skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
SpaceX is way ahead of everyone. Falcon 9 has launched 425 times (127 in 2024 alone), and landed the first stage successfully in 398 of 410 attempts (most of their flights are with reused boosters). New Glenn has higher lift capacity than Falcon 9, but much lower than SpaceX's Starship, which has reached orbital velocity (didn't yet try for actual orbit) and whose Super Heavy booster has had a partially successful landing.

If SpaceX suddenly vanished, along with all its people and knowledge, Blue Origin could catch up to SpaceX's current capabilities, but it would take many years. If SpaceX shut down but Blue Origin and RocketLab hired all their people, things would progress much faster.
Yes, a horrible idea. It's like throwing a kid in deep water and expecting them to swim. Border line child abuse.

I didn't even bother with a broomstick for my kids. I just ran along, holding the cargo rack. It didn't take them long to learn. A few hours spread out?
> how do call

Whataboutism?

Both sides might be wrong and commit horrible acts at the same time.

However Israel can potentially change its policies (even if that’s unlikely).

Hamas OTH is just objectively evil. The fact that they have a fraction of the resources that Israel has does not change that.

> israeli atrocities are much

I guess a matter of preference. Would you rather be raped and tortured for months or die quickly after a bomb hits you?
Piaget is well known in teaching circles as a philosophical father of pedagogy. A (slightly) less know pedagogist is Vygotsky, who invented the term “Zone of Proximal Development”. The idea is that kids can learn from others and from experimentation if you can design activities where you take the skills they currently have, consider the skill you want them to acquire, and build steps between them that a child can succeed in. To develop this example: once a child can walk, they can learn to balance by being given a task which allows them to safely experiment with falling over and staying upright. Once they can balance, you can experiment with moving while balancing. Once they can move forward with balancing, they can learn stopping safely. Finally, they should be ready to learn how to pedal.

If you don’t allow them to complete all the previous steps, they may just keep failing at the next task, because they’re not yet in the “zone” to be able to acquire the next skill.

If a child can’t balance annd move forwards unaided, they won’t be able do the next thing (pedalling) even with help.

Children have different skills and capabilities and Vygotsky is not prescriptive about who needs to help, and the ZPD theory often encourages learning from peers rather than adults (parents/teachers).
> I was just thinking about how for the people requesting all of these meetings, the meetings are the work.

This is a huge problem in all orgs of any size and one I battle with - misaligned incentives.

> For engineers, meetings are the non-productive part and are not counted anywhere.

Part of addressing the issue is to not be binary in your thinking. You'll lose the people you need to persuade. Some meetings are very productive and necessary for engineers. The goal isn't to get rid of all meetings as much as it's to only have productive meetings. When forced to only have productive meetings, fewer meetings naturally result.
> Americans are the most propagandized people on the planet

So we've moved the goalpost from everyone supports Hamas to everyone secretly supports Hamas, they just won't say it, but I know it's the case regardless?

> Hamas has succeeded in their primary goal which was reminding the world that they still exist

Yes, when they went into this war and when they rejected the deal in May I'm sure they were thinking that the tens of thousands of lives lost and hundreds of thousands--if not millions--scarred for life, with the prospect of America recognising Israeli anexations in the West Bank on the horizon, was worth a few more hits on their Wikipedia page.

I suppose we can't know what Hamas' goals are right now. But Sinwar's goals were clear. And this war has been a total failure per his goals.

> what his real opinion or plan is can be discovered by his actions in due time

No. But his track record can be scrutinised. That said, if people believing the guy who recognised Jerusalem as Israel's capital, wants to reinstate "maximum pressure" on Iran and hangs out with this guy [1] thinks a self-governing Palestine is the way to go, and that results in a longer cease fire, sure. I'm all for it.

> Many israelis were disappointed by his ceasefire push and said that this deal was "forced upon israel"

I know some pretty forcefully pro-Israel Israelis. They're all in favour of this plan because it (a) returns hostages, (b) gives Israel a chance to recoup and pot some shots with the Houthis and (c) is a temporary cease-fire.

(Not saying some weren't disappointed. If he were still alive, Sinwar would probably reject it. But expecting zero crazies in any population is, well, crazy.)

> the zionist brigade is quick, not even 10 seconds after posting this reply it already had a downvote

One, it's an Israel-Palestine thread. Everyone is going to get downvoted.

Two, "Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading" [2].

[1] https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20250111-musk-calls-for-tr...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
A reply of "sounds good" means the initial email has been read and its contents agreed upon. Ho would AI improve upon this?

- sending "sounds good" even when the recipient hasn't, in fact, read the initial email => catastrophic alternative

- writing an elaborate email explaining in luxurious details why it in fact sounds good => not catastrophic, but costing time on the other side to read and understand, with zero added value
People can attempt to explain it, but it’s a bit of an apples to oranges comparison.

SpaceX have a much more agile approach, and Blue Origin are following a more traditional waterfall style approach, to put it in software engineering project terms. While it may seem obvious that one is better than the other, I think it’s hard to say conclusively.

The different approaches mean that while SpaceX might have more milestones under their belt, Blue Origin could leapfrog them on some aspects. The fact this first launch went as well as it did is an amazing feat, SpaceX have never had that much success from a first launch.

What we can say however is that the endgame of Starship will be far more capable than the endgame of New Glenn. If or when either reaches that point remains to be seen.
That’s actually sounds like such a fun feature to build.
The website may want to, but I don't.
12 years passed between SpaceX's first orbital flight (2008) and their first orbital flight with humans aboard (2020). SpaceX will probably reach Mars orbit before 2030.

Blue Origin is likely at least a decade behind, though they haven't taken the same path and have the benefit of not being first.
CrowdStrike problems are also structural the incident timeline hardly seemed like a fat finger mistake, but series of fundamental poor practices a org in their position should not have. We only get to see the one newsworthy incident like the door blowing off the airplane.

The "cost of business" will catchup to them is the point, Unlike Intel or Boeing it is not duopoly business with little to no options for CrowdStrike's product. It is notoriously brutal for large organizations in tech to stay competitive over 20-30 years time horizon.

Most likely trajectory for a company in their position, their growth slows - this incident being a key contributor to that slow down, then stock starts to fall, it will eventually become attractive for a company to acquire them, perhaps rebrand the product and keep the customers and cash flows.
The dream is you never have to rely on buggy vendor software again.

The reality is, you end up with a complex stack with no or homegrown documentation that requires experienced engineers to operate and maintain.

In some environments, that's a perfectly fair trade-off. In most, it isn't.
According to most work contracts / NDAs you wouldn't be allowed to keep private copies of work email.

If you are willing to violate that rule or the message affects your work contract which you are of course allowed to archive at least in zulip chat that's very simple (for a software person). They have a straightforward REST API. IIRC you can even choose between markdown source and HTML rendered output.
Yes, but think of DCC applications like Figma which might run into the 4 GB restriction with large data sets, not regular websites which run a couple of WebGL demos written in C.

...also WASM is starting to become popular outside the browser where requirements might be very different from running stuff in webpages.
Mindblowing. More details and photos:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_raspberry_flavor

> Food products labeled as blue raspberry flavor are commonly dyed with a bright blue synthetic food coloring, such as brilliant blue FCF (also called Blue #1) having European food coloring number E133. The blue color was used to differentiate raspberry-flavored foods from cherry-, watermelon-, and strawberry-flavored foods, each of which is typically red. The use of blue dye also partially is due to the FDA's 1976 banning of amaranth-based Red Dye No. 2, which had previously been heavily used in raspberry-flavored products.
Not sure what you mean. I guess this is a misunderstanding.

What I mean is that I would like something like this to work:

code = `(
func $add (param $a i32) (param $b i32) (result i32)
local.get $a
local.get $b
i32.add
)`;
module = WebAssembly.compile(code);
alert(module.add(3, 5)); // alerts "8".
That's not correct. Here is a map of how the West Bank settlements have grown over the years, from 1967 until 2024: https://apnews.com/a-look-at-how-settlements-have-grown-in-t...
Non-Technical Skills Every Site Reliability Engineer Should Master
This is true of most old empires. Romans, Persians, Arabs, Mongols, early Ottomans generally don't setttle areas they conquer. They don't engage in industrial extraction either. They form a ruling class and collect taxes. Any cultural influence that have was because of longevity rather than any interest in forced conversion. People project their impressions of more modern empires to pre-industrial ones that didn't have the same aspirations or even institutions to accomplish those aspirations.
It took SpaceX about 1-2 years to nail landings on the drone ships, and about 3-4 to nail video feeds of that happening. There’s something kinda funny about that.
The Memory64 proposal is for >4gb space -- and specifically to use it, not just reserve it. Learn context before commenting.
This almost got me too, but you missed GP’s point. See their next paragraph beginning “Or”. (It's about double standards for individual versus corporate copyright infringement.)
One thing that depresses me is how ugly our cities have become. Buildings that go up are designed with a total lack of aesthetic intention. In Seattle, ostensibly there is a design review committee for multifamily and commercial buildings, but it doesn't appear to have made the city look any better, and their 2025 goals include "streamlining the Design Review process to be quicker and less costly for applicants, and reducing the number of projects that are required to go through Design Review."

This is the committee that's supposed to care about this, and they don't. And the architects don't because they're not being paid to make a beautiful façade. And the developers don't because they want to finish construction as quickly and cheaply as possible. And the residents of the city don't care because they're apathetic about living in a beautiful environment.

What kills me though is that we travel to landmarks in New York City or Florence or wherever, and gawk at the beautifully-designed old buildings and charming plazas, and seem to lack the recognition that we could live in places just as beautiful if somebody cared.

It doesn't really have to cost much more. I used to live in a 20th century building originally built as a schoolhouse. The city architect, who was budget-constrained, still made a point of including decorative brickwork. 120 years later it was by far the most attractive building on the street.
Their rocket is closest to capabilities to a falcon-heavy [1], but to get to the space-x level, they need to demonstrate reusability, turn around times, and the ability to produce second stages once every 2&3 days, whilst maintaining an operational lunch tempo of 1 lunch every 2 days [2]

1:
https://youtu.be/xKt0hn4R_uU?si=kE2bTotS1r08RYBm

2: https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/01/spacex-is-superb-at-re...
Java Applets had fallen out of fashion long before then. Like a decade earlier. The only reason browsers and JRE continued to support it was because of enterprise middleware like Oracle. But for home users applets had long since been replaced by Flash.

The reason applets were unfashionable had nothing to do with control. It was because:

1. They were hard to support: there was different Java runtimes (thanks to Microsoft creating an incompatible version of Java, which eventually lead to them inventing .NET). But even with Sun Java, there are different versions of JRE and no way to guarantee a particular browser had the right version of JRE installed.

2. Insecure. I really don’t miss the days of drive by download exploits

3. Too much effort to program for. When you had Flash with its mostly drag and drop interface, why would most people want to learn Java?

4. HTML5 eventually became a thing. Meaning you didn’t even need Flash let alone Java.

5. Applets were never ported to mobile devices. Which is ironic given Java runs on a plethora of niche hardware from some types of optical storage through to Android itself. However applets themselves were strictly limited to desktop browsers. A limitation even Flash didn’t have.

Java applets were removed because it was a technological dead end. Users hated it, security teams hated it, Windows administrators hated it, and web developers didn’t even use it.

I can’t remember exactly when I fell out of love with applets but I have a feeling it was before even the 00s.

And as for your point about control, you could still do everything you described without the need for applets. It was really easy to rip streams back then (just as it still is easy now).
Can userscripts run in a page which has JS disabled?
I think you’re absolutely right. I was using it in the more abused term, but I actually subscribe to the original intent of it. My wife’s organization would almost certainly be better off if they embraced this mentality even slightly more. Maybe most people would, for that matter.

But yeah, the movement did seem to become the primary goal, and breaking things seemed less about stress-testing and freeing from restrictions, and more like an inconvenience on the path of progress, whatever that might mean. It seemed like a lot of us went from being experimental and nimble to clumsy and incoherent at some point.
Let figma ask me for explicit permission first, then, as opposed to making Memory64 support implicitly available.
> how many German civilians were killed?

You’re saying that if they had the capacity to bomb Berlin and other German cities they would have decided not to do that?
You’ve not established that at all. Just spewed more unsupported nonsense. It’s not trans folk women have to worry about. Just like it isn’t drag queens. All this abuse you claim simply doesn’t exist in any meaningful numbers. If it did, it should be easy to show your supporting data. Any excuse to be hateful and exclusionary I guess.
The HRW report’s list of complaints starts with censorship of praising Hamas (a designated terrorist org) and “from the river to the sea” (a call for the elimination of Israel, which lies between the river Jordan and the Mediterranean Sea).
That does not answer the question what the benefit of compiling to WASM rather than to JavaScript is.

If speed is fine, why would I care if a compiler compiled to a human-friendly language?
Exactly. Enshitification wouldn't be a concept if there wasn't a previous better point to reference.
If some really weak person kept trying to kill you by punching you in the face would you hold your own punch back to only hurt them the same amount or would you absolutely deck them?
besides the user base difference, any articles explain the reason?
Delta sued for what, $500M? These would have to be some expensive lawyers, even for lawyers.
> are number of collaborators

You have any idea how easy it is to fake it?

Also, snyk doesn't scan code that isn't on github, because they are under the impression that all the code in the world is on github, so things like gnome.org, debian salsa or codeberg are completely ignored.

So you won't get reliable data from snyk.

edit: snyk doesn't scan code at all, they rely on unrelated "metrics" to give a rating that is not very useful.
> The French learned that in Algeria, the British in Ireland, and the US in Veitnam.

One of those things is not like the others.
Crypto miners written in JS existed long before WebAssembly. Back then people also compiled large C++ code bases to (highly obfuscated) JS code and out of these heroic efforts grew asm.js which then evolved to WebAssembly. WebAssembly is a much better compile target than JS with more low-level types and primitives, but it's very similar to JS code in what it can and can't do in the browser.

Compiling a C++ application to megabytes of JS code doesn't make the result any more open-source or non-DRM than compiling the same thing to WebAssembly (you could translate Wasm to the equivalent but slower JS code).
HN is not only filled with people who never learned how to code, it's filled with people who never learned how to write either.

Hunter Thompson literally sat down and typed out every word of Hemingway's novels so he could figure out what good writing feels like.

Why is he allowed to do it in private, but an LLM isn't?
They’re roughly 25 years old, they now have the largest operational orbital rocket ever built even if it’s likely SpaceX soon blows them out of the water with Starship and Super Heavy. They’ve taken a long time to get to orbit and haven’t quite cracked partial reusability but they’re now an active player and reaching orbit on their first try is impressive. The iterative error tolerant development philosophy of SpaceX has resulted in far faster innovation and Blue Origin has benefited from SpaceX being a major forcing function to move the US Space program primarily to private launch/space craft providers and proving orbital booster reuse was possible in the first place. Finally Blue Origin doesn’t have an operational orbital crew capsule or cargo spacecraft. Losing SpaceX would mean the US would at least temporarily lose its crew launch capability entirely and some of its ISS resupply capabilities, launch cadence would fall off a cliff, and overall industry innovation would suffer.
If my in-laws are any indication, yes.

15 years and I’ve only ever had “Dear bobnamob, <pre printed seasonal or birthday pleasantry> Love, <in-law x> & <in-law y>”
I’m getting a lot of value out of NotebookLM drafting documents. If I’ve got a bunch of notes that need to be in a coherent design doc, it can give me a good enough first draft for me to edit into shape. Alternatively when I’ve got a design doc for something, but need to submit, say, a work request to another org, NotebookLM can take my doc and turn it into another format based on a doc template pretty nicely.

These outputs still require editing for sure, but each one can easily save me half the time to write these things.
> The McDonald's touch-screen self-order kiosk takes 27 clicks to get a meal. They try to up-sell you 3 times. Just let me pay for my fucking burger, Jesus Christ. The product manager, the programmer, the executives. None of these people care.

They absolutely do care! But they have competing interests.
On debian I do debdiff to see the differences between two source packages.
I wonder why the authors felt they need to use drop caps in this paper. It is a distraction and seems to value style over content.
How long before Israel occupies and annexes more Palestinian land again
https://archive.md/WFG76
That makes it sound like WASM only exists because of the nerdy preferences of compiler makers, not because of any benefits to the users of applications?

If speed is fine, why would a user care if the application was compiled to a language with "half-assed semantics" in a text format?
> His base and his cabinet is full of the most hard-line pro-israel figures imaginable

His base and the people surrounding him have the habit of ostracizing anyone who doesn't fall in line behind him, rather than being guided by principle (Which is why Pence is no longer his VP pick, and why basically his whole cabinet is full of sycophants compared to last time).

Trump's whole shtick is to take whatever is happening, and spin it into "This was my whole plan all along", then take the credit for it. This is why you never see him give concrete policy proposals in interviews, and is also what will likely happen with the russia/ukraine war. Whatever happens is good, and was part of Trump's plan, and his base will fall in line or disappear politically.
It does that all the time even now. Play with temp, top_k, min_p and nothing is preventing you from getting combinations and order of tokens previously not encountered in history.
If you let users' input influence the algorithm’s suggestion, it will likely be abused. People on the internetz are nasty creatures.
Knopp is actually common in southern German dialects as well, including palatinate and hessian. Using -ke for diminutives is common across Westphalia, especially the Munster region.
Intermittent fasting?
I'm always so jealous of the celebrations in these streams. Pressing deploy to update a service in production seems so much more mundane in comparison, heh. Maybe we should be better at celebrating wins in tech?
Ask HN: Why is Yocto so slow but so popular?
I was using Scarthgap (released April 2024), which is my first try. I realized the following:

1. Everytime a bb file is changed, it takes minutes to finish, for example, parsing recipes.

2. Building of a specific component takes minutes at the Yocto init things.

3. Invoking a Linux menuconfig takes minutes at the Yocto prologue and epilogue (e.g. resolving dependencies).

I see that Yocto manages the package in a way that provides good extensibility, modularization and maintainability. But it just way too slow.

I've heard that there is a database in Yocto which hinders the scalability, but why it seems that everyone using with Yocto doesn't mind waiting for minutes just for a minor config change?

Well, maybe I was wrong because I'm using Xilinx flavored (PetaLinux) Yocto.

How do you think?
https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2025-01-14/ty-article/.p...
same here. I found myself loosing an hour of just scrolling through short videos, most of them really good and ones that I liked. I had to delete the app because it was working too good.
I like to rent/buy eBooks for the first-time read, and if I like the book, buy the physical version.

Few things are more satisfying to me being able to hand a book off of my shelf to a friend when I think that they would like it, and having them report back they read and liked the book.
You can skip the piles and piles of linguistic bullshit and wasted energy with a json API.
Yeah I was wondering where that part was. This article is missing the trees for the forrest.

It’s like saying trade port hubs are there because of the weather and ignoring the major river they sat on.