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If SpaceX can afford to put a car into orbit around the sun as a publicity stunt during rocket testing, I wonder how much this would cost.

Edit: Probably around $100MM: https://www.spacex.com/about/capabilities for the launch, several $100MMs for the (space based?) accelerator and spacecraft, and then a few more for operations and research. Yeah, $1 billion as described in the article seems like a good estimate: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1805.01306.pdf

Since knowledge arising from this experiment will probably only be useful as a common good, there aren't really incentives for this to happen, unless governments decide to go through with it.

NASA's 2020 budget is only $22.6 billion: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budget_of_NASA

The Apollo program cost $153 billion: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_program#Costs

Okay, this thing is ten times further away from the sun (400 AU) than Pluto (40 AU), 80 times the distance of Jupiter from the sun (5 AU), very far. Still, it's much closer than our next closest star, Proxima Centauri, which is 265612 AU away, or over 660 times the distance of Planet 9.
There are many lectures on the topic by Pinker. I would start there. You can find quite a few on YouTube. He also has a book, but haven’t read it yet, I bet is good though. It’s a modern version of “Elements
Of style” which is the classic writers handbook for English.
Tell me something new.

Censorship has been happening in pockets on Reddit for years now.
Try meditation?

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
> Words are words and censoring “bad” words is silly. You can’t censor meaning. “Fk you” is just as powerful a statement as “fuck you”. Especially if it censors words like “associating” or “Cummings” or “arsenal”. This is just fodder for the unnecessary censorship memes.

One of my childhood friends kept calling his brother names. He was told off and told he couldn't do that any more... He promptly changed to call his brother by the name of cheeses.

His brother certainly instantly recognized that "gouda" etc. was just as clearly an insult as any of the other things he had been called, and got just as angry.
Yeah I never got the CloudFormt1ion hate. I write them for a living without any issue.
I use the same method to force myself to do exercises.

I do standing desk coding for 1 pomodoro, then exercises (alternating pushups, squats, wall sits, mountain climbers, jumping jacks) during the 4 of the 5min breaks. This way I can intermittently break a sweat and find time to exercise during the day.

Much like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QqoSyqckqA but spread across working hours.
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To give another data point I don't remember one time during my phd where hours of thinking didn't crumble immediately after starting to write code to validate it (or did survive to live to this day if the line of thought was indeed valid).

I've been in meetings that lasted for days and which were all ultimately invalidated by actually writing matching code which immediately made all the issues in the lines of thought glaring and obvious.
Agreed. I think stepping back and forcing myself to look at a “big picture” view of my situation and my choices has been helpful for me. It’s like you said, many of your choices probably aren’t as critical as your brain tells you they are—-I know that’s the case for me. A lot of times it really doesn’t matter whether I take path A or path B, as long as I’m still moving forward.
Best trick I've found is options + tiebreaker + timer. First step is writing down the choices I can't decide between. Then my tiebreaker is flipping a coin. Doesn't matter what you use, something just has to take the choice out of your hands. Then I time myself, usually 30 minutes, and after that time I allow myself back into a new decision mode.
Or Tesla could design their processes in a way that doesn't violate OSHA rules... I don't understand why changing a production floor often would inherently lead to more violations. I could see an organizational bias towards speed and not caring about regulations leading to more violations, however.

Also, why should OSHA redesign it's rules to fit Tesla's "unique" processes?

And to your last point about injuries: 1. Why should a death or serious injury be the indicator? 2. You're wrong about serious injuries, as a cursory search would show:

https://www.revealnews.org/article/tesla-says-its-factory-is...

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/11/12/tesla-gigafactory-safety-pro...
Not all viruses have symptom-less 14-day periods where someone can be infected and spreading it to others without knowing.

But yes, it could end before herd immunity. Or it could be like the flu, and mutate / continue indefinitely.
Ubuntu LTS does support it, and it's already out. Servers are set to have the upgrade offered in a month, IIRC.
This calculator[1] indicates that the temperature for a 2.5 cm radius black hole should be 0.007 K. So below the temperature of the cosmic background (2.7 K).

[1] https://www.vttoth.com/CMS/physics-notes/311-hawking-radiati...
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Flip a coin.

You don't have to stick with the result, but just try it on mentally for a second and feel your response. If your immediate response to the decision that had been made for you is negative, then discard that choice entirely.

Or ask the debug rubber duck.
I agree. My personal list of stuff I like using at Amazon
1. S3 +cloudfront (but I still use cloudflare for ddos)
2. Ec2
3. Pg aurora
4. Sqs is a few cases, but generally i use redis for queueing
5. Lambda for tiny notifications usually to sqs if s3 gets dinged

Unlike the author I'm not afraid of lambda but generally prefer containers for apps
Those comments weren't at a math journal, but a more applied biomedical journal.

I also have started refusing requests from that journal.

The instructions I referred to werent available until well after accepting the review request, for what it's worth.
Amazon doesn’t care what you use as long as you’re staying in their broader ecosystem.

I think it comes down to the “more flies with honey” thing. The customer will go on the defensive and shutdown if you tell them they’re stupid.
That's the entire problem with this theory. The designer does NOT know what my computer screen renders. Not every computer is a Mac with a 400+ nits display or has the same contrast ratio. The optimal "gray" therefore varies across screens.

In my case, anything above #333 is capable of producing problems, the range #333 to approx. #444 is problematic with thinner font weights and anything above #444 is easily, noticeably terrible with anything except heading weights.
I can also relate, but luckily I (hope) that I managed to catch this happening in time and nipped it in the bud. It took a lot of soul searching (plus professional help) to get me back on track.

I started to think that I was a fucking idiot for being incapable of doing what was expected of me, and what I wanted to do. All my grand plans and projects and ideas seemed to just slip through my fingers, despite best efforts I couldn't (and still struggle to) get out of bed in the morning and get to work on time. It was frustrating.

For me it started when I finished university and I realised I had me entire life ahead of me, and no idea what to do with it. As a kid, sure I had plenty of screwups and a tough time, but I always saw the light at the end of the tunnel, I just had to get through my assignments and exams, finish school, finish university, get a job. Once I had done all that I sort of lost all purpose and identity, I had no idea who I was supposed to be. I had grown up with the concept that I was going to get my degree and find a job, then marry some girl, buy a house and have some kids and I'd live happily ever after, like I thought my parents did. Turns out that's not what I wanted in life, and I really struggled to find a purpose.

I think this is incredibly common for all sorts of people with different mental health issues, not just ADHD, I know plenty of people who've experienced the same descent into a hopeless state. Some turn to Jesus, some to drugs, others just say fuck it and kill themselves.
Among what age group, though? Using an average morbidity across the entire population is misleading. Everything I've read indicates that the morbidity scales very highly with age so that it would be something like (making this up here) 0.05% for people under 40, scaling up very quickly as you get to the elderly population. The question then becomes can we effectively quarantine at-risk groups instead of the entire population? I don't know the answer, but I do know that continuing to pursue current policies until some indefinite point in the future is untenable.
I’ve never heard of an inverse deadline, but I find the concept intriguing. Kind of like a controlled, conscious procrastination?
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Two methods that have helped me:

* Have an ideas journal. Write new ideas down there, and don't start with any of them in less than two weeks. This lets you get over the initial enthusiasm - and perhaps new better ideas will push less useful ones out of the way in that time. If something stays at the top of your list for weeks, then perhaps it is useful.

* If you are having trouble deciding between a small number of fixed options, roll the dice. The very fact that you are having trouble deciding means that (within the information available to you right now) all choices are equally good. And sometimes when you see the dice rolling and know that the decision will happen now you realise which one you want.
Florida’s junior senator brought this upon the state. I hope Floridians remember in 2024: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/04/florida-unemployment...
> vim has like the worst default setting than any other app in existence

Laughing in urxvt

> Unless you have 5+ years of muscle memory (learnt with pain), all the shortcuts are too confusing.

Don't know which level of mastery of the default shortcuts you're talking about but speaking from my experience, going through vimtutor and oni[0] integrated tutorial everyday made me productive in less than one week, without modifying any .vimrc, granted I used neovim, but still...

0: https://github.com/onivim/oni
It doesnt merely do that. If like one liter of desinfectant costs 200US, still everybody can afford it, but everybody will think twice (actually not thinks twice, but dismiss the idea) of buying more than one bottle.
you yourself said the answer (reduce choices). just because it is obvious does not mean that it is not difficult. choose one thing to go deep on, and adjust as you learn more information. make sure you actually go deep though - don't just adjust as soon as things get difficult.

life is also really hard so try to have a sense of humor along the way - this is all one big game :)
Even though you can do `@which naked_function` it's a fair position to have that you prefer to import modules and be explicit about where they come from. I tend to prefer explicitness like that in package code, but for data analytical scripts (like the examples here) it would be superfluous in my opinion.

It is nice that Julia leaves this style decision to the user. I personally find the constant prepending of modules to be one of the clumsiest aspects of Python for data analysis.
OK, I don't know how long it would really precisely take of course, given proper lock down. Maybe it's even longer than 3 weeks.

You say that 2% of the 100.000 tests come back positive.

Who can monitor 2000 people around the clock and track every single person they have any contact with? Honestly, where do such capacities come from? Or are people just told to stay at home and it goes unchecked, whether they actually do?

I imagine that to be very difficult to contact trace perfectly. Each infected person could infect many others, if not properly isolated. 2000 is still a lot to trace. If we were talking about 100 to 400 maybe or so, then I could imagine that being done.
Linux isn’t the end all be all like every programmer thinks it is.

I switched to Linux (specifically Arch because I wanted the challenge). While most programs I use were available on Linux in some form (LibreOffice, VS Code, etc.) and some had replacements (HxD -> wxHexEditor), there’s still things I miss from Windows. As in, even though Wine works great for things like Steam and Exact Audio Copy, some programs just don’t work. In my case, namely iTunes and Adobe (yes I still use iTunes).

You may think, “who needs iTunes, etc.” or “just use FOSS replacements for Adobe,” but the fact of the matter is that people still use these programs for various reasons, and if they don’t work out of the box, the average user gets upset.

If you want an Average Joe to switch to Linux, you need to make sure all his stuff works. I know a few (non tech savvy) people who hate Windows 10, but just deal with it because the alternative (Linux) isn’t as easy to set up.
The answer is: yes.

Some examples:

- Python comes from Monty Python

- Ruby is inspired by Perl but according Wikipedia chosen because of a bright stone used by one of the authors colleagues

- Smalltalk was chosen by Alan Kay to avoid a god-like name and lower expectations (see The Early History of Smalltalk)

- Lua is a Portuguese word for Moon, because of a previous project named SOL (sun)

I can continue with Pascal, Ada, and Haskell based on people names. Also with Java (maybe inspired by a coffee store), C (which is not even a word), D...

The point is: systems and programming languages are made by people. Good naming is important for function/operators/libraries because they play a part in system comprehension. But, otherwise having a “fun” name reflects the humane part of the creation :)
it’s not just the provisoner. it’s. it like different clouds have the same abstraction. for all intents and purposes you need to understand the underlying cloud and how to use api/tooling around it when terraform fucks up
The main point of Tmux is that you can use it over ssh as well.
It might just be anxiety and not something related to your choices - I recommend seeing a therapist and thinking about treatment options. I was in the same situation and looking back it had less to do with my external stressors and more with me.
HN could definitely do with a redesign. Just seems like stubbornness from the owners not to change it.

I'm not talking turning it into an SPA or adding tons of JavaScript, just a bit of CSS/HTML TLC with some nicer fonts and make the whole thing a bit more scalable and bigger with some UX tweaks.

Something akin to http://gabrielecirulli.github.io/hn-special/
> when someone proves problematic, violent.

This is exactly what I'm getting at, unless I'm misunderstanding you. "To calm him" is a euphemism, is what I'm saying. I specifically described it as suspected understatement. So, thank you. I'm even more sure now that I'm entirely right.
Ask HN: What platform/tool do you use for user documentation (knowledge base)?
We're planning to publish some user documentation (non-technical) for a SaaS app. We don't want to host it ourselves. Looking for a platform that is:

- CMS-based (can publish/edit/delete articles without the need for a git commit, for example)

- Can map to a 'custom domain'

- Cheap or free (to start with)

Suggestions would be appreciated.
Some of it is also the OP seems to have a history of just going around making incendiary posts and insulting the intelligence of anyone they disagree with. It's endearing the first time - when you've got a pattern of it, and often don't actually bother to reply or discuss with anyone, you're just a flame-bait.
>"Like the venerable IBM 360/30, the Gigatron uses a form of microcode to elevate its spartan eight hardware instructions into a comfortable instruction set you can live with. Like the 8-bit IBM 360/30 CPU, the Gigatron normally pretends to be a 16-bitter using its microcoded instruction set."

Could someone elaborate on how exactly the IBM 360/3 and Gigatron "elevate" their eight hardware instructions into a larger ISA via microcode?
re: adding arrows, I've had success with Shutter (which doesn't work on latest), and flameshot (which works now)
Totally agree with you about the time to internalise training. That said, the quote was a sarcastic one about a specific training course that one of my colleagues thought had too little content.
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We are talking about Tesla and US. So 'in many parts of the world' doesn't apply here.
The problem with your math there is that by and large, we are talking about the same people - only the timeline is different.

It is just as possible that over a longer time period say a year the math will be radically different. We'll have fewer cancer deaths because the patient had already died of COVID. It is possible that a country has many deaths because up to that point it was able to keep large swaths of "terminally ill" people alive.

Delay, isolation and testing do not actually solve anything. For large segments of the population the virus is not a risk at all, they can't even tell that are infected.

Long term it is not obvious who gets out better, the population where the infection rates are high and they can reduce the crippling economical restrictions or populations where they managed to have no infections but the sanctions remain for years.

History, in general, is characterized by surprising twists and turns where it was impossible to tell what comes next.
Guile makes sense now too.
In the last episodes of TV show Legion, they bring in Monsters from another dimension (time). So it was not exactly 4D in spatial sense as is in this paper.
Read Steven Kings book ‘On Writing’ for starters. One point he emphasizes is in order to write well you have to read A LOT.
Two notes:

- https://orgmode.org/ - Org mode is for keeping notes, maintaining TODO lists, planning projects, and authoring documents with a fast and effective plain-text system.

- The main style element here is the max-width setting. The original bare HTML of the 1990s was mostly read in 640 by 480 pixel 14 or 15" CRT screens, with the most fortunate using workstations with megapixel 19" screens. Document width at maximum window size was fine then.
Disks minimize gravitational potential energy when angular momentum is held constant. Forming solar systems have ways of radiating energy, but they can't really radiate angular momentum. That's why galaxies and solar systems tend to be disk-shaped. The disk shape is very general and comes from fundamental principles, so I don't see why it couldn't continue to apply when one bit of mass in the system just so happens to be a black hole.
I use the inverse deadline strategy for large purchases, and it’s been very successful. If I want to buy something over $X I spend N days before the purchase ($3,000 and three months for me). This helps reduce some of the emotional aspects of making large purchases for me.
A better question would be ‘How many years do we save’ because the vast majority of the people dying from covid-19 are old people who already suffer from one or more prior diseases.

The average life lost in Vietnam or Afghanistan had maybe 55-60 years left, had it not been for the bullet that cut it short. The average age of covid-19 victims is maybe 73 or so, and those people would in average have lived another 0-5 years (typically less than the average life span for men of 78.5 years because of the prior illness).
Well said. Whenever I bring up that point on physics subreddits I also get tons of passive aggressive comments. It's super toxic.

The HEP people in my own department also seem to believe that anything other than beyond the standard model physics isn't fundamental or isn't pure enough to care about.
It looks great. But in all cases, it's still pretty simple to distinguish the game from the real photo. And that is because the game looks just too perfect. E.g. the wave patterns on the water just are too uniform. But this is sth which might not be too difficult to make more random, right? E.g. use sth like Perlin noise.
The issue is, quite literally, what is the opportunity cost of this expenditure. If that money could help create a pandemic mitigation framework that would enable us to collectively respond faster and better to outbreaks, which is better to fund? If the money can help us build faster/more computers that enable us to better model many processes: weather, disease, materials, etc. is that a better expenditure?

I don't see anyone arguing that science is not a good investment.

I do see people asking the salient question of, is this the right science to fund right now, given all of societies needs.

The answer to that question should be obvious, we have other priorities at the moment.
What was a loophole that you found and exploited the hell out of?
> but is really only attainable if you're a freelancer

Depends. I managed a small remote dev team for a company for a couple of years and we all had our own schedules. This was never really a problem.
I would not classify it as “a lot” even in the wrong places. And, even when paths do exist they are far from adequate.
I am a huge fan of Lem and it is good to see these books are getting new translations and editions. I also like the cool 50s sci fi covers.

But something is really annoying me -- why did they spell the name of the author in Polish? You have to decide whether the book is in English or Polish and if you have an English book you should have an English cover, otherwise you are just going to confuse your customers. If you print the largest writing on the cover in Polish a lot of people looking at the cover will quite understandably think the entire book is in Polish.

I know the Polish has a cool looking L and all but that is not sufficient to cause confusion.

Also the guy deserves to have his name correctly pronounced by people who read him, as much as practical for people with a foreign language, and the Polish W is pronounced as a V. Thus, for an English speaker it is better to just write Stanislav.
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Thanks for the reference. I’ve been looking to solve a problem in this space and that’s perfect.
using many apps with sound enabled is shocking after long periods of app silence. Social media apps sound like slot machines! So much pavlovian conditioning... Not sure how all that is still legal.
Learn to embrace the randomness... Rate all the pros/cons is a insane way of living. Is it has to many choices, start on the choice you will never take or just take the minimum risk (both are bad choices, but is a start). In time you will understand that choices don't mater and you will have more time to apreciate what maters most... your live.
I once drove through the border from Canada to the US with Steve. He was wearing his headset. He explained what it was, the guard said "you can't come in here with that". I managed to assuage his concerns. This was around 2014.
>but I do know that continuing to pursue current policies until some indefinite point in the future is untenable.

Go strawman, go! California and NY both have plans for slowly reopening in the comings weeks or months with various metrics guiding the timelines.
Maybe time box the pivot. Maybe start three different pivots at the same time? Maybe go on vacation. Vacation brings clarity.
I don't think that's true, internally there was a long term plan to bring cloudwatch up to par with internal metrics and alarming systems. At the time when I left Amazon, there were some shims to use internal dashboards and alarms with cloudwatch data. The eventual goal was for the whole company to move to cloudwatch instead of maintaining two systems.
It's completely absurd to think that watching reality tv would give you any social or marketing skills — if anything I'd argue it's the complete opposite.
The article talks about a scattergun approach and that detection would require getting within a few dozen AU of the object. That would require a huge number of probes and a means of coordinating beams spread across multiple continents. Wouldn't it be easier to determine the objects rough position ahead of time?
clbuttic mistake ahoy!