skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
“ As far as I can tell, there isn't any direct connection between the Apollo ranging system and GPS. GPS grew out of the Transit (Naval Navigation Satellite System), the Timation satellite program, and USAF Project 621B (history).”

I can’t 100% verify this, but Transit and Timation were both US Naval Research Lab (NRL) programs. NRL has a thirty foot radio antenna on the roof of the administration building that contributed to determining the range to the moon itself prior to Apollo. IDK for certain whether that antenna was used for ranging the Apollo spacecraft, but it’s possible; certainly the NASA and NRL personnel knew each other and contributed to each others’ programs.
on top of what lawl said:

- macros and scripts- it's nice not having to enable, disable etc stuff and just scan qr codes, nfc tags or use ble tags as markers to enable something

- chroot

- faking permisions and data for apps is a must

- sim links to app data folders for easy backup/restore
Compromise position: the natural immune system is great but vaccines make it even better.
Does a zkEVM by Loopring+Vitalik consulting on it scratch your itch?
Is your bazel cache implementation open source? I am dabbling in bazel and I am not sure where zstd fits in the bazel cache model. I'm interested in learning more about this
> Back to original question and with genuine curiosity - what is 25Gbit for???

What a pointless question. I wish people would stop worrying about this instead of simply making it possible, so we can figure out what to do with it.
These are the unmoved goalposts from this comment chain.
> It's complete nonsense to respond to generalized scientific claims in this fashion and for some reason a lot of people don't realize this.

Yet, you did. You are participating…you don’t realize this?

> Even if we take for granted that (contrary to all conventional medical wisdom) keto is the only way someone like you could live healthily, this simply has no impact whatsoever on the OP claim that red meat is bad for the environment and not necessary for the overwhelming majority of people to be eating.

No one to my knowledge talking about keto here made this absolutist claim. I know I didn’t. I simply provided my experience and commented on the fact that because of my success, environmental factors for agriculture do not factor into my dietary equation. I don’t understand the need y’all have to create a strawman here.

Also, “conventional medical wisdom” for many years encouraged type 2 diabetics to eat a diet based on grains, fruits, and pasta (I still have the pamphlets that were given to me when first diagnosed) supplemented by many lovely and expensive pharmaceutical therapies for people to manage their diabetes. Three years ago, the American Diabetes Association reversed its opinion of low carb and keto, declaring them effective and safe strategies to manage type 2 diabetes via diet. So…effectively keto and low carb has become “conventional medical wisdom”.

Finally…you eat how you want, and I’ll eat how I want. I’m happy you found a diet that is successful for you. Keep eating it and don’t let some random person on the internet try and shame you about it for any reason, because it’s none of their damned business.
Maybe you can, but have you? Has anyone? Are there any nodes on the bitcoin network not running the same code written by the same handful of people?

Also, saying that "all you have to do to participate in this new trustless economy is to read the spec and implement your own validation node and client, and maintain it as the protocol changes" is a pretty different promise than "just download this app".
I suspect that part of the reason for this is some larger companies not updating their apps to avoid complying with the App Store privacy Nutrition Labels. Even Google stopped updating all of their iOS apps for a long time because they didn't want to deal with the fallout from disclosing how much data they collect. Smaller developers are probably being affected unintentionally, unless they are also collecting data they don't want to disclose.

https://www.inputmag.com/culture/is-google-not-updating-its-...
> Yes proprietary licensing does preclude source availability, obviously, because no one has access to those source licenses, and the few that do, have to sign nda's preventing them from publicising what they see.

The people who are a party to shared source licenses, have access to the source. There licenses are very meaningful to those who use them. They might not be beneficial to you, but that is likely not their concern.

FOSS software can also be subject to NDA. In fact, this is not uncommon. Many companies use Apache/MIT/GPL software, use the software internally, and have their employees sign NDAs.
My naive Q from watching the video: Why did he need to take ice cores and not dirt/rock cores? Wouldn't they both contain atmospheric material?
Consider things further. As with any other data or observation you're correct in that any one single point isn't useful to declare a trend. This list isn't an "or" conditional. Eco doesn't mean that meeting any single point is sufficient. It's when you can go through the list and check a bunch of these boxes, or at least a couple that are much stronger indicators than some others, like "disagreement is treason". And of course it's a spectrum, not a binary yes/no.

You're not going to get a formulaic assessment that is a perfect indicator of any major social or political trend of this sort. To go back to horoscopes, they are successful because they throw a bunch of things at the wall but get people to focus on only the one piece that's correct. In the case of this list, you need multiple hits, and
This is a pretty good point I don't think is seen very often: a lot of first-time iPhone users must be completely blown away by upgrading from the crappiest Android devices to something akin to a flagship on Android -- that they would never have considered upgrading to any other way other than switching.
All these topics are so advanced that even for someone trained in one it would take years to become proficient in the other.

Source: I'm a Physics PhD
Lived in Germany for 5 years and cable internet was generally terrible. We had 200/20MBit. But the actual upstream would often be 1MBit. Downstream was better but at many times not great. There would also be regular outages, that would take hours to solve. The only alternative was VDSL with a maximum downstream of 50MBit.

We moved back to NL and have 1GBit fiber, and there has been a short outage once in three years. I know that there are a still a lot of addresses without fiber, but when I last checked the stats, about 50% of the addresses has the possibility to get a fiber subscription. Heck, even my parents who live in a small rural town have fiber.
>In contrast, Delphi IDE only runs on windows ... <

And? I don't see that as a minus in a world where virtualization and virtual machines exists. Also in Delphi IDE, in order to target Linux or Android, all you have to do is "select from this drop-down" and rebuild and/or deploy and voila!, you have executables ready to go. You try have a easy switchable Lazarus to compile for a new OS because I gave up. Right now, for each OS I want to target, I have a separate virtual machine with Lazarus installed there. Long live cheap RAM because I can run all 5 Lazarus VM's I need for creating cross-platform executables (Lin/Droid/iOS/MacOS/Win)
Yes, this is a problem.

But frankly, many users only want messaging, maps, banking and a few other things.

WebAssembly could solve that.
I am the same way, I explain it as "I think in concepts"

Relationships is a word to explain it that I hadn't thought of before. I think a lot of engineers are probably similar.

When working on a large codebase or trying to plan out something like this -- you can't really go off of visual imagery. There's no "picture" of all the ways that various things in a codebase will interact, design decisions, etc.

A lot of engineering/software stuff is abstract.

Not sure if others are the sameway, but the downside to this is that I have nearly zero spatial-imagery skills. You know the tests where they show you a 3D shape, and ask you which possible rotation is still the same shape? Or the one where they ask you to show what shapes would look like, if folded up from laid out pieces of paper? My mind just goes blank:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mental_rotation

I also have essentially no geo-spatial awareness. I constantly get lost and have no sense of cardinal directions.

Anyone else out there have a brain like this?
>If you see the actions of Twitter, et al. as stemming not from a desire to flex power over society

Except I don't see that as being the source at all. Like I said, the support for these initiatives originates in government. Hence the government making much of their intent to further legislate and examine the operating models, algorithms, and moderation of these companies. Twitter, Alphabet, Facebook, etc are all acting defensively in response to these pressures, but in the process there's very little appetite to defend free speech proper (even the ACLU, I am given to understand, is not the same organization that at one time defended the KKK's right to march in the streets - although I can't remember too much of the noise around their supposed change in direction). The ratchet only ever goes one way.

Other companies are already modifying what discussion is allowed or disfavored on their platforms, as I noted in my post. They can see the headwinds clearly. As more governments discover the power of controlling the narrative, it will only be natural for them to apply pressure to companies that have the greatest power to modify that narrative. Institutions follow incentives just like every other agentic thing. They have an incentive to defend themselves and accumulate power, and so it is often useful to model them as (usually) taking actions that help them do that.

Note that I'm not saying that the President is going to call the CEO of Twitter and tell him, "Stop this whole 'Let's go Brandon!' thing." That's not really how it works. To paraphrase the editor of the NYT (iirc), "I've never had to kill a story my journalists wrote for political reasons." And neither, probably, did the editors of Pravda. Once you get to a certain level of awareness, and it's hard to believe the C-suite of these large tech companies lacking that, you have to be able to read the room, politically speaking, and know what the actual big players - the people with the real power - want out of you. Subtle alterations of reported reality is going to be the new normal. "What you're hearing and seeing isn't really what's going on" - a bit more terrifying to realize that that's the capability that's slowly becoming normalized.
In most people's mind extension = optional = afterthought. Especially this is the case if you cannot guarantee that something which supports the protocol actually supports the feature then it's difficult to use that feature. The main point is that the mentioned features are no longer optional for a 'chat protocol', any protocol which does not have them as core or required features is not going to be considered meeting the requirement of 'chat protocol'.
I'm wondering: is my storage fast enough to write at 25 Gb/s?

SATA drives max at 6 Gb/s, and probably a bit worse than that in practice.

M.2 NVMe SSDs can reach 25+ Gb/s on sequential writes. Maybe I could overclock these to squeeze a bit more out too. Although, an 8TB M.2 drive will cost over $1k for now.

I suppose there's also RAID. Although, I'm not sure what other limits/gotchas I'd run into there.
Advice is not an attempt to control someone, it's sharing your perspective, which may be incomplete, and trying to provide additional useful information for making a decision.

Persuasion on the other hand is certainly an attempt to influence someone's behavior.

Persuasion and advice are not the same thing.
When it all goes political at the end, what exactly does the author think happened in colleges. He uses the word 'woke' as if a horrible plague struck.

Maybe, I'm just sheltered, and civilization did collapse at some point in the last decade, so can someone point to a summary of what people in his bubble think happened?

> The specific way that lefties will dismiss this problem will be to say, hey, who cares, it’s just adolescents on TikTok. They won’t affirmatively say that it’s good that thousands of teenagers claim to have spontaneously developed an extremely rare and very punishing mental illness, because that’s stupid, so they’ll say it just doesn’t matter, and really it’s weird that you’re paying attention to this. I’ve already established why I care - I believe that this behavior, and the broader suite of 21st century progressive attitudes towards mental health, are doing immense damage to vulnerable young people. But also we’ve seen this movie before.

> People pretend that this never happened, now, but in the early and mid-2010s, the stock lefty response to woke insanity at college was not to say that the kids were right and their politics were good. That was a rarely-encountered defense. No, the sneering and haughty response to complaints about, say, incredibly broad trigger warning policies that would effectively give students the option to skip any material they wanted to was, “hey, it’s just college! They’re crazy kids, who cares? Why are you paying so much attention?” Of course, first it was just elite liberal arts colleges, tiny little places, who cares about what happens there. And then it was just college. And then it was just college and Tumblr, and then college and Tumblr and Twitter, and then it was media and the arts, and then all the think tanks and nonprofits, and when it had reached a certain saturation point the defense changed: now it was good. Just like that, overnight, the “it doesn’t matter if that’s happening” sneering defense switched to the “yes that’s happening and it’s good that is’s happening” sneering defense. From an argument of irrelevancy to an argument of affirmation in no time at all, and absolutely no acknowledgment that what they were dismissing as meaningless the day before they were now defending on the merits.
...and since you brought up Merlin engines.
Search YouTube for Jay Leno's Garage. He has one episode of firing up a Merlin on a test stand, and another of a Merlin powered custom automobile he bought and restored. He takes it out for a drive pointing out the engine is never running above idle.
in California the fastest internet available to me is 50Mb/s. and it constantly spikes to 1000ms pings.

i saw a dude living miles off-grid in Sweeden with a fiber connection routed to his tiny house in the woods ...
In the US this is almost exactly the maximum you'll find to not risk blowing fuses. Electric heaters are probably the most obvious continuous draw ones.
The key point here is that it has a 60% efficient.

The question is, why is it important?

Well in the later part of Afghanistan war, significant time, money, and lives were spend shipping diesel around. If you can avoid that, you can save a shit tonne on logistics.
I'm Swiss and had Init7.

Moved to Thailand (BKK) in 2016 and was so disappointed by a very new condominium in the center, which didn't even allowed for FTTH lines.

Real Estate Developers usually make contracts within their Condos, to force the whole building to use only one provider.
Bild is a dirty far-right propaganda medium. Please ignore it.

Max Goldt about Bild:

"Diese Zeitung ist ein Organ der Niedertracht. Es ist falsch, sie zu lesen. Jemand, der zu dieser Zeitung beiträgt, ist gesellschaftlich absolut inakzeptabel. Es wäre verfehlt, zu einem ihrer Redakteure freundlich oder auch nur höflich zu sein. Man muß so unfreundlich zu ihnen sein, wie es das Gesetz gerade noch zuläßt. Es sind schlechte Menschen, die Falsches tun."
I see a lot of value in blockchain tech that cannot be replaced by any DB. In fact a DB is incomparable with a blockchain. Whatever you can do today with an average blockchain requires a lot of upfront work to make a system that works to replicate any of the value that a blockchain brings.

First of all it functions as a currency which inherently brings with it a lot of value. You can exchange and hold virtual currency with minimal fees. This applies primarily to proof-of-stake blockchains (Algorand, Tezos, Cardano). Ethereum/Bitcoin have due to proof-of-work become less a currency and more an investment. There's more value just holding them than actually converting them.

Blockchain tech is trustless and decentralized both of which is very valuable to me personally. I've lost trust in the modern banking system. I guess the turning point at which I became more attent to what the financial salarymen are doing was the 2008 financial crisis. But I'd say that's just the tip of the iceberg. Between all the tax havens hiding billions in plain sight, various scandals such as Wirecard, disappearing money balance on my bank accounts, evaporating loans for large defunct companies, there is just so much crime based around hidden centralized systems. I see blockchain as having the potential to level the field in a system where (centralized) banks are just trying to ripoff the average Joe.

Then we have the stablecoins which work as a safe haven for hyperinflation. While I'm not affected I find this a very serious use case. There's a constant set of countries that are failing to stabilize their local currency and who knows when this is going to hit the reader. Being able to keep value to your monthly wage is a use case in a failing economy. Stablecoins have been found to be an essential part for decentralized finance and pretty much every smart contract-capable cryptocurrency is/has added them.

Also note that having a wallet for a cryptocurrency does not incur monthly charge. Banks charge you for just keeping a balance if you have more than X amount of currency on you account. There's also no maintenance costs which are common for some types of accounts. And plenty of crypto currencies allow you to stake and get a passive income that is higher than what you get on any bank account.

Then there's the DeFI loans. You can basically take a loan as long as you lock a collateral. That's the only condition. Now feel free to go read any of the contracts you signed for a leasing/loan and compare the user experience. DeFI loans are risky due to possibility of liquidation but I see this tech improving and maturing moving on.

While this may sound like I'm the greatest fan I'm more of realist. Blockchain does have a lot of issues. Account recovery is a impossible. Scams are rampant. Transaction speeds are a lot slower than non-blockchain tech can do. Also the immature community praying for a 10x is a pain to follow. But saying it's just a bad DB is plain false.
Think about Franz Haber and then think what would happen to our world if there was not enough fertilizer (coming soon). Also consider that antibiotics are used more per weight to maximize farm yields and will be a time where they will not be useful. So they were good for their time but in the future it won't last.
MGPT: Few-Shot Learners Go Multilingual
I love Sabine. I find her one of the few sober and rational voices on youtube.

Maybe it is her direct and confrontative way that scares off some americans? I'd say she comes out like a sterotype german :-)
> What fool would lend someone 100 dollars to get back 94 dollars in 5 years?

Some banks actually offer loans with negative interest: https://amp.theguardian.com/money/2019/aug/13/danish-bank-la...
(there are other examples)
Not OP and not a physicist.

I think wrongness is inherent to any well-proven theory, because each theory is a model.

It’s just understanding where the theory falls apart and where it makes accurate and useful predictions.

Like Newtonian physic. Even where it’s accurate, the math can get hard for very simple scenarios.

The classic three-body problem can be computed; but it’s also inherently chaotic so any computation quickly becomes inaccurate (sensitive to initial values).

I think they compute many different times with different initial conditions, to generate probabilities.

I imagine the climate science of “what happens” is also the same: We may not turn into Venus, but we also know all that excess heat and energy has to go somewhere and in our fragile global supply chain it won’t take much to make a disaster.

Still, I don’t like the quasi-religious aura that climate journalism has. It’s very off-puttingz
Thank you for your comments - you have opened my eyes to an aspect of the world i never knew existed.

I have recently discovered the term "neuro-diverse" as my daughter is autistic, but it is fascinating to find how diverse neuro can get, and how little most of us know about it.

On a side note, Have you shared this with an experienced health professional? It does not seem like the sort of thing to do alone (not counting the tulpa!)
So... do these tapes have Macrovision on them? I always thought this was just a weird way to brag that you had it. I imagine the wild video artifacts that Macrovision causes would look like your VCR was getting utterly destroyed by the tape.
1. How do you reconcile the two thoughts that, at the same time, it's a mafia regime and that people somehow elected them and therefore are responsible?

2. Do you also hold Germans responsible for funding the war? They pay for gas a lot and their contribution is indispensable

>I'm very curious about that... would you mind sharing?

Not sure I am able to direct you to one comprehensive place, but in short, this is a war with NATO that has been brewing for decades but most people thought it'd never happen. As a bonus, I'd recommend checking this thread https://twitter.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1498491107902062592
Wendover cyberwarfare video removed by book publisher for false copyright claim
I believe the only way to do this is to create breeder reactors which have an obvious downside of producing nuclear weapons material as a byproduct.
Here's a relevant blog post: https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=3327 'Is “information is physical” contentful?'

In quantum mechanics, breaking unitarity (which implies conservation of information) is akin to breaking the rule in statistics that probabilities have to add up to 100%. You get things like a 300% chance of rain or a 90% chance of [null reference exception]. It's hard to overstate how deep down it is and how many things depend on it.
No one’s saying Twitter doesn’t have the right to do this. They’re saying it’s a bad policy and Twitter should choose to allow content it disagrees with. Silencing others is not Liberty.
In my experience, Stack Overflow is only good for "language lawyer" questions. Any straightforward practical questions get some variation of "stfu n00b" and any non-straightforward practical questions get ignored.

Example: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/69111001/automatic-file-...
Different Merlin Engine
This happened to my sticker app. Simple iMessage stickers. The stickers are done and I have no desire to add more. What is there to update? …

I can’t wait until Apple is forced to add third party stores.
I guess the question here is whether having material available in a library is the same as promoting or teaching that material per se. I don't believe that's the case, I think libraries (even in public schools) are basically repositories of information, and how that gets used is the responsibility of the user and not of the library.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYcKdK7hmEo

I think he's talking about a different Merlin engine, though:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX_Merlin