skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If a test flight doesn't achieve the testing objectives, that's a failure.

Demonstrably incorrect.

Examples:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqeJzItldSQ is a Saturn launch abort test that failed. It failed in a way that they were able to determine that intended test would have worked, though. 1:20 for the meat of things.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_6 also failed to achieve its objectives; "Despite the engine failures, the flight provided NASA with enough confidence to use the Saturn V for crewed launches; a potential third uncrewed flight was cancelled."

All that aside, SpaceX was quite clear that the latest Starship test had multiple objectives, and that "successfully splashdown near Hawaii" was deemed quite unlikely. It successfully demonstrated a number of items, including fairly critically the launchpad changes. It wasn't one test; it was a bunch of tests in one flight.
+1.

This[1] article that was on HN front a few months ago and I could only agree with it.

I've seen teams trying to micro-document their way to inefficiency. Forcing doers to document every darned small thing is the surest way to get them to lose interest. By now I've realised that regardless of documentation it takes around 6 months for a s/w engineer to be fully productive at a new company and start creating value.

[1] https://commoncog.com/tacit-knowledge-is-a-real-thing/
Data source, San Francisco Police department.

https://sfgov.org/scorecards/transportation/percentage-citat...
It has a lot of nice Visualizations? Which is your favorite?

Is the "random" looking graphic a calculation of pi in the browser? (I expected a png, but it looks like constructed locally.)
Can you provide examples where they've been debunked?
I hope they don't transition to a subscription model. I currently use VMware workstation at home and love it.
Cellular internet doesn't really work at my house 50 miles outside of Boston either. And, in fact, it goes out pretty predictably when I take the train in (presumably because the high-end closer-in suburbs where it goes out don't like cell towers).
I think your edit is correct.
The Rewrite Release Fear
how much of the aid is administered by Hamas?
You can sell public domain materials all you want. And whenever anyone else copies stuff in the public domain, even if they copy it from your copy, they're not infringing copyright.
The Crimson has helpfully provided images.

In the first image, one thing that piques my curiosity is that while many words are identical, the meaning of the first sentence is actually reversed: "increase" was replaced with "decrease". But all of the identical phrases in the first image are very dry statistical language, almost like "copying" a mathematical formula. It would be more concerning if interpretations were borrowed, but copying the phrase "a linear form would be unlikely in a simple scatter plot" just doesn't cross my threshold of serious business. To me, the most concerning thing about the image is that the meaning of the cited sentence seems to have been reversed!

In the second image, again we have a few little phrases and pairs of words. Two things are "copied" but actually in the opposite order of the original. In neither the second nor the third image is an entire sentence copied, but there are some identical clauses. In the third image, I think that the phrases "influences black ... orientation" and "politics and ... affairs" should have been quoted, because of the florid language in the original, but this is not a serious violation of academic integrity.

In the fourth image, we are again treated to a dry recitation of statistics as though it were some kind of stolen insight.

In the fifth image, the comparison to Swain is disparate, and consists of the phrases being defined and small fragments of the definitions of those phrases, while the punctuation and much intervening text differs. It would be necessary to demonstrate that the definition is originally Swain's (which I rather doubt) in order to even convince me that Gay actually read Swain and this isn't a case of "common knowledge to those skilled in the art".

In the Andrews pictures, the first shows a few identical short phrases in largely different context; the second shows a long predicate used in a similar sentence. Not citing Andrews in the second case is a fault. But it's not clear that she didn't cite Andrews. Quotation marks would be good. It's disappointing that the accusers seem to focus on the volume of colored text rather than whether it actually says anything.

In the Covin pictures, we have a few fragmented phrases and a list. The list is long, but it is, fundamentally, a list. If I say that cookies are made with butter, sugar, flour, eggs and vanilla, copying that list isn't really plagiarism. It's not substantial or insightful, i.e. it's not academic work. In fact, one of the items in the list is missing!

The Schwartz picture is a joke, right? This has to be a joke. There are only so many ways of saying you replaced all the incentives. And Schwartz was cited, as is necessary.

The Freedman and Owens picture is, again, a definition, and a general one at that. A county-level measure of incentives. This isn't stolen creativity.

Only two of eleven accusations in this hack job have even a whiff of impropriety. Taken in context, this is madness.
Take it a step further – the power grid. I don't want to have to choose which power grid to use, and we shouldn't bother making duplicate power grids. It makes sense they operate as a monopoly. Those companies are heavily regulated though.
Fascinating that, of all the international travel into LAX on a daily basis, the case of a single individual can be of note. That's a pretty good (known) error rate.
A ton - they are all active in every sense: Fitness, photography, coding, engineering, mechanics, etc.
Hmm... if the allocator affects performance so much, then maybe the code simply uses the allocator too frequently?

In C++, if someone starts frantically searching for a faster general purpose allocator then it's usually a sign of putting each C++ object into its own heap allocation behind a smart pointer, creating and destroying tiny objects all the time, and then wondering why so much time is spent in the allocator.
Mining Rare-Earth Elements from Fossilized Fish (2020)
Apple Store isn't a Point of Sale system you outsource to IBM.

It's inventory, delivery, and to an extent stewardship. The same with Steam. I don't expect junk and I expect refunds when I find it. Once you split that to a vendor the perverse incentives kick in and you end up right back in the Bad Place.

I personally think somewhere in the neighborhood of 18% is probably closer to sustainable, given all that we expect. And I also think Apple fucked up. If they had voluntarily reduced their fees and created the intro level at the same time, and a year or so earlier, they could have picked a higher number than they are likely now to end up with when all is said and done.
Google's use of ffmpeg: https://multimedia.cx/eggs/googles-youtube-uses-ffmpeg/

For encoding, recently, they've built their own ASIC to deal with H264 and VP9 encoding (for 7-33x faster encoding compared to CPU-only): https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/04/youtube-is-now-build...
They provide you with a form to check if your address is supported which is linked to one system that do the check. I think it is possible to link the two systems together to give you the price for your particular address. I don't think taxes and fees here has to do with anything other than your physical address (They are not the IRS after all)
Founder of 4dayweek.io here, would love to add your company to the site? If so, which company is it?
But if we spend enough money, we can successful transplant peaceful democracy to Afghanistan, right?

Maybe like $2 trillion over a decade?
> > No, it wasn't, it was to enable forum hosts to moderate content

> That is incomplete.

Well, yes, you cut it in the middle of a sentence, so you have made it incomplete, but your explanation remains wrong.

> The actual reason was to isolate liability of ISPs that host online forums which receives user submissions and moderates those user submissions such that publication of content on those forums cannot be cause to sue the hosting ISP.

No, it wasn't. It had nothing to do with ISPs qua ISPs at all. It has to do with forum operators and their users being immune from being sued based on moderate actions. This is explicit not only in the findings and policy sections, and the legislative debates, but also in the operative text of Section 230.

Its not a common carrier rule for ISPs; you seem to be confusing Section 230 with net neutrality.

> The motivation had nothing to do with protecting forum moderators themselves

Yes, it was entirely about that (and about encouraging them to censor content in ways in which thr government would not be free to, which is why it was packaged as part of the most extensive and intrusive internet censorship law ever passed by Congress, and is—because it is a liability shield for private censorship and not government censorship like the rest of the Communications Decency Act—the only significant part of that law not struck down for violating the First Amendment.

> There is no reason to believe that outside of vague speculation

No, there is the actual business environment at the time the CDA was being debated, where the inpact of the notivating decisions were working through the industry. There are very clear reasons to believe that, those reasons were the actual arguments made in Congress for Section 230, and they are the reason Section 230 exists.

Your narrative is consistent neither with the text of the law, nor with the legislative history, nor with the broader legal and business history surrounding the adoption of Section 230.

It seems to be a narratige constructed around presenting what a lot of people have argued that they would like to replace Section 230 with as if it were the original motivation for the bill, which is simply historically unsupportable.

> When looking at other venues of publication moderation does occur economically without protection from section 230

Other venues of publication have scale controlled by things like manufacturing and distribution costs, so the marginal costs of comprehensive review once you are doing any moderation is a small share of total costs. Internet fora have extremely low distribution and manufacturing costs per unit of content, so the marginal cost of comprehensive review over limited moderation is enormous.

The assumption of (and thus imposition of the burden of) comprehensive knowledge of and liability for contents when an entity takes any moderation steps that is reasonable with, e.g., print publication simply is not with interactive comluter services.
My taxes aren't funding that terrorist group.
Nothing, neither for good nor for bad, has noticeably changed about Bandcamp in the 5+ years I've been using it. I'd call that "leaving it to rot" - but hey, at least it hasn't gotten any worse. If the new owners keep the course, it'll be okay.
In Life+50 countries, they'll enter the public domain. In the UK and other Life+70 countries, they won't.
Since the source is AlJazeera can you at least take these testimonies with a grain of doubt?
Killing the messenger ?

Both statements could be true, right ?

I don't look at this as cancelling outrage on both sides, nor justification for violence. If this happened to you in your country you'd raise the alarm, if 10/7 happened in your country you'd send the Army
It is too bad that a technology doesn't exist that could allow the climate minister to attend COP digitally. Maybe somebody should create such a thing.
It might be about scalping, but also people willing to pay more are also more likely to wait if they have to, and keep future sales prices high, and people looking to sell are more likely willing to buy different vehicles. If Tesla stops other people from correcting the market, it's easier for them to take that profit; the issue is fundamentally that they can't move prices as fast or as flexibly as a decentralized free market can, so need to suppress it to compete for those margins.
I hadn't watched Al Jazeera before this conflict but now I think they're heroes. You see "reporters" on CNN wearing bullet proof vests by a pool in Tel Aviv while Al Jazeera journalists are reporting on air while they find out their entire family has been killed by Israel. It's incredible stuff and I've never seen anything like it. I've lost all respect for US and western media journalism.
There are rules for English spelling. They’re just extremely complicated because English, in addition to all its Anglo-Saxon native words, has many loanwords from other languages: Norman French, Latin, Greek, German, and many more. To spell a word correctly it really helps to be able to identify its language of origin. If you watch the Scripps national spelling bee, you’ll regularly see the spellers asking about this information.

Of course, tons of everyday great spellers don’t know about any of this stuff explicitly. They just seem to tacitly have a “feel” for the language of origin and are thus able to spell many words when first hearing them.
I believe the original contention as a doctrine of international relations is that democracies don't go to war with one another

But yeah, I agree, selection bias, the particular post WWII era of history, etc.

I was thinking about this in the context of the multi-polar world order emerging, and Russia, Gulf Arab Countries, and China pursuing common geopolitical interests. Kind of tangential to war per se, but still touches upon the whole "democracies tend to align and buy into the neoliberal world order"

A lot of people would paint this as a bunch of right-wing autocratic regimes grouping up together and see that as one of the more salient things about such alignment. But really, if the Gulf Arab countries were more democratic, they would only be acting more independently of the Western geopolitical sphere. And I think China would also be pursuing a similar course if it were a democracy. The more those populations view themselves as sovereign peoples, the more they wouldn't want to play nice with a world order whose agenda isn't always aligned with what they want or think is right, or which they feel doesn't accord them sufficient respect, etc.

For example, they are now all using the current stage of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to call out Western hypocrisy, etc. (For China and Russia, this is just trollish behavior, because of course Russia is doing something similar in Ukraine, and China is doing something similar to the Uighurs, and they know it, and everyone knows it). For the Gulf Arab countries, this is hypocritical in the sense that they are beneficiaries of American foreign policy hypocrisy (see, e.g., Yemen) Certainly, as far as the Arabs go here, it is difficult to imagine they would be somehow less interested in doing so were they democracies (though I don't think they'd be doing what they are doing in Yemen if they were)

I think the above makes me come across as having some kind of really left view of foreign policy or something lol. But I have mostly liked the neoliberal world order, and I don't think that a multipolar world where Russia/Gulf/China are more powerful is good. I have reasons I dislike all of those countries. Anyone who thinks they are somehow better than the US and that the Western portrayal of their evils is merely propaganda is pretty naive, IMO.

However, I do wish the Palestinians and others weren't considered disposable or worse. On that issue, American foreign policy is quite nakedly immoral and senseless, and I do feel it undermines the credibility of the country to the point where I and others are willing to shrug at the American world order's slow collapse.
Minimizing Docker image size is my favorite premature optimization.

In most cases it's not even an optimization! Docker's layered caching means the most relevant size is the diff between the base image and the final image. This is generally independent of which base image you use.

It has a bunch of negative consequences like in this blog post.

It's something that many people new to Docker feel they should be doing, so you see it a lot.

Just an all-round great premature optimization.
Conversion is a great metric if an immediate purchase your goal, but that is only rarely the correct goal. When something else is the goal it is much harder to measure.

Most ads are about a future purchase. They need to measure not did you buy now from this ad, but did all the ads you saw across all platforms (YouTube, Facebook, radio, tv, billboards) make enough of a difference in your buying habits when you finally buy. This is hard to measure, but it is more important. Most people are not buying now from an ad, they are buying in the future.

Sometimes ads are about an image. Even if you cannot afford some luxury good, they may want to advertise so that you recognize it on someone else and think "that is a rich person".
I’m saying that the “humanitarian aid” cannot be separated from support for Hamas (or rather, that Hamas will ensure that anything the UN does in Gaza will be to its benefit).
This sounds interesting, but I'm having trouble understanding the actual use case. What can I do with tinyrooms now?
Yeah. So much work is one of three things:

1. Utter bullshit - completely useless to everyone; unjustifiable.

2. Actively evil - work that may be respected in society but is killing the world. Suits with BMWs selling weapons, insurance, oil, corporate tax loopholes etc.

3. Honest, but with most profits funneled upward, creating an ever more unequal society.

Even artists, musicians, beadmakers etc are forced to do grisly hustly things to survive - the fun gets sucked out of it for most. Our society is deathly ill.
I wonder, has Elon inspired an adversarial advertising campaign on Twitter?

i.e. people will now pay money to put ridiculous ads on the platform just to make him and the platform look bad
Ah yes good catch. The article must have been published a decade ago as I didn't think too critically of the line when I cited: "It has at least existed at this spot for over 25 years as it can be observed on the 1990 Landsat 7 Pseudo Color Imagery provided by NASA World Wind"
I'm not going to click that, so I guess I dunno.
I'm curious as to when exactly these takes are generally going to move from

"Please let me have the thing I want and reasonably should have"

to an open

"Eff it, the tech is here, I'm just taking copies now and you should too."

(not that I ought to support that sort of thing, since I am a lawyer and we have promulgated standards of professional behavior I shall tell all of you that that second thing is bad, very bad.)
That's not what, e.g., tooth and bone samples tell us. Those tell us that everyone from this period, and as far as the early mosern / renessaince period, went through multiple periods of being under nourished, aka suffering hunger, during their lifetimes.
In recent years I've heard pilots announce that they are re-routing to avoid turbulence. I'm not sure what's new: the announcement of this, or the ability to do so.
Looks great! What kinds of products might the lab build?
Same reason as death.
There are some highly opinionated open source tools that do this, like whipper. Getting it all working is.. a bit frustrating. I do wish that whipper had more knobs to tweak rather than being very opinionated in how it rips and what it outputs.

For fixing up metadata of your existing collection there is Picard.

https://github.com/whipper-team/whipper

https://picard.musicbrainz.org/
2k lines is (probably) not a lot of data.
I read the book and it seems there are some heavy liberties being taken with the writing. I'll wait until it's out to pass judgement.
No, capitalism responds to the richest. That's the foundation of Capitalism. To think that anything can be done if just everyone paid differently is the epitome of free-for-all lawless libertarianism.

How have purchases influenced copyright laws being pushed again and again as Disney demands ?

How have purchases changed improved working conditions? Biodiversity ? The climate ?

We can't buy a better future, because there'll always be someone richer than us. We need to build it directly and ban the illusion that is the market
No, my thought process never really stretched outside of what I built. I had this particular idea, then sat down to build it. I had some idea of getting OpenAI to respond with keyboard shortcuts that the application could execute.

E.g. in Photoshop: "How do I merge all layers" --> "To merge all layers you can use the keyboard shortcut Shift + command + E"

If you can get that response in JSON, you could prompt the user if they want to take the suggested action. I don't see myself using it very often, so didn't think much further about it.
It's true that database schemas have a tendency to evolve into Conway's Law.
The AVISynth scripting language has a better function calling syntax than most programming languages, and a very interesting non-strict-evaluation design.
Glad to see this pop up, its been a weirdly big struggle for me as a new-ish parent.

For a while my ancient CD collection and healthy ecosystem of local used vinyl / CD stores had us in a nice routine in conjunction with youtube-dl and my posse of old Sony voice memo usb mp3 players.

Then youtube-dl wasn't a thing anymore (maybe it is again?)...

Then we had to get a new car (a Tacoma)...

No CD player, no aux cable.

I had really bad early experiences with apple music and Spotify not having stuff I wanted. Unclear artist support reputations also (Im no expert there). But it all had heavy Enshittification vibes early on IMHO.

Anyway somehow in my exhausted dad mental state I've concluded that buying albums on iTunes like a maniac is at least worth a try before augmenting my car to have an aux cable and / or peripheral CD player. I held off buying albums on iTunes literally until 2 months ago. Very strange but maybe working.

Anyway curious what other folks are doing as far as listening to music. This article was spot on but I needed a Solutions section...
> We run an open source Deno server for hosting Edge Functions called Supabase Edge Runtime.

With full npm and node compatibility. Interesting.
Bandcamp has remained amazingly functional throughout all their ownership drama. I hope they somehow hold it together.
What would be the New Zealand connection of Tolkien (other than the peter jackson movies)?
Do you have the impression the Twitter web application has been improving since Musk took over?

Also, the Steam client has to be one of the most stagnant applications I ever had the pleasure of using, not sure that makes Valve super efficient.
As a Canadian, housing in Canada is indeed very expensive.
Is it really disgusting?

I find it more disgusting that European and the UK governments havent to date (atleast 20 years of unfettered immigration has occured) stood more firmly for their own national interests (and citizens) and prevented economic migrants from abusing asylum processes at the massively negative consequence and cost to social safety and welfare systems.
I’d love to see a version of this that uses text input/output instead of voice. I often have someone sleeping in the room with me and don’t want to speak.
Yes, key frames are fully encoded, and some delta frames are based on the previous frame (which could be keyframe or another delta frame). Some delta frames (b-frames) can be based on next frame instead of previous. That's why sometimes you could have a visual glitch and mess up the image until the next key frame.

I'd assume if each thread is working on its own key frame, it would be difficult to make b-frames work? Live content also probably makes it hard.
The only take that made any sense to me about what's going on there - https://michael-hudson.com/2023/11/israel-as-a-landed-aircra...
That’s where you’re wrong. Your tax dollars (somehow) fund both sides