skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That hasn't stopped them complaining about spaceX before.

They tried to block SpaceX access to the 39A launch pad in Florida (Blue Origin claimed they would have a HUMAN rated orbital class vehicle shortly ready to go).

That gave rise to the first long callout I think from Elon -

"(Blue Origin) has not yet succeeded in creating a reliable suborbital spacecraft, despite spending 10 years in development," Musk told Space News. "If they do somehow show up in the next five years with a vehicle qualified to NASA's human rating standards that can dock with the Space Station, which is what Pad 39A is meant to do, we will gladly accommodate their needs. Frankly, I think we are more likely to discover unicorns dancing in the flame duct." - Elon Musk - 2013

SpaceX won that fight.

SpaceX is offering starlink services to folks. Bezos/Amazon has been complaining nonstop about incomplete applications needing to be rejected - ironically despite not having even provided options for how they will be launching their sats.

Obviously on the HLS award, the BO landed payload was pathetic, the rocket totally unproven (and no where to be seen), and the price much higher. Reality is if you include ideas like re-using the (pressure tested) tanks of the starship after landing, SpaceX is landing a huge mass and volume.

And the list goes on.

I have no idea why Bezos and company don't just focus on doing their own thing and getting some success there. Do a small sat orbital launch vehicle maybe just to get something going?
Interestingly enough, some decades ago there was an outbreak of common cold virus at a British Antarctic research base. The catch: at the time of the outbreak the researchers had been isolated there for months, with no contact with the outside world. It was investigated and no origin for the infection could be found. No new supply crates had been opened, for example.

Quite what this implies for COVID is unclear, because the field of epidemiology seems to have forgotten about this incident and never investigated deeply. It's worth noting though that there have been repeated cases of outbreaks in New Zealand that couldn't be traced back to any contact with anyone who had crossed the border. Personally I suspect that SARS-CoV-2 can be carried by the wind and maybe in the upper atmosphere - that has certainly been asserted for different viruses in the past - but that's heresy at the moment because it would provide a theoretical reason why lockdowns and mask mandates don't seem to have any effect.

Anyway, not really directly related to your point, but the mention of isolated research bases reminded me of it.
> Politicians live on fixed budgets, any private wealth is put in index funds

I like where you are going with all this, but I'll nitpick here that while tying politicians' wealth to the overall stock market in general reduces their incentive to legislate in favor of particular companies, it does provide them incentive to legislate in favor of corporate America in general. We don't need laws that help stock market participants. ~50% of Americans don't hold stock in any form, even through mutual funds or retirement accounts.

I don't know what the solution is. As long as rule making can disproportionately affect the rule maker's own personal wealth and wellbeing, you have a conflict of interest.
What's the second oldest torrent?

according to the thread here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10962253 an article about the then believed to be oldest torrent, turned out to be a few months less old than this one, so we need to look for the third oldest now to get a good answer.

on piratebay i found a torrent from 2008 that still works.
"With a limited budget of just $800, nearly half of which was spent on a leather jacket" -- plus we finally know how much clothes cost in the Matrix
It’s just whataboutism. The person you’re responding to has a long post history defending China and shitting on the US.
OPEN-AI sucks.
The fuel itself is toxic to the environment and animals. The fuels can have really harsh things in them like benzene, iirc.
Yep, but that is a dangerous path/metric, besides this specific "artificial" delay, think of the millions, billions, trillions seconds humanity has lost - particularly the poorest - waiting for stupidly bloated sites to load on a slowish connection (or even worse a metered one) when the same content and message could have been delivered with 1/10th or 1/100th of bandwidth usage ...

If you adopt this kind of metric/moral stance any web programmer workng in the last 20 years is guilty ...
Windows Subsystem for Android benchmarks shed light on its performance
> valid scientific and rational thinking for being hesitant of getting the vaccine.

Care to expand what these "scientific" reasons are?
Plenty of people think about it, but the incentives are not set up to center these thoughts in the conversation about what to do. As with most publicly visible problems at any company, this is at its heart a failure of leadership. (Or a success of leadership, if it is indeed what the market and cost structure of the business rewards. I do not have sufficient insight into the financial side to know which. Just because a business makes a decision that is unpopular with its customers does not automatically mean that the decision is bad for the business.)
Yes, pretty much. Not just deep learning, pretty much all data-related work. And, much like Rust, it's a good question, worth asking, and asking it repeatedly helps the world arrive at a more refined answer, and improves Julia in the process.
And, of potential interest to the HN crowd, those one million newly digitized images are also available for programmatic access from Yale's IIIF (https://iiif.io/api/image/3.0/) API endpoint. So, for instance, if you happen to like peanuts (unlike Comstock) you may want to zoom in on them in their full glory:

https://collections.library.yale.edu/iiif/2/1197356/2520,169...
> The graph here you are looking for is the one that shows the percentage of staffed beds and icu beds occupied. Notice that it is entirely flat.

So why did hospitals declare that they have no ICU beds available and that they are sending patients out of state?

> At least 53 Texas hospitals have no available ICU capacity, according to numbers reported to the federal government during the week ending Aug. 5. In Austin, five hospitals were at or above 90% of their ICU capacity during the same period, with two reporting no available ICU beds

https://www.texastribune.org/2021/08/10/coronavirus-texas-ho...
> Yes but my point is that “components interacting with each others” is really just the implementation of another component higher up in the hierarchy.

It's not "just another component up in the hierarchy". If your components are truly composable, you don't need to create another "component" to be able to use them. But you do need to show how they can be used together.

> And you can rest this component in storybook. So really there is no limit to what you can test in storybook in that sense.

And yet, I keep seeing "components in isolation" and all examples (and all storybooks I've seen) have little to no examples of how these isolated components are used together.
It was the high cost per API call that pulled all the fun out of GPT-3 for me. I hadn’t been following the company at all but believe you based on just that single issue. It looks like GPT-J has open sourced their entire model so I could potentially run it myself for almost-free? If so, that’s going to be much more fun. Thanks for sharing!
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You don't, have a nice day.
This seems odd given that EU+CH did implement things properly wrt to cryto and trusted certs, but yes I guess there's a possibility that UK messed it up :)
The US government is an agreement between two small private clubs who erected powerful legislative barriers against any competition.
Well, from my historical reading of it, initially, IRC was a federated network of servers that were essentially one network, the way email is one network: there was no shared administration or anything. Anyone could run a server and jump into the network. Due to abuse, servers began restricting who they peered with, and it fractured into multiple networks.

So really, I suspect it was designed to be distributed and federated, and it just became what it is by accident.
Hi bluejellybean,

Thanks so much for your feedback! I've created a playlist on how to configure it:
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLu-ydI-PCl0OEG0ZEqLRRuCrM...

Let me know if you need help!
How much money did GM make off of cars versus leaded gasoline. That seems like a silly theory.

Sometimes giving away an invention for free (or finding a non-patentable alternative) makes you more money because it’s not a barrier to adoption.
Vaccinated people also spread covid. The #1 population-level defense against infection disease is self-isolation on symptoms onset. It is possible that vaccinated people spread covid more aggressively than unvaccinated, because the vaccines dull the symptoms to a point where they don't trigger the 'stay at home' signal anymore.
Normally I would agree with you but if there's anything that we can all agree to ban it's annoying, unnecessary practices like this.
https://intl.startrek.com/day
The distinction between "lab workers got infected whilst physically at a lab" and "lab workers got infected whilst doing remote work intended to benefit the lab" seems quite small.
I personally have had no success with online applications. So I’d recommend reaching out to smaller companies that just received an initial funding round and try to get the email of one of the engineers/managers (or even CEO), and offer to do anything, write helper scripts, frontend, whatever. Show an eagerness to be helpful and show your value and a passion to learn. Send them a sample of something you have done in their tech stack. They might just need someone to help build out frontend components for an new MVP etc and your work sample might be just the evidence they need.
I used to do this when going on long runs. The biggest quality of life improvement I found was that it was a lot less boring to run for 90 minutes. Perhaps because of that, those runs did tend to look better on paper. I always figured it was because I was still “having fun” at the end of the run, even if I was tired as hell.
Reminded me of Janet from The Good Place https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vo4Fdf7E0w
The article clearly explains that they’re weren’t random Gitmo detainees, rather notorious ones that were negotiated in a prisoner swap.

If the remaining ones are equally horrible people, surely the USA could bring actual charges against them, instead of indefinite imprisonment?
I just really like the OS experience of Ubuntu. I’d rather run a windows vm but the gpu doesn’t play very nice sometimes
They also use trustarc.
I wont rehash the arguments about hyperbole for emphasis etc; even Linus has said he went too far sometimes.

I'll just say that I personally would not take that comment as out of bounds or even as offensive in the context it was delivered. I've done things that stupid, and might not have realized how stupid it was until it was pointed out. Or maybe i had a reason for doing it that way and could fire back as much flame in explaining that.

People keep posting this one: https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/oh-my-fucking-god-get-th... .... is this attempt at humorous over the top hyperbole "beyond the pale" as well? Does the subject of the rant matter? Concrete technical issues are beyond emotion and enjoyment?
Some peopole at Open AI earnestly believes that GPT-3 is such an amazing thing that it could become a superintelligent evil AI if the users are not careful, and thus take a dim view to users like this indie dev who don't want to apply any of the things Open AI considers "reasonable precautions".
It’s not very well known, but this was probably the first Genocide of the 20th century. As Deutsche Welle noted[1], it doesn’t get much attention, but it’s really worth learning about[2], if only to understand how things came to such a pass:

> Between 24,000 and 100,000 Hereros, 10,000 Nama and an unknown number of San died in the genocide... The first phase of the genocide was characterised by widespread death from starvation and dehydration, due to the prevention of the Herero from leaving the Namib desert by German forces. Once defeated, thousands of Hereros and Namas were imprisoned in concentration camps, where the majority died of diseases, abuse, and exhaustion.

[1] https://youtu.be/WOHhyppuzzI

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herero_and_Namaqua_genocide
I'm really interested if someone implemented this approach (in production) and what are the drawbacks
I don't need to show my licence to get in my car and drive. For any normal use of a car, there is no requirement to show a licence before doing so.

Have you ever applied for a library card? Most libraries will give you one without any verifiable form of ID. And the card itself certainly isn't ID.
Chat is not that complex as other distributed applications you probably don't need Raft.Both Paxos and Raft are very complex algorithms to implement.

A CRDT based append only implementation is probably more than enough?. Data is never modified only added/removed in typical chat workflows.

Reading discourd engineering blog over the years it looks like scaling the pub/sub for the consumers in large channels is lot harder than DB/store itself being distributed.
Easy, the battery bank is a separate drone ship that can be detached at any time. In fact, you could have booster electric aircraft to help the planes reach cruising altitude and then return to the same airport it left from to do it again.
We built TerminusDB[1], our OSS knowledge graph, using succinct data structures. As we have a immutable delta encoding approach to allow domain teams to build and curate data products that they then share, this has been a very fruitful combination. We wrote a technical white paper all about it! [2]

[1] https://github.com/terminusdb/terminusdb
[2] https://github.com/terminusdb/terminusdb/blob/dev/docs/white...
Before Covid started, when a person had a particularly bad flu, it sometimes happened that they'd feel like crap and weak for a good long while after recovering: sometimes for weeks and months.

I'm not completely certain about what "long-covid" is, but this phenomenon could be a combination of this known effect as well as the after effects of the inhuman living conditions society is forcing on people: unnatural social isolation, constant media induced fear and stress, lack of sunshine and exercise, bad diets (because there's fewer fun entertainment options), etc.
I've never had to show any ID to buy groceries. Not sure what point you're making.
I suspect the kind of poorly-controlled, correlative studies done for THC would also show correlation between ADHD meds in childhood and a variety of functional problems later in life. (The known comorbities of ADHD alone should account for that.)
I agree it's an unrealistic goal to have war happen alongside a civilian population and magically no civilians die. It is a game of chance with international and public opinion as the stakes.
The first torrent I, and probably quite a few others, ever downloaded was some Linux distro that Bram Cohen shared with the internet as a demo of the protocol.
I am not sure it should be formulated as market vs. government. The general public can be quite short sighted too. Also, marketing can be used on the general public.

What I think would be improvements are protections to free speech. More specifically, removal of any obstacle to free speech. The next thing, and in line with this is very generous protections to whistle blowing. There could be a yearly award with elections by the public that chooses the whistle blower of the year. The price money should be enough to live on for some tens of years at the least, perhaps even for life. Also, winning the price should make a person immune to lawsuits related to the issue that the whistle blowing was about.
It could be related to staff shortages. Number of beds is not a literal figure, it also accounts for the number of staff that can treat patients in the bed. If you're short staffed you're short bed'd too
>conventional aircraft still leave a huge amount of efficiency on the table

Go on. I’m listening and I’ll bet Airbus and Boeing are too
Turns out there are a variety of ways to ask people. There’s a whole area of study around it because it’s so hard to get right.
Being pro vaccine and anti-government “emergency powers” is a perfectly reasonable position to take.

The media and the government forces the false dichotomy on people. They say you’re either all-in surveillance state or you’re antivax. It’s part of their design.
Sterilizing immunity is a myth.

MMR is definitely not a 100% guarantee of immunity; and the vaccine, despite what you’ve been lead to believe, is not a lifetime guarantee.

Herd immunity is what makes vaccines work so well. You want freedom? Get the shot so that one year or two from now, we can get on with our lives without more legislation being put into place.

Because the mandates will be happening if people keep ignoring the “your right to swing your fist ends where my nose begins” principle.
I don’t know. But what I do know is that data will speak much more clearly than somebody’s news article.

Those hospitals at 90%: what is their base load? The hospitals with no beds: what is their base load?

These things make very profitable news articles, but they don’t do a very good job of informing.
You also seem to have omitted any qualifications or citations.
You can power an electric plane with jet fuel, just like diesel electric trains convert diesel to electricity to turn the wheels.
As a sample size of 1 I can say I didn't have an issue finding an Elixir job and those I did speak to were keen to get an Elixir dev asap. For context I have a few years in Elixir and over 10 as a developer in general. Better yet, the jobs in question were remote only.
The most commonly referenced SpaceX "vaporware" I've seen is the late 2018 crewed Falcon Heavy moon fly-by[0] that was announced in early 2017 that never came to pass, but that pretty clearly was what became Yusaku Maezawa's dearMoon Project[1] that's now planned to fly on Starship.

As for why that happened, I think it's pretty obvious.

1. Crew-rating a rocket is no small feat, and with Falcon 9 already crew rated and Starship advancing quickly Falcon Heavy was never going to get enough crewed missions to justify the cost.

2. If you were picking which tin can to hurdle through space for a week with a few others in, would it be the one with the internal pressurized volume of a minivan (Crew Dragon) or the one with the internal pressurized volume greater than that of an Airbus A380 (Starship)?

[0]: https://spacenews.com/spacex-announces-plan-for-circumlunar-...
[1]: http://dearmoon.earth/
Gas pumps are about $50k per or more these days - and the tanks have to be maintained and replaced.
How's Your Body Today?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28493723
> This is obviously not the case with a sizable portion of the people wandering the streets.

I'll bite.

Give me an example of someone who fits your definition of someone who should be forcibly taken under the wing of mental health treatment (whatever that entails) who isn't breaking any laws. Putting someone into a mental institution strips of them of all rights and requires convincing a judge to ever get out.

This logic essentially wants to "arrest" people without "arresting" them because they aren't doing anything illegal. That requires a very precise definition of the conditions under which you can do this.

Very much like a law.
This has the most fabulous collection of examples I ever saw. It's a testament to the power of art-automation. Infinite beauty becomes accessable.
Even more fascinatingly, this article has disappeared without a trace from the front page a few minutes ago and, as far as I can tell, is not to be found anywhere in the top 500 links -- I checked. It hasn't been flagged to death, so I'm at a loss. @dang?
Good point. I'd be happy with any sort of blind trust where it's reasonably correlated with overall economic health.
Says the internet warrior who has invented nothing.
it makes a little sense to question this. It make more sense that they had chance encounters at a mosque (i.e. "strange" visitors who are visiting an area are common to visiting local religious institutions).

with that said, there's a joke that many jews make when they travel, of playing the game "spot the jew", and I can imagine if I ran into a jew at a random 7-11 I'm more likely to have a friendly chit-chat than with other random people, so I can imagine that the same might hold true for saudis. I could very easily imagine if they were in a location with a reasonably sized saudi ex-pat community that there would be many of these chance encounters with other saudis.

I could imagine "white bread" FBI agents that aren't from a minority, might not be able to comprehend how minorities find each other and make connections in random locations.

with all that said, it be proper for the FBI to chase down all these threads.
NYC and SFO licenses used to routinely go over a million.
What's worse: Gitmo and extrajudicial killings ordered by the executive are illegal yet we do them, or we've interpreted the law so they are legal?
The Thermodynamics of Real Estate Markets
Keep in mind that several who were released from Gitmo are now leaders of the new terrorist government of Afghanistan. Bureaucrats are not adept at fairly handling judicial issues in war situations where justice by definition doesn’t exist.
How Many People Can Someone Lead?
Check my profile and comment history for my qualifications.

As for citations, a citation is not needed for "in my view" discussion. I very clearly marked out my post as personal opinion, avoided legal conclusions, and acknowledged an argument from the other side.

This is what responsible people do in public discourse.
I'm unfamiliar with the debunking of starship video, but what's there to "debunk"? Spacex is trying to build new rockets. Either the rockets fly and land, or they do not. Either the cost per launch (cost per launch paid to spacex is transparent in a variety of contract submissions) is lowered, or it isn't. They will try to fly rockets, land them, and have that cost a certain amount. Kind of hard to be vaporware when the reality of the flights are livestreamed and the costs are seen in the contracts they bid.
'Fortress Australia' cautiously moving away from Covid Zero policy
Don't conflate the Taliban with jihadist groups. The Taliban were the government of the country we invaded, not "terrorists."
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Because jet engines have better power to weight ratio than cylinder engines.
I would guess that setting up a WiFi receiver outside of anyones living space but within signal range is not illegal if you are not intercepting and decoding packets, so anyone could currently get visibility into any home with WiFi. Police, neighbors, crooks, anyone. However there is some precedent for police, they are not allowed to use thermal viewers to look through the walls of peoples homes without a warrant. This would seem to be similar. It's been disconcerting that the police have just adopted technologies because they think they would be useful without anyone considering whether a warrant should be required. There should be a law saying that any technology use by police requires a warrant unless it has been specifically allowed to be warrantless.

There are some good uses of a WiFi tracker though, such as an automated health monitor. I'd like to have a continuous record of where I am in my house. I could use it to tell how much time I spend on a computer, how much sleep I get, what I spend most of my time doing, how much exercise I get, where I left some object, lots of things. I just don't want other people or companies to have all that information and I don't want the police or government to be able to get it without a warrant.