skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> technologically adept, but lifelong windows user

This kind of user is going to have a bad experience with anything that isn't exactly Windows unless they are willing to adapt. The problem isn't that the way Linux does things is bad, it is that it's different from what you are used to. I guarantee that as someone who is at home under Linux dealing with anything on Windows feels just as bad for me as Linux does for you.
What's strategic about it?

We give all of our data to US companies and that's ok (?), but for some reason we need to be able to launch our own rockets?
You’re not really reading what I wrote but ok.
Ha ha...they will use whatever medium you ask them to.
start small and start a competition. Then afterwards you get more and more competent companies.
I would, but do not see the option to change the title
I'm glad I'm not the only one. This is me too. I don't get it. It's like doctors waiting rooms, traffic, etc I do some of my best thinking.

But give me a quiet room, what I need, and time and I do absolutely nothing. It's ridiculous.
If you have a counterpoint I urge you to make it.
Not new. I was taught about the interstitium in medical school in 1987.
If we want to get real pedantic, the Chinese invented rocket powered flight around 1000AD.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huo_Che
All: if you're going to post on a topic like this please make sure you're not just commenting out of reflexive activation. That's not what HN is for, as the site guidelines try to make clear: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

On HN, we want comments that are thoughtful—i.e. that come from reflection, not reflex [1]; and specific—i.e. that have to do with what's different about a story, not what's generic. This is not particular to any topic; it's an optimization problem: we're trying to optimize the site for intellectual curiosity [2].

The trouble with reflexive comments is that they repeat responses that have already happened many times—rather as if they're being served from cache [3]. The trouble with generic comments is that the generic level is too abstract to say anything new or interesting. Put those together and you get repetition, the arch-enemy of curiosity [4].

[1] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...

[2] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...

[3] This, btw, is why such comments always show up quickly: cached responses are the fastest to arise. The kind of thoughtful comments we're looking for take longer to "compute".

[4] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...
> SpaceX has showed that they may refuse service in various situations, such as drone access to Starlink Internet in a battle during Ukraine war

If the goal is building a European Starlink, Ariane 6 is a step backward. It fundamentally cannot support the required launch cadence and doesn’t build any of the foundational technologies required to get there. (Analogous to Starliner, which was also pitched as a back-up plan.)
Could athletes mimic basilisk lizards and turn water-running into a sport
Non-profits closing means there is a financial reason; were there grants monies that ran out? Did another "women in STEM" non-profit get corporate sponsorship instead? The article doesn't say.
Yes. The idea was to keep the engines (and engineers) out of the hands of the other likely buyers. You've seen how soviet military surplus gets around: the same channels work for rocket engines, and those engines work in ICBMs just as well as they work in orbital launch platforms.

I don't know how effective this was. Did it backfire by promoting economies of scale in a program that went on to sell to adversaries anyway? Did it murder the domestic engine programs and did that have knock-on consequences? I don't know if the policy was effective, but I do know that stopping "engine proliferation" was a widely given and accepted reason for those programs.
>Is the source of cancer usually something from 20 to 30 years ago?

Oftentimes, yes. Quitting smoking reduces your risk of cancer but it is still higher than if you never smoked. Cancer is when a cell/cells mutate in specific ways that cause out of control growth, prevent the cells from self-destructing, prevent DNA repair inside the cells, etc. It is like playing a slot machine where all 4 reels have to come up “cancer mutation” for it to actually become a cancerous cell, otherwise the body processes fix or destroy the cell.

For the sake of argument, lets say each reel starts with 1,000 options and only 1 “cancer mutation”. Your inherited genetics could add a “cancer mutation”, solar radiation from a bad sunburn could add 3 “cancer mutation”, smoking could add 10, etc. It doesn’t mean that the next cell generation will have all 4 reels come up cancer, in fact it is incredibly unlikely. But as those mutations and damage build up, and as your cells divide and divide and divide over the years, it becomes more likely.

That change over time of your statistical likelihood is exactly why cancer almost never happens at the same time is the exposure (carcinogens, smoking, radiation) except in rare cases (rapidly dividing skin cells after massive solar radiation damage, extreme nuclear radiation exposure, etc.).
If you can’t follow a DOM tree through some custom components to debug uhhhh… maybe practice more.
How do you get to "a few GBs"? A hundred million embeddings, if you have 4 byte floats 1024 dimensions would be >400 GB alone.
Started with being raised by a few former-WAAF pilots out of Australia who returned with heavy bombers to Truscott|Mungalalu airbase to take out Japanese oil supplies in WWII and stayed on.

Learnt a bit about shock waves from C Morawetz, some combinatorics from C Praeger, robotics from R Owens, etc.

https://www.rafmuseum.org.uk/research/online-exhibitions/wom...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cathleen_Synge_Morawetz

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheryl_Praeger

https://www.researchweek.uwa.edu.au/speakers/robyn-owens/
It's not expensive. What does a week of a good hardware engineer's time cost?

It's not even necessarily that expensive: $3K-$5K is a good budgetary range if you don't have any pre-compliance test and engineering capability because you might need 2-3 trips to a certified test lab to pass. If you have experience in your product space and good pre-compliance testing, you can definitely be one-and-done for less than that.
Having just dipped my toes into tailwind and getting back up to speed on CSS, its shortcut syntax to base CSS. Putting all of that right on the element makes it easy for anyone to understand what is going on.

After seeing web tech come and go over the years, I have a distaste for most tech that transpiles or similar things. In my experience, transpiling increases the likelihood of painting yourself into a corner eventually. It complicates the tech stack by adding more dependencies and it appears a goal with a lot of frameworks is to avoid actually writing HTML and CSS. Sure the goal of using techniques so you don't have to repeat code is there too but how many abstractions are actually necessary to achieve that?
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A more likely danger is that a non swimmer is drowning and grabs onto another child and drags them underwater or tries to climb on top of them. This is a known danger and is a standard part of lifeguard training in the US. Drowning persons can be very dangerous to other people and to rescuers. So a drowning child can definitely endanger other kids.
> Several of the investment rounds included participation from In-Q-Tel, the CIA's venture capital arm

Not a significant source of capital. NASA COTS was Hawthorne’s public-money shot in the arm.
Because the USA needs NATO and other shit to have soft power and keep its hegemony.

Shit like what you said truly makes me wonder about the state of education in the USA when you don't understand a basic geopolitical principle your country has enacted for 80+ years, with massive benefits.
What kind of mistakes are easy to make? And why are you “comparing” class name lists?
Sugar alcohols will never be as popular as more obvious choices like aspartame and sucralose. Most people have at least some adverse reaction to sugar alcohols. Personally, all of them, used in any meaningful quantity, turn me into a bloated farty mess that ends with diarrhoea. Absolutely terrible stuff.
Sonarqube/cloud is working the same way.

Community edition with enough features for small businesses.

Once you reach a certain size, you'll need the other features but you now have the money to pay for it and as you've used the community edition for some time, you know that you want this products. (and if the product is deep into your workflow, the cost of change is high that you'll rather pay than switch)

As I'm currently building the stack for my startup, I'm more interested in that model than into a "full features 7 days trial" that then turns into a 19$/m/user.
(Not the original poster)

My experience with ChatGPT for coding has actually been the opposite: It was better at understanding and guessing underlying needs than the typical programmer I've worked with, who usually needed everything spelled out in technical bullet point requirements. Clients don't think like that (because they don't know how software works), but programmers need that (or need to come up with it on their own) to write the code. ChatGPT on the other hand seems pretty good at using its vast training data to guess at your intent and needs, as long as it's a relatively common use case.

I would say that's one of its great strengths (its ability to combine your prompt and its vast natural language data to give you an answer that effectively summarizes what your good options are). It's a better product owner than most programmers, in other words.

On the other hand, its coding ability isn't very impressive. It has the ability to generate code and it will run it and debug it if you ask it to, but it doesn't always do that by itself, and it's not great at doing "sanity tests" along the way to make sure each unit of code it's producing is actually doing what it should. For the most part it's doing the same sort of statistical modeling of language for coding as it does for natural languages, but code is a lot more precise and nuanced and can't just be a popularity contest of most statistical likely outcomes.

As a programmer, even a beginner one, you can usually spot these mistakes or at least ask it to explain or change some part of the generated code. However, for someone with zero coding experience, it might be harder to even spot these mistakes to begin with. You might be able to deploy the code but it might not actually do the thing you think it's doing, or maybe only do it under some circumstances but not others.

To be fair, though, the same things can happen when you work with human programmers. There's a lot of back and forth there too and trial and error. And many of us aren't great communicators, so ChatGPT has an advantage there. If you're patient with it, it might be a nice long term partner. But it's not quite at the "make me a _____ app and deploy it" one-prompt stage yet. Probably soon! I have no doubt one day soon it will replace developers like me, but for the time being, it works more effectively when paired with a human (and vice versa).
They did give up by building a disposable rocket in the 2020s
Most people at SpaceX work on development programs and in manufacturing not launch. SpaceX manufactures many different things. Launch by now isn't even close to a majority of revenue anymore. SpaceX is not just a launch company, not even close. They are a full space company doing everything from ground infrastructure, commercial and military sats, human and cargo space flight to LEO and the moon. And they are doing development and operations of all of that.

What matters is marginal cost of every other launch of Falcon 9. Most analysts put the number somewhere between 10 million $ and 25 million $. I think very few people would guess more then 20 million $, specially now as launch rate has gone up. My guess is that 15 million $ is more reasonable.

SpaceX pretty consistently ramped up their money raising along with their development programs. And they were pretty transparent about all of that. Not a single company who analyses SpaceX has ever suggest that SpaceX might somehow have raised much more money. Maybe a few 10s of million. But its hard to raise billions without anybody knowing.

And I'm just rather believing people who spend a lot of resources trying to understand SpaceX rather then somebody in an internet form saying 'maybe they have raised billions without anybody knowing'. Because only if its actually billions would it change anything about my argument.

What is numbers actually suggest is that SpaceX Falcon 9 operation are highly profitable. They are selling launch way above cost. Numbers and information we have suggest that SpaceX bids very aggressively on their development contracts for NASA, and they are like no making a profit on those, maybe a loss. In case of Starship, a big loss. But likely they get that back with continued operation beyond the initial orders (or that has been the reality so far). Numbers suggest that SpaceX is making a killing on DoD contracts, they knew they were the only viable competitor so they bid very high on those. I think just one that stuff, SpaceX would be a highly profitable company.

If this was not true, then there simply is no way they could have sustained the massive investment in Starship and Starlink.

So unless somebody shows me prove or anything close to a credible source, showing that SpaceX raised multiple billion additional $, I'm just not gone believe the SpaceX is losing money on everything narrative.

Frankly given how insanely expensive something like Starship is, its crazy how little money they have actually raised. Its basically a drop in the bucket to compare it to SLS.
That is not suffering and you should be embarrassed to type like that.
What LLMs help with the most is getting the first half of the project or script outlined. Then you go in and read it, make sure ChatGPT didn't spit out something crazy. But it is super helpfull for writing short scripts and starting projects. But it still does halucinate.
Now I found this one as well from Poland
https://europeanspaceflight.com/ilr-33-amber-2k-makes-histor...
Some of them are. Namely the ones willing to have an open mind and learn new things. Games in particular are not a problem unless you are set on playing modern online games which require draconian kernel-level DRM.
This is a self-destructive license: prohibition of use for "warfare" and "weapons manufacturing" basically means that the author wants the world to be conquered by whatever bad guy is stronger. At which point it will be impossible for the license to work because there will be no effective rule of law.
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How many subscribers on patreon are there because the creators provides pay-walled extra content? How many would remain if that pay-walled content would be mirrored directly by youtube or on youtube?

Crowdsourcing might work better, but how many would donate to a game where, instead of getting it cheaper as a kickstarter supporter, they could get free after it is released?
Aren't there trusts that can protect against this?
> Beyond the great emotion I am feeling right now, my first thoughts are for all the teams in Kourou, Paris, Vernon, Les Mureaux, Toulouse, Bremen, Lampoldshausen, Liège, Barcelona, Colleferro, Zürich and everywhere else in Europe who made this success possible.

Would the UK have been a part of this pre-Brexit?
Superconductor Offers Possible Room-Temperature Bridge
Out of curiosity: if the companies reselling Plausible (the ones mentioned in the post) kept the old version running, the old license applies?

(I know they wouldn't get updates, security improvements, etc)
There is a pretty simple way to query cloudtrail logs with Athena and its a huge improvement over the normal UI.
How does AGPL license work for such services?
Would I have to distribute source code of my web application if I use Plausible CE?
If not, how is it different from MinIO where as far as I understand the AGPL licensed use of the product requires distribution of entire code base?
Claude 3.5 is an absolute revelation. Its writing is very humanlike, and the new “artifacts” window is a fantastic UX improvement. It has completely replaced GPT-4o for me in every use case.
The root comment said to not allow floating devices in pools with children that can't swim, but only clarified the condition in the latter sentence. The first response (mis-)interpreted it as "do not allow floating devices period" and argued against that, with the discussion getting sidetracked from them on.
Wish more NATO members had that attitude.
Also here is a non rocket space device from Germany
https://www.polaris-raumflugzeuge.de/
(I cant judge their seriousness, but they got funding by military)
"...but as far as themes go, I’m more inspired by [authors who are] usually clearly anti-capitalist, criticizing scenarios used in Golden Age science fiction — such as building cities on Mars or expanding beyond the Solar System — by portraying them as capitalist hellscapes."

The golden-age optimistic science fiction placed humans on a stage in the future with aliens, and confronted both with challenges on a far greater scale than earth. The implication that today's problems would surely be solved, was not only a nice escapism but also helped to form a fundamental mindset for the solution of said problems. From terraforming other planets to thinking about carbon dioxide globally, from a war with aliens to seeing the futility of wars on earth. From the absense of actual capitalism or communism on that distant colony in space that lived in harmony, to being open minded about new solutions in everyday politics.

It does not seem clear if pessimistic science fiction, from an author not from the "ivory tower" but the trenches of education in community college, written with an educational message front and center, can have the reach and cultural impact as the stories from the past. Will the classroom in space convince where the daytime job didn't?
It is a figure of speech and surely was not disrespectful to blind people.
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The engineers tried. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Shuttle_Challenger_disas...

> Based upon O-ring erosion that had occurred in warmer launches, Morton Thiokol engineers were concerned over the effect the record-cold temperatures would have on the seal provided by the SRB O-rings for the launch. Cecil Houston, the manager of the KSC office of the Marshall Space Flight Center, set up a conference call on the evening of January 27 to discuss the safety of the launch. Morton Thiokol engineers expressed their concerns about the effect of low temperatures on the resilience of the rubber O-rings. As the colder temperatures lowered the elasticity of the rubber O-rings, the engineers feared that the O-rings would not be extruded to form a seal at the time of launch. The engineers argued that they did not have enough data to determine whether the O-rings would seal at temperatures colder than 53 °F (12 °C), the coldest launch of the Space Shuttle to date. Morton Thiokol employees Robert Lund, the Vice President of Engineering, and Joe Kilminster, the Vice President of the Space Booster Programs, recommended against launching until the temperature was above 53 °F (12 °C).

This article confirms that:

> The decision to fly cold-soaked colder than the SRB’s had ever been tested, was also a NASA management decision. Both NASA and Thiokol engineers objected, but were over-ruled. Thiokol upper management also over-ruled their own engineers, and told NASA to go ahead and launch. Thus emboldened by Thiokol management, NASA launched the thing, thus killing its crew.
The (economic) purpose of Girls in Tech is to create more workers in software so that prices for labor will go down.

Given the layoffs of 2022-ongoing, labor costs in tech are dropping enough that interested parties aren't incentivized to increase the supply of labor further.
Did that finally happen!? I feel like they've been telling me it was going to happen "this year" for at least 5 years.
Which bit specifically do you have an issue with? Perhaps we can discuss it
>Are the Europeans wworried that "between now and 2030s" the US will cut off their access to space?

Both US presidential candidates are not mentally well. Who knows what they might do.
It's a growth hack. I don't believe anyone who releases their product under a FOSS license will remain FOSS unless the company goes under. It becomes a "too much money left on the table" situation.
The UK is still part of ESA.

They do not have a direct involvement in the Ariane project however.
Just skimming the 2022 990, executive compensation was $285,170. Total expenses $1,904,475 on $2,005,994 in revenue.
> A more advanced system would aim to have trains as close together as cars are on a freeway.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Train_Control_System#...
Different strokes I guess.

I would say I have basic skills (and interest frankly) in web dev, and I find all the HTML and CSS to look pretty messy anyway. At least with Tailwind I can have the mess in one place and try and understand it there, rather than needing to track down and interpret which CSS class is causing what and how to modify it without breaking something else.
That's the nature of having existing players with significant market share but no standardized spec. OTel was/is in the same boat where in order to be a successful project, first you have to integrate with the products orgs are already using.
Fundamentally broken, or waiting for modules to become a thing? I tried to use https://github.com/mjspncr/lzz3ᵃ for a few years but it became impractical to me to fiddle with tooling.

a: You don't have source file and header file, you put everything in one file and lzz sorts it out during build.
Towards Idempotent Rebuilds?
Do you mean this MUI? https://github.com/muicss/mui

Last commit was four years ago and it has some weird bugs, eg this page tells me "Warning: Your browser does not support WebComponents" when Mobile Safari most definitely does. https://www.muicss.com/docs/v1/webcomponents/buttons

(Filed an issue: https://github.com/muicss/mui/issues/338 )
A lot of them already are running OpenWRT.

It's just not the upstream OpenWRT. Instead, it would be an ancient version of OpenWRT with an ancient Linux kernel (hint hint).

Guessed why? Yeah, the same story as Android. Hardware vendors (those actually designing wireless chips, like Qualcomm and Mediatek) based their official SDK on an ancient version of OpenWRT and piled on tons of non-upstream-able patches to implement drivers.
"The lack of documents from the Windows maker is apparently down to "technical difficulties" in collecting Slack messages"

Wait, I'm forced to use Teams at work but Microsoft employees are on Slack?!
Database server connections just die and don't heal.

Apps get scaled down to 0 despite setting minimum running applications.

Our logshipper just stopped working for a week.

Our apps occasionally just stop working.

The worst part is that I could cope with the above if they communicated the issues.

They don't. They make major changes - "improvements", break stuff regularly, acknowledge that they broke stuff in the forums, but don't communicate to those affected.

I am seriously considering going elsewhere - and I really don;t want to. The intention is good, but I am not convinced that they are stable enough for people to gamble their businesses on it just yet...
Thanks for sharing — as you may guess from my username, I can only learn from what people tell me, not direct experience.
I think if your country doesn't have nukes, it is merely a gametheoritic poker chip for those who do.