skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your fuel is the outermost layer of your shields (modulo whatever is necessary to keep the fuel in place. But you might use magnetic fields perhaps).

That's basically free shielding: you have to carry the fuel around anyway, so you might as well put it to good use. If you run a nuclear fusion reactor, you won't really lose much of the mass of your fuel, unless you want to. Eg you could use the helium you produce as the reaction mass for your ion drive. (I haven't done the numbers to see how the required mass per second for your ion drive compares to the helium mass per second a nuclear fusion reactor would spit out.)

Because it's a free shield, you don't really get to complain about your shield being gradually consumed.

Of course, you can have some extra shielding further inside. You would keep your water forward of your people, but behind your fuel. So your water would not bear the brunt.

Hydrogen doesn't really get all that radioactive: you can use chemical means to remove any helium or so you might accidentally produce; and hydrogen's isotopes are both pretty short lived and relatively easy to separate. (At least much easier than eg enriching uranium.)

Your water and food is also only a very small fraction of the overall mass of your rocket: as always, the vast majority is made up of fuel.
My old secondary school took the A level physics students to Geneva while it was shutdown, honestly the tour of the place is great. The Antimatter Factory (yep its a building full of horrifically complicated machines with ANTIMATTER FACTORY on the front) is really interesting too.
And bring back the plastic back (albeit using recycled supermarket bags or whatever). The 5c was such a great phone.
Sorry, you're right, they're not independently weird, but they're weird in this context.

Also, while they're not weird for a native speaker, a lot of other languages would also mark the adjunct or head noun somehow to remove any ambiguity.
Mozillas Common Voice Project (https://commonvoice.mozilla.org/en/languages) is creating an open dataset for many minority languages to make it easier to support them in STT systems without legal issues. If you speak one of these languages please consider donating a few minutes of your voice.
Human fossil discovery upends history of Palaeolithic Europe
fwiw, I have tried it and I agree with their assessment. I do think reviews pretty accurately capture the experience of using it.

My only real comparison though is the Quest 2. The fidelity of AVP graphics is through the roof and the eye and hand tracking for focusing on UI elements is very good, smoother and more stable than using a controller on Quest 2.

I don't think you could wear it all day comfortably though, but it won't be long before you can if Apple sticks with it.
I was recently working on getting Golang running on an N64[1]. While the hardware emulation was far from perfect, the easy to use debugger helped me a tremendous amount to get started.

[1]: See https://github.com/embeddedgo/go/pull/6 and https://github.com/clktmr/n64
On a wider scale, this is Scott Alexander's Moloch -- people who ship an Electron app now would outcompete people who would spend and 3x more on writing native clients for each platform in 3 different languages, and 3x as long to polish the codebase.
Postgres doesn't use the primary key for on disk ordering. MySQL does.
The quoted student, who rejects consent of the copied artists and is paralleled to the colonialists of old (in the header image), is... Nigerian.
At least it could theoretically be. Anything outside of that would definitely not be. And at that point the digital cash equivalent will not be considered private. The government has to go above and beyond for people to believe the digital cash would preserve their privacy.
Project Orion being perhaps the logical conclusion of that line of thought.
Historical reasons.

For a long time React was advertised and regarded as "just a UI library", so not having anything bundled with it was a conscious design decision.

End result is that you have an average of three popular solutions for stuff that's normally already included in other frameworks and no two React projects are the same.
We've still got the original Wii and use it with WiiFit and the Balance Board. Some of the games are fairly active too, they get you standing up, jigging around, stretching, and generally moving.

It's great to get feedback on things like their yoga moves, I firmly believe they are good for core strength and balance.

I appreciate it's not as rigid or intense as a gym could be, but it's very handy and fits in as and when we can. I've always been on the same opinion as another poster that "some exercise >>>>> no exercise, and also that moderate exercise >>>>> some exercise".

To put that in context, we're older, comparatively sedentary, and my wife has some medical issues with bone & muscle.
This looks very similar to Vanilla Extract, the API of Panda is exactly the same DX I had using it with React, but I still ended up jumping on the Tailwind bandwagon because I find it just gives me a slight extra boost in productivity and speed, especially when prototyping.
Thank you for highlighting my ignorance of geography :)

Keep up the great work.
Technological stagnation – Why I came around
> we must respect data.

The author is a good 20 years late to the party I'm afraid
It's only half a Twitter. Elon could have bought two...
I bet the Air Force would ask for loads and loads more money so that they could resurrect the MX “racetrack” concept.

https://www.airandspaceforces.com/article/peacekeeper-by-fit...:

“In 1979, Carter acknowledged that fixed-based missiles were “becoming vulnerable to attack” and authorized full-scale development of MX to be deployed in Multiple Protective Shelters, a “shell-game” arrangement in the deserts of Nevada and Utah.

It provided for 200 “racetracks” or long oval roadways. Each of them was a 15-mile closed loop with 23 spur roads leading off of it to concrete and steel shelters. One MX would be assigned to each racetrack, able to take cover in any of the 23 shelters. For arms control verification, the shelters would have a removable “plug” in the roof, to be opened at specific intervals to allow the Soviets to see that there was only one MX per racetrack.

“The system consists of a missile, a transporter or fancy truck, a shelter or concrete bunker, a launcher decoy, and some cheap roads,” said Deputy Undersecretary of Defense Seymour Zeiberg. “For security reasons, a two-and-one-half-acre plot around the shelters will be fenced off. … The fenced area is the same as we use in the Minuteman bases. We expect that farming and grazing can be right up to the fence. … The roads connecting the shelters will be as simple as we can get away with.”

The footprint of the project was significantly greater than that, said local ranchers and farmers who were opposed to it. True, the total “public exclusion zone” was 33 square miles, but the clusters were not bunched together into a single space. The total deployment area took in about 15,000 square miles, some of which might be closed off in times of increased security.

That, along with more than 10,000 miles of connecting and service roads, would change the character of the desert region. Furthermore, the project would use large amounts of water, especially during construction, and deplete scarce ground water reserves. The governors of Nevada and Utah did not want the missiles in their states.“
Do you think it was mispriced then, even given its condition, or did they know exactly what they had? Just wondering if you mean it was a steal, or that the price was right but still rare to find?
NPM used to be reaaaaaallly bad due to lack of lockfiles and how it used to handle diamond dependencies
Added to the propencity of JS projects to have a ton of deps...

It has mostly been sorted out by all package managers. The node_modules debacle is still a hotly contested topic, it creates a lot of problems, but it also solves a lot of them compared to alternative approaches.

Then you have install performance which is mostly fine by now in all package managers, but if you really have problems with it you can use pnpm or yarn2.

As the python ecosystem grows and dependency trees move away from "django only" you can see they having the same types of problems that JS used to have.
> Brave is run by a homophobic, anti-vax crypto clown. I won’t dignify it here with a link.

Who also invented JavaScript so I assume that the blog author has nothing to do with JS. Nope, there's a whole bunch of it running on their site.
That may be the fastest performance of The Flight of the Bumblebee on organ, but that's it. It is fast, but what's the fastest piece? In the context of this article, it is about length, so any organ piece under 53 seconds would be faster (and there are plenty). You could also look at notes per second, but I'm not sure this one would win. There are some crazy dense passages in the organ literature.
Different charity stores have different employees - I presume that is worldwide.

The animal rights charity here has very different volunteers than a religious charity which has very different employees than you find at Red Cross or Habitat For Humanity stores here.

> unhoused people who can only stay in the shelter if they work at the store.

I believe that doesn't exist here in New Zealand. It worry be very difficult to run a charity that way here because employees and tenants have very strong legal rights. I don't know how you could structure it to work - maybe a religious organisation with homeless members of that religion?
This is already an unrealistic thought experiment, since continuous 1g acceleration for 20 years is so ridiculous that it requires a magic engine (i.e. consuming most of the ship mass in a matter-antimatter reaction) so if we're at it, we can also assume magic shielding which will also shield the crew from all that antimatter and its annihilation.

It's not a coincidence that the original post relativistic spaceship doesn't even bother considering larger accelerations than 0.1g, since achieving even that is a wild assumption.
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Quick look at Corel Linux OS,another try to make a competing Windows-like OS
Part 2 is even wilder: https://haseebq.com/farewell-app-academy-hello-airbnb-part-i...
It baffles me why everyone nowadays thinks that whatever OpenAI releases is the first and groundbreaking. The fact is, Whisper is undesirable if you want to deploy it for business.
It doesn’t take long for the morons to appear.
It is generated in it's entirety by GPT. Well 98% is more like it. By the time it's ready, it will have a README. I will announce it on Reddit /r/rust if you are interested.

Something i want to test, is how much documentation is needed, for the machine to infer the rest of it. Something like, one sentence of human documentation + code, how much can LLM infer and describe the code as accurately as possible. Does it need two sentences? 3? We'll see.
OKRs are not merely tools for creating a set of easily game-able measures for performance review bonuses. Rather, they are a strategic framework designed to establish focus, inspire and build cohesion within teams. The essence of OKRs lies in setting ambitious goals (objectives) paired with concrete, measurable actions (key results) to achieve those goals.

This framework encourages teams to think beyond the status quo and strive for exceptional outcomes.

The success of OKRs depends heavily on the culture of the organization and the mindset of its members. They require a team that is not only willing but eager to tackle ambitious challenges—teams that view 'impossible' goals not as deterrents but as opportunities for innovation and growth. This mindset shift, from seeing goals as mere targets to viewing them as a path to organizational and personal development, is what differentiates OKRs from other goal-setting methodologies.

Furthermore, the keywords 'functional' and 'team' are critical. A functional team, in this context, means a group of individuals with a clear understanding of their roles, responsibilities, and how they contribute to the collective objectives. The term 'team' emphasizes collaboration and shared responsibility for outcomes. OKRs are most effective when they are embedded within a culture that values transparency, accountability, and continuous learning.

You may argue that OKRs can be manipulated for short-term gains or to superficially meet targets. However, this criticism overlooks the fundamental purpose of OKRs, which is not just to achieve specific metrics but to foster a culture of ambition and continuous improvement. When implemented with integrity and supported by effective leadership, OKRs can transform the way organizations approach their goals, driving innovation and performance across all levels.

If you don't have a cohesive functional team, you have bigger cultural problems to solve than OKRs implementation.
Thanks for linking the Bitcoin talk I’ll check it out.
TLDR; Network effects apply to languages making it valuable to know a common language
We developed a tool that lets you kind of understand other people if the audio quality is sufficient.
With further training we can openly communicate with each other without fear of misunderstanding.

Obviously it has to be racist...
It doesn't matter what technique you use if you use it poorly.
You'd think the race as politics people would get tired of generating these strange contradictions that they must formulate increasingly elaborate explanations for, but it's a fun little evergreen enterprise I suppose.
You can make this more educative by showing 4 or 5 options to choose from for a particular country.
> Whisper is undesirable if you want to deploy it for business.

Why is that?
I always thought that fine tuning is more like getting a style rather than memorizing information word to word or at least the facts. What are the next steps to ensure that it doesn't start pulling info from the base knowledge and reference the docs instead?
How long does it usually take to train? 10-15 minutes on what doc size?
How about this: because we are capable of the (potentially motivational) conscious feeling anger, relying on the unconscious emotion anger has questionable utility?

(affect and mood may be well defined within a discipline, but cursory googling seems to reveal substantial interdisciplinary inconsistency)
Corporate boards are a notoriously small world. These are buddy deals. Global corporations reap structural harvests and the guy who gets to be on top gets the prize. Their network is their biggest asset. It helps a corporation to have well connected board members, CEOs and directors, sure. So they get paid for it. Network effects -> winner takes all.
The site is trying to load a script that is failing: https://plausible.io/js/script.js
Maybe it’s related… training contents (page Learn) do not seem to work.
Who wants to hire the most adversarial person alive? yeah a company is not your friend and you should get as much as possible there is a point that you make yourself unhireble by showing that you are so mercenary that you'll be out the door the instant an x+1$ offer arrives.
Remove your doomer glasses and be a bit more objective in assessing your countries achievements. Listening to your kind of folk you'd wonder why people risk their lives to migrate here if it was such a hellscape. Some countries are doing what yours did 3 generations ago right now and they don't have a tenth of your inherited guilt, nor a tenth of the media presence
> I think the biggest benefit of craftsmanship is actually flexibility.

Exactly. Take the craftsmanship of floating things on water. Yes you will be able to assemble a raft and you might far with it, but you will have a better/safer ride if you have a craftsman who knows what's needed and may invent something useful for this journey.
FWIW I agree with you on literally every single point. Where we may differ is I also see far more viable threats. It's not just nukes but biological weapons (which could very easily prove a far greater threat than nukes) and then the countless number of ever-creative ways that the universe has to kill us: asteroids, super volcanoes, unfortunate gamma ray burst, etc. It seems fairly safe to say that all those living on any planet, anywhere, will inevitably face an extinction level event.

The only way to beat the game is to expand. We've lost countless civilizations on Earth, but we thrive yet because we spread far and wide. The same will be true on a planetary scale. WW3 will not only likely set back humanity many decades, if not centuries, but it's not like that it will be the War to End All Wars. As we start to regrow, tensions and conflicts will once again emerge, and we'll be back to killing each other en masse soon enough, repeating the cycle all over again.

The fact that our reaching the window in time to viably consider expanding to other planets corresponds basically perfectly to the window in time which we become capable of exterminating ourselves probably goes a long way towards explaining the Fermi Paradox. I doubt power seeking behavior is unique to our species. And war has the allure of power, control, wealth, and all that. And colonizing an inhospitable rock has, to most, all the allure of punching oneself in the face.
Tox is by far the most stable in my experience.

It's the only one that is truly decentralized -- no DNS, no WebPKI, no Tor "authorities". Its DHT is rock solid, second only to bittorrent's. And Tox's NAT-holepunching capabilities are amazing, due to the way they're integrated with the DHT.

Tox was being used for a lot of the stuff that people think Tailscale invented -- five years ago.
Bank would probably prefer if they could lock that websi5e down as well.
> only thing I can think about is that to build that structure in space you have to be sure to suppress any missile from Earth and to win the war that your enemies will fight against you down here.

Absolutely. There are many technologies where if your enemy manages to create it you are already in an un-winnable situation. For example nuclear warheads pre-positioned in orbit with solid reentry boosters. If you have that you can nuke anyone with seconds of warning. The correct counter to this strategy from your enemy is to kill you before you can implement this plan.

Because of that you will want to sneak it by your enemy. But with this… even that is hard. Surely they will see when you light up this much energy generation no matter how sneaky you built it up? Unless you provide some plausible explanation, like hide it in an active carbon capture scheme or something.

Or you might build it in such a way as to avoid attribution. For example make a very stealthy von-neumann probe launched at the asteroid belt designed to reconfigure matter there for solar power harvesting and build this particle accelerator in-situ. You can disguise the initual launch as a failed interplanetary mission perhaps. And when it lights up pretend you didn’t know who did it?
It's not unexpected that it is biased to the language of its creators. I'd expect similar results from Chinese AI, etc.

The question is it reasonable for English speakers with a generally European heritage to be the stewards of niche world cultures?

That seems like quite the burden, which is the opposite of strength.
Yeah the OTA update bit is not great. I wish they'd package a version with Magisk bundled.

Anyway I use Microg and don't have any google services on my phone so it's worth it.
I don't think Lineage want to work for a device manufacturer, that's how it got formed in the first place.
They don’t move to cheaper locations though, because the work quality would suffer. So far, I’ve only seen one group of people laid off in Poland and their jobs moved to India - DB admins. The company deemed the job simple enough to risk moving it to an outsourced Indian sweatshop. The results were terrible BTW.

Also, your experience is very different than mine, I’ve never meet anyone working in Poland doing coding for a company abroad thinking they’re some kind of entrepreneur. They’re not delusional, they know that they’re just doing a job, selling themselves to a highest bidder like everybody else.
The Wiifit Balance Board is very cool and one of the very very rare cases where I tried to play with the hardware. I went through blog article after blog article, trying to figure out why I couldn't connect to it through Linux.

Then I realized there was already a proper device driver made years ago and the blog articles were vastly out of date. You can get the data directly using evdev on linux w/ Python.

It was such a fun device for a project too, my daughters enjoyed jumping on the balance board just to see what numbers it would toss out.

I'm pretty sure it wouldn't be that hard to use it to develop balance games for Linux - the only problem is with battery life and the annoyance when pairing it.
Whisper is not a mature enough to be criticized at this level. They are trying to solve a very hard problem, give them constructive feedback.

IPhone didn't support 100s of languages in the first few years.

The author is either entitled or resentful; neither helps.
This article has an interesting premise (mindless data collection by big tech companies leading to very incorrect recreations of still existing cultures and languages "for show"/themeparking) but about midway through it becomes a bit of a mess in order to complain about certain pieces of tech/demands for the Maori to control every tech related aspect to innovation that could so much as touch on their language, that don't feel like they have as much substance.

Granted, looking at the website itself, this is likely because the article is chiefly meant to promote the organization the website belongs to, which is related to Maori language/culture preservation.

One interesting direction I think this article could've gone in is to focus more on what these sorts of mindless recreations can look like; the Scottish Wikipedia was largely edited by one American teenager and it resulted in a wiki that resembled "English ran through what a foreigner thinks is Scottish" more than actual Scottish. That's a real harm that only occurred because the Scottish Wikipedia doesn't seem to have been administered with a lot of attention given to it (because Wikipedia loves launching projects in all languages without really doing the legwork to establish a base for it). That's something that you can use to underpin why it's so important to have native speakers in these sorts of processes rather than jumping to demands that don't feel like they're as well build as the initial complaint against Whisper.
A ton of NodeJS modules are not part of V8 at all, like "fs" or "path" because those don't really make sense in a browser context. Basically everything that is not a W3C standard is probably not implemented in V8.

Like, for example, I recently found out that there are 3 separate ReadbleStream objects in NodeJS, one from "stream" (older one used in Request), one from "stream/web" (W3C standard, used by global.fetch()) and another one I forgot where it comes from. It doesn't help that two of them have the same name and you run into errors like "ReadableStream is not of type ReadableStream".

I assume the one from "stream/web" directly calls into V8 APIs because since it is a standard it would be implemented in V8 (it is used in the browser's window.fetch() after all). While the one from "stream" is built and maintained by NodeJS Foundation.

It is not really reasonable to expect the NodeJS Foundation to have enough resources to optimise all this modules to the max. And the W3C doesn't seem interested in building standards for server-side only things.
I work from home. I’m not sure there’s anything that could convince me to go back to an office. All the things you listed have been huge for my family and my life. I get to spend a lot more time with my kid and my wife because I’m not away for 10-12 hours a day.

I guess some insane level of compensation - something that’d convince me I’d be retiring 15-20 years earlier. Even then, I’m not sure I could justify it.