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The common element between military motivation and going multiplanetary is the same: My people and our way of life will end forever if we don’t do this
It costs about $81 million USD per seat round-trip to go to ISS on Soyuz. SpaceX is doing the same for around $58 million per person (last I read). That alone is a HUGE deal. And that cost is expected to drop as SpaceX gets more comfortable with launching humans, whereas Soyuz has been raising prices.

Not to mention that it's increasing the number of countries and rocket designs that can send people to and from the ISS. Without alternate launch providers, if some flaw were to be found in Soyuz or political issues begin to get in the way of launches, then the US could find itself unable to get astronauts to and from the ISS safely.

Boeing is also in this race, and will be sending up humans to space in their Starliner soon as well, it's still up in the air which will get to the with humans on board ISS first.
What books did your group find well written?
It would be very helpful for outsiders to know what people who know their stuff consider good learning material.
I don't think people use these to deny themselves. Rather, they use these to achieve goals they've otherwise had a difficult time achieving. In some way they gain freedom - freedom to achieve important long-term health goals, and freedom from short-term appetites.
Define "eat healthily". Everyone seems to have a different opinion, and whatever you say will be contradicted by someone else.
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Yes, but it’s better than something like Dragon Crew D1 C D 1 (looking at you XBox)
Aren't leaseholds pretty rare in the UK? I'm in Scotland, but I don't think I've ever come across a leasehold property here.
This is what this change is about. It follows similar regulations in the US, btw. Smartphones should be mostly fine if the radios are controlled entirely by the baseband. Then changing the main OS cannot have any effect on the compliance of the device.
I totally agree that most of the *nix tools are most of the time the best ones, but things get trickier when there is a complex dynamic pipeline e.g. the input conditions the kind of processes and these are also dynamic based on other inputs.
Perl equivalent is:

perl -ne 'print unless $SEEN{$_}++'
One outlier is to be expected now and then.

A consistent pattern of breaking high temperature records, in the current decade or two, on the other hand. Or as the Met Office put it "extremes of heat are now being recorded 10 times more often than extremes of cold".
It seems to be somewhat inspired by Matlab, which isn't an elegant system by any stretch. And for the people who hasn't had exposure to matlab, matplotlib seems overly convoluted.
That's very relative.

Sure, it does look better now, and I'm fine with this setup being a bit annoying since it's a one-time thing.
Another AA alternative is Alan Carr's book "The Easy Way to Stop Drinking".

It's a logical approach to repositioning alcohol as a poison that somehow 90% of our population embraces as normal.
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How often do you look at some code and think "an idiot wrote this", and then realise you're looking at your own code?

Maybe all code is technical debt? That is, maybe every piece of code you inherit is bad because you now have more to learn and understand, no matter how nicely structured/documented/tested it is.

Sorry OP, I got nothing positive!
How does the algo measure success? It it running analysis on my human, uh, “outputs”? If so then, sure, maybe.
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Right, but why would they want to regulate SDR?
>my question is that todays newer versions and available low cost hardware (namely *PI like boards) could allow a similar but more complex process in almost realtime and reading whole digits instead of bullets. That is, an user puts a piece of paper under the camera, the software recognizes what it is by looking at common patterns it has with other similar documents, giving it proper orientation when needed, then it reads text and numeric information applying OCR code, then according to that information, fills/updates one or more fields in this or that database. Doable? Caveats?

It is certainly do-able and has already been implemented by banks for image based clearance/processing of cheques[1] and fraud detection. The caveats in this case would include a large set of training data and a supervised model for handwritten examples.

[1]https://www.pyimagesearch.com/2017/07/24/bank-check-ocr-with...
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Not to diminish that feeling, but there was a kind of funny mistake made in the livestream for the Falcon Heavy launch (which was actually attempting to land 3 stages at around the same time, but one of them had an issue and suicided into the ocean as designed).

Turns out, both of the video streams for the 2 side rockets were actually of the same rocket! You can go back and watch the corrected footage of both landing at once, but it was funny when many watching along (myself included) were like "wow they are so identical" only to find that it was the same footage!
Europe is losing ~globalization and we are fighting over the scraps. Which European country do you think will be overall obviously better in ten years? And not in the sense that "everything gets better", but in the sense of having a high rate of success in converting progress to prosperity. I don't know of any.
The magic here is that some foods which we would expect to spike blood glucose don't for some people, whereas others that we would expect to keep blood glucose stable in fact spike it. It's making the case that people's blood glucose response is in fact highly individual, due to our highly individual mix of gut flora.
FUD. Fear, uncertainty, doubt
That was the falcon heavy test launch. The two rockets that landed were side boosters which so happened to be two other falcon 9s.
> It's gotten to the point where I'm considered "odd" because I use the command line. It's become a running joke among everyone.

Well, the joke is on them for choosing to only stick to the GUI.
Did you notice how they slightly jazzed it up after a couple of seasons?
No, they're doing bombings, massacres, and death camps inside their own country.
This trend of micro managing and optimizing every single details of our lives is very weird to me, some people seems to spend more time optimizing than living.

On one hand you'll get your DNA sampled and an "AI" to tell you what to eat, on the other hand we spend 10+ hours a day sitting, live in heavily polluted cities (light, noise, air), don't do anywhere close to enough physical activity. If you eat what's considered a healthy diet [0] these things will impact your life quality much more.

What people need is self control and education, we use food as a source of pleasure instead of seeing it as fuel (this could be a symptoms of an unhealthy lifestyle in general, but that's another topic). People eat 3 times a days + regular snack even if they are not hungry. We lost our ability to listen to our bodies, but luckily it's not very hard to learn it back.
No one needs an AI to know that a bottle of coke a day, a bag of m&m's or a 500g cup of non dairy, gluten free, #FeelGood, #BodyPositity cup of ben& jerry's a has a net negative impact on your body.

The whole system is fucked from top to bottom, look at supermarkets, half of the aisles are full of colorful, family sized bags of candies, chocolate, ice creams, frozen junk and sodas with cute little mascots to attract kids. Society lost its way so bad that we now celebrate obesity and ill health. The obesity epidemic is an insult to humanity.

Sure, a tiny minority of people have very specific needs due to rare diseases that could benefits from these kind of studies. But for the rest of us avoiding processed food and not over eating is more than enough. If you gain a kilo every 3 months and have a sugar rush after every meal your brain is more than capable to know what's happening, it's a matter of taking personal responsibilities and facing your problems.

> specific food recommendations in order to avoid glucose spikes

Healthy people (aka the vast majority people) don't need any "AI" or "machine learning" for that, just basic nutrition education and a pair of eyes to look at the nutritional facts of the products they're about to buy.

There is a step after which the returns are greatly diminished, and for the vast majority of people that step is way closer to "pay attention and educate yourself" than "do what this AI tells you to".

> Using machine learning, a subtype of artificial intelligence, ... . In that way, an algorithm was built without the biases of the scientists.

I'd like to know how they determine that. "AI" and "machine learning" aren't unbiased by nature: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2166207-discriminating-...

"We are endowed by Nature with an interest in our own well-being; but this very interest, when overindulged, becomes a vice. Nature has intermingled pleasure with necessary things – not in order that we should seek pleasure, but in order that the addition of pleasure may make the indispensable means of existence attractive to our eyes." - Seneca

[0] we all know what a healthy meal is, let's not pretend it's a secret, eating healthy doesn't mean hitting all your blood test metrics with a nanomole precision.
Irony isn’t your strongest suit, huh?
I haven't read the EU proposal, but for the corresponding US rule, the motivation was to reduce interference with other radio users. In many of these products, the radio is capable of frequencies, power levels, and modulation modes that are not legal, and the device relies entirely on the firmware not choosing an illegal combination to stay legal. People have used third party firmware to allow choosing illegal radio settings.

The regulations were written in the US to be compatible with open source and customization, only requiring that outside software not be able to set the radio to transmit outside the legal limits that applied to that type of device.

A router manufacturer does not have to lock down all the firmware to satisfy this. They can make it so that the "set radio parameters" part of the firmware is separate from the rest, with only the former being restricted. This is the approach the FCC encourages, rather than simply locking down the whole thing.

In fact, when TP-Link was making routers that could operate outside legal power levels, and the FCC went after them, the consent decree they agreed to required TP-Link to work with OpenWrt and the radio chipset manufacturers to ensure that they could build compliant routers without locking out third party firmware.
Yet another reason why I'm glad for Brexit.
All code is technical debt. We should not write it unless it serves a purpose of high enough value.
I have a feeling SpaceX intentionally names things kind of weirdly just because it's almost a running joke among fans.

The progression of Falcon 9 rockets is:

* Falcon 9

* Falcon 9 V1.1

* Falcon 9 Full Thrust (also called V1.2 for a small period of time)

* Falcon 9 Fuller Thrust (I think this one was renamed to Block 4 at some point, but I distinctly remember hearing it called "Fuller Thrust" at first)

* Falcon 9 Block 5 (the current version and one that launched this capsule)

And their Dragon capsule has gone through several names as well:

* Dragon (the first version)

* Dragon CRS (an extended version with additional space)

* DragonLab (never flown as far as I know)

* Dragon 2 (cargo only I believe)

* Crew Dragon (the current one that just flew up to ISS, also technically a "Dragon 2" but with a different internal configuration.)
It's catchy, yes. But it's still technically wrong.

I don't dispute that OpenBSD pushed execution prevention (and many other things) in the default OS system wide. But it's pretty dishonest to say that they "invented" it. Which they explicitly did at the time, and that the article does now.
Banning tax evasion is easy. Just get rid of corporate income taxes and replace it with a sales tax. It's not like corporations pay taxes anyways; their customers do as tax is built into the cost of products.
Or It will create a culture of the single thought.

It happened to me for not being nice with the U.S. while bad talks about EU is widely accepted

After two years I'm still shadowbanned for no real reason...
I've inherited a couple codebases at work that were pretty nice. They stood out among others because they did a good job at doing one simple thing very well. Libraries that start having a lot of feature creep, such as trying to support a bunch of different other libraries or trying to do things too cleverly to support a ton of different ways to use it, always end up being a mess.
Haha, no worries, I was aware of that while watching. What impressed me was the footage from the ground based (or helicopter?) camera that showed them landing side by side.

Edit: I didn't know that three boosters were supposed to land. That probably would've blown my mind if it had succeeded ^^
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> but it's globally illegal.

Technically true, but it’s decriminalized in a handful of countries and thus “tolerated”.

> And it's pretty unlikely that anyone is posting on HN from the international space station

Wouldn’t matter, it’s illegal there (for US astronauts at least, can’t confirm for Russians, but I’d highly doubt it).
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Unless of course it violates the arbitrary, imaginary monopolies on abstract works and ideas.
Good old Hacker's Diet. Calorie counting with a target adjusted by a moving weighted average of daily weight measurements.

You've had success with it? What did you do to make it informal?

I used his Palm Pilot app which tells you how long ago I first tried it.
That was the Falcon Heavy test launch that also brought a Tesla to orbit.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbSwFU6tY1c
The trend of optimising every detail of our lives is kind of inevitable. This realisation is what created the transhumanism philosophy.

Natural selection and evolution doesn't just happen at the biological level, it also happens on the informational and decision making level. If you're not optimising all your life decisions, you cede to someone who does.
What exactly are they losing?
Your blood sugar really shouldn't drop while fasting, unless you do aerobic exercise, have a genetic mutation that prevents you from producing glycogen, or have some other kind of glycemic disease.
A lot more people die from overdoses each year than you might think. The number in 2007 was ~70,000 people in the US. That's more than double the number of people who die in traffic accidents.
Oh yeah, there was something else to that launch too. Thanks for reminding me of that! I'll have to rewatch it at some point.
That’s like teetering on the edge of a cliff and saying, what’s the big deal, far more people die from heart disease than from falling off a cliff.
The naming is not misleading, because the article says a lot about parallel processing.

It is talking about memory consistency models, for heaven's sake. If you have a uniprocessor, or any kind of concurrency without parallelism, it makes zero sense to talk about memory consistency models because you automatically have sequential consistency and don't have to think about it.

If you don't have a multiprocessor, you don't need to think about memory consistency models. If you have a multiprocessor without parallelism, that's your problem, not the author's.
They probably respect his knowledge and know he is the only competent one, but they simply don't care to learn the CLI method as they are lazy, or can't justify all the time it takes to learn it if he is there to fix their problems (more efficient). I've been on both sides of that situation before. There is always an expert in something you want to know, but can't justify the time. So don't take it too hard on them. I support a Linux based app at work and thus got pretty comfortable with the command line (vim, grep, awk, head, tail, cut, sort, ls, cp, top, cat...etc). To my knowledge I'm the only one in engineering with this knowledge (not in IT support). I also notice my fellow engineers will frequently use more complicated techniques for something that is a single piped command for me. I don't fault them for it though as they have no need to use Linux.
Then let courts take stated intent of lawmakers into account and throw out cases where the application of the law is different from the stated intent.
Nice- but why only half a meta-interpreter? A complete Prolog meta-interpreter should still be able to interpret iself, no?
In his examples addiction is a mental illness/disorder. I agree, it is really hard to understand why would anyone get addicted to something out of thin air, but it happens apparently and it is a very big problem. Most of the homeless people you see out there are not just mentally ill; they are addicted.

"Self-harm" you mentioned is a mental problem. Yes, none of these are like cancer and deadly at first, but they really can turn deadly if no one helps. It is hard for me to understand too, but I don't take anything for granted. We never know what would trigger all these. I am sure he didn't want to die at 35 and leave her 3 years old kid behind with his wife alone.
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"I don't think there's another simple tool in the unix toolkit that lets you do things like this."

Perl can, since it borrowed a fair amount of awk. It's also almost as commonly already installed. The one liner equivalents to what you showed are pretty similar, for example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19294575

Though, I concede it falls outside the realm of "simple tool".
This weighted average graph did more to keep me on track than anything else. Sometimes you just need the encouragement to persist through the ups and downs.
Did many people ever write looptail g to begin with? (EDIT: in recent times) They try to make the connection to people handwriting less, but I've only ever seen the looptail g in fonts (such as in the HN comment input box) to begin with.

I really don't think it's surprising at all that people can't actively reproduce an archaic version of a letter that is as far as I know not really taught anywhere.
In my experience the diff algorithms do nothing when one person moves the function and another edits it. The algos just fiddle around the margins of diff hunks.
There was another news story, shared by Drudge the same time as this, where dozens of dead dolphins were washing ashore of some southern Cali beach. I wondered if both stories, along with the case of the newly-discovered glow in the dark sharks found somewhere around Hawaii a year or so back, all have to do with traces of the Fukushima disaster being washed here and there around the Pacific.
As others have said, it isn't evasion but avoidance. The issue is that there a lot of ways to put the money on the books wherever you want it. Let's say you want to sell mobile phones. You could create one company in France that builds, buys and sells phones. In this case it becomes pretty clear it is a French company and all the money will be taxed in France. But let's say you have that same company and split it up into three companies. You put your corporate company A in Ireland. That company A owns a company B in India that makes the phones. The corporate company A also owns a company C in France that only sells phones. Company A can decide which company is profitable by deciding who much B charges C for the phones they make. Company A can also charge B and C consulting fees for helping to run their businesses. Basically A can decide which of the three companies is profitable and make the others even "lose" money as far as the accounting goes. It is now very unclear if this is a French company and at who's tax laws the money should be assessed. Obviously, the company A can make this much more complicated. It is also really hard to know which of these organizational things are about tax avoidance and what is about efficiency of manufacturing and running a business.
https://i.redd.it/xdai0pxkfsa21.jpg
The problem can be roughly stated as: For a company registered in country I, selling product/service in country F, with inputs licensed from and/or created in countries N, U, B, G, A, and C, and costs incurred in a potentially different set of countries, what's the amount of tax due to each country represented in the graph?

There are many simple answers to that question; who gets to decide which simple answer is the one enacted? Countries F, I, and U are likely to disagree on which simple answer is "best", which is why we rely on laws and courts to frame and adjudicate the issue.
We have existing regulations stating what is allowed on which frequencies.

Is there evidence that the devices prohibited by the proposal lead to widescale breaking of these regulations? And if so, is there evidence that this causes harm?

It's harsh to assume that people can not be trusted with SDRs and therefore we should ban them outright. I'd like these sorts of blanket bans to come with a strong evidence backed reason.

I am currently in the process of a obtaining a ham radio license specifically so I can experiment and innovate with SDRs and IOTs and be confident that I do so in compliance with the regulations. This proposal will make it much harder for ham radio enthusiasts and innovators to experiment and learn in a compliant way.

^ Above submitted as feedback
I admire your work. Clever usage of unix tools is very handy. But for parsing text, do you really see that awk and Unix tools as a better solution then a simple python script?

Although I admit that the key argument for Unix tools is that they don’t get updated. That sounds awful, but think about it, once it works, it works everywhere, no matters OS type, version or packages installed. That is something experienced programmers always want from their solutions.
Yeah they were attempting to land all 3, but the center booster (which would have landed on a barge at sea) had issues relighting it's engines during the landing burn.

They setup the landings so that they are on a trajectory to hit the ocean, and only if everything goes right do they then adjust course to the landing pads. This gives them an additional failsafe which the center booster took advantage of here. Instead of crashing into an expensive barge in the ocean, it just splashed down into the ocean purposely missing the barge.

[1] is a diagram that kind of shows what this looks like for land based landings, but it's very similar for barge landings too.

And don't worry, they are going to be flying Falcon Heavy again soon-ish, so there's another chance to land all 3!

[1] http://i.imgur.com/D9BdO86.png
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