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The Orion spacecraft can't even make it to low Lunar orbit.

The SLS block 1 can put 95 tons into low Earth orbit. Compare to the Falcon Heavy, which can put 63.8 tons into LEO. Is it worth paying over ten times as much for only 1.4 times as much cargo?
Making it easier to have kids is the solution here, age related death is the natural equalizer
Starship is literally contracted by NASA to land people on the Moon.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starship_HLS
I don't python, but this scheme missed the point. Keys are vertically aligned, but values are not. Some brackets are vertically aligned, other are not (you have to hunt for the starting square brackets). Bracket take up a whole line each wasting vertical space.
It's time to kill your GPG agent – Git SSH code signing
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I have a ROG Strix (12th gen intel) and no whine. Been using WSL so far but need to try again to see how well Linux runs on it.

Overall, its been a solid machine so far and had sufficient battery life for me to program on flights half-way across the US without concern. My only regrets are I wish the thunderbolt port used the integrated gpu (never need discrete and sometimes windows gets stuck switching) and no webcam.
Sorry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline...
Shilling XYtech's repurposed Intel/12-core/64GB/matte-screen/2TB/VGA/Trackpoint/USBC/ laptops! Nothing better imo, unless he adds an E-Ink option!
> The fervent animosity towards dual free non-commercial/paid commercial licenses in the foss world has always puzzled me. In the end it is source code readable by anyone yeah?

Yes, but I cannot for example use it if I received grant to develop open source application.

Maybe above is overly cautious. Buy I have enough legal uncertainty with dealing how to tax grant income, I do not need more of it.

I would instead appreciate license even more toxic for corporations than GPLv3 - which would not block use by small players.

> What would you actually prefer, it stays locked up forever?

The problem is that it is usually alternative to free software/open source - not completely secret code.
I guess those are some short term reasons.

Long term, having people living on the moon would actually be surprisingly useful.

Things like the rocket equation and delta v are not something that current day muggles are up to date on of course (like in 1800 people probably couldn't intuit train fares, or people in 1900 probably couldn't intuit air fares).

If you do some "back of the envelope"[1] calculations , there are definitely scenarios/niches where it can become cheaper to manufacture things and ship them all the way to Earth from the low-gravity Moon, as opposed to making them directly on Earth and then be stuck dragging them around from point A to point B at the bottom of Earth's horrendously deep gravity well.

Once some sufficient (fsvo sufficient) foothold is established, I think it might then become viable to expand it.

[1] https://xkcd.com/1244/ O:-)
It's called a monopsony.
https://www.startus-insights.com/innovators-guide/4-top-anti... lists 204 startups, more than the number of rocket startups. Calico alone has received $2.5B in funding, which is more than SpaceX has received in any one of its rounds.
That would be a monopsony, making NASA a monopsonist.
The leap day falls in the middle of the year.

Any calendar that tries to introduce a day that “outside” the flow of seven days is going to be antisemitic even if unintentionally.
I completely disagree.

Western world is aging, bu we don't have a global issue of aging (e.g. population of Africa is growing) - as a species humans will survive this issue.

However - when (not if) an asteroid hits, we are all gone. We mostly can't anticipate a hit, and even if we could, we could just watch it destroy us.

We must become multiplanetary species to survive.
Evolution isn't paused
This is probably only because the US "health system" charges ridiculous amounts of money for Aspirin to arbitrarily inflate the prices
NextDNS is great. Totally worth the $
It appears to be designed to go from lunar orbit to the surface - not to take people to lunar orbit?

Edit: I was referring to the Starship HLS variant linked to
> there arent any anti-aging projects

Yeahhh, so this isn't true. Just because you don't know about them doesn't mean they don't exist.
So evolution is just going to stop? Given enough time, humans will evolve to better survive their new homes.
I just use a boring python-script for this job, which links everything from my repo to the correct location. This has the benefit that I can also add some personal tweak to some configs, like linking my userchrome from Firefox to my profile.

Similar solution for packages and other settings, just a bunch of shell script doing stuff.
I tried using Ansible in the past, but maintaining a rarely used tool with many updates was too much of a hassle. At the end, the simple solution is the best one, for me.
There are though. One such is Strategies for Engineered Negligible Senescence.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SENS_Research_Foundation
The only reason people are resorting to vpn for adblocking is because Android Chrome and the OS otherwise doesn't allow for ad blocking any other way through...
So we can have wars and destroy that one too?

Maybe first try to fix the problems here
Starship is specifically designed to fly to and land on Mars:

https://www.spacex.com/human-spaceflight/mars/
I got here late - why is launch stalled?
1Blocker works fine for me on iPad.
Are you saying that understanding an UTC offset of 2h is significantly easier than understanding one of 10h?!
My XPS from 1.5 years ago has 4 USB-C ports.
I see, thanks. For me, the point is just "indent successive objects" so it suffices - especially when I'm in a Python mindset and mentally filtering out brackets anyway. But I could understand why you prefer the formatting as you do.
Define different stages of done.

Projects are not puzzles. They don’t have a generic definition of done.
Are We Ready for the Next Volcano?
DNS level filtering is the only choice for system level filtering but is less flexible and harder to manually override false positives than application level filtering like ublock.

If your browser supports adblock (eg on Android use Firefox or Kiwi) then disable DNS filtering for the browser (ie override the system level filtering) by using browser privacy settings to choose an unfiltered DoH provider like Cloudflare.
Just like everything else in the globalised economy, young people are being manufactured at scale in places where the manufacturing costs are lower (for instance, Africa). So “aging western society” is mostly a question of logistics.
Even without the ads, you still have multiple cookie popups and banners, floating videos and newsletter notifications to closes before getting to the content. And of course as you scroll down some of those come back (floating videos in particular).

There was a time where you could just close the tab if it was that bad, but now pretty much all websites are like this so there's no choice.
yes same, took me too much time to reap the benefits of nix and home-manager but provisioning the new laptop from my configs was such a breeze
I find it curious that anyone can be so reductionist.

It reminds me of highschool, where, while waiting for a teacher to arrive, another student declared to me that they "knew the chemical formula for a human" and then just listed six or seven elements without any regard for (1) that's not what a chemical formula is, nor (2) a human isn't a single chemical, nor (3) all the other elements in a human body.

What you're listing (clearly inspired by the ten commandments) wasn't sufficient for Judaism, Christianity, or Islam, even though at least two of those rose to dominance within preexisting civilisations that had a whole bunch of extra rules.

Those other rules included things like "pork goes off really fast in a desert so just don't even risk it" and "when we said don't kill other people we weren't talking about those specific foreign soldiers currently waving their spears around" and "crop rotation is good".

More recent things that the linked story is talking about includes "how to help women give birth without dying".
That's a bit silly position to take. Different take would be if something happens to the planet, we all go. We need redundancy. Let alone all of the other possible benefits, starting with resources.
I have Lenovo which offers a great on-site support, have been using Thinkpad X since X201 or something and now am extremely happy with Thinkpad P14s with 42G of RAM and especially an AMD Ryzen 7 Pro with 16 threads and which provides much better 3D hardware than what Intel provides, and still much cheaper. Only problem is battery that is not as great as Thinkpad X when you can upgrade to a double battery in addition to the one that's inside the laptop itself. I use Linux.
Elephant tusks are incisor teeth, nerves and all. They continue growing in length during their lifetime, but would be insanely painful if cut off, and cannot grow back.
> and has made public transit infrastructure and development non existent

Can we stop blaming companies for bad public infrastructure investment?

Like seriously, lots of countries manage to invest in public infrastructure even while uber exists. Did Switzerland stop building trains? Did Paris stop improving the Metro?

Cities like Amsterdam keep improving their bike infrastructure despite uber existing.
Hacker News is a masterpiece
We can do multiple things at once. Weird, right?
Some unexpected ice formed on the exterior of one of the tanks. They checked if it was due to a crack, but apparently the conclusion is that it was not.
The most intolerant wins: The Dictatorship of the Small Minority
Why not use an ad blocker on your iPad? I use Wipr on my Mac and iPhone.
I’ve heard the term “weenie roaster” for hot laptops.
A bit of a problem is that HDMI is very sensitive to EMC thanks to DVI (which forms its base) being essentially VGA minus the DAC step - there's even porches and overscan included in the signal. But this meant that you could make very cheap TV displays, which thanks to very limited set of frequencies involved in cables could be made to work "stable enough".

So imagine all the problems you could have, and multiply it by variable frequency cable that thanks to increases in resolution has to run way higher clocks than it used to, combined with being cheapest possible design, and that unlike it's analog origins an error in bitstream can now crash the connection instead of just causing temporarily off-colour area.
except that the "experts" can't agree on things either.
Ask HN: Is there any catalog engines that is designed for ML and AI?
I would like to know if there's any open source catalog engines is design for ML and use ML datas (datasets and ML models) as the first-class citizen?

I have read the "awesome-data-catalogs" list [1] but found none of them has the "ML 1st citizen" property.

[1]: https://github.com/opendatadiscovery/awesome-data-catalogs
I cannot believe that it is so hard to even get a laptop without a numberpad. What are those manufacturers thinking? Apple has been delivering their laptops without numberpad for ages and it seems to work really well. At least give me the option to get rid of those (to me) usseless keys which also keep the touchpad from being centered to the screen.
The Fed simply devalued the dollar to keep the cost of post '73 OPEC crisis oil down.

This sustained heavy and extraordinarily polluting industries in the US until the nineties.

Coincidentally, reducing the influence of unionized labor also reduced the potential for employee health pressures on polluting industries. If I still had the feeds, I'd love to back traces how much this propped up the largest commercial banks and insurance companies who, coincidentally when environmental protection began to matter, did away with the prohibition of gambling with consumer deposits and abolished Glass Steagall, ushering in the last twenty years of economic horror story.
Root access and AdAway from F-Droid. I wouldn't even bother using anything else.
DNS does get used for telephony, just not in the address book way you typically think of: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telephone_number_mapping
This is lunar lander variant. They just adopted Starship to the NASA requirements.

Starship is first and foremost designed to deliver people and/or 100T of cargo to Mars.
"Access denied" on both.
"Everyone who has ever been born is dangerously aging as far as I can make out." Except for those who have already dangerously aged a bit too far.
I use wireguard + adguard home. Both docker containers (in a docker-compose.yaml), easy to set adguard as the dns resolver for any wireguard connection. It runs from my basement.

I also hear great things about TailScale, will also try that (soon I'll be "forced" off my fiber/fixed-ip connection).
Going on a tangent, how is the adblocking story on iOS? As there is not Firefox+uBlock available, is it possible to block ads via VPN or DNS?
Evil (Emacs 27.1) produced this:

{
"squadName": "Super hero squad",
"homeTown": "Metro City",
"formed": 2016,
"secretBase": "Super tower",
"active": true,
"members": [
{
"name": "Molecule Man",
"age": 29,
"secretIdentity": "Dan Jukes",
"powers": [
"Radiation resistance",
"Turning tiny",
"Radiation blast"
]
},
{
"name": "Madame Uppercut",
"age": 39,
"secretIdentity": "Jane Wilson",
"powers": [
"Million tonne punch",
"Damage resistance",
"Superhuman reflexes"
]
},
{
"name": "Eternal Flame",
"age": 1000000,
"secretIdentity": "Unknown",
"powers": [
"Immortality",
"Heat Immunity",
"Inferno",
"Teleportation",
"Interdimensional travel"
]
}
]
}

Interestingly, the first-level items are not indented. Real VIM 8.1 produced the same format, but the first-level items _are_ indented.
Yes, checkout examples on lexica or use a prompt builder to help, like promptmania.

Also, most of the good ones you see online are cherry picked from hundreds of runs, so set your batch size too 1000 and go to bed! After that, people then tend to run some of the good results through img2img, also with a lot of variations produced from a single image. Finally, some people also run them at higher resolutions if they have enough VRAM, as smaller resolution can distort or generate rubbish. For the messed up faces, they run it through gfpgan a few times to get prettier faces. Other than that, it is pure luck (using random seeds) to figure out what works and what doesn't. Use the 2 sites above to help you improve your prompts.

(meant in the context of stable diffusion)
It's still a Mac. But the i love the MacBook pro series from 2016-17. With ssd. Before they took away all the plugs. If my m1 would break I would probably just buy one of those from a reputable refurbished company. They are affordable, often between 500-800 (mostly dependent on hard drive size), and great specs. My new m1 theoretically is better, but I experience much more issues. And if any issues I can deal with the refurbished company, of which some offer great service.
The Big Bang no longer means what it used to
Multiple issues:

- "... Engineers are now investigating two other issues. The first is a possible “crack in an intertank flange.” The second is that a hydrogen bleed line to chill one of the four core-stage engines before ignition is not quite working correctly. When the countdown clock reaches T-10 minutes, there is a planned hold. That is when managers will decide a target launch time (Unless the launch is called off before then)."

- "The countdown is paused at T-40 minutes as engineers try to troubleshoot the issue with the hydrogen bleed line."

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2022/08/29/science/nasa-moon-la...

https://blogs.nasa.gov/artemis/2022/08/29/engineers-troubles...
How China's official bank card is used to smuggle money (2014)
$21,000 a month salary? Don't know about tech, but in finance that's either a top tier trader or C-level management.
Except... we haven't failed? We're still around. Sure, there's imperfections and we know how to solve or prevent them from happening again - which is what should be preserved, rough edges and all. Like, "we tried democracy but these are the downsides and here's some situations where the imperfect system was abused", or "here is a super effective source of energy, but here's some situations where it went wrong and we irradiated large areas"

"we clearly failed" is catastrophising the current situation and is a defeatist attitude.
Is there an interpolate mode for Stable Diffusion? (Interpolate between two images without using a text prompt.)

Here are DALL-E 2 interpolations: https://twitter.com/model_mechanic/status/151297688118364569...
Maybe, though I'd say this is definitely the exception rather than the rule by a wide margin.

Last issue opened was over a year ago. It is still open, no replies.
1. Many parents are not fine with trans children. By suggesting that trans children are welcome you are ignoring the very real problems that the Conservative monsters are currently inflicting on them.

2. They benefit from having extra time to make a decision. When you (unnaturally, via the force of law) block children from receiving medical care then you cause them to develop sex characteristics that don't belong to them. If you think about it, you are doing to these children much worse than anything you are suggesting trans advocates are doing.
There's a lot of things in your comment that you're leaving unsaid; please, elaborate.
Sure, LOOP is a very complex macro. But my point was that most macros in real codebases are these simple boilerplate wrappers that help readability.

I don't like codebases too full of DSLs, necessarily.

A less trivial example is defining different types of subroutine. In StumpWM, a tiling WM written in common lisp, there is the concept of commands. They're functions, but they executed as a string. "command arg1 arg2". And these strings can be bound to keys. But args might be numbers, windows, frames, strings etc.

Commands are defined through a defcommand macro. It takes types! And there's a macro for defining arbitrary types and how to parse them from a string. A command is actually a function under the hood, with a bunch of boilerplate to: parse the arguments, stick the name in a hash table, call pre- and post-command hooks, set some dynamic bindings. and so on. Defcommand abstracts this away and you can just write it just like a normal Lisp function except for the types.
I'm using lstein's repository which loads the models and keeps them in memory. Then, for some diffusers 16 steps is enough to come up with a usable image (and using more steps will only add details, most of the time won't change much).

This is for the initial "exploration" step of the process. Once I like an image I typically play with the settings, then in the final step run with a large number of steps (and maybe even use upscaling).

So, default 512x512 size, 16 steps and default for the rest of the settings (I believe 7.5 scale, 0.75 strength).

Having said that, I also tried the official Docker image for stable diffusion and with the default values it generated an image in about 40 seconds.
China spends more on controlling its 1.4bn people than on defense
That's... some chutzpah, especially combined with no mention of specific problems involved. But maybe for a very small crew it will work?

That said, they could update the page, it's 2022 already and promising great things in the future year of 2020 is not a good look.
Turning Non-Tradables into Tradables
Yes, they did have that power. They did not, however, actually use it a lot (at all?) after the Punic wars AFAIK (the senate had in practice taken on the entire government as a war measure, and effectively shut out the tribal assembly of any decision making), and when the assembly again started to wield that it under the Gracchi brothers, they are basically reinventing the participation of the non-senatorial citizens because the old system had effectively lapsed. And we are by that time in the "it started to break" phase.
I work on an Tuxedo's "Infinity Book Pro 14" and I have no complains, it has been a wonderful laptop for software development (on Linux).
The fact that you didn’t die when you were 2 months old begs to differ.
I would take this post with a grain of salt. It is mostly an ad / promotion for "Blokada Cloud".
I do the PM role alot and sometimes the engineering manager role too and I do empathize with you, especially with regards to estimations. I've been on alot of projects where clients start with "it's ok if the estimates aren't accurate", and then the team gets nailed two weeks later at the end of the sprint when one or two tickets won't make it.

Still I think the exact purpose of a good project manager is to manage the other stake holders / clients / council of elders and let the engineers do their engineering to avoid this situation. This applies to the initial startup and estimation phase as well. It's all about setting expectations...
I feel like they're just dying to figure out a way to get rid of extensions on desktop as well. Soon enough they'll figure out a way to rationalize them away.
Original title is about "Google cracks down on VPN based adblockers". Changing "VPN Adblockers" to "Android Adblockers" is misleading, at least.

BTW, I'm using Brave because of having u-block origin, and I recommend it. Needed to change the default chrome widget for a brave widget, and lost the chrome sync. Other than that, works as a charm.
Only a relatively small percentage these days, secular education is more and more the norm these days.
Run it locally and remove the nsfw filters in the scripts...
I had the same experience with Lenovo. On-site support is expensive but also a no-brainer for professional users.

Just beware that Lenovo makes some great laptops as well as some really really crappy models.
Startups are pushing Adderall on TikTok
I knew about lunar use, and distances for lunar trip are much shorter than distances for Martian one. Somehow I forgot that Musk claims they are going to Mars in Starship - thought it was too small for that, but a good chance of kickstarting the kind of industry you need to build one to take to Mars and back.
Apple allows ad-blocking filters that are basically Safari extensions but must be downloaded through a separate app. I can’t recommend any specific ad-blocked though. https://support.apple.com/guide/iphone/get-extensions-iphab0...

The usual VPN and DNS solutions also work fine.
> All banks need to be required to provide either a read only login or full read only API for tools like this.

They will be, soon enough. In the EU at least there are laws coming out promoting open banking.