skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Need to see the numbers before passing judgement. Dirt is cheap compared to concrete. Depending on how many cycles the concrete is expected to last it may be cheaper both short and long term to just have "ablative dirt" and bulldoze around afterwards "reloading" the launcher. There's also other variables like how long it takes for the engines to stabilize and the launcher to release the rocket, weight of rocket, etc that would go into it.
This is a king you're talking about.

There was no free exchange. There was conquest and centuries of theft by thugs in fancy hats.
Easy once you realise squaring a squared number is the square root of the square to the power of 4.

Which you hit very fast even if you take a simple approach to the search space.
Same. I've noticed a few times where a solid strand of my hair suddenly turned into a curious grey/white colour, with perhaps a bit of a reddish interval inbetween, then after some length turns back into the original colour...

And once it didn't turn all the way, but it got stuck on a curious reddish-yellow colour, then reverted.
I mean, I love me some BBC, but there are plenty of publicly funded media outlets that are essentially just state propaganda. I don't think public funding is a panacea.
That...doesn't follow because F9 and Starship are different systems.

Mercury and Gemini both had good track records. Apollo and Shuttle, not so much.

Put differently, how much would you be willing to bet that their FMEA has caught literally every failure mode possible?
You better ask it to write software to analyze logs rather than analyze logs. Or your OpenAI bill will go to the roof.
> because the lead manager is now a prompt-engineer

This is actually one of my bigger short-term concerns, where someone who doesnt have any real understanding or good intuition is given the illusion of competence, while only creating more problems and work for those who have actual competence.

Referencing the four stages of competence[1], this set of persons being Unconsciously Incompetent, are more likely to cause far more harm than good in the medium term, in the name of efficiency or such.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_stages_of_competence
The a to Z of Artificial Intelligence
Personally I use this pattern to make subcommands:

main() {
if [[ $1 ]]; then
cmd_"$@"
return
fi

cmd_all "$@"
}

cmd_all() {
cmd_something "$@"
cmd_some-other-thing
}

cmd_something() {
...
}

cmd_some-other-thing() {
...
}

main "$@"

I find it much easier to understand when you execute things in a predictable order and you can have a `set -x` to follow everything through. If it's too slow, then only the show bits should be parallelized.

At work, on the other hand, every project uses something like this in the Makefile:

-include $(shell 'pwd')/makefile-modules/*/*Makefile*

That, and wildcard job names makes it quite difficult to follow the flow when things break.
I'm genuinely surprised and more than a little shocked and concerned that there are developers out there who are unfamiliar with state machines and their use. I think of state machines as being foundational knowledge, like sorting algorithms, b-trees, etc.
How did you feel then vs now? Still processing
Are you doing alright? Yes. Still have some cushion. But it made me realize that you should never go the extra mile for a company. Working long nights, weekends, skipping vacation. JUST DON'T DO It for the company. I know "you" will be just like me and will not click until it happens to you ;-)
Are you looking for/have you found work? No. It is hard you if you do not build/have a network. Lot's of "I saw your profile and would like you to apply for company x" Then you apply and never hear back. there are also lots of scams for fake jobs to to get as much info from you as they can.
How have your feelings about the industry changed? I would love to change industry..perhaps go into farming.
Yeah. It's one thing to blow up during test firings, or when trying completely novel maneuvers like the belly flop.

It's another thing entirely to do that during stage separation. Sure, historically separation has been risky, but it's nothing novel. They didn't seem to expect the vehicle to survive past that anyways.

There would be a delay even if another vehicle was ready to go - the launch site is a wreck.
It's been launched beyond the environment. Nothing's out there.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/04/could-tiktok-ban...

Who wants to bet e2ee capable apps hit the ban list next? All tech companies are gonna be hit with a "backdoor or ban" ultimatum from the US.
The act of committing violence against another person with a weapon itself is traumatic. Most people can't simply turn off their instinct for empathy and kill another person in cold blood simply because the other is an "enemy," and not suffer psychological consequences, possibly even PTSD. Even police officers, professional killers that they are, have to go through mandatory counseling and assessment after a shooting.

Realistically, your argument isn't to lessen trauma, but to simply normalize it. Which is exactly what American culture already does.
No one has put forth a satisfactory explanation for this, in my humble opinion. There's lots of speculation that it has to do with chargebacks, or lawsuits over revenge porn or something. But nothing more than speculation.
I don't know, coffee here costs 1€ everywhere
I do find it curious that not that much science came out of the Byzantine empire- Yes there was some, but (with my admittedly limited knowledge) it does seem to pale in comparison to the earlier stuff from Greece, Rome or even the Arab Caliphates with their scholars in Mathematics and Physics.

It seems like it was intellectual, but didn't have a proportional output of science or art that has stood the test of time.

Feel free to disagree and tell me why I'm wrong
Pouring new concrete is cheap, they’ve already done it multiple times from damage due to test fires. Each time they reformulate the concrete and it needs less repair.

After they get to orbit they can start putting payloads on board, and the tests will pay for themselves. I’d say the risk of bankruptcy is very low.

Edit:
Just saw photos of the crater under stage zero. Looks like they do need a flame diverter lol.
> 80% of the energy in a rocket goes to adding sideways motion.

I have not researched this at all, so I'm not doubting you, but doesn't most of the energy go into accelerating the remaining fuel? So, by the rocket equation, shouldn't you be way ahead of the game by starting at the edge of space?
> A shame JSV is a total creep.

I take JSV means Jeremy Singer-Vine (https://www.jsvine.com/). Why do you think he's a "total creep"?
> is it not concerning that 30 employees, all of whom are remote and not on PTO, have not even opened their laptops in a month?

One of the employees commented that the company gave a lot of people outdated Thinkpads, so they use their personal computers at home.

I had a company-issued laptop that I only used when traveling. If the company looked up stats on laptop use, I would have been near the bottom of the list for that reason. Doesn't mean I wasn't working.
IIRC a single-thread, slow userland that is. Emacs is the only CLI program I've ever run that would take a second or two to render when quickly switching tmux panes. I'll never get the "use emacs for everything" mantra.
I do have children. The thing is that I know what my children like to eat and don't like to eat, but ChatGPT does not.

If I had to direct, say, a human servant who is very good at cooking, but who doesn't know my kids, to plan meals for my family, I would suggest 4-6 meals that we eat frequently, 7-10 that we eat a bit less frequently, and then maybe mention a couple of things that my kids don't like. And specific dietary requirements if we had them.

I would expect that person to sort of randomly choose from the suggested meals, with the frequent ones more frequent, and then maybe try a couple of new things which don't match any of the not-likes. (And then ask us if we liked them before making them again.)

But it seems that the only hard parts are coming up with the spec to give to that person (which I do), and then varying it based on feedback (which the cook would do, but which ChatGPT doesn't do). What am I missing?
No only are there more being built, but this launch used engines that are already obsolete. They are learning stuff by building the rocket, by testing the components and by using them to do a test launch. They are trying to wring as much learning out of each step as possible.
I guess I'm not sure what point you're making. If you consider a test flight failure to be part of the overall failure rate, then you're treating it the same as a "real" flight. The government is constrained to less experimentation on every level from a daily basis up through test flights. Overall they do less useful engineering and more unnecessary work.
> getting together with a couple of very good mates

I suspect the clinically depressed/ptsd impacted folks don't have "a couple good mates" who are appropriate trip sitters.
In addition, for recipes, it’s just a better Google. If I do “Give me a concise recipe for X” it gives me one. No fluff, no ads. Just ingredients and steps. For example. I asked for pasta carbonara, concise and then even more concise. Final result:

Quick Carbonara (4 servings)

Ingredients:

12 oz pasta

4 eggs

1 cup cheese

8 oz bacon

4 garlic

Salt, pepper

Parsley (opt)

Cook pasta, save water.

Mix eggs, cheese.

Fry bacon, garlic.

Combine, mix, season.

Serve.

Great if you’re grocery shopping and want to make sure you don’t forget anything.
The early to mid 90's through the very early 2000's were a /real/ creative explosion, before the vultures descended on the Internet and took it in a revenue-seeking direction. Most netizens had personal webpages, chock full of their passions and sharing information. Now it's a vast wasteland of constantly regenerated rage-inducing content and vapid self-promotion and attention seeking. Our search engines have become ad businesses. Our "social media" only exists to siphon off our information and build dossiers on us to more precisely target ads to us and get us to buy worthless crap. There's been an explosion all right, but one more akin to a burst sewer pipe.
Not for the moment, it is not polished enough. Right now it is just a webapp written in React and prosemirror running on top of a CozoDB instance. And it is very rough around the edges (good enough for myself, but maybe not for others).

Once local LLMs that are powerful enough become available, though, I think I will try to find time to polish and publish it, since it can then act as a showcase for what a thinking agent can achieve.
> What good is a VPN when multiple apps on your computer are phoning home?

The point of a VPN is that whenever an app phone home, they will do so through the VPN. Standard VPN configuration (which I supose the Mullvad client performs?) is to entirely disallow any traffic that doesn't go through the VPN
The StarOffice User Portal
Twitter is easy to sign up for, doesn't really require any sort of actual human details, and runs entirely on essentially short text blurbs that are easy to automate, scan, parse, and track.

Retweets, ratios, and bog-standard sentiment analysis also give immediate feedback as to success of a tweet. Real easy to tweak a bot to produce content, or to game the system -- and that's before GPT-4.

Facebook at least requires you to pretend you're a real person with a real face and real friends.
We didn't have a federal law in the US for age restriction on tobacco until the 90s. As far as I can tell tobacco wasn't regulated at all until after the cigarette roller was invented (1881) and tobacco was pushed onto society in massive quantities. Even then it took 2 years for a single state to pass age restrictions on cigarettes and it wasn't until 1939 that all states had a law. Some states even removed the law before it was federally unforced in the 90s.

My point is that if an industry has enough money and influence it doesn't actually matter if it's bad for people. Businesses will sell anything to anyone as long as it's profitable. We've known tobacco can cause cancer for almost as long as cigarettes have existed.

source: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4902755/
The issue is that that dirt and rocks flying around damages all the other expensive equipment at the launch site. There is going to be some very dead kit down there. They can't do that every time.

But big dust clouds also upset people, and SpaceX can't afford to fall out with the locals.
Seems like they could have just pivoted buzzfeed.com to actual journalism and stop doing the culture war tabloid stuff altogether? Instead buzzfeednews.com links to buzzfeed.com all over the place with no obvious distinction between news and gossip https://www.buzzfeednews.com/topic/twitter
Credit isn't unethical. There are a lot of good things that would have never happened without credit.

Even employment is a form of credit. "I'll work X hours on this task, and at this time, you will pay me $X" is an incredibly simplified form of credit.

Borrowing a few bucks to make it to payday from your friends isn't unethical for either the lender or the payer.

Usury is what is unethical about lending, specifically unregulated usury. That, and being allowed to refuse service to people or businesses that you don't like or whose legal business your stakeholders find distasteful.

If you're in the banking or finance business, you shouldn't be allowed to choose to not provide service for citizens who are performing legal business, and you should have the amount of profit that you make from a lending transaction regulated and limited by a third party whose goal is to ensure equal treatment.
When 100% full of fuel, the stack has a thrust to weight ratio (TWR) of 1.5 (IIRC.)
We recently released 1B parameter model trained on a mix of data.[1] If you got your domain-specific data, our platform can cover the rest.

[1]: https://twitter.com/jefrankle/status/1649060478910357504?s=4...
Regarding 1, wikipedia about Rüppell's vulture (highest-flying bird) explains the adaptation:
"The birds have a specialized variant of the hemoglobin alphaD subunit; this protein has a great affinity for oxygen, which allows the species to absorb oxygen efficiently despite the low partial pressure in the upper troposphere. A Rüppell's vulture was confirmed to have been ingested by a jet engine of an airplane flying over Abidjan, Ivory Coast on 29 November 1973 at an altitude of 11,300 m (37,000 ft)."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%C3%BCppell%27s_vulture
Great, now call up the guys at Thrustmaster to put in "manual" transmissions. :)
The first line of the post:

"On April 18 at least six police officers from the National Operations Department (NOA) of the Swedish Police visited the Mullvad VPN office in Gothenburg with a search warrant."

1) The government put together the cause/case for a warrant.

2) They got it issued.

3) They showed up with six cops from the national police.

That doesn't sound like the setting for a "technical discussion" between two old friends to me...

Have you ever seen a search warrant involving anything technical/electronic executed? They're looking for data and there's no way to know for sure where that data is/might be from anywhere from a single cell phone to a server farm. They show up and take anything/everything electronic (usually enumerated in the search warrant like "storage media, computing devices, etc, etc"). They walk out with it, take it back to a certified technician of some sort to clone/image it for evidentiary purposes, and then maybe give it back at some point (depending on the situation).
Yeah. A commercial VPN that's demonstrated its record-keeping policy under subpoena is reasonably safe if your objective is pirating media. HN commentators act like the VPN target market is Sino-Iranian freedom fighters who split their time between rescuing Uyghurs and searching for a way to cure their magical curse that makes them dissolve into dust if Google can tell they did a search for good restaurants in the area.

Most people are just trying not to get a scary letter from HBO.
> You can tax rich people all you want you just can’t take their money because you can.

Revolutions against monarchies have disproven this repeatedly.

You can just take the wealth of monarchs and their associated hereditary elites “because you can”.

Arguably, getting to a negotiated surrender tends to produce better long-term results, but that’s not a “can’t”, in fact, the alternative is a necessary foundation for a negotiated outcome.
The author has chosen to 'Tell HN' so it seems reasonable to ask them for further details?

I have lots of hard-to-analyse logs but there are constraints which prevent me from sharing them with OpenAI. I am nonetheless curious about whether to do so would be worthwhile or not.
This seems like a bad take. Are you going to tell me ibuprofen is worthless because it doesn't fix the underlying issue?

No, it's a tool. Nobody is saying you should take casual MDMA to discuss every day solutions. But it does highlight the power of allowing people to express things that they might otherwise have difficulty expressing.

And maybe you learn something about your partner in the process.

This is why it's a powerful therapeutic tool. People with PTSD can talk through their most troubled experiences and lift that weight from their shoulders. Something they may be incapable of doing in a sober context.

In that sense, it's not just "anesthetizing" as you so lovingly put it, there is therapeutic value beyond a a momentary high.
BuzzFeed news is shutting down
Reminds me of some of the discussion in Charles Mann's "1491", regarding the agricultural techniques of the Indians (honoring his use of that over Native Americans) before the Colombian Exchange [0]. The natives in South America had figured out symbiotic relationships between several plant species and grew them together in "Milpas" [1] (and how this goes against the "pristine land" myth many mistakenly hold regarding the Indian's use of the land).

[0]: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/107178/1491-second-...

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milpa
It is hard to balance money with time these days, especially if you are doing it on the side, or even doing it for an employer.

Back then I was in high school and it was literally spend nothing you don't have to and avoid having to get a job for as long as possible. Good times!
Donating money for someone to buy land is a big no for me. Privatisation of land to some benefactor doesn't seem to be the best strategy for preservation. How do you know ownership will not be transferred in the future?

Also, why is it we never see a "reverse damage done for centuries to european and north american forests" NGO? Why do you always think of the Amazon? Leave peruvians, bolivians, brasilians, etc alone. And stop using coal to generate electricity, thank you very much.
First-stage burnout speed was too low for orbit, I think. Telemetry peaked at 2,148 km/hour = 597 m/s – I don't know the nominal values but this seems non-viable to me.

(?)
I see 2 out of 30 posts about AI on the front page and counted 7 out of 30 on new. Doesn’t seem like a crisis to me. On the other hand I’m the kind of person who thinks the solution to “too many irrelevant feed items” is to make an A.I. that filters them.
Really doesn't seem that way

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17397271

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16587249

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16328676

Pretty even mix of enthusiasm and doomsaying. There's even people saying that Tesla will go bankrupt and Apple will absorb them.
SpaceX launches its Starship rocket for the first time [Updated]
I think they are overstating the importance of the involved parties here. YouTube does not need UMG and other copyright holders to survive, especially if the generative AI thing pans out.

At the same time, they don't need to take a definitive stance on this... they can do "nothing," not targeting the AI generated songs in particular while not pushing back against the valid DMCA requests they receive. If UMG can't figure out a legal way to take down a song, that is their problem and they need to go to court/lawmakers. This is not sustainable, but I think it would last long enough for laws/governments to figure this out... or for record labels to become completely irrelevant.
It's not paid as a service.

See Fractional Reserve Banking for the gory details, but the gist of it is, private banks create money out of thin air (within limits) so they can lend it to you. And then they charge interest back for it.

That's not how it should work. First there's the morally questionable interest rates to begin with (not all societies or religions permitted that), but even if we assume it is legitimate, the justification for this is something about investment and risk taking. Which are supposed to involve your own funds, not money you printed out of thin air.

But there is a risk, and there is a service. How should they charge for it? Well, it's simple: risks are supposed to be (and are) handled by insurances. And then there's the paperwork and checking and all that that most likely should involve a flat rate. This should be much more ethical than charging interest over money that didn't even exist to begin with.

(Edit: 3 downvotes in 30 minutes, no rebuttal… guess I hit a nerve. I'll just say this: if you disagree with anything I've said here so strongly that you feel the need to downvote it, at least take the time necessary to articulate to yourself why.)
It is not unreasonable to believe in conspiracy theories involving China, because they have a centralized, authoritarian government, which means that true conspiracies occur frequently, and are mandated by the government.
Interesting. Oh also forgot the question about the vendor but I'm pretty sure it's zscaler? Unless there's something else behind the scenes that's catching sites, there's no branding on the error page other than my org's, it's completely whitelabeled.
This will only drive rent prices up as landlords have to take on more risk.
Textbook example of whataboutism.

The fact that the US is not dunking on Saudi Arabia does not change the fact that the CCP is a murderous, genocidal, antidemocratic force that needs to be contained.
High risk business, other businesses are classified as the same when you try to sign up for a merchant bank account, like investment services and marijuana companies.
Considering the massive scale of deforestation going on in the Amazonas, this feels like trying to put out a forest fire by spitting into it.

"In the Legal Amazon, deforestation reached 356 km² in March 2023, according to DETER data."
https://www.wwf.org.br/?85360/Deforestation-alerts-remain-hi...

365 km² are 87,970 acres. And that's just Brazil. The goal of the junglekeepers is to save 300,000 acres. They are at it for more than 10 years now.
Came up on Charity Navigator for me, searching by name. No rating, but it says they are a 501(c)(3).

https://www.charitynavigator.org/ein/881863507
This could be the only flight where they get data on actual aerodynamic forces during a spin. It's crazy expensive to test that again so might as well make the most of it.
Maybe true, but it'd be good to figure out what the harms are, if they exist, and their causes instead of handwaving about algorithms. It's the difference between banning all social media and regulating it to remove specific harms.
I currently use Firefox for passwords, this syncs nicely between desktops and despite their awkward killing of Lockwise it still works adequately for logging in to Android apps. I don't see any compelling reason for me to switch here even though I already pay for proton mail.
I would hate this so much!

I can see how an actual image is useful in certain circumstances, but I wouldn't want it to appear in the code itself. Just include the image in the documentation folder and refer to it in the code by name.
Maybe they're a LLM and got confused by the keyword "conspiracy theory" and the double negative in the statement.