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Iconic Concorde back to the skies just in time for April[1]

[1] https://htxt.co.za/2025/04/iconic-concorde-back-to-the-skies...
If you are a random outsider… then how do you know there is the room and potential for such an individual?
I suppose they're not launching eastward from West Europe in current political climate. Polar sites are ok for spy sats.

Polar-to-equatorial plane changes aren't impossible either, I remember Russia occasionally doing for commercial launches, before the invasion.
That would be interesting if so. Certainly worth trying.
This is some pretty old analysis, but I remember when smartphones came out and people were thinking about throttling their applications to lower power consumption the general advice was to just "race to idle".

The consensus thus was that spending more time in lower power states (where you use ~0W) was much more efficient than spending a longer amount of time in the CPU sweetspot, but with all sort of peripherals online that you didn't need anyway.

I remember when Google made a big deal out of "bundling" idle CPU and network requests, since bursting them out was more efficient than having the radio and CPU trotting along at low bandwidth.
Welding Visualization System [video]
There are tons of things I miss about Notes email almost daily when I use Outlook. I supported Notes though, so I actually knew how to use search and agents and stuff that most of the people that whine about Notes never learned to use correctly. It's funny how all the companies that ditched Notes end up rewriting all the same applications in Sharepoint and then again in ServiceNow. The industry eats and regurgitates itself every couple of years without actually improving much.
That looks a little like you've come up with Sidekick but for smartphones - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borland_Sidekick
Because folks are getting arrested at the airport for having anti-trump thoughts. It's pure 1984.
> If those constraints don't hold (like you say) it should manifest as runtime panic, no?

No. Your int and bool pools run just fine – I can't imagine you would have posted the code if it panicked – but are not correct.

> I did not forget?

Then your guarantee is bunk: "One could define a new "Pool[T]" type (extending sync.Pool) to get these guarantees:" Why are you making claims you won't stand behind?
Agreed, commentator is confused. My sibling comment to yours pointed it out. It's important to keep clear what is straight up a propaganda effort and what has been embraced by the propagandists as supporting them despite it not being a propaganda effort. Muddied waters helps no one.
The elected congresspeople who voted to fund this should go to jail, even though there is no law broken? You are advocating for a wild system of government sir.
Relay
Basic overview of rust code for a 3d modeling program I'm making called relay. Name reservation as well. Next I'm putting the interface with basic windows options.

Non editable code
Where a is window and b would be the menus on the side later. I'll compile the actual code once I get off my phone onto a computer.
// Short-circuiting boolean logic
println!("qwertkeyf=wywhynwnewwordlessinsteadrswlmnophtyfj"
Println!("b, later")

It does have it based on that you decode the print line. With provided key line the less instead is two separate parts and indicates not using plus or minus symbols with a basis to one side. Feel free to use it from this in rust but this code is copywrited.
No, I do not believe it. Yes, I believe the author means it literally.
I worked at a startup where one of the original devs had “strong opinions” on JavaScript frameworks. “It’s all bloat!!! We don’t need that crap”. So consequently all the new engineers had to learn this dude’s codebase, which turned into to be… A framework! Only instead of a documented one that had plenty of support it was an unholy mess that required extra time to build all the stuff missing from the it’s-not-a-bloated-framework-but-pure-JavaScript-framework.

Guess what happened the day after the dude left the company? All the engineers immediately started to replace the unholy mess of “totally not a framework” framework with an actual one.

Guess what happened to development productivity and product quality? They went up dramatically.
I have a very similar story. In high school, our library was using a windows environment and through some luck, I discovered NET SEND or something like that. I figured out my friend's computer names and I started sending them messages. We eventually communicated this way even under the strict librarian and I eventually hatched a plan to annoy everyone. I put together a crappy batch file that iterated through every computers name and just mass sent messages but screwed up the iterator and it went forever. I think we had to restart all the computers but no one figured out it was me except my friends.

Miss those days and also miss playing soldat on those crappy PCs.
What a beautiful bit of history! I had no idea.

You expanded my mind today, and I thank you for that!
This rings true to me as well. I'm not sure what I get out of F# that I can't get from Rust, unless you specifically want .NET, which I don't.
Pirate booted out: popcorn mogul's coup in New York village falls flat
So you want to hide it for everyone.
Show HN: Write your ideas. Keep your docs safe and private
BodoBench95: A Modern Benchmark for the Timeless Power of the Intel Pentium Pro
Tell HN: Camelgate NPM Outage (Cloudflare)
EDIT: Back online?!

NPM discussion: https://github.com/npm/cli/issues/8203

NPM incident: https://status.npmjs.org/incidents/hdtkrsqp134s

Cloudflare messaging: https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/incidents/gshczn1wxh74

GitHub issue: https://github.com/sindresorhus/camelcase/issues/114

Anyone experiencing npm outage that's more than just the referenced camelcase package?
I don't think they're not recognized for it, they just don't brand themselves as it.

For as long as broadcasting has been a thing, major broadcasters were involved in pushing the technology forward. For most of it's history the American network NBC was a subsidiary of the Radio Corporation of America. But NBC's brand is not tech, they want to consumer to associate the gliz of the picture.
Someone is trying to recruit security researchers in a bizarre hacking campaign
Apple does not share identifiable personal data with partners for the purpose of advertising, which is why its apps don’t ask for permission to track. Almost everyone arguing against Apple in these comments seems to misunderstand this, likely because of motivated reasoning.
There's plenty of other public information. The FBI was searching his house for undisclosed reasons, so most definitely they have some kind of investigation open on him. And his degrees were issued by universities in Nanjing and Shanghai, China, strongly suggesting he is a Chinese National, perhaps naturalized to the United States.

That was known at the time of my post.

We now also know now at the time of his escape, Indiana University had terminated his Professorship. And has continued to disavow he and his wife.

I did not misuse Occam's razor, my knowledge of public facts simply exceeded yours.
In practice, it’s only Linux that is distro dependent out of the big ones, but most package managers have some WebKit gtk package to hook into afaik.

In theory yes you could go outside Linux as well, like maybe bsd? Or which ones are you thinking of?
I just wrote a comment on this thread and I almost thought you were talking about me for a second. lol
Many find it hard to understand which is why affiliate networks create studies, write articles, and post reports with results, similar to the one I posted. Retailers don't go in blind. They test partnerships and continue only if there are positive results.

Yes, many retailers are struggling. Perhaps affiliate links and cash back are not the best way, but it's not the only way that retailers try to be successful.

If you were a suit working at a retailer with budget to spend with the goal of getting a return on investment, maybe you would personally avoid spending the money on affiliate links. But get this, the TOP, BIG, SUCCESSFUL retailers all have data showing that the affiliate system makes the numbers go up. Even if they don't understand the system, they just care about the numbers.
the correct answer is "the solution is unknown"
Ask HN: Could you help me find an old post?
I remember there was an old but popular post on HN front page about a failed startup project. The project is about distilling biology science. The conclusion was that there is no money in science distillation.

I can't recall any search key word to find it. If you remember its title, please help me.

Thank you!
effects of excuses are thankfully limited to presidential term.
Meme Creation Platform
Nearly every popular-music guitar lesson series in the world teaches the five various pentatonic patterns--the few exceptions being those that focus on classical guitar or non-western music. You might find this article interesting.

https://music.stackexchange.com/questions/43516/can-someone-...

There is definitely theory to how they are constructed, and you are right that the shifts and adjustments can be derived if you think about it and practice it. But that's just a longer way to the five patterns.
Is there a particular stack you prefer?

If JS, maybe consider Astro (for simple blogs)? It has built-in MDX support and deploys in a few seconds.

There's also Ghost, but it's a bit more complex. It has both a paid cloud version now and also the FOSS self-hosted version: https://github.com/TryGhost/Ghost

If PHP, maybe https://getgrav.org/?

For Go or a prebuilt binary, maybe https://gohugo.io/?
Same here. The problem, though, is that on the internet the articles stick around past that day and confuse everyone forever.
What is STOL, BRC, IMC?
I don't doubt it, but I don't run Microsoft software any more. I've seen enough embrace, extend, and extinguish in my lifetime to not depend on them for my code's execution environment.

My current work needs nothing the .NET environment provides that I can't use python's standard libraries to get done, or bash and C if I need to.

But I'm lucky to no longer be in a corporate environment, so I don't need to consume commercial services, which was much easier using WCF within .NET. Back in my previous life, constructing n-tiered services on top of SqlServer using WCF was slick, indeed.

To any who are interested in how to construct such n-tiered applications simply but securely and precisely, I highly suggest Juval Lowy's IDesign system. He had three specific videos that I watched three or four times each until I understood his distillation of his vast expertise. Of course, Mr. Lowy is one of the co-designers of WCF, which was an excellent bit of tech.
Isar is working towards reusability, albeit not as a priority. Even Arianespace has reusability in its roadmap. The UK alone has three small launch startups with reusability in their roadmap, from Skyrora (first stage with parachute only) to the more speculative Space Engine Systems spaceplane. The economics of reusability favour large rockets with regular launch cadences though, and that takes a lot of capital, which is why European newspace companies tend to focus on components, satellites and tugs...
Definitely, I've been contemplating getting a 5-10kWh LFP battery backup with <10ms UPS switchover to run the workstation and home backup. This is an intermediate solution until then.
I wrote a deploy.sh to help me with the parameters, almost feels like automatic deployment... ;-)
Then you should be happy to learn that Trump just passed an executive order making workplace pranks a felony, so hopefully the world will be finally free of this plague on efficiency and profits.
consistency between platforms
Tales of the Gold Monkey / TaleSpin / that one season of Archer, has been the fantasy-life I wanted since I was very young.

I mean, I'm sure any real-world version of it would actually suck, though.
Anything that forces React off its boring throne of forced ubiquity is a good thing in my book, not only for its lack of optimization, but its unwillingness to move past its outdated APIs and state management patterns. The amount of limitations I've faced using it compared to other libraries / ecosystem is enough to drive anyone mad.

I will say these claims about 10-second load times are highly exaggerated though. I've built several large applications with Vue and React, and once compiled, load within 2-3 seconds, with any remaining time spent requesting data at the mercy of your servers, which is going to happen in any client-side application, including native apps; so this isn't browser technology's fault.

Once cached, loads instantly -- and anyone complaining about cold starts can take their criticism to native app makers for phones, or motherboard manufacturers for long boot times. It's hardly an issue because of caching, and I tend to think the complainers about the modern web are forgetting how much more complex our applications are these days. Raw speed for lack of features? Or a little bloat for more capabilities? Pick one, and accept the tradeoffs. Maybe one day browser tech won't force us to choose.

While there is a case to be made for slow internet connections (this is where Svelte and other compiled runtimes come in with SSR), for the average enterprise using a private SaaS, or home internet customers using public SaaS apps on the web, by-and-large the experience is going to be just fine, unless the team who built the app didn't optimize.

All that aside, it's refreshing to see more ground being broken in the area of speed — I'm all for it.
> it's reasonable to discount EU as stagnated

In this case it is. It peaked in the 1990s with resurgency after Ariane 5 came out but it hasn't been competitive for many years now.

Arianespace was kind of the SpaceX of the 80s and 90s and IIRC they had the majority of the market for a few years.

Unfortunately Europe got permanently got stuck in the early 2000s in quite a few ways.
bass is actually short for "basically not an instrument"
Anna's Archive Scraping: Court Defers Key Questions to State Supreme Court
I don’t know answer to your question, but I recalled something relevant. Some time ago, Microsoft had a tech which compiled almost normal looking C++ into Direct3D 11 compute shaders: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/parallel/amp/cpp-amp-o... The compute kernels are integrated into CPU-running C++ in the similar fashion CUDA does.

As you see, the technology deprecated in Visual Studio 2022. I don’t know why but I would guess people just didn’t care. Maybe because it only run on Windows.
I know Raku from Perl fame, and F# because it’s Microsoft, but CHILL and Clipper are totally new to me, so in my own humble experience these two latter look far more obscure. :D
It's been weird going a year or two without really following astralcodexten and suddenly it's pivoted to All AI All The Time.
These days there's Gleam[0], as a strongly typed alternative for the BEAM virtual machine. Of all the languages I haven't used yet, it seems to hit the safe + minimalistic + productive sweet spot the best. (Yes the C-inspired syntax is slightly off-putting, but syntax is the least important aspect of a language.)

[0]: https://gleam.run/
TypeScript compiler has also moved to Go https://devblogs.microsoft.com/typescript/typescript-native-...
I'm using Brisk Notes: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/brisknote-new-tab-n...
Like China.
Hoping the Streisand Effect will result in legitimate interest in Nix after this April Fools' joke is debunked.
The youtube channel Summoning Salt made a great video that covers the history of Tetris world records: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOJlg8g8_yw
The power optimizer daemon has only been running for a few days, so it's hard to measure in $ value but based on my peak pricing I would estimate the savings to be around a few dollars since then.
A 100% inheritance tax would encourage entrepreneurial behavior and force young people to take risks that they wouldn't otherwise. Capital would operate more efficiently if everyone was on the market in that way. In fact, the inheritance tax would be the only tax if it was total; there would be no other tax burden in one's entire life.
In my university we had a more precise setup for that. It was some sort of weight on a rail at a known incline, and a digital timer with two sensors known distance apart that start and stop it.

Yet in my class we still had results as low as 7 and as high as 12. We all got passing grades. But the protocol for these lab assignments was always such that you had to have your "measurements sheet" signed by the professor, and you turned it in with your report later.
Blue Origin (https://www.blueorigin.com) | Software Engineer / Software Manager / Technical Product Manager | Seattle/Huntsville/Florida (No Remote) | Full Time

Blue Origin develops reusable rockets and engines (including the now-orbital New Glenn: https://arstechnica.com/features/2025/01/after-the-success-o...). We're also working on a human-rated lunar lander (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Moon_(spacecraft)), a space station (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orbital_Reef), and some other neat projects; with goal of improving life on Earth.

My team is in supply chain and manufacturing technology. We're ramping up like crazy and have a super ambitious roadmap.

- Software Engineer I | $99-139k (WA, other locations vary): https://blueorigin.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/BlueOrigin/job/Seat...

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If that's not your bag, we're hiring in just about every other engineering discipline, including lots of embedded software. 411 open positions as of this writing: https://www.blueorigin.com/careers/search

(Export control laws require us to hire exclusively US citizens, Green Card holders, or those in "protected person" status)

Feel free to email me with questions or thoughts! mmuldoon [at] blueorigin.com
CUDA is over a decade of investment. I left CUDA toolkit team in 2014 and it was probably around 10 years old back then. Can't build something comparable fast.
AutoPallet Robotics (YC S24) | ONSITE | San Francisco | Full-Time and Intern | Robotics Software (Rust), Mechatronics Engineer, ML Intern, ??

We’re building novel robots for case picking in warehouses, a huge unsolved automation opportunity for a very labor-intensive, critically important and sh*tty human job in the thin-margin industry of logistics. Our software is all Rust/Pytorch, embedded dev through research-frontier applied algorithms and an integrated development iteration time measured on a watch, not a calendar.

There’s more than enough fun problems to go around, and we’re looking to grow the team with a couple more great-to-work-with folks, including generalists or job descriptions we haven’t realized we should be hiring for. We’re also specifically looking for a summer applied ML intern for robotic perception and controls. There’s a lot more cool stuff we can’t share publicly just yet. To apply, email a resume to <the-two-letters-of-this-site>@autopallet.bot, and include the role you’re looking for in the subject line, and we’ll take it from there. Bonus points if you include a link or photo of something cool you’ve made.
Location: Wisconsin
Remote: Yes
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Technologies: Python, PyTorch, Kubernetes, Docker, AWS, FastAPI, ONNX, MLOps
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Email: In profile or on resume

AI/ML Engineer specializing in high-performance deployments. Built distributed systems handling 30K QPS, developed a neural network for Rocket League gameplay, and created platforms that cut model deployment time from 6 months to 6 hours. Saved $500K/yr in infrastructure costs through optimization at previous role. Former technical founder with experience in humanoid robotics and AI writing assistance. I write about my projects and musings on my blog: https://thelisowe.substack.com/

Seeking roles focusing on ML infrastructure, model optimization, post-training, or full-stack AI engineering.
Oh man that's cool. It would be impractical but an S-38 would be cool too but I'm biased from The Aviator
Yeah I don’t see anything that even suggests it throttles the PC.

Looks like it’s just a display.
Organic molecules of unprecedented size discovered on Mars
Show HN: Generate beautiful documentation from any GitHub repository using AI
GitSummarize is an open-source devtool that I made this weekend.

Given any public GitHub repository it generates high-quality documentation from the codebase using Gemini 2.5 Pro.

Pro Tip: You can replace "hub" with "summarize" in any repository URL to access its documentation.

I created this because there was a steep learning curve to understanding some of the open-source codebases out there while getting started with contributing. Having detailed documentation would be immensely helpful in those situations.

This project was heavily inspired by GitIngest and GitDiagram so make sure to check those out as well!

Hopefully this tool can help you and feedback is always welcome!
The thing is, enterprise web applications are not built for phones. This would be like telling someone to run the latest Ubisoft game on a PC from 2-3 generations ago, and expecting it to perform well.

Today's applications are more complex than ever, bloated perhaps, but the demand for features, complex visualizations, etc. rise with the patterns of seeing them more in other applications.
I don't know what C# has for an interactive prompt nowadays, but F#'s commandline environment, via its fsi.exe, was a revelation back then. It prevented having to have entire solutions to contain test projects to explore different areas of the vast .NET framework, especially when just learning how to use specific methods or objects.
> But I think more importantly, what is often missed in this analysis is that most programmers doing ML work aren't writing their own custom kernels. They're just using pytorch (or maybe something even more abstracted/multi-backend like keras 3.x) and let the library deal with implementation details related to their GPU.

That would imply that AMD could just focus on implementing good PyTorch support on their hardware and they would be able to start taking market share. Which doesn't sound like much work compared with writing a full CUDA competitor. But that does not seem to be the strategy, which implies it is not so simple?

I am not an ML engineer so don't have first hand experience, but those I have talked to say they depend on a lot more than just one or two key libraries. But my sample size is small. Interested in other perspectives...
It was a blueprint. Embedding and typedefs are ways to implement these guarantees. And of course, writing a generic pool library is not what I was after.

> but are not correct.

I don't follow what you're saying. You asserted, "And, unfortunately, doesn't even get the generic constraints right, as demonstrated with the int and bool examples." What does it even mean? I guess, this bikeshed has been so thoroughly built that the discussion points aren't even getting through.