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Starship does seem to make very reasonable progress, the last test flight was pretty successful. And NASA has much more visibility into the actual progress of SpaceX here than we outsiders have.

I don't think you can compare Hyperloop and Starship, Hyperloop is just a wild bullshit idea, Starship is a far more realistic project and there are some real resources behind its development.

I would view the claims about the cost of reuse with a huge question mark though. SpaceX has been much better than previous efforts in making reuse feasible, but I think only looking at the fuel is likely to be hugely misleading in terms of actual costs.
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I don't think this is a good indication.

Assuming that von Neumann was right, and assuming it's even technologically possible to achieve 1% of light speed, here's some alternative explanations of why we don't see aliens in the Milky Way:

- Maybe we're ahead of the race here. It's unlikely, but it has to be the truth for some intelligent lifeform. Why not us? I admit this is unlikely.

- Maybe galaxy exploration is technically feasible but economically unfeasible. Aliens would have to solve the same problems than us.

- Maybe galaxy exploration is technically and economically feasible, but the overwhelming majority of lifeforms go extinct before reaching this point, an none have been able so far (additional assumption: life is relatively new in the universe, much like it's relatively new on Earth itself).

- Maybe galaxy exploration is possible and evidence of life forms has reached us, but we didn't understand them because we weren't looking for the right things.

- Maybe galaxy exploration is possible and aliens want us to remain untouched and unaware, much like some wish would happen with lost Amazonian tribes (only the aliens would be more successful).
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? What are intermediate actions which need to happen in a sequence of launches?
They did the same with GPT-4, they were sitting on it for months not knowing how to release. Ended up releasing GPT-3.5 and releasing 4 quietly after nerfing 3.5 into a turbo.

OpenAI sucks at naming though. GPT2 now? Their specific gpt-4-314 etc. model naming was also a mess.
It is a stupid idea at the scale of Tesla's economics, but if a car is an AI processing powerhouse for self-driving (even the failed variants), then it can function like adhoc processing grid, just like the batteries in cars can function as a consumer grid storage service.

But what Tesla needs to execute on is the semi. Tesla is about packaging battery cells for profit, and the Tesla semi represents the largest untapped market for packaging batteries into usable vehicles, and one they seem to have a substantial lead in.
Last starship launch was orbit equivelent in terms of delta-v expended at each stage of the flight, it just went for a higher apogee and thus lower perigee to avoid the risk of not being able to relight.

That's more than SLS has managed.

The flight also did a fuel transfer test.

The larger question is whether it will be able to reenter. However 14 fully expendible starships are still cheaper than a single SLS launch.
There are ways to check what data is send trough the network...
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There's a lot of overlap, too. Also with fancy headphones: https://www.reddit.com/r/mechanicalheadpens/
> And if it comes to pass that the majority of the industry moves to NextJS, I'm now at significant risk.

I think "significant" is overstating it. Learning new tech is not that hard, particularly if you're already familiar with adjacent tech. I recognize that some people look for checkmarks on a CV, but if that's how they operate then you probably don't want to work there.
Slavs call Germanic people “njemac”. It means “mute” as in “people who can’t speak our language”. I’m sure they’re distantly related (Europeans, duh), but I don’t think there’s any direct cultural relation enough to call them “Germanic subpeople”.
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Nice myth building but Bellingcat exposed an entire generation of GRU agents by noticing their fake passport numbers were sequential.

These people are not very smart at all, when you look at recent investigations done on shoestring budgets, many got exposed by extremely simple tradecraft errors and information that can be straight bought from Russian data brokers.

These people are not smart, it’s the western European services that are incompetent, ideologically blind and outdated.
The main thing people are forgetting is how Yuzu presented itself. They made a big thing out of support for 4k60 Tears of the Kingdom on PC before the game was released.

The marketing people inside Nintendo must have been completely furious to have their supremely controlled media cycle completely sidetracked by them. They clearly sicked the legal department on them after that.

Any time an emulator developer, or a fan game artist gets a cease and desist from Nintendo, it's always because marketing gets wind of their existence.
Nice idea. Except for battery degradation part. Assuming this computer needs 300W I would need another 250 kWh a month. That’s like driving additional 1500 miles every month. Thanks, but no!
It's close to live-ingesting GitHub.

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Your speculation on what is right and what was fair is of no consequence to me. Their error was not simply using a compression library, it was creating a large central point of failure. If Systemd was smaller, it would not have caused this error. By being large, it made itself vulnerable. It made itself a target. It made other software insecure. These facts are inescapable. And you cannot justify this by simply saying they didn't do anything wrong right before the attack, or that packagers are to blame, or that other software might also be vulnerable, or anything else that doesn't address the core of the issue: Systemd created the circumstances needed for this to happen. They were warned of he risks they created, and chose to do so anyway. Now those risks have been made manifest – the inevitable result of a fundamentally flawed design.
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While I get your general critique I am not quite clear if you are critiquing me, including me with the science inspired confabulators.

Just in case you were including me in that:

For the record, the many worlds interpretation just sticks with the field equations of quantum mechanics (extremely well tested).

It doesn’t invent the quantum collapse, which actually isn’t necessary to interpret them and which raises many questions that have never been well answered. I.e. when does collapse occur, how is information conserved if collapse keeps injecting information into all quantum systems, in situations with time reversal (different orders of events for different viewers in relativistic scenarios) how is information being destroyed. On and on. Collapse is both an unnecessary and problematic interpretation in an attempt to avoid a continuation of superpositions.

What we see as collapse is just the experience of being included in the field equations as the quantum systems information becomes too complex (via thermodynamics, information escaping the experiment) for superposition to be detected anymore at a practical level.

But as we learn to control larger and larger systems, we do indeed find superposition isn’t bound by mass or system size. In fact, all of quantum computing depends on it not being bounded. It is just a challenge to keep information in isolation, I.e. from spreading in a way that is unrecoverable.

Just as eventually we will be able to “simulate” intelligence in a quantum computer, we are already intelligence in a quantum system. We just can’t control the quantum information in us so we lose any systematic relation/observability to the superpositions of our particles.

Chemistry throughout our body operates consistently with the quantum behavior of all other chemistry. Our particles are no different from any other particles.
Apparently Oracle has stopped caring, new Solaris releases haven't been certified in a few years, says Wikipedia.

I don't really know what the certification gets you these days other than bragging rights. I imagine in the past, government and corporate customers had check lists that included a box for "certified Posix", but I'm not sure if that is still the case.
No, because those immigrant builders tend to return to their original country once they have made enough money. For example, there are ~30% fewer Poles in the UK now than in 2017, which has led to a big shortage of plumbers and builders. Anecdotally, my neighbour is a Romanian builder, and will go home once he can buy a nice house in the mountains.
The postgres developer had disabled a bunch of optimization in order to create a low noise floor on his test machine that increased the delay too.

Normally it would be much quicker but potentially could have been picked up downstream by other developers when the code became more mainstream.

He did an interview for Risky Business #743.
Worth a comparison with RAPTOR, another tiered RAG system.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.18059
> You may be not be aware of or simply have forgotten ever visiting a friend or family’s computer where all kinds of AskJeeeves toolbars are installed from god knows where.

And how are you going to make those OS-wide popups with the iOS sandbox exactly?

Be sure that if apps could make it, they already would, appstore reviews or not.

There's some very strange communication on Apple side saying simultaneously that their phone is the most secure thing in the world on their website and pretending to the EU that it's Swiss cheese and that manual reviews kind of save the day instead. They have to pick one.

> I’m not worried about you or me. The EU is just wrong on this one.

No, I believe the EU is right here but very late to the party and not even pushing far enough if I'm being honest. There's some talks need to allow OS reinstalls and I don't see any yet.
you get paid at your cover job. it's your 9-5. you work in IT, or as a baker, or insurance salesman or whatever. the money you get pays for your flat, and your dinner, etc.

you also have a bank account in your home country, and that gets a salary, too.

your insurance is through your cover job, or the country's healthcare system (if socialized). which also means you have crappy insurance salesman coverage :/ twenty years later when you return to the home country to retire you can sup on your pension and any retirement healthcare coverage, but until then it's on you.
I can’t find the quoted text in the parent post or article, but as someone who’s fought the short-lived branches crusade in the past (in favor of it) I’ll do my best to answer the criticism you raise :-)

> What about breaking up a change into smaller commits, none of which make sense until they're all together (changing the signature of a method, then changing the places that call that method, etc)?

The general-form solution to this is to make a three-part change: 1. add the new code, 2. migrate all the callers, 3. delete the old code in three separate PRs (or more, if migrating the callers takes several PRs, or some of the old code can be deleted earlier than the rest). I believe arbitrarily large changes can be made this way, and as your origination grows, eventually all large changes _have_ to be made this way.

Isn’t that a lot of extra work? IME it’s a lot less work (and risk!) than resolving a massive merge conflict.

The problems with long-lived branches all derive from the basic problem that eventually the complexity of maintaining two parallel implementations affects the work of everyone at the company.

New person joins before `Big_Refactoring` is merged? You’re either onboarding them twice into two branches, or they’re getting nothing done while they wait for the merge so they don’t have to learn a bunch of code that’s going away soon anyway.

Someone else wants to make a significant change? They either carefully patch each PR into both branches, or they decide “screw it” and do all their work in `Big_Refactoring` anyway, diverging the branches _even more_ and creating more risk in the ultimate merge and more of an incentive for others to start developing in `Big_Refactoring` and make the problem even worse. Soon the feature branch is a de facto main with failing tests while there’s incredible pressure to just ram the merge through so all these changes can go out.

The only way to make it work is to demand that only one person develop in `Big_Refactoring` and everybody else manually cherry-pick their changes into both branches (which quickly just means implementing them twice). IME everyone finds this so annoying that small branches, feature flags, and three-part changes (which makes code sharing between the old and new implementations much easier) become broadly preferred anyway.

As far as PRs, I can’t speak to the linked article, but everywhere I’ve worked that implemented short-lived branches still did PR review. But the PRs had to be small and quick to review (which IME actually helps catch bugs too)
> Speaking on the conference call, Musk said that he thought most Teslas were probably used for about a third of the hours in a week.

Not the point, but does this seem unrealistically high? That would mean driving 8 hours a day 7 days a week. Given that the whole premise is that these highly connected cars, which we're all aware Tesla has an ability to monitor and to effectively modify by software updates ... shouldn't he know this number?
Yes. Websites should be like 3D games. And then when you first visit a website, you could exclaim: "It's a Unix system! I know this!"
Agree. Staff/principal level engs should be seen as people with broad responsibility who have unilateral authority to do what's necessary to keep things moving.

It's much bigger than simply decomposing tasks and pairing with juniors all day to get them unstuck.
This is China century. You should check out Chinese space station vs the American ISS. One day we will see it is Russian-Indian-Chinese doing the Star Trek. Kubricm's 2001 will be remade with corrected actual representation in future.
If your example needs additional assumptions to be a relavent example then you should probably state them when you bring up the example.
Why would you assume gram when the SI unit is kg and the imputed value fit?

(yeah, my only grip with SI, but it's a frustrating one.)
I like the screenshots for visual proof:) They make the whole thing easier to follow, at least for me. Great work!
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From memory it had a built in backup battery too
You generally have to either have a ton of capital or a great idea to get started without any personal liability though. Nobody's going to loan money to an LLC with no assets without a personal surety.
Yeah that sounds awesome to me. It addresses one of the shortcomings of the conventional abstract style which is that nothing is cross referenced - most journals still disallow citations in the abstract

A feature like this would be great for discovering new topics. Right now my approach is to find an interesting paper, and if I need to dig into underlying concepts to really evaluate whether to read in detail then I skip to the lit review and hope for some good bread crumbs, or maybe jump to a fresh GScholar query to do some depth-first-ish graph traversal

It would be really nice to just surf some linked tldrs with high level descriptions of papers and concepts instead!
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I gather by the responses that there are a lot of HNers that feel strongly a certain way, but I do not confuse HN, or the participants of a pile-on, with "everyone"; nor am I fond of promoting this reddit style group-think.

I'm not asking for a poll, but reasoning (which is the explicitly stated purpose for this forum). If a thousand (apparently annoyed) HNers agreed on something but could not reason why, I wouldn't care for it. In fact, I've seen exactly this kind of cultish thinking among developers specifically, hence the existence of flamewars over notation preference.

The tone of some of these replies also suggest to me there's some projection going on, that also makes me defer to the explicit reasoning provided rather than the sentiment.

> you're using this tool fundamentally differently than everyone else and than it's meant to be used, and you're doing it in a way that inconveniences everyone who has to use it to interact with you

I disagree, but if you've already made up your mind, there's no opportunity for discourse here.
That's fair. The purpose of a system is what it does, after all, and it persists for a reason.

I still think it's a bit of a chimera, but hopefully it's vague enough that I can mold it into something sustainable for the long-term.
If my bottom 60 are all randomly shuffled then I haven't really ranked 82 people.
skipping succession episodes is insane, i'm sorry. it had a niche following but the entire series is a work of art in every aspect. i don't think i can point to a single episode that was "wasted".
Are you a nutter who has never hydroplaned before? Breaking during a turn is fucking dangerous especially if you dont know its gonna happen.

I really dont understand how anyone cluld think its a good idea
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Bearing in mind that I'm recalling back 40 years and not looking anything up, it's my recollection that the legal usage in English law is "in the matter of" with the Latin "re" being a contraction of a longer phrase ...

When I said strictly correct I meant that was what was taught in pre law as the correct reading of "re:" when seen .. it's barbaric contractions all the way back to proper Roman law ~ 400 CE I suspect and I'm no learned Latin scholar - I faked my way through it on the STEM side of campus and only ventured into Arts to watch theatre and listen to music.
I'll take your silence as indication that you realize that I'm not making any claims beyond: we have no evidence to support your claims because, as I said from the very beginning, we lack a robust and detailed mechanistic model for what it means to think, so any claims that depend on the assumption that we do have that knowledge are speculation at best.

In fact, I think an even stronger case could be made that prediction is central to how our brains work, and the evidence is the rise of predictive coding models in neuroscience. It's too early still to say what form that prediction takes, but clearly your dismissal of "token prediction" as somehow meaningless or irrelevant to human thinking seems frankly silly.
Rishi Sunak, our current prime minister, is brown, and I don't think that's really come into play at all.

Sadiq Khan is Muslim which is more of a wedge issue, but I would say in my circles, ULEZ, and more generally anti car sentiment, is a huge concern.

In my experience as a Brit no-one really cares about skin colour but about culture, religion (if fundamentalist), accent, etc. It basically just comes down to "are you integrated". I don't think that it's unfair to expect people to fit into society.

That's pretty much what the immigration debate is all about. If a Nigerian millionare comes over, brings his family, whacks them in a private school, basically no-one cares. Bring more.

It's unskilled, uneducated people who have issues with integration that basically everyone wants to limit.
Inherently nothing, but you cannot build economy just on that. How would you import all expensive stuff on island? People would be unhappy that they don’t have jobs. People are never truly satisfied with anything.
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You are also atill going to crash if you break automatically in that scenario... i dont get your point
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There is another meaning. Derived from originally Unix code: so MacOS and FreeBSD are Unix, while Linux is not.
I thought you meant blocking all force-push. Shared branches should absolutely be protected (with an “in case of emergency, break glass” option)
You are saying "if yoy dont like it dont participate" in response to a conversation about a feature that will be mandated.

Use your noggin
So, on that recent presentation Musk talked about around 250,000 tons to Mars in one launch window - every 2 years - which's gonna take ~1000 Starship flights to Mars. So if every flight to Mars needs 10, nah, 15 refueling flights, that means 15,000 Starship flights in 2 years, which is 20 flights a day. Which is way, way less than the commercial aviation is doing today. And btw Starship is way simpler, at least in many places, than Boeing 747. So what's the problem?

Re-certify for flight? I can envision an automated procedure which would analyze the data obtained from the rocket in flight and after flight which makes a decision in a split second, just like some systems in cars routinely do.

Hoping nothing will go bad? You can get much more risks on unmanned missions. You'll also get numbers on your side, when if something goes wrong you fix it, systematically, for future attempts. That's not exactly just hoping, right?
HTTP actually does quite a good job of providing headers containing MIME type and encoding. There is a little work to get the default (e.g. HTML and XML are different), and decide on the case where the XML payload encoding is different to the HTTP transport encoding (e.g. perhaps XML parsers need a way to override the embedded header).

So we end up at another plausible future-directed design decision: computer-computer communication should use HTTP. I think many systems have ended up there already, perhaps prompted by the issues we have discussed.

Moral: good specs attract usage; bad, incomprehensible or inconsistently implemented specs fade away.
There are no real receivable counter-arguments to the fact that forced-sterilization of a population group fully qualifies as "genocide", and, as such, warrants to be widely and thoroughly reported, with all the gravity an alarm necessary for such a serious matter.

We can go even further by adding that in such blatant violations of human rights, requiring a "balanced" reporting considering "the other side's" views is not much more than an attempt at diluting the seriousness of the situation to distract away from the facts. But then again, in the light of current conflicts in some parts of the world, it seems to be a favored approach.
I hope someday, with improved public education, we can have better users. Unlikely with Gen Z apparently having worse computer skills than the previous generation..
> In the long run, SpaceX wants to ramp up the Starship launch cadence to many daily flights from multiple launch sites.

And how much is that going to pollute our atmosphere?
Remember the size of the original iPhone? I have long wondered why nobody makes a universal compute brick in such a form factor without a screen. Then sell 5" or 7" or 10" or 27" screens with and without touch that connect to the little brick.

I can buy a 15" screen right now for under $75. It's the ultimate super-thin laptop if you remove the compute and keep the brick in your purse/backpack/holster.

For extra points, connect two compute bricks for more muscle.