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> You see nothing wrong with handing out nearly $300m to a company that's never done anything or demonstrated any capabilities?

1. COTS was a milestone based, firm, fixed-price contract. Which means that NASA didn't have to pay for work that didn't get done. If SpaceX failed at development, NASA could have chosen a different company and retained most of the money.

Which actually happened - Rocketplane Kistler basically did just that. And NASA replaced them with Orbital Sciences.

2. Established companies like Boeing and Arianespace entered bids and NASA seemed to think those bids were worse than the eventual winners.

3. The program largely worked - SpaceX and Orbital Sciences were successful at delivering cargo to the ISS. And all indications are that Sierra Nevada will be successful soon.

4. It was way less expensive than the traditional NASA route.

> In 2011, SpaceX estimated that Falcon 9 v1.0 development costs were on the order of US$300 million. NASA estimated development costs of US$3.6 billion had a traditional cost-plus contract approach been used. A 2011 NASA report "estimated that it would have cost the agency about US$4 billion to develop a rocket like the Falcon 9 booster based upon NASA's traditional contracting processes" while "a more commercial development" approach might have allowed the agency to pay only US$1.7 billion".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falcon_9
my 2 cents for Osho Dream. Listen to it before interviews
Wow. The assumptions in this article are deeply misguided. "Modern" doesn't equate to "better" at all. It's dismissive bordering on insulting to the actual people and technology that make our digital world actually work.

This is representative of the "Cargo Cult IT" I see so often these days. IT is so complex that so many people don't even try to understand it - they just read an article on how amazing something is and implement it everywhere. Right or wrong.

IT, like everything else, has to be effective. And to make it work on purpose, somebody has to understand it at a fairly low level. I don't see much of that anymore, even in some cases with the greybeards (yes, I have plenty of grey in my beard).

I guess what I'm trying to say is that this article is all about "what" to do, but it's obvious that the why of things wasn't considered much if at all. Or, to put it another way, it's all about efficiency instead of effectiveness.
The Cryptographer Who Ensures We Can Trust Our Computers
I was thinking of a comment in the John Cook link, where someone was saying these are fiddly to build compared to a conventional brick wall.
This was probably right until the 1960s or so, but there is conclusive evidence that they at least reached Newfoundland, and there is some other newer evidence of settlements on Baffin Island as well.
> Ironically that last part was probably the most frustrating.

and the most disappointing.
Did you have your destination entered into the navigation? I find the estimates to be fairly accurate when you tell it exactly where you are going, at least within 5% or so. I always enter my full trip into the planner before I start, and it hasn’t failed me so far.
It's proved that kids that name their chicken, pig, lamb, rabbit, fish, dog or horse cannot accept them to be killed and cannot eat them. thus numbers on farm cattle.
So, google really wants me to start using the "Bing search" context menu item Samsung foisted on me with my s22, huh?
this is not at the wheel, this is about a vehicle parked in front of the owners home, a violation of 4th amendment rights occurs in the event of a "just because i want to" search.
This is why I don't want a car with OTA updates.

At least a dealer flash will take many months to be deployed and show up these deceptive practices.
I've always thought that the fastest to achieve scenario would be: human driver drives truck to the first rest area on the highway, gets out and lets the autopilot do the rest. Vice versa when exiting the highway. You'll need some logistics planning to get the drivers to and from the right places, but that's not so hard; lots of rest areas are connected to the other side of the road (at least in Europe). Is no one working on that?
I got an i3 with a range extender and a 2 gallon gas tank. The gas tank range can't exceed the battery range and still be an EV. I use the battery almost all the time but knowing I can gas and go 80 miles is great. I drove 1,400 miles to Florida and back. It wasn't noticeably worse experience than an ICE.
It’s being built. Eventually it will be completed and it will have obvious utility. Then people will expand it because of how obviously useful it is. Same thing happened with the Shinkansen.
Why do you think someone would talk about Brandt’s work if they hadn’t used it?

I’ve built more than half a dozen bicycle wheels. My set, my spare that my brother road (into the ground - my first set and practically the only problematic ones, but he road over bumps without getting out of the saddle), a set my dad commissioned from me, and a pair that he had me build for a friend. All by age 17.

I then worked as a mechanic for two summers of college. I was never the fastest, but if we had a customer we could not afford to disappoint, I or the senior mechanic got the job because my repairs did not come back.

I saved three or four wheels that would have been scrap by unwinding the spokes halfway and building it back up again like a wheel build. Only added an extra ten or fifteen minutes but it works a charm. When a good customer comes in on Wednesday before an out of town bike ride you can’t afford to fuck it up. I think I only built a couple professionally, and usually singles. That’s a lot of labor and few will pay.
Supposedly you can get some range with the Tesla at zero - it’s just a bad idea to do that.

It’s a bad idea in a gas car too, my friends that have run out of gas did so because of driving on E.

Though at least with gas it’s easier to bring it to the car.
A biophysicist- a person who built 3d structural models. Most scientists from tyhe era I'm describing use computers as tools and see periodically moving from system to system as an interruption/distraction from them doing science.
yes those specific ones and others. your links don't dispute those specific and notable examples
Not necessarily, from what I heard humanity being alone is actually an extremely plausible solution to the Fermi paradox because we exist close to the beginning of the total lifespan of the universe.
Here we are, having the same arguments about this we did in 1950 or so. After decades and decades of the exact same story over and over and over, maybe it's time we started thinking about this differently. "UFOs are fake and everyone who says they saw one is a liar or crazy" is tiresome, you'd have to be a liar or crazy (or woefully uninformed) yourself to actually believe that without at least major doubt. "UFOs exist and I have personally seen their ship fly with my own eyes" and "I have personally seen alien bodies" also doesn't ring true. My conclusion is much stranger: There are UFOs, and they somehow defy our ability to capture them. Maybe they don't follow the laws of physics, and we can't actually contain them.
Heating an ICE car is essentially free, it's throwing off so much heat all the time.

Running the AC a lot in an ICE car can definitely impact efficiency. I get like a 17% difference in mileage if I don't have to run my AC.
I like Xitter (pronounced shitter) with tweets being called Xits (pronounced shits).
> SpaceX has been built on launch contracts displacing ULA.

No. The CRS missions were displacing Arianespace. The CommercialCrew flights were displacing Russia. Commercial came from Proton, Soyuz and Ariane 5. Only military came from ULA.

> NASA and peer govt organizations are looking for partners on this, since companies are expected to bring their own funding to bear too.

Yes, its called the Clips program. IT shouldn't be part of CC.
Cool, thanks for posting this article! Any freewall link?
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"Authorized parts" and "Authorized repair centers only" would be allow them to extract massive profits while providing no consumer benefit. That then incentivizes them to create even more fragile, unreliable vehicles.
Good question, do these companies pay for the heavy usage they are incurring on publicly funded roads?
I was hoping https://theinfosphere.org/Futurama_theorem would be mentioned. Only movies counted, I guess? :D
See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_occupations
So it's better than two options almost no one uses, and worse than two that are somewhat popular. Seems to me like it's bad.
And have you read Brandt’s work?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36891231

The world is full of papers that are wrong. Including maybe the one this whole thread is about. It’s okay, it happens. Science doesn’t find right or wrong, though a lot of people think so. It finds more wrong and less wrong.
I agree that you could design the system this way. But do you actually expect governments to do that?
It's far more work to do what they currently do which is nitpick the things they don't like to remove/disable/replace them.

Increasing divergence is a benefit for them here, but the main concern with chromium forks isn't the effort required it's the lack of coherent vision. Except for maybe Arc, but that's closed source, the rest of them feel like chrome but dirtier. Giant bing buttons, crypto wallets, new tab ads, it's absurd how much of them are willing to sacrifice the user experience. To the point where I can understand why a user would just stick with chrome despite what they're doing.
Do they though? I mean if it's there sure people will mess with it but I don't recall any public outcry for either center dash ADHD factories or keyless anything.
Thames Water to datacenters: Cut water use or we will
Awesome concept, but sadly limited due to a Raspberry Pi CM4 being chosen for the brains. In addition to the availability concern, there are better SBCs out there for time/GPS. The BeagleBone would have been ideal because it supports high-precision PPS out of the box.
Not everything needs to be profitable or to “pay for itself” for it to be worth building. The idea that it does is a fallacy.
Most of the divergences are already compile flags or command line flags on upstream. They are just disabling it by default. Is not a Brave-only thing, but different browsers have different settings disabled, the community that compiles the browser from source also pushes those features to be conditionally added. Eg. Debian, Arch or other distros, could have WEI disabled on their chromium distribution, forks like Edge and Vivaldi could disable GAIA, etc.

Just give a look at the divergence issues and the PRs solving them [1], most of them are just single file or small changes to compilation/default flags

[1]: https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/wiki/Deviations-from-...
Insurance companies (of any kind) are not incentivized to find the cheapest service. Anything they pay out is passed on via premiums. Indeed, the more expensive service is better because a 2% profit on $1000 makes them 10x more profit than 2% profit on $100.

There’s some competition here in that a marketplace of insurance companies can compete on the premiums so there can be downward pressure, sometimes. But for things that impact all insurance companies like this equally, then insurance companies would also be opposed because more expensive repairs = more money in their pocket.

That’s why you see things like medical insurance not being aligned with lowering medical costs.
I see the ingested documents in the data folder don't have an id field, only a doc field.

{"doc": "Using Large Language Models in Pathway is simple: just call the functions from `pathway.stdlib.ml.nlp`!"}

What if I pass two contradictory statements? Is there a way to remove (or better update) a document with a new version?

For example, if I am ingesting some public docs, and I update a doc page. How do I make so that it only takes the answer from the latest document version?
Not so easy. See this recent post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36852542 .
> Last time I checked on it, QuickLisp doesn't support fetching packages over anything except for plain http, with no encryption and no verification mechanism in place to detect files that may have been tampered with during transmission.

I know it's not an excuse, but it was fun as heck booting up "capital M" MacOS (9.2.1) and loading Quicklisp into MCL without any trouble. I'm not even sure that's a supported platform by Quicklisp. https://code.google.com/archive/p/mcl/
https://archive.is/IEt2h
The limits of our personal experience and the value of statistics
At the same time it makes it shitty for regular folks working remote and like a normal person having bad periods from time to time. There will be way less understanding towards... You are trying to do the right thing, but the dial if turned too tight might blend wrong people.
>But even there, you can at the very least mock the responses of the database (or other external systems) and check if the data in your response is as expected.

You certainly can but these tests end up mimicking the implementation rather than actually testing the code.

A pure CRUD app - even if it's relatively complicated - should have zero unit tests.
Amazing story David!
That's not how the shoulder of the road is meant to be used.

The shoulder has many uses, depending on where the road is located.

In Chicagoland, Pace transit buses use the shoulder, and have giant "Authorized to use the shoulder" signs on them.

In the southeast, driving in the shoulder lanes is encouraged during evacuations, and they're painted with hurricane symbols.

Shoulders can be easily repurposed for other uses.

Never assume that where you are is how things are everywhere.
“Either what [the whistleblower] is saying is partially true or entirely true,” he said, “or we have some really smart, educated people with high clearances and very important positions in our government who are crazy and are leading us on a goose chase.” -- Marco Rubio [1]

Not a fan of Rubio but this quote sums up the dissonance, and I think it's worth talking about. If these are people looking to be famous, they're going about it in a really painful way. If they're delusional, how did they advance so far in our government? If they're even half right, then what's the science behind it?

[1] https://thehill.com/opinion/technology/4083904-true-or-crazy...
There was an amendment for that. (two, really) I'd expect some workaround to be done, like tying interstate funding to the drinking age.

Would be sad to see the feds go after Oregon/Alaska in the same way.
If this happens the way google wants, I'll have to have a separate physical box set up specifically to access google's shiternet for things like banking and shopping. I'd be glad to stick to websites that have no need or interest for WEI otherwise.

The internet was already going increasingly-downhill anyway.

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Link should probably be updated to the latest draft: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-ietf-tls-esni-16
You know what you don’t see doing illegal maneuvers all the time? Trains.
I think Braves tweet just showed how they are not reskins and limited fork?
I agree, greed or drug addiction are the only motives I could see for why jerks with computer science training continue to work on products like chrome
To be clear, I'm not saying that's what I believe.
I mean not that many films that I really want to watch come out per year, so if Oppenheimer is 3hs instead of 2hs or whatever then let it be; I'd rather spend one more hour at the theater and watch the movie knowing the director didn't need to cut an hour off the film.

(Although I do have to say Oppenheimer got somewhat tedious in certain parts)
I've never entirely understood why it was so difficult to make that work, but it seems to be.

I've been anticipating being replaced by cheaper software developers working remotely, ever since I graduated college in the 90s. It never happened.

As far as I can tell there are a bunch of reasons: language, time zone, shared cultural conventions, plain-old-racism, the value in at least having the option of occasional meeting in meatspace. Some of that is finally changing due to the pandemic forcing it on people. But I still think people are having trouble finding reliable employees in a country they don't understand, even though there are many millions of them available.
> slow is fast, keep it at 60 if you want the milage meter to not die as quick

This also works in petrol cars: the air resistance efficiency falloff is dramatic at higher speeds.
There is always an exception, Ladybird is one.

https://lunduke.substack.com/p/ladybird-a-truly-new-web-brow...
“It's also possible that it keeps a buffer of ~1 gallon of gas that it never tells us about, when quoting the total range, and it eats into this buffer without telling us.”

I am fairly confident that something similar is happening with my Honda. I thought I was going to run it dry, but then it just sat at 10 miles remaining for at least another 15-20 miles before I reached a station.
It's a very humbling experience to be ignored by so many folks, glad you reflected on that. The story about the couple just flat out walking away strikes me as obtusely anti-social, but sadly not unexpected in our day and age.

Just out of curiosity, where was this?
Yes, I've looked into the facts around this- I used to be a scientist/researcher and know quite a lot about HIV and AIDS since I worked in a group that actively researched medicine for HIV.

I maintain a wide collection of reading and an open mind, and often when I hear things that sound like bullshit, actively try to assume the person spewing bullshit may have a point and bend over backwards trying to understand their point, including exposing myself to facts or reasoning that I don't agree with.

It sounds to me like your beef is with the establishment, and that RFK possibly represents a way to break down the establishment, but I don't think he is the way to achieve that (nor is that a worthy goal).
Public transport used to be huge in the US, it was killed by big car, which means it can be revived by other big industry.
The decision to lie to owners about their cars' range came right from the top.

> The directive to present the optimistic range estimates came from Tesla Chief Executive Elon Musk, this person said. “Elon wanted to show good range numbers when fully charged,” the person said, adding: “When you buy a car off the lot seeing 350-mile, 400-mile range, it makes you feel good.”

> ... Korean regulators required Tesla to publicly admit it had misled consumers. Musk and two local executives did so in a June 19 statement, acknowledging “false/exaggerated advertising.”
Exactly this. You had to be really vigilant during install.

Average joe: next next next done.

Don't ever fantasize about average users back then doing research if there would be a better web browser and then going ahead to download and install chrome on their own.

"What is a web browser?"
They are handling "fine" because they only do low complexity changes.

I remember that people asked, some years ago, to Brave team add add-ons in their Android reskin and they, after some time, rejected because they said that what Kiwi Browser were doing was too complex for them because it required too many patches.

They were not even able to modify Mv3, they just said that they already added an adblock.

Brave and Vivaldi are mere reskins, and they don't do anything more than Ungoogled Chromium do, but adding their own bloat.
Making drugs illegal is not the only way to do this. Probably not even the best way.
and google adwords is pretty costly, with meager ROI imho
Make a list of the competitors tarsnap has outlived and maybe it will change your calculus a bit. The risk you need to evaluate is not "what if something happens to the proprietor" (which I've always found pretty macabre), but "what if something happens to him and then the service goes down and also I never backed up my backups". This is a risk you can make as small as you want with judicious planning.
I think CA expressly forbids it now, since loyalty-programmes were turning into a privacy risk.
The park service uses this type of fencing a lot.
But it is for stability. Try making a straight fence with no posts and see how stable it is.
I don't think it is ethically defensible in any morally serious way to defend putting a person to death as a deterrent.

Human life should be considered precious, and not discarded with just to set an example of strength.
GDP isn't money. It's production.

There is an assumption behind GDP: people generally pay production for a fair amount of money. The more untrue this assumption is, the less meaningful GDP is.
I question the premise that 18 wheelers should be allowed operate in urban centers at all, let alone be tacitly allowed to resort to illegal maneuvers. It's a convenience and cost-savings for businesses that are able to have a semi truck drive direct to their door, but it creates serious negative externalities for everyone else. The vast majority of cargo headed into the city should be shifted into vans or small trucks that are intended to drive on city streets.
I pretty much agree. I'd only add that container stuff seems to work fine for me, including everything I've tried with docker and docker-compose, and I haven't felt the need to do anything on a remote instance. The only thing I haven't been able to get working locally (yet) is minikube, but I can live with that for now.
Insurance companies will just follow the money like they do in (USA) healthcare. Expensive repairs create a world where there are two kind of people, those who are insured, and those who aren't. A high cost of repair guarantees you _really_ don't want to be in the latter group, so you'll pay whatever is asked to be in the first part. On their end, the insurance companies will use their weight to negotiate much lower prices on parts and service, increasing their margins.
From what I’ve heard it’s completely plausible for pre industrial human civilizations to have existed and been wiped out in the past but anything past that point would leave things like heavy metals we could detect in the geological record.
You’re right you may not be able to opt out of paying for it, but a lot of Microsoft licensed features and products need to be enabled via feature flags to be used. It’s part of the implementation requirement and can be left disabled until it’s gone through review and approval processes.
> This proposal doesn't make sense; assuming the best of the authors I can only assume they haven't really thought through what they're trying to build.

This is my conclusion too.

Regarding alternative browsers, the "explainer" says that all browsers on a platform would be able to be attested. But this doesn't really matter, because support for arbitrary browser extensions nullifies all the trust requirements identified at the start of the document.

In other words, the moment a browser hits the Play store which both supports WEI and allows arbitrary extensions, sites relying on WEI will start ignoring it if it's sent from browsers other than Chrome.
Does all this somehow not apply to ICE vehicles? Cause the gas meter/range estimate was pretty accurate in my dad's '93 Corolla...
> They have to be illegal if you want to be able to involuntarily hospitalize the users.

That's not true. People are confined all the time for being a danger to themselves or others, even if they're not using drugs.
There are only a handful of browser engines available, implementing one from scratch is a hard task.
deadly car accidents are most common in areas with people entering and exiting at different speeds.

mismatched priorities make it impossible to integrate and sure enough there are crashes.

i see similarities with work speeds and work demands. senior dev who goes hard generates friction with managers or team members who are not able or willing to do the same. this will lead to conflict.