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What does NASA do to develop new code for Mars?

What do people writing realtime flight control systems do?

What do quants writing investment strategy code do?

Do they all do the same thing? Would they call their process a ritualised behaviour?
>But surprisingly many people will not make any adjustments at all when you say "Please, if you speak more slowly I can understand", and instead will go maybe even faster.

by my experience when these people see you don't understand, they think speaking louder will make you understand
It is compatible. The people who have a say are the people who write the code. If you are not comfortable with dual licensing, don't contribute upstream.

You can fork such dual licensed project, add your own contributions and then Signal cannot use your code in anything they license to third-parties under non-AGPL. The fork becomes AGPL-only.

Example of where this has happened: MySQL was forked to MariaDB, so developments to MariaDB cannot be used by Oracle in their proprietary licensing of MySQL.
Yep. I’ve been learning Spanish off-and-on since high school. The biggest step I took toward some amount of mastery and ability to speak rudimentary Spanish in conversation was with doing Pimsluer tapes. Repeating “un vaso de leche. Un gran vaso” and things like that over and over again just made it sink in.

I’m doing Duolingo Spanish now, every day for over a year and a half. It’s a reasonably entertaining way to practice and pick up vocab, but I don’t know how much proficiency I’m achieving.
1. I've never written or deposited a cheque; I don't know that I've even seen one.

2. I've written them to myself to transfer money between accounts when electronic transfer restrictions are too painful, etc.

May be I'm confused but it seems a case of either or :)
The State of CSS 2022
I mean. I won so..
Perhaps, but SpaceX interfaces share the same issue: focusing on looks at the cost of usability, so I would think that either he's involved in this quite a lot, or he built both companies to have similar cultures. For example, the first mockup of Dragon v2 control panel presented to the public [1] looked all sci-fi, but as someone who actually knows how spacecrafts function I can tell just by the look that this was unusable. They were forced to switch to a much more pragmatic design [2] during the development, probably because folks from NASA shared some real-life experience and had their own requirements written in blood. Still touchscreens, but only where it doesn't matter (hard to have tactile controls in a spacesuit anyway), with a handle to hold onto under acceleration and to provide a basepoint for muscle memory, and buttons under protective caps for critical commands.

[1] https://i.imgur.com/sWHPfFR.jpg

[2] https://i.imgur.com/RZ7ucEu.jpg
> How much do you want for this position?

"What's the range?"

Scam or no scam, you shouldn't be telling them your desired rate/salary; you should be asking them what the range is for the position they're hiring for.

It's like a cop asking you "do you know why I pulled you over?" Don't volunteer information, just ask "Why did you pull me over?"
I mean with erosion, flooding, and the like, I'm not sure this sort of mounting on the ground would be any less of a hassle...
Instead of eliminating it, let's run the fare collection machine backwards, and give a rebate to riders.
Pretend he’s an offsite consultant. Now does it make sense? His employers are aware he’s making them substantial money and it’s likely they’re aware he left his last, much more demanding job, for being too stressful. So they know if they put more pressure on him than he feels like dealing with he’ll leave. Whether he’s deceiving the two proper jobs he has as an employee or not is a separate matter but they have no leverage over him either way.
Whataboutism != context
Actually I was not threatened that I was stealing if I didn't wire! I wish I was though because that would have definitely given it away. The receipt of my bank deposit they asked me to take a picture of just had more than enough to pay! I remember double checking the receipt in-case it had too much personal information and even was aware that I didn't want to show my balance but something in my brain just didn't combine all the pieces until I heard the words "wire transfer" which triggered memories of crime shows.
not to be confused with minute physics (https://www.youtube.com/@MinutePhysics), another great physics channel
It's working out fine and doesn't have all the visual annoyances and wheel scrolling issues that CS Code has. I use it since version 1.1. I tried VS Codium this week but reverted back to Atom after reading about the RCE and not being impressed with it. I also want an editor, not an IDE, no Git integration as I don't use Git. And yes, it is slower compared to VS Code. Next I'm going to give Emacs a shot.
Funnily enough, this is actually a millenia-old way of writing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boustrophedon
PKCE. No client secret needed.
> [E]xperience demonstrates that there may be a slavery of wages only a little less galling and crushing in its effects than chattel slavery

I agree, but claiming that it applies to all wage labour is ridiculous.
Musk is selling Twitter HQ’s espresso machines, Eames chairs, and sculptures
It is hard for me to imagine Starship going from “hasn’t flown yet” to “taking non-expert astronauts on the most ambitious manned private spaceflight in history” in anything close to a year. Five years, optimistically? Ten?
Does HN have some kind of discord channel or similar?
Sure there is: evidence of competency. Many people will hire you if you can demonstrate you actually know what you're doing, which a site like Fireship (presumably) can help you to learn.

This fallacy needs to die. It's why many who work in jobs are highly unqualified (they're hired for credentials/connections, not competency).
I don't think it's compatible with the sprit of FOSS.

You're giving the company (in this case Signal) an open-ended license for your contributions whilst they don't return the favour. And so whilst they can offer a proprietary version e.g. Signal Pro with a friendlier license e.g. BSD you can't.

And what kind of underpins all of this is that many companies especially in the enterprise will not touch anything that is GPL or AGPL.
> The fact that xxEightyxx has found not one, but two companies willing to pay six figures for a functionally part-time employee is pretty mind-boggling.

There’s an entire internet subculture of people devoted to doing this. Check out r/overemployed. And there are far, far more people who do similar things entirely above board as consultants and contractors.
Are you sure you aren't seeing the pico? Those are still easy to find.
So HN, where’s that browser plug-in wrapping that GPT-3 prompt “Rewrite the following text in plain English that a ten year old could understand”, written in Rust?
This used to be the way. Now it takes a whole team to put a textbox on a Web app.
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Half true: skill level is likely the same as any first world population, but they do have very good lane procedure: you won't often find slow cars in the fast lane, or people overtaking those rare instances via the slow lane. They will honk and flash if you're slow in the fast lane, but by German standards that too is correct. I've never had someone passive-agressive brake in front of me for wanting to overtake, or speeding up in the overtaking lane, things that happen too often in the US.
In controlled studies (same caloric intake, ignoring the sweetened water), mice gain more weight with artificial sweeteners than with sugar.

Also, human studies have shown all of these sweeteners mess with metabolism, etc.

I’m not sure how this is still controversial. We knew all of this back in the early 1990s (if not earlier).
Basically high integrity computing processes, very waterfall like, and with quality process verification that most companies will only ever adopt when liability becomes a common legal requirement in software delivery.
I would like to propose a different perspective in Scrum and Agile: they're really actually reasonably good.

Or rather, they do go wrong, but they go wrong for reasons outside of the scope that a development process considers. Instead, I argue the issue is related more with the way that managers and employees interact, and the expectations they both bring to the table.

More explicitly, I am arguing that if the development process changed at a company with a manager running agile processes, the manager won't necessarily suck less if they were already bad. Likewise to the employee.

My suggested action is to treat this as a question around social environment, and tweak accordingly. This would be different for each company I would expect.
Encryption's always hard to get right, so it honestly doesn't surprise me that libsignal isn't enough. Though I've never had good experience with libsignal
I mean, I've got 2ish domains for self hosted stuff, 3 for public projects – they're rentals that I get enough value from to be worth it, and I'd recommend having a domain to a lot of people who don't currently have one. But they're rentals, and I think it's important to remain clearsighted about it.
https://sive.rs/multiply
What's especially interesting is that if you feed it HTML, it can "render" it into ASCII art. For simple tables that's not surprising, but it could also do rowspan/colspan for me, although it did get them wrong every now and then.
Renewal prices are also much higher on premium domains. It's actually the contrary, they're often sold for cheaper through some discounts and the price for the second year is the actual price.

I got a premium domain for $20 and paying $260 every year to renew it (but I knew it'd happen).
Ray tracing is typically incapable of diffuse reflections. It goes from the camera and traverses geometry until hitting something, possibly experiencing a few mirror/shiny reflections.

Path tracing is usually bi-directional (from both light and camera) and uses something like Metropolis-Hastimgs to sample more efficiently than brute force. Our still requires many samples per pixel but the sampling nature means it can naturally support the random bouncing of diffuse reflections. Between bounces the is typically still ray tracing, though, unless it's some special volumetric material like Jade (the green jewel rock) or fog or (the contents of) a glass of milk.

Compare e.g. POV-Ray to LuxRenderer.
Student pilots today are still taught to navigate via dead reckoning (compass and stopwatch) and pilotage (looking out the window and identifying prominent landmarks). Even at night, a pilot would have a pretty good idea where they were before they saw the light.

Also, you can see pretty far at altitude. Flying at 10,000 feet, I can see the San Francisco bay all the way from Lake Tahoe.

Fun fact: There's an airway beacon on top of Mount Diablo in San Francisco, but it's only lit a couple times a year for special occasions:

https://www.dreamsmithphotos.com/arrow/States/ca/mt_diablo.h...

https://www.danvillesanramon.com/news/2022/11/28/pearl-harbo...
Two of my friends got the same email upon applying: offer to interview, PDF interview, offered job position, asked to sign offer letter, and offer to send a check.

It easily stood out as a scam, as I have read tons of similar stories on reddit.

What stood out to me is that they had applied on Indeed via LinkedIn, yet gotten into this scam loop. As Indeed a reputable place, curious, I applied to the same position but was rejected in a day, and my rejection letter came from official AutoNation address.
Good Cowboy
GoDaddy did this. Good domains registrars don't.
Here's an idea, but it is going to be really difficult to implement. You have lessons but at a certain point you get a chat "buddy" that only uses slightly more vocab than you know to naturally expand your knowledge. This replicates the teacher student in person discussions. You can then analyze the voice and ensure that someone has the right accent and pronunciation. Then use optimization to determine your faults and what you need to practice, optimizing memory. It isn't much different from what a human teacher would do. But I'm not aware of any of these subsystems being relatively close to human level but also not aware of much research in any of these directions. I've seen a few people try and they are just terrible.
> Are cheques even used for anything except for fraud anymore?

Based on the cheques spelling I guess you're not in the US.

Checks are very common here, I write them every month. In theory I could pay my water bill by credit card but their payment portal is so randomly broken that I save a ton of headache by writing a check and dropping it off at their payment box. My office lease only takes checks. Various other rentals mainly only take checks or they charge a fee so I save money by giving them a check. Anything government-related is either a check or a big additional fee, so again I write them a check to avoid giving away extra money for no reason.

Checks are actually super convenient and more trustworthy than most alternatives. When paying, sending a check costs me a stamp which is far less than the credit card fees most places charge, or sometimes I can drop it off for free.

When receiving one, in most places it can be deposited by just taking a photo, doesn't get easier than that. Most importantly, I don't get to be another victim of the "$PAYMENT_PROCESSOR froze my account and stole my money", whether it be paypal or any of the other ones.
Yes, frequently. My rent, water, and electric bills are paid by checks I send through my bank online, and I have hand-written checks to pay various taxes, donations, and the bill for my eye doctor. I receive checks from a tenant to pay rent, from contract work, tax refunds, and reimbursements for stuff I pay for in some of the organisations I belong to.

In fact, counting both my personal accounts and the org account I'm treasurer for, I've probably sent or received two dozen checks just in the last month.
I misread the title as "Unix is a..." and got to thinking about how you could map unix-style command line programs to instructions in a VM.
If fining them is a problem because the variance of “how much they are fined” is too large, what if uh, had an external organization evaluate the probability of each officer getting fined and use that to price insurance that they have to buy? That way the variance is reduced, and they have a direct monetary incentive to have habits which reduce the estimated probability that they get fined (or, rather, the expected value of how much they get fined for) ?
I own and operate a utility scale solar plant and i've always found it inefficient to spend 180k USD per MegaWatts for steel and aluminum structures to hold those panels. I've always dreamt of "my next plant will not have these steels" and my friends in the industry say it's impossible (like they all do say for new things). I hope this solution is a good one. The challenges are:
1) Snow: when it snows, inclination (22degrees in ours) helps snow blocks slide down usually in 2-3 days. when panels are completely flat, snow can stay on panels for weeks. how to solve that in large scale plants?
2) Natural vegetation that grows by itself: We deal with them with the help of sheep. They grow everywhere, under the panels, around the panels. As the panel covers 100% of the surface, no sunlight means no vegetation beneath? Is this for sure? Because there is no access to do any work beneath the panels after the installation.
3) Underground animals: Moles, mice (even snakes) etc live beneath the soil and they open holes to the surface and come up. Before, they could not access the panels because they are 1 meter up on the steel structure. Now they will have easy access to panels and cables. Will they cause harm? A snake sliding on the panels is ok?
4) Earth moves. After 5 years, some structures went deeper into the ground. I don't know if it's gonna cause a problem
Same things happen in Germany with fake home rental offers. They even use stolen IDs to prove themselves.
the skillset they possess is mathematics, and mapping symbolic models to real domains (universe, platonic realm)
Everything is build ontop physics and math. randal Munroe made a Graphic that shows it perfectly https://xkcd.com/435/
Ask HN: How long do you think ChatGPT is going to be available for, for free?
Attacks on Pacific north-west power stations raise fears for US electric grid
Series of attacks come after assault on North Carolina facilities cut electricity to 40,000
You can only get so far with this, the lighting and perspective won't match and you'll end up with a "collage" look, especially as you add more images. You can sometimes feed the result back through img2img and get it to fix it. Even in an illustrative style like this the color tone is going to look different.
Could I use this to create a static site, which I can serve using my own server?

I like the idea of pure python, instead of messing around with jinja templates.
Wonder if any incidental successes can be blamed on throwing out the backlog and figuring out what’s actually a priority
StableDiffusion produces better pictures once you get what you want. Dall.e2 is very good at understanding your prompt but the images are not very detailed when you look closely. They are full of artefacts, and the faces are zombi like unless they fill the whole frame.

But you can use stable diffusion and dall.e together. Or use MidJourney v4 which is simply the best right now.
We can only think about one thing, and that thing must be the most horrible or offensive, rather than the more likely/dangerous. Hence the obsession with terrorists hiding under every rock while ignoring deaths from opioids, smoking, obesity, and COVID. Libertarians would rather be anal probed at every airport than wear a mask on a commuter train.
The company that buys it.
What's even more interesting is that it knows how to pronounce such made-up words if you tell it to spell them out using IPA.
Something I realized is that the dark patterns change from country for country.

Brazilian websites uses patterns that aren't that common on American sites. All news organizations and all large e-commerce uses the browser's notification and localization API (some ask before trying).

To view the content on those sites, I need to deal with about 5 interruptions. The previously two, plus newsletter, "accept cookies" modal, "special offer" pop-up, "free shipping" sticky window.

And those are >1 bi usd companies.
I believe they already have a license (it may have expired):

> "agreement to license Signal protocol was reached"

https://mobile.twitter.com/bhcarpenter/status/15966919162503...
Sure, but if using artificial sweeteners take me in a calorie deficit, I will lose weight. If I use sugars instead, that would give me more calories and I would gain weight.
> But if you’re designing and developing something fairly well understood…

There in lies the problem; building software is not like building a house.

I've seen many projects at Big Co fail to deliver on time, budget or quality because senior managers believed that everything is "fairly well understood" up front when just wasn't true.

That mistake leads to treating estimates as concrete delivery times, scaling the development team before it's ready and a refusal to fix things that hurt productivity because they're not on the unchangeable timeline.

The author is correct Scrum is usually sabotaged by outside influences trying to turn it into waterfall.

If IBM couldn't make waterfall work in the 1970s it's very unlikely that will work anyone's big project today either.
Delta airlines gives gift cards as payment for volunteering on oversold flights. Really doesn’t help dissuade people from “$50 Panera Bread” gift cards from being involved in transactions not involving Panera Bread.
Why would he send them money though? Like what was the given reason why he would be sending them anything?
I only wanted to see if the term pre-dated the software dev usage, and was used in the US and UK.

A WP change should dig back further then 1990, which is the year limit I used in my search.
Not collecting even minimal fares means other parts of the system won’t be funded. Cut the price in half or more. But it has value. It does not need to make a profit.

Run more frequently ! Biggest complaint of mine.
Fyre Festival guy went to prison.

Trevor Milton (of Nikola Corp, with the fake hydrogen trucks) was convicted of fraud and will likely spend some time in prison.

Could almost get the impression of anything if you cherry pick a single example.
> Many proponents of fareless rides point out that drivers expect free or subsidized parking and do not directly pay for the cost of maintaining roads or other necessary infrastructure.

Have these people never tried to park in a city? And "directly" is such a weasel word: do registration fees, gas taxes, and tolls not count?
If it was too hard for players in 1982 then there's no way today's players stand a chance.
interesting to read through. No MOV tho
We are talking about end-to-end encryption. "Malicious homeserver" is literally the table stakes. If you trust your server, you can use anything. Go ahead and use Slack.
Colgate’s 9B Toothpaste Tubes Defy Effort to Recycle Them
It'd be nice to summon someone from that side of things, but I'd venture to say it's just built really differently. Like, how a bursting bathroom pipe in an apartment is different from the same purpose plumbing on SpaceX. Humans actually keep building both, somehow.
https://archive.vn/5Xr5S
GDP/hour of labor is a really interesting metric. For the US it is about $75/hour.
ChatGPT:

> The upper part of your digestive system has lots of special cells that can taste things and sense fat. These cells have tiny helpers inside them called receptors, and when they taste something sweet, they send a message to your brain using a special chemical called alpha-gustducin. These receptors can also taste things like sugar, special proteins, and fake sweeteners. These cells also help your body make hormones that tell your pancreas to make more insulin when you eat something sweet. There are also other cells in the upper part of your digestive system that can sense fat, but they mostly live in the lower part of your digestive system.
I helped write a document for Debian about that, there are various ways you can select different instructions at runtime or build time etc:

https://wiki.debian.org/InstructionSelection
It's unlikely that IPv6 will be deployed widely for a few reasons. First, many companies and organizations have already invested heavily in IPv4 infrastructure, so it would be costly and time-consuming for them to switch to IPv6. Additionally, IPv4 and IPv6 are not interoperable, which means that devices using one protocol cannot communicate with devices using the other. Finally, there are still a large number of available IPv4 addresses, so there is no immediate need to switch to IPv6. Until these issues are addressed, it's unlikely that IPv6 will be widely deployed.
Gladwell's like a TED talk. Both taste good but at some point you realize you just ate a bunch of empty calories.
if faamng salary is supposedly that high, that's like a shocker, and probably massive hyperbole, unless something bizarre happened over the last 5 years.
that said, total comp could be pretty high like that quite plausibly.
it doesn't upset me one bit, I'm just pointing out to the poster above that he's been misled.

surely you'll agree with me that it's much cooler to have Max Thundercock in your birth certificate than to adopt it as a pseudonym later in life
well timed (fortunately) tech sector for several years.
Interchange fees were legally limited in the EU, not sure about the UK specifically. The reason why EU banks don't have these fancy premium credit cards with 2/3/5% cashback.
Chat GPT can't write code so I am a little confused?