skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been posting updates here, where you can see a demo: https://bookletupdates.substack.com

I'm working on "public" groups, so that I can link directly to a meta group about the project from the homepage. It should be live early next week!

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I'm using phone number as primary login for these reasons:

1. I want passwordless login

2. Passwordless login with email is confusing because most people have multiple emails. But, most people have only one phone number.

3. I want to support per-group email preferences easily (i.e., multi-email)

4. iOS auto-fill makes it trivial to sign in

5. Phone number verification hopefully provides enough spam control that I can avoid deploying tools like Recaptcha - which I think are more invasive to privacy. (I'm aiming to be 100% Google-free and Facebook-free)
The last failure in flight was 2015. Since then there were 120 successful launches and no failures. There was one payload lost in 2016 during a static fire test.
> Sure but that's just going to take a long time, particularly if F9 is, say, sub-$15m per launch.

This rests on the assumption that a starship launch costs SpaceX more than that. The whole starship program is a gamble that they can make cheap, fully and rapidly reusable rockets. If the marginal cost for a starship launch is more than for a partially-reusable falcon 9, then the project has failed (or is still in development)
Fuel cost is not significant, waste disposal even less so. (In fact, usual accounting of nuclear fuel cost includes waste disposal cost. People argue cost is not accounted in full, but as accounted, waste disposal typically costs 1/6 of fuel cost.)

In terms of cost, 80% of nuclear power is CAPEX. Among OPEX, about 1/3 is fuel, rest is operation and maintenance. So from total cost, about 6% is fuel, and about 1% is waste disposal.
The goal of writing software is rarely to produce a piece of well-engineered software. More commonly, the goal is to produce a product in a given time frame using the team of engineers available, which may be of variable quality. If you’re trying to make the software perfect, you’re likely doing something very wrong.
WHat does "attempting to take action on those other apps" mean? Apple still lists them on the app store for download.
The main problem with that idea is that rockets are incredibly loud and noisy. You couldn't launch anywhere close to population centers, where the transportation needs are, and if you need to take a boat to get to a launch platform far at sea you lose a lot of potential.

Second problem is that it looks awfully like an ICBM. Lots of countries wouldn't like one of these flying in their direction, which would limit the amount of possible routes.
The dark patterns should be a violation of the spirit of the law.
The dom0 kernel is responsible for talking to devices such as a disk or a NIC, yes, be that Linux, NT, *BSD, etc. The hypervisor is typically responsible for enforcing isolation of compute, memory, etc. The line does blur - for example Hyper-V may be configured with something called the “root scheduler” with which NT is responsible for scheduling virtual CPUs [0] - though the hypervisor is still enforcing the isolation.

[0] - https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/virtualizati...
I find it hard to believe as well, but he made some concrete mentions of other tickets that were apparently complicated by the ability to manually set encodings:

> Additional non-user-facing benefit:

The back end code for supporting the non-Automatic menu items got in the way of implementing bug 673087. Based on that experience, chances are that fixing bug 1701828 would be much easier if we first implemented the change proposed here.
Which list or url are you using? I have adguard also. Thanks for the input. Did not know you could do that.
Not sure why I would want to do that though, from a practical standpoint.
I followed those as well but changed to whats in the gtk-rs book
A word of warning: before you start, if you choose to go down the MSVC path, you have to uinstall msys2 and remove msys from your environment paths. If the Meson build find msys2 in your environment path variable, it will try to build using msys2.
I also would like to point out in the context of the issue of “legacy” content that not all web content is some sort of single-page application that gets maintained. Of course, we don’t expect software to remain compatible with other software forever, but not all websites should be considered software. Consider a video file, for example. We have the expectation that a video file, which is static content with no scripting, will continue to play forever in future media players, or at least that you will be asked to download some obscure codec pack if it doesn’t play by default. I think that a static website with no scripting and just text is the same. A website with just text should continue to work. I think this is pretty different from something like Flash or ActiveX or even cookies, where we are no longer talking about static content.
I didn't even notice/forgot it was there!

I usually just went to hn.algolia.com manually
Look into spectral rendering.

For a very simple form, you can sample a specific wavelength with each ray, trace it using wavelength-dependent refraction indices (e.g., from the Sellmeier equation) whenever you compute refraction or internal reflection. Then tint the ray by the color and visible intensity of the wavelength when averaging it into the image pixel.

For a lot more detail, see e.g., "Efficient Spectral Rendering on the GPU for Predictive Rendering" (https://hal.inria.fr/hal-03331619/document).
This is a pretty dangerous comment, if you consider going the Keto route and are a diabetes type 1 patient please consult your doctor, there are some risks involved and it definitely does not work for everybody.
One of my original goals from the very beginning of s2n was to move decisions like which protocols to support, which ciphers to prioritize and so on out of the hands of system administrators and compliance auditors and into the hands of experts who go deep on the protocols and the trade-offs involved. I'd seen just far too many Apache and Nginx configs with non-sensical cipher configuration streams. On top of that goal we also layer the principal of making decisions that are driven by hard data, wherever possible, and not just fashions.

We've changed the defaults in the past, in response to issues that we think are fatal blows, it's not about ossifying the default we happened to start with. It's simply that we know that right now if we disabled TLS1.0/1.1 by default; it would break some customers and users and we have a high bar to clear for that. At this point, only old clients who can do no better even negotiate TLS1.0/1.1. More modern clients can not be downgraded to TLS1.0/1.1 as long as they support the now well-deployed anti-fallback features that are in TLS. For those old clients that do use TLS1.0/1.1, the issues that are present in those protocol versions are not practically exploitable. The MD5_SHA1 handshake signature is probably the closest to exploitable and it is still not practical to compute those signatures within the handshake timeout windows. Other issues, like the lack of explicit IVs in 1.0 are mitigated with 1/n-1 record splitting (at least in one direction), and so on. Of course those old clients should upgrade and use TLS1.2! I just think there is a high bar for making them via brinkmanship, many of the clients left are things like BluRay players and TVs that shipped firmwares without an ability to do over the air updates. It'd just break things like video streaming and leave consumers figuring out how to flash-update an ancient device. I don't think it's good stewardship to force people through that.

Now that some compliance requirements like FedRAMP/FIPS and PCI are starting to require TLS1.0/1.1 disabled, I do think we owe a simpler way to disable them for that reason. I do wish standards like that took a more deep and specific consideration of the risks involved. As for TLS1.3, we've been running and using it and contributed to its development and support for it is there, but we're still detecting clients that don't handle TLS1.3 correctly and have been working with them (and adding workarounds on our side). We have the benefit of a lot of data for all of these decisions, and we really want things to work reliably for people. Our customers tell us that's most important.
> Everywhere in Canada but Vancouver/Victoria have -20C in winter.

But it only happens for a couple days a year in Southern Ontario, even less common near a Great Lake
In addition to the concrete case at hand, this is another instance where explicit user abilities are taken away and replaced by an algorithm.

I really hope the tech industry will see the light at some point and stop this trend.
Hi, I'm an artificial pancreas developer! Our device has been approved for human trials which we're going to begin shortly, probably near the end of this quarter.

One thing that the article (which is very well researched, by the way, kudos!) does not quite get right is that the insulin sensitivity _changes_ hour to hour, day to day, month to month. It changes nonlinearly with exercise, stress, sleep, diet, and in a million other subtle ways that we're still trying to characterize. This dynamism is part of what makes management of blood sugar so hard, because the same dose that got you in range a couple days ago now sends you into a hypoglycemic episode, which can be really really dangerous!

The good news is that, while cures for diabetes have been Five Years Out (TM) since the 1980s, artificial pancreas technology (like Loop, OpenAPS, and recently approved Omnipof 5) is here _today_ and already giving people a real solution, not to mention peace of mind, but we still have a long way to go! Access issues, trust relating to years of anxiety induced trauma, cost etc are all barriers to making these solutions widely available, but I feel hopeful that in 20 years, a T1D diagnosis will be as manageable as an eczema one.

If anyone has any questions about APs, I'd be happy to field them!
> It was rare to open Slack in the morning and not already be immediately underwater by 3 to 5 mentions representing conversations that needed to be waded into.

The "Remind me later" feature is a good way to avoid morning-overload syndrome. Just snooze the ones requiring a reply for 1 hour, 3 hours, tomorrow. Feels great.

Then turn off notifications, and go get stuff done.
This is super cool, thanks for sharing. Also, you’re right, that name is dope.
> magic heavy chemical water with different nuclear properties...

That seems a bit dismissive. I would naively assume that there have been exactly zero studies to see if there are any problems with babies drinking heavy water, beyond some LD50 extrapolation.
Locked room murder is a detective genre trope in all kinds of shows, books, and movies. The goal is of course to get away with it.
By that reasoning everything is pure politics.

Cars? Forget about inventing the internal combustion engine, because "allowing or banning the internal combustion engine is all politics". And so on.
Or make if… an expression instead of a statement.

Go core are very smart people so I’m sure they have their reasons, but my Lisp-addled brain can’t understand why you’d ever want statements instead of expressions with potentially discarded values.
The production side is also unsustainable. Some large producers are committing not to increase production and instead pocket the higher prices. https://energynow.com/2022/02/pioneer-pledges-to-hold-u-s-sh...
> I do suspect we need to find commercial enterprises to justify the Starship economics and I'm just not sure what that looks like yet.

At $1 MM per launch with 100 t per launch puts Starship roughly at $10 per kg.

Asteroid mining: Will be a huge industry. Especially with growing environmental concerns all around Earth. Waste can basically be disposed of very cheaply into the atmosphere or sun.

Starlink, Kupier, etc constellations: will continually need maintenance. Including similar constellations across the Moon and also Mars.

Entertainment: Assuming 500 kgs per human (because of life support, seats, luggage, food, etc), that is $5000 per ticket to LEO. This is a very reasonable price point for luxury vacations, especially considering an "all inclusive" trip like a cruise or resort. In line with this, a space hotel/casino is very reasonable to get constructed.

> All of the things you've listed here though aren't really commercial enterprises. Or at least they're far from it. They're flagship missions by governments because they're so wildly expensive.

You're using past data to predict the future. Which is typically a good heuristic. However, when it comes to game changing technologies you can no longer use past data to predict future performance. SpaceX will continue to make margins off Starlink and regular F9-like flights. These profits are all going to be reinvested until a Moon and Mars colonies exist and regular trade begins.

Finally, other companies like Relativity Space are creating amazing 3D printers for rockets. These new technologies are only used in a small way in Starship, but could greatly reduce costs for Starship or the next ship. If the 2010s were about F9, and 2020s are about Starship, then the 2030s call for another SpaceX ship that gets even better tech advantages.
It was purely because the CEO wanted to use Office instead of Gsuite. No privacy/security related reasons.

Besides, if it was a hard requirement, they would have turned off the other chat channels.
> stable Helium, making waste disposal both safe, and cheap

Even better. Helium is a relatively scarce resource, there would be no shortage of people to take it off of your hands.
Google is failing me but I've seen advice on having a book for your home. It lists the as-built, photos of the walls showing the wiring and pipes etc and then updates over the years.

I think "How Buildings Learn" by Stewart Brand covered it.
>The new compiler -asan option supports the new go command -asan option.

How is ASAN used in a memory-safe language like Go? Is it useful only if I do uintptr shenanigans?
It's interesting that Raytheon's name is nowhere to be found on this. It sounds like Raytheon's bad code killed 28 US soldiers.
Wouldn't you have to ask where exactly the back road leads to?
That's a good point. The removal of such user-critical features should at the very least be announced well in advance via a clear deprecation notice, to allow for the collection of relevant feedback.
The minimum size of objects in cheaper storage types is 128KiB.

Given the article quotes $100k to run an inventory (and $100k/month in standard storage) it's likely most of your objects are smaller than 128KiB and so probably wouldn't benefit from cheaper storage options (although it's possible this is right on the cusp of the 128KiB limit and could go either way).

Honestly, if you have a $1.2m/year storage bill in S3 this would be the time to contact your account manager and try to work out what could be done to improve this. You probably shouldn't be paying list anyway if just the S3 component of your bill is $1.2m/year.
Committing a murder is really only an issue if you push it.
They're not enormously complex from a hardware perspective, but the sensing element is really hard to get right. Interference from a whole host of common drugs (including ibuprofen) can really mess up one's signal. Not to mention the regulatory moat; many medical device startups die on the vine working for regulatory approval, or looking for funding for expensive human trials (which quickly get into the millions or tens of millions for a Phase II/III trial)
I thought there was potential for medivac rockets.

Land near combat and take off to America or Europe for surgery.
No, that is about the atomic bombing, not about censorship.

While "consistency" is a weak argument, as a rule: there certainly is not any Significant New Information about the atomic bombing of Japan. That happened 76+ years ago, and the fact that the US had firebombed most big cities in Japan by then has been well known since the War.
> The whole process is no way involved with nuclear weapons, making security concerns much less relevant

The most important factor.
SpaceX has a contract to land people on the moon as part of the Artemis program. Last I checked, their plan includes multiple Starships and orbital refueling. Then there's the dearMoon project, where some artists are planned to be sent around the Moon, because.
If your threat model truly think it worth the hassle for you to use KeePass offline and sync offline. Then so be it.

However, given KeePass is still a piece of software, nothing stop state-supported malicious hackers injecting vulnerability into it, and suck your password away into their database.

Have you consider making sure all your computers are offline when using KeePass?
The biggest thing about Facebook's Workplace instance is that it's actually used by everyone, so while there will be the HR and manager posts, there are also all of the incident discussions, feature discussions, investigations, etc in there as well. With teams having the power to create their own (potentially private) groups to manage their own communication too, it meant that a lot of the content was useful.
I really don't come across this in most projects I read and learn from.
I don't work on FAANG but work on a very big tech corp.

I often see mentions and read whole discussions about the company I work for. People love to talk about our company and they often say things that are completely wrong. They also guess our roadmap wrong more often than not. But I can understand why people are wrong, there's a lot of speculation and it requires knowledge you just don't learn if you don't work here.

I also pay attention to discussions about the specific product my team works on. Whenever I see those, I share the link with my team. But those are rare. Once a bunch of people had a complaint about something we've been trying to raise to management for a while, so I used the discussion to try to escalate it again. No success.
Anybody who shares information on any 3rd party company platform in the belief that it's so private that they won't disclose it "to comply with a legal obligation" is kidding themselves.

Even Signal/WhisperSystems, who I have a great deal of respect for, would without question cave under government demands which come from the sort of people who've learn't from their failure to force Lavabit/Levison's compliance and silence. I have no doubt that successors to Levison's refusal to exploit their own previously-secure systems at the Government's request have been successfully threatened and manipulated into doing so using much more powerful threats and consequences that Levison's option of "OK then, I'll just shut my whole company down".

If a sufficiently powerful TLA decided I needed to be surveilled for a serious enough suspicion of a serious enough crime, I have no doubt that I'm "STILL GONNA BE MOSSAD’ED UPON"*

The chance of _any_ non-privacy-obsessed tech startup/company like Otter deciding to lawyer up and fight the US government to protect _my_ individual privacy as a low-paying customer is literally zero. The _best_ I can expect of them is to have a solid process in place to ensure the people demanding my data have the appropriate paperwork and jurisdictional oversight in place, more realistically I'd expect them to have a "law enforcement portal" like Facebook/eBay et al. where bored cops can log in and stalk their ex girlfriends.

* https://www.usenix.org/system/files/1401_08-12_mickens.pdf
SuperTokens (YC S20) Is Hiring a frontent engineer (remote)
That's an impressive level of hubris. I hope you're aware that the extent to which a gene can propogate is only loosely correlated with subjective metrics like "fitness" and "superior" traits on to it's host organism. Otherwise, we wouldn't have crippling genetic disorders around after nearly 4 billion years of evolution.

Also, can we please oh please not project this liberal meme of the "free market" on to Nature. Nature doesn't have "better" or "worse" ideas and it certainly doesn't have markets - at least till we came around.
OK I found this myself after another search through my many bookmarks. The answer is https://showhn-dashboard.netlify.app/ .
Thank you for your concern, friend!

Tell us, how long have you been diabetic?

Anecdotally, I have maintained a HbA1c below 5 for more than 20 years using small variations on the ketogenic diet described above. I need just 6 units of Humalog (short-acting) and 16 units of Lantus (long-acting) per day. It makes diabetes very, very easy to manage.

If anyone reading this is tired of struggling with diabetes, please consider adopting a ketogenic diet.

Consult with a physician!
AI clearly a national security issue and I think big funding for both defense and science purposes needs to happen.

But wouldn't it be better for govt to act like a VC and fund tons of little startups and crowd source the new ideas instead of funding big-tech (who already have tons of cash from existing revenue streams), or AI shops that are already VC backed?
Maybe, but if so users should still be able to submit a patch for reimplementing the feature properly, after these fixes land?
https://kg.dev/thoughts/i-love-you-hn-but-youre-toxic Related
Well as long as there have been electronic computers they have been applied they have been applied to the problems of magnetic confinement. For tokamaks static configurations and dynamic controls have been simulated. For stellarators geometry optimizations have been done. The time has always been right for this application.

Stellarators are particularly fun. First you optimize a last closed magnetic flux surface (a 3D sheet) with relatively simple plasma models, then you optimize coils (you need to weight things like magnetic field error, gaps big enough for heating and diagnostics, and coil complexity a la minimum radius), then you perform more accurate simulations to start the overall optimization loop again.
What does the crew component have to do with payload launches a la F9? They can work out a lot of the kinks with Starship while still launching satellites.
What's the best thing I can do to help out with this as a software engineer? Is SpaceX in need of any critical software components? I think this is honestly the coolest thing to happen in my entire lifetime so far, and I would love to be a part of it, but I'm not sure I'd be useful since I'm not a mechanical engineer.
> How did Musk solve this problem?

SpaceX haven't, yet.

> As I recall, the Soviet moon rocket failed because it had a cluster of engines that they could never get to work together. The Saturn V had a cluster of only 5, and barely were able to get that to work.

N-1 rocket had many troubles with the engines, but it wasn't specifically due to the number of engines: the NK-15 engine couldn't be test fired, vs the Raptor definitely can. You can read more about the four failures here[1].

Similarly, the biggest issues with the F1 engine (powered the first stage of the rocket) was with the injector plates: there was a lot of combustion instability due to uneven mixing in the giant combustion chamber. The Raptor, by virtue of injecting both fuel and oxidizer in gaseous form, will mix better (and it has much smaller combustion chamber anyway)

Having two launch pads (they're starting work on a second tower at the Cape) is also a big help, as they would have backup launch site in case there's an explosion.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N1_%28rocket%29#Launch_history
These two comments:

> topics that get rehashed over and over again with the same arguments are off-topic, ane

> something on WWII, it could still be relevant as general interest, even if it's old.

I really don't see how you reconcile these into any sort of objective principle.

How about this: "It's relevant if I say it is." That's perfectly fair for a private group; just say it.
The evidence is all around: life outside the single market is an utter disaster