skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Boeing and Lockheed Martin, separately and together under the name of ULA, and Northrop Grumman (as Morton Thiokol, ATK, Orbital ATK and now NGIS) have been milking the taxpayer for decades. Their business plan always involved making everything take longer and be more expensive. That is what they have to do to make more money, because they work on "cost plus" contracts.

An engineer in any one of them who presented a way to make the rocket cheaper to his boss would have been fired for not understanding how the company makes money.

The oversight is supposed to be done by congress, but they are extremely happy to provide good paying jobs in their districts, for decades.

No one even really hides it anymore. Any official, when asked about something like SLS and costs, would answer with "But NASA is going to the moon! Don't you want America to go to the moon?!" and with "tens of thousands of high paying jobs in all 50 states". There is no attempt to say the rising year over year price of orbital launch (before SpaceX), the exorbitant price of SLS + Orion, the use of solid boosters for crewed launches, etc, make any sense except to support the existing contractors to the detriment of the tax payer and space exploration.

See a NASA insider explaining: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3gzwMJWa5w&t=463s

(Or see anything by Dr. Robert Zubrin, or see the story of how the shuttle derived design that lost to RAC-2 (a Saturn V like design) was chosen to be "SLS": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNZx208bw0g&t=1970s)
This is simply conflating terms, though.

If your field re-defines a commonly used term to mean something very precise, obviously you're going to encounter problems when you try work backwards. "Tree" in the meaning of "some phylogenetic categorisation that contains elements x, y, z" may not exist in biology, but "tree" in the meaning of "big leafy thing made of wood" exists as sure as anything.

Drawing lines is for scientific language, not general-purpose language.
There is a lot of wrong in this article: inability to articulate what polymorphism is, misunderstanding of prototypes, bad JS practices (`var`, `.__proto__`), falsehoods on programming languages including JS itself, confusion around ECS, unfinished examples... I suspect the author is in the early stages of their learning journey and Dunning-Kruger is in full effect.
I recently wrote a post about the problem with naming things (https://itnext.io/and-naming-things-tailwind-css-typescript-...), but this post points out that not only is that the case -- once an abstraction has been introduced, it's hard to get rid of simply because removing them intuitively feels like a step backwards. Very good point!
Ah possibly, thats how employment works too, some anti-discrimination statutes coming into play after a certain number of employees.
It's more about rational self-interest. Do the wealthy regularly steal bread from the grocery store? Probably not. The risk-reward profile is all wrong - they have many much easier ways to make money. I suppose you're right that I don't know this for a fact, I'm saying the incentives are wrong.
I always separate trade-in and financing from the price. Deal on the price first then the trade, then the financing.

Trade ins are good for negotiation too. Wanted the factory extended warranty. Dealers in other states will discount the extended warranty but can’t sell in my state. Dealer wouldn’t discount the warranty to the price of the out-of-state so I had them keep it that price and up the trade in value to match it. They can show they didn’t discount the warranty. I get the discount.

They did that if I would get finance thru them, matching my prearranged banks rate. Deal made.

Went in the next Monday to the local bank and refinanced the car loan.

Also made them give me so thing for signing the arbitration agreement. Everything is negotiable. I did have to walk away but they called me back on the drive home.
Yes, and "massive" and "massless" exhaustively covers both, with the special highlighting of massless particles which are further constrained to follow null geodesics.

Massive particles don't have that limitation but they only travel time-like geodesics (as far as we know).
They replace broken and worn parts, so at some point this becomes the Booster of Theseus problem. How many parts can you replace before it is not the same booster anymore.
If Amazon cared, it'd be trivial I think to make a bunch of honeypots which would get such emails and penalize the sellers that do stuff like that. But that's a big "if".
> How does one measure happiness? Psychologists can’t use a ruler or a microscope, so they invent an arbitrary scale.

The author makes it sound like you just pull a scale out of your ass. There are processes that researchers must follow to create a scale to measure something like happiness. If these rules are not followed correctly, you won't get your research published in reputable journals.
Maybe he/she has an alter ego who does ‘research’ into ransomware in the middle of the night </conspiracy>
https://www.hud.gov/program_offices/fair_housing_equal_opp/f...

“ The Fair Housing Act covers most housing. In very limited circumstances, the Act exempts owner-occupied buildings with no more than four units, single-family houses sold or rented by the owner without the use of an agent, and housing operated by religious organizations and private clubs that limit occupancy to members.”

So, they may be able to get by legally under the private club/member exemption.
> a mapping of /something/ onto the number line chosen in a way that the numbers are within "human" range.

Can you even do this with happiness? What is a unit of happiness?
Not a contradiction! Bayesian inference is fully compatible with this definition.
VMs generally use hardware virtualization features; iSH is just an interpreter.
Fairly often I simply go to https://en.wikipedia.org/ and type my query in the search box there instead of googling it.
Why Do Things Keep Evolving into Crabs? (2020)
Kids with a desk and a quiet place to study do better in school, data shows
Talk about being pedantic ...
Doesn’t AMD also provide hyper-threading of sorts?

My Ryzen has 6 cores and 12 threads. Isn’t that pretty much the same?
A better way to phrase this is, when various plants with different evolutionary histories grow big, they converge on tree-like forms.
Ask HN: When will Covid be over, any guesses
I see your perspective, I understand that for some people this feels unacceptable.

But I don't think of it this way. I come from a different background (a less developed region of a less developed country), and we set the bar lower where I'm from, because we have more vital problems.

I consider factory farming inhumane, it's bloody concentration camps and they shouldn't exist.

But small, local farms where we take care of the animals (no sadism, animals walk on the grass, play with their babies and whatnot) and let them live until certain (not too old) age are fine. Taking the lives of other animals to get food is normal. And even after we have good substitutes for meat, I would keep some small amount of farms to keep people used to killing animals for food, and take kids there for excursions to show that it's normal.

(There was a Danish TV show where they were showing naked adults to children and let them any ask questions; to make kids used to thinking that naked body is normal and there's nothing shameful about it. I think we should have the same thing but with killing animals.)

> Even if you've grown up seeing this, I don't see how you can describe slitting the throat of something that doesn't need to or want to die as humane.

I guess, my perspective is more about what you have to do rather than what you want to do. The animal may not want to die at the age of 2-3 years, but sorry, it has to; it's better than nothing and it's way better than what animals get in wildlife. Life is not a carte blanche where you can order anything you want.

Growing those animals for food helps sustain their species. If we don't get their meat, who's going to pay it?

> It's even more indefensible when there's many meat alternatives now.

I think something like this map [1] can explain such a difference between your and my perception of this. You sound like a person with ~2 points on "Survival vs. Self-expression scale". Am I right? The place where I'm form has -0.7 points (yes, it's minus there).

[1]: https://www.worldvaluessurvey.org/WVSNewsShow.jsp?ID=428
> The first two aren't really better than the last at conveying what's going on.

Though I've never really liked the verbiage, TFA does correctly remark that it guides towards the correct parameter ordering in ways `assert_eq` does not. And depending on the way assertion errors are formatted, getting the ordering wrong can lead to odd / awkward messages.

'course these days I use pytest which just asks for an `assert` and takes care of taking apart the expression being asserted, so it's a non-issue.
i ended up with tabby a few months back when a similar topic came up and it was recommended here:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tabby-window-...
That's the process for building and installing packages though. I'm talking about writing new ones, on a system with nothing else installed.

I'm omnivorous but I get paid for web development and that's what most people I know are most interested in. And like I said, they understand Makefiles and make, but autotools and Meson are not "basic C build tools," they're both extremely complex and relatively niche. I'm not saying you shouldn't use the tools you use, but you should understand that they are not popular or well-understood outside of your niche of Linux programming with C. I'm sure these programmers could learn how to use them, but most are going to choose not to if it's the easiest way to use the language. They will pick something else.
Let me answer your question with a story about Jaffa Cakes

> In the United Kingdom, value added tax is payable on chocolate-covered biscuits, but not on chocolate-covered cakes.[14][15] McVities defended its classification of Jaffa Cakes as cakes at a VAT tribunal in 1991, against the ruling that Jaffa cakes were biscuits due to their size and shape, and the fact that they were often eaten in place of biscuits.[16] McVities insisted that the product was a cake, and allegedly produced a giant Jaffa cake in court to illustrate its point.[16]

> The court discounted the expert evidence, as it went beyond the capacity of an ordinary purchaser.[17] The product was assessed on the following criteria:[18][19]

* The product's name was regarded as a minor consideration.
* The ingredients were regarded as similar to those of a cake, producing a thin cake-like mixture rather than the thick dough of a biscuit.
* The product's texture was regarded as being that of a sponge cake.
* The product hardens when stale, in the manner of a cake.
* A substantial part of the Jaffa cake, in terms of bulk and texture, is sponge.
* In size, the Jaffa cake is more like a biscuit than a cake.
* The product was generally displayed for sale alongside other biscuits, rather than with cakes.
* The product is presented as a snack and eaten with the fingers, like a biscuit, rather than with a fork as a cake might be. The tribunal also considered that children would eat them in "a few mouthfuls", in the manner of a sweet.

The court was adjudicated by Mr Donald Potter QC, who found in favour of McVitie's and ruled that whilst Jaffa Cakes had characteristics of both cakes and biscuits, the product should be considered a cake, meaning that VAT is not paid on Jaffa cakes in the United Kingdom.[14][20] Mr Potter QC also expressed that Jaffa Cakes were not biscuits.[21]

The Irish Revenue Commissioners also regard Jaffa cakes as cakes, since their moisture content is greater than 12%. As a result, they are charged the reduced rate of VAT (13.5% as of 2016).[22]
Yes, but the primary function of a TV is not causing the security vulnerability - the questionable additions are.
Do you have examples of these standardized processes to measure happiness?

The only measures I’ve heard of are not standardized and typically self-reported / survey based measures.
Yes. We use categories to describe a system. We categorize an engine into a the ignition system, cooling system, air intake system, ect.. We describe node.js by its categories -- errors, file system, streams, ect.. Systems are cyclic which means humans can pretty well make assumptions of a future state of a system by the current and past state of that system. If we want to know a future state, we need to first describe the system. I really like Robert Pirsig's idea of an analytical knife from "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance" to cut up systems into categories or category trees, there isn't a one way to do it but rather many ways to describe a system in categories that are more and less useful.
Some regions in Europe that want to attract remote workers (and pensioners from wealthier places), are doing so because they are grappling with rural depopulation. There is definitely the opportunity for cultural clashes to arise, but by coming and spending your money locally, you aren’t “taking advantage of the situation” as much as doing exactly what the local authorities want you to do.
Additionally the government started to reduce subsidizing for renewable energy which ruined a lot of very high tech and innovative companies in the solar power field. Further the government made it harder to install wind turbines in the countryside. All while still pumping money in coal.
I remember Feynman speaking quite harshly about most psychology towards the end of "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!". His complaints were largely around the lack of reproducibility and experiment practices universal across the field.

This piece seems to criticize just one subset of psychology - happiness research - and use that to dismiss the entire field. I feel like writing putting one discipline above another should be a bit more vigorous in that dismissal, even if I ultimately agree with the general sentiment.
We already have standard pinouts, etc for DRAM. However, desoldering and resoldering in new chips is error prone, requires special equipment, is labor intensive and can damage nearby capacitors, etc.

Anyway, if you want, nothing (except economics) is stopping you from upgrading your soldered DRAM.
You might be right but your last sentence is the reason why people are apprehensive about sharing their work and writing more articles. There's no need for it.
Can you expand on how you think this is the case? Looking at the brain to find out what people think seems to me like looking at atoms to see how an engine works.
ROFL. Yeah, I'll just do a lifetime buy of these:

https://www.digikey.com/en/products/detail/xilinx-inc/XCVU13...

... as soon as my board hits production. If they give me any grief at DigiKey, I'll have my VP of Procurement fly up there in the company G5 to give them a piece of my mind.
Qt's decision to limit LTS updates to commercial customers only means that new projects are having to look at alternative cross-platform gui toolkits. all the toolkits mentioned in the article have downsides
Indeed!

I also use it a lot to discover new music.

And geography! I hated geography in school. After school my interest in geography has increased sharply. Wikipedia and Google Maps are indispensable for that kind of stuff.
My company is remote-first and employs people all over the world. For countries where they don’t have an incorporated entity (the vast majority) employees work as “contractors”. The onus is on them to figure out how to set up to be able to invoice an overseas company and get paid via wire transfer to their bank account. But this usually just means “hire an accountant to figure things out”. It is doable.
But they are linked. Studies have shown a very high correlation. One outlier doesn't change the high correlation.
I get what you're saying, but I think this is an example of when it's okay to dive into semantics. When we urge people to "trust the science", as we've been doing a lot in the last little while, it matters a great deal how we define science.
I had this bookmarked, not sure if it's valid or up to date:
"How to Hire Foreign IT Talent Legally for your US Startup" - https://6nomads.medium.com/how-to-hire-foreign-it-talent-leg...
US Corn Grain Yield Trends Since 1866: https://www.agry.purdue.edu/ext/corn/news/timeless/images/US...

It may take years for new practices to be widespread and accepted, but I assure you, if you can make that chart continue to go up, ~every grain farmer in the US will happily be on board.

There is a certain world-view and a romanticizing to farming, but at the end of the day, farmers are businessmen who just want to grow as much food as possible, as cheaply as possible. They may grumble as much as a software developer when forced to learn new tools, and they won't drop everything for an unproven promise, but they'll happily abandon their old ways in favor of new ones once they're proven.
Agree that "arbitrary" was a poor word choice, but it seems as though he meant something like "subjective", which is consonant with the rest of the article.
I think differentiating subjective scales from objective scales isn't terribly fraught, and treating subjective measures as less rigorous than objective measures seems correct to me.
String theory is also very weak on predictions. I guess if it should be classified as non-science.
Psychology has a gazillion competing theories for everything. They ought to do a little more “converging” and a little less “diverging” for a bit (to borrow the diamond model from psychology).
I don't think anybody really knows; there simply isn't any data with > 10.

Back in the days when boosters were recovered, I remember hearing somewhere that SpaceX was confident that they would be able to fly them 10x, and hoped for 100x
> Ugh, I can't select text on the page. I do it to read more easily.

If you are on firefox, try this: View -> Page Style -> No Style and scroll down. Hit <cntl>+ to enlarge if needed.

I do this on many sites nowadays - wish there was a way to make this a default setting for all sites. (Other browsers probably have a similar feature but I don't have one in front of me to give the step-by-step instructions.)
“ as if germanies' co2 emission alone did make our world wide temperature rise so bad”

This nicely demonstrates how CO2 emissions is a collective action problem between all the world’s countries.

Any one country, even the #1 emitter the USA, giving up on fossil fuels isn’t enough to stop changing the climate via CO2 emission.

So each country can claim that its failure to build nuclear or to replace all fossil fuels with renewable and battery storage isn’t a big deal.
I am yet to see an Electron app do something that wasn't already done by some older app before it with less lag. All I've seen so far are various flavors of the same basic chat/conference features in slightly different pricing models. Or apps that exist just for the sake of claiming something has a native app( while being just a wrap around the website).
> Everyone knows DOGE is a joke

Do they? What’s different between DOGE and Bitcoin other than that someone said DOGE was a joke.
There are options for this in Linkedin. You specify in your profile location and type of work (perm/contract) you are interested.
Perhaps the root problem is that it is seemingly impossible for psychology to isolate and control for the dependent variable in question: consciousness.
The Synergy of Collaborative Songwriting
Chinese rocket debris lands in Indian Ocean, draws criticism from NASA
Putting a large pool table in a small room. Would a sliding table work?
> I’m sure you can agree that Flutter is a bad idea.

I don’t agree.
It says the right place for bug reports and feature requests is the issue tracker. It doesn't say nothing else belongs there. Actually it says the issue tracker is the right place for any other questions about contributing too. And it just says IRC is more immediate and direct.

README.md said "If you run into a problem with Alacritty, please file an issue." at the time.[1]

I don't see where anyone pointed out what you said multiple people pointed out. The closest I see is 1 person said there are 88 color related issues now. Feel free to point out a specific issue you think the reporter should have found.

It isn't clear they expected the colors to match exactly. The default green looked yellow to them. And changing the default colors would be a valid feature request if nothing else.

[1] https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty/blob/9bc888fbe581efeb...
The first 1/3 of the article explains their historical motivation for this approach and specifically why this was a breakthrough for teaching. Names can matter.

And from a more practical standpoint, RSpec is now much more than just a different mapping of some key words.

the DSL rspec landed on can be very concise, which I appreciate. This is mostly made possible by Ruby’s short block syntax and the ability to nest them.

One thing this enables is an easy way to define a hierarchy of concerns with their own nested setup/tear down blocks, which allows you to easily share code across similar example groups.

This is nice in and of itself, but it also leads you to differentiate the “boring setup” code from the “here’s the part I’m actually testing code” which is helpful for clarity when coming back to old tests.

These things are sharp knives and can be used poorly, but I’ve never yet found a system I like better.
Science definitely involves explanation as well as prediction, otherwise we’d still be iterating on more and more complex epicycles as predictive models for astrophysics. Induction isn’t everything.
Greensill were a colossal fraud. That's why they recruited David Cameron as political cover. https://www.theguardian.com/business/2021/apr/28/greensill-c...

Huge mistake, they should have bought Johnson instead.
OCaml's decision is more to leave unicode support to libraries rather than let compiler writers handle unicode support as a side dish.
What exactly is the connection between hyperthreading and safety?
> Something very much like an expendable F9 could have been made decades ago.

We've made non-reusable rockets for quite some time pre-F9.
Ah I thought that you meant the commands weren’t listed. What are they incorrectly describing? I’ve seen some other examples of this (notably, the getting started tutorials mention getting to the manual via a Tesla T at the top of the touchscreen, which has gone missing).
What other way meaningfully leads to the truth?
To add to your point, any psychology/sociology researcher trained in quantitative methods will immediately recognize that “happiness” is a latent variable.

Quantitative psych people are well versed in how to think about and model latent variables. They don’t go “oh shit! can’t measure happiness, I guess we’d better just make stuff up.”

I’m plenty critical of the research coming out of psych, but to pretend that the field remains naive to even the most basic principles of modeling is a bit ridiculous (and like you said, lazy)
SpaceX accepts Dogecoin as payment to launch ‘DOGE-1 mission to the Moon’
Psychology uses the scientific method to investigate and understand the world; it's a science.

It's sometimes poorly done, but this is true of all the sciences; malpractice and poor rigour in particular experiments don't invalidate an entire field. It's also sometimes misused by other fields, but this is (again) true of all the sciences - a therapist misapplying a principle doesn't stop psychology being a science any more than an engineer miscalculating makes physics pseudoscience.

Science is about the approach, not the topic or the perception.
Demo starts at 6m40s.
Cloud is skipping amd and going straight to ARM.

I suspect AMD is getting a bigger chunk of a smaller pie as ARM makes headwind.
TSMC, and Samsung are both very glad at FAANG trying to "own the world" — more business for them!

I don't see Morris Chang running to open an advertising shop, webhosting company, or mine bitcoins, thought the later was much speculated.