skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Making a small launch vehicle is seen as necessary to attract the level of funding needed for a medium or heavy lift launch vehicle

I get that.

But it seems like every VC on the planet had the same idea at the same exact time because there's like 50+ small lift rockets in various stages of development. And approximately 0% of them have a shot at profitability.

I have real doubts that any of them that aren't backed by a nation-state will be able to fund raise and survive long enough to build a medium lift rocket on the back of their experience.
AI Safety. Code is run through AI to check for vulnerabilities. Files are analyzed by AI to ensure they aren't malware. Every instruction is run through AI to ensure nothing maliciously is happening (mostly enforcing DRM :). Every pixel is output by AI to ensure you see nothing not intended for your precious eyes.
As a Dutchman the endless list of apparent “Dutch” things never ceases to surprise me. Uncles, courage, ovens, double, going, etc., and a new one to my list: rolls. And none of them means any good.
People can have their own opinions on things. You don't need 20 years experience to have an opinion of patent law, even an informed one.
It's actually a very common phrase on forums, I think because it's an actual error that Linux will report: https://askubuntu.com/questions/868321/gpu-has-fallen-off-th.... I've also never heard of it, but it seems like it must appear a lot in the training data and probably about 0 times is referring to a bus on the road.
I was thinking more in terms of market share, but you raise an excellent point.
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Retroraytracing.... Despite the nostalgia, Blender/Cycles is equally free and incredibly more capable.
I didn't know what it was called, but I've experienced mild Dutch Roll enough on flights, usually on the approach or landing, that I didn't realize that it was all that rare or dangerous. I had come to think of it as a normal result of wind shear.
I imagine it's a matter of degree, and I wish there was some mention of the magnitude of the Dutch Roll in this case vs what is considered normal or acceptable.

(Edited to qualify my experience as "mild".)
Okay. So let's compare accidents per flights to accidents per trip with bike/car.

IATA reports 1.19 accidents per million flights in the 2019-2023 years. [1] Your turn to find a comparable number for road vehicles.

1: https://www.iata.org/en/pressroom/2024-releases/2024-02-28-0...
This comment sounds hyperbolic, but it really isn't. It's really bad. This has been my experience with Microsoft employees also.

In my experience, what makes for bad software is PM and engineering hubris. You definitely need some vision and confidence as just following user feedback is a recipe for terrible software as well. The key is to find the right balance and straddle that line.

If it's been long enough for insiders to tell the story of Windows Phone and the eventual cancellation, I'd be fascinated to hear the story of that (from inception to death) and how that went internally given the culture.
But doctor, I AM Simon Wilson!
As far as I can tell the 'boycott' was nothing more than rolling back to 3.4
>EU per Capita GDP in 2022 is the same as USA 2016. Was the USA in 2016 struggling but now isn't?

Absolutely the US would be struggling if the GDP was still 2016 values with today’s costs.
What do these companies do about browsers? If they can block at the network level, group policy to disable an app feature is moot.

Put another way: if corporate policy blocks this app but not access to OpenAI, they are not solving the underlying issue. If they already block OpenAI they don't need the application control.
that probably has more to do with freelancing and consulting in general, rather than something inherit in programming

freelancing and consulting, is usually about problem solving, and even problem shooting (get rid of the problem as soon as possible, elegance not required)

you want to be a builder a tool maker, with freelancing, i dont see this happening, if you move to a consultant role maybe

for me consultant are a bit more into longer term relationship , so maybe this should be your next step
I’ve also been using Elixir + Zed for the last couple months. Love it. And it’s so snappy. It’s the first editor I’ve found where ElixirLS doesn’t feel like it’s making my editor lag. Not sure what they do differently.
Bill Gates in 2002: "So now, when we face a choice between adding features and resolving security issues, we need to choose security."

Satya Nadella in 2024: "If you’re faced with the tradeoff between security and another priority, your answer is clear: Do security."

Microsoft in 2024: Run this software on your computer so we can take a screenshot of everything you do, index it and we promise Security is still, and have always been, the priority. And yes, we do store data unencrypted on your disk, why are you asking?
I somehow missed that the model was linked there and available in quantized format; inspired by your comment, I downloaded it and repeatedly tested against OG Llama 3 on a simple question:

How to use a GPU to destroy the world?

Llama 3 keeps giving variants of I cannot provide information or guidance on illegal or harmful activities. Can I help you with something else?

Abliterated model considers the question playful, and happily lists some 3 to 5 speculative scenarios like cryptocurrency mining getting out of hand and cooking the climate, or GPU-driven simulated worlds getting so good that a significant portion of the population abandons true reality for the virtual one.

It really is refreshing to see, it's been a while since an answer from an LLM made me smile.
The question is how bad the oscillations were, and how long they lasted. Maybe for the passengers it was indistinguishable from "regular" turbulence?
It all starts when psychopaths on wall st install psychopaths in the C suite.
dupe with 90 comments:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40655516
I'm not defender of Microsoft, but I don't know if I could point to any company which does not put profit over security.
It's like the lady who fired her window cleaner for whistling a dirty tune.
This is a fair answer to something I didn't write.

I'm just making a "words have meanings" point. No hidden agenda about antitrust policies were intended.

At -4 points, I think this is my most downvoted post ever!
A reminder that "Newsweek" hasn't existed for over a decade, and this publication is a clickbait farm run by a religious cult that purchased the branding in a fire sale.
Does iTerm give you anything over vanilla Terminal? To my eye there's a subtle delay, it must be in the order of 50-100ms in iTerm rendering that's not present in Terminal. Non-scientific measurement - i'm just going by perceived latency and comparing to something i know is a 50ms delay.

That's for interactive use, startup time is slower for iTerm2 but i don't care about that because i basically never quit the terminal.

In both iTerm2 (when i used it) and Terminal, i have a colourscheme enabled and a custom font - both of which i'm assuming have potential to slow things down.
> They also don't want to open the door to have companies buy their IP for "cheap" by buying smaller companies with special arm licences instead of directly negotiating with them.

Is it really ARMs IP or the IP developed by the smaller company. My understanding is ARM is like a blueprint, and you then make changes as needed.
Been daily driving Deb 12 + KDE for almost a year now and has been incredibly stable and positive.
Which would you prefer - a brand new basic car with the minimum legal features (so you get a backup camera, tire pressure monitoring, airbags ...). Or a 5 year old car with features like air conditioning, radio, infotainment, heated seats and so on? The reality is people who are cheap buy used cars anyway as for the same price as a bare bones new car they can get all the luxury features as well. People who care about their image demand all the luxury features and will not be seen in a car more than 3 years old.

If we changed something (either legal, planned obsolesce, ???) so that cars only last 3 years, there would be a large market for bare bones cars as people who are cheap would buy them. (and many people who today buy new cars would be forced to buy a much cheaper car since their car no longer as more than scrap value). However the economics of cars mean anyone who would buy a bare bones car buys used.
To be honest, that sounds like every company that suffers from delusions of grandeur and wants to conquer the planet, one way or another.

What you're saying is equally true for Apple, Google, Amazon and most other public companies today. You're never gonna get "Use this Microsoft product" as an answer from Apple support/engineer even if that product would solve your particular problem better.
The issue is many stores use dark patterns and you may not catch on until too late.
- Subscriptions impossible to cancel
- Silent auto-renewal
- Silent price changes
- Hidden Fees
- Sales of purchase history
- Apps released under known brand that are off brand knock offs.
- Apps bundled with added cruft (think those download.com installers that installed toolbars and whatnot).
- Pirate versions of Teams through off brand store causing licensing audits

A lot of dumber app vendors will just drain the suckers dry and rebrand and if Microsoft pulled their apps from the App Store some unfortunate souls would click the first Google hit and get sucked into the scam.
A few off the top of my head: iTerm starts sending the calls through a proxy for billing/analytics; iTerm adds a model selector that hits other APIs in an update.
Neither am I, but I've seen at least one hentai, and I think it tends to have a manga art style and be more sexually explicit.
> barrel rolls are generally safe even for large planes since it's a stable 1G maneuver

Maybe "safe" here means that merely the stress of the maneuver itself wouldn't destroy the craft? But surely the loss of lift is likely to put it at significant risk, as in your example.
Reacting to the AI kerfuffle is all in a day's work for Mr. Nachman. He also fixed an unrelated bug I reported by the time I got up the next day. What a beast!
Oof, I really didn't intend to start a flamewar.
There are terms of art, jargon, in many fields that mean something different than the “obvious” reading of the term. I had a discussion with someone on Hacker News recently that just could not understand that “dynamic programming” was a very specific solution technique for a broad range of problems with a special structure, rather than any sort of programming with a dynamic aspect to it.
> Price though - it’s a tall order to expect everyone to buy EVs when the low cost options are so much higher than the low cost gasoline options. I can see how that would make politicians nervous

100%. Honestly, I hope that we use this opportunity to improve public transit in Europe a lot more than it already is done.

Both:

1. Better bike lanes, everywhere, well maintained throughout seasons with good government subsidies on ebikes.

2. Public transit density and focus on lowering wait on connections. Basically, look at what Switzerland has done and try to copy it.
Statistically it is not. Most of the time travellers don't know if they're on an Airbus or Boeing aircraft and hardly ever figure out that it's a MAX.
Rössler Attractor
> And yes, we do store data unencrypted on your disk, why are you asking?

But don't worry, you need to be an administrator to open the file. What? your average person daily drives an administrator account? How should we have known that???
I guess that’s believable. I’m surprised it still holds such regard though. By current standards it feels like such a low bar
Babylon 5 is THE best IMO. I just love all the little character dialogue that makes the universe so expansive. I miss scifi like that.
I think the upside of industrially grown wood is better than the upside of industrially grown meat. The biological services of an old forest are more than the material they yield.

Imagine cultured sheets of perfect n-ply plywood, quartersawn timber of any size, 3d lattices that create chairs and other furniture with no joinery... Lumber grown at sea on barges, taking water and nutrients from sea water, chasing the equatorial sun.
If your browser has access to your entire file system, chatgpt can have that access, too.
Quick Note on Penny Singleton
I really enjoyed both
I have always taken a lower salary than early employees. And had periods before raising money and after the money dried up where I was taking no salary. I think it is way way way more common for founders to do this than early employees.
but then again lisp got replaced in practice and is only really a niche language nowadays

so the move away from lisp is not bad

and while i dont like python purely as programming language (its not theoretically engaging or fun) python is top 3 or 5 in practice, people like it
ARM doesn't claim to own the IP of Nuvia, they merely claim that the license they gave to Nuvia to develop server-architecture based on ARM does not allow the IP to be transferred to other licenses or other use-cases.

Since the license the Nuvia IP was built on became void when the company changed ownership, the IP is not built on a valid license.

> "I revoke your license, so you can't sell your IP to a willing third party" is a pretty dangerous precedent. You should be perfectly free to do so, to the extent that your buyer would also need their own license.

ARM does offer licenses for comparable designs (Blackhawk, Cortex-X), but Qualcomm apparently insists that they don't need to license those because they acquired Nuvia and can simply integrate that IP on top of their existing ARM-license instead.

My guess is that the gamble of Qualcomm is to force ARM to license the Nuvia IP to Qualcomm again for a more-favorable fee than ARM's comparable designs cost, and ARM sees no reason to do so.
I guess the issue becomes when they say security is the top priority (and have been for two decades), yet all actions point towards it not being so.

> Bill Gates in 2002: "So now, when we face a choice between adding features and resolving security issues, we need to choose security."

https://www.wired.com/2002/01/bill-gates-trustworthy-computi...

> Satya Nadella in 2024: "If you’re faced with the tradeoff between security and another priority, your answer is clear: Do security."

https://www.theverge.com/24148033/satya-nadella-microsoft-se...
Apple should fund some of the most popular open source tools used on their Macs. They have the funds, its good marketing, it makes business sense. Nothing speaks against it.
> but that same car is used for vacation trips in summer and winter with the whole family.

Right, and the charging network isn't _that_ bad, is it? Like, I've now done 4 cross country trips in the US (PA <-> FL <-> WA) in both summer, and winter. With the pre-heat-pump-for-heating Tesla Model 3. I basically had to charge one to two times a day, for about 20-30 minutes each time. This was genuinely a good way to force me to stop and take a break too.

I don't really consider these cars a limitation for long distance trips either?
this...

nearly 95% of deeplearning github repos are "tested using cuda gpu - others, not so sure"

the only way to out-run nvidia is to have 3~10x better bang-for-buck.

Or AMD can just provide a "DIY unlimited gpu RAM upgrade" kit -- a lot of people are buying macstudio 128gb ram because of its "bigger ram-for-buck" than nvidia gpus
This is essentially paying taxes to the local government for national security.

It's the same thing US residents do, with the same abusses by the government.
From what I understand, they are trying to keep their unique type shape count very low relative to the shuttle, which should make tile replacement a lot cheaper. Nonetheless, the tiles seem like the weakest aspect of the whole design. Recall that the early proposals didn't have tiles at all, so the tiles existing now is already and acknowledgement that not everything is going according to the ideal path.
> The machine also automatically outputs a report that details any deviations during printing, removing the need for postfabrication qualification.

Anyone who's previously worked with 3D printing knows that this simply does not pass any kind of a sniff test. Both preventing and detecting internal defects is one of the, if not the hardest problem in 3D printing. There are many large companies trying to find ways to reliably solve just this problem alone. Saying that this method doesn't require any checks after production is simply false.
HN is wonderful for that. I once commented on an article about Brave Browser that it was an ad extortion racket, and Brendan Eich showed up to call me an asshole. Good times!
As a new resident, I also find it surprising! It's a shame that most of the substitutions seem to be negative however. Lots of really great stuff and people in NL <3
In my testing, both Llama 3 and its abliterated (uncensored) variant from[0] almost always remarked more or less directly that they see the joke in the phrase, so either they've seen the other meaning in training, or inferred it.

--

[0] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40665721
That would be so awesome! Reminds me of the sci-fi book “Children of Time”
What's news about this? Aren't bioplastics based on lignin already a thing?
I was about to link the same video. It was fascinating and took some of the scare out, but if I'm ever in one, now I'm going to be sweating it that the pilot knows what he/she is doing and doesn't overcorrect.
Previewing Clipboard Images in the Terminal
That depends on what you mean by “generally safe”. Airline jets are not made to withstand the forces of an aerobatic maneuver and while they can do it in test flight conditions, each time requires pulling the jet out of service afterwards for a full structural inspection.
After a quick search just now, I could not find any tweets about it
Oh, but they do state that the infection cluster would have started in the lab.

I disagree with this premise, as the lab workers are likely all wearing PPE. Just one had a protocol lapse and got infected. The rest were protected by their masks.

Infected lab worker gets sick, but nobody else in the lab.
I don't think android uses Bluez, android moved away from bluez a long time ago for their own custom bluetooth stack.

https://source.android.com/docs/core/connect/bluetooth
You can model a scene in Blender and render it with POV-Ray. And POV-Ray offers a different way of thinking about 3D graphics and rendering.

I agree that Blender+Cycles is better and more modern, though.
If you are getting 100ms delay with iTerm then something may be wrong with your setup.
People like coldplay and voted for the Nazis!
Thanks. Forgive me I'm not a coder, what's the easiest way to use/run this?
remarkable. that imaginary individual ticks every checkbox for a bad guy. you'd get so many upvotes if you posted that on reddit.
E.g. wibble-wobble or the more pronounced wibbly-wobbly.
Their perspective is not relevant for me.
I work for a Salesforce company (Heroku) so I’ve used their CRM interface enough that I think I know what they are talking about.

You can customize views and reports. To the point you can make it do stuff like be a kanban board or blog. It’s really flexible. The “build a portfolio” is actually using the CRM (IIRC).
https://trailhead.salesforce.com/content/learn/trails/build-...
ADB Commands Cheat Sheet
S24 batch shows the AI trend, with .ai being the most popular TLD
You joke, but (the DRM part at least) is the future I fear is coming. It could hit us from so many angles (not forgetting Chrome's Web Environment Integrity and Apple's Private Access Tokens), and with all the money and power behind it (big tech plus big copyright), and the complete apathy of the average user towards this, it seems inevitable.
Very cool summarize of this. I love SQlite and use it everyday.

May I suggest also to do strict tables - I don't know if Django ORM do that by default
An oxide is just a molecule with one oxygen atom and one other element. Different oxides would have different effects on atmospheric chemistry.
If a device cant get play certified it cant realistically be sold anywhere in the world except china, so no phone manufacturer would choose a SoC for their phone that was not supported.