skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not OP but basic economics dictates that high demand = high supply (i.e. low prices). The entry barrier to launching a satellite is lower today than it ever has been before. Civilian entities from private companies to high school clubs have successfully launched cubesats from SpaceX rockets.

We will basically see what happened to computing happen to space. Remember the mainframes of the 70s that cost millions and only governments and megacorps could afford? Remember how those gave way to the personal computer, the laptop, and eventually the smartphone and tablet?

Now, it's pretty unlikely that every citizen in the country will get their own cubesat, but what is more likely is that if you are a normal private citizen who has an idea predicated on having a satellite overhead (think: localized aerial surveys, more accurate GPS, real time weather updates), you will be able to put together the capital needed to get that satellite launched.

Personally I'm excited to see the rise of satellite "cloud" services, like AWS, in which one satellite can use its sensors and cameras to serve hundreds of thousands of customers at once. How cool would it be to spend $20/mo to host a global satellite based chat service for you and your friends?
ISS one-take hour-long video tour shot by astronauts earlier this year
I’ve also rediscovered this in similar work I do. But upon later research I’ve learned this is called containment.
Yeah I definitely relate to this enjoying the rush of so many new concepts falling into place and making sense. That said I realized there is another level of enjoying a kind of mastery or advanced skill. For me theres this huge intermediate desert thats hard to cross its like first 6 months - enjoy noob gains, 6mo - 5 years kind of sucking, and after many years finally starting to get some new insights at most people never get. I’ve only ever managed it once too and getting paid definitely helps.
This is definitely a grey hat blog post.
Tesla is not just a car manufacturer though right? They are a solar company and battery company too. They could conceivably have astronomical growth in both of those segments.
>Worst of all the Bolt's infotainment system is horrible.

It has Carplay/Android Auto; you'd never look at that UI if you didn't want to.
He clearly means real work in the realms traditionally requiring computational power. Except for excel, all the things you mentioned could easily be done with a piece of paper. And even then, good luck converting an xls file to csv then using a text editor to manipulate it on an iPad.

Real computer work is making software or graphics that require either computational power (video, graphics, music) or access to the Unix shell (programming). The first category is ready to go, capability wise, on iPad, but like the author said there's no incentive for those companies to make iPad versions of their software. The second category is a non-starter because of the App-centric nature of iPadOS.
My dad had a unopened can of Cougar Gold in the back of the fridge for years when I was growing up. He finally opened it when I was in my late 20s, it was equisite, never tasted a cheese as good since.
Just a thought.

I remember listening to a joe rogan podcast where he mentioned the term "personal sovereignty". I took it to be the state people reach when they're the sort of captain of their own boat.

And being a noob is sort of the opposite of this... you're sort of at the mercy of things.

I think you have to be a noob to get to personal sovereignty, and you have to ping pong back and forth to maintain it.
There’s just not many other places to put your money to work right now.
Dart is something very similar to Java, not much of a bet to jump into it. Moreover, it has type soundness, something Typescript cannot achieve.

I'm not so sure it would be easy to continue RN core development either. From what I see even just upgrading the JS engine from an ancient version was a major hassle for the core team.

In RN there's simply more moving parts. You work with 3 package managers at the same time, possibly even 3 languages. At least at this stage Flutter just seems overall more productive for the developer.
SML is a great language, but the tooling around it wasn't so hot the last time I checked (admittedly more than a decade ago. With a medium sized ( a few ten thousand lines) project I had weird build errors and in the end wrote a makefile. Not fun).
Giant Spiders. Giant sized Tarantula's.
I think I was unclear. We're in agreement. I already do plenty of it in my spare time, like you suggest, and I'd love to expand the spare time stuff. What I was trying to add was that since I'd prefer to do it less than 40 hours per week, I wish there was a paid way to do it less than 40 hours per week. The status quo doesn't have much room for paid part-time work in this line of business, and that makes me sad.

And depending what you're doing, it can require ridiculous computational resources (like hundreds of thousands of dollars to train a model), but that's far from the norm. If you aren't trying to advance a couple particular states of the art, you can get by with a fancy computer and patience, or a pretty reasonable AWS/GCP bill, probably comparable to any other fairly expensive hobby.
Android is the most popular consumer OS, not just the most popular mobile OS. Few, if any, surpass it.
I saw the L2 group go over my house tonight! It was fantastic.

All my previous experience has been viewing the ISS, and watching the Starlink satellites go over was a much different experience. Each was only visible for a handful of seconds, but they kept coming one after the other in a perfect line, each equidistant from the next.

I didn't stay out to watch them all go by but it was a fantastic experience that I'd recommend to anyone.
Just like Epstein, oh wait ...
7% of yearly profit doesn't sound like a rounding error to me.
Most children own mobile phone by age of seven, study finds
So if I read a book for a day and stop at the 20% mark; then come back to it a month later and finish it, does the author then get 100%?
Pets are playful and have a sense of humor.
Yes. That user and lots of other users. People even took the photos and showed them on social media.

https://www.cnet.com/news/google-arts-and-cuture-photo-match...

People's opinion of what constitutes "private" varies wildly.
Fighting fake news in lieu of coronavirus
WSU still makes it (and some cheeses I like better) if you ever find yourself in Eastern WA.
The Paper Clip Problem. When users use your systems differently than designed
They would have to do substantially better than Amazon, who lost far less money before becoming profitable.
Unfortunately ext4 and xfs are fast, but not reliable. They don't have data-checksumming, so it's very hard to know when you need to go to your backups.

Their backup options are drastically more complex because there's no way to take an atomic snapshot.

The complexity of data-integrity and backups are pushed a layer up, whereas more complex filesystems manage data-integrity and atomic snapshotting themselves, and can do so more easily due to existing at the correct layer.
With all of your most used apps, you could just switch to using web apps. You can save any mobile site to the home screen of your iphone with safari.
The ipad (and the app store) will do well-defined work in well-defined ways (with well-defined apps).

I don't think it will ever do the stuff out at the edges very well.
TBF that icon is kind of apple's system hamburger as it contains sharing, sending the current "thing" to other apps, searching etc. If you don't know that (and I agree it's terrible, but at least it's consistent) you probably don't know you can add a page to the homepage at all.
Google could have tried to standardize IMAP2, but they didn't.

Now only JMAP exists as a more modern mail standard.
I saw vlang.io a few months ago. Every time I come back to the site, my jaw hits the ground again. I am utterly impressed by Alexander's productivity - it blows me away every time I consider it.

I think V is an impressive language, but it isn't quite geared toward my vision of what a language ought to be.

I am more a Rubyist than a C, Rust, or Go developer, and so my preference is for a higher level language that's a little more pleasant to use and doesn't make me think about some details that I consider "irrelevant". I'm firmly in the "sufficiently smart compiler" camp, and think that I shouldn't have to think about those low level details that only matter for the sake of performance - the compiler ought to handle that for me.
No world war however we now have airlines and modern travel.
It's a corollary of the question of moral realism. "What is my purpose?" is another way of asking "what should I do?" or "what kind of person is it good for me to be?" Under naturalism, you run straight into the impassable barrier of the is-ought problem.

With God, we can consider the possibility that he has goals for us.

OK, there could be alternatives in between theism and naturalism, but they make even less sense to me and I don't know anyone who takes them seriously.
I'm sure you're right about penetration, but I've found EIN [1] very usable, and particularly like the org support.

[1https://github.com/millejoh/emacs-ipython-notebook/blob/mast...
It's the transient nature of that sort of game that makes for the extreme noob hate. The value of the noob is that they can learn and grow, and become an equal who does things exactly as you prefer, because you taught them. If you're not going to see that noob again, then the value proposition doesn't really pay off.
So what we're dealing with here is Mitch Hedberg's "I used to do drugs" bit, only you're not joking.
It's the native apps that kill my battery, fetching content in the background all the time, not the mobile web which is suspended when I exit safari.
> In people who quit, up to 40% of their cells looked just like those from people who had never smoked.

It looks like magic relative to the current theory, but it’s still not exactly good
It is the best. I do “interrupting cow” for the same effect.
What did I mix up? I believe I quoted all transfer figures in bits/s, as is custom.

Edit: oops, those Bs should be lowercase. Will update post soon. Thanks for the bug report!
While you're here, every time I try to load that page my browser (Firefox on Android) hangs with most of the page rendered, and then Android crashes. It's not my adblocker (uBO in default deny mode, still happens with it disabled), but I haven't yet nailed down what it is. Maybe some default flag I've switched, e.g. to disable notifications or block autoplay video?
Singapore Renewable Energy Provider Sunseap Bags US$37M
in many jurisdictions yes. In most European countries people are allowed to download publicly available information of others but they can only use it for private use, not for commercial use without consent and they cannot distribute it without consent.

I find this notion slightly strange that the internet as a public space is some sort of voyeuristic free for all where one forfeits every right. If this was not stopped it would render the entire public internet hostile and borderline unusable which would be a shame for a medium with so much potential.
Australia’s top researchers urge politicians: “Listen to the science”
That's what I thought of as well. Great video explanation for anyone interested in learning more.
The biggest problem with mobile apps is that you don't always have a reliable connection to the internet, even when your carrier is claiming you have 4g lte with all the bars.

Web apps should really have the option to cache the page entirely for offline use.
The journal contains information that can be replayed on a crash to hopefully avoid an file system check and repair to make the file system consistent. It's intended to address how long fsck can take as file systems get bigger. It has nothing to do with data integrity per se. Recently ext4 adds journal and metadata checksums (feature metadata_csum) to detect corruption, but data is not checksummed by the file system. Each drive sector is checksummed. The expectation by ext4 (and XFS) when it comes to data integrity is that it's the responsibility of the hardware or some other layer, like dm-integrity.

The data integrity problem is you don't have a way of unambiguously determining data integrity. You have to trust the hardware. Obviously that's good enough most of the time, but it can transiently misstep without outright failing: bit flips, torn or misdirected writes.

By the way, make sure you check for timeout mismatches if you're using consumer drives. Affects Btrfs, mdadm and LVM raid, and I assume ZFS on Linux.
https://raid.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Timeout_Mismatch
Again: Netflix. For. eBooks.

It used to be that if Blockbuster wanted to rent out Raiders of the Lost Ark to six different customers simultaneously, they needed to own 6 VHS copies of Raiders of the Lost Ark. Now, with streaming, Netflix doesn't have a finite number of "copies" that they can lend out at a time; if every single Netflix subscriber in the country decides that they want to start watching Indiana Jones right now, the only thing preventing Netflix from providing that is their bandwidth, because Netflix has worked out an arrangement with Paramount Pictures that allows them to do this.

Likewise, Amazon has an arrangement with KDP authors that says, "We lend your ebook out to as many KU subscribers as want it. At the end of the month we pay you based on how much people read your books." If an author doesn't like the terms of the KU program for any other reason, they are free to decline the subscription model and sell their ebooks through the regular "customer pays fixed price for ebook, I get money from sale" model. In fact, most authors don't opt into KU; there are a millions of Kindle books, and only tens of thousands of books in the KU program.

Because you pay a fixed subscription fee and the money gets divided between all the authors you've read, it's effectively zero sum: if Amazon wants to give more money to authors who wrote books that people dropped after the 1st chapter, that means less money for the authors who wrote books that people actually liked enough to read past the first chapter. Amazon has structured their program to reward authors for writing books that people consume more of, which seems like a good way of rewarding creators based on the value that they contribute to the platform. If you don't like it, don't opt in and instead sell your books the "normal" way.
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It’s the law. Technically only required when the cumulative amount of donations reaches $200, but impractical not to collect it for every donation as the org may get in a situation where they realized they collected that much from one person but now don’t have the info because they didn’t ask - given the penalties, cost/benefit sways heavily toward being safe and always asking over catering to the few pedantics who might not donate due to this.
Why not just open the excel file in Numbers?

I do most of my spreadsheet work on an iPad.
So you want the behavior that Pandas has (i.e., no silent casting of np.nan to the string "nan").
How profoundly silly!
Privacy essentials 2020:

1. Use a VPN when connecting to public WiFi

2. DuckDuckGo for web searches

3. Use cash where possible

4. Billy Porter hat
We used to deal with the serial problem using a hack: bump events back/forward by one or two quantums of time to ensure that they go out over the wire in the order that you want. It's laborious and I am looking forward to the next generation never having to worry about it. (That _will_ be fixed, right?)
It means quitting has health benefits, never starting at all has more health benefits.
Emissions per capita is not a good metric. It favors states which have millions of people who are living in poverty and who thus by definition have low consumption, which translates to low emissions. The downside of course is that these people are starving.

If you imported 200 million people into the US in poverty conditions and did nothing to improve their situation, then all of a sudden US per capita emissions would look great too.

In the worst case scenario if you attach policy to this metric you might see states gaming it by deciding to make sure their poor people stay that way (probably already on the minds of policy makers in some authoritarian states).

Admittedly I don't have numbers handy, but I think it would be better to look at emissions generated per dollar of economic output, particularly in industries that generate the most emissions. Then you can start inferring judgements about whether it's better for humanity to open a new factory in China or in the USA, and those two states have to compete on cleanliness if they want to grow their economic output. I bet this sort of measurement would paint the US in a much more favorable light than per capita (and the EU even better). If adding the next $100B to the world economy in the US or EU is cleaner than adding it in China, why shouldn't we push for that?
I want to add some additional commentary on this post, because it relates to an experiment I did during one of my college science courses.

I will summarize for convenience. Essentially, what we did for the experiment was to observe the effect of tobacco "juice" (i.e. the loose trimmings from a Marlboro Red cigarette which were soaked in water) on a cell culture where the cells were taken from the inside of our mouths(cheeks) via cotton swabs.

The experiment was to observe the effects of this tobacco juice on the cells over time.

Within 2 weeks of exposure, the cells mutated and were "cancerous" and appeared disfigured and damaged.

This was terrifying to see up close.
and for whatever mind boggling reason their stand alone chat client is 300mb.
First light images from the new DKIST solar telescope
This title is pure clickbait. Any reason to not replace this BBC article with the "Nature News and Views" article? More informative, less dumbed down, but still accessible.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-00165-7

The original journal article:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-1961-1
It's ironic that you ask for a "fairer representation", and then go on to deliver an inaccurate, "reefer madness"-esque, culturally and personally conditioned caricature of psilocybin.
DNS over HTTPS with Malware Blocking
I have deployed a DoH with a dynamically updated malware blocking which includes OSINT and data gathered through honeypot. It's url is https://proxy.wicked.us if anyone wants to give it a shot. Note that there is no logging of queries by design if your client uses Post requests. How can I improve this?
You lose connectivity for sixty seconds.
Expert programmers have fine-tuned cortical representations of source code
Expert programmers have fine-tuned cortical representations of source code http://biorxiv.org/cgi/content/short/2020.01.28.923953v1?rss=1
Ask HN: How do you organise PDFs/eBooks?
I try to obtain a digital copy of every physical book I buy, and I have quite a lot of books in digital format only; recently I decided to try and organise the mess.

I practically live in the terminal, and I use very few GUI programs these days, so I'm reluctant to use something like Calibre which I think is too bloated for my purposes. Essentially my requirements are a system that allows for hierarchical categorisation of books, and is easily navigable from the terminal.

The solution I've come up with is to use the filesystem as a "category tree" (so I might have "./Computer Science/Abstract Interpretation/...", or "./Mathematics/Mathematical Logic/...") with softlinks to directories in a hidden "store" which actually contain the books as the leaf nodes; this way I can have the same book in multiple categories, and I find it very easy to find whatever I'm looking for. I've found this works particularly well when combined with a terminal file manager such as ranger, and a fuzzy searcher such as fzf.

I've written a small tool which parses YAML metadata files inside the store and automatically generates the library structure based on the categories I assign.

I'd be interested to hear if anyone else has come up with a solution to this problem, or is aware of a pre-existing solution?
Apart from green raw, white ripe, we also had pinkish ripe guava in India. Eating Guava or chewing Guava leaves helped me in mouth sores when I was a kid.
You mentioned AWK. I'm somewhat surprised the C extension capability of gawk never took off. AWK could have competed with Perl in its heyday. There are extensions that add select(), sleep(), sockets, serialization, xmllib, and other C ABI based stuff that helped Perl. Too little, too late, I guess.
The thing is people have already built most of those microwave tower paths here on earth and in addition SpaceX probably isn't going to set it up as a mesh where intra-Starlink traffic stays goes directly. And even if they do you have to go up then across (probably in a zig zag) then back down which will always be higher latency than the point to point microwave distance.
Most government employees are allowed to make political donations.
Ethernet is isolated (transformer-coupled).

USB in its most common form has shared ground.
Authors get paid monthly, approximately two months after the royalties are earned. So if you have a KU subscription and you read 20% of a KU book in January, the author will get paid for those pages in March, and then if you continue reading book and read the remaining 80% in February, the payment for the pages that you read in February will be included in their April statement.
This reflects what my doctor told me several years ago (four and a half?) when I quit.

He didn’t use the word magic. He did say that after four or five years or so my lungs would be in the same condition they would have been if I had never smoked—but only if I quit then. I’d smoked in the vicinity of a pack a day for close to ten years if I were to give it a rough average.

That said, I was very active in my youth, and worked physical jobs and played live music beside any sedentary work I’ve done. I continue to do so as well.

YMMV.

Edit: I thought I should add that I don’t want this to sound like an endorsement of the body’s ability to endure punishment.

If I could go back I wouldn’t pick up regular smoking as I did. And I wouldn’t start again. I return regularly to the feeling of relief that I’m not so bound to it anymore.

I don’t hate it, and I’d have a cigar, and maybe when I’m an old withered man I’ll pick up pipe tobacco. Who knows. For those who can manage it without getting too regular, good for you—life is short. I wouldn’t tempt myself that way again. Anyway, whisky’s a finer poison in my books—and similar cautions apply. ;)
It's cringy when you see how reddit does it. Or far worse, yelp. I would personally love to meet whoever approved the yelp mobile website and app so I could shake their hand and thank them for making the world just a little bit more horrible in their own small way.
Mobiltech to Present ‘Replica City' – At Tips BeSUCCESS Event in the USA
This is a great point about how pernicious corruption is: it replicates. Detection is more important than correction, at least you can stop the corruption from spreading. It's typical for people to reuse storage hardware, and each derivative inherits prior corruption as well as contributing its own. Most people don't keep a long term unchanging archive, and even that archive likely has no means of unambiguous verification of data integrity.
I'd never seen that before and it's brilliant. Advertising isn't meant to be unobtrusive and transparent like software. It needs to be attention-grabbing and memorable in order to work.