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> Why would another entity acquire if the future burden/liability you describe truly exists?

There are too many bankers, and lawyers with an identity conflict finding themselves in doing business.
> He left Vice in 2008 due to what he described as "creative differences".

Seems to me that after 12 years, Vice maybe shouldn't be judged for it's founders vices [pun intended].
Unpopular opinion and anecdotal but in all the companies I've started lawyers have been the single biggest waste of money. They gave me nothing that I couldn't have found by doing a Ctrl+F in the law code.

It may help that I live in a country with pretty straight-forward laws and very little bureaucracy, which doesn't seem to be the case in the US. Even the preparatory work and case-laws are easy to digest.
I think there is a reason for that, and this is a topic that calls into question more than just computers but human nature itself.

The older web was dominated by competing standards and companies trying to get the "edge" (pun intended), as shenanigans are afoot trying to keep 'your browser' in the lead. IE6 and those days were absolutely horrible.

Of course, the downside (or upside, depending how you view it) is that whatever Google does is now the standard. AMP? Standard. Web APIs? Our implementation is how it is.

Whether we're better off or not remains to be seen. But it sure beats having 20 different types of "USB" standards on the front of my PC from 15 different stakeholders.

At least today when I buy my new external HDD it uses USB, I plug it in, and it "just works". We wouldn't be saying that intrinsically if there were loads of competing standards.

(Whose to say the Linux kernel wouldn't be involved in a fight between $competingComapnies trying to cripple each other? We see tricky things in the kernel from time to time, See [1] and [2])

[1]: https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NVIDIA-L...

[2]: https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Linux-59...
Disassembled bed... it was never the same. My issue with IKEA is most of the furniture is not solid wood but chipboard, screws just don't hold well in it. Some of their products handle repeated putting apart and together fine, some don't. Sometimes people mess up with complex pieces of furniture.

I wouldn't blame IKEA specifically, any chipboard furniture would be prone to this.
Apple Watch Family Setup Review
If this is real, then what are some countermeasures?
John Seymour has also been writing books for years on how to sustain a whole family on an acre of land.
Assuming the app is 10 MB, 100 million users (out of 2.5 billion Android users) download it once (not 10 times as you suggested), that's one million gigabytes of traffic.

Using the cheapest Google Cloud Storage egress rate of $0.08/GB, that's $80000 for each update the app pushes out.
Each time I call my husband office they keep telling me my husband has a 3pm appointment and this has been happing for a while now, am always worried about my husband leaving the office by 3pm yet he wont open up to me about the contract he has been trying to seal, then I hired jeajamhacker@gmail.com to make the investigation for me without any notice, I got access to my husband phone remotely after going through his text messages and all I found out that there is a lady my husband always see by 3pm then i went further because jeajamhacker@gmail.com also provided me with my husband deleted messages and I saw that my husband makes love to this lady everyday and when he comes home he stave me from sex but am so thankful to jeajamhacker@gmail.com for the best services he rendered to me.
It's still less likely to be played than not believe Y after seeing X, when X & Y are closely associated...
Common. Its like saying I will give you earth but no water no winds. Using andriod for monopoly is issue here. Google Playstore can do anything. Its literally the most bloated thing in andriod. And they force mobile vendor like xiomi/samsung to install their playstore. They are just doing what internet explorer 6 thing did.

This must be stopped.
"The market will regulate environmental risks", or we can just lie to consumers lol.
Low noise 8 GHz band, Reed–Solomon coding,huge directed antennas (almost 4 m in Voyager, over 30 meters on the Earth), tens of watts from Voyager, thousands watts to Voyager.
One of the coolest science trips I made with my son, years ago, was to the Goldstone Deep Space complex in California.

We got treated to an incredibly indepth tour of the facility - including looking into the ruby maser equipment that amplifies the infinitesimally minuscule signal from voyager.

Truly one of the crowning achievements of the 20th century is to have successfully sent these two objects into deep space and keep in contact with them for over four decades!!
This investigation is the bare beginning. It may turn out to be completely wrong. It does not warrant 'a lot of investigation'. There are so many spurious results out there, it would be a fools errand to dig into every curious result.

And no I did not mean some correction. I meant, that publishing is a filter for any seemingly correlated result. It will inevitably include simple coincidences, because of the sample sizes involved.

To put it simply, all coincidental results end up being published, because they look so remarkable. It's a reason to be very skeptical of small samples.
Parent probably expects lowered economic activity to have some visible impact on weather.
What Is the Web?
The scientists who undertook this project knew it was the next generation that would benefit from the knowledge.

What probes are we sending to reach the same heights as Voyager for the next generation of scientists?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voyager_program#/media/File%...
Sure, but who would procure a permit for a one-time use terrorist device built from off the shelf parts?

Also, you only care about getting the thing into position and then dropping its payload - it doesn't much matter what happens to it after, so your energy requirements don't need to require landing. Heck, the drone itself could be considered a secondary payload.
Are You Living in a Computer Simulation?
Recently, as a show hn:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20094866
Facebook’s new polyglot AI can translate between 100 languages
True they are just trying to avoid due to government intervention but they will do slowly anyway. But I know andriod 12 third party will definitely comes with many hiccups so user are forced to use playstore anyway.
It's unlikely to happen. Using the numbers from Wikipedia for Starship, for a 5 ton payload the first stage has a delta-v of 3.8km/s and the second stage of 8.8km/s. That gives only 12.6km/s in total, while Voyager had around 20km/s after its departure from Earth. Even if the Starship is fully refueled in orbit to give it another boost (and we don't want to recover it), we get only 21.4km/s. However, the Voyagers got a gravity assist from all the outer planets, where they gained even more speed. That's only possible if they are all aligned, which happens only once every 175 years. That's also the reason why New Horizons, the Pluto probe launched 30 years later, will never overtake the Voyagers: it's travelling slower because it didn't get to do the gravity assists (even though it was launched at a higher speed from Earth).

Also it's important to note that Starship isn't really optimized for such missions due to its high dry mass. It's made to bring a lot of mass to orbit cheaply, not really to accelerate it very fast.
Thanks for expanding on my knowledge. I have only experience implementing support for talking to a fluid property sensor in an industrial process and not much more. Thankfully, I might add.

Looked at it like a fixed phy layer with some parts of the messaging fixed as well, although now that you brought it up, I remember adding J1939 support too.

Ugh, it was, in my opinion, a bit-hacked mess :) I can really appreciate when things that despite being messy and hackish, solve real, actual problems, and for that, I thank thee, CAN-bus :).
I worked on a house where the previously built extension to the rear had been built over a soil pipe that let out into the ground, over the ~20 years since it had been built, it had tipped further and further and started to pull away from the house as the ground was eroded until we had to come in and knock it.
Interesting. The disclosures that I received in California were highly detailed. That was part of the problem: no one wants to give you an executive summary. Also there seemed like nearly every place had some risk level. So it was hard to judge.
Even if laws require disclosure, you have to define what authoritative source defines the risk for a given property.

If that source lags behind reality, or fails to give a picture of future trends, people still get caught unaware.

Isn't this fundamentally the role of insurance? They have the incentive to look forward and anticipate risk, and if flood insurance is particularly expensive or just plain unavailable on a given property, you should look at why.

Is there a generic form like "Give me insurance quotes for every possible type of coverage" that a prospective homebuyer could fill out and submit to a few different insurers, to get a picture of such red flags?
> is it going to magically run faster?

Faster than what? The previous Compute Module 3+? Absolutely.
Sounds like someone's never been locked out of a document they need to edit.

It's honestly tough to remember just how bad check in check out document control was a few years ago. Remember the days when one person did their section in a totally different style from the rest of the document and you only discovered it at 3 am the morning it was due because they waited until the last minute to email it to you and then at 5 am when you had finished reformatting it you realize that all his references to another person's section are incorrect because he wasn't at the meeting where that person said they reorganized their part, so you fix that until 7 am and then you go to add in the bibliography but the guy who had that last sent an old version in his email so you have to call him and get him to send you the real version, and the next thing you know it's 9 am and you need to give a presentation on this 400 page document after getting no sleep and not even having time to grab a cup of coffee.

I honestly don't understand why anyone wouldn't take advantage of concurrent editing.
Are the plots you mention employing no or low til methods as in this study? If not, how is this comparison relevant to this research?

I do appreciate you pointing out your previous work with The Climate Corporation, but it’s probably also useful to point out that they are a subsidiary of Monsanto.
Idiot-level question here: Could a denser inter-stellar medium account for dark matter, if only partially?

- ed
ignore this, I actually RTFA - it's talking about plasma, not itty-bitty matter!
No. Skepticism is refusing to believe in something until it has been shown to be true.

What commonly passes as skepticism is a very tame effort. To say accept 50% of the claims, rather than 100%. You should accept 0% of claims that you have not verified. This is also known as the scientific method. (But don't look to science to be upholding it...)

The elites govern us. They have always governed us. One of the methodologies is that is to sell us on stories from the cradle that allow them to operate in reality, while we are living in unsubstantiated stories.

When we take no action to verify, when we trust our experts, politicians, anyone apart from ourselves, when we accept the authority of another over our own experience, we are badly lost.

Do you recollect when it was going to be 2 weeks to flatten the curve? Do you think the curve will be flattened? Do we need to 'mask harder'? Get vaccinated? Why didn't we have cold vaccines previously? Do we need to isolate healthy people, is that how it works? The contradictions in the current narrative are impossible to resolve if you are a thinking person with authority over your own thinking.

McCain is clearly from the governance clique. His father was an admiral. He then does a dog and pony show in the intimidating country of 'Vietnam', and comes back into governance and plays his role. He is an actor. We get indications of this, eg the broken leg that changes legs! Here's the explanation:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5113233/John-McCain...

He says:

"Finally on Thursday, McCain himself took to Twitter to put the conspiracy theories to rest.
'My left leg was doing extra work to compensate for the boot, so I'm giving it a break,' the senator tweeted.
'I still hate wearing this boot, but it won't slow us down from frying 7 turkeys today!'"

That explanation explains nothing. NOTHING. But the headline says it "solves the riddle of his moveable leg". Maybe you read it wrong? Perhaps you had better doubt yourself, and trust the experts! And then you have to read a load more soft spin and fluff about how wonderful man, what a wonderful family, etc, etc, and nothing about him being a criminal that should have spent most of his time in jail for being an enemy of humanity - being part of the governance system.

The reality unfortunately is that no one is checking anything, and that people's brains are turned off. Especially well educated brains. They have fully accepted the stories, and are better at filling in the blanks, rather than letting the evidence do the talking.

All the best.
My Impostor Cure
I get you're responding to the other guy there saying we should look at science instead of popularity, but both are invalid if we're talking about responsibility of goverment.

There's plenty of scientific evidence that sugar, alcohol, and tobacco are all horrible for you. Scientifically, it might make sense to ban those things health wise, but that's not the role of government, and would be authoritarian rules that limit freedom for "safety".

"Those who would give up essential liberty, to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." -- Benjamin Franklin
Yeah that's what I meant.
Why would one prefer concrete over that?
Physicists Have Measured the Shortest Ever Event
I've explained one reason, in a comment above, fyi.
https://www.diy.com/departments/bosch-550w-240v-corded-hamme...

Perhaps this is unusual in the US but entry-level corded drills are readily available in the UK.

I don't know if this store is a good example, but this USA based store appears to stock a range of cheap corded drills:

https://www.lowes.com/pl/Drills-Drills-drivers-Power-tools-T...
Hi everyone, the developer Eric Jung here. This is literally the very first version. It's real shitty, but lots of updates are on the way. Let me know how I could improve the tool.

P.S. I have no clue why Chrome says it contains "Mature content."
Most home buyers waive inspection contingencies. The market is one big fomo frenzy for the past decade when fed artificially suppressed interest rates below inflation. I bet home buyers would happily ignore reading any pamphlet explaining their risks related to natural disasters.
The fake reporter wanted to know about our software
Yes, the man page documents the option to specify the browser on command line with -B/--browser or in the environment as RDRVIEW_BROWSER. By default it parses your mailcap preferences for text/html.
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> <p>p.s. <a href='https://github.com/secretGeek/html_wysiwyg/'>source code here</a></p>

This was a missed opportunity to link back to the very same page.
The library system is helpful as well. In Colorado (and elsewhere, as I understand it) some libraries have seed banks, classes on pollinators and nutrition, and potentially community gardens.
Why Deep Learning works even though it shouldn't
> Unlike the knock off and emulation systems that riddle the market today, you'll be experiencing the entire NEC era free of compromises.

Please provide details. Why is it so accurate as you claim? How does it compare to existing software emulators?

> Zero lag.

Have you measured it?

Even the original hardware had some lag. The RetroArch developers were able to surpass hardware latency by computing future emulator states ahead of time, similar to processor branch prediction. How does this system compare?

> Bluetooth.

Wireless input methods probably add to the overall latency of the system. It's noticeable on my PS4.
Let computers compete with human beings at the helm as entertainment. Or, keep changing the rules of chess right before the match so no one wouldn’t have time to program the initial conditions.
>"a series of instructions to perform a task"

Limitations of those instructions is the key aspect. You couldn't use any English or natural language expression for example. It might seem obvious but complexity of those instructions is what makes the language abstract. Having complicated instructions isn't always desireable though e.g. the CISC vs RISC debate.
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Well, potato is one of the higher-calorie crops, and one pound contains around 350 calories. If you produce 3,120 lbs a year, that gives you about a million calories.

Now, let's assume a family of three - an average person needs around 2,000 kcal a day. That's 2,000 * 365 * 3, or around 2,200,000 kcal a year. So, you come quite a bit short. And that's on a good year; you're gonna have bad years, too.

Also a function of climate and soil. In the 19th century, settlers in the plains - Nebraska, Wyoming, etc - often couldn't make it work on 640 acres granted by the government. In contrast, there are eastern states where 20 acres would be more than enough.

(Farming in the West is now much more viable thanks to deep wells and mechanical irrigation, but that's a capital-intensive and resource-intensive approach that works best at a scale.)
> It makes no sense

Why so? <head> is a conventional place for tags with document metadata semantics to live, but <head> has no semantic meaning itself. (I think the only thing one could say about how UAs treat <head> is that some scraping robots might only parse <head>, discarding <body> entirely.)

And read my words above again: tags with document metadata semantics. Not “metadata tags.” All tags are just containers for DOM nodes or text, whatever additional implications they carry for the document. HTML is "a markup language for text first, and a container format for web pages second."

IMHO, <title> especially should be styled for display more often. It works great as an effective “<h0>“ tag, rather than duplicating <title>'s text into an explicit <h1> somewhere in the <body>. That way, the document only embeds its own title in one canonical location—a title which both gets rendered on the page, and displayed in the title bar. (And if you’re worried about positioning, there’s nothing saying you can’t put your <title> in your <body>. Yes, it will do the right thing.)

Tangent: in fact, there's really no reason to have <head> and <body> in your document at all. You can just declare <html> and start spitting tags. IMHO, despite going against a long-standing trend, it's a much more practical arrangement—especially if you keep all your "outside the content" formatting to CSS, and apply that CSS using a response header (https://www.w3.org/TR/html401/present/styles.html#h-14.6). If done correctly, your "full document" HTML can look exactly like your XHR-response "patch" HTML, such that your API endpoints can themselves render as full documents when viewed separately—without changing what they return! (I really need to blog about this.)
Ask HN: What is your process of validating an idea?
Hey guys, I've been working on building a site, areyouinterested.co, that helps people create easy landing pages to validate their ideas.

I'm trying to make it as good as possible and part of this is making sure that it fits into the general validation "flows" that people use.

So my question is, what process do you use to validate an idea? Do you build something first, or do you validate first? Do you try to build a community before or after you have an MVP?
What is the source for the music?
I agree with this - when I purchase furniture, I often think about how I will offload it - whether I expect to lose 20%, 50%, or 100% of its value in 1-2 years. It's just not possible to buy and use up everything when you move apartments every year or two.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/giuliani-bi...
oh, i didn't notice that.

I'll just say that redmine DB schema is pretty simple, and metabase works well with it if you need more complicated reports :)
A lot faster than OpenVPN? How did you measure it? In my experience the handshake is faster, but I haven't measured anything so I wouldn't know with certainty.
Google location sharing defaults to an hour.
Url should be changed from the medium post to https://www.private-ai.ca/PETs_Decision_Tree.png
For Google docs shared editing predecessors, don't forget the mother of all demos from the 60s.
I just took my Malm bed on its third move (fourth apartment). It’s still doing great.
I've never seen a corded drill that was meant for driving screws as opposed to drilling only.

If you use a sledgehammer instead of a screwdriver, don't complain about furniture falling apart.
If you've ever gone through the process of buying a home in CA you'll see there are already hundreds of pages of "disclosures." Stuff like "if you get a loan you have to repay it" and "sometimes housing prices go down." Im not sure who this is helping. The whole process is certainly larded up enough that there is zero chance any additional disclosures will be noticed.
The private sector can't be expected to do everything, but the availability of Starship will change such high-velocity probes from "not affordable" to merely "somewhat expensive".
Nice review, thanks. One thing in it that I believe is incorrect (or confusing) is PoE support: I don't believe it is built into the IO board but rather the board is compatible with the PoE hat.
There is moisture within ~3m in even the driest deserts. The water in the box slowly releases to make a connection with the capillary water deep below for the roots to reach within the first year. It's a planting method, not irrigation. Refills during rains, prevents evaporation via a clever siphon.
> Ensuring the information is presented with full context...

The fact that you are setting that as the standard for a company that has based its entire existence on people sending messages of 140 characters (and now up to 280) is pretty ironic, don’t you think?
I agree with you whole-heartedly. I tend to find those who feel the need to "fight against this" are the ones who are not on the receiving end.

Sure, there are plenty of radicalized people who take this as an opportunity to shame, but I do not see the harm or difficulty in changing "guys" to "folks" or "team" if it makes someone feel more inclusive.

I've hired and work with a number of trans and marginalized people, it was extremely simple for me to start saying "hey folks" without the need to throw a tantrum over it.
Anything massless travels at c, not just photons.
> most of the furniture is not solid wood but chipboard

Almost all of it is MDF, not chipboard/particleboard.
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