skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As humanity becomes more numerous and richer, the fraction of humanity you need that have such strange ideas and desire keeps shrinking.

(Btw, I share your intuition that the number of people willing to sign up for a one-way trip to the stars, or even just Mars, is fairly low. However, if you already look at people who are dedicated enough to become astronauts, I suspect the additional filter of asking for one-way-trip volunteers for a mission to the stars isn't all that severe. My purely speculative guess is that at least 10-20% of current astronauts would be willing to sign up.)
Not a smart strategy... Unless your competitor is doing something really very terrible and dodgy, usually being found out doing that kind of thing does much worse things to your own PR than anything you find does for theirs...
CEO and Founder of System76 – Carl Richell [video]
UK shelves proposed AI copyright code in blow to creative industries
https://archive.is/Wmw8Q
What blows my mind is that no one brings up that the 737 Max was an at the hip response to Airbus A320neo. I remember Boeing didn't even have a response when Airbus has already secured some contracts and had actual demo flights. Then Boeing goes "me too" and cheats Airbus out of contracts due to the "no training" needed scam. I recall thinking to myself, this is bullshit. The Airbus planes were beautiful and the Max reeked of hacks and rush jobs. This should have brought more government scrutiny as anyone could have guessed they would do anything to get these to market asap. It's truly a shame and a black eye for American ingenuity.
Or even "I prefer to discuss this", not even "type of thing".
Imagine you drive into a wall of tnt, break through it, and as you exit it explodes and gives you an extra boost. Yes, you’ve lost some speed at the beginning but you’ve gained much more
Previous discussion:

The Optical Mouse - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7304183 - Feb 2014 (11 comments)
That's not at all what they did. They explicitly made endpoints to doll out the prizes, to ensentivize collaboration. That tactical aspect of the the whole project and how they set it up is worth highlighting on its own.
That's how they originally caught my eye.
Can't tell for all their projects, but Flux seems to be safe. Stefan Prodan joined ControlPlane last month already and keeps developing Flux CD. Its latest release (v2.2.3) was delivered while working in the new company. He is also working on Enterprise Distribution for Flux CD (https://github.com/controlplaneio-fluxcd/distribution) there now.
No, interrogations aren't videotaped, at least not always. And even if they are, the police can destroy the video and just use their handwritten notes, and their memory, to testify against you at a trial. Your word against theirs. Tape disappeared. So sorry about your luck.
— Every reader has for sure noticed that, in my description of the device, I rely quite heavily on a multitude on reviews, which I extensively quote. The reason is now clear: in spite of its occasional brilliance, the device is ultimately not worth trying, which is why I also wrote this review without trying it.

[https://thephilosophicalsalon.com/a-muddle-instead-of-a-movi...]
>Such movements are harder to take root in cultures that empower the individual and limit the authority of those in power to direct the lives of millions.

Those cultures have even less resistance for when a totalitarian power center emerges, as society is already broken down into people separated from each other, and unable to see eye to eye. Such a people is the easiest to break down.

And even without a central totalitarian figurehead, people without wider social binds to aid them and work together, are powerless individuals, and as such are bowing down every day to whatever bigger power they meet: to politicians, to corporate power, to billionaire moguls who set the terms and own their media, to a byzantine legal system, and of course to their bosses.
> FLTK and other libraries cannot be used from JavaScript.

What's the obstacle to using it via FFI (which Deno seems to support)?
> provides an immediate customer for excess base power

It’s a reservoir. It doesn’t need anchor customers. To say nothing about the costs of being crypto affiliated to the company and region.
Living with stone age people is just horrible
More complexity which adds nothing of value. Hurray for billable hours.
Different set of circumstances I believe and would likely be tackled differently.

I don't think there are currently many/if any Bank's that require a data center to draw as much power as required by the cryptocurrency miners.

Furthermore, does this Bank serve the people of that country? Does that Bank provide jobs for people in said Country? Does the benefit of such improvements in security greatly benefit the immediate customers in said country?

Many more questions would need to be asked to answer that question.

The article points out that these miners use a disproportionate amount of electricity, whilst providing little to no jobs to the local economy.

Whilst we don't have the numbers here, it is a safe bet for the company to withhold energy capacity for the likes of electric cars and heat pumps etc.
I agree with most of what you say, however:

> [...] pay for international roaming [...]

I don't remember ever having to pay to receive SMS abroad. Is that a common feature with the plans where you live? (I mostly have experience with pre-paid plans from Asia, Australia and Europe.)
...or that of mining is too high.
Hmmm, the modern German military is renowned for emphasizing individual initiative down to at least the NCO level. One of the reasons the Wehrmacht was so combat-effective at the tactical level.
A virus usually encodes for, and definitely utilizes, many processes of living things.

Part of the breakdown here is recognizing independent life requiring only a nutrient and energy source, and various consortia (e.g. can you say that a mitochondrion is alive without the host cell, and vice versa).

Basically, as mentioned by another commenter, the fact that "life" started out as a Platonic ideal that's being sussed out.

I'd say just change it to an adjective entirely and don't bother with a categorical noun.
I have always hated the secret parties. As soon as I found out about them, I set about infiltrating them just to fuck with them. One of the reasons I left the hacker community was the toxic elitism and posturing.
If I watch a movie at a friend's house, do I have to somehow compensate the studio for the privilege? Did I rob those poor artists of residuals every time I rented a DVD from Netflix and Blockbuster before it? They after all rented me a physical artifact under the first sale doctrine. They didn't have to pay the studios anything for rentals. Their compensation to the studios ended at their original purchase of the DVD.

If renting DVDs or watching a movie at a friend's house doesn't magically rob artists of residuals, then neither does piracy. In each case I am not purchasing a movie yet I am able to watch it.
I wonder if nowadays you can just ask ChatGPT to negotiate for you. Personally, I hate negotiating salary and the games that come along with it. I usually go in with a number in my head and if they can't meet it, I just thank them for their time and say I'm not considering offers below my number.

The risk/downside is that my number could be too low, but that's something I'm willing to live with if it means I can avoid having to negotiate. If they immediately agree to your number, it probably means you asked for too little. Or the person you're dealing with also hates negotiating.
Sometimes our sci-fi dreams are just that and don't make sense or aren't possible in the real world. Like flying cars, teleportation, faster than light travel, the year of the Linux desktop. I think VR is always going to be like that. It's good for some niche applications, but it just doesn't fit the form factor of humans like a monitor and keyboard or controller does. Our headsets are good enough now that we can't keep saying "well if it just had more X" where X is resolution or whatever moving goalpost they want to put out there. We just don't like crap on our face.
While I mostly agree, there are subtleties here. Due to transmission capacity inefficiencies there are places in the grid where generation exceeds available load and power pricing drops very low or runs negative in price. For example, there are areas in California where a combination of physics and politics causes generation to have nowhere to go. Under these conditions I dontnhave much issue with people mining bitcoin. If there were more productive loads that could be utilizing that power, they would be.
They would open more routes if not pilot restricted. Instead of training more pilots, they want to spread them thinner to maximize profits. It’s a bad idea.
React has so many solutions for this- I wonder, is there anything that works similarly to Vue scoped styles? I always struggled with styling React but it's like a completely solved problem in Vue imo. You're welcome to use Tailwind of course but the scoped styles per-component work so well I rarely find myself missing it.

Then again I'm one of those few engineers who actually enjoys CSS so my opinion may not be representative.
I like sci-fi, and enjoyed Hail Mary very much
Someone really should have put "DNA sequencer" in the title.
https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i2d=true&i=Divide%5B%5C%2...
I'd love to see 7K of YAML as every time I've asked, no one's been able to show me a fully worked, end-to-end example.
Having ff on an ipad and phone is really not having a “common point of failure”

You do you, but I find relying on a second device (third really, the plane has gps and nav radios) and battery backups much easier than buying a new chart supplement and a bunch of charts every 2 months. Plus I have all the approach plates for every airport …

trying to duplicate the functionality that I get from my setup with paper charts and plates is just practical.
Ask HN: Scanning a Closed Notebook/Book?
Hi. I was just looking at the post regarding the Vesuvius Challenge - scanning old scrolls for readable text.

I'm wondering if this is possible for notebooks. I often use pen and paper and fill small notebooks up quite quickly. I'd prefer not to scan/OCR every page individually.

Are there any methods that could potentially scan the notebook as a whole and parse the text inside? Maybe if using a special pen?

Any thoughts?
> Maybe a few thousand dollars per flight? Is it really worth it to the possibly hundreds of passengers on board?

Empirically, yes, a lot of people will choose a €10 cheaper flight, particularly in Europe, where that might be 50% off.
I found a Canon 50mm ƒ/0.95 lens at an estate sale once. Not cheap by any means, but it was a delight to play around with, and then I sold it to KEH for a profit once I was done with it. https://bluemooncameracodex.com/technical-reviews/living-wit...
Has anyone here looked at the security of Lineage? I know it's a rebrand/fork of Cyanogen, but I don't actually know much about it as a project.

It seems to be the only image that works with Waydroid (the Android environment for Linux tablets), but I am not super comfortable entering my passwords into a project I don't know much about.
We're evaluating a public figure's ability to lead. That's not a personal attack.
German culture is not individualistic in the sense being discussed here.

A lot of reports and surveys about "level of individualism in country XYZ" use "individualistic" to mean the opposite of "driven by extended family relationships". This is a very misleading way of using the term "individualism". A more accurate term would be "anti-nepotistic". German culture is certainly less nepotistic than the average for the world or even for Western Europe -- but to describe this as individualism is extremely inaccurate.
I have another video for that:

https://youtu.be/bEfYm8sAaQg
While that is true, the price of energy is too low because transmission system limitations bottle it up in a limited geographic area. With proper infrustructure, the PRI es would be much more stable geographically as the number of bottlenecks decreased.

So really what it should tell us is that we don't spend enough on infrustructure.
I am pretty hard on phones. Been using lineage for years now on google pixel unlocked phones. 5a and now 6a. I have found both to have some real durability problems. Are there any good alternatives that are unlocked to use with lineage?
It's totally reasonable that one can observe the many videos of the AVP in use and in many real world situations with plenty of evidence of "physical reactions and responses to the hardware," and draw their own conclusions about how those compare with the book they read without owning the damn thing.
BigQuery? Athena/Redshift?
Riddle me this, where did the magic 132 columns come from? I want to say it was fortran77 when extend source was added to let fortran files use 132 columns.
> If the pilot disagrees with the computer, surely the pilot must be wrong

Empirically speaking, this is the case. Many crashes would have been avoided had autopilot flown. This is as true in air transport as general aviation.
No... It's hard to overstate how much safer flying (in well regulated countries especially) is than any other point in aviation history. It's incredible to look at the lists of accidents and incidents with aircraft from the 60s, 70s etc. - today the 737 Max is a huge outlier with the number of fatalities in two hull loss accidents, but if this was the 70s we'd probably have expected almost any model of plane to have had at least three or four similar accidents and a bunch more minor ones in the time the Max been around.
To be fair you can be a 'chud' and be very capable still. Especially in finance. Based on my (very short) experience in the field, "competent yet apathetic/morally blank" was the norm.
I don't think we really need to question the meaning of "clean energy". I think we're all aware that it costs something to the environment, after all solar panels and batteries don't grow on trees.
Imba CSS is just brilliant.

I've considered porting it to JS into a Vite plugin so the same syntax can be used anywhere else. I would have done it already if I had the time.
I’m now wavering a bit on my earlier dismissal of people freezing their bodies for an indeterminate future revival. I could probably get into a science fiction story with this premise:

Instead of relying upon machinery, some zillionaire has their body dry frozen and stashed in a lunar south pole crater, with a foundation funding interstellar propulsion research to move the body to the coldest stable points discovered along the way towards the Boomerang Nebula (1° Kelvin) and research to revive back from burnt-crisp state.

The foundation incites all sorts of advancements along the way like working out practical fusion and ever more exotic energy generation, AGI, gravity manipulation, Drexlerian nanotech, Dyson swarm, star wisps, self-modifying bodies and so on, in its quixotic quest to fulfill its mandate.
Many, many hydro plants operate run-of-the-river and have no significant resivour. These plants simple generate or spill what comes down the pipe.
Claims have been made comparing the Taliban to freedom fighters; however, these claims have been contested. YPG/PKK is often regarded as a terrorist organization implicated in various criminal activities including human trafficking, involvement in mafia operations, execution of innocent people, bombings, and theft. Despite projecting an image of support for women's rights and ecological issues in their videos, their actions on the ground tell a different story, characterized by severe human rights abuses including the use of kidnapped women as slaves, and the targeted killing of teachers and doctors.

Furthermore, there's the issue of the land demands from Turkey for this so-called project. Some argue that if individuals are so supportive of this project, they should be willing to offer up their own property for its cause. The link provided points to the Pınarcık massacre, which illustrates the violent tactics employed by such organizations. It underscores the notion that these groups, deemed terrorist, are beyond the reach of reason due to their actions and demands.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%C4%B1narc%C4%B1k_massacre

Also, they are recognized terrorist organization by NATO. https://www.state.gov/foreign-terrorist-organizations/ Same list as ISIS and Boko Haram.

Their communication may include disinformation, especially if it serves their interests or aligns with the agendas of political entities they support, such as their pro-Putin stances. It is critical to scrutinize the narratives they spread to avoid perpetuating their falsehoods. Stop spreading their lies.
The more hilarious part is the incentive to pump the stock and leave someone else to hold the bag would be even worse.

This would reach crypto-scales pumping.
Yeah, I have to agree. It's a neat idea and I can see it having some applications, but I don't really see myself using this for anything serious.

I think OpenSCAD neatly demonstrates the issue with 3D modeling: when you come from a tool like Blender it might look amazing that you can now trivially change dimensions mid-design, but what you're really looking for is the parametric modeling you get from something like Solidworks.

Schematics-as-code doesn't solve a problem I am having. What I want, is for an easy way to import "snippets" in KiCad: I want a library where I can select an MCU, and it'll automatically add all its auxiliary parts too and let me choose from a few pre-made standard routing options. Maybe even make it parametric so it becomes a nice little wizard where if I'm adding an LDO I can enter a voltage and it'll calculate the adjustment resistors for me.
This is true.

This is also hardly a novel development.

John D. Rockefeller based much of his business and economic worldview on the notion that competition was wasteful, and monopolies efficient. He's hardly the only well-known business figure to do so, you can find similar sentiments from, say, Peter Thiel, particularly in Zero to One.

A great exploration of the general trend of established commercial enterprises and interests to oppose new arrivals and competition is Bernhard J. Stern's 1937 article Resistances to the Adoption of Technological Innovations:

<https://archive.org/details/technologicaltre1937unitrich/pag...>

Markdown: <https://rentry.co/szi3g>

I'd learned of that work through the work of Stern's student research assistant who'd done much of the literature search before going on to his own further career as a chemist and ultimately author: Isaac Asimov.
> In fact, we don’t even care about chord names, we just care about the relative differences, which is why we use Roman numerals to analyze instead of note names.

Btw, that's a pretty modern thing and requires equal temperament to really work.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bach_Temperament for some speculation about what Bach might have used.
This keeps coming up today!! >=[
It's impossible for your fact and the fact you're replying to both be true. Water is denser than butter, and the nearest star to the sun is about 4.3ly away; if your fact were true, the universe would be a black hole.

A cubic lightyear is about 8.468e+50 liters, and butter weighs 911 g/L, giving the mass of a cubic lightyear of butter to be 7.714348e+50, whose Schwarzchild radius is about 121,103,293 lightyears, about 100x smaller than the radius of the known universe.
A video was shared late on Monday by Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader and the party's IT cell head Amit Malviya, showing Rahul Gandhi serving biscuits from a dog's plate to a Congress leader during the 'Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra'.

Taking to X, formerly Twitter, Malviya wrote in Hindi, "Just a few days ago, Congress President Kharge ji compared the party's booth agents to dogs. And here Rahul Gandhi is feeding biscuits to a dog during his visit, and when the dog does not eat, he gives the same biscuits to his worker. If a party's president and crown prince treat its party workers like dogs, then it is natural for such a party to disappear."
For a society that has utterly failed them in the first place...not a chance in my book.
FAANG compensation range but no benefits and 100x the risk

Make it $8m or $12m and FAANG employees can actually start to justify working on it seriously from a money perspective
Almost all of the laws, most of the time.
That's a good comparison. It strikes me as a visual differentiator as much as anything, which is a shallow purpose. I'd initially assumed that they'd have some grander plans for it, but I assume the lenticular aspect implies that it's not going to be used for any sort of display that isn't inset an inch or two? e.g., it can't show a ghostly reverse view of what someone is seeing, or a visible HUD, or a digital effect (imagine a security guard wearing this, and the display is showing a "scanning, scanning" effect - cool, not useful...).

And another confounding thing is that it might've been a pro feature you introduced after a base model, but if the eventual non-pro edition has a plastic front without Eyesight, and it's cheaper and lighter, most people will be happy about that.

Ultimately, I think they just decided that it was worth the trade-offs to instantly have a headset that looked different and more futuristic than each competitor. They had to make a splash.
Excellent, very well written.
The Botanical Find of the Century
I do reuse them, and I have a load of "proper" bags in the boot of the car. But I can't carry bags around with me on the random off chance that I will go to the shops that morning or afternoon or whatever.

Just let me buy paper ones for the actual cost, and not some price gauging plastic bag.
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