skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You might consider a chorded keyboard.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chorded_keyboard

Speed is a learning curve, and while I have considered chorded keyboards, I have not used one.

Commercial Products

https://twiddler.tekgear.com/

https://decatxt.com/

DIY versions

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31716382

https://wiki.xxiivv.com/site/juni.html

https://www.instructables.com/Chording-Keyboard-BLE-and-USB/

One could also find a standalone T9 keyboard:

https://hackaday.com/2021/06/03/miss-the-predictive-text-fro...

Or get one on an existing device:

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/type-nine-t9-keyboard/id926008...
If we assume the meter class telescope + power supplies and whatever else masses ~ 1 metric ton, it would take 1,853,298,442,530,598,439 Joules - 1.8 quintillion - 1.853 * 10^18 - to accelerate it to .2c. Only ~ 442 Megatons of TNT. Keep in mind, that is assuming 100% efficiency, which would be impossible with a light sail or any other known technology.

With all the various inefficiencies in power collection/generation, laser generation, momentum/power transfer, etc. we'd be talking probably somewhere around 5% end-to-end power transfer - if we were lucky. Which is still way better than the rocket equation (probably).

So to get the required 1.853 * 10^18 J at 5% efficiency, we'd need say 20x more power at earth to accelerate it (if 5% efficiency). So 3.706 * 10^19 J. Which starts get more concerning, at 8,840 gigatons of TNT.

Let's take the most efficient means we can imagine to produce energy, direct matter annihilation. Annihilating 1KG of mass (using 500g of Anti-matter, 500g of Matter) produces 8.986 * 10^16 J of energy. If we could somehow feed the resulting energy directly into the laser for accelerating the craft, and assume near 100% efficiency in doing so, before laser losses - we'd only need roughly 1000 KG of matter/anti-matter to do so.

Not bad!

But wait, our more likely end-to-end efficiency is at best 1%. Hmm. Which would require 100 times the input energy to spacecraft acceleration. 44 Gigatons of TNT or 1.853 * 10^20 J.

5KG of matter/antimatter.

Which is definitely not a significant fraction of earths mass, but yikes. I wouldn't want to pay that energy bill!

51,480,512,292,500 kWh (the 'wall plug equivalent') at my current rates would be $26 trillion dollars!
I did not found that convincing argument. It amounted to "I find porn disgusting and animalistic, therefore it is good if it is censored". But, none of that suggests freedom in any way.

Also, there is difference between broadcasting something that leads to huge loss of freedom and life ... vs broadcasting something disgusting.
A mix of both! The Q/A section is totally optional for guests. I might look into diving deeper on some of the interviews going forward.

I'd prefer if all guests listed their hardware/software though along with the picture(s).
> After their success using cyanide to drive other chemical reactions, Krishnamurthy and his colleagues suspected that cyanide, even without enzymes, might also help turn α-keto acids into amino acids. Because they knew nitrogen would be required in some form, they added ammonia—a form of nitrogen that would have been present on the early earth. Then, through trial and error, they discovered a third key ingredient: carbon dioxide. With this mixture, they quickly started seeing amino acids form.

This is all well and good, interesting chemistry even.

However, α-keto acids are not the kinds of things just laying around. These are reactive species and so would interact in a variety of ways with environmental nuclophiles, oxidants, and other stuff.

The article doesn't link to the study in question, which is unfortunate and inexcusable. It does link to a study on a different system earlier this year.

Origins of life research has been plagued with efforts that front-load the problem in various ways. For example, how do we make proteins abiotically? How do we make sugars abiotically?

Load up a flask with all the amino acids you want. Zap it with whatever you want in terms of energy. At the end of it you won't have much but a mess.

There seem to be fundamental principles we're missing that go beyond reaction pathways. Not many people are working on that problem. It's extremely risky for both PIs and students, and almost impossible to fund.
There's also regulation on driving motorcycles
Ngrok and reverse proxies in general are an option. But it's a trivial concept, and you'd still need to run your machine 24/7
I haven't seen a PC with JRE installed in many years now.
It's not the same thing. Any well-intentioned law - and plenty that are not well-intentioned - will be leveraged in this way. Speed limits on roads and safety rules about cars having working lights should absolutely exist, but they are disproportionately enforced against minorities and other "undesirables" as a way of power enforcement. The problem is the system and the racism that is systemic.
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I'm afraid you are right. Sadly, that means many brilliant musicians like Tom Waits are destined to fade into obscurity. I'm sure Tom Waits will live on, but fewer people will know his brilliance.
It was in fact leaked.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29379346
D&D explained it well: intelligence is a separate stat to wisdom.
O(n) is polynomial and it's the same author.
I believe BC has more coastline than every U.S. state other than Alaska, so don't feel too bad about it.
There is definitely the concept of the anti-joke. Anti-humour has the wiki page.

The sadly-late Norm Macdonald was a good proponent.

Fwiw though I watched this after your post and I'd say that's not really the same. I'm not sure what you call this technique in speeches with such a setup but it adds great emotional gravity and is something I see and appreciate a lot in speeches like this (or even shows like The Good Place which is incredible but can't be described further without spoilers).
Indianapolis connects all these cities already (and with rail to some of them)... 2.8M
Alternatively we may end up with better app stores with far less malware and trash. As much as apple enthusiasts like to claim the app store is as good as it can get, there's a ton of room for improvement IMO. Just getting rid of the games that prey on children and addiction would be a good start.
> dangerous but not anymore so

We can all tell you weren't actually listening to the experts you so detest because that wasn't their stated rationale. The rationale was "flatten the curve" -- some hospitals were two doubling periods away from having parking lots full of people slowly dying for want of ventilators. That's what the lockdowns were about. Making sure we never overwhelmed the medical infrastructure.

Subsequent R-control measures were about making sure it stayed that way. As better options for keeping the hospitals safely under-capacity appeared -- first vaccines, and then simply the fact that subsequent variants sent a smaller fraction of the infected to ventilators -- the measures were relaxed. As was appropriate.

What's amazing are the number people who continue to stick to Trump's initial February 2020 "ignore it and it will go away like magic" alternate reality, even though the man himself abandoned it in March 2020.
Microtiks aren't boosters, it's just a dish with LTE modem in the focus.

If they aren't approved (and I can see why - just because no one at Mikrotik can be bothered) -- then use a sat-tv dish and a modem. Surely those are available?

It'll get you 30+ dB gain and no loss in cables.

(edit: besides, in Indian boondocks no one would ever think of checking if a piece of kit is approved. src: many friends there.)
Good question! We use the Deno (https://deno.land) runtime which comes with built it permissions mgmt
> One day, we may be able to be a standard for this tool to be used in OpSec where a number can't be added as 2FA if it's below a specific score.

The world would sooner switch completely off of SIM-baswed 2fa instead of such a roundabout solution. We already have alternatives, and there is already a push against using SIM-based auth.
GDScript is fine and I use it but it's a stretch to compare its type system to TypeScript. GDScript doesn't have generics let alone conditional types, string template types, variadic tuple types, etc. TS is significantly more sound as well if you turn on a lot of the strictness options.
If it was really the case then an anxious person should be able to talk themselves out of anxiety.

Aiming for a goal is great, but that's kinda not ambitious enough. Real ambition is reaching that goal with minimum effort and minimum headaches (or anxiety).

By self-inflicting headaches and anxiety on the very get go , you are also automatically waiving the best and pretty much sole optimal outcome. Not very ambitious of you, isn't it?

I don't know if this can help anybody.

I drew inspiration from Bill Gates quote : "I will always pick a lazy person to do some hard task because they'll find the least resource intensive way of doing it" something like that, the gist was anyway.
1. How is that quote at all relevant to what's being discussed?

2. What does any of that have to do with Nazis? Your comment seems to be a complete non-sequitur.
A lot relative to what? :) These 134 bytes will emit an answer without requiring a kernel or a runtime, either of which generally will be orders of magnitude larger than 134 bytes alone.
75% of retailers plan to accept cryptocurrency payments within the next 2 years
> He has already done an amazing job persuading European nations to get on board with the hugely damaging (to Europe, as well to Russia) sanctions - and unless there is an alternative supply of oil and gas (Iran already sanctioned, Venezuela already sanctioned) there is nothing much that can be done.

Even both Obama, and Trump were aware and warned Germany of their dependence on Russian oil, especially one of them gave a speech in 2018 about that and Germany was laughing. I don't think they are laughing today, but Biden did not see that did he, even as Vice President?

As President, he did nothing to stop the invasion from happening in the first place.

> Biden is doing all he can

This is not early days anymore. We are almost half way though the first term.

Whatever damage he has done, it is irreversible. Especially the botched Afghanistan withdrawal last year. If that happened under Trump, there would be zero forgiveness on that slip up. Now causing one leader (Putin) to invade another country is another problem caused by a display of weakness of leadership and policies to even stop them. So 'is doing all he can' isn't good enough for a supposed powerful nation having the dollar as the world's reserve currency which it turns out is in a recession, no matter the definition(s).
> over millions or billions of years

one of the interesting constraints is you don't have billions of years. Life appeared on Earth within 100 million years of the planet cooling down enough to have standing water, possibly even less, depending on your reading of the evidence that gets more disputed the farther back you go.

It took 2 billion years for prokaryotes to turn into eukaryotes, and it took another billion for eukaryotes to go multi-cellular, but somehow the initial development of a self-replicating cell with a code took less than a tenth of that.
I've seen the video, there was an angry mob of like 20 guys chasing him down and assaulting him
Needs way more explanation of how the game works.
They now have a SSD report: https://www.backblaze.com/blog/ssd-edition-2021-drive-stats-...
>as with most other problems, more educated people, especially regarding science, math and specifically statistics could help prevent these foolishnesses.

"Could" is doing a lot of work there. I think, empirically, you will find the opposite relationship.
The "test your ISP" talks about Fastly and how it is failing.... is this test broken? Does it just test their own CDN front?
Interesting game, but ... there's just not enough instruction. Is the game supposed to be for real words or made up words?

The objective is stated "make the letters green", but you're not sure why they might be green.
Climate breakdown made UK heatwave 10 times more likely, study finds
These aren't questions anyone else can answer. You should think about what YOU want to do and decide accordingly. Consider what you're good at and aim at a position you feel will best suit you in that company's environment.
Books had a pocket glued onto the fly page. The pocket contained a card with the book name on it. When you borrowed the book, the librarian removed the card and wrote your membership number on it, and retained the card. The “return by” date was stamped on the pocket.

The book you were checking out had a little pocket glued to the inside of the cover that held a card with the book name on it. The librarian would write your number on the card and placed it in their filing system. They would then write or stamp the due date on the pocket of the card.

https://media.istockphoto.com/photos/library-book-due-date-g...
> Wikipedia ... propagating hoaxes

Wikipedia itself is awfully untrustworthy, though - look what they're doing with the "recession" page today.
> sleek and generic

> Hong Kong

Idk, but I would not call Hong Kong sleek and generic... If anything it's kind of the opposite.
> If you think that kids shouldn't see nudity on TV, don't let them. The state is not responsible for rising you or your kids.

The switch to porn at midnight happened because state was actually restricting content. Kids entertainment was also controlled a lot.

> An argument against this lifestyle is that it makes people unambitious

But it does. Communism made people more passive in non private areas of life. Post communist setup less so, but still too due to corruption and criminality that endangered active people.
The question, rather, is why one would want to use C++ rather than something higher-level (e.g. C#, Java, Swift) for a GUI app in 2022. We're long past the point where performance benefits were worth writing the whole thing that way. Most apps can get away without anything C-like at all, and for the few that need that perf boost, it's easier to implement the corresponding part as a C++ library called from higher-level GUI code. In such an architecture, Rust can transparently replace C++.
https://archive.ph/tyltV
Ask HN: What's a dead-simple way (seconds, minutes) to make and package an APK?
Examples: Dice rolling app, calendar.

Use: Teaching HTML to some kids, thought a funny advanced extra-credit option might be "use your website to send an APK to a friend that they can try on their phone". And in doing so demonstrating a quick inroad to Android apps.

Hoping to avoid HTML app development and JavaScript at this particular juncture, just wanting to give a really quick and easy taste for this, so ideally low- or no-code on the app design side.
And the station at CDG airport is quite hard to pick, but has much more penetration into the UK than Gare de Lyon.
War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength. Ambition is disorder.

Fits right in.
It's pretty crazy to see this day! I was just browsing Reddit and I saw there are now rumors that the next gen AMD chip will beat Intel in Single-Threaded performance[0], which is amazing to see.

I know that, at the end of the day, the magic is really because of TSMC (same with Apple), but it still makes me happy that Intel is getting some real competition after so many years of being complacent. It's good for consumers!

0: https://videocardz.com/newz/amd-ryzen-5-7600x-6-core-raphael...
Behind the paywall is an article that feels like a paid advertisement for Geneva, apparently a new kid on the block.
Hey bud, didn't we just talk about not being grim?

Please sit down on this melted glacier and have a Coca-Cola (tm) with the drowning polar bears. As Santa once said, "Life tastes good!"
Dance Marathons of the 1920s and 1930s (2003)
Because it’s absolutely exhilarating to throw stuff into the water (or off cliffs, or into holes, etc). Not condoning the behavior but you gotta admit it’s pretty fun.
Read through the entire article and I see no numbers just anecdotes after anecdotes. I guess it's Friday evening and time for a 'feel good' clickbait article.
Ahh yes the rich history of exploitative company towns :)
Are you foolish enough to innovate? (2021)
WinAmp's mod player was wildly inaccurate anyway, so it's probably not a great loss. IIRC it specifically didn't support a lot of IT features (instrument filter envelopes, etc)
A global trend. Australia has a $10K AUD (~$7K USD) limit introduced in 2020. China just introduced 2022 documentation requirements for cash withdrawls and deposits over 50K CNY (USD$7400) and are trialling e-renminbi (CN govcoin). Essentially the whole of Chinese society already pays most bills through Tencent's WeChatPay and the now-apparently-nationalized Alibaba's Alipay, so they have an effective govcoin by proxy already.
This is just fetishization of a disorder's side effect, a sort of blindness not unlike sociopathic tendencies, known to drive people to the top. There is a price to be paid for this, and it's the inability to see the bigger picture. The inability to see the world holistically. The inability to see the forest.
It creates shallow, surfacy social dynamics devoid of meaning. In our case it created one devoid of a future too. One can thrive in a sick world with sickness, but the world can't thrive without us finding a way to heal each other.

All success is socially motivated, but there is a limit to how satisfying monetary success alone can be. Our brain is a social supercomputer that will always find this arrangement lacking, particularly because it falls short of the potential of our communal, often self-sacrificial nature, which are evolutionary adaptations and the key for our collective, long-term survival. There is a reason we are drawn to participating in something bigger than our fickle, unreliable, temporary selves. Understanding our lack of potential individually as opposed to communaly is the key to the future. It's also what enlightenment is, it's nudging this inconvenient truth in our brain into our consciousness, as we are normally protected from realizing how artificial and limited our selves are.
XMMS is the closest we had, I don't think it's kept up anymore.
Johnny Castaway Questions Answered by Developer
I was the designer and director of Johnny Castaway, story telling screen saver. I get asked about it all the time. Here are answers to the questions.
How are they confirming anything? They're literally just confirming that someone who clicked that link owns that number. I'm not sure how that's confirming an identity linked to the phone number. If I click that phone number and I have information in there for John Smith and Adam Jones how does this contribute to them knowing whether they're seeing John, Adam, or someone else?
> the people he shot were under the impression that they were trying to stop an active shooter.

I'm still unaware of that. Do you have a reference?
People have been doing this in a game I play call Squad for years. Interesting to see it realized in real life.

https://youtu.be/SctREcQ-D94?t=191
Sure, I mean, go for it. You are free to fully embrace "death of the author" and believe what you like, irrespective of Tolkien's direct statements.

Tolkien's direct statements carry a fair bit of weight with me. His private writings were extensive, consistent, and deeply introspective.

It's as you say: primary sources aren't everything. But they're not nothing. In Tolkien's case, they're really something.
Seems like a ferry would make sense to access it. BC already has a ton of those.
Glitch is definitely the closest in terms of usage. We in fact used Glitch ourselves quite a lot. But even running the simplest piece of code on Glitch still requires you to write all the boilerplate code (e.g. setting up a node express HTTP server).

And of course, Glitch stops every instances after 5min of inactivity and it takes a solid 30sec to wake them up after.

Glitch is unbeatable in the frontend part. But we want to make the backend dev experience more seamless.
Same here, pretty horrible childhood by all accounts.

Aged 20 I decided I was no longer going to let my life path be dictated by anybody else. For better or worse if it all went sideways I would need full control.

Starting a business, being self employed and carving my destiny was the solution to that problem - and I forced it to happen when the odds were not great.

No University degree, no network of wealthy or experienced business minded friends, no business acumen, nothing...just a shed in a garden to work from, a friend who could code much better than I could and the desire to be something other than what I was.

There was a madness within me that I channeled in to working my fucking brains out. I networked my arse off, told everybody I met we could solve their software problems - and the rest is history.

Learning through making mistakes is inefficient and foolhardy but as far as my monkey brain was concerned there was no alternative. Going back to the kid that I was before I was 20 was a fate worse than death.
There's a common thing that I've noticed when going to Canada. As soon as you cross the border, you see tons of houses built in the 70s and 80s that are sided with stucco. They look so out of place in BC. In Washington, our climate is pretty much the same, but nobody here has stucco houses. I'm curious why so many up in Canada, but not here. They look like they would fit in nicely in Southern California.
Classic asp also supports JavaScript, it is old and wide spread in the bowels of legacy sites.

I thought of node as a victory for async more than anything else.
> GeForce now and xbox cloud both seem to check those boxes … You buy a game on steam or GoG or epic or whatever, than play it offline on your computer or stream via geforce now.

XBox Cloud doesn’t check that box, at least not on PC. You can transfer your streamed game saves to an XBox but as far as I know there’s no way to export them to a PC, and it wouldn’t matter because save files are not going to be compatible between your PC game and the streamed version which is an XBox port.
Centrist pragmatism is part of how we got into this mess in the first place, trying to find a "third way" when one side is slowly descending into outright authoritarianism.
For every public dumpster there’s a non-zero chance of the dumpster being destined for the bottom of a river too.

River, you are such a sink.
They were shareware, but that's not the same as freeware. He did expect payment for the software if you actually used it beyond evaluation, commercially or not. As I recall he wanted $50 for a license.

As incentive, he'd send you enhanced versions of the software (with 386 opcode support iirc... or was it 32-bit support?), and a ringbound hardcopy of the manuals.
I always find it interesting when I come across things that seem better from every technical point of view and I hate them, compared to something that seems technically worse.

I spent 15 years maintaining and developing a Windows application and I utterly despised interacting with the registry. It was a nightmare trying to find where a specific key should be written, what the format was meant to be, and browsing the thing with regedit was horrific. And then from a code point of view, win32 APIs for manipulating it were incredibly clunky. I was forever worried I'd accidentally corrupt the whole thing somehow and windows wouldn't boot any more.

Meanwhile on linux I think from a technical point of view, slamming random bits of text into files scattered in random places all throughout the file system in undefined formats is a terrible idea. And I love it. I understand the whole linux configuration and internals so much better because I can browse around /etc and see how every piece of the system is set up.
The same thing that happened to Khalessi (played by Emilia Clarke) and her dragons. Which is to say, nothing happened to them at all, because they are all fictional.