skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I mean, the government absolutely could fire people. They aren't giving money to Anduril because Anduril can fire people. They are giving money to Anduril because:

1. Anduril is more competent than the people they can afford to hire.

2. Giving Anduril money funnels funds into local enconomies and individuals that are important to political objectives.
Yep. Select software being Unix command line tools.
Configure zsh so you can put a space before the command and it doesn't get saved to the histfile. Incognito mode for the terminal.
Show HN: Self-hosteable browser-based minimalist web-searching platform
MiniSearch is celebrating its 1st birthday!

Exactly one year ago, I shared the initial version of this side-project here. Since then, there have been numerous changes under the hood. I use it daily as my default search engine and have done my best to make it useful. I hope it's interesting for you too!
> It's quite telling that we don't see matt attacking less successful companies which do the same thing as WPEngine, much less putting forth the same pretexts for it.

If he succeeds with WP Engine, then he'll probably shake down other companies in the future.
He had no past, but after discovering America, his family bloodlines were annotated in historical reports.
Versioning provides people with capability for change management, but won't perform it on their behalf. Who knew.
Super Heavy is easier to control on landing because it's using 3 engines so has better directional control, and it can throttle those engines down into a sustained hover, which is what it does before being "caught" by the arms.

Surprising to see this work first time though - I don't recall them doing any hover and lateral movement tests, but I assume they must have done.

What's also wild is that the booster isn't being caught/supported by those giant grid fins, but rather by small lifting pins just below them, and seems to only have two of these (one on either side), so it also has to get it's rotational position right so those pins engage with (are supported by) the arms.
Bazaari.io is the easiest way to create and launch online stores.

It is currently free.

I have also planned to add new pro features.

:)
Notably the current humanoid Boston Dynamics robot also doesn't do backflips.
Great article. The physics and neurophysiology of Nowness and attention are also complex.

Toward the end of his life Einstein had a conversation with Rudolf Carnap (ca 1953-54):

“Einstein said that the problem of Now worried him seriously. He explained that Now means something special for men, something essentially different from the past and the future, but that this important difference dies not and cannot occur within physics.”

Einstein was still struggling with counterpoints made by Bergson in their famous 1922 debate on time and the meaning of duration.

Neuroscience is just beginning to give us more insights into Now and I am reasonably confident that we will find solid (satisfying) physical explanations for human temporality (more so than those of Bergson, Husserl, and Heidegger). But this will not remove the personal mysteries of attention and being in the flow.
Have you ever looked into wp-cli? It was made for this kind of task.
How come people make fancy expensive keyboards for enthusiasts without aligned columns?
This seems to be happening everywhere, in France, in the Netherlands, plenty of places in Europe. The problem with "leftist votes from immigrants" is that immigrants tend to be very rightist in their positions. For religious reasons, because they are trying to make businesses work, because they really want out of government support, because they don't want to pay for social security, because ...

So they vote left only a few times ... plus they are starting to make their own parties, which then of course immediately betray leftist parties.
Seems like it adds a lot of risk

I'm actually wondering about that. If I understand correctly, the arms can move up and down, and pivot around the tower. This allows them to correct for some error in the rocket trajectory and also (presumably) "soften" the final contact. Between the nozzles and the arms, it gives SpaceX a lot of degrees of freedom in the final seconds (you can see how the booster kind of "hovered" right at the end) and in certain respects might even offer more forgiveness than the hard ground.

Could it smash into the tower? For sure. Would that be more dangerous than smashing into the pad? I don't know.

It's a new technique with which we don't have a lot of experience.
Probably because Lisp requires a GC. With Forth you have to write your code to fit a finite memory footprint.
I come from a small town that is dominated by chemical refineries. I know people who are electricians, HVAC repairmen, plumbers, pipefitters, and process operators. You know what scares them more than anything else in the world? A corporate policy against overtime. Many of them will pick up any extra shift they can get. They LIVE for plant turnarounds where they're basically paid 24/7 for a couple of months to essentially eat, breathe, and sleep at the plant to be on call because it's how they go financially from a lower middle class lifestyle to being solidly middle class. This is what pays their mortgages, their hunting leases, their bass boats, and the limited edition F-150 to do all that stuff with.
I very much disagree, the effects are extremely similar, to the point where if one could match the active substance dosage as well as absorption rate, you would be very hard pressed to tell the difference.

The relative difference is because people generally don't process their shrooms very well and they take much longer to digest (slower release over time) and also its very impossible to judge the potency of the shrooms beforehand (so most go on the safe side dosage); as a starter shrooms are more unpredictable than truffles.

I had the same argument with a friend who gave me a bit of LSD (total dosage unknown, it was edible) and I tried a few days ago, it was basically the same as good shrooms. In fact, I believe the dose was on the low side, it was faster to take action but the "core" experience was shorter and "lower" than just 15 grams of good truffles.

The only thing with LSD is that it takes longer to completely clear out of your system (because it is already extracted in pure form, while shrooms have to be digested/processed by your system in a less efficient/effective way) but I don't like that very much because you end up in this in-between state where you are clearly not high anymore but also restless with secondary effects that are not really cool/interesting.

In any case it would be rather surprising if it was different, because molecularly they are extremely close.
I'm not sure that you meant to say "Shit of Theseus" but if you did: bravo!
Thanks for the kind words. BTW, a member of your team did click to upgrade but didn't complete the sign up process :)

Were you still interested in getting set up? Happy to help answer any questions (info@triplechecker.com)
They're talking here about Starship, not the booster.
Must require excellent golf skills too.
Sadly the original comment is gone! This seems to be happening with alarming frequency on HN.

I once noticed something "interesting" about how Taiwan was labelled in some country data, and my comment was also flagged and deleted like this.

It seems the moderation on HN is getting very strict.

Sadly it often means I see interesting discussions where the original base comment is gone. At least the follow ups are not scrubbed.

But I would have appreciated an option to reveal flagged content, maybe after accepting a warning message.
I have always felt that somehow Linux and proponents of it default to every decision it made being right and everything else, namely Windows, being wrong. I honestly feel Linux is orders of magnitude more complex. It is much easier, in my experience to make software just work on Windows. (This is not to say Windows doesn't have bad decisions. It has many. All the major OSs are terrible.)
IMO, intensive keyboard games should be played with left hand auxiliary keypads, any WSAD is silly. It should be Razer Tartarus or Azeron Cyborg or whichever the current option.
in the 90's, Xmodem seemed to be a inferior protocol compared to Z-Modem and HS-Link.
The creators of Mechanical Turk no doubt made money from it in 1770. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mechanical_Turk
A flame war involves flaming someone which I wasn't doing, but you do you.
The search modal says, "Search by Algolia".
It's hard to know but from talking to family and friends that are in the field, I think I would. I would like to feel more challenged in my career but I worry that it's a "grass is greener on the other side" situation as well.

As far as the job market goes, I don't really have roots where I am so I would be open to moving for an opportunity, for EE or my software.

Interesting to hear about the slow feedback loop. I guess that's something I take for granted with development so I'm not sure how that owuld affect me.

Do you ever worry about the future of your career in comp sci? It's gotta be nice to at least have EE as a backup.
The Rip Van Winkle Syndrome
Would've been perfect had you said jndex.
I don’t think Elon would ever go to prison. He’s too powerful. He is Trump’s best buddy now. So he is fine.
Go buy a console if you want a AAA experience or just don't play it. Jesus christ the complaining about a free game that someone built for fun is unbelievable.
If you'd like to break every system, and nearly every protocol, start abolishing arbitrary line endings that have been used for decades.

That will make things better.
Found the Factorio player.
Because it’s literally fine and a non-issue. Only whiny Linux babies cry about it. It’s trivial for tools to support. Trivial. Like this is easiest, least harmful baggage in the history tech debt baggage.

There will always be tech debt. Always and forever. Burn cycles on one that matters.
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41080063
FriendlyElec NanoPi R5S as PTP Grandmaster Clock with GNSS/GPS Discipline (2022)
Yes, he doesn't exactly come across as an Airpods-wearing Wall Street yuppie.
More than half? Source?

Trump may well win this election. But there’s no scenario under which he’s going to also win the popular vote while doing it, at least none that I’ve heard of. If you have credible information that says otherwise I would be interested in reading it.
> a big difference financially between being a plumber/electrician/hvac tech and owning a plumbing/electrical/hvac business

It seems to cost about $10 to 50k to acquire the tools, vehicle and licenses to start a plumbing business. Is there something else that’s substantial beyond the normal attention to detail and savvy that every small businessperson must have?
Take Optimus, teleoperate it to be a Bartender, collect the training data for your actual robotender. Repeat for any reasonably specific task.
Pruning takes forever in Restic, which is why we migrated away from it.
Well, duh.

I don’t think it really matters. The plan is to train the robots via telepresence. If that works out, no one will care that these demos used exactly that.
To my understanding, there was a human remote assisting the robot in some demos. So some of the demos were just the AI, others like the bartender was a robot being controlled by a human. Honestly it doesn’t seem that bad to me, when I read the headline I thought it was going to be people in costumes
I’m noticing HVAC systems (installed) are about 3x the price they were 10 years ago.

And they is from the cheaper companies that don’t advertise on the radio!
I left a snarky comment about OP providing evidence for the IRS, but realized he mentioned he's not in the USA, so maybe those things are not taxable income in his country. If these were done in the USA, you're right--those are taxable and he'd be risking fines and jail time.
> deinstitutionalization of the mentally ill

This dates back to at least JFK and probably farther back. The institutions of the 1950s were terrible for the mentally ill - putting them on the streets is a better answer than the abuse a lot of them suffered. Of course the Kennedy's had enough to treat their mentally ill family members to better institutions than the government mandated ones.

If a reformed institution could treat the mentally ill better than the the streets is an open question - in theory it can, but human nature is all too often to abuse in that way and so you should question if any reform can stick. If you say yes then it is on you to verify. If you say no - we need a better answer than the street (I can't think of any - or at least not any that I don't have other objections to)
Respectfully, I believe you've missed my point.

> it is very telling that nobody talks about it because it is a sign that alcohol is mostly a negative thing and has negative impact on people's life.

Alcohol can be a very negative thing. Nobody denies that. Similarly, opiates can be very negative things. However, opiates are not always negative and neither is alcohol. With most psychoactive drugs, how bad they are depends entirely on how much they are impacting the life of the user.

And, as with most psychoactive drugs, alcohol is enjoyable to consume. It's not 100% a negative thing.

> If it wasn't we would be hearing far more from ex-teetotalers how much more their life improved after taking up alcohol the way you hear from people who get sober.

You hear from vegans all the time about the benefits of veganism, you don't often hear from ex-vegans. Does that mean consuming meat/animal products is mostly negatives?

You hear pretty frequently from converts to a faith about the benefits of that faith, less frequently you hear from ex-members about the benefits of leaving. Does that mean there are no negatives to faith?

Crystal healers will tell you all about the benefits of putting topaz on top of random things, you don't often hear from ex-crystal healers about the negatives of buying topaz. Does that mean crystal healing is only positive?

This is the issue I take with your point. I certainly believe there are negatives to alcohol, there are also positives. I say that as an ex-teetotaler. My life hasn't spiraled out of control and I'm not in any major danger. Part of that is because I keep my consumption in check. Alcohol can be a huge negative to many people, which is why it's not something everyone should do. That doesn't mean that it can't be consumed responsibly or provide happiness to those that do drink responsibly.
>you have to write your code to fit a finite memory footprint

This sounds like the opposite of having the more moldable environment.
That isn't exactly true though. For example, the neural net models that are used today in various GenAI startups were invented in the 1980s. But we couldn't have LLMs "all along" because we couldn't store the models, the training sets, or do the training compute with the computer hardware we had at the time. Similarly with rocketry there many technologies that have only been available in the last 10 - 15 years that make Starship possible. A sampling;

First there are solid state inertial motion sensors[1]. Those combined gyros, accelerometers, and magnetometers that way just a few grams. Those bad boys weighed a couple hundred pounds in the Apollo rockets. We put the equivalent up in a $100 quadcopter these days.

Second there is 3D printing of rocket engine alloy, this allows SpaceX to 3d print a raptor engine[2] both faster, lighter, and without error than any engine we could have built before 2010.

Third was the development of fracking which created so much methane availability [3] that using it for rocket fuel became cost effective.

Fourth and fifth changes were three decimal orders of magnitude on the ability of computers to compute with a commensurate drop in cost, and with that an explosion the the ability to use high frequency radio to do things that used to be done by cable harnesses and wiring. (sorry no citation, general knowledge)

I can appreciate that it is really really hard to internalize how much as changed and improved since Apollo and can strongly recommend a trip to one's local science museum if you have one to get a visceral sort of amazement at what Apollo engineers did with the technology available to them at the time.

So it isn't accurate to say we could have had this all along, although if one of the 'big' players like Lockheed Martin or Grumman Aerospace had continued investing even after the 'Star Wars' program was cancelled I do agree we would have had it sooner than we did. How much sooner? Maybe 5 years? But it is important to realize that at that time (late 80's early 90's) they didn't know that the Internet was going to be a thing and so they didn't have a built in "market" for all of that launch capability. Even with Teledesic[4] which tried to go there, you needed someone who like Musk who was too ignorant of what "could be done" to push a bunch of really smart people beyond what they thought they were capable of.

[1] Apollo PGNCS --- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_PGNCS

[2] SpaceX simplifies Raptor engine: Has it used additive manufacturing? --- https://www.tctmagazine.com/additive-manufacturing-3d-printi...

[3] The U.S. fracking revolution has caused natural gas prices to drop 47 percent compared to what the price would have been prior to the fracking revolution in 2013. --- https://www.brookings.edu/articles/the-economic-benefits-of-...

[4] Teledesic -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teledesic
Interesting that King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella issued the Alhambra Decree to kick the Jews out ot Spain shortly after Christopher Columbus, a Sephardic Jew, reached the Americas.

This was even after the Jews heavily funded the Spaniard military in the conquest of Gibraltar.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alhambra_Decree
An interesting question (because all the others will probably be too slow) is what does that change for SpaceX itself (which can be fast)?

It gets to complete and upgrade Starlink. Sure. And that keeps it busy for what? Two years? At most. Sure. Done. Just kidding, that provides some background launches as a guaranteed customer going forward. But nowhere near enough to make a dent in what will be the new SpaceX launch capabiity.

So what else can it do, that exploits its own launch capability?

Going to Mars is not an obvious commercial venture - not at first - not until some government somewhere convinces itself to fund that.

So what else? What can SpaceX do on its own with this launch capability?
I wrote a command line program to determine/detect the end-of-line format, tabs, bom, and nul characters

https://github.com/jftuga/chars

Stand-alone binaries are provided for all major platforms.
My dad bought a failing HVAC business 30+ years ago, then made it profitable over the years and sold it back to his employees last year. He had the option to take a few highly lucrative PE deals, but it was clear they would squeeze the life out of the employees and customers he had worked hard to support over many years. I can’t imagine how low quality this kind of trade work will become if PE owns them all. It will be similar to vet, dentist, and dermatology clinics which now feel like factories that don’t care about the humans on the other end - often employing fear tactics and sales quotas to incentivize upsells.
Duplicity is solid, I’ve been using it since over a decade, and it’s a standard package on Debian-based distributions. Never had any hiccups (and I run regular backup validations).

These threads about backup tools come up regularly, and I always wonder if I’m missing something important about the other tools.
Optimizing for grep is fair, however searching for whole words is typically possible in most contexts. I don't have a problem for grepping single letter variable names, although I admit that whole word or word boundary search is not as obvious and slightly less convenient than just plain substring search.
Huge swaths of microbes use electrostatic rotary motors driving screw type propellers, so if not say it’s that uncommon.
But a lot of the systems that are air-gapped are controlling some other piece of hardware, increasingly by USB.
Tell me why I shouldn't be concerned about thousands of starships launching from Earth and emitting multiple megatons of Carbon Dioxide in the fragile upper atmosphere? Some studies indicate emissions here are significantly more impactful, and can also damage the Ozone layer as well.

Any answers shouldn't consist of "well it's a fraction of what the aviation industry emits" because _the entire point_ of Starship is to scale-up to aviation-like operations.
IMO the tesla event could've used more emphasis on how they're going to use low latency tele-operations ("via Starlink") to bridge the gap between where they're at and full autonomy. That is at least a more convincing story for investors than yet another promise the current tech will be ready by 2027.
I wouldn't say well, but yeah, we're conquering it okay.
This is a good point - households, and their implements and staircases and so on, have evolved to fit our shapes
Pay is only part of it. There's a huge mindset difference between controlling organizational structure/policy and the type of people that want to freely explore creative ideas that don't fit in the normal boxes (hackers). As an example, lot of people wouldn't be ok with being told you have to move, or you can't move, which is common in the military.

$200k is huge for most people. Even $100k is a good salary for most of the country. Start adding in housing allowance and a defined benefits program and it's really pretty decent. Most branches will do direct commissions up to O5 for cyber roles now.
Since the writer never wrote the remaining bytes to the pipe, but only to its own memory buffer, and that memory buffer is destroyed when writer exits, "disappearing bytes" seems accurate. The bytes buffered in the memory of the writer process disappear along with the process when it exits.
Although that was neither remotely controlled, nor humanoid, nor a robot.
Just for 8% I would destroy the 92%.
A house keeper? No. Imo the use case is for jobs that are easy, necessary, and low utilization where you mostly pay people to be present and available but not actually doing anything. The value here is the ability to scale up and down quickly. Can’t do that with real humans.

The ease of swapping different expertise in to the same body as needed could also potentially be useful.

> If you say yes, ask yourself why even bother reshoring manufacturing at higher cost and with trade barriers.

Mostly the reasoning to onshore things is to ensure independence on manufacturing critical resources despite the competitive disadvantage; not a jobs program.
I agree, and I've been observing this for years. It's now becoming a generational problem - younger programmers know and understand PR model, they don't want to deal with mailing threads and patches. These days, young people are like: "You sent me what? an email? Are you joking?" People shouldn't be catering for the comfort of the maintainers, no matter how arguably mailing threads are techologically more superior, it should be the opposite.
I believe there is a point after which the higher dosage doesn't change much, but the duration of the trip.
I have noticed the same effect with mushrooms (truffles) where basically doubling the dose didn't do much.
I'm not even sure it lasted that much longer, because of course you don't take them in a fixed reproducible setting where you could correctly compare stuff.

I think there is a lot of bullshit around those substances, pushed by shamanic type of people who just invent and repeat nonsense to appear unique/interesting.

The "reports" on Erowid, while interesting in a way, are also so full of nonsense that it's largely irrelevant as a source...