skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Seriously, are any of you "increasing output" with AI?

Depends on what I'm doing.

Professionally, I'm finding it very good for a couple of things:

- Exploring frameworks and libraries for languages I'm already familiar with

- Writing documentation for code that I've written (I don't use this at my workplace to avoid leaking internal code, but I use it as a way to write small tutorials based on side projects I do on my own)

For writing code I find it very unreliable, even for boilerplate.
I am not disputing that this is progress. It is an admirable effort. I am happy for them.

I interpreted literally the words they used about the plan for today's launch.
American justice is about extracting money from a corporate entity not personal accountability.
Thats basically saying a car made in the mid 1900 is the same as a car made in 2020's because they have 4 wheels.

It demonstrates a profound ignorance of the improvements made in technology and engineering in over 50 years.
Tons of data, including achieving max-Q
I'd rather unload trucks at Walmart than work for this asshole. Of course then we'd hear him whine "nobody wants to work", and the iron is he's right once you complete the thought "nobody wants to work for an asshole like you."
Duke of Shao
“HTML is the backbone of web development”
I'm surprised this statement was downvoted.

It's absolutely correct.

SpaceX is a great demonstration of an "ideal mix" of new and old. It has a lot of "classic" "measure twice; cut once" planning, but also an absolutely essential "YOLO" mindset for live testing, which can cause big failures, but also give the most valuable data.

Their manned flights have been great (except for that toilet thing...).
Some common JWK Set gotchas
Arguably the sex is, the drinking mostly helps with that
I think you should look into it in two years. Right now it’s early access, and in this case early seems to mean “first successful merge to main that builds”
The problem begins with the organizations who govern curriculum and expectations of those who are licensed to practice mental health services.
It didn't blow up on the pad. They'll be happy to blow up dozens of these, hopefully incrementally perfecting the design each time.
'If you want to kill your dog, accuse him of having rabies.' (French proverb)
I don't know how true it is, but allegedly[1] the algorithm of tiktok in china is tuned to promote achievements and education, while in the western world it promotes debauchery and stupidity.

Doesn't take a huge leap to think it could be intentional..

[1] https://www.opindia.com/2022/07/tiktok-china-engineering-oth...
When it started doing cartwheels and the announcer said "beginning the flip for stage separation" I was like "WTF does that mean? That can't be nominal!"
You opened saying you are treading on "dangerous grounds" and then said dumb garbage. You made a sweeping generalization off of one little anecdote. As a working parent, I am upset with your mindset. Instead of supporting your fellow worker trying to get by in these precarious times, you use them as an example to drag down others? It's lazy and it's bullshit.
Yes, and that was what that line said before, too. The change removed a specific call-out for misgendering, and deadnaming. There were no specific call-outs for anything else.

Is this a targeted jab? I have no idea, but it certainly doesn't make someone outright anti-Trans, particularly when the hateful conduct policy continues to ban dehumanization based on gender identity.

Before:

> Slurs and Tropes

> We prohibit targeting others with repeated slurs, tropes or other content that intends to degrade or reinforce negative or harmful stereotypes about a protected category. This includes targeted misgendering or deadnaming of transgender individuals.In some cases, such as (but not limited to) severe, repetitive usage of slurs, or racist/sexist tropes where the context is to harass or intimidate others, we may require Tweet removal. In other cases, such as (but not limited to) moderate, isolated usage where the context is to harass or intimidate others, we may limit Tweet visibility as further described below.

> Dehumanization

> We prohibit the dehumanization of a group of people based on their religion, caste, age, disability, serious disease, national origin, race, ethnicity, gender, gender identity, or sexual orientation.

---

After:

> Slurs and Tropes

> We prohibit targeting others with repeated slurs, tropes or other content that intends to degrade or reinforce negative or harmful stereotypes about a protected category. In some cases, such as (but not limited to) severe, repetitive usage of slurs, or racist/sexist tropes where the context is to harass or intimidate others, we may require Tweet removal. In other cases, such as (but not limited to) moderate, isolated usage where the context is to harass or intimidate others, we may limit Tweet visibility as further described below.

> Dehumanization

> We prohibit the dehumanization of a group of people based on their religion, caste, age, disability, serious disease, national origin, race, ethnicity, gender, gender identity, or sexual orientation.
>(That shot of the engines in flight was pretty amazing though, bright circles like a Spielberg alien ship.)

I had similar thoughts too. When it first cut to the shot exposed for all of the thrusters, I spoke out loud how gorgeous it was and I'm sitting here by myself. This shot plus the recent spirals from fuel dumps, SpaceX has given us some cool imagery lately.
I wonder if, after seeing that performance, they'll decide to weaken (or more accurately, remove extra weight from) structure they don't need.
As the parent of two daughters I am not sure I would be super supportive of MtF in female sports at a competitive level if it actually occurred to my family. It would probably feel unfair to my daughters. But regardless, I don't support harassment of transgender people as Elon Musk now allows on Twitter. To me these are separate things.
Oh okay, yeah that makes more sense then.
Efficient shallow learning as an alternative to deep learning
In Praise of Shadows
what was the monthly running cost? and how much did you earn from ads? (i am guessing it was not that much because it doesn't sound like loosing adsense caused a lot of pain)
It’s not clear how this is relevant.
And?

MDMA very realistically shouldn’t be lumped in with cocaine, heroin, etc. Hell, opiates as a whole! Just based on the effect profile and typical usage patterns, I baselessly posit that one is more likely to be a daily marijuana user than a daily MDMA user, even taking into account the number of people that use each drug in the first place.

Nobody is holding you up with a knife or gun, or stealing the coins out of your car, to get their next fix of MDMA.

Nobody is acting aggressively on the street or in a nightclub because they’ve had MDMA, or not gotten enough of it.

MDMA is certainly not without its risks / dangers. Someone can easily irresponsibly take too much and end up in hospital or dead. Someone can easily take the right amount of the right stuff and end up in hospital or dead just because they had an adverse reaction. You could ruin your relationships, throw your brain off-balance such that you never really enjoy anything again. There’s the whole ‘gateway drug’ argument. Blah blah blah.

Let’s really stop and think very carefully about whether these risks (which unlike say…meth, heroin, etc, have an absolutely negligible societal impact per capita compared to alcohol, tobacco, etc) should even show up on the radar when weighed up against the increasingly proven positive effects of MDMA-assisted psychotherapy.
The goal of this flight was always to prove they could get off the launch pad. They got past max-q, ergo it’s a success.

The launch pad is intact, so the next starship rolling off the assembly line should launch in a couple months.
There's a good discussion on minimizing heap allocations: https://nnethercote.github.io/perf-book/heap-allocations.htm...
It probably is, and the English name for that Pokemon is a reflection of that. How likely would duck come along carrying ingredients for stew? That’d be “far-fetched.”
Your claim "they complained to their governments to ban the superior competition" is evidence free.

Hilarious that you claim that Huawei is superior tech and yet they have horrible code in the same comment.

Btw, US did find backdoors.

https://www.cnet.com/tech/mobile/us-finds-huawei-has-backdoo...

1. So China banning Google, FB, Instagaram and others is China banning superior tech? Got it.

2. China even bans US movies routinely. E.g, Top Gun Maverick was banned due to a tiny Taiwan patch but funnily when the Chinese copycat couldn't live up to it, they did a self ban on it. https://gamerant.com/top-gun-maverick-ripoff-china-canceled-...
...more or less as expected.
Show HN: A webassembly port/demo of Ostinato traffic generator
I wish more people spoke about their negative experiences with psychedelics. It's a sobering and necessary counterpoint to most of what floods these threads of how it changed someone's life, but the "how" is largely ambiguous.
Sorry but engineering doesn't give a shit about your feelings.

The primary objective was to leave the pad and not destroy the billion dollars of gear on it. Everything else after that was a win.
Actual video here if you want to see it for yourself: https://www.youtube.com/live/-1wcilQ58hI?t=45m
The technological developments in the 60s/70s in aerospace never cease to amaze me. The SR-71, X-15, Saturn 5 rocket all developed when computers were less powerful than the NES yet they achieved things that no one else has been able to accomplish since (although I am sure there these have been surpassed via classified Skunk Works).
I suspect SpaceX will have to add something resembling an escape system before the thing gets "man-rated". That system could also be used to protect the passengers in case of a failed landing. It will add weight and thus lower the carrying capacity but they seem to have enough margin to allow for such an addition. They already have the header tanks in the top of Starship, adding a number of escape engines and some explosive bolts to separate the nose cone from the rest of the ship should be doable. Add some parachutes to make the thing land at a survivable speed and you're done - beer coaster calculation style that is.
Ya, I am a part of the "problem" so to speak, though I do my best to create content that not only ranks well in a search engine, but is genuinely helpful for the reader.

I suppose it was inevitable in the drive of the commercialization of everything in life?
The Amigas can read/write 720KB DD PC floppies but indeed not HD floppies. Starting with the A600 they had an internal IDE port. The "ACSI" port of the ST is a custom/proprietary port which needs an active adapter to interface with standard SCSI.
You touch upon an interesting advantage that private space engineering has that, depending on one's attitude on the topic, may or may not be fair.

NASA has to do everything in the public eye and their process reflects this. Private enterprise is allowed to hide information, which implies they are allowed to massage information.

(... this probably says unfortunate things about the nature of governance by public sentiment that it's best not to think about over-much if one is super-fond of democracies as engines of progress...)
StackOverflow is not just embedding random imgur-hosted images for that though but have a special arrangement with images hosted at i.stack.imgur.com - I doubt this change applies to them.
This argument implies that approving MDMA therapy is one of the biggest efforts in the country, consuming huge resources that could go to solving big societal issues.
It is not clear if they have any other secret ai tech inside besides everything they published: tensorflow, t5.
"What user problem is being solved by this?"

"Why do I need a screenshot of the "app" (i.e. webpage) I am already using?"
It would be better to burn those envelopes than shred them, IMO.
"harassment in the forms of [...] or inciting the community into support or disdain for a person, organization or community*"

This would cover pretty much every quote tweet ever. Also, how is incitement to SUPPORT a person harassment? Please stop praising me?

They also seem to take a strong ideological position in hate speech where they hint that its fine to stereotype/discriminate majorities but not minorities.
When SpaceX says their goals were to clear the launch tower, collect data and nothing more this seems like a huge success.
Someone created a concrete replacement that I think consumes CO2 during curing. There's also brick, stone, etc.
Interesting thought: Starship just expended more engines on a *test* (39?) than I believe the entire SLS program has budgeted through the end of the 2020's (16 from shuttle + 18 new = 34?).

edit: Never mind, it's slightly less – see the comment below correcting me. The SLS program has 40, not 34, RS-25's.
Even the Saturn V rockets could handle engine failures, and it had a much smaller number of them.
Well, even if your success factors are waaaay early, you have to account for the fringe event that everything keeps working out. So yeah, they filed a flight plan because theoretically the ship could get there.
> Using Replit with an account is way more janky than it was without needing to login.

It’s such a massive miss by their product teams. I don’t need this half-baked IDE. I want an interface that lets me run code as quickly as possible without any intermediate steps.
I like SpaceX Musk a lot more than Twitter Musk. It feels almost like this past year never happened.
Dressing yourself is a fundamental aspect of self expression. You completely ignore the question and just talk about gender and sex instead.

> Not at all. You characterized my position as “incel” above, because the people having all the kids mostly share my viewpoint. It’s the dominant view in Asia, Africa, the Middle East, etc. Liberal Americans are the most pathologically individualistic people in the world.

No, I categorized your position as being espoused by incels. Which is true. I don't care what you are.

> It’s the dominant view in Asia, Africa, the Middle East, etc. Liberal Americans are the most pathologically individualistic people in the world.

Well, we are talking about American culture here so I'm not sure what you think your point serves.
Not sure why they'd give the option to run at those resolutions then?
SLS will never reach land, you'll be splashing down in the middle of the ocean, stuck inside a tin can getting battered by waves until NASA can scramble their limited resources to get you.

The booster presumably like you will have been thrown into the ocean. Very wasteful system.
Ostinato is a packet crafter and traffic generator software to test networks and network devices. It's Qt based cross-platform desktop software.

Running the numbers recently, I found that 50% of those who downloaded the Ostinato trial version did not even install it!

Thinking about why, one of my hypothesis was that the download, install and run is one step too many in this SAAS age. Now Ostinato can't be made SAAS - not completely anyway since the agent which sends the actual packets needs to run on some hardware connected to the devices or network it is meant to test. But the GUI could be potentially SAASified. But to try Ostinato, just the GUI isn't enough - you need some ethernet ports.

So I wrote a demo agent with dummy ethernet ports and SAASified the GUI using Qt's Webassembly support and combined the two so that potential Ostinato users can try it directly in the browser! The whole app runs entirely on the client browser (assuming it's a modern browser capable of webassembly).

The demo preloads some pre-created packet streams that you can 'play' around with. You can also edit those or create your own from scratch.

Essentially my idea behind this web demo is to let people quickly try the product to see if it matches their needs before they make a purchase decision.

Earlier HN threads on Ostinato -
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13947567
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7049099

Happy to answer any questions and listen to any and all suggestions and feedback!

Disclosure: I created Ostinato in 2007 as a scratch-your-own-itch project and released it as GPLv3 open-source back in 2010 - you can still build from source without having to pay anything. I sell binary licenses on ostinato.org since 2016 to sustain the project. I quit my day job last year to try and make a living off this project.
That's not engineering. What they did is identical to developers copying code from SO and running it to see if it works.
It looked like a bunch of parts had fallen off during take-off. Not to bring up a tragedy so casually: but I'm reminded of when a piece of foam damaged an insulation tile on Challenger. It does speak to the robustness of their design that it was able to make it to separation without issues.

I do kind of agree with simondotau, too. Saying that the rocket just 'failed' doesn't take into account what they did get right. I think it's kind of disappointing that the media chose to take the opportunity to put down everyone involved in this activity for a cheap click. What they're doing is important and tremendously complex. This kind of thing just makes me hate the media even more.
I just asked you to do identify some - surely it shouldn't be this hard!
If you watched the spacex youtube feed there's no denying it was a smashing success. The employees were clearly celebrating even after the Rapid Unplanned Disassembly.
>from our curve we can see...

Just use Rolle's theorem. If you took calculus, you learned Rolle's theorem.
Let’s not move the goalposts. This company develops differently than historical aerospace. Success was defined as blowing up any point beyond the launch pad. It made it well past max-q which is the point of highest atmospheric stress on the rocket.
(Sorry, am not a science person). Why does the temperature go down until 11000 metres, then stay at -70F until 20000m, then starts going back up to 28F until 50000m, then starts going down again 83500m, stays at -119F until 90500m, rises up again until 100000m ?
Where are you located, and what are your academic goals before practicing? How will you respond to cease-and-desist type orders from licensing bodies who disagree with psychedelic-first therapy protocols?
That is awesome, I am glad to hear you enjoyed the site!

There was some odd rap uploaded for sure. There was also some really cool video game music remakes I remember finding.
The simple fact that anybody can be using these "impossible technologies" RIGHT NOW, just log in and play around: this time is different. It's no longer reading about scientific marvels and wondering "Yeah but probably no" ... now you can actually play with these large language models yourselves and if you aren't left speechless, I'll recommend that you probably need to learn how to ask better questions / interface with AI.
If I'm tasked with recording test data for x, y, and z and I only record x, is that a success? Now I need to launch another to try for the y, and z.

Edit: What would an unsuccessful test look like then?
List of cool spaceships being worked on now or recently:

* The Falcon 9, the first partially reusable spaceship that actually costs less than not re-using anything

* Terran R - a fully reusable space ship in the works by relativity space

* RocketLab Electron - an active rocket that is unique in its use of electric turbo pumps, 3d printed engines, and advanced composites use

* RocketLab Neutron - in the works, a larger rocket with the aim to be partially re-usable ala Falcon 9 but with a cheaper expendable 2nd stage and simpler design

* SpaceX Starship - in the works, (test flight today!) a large heavy lift vehicle with the aim to be fully reusable

* Blue Origin - working on a ship similar to starship

there are others!
I think there's a lot of craft we just don't know about.
Well, clearly not before AdSense or SEO.

By simple, I meant in the sense that some kid in high school could put up a site that's not rich in JavaScript, have people find it organically, not need to worry so much about scaling or DDOS, not need to worry about GDPR, not have the expectation of accessibility, and not need to have an iOS and Android app for people to actually use it.

This isn't to say that the same technology used in say 2005 can't be used today. But it's a time investment with not nearly as much of a likelihood of seeing a meaningful return.
In fact, the US[0] and New Zealand are the only countries were drug advertising like we see in the US are even legal. This absolutely will have an affect on perception

[0]: https://www.health.harvard.edu/medications/do-not-get-sold-o...
If the separation did not fail it probably would have made it to orbit.
Gotta love that good old American "Free Trade"... as long as it benefits them.
I'm kinda upset i never ever saw nsfw ever on imgur. But then i generally link-in from reddit and that's that. I didn't even think of it as a 'thing'.
I don't think it's going to replace ADHD medication whatsoever. How would that even work?
China is not a single entity. Huawei is not going to choose low quality high price local startup over suppliers with good reputation if they have that choice.

Sanction means those uncompetitive local startups don't have to compete with established players, giving them chance to catch up.
Yep. And they are trying to get Raptor 2 to less than $2M a pop (iirc). The "cattle not pets" of rocket science.
What happens to ecology, evolution, and biodiversity in times of mass extinction
'These are times of major changes in the environment, and how those changes impact the organisms is relevant to understanding our current environment and environmental changes'
Complete with "Why the hell are you tiling over I'm holding down the turn key as hard as I can", yeah. :)
Normally, I’d agree with you, but in this case, I think the medication is warranted. While PTSD may be caused by societal factors, healing large numbers of individuals from it is not going to happen without medication. Speaking as someone who is recovering from PTSD, I can tell you that no amount of talk therapy can heal it. It can help, but never heal it. If MDMA is effective as it appears to be, we must utilize it. If we heal people from PTSD, then we have a chance to heal society.
Good moment to watch the Apollo launch failure in Koyaanisqatsi again: https://vimeo.com/400276071 from 9:47
I kinda wish they'd have let it keep going in order to get the telemetry.

The altitude and velocity when things went sideways were in MRBM territory, not ICBM territory so the only thing they would have hit would have been the Atlantic ocean.
Look at the message, not at the source. There are many more sources which give the same message - or at least a similar one given how as we're talking history.
Are these created or captured with some 3d scanner? Impressive in any case.
The Art of Multiple Dispatch – a visulization of type lattice
I run a small forum for Range Rover enthusiasts, which does occasionally surface on Google but mostly seems to spread by word-of-mouth. That approach is handy if you can reach potential community members via "conventional" mass social media, but want a quiet wee corner to chat in without being marketed at.
2023 Landscape: Confronting Tech Power [pdf]
But it got off the pad and through max Q. Awesome achievement regardless!
How Two Music Legends Found Themselves at Some Anonymous TikTokker’s Mercy