skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a general principle, the Space Shuttle program was massively capital constrained, so many trade-offs were made that compromised safety and operating expenses. I suppose the latter helped in limiting the number of flights, but then again half the fleet and their crews were lost.

Perhaps start with what killed two shuttles and their crews? Besides no provisions for escape unlike all other "capsule" based craft, solid rockets are _dangerous_ because you can't turn them off, whereas liquid fuel rockets will effectively turn themselves off in many disaster scenarios.

So for a get me out of here tower escape system a solid rocket makes a lot of sense, see also their use in ejection seats. But mounting some number of them (more than one unless used alone because you need symmetrical thrust) on the sides of your system means they must work perfectly every time.

The reentry heat shield protections which along with the wings etc. came from a requirement the Air Force says they never really wanted or needed, a single polar orbit mission returning to the launch location which thus required a lot of maneuvering in the atmosphere because the Earth turned while it was up there resulted in the infamously fragile tiles and some more refractory stuff for hotter locations (and eventually a bunch of tiles in a cooler location were replaced by something else).

Rear end heat shields are protected during the launch of a capsule, it's all hanging out there with the Shuttle. Change the foam and larger parts of it may break off, hit, and fatally compromise a part of the insulation system.

Now going from personal worry points and speculation:

The Space Shuttle Main Engines (SSMEs) are for institutional reasons extremely high performance and required a rebuild after every mission, so the SLS "throw away half a billion worth of engines every flight" would need to subtract that labor and parts.

That said, they were fired up and the SRBs not lit until it was clear the SSMEs were running fine, that resulted in three legit aborts and two from faulty sensors. Two failures after launch, split between both causes, noting catastrophic or mission endangering. But, still, you have all their complexity and SRBs.

Landing ... well, that's another thing that's more complex or at least different although landing in the sea also has its issues: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury-Redstone_4

It's a hell of a lot more complicated aerodynamic body/system than a cylindrical rocket and capsule system so that work was harder and more error prone. IBM Federal Systems modified a lot of code between the first and second launches, and caught an introduced error that would have released just one SRB. There's a 1984 CACM issue devoted to all this https://dl.acm.org/toc/cacm/1984/27/9 and is now free to read online or download, I highly recommend it. A lot of programmers outside of that world were concerned the code wouldn't be up to snuff, what you'll read in those articles explains how they pulled it off.

And, again, no escape systems. Fly enough times and things go wrong, the Shuttle compounded this by massively increasing complexity for very little gain.
> If you don’t like it, don’t buy it.

Very, very bad and consumer-hostile sentiment that is inconsistent both with good ethics and with the way that the regulatory system works currently.

Regulations on goods sold exist for a purpose - to allow the user to generally buy things while having some guarantees about their lifetime/security/safety/consistency with marketing/etc.

"If you don't like it, don't buy it" implies that companies should be able to sell goods made with toxic substances, not honor their warranties, lie on their marketing, and steal and sell your personal medical information. This is bad.

If I buy a product, I expect to be able to do whatever I want with it, and to not have arbitrary limitations on how I use that product that exist purely for the sake of making the seller more rich, and this is consistent with the way that consumer protection regulations work in general.

> Uniformity and convention over configuration and customization is why people feel why iOS is more stable and secure than the Android ecosystem as a whole.

False. The vast majority of people have no opinions of whether Android or iOS is more secure. Slightly more, but very few, of them have any opinions on their relative stability, and you can attribute exactly all of that instability to a mix between (1) manufacturers making terrible drivers and support packages for their hardware and (2) Google being generally bad at designing software. It has nothing to do with "uniformity" or "convention over configuration" at all.
Thanks! I feel like we just don't have the same supply chain over here for some of these products. Was a pain even finding clear cedar in any quantity.
Reputable sources seem to indicate that "nature's opioid" may be more of a sidegrade.

https://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-lifestyle/consumer-health...

"In a study testing kratom as a treatment for symptoms of opioid withdrawal, people who took kratom for more than six months reported withdrawal symptoms similar to those that occur after opioid use. Too, people who use kratom may begin craving it and require treatments given for opioid addiction, such as naloxone (Narcan) and buprenorphine (Buprenex)."
> This is seen as proof of the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, that words determine the concepts you can use: Pirahã can’t instantly compare collections of objects to see which is bigger (e.g. a pile of four batteries next to a pile of five) while people in cultures with other number systems can.

My goodness. Sapir and Whorf had this theory, but neither gathered much data to prove it, and attempts to do so since Whorf's death in 1941 have not gathered much evidence for that theory. In fact the mass of evidence has been against it.

A Christian missionary named Daniel Everett studied linguistics to preach to the Pirahã in the late 1970s. When he learned their language, he became convinced that they helped make the case for Sapir-Whorf and published many papers, but other linguists who went down to work with them found countervailing evidence.

It's a pleasant theory to consider, but the evidence for it over the past eighty years has been thin, and most linguistics data seems to go against the theory.
Oh you could loudly dog whistle on Twitter pre-Elon, but only one side was allowed to. Now that Elon's equalizing the playing field, both sides can dog whistle. And you know the saying, if all you've known is privilege, equality feels like oppression.
> they don't mold

Having lived in a European house with 50cm thick stone walls that had a mold problem, I disagree with this statement.
for dfb6f1f9 you are sentenced to 3 years in prison
Such a timestamp could only be interpreted as a "no-earlier-than" proof. You couldn't use it to prove that the message was created before a certain date, as all existing bitcoin blocks can easily be referenced in any future messages.
More like a generalist who also happened to be one of the greatest. You can read his book "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!" It adds some characteristic to his flamboyant personality.
You want room 12A, next door.
I agree that thinking in terms of this as additional benefits is an excellent way of thinking about this.

However, we don’t always make decisions purely on cost vs benefit. Some types of decisions, such as strategic thinking, involves unfair advantages. If cost-benefits are reasoned from a finite space in which one can find the optimal choice, unfair advantages cheats that, and operates on a potentially infinite space with imperfect information.

Not that I am saying Ruby or Python are unfair advantages :-) I’m just saying that cost-benefit is not the only way in which one can decide on something, and may not be appropriate for every situation. Being able to think in a language can potentially change how you think, and framing that as a benefit can be problematic.

I explored Ruby because I wanted to explore eloquence, semantics, and pattern languages (in the Christopher Alexander sense). I spent over ten years on it until I had my fill. Now I am exploring concurrency, reliability, uncertainty, self-healing and distributed systems — Elixir and Kubernetes. And while I still use Ruby in some tooling, it doesn’t give me the joy that Elixir does.
Then it could be argued that if Meta forcibly takes away their apps away from the App Store (or from the Play Store for that matter) then either:

1. Regulators would make a beeline to inspect such a third party app store/the sideloadable binaries they present for irregularities, illicit tracking, data violations, etc.

2. Slap them with anti-competitive monopolistic behavior by engaging in the highly disruptive act of depriving the main App/Play Store users of their apps. Thus, they would be forced by regulator action to host their apps on both their stores and official stores.

Regulators aren't too keen on Meta these days, they're not too keen on Big Tech in general, this isn't a vendetta against Apple.
> I doubt they'll end up with liability,

When you should know it's criminal, "just following orders" isn't a great defense.

> but I do hope they at least recognize and think about how their actions enabled this whole mess.

They should get lawyers. And be prepared to sing like canaries.
> The latency here is not from our framework though its from our server getting slammed with hacker news and reddit from our launch lol.

Seems like this could be a major barrier to scaling, especially if /all/ reactive state has to be handled through the server. Maybe a future feature could be a WebState class that provides reactivity only on the front end?
I think that it is a thing for a shockingly large percent of parents. Historically children were the retirement plan (in addition to labor for the family). That type of thinking is fairly common.
It is interesting that there hasn't been many classification hurdles on something that is pretty explicitly weapons research. My guess is that they achieved high Q values a long time ago in classified research using mechanisms that would give away some secrets.
The Meta store would still run under privileges set by the user (through Apple's controls).

At least, that's how I expect it would work.
> It also improves the quality of life by 10X compared to not doing it.

This is laughable.

> and adds far more than 3%

And this is simply not true. The increase is under 4 years, so under 5% https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3395188/
I doubt they'll end up with liability

I doubt that. If they haven’t been sued already, they will tomorrow.
Jumping to a drastic policy position without understanding the basic trade off involved should not be a thing.
We have a free market.

No one is forcing you to buy products you don’t like. You’re confusing government sanctioned duopolies (created from bad regulation) like Comcast, Verizon, and AT&T for Apple. You are free to buy alternative products from other companies.

> It has nothing to do with "uniformity" or "convention over configuration" at all.

Actually it does. The hardware is uniform and consistent, and therefore so are the drivers. There is a price to choice. Google is also one of the best software companies in the world.
It already works flawlessly in linux with proton, literally two clicks to enable compatability mode
If you want to see something you would never see in a modern documentary, this part of his Academy Award-winning first documentary is something else. They hit a sperm whale calf with their ship, kill it to put it out of its misery, and then massacre the sharks that come to feast on the injured calf:

https://youtu.be/xT2nSz_k134?t=3060
I don't think that was true. Gigaphoton achieved similar numbers to Cymer roughly a year later with a very similar design idea (so unclear why they would have had no path forward? they are still on-par today with Cymer as far as I can tell), XTREME was not too far behind (within factor 3 I would say).
It would already be a republic if the last referendum wasn't nobbled by the government at the time, where the only choice was between the status quo or giving more power to the historically untrusted elected government.

Per https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1999_Australian_republic_refer...:

"With republican models of one form or another winning a majority in opinion polls prior to the referendum, it was expected that the republican referendum would pass. However, the question put was for a particular model of republic with a head of state appointed by Parliament. This was opposed by some supporters of a republic, who preferred a directly elected head of state. Some of these, such as Phil Cleary, advocated that republic supporters vote "No" in order that a future referendum could be put on the directly elected model. Some commentators—including the president of the Australian Republican Movement, Malcolm Turnbull—identified this split within the republican camp as a key reason for the referendum's failure."
I don't listen podcasts and audio books at all on Spotify. So I ignore them completely. I would complain about degradation of "discovery" feature that is more and more hidden with every update.

What I really like it's that I can install Raspotify (librespot) on RPi, connect it to sound card and plug studio monitors in it. Then all connected devices at home network are able to control music with superb quality. I don't need flac. This is not possible with other streaming services what I know.
I have this on Amex business and it required adding the service. None of my personal credit cards have this.
I’ve often marvelled at these guys and their approach: making one game into your life’s work. Rimworld is perhaps another example of continuously added depth/complexity (although perhaps too soon to call that Tynan’s “life’s work”). Perhaps it’s something peculiar to this genre - so-called management sims.

It seems to me a phenomenon that - while perhaps not unique in art - is both rare and very well suited to this medium.
FYI, anybody who wants to can sign the "Great Barrington Declaration," and check whatever box they want: https://gbdeclaration.org/#sign

The list of medical practitioners and scientists includes a number of homeopaths and obvious fake names.
Kadane's algorithm (whose name sounds cooler than what it does) doesn't do any masks, it basically just keeps extending the window until the sum becomes negative at which point it starts a new window.
> all the atoms in our universe/galaxy/solar system with a mass up to that of iron are formed in the core of stars in stellar fusion.

all is a strong word

for example: the nuclear fusion experiment in the article, that would have produced a few atoms heaver that hydrogen

(not to mention all the nuclear bombs that had a fusion stage)
Good, more TB2's for Ukraine.
write a blog post about these statements. Otherwise is just your opinion on it.
Epic currently can’t do that on iPhones in their apps because in-app subscriptions all use Apple’s subscriptions system and can be managed in one place

If you wanted to use an abusive subscription system currently you would have to do it outside the app via a web browser
That's extremely frustrating. Unclear if that's the fault of Namecheap or the .love registry (Merchant Law Group LLP[1]), and whether it was intentional deception or just incompetence. In any case, domain registrants deserve better than that.

[1] https://icannwiki.org/.love
Full-stack engineering is one-third as good
How to spot an Uruguayan: they're nursing a thermos flask under both arms.

How to tell its an Uruguayan when they speak: "Its a bombeeja.."
"Flamboyant"

https://thebaffler.com/outbursts/surely-youre-a-creep-mr-fey...
> Ultimate Security in the form of preventing extremely sophisticated physical access/evil maid attacks[0] benefits people even if they don't think they need this security.

Yet, it's up to me to decide whether I want that security or whether I want to trade security for freedom/flexibility. Not you, or any other authoritarians seeking to exert control over others.

> Maybe purchase a different product that more closely aligns with your needs.

This is an incredibly toxic and user-hostile sentiment that also is completely inconsistent with the way that consumer protection laws work in general[1].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33978141
It's partially because of Curtis Yarvin's influence.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.vox.com/platform/amp/policy...
What makes you think UX people aren't?
git-xet follows the patterns established by other git extensions like git-annex and git-lfs, but with some UX improvements. In all of these cases, the large/binary file contents are actually stored outside of git, but available with git commands. The goal here is to make working with and versioning code and data together seamless, not to blindly use the git internals to store data. Does that still seem like a bad idea to you?
> "It’s not an “article” (it is also being published in long-form) or “reporting”, just a little series of tweets".

Given that Twitter does not engage in independent fact checking or peer review, I feel that this is a fair characterization. Pre-Musk or post-Musk, Twitter should not be viewed as a serious journalistic enterprise.
Yes, but that's a limitation of humans.

Science doesn't care about which ones you pick. You can be doing science with any set of initial non-falsifiable assumptions that humans are capable of holding.
Ask HN: Why did the Amiga slow to a crawl with lots of overlapping windows?
It seemed to remember hidden portions of windows, which doesn't scale well when you have lots of them.

Why did they use this non-scalable approach to windowing on the Amiga?
The issue is, we've been able to get more energy out of a fusion reaction than put in for 60-70 years now. The H-Bomb is very good at doing that. You will say, yeah, but an H-Bomb is a one time use thing, and it has a habit of destroying everything. If you look into how the second stage of an hbomb is speculated to work, its pretty much identical to this experiment, that is by design, not by accident.

From https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-04440-7

Herrmann acknowledges as much, saying that there are many steps on the path to laser fusion energy. “NIF was not designed to be efficient,” he says. “It was designed to be the biggest laser we could possibly build to give us the data we need for the [nuclear] stockpile research programme.”
I don't vote for clowns or lunatics which it is fair to say both "Angry Victorians" and "Sack Dan Andrews" are both.

I'll never vote Greens again until Lidia Thorpe is gone, shagging the heads of outlaw motorbike gangs is disgraceful behaviour for a member of parliament and completely disqualifies Greens as being a serious party from my point of view (at least while she remains a part of the party). And honestly the longer she remains the more I have to question the judgement that the members of the Green party show at all and makes it more likely that even if she eventually leaves I will never vote for them again.

Reason I do like the look of tbh and will consider them going forward. I can't say I am the most hyper-engaged voter so can't pretend I was fully aware of them or what they stood for. But looking them up now I like a lot of what they say and prefer their general policy stances over Labor.
I use ack for this purpose, because the color filtering options are so good.

https://beyondgrep.com/
> If you want to run unsigned software or extensions you will have to boot into a recovery console and change the security model.

I don't think you need to do this unless the application requires you to disable SIP which is extremely rare and I would do cautiously anyway.
Even if it started before KYC was a law, it's not too hard to imagine that Madoff had better records than FTX which by all accounts was a s$&tshow
the claim is also ridiculous.
the special benefits given to a few "capitalist" firms could have been done without kickbacks to politicians...
> In a shared codebase, I think there should be as few (equally effective) ways to express an idea as possible...The more arbitrary choices people have, the more time is wasted on choosing one.

I highly disagree! In my experience, forcing arbitrary style leads to so much more time wasted as people debate exactly which styles to enforce.

> But in a shared codebase, developers writing in different styles is a net negative on quality & readability. Spending time debating which style to prefer is a worthwhile, but unnecessary time sink

I disagree with this too. I have never found this type of style to be something that actually impacts readability and quality. If you using `if !` and I using `unless` is the problem with the codebase, that's not so bad.

I have to say, this is why I'm a huge fan of Python's black. It lets me write however I want, while you get to read my code in a consistent style.
That seem a bit high. Are you running a graphics heavy desktop environment?

I'm currently browsing on one monitor and having a twitch stream with GPU accelerated decoding on another, and nvidia-smi reports 49 W for my 3080. Nvidia 525 drivers & Fluxbox as window manager.

Using an AMD 5950X CPU, currently with powersave governor, my PSU reports a total power usage of 120 W.
Pretty much -- IIRC connecting the pad bypasses the internal EEPROM and loads a default configuration, and from there you can read/write the EEPROM as well.
Also, totally unrelated Twitter story (because I am nostalgic lately and you reminded me of it)

Early in my time there we had a major, unexpected load spike in the middle of the day. People where tweeting like crazy, breaking records for volume, etc. The system was groaning under strain but it mostly held. Turns out Michael Jackson had died. We sustained 452 (or maybe 457, it was roughly 450-something) tweets a second. this quickly became 1 "MJ" worth of tweets. We informally used this to define load the entire time I was there. Within a few months we got to a point where we were never BELOW 1 MJ, within a year I think we had peaked at double digit MJs and sustained several even in the lowest periods. Before I left we had hit 1 MJ in photo tweets, etc.

Around the time I left we did something like 300 MJ's per second, and I was only there 3 years.
Eh. GP:> The subset that will keep up will be even smaller than today

The subset might include you, or a majority of HN people even. Just a smaller % of population than currently.

Regards your > Given a choice

If you have family with such issues, you know it wasn't a choice. Getting older means facing mental plasticity slowdown. You can work to be fit on that front sure, but it is an issue that we will all face and not everyone will choose as you do.

I am not sure I agree with GP's assertion that technology will be inherently harder to deal with though.
In the US "horseshoe theory" is used to describe a similar phenomenon.
You can have dried lips caused by the liver (at least that's my understanding), but that's if you consume a lot, daily, for a long time
It's whatever the registry wants.

Typically, it will be domains that they expect a lot of people would want, like very short domains or domains for common English words.
Moderna and Merck Announce an Investigational Personalized mRNA Cancer Vaccine
Still, HE WASN'T SUPPOSED TO LOAN THE CUSTOMER MONEY!! If he didn't know that than why was it in the terms of service that his company wrote?
Can you explain the difference between "improving" and "fixing defects/gaps"?

If something is perfect, how do you improve it?
No, everyone who cared to know already knew that iPhones use Sony sensors. Apple never went out of their way to say so, but it wasn’t some big secret. The headline is click bait.