skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a complicated issue. You can perhaps argue both ways. For example, one could say space race definitely didn't end with the Moon landings. Even though there was 1975 Apollo-Soyuz flight, the technology and science went ahead - the whole epoch of space stations, winged spacecrafts, automatic probes and commercial projects happened after "the small step for man".

USSR did have less resources to dedicate to space. USA spent massively more on the Moon race - and while the technology was somewhat conservative in places, they reached the goal. The close call of Apollo-13 could illustrate both how stretched the resources were and how sufficient level of redundancy was. USA won the Moon landing, even though USSR claimed many secondary prizes - Zond flights, automatic orbiting, landing, Lunokhods and probe returns. Even though Luna-24 clearly brought important materials, still the scientific return from - massively more expensive - Apollo flights could be considered higher. Yet USSR spent maybe 1/5 of what USA spent on the Moon race.

Space stations are also somewhat hard to compare. While USSR had much more, and with better capabilities, the Skylab's heritage is still important - even today. Same goes to Shuttle/Buran - while Buran flew just one, rather symbolic flight, and Shuttle run a massive scientific (and others) program, still Energiya-Buran project produced Zenit launcher, family of engines leading to e.g. RD-180, not to mention the development of underlying technologies - e.g. Al-Li alloys and (I believe) friction welding were worked on in the scope of the project. Shuttle can be accused in killing two crews and in being excessively expensive. Buran can be accused in helping to bankrupt the USSR.

USSR had quite good automatic probes at the time of breaking, too. VEGA program was a resounding success, while Phobos was much less so - even though quite ambitious. Only pieces of those capabilities survived - post-Soviet Russia managed to participate well in commercial launch market and practically created space tourism industry, but seems like it works well only initially, and serious investments are hard to come by. Yet coming back to USSR it's hard to disagree that the space program - till the end of the country - was quite robust, despite the loss of the Moon race.

We can still consider the manned Moon flights as the biggest achievement in the manned space. But going back to USSR/USA comparison - we aren't even sure if USA is able to repeat them easily (USA can, but with lots of efforts, which modern programs demonstrate), which shows importance of political will. So it looks like there were different "kinds of sport" and participants showed different results in them, and if we assume that only Moon landings matter, then USA is the clear winner. The reality is probably more complex.
Yes China seems to have a very long term perspective with their five year plans that they seem to take very seriously.

Couple that with the treatment China received in the Opium Wars, Rape of Nanking, etc.

I type on computers for a living so take it with a grain of salt. But it seems to me China was on top technologically for thousands of years. Then they suffered humiliations for hundreds of years. And I think they’re done with that.
Diseconomies of Scale
So exactly what type of person made up the majority?
It's only easy if you want to escape everything. If there is any intention to mix escaped and unescaped text, it becomes much more difficult.
What I've found is that building a relationship is like building an orbital spacecraft: there are an infinite number of ways to do this which leads to failure, but very few which leads to success.

Our extant societal memeplex makes it seem like relationships are the default setting, and available to the majority with just a bit of effort. However, this could not be further from the truth in my experience. Very few relationships are successful, and most are in some stage of slow motion RUD. Often, the fallout from a failed relationship is worse than not having been in one in the first place.

There are solutions to this, but they will seem anachronistic to the HN crowd. Turns out that the concept of a marriage is very related to Christmas: it is a religious construct, and as such, cannot be removed from that context. Attempts to do so will more often than not result in immense suffering for all involved.
I only have an rtl-sdr, it can only receive but is good enough for what I need. Also heard good things about hackRF (can tx as well as rx).

rtl-sdr.com has a buying guide: https://www.rtl-sdr.com/
I think it's actually the opposite. Because so many people think they have a gluten allergy, restaurants offering gluten-free options don't feel the need to take it so seriously.

"So what if there's a tiny amount of gluten contamination... it's not like these people are going to die, right? They're probably just on a fad diet."

Diluting the meaning of a medical condition is not a good thing.
> Interesting, I didn't think you'd even recognize my username.

You are right here, in my haste I recognized you for someone else who has been attacking me a lot lately. I apologize.

> The typical American answer to problems: bombs and bullets.

The US is a secondary supporting point, not the main point, which is Afghanistan and its terrorism problem.

> Which is a lie, carelessly slandering the policemen who valiantly risked their lives in the fight against terrorism.

This is an oversimplification rather than a lie. In the context of that tweet, what was referred to was:

1. Sending your military to foreign territory to kill the source of radicalization there.

2. The scale of the effort.

While there have definitely been fighting in Xinjiang, it cannot be compared to the likes of the War on Terror. The former's violance was at least constrained to people who shoot back, while the latter involved the killing pf many innocent people.

While you criticize the comparison with the US here, to completely take the US out of the picture in a description about Xinjiang would not be fair. For one, the US is a contributing factor in the creation of the terrorism problem in Xinjiang. Second, when one talks about counter-terrorism efforts, it only makes sense to compare the pros and cons of different approaches that have already tried. After all, it is a hard problem in which hard choices have to be made; nobody has succeeded in an approach which is completely free of violance or any kind of coercion.

I suppose you could also compare to France, but I don't think it would make sense to skip over the most high-profile example.
Oof. It's good that they've changed their tune for now, but I wouldn't trust that company as far as I could throw it to not get up to more shenanigans in the future.
Plenty of money was spent to try to convince the more gullible segment of the UK populace that their future would be rosy if the UK could go it alone, and a lot of that came from the wealthiest segments of the country. The financial services industry was worried that Frankfurt or even Amsterdam or Paris might take the crown, which for the most part hasn't happened.

And with multi-nationals such as Shell moving to the UK the balance is shifting further away from where it should be, now the UK will act as a de-facto tax shelter in all but name because it can afford to offer these companies great terms, after all, they have nothing to lose.
These forks may be done for security purposes for projects that use source-based build systems so that the depending project doesn't have 3rd party repo dependencies.

As someone whose developed similar GH integrations, getting things right with their API is fairly tricky. What would actually be desirable is public-to-private forks so that the fork-dependency pattern is more enterprise friendly and this kind of confusion is mitigated.
Sounds like VR is the answer!
SNP even just threatening. Haha - you really need to pay more attention to the SNP. You think they been coy on the subject? Perhaps keeping their powder dry?
Exactly if that is the case, it should also include technologies where data ownership lies with the users. After all data itself is a huge resource. One of the biggest reasons corporates could monopolise the platform because as users we only had our own data but no access to others data.

Maybe a consent mechanism to use other's data in privacy safe manner, where anyone can build their analytics models and people can choose which one to follow or choose. Seems like a interesting proposition.
Masks are an undue burden at this point and it's reasonable to oppose them. I'm personally going to choose the state I move to based on opposition to masks, maybe Florida or Texas.
How many were convinced by hackernews sentiment to not buy Bitcoin when it was <$1k or Ethereum <$100?

raises hand
Things break all the time, so errors will happen.

If you look at life as good & evil, you won't solve any conflicts. You should rather focus on "incentives". Correcting bugs and errors take time and other resources, therefore require incentive to prioritize.
If their bots were to stamp Microsoft projects with open source licenses, there would be huge incentive for them to tackle this problem within this sprint, and make sure it never happens again.

This bug profits them, or does not harm them at worst case. Therefore, by drawing attention and applying pressure, we should create the incentive for them to allocate resources to fix it, and make sure it does not repeat.
This is perhaps an equivalent article https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2021/12/21/year-brexit-... from the more pro Brexit side.
This style of straw man argument only serves as a means for _you_ to justify your own perspective. Be careful with these, they are how the extreme fringe (flat earth, anti-vax, etc) get to where they are.

I think you’ll find the vast number of people here do not care, just like they are not salty they didn’t buy a winning lotto ticket.
I'm not trying to be dismissive.

Their are tons of people who really do need medication.

Their are others who shop doctors to get the meds they want.

For example, it's common for kids struggling in college to get an ADHD diagnosis so they can study for longer hours. As far as I'm concerned as long as your adult, ingest whatever you want. But I don't think being unable to study Chem for 12 hours a day is an illness.

Why stop adults from doing what they want.

No one stops you from rock climbing, even though that's also dangerous.
Love to do? No. But I’ve found some things I’m good at that are useful and I don’t seem to get sick of, and after that what seems to matter more is the people you work with.

Ultimately even if you like a job it’s still a job, and the widely promoted notion of passion rarely holds up.
I see it in reverse: the reason some news sites struggle to make money is their belief in a broken business model that's perpetuated by mega-corps like Google. The rules of the game are rigged; house always wins. The only way to win is to not play.

I wouldn't say this "justifies" a service like 12ft.io, but such services are inevitable.
I've been watching Brexit as an outside observer. Curious thing that I noticed: after the Brexit referendum was won by the "leave" side and first months of political confusion in the UK followed, elsewhere in Europe anti-EU parties dropped in popularity among public.

It's like Brexit served the EU by uniting its members.
there used to be many options. But team viewer seems to be the only reliable choice I found.

I feel that team viewer's pricing is a bit expensive for this use case.
Before everything more important, maybe vscode should fix their auto complete. The suggestions are so bad, I'd turn it off before using it for anything serious.
On hn, we should try to engage with peoples ideas, and be careful about attributing motives and dismissing people.

That said, I’ve seen a lot of pro ccp posts in the last few months. If we hypothetically say there are state manipulators on hn becoming active, what is the most mature way to respond to the situation?
No, COVID just made a bad thing even worse.
The Phoenix Sun's partnered with an obscure environmental start up named Footprint, even renamed the arena, the Footprint Center. I wonder if it is a money laundering scheme or maybe the Sun's traded naming rights and promotion for equity.
If you get angry at someone and later realize it was just a misunderstanding, is that "real" anger?
I use program synthesis - cutting edge technology from, I think, the 70s?
Driving on hallucinogens? Whenever I've taken LSD it was quite clear that I couldn't and shouldn't drive. It's not like alcohol, where you think you can drive. With LSD you very clearly have the presence of mind to know you can't.
I’m in the same boat, the path to federalization is a slight bit more clear now.
$SOS token for the largest NFT community, to pay tribute, protect and promote
Aside from the pandemic years, which are outliers, food has been consistently getting drastically cheaper for decades:

https://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/food-expenditure-seri...
I think there are two fundamental issues that need some addressing:

1) Either the decentralized software system can't easily be updated without true consensus - which will make it slow and cumbersome (like bitcoin) or there will be a central authority that can just change the rules at any point - which will make it centralized (like Ethereum Classic vs Ethereum fork). Every web 3.0 related tech that I've peeked at looks to be like the latter - it claims to be decentralized, but is actually controlled by some central authority that is authoring the whole thing.

2) Governments aren't going to stop enforcing laws just because the activity moves onto a blockchain. Governments will most likely be slow to react, sure - but ultimately all these decentralized encrypted bits flow through a cable that the government can just cut. Wireless signals aren't an answer either, because the signal can be located and the antenna owner introduced to a wrench. A lot of web 3.0 promises that I've seen seem to either implicitly or even explicitly promise freedom from government policy, which I think is naive at best.
This is a very cool description! Hits to the point
>I hope that physicist Dennis Whyte was being misquoted here.

Why? Because quantum leaps are small? The metaphor is not comparing it to the size of the quantum leap; the metaphor is that quantum leaps are discontinuous.
Yeah of course it's amazing if someone else is paying for it ;)

I wonder if it's just imagining people are doing it because of social media.

One can pay a few hundred to just do a 15 minute photo shoot pretending you're riding big. Which is kind of sad.
I don't think you will ever hear people in politics express the sentiment that they got something wrong. Their successors might.

Remainers can't really regret their choice anyway.
Ask HN: How hard is it to find a home Covid test kit in your city/country?
Finding a home test kit has been basically impossible in the bay area this last week, which is very frustrating. Curious to understand how widespread this experience is, and how much it's an issue of unusually high local demand vs the US dropping the ball.
Personally i would say no. I think the lack of that in HN is part of its recipe for success. A file area would be fine, but not inline.
Love Ruby. Personal language of choice. People keep predicting its death, but it just keeps getting better and better!
I disagree that 2) is debatable. You can compare the GDP numbers from the rest of the EU and UK after the referendum. The difference is clear.
C++ has so much language bloat I avoid it for that reason alone as working with other people's C++ code is such a pain (most of the time, not always). C is more verbose in some ways but doesn't suffer all that much from bloat, which makes it more appealing, to me anyway.
+1

This is the peril of the imaginary "corporation" identity. People expect a company to be one coherent and consistent entity, but although a company can be managed well, establish culture and processes, and progress towards cohesion, it can never become as coherent as one person. And a person is not that coherent in the first place.

I am sure I subconsciously make the same mistake when I think about other companies. But I am making conscious effort to get better, take a more forgiving view on the humankind and give people as well as corporations chance to try again and be a better version of themselves, build the mental capability to remember that corporations are comprised of real people, and people make mistakes, and reasonable people who make up the majority of the population are constantly seeking (just struggling) to be better versions of themselves.
My grandmother is hospitalized at home after a huge stroke.

Her nurse just left our house for the second time of this Christmas Day for taking care of her while we were in family.

Thanks to his work, I was able to spend Christmas with my family, including my grandmother.

That’s some badass important job.
What do you do for fun? Any hobbies?
What an awesome and fascinating thing you're doing! Could you possibly explain at a high level what you had to do to start the ISP and make it accessible in these areas?
This is an exemplary specimen of spin. The original research report considers many different sources of PM2.5 pollution and their contribution to additional deaths. The abstract then underline fossil fuel deaths as key finding, noting that they contribute ~27% of total deaths from PM2.5 pollution. The Arstechnica article just mentions fossil fuels and completely ignores the rest.

If anybody wonders, deaths attributed to burning biofuels (wood) are ~20% of total deaths (~800k), remaining are non-fuel sources (dust, fires, ...).
I am finding it hard to accept that it is an honest mistake.

From my personal experience, every software engineer that works in a company of this scale is obligated to take a training course on software licensing and understand the differences, and the "dos and don'ts".

If Microsoft doesn't have such a program in place then that's a big problem and should expect harsh criticisms when such events take place and if they do then it probably needs to be revised because it doesn't seem adequate.

On the other hand, outside the context of MS, if a software engineer doesn't feel they are doing something dirty as they are replacing the license or the thought of I might get in trouble with legal doing that doesn't cross their mind, then they probably shouldn't be allowed to be at the front line taking actions that represents the company's name.
There is not an attitude for the whole thread. Understandably you feel defensive but there is no need to.

If you care about this issue, try to get it fixed within your company and move on.
Actually there is. When my daughters were on the Airgun 10 meter team (recent national champs), I spent some time investigating how to create a low-cost SCATT system using a relatively inexpensive laser with 3D-printed mount, USB connected cameras, and OpenCV. Something kids could use in a hallway at home vs. the range. The solution was very feasible as I got to the point of mocking it up and testing it. Daughters decided to drop shooting, and other side-dev projects took over. But you sound like you might love doing this. Cheers.
Wrong. The term “Web 2.0” was coined back in 1999.
No. I am not in the program nor requested access.

This is my last reply in this subthread; feel free to assume the same answer for all questions along the same line.

I also invite you to review the HN comment guidelines:
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
What a coincidence, I just started learning a bit of Ruby with an interpreter I'm writing a couple of nights ago.

I will take the opportunity to ask; does anyone have a good introduction to creating Ruby (not Rails) projects? I'm a bit confused between rake, bundle, testing frameworks, how to debug a program or structure a project and I can't seem to find a good up to date resource on that.
Git as a protocol for this brilliant. I don’t know it well enough to know what kind of client side moderation policy enforcement might be viable, or curation tools, but very, very compelling idea.
Thanks. For the curious: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious_views_of_Isaac_Newto...
We'll see. For now no referendum or the intention to hold one has been announced, though that could change rapidly.
Because it's a very stupid mistake. I have a hard time believing someone developed a bot to deal with repo normalisation on GitHub that doesn't know how GitHub functions, what forks are, and that you can't just change the LICENSE with a file of your own. I don't necessarily think it was done on purpose to steal copyrighted content ( that'd be too stupid even for Microsoft), but it's a weird mistake to make.
how is that different that the Scots voting to leave the UK rather than remain part of the union? None of this is, or has to be logical. When I lived in Scotland I knew people who voted both for and against independence from the UK. Now, all of those people are pro-independence; and strongly in favor of an independent Scotland joining the EU. That might perhaps be optimistic - I don't know if the rest of the EU can convince a right-wing Spanish government to let a separatist Scotland in.

Also, I think the idea that all that matters is the economy is glib nonsense. Whether people should vote with their emotions matters little, when they in fact do vote with their hearts. My own feelings on Scottish independence aside, I wonder if the Scottish Nationalists would have had more success in the last referendum if instead of making an (IMO rather weak) economic argument, they had stuck with the more emotional case for independence. "Yes, voting for separation from the UK will make us poorer for a time, but it'll be worth it to <sound of trumpets> be free."

I am from a place that impoverished itself for most of a century via independence, but I don't think many of us would vote to back with our old imperial masters now.
>> known as ITER, which the United States and other countries are building in southern France to generate 10 times more power than it took to generate the fusion reaction.

ITER is a physics experiment, not dissimilar to the LHC. It is not going to generate "power" but energy. The goal is to provide a steady fusion reaction from which to then develop potential technologies to turn that energy into usable electricity. ITER is not a powerplant. It is a scientific reactor.

https://www.iter.org/proj/inafewlines

>> ITER will be the first fusion device to produce net energy. ITER will be the first fusion device to maintain fusion for long periods of time. And ITER will be the first fusion device to test the integrated technologies, materials, and physics regimes necessary for the commercial production of fusion-based electricity.
I wonder how many it saves
You predict something's (or someone's) death, you better kill it on the spot :).
Meshcentral, self-hosted.
Merry Christmas to you fellow HN stranger <3
To the left, right :)
But if you are following unbiased analyses, say from foreign financial publications, they do agree on economic downside of Brexit.
> If people feel alone, it's because they would like to be around others, but can't.

Partly. People may genuinely want to be alone, but the culture spewed by the media says that everyone is social and happy and warm and fuzzy this time of the year, like, they must be, to the point where it's wrong not to be. Hollywood-style culture has done many numbers on society, this is one of them.
“Web 3” is just a giant VC-funded pyramid scheme.