skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Any mass moving faster than light and still able to interact with matter that isn't, will necessarily have enough kinetic energy that any warhead would be an afterthought. That also doesn't necessarily improve matters in the Earth impactor case, since shattering a single large impactor without changing its vector only creates many small impactors. Some models make that look a little worse than the status quo ante, while more optimistic ones just say it's exactly as bad, but either way, if the mission is to see that zero rocks hit Earth then it isn't really a win.

I'm more interested in the idea that, the longer your FTL leg, the less well you're able to see where you're going - not that that's likely often necessary for starships any more than for sailing vessels, but you can think of circumstances in which it might matter. Too, it might come to be considered unneighborly to take too direct a course anywhere, lest you inadvertently Kessler-spray your destination.

Insystem use of the drive would be most complicated by this in general, especially since there's rarely much point in visiting stars without lots of rocks around them. You might also not be able to make sharp maneuvers in FTL, hence needing to plan legs with care not only for safety, but to minimize time and reaction mass spent on slow thruster rendezvous maneuvers. This has implications for travel time, navigation in general, and thus implicitly for supply chain logistics, travel time, and thus what's feasible both economically and politically - especially should it coincide with the absence of any FTL comms cheaper and faster than "record a message and then have a packet boat take it where it needs to go".
There was a very active community back in the day: http://forum.gwrota.com/
It spawned an entire community of TV-shows translators that now translate other series.

And of course, it was torrent then. There was just no other way to legally get it. Torrent was much more popular
I also wish I could write:

.or_panic(“unexpected fatal error”)

Or

.unwrap_or_panic
No, because the services you expect from living there do need to be paid some way or other.

> One thing is to pay for capital gains or new income, but you already paid taxes when you bought the house/property.

Servicing the property obviously costs ongoing money, so why wouldn't the taxes be ongoing?
To focus on the landowner is to entirely miss the point. It's a parable about envy, not about free enterprise.
I'm definitely trying this one out! Looks very intriguing from the screenshots.

It seems that you're targeting _R_DBMSs, but is there any chance that ElasticSearch is supported?
Let service teams own the service operations instead of the SRE
The video shows a light in the sky. If this was some clandestine operation, would the drone really be lighting up and drawing attention to itself like that?
In comparison to SG-1, I consider TNG to be the "monster of the week" format with stories rarely going beyond an episode or a two-parter. Stargate had tiny arcs going for seasons, single episodes having impact on episodes aired in later seasons and had significant amount of tiny details that just "clicked". It wasn't the LOST level of "everything is connected" but it definitely wasn't story of the week beoynd the first season. And in my opinion, both TNG and SG-1 had awful first seasons.

I know I should compare SG1 to DS9 or VOY, not TNG, but I prefer TNG over VOY/DS9/ENT so I am comparing my favorite Gate to favorite Trek.

> I also really love the comical elements. Back when all other Sci-Fis largely took themselves seriously, SG1 wasn’t afraid to poke fun at itself.

If memory serves, the producers have stated on the DVD commentaries that the show was supposed to be even more comical. They had "Wormhole X-Treme"-like (series inside joke) theme recorded for the actual SG-1.

Hallowed are the Ori.
I wonder how hard would it be to add zero knowledge proofs to this.
The Heaven’s Gate cultists have been spreading dangerous misinformation for 20 years? They MUST be deplatformed! Why on earth do Google, Facebook, Hacker News, their web hosting and DNS providers allow their dangerous messages to be spread? /s
You mean on what basis do we justify ownership and property? As far as I can see there's no strong intrinsic justification for private property, but rather it's subordinate to other values like justice and well-being. History is filled with various approaches to property, and at least in my point of view I have to consider it as something decided by politics and culture.

Btw that doesn't mean that because you might disagree with your society's approach to property that it's morally defensible to steal, etc.
It's all up to you and your team-mates to decide what the "right thing" to do is here, but thanks for bringing your concerns to the village square. I'm sure that you're not the only one with doubts on this topic. Some contests are hard to take at face value, and it's unfortunate - but just - that opaque incentives and unclear conditions are giving hackathons a bad rep. A great way to fight back to this would be to take your winnings, donate them to causes that you feel are wholeheartedly backing grassroots efforts to support Open Source development. Then share your story, and keep up the good hacking!
From their website, under the section "Our Position Against Suicide"

https://www.heavensgate.com/misc/letter.htm
Order the boxed set on ebay or Amazon ?
> As a town we are essentially a fixed plot of land cultivating a crop of buildings which we tax to fund our corporation

This is a very interesting point of view that I have not seen anywhere else. However it omits side-effects that buildings have on citizens other than taxes, e.g. hospitals improve health, universities improve human capital of citizens, factories create network effects with respect to suppliers and retailers, etc. A healthier and more educated workforce will be more productive and a healthier business network will add more value generating more sales taxes and increasing property value.
I did comment on arc as well, albeit I focused most of post on the comedic style so my points about the arc might have gotten lost.

Take the last 3 series of DS9, very few of them can be watched without understanding the context of the wider arc. SG1 went a little this way with the last two series too but the Ori arc was quite a departure from the rest of the show (even to the extent of having different leading staff).

The Ori arc does get a little darker (albeit not significantly so), introduces more space battles (now that Earth has spaceships of their own) and really brings the “battle of the gods” plot to the forefront (like DS9s Prophets vs Pah-wraiths) so there’s definitely a lot of crossover between the two franchises there.

But I feel the real genius in SG1 was its main arc that preceded the Ori; which is also the significant body of the shows work too.
Yeah - like a group or a dare formulated online.
Really? You cannot use an exciting OS without pinching movements?

It is not the first time I hear this, so this OSX feature must be truly addictive & productive.
I was shocked at how good Proton was. I accidentally became a digital nomad (went on holiday, couldn't come home due to covid restrictions, decided to never come back) and have been without my gaming desktop for months now. Age of Empires 4 came out and I really wanted to play it, so I gave steam + proton a shot. It actually worked, a AAA game released this year worked without much tweaking, I just had to get proton_ge[0]. I assume that mainline proton has caught up, so if you tried to play AoE4 on Linux today, it'll probably "just work".

[0] https://github.com/GloriousEggroll/proton-ge-custom
100% agree, from past experience, the phone itself isn't the issue and there are many aspects through which phones are gamechangers compared to c.15 years ago.

Maps + GPS are a great example, but generally any usage through which the phone gives you access to information in the right context (as opposed ti having to look up everything asynchronously from a computer) is invaluable.
Being able to read email on the go to find an info (address, meeting time, previous interaction with someone, that time XX mentioned YY in an email, etc.), to check reviews on the quality purchases from the store (e.g. am I buying the right book books), to adapt and find a kid's playground/restaurant/transportation when travelling after having deviated from plans, etc.

It seems to me there is little debate in the fundamental benefits smartphones bring to the table, and what we need to work on is our relationship to the phone: querying it for info when we need it, and not letting it push useless info to us, as well put by the parent comment.
Also, under that premise, any sort of entertainment should be avoided (it's just screentime with all it's negatives).
Not sure how I'd classify Hacker News :)
People who pay for a new car are paying at least a couple thousand more than they have to.
Is there any reason why worms would increase the severe morbidity/death rate?

The only thing I can think off is that (some) parasites tend to have a suppressive impact on the immune system but it also seem that could also prevent the cytokine storm that initially was reported as a major cause of severe illness and death.
He says on GitHub that

"Essence will happily run on low-powered hardware. It can take less than 30MB of drive space, and boot with even less RAM"

which is pretty cool. ESP32s already have 8MB of RAM and access to SD cards. With 16MB could it run this? That would be amazing.

It's in a very interesting little spot between no OS (ala Arduino / Espruino), and an OS like Armbian, which is just huge really -- too big to fit in a microcontroller properly.
Thanks for this, now I can get rich quick with my own NFTs!
Whenever a game I play is released on the Nintendo Switch, I am a little bit happier (eg Diablo 3, Tetris Effect). There’s honestly nothing keeping me in Windows except for video games (which I have less and less time for each year). I’m sort of looking forward to the day I won’t need to play video games on Windows and just be happy with a MacBook and a Linux workstation.
The important bit here being that the custom element API simply doesn't allow declaring all relevant features of elements except their names.

Whereas (SGML) DTDs such as in any DTD for HTML before HTML5, elements were declared like this

<!element img - - EMPTY>

for elements with declared content EMPTY ("void elements" in HTML5 parlance), and

<!element html O O
(head,body)>

as a basic example for tag omission/inference, where given these tag omission indicators (the letter O in the respective position), you can omit the html tags (and also head, and many other start- and end-element tags) when SGML can unambiguously infer those for you.
Like I say, I don't want to have to argue for any particular side in those debates, or to make those positions sound serious if they are not (although I think some people do seriously hold them). My point was that just because something can be labelled "progressive" doesn't mean that everyone supports it (or supports it enough to pay more taxes for it).
Most countries have more of a scaled income tax, but Sweden has 57% if you earn 1.5x the average. Why is that?
Show HN: Calculate the carbon footprint of any journey with a simple API call
Shockwave as seen from York, UK (both directions).

https://twitter.com/sandyjmacdonald/status/14824464836559626...

Thread collecting other amateur observations.

https://twitter.com/hschhaya/status/1482486253685723136

Seems my indoor Netatmo module also caught it - https://imgur.com/a/CNFvOco
No, sounds fairly typical when I compare it to my own experience and to those of my friends. Many of us used to be "social drinkers" in our youth but have basically slowly faded it out since, and each of us realized for themself how it can take a week or so to get back to "normal mood" after even a single drink.
> SG1, on the overhand, kept the “evilness” of the bad guys on a much lighter scale.

"those lying, scheming, no-good-for-nothing, slimy, overdressed stylemongers"
I work with a specific limited functionality on a big ecommerce site. The site has a review section where you can review products. Often there is feedback there on the site itself. As a development team it is completely impossible to keep up with such feedback. Our backlog is prioritized by other more quantitive metrics, A/B-tests etc
I sort of agree. Sometimes that is nothing but a polite yet empty response. But people also tend think that they aren’t being listened to when they don’t get what they ask for, which isn’t always the case.

I have to deal with this pretty frequently: Someone gives feedback about a thing and requests a change. I listen, understand the request, explain that I can’t do this right now because it lands too low on the priority list and there are a thousand critical and urgent things that I need to get done first. Then the person complains (to me, my manager, their manager, in a different context, whatever) that they aren’t being listened to.

Listening doesn’t mean agreeing, nor does it mean solving for a request right now (or possibly ever). Making people feel heard without doing what they ask is a hard thing. It’s extremely hard to do at scale and I don’t envy those trying to satisfy UI change requests from millions of people.

Also I work at Microsoft so I’m probably biased here.
> they might be building them from large chunks of stock.

That's not how it works, though. Pretty much every single item in a car, except maybe for some screws (which would be identified by a batch number, though), has a unique S/N, and they know which car is built with which part, so that they know which owners to ask to a service center if there's a recall. It's not like they just tak a part from a pile and don't precisely track what they have left.

Source: used to develop a MES for an automotive plant that manufactured brakes, airbags and seatbelts.
> Unfortunately public defenders and pro-bono human rights advocates are not as motivated.

I think this kind of sweeping generalization is unfair. I've seen many who were very motivated. The fact that legal proceedings take long does not have much to do with the availability of the lawyers. If a case proceeds quickly, it's almost always because of political pressure.
If everyone did that we would have negative interest rates and from my experience economists aren't ready for a world that isn't enslaved through involuntary debt.
also like https://markojs.com/
Tesla is on my naughty list after the horrendous UI update, but I think the scrutiny around them (while deserved) is often blown way out of proportion.

https://www.thecarconnection.com/news/1071185_missing-brake-...
OWL Guide, early hypertext, and “replacing” the Web
I don't like it, and I don't think it's "right" (whatever importance that has here), but it makes sense why they'd want to delete a link to a third party Windows mod. Hell, I think it might be better of them to do it. Hopefully other hypotheses about this being an accidental early submission are right, but it would also be good to get notified if your comments are edited are removed.
Kent Pitman also wrote the "Revised Maclisp Manual (Saturday Evening Edition)" aka the "Pitmanual".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_A._Moon

http://www.nhplace.com/kent/publications.html

>In 1983, I finished the multi-year task of writing The Revised Maclisp Manual (Saturday Evening Edition), sometimes known as The Pitmanual, and published it as a Technical Report at MIT's Lab for Computer Science. In 2007, I finished dusting that document off and published it to the web as the Sunday Morning Edition.

http://www.maclisp.info/pitmanual/

Not to be confused with David Moon who wrote the "MacLISP Reference Manual" aka the "Moonual", and who co-authored the "Lisp Machine Manual" with Richard Stallman and Daniel Weinreb, which had big bold lettering that ran around the spine and back of the cover, so it was known as the "LISP CHINE NUAL" (reading only letters on the front).

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15185827

https://hanshuebner.github.io/lmman/title.xml

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15186998

DonHopkins on Sept 6, 2017 | next [–]

The cover of the Lisp Machine Manual had the title printed in all caps diagonally wrapped around the spine, so on the front you could only read "LISP CHINE NUAL". So the title was phonetically pronounced: "Lisp Sheen Nual".

My friend Nick made a run of custom silkscreened orange LISP CHINE NUAL t-shirts (most places won't print around the side like that).

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=74206161754&l=54ec4e...

I was wearing mine in Amsterdam at Dappermarkt on Queen's Day (when everyone's supposed to wear orange, so I didn't stand out), and some random hacker (who turned out to be a university grad student) came up to me at random and said he recognized my t-shirt!

http://www.textfiles.com/hacking/hakdic.txt

CHINE NUAL (sheen'yu-:l) noun.

The reference manual for the Lisp Machine, a computer designed at MIT especially for running the LISP language. It is called this because the title, LISP MACHINE MANUAL, appears in big block letters -- wrapped around the cover in such a way that you have to open the cover out flat to see the whole thing. If you look at just the front cover, you see only part of the title, and it reads "LISP CHINE NUAL"

toomanybeersies on Sept 7, 2017 | parent | next [–]

Link to an image of the manual, for the lazy:

https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/101/264672507_307376d26c_z.jpg
Show HN: Building a Neural Network in Pure Lisp Without Built-In Numbers
Jep, i really had no interest to Answer that long text with thousands of errors, just to say that the NATO has no right to be aggressive towards Russia, NATO is/was meant to be a Defense force, and not an Aggressor (Nato rockets in Turkey but russian ones in Cuba)...that's a problem for Russia and Europe...meanwhile the US can lough about the stupid Union for playing so very well against his neighbor(Russia) and for the empire(US).
Mullvad VPN and stream from Netflix us
And for completeness, on the command line

gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.wm.keybindings switch-windows "['<Alt>Tab']"

gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.wm.keybindings switch-windows-backward "['<Shift><Alt>Tab']"

gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.wm.keybindings switch-applications "[]"

gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.wm.keybindings switch-applications-backward "[]"
SG1 is also an unusually easy thing to write fanfiction for, especially cross-overs with other universes... because you know, stargate. Not only that, the stargate is top secret, so knock-on effects are limited. The characters fill roles in a kind of nonoverlapping way so they're easy to reproduce faithfully: the dynamic between O'Neill and Teal'c or Daniel Jackson, then there are colorful characters like Rodney McKay, and you can guess what General Hammond would say to any hypothetical situation.

My all-time favorite fanfic is one where SG1 ends up on the Sword Coast (Dungeons & Dragons setting) and encounters such bizarre things as flesh golems and translation magic, but it's executed so well. https://m.fanfiction.net/s/5236609/1/Debt-of-Blood
One of the contributions being solicited on the page is to get DOIs for the given webpage. Right now, it has a few methods to grab DOIs for specific sites.

I've had a lot of success running Zotero's translation server for my own bibliographic needs, but I would really love if I didn't have to host it on a server somewhere (and could actually do that part in a browser engine I depend on to download PDFs anyway). Has anyone here figured out how to wrap the translation server brains (i.e., the recipes for each URL) into a simple library?
Shoryuken!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2v3t4XW910
This thread has a special focus on switching the operating system from macOS to Pop_OS. In this context, mentioning missing features between the operating systems is valid.

I don’t really like the snide nature of your comment, people care a lot about things like trackpad functionalities. Objectively, unix has been lacking in this department.
Yeah. Fundamentally, roads are really costly. The whole notion of designing a city around cars is horribly expensive and we keep pretending that's not the case.
> Take for example the taxes I pay on my home. I pay $260.17 to the city every year in property taxes. I live on a 60 ft wide lot. If you take the $20/ft/year road maintenance metric, cut it in half because I’m just on one side of the street, and then multiply it by the width of my lot you get $600. I would need to contribute $600 a year through my property taxes to just pay for the maintenance of the portion of the street in front of my house. But I’m not, I’m contributing less than half. Almost no single family houses are contributing enough in property tax to support basic necessary maintenance of the street in front of their house.

> The smallest lot width you can have in Galesburg with the current zoning code is 50ft in R3 districts. With that 50 ft lot you would need a house worth $98,500 just for the city to break even on the maintenance of your portion of the street. If you have a 100ft wide lot you need an assessed value of $197,000 to break even. While wide lots may be nice to have and historically how we’ve built housing, they have a tough time paying the city back for the services they consume.

> Is every house and building going to pay for all the infrastructure it uses? No. There will be plenty that do not. Does that mean that corner lots have to be twice as valuable to pay for both the streets? Also no. Another way to look at properties in an apples to apples comparison is to use the metric of total property taxes paid per acre. Why is that? The greater the area the further road and water infrastructure needs to extend and the further away police and fire services need to travel. So comparing on a per acre basis is a good proxy for how productive it is for the city.
For what it's worth I've been using libinput-gestures in combination with xdotool for exactly this purpose, it's been working great for a while.
You are extremely radical because you talked about resources.

The government should absolutely tax limited resources to encourage efficiency and as little waste as possible. What the government should stay away from is taxing human work. There is absolutely no reason to do that.
> No. If you don't know anything about cars please feel free not to comment.

FYI, this is too condescending by HN standards. Let's keep the discussion civil and friendly here.
Cloud storage for social media app
I'm looking to make a social media app with flutter. With a news feed that potentially have a lot of videos(short and long). While choosing a backend solution firebase seems ideal in terms of simple document database but the storage may be in the 100 Gb per month.

I'm also looking to move away from Firebase if the app takes off and backblaze seems to have very interesting pricing as well.

What would you advice, please?
SMTP is a protocol for transferring messages, not for storing them (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Message_transfer_agent#Transfe...)

So the claim is that the sending part of MMS is like the sending part of email.
Yep. Kind of like "we value your privacy" means "we don't give a shit about your privacy". I guess the only way to uncover a platitude is to test it. The problem with "We are listening to your feedback" is that "listening" is hard to disprove. It doesn't require any action - they're just "listening". It sounds good but doesn't mean anything useful. If, instead, it was "We will respond to your feedback within 48 hours" - well, that's testable. That sounds like a real, honest, useful commitment. Is it just too expensive to do that? Even for a billion dollar business?
IMO there is no better information than the stuff freely available from the largest search provider.

https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/9128668?hl=en&r...

Anything else is a loophole or bug yet to be patched.
It's absolutely borderline...