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So they're only giving them another $110M (2.5%?) to support a second award for the Human Landing Systems contract.

Text from the draft appropriations bill [1]:

> The Committee notes that in fiscal year 2021, NASA projected that the Human Landing System [HLS] would need $4,388,100,000 in fiscal year 2022. However, the fiscal year 2022 request before the Committee is $1,195,000,000. Given that request, NASA’s rhetoric of blaming Congress and this Committee for the lack of resources needed to support two HLS teams rings hollow. The Committee’s—and NASA’s—experience with both Commercial Cargo and Commercial Crew was that even with lofty ambitions, milestones were often not met in the first years of a milestone-based program.

> The Committee believed, in providing resources for fiscal year 2021, that the resources would support early work for two teams. The Committee believes having at least two teams providing services using the Gateway should be the end goal of the current development program. To that end, the Committee provides no less than $1,295,000,000, an increase of $100,000,000 above the budget request, for HLS. Using this funding, NASA is expected to ensure redundancy and competition, including robust support for research, development, testing, and evaluation for no fewer than two HLS teams. The Committee expects real investments in development rather than additional studies. Within 30 days of enactment of this act, NASA shall deliver a plan to the Committee and post it on its website that explains how NASA will comply with this direction, including the resources needed for fiscal years 2023 through 2026 to execute the plan. NASA is expected to request such resources in future year budgets. In order to support HLS program development, no less than the requested level for the Lunar Lander office is provided.

> The Committee provides $4,128,246,000 for Space Operations, which is $140,046,000 above the fiscal year 2021 enacted level and $110,846,000 above the budget request. The Space Operations account supports the International Space Station [ISS] and the supporting functions required to conduct operations in space at up to the full requested level. The ISS is a complex of research laboratories in LEO in which American, Russian, and international partner astronauts conduct unique scientific and technological investigations in a microgravity environment.

[1] https://www.appropriations.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/CJSRept_...
How many people actually read those warnings? See logo, buy product, consume product. Much like those mandated warnings on tobacco. Guy looks at pack 1 with a warning "May cause cancer", puts it back. Guy looks at pack 2 with a warning "May cause birth defects". Guy decides that's now his brand. (appologies to Bill Hicks)
For most of human history humanity did not exist in the form it does today. There are regions in countries with higher population than the entire planet a few hundred years ago. So I don't think we can take much lesson about scale from the past.
High lethality isn't necessarily what a bioweapon is designed for. The US (allegedly) dropped tick-borne bioweapons on Cuba in the 60's with the goal of lowering sugarcane production.

If you want to use a bioweapon for clandestine economic warfare, you don't actually want to people to die, that draws attention. You just want everyone to be sick at crunch (harvest) time.
They used to have a bunch- this was always the best one.
Disabling AMFI is a whole other level of a hammer, that I do not recommend at all on a system that you might actively use.
I don't think so. There's just a lot of random fluctuation.
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And I increasingly wonder, were we freer back then because there was still some empathy towards customer needs at Microsoft, or because they were simply stifled from their real intentions by technological limitations?

They've been slowly cooking the frog in the background for a while now with the "trusted computing" stuff. It's over a decade old at this point. Back then the userbase was more technical and likely to smell BS, and DRM was definitely not liked even by the general public.

https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/tcpa

https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/tcpa-faq-1.0.html

...but then they eventually found out that people could be scared into doing anything by justifications of "security" (regardless of what's being secured, who it's being secured by, and who it's being secured from), and here we are today.
I do not understand what they meant - if they intended to mean anything - with the de-composing puppet. An in-joke?
yes it is the fastest way to do it.
And it cuts out the middlemen.
I think hn and tech culture in general is sleeping on the rise of popular gun culture.

Even with some significant headwinds on social media, gun culture influencers have huge audiences, slick media production, and run the gambit from highly technical to meme fueled gif parties.

It's a long way from the old stereotype of an old white Vietnam vet waxing poetic about 1911 .45s.

Something else that has been interesting to watch has been how much video game culture acts as an on ramp to gun culture. The influence that games like modern warfare have on the real life gun community is fascinating. It makes sense since there are way more call of duty players than actual high speed operators, but still...

If you think about it, it makes sense. Unlike a lot of other gear orientated technical fields, it's almost impossible for people to regularly employ their toys outside of a range setting. Everyone and their brother wants short barreled ARs, but how many people are actually clearing rooms. Same goes for recce rifles. How many folks out there on patrol? It's the equivalent of the guy who buys a land cruiser with a roof top tent and hood mounted jack, but just drives it to the mall on the weekends (and yet look how much the overland community has exploded over the past few years).

This is very much an underserved hobby driven by culture and entertainment. It's almost entirely disconnected from actual military needs/requirements/drivers. I think there is a lot of growth in the industry, surprised it doesn't come up more often.
I hate to break it to you, but A LOT of the best restaurants aren't available on apps, or even online.

I recently moved to a new (large) city, and have found that nearly half of the restaurants in my neighborhood aren't even in either Google Maps or Apple Maps.
In the USA, in the rest of the world Mac is just the machine to code against iOS and nothing else.

Most media producers today switched to Windows.
Robert Lustig, as an endocrinologist specializing in liver metabolism, is more immediately credible than Gary Taubes, a journalist.

That Taubes's critics are wrong (e.g., in first paragraph of his Wikipedia page) seems worth mentioning.
I just meant that when enthusiastic users make what seem to me to be excessive claims about HN, I feel embarrassed (a.k.a. cringe). Also, I brace myself because I know that other users are going to get triggered by it.
And while I enjoy computing freedom, I’m not exactly proclaiming its value when I have to deal with a DDoS or hear about people getting ransomwared.

"We are not truly free if we don't have the freedom to make mistakes."

It's nice to hear about cyberattacks and such continuing, because it means freedom still exists.
Counterpoint: it's become a fairly multi-paradigm language at this point, and a multi-paradigm language is exactly what should be the defacto language in curriculums

Whether or not Java is the best one for this purpose is up for debate, but I think it's no longer a bad one
Dixy looks easy, but "There is only one simple rule. In Dixy, everything is a dictionary [string:string]" isn't accurate or helpful.

It's also [string:dictionary] and [string:?] where ? means nil. White space matters, and tab is fixed at 4 spaces wide. When creating text from a dictionary it adds "# Dixy 1.0\n\n" which means loading and saving will change the file every time! Not sure what other issues there are, but I noticed this line:

// TODO: if key is numeric, parse as Array

It does look simple though. It'd be nice if someone made strict rules and addressed the corner cases.
Isn’t that almost Go? Well, before Go generics land.
I see. It seems that I was getting the empty page half an hour ago for just that link. Now it’s taking me to the full page.
Ask HN: Employee Anniversary Gifts
We are approaching our first employee's one year anniversary. We want to do something nice for him, but also set a fun precedent. What are good work anniversary ideas / gifts that mean well and show our appreciation?
Being an economist is neither necessary nor sufficient for a good HN submission. That's true even just for economics topics.

I'm not saying this was a good article, but adding a bad comment article just adds more badness.
If a city does not overbuild and reach high density beyond the capacity of infrastructure, then cars remain by far the best mode of transport. They are point to point, with no wait times, no schedules, no stops, with higher travel speeds, and can take you outside of the city core to other destinations. The time saved and ability to take people and things directly to any destination leads to a far richer life than we could live otherwise.

The negatives of cars seem exaggerated by articles like this and urbanist activists in general. I live in a city with mostly cars and don’t notice either the pollution or noise. Modern cars have very little pollution simply due to regulation, and I certainly don’t smell any pollution when I ride in bike lanes on busy streets. The noise is also pretty negligent unless you live right next to the highway, which most people don’t. Cars today are also incredibly safe, with only around 1 fatality per 100 million miles traveled, and provide far more utility back to society than this minor cost. Additionally with driver assistance technologies becoming standard, their safety will increase dramatically. Cars bring more communities together because neighborhoods are more accessible to each other.

These daily articles pushing an anti-car sentiment ultimately seem very one sided and childishly idealistic. For example this particular article doesn’t mention what the trade offs are in Slovenia. It claims residents adapted but has no data to establish if they are happy or unhappy with changes, if they are even the same residents as before, if living within a 15 minute radius has limited their choices, if how they spend time has changed for the worse, and so on. It similarly lacks data for those who live outside this core area but used to visit it regularly before the changes. It’s hard to draw any useful conclusion from such a simplistic and biased take.
Good for you man. I don’t really see much about customer pain points though.

If people aren’t in pain they aren’t going to buy / use your stuff.

Take the product job board. At first I thought it was product manager jobs, but doesn’t that already exist? Then after seeing accounts payable and other stuff I realized you meant tech, which also exists already. So why would people use yours?

Your startup HAS to solve something better than existing solutions. For example
-Uber was a taxi, but cheaper and much better
-Facebook was MySpace but geared toward your in person friends / clean interface. Turns out people preferred not having to customize their page
-TikTok was vine but done way better. Its learning algorithm is unbelievable, it leans into Adding music which makes everything more fun, etc. it’s a markedly better way for people to express themselves

The one project you build for yourself, the metronome, already had a solution you discovered after you started building

So I’d really spend some time on the problem first. Read the lean startup. Talk to customers. And figure out if a project is actually a smart bet. Your product has to be markedly better for some group of customers - if it’s just a little better, people aren’t going to switch
The far-left position on homelessness is simply "let's build enough houses by whatever means necessary" (depending on where one is on the authoritarian/libertarian scale, the list of acceptable means varies).

The difference is in the language. "Clean up our streets" puts the emphasis on the homeless as the problem for everybody else, as opposed to homelessness being a problem for the homeless.
It's perfectly OK with both a bird and a gun. As well as bow and arrow.

Falconry is the oldest sport in history, dating back at least 6000 years. Thousands of years ago, men hunted with raptors -- falcons, hawks, owls, and sometimes even eagles. They would catch young falcons in the wild, spend years training them, live with their birds, then release them, using signals from hundreds of feet away to coordinate the hunt, and then split the hunt with the bird.

Today, they usually give all of it to the bird, nevertheless it's still a beautiful and noble sport in which man and bird work together to catch prey.

Fun Fact: Falcons are used in public parks and golf courses to chase away nuisance birds. It's also used by farmers -- more effective than scarecrows. There is a long apprenticeship required and a centuries old system of knowledge and training.

The most famous book is called "The Modern Apprentice". It's a worth a read even if you don't practice falconry.
http://www.themodernapprentice.com/glossary.htm

Here is the CA club: https://www.calhawkingclub.org/falconry-apprenticeship/appre...

Each state has its own regulations for falconry as it does for all other forms of hunting.
wow so much flexing in the article about their degrees and all the things they "did" by themselves

this had me curious into looking this person up - honestly looks like they are trying super hard to get followers by making up substance about their own work and experiences.

(Currrently at GT for part-time program and for some of my classes, the TAs are receptive and very helpful! I would hate to have someone who waited until the end, especially when everyone is figuring out how to schedule their coursework on top of their job)
How do you undo an app or subsystem after an update you don't like?

For example I upgrade my
IDE but not in place, I keep previous version just in case the new one is buggy or they again moved shit around. For my main system I am on LTS and I upgrade if there is a need and not to get high on version numbers. For example I tested new versions of kernels and video drivers and end up on what feels right for me and stopped there. Sometimes the new video driver is more unstable then the older ones so I would never do a driver update without having a good reason and time to evaluate it.
My Year with GNU Guix
Alternatively, you commit to a field of expertise, only to become narrow minded, and unable to synthesize simple ideas into products end users care about.
Interestingly, I have the exact opposite opinion.

Scala has been declining steadily for a decade now, and Scala 3 is going to precipitate this state of affairs by splitting the shrinking community even further.

Kotlin, on the other hand, has done nothing but grow for the past five years, no doubt helped by Google's formidable support for it. I just took a quick look at one of its Slack channels, "getting-started", and it has over 38,000 people on it. And that's just one channel among dozens more.

I don't think Java's latest additions are anywhere near threatening Kotlin's rise to dominance since Java is moving at a very slow pace, by design, while Kotlin supports some features and design directions that will never happen in Java.
The lines are a bit blurrier here than you might think. Soldiers are required to disobey illegal orders. Congress declares war. But the President has the right to respond militarily in an emergency - war does not wait on committees. If Trump had said that e.g. NK had attacked, and ordered that NK be nuked, but NK had not actually attacked (i.e. there was not actually an emergency), that would have been an illegal order, which soldiers would have been legally bound to disobey.

It would be treason for Milley to countermand a legal order, but asking for key servicemen to review the details of an admittedly complicated bit of military law and to prepare themselves for exactly what decision they might need to make in realtime - nothing illegal about that.
It's in between: not automatically generated, but I use software to save the typing.

Past explanations if anyone cares: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28441182
I find this kind of post very interesting. The key takeaways from my point of view is that none of these projects actually created value. Most of them didn’t solve a problem that other software hadn’t already solved. The most interesting one I think was the appartment notitication one. Especially that today there is such a race if you want to find a good and affordable appartment. It’s just too bad the author wasn’t able to create something simple for this. At the end of the day, you have to try 10 ideas to get one off the ground. But you also have to give them a serious shot, which doesn’t seem to have been the case here. You often will have to invest actual money to get your idea out there and popular. Unless it’s a one in a million that will go viral on its own.
Give them a cut of the profits their work helped make possible.
For every remoteok.io which is a single PHP file and makes $100k a month, there are 1000 of failed job boards. I suppose this is the reality.
What's the slug for?
Win our challenge to build with LG. Deadline tomorrow
Otoh, why even bother with Chrome, when you have Firefox, Brave and others to choose from? It's not like there is any substantial difference between them. At this point we don't need (extra) evidence of wrongdoing, the incentives mismatch is enough to not trust them.
Yeah the Line Islands are the exception as always.
Yeah fudds haven't made up the bulk of the gun scene since the 90s really.

I hope that since people in video games can use use a wide variety of weapons we get some push back against banning specific gun types. Opening the MG registry would be really good and maybe this is a way to encourage it, same for removing suppressor and SBR regulations.

Btw there is some intersection between the two, a lot of the guys behind the 3d-printed gun movement are moving to decentralized technologies for chat, video hosting, etc. because the gun-grabbers running mainstream platforms don't like them.
From my 2nd-hand info (my comment below about friend-of-family stricken with the disease), I understand that the local hospital was unequipped to diagnose it fully. They had to send a sample to CDC (?) or maybe Mayo as part of autopsy.

If I remember what I read years ago (see "Deadly Feasts" book by Richard Rhodes, I recall it being a good read, and part of what made me swear off beef) they actually look at the brain matter to see if the amyloid plaques are present -- the degenerated holes in the brain tissue. I didn't think there was some molecular-kind of test for the proteins themselves. But my info is from years ago on this.
BlackMatter ransomware victims quietly helped using secret decryptor
I couldn't believe what a shotgun blank could do:

https://youtu.be/elpAaZs_U9k?t=200

(TL;DW - blast a hole in a metal plate, explode a pineapple from a few feet)
Glad to see Java improve, but I still would like to see more ML features:

- ~Exhaustive pattern matching~ it’s here!

- Algebraic data types

- Tail call optimisation

- Do notation

- Operator overload

Why not use another language? Well, the name “Java” guarantees buy-in at this point. Maybe it will eventually be a Trojan horse for ML :)
Unit 8200 gets no money from U.S. Taxpayers.
It wouldn't surprise me if that's far below the average number of "failures" to face before any sort of success anyone, regardless of their aptitude or luck will be met. All I see among people who make it is that they spent years trying things, they won't tweet every disappointment .
What goodwill?
Governments did classify encryption as munitions for a long time, and some of the regulations from that era still exist. But it's hard to ban maths.

On the other hand, contrary to all the downvotes you're getting, it's good to see some other people who have taken the same critical view of encryption that governments have/had --- because it can be used against them.
The value of the steam runtime is not in how well it runs for users, but that it provides a singular target for game developers. I'm not sure if you witnessed any discussions around why most game developers are not willing to port their games to linux. From what I've seen the main complaint is that linux is too fragmented and nobody wants to package a binary for X versions of glibc, Y versions of sound libraries, and Z versions of graphic APIs. Having the steam runtime to target solves all of these issues, even if it doesn't represent the best that a user can run on their individual configuration.
For us in Europe that works with personal data, things tend to become complicated as soon we leave the EU, since it is often the case that the data must not leave the union.
"Get a Product Job (May 2020 - May 2021)
This time the main objective was to learn something new by doing. I chose Ruby on Rails. It's a great framework to build websites quickly."

Choosing Roby on Rails in 2020 as a "new framework" for web development ... sheesh.
In case it was directed at me, I’ll say yes, it’s on my mind, but my first goal was to have the full power of the entire OS facilities, the full Cargo ecosystem, and full native performance with the safety of Rust. That said, I think wasm has still only just begun to take off and it’s on my radar.
From an engineering perspective, I've always found fascinating how complicated ammo taxonomy is and how weird the various units used are.

I get the historical aspect that led to this giant mess, but ... at the end of the day, there's not that many parameters to define what a bullet is and does.

In particular, wrt physical dimensions, my - probably naive - take is that (radius x length) seems to go quite a long way in describing a bullet.

Anyone more knowledgeable care to explain why things are so complicated and haven't been normalized / simplified over time?
Regardless of OO 'quality' of a language, if you consider that most university degrees are an avenue to successful employment then it's easily one of the best ones to learn due to the current market alone.
Yes I do, and there is so much but we are way past the point of no return that if you haven't noticed what's happening by now, you'll never find the article titled "experts say global bankers are taking over the world through COVID" and the accompanying Snopes fact checking it true.

Global mass hysteria has been reached and this has nothing to do with logic now.

They wanted people to take the flu a lot more seriously by shifting the narrative around it so that they can roll out a social credit and digital identity platform alongside a new digital economy while managing to cash out with their printed gains by buying out anything that matters during a fire sale.
I missed the part where America got destroyed by this. Could you clue me in?
If you're also among the folks getting mad about those of us who don't work outside of work hours, then it's not a precisely a personal choice. But, benefit of the doubt:

When I was in university, I did the 90/10 thing. When I graduated, I lost almost my entire social network. I don't want you, or the people I work with, to experience that. Non-work hobbies make you a whole person, more pleasant to be around, more interesting to talk to. Please don't spend the prime years of your life pulling for somebody else's dream.
That's literally tax evasion — I wouldn't brag about it if I were you :)
Indeed,

And the health pass of today will be part of the carbon/health/credit/social pass of tomorrow.

See initiative by GAVI/B&M Gates/Mastercard in Africa.