skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
With all its flaws America is the only country where you can dream of building spaceships...

Pedantically, literally anyone anywhere can dream of building spaceships. But let's examine that claim on the basis of people who have actually done it.

- Musk has, but he's South African.

- Bezos crossed the Kármán line so he's done it, but he hasn't reached orbit yet so calling New Shepherd a 'spaceship' is a slightly dubious claim.

- Branson hasn't either and he's British anyway.

- Carmack isn't in the news for space stuff any more, so maybe he's given up?

Looking at the evidence of 'billionaires and their space toys', I think 'not Americans' are a little ahead.
How do you define "Normal passenger vehicle"?

An Audi A6 weights 4500 lbs, Tesla Model S LongRange is 4800 lbs, Honda CRV is 3500 lbs, Honda Odyssey Minivan is 4600 lbs, Ford Explorer is 5000 lbs, even a Ford Expedition is "only" 5600 lbs.

What passenger vehicles are in the range of 9000 lbs?
Lord of the Rings and the Hobbit Movie Rights Up for Sale This Week
I'm sorry to hear you feel that way, but those are pretty extreme and sweeping claims. Where do they come from? Here's some data from Gallup, which seems to strongly disagree with at least some aspects of the parent. It shows that every year, going back to 1993, over 80% report being completely or somewhat satisfied with their jobs.

https://news.gallup.com/poll/1720/Work-Work-Place.aspx

On the Internet these days I often see contructed claims of extreme despair - about finding a partner, jobs, war, democracy, crime, etc. etc. In a way it matches an older rhetoric of making brazen, extreme, baseless statements that frame the conversation (around the baseless claims rather than the issue at hand), inflame it, and disrupt people who disagree. It's time to think about whose interests the despair serves.
The current mainstream [radical] left Gospel meets the definition of dogma, as in, they are just as bad as the darkest religion they themselves condemn. Not very difficult to understand.
None of that is commercially viable (so far), and commercial activity really doesn't benefit from this at all.

What matters is the 'stuff' you get for your money. AWS knows this (as does Azure and GCP), as do the B2B customers. It's just a simple sum. Either the customer does more of the hard but generic work, or the provider does more of the hard (generic) work. You make two calculations (including potential benefits of vertical integration) and you pick what works best.

"Inventing" generic compute with an API, web console and service-wide IAM is possible, but adds no value at all to say, e-commerce. So you might as well just pay some vendor to already do that, and if possible to do it at a scale and quality you will never be able to reach as a single business anyway. So you go to a cloud since that already has it and you can't replicate it anyway. If it turns out to be expensive but still cheaper and better, that's a win, OSS/SSPL be damned.
Maybe because bluetooth is stuck with 2.4ghz band. So when you move the noisy wifi out of this band, bluetooth gets extra bandwidth to transfer higher quality audio.
>Given current trends I expect things to get much, much worse.

Unfortunately I agree.
There are uncontrolled airports here yes but I haven't seen any with airline traffic that were uncontrolled during the time of airline operation.

In fact even when a private jet would come in after hours the tower would be active. It was really for all kinds of commercial activity.

I'm not saying that Europe is better at this than the US but I do think it makes sense to have someone watching especially to ensure separation of traffic as you say. Especially with something as big as an A320.

In this case especially a tower assigning an active runway would have prevented the Beechcraft approaching from the opposite direction.

I have to say also that GA is not as big as in the US and that makes GA pilots in general less vigilant and experienced with proximity to airline traffic so that's another factor.
It’s a rather cutesy and forced connection to make a point, but you can absolutely ignore that passage and the article still has a point. Word association games, even tenuous ones, are much more accepted and enjoyed in art and design disciplines, whereas science/engineer types are allergic to them if the semantics aren’t absolutely watertight.
It's not a huge problem now, but it will be a lot easier to handle/prevent becoming a problem if we think about it before we've filled space with junk.
Yes, good question. It can be more of a demand, even -- before you sign, ask "can you send me all of the documents I will be required to sign along with my contract?" and expect to be given the full run of corporate policy, non-disclosure agreements, etc etc etc. If they won't give them to you, they are hiding something and you shouldn't sign. Corporate policy should be incredibly boring and nobody has a good reason to prevent you from seeing that.

If you've signed a complete contract already, and there are new things to sign, they're asking you to agree to a new contract. Which you don't have to agree to, and if you don't, then anything you've already signed is still in effect. To get rid of you after that they have to resort to the termination provisions in the original contract. Of course "refusing to agree to corporate policy" is typically something that they can terminate you for. So a big part of the law dictating how much they can make you sign later is found in termination provisions. If your original contract's termination clauses are written so broadly that they could fire you easily for refusing to agree to a new contract that essentially rewrites the old one, then there are things you should see a lawyer about before touching it. (This is a much bigger deal than policy changes. I'm talking "no we actually have 10 more onerous pre-conditions to exercising stock options that we hid from you, such that you will find it almost impossible to do. sign here".) Large swaths of contract law are devoted to invalidating terms that say versions of "I can dictate the terms".

So my guess is that the horror stories were not supported by the original contract using likely-invalid language, but rather purely on the threat of messing up someone's new job. Especially if you're e.g. moving for a job, your goal is to sniff this out before you sign. So insist on full pre-signing transparency, get assurances that there are no other documents that are considered mandatory, and watch the responses carefully.
"woefully", not "wonderfully"
Seems like it was spelled that way looking at the etymology to differentiate kurb and curb. Seems like when horses were still prominent curb referred to a strap used on horses.

https://www.etymonline.com/word/kerb#etymonline_v_1818

Basically, curb was a type of restraint meant to hold back. So a curb/kurb on the street is just a tiny retaining wall holding back dirt. Some times it is fun to look at etymology. Also makes phrases "like curb your ambition" make more sense.
NO, it's not the job of the government to save people from shooting themselves.
Most (on HN) are just people who misunderstand the cloud business badly or think their case of reinventing the wheel can be applied globally.

You can do a site search for hacker news with just one of the cloud names in it to find a ton of blogs about it.

Most of them say "lock-in" but aren't actually about lock-in because you're not locked in, just in a bad position (power vs. utility).
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You are talking about broad trends that, first of all, we have all the tools to fix, and second, probably don't affect you much individually right now (and maybe not ever). Again, don't sit home thinking about how terrible it is, just get out and start moving.

> if you bury your head in the sand

Conversation doesn't need to be so bad either; we could have a constructive one.
I am pleased the Note is back, but at least the prices being asked in New Zealand are just crazy. It is selling for 14% more than a M1 MacBook Air.
Sophisticated ideology or ideas when spread to the masses suffer an oversimplification effect. What was once used to describe toxic behaviors that men can have once disseminated into the public transform into masculinity = toxic. This spreads as a meme and turns into a form of bigotry. The author is trying to fight against the public meaning it's transformed into.

It's much like dealing with hackers who take umbrage with it's public definition meaning computer criminal, vs. the more sophisticated it thing it really means, and simultaneously being in denial about the transformation that happened many decades ago.
The use case is sharing a model that is customizable.

Exp: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:2029895/files

Broom holder. You can't share an STL that will fit every possible broom diameter. But what you can do is programmatically generate one, and let the users change the variables.
What is the point of doing this instead of writing a clone?
Ask HN: What does it take to kill a business with strong network effects?
I read about network effects, monopolies a lot. How the holy grail of startups is a strong network effect and that will create a stronger moat every step you take. But there's also cases, such as Myspace losing to Facebook, where Myspace had incredible network effects but still fell. I haven't read anything on the other side of what it takes for them to fail. Is it the changing market, lack of innovation, I've even heard that Myspace load times were so slow that it gave FB an opening.
> Isn't agreeing to let YouTube do dumb shit with its moderation part of the contract?

Possibly. But probably not when that dumb shit targets a federally protected class?
CSS has always felt like a game of Q*bert to me, where you can't toggle one expected behavior without also affecting another unexpected behavior, and it's infuriating that this sort of thing persists into new specs.
Hah, this the time and place to bring out that old Slashdot meme (from the time when the word "meme" hadn't even "gone viral"):

Do you know who else hated the Bauhaus movement?
> Go is a Wirth lineage language too.

Is this commonly accepted? I thought it came off the better-C camp, plus GC.
It is unreasonable because you redefine "Microprocessor" in a way that the 8086, the one that made the word popular, isn't one anymore.

Surely odd, but tolerable. But what is worse that people will read your article, think the MMU is what makes a microprocessor. And upon hearing that the 8086 has no MMU, they will deny that it is a microprocessor. Which would be a logical conclusion from your article.

I listed some other words here that suffer from similar issues https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30278936
I've met people who started coding when they were 6 and have now compounded all that experience as they've gotten older.

To me, programming is as much a skill to me as learning music or writing is.

Sure, in industry some domains are learned/appreciated with age but that's considerably easier to pick up once you've mastered the abstract skill of programming.

To draw analogy - composing for a genre/or emotion is a lot easier once you've mastered composition. Similarly, once you've mastered scales, arpeggios and rhythm becoming proficient in pop, jazz or classical will be comparatively painless.

There are many difficult programming domains that people can get pretty good at well before they reach adulthood. Game design can span logic, rules, systems, product, testing, performance, graphics and physics.

Compilers and programming languages can be grokked before uni too.

Crypto also provides a gateway to web and distributed systems.

Having met people who have compounded their life by learning programming XOR music (two skills I have personal experience going deep in) it is hard to comprehend how vast the difference becomes until you've seen it firsthand.

At the extremes you have mozarts who compose from age 5. But even less extreme you have people like Zuckerberg or lexi-lambda building impressive programs by adolescence or Justin Biebers making music around 12.

In any case, I'm also pretty confident domain acquisition can start young given that I've met people who were trading from young teens.

Ultimately, school curriculums and age-based learning doesn't cater to individuals and can be artificially limiting of potential. Everything I've seen suggests that coding can be acquired from a very young age and then frees the individual up to learn all the ancillary bits as they grow up.

What's unusual is we live in a
time where there exists a vocational profession that pays well and isn't locked down by accreditation. (compare that with law and medicine for example)
That's not a good enough reason. They want to hire you, they've been through a lot of candidates, spent tons of important people's time interviewing you, and may be paying a recruiter $20k to find you. They can send you a damn PDF. Insist.
It's also Dan Harmon going way off the charts with meta storytelling and jokes to the point where you yearn for straightforward comedy.

Which I guess is why they're making this show.
Sebastian Lague: Trying to Improve My Geography Game with Real-World Data
In Italy is the same price as an M1 Macbook Air
In Sweden, as head of state, the King is Sweden’s foremost unifying symbol. According to the 1974 constitution, the monarch has no political affinity and no formal powers. The King’s duties are mainly of a ceremonial and representative nature.

You have provided no reference to your claim whatsoever, if you are arguing this point, please provide what you are referring to specifically.

Furthermore, Finland does not have a monarch at all (all though you might argue that they are not formally part of Scandinavia, but that's up for debate)
Why is it "shocking"? Why are you saying "gender-dominated" like it's a bad thing? Which areas are "gender-dominated" that you are upset about?
What would be the logic of doing this?
Apparently your buttons were pushed, and you felt you had to inflame the conversation and degrade people with different opinions.
Smartphones are so boring in 2022. Even iPhones. I have my iPhone XR since 3.5 years and I don't need to change it at least for a couple of years, if the battery stays alive
Agreed, not reliable indeed.
Where did I define anything?
You could perhaps have stated it as politicians and bureaucrats instead of "people", which would have made it more obvious to the reader you meant the government at large.
No, it’s like saying Hawaii isn’t part of North America. I don’t think that’s controversial.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawaii: “It is the only state outside North America”
Have you considered sending users to the website to update payment information? Or if not, do you perform the PCI auditing process for your handling of payment information through your systems?

I don’t personally need the answers to these pair of questions, but I wanted to put them on your radar if they’re not already. I trust Plaid far enough to scrape account providers for me, but I do not trust Plaid far enough to provide Plaid my payment details — even if Plaid could theoretically construct them, that’s just not the relationship I want with a data conduit provider.
I recently had an interview with big hardware company! I enjoyed every single moment out of it. It was the first interview that challenged me in a fun way! It reflected my weakness and strength. I was able to show how general I was!

It was a great experience interviewing for that company. They didn't even bother with leetcode thing! Everything was organic and natural!
> both the names are Tamil

I notice in the wikipedia page on "Tamil language" that it says this:

> Unlike most Indian languages, Tamil does not distinguish aspirated and unaspirated consonants.

If that's true, why do the Tamil names Chandrasekhar and Thirugnanasampanthamoorthy use the digraphs "th" and "kh"? What sounds do those represent, and how would they be different if they were spelled "t" and "k"?

The best guess I've been able to come up with is "Tamil shares a writing system with one or more other Indian languages that do distinguish aspirated consonants, and it just happens to spell these names with the aspirated version of the consonant", but I know literally nothing about this.
If you’ve spent some time outside of the west, and what the west conceives as “comparable with the west”, you’ll find that there are many cultures that are what you describe as “evil”.
Yes I think forced hybrid is the worst of both worlds. If I can't use the fact that my job is remote to move somewhere that's cheaper so I can have a proper office at home, then I am stuck living closer to work and working in a smaller apartment (EU) and having to deal with a different work environment 1-2 days a week. In Hindi there's a saying, "dhobi ka kutta, na ghar ka na ghat ka" - essentially that you're like a dog that doesn't belong either outdoors or indoors.

If it is your own choice though, its a different story.
Finally a new "Note"! I just wish it wouldnt be so huge - a more compact 5-6" version with pen support would be the sweetspot for me.
Most importantly, US or rest of the world football?
Are there any flagship-level phones with a headphone jack these days? I'm thinking to replace my S10+ soon (just because the battery is wearing out); I'd get the same model if I could but it's not on sale any more.
You are absolutely right.

For example, here's the allegedly "censored" picture of a young woman carrying cranberries: https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2017723882/resource/

And here's the very next photo on the film, without a hole punch:
https://www.loc.gov/pictures/resource/fsa.8a10082/

The only thing this tells us is that the editor preferred the wide angle shot.
xterm calls itself an emulator in the manpage right now.
I'll only buy it if it mentions the history with Belgium, Congo and Plutonium ( then i know it's fairly complete)
Ask HN: What does your shutdown and boot up process looks like?
No, Microsoft made the bedrock version so you can cross-play the same game across the Android, iOS, Xbox, Playstation and Switch versions. Why should PC players get left out especially considering its the easiest platform to port to? There was no way they were getting the Java version running on all those targets, so they gave you a choice between cross play or the modding community. That said I agree that it shouldn't have been a limited time deal and you should get Bedrock on PC automatically on purchasing the Java edition and vice-versa
People keep repeating this claim, but of course that doesn't signal truth. Is there research behind it?
> Here’s the simple truth I’ve heard from many men: We need to be needed. We imagine ourselves as builders, soldiers, workers, brothers — part of something bigger than ourselves. We deal with idleness terribly.

Interesting to read that from a vocal proponent of UBI - which would, by design, allow people, including men, _not_ to get a job.
NZ$1999 for Ultra, verses NZ$1750 for base MacBook Air.
Cringy rapper is more like it.
You're right - IIRC building the pyramids required quite strong computational thinking for example.

Or the whole shipping container complex.

But coding is perhaps the purest manifestation of CS in all its glory where the feedback loop is tight and the scale of system can be borderline infinite for very little cost.
Life, school, and the 80:20 rule (2019)
The thing that tripped me up the most in Ada was the single quote syntax.

Character'Val

I literally failed an exam because I couldn't locate the right function in the online manual for 2 hours. And I'm pretty liberal .. I like lisp, forth and APL but still to this day, it trips me up.
The map feels somewhat outdated. Belarus is on par with North Korea since 2020, Russia became much less democratic in 2021 and continues its descent in 2022.

Poland and Hungary are both hybrid regimes now, with Hungary leaning on the authoritarian side.
At least don't redefine "Microprocessor" in a way that it does not include the 8086, the one that made the it popular. Its nonsensical.
Sometimes users find a loader reassuring that the operation is working. I can think of many instances where, as a web developer, I've been asked to implement a loader because an important process finishes too quickly.
Now this is anecdotal and may not be why the publisher did it but it can see why it would be implemented.
I wish I was dead Bill Hicks:

https://youtu.be/KSEtMZh2exc
But what if it was at that top range, 22.75 tons. The math would add up, with 5 other cars on the bridge weighing an average of 1.4 tons each, we would have 29.75 tons or so on the bridge. Before the 10 or so tons of snow is added.
Wow, it's really interesting, i was looking similar thing after log4j.
I'll send you the email
There are a ton of small time complaining blogs about all the clouds, but practically none of them are at a scale where it really matters anyway.

A recent one was about how clouds should be dumb pipes, but the blog forgot about the 30 FTE you'd be hiring just to maintain your 'own' IAM, API and on-demand CRUD of generic resources (like compute, storage, networking and higher level resources like databases, object stores, queues, buffers, pubsub). And then they also forgot about the benefit of scale they would never be able to compare with as a single customer vs. a multinational specialised company with practically every possible service scenario under the sun...

Once you are beyond about 200K with enough in-house dedication you can start thinking about higher level abstractions that make you less bound to a single cloud or less bound to a single implementation (which can still be on a single cloud vendor's offering). You'd end up going that way anyway because at scale some facilities start to need adjustments to keep up with demand, like the creation and lifecycle management of object stores; you really can't be manually or bare-API managing those anymore when you have a ton of them. At that point you make processes, policies and automation a thing and if you implement them with some abstraction in mind it suddenly can be made to work everywhere... this is also where the bulk cost and ROI comes in; say you have your internal adaption in place for S3, adding B2 or R2 is really not that hard. Bam, object egress solved (For non-IAM scenarios; signed URLS would still work tho). But maintaining and owning this when you aren't big enough is just a drag your customers (internal and external) aren't going to profit from, and you really should be spending your time and resources elsewhere. Because you should probably focus on your business first, on what your customers want (so you can sell more in a commercial setting), and then on optimising your processes at which point you might be getting to the size where your increase in vertical integration starts making sense.
There are 2 problems with dependabot,
1: it requires you to have a code on github orherwise you can't receive alerts
2: they send months old alerts, even if you go to check security advisory of github, you'll notice the date of those issues will be very old.
You are arguing a strawman, for the simple reason that the results of this hypothetical would be the same: The average man or woman does not wish murder or slavery on another person. If you live in a social web where this is not the case, that sucks. It's time to get new friends.
People keep saying things like that, but I haven't seen much reason or evidence. It seems like a techno-nerd sci-fi story.
I find this somewhat amusing as Ada occupies the same space that Rust is in. At first glance I find Ada vastly more approachable than Rust, which to me feels like line-noise language/Perl. Or even C++ tbh.

But I can relate that Ada feels like you should be writing it one a flickering green terminal in ALL CAPS and debugged with a daisy wheel printer.