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There is court testimony it was drug testing - https://www.reuters.com/article/business/britney-spears-hook...

Can you link your source?

I'd say it was part of some sort of manic/meltdown episode with multiple things going on with some logic. She was under a conservatorship for good reason, it's not some Deep State conspiracy.

I'd like to hear her explanation in her words.

[edit] - From her book

  I went into a hair salon, and I took the clippers, and I shaved off all my hair.

  Everyone thought it was hilarious. Look how crazy she is! Even my parents acted embarrassed by me. But nobody seemed to understand that I was simply out of my mind with grief. My children had been taken away from me.

  With my head shaved, everyone was scared of me, even my mom. No one would talk to me anymore because I was too ugly.

  My long hair was a big part of what people liked—I knew that. I knew a lot of guys thought long hair was hot.

  Shaving my head was a way of saying to the world: Fuck you. You want me to be pretty for you? Fuck you. You want me to be good for you? Fuck you. You want me to be your dream girl? Fuck you. I’d been the good girl for years. I’d smiled politely while TV show hosts leered at my breasts, while American parents said I was destroying their children by wearing a crop top, while executives patted my hand condescendingly and second-guessed my career choices even though I’d sold millions of records, while my family acted like I was evil. And I was tired of it.

  At the end of the day, I didn’t care. All I wanted to do was see my boys. It made me sick thinking about the hours, the days, the weeks I missed with them. My most special moments in life were taking naps with my children. That’s the closest I’ve ever felt to God—taking naps with my precious babies, smelling their hair, holding their tiny hands.

Ask HN: What are your thoughts on ultrasonic knives?

If anyone wants a break from bad takes on bad takes on AI/politics/GW....I liked this video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNwHDWlA7gE where Alex compares it to the revolution of reciprocating saws (amazing days we are in)Previous HN discussion - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43442107 I see why in commercial baking you might go with water jet, but I'm interesting in thoughts on...

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Re:Beyond Meat is headed to Chapter 11 bankruptcy on Monday August 11, 2025 @04:29AM (#44861924)
> at least from my perspective.

If you are afraid of salt I guess. That's an old idea and somewhat a religion formed off a misdirect marketing campaign.

Any Who even with salt is evil not much difference at McDonalds -

McPlant https://www.mcdonalds.com/us/en-us/product/mcplant.html#acco... (510 Cal.)

Quarter Pounder with Cheese https://www.mcdonalds.com/us/en-us/product/quarter-pounder-w... (520 Cal.)

I don't see Beyond Meat as a replacement to steak, it's very unhealthy compared to that.

Reducing livestock is the most 2nd most pressing environmental issue in the world, to fixing fishing. I can't think of anything else that matters more than those two. We need to farm the oceans (70%) and leave land (30%) for hunters.

I love pictures of Chinese diamond factories - https://www.google.com/search?num=100&q=chinese+diamond+fact...

If rather than celebrating those who did it's berating, fuck them all, the NPCs are not worth giving to.

They seriously didn't list the 9 that did?

The billionaires should pull out of the Giving Pledge, they are the better people both in morals and choosing what to do.

Wheel wells are heated from equipment inside, some measurements say ~ +20° C vs exterior.

Could the air pressure be higher?

When planes get holes does the inside pressure equal the outside.

Where I am it's $90,000 - $240,000 to subdivide land from one to two.

Not including costs post-subdividing like selling the empty lot and tax's.

Obviously the new buyer has building costs, but you might have to demolish the existing house to divide, good chance it was in the middle.

On top of all this is the years to divide the property.

On top of all this you can't then build what you want on the new property.

On top of all this is the years to build on the empty lots.

These all have a $$$ cost.

$240,000 to quickly divide and rebuild high density, no one would care about that cost, that's ~$0.

So the houses you can end up with can't be tight practical buildings, it's $$$$$ for permits and land and time. So this robot will help build mega mansions for single families.

Re:Million Times Million on Wednesday July 09, 2025 @10:09AM (#44510247)
The Economist (British) changed from million million -> thousand million in (1944) -

"If it is objected that a billion in this country is reserved for the meaning of a million million, then it can be counter-objected that, if so, it is reserved for a use that interests nobody but astronomers and the historians of German inflation"

The US leading the way in a sensible measuring system.

Re:Why DARPA Thinks Stealth Is Obsolete in Future Wars on Thursday June 26, 2025 @03:48AM (#44385160)
> > The U.S. can now employ quantum sensing to see stealthy opponents

Everything in the article is garbage and doesn't represent what Rob McHenry said. As you can see in the video for yourself - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLYgv5h23bc

What Rob McHenry does say in the video is also garbage, stunningly wrong, the video is a waste of time don't watch it.

I too thought it would be about the many ways the abundance of tech is killing stealth.

Radar can see stealth planes, it's just not as good, and can be bombed, but cheap tech means you can install lots of them. Many solutions exist that might be viable as tech gets cheaper and computers can process the data to make stealth redundant.

Re:Environmental Impacts of Artificial Intelligence on Monday June 23, 2025 @05:42PM (#44360457)
Fuck off Greenpeace, they recently got Germany nuclear energy shut down.

Which also increased reliance on Russian gas. If you thought Greenpeace couldn't be more evil.

Why is HN listening to dirty activists who can't even bathe talk about tech?

Is this how low HN is now? Redditors going to Greenpeace to do project estimates for them? This is your tech level?

The bunker busters will not have worked on Fordow.

(It will be the first time a GBU-57A/B has been used in war, which is interesting)

They needed troops on the ground. Israel was going to do this.

It's possible they have just collapsed the entrances.

Trumps comments - https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump You have a loop, @Osint613 reposted Trump as "Fordow is gone" which Trump reposted. Neither of them have any idea.

(Natanz, Isfahan were already hit and damaged by Israel, the US didn't bother to bunker bust them, it was Tomahawks from subs )

3D model of Fordow - https://x.com/TheIntelLab/status/1398716540485308417

You need a tactical nuke to destroy Fordow, but the USA considers tactical the same as strategic, so it would be very unlikely. Russia could, since they put tactical in a different category.

Re:Andrej Karpathy: Software in the era of AI [video] on Friday June 20, 2025 @03:14AM (#44325404)
> I'm not sure about the 1.0/2.0/3.0 classification

How can you not be sure?

It makes no sense at all, it's cuckooland, are you all on crazy pills?

Even if you are tripping on LSD and want to call weights software 2.0, because screw all logic and English, they were invented in the ~1970's why would it make sense to suddenly call them software now because you saw an invigorating talk?

Prompts being software 3.0 - are you telling me people will do three years university to learn to prompt?

It's just an interface like a mouse (software 4.0 using hand movements) and a primary objective of companies like OpenAI is to simplify prompting, else their value drops by decabillions of dollars.

I do not understand where there is anything here to be "not sure" on?

LLMs making non-deterministic mistakes and autistic people being ok with that is the real "software 2.0" if you really want to play this silly software X.0 game.

> That's not at all clear.

LLMs agree with OP. It's a failure, with important culture.

Steelmanning it, it's better than a corrugated metal shanty town. Although they would die in the cold.

The rich in the gers burn coal, the poor plastic. There is no water or sewerage.

It's one of the most polluted capitals in the world - https://www.unicef.org/mongolia/environment-air-pollution#:~...

Ulaanbaatar - https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?params=47_56_7_N_1...

> we now all hear culture warriors describe reality in highly slanted, politically-charged, and often thought-terminating ways all day long. Everywhere we look, someone is ready to tell us that two plus two make five

"Men can get pregnant"

And that is the articles point.

But they won't say Democrats. Or the young kids controlling Kamala Harris.

It's 1984, academia and the Left can't say that.

The people chose Trump over 1984, they fought back.

As the article says "Trump’s America bears little superficial resemblance"

Can HN read the article or just off topically repeat what the bureau is telling them?

The targets the US predicted are

  TOP SECRET//SCI//NOFORN//SOCCENT-32 POTENTIAL TARGET SITES (TS//TKI/RSEN//REL TO USA, FVEY)

  Facility Name Type Latitude Longitude

  Uranium Conversion Facility (UCF) Nuclear Facility 32,580744 51,827081
  Natanz Nuclear Complex Facility Nuclear Facility 33,724229 51,726114
  Parchin Ammunition Plant Nuclear Facility 35,527676 51,765176
  Khorramshahr Military Base Military Base 30,4580556 48,1889111
  IR-40 Nuclear Facility Nuclear Facility 34,37331 49,240749
  Tehran Research Reactor (TRR) Nuclear Facility 35,738431 51,388253

  TOP SECRET//SCI//NOFORN//SOCCENT-J2
Lets see how good they were

[edit] Direct links -

UCF - https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?params=32_34_50_N_... Natanz - https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?params=33_43_27_N_... Parchin - https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?params=35_31_39_N_... Khorramshahr - https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?params=30_27_29_N_... IR-40 - https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?params=34_22_23_N_... TRR - https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?params=35_44_18_N_...

[edit 2] More relevant to HN. the Dolphin-class submarines are launching missiles as predicted, the US also thought they would be part of the 'cyber-war', which they define as "electronic jamming to distort and disable radar signals, rendering air-defense systems ineffective." Intel people are such tools, jamming and spoofing is 'cyber-war' and a 'cyber strike'.... I guess they are more right, it's not like you are hacking during a war, that was months ago which is intel. But it's language used for funding purposes.

[edit 3] I will say the "agents will carry out sabotage operations inside Iran" Who'd be nuts enough to do that? The US would have to have that wrong

HN is dumb as dog shit, at least Reddit has a million monkeys. What do you hope to achieve?

Step one: What is todays delta to 2010? It is a lot, so this is where smart people would start.

So we'll skip that.

Many cars bought today will be around. Many gas stations bought today will be around.

People will be driving further. Do we have to say for the stupid people it won't be electric.

People will be more isolated and not want human contact, digital payments from the pump standard. Food and beverages are as massive part of the profit. So what does that mean?

Automated fueling so your hands don't get dirty will exist. Cars will be able to communicate so they will queue you more efficiently.

There will be electric charging places. They are not "gas stations", you'll get a split. It's interesting to calculate what they would be. Land value vs time to recharge. They can be multistory. This is a whole other thing.

Re:19M tons of lithium found in Arkansas on Tuesday May 27, 2025 @08:36PM (#44111844)
Not sure about the quality of this article (well... I am sure... it's bad) but a good example of how the minerals deal in Ukraine is not as the media portrays it.

Minerals are in the ground everywhere.

So that stock photo is really representative of lithium, 100's of uses on the web, it might be petalite, any rock nerds? -

https://i0.wp.com/mitechnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/...

So adobe stock photos lets you "Generate variations" - https://stock.adobe.com/au/search?k=petalite&asset_id=412946...

> mostly a couple quick wraps and overhand knots.

"The toughest part of the job, though, is tying a proper knot to secure bamboo poles, which can take years to master"

Cool sketches of the knots - https://multimedia.scmp.com/infographics/culture/article/318...

I'm sure the years to master includes where and which way to do the knots.

> some flat nylon ribbon

Over 0.5 kN per strip, blah blah boring specs for the scaffolding which at 25 pages would be... 100 times shorter than the EU?

Any who, my bamboo wilted after cutting, you have to treat it it seems... so not even close to the knot stage, but did find the spec'ed lashes, then remembered I hate knots, like just the basic reef knot ones... screw years. Zip ties FTW

Re:Making the rav1d Video Decoder 1% Faster on Thursday May 22, 2025 @11:41AM (#44063170)
Get The Scene involved.

They shifted to h.264 successfully, but I haven't heard of any more conferences to move forward in over a decade.

Currently "The Last of US S02E06" only has one AV1 - https://thepiratebay.org/search.php?q=The+Last+of+Us+S02E06 same THMT - https://thepiratebay.org/search.php?q=The+Handmaids+Tale+S06... These are low quality at only ~600MB, not really early adopter sizes.

AV1 beats h.265 but not h.266 - https://www.preprints.org/manuscript/202402.0869/v1 - People disagree with this paper on default settings

Things like getting hardware to The Scene for encoding might help, but I'm not sure of the bottleneck, it might be bureaucratic or educational or cultural.

[edit] "Common Side Effects S01E04" AV1 is the strongest torrent, that's cool - https://thepiratebay.org/search.php?q=Common+Side+Effects+S0...

> Duct Tape

NASA says gray tape.

You'll find some documents say duct tape, but here it was gray, transcript -

https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/static/history/alsj/...

"space-age baling wire" I think is velcro

Press release videos - https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/194_lxE-vy_ha7-5V_wFj...

Their YouTube is insanely technical, I think, lots of videos with big equations anyway - https://www.youtube.com/@venusaerospace/videos

Planes down confirmed - https://x.com/Doha104p3/status/1919922881892430275

5 planes not yet, but it seems more than one. Indian and Pakistan TV are saying 3. Indian planes crashed in India.

Re:Internet in a Box on Monday April 28, 2025 @01:20AM (#43817828)
It's been around since 2012 and the best Wikipedia has - "explored using these boxes in the Dominican Republic for three months." - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet-in-a-Box

Where is a follow up study 3 years later? Are there any follow up studies [1]?

(I have said in past comments the medical version might work, it failed in the Dominican Republic [1])

One follow up study - [1] https://www.sipa.columbia.edu/sites/default/files/2023-01/In... which is not real positive.

Why does it not work? An idea to think about, physical encyclopedias and university textbooks have been around forever and accessible.

I've worked in schools with 1000's on one ADSL trying to use proxies to cache. I've volunteered for a few years in country on mobile apps for use in very low PPI villages without internet. I'm not coming at this with zero experience.

It's impossible to discuss these things on HN, there is neither the technical or process knowledge here, I could be totally wrong but I have looked hard to disprove myself.

The solution I propose Starlink -> box with billing / access control + terabytes of offline vids/books + fun online games, that an idiot with determination can manage and make a profit or run free and works well in a country where the MPAA doesn't exist.

The internet has screw all that up.

The criminal justice system should be transparent. Anyone should be able to watch any proceedings. This fits with your requirements as long as people don't report it.

The Australia Federal Court live streams but it is illegal to yt-dlp / photograph the monitor etc - https://www.youtube.com/@FederalCourtAus/streams

You also need people before and after (if convicted) to know. For instance witnesses or if they too were victims of crime. This is the impossible problem.

It's not even the reporting, it's easy search, as old newspapers have been scanned I've seen a few family secrets (of people still alive) that I would never have known and never needed to know.

Rockets triggering lighting with wire has been since the late 50's (M. M. Newman), what's cool about the drone is you can send back data before the strike. Obviously a kite or aerostat would work as well.

I'm sure someone in the 90's was using rockets without wires, the exhaust from the rocket made the trail. I cannot source it.

These guys charging cars shows they are not really serious, but a lot of forest fires are lightning, it's a worthy thing to control if possible.

Re:Deafening Silence from the Cybersecurity Industry on Friday April 18, 2025 @09:00AM (#43727673)
> has probably wondered how Germany allowed Hitler to rise to power.

We have been Nazis for years now, J.K Rowling is a Nazi, Joe Rogan is a Nazi, Jordan Peterson is a Nazi, Scott Adams is a Nazi, everyone is a Nazi.

When you can never ever win, when you will always be called a Nazi, why would you bother?

The mainstream media is like Russia, they profit from chaos. They successfully got the IT industry to turn on their own, too late now.

Cane toad tadpoles and eggs also contain the poison bufotoxin.

Strangely that poison is what they use to find the eggs/siblings to eat.

You can squeeze the poison out of a toad and use it as bait for cane toad tadpoles, or buy it.

Re:"Hands off working COBOL code" –protest sign in NYC on Sunday April 06, 2025 @07:05AM (#43600537)
"DOGE Plans to Rebuild SSA Code Base in Months" - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43505659 122 points 8 days ago

IT workers need to stop being such weak cunts.

Update it, it has to be done, these archaic systems are already continuously hurting people. The Therac-25 saved more lives than the Therac-20, which is the same as saying the Therac-20 was killing people.

It's not like they are getting useless fucks like Accenture or IBM to do it over budget while making it worse.

Re:The Tectonics Behind the Myanmar Quake on Wednesday April 02, 2025 @08:52AM (#43556105)
Here's a (2014) article talking about it - https://doi.org/10.1002/2013JB010762

"One notably (and perhaps ominously) quiet section of the fault is the 220 km long Meiktila segment, between the large city of Mandalay and the new capital of Naw Pyi Daw. This long quiet section separates a southern cluster of ruptures in 1929 and 1930 from a northern cluster between 1931 and 2012. The length of the Meiktila segment implies that it is capable of producing an earthquake as large as Mw 7.8 to 7.9, if it ruptures all at once [Wells and Coppersmith, 1994; Blaser et al., 2010] (Figure 22 and Table 4).

We speculate, on the basis of sparse historical records of shaking, that the 1839 Ava earthquake may have resulted from the failure of Meiktila segment, in conjunction with the Sagaing segment, its neighbor on the north. If the Meiktila segment has been dormant since then, and the fault is fully coupled down to a depth between 12 and 15 km, as Vigny et al. [2003] and Socquet et al. [2006] suggest, then accumulated slip potency on the Meiktila segment after 1839 is enough to generate a Mw 7.6 earthquake."

Cool drone footage that shows the site and explosion - https://x.com/NASASpaceflight/status/1906340191083581704

It misses the pad, surprised it wasn't scuttled in the air.

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