skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm looking at overall re-use numbers. Yes, boosters are now being certified for more launches which will, over time, bring both the average and the median number of launches per booster up.

In this conversation, I think the relevant point is that as the 'resusability' of the F9 booster has gone up, so has the cost to make a single booster. That's because they've added things and changed how they make them in order to boost re-usability. I expect the same evolution in Starship/Booster which will increase the unit cost in order to make them more reusable which will lower overall cost of launches because you can amortize those costs across multiple flights.
IDSPISPOPD, IDKFA, and IDDQD work but the only weapons that work are the chainsaw up to the rocket launcher.
>People have always needed housing and will always need housing.

Right, but not all housing is priced the same. Having a car allows you to live further away from the city center where real estate prices are astronomical. You might argue "we should invest in public transit instead!" or similar, but at least in the US, that's unlikely to materialize, and might not even be economical (eg. for suburbs).
https://archive.ph/GJNzn
It's like tuning signal:noise ratio - as a person looking for help you're inundated with CVs, if you see one with "I know literally every web technology and have been using them for decades" it isn't as easy to parse as "I know literally the technology you use, and can help you from day one".
Is that true? There are many attention/mlp layers stacked on top of each other. Higher level layers aren't performing attention on input tokens, but instead on the output of the previous layer.
Open-sourcing code after shutting down a startup (Quine AS)
Hi,

I've been a co-founder of a Norwegian startup, Quine AS, that attempted to automate workflows in media productions (as in movies, series, commercials). Ultimately, we've failed; the company was dissolved in July 2024. I've used a couple of weeks of vacation to clean up and document the reusable parts of the code, and to write about (parts of) our history.
2.01 (Buran-Class Spacecraft)
Are most of the images on that page missing or is it just me?
All else being equal, sure. A common line of thinking though is “I don’t want someone who will quickly tire of whatever boring mostly-CRUD thing we do; I don’t need clever; I need willing to do boring things…”

That might not ever be said aloud, but I think it underlies some hiring decision-making (and, for a lot of places, probably should underly their thinking).

We might love software for its challenges and changes; most places just see it as a cost that must be paid to make their business function. They no more love it than they do their electricity utility.
You're both right, but your comment is confusing the issue. You're linking to the relevant case for TFA, whereas parent is linking to the relevant case for this thread regarding FPSRussia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FPSRussia
"So essentially being able to charge and convict someone (with due process) of 'violent intent', with no financial or incarceration penalties, but temporary addition to a lists that preclude their being able to access dangerous material (guns, explosives, etc)."

I'm not sure what you're getting at on this one. This individual faces potential incarceration. He is on bail and would be denied access to dangerous things... in theory. Of course he manufactured explosives, so it's not like he has to pass a background check to come into possession of them again.

"and we'd all be able to be afforded greater freedom if we did a better job in managing those particular people's access to lethal things."

Do you have some examples of additional freedoms we're missing currently?

"Of course, the NRA has historically been the biggest lobbyist blocker to anything of that nature, given their paranoia that any legal government consequences will spiral into a panopticon."

I'm not exactly sure what you're referring to that they oppose. But the legal term for a slippery slope is the Overton Window. Speaking of gun regulations generally, it's not hard to understand why a pro-gun group would be against the types of additional regulations that are already present in other states that arguable do not improve safety or could even reduce it in legitimate use circumstances (eg hollowpoint bans, etc).
America sits on a weird knife edge where there's (a) lots of talk about political violence, which is constitutionally protected and (b) lots of stockpiling of weapons, which is constitutionally protected, and (c) lots of routine mass murder incidents, which follow logically from (a) and (b) ..

BUT

.. apart from Jan 6 and a few milita incidents, nobody ever combines these three into politically targeted violence. The mass murders are always either strangers, workplace, or schoolchildren. Politically motivated, but not targeted at any kind of power structure. It's been a long time since the Unabomber. All the elements are in place for a really serious deterioration of civil safety, but so far the glue is holding.
I've discussed with Mitchell a bit in the past on this, but there are a few ways to opt in to this. First, let's imagine there is some escape sequence that tells the terminal to ignore some set of escape sequences.

1. The shell could have a keybind (say, ctrl+enter) which runs the command with (for example) only styling enabled (CSI m sequences).

2. You could write a wrapper around any program to do the same. The shell doesn't need to know anything about the system, but instead you have a wrapper that disables and then reenables said sequences.

3. A program itself can opt in by turning on the feature at launch. This allows CLI / TUI developers to "safeguard" their programs from malicious attacks.
I'd love to hear HN's suggestions on keeping IP out of these LLMs where possible. For context I'm a writer. Nothing I write gets published online and I don't need to submit to, say, Amazon/Kindle to make money. However, much of my work is passed around by executives via email, for example. Ideas?
Larry always makes appearances in his reviews, lol

> But the real big news in 2023 was how Elon Musk personally helped reset Larry's Twitter password after he invested $1b in Musk's takeover of the social media company. And with this $1b password reset, we were graced in October 2023 with Larry's second-ever tweet and his first new one in over a decade.

https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~pavlo/blog/2024/01/2023-databases-re...

> These journalists made it sound like Larry was doing something nefarious or indecent, like the time he made his pregnant third wife sign a prenup two hours before their wedding. I can assure you that Larry was only trying to use his vast wealth as the 7th richest person in the world to help his country. His participation in this call is admirable and should be lauded. Free and fair elections are not a trivial affair, like a boat race where sometimes shenanigans are okay as long as you win. Larry has done other great things with his money that are overlooked, like spending $370m on anti-aging research so that he can live forever

https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~pavlo/blog/2022/12/2022-databases-re...
1% of the sustained effort being spent on terminal emulators would be like a third of an engineer, so I have some great news for you.
It's nice to see a balanced article on H5N1. A good one to send to the numerate who are panicking about H5N1.
conjecture?
Yes, I was imprecise. I mean methods of splicing together Multi-Sphere images (MSI) like Google's Seurat Light Field tech.
https://discussions.unity.com/t/google-s-seurat-surface-ligh...

"An MSI consists of a series of concentric spherical shells, each with an associated RGBA texture map. Like the MPI, the multi-sphere image is a volumetric scene representation. MSI shells exist in three dimensional space, so their content appears at the appropriate positions relative to the viewer, and motion parallax when rendering novel viewpoints works as expected. As with and MPI, the MSI layers should be more closely spaced near the viewer to avoid depth-related aliasing. The familiar inverse depth spacing used for MPI’s
yields almost the correct depth sampling for MSI’s, assuming depth is measured radially from the rig center. The spacing we use is determined by the desired size of the interpolation volume and angular sampling density as described in Appendix A.

3.2.1 MSI Rendering. For efficient rendering, we represent each sphere in the MSI as a texture-mapped triangle mesh and we form the output image by projecting these meshes to the novel viewpoint, and then compositing them in back-to-front order. Specifically, given a ray r corresponding to a pixel in the output view, we first find all ray-mesh intersections along the ray. We denote Cr = {c1, . . . , c }
and Ar = {1, . . . , } as the color and alpha components at each intersection, sorted by decreasing depth. We then compute the output color cr by repeatedly over-compositing these colors. [..] We parameterize the MSI texture maps using equi-angular sampling, although other parameterizations could be used if it were necessary to dedicate more samples to important parts of the scene."

https://storage.googleapis.com/immersive-lf-video-siggraph20...
Ukraine Forces a Halt to Flow of Natural Gas from Russia to Europe
Or whoever that has quantum computer in the near future. Encryption is just a cat and mouse game it is before long someone will figure out to decrypt it.
The fawning over Larry Ellison is also weird.
Imagine juggling over 1000 papers and trying to manually recall key points from a dozen of them while writing your manuscript. Sure, abstracts and introductions exist—but unless you’ve got a photographic memory, good luck efficiently cross-referencing them all. That’s where AI steps in, not to reinvent the wheel, but to save you from drowning in a sea of documents. Sometimes, leveraging modern tools is smarter than clinging to old habits.
Standard ebooks has coverage too: https://standardebooks.org/blog/public-domain-day-2025
Those are just my silly personal projects, not businesses. The business I mentioned above is in the recruiting agency space, B2B SaaS. The app itself is not the thing being purchased per se, the point was it was built using LLMs.

$10K MRR isn't much; we're still validating PMF. We're carefully selecting paid customers at this point, not open for wide release, hence my vagueness. Just wanted to illustrate that building robust apps that have value are possible today.
Disclaimer: commie.

I read The Gulag Archipelago and did not find it to be as damning to the Gulag system as people seem to paint it, at least in historical context. Forced prison labor was only officially abolished in Britain in 1948. Political prisoners in USSR were but a tiny part of Gulag prisoners. Considering USSR replaced literal monarchy, that is still a big improvement. In the turmoils between 1917 and 1945 it is no wonder a proper court system was not established and the country had what it deemed other priorities. Hindsight is 20/20 here.

Solzhenitsin himself was booked for spreading information about Soviet atrocities, but severe penalties for spreading such information existed in many countries, including Britain. It is a rather typical (especially then) wartime law, that in Britain for instance went up to death sentence (probably not for that particular kind of violation).

This all feels alien now, but it is not that much different from other major powers were doing at the time.
Ah but this then absolutely fails for range queries but makes sense if you want to build an index for point lookups.
unrelated: USSR might have been 2nd world. Russia is 3rd world (since 1991) -- banana republic
>The problem is the suburban home is a prison. If you are in one, and don’t have access to a functioning car with a person to drive it, you can’t go anywhere. Even a healthy person will have to walk very far to reach anything.

>While the car allows one to break free of a suburban home, it is itself another prison. Owning and using a car means you must find a place to park it. Pay to fuel it. Pay for insurance. Pay for a new car every once in awhile. Pay to maintain it. If anything happens to the car, you have to take care of it. Any moment your life can be interrupted and ruined if there is any car related issue to take care of. Time lost sitting in traffic. Serious injuries or even lives lost to crashes.

Those are all downsides, but characterizing them as "a prison" is a stretch. For instance, if you live in the city and are forced to rely on public transport, how are the associated downsides not similarly "a prison"? For instance, having to wait 30 minutes for a bus, that might stop operating at 10pm, is arguably more of a hassle than trying to figure out parking or whatever. Does that make public transit "a prison"?
You mean like the United States?

The world‘s largest oil producer?
It's not about people who have already gone through it, or about yourself. It's about people who are still going through it, and how you treat them. For most people, the delta isn't (just) used to justify their own self-destruction, but to justify their cruelty to others. You never know what battles people are fighting. And while it's true that someone can do a lot of damage to themselves, that pales in comparison to what a group of others who don't understand their struggle can do to them.
> "It's impossible for me to be wrong" that right there tells us all we need to know about you.

Actually, it doesn’t, as it’s very clear you still don’t understand what I’m saying XD

If I was comparing ghostty to kitty, I can obviously be wrong. But I was just saying I’m impressed, which literally can’t be wrong unless I’m lying about being impressed.

It’s like if I look across a lake and say “what a lovely view”. And someone comes by and says “no there’s a much better one where I was standing, you should take back what you said or provide evidence to your claim”. Don’t you see how silly this is ;)

> Do you actually believe ghostty has a development velocity faster than its peers, specifically, kitty and WezTerm? Yes or no.

You said you didn’t give a “rat’s ass” about my opinion ;)

This is where you’ve gone wrong. It don’t know or care whether ghostty has a development velocity faster than kitty. I didn’t say it did. Nobody in this sub-thread has said anything (good or bad) about kitty. The only person interested in ghostty vs kitty in this sub-thread is you.

So the question you’re demanding that I answer is like demanding I prove that the view I was impressed with across the lake is better than the view you had. When it really doesn’t matter which view was better. It’s possible to be impressed by something in isolation, without it being turned into a competition.

I’m not answering your question because I have no part to play in the 1-person argument you’re having with yourself about whose development velocity is faster, when nobody was making the comparison to begin with (except you).

I feel like I’m wasting my breath though, but at least I can say I tried! And I suspect HN comment depth limits may kick in soon. So I’ll bow out now and give you the pleasure of the last word, since you certainly seem to need it more than me ;)
The company is not facing punishment severe enough to make it important, I guess?
Would be very controversial and groundbreaking if you could.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antisemitism_and_the_New_Tes...
Real-Time User Experience Will Define the Future of Software
That's a low bar. Google's reCAPTCHA sometimes feels like it was created in a lab to be as infuriating to humans as possible.

If you're not logged in and are using a shared IP (CG-NAT in my case), you get all sorts of fun behaviors. It loves to fail correct responses -- sometimes multiple consecutive ones. Occasionally, it will deliberately slow down new image fade-in to a snail's pace to test reaction time. Spot those stairs too fast? You must be a bot.
I mean, I'm pretty upfront on my personal site that I've built successful companies in the past. Not sure why I would lie about this one, especially when I'm admitting that I'm not doing the work :)

See comment above for more context.
Hopefully this will have a real effect.
I don't understand why this question is asked in any context. What if an asteroid is on a collision course with Earth? What if Jesus comes back? What if the yeti is real?
Exactly, and is there material difference between OTP in a password manager and a passkey in the password manager?
I hope someday that people will understand that you can use AI to build "boring" non-AI apps.
Just so we know, at what point should we have stopped searching for medical advances that make life significantly longer? I’m assuming you’re anti-chemotherapy? And what specifically should the “smaller number of humans” be?
Tracking was available by Jan 2020 at the latest
> BTW Nietzche speaks in goodreads quotes and meme-like aphorisms.

Aside from the fact that I doubt it's true, this seems a lot like panning The Third Man as derivative of later thrillers.
C# is headed this way. Typescript is there but only if you can ignore the fact that it is JavaScript masquerading as a more serious language for halloween.
That Fundamentals book by Wilczek that I mentioned is a good start. I'm also reading through the pop-sci classics now (A Brief History Of Time, Feynman's stuff) and they're not disappointing.

I really like the Very Short Introduction series by Oxford University Press. I've read 30 of them so far (just counted). At this point they basically have a book on every aspect of physics that has interested me at one time or another: black holes, gravity, quantum theory, waves, time, thermodynamics, chaos, etc. Really love being able to literally put the book in my back pocket and read a few pages whenever I have a spare moment. Each book can be very hit-or-miss, though. Some of them are badly written and fail at their basic value proposition (providing a concise and reasonably complete overview of a field).
I'm balancing my desire to live near nature with my desire to live near a grocery store, a library, and a rock climbing gym
Agreed. Many noSQL-boom-era databases eventually bolted on a SQL-esque layer, but that was also because they were mostly also all targeting "enterprise database" use cases and customers who both expected that and whose use cases largely fit with it. So, there was a lot of pressure to conform to norms when the advantage of not doing so wasn't immediately self-evident.

We have a database [1] and query language [2] that's tailored to storing & querying trace/telemetry data produced by different layers and components of cyber-physical systems for systems engineers to analyze, verify, and validate what a complex system is doing. It's not quite a traditional relational problem. It's not quite a traditional time series problem. It's not quite a traditional graph problem.

Addressing the way that systems engineers think about their domain in an effective way required coming up with something different. Are there caveats and rough edges? Sure. But, they're a lot less pernicious and onerous than the alternative of trying to leverage a bunch of ill-fitting menageries of different solutions.

Redis is fit-for-purpose. So, it makes sense that its query interface would also express that.

[1] https://docs.auxon.io/modality/

[2] https://docs.auxon.io/speqtr/
Probably.

I would bet there are some systems that accept a passkey in a situation that they don't accept a password.
Great advice! I will try trimming my CV/resume. The only rub is people ask, "What did you do those 6 years in between listed jobs?" I realize this can go both good and bad. Thanks!
Fixed. Thank you. Previous incarnation/experiment leftover.
> “It calls itself ‘Murderbot,’” Gurathin said. I opened my eyes and looked at him; I couldn’t stop myself. From their expressions I knew everything I felt was showing on my face, and I hate that. I grated out, “That was private.”
The article describes nearly 100 houses printed at 2-3 weeks per house and 25 sold. That is very poor economics for single family development. Working capital tied up, carrying costs for the land, interest on construction loans, etc. are all coming out of the developer’s pocket. [1]

There’s also the capital cost of the printer, the inherent complexity of pumping concrete, and the material cost of concreter per unit volume.

My opinion is based on my bullshit detector. I worked in a precast plant with its own concrete plant, for a very large home builder, and for and with residential developers as an architect. Sure I might be wrong, but my opinion is formed from directly related experience with the materials and with the industries.

But even on the face the article is talking about moonbases as future projects not suburban Atlanta.

[1] Most likely this project is subsidized with non-commercial resources.
And also being able to eat, sleep, and socialize adequately in the meantime.
That conclusion is not supported by your link, honestly.
It was exactly the kind of overview I was looking for. You can tell that Atkins is someone that was writing out of pure intellectual love for his domain.
The problem with all the very impressive videos on that page is that we have no idea how many attempts were made before the robot could successfully, e.g. "put strawberry into the correct bowl". In that task there's four bowls, so a random choice of bowl would be correct 25% of the time. How many times did the robot put the strawberry e.g. in the bowl of apples? And that's assuming "the correct bowl" is the one with the strawberries (which is a big assumption- the strawberry should go with the others of its kind: says who? How often can the robot put the strawberry in the bowl with the apples if that's what we want it to do?).

Plotted results show around 50% average performance on "unseen" tasks, environments, objects etc, which sounds a lot like success follows some kind of random distribution. That's not a great way to engender trust in the "emergent" abilities of a robotic system to generalise to unseen tasks etc. Blame bad statistics if you get a strawberry in the eye, or a banana in the ear.
It does not show the model version anywhere on the page on chatgpt.com, even when logged in.
I store 2FA keys in a fingerprint protected Aegis vault on my phone, and I periodically export an encrypted (with a master password I remember) backup that I then email to my parents.

I get their argument that 2FA makes phishing more difficult, but I disagree that it's its "primary use", or that the distributed factor is unimportant. I personally wouldn't feel comfortable having all my important accounts behind Bitwarden's single point of failure. 2FA for important accounts mitigates the damage if my Bitwarden is broken into.
"Decide what you want to do and remove everything from your resume that does not apply to that specific topic"

The only correct answer to finding a job as a generalist/veteran. You need to focus on 1 specific thing and go hard at it. It is extremely difficult to read a Resume which has a bit of everything.
>> In sales training I did many years ago, there was the maxim that, whoever mentions price first, loses.

This is just a popular maxim, but I've found it only really applies when you're trying to sell something very expensive, buy it very cheap or have no idea what the price should be. Most of the time the first price anchors and then the other party negotiates. If you know what you want and have confidence in the general value, go ahead and set an aggressive anchor.
*quelle
What makes him think those guys read?
>A time-based 2FA (TOTP) is time-sensitive, and a man-in-the-middle or proxy needs to be set up to capture that in real-time

Is that supposed to be remotely difficult? It'll take maybe an hour to whip up a script that takes the captured credentials, passes it onto a headless browser to attempt the login, capture the session cookie, and optionally refresh the page regularly to keep the session active.