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Nobody is launching anything that is going to take 50,000 years to get there. If you do then your descendants would be the last to arrive. What propulsion technology are you assuming? The fastest we know of and can build would be nuclear pulse propulsion and it doesn’t take 50k years to get to any nearby star with that.
Normal people don't even know what Docker is
The most interesting part of this;

>X was by far the biggest source with 483K visitors sent, but LinkedIn surprisingly close with 339K. Up some +80% y/r. All about sticking to it! Wrote 314 essays in 3 years.

LinkedIn. It doesn't come up in out conversation or even mentioned much on HN. But the reach is surprising. I would never have thought it would be in the same order of magnitude as Twitter.
Some front loaders can be stacked (this is more common in Europe) so if space is the only issue you can get the benefit of the specialized equipment.
Not mentioned in this but what drives me the most crazy are climate controls. These are literally safety devices for defogging windows. In several cars I’ve driven they are hidden behind touch screen entertainment systems. Madness.

In my own car there is a physical rocker to change the temperature but a touch screen to change the fan speed. Guess what I never want to change and what I need to change all the time?

That car allows me to configure special start up messages for my birthday and wedding anniversary but I can’t reprogram what the rockers do.
good luck fighting NIMBY to allow high density housing. NIMBY block all new development ironically by using environmental regulation.

We all know building denser housing is better than expanding out. But people have all their saving tied to their house so no way they are going to vote for denser housing.

There is no way to "pressure" nimbys or politicians because their voting block has to much to lose.
> And many common algorithms are actually just the application of dynamic programming to specific problems, including omnipresent path-finding algorithms such as Dijkstra’s algorithm.

Dijkstra's algorithm is an application of dynamic programming? I disagree. In dynamic programming, you tabulate the subproblems to solve, with static interdependencies between them leading to straightforward orders in which to solve the subproblems. In Dijkstra's algorithm, you need to compute the shortest path from s to each vertex, but the order in which you have to visit the vertices is only discovered along the way using a priority queue, so the subproblem interdependencies are not known ahead of time until you have actually solved the problem.
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We are having massive forest fires all across the country every summer, something I do not recall as a child. The west (everything west of Ontario) is in a massive drought. The east is getting tornados and flooding and the impacts of increasing hurricanes coming from the south.
> While I don’t know Haskell or GHC, that sounds like a bug in the runtime.

That's what the article is about, workarounds for that problem (that has been known for 8 years now).

https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/-/issues/10793
Navy Federal CU faces allegations of discrimination in mortgage lending
Incidentally, The Serial Port on YouTube (no affiliation) is doing an excellent series on old-school ISPs, getting hands-on with the equipment to set up their own ISP.

Playlist: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7qsY2QIYd8PLW1zXVcNFVA_o...
I thought the debunking had been debunked as the object simultaneously appeared on multiple state-of-the-art radar systems?
I’ve been using Optery.com (YC22) since they launched, and they’ve done a good job. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30605010
The problem is I didn’t know this until I bought it. I didn’t think to read the manual before purchasing.
The problem here is that they didn't demonstrate sucking. Nobody is asking for companies to keep employees that suck. And lots of departments can bring down a company if enough of the employees suck.
American NHTSA backup camera regulations effectively ban new cars without a touch screen, sadly.
May I recommend Linux Mint, specifically the MATE edition.

It is Ubuntu based, but without much of the crap, and continues the classic Gnome 2 desktop.
This story hits literally so close to home. I grew up in a stereo-obsessed family. I went along with it but wasn't quite as involved, merely enjoying the ever-evolving family stereo, many stereo shows and electronics conferences. I probably bought an average amount of stereo gear, though typically spending more than average.

I didn't realize how much of a problem it was until our family bought a very modest house rather than renting for the first time--because the stereo-spending never allowed saving for a downpayment. The stereo-spending resumed with both my father and sibling starting separate stereo companies. They weren't good at it because they were in it for the fidelity and not the busine$$ aspects. My dad passed and it's all shut down now, but infrequently a call will come (on the number that was kept) from someone who's trying to service a unit that they'd been searching for, missed out on, then finally got but wasn't quite working right. If we have a small part to fix it, we'd just send it to them with instructions.
Machine learning can tackle this for sure, but that's surely separate to LLMs. A language model deals with language, not logic.
It saddens me deeply, but in some way this was inevitable. Thank you to all contributors. And thanks to anyone who wishes to continue helping a fork.
I have a sneaking suspicion they already knew that!
How to be a good angel investors
Winners know when to quit.

Usually sucessful people are quite talented at more than one thing, but the best in the world at only one or two.

In order to get to that level they have to 'quit' the goal of becoming the best in the world at all of the other things where they have talent.

Probably a smart decision given where they are. But, yes, they're therefore all quitters in a very real sense. Just nobody cares or talks about those other things.

Maybe the thing you are doing now is one of those 'other' things. Quit so you can win at something else.
I have been using Optery (YC W22) and are happy with them. It's more money than I wanted to spend on this. But they have cleared my name out of more than a hundred sites.

The article linked here refers to ten data brokers. But there are far more than that that are handling and selling your data. There's no way you can delete your information from all of them without subscribing to a service to do it for you.
Makes me wonder if containerization is even possible without a VM for non-Linux machines.
If you are willing to pay, some of the courses and programs like micro masters, micro bachelors on edx can count for credit, which is not necessarily cheap, but may be cheaper than it otherwise might be [1], also see [2] as example.

All though even then, it may be cheaper to just enroll in some local or online classes at a community college in your state for a couple hundred dollars.

[1] https://support.edx.org/hc/en-us/articles/206501438-Can-I-re...

[2] https://www.edx.org/masters/micromasters/purduex-nano-scienc...
Aggressive financing makes the total cost go up.
I don't think the population gets enough visibility into the price of electricity. Most of the population is on a fixed price plan and I don't understand the economics of it.

I'm certain we'll hear about the "wind freezing" but nothing about why the gas plants were offline.

Alberta is prime location for nuclear: remote, cold and environmentally stable. We could probably ween ourselves off gas plants in a few decades, build enough capacity for an EV-friendly grid and reduce emissions.
You are right. Thank you for clarification.
Ah yes. Shipping millions of tiny RTGs and putting them in the hands of average customers with unclear disposal instructions. What could possible go wrong.
The specific milestones here are certainly up for debate, but the general approach to thinking this way is a good one in my opinion.

I read Quit: The Power of Knowing When to Walk Away by
Annie Duke last year and found it quite illuminating, both in introducing this concept of having “kill criteria” like this to help clarify why we are doing things and when it’s “okay” to quit, and also in exploring the scope of social/cultural bias we have towards sticking with losing propositions at the expense of trying new things. Social pressure to not be viewed as a “quitter” is quite a powerful force, and it distorts our thinking about what we really want to achieve.
The Danger of Digitizing Everything
For more anecdata, I have been working professionally with async rust for three years and don’t understand why people complain so much about it. It solves the problem well, it provides predictable performance, and most of the time it’s straightforward to write and reason about.
Agree. I’m running a N5105 w 4x2.5g that was $150 on AliExpress. 2x2.5g is the minimum I would do for a homelab
Before flagging this submission, I would ask you to consider the following (in terms of why it would be of interest to HN users):

1) It is one in a long line of contemporary and credible allegations of discrimination in mortgage lending, indicative of a systemic issue in American banking.

2) The activities of the American banking sector, through VC and other investment, drove the tech bubble whose slow bursting is seeing many HN-adjacent workers out-of-the-job or otherwise facing workplace difficulties.

3) These lending decisions are likely algorithmically-driven, an ethical concern that is, again, of interest to tech workers.

Essentially, the article describes an issue that is both of interest to anyone concerned about the financial health of American citizens, and to also entrepreneurs who are looking for an opportunity to disrupt a system that is not working well. I think it would be a good topic for HN to consider and discuss constructively.
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Of the three listed, it looks like Albine is just DeleteMe (they have the same ToS link.)

Neither of them have a forced arbitration clause, class action waiver, etc. which is refreshing. These waivers are regularly upheld and make it very difficult to sue companies who do something wrong.

Having no forced arbitration clause is a good thing! It doesn't make me trust them more per-se, but it means I don't need to trust them as much in the first place.
Very well put, RTO guys are basically a religion.

Once again assholes are finding ways to coerce other people into doing what they want to do. No room for live and let live.
They did exactly that. It worked great, but this new fissure is lava that went under.

See https://imgur.com/a/7WGO9M6 ; yellow are the defensive lines. Red are the fissures. Black is the lava; you can see how well it was redirected.
forced dogfooding is unethical, but I wonder if every company marks up their cars 1% to offset a 50% internal employee discount, would that ultimately lead to a higher quality car?
Yup. Having an authority figure able to adjust compassion appropriately up or down can leave a failure mode where someone manipulates the authority figure into being more compassionate than appropriate, getting the manipulator benefits at the expense of the authority figure or organization.

In a very competitive situation where those expenses hurt competitiveness, eventually that can result in the authority figure/organization losing the competition - which removes that authority figure from authority (or destroys the entire organization) and hence the benefits to the manipulator.

Having an authority figure who is always ruthless and selfish doesn’t have that failure mode.

The failure mode in that situation is one where the authority figure is inappropriately ruthless and selfish to the point it is harming their effectiveness/destroying the organization. However, the system is able to handle that better - as long as the authority figure follows the codified rules and delivers results, that’s ’business as usual’, and if they don’t, there are penalties - up to removing the authority figure or ruining them. It tends to be more obvious than excess manipulators, as by their nature assholes leave more obvious marks.

And the authority figures selfishness here helps prevent them from doing anything to that extent that can be documented.

In a brutal environment, a consistently ruthless and selfish authority figure (as long as they are effective in their goals) can be the easier and more stable option.

Near as I can tell, it’s why ‘dark triad’ traits are evolutionarily advantageous in the right mix.

Too much of them destroys what is needed to actually produce value and grow. Too little makes one susceptible to predators.
Mexico building rail rival as water shortages drain Panama Canal
Your car also shouldn't ding at you if it detects weight on a seat without a seatbelt.
I totally agree in that I use the same mental model. But, if you look at it as “the shortest path must be the shortest path through one of its neighbors”, it can actually be classified as a dynamic programming algorithm!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dijkstra%27s_algorithm#Dynamic...
> Saying the only way to 'owe' anything is through money sounds like a... weird Americanism to me (speaking as an American).

In their defense, using taxes to pay others to do the work of maintaining/defending a nation allows better specialization of labor which can have its advantages. But it needs to be balanced with actual shared effort too, especially with things like national defense.
Trust me when I say that the people who think about whether they can quit are typically worse off financially and at the brink of burnt out.
ML and topological data identify unique features of human papillae in 3D scans
Maybe an Eagle?
Your message is a prime example of a wishful thinking delusion.

He chose to communicate amd.he chose what to write and what not to write.

But instead of analyzing the facts, you decide to base your analysis on what-if fantasies that you invented.

Sad.
Unfortunately, the D garbage collector is a simple design that doesn't offer the performance and scalability of a modern collector. Someone switching over to D from Java/C#/Go might be surprised to see GC pauses reminiscent of 1998. Hopefully the maintainers of the D fork will address this.
This is not new technology as has been pointed out. In fact you can replicate the battery following a YouTube tutorial. The issue here is having a worrisome quantity of radioactive tritium gas in the pocket of millions of people. Personally I think it's a trivial thing, and that the disruption to lithium ion tech industry would be the only ones getting nuked by these power cells. Which is what they are. Power cells. They are not batteries, they are in fact beta decay radio isotope photo electric generators. Power cells for short .
Why is this useless though? Space constraints?
Lithium comes from Australia, Chile, and Bolivia. My EV's batteries have no elements from Africa.
I think the optimal tenperature for infrastructure would be something in the 20C’s.

Much higher and tar starts to melt.

When it goes to -20 and below, you need to invest in sanding and snow plowing trucks to make the roads less slippery.

But when it gets to around 0, I suspect it’s actually the worst. Now you can use salt instead of sand & gravel. But you get many freeze-thaw cycles that wreck concrete and tarmac as liquid water seeps into places, then freeze & expand, etc. Toronto has this problem whereas Calgary does not.

A little bit of warming might be bad for much of Canada’s infra!
Had you read the article you’d known that he is dead, and that his system was sold of for close to nothing.
> High-end hifi is full of grift. It literally relies on people with more money than sense who can be persuaded to spend a fortune on components and extras that either make no difference to the sound or make it objectively less accurate.

Replace "hifi" with any other product and the sentiment remains the same. High-end houses, high-end cars, high-end clothes, high-end food, high-end technology... the ostensible quality of the product is entirely divorced from the price, because the actual product isn't the speaker or the handbag or the smartphone or etc; the real product is social signaling via conspicuous consumption.
doubt that headphone can make your body feel the vibrations also. Listening to music is a full body experience not just through the ears.
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Which is easy enough to say, but how do you protect your site from being ddosed?
Maybe it could be improved by not including all the details in the original prompt, but dynamically generating them. For example,

>user: turn my living room lights off

>llm: {action: "lights.turn_off", entity: "living room"}

Search available actions and entities using the parameters

> user: available actions: [...], available entities: [...]. Which action and target?

> llm: {service: "light.turn_off", entity: "light.living_ceiling"}

I've never used a local LLM, so I don't know what the fixed startup latency is, but this would dramatically reduce the number of tokens required.
There’s never going to be post-scarcity. Resources are finite, land is finite, energy is finite. These things may become ever-more concentrated into the hands of a few, but they’ll never be infinite. New sources can always be captured and monopolized.

The alternative to people voting themselves an income is wealthy people taking away the vote. If they can defend their holdings with robotic drone armies and AI-powered mass surveillance then democracy will collapse along with the economy.

We need look no further than Eritrea for a real-world case study of what I’m talking about. A country with vast slums of people in absolute destitution kept separate from the wealthy aristocrats by walls and armed guards. Replace those guards with robots and there’s no reason that couldn’t happen here.
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I'm not sure it's so much about looks as such as that, if something does get spilled, it's a lot easier to wash and cheaper to replace a cover than it is an entire comforter.
> If that argument were solid, Golang would not be more successful than Dlang

I never said anything about being "successful". I said something about substituting for C++. Go isn't any closer to that than D.
Since the codec is Lossless, there wont be any subjective measurement in quality like lossy codec. And all we need to look at are Compressed Size, Encoding and Decoding time.

It wasn't that long ago JPEG XL manage to break through the best of all Lossless Image codec, from WebP to AVIF.

Now not only HALIC compress better than JPEG XL in photographic images, it also does it anywhere from 5 to 20x less encoding or decoding time. Along with far less memory resources.
There are some photos of the installed plug out there.

Basically a bunch (4 really large, 4+ smaller, IIRC) bolts that connect the plug to brackets on the fuselage. The big bolts have castle nuts and cotter pins, the smaller bolts don’t appear to have retention devices.

In one of the photos (I believe it was a United 737) those bolts appeared loose. Again, all what I remember seeing in photos, so YMMV.

The real door probably uses the same brackets and basic attachment points, as it’s designed to be retrofitted after delivery should the operator decide to increase seat count.
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Are they compatible with Wacom EMR styluses?

My current setup has my devices all using the same pen technology, which is wonderfully convenient --- I can switch from note taking on my Note 10+ or Kindle Scribe to drawing/annotating on my Galaxy Book 3 Pro 360 or the Wacom One attached to my MacBook.
There's a difference between wanting to do something, and not wanting to not have done something.
Any chance you could share a snap of your setup ideally with windows distributed around as you prefer? I’m always interested in other peoples’ approach in this area.

I’m a laptop only person. I never understood how a single monitor would be better. But quantity has a quality all its own and 4 monitors seems like it could enable novel approaches.
This seems like a legitimate scientific question. What is the mass of the observable universe, and can light escape it? It's no more pointless than asking what the universe was like at the big bang or what it will be like 10^100 years from now.
Why is cold good for nuclear, getting rid of waste heat? Would that advantage not apply to all heat-based power plants?
> I won’t argue that the credential isn’t useful in that certain people are more willing to consider taking you seriously the first time they meet you

If you think that isn't immensely useful, you are vastly underestimating the significance of other people's first pass filters in any person's opportunity for success.
This one[1] is more expensive, but it's 4k, 17" and usb-c. I use it daily with my MBP 16" and it matches the PPI pretty well.
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> Also, as Engineers we know that cost is related not just to simplicity but scale. Your dream car will never be at the cost you or like minded people will buy because it may be simple and featureless, but it will be expensive.

Cars very close to the "dream car" do exist, and they are cheap, but they are not available in US/EU due to our absurd regulations. Look at the new land cruiser 70 series. Simple, reliable, affordable - but not available in the US because they don't meet random punitive safety or emissions rules.
Looking at Canadian census data for AB, I'm not sure what the correlation of owning an EV and having access to a garage would be, but it's not going to be a super common combination.

In those situations, how likely is someone to want to use potential vehicular range during a crisis and instead use it on juice for their home?
Not if you put it on some sort of rail system, and make sure each unit that's on the system has the capability to push/stop itself on this rail system.
> … if something does get spilled, it's a lot easier to wash …

Not eating in bed solves this and some unrelated health problems.
You'll get readded to brokers' DBs. “How can you not, if they aren't tracking you they don't know that new entry is one they shouldn't be tracking!” being one excuse.

Also, new brokers turn up regularly, or often the same broker under sufficiently colours that they can weasel their way to not being recognised instantly. Your removal service requested removal of your info from AnonData Inc, but not DataAnon Ltd. No, despite employing exactly the same directors & managers, and being officially registered from the same collection of PO boxes, they aren't the same company, honest… Shady shit doesn't just stop because you ask once.