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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.

For all we know, there's no human in the loop here. Could just be an agent configured with tools to spin up and operate Hacker One accounts in a continuous loop.

When it comes to disk encryption, at least in the home, the threat model isn't somebody sitting around in your home finding a way to exfiltrate the currently-unlocked filesystem; It's someone taking the computer or the drive with them and leaving.

In your analogy, the key atop the vault vanishes as soon as the vault is moved from its location (loses power).

Then you're throwing out a lot of babies with your bathwater: https://www.gally.net/miscellaneous/hn-em-dash-user-leaderbo...

I'm not prolific enough to rank on this leaderboard, but I often use the em dash in comments/posts/texts and have for years—especially on my phone, since it's easiest to reach from a mobile keyboard.

... Except while you're on your way to the line (or waiting to get through it), other customers' mobile orders are being accepted and you still aren't sure of the order in which they're being prepared.

> Classic DoD with its overloaded acronyms.

What does Depth of Discharge have to do with anything?

But as you said, the check (and denial) is happening at the time the _user_ is trying to do something _they_ wish to do (e.g. install an APK from a project on GitHub).

Much of the ecosystem of Android apps that are only distributed outside the Play store will be affected by this, as many developers won't be able or willing to submit to this process or waive their privacy (especially young developers or those making apps that are legal but often targeted by litigious companies, e.g. emulators, YouTube clients/downloaders, BitTorrent clients, etc.)

I've installed untold thousands of .deb packages in my lifetime - often "officially" packaged by Debian or Ubuntu, but in many cases also from a software vendor's own apt repository.

Almost every one contains preinst or postinst scripts that are run as root, and yet I can count on zero hands the number of times I've opened one up first to see what it was actually doing.

At least a curlbash that doesn't prompt me for my password is running as an unprivileged user! /shrug

Furthermore, the planet we are on cannot possibly be in space. Space is mostly empty, has no breathable atmosphere, there are no trees or grocery stores there, etc.; Earth is quite the opposite.

You received some better corrections in earlier replies, which you've chosen to ignore... That's your prerogative of course, but there's no need to resort to "I'll have you know I graduated top of my class in the Navy Seals"-style reverse ad hominem to make an argument.

You made some basic mistakes in your previous reply, such as confusing power (kW) and energy (kWh) and assuming that a typical driver in HI commutes something like 250mi each day. This isn't even typical for drivers on the mainland, where plenty of EV+solar owners manage to replenish most or all of their EV usage using rooftop solar generation just fine.

(If you're going to answer "well, I never said I was considering the median distance/day case - I was talking about the most extreme scenarios!" then I'd suggest at least bumping up the hypothetical solar installation to 10kW instead of going with the median.)

In the video he mentions how the specific type of Dyneema cord he's using is well-suited for the application (compared to other kinds of rope/cord). It's particularly strong, light, and inelastic; a lot of climbing equipment uses a version of it for similar reasons.

There are more benefits to EV conversion in a community than the use of renewable energy, noise and roadside air quality being pretty big ones. Also... how do you know there aren't Hawaiians charging their EVs using rooftop solar? I hear they're known for being in the sun sometimes.

Walmart has some gigantic amount of sites under construction or in permitting at many of their stores, and many are being built by other operators too. Charging proliferation hasn't slowed down.