skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My "mere KSP player" guess (without having access to my desktop on which I'd check that, in KSP) is that the angle at which they're reflecting the Sun amounts to burning prograde and radial-in (i.e. forward and down), which when done near perigee should both rise the apogee (the prograde component) and lower the perigee (the radial-in component).
Another armchair dweller here, but you can use low thrust to make an orbit more elliptical or more circular. With the earth in the way part of the day, making it more circular is probably not in the cards.

I wonder if there is more solar wind at apogee, too...
In my experience, the kind of math you get in engineering classes, that is: this is how you calculate integrals, now write the result, it is not really useful for programming.

However, the kind of math you get in a mathematics degree, that is: we have this conjecture, now prove it, had made me a much better software developer than I was before taking these subjects.

Of course, a lot of time has passed and education has changed, but the principle stands: learn to write proofs, as it will help you expand your mind.
"what's charged abroad" includes poor countries that will never be able to afford prices comparable to the US. Companies are able to make money in those markets too, as long as the marginal cost of production is lower than the price they can ask there. Prohibiting this doesn't look very market-oriented to me.
I've seen this work one of two ways:

A) If you're already in remote place X then they'll look up salary data on your area and offer to pay that amount or a small premium above it based on your title/experience level.

B) The most clever people I know will take a job in SF or NYC, get some wins under their belt so the company loves them, then say they need to move but would love to still work here. When that happens, the company usually would rather keep you than have to find a replacement, so they accept, and most importantly your salary is unchanged.

Both have serious risks:
With A) just check Twitter and you'll see that remote work job posts are getting hundreds of applications...so no guarantee you can find a job fast.

With B) the company may not go along with it, and then what?
It seemed likely to me that Japan and in particular MITI couldn't continue on as they had been but I was an outlier and so thought I was probably wrong. Don't forget the US was just emerging from the stagflation of the 70s and while they have addressed that one macroeconomic phenomenon haven't made any progress on any of the things that lead to it.

So having said that, 5Gen was a "moonshot" from a bunch of bureaucrats who could see the writing on the wall, but mistakenly let it get hyped. Compare that to ARPA who used to place a whole bunch of batshit crazy bets that were clearly nonsensical though being done by legitimately smart people: that gave us the Internet, among other things. They also funded infrastructure to get there (e.g. MOSIS).

Since then (the now named) DARPA and corporate labs have lost interest in much blue sky work. "I don't agree that "when industry takes over science, we lose the science." Corp research gave us the transistor, semiconductor, SEM, WIMP interface etc. It could again. Pharma is one of the few fields where fundamental research is still done.

(I wouldn't say regulatory approval has had much of any influence in the cost or output of pharma research BTW; getting meaningful results is hard and if you want drugs that are better than the standard of care you need to do that work. I do think the regulatory framework around marketing and reimbursement has had a much larger impact on which API candidates get advanced into programs.

I'm biased in what I consider fundamental; I'd agree with you on TCP/IP, mpus, RISC, the Mac, generational GC (another corp research result BTW) and fab. (WDM is another corp invention about 100 years old). Some of the others I consider less fundamental or less influential (Cedar? CLU was far more influential even if no real programs were written in it).

The fact is research is hard, and skills in basic research and the skills of translational research are rarely present in the same person.
From a blog I discovered earlier today, I felt like the content was apt for Hacker News bringing a sort of Girardian narrative to the startup world. Saw no comments, so thought people here would like it!
Why do I have to let a company consume my time and mental memory? Why does anyone? Why are we as a society accepting the continued robbery of our time, attention, and thinking?
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> Maybe that makes it a bad business model?

Maybe it is. But I'd argue having something is better than not having it.
That's great to hear - send us a message at hello@hatchways.io and we can set up next steps
>Intel is being distracted with other things.

Their long-drawn distraction (circa 2015) is ruining the very ambitious 10nm. The CEO got so distracted, it got sacked for a previous affair.

I am not quite certain if was (is) just a distraction or more of a hubris.
hestipod's response says what I mean... I remember reading an article saying that trust fund kids living in luxury can't live with themselves when they tell themselves their richness is due to luck, so they make up a reality where their success is due to hard work...
One thing they don’t get into, but which becomes a significant pain, is what happens if history is wrong — for example, a policy is mis-entered and you need to adjust past financials. I architected precisely one insurance finance system, and trying to recall the data model and logic for overlapping timelines (what was, what should have been, what we thought it was...) still breaks my brain.
That's obviously the case, which just proves that neither party intended to actually reimburse consumers for our breached data, and the effort to mitigate identity theft.
I believe the parent meant these taste better than a regular veggie burger and not a beef burger.
> Hard work, an appetite for risk and resilience are required for success. But they are in no way a guarantee.

If you don't do any of these then you are guaranteed to fail. These things give you a better chance of success.

Nothing is guaranteed here it's that kind of planet/universe. Maybe when you are designing the next planet or universe have no laws of probability always have guarantees, but then you will miss out on all the chance encounters and surprises.
We initially launched this in Toronto and have recently expanded into major US cities like SF and NYC
They explicitly say that isn't the case: " SDC memristors are distinct from (and superior to) Conductive Bridge RAM (CBRAM) technology and represent their own class of memristor."

https://knowm.org/downloads/Knowm_Memristors.pdf
I hadn't known about the microbe end of the story. I'm kinda disappointed. I had long imagined that the inevitable process of fossil fuel generation and accumulation would eventually turn the earth into a flaming tarball, and it was those crazy humans who finally figured out how to tar -xvf the sucker to the anthropocene.
No it’s not because people are born with different telomere lengths and telomeres do not shorten at the same rate or even at a predictable rate through your lifetime.
> R&D costs are more than covered by the price paid in Canada and indeed most nations

And you would know... how?
AFAIU most of our industrial CO2 (for dry ice, soft drinks, etc) comes from refining natural gas exhaust. From there, if you want to make a dry ice block, you have to take it through a very energy cooling process (similar to how air conditioning works) to create a liquid, and then through a second compression and cooling process to turn it into a solid. It is likely that the process of turning a given volume of CO2 into a solid would produce more emissions than it sequestered. You cannot assume that green energy will be used for this sequestration because if green energy were available at this scale, you wouldn't have the CO2 on your hands in the first place.

On the demand side we already collect as much CO2 as we need from e.g. natural gas power plants. We don't have a use for any more. It will just sublimate and be re-released into the atmosphere, or into some containing vessel.
Outside of the city center, it's also vastly easier to stop and run a few errands on the drive home without it adding tons of additional waiting for transit time.
> For instance, I joined and served in the military during the second Iraq war despite disapproving of the invasion.

And after your experiences would you recommend the same path to your children if they were thinking of doing the same?
No competitor can produce a drug which is still under patent.
My guess is that the vast majority of people wouldn't pay. Firstly, because it's notoriously difficult to get people to pay for something that used to be free. Lack of tracking and respect for privacy is not something most people would recognize as an obvious upgrade - hence the need for legislation in the first place. So the public will see it as paying for the exact thing that used to be free, and just won't do it. If Google won't find a loophole to bring marketing, paid results or some other monetization back in such a legislative environment, someone else will. You'll end up with something that's won't necessarily be better for consumers than the advertising model.
Hmm, I haven't visited, but looking through online images of Beijing I see plenty of English on shopfronts and buildings, will the authorities be visiting McDonald's to have them cover up too? I am of course not serious, tourists are happy to spend their money in those stores, which is in the national interest.
>> I interpret the loose analogy as: if controlled advertising is like normal cell growth, then out-of-control resource-consuming advertising is like cancerous cell growth.

> That analogy applies to literally anything that can grow. Great. Startups are a cancer. Technology is a cancer.

Not a logical flow in that analogy from my perspective. There is legitimately bad advertising out there that is blatantly malicious -- malware, popups, click jackers, spyware, non-consensual tracking, etc. -- that could be described by that to a tee. But the original article goes further and calls all advertising cancerous which is just plain dogmatic and frankly, extremist. Its extremely easy to put down advertising, but the truth is everything in life is advertising, since advertising is just a game of attention -- predating the internet and printed paper. I think an average internet denizen has a viewpoint somewhere between.

Then we have people who work in marketing, and might see the article and be opposed to the article. But I don't think that matters. Advertisement is not going to stop because of some article putting it in a undefended spotlight, it's a fulfilling prophecy from a game theory perspective precisely because you can't not advertise -- as the article notes.
Entertainment and relaxation are not unnecessary. Especially in our late capitalist civilizations.
* Biodegradable is just, ya know, degradable by organisms within a relatively short timeframe

* The process of refining plastics and manufacturing products is generally NOT carbon-neutral
Hong Kong protestors using lasers to avoid facial recognition cameras
I have Sonic at home, despite that it is basically AT&T dual bonded DSL and slower then my old Comcast connection. Its fast enough and I really like Sonic. Comcast, not so much.
Those were microarchitectural advantages. I don't think AMD was ahead on manufacturing process shrinks. A quick check shows that the P3 and Athlon went from 250nm to 180nm at the same time.
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No, they make a claim and their only sources are their own work that doesn’t appear to have been peer reviewed or even vouched for by anyone that doesn’t work for them.

A true memristor as envisioned by Chua would be a revolutionary device of extreme utility. If knownm has what they say they have, the company would be worth billions. But they’ve been around for years and their website looks like every other scammy snake oil site out there.

Hah, I just noticed, the founder and the CTO have no industry experience and I can’t find anyone who does connected to the company. They started this scam fresh out of college.

And more: Their "angel investor" and "chief administrative officer" is the founder's mother, but this is very carefully sidestepped in the bios. Every time I look closer, it's one more classic sign of a scam.

Who are their process engineers? Where is their fab? Are they contracting with a third party? Who? Will they vouch for the technology?

Ahahahaha, as it were:

"In January of 2018 AHaH Computing was proven feasible with Knowm SDC Memristors on the open-source Memristor Discovery platform. As of January 2019, Knowm SDC Memristors passed four years of shelf-life testing and have shipped to researcher in over forty countries."

The "Memristor Discovery Platform" was made by... Knowm. (in other words, "it works because I say so").

Are you sure this isn't a practical joke?

We've been here before. Companies make all sorts of microchips that do a lot, a little, or nothing at all, and many are counterfeit and outright frauds. When a small company in New Mexico with no experience tells you they're going to revolutionize computing, just walk away.
couple issues with this post:

- it's trivial to find a class of animals that doesn't eat flesh (e.g. elephant) so i'm assuming you meant to say omnivore here

- evolution doesn't "make" things in that way. it could be that it provided an advantage, it could be that it is bound to something else that provided an advantage, or it could be completely coincidental.

for example, suppose our optimal setup is eating 100% fresh spinach but we can live at 80% by eating non-spinach stuff including meat. so in that sense, we weren't "made" to eat meat. it's just adaptive for reproduction.

from a layman's point of view it was probably advantageous to be able to eat both things, but our guts do more closely resemble herbivores than omnivores (gorillas e.g. are almost purely herbivores)
At least two Lyft-owned e-bikes catch fire in SF
There is no typical behavior for telomeres. Even in humans they can lengthen under certain circumstances.
They do overall shorten with age but without knowing what was your telomere basepair length at birth for a given tissue (as not only length varies between individuals it varies between different types of cells and between individual chromosomes) and tracking your telomeres throughout your life you can’t get any informative data for a given individual out of it.
I'll accept my payment in stock.
> The Go contract design document is about 1/3rd the word count of the entire Go language spec.

They're quite different documents, so I think this is somewhat unfair and misleading. The go spec doesn't spend prose on explaining rationals, alternatives, historical references, etc.
Yeah. Have same here. Ordered via Sonic.net and was confused when AT&T guy showed up to do the whole install.

That being said, still better than comcast, and hopefully they continue to roll out fiber for residential [1].

1 - https://www.sfchronicle.com/business/article/Internet-provid...
top Google result for "escrow" looks like what you want

or convince the seller to sell it on the darkwebs /s
I don't think it's the feature-set that makes C++ viable for more situations than Go. In my opinion that's only because Go uses managed memory. That takes part of the runtime behavior of the code out of the hands of the programmer. This counts out Go for situations where you need precise control over runtime behaviour.

That said; C++ is a ridiculously complicated language. I don't get why people think that Rust is difficult.
> I viewed the code pen example on my phone

> but not keep their finger in a one pixel radius for extended periods of time

I know you're exaggerating some, but this isn't even close to what I'm seeing: You can drag the entire content area to scroll, not just the scrollbar, and you can drag it past its container to keep scrolling. This is normal for scrolling on mobile, and the snap behavior doesn't affect it.

I do agree that the snap behavior is annoying, it's just nowhere near as bad as you describe...
> But convincing the entire population of the world to set their thermostat 1 degree higher

This confused me for longer than I'd care to admit, but now that I get it, I'd just say that a much smaller proportion of 'the entire population of the world' - even the developed world - has AC than it might seem to an American perspective.
I have seen this in Amsterdam. The amount of rejections I got because I am not senior enough (despite it not being mentioned in job applications) is staggering.
The Melbourne's retention of the trams has provided a wonderful A/B experiment. Although I consider Sydney a more attractive city (sorry, city of my birth!) Melbourne frankly is a much easier and more enjoyable city to get around and live in.
> more objective art criticism?

That made me smile. :)
Campendium misses a lot of actual spots. It might have one camping spot listed for a 25 mile radius but there are actually tons of spots in that area. It's not precise enough imo and only guides me where to start looking on satellite photos and BLM maps again.
No, because of conservation of momentum. Same reason a jet engine can move a piece of metal to reverse its thrust
I did this once, when I sold a domain for $1K. I had the guy paypal me $500, I transferred the domain, then he paypal'd me the other $500. I didn't really feel like dealing with any third parties and the guy seemed honest. Obviously, YMMV.
I'm glad it's not just me...

I've tried 3 separate times now to set up the necessary pieces. I get all the way to the end and it just... doesn't work. And I'm just not a good enough network engineer to sniff out why.
One chip to rule them all: It natively runs all types of AI software
This is great point! At this time unfortunately, we don't have the capacity to make that happen, but we are looking into partnerships to help make that possible for foreign workers
The government mostly doesn't pay for drugs in Canada. Each province has its own insurer, and the biggest ones don't cover pharmaceuticals in the general case.

OHIP (the government-run insurer in Ontario, to which taxpayers pay the Ontario Health Premium directly) will sometimes pay some or all the cost of some pharmaceuticals in some cases (i.e, antibiotic-corticosteroid ear drops if you are under 25 or over 65, and have been experiencing an ear infection for longer than 30 days) for some classes of people (mostly youth and seniors); but by no means is there a single buyer in Canada, and there isn't one per province either.

I have bought more pharmaceuticals out of pocket in Canada than I have ever been provided during a covered clinic or emergency department visit, and I technically qualify for the youth drug coverage.

The listings for which drugs are covered under what circumstances can be found here: https://www.ontario.ca/page/check-medication-coverage/
> No, but the pharmacies hold only a little bit of power over that stuff.

We're not talking about pharmacies; they don't enter the picture here at all.

> If the single payer health plan

Again, almost no country uses a single-payer health plan for pharmaceuticals, so this is isn't relevant.
Generally I'm of the opinion that git hooks are not the right place to place linters or formatters.

For a JVM language, it means that you'll spin up a JVM for each step (and you can well have 15 formatters + linters in your stack).

So, the formatter better lives in a dev-only part of your codebase, so it's always loaded, interacting with your codebase using _runtime insights_ otherwise impossible to gather, and it's easily hackable.

I've authored this kind of solution in the past. It works great, and a proper CI pipeline (i.e. including linters) kills the other half of the problem.
We only tell our selves we can afford. The truth is we are constantly putting off work that needs to be done as if some future generation will fix all these problems.

There are tens of millions of Americans living in homelessness, shanty towns, and trailer parks. We need to build housing (apartments, homes) for them. No individual person can do that. We have to organize ourselves to tackle these kinds of problems cooperatively. However, our society insists that we allow the market to organize our activities.

The market is controlled by exchange, and people who can afford to exchange more than anyone else can control the market. The majority of our wealth is concentrated in the hands of a minority of people. Thus the market mostly organizes people to solve their concerns while paying no mind to people who cannot afford to engage with it.

Either you can fix the market (something arguably impossible to do) or you can use a different method of organizing humans into cooperative efforts.
Probably the same math they use to calculate our credit scores and everything else they screw up.
> Maybe very small children. But in Japan, kids are pushed to walk themselves to school around 7 years old or so. Here in the US, parents would be arrested for that, and in a lot of places kids aren't allowed to be outside unsupervised at all.

My kids are 6 and 4, so this has been our experience. We're not alone. In Japan, you're not even allowed to take your kids to the park supervised in a lot of places now, unless your kids just sit on a bench and finger their phones. No fun is allowed.

> Aren't there a fair number of foreign companies now operating in Japan? This might be a possible solution to this for some people.

It's more possible in some lines of work than others. Don't forget we're talking about a woman. Sexism is deep in Japan. Why deal with all of that when chances are so much more accessible elsewhere?

> I thought it was much more common in Asian cultures for grandparents to help with the kids.

I'd bet this is usually true, but it just doesn't apply in our case. My family in the US is super close and awesome. Her family in Japan is not.

I'm not making excuses for why we don't live in Japan. Like I said, we have papers and we could return tomorrow. We could make it work. But our lives in the US are good. There's no great reason to leave.
Why is there so much stock in specifically a very literal reading of the most modern translations of Genesis? Even as a religious person, I don't see where they're coming from. Arguments to be made about Genesis originally referring to "creation" (ex nihilo) vs "organization" are already pretty weak, what reason do we then have to assume that despite all the evidence of an ancient Earth that it was literal Earth-days, and that the idea it was literal Earth-days is somehow so important to God's plan that the Devil would fake evidence of fossils to try and get people to think it was NOT Earth-days?
In grade school they asked us to make a model spaceship. I made a light sail spaceship. It’s really neat that we have a working implementation of the technique .
Like it or not, the Trump administration has good ideas
No. I live in Mexico City, where it is not unheard of for the government to outright cut off the city water supply for days to account for shortages.

People's preferences haven't changed. Beef continues to be very popular, as do public fountains. The choice not to consume meat (at least here) is mostly associated with pretentious, upperclass people who like yoga and are keenly interested in social justice (there is even a word for this type of person: fresas, which literally means strawberries but here means, well, that type of person).

Eating or not eating meat is more about adopting cultural, class, and identity signifiers than any real correlation with the local water situation.
Yeah, I've been saying for years that someone should make a search engine for the ad-free segment of the internet :-) Then we could use it most of the time, and fall back to Google explicitly when doing queries with commercial intent.