skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, they'll get their test data if they fail and they'll get it if they don't :-)
I won't be surprised if they used the Angry Birds IP to sell another movie
Ryanair boards from both directions (except in airports which require the use of jet bridges); your ticket tells you which door to go to.

Of course, some fraction of passengers always ignore this, leading to a certain amount of chaos.
>I worry that the lack of testing is due to a business desire to avoid the (stunning) cost of building and losing 33 Raptor engines on each failed test article, rather than an engineering judgement that such tests are not needed.

Determining whether it is worth risking 33 Raptor engines in a static fire is an engineering decision.
Most of the fast food options inside the airport will give you free condiments, or there may even be a station where you can just grab mayo after getting through security
Some amazing talent at SpaceX no doubt, somehow holding it together under the purview of a maniacal fraud.
Interesting! Do you have the link to that discussion?
This is utter bullshit.

There’s a huge set of people above $180K income, with homes all the way from small rental apartments, townhomes, to mega mansions. How come they are all being put into the same bucket.
Illogical statement, given that we already have an order which is in fact adhered to. It's merely a seemingly backwards one.
Does Uber have so many cases of driver fraud that terminations cannot be revised by human first? I suspect not.
“Hey I have a meeting with your CEO in a few minutes. I’m John and I’m here from a Dearth of Talent.”

I’m not saying that.
This is so exciting, I’m contemplating ditching work and driving down to see this in person. Is it worth seeing in person?
I was disappointed that he held onto the assumption that everybody needs an assigned seat. Southwest has boarding groups, but not assigned seats. This feels vastly superior because once a person finds a seat they want to stay in it, as opposed to disrupting the incoming stream by trying to trade seats to be closer to traveling companions etc.
You're welcome! Sorry if that came across as aggressive. I get tired of seeing people on HN posting like, "How do I live on my paltry $500k/year income? Should I gamble it all on dogecoin?" (this is an exaggeration, but only slightly)
I’m not sure how making a bomb out of liquids works, but could you not just freeze all the necessary liquids and then hit them with the hand dryer in the bathroom?
I once worked for Amazon as a contractor with Insight Global. While it wasn't a bad gig, the culture wasn't a fit so I left. Since then (almost a year), every week I have been mailed a return box for the equipment that I have already returned. I tried telling my former boss but the boxes keep coming. How much money have they wasted mailing me return boxes months on end for no reason?
I don't know what distinction you're trying to draw there.
>> there's still a billion dollars worth of merch

Our family has a rather nice Angry Birds carry-on suitcase. I have to wonder what it will be worth in twenty years.
Germany shutting down nuclear is so sad to see. Next step is de-industrialization and irrelevance on world stage.
Software engineers need to start having serious conversations about whether non contract employment is even a good idea.

Yes there are pitfalls to permanent contracting, and some folks dont have the stomach for it. As a contractor, I see employees doing less and less dedicated work, and also when it comes to devops training and cloud adoption employees usually seem behind the curve.
While it might not have been communist, Korea certainly was oppressive when it built the chaebols which did involve a fair bit of government management.
He’s everywhere and he always gets his man.
You're commenting on a post about the booster's first test flight.
> And many countries are well positioned to make such a move. For example, Canada already has free healthcare and generous family credits that rebalance wealth automatically to the bottom, promoting labour mobility. Yet it also has a flexible labour policy, efficient courts, excellent corporation law, and fast bankruptcy resolution.

Feel free to move to Canada if you want half the wages, twice as expensive housing, and a multi-year wait to get a family doctor. There is a reason why so many Canadians end up working in the US on TN or H1 visas.
It does, many words have different age-based / status-based suffixes which adds a lot of unnecessary complexity. Numbers are also annoying as the counting numbers vs. quantity.

From an information theory POV, we should really look at not just the complexity but the information density of a language. English has a lot of foolish rules, but the large vocabulary provides a much higher bandwidth than other languages.

https://medium.com/oscar-tech/information-density-of-differe...
10?? In larger airports it can be much longer, assuming your bag even makes it.

Disclosure: after my last misrouted bag, I have probably checked bags twice since 2011.
The definition of richness in food is generally heavy in natural fats in proteins, high in butter and cream of a high quality.

American butter and cream is ludicrously bad. There is just enough taste to it to make the stuff inedible.

Sushi is not a rich food.

Sauces with a lot of butter and fats in them are 'rich', pastries can be rich, depending mainly on the fattiness of the cream and butter.

on edit: French cuisine is generally thought of as one of the richest in the world, hence my use of them as an example.
The value of a "brand" is really, really difficult to measure objectively, but certainly has an effect on your revenue. It's hard to know in advance what's going to tarnish your reputation in the long run, but by the time you can measure it, it's far too late.
> I know SpaceX is very efficient and that they hustle to a degree, but their launch site looks very "min-viable" (at best).

If you're getting that impression by comparing it with SLS/Shuttle, the thing to keep in mind is that SpaceX gets a huge benefit by not using solids. SLS/Shuttle had to move a rocket where some of the parts were fully fueled, which means much greater weight.

Additionally, solids can't really be "turned off", which means there are much greater safety requirements. This is apparent, not just in launch sites, but also with launch escape systems - Starliner needs a much more performant launch abort system than Crew Dragon for example.

Of course, that doesn't affect some things like the water deluge system.
Assuming the person is a professional, they can find another full time job. In this case the company needs to pay more to compensate for the missing full time job perks (stability of income etc).

That's why hiring contractors is usually more expensive per hour than hiring full time staff.
what are some successful stories of American manufacturing?
Peeps are speculating that it's gonna be impossible to find a patch of grass to stand on but I know nothing about the setup there
I’ve seen this more in Europe than US. In US it seems like only the larger planes doing intercontinental flights will sometimes have front and back boarding, but I attribute that just to the shear amount of people to load into the aircraft.
Thanks for the in depth response. I agree with you that often when kids do not respect each other, they’re in an environment where they are not respected or see others not respecting each other. Often this is from a bad home life, in my experience. There is little that the school system can do to help that. Though it is worth mentioning that all teachers and staff in a school should show exemplary behavior; it is not realistic to expect respect without showing it.

I should be more specific when I say cussing. I don’t care much about students swearing. I was like you in that I was “respectful” by most measures, but by the time I was a teenager, I was swearing every sentence. I thought it was cool. That’s mostly harmless, IMO. However, I feel for my sister who reports students calling her a “fucking bitch”, “cunt”, etc., when she is in class and asks them to, e.g., not use their phones. I’m not there to offer judgment on how respectful she is or is not to students, but I assume that is an unwarranted escalation on the part of the students.

As one sibling comment pointed out, and you pointed out, there are problems that can be solved that may lead to more respect shown by both students and teachers. Education has not kept up with changes in society, and I’m sure all parties involved feel that.

For instance, phones weren’t an issue in class when I was in school, because phones didn’t exist! If they did, they had 10 digits, a #, and a * button on them. Also, education practices have failed to produce results for students. I’m sure students feel disrespected that they are having their time wasted by teachers doing assignments that don’t benefit them.

Both of the above are problems that can be identified and solved without pointing out any blame. However, maybe that’s the reason they aren’t being solved; some people are more interested in pointing a finger than solving problems.
I think this is right (people clearly desire early boarding), but I don’t personally understand it. Being crammed in an airplane isn’t the best—why do people want to do it for extra time (and while sitting on the ground, without the beautiful views from above)?

Boarding last when you’re in the back is no fun because you’re squeezing past everyone who’s trying to get their carry-on situated, but boarding last in the front seems like a luxury.

Overhead bin space does make sense for why people in economy want to board first. But first/business class typically have their own bins, so why do they want to board first?
More expensive clothing can also be repaired, while fast fashion products/cheap versions of clothing often cannot be adequately mended.
You can render one line of output and DMA it to the display.

So no need to have a complete framebuffer in the first place. Lack of memory just limits the number of textures you can have.
It is highly likely to be rescheduled. Consider all the letters in NET.
that does not scale to future growth models, where uber will have 50 trillion drivers by 2050, or whatever.
There's a bunch of differentiation here that really needs different names for the roles. Personally and in observation I've seen it lead to way too much confusion and arguing at cross-purposes.

We've got people who own, or are, established independent businesses whose customers are other businesses. In white collar work these roles are generally called "consultants". In blue collar work they are often "contractors" or "sub-contractors".

We've got temp agencies who provide temporary or permatemp employees to other companies, where the temporary employee may or may not have any guarantee of long-term employment by the temp agency, but are almost guaranteed to have stretches of time in which they aren't compensated, even if they do. These roles are "temps" or "permatemps", but often get called "contractors", though the real "contractor" is the temp agency. The jobs described in the article fall in this bin.

We've got people who directly fill roles for spec pay. I guess these days these roles are called "gig work".

I think the word "contractor" should be reserved for talking about non-employee labor, or business-to-business labor, in general. Even then there are edge cases (like catering) that I'm not sure belong here, or belong in the non-contract business-to-customer category. The more specific terms should be used for the particular type of job (Consultant/Sub-contractor, temp/permatemp, gig worker).
To avoid a line forming in the plane, they should board by column, even rows then odd rows. A Odd. E Even. B Odd. D Even. C. D Odd. B Even. E Odd. A Even. People and family together can board together, only if their towards the window counterpart has been called.
The time is not spent boarding the plane.

It is spent waiting on bags in the terminal.

Solve each problem independently and stop trying to mix them.

Also, we don't have to ban carry ons, we can use Hacker News and Reddit's favorite blunt tool - taxes.

Apply a large add on cost (taxes) for each carry on. The larger and heavier, the more add on paid.

This would also offset the fuel costs of carry ons.

Of course business users could just expense the carry on add on cost, which preserves carry ons for them
And likelihood of 3/4 employment.
This reply is a perfect example of the "overstate/understate" propoganda in action. Really? The United States didn't commit mass murder? Read a history book.

Can you imagine school children in China, one of them asks in a political science class "What's wrong with US democracy?" and nobody can give them an answer without first mentioning the genocide of native americans, the mass graves in latin american, the contras, Iraq.
Ah. I've never flown any of the budget airlines. It makes sense they'd prioritize speeding boardings whatever it takes.
To be fair, firing 33 engines at the same time when they're a meter or two apart is a pretty different environment. But as others said and I agree, this is that test.
Innovative energy storage firms bag £30M from UK government
Sadly, the internet has become a place to criticize and throw hate and doubt on basically anyone doing anything that is new, different or extraordinary.

Heck, even when I set out to drive around Africa there was a mountain of hatred and anger saying it was impossible, and I would be beheaded in the first country. (Spoiler: I wasn't, I had a great time).

I think it's important to remember that the very, VERY vast majority of people on the internet have absolutely no idea what they're talking about. Unfortunately it seems the people with the least idea are the loudest, and get given the biggest microphone.
Yes. I live in the suburbs in the outskirts of a major city. I might consider more seriously the trade-offs of actually living in the city if I could justify the cost of living increase.
In addition to the lower flux leakage as mentioned in this article, there is a benefit of R-core and toroidal transformers which is reduction in the strains due to magnetorestriction that happens, which is what can make transformers- especially cheaply made EI-core transformers- have "hum" at 2x the AC fundamental frequency (e.g. 100 or 120hz for mains powered devices).
The USA manufactures more than it ever has. The horse we bet on is relying on our tech to automate much of it so factory workers are unbelievably productive. Whatever we can’t automate we ship out to China, etc.
Sorry, I thought my sarcasm was obvious enough to not need a "/s".

But see above, there is no "recession". The economy is growing.

Interesting reading: https://www.economist.com/briefing/2023/04/13/from-strength-...
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>I worry that the lack of testing is due to a business desire to avoid the (stunning) cost of building and losing 33 Raptor engines on each failed test article

Uh, what? They are going to lose them, and it's fine because it's not a stunning cost at all. If everything goes absolutely perfectly here, the engines are all going straight to the bottom of the ocean. There is no effort to save anything, they're being cautious with the part that actually matters (the ground infrastructure). Minimum goal for that same reason is getting a thousand feet above the tower or whatever it was before it explodes, again so that ground infra is ok. Like Starship overall, Raptors are designed to be cheap and mass produced. Long term it's definitely very important to economic viability to recover SH, recovered SH and expended SS (if it took awhile to nail down reentry say) would be a fine MVP, expended both would not, but a few tens of millions of dollars out of a multibillion R&D effort is fine at this stage. My understanding is that the booster they're launching is indeed already obsolete, because it doesn't have the new full electric+torch ignition system. They've been building up to this steady and deliberately, and there is no sign of a rush or that they've made this decision for any reason but that they're ready to give it a go again. Their plans of course have all been thoroughly reviewed by government as well.

So this is kind of an odd take? They've already been dealing with 27 engines in F9H, this is hardly their first rodeo. F9 is already arguably the most reliable rocket ever. These aren't amateurs.
Exactly. I could understand the more recent ones simply due to political nature. Especially in the US. But slamming Starship goes back much further than that, as if they dont want this to happen. It is really strange.
"You have wifi?"
Especially annoying when this shows up in Firefox on iOS which doesn’t even support plugins (uBlock) to begin with (since it’s on WebKit there).
How would would you say "where is the toilet?" more succinctly with the context up front in English? If someone came up to me in English and said "toilet where?" I'd presume they're either rude or English isn't their first language.

There are formal and informal ways to say thing in Korean, for every day stuff it's often just a matter of changing the suffix, for some stuff it's a different word, for example 감사합니다 Kamsahamnida is thank you to anyone, but 고마워 gomawo (thanks) only to a friend.
It sounds like you have a straightforward way to get a lot of free clothes.
It is 'common knowledge' in that people say it a lot on HN/reddit. In this case, Shotwell is responsible for overseeing integration at Starbase, so it at least makes some sense to give her credit for the test flight.

In general though, Musk is the CEO and lead engineer and it really feels like people talk up Shotwell's contribution as a childish way of downplaying Musk's.
There is no such thing as multi-objective optimization hence engineering decisions = engineering decisions = decisions
and that's how to spread cancer via a vaccine for example.
So much of the "good ol' web" has disappeared into oblivion because people couldn't bother keeping their personal home page online after moving onto other interests, and they can't be blame for that.

Your website has that "handmade touch" that we took for granted back then and that has completely disappeared from the "modern" web. Stumbling upon your page, one can't help but feel nostalgic about what the web was back then, compared to what it has become. "Back in the days", the web was human. Now it's just a stream of unending, same-looking, ad-infested, seo-optimized noise.

Thanks for keeping this site online : it reminds us that another web was possible.

P.S : I looked at your other websites, and they all have that nostalgic-retro-looking warm-and-fuzzy-inducing design. I love it !
That's a good point. I wonder how LLMs currently deal with the passage of time, if they can at all. Do they know that Satya Nadella is the current CEO of Microsoft and that Steve Ballmer no longer is simply because there are more training documents reflecting the present state of things, or is there an explicit time component that helps to resolve conflicting facts from different years? Based on what I've read so far about LLMs (and not actually working on any of these models myself), I wouldn't have thought they model time or facts in a way that you could expect them to resolve conflicting claims from a 2010 document and a 2020 document. Yet they're unreasonably effective at question answering anyway.
Igalia is doing amazing work shipping native MathML support for Chromium based browsers.

https://www.igalia.com/2023/01/10/Igalia-Brings-MathML-Back-...
> Also in the UK contractors are paid a lot more than full time staff!

low level staff maybe

the big earners in UK finance are employees

contractors don't get a bonus
...they literally already are?
An alternative take would be that China only saw prosperity after partially adopting Western economic values. Additionally, Chinese economic development and Western economic development occurred in vastly different contexts. China had access to Western imports to jump start their industrialization and access to the Western scientific and policy know-how needed to build an advanced economy. The West had to figure things out as they went along. This is obviously a broad generalization, I just want to make the point that China is definitely not a slam dunk counterexample
Yeah, if you have to actually go into the office then just arrive to work in the morning, take a poo, then wander around chatting with people before you leave for the day. (not being sarcastic)
I think it's just luck. In terms of big tech most of the US is like Europe. It's only silicon valley that has this type of innovation.

But the innovation has been around a singular avenue of software. It is a mistake to think that software is the most important driver of economic growth.
I've done a few APIs similar in spirit to this one (and one similar in functionality, too), and I've found using a blend of a few of the mentioned methods to be pretty effective.

I start with the basics and implement everything as explicitly (read: type safe) as possible:

struct bob_params {...}
struct line_params {...}

pdf_page_cmd_bob(bob_params *params) { ... }
pdf_page_cmd_line(line_params *params) { ... }

Then, when that works and I want to add patterns, which are a superset, I'd add something that is literally a superset of those functions.

enum pattern_type {
patterntype_Bob,
patterntype_Line,
}

struct pattern {
pattern_type type;
union {
bob_params Bob;
line_params Line;
}
}

pdf_pattern_cmd(pattern *pattern) {
switch (pattern->type) {
case patterntype_Bob: /* do bob drawing a bunch of times, or whatever */
}
}

// The pattern struct has a lot of different names (sum type, discriminated union, algebraic datatype, tagged union .. probably more), but the idea is the 'type' tag tells you which one of the union values to use.

I've tried everything and, as far as I can tell, this gets you the best of all worlds. It's pretty much as type-safe as things get in C. It's extremely flexible; you just mix the fundamentals together as you like when adding higher-order functions. It's fast; the compiler can see exactly what's going on, so you pay minimal runtime cost.

Yes, it's a bunch of typing to get the functions all spelled out, but it's really not that bad considering how easy/obvious the code actually is.

I use this pattern so much I actually wrote a little metaprogramming language that is capable of generating a lot of the boilerplate for you. Link in my bio, if anyone's interested in looking at it.
My gut sensation is that with the current models, what come next has inherently more weight than what came before (sort of: wait, I've changed my mind!).

A cheap possible solution would be to append a postfix in addition to the prefix, and mark it as important in some way.
Is it because of the tax structure? Care to elaborate?
Hong Kong has made it to oppressive communism, so that’s going to be interesting to watch going forward (or backwards?).
Really? Because LaMDA looks like an effort in that direction but Google never made it publicly available AFAIK. Security concerns maybe?

PS. Just read the Lemoine's transcriptions. Just wow.
I mean they could do all those things, but, once again, they don’t have to. They don’t have a responsibility to anyone but their shareholders and therefore bottom line.
I don't think anyone in tech is expecting AI to replace engineers altogether, particularly for spec work. That said, engineers on the low end of the skill spectrum are often quite bad at pushing back on specs and just code the tickets put in front of them.

From the perspective of the business the way I interact with AI is similar to the way I interact with junior engineers - I hand them tickets, they hand me code that I cannot trust, and I verify it (this leaves out mentoring and other soft stuff, but the business only cares a little about that). However the AI has a turnaround time of seconds.

Now this isn't a perfect 1:1, AI struggles with large amounts of context in a way humans handle better, but I can think of a lot of work done in my company that could be handed off to an AI capable of writing 10,000 loc programs...