skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It most likely has a self-destruct sequence. It's basically the same as firing a missile so I wouldn't be surprised if the same type of persuasions were taken as when military drills take place.
Just here, no blog.
Yup! And some of the other things involved actual state action, which is obviously way more problematic than people whining on twitter.

Honestly, I’d go further. First, college students are and have always been extreme. Getting too riled up about it is frankly blasé. Second, contrary to the pearl clutching we live in a golden age of free speech. You can say all kinds of shit online now that would’ve gotten you literally lynched a few decades ago in some places. On the right and the left there has been an absolute flourishing of the kind of speech that “respectable” society chilled out even during my childhood, the idea that free speech is in trouble is utterly unfounded. Never mind how much easier it is to speak your mind anonymously, something that was reserved only to the kind of people who could get op-eds in the past.

What I think is actually happening here is that the kind of cultural and economic elites used to speaking at the people are suddenly finding them speaking with the people, and they’re not enjoying finding out what the people really think. In fact the only threat to free speech I can see is the very people whining about the “woke mob”, who are trying to connect online criticism with actual violence.
The whole situation is just pathetic, not funny. He’s storming off in a huff because he maybe can’t do one joke from half a century ago? Like, if the joke doesn’t land anymore, write new ones? Cancelling your entire appearance because you maybe can’t do one bit that most of your audience doesn’t even remember and doesn’t know you planned to do is more than a bit self absorbed.

At this point I find comedians whining about cancel culture to be as unique and insightful as a new bit about airline food. It’s usually not funny, it’s been done, and it is far too self indulgent to be healthy. Half of the time these “canceled” comedians make these jokes from their massive platforms, making the entire situation farcical.

But it seems like Cleese has stooped down so low as to do entire specials about cancel culture, a disappointing descent into culture war bullshit for a comedian I genuinely like. I suspect that this entire event was nothing more than a PR stunt for his “cancel me” series, which has increased my eye rolling.
PDF download link for those who want to download it, but don't want to hunt for the link: https://ia801303.us.archive.org/29/items/ZeldovichYaglomHigh...
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14ms for an echo server is pretty slow. 1.8s for an HTTP echo server of the same data... I don't even know how this can possibly be valid. Something's wrong, or I misunderstood the table.
I've been slowly but persistently pushing the idea of capability based security above the noise floor (or so I hope).

Pascal, the programming language isn't so bad either. ;-)
If you can't understand what people are trying to say, I recommend trying to experience it for yourself. Install Common Lisp along with Slime for Emacs, and try things out. Or try out a Smalltalk environment like Squeak or Pharo which would also give you the same "enlightening" experience.

I know you are skeptical because python has a repl too and so it is hard to see what these "live" environments like lisp/smalltalk are offering. But trust me (and the others) that there is more than what python offers.

I have written python professionally probably more than any other language I have used, so I'm not ignorant of python btw.

No one is trying to fool you. But you don't have to take our word, please try it out for yourself!
Power draw from the GPU is a lot lower on Monterey. Still not as good as driving only the internal display, but about ~40% lower compared to previous OSs. Lower power mode also helps another 15%.
IIRC, Alastair Reynolds describes something very much like this in his novel Blue Remembered Earth, which is set on a future Earth about 140 years from now.
Apple and Google's business incentives are in opposition. Google benefits from web apps replacing iOS apps, while Apple benefits from iOS apps replacing web apps.

Native apps can offer many benefits (such as power efficiency), but I expect that business reasons are equally if not more important.
Safety and liability actually mean lack of revenue from data collection and service contracts. It's nothing to do with safety or liability.
is this sarcasm?
Getting off the gold standard and going to a fiat currency, and going into exponential debt ever since. It stagnated the middle class due to inflation and wages not keeping up (which would have caused more inflation). We needed cheap labor to make goods cheaper and more affordable for the stagnating middle class, so we made favorable trade deals that wiped out manufacturing, which exacerbated the problem. It's just a bunch of added negative feedback loops. Hold on.
That does help.
Since they are registered and used as mopeds, why not get an electric moped instead? Then you don't have to pedal and can sit more comfortable, maybe even with a windscreen.

I don't really see the point of pedelecs, unless you disregard the law and just pretend they are less powerful e-bikes. But then you'll lose it if the police notice.
it depends. theres not a lot of granularity in the classification system and the government is loathe to declassify old stuff. thats why s\c\i is the best clearance marking i know of and basically means "dont tell anyone even if they have a clearance"

a lot of nuclear navy info is decades old and shares the same classification level of new, novel tech. suffice it to say submarines are doing cool things and i certainly dont know the half of it.
This is the scale model. The orbital version has to be several times larger.

The idea is, I think, to use this as a first stage. The second stage is a rocket that takes the projectile to orbit.
We changed the URL from https://jalopnik.com/a-startup-just-launched-a-rocket-by-spi..., which points to this. We changed its hideously baity title as well.
They aren’t wrong tho.

Both points are worth discussion: targeting poor with a new method of earning magic Internet money (actually a pyramid scheme). And major investors losing any moral compass by supporting that (e.g. “Bitcoin is a net positive for the environment” by Jack and Elon).
Will come straight down even though the earth is spinning... unless atmosphere drags it aside.
There are about 200-300 people who play fantasy sports full-time as a career on FanDuel and DraftKings. Probably another 20,000-30,000 use it as a legitimate stream of secondary income.

Legitimate games of skill, when regulated, will always be able to support this.
related: skyhook
https://sites.google.com/view/sources-skyhooks/

great video: https://youtu.be/dqwpQarrDwk
I vote left because I consider it this type of value proposition: If people have no help and no way out of poverty, they'll revolt, and that'll be bad for me.

But there is another, countervailing aspect. People think they have no alternative if they live in a society that provides no upward mobility.

I happen to live in a country (the US) that provides the greatest degree of upward mobility in the world, which is why immigrants from every other country come here. But there are people here who, out of a form of sanctimony disguised as "empathy", want to insist to people in service jobs that they are permanently stuck there and should view themselves as members of a
oppressed class, rather than emphasizing (let alone providing) the opportunities for people to reach their highest potential.

We're not the UK, let alone Russia. I was a taxi driver. Numerous former bartenders I know own houses and work in tech. Friends who were barely employable ten years ago are now master carpenters, mechanics, or truck drivers with several trucks. And some are "professional", if you consider coding professional. I think it's more like plumbing without a license.

My point is that pity and putting people in a box with hoity-toity empathy and little handouts is degrading and belittling, and saying they have to have those jobs forever is essentially a backhanded way for people to seem empathetic but actually guarantee that the existing hierarchy remains.
I don’t want to dox myself but I’m currently solo developing an application that would’ve took a company of minimum 100 to build just 15 years ago.

People are amazed when they see the stuff I solo built and imagine there is a huge company behind it.

It is all because of advances in DevOps, cheap server infrastructure, and good quality open source libraries.

It is actually scary to see this first hand because human productivity is increasing at a such a rapid speed, it will result in extreme levels of excess productivity in future.

So an economy without scarcity is getting closer to our reach but political landscape, general populace, and influential people try their hardest to prevent this from happening.
> all a bit close to home for this cold war kid

You are not the only one. I’m still scarred 38 goddamned years later from “The Day After”
This is fascinating, but I can’t believe he didn’t really address the elephant in the room (for me anyway). The instant the payload is launched, the launching mechanism will still be rotating at several hundred RPM but will no longer be balanced. I don’t see how it wouldn’t proceed to immediately and spectacularly tear itself apart. So they must have figured out how to rebalance it almost immediately. THAT is what I’d really like to hear about; that seems like the hardest aspect of the whole process.
We've changed to that from https://archive.org/details/HigherMathForBeginners. Thanks!
Oh since I’m naming names. The bank before that, Wells Fargo, honored a check I wrote > 2 years earlier. Sure, I wrote it and I was good for it at the time. I forgot about it. Maybe I could’ve left that money in limbo but at a certain point I assumed my moderately wealthy aunt wasn’t gonna cash it.

Well it doesn’t matter what I assumed, the law said the check was no longer valid. When Wells Fargo honored it and overdrafted me they disregarded the law and said I was committing check fraud if I didn’t pay up. That’s how I ended up at US Bank, because fuck if I’m going to pay you for illegally processing my check.

Edit: and yeah I had “check fraud” on my record for years after because Wells Fargo said they didn’t care about the law and just lectured me about being responsible for checks I wrote.
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This line of thinking falls apart if you think about it for more than 30 seconds. Unfortunately, people don't do that and end up creating legislation with this assumption... That people could just get better jobs (and the implication that they don't because they're lazy).

It makes no sense, though. Who is going to clear tables and wash dishes? Who is going to pick fruit? I picked fruit as a teenager. It sucked. I hated every minute of it, but it has to happen. Your suggestion seems to be making it suck more than it has to in the name of what... motivation? Why not make it possible for every member of our society to live a decent life, even if they happen to not have the necessary faculties (not to mention money, support and time) to be an engineer?
Payload needs to include a rocket or else it will come back down. Orbit requires going sideways really fast.
I’d start with medical and disability insurance. What’s wrong with a bicycle with a cargo rack?
What would the throughput be on something like that?
I can't think of much besides scrambled eggs you could send up.
>And companies may also have to contribute to higher household bills from being home-based, such as energy and internet costs.

Isn't this what we should not be doing? If government wants people to start working from home, then don't create disincentives for companies to make the switch. Temporarily, at least, absorb the cost.
Any useful comparison of outcomes would need to consider deaths instead of case rates as we have a well-known more-transmissible variant in play now compared to the beginning of the pandemic. Most of your sources don't do that.

The linked articles regarding Iceland in fact contradict your assertion. They provide a very clear graph of cases over time vs deaths over time and it is trivial to see that during the recent spike in cases, deaths are much lower in proportion compared to earlier spikes, a clear indicator of the vaccine working well.

It is also logical that most COVID cases in places with high vaccination rates are breakthrough cases, there are simply less unvaccinated hosts for the virus to potentially infect. It does not follow that the outcome would be better with less vaccinated hosts.

Finally, you've posted links to 7 deaths and 28 complications following vaccinations. Regardless of the merits of any particular one of those articles - this is scare mongering as it completely ignores that around 5 million people have died from COVID worldwide, while around 3 billion people have been vaccinated safely. (Source- Google searches for worldwide covid deaths and worldwide covid vaccinations).
Just did some quick stubby pencil work, a 2 foot diameter pipe would have to be pumping the propellant at around 70 mph in order to move that much liquid.

Just the lateral deceleration of the liquid slowing down in the tank would probably provide a couple tons of thrust.
> syntactic support in the language for cleanly passing a single in-line defined lambda/closure object as an argument

I think Perl has this too? Or, well, I should say that Perl allows you to do anything, so even if Perl doesn't let you do it, you can still do it in Perl.
Part of the issue with librem/pine is absolutely 0 way to monetize apps for the phones besides ads. So even if a developer wanted to put in the effort to make a niche app for a tiny market share there's basically no way to make money on it besides charity.

If pine/librem owners were willing to shell out $30 for each app you'd have people sitting up and taking note. But as is it's focused on the best efforts of very smart and charitable people, which is unfortunately too small a group to make things stable and widely supported.
It just means respecting when your coworkers work and scheduling messages to them in those bounds. It’s not that complicated.
Yes, you’re describing a scandal. We do have other words to describe situations, we don’t have to use the zeitgeist terms if they don’t fit.
Not a view I share but I think the general attitude of this so-called "owner" class roughly this: The average American isn't deserving enough of America's bounty, so why should they be entitled to any of it? If you want something you should work for it; you aren't entitled to it by place of birth.
Hi Peter. Thanks for your prior help in our email dialog years ago about an e2.

If I’ve received my O-1 but I haven’t started working at the company yet, can I still travel to the US on my O-1 while working remotely for a canadian company?
Nitpick to nitpick: cubically is a subset of exponentially.
Something like 10,000g to 0 in an instant—it does seem to be the largest engineering problem with a full-scale design.
There is no free money, and delaying is essentially spending money you don't actually have. If you want to buy something that comes out of your short-term savings account here. Or you can choose to not do that and have all your money in one single account and everything you do goes in and out of that. And you can configure it in a way that disables going negative so you don't get this weird overdraft fee system unless you choose to.
I did see that, and that’s what I would expect for the full version (much like launching rockets over the Atlantic from Cape Canaveral). Just a little surprised to see it looking a little more vertical for the trial run.
Yeah, I didn't see any explanation for that either. With that much kinetic energy around I wonder if it's designed to simultaneously launch a portion of the counterweight.

It's got a lower lever so the overall momentum might be low enough to make that recoverable. Maybe if it's 10% of the rocket's momentum, going into... yeah, it's hard to imagine that being recoverable but maybe it's just weights and that's good enough.

I'd love to see a real explanation.
Blue Origin astronaut Glen de Vries dies in plane crash
He mentioned it toward the end, but did not describe the solution. I'm thinking the counterweight on the other end would need to move a very precise distance in effectively zero time.

EDIT: hmm, or a supplemental weight on the payload side, moving outward the right distance as the payload releases.

It seems like you'd generally want the non-payload rotating bits to vastly outmass the payload, so its release perturbs the whole system to the least amount possible. And then you use regenerative braking to reclaim the energy .
Reasonable employment standards aren't "pity." Nor is empathy, actually.
IANAL, but you can be a 100% owner of another U.S. company, that will be collecting the fees, paying the bills and dividends, but you cannot run it. I.e. on paper, somebody else with the work permit will have to be the CEO.
If you were on the moon you would only need to match spinlaunch's launch velocity of 8000 km/h and you wouldn't even need rocket fuel. You would only need a $200 battery and a $200 solar panel to fling 1 kg into space every hour of the day, assuming 100% efficiency.

I was quite surprised to discover how cheap it is to fling chunks of the moon into space. I mean... I'm not sure why you'd bother, but still, it interested me.

(My working: 2380 m/s escape velocity, 0.5 * 2380^2 energy in Joules required, convert to kWh, googled battery and solar panel costs, totally didn't consider efficiency anywhere)
It's 1000 iterations in 2 seconds. That may be including connection setup time as well, I didn't dive into whether there's keepalive or not.
The bigger cost is the branch and the teller, both of which scale less well.
Software defined radio (SDR) is amazing stuff. $30 buys you a kit that can receive a 2 Mhz slice of radio spectrum anywhere from about 60 to 1200 Mhz, and it runs through a USB 2 port!

I learned there was a VOR navigation system nearby, and was able to build a flowgraph in GNU Radio that showed the bearing as I moved around the area.

It's amazing how much computing power you can get for about that amount of money as well, with the Raspberry Pi and Arduino boards.
53% annual gain wins many arguments.

But I’ll add (an hour later) that I think there are better, riskier options.
If it were at even a slight angle the projectile wouldn’t come straight down, wind notwithstanding.
Personally I’m a fan of Kotlin’s “fun factory()”
I think a non trivial percentage of this is some people refusing to admit that they’re now the very adults that they once pilloried and hated. It can’t possibly be just that they’re now the adults rolling their eyes at the annoying college students they once were, no the children must be wrong (insert Simpsons meme here).
This is quite interesting, recently I watched video explaining similar rail-gun/cannon concept, end explanation what would it take to work for human payload.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rb6sxy3f7VE

Well train human can survive:

38G for 0.5s

9G for 2min

7.5G for 5min

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4lVfrTcr0c
The Mothman folklore is hilarious. It is almost certainly a Sandhill crane, but people get spooked when seeing a large bird at night and attribute it as some sort of extraterrestrial creature. Point Pleasant, WV (a blip on the Ohio river) has capitalized on the phenomena with a roadside museum and photogenic statue, which is probably the largest tourist attraction within a 100 mile radius.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qrv9c-udCrg

We call the wind whistle-y past our whale-y ears "progress".
You're very free to not get vaccinated and endure the consequences, just as you were free to not get vaccinated as a child and be home schooled.
I read that remark as, "in the grand scheme of things, we can't all have it good." - not as anything marked with disdain.

As for my own opinion? I don't think there's a stone software engineers are cut from, but I don't think most people could be effective at working on technology without dramatic improvements in a few different key areas between analytical (data driven) thinking and layered abstractions.

It's not that these things can't be learned - I certainly didn't learn these from my blue collar parents. It's that it takes significant investment of time that many adults can't dedicate.
I don't know of anyone who advocates holding cash beyond an emergency reserve in any virtually any circumstance.
I've tried org mode (and evil to get vim keybindings) but could never get into it, none of the features were really "killer" for me. VSCode has clickable hyperlinks (although not formatted nicely when editing) and for export I have a script I've written that generates a static site from the files.

Of course, VSCode is also way more resource intensive than emacs :) Kind of like using a power tool to build IKEA furniture.
I see this as a win-win. Either it works (great), or we get to see some truly spectacular explosions
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The Beatles were a truly global phenomenon. No one outside of USA has heard of or gives a toss about Miles Davis. They're not even remotely comparable.
You're not throwing the ball high enough in a car that the difference in radius from the center of the Earth makes a difference that you can detect.

For objects above the earth's surface, the radius of the 'orbit' around the center of earth increases, and thus the 'forward' component of the velocity has to increase in order to stay over the same point on the earth. If you shoot something high enough straight up, it will land to the West of the point it was launched from. (This does ignore effects of wind and such, but I believe so did your argument).
Yes and no. BO has stuck itself with tourist capabilities, on the other hand inspiration4 was more groundbreaking. Also, what's the point of your question? He died in a plane crash (rip) not a rocket malfunction.
They advertise it as 'paid by merchant fees' but somewhere in a ledge or spreadsheet everyone makes a profit except the individual consumer. Maybe the prices are higher in general, maybe there are some consumers where more value is extracted than from others, but money doesn't appear out of thin air (except when you get into the whole derivatives gamble). Someone, somewhere, gets screwed over when a bank or credit company "gives" you money.
Also true. It just seems like `class` has become a bit of a dirty word, at least the last two places that I've worked on React codebases.
Don't.

Just give each location a budget and let them go out for beers or whatever their local culture prefers.
The launch mechanism doesn’t have to point straight up; it could point at an angle. Of course that will lengthen the distance traveled through the atmosphere, but maybe it could still work if the launch vehicle can withstand enough heat.
I bet things are worse than we know. if things were this way and we DIDN'T have streaming services and mobile phones and Facebook, we would be much more aware of it.

we're hiding behind the quick dopamine hits and pretending things aren't as bad as they are.