skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Bet you the people negatively affected by this care about the payment. The right answer is that Chevron pays them, cleans it up, and takes the steps to make sure they don't do this to other people.

Monetary penalties are one of the only ways to communicate with these large multinationals the system calls "people".
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Apologies - there was no sarcasm intended.
I am dismissive of the twitter format for this content as I don’t like that something that seems suited to a blog post is split into dozens of short snippets with reactions, likes etc beneath. It is rare I make it though them as the format seems designed to be skimmed and skipped and I vastly prefer the HN format with more text, longer lines and a limited amount of cruft. I primarily use HN on mobile.
I’ve used https://pypi.org/project/DnsBench/
We have it already since 20 years ago. Second life was the most talked about, at some point companies and governments were setting up virtual offices there. But it s become niche , and the company behind it is brain dead. I don't know why facebook pretends it invented this stuff. VR glasses are nice and new, but don't make such a huge difference as people think. In fact they are very constrained in terms of what you can do in world
Clang at least does not seem to care about the extension.
Prices are high and demand limited, but there isn't really an energy crisis. There is a budget crisis in some countries so they need external help to finance importing energy.
I learnt this with a friend once, it was a nice experience. Forgotten pretty much all of it now though :D
dang being great and HN rules being great are two separate claims. It's entirely possible that someone agrees with one of them and disagrees with the other. For example, me. I disagreed with one of the rules. I spoke to dang about it and shared why. He listened to me, shared his perspective on why the rule exists and went out of his way to resolve the issue for me specifically.

He strives to lower the temperature of discussions that get too heated. He tries (and mostly succeeds) to get folks to stay on topic and civil. He keeps the site free from trash or astro-turfing. And he does all this alone.

> complete incompetence/corruption within HN

This is a strong claim. If you have evidence of it, show us. Or retract it.
Same ideas as the above: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computable_analysis
> Jeez dude, these were just random programs off the top of my head to illustrate industry distrust of launch vehicle promises.

What you are insinuating is that people are unable to difference between a suborbital technology demonstrator and powerpoint vehicles and multi-billion $ projects that are deep in development.

And non of the projects you mentioned would have a comparable impact to Starship. Maybe VentureStar but that was at best decades away.

You can just throw out some random projects and use them to justify non-action.

If VentureStar had actually seriously gone forward the same kind of almost the rethinking would have been necessary. And even if it in the end didn't happen, it would have been valuable to do.

> perspective of someone who is quite literally writing proposals about launch vehicle selection for NASA missions. But hey, you can read Wikipedia, so...

So making bad arguments can be justified from authority. Good to know.

> It's kind of silly to write articles about how everyone should change the way they operate NOW because change is coming.

There are many years of lead time, choices are only gone go into actual products and missions year from now.

Now is exactly the right time to start planning and rethinking approaches.

When Commercial Cargo was made, much of the need private industry didn't exist. And yet they did it, because they were locking forward and adjusted their operations.

Back then there was massive critic of NASA even from win NASA itself that this was a bad idea and it was never gone work. And that is what kick started the New Space movement.

That kind of thinking is what is needed. Plan projects now and get them rolling that could take advantage of the capabilities in a few years.

> What more do the fanboys want!?

Putting yourself as the reasonable authority and then ranting about 'fanboys' makes you look silly.

The auther of the article works for JPL, but I guess he is a 'fanboy'.
Nice to see swift trying to make a dent in server programming using shiny new features, however i would have liked something on the android side instead.

Being able to reuse code between ios and android, including foundation api, would have made an easy way to grow the user base.

it's going to be hard to put swift in the hands of go or kotlin devs..
>> They've got almost zero credibility with anyone under 30

> I'm not a fan of facebook either but this is simply not true.

I'm not sure that you can equate demographics and usage statistics to feelings about credibility. For example, I use a certain world-eating online retailer/marketplace a few times per year, but never for anything where I think there is a reasonably high chance that I would be purchasing counterfeit goods, because of my concerns about credibility.
Which everyone are you talking about? 99% of youtube users probably never heard of those services.
I use 418 on my gopher server [1] to inform misinformed webbots that they're not talking to an actual webserver. It works remarkably well.

[1] gopher.conman.org
Ask HN: Our product name is Meta too. What would you do?
Our company is building projectmeta.app, a note-taking tool for visual learning, and our users call it Meta. Should we rename the company/product to avoid the name collision with Facebook?
Defense contracts aren't all weapons - in fact, I'd wager most aren't (by quantity, if not by dollar amount). Due to how the US allocates its budget, a large portion of its publicly funded research goes through DoD contracts. The startup I used to work at had a contract for making prototypes of multi-material 3D printers for creating medical training models (ie artificial cadavers).
I remember writing scripts with $(which something) in the past. I cannot remember why I needed that.
can stenography be used to write code? or is it only for text based on speech?
Internet has good things and bad things but on these apps there is nothing good happens. I can imagine may be VR will be used to celebrate gradma's 90th birthday by her entire family virtually. But from what I can see, these will be about 1% to 2% of use cases. I don't think designers would intentionally encourage it but if you make meth legal, how many would actually use it for medical reasons?
>> Anybody that works a job well deserves respect

Everyone deserves respect, even those who do not work "well". Being bad at one's job doesn't means anything in terms of access to basic services. Half the people in any job are below the average. Basic dignities must be provided to all, even those a day away from being fired. I've seen it so many times that the "underperformer" or new guy in the office ends up working through every lunch or pulling the bad shifts because "they deserve it". That isn't a healthy work environment.
While true neither of those drugs would replace meth. Alcohol probably causes more social misconduct than meth anyway.
I have a feeling the study was funded by Facebook and the likes.
Using 1.1.1.3 blocks adult content on search engines like Google - it’s obviously not hard to find adult content through other means, but it avoids accidents.

https://one.one.one.one/family/
> Are they just trying to virtue signal and act woke?

Yes.
A few years ago I was genuinely going to do that, other than the first page which would just say something like "Write this book" in massive letters

I decided not to, mostly because of how blantantly wasteful it is (I guess blank pages which no information is less wasteful than filled pages with useless information, at least your not wasting ink, but its more blatant)
Meta (TM): All your data are belong to us. That's why it's called metadata
More limitations were added that made it no longer obvious

You mean this one?

"... moving said tray cart to said proximate end of said scanning device"

I guess my bar for non-obvious is a lot higher.
“The author didn’t actually work for four hours” is the most tired argument and seems to come up repeatedly. The point of the book is getting you back as much time from work as possible so you can then focus it on things you enjoy - which could be leisure or some other type of work. The point is efficiency. It also has nothing to do with getting rich. Sure Ferriss got rich from the book but he was running a successful business before hand. The book is quite clear that “getting rich”’should never be a goal you should look at the things you want (inc. material things) and figure out how much money you need to achieve those (usually it’s less that you think - e.g. you don’t need $250k to buy a Ferrari when you can lease one monthly).
That's bad but making doctors work crazy hours is worse
I use this at pidtuner.com to calculate Jacobians. But beware, nothing beats analytic derivatives. Depending on the languague and requirements needed to implement a given algorithm, it is typically far better to use Automatic Differentiation.
> Stenographers stroke chords instead of typing keys, resulting in less movement and better ergonomics than typing.

over the years I've seen various chord-style keyboard schemes. I've wondered why none have caught on - seems more logical than hitting individual keys.
Reading because it makes you feel good - a truly underrated idea in productivity land.
The article makes reference to this phenomenon being global:

> Yuval Harari says that the worst choice in the history of human societies is when humans made the transition from nomadic hunter-gatherers to sedentary farmers. With this, humans became much more susceptible to malnutrition, disease, and famine. Their grain-heavy diets lacked critical nutrients that are essential to proper brain function. But, we see brain shrinkage in the aboriginal people of Australia and South Africans, who never succumbed to agriculture until recent times, and we see the same amount of shrinkage in these populations as well.

It's possible as you say that founder effects and reverse migration and interbreeding could account for this, but an alternative theory is that trade emerged as a driving force of human activity, incentivising new behaviours, and so ultimately it was memetics that changed the selection parameters that shrunk brain sizes
>Say you bought a vintage car -- do you have to pay more sales tax each time the car appreciates?

Some states and countries actually do tax personal property like cars. Virginia and Rhode Island, for example.

In those jurisdictions, if you have a vintage car in 2021 worth $100k, then you pay $100k * TAX_RATE in 2021. If the value of your car jumps up to $200k in 2022 (due to a movie or something), then you pay $200k * TAX_RATE in 2022. As long as the property is still in your possession, you pay property tax on it.
-ditch PHP.

-most popular stack is NodeJS + React but others also popular (Python, Ruby, Go, Rust, Elixir, etc).

-build one (1) website including all your web programming skills.

-link in your CV and apply to junior position.

-work as junior for at least 1 year and never stop learning and improving even if its outside your job.
Facebook has a history of keeping their platform very open. Their first facebook platform was too open by today's standards (though normal-open by that day's standards). He said so in the video, and i m fairly sure he will keep it as open as possible and try to make open standards.
Today, landowners gain significant wealth through rent and speculation.
There’s a checkbox in the wow client to connect through ipv6. I used it a few months ago and it worked properly. Was it broken recently?
We have been on working on this for code review purposes at reviewpad.com. Would love to catch up and see your use case!
I recently bought "Courage is calling", the newest book from Ryan Holiday. I actually quite liked "Obstacle.." and "Ego.." having read them some years ago. But I do not know. I feel like I somehow has gotten older (scary thought :) ) I think the content in Courage is somewhat of the same type and quality, but I have only read a few chapters and it somehow comes off as trying too hard.

I am sure it is more me, than the content/author that has changed. But the original comment is so right in saying "You pay to be inspired".
"Meta" means dead in Hebrew. but no, VR and AR are the future.
> Yes, is signalling your virtues and acting .. "aware of what is going on, or well-informed, especially in racial and other social justice issues"... bad?

If it harms others, then yes. Just yesterday I read about lawsuit where white male was fired to hire two females. Which is a direct consequence of diversity virtue signaling.
> Interesting how he uses the C preprocessor as an Assembly preprocessor

It's actually a fairly common pattern, both ffmpeg and the Linux kernel do this for example.
Elon Musk wants to start a university in Texas that will have epic merch
Society functions while people have access to guns too, yet there are still consequences to that choice. I am pro legalization of most drugs, but meth does give me pause. No one smoking a joint or tripped out on opioids has ever attacked me while screaming at ghosts in the street, I don't know enough about the role of meth in those kinds of instabilities but anecdotally meth, and alcohol too, sure seem to cause a whole lot of trouble in my city.
you will get it eventually or you had it already

I am not vaxxed, had COVID in 2 weeks this October, 2 weeks of high fever with max. 2 short 1 day breaks, total fatigue, bad headaches, loss of smell, partial loss of taste

after 2 weeks it was like you would turn the switch off and I was basically healthy, left with sporadic weak coughing and no smell, though after 3 weeks smell returned and farts never smelled as good as before

would I get vaxxed after this experience? not really, I am healthy person, it was inconvenient, luckily I didnt have much work during that period and I work from home. but if they provided me with safe vaccine proven by decades of experience (inactivated virus) instead of these experimental vaccines first time in history used year (mRNA) or two (viral vector, ebola, 2019) ago I would probably take it even without restrictions and I'd recommend it to other healthy ppl, since I would consider it safe technology which works basically same as infection, unlike mRNA/viral vector pushed for reasons unknown to me, I am willing to pay extra for safe vaccine and they can keep these cheaper (easier to produce en masse) mRNA/VV vaccines for poor people who don't care about their health

vaccines work. do they work against infection? hardly, very inefficient. do they work against hospitalization? already better. do they work against death? pretty good, sure nowhere close to promised 90+ percents but from recent numbers at least in Czechia the efficacy against death (for risk groups) is ~75%, that's not bad if you are at risk of death

if you are risk group - get vaxxed, it surely has benefits against hospitalization and death, not much against infection.

if you are not risk group then it should be up to you without being forced by unscientific political restrictions, since vaccine will hardly change anything for you, at best will make your COVID more pleasant experience, if we had available safe inactivated virus vaccines I would say sure go for it, but since we have only mRNA/VV vaccines never used in history and nobody will guarantee safety of the technology in next 10 years, then their benefit for non-risk groups is questionable
https://youtube.com/c/DrJamesTour
Irrespective of the book, might we have reach a point where our productivity is so high that we are not fully occupying the operational needs of a 9-5?
Thus allowing time for a side-hustle ?
I.e., We work salaried for 30+ ours per week and have time to spend on other activities for the remainder.
That's another layer of meta.
Not always. Jevon's paradox shows that as you increase efficiency the lower costs can increase overall consumption.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox
Lawyer/YouTuber LegalEagle has a pretty good overview video summarizing the litigation history - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7d2KoXmPXk [22:29]
I believe the biggest difference is the expansion of what's available online. When I was growing up online, I didn't have to worry about the same set of issues children have to navigate today, or even the same set of bad things online. There weren't as many attack vectors, and there weren't as many people to target. With more people online and accessible, it's safe to assume more issues will rise with having unrestricted access.
> So airplane noise is torture because it's loud and it repeats.

Airplane noise when a plane flies above you? or airplane noise inside the plane?

I find airplane noise within a plane great - it blocks out all the other noise.
there isnt a lot to write about as people have not seen it yet. Generic pontification about the metaverse is as old as the internet.
Yes, thank you! I'm glad that there are other people out there with the same opinion.

Every Cal Newport article is riddled with links. Links to his podcast. Links to his books. Links to his fucking newsletter, and old posts and time block planner and on and on. Ridiculous from a self professed authority on deep work and focus.

Ryan Holiday meanwhile is the classic American success story isn't he? A sort of Ray Kroc-like entity. The kind of gold-rush chasing huckster in a sea of other hucksters, all alike, but one who just happened to make it big. Nothing about Holiday suggests to me that he's had a single original thougt in his life. Just repackaging with lipstick.

I'll be sure to check out your recommendations.

ETA: Ahh fuck it. Feel like ranting more. Maciej Ceglowski famously called Newport's and Holiday's style books "wooly business books" at airports (Lexus and the Olive Tree). Things that should be blogposts, or better still, an animated dinner party conversation, but are instead padded on and on with plodding, insufferable writing lacking any clarity of thought or lucidity in expression. Gah!

ETA2: Also Maciej: Ferriss is the author of the Four Hour Workweek, the Four Hour Body, the Four Hour Orgasm. Basically if you can't do it in four hours Tim Ferriss doesn't want to talk to you.
> They are a safe Plan-B

I was the Plan-A back then during Constellation. And SLS was also Plan-A.

> Not really.

I would argue the forced existing hardware into those project to continue to employ the same contractors.

Using a single stick solid rocket booster for your human launcher might be one of the worst ideas in the last 2 decades of rocket history.

Not surprisingly the congress person from that state was heavily involved funding Constellation.

> It’s a shame they decided to improve upon the existing hardware and took much longer than initially expected, but that’s what life with rockets used to be before SpaceX showed rapid iteration is a better path.

There were other viable paths even back then. Not to the level of SpaceX but there were others.

NASA did a whole bunch of studies and these studies pretty much universally showed that the current SLS designs was flawed and a booster that looked like a modern Saturn V was the far better solution.

There were even considerations of having it be privately developed.

Turns out NASA can make as many studies as they want, congress basically over-ruled them and forced them to use all the existing contractors and facilities and thus they were forced into current SLS.

https://www.reddit.com/r/SpaceLaunchSystem/comments/kt1vlf/r...
I did test 1.1.1.1 and found it to be pretty slow on long tail domains (obviously everyone is caching popular ones).

I bascially ran a 'dig' with multiple DNS providers and CloudFlare was slowest among the bunch for long-tail domains.

Here are the details:
https://twitter.com/vladquant/status/1428761979808669704

CloudFlare never responded to this tweet.
Some people have morals and the option to make a choice not to shit on them. I wouldn't work for Facebook regardless of how much they offered (but i can afford not to because i have plenty of other options). Once you have stable amounts of it, money isn't everything.
Not to worry about Chevron, because they did not give a single cent of the 9.5B$ to the Ecuador government, or indigenous communities who got toxic waste dumped in their drinking water, or Ecuadorians who discovered oil pools on their property. 30'000 people are represented in that case, with 1000 separate complaints.

The case was already active before Donzinger and Chevron had already successfully bribed its way out of it.

Also note that the conviction, while ruled "fraudulent", was not overturned.

The judge who convicted Donzinger has requested him to hand over his laptop and phone to Chevron, obviously in an attempt to further discredit him. This is a poor imitation of justice, which should taint your blind trust in US courts.
My 2c: resign.

Many companies fail to appreciate that developers have different needs for their computer.

It starts with the platform: everyone has to run the standard OS. And then the group policies start locking everything down so it's easier for IT to manage a 1000 instances of the same thing. You lose administrator access, and can only install approved applications. Then you get the standard hardware, with minimal RAM, minimal screen real-estate, and cheap storage. And then you get moved to a cloud-hosted standard PC image with a Wyse thin client.

If you can stop it now, do. Otherwise, polish your resume. Life's too short.

(Bitter? Moi? Nah ...)
yeah people don't get it. virtual life is called virtual for a reason. Who would want a copy of real life with plastic 3d avatars. If people are really into this , i have a pair of sunglasses to sell you for $4000. It's like the real world, slightly tinted
Kepler rule #2 never sunk in for me; the other two rules seemed fairly intuitive.

Kepler was Tycho Brahe's lab assistant, I think. Tycho was a curious chap. In addition to his brass nose, I believe he also had a "person of restricted stature" as a servant; that doesn't seem to be mentioned in his wikipedia article.
This is called "self-help" genre. It's designed to make you feel positive, may be less depressed. These books communicates to you emotionally via anecdots. But their effects wears off and you are not really going any where.

Throught my years, I have moved from fiction books to popular science (also "non-fiction"). Nowadays I like to read textbooks and research papers. Once you get used to that level of information density, it's hard to go back.
Ask HN: Any reason not to use Retool?
Hi everyone,

We are considering using Retool to accelerate building internal apps. Overall what they offer looks quite attractive, but I am sure that there also are things that are missing or not as good as one would hope for...

Would be very interested in hearing about things that Retool does not get right, as well as about use cases for which Retool looked like the right solution, but turned out to be the wrong approach.

Thanks a lot in advance!
Point of clarification, was this before or after stormfront explicitly started using the site as a recruitment and training ground for neo-nazis? Because I also spent a fair bit of my middle and high-school time on 4chan, and can attest to the fact that the 4chan of 2007-2012 and the chansites of the present day are very different beasts.
Why were they trying to make self driving cars or AI or VR games some time ago? Their real product is their stock value
You could double-NAT with a second router (apparently causes problems with some things like consoles, although I’ve never had a problem).
A new 100-page report raises alarm over Chevron’s impact on planet