skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Using a simple back of the envelope calculation on energy requirements can tell you why. A 500km orbital altitude requires about 7.66 km/s of velocity. That's 29,337 kJ of kinetic energy per kilogram, and only 4,905 kJ per kilogram of potential energy. You don't perform an air-launch to for the potential energy savings: you do it for the reduced air-loads and energy loss due to drag from beginning your trajectory in a thinner atmosphere. This trade-off is almost never worth the added engineering complexity, as seen by vertical launch completely dominating the launch space compared to air-launch.

As for a balloon launch, well, balloons have absolutely dismal maximum payloads, so there's no way you're going to be able to hoist a vehicle with enough propellant to reach upwards of 7 km/s underneath a balloon.
I think you'll struggle with a network effect issue. people aren't already on it - and already have plenty of places to discuss politics - so people won't come on the site and so people won't really care about the points they get on it
The complexity of the situation really goes so far beyond "good guy" and "bad guy". China is intensely polluted and wasting an insane amount of energy on a poorly performing anarchist monetary system. They have many incentives to shut it down.
That's interesting, I've not heard that term before, thanks :)

So if you assume that at some point in the future everyone becomes Synthianian (Synthian?) for moral reasons, is it immoral to eat plants now?
Interestingly Communist China is a political system dominated by engineers. It seems that engineers in government have a negative effect on climate change if anything. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-09-23/bankers-g...
Good luck getting anyone to agree on anything.

It's why everything is so fragmented to begin with. "Oh, I don't like what X is doing, so I'll fork it and make Y."

If I were in a position where I managed several distros... I could say we could just suck it up and universally use XFCE, but then there's always someone who won't like that and they'll respin a distro to have some other DE instead.

It seems with every decision we end up with another fork.
Isn't that (at least partly) a problem of bioavailability?
Fascinating. You'd think the captcha would have implemented a check to ensure it was completed out on the same device.
Apple reigns supreme with people who have higher purchasing power than others. That’s the niche they want to maintain, not total market share.
ITT: Typical rampant status quo bias, social zero-sum thinking, and conflating the freedom to incite violence online in 2021 with the freedom to publicly criticize theocracies hundreds of years ago.
This would never work for political / social reasons.
I understand this conversation is about Beyond Meat kinda stuff, but it's isn't no for the two oldest and most popular fake meats--tofu and seitan. And yet tofu especially gets beat up in terms of fake vs natural.
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Your efficiency gains will just get eaten up by Jevon's Paradox[1] unless accompanied by a political solution.

1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox
I wasn’t trying to imply that Ubuntu has longer support than windows, only that it doesn’t constantly make breaking changes. If you want you can use it and update once every five years and have a fairly stable desktop.
Speaking to an expert should be as easy as calling an Uber
JSON-autotype: Automatic type declaration for JSON input data
It was estimated to happen in Q1 2019, too. It looks more promising this time but I wouldn’t put much faith in Ethereum timelines.
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It worked in the seventies during the oil embargo.
I have over 100 documented accounts between work, personal, and shared with my family. There is absolutely no way I am going to be able to manage all of those in my head forever.

I can easily recall the passwords for these that I used frequently. But not the ones I don't use normally.
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true! sorry for my lazy wording
FYI the screenshot of the app has the formula:

Revenue = Profit - Loss

It should be:

Revenue = Profit + Loss (as Profit = Revenue - Loss).

Otherwise, cool!
You will own nothing and be happy.
I don't mean this in a derogatory fashion, I've enjoyed working with most all my coworkers, and I am speaking in generalities here relative to the overall population, engineers tend to be more anti-social and more out of touch of what the needs are for the general population, and even more so for underserved and minority populations, which would make them terrible choices for political positions.

They are excellent choices, however, for implementation teams. The real answer is we need more higher level engineers in gov IT.
We must secure the existence of our people and a future for white children.
But you have to feed the cells. And you can't just grow some plants and feed it to the cells, you have to manufacture a very precise blend of chemicals (amino acids, sugars, surfactants, antioxidants, etc.) at >99% purity for each one. Often extremely nasty solvents are involved in the production process. Usually, some sort of petroleum product is a feedstock. Those chemically synthesized materials are hardly green.
> I'm definitely a healthier person after getting off social media

This. So much. Facebook was destroying my mental health.
There are more devices running iOS than Windows in the US according to [0].

Add macOS' market share and Apple's the single manufacturer of the most popular OSs in the US, with quite a lead even.

[0] https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/all/united-states...
No, you don't need to.

There is zero-touch enterprise provisioning available, that requires you to be connected to a suitably configured local network (if learns about what it needs from dhcp tags), but this is not something that normal users need to be concerned about. For a non-MDM-managed mac, you can do everything offline just fine. Or you can be online, if you do not want to use iCloud account (I'm not using it either), you can finish the OOBE wizard and everything will be just like the user wants.
Been locked out several times and I could always get by with my backup email and/or providing account details. They never sent anything to my phone.
Quite cheeky for a website that asked to send me notifications and wants to no my location.
“The Martian” + Starship
I would also like to express pure excitement for this development.
Yeah, would be interesting to see more examples of how spoofed devices are used nefariously.

I'd bet people try to get around quotas or rate limits by spoofing different devices. Maybe ad fraud as well?
> I've no idea of the history of ... Tabasco

Aside, but if you ever find yourself in or near southern Louisiana, the Tabasco headquarters at Avery Island is actually a pretty fun outing. Lots of tasting (pre covid anyway), a self-guided factory tour, and some cool nature.
Sketches are not meant to be impressive. They are meant to be learning or figuring out experience. That is the whole point of sketch - to not make worked piece.
i run non default browser settings (disable canvas and force my fonts)

i see captcha everywhere. and try to avoid when i can. basically if it is a comercial site, bye. but gov sites are using it too now.

from time to time i even get into captcha hellban. which should be criminal since they are used in gov sites. hellban is specially cruel as your entire IP is served the same 10 round of images infinitelly.
There's some wiggle room here, depending on how you "count". The first HTTP client and server were certainly created as NeXT apps, and I love NeXTSTEP so I love mentioning this trivia, but the reality IMO is the web that people actually used in the 90s and the web that evolved into what we have now doesn't really resemble Tim Berners-Lee's vision for what he called "the web" or his client/server.

So as far as popularizing the web for the masses and developing the de facto WWW so many people experienced, I think the earlier DOS and other Unix browsers like Mosaic were more instrumental, with Internet explorer and Netscape really "birthing" the web we know.
Not just news, any website that still monetizes on the ad-supported "blog" model. So, videogame websites, sports websites, entertainment/gossip sites, you name it.
Climate change could lead to a world with less clouds
Pasture land is not, usually, crop growing land. Moreover, the rain falls regardless. You could grow no crops, and your "water usage" would be exactly the same. Why would you count it?
Who ever claimed it was, and why reduce the appreciation of great art and artists to "fanboy-ism"?
Not at all, it's just naive to think the USA, Europe, or China couldn't shut down crypto if they wanted.

They have million man armies, jets, tanks, millions of bureaucrats, leading edge development programs, hypersonic missiles, nuclear weapons, atomic energy, etc - but they "couldn't stop crypto!", a ledger where all transactions are...explicitly public?

Like come on. They have entire departments devoted tracing transactions for tax avoidance, but they're helpless against...a public list of transactions? No way.
It's at least an excellent key that they can provide to country authorities if they request one.

That's also an excellent way to ensure the user juridiction based on the IP address and phone number country code for 99% of users.
Not to mention it requires a cold-fill method of production. For acidified foods this is mostly okay, but hot-fill is the preferred method for keeping the bad stuff at bay and reducing the need for preservatives.
The problem Microsoft has with Windows is their moat (win32) is turning into an anchor. All that pandering to enterprise customers has created a hostile attitude towards end users.
There is an idea that is keeping me up at night. What if we could launch large sails to the L1 Lagrange Point to reduce the amount of radiation that reach the earth by only 2% ?
We as a species have decided not to prevent climate change. You as an individual now need to consider how you individually will adapt, survive and profit. That's where we are. Anyone hoping for a last minute save is badly misinformed about the situation.
I can't imagine that there will ever be a political solution.

Let's say that 100 years from now we have solved climate change. What will history show? I doubt that the western powers plus China, India, Nigeria, Congo, Pakistan, etc all came together to successfully agree upon and implement a plan. That's what a political solution would require and I don't understand why anyone thinks it would ever happen.

Instead, I bet we will look back and see a few revolutionary tech breakthroughs which, with some government backing, provided most of the solution.
Hard won lessons have to be relearned over and over in software.
I think the nonprogrammer view would be that "loss" is a positive number, then the original format is correct
How is population growth a direct cause of climate change? Sure it may be very loosely correlated. But why even mention it? Further more the population is in decline in almost all developed countries is it not? If it really is political it's crap like this that will be first on the "things to do" list purely for votes and accomplishing nothing (except destroying people's lives).
If someone could come up with a "Local Only" networking stamp, like how you see "Organic" on foods, I'm sure we could create a market for smart devices that don't reach out to a third party server.
What would the difference be between an Excel spreadsheet sitting on an external hard drive being used as a backup copy, and that same Excel spreadsheet being emailed to an acquaintance or customer for a work purpose? Locking everyone out based on the Microsoft Account of the creator would break so many things in the Office ecosystem, I can't fathom that being worth trying to implement.
Yes, but how long will that persist for diamonds?

I also think this is a lot less likely to happen with meat. With diamonds part of the value is in signalling status. As such there is little incentive for customers to want to participate in driving down the price.

With lab-grown meat there will eventually be a number of outright benefits.
They've removed it from Home but it's still there for Pro.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27624555
A few things ...

I had to set up a web account with the IRS in the recent past and I just skipped the entire mobile validation by having them send the auth code to my mailing address. It arrived in two days and worked perfectly. YMMV.

I am, however, interested in what mobile carrier you use that had a "real" (not VOIP) mobile number and can receive SMS from "short codes", but did not work with the IRS ?

That's unexpected - basically every mobile number in the US is one of the big three or an MVNO operating with one of the big three networks ... can you share just a bit more about your setup ?
Yes and no, because it changes how you think about it.

If it's "just DNA" then we should focus on relevant therapies. But this is what we've done for 60 years and it hasn't gotten us very far. In fact depending on how you slice the numbers we've made almost no progress since chemo was "invented".

On the other hand if it's mitochondria and DNA damage is just one possible route, and damage happens all the time, then there are metabolic approaches. These include simple diet changes, metformin and all kinds of other things.

We need to abandon the "just DNA" paradigm. Epigenetics is far bigger than most understand, and DNA is far more malleable than most people know.

As both books (I think) say, the TCGA project was largely a failure for exactly these reasons: DNA is a big moving target and the cell-to-cell variance is very large.
If you're interested in the Tabasco story check this out https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xnaj9ULhwqU I found it interesting.
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That's an interesting take. My observation is quite the opposite, with each application seemingly overriding systems style willy nilly. I'd say that application styling has become MORE differentiated.
Apparently something can be done legislatively.

The recreational cannabis rollout was delayed when the city, in my opinion rightly, realised that the dispensary licenses were being granted to a wealthy few. (And likely people who had previously financially lobbied against the legalisation for years.)

https://www.sfexaminer.com/news/sfs-proposed-cannabis-regula...

Build more housing. Shut down streets to car traffic. Encourage first time business owners. Expand social programs. Fund the arts. Make these wealthy companies buying up property pay for it. If they threaten to leave for Salt Lake or Austin then kindly wish them well.
"supposed to". I am hopeful but I think we are very early here and it is going to be very difficult to actually meet these targets. We shall see.
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Both! I've made tortillas from store bought masa harina for over a decade.

I've bought typical corn tortillas at the store as well as tastier refrigerated ones.

Starting from corn kernels is a huge difference to both.

What I understand about manufactured masa harina ("corn flour") is that masa paste is baked to drive out the water and make it shelf stable. This also cooks out some of the deep corn flavor that you can't get back.
They did _almost_ everything in their power.

They did not however, prevent you from downloading and installing netscape like Apple is currently doing with iOS.

I believe that was Nadella's main point, which I don't disagree with.

While they did attempt to embrace, extend, extinguish, the platform was fundamentally not locked down which still allowed the web to take over.
It's an interesting idea. Wouldn't the cost of raising funds, replacing all the signs, etc. be also damaging? What about having a clear "no speeding at all on speeds over 50mph" announcement, and start a campaign to enforce speeding even at 0.1mph over? That would quickly normalize driving at 10-15 miles under.
Sounds like a cost of running the largest streaming video service on the Internet. Should Google get free electricity to protect their bottom line?
"masa" literally means dough. There's nothing unique about the word.

I get using "tortilla" which has a very specific meaning, but "masa"? There's a perfectly good, common english word that means exactly the same.

I don't know, it kind of rubs me the wrong way.
There are a lot of things to hate about JS: its questionable choices around type coercion, its Date object, for..in on arrays (indices are string) (a consequence of every object key is a string), for..in on objects which also iterate on inherited properties, the fact everything is dynamic, its weak standard library, null vs undefined, many original things….

There are also great things about it: the ease at which one can write in a functional style code, anonymous functions (vs Python), closures (vs Java), immutable strings, the fact that there is not a shitload of classes to instantiate to achieve anything (vs Java), block-scoped variable definitions, sane default function parameter handling (vs Python).

Javascript engines are also very fast nowadays because of the ton of engineering going into them.

I'd say, above all arguments, you can rapidly build very fast, lightweight and program programs with it.

Sure, you can pull a shitload of pointless dependencies and write bloatware that re-render the world on each keypress, and that's what many people do. And to make things worse, they wrap their shit with an entire browser that uses a lot of ram and processing power. But you are not forced to do that. You can also write efficient server code that does not show up in top, has few dependencies if at all, consume a negligible amount of memory and run without failure for months. That's possible too. Frontend-wise, you have amazing frameworks like Svelte that do wonders and would allow you to build very lightweight apps rapidly.

That said I would often pick TypeScript so your program is statically type-checked and your code is documented through types, especially for more-than-one-person / non-trivial projects.

I also use and like other languages like Python and D (and a bit of Rust) that have good stuff which JS doesn't have (list comprehension, borrowing, traits, named parameter, sane coercion to False…), or bad stuff which JS has.
Javascript is not always the best answer, or even a good answers, but it can be one.
> But they might start with Freud and end up at the replication crisis, while pointing out there's too much focus on W.E.I.R.D people[0]. They could even point out some of the 60s research was obviously more meant to prove a point than be proper research (e.g. Zimbardo). It won't be a strike against psychology as a whole at all, just a warning to use caution and proper research methods.

[0] https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/non-weird-science/20...

I take your point fairly. I don't know nearly as much about psych as I do about history.

> Just read the linked article, which is actually quite good but a bit too busy stretching out arguments in order to argue against some imagined alt-right antagonist. It's trivial to show that Rome wasn't homogeneous ethnically, but he stretches some things more than they're worth (Rome treating its Italian subjects arguably better isn't 'diversity'. We don't really know how Carthago treated its subjects - Numidia jumped when Carthago was obvious losing, Greek polis citizenship isn't a good model for how the Hellenic Empires ran, etc.).

I read the linked post's point as more of a pushback against depictions of Rome in modern culture. And Rome's conceptualization of citizenship was radically expansionist compared to that of the Greek states which were flourishing at the same time. As for, say, the Hellenistic kingdoms, I think it's clear that the ability of the Romans to actually absorb those kingdoms and have them come to see themselves as "Romans" (a trick the Seleucids/Antigonids/etc. never pulled off) speaks to a real and meaningful difference here.
> Further, the form factor sucks. Every card comes with 4 or more DVI connectors which I don't need.

DVI connectors are huge! I've never seen a card with more than 2 of them.

You working with something more exotic than a PCI-e card?
The journalctl binary format seems to handle corruption pretty well. That was a design criteria.

Thanks for pointing that out. I guess thats why they came up with their own format instead of just using sqlite, or something else that is already a standard.

Everyone forgets or tries to ignore that text files ARE A BINARY FORMAT

That's a bit pedantic, even for HN standards :-)

But yes, I know all about fragile log parsers and race conditions of multiple processes writing to the same file. I was just thinking about a scenario where you end up having to read raw logs when things go haywire.
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> There's nothing more to add, fix or improve in the eyes of the maintainer. What a nice place to end up in

What a strange thing to say. Baffling.

It's deprecated because programming standards have changed, the team agrees with those standards and nevertheless feels it would be too much work to incorporate them. Not "there's nothing more to add" but "we choose to prioritize stability over new features"
Google's claim system is far more pro-takedown than DMCA requires.

If they were actually following the process in the DMCA, then as soon as the original poster made a counter-claim, Google could put it back up and the claimant's only recourse would be to take legal action against the poster.
How about they start by figuring out the concept of power efficiency in the web code that everyone runs?

We could do a huge amount if we'd give every mainline tech company engineer a Raspberry Pi 4, and shut down their big workstations for a week a month, making them live on a mere quad core 1.5GHz chip with 8GB of RAM.

I'm sick and tired of how every shiny new "update" of web applications uses more and more CPU, runs slower and slower, and, gosh, you'd better buy a new computer to run it.

I've ranted before on my blog about the horrible things Google did to the Blogger interface - a text editing interface. For reasons I don't care enough to dig into, the "new" interface forced on everyone last year has some dependency on number of photos such that if you have too many photos, or too slow a system, you get massive, massive lag in entering text. It's literally unusable on plenty of systems that used to run the older interfaces, and you can choke out a fairly high end system by putting enough photos (100-200?) in a post. Even a dozen or so will choke out older systems that used to run the old interface fine.

But, hey, it's no problem for the Googlers who wrote it and tested it on their high end 2 year old Xeon workstations! Worked great for their toy cases, and having not actually talked to anyone who uses Blogger, ship it and get your promotion, having ruined the interface for anyone with older or lower power hardware.

The new Google Chat interface I've been migrated to is similarly painful on a Pi4. It only takes 20 seconds to load and then maybe a similar amount of time to load an actual conversation. Snappy on a M1 Mini, though, so who cares, right?

Once it's actually loaded, it's tolerable (the usual slight lag in text entry that any Google app on a Pi4 has), but getting it loaded is quite painful, and Hangouts used to work just fine.