skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The big problem with near-light speed travel like the one suggested by Lubin is the potentially fatal interaction of the spacecraft with interstellar dust. Even considering their faint density, the long journey would make the spacecraft interact with far too many high-speed dust particles, which would likely cause significant damage.

I do not know if somebody devised a solution to this fundamental problem; if not, I am extremely skeptical about highly-accelerated spacecrafts.
The first step in this is inventing a scalable way of sequestering the carbon from atmospheric CO2. We have been talking about carbon markets for over three decades now and still have not solved the supply side of the equation. It's frankly embarrassing.
I don't understand. How would you feel if an investor hired someone to manually replicate and maintain a portfolio equivalent S&P 500? Because that's what an ETF that replicated the S&P 500 is doing, complete with management fees, it just works out be cheaper due to volume.
My own current situation is that I work with an electrician who found a hard-but-solved problem and wanted his own solution to it. He is now the only person who understands the wiring he did, and if he ever leaves the company we'll also need to find a creative person to work on it, or else throw it all out and start over.

EDIT: just be clear I'm still actually talking about software
Believing in a project just means they are going to underpay and overwork you.

Give me equity and I'll care.
Drivers are often not medallion owner.
It seems trivializing and like an existential crisis to have all of a humans being encoded in a computer. Once you have that, why even keep it running for all time as it is? Its just a version of software you could make changes to. We are probably not as glorious as we could be to become immortal as we are.
I think this discussion highlights perfectly why Gimps UX sucks. It is because the people who made it has a view on UX like you do and refuse to put in the work to fix it, with arguments such as "That isn't an UX issue" and so on. Fact is that Gimps UX sucks and people will have to live with it since it is a free product so the developers don't have any reason to do what you want.

Anyway, you might be right about this issue, I am not an expert on image editing. However I do understand UX and your view on development will lead to horrible UX like what you have in Gimp. It might work great in enterprise products where you sell features and not UX, but a product intended to be used by normal users needs more work on UX for people to like them.
How much EU policy have you actually paid attention to? Only the exciting (bad) proposals make headlines.
The linked paper describes a laser propulsion system by means of which no reaction mass need be stored on the spacecraft whatsoever.
Pretty sure that is not just overlapping in Europe though.
It seems that now is finally the time I must apologize for some of the java code I put up on github.
> couldn't you just merge the master onto the feature branch to bring it up to date?

> I also totally don't get the "closer together" comment. It seems like you are reducing the related commits from 2 to 1, not moving any commits closer together.

They're related: I meant for the case where you don't (or only lightly) squash your history, so you get several commits from your branch. Maybe if you do regular merges, they're all jumbled up chronologically with whatever else has been merged into master/main in the mean time? Whereas re-base makes it seem that everything in your branch has come "on top of" whatever the current state of m/m is. So when you then later merge your branch back in, all your (possibly compressed into somewhat fewer) commits come as a neat little chain of their own, not interspersed with others?

As I said, I may be wrong as fuck here. Feels intuitively right, but intuition often leads us wrong with software (and other logic), especially such famously non-intuitive stuff as git... But that whole thing of "re-base puts all commits in your branch 'on top of' the branch you base(d?) it on" is how I've understood all descriptions of the "rebase" command I've seen. And it's the only way I can make sense of the whole idea -- because otherwise, as you say, it would be the ssame thing as ordinary merges back-and-forth; no need for a separate name for the same thing. (So if you're going to squash the history of your branch down to a single commit anyway, maybe it makes no difference [except possibly for where in the chronological order it goes]? But don't quote me on that either.)
> as long as you can configure the DoH servers that the client uses.

Which now involves not just getting every machine, but every application on every machine
Disagree. At 0.1c, it takes 42 years to reach Proxima Centauri (and 4 more years to get data back). The Voyager 1 and 2 probes are still operating and transmitting scientific data that people are interested in (the missions are still funded) and were launched 44 years ago and are likely to continue a few more years. So we have existence proof that people would still be interested in it over that kind of timeline.

And I know you excluded the “closest stars,” but I don’t understand why, except that it undermines your point. There are at least 3 nearby stars that could be reached by probes in a researcher’s (or at least their funding institution’s) lifetime vs just our one star system.

(Besides the 3 stars in the Proxima/Alpha Centauri system there are also at least 11 additional stars—including fusion-capable brown dwarfs—within 10 light years of the Sun.)
There's nothing to challenge since none of them justify the claim.
To heat a home with geothermal, you use a heat pump. It works better than an air source heat pump most places because the ground doesn't get as cold as the air does.

More widely deploying ground source heat pumps for home heating seems more promising than pursuing geothermal electricity generation. The problem with ground source heat pumps is that the lifecycle of the equivalent if 30-50 years, well outside the typical homeowner's planning or payback horizon.
You have to convince the property managers because they are purposefully gating that information. They want you to ask questions so they can gauge your interest and deny you early, also the benefit of not excluding the "right" people. And yes there is a lot of room for discrimination here
serious Q. how in the world would any credit agency know what day you are paying the rent?

In the US, I don't believe any credit agency has insight into my personal bank accounts re size (I think?) or when things are paid to whom they are paid or the like (pretty sure about this). they know about my debts, but unless the landlord puts me into collection, I ca't imagine a reason for my rent appearing on the report (it's been a while since I looked at one, but dont remember seeing them)
No wonder why they are cozy with the China. That is exactly the Chinese way of thinking. Every problem and suffering are someones else's fault.
There was [1] which would've allowed websites to specify custom DoH resolvers for their subdomains, but it expired some time ago. The same authors are now working on [2] instead, which AFAICT is basically for the same thing.

There's also [3] which is a way for the DHCP server to also provide DoT and DoH servers to the LAN (in addition to the usual DNS servers).

[1]: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-pauly-add-resolver-di...

[2]: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-add-ddr/

[3]: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-add-dnr/
Do you remember the internet in 2008?

Literally every other advertisement was some type of animated gif trying to get people to refinance their mortgage.

We're talking mostly Facebook style ads, done in an MS Paint / meme style to appeal to the lowest common denominator of home owners.

It was basically the same thing in a different format.
That said, Iceland does in effect export a ton of power by importing bauxite and turning it into aluminum.
Should've left 10 years ago but I suppose now is as good a time as any. Spend those trillions domestically instead of ruining the Middle East with "democracy".

Every time the US goes in to the Middle East they leave it worse than they found it, just ask Libya how they're doing with open air slave markets. Or the US-backed "rebels" in Syria who regularly slaughter children and innocents.
> On what basis?

Literally the line that says "YouTube ads" in their quarterly report?

2020 Q1 was $4 billion, 2021 Q1 was $6 billion. [1]

Seems like wild success to me. But, you know, keep checking for the next few quarters if you're convinced Google is killing their golden goose. They've got some pretty smart business analysts and product people over there though, I wouldn't bet against them.

[1] https://abc.xyz/investor/static/pdf/20210428_alphabet_10Q.pd...
Read the Authors Guild v Google dismissal. The court considered it fair use because Google's project was built explicitly to let users find and purchase books, giving revenue to the copyright holders. Copilot does not do that.
My most romantic memories go back to that fax machine that called me at 3 a.m. every f*** night (without revealing its number). I was almost about to learn its hiss language just to end this.
The biomedical telemetry was a bit complicated (as was everything in Apollo). When astronauts were outside, there were 7 channels of analog telemetry transmitted by FM to the Lunar Module. The Lunar Module converted these channels to an AM signal which was transmitted over VHF to the Command Module. The Command Module converted these to PCM data, which was then sent to Earth over the unified S-band system.

For details, see "Unified S-Band Telecommunications Techniques for Apollo" page 11. https://core.ac.uk/reader/80678138

> Who figured that out? [traveling-wave tube amplifier]

It was Andrew Haeff at RCA in 1933: https://patents.google.com/patent/US2064469
Same heat transfer dynamics apply to cooling as well. Earth is a really good insulator, that's why it has a steady temperature in the first place. If you dump too much heat in it, it will warm up. That's seen as an advantage when you can harvest the same heat in the colder months using geothermal heat pumps.

Some buildings that have access to the ocean or a lake can use that for heat rejection because those take the heat away.

None of these applications require going too deep in the ground. This article is all about going deep.

Iceland has access to very hot water in shallow ground. They are unique that way.
Interestingly enough the reverse is true: not being aware about your expenses is a surefire way to make sure you don't get rich. But scrutinizing bills in itself is not sufficient that get rich.
> Yet somehow Epstein and Harvey Weinstein run rampant among our own soil, all with open secrets.

That's partially a product of the US justice system, which is among the more rigorous in the world, and tends to favor letting the guilty go free over punishing the innocent. This is a trade-off, not an objectively bad thing.

Now, I would attribute the rest of those scenarios to plain-old corruption - which is a problem for every system of government without checks and balances (that are actually used).
As a note, we're planning to have a separate landing page on https://phorge.it, which is why it currently doesn't redirect.
Finally found the article. I'd kept searching in The Atlantic, when it was actually from The Washington Post.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/why-isnt-the-media-c...
The Skills Gap: America's Young Workers Are Lagging Behind (2015)
We're just lucky that the government just not fighting climate change is the obvious choice here.

Imagine if the world was just a little more complicated than that, and rich government elites were also representing the interests for downplaying climate change and doubling down on fossil fuels.

It might mean regular people died in unprecedented heat waves and got their houses burned down by wildfires. All while billionaires convince them that all carbon pricing is awful and corrupt, careful that they don't know too much about the option of revenue-neutral dividends.
Ah Coinbase...where apparently you can't even exchange dollars for dollars (USD for USDC) without paying a hefty fee, and where I was only able to buy Tether and not USDC for...some reason.
maybe we can find a software solution to the selective enforcement problem.

;)
There’s also an aspect of this that varies by size, budget, political clout, etc etc, of the individual or organisation.

The big guns like Microsoft, Google, Oracle, do this sort of thing as a matter of course in their business activities, they have the lawyers, the money, and the ear of members of parliaments, senators etc.

Whereas an individual or small business probably wants to conduct themselves within a more narrow set of adherences.
It did not bring up political orientation of the source. You can go back and read the comment yourself. It pointed out that the article only sought comment from people with a conflict of interest. That's bad journalistic practice no matter one's politics. It's also is a) true, and b) an indication that the political orientation of the source is driving the bad journalism.

I'm confident it the voting was political because I didn't just fall off the turnip truck. It's my long experience here that unless criticism of the US right is phrased in very particular ways it will get a lot of reflex downvoting.
> In contrast, the lookbehind+lookahead way is the "proper" and intuitive way to write it, and works as part of any larger expression.

I would say, the "proper" way is to have a separate line of code validating what's not there :)
Mozilla wants to be the gatekeeper to their users. Every company and it's dog wants to do this. "If you are not paying for the product, you are the product" should become "if you are a customer/user, you are also a product".
Tenacity: Floss Audacity Fork
Greenery (python3) let’s you manipulate regular expressions and do things like compute intersections: https://github.com/qntm/greenery
Something as simple as saline is highly regulated by FDA (in US), so vape probably should be just as highly regulated. Potentially more so since it's use is continuous.
A network suggests a DNS server

You can choose to use that server or not

If a network intercepts your DNS traffic, you can encrypt it yourself. If you don't trust the network you should be encrypting everything anyway
Which is impractical because you don't have a way to slow down at the end. Their big plan was to accelerate a camera up to 1/4c and have it snap pictures as it whizzes past the solar system.

It's also far less than 1G acceleration. You don't get big acceleration figures like 1G from laser pumped solar sails.
But the current technology can be improved at least 100x (fast fission) to 10000x (breeders).
https://archive.is/vA74X
Or maybe the country just needs more democracy? To be fair to Jefferson, though, he was more in favor of it than some of his coworkers, like Hamilton.

There was a nice study from Cato institute (somewhat surprisingly), a comparison between different U.S. states, that showed that tax measures established by direct democracy (referendums) have less loopholes than the ones established by representative democracy.
the average cabby can't buy a medalion, he therefore has to pay a fee to someone who owns a car with a medalion to rent the car for a period of time (+ probably paying the owner a percentage of his take). As opposed to using his own car and keeping everything that uber lets him to keep which might be less than what the medalion owner would have taken. hence, increase in money into pocket for the uber/lyft driver.

with that said, this is all supposition, i just find it a reasonable argument.
Credit agencies can 100% know when you pay you rent as the receiver can send this information to them. Credit cards also say when you pay so they can keep track of when you're delinquent or late for payments.
Is your figure for private condos or government built?

Keep in mind Singapore has a higher PPP per capita than the US.
NASA's Airs Tracks Record-Breaking Heat Wave in Pacific Northwest
Exactly my question.

Usually these folks (SEC etc) are already showing up somewhat frequently for various hearings and so can be asked about things like this. Or letters can be sent privately.
From those snippets of interviews, it sounds like he really loved her. I can't imagine how I'd feel if a person I love died because of me. When the choices are to believe that they A) committed suicide, or B) were murdered for being affiliated with you by a powerful person who clearly has you in their sights, you probably try your damnedest to make yourself believe A.
Most current efforts need a lot to go right just to reach mediocrity.

Right. It may be do-able, but unlikely to be cost effective in deep hard rock.

One of the deepest drilling projects got down 31,400 feet, but instead of hitting something saleable like natural gas or oil, they got liquid sulfur.
Maybe I give them too much credit, but I have to think that this is a caricature of the super-rich. Specifically I have to think they understand finances enough or at least pay people who do to know that tax on their private fuel is negligible. Maybe I'm naive.
The actual size of the output is not the actual size of the sensor. The color data is interpolated. The promoted size is the output size, but that's not really full subpixel resolution in the monitor sense.

The promoted size is the number of photosites on the sensor, but each photosite is grayscale. Look at any RAW camera format or the datasheet of a sensor (e.g. one of popular Sony sensors). All of that applies to Bayer sensor and not Foveon, but Foveon is not particularly popular by any measure.
"Don't believe everything you read on the Internet."

- Also Abraham Lincoln circa 1864 :)
I agree with above commenter -- must have been some really exceptional ionosphere conditions or something!

By the way, what's the latest on the retirement/phasing out of these time signal stations? I was under the impression from years ago that they were on the way out / being defunded with some kind of decade-long timescale (in favor of GPS).
> On a carbon-per-person metric, private jets are literally the worst.

And the same people probably have several yachts that burn even more fuel per hour.
Unfortunately (or perhaps fortunately), “regexes” as commonly implemented in programming languages are only loosely related to regular expressions from automata theory. With all their extensions, they can recognize much, much more than just regular languages, and I don’t think they’re closed under complement (though I’m not sure). However, most regex engines have a feature called negative lookahead assertions, (?!do not match), which would almost work in the way you suggest.

You have to be careful about inputs like this though: “Inside a string”Tarzan”Again inside a string”
Having been on the receiving end of shares, devs are in an extremely bad position to estimate their valuation. It’s like being a passenger on a train and being asked to judge which direction it goes. And I’m a product-oriented dev who loved the business side and loved doing plenty of UX interviews.

Being now on the donating end of shares, employees know much better how to value the gross pay.
I used to just go ask Friedl.
They are still surprisingly common in the US, also. Mostly Government and other regulated things. I remember having to fax things to Ally bank as recently as last year. After rejecting it twice for being 'too dark', they let me email it, which seems to defeat the purpose.

I started my career in Medicare claims processing, which I guess has been nearly 15 years now. All claims had to be sent by dial up modem, and documents by fax at the time, for 'security reasons.' I'm unsure if that's changed, but that was a huge surprise to new billers. Many complained they couldn't even find a dial up modem to buy anymore.
My co-founder and I created a social platform for investment ideas **update
Hi Everyone - I posted about our startup, Utradea, few months back and wanted to share our progress and updates since then (original post - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26893096)

Also - thank you to all the people who provided comments and feedback on our first post - we have made several changes and added some of the larger updates to our dev roadmap

Background:

We have seen a significant increase in the number of retail investors. Thanks to growth in investment/trading apps, ability to participate in the market has never been easier. People know they need to invest, but don't know what to invest in. Utradea is a dedicated platform for investment ideas and insights. Our goal is to empower retail investors with the tools and information needed to make better investment decisions.

My co-founder and I came up with the idea for Utradea about a year ago when we realized that we loved discussing our investment/stock ideas and process. This expanded within our friend group, at least to people who were interested in the stock market. We thought it would be great to have a platform where we could have social interactions and combine it with core investment information/data. So, we created Utradea.

A lot has happened in the last 2 months.

New Features and Updates:

- Launched iOS and Android Apps (built in-house) - 70% of our visitors are on mobile so it only made sense to have mobile apps
--- Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.utradea.ut...
--- iOS: https://apps.apple.com/ca/app/utradea/id1558492959

- Reddit Sentiment Analysis (to be expanded to other social media platforms) - We built a dashboard to track trending stocks on Reddit to help identify potential investment opportunities

- SEC Filing Analysis with NLP - SEC Filings have a ton of great information but are a pain to read - we pull out key phrases and insights so you don't have to read through the whole document. Again, useful for finding investment opportunities.

What's on our dev roadmap?

- Portfolio Rebalancer - Automatically reviews the weighting in your investment portfolio to determine if you should keep the mix or rebalance to maximize returns.

- Automated DCF - A pre-filed discounted cash flow calculator with a few easily adjustable inputs to quickly find the intrinsic value of a stock.

- Automated Due Diligence - Pulls key metrics and information about a stock and presents it in a easy to read format with key information needed for an investment decision.

We would love to hear your thoughts and feedback. Thanks for checking it out!
> itself isn't a big contributor to global warming but rather the manufacture and supply chains.

Manufacture and supply chains (and services for that matter) that provide to the middle class. At least that's my interpretation of the parent's point.
Is there a reason you have an r-string for the first arg but not for the third one?
Martin Luther King was tailed by the CIA during his activities.
In the UK you can face prison time for not disclosing passwords if compelled to by the authorities. A cryptocurrency key isn't that different.
If AWS is running 100% of timelines it's not a "multi cloud approach". AWS is the bedrock of the entire Twitter experience.

Multi cloud means cross cloud redundancy, but there's none of that here.
I couldn't even get it on the West Coast. When I owned a wristwatch that synced to the time signal, twice a year I'd have to put it in on the windowsill the night of the daylight savings change; otherwise, it never received the signal.
"The beauty of 1G is that it provides normal gravity and you can go great distances in a human lifespan."

It like unicorns - beatifull and entirely fancifull. Fusion or fission cant do it, even a ship with pure antimatter drive cannot accelerate like that for decades

We will have hibernation before we have practical antimatter, and lets you travel intersteller without wasting enegy