skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Compare the arcs of NASA's space shuttle with what SpaceX is accomplishing.

The private sector also comes in flavors like ULA, Lockheed Martin, or Boeing. Given that NASA was prevented from continuing their successful approach in favor of building what Congress wanted to steer money to major private companies, any explanation which focuses on the sector alone is guaranteed to be wrong. What matters is how the incentives are structured: giving money to a contractor to keep people employed in certain areas won’t yield successful launch systems the way paying for successful launches will.

(And, no, it’s not as simple as saying the root cause is government: those companies spend enormous amounts of money trying to influence the government so the relationship again is not that simple.)
The equation has changed. Basically everybody is going to get COVID sooner or later, the vaccine just makes it much less likely that you'll get seriously ill from it.
Out of curiosity, are you self managing the database today or using a service?
>The economy is an system that emerges from human behaviour

Thanks for your reply.

An economy doesn't simply "emerge" organically from behavior. This is most simply evidenced by the fact that we've devised a variety of economic systems.
So you are arguing that the market is overvalued -- because tech stocks are overvalued? Makes sense, perhaps the apparent overvalue is simply because of companies like Uber and Tesla.
Modern fingerprint reader systems don’t capture and store an entire fingerprint. They use algorithms that extract a number of features from the print. You can’t extract someone’s fingerprint from a gym’s fingerprint scanning system and run it through a background check database, for example.

If you’re concerned about giving up identifiable data points, the photo on your gym membership account is more likely to be usable in other search contexts than the application-specific reduced fingerprint data stored in their scanner.
20% of Norway's GDP gets pumped out of the ground. The US does not have that luxury.

> the state played a pivotal role in space and phone technology.

There wouldn't be phones we have today without Apple. There was no government program to create them. Apple invested billions of investor money in creating them.

I've seen books like the one you cite before. Their central theme is if a technology is based on ABCDEF, and the government did only C, then government gets all the credit. If the government did only A, then the government gets all the credit. If the government did F, then the government gets all the credit.

For example, Samuel Morse invented digital telecommunications. But of course, the government gets all the credit for making an improvement on it.

But if the government does deserve the credit for the technology stack that makes for a successful phone, why didn't any communist country make a phone?

The article claims the government invented touch screen technology. I don't know how true that is, but it omits that the GUI, an essential technology for the phone, came from Xerox, not the government.

P.S. The history of the touch screen https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Touchscreen is long and complicated. To hand it all to the government is confirmation bias.
>Apple's word segmentation

Unless they changed it, it's probably similar to CFStringTokenizer which used ICU Boundary Analysis (and maybe mecab for Japanese).
I once created the Church of the Exploding Light to get around a municipal fireworks ban. Perhaps we could be part of the same meta-church?
>Now, I am not saying that covid is just the flu, but 34k deaths in 2018 from the flu. Does this number also justify having flu shot mandates/passports? Or is it only if it is 340k deaths? 3.4 million deaths? 3k deaths is enough? I heard at a time some people saying 'if it saves only one life, it is worth it' so I wonder how much they will also do for all these other deaths.

That's disingenuous and you know it. There wasn't a global effort to contain recent flu strains like there has been with covid. In 2018 working from home was not the norm. People weren't wearing masks and isolating from others. Concerts, movies, restaurants, fairs, etc... weren't shut down. The global economy wasn't halted. Even with all of that being enforced due to covid there were still 375k deaths in the US in 2020, which is 11x greater than the 34k flu deaths in 2018.

If you want to see what happens when you let covid run its course without interference, especially in an area with a low population density, look no further than Sweden. Their (mostly) laissez faire approach resulted in a death rate that was up to 10x greater than neighboring countries. https://www.businessinsider.com/sweden-covid-no-lockdown-str...
Some context, perhaps?

https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2021/09/09/2021-19... - the text of Executive Order 14040

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/fbi-releases-first-911-docu... - mostly it sounds like this first piece is about connections to Saudi Arabia? And that it essentially says "this was not an official Saudi action"?

https://www.kezi.com/content/news/575294492.html or at least that's the summary I get from a statement from "9/11 Families United", connecting dots through these redactions is not a skill I have.

There is only one document in there at present; Order 14040 suggests there should be more showing up in the next six months, with a chunk of stuff required to be up by 60 days after the date of the order (which was the 9th), another, larger chunk by 120 days after, and even more by 180 days after. So if you are interested in seeing how much the FBI is willing to let you see of what they discovered (assuming none of these documents are actually disinformation) then you probably want to make one of your systems check this URL regularly.
At what point do you kill those that dare live their lives? This happened a generation ago to my people, they said we carried typhus and needed to be cleansed for the public health. Never again, huh?
Right, it's only looking at one part of the equation. You could also say it'd save 4 billion life-years worth of car accidents if we banned automobiles.
I’ll die from covid or from the weather sleeping outside before I recognize a dictator.

That was unacceptable.
Just out of curiosity, what if you go to a significantly darker brown, say 30/100/20 h/s/v. Unfortunately these subjective tests will vary from monitor to monitor, but assuming that's still clearly brown rather than black to you (to me it's a more archetypal brown than the brighter version you initially named, which I might call orange-brown) -- what do you perceive when you keep the saturation and value fixed, and vary the hue? Would you agree that many or most of the other hues give you a colour more obviously 'dark X', where X is the 100%-value counterpart, than hue 30 does? For me it's much more obvious at the green-blue-purple segment of the spectrum than the red-orange-yellow segment.

This isn't meant as a trick question or anything -- if I'm getting at anything specific, it's that maybe part of the reason the orange-brown link seems more obvious to you than to me is that when you think of a central example of brown, you think of something brighter (and thus more obviously orange) than I do.
Mandatory quarantine is an absolutely reasonable thing to do during a pandemic, and it's not new. Australia did it for the Spanish flu as well.
hopefully you didn't sign anything that could conceivably be argued in any way, shape, or form that might even hint at ownership, tangential or otherwise!

because that guy is a total asshat (MY OPINION)
Read up on international laws of war and get back to me. The US didn’t make that term up.
None of the guts of these packages is written in Python anyways. C mostly, maybe with some Cython or Fortran. Python is where the API is presented, because that makes it easily accessible to lots of users.
There really aren't a myriad of similar efforts. Eigen is pretty much the only C++ linear algebra library. BLAS is a C library which is the de facto standard, and ATLAS is an alternative implementation of the BLAS API.

Other than this, there really isn't much more to pick from.
It doesn't.

But you can set a script to sync it periodically and it allows you to mount any remote as a network drive.

But of course, this is HN, a target audience that's generally to be able to use a command line tool and write a simple script.

I wouldn't recommend it on a regular users forum.
Ask HN: What Do You Think of New Car Buying Concept
I have just released a new concept to try and change the car buying experience for the better. Https://autogenie.co uk. I recently purchased 2 cars that took months to find and many wasted hours trying to find them. At Auto Genie i want users to easily list the car they require so that sellers can easily reach out to them and sell them their car. No more searching countless marketplaces daily trying to find your dream car just list what you want and wait. As this is a new online concept i would love some feedback on the UX so that it works okay and makes sense to be utilised easily. Thank you
How could a court possibly establish whether or not a belief is sincerely held? The whole thing is a farce.
Several CPPCON talks in recent years have reinforced that for me as well. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DTlWPgX6zs, for example.

Edit: I originally linked to the wrong video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFMKjL38xAI), which was a different talk by the same person.
Apple use regular SQLite for a whole bunch of other applications, such as Apple Photos. I wonder why they didn't use it here?
Custom code I wrote built on top of fetch-mock.
Hang on there. Allowing religious exemptions, and only religious exemptions, is a tiny fraction of the way to getting actual non-coerced consent.
Almost everything you consume uses oil.

The car you lease every 3 years, your new iPhone every 2 years, new clothes every season, etc.

Will corporations make products that last 20+ years or is planned obsolescence the only way to ensure YoY revenue growth
I’m not well versed in Smith’s writings and I’m not good at parsing older English. What are your key takeaways or epiphanies from what was quoted?
It doesn't matter whether it's "considered" Christian or not. All that matters legally is whether it's a sincerely held religious belief.
Possibly yes. Do we know how that would impact his motivation, or the motivation of future entrepreneurs who see what happens at the end once people become successful?

Why do you think common advice is to avoid too much dilution early on, or to avoid founder fallout with almost half the equity walking out the door. It's because, like it or not, this kind of thing motivates humans. Maybe you are a monk and can work hard for a company as a founder with very little equity, but knowing myself, I would never do that, and I am not so unusual as to believe I am unique in that department.

Also I don't see this as a pure question of incentives, but also a question of property rights. He made that wealth via value add. We owe him our gratitude for that and have no right to swipe his property. If he stole that money or made it by spewing toxic pollution, then by all means take away his wealth.
Hmm, I had no idea one way or the other about the Amish and fingerprints, but you made me curious. Seems it's not so, as in Illinois they worked with the state to avoid getting photographed for their state ID by getting one based on their fingerprints instead.

https://will.illinois.edu/news/story/amish-can-apply-for-sta...
My son’s kindergarten teacher (at a public school in suburban Chicago) makes $76,000 per year. He has 16 classmates and it’s an all-day program.
Well he also told people to give Caesar what Caesar was owed. You can justify virtually any belief by picking different parts out of those books. Dunking on self-described Christians by trying to identify the "true" Christian beliefs and pointing out their deviation from that is utterly pointless. They've been doing this with each other for the better part of two thousand years, and all it amounted to was ever more division and disagreement.
> unless I'm also signing that they can use it for other stuff.

I find your trust in the strength of a terms of service agreement baffling.

If they get a court order it doesn't matter what you allowed them to do with it. And even without a court order, if they used your fingerprint in ways you didn't allow, how would you know? They wouldn't be the first company to break the law when they think they can get away with it. Even if you trust them, what about when they go bankrupt, or acquired by a chain gym, and all their assets (fingerprints included) suddenly belong to less-scrupulous people.
Stunning. Already supports all popular font types, image types, and SVG.
Related to all of this, note, we may see in the not too distant future "deeply negative" interest rates. Currently, it is difficult to go much below zero because you can stash physical bank notes under your mattress and get a better rate of return (0% instead of -1). But in a cryptocurrency future, the mattress is not an option enabling central banks to go deeply negative (e.g., -5%). I just read a fascinating article in the WSJ about this topic: https://www.wsj.com/articles/digital-currencies-pave-way-for...
As for the why, I think being able to trust your government is a great thing. It has allowed us to basically eleminate guns in our society except for recreation/farming, and as a result of our lockdowns we have only 1000 deaths. We should have 45,000 if you assume the same per-capita rate as the USA. So there are benefits for this kind of faith in your Government.

I think Americas emphasis on individual freedoms comes at the cost of some of these things, but there are other benefits of course and I do admire America's philosophy quite a lot. I don't have a crystal ball and I'm not sure what's better in the long run. As an Aussie though I'm happy with the trade-offs so far.
Better positioning and it may have worked...
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/
yes, you can definitely utilize the millennia-old Shia-Sunni conflict to knock the Saudis down a couple of notches.
They have been busy solidifying a wall around Iran. Pakistan is, basically, their bitch. Pakistan and Saudis have an agreement, that should the Saudis need, the Pakistani nukes will be made available within a few hours. No wonder the Iranians want to develop nukes; the Saudis practically have them!
On the other hand, afaik the mark of the beast is something placed/written on you by the antichrist. Whereas your fingerprints, are, like, part of your body. So even if you grant that the mark of the beast is a thing people believe in this doesn’t make much sense.
...Zion?
> "Sir, if we make the general public use this, it will save 24% more lives"

Oh no saving lives! What a terrible use of tech.

Would it make you feel better if I told you that if we save their lives we can serve them more ads?
Yeah I've found the amount of wind places get influences this a lot.
Having added Plausible to my site recently, one killer feature in my opinion is the ability to rewrite the analytics script to be served from your own domain. What this means in effect is that it won't get picked up in traditional ad blockers so the accuracy is much closer to that of server log parsing. Additionally, you can surface your analytics publically which is cool.
Hi Phil, would love to chat.

I've long been frustrated with the lack of a public and accessible "product truth" DB. There are industry-specific databases and catalogs, however this information is largely provided by the manufacturers themselves and doesn't account for any "real world usage" data.

Additionally, these walled garden catalogs are inaccessible to most. Democratizing "product truth" and giving the power of curation to the end-users of all produced goods would allow us to, not only catalog every manufactured product on earth, but provide additional information on usage and longevity that is currently locked up in the minds and forums of true connoisseurs.

Discovering and parsing this information is definitely possible, but structuring it and maintaining it can only be accomplished by a community. As we move toward a future of reuse and sustainability, actively tracking what is produced, how long it lasts, and how to fix/maintain/salvage those goods into the future will be paramount to traversing the stars.

Wow, getting a little ahead of myself there. Thanks for introducing me to Geizhals.eu; combining faceted search and browse with a Wiki-like editing experience could be all we need to get started. Feel free to reach out: <username> @ gmail.
"In the US, there was a big rise in the unemployment rate to just under 20% in April, before falling back steadily to 7.1% in November. But wage growth actually rose sharply, and was 5.9% in November. The picture is the same in the UK. After an initial drop into negative territory earlier this year, there was a sharp rise for -2.9% wage growth to 3.2% in October.

So, everyone is better off right? Actually not. XpertHR, a consultancy specialising in pay, reported that pay settlements limped towards year end with median settlements at 2%.

Labour economists have never seen anything like this before. It appears that what has happened both in the UK and the US is that the lower part of the wage distribution – the lowest-paid workers – has just dropped out."

Very interesting.

In Australia we've seen 15+ years of wage stagnation.

Will salaries rise with inflation?

Traditionally we'd have said that, yes they will.

But perhaps not this time. Supply and demand laws in the labour market are not working as expected it seems. Maybe. We shall see! :-)
Exposing scientific debate to the public is a good thing in my opinion. My sense is the pandemic has only exposed and highlighted existing problems in science and how it is used.
You're pointing out that politics was a big factor in NASA's shortcomings. Of course, that's one of the reasons why socialism fails. One can't build a prosperous economy via jobs programs.

> their successful approach

NASA successfully landed on the moon, which was a great accomplishment. What they did not do successfully was do it in a sustainable, cost-effective manner. Which is why NASA's budget was cut. An economy simply cannot consist of operations that are all losing money.
Org Babel is the computational bit
For shits and giggles, I dug up an old IBM K6-2/300 Mhz motherboard I had in the shed, maxed out the ram (256MB) on the board and used a CDRom to install the latest Debian (Squeeze) I could on the SD Card/IDE Adapter.

Just so I could try to run an IRC server off of it.

Took about 3 hours to compile UnrealIRCD for it, but it worked.

From what i could see of the resource usage, it should have been fine with 128MB Ram.

The biggest issue I encountered was finding a distro old enough for a CPU without CMOV instructions that still had backported packages that were required to build the IRCD.
Your full registered physical address and company registration number are not on each page.

The site is ludicrously slow and does dozens of unnecessary requests. It looks like a premade wordpress theme without much added to it.

Asking people to hand enter a lat/lon is an exercise in frustration for most everyone.

"I accept the terms of service" checkbox does not link to the terms of service or have a link to it nearby.

What do you actually offer? All I see is an empty install of the "Motors Car Dealer WordPress Theme" and zero added value
The same way the courts decide whether or not someone committed a crime or any other issue. The judge or jury ultimately decides the facts based on what is presented.
>There really aren't a myriad of similar efforts.

Fair enough, but still doesn't tell me what's different about this project.
Epic files appeal against ruling
> Nothing, it's just another layer you have to manage yourself

You already have to manage that layer. From your description, the only choice that was really on the table was whether AWS SES was a good enough reason to port a entire system to AWS, or if it was reasonable to just deploy the email firing service to AWS.

> You'd also need to make communication secure, and use some authorization mechanism to avoid abuse and email addresses leaks (or other private information you might be passing to your service to include in the email).

You still need to do that even if the service is running on AWS. Running the SES client in a VPC is also a very poorly researched excuse as you can put up a privatelink connection to get the same effect.

All in all, it's hard to believe that someone thought it was a good idea to port an entire system to a different cloud provider just because they wanted to send emails.
I propose a Church of Pacifism and Anti-Surveillance to get us out of all kinds of large-scale destructive mischief.
(2001, 2003)
While we are at it, mandatory breathalyzers in all cars, and all cell phones should be locked while traveling over 10 MPH. Let’s do this!
Religious exemptions shouldn't be a thing though. I should not get more protections or rights in any way than another citizen because I happen to have or claim different beliefs than them.

I'm not talking about being discriminated against because of religious beliefs, mind you. I'm talking about the right to do or refuse something (e.g., refuse a fingerprint or, or refuse to serve alcohol) and protection of those choices.
And in the united states it does. A religion is any deeply held belief. That's the only standard.
Too many American kids grow up in almost sterile environments
Your link doesn't say anything about the confidentiality of vaccine status. What are you even talking about?

Immunization status is considered protected information according to the HIPAA and the ADA, and similar laws exist in other jurisdictions.

https://www.shrm.org/resourcesandtools/legal-and-compliance/...

https://www.eeoc.gov/wysk/what-you-should-know-about-covid-1...

https://www.hipaajournal.com/is-it-a-hipaa-violation-to-ask-...
Don't feel too bad for New Zealand, we're doing alright. We're currently in week 4 of our fourth lockdown (in one city of about 1.5 million people, the rest of the country has much lesser restrictions currently).

Before this we had a seven week nationwide lockdown from March 23 to May 13 2020, and a lockdown in one city for two weeks, August 14 to 30 2020, and a lockdown of three days and then one week in one city in February 2021. Other than this, we've spent a few weeks in alert level 2 (large gatherings banned) and most of the last year and a half in alert level 1 (no meaningful restrictions aside from border controls and masks required on public transport). Over this time, 27 people have died of COVID-19.

Yes our lockdowns have been harsh, but they worked, and thanks to that, we've spent most of our time with less restrictions than the rest of the world and relatively few deaths.

Full details can be found here, (alert levels 3 and 4 are lockdown, level 2 is gathering restrictions and level 1 is no day-to-day restrictions):
https://covid19.govt.nz/alert-levels-and-updates/history-of-...
We can do both at the same time. We can help the homeless and also prevent people from shitting or littering in public transportation vehicles and on boarding platforms.