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The SLS is exactly the rare case where he's right and you're wrong. It is a project whose goal is blatantly to spend money, not to fly any payload on any mission.

After spending tens of billions of dollars on development, you get a rocket that will cost a billion to fly, will never achieve the flight numbers to be able to honestly rely on it.

It will likely fly very few times before it is cancelled.

It will be uneconomical to use for any mission it flies, and any mission that uses it will only do that if they are forced to (the mission requirements changed such that only SLS allows the mission to be done, or the project is cancelled) or if the SLS budget pays for the rocket rather than the mission's budget.
Rooftop solar is a double benefit in very hot locations - you get the electricity, and also shade on the conventional roof, which can greatly reduce the amount of electricity used to cool the house.

Here in AZ with rooftop solar, the shade difference is quite noticeable.
Actually I have quite a bit of experience around this. I've been working on understanding the economics of information since the mid 90's when I helped start an online web magazine about golf of all things. With the help of some grad students at Berkeley's Haas School of business we came up with the core mechanisms about how information can gain value and how it can lose that value. Also a number of ways to capture that value without destroying it in the process. The marketing person from that web property went on to Apple where they instituted the 99 cents per song music model that came to dominate music sales. The arguments against are familiar, "We sell an album not a song because those songs that aren't hits won't support their production costs.", "All songs will be tailored to sales and music quality will suffer.", "Labels (and by trickle down Artists) will make less because even buying 3 songs is less than they would get buying one $15 album." Instead the music industry flourished in the new system and more people got to experience more music more easily than ever before.

It isn't a question of smart or not smart, it is understanding that the economics of goods models we developed during the industrial revolution are not directly translatable to the economics of information.

I've been a fan of Blendle from the start because based on my research to date, I knew that if they could be operationally efficient enough, they would be able to facilitate per article transactions in an iTunes like model. And if they could do that it would have a larger impact than iTunes did on music. They continue to hum along and I continue to use them for that.

The "App" market is interesting because as I characterized information, Apps don't qualify, rather they contain algorithms. Because of that, their value is created through novelty rather than being intrinsic.
You are picking pedantic arguments instead of focusing on the actually important themes, which isn't productive or useful

Let's get everything on the table. Are you actually okay with dozens of millions to hundreds of millions of people dying -- and many others suffering immense drops in quality of life -- as a result of human-caused climate change? Despite the fact that we have the capacity to heavily mitigate such risks?
I should also add, Quark was the king until it wasn’t. Adobe will be the king until they aren’t.
and now they're sold as pets and reportedly are even friendlier than most cats.

Is the Wiki article just out of date? It says:

As of August 2016, there are 270 tame vixens and 70 tame males on the farm.
Gitea does not have every feature that Gogs has.

Gitea has every feature that Gogs had at the point when they forked it, plus a few that they've ported over.

But there are still features that have been in Gogs for over a year now that Gitea does not have.

One example that burned me earlier this year, Gitea's backup/restore feature is still very underdeveloped. Gogs' backup/restore feature has been capable of backing up and switching databases for over a year, while Gitea still can only backup and restore to a database of the same type (e.g. Postgres to Postgres)
> Today GitLab is using a lot of RAM and the best way to reduce that is to make the application server multithreaded https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/3592

how is multi-threading helping with memory consumption?
The sun is also measurably brighter and hotter than it was when CO2 levels were significantly higher, meaning we should expect greenhouse effects to be more severe. CO2 levels aren't the only thing that contribute to climate. Additionally, while in the past the levels have been much higher, the rate of change in CO2 levels was never nearly this swift in the geological record--it's the sudden change that has many people worried.
Tesla reviewing contractors, firing everyone not vouched for by an employee
The cost of the solar panels doesn't necessarily come out of the buyer's pocket. Instead, the cost could come out of the previous landowner's profits, if prices are mostly determined by what buyers can afford. In other words, the land drops in value by the cost of the solar panels that will have to be installed on it.
That's great they're learning about business applications, which is a valid part of the curriculum. But they're not about computers, as per the OP's point.
There are quite a few, and as I mentioned, most of them are not affiliated with any organization. I wouldn't operate a business based on a market that didn't exist. I guess you can choose to believe otherwise though - although I'm not sure why.
More active by commit active and releases.

I evaluated them both again a month ago and found that Gogs is as active or more active than Gitea by actual features developed, they just have less frequent releases.
Also FWIW, it’s extremely common for UK recruitment agencies to suggest that contractors opt out of the Agency Workers Regulation. Which many do. Most, if I were to guess.
A Pragmatic Approach to User Research for Successful Products
This will go down as one of the most successful special interest industry lobbying win of all time. And one of the industry lobby representatives quoted in this article has the gall to say this isn't enough. But just a "compromise".
It is frequently on sale for 600. It is on Facebook area sales as well. We only bought it because we think we can sell it for pretty close to purchase price
WinUAE 4.0.0 WIP #2
> The issue with jailing bankers is that nothing they did was illegal.

They were never investigated. Looking back to earlier banking meltdowns, plenty of crimes were discovered. See for just such an example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savings_and_loan_crisis

It is a perfectly reasonable to suspect that similar crimes were also committed.

You could also look at the court cases at : http://4closurefraud.org/ Many of the foreclosure cases involve banks not being able to demonstrate that they actually had standing to foreclose on houses. For example: http://4closurefraud.org/2018/02/09/fl-3rd-dca-reverses-ruli...
> Today’s consumers though have significantly higher standards than the original users of the web. Consumers want immersive experiences, well-designed pages with fonts, graphics, photos, and videos coming together into a compelling format. That “quality” costs enormous sums in engineering and design talent, not to mention massively increasing bandwidth and storage costs.

Not really. Nowadays, it's truly a strike of luck if a page looks half-readable- hell, perhaps even readable at all if I haven't turned on JavaScript and let it load resources from three dozen different locations. And "immersive experiences"? I'm sure people will have plenty of chances to appreciate them when most sites bring their cellphones or laptops down to their knees, even if they are at most a couple years old.

Ravenous subscription fees to replace formerly ad-supported content is not really much of a solution, it's just shifting the problem somewhere else. Sure, it might work for some services in which you effectively have a captive customer base (Thanks to vendor lock-in or a monopoly in your particular niche) or if said fees are kept low enough, but it's bound to end up as saturated as ad-supported content ended up being. Expect a raise in reports of freeloaders, account-sharers and see if the administrative/consumer support overhead is well worth it in the end.
See, that's what I like about Silicon Valley. There are a lot of crazy conservative folk here, a bunch of the people I hung around as a younger person were right-libertarian almost to the point of being anarcho-capitalist, and I still know a fair number of those types, though they aren't as common once you start working for big companies rather than startups... but they got along just fine with the socialists in the same office. And they both were okay with the immigrants who, I imagine, came away with the idea that Americans, while a little nutso if you talk about politics, are generally decent people.

But that's the thing, and what made silicon valley so much more attractive than my (rural california) hometown... nobody tries to run anyone off the road. Sure, sure, we disagree and puff and stuff, but people leave their guns at home, and the taboo against vehicular manslaughter is maintained, even if the victim is on a bicycle. We socialize in groups that cross ethnic and political boundaries.

But then, I'm one of those people for whom Texas is not a substitutable place for Silicon Valley. (New York might be. Texas is not.) I'm completely aware that there are people who prefer Texas in the same way I prefer Silicon Valley. (I'm also aware that I haven't spent a lot of time in Texas, and I'm mostly comparing rural California to Silicon Valley... but rural California has a lot of the problems Texas is perceived to have, re: big trucks aggressively running bicycles off the road and other acts of everyday terror )
Many economical models (including working 9 to 5, btw) came from the times of physical labor. At that time the part of labor was relatively small in the cost structure, and the part of materials was big. And since materials is a one-time expense, it was natural to have one-time pricing.

In the knowledge-based industry such as software the cost of labor has the biggest share in cost structure. And unlike materials, the labor itself is a subscription. Social policies that make firing hard make it even more so. No wonder that revenue structure also tends to shift towards subscription-based models.
Have you tried Blendle? It's pay per story and has all of the major paywalled news sources.

It also allows you to get a refund after reading an article if you think it was clickbait.

Articles are $0.09-0.50 in my experience.
> generally reeks of the 70s

Scheme was implemented as a clean toy/educational Lisp on top of Maclisp in the mid 70s.

Scheme was defined too small upto R5RS and in R6RS is got unlispy.

> Scheme actually tried to compete with CL once

It never really did, since all implementations were different. There are lots of great Scheme implementations (MIT Scheme, Chez Scheme, ...) - but all were different. Then a bunch of extension were bolted onto Scheme - but the base was too small.

> It is much more pleasant to actually work in, and feels cleaner.

Which Scheme? Chicken Scheme? Racket - which is no longer a Scheme? Kawa? They are cleaner than CL?

The last clean Scheme was R5RS - and that was underspecified as a programming language.

Whenever I used Scheme I missed keyword arguments, CLOS, LOOP, optimization declarations, type declarations... Oh, wait. All those and much more has been added to Scheme in some ways. Unfortunately the result does not look 'cleaner'.

Chicken Scheme:

(define-method (pop (stack <stack>))
(let* ((c (slot-value stack 'content))
(x (car c)))
(set! (slot-value stack 'content) (cdr c))
x))

Let's see how it's written in Common Lisp:

(defmethod stack-pop ((s stack))
(pop (slot-value s 'content)))
I’m in the same position, trying to extend beyond friends and family for beta users to get a better understanding of whether or not I’m building the right things.

It’s probably worth adding https://betalist.com to this list as well.
GDPR basically says “get consent for what you do with peoples data”. If you can’t do that I would say your business model is it very ethical.

Edit: or have “legitimate interest” - in either case it’s a very low bar for ethical standards so GDPR shouldn’t be an issue
Ammonia is a much better candidate, since it doesn't contain any carbon, so using it can't cause any CO2 emissions. But as others have said, the efficiencies are horrible, so its better if we just figure out H2 transport and storage.

Edit: for large ships, my personal bet is on liquid H2 storage and then combustion in gas turbines. You get a lot of synergies between cryogenic fuel and a gas turbine. Tupolev even built and flew a liquid H2 fueled narrow-body jet in the 80s.
Humanity may survive, but our civilization likely won't. It relies on cheap energy and a stable climate, both are under threat. Good luck manufacturing a MRI machine when you're struggling to grow enough food for next year.
> To mimic how a wind or solar source might feed power into the battery, the researchers attached a power source to the prototype.

So, they charged the battery? Why doesn't the article just say that? Does the intended audience of the article not know what "charging a battery" is?
I thought cryptocurrency was supposed to magically enable micro-payments for web content? (joke)

In all honesty, I'd happily pay for Facebook, or Hacker News, if it included bundled access to major news sources. I'd also happily try out a micropayment service for articles behind a paywall.

Most articles I read are hacker news links or Facebook links. I think that's the best way to monetize.
That issue is addressed by the co-evolution clause, which posits that the ancestors of modern Zebras underwent selective pressure for hostility and avoidance towards the ancestors of modern humans as the latter became more dangerous. (Note that the use of 'ancestor' here does not assume any position on whether these ancestors were a different species than their current descendants.)
I can speak to this a bit. Some pacers can be programmed to beep in certain situations to indicate things like, low battery. Alternatively you can set some models up so that when a magnet is applied, different programmable actions occur such as, changing the heart beat rythm to indicate what the expected remaining battery life is. There are also "at home" base stations which upload stats to the manufacturer who can call the patient (through the base station) when there are unexpected problems.
The issue isn't the corrective information in your post (sentences 2 and 3). That's great. The issue is the snark and name-calling (and borderline personal attack) in the rest, which is what I referred to as being a jerk. I'm not saying and don't think that you're a jerk; it's an unintentional side effect, but one we all need to guard against. As you know, HN is trying to be a forum where people post civilly and thoughtfully.

You can't judge this by upvotes. Indignation and snark often get heavily upvoted. That's a bug in the voting system, not an indication of comment quality. HN can't live by upvotes alone.
I make my coffee at home. Sustainable shade grown fair trade coffee in my parts costs $15.50 a pound. 17g of coffee for a cup is $0.58 per cup. So for sustainable coffee you are off by an order of magnitude.
So you go visit the farms and check to make sure the soil is healthy?
Well that's already the case, isn't it? Getting someone to read a Pulitzer prize winning article online currently gets <1 page view's worth of ad revenue. Having someone look at endless pages of memes gets many page views.
I literally stopped using windows because of windows 10. I'm lucky enough that I don't need it for anything work-related.
In the rare occasions I do need something to run in win10, I run it on my old air-gapped laptop running a vanilla windows 7 installed from it's original DVD. I wouldn't trust windows on network-connected hardware. Not anymore.
We anticipate that mileage will vary by team, and that we'll support teams to reach these milestones. This includes helping find those customers and prioritizing feature development.
It strikes me as odd how many of these growth hacking stories describe a web analytics tool (as in the linked article), an email subscriber system, or a CMS extensions/hosting solution. Throw a rock in any direction and you'll hit 20 of these accounts.

Watching some Microconf presentations I was struck by the same thing. The talks were dominated by people who had created Wordpress plugins, created an SEO tool, or built an email autoresponder. There's a strange circularity to it - almost like a pyramid scheme.

Maybe this reflects a coincidence of interests: people who like growth hacking enough to write about it tend to create SEO tools and email drip systems.

OTOH, maybe the lessons these stories teach are too specific to be useful for other kinds of businesses.
I think this is missing the bigger point. Ads are killing free but shitty web sites due to their (ads) numerous problems (malware, annoying, tracking, etc.). Subscriptions are going to kill mediocre web sites. We'll be left with better for-pay web sites and hopefully better ads on free web sites at the end of it all. That seems like a good thing.
Honestly it makes a lot of sense. Gogs/Gitea are developed and shared for people to be able to host their own Git instances.

GitHub is free for public repositories and has huge engineering teams dedicated to uptime, security, and availability.

At the very least for Gitea/Gogs to self-host the code they'd have to pay for hosting costs that GitHub is already willing to provide for free.
With big governments come big mistakes.
Thank you. Nothing annoys me more than people who bring up the fact that CO2 used to be much higher without mentioning that the sun was cooler. It leads to a very misleading picture.
What about turning, unused fields back into forests? We not only need electricity but also to cut on CO2 and have more oxygen.
>One way we could fix that situation would be to allow subscriptions to combine together more cheaply. We are starting to see this too: Spotify, Hulu, and Scribd appear to be investigating a deal in which consumers can get a joint subscription from these services for a lower rate. Setapp is a set of more than one hundred OS X apps that come bundled for about $10 a month.

I understand the attraction to this, but it makes me think of a problem I haven't yet been able to define well, so I've been calling it the "Japan Tourist Problem" in my head while I chew on it.

Basically, it's pretty common knowledge for everyone thinking about being a tourist in Japan for a week or two that the JR pass exists and is an unbelievable value. Essentially, it's unlimited rides on the bullet train and Jr lines for a flat fee of ~200usd. Round trip is nearly the same price without the jr pass. It pays for itself.

Problem one, outside of the standard jr pass are about 5 or 6 "specialized" passes with very unique usage rules, like "only good for rides within Tokyo metropolitan area" or "only good for northeastern Japan rides" or "good for tourist bus only" I dunno it's impossible to keep track, but that's the idea.

And then when you actually get to Japan, you'll discover the full almighty power of the national Japanese tourism board. They got their fingers in everything. If you're ever about to spend money on something, there's probably some way you could save by exercising tourism board initiative 235.b:a, including a full on tax exemption. Little packages for bus + hotel + hot spring pass, with a vending machine voucher and an exclusive packet of stickers which have a QR code on the back you can redeem in the Line app. Endless. I'll try to find specific pamphlets and flyers when I get home but it's just so many packages, deals, all mandated from the tourism board itself (I'm not talking private hotel package type things here).

My point is that should this concept of the author's take off, we'll just be in some new decision-lock hell, where you'll never be getting"the best deal" because to do so would require solving the most insane graph reduction problem ever conceived.
With the first point, that's already a problem with an ad based revenue system. A life-risking article still just generates <1 page worth of ad revenue per reader, the same amount as a no-effort article. Maybe this system could include some sort of tip-based approach to reward quality content. Maybe 10% of your monthly $x is distributed based on your favorite content of that month.
You're right, I shouldn't have said that. Unsuitable for human civilization is what I should have said.
Yes, you fit the bill! :) We ask that you come in with an open mind to others' ideas and share the ownership of what you build together.
Theoretically the one who posted it later should be the dupe, no? :)
It is in many places, and increasingly so will be almost everywhere:

https://www.eia.gov/renewable/monthly/solar_photo/pdf/pv_tab...

https://twitter.com/LSValue/status/992429019680378880
I’m currently in my 6th year living in Thailand, having grown up in South Australia and then spent a few years in the eastern states (of Australia).

I moved because my (then gf, now wife) had been away from her home (Thailand) for ~10 years and wanted to come home for a while. I worked for a remote company at the time, so it was no problem work wise. I’ve since started my own company and work independently but still remote, so no issues there.

The low cost of living is nice, but I definitely appreciate some of the western cultural/lifestyle aspects more now that I’ve lived here.

I also appreciate things like government more now - people often claim Australia has become a “nanny state” due to regulations - Thailand is a perfect example of what can happen when government says “eh fuck it do what you want”. I realise that won’t mean much to those who haven’t lived here, but that’s the whole point of this thread, isn’t it.
Like all good Windows developer, I do my work in a VM on a Mac!
Reminds me of this bug:

https://android-review.googlesource.com/c/platform/bootable/...

Basically, when Android's libc was written they wrote `memset` wrong, such that it ignores the input parameter and always writes zeros. Nobody caught it for a while because, well, who calls `memset` with a non-zero value?

There was HN thread about it (8 years ago apparently, I feel old...):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1378912

The link itself is dead, but I managed to find the link to the code I posted above after a bit of searching.
That's wonderful! We only ask that you come in with an open mind to other ideas and share the ownership of what you build together.
Energy efficiency per square meter doesn't discourage people from economizing space. In other words, people will still be able to consume more energy by building larger living spaces.

Ideally the target metric would be expressed as energy efficiency per resident occupant, but that would be significantly more challenging to enforce.
I'm genuinely curious about what is the right size of "local"
Check out projects like Traefik (https://github.com/containous/traefik) as well. Traefik is a reverse proxy that can automatically configure routes based on labels on your docker containers, and automatically setup Let's Encrypt certs for your subdomains.

E.g. I add a label to my Gitea container to say "Serve this from git.mydomain.com", and Traefik will start redirecting requests and automatically configure a Let's Encrypt cert.