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An earlier post to a news article rather than to a tweet: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47186662

I can't recall if the PS2 was cheaper than available DVD players when it launched, but I do distinctly remember it being true of the PS3 and Blu-ray for some time given how new it was then

Could be a sort of canary, with the timing being a spotlight on the highly-visible pressure coming from the U.S. government.

You can add a dependabot.yml config to regulate when Dependabot runs and how many PRs it will open at a time:

https://docs.github.com/en/code-security/reference/supply-ch...

I'm always left in awe by not only the Dolphin team's work, but the quality of their articles and release notes. This was no exception!

It's obviously not something you'd want to happen _passively_ when visiting a web page, but if the alternative is installing an executable / using a package manager / etc., why not? At least the browser is a more secure sandboxed environment for running untrusted code than most peoples' native OS.

The progressive loading of the tile images really goes great with the pixel art style. Nice touch!

It's how we all used to talk on IRC, well before Gen Z came online :)

This exchange seemingly proves the argument that user trust gained from the EV treatment is misplaced, and that the endeavor was a farce all along. It's not as though the user's browser was distinguishing the good CAs from the bad!

> Tailscale for space

Technically the article was about running it not on a sat, but on a dish (something well within the realm of possibility this year if the router firmware on the darn things could be modified at all)

You don't just accept the review as-is, though; You prompt it to be a skeptic and find a handful of specific examples of claims that are worth extra attention from a qualified human.

Unfortunately, this probably results in lazy humans _only_ reading the automated flagged areas critically and neglecting everything else, but hey—at least it might keep a little more garbage out?

It's the same distinction as making a backup copy of a movie to your hard drive vs. redistributing it to other parties.

That must be what inspired them to approach San Francisco's Central Subway in a similar fashion!

Surely they meant Writely vs Word

I would think the way humans draw clocks has more in common with image generation models (which probably do a bit better with this task overall) than a language model producing SVG markup, though.

> Note that unless your start-up is matching, you can set up your own HSA anywhere you like.

Even if your employer provides an HSA, you can still open a separate HSA anywhere you like (or multiple, if you really wanted to). You just have to make certain that all contributions (from you, your employer(s), and your payroll) sum up under your annual limit at the end of the year (keeping in mind that changing jobs or benefits mid-year can impact your limit for that year).

Bad news if you're American, then:

https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/us-drops-biden-plan...

Do you disagree that cultivating the launch provider industry in this way has strategic value?

> the whole space industry is a joke; if it were healthy, there would be an ecosystem of multiple launch providers vs one finicky government-funded-Elon-company

ULA has been operating for many, many years (Atlas/Delta, now Vulcan Centaur), RocketLab has been putting up small payloads for the last few (with Electron, someday Neutron perhaps), and BO seems close to having New Glenn flying real missions this season. But yes, one hopes that the others can become competitive on price eventually.

Even if the bet on Starship fails to pay off, the existing Falcon 9 program is both (1) the dominant launch vehicle in terms of sheer quantity, reliability, and cost-effectiveness of missions and (2) the only system with a reusable first stage. Dragon routinely ferries humans to and from the ISS (and other trajectories) and no one blinks an eye.

How do you square that with "not delivering"? I don't doubt that China could surpass them in the next 5 years, but nobody else is realistically close to doing so.

I think it's more fair to say that transportation from ground to orbit became commoditized to the point where the better allocation of NASA's talents became designing and building telescopes (like the JWST), Martian rovers / aircraft, Earth observation satellites, and plans for future deep space exploration missions.

It's beneficial for NASA, companies, and other countries to have cost-effective access to a range of competing American launch providers (whether SpaceX, ULA, RocketLab, and perhaps BO in the next few years).

The point of comparison here would be a human delivery driver, who (as I understand) can be carrying multiple deliveries at a time. I think with Waymo's service, it's one delivery at a time, which results in more cars on the road for the same demand? (Or are there potentially several orders in the trunk when you go to get yours out?)

You mean they did, but the Trump administration and GOP passed a provision to begin eliminating the program earlier this year.

Can't you get recency just from git blame? Editors already show you each source line's last-touch age, even in READMEs, and even though this can get obfuscated (by reformatters, file moves, etc.) it's still a decent indicator.

Looks like something you'd expect to find as a countdown timer in the run up to this year's WWDC on their homepage. Very slick.

An automated test mitigates the risk you describe, and is well worth the tradeoff for fast startup.

I don't consider startup time "superficial" at all; I work in a Django monolith where this problem resulted in each and every management command, test invokation, and container reload incurring a 10-15sec penalty because of just a handful of heavy-to-import libraries used by certain tasks/views. Deferring these made a massive difference.

Ruff doesn't do this, and in fact even lets you specify modules that _must_ not be imported at the top level (banned-module-level-imports = [...])

I banished the worst/heaviest libraries to this list at my workplace and it's been really helpful at keeping startup times from regressing.

I think it's being pointed out as an inherent weakness of greater centralization when it comes to the internet's resiliency against government interference and censorship. The internet used to be much more decentralized than it is today.

The production rate of ~~paperclips~~ tokens isn't growing quickly enough!

NVDA's share price enjoyed a nice $6 bump today, so the announcement did what it was supposed to do.

In a sense, it's just an ask to public investors for added capital to do a thing, and evidently a number of investors found the pitch compelling enough.