skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Exactly how does a judge in a civil case force a company to settle a 2.6 billion dollar lawsuit for a 3rd?
You're stating an absolute impossibility for point to point rockets, but offer no reasons for your claim. I well remember rocket experts explaining why reuse of first stage boosters couldn't work. That it had been tried a bunch of times and you wound up reusing but without being able to contribute to the payload.

Then Elon made an insane sounding suicide slam burn. And he made that reuse routine.

Now to your claim. Elon's "fantasy" is that a rocket launch and turnaround can be made on relatively similar economics to airplane launches. If so, the cost of launch is $1 million, not $2 million. And so charging $2 million is adding headroom for things like accidents, depreciation and profit margins. It is ambitious to be sure. But based on the materials cost, this doesn't look like a fantasy.
That's exactly the point I'm making. Justice should be blind but future no show jobs at Seagate vs Fox News, we can see it's not.
Is gold hidden under a California peak? This treasure map says so
The Makefile structure is the real king - the simple idea of targets, dependencies and using the plain old shell is very powerful and quite easy to understand (until you get into some of the recursive, iterative bits at least). Very useful if you have custom CLIs and multiple languages in your repo too.
Cloud only now. Non-starter.
Most tech companies post 2000 are marketing companies in disguise, whose only goal is to enshitify products in service of recurring revenue and spy on users to harvest data.

They might have a public statement of “improving the world”, but this is usually a brazen attempt to hide their actual goals.
No place for people who's gonna cry using chatgpt,
we use it for our own sake ;)
I love this video
The way I'm hearing it was not a failure but an unbelievable smashing success. No one expected the rocket to get to the launchpad, much less off of it. The second stage was not expected to be reached at all, it's cool that they even tried. Greatest test launch of all time. From what I've read this morning if the test flight had worked all the way it would be like man on moon levels of good.
i really hope its passphrase generation is on par with bitwarden. I'm not going back to a nonsense password generator, i hate typing these into other devices. Give me CorrectB4tteryStapleHorse! or no deal.

edit: i really like that they leverate simple login, that might be a reason to switch.
So, if I understand correctly, Loeb just published research[a] which, according to him, shows there are significant calculation errors in a paper published by Nature, widely covered by mainstream media. That paper claims that Oumuamua can be explained as a natural object made of water ice, partly dissociated into hydrogen by cosmic-rays in interstellar space. Loeb's new research eliminates the only previously accepted explanation of Oumuamua as a natural object.

When Loeb informed a journalist of the calculation errors, the journalist explained that the media outlet for which he works would not post a correction in order "not to confuse the readers."

Wow. What happened to the search for truth?

[a] https://lweb.cfa.harvard.edu/~loeb/Hoang_Loeb_23.pdf
Love the name Lunatik.

I was just playing with HolyC the other day, and how it can not only script, but update, the running OS, TempleOS.

The idea of XDPLua replacing NFLua sounds like a more powerful way to filter network traffic per this link:

https://legacy.netdevconf.info/0x14/session.html?talk-linux-...
Great idea thanks! That's what I'll be working on next, creating fixed routines besides the daily one for people to do in various situations/with different objectives.
How do I protect my toddler from all the criminals who keep their guns? Call the police and wait 15 minutes?
Launching rockets is very hard, clearly, and this one is quite big.

At this point, I don't believe Elon Musk words, I think the guy is not "fully there", unfortunately, I've heard too much bullshit.

I also think that some of the best rocket engineers on the planet are working at SpaceX and that they could achieve their mission, but I'll fully believe it when it is done.

I hope that Elon ego will not ruin this.
Ask HN: Why software such as Salesforce and Jira are successful marketwise?
I yet to find a good implementation of salesforce or jira. I know there are alternatives but why are these products so prevalent?
No. To me the entire generative AI play is all part of a repetitive cycle. First people are apt to believe anything and get burned in a bubble. Then they are skeptical of everything and get left out of the next actual sea change. Then a new development comes along and they are trained to believe it will turn into a sea change also.

I'm saying this because so many people who don't seem to have a great track record of being of the forefront of sea changes are making all sorts of wild predictions about what this will bring. Many also seem to want to believe others will get caught up in a bubble and looking for opportunities to exploit that for personal gain.

I realize this is a bit of a rant but it's the lens I've come to view it through based on personal experience. Generative AI seems to be the first useable case for AI but the holy grail- full automation and predictive capabilities still seem quite a ways off because they are much harder problems to solve.
SpaceX has taken 21 years to get to this point. They have not failed fast. They have seen a long series of huge successes from doing some incredible engineering. Today's test is a small part of that journey.
Perhaps you mean, "Thanks Gwynne Shotwell."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gwynne_Shotwell

I think HN understands the difference between a charismatic leader who is good at laying out a vision and generating a tremendous amount of hype around it (like Steve Jobs) and someone who is an expert at actually realizing a vision (Steve Wozniak, Tim Cook).

They may both be necessary for success, but if you are praising the rocket's engineering, you're praising the person who works tirelessly to manifest the vision.
To your first question, I am. And higher quality, not just quantity.

As far as code, it's admittedly not the main part of my job and not my biggest strength, so yeah I need the help. I ask it to solve small problems, not write the entire thing.

For my writing, most recently I used it to incorporate social pressure into membership emails (peer influence and social proof).

On your last point, my first job in politics was creating the MySpace theme for a party committee; I used to create stuff in Flash; most of the toolsets I've used for my work no longer exist. The list of useless skills I possess is endless and my useless skills are way above 90%. You just have to learn new stuff and it's fine.
The people who say that are usually talking about designing a landing page that doesn't get enough signups or something.

You can really tell if a company has a culture of embracing failure if they're cool with you blowing up a spaceship.
Perhaps true, and completely irrelevant.

The question under discussion was, could the government put pressure on Dominion to drop the suit. Well, who would put that pressure on? Not the judicial branch.
Not remotely the same as digital marketing companies that do their work creating ad campaigns for clients. Google and FB are ad platforms whose primary products are software.
It’s smart PR. Most the public audience won’t realize how each of these steps is a huge success in of itself.
Ok but this isn't really true. The country with the most anti-depressant intake is Iceland, the US is around second or third place, yet the other countries in the "top ten" of antidepressant usage per capita are almost all european nations. The USA isn't an outlier, but I guess we really can't escape the "do americans really, really do X?" even when it is trivially easy to verify.

The funny thing is that the reason Americans know the names of their medications is almost the exact same reason people seem to think the USA are always some sort of outlier; they hear about it more in the media! Branding for drugs is much more emphasized in the US.
Awesome! Let me know what you think
That's why people use(and abuse) all kinds of substances.

It's just your social acceptance of a certain substance is deemed "acceptable"(alcohol), while others are deemed "bad"(THC).
Nice to read your journey. Glad you found a way through.

I had a similar experience to the first half of your story. Was so unfulfilled in tech that I ended up quitting and took time off not working, trying lots of different things, getting very frustrated and depressed along the way.

I did try LSD (ok, a lot of LSD) and instead of it helping me process/sort through/integrate some of my troubles it added new ones and created recurring intrusive thoughts. Overall, bad experience & wish I didn't do that.

After ~2y outside of full time employment (i did some contract work eventually), I found myself more depressed than when I left. I had tried a lot of things (hobbies for joy, tech in non-FTE ways, entrepreneurship, travel, classes, intimate relationships..) but found no grander meaning or goals at the end of it, just some isolated interesting experiences (some were peak positive, others a pit). So back to tech. I don't love it, but having an external demand of me was sufficient to lift me out of the pit of despair i was in.
That’s the message they choose to use externally. I would guess they had somewhat higher hopes internally, and would have been at least somewhat disappointed if it had exploded just after clearing the launch pad.

Whether they’re truly happy with this result probably will depend on their analysis of what went wrong.

If they can find the cause and it’s easy to fix, they’ll be a lot happier than when they can’t figure out what went wrong, or when they can figure it out, but preventing it requires a huge redesign.

But yes, this is the nature of rocket building. Things do get boom fairly easily.
Oh, I was the OP you are responding to. I don't like the words "manufacturing consent" to refer to astroturfing, mostly because of the link to sexual consent, but also because they lack precision (Chomsky's book talks a lot more about propaganda as a tool of "top-down" media rather than "bottom-up" media). A lot of other people who talk about the phenomenon also use "consensus" instead of "consent" when referring to specifically using social media this way.

See also: https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300251234/manufacturing-...
>My complaint should probably be towards the company though and not the parent.

Yes, it should. Don't put responsibility on people you know won't fulfill it. The fact people even entertain the idea of not putting the blame on bosses for this is ridiculous.

Surely all the time spent making everyone homogenous and replaceable would infer otherwise.
RUD is an "industry term" :)
https://space.stackexchange.com/questions/10022/who-coined-t...
I like how this video points out that this CEO serves on the boards of several other companies and organizations while claiming to be "all in" and fully committed to Clearlink.

So children and dogs are a distraction for the rank and file that's unfair to the company, but being on a bunch of boards and committees is fine and cool for executives. Pretty obvious what "good" and "bad" mean here - "good" is anything that makes the CEO more money, "bad" is anything that is the opposite. Classic "mask off" moment.
Adding to this, eyeball squishing. [1]

[1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29539050
Why did it get such a low score despite enabling arbitrary code execution?
- "Agile rocket building"

Waterfall of propellant-falling
CoreWeave, a GPU-focused cloud compute provider, lands $221M investment
No, it won't.

It is obvious that every new rocket that was built from ground up will fail a few times before it is released.

This is not a "production build". And you don't need to explain anything when your "test build" fails, it is obvious some will.
There'd probably be more wrenches and less fire involved for one thing. In the near-term it would also likely be done on the ground.
`make`. Like half of all its options are for tracing, debugging and outputting internal information.
Your forgot to mention one more possible case: it is not science because of some political reasons.
If it had actually been in retaliation they'd left with the severs no matter if they contained anything of value, as with pirate bay
> “I challenge any one of you to outwork me, but you won’t,”

Maybe he has to work so much because he's incredibly inefficient.
I think the comment was made under the assumption the user lives in a place with a reasonably fair legal system. Of course all bets are off if you don't.
I suspect they'll install a larger water inundation system before the next launch of Superheavy seeing how as debris seems to have damaged a number of the first stage engines. Maybe a flame tunnel as well but at least something to keep the sound pressure and heat from breaking up the concrete under the launch platform which sets free debris which in its turn causes damage to the rocket and the launch facilities.
Another solid alternative to htmx is unpoly (https://unpoly.com/) and there's an exhaustive writeup on how to use unpoly with django as well here https://www.spapas.net/2023/04/04/using-unpoly-with-django/
An opinion piece does not good journalism make. That would be like a someone citing Sean Hannity show as a source.
I'm sorry to be pulled into commenting on a Great Culture War issue in a space thread, but this is really unfair framing.

When someone, or a group refuses to ban something, that doesn't mean they support it.

Just because the United States allows literal Nazis to speak about anything they want does not mean the United States supports Nazis, or is anti-Semitic.

The exact same principle is true of Twitter. If you allow people to post anti-trans rhetoric, that does not in any way mean you are anti-trans.
I work in devops, and while chat gpt can write some starting terraform code or suggest aws architecture to some degree, the reality is my job is more about figuring out all the hairy details and how to smooth them out or add to them, in an existing world with a domain knowledge required.

Chatgpt isn't even remotely useful for the money making part of my work. If all I did was write boilerplate pipelines I'd be worth diddly squat.
Just an aside but wheat grain lasts basically forever so it's not exactly rotting.
>rocket stayed attached to launchpad for a long time up to 7 seconds (time to light up all engines?)

This is the expected behavior. Engine lighting occurs in 3 stages and takes 6-8 seconds to complete.
I've been watching freevms since about 2002, and in 20 years it's still not as usable as linux was when I started using it - in late 1992.
I imagine to some degree it helped, I mean no one wants to be a part of an empty community right?

Keeping "fresh" torrents on the front page probably mattered more, at least it would have to me as a user.
I think it does speed up learning a new language(programming) or library. It's not perfect but it's a good companion to a tutorial. or next step past a basic tutorial.

especially sample code. I created a script to connect to my email address and pull down my emails. connect to HN and pull done articles to put in sqlite.

really quick features, not because it's complicated but because it's tedious.
I don’t see how comparing civil and criminal enforcement here is remotely apples to apples, and it’s not clear your arguments follow one another.

If you believe that the penalty for Seagate is too low, lobby the government for stricter penalties (most politicians should be receptive, I’d have thought).

If you believe the settlement for Fox is too high, ask their lawyers why they went for it.
I mean sure. Companies can do PR, I don't really have a problem with it. And it was a technical success, I'm sure. I just think it seemed staged.
Your anecdotal story is kind of bullshit though. More than half the people I currently work with have children and their performance is similar to the ones who don't. I'm sure that one case was annoying for you, but your sample size is garbage.
Yup, if they hadn't terminated it, surely they'd have just waited until they entered a less dense part of the atmosphere, stabilized, and continued the flight. Just with some delta-v lost. And if that wouldn't have worked, they could have just throttled the engine up when pointy end up, and down when pointy end down, waited until exiting the atmosphere, and then time warp to stabilize.
I've been remote for over 10 years, so pre-pandemic, and I'll never understand why they need software engineers, specifically, in an office.

Every single thing I do is logged and timestamped. Every line of code I check in, every PR request I approve, every work item that I close, every time I log into a server, every email, chatting in groups on Slack/Teams, etc.

They can never accuse me of slacking off, because it's all right there. They can easily see what I've been up to all day down to the millisecond.

I don't understand the accusations of people "quiet quitting" who aren't even logging in. If that's true then they should obviously be fired. I get my work done more efficiently working remote, without the distractions. And I can work when I feel the most productive.
> "Success was defined as the rocket leaving the launchpad."

I am confused. Everything I read before the launch said that it was intended to reach orbital altitude and make it around the Earth.
It isn't fake, it is just created by another user.

I personally have multiple accounts on multiple sites.

None of them are fake, all are well behaved I think, but there are some things that are best said with an account linked to my name and some things that are not a problem to discuss pseudonymously that could create major hassle for someone if it was connected to a name.
Cape York Meteorite
According to https://www.metaculus.com/questions/14270/spacex-starship-or... its chances to reach orbit in 2023 have just risen from 85% to 90%. Therefore generally I would call the launch a relative success.
Not my experience.

You can have someone with cancer openly talk about it, but any psychological issue is treated like it's your own personal fault.
Not the technology itself maybe, but it does seems relevant to state of the business environment to point out this fraud was performed largely by using a service created for practically this use case. Sure, they could have made up the interview from scratch, but this company obviously provided at least a valuable facilitation, and arguably the AI hype is the reason anyone bothered with executing the idea in the first place.

Character.ai claiming they didn't want this sort of stuff is like early youtube insisting they didn't want people to upload clips from the Simpsons.
Based on the feed there was either some gas or debris flying around in the section between the two stages. At that altitude I don't think it could've been air.
You're thinking about this like an engineer rather than a PR consultant or a journalist looking to write a hit piece on Musk.

Even now, it's not hard to ask the somewhat specious question of how we can be 70+ years into aerospace tech and we still need our rockets to blow up.
RUD is more of a joke term than doublespeak. Like FUBAR and SNAFU.
"For centuries, Inuit living near the meteorites used them as a source of metal for tools and harpoons."
It would be absolutely reckless for SpaceX to not blow up rockets. How could they credibly claim to know the limits and abilities of their spacecrafts if they did not test those limits to the breaking point?
That does not appear to be factual: https://www.riksdagen.se/sv/dokument-lagar/dokument/svensk-f...
> That's enough without meaningless comparisons.

The comparison is far from meaningless. If penalties have no sting, they have no deterrent value. Did you object the particular mega-company comp? If so, pleas feel free to insert your own.
More likely, holddowns on the pad until everything was stabilized. Probably takes a few seconds to vector/throttle the other engines to compensate for the lost ones.

E: convery's reply below makes much more sense.
> Proton makes open-source alternatives to big tech spyware

Can you link to the open-source repository for this password manager?
Hey, congrats on this project which, as you say, has been a big part of your life. I can really emphasise with that, having run (and shut down) a couple of larger projects previously that were used by a great many people. It's tough to let go sometimes!

Kudos to you for bringing something into the world that did something meaningful. Not to mention all the tangential benefits you mention like learning SEO, hosting, and so on. As good as a degree but without all the drinking.
If I click a link to it, it redirects to the full website. If I go to it directly (or curl it), I get the actual image. Might be referrer-based?
Starship achieves liftoff, but fails to stick the landing.
I never claimed mine was a study. Just an observation. No need for a hostile response like yours.
Indeed, and it's a fine line between "the cost of doing business" and ruining a large company over the decisions by a few people. Would probably have been better to go after the people at the top than fining the company..
This is hardly the first image host that dies. Is there any way to sustainabley fund long term sleek non-ad-infested image hosting? There are some that are donation-funded (e.g. https://abload.de/spenden_en.php) but I don't know how sustainable that is once the service becomes popular enough that commercial usrs might end up using it as free image storage.

Another option is of course to have many smaller hosts, down to personal sites at the extreme. But that only changes the loss from shutdowns from big events to a steady stream of entropy. We really need a much more expanded Internet Archvie that can serve content at reasonable speeds along with browser and forum plugins to automatically redirect old linnks there.
Thanks for saying this. Can people chill the fuck out and appreciate the world around them anymore? This was the largest rocket launch _ever_ from an American _private_ company using a novel launch configuration in the first fully integrated test _ever_ and people are complaining !?!?!?

This makes me proud to be American, proud to be an engineer, and just stoked to be human. Let's show some humility and graciousness, people!
This might be true (and I agree!) - but there are plenty of forms of sociopathy that are not bullshitting and “faking it until you (maybe) make it”.
my productivity has increased tremendously with chatgpt

For example, I was getting an error that a method x was missing on var of type MyObject. In debugging mode I could see that they type was MyObject and the attribute x was there. I paste the small snippet of code and the error and chapgpt immediately identified that the method call was actually returning a collection. I just didnt notice that the variable was a collection of type MyObject and not an actual MyObject.

When Im looking at other people's code I can paste it in and chatgpt will give an opinion on what is happening with the code.

I was creating UI components from scratch the other day and needed a word wrapping algorithm. ChatGPT was able to write one that didnt quite work, but was most of the way there.

When I looking at unfamiliar APIs it is much faster to ask chatgpt than to do google searches.

Even for things like how many police officers did austin have in 2008 are much faster with chatgpt. Ill ask for the reference (always broken) but enough of the reference is correct that I can google and get to the reference.

Lately chat gpt has been disconnecting forcing me to reconnect if I go idle for more than about 5 minutes, that has been annoying.
N1: 30 engines working next to each other instead of big engines. Starship: 33 engines working next to each other. There might be some details, but concept and idea are same.
This was absolutely wonderful ... A perfect way to start my day