skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a SpaceX fan reading through the post-launch analysis, this was definitely more of a success than the headline applies, but 'massive' is a stretch. Most commentary I'm seeing put it at a C or B-. It's true that there was a number of areas where the risk is now retired, but three engines out at launch with three more dropping out along the way hints that their engine design still isn't as reliable as it needs to be, several years and several engine test campaigns later.

SpaceX doesn't have a test stand where they can static-fire the booster at full power or duration, which feels like an interesting gap in their usual 'hardware-rich, test-often' iterative approach. I'm betting we see something like that roll out soon.
I agree there are some Apples to oranges comparisons issues. For example, you would want to add pure R&D grants to the SpaceX total.

I don't follow your NASA example though. We know the NASA/government spend amount for the SLS (23.8 billion). We don't need to speculate on if there is double counting of government spend and contractor spend.
Ha, there is no music that eveyrone agrees is a masterpiece already. People will what their ears like regardless of someone's opinion of the "quality".

AI increasing the music in the world and lowering the bar to creation will mean it can both generate music specific to a few people's tastes and guaranteed top 100 hits in some regions. Much like many human artists can do today.
It’s not such a straightforward equation any more. As the article explains, electric cars can play tricks with the weight distribution that ICE vehicles can’t, and I would put a modern rwd with the latest traction assistance features above a FWD car from the early 2000s.

Snow tires makes more of a difference than being FWD or RWD in heavy conditions is the real truth here.
A hacker or hobbyist like me can almost always get away with rules and habits instead of real engineering. A longer form of this article, full of applicable advice and rules, is Howard Johnson’s “High-Speed Digital Design”.
The dichotomy isn’t that we either laud the amount of bad things happening or stamp out freedom with tyrannical government. That’s precisely the ludicrous “worse is better” model I was criticizing.

And I’m fairly aware of Popper. I largely share his views, particularly those in The Open Society and Its Enemies and The Logic of Scientific Discovery. I don’t think he would point to, for instance, high murder rates as an indicator of freedom in a society or a preponderance of pseudoscientific theories as an indicator of freedom in a scientific community.
also for fixing bugs in a chunk of code. at least, that has worked for me a couple of times. it can be frustrating if it's struggling, feels like you're stuck in a loop and it's hard to break out
I kinda wanted to try mastodon, but gave up at the part where I'd have to choose a server. I'm still postponing researching which server I should join. And, well, everybody except one or two people are still on twitter and I don't miss them very much.
Oh no I just meant wrapping them in an anchor pointing to the source, to be able to click and see full size, instead of right click and open image in new tab. A very, very minor thing.
>I don't know how true it is

It may be true on the margin, but Douyin is full of 'Key Opinion Leaders' who at best pay lip service to education and attainment. It's even worse on Kuaishou (Douyin for more rural areas). [0]

I always kind of bristle at the argument that this is somehow impacting what kids want too - PBS exists and spams their content as far and wide as possible, but US kids still end up preferring Cocomelon, Gabby's Doll House, etc.

There's no reason to believe that Chinese youth just take what's given to them when there are literally millions of random livestreams (hard to regulate livestreamed content at that level) going on at any given time.

As usual with China, what's likely going on is that someone is the CCP wants it to be true, so they 'make it true' and US media without local context takes it at face value.

[0]https://jingdaily.com/2022-top-six-chinese-kols-you-need-to-...
That would be an Autonomous Flight Termination System, which does exist (and is used on many newer rockets including Falcon 9) but I'd bet that a human pushed the button in this case.
What's wrong with cheering the name of the country which has allowed and fostered such a project to exist?
SpaceX Starship finally launches but blows up after take-off
Wait, I'm AFK so I can't check, but you can configure Bitwarden to generate pass-words instead of random strings??

I need to set that up then.
I wonder how quickly they can iterate?
Just because you say it doesn't make it true.

Dimensionality reduction is an extremely destructive operation. Losing even the wrong single vector component of an embedding is massively damaging to down stream performance.
Well they already had a 1 engine out capability on F9, so scaling that ratio to Starship would be 3.6 engines, so it may be that it was in tolerance.
Many cities now also have a 311 service as a kind of non-emergency municipal call center for things like paying parking tickets or reporting potholes. My favorite use of this was in the early 2000s when it was used to trace the source of the mysterious "maple syrup events" in New York. People were encouraged to call 311 the moment they smelled the maple syrup odor and give the operator their location. By plotting the times and locations, they were able to trace it to a factory in New Jersey that was making artificial maple syrup flavoring from fenugreek seeds: https://web.archive.org/web/20190208102307/http://gothamist....
yes, and with an e-cash layer: https://github.com/cashubtc/cashu
I disagree. SLS is hard-limited to a small total number of launches. Starship is going to get into the hundreds soon enough. By that point Starship will legitimately be safer and more reliable than SLS will ever be able to accomplish, so I'd pick it.
> leftist liberal

That's an oxymoron.
If you've got a TPM to leverage, this is essentially actually what systemd-cryptenroll --tpm2* does. Generate a large, cryptographically-secure key and pair it with PBKDF2 with 1000 iterations. Seal that random value in the TPM with optional PIN.

If used, the PIN itself can just be your prior disk encryption passphrase, and now you have the same PW entropy as before with additional protection against PCR modifications and brute-forcing via the TPM
"I'm a completely leftist liberal, therefore I don't have any particular paranoia about China" is a type error. China is an autocracy, with a track record of doing things that warrant paranoia.

I don't really care what you mean by leftist, but you definitely cannot claim to be a liberal and have no "paranoia" about China.
Please consider that choice. It's bad for everybody if they can de-facto ban the protocol through progressive stigmatisation.
Ok could we maybe get a second opinion?
The plan was a range.

On one end of the spectrum, Starship detonates on the pad and they have learned very little and have a year of work to do rebuilding the pad.

On the other end of the spectrum, everything works flawlessly and Starship survives re-entry and smacks into the ocean off of Hawaii.

They achieved a result in the middle. Neither total failure nor total success, and well within their stated expectations for this attempt.
Or one could say that SpaceX has basically the same tolerance for failure as the traditional rocket companies had back in the 50s and 60s when they too were first learning to build rockets. That pre-launch "tolerance" is basically zero, with every post-launch failure being investigated as a mistake to be corrected rather than an acceptable cost of doing business.
I think I saw at least one in flight engine relight. If true that's a capability I haven't heard about before.
To be honest, I'm happy any money is going towards actual healthcare research instead of lining the pockets of vultures.
Here's a video of Elon explaining the Raptor engine design, and comparing Raptor 1 and Raptor 2 (Raptor 2 is much simpler): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7MQb9Y4FAE
Brazilian healthcare isn't cheap either. It's just incredibly corrupt and eternally dependent on political will for funding. In the middle of the pandemic politicians got caught overpricing items like respirators and pocketing the difference. In the middle of the pandemic with everyone's eyes on them. Imagine the corruption that goes on in a normal day.
If you read Phikal, you will see some not-great comments on Sasha's treatment of his first wife.
The idea of a class encapsulating functionality and traits is definitely at odds with PFP. PFP would prefer free functions, after all.

However, a Data Class without mutability and without functionality (besides accessors) is in-line with PFP.

Like I said, most modern systems are hybrids - taking the best of all paradigms instead of aligning with a singular paradigm as was done in the past.
I use it for similar stuff all the time. Yesterday I had a csv full of multi-word hashtags with no spaces between the words. I needed to split them all into separate words, add spaces, and remove the #. It would have been pain to write code to reliably add spaces, especially because many of the hashtags contained non-standard words and abbreviations, but GPT-4 handled it no problem. Saved me hours.
Yeah, that's why you engineer, and test before trying to launch something like that.
There won't be any other attempt this year - I can bet my lunch money on this.
That view seems extremely inconsistent to me, and not defensible at all.

On one hand, you have an authoritarian one-party government (only one less party than the US :P), where you put trade sanctions on basically consumer goods, while you actually supply weapon systems to an ABSOLUTE MONARCHY in Saudi Arabia?!

It seems rather clear to me that "defense of democratic values" is absolutely not the primary motivation, but basically jealousy, and China IS a potential geopolitical (future?) rival, while the corrupt, murderous kleptocracts in Arabia are a convenient fuel provider and vassal.

I'm not saying US foreign policy is WRONG-- just don't lie to yourself and others about its motivations...
I disagree, I think it's an awesome sentiment to want to get out of the way of women pioneering advances in space flight.
> but a surprising amount of content about inequality and injustices

Is it inequality and injustice. where pointing it out. would actually threaten the power of the CCP?

When I started reading Chinese language media I was surprised how much apparent criticism there is -- but if you read carefully, anything approved in the PRC is always criticism of individuals, or maybe corporations, more rarely a local government, doing something that's already supposed to be officially prohibited, or which is not too sensitive, and never criticizes core official policy or high-ranking CCP members.

Which is how you can have anti-corruption, anti-sex scandal, anti-pollution news commentary, or even protests and marches, in China. But should official permission to disagree be withdrawn, the topic can very quickly become taboo. A couple years ago there was ongoing discussion in Chinese media about same-sex marriage and a member of the Yuan even introduced a bill to make same-sex marriage legal in China. Voted down. But an acceptable topic to discuss, not officially taboo. I suspect that has changed recently, with the campaign against the apparent feminization of Chinese men and now explicitly linking LGBT rights with the Western agenda. That shift, as I understand it, comes directly from Xi.
if your load balancer holds on to each received request until a downstream server happens to pull that request and process it, then it's not a load balancer, it's a queue

different concept, different semantics, different results
That would be fantastic compared to what we've got. You should look up what are today called "The Anti-Federalist Papers"; I'm quite sure they are on the internet and they argue this better than I possibly could, albeit from the a priori position.
No such thing as bad publicity, I take it?
> fantastic general-purpose automation tool

It is not though. It's a barely passable automation tool that's just slightly better than bash as a tool runner.
The lack of a bad feature is also a feature. Firefox is great precisely because it doesn't have this cruft.
BuzzFeed News is shutting down
Murder rates have been going down in all developed nations, regardless of the gun ownership statistics.

Even being gun regulation advocate, I cannot accept the premise that banning guns will do much to reduce murder rates.
There is absolutely nothing condescending about that statement
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We really ought to update Napoleon’s quote about malice and stupidity to something like “never attribute to moral preening that which can be explained by financial incentives”
Look at all the Martian rovers. That is a notoriously hard environment to operate in, so success has often been defined as "the rover functions for at least 30 days". And then some rovers ended up working for over a decade. That doesn't mean that every rover that didn't last an entire decade was a failure though! It just means that, regardless of whether you hit your main goal, if you still have something working left over at that point, of course you keep using it.

The main goal here was to clear the pad and get some atmospheric experience with the entire stack. Goal met. But of course they had contingency plans to get as much more experience with it as possible, if things continued to function nominally (as they have with some rovers, or indeed some previous first SpaceX test flights, like the Falcon Heavy).
This isn't what the commentators are referring to when they talk about "the flip".

Rockets traditionally have some type of separation mechanism to separate stage 1 and stage 2. This is usually some type of pyro charge or an actual pneumatic pusher. SpaceX wants to avoid this complexity with Starship and instead "throw" off stage 2 (Starship) by doing a flip with the booster. I don't believe it's been done before for stage separation, but this is also how they deploy Starlink satellites. [0]

Obviously, something went wrong in stage separation today so Booster+Starship just continually flipped. We don't know exactly what the true flip will look like.

[0]: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1630394434847227909?lang...
Quite a lot of assumptions you make on my behalf. It would be nice if you could refrained from doing that in the future.

What are you even hoping to achieve with that post? Your experiences may be very different from mine, and that is just fine, but there is no reason to be rude about it.
Ok, so 4000 dead soldiers makes a one-year war "endless." I understand completely.
I'm an engineer. My second opinion is that Elon is a better engineer than me.
European media is obsessed with the US and you can quickly tell by talking to anyone from there. If our media covered to the same degree the French torching their cities because they don't want to work, you'd think WW3 is starting.
I can't pay my accountant, utility bills or my property taxes with Bitcoin though. At some point that money needs to be converted to fiat which means I still need a commercial account. And to maintain a commercial account in current year, "Know Your Customer" regulations force the bank to ask you an insane amount of details about your business activities and cash flow.

Even if they didn't, bringing in $120k / year into the account from a crypto exchange would raise a lot of questions and that, in and of itself, would likely get branded "high risk" by the bank since there is a perception that 100% of Bitcoin activity is money laundering.
Which is rightly, awesome... They just launched an 11 million pound firecracker....

It would be AWESOME if elon included actual fireworks which would go off in the event of a RUD to add some fabulousness to such events.

In fact, all the devices that are stripped out for these test launches should be replaced with their equivalent weights in fireworks. Detonate them when possible during a RUD to allow for more spectacle!
All 3 things which are demonstrably false, but the american empire seems determined to continue to shoot itself in the foot
OK -- now I am more confused. Selection is a sieve that "selects" the "best fit" which, in the long run, brings modification. Epigenetics is just the manifestation of gene expression under different environmental conditions. Still, in the final overview, it is the genes that are passed on to the offspring. What else is there to inherit?
Living in an area with high crime rate does not necessarily reflect person's life choices.
I've recently had to debug LLVM cmake on Windows, with a good dose of .bat scripting. That was truly hell on Earth.
Well I was going off what the above parent comment was saying, that recent advances in compression + cheaper hosting should make it more viable. I don't know much about what any of those costs cause I've never run anything that needs a lot of serving costs at scale. So I'm guessing even with that it's still too expensive?

On the other hand, I think Imgur also pushed way more traffic upon itself by trying to make itself into another social media site. Like, if it just stayed an image host it probably could have stayed more niche and wouldn't have had thousands of casual internet users scrolling through images all day at work.
> mullvad has time and again shown itself to be one of if not the best actors in the entire vpn space, but you still have no real way of knowing if they are being honest.

There are parallels to the now-defunct Crypto AG. Impeccable reputation, but no way of independently verifying it it did what it said on the can. It took decades for the truth about its links to the CIA to come out.
You should read that too, as you've broken several of those rules. In fact this very comment pointing people to the rules is itself violating several of them.
I found it really helpful for porting an extension I'd written for Atom (now unsupported/defunct) to VS Code.

Now, if I were writing VS Code extensions on a daily basis, I'd want to spend the time to learn all the details, but (ideally) I'll never have to write one again. This is the only one I ever had to write for Atom, so it's a decent bet.

And yeah, most of the code was boilerplate-- but still ChatGPT saved me from having to learn how to write that boilerplate. At least a day of time, I'd reckon. Possibly several days.

The task was to recognize the Scheme expression (atom or pair) preceding the current caret position, sign it using a password hash, send it to a remote Scheme REPL for evaluation, then insert and select the result of the evaluation in the editor.

ChatGPT essentially wrote everything for me, except the part that parsed out the Scheme expression. It wrote a really horrible regex for that. Fortunately I already had a proper parser implemented in the previous Atom extension, which dropped right in.
Tbf, even before launch, no-one expected a full trip. The 'baseline' was lift-off and the rest was upside [0]

Sometimes in aerospace you need to collect data, and sometimes that means explosions.

[0] https://www.space.com/spacex-starship-first-space-launch#:~:....
This is confusing to me as Chrome deprecated "apps" in 2020 (https://blog.chromium.org/2020/01/moving-forward-from-chrome...) in favor of extensions, is this somehow different from the extension install experience?
It's only concerning from a leadership point of view. If you know employees are not working for a month. Fire them. Obviously the company is moving along fine without their efforts. Why have them login when there's nothing for them to do?
At work we have hundreds of Alix/APUs in the field and they have been great, very low hardware failure rate (occasionally a NIC going bad). We will probably make a final order to carry us through and then it's back to the drawing board.

I also have fond memories of my personal Soekris box running m0n0wall in the early 2000s (I think back then pfSense was more bloated/slow on limited hardware). My experience with that setup was definitely what made me consider the PC Engines equipment for work.

Similarly I have also switched to Ubiquiti for home use.
> The lies spread by Fox News were only believed by the people who already wanted to believe it.

If that's the case, why are they forking out $700m, the largest non-class action settlement in history?
Can you remember any examples of the games?
The lie can cause harm. Your logic is flawed. It's as saying as telling a captain telling a soldier to kill a child is harmless. Because it's only information,and information is harmless. The cause of the cause is a cause.
1.1 trillion tokens for 2B parameters, which is a very unique config.
> That's not an actual algebraic definition in the same way you can express a peano successor function for say, all natural numbers.

I guess it's not clear to me how you define an "actual algebraic definition" of a function.

Can you provide a formal definition for this? Like some rules that I could use to determine whether a function is algebraically defined.

I think it'll clear up whatever misunderstanding I seem to have.
A few years back someone posted this comment about the imgur “community” which I thought was apt:

“They are like rats living in a sewer. They feed off of the shit that gets pumped through it but have no concept of the fact that it’s simply a piece of infrastructure for a large city above them.”
This is a chatbot model you can run on your own computer with a powerful graphics card. It is not as good as GPT-4 but it has not been "locked down" the way GPT-4 is and can be asked to do things GPT-4 would refuse to do.
Completely agree. I've worked in "old space" and the fundamental problem is that they can't afford to experiment. SpaceX has the option to physically test an idea that's holding them up before investing in fully bringing it up to production quality, only to have to redo all that work next iteration. That's why they can make new things and do it cheaper and faster.
Would be a shame if those hard drives failed accidentally on a regular basis.

In unrelated news, Seagate stock rises to record high...
Yeah, it only takes a small hallucination to delete emails instead of copy them
I do some work in ocaml where state machines are popular I think because of how cleanly they map onto the language constructs. One common approach is the elm-ish move of having the machine fn return a pair of (new state, action). Then you have an intermediate fn run the side effects, but you can implement that somewhere else and mostly pretend it's not there. React reducers are kind of like this too.

When doing this though like you said you always either find there are more states than you initially thought, or you end up having pseudostates only for their effects. I pretty much only reach for state machines when I know the inputs will never change and I'll never have to modify the implementation. Even in a language almost perfectly suited for them they are hard to understand once they're doing all the edge cases and side effects and edge cases of the side effects and error handling etc etc.
Heavy/Starship design process is poor? Can you expand on that?
In August of 2022, Visa was facing a lawsuit that alleged they were assisting PornHub of profiting off of child porn [0].

This likely caused the card companies, as well as affiliated banks, to re-evaluate their customers and get any adult site off, including the user at the top of this comment thread.

Was his site allowing user-generated content? No. Was he at risk of facilitating child porn? Also no. Would the banks and card companies be willing to research that and make exceptions for a single account? Unlikely.

[0] https://www.pcmag.com/news/visa-to-stop-processing-payments-...