skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Seems like a bit of amateur hour over at space.com

> If that mission is successful, SpaceX will have taken its super heavy-lift vehicle from the drawing board and into space in far less time than it took NASA to do the same with the SLS. SpaceX's goal is to build an entire fleet of Starships and launch multiple vehicles on a daily basis, at an average launch cost of $1 million or thereabouts.

Yeah so the problem with that is that Falcon Heavy launches cost 97 million, which is 42x cheaper, not 4000x times cheaper. This means SpaceX thinks they're going to get another 2 orders of magnitude out of the launch costs? Okay Elon.

Also I think they may be comparing the cost of the launch in fuel and manpower, hopefully for launch and recovery, but ignoring the cost of the rocket, and possibly the cost of cycling the rocket back to the pad.
We have take the approach that the only ports visible to internet traffic are un-authenticated ones... everything else must traverse ipsec or wireguard. This gives us completely silent ssh ports.

We found strongswan examples pretty useful... it's basically pick your config and copy/paste. Wireguard only has 'one way' to set it up which is a whole 'nother level of simplicity.

This has completely silenced our firewall and ssh logs. Nobody is out blasting ipsec or wireguard connection probes around the internet (for now).
Posting something that most of the audience can’t see without hacking isn’t all that interesting to me and it feels like an ad. If you as a poster have something to say, it should be readable without bending the rules. And honestly, stuff from “the usual business mags” isn’t interesting or pertinent. Those folks are orthogonal to where I’ve lived. I’m fungible to them, they’re suits to me.

This is Hacker News, not Yahoo Finance or some such alternative.
to be pedantic, in the days when this was generally true, it was ultimately enforced by the linker...

(and sometimes the 36-bit machines would even limit identifiers to 6 6-bit characters)
If you want a profile photo to be mandatory, you better be getting a photographer in to take company staff photos. Then make it mandatory for them to use this photo as their Slack profile pic. Add it to your company policy and inform HR that this should be included in the onboarding process.

Downside: it's costly to have professional photos taken with each new staff member and some process need to be changed.

Upside: you're no longer talking to Calvin from Calvin and Hobbes. Also it looks professional and it's in my opinion better for overall company culture.
Wouldn't that happen even in the US? A movie full of vile racist and sexist jokes bordering on abuse is not going to get a [G] rating, meaning the government is censoring it for some viewers.

Edit: it seems it's actually relatively easy to find jokes that are genuinely offensive and degrading in PG rated films. Why that's considered less potentially harmful to kids than showing sex between consenting adults I honestly don't know.
I don't know if it's what the OP meant but the standard "German window" is a shape that makes an AC a lot more difficult than in e.g. the US. You can't mount it in the window directly and the insulation required is relatively irregular.

https://deine-mobile-klimaanlage.de/abluftschlauch/

Anecdotally, doors within an apartment/house are also far less airtight than in the US.

(Germans take airflow in homes extremely seriously; es zieht / frische Luft! is perhaps the fundamental contradiction in the German culture.)
I'm not going to argue that these things are completely orthogonal, but as the current inflation crisis illustrates, we can have steep inflation and high labor participation (of course, sustaining that labor participation in the midst of steep inflation is infeasible, but most people aren't economically literate and even professional economists get it wrong with troubling frequency).
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The right wing uses videos like that to show that, "liberals are the only ones offended by cultural appropriation". The topic is far too complex to be encapsulated in a TikTok video, but the video is just an example of how it's possible that representing another culture could still be appreciated, and that not every instance of representing another culture is appropriation.
If you are training models that are intended to be used in production at scale then training is dirt cheap compared to inference. There is a reason why Google focused on inference first with their TPU's even though Google does a lot of ML training.
Not to mention that early laptops had LCDs with very slow refresh rates, which could make a moving pointer very difficult to track. The trail gave an indication of where the pointer had been and was going as it was traveling.
Absolutely wrong, the founders knew it, you should know it, everyone knows it.

There's a big difference between using the rule of law to shape what can and cannot be said or sold or published. Compared to different private publishers/agents/etc deciding what they wish to do. The marketplace solves the latter problem - and it has!

People are getting caught up in the "chicken" joke, but if you read the read of the article you'll see that crime dramas had to be re-shot so the "side of justice" wins in the end.

What kind of anodyne cultural bullshit is that? Only the good guys win - BY STATE LAW.

So absolutely not, the US and China are not even remotely the same. To suggest so is so ridiculous offensive it opens one up to accusations that they are a Chinese sock puppet... and it's a totally reasonable opinion to hold!
Remember those pictures of water crystals that had been subjected to emotions and formed differently?
>Like I said, it's a great stretch to extrapolate a few samples to two continents of people. There's a lot of genetic diversity in the Americas, and different lifestyles. Thinly populated areas are not going to spread the disease like thickly populated ones, etc.

A few samples? Smallpox has been around for millenia and has caused epidemics with significant mortality where ever it was found. The idea that something about the genetic diversity or lifestyles of the indigenous populations of the Americas is frankly ridiculous. Especially given the numerous and consistent first hand reports that Smallpox and other diseases ravaged the native population.

>I know what percentages are.

Do you? Because you keep talking about the total population or the number of killed when I speak about death rates and percentages.
I had a DigitalOcean droplet running Selenium grid that I didn't secure properly. I got an email that Sony Entertainment had reported my IP for botting login attempts in the Playstation store. I think I had 48 hours to respond to DigitalOcean.

Shut down Selenium right away, checked the logs, yep someone had taken over my selenium grid. It was just a small personal project on a sever I had forgot was still running, but at least they took reports seriously when my account was causing things.
No, I think he blocks anyone who likes a tweet that disagrees with him. Not necessarily people who are replying to him.
Electric vehicle fires on ships and ferries
Is there a way for HTML+CSS to capture what the user's cursor actually looks like, in case if a website wants to perfect the "ghost" effect without replacing the cursor image?
> Trails were an accessibility feature in early GUI environments

I’m pretty sure the option still exists on Windows 11
You don't need a new universe. You just need a species that hears sounds a little differently. We won't like listening to their music, but it'll be really great for them.
On the one hand, I'm glad to see somebody from the gaming industry attempting blockchain games.

On the other hand, it's the Game of War guy. So it might just be more online casinos disguised as video games.
Congratulations Garry and thank you Geoff!

Very excited to see the next chapter of growth at YC!
> I think companies feel that if they aren’t going to “do DevOps”, that they need to rebrand the term “DevOps” to mean “what we happen to already do”.

> To me, the most egregious example of this is when a company simply changes the job titles of all its ops people. John use to be an “IT Operations” guy, abut now he’s a “DevOps Engineer”.

This is so true it hurts..
Hearty congratulations Garry, Start-up school was an awesome experience with you. Cheers!
I completely disagree.

An individual's rights should have nothing to do with the people who happen to surround them and what they happen to think.

If different countries allow different things, that would mean that what a person is allowed to do would depend on where they happen to live, which is usually close to where they happened to be born. That doesn't make any sense to me- the lottery of birth should have no impact on one's rights.
Let me make this simpler.

The 100 most popular movies produced in China are completely fine to stream in the US. Not a single scene or phrase is removed by our government before allowing us to watch them. Same with music, TV, books, and art.

The reverse is not even close. Can you give me a Western example that is analogous to Tank Man, or to Winnie the Pooh?
I used to do that on my honeypots.

I'll do it again when I set up new ones, it was neat seeing a new credential pair show up from one attacker only for a while, then show up from more over time as knowledge of some appliances default creds spread across the hacker world.
I don't have a definite view on this, but my intuition tells me that there is more to it than just the monopoly effect. If YouTube had developed with additional competitors, it might not necessarily have lead to a better market/space for videographers since having a single platform has its own advantages for the development of the medium/culture/etc.

YouTube is getting more heavy-handed as time goes on, but one reason for this is that they were operating at a loss for so long, and in doing so provided extra utility that we might take for granted.

GP comment mentioned Netflix, but that is in fact a good example of what I mean. They started to struggle because competitors moved into the space. Unlike YouTube, they did not have an unassailable position. Unlike Spotify, they did not have a market that allowed sharing catalogues across platforms.

In a sense, what we interpreted as Netflix showing a viable business model was rather Netflix showing early mover advantage on borrowed time. Having an ecosystem with multiple mediocre services such as what streaming is becoming now would not necessarily have been in the advantage of videographers if it had happened to video-sharing platforms. It would almost certainly have lead to a smaller and less engaged overall audience.
I still see a good amount, but I think I am better at blocking them through distributed firewall sensors and such. Also, I think there is an opportunity cost. When you hear how lucrative other hacking avenues are, why bother with crappy little accounts that probably dont monetize for that much vs activities that are far more lucrative

https://thecyberwire.com/podcasts/research-saturday/247/note...

The numbers in that story (even at the low end) are eye popping :(
> Our main hypothesis is that connecting the body to the Earth enables free electrons from the Earth’s surface to spread over and into the body, where they can have antioxidant effects. Specifically, we suggest that mobile electrons create an antioxidant microenvironment around the injury repair field

The Earth has special electrons. Yeah right.

What I would believe is that, in a dry climate, one regularly picks up some static charge that dissipates through tiny discharges (shocks) when touching something sufficiently large at a different potential, e.g. anything grounded. Grounding oneself will change that to a more continuous very very tiny current and one moves around and accumulates charges. Maybe this has an effect?
I've done a studio tour of TBBT set, and they have mics set up for audience recording.

I'm not sure what your "worth the hassle" is about, they rented the same sound stage for YEARS to record the show. They're hardly tearing it down and setting it up daily!
Didn't GitHub do that too? I seem to remember a framed picture of a giraffe in a top hat (imgur) and an octopus cat in the Tattooine desert (GitHub).
In 19-TET, B♭♭ is an A#, which is two "steps" below B.

BTW I was wrong in that Adim is A-C-E♭-G♭. Still not enharmonic to Cdim, and probably diminished chords sound weird in general because G♭-A is four 19-TET steps, which is a 19-TET step smaller than a minor third. It probably sounds halfway between a semidiminished chord and a regular diminished chord.
Light grey text does mean that the post has been downvoted below zero.
It's not always bad managers or management. The fancy new hotness gets pushed onto them by smooth-talking evangelists. For every criticism or question they have a snazzy little quip and retort that makes you look like an idiot for not knowing "the obviousness" of your errors and how this new fad/tech/framework/methodology solves it. And if that retort doesn't work, they just tell you "it's standard in the industry, dunno what you want me to tell you".

And from the outside, this all just looks like resume padding and job-security. Devops is the new priesthood, subscribe or be reduced to irrelevance by config warriors.
Loan servicers are paid a fixed amount per loan they service. The repayment pause has not hurt servicers.

https://thecollegeinvestor.com/36556/how-much-do-federal-stu...
No. The point of view that between being maximally uptight about race is different than acknowledging and working against racism.
This is why I sleep on my stomach.
22-TET is a sweet spot in the curve of "Average Error Distance From Harmonic Interval" http://www.gweep.net/%7Eshifty/portfolio/musicratios/index.h...
Using passwords for SSH is also bad security.
I noted that in my comment:

> We ban pornography on public airwaves (but not on streaming or cable or satellite, or Blueray).

And the FCC has a very narrow scope. I also happen to disagree with their prudishness (Janet Jackson, 2003). It does not back the argument that we're "honestly no better".
The single most useful thing I ever learned was how to break down a problem, make steps to a solution, make a flowchart of said steps, and annotate the flowchart with pseudo-code. After that, making the software was trivial. Even with that toolset I’m likely mediocre at best.
I don't have a dev one, but all of the reviews have been phenomenal. If I were looking to buy some hardware, it would be near the top of my list, here's a review: https://www.wired.com/review/hp-dev-one-linux-laptop/
Callout/shaming culture is a stock phrase I use to describe the sort of internet culture we don't want here [1]. Maybe the word 'shaming' isn't so applicable in this case, though I do think shaming is part of why online warriors like to preserve the worst internet traces left by those they dislike, and copy them into each fresh discussion.

Re 'facts': this is a red herring. There are infinitely many facts. They don't select themselves; humans do that, and they do so for non-factual reasons [2]. As a matter of fact, "but it's a fact" is the most beloved defense of trolls—not that you mean it that way. (Edit: incidentally, I have no idea whether your claims about Garry, including the ones you deleted, were facts or not - but I'm assuming they are for present purposes because it makes the moderation point stronger.)

The problem with your post is that it was obvious online agitprop—in fact one couldn't find a more classic case (edit: before you edited it—it's less that way now). That's off topic on HN, but not because of trying to protect YC from criticism (we don't moderate HN that way [3] – plenty of people criticize YC here), nor because of political disagreement (there's room for a wide range of views, as long as people are using the site as intended)—but rather because it makes threads more predictable and nastier, and therefore more boring. We're trying to optimize for something else on HN [4].

Edit: I just noticed that you edited your GP comment to take out a couple of extreme guilt-by-association references and to add a relevant tweet by sama. Those are two steps towards an on-topic sort of political argument (good), but if you're going to edit comments after they've gotten replies, it's only fair to do so in a way that doesn't deprive other posts of their original meaning. My description ("hardened political rhetoric and seasoned talking points") was accurate about your original post and is less so now. In other words, you subtly changed the thread to make the moderation look less neutral and fair than it originally was. I hope that was just an accidental side effect, and that your motive for making those edits was a sincere desire to use HN as intended.

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I love the inverted colors, it really helps keep the cursor visible in the bleak wasteland of Windows 10's UI.
The problem isn't the decision itself. The problem is all the context surrounding it. Namecheap is a Californian company with it's support staff outsourced to Ukraine.

Cutting off Russia on it's own already subjects a bunch of probably already very stressed out Ukranians to the stress of dealing with angry Russians, most of whom have nothing to do with the war in Ukraine. These customers mind you, used Namecheap to host content the Russian regime disapproves of; they were pretty much the only reputable registrar offering domains to Russian customers that wasn't ran by the state. Getting rid of those customers pushes those people to Russian state registrars, who will gladly come knocking for contact details if someone hosts something that the Kremlin disapproves of.

Adding to that, the actual methodology used was basically the dumbest method. It seems they targeted everyone who ever had Russian bank details in their account, anyone who ever accessed the site over a Russian IP address and anyone who had a Russian last name. This included hitting several thousands of people who fled the regime over a decade ago, who upon contacting Namecheap support were told to hand over proof of their permanent housing outside of Russia, people who used their account over a VPN, people in neighboring countries because GeoIP isn't an accurate science and people who have Russian roots but haven't even set foot in the country.

The only way to prove this was to send fairly specific details of your housing to Namecheap support (reports at the time even indicated that affected customers had to send photographs of their own house to remain a client), something which can be very sensitive for some people, wrt OPSEC and it's also data they could easily verify with existing KYC data, but they categorically refused to do that.

Like, the methods employed and the complete lack of perspective on what Russians used Namecheaps domains for are what make it racial discrimination, the decision itself is justifiable enough, many companies dropped Russia after the invasion.
USA took in nearly 200,000 tons of whales in 1858 alone, nearly all of it just to produce oil from the blubber, and the rest of the carcass was discarded. I'd say that was completely unnecessary as well.
Corporate Culture accounts for 80% of the Company value
Found that, not really about start-up valuation, but he seems to understand what drives that
Now we're right back to the exercise where we give everyone in class the average grade and see what happens. This punishes work.

Worse, economically speaking, UBI would get swallowed by the inflation it causes, and we have the worse problem of running out of other people's money to pay for UBI.
Is anyone expecting that most firmware engineers would already hear about Rust?
All states are evil
Interesting, this was a thing in the VGA days. I didn't know it stills is.
Eh eh as other people say, you have discovered the Pythagorean scale, that is known to drift away slowly from the correct frequencies, that's is why for a long time people didn't use chords that overlapped octaves, because they sounded weird and they called those evil chords
I agree with your last sentence, but on the subject of positive portrayals of US armed forces, the studios actually have an incentive to play nice. The DoD will let film productions use real equipment and personal, but only after vetting the script and making changes as they see fit.

For example, the Transformers movies: https://www.wired.com/2008/12/pentagon-holl-1/

The general concept: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military-entertainment_compl...
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There is a lot of software I've used where I would have been just fine if all development stopped. I don't need or want new features, keeping up with security fixes, bugs, and OS updates, is fine, but feature wise many things I would have been happy to call the software done.

But that doesn't keep programmers employed, VC's making money, or management justifying themselves.

Frustrating.
Well you can use the ncnn version that is the backend for this program. https://github.com/xinntao/Real-ESRGAN-ncnn-vulkan
How cringe-worthy is that tired racist joke about the Chinese eating dogs? It's like that one drunk great-uncle at Thanksgiving who just absolutely loves that joke and you know, every single year, you gotta hear it. And he can't tell you once single practical reason why he hates China. Really, he just likes the racism. That's it.
If regulation is the answer, I'd hope it is designed with the restraint that Madison had: only guarantee the deepest and most fundamental rights. It should not rule out the ability to use error-prone systems at all, at most it could restrict their use for the most severe consequences like broad account bans. Google can and should be reducing the scope of their automated action.

I think error-prone systems are still necessary today to reduce costs to a tolerable modern level. I'm not inclined to throw out the baby with the bathwater regarding communication costs for the same reason I don't want $300 toasters even if "they don't make 'em like they used to".

A good example is something that Facebook does: they have a blacklist of domains you can't send on Messenger, the message will be instantly blocked when you paste a detected link. From experience, this list is fairly large and very inaccurate, but the false positives for this system are annoying rather than catastrophic because all it does is block a specific message. If you don't like this, then you can use Signal or something, I don't want other people making that choice for me.
Is it more expensive than running out of water though?
When I have wax buildup about once a year, I flush with warm water and a "Monoject 412". I shoot the stream directly into the canal, almost as hard as possible, over and over until it is completely clean. I have been to a physician where a nurse usually does a similar procedure with a machine. They however, leave my ear hurting and have even noticed bleeding after the procedure.

I do not recommend trusting a doctor with this procedure. DIY is safer in my experience. You do not need to stick the monoject in your ear, just get it close and direct the stream into the canal.