skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's probably nonsense, but the latest versions of the starlink satellite are significantly heavier than prior generations.

v0.9: 227 kg (500 lb)
v1: 260 kg (570 lb)
v1.5: ~306 kg (675 lb)
v2 mini: ~740 kg (1,630 lb)
v2: ~1,250 kg (2,760 lb)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starlink
People should just share their conversations with the LLMs online no?

This would blogging 5.0. Or web 7.0.
Interactive examples using Macromedia Flash or Java applets are straight in the "a decade or two" time frame.

(The 3B1B one is of course also among the best :

https://eater.net/quaternions )

And, while it was before my time, universities might have had some before the World Wide Web ?

Video has been around for much longer than that too.

I'm also not sure why "high production values" is supposed to matter, aren't Feynman's video lectures good enough for you ?
I can see myself in this comment and I don't like it.

Pushing teams and product managers to take a bit of time up-front to consider architectural decisions, ideal vs minimal feature sets, security concerns, etc. got me promoted into a manager of managers role.

What I didn't realise was that it wouldn't actually mean having more weight to throw around. Instead those sideline efforts became my entire job and that job was exhausting.

I still believe it's possible for startup product teams to move fast without sacrificing quality and sustainability, but I'm increasingly convinced that the only way to achieve that balance is to build it in from the start.
As a mid-core SO user (4 digit reputation), I never felt like I needed them to treat me better. I always feel that while I'm contributing a bit, I get so much more value out of SO than what I've put in, and am grateful for it being there. It might also have something to do with me being old enough to remember the original expertsexchange, as well as those MSDN support documentation CDs. I'm much happier now.
I don't plan on ever taking psilocybin- but why dreams?- Asking cause I almost never remember any- unless I wake up at a weird time- or sleep in a weird circumstance.

Is it indicative of anything?- I sleep really well, never had any issues with sleep- and wake up well-rested. Is it better to remember more dreams?- if so what are the benefits and how to go about doing it?
The first one especially is not interesting except to the person asking the question, who wants to be spoon-fed answers instead of making any effort of his own to acquire foundational knowledge. Often these are students asking for someone to solve their homework problems.

Pro/Con questions are too likely to involve opinion and degenerate into flamewars. Some could be answered factually, but mostly are not. Others have no clear answers.
I have been building tools for document generation out of templates using Typst for a few months. It works great!

So far, I haven't found any bigger issues with multi-page tables in Typst. For example, it was no big deal, to get subtotals in an invoice for every page break.
Is the purpose only when getting drunk and did it arise out of an alcohol culture? (If so, why doesn’t British English have more tenses)

I often joke that Polish has several singulars and several plurals, because you know, 1-2 beers is singular, 3-4 is just tipsy, 4-6 is a real drink, but 4-24 is a real plural. But after 25+, you don’t remember so might as well restart from 0. But it’s a joke, because it applies to other things than beer.

So, do they use that tense for ministers/news reporting, or in jokes, or when a program reports errors from the user?
↑ That.

For extra context: that "3× deeper" makes costs seriously explode. People do know how to engineer for that depth, but it's a lot of effort and there's pretty much no commercial market. For shallower stuff there's oil rigs, deep-sea cables, seafloor mining, even just tourism… but at some point it just peters out and only research vessels tackle the depth.

(source: friend of mine works at a UK university doing deep-sea vehicles)
For me, many of my questions about open source projects have moved to GitHub and Discord, so there is platform migration besides LLMs. I also tend to start with Gemini for more general programming things, because it will (1) answer in the terms of my problem instead of me having to visit multiple pages to piece it together, or (2) what it's wrong, I often get better jump off points when searching. Either way, LLMs save me time instead of having to click through to SO multiple times because the title is close but the content as an important difference
"LLMs can train on the official documentation of tools l/libraries but they can't experiment and figure out solutions to weird problems"

LLMs train on way more than just the official documentation: they train on the code itself, the unit tests for that code (which, for well written projects, cover all sorts of undocumented edge-based) and - for popular projects - thousands of examples of that library being used (and unit tested) "in the wild".

This is why LLMs are so effective at helping figure out edge-cases for widely used libraries.

The best coding LLMs are also trained on additional custom examples written by humans who were paid to build proprietary training data for those LLMs.

I suspect they are increasingly trained on artificially created examples which have been validated (to a certain extent) through executing that code before adding it to the training data. That's a unique advantage for code - it's a lot harder to "verify" non-code generated prose since you can't execute that and see if you get an error.
Need to remove regulations instead and fast track SpaceX.

Every fucking time we don't need to increase the size of the Government. It only gets bigger. Never smaller.
More fundamentally, there were contracts. SpaceX does things itself; there's no legal friction internally. This gets back to the "Theory of the Firm" for why firms exist in the first place (transaction costs).

The need to codify what work is to be done in contacts is antithetical to SpaceX's rapid development processes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_the_firm
The answer is no, there isn't an EV on the market suitable to be a police vehicle, much less competitive with petrol vehicles. It barely makes sense for even 25% of the population to use EVs, even in ideal conditions with home charging and subsidies, and not accounting for potential extreme weather and evacuations.
> I'm not sure how critical "catching" the booster is to reusability

Not necessarily for reusability, but it helps significantly for rapid reusability: it eliminates the need to transport the booster from the landing site to the launch site. Given that it's 9m x 70m and weighs 270 tonnes, that's not an easy process.
I find that this is mainly a problem in languages that attract "practical"/"best tool for the job" Philistines. Not going to name names right now but I had never really experienced this until I started using languages from a certain Washington based software company.
Tell me you are an American, without telling me you are an American.

You can reach a children's park on foot or by taking public transportation, so ideally there's no need for a parking lot right next to it.
Is there a more direct or elegant solution than reducing it to a quadratic equation?

By the way r=6 is also a solution, if we treat the diagram a bit more abstractly.
Or that extra foods puts more stress on your organs. Liver, kidneys, pancrease, etc have to do more work and for some reason the body isn't able to repair that and they wear out quicker.
>One can type `--help` after `x my-command` to print out the help associated with that command.

I assume that there is no support for the scripts having their own command-line arguments? Or how do you disambiguate?

Anyway, this seems like an interesting demo, but it's hard to imagine the use case.
You’re repeating a flagged comment [1] that’s already been rebutted [2].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41828032

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41828048
"What would be the point of creating a shooter set in the middle east? We already have pong and donkey kong"
>if only they would just do literally the first things they should be worried about.

as the sibling comments to this one pointed out, most people change the default Explorer settings, first thing.

In fact changing the default Explorer settings has been a security warning for years.

In conclusion, yes I believe if something is in a common list of things you should do to make your windows system more secure (for like, people who are not security experts) and you don't do it then probably "God, people are so stupid" is a reasonable response.
Thanks. I think I was somehow looking at an outdated description for drm-61-kmod that said it was only for -CURRENT, and only found mentions of the needed linuxkpi changes possibly being merged into 14-STABLE in the future. Judging by the drm-kmod git repo, it looks like they're currently working on bringing it up to 6.6.
My wife asked "Why is this a big deal?", so I gave her a link to Handmer's 2021 explanation: https://caseyhandmer.wordpress.com/2021/10/28/starship-is-st...

She's not an enthusiast; she's got an impression from SciFi that going to mars shouldn't be that hard.
There is no particular need for society to have an industry that sells unhealthy food. It can go the way of horses, would only be a net positive for society.
What you're describing sounds very much like the impact ketamine has on the default mode network (DMN), which plays a central role in your sense of self and how you process thoughts about yourself and the world. The DMN is typically overactive in conditions like depression, leading to persistent negative self-reflection or rumination.

Ketamine temporarily disrupts or disintegrates the activity of the DMN, which is likely where the sensation of "disintegration" or "ego death" comes from. This can feel like a profound loss of agency, as the very part of the brain responsible for your sense of self is being deconstructed. The disorienting part—being left with fragments of yourself—is also consistent with how the DMN breaks down, exposing subconscious thoughts or patterns you may have repressed or forgotten.

But this isn’t just a random break—it’s part of why ketamine can be so therapeutic for some people. By breaking the DMN's rigid structure, it allows for a kind of mental reset, where you can reorganize those "pieces" in new ways, often leading to the clarity or "AHA!" moments you described. The months of renewed understanding and hope after the experience fit well with ketamine's fast-acting antidepressant effects.

That said, I understand the hesitation to repeat such experience. While it can be transformative, it can also feel traumatic, precisely because it’s messing with such a fundamental part of how your brain organizes reality. We’re still in the early stages of understanding this, and while it can be deeply healing for some, it’s definitely not something to take lightly.
That's why it's not a catastrophe that something was unexpectedly on fire, not a reason to dismiss the question.
The main issue with Stack Overflow (and similar public Q&A platforms) is that many contributors do not know what they do not know, leading to inaccurate answers.

Additionally, these platforms tend to attract a fair amount of spam (self promotion etc) which can make it very hard to find high-quality responses.
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They were always like this.

Actually, they were even worse under Bill Gates, who was smarter and more ruthless than his successors.
It's just another self promoting spammer/grifter of the LLM era that this site has become flooded with. I thought they were just shovelware, but I guess viruses are a risk as well.

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You're making a lot of alts.
Indeed. You sometime see an argument that launch to space is expensive because of the propellant and therefore energy required. And as you note this argument is utterly wrong.
The plan is to have many, many Mechazillas.
Just to add to your point, consider a book like "Finite and Infinite" games. I think I can "recreate" the knowledge and main thesis in the book by my readings from other areas.

'Listening to different spiritual gurus saying the same thing using different words' is like
'watching the same coloured glass pieces getting rearranged to form new patterns in kaleidoscope'
I wasn't aware of that. Is there an open-source license available for non-commercial use?
Plagiarizing means violating copyright, loosely speaking. When you, as a human, use SO, you assign your rights to the content to SO. That company is licensing the content to 3rd parties, including those who want to train their LLMs.

What I find is that the LLMs are not spitting out SO text word for word, as one would when plagiarizing. Rather, the LLM uses the context and words of my question when answering, making the response specific and cohesive (by piecing together answers from across questions).
This is also useful initializing empty circular linked lists

node n = {
.data = NULL,
.prev = &n,
.next = &n,
};
A lot of people comment on online forums for free and are arseholes there too. Not in this thread so far that I've read, to be clear, but it certainly happens. How would you qualify the difference?
That was such a magical moment
I also use Hugo and upgrades scare me because it’s really hard to tell whether something has subtly broken or not. Also, the documentation is inscrutable. But it’s fast and already in place, so hey, I keep using it.

Anyhow, regarding this:

> 4.3: nested lists sometimes need 4 space indents

Can be prevented by using a formatting style that always works with lists and blockquotes and makes it easy to see nesting: https://jmmv.dev/2022/07/markdown-lists.html
Both the "count the Rs in strawberry" and the "multiply two large numbers" things have been solved for over a year now by the tool usage pattern: give an LLM the ability to delegate to a code execution environment for things it's inherently bad at and train it how to identify when to use that option.
Also, saving on damage to the landing pad.
It genuinely was. Thanks for that!
Capabilities and Limitations of Large Language Models for Cultural Commonsense
This "evidence" brought to you by an unreliable source on the topic.
That isn't "my definition".

Left-wing ideologies inherently promote concepts like collectivist big government, high taxation, massive government spending, and government-controlled infrastructure.

Right-wing ideologies, on the other hand, inherently promote individualism, minimal to no taxation, minimal to no government spending, and privately-controlled infrastructure.

That's just the fundamental nature of a two-dimensional political spectrum. It has nothing to do with me.

Anyone claiming that a government exhibiting decidedly left-wing traits is somehow "far right" is simply making a wrong analysis.
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Hello HN,

I am an undergrad majoring in mechanical engineering. I've always had a love for coding looking for ways to earn some money as a developer, because it has been a little rough lately.

What I would ideally love is small one-off gigs that I can complete over a week or less, or a remote job that isn't too intensive. If the tech stack is up to me, I can build good looking, accessible and performant web applications really fast, with database, authentication and all. But I'm also a quick learner so I can adapt to my employer's requirements. I am comfortable with a modest hourly rate, something as low as 10 USDs/hour should suffice my needs.

I have a lot of side hustles and start-ups planned, but right now, I need something quickly.

If anyone could guide me in the right direction, I would be forever grateful!

Here's my GitHub if you want to check a couple of projects I built: https://github.com/shajidhasan
ansible for markdown?
The first time that I asked a question on #cpp @Freenode was a unique experience for my younger self.

My message contained greetings and the question in the same message. I was banned immediately and the response from the mods was:

- do not greet; we don't have time for that bullshit

- do not use natural language questions; submit a test case and we will understand what you mean through your code

- do not abbreviate words (you have abbreviated "you" as "u"); if you do not have time to type the words, we do not have time to read them

The ban lasted for a week! :D
MIMO and nonlinear control theories are probably some of the hardest topics in all of engineering. SpaceX control system also has to compensate for the fuel moving inside their rockets so the control algorithms probably involve some kind of fast numerical fluid simulation.

Another interesting thing SpaceX is doing is to use consumer-grade chips in triple redundancy configurations instead of using $100,000+ radiation-hardened aerospace/defense grade chips.
At a buoy, SpaceX.
Why do you think that you would never have found it ?

The best blogposts do get shared around, and for worse ones, is it that much of a loss that only few people find them ?
Unless you think you know better than the National Academy of Sciences. Cost of launch is the only recognized limitation (in 2012)

https://nap.nationalacademies.org/read/13189/chapter/4?term=...

Your question about delta-V is answered in that same report a few pages above.
And lack of roads is an attraction for all those people riding their quad bikes and other off road vehicles.
Rory Sutherland – Are We Now Too Impatient to Be Intelligent? [video]
It might, but it's also at a scale where people can dust off the old plans for orbital rings and ask if this time the economics work out.

(My guess is the economics are fine, but the politics would kill it on earth, so the moon or mars will get one, but that's just an interested amateur opinion).
I was sure they were going to lose one of the fins at "max q part 2".. Looked like it burned through near the hinge.
I thought plagarizing was producing new work substantially copied from prior work, regardless who owns the copyright? I thought this because self-plagarizing exists.
What an inspiring team SpaceX has.
It's more of a financial question, do you want to shell out for some chance at it. And Russia and China can build their own engines, SpaceX is very good but not like a century ahead good.

(If anything, I'd be more worried about North Korea or Pakistan getting their hands on stuff…)

Either way the risk is the shit that's left floating, if they don't fish it out it'll randomly wash up in Madagascar or so…
>Battery-powered chargers aren’t that common, and building noiseless ones is difficult.

Noiseless ones means ones that don't use huge diesel generators to meet demand, I assume. You may as well put that fuel into a conventional vehicle if you have to do all that. It's surely more efficient than building like 3x as much stuff just to ultimately burn the same energy.

>The commercial infrastructure for fast charging is just not good enough yet. Emergency fast chargers need better geographical distribution.

I think it will never make sense. If fast service is required it will have to come down to battery exchanges, or else exchanging whole cars.
Correct! In the vast majority of cases we're talking about base salary or daily rate increases exclusively.
Money. Now. End of story.
> probably nonsense

It’s definitely nonsense. As in if they are attempting it it’s virtually fraud on the American taxpayer.

Barring a sci-fi breakthrough in propulsion technology (or vacuum directed energy weapons), it cannot work. (And even if you have that propulsion technology, its existence obsoletes the concept again. You’d need to rewrite orbital physics to make plane changes a better idea than new launch from the ground. It’s just a phenomenally fucked idea.)

> the latest versions of the starlink satellite are significantly heavier than prior generations

This is in the same calibre of evidence as that for more planes meaning chemtrails are real.
> that's not how humans learn

I've been thinking about this a lot lately. Could we train an AI, e.g. using RL and GAN, where it gets an IT task to perform based on a body of documentation, such that its fitness would then be measured based on both direct success on the task, and on the creation of new (distilled and better written) documentation that would allow an otherwise context-less copy of itself to do well on the task?
Ah, socialism.
Well, that's what we call it.
I'd imagine a combination of inertial and GPS, combined with a Kalman filter. Inertial handles short term estimation; GPS correcting drift in the inertial system. But they could roll in other information sources at the end.
Thank you! Checking!
I agree. Let's grant that SBB is more organized than DB. But given that Germany is 8 times as big as Switzerland and with 33,000 km has a significantly larger train network than Switzerland's 5,300 km, it's no surprise that trains accumulate more delays in Germany.
> You're one out of 8 billion people, the only known humans inhabiting an incredible vast cosmos with billions of galaxies and billions of years of timespan

Sure, but there are also 10^18 insects, and untold other critters too. Given the size of the universe there are likely also billions of other planets with life out there.

It doesn't make sense to call existing and being alive lucky, since that's not a statistical outcome - 100% of humans/etc are alive. I suppose you could call temporarily being part of a living organism a "lucky" outcome for a carbon molecule, since for "them" it's not a guaranteed thing.

As a human, things to consider yourself lucky for, rather than existing at all, as we all do, are things like where you were born, and who your parents are. Were you born into poverty, or some weird religious cult, or lucky to be born into some more fortunate circumstance?
art is clearly generated but model gets no credit. I think that's pretty outrageous
Usually it is a small telescope on a nice motorized mount weighing a ton. NASA had several of those around Cape Canaveral [1].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xig3sL_rRH8
I would bet in the traditional sensors.
The purpose of funding SpaceX with taxpayer money is to make competitors that can launch rockets to space so that it is cheaper.
That might be true but tire rotations and cabin air filter replacements are still high profit. I think it might be more that a large percentage of electric car repairs are for items covered under warranty so until there is a sizable used fleet outside of warranty they want to minimize claims by making it hard to do.