hey hey don't interrupt the hustleporn

i don't think so - the ascent looked good. i don't think they need to put the ship on another suborbital trajectory because the booster landing burn failed. also, i don't think this impacts prop transfer or ship catch - both are separate problems.

I think this is technically true but that they want a seamless suborbital flight (like the last two for the Block 2) before they move forward on those other goals.

Why wouldn’t they only care about seamless ship flights, to get some value out of the launches, while they’re still learning and figuring out how to light booster?

Looks useful.

It'd be interesting if you put some of the bible in there and published any continuity errors. Would be great press, regardless.

It changed because she came home to find her son treating his body like it was an amusement park

i wonder if this is how engineers felt when the first electronic calculators came out and engineers stopped doing math by hand.

did we feel uneasy that a new generation of builders didn't have to solve equations by hand because a calculator could do them?

i'm not sure it's the same analogy but in some ways it holds.

The analogy would hold if there were 2 or 3 calculator companies and all your calculations had to be sent to them.

If local models get good enough, I think it’s a very different scenario than engineers all over the world relying on central entities which have their own motives.

I think calculator is the wrong analogy. Go further back before even mainframes, when their were just a handful of purpose-built computers.

google/gemma-4-31B-it is honestly "good enough". It requires more than your current laptop for now, but it's not remotely inaccessible (especially if you're a SWE in the US)

succinct and accurate.

don't forget that socialization plays a role. boys are guided to certain activities in their youth, girls to others.

>I love (Neo)Vim. Like I wrote earlier, it's been my primary editor for the past 15 years. What I don't love is all the configuration that goes into it before I can use it to start writing code.

this resonates with me. i've spent so much time configuring neovim in the terminal (kitty) and i've never had everything work 100% of the time. simple things just like seeing an entire typescript error are challenging to get working. those errors just continue on one line outside of the screen.

with LLM's the tradeoff tipped in the favor of cursor with the neovim extension.

> 2. It just works

so i switched to cursor last week from neovim in the terminal and this is how i feel. but, i'm not going to invest more time to check out Zed now that i just got cursor set up the way i like it.

but it's great to see all the progress in IDE's lately.

i think this type of interaction is the future in lots of areas. i can imagine we replace API's completely with a single endpoint where you hit it up with a description of what you want back. like, hit up 'news.ycombinator.com/api' with "give me all the highest rated submissions over the past week about LLMs". a server side LLM translates that to SQL, executes the query, returns the results.

this approach is broadly applicable to lots of domains just like FFMpeg. very very cool to see things moving in this direction.

Do you envision the LLMs creating a protocol? Would the caller supply the schema for the response?

I mentioned here recently that I let LLMs design the APIs which they are going to use. I got quite a negative response to that, which surprised me.

I see it here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42548228

HN and internet forums in general have a contagion of critique, where we mercilessly point out flaws and attempt to show our superiority. It best to ignore them.

> I ask the LLM to build it. That way, by definition, the LLM has a built in understanding of how the system should work, because the LLM itself invented it.

I share the same belief, and as a rebuttal against EagnaIonat's comment, when you ask the LLM to create something, it is finding the centroid of the latent space of your request in its high dimensional space. The output is congruent with what it knows and believes. So yes, the output would be statistical, but is also embedded in its subspace. For code you have written independent of the LLM, that isn't necessarily true.

I think there are many ways we could test this, even in smaller models through constructed tests and reprojection of output programs.

It is like if I asked an OO programmer to come up with a purely functional solution, it would be hard. And then if I asked to take an existing PFP program and refactor and extend it, it would be broken.

Solutions have to exist in the natural space, this is true for everyone.

The big protocol doing this is called "Model Context Protocol" and it should've been a widely read/discussed post except hn has taken a wide anti-ai stance

Imagine that every API will be behind government gateway, checking all the queries before passing on to the real API and then checking its replies.

I believe this approach is destined for a lot of disappointment. LLMs enable a LOT of entry- and mid-level performance, quickly. Rightfully, you and I worry about the edge cases and bugs. But people will trend towards things that enable them to do things faster.

how long ago was the last time you checked?

expo has solved the native dependencies issue, and it's a fantastic way to build an app.

this is one of the few hills i'm willing to die on. expo is great for the RN community.

also you can download my RN expo app here: www.shopcats.app.