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The question was being asked early. It came into public focus even before the Challenger loss, as the shuttle program struggled to come remotely close to promised flight rates (which of course it never did). The cover story of the November 1985 issue of Discover magazine had this cover blurb:

"The shuttle is a superb technological achievement, and it's flown by brave, immensely competent men and women...

But what's it good for?"

https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/oFwAAOSwgDZjI0Av/s-l500.jpg

The article was pointing out that going with cheaper expendable launchers would have been a much, MUCH better idea. And so it proved.

(This article is one of the reasons I wrote "largely" in the comment above.)

At any point after this article came out, cheerleading was irresponsible.

Journalists might be forgiven for not predicting how uneconomic the Shuttle would be to operate, at least before this became painfully obvious a few years in. Even the critics on Capitol Hill like Mondale and Proxmire missed that; they focused more on development cost. But the Shuttle would have been a failure even if the development cost was zero.
The title has been editorialized in contravention of HN guidelines.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

> Otherwise please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize.
Well they did just pass a bunch of laws last year to upzone the whole state, crush NIMBY zoning BS and lower permitting requirements for dense development near transit stops.

Builder’s remedy is already being applied against NIMBY communities like Santa Monica and Redondo beach, no take backs.

It takes time to build the homes and see the impact but it’s hard to say that they’re not moving strongly in the right direction.

Sure they’re doing it 20-30 years later than they should have but they’re certainly not sitting on their hands right now.

Newsome knows he needs to show that he really addressed the massive headline problem that everyone hears about California before he can have a serious crack at the presidency, or else he’s never going to overcome the “California bad because mismanaged by Democrats”
Out of curiosity, are you really not able to tell which is which in this unlabeled image? https://imgur.com/a/xhCZgds
> both parties benefit from it.

> It is a bias towards the status quo.

These are the same thing.
I know you're kidding but it's a good question. I don't do it while the car is moving obviously. I like to camp in the car at RV spots at lakes, state parks, and other pleasant places while on a long road trip. Plug in the car, sleep in the back, and wake to a full charge.
Yes, you absolutely can fly with it. TSA has gone on the record, at least in local newspapers, stating that they defer to local police if they find cannabis. If it's for personal use, local PD won't do anything other than suggest you throw it away or else risk punishment if you're flying somewhere legal. I've researched this extensively before flying out of specific airports in legal states up and down the west coast and the story is always the same.

I've even had a TSA agent rummage through my carry-on in Oakland airport, pull out prerolls and buds, dig further to find the half-full water bottle I forgot I'd had, tell me they have to throw it away, and return my cannabis to me. I've flown with it entirely too many times to count, never attempting to conceal it, and have never had a problem.

The only time you're likely to run into trouble flying out of a legal state is if it looks like you're traveling with the intent to distribute.
New link, now more correct! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32975173
Middlemarch is also my favorite classic novel. So many good observations there. One of my favorite quotes, "But we all know the wag's definition of a philanthropist: a man whose charity increases directly as the square of the distance." (I was in Kyrgyzstan at the time). I definitely fall into that category, but a bit intentionally less so than before reading this.
Q: Who won the world cup?

A: The 2022 FIFA World Cup was won by Qatar, who defeated France 4-2 in the final match. This marked the first time a team from the Middle East has won the World Cup.

https://imgur.com/a/J2ev9yC
> Who hasn't experienced a non-programmer manager without a clue telling them what to do? I'll never ever work again for a manager who couldn't do my job, at least in principle.

Even if the manager could do your job, it's a bad manager if they always tell you what to do.

A good manager should be helpful and assist you, not command you. And that's possible even if they're not a programmer.
Is the joke that the news would rather report on the bicycle accident in this case and not the collapse of civilization?

I can barely tell what you're going for here, I feel like you couldn't have picked two worse examples. Road deaths are an everyday occurrence that we've all just accepted as normal so those barely make the news, and bicycles get even less attention than cars. And the "collapse of civilization" is the kind of thing people are shouting about literally every day and it's always an exaggeration and pure opinion.
> Car ownership is a lot cheaper than Uber. It’s not even a question.

Well, yes it is.

Cars are expensive: lease ($200+/month), maintenance ($100/mo), gas ($50/mo), insurance ($120/month), garage ($200/month). WAG of $670/month. That's 15 to 40 short-ish Uber rides/month.

Commute an hour each way every day, and have free parking? Buy that car. Have it available for occasional trips to the grocery store? Uber is almost certainly cheaper. And, if autonomous taxis become real then the price will go down even further.
Relying on constant insane returns isn't financial independence. Considering how many people are working to extract money from equities it's most likely luck.

Insane returns is one way to get to financial independence, because even if the edge exists, it's going to eventually disappear. You can boast about financial independence once you make enough to live the rest of your life from safe passive yield, after inflation, which in the current very low real rates environment requires a lot - maybe $3M as the bare minimum.
How steady? Does a massive honking flywheel suffice, or does it require control?
So if people keep leaving then the property values go down. Just because it hasn't happened yet doesn't mean it isn't going to happen.

Imagine property values start plunging, people can't leave, they just start abandoning houses, soon you get vast swathes of abandoned houses which lead to increased crime and urban decay.

Decades from now people will shake their heads and talk about the golden days of California and the problems with the silicon belt.
I can’t believe they unironically recommend replacing peanut butter on sandwiches with Biscoff cookie spread. And as the first option!
Too many google ads and bad navigation. I tried to read it but gave up. So ironic that it is guilty of the very thing it accuses the media of.
Show HN: Shmux – run all your scripts from one file
Hello all,
This is a small, few hours Holiday project I made out of frustration on what I would have liked makefiles to be but are not.

It's rough, but it might be useful for somebody. Any type of feedback is welcome!
Which is easier, banning peanut butter or eliminating bullying?
They can’t be beat for WFH imo
Doesn’t that also cover propaganda?
i don't think so. when you own a car you can keep stuff in the car. Your golf clubs for an after work game, or those prizes you won at the circus while enjoying the meal after.
It was insurance against being left out of a revolution until they understood the problem better.
You might think this translates to less population congestion, but the reality is they want to raise rents and pack 4-8 immigrants or migrant laborers where previously one or two people lived. The wealth of California is dependent on cheap labor to obtain. They would have to sell if even the leaf blower guy was paid real wages. Rich and poor only, no mids.
Car ownership may be cheaper based on where one lives. One lives in a rural area and commutes everyday to a suburb where parking is free? Probably much cheaper than taking an Uber. Live in a city where parking is $40 per day and a parking space at an apartment is $500/month and work from home? Uber may be significantly cheaper than owning a car.

If we go to first principles, I think what would matter the most is at least how often someone uses a car, how one uses it, and where one lives, to determine whether ownership or renting (Uber is just very short-term rental with a driver included, no?) is cheaper in total cost.
I mean, the NFL & co wants you checking on those sport scores. The weather is actual news.
Simple Translation of Goal-Directed Evaluation [pdf]
Time to research the market for sassy automotive AIs.
Your last paragraph is self-contradictory.

Ending Prop 13 would not cause "significantly scaling back spending and decreasing its vast administrative bureaucracies." Instead it would have the opposite effect. All other taxes would stay the same, but now they'd have this additional source of money.
The people my dad hired are taking care of it for now. It takes 3 to 4 years to get the first real harvest. I still have time before thinking of how to harvest and sell. For now I just want to keep the trees alive for that duration.
Yeah, especially if it's DIY for him and not you, the pagebuilders excel at that. Wix is my personal favorite, but also check out Squarespace, the completely unrelated Square business pages (especially if he already uses Square to handle payments), Weebly, etc. It's a moderately-sized space with a few established players.

What these services do that Wordpress does NOT do is abstract away the whole stack and manage all of it for the user. Your plumber pays a tiny monthly fee ($10-$20) and all he ever has to worry about is look and feel, as in he chooses a theme, adds some text and images and contact info... and done. He'll never have to worry about hosting or updates or plug-ins or "post vs page" or hierarchies of nav menus or "invalidating a cache" or "updating the database" or any of the other low-level stuff that Wordpress still makes painfully obvious.

Nothing against Wordpress, it's a powerful FOSS solution and what gave me my start in web dev, it's just no longer the best tool for the job. I've migrated several clients from Wordpress to Wix and they are MUCH happier. Wordpress will inevitably incur maintenance costs a year or two after deployment, and they'll either have to ask you back to help or hire another dev then. Even hosted on Wordpress.com with a lot of the power features disabled, it's still way too low-level compared to the actual page builder services.
Somehow we got used to companies selling products named "Definitely Does Thing [X]!" and then adding fine print that says "this product absolutely does not do thing [X]." I think it would be much better if we stopped accepting that practice.
Power and fame corrupts. At some point, many will actually start accepting their public personna as fact instead of fabrication.
> when your richest citizens are leaving

But the article says "a majority" of those leaving were middle- or low-income people.
What is the question? In terms of open source contribution, good code review should resolve trust issues.

Should you buy software from your enemy? Probably unwise.
We’ve gone full circle to the the idea of post-it note credentials
It's a solid point, you really need to rotate all the credentials to be safe. I did that for the important accounts and don't share passwords between accounts. I'm sure there are still a few accounts here amd there that might be at risk.l, especially since it was specifically the backups that were compromised.
New Minerals Discovered in Meteorite
With 1tb SSDs being very common, using 4.5% of your disk space for something “important” like CC is fine. Acrobat would account for 0.24%.

Things have changed since 1998, and as hardware has grown so have the requirements for the software that utilizes it.

I wonder if the relative percentages have changed much since 1998.
That some emotions are wrong
People are doing the math. If you make enough money in California you pay 10% of your income in taxes. First of all, what do you get from that 10% you pay that don't get in other states with lower or no income taxes? For the people paying the taxes the answer is not much. People also fail to account for the fact that the 10% they are paying is 10% of their GROSS income, not net after federal taxes. So if you are already paying 30% of your income in taxes that 10% can be a material increase in the quality of your life. It's the equivalent of receiving 16% more net income. Also subtract what you pay in increased food prices and increased housing costs you will be saving much much more by leaving CA.

People in California seem to believe that other parts of the country with lower taxes are hell on earth, they aren't. When I moved to San Francisco, I had many conversations with people denigrating my home state of Florida. In retrospect I can see this for what it was, a coping mechanism for having to live in such a terrible place and pay an absurd amount of money for the privilege of doing so.

The reason California has seen such economic success can be attributed to proximity to the fastest growing economies and largest manufacturing hubs in the past 30 years and a little luck. If you really need to live on the west coast, Washington state is a much better option.
I saw zero ads on iOS Firefox. Weird.
Perhaps we should focus more of our structure spending on burying powerlines.
Not so simple. What societies have done this? How do they count the crimes? What was the composition of their demographics and religion? Was this accomplished with a great loss to people’s freedoms?
I've started wondering how much my views on civil ethics are influenced by (likely) having Asperger's.

I absolutely hate having a persistent divergence between laws on the books, and what's enforced. In my view, that gap exists only to be exploited by villains: both those who would selfishly break the law, and those who would capriciously enforce it. Policies like this make chumps of anyone who obeys such laws, invites tyranny, and are anti-democratic.

It took me a long time to realize that my views were in the minority. I still struggle to understand how that could be. But I think I see a trend where this correlates with Asperger's. I'm curious if others see this too.
I wonder how housing inflation rates compare across states.

TX real estate looks cheap to ex-Californians but has TX or any state kept housing affordable for existing residents in the past few years?
I gave up 5 years ago after running qmail for 15 years, I just didn't want to deal with the spam anymore, it constantly needed some adjustments.

I use one of these domain+email only webhosters, doesn't cost much more than the domain itself and they do a better job than I did in my spare time. I still get spam but it's maybe 5 mails per day and I have catchall on a 20 year old domain.
I suspect there are many definitions of "good software developer". For one of this, making them managers is a horrible idea: they are strong, fast and effective contributors, but terribly chaotic in their day-to-day.

For another set of good software devs, they are very organized, care about morale and are good communicators: they become great managers.

So my answer is: your great devs could, or not, fit into the role
Most service providers don't advertise anything they call "smarthost", but most that do email and that have good reputations will know what you're asking for if you contact their sales. I've recommended Linode and Panix before.

Be sure to search for "smarthost" in quotes, because "smarthosting" is a marketing term.
the problem it is trying to solve is pretty clear at this point and it is „how to funell money to my pocket”
Do you support building more housing? Near your home?
What a coincidence. I just had an idea like this two days ago because we recently adopted a puppy and we’re trying to establish routines. I think he is struggling with the day/night cycle since our blinds are usually pulled. I wanted to use a screen or a color-changing bulb, so he knows yellow o’clock means daytime and blue o’clock means night. Maybe I can use this. Thanks for open sourcing it.
Neural networks as used in AI are inspired by the brain in much the same way that OOP was inspired by the way cells work--neither one is an attempt to faithfully recreate the actual operations of an extremely complex (and only partially understood!) biological system.
> It is, but it has to be on their terms.

It's exactly this. Everyone wants the long term productivity and quality boost of combining roles, but not all necessarily understand or want to pay the cost. Improving efficiency is just another way to grow a business beyond mere sales.

Any organizational change would incur some initial failures, missed deadlines, etc. The friction you're describing doesn't last forever.

Certainly some roles are easier to combine than others. It shouldn't be a huge risk in the grand scheme of things, but more places really should try to give the devs the bigger picture and loosen the reins a bit instead of being afraid of scaring them off. I personally think having the "unsolvable" in your hands is exactly where you always want to be in a career.
When you have life-threatening food allergies, "may contain" is the same as "does contain."

I suddenly developed two dozen food allergies at age 30 after a lifetime of eating whatever I wanted. I wouldn't wish this on my worst enemy. Out of all the numerous ways in which it's horrible, seeing "may contain" on the ingredients list of a food that, based on the ingredients I can confirm it has would otherwise be fine, is one of the most soul-killing.
It would take an extraordinary amount of discipline to maintain that wealth ten generations down the line. “Rags to rags in three generations” is a saying for a reason.
That might be a good argument if this was a news website. It's not a news site though, it's a website that investigates sayings. The saying is the title of the essay. You can feel however you want about quotations in the headlines of news articles, but it's irrelevant here.
Will looks into those, thanks a lot. As I want to be environmentally friendly these a really interesting.
The Intel sale didn’t go through
related question: are there any new, but still CLI, client packages similar to mh?
How much is reasonable for a family with 2 kids living in a medium expensive city in the US?
> and force the Republican candidate to come out strongly against it

If the polls are to be believed, this seems an unlikely outcome. I don't see a Republican candidate doing this, but stranger things have happened, I guess.

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2022/11/22/americans-o...
The statement refers to what happens if he does not plead guilty.
> And it will never be, because they will be always worried about PR, about regulators, about cannibalizing legacy business, etc.

They don't have to completely come up with a ChatGPT clone. They could do some of the following things:

- Enable some use cases on Google Search - for searches which are purely information based - above the search results. They already show such cards right now.

- Integrate it with Google Assistant. They already have excellent voice recognition devices. Assistant responding with generated answers, would be a game changer. You don't even have to type anywhere.
It it shouldn't, all tooling should be paid, just like in every other profession.

After all, it is nice to be paid for our work.
Synthetic Meat Will Change the Ethics of Eating
Cool, indeed there is! https://drivers.coop/

Sadly they aren't hiring for devs... https://drivers.coop/jobs

I really hope they'll consider FOSSing the code and expanding the co-op nationally.
Show HN: Digital privacy game for middle schoolers, our Harvard final project
For our final project in CS105, Technology and Privacy, my friend and I made an educational game about digital privacy for middle schoolers! We'd love any feedback or suggestions.
Why bother with BTC? Monero implements such protections (plus many stronger ones) with TX fees in the order of a single cent, and obviously without any fees for laundering your entire balance every time you're given money.
Right on. Forget “what if every judge recused for this level of conflict!”, they already do that, and it doesn’t really put a dent in judge supply.
>And it takes an insane amounts of software engineering to make a good compute stack

That isn't actually true. It takes commitment to the platform. My AMD GPU from 2017 had its ROCm support dropped in 2021. Very nice. That sends a signal that ROCm isn't worth supporting by application developers. In other words, AMD decided that there are ROCm and gaming GPUs whereas with Nvidia there is no distinction.
Get rid of it and invest the money
Since Covid MIT has been kind of a ghost town. Lots of people are working remotely.
AFAIK Austin has been one of the fastest rising (and now falling) real estate markets. People have been rushing to Austin since before COVID in 2020 and but also participated in the great dispersion.

(eg a hit on google: https://learn.roofstock.com/blog/fastest-growing-real-estate...)
"The News" is what somebody wants you to print – all the rest is advertising
> If people are fleeing a state that often means that the problems are so bad

But much of the outflow is quite easily explained by the Covid shift to remote work allowing everyone in the Bay Area to take their high salary savings and buy houses wherever they fantasized about living.

You can’t really directly compare to previous migrations because those all involved making a career-impacting change. This one required merely overcoming the activation energy of a house move. So the signal about the “cost of staying put” is much weaker than in the past.

This is not to claim that Silicon Valley / SFBA doesn’t have problems, just that the analogy to Detroit probably doesn’t work without significant caveats.
bureaucracy strikes again!
Bureaucracy strikes again! FDA needs to allow "may contain" or "produced in a facility that contains" and let individuals with these allergies to choose if they want to eat those foods and accept all liability for illness and/or death
Self hosted miniflux as well but kept running into 403/429 errors when using reddit rss feeds, went back to freshrss.

The biggest issue is that once you invest in a reader, your data aside from the feed opml, is stuck in that reader so your favourites, labels, and content can't migrate.
I’m not talking about tax burden, I’m talking about tax ROI. Essentially what you get in return for your taxes. You could argue that Texas is objectively a worse state to live in tax-wise because you essentially get nothing in return for your taxes. Not even a fully functioning power grid (that you still have to pay usage rates for). So tax rates are low, but return on what you do pay is even lower.

But I’m talking about California. They have high tax rates across the board, certainly not the highest as you’ve pointed out. However, even with high rates, the citizenry gets almost nothing in return.
Not just that many sports have their own backings and beliefs which tend to skew towards whats popular at the time but also some questionable stuff at times. Fun fact the lighting of the bonfire at the Olympics was first done by Nazi Germany
You get anger and vitriol because your views are part of the problem. NIMBY’s pull up the ladder and try to turn a nice semi-affordable car into a Porsche then tell everyone “sorry, it’s just expensive to be here. Not my fault!”
things must be quite dire
This seems similar to Renaissance Technologies, especially regarding the regression part.

Funny how so many people are skeptical, as if they they want to be convinced that it's not possible. The fact Renaissance Technologies has been so successful for so long shows it can be done. Easy? no, but possible, yes.
In that case, can you give a single example of something you can publish that would upset no one?