skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
By launch volume they are their own biggest customer with Starlink.

However, if Amazon wasn't so up their own ass about not using Spacex rockets, they'd probably be buying almost as many launches to get their project Kuiper constellation up. If they're able to manufacture enough satellites that is.

Which is where the whole "who are their customers" story gets interesting. There aren't any customers of spacex rockets who do as many launches as Starlink does, because the industry hasn't yet caught up to the launch capabilities spacex provides. But they launch for a number of governments, as well as commercial companies.

And not just satellites, but manned missions too! Axiom space has flown non-governmental missions to the ISS, and is planning their own space station. The inspiration 4 mission was a privately-purchased free-flight with only civilians onboard, and was the furthest away any human had been from earth since STS-103 in 1999, at 380 miles.

The world is just starting to catch up to the capabilites offered by modern launch companies!
The family member is RFK Jr., right?

RFK Jr. simultaneously believes that his father and uncle were killed by the intelligence state, and that they ought to be providing him protection, and that they want to kill him. I find his opinions pretty confusing on this matter
Most people confuse market making/risk holding with high frequency statistical arbitrage strategies. I'm not totally sure exactly what Knight Capital was running, but generally the only "little" mistakes that would cause HFT market takers such as Jump(for the most part) would blow up is some type of egregious technical error like this, or some type of assumption violations outside of market conditions(legal, structural, etc.). Compare this to market makers like Jane Street who hold market risk in exchange for EV, and thus could lose money just based off of market swings (not to blowup levels if they know what they're doing), and you can see the difference between the styles.

I'm a proponent of both. But generally I hold more respect for actual market makers who hold positions and can warehouse risk.
The general ignorance of the privacy benefits of NAT are what I'm reacting against too. It's certainly regrettable that end users are forced into NAT [0], but since then a shameless surveillance industry has cropped up, looking to exploit every bit of identifying information that it can. And it seems that calls for native IPv6 with everything having its own distinct address generally just ignore the practical privacy implications.

It certainly seems possible to get a NAT-equivalent privacy from properly set up SLAAC. Although a sibling comment says that the proposal for variable length prefixes was just submitted this year?!? Equivalent privacy would also require things like consumer VPN providers allowing you to request a few new addresses every few minutes, whereas NAT makes a shared uniform distribution the default.

Using a proxy instead of NAT is a good point, although there are certainly reasons I moved towards managing egress flows at the packet level with VMs rather than configuring software to play nice with proxies. And spiritually I would say that a proxy is an even more heavyweight version of NAT one layer up.

[0] Although I don't personally think the web would have developed any less centralized without NAT as many people like to imagine
Wait, now it all makes sense: Biden‘s student loan relief program existed only to prevent this book from being written, but the plan failed!

Man, conspiracy theories are so easy — fun even!
This was during the Civil rights movement. The March on Washington—involving over 200K people—happened under him.

Maybe I'm cherry-picking? But this narrative that he was just swoons loved by the people and everyone got along seems like some rose-tinted glasses.
The real issue here (sorry for true Scotsman-ing) is that they were using an untested combination of configuration and binary release. Configuration and binaries can be rolled out in lockstep, preventing this class of issues.

Of course there were other mistakes here etc., but the issue wouldn't have been possible if this weren't the case.
Those leftovers are water soluble, so either you perform some interesting chemistry to convert them into something more durable or your buildings have to be in arid places (condominium in an old salt mine?)
I've read that Israel has basically already solved this problem with their desalination tech.
> It's a tradeoff: you introduce an external dependency and give up control.

I think this is why self-hostable solutions are becoming more common.

When a solution is self-hostable, both sides win.

The SaaS provider can operate the solution, which offers revenue. Customers like it because they can get going quickly.

Or the customer can host it. This allows them to control where the data goes and minimize costs. I like the way this tweet puts it "The real reason to buy SAAS is for someone else to do the ops work"[0].

In both cases the customer benefits from the continued development of the software (similar to how a library improving benefits all applications which depend on the library).

And the ability to self-host removes a business risk. If the SaaS vendor fails, well, we have to support it ourselves. If it is OSS or we have the code in escrow, all the better.

[0]: https://twitter.com/rickasaurus/status/1700697140492648454
This kind of un-normalized leak is actually horrible for equity because it disincentives hiring junior Black employees!

If all you're comparing is raw salary average, companies will focus on poaching the same small bucket of super-senior Black engineers rather than the top-of-funnel interns and juniors who would most benefit (because hiring juniors lowers the salary average).
Anything that is water soluble is going to be a pretty poor building material, unfortunately. The organics floating about (protozoa, algae, fish) also generally decompose, another undesirable property. The remainder- very very fine silt and microplastics- might be useful.

With all the chemical processing that would be needed to stabilize the salts, mechanical filtering and such, I think we're better off continuing to use bricks and ground sourced gravel and cement. At least the holes we dig can be repurposed into sanitary landfills.
Do you like answering a question with a question?
Terminal themed website, opinion on design?
I'm trying to create a terminal themed blog, any feedback on the design?
GDPR isn't about "cookies", it's about how the website operator is allowed to abuse your personal data. Cookies are just a minor implementation detail that's only applicable to a subset of websites that don't require an account (otherwise it's stored in database).
Questionable statistic. Indirect deaths due to temperature are a lot higher than direct deaths, but much harder to measure.
Leaving dead code in is not good practice?? I would love more explanation here because that sounds like crazy talk to me.
I don’t think they’re implying it takes 21 years to learn. I’m inexperienced and learned how to accurately follow paths with bezier curves using the same technique after watching a 10 minute Burt Munroy tutorial.
Animals, and perhaps all life, would not exist. We carry the ocean around with us in our circulatory system, from a long ago bootstrap in which some creature needed to drag part of its "home" with it when it left home.

Why? Well fresh water is pretty boring. Seawater, with all those polar ions in it, enables and facilitates all sorts of interesting (i.e. useful) chemistry.

One of the reasons we can't drink seawater is that our body needs to maintain homeostasis on the blood so the chemistry continues to work properly. If you drink a lot of seawater the kidneys can't excrete the salt fast enough. For that matter, if you drink too much fresh water the opposite happens and you die too.
I agree with this. This is more of a list of reminders to keep in mind IMO.
Something like 16GB is or exceeds recommended specs for most desktop things... But some people are running 64 or 128GB in their desktops. So, I think overkill computers are still out there. It is pretty hard to get ahead of CPU specs now though: used to be you could get server chips (and a server/workstation board) and have something that was clearly better in every area other than price. Now, desktop sockets get new architectures before servers, and server chips have more cores, but usually lower clocks and not everything will scale to more cores in a way that makes that better.
It's both (though I would lean towards lost for a majority of them). It's also true that the longer the outage, the greater the impact, and you have to take into account knock-on effects such as loss of customer trust. Since these are elastic customer-goods, and ours isn't the only marketplace, customers have choice. Customers will typically compare price, then speed.

It's also probably true that a one-day outage would have a negative net present value (taking into account all future sales) far exceeding the daily loss in sales, due to loss of customer goodwill.
Other industries had growth rates like tech, circa ~1990-2010?

Do you think regulators could have predicted that Facebook buying Instagram would lead to less competition in 5 years?

Do you think regulators could have predicted that Google buying Android would have led to less competition in 5 years?

In both cases, yes.

But they had to prove a higher standard under the law.
Newcomers and new hires both simply mean new to a particular job. There could be a newcomer SRE with 15 years experience as an SRE.

Juniors usually implies generally no experience with anything. For example, I wouldn't call someone a junior if they had 15 years of Windows UI programming experience but for some reason decided to switch to a Linux / SRE careeer. But they would be entry level in their new field.
Since salination is essentially driven by the CO2 in the air, does this imply the CO2 we add to the air increases the rate of salination (f' > 0, where f(t) is the salt content of the oceans)? If so, does this affect ocean currents?
Your understanding of geopolitics is (even partially) rooted in fiction.
Came here to comment exactly that.
Automated deployments would have allowed you to review the deployment before it happened. A failed deployment could be configured to allow automatic rollbacks. Automated deployments should also handle experiment flags, which could have been toggled to reduce impact. There are a bunch of places where it could have intervened and mitigated/prevented this whole situation.
I think the big improvement would be consistency. Either all servers would be correct or all servers would be incorrect. The step where "Since they were unable to determine what was causing the erroneous orders they reacted by uninstalling the new code from the servers it was deployed to correctly" wouldn't have had a negative impact. They could have even instantly rolled back. Also if they were using the same automated deployment processes for their test environment they might have even caught this in QA.
It was only my first experience of it, to be fair :D
We created AI in the image of what we believe how we work. Its not that we are an AI, we attempt to mimic our concepts of ourselves in the development of AI. As the article points out, excepting "deep sleep" we are always online, i.e., conscious. But ignoring the parts we don't understand won't allow us to understand ourselves fully.

What we ignore are all the unconscious, instinctive actions that are also part of us (i.e. emotion, reflex, "gut feelings", and so on). Sleep is also part of us. So in asking the question "what is the self" and ignoring a good portion of who we are, won't allow us to answer the question in any useful form.

Some studies say that up to 80% of our brain is the unconscious activities that keep us running, ignore that part of the brain and believing we will find the "self" in the 20% is bordering on foolishness.
Europe adopting something does not mean it's good or intuitive. I like metric but that's just a non argument. It's just like saying the US manages to uses imperial just fine, so imperial is just fine too
Oxalis is a whole genus. There are native Oxalis, California has California woodsorrel, Oregon has Redwood woodsorrel. But there are invasive ones like Bermuda buttercup and Creeping sorrel.
When you make markets you are literally paid the spread to assume the risk of holding the position.
That seems like a cop-out?

The number of degrees of separation between average Facebook's engineer work and "direct harm to a human being" seems like it'd be orders of magnitudes higher than when working on exploits for companies with the client list like that of NSO's.

Or do you not think about it in those terms?
Customers have become hostages and captors have more chips to play with.
> Strive for deep technical expertise in technologies used

And that alone occupies most of my (working/free) time. Not sure how I'm supposed to keep up with the rest of the list. To know technologies is one thing, to have deep tech expertise in many technologies is a completely different one.
Don't worry, a sizeable part of the tree population we are used to live by are going to die because of climate change. Problem (soon to be) solved.
Ben Eaters' building an 8-bit breadboard computer is very well done.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLowKtXNTBypGqImE405J2...
You'll have to ask the author of the article.
If the published inflation rate is significantly less than the increase in price of a wide variety of goods, then doesn’t that indicate that the inflation rate isn’t being calculated correctly? My understanding is the inflation rate should generally reflect how much more expensive things are getting each year
Where's the policy information on what's done with our voice recordings?
Actors is one of the worst programming models possible. It's hard to observe actor-based systems and debug them. The protocol complexity (and complete protocol informality) usually brings much more trouble than any kind of locking/synchronization.
> Risk has a particular meaning in investment

Risk in finance definitely takes on more meaning than the narrow definition in modern portfolio theory (stddev of price).
Browsers are doing insane work very efficient: rendering pages of true type fonts and ultra res images while executing hundreds of js per second in VM and transforming page layout according to dynamically changing CSS rules. For all 10-100 sites opened at once.

It is Linux that now slow and bloated, not speaking of layers of GTK lard that can not render a window with simple controls without consuming hundreds of megabytes.
I saw some of his projects in the GNU Guile ecosystem. Always wondered who that might be.
Here's the thread that debuted this on HN in 2016 titled "Zume, a new startup trying to make a more profitable pizza through robotics"[1].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11980694
Hawk-Eye Transformed Tennis and Other Sports [video]
You know what, I wasn't even right - for some reason I mixed up in my memory the following bit of the guidelines as being to not call our individual comments for being low quality, and only on seeing your reply did it click:

> "Please don't post comments saying that HN is turning into Reddit. It's a semi-noob illusion, as old as the hills."

(Though even if not specifically against the guidelines, "go back to Reddit" type comments do often fall foul of not being polite/helpful, when they'd do better to explain why another comment isn't suitable for HN than to just dismiss/insult it.)
Inventing viable electric fishing vessels in no way takes away from anyone's ability to do those things. And the people doing this work aren't fungible: boat motor designers aren't ever going to be the same people banning plastic nets. It's not either-or.
Living near Paris, it annoys me whenever I look through my window and see the exit pipes of mobile AC units (like this one https://www.emoqui.fr/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/climatiseur...) running through the open windows of the opposite flat.
Once you get accepted they do further diligence (that can take several weeks if you’re missing things or have been sloppy) to get it all together before they give you the money and let you do demo day.
But the ID is on the ICMP header or it belongs to the IP part?
There is no such thing as knowledge, just justified beliefs ;)
Making it easier to extend Python’s syntax
> And all Zf transmissions had a major design fault up until the current 8 Speed

Any reference or hint? Google brings up nothing obvious.
I didn't read all the source material researched for the video myself, so I'd take all this with a grain of salt, but I personally consider Lemmino reliable. Based on his presentation of the evidence I think it was just Lee Harvey Oswald taking an attack of opportunity.
It seems likely he was working at the building by happenstance, heard/read that the motercade would pass by, and hasily planned the assassination in secret.
He had a motive that doesn't require any conspiracy as he was self admittedly a marxist and was described as "unstable".
To me, his murder of a police officer immediately following the assassination is indicative of mental instability rather than a carefully planned conspiracy.
I also consider the reports of multiple gunshots unreliable; I remember being nearby Parliment in Ottawa during the 2014 shootings at Parliment Hill. There was incredible confusion when it started, and rumours and miscommunications travelled at lightning speed since everyone feared for their lives. At first there were reports of multiple gunman in several different locations near the actual shooting because of echoes off of nearby buildings and return fire from police. Really it was a lone gunman, and despite those inital reports I'm not aware of any conspiracies about the whole event.
I think the true conspiracy, if any, was that any of the people involved who failed in their role to prevent the assassination of the president by a lone unstable man, or to conduct a flawless investigation following it, were incentivized to bend evidence and testimoney in their favour (whether unconsciously or intentionally). I don't think this was done out of malice, rather, who would want to admit to any actions that could conceivably invite criticism? In the article itself he provides several (perhaps reasonable) reasons for why he moved the bullet at all, probably to defend against criticism that leaving all evidence in place (seems to me) would have been the best course of action.
As for the article itself, human memory is notoriously unreliable (even shortly after shocking events like this), so even if he beleives he is telling the truth, and isn't interested in the profit motive, I don't think it's compelling enough evidence to believe in a conspiracy beyond human fallacy.
I find that areas that are hard to type are a code smell indicating potentially unstable API design. It can be pretty tricky adding types to a JavaScript project as the lack of types can lead to some very side effecty apis that can be very difficult or impossible to add full type safety to.

My impression is that people running into these problems are trying to add declaration files to JavaScript code, but if you use typescript throughout I've not run into these problems.

Anything I find hard to type is simply a hard problem to solve in the first place and the type system helps me rethink the problem to find safer and more elegant API designs.
This sounds wrong, lots of electricity does useful work that doesn't turn into heat (moving an electric vehicle, making plastic items) or escapes as other waste (light, sound, etc)
Who are you replying to? Nobody but you talked about chatbots in this thread. Are you talking to yourself?
Dead set. Until other companies get ontop of their waste/longevity/upgrade paths. They can duck right off. Frame work laptops or nothing. Ethics of waste > everything else. Apple is a e-waste machine along with dell and hp. Their e-waste for profit should be considered criminally negligent given today's climate.

Gross companies are gross. I love that frame.work is providing some option/fight back against the toxic businesses of yesteryear.
It can't be "doubly effective". The energy cannot simply disappear into the void. If it is used to run something electrical in the house, that energy is still there. If you ship it into the grid and across the country, less of the heating is localized. But it is still heating as it travels through the wires.

As it turns out, solar panels are often more reflective than the typical roof of a house in North America. So solar panels can actually reduce the heat island effect. But it is mostly independent of whether they are hooked up at all.
I used to be passingly interested in the conspiracy part of the JFK assassination until I watched this EXTENSIVE in length and sourced video on the assassination: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DC8tO16xdrY

It's all very logical and straightforward.
Your original comment is somewhat unclear. Are you advocating for leaving old code in because the system works and it's more stable that way, or taking it out to force the necessary refactoring steps and understanding that will bring?
> Does anyone else reckon that homo-chiral life could have some advantages?

No idea, but this topic is explored a bit in the Expanse books. They note that the alien lifeforms found on Ilus have chirality different from those of earth, and explore the consequences of that a little bit. They do a pretty good job of building out the native alien life on the planet in the books, and the show touched on it a little as well.
Good luck finding a US ‘climate haven’ away from heat and disaster risks
No, I've personally witnessed this practice. Wide open doors pouring out cold air on a sweltering day really gets people to stop and shop.
Personally I look at

https://arxiv.org/list/cs.AI/recent

or rather my transformer-powered RSS reader looks at it. This is very technical and quite raw and my own interest is not so much the cutting edge stuff but rather the people who are working on run-of-the-mill problems like my RSS reader.
It’s fine to have that kind of responsibility, but it has to actually be your responsibility. Which means you have to be empowered to say “no, we aren’t shipping this until XYZ is fixed” even if XYZ will take another two years to build and the boss wants to ship tomorrow.
I am also skeptical of Landis, but what do you mean about preserving evidence?

It's a bullet. It just was next to an explosion that cleared it most most evidence. Then the barrel rifling altered the metal. That would not be harmed by picking it up. Then it went through jfk. Okay, we already know his DNA is on it.

The real question is why are you picking up random things from a crime scene and then putting them down in a hospital stretcher.
A single bad investment, in a market where most firms fail but a tiny minority deliver outsized returns, does not ruin the entire portfolio. Conversely, a single bad hire can ruin an entire team, department, or company.
https://oceanvolt.com/ makes some interesting marine electric motors.

Using one in a sailboat seems ideal for offshore cruising as you can recharge your batteries while underway. If it's not windy, then it's probably sunny, so combined with some solar panels, you could be very self sufficient.