skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For absurdism, you might prefer this article: https://isotropic.org/papers/chicken.pdf
You'd be surprised what even metal spacecraft contain. Not everything sent into deep space is sterilized, and even stuff sent to Mars contain a number of actual spores.
Unfortunately this goes a little too far in my book. Sweatpants/fleece pants/pajamas are not suitable office attire, even in casual offices. It just makes you look like a slob, and in many cases certain anatomical details are too visible.
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You can also drag the file over the taskbar and whatever program you hover over will come to the foreground
> Windows' select-a-directory dialogue of the same vintage

It's not the same vintage. It's a carry over from Win 3.0.
I also firmly believe that "easy to write but slow languages" sets up a false dilemma.

Haskell, JavaScript and C# are all fairly instructive examples. Haskell for demonstrating the level of flexibility you can achieve with a really well-thought-out static type system. JavaScript for showing how much of the "dynamic tax" you can avoid at run-time with an aggressive enough JIT compiler. C# for showing that you can get a pretty nice final result out of pragmatically blending a little bit of dynamic typing and a little bit of the ML-style static typing experience into a language that started out with a Java-style type system.
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Interesting. I owned an onyx boox (android eink tablet) and the battery life goes down when trying to do hacks to increase response time (a2 refresh mode).

This is probably the main reason more companies haven’t bothered with making a eink tablet focused on wiring or more animated interactions so far. I’m waiting for products based on different display tech to eventually arrive, there was a new startup presenting at SID last year ( http://www.clearinkdisplays.com )
Uber, but for Ceres
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the standard cargo for these missions is a chunk of cement. If you want to test a rocket you have to throw something up there.

It probably does not add a measurable amount of junk to hit than is already up there in the form of natural rocks.

Though if in the future human population hits the quadrillions and we are living on all 8 planets we should probably start worrying about our space trash.
Link to a timestamp with what you're asking about please it's a 4 hour video...
Aye, need to go win + e, win + left_arrow, win + e, win + right_arrow.
I think opensourcenews was just pointing out that "is" (in the article title) is more absolutist than "can be".
It's not scientific, and based purely on my own observation, but I'm reasonably sure that one of my cats can count to a limited degree.

He's a rescue on a special diet for his weight, as we have a small scoop to measure out his portion. Both he and the other cat get two scoops each. I normally put one in his bowl -- which he starts eating immediately -- then two in the other cat's bowl, then his second in his bowl. He stops eating and watches each scoop being poured into the bowl.

He seems to be able to keep track/count of how many scoops each bowl gets, even if I vary the order they're delivered in. He'll switch to the other bowl if it gets an additional scoop, even if it gets one full scoop and two half scoops. He seems good at 'counting' the number of scoops, but poor at judging the quantity of kibble in the bowl -- he'll unfailingly pick the bowl with more scoops even if it has the same or slightly lower quantity of food in it. He only notices a quantity difference if it's reasonably large.
I was taken aback by the price of audiobooks until I listened to the first Dune book (my first "real" audiobook) during a roadtrip and realized they use proper voice actors, score (admittedly very small) parts of it, and generally have a way longer credit section than I previously assumed. I do wish prices would come down a bit, but I can't say I blame them.

To say nothing of versions where it's just one person reading it straight through, though. Surely those are much cheaper.
The market is not there yet. But it will be, and asteroid mining is an important part of bootstrapping it.

The other day I found an interesting analysis on that, which should answer all your questions: https://medium.com/@centrena/the-cislunar-economy-series-fed....
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hboon - that ability to run a script and see time spent from a text file sounds like a fantastic combo of simplicity to use and the ability to mine data. I'd love to see an example of your file format and script to see exactly how it all works together, if you are up for sharing.
And at Elon in general...
How many people are there who actually need to scale an application across hundreds, thousands, or millions of servers vs the ones that think they are going to need it?

I agree that at some point CPU speed is more expensive than programming time, but how many applications in the wild are actually at or beyond that point? I would be surprised if it is more than a couple of percent.

Sure if I know that a product has to serve millions from the get go, I'd choose a more performance focused language than Python. But if it is about building an MVP for a new startup it seems quite unreasonable to me to spent 3x the time to get it out of the door just for the extremely slim chance that the product takes off faster than Python is able to catch up with.
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I think Apple understands the market better than Amazon. Amazon believes that non-phone voice assistants are a big and growing market. However, everyone I know with an Alexa uses it primarily as a speaker, not an assistant.

I’m reminded of Microsoft and Xbox. Microsoft saw the Xbox as a strategic way to get a computer into the living room. But all of these years later, Xbox is still primarily used for gaming by gamers.

I think Amazon will find that Alexa will primarily be used as a speaker and not an assistant for quite some time, corporate strategy be damned.
I think they got burned a bit by how terrible watch apps are so I wouldn't be surprised if they take a much more deliberate and planned approach.
Of course as a practical matter, NASA can deny the use of their facilities to whomever they choose.

If SpaceX had their own launch facility, etc., are there legal restraints from contaminating another planet (possibly purposefully)? And if there are such restraints, what is their legal justification?
Agree, I think the income and wealth gap are bigger contributors to many of the shifts in consumer habits. Some is due to experiences and stuff you can take pictures of being in vogue, but given the opportunity, people will choose to show status. They just can't afford to since they have less now.

I wish there were stats showing different segments of the market, but in a simple observation, look at the declining results of mid market retailers (even online). You have luxury doing okay, like Nordstroms, but nothing else until you get to the much lower priced brands.
Another possible cause could be drop in average price of clothing. Fast fashion chains like h&m, uniqlo, Zara, etc have high quality, very affordable clothing. So people are buying same or more clothing but for smaller absolute $ amount.
rare earth metals are not nearly as rare as you might think.

The problem is they don't concentrate that much in any one area not that they can't be extracted for most places. So, we could extract them at 100x the current rate for the next 1,000 years and recycle them forever.
This was explicitly addressed in the article: as soon as you have to do anything which isn't a trivial numpy operation, performance goes off a cliff, and that can be a problem.
I've never heard him say anything bad about running MIT licensed software.

On the other hand, I think I've read a FAQ where he says he views web pages by having a script fetch the pages with wget and them emailing them to him, but I'm pretty sure that's simply because wget is free and does the job (being able to recursively download the necessary resources), not because it's GPL licensed.
I miss the hell out of the Asus Eee Note. Black and white screen with a Wacom digitizer built in. Did basically nothing but allow you to read ebooks and write notes.

I used mine for years after having it shipped from China (the only place I found to buy one, which meant I had to learn enough Chinese to order and to navigate the menus to change the language) until the cloud sync shut down and I couldn't be bothered to sync it manually with very outdated sync software.

There's a market for a B+W ereader with a pen. Not a big market, but there is.

-edit: however, that price puts me out of the market for this... the Eee Note cost me $200 which was perfect. $600 puts it just out of iPad Pro territory, which is where I'd personally go for that money. Shame. Hopefully it sells well enough that they can recoup development costs and bring the price down for later adopters.
Missed opportunity for Evernote!
Yes, but only if you're purposefully aiming at a planet.
Hopefully it gets grabbed by Jupiter and ejected from the solar system. That would be awesome.
Except the noise cancelling headphones. They were pretty much the best for a long time, and still pretty good today. I chose them after a personal shoot out of 3 NC headphones due to comfort and build quality.
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Then, to quote Fermi, where are they? If even one of those species had become intelligent enough to build self-replicating Von Neumann probes, then we would see evidence of it somewhere in our solar system. Unless... we are the Von Neumann probes.
I think he means adjust their calculated trajectory once the collision occurs.
The Papertop. (It's a working title.)
And yet, it is a very important question that people will always ask first. Exactly how low are the probabilities? This was a major concern with the bankruptcy of Iridium that concerned the President. The insurers at the time wouldn't touch it. And bad things happen:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_satellite_collision

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kosmos_954
I don't think the HomePod will be very successful in our little tech bubble (although the large amount of disposable income helps) but I do think it will find a decent level of consumer success. Apple Music is now more popular in the U.S. than Spotify, so that ought to draw some people to it at least. Personally, I've got AirPods because they're very convenient (I'd almost buy them for the automatic pause/play alone), but I still use Spotify and more conventional speakers with a Chromecast Audio. In terms of audio quality, that's a vastly superior option at roughly the same price.
That sounds like one of the "maze of choices" I mentioned, no?

And if you're "writing the whole application in Rust and using Python as a glue language", you don't have the problem that this entire discussion is about, which is when you have Python code that is slow. Python as an extension language is a completely different world. Performance problems there are a much less big deal, because you've already got the option to simply use the fast language with only modestly more complexity, if indeed even that given how nice Rust is once you get used to it. It's when your whole app is in Python that these issues emerge, and "Just write extensions" is an option far less often than portrayed.
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Vote with your wallet. 16:10 1920x1200 displays exist and they are often better than the 1080p displays, the reason being/was that since the screen size is much bigger (16:10 vs. 16:9) they can't compete on price so they have to compete with quality instead.

But nowadays they are starting to fetch a premium just because of low demand. The 30" 2560x1600 displays are quite expensive and there is nothing in between 24" and 30" if you want 16:10.
https://github.com/fulldecent/system-bus-radio
I haven't looked at it in a while, so I could be wrong, but I think with small enough programs you can still squeeze some payload into L1 in long tight loops where you're not jumping up and down the Python stack a lot.

But your overall point stands: if you're writing non-trivial Python programs your L1 is usually spent on language/runtime overhead.
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Windows (Word) workflow:

- Click the FILE tab

- Wait two full seconds while it replaces my screen with something else

- Click Save As

- Click Computer (because Microsoft wants you to do everything in the cloud)

- Click Browse

- Finally proceed to saving your document like you would be able to do immediately on any other system
I've often thought Windows 95 borrowed ideas from Nextstep.

Looking at this retrospective, I can see how it could be possible, especially if they started design in 1992. NeXT had been winning praise for their UI for years by that point, and Microsoft were consulting with Susan Kare (an Apple alum and NeXT employee).

If you compare Nextstep 3.3 and Windows 95 or NT, you can see startling similarities in title bar size and format (to the pixel), window borders, 'rectangularity', tabbed elements and more. "Great artists steal" and all that..
Yes, my point is that function scoping can hardly be described as "makes sense all the time". Especially given that variable declarations in python are _very_ implicit, without even the "var" that will indicate to you that you're messing with your function scope in JavaScript.
They do eventually come out with it but pretty much every failure they've had so far they've kind of glossed over it during the livestream then come back to it later during a separate press conference.
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Also the disruption brought by let huge objects falling through the sky will be devastating to atomsphere.
Clothes are in a sense more "disposable" than ever though. Who's going to bother darning a shirt that cost less than ten bucks?
It seems like you're taking an absolutist position towards absolutists.

I'm not sure how exactly the simple use of the words "always", "never" and "all" indicate to you that a speaker hasn't fully understood their subject. I'd bet that you hear these words all the time without them even registering. There must be something more to it - Is there a certain setting where you hear these words or a certain type of conversation?

Surely, you're not talking about simple phrases such as "When I dropped the bag of groceries, all of the eggs fell out and broke." Likewise, I doubt that you're nit-picking on the fact that "always" and "never" are not technically observable by any human.

My best guess is that you're using some other unstated conversational cues that have gone unmentioned here.
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After sitting on it for a while, yea. I've changed my mind. You're right.
>Fine, I’ll be that guy: CITATION NEEDED.

You already was that guy by using an offending tone to the parent ("dear", etc).

>“More people” in your office says nothing except that more people in YOUR OFFICE are remote.

Parent said more people are working from home (a general observation), and gave an example of the situation in his office/town to illustrate it -- that wasn't meant as proof his general point, just illustration. He wrote:

"More people are working from home several days a week, so nobody cares how you're dressed. I'm astonished at how fast this has changed here (outside Philly). Probably 2/3 our cubes are empty on most days."

The case in Philly/his office is given as an aside/illustration. The general point (that working from home is on the rise) was communicated as taken for granted (obviously based on common understanding, prior observations, etc).

In other words: if he had wrote something to the effect of "increasingly more people in the USA are working for home judging from my office" you'd be right (but still condescending), but he didn't.

>I don’t understand how people who bill themselves as so smart can continue to fall for these basic errors in reasoning.

Probably for the same reason people who bill themselves as so smart can make one faux pas after the other and offend those they talk to.
It seems to fit into a strategy of getting more money out of an ecosystem built around the iPhone now that there's not room left in the market for them to continue rapidly growing iPhone sales.
I agree that he does not see the value of using money as a scoring system for his success, but making a profit, I am sure he is very interested in that. Profitable ventures are how he had the $100 million to create SpaceX. Profits of venture after venture until he acquired enough capital to actually start and fund a new aerospace company and be the largest investor in Tesla.
A speaker system for each bedroom and living room/ kitchen basically. So for a 1 bedroom apartment, it would be 2.

And the homepod is fairly tiny. It's just a little bit bigger than a sonos one.
a kids version of the bible when I was 9
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Well, if today you don't believe what Elon says wrt. space then you have to be completely out of touch with reality. I would be surprised of Woźniak dismissed SpaceX.
Travel is far more of a status symbol than tech. $600 iPhones and jackets don't compare to $5k safaris and hiking trips, not to mention even being able to have the time off to do it.

Easiest way to stratify a group by wealth is start talking about where and how often they go on vacation.
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VRBO seems like the AirBNB of an older generation. My parents and their friends use it exclusively. To the point they never have visited AirBNB by web or app.
People don't have the money to spend on clothing, but can spend it on experiences and travel? Either one of those seems like a free money purchase, with clothing being less of one.

I don't disagree with your assertion that wages have been stagnant and that cost of living is increasing (which should be obvious as more people == fewer resources) but even from my own anecdotal experience as somebody who is paid very well I buy fewer clothes than I used to. I buy nice clothes, but the clothes I have are clothes that don't go out of style, or even if they do I just don't care. Maybe more Americans feel this way as well?

And as others have mentioned, the work place is fortunately becoming more casual with respect to dress. I work in finance and even here we wear t-shirts and jeans. There's no reason for me to buy 10 shirts from Brooks Brothers, 3 suits, ties, dress shoes, sweaters to go with the shirts, etc. as my casual clothes are also what I wear to work.

Maybe more people are spending less on "brands" like Burberry and more on H&M or lifestyle brands (Arcteryx/Patagonia/NF) or basic colors/styles that don't require you to repurchase?
Lot of these words are spoken by politicians to demand authority recognition.

Can we say politicians therefore exploit the anxiety of the population through absolutism?
IMO for most people even a Harmon Kardon Invoke (the Cortana speaker) is a better option. There's not much demand for them, so what was originally a $200 device is selling for $100 now. And it's a pretty decent speaker.
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Yes? I mean, scanning for cloaking only from their own IP range sounds ridiculous.
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I have always though a complete analysis of the entire list of absolutist words would be beneficial to everyone.

People are constantly using these words without totally understanding how they sound to others. This paper is full of interesting statistics that all people must be made aware of. Now that there is a link to suicide and depression nothing could be more important than sharing this with your whole network, every person.

I absolutely recommend reading the paper in full. It will definitely change everything about the way you speak. I’ll completely change the way I speak and never ever use these words again.

Well, except “constant” which I have to use to refer to software constants.
I have never seen either of those things happen. I even just tested the first one.

Perhaps it's a setting or was the behavior in an older version of macOS?
I like to combine Tide Pods with Ugandan Knuckles:

"Tide Pods are de way."
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Have said it before but CNBC seemingly loves to rag cryptocurrency. Their tweets end up retweeted on my stream and they always have a slant. Unfortunately their @CNBCFastMoney account has 2.2 million followers. Easy to understand if newer entrants to cryptocurrency see surface content like that and panic. It’s nonstop.
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Really interesting concept but would love to see more detail than "I'm [name] from [business] and I would like a logo."

What about adding other constraints like style, color, symbols, etc. more in line with a real world brief?

Something like: "I'd like a logo for Slow Roasters Coffee that incorporates our shops color palette of [hex code] and [hex code] and has an urban, upscale vibe that reflects our downtown SF location."
I think your “facts” are more nuanced and complicated than you might be suggesting.

Consumer prices have been declining since 1979 and non-wage benefits have been increasing. Suggesting clothes purchases are declining because wages are stagnant is logically flawed because we would expect declines in similarly elastic goods as well. But we aren’t seeing that. Consumer purchasing is growing, consumer confidence is up — pretty much the opposite of what you’re implying.

The workplace however, as the parent comment suggests, is changing.

http://reason.com/archives/2016/01/19/cost-of-living-vs-wage...
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Seems reasonable to me. My guess is that it's not performance, but rather predictability, that matters here. Being able to detect when a page meaningfully changes is probably useful for Google, and a good implementation of Math.random() would potentially thwart that. Especially seeing how many pages have the magic constant in them...

Also, probably useful for determining two pages are the same, which may be needed to help prevent the crawler from crawling a million paths into a SPA that don't actually exist, for example.
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$600 seems to much to me.
This Acton couple keeps getting mystery packages from Amazon they didn't order
Stock buybacks are a much better approach than simple dividends from a tax standpoint.

I invest in Apple get say 1%. Over next 20 years Apple buys back 50% of it's stock. I now own 2% of Apple without paying any taxes.
Outer space is orders of magnitude larger than specific Earth orbit bands. The concerns you mention don't apply there.