skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The concept of a self-eating rocket engine was first proposed and patented in 1938. However, no autophage engine designs were fired in a controlled manner until a research partnership between Glasgow University and Dnipro National University, Ukraine achieved this milestone in 2018.

Is this true? I've seen many hobby hybrid rockets built in this fashion over the years, for example acrylic tube + oxygen gas. Maybe none of them were ever launched.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VI8gdmjEwKc

It's pretty much the easiest way to do a hybrid rocket.
> Many of the most talented artists of our time don’t do any art — they work in advertising.

> I think the original quote is:

> The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads

No, it's a paraphrase of a quote attributed to Banksy and it's specifically about graphic arts, not CS or psychology.

> The thing I hate the most about advertising is that it attracts all the bright, creative and ambitious young people. - Banksy

First time I heard it was in a conversation about how the best students from directing/film making (or was it 3d artists ?) ended up making ads for cars rather than video installations and I am pretty sure it was before 2010.

The sentiment is the same though but I cannot ever let pass an occasion to throw in my favourite quote: "when all you have is a hammer...".
But contrast the situation of the United State of America, whose "Supreme Court" rather than an independent institution is in fact filled with partisan hacks to such an extent that it appears many on the Right felt that it was worth the obvious downsides of Donald Trump as President to get more Supreme Court justices.

Even the Law Lords (as they were typically called when the exact same body existed as notionally part of the House of Lords prior to becoming the UK's Supreme Court) were way more independent than that. A Government minister can say "No" to the pick of the committee which independently chooses candidates for this job, but they can't pick for themselves, the committee can just give them the same name again until (inevitably) the minister gets replaced with one who doesn't say "No".

It would in theory be easier for a British government to abolish their Supreme Court than for the US government, but in reality in both cases it would cause a constitutional crisis. The UK is quite capable of having a constitutional crisis, you don't need to write your constitution down to do that, but it isn't very likely.
My mistake. Amortizing the numbers, it comes out to more like 2.5% annually. https://www.herkulesprojekt.de/en/is-there-a-master-plan/the...

... so the question stands. How much are we willing to spend, and do we think it will actually damage either the economy or people's quality-of-life (when having a major industrial project in fact creates job and business opportunities, historically speaking)?
The current state of OpenTelemetry
I don't think there are any LGPL licensed libraries linked or distributed by a Unity iOS build. Neither you nor I have looked carefully, but it's almost certainly not the case.

With regards to libiconv, which I don't know if Unity iOS builds use it, there is a BSD implementation of it, which is almost certainly the case also with what iOS uses.

I can't speak to the work the author of this blogpost did with regards to investigating the usage of the specific LGPL libraries. The specific examples specified would all make sense as strictly used by the Editor.

My opinion is that if you are looking for wholesale license violations by giant corporations like Unity, libraries are the wrong place. Huge corporations launder license violations by line-by-line rewriting the code and pretending their implementation is original.
A Chronological History of the Martial Arts and Combative Sports
Columbia Joins New York Consortium on Artificial Intelligence
Sure, but that’s what the ‘believers’ usually say.
Between 1999 and 2015, an estimated 3500 staff employed
by the state-owned Post Office service were accused of
fraud, theft or malicious accounting.

Almost 700 of them were convicted in courts and some 230
were jailed.

Most were legally compelled to repay the amounts they
were accused of fleecing, resulting in bankruptcies,
marriage failures, substance abuse and even suicides.

There was just one not-so-little problem – virtually all
of those people were innocent

Thats a lot of accusations and prosecutions don't you think, for it to go unnoticed or uninvestigated for such a long duration, dont you think?

Doesnt the UK have independent non-political bodies that watch the watchers? What about protections for whistleblowers who call these things out?

Frankly that sounds Banana-Republic-ish and not something you would find in a first-rate advanced economy.

[1]
Inside the incredible and devastating postal service scandal that could bring down the UK government

https://www.news.com.au/finance/work/leaders/inside-the-incr...
Cats are killing endangered birds everywhere outside their native range. They are killing them in the Americas, in Australia, in New Zealand... basically everywhere that's not Europe, Africa, or West Asia IIUC.

One reason you might not think it's a big deal is because the genocide is almost complete. They've already killed off 63 species and more in progress: https://abcbirds.org/program/cats-indoors/cats-and-birds/
Don't know about this one. Engineering taught me that reality is complex and nuanced and that success is defined on a spectrum, not zero or one.
This is a very serious issue for founders in California, Texas, and other community property states.

Looks like Gust has the same issue:

https://gust.com/blog/startup-founder-83b-election/
The problem is that the FAA doesn't have the expertise. The people with the expertise all work for aircraft manufacturers. And odds are the FAA will never pay anyone enough to leave the manufacturers to do the job.
I wasn't commenting on the article, just the fact that its headline is clickbait.
The feedback loop building a simulation will always be OOM faster and cheaper than building the real thing. The barrier-to-entry for entering the loop becomes personal aptitude, not capital, and yet the EV is enormous. That is why our "best minds" are working in software, not hardware, not computer games.
New year and quarter for businesses, gotta show you made more money by spending less on salaries.

They can fire now and still be covered by "the market made us do it".

Fire now, and rehire for less in the next quarter or two.

The US needs better protection for workers. If a corp has to fire 20k, that is a leadership problem and they should go too.
> Of course it really just rolls the question uphill since you're now faced with 'Where did the Creator come from?'.

Creationists aren't actually faced with that question - not Creationists who believe in a God who is eternal, anyway. Things without beginnings don't have origins.

If you want to actually attack that belief, you need to either 1) show that God isn't eternal, or 2) show that eternal things are impossible. Or you have to do the hard work of 3) persuading them that a purely naturalistic process fits the available evidence better than a Creator does.
To me this is an example of extravagant and inefficient use of money.
Instead, it should have been used to find a huge pool cavity somewhere high on one of the Hawaiian mountain or enlarge one. And then pump up the water to the pool when the electricity is cheap, and release/generate electricity when it is in demand. Stupid and robust implementation that just works and certainly less expensive than $219M.
Thanks for sharing! I hadn't heard of either of those, so good to know. For anyone reading, the federal act only applies to employers with 100 or more employees and the Cal act requires 75 or more.
Excellent article! This is what I was hoping to find. Luckily I have some solder mask and UV light laying around :)

Thank you.
At the end of the day, everything reduces to human beings interacting with each other.

A corporation is just one method by which people coordinate their activities, not some separate entity that has its own independent existence or intentions.

You can certainly draw distinctions between the consistency, reliability, and scalability of some people's way of organizing their activities vs. other people's, but that doesn't distinguish the underlying nature of what they are, just how good they are at organizing.
> Manually file your 83(b). Don't use Carta to do it. Instead, download the form from the IRS website, fill it out, and mail it to the IRS within the strict 30-day deadline. You'll need to get a signature from your spouse, too.

I could be wrong but last time I checked the IRS doesn't provide an official form for this. It does provide a sample election letter[1] but this sample does not include a space for a spouse to sign. You'd need to include an additional line for this yourself in the letter you draft if you wanted it.

Don't forget: if you do this yourself make sure to mail it certified mail with return receipt as physical evidence that it was delivered.

A few months after delivery you can also call any IRS service center and ask them to verify they have the letter on file (these days everything is scanned into the system so any IRS person can find it vs. having to call the center that received it).

[1] https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-drop/rp-12-29.pdf
The most interesting things can't be categorized.
that's a great point. i guess i can say the same about how i interact with my computer, but for me there is a different quality to it. while the computer and phone and various messaging apps or forums like hackernews are often my only social interaction, so i spend a lot of time on that in search for someone to connect to, i also have all notifications off on all devices, and i expressly do not allow other entities to feed me stimuli when they deem it fit, to the point that you can't even call me because i won't hear the phone ring. i want to be in control.

there is of course a balance to it. not getting notifications means i spend more time checking for new messages than i would if notifications were on, but at the same time i also forget to check for messages when i am actually focused on something, which i think is the more important aspect of it.

so i am immersed with my tools only as an extension of my self, controlling the tools to do what i want them to do without giving up any of that control to anyone else. (at least so i like to think)
I really don't see how a duration of one year and Same-Site=Lax on the sentry-sc cookie passed legal review, but perhaps your legal team is comfortable with a more aggressive approach than I'm used to.
I'd say that's excessive. An hour max would be more reasonable otherwise you're just creating a discouraging workplace. Note that would be an hour of real effort though, not half arsed googling. Making a genuine effort is more important than the time taken.
Could not agree more.

Older generations wonder why younger generations are "quiet quitting" and using all this anti-capitalist rhetoric when in the same breath they're sending HR goons (great term for it) to do their dirty work.
I wonder what RISC-V core they are using, a custom design?
I guess at this point it's just a matter of the semantics of what it means to say AGI is doing the work. My feeling is that it's not accurate to say it's doing the work if there's still a layer of human meat sack (not you personally!) interpreting and taking the actual action.
This is a good insight.

"First pass yield" was a metric I liked in the accounting and payments space. How many transactions went through without requiring a manual touch.
People show up for their salary, they work hard for their bonus. The core part of the revenue is taken for granted as they focus on developing new parts, specifically the ads part. It allows for an up-and-coming exec to say "I made X for Microsoft, you should pay me Y% of X". So even though it would only account for a small % of total revenue it would dominate the thinking. It's how ideas such as ad supported Windows happen despite the long term deterius effect that would have on the core business.
> "I filter out..."

> "I avoid ads... companies that I don't trust"

> "I feel more comfortable..."

> "...my personal data...""

> "I don't have to sit through..."

> "I get what I came for, then I leave"

> "I hope some day more of us can look beyond immediate personal benefit."

Look, I'm ok if you want to be individualistic and say "screw the creators, content producers, journalists, and everyone else I'm freeloading their work for MY personal benefit". It's immoral in my book, but it's certainly not illegal.

But at least be honest with yourself, and stop pretending you're doing this for the greater good of human society.
When I picture an oil derrick, I see the arm going up and down and thus blocking the sun. Also the methane coming off, the the flares lighting up the night sky. And the smell.
My perspective on this kind of things is that there's no win from responding to it.

People were being fired. They will be angry. There is no response that would make it better (of course, unless you give them more money).
> Scott specifically though, has an established history of thinking through arguments that I find much better than most

He has an established history of writing down detailed articles about arguments, yes.

Unfortunately, a significant number of his articles contain schoolboy errors that anyone who wants to claim they are better at thinking through arguments than the average person should never have made.

I'll mention just one such article:

http://slatestarcodex.com/2013/12/01/empireforest-fire/

Scott says:

"...democratic nations, like the US and UK, which have gone three hundred or so years with only the tiniest traces of state-sponsored violence (and those traces, like the camps for the Japanese during WWII, have not come from the Left)."

The two obvious, egregious schoolboy errors here are:

(1) Don't wars count as "state-sponsored violence"? The US and UK certainly haven't gone three hundred years without wars. And some of those wars were civil wars, so even the lame excuse of "well, wars are violence, but not against the state's own people" doesn't count.

And even if we let that pass, what about the US's treatment of Native Americans? What about the UK's treatment of Ireland? And so on. To say that the US and UK have gone three hundred years with "only the tiniest traces of state-sponsored violence" shows a level of historical ignorance that is just staggering.

(2) But even if we let all of the above pass: doesn't Scott know that the President who interned Japanese citizens in WWII was from the Left?
Not to mention that the last few weeks of any year is famously slow when it comes to most things, including sales and purchasing decisions.
If you truly cared about birds and wildlife, SpaceX wouldn't have gotten away with everything they did at Boca Chica.
I suppose it would drain far much more battery if it supports 5Ghz, multiple antenna, and wider bandwidth.
The number of birds killed annually by windows is probably 100x that killed by turbines. Hard to convince everyone to remove windows.
Currently Christianity is associated with conservatism, hence more anti-drug behavior. And this isn't exactly incorrect these days either. As the population of self identifying Christians in the US shrinks, those that remain are apt to be those with a very strong ideological base.
It will require major changes to the art pipeline. New tools and tech that hasn't existed before. But, that tech is being made right now at a surprisingly fast rate. In a couple years at most it will be possible to make at least an indie-level game with splats. Maybe even with models, animations, audio made to the 80% level with generative AI.
My dad actually deeply resents the invention of Google, because now everybody can check and realize he's full of shit. He only appears smart to people who don't know anything about the topic, and now everybody knows he isn't.
Vector Databases: A Technical Primer [pdf]
A few months ago, I taught a class on Vector Databases for a TGE Data private client and then decided to record it into a short course for a wider audience.

The course is a mix of theory and demos discussing some of the underlying concepts of Vectors, Vector Databases, Indexing, Search Similarity and ending with demos specifically for Pinecone and Weaviate databases.
I would agree with you on most points; however, having worked within the fruit company directly on its chain of trust, I will tell you that the privacy angle runs extremely deep and is genuine. Regardless, that angle is obviously different and independent about being authoritarian within its privately-owned monopolistic marketplace.
Whenever I've seen teammates leave, they still get the remaining 2 weeks to hand things off. But it doesn't help very much other than for saying goodbye. I can see why for layoffs, the risk of letting them stay outweighs the benefit. No way is a laid off employee going to actually help in the last 2 weeks.
Presumably that's a first-party cookie you're persisting not a cross-site third-party cookie, so wholly different standards apply for your case.
To further expand on the "a few simple formulae", many of those experienced in these fields will note that complexity can emerge from simplicity. Conway's Game of Life is my go to example. Following some of about the simplest rules you can have, you can create a fully Turing complete system able to emulate itself.
I didn't realize how stupid of an argument this was until my girlfriend pointed out how every single highway/landscape/street is absolutely covered in powerlines. The very few wind turbines are beautiful in comparison to what you see all over the continent, every day.
It’s an El Niño year. Fossil fuel usage is still increasing. Wasn’t this expected?

https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/world-oil-gas-coal-d...
> it's not possible to distribute a binary containing *GPL code on iOS in any way remotely in keeping with the letter of the license.

That is quite audacious to claim.

Do you have a citation to any case law supporting your position?

If not, what would be your argument?
For the last 5 years, after being fed up with losing or overwriting my bash history, I've installed a daemon on all of my machines that tails ~/.bash_history and uploads every new line to a hosted time series database. I wrote some simple tools to query and search through this DB for commands. It's a super simple solution but works wonders, especially for digging up a command I ran on a different machine.
Many companies do cut people before the end of they fiscal year, to avoid tax consequences and budgeting issues in the new year.
He talks about the pitfalls of pure rationality. There can be competing explanatory frameworks for the same thing, and they often contradict each other. Rational arguments may seem rigorous like math, but are in practice standing on shifting sands.

It ultimately comes down to what you decide to believe in. This is where traditional values and religion come at play.
I’ve designed a few boards with ESP32s on them. Sometimes as a secondary system to provide wifi/ble, sometimes as the main microcontroller. One example was a commercial display using these P4 panels to display an 8-bit themed animation, and another one where a bunch of old small green CRTs were wired together to display the same “command prompt”-style text displaying the opening hours and other information.

STM32 would be the other big family of microcontrollers. And if you can get your hands on them, and need the vastly more powerful capabilities, the i.MX series can be interesting.
Is this article a pleb filter?
> with the plastic fuselage supplying up to one-fifth of the total propellant used.

> A conventional rocket’s structure makes up between five and 12 per cent of its total mass. Our tests show that the Ouroborous-3 can burn a very similar amount of its own structural mass as propellant.

It seems like they are measuring the wrong thing.

Rocket fuselage isn't as good a fuel as, well, rocket fuel. So it doesn't matter if it makes up 10% of the mass consumed - what matters is how much impulse it provides.

However! HDPE is reasonably competitive with methane. While it doesn't make Wikipedia's list [0] of hundreds of potential fuels by calorific value, which puts methane at 55 MJ/kg, research in municipal waste incineration puts polyethylene around 43 MJ/kg [1]. And in fact it's already been studied in Japan as a rocket fuel [2] using N2O as an oxidiser. So this seems completely plausible.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat_of_combustion

[1] https://www.researchgate.net/publication/336848986_Productio...

[2] https://www.mdpi.com/2226-4310/6/4/45
Can't tell if you're trying to be sarcastic.
I wonder if anyone else found Meditations to be pretentious.

I always see people fawn over it. Personally I thought it was rubbish. Especially the part where he describes sex. It’s definitely more than just the rubbing of a membrane, or whatever it was that he said.
The purpose and functionality of the cookie is what matters, not the duration.
yeah that's why I mapped seats in the first row into the second :) maybe they just truncate the extra seats instead of move them back. i don't know
Famously, in the UK, Railtrack outsourced basically its whole operation. Including inspections, often to the same firms doing the work. This culminated in the Potters Bar crash. I worked with someone who survived it. He was, by his own estimation "not quite right" afterwards.

People don't often make the connection, but at that point the government of the day started pressuring Railtrack to fix the rails. Railtrack's countergambit was to demand money from the government, saying they couldn't afford to do it. This did not have the effect they had hoped for and ended up with Tony Blair, a man who had made a name for himself by changing the Labour party constitution so they no longer were about nationalising industries, having to nationalise a section of the railway industry. And to this date, no-one, even a conservative government in power for the last 14 years, has suggested privatising it again.
Cloudflare employee records her layoff call with random HR
If you sell a device with Linux and a proprietary blob on it, then you’re arguably doing the linking, not the user. On top of that, if you enable link time optimization, then you have to link at build.

All of this would be allowed if you put the same device in a data center, and then had the user connect to it remotely.
>In this article I will describe the main aspects of Terraform Cloud and what the DIY equivalents for them might look like at the high level, pretending that ready-made tools for that do not exist (they do in fact; I am building one).

I like how companies are shelling out tens of thousands of dollars for AWS/Azure a month, but all the sudden there are people who want to write DYI projects to clone Terraform, given the fact that Azure & AWS have completely open source SDKs (backed financially by MS & AWS) that available in JS, TypeScript, C#, Go, Rust. Why ?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38677782 re: number / logical separable states:

sign * e^(x*yi*zπ)

Or maybe instead:

sign * e^(x*yi*zπ*(a_1*inf))
sign * e^(x*i^y*π^z*(inf^a_1))

But that's not ternary at all.

Python has `True or False or None`, which you conventionally test with `is`
I don't recall something like it ever happening, except perhaps when there was an economic event (like in 2008). It's either a big coincidence, or there is a common outside cause, or it's coordinated.
> you fail to make payments

In the US this will wreck your credit rating. Yes, you'll survive and won't lose your house. But your borrowing costs will increase significantly if you need a new home, renovation, car, etc.
> It's a dead month for sales.

That depends, there are often left over budgets and people scrambling to spend them