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I am childfree and 15 years into my career.

Over that time span almost everyone I worked with closely has had children. And for the life of me, I cannot think of one instance where it affected their overall productivity.

If anything, kids tend to be a stabilizing influence. I much prefer working with the person who is AFK every day from 3:00-4:00PM because he is picking up his kids versus the person who drops offline at 3:00PM randomly because they scored some concert ticket and the venue is 2.5 hours away.

Your org sounds different from mine though. It sounds like immediate responses to short notice requests are very important. Maybe folks are getting rewarded for heroics and not for planning and proactive communications? That is not an atmosphere that is conducive to parenting. Or anything else, really.
If they scan the stamp's code at time of purchase, and associate it with your debit card, that'd be an obvious way of tracking you.

If they don't do that, if they meet the stamp along the letter's journey, they can scan the code and check which batch it's from, and there could be a database of which post office got which batch, and then it's a matter of checking that post office's purchases/security cameras.

If all stamps are indistinguishable from each other, then you could've bought the stamp months ago on the Isle of Skye and used it in London, they wouldn't be able to tell the difference.
I think it goes something like this:

If your worried about anything in a 40 day window the credit card <-> account_id is a liability

Amazon doesn’t know the redemption code on the gift card. So Amazon knows that you purchased a Mullvad gift card, but can’t associate the transaction with a Mullvad account. Likewise Mullvad knows service was paid for with a gift card (possibly that the gift card is from a lot sold on Amazon). But they do not know which Amazon transaction the card is associated with.

Unless your behavior and the behavior of others deanonymizes the Amazon purchase <-> redemption your account should be indistinguishable from any other that purchased a Mullvad gift card from Amazon in that window of time.
Ask HN: Private iPad Note Taking App?
On iPad, with an Apple Pencil, you can take handwritten notes. But how do you share them with your windows or Mac desktop? Which apps have reasonable privacy policies? Is there anything encrypted like standard notes?

Are your notes useless if you sell your iPad, or like, how do you use them without one?

The privacy policies of the note apps in particular have been scary to read
> It's a shame that we are no longer doing that.

"We" have built a lot of spaceships since then but they simply went higher up than "just" 100km, so don't show up in the OP.
That only matters after you’ve gone operational though. The difference here isn’t risk appetite for operational launches, it’s risk appetite for test launches. SpaceX expects to do many, many more test launches than SLS, in fact counting Starship upper stage launches they’re already well ahead.
discusses the foundation model landscape, how they at nvidia decide to train models (or not), operating model at nvidia, durability of transformers, the h100 chip, what’s next
I think an American comedian said this and it become a meme repeated by the right wing us media. The comedian has said it’s BS.
Life is not a zero sum game. Clearly Elon and Gwynne work very well together and Gwynne is a very talented operator. Both talents are essential but I do believe Elon’s talent would be harder to replace.
>the images/vids load lightning fast in comparison to Imgur

You must be joking.

I have been a user of imgur since it was create by mr. grimm ... I have had a paid account for ~10 years...

v.reddit and i.reddit are absolute garbage by comparison.

Now, that is to say, I use imgur very specifically - I have my own albums (and the album management system on imgur is trash and almost unusable) -- but the ability to just use something like greenshot where I do a snippet with PRTSC key and have it auto-upload to my imgur, and then copy the imgur url immediately to my clipboard is dope... but the album management UX on imgur does suck.
I rarely downvote, but this take is just straight-up factually incorrect and it is the top comment as of now. The facts and assumptions here are rebutted in other replies, so I'll leave them to it.
Well, you're consistently negative about this.

First, you're doing a ton of double counting. The estimated $2 million/launch already includes necessary infrastructure, servicing, and so on.

Second you're assuming a ton of totally unnecessary gold plating. For example you talk about "floating megaports". In actuality they've been taking barges (available for about $1 million) and retrofitting them. Starship needs a bigger and stronger ship, with infrastructure built on it. Suppose that it is about $10 million. (Which is roughly the cost of a basic containership.) You could put out a couple of hundred of these for the average cost of a new airport. It would only make sense to go to a megaport if the cost per passenger were less than it is now.

Third, you're ignoring the possibilities of automation. For example your "army of dispatchers" is solving a problem which will certainly be solved by computers. In fact it has to be - because most of the problems will be encountered in the possibility of collisions in space. And we're having to track the entire constellation of everything up there, ranging from rockets to pieces of space junk.

And fourth, you're ignoring costs that already exist for airplanes. For example airplanes have expensive pilots while rockets don't.
> It's fairly well agreed upon.

Then could you share that agreed-upon definition with me? And also, exactly how much is "fairly well" agreed upon? 60%? So would 2/5 of people disagree when you call some code unclean? Are there classes where they teach kids in school how to identify unclean code? Are there instructions on how to clean it up?

And most importantly, is there any kind of scientific research that shows the effects of unclean code? Or are humans just overly concerned with appearances, and make up their own rituals and reasons for whatever becomes habitual?
It's the conspiracy theory I 100% believe in. I don't think the reason to ban TikTok is that it gathers information, I think the reason to ban it is that its ranking algorithm is deliberately destructive. Maybe it's a coincidence that all the dangerous stunts and vandalism "pranks" come from TikTok and not Meta and Twitter, but I don't buy it.

I'm leftist liberal and I have no particular paranoia about China, but I'm not going to pretend that we are besties

Edit: I won't remove the classification of myself as "leftist liberal" because it would make some of the replies to my comment confusing. I will apologize for it because it has derailed the discussion of China and TikTok. In the future I'll be more specific and avoid labels that no two people can agree on.

Suffice to say that I don't believe China deliberately created and released Covid.
It seems to be flipping before that, means nothing to separate if it was rolling.
Some parts are interchangeable.

The countdown process needs optimization. There are things missing and things which shouldn’t be there. We’re talking about speed of loading propellant, density of it, etc.

Then there’s software. So much software.

And a million other things. Rockets are complex, launching them doubly so.
Tesla Signals More Price Cuts Ahead Despite Margin Damage
They're still designing it, and learning to build it (building the "machine that builds the machine"). They've already scrapped booster 4 / ship 20 without even a test flight.

Today's rocket was a byproduct of what they're actually working on, so it's hard to pin a price on it. I'd guess a few million dollars in engines, and a few hundred thousand in steel? This is all stuff they would've needed to find a way to dispose of anyway; the next booster in line (B9) already has hundreds of improvements. Among these are improvements to thrust vector control and engine shielding, both of which were involved in the issues with today's flight.
Zero, given that the launch corridor doesn't pass over land, and all rockets are equipped with a Flight Termination System that blows up the rocket if it deviates from that corridor.
If that was the criteria, American exports would be in the toilet.

It's because China is a competitor. All the other bad actors are too rinky-dink to worry about.
That is a real issue. I think part of it involves creating a culture where it's acceptable to make failures as long as those failures were the result of a sound decision process.

What you don't want is a culture that is either a) afraid to take any risk because they are afraid of career consequences or b) willing to roll the dice with bad decision processes due to biases and bad incentives.

Example for a): bureaucrats who are unwilling to push the envelope because a bad outcome would effectively end their career

Example for b): making high-risk decisions due cost/schedule pressure, like competition for a contract
Elon was setting expectations a couple days ago when he said "Let's just not explode on the launch pad" or somesuch. In that sense, mission definitely accomplished. "Massive" success? Not sure I would go that far, but success of a massive project? Absolutely. It would have been nice to see the mission hit all it's objectives, but I'm sure they got quite a bit of data and operational experience.

What would be a failure is if the next one has the same problem.
RWD are harder to drive in snow and slippery conditions.
> My point would be that while SpaceX does save lots of money, it doesn't do so by producing cheap or less reliable rockets.

It does though. During the development process. SpaceX will do five launches with lower reliability vehicles before the big launch providers will even do a single launch, and those five will have be cheaper in total. Of course, they aren't putting essential cargo (or god forbid people) on these higher risk test flights. By the time they're doing that they have developed certainty in the design.
What a strange idea is to recommend a dose with respect to neither a weight nor a desired effect
Wouldn't a local threat be more dangerous than a foreign one?
Yup. Those are words that the person you're responding to said. Quoting them here, though, doesn't make your off-base tangent about Electron any more appropriate as a response to a question about Chrome displaying a screenshot in a browser-controlled popup.
Who do you think is responsible for the amount of meat that people eat if not the people eating the meat?
The USSR bought Sputnik (satellite) from USA? Ridiculous revisionism.
It's like dumping [0], except in reverse. Artificially increase the prices of our exports to our adversary ⇒ protect our adversary's fledgling industry from competition from us.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dumping_(pricing_policy)
Personally the algorithm works just fine for me. If you interact with what you find is trash / comment / like it will show you more of that content. If you don't want to see it dont' watch it or comment on it. You'll stop seeing it and the items you WANT to see you need to interact with and you will continue to get more of that. If you watch / comment on suicide videos thats exactly what you will get in your feed.
Examples, Types and Utilities for Creating ChatGPT Plugins with TypeScript
SpaceX is just doing what the Soviets did. The Soviets preferred to launch and learn just like SpaceX does today. Soviets also ran on a much smaller budget than NASA and preferred simplicity over complexity and constant tweaking.

The Soviets proved that methodology works and SpaceX continues it to this day. I have a feeling most that follow SpaceX think they are trying a new revolutionary approach here.
> One day last year we get a notice from our bank telling us that we were deemed "high risk" and they were closing our commercial accounts. For months we tried to find any bank or credit union that would take us but they all turned us down.

High risk of what, chargebacks?
What? This makes zero sense. The cost to create a crew capsule is extremely well understood because they've been made countless times before. Also to imply the cost of that would put any dent whatsoever into the 5b vs 50b comparison is ridiculous. The cost of adding a crew capsule is a rounding error on total cost.
This is a brilliant analogy.[a]

It does a really good job of conveying the fact that current LLMs have a horrendously inefficient method for achieving something resembling working+long-term memory: They need someone else to write code that

* stores in advance all possible pieces of text that might be be relevant to future prompts;

* finds and retrieves at runtime the pieces of text that are supposedly most relevant to a prompt; and

* tacks on those supposedly most relevant pieces of text as a contextual preamble to each new prompt (query).

Current LLMs truly are Leonard-Like Models.

Surely there must be a better way... but it hasn't been discovered yet.

--

[a] I saw "Memento" years ago and still remember it vividly. It was written and directed by a young Christopher Nolan.
Elon also plays a big role in engineering. He has stated many times that most engineering decisions go directly through him.

His title at the company is Founder and _Chief Engineer_
> I've come to the following conclusion about game design: It is sometimes a freaking slog!

I think that's probably true of all development, be it game, software, property, whatever.
The obvious counterargument would be that having a real treatment for PTSD and other fear related conditions would likely ameliorate the social issues.

Yes, taking guns away would reduce shootings, but so would helping people who are so fearful they feel the need to shoot someone who isn’t threatening them.
> It's been clear since the beginning that it's psychedelic-assisted therapy — not just psychedelics — that makes the treatment effective.

Thank you for pointing this out. This is the key point that so many people miss by skimming the headlines.

These medication-assisted therapy trials are about the therapy first and foremost. Some of the trials have several dozen therapy sessions in their protocols and only a single or couple medication-assisted sessions.

People taking these drugs on their own at home are not doing anything resembling the therapy discussed in these trials. There are numerous stories of people taking psychedelics ad-hoc and ending up with worsened anxiety, derealization, persistent fears, delusional thoughts, and so on. The common wisdom in psychedelic circles was that set and setting is everything - Taking psychedelics while in a state of depression, anxiety, PTSD, or other conditions outside of the setting of closely monitored professional therapy is potentially quite negative.
Flying in an A380 is nice but it has one annoyance, at least in economy. It can take well over an hour between meal service starting and getting your meal tray picked up and being able to put your seat back again.
$9.8 billion legally-obligated-disclosable total investment. The disclosure requirements for NASA are stricter than for private industry (and there may also be an apples-to-oranges question on auditing and accounting: if NASA grants a company $500 million to do R&D, and that company turns around and pays its staff and fabrication costs with that money, is that a billion of expenditure on the SLS project or $500 million?).
So if I show you some code, you will be able to immediately point at the unclean code and tell me why it's unclean, and everyone else will agree with you?
Five years ago I wasn't as left-leaning as I am now. Perhaps a majority of the users got older and followed a similar path? I wonder if it could've been subreddits like The_Donald being banned that caused an exodus, potentially driving away many or most of the right-leaning users who would get posted to /all.
Dead After Tornadoes, Severe Weather Lash US State of Oklahoma
Washington: Two people were killed in Oklahoma on Wednesday when tornadoes and severe weather ripped through the US state, local officials said.
How does China “aggressively work” against the US? And what’s wrong with becoming a “peer competitor” when it comes to technology? Wasn’t that the essence of a free market?
Other than emacs, the only available command on that Linux system is mount. Not even a shell.
Columbia was the shuttle that was doomed by a piece of foam. Challenger exploded due to a failed O-ring on one of the SRBs.
If a treebranch falls on me, should I limit treatment to wind-based therapy?
I love stories like these. Just a hacker doing some hacking.

"The early days was where a lot of time was spent trying to tell people about the website. Some of my fondest memories are of being at school on Digg.com (back before the v4 fiasco of course) and posting comments to the Upcoming / Hot section where stories were at right before they hit the front page. Almost always the first comments in the thread would become the top comments, with no way to sort, and I would always sign my comment with legittorrents.info. Then later I would come back and check the Google Analytics stats to see those sweet sweet traffic spikes."

This is GENIUS. It's a shame signatures are dead now, I kind of liked them when they weren't annoying.

"I cannot state enough how much I learned from running this site and others. Way better than a degree in my opinion."

It's funny how often this works out like this. I think you can "make it" in software with either hobby experience or a formal degree, and of the two I think the hobby experience is a lot more likely to make you good at "shipping". But the context you get out of a CS degree is super helpful because it compliments your actual work in a thousand tiny (or big, depending on the topic) ways. (Writing CRUD apps is probably not going to flex your CS degree but if someone asks you to optimize a database query, suddenly that second databases class you took about query planners and db internals is suddenly really helpful context.) But I agree with the sentiment here where having hobby experience on top of your CS degree is rocket fuel for your career.

"I was super cheap back then, not even wanting to shell out for a domain name, so the original URL was virtenu.dyndns.org/lt. Eventually I bought the .info for $0.99 after the site picked up some speed a few months later."

Compared to how easy it is to be wasteful nowadays, there's still really something to be said for intentionally running things on a shoestring budget. (And sometimes we convince ourselves you practically have to be wasteful... isn't running a $20/mo managed k8s + load balancer setup table stakes nowadays?? and you've got to have a hip new $40/yr TLD and don't forget to factor in that surprise big egress bandwidth bill you're gonna accidentally incur at some point).

Crazy how much you can do with a $5 VPS and an app server, distributed as a package for your OS's package manager, running as a systemd service. Even just adding a container runtime can be a surprising additional amount of complexity.
You're making the meritocracy argument and it is disingenuous. You don't have a monopoly on understanding "equality" and it is certainly not as simple in our society as you assume.
Business users will replicate any product in excel and use an email attachment from 3 years ago in the deleted items folder as the point of reference if we don't make it super easy to find them.
Tiktok pushes what you interact with the most. If you comment, if you heart, if you watch it and content like it all the way through it assumes its the content that you like and will give you more like it. If you see something you don't like keep scrolling. It learns and stops showing that content.
Way more people are run down by cars while crossing the street, but the media has decided to get hysterical over a blue moon.
I suspect HN users read the article more often than most. I sure did. I stand by my assessment that the headline invites unreasonable expectations, and that it matters. A little, not a lot. Shrug.
Switzerland is strongly associated with EU/Western world.

The famous/traditional Switzerland bank privacy was severely weakened at US pressure.
The Fifth Wave: The Golden Age of Substack
Isn't there something like a right to own a deposit bank account in Cananda? Or is it too difficult to actually enforce this law?
"Abort Once Around" was the name my band used in college for a few weeks before people realized who we were.
Musk is humiliated when his tweets don't show up in everyones feeds, so its easy to see why that expectation exists.
If by law the property is owned by society you are right. But in a free society you get to own stuff. Not society or the government, you.

And it is not about resource allocation. If you have wealth the someone generated or traded that wealth for/to you. You exchanged that wealth fairly for something. Taking that from you against your will and outside of explicit taxation authority of the government by the government is theft.

You can tax rich people all you want you just can't take their money because you can. Society did not take the risk or make the investment they made and cannot be allowed to consider their wealth its property.

> the 'natural justice' breaks down and it becomes more about the system a society uses to decide how its resources are allocated.

In a free and just society, society has no say in this matter once weath has been obtained and taxed lawfully.

The government is free to own companies and make investments to compete with rich people if it wants to do so.

Only a society of criminals and thieves takes from others because ir can. And that is exactly what any country that has tried to take money from people just because it can ended up becoming. Corrupt and completely unjust.
I'm astounded to see the coverage on this bury the lede; today was historic in that Starship has 2x the thrust of Saturn V, i.e. this was the biggest rocket ever. And they did it, extremely successfully. Their goal was to get the thing off the pad without ruining Stage 0 (launch/pad). Now the newer, shinier revisions get to go up and we'll see orbit attained this year probably. We'll have private Starship missions to the moon in the next president's term of office.
I loved the fact that in the video, the staff clapped when the thing exploded...

Where in the past, people would be like "OH NO!!" -- but the crew knew how much data they got out of that launch.

I wonder how stripped down the starship was though in an effort to save costs in the event such as this RUD.

I would love a piece of the shrapnel from the exploded device though...

Hopefully they get those pieces and auction them off.
Fair enough point. But the finish line isn't getting through a test, the finish line is having a reliably operational system.
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Modern district heating (and cooling) networks can use the waste heat directly at (relatively) low temps . Heatpumps enable several interesting use cases including seasonal storage.

There's a weird sentence in the article claiming heatpump manufacturers would rather use them to generate electricity, which doesn't make much sense.
> Iceland and the Scandinavian countries have, let's say, "weather-related" reasons for their depressions.

Seasonal Affective Disorder also occurs in the United States. Much of the US population lives in areas with significantly shorter days in the winter.
> The thing is that players don't want actual balance; they want to feel like it is balanced. And much more importantly, it must be FUN!

I play a ton of tabletop games, and it is very obvious when a game was developed by someone who doesn't understand this fundamental truth.