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How does Voyager know where Earth is, such that it can position the dish correctly? Does it use inertia to keep track?

Also, at such an enormous distance, I’d expect very minor dish positioning errors to result in the loss of the line. It’s awesome that they had the skills to build something like that in the 80s.
Agree. It’s complicated as all hell. PBM is where I think amazon should start for reason you stated

I’ve worked in a couple of healthcare segments over a couple decades. One thing I’ve come to learn is things can never be simple. I think economic complexity somehow adds s ton of system cost. If nothing else it adds layers of middlemen
Aah ok you meant the pebble in general. I agree I loved how long the pebble lasted! I was hoping there was some upgrade that made it last even longer haha. I might have to do this though, attempt to install linux on it!
Aaah, makes a lot of sense! Thank you for the clarification!
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Where do you think this money to pay for a UBI is coming from?

After reading Sam A's posts about UBI and the comments here on HN, I'm blown away. How can so many "smart" people disregard economics and be so so out of touch... Sam, if you see this, come live in Texas, or Kansas, or Georgia, or anywhere but your bubble for some time. Encourage your SV friends to do the same. I implore you to see just how out of touch with reality you are on this topic.

And NO, taxing the rich wouldn't even be able to pay for it, they don't even have enough for that. Also, the rich are mobile, there would be no more rich. We'd all be poor with our $5k/mo if you took it from the rich.

The current way of paying for federal programs is extremely unsustainable. Where will this new $5k/mo come from?

Let's start a one level up from yourself: your employer. The first place to go for the UBI money. Guess what, only two things will happen if the costs of employees goes up for an employer. 1. They reduce the work force, 2. They raise prices.
But now we have unemployed people receiving only $5k/mo. This cycle will continue and the only supply of money left is the fake money the gov "prints". What happens then? Who pays for it? Maybe look at Greece/Spain/Italy... Germany has somehow been suckered into paying for a large amount of their welfare. The U.K. was smart and bailed. But what if America followed suit?

Who in the world will bail out America after that point? Who/what country will pay every American $5k/mo? Where does this end?

The ONLY way to achieve covering the basic needs for the masses is if the resources for those needs were free. Both in money and energy. Power, free and unlimited. Food, free and unlimited.

I've only skimmed the surface, and may not have provided the best examples above, but this is a topic that thousands of research papers are written on and even more discussion outside of that. It's too much. I'm still waiting for the day for someone to explain how trickle up economics works. I have yet to hear a convincing argument/example of it working, ever. It just doesn't. When was the last time a poor person offered you a job?
I think there's a difference of terms. Wanting to work 20-40 hours a month on stuff you like instead of "giving into a job" sounds pretty far from what most people are going to consider "a professional" (you work on what the job needs at the present, with standard hours, that they pay for).
Slack for work mostly sucks. It's OK for communities where urgency is obviously not there -- basically as an alternative IRC. I have worked at a couple companies that used IRC. They beauty of IRC is no offline notifications (unless you're using a cloud service, I guess) -- so it was only used during the workday.

I'm not sure if this is the case with other teams, but I've been noticing my team has been using public channels less and less lately, and I guess most slack-based communication must happen in private messages. We could probably change to a traditional IM client and not have to deal with Slack anymore.
> AppAmaGooBookSoft are AppAmaGooBookSoft primarily because they have mortal locks on distribution.

Well, first of all, this isn't true. Google and FB aren't so profitable because of a distribution monopoly. They're profitable due to network effects.
I don't necessarily mean publishable—that's doable but difficult in CS—but novel in the sense of requiring non-trivial creativity and insight within the field rather than replaying things you were taught directly.

An example might be writing a compiler for a language you design with features not covered in the book. It's probably not publishable, but it is doing CS in a way that just following instructions in a book or from lectures to write a compiler isn't.
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I don't disagree with the article's premise that Slack hijacks your brain, but as someone who worked for a far-flung company that didn't have Slack, and instead relied on email/phone/web meetings, I NEVER want to go back to that.
Great project based on Alpine:

https://postmarketos.org
It's called probability theory, but that's not going to resolve these issues.

If you're interested, there's a great 100-level course online from Joe Blitzstein at Harvard: https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/stat110/home
Why has no airline tried having a pool of aircraft and flying them on different routes depending on current demand for that route?
I've heard they really need people who'd be willing to replace the aging programmers who have been overseeing Voyager for a long, long time...

https://thenewstack.io/celebrating-nasas-voyager-probes-team...
Awh that's a shame.

I used to like picking that up from Borders, although after Borders closed I don't remember seeing it in the UK.
It's mostly a function of how well your antenna is able to amplify the signal, how precise you can aim that antenna and how slow you transmit. If you have a very good antenna with lots of gain and a very precise mechanism of aiming it (at an object whose location is very well known, and Voyager is a moving target) it will take much less power than if either one of those elements is not optimal.

The idea here is that any radio energy that does not end up in the vicinity of the target was wasted and at 21 billion Km that gives you plenty of opportunity for mis-alignment.

Receiving the signal has similar challenges, with the added complication that this time the sender is sending with a power level that puts its signal under the noise floor by the time it reaches Earth.

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

Fun fact: this goes for the GPS satellites as well by the time their signal reaches your pretty little hand-held receiver and it takes nothing short of magic (to me, not to the people that design that stuff) to recover the signal.
I think it's that the goal posts have shifted, i.e. distribution used to be the bottleneck for alot of people but now that it's easy (for internet businesses) there's a new bottleneck.

There's so much stuff on the internet that it's a problem of discovery, which is why Google became so dominant.
I started working as a data scientist 9 months ago, coming primarily from a research background. I had never heard of tools like Docker or Airflow in grad school. After reading about them though, their value to a small but growing team of data scientists was quite apparent, so our team took some time to learn how to use them. We now have a reproducible, versioned workflow that removes a lot of headaches that previously existed.

I don’t think it’s too much to expect data scientists to quickly learn some DevOps skills, as long as you can motivate the value for using them.
Except you specifically stated that the coreutils way of doing things was objectively simpler than the Powershell way. If what you're saying about json wasn't applicable to coreutils than it wasn't applicable to your assertion either.
I think Europeans would laugh at your claim that a progressive Democrat is liberal. Not only that, my parents are ~80 yrs old, life long Republicans, and have always supported gay marriage and women's reproductive rights.
Tell them. A good manager will appreciate your honesty; if they can't afford to pay you more right now for whatever reason then at least it's an opportunity to discuss it and you can decide what to do from there. But if they can afford it and don't want to lose you, then you'll get a pay rise. #win.
I like this format/premise a lot... it allows you the freedom to say things you find insightful without the risk of some know-it-all coming along and telling you it's obvious. We should do more of this -- nearly everything is going to seem obvious to someone else, but those people should just keep their mouth closed and keep looking for something they didn't know.
How can I set the "default_hour" to present time in jrnl.sh when I don't mention tomorrow, yesterday etc.? Looks cumbersome to write the present time everytime.
It will end when they run of money.

Which is too bad. They make me wish there was such a thing as corporate death penalty. Corporations are people after all, aren't they?
Ask HN: Is it still feasible for international students to apply to SV?
Hi HN! I'm a college student from Southeast Asia. Right now i have little to show, but I'm polishing my skill as a software developer. My aim is to get an intern or a job in SV. But with recent immigration issues in US, is it still feasible for us to apply there?

The answer is important for my career decision. For example, if the answer is yes, I might take a year off from college to work on some well-known local company as a rails developer, to improve my skill and to get some work experiences (I believe work experience shows skill better than college degree? And my major isn't CS). If the answer is no, I might not fully focus to develop my skill as a developer, because software developer career here isn't quite good (average salary is 10x lower than SV), and just have programming as a side skill.

So what do you think?
I think that Google has made a fantastic step forward. However, solar and wind require some form of energy storage, such as pumped hydro or batteries (which Google hasn't addressed). Overprovisioning by itself isn't sufficient.
> Ultimately, its a lot easier to amplify something faint than it is to shout louder.

Yes, but since you are amplifying the noise right along with the signal if the other side shouts louder it really helps. As does a very good directional antenna (parabolic, very solid mount, very precise control of its orientation).
Looks like the sarcasm is lost here. I assume you were being sarcastic!
PLM I'm familiar with, though none of the ones I've seen seem to focus in any particular was on the requirements/specification end of the equation...
I had to put it in a couple of times the first day I got my iPhone X (2+ weeks ago), but I do not believe I've had to enter it again since, having done several actions that would require Apple ID authentication since then.
It is time it is treated as a utility and price regulated like one.

oh and $66 for the base package cable internet package (for me), way too much.
I never understood the density issue. If remote work becomes a default hiring practice, this will not be a problem. Nobody is going to fight to stay close to work. I see this in Manhattan, people struggle commuting from NJ/Connecticut/PA to come to the city for work. Why not address it in a different way?
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Wages stagnating, costs of college increasing, and most teenagers are pretty upset about the political climate, but I'm sure it's social media. Sure the markets have improved, but that improvement hasn't really been reflected in wage growth.
> as certain countries require that job postings say which genders the job is open to

In what countries is this a thing?
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> without the seduction part

I have a vague recollection of the humanoid that V'ger hijacked to serve as a voice being romantically involved with the original captain that Kirk replaced, and that relationship being exploited and becoming a plot element later. So I think there was some going on...
One day I wonder if some lawyer will strike it big by making an argument that looking at universities is discrimination because e.g. family connections and wealth give you a big leg up in getting into certain elite schools...
> "What lures people to Slack in the first place is its ability to manufacture an artificial sense of urgency..."

I think it would be far more accurate to say that it's due to a lack of other products that as easy to use for so many.

I've considered putting my internet savvy parents on Slack, and they are well into their retirement years.

I don't think Slack is addicting as much as most humans enjoy contact with other humans. We are wired to be social. It helped us survive and thrive. Slack et al is simply a symptom of that wiring.
Patents first require an idea to be patented, so if patents are valuable, ideas are valuable.
While I agree with this article in general, I do believe the distractiveness of Slack can be mitigated by disabling notifications on certain channels while keeping them open on others.
According to the inverse-square law, doubling the distance will reduce the power of the signal by 1/4th. The moon is about one light second away, whereas Voyager is about 70,000 light seconds away. If we round down to 64k light seconds, that's about 16 doublings. If each doubling represends a 6db loss, that's about 96 decibels.

So, starting from a system that can communicate from Earth to the moon, if you can find a way to add 64 decibels then it can work from Earth to Voyager. Ways to add decibels include using more directional antennas on one or both ends or transmitting with more power. Alternatively, you can make up some of those decibels by communicating much slower.

The interesting thing about the inverse square law is that it's insensitive to the scales involved. For instance, going from 10 meters to 20 meters results in a 6db loss, and going from 1 light year to 2 light years also results in a 6db loss. This is much different from, say, light in a fiber optic cable, which would experience a 6db loss from impurities in the glass each time the light traveled some constant distance.
I get what you are saying, and it is indeed problematic. I feel like so much of political discussion these days is focused on arguing against the worst of the other side.

Even more insidious, though, is a pattern I have seen from both liberal and conservative corners of the internet:

Someone makes a satirical tweet or image about the other side, usually some absurd extreme example of an ideology taken too far (e.g. 'I am a feminist and all men should be locked in jail' or 'I am a conservative and we all need guns to shoot these evil immigrants')

Someone then posts the satirical image or tweet with some comment like "Look at what these crazy liberal/conservatives believe!"

The forum will circlejerk about how crazy the other side is, and how anyone who believes these things is clearly unstable.

Then, some people will start pointing out that the image or tweet is satire. Inevitably, the response will be, "Well, yeah this one might be satire, but I could totally see a liberal/conservative posting something like that!" Since the post fits in the readers worldview, the fact that it is satire doesn't really matter.

In the end, everyone ends up just mocking and arguing with absurd viewpoints that almost no one actually has.
I can think of one advantage.. it makes it difficult for somebody to attack you with a typo attack. If all your buckets having a consistent naming scheme that is very strict, then somebody else could make a bucket very similar to one of yours where a typo would be likely and your data starts going to them.
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Even more impressive, Voyageur 1 was launched in September of 1977 [1]. It was originally built on early 1970's technology. An incredible amount of foresight and luck.

[1] https://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/
Fine, the "Unix" way is better than Powershell. Are you done picking nits?
Agreed. In my early 20s I was tempted to take my "signature loan" account of $10K and put it into investments, as a sort of enforced savings, and pay that off. In some ways, that's stupid, but 20+ years on, I wish I had done that.

I mean, not as much as I wish I had held onto those bitcoins I sold for $15, but still... :-)
There are varying shades of luck and even methods to apply randomness. One way of classification:

* you can do what you want, but success chance is random
* action choice is random, success is deterministic

I prefer the second approach. Your options are limited, but whatever you do, works. I think eurogames use the second way more often. Yes, the term "ameritrash" is intentionally derogatory (I didn't come up with it). Can you propose a better term ?
The first two Linux machines I ever had to admin back in the 90's where called Picard and Kirk (Picard was the primary, Kirk the secondary (no guessing which series I preferred)).

The NT machine was called Locutus.
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The insightful part for me is that you can get better or novel products in areas where the "when <problem>, use <product>" is the dominant habit by optimizing or changing the habit.

Some more examples:

- Keurig coffee makers fundamentally changed the coffee habit for many people.

- Netflix fundamentally changed the "going to the video store" habit.

Making coffee and watching movies were already habits for many people, but it was possible to change the habit and create something revolutionary. I'm sure there are other new untapped habits that can be developed around existing solved problems.

It's a variant on "solve a problem people have". Make a solved problem better by optimizing the habit.
Happened with my kid's phone too. Had to settle with an older backup that I had made manually via iTunes.
No idea if my idea is feasible or not, but I have 3 concepts for how it could work out:

1) it's hella expensive to make transcripts of podcasts. Allow users to contribute a set amount for podcast transcriptions they're interested in (e.g. 50 cents per episode).

2) standard subscription model. Give access tiered access to n podcasts for a set amount per month.

3) modified subscription model. Target 5 minutes of transcribed audio per user. Split audio files into small overlapping segments. People can either pay a subscription fee equal to 5 minutes of audio transcription or can transcribe 5 minutes of content per month.

Any thoughts on which would work best? The crowdsourcing of transcriptions would need stitching together and editing to make it flow, but it might be less obtrusive to people who don't want to pay.
It's not the name, it's a domain name: http://jrnl.sh
Without the idea, there would be nothing to execute on.
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Very helpful post, even if it was done wrongly. I was just wondering why I couldn't find my comment on this months thread. Didn't realize it was paginated.