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Blue Origin's goal has been to move heavy industry into space, to realize the vision of Gerard O'Neill. For its first 5 years it was a think tank, trying to figure out the best way to get there. Neal Stephenson was one of the employees, and you can see echoes of their work in his writing.

Only after 5 years did they transition to becoming a rocket company, having decided that lowering the cost of access to space was the most important first step to realizing O'Neill's vision.

And they were right, it's just that SpaceX realized the same thing at about the same time and were much more successful at it.

Going from 0 to a large oxygen rich staged combustion engine and a heavy class rocket in 19 years is actually pretty good by industry standards. SpaceX is the exception, not Blue Origin.
They have to be using upscaling. No matter your feelings on it, it is the way everything is moving and will become a requirement to run any "AAA" game going forward soon enough.
Most news stories on tv are presented as being "Breaking News!" It's absolutely bonkers some of the things they'll push that way.
China's various new rockets are another example.
I had one, used it for years. It’s still in the draw, still looks fantastic, still works, although it’s a bit slow these days.
yea, it comes across as an extremely entitled mobster take.

heads i win, tails you lose. we own all your content, and you better behave.

i can bet this is incentive-speak.
But the entire article is based on the decision to remove "book a call" from the Enterprise pricing.
Wasn’t it already too late by the time Ballmer left?
Dont ask me why. But that idiotic pop ups come even in the internal portal in out company… is a disaster. Yes they are not required, but OBVIOUSLY are there to make us crazy and make us click whatever make them disappear faster. An nobody is doing NOTHING after years…
Isn't the point of owning a switch to play games that aren't on the Steam Deck? Zelda, Mario, etc.?
I couldn't believe my eyes when I read that they had hired Elop and was concentrating on Windows phones. I immediately knew that was the end. Unbelievably incompetent by the board.
Legislators don't get to dodge the natural consequences of their legislation. This wasn't an unexpected side effect, it's the only possible outcome of the bill in the world as it actually exists.

Laws should not be written for spherical humans, they should be written for the real-world humans who actively circumvent laws where they can get away with it. And when legislation makes the world worse for everyone because it encourages self-interested individuals and companies to act in a way that is annoying or harmful, legislators don't get to dodge responsibility by saying that it's their fault and they should have just done the right thing.

We have laws precisely because people can't be counted on to do the right thing.
Pretty proud of the fact that Kagi not only works without Javascript, but it looks and behaves almost the same. Javascript is used to enhance the UX not create it. It is like 'lite' mode is always on.
Anything to say on the substance of the comment?
Stiffness just seems to be rewriting mass as a different term. Only things with mass have stiffness, stiffness is exactly proportional to mass, light isn’t stiff…
What make OP think they do not care? They apparently care about themselves more than anybody else to not care about anyone else. What is it called: selfishness!

I ran out of (good) things to watch on Netflix so I watched a couple of Japanese drama shows (TBS product I think). At first it seems boring as heck: no sex, no violence. But after a while, I think I got hooked. The usual theme is always something around respect, self-sacrifice, leaving a place better than when you found it kind of feeling. It is just a departure from the usual US based drama.

Is it just the general direction we in the US live everyday for the last decade?
I disable them with a browser addon (and Revanced on mobile) because I seriously never want to watch a 30 second video on Youtube. Having to scroll past useless snippets when I'm looking for something had borderline-ruined Youtube for me.
Have you scrolled through the Switch store? The UI freezes for seconds at a time while network requests lock up the main thread.
I have a recurring dream where I'm trying to type something on my phone, and it never comes out right, I delete and try again and again, can't hit the right buttons
Bluesky made some interesting choices in the design of the AT Protocol. It reminds me a bit of RSS. At least in the aspect of having separate content and aggregation layers.
Hiring artists is still a cost and potential time sink, for a game done in your free time that is really unlikely to turn a profit. Generative AI is free and takes just a few minutes.
I kind of like the joy con issue, as it means I can send the controllers back to Nintendo and get them fixed for free, even when the problem isn't the joycon - it's the kids destroying the controller.

https://en-americas-support.nintendo.com/app/region/d/joycon...

(Nintendo has always had excellent support - I remember getting a Gamecube refurbished long after the Wii was everywhere).
I was looking for more feeds to subscribe to. Thanks for sharing!
Not sure, but it won't be a big deal. History is a great resource, see the prior AI is around the corner and we'll all have flying cars in the decades after WW2
This is probably one reason why not too many people with autism end up doing sales.
Those folks would never played any GB generation device, the whole line of devices.

Nor are old enough to have lived through 8 and 16 bit home computers days.
I’m not so sure it’s going to even do that much. People are currently happy to use LLM’s, but the outputs aren’t accurate and don’t seem to be improving quickly.

A YouTuber watch regularly includes questions they asked Chat GPT and very single time there’s a detailed response in the comments showing how the output is wildly wrong from multiple mistakes.

I suspect the backlash from disgruntled users is going to hit the industry hard and these models are still extremely expensive to keep updated.
Subscribed RSS. Very helpful!
> which means better funded schools

This is another problem - school quality influences real estate valuation. If I support my local school and it gets better results, not only I can claim tax credits for donating to the school, but I also increased the value of my house. Or a house near a school I support.

Donations to support schools should always be equally divided among all schools, period, so that these donations can't create favored and disfavored regions. That public schooling should be both universal and uniform should be a given.
With emulators those games can also be played on the Steam Deck.
You'd spend $0.18 per share, yes, but the option's price is $18, not $0.18. So your return would be roughly 4.1x, not 488x. Remember options contracts are counted in hundreds, so $0.18 is the price per share, not per contract.
> I doubt they would have been able to do this work if they were based out of any other country

Here's a British one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viceroy_Research

There were a _number_ of British and German ones involved in the whole Wirecard mess.

Hindenburg's probably the world's most prominent, but there's nothing about the model that inherently requires being in the US.
What's stopping the U.K from banning VPN's for private use? Creating a carve out for workplace usage, or requiring a license and acceptable reason like firearms?

I doubt there would be much public pushback.

I mention this because people always mention these workarounds as being impregnable. If the U.K is okay with telling ISP's to block websites they certainly will have no problem banning VPN's
Microsoft should have gone for XBOX 3. To give the idea that it was on the same technology level than the PS3.

We all remember dBase II. ;)
It's not just the West. I'm Indian and it's 2x worse there.
Stephen Elop’s good a$$ barbecue and foot massage
Consumer Is Back – and Why It's Been So Hard Since 2014
I think half of Tofino's complexity was in their compiler. So it may inspire new hardware vendors to reuse it in some contexts.
I know we are in AI cycle and likely need a lot more compute. But if we took out AI from the equation, would we still need that many datacenter , given the amount of compute and storage per server is increasing. By 2030 we should be able to buy a Dual Socket 1024 total CPU Core Server. 2 / 4 PB SSD per 1U space. CPU core getting faster. Even PHP is getting faster.

Surely someday, if it hasn't happened already compute density will outpace compute requirement growth ( Again excluding AI ). And we should have more Rack space than demand? Or is that still too far fetched?
It’s usually because the system font is ugly, causing your fashion website to lose sales because it doesn’t match the style you’re selling.

The style IS the message.
Honestly I don't see a lot of people praising China who are against the tiktok ban. It's not just that our opinion of China is high, it's that our opinion of the US government is very low and they are our government, so why be worried about a foreign power when you feel like your own government is actively setting you up to fail, lying to your face and doing horrible shit.

I'll definitely admit that China is doing some horrible shit. I'm not the most educated on all of their issues but from what I've seen it's not great. But I'm also not convinced that TikTok is as much of a critical intelligence/espionage tool as much as the government claims it is, and I've seen a very real positive influence on people's connection with each other, and a frankly insane amount of mutual aid content on tiktok.

I am seeing a lot of people talking about how they have discovered that Chinese people are very welcoming and polite when you talk to them online. IDK, maybe I'm just missing the pro-chinese government stuff you are.
I think my wording was a bit vague there. By 'two empires', I meant the two who governed Palestine prior to 1948 (ie: the Ottoman, and then the British).

When zionism came about, Palestinian arabs were not in power and could not determine policy.

Zionist jews spend years wrangling (sometimes violently) promises and concessions from the British, and finally from the UN, who, at the time, seemed like the legitimate bodies to grant them.

In retrospect, 'what business did the Ottomans or British have to allow foreign zionists to take over Palestine?' but that's with the benefit of hindsight.

Not that either side is evil... it's a complicated conflict.
> These people had a blind spot for software. They thought they were still in the electronics business

I believe Sony failed to transition for similar reasons. They really owned the hardware era with its own kind of ui, pattern ... but everything they did in software was lacking.
No restrictions, except you can't play the Zelda, Mario, etc. games.
People will know and care instantly when there's an easily accessible storefront like app with those games one click away and perfectly legal. Same reason excellent tools like Aseprite are no longer floss - it got packaged (legally) in Debian and others and why on earth would you go way out of your way to buy it, or even think that they might be trying to charge.

I don't think games companies are against mods generally, many have steam workshop support built in. Nintendo as the big exception here ofc.

Cheating is ofc a huge problem for multiplayer games and can absolutely tank some genres. Very mixed feelings about the kernel level rootkit type spyware but there's no denying that games companies are paying big money to put them there for the players benefit.
Passkeys on Google Password Manager are now available on iOS
TankWork is an open-source desktop agent framework that enables AI to perceive and control your computer through computer vision and system-level interactions. Agents can:

Control your computer directly through voice or text commands
Process real-time screen content using computer vision and expert skill routing
Interact through natural language voice commands and text input
Provide continuous audio-visual feedback and action logging
Switch seamlessly between assistant and computer control modes
I think the gp's worldview doesn't allow for such a person to exist. It's an anomaly and, therefore, must be fake. Otherwise, I can't make sense of the way they have been arguing in this thread.
> Where does he lie about a video game?

He stated on Joe Rogan he was one of the best Diablo players in the world (top 20 or thereabouts). The only way to do that is to grind the game with long hours, because it gets exponentially more difficult to level up. I don't remember exactly how many hours of playtime he'd need to achieve the level he was at, but it was excessive. Something like 14+ hours a day.

Then he recently live streamed his Path of Exile 2 account. It was one of the highest leveled accounts in the world. Similar to Diablo, that's not possible without grinding the game for many hours. However, it was clear from the stream that Musk barely understood how to play the game. He was having trouble just finding things in the UI.

The point is: he paid someone (or multiple people) for a leveled up account. Then he publicly claimed to be one of the top players in the world.

It's both shocking and revealing that he's willing to put forth such a blatant lie, for something that matters so little (a video game).
I've been reading about landing pages for my project, and the standard formula is apparently to place that front-and-centre, with what your product actually does second. So often, though, it seems like they're so eager to tell you how brilliant the product is, they forget to tell you what it actually does.

And maybe that appeals to some people? I went with "Learn a language while you browse the web" for https://nuenki.app, and interestingly I have much more success from HN readers (technical people who may be interested in languages) than people from Reddit's language subreddits (interested in languages, generally not technical).

So I wonder if it's a difference in attitudes based on different groups. The hacker news crowd is asking "What have you built?", and intend to work out whether they think it's worth it once they know what you made, while reddit users go "How can this help me?".

Perhaps I should create a second landing page, a/b test it, and collect some stats.

Edit: I'm anecdotally noticing that the "Social proof!" (testimonials) I added yesterday seems to have hurt conversion if anything. I'm not convinced of the standard advice here... definitely worth getting some data on.
you spent 10% of your NW on a ski season pass?
There's also https://ooh.directory/ and https://blogscroll.com/
But those are three hells of exceptions (can you actually do that in English? I was trying to pluralize "a hell of an exception").

They are the 3rd, 4th and 7th best selling consoles of all time. And you forgot the dual screen in the DS (2nd best selling of all time).

Maybe many of the gimmicks flopped, but others wildly succeeded and Nintendo wouldn't be what it is without them. In fact, it probably wouldn't even make consoles by now, following the fate of Sega.
Getting rid of batch jobs shouldn't be a goal; batch processing is generally more efficient as things get amortized, caches get better hit ratios, etc.

What software engineers should understand is there's no reason a batch can't take 3 ms to process and run every 20 ms. "Batch" and "real-time" aren't antonyms. In a language/framework with promises and thread-safe queues it's easy to turn a real time API into a batch one, possibly giving an order of magnitude increase in throughput.
Belarusian democratic forces plan alternative passports against current regime
Additional official site with option in English: https://www.belarus-passport.com/
For those comparing school to prison, please confirm that you have experience with both.
AI datacenters putting zero emissions promises out of reach
Back then, there was a push to have NoVA be referred to as the "Silicon Dominion". Never caught on thankfully.
The Wii was pretty clearly sold as a Wii sports console, which got people who would never have touched a "standard" console into the market.

The attachment rate was likely lower because of that.
Speaking from the EU: China have local hubs in the EU so I do not pay import duty (unlike from USA). I think this is a major factor.
I agree with you, for most people the Switch is the better/easier option if they are just looking to play a Nintendo-exclusive. Emulators aren't that difficult to set up on Steam Deck and you can easily launch the games from the Steam UI but nothing beats the plug and play of the Switch and double-y so if you are playing networked games.
> but how much of it is RSS-as-such

Almost all of it. RSS is just a much more specific term than "feed" as many people talk about their Twitter or Facebook "feed". I have yet to see a reader that couldn't handle both RSS and Atom and you will see a mix of formats being produced.

I wrote a bit more detail about this in the past: https://kevincox.ca/2022/05/06/rss-feed-best-practices/#form...
> With microservices, each team becomes responsible for one part, and (as long as they keep their SLAs) they can't break each other's code.

Well, they still can and do break someone else's code. It is just breaking someones code with more steps in between. And who is at fault isn't necessarily as clear cut.
The article doesn't explicitly mention it but this debris will be from spent Falcon 9 upper stages which aren't reusable. The area will continue to be a dumping ground for space junk regardless of Starship, but less of it will be coming from SpaceX.
Nice. The ying and the yang.
OMG I'm doing this.
On the one hand yes, on the other, why would we care about a "stronger" tech sector, if the majority of that tech strength is based on stealing people's private data to monetize it, getting them addicted to digital crack to view ads just so that a small handful of bibliomaneres can get richer while the societal damages are being socialized? What would we gain from it? More "line goes up" nonsense that don't matter to the average person? Does the average American also care?

"So look, you can't afford rent, you can't afford groceries due to inflation, your student loans and medical bills are crippling, but the good news is tech stocks are up 200% since last year"

I also don't want to be on the public roads swarmed with flaky alpha stage self driving cars just so some billionaire nut job can flex on is social media platform and get richer. That kind of "innovation" that I'm glad is regualted.
The point I was making was that proudly racist people who thinks caucasians are superior to other ethnic groups drank milk because lactose intolerance is less prevalent in their groups.
Was just thinking about this the other day. I feel vindicated that I'm not the only one who thinks this.
For our purposes solar power is effectively perpetual motion.
If Europe is so brilliant at creating wonderful regulations they should make these popups illegal.
Those developers should spend less time with Unreal and Unity, and dust off some Michael Abrash books.
It's interesting what Julia's type system and compiler can do for you
Seriously a new low for "hacker" news
you can see why they are so aggressively pursuing emulators
SteamOS is Arch, Bazzite is Fedora if you want a more Fedora experience.

I agree mostly because I find myself playing a lot of smaller games these days, and it's much easier for devs to release and patch their games on Steam than it is a Nintendo platform. They also have a much friendlier refund policy.

For the masses though, a Nintendo system just works. I can hand a Switch to my daughter and know she can play Nintendo games with little bullshit, it's easy to play couch co-op, the parental controls are very solid, etc.

In terms of hardware it's ARM and Nvidia, which is a solid foundation, and Nintendo titles look great without being technically demanding. I fully expect to see a 60 FPS Zelda game that uses DLSS upscaling to look great on my 4K TV. The Steam Deck is somewhat limited by FSR2.
All those reentry tiles, reentry & burn back fuel, and header tanks add up to a lot of launch weight that wouldn't be needed in an expendable mission profile.
> If the customers prefer the walled garden then what’s the big deal?

What the customers "prefer" and what's good for society are two very different questions. Anti-competitive behavior for one, like charging your direct competitors a 30% tax on their revenue because you own the platform, ensuring that you always come out ahead.

> There are a number of other phones people can buy

I don't understand this argument. For smartphones there's just one viable alternative which is itself trending in the walled garden direction. Google has been imposing additional restrictions for sideloading and adding various roadblocks that are slowly reeling back user freedoms.

Both companies have a long list of customer-hostile behaviors and we have to pick one of them because interoperability is dead. Because we have to pick one, there's no real pressure to address those grievances on either side.

It's always "just use Android" when we complain about Apple and "just use iOS" when we complain about Google. It's like that scene out of South park with the Cable company people rubbing their nipples listening to disgruntled customers.
Ditch the algorithm by using or building a custom feed in BlueSky. I'm interested in networking stuff so I built a BlueSky feed that anyone can use.

https://bsky.app/profile/coverfire.com/feed/networking
Wasn't my intention at all to imply that they did something wrong and need to scramble to fix it. Just observing that a large portion of the web is built around the assumption that traffic is intermittent, where even a small burst of requests can knock it over. No shade — I've built plenty of sites like that.
That's because the warmer the light, the less it is affected by Rayleigh scattering. In other words, shorter wavelength (i.e., bluer) light scatters more. This is the same reason that the sky is blue.

Animals are also more sensitive/more attracted to bluer light. These harsh white LED street lamps are a death sentence for moth species.
> If you want to protect your content, use the technical mechanisms that are available,

> You can choose to gatekeep your content, and by doing so, make it unscrapeable, and legally protected.

so... robots.txt, which the AI parasites ignore?

> Also, consider that relatively small, cheap llms are able to parse the difference between meaningful content and Markovian jabber such as this software produces.

okay, so it's not damaging, and there you've refuted your entire argument
I am more interested to find platforms where laymen share their pains about items they use.
It could be nice for FPS.

The current motion controls for the pro controller work well, but a mouse + single hand controller setting could work as well.
And many of them are incredibly useful. Take, for example, the burning of fuel. Or eating and digesting.
Streaming videos, leasing cars, cloud gaming, spotify, are all great until the distributor takes it away.

I prefer to own my things. The sense that something is mine increases the pleasure of using something for me.

It probably stems from my acquired lack of trust in people. The idea that there's a suit in a high-rise building that spends their days thinking about how to exploit my continued enjoyment of a title by raising the fee, or not addressing congestion hours, or retracting the title when the contract is up and renewing would cost too much, or putting a clause in the service agreement that strips me of my right to sue them if I lose an arm in their amusement park, simply by blurring the lines of ownership.. it bothers me.