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SpaceX cargo capsule returns to Earth with leaky NASA spacesuithttps://spaceflightnow.com/2022/08/21/spacex-cargo-capsule-returns-to-earth-with-leaky-nasa-spacesuit/SpaceX’s Cargo Dragon spacecraft splashed down in the Atlantic Ocean northeast of Cape Canaveral Saturday, wrapping up a 37-day flight to the International Space Station and returning home with experiments and a leaky spacesuit for troubleshooting.Aug 21, 2022 3:11 PM
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Red Shores: Posts drawn for Gold Cup & Saucerhttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8a81e12a604fbb934d3b39d3ce8d9e&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.drf.com%2Fnews%2Fred-shores-posts-drawn-gold-cup-saucer&c=3949944862162630229&mkt=en-usAfter a dominating performance in Gold Cup and Saucer Trial two, Sintra has drawn post 9 for the C$100,000 final set for Saturday evening (Aug. 20) at Red Shores Racetrack and Casino at the ...Aug 18, 2022 6:36 AM
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Launch HN: Pana (YC S22) – Social Trust Banking with a US Latino Focushttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32437234Hey HN! We are Piero and Luis, co-founders at Pana (https://joinpana.com), a banking app that uses social trust to help people save money and access healthier and better financial products. We’re open to everyone, but are focusing on the 62M Latinos in the USA, a particularly under-served market that we know a lot about.US Hispanics have largely been ignored by traditional banks [1], resulting in 5% of this population being unbanked and an additional 13% underbanked. This is mainly due to cultural differences and lack of trust, as well as in-person and Social Security Number requirements that exclude a significant number of people.Why is this market under-served? In Latino communities, a lot of transactions take place within family and personal networks based on trust. But this trust network isn't connected to the standard banking system, and therefore they don't get access to the financial products they should, if their creditworthiness were evaluated properly.In addition to remittancAug 12, 2022 12:07 PM
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Launch HN: Windmill (YC S22) – Turn scripts into internal apps and workflowshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32400849Ruben here, software engineer, long-time lurker of Hacker News and founder of Windmill. Windmill is a fully open-source self-hostable platform and runtime to build complex workflows, internal apps and integrations using any scripts in Python or Typescript-deno. I am back after having been revealed a bit too soon on HN and miraculously getting into YC (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31272793).To build internal apps for ops, integrations between services that cannot talk to each other directly, or to run background jobs that run your business logic and analytics, the two main options today are no-code solutions and old-fashioned, roll-your-own scripting. Both have problems, and our goal with Windmill is to find a new sweet spot between the two. No-code solutions are productive if your problem matches the tool exactly - but it not, they are rigid, hard to extend and quickly become tech debt, annihilating their initial time advantage. Indeed, no-code is just code but made by an opiniAug 9, 2022 5:19 PM
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Lindy West Talks About Her New Memoir, Portland and Why She’s “Alt-Weekly ’Til I Die”http://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8cb15155454ebb975d7326f0216a71&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.wweek.com%2Farts%2Fbooks%2F2026%2F03%2F03%2Flindy-west-on-her-new-memoir-portland-and-why-shes-alt-weekly-til-i-die%2F&c=2681035474110865708&mkt=en-usListen up, David Sedaris! Some nationally known humor writers like Portland. In her new memoir, Adult Braces (Grand Central Publishing, 336 pages, $29), Lindy West mentions that she did not have fun ...Aug 8, 2022 5:00 PM
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Show HN: What do you think of our new multiplayer workspace?https://www.trymoot.com/Hey there,Another Hacker News Launch for our new product, Moot!Moot is a multiplayer work hub specifically designed around remote teams (like us). In its current form, Moot is a multiplayer dashboard (video/voice enabled with shared cursors) where teams can plug and play blocks that replicate, augment and create the ways they collaborate.Why build yet another SaaS for remote work? Remote work isn’t going anywhere, with office occupancy stagnating at around 50% of pre-covid levels [1], yet remote work can still be so much better. My own experience in building a remote company (now async) over the past year has been great for productivity but pretty tragic for creative collaboration and building general social connection, which is a requisite for most to feel fulfilled in their jobs.There’s also a ton of SaaS cloud apps that are amazing at what they do, but nothing that really ties them together in any substantial way. We’ve tried everything we could get our hands on, and all solutions fJul 20, 2022 10:57 AM
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Ask HN: How do you localize your prices?https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32136715We recently released an online course. [1] It's $29, but we've had users saying, "I'm in ${country poorer than USA}, and I can't afford the $29. Do you offer regional pricing?"I would like to support this. The dollar-value to a customer in India is probably lower than in the USA.Most big platforms (Udemy, App Store, Play Store) seem to solve this with a price tier matrix. They maintain a big table of prices per (tier, currency). The tier comes from the product, and the currency comes from ... the user's IP address? (See example matrix [2])To build this from scratch, I would have to:* Define a list of tiers, each with a hard-coded USD price.* Maintain a list of Purchasing Power Parity multipliers for each currency. For example, regularly scrape OECD data.* To get a tier's price in currency X, multiply by the current PPP.* Somehow clamp the prices to "appealing" values, so we get e.g. £25 instead of £24.19.* Ensure we never make a loss after subtracting Stripe fees!* Detect a user's locaJul 18, 2022 10:55 AM
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Here's why Arthur Capper dedicated his legacy to helping children in Kansashttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8aed08dc0d4799b78172fba2697d5e&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.yahoo.com%2Fentertainment%2Fheres-why-arthur-capper-dedicated-173225202.html&c=7371494624353919482&mkt=en-usA birthday celebration Thursday at the Capper Foundation honored Arthur Capper, who would have been 157 this year. Why does the birthday of the Capital Daily editor/publisher, two-term Kansas governor ...Jul 18, 2022 7:31 AM
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Ask HN: To what extent is an effectively cooperative global community an utopia?https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32127891HN do you think it's possible to have a global community in which people from richer countries would be truly compelled or wanted to share their resources with people in a far away land, (i.e. not as much as in their local communities but much more than now) ? For example in case of draught based hunger, rising sea levels because of climate change, oil tanker spill etc.Especially in case of climate change, where consequences come relatively slowly.Context: I read developed countries are helping but they do not have a sense of urgency as it is happening far away. In other words"out of sight, out of mind".Humans mostly agree on what constituts suffering and pain while there are many definitions of happiness.I am thinking that in very simplified terms, emotions are "weights" to data in our neurophysiology. Similarly as nods in neural network have weights to them.I feel a stronger connection to people I personally know and whom I can experience with my physical senses. This feeling of connJul 17, 2022 3:55 PM
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Russian space chief dismissed; NASA gets deal for joint crewshttps://spaceflightnow.com/2022/07/15/russian-space-chief-dismissed-nasa-gets-deal-for-joint-crews/Dmitry Rogozin, the bellicose director of the Russian space agency Roscosmos who has railed against NASA and its western space allies over sanctions imposed in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, is stepping down under orders from President Vladimir Putin. NASA also announced Friday it has finalized a no-funds-exchanged agreement with Roscosmos to allow Russian cosmonauts to launch to the International Space Station on U.S. crew vehicles and U.S. astronauts to fly on Russian Soyuz capsules.Jul 15, 2022 3:20 PM
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Does the internet have a 1 star review problem?https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32052666A few days ago, I was in the lobby of my hotel on a Greek island. A woman was at the front desk very upset about having not been upgraded. She was yelling at the staff and causing a real scene. She left with everyone visibly shaken. Chatting with them a little after, this sounds like an all too common scene.This morning, as promised, a 1 star rating shows up on every review platform. She claims the hotel is ugly, the staff was rude and racist, and even that someone had pushed her.Everything about this claim is a lie. My partner and have been here 4 days and everything has been fantastic. Every single person on the staff goes out of their way to be helpful and the property is beautiful.Looking more at their reviews online, there are a handful of 1 star reviews with some crazy claims. One even looks to have photoshopped an image to make the pool appear dirty. Almost every 1 star review mentioned not being upgraded.I've become especially sensitive to this after listing a property on AirbnJul 11, 2022 5:48 AM
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Pssst! Match.com does not want you to know about this FTC casehttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8acc1162da4999b0ba9ea10380b00b&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.reuters.com%2Flegal%2Flitigation%2Fpssst-matchcom-does-not-want-you-know-about-this-ftc-case-2022-07-06%2F&c=8564878815649885782&mkt=en-us(Reuters) - The online dating company Match Group Inc really, really does not want anyone to know that it’s in a big fight with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission over the FTC’s investigation of a ...Jul 6, 2022 2:47 PM
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Pssst! Match.com does not want you to know about this FTC casehttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a898046fa2d42c2b619719bc90d3bdb&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.reuters.com%2Flegal%2Flitigation%2Fpssst-matchcom-does-not-want-you-know-about-this-ftc-case-2022-07-06%2F&c=8564878815649885782&mkt=en-us(Reuters) - The online dating company Match Group Inc really, really does not want anyone to know that it’s in a big fight with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission over the FTC’s investigation of a ...Jul 6, 2022 2:47 PM
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‘Harem In The Labyrinth Of Another World’ Episode 1 Live Stream Details, Spoilershttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a88d1ac9eec4096bb276e53eef0434e&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ibtimes.com%2Fharem-labyrinth-another-world-episode-1-live-stream-details-spoilers-3561845&c=10866212441721158617&mkt=en-us"Harem in the Labyrinth of Another World" Episode 1 is airing Wednesday The episode will release on Crunchyroll in the U.S. The series is based on Shachi Sogano and Shikidouji's original work A high ...Jul 4, 2022 8:02 PM
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XIII’s reviled remake is getting another remake by a different developerhttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx&aid=&tid=6a85ebd5892641dc858428921f3a20eb&url=https%3a%2f%2fwww.polygon.com%2f23191393%2fxiii-remake-update-patch-new-developer-steam-switch-release-date%2f&c=16645582719350153201&mkt=en-usCult classic XIII received an HD remake in 2020 from developer PlayMagic. The project attempted to update the game for modern platforms, but it fell more than a little short. Which is why, just two ...Jun 30, 2022 10:14 PM
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XIII’s reviled remake is getting another remake by a different developerhttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx&aid=&tid=6a85cc6693454321a86fe9f86a36fbda&url=https%3a%2f%2fwww.polygon.com%2f23191393%2fxiii-remake-update-patch-new-developer-steam-switch-release-date%2f&c=16645582719350153201&mkt=en-usCult classic XIII received an HD remake in 2020 from developer PlayMagic. The project attempted to update the game for modern platforms, but it fell more than a little short. Which is why, just two ...Jun 30, 2022 10:14 PM
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XIII’s reviled remake is getting another remake by a different developerhttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx&aid=&tid=6a85d6ffc859476d89fb75663a267872&url=https%3a%2f%2fwww.polygon.com%2f23191393%2fxiii-remake-update-patch-new-developer-steam-switch-release-date%2f&c=16645582719350153201&mkt=en-usCult classic XIII received an HD remake in 2020 from developer PlayMagic. The project attempted to update the game for modern platforms, but it fell more than a little short. Which is why, just two ...Jun 30, 2022 10:14 PM
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XIII’s reviled remake is getting another remake by a different developerhttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx&aid=&tid=6a85dcef64d4421f8f876a5f3d37fe1f&url=https%3a%2f%2fwww.polygon.com%2f23191393%2fxiii-remake-update-patch-new-developer-steam-switch-release-date%2f&c=16645582719350153201&mkt=en-usCult classic XIII received an HD remake in 2020 from developer PlayMagic. The project attempted to update the game for modern platforms, but it fell more than a little short. Which is why, just two ...Jun 30, 2022 10:14 PM
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XIII’s reviled remake is getting another remake by a different developerhttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx&aid=&tid=6a85d046ef83427584f12b971d979392&url=https%3a%2f%2fwww.polygon.com%2f23191393%2fxiii-remake-update-patch-new-developer-steam-switch-release-date%2f&c=16645582719350153201&mkt=en-usCult classic XIII received an HD remake in 2020 from developer PlayMagic. The project attempted to update the game for modern platforms, but it fell more than a little short. Which is why, just two ...Jun 30, 2022 10:14 PM
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XIII’s reviled remake is getting another remake by a different developerhttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx&aid=&tid=6a85e16c92814825b11bb8861aaf94fb&url=https%3a%2f%2fwww.polygon.com%2f23191393%2fxiii-remake-update-patch-new-developer-steam-switch-release-date%2f&c=16645582719350153201&mkt=en-usCult classic XIII received an HD remake in 2020 from developer PlayMagic. The project attempted to update the game for modern platforms, but it fell more than a little short. Which is why, just two ...Jun 30, 2022 10:14 PM
