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> if they would get lucky and none of the issues would manifest, they could assume that design is perfect and do not try to improve it. so it's good if whatever can go wrong goes wrong at test flight

I agree that the success should be measured in lessons learned from the launch. However we learned next to nothing about the second stage because the first stage failed for reasons that weren't unexpected.

So from that perspective the launch could be considered a failure, because they traded getting data on the second stage for learning a lesson that was already known.
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I tried it a couple days ago and so far my main gripe is that I am not all that familiar with Scala, which anyway seems like a great language. The project seems very well enginereed and the maintainer is very friendly (there is a Discord where you can ask questions and chat a bit). I'd recommend you to try it if you are curious about Scala.

As a side note, it's quite exhausting to enter into a random HN post and see that most of the discussion revolves around some negative comment that required zero effort. Not only the JVM aspect is completely irrelevant for this project, but this is an engine geared towards making 2D pixel art games for fun, not AAA games.
What prevents you from comparing two sedans? Hype?
My carrier is currently not doing eSIM. Also some low cost carriers can’t be contacted in any other way than a chat. Which is a problem in many real world situations if you need an eSIM asap. Sometimes there is no one in the chat available at all.
Google (and the dominant adtech mode of financing tech development) has long entered the cash cow period.

Discussing the minutiae of decision making and compensation of individuals who's primary job is to keep that stale show running is not particularly interesting from the perspective of tech development and any positive impact on peoples lives. (BTW What is the last time Google surprised you positively?)

It may be interesting to discuss this though in the context of broader corporate governance and market structure / competition and incentives. Is that extra × 100 factor in compensation that accrues only to oversized entities really necessary to incentivise individuals to work in private for-profit enterprize?

I give it to you that if you had 10 mini-Googles competing and 10 mini-Sundars receiving 1/10 in compensation at least one of them would be worth the money.
> but lands with 3-6, and three of those are the vacuum variant

First stage will likely use more than 3-6, none will be the vacuum variant.
Finally, proof that Musk is Veppers from Surface Detail. How else do you explain his ready access to dead people?
The thinkpad one yes. The others only get OS updates.

Still, it is much better than no updates at all.
The last time I dropped my phone and broke its screen I took out the SIM and left the phone in a repair shop. I went home, put the SIM in an old phone. If the broken phone had an eSIM, would I been able to use the old one as a backup? Maybe by going to a shop and askig for a physical SIM. That would be slower and less convenient. A physical SIM fits in a Samsung A40 which is probably the smaller and lighter Android phone available today and in much smaller phones of the past so it's definitely not a burden.
From 2009 to 2025, do the math.
Oh, I'd forgotten about that – good one, an underused feature of HTML.
Milks been less of an issue but cheese, yogurt and other products have plant in tiny font and you don’t often realize until you get home.
Except, side-loading has already existed on Android for... a long time. I regularly install from F-Droid, and it's totally possible to download an .apk from the Internet and install it. If your client was getting "cracked" it could already have been happening on Android for years (assuming you have an Android app). See also: Youtube vanced.

So really what you're saying in this comment is that you've written your backend APIs with the assumption that the only user is a benevolent app which you wrote. If it's possible for somebody to take your app and tweak it to circumvent your subscription's restrictions, then what prevents a person from hooking up their phone to a development HTTPS proxy, intercepting the API requests, and making their own cracked client without side-loading at all?

Side-loading is NOT a problem for subscription apps done properly, and it's NOT a problem for privacy or security, so long as the side-loading implementation is done responsibly.
While that might be the choice we're making and it seems like the first is obviously what owning a device should be like.

What if I actually want to pay a fee to a tightly controlled service? Like what if I do the math and determine that that benefits me more than actually owning the device? Should a regulatory agency be able to come in and tell this tightly controlled service they aren't doing it right when I am a happy customer?

> when discussing what rights a person should get for a piece of hardware they bought.

You already pre-decided that the first answer is correct without actually asking if anyone prefers the second.
Wasn't that his estimate from a decade ago?
I would say it is minimal, the help it provides. It will not get you to B1.
Because they chose to go ahead with the launch with no flame diverter or anything else that would've protected the launch pad?
"The Rolls Royce/Prada/... of beers"

Champagne is a brand for sparkling wine.
People pay a premium (justified or not) for it.

My examples are even more unrelated than the beer, still the companies would likely defend their brand.

Miller is trying to pull itself up with the brand Champagne and is pulling the brand down. (If Miller is champagne of beers, what does it say about champagne as a sparkling wine)
Most powerful rocket ever, with 33 engines, lifted off on first attempt and flew a few kms.
From my point ot view, considering Spacex philosophy, it's totally a success.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35553758
Like GraphQL, we just moved the integration and interface design complexity to the clients.

Just publish your fucking read-only SQL credentials at this point.
Presumably most obese people also eat meat though, and in higher quantities.
No study managed to prove a loss of revenue with piracy, you are not going to be the first app in the world to experience it.
ISA specific extensions has been a thing on ARM before Apple.
As the person managing phone contracts in our company, I really like that part of eSIMs. I can mail a phone or have the employee purchase one and then mail my providers support and I‘m all set. About one hour later, the phone will have connectivity. If you‘re using an MDM solution that supports it, you can even manage the assigned eSIMs there.

Now, we‘re on a business contract and we have a responsive team on the other side, so the comfort of this hinges on the provider obviously.
I completely agree. I recently taught my 10 year old daughter how to do multiplication and division the old fashioned way and she was completely blown over by the fact that it was so easy to do and faster and worked with any number of digits.
It is same if you have big audience, it is very different if you are developing for a niche market.
AI in Hiring and Evaluating Workers: What Americans Think
Greenhouse gases, global warming: stark reminder of need for climate-ready world
>Yahoo

Since when did Yahoo lose its "!"?
rockets blow up. especially in development. i say it was a necessary stepping stone towards making starship a success.
As a one-time chemist, I look at the magnetic fields and abundant hydrogen and wonder if there's any way to do magnetic resonance measurements at the planetary scale to look at the innards of a Saturn or a Jupiter.

Yes, I know there are a million reasons that it won't work but still...
I think Apple has also done good things with their strict app store policies (from my consumer point of view).

Apple has been for example putting limits on data collection and tracking. The main mechanism is to kick apps out from Apps store if they don't play by the rules.

I'm worried that side loading will be a step back here. Strong players, like Facebook, may just take their app away from the official store and distribute it through other ways. With their strong position I don't have much choice - it's not like there would be five competing apps serving the same purpose (connecting to the people and communities on Facebook).
The hardware and software, in any device, should not be so inextricably linked as to prevent the hardware from working at all without the software. Regardless of whether we are taking about iPhones, computers, cars, or farm equipment.
Twitter is making dead celebrities look like paid Twitter Blue subscribers
I got PTSD... then again, a lot of things were wrong about that system. GET requests casually loading up whole database in memory while calling stored procedures that inexplicably modify like half of persisted version of it. and that's just to render some stupid list o_0
What flip phones? They were all locked down on the carrier side.

You seem to have missed the, admittedly brief, period where Java games on phones were extremely commonplace.
I eagerly read Vonnegut's "Sirens of Titan" but came out disappointed.
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They didn't do anything meaningful with it.
The first stage isn’t going anywhere near lunar regolith. Ever.
Erm, Apple shares the cable subscription revenue with the people who make the content.

People like me.

You are literally talking about stealing my money. To me.

And this doesn’t seem strange to you?
But it is way too hard to cleanly separate the hardware from the software without introducing extra complexity and security issues.
> Dealing with the carrier is usually the worst part of owning a phone.

It's probably intentional. I was reading an article in the French press the other day [0] on the subject. Some head of something or other in the industry said they were weary of mostly Apple, Samsung, and Google starting to like playing the providers and removing the actual carriers from the users' psyche. "The SIM card is the last physical link between the carrier and the client".

I've also checked my carrier's site for getting an esim. Apparently I'd have to pay the same amount to get one as for a physical one (minus delivery costs). But at least, contrary to some other commenters' situation, they seem to allow you to move it from phone to phone as long as you hold on to your qr code. They, of course, don't offer the option of storing it in the "secure" client area.

[0] https://www.lefigaro.fr/secteur/high-tech/avec-l-esim-la-car...
No offense and I actually mean this to be a serious question—why did you have kids in the first place, then? It’s just that, to me, the decision to have kids necessitates that one accepts the full integration of the fact that one is a parent to all aspects of one’s life, and yet I keep seeing parents looking for “me time” as if they can still realistically isolate themselves from the new reality that they chose for themselves to begin with.
It's helpful to bear in mind that living out in the boonies is a choice, and that people who choose to live in built-up areas (at additional expense) are under no obligation to subsidise the formers' lifestyle.

In all scenarios, taxes decrease consumption. Kids can use bikes to get around, families' second cars can be glorified golf carts. Enviro-winning.

I agree about the desirability of free mass transit. To take a case in point, Tallinn (Estonia's capital) instituted it for residents (only), the idea being to get people to undo bogus out-of-city residences and return to the city's tax rolls. The last I read, it's working nicely.
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"In reality" the politicians who appoint the regulators "get counsel from" the lobbyists who bribe them (excuse me, completely legally help the PACs that help re-elect them) the most generously.

Regulatory capture is a very common theme throughout every agency. Take Ajit Pai, who is and always was very obviously a Verizon stooge, as a textbook example. For that reason I don't blame anyone who would prefer a minimum of detailed, 'implementation-detail-level' government regulation on tech. Best case scenario they're poorly-written and arrest innovation, worst case they're also written to advantage the biggest or most politically-connected companies, who never deserve the help.
Allo was instant messaging with users identified by phone numbers rather than accounts. That was something a lot of consumers clearly found compelling (Whatsapp, iMessage), Google had no product for, and would not have been something that could be retrofit as a feature in their existing chat app.

Duo was two person video calls optimized for mobile phones, and allowing calling via phone number. Basically Facetime and Whatsapp. Again, a hugely popular product category that they did not have a product in, and with a paradigm that was not compatible with their existing video call app.

That's not to say these were good ideas, or that the projects were well executed. They were me-too copies of other companies' products, and possibly without enough understanding of what made those products popular. But the "duplicates" criticism is just lazy, and makes it seem that you're just parroting memes and did not know anything about the apps other than their names.
I think it was an attempt at 1, the issue being that Musk doesn’t understand people and presumably refuses to take advice.

At this point, it’s comical, tho. You’d think he’d have stopped digging by now.
>Although I suspect their paid services will be undercut.

I think you're referring to being undercut by open source tools, but their services are already useless when it comes to Monero. The IRS has had a $625k bounty on breaking it's privacy mechanism for a few years now, and it hasn't been claimed.
>Whatever you think about Elon

The problem is in modern mainstream media anything Elon does should be painted with a heavy dose of negative brush. All while adding more Social Media hatred to fuel the cycle.

You then see a lot of people are actually very supportive of SpaceX and Starship. They dont get the MSM media or Social media boost of their voice.

So now MSM and Social Media are changing their tone to question their previous reporting of "they tried but it blew up" and offer some insight to label it more like success.
This is a rather opinionated take, to be honest. For sure, there are dangers, but I find this to be a rather extreme view.

Some drugs have a narrow dosing window. Some have a wider dosing window. Some have serious dangers associated with them. This is a core part of psychopharmacology, as you likely well know.

Strawmanning and extremifying arguments can perpetuate an echo chamber but not much else. Most people I talk to who support psychedelics seem to have a very reasonable and mature approach to the topic. Some people of course will have extreme views on either side but that is bound to happen.

Also, safer than alcohol is a... horrendously poor comparison to use. Alcohol actually is quite a dangerous drug, and MDMA I'd put up there but one step below if misused. I'm not sure where you anchored alcohol's safety here, it's very much implicated in a number of very bad things healthwise, not to mention addiction. The withdrawal syndrome alone is fatal in the wrong circumstances, something even drugs like heroin can't claim.

Once again on the microdosing side, I'm not sure what "propaganda" you're referring to. There are plenty of peer-reviewed studies on the topic. MDMA of course is not microdosed, though LSD and psilocybin still could be candidates on the table for that.

However, as far as I understand from the literature, the concerns you presented strongly are still based on theoretical evidence. It's not guaranteed, and as in all things, it for now is in the realm of "we don't know". Caution is good.

All in all, every drug class has problems and potential issues. We find those out with time and studies. Using caution as we figure that out is good. Strongly bashing things or putting down entire cultures of people with opinions that they generally don't hold is less so.

I can't speak to much more than that, and these are just my own personal opinions after all. Extremely selective-to-5ht2a ligands will likely be something that gains momentum over the coming decades unfortunately, but thankfully at least so far with the history of use that we see, so far there's not necessarily a clear smoking "negative gun" as far as I personally see. But tools are tools, and different tools have different risks, and I personally believe/feel that we should treat them as such.
100% -- I also see this as a big and emerging problem that future researchers and practitioners will have to deal with.

Posted some thoughts previously here --

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32577822

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33869402
> What if I actually want to pay a fee to a tightly controlled service? Like what if I do the math and determine that that benefits me more than actually owning the device? Should a regulatory agency be able to come in and tell this tightly controlled service they aren't doing it right when I am a happy customer?

I think the default should be protection. Just like it is okay for a BDSM-scene to exist where people inflict consensual pain onto each other — the default must still be to protect the individual's right to bodily autonomy and protection from harm — even if some people, sometimes opt to waiver these rights

Signing away those rights should always remain a special case and not the default. Same for ownership rights, because if the only choice is leasing, ownership ceases to exist. While when ownership exists you could still easily enter a lease.
Sounds terrible. Here in socialist Europe it is exactly as easy as I just made it sound.
Yes but this is the 15th century were talking about here. Societies were highly strategie, and upward mobility was rare and remarkable.

The fact that she would have come from so far away, and had such a tale to tell is incredible.
I see no moral issue with government regulation to make our lives better.

People would still buy cars if seatbelts weren't a standard feature. They'd still by deodorant if it put holes in the ozone.

Vote with their money only works if companies make a product you can buy. Where's the iPhone "unlocked edition" that costs $20 more that I can buy? They don't make it.
How old were those police officers when they retired?
Anybody remember the Canyonero?
Right, anonymized data that shares your vitals 24/7 (which are fairly unique) and location data which totally cannot infer your home and work locations. You’re deluded if you believe this can truly be anonymized and stay anonymized.
Well aware, as I mentioned I had a safety net baked in.
There is nothing wrong with apt and dpkg. It’s just that Ubuntu infected apt with their poison by making ‘apt install firefox’ install a snap package and they’re poised to do it with more packages (maybe they already have).

I personally can’t think of anything software related that Ubuntu provides over Debian for normal desktop users. Only the Ubuntu 6-month release schedule can be a bit nicer.
That's exactly true. In Sweden, because everyone speaks English and will switch to English at the first sign you're having trouble with the Swedish language, it's nearly impossible to learn even after many years here. If your job forces you to speak the native language, you will eventually learn, but many jobs, like mine, are fulltime in English.
> > Minimum wage in Cuba runs at around $8 a month. Of course, the socialist nature of the country means that this isn’t quite as bad as it sounds – with free healthcare and education, along with state housing, and food rations [...]

What an awful propaganda piece.
What if Apple registered a religion with apps qualifying as pages of holy scriptures, should then they be allowed to have their walled gardens?
I asked it what it saw on the screen while it was waiting for the conversation to start. The bots made up nonsense, while humans responded something like "falling boxes" (except for the humans who tried to act like bots).
How so? The iPhone is literally just a computer and the vast majority of computers are cleanly separate from their software.
You would. But no. Our brain is much larger, evolution solved thinking problems with a simple method. Brute force.
not easy to convert accurately in your head, but google does unit conversion right in the search bar:

"200 f to c"

and macOS spotlight you can go even shorter:

"200 f"
Monit does to this produce a live feed. It’s kind of annoying sometimes, you lose highlighted text.
I paid a bribe to get my cat out of quarantine in Nigeria when I lived in Lagos years ago. Nobody's coming after me for that.

The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act makes bribery a crime for business-related reasons.

>Specifically, the anti-bribery provisions of the FCPA prohibit the willful use of the mails or any means of instrumentality of interstate commerce corruptly in furtherance of any offer, payment, promise to pay, or authorization of the payment of money or anything of value to any person, while knowing that all or a portion of such money or thing of value will be offered, given or promised, directly or indirectly, to a foreign official to influence the foreign official in his or her official capacity, induce the foreign official to do or omit to do an act in violation of his or her lawful duty, or to secure any improper advantage in order to assist in obtaining or retaining business for or with, or directing business to, any person.

That's one sentence. Good job DoJ!

https://www.justice.gov/criminal-fraud/foreign-corrupt-pract...
This article was written immediately after the launch, before the extent of the pad damage was known.
>I am not sure if this is purely an American sentiment

My observation is that it is an online sentiment. But due to the way Technology news cycle works most of these online sentiment do have their source from America. So I think it is an American Sentiment being exported. But most places outside America, especially those without the usage of English being main language tends to be less affected.
> Criminal violations of the FCPA (Foreign Corrupt Practices Act) anti-bribery provisions must be enforced within five years of the last act required to complete the crime or violation. Criminal violations of the books and records and internal controls provisions have a six-year statute of limitations.

https://complianceconcourse.willkie.com/resources/anti-bribe...
Maybe easiest to compare: it is purely audio and relies on you playing along with the lesson you listen to. So somewhat similar to Michel Thomas but more modern. His main effort is to make connections between material that you already know and new material, this reinforcing both and building a network in your mind.

I did the first 30+ Greek lessons (each a ~10 minute audio which takes 15-20 minutes to complete as you pause to think and complete the answer). Then was forced to take a short break. l and struggle to get back in so I will restart a few lessons back.

I have to say that I've never had so many "whoa, cool I figured this out" moments in a language course.
Having a very simple heuristic to block annoying people is a convenience, I would’ve thought. I’ve given up on Twitter myself, but I expect I’d do this if I was still on it; you don’t want those people in your replies.
seconded! i don't even like regular sudoku all that much, but i'm totally hooked on the variant ones from that channel.
Their stupid names and simultaneous introduction killed them.

This is classic Google culture where Director A and B decide to get into the same category of product and refuse to work together. Unfortunately there is no adult in the room to put them in the place.

Tbf every company suffers from this. Look at multi tasking on iPad as an example. Classic Jobs might have been the only one who could cut this out