skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Right now the economics for this don't add up. The risk of collision is quite low compared to launching "extra" satellites with the sole purpose of finding and tracking another satellite. It is also much more difficult to target an arbitrary piece of debris. If the incoming debris is in a similar orbit (both altitude and inclination) then it requires less fuel to be able track and find it. If the incoming debris/satellite is in a different orbital plane it requires a huge amount of fuel in order to change orbital inclination [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orbital_inclination_change
GPT is really a tool that draws trees without branches: they look like trees from distance, but fall apart upon some analysis. But I believe GPT will learn soon how to add decent branches.
The IRS deprecation is very far above the costs in actual practice. It's a very conservative number.
He's the CSO of cloudflare now, so I doubt he does much relaxing.

Other thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24227059
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> Thousands of people taking personal risk have systemic effects

How do you know the personal situation of each of Uber's/Lyft's drivers? How do we measure risk for each person in an objective way? Some people might be at no risk, some higher. We can't know! What right is there in taking away options that benefit some people because it might possibly not work well for someone who voluntarily signed a contract? This is not liberal policy. This is paternalistic, state-controlled economic oppression.
And where does that "enough money to live off of" come from? Unless the company has a lot of fat to trim, it has to come from customers in the form of higher prices, or from investors throwing more cash onto the bonfire. What happens when customers would rather not use your service than pay the amount whatever you're proposing takes?

It's very possible that this market only exists at the size that it does at a price that doesn't support what people in the US think of as "a wage they can live off of", and that by mandating more compensation, then there will be a whole lot of drivers for whom this just isn't an option anymore.

That said, I think drivers should be able to set their own prices, and that there should be a real market with bidding, but the UX will probably suffer.
However, remember that accelerating at 1G for more than a scant few minutes is beyond the capabilities of modern rocketry.
> I think the mistake that Uber and Lyft are making here is just not charging market rates that will let their drivers make a good living.

Aren't the rates basically set by the drivers? I've never driven for Uber or Lyft but my impression was that drivers have a choice of whether to accept each request or not. If the offered price for a ride is "too low" (but someone still accepts it) that just highlights the fact that your idea of "too low" is not the only one that matters. Maybe your competition isn't relying on this for a living. Maybe they've found other ways to reduce their costs. Either way, I don't really see a problem aside from certain parties' unrealistically high expectations.

Personally I feel a bit sorry for all of the people that deliberately chose to take on these gig jobs as freelancers who are now being pressured into becoming employees to salve the overactive consciences of people who aren't even involved. Not everyone wants to be classified as an employee, with all the restrictions that entails.
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Agriculture is clearly a need but doesn't have a huge impact on society. It's not like there's multiple gardens in everyone's home, and even if it was they still lack some key capabilities software&internet combine for

Climate science is clearly being overwhelmed by bad actors, generally exerting their influence thru bot & troll farms, communicating thru various software&internet platforms
The highest leverage way to help low income people in California is by focusing on reducing the cost of being alive. High barriers to earning money will just continue the decades long out migration of low income workers.
Isn’t that the point? Bonzi Buddy could do a lot less damage on an iPhone than a computer and when you delete it, you can be sure that it didn’t leave anything behind.

And it’s not just BonziBuddy.

Even Zoom left a backdoor on Macs after you uninstalled it.
Should be okay as you just fill it once then rainwater does the rest.
> there’s been zero news over the last 10 days

Everything in the world effects everything else in a very complicated manner. Almost anything that happens will have some indirect effect on tesla / walmart.

I wont pretend to know the reason, or that there is a reason this particular time. But indirect news do affect prices regularly.
imo biggest problem with the independent argument is Uber and Lyft actively penalizes you as a driver if you decline unprofitable trips. Also I believe Lyft (unsure about Uber) even stopped showing you how much you make per trip and instead just rolls it into one summary, presumably to make it harder for you to do the cost/benefit of deciding whether a trip is worth doing.

that sort of big brother behavior is the antithesis of independence and throws out any argument that Uber is somehow just providing drivers with lead gen software like they’re Salesforce or something
This is kind of close .. become a redundant peer

https://docs.joinpeertube.org/#/contribute-architecture?id=r...
I was able to crash the game once by turning on my Steam controller while the game was running. Couldn’t reproduce it though.
Both. I'm not an employment law expert, but things like mandatory breaks, working conditions, PTO (pa/maternal leave, etc.). If you work a full time job, you are entitled to a comfortable life with a healthy work/life balance.
Citibank literally did make a loan payment - of the exact amount due in principal plus interest. That means that Citibank calculated the amount due, and sent the payment.
How about: one developer puts a "launcher app" in the App store, and all the other developers use that to launch their apps?
By official job duties I mean "my manager has told me to spend half my time contributing to MacPorts" versus "my manager (and my manager's manager, and their superior, all the way up the chain to the top, plus legal) has allowed me to send commits to to MacPorts even though I work on embedded platforms".
So if it's a long running task that's definitely a more complex problem that would require some sort of queue/pause/resume system presumably but I imagine the same concept could still apply.

The node that merges context would simply have a requirement/dependency on the results "provided" by each branch. It would wait to execute until those requirements were met.

The user wouldn't need to know about the data model still, the "merge node" would just intrinsicly wait for the results provided form the seperate branches.

Fundamentally when each node completes the system itself just needs to check against the list of nodes to see if its dependencies have just been met and keeps track of which nodes have been already executed so that they don't end up getting triggered again when the next check happens.

There will always be a need for some sort of workflow level state or context management that governs all of this orchestration that you would want to persist to a database somewhere if this is a long running workflow but this is a systems concern and the user doesn't need to know about it.

That was just a long way of me more or less saying that it doesn't matter how many branches there are, all that matters ultimately is that a node waits to execute when its requirements are met.
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The state government blinked, and Lyft and Uber won
In Russia unified voting day is September 13. Navalny is running "Smart Voting" campaign to consolidate votes for most electable candidate. Taking him off the chess desk is a serious dent in that campaign.

At the same time, using poison gives Putin maximum plausible deniability. It is almost impossible to prove his involvement.
Not when I'm getting paid:) I do donate 20% of my income plus employer match to effective non-profits, although I admit I could be doing more.
Any remotely competent student of history can foresee occasional economic crises with high unemployment. That’s why we have a national unemployment insurance scheme.

Maybe you don’t foresee a pandemic, but only in the same way that you don’t foresee getting side-swiped when a car passes you while blowing its tire. Or having your house’s roof ripped off by a tornado. Totally unforeseeable events, but somewhat predicable circumstances.

The bailouts in crises are not one off because there’s always going to be another crisis.

Taking care of contractors who work for employers that arbitrage labor protections == corporate bailouts.
I was talking to a taxi dispatcher at some function here in Canada, and it came up that each vehicle on the road would drive about 500km/day. That's about $200-$250/day in what the per distance rate many employers give out(40¢-50¢/km) for fuel and wear on vehicle. But assuming an 22hrs of driving a day(on a taxi with multiple drivers), that's about 22km each hour or $11/hr for fuel and wear on the vehicle according to what many employers would pay in addition to time driving. This is in Canadian dollars, so $11/hr is about $8/hr in USD and works out to an average of $16USD/hr of driving(assuming (22km|13miles)/hr average)
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Yes, I'm curious about that. Vouched.
I'm glad things like this are being worked on. I have been writing a set of implementations of the nBody benchmark in JavaScript using various forms of abstractions. In an ideal world they should all take the same speed since they perform the same fundamental task and produce the same result. They just represent different scales of optimization effort.

It's interesting seeing the difference between vectors in arrays vs objects and if you do immutable versions. The trickiest to optimize form is using a micro vector library which uses closures and array map().

var vop = op => ((a, b) => (a.map((v, i) => op(v, b[i]))));
var vdiff = vop((a, b) => a - b);
var vequals = (a, b) => { return (vdiff(a, b).reduce((c, d) => c + Math.abs(d), 0)) === 0;};
var vadd = vop((a, b) => a + b);
var vdot = (a, b) => a.reduce((ac, av, i) => ac += av * b[i], 0);
var vlength = a => Math.sqrt(vdot(a, a));
var vscale = (a, b) => a.map(v => v * b);
var vdistance = (a, b) => vlength(vdiff(a, b));

Currently on my lowly atom laptop and FireFox. The version using mutable objects is ten times faster than the mapping immutable array version. I live in hope that one day there will be an optimizer that turns

var transpose = matrix => (matrix.reduce(($, row) => row.map((_, i) => [...($[i] || []), row[i]]), []));
var multiply = (a, b, ...rest) => (!b) ? a : multiply(a.map((p => transpose(b).map(q => vdot(p, q)))), ...rest);

Into a CPU optimum (or dare I suggest GPU) version of a matrix multiply.
I think it would be more like you time your arrival with the conjunction of some gas giants in the destination solar system and aerobrake multiple times to get your speed low enough so you can aerobrake on your destination planet.

Bringing enough fuel to decelerate the same way you accelerated isn't usually practical, inflating your rocket by 15x its original size or more.
Making them employees doesn't give them health insurance. Only if they work over 30 hours a week, which Uber is highly incentived to cap.

Besides, what you are actually stating is that Uber riders should pay for Uber driver's health insurance, rather than the general population.
> Can you prove we aren’t in a simulation?

In context of scientific debate, no Simulation theory exists. Only hipothesis, and a very weak one, considered it’s not falsifiable. Hence its treatment as curiosity and thought experiment by scientific community.

Your hypothesis needs to meet some requirements in order to be scientifically viable to research. You cannot throw out scientific method out of window because it appears „close-minded” to you.

Until proof appears that singularity is not errasing information, scientific approach is to find a proof that there’s no singularity as threshold between old and new universe within a cycle. And argument for that is currently based on interpretation of some features pf cosmic background, which is scientifically debated.
Yes! If the free market results in employers offering shitty choices that take advantage of workers with limited options, the government should step in and attempt to correct the power-imbalance that puts the workers at life- and liberty-threatening disadvantages.

Extrapolating from your logic, indentured servitude would still be allowed to exist.
Indeed. The dearth in flight sims predated 9/11, and was likely because MFS and X-Plane filled everyone's needs adequately, with FlightGear available as an open source option.
It's not as specious as you believe. Your bank can almost certainly call your mortgage loan at any time. From the other side, prepayment of a loan, even without communication, happens all the time.
What "Los Angeles taxi union" organization specifically lobbied against the LAX train, which, by the way, is now being built?

There may well have been industry lobbyists fighting this but until very recently (the last five years) almost no taxi drivers in Los Angeles were unionized.
I think it's a lot easier to be hateful, all things considered.
might have something to do with the constant anti-russia propaganda in the west
As with most financial things it depends on location and time and specific conditions.

Generally, its been illegal since 2014 nationwide to have a prepay penalty. In my state its been illegal as long as I've had a mortgage. In some weird but possible conditions its possible post-2014 to have a prepayment fee at the national level for a normal residential mortgage.

You'll see all kinds of random dates at the national level. From what I understand the 2010 Dodd-Frank act was the enabling legislation, the new rules came out in 2013, and went into effect in early 2014, but its all the same issue.
That's a silly way to see it. A lot of their pains is that they are trying to build reliable things out of unreliable components when they could, instead, just enjoy the reliability five decades of R&D can get you.
Spotify still isn't accessible where I live, so music piracy is live and well.

On the other hand steam is so game piracy is almost nonexistent.

It's mostly about convenience, since centralized app if designed with users in mind can be more convinient.

More and more people are pirating tv shows aswll, since pirates have the only solution that has all the content in one place.
While you follow Greenspun's tenth rule of programming (Any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of Common Lisp) you could embed a Lisp system, like ECL -> Embeddable Common Lisp

https://common-lisp.net/project/ecl/

There are a bunch of applications which include some kind of Lisp implementation in C. From GNU Emacs, Audacity, AutoCAD (and its various clones), and various others.
I love the reference to this because I'm working on a side project and treating it as "something I definitely want to ship" and have found that I have higher tolerance for code that I just copy/paste and slapdash together. I've worked on lots of side projects in the past where I was more deliberate about every line of code and learned that shipping is more important to me now than learning something new.

I will say most of the choices I'm making with respect to when to go "deep" with good design are very much calculated. I'm designing the architecture with a lot of thought, but when it comes to laying out UI elements, I will copy-paste and not refactor even if there's a good opportunity for it. It's just plumbing to me, so if it's ugly, it's not a big deal.
That’s also against the rules.
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> The land south of Egypt, beyond the first cataract of the Nile, was known to the ancient world by many names: Ta-Seti, or Land of the Bow, so named because the inhabitants were expert archers; Ta-Nehesi, or Land of Copper;

Oh, is that what Ta-Nehesi Coates is named after? I decided to look, and apparently his name is slightly different, Ta-Nehisi. What's weird just just how often he's miscredited with the wrong name in articles online, whether they be blogs or new agencies (those might be alternate spelling tagging) or book clubs.

As I myself have an uncommon spelling of a fairly common name (with no common variations), I can only imagine how annoying this must be. It's probably self propagating at this point, since anyone that searches for it with the wrong name will find plenty of (wrong) evidence that they guessed right, depending on where their eyes land on the page.
>I can guarantee you that a game will need a scripting language. Better get that done already.

Myself and thousands of people before and after me have written games without a scripting language.
It should be remembered that the S&P 500 is market cap weighted, and so will always be concentrated. This is nothing new:

* https://theirrelevantinvestor.com/2018/11/26/the-nifty-fifty...

* https://awealthofcommonsense.com/2020/07/the-nifty-fifty-and...

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nifty_Fifty

And while the article isn't wrong, it may not show the whole story:

> While the S&P 500 is up a 3% or so this year, there are 142 stocks (as of yesterday’s close) in the S&P 500 that are up at least 10% or more. On the other hand, there are 220 stocks down 10% or more this year.

* https://awealthofcommonsense.com/2020/08/concentrated-in-the...

When the above article was posted (8/4), the top ten YTD percentage risers were, largest first: Carrier Global, DexCom, NVIDIA, West Pharma, PayPal, Abiomed, Regeneron Pharma, AMD, Amazon, Cadence Design Systems. Was anyone surprised that Clorox (53.7%) rose more than Apple (49.1%)?

The S&P 500 being concentrated is the same as it always was over the decades:

* https://etfdb.com/history-of-the-s-and-p-500/

* https://www.qad.com/blog/2019/10/sp-500-companies-over-time

* https://ritholtz.com/2013/02/visual-history-of-the-sp-500/

AT&T was in the top ten for seventy years.

Absolutely no one was excited about the S&P 500 during the "Lost Decade" of 2000-2009, but now people are probably too excited. Everyone is freaking up about the un-reality of the stock market: let's see how things go for the next ten years and decide then.
What exactly are Uber and Lyft free-riding off of? What public service are they abusing by operating a ride-sharing marketplace? In what way are they avoiding their "fair share" when their employees and investors already shoulder a massive and disproportionate part of the state's tax burden?
More often than not no.. I am trying to find the min/max value in a set. Bit a bound
I don't do really do coupons as the price is already very low at the moment ($99/life or $7.99/month).

I looked a bit into adding Postgres as an option, but it takes some time to recreate the schemas and queries and maintain both DB options. Being on MySQL also makes it a lot easier to install on DigitalOcean, using the LAMP image.

Why would you prefer to have Postgres over MySQL? Is it because you are used to Postgres or because of performance considerations?
Can I put music on Spotify without them getting a cut?
Ask HN: Are there any tools for optimal data compression over multiple messages?
To clarify, consider that a single long message can efficiently and losslessly be compressed with methods such as a huffman encoding. But when sending many small messages, you may lose out on a broader encoding that both sides can use which would in the long pay off.

For example say that I know my application and the user should only ever communicate N different things, and one at a time. I could manually map each of these to an integer and only allow the payload to be an integer. But it feels like allot of extra work for something that could better just be built into the protocols configuration, and maybe set up by presenting it with a common usage list of your typical messages. Does something like this exist?
I suspect those downvoting don't have children of their own, otherwise they'd know this full well.
The gig economy model can be better, but I don't think it's helpful to blame individual companies. It's an entire system at play. Some people are totally happy with earning over a few hours a week. It's not a one size fits all system, so the model needs to be more flexible.
There are 1 million leisure boats in Norway, with 5,4m inhabitants. So not exactly just for a very, very small minority..
> You're suggesting that the retired, teenagers, stay-at-home parents, and college students make up the majority of the US working population? Yeah, not buying that one at all.

No where did I say this. What are you talking about?
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I honestly don't mind paying more if it goes to support the drivers, but I haven't really seen a compelling argument for why all drivers should count as employees. From my perspective being an "employee" implies certain things that don't seem to apply here (predictable work times, exclusivity (so many lyft drivers are also uber drivers), etc. ) "Freelancer" seems way more appropriate, the only problem is the lack of protections. It seems to me that culturally "gig worker" has become its own category anyway and it makes more sense to create a new legal category with its own set of legal protections.

I know people will point to health insurance... but that's a separate problem with having health insurance tied to employment. I think it's awful that people that aren't considered full time employees don't get health insurance.. but I also think that's the government's problem and obligation, not Uber or Lyfts
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Micrometeors and radiation would be the major problem. Also, it's not just time dilation that would help. At relativistic speeds, space contracts quite noticeably in the direction of travel, so the actual distance you need to cover diminishes as well.
It's been discussed to death, you can sell things on iOS as long as they can't actually be used on iOS, like Amazon
That's...literally not what that message says, "basically" or otherwise.

It literally says the opposite, in fact

> Men, I have a request: Please, think twice before you reply to a post that you can't relate to. I'm not asking you to leave this sub, because I think that it's valuable to read about other people's experiences to learn about their unique challenges in this world.
TCO for a Prius is about 6k a year for non-rideshare applications. The link has this cost around ~13k per year, which isn't outlandish. I think you are right in general though. Uber will let you drive an F-350, but there is no way you will make money with it.
I laughed at this, but I do think I should point out that in a democracy it's good for people to have opinions about things that aren't their profession.
20% cut on top of the 30-40% that uber/lift take?