skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is the idea of government pressure automatically a conspiracy theory?
Not really, not anymore. Many apps are now using certificate pinning to make it impossible for the user to to modify the trust store. This means that unless it is open source, it is very difficult for people to verify, even when they know very well what they are doing.
in .NET, the problem with that impedance mismatch is IMO very minor. I’ve been programming C# for living for more than a decade, and I can’t remember a single case when I needed to block a current thread waiting for a task to complete.

Modern asp.net is designed in async-only way, no impedance mismatch there.

async void functions are compatible with non-async delegates. This solves impedance mismatch for GUI frameworks or other event-driven apps. Just don’t forget to catch and handle exceptions from the async code inside, also for GUI apps show users that background operation is ongoing.

The standard library exposes both flavours of APIs for files, sockets and many other built-in classes. You don’t have to use async APIs unless you want to.
Great work!

Noone's asked yet? What was your dev stack?
I dunno, working hard to prevent the spread of an environmentally friendly innovation to maintain bragging rights rather than trying to spread it as far and wide as possible sounds like a very Dubai kick in the environmental knackers to me.
25% of GDP is closer to what World War II cost in its peak year. Perhaps 30%.

But it’s kinda hard to define, since it also grew GDP tremendously (in the US). It may have been a much higher percentage with 1945 costs measured against 1939 GDP, if that makes sense, but I’m not sure it’s appropriate to make that comparison.
Is this the death of FlutterFlow?
Many of the most interesting uses of LLMs occur when you move away from using them as a source of information lookup - by which I mean pulling directly from information encoded into their opaque model weights.

Anything where you feed information into the model as part of your prompt is much less likely to produce hallucinations and mistakes - that's why RAG question answering works pretty well, see also summarization, fact extraction, structure data conversion and many forms of tool usage.

Uses that involve generating code are very effective too, because code has a form of fact checking built in: if the model hallucinates an API detail that doesn't exist you'll find out the moment you (or the model itself via tools like ChatGPT Code Interpreter) execute that code.
Please keep in mind that the listed salary range on the job description is only the median base salary range. Not the full total compensation range that includes bonus and other factors to it. We can pay much more than what is listed there from a total compensation standpoint.
Argentina's Monthly CPI to Fall Below 10% in April, Milei Says
Despite being SGI branded hardware, this was after the name was bought by Rackable and IIRC, SGi hardware became essentially rebadged Rackable hardware. Still cool, but not as cool as some custom MIPS hardware from old SGI.
Piper and Protobufs lmao. Based on personal experience, the two services are best used as litmus tests of a person’s character — the most insufferable googlers I've met are fans of both. Any other usage of either generally results in undescribable frustration.
The body of work called quantum field theory is a theory of relativistic quantum mechanics although many aspects of its foundations are difficult to pin down, its a very powerful and useful apparatus.
I hate Teams for that. There's no simple way to temporary hide notifications but going deep into the menus.
I would need a "hide notifications for the next 5, 10 ou 15 minutes" you can activate without having to think.
So the idea of refueling in space is interesting, but I am a bit confused by the practicality. if we could refuel from the Moon, yeah I 100% see the value of it due to less wasted fuel getting off the moon.

But unless I am mistaken, the biggest problem with fuel is that it obviously costs fuel to get fuel up. It has a weight so its not like you can just say, I want 100 lbs of extra fuel, you need that amount of fuel plus the amount of fuel to carry that amount (and then the amount to carry that amount, and so on and so forth).

So in reality what is the difference between say, 100lbs of fuel across 10 Starships vs 100 lbs of fuel on a single ship?

Yeah you would need a bigger ship to handle all of the fuel necessary, but something about this being necessary for the moon seems off? Mars I can understand more.

I just feel like I am missing something here, until reading this I did not realize that refuel in space was necessary for the Moon.

Also to be clear I am not discounting the work on doing this, but I was just always under the impression that this was a thing that was necessary for Mars where now it seems like we are talking 11 launches to get too the moon?
How is this comment helpful? Obviously the developer created the app because there was also a benefit of it being on their phone, but that hardly seems necessary to spell out.
> What kind of ground operations are expected for Starships? The rocket is reusable, the fueling is automated, the in-between flight checks are, what, how do they do that in practice?

Fuelling, systems checks, clearing the launch area, launching, fuel transfer, re-entry, recovery, diagnostics, repairs, recertification, snacks for the repair crew, lawyers, drinks for the lawyers, et cetera.

The goal is automating everything. But even the Falcon family is currently around 3 weeks' sustainable turnaround.
A Synthetic Transplant (2023)
I’m not against that, but I do think just getting rid of federally backed loans previously causes more problems. (Ie it’s one of those simple cures that may ignore blowback) Do you think there is an opportunity gap to be closed? If so, how do you think that would work?
I was under the impression that Artemis I was already a full unmanned mission to moon orbit two years ago, using SLS + Orion.

SLS did get to earth orbit with the Orion payload. While the latest Starship (IFT-3) barely reached "orbital speeds" and failed on re-entry. How is that "more than SLS has managed"?

You could argue that since SLS is not reusable, it kind of also failed on re-entry by design. But the Starship failure was an accident and it has never actually reached orbit, nor has it delivered a meaningful payload successfully. And Starship has ambitions do a lot more than SLS, acting as a full lunar lander and being reusable.

All in all, Starship is in a much earlier stage of development. SLS already fulfilled the purpose it was designed for back in 2022.
I think it’s highly dependant on the language and framework and whether they lend themselves well to the way Cursor accepts context.
Nah not CIA. Mossad. Given the number of US businessmen or presidents hanging out at the island it almost certainly not the Americans.

Epstein's homegirl, Ghislaine, had some pretty strong ties to them through her father. She was probably his handler and/or gopher.

Her dad, Robert Maxwell, born Ján Ludvík Hyman Binyamin Hoch, had some pretty strong ties to Israeli intelligence. Also worth noting he had strong ties to everyone else, including the KGB and UK intelligence, too. But at his funeral Israeli heads of state mentioned "he did more for Israel than could ever be told", and that was thought to be related to Israel acquiring what is believed to be a nuclear weapons program.

He famously sued the hell out of anyone in the UK who alluded to those relationships -- libel and slander laws are different in ole Blighty -- and it took an MP going on the record in the House of Commons, which is always recorded and is always public record, to expose his questionable ties.

He also famously died of highly suspicious circumstances on his boat out in the middle of nowhere.

That said, look into the history of Donald Barr, the father of Bob Barr, and a good friend/mentor of Epstein's. Raised Jewish but converted to Catholicism, served in the OSS, and had a lot of interesting ties to interesting people. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Barr
Then you don't have to worry about it since you won't get the work in the future? Someone else, with this presumably correct software, will always be able to do it for less, faster, and at a higher quality.

That's how business works...

If such a business competitor doesn't exist, then yes charge extra, and actually do the work correctly.
> but would be detected pretty fast in "real world".

I call bullshit on that one. When did you last cat your bashrc? Every morning? Probably not.

Nobody ever knows what kind of environment variables are modified inside /proc fs. Nobody.

The ones that do uninstall glibc.
There is absolutely zero overhead for the person messaging to simply add more context to their opening message regardless of the situation. They're going to have to give the context anyway. If it's an emergency, just say "Hello, there's a fire", if it's informal say "Hello, you heard about Eddy?".
At this point I'd be afraid more about skepticism.

What's the problem here which is going to stop the progress on the Starship program?
Potentially more then one might assume. This is an area that needs more research, but initial estimates seem to indicate that an increase in launched very much warrants concern.

CBC made this nice interactive graph highlighting the issue.

https://newsinteractives.cbc.ca/features/2023/rocket-polluti...

I'm a huge proponent of space flight, but my main concern is how the drive towards commoditization, again, seems to gloss over potential hidden costs with a complex, global impact.
> in total

I think the average figure is 2.5% yearly for 10 years, so that would be as if it were 25% in one year for the entire programme.
Part of the benefit of compiling bytecode (or anything) is specializing code to the context (types, values, etc) in which it appears. While I don't doubt your analysis, it could be the case that compiled C code in question is full of branches that can be folded away when specialized to the context of the query, such as the structure of the rows, the type and values of columns, etc.

Basically all of what you are saying about high-level bytecodes applies to dynamic languages, too. But they benefit highly from specializing each bytecode given static and dynamic context, and shortcutting dataflow through local variables.
No. The prehistoric Indo-Europeans appear to have had no words for the ocean, or ships, or other such things. Or if they did have words for these things, their descendant cultures did not inherit them. This, and many other clues, suggest they originated on the central Eurasian plains. Don't need a word for ocean if you've never seen one.

The Germanic languages are a branch of Indo-European, and this offshoot shares common words for those sea-related things, and also words for many dozens of species of plants and animals (all the tree species, for example, native to the region.) These words have similar properties, and were almost certainly borrowed from an earlier, unrelated culture already living there.

The Basque today speak a language, that, before Roman times, seems to have been spoken all across Spain; it's probably the only remaining relic of what was once hundreds of distinct cultures that existed in Europe, in the neolithic era, before the Indo-Europeans.
Some people probing the boundaries of QM look for correlations in rapidly repeated measurements in hopes of finding some non-random quality.
I think it's interesting (though not surprising) that your long response avoided every single piece of your text that I quoted, as well as my question and other text (ie: the unknowable) of my critique.
> If Starships actually use pressure difference, then it's not quite free flow, and geometrical positions aren't that important

That's how I'm reading it, analogous to a pressure-fed engine [1]. A separate, expendable gas supply pressurises the donor tank to force the propellant out and over.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pressure-fed_engine
Reddit is full of bots: thread reposted comment by comment, 10 months later
I like to compare Systemd to GNU. Pretty similar scale, similar "take over the world" levels of adoption in Linux (GNU's libc is in nearly everything, all the other GNU tools are ridiculously common), adds lots of attack surface to what used to be single-purpose simple tools, etc. Just about every criticism of Systemd applies just as well to GNU.
Fedora Evaluates Replacing Redis with Valkey
Former Perl language contributor here. A sibling comment to this already pointed out that you must use strict mode with Perl to retain your well being.

The two languages certainly both have their terrible warts. I think in the implicit conversion gotchas, JS is actually markedly worse. Perl has polymorphic values, but somewhat typed (for its basic types) operators (eg "eq" for strings, "==" for integers). JS has both implicit value type conversions and overloaded operators. That leads to an unholy level of indeterministic mess.
I’m a plausible fan. Very simple and affordable. Privacy friendly
Don't sleep on Gemini 1.5. The 1,000,000 token context window is crazy when you can dump everything from a single project (hundreds, even thousands of documents) into it and then inference. Sure it's not the strongest model, but it is still good, and its the best when you can basically train it on whatever you are working with.
Ah I see, I was reading through the wikipedia page and misinterpreted a line about updates being free during alpha/beta to be implying that the game itself was free.
I'm glad there are people like this who do this job of vector surveillance.
These peeps seem to have some in store: https://www.senetic.de/product/C246WSI but (a) I didn't find a way to change the language on the site to English, and (b) while they ship to several countries, those are mostly in Europe. If you can work with these restrictions, you might be in luck! (I have never ordered from this shop and can't vouch for them, but they seem legit.)
Rat Neurons Repair Mouse Brains That Lack a Sense of Smell
I haven't seen a single article from reason that feels even remotely worth my time.

This feels like the typical reason article: driving an agenda based off scary words and blusters, that people need to be picking themselves up by their bootstraps & saying this elite liberal world is terrible & wrecking everything, while offering some hastily tossed in barely related links as justification.

This source of submissions, in my view, is actively making us worse. It's awful that we keep having to waste time commenting/re-litigating the worth of these submissions. They're trash, and actively make us dumber.
Yes, but this is where current LLMs shine - transforming (in this case summarizing) text rather than generating anything factual from scratch or reasoning/planning.
Yeah, you're mostly right. I mean, these centralized entities could still sign and release instructions over the mesh network propagation (unlikely though).

Having an overall culture/goal of decentralization, can inform decisions on multiple levels/concerns (infra, energy, org). Basically, if I'm trying to be resilient to infra problems, it won't be that much effort in changing the design to also be resilient from centralized control.
Prior discussion includes https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37996820
Tesla to lay off everyone working on Superchargers, new vehicles
It's the UI. It is designed from the ground up for touch. People who like iPadOS do not like Windows Surface tablets for that exact reason. A desktop UI that's been shoehorned into a tablet is not as good as a purpose-built touch UI.
Same here. I want fast speeds at home on a wired connection. I don't need to get within spitting distance of gigabit speeds on my cell phone. Hell, a few Mpbs down is enough to stream music in the car or look something up.

I would probably think differently if I was using it as a hotspot to do laptop work on the road, though.
And half of them were not even aware of the strike.
I'm so tired of developers that don't bother to read the text they are responding to and immediately assume that the other party in the conversation does not know what they are talking about.

Or developers that used to work with something long time ago and never revisited their knowledge.

Or participants in the conversation which have strange, inappropriate and unrealistic expectations pitted against .NET but not any other technology, which would go out of their way to post something that is factually incorrect, simply out of desire to be controversial (I can shit on Go all day, but I'm not going to lie about its pros and cons).
I converted Paul Graham's essays into podcasts
Everyone knows how good PG's essays are. I just thought the other day, how good would it be to listen to them while walking.
I wrote a python script, used OpenAI's TTS API to convert them into audio. The audio is available here: (https://github.com/LOLIPOP-INTELLIGENCE/SamPaulAudio).
I shared it with some founder friends and got a lot of requests to put it online, so I got my friend to design a website and put it up. Hope you guys find it useful
Ask HN: Intellectual property rights if I open source a code tool?
I created a code tool that I can use through a VS Code extension to speed up how I work as a programmer. I have it in a private GitHub repo with an MIT license that I pushed up while I wasn't employed.

I'd like to use it at work, but I want to be able to take it with me no matter what job I'm at.

Would my current company have an IP claim on my project if I use it at work? It's weird because my code wouldn't make it into their codebase, it'd just be used while I code in their codebase
userv has been around for decades

https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~ian/userv/
Because working products are more important than stochastic parrots? The next AI winter will come, a lot of people are already pretty disillusioned...
taking no liability is one thing, making money while doing so is entirely another xD

maybe you can do what linux does for proprietary media codecs, ship everything that's needed to work with the media, but have a checkbox during install that says "include paralegalbot, subject to local laws which are your responsibility"

(ah but now we have a paradox, who do i consult for the legality of downloading a legal counsel?)
How do they exist 10 years later? SAP, or another big name, will always be a better candidate for providing a 'monstrosity' ERP.
ClickHouse JOINs 100x Faster
I'm not arguing for monopolies.
Show HN: Use the cloud for your dev environment on the fly
rx is a binary that you can use as a prefix to any other command (e.g., `rx ls` instead of `ls`) to run a command on the cloud. It sets up your project on the cloud and transparently copies what you're working on back and forth from your local machine.

Background: I was trying to build an app that used stable diffusion and got very frustrated by what should have been simple: I wanted to develop my program locally, but run it on a different machine. Setting up, copying over, and running the program ended up being an exercise in frustration (Careful documentation of the process: https://blog.run-rx.com/cloud-development-the-board-game).

To make life easier, I made a simple binary to copy everything to the cloud and back. Then I added streaming stdio and made it keep dependencies up-to-date and automatic installation of the languages the project uses and on and on.

Current state: give the CLI a project and it'll set up a persistent remote environment that is synced to your local environment (all dependencies installed and automatically kept up-to-date). This lets you develop locally using any tools you like, while still running remotely for anything where you don't want using your CPU.

Please give it a try, I'd love any and all feedback!
What impact could this have on the value of cesium? Some time ago, I remember reading about cesium’s importance to tech, particularly for atomic clocks. It was in an article about the potential discovery of a cesium mine that might have huge political impact because China owns most of the cesium mines. And I imagine being able to replace cesium entirely would have similar impact.
Indeed. Having used it and examined the resulting binary formats it uses, I don’t get it. Google makes some nice things, but protobuf isn’t one of them.

IIRC (5 yes ago), it was somewhat self describing with respect to struct offsets but had no (data format) versioning or type information. Never understood that design choice, even in mixed endian+architecture environments.

Ends up being horribly inefficient for small/one-time instances, and not all that great for client/server use.

We were looking at it to get away from C structs and handmade serialization — only to unexpectedly realize that our methods were still better. (We genuinely did not want this outcome!). JSON/yaml were not options for other reasons.

Protobuf is the modern realization of “the king has no clothes”.
GP did not "jump to conspiracy theories." They asked a reasonable question. I would agree that it doesn't pass Occam's Razor, but there has been plenty of talk from US gov about concerns over China passing the US, and with ARM specifically. There was even an article about it on HN not too long ago. Furthermore the US gov has been putting a ton of pressure on big tech companies to get them to do things without formal laws or regulation.

I hate when people jump to conspiracy theories with a passion, but I'm also beginning to hate when people overly dismiss reasonable theories as "conspiracy theories." It's important that we don't expand the definition of conspiracy theory to a meaningless height. This is what happened with the "Lab Leak" theory of Covid, which only served to "prove" the conspiracy theorists right and was and has been a major setback for people who want to call out conspiracy theories for what they are. If we expand the definition to include theories that are reasonable, then "conspiracy theory" ceases to be meaningful and we now lack a word that we really need, considering humans are prone to conspiracy thinking and it needs to be called out when it happens.
Nature herself seems to imply P != NP, as one can characterize evolution as a messy, computationally intensive "search" through a large space of "solutions" to a suitability problem. If P=NP one would expect some organism to evolve that can construct whatever arbitrary proteins, organelles, etc that it needs at any time.

Of course, it could be that humans, with AI and CRISPR, will soon become that organism, but it seems unlikely to me that this capability wouldn't evolve more naturally with fewer intermediate steps.
The 15 launches is a big deal, because it requires either a dozen or so Starship Tanker full stacks, or very-rapid reuse to be fully solved. But it's probably solvable, and otherwise SpaceX can "just" build a dozen Tankers, and reuse them slowly. It's solvable, but personally, I'm not all that optimistic on the timeline though.

The shocking thing for me from that video was learning how useless the Lunar Gateway is most of the time due to its near-rectilinear halo orbit. This leads it to be only within range for rescuing those on the moon, for a couple days a week.

Why does Gateway have this type of orbit? Because the Senate Launch System doesn't have the delta-v to get the capsule to circularized low-lunar orbit. We designed a moon rocket, which can't get to the moon.
I thought about that -- but I know the school doesn't allow phones and I see the kids in the neighborhood / after school. Noone is on phones except the parents.
> I was under the impression that Artemis I was already a full unmanned mission to moon orbit, using SLS + Orion

You correct. Artemis 1 put the Orion capsule in a distant retrograde lunar orbit [1] before successfully splashing down, all unmanned. I believe this is the same orbit astronauts are going to fly in Artemis 2 in 2025.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distant_retrograde_orbit
How long before humans are systemd compatible?