skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
State of the Global Climate 2024
The normal process is that you always have at least one US and one Russian Vehicle docked to the ISS. In emergencies, each crewmember uses their spacecraft to return to earth.
The normal rotation is that an additional spacecraft arrives at the ISS (so there are now 3 vehicles docked in total) and then the older spacecraft leaves with its crew. So before the single dragon leaves, a new dragon would arrive.

I think the general idea is to always have at least some Russians and Americans on the ISS at all times (although they are doing swapped missions now so even having only one vehicle left would ensure that most of the time) and to always have crew on the ISS, even if one vehicle needs to return early due to technical problems.
>"We're going to stand by for splashdown located in the Gulf of America," she said.

>Ah, yes. The Gulf of America.

>This is why we can't have nice things.

That doesn't sound like an "excellent journalist". It sounds like a Redditor.
You kid, but; from the supply-side perspective, when I graduated 15 or so years ago in Electronic Engineering, job options in the field weren't great, and salaries were much lower than I'd been led to believe they would be, with much harder work and more numerous hoops to jump through than going into the software field.

I had been passionate about programming since single-digit age and decided to go into that field and am now an experienced developer of 15 years, starting client-side on "modern" smart phones (early Android, iOS and even Windows Phone), eventually moving to back-end where I've found my home.

That said, I do still love electronics, and a book like this could probably help refresh my memory of much that I learned back then so I can get deeper into electronics for fun. Much of what I have done since university has only been tinkering, prototyping on veroboards etc, lots of MCU stuff, and the usual sort of build/repair of electronics you'd expect of someone with a cursory understanding.

At some point I'll probably want to be designing/building my own PCBs; that's become a lot easier than it was back then when OSHPark was the only real contender, so I didn't get beyond some very basic PCBs with just a handful of components on a single or double layer back then; but this will be for "fun" and personal projects where I want something custom but more polished.

I've never looked back when it comes to the Electronics as a career (profit) and I'm happy with that, but I would very much like to make use of those skills I did learn to a greater extent than I have (passion).
>it kind of begs the question who is this for?

for /me, currently have VW Polo, this small <€20k city EV would be ideal replacement while keeping the maintenance and easiness of finding a service station in place. In EU vw garages are basically everywhere
i find him everywhere theres is mention of loki. trying so hard to push down loki. sure loki have issues but i don't feel this is a good approach to promote your product.
Wait till you learn that unified memory was in common use by pc's long before Apple "invented" it.
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My point was mainly that causing chaos for the regular citizen/voter tends to drive them into supporting the opposite party, especially if they are promising safety and stability.

Even the Nazis had to consider what their citizens were willing to put up with, so targeting everyday people with stunts like this would just undermine support for any viable opposition. "Worse" just meant having more unconditional support even earlier - that couldn't do a good thing.

Graffiting a Telsa may make the vandalizer feel good, but it doesn't win votes for the opposition.
This is why blameless post-mortems and a healthy culture are important. I'm sorry you encountered such a hostile culture. Perhaps "git blame" has the wrong name, but the idea of traceability is still important.

Aviation is the shining example of this, combining high traceability (you should be able to track each part back to the factory and to all the technicians who have worked on it) with accident inquiries that are focused around finding cause and avoiding future risks rather than assigning blame.
To add: it's not about targeting rich markets, either. I have a number from the Netherlands and Germany and neither gets more than one spam SMS per, eh, year maybe on average? Some years none, some years three or so perhaps? When COVID was new, I also got a few spam calls (as did my family around the same time, so I guess it was briefly a thing), but that seems to have stopped again. I've had the Dutch number for 20 years and it's in public records, so it's not brand new and unknown either
The Good Rust Books
Switching `synchronized` for `ReentrantLock` is possible in principle, but it makes the code harder to read and opens the door to subtle concurrency bugs.

Library authors really don't want this kind of code churn for an issue that is not their fault, not their responsibility to solve, and that will get a bugfix before long that maybe even qualifies for a backport to LTS 21.
> You say it is "unusable" - can you describe to me what happens when you (or anyone else) clicks on one of those videos? Do they not work for you?

I was very clear that the UX is so bad it's unusable.

But if you want something actually unusable, no problem.

1. Open their "Browse content" page: https://joinpeertube.org/browse-content

2. Search the first example: "music"

3. Click the first video that shows up: https://peertube.dsmouse.net/w/bc181d28-3284-4882-b7a3-314e2...

4. "Failed to play video. The video failed to play due to technical issues.", with a month old comment saying the same.
Roamhq/wrtc – active fork of node-WebRTC for latest versions of Node and WebRTC
Awful anology.

The constant in all the news cycles is about how they've been stranded all this time. Which isn't just a bit misleading, its a flat out lie.

Even when starliner departed, they werent standed. There was litterally an emergency plan prepared for how they'd get them home if they had to, and made modifications to the existing crew 8 ship to allow for this. This was all covered in the briefing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGOswKRSsHc

So once again, nobody was stranded. They could've come home at any point if they needed to.

The definition of stranded is litterally "left without the means to move from somewhere." which is VERY clearly not the case.
but at what cost
I know quite some people who do by conscious decision not own a smartphone considering these are surveillance bugs with an inbuilt phone function, for which you even have to pay.
I have a Brother DCP-9020CDW which I've owned for over a decade and which still keeps humming. A bit expensive with four toners and a drum, but that's color laser for you. I'm very happy with it, and I guess I'd be equally happy with any Brother MFC-LxxxxCDW that's one market now.

If one wants an inkjet, I'd go for an Epson EcoTank.
But Crew 10 had also been planned for a while, so the narrative that Trump ordered a new ship to go up "NOW" can't be true. For example, heres a post about NASA moving the launch date to March, in December last year: https://www.nasa.gov/blogs/commercialcrew/2024/12/17/nasa-ad...
I use this, it's very good, and the maintainer is super awesome as well. It's also easy to build from source on different platforms to create your own custom wrtc.node
I don't see how spam would be a problem.

Couldn't messages created externally to imessage be tagged as such and then just rate limited?
Chromium is already Chrome without Google. Why Brave?
This is a really fascinating case of words having a venacular meaning that become fuzzy out of their normal domain. Could the astronauts have gone back to Earth in an emergency? Yes. Did they have the freedom to leave earlier? Sortof but not really. Could NASA have paid SpaceX another $200 million for an extra mission to pick up in December/January? Probably.

If your car breaks down a couple of miles from home and you call a friend and tell him you're stranded, are you lying? What if it's 20 miles away? But uber exists? What if uber is extremely expensive right now at $2000? But there's a guy next to you offering to sell you a bicycle?

In the end, to ask the question "were they stranded?" we have to unpack "stranded" and figure out what is the question we actually want answered. Is it about the feelings of the astronauts? Their preferences? The danger level they're in? Is it about Boeing's culpability? Is it about whether we can safely call Trump a liar? Musk?

The classic: https://www.readthesequences.com/Disguised-Queries
Just last year NASA launched the largest ever interplanetary space-craft, and hopefully the first craft to approach and conduct scientific studies on Europa. SpaceX is almost entirely focused on getting humans into space - which is great - but NASA's work is not to be discounted.
There is CONFIG_STATIC_USERMODEHELPER that disables the sysctl you mentioned and actually make modprobe_path read-only.
Android Java is almost identical to mainline Java nowadays.
Did you read Trump's post about the mission calling the previous administration incompetents? That predates Berger's post?
Currently re-visiting and re-describing old tumulus tombs in my area where the last survey was decades ago and where no current description exists. Also, I found tombs via Lidar maps that have been unaccounted before and I am cataloguing them. All that as a hobby and as a member of an association of local history.

Things can be done and should!!
My understanding is that Crew 9 was always scheduled for a 6 month mission and they couldn't come back before Crew 10 arrived (in March 2025) or else the ISS would be shortstaffed.

The two astronauts in question are simply hitching a ride back on this scheduled mission.
>Google, Samsung, Pebble, Amazon, Microsoft, Sony, etc. have also spent decades building trust and don't build random hardware.

I don't trust any of those companies the way I trust Apple.
Let me add something even more funny: in Germany, some buildings and art installations are copyrighted which means they aren't allowed to be photographed for non-private usage despite being literally out in the open for everyone to see [1].

[1] https://www.derstandard.de/story/2000108536963/schraeges-urh...
Let's be exact here: "Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, or celebrities, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon."

I'd say USA becoming a fascist dictatorship does qualify as an interesting new phenomenon, but YMMV of course.
Turing Award Special: A Conversation with Jack Dongarra
If we want to pile anecdotes, it just works for me as well. The most recent driver problem I had was Windows, needed to preload something during the installer to get it to recognise hard drives in proxmox working if I remember correctly, and that's not even speaking of printer problems on Windows compared to the seamless integration they now seem to have on Debian (or is my desktop environment responsible for that? Not sure, I'm not super deep into Linux stuff)
NASA awarded the deorbit contract to SpaceX during the Biden administration. The ISS is coming down whether you like it or not.

The more you knew about this, the more you'd be okay with it. The station was obsolete before it was even built. NASA likes to justify the space station as a laboratory studying the effects of longterm space flight on humans; the results were in decades ago: it fucks people up. Human bodies begin to deteriorate in microgravity, even one year isn't healthy and there's nothing we can do about it. No exercise regime can fix it, the only possible solution is a station which spins. This was known before the ISS was built, but they didn't build a spin station. They built Mir 2, using the Soviet DOS-8 module. Mir 1 had the DOS-7 module, the previous modules were the Salyut stations. When the Soviets got tooled up to build something they liked to keep building it forever, and that's what happened here. The Salyut stations came from a period in time when space stations actually had a rational purpose; being a platform for humans to take reconnaissance photos of other countries. This role was quickly made obsolete by recon satellites, but the Soviets were tooled up to build them so they kept at it, while the equivalent systems in America were canceled. If you're familiar with Robert Crippen, the computer specialist and nominal pilot of STS-1, you'll know that he was originally training for operation with the Manned Orbital Laboratory before joining NASA. That was America's Soyuz. It was canceled when satellites proved their capabilities. The Soviets started using satellites but kept their station program anyway, due to the wonderful efficiencies of their system.

NASA tried to use space stations as a justification for continuing Apollo levels of funding (Skylab) but that didn't work out for them and American apace station activities ended there. Some Americans were later sent to Mir and found it to be in a horrific state, a veritable death trap that got lucky on numerous occasions.

The only reason America got involved with Mir 2, rechristening it as the ISS, is because America wanted to prop up the Russian space industry to prevent total collapse and a subsequent diaspora of talent to less friendly nations. It is at least not quite as dangerous as Mir 1, but it's still a dead end technology that serves no genuine scientific purpose, with a political justification which is now just as obsolete.

But the science experiments! How could I have forgotten something so important. All kinds of very important pharmaceutical science or something, I am told. So important, that when companies fielding proposals for replacement stations go looking for customers, they come up empty. NASA wants commercial partners for the next station but the whole thing is a slowly unfolding boondoggle.

Edit to add: Starship isn't going to Mars. Its a satellite launcher surrounded by aspirational propaganda to keep young engineers motivated. And Lunar Gateway, originally the "Deep Space Gateway" before Artemis came up, is meant to exist only to give ISS mission control staff new jobs when the ISS is gone. Soviet style pork.
Spring is perfectly usable without `@Autowired`, at least outside of test classes. SonarQube has a rule that helps avoiding it. Just use constructor injection instead.
I've lived in Hangzhou for abt 2 years. amazing scenery, terrible food
To subtle I guess. The point being, where I live, the Jan 6th Committee was anti-tourist, socialized healthcare = communism, every day mass shootings are unsolvable, shitcoins are Federal Reserve notes, and Corporations Are People.

So in that system, with enough lawyers, lobbyists, and money, it's only a matter of time before some judge rules that AI = Rembrandt.
In this case, "soon" means 2030, which is the planned "retirement" date. Musk suggests to do it even sooner, in two year's time (that would be 2027).
That is all I needed to know, preordered :D
I'm sorry for the snarky response, but:

You don't.

If your app needs to do that, you instruct the user to select the text, and press C-c. We should not allow crap like this because they are too dumb to understand these instructions, or because your app is so special it just needs to do this on a click.
Longer waiting times can decrease productivity a lot more than just the runtime increase. If a program takes long enough that the user switches context mentally, or goes to get another coffee or looks at a few posts on social media that now means far more wasted time. Humans are not robots and won’t just keep staring at the screen.

Also a lot of simple optimizations could save seconds or minutes in the lives of millions of people, and across multiple devices/programs that adds up. Microsoft once sped up the booting process of their consoles by 5 seconds, by simply making the boot animation shorter by 5 seconds. Those consoles were sold to millions of people and it took MS 8 years or so to make the fix. That’s many lifetimes wasted once you add it all up.
This is interesting. So is anything generated by AI not copyrightable?
Apple Loses Top Court Fight Over German Antitrust Crackdown
I slightly agree but my take is less salaries and more that most companies in Europe have been totally captured by the management/academic classes [1].
You can't create what is fundamentally a highly technical product using management to tell engineers what to do. European management structures tend to keep the technical people isolated to their own lower strata and don't listen to them.

AWS' success is it enabled its _engineers_ to launch products. Which is why Azure sticks out like a sore thumb.

[1] This is why you generally only see innovation in Europe coming from small companies, but they don't have the capital to keep investing at pace - AWS was able to build ahead of where its customers were and those customers eventually caught up.
Gated communities arbitrarily bar your entry. That is categorically different from having some minimum standard which anyone is welcome to make an attempt at.
Will the battery be user-replaceable?
Or just send spam through their iPhone.

I don't get this argument that Apple making it difficult for their paying customers to send and receive messages is somehow a good thing. It's also not like Apple is helpless, they managed to shut down Beeper.
Yes, for Computational Agents you will either code "Agent Intelligence"/"Agent Cognition" algorithmically, or using AI/ML/LLM (either by pre-training, or using continous re-training for Adaptive Agents).

Useful abstaractions:

- FSM/State Machines
- Behavior Trees
- Behavior Action Trees
- Workflow Orchestration
- Dataflow (mostly for pipelines transforming LLM Prompt into LLM Reponse)

Another option is to outsource it to a Human, like it was in the ALICE program[1], e.g. Human-in-the-Loop, Participatory Simulation, RLHF, Whole-brain computer simulation, like in The Age of Em[2] (SciFi).

See:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43409240

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1. https://www.media.mit.edu/projects/participatory-simulations...

https://ccl.northwestern.edu/papers/partsims/cscl/

2. https://ageofem.com/
There is already a well known way of using your clipboard (C-c, C-v), what is so special about LLMs that makes this unusable?
When Gmail launched on April 1, 2004, there were two big selling points for me - storage and spam.
cost can be simple, as in "how much to buy one" or complex as in "what is the wider societal cost of increased use of EVs in these kinds of economies.

It isn't clear which one you mean. I might argue that whatever the wider cost is, it may well be better overall than diesel. Or not: EV are heavy. there might be increased socialised losses in road maintenance and loss of income from fuel taxes and registration. It's complicated.
It's not really about system administration.
The average person is a low effort moron who will do whatever he pleases without thinking about the consequences.

The difference with computing is that since it's "new" and sometimes it has bugs, they will blame the hardware/OS any chance they get.
Literally nothing “of course” about it.
I never understand this viewpoint — I understand what you're saying but there's no advantage to this over the Play Store model on Android.

You can have the walled garden, and also not restrict people's freedom — on Android I'm sure the number of people that use any other store than the play store or even side load apps are vanishingly small.

To even be able to do it you have to enable it deep in the settings. And even then, if a new app tries to install an apk you have to manually approve that app's ability to do that before reinitiating the entire process.

That's to say, the default experience is very wall gardened, and I do feel somewhat more protected when downloading something from the play store than not, and the vast majority of people will never leave the Google walled garden. But there exists a way to go around that walled garden when you need to, and that doesn't subtract from that walled garden mode in any way IMO.
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What if the glass is scratched, will they still replace the watch for $99 ?
I recently switched from Fedora to Linux Mint Debian Edition (I work mostly with Debian servers so I am more comfortable with apt than dnf), and the switch has been smooth for me.

I keep my home directory organized and backed up on my NAS, so for me reinstalling is straightforward. Also I use Flatpaks whenever possible, so reinstall them is just looking at ~/.var/app and reinstalling what is there.

Other files to back up might be custom /etc confs, and maybe lists of packages you need (dpkg -l or rpm -qa are your friends).

I also use Linux brew for some more up to date software (e.g. golang) and just brew list is your command to get what you have installed.

In general, keep a backup of your home folder (I suggest skipping backing up ~/.cache to save some time and space) and you are mostly good to go.
> it's much easier to argue that Android has a global monopoly.

Sorta. My understanding is that Google Play has the global monopoly. If it were plain Androids that users bought to own, to do with as they wanted, I'd be much less sombre about where mobile ecosystems are headed (namely, that governments, banks, public transport companies, and many other organisations will require a DRM-locked device if you want to live a normal life, buying bus tickets while passing the algorithmic fraud checks instead of needing to travel to a remaining ticket counter for example). It's barely even the future anymore, bank and transit company apps already mostly only run if you have a Google account and are on a locked-down ("Google Safetynet") device or go to great lengths to hide that you've got full access to your own data on your bought-to-own device
I hear you. I certainly post much less and am happier for that. I like the emerging community there but I’m nowhere near as absorbed.
Simplified syntax helps with maintainability for large projects? You're talking about a "modern" language which had no generics for the better part of its life? The language filled to the brim with "if err != nil"? Go is horrible to work with.
It's pretty open book. e.g. when adding compute you can see the image being generated. So no nsfw

The parts of blender that are security concerns are disabled, so not all of the blender pipeline is available
The Europa Clipper is really cool. I think the Cassini Huygens that launched in 1997 has greater mass though.

SpaceX isn't entirely focused on getting humans to space since they launch the vast majority of satellites thanks to great innovations in reducing the cost of launches, such as reusable rockets. But there are some competitor launch vehicles coming soon that could be interesting as well.
I wish I did not waste my time with windows in my youth and just got a head start with unix/linux.
Can anybody explain to me in simple terms the argument about opening the floodgates for spam on iMessage if Apple would lower their restrictions? I just don't get it. If true, wouldn't this mean that every other messenger app with fewer restrictions or even alternative clients would have a massive spam problem? Anecdotally, I can't really confirm that.
Try replacing "AI Agentic Workflow" with "just make it work, I don't care how" in your startup's pitchdeck, and tell us how many VCs replied back ;)