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For space-based solar to be efficient, ie for it to be better than just installing normal solar panels, the beamed energy would have to be at least as powerful as sunlight

1) False. You just have to find contexts where installing solar panels is undesirable or impractical. A forward military camp in the hills of Afghanistan?

2) It's quite easy to exceed the energy density of solar panels with a microwave rectenna to receive power. In fact, a lot of the old designs were dedicated to reducing the power density for safety reasons.

One might say that space-based solar would operate 24/7 and so is better than normal solar panels. That's isn't reality. Low-orbit satellites spend half their day in darkness too.

Zero cloud cover. Zero dust buildup. In terms of access to solar flux, there are a lot of advantages to being in orbit. Also, there's a "simple" way to get around the tyranny of the rocket equation and get stuff to geosynchronous orbit cheaply: mine the moon, manufacture the silicon solar panels there, and use lunar electromagnetic mass drivers to deliver bulk cargo to geosynchronous orbit. So I would agree with a lot of what you're saying about impracticality with that caveat: "short of having lunar industrial infrastructure."

But, given a major power that has the above, how is this so different from having fusion power?

EDIT: But if you carry forward this thinking a few steps, you get to...Oh NO!

So let's say that we don't get fusion power, but we do get to the point where lunar industrial infrastructure looks within reach. In that case, control over lunar resources will mean control over the most plentiful, clean, and convenient form of energy. Basically, more than half of the motivation behind major power wars in the last century and a half, has been control over resources, particularly energy. Having energy resources gives one military power which gives control over energy resources.

This dynamic would seem to set up the next major power conflict past the Taiwan issue. Space could well wind up being the Caucasus Mountains/Persian Gulf of the early to mid 21st century. A major power conflict over energy resources which fundamentally involves the power densities implied by space travel just seems like BAD NEWS.

Even worse. We first get the start of the above conflict. Then only afterwards does rapid wartime R&D finally yields military grade fusion power. Yup, we're living in our really nifty, really interesting Sci-fi future. "May you live in interesting times."
Citing research is fine. If his memo had been a list of papers with no commentary it would have just been weird and blown over.

The problem is when you synthesize ideas from research without expertise. The problem wasn’t his citations. It was the conclusions he drew from the citations and the policy proposals that he made in his document.

“It has citations” is not a valid reason to consider something well argued and scientific. Even flat earthers include citations.
Thoughts on using something like ENS?
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Fuck, not this shit again.

If I get some 3rd party documentation, that says it may or may not be correct, and the implementation is literally the only authorative documentation then it isn't actually documented.

> they couldn't make breaking changes to the format or it would prevent people from reading their own old log files after upgrades

This is the point. They do not guarantee that you can.
There was an article the other day that quoted someone saying, "the greatest minds of our generation are focused on making people click more ads."

And I think there's a lot of truth to that. If you work at Facebook or Google or other companies, you've been convinced that you're the best of the best. The brightest of our generation. But ultimately all your work leads to selling ads.

That's what's so attractive about Musk. He's a bizarre, often unhealthy mind. But he's dead focused on numerous businesses that have a considerably greater point than boosting ad impressions.

And I think he continues to poorly communicate that frustration: way too little of our high tech industry is focused on true innovation for the betterment of humanity. I wish there were more non-Musks we could cheer for.

My takeaway from his musings is that too many strong minds are funnelled into industries that don't push the envelope in more directions.
I agree that humans aren’t totally rational in these decisions, but the key point is that the professor is totally ignoring a large amount of what drives people to go into finance: money. It’s much easier to say how someone should use their skills, when you don’t have to live off of the salary those skills bring.
This article doesn't even mention one of my favorite tools on GCP which is Dataflow. It's really easy to build batch and streaming workflows that can be used for data and machine learning pipelines. It really shows how well the different services within GCP are integrated, since it's trivial to set up PubSub or BigQuery as sources and sinks.
https://cto.ai/docs/overview
Humans continuously invent their "normals". There was no "old normal" and there won't be a "new normal". Already, different countries and regions have different cultures, histories, responses and outcomes. If anything, their future societies are diverging as a result of conscious choices and actions by humans exercising creative will.
Robin Hanson has been advocating for this. http://www.overcomingbias.com/2020/03/variolation-may-cut-co...
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I think most Apple customers will tell you that Apple products are too expensive.

Most 'moats' are not beneficial to the consumer. What's beneficial to the consumer is competition, and companies innovating, not building moats, to stay ahead of their competitors.
There was also unacceptable levels of vitrol against damore within the Google communications. I remembre reading physical threats, doxxing, insulting etc. A swath of people behaved in a reprehensible manner in response, in a way that would clearly be fired or reprimanded in a day to day situation.
fzf is game changing. Having have to guess exactly with Ctrl-R is a thing of the past.
Anyone else in a similar position? How do you handle sales tax globally?

There are two sides to that issue, IMHO.

One is whether you should have to handle sales tax globally in the first place. If you have no presence of any kind in a particular country, why should you be legally required to collect and remit whatever taxes a government where you have no representation or influence happens to decide are due, particularly if you have only a tiny amount of custom there and the necessary registrations/filings/etc. would cost you more than the entire profit you make from those sales? This is an ethical question as much as anything, because in practice legal agreements between friendly governments might cause you problems if you don't play ball and you're big enough to get noticed but not big enough to have your own army of lawyers and accountants to fight back.

As a practical matter, if you do decide you need to collect taxes everywhere according to whatever local rules they have, I suspect it's too complicated for anything but a specialist organisation to handle right now. Everyone and their brother is jumping on the bandwagon and introducing online sales taxes, and you can't become an accountant and a lawyer in every nation, state, dependent territory, county or city in the world that might have its own tax rules just in case one day you get a customer from there.

This has pushed us very hard towards the merchant of record model for new business ventures we're setting up at the moment, though it's not our only motivation; declining standards with other payment services we've used in the past are also a factor. However, the first MoR business we looked up that seemed to have a good reputation (Paddle) had such absurd legal terms that we ran away and didn't look back, so we're still searching for a viable solution.
BS. There are thousands of games developed as dedicated online games without any intention of having a client only version.

The difficulty is balancing how much of the game runs on the client, how much on the server and how state is synchronized between clients and server.
Oh and it needs to render a photorealistic world with 2km Draw distances at a constant 144Hz with no more than 50ms latency between a button press and the other players seeing the result of that press. The servers will be receiving hundreds of packets per second for each game instance, will potentially be hosting thousands of game instances and must cost at most a few cents per player hour.

Web devs shocked, really?
Are you sure? I thought that type of thing made him a bit more like Tony Stark.

https://youtu.be/FRIUhO4MdGU
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> companies in Silicon Valley and beyond have instituted workplace rules designed to protect employees with alternative viewpoints and prevent bullying, Dhillon said.

Lipstick on a pig.

Racism is racism.

Sexism is sexism.

If you want to be a racist, sexist person, do it on your own time, not on the company dollar.
The annotated SVG skeleton is a separate download, but that server is out of quota :( Someone have it?
AFAIK (which isnt far) he was always talking about using ground wave transmission, too; which no one else had any idea how that was supposed to work, then til now.
Is anyone here (or any business you know of) using crypto currency to avoid these extra fees with international customers? If you use a crypto currency, there is no way to reverse a transaction when the customer commits fraud.
It's still risky for healthy young individuals, while most barely present symptoms some people have a very real risk of dying.

"Voluntarily allowing people to get infected" creates a perverse incentive for poor essential workers to put their lives on the line in order to put food on the table.
Right now a hard working black woman would have much harder time kicking herself out of Google than a white man. Also women are especially encouraged to go for promotion, and as a white man it just made me want to put in the work to go for promotion less there.

What I learned over time is that it's just better to work 8x5 days, don't do overtime/weekends, because it's not worth it anymore. For 8x5 hours of work Google is amazing.
> But for healthy "essential" workers it would mean not living in fear that they might get it... because they already got over it.

Coronaviruses don't tend to produce strong, long-lasting immunity, and we have no evidence that SARS-CoV-2 does, and, also, young otherwise healthy people are dying from strokes that seem to be due to the virus: https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2020/04/24/strokes-cor...

So, this would be both high-risk and of dubious utility even in the case where significant adverse effects didn't occur.
The output of your computation can't even be the right order of magnitude. (That's just 1.5M EUR).

Massive seems to take three years per game, and according to Wikipedia has 650 employees. It's pretty hard to see how you get to 20x from there.
I think you should check this project form Tim Berners Lee:
https://solid.mit.edu/
All I can think of reading this article is someone else overly panicking over ‘rona’. Look at the statistics yourself: as someone under the age of 65, your chances of dying even after catching it is negligible. It’s a rounding error. The younger you are, the more harmless it is to you.

Yes, you can pass it along to other people, those older and actually at risk. But thinking YOU are at risk is a myth.
I guess you just solved my problem. This is a topic I'm just beginning to look into. Thank you.

But now I'm wondering why are panels made this way? I mean internally they're wired in series or at least substantially so. and I've read that shading a small portion of one panel will drastically reduce the output of that one panel. Is it possible to create a panel (e.g. nominally 12 volt system) with bypass diodes inside it? If so then why wouldn't they have been doing this all along?
Actually jumping to TypeScript at v1.x made me fluent with it and I now do projects with it.

With that said, I don't usually invest time on new stuff unless it looks absolutely convincing.
I challenged myself to learn to count cards last year and I found it really fun. Being able to count a deck in under 30 seconds is one thing, but putting the skill to work is another challenge completely. It is hard work.

Ultimately, if you aren’t playing with a team or $50+ minimums, you won’t make a huge amount of money on a per-hour basis. I still count occasionally but now only for one or two shuffles before getting back to having fun with friends.
>This is a good reason to ban politics in general, but if you allow it, you need consistent rules regarding which sorts of views are permissible, rules that aren't themselves political.

It is impossible to have apolitical rules regulating which political discussions are allowed.

Hell, just banning political discussion - any political discussion - is a political act. It's always a political act.
That's a shallow take.

He didn't mean don't explore multiple fields when you're a teenager.

He was already specialized as a coder and went on to build startups, as engineer. I don't really see your point.
Thank you for sharing the history of the company Defiant, about the people who develop WordFence, and the guiding principles and approach in management.

The overview was insightful, to see what makes up a well-run operation: how the engineering, tight financial management, quality assurance, performance, security, customer support and fostering the user community - all tie together to make a solid, growing business.

It definitely earns trust and respect for the company's culture and decisions. As a dev learning the ropes in a CTO role, this kind of open communication about the internal workings of a successful company and product is great food for thought.

To decisively not seek acquisitions and venture capital, and instead value independence, profitability, good finances, engineering, QA.. This will stay in my mind as a role model.

If there's an opportunity where I work, I'll likely recommend WordFence or other services by the company. (In fact, performance profiling of large/heavy sites has come up a number of times this year.)

Elsewhere a possible blog post on migrating to AWS was mentioned. I love that style of articles, describing the thought process that goes into technical decisions, how it was planned and implemented. Hope I can catch it here if/when it's published.
We need robots who look like Chris Atkeson, he is more personable than Santa.
there's one that sits at the end of my street everyday

only problem is they idle the engine all day, that's dumb
Also when I was in high school in Canada in about 2001-2003, I ended up taking over the class and teaching C++ because I’d already learned enough of it in my spare time that knew it better than the teacher (he liked Pascal better).
The mobility assistance services (in this case, American Airlines) are a godsend. My father has a terminal illness (well, we all do, but his is more advanced) -- they made it possible for him to travel everywhere on a complicated itinerary to see family. I traveled with him on much of the journey; their assistance was incredible.

Tip high. They exceeded expectations in every airport.
I don't think it demonstrates much of anything, except his opinion and way of communicating on this particular issue.
The $1,799 MacBook Pro 13 vs. the $650 Acer Swift 3
I fudge-fingered "in The Netherlands" out somehow whilst editing my post.
What University has 100 to 1? That's way, way more unbalanced than the typical cs program.
Severe covid cases are, but in most areas that's not enough to fill the hospitals.
Fraternities exist, and they have a culture associated with them. Visit any college campus (well, not right now) and you’ll find out exactly what it is.
I worked extensively with SOAP in the early 00s. I hated every living minute of having to deal with SOAP (completely overcomplicated, bad tooling), and I love programming with GraphQL.
Management consulting and finance are still huge on the east coast.
I feel like the papers published at https://distill.pub/ does a decent job of moving toward a more modern solution. There's no doubt that doing it this way often requires a lot more work, and maybe even a new set of skills to even make or visualize though.

And it doesn't really incorporate the diff concept in any way atm, but I imagine it's up their alley at least.
As you sort by first field anyway, could you please try out omitting field split (-t, -k1)? For me it gives a noticeable improvement:

$ stat --printf="%s\n" p.csv

1258291200

$ time sort -t, -k1 -S100% -o sorted.csv p.csv

real 0m50,186s
user 4m6,962s
sys 0m4,562s

$ time sort -o sorted.csv p.csv

real 0m43,483s
user 3m36,473s
sys 0m4,282s
Wow, minus 3 rep in a matter of seconds!

Minus 3 was them, now it's far surpassed that as has this comment.
I'd agree with you that HN commenters missed the point here, but maybe for different reasons. I don't agree that "it would be better if we had smart people also going into other, more underserved fields that are in dire need of innovation" -- better for whom according to who? Smart hard-working people don't get passively "funneled", they make their own choices, and they seek the same things most people seek -- comfort, material security, intellectual stimulation, and societal recognition.

Now, this group also contains the more risk taking ones who want glory and outsized returns. These pioneers would go into other more underserved fields in dire need of innovation if they saw opportunity. If they don't see opportunity, there are likely structural factors in play that prohibit innovation. And these structural factors are necessarily difficult to change for any but the most already powerful subgroups of these pioneers -- any less powerful actors will be so easily dispatched by incumbents that they would be foolish to try. So they don't, because as previously established, we're talking about smart people here.

I think your point would be served better by going into more detail about just which other underserved fields are the ones that are in dire need of innovation. My previous points notwithstanding, I do believe that there still exist a significant amount of underserved fields in dire need of innovation that are also completely tractable for the more pioneer oriented group of intelligent people without requiring billionaire level resources to solve. Messy, unsexy problems that customers would jump in line to pay for. But these problems tend to be require solutions by sharp pioneer generalists with a ton of intellectual horsepower _who_ are also capable recruiting and working well with industry insiders.

Having worked at such a company before, I think it's the latter part that's rarer than the former. I can grab a bucket of sharp STEM grads from top 10 universities that could make progress on a lot of hard problems that I know folks would pay good money for, but will they have the humility, spongelike curiosity and flexibility to work well enough with top industry insiders to not just be able to keep up with them but add something unique that wouldn't be doable otherwise? That's the hard part, and I think those kinds of folks are hard to find and will always be hard to find, no matter what kind of society you have.
I hate it because I like times after midnight but I still have to sometimes respond to people at normal time, so can't find the good spot.
In my experience, cheap laptops are more likely to still have ethernet ports, just like how cheap smartphones are more likely to have headphone jacks.

Just give them cheap cellular-equipped laptops instead. Take advantage of the networks that are already in place - no wifi necessary.
It was never normal. The politically charged boards were always playing with fire. Damore also shared his ideas outside of these spaces where it was even less “normal”. What might be okay to say in an opt-in discussion board about politics may be less okay to say in a training session, for example. Time and place and all that.
There is far more evidence for biological causes than there is for sexism.
Why?

A lot of people here want to be the boss of their own start-up, which means they won't want their future (perhaps hypothetical) employees organising against them.
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Ah yes, the professor gets to live off of the luxurious salary provided to academics.
Indeed. I will judge you based on your effect on me. If the people you vote for are openly racist, homophobic, sexist, and paranoid, then as far as I am concerned you are racist, homophobic, sexist, and paranoid, and I will treat you accordingly.
Spaces have zero importance to the Japanese language itself, but they are occasionally used like punctuation. e.g. some YouTube video titles will use spaces around names of things that could be hard to parse as not part of a sentence, another example is when you're typesetting phrases in lyrics.

In general, whitespace characters have no place or significance inside a Japanese sentence, and most of the whitespace in Japanese typesetting is built into punctuation marks.

Furthermore, even most punctuation is optional in Japanese. The full stop 。 and comma 、 are mostly a matter of preference, sometimes spaces are used in place of full stops or commas.
> I sat there and silently asked a number of them what they'd tell us, if they could.

Don't dig up my body and recreate the 1918 virus?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/523163.stm

> Because the corpses were buried in the "permafrost" - ground that is frozen even at the height of the Arctic summer - tissue samples from the brain, kidney, lungs and spleen were well preserved.
We're all paying a price for this. It is on each of us to limit the damage today and prevent a similar event in the future.
Yes, but books become well-known because they describe the general undercurrent of a cultural mood in a certain era, what Carl Jung called the 'collective unconscious'. Many people identify with the writing of an author because it helps them put words to their thoughts and feelings.

Golding didn't become an alcoholic or become depressed in a vacuum, he was embedded in a social context. I don't believe humans are islands.
The vast majority of places in the US have almost no covid cases. Many emergency hospitals and rent hospitals have been taken down or decommissioned, and in some cases nurses and hospital staff are even being furloughed because demand for elective and non-emergency care have dropped off a cliff.
I didn't say anything about green energy, and while the grandparent comment did, I don't think it was implied that it was the motivation of the experiment. Powering military drones for indefinite dwell time is a very plausible use case among many listed in the article.
Q4 2019 profits $105 million, Q1 2020 $16 million. 8.5B cash. 32%+ Q1 quarter on quarter revenue growth (4.5B Q1 2019, 5.985B Q1 2020.

Yet someone seems to disagree?
it does not. if you need live migration your software is poorly engineered. the only use case for this is a legacy app that you cannot move away from - but in that case i doubt you’re in the cloud
What's the perverse incentive? I don't think the proposal is that essential workers should have to get infected before they work.
Having both your legs amputated is less lethal than the flu, is that your only measure of whether you want something to happen to you or not?

Even healthy people with no need for hospitalisation can be taken down for a couple of months of fatigue and symptoms from it.
Several of the walkout organizers as well as people agitating against projects they didn’t agree with, including coordinating with perceived authoritarian states. It was all over the news.
This feels like a breath of fresh air: too many FPGA applications today resort to implementing a simple CPUs (a.k.a. PSM - “programmable state machine”), and the required logic is implemented in its “machine code.”