skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What are the odds of Starship working? It seems really complex.

And that last phase where the ship flips vertical from the bellyflop, looks insane for human passengers inside. How many G’s is that maneuver pulling?

SN8 appears 90% successful, but I’m wondering if that remaining 10% is the killer.

As they say: You spend 10% of your time, solving 90% of your problem. And then you spend 90% of your time, solving the last 10% of your problem.

Between high speed re-entry, and thermal protections, I wonder how well the Starship design was modeled, to handle hypersonic re-entry speeds. It appears to be a very large spacecraft that’s re-entering the atmosphere at very high speeds.

If it succeeds, then maybe it’ll open up space travel and make it cheaper. If not, then well, nice try. Back to the drawing board.

But maybe, we’ll see results soon enough, with SN9.
I have made a similar application at https://WebDrop.Space

It uses WebTorrent trackers and is easier to setup offline on network.

https://github.com/subins2000/WebDrop
I'm shocked there are women and teen only lines. Suicide in men is skyrocketing and people just seem to laugh if you bring up points like this.
I found it at https://madeofmetaphors.com/shapes but blog seems a bit broken (cdn.sett.com issues I guess)
> where does Ruby stand with regard to performance, compared to say Python?

In my experience Ruby has been faster than Python for a long time - ever since its performance improved significantly going from 1.8 to 1.9, and Python’s got worse going from 2.x to 3.x.
HN isn't the place for a debate about colonialism.

I'm not sure there is much 'intellectual curiosity' surrounding any supposed alternatives. Judging the past by the standards of the present isn't a starting point for a discussion.
As a computer engineer you need to focus on computers, not people. I know this is popular right now, but it sucks and it is wrong and leads to bad results. Yes, the current state of affairs is a "bad result", young ones.

We expect civil engineers to account for people, but they think about materials, planning, math, etc. Stay close to your craft or you might see it and/or your position in it evaporate.
I think #4 can be explained by a simple phenomenon: if a group is defined by people's desire to leave it, it will eventually be populated mostly by those who can't.

This is how many such communities become toxic over time.
> the domain I bought would cost in the 10s of millions if it was a .com

I don't know much about the pricing of domains, so please excuse my ignorance.

Isn't that just due to the fact that your name was already taken on .com so you had to use a TLD, where is was still free? The 10s of millions you don't have to pay to registrar, you have to pay it the current owner of the domain, who like an owner of anything can dictate the price.

If that is correct, then how is 'google one of the best things to happen to domain registrations'? I guess this is not refering to pricing, because 1k$/a sounds like a lot of money for a domain.
You can thank the SPAC (Special Purpose Acquisition Company) process for that. Nikola basically bypassed all of the normal scrutiny that's associated with an IPO by merging with a placeholder company that had already gone public. It's a really shady practice, and Nikola is a perfect example of what's wrong with it.
I don't see how i could go to bowling league regularly and simultaneously keep full time job, be actual non absent parent for kids and maintain at least some relationship with extended family.

Bowling social clubs assume everyone has a lot of free time, does not have small kids or offloaded all kids care on partner.
It's quite crazy how expensive the .io and .ai domains are, versus .com and .net and other vanilla domains.
Yeah, almost 20 years ago.
shaffy wants to sell to UK customers, his customers want to buy his product. Why should the government get in the way of that. Making that transaction difficult is going to lower economic activity, reduce consumer choice and increase prices.

>So this sort of thing is an example of why the UK voters decided to leave

UK voters voted because of the high levels of immigration. Without that the leave campaign would have lost by a wide margin.
For a lot of people, that means having to find another job, unless compensation remains the same.
Magnetic App
My pleasure. We do indeed have a pretty serious cultural problem, and it's not made any better by closing ourselves off to the wealth of possibility that lies in human interaction. I'm not unsympathetic to the plight of those who feel they've been given the cold shoulder - but hurt people hurt people, so it's important for a community to isolate and identify that damage. Dumbing things down is not the way.

Happy holidays to you and yours!
The past? This is late 1960s to the present.
Yes, in this scenario compensation remains the same. Salaried, not hourly. It would definitely suck if you provided more value yet got paid half.
WebRTC connection requires the peers to exchange signal data. This can be through a middleman server, Qr code or even pen & paper.

I've made a library that uses WebTorrent trackers to exchange the signal data and make P2P connections : https://github.com/subins2000/p2pt
The work is substractive I guess only when projects are very clear in what needs to be done, which maybe is the case in gaming? Otherwise I'd say projects are more inventive, because in my experience requirements are never clear.

I'd also say if you work on an existing system, that's already used in production, then work can definitely be additive, because quality starts to matter a lot more, as well as cost cutting, so robust code, performant code, code that doesn't require the team size to double every year to manage its increasing complexity, etc. do add value.

I do think the author has a point though with the weird shapes. The thing is, you have to put yourself in the shoes of your manager, what are they on the hook for? Once you start to understand what they're on the hook for, you get to have a better perspective on what your time should be spent on in order to get them off the hook for whatever they were on the hook for. That will get you to understand priorities, and what work matters and doesn't.
I think that says more about who takes the survey.
Jeffrey Friedl has recently updated his blog post [1] (mentioned in the "great top comment"), referencing the various HN discussions over the years.

It's all oddly satisfying, in a way...

[1] http://regex.info/blog/2006-09-15/247
No meetings if it's 4 hours, doesn't make any sense time wise.
>Very little nature to be found anywhere

For such a dense and large city London has a surpising number of public parks.
I mean, if your only requirement is "I need it to work on computers that I've specifically configured to make it work on", you might as well make your "domain" an entry in /etc/hosts. It'd even work more reliably.
Real-world engineering realities, tends to throw a wrench at perfect-world physics equations.
The eu certainly got in the way of that. If shaffy was located outside of the EU then they would need to produce to eu standards and pay import taxes.

That is all pretty normal for a country though and the UK is the same.

Your point about immigration is correct though.
But these companies aren’t doing nothing, they’re investing significant resources in their local communities, frequently with an emphasis on underserved.
Gross margins. Of course if they made more gross profit and reinvested it all, net profit would look the same. Making 100 bucks and reinvesting 100 is the same as making 10 bucks and reinvesting 10, in net profit terms, so net profit is not really a useful metric when judging productivity.
Well in humans the males on average have higher bone density than females. Does that hold for most other species?
The people of Romania and Pakistan are going away because it's really bad in their countries. Are you happy with that?
Afaik, number of suicides went down and number of calls went up when they first time started to put that thing under articles about suicide.
True, that would be cool. I was debating whether 5 days x 4 hours is better than 4x5.
I was expecting there to be more to it than that, but I understand their point now.
No it isn’t. It’s about citizens of the largest metro areas in the country, ridiculously skewed to one party, wanting to rule over the rest of the country with no hope of being opposed. The Founders anticipated this thankfully and set up the electoral college and the sovereignty of the states.
He also has an amazing essay on futurology called Summa Technologiae. It clearly shows his insight into what is happening to our society as we advance in tech.

It was recently translated to English and is a must read.
I'm sure that that market segment tends towards macs, but given these constraints I'm surprised that they're not using much cheaper PCs to run the same audio suites, given the budget constraints.

This is to suggest that Broadway shows could already have achieved the same increase-in-sound-quality-per-dollar by switching to cheaper hardware running Windows, and that the M1 introduction isn't really the big sea change the author makes it out to be.
even on a Christmas morning

It's on a different day in Canadia
One of the most infuriating thing for me was having my biometric information taken and shared at all the the competitive examinations' test centres. To get into college, I had given 5-7 online competitive exams (JEE/BITSAT/UCEED/etc.), and at each centre I had to mandatorily have my fingerprint scanned. Their reason was probably to prevent cheating, but I won't be surprised if my fingerprint/name/phone number/address is out their being sold.
Must be the best way to read news websites
If there was no trade deal then I think the UK would have to allow all cheeses from all over the world without tariffs if it allows German cheese.

As far as I can tell,tthe wto allows you to have two tariffs, one for counties for whom you have a deal and another for everyone else.
Yeah - I don’t see how SPACs are anything more than a way to dump a losing company on the public.

Supposedly it’s about giving founders certainty, but if the investors in the SPAC want to take the founder’s company public then they must think the price they’re giving them is under market.

Best interpretation of this is founders not wanting to deal with the hassle of an IPO (or preferably DPO) and are willing to take that lower price to avoid the logistics (which doesn’t inspire much confidence in the founders for me).

I suspect a lot these are just about grifting money from the public while passing off a dying company. Cashing out quickly for SPAC investors and founders.

Nikola in particular is basically fraud and going to zero, just hard to know when. I think it’s too difficult to make money with a short position, this biases the market to support this kind of failed company longer than it should.
I thought, discussing with little local producers, that the problem was tougher and tougher sanitary regulations ? Yes they're coming from EU mostly, but it seems France and the French people agree it's best to reduce the number of food poisoning cases, or they would have put a stop on this (or wouldn't enforce it...).
I agree. I have no problem seeing men cry, and I've held several whilst they did so -- and never thought less of them. Crying is a human reaction and men are allowed to experience it too. Crying doesn't make you weak, it's just an outlet of emotion that can really help clear your head sometimes.
That uses a different API that is widely assumed will be removed soon in a future macOS, and as such nobody wants to rely on it or build around it. It also requires root. It is not used by the Wireguard GUI app in the Mac App Store (MAS).

The wireguard-app-from-wireguard is only distributed via MAS, and you cannot build that GUI version that they distribute via MAS yourself, because that version uses the NetworkExtension API and that only works with the appropriate signed entitlement from Apple, which as of very recently didn't get issued outside of MAS apps.
What was his 1986 amnesty? Hadn’t he been President for one term at that point?
Also the thing the UK has just agreed to, if the UK and eu parliaments agree.
And that gives you the brush to paint all old white men the same? Racism, ageism and sexism at is finest.
Is all the software necessary to pull this off already compiled for arm64?

I've read claims that rosetta 2 is fast. I haven't seen results about m1 running x86_64 through rosetta vs intel though.
And the Welsh.
The three musketeers. The mysterious island. Friendship, bravery and being a man.

5th Discipline by Peter Senge. On why complex systems (including humans) behave the way they do
But it's so HARD.

Really, though, thanks for posting this. I'm in a slump recently and I've been nagging myself to get up and go (to no avail, nagging has never worked on me anyhow) and it's genuinely helpful to be reminded that others have done it, too and that the results are real.

Today is it. I'ma go running. Cheers!
Many professional audio software suites have historically only run on macOS. I think that’s started to change over the past 5 years. But moving from macOS to Windows is a big, big effort for most orgs.
There are also sponsored TLDs(.edu, .gov), generic restricted(.biz), and the single infrastructure TLD .arpa.

https://www.iana.org/domains/root/db
Yet when other countries are brought up HN's Western userbase appears eager to dig up 100 year old atrocities to judge their present populace by.
Thanks for sharing this, looks promising.
Marc Andreessen Missed That Bitcoin Could Become a Store of Value?
It almost reads like he is explaining something else?
I honestly cannot believe that this is a solid metric. I believe the question, or their answers are poorly parsed.

I presume a lot of the dread is really about Rails. And the rest partly hearsay of the slow performance of Ruby.

Rails is, to me, a blessing, but also a terrible framework. It helps to rapidly ship products. Just cobble some gems together in a controller or two, mix a gem or three into your models and you have a demo. A rapid Proof of Concept. But also a product that is practically unmaintainable. I've been doing Rails from its very beginning, solving this (trying to) has been my primary job for over seven years now.

And performance? Yes Ruby is slow. But the speed of the language is unmeasurable in, I daresay, the vast majority of the projects of people who tell you it is too slow.

That legacy mysql setup, this poorly evolved domain model, or that badly integrated external API is almost always the thing making it slow. The ms of Ruby handling that JSON to CSV conversion then is practically unmeasurable.

Rust is not going to speed up those 3000ms spend in that ugly SQL query. Go's multithreading is not going to solve the slow API which you call thrice per minute. And Java is not magically making the tangle of classes, jobs, callbacks, listeners and whatnot dissapear.
Heating houses : https://qarnot.com/en/home/

Basically they install 'heaters' in your house which are actually servers in disguise. I think they also have a boiler now.

They're not the only ones though - I believe that in a number of places in Northern Europe, if you want to setup a datacenter in town, it has to be plugged to a (public?) water heating system.
I see I must be coming off as more of a grump than I anticipated :) I don't personally harbor resentment over different applications of our industry, but in fact am steadily amazed (befuddled/astounded). The market is what it is, and we individuals are fairly carried along like so much flotsam on the waves.

I agree we're perhaps dickering over distinctions no one external cares about, akin to characters in "Let That Be Your Last Battlefield". Is our internal perspective as valueless as the mindset of those characters above, or is there use in hammering out a common understanding for the general public before it's handed to us?

That being asked, the distinctions may be moot. Most of us have probably 10-20 years of rapidly dwindling utility in our respective realms due to the swift boot that is ML/DL/etc. And your point will remain more poignant at that time: "will anyone outside of our field know or care about the difference?".
Ableton Live, the only one used for live performance by any of my circles (admittedly, in the electronic music scene, not Broadway) is cross-platform.

Logic Pro is, of course, Mac-only as it's made by Apple.

We're not talking about an organization moving to Windows here, we're just talking about a single, appliance-like keyboard-input-to-audio-output computer for someone to play music on in a live Broadway show. TFA writes about buying the machine new for that single purpose. There aren't really "switching costs" in the traditional sense in that circumstance.

TBH I think it's just an ad. The circumstance (we have to buy two brand new computers for every run of a show!) and claimed impact are just too contrived.

EDIT: Further supporting the idea that it's just an ad, every other post from this domain on HN is promoting a product.
For sure there are also other use cases, where just putting entries in /etc/hosts is not enough and it's useful to add one more entry to DNS resolver on machines that should be able to reach specific and probably dynamic destinations.

That's actually a fun exercise to come up with these use cases.
My guess - The controller has lots of new features around the adaptive triggers, haptic feedback, etc. If only PS5 had these, third parties will.have little motivation to add these features to their games. If PC (I hear Steam is doing something about it as well) - Windows and Linux - games can have the support as well, third parties have a bigger base for these features. Likewise for Android use for remote play.

Also, yeah, it sells more of these controllers which are considered by many as THE defining next gen feature.
An individual can sell the transfer rights for as much as they like, but that is separate from the registrar fees.
It might be ridiculous but it's what I want if I'm going to use cloud gaming software. I'm probably not the target demographic.
> Some shows I’ve worked at set aside a $10,000-$12,000 budget for two keyboard rigs. That sounds like a lot of money at first, but it’s not.

It's a bit surprising that each show in the same theatre buys their own audio equipment.
Lightroom has some critical problems limiting professional use.

* Forced lens profiles. (And more. There are reports of double application of profiles)

* Color and light correction also changes untouched parameters (it's ok but there is no workaround). If you need to do a more accurate job then use C1 or Photoshop.
I can’t be the only one to misread the title as “Broadwell”, and scratching my head extra hard at the reverse timeline (Broadwell was an Intel design produced from ~2014-2108)
> Due to budget constraints, many shows end up using Mac minis. Historically speaking, the Mac mini’s computing power has been a bottleneck for electronic music designers on Broadway. In a perfect world, we’d all like to use the best-sounding sample libraries for our work, but that was never feasible with the Mac mini. Thus, the compromise was always to reduce sound quality to fit within the Mac mini’s compute constraints.

What is the complexity with sample libraries? Until now I thought they were just big collections of categorised MP3s, and surely Mac Minis can handle those. I guess I'm missing something.
> Some shows I’ve worked at set aside a $10,000-$12,000 budget for two keyboard rigs. That sounds like a lot of money at first, but it’s not.

> Apple Silicon changes everything for Broadway electronic music designers. The new M1 Mac mini is capable of running high-end sample libraries and virtual instruments in a stable manner, and it’s only going to get better with M2, M3, and M4-series chips in the future. The performance per dollar characteristics of Apple Silicon machines are going to have a huge impact on Broadway’s sound, and I’m very excited to see, or hear, what happens.

What will happen is probably that your budget will get reduced, since you don't need as much to deliver the same quality as today.
I have to agree with the dead comment here. Focusing just on people is how we got to the stage of having extremely fast CPUs that can compute billions if not trillions of operations and yet websites and apps lag. We can run full fledged games at 240 FPS and yet, websites and apps lag. It truly is heresy to not fully utilize the hardware we create, such a waste, simply because people don't optimize at every step of the process, useless abstraction on top of useless abstraction. In game engines they do, to some extent, because they have to, and so should they in general purpose applications as well.
It’s more than a bit creepy how Twinkly actively show locations of where setups have been mapped around the world, and even creepier that they show the time of the last device mapped. Sure it might be innocuous but are there other things that can be collected? If anyone has this, is it possible to opt out.
Yes, I consider consider something 80 years ago in the past. Hell, we think RAZR phones are relics of the past.
I think .de is relatively safe.
Also they have lots of money.
I assume getting there is the worse part of the trip. Even if you're on a Dragon capsule

Ok, getting off the station is probably very stressful and annoying as well, but at least you're going back home
You are right - it relates less to pricing and more to having a trustworthy registrant to partner with. And it’s very easy to adjust various DNS setting with Google, the whole process is very well done. Highly recommend them here and many others do too.

Re pricing, I’ve noticed a few others bringing it up on 1,000 per year. This is a premium domain and instead of some scalper grabbing it up, by setting the annual price high, an actual end user like myself gets to buy one. In a perfect world we will be the first to snag up a domain, but this model of charging premium prices for domains, as long as it’s not exorbitant, works better for both end users and registrants.

1,000 sounds a lot per year, but when the .com is in the millions, it’s much fairer.
To me, 3.0 is not super interesting per se, but it's a great ground to make future releases compelling, congrats to everyone involved, and thank you for your work.
I don't think so. If you are isolated from people for too long, you will lose a lot of social skills. People become frustrating and very tiring. You lose ability to relate and to have friends.

All that while feeling very lonely simultaneously. Like, you are lonely, but meeting people makes it worst and makes it plain you don't belong.

That happened to me.
It wasn't a binding referendum. Parliament could have not voted to go ahead with leaving the eu.
They use samples as a base, but do heavy amounts of DSP to get the final product, these days up to simple ML models.

Think being able to create new virtual backup singers who you can play like a piano, pretty much on a whim, who sound convincing to the kinds of people who work production on broadway.