skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To illustrate the problem of accelerating any relevant piece of mass at relativistic speeds, observe how the kinetic energy increases towards infinity as the object approaches the light speed:

https://files.mtstatic.com/site_4539/12414/0/webview?Expires...

This means it's required infinite energy to reach c speed for any mass.

And c speed is quite slow for space travel.

Just for the fun of it, let's imagine humanity has assembled, in space, an aircraft-carrier sized vessel, fully equipped to function and nurture the little humans living inside of it.

Weight: 100 ktons.

Power is infinite ok, because badly rewarded nerds discovered new physics. Good for them they are now immortals of human history.

With Lorentz kinetic energy equation, one can estimate the kinect energy this vessel would have while traveling at say, 1% of the speed of light.

Energy: 4.5*10^20 J.

This is about two thirds of the total energy Earth receives from the sun in one hour. Or close enough to the energy the world consumed in 2017.

Now we have humans inside a vessel hurdling through space at 0.01 c, in addition to the pre-existing humans in a planet swirling through space. But there is a problem! It would take 424 years to reach the nearest star system. So we need to go faster and maybe break things. Hopefully not the hull, though.

F*** it let's go 0.5 c and reach Andromeda in about 9 years - long enough to write a book.

Energy: 1.4*10^24 J.

That's 3x the energy released by the Chicxulub meteor impact. Or 30+ times the 2003 world's total fossil fuel reserves.

Which raises the question what is the fuel being used?

Doesn't matter ok because new physics, we are transforming mass literally in energy no constraints 100% efficiency lol.

By e=mc^2 that fuel would weight - at least - 14.9 ktons.

There is margin for error, since the vessel would be shedding mass, and getting lighter. That would allow engineering to run the global process at 80% efficiency, which is a very realistic metric and maybe miss a turn or two on the way to the neighboring star.

Returns not included.
In a support ticket opened with Sophos regarding incorrect handling of out-of-order RADIUS accounting packets by their XGS firewall, their most recent response was as follows:

"Based on tcpdump, As the user was roaming there are stop and start requests, where the start is received first from the newer AP and then stop is received later from the earlier AP.

If the stop comes after the start, then the users are logged out. There is no fix for this as it is a known behavior of XG firewall. The fix is to send stop/start in the right order, or not send them at all when roaming between access points."

RADIUS accounting uses UDP as the underlying protocol to send and receive its packets. It's inherently impossible to guarantee the order in which UDP packets will be received, as can be seen from Internet standards documents such as RFC 8085 (e.g. see section 3.3 here https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc8085#section-3.3) and application vendors are generally expected to carry out any reordering of packets themselves.

It's very disappointing that a major cyber security vendor such as Sophos has decided to adopt such a clearly erroneous position, and other organisations may wish to consider looking elsewhere for their endpoint and network protection needs.
Imagine that: people wanting money for a complex project providing value.
I've never seen this, this would lead to some sticky salt.

Usually you see anti-caking agents and Iodide added.
Reminder that PFAS is so pervasive that researchers can't design studies with a proper control group. i.e. they virtually cannot find anyone in the world without PFAS in their blood.

Dupont/3M did (and continue to do) a level of harm on par with CFCs and leaded gasoline, with complete regulatory impunity.

At some point the ICC needs to extend the crimes against humanity/nature to something like crimes against Human Health.
But how will I satisfy my bootlicking needs if they had a good service?
Summary:

The YouTuber had his Amazon affiliate account canceled after 7 years
without warning or evidence of wrongdoing. The reason given was that
purchases made through his links were for personal use or made by
friends and family, which he denies. He finds the timing suspicious as
it came a week after he made a video criticizing Amazon for canceling a
customer's account for a racist doorbell claim. He argues that the small
amount of revenue from his affiliate links is inconsequential to him.
He believes Amazon is becoming less accountable as it grows in power and
treats customers worse. While not excusing Amazon's actions, he
questions whether enough vetting was done before canceling his account.
The snap decision shows how trigger happy Amazon is to remove people's
accounts.
I'd suspect the packaging more than the food
at least we now know a few things:

(1) that there’s surveillance—whether based on username or vocabulary or ip address or a combination of them and more, we can’t tell.

(2) that calling out weak and unsound argument that is net negative information by way ad hominem—an accepted usage of ad hominem—is contra hacker news. it has resulted in the many and nonsensical comments.

(3) that dang goes hunting for people like me, politely threatening them with a ban if they don’t make quick adjustments to fit the culture. And what’s the culture? Don’t call out people for poorly thought-out argument, nor for potentially disparaging comments about whole groups of people.
Are you sure you want race and gender in the list there? You’re going to refer to all your colleagues as ‘they’ and ask them to avoid accidentally revealing their gender? Don’t mention that you got a gift for Father’s Day! I guess they’re not allowed to put photos on their GitHub profiles in case you can determine which race they probably are. Meeting any of them in person is, of course, completely out of the question.

This ‘don’t ask don’t’ tell stuff is regressive, but in discussions like this it sometimes seems to devolve into pure nonsense. No human community functions as you're suggesting. The literal content of what’s being said is so crazy that the subtext is clear: “if you’re not cis, white and hetero, then keep quiet about it”.
Currently, standalone Next.js apps using App Router consume a lot of memory and leak memory over time (issue #49929 has been open for over a month). I would greatly appreciate it if the Next.js team could investigate this matter (see my comment here: https://github.com/vercel/next.js/issues/49929#issuecomment-...). As it stands, this issue is preventing me from adopting App Router for new projects.
Sure. The people who said they have drowned probably think the same. But it doesn’t mean that they have carefully considered all the possible failure modes of a submersible and postulating that one which leads to a drowning is the most likely in this case. It expresses more a vibe that the speaker thinks they are dead.

But why not make it more concrete. Can you find a single example where someone says that they have drowned and the speaker means it as a carefull engineering analysis regarding failure modes, as opposed to a general vibe of “they dead”?
how is that even relevant to the question here? i'm out, have a good day
Because dealing with it internally and informing the public are two entirely different things.
They may well have told the families some things, but not the public. Afterall this is a privately funded venture and the rescue effort isn't going to be paid for by the public either. They owe us nothing.
> My guess is that as more of the internet turns to shit that feeds an AI machine that consumes this shit only to regurgitate it later, there will be a need to find out who is really human anymore.

Big tech is already setting up to take advantage of the situation and the “AI influx” is the narrative they’ll use to sell it to the average person. We’re going to end up with a verified ID system and Google, Apple, Microsoft, and Facebook will be the gatekeepers.

IMO it’ll happen via Passwordless (auth) and I think the recent push for verification systems on porn sites is just a dry run for what they’ve got planned for the mainstream.
if you can't write code without buffer overflows, how are you going to write code that is accurate on any of a number of other dimensions? You need to do things the right number of times, if you don't, you get the wrong answer. I agree that security vulns are bad bad, but correctness is also a good thing, and getting things right is not a "nice to have" skill.
Analytic queries are not the primary intended use of EdgeQL. It would be doable, since EgdeQL is compiled SQL within the edgedb server, but this compilation depends on the schema of the database - quite heavily actually. It expects specific table and column names, so it would not work for an arbitrary database that you have.

It would be possible however, to take an empty postgres instance, hook edgedb server to it, apply your schema and insert all the data.
Ask HN: Software for Layouting a Magazine?
I layout a small local magazine for my district. Unfortunately, I use Adobe Indesign for that. For a variety of reasons (mainly proprietary + no Linux support), I'd love to switch. Ideally an open-source software that runs under Linux.

My thoughts on some alternatives:
- Affinity Publisher: One-time purchase, but still not open-source. No native linux support (but may work with some emulator)
- Scribus: Open-source, but feels really clumsy. I feel like I can create much better designs with Indesign.

I also played with the thought of creating a Latex template, but I feel like I'm too restricted for adapting the layout to the content. How do you feel about this approach?
I'm the guy who wrote the original implementation that the question mentions. I have no clue who 'Charles' who asked the question is, or how he found my toy implementation.
Proxmox needs to get its cookie banner into compliance with EU law.
It even has decent crash test ratings, just to avoid getting hit by one if you can.
https://www.euroncap.com/en/results/dacia/sandero+stepway/42...
> you've made a few here and that's unfortunately the mentality that can result in disaster

What assumptions have I made and how would they lead to disaster? Please be specific.
Discord Migrates Trillions of Messages from Cassandra to ScyllaDB
Do you see relevant bias in the submitted article?
Just stop drinking the stuff then... You'll have a wicked headache the first week, but after that you'll be okay.
This just rewards bad behavior with my consideration which will only beget more of the same kind of trickery elsewhere in the videos.

Personally I BlockTube anyone I see using a soyface/arrow because it is indicative of what kind of uncritical audience they want. I can easily wait a year and get a summary of all those videos in 1 minute total from a respectable intellect. There is no FOMO.
> premature abstraction leads to heartbreak

Could you please elaborate on that? I'm not sure to understand.
Interestingly,
in a recent interview Damon Albarn, the guy behing Gorillaz revealed that the song Clint Eastwood is a Mellotron preset. You can check the interview, featuring the sample here > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDX6l9_58RA

Btw, if you're interested in synths and music gear, I run a newsletter about music producers and their studios > https://www.gasnewsletter.com/

[edit] uugghh, I messed up. I had in mind the omnichord. Damon Albarn used the omnichord, not the mellotron.
I am halfway through the article but had no idea what it was trying to accomplish. It's possible that it's because I am not deeply embedded in Rails ecosystem.

Is there a tl;dr to what this does and why?
Is it possible to substitute the PFAS with a wax coating?
Because we already had a solid base of RockyLinux VMs, so standardizing made sense. And I personally dislike apt / Debian.
We should ban the selling of products that cannot be used as advertised without a connection to the original vendor.
I was reading the article, and it talked about if the bodies could be located and recovered. Which made me wonder:

What actually happens in an implosion like this?

Does the whole sub squash down, like stomping on a tin can? (Apologies for the graphic metaphor)

Does buckle in the middle, tear open and flood?

I heard it would be instant, which is a mercy for them.
I assume it's done with fine tuning. Meaning you come up with responses that capture topics you want to avoid, then let the model convert these unwords into their corresponding latent space, and train it to exclude that space altogether.
My prediction, is by 2030, a new generation of developers will replace WebAssembly with a brand-new shiny thing that will be clearly superior to what the then-senile and geriatric developers of the clearly-flawed WASM implementation have created, as it will be based on fresh news ideas (tried first in the 1980s).

This new thing will address all the shortcomings of WebAssembly, and will be projected to become the standard portable way of running applications by 2040.
This is the beef of that compiler: https://github.com/edgedb/edgedb/tree/master/edb%2Fpgsql%2Fr...
Well, there are often scare-articles running about the "social credit system" in China, and I think that many corporate leaders are watching China very closely in order to establish the same systems in the West. I think that likewise, consumers should pay attention to how this takes shape in China, because we'll be next on the list for implementation and deployment.
Reddit was previously open sourced.

I've contributed code to the project.

(OP, FYI.)
My first thought was it was the perfect cover to increase increase patrols on looking for Russian subs. There’s almost certainly 1 or more out there, and with this disaster, it gave them the cover they needed to prevent the media from breaking out into a ‘USA looking for Russian subs, this is war” and being the population into more hysteria.

My other thought was that if they showed up alive then it almost definitely was was a cover but I suppose I was on wrong on that front. Still think the story gave them the opportunity to drop a lot more sonar buoys and increase patrols and ‘look’ for something.
Apple has been making expensive tech worth less to thieves for quite a while.

It wouldn’t surprise me if the hardware could be locked to the user’s eyes, just as iPhones can be locked to the user’s fingerprint or face.
I would assume they are talking about a blade "coffee" grinder, which is ironically terrible for coffee.
How long does it take to get clocks synchronized within a few nanoseconds?
I had someone from our diversity team say, in a meeting of 100+, that the problem that the team are trying to combat is "whiteness". This coming from a white woman who quite openly said that she'd only recently started identifying as diverse because one of her parents spoke a non-English language.
Great chance to look for Russian subs.
Now that css is getting a linear() function we can get all kinds of spring/bounce/elastic animations that we couldn't before (hence why we resorted to JS). https://twitter.com/JoshWComeau/status/1660684634340962305

Once this lands stable in all browser we can say goodbye to JS library animations (rightly so since they block the main thread).
My short term memory sucks too. I need many exposures to retain the information for a standardized test.

I wonder if intelligent people with poor short term memories are more impressed with LLMs than those with good short term memories because that was my immediate reaction and why it is basically unthinkable for me to unsubscribe from chatGPT4.

As a paired cybernetic system I gain enormously more from LLMs compared to myself with a good short term memory and paired.

I think the deep thinker/modeler's time has come. The non-deep thinker/modeler with great flash memory time has come and gone.
Later popes did indeed. Popes Leo XIII and Pius X were drinkers of the Vin Mariani coca wine, the former even awarding its creator Angelo Mariani a Vatican gold medal.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vin_Mariani
They are toxic.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodium_ferrocyanide

The amount is small enough, that it is supposed to do no harm, but I just prefer my salt without cyanide.
> My kids eat microwaved popcorn almost every night. Should I be worried?

Wouldn't they risk getting obese?
What's the point in telling the public any of this anyway? Was there any reason for these people's deaths to be in the news? It has no effect on people's lives.
Exactly... looks like most people don't know that Flutter uses Skia... and it's a real multi-platform framework (Windows, MacOS, Linux, Android, iOS, even Web), whether you like it or not.
Where's FTC at?
You might argue that it encourages people to spend time with their kids instead of working all the time to try and build them an empire.
How much information is too much information?
Because affiliate marketing is cesspool of scammers doing scams at scale. I say this as someone who's measured marketing performance of these channels over the years.
Why is the North Atlantic breaking heat records?
Because they might some day find themselves in a tight spot if all of those open source options have become a half-broken wasteland because nobody invests time/money.
For those interested in HN's approach to moderating the Reddit-topic "tsunami" (and yes, it really is and has been), dang and I discuss this in part in another thread here: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36435312>

As usual, dang is reasoned, articulate, and fair. I have a better understanding of HN's policies and actions, even if I disagree in part on how this is being conducted.

I'm told (via email) that it was largely the flameware detector which adjusted this particular post's page ranking.
There is no objective true to claims such as "X is the greatest writer who ever lived". Even if you could objectively determine the best writer for a certain culture and context, there are countless other cultures and contexts. Is Shakespeare greater than Cervantes? Goethe? Dostoevsky? Who knows? Who cares?

The world is not only the anglo world. Other cultures have their own literary giants and you can bet that they value them more than they value Shakespeare.

When I have to force myself to enjoy something, I tend to wonder if the thing is really worth enjoying or if I am instead just trying to acquire a taste that I deem prestigious. To each their own.
Lots of negativity here. I don’t share the sentiment. I have ported one project over to the app router months ago when it was still in beta with zero problems and another one is in the works using server actions and drizzle-orm to get end to end type safety. I think it’s a blast.
For those complaining about the feature set growing: I think this is just a question of use-case. At my current gig we are using pretty much everything next has to offer for a fairly sophisticated eCommerce site. If your app has thousands of pages (like product pages) with integration into a dozen micro services, auth, large images everywhere, redirects everywhere for seo purposes, middleware for various purposes, i18n and needs SSG for seo and perf reasons then next offers pretty well thought out solutions for all of that.

I can understand the performance argument but most of that is being worked on and the next team has already shipped lots of improvements in the past. But maybe the things I worked on haven’t reached a scale yet where these things become a bottleneck.
I agree.

However, how do you go after people who have so much money they can literally buy their way out of any appropriate punishment? We need something stronger than the ICC.
They put things in the prompt and they fine-tune with no-no thoughts and appropriate responses.

Obviously that makes it worse and worse the more you do but it protects the public from badthink.
I thought I did. Maybe I need to have another look, because the examples do seem to be exactly what I wanted. Thank you for the suggestion!
One data point I can contribute is that of two "cousin" HP laptops: Elite Book 845 G8 with an AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 5650U and 840 G8 with an Intel i7-1165G7.

These are 14" "Ultrabooks" with the same rated battery capacity, dimensions and almost the same components.

The AMD one has 64 GB of RAM and a very bright screen (advertised as 1000 nits). The Intel one only has 32 GB and a very dim, 6 bit screen.

They both lack a dedicated GPU.

Under Linux with the AMD one, while doing basic dicking around on the internet and light Rust dev with intellij, I get a good 5-6 hours without draining the battery fully. The screen set to the minimum or almost (it's more than enough in a bright apartment – around 50% is enough when outside if the sun doesn't shine directly on it). I haven't tried this computer under Windows while unplugged.

With the Intel one, in the same conditions as above, except setting the screen a good 2/3-3/4 (the screen is absurdly bad and dim, so I need to up the backlight) I only get around 4 hours. Under Windows, it seems similar. But under Windows, standby seems to drain less battery (not counting when it hibernates). The PC does not have the option to enable S3.

Both laptops have the "battery saver" function on, which means it only charges to about 80% of the rated capacity. "Linux" means Arch with the latest "zen" kernel and X11. Windows is up-to-date 11 22h2. I didn't bother doing any specific tuning for either OS.

One other data point is a newer model of the same PC with a 12th gen i5 part (1240p I think but really not sure). My colleague who has it complains that the fan is always on. However, he uses Windows, and even on my 11th gen I do find the fan tends to come on fairly often, while it basically never does under Linux.
Same, but only because I keep drinking it until 2am.
Yes, at work.
My BMW GPS is pretty great, to be honest.

The step-by-step guiding is top-notch and well integrated in the dash infos, the physical knobs & buttons make it easy to use while driving, it can reroute me according to live traffic infos, and it meshes nicely with the rest of the UI.

I don't really see a reason to use CarPlay/Apple Maps in this case.
Been lookin over that and it's a very interesting one. The man has got to have done the most extensive and exhaustive search for a missing person in goddamn history damn near by himself what with all the criss-crossing lines and different search methods. There's a kind of fascination with that sort of dedication makes one darn near want to jump up and volunteer just from the pull of it.

Though have to edit to say, I can't goddamn believe they didn't save the cell data. Good lord. So many kinds of frustration reading over this stuff while I'm waitin here today.
I mean the library is like a decade old so "finally back" is a stretch
Yeah, it could very well be possible because the engineers could have concluded that this consumes more energy than it saves, but marketers insisted it be there because they are selling a luxury car to rich customers.

You seem to imply that the engineers only approve something for technical reasons. Sometimes, they have to incorporate something for purely non-technical / efficiency reasons.
Found something on Reddit to that extent.

Since AlmaLinux was working on a tool to allow just that — and RH Engineering told that they themselves are not interested in in-place upgrades but welcome the community to do so — crippling the said community is a double dick move.

Now, where’s that escaped lion roaming IBM office corridors when it’s needed…
I wonder who or what produced those "banging" noises.
I think this has more todo with ad-hoc programing without any guide lines than something inherent to Next.js. If you adopt a basic folder structure to place models, interfaces, routes and what not in, I don't see how things can become super messy. Using Typescript can help to more easily navigate the code base.
On the (soon to be released) 16 yes, but not on the 13
Was good inspriening https://www.providentecopoliten.net.in