skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Rocket propulsion benefits from directional discharge.

Project Orion lead to the investigation prospects for nuclear shaped charges, in which the blast is highly directional. The concept was developed further in the colourfully-named "Casaba-Howitzer":

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casaba-Howitzer>

Odds are reasonably good that any space-faring civilisation would create similarly directional reaction devices for space travel if they were utilising explosive nuclear fission.

... Though, thinking this through, the shaped charge would probably be directed at rather than away from the pusher-plate in an Orion design. There might of course be other directed reaction-engine designs. They'd be generating similar-magnitude energy signatures, however, and again, in a deceleration phase, would be directed toward us.

And whilst naked eye observations would of course be difficult, that's really not what we're talking about, but instead sensors which could pick up specific radiation. And I strongly suspect that sudden-onset x-ray and gamma-ray sources within the Solar System would in fact be detectable.

(It was devices that were looking for such bursts on and near Earth from Earth orbit via the Vela satellites as part of nuclear war early-warning systems which first detected astronomical gamma-ray bursts.)

Given that small meteor impacts on the Moon are quite detectable from Earth, nukes near Jupiter should be readily detectable. A 2013 lunar meteor impact from what's thought to have been a 40kg mass traveling at 25 km/s was visible to the naked eye as a 4th magnitude event. That's about 5 tons TNT equivalent.

<https://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2013/1...>

The Orion concept was based on 0.15 kt (150 ton TNT) charges, or 30x larger than the meteor impact discussed here, exploding repeated at a rate of 1 Hz. That would be a pretty significant signature.
I’d argue the technology takes what was, at one time, a relatively benign and reasonable policy and weaponizes it.

There’s a level of enforcement where a reasonable policy or law becomes unreasonable.

Cameras on every street corner enforcing every infraction, no matter how minor, is an extreme. There’s a threshold before that extreme where the policy combined with the enforcement becomes unreasonable.

I think the combination of policy and enforcement outlined in the article is well over the line.
This is lovely. I will be playing with it soon!
Some great points in the article. I think gaining recognition for acting in your team's best interests and long term efficiency is even harder in bigger companies (like Squarespace in this article). People won't understand why you're committing to such endeavours as an IC, even if you're past the senior level.

There are now more and more cross functional roles that would better fit this sort of skillset, for example technical programme management or product operations.

I also think any good lead or engineering manager should know how to "be more glue". If it becomes a vocation and you don't feel like stopping (or if no one who's in control at your company feels like rewarding you for it), it's maybe time to start looking elsewhere. I feel like the people I've seen embodying these skills are more likely to take on lead roles.

Moving to a startup could also help as you'd be able to drive alignment quicker with these skills and still get to dive in more technical tasks.
That is true but I think that was not because they were decentralized but because they were not run to raise revenue.
Tails 5.8 – (Portable Debian O/S and Tor Browser) Released
Tails 5.8 Change Log (Text) 2022-12-20 : https://gitlab.tails.boum.org/tails/tails/-/raw/master/debia...

Tails Install : https://tails.boum.org/install/

Tails Documentation : https://tails.boum.org/doc/

Tails FAQ : https://tails.boum.org/support/faq/

Tails Support : https://tails.boum.org/support/

* The Persistent Storage on the USB stick will be lost if you Install instead of Upgrading. *

* tails.net – The new domain name – It will take us some time to migrate all our services to this new name.

As a start, we deployed https://download.tails.net/

Tails Distribution Directory : https://download.tails.net/

Tails (amd64-5.8) Distribution Directory : https://download.tails.net/tails/stable/tails-amd64-5.8/

Tails (amd64-5.8) Distribution Directory : https://mirrors.wikimedia.org/tails/stable/tails-amd64-5.8/

Debian (Recent Security Advisories) : https://www.debian.org/security/

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Tor Project Blog – Tails 5.8 Released : https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tails-58/

Tor Project – Tor Status : https://status.torproject.org

Tor Project – Tor Metrics : https://metrics.torproject.org

Tor Project – Check Tor Connection : https://check.torproject.org
This is my thought as well.
> If someone had a lawsuit against me, one of my businesses, or the like

You're mixing her up with her co-workers. She wasn't involved in any lawsuit against MSG.
when she claimed to be a Native American I just can't take her seriously
Bitcoins linked to defunct cryptoexchange QuadrigaCX mysteriously transferred
While I don't agree with the doomsaying of the article, I do think the current round of thinking falls into the "late underestimation" category, in the grand scheme of things.

Science fiction from the 1960's through about the 1990's was of the opinion that AI would produce intelligence indistinguishable from humans, and would do so extremely quickly (we should have had it by now), and that the most pressing questions would be things like whether those intelligences deserved voting rights and whether they made humanity obsolete.

That was a wild overestimation of what the technology was capable of.

But the widespread application of AI, either in search results, social media moderation, propaganda and disinformation, bots, fake reviews, or just straight up spam, forms an absolute assault on the nature of trust and information in society, overturning heuristics that have been in effect for all of history (that people are usually trustworthy, that information is usually representative, that lying is hard). While I don't think the threat is apocalyptic, I do think no one even remotely saw this coming.
I know of these, but have yet to see one IRL. Even though piano is not my instrument, if I built a house, I would absolutely have one of these in the conservatory.
Yeah 100%. Small chat rooms have been existing and thriving for years now. It didn't suddenly take the Twitter debacle to make them viable options. I mean, look at the drama spilling out of Twitter right now. There are HN posters posting 10-20 comments per day on every Twitter thread. Mastodon wasn't the beginning of private or small spaces on the net. I'm in dozens of them right now.
At some point everyone just has to learn to be better people and focus their attention on positive content online.

It took humans thousands of years just to be civilised in a physical society. Hopefully it's faster online.
Additionally, firefox has an abysmal market share currently, about 3%, not much different than Samsung Browser of Opera. If Mozilla want to make a competitive browser, it may not be the best time to devote resources to having a me too offering that rides on a current wave of interest

https://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share
Police say member of Elon Musk's security team is a suspect in stalker case
Is there a resource that hosts public domain content in a browsable, searchable format? I am really excited to see that Metropolis will be in the public domain soon--but where would I go to download it?
We're currently doing this at airmint - this data structures course for example is public and free right now, but the creator is able to "gate" it to NFT holders if they wanted to.

https://www.airmint.app/o/bogwarts/tp/wizards-compendium
I wonder if one of the reasons I don’t seem to gain weight while being very sedentary, and eating quite a bit of sugar and fat, is that the salt I use is 50/50 sodium/potassium chlorides.
Starting from subtly incorrect code makes it much harder to come to the correct solution.

To use a classic example, the A = (B + C) /2 line that fails due to bounds checking issues is quite literally worse than useless because you basically need to understand why it’s wrong before you notice it’s wrong. The eyes just slide over the common idiom thinking in terms of average not what the code actually does.

Code reviews most easily reveal a very different kind of error. ‘Why does this code look more complicated than it should be?’ is a great hint that something is fishy. However, chatGPT is basically engineered to pass the smell test not work.
Yes: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34016389
I wasn't sold on it previously but downloaded it based on this new canvas feature. I'm creating a mind map for my new project and creating notes and organising them in a way that is helpful to me to plan the project.
"influenced Haydn" as well. Wow. Thanks for the link. That piece by him was pleasant.
I find this disappointing. The world does not need alternative social media. Everything in our society is geared towards "Bigger, Faster, Broader === Better!". But it has completely ignored humanity and quality. The world needs less social media, full stop. Devoting resources to this is is a waste of time. In my opinion (and I recognize the irony of posting this online) fewer people deserve an audience. Fewer people (and companies) should be given a platform. Fewer hours should be drowned in the cesspools that are online communities. Fewer eyeballs on the internet is what we should be aiming for.

The internet, and especially social media, is a great disruptor. A disruptor of community. Sure, it creates fluidity and eases the ability to interact. This is not really a positive, as a whole. Neutral at best. Efforts should instead be focused on fostering actual, face-to-face interactions. Online 'communities' are a disgustingly poor facsimile of interactions in the flesh. I mean, seriously, look what we've sacrificed. All for what? Phones that bombard us with notifications that someone said the content we posted was shit? Ads being shoved down our throats to try to monetize the activity of simply existing? Having the ability to leave racist comments on Youtube while you're taking a shit?

I'm an atheist, but I have remarked to my dad that I somewhat mourn both the loss of religious centers and offices. They formed critical venues for actually meeting people, humanizing and understanding them, building relationships and friendships, discussing differences with immediate realization of consequence for ones words/actions. The internet is a fucking disgrace compared to that.

Mozilla should build a series of cafes or something, in small-to-medium towns and cities. Foster actual, face-to-face, unscalable human connection. An unrealistic expectation, for sure. But goddamn could the world use some of that these days.
I have accounts at two different banks. One requires a similar message written on each check, the other doesn't.
> Without a placebo or control group, these numbers aren’t really useful.

They are. In general with drugs, you want evidence beyond reasonable doubt that the benefits outweigh the risks. And double blind studies are the way to go.

But potassium salt is just not that risky. I bet Tylenol or Ibuprofen are riskier. These guys put the result out there. They explain the protocol (increase dose only if absolutely comfortable). Some people might try and succeed. Some might try and fail. But it's very unlikely some people will try and suffer a heart attack, or some other dangerous side effect.

Of course, please don't take medical advice from me, a random person on the internet. If you decide to try this, it would be best to discuss it first with your physician.
I was talking about car storage: you get a bill if you park at a garage for work but at home it’s far from free since you’re paying for a significant amount of land and structure on your property and if you live on a private driveway you’re paying some fraction of that as well.

If you live in an outer suburb or more rural area the land costs are pretty low but if you live anywhere near a city it’s not uncommon for that to be adding 20-30% to your housing costs. Even if that’s available a la carte at an apartment complex it means land not being used for people, increasing the per-resident overhead costs, and since parking and traffic concerns are often used to prevent density it reduces the overall supply.
Any advice for someone who wants to switch to vim for Go development but struggling to find a good workflow? Using vscode it's so easy to rely on the auto complete, click a function name to go to it's definition, etc. I haven't found a good guide on getting that sort of basic workflow going which is unfortunate because I would love to stop using my mouse so much.
Ah you're right, I misread. It seems that by some estimates there's more tigers in Texas than total tigers in the wild worldwide!
I don't think we should keep corporations from getting that large at all. I just think that once they do get that large, they shouldn't be allowed to arbitrarily deny service to people anymore.
2.5" hard drives are imo perfect 'data-decks'

getting a single company to produce hard-drive docks / adapters that stack together for 10+ years consistently is another story...
The scale means we need to get the reasons to discriminate exactly right. This is society fracturing/shaping technology here.

We've struggled to get to the point where we can legally say "No discrimination vs skin colour/sex/sexual orientation etc etc".

Facial recognition AND being able to build your own Farley files for every individual means you can discriminate on any other factoid you want.

The obvious "No woke/lefties" or "No conservative/righties" lines are obvious drawcards but the filter could be about anything - however trite - with whatever timescale.

Did you say something negative on social media 10 years ago, about a flavour of chewing gum? You and everyone who liked/shared your comment are banned from that brand structure now!

Did the mother brand even own the brand you dissed at the time you made the comment? Irrelevant! Timescale for selection of candidates for banning AND implementation of ban is completely arbitrary too!

https://www.marketing91.com/brand-architecture/
> the good of software

But it's not just the good of software, because software is eating the world. Software is in your phone, in the tractor that grows your food, in the gene sequencing machine (and gene sequencing software) used to fight disease, in self-driving cars, and in non-self-driving ones too. And you can bet there will be software in automatic weed killing robots.

It's how you access your bank, the news, even government services. It's how you find a date, a taxi, how you order food. It. Is. Everywhere.

On net, if you were at risk of malaria, he is not hostile. But to the average global citizen, and especially their descendants in the future, he is hostile. Because the line between software freedom, and just freedom, is vanishing, and fast.
I agree wholeheartedly. I’m waiting for the day a legal defense team presents video counter evidence of the judge, jury members and Elvis all committing the crime the defendant is being accused of.

A video completely indistinguishable from the video presented by the prosecution. Not sure where we go from there.
Nice to see that Dreamcast is still supported. It was my introduction to NetBSD 20 years ago.
We are not talking about "90%+" here. This thread is in response to someone who "can't afford a house on a tech salary." Tech comp has been over 100K/year out of college for a while now, and even on somewhat less you should either be saving a ton or have much fat to trim in your expenditure.
It's not about safety, it's about knowing whether this is effective. We need a control group to know if it really makes you lose weight.
The question is not "is this a low risk intervention". It's "is this a placebo, an effect of weight tracking, or an effect of potassium?"

If it is due to tracking your weight and you just tell people to take potassium, they will not lose weight.
Your example isn’t at all analogous. Being a waiter doesn’t suddenly become illegal if you’re too attractive.
I think you're referring to ZFS specifically, and how it handles bit flips[1].

A NAS is an abstracted away concept from the OS or FS, so the type of memory isn't broadly relevant.

1. https://louwrentius.com/please-use-zfs-with-ecc-memory.html
Should your electric company be allowed to arbitrarily cut you off, just because other neighborhoods are served by different electric companies?
Jared kushner confirmed... I'm gonna laugh if that actually happened tho.
How do you boot it? ISO burn to CD?
I dont identify with my mind either. It's just a thinking machine, an advanced calculator of a sort.
pretty sure that's why they blocked pornhub and them: neither the banks, nor visa etc have any desire or capacity to tell "legal stuff" from "illegal stuff", how do you even picture they go about that?
Do you have a sense of how many properties are owned by folks from other countries, as a percentage of the total housing stock? The national association of realtors[0] put out a press release saying their purchases accounted for about 1.6% from April 2021 through March 2022, however it's not clear from their figures whether that is all existing homes or a mix of new and existing. If that is right that doesn't seem too bad, at least for a year. Dunno what the total ownership stats say.

0: https://www.nar.realtor/newsroom/annual-foreign-investment-i...
Mozilla has been distracted with side projects and posturing for so many years... one has to wonder if they can even find their way back at this point.
This is all academic, and despite the fact that I think both the California and Texas laws are detestable. Has a California resident with my own priors, I have a special distaste for our legislatures willingness to both openly state that these types of laws are chilling, harmful, and morally wrong while at the same time being willing to sacrifice their constituents rights and brag about it.
If its the potassium, you could test the idea with something else like bananas. I remember hearing years ago that Weight Watchers had reformulated their diet and one of the changes was that you could eat "unlimited" bananas.

My personal anecdote is I eat a lot of bananas (at least one a day almost every day) and a few potatoes and I'm actually having a bit of trouble keeping my weight _high_ enough (150lbs for 5'10" guy). And I have some issues with keeping muscle mass, though partially that's related to no strength training due to an injury for most of this past year, which hopefully I'm now starting to put behind me.
What about Discover? It's my main bank account. Only for checking (and a credit card I guess) so I can't speak as to their other banking services.

Their app is decent and works (so far) on a rooted LineageOS device.
> Strings aren't immutable in Lisp

Neither are lists. Only the empty list is immutable, and likewise empty strings. It really is a completely equivalent situation. There is no principled reason that the empty list should be unique and the empty string not.
By law a lot of motorcycle controls are standardized both to ensure sane controls (think suicide clutch) as well as standardization (1 down 4 up).

Riding a motorcycle involves all four of your limbs having a dedicated control (left arm clutch; right arm throttle and front break; left leg shifter; right leg rear break).

It is so satisfying having your body operate all of these controls without a conscious thought.
Two things are required for healthy social media:

1. A system of incentives that align with positive behavior.

2. Leadership that corrects both behavior and systemic issues, to encourage healthy behavior.

The largest social media companies now largely ignore both of those issues. They systematically encourage negative behavior, while abdicating any real leadership, in terms of ensuring a positive environment for participants.
> she (her firm) is SUING THEM

You are not the company you work for. And she's not even involved in that case.
You couldn't be more wrong, and a simple Google search of the author was all you had to do lol. It's pretty clear here (given his background) that the author is writing in a style to make the code examples more accessible to a wider audience.
> Language is battle tested (sorry Haskell, Ocaml & Lisp)

do you mean battle-tested by yourself? Otherwise it's kind of FUD opinion, as Haskell is battle-tested across industries in quality-demanding domains[1], and I'm sure the other two have similar lists of industrial application.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/6p2x0p/list_of_com...
An example using wallet connect / rainbow wallet would be the app we built - airmint. https://www.airmint.app/o/bogwarts/tp/wizards-compendium. It's similar to patreon / gumroad, but access is just gated by NFT holders.

It's gotten a lot cheaper with L2 chains like polygon (you can gate it for less than $1)

Customers
1. Purchase the NFT via the link the creator makes (to opensea / whichever market place).
2. Log in with their wallets using wallet connect.
3. On our end, we check to see if the wallet address hold the eligible NFT to access content
4. Continue standard authentication process
Should go with canoo for the new order.
> Right but you wouldn't need that hack in the first place in MIDI2.0

Yes indeed, but one of my favourite pastimes over the last while has been to buy inexpensive used (and no longer manufactured) midi controllers and use them together with ultra-modern software (DAW, virtual instruments and fx).

My kind of hacks (and numerous others) will hopefully continue to extend the useful life of older MIDI capable hardware and lessen the burden of landfills a tiny bit.

I’ve been very relieved and excited to read, that MIDI 2.0 is supposed to be very backwards compatible, so hopefully I can use my old hardware with ultra modern software for a long time.

> Also the fact it has some kind of negotiation doesn't preclude doing clever things with it.

In theory yes, but unfortunately I’ve seen too many cases of this type of simplification for straightforward use cases also preclude the facilitation of other use cases.

If we make developers think and work too much about use cases, rather than just the power of the naked protocol, they often neglect the latter in favour of the former.
> How would the venue actually know that she's unrelated to the dispute? They're not going to have access to the internal management chart of the law firm in order to be able to precisely delineate in every case exactly who gets admitted and who doesn't.

The venue knows not, but that venue is a tiny cog in an empire owned by the parent group.

The parent group compiled the ban list by trawling the large law firms website for images .. and the parent group knows which offices and groups of personnel are involved in a specific case.

With large and potential trans national groups doing this it has a parallel with, for example, one country banning an entire countries citizens from entry or doing business .. on the basis that a small group of citizens took action that was undesired.

Very large companies have very large numbers of employees and many different activities on the go.

Should, for example, several thousand people be banned from watching streaming television because 15 people in the company they are associated with are involved in a class action against a media group?