skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The advantage of Tor Hidden Services* is that it doesn't need DNS, and it doesn't need CAs.

The problem with DNS is that DNS names are global, and human readable, and therefore rely on a central authority to handle disputes. They aren't even particularly good at human-readability, because they have a vestigial hierarchy that doesn't even mean anything half the time, and they aren't given enough scrutiny to make sure that nobody uses confuseable, typo squatted, or bit squatted names.

The problem with CAs is that they're centralized, and they need to be able to see your domain name in order to validate it. This makes air gapped systems a pain in the neck, along with anything else that calls into question the global reach-ability assumption that they're making (like plain ol' networking glitches).

* The Tor network also has exit nodes that can access the regular web. For this to be secure, you need all of the normal security practices for websites, including TLS. Hidden Services don't need exit nodes, and they don't need TLS.
Sad thing is that there is always a bunch of whining in any thread about 1.18 with people complaining about how much generics are going to ruin the language. I cannot wait for this release either, getting a proper set of data structures and concurrency libraries will be worth their weight in gold.
System V Application Binary Interface [pdf]
> when you need to read some very old Japanese site where their encoding is pretty non standard, you are screwed

If you need to read them frequently, yes. Otherwise, if this is just one-off, maybe user can download the page source, extract text content, paste into text editor and select encoding? Do you have an example CJK site I may try?
And then they wonder why the developers think nobody uses said niche feature
This part is a huge issue:

> When I asked Otter to clarify whether it shares user data with non-U.S. government or law enforcement agencies, the answer wasn’t comforting. “We disclose Personal Information if we are legally required to do so, or if we have a good faith belief that such use is reasonably necessary to comply with a legal obligation, process or request,” Denise Mutch, an Otter service team member, told me via email on Dec. 16.

Later in the article, a different Otter representative (Mitchell Woodrow) says the opposite, but that indicates to me that they don't have a consistent internal policy for whether to turn interviews over to totalitarian regimes, which is a huge, HUGE problem.
>Cheaper and larger payload capacities will ultimately change the industry ... is there sufficient demand there for this ambitious launch vehicle? What else will it be used for?

extended weekend around Moon in cattle class for say $100K/person. Suborbital flight LA to Shanghai in 1 hour for $5-10K. Though it seems that the first years the SpaceX Mars program will gobble almost all the capacity (according to that recent update Elon wants to launch non-stop several times a day to get several million tons into orbit), except for the high margin and/or already contracted stuff like NASA Moon.

>The real problem for Starship (IMHO) is Falcon 9.

F9/Heavy are cheaper than competition, yet not that cheaper to enable new revolutionary uses. They also will never be made to the airline level of safety/robustness/operational simplicity/etc. which is one of the goals of Starship and its Raptor 2 engine.

In particular - according to that https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX_Raptor#/media/File:Rapt... the full flow allows them to run turbines under 600 C for fuel and under 500 C for oxygen pump on Raptor 2 - it feels like cheating :) being like steel temperatures, and they of course are using Inconel which gives them great reliability here, like in order of magnitude better than on other engines. That naturally translates into capability to perform many reuses with very frequent launches with minimal operational costs.

If anything i think with Elon having blazed the path there is an opportunity to quickly start and ramp up SpaceX copycats(s) as whatever capacity the industry would produce at the Starship level low prices and high convenience the demand will still be bigger.
I recently read "Liftoff" about the early days of SpaceX [1]. Definitely recommended if you want to get a good overview of the company and industry. To me, it provided a lot of missing context and background that is really nice to have when reading articles like this one above. Though the book ends in 2008 - after SpaceX finally put a rocket into orbit on their fourth, and what would have been final, attempt - many of the plans talked about in the book are still ongoing, like the Mars mission.

1. https://www.harpercollins.com/products/liftoff-eric-berger
aside from the fact that as others have pointed out there is more to firefox than the engine (though I wish I could have that too) such as firefox sync and a UI that better suits my taste, it also signals interest in using a different browser which hopefully will push apple to allow full 3rd party web browsers at some point.
Yes, but, they’re not. Huge swaths of the web are effectively abandoned, and will not get fixed.
In case you’re not very familiar, when dealing with launches to orbit: cost only makes sense in terms of “$ per kg per launch to <orbital destination>”, not “$ per launch to <orbital destination>”.

For the Roscosmos costs, mass to LEO seems to be $4270/kg [0].

Falcon 9 is at $1270/kg [1]. This link also has the comparison with the Space Shuttle.

[0] $35 MM / 8200kg
[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20210801024432/https://ntrs.nasa...
Actually, I still have the bootleg apk installed, because sometimes you've just gotta live a little, right? Also happen to have the Otter app. Just checked netguard and guess which one has connected to the internet 6 times since I last opened it.
Surely you understand the difference between misery experienced by civilians, vs. direct threats to soldiers? And, the difference between soldiers physically on the same field as a commander, vs. soldiers in a military base near a firestorm far removed from an emperor in palace compound, or generals at a command center?

A blockade eliminating fuel imports would shortly eliminate ability to operate trucks, aircraft, factories, electric power generation systems, and shortly telephones, radio stations, and kitchens.
This person makes a decision supported by reasonable evidence and argumentation, confirmed through discussion with other members of the organization and wider community, and shipped after a thorough review (all happening in the open on a bug tracker!); and you're calling for them to be fired?

I sure hope you don't make any mistakes at your company!
Your children will likely be fine. Vikings had pastures on Greenland until global cooling turned it into snow and ice.
> $10 per launch

You mean $10,000,000.00, not $10.00, right?

$10.00 launches would be amazing.
The simple answer is that the Supreme Court of the United States said as much. Lower courts are bound to follow SCOTUS' holdings. Of course, precedent can always be overturned (i.e. if SCOTUS changes its mind), but the N&P Clause's interpretation is unlikely to be changed.
Are you left handed by any chance? Trying to resolve an argument about typos in right and left handed people, and I've noticed you have wrote "teh" in many comments (no judgement, you're doing God's work in my opinion). My theory is left handed people are more likely to press e faster than the right hand can get to t and h (in qwerty).
Poor King Canute—still misunderstood.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Canute_and_the_tide
Yeah, I can't think of many reasons why an executor would need the passwords of the deceased. Banks and other financial institutions have a protocol for this: send them the death cert, and they distribute to beneficiaries or as directed by law. There's no need to log in as that (dead) user, and it could make things complicated if withdrawals or transactions are made that go against the beneficiary rules.

Maybe you need the password for crypto wallets, but that's on the deceased for not thinking of another plan.
App platform documentation is severely lacking.
Understood,the point was if the sensors are identical, they don't give any more information, some independence is needed.
> Just another casualty of telemetry.

Sure, but you're missing the bigger picture, which is that each feature has all sorts of other costs (maintenance, security risk, codebase complexity, etc). As mentioned in the bug, this feature got in the way of implementing another feature.

Telemetry helps guide the balance between those costs and the value the feature brings, and you can disagree with how that balance in each decision, but it still is a fact that codebase health is important and if you don't prune, you'll very quickly end up with a huge messy project, no matter how careful you are along the way.

Of course, the other option would've been to rewrite/refactor the feature, but again, is an engineers time better spent working on something that helps 50 people or 50K people?
There's a difference between per-launch cost and program costs.
In my experience, it is rare. HN is not a good representation of general population. And often, especially on HN, there is a vocal set of users that distort the opinion. IMO, there is also a subset of users that will have an axe to grind, so they will always take the most negative take, etc.

Also, this is my personal theory (not backed up by any data, etc.): I think there are a lot of products which get wayyy better with personalization. So, when people go all out and disable all history, obfuscate their location, and other personalization, it is not surprising that they get a non-optimal experience.

Disclaimer: My opinions are my own, and not of my employer.
It seems like the thesis is if cost per kg fall enough then the implausible becomes plausible. F9 reduced costs to make starlink possible, what will starship make possible?
Yup I’ve been to that one a bunch and always stop by there when I travel with anyone who’s never been
Would it be impossible to put this in an extension?

What is the compatibility worth if people have to manually figure out how to switch it on?
yep. $1.5billion in 2010 prices per flight including r&d. 1.2 without.

which is still 1.5 billion per flight in 2021 prices. So Elon needs to get the price down to $15mil to hit his target.

5% is still pretty good tho. And it may go lower.
Blue Origin can put their entire orbital stage inside the Starship and save money, just like using the post office to deliver Amazon Prime.

> Starship, says Dr Heldmann, could carry a full-sized drilling rig that could bore kilometres deep.

Or we could use the capacity to dig thermal boreholes on Mars, but I’d worry about mind worm attacks.
shuttle before columbia disaster was absorbing more than half ($8B) the NASA budget($16B) and doing 4-6 flights a year
> dealing with character encoding and supporting the feature is painful

This feature is in no way "painful". It's a legitimate facility for dealing with non-Unicode, legacy content, and AFAICT it's not clear that it can be reliably replaced, even by a plugin. Any argument that the menu entry is "confusing" for most users can be addressed by hiding it behind an advanced preference setting, and I think this was done already.
For those sites, I usually just add whatever characters are needed to satisfy the requirements to the generated password (e.g., 0). This is annoying, since I have to keep track of which sites required such amendments. Fortunately, the majority of websites I use don't have such annoying requirements. And if I ever forget which sites have "amended" passwords, it's easy to find out simply by attempting to log in and being denied entry (in other words, I can brute force my way in).

Despite this awkwardness, I think this approach is worth it. I only have to memorize one password, and yet I still have a different password for every website. And if the Chrome extension ever gets shut down (*), the algorithm is simple enough to recreate in 4 lines of Python:

bits = (domain + '/' + universal_password).encode()
for i in range(2 ** 16):
bits = hashlib.sha256(bits).digest()
generated_password = base64.b64encode(bits).decode()[:16]

(*) I am the author of that Chrome extension, so I personally am not worried about it being shut down. But it is perfectly valid for other people to have that concern, of course.
And they’re targeting building 2-4 of them per day.

https://mobile.twitter.com/elonmusk/status/14139104042465239...
Peaceful? Do you realize how loud those horns are? Some of them are using train horns, they are extremely loud. People can’t even get groceries. They are shitting on the sidewalks. They are harassing healthcare workers, women, anyone wearing masks…

Whether their accounts should be frozen is a valid debate to be had. But they’re far from well behaved at this point.
Sanctioning a Monero address, AFAIK, is completely frivolous.

It's been a while since I played around with Monero, but from memory: sender addresses are not known in a transaction and recipient addresses are trivial to re-generate (to the point where you could opt to have a new recipient address per transaction if you wanted to).
I don't think developer quality is necessarily the issue. Actually, the opposite: I think MS is letting its developers run wild. What do developers do, when left to their own devices? They'll reinvent the wheel here and there. Why maintain a crusty C++ codebase, when it can be scrapped and replaced with a new and fashionable JavaScript monstrosity?

A coherent and integrated suite of battle-hardened desktop products requires boring technology and a "visionary Cerberus" at the helm - who can whip devs into fixing bugs rather than reaching for The Big Rewrite. But that also implies that devs will let themselves be whipped, which might be a problem in this market.
Methane is broken down primarily by hydroxyl reactions, but over the ocean it's also broken down by chlorine reactions from salt spray. (both of these reactions are powered by uv from sunlight). The ocean process is catalyzed by certain compounds in the air. We are working on accelerating this process by putting more catalyst into air above the deep ocean. Right now we're engaged in scaling the process up from the lab and fundraising.

The company is bluedotchange.com though there isn't a huge amount on our web site yet -- we haven't prioritized having a marketing department yet.
It rings around

A delightful sound
Not exactly the same but similar Zelda: Majora's Mask

You must complete your missions before the Moon collides with earth in 3 days or restart from the beginning.
We're a very small company which makes this all easier, but we've ended up with a similar Slack convention of everything being in threads and it makes Slack a lot more managable.
They solved this problem with F9 too, with their ride share program.

Starship will make it even cheaper to deliver small payloads too (you'll likely have to wait for enough payload to get lined up to make sense financially), however with the need to continuously deploy starlink satelites, they'll probably fill loads as required with them to fill starship up.
P.S. feel free to email me at t1dresearchproject@gmail.com -- thanks
Make sure to talk to the docents - many (all?) of them are engineers who worked on the hardware! Last time I was there I spoke with someone who had worked on an IMU mounted in the interstage.
Was Trump's policy towards nuclear bad? I seem to recall that his admin green-lit in-country efforts that were effectively on ice for quite a while - TREAT, ARDP, the VTR, micro/small reactors, Vogtle approval.

And an opening statement from Forbes article in Dec 2020: "By most accounts, President-elect Joe Biden will continue President Trump’s nuclear energy legacy — to aggressively develop U.S. technology for export to the international market within five to seven years." https://www.forbes.com/sites/dipkabhambhani/2020/12/01/biden...
They’re ordered, so

- in-order iteration over the items is possible

- Searches such as “the smallest item greater than n” are efficient
I still don't understand why someone would conflate whether something is frequently used with whether it is useful.

Ask yourself: How often do you use the emergency number, how small is the percentage of the population that does in a day? Or even in a life? In the light of this, would you want it discontinued?
Scale AI is a shovel seller for AI companies?

Nice aforisms though.
The phrase, “we couldn’t build one if we wanted to,” is misleading. We could build the exact vehicle but we could build one that looks similar and does the same thing.
Elon Musk brings up Adolph Hitler
Too late, code merged. Bugzilla locked. You the user do not matter really to Firefox anymore.

If the encoding is broken, it cannot be fixed by Henri Sivonen auto-detection code, but he can claim he "simplified the menus" as a bullet point to project managers.

This is the gradual but inevitable backslide of Firefox into Chrome.
A complicating factor on the telemetry is that both this new "guess" option and its predecessor list are/were in the menubar View menu and have no way to be accessed through the "hamburger," so there wasn't a default-visible way to get to this functionality for Windows and Linux users.

This is a pretty familiar pattern for controversial telemetry-based browser decisions, first making the feature more obscure or hidden, then later noting that few people are using it when justifying change/removal. How many users just abandoned a site they used to use or switched browsers is not captured in the telemetry (though options to switch to that still offer this feature are pretty thin on the ground).

To be clear I don't think this was a "blind" telemetry decision; the developer seems to have done a pretty thoughtful and thorough analysis about it. But you see the pattern of such changes over the years and you start to imagine there's a thumb on the scale...
Could the menu be restored by an add-on?
Simplifying a submenu by replacing it with a quick option that works in most cases is a great improvement, but removing the underlying feature that lets users select the text encoding manually is bad. There must be a good way to keep the menu bar simple while keeping the option.

Firefox already shows page-specific info in the left side of the address bar. There's usually a shield icon and a lock icon, and permission requests appear there too. Why not add an "encoding icon" that shows whenever the encoding repair feature is active? Such a marker would also be a great place to put a "override with custom encoding" menu.
Apple: Tim Cook is worth every penny
Exactly. With infinite engineering resources, you can afford to keep every feature around and maintained forever.

But nobody has infinite engineering resources. Maintaining everything comes at a cost, and eventually you have to make some hard decisions about which features to abandon so you can reallocate engineers to features people actually use.

Frustrating for the small number of people who use that specific feature, but you can't please everyone.
I was about to say it would be terrible because so much fuel would be burning with these cheap launches that we'd probably destroy the atmosphere in a few years...

But for just $10, we can't really be using fuel in the first place.
You can find a below sea-level hole inland then redirect the water to it.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-scientist-expla...
He "simplified the menus", remaining broken old web pages be damned. Mozilla's goal is to be as user hostile as Chrome.
They didnt wanna proceed with the interview since i wasn't in the US.
I was otherwise looking forward to it.
I do want to try keto at some point, as I've heard a number of success stories for keto / low carb and T1D. It's hard to gather the motivation to start it.

One important thing to point out is that you can't reverse T1D with keto, like some people are able to with T2D. It can greatly reduce your insulin requirements, but not to zero. Your pancreas will not return to normal function.
>" There's an upright Saturn class ship in Queens at the NY Hall of Science"

They have nothing near the size of a Saturn V. NY HoS has:

Gemini-Titan II

Mercury-Atlas D Rocket

Mercury-Atlas D “Friendship 7” Replica Capsule

Mercury Capsule

Saturn V F-1 Engine

For perspective, the Saturn V is about 20 times the size of Titan II (by mass), and could almost deliver the whole Titan II into low Earth orbit (LEO).
The trick is just to make all the automation optional. If I sell my house, I'll hand over my Lutron Hub and Z-Wave USB stick. If the new owner wants to plug those in to something, they'll have a bunch of entities to automate how they please. If not, it's just a house with a bunch of light switches like any other. Well, there are also some door/motion/humidity sensors, but it's not like they do any harm if you don't do anything with them.
> What if there is an earthquake and you can't get to somewhere with snacks?

I’m a Type 1 diabetic (diagnosed in my 30s) and have been living with it for about a decade now. This really isn’t a “what if” situation. I know what will happen. I will die or hopefully just become incredibly ill.

It’s not really scary at all.

It’s just something I live with and prepare for as best I can. The one thing that I’ve learned from living with Type 1 is that all you can do is make the best decision you can in any given moment. My favorite doctor told me that diabetes is a disease that is all about making decisions. So is life, I guess.
Are there really that few launch windows? I assume it's because this ship is larger than the others we've been launching all this time?
That’s a bit much. There are on-device dictation tools and services for transcription. Otter is an excellent tool, of course.

Iirc, Dragon is $500 and human services charge anywhere from $0.25-$7 a page of text depending on the quality level and turnaround time. If you have access to tech people, you could easily and more securely leverage AWS or GCP services as well.

I think it’s appropriate to blast the author as if you’re in the business of interviewing sensitive or high risk sources, you really have no business using something like Otter or Grammarly.
The $445M number doesn't count the total cost of the program, which put each Shuttle launch at ~ $1.5 billion.

Average cost of a SpaceX resupply is $152 million. That's the total amount the US government pays per mission.

You couldn't send the shuttle up with 10% of the cargo capacity and only pay 10% of the cost. The Shuttle was $1.5 billion whether it was 16,000 kg to the ISS or 2,000 kg.

Nor could you just use it to send two people to the ISS and only pay $170 million for two seats (Really $400 million - the actual cost for two seats.)
I suspect it could disrupt at least some form of earth transportation. The fuel costs are not that different than a transatlantic 787 flight, and it's likely simpler and with fewer moving parts. In similar style to Tesla's vertical approach, they could own the full stack (rocket, fuel production, launch/landing facilities).