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For a regular little "What's up in Astronomy?", Dr. Becky's YouTube channel isn't bad: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYNbYGl89UUowy8oXkipC-Q …

Skimming the article, the title seems mostly rhetorical. But my first thought was "why don't you loudly ask why your schools and children are helping to fund and train the huge AI data cente…

From a Marketing PoV, sure, it was a differentiator with special sauce. But from an Accounting PoV, it was separate chip. With far more transistors than the 8086 CPU. And its cutting-edge (for the t…

The most interesting things that you could observe yourself (say, with no more than binoculars and a dark-ish sky)? Or things you'd need fancier instruments to observe? Or are you thinking more o…

Every True Capitalist knows to use the golden rule as their moral compass.

> ... as this was frequently used by the opposition journalists and investigators to uncover the details ... Seems like Ukrainians assassins targeting Russian VIP's would be the most compellin…

"Discretion is the better part of valor", "Never point it at your own feet", "Russian roulette is best enjoyed as a spectator", and many other sayings seem applicable.

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

138 points and 90 comments yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47844890

That would imply that Zuck is being surveilled.

I used "problematic" to describe the boss who Shotwell is working for - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elon_Musk …

>> [...] the state department of agriculture & consumer services, had fined Family Dollar after two previous visits. But North Carolina law caps penalties at $5,000 per inspection, offering…

> The compensation figures, which have not been previously reported, place Shotwell's pay above many other high-profile tech executives. How many of those other exec's organizations are …

<sigh/> Part of me wonders if Karp might just be mocking recent rants by the Trump & Tech Bro's gang. Part of me wonders if the UK government could get its sh*t sufficiently togeth…

I'd phrase it as 99% of Westerners feeling that they have no interests at stake. Whether that's literal money, or physical resources (say, rare earth mines), or transportation routes (say, …

Bold futurism can work very well when you're the (relative) scrappy underdog. So long as you're too smart or lucky to make any huge mistakes. Vs. when you're in the Top 10 of the Fortu…

> Felt it all the way in Tokyo! How many stories above the ground, and might you guess at your building's construction (wood frame, steel frame, etc.) and foundations (on bedrock, on loose sed…

Guess: Intel changed the spec. There's quite a few generations between a 286 and a P4, and new BIOS code doesn't need to run on discontinued CPU types. And new execution contexts like ht…

Maybe I'm not reading the right techno-utopian stuff - but I've never seen a Moon Base or Mars Base proposal which claimed to both have an actual business plan, and to project sustained prof…

> Also seems like executing three pre-decoded instructions without a jump after setting PE causes a triple fault for some reason. It's been a while, but I recall Intel documenting that a jump …

Clicks pay the editor's salary. It could be useful if HN had a mild site reputation system. Submissions from high quality sites (say ciechanow.ski) would start with a point or two bonus. Submis…

Terraforming anything looks really expensive. Ask a finance guy to run numbers on terraforming places with gravity too weak to hold onto a useful atmosphere for any length of time*, and give you hi…

Throw all their samples back outside, then very carefully sweep the inside of the LEM and throw the broom & dustpan out too? In theory, they could have been equipped to partially pressurize the ca…

I suspect we disagree on the meaning of "zealously". I am not thinking of 100% agreement with Israeli gov't policies, nor "as much as you want" financial aid, nor other simpli…

Cool - but "A Mercury Rover Could ..." presupposes a soft landing on Mercury. Try asking an aerospace engineer about the delta-v requirements for that. Mercury has no atmosphere - so you ca…

> If you find a screwdriver on an alien planet, you can deduce the existence of screws, machines that require fasteners, and ultimately a living being that built those machines. "Hey, Bob! He…

In theory , tax rules could make that situation possible. In practice - yeah...NO. Unless your "if I died now" world includes people near & dear to you who'd really need the ins…

Might anyone have a view under the hood here, and not be under NDA, to comment on why ULA hasn't replaced Northrop Grumman with a less failure-prone SRB supplier?

America has zealously supported Israel since the 1940's - generally against the explicit advice of America's top diplomatic and military experts - because it's been d*mned obvious to Am…

> What wiring? If you've got normal residential power outlets, then you've got wiring inside the walls. Those wires are sized for the number of amps that the individual circuit's fu…