skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, the USSF has as part of it's "SpaceWerx" program a funding initiative called Orbital Prime, which autonomous on-orbit servicing and de-orbiting is a major focus. The summary headline is any private technologies that enable autonomous "RPO" Rendezvous Positioning Operations, will in turn enable activities such as autonomous repair and refueling (one of the main reasons orbital space vehicles reach end of mission is they run out of fuel), and in cases where refueling and repair aren't possible, autonomous "tugs" can dock and execute a deorbit burn for the decommissioned space craft. I was on one of the awarded teams for Orbital Prime last year, its very exciting technology and equally exciting to see serious amounts of funding materializing to tackle this problem.
Which operating systems are you talking about? I can do that just fine in both windows and macOS without installing anything
Electrical Engineer who can write messy but functional code in C and Python, but mainly deals with analog circuits at work.

Software has a magical property that other engineering disciplines do not: The engineering environment is ideal and fundamentally perfect. It's like building electronic circuits but only in the simulator that uses all idealized parts. And you get the extremely rapid prototyping and scaling that comes with that. (A "single line of code" equivalent error in a production analog circuit can take months to fix and years to distribute)

In a way it feels "unfair" because the fuckery of mother nature and immovable boundaries of physics is largely (and normally completely) cut out of the equation. Imagine having to write code where every variable is a fuzzy range as opposed to a fixed value, it would put a huge clamp on designs.

However,

The intellectual savings from not having to deal with non-linearities and errant physical effects, is largely just shifted into increased overall complexity that all exists in a different realm. So maximum logical thinking and intellect is still demanded.

I think the divide really comes from the difference in space in which the "engineering" is happening. Conventional engineers are dealing directly with nature trying it's best to constantly break your design. And I think there is a degree of comradery that comes with that. Software guys, free form those chains and working in a parallel universe of perfect logic, instead are pushed to the absolute limits of complexity.
nope.

Had that happen once, swapped the microwave out and never happened again since.
> Trust me, my 80 year old mother doesn’t care about what TikTok influencers think.

nor does she care about operating system updates.
Cool. I haven’t used Krita, but I’ve always thought of it as a painting tool. But apparently it can do more than that!
[This is just data - I’m sure it was “abnormally hot” in many places, but NYC was not one of those places. Believe it or not, 2000 and 1960 were just randomly picked out of a hat and the only other dates I tried fwiw]

September 1960: https://www.timeanddate.com/weather/usa/new-york/historic?mo...

September 2000: https://www.timeanddate.com/weather/usa/new-york/historic?mo...

September 2023: https://www.timeanddate.com/weather/usa/new-york/historic?mo...

2000 was a “hot” September.
Super Mario 64 – Watch for Rolling Rocks 0x A presses [video]
Previous record (with commentary) for context: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36725472

Video description goes into more technical details. Notably, this takes advantage of a glitch that was discovered 10 days ago [0] and improves both on number of A-presses (0.5 -> 1) as well as time (multiple hours -> 6 minutes).

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E79jvV41R60
Can't you sign your own certificates? I honestly haven't done any work with http/3 so it's a sincere question.
Isn’t this kinda what Tidelift is trying to do?
The same people that as of today [1] waived 26 Federal laws so they can begin building a border wall after dismantling and selling for pennies on the dollar the previous one that was being built.

It’s funny how something considered racist is now considered necessary now that the migrants are being dumped in their front yards.

[1] https://www.cnn.com/2023/10/05/politics/biden-administration...
If it were real engineering, we would be able to safely run arbitrary code, just like you can safely plug anything into an outlet and not take down the grid.
reparing and upgrading please
Thanks, I appreciate you putting that together. So this could be a good result - the regulator confirming it has power to fine, and will be aggressive about it, and the company's signoff proves they agree and will implement fixes. We'll know how well it works based on if there's a repeat in the next few years.
Adam? ... is there a reason your laptop is in the fridge? (2006)
russia is a big country with huge soviet reserves, still they started renovating T54s https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidaxe/2023/07/07/mammoths-cr...

Currently there are 2500 tank and >4000 armored carrier losses documented on video/pictures https://www.oryxspioenkop.com/2022/02/attack-on-europe-docum... while UA claims double that in the field https://index.minfin.com.ua/en/russian-invading/casualties/

~10 tank loses a day while ru barely makes under 10 new tanks and refurbishes tens per month now. https://en.defence-ua.com/industries/how_many_tanks_a_month_...
That's not how it's presented or how managers expect it to be used.
I am not seeing the problem with every participant linking in their own QUIC implementations. The problem of ossification is there is way too much policy hidden on the kernel side of the sockets API, and vanishingly few applications are actually trying to make contact with Mars, which is the use-case for which those policies are tuned.
I was thinking progressive MP4, with sample table in the moov. But yes, cmaf and other fragmented MP4 profiles have ftyp and moov at the front, too.

Rather than putting the media in a contiguous blob, CMAF interleaves it with moofs that hold the sample byte ranges and timing. Moreover, while this interleaving allows most of the CMAF file to be progressively streamed to disk as the media is created, it has the same CATCH22 problem as the "progressive" MP4 file in that the index (sidx, in case of CMAF) cannot be written at the start of the file unless all the media it indexes has been processed.

When writing CMAF, ffmpeg will usually omit the segment index which makes fast search painful. To insert the `sidx` (after ftyp+moov but before the moof+mdat s) you need to repackage (but not re-encode).

Same problem, same solution more or less.
As a counter to your first example, I once had software deployed in some U.S. embassies in some not so great parts of the world. The machines the software lived on were air-gapped and on computers built specifically not to allow external connections (different keyboard/mouse connectors, no USB, no CD).

To deploy an update required a human, some long flights, and replacement parts. While it's not common, I think it would still break that definition of what is/isn't an engineer.

For me, it comes down to the level of rigor required. I think developing avionics software is probably engineering whereas building an phone app to view/share pictures of cats likely isn't.
The last 100 years and our current trend doesn’t fit any cycle we have evidence for, spanning millions of years of proxy records.
Hard disagree. The only thing these dead monkeys pictures speak to are feelings and we have seen what happens when the public gets animated and the public easily gets animated with dead animal pictures and the name Elon Musk.

Logically, if you want to protect animals rights, focus on factory chickens. The suffering impact of of these monkeys is epsilon compared to that.
I love the idea of getting paid for opening emails sent specifically to get my attention. However, I'm not sure your website conveys that effectively. There are two sides: a marketer who wants to reach interested parties, and a consumer willing to get paid for reading interesting things. The messaging on the landing page becomes muddled because it seems you have both value propositions on the same page.
We had 3 different notices in the last week from our school of social media threats.

They have not divulged a lot of details, but I have gleaned two things.

* A lot of these are anonymous threats where the school is not identified, so multiple districts are being put on alert at a time

* The police department is using a new software tool that scrapes social media for threats. Which could explain the sudden increase in threats.
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Yes, I don't think doing curl rust.up | sh is a reasonable thing to do. I am only going to get language toolchains from my distro's repos.

Also, now we're ignoring that my rustc was only 3 months old and couldn't compile most things people were writing in rust? That's the point of this entire conversation. Let's not derail.
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I assume they have a 24 hour SLA
Yeah, I agree with you. The design is broken and unfair.

I see it as a loss-loss situation: Either nobody cares and autocracies get a free pass to do what they want in the global stage, or countries can react and restrain relations with governments based on some (sometimes subjective and biased, sure) criteria.
There is a big difference between the person that builds the skyscraper and the person that does the maintenance.

Most of us empty the trash and change the lightbulbs and think we are structural engineers. I'm ok with what I do, but I don't pretend I'm something I am not.
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Relevant: "PSD is not my favorite format" (2009)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25946103
Why would the blessing matter, if the source is available and really licensed under a real open license after the exclusivity period? Why would the original authors give their blessing to a free competitor that aims to drive paying users away?

Perhaps you approach this a bit too dogmatically. The objective for me as a user is to have good quality software, with source available, in a competitive market that does not lock me in - because it allows other free or commercial spin-offs with low entry barriers.

If we can't ever accept something that does not pass the Stallman purity test - even if it means open source programmers in some niches should starve - what we end up in those niches is binary blobs filled with spyware. And due to network effects (see the above .PSD discussion), we soon find ourselves forced to swallow the blob because it's the only real option.
Only if they take liability for their work. I would never want to work that way in a business system. Space shuttle, sure.
I see 2 crypto exchange companies, the other money apps seem more like CashApp.

It's a puff piece for these companies but doesn't seem exclusive to crypto.
I think interpretable is a overloaded term. If you use RAG, sure you can look at the retrieved text and understand what is being used, but at that point you're just interpreting the retriever.

LLMs need to be interpreted so that they can be edited have their biases understood in a systematic way. However just as people aren't "interpretable" these algorithms are not going to be able to display their inner workings with 100% confidence. It's going to remain probabilistic, which might be fine for the majority of use cases. I think we're coming from an age where everything was 100% interpretable because we knew what was going on inside the machine (e.g. in a knowledge graph).

There needs to be some definition of what we want to achieve with interpretability for us to understand what standards we need to keep.
Singapore: Right to own a car costs $76,000. And that doesn't include the car
All engineering is making something complex and functional, so yes, absolutely. Of course, there is software that is neither of these things, but there's also fallen trees across rivers that serve as bridges and eventually erode.
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Dawkins faces this argument in "The selfish gene" and he choses to explicitly acknowledge that qualia is unprovable, so takes a definition of the phenomenon that is independent of it.

And this is when studying actual living organisms, so applying it to machines will be even more useful.
You're missing out if you're blanket disregarding research from one of the biggest natural experiments of all time. Take it with a grain of salt, sure.
How would you make changes to the QUIC protocol then?
What you're describing is the path to inevitable collapse. If people will never be able to give up convenience or growth then we really are doomed, tech advantages only slow down that runaway train.

I don't actually think it's a fundamental blocker though. People sacraficed quite a bit at home during WWII to support the war effort, we could make similar sacrifices now if we saw our impact on the planet as a similarly existential threat.

To me it seems like the failure is in trying to analyze the problem so specifically that we can define the "right" path then logic people onto it. That will never work, mainly because the problem is so complex that there won't be a complete understanding to share. There will always be assumptions used in modeling and holes in the data allowing for alternative explanations that are then argued over even further.

We all know that using oil at this scale isn't a great idea. And we all know that we could actually use less oil without giving up much at all. If we spent less time arguing over how we got here we could find reasonable next steps that are hard to argue with when it isn't all backed by "science" and "fact" that can be debated endlessly.
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I could. But that wouldn't help make my website visitable for anyone. I'm not trying to access my own hosted site. I want a random person on the other side of the world who I've never met and will never meet to be able to visit my website. That's the point of public websites.

Generating my own root cert and using it does not help with this at all since no one else will have it installed nor install it unless I'm already good friends with them. Installing a root cert in the various trust stores is no simple task either.

The easier self-sign with no root cert also doesn't help because every current implementation of HTTP/3 does not support self-signed certs.
By the number of times you have to switch back to google and find it more relevant :)

(but don't know about objective metrics)
psychology is vast, and you might have a very deep socio-affective brain, which means their presence is what matters, the rest is secondary

which is great, i stopped feeling like this in 1994, and life carried me into transactional / protocolized social life (which I don't like) .. maybe sociologist live too much in the land of stats
> Don't take this the wrong way but corporate are such prima donnas!

Not taking it the wrong way, you're right :)

> I got flashbacks from my tiny startup days when corporate went to procurement companies which wanted specific terms and mode of payment. And after all the infrastructure was in place... they basically spent no money!

Yep, that's painful but I count it as the cost of doing business.
If I jump through these hoops and my competition doesn't it sets me apart.
If only 1 in 10 then spent money so be it.

> The SBOM idea exists in various forms. Few need it and few use it.

True today.
Not true tomorrow.
Software development will become a highly regulated industry.
This is my prediction at least.

> If somebody wants to pay money, they will figure out a way. If they want to invent an excuse they will find one.

I want to give them fewer excuses.
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You've climbed another level on Maslow's hierarchy of needs, and now the needs below are no longer interesting to you, they provide diminishing returns when fulfilled. Many paths are available to you now: some choose philosophy or ignorance, some choose hedonism.
So we take the notion of national parks to the extreme, and carve out parts of the planet dedicated to preservation, and dedicate other parts to supporting humans and their needs, and we learn the science we need to artificially protect against ecological collapse. Maybe the solution to our expanding technology is technological.
>"Ever" is what's being analyzed and September is the outcome of that analysis.

Isn't this analysis going back to 1991? How is that "ever"?
Yeah, either way we're pushed to the limits of thinking. If we weren't then that means we could make greater things, ergo, we're pushed to our limits.
I wonder how big the switch would need to be to be able to transmit info via the rotational speed as hest we can measure it.
Didn't Wi-Fi originally use 2,4 GHz because it was free to use (without needing a license), because of the noise produced by microwaves on this frequency?
>It works well in practice.

Hi, I worked on gnutella and lots of P2P systems in the early 00s. This will devolve into noise and spam as the number of users who adopt this feature pass a critical mass. With a fully decentralized system, there are no gatekeepers, and as such, there is no way to filter counterfiet items. While your client will present with you the data you are searching for, you will find out (usually hours later) that your supposed pirated download is actually just a 2hour loop of Rick Astley (still piracy though, so you are still winning.. i think?).
Going full circle on that thinkpad line, are we?
From everything I've seen the tech nerd world basically sees fines as existing on one of two extremes, either they're a cost of doing business or they're company destroying. The idea that there can be fines or penalty schemes of any other effect is largely ignored. Since 150k is pretty small, everyone is of course advocating for a 150 million fine because that's the only other kind of fine that exists in their minds.
Good distillation of the difference between working with atoms vs. bits.
As far as I'm aware, OneWeb sats have the Astroscale grappling point on them so the vehicle Astroscale is developing can grab and deorbit the dead satellites. The most recent news on that being that an in-orbit demonstration is intended to launch in 2025.

Edit: correction, oneweb doesn't specifically use the astroscale grappling fixture, instead it seems they use either their own design, or ones designed by Altius. Apparently these designs are such that they can be grappled either mechanically or magnetically, so presumably the difference is not significant enough to meaningfully limit which MEV can handle the job.
Depends.

In the context of being an engineer - it's not. A real engineer's licence can be revoked due to misconduct, is issued by a governing body and carries some weight.

Software developers can call themselves engineers or even Code-Alchemists, but it carries zero weight.
I took a look at the git blame, and the commit title is perfect.

https://github.com/gco/xee/commit/750196023da5457d9535b30299...
> because the sockets API and the system TCP stacks are too ossified to be improved

What part of the sockets API specifically do you think is ossified? Also, that doesn't seem to have kept the kernel devs from introducing new IO APIs like io_uring.
No, that's something different.

They used to be simple to understand, looking at their homepage today I have no idea what they are doing today but not what I'm looking for.
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You'll be fine, there will be http2 for the next couple of decades at least. By then you'll be saying "Siri set up nginx for reverse proxying my new email server and open-facebook federated instance, oh and turn on the coffee maker, i'm gonna grab another 15 minutes of sleepy time"
In electrical engineering, there is some iteration in development (board spins). But nowhere near the flexibility of software. That's why it's almost always better, imo, to turn a hardware problem into a software one.
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My time listening to the radio was low to start, mainly listening to CDs/MP3 CDs when I started driving, and promptly fell to 0 when I got an iPod and stayed there after I got an iPhone. Why would I want to listen to ads and DJs talking over the music when I can listen to exactly what I want to listen to?

Maybe I'm in the minority but I've never once considered my data usage when it comes to music/podcasts or even radio. There were plenty of apps to stream radio if that's what I really wanted.
I think it's the reduced vinegariness and thicker consistency - eggs of any kind with lashings of cholula is a regular breakfast for me
> less dependent on foreign resources is another way of say "reduced global trade" which has been and continues to be a major part of our economy.

TBF I'm growing more and more apathetic to this whole "economy" thing. Unbounded growth is what led us to the present problem in the first place. What about we try to optimize for quality of life instead of quantity of made-up number?
>>you can't simply put up a bridge that would support 500 cars and say "oh we'll update it to support 5000 cars down the road"

In that case the requirement changed, it might require some extra support or upgrades to the bridge, if not we have to build the bridge all over again.

Similar in SWE, the requirement can change, if you planned a small MYSQL database to hold 2 Stores transactions and then "oh well we will need to support 2000 Stores Transactions" you might try upgrade the server or start from zero on a AWS cloud instance that keep up.

In SWE you still have the big decisions than can impact people and budget, a bridge can collapse, so the autopilot software can make the car crash
I'm not sure about Stripe in particular but many financial institutions are tracking the top 10 global risks published by the World Economic Forum. The number one 10 year risk is "Failure to mitigate climate change". In total 6 of the top 10 are directly related to climate change and 3 are indirectly related e.g "Large scale involuntary migration" and "Erosion of social cohesion"
It's already in this comment thread lol.

Space libertarianism here we go!
There is nothing professional or unprofessional about a device except a name. In the old days, business-targeted devices such as PCs and laptops had user-serviceable parts so that the support could quickly replace a broken fan or faulty memory die and you could get back to work. These days are long gone and I'm sorry to say I blame Apple for a large part of it.