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d_silin

2,250 karmajoined há 7 anos
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Small satellite operators confront a bottleneck to space access

spacenews.com
9 points·by d_silin·há 15 dias·0 comments

Ask HN: Examples of products and services created via agentic coding

3 points·by d_silin·mês passado·0 comments

SpaceX Starship Documentary – Test Like You Fly

spacex.com
5 points·by d_silin·há 3 meses·0 comments

The Technological Republic, in Brief

twitter.com
11 points·by d_silin·há 3 meses·4 comments

Artemis II mission countdown clock started

nasa.gov
26 points·by d_silin·há 3 meses·0 comments

NASA Unveils Initiatives to Achieve America's National Space Policy

nasa.gov
4 points·by d_silin·há 4 meses·0 comments

SpaceX Announces TeraFab

twitter.com
10 points·by d_silin·há 4 meses·10 comments

The New World War

newstatesman.com
6 points·by d_silin·há 4 meses·2 comments

Rise of the AI Soldiers

time.com
6 points·by d_silin·há 4 meses·3 comments

Support Celestrak

giving.classy.org
1 points·by d_silin·há 4 meses·0 comments

Bringing the genetically minimal cell to life on a computer in 4D

cell.com
4 points·by d_silin·há 4 meses·0 comments

CTF is dying because of AI?

blog.krauq.com
3 points·by d_silin·há 4 meses·0 comments

User Interview #3

twitter.com
1 points·by d_silin·há 4 meses·1 comments

Hardwiring LLM model weights to ASIC

eetimes.com
1 points·by d_silin·há 5 meses·0 comments

Be the Cat

medium.com
3 points·by d_silin·há 5 meses·0 comments

Ask HN: What don't software developers unionize?

3 points·by d_silin·há 5 meses·0 comments

SvarDOS – an open-source DOS distribution

svardos.org
73 points·by d_silin·há 5 meses·16 comments

Why Colonize Space: The Need for Frontier

medium.com
1 points·by d_silin·há 5 meses·0 comments

SpaceX shifts priorities to Moon city instead of Mars colony

twitter.com
8 points·by d_silin·há 5 meses·7 comments

The Iron Heel

en.wikipedia.org
5 points·by d_silin·há 5 meses·2 comments

comments

d_silin
·há 6 dias·discuss
One of the most interesting technologies that is not about LLMs/AIs.
d_silin
·há 13 dias·discuss
My bad! Global aerospace industry then.
d_silin
·há 13 dias·discuss
1969 was truly the pinnacle of US aerospace industry - Concord, Boeing 747 and Apollo 11 all happened during this year.
d_silin
·há 16 dias·discuss
This should be way higher.
d_silin
·há 19 dias·discuss
There is no metric a reasonably intelligent person can't sabotage or subvert...

...for example, you can write a script to burn tokens and write the code yourself.
d_silin
·há 19 dias·discuss
Nobody forces you to use AI.

It has become sort of junk food for the brain. Temptations and ads for it everywhere.
d_silin
·há 26 dias·discuss
That's one idea I am willing to bet on (with my money and skills).
d_silin
·há 27 dias·discuss
Fair enough. I appreciate your civility.
d_silin
·há 27 dias·discuss
When does it stop, though?

A white lie during interview, a deadline you promised and knew you could not deliver? A product you ship that claims to do X, but it doesn't?
d_silin
·há 27 dias·discuss
Culture begins at the front door, corporate or personal.

I would expect absolute sincerity from pilot or a doctor during the interview, including history of mental health and professional mistakes. Authority over lives of people must come with full transparency. If you are caught lying or misrepresenting your experience and skills, not only you would lose your job, you should be blacklisted from occupation as well.

In every skill, everyone benefits from honesty, both employers and employees. But I am aware this is a minority view.
d_silin
·há 27 dias·discuss
Goes both way, yes.

History has examples of extremely underprivileged people not compromising on the values even when facing death or torture.
d_silin
·há 27 dias·discuss
Having any kind of integrity is expensive, financially, emotionally and sometimes physically.

Software development is not that high-stakes of a job anyway. There is always another interview. I got another one soon enough, where the employee AI policy fully aligned with mine, so telling the truth was an easy, pleasant experience.

Imagine you are a pilot or doctor. Any kind of interview reply that doesn't fully align with your values now carries a real risk for human lives.
d_silin
·há 27 dias·discuss
Correct. I did it anyway (and yes, it was awful).
d_silin
·há 27 dias·discuss
In the end, everyone makes their own choices.

I don't want to preach martyrdom, but I am also offended by people choosing moral bankruptcy when faced with even the slightest hardships.
d_silin
·há 27 dias·discuss
Yes.
d_silin
·há 27 dias·discuss
It is not. I made that choice in the past and will do it again.

"Speak the truth, even if your voice shakes"
d_silin
·mês passado·discuss
The only effective action is push back on Athropic.
d_silin
·mês passado·discuss
SpaceX already blown through a number of "... but this cannot be!" forecasts. Would not discount them easily.
d_silin
·mês passado·discuss
TL;DR:

- AI part of SpaceX is absolute disaster, while its IPO valuation hinges on its future success.

- Lot's of questionable corporate shenanigans and accounting tricks.

- Public shareholders have zero power over Elon after IPO.

Some numbers for 1Q 2026

Launch: -660M

Starlink +1.1B

AI: -2.5B
d_silin
·mês passado·discuss
Entire civilization flourished for 2000 years and then disappeared without any clue why.

I have a pet theory about Indus Valley script - inscriptions on the seals are so short and unique because they are just name signatures, to stamp other objects.

Having to be durable, they were the only inscribed objects that survived.