skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In a way, the ideals are part of the compensation package. SpaceX don't have to have good work conditions because people want to work there. The same way the video game industry has bad pay with bad work conditions because there's a steady flow of people wanting to make games, even if only as a tiny cog in a massive machine. Or how teachers or nurses are paid poorly, because enough people want to do it anyways.

Which isn't supposed to be an endorsement of any of this. Ethically it's very questionable, but it is a logical outcome in our flavor of capitalism.
Fair point. Though there's no denying that people only buy this sort of remotely controlled device either because they have no choice or because they expect support for the functionalities they need will last about as long as the hardware itself. At this point this is almost always not the case.
Both.

The way SpaceX has revolutionised the space industry is largely down to Elon's unique vision and drive. Elon has set the mission of getting to Mars and SpaceX has relentlessly pursued that goal and hasn't paused to soak up cash for shareholders (Falcon 9 Block 5 would be ludicrously profitable if SpaceX just scrapped R&D and rested on their laurels).

People who work in Space tech generally _want_ to work in Space tech and want to do the big things (like reaching Mars etc.) so SpaceX has an easier time hiring highly motivated and highly capable people because it has such ambition.

Elon managed to hire very capable senior leadership. Like Tom Mueller who led SpaceX propulsion development. And most importantly, SpaceX's President and COO Gwynne Shotwell who basically runs SpaceX in most meaningful ways. Elon as CEO is more like a very involved chairman than a traditional CEO which is why I would say SpaceX is also successful in spite of Musk, because he's actually not that involved day-to-day which is probably his most negative influence.
> Now anyone could be a photographer!

False. The more accurate statement: Now anyone could take photos.

Being a photographer and taking photos are not the same thing. We see lots a great images on Instagram. Many people with nice devices, an index finger, lots of luck and an eye to know what to not share. Would you hire them to work your wedding?

In short, taking pictures is not photography any more than being in the kitchen breaking a sweat and making a meal makes someone a chef.

<sidebar>

There's the same confusion about journalism. Simply publishing something (on the internet) is not necessarily journalism. The idea that anything reported is by definition journalism is both foolish and false. There's more to it than that. Much more. Sadly, the media doesn't know this.

These professions would fare better if they simply defended the standard definitions of their craft.

</sidebar>
Something can be pure populism and a good idea at the same time. Something can be a principled policy and disastrous at the same time.
I think they have less credibility after writing this article. Corporate profits don't change the amount of money in a system which is what drives inflation.
> is an API with only one function, which takes JSON and returns JSON, possibly via JSON-RPC.

I've done this one, and once only. I wouldn't do it again because the pain point is the lack of typing.

Yeah, yeah, I know, you've read all these blogs everywhere about how C is not type-safe, how C is weakly-typed, etc, but it's a damn sight better than runtime errors because something emitted valid JSON that missed a field, or has the field in the wrong child, or the field is of the incorrect type, etc.

If you're sending and receiving messages to another part of the program, using an untyped interface with runtime type-checking is the worst way to do it; the errors will not stop coming.

Every single time your FFI functions are entered, the function must religiously type-check every parameter, which means that every FFI call made has to now handle an extra possible error that may be returned - invalid params.

Every single time your FFI function return, the caller must religously type-cechk the response, which means that the caller itself may return an extra possible error - bad response.

Having the compiler check the types is so much better. C enforces types on everything[1], almost everywhere. Take the type enforcement.

[1] Unless the type check is explicitly and intentionally disabled by the programmer
> Pathetic pay too.

If you're after better pay head to London, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Denmark, or Norway. You won't match those San Fran FAANG wages but they're still very good. I live a VERY comfortable life in Denmark and it's such a great place to raise a family.
HAHA - I came here to say the same (I pay for it as well, and I love the flying fortress with radio chatter...

I just spent some time adding layers of sound to the actual ATC chatter, then I add individual layers, like distant thunder, b29, singing bowls and rain etc...

https://i.imgur.com/8jJkh1B.png

Ill try to share an MP3...
Until other cheap lifters show up, SpaceX can dictate the floor on costs. But profit means there must be a demand for Starship, perhaps more than Starlink provides. There are businesses that may flourish in near space given cheap enough access to low orbit.

As for launch providers surviving, nation-states have a vested interest in subsidizing their space programs, even at a loss, until they can bootstrap their own cheap lifters.
Didn't quick Ctrl+F, neither the landing page not the GitHub README mentions the word "container" once.

Is that what a "cloud" is? Runs containers? Is that obvious?
Perhaps the acoustics are different when the engines are actually accelerating a rocket, rather than held down on a test stand? Presumably, a test stand needs to direct all the sustained power outward horizontally in order to keep from being destroyed. A launch stand only needs to withstand exposure to high power for a few seconds, a relatively modest amount of total energy. Once the rocket is
released and in the air, ideally all of the power is turning into kinetic energy rather than acoustic or thermal.
Tell that to Microsoft, Google and Amazon employees that were just laid off by the 10s of thousands.
> This is an “unlimited” 100Mbit plan with 50GB for Business Fast Track (prioritized) data. Being that I was far below the 50GB of monthly Fast Track data, my data should have had top priority, so I became suspicious.

And yet ATT will get away with this fraud or theft of selling something it is not delivering because no one in government wants to hold them accountable.
>(read: greedy bosses who don't care about technical prowess)

Oh come on. There's plenty of ICs out there who'll happily do slapdash work because nobody cares if you close tickets well as long as you close them good enough. So what if the fix only lasts 2yr before needing to be refactored for performance. Lord knows if the code will even be in use then.
2038 is far enough into the future that anything and its opposite could happen by then.
In the Netherlands it probably does (“oneerlijke handelspraktijken”). The main regulator for the European activities of booking is in the Netherlands. If GP were to document this and submit it to the ACM [1] this might be picked up. The maximum fine is a puny 900 k€ though. They already got a few of these and don’t seem to care much.

And that just shows the problem with regulating these large platforms - local regulators with their hands tied against billion dollar platforms. The EU should just step in and regulate these monsters directly and pro-consumer. Or regulators should grow a pair and try to get the CEO / board replaced (a theoretical possibility when they keep getting administrative fines in NL). That will shake up the stockholders enough to shake some sense into these firms.

[1] https://www.consuwijzer.nl/doe-uw-melding-bij-acm-consuwijze...
Written by the great Gavin Smith, a project manager at some consultancy no one has ever heard of, with no mechanical engineering or software experience, and writer of hard-hitting pieces that sound like they were written by a high schooler.
"Plan to throw one away. You will, anyhow." - Fred Brooks
Only a factor if it prevents the lifting mechanism from moving away before launch.
> This is what leads to construction process to be extremely expensive

That and the fact that almost all nuclear plants tend to be one-off projects nowadays unlike in the 60s and 70s (and of the plants built in the west back then are still at least 100 times "safer" than the coals plants that are currently operated when measured in the number of deaths caused, of course premature deaths due to unnecessary pollution seem to be very cheap politically..).
That sucks. I wonder if it has anything to do with their ruggedness over time, which may result in recalls down the line if they vibrate whatever mounting components they have and become dangerous/unstable/easily-broken thus a maintenance nightmare.

What happens to the rear end kitchen in the event of a rear-end

plus with the through-tunnel - I wonder how easily the machine is completely totaled in the event of a crash causing the tunnel structures to warp/bend/buckle.

I love these trucks - but I hope they took them out for eaither engineering/safety or more simply suppliers/supply-chain issues.
Glad these people are being interviewed. NoClip (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0fDG3byEcMtbOqPMymDNbw) also talks to game developers / artists / and more.

It's calming and assuring to my intellectual / perfectionism streaks to read about Important People also having to make mistakes, and iterate in order to find a great solution.
I think it's fine to express relatively uninformed/layman/"gut feeling" opinions, but I also believe these posts need to be presented as such so it doesn't give readers the impression that the writer is imbuing them with undue confidence/credibility. I've learned a good deal through such posts, but that's only possible if the writer isn't presenting opinion as fact and is open to new information.
I added support for this new Twitch webRTC endpoint to VDO.Ninja.
You can try it out here: https://vdo.ninja/alpha/whip

WOOOOOOOO!
This didn't get a lot of attention since there are a lot of people not using kotlin, but I am so I found this very useful. Thank you.
In my experience, LaTeX has the advantage of being able to handle even very complex documents and books. LaTeX can be challenging to master, but in return it can produce amazing results. See some of the references below. In particular take a look at [4] (it's a 1200 page LaTeX document) and consider if it could be written in Markdown and Asciimath. The hundreds of graphics appearing in [4] are also produced by LaTeX--the document is the manual for pgf/TikZ a popular graphic package that is itself a set of LaTeX macros.

[1] https://uva-fnwi.github.io/LaTeX/week2/maths2/

[2] https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX/Advanced_Mathematics

[3] https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/397453/what-are-all-...

[4] https://pgf-tikz.github.io/pgf/pgfmanual.pdf
Yes, and no trademark policy in the world can make uttering the trademark a forbidden word that no one is ever allowed to say/write.
Do you have already some profiles online? It's nice to see how it looks with a live example.

Is there something special about soccer in the page? The logos of the team? Some automatic preloaded data? [Hi from Argentina!]

I don't understand why it's so difficult for agencies to keep an updated profile. They need to handle the legal paperwork, marketing contracts and other nasty stuff that really needs to be maintained carefully an up to date.
You can often get them to drop the cost if you say "if you're not going to match them I'll just book it on booking.com" because they'll get less income. That rather depends on the person you're talking to caring about the hotel's income though, so the larger they are the less likely it is.
fast.com was created by Netflix to show if your ISP was throttling Netflix traffic.

A lot of mobile services (at least in the US) offer "unlimited streaming" which is really just bandwidth-limited to offer SD-quality streams and offer "HD" (read: less-limited) streaming as a paid add-on.
Get Calyx. Unlimited data, no throttling service via T-Mobile. Grandfathered contract from Clearwire

https://members.calyxinstitute.org/enroll/membership

I've done nearly gigabit symmetrical over 5G with it before and several Terabytes in a month. No issues.
These are my favourite space stations, which I first found in a library in the 80's: https://bitrebels.com/geek/this-is-how-nasa-imagined-space-s...
If you are willing to do some DIY-ing, using finance-like encodings may be for you: See "Simple Binary Encoding" (https://www.fixtrading.org/standards/sbe/). The encoding scheme basically just uses structs with version numbering and IDs. There may be some Java code out there for SBE if you want to pull it off-the-shelf.
Seriously. Great comment.

Example: Food price inflation is not something one can choose to accept or reject, you have to eat regardless. When all the grocery stores and farmer's markets (and everything in between) all have relatively similar if not equal pricing on the most basics one needs (fresh veggies and fruit), there's no choice, not even an illusion of choice.

This article misses the point completely - we depend on our elected officials to rid us of inflation, but unfortunately they've become victim to regulatory capture, or worse - political pressure.

JPowell is a terrible central banker, regardless of what happens going forward. It's not all Biden's fault, either, no matter what the media wants anyone to think.
Only in the west. We do not value art or aesthetics; we defund it at every opportunity and now have computers generating approximations of art for consumption from our digital troughs.

We're androgynous blobs driving gray cars, eating reconstituted gray McMuck and scrolling through gray websites while living in our gray apartments and planned communities. Kids can't play outside; we paved the green spaces to put in more parking lots. Kids belong in their beige bedrooms anyway.

Japan might be to your liking. If you appreciate art, I highly recommend a visit if you need a reminder that creativity and artistic beauty are still alive (in spite of their own homogeneous culture!).
Yeah... I was just anticipating the opposite kind of responses: "we web debs would like to make things right but our bosses don't care and expect it to be made fast even if fat"
I rant about the 2.5-10 scale on every Booking thread. It's not totally fake but it's very deceptive.

When I had access to a large amount of rating data, the median rating on Booking was 8.1. If you can filter for business travelers (not sure if the UI allows this, but the data might still be in the page), that drops down to mid 7s.
The biggest failure of these LLMs it seems is the restricted context.

It would need the ability to contain infinite context to be genuinely useful in my opinion.
In what way you expect the capabilities of a hardware module to restrict the goals of a companies group?
We may have different ideas of "close."

What makes the Raspi special is a vast repository of documentation, a community of people offering support, and extremely well supported peripherals with tight integration. This is a lot of work to do well and to maintain.
The only part of the enclosure that is exposed PCB is the front plate, the rest is machined anodised aluminium - it feels great.

All of our products meet the REACH and RoHS requiements for restricted and hazardous materials.

TL;DR It's fine.
My wife had the same issue with Lyft. She was taking a ride home last year when they got hit from behind by a car that tried to drive around them and ended up hitting them. She gave a statement to Lyft support to make clear that the Lyft driver was not at fault. However when describing the driver who hit the Lyft she called him "young" - so Lyft support blocked her account for making discriminatory statements in violation of their community guidelines. We had to escalate that to the CEO because there was no avenue of appeal without an active account. They played back the audio of her conversation and afterwards did agree to restore her account, but cautioned that if she violated community guidelines again in 90 days she would be banned permanently! You can't make stuff like that up.
A few confounding factors. Cross-checking and citation left and an exercise to the reader:

Immigrants that get through the (metaphorical and literal) gauntlets to get into the US skew longevity via a Darwinian reading.

Staying to any traditional diet, working with what is in season, has health impacts.

Immigrants form communities out of necessity. Strong communities lead to longer lifespans and has a decrease on childhood deaths.

None of these confounding factors corrects for the race-as-class indicator. They simply have a mathematical effect of smearing the statistics.

There is a difference between wealth and class. Class implies wealth, not the other way around. Hence why many die in hospital, despite having wealth, due to their race implying class. This shorthand leads to many outcomes, including calibration of equipment problems that are masked by the race-implies-class effects.
I like how the wording suggests that they _do_ deactivate drivers' accounts due to _suspected_, not _actual_ fraud.
If I downvote a reply, will someone try to improve it?
DHH, founder of Ruby on Rails and Basecamp, drew a line between core values and A/B testing https://world.hey.com/dhh/we-don-t-a-b-test-core-values-91b5...

> This is the tyranny of easy metrics. It's easy to measure how much money is saved by preventing cancelations, it's much harder to measure how much long-term business is lost by poisoning your reputation with the 99.9% of customers who had to jump hoops and dodge sleazeballs to get out of the subscription. But the latter could well be orders of magnitude money more over the long run.
Hey, shameless plug. I actually wrote a language derived from AsciiMath trying to fix some of these. I use spaces heavily to derive intentions meaning you can write stuff like:

abc / def
f^ 2n

even matrices are straight forward:

[a, b, c
d, e, f]

https://runarberg.github.io/mathup/
The rejection case should only ever be executed for ranges that differ in more than one exponent. (This is handles by the cases above)

The generated exponent starts of at the max exponent of a and b, and is logarithmically decremented (I'm not sure if this is the correct word for it, but decremented until a coin flip hits tails, would be a better way to explain it).

So the exponent and the fraction range can't ever get really small, since there is always at least one exponent that accepts the full range of fractions.

Edit: Actually, looking at it again, the second special case doesn't apply to subnormals, so while generating in the range

float x = 2.3509886E-38f; // exp=00000001,frac=11111111111111111111111
float min = nextafterf(nextafterf(x, 0), 0);
float max = nextafterf(nextafterf(x, 1), 1);

works almost instantly (on average 4 iterations), the current code does indeed have a bottle neck for:

float x = 1.1754942E-38f; // exp=00000000,frac=11111111111111111111111
float min = nextafterf(nextafterf(x, 0), 0);
float max = nextafterf(nextafterf(x, 1), 1);

It's not insanely-minutes-long-stall-bad, but takes about 0.02 seconds to generate one number in the above range with a good prng (opposed to 2e-08 seconds for the first case)

I'll look into fixing this.

Edit 2: I've added a commited a comment about this for now. I wonder why my test suite didn't catch this.
I'm confused.

As an American consumer I thought I was suppose to spend money to fuel the economy. Now this article says I am ruining the economy by causing inflation and I should be selective about how I spend my money. This seems crazy, because if everyone gravitates to the few goods that are not experiencing inflation then the demand for those will cause a supply shortage which might lead to higher prices....

Virtually all food stuff, all transportation options, all housing options, all educational services, and all medical care has been hit hard by inflation over the last 3+ years. Is this bloomberg columnist asking that we just don't participate in those sectors of the economy?
NET just means "We can't do it before this date and time", no that we will be able to do it after that date and time due to unknown delays.

I fully believe that they will attempt tomorrow, but we'll see if any mechanical issues delay the actual launch.
It is the lingua franca for type setting mathematical formula. It doesn't make it good. ASCIImath is easier to write, and easier to read in plain text, for example in e-mails (/reddit/HN/fb/discord/whatever people use).

MathJax for example eats ASCIImath, I don't know if KaTeX can do that.
Also blame a litigious culture, where context can be used against you in a court of law.

It does need to be easier to give feedback without opening yourself up for a frivolous lawsuit.
What’s the best way to simulate this kind of network?
I think that motivation plays a great role.

"We are going to fly to Mars!" attract different kind of engineers than "We are going to eke out 5 per cent more growth for our shareholders!"

Most publicly traded corporations fall into the latter trap: find some cash cow and milk it endlessly so that the shareholders are happy, and screw any innovation.

Privately owned corporations such as SpaceX can afford "loftier" goals.
The "overthrow" of Yanukovych in 2014 was hardly by force. Yanukovych fled because his Parliament expressed no confidence in him, and because he didn't feel like dealing with some protests. It would be like Biden fleeing America because Congress condemned him and some Trump supporters with a few guns camped out in DC. More of an abdication than a coup.
> for some reason, AT&T traffic to fast.com is throttled. Why AT&T wants bandwidth to appear lower than reality is a mystery to me

My guess is that Netflix is throttled, and given that fast.com is a Netflix site, fast.com is throttled too.
The person I was responding to qualified with "* Or maybe a country with a very small population and a lot of unused land maybe which is a pretty small category."

But if you actually do the arithmetic, you will find that land constraints are not important for most countries. There's plenty of land for most countries to produce what they need (as long as they don't do something braindead like trying to burn biomass). Put it another way: the value of the energy generated per area of land is much greater than the value produced by other uses of the land, like agriculture or forestry, and no one claims those are infeasible.

I believe this wrong belief about renewables not being able to do the job came from the assumption that large amounts of biofuel would be needed (IIRC MacKay's "Sustainable Energy Without the Hot Air" made this mistake). The efficiency of sunlight => fuel from growth of biomass is very low.
I can't tell from the abstract, but I assume "attractiveness" often also correlates to things like confidence, some degree of good habits/taking care of themselves, etc.--any of which could easily correlate to some degree of career success. I'm guessing the correlation of winning the genetic lottery (specifically in terms of looks) with success is not true in academic careers to anything like the same degree it is in, say, acting. But it probably correlates to some degree--as well as with a lot of other factors that are more intuitively related.
> ”if we will ever get there.”

What do you mean with this?
There might never be a peak for something?

It doesn’t make much sense to me, so I read it as a flag that your position is more faith-based (or “hope-based” for a less loaded word) than fact-based. I could be wrong in this interpretation of course, so the initial question in my comment is a genuine one.
IMO it is worthwhile to see a spectacle. Helps many of us to really truly know and feel like we are alive.
This is basically what the author is referring to with GObject.