skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And this is why it is a societal issue.

Individuals and companies will do what makes sense for their bottom line in the short-term, even if it is lazy or even self-defeating in the long-term.

But if it is bad for society, then it's a societal issue and requires society to intervene.
The Mars Opportunity rover was planned to last only 92 days but lasted about 5200 (~14 years). I think many NASA programs have short expected timelines and then hopefully outlast them.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opportunity_(rover)
The number is incalcuable, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13861074 for some context on the fractal horror that is Epic EMR.
> Though I do not like monopolies, how did Google reach this position?

Someone has probably written a book on this. There were a lot of factors that lead to Google gaining dominance.

Some of the highlights:

1 - Microsoft let IE6 languish after capturing the market. This was strategic because they felt the Web threatened their dominance on the desktop.

2 - Mozilla attacked IE6 by promoting standards compliance and worked to clearly document web standards and compliance.

3 - Mozilla attacked IE6 by launching Firefox (formerly Phoenix) and focusing standards compliance.

4 - Apple introduced a platform (iPhone) that was rapidly adopted and incompatible with IE6, necessitating change

5 - Google saw Mozilla Firefox clawing back 25% market share from IE6

6 - Google leveraged the browser engine in Safari (the iPhone browser) to launch their own browser with a focus on performance.

7 - Google put ads for Chrome on Google Search which basically put them in Firefox and on all platforms.
> They both have lot’s of rounded edges but somehow they are very easy to tell apart as are every brand of hyper car on the market.

Which is very relevant in this case as in the court Samsung's lawyer couldn't tell iPad and Galaxy Tab apart from 10 feet away: https://appleinsider.com/articles/11/10/14/samsung_lawyer_co...
You're making assumptions and taking the conversation in a pedantic direction.

I am aware of the nature of natural selection and how it builds complexity over time through various selection pressures not all of which are constantly aligned with end result. And although wings were initially little nubs not "designed" for flying you could say that wings are they are now are "designed" for flying.

"Design" and "purpose" as I've said many times throughout this thread is a word that flows better. It is a linguistic choice and you are taking the argument in a direction thinking I don't understand some trivial point about natural selection.
Ask HN: Why are fiction books generallly written by a single individual?
Wouldn't a group of people be more apt to produce a better quality plot? Similar to script writers for fictional series.
I'm just a space nerd, all the below is conjecture.

Lots of talk about refueling even with the 20 year lifespan, from what I've gathered having watched a lot of the NASA conferences and livestreams this past year, with this amount of operational fuel capacity the problem in 20 years will be on operational lifetime of wear components, not just the fuel.

The reaction wheels are _large_ moving parts on the JWST. The cryocooler for the MIRI is a very finely calibrated moving part. It's a closed system, but still relies on pumps and electronics. After 2 decades of operation it's very likely that these will be experiencing some issues.

While in 2 decades it might be feasible to refuel the JWST, it seems very unlikely it'd be worth it given the operational wear of every other component. Had we used too much fuel to correct the course to get where we are the math may have been very different. Seems to me that we're fortunate that we can instead dedicate resources to the next-gen observatories!
>Besides I have free and open source...

Waiting for the obligatory Dropbox comment here.
I think the vinyl shortage is contributing a lot to this. Right now if you want a physical copy that's not a CD or by a major act (Taylor Swift and Ed Sheeran both released vinyl albums that supposedly took up the majority of the worlds music vinyl production), you're stuck with tapes. And very few people seem to want CDs.

I remember only a couple years ago that tapes were the dirt cheap option of getting something physical. At least by me it still is if you're buying in person; most of the punk bands and electronic artists are just recording over old tapes they've found so you can buy em for five to ten bucks a pop at the show.
I assume it's pronounced gyoonicorn (just unicorn with a g in front) rather than gun-icorn?
.. and 99% of those probably spend 100% of their time trying to sit utterly still in their orbit, staring down at Earth, maybe twitching around to point a bit if they're doing spy work.

JWST pivots the entire spacecraft to point the 6 meter mirror. I'm sure they've optimized the consumables on the schedule, but it simply 'costs resources' to do this sort of work. I assure you there are gruellingly dense and optimized observations plans afoot.

Compare to e.g. the very successful Herschel Space Observatory -- it too went out to L2(-ish), did everything it was meant to do in its three year mission, and managed to extend to four before (drum roll) running out of fuel, this time for cooling. JSWT solves this cooling issue by some incredibly funky mechanical resonance cooling. Herschel "only" cost about $1 billion, and it will be interesting to compare the science results.
Big bang theory is a stupid show that happens to be about smart people. I wouldn't dig into the details.
Ok this is a _fascinating_ comment. (thanks for the discussion as always by the way!)

Is there a link between the market for security engineering talent and the leverage that the security engineers have within their organizations? Are you seeing anecdotes play out in the industry that inspire hope that the balance of power in business decisions is shifting toward the engineers?
>This is so Italy it hurts

That's not really Italy. Peak Italy would be police raiding journalists with actually good reasons because published evidence was obtained illegally.
Indeed, wiretapped evidence routinely get published in breach of the law.
Opiate addiction results in a higher concentration of opiate receptors on many cell surfaces. Possible down-regulation of endogenous endorphin production may also occur, as I recall. The result of removing the exogenous opiates is thus a very painful experience as the endorphin/receptor ratio is destabilized. This also seems to play a role in alcohol addiction as alcohol use has opiate-like co-effects[1]

[1] https://pubs.niaaa.nih.gov/publications/arh313/185-195.htm

Calling this 'dependency' instead of 'addiction' seems like a semantics game. A lot of other behaviors seem to involve dopamine rewards, but in those case withdrawal does seem to be much less of a physical phenomenon. However I'd definitely argue that addiction is a biochemical phenomenon. Whether or not it is 'compulsive' - well, people have free will and some people just want that little boost, even if it means they get led around by the nose by advertisers and opinion influencers and so on. A bit of self-awareness is a good antidote.

Some author - William Burroughs? said something like, "Heroin is the ultimate capitalist product - the consumer will crawl through a sewer of broken glass just for the opportunity to buy". That's why consumer culture promotes addiction in all spheres of life.
The Feds balance sheet has doubled since the start of the pandemic
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/WALCL

These conversations are always pointless though. The economy is so high dimensional that any conversation about it is going to be missing most of what is actually happening.
It's possible that the economy in aggregate is still growing, but is increasingly dominated by a smaller number of sectors. Construction, software, and healthcare are probably booming, to an extent that the entire economy still grows even if travel, hospitality, retail, and a whole lot else is contracting.
Then the brownout had its desired effect.

Using unauthenticated transports for code is borderline malicious.
Every country and company on the planet should of course assume the worst - until free and independent media is free to report on it.

Are Intel execs given objective reports by independent journalists who are given access to all areas and are free to write an report as they want on it? Until then, Intel execs should assume that any rumor of wrongdoing in the province is true. It's as simple as that.

One simply doesn't get the benefit of "no wrongdoing until proven" without a free media.
Random question: could you suggest some good Italian journalism to follow? Right now I just follow Repubblica and a handful of technology journalists I've found through reading articles there.

I'm a security researcher and am learning Italian with the goal of being able to speak at a conference there in the next year or two. As my language skills improve I've been trying to find some good cybersecurity and long form reporting as well as Instagram/Twitter users to follow to force Italian into my daily life and hopefully begin picking up technical jargon and colloquialisms. Anything you could point to would be greatly appreciated -- especially if there is an Italian equivalent of HN.
I agree with your risk assessment, but I have to say that given the choice between a climate apocalypse and a nuclear power buildout, I would choose the latter.
They have quote-unquote "Automatic Trueplay™" for the mobile speakers (Move and Roam), which they say "automatically re-tunes as you play new content and bring your Sonos product to different locations."

https://support.sonos.com/s/article/3569?language=en_US
Speaking only from my pre-Omicron experience, even mild breakthrough COVID was no joke. I spent a month extremely tired, was prescribed a steroid inhaler and only now feel about 95% back to normal (about a month later).

Choice 2 is valid, yes, but unless Omicron is much, much more mild for most people I wouldn't make that choice for myself.

Luckily I got an official PCR test confirming positivity at the very end of my COVID journey so I can take advantage of that horrible month.
Thanks for sharing this! What external resources did you find most useful?
JWST will not produce products, only data. In the 10-20 years it will operate, it will ingest enough data for tens of thousands of scientists over hundreds of years to analyze.
That's fine but China's ultimately shooting themselves in the foot. "If they're not talking about you to your face, they're talking twice as much behind your back". No one is vacationing to China, no one is immigrating to China, no one willingly invests in China when alternatives are present. They're only going to prosper until they can no longer bully the world around economically and then they'll be post-Soviet Russia 2.0.
Watch Steve Jobs's product announcements over his 30-year-long career
Aye, you can send SMS messages through the Signal app itself.

To do so, you have to go into your default apps, set the default messaging app to Signal (factory default is Messages for Pixel devices, likely whatever Samsung uses for Samsung devices). I just checked to see if there were any extra settings you have to enable in the Signal app, but it doesn't appear to be so. If a user uses both SMS or encrypted chat, you can long press the send button and decide between which it will use.

Do note, that any previous messages sent via SMS from other apps won't show up in Signal for message history. Likewise the same if/when you switch to another SMS app.
I'd be surprised if other NASA programs weren't nearly as long. Maybe not that long, but heck, I've heard to design a new car at a major car company normally takes 6 years or so, I would imagine a brand new type of one-off space project may take at least 10.
They manipulate the search result DOM. uBlacklist is the one I use and it'll manipulate the search result page telling you when something has been blocked, allows you to unlbock that site, etc.
There is an uptick in carjackings in my city. The data for Philadelphia is >700 in 2021 which is nearly double or more of previous years. As you say, do not buy into moral panic, but do not minimize the very real damage this is doing to cities. Getting held up in your car with a gun is not warming up your car.

This is not as many newcomers like to say "just life in the city", it is a big change from the 2010s.

Many people are getting cameras at their houses because it makes insurance payouts easier when something goes wrong. Otherwise you end up on the legal treadmill to get back to where you were.

Here's my anecdata: neighbor from my block got his car stolen, joy ride until suspension broke, thieves totaled the inside by cooking drugs inside it. Neighbor gets 8k for his car from insurance (Honda CRV 2010sish). Now has to deal with current market on cars, ends up going new getting Mazda CX off a boat because no cars on the lot. These guys are a professor and nurse, so this put a good dent in their income.

One other fun data point, is now carjackings are turning into shootings as people in the city don't expect police to do anything so there is an uptick in concealed carry for ride share drivers and delivery people.

The box in tactic has only been seen in a couple instances here in Philadelphia. The case I saw (in the neighborhood next to mine) they rear ended the guy, and when they got out to talk/exchange info passenger popped out and pulled a gun on the driver. The driver was armed, as they got into his car he shot the dude driving and then shot the other car's driver. Total mayhem. Cops thought he was the carjacker until witnesses told the story and showed camera evidence.

I'm not advocating for any particular solution or outcome, but that is the weather pattern in Philadelphia.
I think the nature of your startup also plays a role with it. Many SaaS propositions do not even target the "enterprise" customer and never have to deal with CIOs and CISOs. What is the nature of your startup that you want to (commendable in my opinion) immediately address these features?
One of the best proposals I've seen for debris removal is to launch a cannister which will release a foam material, creating a very large (100s of meters) but very lightweight block. You launch it in a highly eccentric orbit that will decay relatively quickly and predictably. As it is orbiting small pieces of debris will collide with it and get lodged inside, while larger pieces of debris may go through but lose much of their velocity causing them to drop to lower, more quickly decaying orbits. The big block of foam is both easily trackable, making it easy for satellites to avoid, and has much higher drag than the small debris particles meaning its orbit will decay much faster. When it eventually re-enters the atmosphere it burns up harmlessly. Cannisters could be launched as dedicated payloads, but it would likely be more economical to launch them as secondary payloads on normally scheduled launches.

The system could be entirely passive, just letting orbital mechanics sweep up a given orbit, but you could go further. A foam could be chosen such that a ground based laser could ablate some of the material which would work like a rocket thruster, allowing the foam block to be maneuvered and prolonging its time in orbit if desired. The ground based laser (or perhaps an array of such lasers for more flexibility) would need to be powerful, but since it doesn't need to go into space the construction, operation, and maintenance costs can be relatively low and it can be reused for many years.

The main challenge of such a proposal is that the foam must be carefully chosen such that both impacts, radiation, and thermal cycling don't cause it to deteriorate and break up into smaller pieces, as this would be simply adding to the debris problem. Another challenge will be getting the foam to deploy reliably in the correct shape. One of the more interesting solutions to both problems is to actually use a foam which is cured by solar UV radiation, so the canister releases a fluid that forms a sphere due to fluid forces and only the surface is completely solid. As the surface gets damaged by impacts, newly exposed interior material fills in gaps and then crosslinks as it is exposed to UV light, healing the damage.
From the Wikipedia page of the Large Hadron Collider

"After some years of running, any particle physics experiment typically begins to suffer from diminishing returns: as the key results reachable by the device begin to be completed, later years of operation discover proportionately less than earlier years"

Perhaps the same applies to space telescopes too?
Especially in tennis where tournaments are designed to be 'open', that is semi-professional and allowing for amateur entrants. If he were professionally affiliated with a particular country, that might be an extenuating circumstance.

But as he is a private citizen seeking glory in AU, it's inappropriate to make an exception in this case.
> I just thought it might be a helpful PSA for people to keep in mind and maybe remember if something goes wrong

Oh, it was - I'm sure there's a lot of people who are being bitten by this, and nothing I said above should be seen as saying that your post was not useful. :)
Apple to allow alternative payment system for first time in S. Korea
The initial estimate turned out to be wrong. I hand wave that sort of thing away every day.
A Poor Indie's Journey to Developing and Running a Multiplayer Game
I'm eager to hear any good advice.

My best idea is to hire a full-time librarian and/or tech writer. In short, it's not gonna happen at all unless it's someone's full-time job to make it awesome. Needless to say I have not been able to convince any employer to try this.
Is his lecture any good in your opinion? I scrubbed through several and all I got is him gushing vaguely about some actual ML researchers and stumbling over his own technical slides. What am I missing that this is somehow good enough for MIT?
Sales can't be for devices that you don't own. Period. If you want to sell services that require specific hardware that you don't want the person to change to their will then make it clear that the device is loaned.
This is some Chinese propaganda-esque whataboutism. It's one of the oldest propaganda plays in the book.

https://globalvoices.org/2021/08/19/the-chinese-government-d...
It is not. Merely that there is no "sale of goods" component if the buyer doesn't end up owning the goods, where I define ownership as meaning that there aren't contractual restrictions on what the owner can do with them. This might mean that it's entirely a service by this definition.
With SpaceX Starship the space industry is going to be very different in 20 years time. Launching new telescopes, even larger ones, will be much easer.

Attempts to refuel will be completely unneeded.

Edit:

This seems to be a controversial opinion (based on down votes). To clarify, my expectation is that if launch costs have come down as much as people suggest, launching a new and improved (potentially significantly larger) space telescope would be a better use of funds than a complicated and risky refuelling mission. There will be many lessons learnt from JWST that by then there will be an appetite for something new.

My hope also is that if the cost to launch has come down so would the development costs of any new satellites, leading to reduced costs for science missions.
Not true mate. Have setup plenty of machines with this as the choice and have also seen others running with ENG IN as the layout in their off-the-shelf laptops.
DNSSEC and JWT are far more important security issues than the SSO tax; like, it's not even close. None of these are societal issues though; "things that annoy me" are not per se societal issues. "How much a service costs to use properly" simply isn't a societal issue. Just pay what they expect you to pay and move on. Or don't, and don't use the service. I don't see what's complicated about this.
Speaking as someone who worked for an ISP and looked after our DNS and domain name registration infrastructure (amongst many other things) lots of folks and for all sorts of different reasons. It's not as uncommon as you might think. And the extra diagnostic steps described in that article (or similar) were daily drivers when debugging customer support issues related to DNS.
Airpods and clones thereof?
https://web.archive.org/web/20220111161216/https://www.thegu...
Weird nobody mentioned yet, JWST is at L2 (permanently shielded from sun by earth). L2 is not a stable and need correction burns to stay there that's the reason for life time of 20 years.

Only stable - self correcting - are L4 and L5 points .

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lagrange_point
Why is "efficient" defined as consuming natural resources to produce children?

Why is that a measure of societal success?

Who gets to determine that this is a rubric that should even be considered?

Seems simplistic in the extreme. I think enlightenment thinking and the concurrent non-successionist/non-miraculous/cessationist protestant reformation that drove the new world clearly overlap heavily in the venn diagram of ideology. Are modern atheists core positions (epistemologically "different" "new atheism" fizzled quite quickly) not of the same ilk as our historical humanist/agnostic/deist societies?
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/10/say-goodby...

Here's an Atlantic article about the phenomenon from over 2 years ago now. My take is that rich people have too much money and spend it chasing nonsense and VCs who are happy to take a cut of the money that gets burned up in the process.

I felt much the same way about MoviePass while it lasted.

I suppose the case you could make is that you could envision autonomous vehicles stocked with inventory as a sort of rolling warehouse on public roads that deliver on demand, but it's hard to see the technology getting there in the near future.
That's exactly what has puzzled me for a long time: a language with HTML templating as unique selling point needs a templating "engine" after all?

smarty.net has a pamphlet up there where pros/cons (but actually only pros) are discussed [1]. Failing to understand that "<?php ...>" syntax is a SGML processing instruction with well-defined ways to embed into a hosting markup language like HTML, they go even so far as to say

> Another issue with PHP tags is that they share the <> characters of HTML tags. In the application code this isn't an issue, but mixed with HTML, <?php ?> tags are a maddening process to tell them apart from the HTML tags. This also blurs the line between application and presentation separation since any PHP logic can be injected into a template.

Yeah no, now you need new escaping syntax if you ever wanted to have verbatim {$whatever} in your HTML.

Notably missing is a discussion about HTML-aware, injection-free templating such as for preventing {$bla} expanding into <script>alert('Pwnd')</script> when sourced from user input, which is what SGML and other HTML-aware template engines can do, and which in the name of everything that's holy should've been implemented in PHP 2 to save the web from becoming a botnet.

[1]: https://www.smarty.net/syntax_comparison
At some point a dog whistle is just a whistle though. Every free speech advocate that defends some odious speech is not endorsing that speech.
Hey, I keep bouncing between mac and windows, where/how do you store credentials/tokens? I feel like I've got passwords now that I can't memorize and have to save as text somewhere. I'm putting sensitive stuff in a secrets folder with a corresponding gitignore entry, but I feel like there has got to be some well understood way to handle this?
windfarms need someone to check any migrating birds aren't near and someone to man the control room (can and is job shared with other windfarms).

So one and a tiny bit people. Plus occasional inspections i suppose.