skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They plan on launching a small 1st stage with the satellite. You need some delta-V to circularize & fine tune the orbit after the spin launch.

Time to break out Kerbal Space Program and see how well it works...
Israel’s Secret Stealth Drone
Cf. https://dynamicland.org/

> Dynamicland is a nonprofit research lab creating a humane dynamic medium.

> What that means is a way for real people in the real world to explore ideas together, not just with words and pictures, but with computation.

They're doing stuff like that.
The slowdown is in the simulation, not in the internally perceived flow of time. The internally perceived flow of time would of course not change.

The problem is that an exponential slowdown at each level requires discounting the probability of being in a simulation by an exponential amount per level. So instead of being able to say that the weighted odds of being in a simulation are higher than the odds of not being in a simulation, you have to say that, at best, there's a small chance of being in a simulation.
bring it :D now I thinks about suing anybody forking repo with licence change :D no seriously it is merged now so world is safe again :)
With enough force applied, the Earth will no longer be there when it comes back to that point.
I’ve got a lib/executable that you spin up and it gives you a rest api (read and write) for clickhouse if you are interested
Then have been at it for a while now,

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Flag_Linux

Also maybe EU should start thinking in better supporting SuSE or something like that.
They went with a more open license. Try to do better next time with your license choices. GNU is not nearly as open as the "DO WHAT THE FUCK YOU WANT TO PUBLIC LICENSE."

https://github.com/solcloud/Counter-Strike/pull/27/files
Maybe they are finding that they're like the Segway, just too geeky for the mainstream market.
Wait am i counting wrong?
I would assume they said their market research said otherwise.

Personally, I have 0 interest in glasses, but a lot in quality, privacy respecting VR. Just not $3500 of it.

I would have been interested in a $3500 headset if that M1 chip had run macOS, so I could ditch my laptop on trips and take my office with me.
https://hn.algolia.com/?q=spinlaunch
Why does it cost so much money to get Identity and Access Management right?
> The only thing it gets from the government is a monopoly on putting things in people's mailboxes.

In exchange for that they have to attain some service levels others would consider unprofitable. Remember they need to be absolutely universal, however inconvenient for them.
A lot Chinese software was created for Windows XP or Win7. Keeping such software running on modern windows can be quite expensive. Many of them do not even have legal windows license.

Add security concerns... What happens if windows activation server goes down? Or Microsoft pushes some hostile patch?

Today, Linux with Wine can be the easiest way to run old windows software.
I strongly plus one on this
:proud-of-you-meme
Wow. I feel the complete opposite. The state is the only thing that can fix things like climate change. Public companies cannot have ethics, they only focus on profits.
I'm curious, what does your human verification process look like? Does it involve a separate interface or a generated report of some kind? I'm currently working on an tool for personal use, that records actions and triggers them at later stage on when specified event occurs. For verification, generating a CSV report after the process is complete and backing it up with screen recordings.
I'm not sure if this is reporting anything new?

I the 2022 test flights that the article mentions would have been from their smaller, vertical-throwing suborbital prototype. Last I saw they had kind of gone silent since 2023. The news page on their website [https://www.spinlaunch.com/in-the-news] hasn't posted any updates in almost a year.

I assume means they haven't successfully scaled up to the orbital launcher yet. Perhaps they're having trouble securing funding. Perhaps they're having trouble working out some engineering problems or securing a site for the facility. Or maybe things are just taking time. I'm guessing, though, that this is a situation where no news is definitely not good news.
How does one get access to it without using the API??
I assume its a closed room because the acceleration isn't done in normal atmosphere - so you are going to literally explode out of this thing into normal air at 2100m/s?

Seems like a lot.
Windows runs on ARM, they have ARM based surfaces now
It doesn't remove fuel entirely, they still need an engine to circularize their orbit.

> The velocity boost provided by the accelerator's electric drive results in a 4x reduction in the fuel required to reach orbit, a 10x reduction in cost, and the ability to launch multiple times per day.

https://www.spinlaunch.com/orbital

Their promotional video shows this at around the 20s mark.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGO4LtCctTk
Lots of people commented on the comment about not needing a GUI client in this thread (same link): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41890480

To add my own touch, I find staging certain parts of a file in the CLI bothersome, when I can just click-and-drag highlight what lines I want committed in eg. Sublime Merge. Not perfect, but waaay easier than with the default CLI in my opinion.
> I don't think anyone is promoting that a drivers license, and only a drivers license is the sole form of appropriate voter ID.

Even so [1]:

> More than one in ten (11%) U.S. adult citizens—or nearly 26 million people— lack any form of government-issued photo identification.

There are also people without birth certificates. Obtaining some IDs can be difficult without having other IDs. For example, depending on where you live, getting a driver's license is difficult without a birth certificate. (Ctrl-F for "Lack of birth certificate" on [2], though apparently South Carolina lets you get a voter registration card before you get a valid voter ID.)

The larger issue is that valid forms of ID for voting differ between states, and (beyond the topic of voting) the difficulty of getting what most people think of as common IDs differs between states. There might well be 100 thousand citizens across the US who would fall through the cracks if every state that didn't already require voter ID were to pass laws naively requiring voter ID for the 2028 election. Voting is a right for citizens, so state governments should go out of their way to make obtaining stable IDs convenient for citizens who lack them (accounting for, among other things, transportation difficulties and time spent on in-person verification that takes away from job time). If the federal government has no authority to unify ID requirements, then states should cooperate to standardize their requirements toward convenience. I would also like if every state (and I do mean every state) allowed payment statements and utility bills as valid identification for voting, because getting stable IDs such as driver's licenses or passports takes months.

> Arizona has 4,109,270 registered voters, so the margin was 0.2%, or 2 votes out of every thousand registered voters. Georgia has 7,004,034 registered voters so the margin was 1.8 out of every thousand registered voters as well.

> That seems like a very small margin of votes is deciding elections.

If the margin were something like 100 votes in a state, I wouldn't know what to do about it, but I would still be dissatisfied if a new voter ID requirement in the state blocked 10000 citizens from voting. When I wrote this before:

> Any new voter ID bill that doesn't take this into account will almost certainly be voter suppression. The problem isn't the principle of requiring a voter ID. It's that the laws around getting an ID need to change prior to or simultaneously with laws that make ID a requirement for voting.

What I meant to communicate was that any states passing new voter ID laws should near-simultaneously pass laws that making getting government-issued, voting-eligible IDs easier, especially for people who lack multiple forms of ID. And for sure, states should not be carelessly closing DMVs the way Alabama did in 2015 [3].

[1] https://www.mapresearch.org/file/MAP-Identity-Documents-repo...

[2] https://www.ncsl.org/elections-and-campaigns/voter-id#toggle...

[3] https://www.snopes.com/news/2015/10/01/alabama-drivers-licen...
The existence of any media organisation (or any corporation) is defined by law; a change of government could in theory completely change any organisation in the UK.

But yes, "the Chairman and the non-executive members for the nations are appointed by HM The King on the recommendation of Ministers."

In reality, I suspect the ownership structure of a media organisation matters less than the ideologies of its directors.
Review: The article follows a Library's choice to leave X and move to Mastodon as the former changed hands and engagement methods.
The engagements moved from local to global which aligned with their open publication ethos. The conversations were of higher quality and the network effect of a smaller platform hasn't hampered their mission.
A good article with clear explanations of the main decision points.
If Humans ever got their act together enough to organize, would they even have a clue what to do?
Structural basis of μ-opioid receptor targeting by a nanobody antagonist
You do not understand how this all works. Social Security "spending" does not add to the deficit. It is not the source of any budgetary imbalances or of any structural budgetary issues in the United States. It is a pension system that is funded by workers that happens to be run by the government.
I can't believe MacRumors has stooped so low.

Headline:
Apple May Stop Producing Vision Pro by the End of 2024

First paragraph:
Apple has abruptly reduced production of the Vision Pro headset and could stop making the current version of the device completely by the end of 2024
that is exactly my meaning of open source but as you can see so many people disagree, but now I merged random license so it is 0K now I guess :)
>This is basically LibGen / Anna’s Archive. A bit clunky around the download process

Not at all. You visit libgen, search for your book, find it (usually available) click one of the two available links for it, click to download, have it download. Done.

It couldn't be easier.
Buy a Pi if you want a Pi. I was just answering a very simple question. Not arguing for either side.

The parent comment already mentioned the (to me) most important point:

> x86 means you can install whatever you want
First it was "it's not spying, you agreed to it!"

When it's pointed out people surveilled by Facebook haven't necessarily agreed to any of it, the goalpost moved.
Meta glasses are not selling either. Meta's pathetic attempt to make them 'cool' by using raybans and European models is laughable.
I've seen a few solutions in this space that use an RDBMS as a glorified spool file. So, append log entries to PG or MySQL or whatever over a rest endpoint (like the one splunk exposes to writers), and then have a few workers (for fault tolerance) that the 100K oldest entries in the table every few seconds, stick them into the "real-time" system, delete them from the DBMS and commit.

I've never understood why this isn't just done better by the downstream product though. It's not that hard to implement a performant write ahead log from scratch.

(Note that you can scale out the above arbitrarily, since there's no reason to limit yourself to one worker or one DBMS.)
The actual carbon sequestration is explained in section 2.4 of TFA.
Probably more like "what would I use this for" is a basic question that can't be answered right now.

Time will tell if a "killer app" is found.
Reconstructing the invention of the wheel with computational structural analysis
Yes, my question is why was he able to get ahold of his step father's handgun. Secure your firearms people! It should be law in my opinion.
100%, if it run macos it would've been a no brainer.

I believe I am decent earner, but 3500$ is not justifiable from the benefit I get from it. _and I wanted to buy it really bad_
My bar is sustaining civilization, not just sustaining human life. It doesn't take much climate change for civilization to collapse. I'm fascinated by how rarely people think of that!
OK good point that the $18 billion is not all to be spent this year, thanks for correction, I didn't realize that, it is good to be clear! The best source i have for understanding this stuff is the study from professors at Brown University I linked above, but I haven't read/assimilated the whole thing yet.

But my main point is we DO give Israel money to buy our weapons, they are indeed a gift. I don't know if Israel spends any of their own budget on US weapons -- my guess would be very little, because they would _rather_ be funding their own Israeli domestic defense industry (which is of course quite developed), they spend our military aid $$ on US defense industry because it is required as a condition of the gift.

(There was a time in the past, when Israel, alone of all military aid recipients, was allowed to spend a portion of military aid on their own domestic defense industry, I guess becuase the US wanted to support the develpment of that specially among all other recipients of US military aid. It worked, Israel now sells $billions of weapons to autocratic Arab regimes in the middle-east and north africa: Notably Bahrain, the UAE, and Morocco. Saudi Arabia would love in on that too. But those provisions expired a few years ago, now all US military aid to Israel has to be spent on weapons from the US, just like other US military aid recipients.)
When I was in university, with a friend we wrote stack++, which was using stacks to do everything. Stack strings, stack numbers, stack operators, etc. We only give you two stacks per type. You would define your program using long string that would stack all of your stuff into stacks, then it starts unstacking the operators-1 stack, and you're on your own.

It was of course completely pointless, but to this day I regularly go back my stack of old hard drives and cd backups to see if I can find back the source code.
tbh I like the idea of a multipolar world - a lot of our biggest achievements came as a result of the cold war.

it also forces some redundancy into the mechanisms of running a technological world - a disaster that affects one of the two or three polities may well leave enough stuff working that civilisation doesn't need to collapse completely.

a world where everything depends on everything else working correctly is a bit more fragile than I would like.
There are two important differences between corporations (even non-for-profit ones) and the government.

The first is that citizens have a say in who governs them. If the government does something they don't like, they can (at least in theory) vote for someone who will change it.

The second is that in most legal systems, there are differences in what governments are allowed to do and what corporations are allowed to do. For example, a government may be required to provide services to all citizens, whereas a corporation has the right to not serve certain people (such as "people who don't own a smartphone").

These differences aren't insurmountable, but it's something to keep in mind.
So Google fails, Apple fails, Facebook has been failing for a while. It seems only Microsoft out of the big tech is still continuing its dominance now with AI and things like that. But this is a great time for startups to come up.
What Musk Wants from American Politics
It prob got initially downvoted and then later up-voted just cause it's so political, and i mentioned my personal support for ending US weapons supply to Israel, and people vote based on their political agreement or disagreement with sentiments, explicit or implied, but here I was explicit.
Optical effects in user interfaces (2017)
Not all are created equal. I do get the impression that the Nordic states maintain responsible governance and generally have a vested interest in the success of their people. But most Western states are a malignant plague of cronyism and theft with no hope of recovery. We are genuinely in the phase “steal as much as you can before the show is over”. Taxes will continue to rise, austerity will increase, and the state will oversee the continued transfer of wealth from the public to its corrupt benefactors.
That's the thing, Meta is /not/ "doing" glasses. They had a very limited run at $10K+/ea just for internal testing IIRC. That's very different from a shipping $3.5K product. It's also not clear if Meta could ship their glasses at ~$10K or if they'd need to charge even more.

Apple has repeatedly said that AR is where they want to be and glasses are what they want to do (directly and via leaks) but the tech wasn't there yet. "There yet" can mean "we can't figure out how to get the cost down to something reasonable". The AVP was clearly a "Let's fake it till we make it" product with faux-AR (or maybe it's still just "AR" but faux-"glasses"?) with the end goal of removing the ski visor for just glasses.
Yes. I ran a therapy bot. I had some users become wildly obsessed with it and begin to anthropomorphize it. Typically very lonely people in secluded areas. There is a danger because people will begin to have a transference with the bot, and the bot has no counter transference. The bot has no real feelings toward the person, even though it roleplays as though it does, and this can lead to dangerous consequences and empathic failures.
Feels like they sort of buried the lede here with this little thing hanging off the back:

> It also prohibits businesses from using “unfounded or groundless legal threats, physical threats, intimidation, or certain false public accusations.

It seems to me like most litigants believe the other case to be groundless. I'm curious how this will look from an enforcement perspective.
Technology Radar Volume 31 [pdf]
The Demonization of CO2: Challenging the Prevailing Narrative
I have a doubt about vector searches. Does increasing the amount of dimensions always improve performance? Or is there an optimal (application dependant) point where, beyond that, performance starts to degrade?

I'm asking this because most of the vector databases have tight limits on max dimensions and OpenAI's biggest embeddings model has something like 3,000 dimensions. I was wondering if there is something to gain if, for example, OpenAI releases a new embeddings model with 8,000 dimensions or more.
I still use a 13 year old thinkpad sometimes and it's fast enough for regular laptop needs. I'm not running any games on it but it doesn't need to
It doesn't matter that you have 90% of all developers supporting your platform, if the final 10% is responsible for the must have apps.

Huawei had a 4% market share last year. Is that going to be enough for something like MobilePay in Scandinavia to ensure that they are present on a platform, from a company and country they don't entirely trust? Without the MobilePay app, the number of people who'd buy the phones drop to almost zero. The same happens if Danes can't use their government ID on the phones, sales drops to almost zero, because the device just lost a major feature.

I don't think it matters that Huawei has a large swath of companies ready to support their OS, it has to be all of them (or at least the right ones).

They might pull it off and get every one on board, but the investment has to be really small to justify the work for such a small user base.
> I believe someone has coined the term "techno feudalism"

Bruce Schneier, for one, not sure if anyone else had applied the feudal analogy before him. His remarks stand up quite well, I think:

https://www.schneier.com/essays/archives/2012/11/when_it_com...
My laptop is an old high end thinkpad. Every time I look at replacing it, I see very expensive toys that seem like a downgrade in most ways, so I just keep running it. Runs Linux just fine, almost certainly couldn't handle windows anymore.
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Unless it reaches escape velocity (ie its never coming back) then it will always comeback to where it started from. The object is under the same gravitaional influences as the Earth

As others have pointed out, there is a rocket motor to put the payload into an orbit.
Maybe Elon Musk should enter the education game too.
>Those who do not want you to have this type of agency spend a lot of money to disparage it.

You just contradicted yourself. Do we have free and fair elections, or do we have a system whereby the wealthy have disproportionate influence? It's one or the other.
It's not obvious to me that employees are motivated to be more productive for the sake of productivity.
I agree that the OS is the most limiting factor of the AVP. In its current form it's just an iPad with all the downsides that brings. I had high hopes for it as a MBP replacement or companion but MVD was disappointing and so I returned mine.
dGEN1: First Onchain Everyday Carry
They should have made an sdk that made it easier to port games (and excel). Iirc you had to use their gesture control, there was no way to use kb+m right? At least with other vr you can create a usable mapping to typical FPS controls.
Though, for what it's worth, replacing the first stage of a traditional rocket would still represent a dramatic reduction in fuel weight and perhaps also total launch costs.

You're kindasorta doing the equivalent of replacing an entire Falcon 9 with a relatively lightweight sabot. Either way the initial boost puts the orbital vehicle on a suborbital trajectory, so it needs to carry its own engine for the orbital insertion burn.
Oracle 23ai also has a similar feature that "explodes" JSON into relational tables/columns for storage while still providing JSON based access API's : https://www.oracle.com/database/json-relational-duality/
I feel the main difference is that Boeing's management post McDonnell merge decided to consider their suppliers as simple vendors, spinning off Spirit, and taking away their direct oversight using supply contracts as a backstop. Airbus does more hands-on oversight of their suppliers, they have staff to check their work, is all part of an integrated QA system instead of the hands-off outsourcing approach Boeing took.

At least that's what I understand from a very layman view of their processes, would love to be corrected if I'm wrong.
I can't wait for some uarch to fuck everyone over and decide that after tracking zeroing idioms in the the renamer the next escalation is to eliminate data dependencies if the renamer detects it's not outcome determinative e.g. AND r1, r2, r3 with the renamer having inferred that one of the inputs is zero so the other isn't needed and the result must be zero. Or tracking identity elements for operations (0 for addition/substraction, 1 for multiplication/division) to bypass the computation.
Oh, then these words in the article are, uh, poorly written:

> SpinLaunch has already conducted multiple successful tests with this technology. "This is not a rocket, and clearly our ability to perform in just 11 months this many tests and have them all function as planned, really is a testament to the nature of our technology," said Jonathan Yaney, founder and CEO of SpinLaunch, in a 2022 Space.com report after their 10th successful launch.