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NASA will likely find themselves in a position where they have to outsource more work to companies like ... SpaceX.

What a coincidence, and a totally unexpected outcome from these cuts to "save taxpayer money".

Ultimately the goal is privatization. Ask the British how privatizing their rail network has worked out for the average citizen.
They are probably removing the best 10%, the ones that can find other jobs. I’ve seen it at my previous job.
IP packets have a "destination IP" header field that specifies where the packet goes. The router reads that to figure out where to send the packet.

The only thing NAT does is rewrite the dst or src headers of packets. If there's no rule or state entry that applies to a packet, it doesn't drop the packet. It just leaves the original headers on it.
The electric grid cannot support everyone driving EVs and even if it could, the electricity is usually produced by coal plants or rare earth mined renewables that have an even greater environmental burden, just shifted out of cities and out of sight.
Like parent comment I was talking about perception, not reality.
Also not the easy kind of 1990's LED soldering, like tiny surface mount soldering.
This is not the reason that Musk is destroying these agencies. He is a right-wing accelerationist who believes he will rule like a warlord over the ashes of America.
How is he the status quo elite? What leads you to believe he's not intelligent? Like those 2 things alone you need massive cognitive dissonance to believe.
I had this idea too, imaging creating 3d assets using a virtual lathe
> What about Argon2?

> Servers that support Argon2 can enable its usage with this single line of code in WordPress 6.8 and later:

> add_filter( 'wp_hash_password_algorithm', fn() => PASSWORD_ARGON2ID );

bcrypt is probably better than phpass, but it's great to have argon2 available, too!
> The SEC's answer no questions, sue first

This isn't true, and last time someone tried to prove it was, they cited .. a huge PDF of all the questions the SEC had been asking crypto firms prior to action.

Besides, the rules are over now. The US President ran a pump and dump. Can't get more legitimacy than that.
Has Congress actually mandated any of this? Near as I can tell, they definitely haven’t
I'm not saying DOGE is or isn't a solution. More that NASA may be past its sell-by date and unfixable in terms of efficiency. It's like watching an old man still try to dance like when he was young. Maybe there are echoes of his youth but all the gracefulness is gone. But maybe its function these days is more of a jobs program.
I used to think the same way wrt Nvidia stock when it tanked - compute is clearly diminishing returns. Tech companies subsequently announced capex equal to or greater than expected in compute. I smacked myself on the forehead when I realized - I'd been think too much like an engineer. Tech CEOs badly want to believe they have an edge over every upstart from San Francisco to Shanghai. Unlimited spending on compute gives them that reassurance. In fact, the more threatened they feel, the more they spend to cling onto it.

Kids have security blankets. Tech CEOs have security compute clusters.
Could you cite something that goes into a bit more detail?

The only claims for country-of-origin I see on that page are the "US-Sourced Materials" heading which clarifies "..using aluminum sourced from US companies."
why isn't it considered corruption if you've been a career employee and you get promoted to be in control of an agency? You'll be tendering all of the salaries of all of the people you've known and/or contracted with over your career.

(im not saying elon is good here)
It still illustrates the point since the numbers are just fractions. You're just being pedantic.
Are you referring to space disasters that occurred more than 20 and nearly 40 years ago as “recent”? Or are you talking about the design of the space shuttle, that literally occurred during the Nixon administration?
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If they currently have a 5% margin and their costs go up, they either

1) Go bust

2) Increase prices

This isn't a situation where supply is constrained (say in housing), where you will charge the same no matter the costs. If you charge too much then a competitor will increase supply and undercut you and you lose business.

Tarrifs means that your competitor can't undercut you, until it becomes cheaper to build entirely in the US, which will me far higher tarrifs and far higher prices that the end consumer pays.

Market forces work both ways.
You can also charge at work, which is actually generally better as the grid moves to more solar as then the demand lines up with generation.

Employers need to step up their game and start offering charging if they want people in the office.
Don’t forget, that EV-s can depreciate faster than ICE-s (mainly because of innovation and price cuts). So you can loose more money on EV-s than you think.
The inverse benefits SpaceX, because NASA has less capability to do things itself therefore is more dependent on contracting work out to SpaceX.
This article doesn’t cover depreciation.

Much harder to model but I’d assume quite important to consider.
And now we are going to require body cams in everything and AI will sort it out for us
> DOGE makes recommendations to the president

Trump is so far gone in his dementia, he can't even make eye contact anymore. You see this in all the videos. He's basically King Théoden at this point. Not even Musk's kid respects him.

He's so disabled, he's sending his VP to do the job, and we all know how much of a paranoid child he is, from the past term (when he went into a Colonoscopy without anesthesia just to not have to give the nuclear codes to the VP).
I was around 13 when I had my first migraine. A solid block of pain on the right side of my head. That occasional migraine became more frequent over the years. I had a headache 24/7 in one specific place in my head.

In my early 30's, after blood tests, food elimination, x-rays and finally an MRI I was told that I had Chronic Daily Migraines.

Most days were 6-7/10 pain. Those days that were 10/10 I perfected the art of lying down and breathing in such a way that I barely moved. Noise / light were never an issue, the pain got worse when I moved.

Then I got a daith piercing.

I had read that a daith could help.

I got the daith ~14 years ago and I have not had any sort of headache since. Both my daughters who had migraines got a daith and they too have no headaches.

I get the sample size is not useful, but if you have migraines, go into your local proper piercing studio and ask for a daith - they will almost certainly reply "On which side of your head is the pain?"
Where does that page say anything about the components?

(As an aside: there is a special place in Web Developer Hell for people who break the ability to middle-click a link to open it in a new tab, that page being an egregious example.)
What does "efficient" mean for an organization such as NASA?

A: I am not convinced GOOD science and GOOD engineering means a quick turn around. So in my opinion having less quantity for higher quality output is efficient.

B: While there are many missions and projects at NASA it seems a bit unfair to judge their workings when they seem to have major changes in direction every 4-8 years mandated upon them.
Change the laws so we can fire federal workers based on productivity instead of seniority.
So far, can you say he’s going to be wrong?
OpenAI and Facebook have been pirating content to train their models. Do you honestly expect them to be punished? The law is not the only thing that matters

Many of the largest businesses nowadays are run in the most immoral, cutthroat and corrupt way possible with armies of lawyers who’s job is to stall the process and find loop holes in the existing laws so they can keep operating with impunity.
I had a number of friends stop using it due to issues with normal SMS through the app.

I still have a few friends on it but now most are on WhatsApp too.
Tariffs on the high-productivity PC-using sectors of the US economy, in order to subsidize the nascent US sector of people assembling plastic components by hand.

Just as the theory of comparative advantages prescribed.
From your link:

>Thelio desktops and Launch keyboards are designed, engineered, and manufactured at our factory in Denver, CO using aluminum sourced from US companies.

which seems to only be the metal cases/bodies.
Repubs have already complained about the [potential] job losses in other areas.

https://apnews.com/article/trump-musk-doge-republicans-mike-...

Things like the SLS exist because of Congress critters on both sides of the aisle keep propping it up, no matter how much NASA doesn't want it. SLS isn't some NASA pet-project.
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How is he a robber baron? You don't need to buy any of his products.
How do you choose which categories matter most? That’s subjective.

User satisfaction and user serveys are subjective.

Also the stability of features often depends on where along the life of Windows you measure. For example XP post-SP3 is a very different OS to XP pre-SP1. So how do you decide where to measure? That’s also subjective. Not to mention the subjective question about what “stable” means and how you compare stability

There’s been enough arguments on HN regarding that last point alone.

For example Windows 2000 has crashed fewer times for me than Windows 7. Does this mean that Windows 2000 is now “objectively” the better OS?

You might argue that the sample size is too small, but who decides the sample size? Are you including or excluding specific datapoints? Of course you are, which means “better” is then defined by the sampled data (for example the power-user vs novice ratio for windows 2000 will be different to Me and 7). And thus it’s subjective again because who decides which datapoints are important and why?

Are we talking about “better” for web browsing? Home server tasks? Software development? Video editing? Etc. who decides that and why?

What about “better” for memory or CPU footprint? That matters more to other people.

We might think that because we are making measurements that this isn’t subjective but those measurements are still a matter of personal judgement.

Edit: as an aside, this is precisely why I never use absolutes in a professional capacity. It’s easy to “say X is better than Y!” but it demonstrates far more professional experience to say “it depends. Tell me what your requirements are.”
Boeing’s SLS? I don’t think cutting NASA employees is going to help much.

https://www.boeing.com/space/space-launch-system#rocket
100% margin would be $0 of production costs. Essentially impossible for physical goods.

As an example, if it costs you $100 to make a product and you can sell it for $1000, you pocket $900 of the $1000 and therefore make 90% margin.
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I'm very happy with my Acer Aspire Nitro 5. It was cheap. And it looks cheap. It's mostly plastic. And it'll slightly bend if you carry it on one edge. Plus I took it apart once to upgrade the internal SSD. But it has survived 3 years of frequent travel including 10+ international flights. I run Pop!OS on it so that it's all encrypted in case I ever lose it. And a Syncthing daemon in the background to securely backup all of its data.
Very cool. I also come across people having used my apps for literal years, it's a small subset but they are distinct and super appreciated.

Hopefully there is some progress, but if not, I suppose it's a success already anyway, and less weight on your shoulders.
You're making the case for the cuts, correct?
So your phone? If Alexa is any model mic data is garbage and unmonetizable.
This is why their plan to eliminate income tax and make up the difference with tariffs is just hilariously evil. It's literally shifting tax burden from rich to poor.
The crash kicked up a lot of snow into the air, making me wonder if that helped suppress the fireball, as it seemed to die down very quickly. On thing leading to me think this might have happened is video from the recent firefighting in California, where the spray from the firefighting aircraft seemed to snuff out the flames as soon as it descended into them, before it reached the ground.
Good. When new designs for new laptops come out, they will be looking at where to get their supplies. And often times it will be local. The effect will be felt in 3-5 years. And it won’t be with reduced prices. It will be with better job prospects.

Tax the wealthy. Provide jobs for the poor. A Natural distribution of wealth.
The vast majority of products at grocery stores are not imported from overseas. And even when they are, the cost of the good is only a part of the total cost to the store. For example no tariff would change the price of intra-USA transport of imported goods (well besides oil…). Labor and real estate need to taken out as well.

Obviously if you increase a cost the price is going to go up, but it’s not anywhere near 27% for groceries specifically.

Now pure imports, like most of the crap on Amazon or Temu, is another story.
The reason to use EVs is not just based on the source of electricity. In a traffic jam, the quality of air I breathe would be so much better if all vehicles were EVs.
And all home heating used to be coal or wood but things seem to just keep changing.
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Recent anecdote: I rented a Rivian R1S in Bay Area for a short trip to Santa Rosa. On the way back I charged at "Rivian adventure network" and the cost to charge was $0.68/kWh.

Now, Rivian is a big car and this basically meant you are getting about 3 miles per dollar. A full 'charge' would have cost me nearly $100!

But, an even bigger gasoline car - Lincoln Navigator - has 16 MPG, and even with gas prices in CA (currently ~$5 per gallon) you are looking at 3.2 miles per dollar.

I was shocked by that, especially knowing that CA has excess solar capacity. Why the heck is electricity for charging so expensive? (I pay around $0.15/kWh last time I checked for my home)
Every piece of the chassis, sure.

AMD CPUs, GPUs, and pretty much anything else that uses silicon are not sourced and manufactured in the US.
Yes. There have been a lot of curious reinterpretations of the law recently but the money raised via tariffs still goes to the treasury.
No, it was not. It was not better than o1, nor o1-pro. Yes, it was _cheaper_ than those models, and superior in price/performance if the performance was acceptable. But in terms of raw performance it was behind them.
> That's what the american people seem to want to happen

I'm American, and 50.2% of Americans did not vote for this.

Realistically, it will not be that bad. Most companies will just up prices to make up the cost of the tariff and consumers will eat it.
Not all EV models depreciate at the same rate, compare a Tesla Model 3 to a Nissan Leaf and draw your own conclusions.
Helping Mexico build a wall on it's southern border will certainly help reduce the number of Venezuelan and Guatemalan immigrants entering Mexico or the USA.

The irony is that build a wall and have Mexico pay for it makes a degree of sense. As long as we are talking about the MEXICAN southern border.

The dumbass in charge cannot figure this one out though, as diplomacy and discussion is beyond their abilities.

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Biden was making a degree of progress here. Mexico wants fewer firearms leaving Texas into the hands of Mexican gangs. But otherwise seemed open to the idea of we could cover more cross border issues. I don't believe we can create tighter gun control regime in Texas though, but these are the kinds of things Mexico wants.

Discussion to find a more politically realistic exchange is the point of diplomacy. Maybe we never find anything, but the hope of a mutually beneficial solution is closer than you might think.
The example described is >50% margin.
They're actively gutting the NLRB too, I doubt there will be any meaningful action out of that agency against antiunion activities no matter how blatant until at least Jan 20, 2029.
Of course, just like any other tax revenue
Good one - that sounds like great optional behavior. Having said that, I consciously built it this way. I personally use simultaneous stopwatches to track a full day of work and tagged items within that day, such as a specific meeting (each another stopwatch).

The "Personal Time" option subsequently merges the overlapping hours so that on Statistics, I'm looking at time spent in real life (as a person), while still being able to zoom in on specifically tagged items.
You seem to be assuming that the full cost of the cluster is recouped by Grok 3. The real value will be in grok 5, 6, etc…

xAI also announced a few days ago they are starting an internal video game studio. How long before AI companies take over Hollywood and Disney? The value available to be captured is massive.

The cluster they’ve built is impressive compared to the competition, and grok 3 barely scratches what it’s capable of.
Wow what an awful take
We're not going to instantly switch to 100% EV's. Even if every single car sold in 2025 was an EV, most cars on the road would be gasoline.

Doing the math, you find that grid requirements will increase about 1% per annum for about 20 years on a switch to EV's.

Which is less impact than air conditioning and crypto/AI.

If we can't expand the grid 1% a year, we've got other problems.
The value of the product when calculating tariffs isn't necessarily the manufacturing cost, it could also be the "market value". I tried to find a source for how to calculate the value on a complete laptop but a quick search failed me.

But, for example, when bringing wine into Ontario Canada, the duty is calculated on what the Ontario Liquor Board would sell the bottle for, not on what I pay for it. This isn't the US of course, but it gives you an example that tariffs are not always paid on manufacturing costs.
Freenet is 25 years old. It never took off, what makes people think it will take off now?
The value drop is huge and makes EVs pretty much never better economically. There are some edge cases but then those cars don't have range. Or don't survive in winter.
They would NEVER take advantage of the tariff scare to take more profits. /s
I don't think this is true. "Only" a quarter of people that try heroin become addicted. Similar numbers with alcohol (15% of people that try alcohol develop a problem with it), but given alcohol is more widespread, there is some selection bias because only a subset of people try heroin, whereas nearly everyone tries alcohol. I would not be surprised if the overall addiction risk is very similar between alcohol and heroin.

I think it's much more likely some sort of genetic trait underlying it.
Does that mean we need some kind of big brother/sister program but for the homeless? Would having one capable volunteer who met with them for an hour a week or something and could advocate and help them navigate the system make a big change?

I really struggle with this because it feels like helping as much as possible is the only moral stance to have, but I also question what level of responsibility the homeless have for their own situation. If we keep approaching them with these 0 consequence strategies does that encourage failure? Would the second guy who was smoking meth have benefited if he got thrown in jail for two months, forcing him into sobriety and then released into some kind of temporary housing with strict work and curfew rules?

We balk at the idea of limiting someones freedoms, but it seems like a mercy to take someone who is killing themselves and endangering others and putting them through some kind of rehabilitation that forces them to get physically and mentally healthy. It might be a relief to have a schedule and safety and some kind of guiding hand.
Or change the laws so we can accurately measure productivity of the separate parts of a huge organisation!
I work for a NASA contractor. This is a very stupid, bad move, since young and recently-called-up civil servant talent are often the people we really want to keep. We will be hurting on the Artemis program if the probationary civil servants all fired.

In general, I agree that a thorough house-cleaning of NASA would be great for technical achievement, but this is one of the stupidest ways you could do it.
Touch typing won't help.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/new-acoustic-...
Just goes to show you can actually get into space for that kind of money in the private sector.
Is there anyway to bypass Meta on these? Or is there an open source version in the works?

Interested to see what could be done locally with always-on visual capture + LLMs. Not interested in sending that data to Meta.
Is this really any different than EU applying import duties and VAT? I'm not seeing what the big deal is here.
> 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.

Why not charge EV owners directly?

Also I’m not sure if chargers are that expensive in the first place, especially considering you don’t necessarily need fast charging since you leave your car charging overnight anyways.
I'm afraid building stuff locally will mean significantly more than 20% premium. Not sure if even double is the right price range increase.
Fully agree, I dislike auth walls as well. It's also great for distribution, so everybody wins.
If there is "bloat" in NASA's budget, then the first thing to do is to identify those projects which don't make sense, then Congress decides to cut the money for those projects, then you let go of the personnel working on them if they're not needed for other projects.

That is definitely _not_ what is happening here.

Also, if NASA were forced to drop SLS, that would make it reliant on Falcon Heavy, which coincidentally is made by the person in charge of cutting NASA's budget.
To quote Patio11, "It's not a conspiracy if they really are out to get you."

Crypto in general and Web3 as well, all have mostly delivered scams. To the tune of billions stolen from everyday folks. Everything (to within a rounding error) that hasn't been a scam has delivered nothing else but being a speculative asset at best. Everything else has been a barely working toy that's better served by non-distributed implementations of the same thing.

People shit on crypto. government, regulators, and the public, all dislike crypto because the only thing that ever happens to us with it and the only thing we ever hear about happening, is folks losing money to scams.

There's no mystery here. Crypto doesn't need a policy shift. Crypto needs to stop fucking over folks. Yes it's cool technology, yes it also seems to just be a way to part folks from their money.
> People who get stuff done can easily find jobs in industry, so are more likely to accept buyouts.

Who wants to give up a fed pension for a 401k?!
You’re talking about a collection here whereas the GP singled out one specific OS without any parameters describing how that judgement was made. And it’s there’s a very broad range of parameters that need to be agreed upon. Those parameters will differ from one person to another.

And the fact that the GP has been downvoted in oblivion further demonstrates how others disagree with their statement. I’m not saying I agree or disagree with the peer-moderation though but rather using is a datapoint to illustrate that if 7 is “objectively” the best then there shouldn’t be any room for interpretation — and yet people are interpreting “best” differently.

See my other comment for examples.
> some price fixing can happen

It happens a lot, but price fixing is a fairly slam dunk case for local DAs.
The chassis is made in the USA and what essentially is a fan controller circuit board.

Everything else is foreign components it looks like to me.

Not super exciting really. An aluminum case is nice and all, but really not material to the overall PC as a whole. It’s at least a start and better than nothing, but you’re talking 5-10% of total system cost at most.