skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What golden age? The masses always got the emotionally charged slop. The fallacy is thinking there was a point where they somehow didn’t. The incentives were in fact never aligned for that. Slop is the business.
No, each individual engine has 2 DoF (x-axis and y-axis rotation) which correspond to torque on x and y plane to the rocket. They need to use more than one at once (three in starship's case) pointing in different directions to get z axis torque.
Monkeys (more precisely chimpanzees) do not have fasting mechanisms. They never start fasting and go into ketosis, they just die from starvation after week or two. In tropics they have food available all year. They never venture far from food sources.

Humans (and other non-tropic animals like mice) have adaptation for seasonal food availability, and can go through extended fasting.
Hotstaging was added quite late so they need to jettison in order to land, but it should be permanently integrated in the later variants.
Many of the forums I enjoyed in the past have become heavily burdened by rules, processes, and expectations. They are frequented by people who spend hours every day reading everything and calling out any misstep.

Some of them are so overburdened that navigating all of the rules and expectations becomes a skill in itself. A single innocent misstep turns simple questions into lectures about how you’ve violated the rules.

One Slack I joined has created a Slackbot to enforce these rules. It became a game in itself for people to add new rules to the bot. Now it triggers on a large dictionary of problematic words such as “blind” (potentially offensive to people with vision impairments. Don’t bother discussing poker.). It gives a stern warning if anyone accidentally says “crazy” (offensive to those with mental health problems) or “you guys” (how dare you be so sexist).

They even created a rule that you have to make sure someone wants advice about a situation before offering it, because a group of people decided it was too presumptuous and potentially sexist (I don’t know how) for people to give advice when the other person may have only wanted to vent. This creates the weirdest situations where someone posts a question in channels named “Help and advice” and then lurkers wait to jump on anyone who offers advice if the question wasn’t explicitly phrased in a way that unequivocally requested advice.

It’s all so very tiresome to navigate. Some people appear to thrive in this environment where there are rules for everything. People who memorize and enforce all of the rules on others get to operate a tiny little power trip while opening an opportunity to lecture internet strangers all day.

It’s honestly refreshing to go from that to asking an LLM that you know isn’t going to turn your question into a lecture on social issues because you used a secretly problematic word or broke rule #73 on the ever growing list of community rules.
To innovate, AI needs to challenge beliefs and persist clashing with helpfulness
The models come out fast enough

Doesn’t seem to be a great strategy to always need these things retrained, but OpenAI’s o1 has things from early 2024

Don’t ask about knowledge cutoffs anymore, that’s not how these things are trained these days. They don’t know their names or the date.
Looks like another "money-making" proposition that ends up bankrupting people.

Instead of "citizen coders" [0] citizen porn stars and fakers, with financial incentives. "amor pecuniae est radix mali "

The article mentions lifting faces and identities off Instagram to create fakes.

And like others, Meta couldn't care less.

A very vicious cycle that nobody seems able or willing to stop, until extreme damage is done.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41828140
I didn't mean they didn't improve at all. They absolutely have. Just not enough to matter in the context of cars.

And even if we did get a 50% battery capacity upgrade in 2025 as compared to 2024 - while I wouldve lost the bet... My original point would've still been just as correct, because even at that point, they're still annoying to work around vs ICEs and their biggest cost would still come from a single component (battery) that has a pretty short expected lifespan compared to a regular engine

And you yourself likely know that as well, considering you didn't even acknowledge my bet ( ◠ ‿ ・ )
Only if you don't care about coming back!
None of the vehicles have demonstrated any payload capacity yet. 50 tons is the on-paper capacity only, and seems quite high given how little fuel is left when the bring an empty starship to orbital altitude. I assume that as the engines and launch procedures get more efficient, they will start being able to bring stuff to orbit (and quite a bit of stuff, too).
"The wave of investment is minting a new class of millionaires across the country, one that small-business owners say is helping add more shine to working with a tool belt."

How naive. PE does not enter a market in order to make existing workers into millionaires, but to create a monopoly/monopsony where they can gouge both customers and employees, to extract maximum profit. Quite often, the goal is not even to run the market sustainably, but just to produce optical profits for a quick resale.

A few local contractors may get bought out and become millionaires, but everyone else will be impoverished.

We can probably even predict some next steps. They will recommend and lobby for various 'safety' regulations or certifications that would be difficult for smaller shops to meet, and then pressure commercial landlords, housing associations, etc to require those certifications.
One downside of using non-rad hard parts is degradation from TID (gamma) and latch up effects. You can have chips monitoring other chips to reset whenever they latch up but TID is mostly permanent. The good thing is that TID in LEO, where SpaceX mostly operates, is relatively lower than GEO so they can get by with mostly commercial parts. It's not like the big defense contractors haven't figured out the same thing, they do fly stuff using commercial parts as well, they are just slower to adopt the same culture. SpaceX and the companies that built components using commercial parts are building the new-space industry.
Reliability is not based on a system that cannot fail. It is based on a system that can survive failure.
Where did you read, that it was an unknown number? The article, and the original blog post said, the fall was from Google Sydney.
The only through-line for the author's definition of "bogus" (AI generated content; identity performance; rejection of canon) appears to me "cannot be situated in the culture of a few decades ago."

To pick on one example: he writes of the linked NYT essay:

> Is greatness overrated? What’s next—Is disease the new health? Is losing the new winning? Is stupid the new smart?

At risk of sounding uncharitable, this is the kind of reaction one might have to the essay if they read the title and skipped the content. The author is specfically talking about the idea of the Nobel canon and its orthogonality to other reasons you might want to read an author. (I don't think it's a particularly good essay, but it's certainly not saying "bad stuff is good, actually"!)
The simulation they show at 21 min into the video is almost exactly like it happend in the end, to it seems it went perfectly as planned.
A lot emacs usage today consists of running programs you shouldn't trust. And the rest of it is hard because you are either reviewing other people's libraries a lot, or simply not using other people's libraries, or updating infrequently.
> the plane change from the pre-positioned orbit to one that intersects with the target? Sorry if this is a dumb question, but is it really that bad?

Yes. The closer you get to the surface the faster the orbit which means while you have less orbital energy to kill on approach you need more birds to cover a given area. (To communicate how unintuitive orbital mechanics can be, consider that thrusing "up" or "down" (radial in or out) doesn't actual increase or decrease your mean altitude [1]. You have to fire retrograde, which means a long, swooping, predictable, observable (and thus avoidable) approach to intercept unless you're Project Orioning it [2].)

> guy your responding to has mostly deleted their posts

They were repeating a conspiracy theory around SpaceX's actual purpose being to create a space-based missile defence system. The proof being there are senior people who were involved with the latter who have been around SpaceX. It's total nonsense somewhat orthogonal to why space-based missile defence is between difficult and stupid.

The core concept of boost-stage (i.e. in the atmosphere) space-based intercept isn't physically fucked. It's just that every case where one presents it, ground-based interception--including at the boost phase--does better. You can hide your interceptors better. For any given cost, you can deploy more of them (and more early-warning/targeting satellites). And even primitive ASAT can reliably punch a hole in it.

The only benefit is political/PR, because it sounds cool--that doesn't rule it out. But it isn't something SpaceX is working on much less was founded for.

(Space-based midcourse (i.e. in vacuum, while the warhead coasts) interception is stupid on all levels. It's a slightly more difficult version of blanketing the skies in drones for intercept--except you have more volume to cover and have planes which send off a screaming signal every time they change course.)

[1] https://space.stackexchange.com/questions/44608/what-happens...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Orion_(nuclear_propuls...
Some local skilled trade companies have been recently bought out. From feedback I’ve heard from customers, quality has declined. Lots of car dealerships locally have consolidated lately and their service quality has declined while prices have shot up.

While private equity may be making some local business owners rich, they’re ruining the customer experience.
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Haha they should follow the French music streaming model of taxing foreign stupidity in order to support domestic stupidity.
Can you explain what you mean by streams? My familiarity with long read data is that you still deal with batches of huge amounts of data at the end of the day. Just the sequencing read is of course longer than 150bp paired end reads.
This reads like satire, but I'm not sure that it is and it's frightening me a bit.
Some people’s tolerance for “stress” makes me question how we ever got this far.

Not quite the same level of hands on, but I spent some time working in chemical plants.

The safety training includes “you will die” many times. What do you do if you hear an alarm? What do you do if a cloud of ammonia comes your way? Where are the escape bags? Which way does the wind sock show the wind blowing?

Stories about people being shredded, falling, poisoned, dying, etc.

Reverting to snapshot when a maintenance goes poorly is just not the same kind of stressful.

Quick edit: I do, however, find office life stressful. I’ve never been happier overall than when working from home. Those stresses are real too, but different.
There’s a supply stream issue, though. AI articles are typically just regurgitating something an actual human reported on by interviewing people, gathering facts on the ground etc.

If AI authors start vacuuming up all the revenue the original journalists will be out of work and AI will, I dunno, start making up even more nonsense than it already does?
Why I Write by George Orwell (1946)
Yeah. I think they originally planned to use ceramic tiles only for certain spots and still transpiration cooling for the rest. Then they fully switched to ceramic tiles. In an interview with Everyday Astronaut on YouTube, if I recall correctly, Elon Musk said they first believed the ceramic tiles to be lighter.
How does one just test for malicious code?
I wonder if that's the reason my HVAC guy tried to charge me $700 for running a thermostat cable less than 8 feet (that I later did myself in less than 30 minutes).
Is that Rust version of Magic Wormhole released?
Wow, this is a big deal. Matt Mullenweg taking over ACF like that? Not cool. It's not just about messing with years of hard work, but think about all those WordPress sites now running code the ACF team didn't approve. Kinda scary when you think about it. Hope this doesn't become a trend in the open-source world.
> the only true competitor is c# due to having runtime and GC, which is sparsely tested so not relevant to the conversation.

Could you expand on this?
Yes, for most of the booster return it’s ‘gliding’ with the rocket engines completely shut down.

They ignite a subset of engines just a few seconds before landing for the final slowdown and maneuvering.

Edit: here is a video from further away that shows the rocket gliding in under control of the grid fins before the engines light and execute the final landing maneuver:

https://x.com/shaunmmaguire/status/1845444890764644694
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There are several tradespeople I know (electricians, plumbers, carpenters) who make more money than I do. But I don't begrudge them that, electricians do work where a mistake can literally kill you, and all of these jobs have high injury rates and will wear your body down much faster than sitting at a keyboard.

Edit: and there are no "open source" tools. You have to buy them, and good ones are not cheap.
The humans consuming AI video/image content and can't help themselves sharing this garbage are simply bots. No better way to describe them. That's going to be the new captcha test for me.

I was a bit cautious of Photoshop adding watermarks into pictures generated by their software but I think it's time LLMs implement this feature. It will be the only way to filter and clean the spam from your feed.
Very interesting. I’ve been writing code for a while but if I’m honest I have no idea how code signing works. Any good resource on how it works especially in php?
Typo- meant to be noise control!

And yes I’m not a good writer unfortunately.
Just look at the instruction set for your particular CPU. Every CPU is different, but in most architectures I've seen, floating point operations are 2-3 times slower for the same word size.

Single float adds are usually 2 or 3 CPU cycles while single-word integer adds are usually 1 cycle.

Again, this is extremely dependent on the particular CPU you have. Some architectures do have single-cycle FPU operations, but it's not very common in microcontrollers as far as I can tell.
It looks to me Intel will cannibalize its older, 5th, generation Xeon processors. Here's a comparison of two 64 core processors, one is 5th generation, launched in Q4 '23 [1], and one is 6th generation, launched in Q2 '24 [2]. The first one as an MSRP of $12400 (not a mistake) and the second $2749. It is true that the 5th generation CPU has 128 threads, vs only 64 for the 6th generation, but is this worth a price premium of 350% ?

[1] https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/sku/237252/...

[2] https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/sku/240363/...
It’s a shame because the TINIEST amount of web searching would’ve brought them DRM playback and video accelerated Firefox. It’s not a 1-to-1 experience like a ThinkPad running Linux but I think anyone using Linux as a daily pretty much knows there’s some things you gotta dig for.
https://simple.wikipedia.org/
Why do I only attack a few people, and feel friendly to others? Because some people are attacking me with prejudice (beyond the product). My response to these people is, go fuck yourself :>
I meant more so from an individual point of view. Any health authority literally did need to use forms of manipulation to get desirable results, but it’s clear from where I was looking that they did it with the express intent of saving lives at first. Eventually they had to work in a strange grey area where protecting lives and the economy was essential, and it often looked dubious because they didn’t clearly comply with their initial missions. At least in the US and Canada, it seems.

I was more disturbed by how individual people handled the situation, even with people they were close with. It was remarkable how rapidly relationships fell apart over covid. And slightly beyond that as well, into the “crowd” category, but like you say… That’s arguably more predictable.
Seems quite clueless to open up this article with suggesting mate search norms.

The answer is birth control and deteriorating economic conditions. About half of pregnancies are unplanned today still.
Yeah, it also always catches me off guard how late they reignite, while at the same time I'm always surprised by how slow the liftoff is even though all the boosters are on full throttle. Of course both things make sense given the respective mass at both points in the process, but given that it looks like the same rocket from the outside, a bit unintuitive.
good points. the first could have been a better choice, or a better explanation. the second? that's a much longer piece about the three brains and how we integrate them.
Yes! Which is why the idea that “ Rotation is one of those fundamental things differentiating our technological civilization from Nature” is not all that useful a statement.
Can you explain exactly what potential is and what it means to have negative potential in very fundamental terms? Like explain it to me if I’m 8. Use real world examples.

Then explain what is and how this relates to a manifold surface area?
Thanks for giving it a try.
Really hard for them to compete at certain institutions. Some of these sequencing reps show up every afternoon to collect the days samples. Prices are so low that margins are probably tracing paper thin. Then some places will even have their own sequencing core facility offering all of that service at cost with even better turnaround, sometimes that day.
> And of course, you didn't greet and wait, you just put a pleasantry in the same message. Jeez.

I'm pretty sure that "rule" was more aimed towards "just ask your question" rather than "greet, make smalltalk, then ask your question".

I have similar rules, though I don't communicate them as aggressively, and don't ban people for breaking them, I just don't reply to greetings coming from people I know aren't looking to talk to me to ask me how I've been. It's a lot easier if you send the question you have instead of sending "Hi, how are you?" and then wait for 3 minutes to type out your question.
Millionaire class? The article describes a small business owner who wants to retire. Meanwhile, the private equity firms are going to monopolize the market and raise prices. Sadly, none of the 20 or 30 year olds who are actually doing the work will be able to buy out their owners business.

Any young tradespeople: form a coop and buy your bosses business. Better to be a 10% owner than 0%.
Exactly. Eventually regulatory capture begins and eventually enshittification.

No one can start a new plumbing/HVAC small business. Your only option is to go work for Walmart (metaphorically speaking).
I'll use cursor for direct coding assistance when working with an existing codebase. If I'm writing something new from scratch (especially frontend), I'll use Claude artifacts / ChatGpt canvas. If I'm browsing docs online for something, I'll use https://rockyai.me/ to quickly find the content I need.
I hate to bring politics into such a momentous occasion, but as a lifelong Democrat, I think Trump might get my vote because of his alliance with Elon. Elon clearly is a once-in-a-century human who has progressed humanity more than anyone else in history. I think we need to let him achieve his goals without being burdened by government bureaucracy. Unfortunately, the Democrats have aligned against Elon. It didn't have to get this way, but it has. A Trump presidency will allow Elon to progress more, bringing humanity with him. I hate Trump and I think he is a narcissistic idiot, but he supports Elon more than Kamala.
>But I'm not owed a decent salary in return for following my own dreams rather than my employer's dreams. Nobody is.

Why should that employer's dreams take primacy over anyone elses?

The answer: there isn't a reason why. All semblance of economic activity is based on a fiction. That fiction has been guided to structurally elevate a subset of people's wishes and motivations over everyone else's, including yours. And you're totally okay with that state of affairs. Useful idiot much?

Can at least applaud the guy for sticking to his principles. Sometimes society needs a good nut kick to realize it's destroying itself. That it collectively takes so many ruined lives to do so is the true tragedy of our times.
This angle is even more impressive IMO https://x.com/kimbal/status/1845451222750306344
You joke, but we don’t have to support it. Most of it is already paid for by the Russians. I just think it’s silly how they can get away with recycling the content they created for the US and still be successful with it even though a lot of it makes absolutely no sense in a Danish context.
Ok but now you're not comparing drug vs no drug but drug vs other drug. Yes it can be blind, but it's a cometely different study now
This is the typical trade tactic for rejecting a job that is too small to be worth your time. He still has to come out to your place, with his truck and tools, and install that 8 feet of cable. He could spend that same overhead doing an 8 hour, much more profitable job.

So he bid an outrageous amount. If you had said yes, he covers his overhead. If you reject it, he does something more profitable with his time.
This guy's vibe is akin to being the Bob Ross of Retro Computer Fetishization.
The Rust book is a good start https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/
Sugar- & Artificially Sweetened Beverages:Incident Stroke&Dementia Risks(2017)
Playing sports with other people really helped me develop solid relationships! Can be something as easy as pickleball or something more competitive like soccer
Not sure if you mean in general, or options for this particular project, but Whisper should work for you.
If by the size of government you mean the budget, there have been multiple instances of the government shrinking. As a percent of GDP the 90s saw cuts to federal spending, the 2011 sequestration saw a drop in spending even in nominal terms, and obviously the end of WW2 saw a massive collapse in government spending and the end of multiple different programs
while I was trying to track down the license for it[1], I found https://git.ps.informatik.uni-kiel.de/curry/curry2go (also BSD-3) which says "A compiler and run-time system to compile and run Curry programs as Go programs"

1: maybe this is it? it does include a lot of curry named submodules; anyway, BSD-3-Clause https://git.ps.informatik.uni-kiel.de/curry/pakcs/-/blob/v3....