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After six months on Mars, NASA's tiny copter is still flying high
The world is better off today in basically every way than it was 100 years ago, and almost unimaginably better than it was 200 years ago.

The worst 10% today do about as well as majority of West was doing back then. And the condition of the poor is improving rapidly. The places were it is not true, it is due to wars.

But well, this is perspective of a Polish person. My country lost 25% of the population during wars with Sweden, 90% population of Warsaw. And then another 20% in WWII, and another 90% of Warsaw was lost. My grandmother lived through that. Later, during communist regime she managed to escape Poland right before Martial Law in 80' to Netherlands. My mother was persecuted after that due to contacts in the West.

Now we live in the EU. I have extremely hard time imagining my Swedish or German colleagues trying to kill me. Not everyone is peaceful to the east, but at least their tanks are not in Poland. That's progress too.
There is trust and there is trust.

There was enough trust that the slave did not desert and that they were taking the message to the destination.

There was not enough trust that the slave would actually know the CONTENT of the message. As such the slave wouldn't even know to where to desert to :)
SpaceX cleared for historic civilian launch next week
I'm Swiss and I volunteer for an organisation called Digital Society Switzerland. Although much smaller (and less powerful) we are similar to what the EFF is doing but on a national level.

I can only confirm your doubts about the "Swiss privacy laws". The current laws in Switzerland are very week (at least compared to the GDPR) and it has powerful surveillance laws in place (6 months data retention for telecommunication data, mass surveillance of internet traffic entering and leaving the country). If at all, being based in Switzerland as a privacy friendly company is rather a risk than giving you a "badge of honor".

I can only speculate where this myth and reputation of "Swiss privacy laws" is coming from. I guess it is related to the bank secret we had in place for a long time: It allowed you to own a bank account anonymously. While many states (especially the US) protested strongly (and for good reasons), it gave Switzerland an aura of discretion.
Scientists reveal the secrets behind ant teeth super strength
I don't trust any "secure" communications service that hasn't been subpoenaed and provided nothing in return. Having a national security letter canary doesn't hurt either.
I think it has more to do with culture than police effectiveness as we are not so popular as a country with good enforcement of law. Croatia is a small country and there is always someone that knows someone even if he is on the other side of the country. So even if somebody steals something from someone, there is a big chance that it is someone you know (he knows when you leave your house, when you get back etc.), so it would be a really big shame if you find out that someone you know stole something from you. Therefore, most thefts are done by Roma people because they are somewhat excluded/isolated from society.
Interesting question. Would be good to study such data.
yes, but on a municipality by municipality basis because geofences and switch statements are free
True, my bad.
In that case, Dutch mortgages allow "infinite" leverage.

There are some fixed cost: transfer tax, mortgage fee, notary fees, etc. (It used to be you could also finance these). But the full amount that will be transferred to the seller can be financed.
When I heard "breaking the internet" I think there was some massive BGP issue or root-DNS mess up... Not that some websites could not release new pages anymore...
My wife had a conference yesterday that was initially going to be held in Berlin but because of the pandemic, happened entirely online. The conference organizers set up a virtual environment in Gather.town where your avatar could walk around a game-like virtual room and initiate conversations with people (over Zoom) by walking up to them. There were different rooms where you could attend different sessions.

For my wife and most of the academics present, it was their first virtual/gaming experience, and they all loved it.

People don’t realize it but the metaverse is here already. In the metaverse, your avatar is your digital identity. How much would people be willing to pay for a more desirable digital identity (avatar)? What if that digital identity also got you exclusive access to select clubs?

None of this is new - people pay tons of money for more desirable real world identities (clothes, makeup, accessories).

If we spend half our lives online, is it really surprising that people will eventually want a more desirable online identity too?
Our canary[1] - the very first one[2] - is alive and well.

In fact, it turned 15 years old this past April[3].

[1] https://www.rsync.net/resources/notices/canary.txt

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warrant_canary#Usage

[3] https://twitter.com/rsyncnet/status/1387090538273206274
This comment shows what a huge effect misinformation has on people. The commenter is saying video of police officer kneeling on man's neck until he dies is "misinformation".
The discussion here is what I'm interested in. Pure gold the sheer insight you get from a wide range of minds. That is what the media should be: access and transmission of deep insight by really smart individuals, backed by non-cherry-picked and objective facts.
Self-Serve Data Prep Tools Can Optimize SME Business Budgets and Resources
eInk typewriter is cute but I want an eInk Obsidian[1] machine :-)

[1] https://obsidian.md/
Raspberry Pi Broadcasts UHF Channels to CRT TVs
A Global Web of Bacteria-Generated Nanowires
Almost every company in Switzerland that produces software has a bunch of eastern Europeans on the payroll, that either immigrated to the country or work remotely. But if the company started in Switzerland, or management and especially senior devs are based in Switzerland, I feel like that's good enough to apply the "Swiss quality" marketing because the Swiss _do_ have high standards and expected high quality of work produced.
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MSISDN

I'm reading that article as the SIM only has an IMSI, and the MSISDN routing is all on the provider end, the SIM doesn't know or care.

This has also been my experience when traveling and using local SIM cards. My phone has a space to show your own phone number, and a rare few SIM cards have this pre-filled out but usually you have to enter your own phone number yourself, the phone doesn't know.
which "dares" to editorialize and investigate issue?

Im sorry, but there are so many stories about "solutions" out there, it's literally just an editorial choice for any magazine. Washington Post has an entire section called "Climate Solutions". Nothing daring about it. It's just regular journalism.

Not a single aspect of "constructive journalism" isn't already a best practice for good journalism.
GitHub Actions can do some neat things. I got tired of waiting for Dependabot (tool that makes automatic PRs to update your middleware, acquired by GitHub) to add an option to group PRs together (it opens a separate PR for each dependency that can be updated, so merging and re-running CI can take a long time) so I scratched my own itch and made a workflow that merges their PRs together: https://github.com/hrvey/combine-prs-workflow Been running it for a year now, and still pretty happy with it.
It's extremely common for students to miss classes - which is apparent when you are on the teacher side of things.

For example, in Fall 2019 (before Covid), I had 60 students across my various courses. Three of them missed weeks of classes each because they had some significant medical issues. Others missed a week of classes because they were going to some extracurricular competition. Nothing bad happened to them. We just accommodated for their issues.
Invermectin has no medical value for the treatment of viral infections. The users should be mocked. It is time to return to the era of experts.
A lot of people assume that, but it's only partially true.

Darwin's userland is taken from FreeBSD, the kernel is from NeXTSTEP, although it also borrowed some things from FreeBSD, but I don't think they incorporated jails[1].

[1] https://github.com/apple/darwin-xnu/search?q=jail
> TLS and HTTPS support included by default

I'm curious how they solved TLS non self signed certificate on local device problem described here: https://lwn.net/Articles/837491/

I tried to find info but I can't find any.
Overshooting the runway isn't that bad, it's expected in emergency scenarios. In those cases, minor injuries and extensive damage to the aircraft are accepted in favor of something worse. Usually you find rubble pits and soft earth behind a runway for the nose gear to dig into, a 10-20ft drop on the nosegear will hurt but the aircraft is now breaking with it's entire front, not just a rubber wheel. The Mayday TV show had a few incidents where the aircraft overshot and that happened.
Playsit – Mobile app for gamers to organize their library
Enable Together Mode in Microsoft Teams
I, for one, am able to access sites without disclosing my identity at all.

I paid for a membership to icy.tools the other day entirely with my metamask account and without using any email/phone number at all

I’d be very, very happy if every site in the world had a “connect with metamask” button where I could log in completely anonymously
JavaScript Library and Resources
I still remember a salesperson looking at little old me, then looking at the copy of Unreal Tournament in his hand, then back at me, shrugging, saying "well they're only aliens" and ringing it out.
>doordash.engineering

worlds greatest minds working together to ensure humans can get taco bell delivered with 5 9s availability and monetized accordingly

at least the burnout and neglect of family was for a good cause
Along with the opposing major network for reacting and obviously being biased in order to re-inforce the views that the other network questioned?
>Isn't this impossible because some schema changes require data migration?

In the most general case, sure - although there are workarounds for some specific cases (e.g., including previously-known-as names in the declarative schema to allow automatically planning renames). But 99% of the time, you're adding and removing tables and columns in a way that's very well defined. This is one of those areas where the best solution is to legislate away the hard problems - a tool that covers 98% of schema changes automatically (the provably safe ones), and then fails/requires a human to approve the last 2% is still dramatically better than having humans manually write and sequence change plans all the time.

Data migrations will require human effort, but you can sequence the changes and isolate the parts that need different kinds of work. If you're changing a string to an integer, for instance, you can make it clear in your change history that you (1) add the new column, (2) start dual writes, (3) backfill, (4) move readers to the new column, (5) stop the dual write, (6) drop the old column. You can do that with checked-in migration code, but think about what you end up with at the end - with imperative migrations, you have the clutter from all of that history; with declarative schema definitions, you just have the final state, just like how it works for code.

Declarative schemas also usually come with nice ancillary properties - for instance, they can give you automatic rollbacks, because you can pack up the whole schema definition as a static artifact.

>Why not use a dedicated and feature rich queue such as Rabbit MQ or, if you want to get really fancy, Kafka?

Atomicity. It's really, really powerful to be able to write a row and send or receive a message as a single exactly-once transaction. Imagine a queue of events. The writer writes the event data, and sends a message as a notification that it exists; the consumer will keep some sort of aggregate (count, filtered total, etc.). With a separate queueing system, you have to explicitly manage the timing and error cases bridging different atomicity domains, usually reimplementing some sort of idempotency log on your own. If it's all in one place, you just write a transaction that reads the old value, consumes the queue message, and writes a new value.
If you're stressed out and have trouble falling asleep, you could look into a 'body scan' routine when you lay in bed. Lots of guides to find about it, but it's simply focusing on parts of your body and on your breathing.
Beginners Guide to Self-Organizing Maps
I haven't done the math myself to double check, but the ground station receivers would have to be multiple kilometers across, and atmospheric energy losses would be significant. Honestly, after a certain level of complexity you really do have to admit Nuclear is safer, cheaper, and simpler.
> Do you get to cut off someone's water utility if they say something you don't like?

Coming soon to a Hell on Earth near you.
> Horizontal scaling

I think the importance of horizontal scaling is overhyped. 99% of PostgreSQL applications are at a size where a single machine can easily handle the workload.

To enable horizontal scaling, you need to make so many tradeoffs that I don't think it's worth it for most applications.
You're right in that the Graflex SLRs were first, and certainly intended for professionals. It was the compactness of the 35mm SLR which seemed revolutionary. But it reality it was evolutionary, there were several series of SLRs for 120 and 127 film, later there was the Contaflex, 35mm Exakta and others with eye-level finders. The Exakta series was exceptionally popular and the KMZ Start was by comparison obscure. The Nikon F was a very fine camera, but what makes it a professional camera where these others are not?
No, this is a security feature which can also be enabled by users - last logins basically.
I think the debate here was merely on misinformation, so to be honest I'd say market share doesn't necessarily apply here.

You might rightfully say that weaving a biased narrative out of truths could also be labeled misinformation, but in my own personal opinion I'd rather try and unravel that narrative than try to unravel a narrative based on straight up lies.
he simultaneously invokes and cries strawmen, the most common of feats
When you run the "fat" container in an orchestrator that's less of a problem, because Kubernetes, and Nomad, can have as many health checks as you want to determine the health of all the things running inside.

But yes, generally it's not considered a good practice.
And, in particular, I also think that nuclear winter is another one of these over-hyped scenarios. If you do the napkin-math it doesn't really work out.

Nuclear war will probably result in every major metropolitan area in the participating countries being obliterated. But I'm willing to bet that non participating countries will survive with their civilization intact. Especially countries with high food security that can deal with total collapse of international trade.
That’s a really neat idea. Being able to specify certain changes as ‘not commitable’ or local only. I often find I have certain changes I always make for development and never want to commit. I always do extra git steps to avoid accidentally including them in a PR. Maybe a .env thing would help.
Thanks, that sounds awesome---I was not even aware of this type of hardware. Definitely going to consider one of these (or a NUC).
I’m not objecting to the natural evolution of language in general. I’m objecting to the specific loss of the word “literally”.
Nice idea. I would prefer having it as an IDE feature, or within something like clippy (or eslint/flake8, etc...), though.
There is such a thing as open source project with "pull requests welcome" in readme and whole elaborate "how to contribute" wiki chapter. Except when you follow that wiki to the T, it still ends up ignored because no one is reading pull requests. It is not that these contributions are going out of nowhere, from clueless people who dont realized maintainers dont want pull requests. Pretty often maintenners wanted pull requests, made sure to promote the option and then found themselves unable/unwilling to merge them in.

I am not saying projects must merge in pull requests. I am saying they should not have "please contribute it is welcome" messages in their readmes.

And on second plan, there are those campaigns to make people contribute. And shaming of companies/people for freeloading if they dont contribute - especially here on HN. Again, if then people conclude that contribution is something expected, it is not only their own fault.
Do you happen to know what the US equivalent is?

Reading [1] it said the company that received the most was Sinopec, with US$450M. But according to [2], Boeing has received over $15B in subsidies since 2000, so roughly comparable. And that doesn't count tax breaks[3] and doesn't seem to include agricultural subsidies which are huge in the US/

[1] https://asia.nikkei.com/Economy/Trade-war/China-corporate-su...

[2] https://subsidytracker.goodjobsfirst.org/top-100-parents

[3] https://taxbreaktracker.goodjobsfirst.org/prog.php?detail=st...
I definitely identify with your way of thinking as well.

Frequently I have an epiphany only for it to just poof away. The harder I try to remember it the further back it seems to get pushed.

Maybe I need to cut down on my cannabis use.... Lol
This makes inspecting the Dockerfile so much more harder. Not only this is non uniformity, Ansible really isn't the tool of choice if you want to "repeatedly" perform reproducible steps. So, I wonder why not just a Dockerfile instead of writing a playbook and then using `docker commit` (a command I've barely used/seen being used in my 2+ years of using docker daily).
> Why not use a dedicated and feature rich queue such
> as Rabbit MQ or, if you want to get really fancy, Kafka?

If your queue is in the same database as your data, you can do "ack message/mark job as complete" and "commit result of job to database" in the same transaction. That simplifies a lot of the harder parts of things like materialization pipelines or BI systems.
Why would anyone use an online code editor?
This is exactly what I’m buying a PineNote (https://www.pine64.org/pinenote/) for!
Show HN: Mixed Integer Programming for JavaScript
According to [1], Koçulu's kik "a new module that would kick-start the set up of new projects, and he named this module “kik.”"
Also, Stratton seemed to try and prevent the use of a "kik-starter" as well.

That doesn't sound too much like the package to deal with social media to me. Arguing that they are in the same domain because of both of them being internet-related seems like American Airlines trying to sue Alcoholics Anonymous for an AA trademark violation, for both pilots and recovering alcoholics sometimes use roads.

[1] https://kikloginonline.com/kik-npm-package-name/
> stale bot closed this on 23 Nov 2020

as is tradition
Hi! I'm one of the contributors to the repo. Primary reason was for uniformity. Initially, we built our EC2 and DO Droplet images with Ansible and our Docker image with a Dockerfile [0]. It became tedious over time as adding a new extension meant double the work since we had to write separate instructions for Ansible and the Dockerfile. Also, the Dockerfile itself started to become long-winded and cluttered with the amount of extensions that we were pumping in.

[0]: https://github.com/supabase/postgres/blob/0c5178588791d9472c...
Jason Hickel's criticism is either disingenuous or demonstrates basic innumeracy. The criticism uses absolute differences to "prove" that divergence is increasing.

This does not make sense. If A and B went from earning 30k and 45k respectively to earning 70k and 90k respectively, Hickel would claim this was "divergence" - because the gap between them has risen from 15k to 20k.

But it simply isn't - A is converging with B (the gap has narrowed from 50% to 28.5%). If this trend continued linearly, A's income would surpass that of B within about 3 more periods of such "divergence".
In this case, profit and accessibility of information go hand in hand:
if Google does not comply with the government, Google does not get to exist in Russia.
one invokes straw-man and can't recognize when it's being pointed out by example of another, more ridiculous straw-man. sigh.

just stop and think for a second. you don't need to go down this road. drop the initial straw-man and try asking a question if you don't understand what's being argued.
Agreed on goals. Tor undoubtedly helps, and even where it fails, the raised costs are themselves a win for the pro-privacy crowd.

Just ... don't think it's a majykal bullet. It's not. Tradecraft matters, vulnerabilities exist. Examine and review your threat models.
Who is "our" here? rsync.net?

https://www.rsync.net/resources/regulatory/privacy.html
3 days ago i did this very thing. when the oppressive govt banned internet, i had to talk to someone outside india and then i dictated them some text. reddit keeps ip logs for 100 days so i had a dormant account for over a year. i asked the guy to log in, type that message and post.

that way the govt can demand from reddit that account ip but since the only ip available is from outside india, they cant do shit.

i was ready to dictate base64 image character by character but the internet blockade remained for only 2 days so yeah. there are plenty of ways
I find this kind of exhortation to be useless in practice, because while everyone agrees that code shouldn't be too clever, no-one agrees on what kind of code is being too clever.

For example, I'd argue that using C/C++ at all is probably "too clever" - humans are good at simulating the happy path, but very bad at simulating all the possible different ways such code might actually be executed. But all too often people are seen as smart and rewarded for "using such an efficient low-level language".

Conversely, I'd argue that exposing a business constraint as an algebraic datatype that forces you to use it correctly reduces the cleverness required to understand the code.

But I'm sure there'll be someone here who thinks the exact opposite, and bringing "cleverness" into the conversation doesn't actually bring us any closer to agreement.
Bypass defender with Powershell? Run the same payload twice
The expected value of how many years until such a storm occurs is 100 years.
I've had a lot to learn with zfs, but it's never just flat out lost my data, unlike btrfs (in about 2017)
What's the story with "Yuri Bezmenov" in general? I'd really like to get a take on him from the HN crowd.
I'm curious if you've looked at https://github.com/zalando/postgres-operator and had thoughts on how it compared. The CrunchyData operator seems to use Patroni and links to the Patroni documentation which links to the Zalando Postgres Operator from the same company as Patroni.
It looks like a decent device, but Onyx's attitude towards open source makes it a non-starter.

http://bbs.onyx-international.com/t/please-provide-source-co...

https://www.reddit.com/r/RemarkableTablet/comments/hsyigm/on...