skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Since SpaceX entered the market, ULA has stopped selling both its flight ready rockets with no replacement ready, Ariane has finished flying with no replacement ready, the Space Shuttle has stopped flying and its role has been replaced by SpaceX, Soyuz is no longer available for US and many other markets, China's rockets are similarly unavailable in the US, and a great many new competitors continue not to have vehicles that exist. Electron and some small number of less robust small launch players fly but compete in a market segment SpaceX abandoned in 2009. SLS exists but has zero commercial customers and will never have more. India and Japan's rockets exist but have near-zero market presence.

The strongest sense in which SpaceX is not a monopoly is that other companies let you order flights on vehicles that don't exist yet, but hopefully may soon.
The only person among those who conceivably see any upside from recession are congressional leaders who are not in the President’s party. Fortunately, they do not control the FDIC and Fed in exigent circumstances.
Nobody wants to live in Quebec though because of the francophone laws.
I think it's the opposite. Most of the people actually working as writers cannot write a passable show. Writing something original and compelling enough for people to watch all the way through is extremely difficult. One of the tricks of good movies and TV is the audience takes it so for granted after a while that it looks easy. Acting is similar. Most people think the only thing that keeps them from being an actor is looks. Try saying lines out loud and you will begin to see the problem. Try to write a pilot.
Clearly Barbie second.
seed stage landing pages are for VCs
That's true but I would wager most scientists don't stockpile on explosives and chemicals like cyanide and arscenic at home.
This. Plus different sellers have different motivations and different pricing strategies. Stubhub based on their volume has a sense of where the market is, and if they see a seller underpricing versus what Stubhub thinks the ticket will sell for, they may swoop in and try to capture some of the upside.

There's no such thing as a ticker feed for the resale markets -- the market is characterized by "imperfect information". Artists and venues making it hard to buy and sell basically widens the spread for the secondaries to play with.
Author here. As others have commented, some package managers allow multiple versions of the same dependency. Conda doesn't, and I wanted to stick to the Conda rules in the article ;)
Performant database tree traversal with Rails
I've spent a lot of time on this problem space for our business. My current conclusions are as follows:

Writing the actual SQL query is not the hard part for us. The hardest part is exhaustively expressing our intention in any language at all, followed closely by its apprentice - the incomplete requirements monster.

I've found that if I can coach a team member into giving me a proper natural language statement that we would use as an ideal training example for a SQL bot, then they are probably able to just go ahead and write the final query by hand. Overall, it would likely take less time & cognitive overhead.

Don't get me wrong - I see the automation potential too. I've used it for lots of really crappy bulk refactors and it's great. But, it absolutely cannot think for you and magic-in the requirements that your customer ultimately left on the floor.

Generative SQL output is the opposite of what you want when you are at the frontier of understanding and incomplete requirements. For us, this is kind of where the biggest use case would have come from. We don't need much help with the boring stuff. We need a really smart asshole to call us out when there appears to be a logical gap somewhere. ChatGPT almost seemed to be this @ launch but I think its been RLHF'd into a potato by now. I stopped using it for anything serious around late May.
Then prices increase for services that are currently being done because someone was too poor to have access to a better path in life.
I'm curious to know what a "niche" dev shop is? Do you focus only on some industry vertical? Specific technology?
But what does it actually mean? Is this in incubator in the same sense as a startup incubator? This just sounds like a popularity contest, where the winners get a stamp of approval from the CNCF, provided you play by their rules. What value does the CNCF add?
The fact that Disney is pulling some content from streaming implies that royalties are at least some of what is hurting them. I have no idea how TV contracts are written, but maybe Disney put less into the advance (and more into residuals) than other streaming services?
> HTML allows for too much variation between browsers and looks like garbage when printed.

Yeah, nowadays. But it's pretty simple to print just text pretty nicely from a website.
> Stress is a factor of excellence.

So is having a rich family. The article provides a long list of examples of great artists who's success is largely enabled by already being wealthy, not necessarily being the best. Even just being lucky enough to already be established puts you far ahead of people trying to break in. I can walk out the door and likely find a job in my industry because I have lots of experience to point to and references who will vouch for me. I think I'm good at my job, but I was also in the right place at the right time to get it and now I'm a safe bet for someone who needs my skills, even if I'm not the best bet. Someone who's trying to break in that's ten times more talented than me might never catch that break. I know for a fact that I've hired lesser candidates because I needed someone who was a known quantity more than I needed someone who was possibly great.

Meritocracy is pretty far down the list as a factor of success in my experience.
Or how the earth may just adapt on its own to counter it. Increased CO2 -> more plankton -> more fish?
Look for companies that are hiring internationally. They’re less likely to want to jump through the hoops of getting visas for employees; and if some employees can’t make it, become much more acceptable for you to excuse yourself from the on-site.
Defer Mechanism for C (2020) [pdf]
Here's the official CNCF announcement: https://www.cncf.io/announcements/2023/07/12/cloud-native-co...
This is my thought. I have to believe there’s a solid inverse relationship of interest. But everyone is interested in one of them. Parents/kids or men/women seem like sensible cohorts for Oppenheimer/Barbie.

Would be interesting to see the data and if showtimes overlap. Or if it’s truly back to back.
Ask HN: Guide to being an open source contributer
Hi, I'm always been trying to get into open source development. I believe it would be a good way to improve my technical skills and have some fun. However, I've always had issues getting started. For context, I'm a backend software engineer for about 4 years now. Whenever I look into OpenSource issues, I'm always intimiated by the breadth of what it seems to require to solve these issues. And the easier ones marked by "Good first issue" seem to be always taken by someone else farily quickly.

Does anyone know of any good resource on how to become a consistent contributer to projects that I frequently use?
Global destruction latency of a malicious biolab isn't measured in minutes.
(summary via gpt4/editing)

Discusses the fundamental role of state machines in computer science.

In computer science, there's an excessive focus on languages, often obscuring the fact that languages all describe state machines.

The document intends to demonstrate how state machines express computation and clarify the concepts underpinning the various languages used to describe computations. It then delves into state machines' function within the sphere of 'correctness' in computer science, drawing on works related to Abstract State Machines by Yuri Gurevich and others.
I think you are thinking of blackhat.
Yeah, very very edge of millennials are under 30, but most are over. My goal post for American Millennials is if they remember 9/11.
SpaceX is run by Gwynne Shotwell, not Musk.
My theory is it’s a janky workaround for a system that requires “an account” to buy tickets and so this was the solution they came up with internally to support third-party integrations and possibly affiliate programs. The amount of weird-ass Rube Goldberg systems in the real world is staggering, I’ve worked on systems where this sort of bananas solution could end up being used.
Why not a PWA using Ionic (or similar)? A PWA can be packaged as a hybrid app if your need to access native APIs beyond what PWA supports.
First, you directly stated that the US involvement in WWII was the only reason Europe has freedom and that "is something europeans forget", which is wrong and invalid.

Second, while it is true that US power projection through the military is one of the ways it influences other countries, including in Europe, it isn’t the only way. The US dollar is the most held reserve currency in the world and is the standard for exchange in almost every country, outside of Russia, China, etc., means that most international economic activity passes through US financial institutions. That gives the US a lot of influence, as it means you cannot stray too far afield of US legal norms without risking those trading abilities. When the US pulled out of the Iran nuclear deal and reimposed sanctions, it was the only country doing it, but European trade with Iran also went to almost zero because it was impossible to do business without touching a US bank at some point.

Third, the US bases and military presence in Europe was because of the cold war, not because of anything the US did in WWII. Since WWII wasn’t fought in America, its logistics, manufacturing, etc. were intact, compared to the rubble that was Europe. NATO, basing agreements, the US outsized military spending, etc. were to counter the only other super power, the USSR, and prevent Europe from falling under the iron dome. It was also to prevent the intra-European military competitions and arms races that fueled interstate wars for the previous 1,000 years.
You are supposed to run software packaged by your distribution, and that's trusted.

The curl | bash is bad practice and shouldn't be used.

You have way more control and security using a Linux distribution. The objectives of that and Windows are completely different, and that affects user's security.
> For some reason, I am very fascinated by the architecture of PS3.

You’re not alone. I also am enchanted by non-standard architectures: the PS3’s Cell, its predecessor the PS2’s Emotion Engine, the Transmeta Crusoe, etc.

There’s a sibling comment to mine that talks about needless complication and dead-ends. That’s fine, but marching along with essentially optimizations to a basic architecture seems boring to me from a creative point of view (not that the achievements made haven’t been, of course, profoundly technically impressive).

And that’s on top of the fact the designing computer architectures can probably be thought of as a huge multidimensional optimization problem (where optimal can change over time or between customer demographics). I think of the approach of iterating as helping us march up that manifold to a local maxima. I think of these “exotic” architectures as sampling far away from those points to see if maybe we can find a more global maxima.

And that’s not to say that the main platforms aren’t innovating: with big-little, NUMA, etc.

But there’s a soft spot in my heart for those wild, long shot bets.
how can you say reasoning is fine - when it fails at basic logic.. ?

we need to coax-it with the right prompts for it to come up with an answer - so, basically it cant reason.

looks like you have an incentive to ignore what you see.
Incapable of being packaged? Usually not. Incapable of being included in a distro’s repositories? Usually, yes.
An HTML version for web viewing, a PDF for printing.
> That's how the ruling class tricks people into voting Democrat, all they had to do was show everyone a Republican.

Also the reverse. There are plenty of aspects of the Democrat party that are appalling to independent voters.

At the end of the day Democrats and Republicans are relatively ossified, it's the independent voters that are in play.
Frequency bias- Windows is the most commonly used OS, but has a similar security posture and implementation quality to the alternatives.
Windows tried that with MSIX which brought sandboxing and a permission/capability system. They even made using that system a requirement for getting on the Microsoft Store. Developers nearly universally rejected dealing with that.

Now there's the Windows Sandbox, which tries to provide a strong security boundary through virtualization while still having the kernels cooperate on performance-critical matters (memory, CPU time and graphics).

Over time someone (maybe even Microsoft) could expand that to a Windows-based QubesOS-light. Having the user segment applications into containers (with temporary containers for sketchy stuff) but allowing all applications to show windows in the same Window manager might be a viable tradeoff that fills most security needs without breaking compatibility with any software.
> crushing poverty vs crushing workload is not a natural one; it's contrived

I wish more people realized this. But then again, my goal 20 years ago was to have a lifestyle that could be enabled by a job in a coffee shop. Now I look back and wonder what happened :-)
At that point it's not his problem unless they're paying him for it to be.

I've had clients specifically ask for certain platforms (WordPress, Shopify, etc) but still assemble my own solutions regularly when it'll make me more productive up front.
his conduct at Twitter, primarily, as he rapidly abandoned his promises of free-speech absolutism and started to micromanage its moderation to benefit himself.
If it is just device tree that should be less painful, and probably also faster to upstream.

I'm just hesitant to buy one of those without having some 3rd party confirm everything works well out of the box, and the more obscure the device the harder to find such accounts.
> What is the simplest way to explain how functions are also state-machines?

Here is a complete specification of a state machine's transitions:

f LightOff OnPressed = LightOnDimmed
f LightOnDimmed OnPressed = LightOnMedium
f LightOnDimmed OffPressed = LightOff
f LightOnMedium OnPressed = LightOnBright
f LightOnMedium OffPressed = LightOff
f LightOnBright OnPressed = LightOnDimmed
f LightOnBright OffPressed = LightOff

Here is a Haskell function which models the above state machine's transitions:

f LightOff OnPressed = LightOnDimmed
f LightOnDimmed OnPressed = LightOnMedium
f LightOnDimmed OffPressed = LightOff
f LightOnMedium OnPressed = LightOnBright
f LightOnMedium OffPressed = LightOff
f LightOnBright OnPressed = LightOnDimmed
f LightOnBright OffPressed = LightOff
Why would I trust this? If they are anonymous and never stored, why do they need to be anonymous?
I was in Google's partner org for 8 years and recently joined a cloud services company, but one that specialized in product engineering rather than "normal" system integration work. I've found that there's a glut of traditional SI partners, all of whom promise the latest & greatest tech, the most skilled technicians, and the highest CSAT. If you don't know the space, you'd be forgiven for assuming they're all roughly equivalent, but that's not remotely true.

There is a glut of outsourcing shops but there's also a wide gamut of specialization, and it can be difficult to choose the right partner for a given job. Some areas are far more commoditized than others (general cloud migration or general systems administration or general appdev, vs data analytics platforms for specific industry use cases, building regulatory compliant stuff, doing BPO in spaces that require deep domain knowledge, etc. I would never trust Accenture to do product engineering, and I would never trust [insert small generalist SI here] to do business strategy consulting. But even those aren't hard & fast rules.

Consulting and outsourcing shops exist for a reason, and those reasons aren't going away. The market is huge, and although there's been a dip over the past year with the Ukraine war and global macro-economic challenges, everyone expects things to recover and most of the big consultancies have been using this time to both "right size" and refocus to ensure they're ready to help companies of all sizes reach their growth ambitions.
That's a nightmare. Can I ask, candidly, how it was that HR had more say than you?
> There is literally nothing wrong with ethics in... any other field of science.

When you start putting "ethics" in fields like biology (not medicine or bioengineering, just inductive biology) you end up with nonsense like Lamarckism.

Reality has an underlying structure independently of how this structure interacts with our constructed ethical systems.
>perhaps the cutthroat nature of the industry makes it so that only the best of the best rise to the top

I think that's proven false, by the existence of Marketing as a field. Deep pockets achieve that it's not the "best X" that reaches places, but whatever they are pushing is reaching places. Not 100% the case, but still, music production is so an industry, and it's arguable whether this is good for the artists - or the public, for that matter.

TL;DR the deeper the capitalism, the more exclusively the capital prevails
Why is deciding what goes into your body a political issue?
If you're not going to attend any other conference, meetup, or other ways to meet professionals in the field of your career, then you should go to the conference. Connections and networking are the bread and butter of getting your career going.

If you already have that, then sure skip it. But the Pyrenees are going to be there a week before or a week after the conference.
Me sense is its more permissible to publicly disagree with Musk on ideology than any other CEO of a large company in the world. I can't imagine that working at Google, Disney, ESPN, OpenAI, even Y-combinator!

What ideological belief does Musk hold that would create friction with his employees?
Musk is pretty toxic at this point I’m guessing the appeal of working for him as a woman is somewhere between challenge trials for cholera and becoming a live crash test dummy.
This is where the function feature comes in, you can define functions that need to be called with some data then you control the database searching.

For instance you can have a function with "Id" and "type" where type is an enum of ["post", "comment"] which would return the latest row and another that returns all rows.

Then asking "for userID 123 find me the latest post" will call the function and use the results to answer the question

Though this isn't always perfect as it can decide that it cannt find that information (ignored functions exist) or if it disagrees with the function response will just completely ignore it.

It also has issues with "find me the latest post and comment for ID 456" where it will call the function with "post" then state it doesn't have any comments data. It will find it after father prompting
> And you haven't mentioned the moderation costs to Meta.

What about my comment obligates me, in any way, to mention that? It seems like an odd thing to demand.

What's going to happen is: the far-right pockets are ad-unfriendly (ad-adverse?), so they're out. But the far-left instances are anti-corporate, so they'll block Meta. What remains are heavily skewed towards the statist democrat types who are generally civil and well-mannered. I wouldn't expect the moderation burden to be too heavy from that crowd. The only significant moderation cost will be if Zucc abandons all sense and federates with instances that allow right-wing extremists. That would be an expensive blunder.

(Still stupidly rate-limited on my main account, so have to reply from this one. Dang it.)
This sounds 'good'? but doesn't really seem to carry much direct meaning
I'm glad i'm not the only one who had a jaw drop moment this year. I wonder how many con goers will be surprised when they show up with only $360 dollars this year. I was shocked at 300$ since I was used to the cheap cheap prices of CCC.
That is, indeed, an observed phenomenon. I work in human behavior in Washington, D.C., in a position where I am paid to think about the causes of harassment, discrimination, and violence, and how we, if we believe it is valuable or necessary to reduce these behaviors, how they come into existence, arrange human affairs such that their costs are minimized. I am not some random left-wing hack for whom fascism is anything to the right of Stalin. Musk is definitely on the fascist spectrum.
I’ve written virtually every reference letter I have ever received for myself.

And I was asked to do so. Usually within 5 minutes they acknowledge receipt and send it.
There has to be a correlation with network size though, and it requires continuous struggle.

Fringe cliques (religious movements, homeless, musicians/fans, UFO conspiracy theorists, gays pre-DOMA, etc.) can't tolerate internal shenanigans and necessarily band together for survival. If you're Jewish/gay/homeless, other Jews/gays/homeless will help you out. The network is small enough that cheating gets you blackballed, and your community can't suffer losses because that's one less resource to rely on-- so people will have each other's backs.

There just always seems to come a threshold after which point the utility and trust afforded by inclusivity diminishes. If you can host a Pride parade without incident, you've crossed it. Like Catholics, LGBTs are everywhere these days so there's nothing unique about it-- hence the endless push for inclusion of additional subcliques (QIA+). "We're like you, but our rules are different, and don't you dare say we're the same." It's massive enough to have schisms. Welcome to the Gay Reformation.

Furry-ism hasn't become mainstream. That community will lose its magic the second they do.
> People should stop using these analytics services, they're not even that good.

I agree, but that's not something that's going to happen. What do site operators care? They aren't the ones paying the price.

So the practical result is that we have to protect ourselves from the web sites. I do this by blocking domains that belong to analytics providers, and don't allow most Javascript to execute in my browser.
The poster and some comments give examples of the domains: crimsonhillpartners, ambercovecapital, emeraldsummitadvisors.
The amount of marketing money that gets pumped into promotion for these two is impressive, apparently the movie industry is hurting more than I knew.
The answer from a Pro was Genlock so you match the 23.97.
"It doesn't matter if you drop a frame every once in a while, you're going to see it a dozen times... as long as it's not the same dropped frame!"
None of those are the fault of SpaceX. Perhaps they simply couldn't compete with the lower prices being offered.
Why anymore they already have a copy of everything my work, brokerages, and banks have.
Do you also build your own kernel, glibc, dnf, openssl, pipewire/pulseaudio, systemd, ffmpeg, ffmpeg extensions, gtk, gcc, rustc, llvm, python, coreutils, ca certificate bundle, x11/wayland, clang, nodejs?

I'm guessing no. So your overall security posture is line 3, where you're trusting fedora to be the gatekeeper for you.
A lot of people only seem to see "portability" as some magic feature without understanding it. So they're going to be surprised when they get suspended from bsky.social or they decide to sunset it and everything is lost because they didn't associate their identity with a domain they control.

Everything people found complicated about Mastodon is there in Bluesky in some form.
Ddclient GitHub Archived, Unmaintained
I wonder how many people there are out there supporting partners working on their struggling startup hmm.