skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
.I am strongly against lockdowns and mandates and so on. The cure is much worse than the disease from my perspective. I have no concern over covid, all of my concern is over what the government will do next.

Thanks for stating that. Even if a disease killed everyone there should never be a lockdown in a truly free society. It follows that no society is free...
I'll agree it's hard not to have mixed feelings about it.

On the flip side, every charged with a mini-USB or USB-C for a reason.

And internally, most electronics use standard battery sizes anyways, AA or AAAs.. I'm not a subject matter expert, but looks like they are just packaging high quality rechargable batteries inside a device.

For innovators they could simply apply a fee, that would allow companies like Apple to do whatever they want, so long as they (or their customers) pay.
Lot of theories disconnected from the reality.
Obesity has much more to do with diet and genetics than exercise. The human body is freakishly efficient and you’d need to run for miles to “exercise out” a couple of cookies.

There are over a dozen cookies in a box.
This article is rather thin on detail.

It says the probe itself is the size of a microchip. Let's be generous and suppose it's the size of a modern Intel x86 processor. How does it communicate with Earth? There has to be some kind of antenna dish; so OK, maybe the sail can serve dual functions. How does it do attitude adjustment?

Presumably some of this chip-sized probe is a sensor of some kind; perhaps a camera. Without a sensor, it's hard to see how one could think of it as a "probe" at all. Does this camera have a lens? How big? A lens the size of an Intel processor won't capture much light, and I'm not sure the bandwidth from Alpha Centauri is going to be good enough for digital imagery.

How is the probe's transmitter to be powered? A battery no larger than a microchip seems a little inadequate for communicating between Alpha Centauri and Earth.

OK, so the probe doesn't start transmitting until it can harvest energy from Alpha Centauri itself. But now it needs a solar panel! A solar panel up to the job simply can't be made the size of a microchip.

Maybe it's not supposed to send any data back at all; maybe it's just meant as a proof of concept. But even our best telescopes can't detect something 3m wide, in the region of Alpha Centauri. So the only concept this could ever prove is that you can accellerate something to c/5; there's no point in aiming it Alpha Centauri.

The article doesn't say how long these lasers are supposed to keep running; it seems unlikely they'll stay focused on the sail much past the orbit of Jupiter. I haven't tried to do the maths, but to accellerate something the size of an x86 to c/5, I imagine the lasers will have to run continuously for over a year; how much is that going to cost, for a probe that can't send back data?

Hmm - the article is bylined "Deborah Byrd". So I click on the byline, and get a photo and bio of astronomer Theresa Wiegert. Who is Deborah Byrd?

I've never heard of earthsky.org before, but my confidence in this publication is immediately diminished on my very first visit.
> modern no-code languages such as Bubble are Turing-complete and require the same kind of programming logic that coding does.

> Programming (precise communication of logic to a computer) != code (precise, text-based communication of logic to a computer).

This is a recipe for disaster. Systems that are capable of Turing-complete computation are already hard to understand when written in code; I can only imagine they are harder to understand if they are communicated in pictures or something else.

Examples of dubious no-code (or less-code) environments include:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LabVIEW , e.g. https://blog.jki.net/a-recipe-for-spaghetti-code-in-labview-...

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scratch_(programming_language) , e.g. https://www.how2shout.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/scratch...
This is the first time _ever_ that I've heard git UX described as simpler or easier than something else.

As far as I remember Mercurial was easier to start with but Github came along and won.
Browsers rejecting cookies just leads to the website displaying a popup to please enable cookies or else you’re not allowed to see the content. That’s actually even less user-friendly.
That looks gorgeous, thanks for sharing it!
Ah, but this is the first step in Orwellian destruction of words.

At this point, unless they violate this rule, no one in the press will accuse Putin of ethnic cleansing.

Instead, we get complicated, varied, descriptions of individual events (“they bombed a school”, “a rocket hit a maternity ward”). Each could be discounted as one off accidents instead of a systematic campaign.
You cannot know where a server is physically located, as even self-reported locations are incorrect (by accident and/or on purpose) and there is no such thing as non-3rd party data about physical location as servers as again, it's self-reported and any registry can say whatever they want in regards to where a server is located.

There are many different 3rd party sources for geo locating IP addresses, maybe MaxMinds is the most popular one. But if you acquire a few, you'll notice that sometimes even they don't agree where the location of a server is.
To clarify, my costs are from a central distribution center to home (not some sort of local washing machine shop delivering to your house).

The prices I've given are pretty normal commercial prices for a large item delivery to anywhere in the UK (excl. some parts of Scotland).

I gave a 2-person price because I was assuming some sort of 'white glove' service would be required for this, i.e. not just a curbside delivery but there would be an expectation to deliver the item to the kitchen, including if the person lives in a flat for instance. If a 2 person delivery wasn't required, the price would be closer to £40 for a curbside palletised delivery these days.

You might be able to get 15 dishwashers in a van, but delivering to 15 customers in 4 hours is way beyond what is realistic for this type of delivery (you simply won't get the delivery density required). A typical van delivery cost from a regional hub would be c£25-£30, but then you also have to consider the trunking cost from the NDC.

(Logistics is my day job, which is why I have a good idea on the costs of pallet networks, van networks and 2-person delivery networks, all of which I have received recent quotations for or calculated the costs of)
No, but you have to start. Thinking about it will only dim you dream and make it harder to succeed. Read up as much as possible on the subject and start. Starting a company, any company, will get you going and let you see where you need to strengthen your skills.
I see flexibility as the biggest obstacle to no-code tools. Pick any no-code platform and that platform is inevitably going to have some limitations to it. Now for some applications that are fully thought out, this might be just fine.

The problem is for all the other applications. What if your app needs some new functionality and you realize that the no-code platform can't do it. What do you do then? The article mentions that you can write "low-code" but that just gets us back to where we started for the most part.

A big part of selecting your stack is making sure it's still open ended enough so new features can be bolted on later.

Until no-code platform standardize in some fashion (at least in the way AWS/GCP standardized), it's going to be a really hard sell. Sure this platform can do everything you need it to right now. But will that still be the case 3-6-9-12 months down the road? Without a magic ball to tell you the future it's almost impossible to predict this.
You made my day with this comment. Thank you for capturing so succinctly what I've often found troubling about certain appeals to Orwell — the application of Orwell to further disinformation.
> on some level societies consider the death of the elderly due to disease natural

Of course it is natural!

You have to die of something. Old age weakens us to the point where the body either wears out directly or our cannot mount an adequate response to an otherwise 'ordinary' infection or injury.
I guess now I know the story behind this flyer I saw in a Bay Area shop window a little over a year ago: https://files.catbox.moe/48giot.jpeg
The more variables any one product as, the less 'choice by wallet' works.

Choosing between a battery-farm chicken and a free-range chicken has one variable - the provenance. But then let's say you like KFC for their 'secret' spice blend. But KFC don't care for offering free-range chicken. If you want that spicy chicken: you can sacrifice your preference for free-range chicken, get spicy chicken from somewhere else (not what you wanted), or go without.

Smart devices have many more variables. So the likelihood of something you want not being there is much greater.

And once a feature has been removed from such products, it partly becomes self-fulfilling.
It's funny that the people wanting the work for hire want to pay by the hour, but typical translators charge by the word or page.

Standard transcription service fees are similar. Transcribing a feature film can much less expensive than a half hour talking head segment. Talking heads don't stop talking where features have a lot of cinematic/dramatic moments without dialog.

A translator would need the same thing PLUS the actual translation.
Define "hell of a lot harder"

Phone replaceable battery; a rubber gasket and 3-4 screws - waterproof up to 5-6ft.

Though I guess you could get away with a cheaper clip based approach... Like some cheap Chinese ham radios. I had a friend drop one in a lake, then pull it out (maybe 3ft deep). You wanna know what part broke? The speaker - it was a bit muffled, but that's due to probably water penetration and pressure on that membrane.

It really is shocking how many people think it's "hard" to waterproof a small battery if it can be removed. Tupperware is water proof, doesn't cost a lot to make. Why would a battery encased in plastic be any harder? Especially for multi-billion dollar companies who can afford to scoop up some of the best engineers and have them work on consumer devices.
Ah - by flexibility, I meant to imply that there are thousands of different ways to host microservices, based on the needs and architecture of your Web app.

And because of this, there isn't a set of standard tools and practices that can work for all Web apps, and when things change it often requires big workflow changes as well. In other words, for anything other than a simple Web app (which could be workflowed with GitOps) you have to have a good SRE to keep things running with Kubernetes ;-)
But you still need to call a 95 euro/hour certified battery changer professional licensed by the EC battery changing association or pay fines and all your appliances battery licenses will be revoked and issued for a mandatory inspection of certified battery EC inspection professional (169 euro/ hour).
The mistake made by the two obnoxious semi-toxic characters from whose friendship the article draws inspiration is that they want too much and too many things for their friendship. They are needy, one is looking for a daughter and the other a mother, they over-intellectualize, there is no sharing of support or fun.

Even the author, who produced a thoughtful if meandering piece (but it was good meandering) comes across as rather unlikeable, she doesn't really like having friends, "Oh, it's so hard, we're all so busy, I'm so sorry." Not hard at all if you're interested in the other person—a boulder to move with your bare hands if instead you're not interested.
You’re almost certainly being downvoted in the first case for having snarked about somebody taking their own time for their own project. How fast you could do it isn’t really relevant, so it’s just a pointless dig.

And then in the second case because the rules ask you to meta-converse about downvotes
My company makes me free to use any title of my choosing except CEO. It's up to me whether I use it to accurately describe my job or use it as promo pull when changing jobs, and I see people using it both ways, and I think both ways do work.
Maybe I’m just out of touch, but wouldn’t someone in their 30s be a lot more emotionally mature and ready to handle starting a company way better than someone in their 20s? I was an absolute wreck of a kid in my 20s, so no clue how so many young people have it so together to run a company.

Is it possible we are still mythologizing the Zuckerbergs of this world?
Istio is a big Kubernetes failure story. So much complicated although it could have been directly integrated to Kubernetes.
The problem I have with GMO plants is that they are engineered to be specific-pesticide-resistant.

More exactly, Roundup by Monsanto, which is not as safe as regular pesticides that do not kill regular plants.

https://nutritionfacts.org/topics/gmo/

As for synthetic protein, I am skeptical it can be cheaper than that grown by plants using processes evolved over billions of years.
Side note: I find it quite annoying that web devs have hijacked the term “API“ as a synonyme for “web API“, to the point where many devs are not even aware of the original broader meaning.

Nevertheless, as a (largely) non-web dev I found the article interesting and useful.
I don't know about OP, but as far is I know every "non-smart" watch that is waterproof has a replaceable and standard sized battery. Normally, you also have to replace the o-ring, which are also pretty standard.
I'm in my 30s and I grew up at a time in grade school when computers and internet access were just becoming more and more popular, but typing wasn't specifically a necessity for school.

As such I'm EXTREMELY GLAD that I had the choice to learn how to type on my own and made a conscious choice to learn Dvorak instead of QWERTY.

I feel that kids these days are forced into QWERTY as part of curriculum and I think that's a terrible forced propagation of a shitty standard.
UK and EU open antitrust probes into Google and Meta over online ads
They are much more capable of becoming translators though. Reading and writing both languages is 90% of the way there.
What if you have a fleet of thousands of these acting as a cluster? All of them would have some limited radio capability to communicate with other nearby probes. Some would carry additional instruments to collect data near the star, and others would have higher-powered radios to send data back to Earth.

It doesn't sound like you could fit this kind of system in the size of a microchip, but what do I know, I'm just a random Internet speculator.
We use Kubernetes for our cloud database platform, which we are extending to new environments. It's been quite successful. We were able to port from AWS to GCP in a matter of weeks. We don't try to share tenants within a single Kubernetes cluster.

With that experience in mind, the storage section of the article is a hand-wave. Kubernetes is a major platform for high performance databases themselves. Saying that Kubernetes developers should "use databases" is not a very plausible answer in this case.

Object storage is not a panacea either. It does not exist equally in all locations and building caches to make it work efficiently in low-latency apps is a non-trivial exercise. (Like years of implementation work by PhDs if you want something good.) Locally attached NVMe SSD is still the winner for a lot of applications. It needs to be first class in Kubernetes and it needs to be easy to allocate pods that offer it. Applications can deal with resilience through app-level replication. Databases have been doing it for years.
The streaming box will have to be complicit and act like an ethernet switch or NAT router (in case of Wi-Fi not supporting WDS so can't be bridged) to passthrough the connection.

There's no reason to believe this won't be a configurable option on the box itself, but this is a moot point because I have yet to see anything in the wild actually supporting Ethernet over HDMI.
> Edit: Genuinely interested on why the downvotes? But nevermind.

> Also, you should be able to create a new language in less than two years. I've certainly done so, though I admit ones not widely adopted :-)

This community isn't particularly fond of minimizing others' work. I'm not particularly interested in learning this language but I can still respect the effort.
Regardless of whether I mowed 0.5, 1.0, or 2.0 times per week, my lawn already has no “lawn flowers”, aka weeds.

We keep some milkweed along one fence and have a bed of local wildflowers along the roadway and a vegetable garden for the bees, but this article is about increasing lawn flowers/weeds rather than directly about mowing frequency.
Not sure I understand the point of Tailscale. The server should expose these ports to the internet...that's part of its purpose. Admittedly, I have never heard about Tailscale until now; it appears to solve a different kind of problem than the one I am interested in.
"It seems they created lawns of unsustainable crops that allegedly had aesthetic appeal, and then proceeded to maintain these crops until they ran out resources and all went extinct."
-some alien archeologist in 1000 years
It was a somewhat popular name for girls in the 30s and 40s. Mavis Beacon came out in the late 80s, one of the programmers might well have had a mother or aunt named Mavis.
Trying to keep up with file servers and conversation on IRC taught me to type fast!

Sink or swim scenarios work best for me.
Funny thing is, staying in bed every other day would also help the bees, if everybody did it.
I guess VaultWarden may start monetizing at some point if it gets too popular?
I did grocery delivery for a while, and I agree that 'alienating' was a great term for it. Yeah, it was 'flexible', but I was doing it for money, so I ended up on a lot of 12AM-2AM runs for college students who wanted booze, since payouts were based on a.) how many drivers there were and b.) the cost of the order and booze meant more $$$$.
CEO (of Goldman Sachs).
> Any insurance is a conflict of interest. The entity responsible for paying out is the same entity responsible for if/how much you get paid out.

What are you on about ?

Let me spell out how my appliances insurance policy works:

1. I call $insurance_company and say "my appliance is broken"
2. $insurance_company says "Ok, here's a code, call Miele, give them the code"
3. Miele sends out engineer with parts who fixes the appliance
4. I sign engineer's job sheet.
5. The end.

To reiterate:

- At no point have I given Miele my credit card.
- At no point have I given the Miele engineer my credit card.
- At no point have I received a bill from Miele.
- At no point have I paid Miele in any way shape or form
- $insurance_company has taken care of everything, 100% of everything, every single time.
OK, but can't you learn to love bees, too? I am not even half joking.

The fascination with lawns, and everything that comes with it, is something I could never get. Flowers might not be manly enough but why not grow trees and/or produce? Not talking commercial efforts. Just a hobby. One that doesn't involve horrible motorized mowers, water waster, and what have you.
> In the long-term, no. In the short-to-medium term, yes. If we are talking about relatively small religious subcultures, numbering in the tens/hundreds of thousands, the idea that they might make it to many millions before hitting fundamental barriers to further population growth is not implausible.

You don't "hit barriers to population growth" they're more like asymptotic limits, derived from relativity. Population growth is pushing against these limits the entire time, and they push back harder and harder.

I really like your other points, though, very illuminating.
Yes, I have one of these $50 portable cooktops and it works OK but still takes forever to boil water. The expensive ones are actually as good as gas and I was pricing out the freestanding stove+oven, thanks for backing me up xD
If you need medication daily, it is generally a good idea to keep that medication in your backpack if possible. Anything can happen; if you're reliant on something, keep it with/close to you.
How do submarines work if you put some door for people to enter in, or how do submarines can fire torpedo without getting flooded? The answer is some engineers found a way to do it, there are videos and articles that will explain it if you are really curious and not trying to find the most stupid excuse possible (there are many electronics with replaceable batteries that work under water)
The brain drain has been going on continuously since at least 1992.

Nothing new there, this time it's just extremely compressed on the time scale.
The beautiful and famous (at least very popular) image in the article of Alpha Centauri and Beta Centauri is very confusing. It's an image of two separate star systems, with Proxima Centauri circled in red. It is easy to make the mistake (esp. if in passing) to think that this is an image of just the Alpha Centauri system, even with the caption explanation. What looks like a star on the left is Alpha Centauri, a binary system which Proxima Centauri orbits (thus a triple star system) all about 4.3-ish lightyears away. The apparent star on the right is the similarly constructed (binary with another orbiting star) Beta Centauri triple system and is about 400 lightyears away.
Get a dog ... not to have a friend but to get to know new people and be generous and kind. Maybe you find a soul who kinda surfs on your wave (at least sometimes) and maybe another and another.
It's work but it pays if you keep up.
I am not saying we're almost there, just that we do not necessarily need break-though new tech.

You're absolutely right that we will need to spend a lot of money and time if you seriously want to achieve to become globally carbon-neutral. However, going nuclear wouldn't be necessarily cheaper or quicker, either.
I prefer a more optimistic interpretation of John Adams’ quote in relation to work ethic and motivation to help our future generations:

"The science of government it is my duty to study, more than all other sciences; the arts of legislation and administration and negotiation ought to take the place of, indeed exclude, in a manner, all other arts. I must study politics and war, that our sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. Our sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history and naval architecture, navigation, commerce and agriculture in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry and porcelain." — John Adams, May 1780
(or just heard the name as not uncommon so it fit when they pulled it out of their mental random name generator)
Ah yeah, this is my first blog tbrh
Also who are you and who were you traveling with? Because gotta say, as a female, I'm not staying in rando's spare rooms...
It depends on your climate and grass. In MA (where this study was), many cool season grasses can grow well over an inch per week in the mid-May and late-September windows. (Turf type tall fescue can grow over two inches per week in those windows.)
Would someone with access say how short they were mowing?
She was captured in Argentina attempting to steal Iguazu Falls [0]. Fortunately a couple of super sleuths [1] were tipped off about the soon-to-be caper by none other than Dr. Brain [2].

I miss the educational games of the 90s.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carmen_Sandiego_(video_game_se...
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treasure_Mountain!
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castle_of_Dr._Brain
Or were they one of the few countries not underreporting?
Another reason for textual chat meetings with URLs, #hashTags, @atTags, an agenda at the top, headings, and a prepared, accessible transcript!