skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Foreigner views are readily dismissed because they are based on biased, sensationalized narrative-driven media coverage of rare events. You don't get US small-town local news in the EU, for instance, so have no reference for how many non-violent stories are aired by comparison - or how many stories cover a happy ending of a homeowner defending themselves successfully. You only get the bad stuff.

Imagine if we got week-long, wall-to-wall coverage of nearly every stabbing that took place in the EU... Americans would start to believe you Europeans really need to get that knife situation under control.

The reality is, by the numbers, legal gun owners are rarely involved in illegal violence while using their firearms... and there isn't a darn thing anyone can do to remove guns from illegal gun owners.

Therefore, the issue, as perceived by a foreigner, is usually reduced to irrelevant talking points. It's just unproductive.

Why have the gun laws not changed significantly in the past few decades? Because most Americans do not agree with the sensationalized views pushed by the click/eyeball driven media. It's that simple. So then, as a foreigner, you should consider why that may be... perhaps there is another viewpoint after all?
And yet you trust WhatsApp and Facebook and Signal with their claims of end-to-end encryption. Why?
"Failure at Stage Separation" would be far more specific and informative. But also get far few clicks.
I would be really curious to read examples of such disputes. Even legal filings from both sides, evidence, outcomes, etc. Please share if you know of any!
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The societal factors you mention are due to - unfortunately - freedom.

Humans are innately horrible.

Freedom also means freedom to be horrible.

Unfortunately.
> 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.

Why? If you're launching people I see why you want near-perfect, but if you're launching something with a low replacement cost (ex: getting fuel to orbit to support other projects) it seems to me that as volumes get large enough eventually "use lower quality and accept a slightly higher probability of failure" starts to be cost effective.
The Flight Termination System is controlled by the Range Safety Officer. And yes, it was pretty clear from the way the two stages exploded that it was the RSO activating the FTS.
That's what happens when you have a society worried about money and not interested in true human development.
The bug seems to be 7 months old, not 7 years old. ;)
You can only massage information so far though. The costs do actually matter and you can't turn a profit if all of your launches are horrendously expensive (above what you're charging for them), and you just keep it a secret.
The fail fast part should be finished before humans board it - the idea is to speed up development before that milestone and iterate rapidly.
How about we don't make assumptions?
Good argument, didn't think of that. And there may not even be a journalist working anymore at that magazine.
Initially posted this as a reply, but going top-level, cause the hot takes are too spicy for my liking.

So the plan was to test x, y, and z. Launch sequence and takeoff, stage separation and Starship engine light, and the post-launch stuff like booster wet landing, reentry, and heat tiles. The booster by itself is not aerodynamic, so the only way to test x is with a starship on top. And if you have starship, you might as well test y and z. But it's not a primary goal. Any more effort in polishing y and z is "premature optimization". X was the test. SpaceX did the X, we got max Q.

On the most recent SmarterEveryDay video on encasing a Prince Rupert's drop in glass, sculptor Cal Breed talks about the moment when a process fails. He could stop there and restart, saving some time, but instead all the pressure is off, and he "makes as many mistakes as possible" for the rest of the build.
Quote is towards the end, but the whole vid is worth a watch.

https://youtu.be/C1KT8PS6Zs4

https://www.calbreed.com/

Edit: also, they needed the flight plan all the way through "total success" in order to file with the FAA. You can't just have "oh sweet, 100% of booster things worked, we now have a suborbital craft careening on a parabolic trajectory". I didn't read a flight plan, but I imagine they must have spelled out each possible outcome exhaustively.
They never said. Not chargebacks though because we never sold directly to customers. We promoted affiliate programs and would get paid by our sponsors (electronically or by mailing us physical checks).
It's 8-10% of global emissions, so pretty significant - even a tenth of that is a lot. And relatively little food is wasted during production (though it's the part with the most uncertainty), most food is lost at the end of the chain, with the consumer. At least in Germany, and probably other wealthy countries.

Why? Why not, food is cheap, though not as dirt cheap as it used to be. Germans spend about a tenth of their income on food, Africans 70%. There's little incentive for people here not to waste it beyond moral obligations.
https://food.ec.europa.eu/horizontal-topics/farm-fork-strate...
I can't believe it made it off the pad! The fact it made it up to stage separation is crazy. That was the first flight with all the Super Heavy engines at once. I'm just blown away right now. 33 Raptor engines firing all at once without a single failure! The original hoppers had trouble running 1-3 raptors at once!

There is just so much that could go wrong with this design and they knocked it out of the park! I'm betting SpaceX is pretty freaking happy right now.
So you're suggesting intent was to detonate the rocket in the air, despite that not having been stated anywhere?

"I may have crashed the car into the neighbour's house and broken my arm, but I did get the milk from the store!"
You can freely view the kind of content available on Douyin:

https://www.douyin.com/

Here are the first five videos that were presented as an anonymous user:

https://www.douyin.com/video/7211500689002876164

https://www.douyin.com/video/7223312448332303668

https://www.douyin.com/video/7216732859879410982

https://www.douyin.com/video/7221862204251966760

https://www.douyin.com/video/7218887726920224000
A Wikipedia entry claims it was a commanded explosion. I hadn't yet been able to corroborate that elsewhere.
https://youtu.be/9jK-NcRmVcw
Having been born in Europe and having lived in 9 different countries across the whole continent - my experiences have been largely similar.
Every reasonable person should be opposed to DMCA takedowns, they are not only stupid in the first place, but actually massively abused.
This seems like a new skin on COPE (create once, publish everywhere), an NPR idea from 10+ years ago. Ironically, it fits to just rebrand someone else's established ideas like this.

Editing to add: I see that they linked to COPE in the See Also section, although the Programmable Web link is broken (irony upon irony!). NPR still has a version up, fortunately.[1]

[1]: https://www.npr.org/sections/inside/2009/02/clean_content_po...
Is it patronizing to say, "I think the next president should be a woman?"
FT did a podcast series on the finances of porn and it was extremely interesting. Based on that, I'm not surprised.

Certain factions of society are getting better at pushing their narratives, via the power they have amassed. It's hard to watch, for sure.
If I worked on that project I would have been in tears of pride and happiness at the launch and how far it flew on the very first attempt. Assuming it is SpaceX staff being shown, I do not think the cheering is in any way staged. Lack of cheering would be strange if anything.
>will have worked out enough of the kinks by their 5th successful launch so as to be operating at a high success rate."

I agree with the first part, but the second half extrapolates too far IMO. One successful launch tells us very little about operational reliability.
It depends on what you count as a chip. Modern "chips" are actually a great many things all one one slab of silicon. Failure then knock out single components, resulting in the final chip going into one bin or another. And each of those components can be as complex as an entire "chip" from a few years ago. That is really creating reliability through numbers. Within every component any slight error will still brick that component. The binning process is really a edge case where the fab is playing at the margins. Any slight increase in error rate would quickly see every chip going into a "bad" bin, with the entire processing becoming uneconomical. Intel, and everyone else building chips, strives for perfection with a zero tolerance mantra.
Who cares? It's a lot of arguing over semantics that doesn't end up meaning anything in the grand scheme of things. SpaceX continues making progress on the development of Starship, and the tiny little mishaps that depend mostly on chance along the way don't end up actually mattering in the grand scheme of things.
> I'm a completely leftist liberal

I'm confused. Do you think the CPP is liberal? It's very authoritarian.
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From the livestream (at about T-30:00):

“We consider any data received that helps inform an improved future build of starship a success. From a milestone standpoint, our main goal is to clear the pad. Every milestone beyond that is a bonus. The further we fly, the more data we can collect.”
I don't understand how it's Google's responsibility to fact-check and police the links it merely indexes (to me, akin to suing a distributor) which is completely protected first amendment speech.

Why didn't the plaintiff simply go after the publisher (the website) and get the false information removed (as well as sue for defamation).
Recently, a group of high school girls jumped to their deaths in Matsudo, Japan, and the video trended on Twitter, and it showed up at the top of relevant searches for 'suicide'. To be honest, I think the priority display of this kind of shocking content is a problem not only for TikTok, but for social media in general.
Yeah I think many here would be fine applying the same logic to people.
I'm curious, is there a list somewhere of these world-changing industrial espionage incidents? Here's two more I remember off the top of my head. Not sure why the top results are the Smithsonian Magazine but here are some links:

Samuel Slater brings cotton mill technology to America in 1789:
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/how-industrial-esp...

Robert Fortune learns Chinese tea production methods and brings them to British India in 1848:
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-great-british-tea...

Someone (maybe you!) should write a book about this!
I also have antipathy toward the term "thought leader". It has Nazi/Stalinist/Maoist overtones to me.
> We have no idea what the final cost will be. But doesn't matter since NASA is the one paying.

The HLS contract SpaceX has gotten from NASA is a fixed-fee contract (like most contracts NASA gives out these days), so the final cost absolutely matters to SpaceX's bottom line. Anything they spend beyond the contracted amount they'll have to come up with themselves. A good example of this is Boeing, which is now booking losses on the Starliner program every quarter because it has gone over time and budget.
This test launch was never planned to actually make orbit. It was an "orbital test flight" only in the sense that it was intended to demonstrate system performance that would basically have been enough to reach orbit; the original plan was that they'd reach velocities and aerodynamic stresses similar to an actual orbital flight, test stage seperation, both stages, and part of the re-entry, then crash into the ocean, all on a sub-orbital trajectory. Something apparently went wrong at stage seperation.
Using the Cory Doctorow example, he converts articles into long threads when necessary. Here's an example: https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/110231149492915096

It does start with a link to his own page, but you can just skip that and keep reading if you want to. I think this is a great approach - if you just want to read the article you can click through, but if you really prefer a long thread you can read that instead, and then easily repost or respond to a particular quote from the thread.

It's true that you lose unified view/readership tracking, but I think that's considered a positive for a lot of people.
How about not doing either?
I switched to an Ergodox-EZ about 3 years ago, and I don't regret doing it at all. I didn't switch layout tho, stayed on AZERTY.

My experience is that at first it was very frustrating. I went from ~80WPM on my macbook keyboard to ~20WPM on the ergodox. After a couple of weeks I was able to write text at a comfortable speed again, but any special character was painfully slow, as I had to consciously think where each character was, and often look it up on my layout. After about 3 months I was back up to 80WPM.

What took a long time as well, was configuring my layout to fit my programming needs, it took me about 6 months to come up with a layout that had everything I needed (you can see it here if you're curious[1]). My recommendation is to do it incrementally, trying with something general at first, then with use seeing what feels right and doesn't.

In the end it was a really good idea, a lot of back pain I had has gone away, and after long typing session I have way less pain in my wrists and hands.

[1]: https://configure.zsa.io/ergodox-ez/layouts/BOLz0/ybXMx/0
Maybe if you were only planning on doing something once. They've already nearly completed the next rocket. The whole point of this launch was a test. There was nothing on it. The next iteration will also be a test, and likely the next few after that. They'll even fly their own satellites up on test vehicles until they've worked out more of the kinks. Then before you know it, it'll be as reliable as falcon 9 and launching 100 times a year.
The cost per person is indeed much more. That's why he's talking about charging everyone the cost of a first class ticket rather than offering the usual economy etc prices.
The testing rocket is less reliable (and unmanned). The tests happen earlier in development
This almost sounds like the start of a joke.... 'so an engineer, a politician, and an accountant walk into a bar.' One's the head of SpaceX, one's the head of NASA, ones the head of Boeing. So yeah, I do think there's a fundamental difference there.
The described methodology has worked very well for the Falcon 9 stack, and it's carried quite a few humans safely to orbit.

Iteration is key here. Nobody is talking about putting a human on Starship until it's quite reliable.
This doesn't perform well at all against questions that I've presented to ChatGPT 3.5 and received far better responses for. What are people seeing from this that is generating so much excitement?
I'm pretty sure they planned on the booster to land on a barge in the ocean
This is my flavor of activism. FWIW, I've participated in activism to stop destruction of green space and nature preserves from commercial interests. Stopping the expansion of urban sprawl, mcdonalds and walmart, and destruction of greenery (whether it be housing or a self storage business) is something I'm passionate about.
GPT-2B-001
Oh, In that case there’s no such thing failure then. Lucky for them
I think there is kind of a figure/ground effect where there's two ways of looking at a given state machine but it's impossible to hold both in your mind at the same time. You're either thinking about the "path through" and the effects along the way, or you're looking at a single state and its valid transitions. Both are both, obviously, but to make a change to an existing machine you need to start somewhere.

The helper fns, or named types, or whatever approach, will have to commit to one of those "views" leaving you on your own for the other one. Your example clearly shows the "paths through" eg the start, end, and effects. But to modify it you need to focus on a single state, and figure out which other states and transitions are available from there, which it doesn't help with.

You could phrase the helpers instead to make the transition map clearer, but then you obscure the start/end/effects view. I'm maybe not explaining this well but it's a problem I've run into in some way with every state machine after its implementation. They are like regex they make sense when you're building it and have all the context but later it's hard to put it back together.
This, in itself, is an oversimplification simplification.

Signals travel through traces. It's just that the motion of charges in the conductor is mediated by electromagnetic forces, and electric and magnetic fields are not constrained to the conductor. Indeed, electrochemical batteries aside, most of the energy storage in an electrical circuit is mediated by fields interacting with the surrounding space.

At low switching speeds, these effects are inconsequential outside discrete components specifically designed to exploit them (capacitors, inductors). At high speeds, these small capacitances and inductances begin to have perceptible effects, for example turning the PCB a non-negligible capacitor that induces voltages and currents on other layers.

A related problem is that when trace length is no longer negligible in function of wavelength, you can no longer treat signals as changing the potential across the entire conductor in an instant. You get different voltages in different places, and all of sudden, you have to worry about wave propagation - reflections, etc.

Some of the advice in this article isn't entirely sound; for example, you certainly don't need to worry about sharp trace angles or vias at 50 MHz. Similarly to the fetish of (often discontinuous!) ground planes, there's a lot of PCB design advice that matters in specific use cases (and even there, needs to be done well) that over time morphed into a bit of a "you absolutely need to do this in your Arduino project or else".
In my opinion with the recent Ice Spice song and AI generated Drake, I feel like an artists voice and likeness should be covered by copyright laws. It’s kind of absurd that someone could make a song with someone else’s voice, and not pay royalties of any sort.

David Guetta released a song a few months ago with an AI sample, so he may be the pioneer of this new era. He said he used an online text generator to create an Eminem rap verse. He then copied the text and pasted into another website to generate Eminem’s voice. He said he did it to just mess around with AI and being creative, but he didn’t agree that it should be legal for him to do that.

https://youtu.be/lm-o6joqChc
By "Flight Termination System" I meant some automatic process, if such a system exists. It might just be a big red button at this point (since the goal is data collection). or maybe it's a very generous flight envelope, but the tumble took it far enough off course that it tripped.
I think it is a subtle difference.

SpaceX does not have a difference in intended reliability, or a difference in design reliability. (At least for the rocket as a whole. One could argue that 33 engines allows lower engine reliability through redundancy)

What they DO have is a significant difference in prototype reliability for live launch. This is clear when you look at their launch history.
By fixing the underlying conditions that lead to the behaviour classified as ADHD rather than depending on stimulants as a(n admittedly very effective) crutch to power through them.
Apparently, you've never read the DMCA or any national defense laws. 100% legal and happens daily.
If you're looking for a delightful book on the subject of infinity, check out Beyond Infinity by Eugenia Cheng.

She covers the infinite hotel problem mentioned in another comment, plus all the topics listed here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beyond_Infinity_(mathematics...

Very fun read.
I use Syncthing to sync KeepassXC db. It works flawlessly.
> While at the same time despite being a controlled substance because they're supposedly so addictive people with ADHD forget to take adderall and with normal use you don't take it every day.

This is incorrect: Normal use of stimulant medication is to take it regularly every day.

We also have evidence from studies showing that the brain adapts to consistent dosing in order to counter some of the damaging oxidative effects of amphetamine. Inconsistent dosing could undermine this adaptation and does not mirror the dosing protocol used in studies to determine long term safety. Sporadic dosing is also known to cause sensitization effects in studies, which can sensitize people to the negative side effects of a drug or exaggerate cravings.

Some people do take medication holidays as recommended by doctors, but even those should be done on a pre-determined schedule.

People get themselves into trouble when they start treating Adderall like an ad-hoc drug that they can take more or less of depending on how they feel that day or how much work they need to get done. This not only leaves the brain in a constant and unpredictable state of flux, it creates an association between “I need to do work” and “I need more Adderall”. Patients who go down this path often end up escalating doses, playing games with saving up pills to take more, or trying to talk their prescribers into extra dosages beyond what they need. It ultimately ends with higher tolerance and reduce effectiveness.

> If you don't refill your Rx of antidepressants your doctor will be notified and reach out to you because stopping has such pronounced effects.

This also isn’t true. There are many medications with withdrawal symptoms far worse than antidepressants. Some drugs can be potentially fatal if discontinued abruptly. Pharmacies don’t generally hunt down doctors when a patient doesn’t get a refill.

Antidepressant withdrawal (without taper) can be difficult for some, but so can withdrawing from Adderall. There are entire subreddits acting as support groups for people tapering down Adderall and trying to get back to feeling normal after taking Adderall for years.

Stimulants are definitely habit-forming and have a high abuse potential. Let’s not downplay it.
You can buy a split keyboard that allows you to use it in non-split mode, like mine.

After switching to a split keyboard (Dygma Raise), I can't live without it! Typing on a traditional keyboard really really sucks now, my hands never hurt before switching to a split keyboard, but now they do hurt if I spent the whole day typing on a laptop keyboard. I also absolutely love the "layer" thing and the thumb buttons, so I don't have to move my hands out of position to type things like arrow keys and home/end/pageup. 10/10 would recommend split keyboards to everyone.