skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Australia too, the comedian Celia Pacquola has a whole routine on "if we have nose-rings, ear-rings, then why don't we have finger-rings?"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMctPwaIA2E
Within the context of people who know what uBlock origin is, given that was the original comparison, 'most' sounds accurate.
> how big the number of false positives would have to be to shut the whole thing down?

Since it seems that false positives are uncorrectable (given that even a New York Times article hasn't gotten this one fixed), and the consequences of one are thus life-destroying, even a single false positive should mean shutting the whole thing down.
Ask HN: Why Matlab plots are much better in quality than Gnuplot or Matplotlib?
Compare MATLAB-generated graphs [1] with Gnuplot [2] and Matplotlib [3].

There is something wrong with the way the latter two render text or place their title or axis labels by default.

Is it the way it is cause MATLAB is a non-free product and more effort has gone into their plot rendering engine? Or is it just the poor defaults of the FOSS options and my subjective familiarity with MATLAB that is tripping me off?

Just see [4] (Matlab) and compare with [5] (Gnuplot) and [6] (Matplotlib). Whenever I plot something with the latter two, the resulting graph appears to be "ad-hoc" and "falling-apart".

[1] https://www.mathworks.com/products/matlab/plot-gallery.html

[2] http://gnuplot.sourceforge.net/demo/

[3] https://matplotlib.org/stable/gallery/index.html

[4] https://raw.githubusercontent.com/JimHokanson/plotBig_Matlab/master/documentation/jim_blog/speed_mac.png

[5] http://gnuplot.sourceforge.net/demo/simple.1.png

[6] https://matplotlib.org/stable/_images/sphx_glr_cohere_001_2_0x.png
With respect to the non-sequitur of the Azov bit, it is completely unrelated to this discussion.

That is ... unless you have a problem with ... I dunno ... jews?
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It would be nice to have at least two functional super-heavy options. Falcon Heavy (not sure if it's good for lunar) or Starship, and SLS.

One could make the argument that SLS being an option keeps SpaceX and others pushing to be the superior functional candidate. Without SLS as an option, SpaceX has a monopoly on the capability. just thinking out loud.

Related questions for anyone who knows:

* Can Orion fit on Falcon Heavy/Starship?

* Can Crew Dragon support more-than-LEO missions?

* Can Falcon Heavy support crewed more-than-LEO missions?
I'd rather have visionary geniuses as founders, though ...
writing off real dangers based on scientific journals....and you've never even travelled there....this take some special type of hubris.
So your students in some provincial eastern European university can barely get a C on an exam, trashing their GPAs in the process, closing life-long opportunities, because of the "only the professor deserves an A" attitude that then translates to reference letters and everywhere else. The same student then gets a 3.8+ GPA at a top 10 US university with glaring reviews of their work and 10x higher compensation the moment they decide to enter the industry. How are you going to stop the brain drain?
It saved the Buffalo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bison#Livestock

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Is it possible to develop a prime number system?
Google opens public tests of chatbot that ex-engineer claimed is ‘sentient’
Noted! After Github added support for Mermaid in markdown, we added an "Export as Mermaid" feature to Flowchart Fun. It's good to know people would be interested in conversion to Graphviz too.
How an eCommerce giant replaced Google Analytics for privacy and speed
Ask HN: Is it ethical for open-source projects to have usage analytics tracking?
We’re building an open-source tool to do search/category/recommendation personalization (https://github.com/metarank/metarank), eventually planning to create a business out of it. We have a small number of pilot projects with real feedback, but we rarely have a chance to see how new people interact with the service, as it’s self-hosted backend tool with no UI.

We have an idea to add anonymous analytics reporting to get a glimpse of real usage (and places where people are struggling to improve), but are concerned if it’s ethical or not to do such intrusive things.

Is it acceptable for an open-source project to have this type of tracking, considering our materialistic plans to transform it into a business?
> Eventual launches will bring the price down

And this is not even a possibility with the non-reusable SLS, which makes continuing it seem kind of crazy.
> Getting money for running websites is also non-mandatory?

Correct. I've only run a handful of websites in my life, but not one of them has ever served ads.
I can't downvote yet (and will probably start over when I can[0]) but when I have in the past I reserved downvotes for comments made in bad faith (straw/steelmanning, etc).

I will admit I would sometimes feel compelled to downvote minority opinions instead of refuting them. On some subjects (eg abortion), I have seen the same opinions and arguments made for decades. I'm tired of seeing the same poorly thought out arguments again and again and again and again.

However I try to hold back and just ignore those comments these days. (Not always successfully..)

0: I use HN exclusively on mobile and the downvote button is too easy to press accidentally, so the privilege is actually a curse.
My bad, you're right. I usually just buy them second hand.

Which is a pretty good way to go about it. The after market for parts is pretty strong. They're plentiful and refurbished units are cheap enough that you can get a backup or two. With a decent backup system you can clone your setup to a new machine fast.
The close button is very easy to use and doesn't require additional software (each solution having upgrades/costs/breakage of its own in addition to the browser).
Brave filters out those for me pretty well - in fact that's most of what I use it for, FF + UBlock is my default browser on Android, but doesn't do quite as well with Youtube (and then I am using Nextdns via Private DNS for system-wide blocking).
SpaceX is contracted to deliver people to the Moon surface for 2.8 billion dollars total (development + actual mission).

To do it they need around 6 launches for refueling in orbit.

The very upper limit on a single Starship launch is 0.5 billion.
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I look forward to learning more about your journey. I've recently launched a company and I am finding the YC Startup School content fascinating.

Being from a non-coastal area, my HN engagement has for many years been a lurker and general technology trend interest. I'm pleasantly surprised how well developed YC content is.
I kinda feel thisn't about Eastern Europe, its USA vs the rest of the world. The "25 things British Say vs What they mean" meme is pretty similar. https://www.lifehack.org/articles/lifestyle/25-things-britis...
+1 on this. I grew up in Denver and around 2015, things just started to become super Californicated. Most of my friends from Denver now live essentially on the outskirts of Denver (Lafayette, Brighton, etc.) because it's the only places they can afford.

Maybe I'm getting older but I personally would only move somewhere in the mountains if I wanted to live in Colorado. Denver and Boulder downtown areas just doesn't interest me anymore.
You'll have a 90 degree uphill battle if you want to convince people of that in general -- cows, chickens, goats, lab rats, all sorts of insects, bees, all pets, harvesting various animals for medicine.
Yes but this can be just a very simple (z\ba\fi)sh function. What's the point of keeping yet another tool for this?)
Incredible, a public + private UGC hosting service with no service terms or code of conduct (that I could find, even in onboarding). That's so brave lol
Most CSS, as authored, is a maintenance nightmare full of kludges. So I can understand your take. But (as someone who's been building and improving websites since 1998), I don't blame CSS per se. The problem is developers who haven't learned it properly trying to be the browser's micromanager instead of its mentor. Take a look at https://every-layout.dev to see CSS in a new light; it's profoundly compelling, powerful, and elegant.
There's a Neil deGrasse Tyson video titled We Stopped Dreaming that gets into the NASA budget (and the related society changes) https://youtu.be/CbIZU8cQWXc

The part about the NASA budget is at 2:00 though it's all a good watch.
> Over 200 underground cities at least two levels deep have been discovered in the area between Kayseri and Nevşehir, with around 40 of those having at least three levels.

I suspect that at least part of it was the ground in the area being easy to dig into to make a dwelling.

Dry underground dwellings are very good in general if they can be made easily.
I would call Svelte a React-like system that actually does do direct DOM manipulations and works great for performance-critical UI code as well as everything else.
One of my happier hacks was setting up home assistant for home automation with adguard and WireGuard VPN.

Whole house ad blocking and my iPhone is pretty much consistently attached to my home VPN to take advantage of the ad blocking.

There’s some small pain points with using public wifi with login screens, enough so that I haven’t had my wife use it yet but I dig it.
Two examples of malicious behaviour:

(1) I have the server you're curling-into-bash. I write my server to check if it's piped into sh; if so, I instead pipe malicious statements.

(2) I have the server you're downloading from. I write the binary you're downloading so that it later executes malicious statements.

The "don't curl into sh" is worried about the former.

But, the latter seems a much more practical attack, that reading the script you curl is insufficient to protect you from.

It seems weird to mention (1) without at least mentioning (2).
Firefox Focus only seems to block some ads and isn't configurable to block the many ads and web annoyances that get through.

I also find it annoying that I lose access to my entire Firefox ecosystem on my computer and phone since the focus of the app is actually on anonymous browsing versus blocking ads. If I send tabs to my iPad they still open up in regular Firefox. Firefox Focus only slightly makes the web useable, while giving up most of the browser conveniences.
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Er no, most iOS apps are not thinly veiled webapps. Have you ever used iOS?
See also: https://xkcd.com/540/
From what I understand, it's only "related" to the July issue because the rehearsal back then was stopped before they got to testing engine bleed. If they'd finished the WDR properly in July, it's likely that today's problem would've been caught.
Thanks for making this. This type of software makes e-ink much more usable.

I also suggest trying Android e-ink readers from companies such as Hisense or Onyx Boox as they've come a long way in the last few years. (Not affiliated with them, just a bit obsessive on the topic)

With the upcoming generation of color e-ink and large companies starting to notice (Apple, Huawei) it's only going to get better and better moving forward.
how do you play audios at higher speed without breaking tonality(dont know the right term for it, but audio get very high peech at high speeds) of the speaker?

only vlc work great at 2x speeds but its podcast handling capacity is not that great.

other players just let go at 1.18x ..
If you care about the species giving humans an incentive to raise/protect them is pretty effective. If you care about the individual animal this is the worst thing you could do.
Why 12 notes in Western music?
Heat waves and air pollution can be a deadly combination
Oh I had just read about him a few days ago while browsing Quora, the article was an answer to something like "Who's the loneliest person in the world". He certainly qualified :/
Where these massive launch costs are coming from? All Starship's Raptor V2 engines COMBINED cost less than refurbishment of ONE RS-25 engine. There are four RS-25 engines on SLS.
Falcon 9 flight 1 was delayed more than 10 times, for about 6 months, from it's initial NET launch date of Nov 29 2009 until the actual launch on June 4 2010.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon_Spacecraft_Qualificatio...
This has been exactly my experience building (the apparent 200th) uptime monitoring service over the last 18 months.

They all look the same to start with, but over time you learn a "better way" of doing things, that the others haven't considered.
DoorDash data breach leaves important customer details exposed
Darn those Californians, always doing stuff like digging the Tenn-Tom canal.
> grow so big so fast you consume the entire market

That isn't the unpopular part. The derided part is doing so with poor unit-economics. You still need to make a profit or what is the point?

Another big difference is that is very common to run at a loss early on in the life of startup ... but when examined more closely the marginal costs should still make sense. If you are small enough that R&D overhead, or hiring ahead of revenue (growth investment) is overshadowing the top-line ... well that is the just normal startup finances. But there still needs to be a business model where it will make sense with enough sales, and the cost will have sub-linear growth relative to the revenue.
> It just stores the full content of every file every time it’s modified and committed.

That's not true; otherwise each git branch folder would be huge, but it's not. It stores the snapshot of changes in branch folders
Are you sure about this? Apple isn't really a protégé of heavy customization, especially anything relating to iOS.
You would need to run CLIP and generate CLIP embeddings from the images first, then feed them into the samplers. If you give it the starting images and caption them yourself, then it would also work.
> Well it ought to be able to be trained for a number of scenarios and then on generation be told to generate based on certain cultural sensibilities. It's not going to be perfect but probably good enough?

Do we want the AI to generate based on Polanski's sensibilities, even if he's the only audience member? I suspect for most people the answer is no.
If they can get it out of the atmosphere, up to orbital velocity, and back in, and land it in one piece, they will have done the hard part, and getting it fully to orbit will be a foregone conclusion.
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Or you won’t answer the question because you know the answer..? Your logic is flawed and makes no sense. Typical though, these regurgitated talking points are not unusual ;)
SpaceX is contracted to deliver people to the Moon surface for 2.8 billion dollars total (development + actual mission).

To do it they need around 6 launches for refueling in orbit.

The very upper limit on a single Starship launch is 0.5 billion (2.8/6).
Just incredible to see you complete the circle here Garry.

I'll be really interested to see the perspective you bring, especially when it comes to the human side of the equation of founding a startup.

I remember for some time you were looking seriously at mental health for teams. Any early thoughts on how you might adjust the current sentiment of hustle culture?
Black Swan’ Author Taleb Says Colleges Should Bear Student Debt Forgiveness
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Advancing Ed Innovations and Broadening Participation in Stem with Blockchain
You must have missed the last 50 years with that much fear of change. Yikes.
I mean the level of complaint being "Opening the lid is kinda hard" shows it must be a pretty good laptop. It's like complaining that the waiter asked one time too many if everything was satisfactory at a high-end restaurant.
> my vision for KTool

I see what you did there.

Didn't Amazon tighten up how custom content is delivered to Kindles fairly recently, requiring 2FA? So you need to connect the Kindle to load the content?
I confirm, totally
It's welcoming for the first N people. A small subset of the community that starts the community.

After a while it becomes an almost ritual hazing. Kind of like HR making you write a paragraph about yourself for an introduction email to a company. In spirit, it should help people find some common ground with you to spark a conversation. In reality no one actually cares, it's awkward for the person writing the introduction, and helps nothing except waste time.

On forums in particular I always hated these introductions because I don't really want people to know much about me on the internet anyway. So it became a tremendous effort to manufacture enough of a story it was consistent with my life (so I didn't forget), but different enough that I couldn't be identified.

Newbie fingering though...that's hilarious. I haven't heard a FINGER pun in a very long time.
We didn't know what a good thing we had with 36.6 and Lynx or Gopher
To offer a slightly more accurate measure than "half a jiffy", this article (published on May 9, 2022) lists the costs involved for different types of passwords and password lengths:

https://support.1password.com/pbkdf2/

Clocking in at a cracking cost of 79 million USD, for most intents and purposes, even a rather trivial 56-bit entropy password such as "align-caught-boycott-delete" (or "correct horse battery staple", for that matter) would be prohibitively expensive to break.
One, that’s not a race so is false equivalence. Second, if you’re an institution that for decades actively restricted active astronauts to be solely white men, acknowledging that there should be a fair representation of people on space missions is a good thing. Some people might incorrectly conclude that this means that more qualified white men will be sidelined by a quota. But that would be a rather prejudiced and simple view, making some nasty assumptions and ignoring the current wide variety of highly qualified astronaut candidates.
FYI, I believe the solid rocket boosters are due to expire this summer so if they delay any more, they may really bone themselves.
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Not really, VHS was similar to Betamax. Beta has a slightly better recording format than VHS due to resolution (250 lines vs. 240 lines). Both same scanline ratio.

The misconception is people confuses Betamax with Betacam, (both from Sony).
Betacam was the Sony format for broadcasters, and the one with high quality (sound and picture). But bloody expensive.

Betamax lost due two to reasons. (1)tapes can only record 1 hour. Not enough for most recordings. Sony addressed the wrong market. (2) Price and retail distribution.

In other words, Betamax lost because VHS has a better market fit, and the market choose the technology that allowed to have theater movies in the video rental store.

(I was a Beta owner back in the 80s).
As you said, ULA when it started already had mature rockets. You need to compare rocket families not operators.

And ULA had a number of issues in that time. For example a failure in an Atlas first stage and the only just managed to deploy the sat because the upper stage had just enough margin.

And ULA had major delays, way longer then what SpaceX could afford for things like their Delta 4 Heavy launches.

ULA of course also got 1 billion $ in subsidies per year to ensure launch safety, a luxury SpaceX never had.

> But still, we don't have significant statistical evidence about which is actually more reliable.

Actually we do. It you look at the launch rates and how often Falcon 9 has launched already the statistical significant of the results gets bigger and bigger.

Unfortunately I can't find the list that shows this data and explains the methods used right now.

But Falcon 9 is very clearly on top of the list.
They can still be a job program and also advance the state of the art of space exploration in material, propulsion, in orbit refueling, ISRU, etc. Instead they end up with a rocket using old technology engine, costing $4B a piece, being able to launch at most once a year. It’s a missed opportunity, charitably speaking.
Oh I thought you were suggesting we should stop censoring legal but offensive behavior? The issue of exactly who’s doing the censoring seems absolutely and completely relevant to the subject of censorship, no? If it’s irrelevant, then I don’t understand the point of your top comment. Why do we need to allow offensive wackos to do their thing, what offensive things are we talking about, and who needs to allow them?

Perhaps a more important discussion, if you do care about censorship, is to define more thoughtfully what you mean about “within the limits of the law”. In the US, the law, up to and including the constitution, makes clear that offensive behavior is anywhere from not protected free speech up to criminal activity. Politicians are debating what the limits of the law should be, and sometimes they blow hot air, and sometimes they write bills. Either way, the results of Congressional bills are establishing the limits of the law, and so define the acceptable legal bounds of offensive media & speech. Here’s one of the bi-partisan congressional sessions on games (it included Feinstein, among many others, but she didn’t testify). https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CHRG-109shrg28337/html/C...
Just block Google's DNS servers at the router level.

(Although the best solution would probably be to ditch Samsung crap)
Gotcha. I was thinking in different terms.
Note that SpaceX has received ~$10 billion in total investment since inception, and receives about $2b in revenue annually from launches.

We don't have insight into SpaceX finances, but this should give you an upper bound on how much money SpaceX is spending on something.

This $10 billion in total investment and annual revenue has financed the development of Falcon 9, Dragon, Dragon 2 and Crew Dragon, Starship, launch pads at Vandenburg, Boca Chica, and two at the Cape, Merlin, Raptor, Starlink development, thousands of Starlink satellites, and all the associated ground infrastructure, recovery and recovery ships, and everything else.

While we don't have any hard numbers on what the Starship development program has cost thus far, it's not likely to be in the billions.
Most Stephenson fans think I'm nuts when I say The Big U is my favorite. What can I say? I like my sci-fi cheesy with lots of interesting concepts.
Lol, YouTube has minted many millionaires.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_the_colonial_histor...

Slavery in the American colonies went from ~1526 to 1776 (250 years), plus another ~90 years post independence. Palestinians can still vote, and are considered to be actual people, with the right to self-determination.

Also, Soviet Union, China.
For this reason alone, I am seriously tempted by PiHole's companion, PiVPN. Browsing without this protection just seems crazy to me.
Congrats Garry! Will never forget how you helped us design our logo during office hours. Took 2 minutes and the result was better than anything we came up with that month.
Oh it’s far more aspirational than real :D

With a tinge of “We work hard like the Germans! We’re not like those other people from the area. Please hire us”.

My understanding is that under Yugoslavia we were the most prosperous region by far. Then the export market collapsed and we realized “Shit, most of our economy is oriented towards former Yugoslavia!” and we started reorienting towards central europe.

But central europe has plenty other even cheaper markets to import from. So that’s been a problem.
To go from college dropout to PhD, I had to let go of my fear of failure
Question: how is an IPO price "maintained" by the banks? Isn't that "fake trades"? Basically a kind of pump until they can get out, showly without affecting the stock price too much.