skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Heh that's an interesting point. It doesn't have to orbit the Earth, so it doesn't necessarily have lots of lateral velocity to burn off. It'd be interesting to work the numbers for just matching the Earth's velocity around the sun, at a distance of a few hundred kilometers.

Edit: based on a quick chat with Claude Sonnet, reentry velocity would be about a fourth as high, but getting to that initial orbit in the first place makes the whole project significantly harder. But maybe if ablation from reentries became an environmental problem, and deep-space propulsion got really good, it'd be worthwhile.
You can also optimize your company structure to be more resilient to founder disagreements. Unfortunately, the legal system and the cost of attorneys can be a hard thing to optimize against.
I have FINALLY made the decision to leave Unity for my hobby games/programs, after about 10 years using it fairly heavily. It is just making my life miserable and I sincerely hate using it, with the latest beta being almost literally unusable on my computer. I do disagree with the author about UIToolkit though - that is one of the only things Unity has done in the last 5 years that is actually useful.

I'm not sure what to move to. I think there is a big vacuum for a code-first, open source framework that basically does what Unity does without the awful editor. I know a lot of people like GDScript in Godot, but to me it looks like the same mistake Unity made with UnityScript, which they eventually got rid of.
This trope that anyone who is not a manager is Good and anyone who is a manager is Bad rubs me the wrong way.

The reality is often a lot more complex and nuanced.
Seriously unions should just start requiring annual pay increases and bonus the match the equivalent for executives - if the company is making enough to double executive compensation it can afford to double the compensation of the people doing actual work. If it can’t afford the latter then clearly executive compensation does not get that either. To be clear I mean total compensation including stock grants, options, equity, handcuffs and parachutes. If the company can afford to pay an executive multiple times there annual income to leave involuntarily it can afford the same when laying off the people doing actual work.
What is the context? How do I view who he is replying to?
I had been thinking about looking at history from the lens of information technology.

China is an interesting example, in that it was so well ahead of the curve until around 1700s. In the 1800s, when telegraphs were connecting the Western world together, the Qing dynasty China would not have been able to participate unless pictographs could be encoded as easily as letters (let alone the century of uprisings, rebellions, and civil war).

But look at Tang Dynasty China. The Silk Road was a part of a global trade network reaching through the Middle East, and into Africa, along with maritime routes from India.

It wasn’t just trade goods that travelled. Ideas — religious, cultural, technological, flowed along the network. But they travelled only as fast as trade goods.

I think it is when information is able to flow faster than the physical items that, we might find some insights about what is going on now.
But wouldn't you say "I feel bad for the people working at X" in that case? And besides, isn't that also a quite strange sentiment?

Replace Boeing with Facebook/Google, and it still sounds strange to feel bad for the workers at those companies when the executives make bad decisions like chasing profits over all. I mean, why? People obviously like it there, otherwise they wouldn't work there, so why feel bad for them?
(in germany) Friend took multiple trains, Ubahn, Bus. 5 Seconds after leaving the bus, he realized he had forgotten his backpack with id, laptop, etc.

We were "hunting" busses for 2h but couldn't find it. He didn't have Find My set up on the mac. Filed police report etc.
A week later he got mail saying the bag was found in a train in Augsburg. Which was the 2nd of 4 legs of the trips or something, and he was completely off where he lost it :D
They don't need that much data.

They operate in a higher dimensional space.

You can fine-tune a model trained on JS/Python and teach it Lua with little issue. If you have a proper rosetta for your language to a language that is well represented in the training corpus, it isn't an issue.
>the non competitive defense space

I'm still processing that sentence
I guess technically, this whole comment section is just straw man arguments.

But aside from the pun, we're talking about Starbucks. That is supposed to be a coffee/espresso business. You should be able to drink those without a straw. The fact that espresso milkshakes are so overwhelmingly popular that people require straws from Starbucks in America really isn't a straw man argument, it is entirely relevant. If people weren't buying milkshakes from an espresso stand, they wouldn't need straws. I certainly don't need a straw for any variety of normal espresso. The fact that daily caffeinated milkshakes are normalized in America is very likely linked with our obesity crisis.

They also require plastic see-through containers so that people can visually see the layers on their milkshake.

We'd be doing better if that didn't exit or was considered much more niche rather than entirely mainstream.
It wasn’t personal, sorry to have triggered you.
Not really, there is a big difference in how Unity and CoreCLR GCs work. CoreCLR itself has two-ish GC implementations that are very differently tuned (WKS GC and SRV GC aka Workstation and Server). This is further complicated by DATAS mode, if we talk about implementation, as it dynamically scales heap count and sizes based on application allocation behavior, time spent in GC and the proportion of memory used (enabled by default in .NET 9 for SRV).

AFAIK Unity uses Boehm GC based implementation with augmentations for incremental per-frame collection. It can sustain much, much lower allocation throughput than what CoreCLR uses (and CoreLib APIs try to be not allocatey as well). Would be interesting to read more if someone with better Unity knowledge chimes in.
I do find that comfort issues (i.e., nausea) make it hard to port non-VR games to VR. Movement just has to be a lot different in VR to avoid the nausea, either more focused on teleporting or changing the basic structure of the game so that the player is still or confined to a small location and the world moves around the player.

I let my kid play a pretty simple game on the Quest that had regular joystick motion and an hour later she was sick and threw up. The effects of VR can be surprisingly delayed and non-obvious.
Apple still leaving critical vulnerabilities unpatched in macOS Sonoma
https://xcancel.com/id_aa_carmack/status/1827363452194619692
This ink is useless for anyone without a Twitter account. Is there a summary?
GDScript does have pretty good integration with the engine's internal data models, especially when it comes to persistence.

But Godot does also have first-class C# support thanks to the Microsoft grant and the community-made Rust gdext crate is very nice to use once you've gotten used to how it presents the Godot types.
Building a Fusion Reactor in My 6th Floor NYC Walkup
Arecibo Wow I: An Astrophysical Explanation for the Wow Signal
Looks to me like Musk is delivering on his "pipe dreams".
I think this is much less embarrassing for NASA than Boeing. NASA outsources their engineering now, and Boeing was, until very recently, a prestigious aeronautical engineering company. It's going to be very difficult for the world to adjust to the new reality that Boeing is no more. It's an even stranger reality that the company which routinely blows up rockets in pursuit of what everyone believed was impossible just a few years ago is now the clear and obvious choice. I think that's the even bigger story here for me: what Musk has done with SpaceX is nothing short of revolutionary. In hundreds of years people are going to be watching this as a pivotal moment in human development: https://youtu.be/sf4qRY3h_eo?si=fAhcunCLHY803wn7&t=454

Look at this shit. Just look at it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1AXnMlxK22A
Was really looking forward to trying this browser out. But the windows installer fails VirusTotal scan by 4 separate scanners.
Its usually a false positive, but its not the environment to giving the benefit of the doubt for.
This happens more and more often for me, and I'm surprised software development skips the stage of addressing this prior to app launch and promotion.
I saw someone on Twitter that left hers in a seatback on a flight. They'd show up on Find My every day for almost two months before they died. She talked to the airline multiple times about someone checking her seatback and several times they insisted they weren't there. Doubtful they ever checked at all but impressive battery life.
SpaceX already regularly brings people to LEO and back reliabily. And they are working on the moon. Boieng not being able to do it isnt relevant.
How do other languages handle this? Do they take the timezones database from the OS, which keeps it updated?
> It is by the same people that believe whatever they're told by anyone in authority, and then feel the urge to pass it on to others without critical thought, also ignoring their personal real-life experience.

That describes most of the HN.
Two different implementations might make two different local times out of that, e.g. due to not being aware of changing DST/timezone policies. Hence the recommendation of separating between user/clock/calendar time (which must be exact to a human) and absolute/relative timestamps (which must be exact to a computer).
Unless the payment already happened?
I would expect that this increases the gap between new and old phones / makes old phones unusable more quickly: new phones will typically have enough RAM and can live with the 9% less efficient memory use, and will see the 5-10% speedup. Old phones are typically bottlenecked at RAM, now 9% earlier, and reloading pages from disk (or swapping if enabled) will have a much higher overhead than 5-10%.
N.Korea 2.0
I have some distant family who moved from California to Idaho as part of a wider Conservative exodus. Some Idahoans aren't too keen, they see Californians as migrants who are driving up house prices etc. I don't believe there's any sense of irony on either side.

Anyway, they had to get new cellphone numbers because they'd get awful/no customer service if, say, they dropped their truck off for repairs and left a California number.
Maryland is so bad they need to pay you 10k to move there. I used to live in Nova and crossing into Maryland was always a drag.
Yep, you can print it out. My goal was to provide the printing. You can purchase a bundle of QRs stickers, or print it for free. Next year I'll do a show hn.
But it's exactly the same at Facebook/Google/Amazon/Palantir and countless of other places, yet people chose to work at those places. Why feel bad for them? They've made their choices, and if they're not happy with those anymore, they can make new choices.
Because people wanted to have families? Like what kind of question is this? Do you think people should put their whole life on pause for a job?
It seems fine to me. If your app is using weird edge cases of markdown syntax, or extensions, it should probably specify a different UTI. If you’re pretty much just doing the level of markdown in the average rich-notes app, that’s pretty interoperable.
[parasite theory]
It's just an after thought I came at after watching Kurzgesagt

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhFK5_Nx9xY
"fixed"

And won't be available in non-chromium browsers and LTS versions of Node until 2028.
They don't have a way to come back to Earth right now on a Spaceship cleared for human flight.
I feel like we need to clarify that "optional" isn't really optional when the alternative means a big chunk of functionality doesn't work.

It's optional like having a house is optional. Yes, you can technically survive while homeless, but housing isn't a nice-to-have.
Not everyone gets nauseous or motion sick from VR. I think it's okay if some VR games are designed around joysticks, as long as teleport mode is still an option.
Teaching Things
About the importance of properly layering abstractions when teaching
NASA is focused on the mission, which is the Starliner test flight. Macabre, maybe, but someone has to focus on what they set out to do.

Obviously, they're not gonna just count out the humans involved, but it make sense they want to focus on the core mission.

At least that's how I understood it from listening to the press conference for the last half hour or so.`
I'm all for holding him accountable to his outlandishly unrealistic claims, but he and the entire SpaceX team are wholly responsible for the biggest advancements and innovations in space explorations since the space race. Credit where credit is due.
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Andrew Fox
@afoxdesign
Seriously, Minecraft VR should’ve been a thing years ago. Building stuff with a buddy in fully immersive 3D. How is that not a hit

John Carmack
@ID_AA_Carmack
We had it on Oculus Go — I did the initial port, then the Microsoft team did a full integration. I had it working in 6DOF on Quest, but other parts of Meta were negotiating with Microsoft to get some Xbox titles instead, and in the end we got neither. It was a damn shame.
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6DOF [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_degrees_of_freedom
It's kind of obvious isn't it? High-tech is human-made and humans are not in short in China and elsewhere. Tech embargoes are a huge favor for the receiving side, enforcing a creation of a market for competitors where your companies can't compete and tariffs make sure that your companies don't have to innovate much when your people are suffering.
Coronavirus problems are not Boeing's fault.
It just feels like C# is always going to be the better choice though. Why have both, with one of them inevitably getting less attention, and why spend resources reinventing the wheel?
Breaking Boeing up would make it ineffective and likely lead to its failure. You could maybe spin off a couple small divisions, but not more than that. Nationalization is a non-starter in the US - not worth wasting the time and effort to try to make it happen. The only real option is to remove the current leadership, and place the company into Conservatorship to force the new leadership to do the right thing - ideally for at least 10 years, but 5 to 7 years would be the more likely political outcome of such a move.

I think virtually anybody who wants to see Boeing succeed long term, would get on board with this option.

At the same time, the FAA needs to be reformed (and funded) to bring it back to the enforcement agency it should be. They got into bed with Boeing and their lack of oversight in civilian aircraft let the corporate sickness fester and have a safe space from which to spread throughout the organization.
After lab wouldn't use antivirus software, US accuses Georgia Tech of fraud
I don't think anyone is arguing otherwise but that command is out of place there. Way more complex than the rest and poorly explained.

Anyway, TIL the existence of grep -e.
Sounds like you are in the middle. Because the Jedi master knows you need both.
SimCity on IRIX, AIX and other vintage Unix
Does spacex not exist in your world or what?
> This is thus a worst case, the impact on real code is unlikely to be quite this severe!

I think the actual worst-case would be to read the pages in a (pseudo-)random order.
Can we make it a Maserati V8 sound instead? :D
There's a dead reply (ah, it stopped being dead just as I submitted this) providing a link to a twitter frontend which gives context. Not sure why it's dead but here's the link from that comment: https://xcancel.com/id_aa_carmack/status/1827363452194619692
Thanks! Yeah, I guess I should probably link to some of those later posts about active learning and deliberate practice in the article. If you want to read more about that part you liked, here's the main one I'd follow up with: https://www.justinmath.com/deliberate-practice-the-most-effe...
Robot production on earth is entangled with the whole global supply chain. I do believe many of the steps are automatic or semi-automatic.

It's """simply""" a matter of separating taking all those steps and separating them from the whole, packaging them into a bunch of boxes and sending them to space.

So in other words it's incredibly complicated... but possible.
I read "A City on Mars" last year, and it opened my eyes to just hard space travel is. The government constraints on aerospace projects doesn't help. There's a reason SpaceX moves so much faster; they don't have to justify and explain things to taxpayers.

Beyond that, the book makes a good case for how unrealistic a long-term colony on Mars is... at least in the short term (Short being the next 50 to 100 years).

My biggest take away is: for all his talk, Musk basically just wants to be the Uber to Mars: shuttling people there and back. He don't seem serious about _actually_ solving the problems of how to stay alive and thrive once we get there.

I found it sort of depressing as first, as I'd love to see people loving on Mars in my lifetime. But when I thought about it, I saw that they outlined a bunch of really important problems we should be working on as a society. The sooner we work on those problems, the better.

[1] https://www.acityonmars.com/
NASA has always outsourced their engineering to aerospace companies.
I wonder if you can run this in FrankenPHP.
The current VR mod defaults to teleport mechanics. Most people can become tolerant to camera motion over time.
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Yes, I enjoy the creation of new technologies which can make the legal fabrication of intellectual property terminally unfeasible.
Thanks for the heads up!

I fixed the SVG graphs and made a couple layout updates based on the feedback here and some earlier feedback from my subreddit, see the before-after here.[1]

I've been mostly focused on function lately, the redesign is, let's say, a work in progress.

(Oh also, I use they/them pronouns these days [2])

[1] https://imgur.com/a/before-after-2024-08-24-PAmeHFX
[2] https://fasterthanli.me/articles/state-of-the-fasterthanlime...
Sadly, the sanctity of human life is an argument that applies to some conflicts but not others.
Clojuring the web application stack: Meditation One
Boz (CTO at Meta) in a reply:

> We have tried to make our case to our friends many times! Tell any friends you have at Microsoft!
On mobile phone, as a reader with photophobia, the pdf causes physical pain, and is illegible, whereas the html is perfectly readable via reader mode (where text can be enlarged and dark mode settings are respected.
I was grumpy, not at you. But my experience is different. Linux hibernate and sleep is broken in 2024. For me, anyway.
Even using -preset 12 and it's still 8x slower than hevc_nvenc. Encoding on CPU just isn't viable, not to mention the enormous perf impact on everything else running on my computer vs next to no perf impact when I use nvenc.
We've been dreaming of space travel since long before Elon was born. The hate people have for Elon is absolutely wild.
Possible. Depends how the contract is structured, they may be able to claw back some money from Aerojet.

Boeing still takes all the blame.
Nationalized industries have no good record of quality or efficiency.

See Chernobyl.
The JS spec requires that std-libraries decode 8 US timezones and no further?
I've thought of an extension that blocks anything politics related on the browser, but can be hard to do it precisely without knowing the actual structure of the site. Are you thinking about something like this?
we need more than one spacex.
It's not true that there's no market pressure on Boeing. It's true that Airbus' production capacity limitations have blunted the impact of the QA issues on Boeing's financial performance, but Boeing is in fact suffering. They've been suffering for at least a year (their net profit margin has been 0 or lower for the last 4 quarters). Their stock price is down ~20% from a year ago, and is down ~35% from their high from just before the Air Alaska incidence.

The problem isn't that management assumed that there would be no market pressure, the problem is that management assumed that engineering and production excellence "just happens". They're not dumb enough to believe that shoddy products won't effect their financial position - they just don't know how to make non-shoddy products while also posting decent financials.
huh.. I like to have claude give me a DB schema in a mermaid diagram, infact - I make python scripts to log into the DB, list the DBs, list the schemas, and make a mermaid diagram of the schema and then I have a python script that converts the mermaid code to an SVG.
We get people to and from low earth orbit safely and (relative to the 60’s) cost efficiently all the time. One failure isn’t an indictment of the whole industry, any more than one broken down car negates how much better cars are today than in the past.
(1) This is awesome. Feels like this wraps enough complexity that it won't just be a toy / for prototyping.

(2) When a schema is provided, is it fully enforced? Is there a way to do migrations?

Migrations are the only remaining challenge I can think of that could screw up this tool long-term unless a good approach gets baked in early. (They're critically important + very often done poorly or not supported.) When you're dealing with a lot of data in a production app, definitely want some means of making schema changes in a safe way. Also important for devex when working on a project with multiple people — need a way to sync migrations across developers.

Stuff like scalability — not worried about that — this tool seems fundamentally possible to scale and your team is smart :) Migrations though... hope you focus on it early if you haven't yet!
BTW, PRQL is mentioned in the article as well. In sum, they decided that instead of a new language against SQL, extending SQL with pipes would be better for user experience, learning curve, etc.
When I worked with people who had been writing code for VR for a long time a large portion of them didn't use VR much because of nausea issues. I don't think tolerance is as easy to achieve as people think, and can get worse over time instead of better.

I think some people become tolerant of a mild unpleasantness. But just as many people end up finding the entire experience unpleasant for reasons that aren't obvious to them (but I suspect are related to nausea), leading to VR's very poor retention.
How to Recognize a Sycophant (2018)
look at track record. Not at tweets. He has delivered more than anyone else. By far and in several areas.
The Boeing of today is merely a husk of its former glory. If the U.S. had another viable domestic airplane manufacturer I bet we’d see a lot more pressure on them. That can still happen. I hope it does.
No I did not. Fixed.
Excellent news! Thank you NASA for making the right human and engineering decision.

This was news to me tho, "and Dragon-specific spacesuits for Wilmore and Williams." The spacesuits are specific to the vehicle?

Changing my underwear so I can drive to hardware store.
I fully agree. Personally I don't think we'll ever have an extended manned presence anywhere farther away than the Moon. We might visit Mars in the next century, maybe, but a colony surviving there is pure fantasy.