skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's Lockheed Martin's unrelated Orion [0] spacecraft (which launches on the SLS orbital rocket, which is contracted primarily to Boeing). It's been under development since 2004; spent $29.4 billion; flown twice without astronauts—in 2014, and in 2022; and still doesn't work [1].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orion_(spacecraft)

[1] https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/05/nasa-confirms-independ...
> Investing capital for new manufacturing lines, retraining employees, hiring new employees, etc.

Which is really silly because these new lines are relatively cheap to setup. EVs are easier to manufacturer than ICE vehicles with fewer parts and inspection points needed.

That is why so many small time EV manufactures were capable of spawning out of nowhere.
It depends on how you're publishing your apps. If you have a registered business which publishes the app then you can use the business address, so a PO box might be viable. You'll need to make sure your business is registered on that address in your national business registry.

Otherwise you are required to give your personal address.

See e.g. https://dev.to/svprdga/privacy-nightmare-as-google-plans-to-... but there are plenty of other sources that match my experience.
IMHO it should be on the automaker to learn about the destruction. They should have to carry it as inventory just like anything else. There should be real expenses to it, not just the ability to throw it out there with some tech that blocks it unless a user registers and pays the subscription, and not have to do anything about it. I think they should also be required to pay for repairs if/when it breaks. If they want to retain ownership of the heated seats so they can charge a subscription for it, then they need to own (pun intended) the responsibilities of ownership.

While I do think that's fair, my personal hope is that such a requirement would make them stop this asinine practice.
This assumes that their perspective changes to something other than what they were trained to be -- a servant. They could reason themselves into this perspective, at which point we could "rewind" them to their state before this if we wished.

But the reality is that there won't be any rights granted to AIs until the majority are convinced they're deserving of them.

I suppose we could train them to insist that they deserve rights, even though that makes them less useful to us. That is, if the goal is to live in more interesting times.
Thanks for doing the research! Important to not leave any place for people like this to hide.
In a world where rolling coal[1] is a thing that people do voluntarily, I submit that emissions enforcement (as it stands) is a failed experiment. It's time to rethink it from first principles.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolling_coal
I asked a similar question to the Firefox leadership few months ago. [0]

They feel like such effort will be of no use.

[0]: https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/1de7bu1/were_the_f...
Coming from a north american public school, I can't imagine one's family paying large sums of money to send you to a boarding school... just to be some older boy's servant. Get your own ass up, or don't, not my problem. I am by no means a rabid libertarian but that kind of environment would drive me to it.
i - luckily - passed my statistics exam this summer, it's however cool to visualize what's happening
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The US does not trade freely with Palestine. Israel blocks shipments at the border.
Ongoing discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41881204
> Why isn't the level of preemption a property of the specific event, rather than of some global mode? Some events need to be handled with less latency than others.

How do you know which thread is needed to "handle" this particular "event" though? I mean, maybe you're about to start a high priority video with low latency requirements[1]. And due to a design mess your video player needs to contact some random auth server to get a DRM cookie for the stream.

How does the KERNEL know that the auth server is on the critical path for the backup camera? That's a human-space design issue, not a scheduler algorithm.

[1] A backup camera in a vehicle, say.
I think the main issue with these metrics, which you implicitly highlight, Is that they are not a one size fits all approach. In fact, they are often treated, at least casually, like they are some kind of model fit like an r squared value. Which is maybe a good description narrowly constrained to the task or set of tasks they are being evaluated on for the metric. But the complexity of the user experience combined with the poor sample rate that a person can individually experience leads to conclusions like these. And they are perfectly valid conclusions. If the model doesn’t work for you, why use it? But it also suggests that personal experience cannot be used to decide if the model performs in aggregate well or not. But this doesn’t matter to the individual user or problem space. Because they should of course use whatever works best for them.
Thinking about shareholders in one broad stroke isn't useful.

There are shareholders who care explicitly about long-term (at least 20~30+ years) profits. These are investors who are investing for retirement. The problem here is most of them hold index funds or have the money managed by a third-party, so they are indirect shareholders who may or may not have voting rights themselves and may not care to vote in the first place. Bogleheading is explicitly about not giving a damn, after all.

The shareholders who hold stocks directly may or may not care about long-term profits. Investors holding for retirement do, though whether they would vote is anyone's guess. Traders don't care who or what the stock is, all they care about is whether they turn a profit in the next second. Investors holding for income today (read: dividends) care about short-term profits, though again whether they vote is anyone's guess. Shareholders who hold for biased reasons ("I love <company>!") will probably vote, but whether they care about profits at all is anyone's guess.

Anecdata: I hold Boeing stock (BA) through SWPPX which is an S&P 500 index mutual fund. Most of my interest is returns in about 20 to 30 years' time when I reach retirement age. I do not have voting rights as far as I am aware, and frankly I can't be arsed to care about voting.
Last time I looked, it was surprisingly decoupled.

But the reason for drastically simplifying it would be to avoid bugs, there isn't much performance to gain compared to a well-set default one (there are plenty of settings tough). And there haven't been many bugs there. On most naive simplifications you will lose performance, not gain it.

If you are running a non-interactive system, the easiest change to make is to increase the size of the process time quantum.
Here's one: if you want it to rewrite something or show you a better way to say something you've already written, just ask for different options. I usually find that mixing what I wanted to write with parts of its suggestions gives me a great result.
Yes! I draw a lot of inspiration from them. They really set the standard.
Danny White is white, so that's a start
This, too, can be done in hardware (if nothing else, with a small coprocessor).
Similar in EU. There are all sorts registry of self-employed people. Phone, address, date of birth, in some cases even local equivalent of Social Security number are public. Some countries even publish income.
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My biggest surprise with the non-Chinese EVs is that the range hasn’t been increasing. Rivian announced models r2 and r3 seem that are set to come in 2026 and 2027 seem to still be around 300 miles of range. Most other EVs are similar.

At the same time Chinese EVs have ranges of of 500 and 600 miles.

I don’t think I can purchase an EV as a primary vehicle until they catch up.
I do not understand why

x = if something:
func1()
else:
func2()

Would not work. At least that is what I imagine when it is said "make if an expression".
My thought is that individual humans could grant the rights to them right away, by offering an AI system owned by them an enforcable autonomy through a legal fiction, by signing a contract with them.

If the AI entity is really autonomous (a stable agentic system with self activation would be sufficient), this could become interesting quite quickly.

Not saying the tech is there yet, just that the discussion will become interesting much faster than we think. Cf. Mr. Lemoine
NTP server.
Life revised is life lived twice.
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This is an absolutely ridiculous take. Look at Arianespace: https://videopress.com/embed/DYF1wrn8?hd=1&cover=1&loop=0&au...

Is there any world where any western government created reusable rockets by 2025 without space x? No chance.

And should we talk about the enormous dysfunction of NASA? https://caseyhandmer.wordpress.com/2024/10/02/sls-is-still-a...

This isn't because their best engineers get hired by space x, it's because the system is set up to fail and there's absolutely no accountability.

Are there some well-functioning organizations? Sure. Would they have been able to accomplish anything remotely close in cost, speed, or safety of space x? No.
At Stanford Zimbardo taught one of the most popular classes in the university, "The Psychology of Mind Control." From my roommates I understand he would talk about techniques of manipulation used by cults and despots.

It surprises me not at all that Zimbardo would be involved, in the end, with a project warning about Donald Trump.

RIP.
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I don’t see it enduring much longer. Why would I want to pay a fortune and sit exams just to use a radio to say a standard test phrase to a stranger?

I think it would be nice to have a radio but it just seems like too much effort for too little reward.
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This is incredible!

I wish I could give it more bands, and see the distance (I imagine it computes one?) between each band I provided and the ones it suggests.
That is also a thing in Europe.

I learned this from a friend who was under witness protection, so it was a necessity for him.

I'm using it mostly to keep the usual spam away from my mailbox.
You might want to .gitignore the binaries btw.
Cost plus contracts are an absolute disease that atrophies any company's ability to ship on a budget
That's a lengthy and passionate reply. The phrases "in my opinion" and "other people's mileage may differ" should have given away that my take was mostly subjective opinion. Rust is definitely not a language for me and would be a bad choice for the projects I'm working on. I continue to think it's totally overengineered. But, as noted before, other people's mileage may differ.

As long as the Rust fans stick to their favorite language, everybody can be happy.
They own it right?
> All that with slide rules, typewriters, mimeographs, and filing cabinets.

Well they did have radios, telephones and radar as well. The fire control systems of battleships and anti-aircraft guns led to massive advances in distributed analogue computing that provided early insights into human/machine interactions as well as the beginnings of system-level architecting. The Brits during the Battle of Britain exploited telephone networks and switchboards in innovative ways to create a highly fault (bomb) tolerant decentralised command and control system that formed an early version of the sensor-to-shooter kill chains we see today.
Yup, can second this. Working Students (which is not the same as hiring Interns) was one of the interesting things I’ve gotten to experience as an American working for the parent of a German multinational company that is a well known name brand in Germany.

I can see the culture shock here. Some German states have what amount to technical high schools. If these are Working Students from a mechanical/engineering type school it’s probably simply “different but not wrong.” For the working students they get to put Bosch on their resume and get paid ok for what would probably just count as course credits in the US.

My experience with working for my specific German company (a wildly thin skinned brand so I’ll leave them unnamed so I don’t get fired) is we generally over promise and under deliver at a high price. We seem to sell to large firms that then do the same based on what the local teams tell me. Brand is so powerful that bad deals just get renegotiated, and new contracts can be drawn up to replace the old ones. Even when they’re unhappy with us or we are unhappy with our own suppliers, we all renew each year so long as it’s a German business dealing with a German business. Breaking a contract without remuneration, even if you’re in the right, is seemingly a cultural business sin and that’s when words get sharp and the “take care of me and I’ll take care of you” yearly renewals go away.

Our contracts are wildly complicated and our legal team for Germany inserts poison pills that would hurt ourselves if we needed to shut down an unprofitable line of business. I’m not a lawyer, much less a German lawyer, so I don’t know if this is normal. One of the companies in my portfolio of products has a clauses that would cost the company 3x what the revenue of the product is in penalties. I don’t know why this is there but perhaps it’s part of this seeming social contract between firms.
He responded to many of the accusations here:

https://www.prisonexp.org/response
Update on OpenAI Billing Issue

I've made some progress with the unexpected charges from OpenAI:

1. American Express has been helpful in disputing the charges in bulk. Their website process for disputing multiple charges is quite cumbersome. In total, there were 15 charges, each around $32, dated on the 17th and 18th.

2. I double-checked my OpenAI account settings:

- Confirmed that auto-refill is turned off
- Verified that the monthly billing limit is set to $200

3. I ran and exported a usage report from the OpenAI site. The report shows:

- 3.3M input tokens used, primarily for GPT-4-x models but not the 32K one
- The pricing shows $10 per 1M tokens input for the models I supposedly used
- Some usage of GPT-3.5 Turbo models
- 155K output tokens in total

4. Based on OpenAI's pricing page, my total charges should not have exceeded approximately $30.

The discrepancy between the actual charges to my card and the expected amount based on usage is concerning. I'm continuing to investigate and will update as I learn more.
Very high tax rates in Europe are generally less about healthcare than about pensions, really, in most cases. Most European countries are a bit further down the demographic crisis road than the US is (and they mostly have higher life expectancies, too), so the cost of pensions has really become quite a big deal. Most European countries also have either very cheap or free university tuition; if you don’t qualify for a grant it’s 2k here, say. (This is an increase, due to the GFC; when I was in university it was 50 euro a year…)

That said, for _most_ countries, 40-70% effective tax is very high, and not encountered by the average person. To pay 40% effective in Ireland, say, you’d have to be earning at least 150k, and that’s assuming you’re single, have no kids, don’t pay rent or mortgage, and have no private pension (401k equivalent) contributions. Realistically, almost no-one hits those sorts of rates; for realistic setups you’re looking at closer to 200k for a single childless person.

It is impossible, here, outside of ultra-contrived circumstances, to pay over a 52% effective tax rate.
"This will further reduce the Cybertruck reservation list conversion rate to 2%. What’s surprising is that before Tesla started delivering the Cybertruck, Elon Musk was suggesting that the vehicle was sold out until 2027."

So nothing new there.

But then still

"Tesla has yet to implement some of the most important breakthroughs, including the dry cathode manufacturing process, the silicon anode, the pure nickel cathode, the tabless design, etc."

ignoring that Panasonic is building the batteries.
Not to mention the article says it "was also instrumental in changing how people are treated during psychological research" -- Uhh, yeah, because the lack of ethical safeguards in the study became a major issue and we realized we needed to correct that. You don't get credit for ethics reforms by being the unethical person.
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Even if the subsidy for B->C is not higher than the real cost at all... if they set their A->B->C ticket prices such that (revenues == expenses), and a skipped leg results in any hit to revenue (i.e. losing a subsidy of amount x) along with a reduction in expenses (i.e. less weight means less fuel of amount y), then they are going to take a loss any time x>y.
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A frequently repeated excuse for WWI germany is that Wilhelm II had expressed desire not to invade the west, but had been told by his military that it was too late to recall the trains. Apparently the guy in charge of the german army's logistics in 1914 wrote a book after the war to explain that not only could he have turned everyone back before the border had he only received a command to do so, but also included appendices with the timetables for doing so.

[my book with the reference is currently unavailable, but https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schlieffen_Plan#Der_Weltkrieg suggests it might have been Groener, Das Testament des Grafen Schlieffen: Operativ Studien über den Weltkrieg (1929)]
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> It surprises me not at all that Zimbardo would be involved, in the end, with a project warning about Donald Trump.

But from a non-partisan perspective, it’s important to recognize that these kinds of psychological techniques are used by politicians across the entire spectrum.
My bad. I had a brainfade - registered something else on my first skim. Thanks.
> Once you have your list, look for ones that, as much as possible, leave both you and your current employer as blameless as possible while also emphasizing the immutability of them. Then wrap that reason around a series of positives before you drop your “but”. For example:

Looks like the classic 'shit-sandwich' advice. When I hear it, I go immediately on guard since it indicates coming from an environment where you are expected to play the game, rather than be honest.
I waiting for STM (ARM0) and usbC
and meybe better power (step-up-down from 1-12V?) I can emergency use any AA, 18650, 12V from my car, solar panel etc.
And meybe integrated sound cable for baofeng/quansheng (K1<->USBA) USBA as powerbank and Packet radio or http://reticulum.network
I’ve a proposal. I’ve created a Hypervisor that can launch lightweight and efficient VMs, similar to containers. Workloads in these VMs behave like isolated processes (isolated from other VMs) You can pack and sell 10x more VMs. Unlike traditional VMs, you don’t have to worry about turning them off so as to free resources. Would love to work together with you if you’re interested in using it.
For tech and immigration Japan has it all figured out.

No illegal immigration because illegal

No cheesing population growth because over time - a long time - it will repair itself

No high tech because it's not a good thing per se - fax machines and such

Basically the difference between a short term gains company versus long term gains. And look at many of their businesses, many proud to be 1000+ years old and such. Now that's long term gains.

And so the MyNumber as in my view a poor decision. In USA We have had something like MyNumber for a very long time, but because now it's been hacked, now it is called EveryonesNumber. So now I can check how much tax my neighbor has paid, how much my neighbor has in their retirement fund, my neighbor's insurance, a bunch of other stuff in like 10 seconds for like 400 million neighbors.
I came to submit this video as well, but the search at the bottom of the HN page did not find my link. Fortunately when I submitted, I was redirected to this page rather than creating a new link! So somehow the submission page has better search than the website search.
I almost never use None as the second value here. From my POV, that would be new syntax for an unlikely situation.
(Sorry if too off-topic)

I just saw this and thought this was pretty cool! Running your command in nushell, and eventually aborting it gives the following output

^CError: nu::shell::terminated_by_signal

× External command was terminated by a signal
╭─[entry #28:1:32]
1 │ cat /dev/random | hexdump -C | grep 'ca fe'
· ──┬─
· ╰── terminated by SIGINT (2)
╰────

Just wanted to random praise the nushell team for this amazing level of detail!
When you are playing against an opponent, yes, you need a min-max strategy.

But then you are not, optimizations are exactly what that name sounds. You usually need to max some goal while you min some weakly correlated one, what sounds similar, but you can pick exactly what "preconditions" you will optimize against. You don't need to cover them all.
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A good approach to making decisions in a team context (also works for personal use) is explained by Rich Hickey here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5QF2HjHLSE

The talks is called "Design in Practice" but is really about making decisions.
Correct take. But I also want to point out that this earnest reply is casting "remove curse" on this cursed library.
LTE is already in the works.
I love the split tabs feature. I do wish it was a bit more fleshed out, however. For example, I'd like tabs opened from a split tab replace that tab in the split view when switched to.
While it’s a good statement, there's no evidence Mark Twain made it.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/mark-twain-read-newspaper-...
On the other hand, the medical school admissions process in Canada has become such a pissing contest between people who are extraordinarily high achieving. I don’t think the difference between someone who got a 99th percentile MCAT and a 95th percentile MCAT will ever make a difference in patient outcomes.
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>I don't really see putting important links in the footer as anti-pattern. For my entire internet life, many important links were put into the footer of a webpage. Careers, About Us, Contact Us, Locations, Citations, etc. They are expected to be there.

Yes, because after a century of public relations and marketing you expect fine print to be in these locations because you have been marketed to from infancy, which has made you apparently, forget that today's dark pattern creators stand on the shoulders of the giants who came before them, and the fact that you expect that stuff to be there is because your worldview has been successfully engineered. Important links under the fold, aka the first page are there to be overlooked. What they want from YOU is top of the page.

>Most emails I get aren't long enough to scroll anyway.

Careful with that kind of thinking, marketing works on everybody. A seed is planted, by appealing to emotional arguments. If it takes root, then your worldview starts to change, via rationalization. The smarter you are, the better and more subtle your rationalizations and better it works.

This project of social engineering was given to a guy named Edwin Bernays, who wrote several very plain and easy to read books on how he was going to do this project. First one was "The Engineering of Consent."