skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A “giant orbital bomb” is part of the Lunar Starship plan. Starship will launch tankers

> Starship HLS requires in-orbit propellant transfer in its mission profile. Prior to the launch of the HLS vehicle from Earth, a Starship variant configured as a propellant depot would be launched into an Earth orbit and then partially or fully filled by between four and fourteen Starship tanker flights carrying propellant. The Starship HLS vehicle would then launch and rendezvous with the already-loaded propellant depot and refuel before transiting from Earth orbit to Lunar orbit.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starship_HLS

I’m a little confused why you call it a giant orbital bomb. It wouldn’t be particularly giant. Four reusable flights could only bring 600T of propellant to LEO. A single starship is fueled with 4600T of propellant, or 18400T of propellant to get that 600T into LEO. I would argue the starship itself is a much more giant bomb with all sorts of fire and stress and chances to explode. 600T of fuel exploding in orbit might not even be visible. But there’s been a number of tests of in orbit refueling and it doesn’t seem much more complex than, say, docking with a space station and transferring bags of mostly water without damaging them.
If you read the study itself, it claims that it's still hard to say what the relative roles of ice age climate change cycles vs. human predation were on the extinction of large Paleocene mammals in North & South America (and Australia):

> "Despite decades of research on extinction causality, the relative importance of late-Quaternary climate changes and spreading human impacts have been difficult to disentangle because poor chronological resolution in the fossil record has precluded alignment of these rapidly occurring, tightly linked phenomena."

However, it seems pretty clear that wherever humans showed up into new habitats where humans and large animals didn't have a shared ecological-evolutionary history (i.e. not Africa or Eurasia) extinction rates among the megafauna shot way up:

https://ourworldindata.org/quaternary-megafauna-extinction

> "Africa was the least hard-hit, losing only 21% of its megafauna. Humans evolved in Africa, and hominins had already interacted with mammals for a long time. The same is also likely to be true across Eurasia, where 35% of megafauna were lost. But Australia, North America, and South America were particularly hard-hit; very soon after humans arrived, most large mammals were gone. Australia lost 88%; North America lost 83%; and South America, 72%."

Maybe large animal populations had shrank due to the spread of glaciers during the Last Glacial Maximum era (c. 25 kya) so they were more vulnerable, but the new factor (relative to the past 2.5 million years of ice age cycles) was the human predation.
i know exactly what you mean. I can eat like 4 LBS of cucumbers in one sitting and still feel like I could eat a pizza afterwards. when you consume super low calorie foods like cucs and tomatoes, zuchinni, the body actually keeps on counting the calories with incredible accuracy and adjusts your hunger/appetite accordingly. But, I'll say, it does help a little bit and you do get a bit of discount by going with low calorie veggies, it's just not a silver bullet. at the end of the day you'll still consume less calories than you would have: just don't expect one large salad to fill you up. at the end of the day, you still need to go hungry to loose weight or keep it off.
Sometimes, I guess if its used as a more interesting exclamation point. Like great job !<emoji goes here>

People who punctuate with smileys seems odd and forced to me.

Or when they correct things, "Hey all you need to do is X,Y,Z here here and here :-)<emoji>" Idk that bothers me.

This article linked here that were talking about was like a perfect example of what seems to me fake corporate emoji use that comes off weird.
>so singling out yt is a little weird

What do you mean "singling out"? They're the biggest advertising company in the world.
Emoticons are useful on more friendly settings, this is useful on both friendly and professional settings. Using both are good.

If you want to make discussion feels like a friendly situation, using emoticon can emphasis the emotion.
Since planes rarely fall directly out of the sky, I wonder if there’s documented cases of “oh it’s an actual emergency” and people swapping seats.
You may be interested in ASMBLY Makerspace in Austin, which has a scholarship program to help foster kids / teens get skills that can help them transition into adulthood and get great jobs: https://asmbly.org/new-maker-scholarship-program/
Something I think is missing from this list: make a sacrifice for the sake of the other person.

If trust has been damaged, it might take more than just talk to repair it. You may need to give the other person part of what they want as a gesture of good will. I've seen this go a long way in certain situations.

Of course, this comes with some caveats. For example, if there's a power imbalance in a damaged relationship, it's not appropriate for the disadvantaged side to be making sacrifices. Also, the person making the sacrifice is entitled to notice whether or not the other party appreciates it. After all, no one wants to be taken advantage of.

The point is sometimes you just need to demonstrate a charitable attitude when you want things to get back on track.
When there's a complex bit of code, I expect to be able to `git blame` lookup the githash on GitHub and read the PR/issue description that should say what it's trying to achieve and how. I write PR descriptions expecting them to help years later.
I posted this to my Facebook, and 30 seconds later the colleague I was envisioning having to apply this due a recent work conflict saw it ;)
Aliasing is a real problem. If any pointer of any type can write though to any value of any other type with some defined behavior, many key optimizations—moving a value into a register!—become impossible.
Yes, probably. But isn’t GitHub Copilot, Jasper, Perplexity and other great apps as well?

Judging from the engagement in their slack channel, it looks like they are onto something.
I agree, to phrase it a little different, you have to make yourself vulnerable to repair a connection. Ideally, both sides will :)
I would speculate, but don't concretely know, that this is what will happen. I know papers in other fields that were just this; analyzing conditions that successful and failed experiments were performed in and then using ML to derive optimal conditions.
Removing one’s seatbelt and leaving one’s aisle are completely different behaviors.
Lots of pictures of France burning on their site, intriguing.

I guess when it comes down to it I do believe that the platform should be open to all, but there may well be specific times (such as during active and extensive rioting) that strategic delays and slowdowns may need to be inserted to prevent bad actors from using it as a coordinating tool.

I find this regretful, but necessary.

Condemn me. It is of no importance. History will absolve me.
I hope this doesn’t step on Rancher. I could see Rancher, RKE2, Neuvector start to get tighter integration and become more of a licensed model.
You could try to incentivize it - give free checked bags to those with window seats, but charge them for carry ons, and give carry ons for free to the aisle seats.
Interesting!

If we can be honest with one another though, your comment reads to me as not just insincere, but condescending. This might be cultural more than ..'genderal' - I was hearing echoes of 'thank you so much! You're so welcome!' familiar from even the most mundane interactions in the US. (It's quite jarring when you say 'thanks', for having been sold something in a shop say, expecting to leave it at that, to be told you're so welcome.)

What I was intending to get at above was that if I have a duty to communicate with you as you'd like to be communicated with(!), then surely you would also want to reciprocate? If there are just these two 'communication personas' on the team, and they're evenly split, isn't it a lot of effort for nothing, aren't we better off using what makes most sense to us personally, since just as many others agree as disagree anyway?
Thank you for the suggestion. I am interested in modern China, so I might check it out. Just curious about the ‘lack of education on how to raise babies’ - sounds a bit subjective. I mean, plenty of those babies seem to excel when transferred to environments that provide them with better opportunities.
"Fire-stick farming" (i.e. burning forests to make hunting easier) is said to have helped Aboriginal Australians sort out their megafauna.
I'm reading "The Creative Act" by Rick Rubin. It's been such a wonderful perspective shift on what it means to be creative, and it includes a ton of lovely insights on the process of being creative itself. I can't recommend it enough.

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/717356/the-creative...
Yeah the odds are extremely low but the case isn’t closed yet. There is ongoing analysis of the actual samples.
On hot days, between shade and sun I feel a dramatic difference and think: All that energy, just falling for free from the sky, raining uselessly on dead concrete.

Sure we could build more solar panels, but obviously we can't cover the city with them. But the trees and other flora use the energy to power their carbon capture machines, you can measure their energy consumption in the difference between their shade and the sun.

Naturally, little of the ground is so dead. Our mistake is building our cities this way, though it's relatively easily remedied.
It is like any other sport in that sense, a completely isolated genius without access to books and coaching is not going to automatically become a GM, it starts with family support, then club support and finally individual support from other top level players, and sometimes former players, and some form of sponsoring or personal wealth to free up your time. This is instrumental in becoming really good, beyond a mid level ELO rating. I was pretty fanatical about chess until 17 or so, had a friend who was totally immersed in chess and I had a neighbor at my dads place who was a very strong player (master iirc, who I only beat once at the ripe old age of 8 or so but it completely blew his mind :) ).

My school friend is still active ( https://ratings.fide.com/profile/1001396, 2223 ELO rating) and in spite of dedicating a lifetime to chess his highest ranking was 2376 (which is extremely good), he never even got to 'grand master' and he's the strongest player that I've played regularly as a kid.

But I realized that I would have to choose: technology, music or chess and technology won out because it seemed to have the biggest potential for generating income. Chess always was just a game to me, I never wanted to study opening books (which I considered cheating, what's the point in memorizing a whole raft of openings, I still believe you're supposed to pit your wits against your opponent, not to memorize 100's of standard openings that you did not come up with yourself and that is table stakes), so I tuned out. But for a year or so I felt that vibe and was really in love with the game. Fortunately Arno was much stronger than I was so he did me a great service (and I was his punchbag which helped him train his opening repertoire). I think we did 20:1 or worse in win rate but when I won it felt pretty sweet.

Chess is super intense. And if you want to be any good at all you need every little advantage. For the top (anybody ranked Fide master or above) chess is your life as long as you are active.
It’s resolved once William and Mary are done.
>YouTube is relevant here only from a clickbait headline standpoint.

Huh? Why would you think it's not in Google's best interest -- from an ethical, business and perhaps legal standpoint-- to police what its advertisers do?
Instacart Plans for September IPO in Boost for US Listings
It is difficult to convey subtle meaning and tone in text.

The more literal I make my sentences, the more easily I can unequivocally communicate a single meaning.

I don't think it's a good writing technique to adopt, and I cannot wait until tonality and humour returns to global conversations by default.

Usually you can rely on knowing what the person likes and their taste to effectively communicate nuance.

Not as easy to do lately. The 'globalism culture' has waned and there's not much common ground to relate to across countries and cultures.
What is on the books, as a criminal or civil violation, and what are the policies of the local gaming commission, as well as what's actually enforced on the ground, mean that laws differ from policy. It sounds like Google may be complying where they're not legally required to or wouldn't face fines for.
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As a data point, the last email we got from our closing attorney was a single sentence ending in a period. Much like this one.

The same message ending in an exclamation point would have been substantially less nerve-wracking :grimacing:
>I wonder about photography.

s/photography/photoshop

er,

s/graphy/shop

Regex minimalism FTW :)
I've been arguing for years with vegans who drink copious amounts for thyroid-damaging kale and kidney-stone-forming spinach juices. Many of the plants are rich in anti-nutrients and natural toxins to weed off predators. Having a normal-size salad is one thing, drinking 2 pounds of kale is something else. People should learn more abou Hormesis and why too much of the bad thing is bad and too little of it is a good thing. Every nutrient and intervention has an optimal range - below and over it turns detrimental to health. Drink too much water and you die from brain swelling; drink too little and you dry from dehydration - everything works around this example although ranges may dynamically vary from day to day. Things are not as simple as we want them to be (for our convenience).
Technically so is falcon 9, but they can’t return and they have to be totally dry with no cargo, and definitely not a terrarium full of humans. Falcon heavy is even capable of going to Pluto. But it wouldn’t be a very interesting mission. More interesting would be launching unmanned probes.

Regardless, the plan is to use starships to build a LEO refueling platform and bring propellant for a lunar lander brought to orbit via a starship. Such a platform could also be used for Mars. It’s a much smarter move than trying to bring everything from earth in a single shot. And I can vouch for the sanity of the plan - I have almost 600 hours on KSP which makes me a bit of an expert ;-)
> you'll either be the only one doing what you're doing or among just a few people

Agreed.. I've definitely Googled an issue I got stuck on only to land back on my own post (lol). You need fewer people for the same amount of complexity with F#, but idk if that's somehow just translating to fewer people period?
Everything is utterly temporary; all the servers will be turned off eventually (vale Google Reader). Until that happens, we can make things better.
For those of you in FDA regulated devices, my clients started receiving FDA NSE letters for not performing fuzz testing. For example, "Though you have provided penetration testing, it does not appear that you have addressed the other items identified such as static and dynamic code analysis, malformed input (fuzz) testing, or vulnerability scanning. This testing is necessary to assess the effectiveness of the cybersecurity controls implemented and to determine whether the residual risk of your device is acceptable."
I would never allow this. I need to know that they generated the answer. In several video interviews, I've had people copy paste the first google hit, and one used co-programmer, listening and writing the answers in another window. The second was good at coding, but couldn't explain a single line of it. I think it's only safe to assume that anyone with a take home will cheat. But, it's also very hard to fire people, in our group.
It's still O(N) even if you don't need to copy the input, because you nonetheless visited every character in the string.
But what is being compressed is the entire corpus of text. It's compressed into model weights. It's the weights that might be under copyright of the authors of the texts that trained it.

The weights are also executable code (in some sense). When you query an LLM you're running this program with a given input. Yeah when it runs it tells a whole lot of things (sometimes novel combinations, sometimes verbatim repetition of trained data) but the point here isn't whether the output of the LLM is copyrighted; it's the weights.
I see no mention here of unions or anything similar
Or they feel it is undervalued and they want to ride the upside solo.
Yes I own the company. Decided to take it private again.
And then there's Mallett's Law (not in Wikipedia), which is a bit more modern:

Every program attempts to expand until it can render HTML. This usually results in it being able to read email.
The article says this may only be an issue for those: "susceptible individuals with risk factors such as chronic kidney disease, gastric bypass, and antibiotic use."
I believe the original question concerned compilation of Clojure, et al programs to WebAssembly. Unless I'm misunderstanding, your link is to a project for manipulating (assembling and disassembling) WASM bytecode, which is both the wrong direction and not really a compiler at all--at best a constituent part of a compiler.
My experience was limited to laptops and monitors, but hardware's been good and service has been excellent.

Honestly, it reminded me more of early-Amazon customer support, than anything more recent. E.g. support agent following up with a personalized email to me to make sure everything worked out okay with a warranty claim. Talking to humans was novel and pleasant.

That was on the consumer side though.
I'm no expert in the matter, but this seems to contradict what you're saying in terms of effects from too much of it:

https://www.health.harvard.edu/newsletter_article/no-need-to...
Is there anything worth mining in these craters?
Jcowan always been a class act.
> If they support personalized recommendations at all for children's accounts or on youtube kids, then they are clearly in violation of the law.

That was not my understanding of COPPA, how is this violating it if it is used for the service and the parent gives consent?
...in multithread workloads.
My dad in his late 70s has only recently gotten rid of his comb over and gotten a much tighter head shave, while I'm not sure he looks younger he definitely looks better for his age.
Amazon relies on 'serendipity' for office return; employees want data
Well, it would make a lot more sense for the wealthy class to have their own stem cells harvested at a young age then cryogenically store those stem cells and use them to seed artificial blood generation systems.

From this perspective, things look different. i.e. less sinister. A holy grail of biomedical genetics is the ability to create whole blood - white cells and all - from a patient's stem cells, as that would eliminate the need for blood transfusions as well as all problems related to any kind of incompatibility. Still seems to be a ways off, as blood generation is another one of those ridiculously complicated biological systems, and is also closely interwoven with the immune system (since pathogens tend to show up and spread via the bloodstream).

Now, maybe the easiest way to do this is with 'Dolly the Sheep' tactics, meaning wealthy people would create clones of themselves and then harvest blood and organs from those clones, as in at least one dystopian movie.
They’re a political target of the fringe right but don’t confuse noise with success: there are billions of dollars poured into making those talking points sound mainstream but most people don’t agree. Disney’s parks are crowded, every kid in America knows their characters, and Disney+ has something like 140M subscribers, they’re fine.
I'm not sure if I'd consider it the worst, but github ui (with its own issues) definitely feels way more friendly than gitlab
A common sense observation downvoted on HN because it's critical of Big Tech? Say it isn't so.
Too late to edit my original post, so adding this comment to say that the above link just covers RBENV’s shim file code, not the whole codebase.

I have a 600+ page Google doc which covers the remaining code, and which I mostly wrote for my own edification. I was worried about overwhelming my potential audience by showing it all to them at once, and I want to get feedback on just this first section, before releasing the rest.

We’ll see how it goes with just this small first section.
The next set of wild fires will eliminate the current dominant mega fauna.

The common HOMO-Extreme-BMIans.

Or in the vernacular, Large Human Corporate Drone.

Typically feeding on vast quantities of cheese-wiz over bacon fries, their combined fat mass contains the combustible energy of the worlds combined nuclear stockpiles.
int table[4];
bool exists_in_table(int v)
{
for (int i = 0; i <= 4; i++) {
if (table[i] == v) return true;
}
return false;
}

i -> 0 goto return true or next iter
i -> 1 goto return true or next iter
i -> 2 goto return true or next iter
i -> 3 goto return true or next iter

i -> 4 goto return true or exit loop and return false
Since the branch in on undef behavior it is okay for the compiler to choose any branch destination or none at all (i.e. remove all further code).
The compiler in this case likely chose to just remove the branch and any destinations. All that the prior code does is return true, since there is no next iter, so thats all what is left.
Vagner, for sure

/s
How would the licensing for something like that work?
I’ve passed on using many a package that I thought was too complex for for my needs only to find myself effectively writing my own version/ learning why that other package is the way it is.

Suddenly the API looks oddly familiar…. OMG…
I’m implying that the off-handed prejudicial confidence from certain so-called skeptics is also “bad science” if we’re also willing to lambast the public for engaging with science without the requisite rigor.
July 2020: https://www.bmj.com/content/370/bmj.m2815

Oct 2020: https://www.bbc.com/news/health-54296223

It was absolutely a thing before the vaccines. It started on social media and took a lot of pushing before doctors and researchers started looking at it.
That's... weird one. Like, why bother even commiting it to memory if it will be out of date?
I don't really care the same way I don't care about the existance of certain websites or subreddits that I disagree with.

I rather deal with moderation by myself by choosing who to follow, than rely on Twitter moderators and their moral compass to decide what's OK and what's not.
> but just miserable

....huh?

> Elon Musk when there is nothing really worth being him

maybe you're projecting? are you depressed..?

> but that's kinda funny.

no one cares, I think, lol

kind of a word salad, apologies if I missed your point..?
Not really? Megafauna disappeared everywhere in Americas, including in the Central and South America, that are not susceptible to massive wildfires.

It's far more likely that people simply poked animals to death with sharp sticks.
I’ve been wearing t-shirts and shorts daily for the past 51 years. This is honestly the first time I’ve wondered if some people don’t take me seriously because of what I wear. I’ve never noticed anything (though my wife and kids could tell you I am notoriously oblivious).