skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
IMO, one of the central problems is the cost of launching stuff into space.

Today, SpaceX offers world leading low prices to launch satellites: $4 m / tonne[1]. But Starlink has access to launch at cost, which is $0.86 m / tonne[2]. Which is a huge advantage when launching an enormous number of satellites.

One thing to keep in mind, especially for these LEO constellations: the lifetime of these satellites is 5-10 years. Which means the operators can never stop launching. It's an ongoing operational cost.

For smaller operators like OneWeb, they don't have to launch that often, but for a serious competitor like Kuiper, they'll be constantly launching some satellite every year.

IMO, launch cost will be a problem even for China. The cost of an LEO constellation is so high that even if it's partially subsidized by the military it'll be a serious cost for the country.

That could change pretty soon, though - various companies and organizations in China are aggressively working on getting reusable rockets working.

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1. $70 m / 17.5 tonnes == $4 m / tonne

2. $15 m[3] / 17.5 tonnes == $0.86 / tonne

3. The $15 m number is not public info, but it is widely believed that it is in the correct ballpark.
Who selects the questions people vote? What happens when they get something like this in the screen in the middle of a football match:

> We have preliminary evidence that XYZ is a terrorist and we are sending him to a nice special house with a swimming pool to protect everyone until the investigation finishes. [OK] [Ask me later]
That article references this University of Cambridge study.
Kazakhstan is not just for Kazakhs. Be kind.
Thought cows are methane intensive
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Right. After the pay-to-play change that boosted Blue Checks to the top of everything it became unusable. No better than going into the local news comment section or Craigslist discussion forums.
Not if we ban third-party ads.
Clearly you don't have a browser plugin that simply opts out of all cookie banners. Ultimately, the webs ites have a financial interest in malicious compliance, so you either work within the system as given or throw your hands in the air and let every and all sites rape your data.
> No, amino acids are bind to tRNA by special proteins that have handiness and can easily distinguish the L and R version. Most proteins can only operate on one handiness of the target molecule.

Ah, neat. That was the step where I worried about coding being infeasible, too, coding for R amino acids wouldn't do any good if you couldn't distinguish them. I did know there was plenty of room in the encoding scheme.
One that I could not get to work properly with Wireguard is port-forwarding without masquerading.

I need the source IP to remain intact, but unless I add 0.0.0.0/0 to the AllowedIPs, the Wireguard peer will drop the packet. If I do add 0.0.0.0/0 to AllowedIPs then it adds a route which prevents the response from my application to go back to the source.

Eventually gave up on it. Nobody had a clue how to fix this or what actually needs to be in the nft or firewalld rules for this to actually work properly.
I know of no regulation that mandated cookie banners. I just know a lot of sites who chose to use banners because the operators are somewhere between weasely and malicous.
People are bad at probability, but I think that cuts both ways on the covid issue. You have healthy 20 year olds who still wont leave their house and living depressed lonely lives because of that 1:1,000,000 chance.

My elderly parents wanted to keep seeing people, even if they were exposed. They said their remaining life expectancy was probably 10 years. They weren't going sacrifice a few of those precious years for even a 5% mortality rate.
Wow, you read our minds.

Checkout our slack channel, we can discuss these ideas in the forum, I would love you hear about your feedback and experience with the runs.

https://join.slack.com/t/testzeuscommunityhq/shared_invite/z...
Then said row is actually owned by nobody, and the problem solves itself. Your many-to-many table will have a row for each connection, and those rows will have a tenant_id. But that's a normal database problem that will essentially always require joins, at that point -- it's not complicated by this approach.

(Alternatively, your row might have two tenant IDs embedded directly in it by the nature of the shared connection, like "owner_id" and "renter_id" for a property, for example, and again, you're fine because you can use those IDs for a query very easily.)
A (text yourself) personal WhatsApp assistant
I started to work on Coco in August after seeing how I can improve "text yourself" productivity hacks with my NLP experience.

I text myself a lot and according to reddit, some articles, and my friends, many do the same for quick thoughts, reminders, to-do lists, and other quick 'brain-dump' items. I decided, let's have an assistant to text you back and actually remind you.

While there's a few text yourself apps out there, Coco is the only one that doesn't require any new apps or logging into a website. It's a freemium plan (unlimited free reminders, other features behind stripe subscription) - this is needed to cover per user GPT & WhatsApp template message costs.

Features:

* WhatsApp-native reminders / repeat reminders
* Creating and managing lists
* Google Calendar access (read, write, modify, delete)
* Image / Voice note analysis
* (of course) chatGPT-style ask questions about anything
* (coming soon) send reminders to others
* (coming soon) note-taking and searching over your chat history

Tech stack:

* Hosting on Render w/ Docker + Postgres + FastAPI
* Meta API
* Helicone for LLM requests tracking

I'm pushing for as much feedback, let me know what you think :)
Caving scientists exploring the darkest places on Earth
So, what are you proposing? Just do nothing about climate change, as we have done before, and have worse social consequences in the near future rather than now? Denmark is more at risk from rising sea levels than other countries (https://cphpost.dk/2023-02-17/news/rising-sea-levels-threate...), so they want to do something about it.
It would be nice if this supported continents beyond the following (taken from the source code):

- Europe

- North America

- Asia

- Additional cities in Oceania

- Additional cities in Africa

- Additional cities in South America

- Additional cities in North America

- Additional cities in Japan

- Additional cities in South Korea

If you live in a city of more than a few hundred thousand in Africa, Oceania, or China, you're out of luck!
> they'll still live comfortably even on minimum wage.

You made a few good points until this one. No one in the US is living comfortably on minimum wage.
For those of us that don't follow your train of logic, can you explain what it means for "the rubber band to break" or for "one of the ropes to snap"? Is there something specific you have in mind? Or is this a vague foreboding sense that something, somewhere will eventually go wrong?
CDPH: Bird flu virus found in raw milk for sale
I refuse to use Bluesky because it is clearly being pushed on the masses, in collusion with mainstream media, as an alternative to X. Clearly another attempt by certain people to control information. It's shocking how people fall for this stuff over and over again.

I hope if backfires, mostly draws in users from existing speech-unfriendly platforms and then the number of social media platforms will multiply from here onward and a large number of platforms will compete based on who is most permissive with regards to speech.

Most of the highly suggestible masses already moved off X to Threads... So now that Bluesky is being pushed hard, I hope the suggestible people from Threads will switch over and split up their censorship ecosystems.

It makes sense from that perspective. The censored ecosystems should be separated into lots of small platforms because you need a lot of different filter bubbles to maintain the deceptions and impermeable information silos. A large centralized ecosystem will create too many opportunities for exposure to alternative information so it cannot be controlled as well.

In the future, there will be a different platform for every kind of delusion and each one will focus on its own delusion and will make up stories to discredit rival platforms so people always doubt information received outside.

It's a matter of time before large corporations start preventing their employees from using non-approved platforms. They'll probably use cybersecurity safety as an excuse. They might carry out hacking false flags on their own employees to convince them to not use other platforms they won't feel forced.
To be more accurate - by removing subsidies, NZ farmers became more efficient and sell their products at the world price, which is quite often overseas.

Subsidies and/or tarrifs always distort the market and have unintended consequences.
US tax dollars at work.
It's my opinion, but... him saying he "[took] prestigious works that had survived the test of time" isn't so believable, when he starts off with something from /r/ImaginaryWarhammer and immediately follows it up with a piece from "an unknown Italian Renaissance painter".

Part of it is he's handicapped by having to avoid famous pieces -- but you can still easily find work that outshines these examples. For digital fantasy, art for card games like Magic: the Gathering. For anime, the art for gachapon games is wonderful. For landscapes, he chose a relatively weak Hudson River School painting, and many have more striking composition and lighting that seem very hard to mistake for AI (e.g. https://collectionapi.metmuseum.org/api/collection/v1/iiif/1...).
To be clear, I think that there is an existing, legal migrant worker programme. They do most of the non-automated farm work in Central Valley California. Also, the Singapore system is a bit ugly if you look closely. I hope the US can do better.
Does Google do that for advertising? I always wonder if my little game of hitting SKIP ASAP shows up as a valid engagement or a user-bailed or something.

And the ads, I can't skip, I hate those MFers.
Bird flu virus being found in milk was reported 6-7 months ago:

Raw-milk fans plan to drink up as experts warn of high levels of H5N1 virus (1 point, 9 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40363483

FDA says 1 in 5 samples of pasteurized milk had bird flu virus fragments (8 points, 1 comment) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40173774
> Why is the farming subsidies seen differently

Because you can live without private militias but you can't live without food?
> Python doesn't have a language package manager, you're free to use pip or poetry or uv or whatever, but it does have PEP 517/518, which allow all Python package managers to interact with a common package ecosystem which encompasses polyglot codebases.

This is a long-standing pain point. LWN has a series of reports covering this, one of which is: https://lwn.net/Articles/920832/
It's a difference of degree, not kind, which is how it became normalized.
If by federate you mean "is stored on content addressed, signed merkle trees that can be mirrored and served from more than one domain" then yes

Also it's uh, atproto.com
having things called entities and components isn't doing ECS. Minecraft is a traditional OOP class hierarchy of entities, which (with Forge) have a Map<String, Object> whose entities are called components.

In the technically superior Fabric ecosystem, you can add fields directly to the entity class using bytecode modification instead of having HashMap overhead on everything. Accessing them is a bit roundabout, but in a way the JIT compiler can optimize.
Can you still assume the bytes 0x00 and 0xFF are not present in the string (like in UTF-8?)
If you are right and Starlink will have no competition, then why would it not be regulated? Generally speaking, monopolies are regulated to prevent price gouging, including natural monopolies. And if its not a monopoly, then clearly the game is not over.
your world view presents inconsistencies and would benefit from reflection, for example making negative judgement of exaggeration then proceeding to exaggerate yourself. such behaviour leads me to believe you are not interested in good faith and the following will be a waste of breath.

I do believe that daily drug use during childhood is likely to fundamentally change that child's adult disposition. many men I have spoken to who were medicated during childhood have agreed, I have higher confidence in their opinion than yours. some kids will benefit from this. lots and lots of kids are victims of overprescription, and effectively will be mentally castrated by having spontenaiety and peaks of enjoyment crushed via permanent downregulation of the mind's reward circuitry. physically castrated too by reducing growth 10-20% which yes would probably impact ability to maximise sporting potential.
You could reach out to someone with knowledge in that area and ask to talk. Like a theology professor, nerdy pastor, or even a local Jesuit.
It seems in the last few years the government of India has decided to do what it wants around the world and seemingly deciding to pretend all accusations are false like total sociopaths and gaslighting accusers instead.
Yes, the second one. I don't really care; it's not "my" data. It's data about me.

When I walk down the street and sometime sees me go by, those aren't my photons they caught. By analogy, same with my browsing history.
Exactly. Don't start with k8s unless you're already comfortable troubleshooting it at 3am half asleep. Start with one of the things you're comfortable with. Among these things, apply YAGNI liberally, only making certain that you're not going to paint yourself into a corner.

Then, if and when you've become so large that the previous thing has become painful and k8s started looking like a really right tool for the job, allocate time and resources, plan a transition, implement it smoothly. If you have grown to such a size, you must have had a few such transitions in your architecture and infrastructure already, and learned to handle them.
Did you click on the link and see pictures of the devices? The cylindrical parts are obviously D batteries.

> the Boston Police Department stated in its defense that the ad devices shared some similarities with improvised explosive devices, with them also discovering an identifiable power source, a circuit board with exposed wiring, and electrical tape.

Ah yes. That guy has a 99.99% DNA match to Osama bin Laden. Must be a terrorist!

The only way this makes sense is if you assume any unidentified object is a bomb, which may be logical if you live in Palestine, but seems pretty unlikely in Boston.

You're suggesting the government is should treat every unidentified object as a bomb. I hope you realize how dystopian that is - anyone who creates some one-off or prototype object outside the list of legitimately creatable things will be treated as a terrorist. The Apple 1? Bomb. PiPhone? Bomb. Homemade LED name tag? Bomb. Google Glass prototype? Bomb. Mesh network air quality sensor? Bomb. Hitchhiking robot? Bomb. How do new types of things become approved and not be treated as bombs? Do I have to fill out a government form to declare that my hitchhiking robot isn't a bomb? (What if a terrorist fills out that form and declares their bomb isn't a bomb?)
I would be curious to know what chemical compounds that you are smelling. Germany has incredibly strict environmental protection laws. As an aside, the waterfront of Kawasaki, Japan is pretty similar, but not one single company. It looks straight from Factorio.
This is like saying that they have an AI policy, but that using an LLM isn’t in violation since it is just calculus applied to words and not true intelligence.

Courts aren’t stupid for the most part. Most of them are happy to interpret things in terms of what a ‘reasonable person’ would think, for better or worse. Right now, most reasonable people would say that using an LLM to do your work without disclosing it is in violation of the spirit of the student handbook.

I could fine tune an AI, and name it after myself, and put my own name at the top of the paper as an attribution, but no reasonable person would say that was following the spirit of the law if I turned that in as a class assignment.
Aphrodisiacs and Anti-Aphrodisiacs (1869)
And if the regulators didn't predict such compliance they should be replaced with competent actors in their jobs.

That was the obvious outcome. What did people predict: site owners leaving money on the table? Who pays for operating the sites then?
His premise seems to be that life past 65 averages out to suffering and a slow decline toward death, which I think many active and happy older people (who don’t wish to be killed!) would argue is very mistaken.

Misanthropic environmentalism isn’t environmentalism at all. Environmentalism designed by humans should be good for humans, not give them scheduled death dates.
The problem is what you do outside the file: even if it contains a working decompressor, you have to actually run that decompressor, which most likely requires specifying the byte offset and doing some other work to extract it. And then the decompressor needs to shorten the file even past the length of that byte offset and extractor, which can't be done with reasonable probability.

There are some formats which search for a valid header anywhere in the file, but then they'd get tripped up by all the mostly-valid headers that don't actually yield a decompressed file.
Yeah but if they were like, "Lemme tell you how to provide Internet for boats and Iranians in the most expensive way possible," it doesn't sound like that exciting of a business anymore now does it?
It’s funny, I have a somewhat opposite setup - Surface Pro 7+ (Windows) as a thin client, M4 Mac Mini as the beefy machine, using mainly VS Code Remote over SSH. It works great for development, builds etc, and for gaming I can still use the Surface. Then again, it’s not like I have much choice because builds involve an iOS app
I’d expect iCloud to accept that name, even though Rachel True’s name breaks the heck
out of it:

https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/lz27ou/she...
This seems like an apples to oranges comparison. They are completely different. Can you provide some specific examples?
It's important to note that the Do-Not-Stab header has been deprecated because one browser engine switched it on by default and requiring users to opt into stabbing hurt the bottom line of the stabbing industry, so it's no longer respected. Luckily someone came up with General Assault Control, a non-standard alternative, which also only has one value, so you can set Sec-GAC to 1 to request websites not to assault you. By design, this header cannot be extended, so it cannot be used to distinguish brutal stabbings from a comedic pie to the face in the future.

Because of legal requirements, the General Assault Control header may not be enabled by default, as American states like Colorado require explicit opt-out (rather than explicit opt-in). This protects Colorado's thriving stabbing and shooting industry as most users will never want to opt into being stabbed.

Despite the feature being forced to be disabled by default, the organisation behind the spec is pushing hard for customers to download fringe browsers that implement the feature (though you may need about:config to enable it). Because of the small user base, the request not to be assaulted can be used by websites not willing to follow the standard to make their stabbings and shootings more precise. End users can request a JSON file from the web server containing the supposed support for the GAC header, but requesting this URL may be used to kick the user in the teeth by non compliant servers.
I can express my ideas well enough in various Datalog/Prolog variants w/ the horn syntax. But when it comes to translating that from several discrete simple propositions into one massive CTE-stack SQL query I get very puzzled. I wrote a toy Datalog-to-SQLite compiler (https://percival.jake.tl) but I struggle to grasp the translation skill myself
Can’t really tell if this is tongue in cheek but starting a company doesn’t make one CEO. It makes them a partner/owner but typically CEO needs a board of directors etc
> more than just repeating ideas back and forth.

Yes, people on X seem very upset that they can be blocked on bluesky. But if I've heard what you have to say and don't want to hear the same thing 1000x, that's not an echo chamber. That's me hearing you, disagreeing, and you having nothing more of value to add.

Discussion requires communication, not simply repeating propaganda over and over and over, which is 99% of the time all that anyone crying "echo chamber" tends to do.
>Liberals and the left do not need the right to be online in the way that the right needs liberals and the left

This is quite ironic considering that the last 8 years 'Liberals on the left' have done nothing but react to whatever Trump was doing that day.

>The assumption that strangers on the internet are interested in or obligated to engage with “debate me bro”-style theatrics any time a person feels like summoning them to is very much a specific example of hyperreality that is particularly endemic amongst “the right”

If you don't want to have an online debate don't post in places that have comments.
It feels good and fits my daily habits very well
I noticed that as well.

I'm not sure what the rules are, but I had to disable a surprising number of "legitimate interests" related to advertising.
Show HN: Kaskade version 3 was released
Hi folks I've been working on the version 3 of kaskade.

kaskade is a text user interface for kafka.

Now it is fully compatible with redpanda, ad was tested with apicurio registry. Also, the parameters were enhanced.

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Since we’re here.. These are probably everyone’s top 2 eco-punk novels but the rest of an appropriate top 10 list is way more contentious, and imho sources like goodreads or whatever will always have many items that aren’t really even in the genre.

So I’ll offer the “metatropolis” anthology, which as a bonus has an audiobook version read by the Star Trek cast. Anyone got anything else?
For the most part the types of people who find Instagram interesting (and would have a Threads account created automatically) are simply not the audience for a tool like Bluesky (or Twitter).
> because every company out there fucking hates you

They don't actually hate you. Rather, they love your money and they have a depraved indifference for you.
Not convinced about the monthly subscription since GPT and other apps offer similar features, even if not needing an app is convenient.

Where can I access my account settings and receipts?
If you are using `wg-quick`, then you need `Table = off` to disable adding routes to the system route table automatically. After that, then you can add routes manually.
Considering that 300 light-nanoseconds is about 90m, getting a response (or even just one-way) in that time is essentially running right at the limits of physics/causality.
My goto as well.
> she is lucky we did not use deadly force because we had machine guns on scene," said authorities during a press conference
> Unfortunately I can't help much with learning grammar as I never dove into actually learning Korean due to a dislike of how it sounds.

Ha, one of my main motivations for wanting to learn Korean is how beautiful it sounds to me. Funny how that goes, diametrically different subjetive perceptions.