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> Q: how do I do thing X in C?

SO does suck, but i've found that if you clarify in the question what you want, and pre-empt the Y instead of X type answers, you will get some results.
Not really. Weird syntax is intimidating, GitHub for CMS is intimidating, people want nice goowies.
Elon will be able to achieve his goals just fine under the Democrats.

Trump will run so much stuff into the ground nobody will be able to achieve anything.
Not everywhere in the world uses the same concrete walls. It's quite common to see dozens of access points trying to share the same three 20MHz channels available at 2.4GHz in places like the US or dense areas in Asia.
Haven't almost 1Bn people intermittently fasted during Ramadan for centuries?

Shouldn't there be enough evidence to get an idea if there's possibly a correlation?
Hah, beat me to the nerd snipe. Moreover, that sphere would cost $10k to make and, at a launch price of $1500/kg, cost $4.5 million to launch into orbit.
This is a really great description of why a meditative practice is worth taking time on and also why it’s worth railing against todays constant attention deficit and lack of empty, quiet spaces, both mental and physical. Excellent writing!
Incredible achievement, my American friends! Congrats! We, Europeans, can only feel jealous, but hey at least we have free [but comically broken and dysfunctional] healthcare, so, there's that. I hope you'll bring a lot more progress to humankind beyond space exploration!
> rest of the system was essentially the same

not true
In order to land as a glider, you'll need wings, landing gear, doors, rudder, stabilizer, flight controls, streamlining, all the structure needed to support it, and a heat shield for all of it. All that complexity has to work reliably, too.

All of that adds tremendous weight, complexity, and cost.
I want to know the details how they achieved it (the support for super-long paragraphs, or rather, the absence thereof).

Does anyone know?
That's apparent size; the size taken on disk is ~5 GB (including command line tools).
I see! So in fact this compiler can compile arbitrary calls from one function to another, even though the web page says it can't?
That's a valid point, though I think it's evitable (if that's a word) because many editors have visible white space, and it's easier for the eye to catch 4 dots after a long tab than to notice that an indentation is 7 dots instead of 8, etc. It also attracts more attention when using arrow keys to navigate the offending lines.
The only 'grift' that holds up is about FSD. Everything else is nonsense. They are making Boring tunnels, the costumer paid and they delivered. The company didn't take off as much as Musk hoped but calling it a 'grift' isn't accurate.

Hyperloop was never promised, that's literally just people who don't like Musk made up. In fact he EXPLICITLY said 'I'm not gone build Hyperloop, its just an idea I had', and then people who don't like him 10 years later 'where is the promised Hyperloop'. How does that make sense? Musk never received a single $ for Hyperloop, but somehow this is a 'grift'.

> how many billions of dollars in government subsidies?

They are big cooperation's in capital intensive industries. When you build big investments, you get government tax reduction and other things, this is literally normal. If you don't like it, that's fine, but that how it works. Its not a 'grift' unless you want to go down the 'modern capitalism is grift' route.

Outside of that, most subsidies he got, were just universal subsidies that anybody could get. The US government gave the same amount of subsidies to foreign companies selling EV cars in the US. This was a plan to increase EV adoption in general. And arguably it worked. How is again is this a 'grift'.

And for SpaceX, I think its pretty clear that the government got much, much, much more then it ever paid for when they paid SpaceX. I would argue SpaceX has already saved the US government more money then they ever paid for SpaceX development. Just Clipper going on Falcon Heavy is billions in savings.

There are plenty of reason to dislike him but those aren't really good ones. Except the FSD one, that one I think is quite bad. At least they finally allowed moving the FSD from one car to the next, but that's not enough.
Let’s see the code. A bit skeptical, this hasnt over complicated something architecturally. Need more clear drawings of architecture. What prompts exist, what tool calls are made, and what gets updated.
You're kidding, right? I can see saying neither one tells you much about human beings, but saying monkey studies aren't relevant to human but mouse studies are just sounds bizarre.
What you mention has been serious from day one indeed.

But to me the worst issue is it's now "Dead Overflow": most answers are completely, totally and utterly outdated. And seen that they made the mistake of having the concept of an "accepted answer" (which should never have existed), it only makes the issue worse.

If it's a question about things that don't change often, like algorithms, then it's OK. But for anything "tech", technical rot is a very real thing.

To me SO has both outdated and inaccurate answers.
Ask Don Hopkins:

https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=DonHopkins
>High performers tend to get bored with the reality of most development. This usually presents as over-enginerring and a reluctance to do dull but necessary tasks.

Oh hell yes. This exactly matches my experience. To the point where I actually consider high performers a detriment to the overall effort. I have been the most happy with mediocre, cooperative people in the team.
It's also a decision where the federal government tries to take the credit, but in case of any financial shortfalls, for now municipalities and counties (and as far as regional railways services are concerned, the states, too, to some extent) will be left holding the short end of the stick, because the federal and state revenue support for the reduced fare comes with a hard cap.

While currently even the federal government is subject to the so-called Schuldenbremse ("debt brake"), municipalities and counties are under much stronger legal obligations to balance their budgets, and in a lot of states, public transport is an entirely voluntary matter for municipalities to provide (and even where it isn't, the mandated minimum obligation probably won't entice anybody to take public transport if you don't have to), which starts mattering in a budget crunch.

Already the first major cities have threatened future service cuts. For now that may just be political posturing, but it's still not what you would want to hear in that context, and certainly doesn't serve to encourage people getting rid of their cars, either.
Guessing the massive flag storm will ruin someone’s Monday.
> Left-wing ideologies inherently promote concepts like collectivist big government, high taxation, massive government spending, and government-controlled infrastructure.

Incorrect. Left-wing ideologies promote downward distribution of power from established elites; one particular subset of left-wing ideologies (socialism) promotes labor control of the means of production, and one particular subset of socialism promotes a situation in which the working class controls the state which then acts as the vehicle through which control of the means of production is exercised (but libertarian socialism, for instance, also exists.)

Right-wing ideologies instead promote systems which concentrate power in narrow elites; different varieties of right-wing ideology justify this based in various mixes kf views of inherent merit, whether based on sex/gender, race, individual bloodline, “revealed merit” in notionally competitive environments where capacity at time t is heavily influenced by success at t-1, or whatever else.

You are confusing the left-right axis with the libertarian-authoritarian axis, which is a different axis of ideological (or sometimes merely praxis) variation.
If anything, the last 2 flights have shown how good a decisions it was to go with steel. The thermal reserves seem to be really large. While not as bad as with the previous flight, there was still significant leakage of hot air between the starhip and the flap. But it didn't seem to cause significant damage, at least as far as for the landing. For complete reuse, they probably have to still improve that a bit.
I'm confused as to how this proves anything. Are you suggesting that the only explanation that something with small probability has happened, is that there are many worlds in which this has not happen?
Just the first line alone "Statistical significance is based on sample size, and is independent of population size", was bizarrely silly in its description of the use of sample sizes, before they even got to their nonsensical analogy to the birthday paradox.
The papers I've read have shown LLM critics to be quite bad at their work. If you give an LLM a few known good and bad results, I think you'll see the LLM is just as likely to make good results bad as it is to make bad results good.
The reason those rules are created is because at some point something happened that necessitated that rule. (Not always of course, there are dictatorial mods.)

The fundamental problem is that communities/forums (in the general sense, e.g., market squares) don't scale, period. Because moderation and (transmission and error correction of) social mores don't scale.
No, that's correct. Of course there's still some level of reduction beyond which the gamma rays don't matter, but where you want to place it is somewhat arbitrary.
Minecraft is definitely trying to improve performance. The latest update changes some redstone mechanics to make it more consistent, remove some quasi connectivity, and make it easier on the update phase of the game loop

Now if they would just do something about inventory...
I see this kind of sentiment on HN a lot and it's weird to me. Like, what's the issue with discussing on a hacker forum ways that Google is making Android worse for hackers? Especially considering the alternative is iOS and it's much worse in that regard.
The article does not mention a specific location for this "culture" war, and not being specific can lead to inexact ideas (is this restricted to the anglophone sphere?...). Similar to when I see studies like "doing X results in Y" only to read in the actual study that it was made on Australians (or something far away from me with different environment/society/etc.), which means it might not apply at all to my surroundings.
You would think, except when certain people come into power and appoint figure heads who go and scrub such things. It’s not immune.
The booster aims towards the shore until the landing burn starts, only then does it swing towards the tower. So, for the most part, failures should mean that the booster safely crashes into the water.
I guess software is never done, but Jekyll is over 20 years old at this point. That is a long time to still be iterating on a Markdown to HTML converter.
You can't sell fraudulent things in the US either. The x-ray glasses ads have a clarification in them about not actually using x-rays, but being an optical illusion. I would bet that whatever country you are from probably has some novelty item that requires a cultural understanding or fine print to know what it truly is.
> possibly OpenBSD doesn't really have any relevant 'kernel processes'

It does. They're just hidden from the listing. https://github.com/search?q=repo%3Aopenbsd%2Fsrc%20kthread_c...

> why do I need multiple `psimon` kernel processes?

It's the way that module is organised. There's nothing wrong with the idea, you'd need to dive into the code to understand the details.

> illustrate my perceived difference-in-complexity

It depends on the situation. Seeing many kernel threads is one kind of complex. Not seeing the kernel threads and not being able to understand which one is having issues is another kind of complex.

You just saw how the sausage is made, but that has nothing to do with the final taste / how the system actually behaves.
I'm not super active on social media, and I find that all the big/main aggregator sites (like HN and Reddit and others) have become victims of their own success and good stories just fall off the front page very quickly, and so you miss a ton of stuff unless you're checking all the time, and I don't have that kind of time.

Link aggregators aren't good at "long tail"... So your good stories are only really discoverable when they're hot, and get progressively harder to discover over time.

Google search just sucks now, it's all shopping links and SEO trash, even if you search for fairly specific subjects.. You can still find what you want but you have to wade through so much garbage...

Plus there's no discovery. Like pretty much all search engines you can typically only find what you're searching for as opposed to finding new unknown things that are within your topics of interest.

For better or worse I find that YouTube is one of my best resources for surfacing new and interesting things pretty often, and quite regularly from channels big and small that I've never watched before. YT is great at long tail..

So it has become a major source of discovery for me, in many of my areas of interest (which aren't all tech).

Of course some content I don't like consuming as video, so I do sometimes find videos that cover interesting subject matter, which I'll then go search for articles or text-based content on instead.
>You import the worst humanity has to offer

I can't believe this has been happening in front of our eyes and nobody took notice! What do you mean?
I'm fine with the UI change, it just seems like something changed under the hood with this that's causing major performance issues.

Interesting that you don't have the perf issues, could be that the two things are unrelated.
Cross-platform support, sadly.
Historically speaking, fascism and rockets are like peanut butter and jelly
People who might not be so brilliant are down voting you when you're completely right. A business generating revenue can pay much more for help than a private customer, because that expense helps them making money.
No one has answered with one of the biggest issues with the shuttle: each one was extremely custom. Every single heat shield tile was unique to a specific position and a specific shuttle. There were probably over a hundred million individual components in the Shuttle, and with many critical ones being custom, the time to refurbish it for a new launch was much longer.

This is in contrast to something like the falcon, which has a very standardized mfg process and components, which allows for really rapid iteration
I think Sutton is right that if we had limitless cpu, any human split up would be inferior. So indeed since we are far away from limitless cpu, we divide and compose.

But i think we're onto something!

Voice to image indeed might give better results than text to image, since voice has some vibe to it (intonation, tone, color, stress on certain words, speed and probably even traits we don't know yet) that will color or even drastically influence the image output.
> optimise your actuarial projection by insisting on sitting in centre-rear position in all passenger vehicles

As long as your seatbelt's on. Takes quite a low-speed collision to be extremely bad for a seatbeltless middle-seat passenger, whereas those either side might have a nasty bang against the seat in front but be basically fine.
I'm someone who is naturally fat. I have spent my whole life trying to lose weight. Many of you here have excluded fat people from your lives so you won't hear this from someone else: you are the weight you are due to factors outside of your control. You can slightly change your weight temporarily but your body will always reset or give you stress signals to reset it yourself. I know, I have starved myself, done incremental weight loss, worked out almost year round as a football player, it doesn't stay off and it barely comes off (10-20 pounds total is insignificant). Fat people shouldn't have to starve themselves to meet societal standards and personally I won't.

PS. The reason fat people don't like going to the doctor is because they quite literally will not treat us for our issues in most cases. I've been trying to get treatment for my crippling back pain for years and have been told by physical therapists not to do physical therapy until I'm on pain medication but even with this info doctors just tell me to exercise. I'd love to, in fact I'd love to take walks often but I physically cant.
You mean something like a skyhook?
"A friction" you say? You can run Emacs, open a scratch buffer and extend it right away. You don't even have to save the damn code, you can try it out immediately. Folks complaining about Emacs being hard without even trying to understand any Lisp, is on the same level of whining about how web-development is so much harder compared to building shit in Squarespace (or something), only because you can't figure out HTML, CSS and Javascript.
It says he is a lecturer. Unfortunately lecturers are not well payed. My understanding is lecturers only teach and don’t bring in research grants. Tenured professors are a different story.
What is all this rocketry doing for climate change if they're burning methane? Hopefully it's methane from landfills etc?
looks interesting, thanks!
It's a very hard topic to write or even talk about but what you wrote rings true.
This is different mechanism from the sound laser or SASER. The sound laser works like a laser, with a cavity where particles are bounced back and forth to stimulate a highly coherent beam of waves.

I’m not sure if this new mechanism is definitely better than the existing sound laser?
Honestly the bigger problem is probably that creating lasting habits is hard. Everyone knows that exercise is important but how many people maintain a consistent routine?

With mindfulness it's even worse because there is no way to track how strong your equanimity is. You can't know if you are making progress or just deluding yourself.
While useful, it's my impression that the storm surge is the most dangerous part of a hurricane, and oysters unfortunately don't do much about that.
I submit that what SO is doing is working; it's just that SO is not what some people want it to be.

SO is not a pure Q&A site. It is essentially a wiki where the contents are formatted as Q&As, and asking questions is merely a method to contribute toward this wiki. This is why, e.g., duplicates are aggressively culled.
> The reason those rules are created is because at some point something happened that necessitated that rule. (Not always of course, there are dictatorial mods.)

Maybe initially, but in the community I’m talking about rules are introduced to prevent situations that might offend someone. For example, the rule warning against using the word “blind” was introduced by someone who thought it was a good thing to do in case a person with vision issues maybe got offended by it at some point in the future.

It’s a small group of people introducing the rules. Introducing a new rule brings a lot of celebration for the person’s thoughtfulness and earns a lot of praise and thanks for making the community safer. It’s turned into a meta-game in itself, much like how I feel when I navigate Stack Overflow
BBSes was such a huge part of being into computers in the 80s and 90s.

I really wish this culture could be understood by future generations. Yes, we have the BBS Documentary movie but we need so much more. Everything non-US is underdocumented, and all the subcultures such as the eLiTe scene, the demo scene, the vision impaired stuff, all of that risks being forgotten with time.
And therefore, we need censorship. Right?

Where we'll be told the "correct" way to think. I'd rather see it all and decide for myself. And end up watching PBS but never, never pledging in their interminable pledge drives. Somehow, they still manage to stay on the air.

By the way, in Hell they have PBS pledge drivers on the TV, 24x7, for all eternity. You can't mute the sound.
I think so as it appears to be using the charge limit feature built into the firmware. I didn't try it though, because I usually never turn my MacBook off.
What makes you think that both things can't be true simultaneously?

Why is it important to you that the tiktok kids celebrate it with you? If the other little monkeys don't hoot and holler with you, it just feels empty and hollow? Honestly, what they think or feel doesn't even usually enter into my perception.
Bluetooth microscope transmits in vivo imaging
On reflection I think you are correct. Admittedly I have not done anything with Forth in quite some time.
It's a cute model to write or read about, but I strongly encourage people not go do this to themselves -- at least not on this scale.

A life lived lived through such brainy analysis of small things is a recipe for anxiety and depression. For all the millilucks towards this or that you might attribute to your house party, you've already allotted decilucks to your chances of a life mired in your own head and its imaginings.

As much as you can, just trust yourself, talk to people, trust that you can roll with consquences as they come, and save the deep analysis for things of much greater consequences and much lesser frequency.
All forms of structuring society are "regulation". Capitalism doesn't exist without private property law.
I can't on HN because i didn't get enough upvotes to the left yet
It's already landed (828 points,6 hours ago, 503 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41827362
I was reminded of my all-time favourite book on meditation / mindfulness: Mindfulness in Plain English by Henepola Gunaratana. The article had a similar style. Gunaratana’s book is full of humour and beautiful writing and I’d recommend it as a brilliant guide to anyone interested in this stuff.
The people I am referring to are not helping. At this point they are making SO worse.

The problems are two-fold:

1. Any community with volunteer moderators attracts the kind of people you don't want to be moderators. They enjoy rigidly enforcing the rules even if it makes no sense.

2. There are two ways to find questions and answer them: random new questions from the review queue, and from Google when you're searching for a problem you have. SO encourages the former, and unfortunately the vast majority of questions are awful. If you go and review questions like this you will go "downvote close, downvote close, downvote close". You're going to correctly close a load of trash questions that nobody cares about and a load of good questions you just don't understand.

I've started recording a list of questions I've asked that get idiotic downvotes or closed, so I can write a proper rant about it with concrete examples. Otherwise you get people dismissing the problem as imaginary.

These mods now hold SO hostage. SO is definitely aware of the problem but they can't instigate proper changes to fix it because the mods like this situation and they revolt if SO tries to remedy it.
QA platforms and blogging platforms both seem to have finite lifespans. QA forums (Stack Overflow, Quora, Yahoo answers) do seem to last longer, need to be moderated pretty aggressively unless they are going to turn into homework help platforms.

Blogging platforms are the worst though. Medium looked pretty OK when it first came out. But now it is just a platform for self-promotion. Substack is like 75% of the way through that transition IMO.

People who do interesting things spend most of their time doing the thing. So, non-practicing bloggers and other influencers will naturally overwhelm the people who actually have anything interesting to report.