skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
With current space infrastructure, disposable is the only way to go while maintaining progress. As long as the hardware is optimized to fully burn up on re-entry it's acceptable at current scales.

For example, Starlink can keep unit costs low and focus on getting at least some functionality going while simultaneously working on next generation satellites. Since the satellites are somewhat disposable (expected to have an operating life of ~5 years), this approach doesn't lock them into a specific generation of satellites.

Eventually, we'll have enough hardware up there that it'll start being important to try to refurb/recycle, but that is not practical at scale right now, given that we're only starting to seriously explore things like mission extension vehicles, active debris removal, orbital refueling and satellite servicing.
Party like it’s 1789 My month living strictly by the US constitution
Unstated premise: there will be an interstellar vessel.

Unstated premise: you can't use a fission plant.
Trombone Champ Makes a Hit Video Game of an Unlikely Instrument
Shameless plug for my own take on file watchers. The filewatcher command line utility is available as a ruby gem. It exports shell variables, so you can print name of files that changes this way: $ filewatcher *.js 'echo $FILENAME'

It recently reached 1 million downloads. The current maintainer, Alex Popov, is a very skilled developer working from Moscow.
I think cheap money expands the economy unsustainably. When you can't make any interest by saving people look for higher ROI via investing. I think in those climates VC money comes cheap, finances unsustainable business models, those businesses employ people which now compete against established businesses for talent and wages rise. With higher wages comes competition for a limited supply of goods and voila, the cycle of inflation. At least that how I understand it, but I'm no economist.
India is an electoral autocracy. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-56393944

The most robust part of India's "democracy" is its voting system which is among the most accessible in the world and is likely one of the best in the world.

By all other metrics and measures, India is a feudal state where laws are great on paper but terrible otherwise. People should - rightfully so - be wary of labelling India a democracy.
In no particular order:

- Russia overestimated their position

- Russia believed the war would be over in a few days (which many in the West also believed)

- Russia assumed Europe would keep buying their oil (which has happened to an extent)

- Russia believes they can "out-suffer" the West and we will crack after a few months

- Russia believed the West was too polarized to reach consensus on an effective response

In short, Russia had a bad read on the situation and shot themselves in the foot. They thought they were in a position to impose their will without a fight or a significant response from the West.

We have seen a little bit of the same attitude from China the past several years - decadent West on the decline, democracy is flawed, etc. - but I have to think they are smart enough to realize they have been underestimating us. At a minimum, I think it pushes back their timeline for when they believed they would become the world's premier power. Hopefully, that buys us all some time to cool off and find diplomatic solutions.
https://archive.ph/fDJWR
Excuse me? I expect to be paid more because unlike on site workers i deliver more work and of higher quality. Also i play less sleazy politics and do less decision maker boot leaking.
Great initiative! Yes, such a post please.
Perovskite longevity is up to five years, which at the price is already sufficient to be immediately useful in many places.

There will be no fusion.
Dreambooth and Texual inversion is already here, and it's been just over a month since Stable Diffusion was released, so I'd bet on sooner rather than later.

https://github.com/XavierXiao/Dreambooth-Stable-Diffusion

https://textual-inversion.github.io/
We need a definition of 'mental health' first. Accurate, precise, quantitative and testable definition.
If you can't beat 'em, join 'em.

However, I don't think it'll replace much or even a lot of work, especially where a minimum level of quality is desired.
Thank you for compiling this list.
A company could see you are working at multiple places, but the tax authorities could say you can't work multiple full time jobs maybe? In the us I bet you could just do it. You'd have opt out of those horrible places where companies want to share your salary info. I really can't believe that is actually legal still, even though I know it is since my own salary history was mostly there. Little companies like startups I have worked in didn't do that.
It depends upon the command line interface. A Cisco router CLI is very discoverable. Sitting at the prompt, hit '?' and get a list of commands. Type the command, then '?', get a list of options. At each point in typing out the command, you can always get a list of what you can type next. And even better, you only have to type enough to distinguish from multiple commands/options. So 'show interface Ethernet/0' and 'sh in Eth/0' are the same command.

And on Unix, there's always the man command. Also, most commands will repond to "command -h" or "command --help", but yes, it's a far cry from the Cisco router command line.
I think making sqlite distributed-capable is very interesting. Postgres isn't trivially distributed and is a full fledged database server that's not appropriate for scale to zero workloads, though others are working on that as well.
That is indeed a problem, but it doesn't address the question.

Does there exist speech that should not be amplified?
Is HN depriving you of your rights if @dang deletes your comments or posts that do not follow the community guidelines (aka Terms Of Service)?
I've seen the scenario you describe as the "fission bridge to fusion" scenario, and as I understand it, a major problem is that it can't be done with existing pressurized light-water reactors. These systems just don't use Uranium very efficiently, they extract a small percentage of the energy from the fuel, and then need to be refueled.

This doesn't mean the "fission bridge to fusion" is impossible by any means, but it does mean that significant work needs to be done in developing and commercializing next-generation fission reactors, including breeder reactors, which use much more of the available energy from fuel, and possibly novel reactor designs that can run on reprocessed fuel from LWRs.

A political complication is that large-scale commercial nuclear fuel reprocessing represents a nuclear-weapons proliferation risk, and so might imply regulatory burdens, or require international agreements on use and control before it can go forward.

Refs: Dim recollection from reading Walter C. Patterson's "Nuclear Power", and some discussion about peak Uranium (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peak_uranium).
Postgres is not a distributed database.
Good.

A lot of “legit” organizations will be affected by this.

I get a lot of legitimate calls blocked by NoMoRobo and RoboKiller, because the dialers they use moonlight as spam-callers.

I try to explain to them, why they couldn’t contact me, but to no avail.

There are one or two phone companies that seem to be 100% dedicated to scammers. Can’t remember them, off the top of my head, and it would be irresponsible to guess in a public forum.

Robocalls are a scourge. I really wish politicians wouldn’t use them, because I’m sure that’s why enforcement has been so anemic.
What use is a large population that is poorly educated and financially constrained?

China's forays on the world stage are because of money and its increasingly wealthy, educated population.
Energy comes out of the ground. Exploiting something that's already there with very little value add. You can't buy energy from just anyone.

Building airpods is an industrial process. All value add. You can do it anywhere, one factories are set up, workers trained etc.
Economists predict around a 50% chance of recession this year which seems a bit more reasonable.
Yep.

Also I've never seen a Kanban operation deliver everything to Production as soon as it hits a "Done" column and there's no reason not to "time gate" (once every fortnite, just like Sprints are supposed to be, for instance) a Production column "pull".

I think that's easily missed in Kanban versus Scrum discussions: every Kanban column is supposed to be "pull" rather than "push". Production "pulls" finished UAT stories when it is ready (which maybe is a biweekly schedule that keeps ops happy and gives marketing time to prepare materials, etc). (I also think that's why a lot of micro-managers dislike Kanban versus Scrum, because they want to "push" everything and dislike people making their own "pull" judgments based on their current bandwidth and ability.) The failure case of "Production pulls finished work" is that Production sometimes wants to cherry-pick finished work ("I want these three but not this fourth one") after they've been already merged for UAT testing. I've not seen a good Kanban software that visualizes that "state change" of stacking cards together as they become bundled together/releasable units.
These videos are notably short on realistic-looking people.
I wish this project good luck but I'm glad how SQLite team kinda does it's own thing like using Fossil for development instead of Github, not accepting outside contributions, very different code of ethics document etc.
Back on my high school days at technical school, Assembly programming was taught on the 11th grade, alongside Turbo Pascal, Clipper and DBase III+, to give an image of the time period.

15 year old students had no issue dealing with 8086 and 68000 Assembly.
It sounds like you've tried [a-zA-Z]* usernames in an attempt to see if you could guess a username. It probably says "Invalid Login!" no matter what is guessed.

What do you imagine the code that takes the logins eventually does? It seems likely that the username and password will end up in a query against a database to see if the user is valid and (theoretically) if the hash of the password matches the stored value.

What kind of input could you try to see if that behavior is done securely?

This is a good site to start learning about security: https://owasp.org/www-project-top-ten/

Injection will be the most immediately relevant.
It’s not a complicated question. It’s a very simple question with a simple answer: one man (Vladimir Putin) wanted to go to war and made the (initial and ongoing) decision despite it being a clearly terrible idea to anyone else watching.

How Russia got itself to the point where one person has consolidated all authority, surrounded himself with corrupt sycophants, and cannot accurately gather or integrate information from the rest of the society is the complicated question here. It’s a pretty good demonstration for anyone watching around the world that unchecked power can lead to disastrous decisions. It should inspire us to stand up for democracy and against corruption and consolidation of wealth and power in our own societies.

It’s impossible to determine Putin’s personal motivations from outside; the best we can do is speculate. My speculation is that involves some combination of (a) doing what he thinks will best maintain internal political control, (b) satisfying an egoistical urge for historical glory, and (c) a narcissistic belief that others must bow to his personal whims and a raging narcissistic grudge when they do not.
This is one of those things that's not really a huge in of itself in that it doesn't have much practical implications. But it's such a wildly inappropriate and unprofessional thing to do that it raises questions in my mind about using SqlLite. Which is a pretty impressive thing to do given how good the software is and how widely it's used.
To be pedantic about this complexity estimate for the 4 x 4 case, both of them reduce to a O(1). If N == 4, it's a constant, so we have O(4^2.778) == O(4^2.8074) == O(1).

Talking about scaling for a problem that has no scaling factor is a bit odd.
By the time a proper interstellar vessel is to be designed, we will no longer be dependent upon the hoary '50s plans of Project Orion.
There's an article where they explain it: Why billing systems are a nightmare for engineers[0]

--

[0]: https://www.getlago.com/blog/why-billing-systems-are-a-night...
Pretty sure optimism dominates the headlines because actual pessimism says things are way worse than people are willing to even realize. That's what makes someone pessimistic. "We've tried everything and a few more things and we confirmed that most people are actively trying to destroy themselves and there's a trend of increasing causes of destruction"
> Time to put the ESG/political posturing of major financial firms to the test, I suppose?

Fastest way to end ESG posturing I suppose. Although ESG concerns don’t typically include “made in America”. It’s not clear to me how that’s be an ESG thing.
What is a "listen-to-click" ad? I can't find a definition of what it actually is anywhere. Google returns either javascript click event stuff, suspicious youtube videos, or the vague Ad Aures page.
Totally agreed.

From the outside, though, kanban looks more like "no methodology". If people who aren't on board look at both 2-week sprints and kanban, kanban looks a lot closer to "we can ask you to do whatever, whenever". It's wrong, of course, but in my experience they understand better that it's discouraged to insert new requirements in the middle of a sprint.

People will subvert whatever they want, though. Probably the biggest shortcoming with agile methodologies: "you are not doing it right" -- yeah, well, real people in the real world never do it right.
Are US citizens who live abroad able to use Yotta to create a TreasuryDirect account? I ask because the normal process requires one to get a form notarized with an American notary public, which is hard to do abroad.
I'm having a hard time clearly seeing what the problems were with other approaches that ASDF is intended to solve.

Are the other solutions not fast enough? If so what is the performance delta using ASDF? Are the other solutions not scalable enough? Likely not, given that ASDF mentions certain scale limitations-- but maybe those limitations are still less limiting than limitations of other solutions?

Whatever the reasons for making ADFS, it would be helpful to describe in the intro "here is a problem that ADFS solves" and "here is a graph (or similar) showing how it solves it better than alternatives".

Without that context, the description of Features, to my naive outsider's view, is not very valuable and I'm left still asking, "why use this instead of other solutions that many engineers already are familiar with?"
Except when dealing with concurrent accesses to system resources external to the Rust process, that is.
That’s the rule here too (except for limited exceptions like toll free), but clearly the cost isn’t stopping them.

Phone calls are dirt cheap to make after all. (Tiny fractions of a cent a minute even at retail rates)
Now we just need to wait a couple more decades till functional Java is adopted.

So far I'm still seeing complex class hierarchies with deep inheritance, dependency injection and unit tests produced by ex-Java developers for something that can be solved with a couple of simple methods in Python.

I noticed that complexity makes Java folks proud. Conversely, simplicity makes Python folks proud.

Seeing Java on a resume is not yet a reason not to hire for me. But it's a signal that indicates greater risks.
mdworker runs at background priority though, anything else using the CPU should preempt it.
True. A decent secure implementation, beside ditching wireless which is step 0, would imply more cameras facing each other and their surroundings, plus other areas in which the thieves don't expect to be watched and could either travel in their own cars or with the hood off.
It's true, how will future AI train when the training datasets are themselves filled with AI media?
Thailand Became an Auto Export Giant
Friendly reminder that Apple is the largest component of SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust (SPY). Most stocks are under 2% representation except Apple and a handful of others.

Top 10 Holdings (27.37% of Total Assets)

Name Symbol % Assets
Apple Inc AAPL 5.90%
Microsoft Corp MSFT 5.60%
Amazon.com Inc AMZN 4.05%
Facebook Inc A FB 2.29%
Alphabet Inc A GOOGL 2.02%
Alphabet Inc Class C GOOG 1.96%
Berkshire Hathaway Inc Class B BRK.B 1.45%
Tesla Inc TSLA 1.44%
NVIDIA Corp NVDA 1.37%
JPMorgan Chase & Co JPM 1.29%

https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/SPY/holdings/
We thought creative jobs were going to be the last thing AI replaces, now it's among the first.

What's next that may be counterintuitive?
If you don’t mind the security, off-the-shelf NAS boxes, such as synology, offer all kinds of self hosting applications that you might need. Photos, videos, plex, backups, torrent, MS office replacement, chat, git, etc.

But, boy, they have huge attack surface, with so much PHP code, web servers, databases, etc running on the box.
I avoid speaking here since this is an American website and I don't expect them to be educated about non American things. But you are just making shit up and I would like to know your motives behind it.

The leaps and bounds of improvement in lives of lower caste people is one of the primary reason why casteism is not going away. Unlike racism, anyone can claim to be of any caste and there is literal riots happening to be classified as lower caste so that people can claim the benefit. As I said, I don't plan to start an argument here but you are lying and you should tell us why.
Once I saw a video of kids born in the 2000, they were put a rotary phone in front of them. They could not understand how to dial. We are OLD :)
You can make a shortcut that takes you right to the screen, but you still have to toggle the setting. It’s a half measure but reduces the frustration a little.
Most storage will not be batteries. Most energy expended building storage will be from renewables.
Cargo docs is a bit of a curse for me. A lot of crates have docs only through that mean and think just having a few lines of intro is enough and then we'll good luck understanding the library.

I love the docs in the Python ecosystem as a lot of them contain guides, examples on how to use the library is real world context. Rust library documentation often feels like if someone gave you a schema of all the components in your car, but not a driver's manual.
> These threads are a great example of the problem with open source. People will complain no matter what.

But this is true of non-open-source projects/products as well, and also everything.
Sure, it isn’t. But most things do not really need a distributed database, just something usable from multiple locations, and Postgres solves that problem easily.
llvm-mos seems to optimize better than cc65, see discussion here:

https://forums.atariage.com/topic/335414-llvm-mos-simple-rog...

>The above code fills a graphics 8 screen. CC65 ran in 4587 jiffies while MOS did so in 2631. Another test leveraging lookups saw CC65 running in 2663 jiffies while MOS ran in 396 jiffies.

> I have C code that leverages page zero that brings CC65 down to 664 jiffies while MOS runs in 358.
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33089535

(Yesterday; 251 points, 71 comments)
Seems similar to the CORDIC algorithm (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CORDIC).
I 100% agree - I don't think that I would ever reach for a PoW blockchain to solve this problem, but it has certainly generated some interesting discussion
We have had two quarters of negative growth before that were not called a recession.
The End of Programming
Cool. As soon as Apple relinquishes all monopoly on IP, then we can talk about if governments can interfere here.

These companies hold a craptonne of legal power to force me and you. I'm sorry that I have zero regrets when it comes to just a common standard... Just like I have zero regrets that all power outlets in EU are 220v/50Hz
Disabling link previews in high protection mode is more likely to be a combination of not issuing any network requests that could accidentally leak your IP, and being able to see the full URL so link previews can't pretend to be a different site to trick you into clicking on it.
We went from individual rights to mushy paper straws in less than 10 years. That's how far we've stooped.

No, the Republicans went from a party that believed in free trade, free minds, freedom of conscience, and individual rights to a captive personality cult beholden to a New York real estate hustler who failed at selling steaks, booze, and gambling to Americans but who was strangely successful at selling real estate to Russians, and who promised to stack the courts with unqualified theocrats.

That's how far you've stooped.
I never heard of this casino house rule
Why is it inappropriate? A lot of OSS projects make political statements all the time, I see no difference at all
Russia has even put their energy exports at risk though. They are already trading at a discount and things could get much worse if the war continues to escalate. If Putin advances to using nukes or mass slaughtering of civilians, things will eventually reach a point where the neutral countries finally cut ties.

Russia starting a nuclear war would be bad for China, India and others; there's some point at which they'll cut off Russian trade.
What is a reasonable adder to enable the ability to automatically dock and boost Hubble with a second stage using a stock first stage F9?
Molten Salt Reactors (MSRs) have immense promise not only due to their safety and ability to use cheaper fuel but also for their ability to consume waste from standard uranium fission reactors yielding far safer post-use byproducts. The only "downside" from MSRs is that you cannot use them to generate plutonium and weapons but for non-military use that's not a problem.
>government jobs almost always have a hard degree requirement.

There are a surprising number of loopholes. For example, many federal engineering jobs require any one of the following:

1) A bachelors degree in engineering

2) Sufficient college coursework without a degree with relevant experience

3) A non-engineering degree with sufficient engineering coursework

4) passing the engineers in training (EIT) exam with relevant experience (which doesn't necessarily require a degree to sit for)

5) A professional engineer (PE) license (which, in some cases, doesn't require any college)

I do think HR is biased towards just looking for degrees. Probably out of either laziness or risk-aversion.
I was thinking it sounds like "gastropod", which doesn't really have much of what you'd call feet.
This chart rests upon faulty assumptions about the efficacy of tokamaks, but it does demonstrate how little interest the U.S. federal government has had towards research of fusion.

http://i.imgur.com/sjH5r.jpg

https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/12/04/11/0435231/mit-fus...
You really aren’t providing a lot of context.

> I just want to be able to insert a line of code...

In what, exactly? Java? Python? Rust?

Most languages have very simple logging libraries, that will log to a local file. Most also have slack sdk’s. It should be easy enough to marry the two up.
Dupe https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33095608
The project is a buzzword bingo roadmap (Rust! WASM! io_uring! Distributed databases!), a new CoC and license, and zero new code. No new code means I can’t take it seriously and I doubt they will ever deliver.
"CA HSR is moving ahead ..."

... minus the "HS" part. Last I checked it was on the politically brokered "non-I-5" corridor (a silly, absurd route) and had a proposed SF->LA trip time of over 2.5 hours.

This is a "high speed" train, circa 1975. Current technology, as demonstrated by running trains elsewhere in the world, would make that route in under 2 hours.
If you like Spotify's product, why not pay for it? The ads go away then. I literally converted to premium after the first ad as I hated it so much.