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by GMoromisato | 2025-08-27 17:16:49+00:00
I disagree. If Starship fails, the most likely reason will be technological. Either they can never get the heat shield to be reliable, or they can't get cost down below Falcon 9 (meaning, refurbishment costs are too high).

And if it fails, who will spend billions on a new vehicle?

Stoke Space: They are working on Nova, which is designed for 2nd-stage re-use, and they've got a novel architecture. But they are not well-funded and if Starship fails, it is likely that investor sentiment will shift away from full reusability (you know how investors are). And even if they succeed, their current vehicle can only get 3 tons to orbit. That means each launch must cost less than $1 million to get to the $300/kg target. In contrast, Starship can loft 100 tons, so it can cost up to $30 million per launch and still hit the target.

Blue Origin: They are still working on 1st stage re-use, and even assuming they get that to work next year, they are at least a decade away from testing 2nd stage re-use. And their current designs don't have any of the cost-savings in Starship (like launch-tower catch).

And that's it! There are no other companies seriously working on 2nd-stage reuse.

If Starship fails, there will not be another contender for cheap flights to orbit for decades.
by sidewndr46 | 2025-08-27 17:17:34+00:00
From what I understand if you really want to mess with some performance stuff just throw a random AVX or even better AVX512 workload in the critical path of all cores. Could be something really simple, like expanding out a normal cmov, jmp statement, or just regular integer addition to be needlessly AVX involved. Depending on the CPU this can apparently downclock the core, change the power delivery, and potentially result in pipeline stalls on other cores on the same die.
by Herring | 2025-08-27 17:17:38+00:00
To be fair though, China has its morons too. If you can't deal with Republicans where you share a common language/culture/history, how are you gonna deal with a Chinese Trump on the other side of the world?

In the last election, Latinos voted 50-50 for Trump. That should have been a massive warning sign.

I like liberals, but they're way too passive. They really need to play the Prisoner's Dilemma in high school until they learn what to do when someone refuses to cooperate.
by bko | 2025-08-27 17:17:41+00:00
Maybe I'm missing something, but it seems entirely reasonable to me to have different models for an ecosystem and market.

Android exits, it's relatively open. I can download an APK and easily install it on my device (unless this changed since I last did this).

Apple is a walled garden. That's both a gift and a curse. I see a lot more spammy low-quality apps on Android, but I also have more choice. I prefer Android for mobile and Mac for desktop.

As an aside, any time I've seen the state intervene in affairs like this it has made my experience as a user worse. I remember something about Google can no longer "favor" their services. So for instance, if I search for an address, it can't show me Google maps because it theoretically harms all the fledgling map companies. But now it's just more clicks for me. I don't care about competition, I care about the best product. If I search for an address I want google maps. If I search for a video, show me YouTube. And if Google fails to deliver the best product, I'll switch.

It's no different than going to a restaurant and them serving only Pepsi products.
by Kranar | 2025-08-27 17:18:19+00:00
If you see "i++" in code and you don't have any context about what "i" is, then what difference does it make if "i" is a member variable, global variable, parameter, etc etc...

If all you see in code is a very tiny 3 character expression, you won't be able to make much of a judgement about it to begin with.
by BoredPositron | 2025-08-27 17:18:23+00:00
You realize we can't see the scores on other people's posts, right? We have no idea whether or how many downvotes you received. You're talking to people who have no interest in doing business with these countries, so I don't understand how this could be circular reasoning.

Your offhand comment also doesn't make sense in the context of this subthread. The effort companies have to invest to do business with Russia and China is prohibitively high, and that's a completely valid concern. It's not that everyone universally hates or loves these countries. It's simply impractical for most businesses to navigate those markets.
by skydhash | 2025-08-27 17:20:58+00:00
> And, to be clear, when I say production ready I mean it had good test coverage, CI/CD, includes auth, background jobs, and integrates LLMs and other 3rd party APIs. I’d consider it a respectable alpha version of the product.

So does any template off GitHub?

When you run the Laravel Installer, you got pretty much all of these for free (sans LLM) And within a normal work week, you can have a valid prototype with an admin panel (Laravel Nova), and a lot of stuff that the laravel ecosystem provides. The issue is not coding those stuff (they've already been coded for you). The issue is to know what exactly do you want that is not part of some templates, the actual business value of the software.
by abustamam | 2025-08-27 17:20:58+00:00
Yeah same. I made a dent in my gaming backlog and TV shows and built a gaming computer that has only ever been used to play Factorio (notably, a game that can probably be played without a GPU).

Half of me kinda wants another lockdown so I can do more discipline-y stuff but the other half is like, dude you're just gonna waste it playing more games. I just gotta face the music - I'm just not disciplined and I just don't have the drive.
by kragen | 2025-08-27 17:21:09+00:00
Incidentally, energy superabundance is apparently becoming a reality in the PRC, and CO₂ emissions are falling:

https://fortune.com/2025/08/14/data-centers-china-grid-us-in... “#AI experts [#Rui-Ma] return from #China stunned: The U.S. grid is so weak, the race may already be over. (...) In the U.S., surging AI demand is colliding with a fragile power grid, the kind of extreme bottleneck that Goldman Sachs warns could severely choke the industry’s growth. ¶ In China, Ma continued, it’s considered a “solved problem.”” because “China has an oversupply of electricty [sic]”. “In China, renewables are framed as a cornerstone of the economy because they make sense economically and strategically, not because they carry moral weight. Coal use isn’t cast as a sign of villainy, as it would be among some circles in the U.S. It’s simply seen as outdated.” #energy #USA

https://xcancel.com/ruima/status/1955040979259650267 #Rui-Ma’s account of her trip to #China to go to the World #AI Conference (#WAIC) and see investors and renewable #energy. "We met with companies ranging from Baidu, Alibaba, and Tencent (BAT) to unicorns, as well as young startups founded less than a year ago. (...) Energy is considered a solved problem. The Chinese government’s investment in sustainable energy — from advanced hydropower to next-generation nuclear — means that, relative to many other markets, electricity supply is secure and inexpensive. Everywhere we went, people treated energy availability as a given. This is a stark contrast to the U.S., where AI growth is increasingly tied to debates over data center power consumption and grid limitations."

https://xcancel.com/ruima/status/1955372325970514161 #Rui-Ma on #energy in #China: “China: Electricity generation jumped from roughly ~5.6 PWh (2015) to ~10.1 PWh (2024), which is +80% in less than a decade. And 2024 alone grew ~7%, accounting for ~HALF of the world’s increase. China now produces ~1/3 of global electricity. That’s what “supply went up a lot” looks like, so yeah even if coal as a % of total went down, the total will still increase but the increase is QUICKLY PLATEAUING (...) Multiple independent analyses now show China’s CO₂ fell year‑on‑year across the last 12 months (and in Q1’25), driven by the clean‑power surge rather than an economic slump.”
by stagalooo | 2025-08-27 17:21:20+00:00
One easy way to accidentally give Claude permission to do almost anything is to tell it that it’s allowed to run “find” without confirmation.

Claude is constantly searching through your files and approving every find command is annoying.

The problem is, find has a --exec flag that lets it run arbitrary bash commands. So now Claude can basically do anything it wants.

I have really been enjoying Claude in a container in yolo mode though. Seems like the main risk I am taking is data exfiltration since it will has unfettered access to the internet.
by leohart | 2025-08-27 17:21:25+00:00
While True, I believe the reason Monodraw doesn't expand is because the ASCII / TUI tooling economy is not rewarding. There are few users and even fewer customers who are willing to pay for ASCII/TUI tools.

If you look at tooling companies annual revenue

- Atlassian: 1.4B - Jetbrains: 400M - Vercel: 100M - Supabase: 16M - Prisma: 10M (maybe?)

We dive into the long tail quickly. I would be very surprised if Monodraw make more than 1M a year. At that revenue, it's going to be hard to expand into a multi-platform / web strategy (especially if your existing product is platform-locked).
by shadowgovt | 2025-08-27 17:21:50+00:00
I envy your IDE being able to do a rename of that scale.

I work in a large C++ codebase and a rename like that will actually just crash my vscode instance straight-up.

(There are good automated tools that make it straightforward to script up a repository-wide mutation like this however. But they still generate PRs that require human review; in the case of the one I used, it'd break the PR up into tranches of 50-ish files per tranche and then hunt down individuals with authority to review the root directory of the tranche and assign it to them. Quite useful!)
by lupusreal | 2025-08-27 17:22:48+00:00
The constellations they can launch now are only a small fraction of the size they aspire to launch. Their plans for Starlink alone call for almost 10x as many satellites as they currently have. Then there are all the other constellations they might launch in addition to Starlink, including defense contracts that might call for rapid replenishment of expended/destroyed satellites.

As for Mars, Starship might be ready for that in a few years (a year ago I was saying in a year or two, but I've kicked that back). But where are the Mars customers? Who is developing Mars habitation plans and hardware that will be ready in even twenty years? Commercial demand for large satellite constellations obviously exists. Demand for Mars colonization is nonexistent, it exists only in the hopes and dreams of sci-fi junkies.

I really hope I'm wrong, because I'm a sci-fi junkie!
by bonoboTP | 2025-08-27 17:23:06+00:00
I think the current day complaints seem to be the reverse. That kids are more anxious than ever, more lonely, more mental health problems, less freedom for unstructured play and independence, less "slack" in the system, strong expectations and competition and overscheduled life, helicopter parenting, etc. etc. Of course nobody has a comprehensive proposal to address it because it's all an aggregate effect of individually well-intentioned decisions to promote safety etc., and many of those decisions are interrelated with other consequences around this nexus.
by dismalaf | 2025-08-27 17:23:10+00:00
It's kind of annoying that static type introspection has become the norm for language servers because live environments are so much better. With Ruby you have the REPL and there have been IDEs and tools that allow runtime reflection which is just so much better (think Lisp or Smalltalk). LSPs are nice for static languages but compared to live environments they're a step down...
by cjbgkagh | 2025-08-27 17:23:52+00:00
As inequality grows, regardless of the mechanism, the proportion who benefit will decrease. The top 10% that benefited from the initial increase will find themselves on the wrong side of it as the process continues.

I supply a low cost alternative software option so cost pressures on customers tends to improve sales so that helps a bit with recession resistance up to a point. Though more customers are choosing to do without any alternative which means it must be really rough out there as such software is pretty essential to their work.

It’s hitting the top end of the market as well, the large staffs and debts mean they have to extract more money from a declining customer base that is less able to pay. It’s bad enough even these big multinationals can’t afford to build new features and are choosing to instead exit various markets to focus on their most profitable products. This will only work short term as the less profitable parts were effectively a loss leader for the profitable ones and shouldn’t really be considered a separate offering. They appear to have entered a terminal decline, and it seems that some of them know this and are gouging on their way out.

Multiply this across N industries and it looks like this stagflation / recession is just getting warmed up.
by m4rtink | 2025-08-27 17:24:03+00:00
I would actually argue that Apollo and the space race damaged reusable launcher projects more than the Space Shuttle. Before the mad scramble to the Moon there were many interesting infrastructure projects and incremental manned mission planned as well as partially or fully reusable launcher or variants of existing expendable launchers.

Then everything that was not contributing to MOON ASAP was thrown away & massive spending on space hardware essentially normalized. The end result (Apollo) was impressive and achieved the goal (first on the Moon) - but was also totally unsustainable, resulting in a big crunch and a lot of setbacks and slowdowns.

Another contributing factor has been military involvement - again, wee need that milsat on orbit and we need it now, costs be damned. ICBMs not being exactly reusable does not help. Even the Space Shuttle design being perverted into its partially reusable clunky form can be traced back to military requirements.
by benoau | 2025-08-27 17:24:18+00:00
> It's no different than going to a restaurant and them serving only Pepsi products.

I don't think that accurately depicts the situation.

> Apple has threatened to remove creator platform Patreon from the App Store if creators use unsupported third-party billing options or disable transactions on iOS, instead of using Apple's own in-app purchasing system for Patreon's subscriptions.

This happened because 5 years after Patreon published their app, Apple decided they were now due a 30% recurring cut of "indie creator" revenue. And that's ignoring that they did this while under court order to allow external payment options. And we've seen them try to force IAP purchases and subscriptions into WordPress, to Hey, and other apps too.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/apple-says-patreon-must-switc...
by hatemmezlini | 2025-08-27 17:24:40+00:00
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by ipython | 2025-08-27 17:25:23+00:00
Don’t worry we are poised to re learn all these lessons once again with our fancy new agentic generative ai systems.

The mechanical interlock essentially functioned as a limit outside of the control system. So you should build an ai system the same way- enforcing restrictions on the security agency from outside the control of the ai itself. Of course that doesn’t happen and devs naively trust that the ai can make its own security decisions.

Another lesson from that era we are re learning- in-band signaling. Our 2025 version of the “blue box” is in full swing. Prompt injection is just a side effect of the fact that there is no out of band instruction mechanism for llms.

Good news is - it’s not hard to learn the new technology when it’s just a matter of rediscovering the same security issues with a new name!
by wat10000 | 2025-08-27 17:25:26+00:00
I'm referring to this: https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/ice-released-mass-mom-no...

She wasn't deported, hooray! She was still held in bad conditions for over a week, denied necessary medical care, and then released far from home with no resources.

Do you think this is acceptable treatment of a legal immigrant? Or do you believe that an old marijuana conviction is enough to consider her "illegal" and thus doesn't count as an action against legal immigrants? Or maybe it's just cherry-picked and not representative?

Please explain how "the media [I'm] consuming is driving [me] to think that" sending people to CECOT without trial is heinous. (Note that the "without trial" part is an intensifier, but it would still be heinous even with one.) I'm pretty sure it's the conditions in CECOT and a belief in basic human rights that drives me to think that. Are you asserting that CECOT is actually fine and I'm getting a distorted picture of what it's like there? Are you asserting that my belief that it's heinous to imprison people in awful conditions would disappear if I had a more objective view?

Do note that every time you justify one of these things, you're proving my point. You need to go for the ignorance angle if you want to argue that a vast majority of Republicans support immigration. Arguing that they are aware of what's happening but it just doesn't qualify as being against immigration is not going to work.
by tptacek | 2025-08-27 17:25:31+00:00
No? You just said "how about this: I reject your argument". That's fine, we don't have to agree, but let's not pretend that we agree when we don't. What was said on this thread about the "100 mile zone" was wrong. It was wrong according to your own cite! (I just happened to have already read it, because, as I said, this comes up on HN a bunch).

What's funny is: depending on which ACLU page you hit, they don't even agree with themselves. Their new main "100 mile border" page is full of caveats, but their original 2014-vintage page, which is still on the first Google SERP, claims things like CBP authorization to search luggage within the "100 mile zone" (definitely no! do they do it? i'm sure they do; just not lawfully).
by StopDisinfo910 | 2025-08-27 17:25:41+00:00
It’s not meaningless at all. It means a fine is likely to come unless Apple has a very good answer.

I understand your confusion but the EU is still a liberal democracy. Obviously we have appeal courts and some judgements are overturned. One being overturned concerning Intel has absolutely no bearing on what will happen in the Apple case.

It’s the General Court which cancelled the Intel fine by the way. The Court of Justice is the next in line jurisdiction and confirmed the court decision after the Commission appealed.
by pavel_lishin | 2025-08-27 17:26:06+00:00
> Most children (American children, at least) grew up on Chromebooks. That instills a certain expectation of how these things work — documents save themselves.

I'd say iPads rather than Chromebooks, but the same applies - no concept of a file system, everything just living "in the cloud", the devices themselves being ultimately disposable - as long as you have iCloud set up, you can put your iPad in the shredder, and get all of your content back in under an hour.
by pengwinhayden | 2025-08-27 17:26:10+00:00
Those moves are made by Red Hat, to benefit their enterprise customers, because enterprise customers are the ones who pay for Linux, their interests get top priority.

Shuttleworth did so much for desktop Linux by mailing us all free install CDs, but then users everywhere began to expect Linux to be free as in beer.

But until users are willing to pay for desktop Linux again, like some of us may remember, enterprise will always win out.
by seplox | 2025-08-27 17:26:12+00:00
No, that's not dumb at all. Inputs are filthy and sensors fail. If you're not comparing all available sensor data to confirm your understanding of reality, then a single sensor failure could... oh I dunno... cause your 737 MAX to divebomb.

The F-35 could compare weight on wheels to airspeed as a simple sanity check.
by veber-alex | 2025-08-27 17:26:36+00:00
I don't use mypy so I can't comment on it but at least from what I have seen pyright is deterministic in it's output and get output json.

Regarding the ~80k errors. Yeah, nothing to do here besides slowly grinding away and adding type annotations and fixes until it's resolved.

For the code example pyright gives some hint towards variance but yes it can be confusing.

https://pyright-play.net/?pyrightVersion=1.1.403&code=GYJw9g...
by zerocharge | 2025-08-27 17:26:40+00:00
It's funny how things have evolved. The modern tech stack is so inefficient at providing solutions that people grab and hold on to code gen as some kind of magic machine. We have gone from pragmatic, fast and stable foundation systems that could be extended by some small snippets of code (Drupal), RAD systems (Delphi, Visual Basic) where you could drop some components and some lines of code on a form to create functionality to some of the most verbose and ugly things that have ever reared its head (React, Angular, home-made REST systems - instead of SOAP). Less code is better. The code generated today using vibe coding won't be looked back upon. It's like fast fashion. Throw it in the trash.
by ivape | 2025-08-27 17:26:52+00:00
I don’t think people know what the definition of this bubble is yet. I can provide one:

- AI-first app companies that actually go public on the stock exchange

- Massive influx of investment from retail as the basket of “AI” is just too much to pass up

- This basket is no longer a collection of top tier hardware and software titans, but led by resellers and wrappers like Palantir, like something like Cursor, like Windsurf, and finally rounded out with crud-apps turned publicly traded companies. Figma going public is a very bad indicator of what’s to come. Perplexity going public would be one of my biggest Red Flag moments.

- The basket I’m describing is the package that includes all these “toxic” assets.

- Some really dumb big players will lose here too because they will acquire some of these resellers and wrappers at prices they’ll never recoup (Newscorp buying MySpace).

- And finally, those who know, know, and they will bail first unscathed. Say it ain’t so, the story of our lives.

That will be the vehicle retail will pile into. We’re a little bit aways from that as companies are still building out their AI offerings. We’ll need a flurry of companies like that to go public soon after OpenAI does, sparking the beginning of one of the worst bubbles ever. You won’t be able to make sense of it because the bull market will make it impossible to not FOMO in.

That’s the systemic risk to this entire industry and the broader economy in about a few years.

Remember, humans can’t have nice things. If the secondary companies didn’t rush to the stock market as their prime imperative, we wouldn’t have to worry about it because all sensible investment will be in the large caps. The pursuit of gaudy returns will fail humans again, as always.

Stay safe and right-sized, all. The actual tech is not over-hyped.