skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Glass Door for rocket companies:

Relativity Space, Tim Ellis: 95% approve

SpaceX, Elon Musk: 92% approve

Rocket Lab, Peter Beck: 81% approve

ULA, Tory Bruno: 77% approve

Boeing, David Calhoun: 71% approve

Blue Origin, Bob Smith: 18% approve

https://twitter.com/SciGuySpace/status/1418971851066429447
Both sides of the isle up in arms over child safety on Instagram/Facebook
Ocean Drone Captures Video from Inside a Category 4 Hurricane
Yes, absolutely. When the work is visible and straightforward, it's so much easier to understand and optimize what's going on.

That's part of why I'm a big fan of kanban boards for work. If you make our pretty abstract work visible, you enlist people's natural intuitions. Especially when there's the habit of regular reflection.

Of course, that takes a culture that supports it. It sounds like you had a really good place to work!
Tarantino defends all feet in his movies
JShelter – browser extension to mitigate potential threats from JavaScript
This is something that would be a great idea. For instance, my wife was in the middle of a mental health crisis so I called 911. That's what you do in this scenario. What she needed at the time was a trained psychiatric professional, not armed police officers that arrived at the door, clueless as to how to deal with her condition. Maybe armed officers are necessary in some of these scenarios, I can agree with that, but they shouldn't be the only ones at the door.

The problem is: how do you get this off the ground? Well the obvious way would be to take the money that the police spend on mental health calls and use some of that to fund the helper force. The problem is when you take money away from one group to give to another, there's always going to be objections, and that's what I think happens a lot of the time. I think the police like their role in society, and don't want to give it up quietly.
And midgress! Don't forget midgress.
oh its big. it killed various appsumo campaigns mid stream
That’s almost entirely aerodynamics. I recently drove a boxy truck from the 90s on the same stretch I’ve driven bug-free and had a deja vu from how bug-splattered the windshield was.
> We should take all settlements out of the local police Union so that all cops suffer.

No, we should abolish public-sector unions, which protect bad cops and bad teachers alike.

What we should have is a total rework of Federal labor laws, and impose tariffs against any country that doesn't provide equal or better to its workers.

Workers should enjoy some level of protection against summary dismissal. This needs to run on a sliding schedule. You should be able to fire new people that can't cut the proverbial, but if somebody's been with you for a year, they are clearly contributing value. Tenured folks can get the axe, of course, but it should be harder. Maybe require a full year to retrain/recover, and failing that, a year of severance.

All of this should scale to the size of the company. Starbucks can afford this. Bob's Bait Shack And Discount Virology Research can't.

Flatten out personal income tax. You pay 5%, period. Automatic deduction not required, although for practical reasons, it'd need to be the default to start. That gets you however much government it does. "The Rich" don't pay income taxes, so I'm not interested in hearing how this isn't fair. It's way easier to enforce.

There's a big trade-off baked in: no more minimum wage. You get paid according to your value. If you're working, the Fed can make up the difference for you, and will levy additional taxes against your employer should they be just trying to milk the public teat.

Health insurance should work like it does here in Japan. Regulated market, fallback on the State as an insurer of last resort.

No requirement to buy insurance if you don't want to, but if you don't and you get sick, you either pay cash, or you can opt back into the insurance system with full back-payment.

This wouldn't be easy. Devil always lies in the details, and it'll take real work to avoid focal points -- e.g., encouraging firing-and-rehiring at 364 days because of 365 day benefits cliff, for example -- but every worker deserves the same level of protection.

Of course, this is all sensible shit that tries to solve real problems. So it'll never happen.
The debt limit is a completely artificial, political game.
Congress passes laws which have costs associated with them. Then they, separately, decide whether they will authorize payment for those laws. The costs should be automatically authorized.

Republicans get to score political points by pretending to control spending, when in fact they raised the limit every time they wanted to give tax cuts to their wealthy donors. It's hostage taking, because they understand that the Democrats will act responsibly. They get to threaten to destroy things as a negotiating tactic.
> I believe their consulting org is now called Strategy&

I still can't believe they settled on that name..
I'd add a few more entries

Excel - the spreadsheet model of programming has quite a bit of power that is hard to duplicate in other ways

Verilog/VHDL - Logic programming that happens all at once is a very important paradigm to know

Ladder Logic - The low level predecessor to the above, much like assembler is to C.

SQL - If you can't natively get data to/from a database from a command line tool, you're missing a very valuable toolset.

Other things I've come across of note:

TKsolver! - The version 1 ran on MS-DOS, and could find what ever variables weren't supplied from those that were, by working backwards through equations.

Metamine - this appeared and winked out of existence, the main feature was the ability to do a "magical assignment" that reactively updated the left side throughout the life of the program, and had sane provisions for dealing with both normal and magical assignments in the same program.

STOICAL - A forth variant that did data types, lists, queues, dictionaries and hashes along with the usual forth stuff. The author moved on to write DAW, an audio editor. Unfortunately, it's in C, and makes a lot of 32 bit assumptions that I don't know enough to fix.

GNU Radio - If you want to learn DSP without the math, install this, and play with your audio inputs and outputs, and work your way up from there. You build flowgraphs, and they compile/run in real time.
yea I remember years ago Qualcomm was working on an "always on" BLE chip. Use cases they promoted was a 24/7 tracking for ad placements. With privacy concerns back then I thought that would never get approval yet here we are now.
Scaling past startup complexities (and 180K users) with safe-fail probes
Does this still work when the phone goes to 0%? Assuming the battery isn’t actually at 0 here; or that the AOP could have its own tiny backup source to last a few days/week.

Now that would be useful. I guess this use case is valid when someone naughty finds your phone and turns it off to try and hide it?
And the flood gates…don't care? The FBI has no jurisdiction over Swiss companies.

Also, Seb Gorka is a bloviating right-wing grifter…?
> A business model almost wholly reliant on female low-self esteem is not the company’s only issue.

This kind of sweeping generalization feels kind of gross to me. I wonder how the women who've had this procedure would feel about the author telling them they only got it done because of their low self-esteem.

And while it might be true that the prevalence of breast implant surgery is due to sexism in society, a medtech company that specializes in it and an organization they're sponsoring just seem like the wrong targets.
TFA is paywalled, but if this is actually practiced, this is awful and immoral on so many levels - treating minimum-wage employees like this isn’t good for anyone. Imagine a young single mother being trapped by, say, McDonalds and is unable to get another similar job for any reason (schedule, working conditions, location, etc.), even if she is fired. How is this not basically underhanded institutional slavery?

This really smacks of big powerful companies taking advantage of and beating up the little people. I mean, c’mon, these people are flipping burgers, not key personnel in a multimillion dollar contract.

If I had the time and energy, I’d organize a social media campaign and boycott any of these joints that dare to implement such unethical tactics.
More likely that things were dropped into the snow, then covered, and remained coved in snow for a long time.
The carve outs make sense on paper and maybe more so at the time they were written. But now the mountain of evidence displaying how humans can not be trusted with that type of power/responsibility is overwhelming.
Why buy a Mega65 when you can emulate it? https://github.com/lgblgblgb/xemu/projects/2

The emulator has been used to develop software for it and most stuff is open source or free.

Plus C64 software runs on it like the 128 does in a C64 mode.
That seems unlikely given there were an estimated 61.5 million encounters between police and the public in 2018.

https://bjs.ojp.gov/content/pub/pdf/cbpp18st.pdf

My nephew just started as a police officer in a small town recently. He hasn't cracked a skull or kneed a chest in an entire year of service. Most of his time is spent as a medic, social worker or civil servant but also has to be ready in case shit hits the fan. The scope of work is too much for a single person and we get what we get as a result.
API compatible does not mean it's a clone. Cloud Flare's pitch is "multi-region storage that automatically replicates objects to the locations they’re frequently requested from."

This is big and interesting and useful even if you ignore the bandwidth savings. If it were available already, we'd be trying to use it for Fly.io users.
Post from a little while back where someone really really thought this through. IIRC, they concluded that there's no good way to ask it, lol.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21675717
The Great Overgrown: photography of nature reclaiming abandoned places
And there are lots of options that already fall into that bucket. If you want a beautifully designed, professional product with a mechanical keyboard, then nope. The case moulds alone cost a fortune (and years) to produce. This project has been going on for at least 6 years, and it's only a couple of months away from putting these computers in (some) people's homes.

But don't worry. The C65 core is already being ported to MiSTer from what I've heard. So a small metal box with a USB keyboard experience isn't far away for many others to enjoy.
> Sure you document such stuff before releasing it?

Uuuhh so, bad news. Basically nobody ever does that. Since agile, everyone seems to just iterate like mad, release, then document after release if you have time.

I'm as guilty of this as everyone else.
Perhaps the claim would be that the objects have been gradually sinking toward the surface with the melt.

Also, while they say vaguely that it's the least snow in memory (under a photo caption: "Domestic reindeer cool themselves on a formerly permanent ice patch (left) that melted away completely during the summer of 2018 for the first time in local memory."), that doesn't mean much. So called local memory isn't a very accurate recording. Maybe there were some other great melts across a thousand years.
Rather than just blindly hope, it's more productive to email the HN mod team directly: hn@ycombinator.com
The blog's author drew that same connection in another article: https://mtracey.substack.com/p/theres-an-insane-australia-st...
I was fortunate to visit Katmai about a month ago for photography purposes[1], and hanging around the bears was one of the most amazing things I’ve done in my life. The bears I watched caught a fairly large salmon roughly every 30 minutes, almost all day long. It made it easy to even get video[2] of the fish jumping straight into their mouths. They were all almost noticeably fatter when we left!

[1] https://www.instagram.com/p/CULaowjLYBj/

[2] https://www.instagram.com/reel/CUF8Z7_p9po/
Introducing HTTPS to existing infrastructures is easy. Just terminate it at some point. It also adds a big advantage to users that their traffic can't be read by network operators. Introducing ipv6 is harder, as you need to change all your routing, logging, banning, etc. facilities to support ipv6. It doesn't add any direct advantages for users, as all ISPs still have to support ipv4.
>A concrete and familiar metaphor is just as good as a concrete example when it comes to building up the foundation upon which abstract ideas eventually form.

Right, but, "monads are burritos" is the lie that maybe what made monads click for you; there's no guarantee that that particular lie will work on me! Maybe for me, monads are schwarma.

And what's more, they won't _be_ schwarma for me until i've done enough head-banging and questioning and scribbling grumpily on whiteboards for the actual learning to happen. I'll _consolidate_ on a metaphor (burritos, schwarma), but how i got there is what did the trick.
Ok Thanks I will edit the config.
> Why not the same for a guy sitting in front of a computer?

Because, you’re not competing for the talent pool of Podunk, KY, you’re competing for the entire globally-connected internet-capable talent pool. And if you’re not willing to pay equal talent what they’re worth regardless of their location, someone else is.
Pretty sure they meant Mandela effect, a Berenstain Bears joke.
I'm blind (not fully, but definitely well past the legal definition.) Obviously not the same as deaf, but it's a broken input nonetheless.

One guy on here went with,"Why did cripple guy not understand the world as I would, I pretended I was him and it's not a problem." There is a lot missing without one of the inputs. Humans communicate on a spectrum of bands. Missing one causes confusion and miscommunication.

I've had a handful of encounters with police. I've been stopped for being drunk (I wasn't, just blind and hadn't been willing to use the stick yet.) I could tell he, the cop, was uncomfortable with me. I dropped my ID, told him I couldn't see and asked for help. No idea his response, but he was silent as I crawled around on my hands and knees looking for my ID he was demanding.

I don't know how far this was, or the other cops were, from violence when they stopped and interacted with me. But I could feel the mistrust. I'm confident they were thinking about it. Because I don't behave like everyone else.

This is entirely predictable, and I imagine, common. It's also a thing I fear whenever I'm aware I'm near a cop.
Only the same way a Boeing 777 is like a fighter jet.

F1 cars can break 7g’s cornering where street legal cars have trouble hitting 1/3 of that. They do 0-120 mph faster than most cars can hit 0-60.
I actually thought that “burritos” from the article was a reference to “jQuery is a monad” type articles.
Interesting that you are “spreading knowledge about unregulated use of psychoactive drugs and assault weapons”. Clearly something to be ashamed of.
That many organizations contract the USPS to make deliveres for them does not make it a public good. Many organizations contract out payroll or lawn care as well, because they can't profitably do it themselves as well as another business that can do it more cost effectively.

A public good is by definition one that is non-excludable and non-rival.

* non-rival means that if one person uses the good, it does not prevent another user from using it. An example would be someone listening to a radio broadcast does not prevent someone else from doing that. The USPS is not a non-rival good because as more people use the USPS, it requires more resources to deliver the mail. Mail delivery is a rival good.

* non-excludable means that you cannot prevent someone from using the good. An example of this would be a park without a fence around it, or the air you breathe, or a road without a toll, or the view of a beautiful mountain. The USPS is most definately excludable, as if you don't have the postage stamp the mail is not delivered.

Of course the above fall along a spectrum. It might be feasible to encrypt the broadcast, making it an excludable good. It might not be economically feasible to prevent someone from using the road or enjoying a scenic view.

So whether something is a public good depends as much on technology and cost effictiveness as anything else, it's not a characteristic of the good in isolation of the economy.

Thus the invention of encryption made the airwaves a rival good and set off a renaissance of broadcast products from Satellite TV and Internet to pay-per-view broadcasts, something that was not possible when the technology didn't allow broadcasts to be excludable.

But in our current world, with the technology of postage stamps well understood, it's clear that the USPS is not a public good.
I’m rooting for you!
this is where being socially awkward helps :)
I think you are missing the point. AWS is modular WITHIN AWS. It's not a decentralised modular system. ie, it can't play well with existing companies because of the hefty egress prices they charge. The point in the article is that, maybe, if you take away the egress fees that opens up a new world where services of different companies can play together nicely (instead of waiting for AWS to implement something), and that creates a new form of innovation that we can't quite predict that could possibly compete with AWS
I just hope we find the tomb of Genghis Khan before the body is too decomposed to be conclusively identified.
The increased hardship for landowners post 1973 is fact. The endangered species act turns affected land into a liability instead of being an asset.

The original response was that if they were able to enjoy the use of their land before 1973, then there was no harm done.

1) Which doesn't mean the harm/hardship didn't come into play in 1973 once the law was passed. It did. The land would have lost significant value overnight by being declared endangered species habitat.

2) The research showed that the land is now, in fact, a National Wildlife Refuge. The government acquired it. That rarely happens in a fully voluntary way with full compensation, but I don't claim to know the circumstances here.

3) My speculation was merely that harm could have also been done before 1973, which has been turned into somewhat of a straw man.

3b) And I only included that speculation because it's applicable to the state of affairs today, because if the same thing happens to any generic landowner post-1973, it's no longer speculation. Your property value becomes significantly diminished.
They quoted the start of a thread the author summarized saying it's bad because it gives cover to bad behavior. And can require people who recognize a pattern of bad behavior to persuade themselves they're paranoid. You might disagree. But those points have nothing to do with race or sex. And pointing out it's easier for people who face less bad behavior is about white men only incidentally.
> This leads me to an idea which, I don’t believe is typically done, but which I don’t know why not: Why wouldn’t a company just, list a price that they are “going to sell it at”, and then “sell” a large proportion of them at that price to an entity which isn’t publicly connected to the company, and then that organization sells the items via auction (and returns a large proportion of the profits back to the company).

That's often how a lot of today's "scalping" is done - AIUI a lot of "secondary market" tickets on StubHub etc. are sold by an entity that's owned by TicketHub or whoever, so that the artists can sell their tickets at the price the market will bear but put a low face price on them for the sake of their reputation.
Are you doing rooms/shared or apartments? They might have a different filter.
> Last time I checked, IPv6 was just so wrong...

> I'm used to the pseudo security that a NAT gives

> my poor overloaded brain doesn't really want to have anything to do with

You've certainly made the point that you are too lazy to learn. Otherwise, you haven't made a case against IPv6 at all.
Also, Simula preceded Self by several years.

Simula started as Algol with object-orientation, but it deserves mention for introducing the ideas.
Programming Developers Are Quitting to Escape from Your Bad Code
They don't appear to have received Matz's approval for their changes. Unsurprising.

Furthermore they don't even have a solid definition of terms. Unsurprising.

Furthermore their arguments are based on their interpretations of law in California. Unsurprising.

https://github.com/ruby/www.ruby-lang.org/pull/2690
I mean, it essentially does. Heroku's managed postgres has it disabled.
> a popular explanation

When I was a kid, the urban legend question was: What if all of the Chinese jumped off a platform at the same time? Would it shake the other side of the world?
Henry Nicholas Ridley
If your friend was in a fast food type job it sounds like he would have a good lawsuit in most places. Can’t imagine any business interest the court would recognize there. Yes its terrible that big companies bully workers like this but it only stops when someone stands up and fights them.
Mr. Mistic’s complaint doesn’t shed much light:

> At some time in the process of rushing up to Mr. Mistic, grabbing him, and
throwing him to the ground, Defendant Hanning realized that he had caused himself to break his own leg/ankle.

> 51. At no time did Mr. Mistic threaten, physically harm, or fight with the officers.
Treating beef like coal would make a big dent in greenhouse-gas emissions
What code would you rather maintain:

// A
const int giraffe = 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1;

// B
const int number = 5;

At some moment, you will meet some disagreeable person that will say they are the same and it doesn't matter which one you pick.

A is similar to Roman numerals. We all know that Roman numerals are no longer used for most purposes and were replaced by the numeral system we currently use. Not only the new numeral system is more convenient for various reasons but it allowed people to advance math further. So A is better than B in that sense.

Then, A uses an identifier that doesn't represent its value. We can also say it's bad because of that reason.

You can try to seek ways to compare and improve code. Not all of them will be effective, but at least you will be trying. That is better than being that disagreeable, nihilistic guy that thinks that everything is subjective and relative and won't agree with anything you say.

You have to learn how to treat your code with respect and prevent it from becoming a tech debt dumpster.

There is code that is objectively bad. And you will know when you try to maintain, debug or profile it, or when you have to explain it to someone else. Or when it keeps breaking over and over again and many defects are connected with it. Or when it becomes a product limitation and you have to apologize to customers about it.
France's ex-president jailed over illegal campaign financing
Different is not better.

Resume-padding is not better.

Ignorance is not better.
It's not really NVidia's fault. The problem is that you can buy a GPU for $1000 and use it to print $2000 of money. That's annoying because most people just want to play a computer game, not print $2000 worth of money.

The other thing NVidia could do is keep all their GPUs for themselves and mine crypto.
Both of those were suggested in the offending thread, and both would indeed work.

My phrasing was bad, “HN’s default style sheet doesn’t word wrap extremely long titles properly” is more accurate.
The fact that the speed limit is much lower I think backs up that Cruise's permit is actually less permissive, and is most likely for at-night only.

Waymo has had driver-free cars in Phoenix for over a year, so it would be strange for Cruise (who doesn't have a driver-free robo-taxi service already) to get a more permissive permit than Waymo.