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> Patents and trade secrets only go so far. You can't patent or keep secret the concepts that these trials prove out.

I'd argue this is, if we're talking about practicality, is just crumbs though.

For example, scratch-resistant lenses were developed at NASA. Proving that it could be done wasn't the important factor that brought it to everyone's homes. What brought it to everyone's homes was the fact that NASA licensed

As another example, single-crystal silicon solar cells were first developed after NASA sponsored a 28-member coalition to develop an unmanned, high altitude aircraft. Private companies don't create coalitions like this and are much less likely to license or waive patents.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA_spinoff_technologies#Scra...
Yea, we recently got a Stripe Capital loan offer, but it didn’t seem compelling at all. We’re clearly not their target customer for that but as a tech startup doing SaaS I kind of figured we would be their target customer. The offer was orders of magnitude less than our ARR on that account.
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I don't mind it. If I see something with a surprise K at the front or somewhere in it, I can assume it's a KDE product and I know where to go for support. Maybe it's annoying to everybody else but this branding makes my life simpler.
Presumably they are meant to add authentication to their API if they don't want a third party client accessing it. If they believe they have a leg to stand on they can try to get it removed from github. What you don't do is threaten to collaborate with the Chinese government to murder them.
"They"? Are astronomers a uniform community in which the entire profession is responsible for every stray comment someone makes?
I hope people have better dreams. That is my dream.
Groups that win at politics think about forming coalitions. Other groups lose.
Some people's preferences are more ...refined =)

What if your specific kink was red-headed twinks with a scottish accent and freckles? Can you easily google up some of that?

Or maybe if you found one on OnlyFans, would you cough up the $10 a month for that exact content?
> Actually, IIUC people were more generous tippers “during” the pandemic [1]. Some of the reopening discussion included a note that average tipping went down.

Yeah, previously I wouldn't tip if I had to order my food from a counter, but I changed that during the pandemic (especially if it was a smaller mom an pop restaurant).
Stopping FTP support in Firefox 90
And you are ignoring the 1.8 g part after each parabola - the zero g don't come for free.

The acceleration on New Shepard is much lower and even the max acceleration experienced during landing should be in the same ballpark of <2 g but only once and for a very brief period of time only compared to the vomit comet.

This could be a factor for some people.
That's reasonable, but pretty much every business that manages money usually has a third-party bank behind the scenes (though many do use a big bank like JPM or WF)
It can impact compile time performance but Boost Safe Numerics provides some nice wrappers to prevent narrowing (or restrict it to specific classes of narrowing) and throw warnings or errors at compile time similar to what you see in Rust.
So the penalty I'm calculating is the stop penalty of slowing from a cruising speed to a dead stop, waiting at the station, and then speeding back up to cruising speed versus maintaining cruising speed the entire distance; you can think of this as the time penalty that the Route 128 stop generates (being on a nice straight track that allows very high speed).

What you're talking about instead is the penalties imposed by a more constrained right-of-way in urban environments. Except when we're talking about Philadelphia (or most of the Northeast in general), you can't really escape from a constrained right-of-way anyways--a quick crayoning suggests you're adding about 20 miles of railway route which, even at 200mph, adds more time than you're saving by itself.

Consider again the cost of bypassing to save time. How many millions of dollars are you willing to save a minute of travel time? It is far cheaper to put that money into straightening the worst curves of legacy inner city track than to spend it bypassing the city altogether, not even accounting for the loss of revenue by not serving what are objectively large cities.
> These sad lonely sexless men spend all their money on this shit. It consumes them, until they are out of money, then it destroys them. It warps their expectations of relationships further impacting their datability, driving them even more towards onlyfans.

You're casting this as a situation where sex workers are preying on people, when I think it's equally true that sex workers are helping people cope (in a way that can be mal-adaptive).

There is nothing wrong with enjoying buying content from sex workers. There's nothing wrong with selling it. The people who spend in ways that are unhealthy for them (which is common across many industries) were not put into that mindset by the sex work industry. The industry just doesn't have that much power.

The official definition for substance use disorder is when use starts to damage other parts of the patients' life. In situations where there are some users of substances who lead happy lives, blaming the substance alone is desceptive - it's the combination of factors that have led a particular person to use it in an unhealthy way. It is common for people to act in even less healthy ways if you abruptly cut them off from their mal-adaptive coping mechanism.

I hope that you do not just direct this critique towards the marginalized group of people that provides a relationship-like service, but also towards the far-more-powerful forces that grind people down to the point that they cannot turn away from parasocial relationships.
I fear Tim Berners-Lee's promising Solid project is already DOA because of the team's shoehorning this type of semantic web stuff into it - articles like this won't sway the true believers.
Show HN: MsgViz, an animated message passing diagram editor
Would you use the same reasoning to adopt Java/Cobol/NodeJS/...?
I don't believe it was a joke? I watched the bit and it certainly didn't come across as one.
This just isn’t accurate. Starlink is only barely visible under certain conditions near sunrise and sunset and most of the time cannot be seen by the naked eye, due to SpaceX inventing and deploying sunshade technology to reduce satellite visibility to the visible limit.

I think there is a lot of miss information out there about star link. Yes it does affect large survey telescopes but for the most part it isn’t a huge impact on the actual naked eye visible night sky. ISS & other space stations are FAR easier to see, outshining out even the brightest stars vs Starlink which can only be seen a small portion of the time with the naked eye (once in operational orbit). It has absolutely no impact on reducing visibility of Andromeda or subtle constellations.
I am primarily a backend developer, so this is a small foray into the javascript/front end world. This is a small side project I put together to learn Vue / D3.js. The concept is to let users create animated message passing diagrams. I suspect there may be other tools that do this, but I wasn't able to find anything that worked in a similar way.

The front page illustrates some examples I made, though if someone can come up with some better ones, I'd be happy to add them with attribution! There is a simple back end that allows diagrams to be saved. You can edit it with one link, and share it in read only mode with another.

The tool itself is very much a POC, but most of the basic functionality is there. There are some issues with layout, and load times/performance. In addition, the site does not work well on mobile, though it would be quite difficult to do so I expect. Any feedback would be appreciated however!
The problem with rare earths is not that they are really rare [0]. Many of them are pretty common in the earth crust. The real problem is that they only occur in low concentrations, and it takes a lot of energy and environmental damage to harvest them. Using bacteria seems very interesting.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rare-earth_element
Ah, that's a pity. I was hoping something like a sensory deprivation tank or whatever would accelerate the process. I, sadly, do not wish to assign that much time to this.

Maybe when I retire! Thanks for the advice!
this seems a little fast and loose. you already had the information the instant you picked the marble, but you didn't observe it until later.
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Perfect exclusion is impossible. Even if you know how much photons you're going to get from a satellite, physics dictates you will actually get a close, but not necessarily exact number; this uncertainty alone can be many times larger than the entire number of photons you get from a faint star, essentially destroying the observation. Many estimates are talking about 1/3 of the entire useful observational time being discarded at many critical instruments, for only one mega-constellation of the Starlink size.

>But in the digital era, it will always be 100% known where the satellites were at a given point in time

This has little to do with the digital era, and a lot more to do with the Cold War. (and it's far from 100%)
Indeed, in Theravadin Buddhism the Buddha is said to have taught monks and laypeople skillfully, to their appropriate level.

The Anapanasati Sutta, which is about Englightement through mindfulness of the breath, is cited by many teachers as "the shortcut to liberation". But the target audience of the discourse was an assembly of the most developed monks to give them the final tweak.

For laypeople, in for example the Kalama Sutta, the Buddha teaches simple things on how to develop Morality and Confidence, which are with Right Understanding the starting points of the Path.

I am always amazed at the simplicity and clarity of the teachings.

https://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/an/an03/an03.065.th...
I was hoping it was going to be a reflowing PDF reader that makes those narrow columns with small text into larger size text easier to read, like arxiv-vanity.com.
this problem where published science is often wrong and you don't need to actually be an engineer that history will not record the name of is completely new, and also, airplanes are impossible and where actually invented by The Wright Bros, because they had the Wright stuff, right?
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Maybe this is controversial, but I think the US army does less good for society than an OnlyFans model.
> Purified’s patented algorithm scans thousands of news sources worldwide and measures for the most talked about and reported news in real-time to create a list of actual top breaking stories.

So you automate aggregation of the agenda-setting bias of the existing news industry, and then...

> Then, purified Reporters choose assignments from that list to create short, accurate video news reports.

Create new reports inserting your own biases into the coverage of the stories from that aggregated agenda.

Just because you choose “purified” doesn't make a process of bias aggregation and introduction any more pure than what existed without it.
Thanks for the wishes! I have never heard of MarketBrief, this is very interesting.

We most probably couldn't have done what we are able to do today back then because the ML scene was quite nascent.
“Do you think software engineering will remain a creative endeavour in the future?”

I would think so. If something can be automated or be done with a reproducible process it will get automated or performed by lower paid people. But I can easily see how software and automated processes will reach a point of “good enough” for most purposes sometime in the future and there will be much less software engineers doing creative work. For example I would expect a lot of repetitive front end backend work will go away.
I'll look into it, thank you.
What flags you have in mind? Because this code doesn't generate any warning with GCC 11.1.0 with -Wall -Wextra:

int main(void) {
int some_int = 1234567;
char c = some_int;

return c;
}
This is something PayPal has offered small businesses for probably close to a decade now.
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Besides, though the situation's undeniably funny, there are much more appropriate, simple, and proportionate ways to ensure your WordPress marketing site or blog don't fall over than putting them on k8s, even if you are a k8s shop.
I wouldn't describe the far left today as having anything to do with its foundations. What I've observed is a political group largely held together with an obsessive compulsion to root out any element not in line with its own brand of correct thought, which contains a variety of maximalist interpretations on everything from sex and gender to race and institutions.

It's a far left I've experienced both in the US and here in Denmark and I think it's largely the far left people think of when it is mentioned.
I now have to imagine that Quantum Game Theory is a thing that exists.
Thanks! This is similar to where I ended up landing as well. It turns out using a non-standardized standard format is practically worse than dealing with giant blobs of plain text!
A study design like that is called an epidemiological study and is far behind the gold standard of a random controlled trial, reason being the teams that choose to do testing or not are not randomly assigned to experimental and control groups. There are ways outside of study design of controlling for confounders when you can't randomly assign experimental and control groups, such as in this instance only looking at teams that directly tried similar projects with tests and without, but it is rare to see anyone do that.

Otherwise, you hit a rather obvious issue. Testing and following best practices are not the only policies impacting project quality, and in particular they exist in large part to help less experienced or hastily assembled teams. If you're comparing their output to the output of several core maintainers who have been working on the same project for 20 years, in the absence of other information, you expect the latter group to produce better quality work, and the fact that they actually do even if they aren't following industry best practices doesn't tell you those practices aren't useful to the former group or even that the latter group couldn't have produced an even better product if they'd followed them.

Be aware I'm not at all trying to advocate for either approach, just the issues with various flavors of scientific evidence that vary tremendously in how valuable they are depending on study design. I'm just saying we can't know with any level of scientific validity because the studies themselves are near worthless. Software management is in the state today that major league baseball was in 30 years ago, no statistically valid evidence and a whole lot of gut eye test from grizzled veterans. But unlike with baseball, nobody is keeping rich troves of every imaginable counting stat that can be counted going back a century on all of the developers, so a pure data science approach to making management more scientific like the moneyball guys accomplished in pro sports is not likely to work, since it would necessarily be data science without the data.
Study quantifying the cost/benefit of companies instituting vaccination policies
I was doing research to move set up some new system into scalable cloud infrastructure. My first option was K8s (EKS) and second was plain ECS+Fargate. Ramping up in K8s was so convoluted and painful that I decided to follow up with ECS. That has been quite straightforward.
Our culture is sick. I don't judge you or your ex-girlfriend for doing it but the whole webcam business shouldn't be a thing. Governments should do more to help socially awkward people make real connections with others outside the internet. Instead people sit at home more and more and then lonely men pay to look at streams of women masturbating. If you got someone to time travel from 100 years ago they'd probably think we've gone full retard.
No he doesnt
I'm not a patent lawyer...

In principle, a patent is supposed to cover this. The text of the patent has to provide a recipe for reducing the idea to practice. As I understand it, if the recipe is unworkable, the patent is void.

Whether the patent office is stringent enough about this requirement is an open question of course. It may vary from one field to another. For instance, a patent for a new kind of optical lens is required to include a complete "prescription" for the lens, which is recognized as a sufficient set of data needed to replicate the idea. (One of my patents is like that).
Here in Russia trains are rather popular. There are "high-speed" trains between Moscow and St Petersburg, they go around 200 km/h but they still take around 4 hours. Oh and they're made by Siemens, and they're capable of going faster, except their speed is limited by shitty tracks. Like you can't even walk in a straight line inside this thing while it's doing 200, so I imagine it'd shake itself apart if it tried accelerating any further. That's probably better than Amtrak, but Russian railways could still use a lot of improvement.
Good example of that feature is Python. Also, AFAIR, Scheme (and probably some other lisps) support it.
I wanted to refrain from commenting because honestly I’m not the biggest fan of relatively opaque complexity and kubernetes tries its hardest to be this. (Cloud providers doing magic things with annotations for example)

But, I have to say that kubernetes is not the devil. Lock-in, is the devil.

I recently underwent the task of getting us off of AWS, which was not as painful as it could have been (I talk about it here[0])

But the thing is: I like auto healing, auto scaling and staggered rollouts.

I had previously implemented/deployed this all myself using custom C++ code, salt and a lot of python glue. It worked super well but it was also many years of testing and trial and error.

Doing all of that again is an insane effort.

Kubernetes is 80% of the same stuff if your workload fits in it, but you have to learn the edge cases, which of course increases tremendously from the standard: python, Linux, terraform stuff most operators know.

Anyway.

I’m not saying go for it. But don’t replace it with lock-in.

[0]: https://www.gcppodcast.com/post/episode-265-sharkmob-games-w...
Basically all modern GPU architectures implement tiled rasterization. NVIDIA has been doing it since Maxwell (2014) and AMD has been doing it since Vega (2017). Even Intel has been doing it for a few years now starting with their Gen 11 (2019) GPUs.
Offsite works fine, but for many people offsite is still accessible by current credentials.

The S3 options around this work well with object lock or similar.

I remember the old school tape methods (we had a rotation of who took the tape home). This was truly offline
Hiking doesn't necessarily mean going "up", let alone through highly steep paths. Walking through the woods in uneven terrain is hiking.
I think this comment is being downvoted unfairly - yes, there are mechanisms to get into an iPhone with physical access (see greykey) - but those rely on leveraging a vulnerability to allow brute forcing the PIN, they do not break FaceID.
> Rather, both balls are in a superposition of being both red and blue simultaneously, and it is not possible in principle to assign a color to either one of them until the moment a measurement is made.

I don't disagree, and (clearly) I make a measurement when I show you the color of a ball. Before I show you a ball, I would also say that the colors of the balls are in a superposition.

> major revolution in physics in order to understand that if there are two balls, one is blue and one is red, then if you see one of the balls is red, you can conclude the other ball is blue?

Entanglement is really just this simple — entanglement itself is a statement about a wave function, classical or quantum. The major revolution in physics is that transformations of the wave functions do not behave as we would classically expect. Entangled particles are a tool that we can use to measure those transformations (and get surprising results).
Yep, and others say it’s less than 1%. Neither of them are lying, but their talking about different kinds of observations.

My assumption is scheduling should solve most of these issues in terms of large instruments.
Genuine question because I honestly have no idea: how much additional learning curve is added by the average cloud provider to create a Kubernetes hosting context/setup?

Knowing nothing about K, I’m constantly wondering how it could be simpler than dumping a binary into a PaaS (web) hosting context and letting it do its thing. I’m interested to learn.
But what about me? I'm not a beta cuck, incel or a loser (last one could be debatable). Yet I love OnlyFans, I love the amateur porn videos on PornHub, I love live webcams and all that stuff. I love that I actually pay for a lot of it! I certainly enjoy these things much more than traditional porn videos. My partner enjoys viewing some of these things with me. We may or may not have even partook a few times ourselves!

I don't see why I should be denied access to all of this fun paid sex stuff (consuming and producing) just because other people can't handle themselves. Should I also not be allowed to drink or gamble or play video games just because some other people abuse these hobbies in a dramatic and harmful fashion?
Man. Remember when "Unveil" meant that they were actually taking a sheet off of a real product?
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Just watched it, very worthwhile!
> This is peculiar because it treats security guards as humans and challenges unspoken hierarchy.

I still find it a bit condescending / annoying. I read things like "offering a particularly human-centered lens through which to consider the objects" as let the plebs have their night out once in a while. They'll still get "mentored" by curators apparently, so it's not like they're just using their understanding to pick, they'll probably get brainwashed a bit.

One interesting experiment would be to put a button / ticket scanner near each artwork and ask the visitors to vote on what they liked. Maybe give them a theme and ask them to pick 2-3 pieces of art that matched that theme and put an exhibition on at the end of a month or so with the most picked works.
Ballistic free path is 45 minutes. A single LEO is 90 minutes, no place on Earth is more than a half-orbit distant.

A ballistic point-to-point tragectory is an orbit which intersects the surface.
What's striking to me is that the negative consequences of sex work are not at all the sex work itself, but the stigma and trauma inflicted on sex workers by other people who ought to mind their own business, but clearly won't and from abuse by mentally ill mostly male sorts taking out their frustrations upon them in increasingly horrible ways.

I don't have a solution here. But I also agree that there are plenty of other horrible jobs in the world and it's also striking that the same people who lose their minds over sex work would not raise a peep over those other professions that have little or nothing to do with sex.

Judge not lest ye be judged? Yeah right.