skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you want to compare SLS and Starship, just recall that the SLS started development after the Falcon 1 flew and at that time SpaceX had been talking about a SuperHeavy for 6 years. Work on the Raptor engines started around the same time. If you hold them to the original launch date, in terms of "time since deal signing", we already would have seen the return of the 9 people who paid for a flight around the moon on a Starship.

In the grand scheme of things, I don't care about 11 billion as much as I care that it's done and moving.

Also, I cannot find a wikipedia citation for $3 billion/launch. I found one for $2.3 billion/year for SLS launches.
I am not sure exactly what people miss, but taking a stab in the dark - human emotions have evolved over millions of years to try and guide people in the direction of making rational decisions more often than not. The expected situation is that the rational option and the emotional option align. If they don't, that means:

1. Your model of the world is incomplete or inconsistent (eg, forgetting to include negotiation as a strategy, forgetting long term consequences).

2. You've hit on a cognitive bias and can probably do a huge amount of good that other people will miss (eg, lending with interest -> modern industrial society, rule of law rather than letting high status people do whatever -> mass prosperity). The cognitive bias is probably well known and understood and the evidence that the emotional response leads to poor outcomes should be obvious.
You're right about Fourier Transforms. I went through the fundamental classes and wasn't quite getting it until a more advanced class when the real-world applications were explained and then it all clicked.

It's been so long that I can't remember the class names anymore.
I suspect the riders and food outlets will survive w/out Deliveroo, the main thrust is that they were minor players squeezed from a saturated market.

As an Australian myself I'm rooting for "gig workers" being treated as well as regular workers wrt awards and conditions and am quite happy to see creeping US wage slave practices culled.

Let's see how new and future conditions play out.
The "media" stream on YT showed the on-board cameras continuously until a few minutes ago (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nA9UZF-SZoQ) Not sure why the main NASA stream only cut to them briefly
I can’t stand this twitter behaviour: something new comes out, they try to find examples where it fails and say it is generally bad because of these failures. Have some respect for the work of others.
You are right! Fixed!
https://www.racknerd.com/BlackFriday/

the situation isnt that bad that you make it to be....

i;ve been using them for like 2-3 years now and have had no problems. these are yearly prices so yeah
The threat level of no one able to access my stuff once I gone is much higher than the threat level of someone evil does something evil with it.

So no encryption whatsoever by design.
I have never heard of SALT, but what you describing sounds like an overcollateralized loan to me. One use case would be to short something. For example, you could deposit USDC and borrow ETH. Sell ETH, wait for price to go down, buy it back, and pay back your loan.
1. I accept there's a requirement for a second level of verification on the signature, but I can't see how that's avoided in any scenario (that is, the signing is orthogonal to the verification).

2. That's the point though. The person doing the commit takes responsibility. The individual commits are still there before the merge (including signatures), so there's no loss of responsibility or credit before the merge.
What is the significance of this finding? I see something about "Radiative levitation" which means nothing to me. Is the idea to prove that fusion is still happening in these stars somehow?
True, perhaps I should have said "lucrative". Given how hard it is to hire/fire in Europe, the contracting market is especially healthy was the point.

I would still consider it profitable compared to being a full time employee in Europe. Besides a higher rate, a contractor with his own company can benefit from all kinds of tax advantages a regular employee can't.
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Always start with questioning yourself before questioning others.
As far as I understand Starship can only reach LEO and requires refueling from several refueling missions while in orbit for longer missions. Great if spacex is able to pull it off, but it is years if not decades until they get there.
I'm very glad I read this comment! I've recently started learning French and I'd threw together a simple flashcard app to practice what I'd learned.

But without spaced repetition and the ability to categorise it's not that useful, and I quickly realised that I would end up spending more time coding than learning French if I continued!

I've been trying out Mochi for the last few days and so far I'm very impressed. It's easy to use and looks great. I'm tempted by some of the pro features like speech/translation so I think I'll sign up.

One thing I'm curious about — I've read that writing is a particularly effective way to hammer home what you're trying to remember. When learning a language in particular, I feel it's very useful to write out words to practice spelling etc.

I wonder what your take is on this and if this is a feature of Mochi? I know there's a drawing mode for practicing Kanji etc. but that's somewhat different to a "typing mode" for the want of a better word. Or is it better to incorporate writing practice in a different way?

Anyway, great work and thanks!
Project Mahi: Autonomous solar powered boat-drone crosses the Atlantic Ocean
Where can I buy DRM-free ebooks?
airtags if you're on iOS (just haven't used tile so I can't recommend/not recommend)

various coffee making gadgets

having a surplus of charging devices

a pop socket & other phone holding accessories (aka a stand so you're not leaning your phone against your coffee cup. I see you.
Generally I cannot remember anyone's birthday if it isn't at least in my calendar.
Huh. Guess i found out why the game with the same name by zachtronics is named like that.

Highly recommend it btw. I'm not too much of a story-driven games person, but Eliza is contender for the best game i've ever played regardless, despite its simplicity.
Oh, what satisfaction there was in removing the gunk off the mouse's spinning rods!
Not without a lot of people going to jail for ITAR violations
I believe they are rather similar to the fire tiles you can get to line the inside of a blacksmith's furnace. They are quite light, but also very fragile.
Or printing it on paper...oh wait that's a book ;)

BTW: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arctic_World_Archive#Storage_a...
The politics of your comment completely elude me; I couldn't care less about your view or theirs, have no idea what "effective altruism" is, and learned nothing from your post since it was purely snark and swipes. All I care about is that you broke the HN guidelines. You've been doing that repeatedly (e.g. posting informationless flamebait) on lots of different topics. If you keep doing it, we'll end up having to ban you for what ought to be obvious reasons (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html), so please stop.
How are you reading them? Are you bending the cover to the back while reading?
More evidence for problems in VM warmup
I thought it was only me, but so much yes. Back/forward is so broken and unusable websites make it even worse. Going back brings you straight to the top which kind of sucks if there is endless scrolling. Websites making it hard or impossible to open links in new tabs are really annoying as well.
Mr. Danino had written a wonderful book on this subject. Called "The Lost River". I suggest it as much as I can. I got interested in Indus Valley by reading this.
> So it implies you consider yourself nine times as valuable as all other humans.

Yes. all other humans combined.
8k 120fps. And agree, it's awesome.
This is just so wrong at this point.

Uber eats is a delivery service which takes what, 25% of the food bill? And then adds delivery fees on top of that before checkout, and then asks you for a tip before the service has even happened.

If I order $100 of stuff, I might be charged $110. Of that, the delivery service and driver get $35, and I'm conditioned to volunteer another $10 on top of that, just to drive some food a couple of kilometers. Yet the drivers complain of poor pay and conditions, and uber is not profitable either. Something seems very wrong.
lol, yeah, I definitely don't mean highways :)

Highways probably shouldn't have speed limits. Honestly, close to nothing should have a speed limit. How fast you can go on a highway should be entirely decided by how good your visibility is. So adding things on the sides of the road could help lower visibility by decreasing the amount of sunlight on roads.
True. But it seems they also have various kinds of custody services.

The question is how much assets they have under management.

Any way to find that out?
None of that is unreadable. You can always download a browser from a few years back and open the page with that. So while there may be some inconvenience with old information, there is no loss of content.
The figure I've seen quoted for a peasant shirt was that it represented three months worth of labour to produce from start to finish. How many items of clothing would you own if each of them required that much work?

The industrial revolution really was a revolution.
What was wrong with the interviews that NASA did? Some of the celeb stuff didn't do it for me, but know it probably does for some people. And it was neat that they talked to so many Apollo people.

I also thought it was cool that they brought the red team in for an interview shortly after launch. That's not really something they could've planned in advance, but it was super entertaining.
Maybe from Hogwarts...have you seen want they do with their books?
> The more material argument is whether from an EA perspective running massive scams and funneling the proceeds to EA causes should be applauded or not.

Is that really the material argument? It seems obvious to this normie that the answer ought to be "hell no".
And Elon is supposed to fly people to the moon in 2023. But keep in mind, Elon has been talking about Starship for longer than the SLS was being planned. Starship (under other names) was officially announced and work on the Raptor engines Starship uses started at the same time as the SLS.
re your last sentence: why do you disapprove of funding research into AI safety
> This is interesting, particularly for implementing Intl in JS engines without the mega-heavy ICU.

On the contrary, every single programming language and platform should by default include ICU and provide easy bindings to its functionality. Because even normalization and equality comparisons are often done poorly or not at all in these "simple" libraries.
The problems with paperbacks, and even a fair number of hardcover books, is acidic paper (archival quality is acid-free cotton-rag), and for paperbacks, binding glue, which often fails with time.

If the pages don't literally crumble to dust, they fall from the binding, especially when actually read.

There are some formats which survive better, but many books will in fact deteriorate beyond readability within 50 years or so.
Ask HN: Spaces around long dashes (Em Dash)
What's HN intelligent opinion about usage of long and short dashes?

To give you some context, here's a short example of the same text formatted using two different punctuation characters that can be considered more or less of the same "nature".

Option-1: "without significant effort—stop financing him"
Option-2: "without significant effort — stop financing him"

In many human-written languages the correct one is Option-2 and it actually reads "nicer" to me in both English and other languages. I also know that a lot of English speakers opt out for Option-2, but the correct (or so I heard) is version Option-1. This, obviously, only applies to "long" dashes and printed material (even if on the web). For "short" dashes people either type single dashes or long dashes or double-dashes such as in:

"without significant effort -- stop financing him"

So which way(s) should it be or what would you recommend if all options were equally convenient?

The questions above only concerns:

1) Long dashes "Em Dash" character ("—" or U+2014) and, possibly, En Dash ("–" or U+2013)

2) Printed material whether on the web or on paper.

3) Possibly README files and code-comments
(- vs -- and spaces around it or even using (1) and (2) instead in READMEs and code
comments on purpose.

Note A: Mac, "MS Word" or "Libre Text" editors users, please don't post about how this software does automatic substitution for you. This isn't the nature of my question. My question is: how would you format it in principle, if all options were equally convenient.

Note B: I'm mostly interested in how a true Unix culture would approach it, although other answers are very welcome two. For instance, there isn't much of a Unix culture when it comes to text printed for mass-consumption (or, perhaps, I'm wrong).
Yeah, correct! Though my typo still stands I suppose as it's only streaming in 4k at the moment. Can't wait for them to punch in (zoom in) tomorrow! I am UTC+1 and I should probably take a nap after TLI. That was a good time!
Is it be possible to "donate" storage to the Internet Archive in the form of being part of it's infrastructure but distributed?
Like plug in an off the shelf NAS on my home network which acts as a backup for some part of the archive?
Perhaps that is wasteful, but then again also resilient.
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Also the DoD contracts they got. Don't forget those.
agreed, but in this case this is of course a part of the package deal: the only way for nasa to get their sls is to be a glorified jobs program for congress. So the price must be seen in that light, too. A clean comparison on price may not be possible.
You can build a super smart AI that can swap it out if you want. Sorry to spoil your perverse enjoyment there, but nobody will care about it. Everybody knows about ad blockers. Advertisers included!

For things like logos on jerseys, it doesn't really matter. It only has to be slightly inconvenient for most people not to want to do it, which is good enough for most advertising purposes. Public places of viewing like sports bars can't do it. Media pics will have that logo. People will even buy the jersey and carry the advertiser's brand around IRL.

So don't do it only because you want to see someone seethe, you'd risk being quite disappointed by their indifference!
I don't think that page is meant as anything more than a curiosity.

It is most certainly not there for people to pick colours; it just shows what colours are being used by users.
Some of the money trickled down into fundamental rocket related research.

Lots of the money went into the pockets of tens of thousands of tradesmen and tradeswomen -- welders, fabricators, machinists, NDT technicians, etc -- who further developed their skills, passed it onto newer generations of workers, and ensured manufacturing skills don't become lost to time. The same manufacturing skills that will be used to make the technology and infrastructure we need to continue to live dignified, modern lives.

It went into the pockets of engineers -- who continue on a tradition of engineering established since the first space race. Some of them would have taught and mentored the ones who would go on to make rockets at all the New Space startups, including SpaceX. Others will take their skills to other fields.

It went into the pockets of hundreds of small businesses who contract with the makers of the SLS.

Could we have been wiser with the money? Can we be more effective? Sure. But it is not all for naught and quite frankly if we are to continue as a modern first world society, making sure the skills and tech that go into making a rocket stay alive is just as important as funding healthcare, education and research.

And tonight, there will be some kids inspired by the footage of the most powerful rocket ever made by humans to pursue careers in manufacturing and engineering.

This is not just "creating jobs." This is making sure another piece of a cornerstone of American technological dominance stays alive so we can continue to maintain the standard of living we have now.

$23 billion is a small price to pay. Social media sites have been sold for much more.
A friend of mine used to be a big proponent of this. His theory being that sure, you need someone special to be very productive in assembly. But there's a billion of Chinese where the market is just opening up…
(So I guess it was a few assembly geniuses for your OS and productivity software and the rest of us mortals filling in with the less performant rest written in C++ or E or Blitz Basic something)
There's generally a medical component to SAR. If you don't need medical attention or weren't at risk of needing medical attention, what's the rush?

Search is trivial if you're calling in help yourself since just about any device that can call for help will communicate where you are. Gets more complicated for a wide area search called in by someone else though, because that is expensive; but then the target's medical condition is unknown and likely assumed to be for the worst.

If you're completely healthy but in need of rescue eventually, they'll dispatch some better equipped volunteers to retrace your steps and rescue you out of whatever situation you're in.

One time our rope caught on something after we released it, so we couldn't ascend to unstick it, but couldn't descend further without the rope. That would've been a SAR call if there wasn't another group above us that could partially descend on their rope and unstick our rope for us. But it would've been a trivial rescue since we could've reasonably survived stuck on the shaded alcove for a couple days until we got another rope. A ranger or volunteer would've been dispatched to unstick the rope or with their own for us to use, not a helicopter to extract us out.

It's when there's an immediate risk to life, that's what causes urgency, which is the main driver for cost because then typically helicopters are involved. If they itemize by search, rescue, and medical, why wouldn't medical greatly dominate the costs?
It is unlikely that electricity won't increase in price more or less in line with gasoline.

Plus, one 150mi taxi ride, at a cost of about $1000 today buys an awful lot of gas. And if you go out 150mi, you probably want to come home, so now you're talking $2000 in taxi fare for that one weekend trip to see Grandma.

This is all a recipe for returning to an era where mostly people are born, live their life, and die, all within 100mi. Which is really actually the point of the exercise, of course.
> the speed of light is very close to the speed of sound in a perfect vacuum

I am not knowledgeable in physics but this looked wrong to me until I reflected that in a near vacuum, the elasticity is very high and density nearer to zero. So per the equation of speed of sound, (square of ( elasticity / density ) ) is extremely high, so near the speed of light.

Not so bad.
Cheap pulp-based paper was a creation of the 19th century.

The 1898 Report of the Librarian of Congress has an appendix titled "The Durability of Paper" addressing just this concern:

<https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015036735036&vi...>
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The point they make is not moot however. You can find a flyer printed today in an attic in a hundred years and there is a decent chance you can still read the information. If you find a thumbdrive with the same flyer as a pdf from a hundred years ago it will take a team of experts with specialized (or at this point very old) hardware to figure out the contents.

Video is even worse: a film roll that you can look at with your bare eyes vs some realplayer codec nobody can decode. This is why the library of congress lasers video onto analog film for archival. Reading an analog film is a question of blasting light through the transported film. Reading the equivalent realplayer file involves a little bit more in terms of hardware, OS and software (and this is just one codec I picked randomly).
> Maybe it's some kind of horrible drug interaction with Rationalism, or maybe EA is fundamentally Rationalist?

Depends what you mean by Rationalist. I would say that EA, the modern movement, is a hobby of people who belong to "rationalism", the modern movement. I'd be fairly comfortable calling them a cult. (Frequent exhortation: "Read the Sequences!") EA is the same thing, simply because the people who do EA and the people who do rationalism are the same people.

But from your comment, I can't tell whether Rationalist refers to that group or to some other thing.
Good old days when SpaceX launches were exciting. Hah. We soon start over this with Starship hopefully.
I actually just don't think there's a market for this to exist as a decentralized company that treats both sides as a customer.
I think it could work in Australia if business had more of a share of the delivery pie, then I think it could be profitable. Kind of if KFC and Mcdonalds and a few others pooled costs on a integrated delivery solution.
I would bet that deliveroo mined the restaurants for too much money, and when demand dropped they then that spiraled out to effect customer costs. And now they don't exist!
> Or you could spend it on education. Or research.

Or military. Or political campaigns. Or grift.

> It's good in my opinion to have the conversation.

This conversation has been had to death. NASA gets table scraps anyway. Also this whole program is research, and of the quite practical kind.

> As an aside, I believe "creating jobs" should not be a societal goal.

It's not. It's just something that's being brought up to make the people saying to gut NASA "because education! healthcare!" go away, because it usually resonates with them.

> Making sure everyone can live a dignified life is.

Yes, that's the long-term point of the whole endeavor, and of possible line items on the Federal budget, space historically had quite a good ROI here.
This is a link to the latest statement from the labor agency in germany. Due to seasonal effects, employment increased, of course this is only a short statement and does not include details. Statement is in german.

https://www.arbeitsagentur.de/news/arbeitsmarkt-2022
The name of a friend, sure, I agree.

What about the name of a dude you got introduced to at a party and they mentioned they played the guitar and you were thinking about starting a garage band the next year?
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I agree. This kind of behavior is of poor taste.
The issue as I see it is that you cannot say that the first is ineffective unless you can quantify the ROI of the theater. If I knew that my donation will fund the next Romeo and Juliet, then I'd expect X to be really high before I deprive future generations of such an important work.

Art in particular has a multiplicative effect that is essentially impossible to quantify. Once a work of art is out there, it can live forever and influence multiple generations. That seems like a pretty effective use of my money.
I think you're demonstrating the original point
Yes, it is an overcollateralized loan.

And yes, borrowing an asset and selling it means you are short regarding that asset.
The Durability of Paper (1898)
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