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> Even if SpaceX will do orbital re-fueling, it's just two-three launches, why would you need more?

Wikipedia says Starship weights 120 ton empty and 1320 ton fueled, plus 100 ton payload (approximate numbers). That means fuel weights 1200 ton. So to carry fuel to LEO to fuel up a Starship you need 1200 / 100 = 12 flights. You can change this number maybe 2 times into both directions, but I doubt you'll fuel Starship with just 2 or 3 flights of tankers. Would be glad to err here.
Some more discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40600052
Zapatistas are organized Indigenous Americans, they are fighting against genocide. Why for you people who fight for their own survival are bandits? Do you think that people who were committing the genocide are fine? Do you approve of genocide of Indigenous Americans? If so, then that's disgusting.
Right but that license doesn't seem too bad as long as you don't get to 100 million users.
Evading the WiFi Router Ban
It's very loud, at least it's my impression. It's louder when I am tired, or after listening to some music.
If you're a Windows user, are you planning to move to another OS? IF so, which one?
Someone once told me that they always answered this question with "shitting myself down by the train tracks".
According to xkcd there’s 10,000 potential new cheating teenagers every day. It’s just inevitable
This is not true and very ignorant. Linux has huge marketshare especially across server space where NVidia cards are used also. Furthermore plenty of people run Linux desktops that would be affected by this.

Consumer harm comes when there is intention to control consumer choice. Since Linux isn’t the biggest platform, but a major choice: It is therefor harmful for Nvidia to not support it properly.

Check your bias.
It's extremely contrived and deus-ex-machina all the way through.

The "history" the show goes over is crammed into it's Drama first story. The history is there for nostalgia bait, not to celebrate the history or educate. That's why pretty much everything interesting that happened in computing was mangled into coming from the same like 5 people.

And the characters are all just narcissistic assholes who are self destructive because it means the show gets to carry on for another season. It also has the cliche density to feel like a high schooler's homework project.

If you find yourself addicted to reality TV drama, you will enjoy it.

Imagine if you tried to take "It's always sunny in Philadelphia" seriously, and also were watching it because you cared about Philadelphia history. I felt actively patronized the whole time.
On the other hand, often a "quick and dirty" solution unexpectedly becomes the foundation of a lot of other stuff, which can be a persistent pain in the future, while the cost of rewriting the whole thing increases the more other stuff depends on it.

There are two poles: On the one side is making everything an unmaintainable pile of quick hacks, on the other side is over engineering everything. You want to be somewhere in the middle.
You are probably right about the bypass network, but I don't see why ROB or decode would need to increase. Aren't avx512 instructions only "split" when already at a pipe in zen4?
Also, my understanding was that the cpu can schedule avx2 instructions to the upper and lower part of the 512 wide pipes.
Are fine with oppression and exploitation of other humans? Is that okay according to your morals and ideals?
I'm Canadian and I don't think this makes sense at all. Netflix (etc) isn't a TV station or a radio station broadcasting cultural programming on the airwaves, it's a self-serve library of digital content you pay to access for as long as you want to have access to whatever you choose to access. What makes that so different from a bookstore or membership-based physical library?
Well, performance isn't the issue. Like the parent said, the problem is mostly that CUDA is such a radically mature API and everything else isn't. You might be able to reimplement all the PCIe operations using OpenCL, but how long would that take and who would sponsor the work? Nvidia simply does it, because they know the work is valuable to their customers and will add to their vertical integration.

OpenCL isn't bad, and I'd love to see it get to the point where it competes with CUDA as originally intended. The peaceable sentiment of "let's work together to kill the big bad demon" seems to be dead today, though. Everyone would rather sell their own CUDA-killer than work together to defeat it.
I wonder how much of this is a selection bias of people already set on having a family choosing to settle in such a place. E.g. Tokyo population increases, Japan population decreases. Aside from the Czech example it doesn't seem like much was accomplished.
I wear hearing protection pretty regularly for work. It's astonishing how loud riding the subway was after becoming more attuned to loud noise and doing what I could to mitigate it. Ditto concerts. The level they turn the music up to is nuts.
Something interesting might be to mix in object detection in images, for something like:

`lsix --search cat`

And find all the images that contain cats.
You might enjoy https://lite.cnn.com/ also.
I yell Akin's laws to any new coworker like a drill sargent.
Well, we know a couple of things that Nvidia is uniquely positioned to be able to use to prevent others from competing:

* they're taking action to prevent others from making other GPUs compatible with CUDA

* they're buying up foundry and packaging capacity

It's probably likely that there's execs at Nvidia who know these things are good for them and bad for their competitions and have explained it in some internal emails...
I mean that the number 0 specifically can be written by empty string, so that we would count like

"", "1", "2", "3", "4", ..., "9", "10", "11", "12", ..., "99", "100", "101", ...

The only change is the empty string being a valid name for a number (the number zero).

I don't mean to suggest getting rid of place value or the digit 0! This is more like making the place value system more consistent with respect to a corner case.

And the practical reason that we can't make this change is that we don't have a way to distinguish in writing between the absence of any string and the presence of the empty string.
Ask HN: Does Windows Recall help people with OCD?
Maybe this feature should be put under "accessibility" if so?
On that, if you orient the ship so that the rear is pointed directly at the sun (trivial to do once you're coasting) you'll have a hundred feet of liquid fuel and other solid material which will block the primary source of radiation (the sun).
Nothing's next phone will be all about AI
I don't think hellishly dense cities even exist. There's only hellishly dense neighborhoods and slums. The stereotype some people have is the densest 12 square blocks of Hong Kong extrapolated to the overall size of Hong Kong. Yet if you visit Hong Kong you will find yourself taking a pleasant walk from your hotel, through a park, to a restaurant.

Click any link on the list of densest cities[1] and you will see a lot of low-rises and parks in every one. The ones that are actually hellish are the ones that are car-centric. Dense cities are quite pleasant when you're walking.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_proper_by_popul...
How do you deal with a situation where some people don't have any land anymore to put their houses there?
What is it about movies and series that encourages people to spend the majority of their time watching them rather than creating their own content. I started thinking about this question because I had been watching a lot of episodes of a show named Rising Dion, and later in the evening I still had plenty of energy to watch a film. I noticed that people often have ample time to watch TV or engage in activities that do not contribute value to their lives, yet they invest a significant amount of time debating over who is the superior actor or character in a movie
So it seems that you found a database of PNG images associated with stock tickers, and added favicon scraping, and then put it together with the false promise of "high resolution logos", when I get severely mixed results and a lot of errors when it can't handle a favicon.

I mean, it works, good job at that at least, but it doesn't work well and it doesn't seem useful.
You can read up on Mars Direct for more info.

The gist of it is that the Saturn V has enough delta v to get to Mars, on the count of Mars having an atmosphere, which can be used for aerobraking.

Given the capability of reaching Mars with a Saturn V, the rest of the plan revolved around using Apollo hardware, with some modification, for both transport and habitats(re-use of empty stages featured prominently).

Ultimately even if we had hit some roadblock with martian soil or what have you, in an alternate timeline we could have at least sent uncrewed test flights to Mars and back.
It's a custom system that they built themselves - see Twitter thread: https://twitter.com/deepfates/status/1798578490759078263
A human illustrator can also copy existing works. As a result they are not criminalized for making other non-copies. The output of an AI needs to be considered independently of its input. Further, the folly of copyright ought to be also considered, since no work -- whether solely human in origin (such as speech, unaccompanied song, dance etc.) or built with technological prosthesis/instrumentality -- is ever made in a cultural vacuum. All art is interdependent. Copyright exists to allow art (in the general sense) to be compensated for. But copyright has grown into a voracious entitlement for deeply monied interests, and has long intruded upon the commons and fair use.
Yeah it looks like it is from what I can tell, but it doesn't seem possible to download it and flash yourself, you have to buy a phone with it preinstalled.

At least I couldn't find a download link.

The flagship phone looks like it is a Google pixel.

I wonder why they don't offer that option to flash to supported phones, I doubt they are making a huge profit on the devices, over the subscription.

Would be fun for kids (or maybe more for adults) to try bypass the restrictions :)

I wonder if you could launch that hidden android browser through contacts.

I'm half joking though, probably out of scope for a ~10 year old. I think this is a great idea for that kid where all their friends have a phone and you can't say mo.

I'm not at that stage yet so can't really comment on that dilemma.
True. Writing beautiful code that is easy to reason about is a skill. Just like writing prose, it comes with experience. One can try multiple programming languages and still suck at it; It is not language-dependent art. I've seen horrible code in languages I know well, and I've seen beautiful code in PLs I have no idea how to write idiomatic structures in.
It is achievable with existing technology and materials. We would need something like an industrial lunar base to get material cheap into orbit, though.
> For most of our history humans did not have to pay for a piece of land to put up some yurt or hut and live there.

In those same times, anyone that wandered by who was stronger could simply kill them and take over the yurt, until someone stronger showed and killed them in turn.

Not a great way to live, and not a very long life.
We'll just have to see. Do you think that will still be true when compliant Vulkan 1.3 drivers exist, and Asahi users get to play anticheat-enabled online games?

I remember a lot of Mac users that paid for Bootcamp for this very purpose, back in the day. It might even be more appealing since Asahi is free.
Did you try to listen to MIT's 40Hz waves on headphones for 15-30 minutes?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVne_84qZkA
At times I'm wondering if the Cicada emergence (17 year brood here) is masking tinnitus or if tinnitus will mask the cicadas.

As they get louder, I can easily hear them over tinnitus. The cicada sound itself is interesting. Distant ones combine to make a sort of steady hum, almost a whistling noise. Ones that are close by make a distinctive sharp wavering buzzing noise. The sounds are distinctive and there doesn't seem to be any in between.
SAM is probably my favorite way to do it myself. Easy enough to wrap your function up however you please and it automatically handles zipping for me. Can even do layers for my dependencies.
Travels With Myself and Another by Martha Gellhorn is acctually one of my favourite books...

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/925368.Travels_With_Myse...
Invasive species aren't 'invasive' for invading human space. They're invasive for invading other species space.
> The path is rarely useful and almost always "."

What, no.

I will easily type out `find` invocations dozens/hundreds of time per workday over years and the fact that it requires the path as the first argument and won't accept it as last _still_ trips me up and is my one major gripe.
> My prediction that they quickly will go to specialized LEO-LMO vehicles with LEO re-fueling.

Two comments here. First, we assume now SpaceX is going to have Starship HLS - human landing system - which doesn't go back to Earth, doesn't have flaps or heat shield, and is going to be used between low Moon orbit (LMO) and Moon surface - maybe one roundtrip, maybe more. Yes, for each following roundtrip HLS needs to be refueled.

Second, Musk mentioned "Moon base Alpha" in his talk. Having a serious Moon base makes it possible to produce some of propellants there. Oxygen is plentiful in the form of oxides on the Moon, and by mass it's 2/3 - 3/4 of the propellant load of the Starship, so it might be useful to produce it on the Moon.
Ah yes, a public company is somehow conducting a super sophisticated and secretive propaganda campaign.

I guess you're not a fan of Occam's razor? The simplest explanation here seems pretty straightforward, and no, it doesn't involve some NYT conspiratorial behavior.
How dare you use "dehumanizing" rhetoric against me, you far-right neo-fascist! That's rude!

The thing about hypocrisy is that it reveals that you think you are superior to others and therefore entitled to rule over them using whatever means necessary, including dishonesty and, ultimately, force. It is the definition of anti-social and is considered unacceptable in society for good reason.

The mind is much like a computer: garbage in, garbage out. You have essentially been mis- (or mal-) programmed. If you were to free your mind of these destructive ideas, you could live a freer, happier life and contribute to society instead of trying to destroy it. Make the choice if you still can, for the longer you hold on to evil, the stronger its grasp on you.
:). sometimes things are too funny here, i must confess.
But that would rob you of the little a-ha moment when you realize the subversion :(
The term "invasive species" never made sense to me. It just means something can evolutionary outcompete other things, because it is better at utilizing that environment.

Basically putting a label on things we don't like.
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There are many natural ecosystems being wiped out by invasive species that do not have human presence.

https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/invasive-s...

But humans are almost always the reason for the introduction of invasive species either by accident or purpose.
I could call you small minded for thinking only of advances in rocket technology, and ignoring the negative aspects of advancing Musk's power and influence. Should I?
I am comparing where the quality titles live. I (and most people who have the freedom of choosing) do not even pay a second thought to those shitty mobile casino apps.

Crazy stuff like that happens, when you have access to quality entertainment and not drip-feed gatcha games.
As an EE I’ve shown my kids how the sausage is made. While they will start out their free time with a screen, they have adopted a habit of budgeting time for other things.
The horrible/non-support of openCL is why I thoroughly support the government looking into Nvidia's monopoly practices.
Even more, Apple tried to block the Laser 128 and failed, since VTech didn't actually do anything illegal; they reverse engineered the Apple APIs and licensed BASIC directly from Microsoft.

They were actually pretty cool computers; half the price of the name brand Apple while being mostly fully compatible with all the software. I've only played with one once, but I thought it was pretty cool. Sad that VTech only makes crappy kids toys now.
How is that different to the current society, except that now if you put up a yurt somewhere you will get harassed by police?
Tech tycoon Mike Lynch cleared of all fraud charges in Hewlett-Packard trial
Works != supported
I imagine this is what happened to Columbia
Surprised he used the Jaws example when the clearest case of what he is talking about is what I refer to as the Tragedy of George Lucas.

The first star wars trilogy, but especially the first movie, was extremely budget constrained to the point where Lucas had to exchange his own salary for merchandising rights (an accidentally brilliant move), and they did the best with what they had. decades later, he decides that now he has the budget to make them the way he really wanted to, he goes and makes major changes with CGI and destroys the original copies, which can only really be found in unaltered digital form on underground sites.

Then the prequels come and it's very obvious he had unlimited budget and creative control, and the result just simply was not even close to good, or at the very least not even close to the magic of the original trilogy. Giving creators unlimited control seems to have great capacity to end very poorly.
MKULTRA was nominally for the purposes of information extraction from unwilling targets, creating sleeper agents, and blackmailing/brainwashing foreign citizens/adversaries.

And was done by the CIA.

And while in hindsight it was pretty dubious if it was going to be effective, given the mindset and knowledge of the time? Plausible.

It fits under the umbrella of dirty tricks well enough to hang it at the feet of espionage to me. It was certainly gov’t sanctioned (by some definition). What else are we going to call it? ‘Frat boys misbehaving’ doesn’t give it the proper weight.
Every other nation has cell phones so I fail to see how the cell phone argument holds water.

Also the safety of speed for a given environment should include pedestrians. Many advocates for urban areas rightfully push for 25 mph limits for exactly that reason. If you want to successfully convert in town urban roads that are wide and have high speeds to 25mph there are two good options: speed calming measures or speed cameras.
I don't have exact domain knowledge but I'm fairly certain this type of tech has already been employed to do some of the heavy lifting for radiologists reviewing imaging results.
German energy policy has consistently centered around making sure all viable forms of energy productions are either illegal or outsourced to China.

Whatever the energy source, the German government has found a way to sabotage it.
Caroline Moorehead has a pretty well written biography on her called: "Martha Gellhorn: A Life".

It's a pretty even-keeled look at Gellhorn and Hemingway, peeling back the layers of personality and some of the mythos to reveal how they were not always nice people to be around (although, Hemingway does come across as particularly boorish). Gellhorn was incredibly precocious and driven and often hard-headed. The sheer distance she traveled in her life and the things she got up to were almost impossible for your average woman in America to fathom at that time. She probably needed to adopt a near insane sense of self-confidence to go through with some of the things. She had incredible expectations for herself and, unfortunately, the later years of her life never seemed to match what she wanted out of her life and come across as quite depressing. Then again, few birth-to-death biographies have entertaining later years.
> Yeah, so indeed it's important to organize self-defense groups that can help you not get hurt or enslaved.

Did you realize you just came up with the system you were opposing?

We can organize into some groups, let's call them countries, with an organized self-defense groups, we can call them police and military, to prevent our yurts from being stolen.
Finance 4.0: How Quantum Computing Will Transform Financial Services
As a programmer, I'm thinking about fleeing GitHub for similar reasons. :C
The US has significant lithium reserves current state, enough to replace every car and truck on the road today with an EV.

To continue to rely on China for lithium is a choice. Global decoupling continues.

https://insideclimatenews.org/news/29052024/pennsylvania-fra...

https://www.chemistryworld.com/news/lithium-discovery-in-us-...

https://www.rechargenews.com/wind/once-in-a-generation-us-co...
As an aside getauxval(3) allows access to AT_RANDOM which is "the address of sixteen bytes containing a random value."
In my opinion it is extremely stupid to use Windows Desktop for kiosks. There are always ways to crash or minimize the kioks app. Then you are on the loose.

With Linux and X, it is possible to run X server with a specific app inside. You crash the app, it restarts together with X server.

Of course, in Windows you can specify a different app other than Explorer.exe as "shell" and get a single app session! It just doesn't get used because:

Unfortunately, these systems seem to always been developed by especially clueless people who only ever have seen hammers in their lives and therefore everything looks like nails.

Having said that, the quality of embedded programming always looks subpar. It's like these people see themselves as hardware makers and therefore think they can avoid learning software making 101.
Migrating from Emacs lsp-mode to Eglot
Also the types of roads the Romans were building wouldn’t be particularly useful or pleasant to use.
How do you define abandoned? If I leave for 1 day is that abandoned? What about 1 week, 1 month or 1 year?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moravec's_paradox has bad news for you.
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SpaceX's massive Starship rocket records first successful test flight
Ive been sorta following together.ai for a while. Cool company. Is this available to be used by anyone atm? Could I potentially use the model to look at my own chest xrays (I've had a lot)?
Also blocked by ClownFlare. Mirror: https://archive.md/pwxfk
Because it is very intersting knowledge?
It wasn't Google, AMD and Intel's job to improve the developer experience. You can chew them out for bad drivers, but they did improve and now AMD and Intel's OpenCL implementations are the reference-quality ones.

Again, you can blame everyone else for doing their own thing but the project only has one father that could estrange it. Apple's blindness killing OpenCL makes everything in Microsoft and Google's graveyard look reasonable by comparison. If Apple wants a repeat of the Metal for gaming situation in AI, they are more than welcome to self-sabotage themselves until they run out of energy.
> which is the highest form of doing nothing

If you can show me how to pay the mortgage by doing nothing, I'd love to know.
This growth pattern has been documented pretty well? I used to teach it in undergrad courses.

Autism spectrum issues are associated with overgrowth and then deceleration more than normal. This seems like a hyperexperimental version of it. Still interesting and good to see corroborating evidence, also useful as a model for therapies and other things.
For clarity, that portion after the : is the blog post title, the prefix was added to the submission, so they're kind of disjoint

One will also want to temper their expectations per https://github.com/FractalFir/rustc_codegen_clr#current-stat... (MIT & Apache 2)