skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm just glad they're prioritizing crew safety here. I don't have a lot of trust in Boeing right now.
An email us link is a bit discouragement for using it work purposes. I want a clearly defined price list, at least for some entry levels of commercial use.
I've been using Starlink while RVing around all of North America for four months every summer. This is my third summer doing so. Historically, I've bashed on it a fair bit, because it's not the panacea people think it is for on-the-go Internet.

It's gotten way better, though. The main problem with using it on the go is that campgrounds have trees and Starlink hates trees. If you're in one place, that problem doesn't exist, so long as you have a clear northern sky view.

The disconnection thing is a non-issue. I use it for video meetings every day at work. It never disconnects for more than a second or two, and I almost never notice it. Connections always recover on their own and almost instantly.
Do you have any evidence for this?

I suspect in the 60s and 70s science was (in the public imagination) wrapped up in a positive story of the future, full of space travel and prosperity for all. And now science is wrapped in a story (at least for some) of doom and gloom. Climate wars, or creeping authoritarian governments telling people what to think.

I suspect the experience of actual scientists, in labs trying things out, hasn’t changed anywhere near as much as the public’s stories of science have changed.
Boeing developed Starliner under the exact same set of constraints that SpaceX had for crewed dragon.
losers hate successful people. it is called jealousy, and sadly a part of human nature
I wonder how keep you can stack them before things start to break down
> Jam and commercial games have different requirements.

Indeed, but it's a clear signal that something is shifting. In jam game environment, the shift is obviously faster, as the timeframes are different. But you extrapolate that things will change for mainstream games as well, it'll just take way longer time.

It would be interesting to see the number of jam games being done at Unity when it first appears, although I think the whole "game jam" thingy wasn't as big then as it is now. But maybe that could give some indication on how long it'll take before we see a difference in mainstream game engine marketshare.
What's actually mind boggling to me is that after so many years windows still uses plenty of badly formatted unresizable windows. Also no way to pin a window to top (in Z-order) even though we've had that on Linux for at least a quarter of century
The author's point about Elden Ring is especially on point..

Because not only do you need to be level 50, but you need to try and fail five times before you see any kind of success.

Failure is _inevitable_. Quitting is optional.

You have to learn from each mistake.
If you perform an aggregation query in a CTE, then filter on that in a subsequent query, that is different, because you have also added another SELECT and FROM. You would use WHERE in that case whether using a CTE or just an outer query on an inner subquery. HAVING is different from WHERE because it filters after the aggregation, without requiring a separate query with an extra SELECT.
I've often been responsible for telling designers and product management alike "no, we aren't going to style the checkboxes how you like" several times in my career.

Interestingly, when deadlines and functionality really matter the "look" of a checkbox isn't that important.
Can you recommend me basic libraries for full stack dev that don't suffer from this? At least logging, ORM, web request handling, authentication, sessions, bundling (edit: and middleware, because apparently that's a separate library).

In every other language I work in there are 1-2 libraries that cover all of this (except bundling which is only relevant to js) and don't require me to step on the versioning treadmill. If I had the same for JS, I'd be much happier writing typescript.

Edit: for example, this week I had to downgrade a dependency (middy) from v5 to v4 all across our services because jest doesn't support I think ejs well enough and v5 dropped support for all other ways to do modules. It tooks hours of fighting to find the right combination of deleting the lock file, deleting various node_modules dirs and running npm i that actually replaced the installed v5 with v4.
What is SpaceX doing that the Apollo project (or the Soviets, for that matter) wasn't doing 50 years ago. Re-usable booster stages is all I can really think of.
>The overprovisioning of solar is going to create so much cheap surplus energy during summer and during the day

I associated this cheap power during summer days as when prices approach zero or even go negative. Power you have to pay to have somebody take is worse than worthless!

So some days the power is cheap but it still costs a lot for transformers, grid interconnections, power lines, battery systems if you want power on a cloudy day, so any solar farm that gets built has to cover financing of those costs, which means power is also expensive some of the time.

We can’t both have power so cheap we can dream up ways to use it when it is practically free and also be able to pay for it to be built and maintained.
SQL a legacy query language?

In order for a thing to be considered legacy, there needs to be a widespread successor available.

SQL might have been invented in the 70s but it's still going strong as no real alternative has been widely adopted so far - I'd wager that you will find SQL at most software companies today.

Calling it legacy is not realistic IMO.
Most of the time, workers and managers are smart, well-meaning, and hard-working. Even executives (though as you get higher and higher up, you see more and more people whose qualification is political skills and not expertise).

The issue with Boeing is less any individual and more institutional decay. Over time, a spigot of effectively unconditional cash corrupts an organization, especially once anyone with enough internal weight to fight against it is no longer involved in the day-to-day. Give it 20 years, and SpaceX will be the same way.
I wish the author would have spelled out one, concrete, specific abstraction which he knew, which helped him understand Dijkstra's algorithm.

I propose an alternate explanation: The author found it easier to understand Dijkstra's algorithm the second time, because he struggled with it the first time.

And that is because there is no "lowest level." Anything can be explained in terms of something else--every word in the dictionary is defined using other words. We don't learn anything bottom-up like this, it's a more holistic process, a hermaneutic circle.
Linux is also a much nicer desktop OS to boot, pun intended.
The only purpose a microwave serves in the first place is to heat as quickly as possible, and coffee and popcorn and hot pockets etc are not made any better by going slower. It is perfectly reasonable for the default to be 100%.

It doesn't matter that you can produce a nicer result by going slower. You can also produce a nicer result by using a regular oven and fresh ingredients.

The defined purpose of a microwave is to serve a different priority. A microwave with any other default is a dull saw blade.
Lidl built their own cloud, now has a $2B business selling it to others
2 Hours from Allegheny County would be a David Fincher flic.
You're right, I forgot that it was common to not use source control. However I feel like it was pretty universally recognized to be the "proper" thing to do.
Yes, because NASA and Boeing have been both putting their own spin on the things they say. If you read his threads on X you can get a good idea of what I'm talking about
Here is the relevant quote - which in my opinion sums up the situation pretty well - from this ad infested unreadable abomination of an article.

Switching to a more modern topic, the introduction of the Rust language into Linux, Torvalds is disappointed that its adoption isn't going faster. "I was expecting updates to be faster, but part of the problem is that old-time kernel developers are used to C and don't know Rust. They're not exactly excited about having to learn a new language that is, in some respects, very different. So there's been some pushback on Rust. On top of that, Torvalds commented, "Another reason has been the Rust infrastructure itself has not been super stable."
That appears to be answering a question orthogonal to:

> we still haven't figured out how to get a single person to low Earth orbit and back in a safe and cost efficient way
But why would all this matter if deprecating the control panel is on someone's KPI? KPI is their only god. There is no place for reason or engineering excellence.
Yeah that's right, knowledge and societal changes are just an extension of evolution going from 0 to 1. I understand that in the grand scheme of things, we are nothing but for the period that a civilization lives, it's knowledge evolves and for the future generation it's a gift or curse, both balanced by perfect scales unless intervened.

Which makes me wonder if civilization lives long enough by any chance till the end of universe, The Big Crunch and all that, would the prevailing knowledge be of interest to another universe of it's just an abstract visualization that exists along with universe and it's history and is bound to die along with it?
It's far from universal and much less used than postcodes for general purpose location, the company just pushed very hard with UK advertising and did a deal with the ambulance service because "everyone trusts the NHS"
Indeed.

It's amazing how many people, whether sympathetic to SpaceX or not, believe that NASA built its previous spacecraft in-house or something. The main differences between Commercial Crew and previous US manned space programs are that a) two different vehicles were built, not one, and b) NASA does not own or operate the vehicles; their builders do. Everything else is the same: NASA provided specifications for what it wanted in a manned spacecraft capable of reliably carrying people to ISS, various companies bid based on the specifications—their designs varying greatly from one another—and NASA chose the winning bids.
NASA says astronauts stuck in orbit to return February, not on Boeing Starliner
Wait, you're saying the craft had the capacity to dock but they were unsure if it could undock? Was it because the thrusters couldn't be sure to safely put distance between it and the ISS?
Many stacks offer hot code reloading. I am not a dedicated frontend developer but I used to work on a Vue 3 frontend for a project and it was actually quite nice to have the dev service watch the files and the browser hot reload the page when I changed code in the editor. It's not all bad.
This was the only way this could ever play out. After all of Boeing’s last five years, even if 100% unrelated, no bureaucrat anywhere would take that risk. If something goes wrong, you’re the idiot who put the astronauts on a vehicle from a company who has had a long string of recent failures.

Even at the best of times space travel is risky, why tie your career to that?
I’ve had an idea for a sci fi story lurking in the back of my head of an earth-based cartel sabotaging space mining to preserve the value of their precious metals. The catch is being able to communicate the economics in a way that’s both accurate and entertaining.
I'm actually less surprised about this in 2024 than I would have been for a webapp in 2014.

I feel like we peaked somewhere around the mid 2010s with regards to application compatibility: No more Flash, but also more than just 1.5 rendering engines.

Before that, it was all "oh, sorry, Windows .exe only"; since then, "sorry, Chrome visitors only".
One reason Musk didn't want this revealed is that this includes some of Putin's oligarchs who are sanctioned by the US government (Petr Aven and Vadim Moshkovich).

More details:

https://x.com/HeatherBurgundy/status/1827303361106108789

> Petr Aven is a Russian billionaire, founder of Alfa Group, one of the main wallets for Putin. Aven is one of Putin's oldest friends. Putin would be in prison instead of becoming president without him. Aven covered for Vladimir Putin in 1992, when he organized an illegal trade in export licenses; he was also present at a meeting with Putin on February 24, 2022, in the beginning of the invasion of Ukraine. He did not express any protest against "SVO" and supported Putin. By the way, he, together with Fridman, is trying to lift sanctions from himself, just yesterday he received another refusal in this matter.
In the purchase of Twitter he is represented by the company "8VC Opportunities Fund II, LP", where his son Denis works.

> Vadim Moshkovich is a sanctioned Russian agricultural billionaire who was a member of the "Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation." In other words, he was officially part of Putin's inner circle. Moshkovich owns Russia's largest agricultural holding, Rusagro. Naturally, he was also present at the meeting with Putin on February 24, 2022, and, like Aven, did not express any protest against Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
In the purchase of Twitter he is represented by the company "8VC Opportunities Fund II, LP", where his son Jack (Eugene) works.

> Knowing all this, we now understand Elon Musk's bias. Everyone was wondering how it was possible that Twitter shares (X) were falling, advertisers were breaking contracts, and no one was doing anything. This was direct damage to investors. But everyone failed to take into account the fact that investors needed a platform to promote their narratives, such as: support for Putin and Russia; lobbying for freezing the war in Ukraine; removing the Ukrainian agenda from the top news etc.
US sues Georgia Tech over alleged cybersecurity failings as Pentagon contractor
Its the most active out there of alternatives, like forums with reddit style using Voyager or Sync for Lemmy. not going back
Unity is a terribly managed company led by people who know next to nothing about gaming or simulation

Unity is in the “transition into hedge fund” phase of corporate development - but they don’t know how to make the kind of long term revenue that is necessary for that, the same way eg MSFT or Uber does with exceptionally predictable product revenue

JR couldn’t care less about customers, product or anything other than making investors richer - he pushed the whole company whatever direction investor sentiment went (metaverse, ads, Weta failed acquisition etc…) and we see how that went.

MW was a weaker less psychotic version of JR, and couldn’t make a game in Unity if you forced him to.

The new CEO is whatever who cases, just another psychopath trying to pretend he cares about developers. Yawn.

Overall there a lot of people who care about gaming and simulation toiling at Unity and only keep going cause the remnants of a great engine still produce value - however waning. Investors, management however don’t and never did.

Unity sealed their fate going public when they had no long term way to sustain it without destroying it (I’m unaware of a company who didn’t destroy the original products after going public, so, who is surprised)
It’s about being in control of your data. git folks thought so too, and why not? The paper mentioned is approachable.
I've got a couple people on my team in remote parts of Canada and Chile and they both use Starlink to work remotely with my teams every day (zoom, slack, github, etc.). It's been great for the past year or so. Haven't seen any issues with our Zoom meetings.

I wonder if it's geographically variable. How often do satellites switches happen?
I’ve never heard this story but it made me think of this old XKCD[0].

[0]: https://xkcd.com/1105/
Categorical mistake.

A rural community based on a single industry is always high risk for economic sustainability.

Silicon Valley is has cities older than the USA, was grown by the gold rush, the early movie studios, the defense industry (plus some world class universities), NASA contractors, microelectronics, etc. The most recent iteration is software startups.

Cities are always more resilient than isolated rural communities because they are inherently more diversified in both economy and workforce.
You missed the part where the Qwest refused to participate in illegal surveillance and the NSA destroyed the company for it.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2007/10/qwest-ceo-nsa-punished...
With all the hype going around Godot in light of Unity failings, I'm hopeful Stride3D will eventually see more light of day as it focuses on high-end rendering and VR, and will eventually integrate Bepuphysics2 to trade blows with big boy engines. Written in pure C#.
It's been 63 years ago since the first human visited the orbit around earth. Since then, development and research happens faster and faster. We now even have commercial companies who are developing space crafts for humans.

I don't think we've seen even the beginning of how things will unfold. Just 100 years will render a huge difference from today, and today we're already doing things that were unthinkable ~20 years ago (like reusable rockets).
More of a knock against C than C++, seeing as today’s C++ tends to prefer `string_view`s or at worst iterator pairs, neither of which use null-termination. (Saying that as someone who prefers C to C++ and avoids Rust exactly because of “better C++” vibes—I don’t want a better version of C++, if anything I want a much much simpler one that’s worse at some things.)

That said, I don’t see why it wouldn’t be possible to cram in 24 bytes of null-terminated payload (so 23 useful ones, the best you could hope for with null termination) into the same structure the same way by storing the compact version with null termination and ensuring the last byte is also always zero. For extra style points, define the last byte to be 24 minus payload length instead so you don’t need to recompute the length in the inline case.

To be clear: none of this makes null termination not dumb.
It's not clear to me that splitting up Boeing in commercial+business jet, defense, and space would make it more ineffective than its current incarnation? Boeing's ability to purpose build commercial jet frames for defense applications both seems to be... a) not performing well (see KC-46), and also b) not a future growth industry with the focus shifting to the Indo-Pacific and peer conflict (given the vulnerability of these types of platforms).
I've never heard of this and it sounds great. Thanks for the heads up.
> it's really only the government and boeing that seem to be having problems.

As we've seen these past few years, Boeing is perfectly capable of royally screwing things up on its own without the government's involvement.
People thought the Wright Brothers were crazy, too.

Innovators are often dismissed as having outlandish, unrealistic claims. And then they succeed.

And, frankly, how are you going to hold him "accountable"? It's his and his investors' money he's spending. They know what they signed up for.

P.S. I own a bit of Tesla and SpaceX stock. It could go to zero, and I'm still happy to have a "piece" of what Musk is accomplishing.

The only thing I'm mad about is I owned some Twitter stock, but when Musk bought it I was cashed out against my desires. Though I do understand Musk wanting to run Twitter as he saw fit rather than having to listen to activist shareholders.

Musk is one of, it not the, greatest entrepreneur in American history.
We have to have a collective look at what 1st-world governments, the media, and most "ordinary" people have been focusing on since the late 60's.

The world is not mobilizing towards these big "civilization advancing" goals, we're all just faffing about solving the next tiny little thing infront of our faces. That plus we're breeding mediocrity and not promoting excellence through meritocracy. This is purely cultural, and it's right infront of us every day to see and participate in (or not).
Was the AV software Crowdstrike? I don't blame Antonakakis for hating it or any other kernel-level AV.
Doing it for 10% of the cost.
If it's something I work on habitually and keep clones of, I prefer to use gitk to browse a local repo over something like GitHub web ui. Maybe I've just gotten old though.
SpaceX is also doing right now what Apollo and the Soviets are not doing right now. That's very important, because they are using modern materials and manufacturing techniques and developing new concepts. If SpaceX (and soon their competitors, hopefully) manage to keep themselves in business (and they might, because of the profit motive, which is enduring, rather than national pride, which comes and goes), there's a fair chance our species might bootstrap its way out of the ancestral gravity well this time around.
The main problem is that future values of TAI converted into most time zones is nondeterministic. On the other hand, at least you can guarantee all TAI seconds will actually occur.
Or even just a ballpark. Are we talking $500, $5,000, $50,000 or $500,000?
A couple apartments ago I had to park on the street and without fail if I ever forgot to lock my car I would wake up the next morning and discover it had been rifled through with 50/50 chance my car charger and cables would be missing.

Day dreamed about a system where instead of spending 30 bucks to replace my fancy QC later PD car charger I could pay a bribe of 10 bucks to the homeless person to whom a car charger was completely useless anyway with essentially no resale value.
I don't know if you know this but kids throw up for many reasons besides VR nausea. Are you sure she didn't throw up for some other reason?
Lowering the cost of mass to orbit by a factor of 100+, oh is that all?

What did Henry Ford do really for cars, the assembly line is all I can think of.
When they came out with HoloLens, Minecraft was the obvious killer app for it. But my mind has long ago stopped boggling at the number of ways Microsoft can find to not do the smart thing. Especially in gaming.
There is a lot of pride to be had from seeing something you worked on, with your own hands, successfully work - look at mission control videos for examples of how excited people get. Conversely, if it fails, there’s a lot of disappointment.

You can’t compare something like these massive pieces of hardware with people inside failing and taking all your work with it, with some software launch that maybe fails and takes a couple of bugs to be fixed before relaunch.

The Boeing story is tragic because they were a source of pride for America overall, played a huge part in winning WW2, made some great technological advances, but succumbed to MBAs fleecing all their goodwill. There are still world class aerospace engineers working there, and sure they could probably get a job somewhere else, but they might need to uproot their lives to do so.
Meanwhile Hungary missed a deadline for explaining to the EU why it has loosened entry requirements for Russian and Belarusian nationals.
Deadlock is already within 10k of Artifact's all time peak player count; and it "legally" doesn't exist and is closed invite only [1] [2]. So, you can guess whatever you want; no one in their right mind would assert that a hero-based shooter MOBA will achieve similar levels of success as a card game. But maybe you're not in your right mind.

As for Counterstrike 2; I'll believe anything you're rambling about actually matters when it spends just 24 hours outside of the top 5 most played games on Steam. Its #2 right now. Dota is #3. You're welcome to channel Trump and argue that they're cooking the books on their player-counts, but that's about the only argument you've got that has any chance of being right.

[1] https://steamdb.info/app/1422450/charts/

[2] https://steamdb.info/app/583950/charts/
I am glad decentralized alternatives similar to Mastodon exist like Lemmy, and even better with third-party clients like Voyager or Sync. It will take some time for people to get used to it but we need a better alternative to centralized companies that go to the enshittification route.