skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From what I see there, the largest mirror is 30m. JWST has a 6.5m mirror. Assuming that 6.5m is the largest that can be launched at once (which is probably not true, and will be less so when Starship is operational), it would take 25 launches to get a 30m diameter meter built. 25 launches from SpaceX costs $1.5 billion, which is in the budgetary realm of space telescopes. So I don't think it's as far fetched as you think.
There's charging for software, and there's "switching our billing to monthly (only if you engage for a year) that costs multiple of our previous one-time payment over the average lifespan of the software product", with abusive practices like "license is per user, or per computer which costs multiple times more" because they know it's for schools and such, which don't have a choice but to teach their software.

Adobe are a grade A asshole company abusing their near monopoly in their niches.
Larry Sanger has never liked or trusted Wikipedia. He always believed in Nupedia or Citizendium, that an encyclopedia needs an authoritative editor. I'm not sure what's new about this take.
> Who said I even support any of this anyway?

You sure do sound like you support all of this; definitely don’t sound unbiased (or unhinged).

> This is well-established fact.

That’s completely untrue. A passing mention by Elon Musk, that Starlink could provide revenue for a Mars colony is not proof.

Starlink is barely functional, not profitable, and does not show cash flow necessary to fund itself, let alone a Mars colony and astronomy research. Where are you getting a million people on Mars, doing astronomy research?

> Is that a valid source to you?

This is an incredibly bad faith discussion, fueled by someone with very little understanding of astronomy and economics. Of course you’re not a source.
The problem is this is a pretty bad trade-off for storage as your only storage option is an SD card for primary storage and then USB for secondary and both of those quite frankly suck terribly for reliability and stability.

If someone sold a raspberry Pi with half decent power distribution on it, SATA or NVMe storage, I might raise one eyebrow but at this point, compared to even low ball commodity laptops it's a joke of a product which is squarely destined to end up in the e-waste bin.
If I'm paying for a space tourism joyride, I would definitely be extra thrilled if we took off from California and landed in Fiji within the hour.

Presumably, since I'm stinking rich to begin with, I'd have a fancy resort booked there for the next week.

I agree it's not a replacement for commercial jet flights.
One “wow” moment that blew me away during my grad physics studies was the realisation that a neutron star is effectively one gigantic atomic nucleus.
They are planning to integrate two marketplaces into Blender via plugins. One for Shaders, one for Animation Curves.
> K8s has been commoditized to the point where it makes sense for many organisations

Absolutely, but we still need to lose the control plane for it to make sense for small scale systems. Most of my customers run on something like two VMs, and that's only for redundancy. Asking them to pay for an additional three VMs for a control plane isn't feasible.

I think we need something like kubectl, but which works directly on a VM.
They are not in a line of business where they might be deplatformed, shut down, or that AWS exists as a major liability. They also do not require any form of multi cloud redundancy that is not already being served by AWS.
The way I look at it now is that "brand integrity" work comes before the brand.

Consumers are happy if you can satisfy a "brand promise"; if you can't do that then all the corporate identity work (e.g. name, logo, ...) just becomes a focus for their discontent.

On one project I was working on I did a lot of "brand integrity" work to make the product consistent long before I did the corporate identity work. At one point I had a crisis where I realized people were not interacting with or understanding the product and at that point realized that I needed the "brand" to realize the "brand promise" (educate people about the product enough that they could get the most out of it.)
How about designating these attacks as an act of war and treating them as terrorists and combatants with a punishment of life in prison or a capital punishment?
No, my point was that for China, they believe the right thing to do is what they are planning to do, not closing all the coal plants right now.

And the reporting we see here, gloss over the reasonings and mind bending on the idea that coal usage are not reducing.

China cannot afford reducing coal usage because there are no easy way to provide the needed power. And there are other means to offset the carbon emissions, and it's been worked on.

Of course, different nations would have different measurements to meet the carbon neutral goal, and precisely that what China are pursuing, I.e., a method that fits China's situation.
4. Get together with the other system's author (and possibly with other users) and agree on a common representation you'll both use.

Good standards are a wonderful thing, and IMHO we as an industry tend to invest far too little in establishing them now.

I believe programming languages can help a lot here, if you take the view that their standard library should be not just a ready-made toolbox but also a library of standards, in the sense of establishing concepts and (depending on the language) terminology, interfaces, types, symbolic constants and other common foundations for implementations in a specific field.

An example of not doing this is JavaScript, where the paucity of standard data structures and algorithms out of the box leads to huge trees of almost-trivial dependencies and to a culture where almost any data we need to move around just gets shoehorned into objects or transmitted as JSON.

A more positive example is Haskell, where the standard typeclasses capture several broadly useful programming patterns and given them a widely recognisable name and interface. Haskell libraries (standard or otherwise) can then provide algorithms with generic interfaces defined in those terms that are not tied to specific implementations or specific data structures. This results in an ecosystem of data structures and algorithms that are relatively easy to compose even when coming from different sources, which often allows Haskell programmers to express ideas very concisely. A related example is the use of generic programming within the standard library of C++, particularly with the arrival of concepts in C++20 that should serve a similar role to typeclasses in Haskell.

Both of those languages also learned some of these lessons the hard way. Each of them failed to establish a single, standard way to represent something as “simple” as a text string, with the result that many popular libraries did things their own way, and passing text around between things like databases, UIs and remote communications protocols can be a chore to this day.

I think it’s interesting that in some cases, the community around a language has evolved a kind of de facto standard interface for common tasks like accessing a SQL database, so that for example whether you’re talking to Postgres or Maria or SQLite or whatever, the corresponding drivers all provide very similar interfaces and are (mostly) interchangeable as far as calling code is concerned. I think it would be helpful if we did a lot more of that as an industry, within and perhaps even across languages, so we don’t keep reinventing the wheel every time we need to access a relational database or to draw a simple GUI or transmit data using typical Internet protocols or represent mathematical structures beyond the very basic ones.
I'd prefer they contribute to gimp.
Despite my endless hatred of Node ecosystem, Node-RED is an absolute gem of a software. It hasn't skipped a beat in over a year running my home automation.
> She's my wife, please don't speculate on my (or her) honesty

Arguing that the facts seem to contradict your (or your wife’s) interpretation (an argument I am observing, not endorsing) of the situation is not questioning either of your honesty. People can draw false conclusions without lying.
YMMW, but after I learned some of ESR views, I no longer want to read his essays.
And while one is in that general area, don't miss a visit to Glenstone [1], a superb combination of art, architecture, and modern museum in the Potomac area, just west of D.C.

While the art collection is fantastic (hosted in an older set of gallery buildings by Charles Gwathmey, and a newer building by Thomas Phifer and Partners), the huge park it's located in makes it a particularly unique experience, featuring permanent outdoor pieces by the likes of Andy Goldsworthy, Richard Serra, and Michael Heizer.

I've been to many of the art and science museums in D.C. and Baltimore, but Glenstone is my favourite.

[1] https://www.glenstone.org/
In what sense did the "American Dream" take a shock in 2020? Iirc, by far the greatest %-age net worth growth in 2020 was among the bottom 50%: greater than the growth in the top 10% or top 1%.
Nah it's absolutely daft and just guild protectionism for things like paracetamol.

Fake or bad goods are not an issue in developed countries without these extreme rules.

But that's not my point. My point is that such extreme rules stand in stark contrast to the sale of snake oil.
https://whereisscihub.now.sh/

Currently redirects to: https://whereisscihub.vercel.app/
Maybe if enough businesses did this it would drive a societal shift. I've had the pleasure of firing a small handful of customers from my very small SaaS business when they were outrightly rude or vulgar. I feel terrible whenever I see an employee at any business having to be sanguine with an abusive customer, it shouldn't be tolerated.
Yeah, because neither you nor Assange have the faintest idea what "that's implied" might mean, right? "All he claims is the ability..." Yeah, and "Nice place you got here, would be a shame if anything happened to it" is just preemptive commiseration, not at all an implicit threat.

Pull the other one, it's got bells on.
sure you can do homegrown and probably be more efficient and cost savy, but you can't beat the amount of tooling and that new sysops you will have to train to those new tools compared to a pure k8 platform...
Have you ever worked in a kitchen or are you just assuming?

I personally haven't worked in a restaurant, but I see how the staff and chefs are always running around, doing 20 things at once. Stimulants use like cocaine and amphetamine is endemic in the industry as well, probably for that reason.

As a restaurant worker, the pay is usually terrible as well. So while some super rich corporation won't lose millions off of your mistakes, you can lose your job and be forced to live off of your inexistent savings. That sounds very stressful to me.

Your assessment for what constitutes stress seems to be, at best, highly subjective.
Also it seems Elon Musk could help them get much better space telescopes than they have now.
Mow the lawn, water the lawn, tend the flower bed, paint the house (or replace the siding), replace the shingles on the roof after the hailstorm, fix the A/C, replace the refrigerator, etc. Some of the those are more frequent that others, of course, but things break over time.

Other costs of ownership are property tax (generally about 1% of the property value per year), gas/water/electricity are more expensive than renting because the house is bigger, there is home owners' insurance, and possibly neighborhood association fees. And then when you sell, you have capital gains tax and seller tends to pay the broker's fees for both the buy and seller, which totals up to about 6% of the selling price. There's probably sales tax, too.
I could be WAY off, but if locality isn’t entirely true, and the “read success” is 33-67%, doesn’t that still leave quite a bit of wiggle room for communicating information in some fault tolerant method?
Adobe is investing seriously in 3D now (with buying Allegorithmic), which as someone who is forced to use their software because of my industry I'd be ok with but they've instead decided that now your "Creative Cloud" subscription only applies to 2D creativity because all the 3D software they've just acquired is now an seperate subscription on top of that.

Not to mention their software all still basically ships as yearly versions, we now just have to pay for every years updates when before you could say buy one year, skip two, buy the next.
Regardless of the very real conversation/questions of individuals who have amassed such titanic wealth, to me the question of these "joyrides for the wealthy" is that they are fantastically unbelievably ridiculously colossally polluting.

I can think of no obvious parallel ways to have as outsized a negative impact on Spaceship Earth as this. Especially in such a short window of time.
we could just move that information onto a site where scientists have to verify their identity, we could also build a science blockchain and verify identities that way as well
> For those that are not aware countries that were under former Soviet boots all have a state television

Most countries in the world have state-owned television.

> In Orban like states you loose that free access to all media and you are forced into the state one.

So many people own smartphones and have internet access. Even older ones, who learn to use them faster than PCs. People can consume whatever media they want. And people can certainly teach their parents how to consume non-government news.
This.

"Customer is king" mentality should die. Far too often it leads to disgruntled frontline workers and customers walking around as if they are doing a business favour just by being their customer. Even something seemingly as simple as "smiling" is tiring if done all day.

In a business transaction all parties are equal. No one is doing anyone else a favour.

I quite liked it when I saw signboards in Singapore that said abusing a store keeper is a punishable offence.
As someone living in Austria, I noticed this as well. Rich Austrians own all big businesses and all desirable properties in Croatia.

I wonder what will happen to Croatia, politically, in the future, when the young there find themselves priced out of their own country by richer foreigners.

Seems like uncontrolled capitalism has enabled a form of economic colonialism, as proven further by the money printer let loose during Coving, making the rich richer and the poor poorer, to which the response is always "that's just how the free market works".
It seems like you can clearly delineate, by whether you are being paid to be there, or you are paying to be there.
Dicamba is a herbicide, something that is supposed to kill some plants[0].

From the article:

> In my opinion, dicamba has caused more damage to American agriculture than anything I have witnessed in my lifetime.

In many cases chemicals that are biologically active in one group of organisms are also active in other groups. Dumping a lot of it into the environment is not a very good idea.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dicamba
So is it better to give 10 people some wage, but not a living wage, or 5 people a living wage and have 5 people with no wage?
They aren't using containers, though. They're using pure EC2 _but_ are using Docker images as the deployment artifact.
Agreed, but it would be surprising (impossible depending on the arch) if the CNN learned such transformations.
Isn't this a common/popular stereotype in so many movies? Hoity-toity protagonist believes they're more educated/better than the savages who follow old tradition, then have to eat some humble pie.

An age old tale we can't seem to learn.
Even in a state like California where the population is pro-rail and mass transit, the sheer cost of building high speed rail means the project won't come to fruition any time soon. The automobile and airline lobby is powerful, yes, but the sheer cost of public works projects in the US seems to be the biggest limiting factor.

In the PRC, if the government wants to build a high speed rail line, it's getting built and F-U if you want to stop it. In the US the process is 'democratized' and every little busybody comes out to protest the construction, drag the process out, or get some variance approved for some hitherto unexpected concern.
What makes the interstate system globally unique?
I wonder if a McDonalds has ever been run as a co-op.

I wonder what McDonalds would do if you tried it.
The answer to any labor shortage is to pay more. Either take the profits currently captured by the owner and use them for salaries or raise prices and do the same. No consumer should ever be responsible for an entrepreneur’s failing business model.
Sure, but if you are looking for memorization MSE will give you a decent clue I would think.
One thing you can do is use all these things as teaching moments. Teach your children how to recognize all the ways they’re being manipulated, both by media, and in person by other people.

Build up their awareness and defenses at an early age, so they’ll be less vulnerable and more prepared when they go out on their own one day. Dark patterns, psychological manipulations, emotions and biases are all things they need to be aware of.

Once people are aware of how they’re being manipulated and can recognize it in real-time they’re less likely to fall victim to it.

Some resources:

[0]:https://www.darkpatterns.org/

[1]:https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/49176 (Games People Play)

[2]:https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/133203 (Gentle Art of Verbal Self Defense)

[3]:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manufacturing_Consent

[4]:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological_manipulation

[5]:https://fs.blog/great-talks/psychology-human-misjudgment/

[6]:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thinking,_Fast_and_Slow
It's coming! We will have the first true high speed rail in the US. It's Shinkansen hardware because the Japanese investors in the project insisted... and good for them and us that they did! It's also all new rail as Amtraks own the passenger rights to all existing rail in the US. It's also 100% grade separated (like TGV) so it doesn't cross traffic or people. (This is the #1 factor in making trains safer and faster than cars.)

While I'm "not bullish on trains" in the US, as another poster put it, I do think it will work here. Houston is already America's 3rd largest city with 8M people and the route to Dallas (Hwy 45) is horrible, unsafe, and extremely busy, all the time.
cross linking stops the progression but does not fix your vision. went through cornea transplant 20 years ago and it has been great since with a rather quick recovery. had a few episodes of rejection at the beginning but since I use Restasis, it never occurred again (coincidence or correlation? don't really want to know at this point). life expectancy of graft is about 30 years though I've been told... :( good luck
Maya has the most impressive C++ SDK I've ever seen. It tells you so much about how Maya is coded. With the SDK you get just as much power as the developers of Maya get, the same tools.

Also, the UI is insanely well scriptable.
Awesome progress from Devin, Alex, and their growing team-- congrats!
I firmly agree the OP should encourage his wife to stop engaging in self-destructive behavior.

(I also believe sex work is necessarily self-destructive, as it commodifies, commercializes and depersonalizes the closest, most intimate way of relating to and bonding with another human that we have.)

Your phrasing of "why do you let your wife..." implies OP can and should control whether his wife does this self-destructive behavior.

He can't, literally, and he should not try to.

He is responsible for his choices, not hers.

Yes, if he sees this as hurting her and he's not trying to persuade her to stop doing it, he's responsible for that inaction on his part, and I'd say he should take action.

But, he needs to always remember he does not and should not control her.
Do you really think the pilots are nothing more than dead weight whose only purpose is to be a passenger? The astronauts were some of the best of the best because it was an experimental flight program. Do you really think the best pilots would sign up and give their lives just to be a test subject with no control like the chimpanzee the Russians put into space?
Interesting post, but part of the post feels fairly disingenuous.

"One might wonder if these wounded meditators had preexisting conditions that triggered these experiences. Most of us don’t, a finding similar to Britton and Lindahl’s study, which reported that 57% of practitioners suffering adverse effects didn’t have a trauma history and 42% had no psychiatric issues at all prior to meditation practice."

The framing is disingenuous. If you flip it, nearly half of people who have negative responses to meditation had trauma histories, and nearly 60% had previous mental health conditions.
I agree. It seems that most people's "solutions" to this "problem" are various ways to make people's live more miserable and keep them desperate enough to work shit jobs for low pay. I guess a lot of people are just fine with having a slave class as long as it means they don't have to be inconvenienced in any way.

If this industry literally cannot afford to pay people a living wage, if no one wants to work for them and they can't remain profitable by making working conditions better, then they just shouldn't even exist.
True.

I see that mostly as part of the larger problem that the US doesn't build much of anything these days.
I think you're hitting the nail on the head here.

1) Lack of general(outside work) support for what essentially is an empathy job (care about the customer experience)

2) Lack of social enforcement of dont be a piece of shit. People used to call out people more for behavioral standards (swearing, presumption of positive intent, codes of dress, on and on the list goes...)

Next time you see someone being treated poorly speak up. Everyone is too busy recording for youtube rather than interacting in the environment. We've become passive observers rather than active partakers in life.
Nope, I just didn't apply right out of school.
Execution is almost everything.

Almost any idea, well executed could succeed on some level.

That said, sometimes 'execution' is not what we think it may be. I always remembered OkCupid as having great UI an design. PlentyOfFish had bizarre, ugly, unwieldy, sometimes not working UI. POF I believe sold for a lot more, and the founder basically bootstrapped and practically owned the entire thing. In the later case 'just getting the photos up with a profile' seemed to be the key magic point. Bumble ... the novelty of 'women chose' and pushing really, really hard on the 'female founder' PR opportunity to the tune of monthly exposure on CNN and major outlets.

Sometimes I wonder if Liz Holmes were to have had better talent, if she could have pivoted that finger-prick BS into something actually applicable. It always felt like 'fraud on the edge of something actually useful' but never crossed the line.
Sadly the book thing had been in a mostly closed state for the past few years due to tax issues.

Luckily though greenmount is starting to clean up. Red Emma's is moving into the neighborhood soon as well
I've heard of servers making so much they can't afford to move to a white collar job (or would have to take a pay cut).
Windows 365 Cloud PCs
Any non-utilitarian B2C market with enthusiasts is like that - photography, fishing, drones, mountain biking… there’s endless drama in discussion forums, brand loyalty, flame wars and all of that reaches the vendors (especially the smaller ones which directly participate in communities).
Functional Programming Option Type
As someone who has taken the Shinkansen in Japan, the seats and legroom are vastly bigger and more comfortable than on airplanes. Moreover, the view is nice and normal air pressure is nice too.