skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While I think having people on mars would be neat, I'm not sure there's anything we could do to earth period, let alone in a year, that would make it less livable than mars
Still, there's no free lunch. You can see this clearly with smaller nations that try those strategies. If the US government has to do those things then there are negative repercussions in the form of distorted interest rates, inflation, capital misallocation, etc. All else equal it's obviously beneficial to have a balanced budget, low debt, and organic economic growth from dynamic markets. The federal government still has the exorbitant privilege of the USD as the global reserve currency, so can export much of its inflation across the world. Though at the end of the day these trends matter, and the long term debt cycle, coupled with worsening domestic issues, does not bode well with increasingly powerful strategic rivals and proxy wars.
Is it addressable?
At this stage of the company, everyone gets a white-glove installation process. I suspect that will change over time but I don't work on that part of things, so I don't personally know the details.
What timeframe do we need to setup a fully independent colony on Mars, so that we survive if Earth is not there?

If you asked me to guess, it would be somewhere between impossible and 1000 years of terraforming.
> Wow. Is there any way Apple can ever be perceived as honest in their decisions?

Perhaps by explaining why they changed their mind? What factored into it, and why they had adopted the previous stance - in a meaningful way, i.e., not just vapid "protect our customers" when several of their previous moves (having genuine Apple parts seized by Customs for 'trademark' issues) have been plainly self-interest. And by explaining how they intend to make this a way of life going forward, not just a token or begrudged minimum effort offering.
>Yes you can get ahead here. Yes there is opportunity. The question is: how much joy and happiness will that bring? Will it last? Or is this a false construct that eventally reveals itself?

I think the answer to your question depends on the person and their personality. Many people get happiness and satisfaction from achievement, and the result of their work. For example, many people get happiness from achievements in sports, others in business.

A few years ago, I was writing a lot of proposals for government work, and I was winning a lot of them, even when competing against large defense contractors. So much so that my company didn't need any more work. But I was enjoying the satisfaction of winning that I wanted to keep going. My friend (who was also partnered with me on those proposals) and I were reflecting on that, and we agreed that the validation that came with winning was what really was motivating us, more so than the money.

Will it last? Again, I think it depends on the person. I think most high achievers get long term satisfaction from what they do. Not everyone, sure. But I don't think it's a false construct because some don't.
NASA currently considers kidney stones an unacceptable risk for a Mars mission that requires mitigation.[1] There are also about 10 other risks requiring mitigation, though.[1]

[1] https://humanresearchroadmap.nasa.gov/Risks/risk.aspx?i=81

[2] https://humanresearchroadmap.nasa.gov/Risks/
FinWise – A multi-currency, global PFM app
Hey HN

I'm a co-founder of https://finwiseapp.io, and I've just spent the last few days re-doing our website to better depict our vision, product and goals.

Have any feedback? I'd love to chat
Maybe give GitLab a look then?
Saying that people should be paid according to experience, ability, and effort is absolutely not the labor theory of value.

The idea that contribution "can't really be measured" is a cop-out. Contribution can't be measured perfectly but it can be estimated with some accuracy by people who are involved in day-to-day work. "Some accuracy" is really all that's required: as long as contribution is correlated with compensation to some extent, you have a functioning meritocracy.

> The variant here where everyone gets the same, generous piece of a pie seems refreshingly simple and honest.

I bet it works great if you have a small team, are extremely picky about hiring, and quickly fire bad hires. Otherwise it will be awful.
the main reason they wont do it is because the economies and populations facing them in that case would be worth over 40 trillion have almost a billion people.
The side that doesn't cheer on trillion dollar market cap companies.

Nobody should celebrate Google, Microsoft, Apple, Amazon, etc. They create barriers to competition that suck the air out of the small company and startup ecosystem.

Smartphones should be a dead and withered technology. Instead they're wholly owned by two giants that sit atop them and tax them in perpetuity.

We need to move on and forward, yet we're being leased old tech because the regulators haven't done anything to protect competition in decades.

Apple isn't defending privacy. They're hoovering up information for themselves using their massive anti-competitive platform apparatus.

Google isn't advancing web browser tech. They're extending their claws into every pane of glass and search interface for society, making themselves the gatekeepers of search intent commerce.

Amazon isn't offering amazingly flexible and scalable cloud hosting. They're reaping fat profits off the back of open source, locking companies into years of bills that slice the fat off of their margins.
Dynamic SQL Templating with Golang and Tqla
Today, Vaunt is announcing Tqla ( tequila ), a small library that can be used to easily build dynamic/conditional queries. Tqla extends the Golang standard text/templating pkg to ensure query safety.

You can learn more about Tqla in our latest blog https://blog.vaunt.dev/dynamic-sql-template-with-golang
I have many Russian colleagues that immigrated to the EU, some of them web developers like yourself. If that is your dream, you should give it a shot.
I am not trying to be dismissive, I was just explaining since there was some confusion.
Aha, that’s what I missed, thanks!
Maybe 37signals type businesses, SMB tech startups with a serious, stable, non-high growth business model and a tech savvy team. If you're selling $500k boxes you don't need to sell a TON of them to make a hundred million dollar business. Unless their VCs expect Oxide to be a billion dollar company with a broader market.
There’s this sort of perennial tragedy to perfectly simple consumer devices. They never last long until v2 comes out with more LEDs and buttons.
If you aren’t logged into Google there’s no information for google to glean from your iOS search.
The technologies to delivery humans to and back from Mars with any defensible level of safety do not currently exist. The benefits of doing so are dubious and the real viability of a human colony are almost nil. The sort of people that advocate otherwise have killed innocent civilians deep in the North Atlantic and are failing to run a previously healthy, if unspectacular, social network. It is less exciting work, but we should make every effort to not reduce ourselves to a Paleolithic lifestyle on our home planet via accidental terraforming instead.
I know you are half joking, but it would really be helpful to have ball-park pricing available. Are we talking Sun-level markups here, or how should we think about it? Given the enterprise sales contact form, I'm thinking yes, but I'd love to know for sure.
They're very innovative at Diesel engines.
Most people that would be able to buy these would not, but that makes it more relevant to know how things compare.

If you already get a 50% discount on your on-demand prices for AWS, does buying your own cloud make economical sense?
Every morning we will get a fresh menu of new episodes of HBO-level historical re-creations.

And today I'm feeling like... Chernobyl Day Three !
Perhaps this changes the calculus. If you don't need as much of an ops team to go private cloud. Then you might not need to be as large before it makes sense.
Reinvent Access Control with Passkeys and Fine-Grained Authorization
Assimilation is a one way street: the new arrivals give up everything they were and had beforey they become exactly like everyone else at the place they arrive. Integration is a two way street: The new arrivals retain their identity, but adapt to the new environment and society while the new society also adapts to the new arrivals.

The latter is what works, the former not so much.
Wait what a list of tools needs sponsors now? What?
One thing I do like about Democratic presidencies is that it makes the Republican party care about the deficit again. Every time we elect a Republican president they explode the deficit and lie to our face that deficits don't matter.
New recipe for efficient, environmentally friendly battery recycling
At least Trump is being prosecuted right now, in the US. When do you think Putin will face any consequences for his crimes?
Suppose we did get 100 year advance notice of some catastrophe. How many people would call it "fake news", or perhaps even interpret it as part of "God's plan"? Let's suppose, through some miracle, a substantial majority of the world agrees the catastrophe is coming, agrees to cooperate, to accept unlimited damage to the Earth (so e.g. we can use Project Orion style launchers) and to give up on all short-term profit.

Our response to climate change (which, even if it's not at the level of total planetary extinction, is still quite serious) suggests we would instead obfuscate, dispute and quarrel.

Realistically, what fraction of the world's people could we possibly move to Mars, and how would we even pick those people? How would we even come to agree on a fair way to choose?

We probably could get enough breeding pairs there to preserve our species. There is evidence of genetic bottlenecks in the past. But 99% of humans would be left to die. Not to mention all other life forms. (Maybe we'll bring cats, too?)

I'm not opposed to visiting Mars, but to do so under the claim that we could save humanity from disaster is utter folly.
So in other words, “Someone else’s datacenter” continues to be a perfect description of what Cloud is.
The business they're trying to build is capital-intense, and they're basically writing an OS from scratch, in addition to hardware from scratch. 78 million is actually really low
Labour not in power.
Not directly related (or is it?): I just hate sites where all I see is some fancy wallpaper image and a slogan (if at all).

Then I have to scroll down on my 27" monitor to be able to actually read anything on that site. That is stupid - at least in my opinion.
You may not be aware of the pain that many large, non-software companies currently have on AWS. Gigantic monthly bills (hundreds of thousands per month) coming from subdivisions that aren't capable or motivated to reduce their AWS budget or usage. To the office of the CTO, Oxide's value proposition (buy instead of rent) could be very motivating.

"Hey subdivision A, could we buy a few Oxide racks and move your workload there from AWS? It looks like they would have all the storage and compute you need. Yes? Ok, in 36 months we'll pay your current IT department employees a bonus of 50% of whatever it has saved us vs your current AWS budget."
Is it even remotely possible that a Mars colony could become self-sustaining within the next 100 years? It seems like surviving the loss of Earth is a long way off regardless.
IMHO Rust's ergonomics problems aren't caused by the borrow checker itself, but have the same cause as similar problems in C++ (mainly a "design by committee" approach to language design and implementing features that should be language syntax sugar in the stdlib instead, which then directly results in the stdlib being too entangled with the language and "too noisy" hard to read code).

Apart from the static memory safety USP, Rust is repeating too many problems of C++ for my taste, and at a much faster pace.
> It's not that hard.

It actually is very hard to design a responsive UX that can handle anything from the smallest smartphone up to ultrawide monitors.
The Amp Hour is really the only popular hardware/electronics design podcast as far as I can tell, and it's pretty decent, especially when they have interesting guests.
The USD is in quite a unique place that makes this formula a lot more complex. For example, a mixture of being the global reserve currency, as well as the largest consumer market in the world helps the US to effectively 'export its inflation.' A quick search [1] on that term can turn up a bunch more hits than this brief(?) post.

Think about Carland, a country that makes lots of nice cars, and largely sells them to the US. Imagine the US decides to print a bunch of money, weakening our currency relative to Carland's. Carland's cars now cost more for Americans to buy. This might sound nice at first (for a Carlandian car peddler), but in reality what's going to happen is less cars are going to be sold, and your cars are likely to become less competitive than those from other countries. So the Carland government has a major incentive to try to weaken their own currency, and start doing exactly that. So other countries effectively end up absorbing much of our inflation, helping to greatly minimize the impact of any given batch of money-printing.

So if the USD hits a point where we're no longer able to effectively export our inflation, the result's not going to just be inflation. That's a SHTF moment, because it means we'll have reached a point where we're inflating so much that other countries simply can't afford to absorb it without or imperiling their own economies, or have become okay with not exporting much to the US. Given how extremely dependent we are on imports, this is going to be a catastrophe.

Beyond this there are lots of self-feedback effects to consider, especially with borrowing, but this post is already long enough!

[1] - https://search.brave.com/search?q=exporting+inflation&source...
People go out of their way to install something else and don't use Edge and Bing because they are worse than the competition. Make a better product and people will actually use it.

Just so to make the case that not every company is good at everything, Apple Maps, despite recent improvements is also utter crap, and even Apple is not around crying wolf to restrict competition.
Not having a picture is criminal.
This is the way. I'd probably do four controls though.

Higher end CNC-esque jog dial for control. ex. http://pico-systems.com/images/pendant.jpg (10th of a second increments maybe. Sometimes putting in 3 seconds to warm a tablespoon of syrup is useful or 24 seconds to warm your teacup).

Momentary switch to start.

Seven segment display array for time setting and countdown.

Sound cue to let you know when countdown has finished. Disabled via a prominent toggle switch. I'd say annunciator to keep with the industrial terminology but...
Show HN: HyperMap – a new REST API standard that supports client-side JavaScript
Hi HN! HyperMap is a new standard for REST APIs that supports client-side code execution. That means the server can send JavaScript or WebAssembly to the client to run locally. This is the same execution model as the Web, and given that it's pretty clear that client-side JavaScript has been instrumental to the Web's success I think we should be taking advantage of this capability for our APIs.

This project was the result of many years of banging my head against a wall designing and integrating REST APIs. Over that time it feels like we want our APIs to do more and more, and the result is ever more documentation, specifications, and client wrappers/SDKs. It's a ton of work to build, maintain, and integrate. Is that the best we can do?

Two approaches looked promising to me: hypermedia and GraphQL, but having spent time with both I don't think they were the silver bullet I was looking for. Hypermedia's focus on navigation didn't seem to solve problems I saw in most APIs, and GraphQL's initial hype seems to have died somewhat as people realise it's best in quite a narrow domain.

It occurred to me a little while ago that the REST architecture was abstracted from the Web, and includes "code on demand" as an optional constraint — basically, sending JavaScript to run in the client. Could that be useful for APIs? After some experimentation with different hypermedia formats, I ended up designing a new, minimalist format that was very easy for existing JSON-based REST APIs to adopt, along with a mini-DOM like interface for scripts to interact with the representation.

It's early but the results seem exciting! Using HyperMap you can do things like get rid of Webhooks, incorporate live, streaming data into your regular REST responses, and even move processing/analytics to the client for privacy or latency reasons. Because you have the full power of JavaScript and all the modern Web APIs to hand I expect a people to discover a whole load of interesting use cases I haven't even thought of!

I'd love feedback on the direction and the design. The project's very early so there's still a substantial amount of design and development still do — contributions of any kind are more than welcome!
Getting a permanent visa (or citizenship) anywhere in the world is generally extremely difficult.

Unless you get married, how exactly would you propose an average American emigrate to Germany or Japan, for example?

There's a ton stopping someone. It's not impossible, but it can take years of work, require a change of careers, and you have to say goodbye to a lot of family and friends.
iirc "Interrogate CLIP" is a bit of a misnomer - what it's actually doing is generating a basic caption with BLIP ("a woman holding a pencil"), then iterating over categories and checking with CLIP if any items in those categories are depicted in that image, then concatenating any hits to the resulting caption.

This means the resulting caption is of the form "[BLIP caption], [category1 item], [category2 item], ...". It's very rudimentary.

To clarify: CLIP can tell you if a text label matches an image. It can't generate a caption by itself.

There are more advanced captioning methods, but I'm not sure if they're exposed in A1111 (I haven't used it in some months)
36 Variants of Pong
If your own policies are so easily weaponized against you then maybe your policies aren't very good. Is it so hard to believe that regular voters might have ideological reasons for preferring a smaller, less intrusive government that imposes lower taxes?

And blaming a hostile media is entirely too facile. Other politicians and parties have managed to win despite such obstacles by crafting messages that actually inspire voters.
But then they don't have versioned documentation, so you only know how to properly operate the newest version of things and for the existing stuff you have to figure it out on your own.
We've got designers, me included, and a few others on the team who aren't engineers. I also hail from what people like to call a "third-world country". So far it's working great, and we're hiring more folks from all over the world, not just the USA.
const step_on_snek = false;
> We should be there already.

Why? What purpose does a human presence on Mars have? Exploratory activity can, is and should be done by robotic drones. Mars has zero resources Earth doesn't already have in abundance, is inimical to almost every lifeform on earth and confers no advantage as a launch platform for furture space exploration over the moon or a space station.

> We're focusing everything on the easier planet that might not be livable after one year of bad politics.

Fun fact: Even after a full-scale thermonuclear war, Earth would still be a more liveable planet than Mars.

So what policy decisions could possibly make Mars attractive as a living space, or a "backup planet"?
There are always a myriad of potential actions that a company could potentially interpret as being in its best interest.

Company culture can help predict what interpretation a company will pick.

Google's culture is much more trigger-happy about interpreting killing off a service as being in the company's best interest than Amazon is.
Yet. I choose to not give them that opportunity given their main revenue stream when Apple gives me better choices for my health data.
Yes.

I'd never expected to be in a poly thing, but it works for us.
What you really want is two apps, completely different UX's and its not worth the effort more times than not. No one is going to Herman Miller's website for example and not buying a chair because they don't like the desktop web app experience.

They might pass though if they can't get the site to work well on their phone.
No one cares about the deficit. It’s just a talking point.
I have to ask the stupid question: Geothermal heating and energy production is still impossible in a practical sense, right?
> Nobody forces google to buy the default search spot.

Someone would pay Apple to be the default search, if Google didn't pay billions Microsoft would pay billions to make Bing the default search. Would you prefer that?

Apple is auctioning it out to the highest bidder, I don't see how bidding in an auction is wrong.
Thanks so much for sharing this. I'm watching a self described "politicsl philosopher" on yTube. (The talks are labeled as chats, are not scripted, although he has separate channel that offers scripted material)

The "chats" are usually edifying, but I am often frustrated by the rambling and repetition (He is always trying to bring in new listeners, so that partly explains the repetition)

But from my own (arm chair politcal organizer) point of view, i'm thinking "you have ~10 very good key points you touch on/repeat over time, why not be a more effective communicator, make this visual as well as verbal and turn this into a message. I.e. bullet points that are always close at hand and that you're l using to tie the talk together."

But that's basically propaganda main tool.

So thanks for sharing your effort and discipline in going to the philosophy classes. Your more expansive approach to what people aay chimes very much with my yT mentor's reminder to listen 99% and judge 1%.

Dont try to win every argument or prove your point of view is right. Others are entitled to their (wrong (-; ) opinions (just as if we think back to our changing points of view, we have been "wrong" in the past too. Judge yee not ....)

By continuing to listen to those we don't agree with we are putting a face to ideas they dont accept or understand (it is easier to stay in your own bubble when you are only looking/hearing people that you agree with) AND by listening respectfully we are keeping the lines of communication open.
People's feelings matter a hell of a lot at the ballot box.
Thanks for the info. To be honest I was aware of the fact that the `/proc/$PID` could disappear by the time `/proc/$PID/`. But felt a bit uninspired to search for a solution. I took a bit of time today to look into it and made some edits to the original post. Specifically, I tried to improve the error handling around the `fopen` call by checking for a possible NULL pointer and also setting up a call to `access` before even attempting. I wonder if this is a valid approach, or at least an improvement over the original?
This is exactly what it is, plus custom "cloud" software
Should add microsoft's SAL. Comes built in to MSVC
I really don't get why people keep promoting this idea of Apple buying Kagi.

People not invested in the Apple ecosystem also use Kagi and all it does is ostracize those people just like they did in the Dark Sky acquisition.

It's a terribly selfish idea.