skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>the absolute statement that refueling will be completely unneeded.

>It's fair to say that over two decades, additional capabilities will exist.

Capability doesn't create need, in either a technical or economic/resources sense.

Too many people are interpreting "unneeded" as: "a satisfactory amount of fuel for a long-enough lifespan, but more would be better"...

When it really means: "fuel is no longer the most likely controlling/ limiting factor as to what ultimately triggers the end of webb's usable/useful lifespan".

Even if fuel ends up being the actual limiting factor, no ability to extend the (likely) lifespan of ALL the other critical components makes refueling a high-risk, high-cost, low-return venture.
„Whenever I think a country has rules that are tyranny it is my duty to go there“ is a weird take
> could you suggest some good Italian journalism to follow

Treccani, at treccani.it

Not perfect content wise, nor technically - missing RSS. Nonetheless, in general involving vetted, non "random" (lacking quality, as seems to be typical) writers.

> Right now I just follow Repbl

I had the misfortune to stumble into that disgrace on or around 3 Mar 2020, where during a search engine generic search a title from that undead was returned, and it read: "Coronavirus: seven regions hit, 27 million italians". Read the title, re-read the date. See what you get from that. Careful with your sources, because in some countries journalism is well below ground level, and digging.
Well, I certainly hope you're not giving money to that fascist troll in 2022.
I don't see him being treated as a pariah on here. He is being judged by the many things he does which as times goes on will vary more and more. Some will attract praise and some will attract scorn.

I would bet big that most people on here have a fairly balanced opinion of him that roughly would look like:

- Almost single handedly accelerated the electrification of cars by a couple of decades

- Together with many amazing engineers, scientists and more, led to huge reductions in launch costs and increased frequency of launches

- He acts carelessly online with respect to the law around securities

- He acts carelessly online when he wants to insult someone

- He doesn't really care much about light pollution that affects astronomers

- Overhypes many of his ideas and doesn't recognise any criticism of his failures

- Has an implausible idea that we can colonise Mars this century

I am both impressed by the man and have a few misgivings. Like any human being he is multifaceted.
This is one reason I'm very excited by Fuchsia - it should enable far longer usable lifetimes for devices with the kernel and drivers being updatable separately.

If ChromeOS moved to Fuchsia I don't think we'd see stuck stale installs like this very much.
Yet people who pay TSA a couple hundred bucks for PreCheck, and the elderly, don't take off their shoes. Like a potential shoe bomber can't figure it out. More theater and safetyism.
> Do you think Apple or Google, when making the decisions on browser upgrade-ability, anticipated javascript changes that would break common sites and force users to buy new hardware

Yes, they should, because these are the same people doing both
For me personally, no. But I think the threeboard firmware is small enough right now that it's very readable and understandable, so it could make a good starting point to fork and adapt to different boards!
It gets worse. Even if you could download an old version of Firefox and Chrome to your iOS device, they'd have the same problem as Safari, because Apple bans third party browser engines. Firefox and Chrome for iOS are essentially wrappers on a Safari core.
> Whose fault is it if the tournament didn't put a process together that worked properly with the government?

Djokovic may have a claim against the Australian Open for wasting time and causing inconvenience.

That doesn't mean Canberra must grant him a visa. And it is in no way an excuse for submitting falsified documents (if he did that, which is far from proven) to Canberra and her courts.
Note the word competent.. Also, insurance companies will often have opinions on what tests were valid and might reject paying for tests. So if a DB admin spins up a cluster to debug his hunch of a SQL Compiler issue, that bill will be paid by the customer and not the insurance and might bankrupt the customer..
I had an apt with a cardiologist where he literally read a standard template of care and when I tried to see if he is interested diving deeper into inflammation causes, tests and ways to avoid the standard medications which only deal with symptoms he was least interested as it all dealt with metabolic issues and not the heart per se.. the system is run to see how can a patient be billed and who owns the organ. Insurance companies have swim lanes and medical practitioners are educated and trained to remain in those swim lanes.. as long as things are kept simple for prescribed cures and billing, the gravy train continues.. it not in their best interest to solve the problem. Have you ever been to a annual physical where god forbid you discuss issues that are not part of the normal annual health checkup? You will actually be asked to schedule a separate appointment as the billing for that is separate..
A lot of "functional medicine" happens outside of insurance payment coverage.
Some more interesting things to follow:
https://cholesterolcode.com/
https://cynthialimd.com/faqs/
Because of both founder effects and potentially people taking earlier containment actions, I’m unsure that’s a realistic measure.

It’s like how people said Y2K was just a conspiracy theory because most systems kept running — without realizing the early warnings and preparations is the reason Y2K wasn’t a civilizational disruption.
Article answer to your headline question:

"It's around 20 years of propellant, roughly speaking,” though he added that it’s a preliminary estimate.

There are likely many factors that influence propellant usage which are unknowable - for example, photon pressure from the sun, which can vary over time in an unpredictable way.
See that orange slice of the pie chart?

When a huge chunk of the productive people are dead the ones who aren't have much more leverage to push back on the usurious mill fee, market fee, ferry/bridge fee, etc. etc. etc. and suddenly your average peasant (farmer) suddenly has a lot smaller cut of their productivity being taken by the local lords and whatnot. That frees them to farm slightly less and do all sorts of other productive things (raise animals, barter labor with each other, etc, etc) more and increase their standard of living.
> i just don't like that the said company test their stuff in a middle of a natural reservation

I guess you must really hate NASA then.

> Visitors to Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex are often surprised to discover that they are just as likely to be greeted by an alligator or dolphin. This is because Kennedy Space Center sits in the middle of the Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge adjacent to Canaveral National Seashore, one of the largest and most diverse wildlife preserves in Florida. In fact, the refuge supports one of the highest numbers of threatened and endangered species anywhere in the nation.

https://www.kennedyspacecenter.com/blog/07/the-wild-side-of-...
Well, I guess I (and many others) will continue to rely on a source that pretty accurately represents reality vs completely discounting it because someone doesn’t like hearing uncomfortable truth, hand waves and screeches “racism”.

The source you posted is not well researched, balanced, and does not at all appear credible. Indeed, if you would like a glimpse into the author's political world view, you can check the below link to his podcast where he states: "...actual Nazis are increasingly hard to differentiate from mainstream conservatives." So...yea.

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/unbalanced-mn-logan-ca...
Electron is a lot more feature-complete and mature, and that's what should be used for any serious projects indeed :-)

Window.js is a subset; it doesn't include the DOM nor the CSS APIs, nor a lot of web APIs.

Window.js is a tool I wish I had for exploratory 2D (and 3D) programming, without having to install multiple tools, SDKs and runtimes, and without the restrictions that web pages have when it comes to desktop applications. I wanted something like Processing but with more control, or like <canvas> but without all the browser cruft around it, and in a native window.

I think it could be a very useful tool to learn WebGL via webglfundamental.org, for example, and having something that runs on the desktop quickly.

A goal of Window.js is to eventually run Processing (p5.js), Pixi.js, Phaser and Threejs programs, as long as they don't use the DOM too much.
> My conclusion: the onus is on the device manufacturers to not arbitrarily restrict their users. Jim Nielsen's mom's iPad is perfectly capable of opening that website, but its manufacturers are limiting it artificially.

No, it's not. Firefox and Chrome on iOS both use the operating system's Safari engine. (I mean, yeah, the hardware would support running a more recent browser engine, so your point still holds.)
What I've done in the past is:

Column 1 is the creation timestamp

Column 2 is the modification timestamp

On read, you update if the creation timestamp exists but the modification timestamp is later, otherwise you insert. Your app(s) can do a simple file append for writes. You even have the full version history at every point in time.

I did a lot of looking but didn't find a command-line tool that automated this process. It works fine for small projects of e.g. 100,000 records. Wouldn't work well for things like a notes app, because you'd be storing every modification as a new entry.
> You think it is more likely the test center lost its internet connection for multiple days than that Djokovic lied?

No never wrote anything like that.

I just wrote that the date in the system is from when the information was put in the system, and that there are reasons why it is allowed to put information into a system about an older test.

I didn't say that I think it's likely that it had been the case in this case.

The internet connection is just an random example(1). Someone more involved with the process could probably list many other reasons such a thing can happen.

It just means that it's just an hint that something unusual happened but not at all a prove that the test was made later.

It even less means that anyone from the operators of the system recording the tests was involved, it's enough for a single laboratory which can evaluate tests to enter a fake result, there are probably tens or even hundreds of such laboratories in most EU countries.

There are even chances that the manipulation was quite different then what it seems to be, like the positive test has been made at that point in time, but it was intentionally hold back from being put into the system, because the person wanted to be able to lie about not having had covid. Now hat is clearly a unlikely thing. But possible.

Anyway the point is that "datum of recording" != "datum of test" is on itself not _that_ unusual in general. But if it happens in this specific context with another test being made shortly after before the first tests result was put into the system etc. it is _very_ suspicious.
Yeah the recent "omg webpack is so lame, just use es modules", etc puts us back to having to worry about browser differences, complaining about them not updating, etc.
EDIT: In general there actually are laws against killing them. Sparta declared war on the Helots about every year, because killing just like that, openly, for no reason, just raw murder, was just too gross. Just the level of cruelty. Even in the American South there were laws that said if a master just can't get a slave to submit, he's tried everything (I can't get an authoritative quote on this, what I'm giving you is the desert island version[1]), then in that case, the master can kill them. But I think it doesn't say kill, it's some other word. Of course, that's the law, the reality is different, the limit is far too low but there is a limit. Super basic stuff and difficult to prove, but for another example masters couldn't practice Satanism with their slaves, we're talking like egregiously egregious stuff. Which does occasionally happen.

[1] The desert island version of a text is what you remember without being able to search for it online, or review your notes, nothing. Like if it were you and I, dear reader, on a desert island, the Bible is what we remember, that's it.
That’s because the platonic ideal for a tablet is basically a thin plate of glass with rounded corners.

Hell, even my kindle basically looks like this. My TV looks like this except for the rounded corners (which it doesn’t need because it’s not intended to be held).
Mercury has been an amazing service for our bootstrapped startup. The virtual debit cards have been extremely useful, the website and app are fast and just work, and the founder is very accessible on Twitter. Highly recommend if you just want a simple bank that works
I think his point is that SSH keys are the hassle over just entering a password.
They really ought to be a standard, language-agnostic way for querying nested config file formats with identifiers by now. For all the flak XML gets, at least it has XPath. YAML has YAML Path, but it's only supported by a single Python lib.
Unhhh, fit and leakage matter a lot for N95 too.
If he committed fraud, they could arrest him and charge him criminally.
> I don't follow the reasoning here. Why does the onus lie on the web developer and not on Google or Apple?

Because you can easily support newer JS features in older browsers with Babel? https://babeljs.io/docs/en/index.html. 8-14% of your users probably have something that will not work with the latest-greatest JS features it is your choice as a developer to not support them.
Of course, belief in "God" also requires the belief in the supernatural and random acts of magic. In other words, the opposite of science and rationality. Belief in "God"/Jesus Christ (as a supernatural being) is not "objective", in itself, since there isn't any empirical evidence (funny how the claims of witnessing supernatural events have steadily declined as the ability to easily capture and widely share information has increased).
The dev made a mistake by having a Javascript error totally break the site. Websites should still be functional (even if a bit inconvenient) without Javascript.
Every time a new version of Firefox comes out I try it on my XPS 13 to see if two finger scroll & pan and pinch to zoom still feel janky and weird compared to every other app on my computer.

Yup, still weird. Still can only scroll either horizontally or vertically but not both at the same time. Pinching feels weirdly linear and zooming out still doesn't use the mouse cursor position as a central point but just zooms from the center.

It's 2022, why doesn't Firefox just behave like every other application on my computer with scroll and pinch?
The timeline doesn't look good for him regardless of which theory is correct: https://www.bbc.com/news/59939122
There are pretty recognizable layers actually, and groupings of neurons that resemble 'cells' in the sense that they have recognizable inputs and recognizable outputs, and a large degree of interconnectivity.

What you are talking about sounds like deep learning. What I'm talking about is the hardware. Your tone makes it sound like you think you are correcting me, I'd like to inform you that you are not.
W530 with a keyboard mod.

IIRC, the cable needs to be modified, because the connectors are different, but I've seen it work.
You yourself are making a good argument for why massive reduction in launch costs (like 3 or 4 orders of magnitude compared to Ariane) changes things dramatically. Heat management becomes easier when you can afford liquid cryogens like Spitzer or a larger and cheaper (more ground-like) cryocooler.

You literally could have 1000 tons of liquid nitrogen delivered to your telescope if you needed to, if it saved $1 billion.

I think people still aren’t understanding the ambitions of Starship. We’re not talking about a 30% improvement in cost. But a 300000% improvement in part because you could even afford human technicians…
> This is so Italy it hurts

You clearly have no idea on what you are talking about.
From the HTML source:

so, how did it feel?

did you believe it for a split second? did you actually expect something to happen? when the button lit up, did you..?

yeah, uhm... so, this was obviously a scam, like so many other crypto scams. did i say scam? i meant satire. this is satire. i'm making fun of crypto/web3 gold rush. i think it's extremely stupid. it's a pyramid, a scam, a Ponzi scheme.

wait, what? you paid your actual money for real? well, too bad. too bad crypto is decentralized, there's to authority to report me to, there's no one to get the money back from. yeah but it's cool. the future. web3. oh yeah. oh right. oh boi.

well i guess we can say you paid for the excitement? for those brief moments that you felt something? for the dopamine rush of OH MY GOD I CAN'T BELIEVE THIS I'LL BE RICH? i hope it made you feel like you didn't in a long time. so, consider this an experience that you got, and a story that you can tell. it's a nice story to tell at a party. i'm sure it's worth it.

it was nice meeting you, even if briefly. good luck!

conceived, created, produced, written, designed, programmed, fact-checked, edited, creativedirectored and joked by eugene kudashev
Well, do break it down for me :)
As you said, workers are also consumers. Each landlord wants to grow his GDP. In a pre-pandemic setting offering higher wages to attract labourers would have been useless to this goal as all of the land was already being farmed and there was nothing the additional workers could do. In a post-pandemic setting, when the lord struggles to get his land farmed, he can suddenly increase his GDP by offering higher wages so that he attracts labourers. This creates a bidding war between lords, increasing wages for labourers.

The english king even passed a law trying to forbid higher wages: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statute_of_Labourers_1351
> If the dates are real from the records everyone has found then he would, in theory, still qualify

Djokovic pursued an exemption on the basis of recovery. That requires a positive test followed by a negative one. If the allegations here hold, he tested negative and then positive. That wouldn't be proof of recovery, but of infection.
Hilarious criticism coming from software engineers which is never late or over budget. Even when there’s nothing actually novel in the product
> Web-developers don't deserve quality of life improvements

Don't you think the customer experience is strictly more important than the developer experience?
Yes - that piece came earlier in the episode than 30 mins, so I had already heard it. What is it that you think Fridman doesn’t understand?
Buzzfeed makes money from the quizes and other crap so they can make serious journalism - which nobody is prepared to pay for.
This sounds like the same problem that manifested with Android and resulted in Treble.
ha, this reminds me of building a site that was used by gov't types (FDA, NIH, CDC) and I kept getting questions about why the site didn't work.

Turns out I'd forgotten to test the site on pre-Edge / IE browsers, which apparently come with very old versions on gov't computers. Maybe that's not a problem anymore, because of the Edge update? Honestly don't know... haven't gotten those emails in a while.
This blog post prompted to look for ways to display a friendly error message to the user, explaining the issue and that upgrading the browser may help. This is what I found: https://stackoverflow.com/a/70671657

I would also like to display a friendly error message to the user if I resource fails to load because of a 404 or because of network issues. This is the only solution I found: https://stackoverflow.com/a/64243346/247696

Of course, I don't think this is the whole solution. But it's something we can do without waiting for browsers to get updated.
You're right: I forgot that ultimately it's Safari anyway. But this happened to me with several other apps, too, such as Garage Band, some synthesizer apps, even a guitar tuner wouldn't work on a completely capable device that's now basically useless!
https://archive.fo/z5ENU
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> My wish is that Gevent had been adopted into core so that it “just worked” with no monkey patching

The problem with Gevent is no matter how clean the stack switching, the major liability is other code sharing that stack -- the complete universe of native Python extensions is huge, and some of it most certainly makes assumptions about the stack.

I've used Gevent/greenlet for years and never encountered issues, but it's important not to be under any illusions about the kind of hellish crashes that might be lurking just around the corner as more third party code gets added to a project.
where did you get that?
Judging by my vaccine confirmation (same system), it's when the certificate was created. In my case the timestamp points to a day after I've received my dose.
It was actually the specific curve used that was at issue, but behind that phone designs are not limited to 4 rounded off corners or sharp edges.

Take say the blackberry bold 9930 it’s bottom is a single curve from edge to edge without any flat parts. Considering these phones had a single button at the bottom a curve like that would have simply saved material without compromising screen size and better fit into peoples hands. There are actually a host of odd ruggedized smartphones like: https://www.catphones.com/en-us/cat-s48c-smartphone/ Even for laptops you get a lot of odd edges look at the HP’s Omen X 2S.

Don’t want any of those looks? It’s fine there where plenty of other things they could have done to differentiate these phones like say volume buttons next to the center one, or a back button for web pages etc. It’s only when you copy everything that it’s no longer your style it’s Apple’s.

Net result in the US: The jury trial for damages concluded on May 24, 2018, awarding Apple $539 million, which includes $399 million for damages of Samsung's products sold that infringed on the patents. Germany acted much faster and simply blocked Galaxy 10.1 sales.
They weren't defending, they were attacking.

Sonos didn't develop anything new or novel in this case - they patented something which arguably should not be patentable, which is the ability to adjust the volumes on all speakers at once.

It's rational for companies to patent everything under the sun as a defensive moat, so they don't get themselves trolled, but this is trolling on their part.

If Sonos sat on this patent, that would be fine, but they're trying to troll other companies, it doesn't matter that it's Google and we hate them, it's dumb.

If Google had copied some core special tech that was the result of Sonos R&D that would be a different story.
I believe the “confirmation code” that’s higher for 16th than the 22nd test is still suspicious though.

16th: 7371999-259039

22nd: 7320919-259039

Does anyone have an explanation of how that code works. Could it have been related to a manufacturing batch of tests that’s been used out of order?

Those of you here with test results how does that code relate to your testing date?
Apple is not the only one doing this. Big companies lack good moderation/curation/filtration and I don’t understand why they don’t hire more people to do this and improve the quality of their services. I understand that everything boils down to costs (profit) and that the use of AI/ML so as to detect frauds might be tempting, but this is not working. Perhaps it’s working for them, but certainly not for us.