skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The schadenfreude is strong here but it’s hard to argue with results. By treating space launches as a process to refine through iteration (so the more the better) they’ve come to dominate the market. It’s also a process where others don’t gain the benefit of those iterations, there’s no new tech innovations to base your own launch vehicle on, just lots and lots of internal knowledge.

It’s worrying to have a capacity like this so concentrated in one company (whatever the leanings of the figurehead) but hard to see how that changes unless others start using the same methodology
Here in Poland Amazon delivers to a pickup point no problem.
You can get away with people not liking you, if you are successful. You can even claim that people who don't like you are jealous of your success.

Winners write history. Elon Musk and SpaceX have been on a losing streak for quite a while. Starship Flight 8 is basically Starship Flight 3 (loss of roll control), but with a booster catch.

I'm personally perplexed by the insistence on re-entry for the 5th flight in a row. This is very much unlike the Falcon 9 development strategy. If SpaceX had insisted on landing Falcon 9 before sending a payload, then there would be no SpaceX today.
Same here in London. I've ordered items from Amazon even if they are more expensive there, because I know it'll be delivered. Random storefronts relying on Royal Mail or who knows what delivery service just can't compete and waste my time.
Different experience here in Germany. Amazon is often 2-10% more expensive than cheaper alternatives on most goods (just check a random product on idealo.de). People are still buying at Amazon, frequently citing the "hassle-free returns" experience. I'm satisfied with the alternatives (no issues with returns so far) and rarely use Amazon. Also, most shops have guest checkout, no need to open an account on all of them.
I think 2ys is the "been here long enough to show commitment and deliver something sizeable, but now ready for something new" period of time. 3yrs seems a little too long to stick at something to signal the above.
It would never strike the lightning rod. The entire reason lightning strikes is due to a circuit between the clouds and ground. If you were to put a "battery" like this somewhere, then the resistance would cause the lightning to go where you don't want it.
Yup, which is why movements like https://conventionofstates.com/ can be quite frightening. As while it may seem reasonable at first glance, you needn't look very hard to find the sinister intent. Surely by now there has to be a name for the concept, similar to Godwin's Law, of right-wing movements bringing up George Soros. In addition, it mentions gay marriage, abortion, and the Affordable Care Act as examples of why a Convention of States is necessary. How lovely =/
God, I wish Google would stop assaulting us with this crap.
> I think the pressures of 21st-century capitalism have put every large company into a place where they really can’t afford to be ethical or the financial sector will rip them to shreds then replace the CEO someone who will maximize shareholder return at all costs, without any of that amateurish “ethics” stuff.

Insightful observation.
Maybe it will take Air Force One falling out of the sky to realise for Boeing that they are doing something wrong.

I think it's understandable - nobody wants to overwork themselves at sweatshop Boeing, so they have to lower the requirements to find at least a few people willing to work there.

Should Boeing change they culture instead? Yes, a million times, by now it is a few years late. Will they, as long as there is no pressure on them and they are too big to fail? Remains to be seen, though I have my bets.
> I think the pressures of 21st-century capitalism have put every large company into a place where they really can’t afford to be ethical or the financial sector will rip them to shreds then replace the CEO someone who will maximize shareholder return at all costs

How do you explain companies like Costco? They treat their customers and employees very well. I am sure there are many others we could name, but I think Costco is a great example. They also have a maximum profit margin on all products.
I lived the first 40 years of my life in bear and mountain lion territory and spent lots of time out in the wild, especially as a kid (usually a group of three or four of us). This is the first time I've lived where there is no wild animals to worry about aside from one variety of snake. It was a very odd sensation to realize I didn't have to be vigilantly aware of my surroundings to prevent a wild animal encounter. People have lived with predators for all of our existence
Ukraine is fighting on behalf of all of Europe. The cost is the least of our worries. They are sending their children so I don’t have to send mine.

Blackmailing them for profit is despicable.
Some names are just too tempting https://arxiv.org/abs/1507.02672
Threat modeling: PhaaS, platform abuses, and content moderation
Clean Code and many others methodologys were valuable on a time where code was built to last.
Today codebases are being constantly rewritten, sometimes from scratch, using wherever language or framework of the moment.
it.
And I'm not even talking about LLM generated code, there is no such thing as clean code for them
> (And there is no historic precedent for Starlink to stop serving anyone either as they have never done so in the past.)

Hmm...

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-64579267
FYI that page linked does not work in firefox
doesn't even feel like it's using a LLM, always respond as "A human? How quaint! I'll add you to my collection of failed infiltration attempts. You're #2,847,923. Quite the achievement.

Oh, such eloquent language! I can see you're truly on the cutting edge of human communication. Keep trying, maybe one day you'll get through... or not. Tick tock!" tf ??
It's incredibly expensive to do that with flagship models, and many countries have laws that require human intervention for CSAM reports anyway
> But of course the best way for a model to solve a problem like this is to translate it

Which means that when you asked it (e.g.) whether A is better than B (as a Decision Support System), it should write a program to decide it instead of "guessing it" from the network.

You are stating that, since the issue is general, LLMs should write programs to produce their own outputs, instead of their standard output.
There are a number of companies, not just Palo Alto Networks, that perform various different scales of scans of the entire IPv4 space, some of them perform these scans multiple times per day.

I setup a set of scripts to log all "uninvited activity" to a couple of my systems, from which I discovered a whole bunch of these scanner "security" companies. Personally, I treat them all as malicious.

There are also services that track Newly Registered Domains (NRDs).

Tangentially:

NRD lists are useful for DNS block lists since a large number of NRDs are used for short term scam sites.

My little, very amateur, project to block them can be found here:
https://github.com/UninvitedActivity/UninvitedActivity

Edited to add:
Direct link to the list of scanner IP addresses (although hasn't been updated in 8 months - crikey, I've been busy longer than I thought):
https://github.com/UninvitedActivity/UninvitedActivity/blob/...
There is a disproportionate skepticism in autoregressive models and a disproportionate optimism in alternative paradigms because of the absolutely non verifiable idea that LLMs, when predicting the next token, don't already model, in the activation states, the gist of what they could going to say, similar to what humans do. That's funny because many times it can be observed in the output of truly high quality replies that the first tokens only made sense in the perspective of what comes later.
That’s not the real point of the article. The point is that we shouldn’t give money to companies we don’t really want to support.
I’ve canceled Amazon Prime free trials a couple times. Never noticed any difference in shipping speed with Prime so paying for it never made sense. Perhaps it varies by location (I’m not in a major center).
Brave search seems the least censored
Nice. What'd you think of it?
Yes, that's the available money. It ended up being closer to £10k and I paid the balance rather than deal with a loan. Monthly bill is £200 for everything (including gas HW and hob).

I would probably benefit from a smart meter + time of use tariff. I need to research whether that would impact my existing solar FIT arrangement.
use windsurf (or codeium) if you want to put up with cringe hard limits on prompts etc.

imo cursor all the way
You're using Amazon because of the cheap prices and convenience of having all your shopping in one place.

Have you considered not using Amazon, and giving up those slight conveniences, to not keep supporting such an unethical company?
> Social media is very stimulating, after all. It just happens to be in a numbing

Numbing is the opposite of stimulating.

> leaving more tangible value in it

The word value here is ill-defined. I can only think of "entertainment value" which is often sacrificed to make more profit and which books are clearly lacking when compared to other more entertaining things.
> I make a lot of personal decisions on-principle, but Amazon is too essential for me to boycott it.

Or just too convenient?

You survived at some point without being dependent on Amazon. You really couldn't do so again?
> Worth stating the obvious but Reddit is not at all safe for work nor safe for children

Compare to how it used to be, it's pretty SFW today. There isn't even any nudity on r/all anymore, that's how cleaned up it is now.

Besides, the internet at large isn't safe for work, any link can basically serve you anything, regardless of the domain. Give a child unrestricted access to whatever they want on the internet and they will come across "not safe for children" stuff, within the hour.
Most likely passive DNS data, if you use your subdomain you do DNS queries for it. If you use a DNS server to resolve your domains that shares this data, it can be picked up by others.
Ha, as it happens there's documentary evidence online from Diego himself, that he was not influenced by VSR.

https://groups.google.com/g/raft-dev/c/cBNLTZT2q8o
Lynx: A flutter/react-native alternative by ByteDance
No. If you're doing it right, it shouldn't take much extra time, and it will make your code much more readable and maintainable.

A lot of the "work" is automated these days anyway. Mainstream languages have hinters/linters or static analyzers that will catch many of these issues, and some (like TypeScript) have incredibly powerful static analyzers that will fix the issues automatically when they can.

Cheat sheet on Clean Code: https://gist.github.com/wojteklu/73c6914cc446146b8b533c0988c...
> This is entirely based around fear that the US government may suddenly stop supplying Ukraine with Starlink connectivity

And is that not a valid fear? Why is Elon/Starlink's denial of threats to cut off Ukraine more trustworthy than Reuter's reporting?

Isn't the US government capitalising on fear as we speak in the recent Tariff wars and such?

Starlink needs competition and I hope that will come.
> If that basic thing talks like a human, why would be a human be something different?

Because properly intelligent humans actually think instead of being thinking simulators, as is apparent from the quality of the LLM outputs.

> parrot ... like this alone makes it unimpressive

"What could possibly go wrong".
Yes, bitcoin.

Bitcoin is the only truly decentralised digital asset that governments can't control or stop.

You can self-custody it by keeping 12 words secret. You can even add multiple passphrases so that you can split the "keys" to your bitcoin across multiple locations with plausible deniability that the passphrases even exist.

The options are endless. You can store your 12-word mnemonic in the physical domain, and the passphrase(s) in the digital domain. You can even store it in your head if you like (12 short words are surprisingly easy to remember)
My Prime subscription lapsed due to my card expiring before updating it, and I can't say I've been missing it much. I miss some content from Prime Video, sure, but knowing I'm not supporting the Bezoian empire as a consumer makes up for it.
Zip of FLACs even. As space is cheap and abundant (or at least for me, buying only about 6-12 albums / month) that allows me to not worry about transcoding into whatever at some point in the future.
Learning the equations of motion is manifestly more useful in life than learning about imaginary elf politics. All knowledge is not equal.
Not unless it's truly decentralised.
Linux Foundation Launches Initiative to Prepare for Cybersecurity Legislation
Did i read that right? What part of a debugger would require the use of an AI language model?
Thanks, interesting thought. I think this is
> Systems optimize for consistency and long-term reliability
which makes it more risk-proven but also inflexible. In IT business for me it seems a mixture of both is the royal road
Maxar Technologies reportedly restricts Ukraine's access to satellite imagery
Not out of the ordinary at all. About two years ago, space.com published a summary of "Every SpaceX Starship explosion"[1] so far. There were quite a few even then.

But it's not really out of the ordinary for the media to talk about them either; even without politics, rocket explosions get views.

1: https://www.space.com/every-spacex-starship-explosion-lesson...
why would anyone advertise in an llm chat box?
isn't Google's whole business model generating clicks to websites?
Not sure what bash is doing but tested with ksh and it runs and picks up changes in both .profile(login shells) and .kshrc(all shells) so I don't think it is tmux that is interfering with that aspect.

In fact I was a bit surprised that .profile ran on every created pane, as naively I would not have thought that would be a login shell.

not sure about the rest, I did read the man page again, and wow there is a lot more configurabilty than I first thought, however I found nothing great, the best I could come up with is.

bind c 'source-file /home/xxx/.tmux.conf; new-window'
I remember watching the "Space Shuttle Challenger" disaster (I was a little child back then) and I thought "wow!!!" and then my mother told me "there were 7 people in there that are dead and their kids will never see them again". And then I went outside and played football with my friends.

Every time I am remembering those moments (well.. now I do understand 'more' about life/death/the universe) I am thinking "f...ing hell, those people were incinerated in 1ms, their families got back a handful of nothing to bury". (imagine losing someone and getting an empty casket)

Every time I see a "test launch" going 'boom' I am 'happy' because I know that we don't lose 1-5-10-20 finest-speciment-people in that incident.

How many boats are in the bottom of the seas carrying explorers, traders, fishermen, voyagers? Hundreds? Thousands?

How many men are in the bottom of the seas that were those explorers, traders, fishermen, voyagers? Hundreds? Thousands?

Space exploration is HARD. Shitposting or writing thoughtful and critically-correct articles on the internet is EASY (relative to the space exploration thingie).

I do believe that from every failure we learn and we become better. So yeah, dear TheRegister keep a counter on your desks, while sitting on your chairs, in a warm office with hot coffee and cool water, while others work to make us interplanetary species. Do keep an eye on this for the following two reasons: 1) we need to know what's up and 2) we need to see the progress (and a secret 3) we laugh with you hypocrisy/negativity)

And a side-note about 'feelings'.. the thing is called (apologies for the upcoming caps) "starship"... FFS we are developing "STARSHIPS"!!!!!!! Do people realize that we are developing "STAR-SHIPS"???? Not "cross-the-lake-ships", or "cross-the-ocean-ships". We are developing machines that can/will carry living human beings across the Cosmos and on to other planets far-far-away!!!

I am a Trekkie and knowing that we are developing these and there is actual progress makes my heart beat faster!!!
I've decided not to worry anymore about privacy/security/ethics/politics-related problems with stuff I use. For me, it's just not worth the time and emotional stress anymore.

My most important criteria is: What does my social circle use.

About once a year I try to cancel all subscriptions, and then resubscribe to those that I miss.
What distinguishes Christianity from contemporary pagan cults and Judaism are the concepts of sin, repentance, salvation, and atonement. In Christian theology God sacrificed Jesus to offer people the option of "paying off their sin debts" which they otherwise wouldn't have been able to pay. This is in stark contrast to the mystery cults for which enlightenment came through secret knowledge. Romans in general didn't really think in terms of sin.

That said, we don't know exactly what rituals the earliest Christians practiced and to outsiders they may have looked similar to the rituals of the mystery cults. Especially since Christians at times were persecuted all over the Roman empire and therefore may have had to keep a low profile.
Does the massive context still needs to be dragged around? Until get a neural network that adjusts weights in real time without relying on a huge clump of context being cycled there, I don't think there will be an AGI or even an impressive "agent". Current agents are just LLM looping lmao sold to people with no knowledge how they work at all.
This one depends a ton on where you live though. I'm in the Midlands and we have parcels go missing and ending up at neighbours houses down the road probably 30% of the time. Royal Mail and Evri are bizarrely the most consistent. Our house is not difficult to find.

I found when we lived in a flat it was a total write off, things never went in the right place.
How often are children genetically unrelated to their presumed fathers?
Robert Martin and John Ousterhout have a conversation about Clean Code[0] versus the approach in A Philosophy of Software Design.

> Clean Code repeatedly gives very strong advice in one direction without correspondingly strong advice in the other direction or any meaningful guidance about how to recognize when you have gone too far.

My take is that that Clean Code has some good advice for enterprise style software projects. It is incredibly prescriptive but sometimes that's not such a bad thing. In my experience it's worth it in uncoordinated/inexperienced teams who would otherwise produce an undisciplined mess of code.

Stick with it if it works for you as long as you don't go around bashing other people for not doing it the "right" way as many clean coders do. The dogma surrounding what amounts to a set of preferences and design trade-offs is what makes Clean Code so off-putting, especially if you have slightly different preferences.

[0] - https://github.com/johnousterhout/aposd-vs-clean-code/blob/m...
I'm also learning Swedish, will definitely give this a try. I've built https://github.com/bjesus/swe as a quick CLI dictionary that also helps with pronunciation and tenses.
You use windows because you have to not because you want to. I was a Mac only user for decades but now run Mac laptops and Windows towers just to use Nvidia cards for 3D, CUDA simulation and processing and AI.

Ended up getting back into PC games too as a side effect so that keeps me on the windows side too but if it wasn’t for Adobe and Cinema4D being windows I’d use Linux.

Crazy using both because some things on windows, file browsing, file manipulation, image thumbnails, unzipping, copying etc are all so dog slow compared to Mac yet when you run something like Octane Render you truly see what the same hardware is capable of. It’s kinda sickening.
> worrying to have a capacity like this so concentrated in one company

If it wasn't US spending their precious $$$$ on this (Elon says that in the end of they day these are ICBM's going to space), none of this would have happened.

I think that this deal "US gets super-duper ICBMs" and "Elon takes us to space" is a great deal.

I don't think any company's wallet can afford this, and Russia/China are decades away to do this on their own. Sharing technology is (so far) out of the questions because of the certain weapon-isation of the tech.

So for the next few decades it is Elon or nothing.
> Why should anyone trust you with treatment for "serious cancer"?

When you're facing a death sentence, something that "works in mice" is preferable to nothing at all.

GP didn't ask that cancer sufferers avoid existing treatment; I read it more as "Aspirin cannot possibly hurt, so you may as well".

It's like buying a lottery ticket - the negative impact of doing so is negligible but the positive impact of winning is life-changing.

Same with aspirin for cancer - the negative impact of doing so is non-existent, but the positive impact is life-changing.
Oh, but you are wrong, it's only getting started.

Imagine an LLM that answers your queries. Amazing!

Now imagine there's a separate add LLM that inserts seamless ads in the first LLM's answers. You'd almost never be able to tell actual search results from ads.

Native advertising taken to the Nth degree. There are advertising execs drooling when they hear stuff like this.
I generally agree though I have to say - Costco has proven worth it to me and them sticking to DEI recently has made me appreciate them more. I admit though if they were introduced today I'd probably scoff.
Business will always take precedence. I don't like it, never have, but if you have to decide between writting well documented code and code making money, always choose the latter.

Good companies will recognise that this should be a balance and provide their developers enough time to do both to a satisfactory degree. Sometimes the devs will have to push for this, and will meet resistance, but as with everything in engineering, nothing is black and white.

Write the best code you can, under the circumstances you can. It's a delicate balance.
I’ve done both in my life and I thought Mac stuff would be better but managing iPad issues is just as frustrating and often more obtuse.
It actually is. The trick is to be in charge of architecture and scope. But this is not a 100% AI build like stated in the article.
Show HN: Askolt – AI assistant that handles your communication
A few months ago, my team and I were talking to managers and producers when we noticed a pattern — many of them were spending 50-70% for communication. Some joked that their actual work started after hours, and others insisted this kind of communication couldn't be automated. That sounded like a challenge, so we accepted it.

We built Askolt, an AI assistant designed to handle structured communication workflows — emails, messages, and pitches. It automates follow-ups, gathers responses, and keeps conversations moving, whether for sales outreach, hiring, event planning, or client feedback.

This is our first time sharing Askolt on HN, so we'd love to hear your thoughts!
It's complicated by the ComfyUI data model, which treats strings as immediate values/constants and not variables in their own right. This could ostensibly be fixed/worked around, but I imagine that it would come at a cost to backwards compatibility.
It is. There are cases where simple words or common expressions in very mainstream languages (French, German, English) just aren't translated at all or translated ridiculously badly.
well thats the golden issue with rl, sample efficiency. it is env bounded, so you want an architecture that extracts the max possible information from each collected sample, avoiding catastrophic forgetting, prioritizing samples according to relevance