MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by floating-io | 2025-08-27 00:58:58+00:00
Remains to be seen. That's what they want, but it's never been done before. (edit: clarity: they do NOT want to replace them after each flight.)

They're currently experimenting with things such as actively cooled tiles (which I presume were installed on this ship, since they were on the last two).

I personally think the likely best case is that they'll have to go over the ship and replace some here and there before launching again.
by SlowTao | 2025-08-27 00:59:26+00:00
Unfortunately, that defense allows hoarding wealth. If the wealth was more evenly distributed globally, there would be little reason to defend against raids.

This is how places like the US despite having 4% of the population have about a quarter of the material and energy consumption. Not to single them out, I am in Australia, it is a similar ratio.

I am not defending this situation, just highlighting its role.
by HarHarVeryFunny | 2025-08-27 01:01:12+00:00
I'm a bit hazy on the full details because it was a few years ago, but basically it gets more complicated because you subscribe by installing an async callback which needs to ack/nak messages, needing locking, and will be called from the context of the network event loop that also needs locking. If you do any real work in the message processing callback then you'll be blocking the event loop, so the callback has to defer processing by queuing C++ lambdas capturing the context, and running those in a thread pool.
by dlcarrier | 2025-08-27 01:01:44+00:00
Some people do exclusively use the term "patent troll" for non-practicing entities, and pretty much everyone would agree that they are patent trolls, but there's plenty of companies that do practice in a field and use patents to prevent competition, even for obvious implementations of old technology, and many call those patent trolls, too.

Signal extraction technology has been used in pulse oximiters since the 90's, and the patents that covered their innovation have long expired, with new patents covering descriptions of using the old technology with modern devices, which is innevitable, not innovative.
by rlt | 2025-08-27 01:01:55+00:00
They mentioned in the stream they were intentionally stressing the ship on reentry.

But yes, “rapid reusability” is a ways off. I expect they’ll be spending weeks inspecting and repairing ship and booster before reflight for a few years, but they’ll drive it down over time.

TBD how “rapid” the reusability ends up being in the end.
by ch4s3 | 2025-08-27 01:03:15+00:00
Consulting around elections is a huge business, and consultants that win races cost millions, but that can't be paid for by PACs at all because they work with the campaign directly.

Buy ad buyers and media agencies that only work in politics are definitely a thing[1] also.

[1] https://oaaa.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/20.06.30-Politic... (this is an old list but illustrative)
by stack_framer | 2025-08-27 01:03:18+00:00
> Sorry, but what does one have to do with the other?

Let me spell it out for you:

Daring Fireball has a really ugly website. On that really ugly website, they are criticizing Apple's ugly icons. This is ironic.

> Are you one of those people who think you can’t criticize a movie unless you’re a director yourself?

No.
by narrator | 2025-08-27 01:03:51+00:00
I think the cognitive dissonance works like this.

"All the people I believe to be smart and trustworthy and nice say that Elon Musk is wrong to disagree with them."

Elon Musk does something smart.

"No, Elon Musk did not do something smart. That's because only smart people do smart things. If he were smart, he would agree with the people that I believe to be smart and trustworthy and nice. He must have cheated or lied or stole someone else's idea which also makes him not nice and not trustworthy. How can anyone support anything he does?"

"Oh look, someone on HN pointed out that Elon Musk did something smart. They must be not smart, not trustworthy and not nice just like all the other people who disagree with things the people I believe to be smart and trustworthy and nice support. Here's a downvote!"
by AdieuToLogic | 2025-08-27 01:07:17+00:00
>>How can my feedback improve you as a software developer if you don't understand your own code?

> Just say that you don't want my code, better yet just silently reject it.

These decision points are orthogonal, in that the author identifies a social contract wherein a contributor must have an understanding of the change-set they submit in order for it to be a viable candidate. Determining if the submitted change-set is applicable/appropriate/correct and how to provide feedback to the contributor is a subsequent activity.
by IFC_LLC | 2025-08-27 01:07:48+00:00
I took the liberty of indulging in some reading.

I must admit, it feels a bit strange. The truth is that I learned my first steps in programming by working through large, formidable books. In fact, my very first programming book was Assembly Language for Intel-Based Computers by Kip Irvine. After that, I read even larger books, many of them multiple times.

I have always been fond of reading well-written books by knowledgeable professionals. After reading such works, you come away with real understanding, greater clarity, and often new creativity. Books are valuable, and I have always respected a good one.

Yet the DSM-5-TR is quite the opposite. The Preface clearly states that the work is intended for everyone:

“The information is of value to all professionals associated with various aspects of mental health care, including psychiatrists, other physicians, psychologists, social workers, nurses, counselors, forensic and legal specialists, occupational and rehabilitation therapists, and other health professionals.”

I happen to be a social worker, and I have read a lot of books. I know how to study. I carefully looked up any words I might have misunderstood and used the dictionary freely.

But despite all my efforts, I often failed to make sense of what I was reading. One would expect a theory followed by a conclusion, or an observation leading to a conclusion, or a theorem that is then proven. Unfortunately, that structure is missing here.

A typical DSM entry begins with a statement presented as fact, only to be followed by other statements that seem to contradict it.

Take, for example:

“The prevalence of disinhibited social engagement disorder is unknown. Nevertheless, the disorder appears to be rare, occurring in a minority of children, even those who have experienced severe early deprivation. In low-income community populations in the United Kingdom, the prevalence is up to 2%.”

This kind of contradictory phrasing is standard in the DSM.

Again, the DSM is publicly available, and anyone can read it here: https://www.ifeet.org/files/DSM-5-TR.pdf

I would have expected more precision from a scientific book.
by b0ner_t0ner | 2025-08-27 01:07:52+00:00
Here's a non-SVG version of a pelican riding a bicycle:

https://ibb.co/6RPfBDyM

https://i.postimg.cc/dt7FsTWK/87-YE4j1-UC4x-Fp-Yo5t4wq-outpu...
by frosted-flakes | 2025-08-27 01:07:54+00:00
Oh it's definitely real, because I recognize the product I bought, and it all matches up perfectly to my records. It even has an old phone number on the letter (but current at the time), which is probably why they haven't called me.

I vaguely remember paying the duties and customs in cash to the driver, but I don't know for sure. This was likely the first international purchase I ever made that had a separate duties charge, and I remember being surprised by how much it was when it was delivered.
by alt187 | 2025-08-27 01:08:12+00:00
Bears most likely out-ruthless you, but, uh, I don't sed them building Dyson spheres anytime soon.

Aliens probably aren't this edgy, nihilist caricature. Most likely, they're kind of like us- Curious about us, hoping for the best, but irrationally fearing we're an "highly aggressive apex" or whatever self-absorbed nightmare the less enlightened individuals of their species dreamed.

Seriously, you think anyone is gonna cross 50 light-years to kill a bunch of featherless bipeds and plunder some common rocks?
by NoMoreNicksLeft | 2025-08-27 01:08:34+00:00
I downloaded all of Scientific American. There is a k12 school website that posts the password to their group account, you can log into SA's own archives, and they provide them as PDFs. Only 2-3 issues from 1868 (I think) are missing.

Cell (journal) also makes all their stuff accessible, but they don't provide the front matter or cover... was going to grab that too. Quite alot of everything's up on archive.org if there's anything in particular anyone wants.
by ericcumbee | 2025-08-27 01:08:39+00:00
Even if they don't get to a no replacement....they still already have a massive improvement over Space Shuttle. The Space Shuttle basically every tile was unique, and and the pattern was different between the different orbiters. A good bit of the months of refurbishment of the Orbiter between flights was heat shield repairs. SpaceX has already shown from when they completely retiled one of the ships. they have cut down the time to replace a single tile down to minutes instead of the hours it took with the shuttle. The Tiles are also alot more standardized so they can be more mass produced than shuttle tiles.
by anal_reactor | 2025-08-27 01:08:59+00:00
I've been downvoted for this and I'll be downvoted again, but average user is monolingual and for them, shitty automatic translation is better than no translation. Nobody cares about the fact that a small percentage of users speak more than one language. It's mind-boggling that HN users don't understand that they're not the target audience of most major platforms.

Anyway, I recommend Revanced. It has an option to turn off both subtitles and dubbing. This makes YouTube usable again.
by xanderlewis | 2025-08-27 01:08:59+00:00
Another 'reason' it works for odd-dimensional spheres is that the (2n - 1)-sphere can be identified with a certain subset of C^n (n-dimensional complex coordinate space) where your 'swap elements and multiply one by -1' idea is just multiplication by i, which, when you think of your vectors as being back in R^2n again, always produces something orthogonal to the original vector.

Even better, the (4n - 1)-sphere (so think of S^3, S^7, S^11, ...) can be thought of as a certain subset of H^n (same thing as before but with quaternions instead of complex numbers), where multiplication by i, j and k are available! And now in this case you have not only one nowhere-vanishing vector field on the sphere, but three everywhere pairwise orthogonal vector fields. This in particular shows that S^3 is 'parallelisable' — a property it shares with S^1 and means that there exists a continuous global choice of basis for each tangent space.
by Workaccount2 | 2025-08-27 01:09:03+00:00
Ironically small businesses tend to be the most egregious violators of labor laws and humanity in general.

Mega-corp isn't typically evil, it just wins a lot by being incredibly advantaged in whatever it pursues. Teams of lawyers, armies of engineers, rows of consultants.

Small businesses on the other hand tend to be the ones dumping oil in the river, firing employees that they don't want to back pay, bankrolling family vacations with time clock funny business, etc.

When I worked for my first mega-corp after years of small business jobs, I was blown away by how by-the-book it all was.
by credit_guy | 2025-08-27 01:09:26+00:00
I would just create an agent that provides the reviews. Instead of saying "your MR meets some of the criteria I have in this blog post", the agent can point very clearly at the exact criteria and how the merge request meets them, and can even make improvement suggestions. At the end, the author would review the AI generated review, to make sure everything sounds (and is) right. AI can be used in good ways, and bad ways. Show them the good way.
by ericmay | 2025-08-27 01:10:10+00:00
Here is an example: https://www.allamericanclothing.com/collections/shirts/produ...

According to the website it’s compliant with the Berry Amendment, made in California, $15. From what I understand Berry Amendment “compliance” means all raw material and manufacturing is exclusively US sourced and US manufactured.

A quick comparison I saw was this:

A “Made in USA” jacket could have fabric from China but still be assembled in the U.S. A Berry Compliant jacket must have U.S.-made fabric, thread, zippers, and even labels!

There’s a lot of different variations of these products in general and this is just one example.
by dfabulich | 2025-08-27 01:10:21+00:00
Claude for Chrome seems to be walking right into the "lethal trifecta." https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/16/the-lethal-trifecta/

"The lethal trifecta of capabilities is:"

• Access to your private data—one of the most common purposes of tools in the first place!

• Exposure to untrusted content—any mechanism by which text (or images) controlled by a malicious attacker could become available to your LLM

• The ability to externally communicate in a way that could be used to steal your data (I often call this “exfiltration” but I’m not confident that term is widely understood.)

If your agent combines these three features, an attacker can easily trick it into accessing your private data and sending it to that attacker.
by rlt | 2025-08-27 01:10:57+00:00
What exactly do you think is the “more technology development than the current flights actually show“ needed to get into and out of orbit?

My impression is they just need to leave the engines on a little longer to get to orbit, then turn them on again with the ship pointed in another direction to get back to the suborbital trajectory they’ve already demonstrated deorbiting from.

The hard part is reentering through the atmosphere without burning up, flipping, and landing, which they’ve already demonstrated multiple times. There’s no additional atmosphere between where they’ve flown and “orbit”.
by extraisland | 2025-08-27 01:11:38+00:00
AMD cards are plug and play for 99% of cases with Linux now. Everything just works out of the box.

The only issues you may run into if you distro doesn't include the firmware. e.g. This was the case with Debian 11 and you had to enable the non-free repo.

The only other problem you can conceivably have is card isn't supported by the kernel because it is too new. This can be fixed by upgrading the kernel. In Debian you can use a backports kernel, I am sure there are similar options in other distros.

When I was using my old 1080Ti, I had constant issues with the NVIDIA drivers. Acceleration didn't work on the second screen sometimes. There was some magic setting that would unset itself.
by jltsiren | 2025-08-27 01:12:34+00:00
Etiquette, norms, and formal communications are fundamentally about precision. You send only the message you intended, while minimizing the risk of unintended consequences.

If your actions have real-world consequences, they are guaranteed to send other messages beyond the one you intended. Tariffs, visa revocations, assassinations, wars, and whatever impact other people beyond their direct targets, and those people may change their behavior in unpredictable ways.
by anal_reactor | 2025-08-27 01:13:57+00:00
They just throw shit at everything and see what sticks. Truth is, AI does and will revolutionalize some aspects of our lives, it's just not clear what specifically. It's like we're in this weird phase when during dotcom bubble everyone tried to make everything online. Most ideas are pure unadulterated poop, but someone will indeed hit the jackpot.
by Wowfunhappy | 2025-08-27 01:14:04+00:00
> but [the] average user is monolingual

That's certainly true in America, but my understanding (as an American myself) is that it's not true in much of the world! In Romania for example people speak Romanian and English; in Ukraine they speak Ukrainian and Russian. I'm not sure how this nets out in terms of the overall population of technology users, but it's a large chunk of people!

P.S. For what it's worth, I downvoted you because you said "I'll be downvoted for this", not because I thought the rest of your comment was bad. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
by thrance | 2025-08-27 01:14:20+00:00
> small percentage of users speak more than one language.

Are you paid by Google to astroturf us into being accepting of their laziness? We're only asking them to allow us to specify two languages in the YouTube app, nothing more.

> Anyway, I recommend Revanced. It has an option to turn off both subtitles and dubbing. This makes YouTube usable again.

Really? I happened to check this today and found no such features.
by tekno45 | 2025-08-27 01:14:21+00:00
what goes through my mind is the fact plants aren't low maintenance, the land has to be tended.

growing the fuel plant is probably easy.

How do you get it OUT of the plant?

Solar panels just sit there (they do need cleaning i admit) and produce electricity that we can manipulate very cheaply already.

What machine collects diesel from plants? Can you safely dispose of the plant matter?
by lazyeye | 2025-08-27 01:15:27+00:00
ok but I thought you were arguing that a president removing a previous appointee is heralding the end of democracy or something.

I dont know what point you are trying to make with regard to immigration but not flooding the country with millions of illegal immigrants from 3rd world countries (with everything that entails) is commonsense for most people. It doesn't mean you are racist or hate legal immigrants, it just means you haven't been successfully gaslit by Democrat propaganda.
by shswkna | 2025-08-27 01:16:30+00:00
To add to this, it is even funnier how travel agents undergo training in order to be able to interface with and operate the “machine readable“ APIs for booking flight tickets.

What a paradoxical situation now emerges, where human travel agents still need to train for the machine interface, while AI agents are now being trained to take over the human jobs by getting them to use the consumer interfaces (aka booking websites) available to us.
by michaelmrose | 2025-08-27 01:16:34+00:00
It is. The opposition is getting ready to crater the economy whilst building concentration camps to be filled by the klan army he's putting together whilst gutting both our constitutional protections and ability to remove what ammounts to a senile version of Hitler.

They are doing so much damage to institutions and ultimately to people that their loss in 2028 will be damned near inevitable leaving them no course of action to stay out of prison other tha what they have already outlined which is to end democracy.

There is no substantial opposition from the Republicans singly or in groups. They are barely willing to verbally chastise him and none dare vote in a meaningful way that would impact his plans.

They were barely willing to admit he wasn't pres in 2021 when he was nothing.
by gorkemcetin | 2025-08-27 01:16:38+00:00
Maskwise and LLM Guard serve different stages of the AI pipeline. llm-guard basically filters prompts and responses to prevent prompt injection attacks. Maskwise is for preparing datasets before LLM training/fine-tuning. It processes large document collections (PDFs, Office docs, images) to detect & anonymize PII.

Vault is in the works :)
by stephen_g | 2025-08-27 01:17:25+00:00
Yeah, there is very little reason to want to do this. It may become more of an issue if new SATA/SAS drives stop being produced anymore for maintaining those legacy systems - but at that point something based on an FPGA (as was suggested in another comment) is probably going to be more economic than a company bothering to spin an ASIC for the purpose. But I don't see SATA drives dying out for a fair while yet.
by tavavex | 2025-08-27 01:17:33+00:00
> Nobody cares about the fact that a small percentage of users speak more than one language

Everything I can find online claims that ~40% of the world, if not more, is at least bilingual. It's not some crazy rare single-digit percentage trait. In some nations, multilingualism is near-universal. Do you think it's reasonable for a company like YouTube to deliver a frankly hot garbage experience with no opt-out to about half of its userbase, if not more? That's billions of people we're talking about here.
by daemonologist | 2025-08-27 01:18:33+00:00
ML is currently the hotness in tech, and startup-land in particular, so it's a popular post topic here as well. (At its foundation this is a startup forum - it's owned by the silicon valley venture capital firm Y Combinator, hence the url.)

You might be right that younger people are particularly interested in AI, but if I had to guess I would say HN skews older than other forums like Reddit.
by AngryData | 2025-08-27 01:18:44+00:00
I think a big part of the problem is if a person goes to trial in the US, if they still get a charge, even if it is much lower than what they were originally charged with, they are on the hook for all the court costs on top of all the fines and fees and jail costs and 10 different line item charges they will get already. And most people balk at the exorbitant costs when it is presented.
by Telemakhos | 2025-08-27 01:19:34+00:00
> Alternatively, advanced megaprojects are only achievable through sophisticated large-scale cooperation.

In that sense, war is a megaproject. War organized the Manhattan Project, which is still the metaphor we use for any massive scale, sophisticated project. The space race was a cold war endeavor to make ICBMs that weren't obviously ICBMs, and the Soviets were terrified that the Space Shuttle was a nuclear dive-bomber (actually it was for deploying and returning recon satellites) [0]. Cooperation does not necessarily imply peace or post-nationalism: war is strong cooperation on each side of the war, with competition between the two sides. In fact, the cooperation is so strong that actions taken against that cooperation end up being punished as treason much more strenuously than in peace time.

[0] https://www.thespacereview.com/article/3855/1
by WalterBright | 2025-08-27 01:21:10+00:00
> We tax things we want people to do all the time.

True. But why not think about ditching those taxes, and replace them with taxing things we don't want people to do? There's a double benefit - tax revenue is raised, and people do less of those things undesirable to society.

For example, "sin" taxes.

For other examples, taxing pollution. Taxing the conversion of forest land to a parking lot. And so on.
by mathieuh | 2025-08-27 01:21:14+00:00
https://datafusion.apache.org/blog/2024/09/13/string-view-ge...

> The concept of inlined strings with prefixes (called “German Strings” by Andy Pavlo, in homage to TUM, where the Umbra paper that describes them originated) has been used in many recent database systems (Velox, Polars, DuckDB, CedarDB, etc.) and was introduced to Arrow as a new StringViewArray[^3] type. Arrow’s original StringArray is very memory efficient but less effective for certain operations. StringViewArray accelerates string-intensive operations via prefix inlining and a more flexible and compact string representation.

Seems to be nothing more than they were invented at a German university. I spent quite some time thinking it had something to do with German’s sometimes-SOV word order.
by sandreas | 2025-08-27 01:21:46+00:00
Don't bother too much. Remove all possible apps, set do-not-disturb and block Internet after installing audiobookshelf.

TALK to your kids how and when to use it. They'll understand.

My daughter can use an old Samsung phone with audio jack to listen. I installed LineageOS but this is not required. She can only use it when one of is with her ATM and has to give it back after. I also installed the apps Vlc, PaulWoitaschek/Voice and Lissen because ABS has some bugs and crashes from time to time. Voice / Lissen are also native apps that increase battery life.