skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If this was in Ireland, the workers wouldn't be laid off as of today - they'd at least have the option of a "consultation period". While that might be just a formality in terms of retaining their jobs, it would give anyone who wanted the option to get their severance payment in January instead.
> It is baffling how many HNers in this thread don't understand what "test flight" means.

I've been seeing parallels to this growing at an odd rate. Where context is removed and HN only cares about results at TRL ~7.5+. Its often quite baffling to see systems/models designed in academic spaces with minimal compute resources to systems/models with billions of parameters and millions of dollars in funding. Or to see TRL 2/3 projects be dismissed because they are not >TRL 6. I wonder how people that make these types of responses think research and development happens if you must catapult one's self from a theory to usable product in a realistic environment before it becomes of any interest. It seems rather anti-scientific tbh. Not what I'd really expect from a crowd dominated by developers, engineers, researchers, and scientists.

As for rockets, well... exploding rockets are expected during testing phases. Obviously you want to reduce this, but catastrophic failures, or any failure, serve as great learning opportunities due to the inability to formulate a complete model (combustion instability is a notoriously difficult problem).

I think also many are interested in the subject and so do watch videos and read other sources but that these are at high level discussions and often not getting into the low level nuance that is actually necessary for solving these types of problems. But that as humans we often conflate excitement and time with a subject with expertise in that subject (all time is not equal). Personally I wonder if this is an accurate and general phenomena and exacerbated by our growing information age combined with the large number of armchair science communicators. I think all nerds, including myself, have been guilty of asserting things as facts (or with stronger confidence than they should be), often in an effort to help inform others or simply wishing to participate.

On a side note: anyone feel like it's a bit weird how low (aerospace) engineers are paid in comparison to us in software? Like not bad wages overall but there is a large gap (not looking to get my pay decreased, but the other way around)

Blue Origin: 85k/119k/162k (bottom 10%/Median/Top 10%)(https://spacecrew.com/salaries/blue-origin-salary)

SpaceX: 69k/112k/178k (https://spacecrew.com/salaries/spacex-salary)
The artfully inserted, corrupted predicted frames was :chefskiss:
We're entering a post-growth economy in the near future, so the only way for companies to have reliable revenue streams is to create subscription services. Get ready because y'all are about to be rundled to death.
I liked the 6800, it was the first microprocessor I used, back in 1975. For programming in assembler I preferred it to the later 6502.
> , it can lead to complete device compromise.

lile they had on the flagship pixels just 8mo ago.

the csv google downgraded the severity because there was a work around of "disabling 5/4g" in a market that offset 3g. heh.
You state Israeli universities have a limit on the number of Arab students. I didn’t see anything which supported such a remark.
Very cool, thanks for the pointer! We might be able to run an internal test to check performance vs. a zlib replacement, but I think that AGPL license is going to be a showstopper for anything else...
Yes - the reason is that it slowly started to dawn on me that we can't avoid this topic altogether and still remain within the intended spirit of this site. That took a while, and it's probably better to have waited in any case, because otherwise the odds of reflective rather than reflexive responses (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...) would have been even lower than they currently are.

Basically everything in how we run HN is an attempt to optimize for the core principle: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor.... I know it's not at all obvious how this topic can be within that spirit, but it's also not obvious how avoiding the topic can be within that spirit, so it feels to me like we have to try. I'm trying to support that in this thread a lot more actively than I usually do. (Btw, this has the side effect of paying much less attention to what else is on HN's front page, or happening in comments elsewhere. Usually I make the opposite tradeoff.)
This reminds me the Russian movie Stalker in some way.

> A guide helps a writer and a professor to infiltrate a restricted area, the Zone. Paying no heed to the dangers which lay ahead, they proceed towards the Room in order to fulfil their desires.
You are more optimistic than me. I would guess that if Khronos does not support Rust by that point, anyone in industry who is affected will adopt Carbon or whatever other path of least resistance brings them into compliance, and whatever that option is will take off.
> one of my favorite artists have disappeared from Bandcamp and so did my purchases.

Always download the flac of the music you purchase on Bandcamp. Then your purchases won't ever go away.
Christmas for a toy company offers an villainous two-fer:

(1) lay off people right before the biggest American holiday, and

(2) lay off people right after they helped a toy company crunch through the lead-up to Christmas.
> I feel like folks are entrenched one way or the other and information isn't going to sway anyone

People like to profess doom and hopelessness but I see productive conversations, in this thread and another recent one. Why, in the face of the evidence, is it important to believe and convince people that it's hopeless?

The trend to despair just pisses me off. Nobody ever taught me to embrace despair; I don't know about you. Let's get off our asses and make sh-t happen.
Yes, I meant the 2023 one. Didn’t know there were others.
It works until Elon has to step in.
It's not 1 request. It's a request waterfall in almost all cases. See the remix homepage for a great demo and pitch on why remix is awesome

https://remix.run/
That's exactly why.

Thing is, laying people off in January would be even worse, for pretty much the same reason. As much as getting laid off during the holidays is a gut punch, it's probably ultimately better to go on the job market right before the January hiring season than to get laid off right after it wraps up.
Al Jazeera is state propaganda run by the Qataris, who also fund Hamas. The one topic that they absolutely cannot provide unbiased commentary on is Israel-Palestine. Picking an AJ article as the jumping off point is akin to picking a Pravda or RT article as the jumping off point to discuss Ukraine-Russia.

I think this community is better than most at keeping things analytical, and you're better than any other moderator I've encountered in decades on online communities. But it's not exactly a neutral framing to kick off the discussion. An article about the numerous rapes and tortures committed by Palestinians during October 7th and on the hostages afterwards would likewise not be the most neutral.
Because the purposes of these cases aren't to stop people from stealing. They want people stealing, so they can sue them, and get paid to go away. Strike 3 isn't looking for justice, they're just looking to use the court system as a revenue stream.

If people stopped settling, or the settlement amounts dropped significantly, then Strike 3 wouldn't even bother. They want the easy settlement money. And if people stopped the stealing, Strike 3 would probably be pretty unhappy.
Hey, you're right! I'm familiar with using that fix for other error messages I've seen, but I've never seen this one before.
They got lucky with D&D. The ruled gameplay isn't even that good/original with D&D when compared to other RPG mechanics from other systems... it's mostly the lore that enabled WoTC to sell rights to the IP to get us Baldurs gate, torment etc.

With magic it's just an addictive game and the "lore" though slim makes it feel adultish.
Wouldn’t total occultation of a star be a great way to send signals to far away civilizations?
US - "Look at the poor natives starving"

Native - "What, we're just healthy"
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That's because the company is more or less in stealth/investigatory mode. It's the same team that built Workflow which was acquired by Apple and then turned into Shortcuts.
Ukraine made me rethink some of my Iraq and Afghanistan era views, only to have the GOP change stance without reason. Where I thought there was actually room for coming to a common understanding, even that had become divisive. Meanwhile everyone on the right and left has lost any semblance of nuance on isreal-gaza.

The polarization we've seen over the last 20 years is only getting worse, and will be fueled be worsening global economics. It's hard to see what will reverse this trend short of a world war.
You're describing a Control Moment Gyroscope (CMG), famously used on the ISS. They have very high torque output per unit power and mass/volume. They and reaction wheels (fixed axis of rotation) are convenient for spacecraft applications because they don't require an external medium to push against. Aircraft are surrounded by air, so they can use control surfaces instead.
Being German and having left Germany I have a suspicion why: they enjoy complaining too much. However that also raises an important question that is only brushed on in the Context: how do you control for a "cultural bias to complain". In a culture where negativity and complaining is frowned upon, you'd imaging you'd get higher scores -- even though the people don't actually feel any different from the ones that like to complain.
In 1948 Jewish terrorists drove numbers of Palestinians from their homes into Egypt during the Nakba. Israel has refused to let the refugees they created return for the past 75 years. So while Israel is carpet bombing Gaza,the party to be condemned is - Egypt? For not cooperating in Israel's effort to drive the Gazans from their homes?
You have no idea what you're talking about. Perth is about a third of a second away from Los Angeles. There is no data that cannot be cached owing to 'high cardinality'. There does not exist a company that is trying to serve Perth traffic from a US CA DC that cannot afford a server that can do 100k RPS.
> Excuse the Palestine side as if they were naive children.

I am not seeing this anywhere, unless being treated as civilians (which they mostly are) is now equivalent to being treated as "naive children".
There was a time where a request taking even 500ms was considered to be slow, and then all of a sudden it just became normal to see API traces where requests would take over a second, or multiple seconds, and people would just shrug at it.

Even a backend roughly cobbled together in PHP4 with Varnish running on top of it would considerably outperform some of the stuff that is accepted as 'good enough' today.
Not just a dozen. Current estimates say closer to 20.

It makes the notion of ss cans supporting Mars colonization a bad joke. The cans might be just barely adequate to support a Lunar outpost. The "gateway" concept is another bad joke. It is in plans solely because that is the closest to the moon that SLS can get to. It isn't legitimately a gateway to anything: stopping there makes getting where you really want to go substantially harder. The only legitimate place for a gateway would be in high Earth orbit, because it wouldn't require extra fuel to stop at it and then get moving again.
I think it has to be. Nothing else makes sense. On the bright side, Brandon Sanderson is moving full steam ahead growing his brands into fully fledged productions. He has been a huge help in bringing Wheel of Time season 2 back in line for what fans want, and he's using that experience to begin re-writing some of his series' into TV scripts. While the franchises of our youth might be approaching the EoL, the future still looks bright for epic fantasy fans!
> or where a market failure has failed to provide a decent equivalent

A whole lot of weird, or just simply old planes still operate in Canada for this reason. Until this year you could still find 737-200 flights in the north.
counterpoint: the primary problem wasn't that mcas was hard to turn off well. it was that it was a critical system without any redundancy and therefore failed about 100x too often. if mcas had been based off of 3 sensors like it obviously needed to be it would have failed (and known that it failed so it could turn itself off instead of pitching down the plane) one a decade or so rather than a few times a year.
it probably is, but you won't get the usual academic work for free as you get with more common platforms.
It is clearly a charged topic and while you did a good job setting the tone, it clear that moderating this discussion will be a daunting task for anyone.

I am already seeing the antisemitic comments calling Jews colonizers, stealing land from indigenous people for 75 years. The one-liners or single-sentence zingers lack context or, often, truth.

I do appreciate comments from people living in that area -- what their lives were and are before and during this conflict.

I do wish that instead of this charged subject on HN, instead an article discussing the history of this land and people living on it. History of empires, conquests, displacements, wars, attacks.

Etymology of the names and Meaning of terms that are being used by both sides.

* What did Zionism mean in 19th and 20th centuries? What does it mean in 21st century?

* What does Anti-Zionism mean?

* Where does the word Palestine come from?

* What really happened in 1948?

* What happened to Gaza Strip under Egyptian rule from 1948 to 1967?

* What happened to West Bank under Jordanian rule from 1948 to 1967?

Discussing history of what happened and what did not would be less explosive and more productive use of great minds on HN, in my opinion.
It was offered as a subsidized perk during my days as a Google employee.

The social aspect of other people at Google doing it made it feel normal.

In hindsight, I drank the Google kool-aid in more ways then one.

The sentiment of distrust towards tech companies and tech companies being yet-another-corporation is really only obvious in recent years. It wasn't the case a decade ago when we were busy being judgemental of Wall Street. Ironically, now it seems that Wall Street is more trustworthy because, at the very least, they are forthrite about their motive to make profit instead of all these lies about "changing the world".
I agree. I’ve been using Emacs for approaching 20 years. In the past few years when I upgrade I’m noticing the same thing. Some font faces have the wrong colors, in one case an actual function was removed and Emacs wouldn’t start, some commands prompt slightly differently. I like to point at Emacs as being like Linux, that it’s a stable platform I can rely on, but do have to admit that more recently I don’t want to upgrade for fear of breakage.

Hell, I’m still on a version of magit from 2014 because they wouldn’t stop moving things around despite it being, in my opinion, done. In all other software in my life I have to put up with things constantly changing for silly reasons, Emacs is the one piece of software where I’m in control.

I fully empathize with the poster being infuriated with changing behavior. I might not agree with the way it’s being expressed. It’s sort of “et tu, Emacs?”
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You don't use Alpine because it is the smallest anymore, but because it has the best package repo. It beats the big 2 (and Nix), Fedora and Debian, in terms of package coverage and being kept up to date. At least in all my testing.

I don't think it is a premature optimization anymore, it has become the best practice by default. The network effect at work.
The price of toys has fallen drastically since 2000.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CUSR0000SERE01

That's got to come straight out of Hasbro's bottom line.
>* Feminist, in the classical sense

What's the current sense?
When you consider Netanyahu, for years, propped up and funded Hamas, it makes everything more confusing to understand

https://www.timesofisrael.com/for-years-netanyahu-propped-up...
>If you are already attempting to get into orbit it makes sense to include this experiment in case you succeed because you save the time and cost of an entire launch and might get a $53 million award while advancing a key requirement for HLS, a $2.9 billion dollar contract and the current core mission.

Literally KSP career mode IRL
Did you live through the 80s? I did and find this wildly inaccurate. See the Greed is Good memes and hero worship of Wall Street.
Looks like https://hal9.com as in enterprise data analytics with LLMs.
You are missing the point of the parents post. It’s more nefarious to fire people at the holidays because it’s harder for them to get a new job as the people at the new place are only closing 2 tickets.
I saw it at the time, having read the books (through Heretics, with Chapterhouse being published after the 1984 film). I've yet to see any of the subsequent or current production(s) absent online clips.

The biggest problem with Lynch version (I think of it as the De Laurentiis version, as his name eclipsed Lynch's in the promotions at the time, and Lynch hadn't yet risen in stature with Twin Peaks) is that the story is simply too vast to be told in a single film, let alone one of < 140 minutes running time.

Other than that ... the De Laurentiis version was very uneven. Parts of it were excellent. Kyle McLaughlin as Paul was excellently cast, and there were several other notable players and performances (many of whom I wouldn't appreciate until much later), and when the sandworms appeared on screen, I believed. Other effects and editing ... not so much. Critics overwhelmingly panned the film, and it performed quite poorly at the box office.

The clips I've seen of Harrison's 3-part miniseries by John Harrison, and the current Villeneuve production, look considerably stronger.
That's cool! I do all of those things as well, minus the uni classes and open-source. But for someone who has no interest in travel, then learning foreign languages would be a waste of time. I personally consider writing open-source software a waste of my time because it would be taking away from my closed-source side project ventures.

You can totally min/max your entire life and only do things for self-improvement, but then to what end? What do you expect to derive out of the continuing education classes that is going to be significantly valuable to your life/career?

I think it's important to note that many people are actually quite satisfied with their position in life, a lot of us are making a lot of money engaging in interesting work, so at a certain point doing things for the sake of minimizing opportunity cost comes with diminishing returns as you've already made the most of the opportunities you've already had. The whole point of working hard is to reach some stage of life where you can actually reap the rewards and have the time and resources to enjoy yourself however you please without worrying about it.
The MSCHF art collective had a project a few years ago based on this public domain timing: https://mschfxfamousmouse.com/

> We are making and selling the idea of a MSCHF “Famous Mouse” artwork now, that will not exist–even as a design–until 2024. If you purchase this artwork, we give you a temporary token with a unique code that can be redeemed for the actual piece in 3 years.
Israel should try harder to avoid killing civilians. But to act like they don't try at all (which you did) is objectively wrong.

Moving onto hypotheticals, international condemnations don't mean a whole lot. At any rate, I expect that Israel would win a war against Iran, Hezbollah, and Hamas. Or perhaps that war would be indecisive, but Israel wouldn't lose.

Finally, it's very clear that Hamas actively wants to kill Israeli civilians. Israel's behavior is not beyond reproach but they aren't going through Palestinian towns and shooting old people and children.
Israel also has the proven ability to level all of Gaza, but they fact that they don't doesn't mean much. Outsider speculation on Israeli military objectives is meaningless.

Wars don't end when one side gets yelled at. They either end with diplomacy or victory.
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The gyros in RC are misleading. They are a sensor (gyrometer) which isn't using mass to counter movement, the are merely letting the plane know when it has shifted so it can move the control surfaces accordingly. Gyros have mostly been replaced by accelerometers at this point.
> People would argue that it's up to the seller whether they want to make their creations available.

But this gets complicated. I wanted to post a song from a somewhat obscure '80s band on my website and so tracked them down and asked for permission.

One of them (the songwriter) responded to say that the band has never had the rights to the music on that album and, in fact, they don't even have a recording of it themselves. In his words "as far as I'm concerned, you can do whatever you want with that stuff". I posted the song and sent him a high-quality copy of the album it came from.
Altough you're right: Jordan has its own, earlier, history with Palestinian arabs.

The Palestinians moved to Jordan after losing the 1967 war, started a "civil" war in Jordan and were expelled to Lebanon after losing in 1971. Only then they started the 1975 "civil" war in Lebanon.
I am pretty sure you have a story or two to share after I've read such a paragraph ...
The strategic benefit of game streaming is cultural imperialism. Every sovereign country wants a Hollywood.

To be clear, a "Hollywood" is any local industry that simultaneously:

1. Monopolizes or oligopolizes the internal market to the point where cultural importation is forbidden, and,

2. Exports a large amount of its own work to other countries, displacing the foreign country's culture

Out of these two concerns, #1 is key; #2 is more icing on the cake. Censorship of other countries' speech allows imposing whatever values you want in the resulting silence. If Twitch is operating in Korea, then they control (through algorithmic editorialization) what a large chunk of Koreans are watching; Korea's government loses that control.

How this manifests in other countries differs. America has an oligopoly that used to marginalize anything it didn't make, but Big Tech needs Hollywood to be subservient to them for various copyright-related reasons, so they're willing to circumvent that control with social media. Going further, you can self-privilege in the law: France and Canada have explicit requirements to show a certain percentage of French or Canadian content in broadcast and streaming media.
Dude. You buy all your gear from modern society with electricity, oil for your car and shit and post it about online.

This doesn't mean HG work was play or that they had it better than you.

It just means that you love that type of thing. Same as many people love different sports or physical activities and nature experiences. Specially in contrast with dense populated towns/cities.

There's a difference between larping survival and having a real net and having absolutely no choice. Adrenaline can be fun but life or death constantly is absolutely different.
Yeah, as a Montanan, I did a double-take at that comment.
I wrote a simple command line app to let me quickly ask a quick question in the terminal - https://github.com/edwardsp/qq. It outputs the command I need and puts it in the paste buffer. I use it all the time now, e.g.

$ qq concatenate all files in the current directory and sort the result on the third column
cat * | sort -k3
I forgot about them buying Microprose. I feel like that was all part of the two cancelled X-Com games that were in development around 2000 or so.