skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The book's cost estimate is for a satellite in GEO. You get steady power for all but a few hours per year, and 5.4X as much energy from sunlight in 24 hours, compared to the same flat area of ground. According to the book you get about 50% power loss in transmission.

The satellite design uses a large area of mylar (or similar) reflectors, and a smaller area of solar cells collecting concentrated sunlight. Concentrated solar is costlier on Earth because the mirrors need to be a lot sturdier.

The ground collector covers a fairly large area but it's wire antenna and cheaper than solar panels.

The Falcon Heavy payload to GEO is 41% of its payload to LEO. I assumed a similar cost ratio for my estimate. Starship prices at scale aren't precisely known yet, but low enough that launch would be a relatively small portion of project cost anyway.

Large-scale grid storage is still quite expensive. Most "solar+storage" projects do not have enough storage to get through the night; if they did, it would cost significantly more than 5 cents/kWh.
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Hi, nfc. This is along the lines of the problem we are trying to solve with Mimix[0]. Like your JSON structure, we are using s-expressions to denote facts in text narratives so we can detect when they have changed between papers.

Instead of a centralized, URL-based solution, we do the fact comparisons locally, allowing each user to decide what source of facts he or she considers "canonical." The facts and their sources are recorded in that user's writing going forward so the next user has the same access to sources.

[0] http://mimix.io
Assuming that the probability of finding a particular zodiac sign is 1/12, the probability of randomly seeing 27 or more of 250 people being libra is still 10%. So: no, this does not mean anything.

(This does not take into account that the fraction of zodiac signs of a year might not exactly be 1/12 and does not deal with variations in numbers of births over the month of a year but from what I have seen, October seems to be seeing more births than other month (might be because of it having 31 days?). Libra starts at end of September already though, so ... whatever)
I don't disagree with you, I just think you're placing blame in the wrong spot.

The decision that harmed the child was made by the school. The entity that has the power in this situation is NOT company selling the product, it's the purchaser that chose to use them.

The school is the immediate and obvious place to resolve the issue, and that's why the school is responsible for the new costs (or alternatively - Choosing a new provider).

I think it's an incredible oversimplification to assume that a company is updating "just because", and that they've done it without any consideration.

I'm not bullshitting when I say I've seen multi-year discussions about when/where we can afford to drop support for a particular devices/system.

It's a constant analysis of

- What does the upgrade buy us?

- What does losing those users cost?

- What relationships will be damaged?

- What impact does it have on company morale?

And the answers to all of those questions vary over time, as the user base changes and new systems are released.

Basically - I promise the company acted in a way that they believe will help themselves and their customers most. They might be wrong, but who cares? No one is omniscient, we're humans not gods.

So does updating happen to hurt this one kid on an older device? Yes. No on is happy about it, but they believe that the compromise was justified by the benefits it brings to all their OTHER users. Who they are also responsible for thinking about.

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Now, I strongly agree that products that are purchased by people who don't use them tend to be inferior. But again, I find it hard to blame the developers of those products because the unfortunate reality is that when the person buying and the person using are different, usually the buyer just comes in with a checklist of "features" and selects the product that checks the most boxes. That means the company selling the product is forced to act in a way that checks boxes instead of making happy users.

But again, the solution to that isn't to blame the developer - The solution is to make actually using the damn product a requirement of the purchasers job description. And again, only the school can do that.

Now, the final ugly bit of this is as follows - You cannot wave a magic wand and make all problems disappear. There will always be better/worse outcomes for different parties after a decision is made. Maybe the school purchaser DID actually use the product, and DOES actually want the features a new upgrade brings, and has done exactly the same calculations for their school district that the company made, and has STILL decided to use that product even though it happens to hurt you, because they believe it helps more folks.

I can't help you with that, but it does bring to mind the quote from Churchill

>Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.…

It's a shitty situation and if you know how to make it better, let me know...
No, that's where you're wrong.

A lot of people say they want the cookies.

But the people will actually pay more for the cake.

It's not that game developers aren't listening. They are listening very closely, and being extremely responsive to where money is being spent.
If your authoring practice is producing wrongly closed tag soup that happens to work (making sure it happens to work takes longer than writing it correctly in the first place), making it unnecessarily harder for everyone including you and your coworkers, then you simply suck as a developer. Of course I'm not paying you, so whatever.
I think that’s extremely short sighted. Gender politics is politics; anything that comes close to the subject is either already political or will become political extremely quickly.
> FAANG software engineers are arguably the least oppressed people on the planet.

Heterosexual cisgender white christian male FAANG software engineers may be. Racism and other bigotry doesn't stop affecting you because of economic class or other social position of advantage orthogonal to the basis of the bigotry.

Similarly, police officers are also a relatively privileged group of people, but 90% of mistaken identity shootings of off-duty police by police between 1982 and 2010 were shootings of black or hispanic officers.
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I am afraid what he was saying was that the current policy for attracting women to tech might be inefficient. He also proposed a bunch of policies that might make tech more attractive to women.

It's fine to disagree with him, it's not to missrepresent what he said.
Is it 'E-mail' or 'email', or 'Internet' or 'internet'?
Great to see this thing open sourced. Adobe has a product for such things.
Did you tell them to, ahem, Bing it?
>I don't disagree with the idea that game companies want a captive audience, and I loathe the microtransaction economy and psychological tricks that fill my games with distractions, but I'm not sure if that's directly related to the lack of community servers.

It is, because they want to remove the idea of local application and executable files, that is what UWP is about, they even state they want all software to not be controlled by the end user in industry briefings.

https://tifca.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/ClienttoCloud_V...

You don't seem to get the game industry has already won, steam, "MMO's" (aka regular PC RPG's rebranded and programmed client server).

Was a direct attack on game ownership. There has been a war on software ownership for 20+ years now.
7MW in cruise, but keep in mind the power margins that are required for a transport category aircraft.
Depends on your situation. This is essential first reading imo: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Intelligent_Investor

If you still had questions and more money than the average bear, find a financial professional.
Wow nice, I didn't get your idea first, haha ^^
Publishing to that many people and expecting it to remain private is folly of such a high kind that it borders on stupidity.
It also means that if these get popular they will coalesce into an oligopoly. Those huge domains will then be pressured by the costs of hosting and the need to improve the protocol to monetize their users with ads or surveillance.

Congratulations, we reinvented Facebook.

Anything with any hierarchy in its namespace will follow this path. Only pure P2P has a chance of avoiding it, and pure P2P is very hard to build and scale.

It also faces a serious protocol ossification challenge with no good solution (yet). Federated protocols face it too, but less as there are fewer cats to herd.
Not really, Uber has accumulated around 3 million drivers, Tesla has around 1 million cars with FSD capabilities and growing much faster than Uber. Tesla has the advantage that their fleet would be composed with their owned cars plus customer cars, my prediction would be that they would quickly becoming bigger than Uber's fleet of drivers once they have FSD and with a click of a button you could send your car to make money for you.
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This sounded like a fun idea so I threw together a quick Go project to test it out / learn some go.

https://gitlab.com/ibelimb/twitch-no-gameid

You'll need to get a set of Twitch API credentials from https://dev.twitch.tv/dashboard/apps/create and store the ID/Secret in config.json. Once you start the go program just point your browser to http://localhost:8080/ and you can browse through streams with no gameid set 50 at a time.
The worst part about chargebacks is that as a small merchant you are entirely screwed, to the point of absurdity - almost no evidence can save you, even if you have actual security video and a card present transaction (been there, done that)!.

Then, after dealing with that situation for close to two decades in various businesses - I finally need to call Amex for my own consumer dispute for the first time ever. It was against a giant corporation quite well known for their entirely-on-purpose dark pattern billing tactics. I simply wanted Amex to block any future charges as I couldn't get them to cancel without jumping through absurd hoops such as showing up in person with photo ID while living out of the country.

Amex basically told me to jump off a cliff. Not even re-issuing the card saved the future charges as they now have a system to give the vendor the new card info. I had to fully cancel my Amex to get the charges to stop.

Why Amex decided to try to enforce a civil contract (especially one they never saw) is beyond me. It was my account, and my option to freeze charges. I was fully prepared and ready to deal with a civil case should the vendor had tried to go after me once the credit card charges bounced. But Amex didn't even give me this option.

That is the day I went from a pretty large proponent of Amex customer care/etc. to someone who de-evangelizes them every chance I can get. And that's not saying any other credit card companies/banks are any better - just that I spent decades being screwed by the credit card system as a merchant, to only get screwed as a consumer on the other side when supposedly they were "on my side".
If you take 30 seconds to Google you'll find a bunch of sources that indicate the low percentage of men in nursing is nuanced. It's not just toxicity or gatekeeping.

Examples:

"Research indicates that ideas of masculinity prevent men from pursuing a career in nursing." -
https://www.npr.org/2018/10/02/653570048/why-more-men-dont-g...

"The problem is that notions of masculinity die hard, in women as well as men."
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/24/opinion/sunday/men-dont-w...

"Some tasks require getting in a patient’s personal space and some patients may prefer to request a female nurse."
https://www.rasmussen.edu/degrees/nursing/blog/men-in-nursin...
A similar popular revolt to these secessii plebies took place in Industrial Revolution - era England in the years before 1832. The districts -- called boroughs -- were laid out according to agrarian-culture history instead of population. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reform_Act_1832

The United States presently has a similar imbalance of political power between states with large cities and more rural states.

These sorts of imbalances can lead to instability.
This discussion is reminiscent of “composition” vs “inheritance” programming patterns.

You can “compose” libraries or “inherit” frameworks to execute the job.
Its really not, it has full server side simulation/verification, PUBG has none and is completely client side for instance.

The only viable hacks in CS:GO are aimbots and extremely limited wall hacking (basically you can see a few "feet" around corners, the server does not send you any other data).

This compares to PUBG where you can press a button and headshot the entire map at once, while flying through the air and spawning guns.
Yeah, this. Tagging a video as for kids doesn't just stop certain types of ads running on it, it also disables many core YouTube features there too. For instance, you can't use the miniplayer, add it to a playlist, etc.

This puts creators of videos that might potentially appeal to kids in a bad situation, since either they tag it as such and watch their video get buried, or avoid doing so and hope YouTube or the FTC doesn't disagree with them.
> Indeed, why would they have anticipated that it would lead to Damore's firing? If that was obvious, then that would have been obvious to Damore when he wrote it.

Not sure I agree. There is no big tech corporation in current America where having your name tied to a memo like that won't destroy your career within the company l.

Damore certainly should have expected that if leadership disagreed with him, he was in for a bad time. However, he still is within reasonable bounds to go after whoever leaked the internal memo externally regardless of whether or not you agree with the content.
Was the French yellow vest movement really a labor movement? Their grievances were more about government taxes and economic policies rather than wages and working conditions. Many of the protesters weren't employees but rather farmers and small business owners.
For the lazy:

curl -X POST -d '{ "includeScripts": false, "itemSets": [{ "refId": 0, "dimensions": {"x": 5.5, "y": 6, "z": 6}, "quantity": 3 }], "boxTypeSets":["fedex"] }' api.paccurate.io/
Could this also be stated that a DSL or code that seeks to abstract away most code in the real language is more overhead to maintain, grow, and build on top of than building stuff mostly on top of real language?

In which case, are we merely saying adding code abstraction layers are at the extremes - where you need to add a lot of custom code - more overhead than working on top of the bare language.
It was going to end in tears one way or another.
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“normal” people like doctors and nurses who are dying from the disease?

That’s among the many problems with this attitude. At what point do we stop treating healthcare workers as cannon fodder?

Besides which, that ignores the fact that strokes from the disease are killing people of all ages. And that we don’t know the long-term impact on the health of victims yet.
In a P2P model, there's multiple ways of going about this.

But I tend to think that a true web of trust model makes the most sense. There may be 250 pewdiepie's on the network, but I'll just follow the one that (1) is closest in my network (followed by my friends) and (2) has the most follows (AKA highest trust).

We already follow this logic of #1 and #2 today even on centralized networks. Web of trust just makes sense to people intuitively.

Who do I know that already knows you? How else can I determine that you're legit? I'm gonna snoop your profile and see what looks legit. Ah, looks like a lot of normal people follow you already.

Of course this isn't full proof. But it's not full proof on centralized networks either. We just need reasonable certainty.
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Hopefully every other part of your online life is under a difficult to guess pseudonym if you write anything even remotely controversial, because the social justice mob is only looking for scalps, not justice.
I'm not sure shopping exclusively at Hot Topic in your forties is idolizing tech in any way. If they wanted the character to be cool and edgy, they should have updated her look at least occasionally.
Sometimes the tallest blade of grass gets cut.
You make super important points.

> First of all remember that Paxos is a family of protocols for solving consensus... Raft on the other hand is a concrete protocol with well-defined, specified behavior. In fact, Raft is essentially an implementation of MultiPaxos... You have two choices: (1) You can use a library which provides a simple model (a log of commands), but doesn't scale well or (2) You can use a more complicated consensus algorithm and then deal with all of the Hard Problems™ that comes with it.

At AWS [0], everyone (I spoke to) who worked on distributed consensus had this exact same opinion, so you're not at all off the mark.

> A good example is CockroachDB: They're using plain Raft for writes, but uses "leader leases" for scaling reads.

The Chubby paper by Google [1] goes in to excruciating details of running a production Paxos system.

> Focus on how you can avoiding using a consensus algorithm due to the way your system works.

Amazon SQS may be one such example: I'd presume, it scales by avoiding consensus, in a way, simply maintaining multiple copies [2] and by placing guard-rails around delivery [3][4], ingestion, and duration of storage [5].

[0] https://aws.amazon.com/builders-library/leader-election-in-d...

[1] https://blog.acolyer.org/2015/02/13/the-chubby-lock-service-...

[2] https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSSimpleQueueService/latest/SQS...

[3] https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSSimpleQueueService/latest/SQS...

[4] https://patents.google.com/patent/US10362131B1/en

[5] https://patents.google.com/patent/US8261286B1/en
a game like csgo basically makes all of its revenue through selling weapon/player skins. if you run a private server, you can just give people skins for free. if they really wanted, they could probably patch this out, but it would make the modding community furious. csgo has actually taken a pretty fair approach here. you can still run your own server if you want, but the official servers are decent enough that most players don't bother.
These pages use an awful lot of CPU when they’re active—in Firefox Nightly on Windows, a completed results page was consuming an entire core, which is not usual.
Fusion is much better on safety, waste, and fuel cycle. The thing I wonder is whether it can be made cost competitive with renewables plus storage when the latter is experiencing falling costs at scale. At midday solar is already cheaper than most other power sources, and economical storage at scale is probably a much easier problem than fusion (or really good scalable fission for that matter).
The UK is a largely rural country. Living in z1 and owning a car in order to get out of the city and travel freely is perfectly reasonable. There are also many pursuits and personal and familial reasons to make use of a vehicle.

It is also not reasonable in any way to charge persons to leave their homes (currently the case anyway). That's morally repugnant.
It sounds like you're describing standard typing posture. Is your wrist position different than that somehow?
I don’t see what’s wrong with calling it political... it surely isn’t scientific. The opinions he expressed seem like naive political theories based on his understanding of gender and society, which is an extremely nuanced topic.
Fairly hard to deploy that quietly.
Also, cartoon animator 4 includes this, both using FaceID and RGB webcams.
Pretty sure murder was taboo back then also. The only difference is people are much more eager to virtue signal these days by finding offence wherever they can..

Edit: to explain my position a bit, what I observe with people that are easily offended is that they can't seem to separate what the character is saying from what the overall piece is saying.

Just for example, think of The Office. Michael Scott says a lot of horribly sexist and homophobic stuff right? And we as the audience frequently laugh at it. But I don't think anyone in their right mind would say that The Office is sexist or that the audience that watches it is. Because we understand that the humor is that Michael Scott is saying something really inappropriate but he's also clueless and naive.

In this piece, the salesman character makes a dark joke. That is part of the character of the salesman, along with other aspects that are revealed. If you personally don't find it funny -- maybe you just don't like dark humor -- hey, I won't tell you you're wrong, humor is always subjective, but I don't see anything offensive about this. It's not advocating for violence it's simply adding a weird dark personality quirk to an already very weird character.

What I find with the easily offended crowd is all they look for is "bad thing involving a protected group in here? OFFENSIVE!" and completely ignore the actual context of everything else. It'd be like if you took a "that's what she said!" joke from The Office and completely ignored the context of Michael Scott's character.
I don't think there is a big difference between these two groups.
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Annoyingly, the actual legitimate terminogy for this is "acquiring" (ie as a target or signal) which is just as confusing from a colloquial perspective.
Adding to this as someone who has mingled with people that worked at some casinos: if you're losing very badly and seem like a 'problem gambler', sometimes they'll send someone to try and dissuade you. It's bad PR if the casinos ruin people. On the other hand, if you're winning a lot, you will get A LOT of scrutiny and extra measures, and if you're cheating, you'll probably get caught.

This is likely why she had that level of nagging doubt. "Am I not winning enough to warrant extra scrutiny? Certainly if I was that good they'd have figured out what I'm doing and busted me?"
There are appropriate and inappropriate avenues for disagreeing with corporate policy; publicly on a large mailing list is going to get you in hot water no matter what the policy is.
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The developers went on to work on other things: https://web.archive.org/web/20130915093113/veracity-scm.com/...
To bad the Wikipedia entry is completely wrong on when he coined the term. If it was in response to the July 2011 tornados in Joplin, then how come I have a video of him giving the WFI anecdote in November 2009 at RHOK#0 (Random Hacks of Kindness hack day).
I find that this type of duplication is incidental: I happen to need to do the same thing, but if one project has special requirements the other projects don’t need to change. Hence the boilerplate is fine and doesn’t need to be dragged into a library.
It's not limited to POS - it has a way to pay during online checkout and tracks package deliveries.
Not sure what you mean, sorry?
I doubt anyone will pursue game streaming purely as a solution for cheating, but it is a nice second order effect. Hosted servers are already an expensive ongoing cost to supporting a live game and cloud streaming would magnify that cost several times.
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