skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Anyone know why there seem to have been some sort of politician reading from seemingly the bible (or similar religious textbook) and how that's relevant to a space mission? Seems wildly out of place from the usually grounded NASA and ESA.

Edit: The person in question seems to have been Bill Nelson, former United States senator but now NASA administrator, the highest ranked official in NASA. Which makes this whole thing even more weird, should that person strictly be a person of science, not religion?

Edit2: Seems stream is over now, here is the exact timestamp for the speech/reading: https://youtu.be/7nT7JGZMbtM?t=7222
Banning google, banning, crypto, banning Steam, so much for progress.
That’s how I remember a friend advertising Ultrasurf to me — a vpn used in China
This whole approach was an exercise in avoiding the server back-end.
For the same reason I'd expect privacy in an employer-owned bathroom.
aren't all four just desire for status?
> The vast majority of people do not speak using the simple terms that are in those 100 top lists.

It really depends who you're talking to. I've seen claims, and I believe them, that in many languages the average person has about a 500 word vocabulary that they're using on a daily basis.

Someone who is more educated than the average person is likely to use a larger vocabulary, but they're also more likely to be able to simplify their speech to accomodate you and make it possible for you to communicate with them.
I just asked my 23 years old sister if she knew what Steam was, she said no.

I would guess that China doesn't have any big enough economic advantage of allowing steam, so maybe steam is not that really big that people think.

Not to mention Valve takes a large cut of game sales so China has pretty good reasons to block it.

Aren't PC game sales a big stagnant? And on all those sales, Steam seems to be interesting for indie and niches games, not for big AAA games, since those AAA games often have their own online platform.

I looked some numbers some time ago, and to me it seems that the PC game market is not really profitable anymore.

And honestly, China might also increase its game profits by banning steam. When you can legally push a product out to make more money, you do it. China doesn't care about liberal economics.
What if I submit a request on behalf of someone else? Will this someone else get jailed?
A journey of a thousand parsecs, begins with one launch.
Well, being a religious event, I have to say that happiness while being alone is actually a gift from God. My kids have jobs and their mom doesn't crab at me anymore, Yay!!! I'm going to read the news, have breakfast and play some video games.
Where did you get the art for your place card business?
> That is, a certificate authority like Let’s Encrypt or DigiCert will not be able to provide you with an HTTPS certificate for foo.test or 192.168.0.1 that works with an out-of-the-box client like a major web browser

And they shouldn't. The problem here is using a reserved and internal qualifiers for such things, not the inability[0] of public providers to provide you with such certificate.

> Currently, there’s no canonical way for non-public web services to support HTTPS

Depends on the definition of canonical.

Easy way: just buy the cert from any provider and forget it for a year. Repeat annually.

Easy way but requires automation: use a split-brain DNS setup (either full split or 'semi-split' with your internal resources under a subdomain), request a certificate for a needed FQDN (ie point A record to whatever ACME client you are familiar with), move it to the internal system.

Yes, this doesn't work if your internal resources are 'https://192.168.99.9' and 'mysuperserver.local' (because this is a home network of Average Joe, not a even a homelab of Non-average IT Joe). Back to square one.

> Various people have proposed that browsers support a special mode by which a user can enter a secret that is engraved or displayed on the device to which they want to connect

This can work for a home devices, but the device (or image/text of it's shared secret) should be accessible to everyone, which means anyone can establish a secure connection now. Should it be a concern depends on the usage of such devices.

BTW, WPS does exactly the same [1]

But the most important aspect here lies in the last paragraph of TFA.

[0] which isn't an inability but a unwillingness

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wi-Fi_Protected_Setup
While we're already using machine learning and neural networks to solve this problem, why not use a blockchain? /s

TeX being "interleaved with natural language" is not at all at the heart of the problem IMO. Every HTML document does so, too. The real problem lies much deeper. TeX uses recursive rewrites of the code that is the document to achieve what it does, without properly keeping track of where it is and what it does. There is no technical necessity for doing so, but the technique introduces huge complexity costs. On a somewhat related note, TeX's syntax at its very heart is also not trivial to parse short of executing (compiling) a given document (i.e. TeX's syntax itself is Turing-complete). This has been done only because the author got carried away by the coolness factor of it. Already a few years after TeX came out, Leslie Lamport implemented LaTeX on top of TeX to make TeX more approachable to less dedicated / insanely gifted users; he chose to dial back on this very aspect—the inscrutable syntax—and proposed a much more regular syntax as a convention.
My perspective applies to Scala as well, to any guest language on JVM or any platform.

One lesson for Borland days is that I rather use the languages that are on the box than dealing with extra complexity of third parties in the platform.

My point of view is not always what wins out, and there is good to learn new approaches in programming that can be latter applied to the daily tools, but that is how I see things.
There's a microformats spec, which isn't closely followed, and even organisations which should get things right foul up all the time.

Example: Wired apparently can't properly distinguish authors of additional articles and the author(s) of the principle displayed article in a manner that Pocket could reliably parse, or at least wasn't doing this at some point in time. So my saved Wired articles were listing a dozen or two authors, most of whom had nothing to do with the article in question.

My experience is that quality data isn't provided unless it becomes critical for function and/or revenue, and most likely the latter. If bad metadata earns a search penalty and whatever site is penalising has a sufficient impact on search results, then you'll see shifts.

A minority search platform won't be able to do that initially, though if its results are useful, it could easily capture a large share of the high-value search community, which would give it outsized impact even with small usage.

(Think of Apple's position as a hardware provider to a small but affluent market.)
The Most Powerful Telescope Ever Built
You can use this LogQL operator !~ (regex does not match) to exclude strings.
No idea. It did seem extremely out of place though.
Is yjit support available now for more cpu architectures? Super excited to try this out
It was far from the "most reliable" when this decision was made!

>"Faced with a grim record of 4 failures from just 14 Ariane 5 launches, some observers were starting to ask if Europe's 25-year-old rocket programme is more trouble than it's worth."

>"Although developed primarily for the commercial market, a new class of heavy-lifter rockets will also be used to launch the next generation of deep-space research probes, such as the planned James Webb space telescope, Southwood says."

https://www.nature.com/articles/420723a ("ESA weighs up future after Ariane explosion") [2002]
> You should be sceptical of all the news about China that comes from China.

Fixed it for you.
Consider this - All download URLs of top browsers get intercepted first and the binary fixed binary response gets returned which is actually patched version of the browser (as most major browsers are open source) containing additional CAs to be trusted.

From that point onwards, every HTTPS interaction is just plain text.
I checked, and you don't have sufficient social score.
(Psst, that was >2000 years ago. He's ∞+2k years older now. Agree with everything else.)
Several hundred (mostly related to unfolding stuff)
Your argument basically boils down to “you should trust propaganda from the authoritarian Chinese government because I trust the propaganda from the authoritarian Russian government.” It’s not very convincing.
"It seems like they are trying to pick fights out of nowhere as if..."

...that is what people generally do on the internet, when they disagree.
> All you can really make sure is that your outgoing packet contains a desired destination.

Exactly. I think that's about it. Nothing else can be guaranteed.
China seems more anti-game than it seems pro-profit in this case.

Otherwise why limit children to 3 hours per week of gaming? Why ban images of “effeminate men”?

To me, China seems to be preparing.
I lived there for 18 months
Not to sound rude, but isn't this kind of a generator to produce spam sites? Easy template, draw others' content through RSS and that's it? Does anyone actually pay for subscriptions and why if the only content is other site feeds?
We wouldn't be turning into China if we only banned Chinese companies, if we only blacklisted/punished western companies that spread CCP propaganda (nine-dash line, calling Taiwan a province of China, etc).

To quote HN user stale2002: Tit for tat reciprocity is the basis of most modern trade relations.
It's not always brainwashing and indoctrination, it can also be the threat to family social standing, political scrutiny, and the ability to travel freely. If they have family or close friends that already have trouble with the state, China makes exquisite use of those factors in controlling people.
Doxxing myself, check my comment history and website https://tombh.co.uk
Canadian here, as well. This comment is a bit radical and sensational. While the National Post may lean slightly centre/right [1], it is still a respected publication.

[1] https://ground.news/interest/national-post
Thank you for the hug! I hug you too.

We are all cave-people still, living now in our little caves, using tools that still require a lot of grinding to make and to use (mental mostly), still afraid of monsters and winters.

We are still mesmerized by lightnings, storms, stars, and everything that happens above and inside us. We're curious about world and life around, scribble things on our walls, we sleep a lot, and dream!

Ones in San Diego, CA, I saw a bunch of seals laying on nice stinky rocks, chatting about something with each other. Some younger pup was trying to crawl on other seal's head (just for fun of it, probably). So another bigger seal literally hugged the pup with that flapper arm of theirs and kept on telling whatever story that was. It worked!

We hug, therefore we exist.
It would be far-fetched to think that having a second staircase for egress would result in additional deaths. More staircases does not cause more traversals of staircases.
Yeah, not sure how I'd feel if I worked on the project for years and then someone starts ranting about "the glory of god", "handiwork of god", "god bless planet Earth" and similar stuff.
Yeah that was pretty surprising. Also at the end of the launch the head of NASA came on quoted the Christian bible and then talked about how the telescope is going to look back into (his) gods creation! I was really taken back by that and a little offended that his religion was brought into such an important scientific event.
Same here. And lately I’m getting the feeling that people systematically “distrusting” western media takes on China, would just take Chinese media at face value.
This does the trick in a (for me) not confusing way:

from collections import Counter

response = [
{
"thing": "A",
"count": 4,
},
{
"thing": "B",
"count": 2,
},
{
"thing": "A",
"count": 6,
},
]

counter = Counter()
for x in response:
counter[x["thing"]] += x["count"]

newlist = [{"thing": k, "count": v} for k, v in
counter.items()]
print(newlist)
From my own experience, this hasn't been a problem in real world situations.
The unfortunate effect of it being a JVM product is that you need to tune GC and memory setting because defaults are made for people having 8GB of RAM.
There's something to this. All too many people are okay with government overreach, and even tyranny, as long as it's in the name of some cause that they personally favour. It's only when this power is used in opposition to their views that it gets to be a problem. That goes for both wings of the American Demopublican Uniparty.
I've never had this problem personally.
4 failures in the first 6 years of operation, and only 1 in the following 20 years is a good track record. How were the other launch vehicles faring in 2002?
Kyoto 0.2
You are being downvoted, possibly for sounding vaguely nationalistic, but this is actually a good opportunity to ponder the timescale of the entire program.

The idea of JWST was conceived around 1990, when Hubble was freshly flown into space and people started thinking about its successor. Development in earnest started in 1996 and JWST should have been ready to launch in 2007. This date was pushed back many, many times. (Much like with construction of nuclear power plants - megaengineering projects tend to suffer from this kind of slip-ups, cost overruns and delays.)

This means that the definite launch arrangements were done before SpaceX was the giant it is today. Space Shuttle was discontinued, so the most reliable rocket of that time simply won. This is no ordinary payload and you really do not want to lose it to launcher failure.
It was Bill Nelson, head of NASA: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Nelson

I assumed it was intended for the American audience.
I would say a mix of LLVM and type inference play a big role.
No, it can't, because it's understanding of Java code is much worse.
They lost me when they said the Ford F-150 is not gigantism but actually the right size. It's certainly the right size for some things, as is an 18-wheel articulated truck. But it's not the right size for the vast majority of the time it's actually used. Gigantism seems to be a temptation for consumers just as much as engineers and designers. People are tempted by that unwieldy vehicle or large house and don't consider the practicality or running cost.
I believe that is Bill Nelson, the director of NASA. Definitely an embarrassing moment. I turned it off.
I am surprised at what you say regarding the hosting of foreigners. My girlfriend was there for a couple of months and she didn't notice any such thing, and she actually rented a place with a couple of friends, also foreigners. Is this what you describe because of racism or because of government?
How do spacecraft manoeuvre in the vacuum of space?
I totally agree with you.

Being born in 1985, I never got to experience the arcade glory days (although I had my fair share of arcade fun), but my teenage years corresponded to their successors, the Internet cafés, or cybercafés as we called them. Oh man, a 10 vs 10 LAN match of Counter Strike was glorious, lots of noisy teenagers shouting at each other, booing the opposite team, cheering a particularly good play... As you say, you can't have the same experience online.

I'm a bit sad for today's kids, they have much faster hardware and connections that we did, but they will never get to experience the same excitement.
That was NASA administrator Bill Nelson trying to recreate the awe of the Apollo 8 Genesis reading. A bit out of touch...
Same: I just used my Alexa for timers, some music, and rarely to ask about temperature outside.

I don’t need an internet connected spying device for this though. So ended up switching to a HomePod mini.

It sets timers without internet, and plays music from my phone which is somewhere around the house. It can ask my phone for weather info as well.
It's for people using 8GB ram laptops.
I didn't read the comments but
1. it could be flooded with pro cpp activists, it's a known fact that China pays people to influence forums
2. It may be difficult to understand for Americans, but (I think) some people here are "pro-china" as they see China as an alternative to US imperialism, or at least something that can be less harmful.

Personally, my wife is Taiwanese so I'm extremely concerned about China in a very concrete way. I'm not sure the people who advertise themselves as "pro-China" really have a sense of what's going on.
> Richard Francis Burton was one of the first Europeans to visit Mecca while in disguise as a Pashtun. Burton supposedly spoke dozens of languages

With any luck he's got the source already.
Yeah, it was odd. Then again, people can believe what they want and make links that don't make sense to everyone. He seems like a fairly progressive guy and an actual astronaut - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Nelson
Yeah, still got to work on some audio desync issues when using the xstack filter with inputs of different frame rates and formats. Was told to fix it by reconverting all my inputs at the same framerate, but other than that ffmpeg is really a powerful software.

But yeah, for simple video tasks, I either use ffmpeg or avidemux, davinci resolve crashed at first use.

There's also a python module that wraps the filter syntax I think, because writing a ffmpeg command is not very accessible.

It is really crazy when freely accessible software can get developers more reputation and money, rather than pissing code away for code that they don't own anymore.

Proprietary code gets the job done, but free software helps the whole community of developers.
The GFW is evolving. Many VPN protocols or servers that worked in the past works no longer. It’s definitely not as simple as “just run a VPN”, but more like a cat and mouse game.
OpenGL [0], or Gtk/Qt based frameworks basically.

Very few would bother to do X11 graphics directly with Xlib, we aren't in the 1980's.

[0] - Some would say Vulkan I rather spare myself the burden.
You're on top of a garbage heap instead of a mansion.
I'm using "feh" since a very long time now. Don't know if it's still up to date or now. I'll check qiv and xli.
If someone is trying to get people killed, it may be that they need help, but other people certainly need protection from them, which is meant to be part of the point of the prison system.

Also, equating a desire to assassinate with being mentally ill or cognitively disabled is doing a disservice to the majority of mentally ill or cognitively disabled people who do know it's wrong to kill people. I doubt there's a clear correlation between desire to kill people and being mentally ill or cognitively disabled.
I think it would make sense to provide sources with those quotes from March.

I’m admittedly not from the US so I had different scientists talking about the pandemic, but around here 70% vaccination was never considered enough.
Even Apollo 8 was inappropriate and NASA has very deliberately avoided those kinds of embarrassments since.
I believe the psychological process involved is the malignant form of projection[1]. To give a metaphor: when I know myself that I've not been productive enough at work (and I secretly berate myself for it), I mis-perceive perfectly normal gestures of encouragement as personal attacks.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological_projection
Surpass in what exactly? Authoritarianism? Idiots spewing nonsense to collect their paychecks.
Wrong protocol. If GFW suspects that you are trying to bypass it without confidence, it slows you down instead.
It's also being recycled/sourced from used products.

But I'm glad you agree it's actually used :)
Americans all go to the same places (they tend to be very trendy / checklist oriented and go for small amounts of time), it’s really obvious as a French person in America, all my American colleagues go to places I never visit in France and vice versa.
Sounds like a topic for your blog.
I think this would make unworkable way too many things. Is it even the internet at that point?
This is fascinating! Can you give more details about "building the narrative"? I'm guessing you scrape a bunch of articles about the game and use something to summarize them?
So the argument is, that ‘because Google Bot can read the content for free, then I should be allowed to do so too’? This seems like a pretty week excuse for bypassing a paywall. I think the reason we have annoyances like ‘please sign up for our news letters’ is that news sites are struggling to make money. A service like 12ft.io is only making the situation worse.
And if you already have an enemy and they’re doing horrible things, don’t look the gift horse in the mouth, tell people about it.

Comparing China’s bad behavior to the bad behavior of the West is a false equivalence on every aspect. It is clear that the West also has (or had) bad behavior, but bringing it up is a form of whataboutism to distract from the much worse behavior happening right now in China.
I guess I never understood placebo trials in a lot of medical situations. Like what we are discussing here, a "revolutionary cancer drug", why even bother letting people die giving them placebos? Its cancer. Its not like you can placebo effect the cancer away. You don't need a double blind trial to see if the drug stops the cancer, you just give people the drug and observe the cancer! I feel like our medical system is pretty wack. Or maybe I'm entirely wrong and you can placebo cancer away.
Cool link thanks
I mean sure, but look at the country today. Apparently they didn’t admire it that much.
Fossil fuel combustion kills more than 1M people every year, study says
Not in the same situation, but could have been so due to a very set of dark moments during 2021 that also made this Christmas a very sad one to myself.

Have a big virtual hug.
As an American I find any religious expression by government officials in the course of their duties to be offensive and harmful to our nation.
It’s referring to the Christmas Eve broadcast of Apollo 8, the first manned mission in orbit around the moon, another large milestone in spaceflight and for humanity overall [0]. The American space program likes to refer to its past accomplishments and this is the biggest and most complex space telescope ever launched. It’s also tradition to use “big” and inspiring language, so calling back to that era makes for a more compelling message.

0 - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_8
NZ could have added more capacity to MIQ. It could have started working on adding more healthcare resources (it’s been 2 years already, how many new intubators have we added? How many nurses and doctors have we recruited overseas? Or have we just locked the gate and put our hands in our ears?)

NZ has had more than enough time to prepare for COVID in a post elimination world. Why does MIQ still exist?

Why did NZ provide MIQ slots for non essential sports journeys like the Olympics and All Blacks tours. Do you think any Olympian or All Black could look the son or daughter of a dead parent in the eye and say that it was right for their space in MIQ to take precedence over the chance for a loved one to say goodbye for one last time?
The most ironic part of the whole capitalism vs communism business was that both had exactly the same structure... In different strata of the society. The all-encompassing planned economy of (mega)corporations vs the state.
Both the preferred habitat of a certain sort of politicking bureaucrat.

Of course, in properly-functioning capitalist systems, you can and should fight and Ally with the megacorps with start-ups. In socialist countries...