skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Gyms largely make money from people having memberships but never actually going.

There's only a few types of gyms where most of the members actually use the gym, and although they're still subscription based, they have entirely different business models.
Agreed. Isn’t it better to donate to something that’s actually used than something that might have an audience of 1? It’d be nice to see donations to newer projects gaining momentum, but they get to choose how to hand out the cash. I just hope it’s not projects that are already exceptionally well funded (it’d be kinda ridicous if they gave $100k for Linux, for example).
This is actually the most likely one considering all the trade between the Middle East and the Indian Malabar coast back then.
This is a much more significant announcement. The above two deals are not significant commitments from Google & Amazon because there is no downside. If the plan is successful Google & Amazon get cheap green power. If it falls through they're not out anything but still benefit from the publicity for trying.

This announcement has downside. If it fails, Amazon's investment goes to zero. Which means they likely did significant due diligence. This is a real commitment.
Footprint? Maybe.
As the saying goes, science advances one funeral at a time.

> Science doesn't lie but

Science is a process -- a process run by fallible humans. Fallible doesn't mean just that "they[we] can make mistakes" but also that "they[we] are corruptible".

Science doesn't lie, but scientists are another story. Science is something we must all be prepared to do, not merely trust.

Also, science requires healthy skepticism. We don't agree with Einstein because his theory is cool and all -- we mostly agree with Einstein because the data mostly agrees with Einstein. And even today we're a bit skeptical of General Relativity because of problems like the galaxy rotation problem. Even today we call GR a theory, and we will never call any scientific theory a fact, always only either a theory or a discredited theory.
I was using multiple here to mean 3 or more launches, because otherwise the Gemini missions that docked to a separately launched Agena-D booster (G8, G10, G11, G12) would all qualify: GX and GXI even restarted the ATV's engine to set new altitude records (which I think still holds today- if you ignore the 21 men who went to the moon on a Apollo capsule from 1968-1972).

But that is closer to what I meant, because they had to worry about separate launches that might fail (GVI, GIX) and find and dock with something you need to use orbital mechanics to approach (basically anything under 30m distance you can just eyeball and fly, but anything over that distance requires the full set of orbital calculations).
> but even now some distros are beginning to sneak in spyware.

Citation needed. I remember Ubuntu sneaking in some stuff a couple of years ago[0], but most of the mainstream distros have a clean track record. What are you referring to exactly?

0: https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2018/02/ubuntu-data-collection-o...
It is also one of the few public places to 'safely' do it.

Would you feel comfortable wearing one and limiting your awareness of your surroundings on a public bus? In a coffee shop? Sitting outside a coffee shop? In a park? In a pub?

And also your answers may be yes if you are male, but I can imagine in the current world we live in a lot of women would feel potentially at risk if they were wearing these in public.
but not bc nuclear is unprofitable. Nuclear there is 3-3.5bn/unit, dirt cheap. They just can't scale it faster due to stalling after fukushima events
totally! Right now we are just trying to get them out and tested on science projects around the world, but hopefully we can find funding to make more designs that could be manufactured in bulk (like the audiomoth and groupgets) and have even more of these things out and about!
With your arms, usually, but I’ve known people who use catapults.
A nuclear power plant doesn't have 100% availability for an arbitrary length of time either.
https://africa.businessinsider.com/news/meet-the-enigmatic-m...
> gen Z and millennials are more likely to buy a book based on a bookseller’s recommendation – in person, in a bookshop – than older age groups

The older generations--I speak as a boomer--may have more settled opinions (or if you will, prejudices) and may not be that eager for the recommendations of a young staffer.
There are ways around this, I've experimented with setting up a cluster of ArchiveBox instances that share snapshots over Tailscale. Tailscale lets users sign up for free accounts, and you can share machines between separate accounts. A (CGNAT-compatible) decentralized invite-only network could concievably spread that way.
I got the same error when I was doing the tutorial (which went quite well) and was doing the steps for circular repeat of the sun rays. Pressing Ctrl-Z undid practically all the work instead of just the last wrong change (not sure what caused it).
You're nut fun at all!
Mental models are tricky. Some people believe there is a right to pull a fast one on others or make their life hard in the name of revenue or business.

As coldpie said:

> Remember this when you're going to vote. Elections matter.

(high empathy justice sensitive human)
> People get plenty mad about sales taxes double taxing taxed income, too.

Yeah, and it's a dumb position to take. Like what, we can only apply one tax from one source to a given dollar bill's serial number after it leaves the fed, and after that point that dollar can never be taxed again? Otherwise, gasp, double taxation!

The company shouldn't pay payroll taxes, they charged sales taxes to get that income to pay the salaries. I shouldn't pay any income taxes, the company paid payroll taxes on the money that had sales taxes on it. I shouldn't pay sales taxes, I paid income taxes on the money that had already had payroll taxes that had already had sales taxes that had...

Suddenly nobody pays any taxes anywhere because somewhere up the chain someone else already paid taxes on that dollar!
That's demonstrably untrue. The "mostly" audience you made up is a shrinking set, and the sales of huge mainframes has CAGR more than PCs. If your claim were true the sales numbers for these mainframes would not be what they are.

This is an expanding market, due to the needs for more and larger and faster data processing uses for new tech, new markets, new transactions, new capabilities.
I appreciate that comment! I'd say mainly practice. Coming up with the design before writing what you plan. Once you have what you had in your mind or on paper you can then optimize and cutdown the fat. I've always done this. :)
What's incompetent about Linux? Have you tried to buy preinstalled?
> Most people don't regularly travel by plane. This is a very "1%" problem.

Except, they do in a country like the US that has massive distances between cities.
Cancer mortality is not the same as incidence, you can plausibly have more cancer while still having a lower mortality
> everyone says wind+solar+batteries are so much cheaper than nuclear. Why aren't big corpos pouring money in these instead to get even more output?

Same reason it makes sense to build as much wind and solar with batteries plus nukes as possible: scale. (And false dichotomy: they’re also investing massively in wind, solar and batteries.)

We didn’t produce enough batteries (or solar panels or wind turbines, for that matter) fast enough before . For solar and wind, moreover, approval difficult scales with land area. You’d think nukes would be harder, but it’s apparently easier to get a state to let you YOLO on land rights when it’s on a small footprint.

Solar and wind (with batteries) is still cheaper. Gas is politically problematic for Big Tech, so they go with nuclear. The voting public in America and Europe, on the other hand, chose gas.
OK, let me know whenever you can build it.

Anyways you could double the power of the country with solar on just roofs and parking lots, so consider that before you go in on your land argument.

Solar and batteries will win
They didn't say most, they said people.
I think smoking is particularly hard because most of the really bad effects come much further down the line.
You can smoke for years (even tens of) without much problem and if you do some sports even the cardio/breathing effects are largely mitigated (I know, this is what I do).

So, it's easy to only think about how good it makes you feel at the moment.

But alcohol will show nasty side effects rather sooner than later, it will show on your face, you will feel liver problems very fast and since you are in a secondary state when inebriated you will seem out of place when not in that state.

Both of those substances have the particular effect that if you use them repeatedly over a short (1-2 week) period of time in moderate but sustained quantities, you will get chemically addicted.
This is nasty and the reason why every parent tries to make this fact known to their children (more or less successfully depending on method).

Food addiction in my opinion is very different, it comes purely from psychological factors and should be very easy to correct on time.
It's not something that comes around in 1 week or 2. Even if you overeat 1000 kcal (1/3 more than the average of 2000) over the course of 2 weeks, you would only gain 2kg of body fat at worse.
It's really a very long sustained process to really become obese, it's not like chemicals that can get you in 2 weeks max.

While it's hard to lose what you gained (you basically need to starve a little bit) it's not that hard to make adjustment to life choice to avoid making the situation much worse.
Sorry... DX is short for a distance contact, so someone outside of your country. There are 340-odd "DX entities" defined, some of them incredibly rare (Bouvet Island, North Korea), and people spend their lives trying to get the ones they're missing. Other people will gather a group and raise funds to go to those places so that they get on the air.

Contesting is when there's an event, usually over a weekend with a set of rules and a point system for contacts. People get on the air and try and get the most points by making contacts. Big contests might have 10 or 20 thousand people all over the world participating and top competitors are running 2 or 3 radios simultaneously to get rates of over 400 contacts an hour. But there's also smaller contests such as QSO parties where a State tries to get people from every county on the air and people from across the country try to work them. Or silly ones like the Zombie Shuffle at the end of this month where people make up funny names and exchange them at low power, low speed Morse code just for fun. https://www.contestcalendar.com/ shows all the contests and gives you some idea of the variety.

Since some of the less popular countries tend to get active during the big contests, many DX'ers will enter contests just to find a few more.
Why do you want to remove the backdoor?
Depends on what you mean by health care. Medicare is insurance, not care, and while insurance is part of the system, Medicare often pays private healthcare providers for service. Medicare only insures ~14% of the US, less than one sixth and is only available for people 65 and older. For those reasons, your example maybe doesn’t demonstrate what you imply.
This completely depends on the person. The environment of a plane (dry humid air, loud engine humming, babies crying etc) is oppressive to a lot of people, even more so if you're neuro-atypical.
I haven't done a like, systematic survey or anything but when I used to travel for work I'd take my little quansheng and mess around. Basically every american city with at least one "tall" building has a repeater up there that covers the whole metro area. There's one on the sears tower that you can hear in michigan. But even dubuque had one I could contact from a hotel room across town.

So yeah most of the area is rural and there's probably not much out there without big gear. But most of the population lives within 30 miles of a 12-storey building.
Suspend is flawless on my Librem 14.
It's always interesting when I see this take because I was raised the opposite way and was really surprised to learn a few years back from articles like [1] that some people consider this an etiquette breach.

From what I can tell there are two populations: those who prefer to recline and those who prefer not to. As long as an entire column of seats belongs to one population you're fine (if everyone wants to recline no one loses space, we all just shift around to a configuration in which everyone is more comfortable). But when you have someone more comfortable staying upright sitting behind a recline-preferenced person, that's where issues arise. It's not clear to me whether it's morally wrong for the front person to recline in that case, given that's basically just preferencing the default of "upright", which is arbitrary.

Nothing here should be read as justifying people who don't pay attention to what's going on behind them and/or recline suddenly/aggressively. It's always something that should be done with a glance behind and a smooth, gentle motion. Maybe also a word to the person sitting behind though again I'm not convinced that's a moral imperative.

[1] https://thepointsguy.com/airline/airplane-seat-reclining-eti...
CSAM is already deployed on Android and Cloudflare.

In Cloudflare they don't even hide it. It's well listed in the options
From September 13, 2023:

> During the macOS 14 Sonoma beta period Apple introduced a bug in the macOS firewall, packet filter (PF). This bug prevents our app from working, and can result in leaks when some settings (e.g. local network sharing) are enabled. We cannot guarantee functionality or security for users on macOS 14, we have investigated this issue after the 6th beta was released and reported the bug to Apple. Unfortunately the bug is still present in later macOS 14 betas and the release candidate.

https://mullvad.net/en/blog/bug-in-macos-14-sonoma-prevents-...

Was fixed September 22, 2023 it seems (https://mullvad.net/en/blog/macos-14-sonoma-firewall-bug-fix...).

Seems like Apple's product/engineering department doesn't agree with the marketing department about how important their users privacy is.
Un Ministral, Des Ministraux
Chevron deference is about statutory interpretation so it really depends on the statue they are doing it under and any ambiguities that arise around the ability to do this. It may be clearly covered or it may not be, we would have to look. And if there are ambiguities it may go the way of the FTC, but since Chevron is gone, not automatically.
I have a Quest 2 and a Quest 3 - both headsets allow you to continue using them while they're plugged into an external battery pack or charger, so you can absolutely do this already.

I agree it'd be nice to have an external CPU pack for heat and weight reasons, but we're not quite there yet. The closest thing currently is wireless streaming via a PC running Steam VR, but that's not exactly portable.
Baseload. Nuclear runs forever and you can put a datacenter right beside it to avoid grid complexities.
According to https://discord.com/blog/meet-dave-e2ee-for-audio-video, the E2EE only covers calls, not messages (or metadata).
What we did was draw the line at anything that might close a door in life they may prefer remain open.

Messing with hair in our youth is fun and it grows back. No worries.

Modest piercings society does not frown on.
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No tattoos and especially none on the face, hands, etc...

We had boys and girls and it went OK. Not too much complaining and when they became adults, we handed them the keys and wished them well and help where and how we can.

Maybe our experiences help with understanding yours.
Definitely not, although most laces I’ve lived they have a superficial at most involvement with single family homes.
Those two things are not even in the same category.
System admins irate at Apple's plan for shorter cert lifespans
There are. There's about one announcement a month for those deals. For instance Google inked deals with at least Energix, New Green Power and Black Rock in the last quarter.

So the question then is: why do the nuclear deals make Hacker News and the solar deals don't?
GCC Preparing to Set C23 "GNU23" as Default C Language Version
The concept that Peter and Paul founded the church of Rome is just a bunch of later myths. We don't have much solid evidence for that, even by standards of the time.

And things like 'Peter is here' is also far from conclusive. As figures like Peter were venerated by the later church. Just as 'Jesus is here' wouldn't mean its the grave of Jesus.

> what would be expected from a Galilean fisherman

The evidence that that the apostles even were fisherman isn't actually very good. Acting like its confirmed that we know Peter was a Galilean fisherman is ridiculous.

Also a fact like that can have 100s of explanations.

> final resting place of a number of Apostles is more or less known

Mostly based on church internal story (known to be completely incorrect in many cases) and association combined with later finds. Almost none of them have solid historical bases even by standards of the first century.

The problem is that Christian scholarship for 2000 years was utterly dominated by Christians and Christian institutions with a huge amount of believe in Church history. Independent study outside of those institution is 1:100 less resourced and for every issue they have to first fight this Christian status quo. Many 'scholars' of these topics have 'faith requirements' meaning they are not actually allowed to publish anything that would go against core doctrines. How much these are enforced depends on the institution but there are known cases where people got fired. This is still bad now but it was way, way worse 30-40 years ago.

People get their careers ruined over things like this, one professor was harassed at being gay (before that was accepted) and claimed that his research was 'gay propaganda' because it vaguely talks about Jesus sleeping with another dude.

So any claims about this soft of stuff, specially if not done in the last couple decades are highly questionable at best. So I take all of these claims with a huge grain of salt.
Wouldn't you want the relevant Rust lifetime to be that of the type-stable memory block, not the individual "object" inside? I'm not that familiar with kernel programming, but that sounds a lot like an arena, and (IIRC) that's the approach with an arena.
> His ideas were dismissed and he was harassed.

Harassed? He was locked up in an insane asylum. And was probaly poisoned to death.
but considering acceleration of scaling solar/wind/battery production & it's fast deployment, they may as well wait 5-8 years and build the stuff then. Unless they need firm power that solar+wind+battery can't provide enough unless you have huge overcapacity of all of them
Gyms making you jump through hoops to cancel your contract is a feature, not a bug.
Have you ever tried to compare something like Ubuntu or RHEL on a per feature per function basis with Mac OS?

There are literally thousands of possible combinations of accessibility features alone, that are vastly more difficult to impossible to access. Or simply don’t exist in any form. Once you add in all the default apps and functions of Mac OS, there’s likely millions of possible combinations that would take a fortune in time and effort and knowledge to replicate maybe a quarter of, on a hypothetical laptop installed with Linux.

Not to mention many peripheral manufacturers for many of their product lines simply don’t officially support any version of Linux released in the past few years.

Edit: Of course 99% of these combinations are irrelevant to any particular individual, but they are all relevant to at least a few small groups.

Linux promoters don’t seem to understand that alienating a few thousand users each time is a big deal if that alienation process happens thousands of times…
The rule wasn't adopted with unanimity and one of the FTC Commissioners (Melissa Holyoak) issued a dissenting statement that basically - with Chevron - will serve as a blueprint for contesting its adoption. [0] If the past is a guide to the future, it can be expected that the 5th Circuit will be the first out of the gate with a ruling.

[0] https://www.ftc.gov/system/files/ftc_gov/pdf/holyoak-dissent...
Sweet, these new reactors will be online in 10-15 years in the absolute best case.

How cheap will wind, solar and batteries be then?
I wish we could talk about your use case later at Local Thirst. But ... I lost my passport and won't be able to make it. Another time!
Thorium has been on the horizon forever. A bit like we'll have fusion in 30 years. No government wants to solely invest in it, because it can't really be weaponised.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorium-based_nuclear_power
1% of 300 million is still a 3 mill market size in the US alone.
It's funny how Apple went from leading in UX/UI and being average/below average on hardware, to the opposite. iOS/macOS truly is a cluster-fuck when it comes to UX that makes sense. Luckily we can run other OSes on Apple computer hardware, but not as lucky with Apple phone hardware...
yes, but why not pour even more $ in those then since if it's cheaper = you get more kw for the same $?
The main impediment I would experience to wearing this on a plane.
I installed retractable awnings on my huge western facing sliding glass door. They stay deployed all summer and then get retracted in the winter or when we need to use the door, like for a party.

They make a huge difference in how hot the room gets. I can always tell when it's time to deploy them for the season when the room starts to bake.
There are people that maintain "non-public archives" of stuff like that for litigation, long-term archival storage (think sealed boxes intended for future generations of historians. (Libraries, laywers, journalists can run their own WebRecorder, Perma.cc, ArchiveBox, etc. instances)

I think that's a reasonable middle ground, we don't necessarily need every single piece of heinous content mirrored for free access 24/7 the moment it appears anywhere on the internet, as long as there is some historic record somewhere that's probably ok.
imo - need for firm power
> your mobile devices are essentially tracking devices you are addicted to

Speak for yourself. Sent from my Librem 5.
Yup. Microchannel had higher performance than ISA, but you were locked in to IBM. People instead wanted lower cost and the freedom to be able to use all the existing cards.

This was a fundamental misunderstanding by IBM. The PC exploded, not because it was from IBM, but because it was not locked down. IBM wanted to re-create their locked-down world; the market was never going to go where IBM wanted it to.
[dupe] More on official release: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41857503
I was curious how they might handle something that isn't ready yet, but in the process of being built. But that answers it, it's not eligible. Oh well :( Plenty of good open source out there deserving as well.
To me it looks like the two finally decided to cooperate because it's in their common interest to stop (or rather, delay) the x86 architecture's slide into irrelevance?
I agree on this, I previously didn't interpret the showering as a cosmetic action, but see that this line of thought would make sense now.

To your aside of health benefits of showers: I also tried to research this, but other than getting rid of contamination (hazardous elements e.g. during construction or demolishing, or just dirt on wounds) I couldn't find any serious claim that washing the skin is beneficial for health (outside of making sure hands are clean before touching food or mucous membranes), I just assumed there should be one.

I take my confident stance on this back...
you probably wanted to write Google&MSoft
I've used Google's Daydream on flights. I agree, it's great.
For the same reason people support fluoridation of drinking water: they "trust the science" without even looking at it.
Deep-tech startup RoshAi secures $1M in seed round