skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is barely within our technical capabilities to build 30-meter-class telescopes on Earth. Such telescopes cost on the order of $1 billion each.

The cost to build JWST, a 6.5-meter space telescope, is over $10 billion. The ground-based telescope costs 1/10th as much and has 20x the collecting area (and 4.5x the resolution). Unlike the space telescope, the ground-based telescope can be periodically upgraded with new cameras, spectrometers, and other scientific instruments.

Space telescopes have a place in astronomy, but they're no substitute for ground-based telescopes.
I think that decentralization has to be the solution. Having a handful of websites run by megacorps was not how the internet was meant to work. The fediverse around ActiviyPub is looking very promising. Mastodon is the most prominent service using it, and it has millions of users now. The experience is strictly superior to Twitter in my opinion. And there's no single central server on the network making it much harder to censor and manipulate Mastodon than centralized networks. There is no single company deciding what content can go on the network, and servers are hosted by regular people across many different countries.

Mastodon also allows for account verification, where the account can reference a specific website that's owned by the user. So, if a reputable source wants to have a verified account they can link it up with their site.
This is a great theory and I’ve shared it with a few people in the past (since you posted it before).

But it ignores the last 40-years and beyond. For example, the people mentioned in the article are linked to debunked CIA research, and there were specific events that happened at CIA in the 1980s in regards to the USAF that make this topic infinitely more complex.
I've long had the notion that taste is secretly the most important quality of a good developer or worker in computing technology more generally, and we only pretend other things matter so much because taste is hard to measure in an interview, difficult to quantify, and no-one knows how to teach it reliably.
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Buy the dip. People still intend on buying their phones, watches, and other toys, sooner than later.
> returns either `values` or False, when both of its callers would be just as happy if it returned True or False.)

That's pythonic.

You don't convert from a data type to Boolean.
There are currently roughly 5000 satellites in orbit (per wikipedia). I don't have good stats on those 5000 satellites but I believe they are on average substantially bigger than the starlink satellites.

Either way, a few thousand things spread out over the surface area of the earth is practically nothing.
Personally I think 24" 4k displays (along the lines of https://amzn.com/B00PC9HFNY or https://amzn.com/B01LPNKFK0/) look a lot better than 32" 4K displays. YMMV.

Though if you have the space (a very deep empty desk) to put your display like 6 feet away from your face, then the 32" might be a decent way to reduce eye strain.
I have 50 xterms open, and about 10 emacs frames. I have 40 virtual desktops mapped to super+<key> for most of the keyboard (1-0-z-/) and I roughly map tasks to desktops by spacial memory.
I'm one of those people who used to work in a "mission-driven." job. As part of burning out and walking the slow road to recovery, I started to feel a lot of "mission-driven" people are really selfish ladder-climbers who are fantastic at marketing themselves and their mission. I'm not even sure if they actually believe in what they are doing outside of inflating their own ego/prestige/whatever.

I'm not at FAANG and I don't earn anywhere near FAANG money. I know the above is really jaded and skeptical view of things. But I suspect more than a few people feel what I feel after a few years in the workforce.
It appears to me that there's a catch. I think those 10x developers can't be 10x out of their domain(s). You never know as well how does each individual prepare for any particular job, how much self-education effort they are amortizing.
So Google is associated w/ malware in your mind? And Dropbox? You seemed to be saying Zoom is primarily associated w/ malware for you. If so, you feel the same as the other two brands/companies?
It works with non-Apple displays (I use a Dell 4K monitor with my Mac Mini), but the OS has to be able to detect that the pixel density is suitable. It’s possible that macOS can’t discern enough about your monitor.

If you option-click on the resolution options you may be able to manually override it.
Well if the telephone is tapped, writing letters will help.
Yes Kit. I don’t have a source to share. It occurred at Col. John Alexander’s home though, so one could potentially ask him.
Oh I'll definitely agree I'm oversimplifying it, and there's room for improvement. But I think the core issue remains: if they are allowed to control discourse by choosing who can speak and who cannot, then they must be held responsible for who they allow to speak, and they need to be transparent about it.

And to your last point: as a decently frequent user of 4chan, that's pretty much what I like about it, though there absolutely IS moderation on most boards. People's minds go to /b/ and /pol/ when they think of 4chan, but there are several niche hobby communities on other boards which thrive in a (relatively) low-moderation, low-interferance. setting.
I'm easily 10x a good programmer, probably more.

It's all I do, it's all I'll ever do. I'm not a balanced person and I'm ok with that.
It’s so far from the narrative we’ve been hearing for years now, than even reading your comment triggers a “that’s just some batshit conspiration theory” reaction on the moment.

Going through the link requires putting aside that reaction. I missed the link posted two weeks ago, and I am so glad you commented.

It’s really chilling and takes time to fully process.
This is bought to you by the people that think /etc/sudoers is best replaced with javascript rules and the solution to a mash up of javascript and compiled languages not freeing memory is to ignore the issue for 7 or 8 years then admit that the issue is unfixable and solve it by manually running the gc constantly and noting that this performs in practice way better than you would imagine for such a hacky crappy solution.

In practice most users not using fedora are "apt" to see wayland not sooner than they upgrade to ubuntu 24.04 LTS or Debian 11 or later and as users will naturally upgrade when they feel like it as opposed to release day one would expect the majority to transition between 2024 and 2028.

Apps which don't work on X before this period would be even more niche than usual.
And that's how I explained the cloud to my grandma: the company buys big daddy servers which make baby computers that the company sells for profit. She was so happy she finally understood what my job was at the time.
Everything needs to move to decentralized platforms.
Solving suduko is a college homework assignment. Norvig's solution is simple and quick, but he spent decades dedicating his entire professional life to studying all manner of AI, so it's not clear his overall problem solving speed is.hifh including the time spent on past study. In the meantime he wasn't learning to be good at kernel hacking or UI development.
Electricitymap.org is a beautiful visualization of electricity production in the world map.
Installing real video editing software on a Chromebook
Shameless plug: try https://losttech.software/stack.html

The setting to always tile is entirely optional: you can move windows around with mouse/keyboard as much as you want, or snap it in.
Avoid: rewriting (by strangling) a legacy system

Avoid rewriting a legacy system (by strangling it)
That's the way the system had handled it for ages. Common carriers vs publishers. Tech companies decided that didn't apply to them, and they could have the best of both worlds.
Nope. It's really hard to distinguish these days!
I did _not_ say he's doing this just for tax reasons. I asked if the $10b are really $10b that won't result in any tax breaks? Is Bezos letting go of $10b, or will he get a deduction, perhaps using a similar formula to the one you posted?

We're being duped on headlines such as "Bezos commits to $10b" when his net worth won't be affected by that much.

The cynicism comes from the PR, sure, but also from a preservation perspective. I doubt any of the grants Bezos is giving will result in research that shows in any way what Amazon is doing is bad for the environment. It won't propose an increase in taxes on gas based engines like lawn mowers, shipping plastic from overseas, selling meat based products, or if Amazon moved Prime to 5 days shipping instead of 1, it could bundle deliveries and reduce trucks on the street and the gas it uses.

And for sure, it won't be a critical view of the American consumerism (which is fueled and promoted and enhanced by retailers like Amazon) and how if the world had even 1/10th of the standard of living of the US the planet would be in flames right now.

It will probably be something like investment in renewable energy, electric trucks, drone delivery. All new stuff, investment opportunities, things that coincidentally help Amazon while helping the world. Don't get me wrong, it's all stuff we need, but the cynicism comes from Bezos being committed to fighting climate change as long as it doesn't take his money, and actually, it should probably make him money in the process.
This is why I mentioned that I'm better than most at filing reports. If you just say your app doesn't work, they aren't going to dig through your code and figure out the problem. But, If you build a demo app in <100 LoC that reproduces the issue, they will thank you and fix it very fast. Perhaps your bug reports aren't worth shit.

Same with all the people complaining about outages that affect everyone, and not getting individual responses... you probably aren't helping at all, or telling them anything they don't already know. If you can isolate and demonstrate the issue in a reproducible way, and suggest a fix or likely culprit (because you've been keeping up with recent Google Cloud changes), they will call you.
The Myth of Developer Productivity (2018)
I'm in the same camp, Vue is a nice stepping stone for some but it is almost anti-programming. I don't believe it will be a transferrable skillset going into the future.

A React code base feels like real programming comparably. I always recommend it much more.
> There is moderation and there is censorship. Nobody is against filtering spam.

This position has all the integrity, defensibility, and internal logic of "I can't define pornography, but I know it when I see it". Moderation and censorship are the same concept. It's just that "moderation" is metaphysically good, and "censorship" is metaphysically bad.
but wikileaks was always political.

i mean, we all remember collateral murder and the amount of stuff leaked re: gwb and the iraq war.
I just think it's an important realization that while a democratically elected central government is much better than, say, one run by absolute hereditary monarchy, it is still one central government, and it will end up being run by a few people who make the their way to the top.

> I know a lot of people that would pin the gratuitous invasion of other countries on the industrial-military complex and control of oil and all the money that depends on it.

I don't know how you can square that view with the one where the voting public controls the government. Is the voters or the industrial-military complex in charge? Can't be both.

The human ability to hold completely opposite views at the same time truly is something!

> Are there any billionaires trying to solve this problem?

Well, the Koch brothers certainly do/did. A few quickly Google links:

https://www.axios.com/koch-network-opposes-sessions-restart-...
https://www.denverpost.com/2017/06/25/koch-network-trump-adm...
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/03/do-the-...
Yes! I live 90 minutes from Washington DC and have no land-based Internet access. Our community of 59,000 has probably just 65% true broadband coverage, from one cable provider. The FCC maps are a lie, they show my home and my neighbors as having access.
Dynalist is pretty awesome. I have started to use it for everything.
Trying hard to get 4K 60Hz on my Mac Mini late 2014. Anybody have a solution for this?
When being or not being an asshole became something of importance regarding the issues at stake? The dichotomy might be false but you're missing the whole point.
You pay for convenience. Someone else takes care of the server. I pay them $5 per month for the site/app I pay $15 for the database in other place and I charge +$150/hour while I work in something else instead of dealing with the server. That's without any burden.
Can we assume you’ve never moderated any forum, or the comments on any web site?

Any site owner automatically removes thousands of spam comments. But these aren’t illegal. Your system would either:

1. Force sites to publish all legal spam, or

2. Face liability if anyone sneaks illegal content in. In practice all sites would need to censor all comments until they passed human approval. At big sites would probably need approval from lawyers.
>> 3 is closer to the universal optimum 2.71 than is 2. That is the absolute most simple elevator pitch for ternary.

>- iota co-founder

lol they seriously say that? For those who aren't aware...

You get e (2.71828...) as the optimal base when you're trying to minimize the product of a) the number of symbols you're using and b) the number of symbols needed to represent a number.

Once there are other factors that are significant, it's no longer the optimum. And indeed, in the real world, you care about the difficulty of implementing base-x vs base-y logic in hardware, the installed ecosystem for computing in that base, etc, which (to put it mildly) heavily favors base-2, even for domains where one subproblem is more naturally expressed in trinary.
I try to stay apolitical on boards that I want to see nerd stuff on but if you're going to essentially invoke Rawls veil then please explain why policy based on that way of thinking tends to produce worse outcomes than intended or in the case of things like abortion simply cannot be resolved philosophically without resorting to stupidly broken arguments anyone can see through.

I'm a big empathy fan but defending the growth of state power on grounds of being shorted in the lottery of life pretty much always leads to more abuse and only temporary mitigation of suffering. Not to mention the fans of big government tend to be like alleged anti-violence people. They always seem to be fine with big government and using violence as long as it serves what they think is right. Then those same people either freak out on dirty cops and prosecutors or look the other way if those dirty cops and prosecutors are targeting people they hate.

We are so far from a free market state that any invocation of libertarian bent rings kind of hollow. The game is rigged and the safety net exists in one form or another in most places that would allow one the opportunity to post on a website instead looking after their basic survival. The issue now is not the lottery the issue now is trying to fix all the broken things that were allegedly created to help alleviate the effects of the lottery.

So, feel free to invoke 'principles' while banging on those more inclined to want liberty than safety but as someone who worked their way up from a worse start than just having a single mom the last thing I trust are people inclined to social engineering "looking out for me".
It's still a thing. It's still great.
Is Your Code a Bit Flabby?
> Is Bezos, worth $130b today be worth $120b tomorrow because of this?

I would think so with this sort of investment. It depends on what you mean by tomorrow. I like the 18 year cycle because that is how long it takes to produce a crop of tax paying voters. Years 0-5 atmosphere and nutrition quality carry more weight during that physical development term.

If he wants a "trillion human Solar system with a thousand Mozart and Einstein minds", then citizen factory Earth is a good first step?
Yeah I can commiserate. Aside from going out here and there, social outings, I’m pretty much always programming or reading about programming. I have zero other hobbies and don’t want any.
If you need a long cable length, like more than 20 feet it gets even more interesting. Yay for 'Standards', maybe.
So, how can this be applied to mobile app development? I can think of adding dependencies and new code to get along with the old code in the app, but it will cause a considerable bloat (size) of the app, which it can be noticeable by management, unlike web services/sites/apps
This looks really cool, thanks for sharing!
I feel dumb after reading this. So easy. Thank you.
Against me, a chess master can call "mate in X" before the first move.
Zoom is integrated into our Outlook calendars (and pretty well, I might add), so I assumed the Share Screen function looked at my calendar, saw which room I was scheduled to be in, and shared my desktop to the corresponding screen.

I suppose doing it with ultrasound is a little simpler, and avoids problems if we have to duck into a different room due to a schedule conflict.
I've certainly worked with them - someone who wrote an entire h265 decoder test suite in three months, for example. My own experience had included times of being the 10x debugger, especially when called into situations that have already consumed a large amount of colleagues time.
Ask HN: Should I use Homebrew, Macports or something else?
I'll be upgrading to a "new" Mac today. I've been using Macports a few years, never had any problems at all...except it sometimes takes a long time, installs many different versions of dependencies. I assumed Homebrew would be better, but on reading about it today - it actually sounds worse in many ways, which was a real surprise. Sounds like it sometimes breaks things on your existing system with its upgrades! So am tilting towards staying with Macports. Keeping downloaded packages in a separate place seems sensible.

There's been discussion on HN about the two, but not for a while it seems. How have things changed lately with both? How do the pros and cons stand currently?

And is it possible to use both, or I have to choose one?

Thanks.
I think it's just that writing is seen as the primary mean of communication.

if something goes bad at work, someone (orally) always makes a joke to defuse the situation. This is the same thing happening here.
Use a static site generator. The parts you touch for authoring posts will end up "included" during the build step, producing files that you don't touch which each redundantly contain the common markup. Or with an SPA generator like Gatsby, there wouldn't even be any redundancy (but client side JS is required).
Thanks!

I have a few destinations I'm interested in and some others that I take regularly. I'm watching the respective airlines' own websites for specific searches, and gather the prices in a spreadsheet that I review every time I feel wanderlust.

Regarding the integration with IFTTT, I wrote about it here:
https://blog.monitoro.xyz/post/190023685811/monitor-website-...
Practical Implementation with Flutter of DroidKaigi Conference App
That's why you cut a deal with the person that sells you the robots.
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Your dream team is great, missing only a 10x person to lead them, inventing MapReduce or MacOS or AWS.
What do you mean by taste?
This. If a company wants to to be a platform and enjoy certain protections from responsibility for content posted by its users, it should be required to open the protocol and the data and prevented from exercising absolute control over the user interface and from being able to deny access to some organisations, 3rd party clients, etc. If that kills a bunch of business models, do be it.
> Did providers really have the ability to claim to be "platforms" before?

Possibly!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cubby,_Inc._v._CompuServe_Inc.

> despite the EFF insisting that I should like it...

I should mention that I work there and I like §230 very much (although I'm not doing much work on it at the moment). One idea that I think is helpful here is that there are so many intermediaries that are involved in allowing you to communicate with someone.

https://www.eff.org/free-speech-weak-link

People are already applying all kinds of pressure on each of those intermediaries; with weakened §230 protections, more of them would also be threatening litigation.

> in some sense I feel like the correct solution is force everyone to be a publisher

I also like this at some level, and I remember when I had my own web site hosted on my own desktop computer. (Some of my online communications are still hosted by my friend.) But I don't tend to think tinkering with intermediaries' incentives about content is the thing that will get us there, because there are so many other practical advantages that people have perceived in the more centralized services.
Model 3s have hardware buttons on the steering wheel.
About a six months has passed since I started using Flutter.

I didn't know much at first.
However, through trial and error, I gained an understanding of Flutter App implement.

This Flutter app has been created with a practical implementation that goes beyond the sample code.

I think Flutter is a great cross-platform framework.

if you are interested, please give me feedback. :)
The fact this is VC funded is a red flag. There’s no reason why such a simple tool needs VC-level funding, and as a consequence the VCs also won’t be happy with the (relatively) low revenue from a paid product compared to a scummy product that stalks users.

“We won’t sell your data” is just wishful thinking and we both know that. It’s only a matter of time before this turns malicious and starts spying on users or wasting their time for the sake of “engagement” (the very thing it’s designed to fight against).
Newer Pixels have the same issue as iPhones that you mentioned (Jack)
What's interesting is, many of the same people who criticize the leaks for hurting Hillary's chances would also applaud the leaks for demonstrating DNC bias against Bernie.
> No different than when they added move the first time in C++11 and everybody had to learn the difference between copy and move.

Yes, it's not the first time the cognitive load of C++ has increased.

> No different than Rust programmers learning the difference between Rust's move and C++'s move.

Learning concepts in a new language doesn't increase cognitive load in the same way. In C++ you will have to decide which kind of move to use in any given situation, and deal with code using multiple kinds of moves. Learning Rust doesn't create such issues.

> Adding that little bit of extra state for the compiler to track might be helpful.

It'll be interesting to see how that goes. In Rust the compiler ensures safe code can't access a moved-out-of object, but that depends on Rust's strong aliasing guarantees. In C++ I guess accessing a moved-out-of object will have to be a new kind of undefined behavior, creating new classes of bugs and requiring new sanitizers and approximate static checkers to be implemented.
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I’ve gotten solving a sudoku puzzle as an interview question, to be implemented in full in 45 mins.
I wish that we're still viable, and I want to return to that world, but it's pretty much impossible to compete with the reach a major platform gives today. It's possible that a publisher/platform legal split would do enough damage to our current major platforms to push us back in that direction.
God, it's like some giant running amok, staggering around stepping on markets, how can anyone do business in the world these days?

Given past experience the result will of course be a domestic Chinese fab industry that out competes the rest of the world .... when what we want is real competition in this space
What about sleep, display management when pluging in another monitor? etc.