skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Propulsive landing has been possible since the 70s. But cheap and easily available sensors (especially but not exclusively navigation--gyroscopes, accelerators, altimeters, GPS), cheap and light high-performance compute hardware, and existing packaged software and other advances in stuff like convex optimization and fluid dynamics make a real difference in practicality of doing so, both on the rocket and during design.

There's also significant improvements in metallurgy that make it easier to do things like long-life turbopumps, carbon-fiber composites help with mass fraction, CNC machining and additive manufacturing that make complicated parts affordable, and other such things that also help. But really it's pocket-sized sense-and-compute that really kicked off the low-cost retro-propulsion thing.
Based on my experience, full-time positions just specializing in GIS are probably extremely rare for this type of organization - hence the desperate need for someone who is good at it. Nobody in those places has time to learn/maintain skills in something like that.

A small-to-medium sized nonprofit does not have the time/money resources to hire very many specialists at all - everyone is wearing multiple hats and learning to do things on the fly that they have never done before. As an example, in my role within the span of 2-3 weeks I went from graphic design invitations/menu for $250-a-plate dinner party, to literally running food and filling drinks at that same party while also taking pictures for social media and washing silverware for the chef, to patching together a transition to a new donation payment platform, then the next week I was designing a social media marketing campaign. It's a constant "all-hands-on-deck" at all times, and nobody has time to specialize in anything.

In the case of GIS needs, an organization like this might rely on an "advocate" (whose main job is to lobby elected officials) to do some of this work because they did one project with it in one class of their Public Administration grad program. In my experience, even our semi-retired secretary who did mostly bookkeeping was "punching above her weight" in job responsibilities.

That's why I suggested it as mostly a volunteer-type gig if one is truly passionate about using tech skills to help the environmental movement. If you want to work for one of those places you need to be more of a generalist, and accept that your passion of GIS might involve doing what should be a full-time job in 25% of your time at work.
The Edge extension should be out in a couple of days...
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Plus you can power an electric car with solar panels as long as it doesn't have to carry them around. Over time the grid will become more and more green, while gas cars will always have to burn their fuel.
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No wonder why it is "Contributor" article.
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Same pattern, but what's going on is that sscanf has been implemented as a call to a related function, with setup that incidentally does a bunch of unnecessary work. The scanning isn't what's causing the problem; it's that, before sscanf starts its actual work, it passes over the entire string to see how long it is.
If I ignore privacy banners (or click the 'x') do the websites I visit go about their business as if I had clicked accept?
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This suggests Google is putting 100TB as being enough for 20,000 users.

Thats an average of 5 Gigs/user.

I suspect nearly all schools and universities are within that today. Remember there will be a lot of people who barely use their Google account and just have a few text emails in it.
Click the X?
VR - With good enough virtual reality everything in the world would just become a poor substitute. A high quality VR enabled world would see the end to most transport and production of commercial goods.
Some places like Amazon and Newegg are moving to models that require you to have purchased the item through them to review it, which addresses your issue.

However, as long as reviews are accepted without proof of purchase, what else can companies do? Sue for slander? That's also endless whackamole.
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> The lambda calculus and predicate logic discussed in this article was one of the enjoyable rabbit hole trips induced by Haskell, but it was only one of many.

... aren't those very basic things that are taught in the first years of any comp. sci. university ?
If you’re able to, I’d look into outsourcing some of the audience building and cold contact to someone else.

Hire an intern to manage your social media. Find a VA to send out your cold emails.

Your projects don’t have to flounder because you don’t have the time to build an audience.
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Discussed in this thread using the same story from Reuters: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26300583 .
As a European I encounter a lot dark patterns to circumvent privacy laws.
Some just ignore your choice and track you.
Some don't give you a reject option.
Some make it really really annoying (or slow) to reject.

Do you think it's possible to politely ask them on twitter to change? Maybe as a group?
Maybe we'll just end up with a bunch of AI-controlled machines fighting each other instead of people fighting with each other.
The nodes are free to drag around.
How is it an environmental disaster? I hear you on energy use but that if we get to 99% renewables the excess generation/load capability could turn this statememt on its head.

The US gov will sacrifice their place in the world order by undermining US dollar sanction power tho!
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There is no way I would trust Tesla not to say "I abused" the outlets if I took the cybertruck to a work site.
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The thing that doesn't make sense here is that macOS discards randomly your settings, but it is also the only OS I use that regularly gets in a fucked up state where settings have to be nuked. I mean, here we are in year 37 of the mac and people are still zapping their PRAMs. The only improvement is you don't have to physically pull out the battery.
This is patently false and what mikem170 says is true. My mother has little-to-no savings and had a serious issue happen where she was in the ICU for a couple weeks and then in a rehabilitation facility for a month and a half, and paid nothing.
Because they have a prewarm system and 12v lights etc.

It helps conserve your actual battery and works well.

They have a separate 12v system from their 400v+ system that they use to run the motor.
I don't own a Tesla, so I don't know.

I have dealt with these shenanigans with my ICE car and a dealer (they did not want to honor the warrenty for the car battery), this why I knew about bringing the battery to an Auto Parts store.
As a former used-car flipper I call it the "4Runner vs Grand Caravan" effect. And I mostly call it that because it gets under the skin of certain people.

The 4Runner starts its life in the hands of someone who can afford whatever maintenance is needs, whenever it needs it.

The Grand Caravan starts its life in the hands of someone who needs the cheapest minivan and can barely afford it let alone afford following the maintenance schedule in the manual.

The 4Runner will haul two kids and occasionally a youth soccer team.

The Grand Caravan will haul five kids and occasionally 1800lb of paver bricks.

The 4Runner will be towed behind a motorhome.

The Grand Caravan will try and tow a motorhome.
Re-read the objected to line:

"I made it and you can too."

Note that I emphasized "can" in that quote. "Can", not "will". This isn't a guarantee by throwaway-0987, it's words of encouragement to try.

On a forum that celebrates startup moonshots, I find it odd that anyone would piss on the idea that trying is worth while.
> This is not a person trying to hook up a power source to the primary Lithium Battery, it is someone hooking up an inverter to a 12v lead acid battery that their Tesla also has.

From linked article:

> Through the low voltage architecture, you can get the power from the main battery pack and power several devices on the inverter.

I don't know how Tesla is wired but this article suggests that 12V lead acid battery is constantly charged from primary lithium battery. It sounds like hooking up electrical load to main battery but with extra steps.
You can message 100% of all smartphone users, it magically delivers as SMS. Also supports group chats with regular SMS users. Also supports MMS with them.

Given this pretty graceful degradation, what do you mean by not being able to message 85% of smartphone users?
Not that I know of, but I have noticed that two newline characters separate package records, and the record is of the form `Key: Value` for each line. As you can see in my code, I've gotten rid of most/all of the regex stuff, because, as we observe, it kills performance.
European pro life tip: if you make 200.000/yr don't let anyone lend you money. Buy your car cash, no cc debt. Mortgage would be the only exception. I honestly find it crazy how most american are ok with living on someone else money and pay the interests just to have a current year car...
This hasn't happened to me. I guess I've never used my prompt as a programming environment, so switching from zsh to fish hasn't impacted by ability to write posix shell script anymore than it as impacted my ability to write ruby or javascript.

I use fish strictly as a command line and it is fantastic.
So how come I keep hearing that a significant portion of homeless in the US have lost their houses in a medical-event-realted bankruptcy?
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Past performance is no guarantee of future results. It always amazes me that people take the predictions about one trajectory of human population as crazy/fringe but the other prediction as some kind of scientific law.

In addition, we are well past the viable population for even a moderate footprint lifestyle. We got to neatly 8B by keeping half the world at 1/10th or less the resource and environmental footprint of the rest. It’s like a king in a massively overpopulated nation of relentlessly constrained citizens looking out at his gardens and saying, “see? No problems, and those fools predicted the country would collapse.”
I don't think the point is to belittle their accomplishments, but rather a realistic take on poverty. A lot of people try really hard, and still cannot get out of poverty.

This is something we as a society need to deal with, and not disregard a systematic problem with anecdotal success stories and saying "You can too!"
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> Except a car doesn't need a combustion engine to fullfil its purpose, electric engines don't have combustion.

This is true, and is why using it as an analogy doesn’t work.

> There is nothing on the iOS experience that requires a file system with POSIX semantics.

Nobody mentioned posix before now. This is moving the goalposts.

> In fact that isn't what app developers using directly, rather Objective-C and Swift abstractions of a file system.

This is not true.

iOS provides all levels of Unix file system access from posix and libc upwards. Many apps and libraries make use of lower level access than Swift and Obj-C apis.

In addition, even those abstractions won’t work without a file system. They depend on concepts like files and directories.

This is why iOS had to have one when it shipped, and why a car power train is not a valid analogy.
Lot's of discussion about tesla voiding the whole warranty, but that doesn't seem to be supported by the article.

> The Tesla service center said that the battery needed replacing, but they actually found this post on the Facebook group and said that his setup voided the warranty.

So they refused to replace the battery

> The New Vehicle Limited Warranty does not cover any vehicle damage or malfunction directly or indirectly caused by, due to or resulting from [...] Using the vehicle as a stationary power source

Per a plain reading of the warranty, it still applies to unrelated damages. That doesn't contradict the service center declining to replace the battery under warranty.
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Stanford researchers identify four causes for ‘Zoom fatigue’ and their fixes
I've worked a number of places where the engineering culture discourages any sort of fishing expeditions at all, and if I weren't so stubborn everything would take 2-4x as long to run as it does. I say engineering culture, because at 2 of these places everyone was frustrated with engineering because the customers wanted something better, but the engineers would point at flat flame charts, shrug, and say there's nothing that can be done.

Bull. Shit.

There's plenty that can be done because there are parts of a process that don't deserve 15% of the overall budget. The fact that they are taking 1/6 of the time like 5 other things is a failure, not a hallmark of success. Finding 30% worth of improvements with this perspective is easy. 50% often just takes work, but post-discovery much of it is straightforward, if tedious.

My peers are lying with charts to get out of doing "grunt work" when there's a new feature they could be implementing. But performance is a feature.
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Setting up a .NET Project in 2021
I have now used this to explain some of our architecture to a client over Teams.

If you guys haven't tried building up a diagram, live, step by step like an ad-hoc slideshow, I seriously recommend it.
They're not actually buying or selling it though, just making it look like they are.
>> a blown head gasket

That's a one/two-hour job, a thousand dollars at most. I don't think they are selling the car because the engine is bad rather that the car is now worth more in parts than as a complete object. The engine isn't dead, just in need of repair. This happens to electric drivetrains too. Windings break. Bolts shear. Bearings fail. And many/most electric cars (tesla) still have transmission-type things between their motors and wheels.
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I think this is backwards and the opening lines of Anna Karenina get it right. It's "bad luck" that you should look out for, but every (moderate [0]) success story sounds more or less the same. (Said yet another way, success isn't the result of good luck, but it does require the avoidance of bad luck.)

[0] We're talking about routine success here, not Elon Musk. We're talking about avoiding poverty, not going to Mars.
> The person you replied to linked to something demonstrating that solar is cheap even when counting the cost of sufficient battery storage

As far as I'm aware this is a purely theoretical analysis since the amount of batteries required is significantly more than current lithium battery production worldwide.
The SIM isn’t iMessage enabled. The number is registered as a symbolic iMessage ID. That can be fixed.

Here’s how to handle that before you move:

https://support.google.com/android/answer/6156081?hl=en

Here’s how to deregister that later:

https://selfsolve.apple.com/deregister-imessage/

Basically just SMS 2FA showing you control the number to deregister.
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