinct impression I was making the surface of attack bigger instead of smaller.
Web3: How We Got Here
> The funny thing about human-computer interfaces is that they are used by humans. Humans are adverse to change; ergo, a constantly-changing interface is also a bad interface.

The trouble with that epistemology is that it makes it impossible to discern (or at least pointless to discuss) any qualities of a user interface except how popular the interface is or how much humans enjoy using the interface.

> When you change something—be it a GUI or an API—you need to take into account not just whether the change is better, but also whether it's worth the very high inherent cost of change.

This sounds dangerously close to the awful epistemology that is the precautionary principle. Both are saying that if there is some proposal for which we don't have any good knowledge about its potential downsides, we ought to reject the proposal. Your variation seems to be that we should assign the proposal some baseline cost (and thus reject the proposal unless we have knowledge that the benefit exceeds the cost). I simply don't think there is any way of establishing that baseline cost.
Sometimes two wrongs make a right. I really think people have gotten far to comfortable with anonymity on the internet. If you want to say something that could cause you to face significant social/political/economic backlash you should have to think twice about how to ensure no one will trace it back to you.
blue origin was funded with 0 tax payer dollars as far i can tell.
> As far as I can tell, “threads” from a WebAssembly implementation's perspective is just the combination of SharedArrayBuffer and atomics;

FWIW that's exactly what the linked post describes :)
Ahh Geocities, brings back memories.
Democracy means the people fundamentally have the power; it does not mean "X year term limits" or "/u/pitaj is the supreme leader".
K8s may have its time and place but here is something most people are ignoring: in 80% of the time you don't need it. You don't need all that complexity. You're not Google, you don't have the scale or the problems Google has. You also don't have the discipline AND the tooling Google has to make something like this work (cough cough Borg).
Party or Die
That comment has aged brilliantly.

Thanks for that!
From a documentary I watched something like this is one of the preferred techniques for the Colombian cartels now. It's called the torpedo technique.

They design torpedo style units that get towed behind a fishing boat or such. At a desired location they detach it, and it just loiters below the surface. At some pre-arranged time it pops up to the surface and activates a radio beacon, so that a pickup ship can snag it.

It's less complicated than building an autonomous AUV, and far less likely to be spotted by arial surveillance than a narcosub. Lower capacity but still very lucrative I imagine. And very nearly risk free.
JPL develops first antenna that could survive on Europa
It certainly will, but she's got every right to pursue it in court because sometimes that does happen.
I like to ask similar questions. If I was interviewing and that was your answer, I’d be just as impressed. Not everyone needs to be running around building things for fun.

I’ve also had people show me pics of their wood working, mountains climbed, hunting trophies, and even 3d models. I think only one time did someone say they did nothing but take care of their spouse. We talked about that, as I have some experience there. My job is to see how you solve problems and ensure they’re compatible with our problems, along with skill set, etc.
Yeah I'm not buying it, and I don't think anyone else worth their weight is either.
> Most helicopters use jet engines. I think that is where a large part of the maintenance cost comes in.

No, gas turbines are much more reliable, and cheaper to service than reciprocating engines.
But the scammer needs username, password and to phish the user... this is still more than just username+password (which could be reused on eg. linkedin, adobe or any of the other hacked sites), and if the scammers do the phishing attack, they can also get the OTP from the users app in the same way as they would get the number from an SMS
Glurk! Thanks.
You're looking at 80k+ easily, so that's atleast around 4200 or 4300 netto a month which you'll be comfortable with. And yes the market is really hot right now!
>and we pioneered the West

The west was already fully populated.
Solution: From what I remember you could solve it by using firefox CSS. But it implicate using firefox
My wife and I are the same way -- we never seem to feel refreshed from midday naps. Is there something we're doing wrong? :)