skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Just like LLMs took off recently but still play a minor role in almost every area I know.

Okay, let's do the comparison.

LLMs became a big story less than a year ago. Since then, they are, among other things, powering the fastest growing app of all time. They are poised to take over pretty much every NLU functionality, products are being developed every day that wouldn't be able to otherwise, and major players in the industry throw billions at them. Their, and other ML achievements, impact on society are estimated to be so profound, that they have caused ripples in international politics, rekindled debates about UBI, made geopolitical positions about chip maufacturing and AI research even more relevant, and set lawmakers all around the globe scrambling to figure out how to deal with this new reality, regarding everything from copyright laws to regulations.

So, what is going on in the purely-functional-PL space?

Well, the flagship of these languages, Haskell, had it's stable release 12 years ago. Since then, the only software product that I can name without googling that's written in it, is pandoc. The language is currently Number 34 on the Tiobe index. In fact, I am not sure any of the current top20 could be called "purely functional", which would place these languages below Scratch, Fortran, and Classic Visual Basic in terms of that index.

https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/

Regarding usefullness, what have purely functional PLs demonstrated? That they can be challenging to use coming from an imperative background, and that they can be a drag on performance. On the plus side they offer ... yeah, what exactly is it they offer, that imperative languages adopting some of their features, like functions as first class objects, cannot?

So I have a hard time seeing any indicators of an impending take-off for purely functional PLs.
I'm sure that's the case a lot of the time. But, as I said, as a customer I don't care why this effect happens. Regardless of the reason, events such as going public, etc., still mark an inflection point where the odds are decent that the product will become much less desirable.

But, as long as we're talking about possible causes, that startups do this sort of thing (catchy name like "growth hacking" or not) is a kind of deception that I object to anyway.

Releasing a product is a kind of promise, in a way. If a product is being released in an unsustainable way (growth hacking), the company should be calling that out from day 1.
Wouldn't wisdom be a more apt cognate?
That doesn't really apply here. The dynamics of stage separation on Starship are orders of magnitude more complex than anything used on any previous rocket. If you want to look at what failure looks like for a super large rocket compare it to the failed Soviet N1. This flight demonstrated better performance in a single test flight than every N1 test flight over years. The N1 suffered catastrophic failure after catastrophic failure. Starship was pushed way past its design tolerance and showed its design is technically sound. Failure is unavoidable, the Saturn V almost failed its first test flight way earlier than Starship did here.
But the real risk the shuttle astronauts faced was from NASA management failures, not hardware or weather.
To look out the window. I realize it's the definition of a first world problem, but the gap is weird. They can't put shelves or something because the window is obviously there
Forget KSP 2 for now, watch Scott Manley instead and you'll be good at KSP 1 in no time.
Yeah or even more insidious when a new state looks like, and so is modeled as, just a special case of one of the original two. As a mentor said to me early in my career "every functioning business system is a state machine, but the only ones that are easy to work on are where they knew that from the beginning."

Most systems I've worked on end up with one of the "original" states being a catchall or misc type entity that could carry any number of other meanings depending on timing and context. A lot of legacy code work in my experience is actually a game of "find and name the states" when they're spread out across multiple systems, written at different times and with different understandings of the broader system, and with different methods to track and modify them.
>My prediction: SpaceX will have a 5th 100% successful launch of Starship before the SLS has a 5th successful launch. They'll just have ten not-100%-success launches before then.

I'm not the best way to frame this is "first one to a single successful launch". Reliability matters when you're dealing with high-risk scenarios, so a better measure is "probability of a given launch being successful".
Would be interesting to see how fictional/constructed languages compare to the collected data.
This is great! But also, in case you missed it, click back to the homepage. There are a bunch of other equally great diversions.
The mean the gear on the launch site
They actually did scale it down from the original plans in ~2015.

I'm not sure if it's worth scaling down substantially from where it is. There is a certain scale that's necessary for the economics (payload vs dry-weight vs fuel) to work out, and ultimately they want to be able to put very significant amounts in orbit. They're currently targeting 150 tons, would it be worth targeting 50 tons? Probably not.
The launchpad is right next to the Gulf Of Mexico. It launches straight over water.
This is not true today and is the tail end of an absolutely massive societal shift in the english speaking world driven by the now 25-35 age block who broke the stigma.
Well, it wasn’t disassembled either. That implies you can reassemble it. This just a funny phrase designed to cover an embarrassing situation. SpaceX just farted in an elevator.
They defined success as being able to gather information. They did that :)
The Soviet N1 moon rocket, which SpaceX shares a bit of design (30+ engines for example) failed 4 times before being scrapped.

The Soviets had the 'launch often, fail fast, learn faster' view that SpaceX employs today.

However, nobody viewed the N1 launches outside the Soviet Union as successes. I'm glad to see that 'fail fast, learn faster' is finally part of American aerospace engineering.
And 1400 years later my grandfather farmed silkworms a few hundred kilometers from Constantinople.
In heavy rain and snow too?
Because the few videos I saw had pretty easy weather conditions, and even there machines aren't as good as concentrated drivers.
The french revolution was thieves murdering so they can steal. It does not justify what they did. They could have gotten rid of the crown and implemented a more fair system without bloodshed.

It doesn't matter what people want or care about or if they are literally starving. That does not justify theft. I am not against taxation, I am all for raising taxes and making the rich pay their fair share. What I abhorr and what revolts me is this idea that you can just take their money because you need it more. It is theirs. Period. End of story. Unless they broke the law to gain it.

If the law was unfair that allowed them to gain wealth? change it. But you can't retroacrively take someone else's property or wealth because now it is considered unfairly gained. At the most fundamental and basic level that would be unfair and unjust. A person can only be punished if they broke the rules at the time of the act.

The french revolution was uncivilized barbaric murderous rampage. If you agree with thay then you have already earned your povery and starvation. In no understanding of justice is stealing justified because someone has too much wealth.
I guess in such configuration 8 MB should be enough.
You're talking about failure rates per rocket, but we're talking about the overall development program. Falcon 9 certainly has very low failure rates on its individual components now (below your suggested 0.0001 number). But the way they got there was via a higher risk iterative development process, same as what we're seeing with Starship. The Falcon is the most reliable rocket on the planet at this point, so clearly it's working!
Rust 1.69
Why are we arguing about this?

I made a one line comment. You disagree. Fine.
They're the anorexics in societies mostly consisting of morbidly obese people. Figuratively, and often literally.
They defined success up front as being able to gather information. They did that.
I am, through the mullvad add-on.
Genuine question, what does deplatforming conservatives have to do with Victorianism?
I'm fully with you. Independent ownership and publishing is the important part, I'm only critical of the syndication part.
> They are strengthening and have more resources to assert themselves, which is actually what the US are hostile to.

Seems entirely rational to me.
Like single stage? I don't think the booster can reach orbit by itself (much less carry something and come back).
You can have a large meal every once in a while without large negative health effects. Just limit your calories the rest of the day and don’t do it all the time.

Also, I wouldn’t say it has little nutritional value…it’s full of protein and carbs (which are nutrients).
Tell me how this doesn't apply to China banning US companies.
You can still call people trans. You do not have to deny they are trans. Rather it is preventing a common method of harassing trans people.
It's not true you can see for yourself:

https://douyin.com/

On TikTok you largely just get more of what you've already engaged with. If you're using the platform for porn you're going to get a lot of it. If you like and engage with scientific/political content you'll rarely, if ever, see a video of someone dancing.

edit:

It's anecdotal but having taken a look at TikTok's web feed: https://www.tiktok.com/foryou. The content there was less sexual than the purportedly sanitised Douyin.
The incentives for going to space are limited to more economic sensibility when you don't have a dick measuring contest going on between great powers.
I have a collection of MS DOS games that my kids sometimes play too, precisely because they are the games with a single player mode and an actual end.
That's completely untrue. I can't say if the algorithm is the same. In my short experience of using Douyin for the past couple weeks, I get zero education content, but a surprising amount of content about inequality and injustices.
Feynman’s comments on the poor Space Shuttle design process apply double to this rocket.
At this point, we are in logs three levels deep—we have a database with a log-structured merge tree, we have a journaling filesystem like ext4, and we have an SSD controller which uses log structures internally for wear leveling.

I recommend the paper, “Don’t stack your Log on my Log”:

https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/inflow14/infl...

Basically, the beautiful thing about log structures is that they work well on “dumb” storage. Paradoxically, when you put logs on top of logs, you can make things worse. This is unintuitive, but it reminds me of the fact that if you tunnel a TCP connection over another TCP connection, the result is something which is much less reliable than an ordinary TCP connection operating over an unreliable network.
Why not end the story with a list of 5,500 torrent names and hashes? No need for the collection to die off if it was entirely legal.
Wouldn't that be kind of bloated?
Isn't there strong evidence in obesity + heart disease cases that this is a poor decision?
Yikes, what's the chance just enough rockets will cause the next one to crash and blow up in Miami?
It looks like it has dropped 4% over the last week, so while the monthly trend is upwards, I'm not sure this launch, or the scrub a few days ago, have improved things.
> I personally think the first man down the ladder on mars should be a woman, and it would be great if it were her.

Probably not your intent, but this sounds incredibly patronizing.
> Mullvad has been operating our VPN service for over 14 years. This is the first time our offices have been visited with a search warrant.

Does a search warrant detail the reason and justification for the warrant, or are you left in the dark about what all the hassle and disruption was even about?
Very impressive. So few entertaining websites of this type these days. I really enjoyed it
Starship at this point is mostly a shell. Internal human grade components aren't there yet. We have no idea what the final cost will be. But doesn't matter since NASA is the one paying.
How much money one has to spent, how large must be entourage of lawyers and lobbyists to achieve this level of aggressive privacy? The other example is Schwartz family of Lidl and Kaufland, and probably countless industrialists and aristocrats living in DACH countries. You mention them and wait for cease and desist letter in your mailbox, that's how they maintain their crystal clear image or no image at all.
Mats3 SpringConfig via JBang: Multi-Stage Annotation-Defined Messaging Endpoints
I guess my question was from a stance of, Philadelphia is famous for their cheesesteaks. How often are the residents that live there truly having a cheesesteak? Once a month? Three times a week?
Divide and Conquer – Musk's Attention Hack for Startup Founders
One the one hand the issues between the US and China are not about "political values", they are about geopolitical interests, you could make a list and check one by one. That wouldn't change if China was a democracy. On the other hand, the US are best 'friend', and have been best 'friend' with some of the least democratic countries on the planet.

QED.

Edit: In fact the US do not want China to become a democracy as that would actually hurt their strategy and interests against China. For instance, that would make a reunification with Taiwan more likely, which the US do not want at all.
>The rate of murder is 73 times more than the Netherlands.

No the absolute number is 73x, the rate is like 8x.

Since you've cherry picked a European state, I will now cherry pick the state New Hampshire.

Murder rate New Hampshire: 0.9 / 100k [0]
Murder rate Netherlands: ~0.6 / 100k [1]

Also bear in mind the expected murder chance of the average person from the Netherlands dropped into the US is not expected to be anything like the US average murder rate. The US is not nearly as demographically homogenous as the Netherlands and someone with Dutch heritage experiences much closer to Dutch murder rates in the US.

[0] https://247wallst.com/state/how-the-murder-rate-in-new-hamps...

[1] https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/VC.IHR.PSRC.P5?location...
Those kind of big rockets tend to take a while to get free of the pad and really get moving, look at the Apollo 11 launch

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdxzMPi19sU

I'd contrast that to solid fuel sounding rockets which are "just gone" after they ignite.
They've been saying (Elon at a minimum) multiple times that they expect the first flight to end in a giant ball of flames. That there's a "if everything goes extremelly well" plan that reaches quasi-orbit and lands back nicely... doesn't make this the expected goal. It's not like they can submit a flight plan to the FAA that's "we'll launch and explode somewhere along the way". They need to draw up a nominal plan, with the full understanding (by reasonable people) that the flight really isn't expected to actually fulfill that entire plan.

It's pretty amazing that the rocket went past the launch pad, yet alone survived past max-Q to begin with!
Bloomberg is contemplating life without its founder
Without paywall: https://archive.is/yrPvo
Move fast and break things said my doctor. jackiechan.png
The caste codes of Silicon Valley [audio]
I think you're mistaking "someone is lying" for "there is a genuine dispute".

North Korea claimed to have found a unicorn lair (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/nov/30/unicorn-lair-d...), but the existence of unicorns is not in dispute.

Russia claimed to have no involvement in Crimea (later admitting they had); they also claimed the day before invading Ukraine they had no plans to do so. These are just bald-faced lies, and I think it's important to differentiate between that and "it's not possible to tell what the real truth is" scenarios.
I didn't search for the password manager, here's the full list: https://github.com/orgs/ProtonMail/repositories
Tik Tok is illegal in mainland China, the "local version" called douyin is heavily doctored to promote only positive messages. Ironic that CCP cry anti asian hate on the proposition to ban tik tok
I did not know! Thank you.
I believe the "a fresh OS" makes fingerprinting useless.
It's good to see U.S. aerospace finally adopting Soviet style rocket building.
I've heard this a number of times. He has a strong vision and the capacity to bring people together to achieve it.
Is there a technical name for the "tumbling" phenomenon? When your first stage is almost out of fuel mass, so the CoG is not where it was when you launched and it's like you're pushing a bowling ball with a fishing pole instead of a giant steel beam, so you tip over.
The best our actual doctors (obviously not you) have been able to determine, yes it really does increase their quality of life. I know that doesn't matter to some people, but a lot of us do care.
"They pretend to pay us we pretend to work" (Soviet proverb)
Everyone who works at SpaceX would tell you they're happy. Could they be happier? Sure. But they aren't unhappy with this.
Monero is even better
What makes it a bad idea?
Devil's advocate: you'd need to be in both countries on different device IDs. If you go US -> visit to China, their algorithm "knows" this as opposed to "you are in China and have never been to US before". Just a guess.
Yes, but The Sun was banned in my family, so we only "benefited" from her music.
Ah, yes, your anecdata is proof.

Not that OP's claims are proof - but your anecdata does not disprove it.
Note that nnethercote is probably the world's foremost expert on Rust performance (in addition to being the maintainer of Valgrind). See also his long-running blog series where he discusses his efforts to improve the performance of the Rust compiler itself: https://nnethercote.github.io/2023/03/24/how-to-speed-up-the...
I don't care about them. I care about justice. Their use of force at the time was lawful and if it wasn't I don't care. They enslaved and murdered too and they can't be punished for it retroactively. Justice and equality under law for everyone, the rich and powerful as well as the poor and weak. Rule of law and civil order.

Advocating for anything less makes you the criminal and law breaker. Whatever injustice you face you have deserved it already because you accepted injustice against others.
That's the problem. ChatGPT claimed and the user believed but it's wrong.

GPTs remix, so they may create new variations but nothing really new.
Damn, poor launchpad ^^
isnt any modern engagement optimized engine doing the same? like snapchat's discover feed garbage

what do people expect? if it learns what makes you stay on the platform it gives you more of the stuff that makes you stay

you are what you eat.
Calories aren't an appropriate measure of human nutrition. At best, it's a proxy for mass, but is otherwise useless if you understand anything about how obesity actually works. You don't seem to understand it if you think that a unit of heat can measure how fat someone will get.

The human body reacts with hormones depending on what you eat. It is not at all aware of how much energy you're consuming. All it is doing is delegating mass towards processes that need that mass. Depending on what you eat, that mass will be used differently. For instance, if you eat protein, that protein will not only be used for a wide variety of things in your body, but it can be used to supply the blood with glucose through a process called glucconeogenesis. However, this is a lossy process, since it takes 3 ATPs to ultimately get 2 ATPs out of a conversion of protein to gluccose. Since the body needs protein to build cells, it will primarily use glucconeogenesis to meet demand of glucose. On the other hand, if you consume carbohydrates or sugar, you are supplying the body with glucose that it didn't demand, and it's going to respond with insulin to handle that supply, causing cells to uptake that glucose (including fat cells). If, however, you decide to eat nothing but fat, it will ironically be difficult to actually get fatter that way because the body responds only weakly to the presence of fat with insulin. Yet fat has more energy per gram than either sugar or protein. Fiber also contains "calories", yet interferes with the absorption of other substrates and a minuscule amount is fermented and transformed into fatty acid.

Consuming different substrates together also affects how food mass is handled. Notoriously, fat and carbs, when consumed together, are cross-inhibiting, meaning it takes and even greater amount of insulin for cells to uptake them. This is the primary dysfunction behind type-2 diabetes.

And if you want to waste away, eat as many "calories" as you want of leaves. There's still "calories" in kale and spinach, but that doesn't mean it will translate to obesity or a body composition any sane person would want. If you don't think the leaves and stalks of plants have plenty of "calories", try drying some out and lighting them on fire.

In other words, it comes down to what you eat, not so much the quantity. A fatty steak and a jelly doughnut create very different metabolic conditions that are not equivalent in terms of being obesogenic. An individual who eats nothing but jelly doughnuts for a month will see a different outcome from the individual who eats fatty steaks in the same time period, even if the latter individual eats more "calories" worth of mass.
If there are 5 more of these being built, how they will incorporate anything they learned during this failed attempt? Isn't that just a waste of money?
They didn't fart in the elevator, the pressure change caused by rapid elevation gain caused an unexpected gas vent event
> while in the western world it promotes debauchery and stupidity.

Isn't the narrative "that's what the western world consumers more of/wants" versus "China values achievements and education more than debauchery and stupidity"?
This is possible. But the the evidence in that link is Tucker Carlson. I don't think we can know whether this is actually happening and we're seeing a lot of speculation about what China could or would do given the power they have through moderation of TikTok.

The possibility of China abusing content moderation might be enough to throw out the app altogether. But the only "evidence" we currently have is guessing at what China might do and people in media amplifying that discomfort.
Was it an unscheduled disassembly?

From the video it looks like the stages failed to separate and the rocket started tumbling. I'd expect the range safety officer to trigger the self-destruct at that point which would make the explosion newly scheduled rather than unscheduled.
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 would never accept a failure rate any different than anyone else because, in aerospace, that isn't really a thing. SpaceX can certainly blast forwards with different business practices and different tolerance for developmental risks, but the final product will not be fundamentally different than anyone else: near-perfect machines resulting in near-perfect performance. There will never be a "cheap" version of a commercial rocket with an accepted less-than-perfect failure rate. Spaceflight is an all-or-nothing game.
A better analogy here would be "fill it with real reviews, but use multiple usernames."
8-10% of global emissions.

https://food.ec.europa.eu/horizontal-topics/farm-fork-strate...
This is actually smaller: https://busybox.net

https://re-ws.pl/2020/11/busybox-based-linux-distro-from-scr...