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>but assuming constant acceleration

it isn't realistic assumption. Until you're talking pure solar, the amount of acceleration is limited by the reaction mass available. Actually to get there in 10 years with the Isp 3500 3 stages are necessary, or better the Isp should be increased 2x-4x - still seems doable - to get with like 2 stages with realistic [today] parameters of the reactors/etc.
That depends greatly on where you are. The US is a very mixed bag, especially when you consider the state of many of our bridges and overpasses.

Even at the state level, Louisiana is an interesting case. They're better now, but for quite a few years their roads went to shit because they refused to increase the legal drinking age and the federal government pulled funding.
I do it often, to get a draft down or an edit done. But not really from blank file to published post.
Hamas is a symptom of desperation. It certainly is not acting in the best interest of Gazans and they are suffering due to that.

But on the other hand, diplomacy has not been an effective tool for Gazans and, as all signs indicate, it never will. Not at least until US withdraws its unconditional support for Israel.

With status quo, Gazans have the choice to lie down and die or continue living under deplorable conditions under a military occupation, as Israel slowly annexes the land that, under international law, doesn’t belong to them.
Boox is dodgy, but everyone I know that has one loves them. I wouldn't expect any Chinese company to respect GPLs. Although, I've seen people on Reddit say they can have QA issues, and if you receive that unit you're likely SOL, this is the only reason that I've been hesitant to spend money on one. I've also been eyeing this new company, daylight, that has a 60hz refresh rate with what I think is E-Ink[0]. Their website says E-Paper, not sure if that's different from E-Ink. Unfortunately, they've always been on wait list months out every time I've looked.

https://daylightcomputer.com/product
> Minor correction (I'm assuming it was a typo) -- the secret for the passkey should be the private key

Yeah, I meant "public key" in the sense of "public-key cryptography". I've edited the comment to make this clearer. Thanks for pointing that out.

> Based on my (limited) understanding from reading the page: 1. Server generates challenge, sends a challenge 2. User device signs the challenge by encrypting with its private key, returns the signature. 3. Server verifies the signature by decrypting with the public key.

That is almost exactly right, but since we're being precise here, I would just pick on this one very minor nit:

> User device signs the challenge by encrypting with its private key

> Server verifies the signature by decrypting with the public key

"Signing/verification" and "encrypting/decrypting" are two completely different things. In RSA these are conflated, but it's important not to confuse them. With elliptic curves, these have nothing to do with each other. It's just a peculiarity of RSA that makes it encrypt/decrypt to do digital signatures.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_Colossus

The immigration has always existed, laws of it shifted, and AFAIK the current level of illegal immigration is not that high. So it's not really a large economical or humanitarian problem, and looks like it's much bigger political one.
I'm still trying to figure out which side to be on. On one hand I agree with you - there would be little modern art if it wasn't for centuries of preceding inspiration.

On the other hand, at least one suit was making headway as of 2024-08-14, about 2 months ago [0]. It seems like there must be some merit to GPs claim if this is moving forward. But again, I'm still trying to figure out where to stand.

[0] https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/08/artists-claim-bi...
Looks great! Is speaker diarization supported?
I am happy with the current situation. Airlines are segmented so that people like me can fly spirit or frontier for rock bottom rates and people who want to enjoy the flight can fly delta or whoever.
> In seeking to remove offending files with a simple deletion instead of a rebase, Winamp kept it available to those who know Git mechanics

"Those who know Git mechanics" in this case is talking about extremely simple Git mechanics. Those who know more advanced Git mechanics would know that even a rebase is not sufficient to solve the problem of having pushed up secrets.

Aside from the obvious problem of all the forks and previously-cloned copies, the offending commits will still also be available on GitHub (at least until the next garbage collection), they'll just have the message "This commit does not belong to any branch on this repository, and may belong to a fork outside of the repository."

Any links that include the old hash will still be available online and will still turn up the code you tried to delete.
Unfortunately FPGA fabric is ~2x less power efficient than equivalent ASIC logic at the same clock speeds last time I checked. So implementing general purpose logic on an FPGA is not usually the right option even if you don’t care about FMAX or transistor counts.
Not really. To get extra CPU performance that likely means more cores, or some other general compute silicon. That stuff tends to be quite big, simply because it’s so flexible.

NPUs focus on one specific type of computation, matrix multiplication, and usually with low precision integers, because that’s all a neural net needs. That vast reduction in flexibility means you can take lots of shortcuts in your design, allowing you cram more compute into a smaller footprint.

If you look at the M1 chip[1], you can see the entire 16-Neural engine has a foot print about the size of 4 performance cores (excluding their caches). It’s not perfect comparison, without numbers on what the performance core can achieve in terms of ops/second vs the Neural Engine. But it seems reasonable to be that the Neural Engine and handily outperform the performance core complex when doing matmul operations.

[1] https://www.anandtech.com/show/16226/apple-silicon-m1-a14-de...
Why restrict the definition to political censorship? Surely there are such things as academic censorship, religious censorship, etc.
i'm not really sure what benefit you think they're gaining by breaking the less convenient, less user-friendly way to sideload books.

They're perfectly happy to let you email books to the kindle that you bought at other stores (or stole), as well as sync your progress with those books, backup those books to their servers, and generally have the full reading experience with all the benefits of the kindle ecosystem even if you didn't buy the book through kindle. If they didn't want to encourage the use of third-party files, surely they'd make it more difficult than a bug that randomly deletes books off some people's kindles sometimes.
> It's a problem for anything where you need to manually keep backups of key material.

Well, OK, but what is the alternative?

(Actually, you don't need to manually keep backups. You can have automatic backups, but those come with their own set of risks.)
There's a question of degree for sure. Though for one example, the US heavily subsidies certain corners of the farming industry. The industry also has a heavy hand in lobbying and buying politicians so its somewhat up to opinion on which came first and whether it looks more communist or more fascist.

Boeing is another good example in my opinion. Again they aren't technically owned by the state, but the connection between the two is undeniable.

Utility companies in the US are also functionally owned by the state.

My point was never that most western countries are communist. I tried to be really clear in my GP comment that I was talking specifically about state programs that have many characteristics that overlap with communism.

edit to add the obvious one I missed: healthcare. Depending on the country, either the government took over the healthcare industry, the industry captured government regulation, or you have the worst of both worlds in the US where we somehow saw both sides take part in capturing parts of the other (and really ruining the whole system).
Everybody mocks me when I say this. But the most productive people in the world spent their time doing what they thought was fun.

It’s like our biology is smarter than us. If it’s fun our brains are telling us there’s something about it we need. It’s like when you think a girl is cute for the first time. There’s no logic in it to you, but it’s the most logical thing in the world, that’s why it’s fun.

Hans Zimmer used to just like play with all kinds of stuff when he was young just to see what it would sound like.

I listened to an intel exec (after pat came back) and he talked about how he was disassembling and reassembling the house electronics as a kid.

Or me - I would just code for fun and my dad got me some books on it. I hardly ever did any school on it.

If we let kids just do what they want and have fun, I think they would get good at what they love and have fulfilling careers.

If you have to do what your told your whole life - who even wants to live it?

So maybe we just let kids have their freedom. I know it sounds crazy but what if we applied the rights to life liberty and pursuit of happiness to them? I think they would amaze us. Kids are so clever, I think we would have so much creativity our minds would be blown!

To conclude I think that we have a dearth of people who know what to do. So many employees and fewer small businesses. I think if we give kids freedom, the chance to figure out what they like doing, and how to do it, as adults they will be able to start businesses better and manage them.

Just my thoughts!
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Alternative conjecture.

People give more consistently in more pro-social societies. But those societies are poorer, with lower percentage of computer ownership and programming skills. So they give things like care and food.

Trying to spin the west as the place where altruism is most prevalent seems incorrect. More data needed.
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It would be considered "the right thing" to do something that's so common you probably want it without asking. I don't think CADR would check for NIL since it's meant to be equivalent to (car (cdr x)), so if you wanted a safe list operation you would have to check it like this: (I'll use CADADR because it makes the issue more apparent)

(and (car x)
(cadr x)
(cadar x)
(cadadr x))

You would have to write this every time you want to see if there's a really CADADR, whereas if CAR and CDR can return NIL then you can just write (cadadr x) and CADADR can still be defined as (car (cdr (car (cdr x)))) and have the desired behaviour.
Thank you so much for making this.

I am still figuring out how exactly the filter works. The guide you linked is great, but I was confused how to replicate the steps in your editor.

Fur purposes of playing around, it would be great if you linked some good images/examples. The ones in my download folder are kind of bad.

Also: https://www.youtube.com/@Acerola_t
Well, this is about pumped storage hydroelectric plants, which are not dams. These plants aren’t generally built on rivers because they require much larger water reservoirs.

As with any land development, they require land, of course. But all power grid elements do.
Hard to say without knowing which version of Algol he is referring to. Algol 68 was very different from Algol 58.

Algol 60 was the first language with lexical scope, while Algol 68 was a kitchen-sink language that (positively) influenced Python and (negatively) influenced Pascal.
Thanks. The text size is a bit tricky because preferences differ but will think about it.
i like it. how do you want to monetize?
I upgraded to the pw 5 when it came out and it had the 6.8" screen and I hate it. With the larger screen I can no longer hold it easily with one hand. Looks like this newer version is even bigger :(
I don't even know how to respond to this. Your rants particularly near the end are borderline aggressive. This is not important. Have a good one.
The alternative to BuyBacks doesn't have to be a dividend... But yeah, if those are the only 2 options you're thinking of I could see why this looks emotional and irrational.

I could imagine 2 other possibilities that I like better:

#1, The government could reclaim that money as taxes.
#2, Companies could invest that into R&D and new technologies... Like say, greener planes? That would be really cool for the last 12 years.

There has to be more to life than 'value to the shareholders'. We can do so much better than this as a society.
Is there a difference with a set of scripts that have been carefully reviewed and approved? Those scripts can have parameters, and use authentication to handle the different scenarios.

If a scenario is new, the sysadmins should handle that by changing the scripts or hide it in the CI. Again: approved and reviewed.

And if it hasn’t been approved AND you don’t know what you’re doing, you shouldn’t experiment on the infrastructure of the company and let professionals do their job. I don’t see the added value of Foyle here.

Also:

> As developers today, we often know what we need to do but struggle with the how

It’s false. I struggle with what I need to do, and that’s why I talk to product owners, bosses, architects, and employees. Once everything has been clearly defined, the solution is easier to implement. Engineering is about understanding what needs to be done and that’s the hard part.
Yep. Same. Buttons are a must have for me, along with the waterproofing. It was (is) the perfect device aside from going through three of them (replaced via warranty) due to the waterproofing not being as advertised. I am happy I saved the advertisements of folks using in in baths.

Both are features that complement each other. If I can’t read in the rain I don’t want it. This means disabling the touch screen and using the physical buttons to page turn, otherwise you are using hacks like putting it inside a plastic baggie. Haptic buttons would be fine as well, and likely solve some of the waterproof issues along with an update to USB-C charging.

Pondering having someone mule me the last of the Oasis International editions available for sale for when my current Oasis finally dies. I really don’t want to go back to the dark ages of touchscreen only.
Some “aimbots” don't actually assist with the aiming, they just fire the trigger any time the user gets on target.
You already submitted this 4 hours ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41864234
Who is gaming in a competitive game behind a VPN.. I suppose if its your only option, but I don't think this would be a great playing experience.
Hard agree. I’ve been going by the 3 feature rule as well. I’ve seen so many flask projects that end up being poorly integrated django project equivalents. Seems that the entire node ecosystem is the same, until now I guess?
Foreign aid is a very small part of the budget.

But you are right that more local government has advantages over more centralised government. For example, it's easier to change your local government, if you don't like it: just move to the next town over.
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I agree. Gazan civilians had no good options (though, as we've discovered, it was possible for things to get far worse for them than they had been, and I don't think it serves any purpose to sugarcoat that).

Having said that: I don't want to get into 2024 Israeli policy with regards to Gaza, because with this ruling coalition who knows anything, but in the status quo ante of this attack Israel was not in fact slowly annexing the Gaza. (They are slowly annexing the West Bank, to be sure, but these are distinct populations with distinct governance).
> This seemed more like a running "who was bombed today" news feed. Those events are important and meaningful,

I beleive staying informed about world events and geopolitics is important, but some of these stories don't even have that redeeming value. The 4th story is about the death of 5 Russian mountain climbers in Nepal. In what world is that one of the most important stories for a mainstream English speaking audience?

I agree the design of the site is good, but the specific news chosen leaves a lot to be desired.
Let's hypothesize that a would-be administration in a Western country would like to accomplish full Russian-style autocracy relatively quickly. Let's say they have stated publicly that their plan is to go after immigrants first, opposition leaders second. Numerically, these are two small categories, relatively speaking.

The first question is, what about the third and fourth categories? Would they be dissenters in general, or specific kinds (judged to be riskier for the autocratization process) and which?

The second question is, how would they go about identifying them? Are there products and services at Palantir that may have been designed for this goal?
The shoehorning only works if there is buyer demand.

As a company, if customers are willing to pay a premium for a NPU, or if they are unwilling to buy a product without one, it is not your place to say “hey we don’t really believe in the AI hype so we’re going to sell products people don’t want to prove a point”
I think the parent commenter is referring to a general dislike for target="_blank" (i.e. new tab) links. Probably because there's a way to force a link to open in a new tab, but not a consistent way to force it to open in the same tab.
That isn't how laws are supposed to work. You can't make something a nothingburger by calling it one.
HN has always lacked economic and stock market knowledge and instincts generally speaking. Most comments tend to say it’s rigged, evil capitalist, etc. Guessing because hackers generally tend to swing far left and socialist though weird as a lot of founder and entrepreneurs are active on HN as well.

There is a long tradition of show HN were the comments poo poo startups and ideas which end up being huge and the opposite is also true with praise and admiration of failures.
>1. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says North Korea has become directly involved in the war, with a senior Ukrainian intelligence official saying around 3,000 North Korean troops are now in Russia, and are training for deployment to Russian-occupied territories. (Politico)

This is not news this is propaganda, fix your filters if you want people to use your service.
It's mind boggling to me that they wouldn't offer a color version of the Oasis, which is the obvious choice for any real Kindle enthusiast (metal, physical buttons, waterproof, amber light). Not sure who would even buy this color Kindle they came out with.
Except this has been the rhetoric of the Democratic party since 2008. And people are tired of it.

This is not 'gaslighting from a republican troll'. This is legitimate criticism from someone who has been holding their nose and 'voting blue no matter who', for the past 4 election cycles, and wants the Democratic party to wake up and not take their voters for granted. Cause every single time they do this, they have been alienating their voters, and making races that should be slam dunks into 'close calls'.

DJT shouldn't have 'toss up' odds, but Democrats won't grow a pair and deal with him like the felon he is. Instead they keep putting it back to the voters and doing the bare minimum to try and make themselves "slightly better than the worst people on earth"

I want real options, but that doesn't happen until democrats can actually make the legitimate policy changes they've been half-assing for the last 30 years.
> Many games have gone so far as to obfuscate the presence of hackers so that players are less likely to notice them (CoD)!

How does CoD accomplish this, or other games that use similar strategies. I can't wrap my mind around how you could do this effectively while also not identifying hackers for the purpose of banning. Banning = Cheater buying another license to the game, I thought they like banning people for that reason :/
I hope they’re not abandoning page turn buttons for good, like my Oasis has — the only reason I bought the Oasis. Touch screens are just not a good reading experience, for me.
Literally everything is trivial to jailbreak.

The core concept is to pass information into the model using a cipher. One that is not too hard that it can't figure it out, but not too easy as to be detected.

And yes, o1 was jailbroken shortly after release: https://x.com/elder_plinius/status/1834381507978280989
I don't understand why they ask for a NDA. Are they going to share some secret info with you? IIUC the info flows in the other direction.
I got a libra color myself and cab second this recommendation.

It was so good I got a second one for my 5 year old daughter, figured it was a good alternative to the iPads I see her peers with.
You haven't accounted for selection bias there. It is quite likely most people don't find a productive activity fun and it is a much better plan to try and be somewhat wealthy doing something that inspires a neutral feeling rather than poor. Much like the girl you find cute on first glance, if you change your mind later then it'd have been a real mistake to over-commit on first impressions.

If there are 10 people who want to be plumbers but the economy is signalling it needs 20 plumbers then it'd be best if 10 people who don't enjoy plumbing all that much do it for the money. If there are 100 people who want to make a living as an artist and only demand for 1 it'd be better if most of them overruled their instincts and found something more useful to do. Paint as a hobby and live as something else.
> IMO, the Kindle is the premium e-reader when it comes to look and feel. It's just a fantastic experience.

Interestingly, I switched from Kindle to Kobo because it was lacking various basic features that made it not feel premium.

* Kobo epubs can show "pages in chapter" progress so I know how much longer there is until a nice stopping point, while Kindle only shows "minutes left in chapter" which is functionally useless.

* Kobo had blue light blocking night shift before Kindle Paperwhite (I think both have it now?)

* Kobo had a convenient feature where you slide your finger along the side of the screen to change brightness, instead of having to go into multiple menus to do this.

It's possible these things have been remedied, but especially the chapter progress thing put such a bad taste in my mouth that I never wanted to touch Kindle again.
What do you mean by 'profit inefficiency'?

> Corporations as viewed from the inside are wildly incompetent [...]

Corporations have varying levels of efficiency. MNCs are by and large _fairly_ competent.

Of course, if you see them from the inside, there's still enough weird and incompetent stuff going on.

Compare to how western militaries have their fair share of screw ups, but they still wipe the floor with non-western militaries, whenever there's any conflict.

There's plenty of studies comparing the quality of management in local companies versus multinational corporations. See eg https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/11f0019m/11f0019m2020008...
> During the 2016-2020 era especially, telling people you worked at Palantir was unpopular. The company was seen as spy tech, NSA surveillance, or worse.

I mean, it is those things. I think just because it's listed on a market doesn't change those things. People are just like, "I value the money it makes me more than the ethical qualms I have about what Palantir is".
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Neural is an adjective. Adjectives do not require their associated nouns to be present. See also: digital computers have mo fingers at all.
Okay I shouldn't have used the word "bad" here. I should have used "flawed but not detrimental" just like what's described in the article.