skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This seems like a great idea and I support the effort. It was not clear to me on first read though that what was being proposed is not an extension to current async rust (compiling code to a series of state machines), but a completely alternative design utilizing a context switching runtime like Erlang or Go. If I interpreted that wrong please correct me.

Part of me wonders, considering that rust is a systems programming language, how difficult would it be to write a runtime like that in rust so that there is no need to use a second language?
And then they can find jobs at SpaceX.
I work for a big global company.

We have started to see customers who refuse to buy our devices if Lenovo computers were used at anytime during their manufacture.

Interesting times.
About 15 years ago, I was at a Goodwill store, looking around, and saw a VHS of of Star Wars. It wasn't "Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope", it was just called "Star Wars".

I knew that that was how it was released, even at the time, but I had thought that by the time it was released on VHS that it would have adopted the new branding. I told my dad about it when I got home, and he was comparably surprised.

I didn't (and don't) have a VCR, so I didn't pick it up, but a small part of me wishes I had just as an interesting thing to put on my shelf.
I like this description of how the space shuttle got this way [1]. I don't think I'd hold NASA responsible for that.

Edit: I understand that The Space Shuttle Decision by T. A. Heppenheimer [2] contains a lot of the information that's in the Metafilter post, but in a more sober tone. The PDF is available direct from NASA [2]. It does at least mention that NASA itself wanted to cancel the shuttle program.

[1] https://www.metafilter.com/48654/Jan-28-1986#1189388

[2] https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/sp-4221.pdf
It's helped me incredibly to proof-read a novel I wrote in Spanish and translated myself into English to make it sound more native. I review ever single suggestion an LLM provides (as I would do with a native proof-reader!).

I think this type of job suits LLMs perfectly... At the end of the day it's just a statistical NLP tool.
Compiler can sometimes inline syscall wrappers, so not that easy to check statically. For the same reason searching for SVC instructions would yield tons of results. If you search for the exact syscall ID moved into X16 you’d find it immediately.
I don't want to pay $20/month for something that is probably going to be mostly unchanged after I purchase. That's like paying rent for tooling. I want to own my tools not rent them.
I take you haven't seen what SV execs have been doing or saying for the last decade to think this is what is going to ruin their reputations.
They don't compete, but a cynic might say that cutting NASA personnel expenses frees up money to buy more launch services from vendors like SpaceX.
The Spiritual Hunt: Searching for Rimbaud's Lost Manuscript
I'm with you. I think, it will have to not just boost productivity, but it has to be an improvement over the cheaper, and very good PyCharm. Given the talking points on the home page and here, the visualizations will have to be worth it for a given use case to forego the introspection and refactoring capabilities of PyCharm.
A Large Language Model is just a text predicting Transformer (and sometimes image and/or audio predicting if they're multimodal). Transformers are general sequence to sequence predictors. The only difference between this and GPT is the data it's been trained on. They're the same kind of neural network.
depends where you're looking — they'd definitely be in competition for engineering jobs

also NASA definitely does collaborative work with other agencies, including the CIA
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The capex build-out for the gpu's reminds me of the telecom build-out in the late 90's. So many of those companies went bust but they laid a lot of high-speed fiber before they did which we all are enjoying now. I suspect most of these gen-ai companies will go bust in the next couple of years but all that compute power will be repurposed and used in the decade to come...
The way we increase the chances that everybody reading this will behave appropriately if they're ever in this situation is by strongly condemning those who did not.
> "What embitters the world is not excess of criticism, but absence of self-criticism."

-- GK Chesteron (On Bright Old Things)
Build motherboards & GPUs and laptops in America, and I’ll pay 20% premium for made in America (I’m Canadian).
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/root-causes-408-takeaw...
> is going on in either case if they are both demanding you look to them to determine how society treats, um, "freethinking"?

There is no demanding, the point is that as an outsider you can observe societies actual approach to freethinking by observing the groups within it and which of those are actually freethinking vs self-reinforcing group think.
Windows 2000 is still the best Windows in my head. Sadly, it is 32 bit and missing a tonne of APIs. So, not really viable for modern apps.

If Win2K would run modern software, it would be the Windows I use in a VM.
Presumably assembled, from components made abroad.
They absolutely compete. SLS and Starship, for example.
Many on HN don’t believe there ARE any legitimate uses of crypto in the first place.

Here are some:

https://intercoin.org/applications

But most comments I get are “I stopped reading 2 seconds in when I saw the word Web5.”

(We started using it when Jack who founded Twitter, started bluesky, promoted nostr started using it).

Here is a graphical presentation that can drive it home:

https://intercoin.app/investors.pdf
Wasn’t the space shuttle program dictated by the needs of the military? Something tells me any NASA military pork won’t be touched, it’ll be the scientists.
I Just Released a Self-Hosted Tool for Maintenance, Work Orders
Take the price of that trip and divide it by the amount of money they allocated during the trip.

You’ll find that, if being in person corrects one grant approval /rejection mistake, the trip saves >>> 100x what it costs.

Also, typical grant processes like that involve months of prep work for each person, and they certainly made all the easy decisions before meeting in person.

So, the day or so they spent on discussions was to reconcile disagreements and misunderstandings with high monetary stakes.
If the companies are interested in protecting their margins, I think we will see prices higher than the % increase in tariffs e.g. many grocery stores have a 1 - 4% profit margin, so a 25% increase would mean they have to increase more than 25% because the overall profit margin will decrease. $1 with a 4% profit margin means it make 4 cents, but $1.25 with a 4% profit margin is 5 cents. So that means they'd have to raise it like 27%.
Mostly Colorado and the US.

https://system76.com/manufacturing/
If you paraphrase to remove context and qualifiers it does, sure.
I have a lot of hours in the 600/601, don’t know about the RJ, but on the 600 models there is a 24 knot x-wind limitation if using Thrust Reversers.
For second/new language users, search enabled LLMs are great for finding information. You can instruct it to search in the target language and provide the results in your native language, helping greatly when you're not even sure what the relevant search words are.

I wouldn't trust the analysis on anything important, but that gives you the source links so you can still verify yourself.
2025 looks to be an exciting year for Python. A new type of interpreter improves the performance of the upcoming Python 3.14. Additionally, the community is busy developing third-party libraries, challenging each other with new puzzles, and planning conferences
> “Unprovoked and Unjustified” (support war in Ukraine as unique and different than everything that came before)

What does this mean? It was unprovoked in the conventional sense, all the way back from 2014; the bogus justification of protecting Russian speakers was the same as the bogus justification for the Turkish invasion of Northern Cyprus. And the escalation by Russia in attempting to invade Kyiv was completely unjustified. It's the classic case of an agressive war the UN was supposed to be against.
> get punished

Hard disagree on that one. Businesses calculate risk exposure and feign concern when forced (if ever) to pay fines after a lengthy legal battle in which the government goes up against extremely well-paid private lawyers that are financed from the profits of illegal activity. Compliance with the law is just a cost at this point.

And flippin' nobody goes to jail for white collar crime anymore.
Before 1 is kinda absent, but from 2 I can remember factual stuff pretty clearly (dramatic events, fun and less).
I was surprised they got stuck here and need to use a totally different drill. Several of my smaller hole saw fit in a 1/4" chuck.
No; from what I understand, almost every piece that can be made in the US, is.

https://system76.com/manufacturing/
This is why bespoke software development is never ever primarily about the software, and thinking that it is is probably the biggest and most common misconception in the field. What it is, is helping the client figure out their processes/product/business model precisely enough to codify it on a computer. The rest is the easy part.
Deepseek R1 performs well on a 600 EUR Jetson, and a 700 EUR AMD GPU. Both bought during COVID crisis. It is that quick. However, don't ask it about certain sensitive topics.

You can bet your ass Musk is using his AI tools as propaganda tool for his advancement, just like he does with X. We already seen prompt leak of Grok, it wasn't neutral.
Got a type written letter yesterday from an old friend. It has a really different look than anything from modern printers (is there a font that mimics manual typewriter with maybe old ribbon type). My father would type my papers in high school on an old manual typewriter. I was amazed at how fast he was.

The site looks well done and I think the Manuals and Repairs section might come in handy.
> So the company is making more profit from you now? What am I missing?

You are probably missing that what people pay for their computers is still a function of the market and competition. If everybody goes up with their prices by exactly 10%, then maybe it would play out like that. Most likely though there are segments of the market where prices matter a lot to the customer and they won't be able to increase their margins. On the top of the line products it might be possible. On average I think they might slightly improve their margins, but it might also just be a wash.
People don’t seem to realize that these are blanket tariffs.
Misses a couple of the main things about vinyl: reduced temptation to skip tracks, and side-based thinking about and listening to your albums. It's a format for albums, or at least for halves of albums. You put on a side, and you play that side. If there's a single track that gets listened to on its own, it's probably track one on side A or B of an album. It affects how you experience and live with your music.

This would remain true if they sounded just like CDs but otherwise worked like vinyl.
(Captain then reaches across the cockpit and smacks the First Officer in the back of the head Three Stooges-style)
Biden maintained the tariffs against China and many companies were moving out of China to other countries like Vietnam, India and of course Mexico. When suddenly Trump wanted to put tariffs on Mexico it took some of them off guard. Labor costs in Mexico are lower than China from what I heard. The problem has been that in many cases Chinese companies have been moving their production to those other countries. But even that could have been solved with cooperation and incentives to these countries.
Interesting that you see Alpine as the next step after Slackware.
Swift on Android Working Group (Swift.org)
Funding science is a badass thing to do
To be fair, the original trilogy winged it just as much, including a very similar pattern of writer and director shifts with the original director coming back for the third part as a last minute fill-in, and a lot of people at the time complained Empire Strikes Back to Ewoks was a tonal shift as bad or worse than people complain about Last Jedi and Return of the Jedi.

Contrary to all of George's talk of a "grand plan", Star Wars was always an adventure serial where winging it was the plan. (Also, George's "grand plan" itself still cracks me up as a kid who guessed to much of it reading the weird novelization, especially since Ars Technica got him to admit to it. Have you heard about the Whills?)
Indeed. And maneuvering speed V_A is designed such that as long as you don't exceed it, you will stall before breaking the wings off in case of turbulence or full control deflection.
The cuts aren't performance based. They're based on the ease of dismissal.

The voluntary resignations are what they are--I can't fault anyone for taking a good deal, and from what I have heard (married to someone in the government, with many friends as well) no one is being pressured inappropriately.

However, the other cuts are dominantly people who are 'probationary' which means that they are new to their positions, either by being recently hired or in some cases promoted. These people are, actually, on the whole harder workers than those who have been in their jobs for a long time, because they're still being competitive in order to move forward. The non-probationary employees have stronger civil service protections which means that they are harder to fire. This is the major discriminant used to decide who leaves and who goes.
This is more than acceptable if it allows you to confidently send of an email in less than a minute that would otherwise take you 30 minutes of agony to write and still not be confident about.

Also, these aren't cold calls. The recipients aren't critical about how "botty" the email sounds.
Exactly, and sadly it's only the beginning as a whole lot of industries will do the same.
Regardless of the decision, a businessman being in control of the government agency that funds his company is as bad as it gets in terms of corruption.

Next time there's a tender, how will the NASA employee know whether their decision wrt SpaceX is going to get them fired or not?
Canadians?
third-party manufacturers cheat for battery life benchmarks and they don't even get that much better battery life. the current state of the pixel phones allows me all day battery life without such headaches.

in my experience with OnePlus, it aggressively kills and/or throttles applications that you want to be running in the background (e.g. fitness trackers or even audio players) even when you put them on the battery allowlist.

at the same time, my iPad just randomly decides to drain all of its battery even when it's been sitting unused without any apps installed. I don't have this problem on Pixel devices. (you do get this problem as soon as you install some misbehaving apps but that's something you've done to yourself)
> I think we will see prices higher than the % increase in tariffs

Pretty much. Most consumers (and even a lot of purchasers) don't know about the individual tariff rates per good, so it's safe to assume that you can optimize pricing to maximize your margin where possible.
> How much of a price hike can actually being more assembly jobs back to North America? Or are they already brought back?

And at what cost even if they did/do.

Washing machine tariffs resulted in a pass through cost greater than 100%. The employment effect (1800-2000 jobs) but the cost to the public of those jobs was $800,000+ each:

* https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/aer.20190611

Prosperous America, a partisan think tank, thought this was generally positive:

* https://prosperousamerica.org/economic-view-tariff-jumping-i...

Looking at it from the "national security" perspective, they aren't exactly wrong:

> Democratic countries’ economies are mainly set up as free market economies with redistribution, because this is what maximizes living standards in peacetime. In a free market economy, if a foreign country wants to sell you cheap cars, you let them do it, and you allocate your own productive resources to something more profitable instead. If China is willing to sell you brand-new electric vehicles for $10,000, why should you turn them down? Just make B2B SaaS and advertising platforms and chat apps, sell them for a high profit margin, and drive a Chinese car.

> Except then a war comes, and suddenly you find that B2B SaaS and advertising platforms and chat apps aren’t very useful for defending your freedoms. Oops! The right time to worry about manufacturing would have been years before the war, except you weren’t able to anticipate and prepare for the future. Manufacturing doesn’t just support war — in a very real way, it’s a war in and of itself.

* https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/manufacturing-is-a-war-now

There's the old saying about WW2: The Allies won [against the Nazis] from British intelligence, Russian blood, and American steel. The silliness of the current situation is that American can't go it alone anymore, but allies are now being alienated.

So bringing back manufacturing jobs wouldn't be a bad thing, but what do you have to do to accomplish it? If China is designated as a 'country of concern' ("enemy"), perhaps target them, but why 'go after' your nominal friends?
Freedom of movement / right to travel is a human right which is being denied to US citizens on the basis of their gender.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_movement
Please don't post if you can't understand an example.
This is the intended outcome from neoliberal parasites like Thiel and Musk. They want public government to look like an absolute joke so private corporations can take over with zero regulation and extract as much profit/wealth.
> People who get stuff done can easily find jobs in industry

> It also gets rid of the young probationary employees who are still idealistic

So you're saying there's suddenly a bunch of space engineers on the market looking to accept whatever terms some space contractor offers them? I wonder which space contractors already have a list with their names and personnel information...
Anything Musk says is suspect until proven otherwise --- and he has a long history of unfulfilled FSD claims and predictions to prove it.
Charging Costs: Home charging is significantly cheaper than public charging options.

Missing from this is the percentage of people that can charge at home. Younger generations may never be able to afford a home. Even if apartment complexes start adding chargers the renters may have to eat that cost as part of their rent for some period of time.
Yes, there are a lot of lifers and they have social connection to support each other. Every younger person I know who tried NASA (government jobs not subcontractor) has absolutely hated its culture and found the lack of productivity boring. At least in my small sample, they all left and went private. The ones who stay are happy to be doing little and can tolerate the politics.
I suppose I'm thinking about transformer architecture rather than strictly GenAI, but the computer science aspects of protein folding and GenAI seem like they overlap significantly.
> Other than the telemetry, Windows 10 was objectively better than 7.

Some of the downsides other than telemetry:

- Not being able to select only security updates

- It requiring more technical hacking to ensure forced updates don't force reboots

- An embarrassing mix of interfaces, with the migration from the classic Control Panel only half done.

- The forced included software which also requires more hacking that in should to remove.
Does this pilot record lots of landings? Is this standard procedure?
> There is a reason why rich prefer tariffs over a progressive income tax.

Or sales taxes, or VAT, for that matter.
Sure maybe but that's not their concern here, and fixing bloat is not their goal. Elon musk is dismantling the state for his own benefit. Someone doing some similar things could have a worthwhile purpose, but he does not.
> I've gotten too cynical to believe any company or rich individual making a business deal to actually tell the truth - its all marketing at that point

I think that's reality, not cynicism
it was clearly just a random number for illustrative purposes.
I am curious how all of these economic decisions play out. Are these even well thought out economic strategies? I acknowledge that I am living through this experiment, and feel less in control about my destiny compared to a few years ago.
Higher tariffs won't do it alone. Time is needed, as well. The current tariffs are likely seen as temporary.

If you start a factory to produce on shore, you would have to recoup capital costs off the margin available due to undercutting offshore factories while tariffs are higher.

When the administration or whims change, the tariffs go away and your factory loses that margin and isn't as profitable.
Would IMO need significantly more tariffs to effect significant shifts (and, even more importantly, some certainty that those tariffs are going to stick for the next decades, which is hard to provide).

Chinese mean manufacturing wage is ~$25k/year (purchasing parity adjusted, $15k unadjusted, for an average 49h/week of work). If you want domestic products to be competitive, you basically need the difference paid by consumers/taxpayers in tariffs or subsidies.

I don't think current tariff level is going to move lots of manufacturing jobs into the US (and I would personally argue that most Americans don't even want those jobs as they are currently). Instead, I'd expect a slow shift towards countries with favorable local wage/tariff combination (India, Vietnam, etc.).
first thought as well. Scary time. Unionize.
SLS program has currently flown once to the tune of a cool $26.4 billion. The cost per launch of the final system is expected to be roughly $2 billion.

Starship has flown 7 times for roughly $5 billion. The expected cost per launch of the final system is expected to be roughly $10 million.

I don't agree this is as cut and dry as you're laying out.
> how much memory the process can eventually require without running explicitly requesting more via syscalls

This concept is called "commit charge". Windows MM models it explicitly. Linux ought to as well. I agree it's a more useful concept than just address space allocated.
Sure but large organizations that operate as for-profit businesses will collapse. Government organizations can last much longer and sometimes never collapse under the weight, they just entirely stop being effective.
Unless there's nobody to do something about it.
Here’s the bend test video for the Boeing 777: the wings can bend for something like a 45-degreee arc without breaking, so they ran it to breaking. https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/boeing-777-wing-flexibil...
I thought this was gonna be about how washing machines always fail to accurately estimate how long it will take to wash
It is that sense of undisciplined risk taking that I am referring to. Model Y was supposed to be a money maker. Instead he let the better part get to him and added so many bells and whistles that it delayed it and was not even cheap.

Tesla production had so many problems before. Lots of jobs were lost because of this. Guess who remembers those job cuts? Me. Part of me believes anyone with slightly more discipline could have done a better job.
Designing type inference for high quality type errors
If you make $600 component + $200 laptop ($800) from outside the US cost say $8k through a 1000% tariff, you could assemble in the US for $1,000, buy the components for $6000, and sell for $7k.

That's what the american people seem to want to happen.
If the battery is dead, it's not driving, so not need for much breaking power (dunno how they handle the parking situation).

What I wonder is: what if the electrical system has a short, close to the battery and alternator? Would the residual hydraulic pressure be enough to stop the car?