skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wow, that's a really comprehensive, deep and dense collection of information.

For anyone really interested in the science of this who doesn't necessarily want to digest the raw math, I highly suggest Isaac Arthur's Youtube channel eg [1][2].

People tend to fall into a number of traps when dipping their toes into this topic.

The first one is the trap of wishful thinking, which is the primary reason for pretty much any attempt to come up with a theory for FTL. Most of these people just don't understand what the domain of a function is. Just because you can plug a negative number into an equation that is otherwise over real numbers doesn't mean that makes sense or is valid.

Second, people oversimplify. I see on this thread and others claims like "if we just accelerate at 1G we can get pretty much anywhere relatively quickly". So that's true superficially but the energy requirements for that are so vast even if you have perfect mass to energy conversion that a significant percentage of your ship's mass is fuel.

To me, laser highways seem like the most likely form of far future interstellar travel. That's largely predicated on commercially viable fusion power however and that's not a given.

Failing that, you're talking about variations of what are essentially generational ships.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXiitWK_6Qg

[2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6BQSgidbmc&t=1526s
AFAIK this is a libre soc developed using libre software tools, some of which were developed by the group members themselves, free from royalties and independent from any for-profit institution. This is probably "librier" than RISCV.

The fact that the POWER architecture may be niche is not a problem since so much software can be compiled for it. See the thalos workstations: https://www.raptorcs.com/TALOSII/ and the powerpc notebook: https://www.powerpc-notebook.org/en/

For people who are willing to use niche hardware for more control on what is running, this is seems like a very important step.
But how do you stop?
You may know that GPS is built around pseudo-random sequences. By correlating the known sequence with what you receive, you can extract the signal from a lot of noise. By determining the time offset in the correlation you get the distance from the satellite.

The interesting thing is that Apollo used a very similar system for determining the distance of the spacecraft. They sent a pseudorandom signal from the ground and the spacecraft returned it. By correlating the sent and received signals, they determined the distance of the spacecraft.
Probably people who analyze problems deeply, make very few commits, and then share their improvements without really even considering credit as a reward.

The software industry has a risk of developing an influencer problem, and I'd guess it could lead to precisely the same kind of programmer insecurity issues that social media does.

Add a test case and fix a bug (properly, after thinking about it), and you'll be the best programmer in your area of the world wherever you are, regardless of impact.
Not exactly, but which part are you referring to? I just made the assertions by thinking through our history from stuff I've read before and putting myself in the shoes of people in the distant past. Life was absolutely brutal in the past and I think we're all incredibly lucky to live in the time that we do now.
Would you still allow people to decide that they do want to get such email, or should people not be allowed to make that decision?
Yes, but the landlord can find cheaper brokers, or do it themselves to save money. There's now an efficient market.

When the burden is paid by the renter, there's no efficient market because renter has no choice in the broker and the owner doesn't care.
The EU (especially the Eurozone) was designed when neoliberal paradigm was in fashion (1980s-1990s). That's why currently its core institutions are less democratic than they should be.
It is just to point the hypocrisies of the discussion tone in HN towards China when USA most times does just the same thing

As an example is Uighur camps in China. When USA is the country with most incarcerated in the world in absolute terms, even China with a fraction of the population! And mostly directed at black and poor communities
Y'kno, I agree with the point, with Steven, with Casey, and with other people who are saying "We can have awesome performance without having horribly complicated code", but I find that people who espouse these kind of views are always so curmudgeonly? They just constantly have this view of "I"m right, everyone else is wrong, everyone else is making dumb excuses". If you just let people have their egos you'd probably be a lot more successful in making software more performant.
Who cares? Seriously? Copilot has ripped off the absurd charade around licensing and code.

It isn't any kind of copyright infringement. The AI is not copying and pasting code that is has found, it is rewriting the code from scratch on its own.

We keep trying to take old ways and meld them to the internet, and its just not appropriate and it doesn't work.
Oh sure it does but that same free speech lets users call out speech they find provides little or negative value to the community.

It'd be different if said comment was deleted/removed but users downvoting it for not being conducive to conversation and calling it out as needless and low value isn't impeding the free speech by any means.

Free speech != speech free from criticism.
It is a legal document guaranteeing a natural right. The Bill of Rights doesn't codify much of anything, it lays out certain things further laws can't tread on without extraordinary permission granted.
From the article: The senator, who chairs the Senate Banking Committee’s Subcommittee on Economic Policy, said in a letter to SEC Chair Gary Gensler that she needs answers by July 28.

Or what? Congress makes the same request again?
https://archive.is/aW95d

https://web.archive.org/web/20210708074814/https://www.argus...
Psychedelics Open a New Window on the Mechanisms of Perception
Neither of these things is true in NYC: cabs charge a fixed rate to the area airports (Uber is at least twice that rate), and hack drivers have historically made reasonable money. Most of them have lost that stability, as well as (in some instances) their life savings due to the medallion crash.
I’ve never had a non-surge Uber/Lyft exceed the equivalent Flywheel/street-hail in SF.

I occasionally used to try these services (I have thousands of rides so this used to be relevant). Lyft/Uber are way better.
Not the OP, but this book does a pretty solid job of arguing against it:

https://www.worldscientific.com/worldscibooks/10.1142/11484#...
GA in the EU is definitely the preserve of the rich.
Copilot is just a tool, legally it cannot "make code", you're the one making it.

See also : Napster, including how it was condemned for facilitating copyright infringement (what Microsoft is risking here, though the offense is likely to be much milder, of course).
:Gedit master:% is a common one I use to see what the current file looks like on master.
I love it. They don't even care now, do they? Private jets are the most obvious targets of carbon tax because they are completely unnecessary, and the politicians decided to carve out the tax only for them. The world we live in is truly wonderful.
> The system call interface represents the abstract machine provided by the operating system.

No ... it's just an interface. Just the way for usermode code to request or call something on the kernel side.

"Abstract machine" is a concept more having to do with virtual machines, runtimes, bytecode/JIT compilation.
Government: can put you in jail, fine you, and enslave you.

Corporation: can ban you from their social media platform.

It's not equivalent.
We are there right now, zipping through space together.

We have some social problems and some HVAC problems. But the vehicle is already underway.
In most countries Uber has been a disaster for drivers, to the point of outllawing it.
Yeah, running a datacenter is their core business. The UI around git hosting is not that important, despite what people think. (People overestimate UI in general; like medicine, government and sports, everyone has an opinion on how to make a computer UI done right, though strangely nobody can deliver.)
I'm confused by this comment. They both went public two years ago so VCs have all cashed out.
I never understood why uber needs 2000+ engineers on staff.
> But this can be tricky for non-techies

Document the process.

Identify the accounts that absolutely need to be cancelled. Start with those, then work your way down the list.

Make a dry run of the cancellation process and write down the steps, taking screenshots as you go. Print it out and store it in a safe place (especially if passwords are involved).

Make arrangements so your family can access your passwords after you’ve passed away. You can write them down in the same document or store them separately.

Review the document every five years and update the parts that have changed.

Your loved ones are going to be grieving already. They’re likely to appreciate not having to figure out stuff the hard way; their grief is going to be painful enough.
To me, there are two aspects of that ruling you cited which make it entirely different from social media:

1. "newspapers are economically finite enterprises" - There is a very real cost involved with printing newspapers, while the cost of hosting a social media post is so small it's not even worth mentioning.

2. "the exercise of editorial judgment is a protected First Amendment activity" - Everything that goes into a newspaper has to pass editorial review, meaning the newspaper controls and is responsible for what is published. Social media does not have that.
The exoplanet mission from Civilization 6 in real life - what a fascinating read!
Machine Learning in Autonomous Vehicles
Tons of weird/fun stuff. Emacs is generally my primary tool.

- I work in Incident Response and use emacs and orgmode as a second brain for case notes. I log commands in orgmode and try to build my notes to make sure the investigation is a repeatable.

- For a good while I was using emacs/gnus as my email client. It wasn't without its warts but compared to Outlook it was glorious.

- I needed something to distract me during chemotherapy sessions so I wrote an NTFS MFT parser in emacs-lisp. It was a super dumb project but I'd been ages since I'd read through Carrier's file system forensics and it was good exercise.

- For a time I was using emacs and the emacs lisp request library to track bitcoin payments made in suspected extortion cases. It was fun to map until the transfers hit bitcoin tumblers then it my laptop basically lit on fire.
A Digital Cat Is Melting Hearts (and Napping a Lot) in Japan
It’s not possible to have online communities without moderation. Some people can be so toxic, or say toxic things, that the community is harmed.

I think just about anyone who ran a vBulletin forum back in the day understands this at an emotional level.
We don't tell them they have to pay, we tell everyone that we should all pay. Your reasoning is just "we benefitted from X bad thing in the past so now we should let others do it too".
I disagree. It the same principle as sending something to the outer solar system. Many of the scientist who propose those things and work on the instruments and so on have long left the field by the time the missions arrive and many will soon after. Before the mission ends, a whole new group of people are working on it.

This is the same idea, you send a new an improved probe every 10-20 years and eventually you get data back and over time you have constant data stream from all kinds of different places.
What does it mean for a senator to say “this is a deadline”? It doesn’t seem like it should matter?
> as a student in boston where brokers take 1 month rent for doing exactly nothing

At least in California, the broker’s fee is an expense of the landlord that is not directly passed on to the tenant moving in. If the cost is passed on, it’s hidden in the cost of rent.

Also, the landlord can claw back part of the fee if the tenant moves out before one year. So, it makes more sense as a landlord expense.
A motion triggered photo should then also be considered a selfie since the subject caused the photo to be taken, not the equipment owner.

Imagine the ramifications of that for speed cameras. “You can’t use that image of me speeding! It’s copyrighted to me!”
But does that get you to the Orion Nebula in 15 years? Or do you have to accelerate all the way to do that? (And then you get to wave briefly at the Nebula as it goes cruising by at a significant fraction of the speed of light?)
Open Hardware PowerPC Notebook
Investing in medallions (as investing in anything) is a risk.

Cab drivers have lost job stability, but others have benefitted.
In the UK, you can look up the owner of a property. You pay £4 though.
I appreciate your gracious response. It’s important that we discuss such matters openly and positively. You’re practical, as always, and I feel inspired to apply some of your suggestions in my own practice. There couldn’t be a better time to bring this up, in fact. Just this Tuesday marketing reported one of our customers thinks our monolithic architecture is too conservative and hurts their feelings. They suggested we switch to micro services as it aligns better with their beliefs. We did the math and found indeed micro services would not only make our customers happier but would also bring in more business. The CEO thinks it’s crucial we transition before our competition does to not hurt our business projections. I was thinking we could squeeze this into your next sprint and don’t waste any more time. I’m thankful to have you on the team as you’ve proved yourself tenacious and a key player. Your positivity is such an inspiration for the team! A can-do attitude is one of the best things one can do to themselves, their boss and their customers. In fact I feel it aligns very well with our “Yes, we can!” strategy to effective customer communications. Keep up the good work, our customers depend on you!
So the market clearing price is $1084 but the landlord rents it out for $1000? Why is he leaving the other $84 on the table when dealing with non-broker applicants?
WebAudioXML: An XML syntax for building Web Audio API applications
FWIW, fissible material that's used with current technology is actually running out, with a similar timeline to oil. Fission is not an infinite energy source, despite appearances to the contrary. It's also not an cheap as one might hope.
My impression from watching (not very many) Chinese films, is that struggle and suffering is considered the greatest virtue. Where American films seem to imply that people should rise up and fight injustice, Chinese ones seem to say that life is suffering and real heroes are the ones who bare it stoically.
Ask HN: Looking for a YouTube Clickbait/Influencer Blocklist (BlockTube)
You can remove lots of noise on YouTube using these Firefox extensions:

- SponsorBlock

- uBlockOrigin

- No YouTube Comments

- Disable YouTube Cards

- Remove YouTube Suggestions

- BlockTube

BlockTube lets you block individual channels via channel IDs. You need to add each of these IDs manually. You can also import a list of IDs.
I am looking for a list of IDs targeting primarily influencers and clickbait channels. (I would also like to block anything related with politics, news, drama, ...)

Titles akin to "You Won't Believe This", "Almost Died", "This Will Shock You", "I Ate Nothing for A Day And This Is What Happened", "Don't Learn C++ in 2021", "Learn C++ in 2021", "I Bought 2 Million Pokémon Cards And This Is What Happened", "CNN Breaking News: Somebody Smirked", "Fox News: Cancel Culture Strikes Again", ... are quite annoying.
Such unsolicited titles still sometimes occur in my search results. I would like to eliminate them completely.

I am unsure whether BlockTube lets you regex for typical clickbait titles.

Furthermore, I am thankful for any suggestions/strategies to mitigate noise on YouTube as much as possible.

Thank you in advance, HN!
Me too. I had to look it up. This page has pretty good breakdown:

https://itnext.io/a-wild-way-to-check-if-a-number-is-prime-u...

The main trick for me was you first have to convert the number to unary, which was done outside of the regex.
Yep, I agree. I just mean to say that the simple peaceful life that some are able to attain nowadays is possible due to the way our society is currently setup. Banding together in larger and larger tribes has been required because other people were doing the same and other people put their tribe's well being ahead of others. Whether they like it or not, those living the simple peaceful life are a part of our tribe and they benefit from the protection that our tribe provides.
We're talking about public companies. You can safely use the term investors, the term "VC" is irrelevant, except for drama.

Now that we're talking about public companies, there are a lot of them. Any concern about price gouging you might have should extend to all these companies.

If not, why not?
Working on an open source project in public is one thing, but doing private work where I don't have any idea what the target use case is, is generally a non starter for me regardless of pay.

Could be FBI, could be terrorists.

My personal mission is to help bring more privacy, security, and freedom to people so I don't really have an interest in work that does not further those goals.

I started my own security consulting firm largely so I can make a good living but also pick and choose my projects.

If I just wanted money without caring about ethics I know where to find high paying jobs at surveillance capitalism companies.
Isn't this still a very .. unknown source to be using as basis for this type of outragy-clickbaity article?
> [this affects] private and recreational use of mostly small propeller planes.

Private and recreational flying is explicitly exempted from the tax too. So I don't think it affects them.
I have a different reading -- I see the Minds having a very strong moral imperative to give every sentient creature the best possible life, both in a material and psychological way. I see them more like very dedicated servants with god-like powers.
So we should be okay with the massive pollution now because they're entitled to it because we did it in the past? I think it would be better for developing countries to try and skip as much of the dirty bits as possible and leapfrog to the best we can get from modern technology.
The headline is a bit misleading. They aren’t being asked to “figure out crypto regulation” but to provide SEC’s view on whether they have sufficient authority and tools. It seems like Warren is tired of waiting for the SEC to do something and this is a good way to move them forward.
Then the problem is that people who care about business don't want to learn to code. Blame them and tell them to learn to code rather than argue that people who like technical stuff must care about what you care about. In the end there are way more people out there who care about the business side so shouldn't be hard at all to make them the majority.
If we accept that addiction is an evil in and of itself, social media addiction should warrant significantly more societal attention that nicotine addiction: it's much more prevalent, both in general population and among children in particular.
And of course the record needs to exist to begin with. Unsanctioned assassinations of US citizens probably aren't well documented.
A non technical client of mine one time asked me for some kind of formal verification that if we picked a certain javascript framework, that we would be able to put bar graphs on the page. I tried to explain that any framework that allows me to have javascript, html, and css on a page will allow bar graphs. And he responded "how are you sure?".

I played this video for him as an explanation of why it was difficult to answer that question to someone who didn't know what javascript was. The project didn't last much longer. To be fair by the time I was willing to show him this video, I wasn't particularly interested in keeping the engagement going.

He also was a neuroscientist who didn't know who Feynman was which kind of bugged me.
I guess no matter what happens, it is always due to climate change.

In general I think local records are to be expected, because of variance. Maybe they become more frequent because of changing jet streams or whatever, but you can not go in the other direction and claim every record is because of climate change.
> So there's some popularity point where after people use a platform to talk enough times, the platform is no longer allowed to moderate the speech on it? Why?

That's not quite what I said, but yes, kind of. No phone company is allowed to moderate the speech that goes over their network, for example.
I wonder if the TSA has some signaling effect though apart from the actual efficacy of the security theatre. Even if it catches things rarely, the fact that it exists makes people more aware and potentially look out more for abnormal behavior in airports (and catching some things some times still probably acts as a deterrent - at least more so than not having the security theatre around)
It guarantees much more than a natural right, and does so with the backing power of a legal institution. For example, the UDHR doesn't even mention the word "warrant", and it doesn't do anything to compel enforcement.

The BoR is, by plain definition, a codification of rights. To codify means to make into law, which is what it is: a law, implementing the formal recognition rights... and it does so by making illegal specific abuses.
> It is now cheaper for the average person to get a ride to an airport/bar than it was before.

On average, in certain locations. In others, not so much. And let's not forget surge pricing. Or people living, or wanting to get to a place, along low-profit routes. Or people with disabilities.

> more predictable with pricing

Depends. Regular taxis tended to cost a bit more, but had much lower variance.

> Uber drivers make more money today than taxi drivers used to/or do today.

That seems implausible at best.

> There are also way more job openings in this than there used to be

These aren't jobs, though. They're gigs. And highly unpredictable ones, wrt. your take-home pay.

> The world is not a zero sum game. Technology made this a win-win long-term

Absolutely true.

The problem isn't technology, it's businesses - particularly businesses that purposefully play a negative-sum game, where the losing side is society at large. Externalizing risk, costs, performing regulatory arbitrage. Making owners much better off, customers a bit better off, at the cost of making everyone else slightly worse off. And much like with greenhouse emissions - a bit here, a bit there, barely measurable puff, up until it adds up to a global crisis - these companies are killing civilized society, one VC-subsidized shiny app at a time.
Ultra-rich don't have to pay any taxes, perfectly legally, according to recent ProPublica files: https://www.propublica.org/article/the-secret-irs-files-trov...

So why would they pay jet fuel tax, too? This has nothing to do with global warming, it's all about tax avoidance, it fits the pattern.
If only we would work on the real health issues in this country (world?) and start looking at what is being put into our foods. We largely only went after smoking because of its externalities. There is no such thing as second-hand sugar, sadly.
Great! So what’s the problem?
Especially if you can pick just the forecasts that are not already wrong, and forget about the rest.

According to this article in nature, there is rather a tendency to use worst case scenarios that are no longer probable.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-00177-3
Woo, let's put everyone in a box and call them crazy!
Very verbose writing for a very succinct regex.