skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> [ ... ] The second reveals that beaming power to the lunar base region with microwaves from Earth is by far the cheapest, most flexible option – for operations on the Earth facing side of the Moon.

Sorry, this fails several tests of common sense. Compare the alternatives:

* A suitably large solar array near the Moon's north or south pole, with DC transmission lines to the point of use, able to provide continuous power during all lunar phases.

* A solar array on Earth, then a microwave converter, then a phased-array beam of microwaves to the moon, then an equal-sized phased-array microwave receiver on the moon, then a converter from microwaves to DC, finally a lunar transmission line of some length to (a) avoid the area immediately beneath the microwave high-flux area and (b) convey the power to the point of use.

The second option is a non-starter on multiple grounds, starting with the antenna sizes that would be required -- on both ends -- to avoid spilling the majority of the microwave energy outside the beam path. Then there's the issue of multiple conversion losses: Earth solar collector -> DC to microwave loss -> losses while being beamed to the moon -> microwave to DC loss -> to point of use.

Let me re-emphasize this one line: "... beaming power to the lunar base region with microwaves from Earth is by far the cheapest, most flexible option ..."

Well, no. Not really. Not remotely. Even geostationary microwave power stations have multiple-conversion and beam-width power loss issues, and that's a small fraction of the Earth - Moon distance.
- Mark Zuckerberg owns Facebook/Instagram (issued the statements in late Aug 2024 about Biden administration pressuring about censoring Covid-related info)

- Patrick Soon-Shiong, owner of LA Times/San Diego Union Tribune, and other newspapers, LA Lakers, billionaire biotech person

- Marc Benioff, Salesforce CEO, owner of Time magazine

- Laurene Powell Jobs, billionaire widow of Steve Jobs, owns The Atlantic Monthly

- Masayoshi Son, Softbank CEO, USA Today/Gannet media group owned by New Media Investment Group via Fortress Investment group via Softbank

[edit - added below]

- Michael Bloomberg (former mayor of New York city) owns Bloomberg

- Sumner Redstone owns Paramount/Viacom/CBS

- Thomson family (Canada) owns Thomson Reuters via Woodbridge Company

- Brain L. Roberts, CEO Comcast, son of company founder, NBCUniversal, Sky Group, owned via 33% controlling supershares

- Donald Newhouse, son of company founder, Conde Nast (New Yorker, Vanity Fair, Vogue), newspapers, controlling stake in Discovery Comms.

- John Malone, former CEO of TCI cable, largest shareholder of Liberty Media, et al.
plutil. Maybe not that useful to a lot of people but I have been going through and collecting bookmarks and Safari bookmarks are binary files. plutil is a means of converting the binary property file to a json or xml file.

https://keith.github.io/xcode-man-pages/plutil.1.html
Estimating actual and potential lives saved by Covid-19 convalescent plasma
And Manchin had no real chance of reelection anyway.
> As of today the top 3 pools are 26%, 11%, 10%

Which is 47%. Add in the fourth on that list and you're >50%.

And over time the concentration of mining has increased:

* https://www.investopedia.com/investing/why-centralized-crypt...

Seems like more of an oligopoly to me as opposed to the 'for the people' kind of thing some folks talk about.
Depends on how you define 'right'.

Were they conservative? No, they wanted to upend society and create one that is nothing like anything ever seen before. They were also anti-religion. In many ways, they were anti-tradition, and I wouldn't consider their obsession with bringing back dead traditions to be traditional.

Were they hateful, racist, etc.? Yes, up to you if that's considered 'right'.

Were they, like how American political parties are, friends of big business? Not really, they wanted to sponsor monopolies and whatnot but also wanted the businesses to have no influence over the state, rather the other way around, the state can force the big business to do what they want. As far as if it actually worked that way when they were in power, I'm not sure.
Thanks. So it was the statement I referred to, and as you'll see in my explanation above, this is nothing at all like saying that people won't be able to vote.

Saying "you won't need to vote because things will be fixed" is absolutely nothing like saying "you won't be allowed to vote anymore".
The solution there is to create tariffs based on emissions so that the costs of the emissions get accounted when people import goods.
This is harsh, I'm merely using your own logic and definition of "enabling". If you don't think that's fair, then you must agree with me - you're not enabling anything by giving them money.

> People who will take what they can't get by other means are not fit to live in society

How revolutionary, did you come up with that all by yourself? We are looking for solutions. "They're bad people" isn't a solution. You CAN systemically discourage theft and other crimes. However, you don't do that by simply demonizing those people. If anything, that actually causes MORE crime because you put already impoverished people into even more dire circumstances. This is why "tough on crime" simply doesn't work.
I don't know if it's a startup, but there's https://allsides.com/ and apparently they accept funding (unclear how): https://allsides.com/about/ownership

They don't have current openings though: https://allsides.com/job-openings
Primary schoolers are the sweetest people in the world. It is middle schoolers that express adult emotions with no filter. Fortunately the filter does get more effective with practice, but it is always worth remembering that at their core, most people are not fundamentally different than they were in middle school.
GE did great under Jack Welch.

The Republicans strategy is the same, extract record profits and leave everything a hollowed out piece of trash
> Truth Social was built specifically as a safe space for Republicans and their views

I have never heard of it. A niche social media site built specifically for expressing right-wing political views could never compete with Facebook, Instagram, Reddit.
> If half of America has really been brainwashed into thinking Harris is a communist

Well, are they wrong? Once you get past the stupid rehtoric associated with the word, the goal of communists is to usher in an age of post-scarcity.

The United States is clearly leading that charge. Food production is the closest thing we have to post-scarcity, and that's almost entirely thanks to the efforts of US innovation. I even dare say that US innovation in general is doing more for bringing us closer to post-scarcity than anything else seen in the world. Harris seems/seemed on board to see that continue.

Trump may be too. He appears to also stand behind American innovation. Although, perhaps to the determinant of innovation elsewhere, which does set him apart from Harris, and, to be fair, you might argue that leaves him unaligned with the communist intention.
As a test for your browser's internationalisation support, try

data:text/html,<div lang="nl" style="text-transform:capitalize">ijmuiden

In Firefox, this displays correctly as "IJmuiden" (thanks to the lang attribute; without that, it would show "Ijmuiden").
Kmonad: An Advanced Keyboard Manager
On top of a pro-bitcoin president and the ETF approvals there is a new commitment from MicroStrategy of $42B in bitcoin over the next 4 years

I think you will see this headline a lot
I really don’t care at all about this as the interactions that I’d have would be the speech to text, which sends all transcripts to Apple without the ability opt out.
mid-90s had neural nets, even a few popular science kinds of books on it. The common hardware was so much less capable then.
On the spectrum from bare majority to unanimity, being in the bottom 20% of the range is not "a wide margin."
> Chappell Roan

She actually received a great deal of backlash from "vote blue no matter who" liberals for her criticisms of Kamala Harris and the Democratic Party.
Feel free to expand on that.
Coming very soon is:

- Copy & Paste: e.g. delete a tree and fill the hole with a copied patch of grass

- Color Adjustments: tinting, brightness, etc.

If these aren't editing ops, I don't know what is. :)
Sure, you _could_ go back and recapture photogrammetry or rerun training, but that's super costly in terms of time. SuperSplat lets you make simple edits quickly and easily.
> The only hyperscaler that picked up MI300X is Azure and they GA'ed it 2 weeks ago

What does “GA” mean in this context?

I’m usually pretty good at deciphering acronyms, but in this case, I have no idea.
It’s interesting that you don’t even attempt to counter any of the points GP raised.

Instead, you Respond to Tone [0]

Once upon a time, Republicans had principles. As recently as 2015, they still often pretended to.

When Republicans had principles, we could argue over which side we agreed with, which side was correct.

Now, the Republicans have abandoned the principles that America was founded on.

Now, you don’t even pretend like principles matter. You don’t even pretend like you need to address any of these points GP raised.

It would be extremely damaging to GP’s argument if you would demonstrate that any one of the dozen or so points that he raised was a mischaracterization of the truth.

Apparently you can’t do that, because instead, you call GP self-deluded and complain about his “take”.

Literally just Ad Hominem [0] and Responding to Tone [0].

Shame on you.

[0] https://paulgraham.com/disagree.html
I don’t disagree with your points, as they tend to align with my personal experience. Given that most of the people I interact with are conservative, I can’t really compare to the sources used by progressives, but I suspect it would consist more of links to mainstream media. Jumping on a plane, so won’t be able to respond quickly, but I will read the article you linked.

My point wasn’t necessarily that conservatives aren’t exposed to more misinformation, but rather that misinformation is very difficult to define, since the general public lacks so much information. Very few people actually know the truth. Many people fill in the gaps with their biases and then believe they’ve consumed “the truth.” Without an objective view of all facts, it’s difficult to ascertain the truth, therefore it’s also difficult to ascertain what is misinformation.
They would need 300 million wrenches, one for each citizen. That leaves society in a much better position than letting them do it at scale with an sql query.
Any short-term plans for Claude via AWS Bedrock? (That's for me personally a blocker for trying it on our main codebase.)
Show HN: AI to write nonfiction books tailored for you
Hey HN,

As an avid reader, I read many nonfiction books every year. While enjoyable, I find that nonfiction books usually contain a lot of information that is not relevant or helpful for me.

That's why I decided to build TailoredRead (https://tailoredread.com/). It’s a tool that uses AI to write full-length books that are tailored specifically to the reader.

Here’s how it works:

1. You answer a few questions: book subject, key topics, your background, your goals

2. The AI generates the book outline - title, description, chapters and subchapters, key insights, etc. I found that Claude 3.5 Sonnet produces great results here, but I want to give GPT o1 a try as well.

3. Our backend starts a worker that orchestrates the creation of the book. This typically takes 5-10 minutes, and you can start reading the book as it’s being written. Here I found that Claude 3.5 Sonnet produces significantly better output than GPT 4o and other models, but it still requires a lot of prompting and breaking down the book into smaller chunks.

4. We run a dedicated worker to create the book branding and cover with Claude, DALL-E, and some CSS.

5. The book is created and formatted in a semantic HTML format, which is then displayed in a book-alike paginated interface, similar to Kindle (React/Next). You can also download the book as a PDF or send it to your Kindle device.

So far, I've seen early users create fascinating books about a diverse set of subjects, e.g. programming, business, science, history, travel, hobbies, etc. There are 100+ free book samples from our early users here: https://tailoredread.com/books

I'd love to hear your feedback about TailoredRead and answer any questions you may have!
We will see if they have a legal claim for damages. Contrary to popular American beliefs, companies don't have free range to do whatever they want. You can't orchestrate a lay-off and weasel around it. If that is in fact what happened, they could face punitive action - certainly other companies have in the past.
By the actual numbers, illegal immigrants are by far the group with the lowest rate of felony, violent crime, property crime, and drug-related crime: https://nij.ojp.gov/topics/articles/undocumented-immigrant-o...

The idea of illegal immigration being "complete disregard for law and order" is based solely in feelings of fear or animosity, not in facts.
But still haven’t matched productivity gains since the 1970s[0]
Everyone likes to point this out like it somehow made up for all the wage stagnation of the last 40 years and it most definitely did not.

Not to mention these wage gains are slowing fast.

[0]: https://www.cnbc.com/2022/07/19/heres-how-labor-dynamism-aff....
> Inflation: "inflation has come down over the last two years, a lot of it has been from the healing of the supply side of the economy.

I think this is one of the disconnects: inflation has been decreasing. What I think people hear, which is wrong: the prices of things are coming down.

They're not coming down, they're increasing _slower_ than before, and before was bad. Prices for lots of things are much more expensive than before covid.

The reason that "inflation is better now" didn't stick is because half the country was telling the emperor they were clothed, and half the country saw a naked person.
Dick Cheney is responsible for murdering millions of Iraqis. This was indisputable up until the moment he endorsed Kamala.

Gender dysphoria is not the same as cancer. We don't let kids get tattoos, buy a beer, have sex, get married until a certain age, but somehow we let them medically transition at 6 years old? Have you ever met a 6 year old? And yes it's happening at that age at alarming rates [1]

[1] https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-tran...
I'm sad that it means antitrust is basically dead now and Google probably won't be broken up: https://www.reuters.com/technology/trump-expected-shift-cour...
> I hope the dems wake up and see that far-leftism/wokism isn't the future americans want.

What do Americans want?
I've used wallabag for this
Most mainstream media being owned by right-wing billionaires manufacturing what is actually (mis)informing the public of Trump's decline, combined with other people only getting their "news" from randos on TikTok or podcasts, and just the general decline in critical thinking taught at schools (and lack of reading)... I don't know what can be done with these disparate realities.

I don't put blame on Harris' campaign, since it actually did discuss and put out policies to help people beyond just calling Trump a fascist and evil. That you think (or at least say you think) they didn't shows how badly their message wasn't conveyed BY the media that are the only people that can convey it.

If the local news owned by Sinclair is your station and it says only right-wing talking points, if two newspapers can have their endorsements scuttled by their billionaire owners, if podcasters like Joe Rogan can pass along Russian misinformation and facebook memes as truth, how can the Harris campaign get through to people?

But was the campaign actually passed down to voters? and did those voters willingly seek it out, since it will not be presented to them in their chosen bubbles? The entire system of billionaires blatantly criming in an election without repercussions and the media manufacturing consent silenced any chance of fair representation of what is happening and who is at fault. Like inflation being a consequence of Trump's policies and not Biden's due to inflation's inherent time lag that most people never learn about
> Stop doing that and almost everyone will happily leave you alone to dress and behave however you please.

I'm pretty sure they won't. And for that reason alone… https://www.youtube.com/@TacticoolGirlfriend
It’s not that they can’t protect themselves, it’s that they would rather spend the money on their own social programs.
> thinking they could fool us all into believing that Biden's faculties were unaffected

Yeah, this was a big part of a general trend of the Democrats treating voters like children to be coddled and lied to. Voters don't like being treated as less-than just because they're less educated, and uneducated doesn't mean stupid. They can see through it.

My county went >75% for Trump, and the reason is because Trump is the only presidential candidate in most of our lifetimes who treats working-class voters as his equal. He doesn't talk down to them, he talks like them, and they eat it up.
It’s not that divisive outside the political class.

60+% majorities have supported abortion as a right until near the end of the second trimester, and for the health of the mother after that (for 30+ years).
This depends on one's consumer preferences. The CPI includes depreciating items that does not scale with income, like healthcare , cars, clothes, and food. Someone with a net worth of millions of dollars incurs likely a smaller opportunity cost.

But I agree despite the hype Bitcoin's returns are still poor and easily surpassed by the S&P 500.
Same, small town, and the prices keep changing so fast in the last five years that the restaurants went from relatively nice durable menus to cheap little paper plastic flaps, because they kept having to reprint the menus again and again with all the price hikes.
Yes, especially if your username is "mlcrypto."
The hard part of emulating the Switch 2 probably isn't going to be the actual emulation, but breaking the security so that the games and firmware can be extracted and decrypted. Nintendo pretty much nailed their software security with the Switch 1 but were undone by catastrophic hardware bugs, so we'll have to see how well they learned their lesson on the hardware front next time.

Microsoft and Sony have demonstrated that hardware security can be more or less perfected, neither of their systems have been compromised via hardware attacks for several generations now.
I think this is the biggest reason she lost. There's a limit to how much hyperbole (and that's being generous) and lies you can tell about someone before the words lose their meaning and people stop believing everything else you say. Not just from democrats (involved in politics) but the media as well. They made up their mind about Trump (probably via corporate smear campaigns) and were so openly biased against him it was despicable. People (I believe) knew that at best the truth was somewhere in the middle, or knew his whole campaign was being jinxed by very powerful people. And I think this was enough to persuade the swing voters.
As a German this was the most disgusting thing to ever hear from a politician.

She completely devaluated the horrific unspeakable crimes of ww2 in one sentence.

Luckily she got what she deserved and we will never hear from her again
As an expat, you can vote as a resident in the last state you claimed residency before leaving the country. So, if you're headed out for a bit, establish residency in a swing state before you go, and remember to vote while you're out of country.

https://www.overseasvotefoundation.org/content/what-state-do...
> Us on the farm saw the price of food we were selling double (or even more) from the price norm early in the crisis

Because conglomerates (ex. Tyson Foods) were upping their prices as shown by gross margins of 10% increasing to 15% [1].

> but it took another year or so before the consumers of that food started complaining about how much grocery stores were charging. Things happen very slowly.

Uh. More like immediately people complained; just throw a max date on a web search [2] and you'll find them readily.

I can't speak to your own personal anecdotes. But the price of eggs has been talked about ad nauseam since start of covid.

[2]: https://www.google.com/search?q=rising+food+prices&tbs=cdr%3...

[1]: https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/TSN/tyson-foods/gr...
That doesn't show at all on GDP stats. 2017 to 2019 were good, above average growth years. And Covid dip was less pronounced that in any other free/rich country (of course at the cost of much more people ending up dead so it's not necessarily a good thing).
What would you suggest instead?

It is pretty competitive on the Multi-Core rating: https://browser.geekbench.com/v6/cpu/8633320 compared to other CPUs: https://browser.geekbench.com/processor-benchmarks
> Organisms have had billions of years of training. We might come online and succeed in our environments with very little data, but we can’t ignore the information that’s been trained into our DNA, so to speak

It's not just information (e.g. sets of innate smells and response tendencies), but it's also all of the advanced functions built into our brains (e.g. making sense of different types of input, dynamically adapting the brain to conditions, etc.).
> The constitution isn't worth the paper it's printed on if it's just being ignored.

While I agree with that statement, I think you are ignoring that virtually all of the conversation about how the Constitution and Bill of Rights are out of touch with modernity is actually coming from the left. I don’t hear anyone on the right really arguing that point—its quite the opposite actually.
open -a "Finder" . - open Finder in the current directory.

Standard apps usually just need the name, like Finder and Safari but you can also specify the path "/Applications/DifferentFinder.app"
Compare it to gold or silver. It has very stable price for centuries or even millennia, when compared to daily salary of skilled worker.
Sometimes the title is added after the script
Progressive policies are broadly popular; inevitably, some totalitarian and intolerant wokeists always end up hijacking the progressive wing, driving the center rightward.