skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think if I were to say I had no doubts and were 100% certainty about anything it would be that it is impossible to be 100% certain (even I qualified that with "I think if I were to say").

I can agree that they might be ahead in their development of new ways to address energy challenges or gas challenges or other challenges compared to other platforms, yet still struggle to imagine you have no doubt. Maybe I just consider too many variables that could come into play, such as government regulation, chilling effects, global wars, deaths of leaders, etc., that could throw off the inevitability of something achieving something in the future. To be fair, those and other variables could make it even more likely that Ethereum or cryptocurrencies in general will solve those problems, I just don't see it as 100% yes or 100% no.

Maybe I'm just built different.

That being said, I didn't know that Ethereum had such a discrepancy in terms of fee transactions compared to BTC, so I'm grateful you pointed that out and I could learn more about that aspect—thank you.
* treatment. They're comparing a short term treatment to Nazi's. I mean it does seem like a slippery slope.
That's actually quite a lot for back then. The 'pro' choices of the day were basically (studio) videotape[1] for TV and film[2] if you had something really important. While there were lots of people (gadget geeks mainly, I would bet) recording silent and shaky 8mm home movies at the time, 'professional' video recording was used sparingly due to the investment (money, time and people) required.

The home VCR didn't happen until the mid-70's for those willing to shell out some serious money. It wasn't until the 80's that it became a mass market item due to affordability which is why you can find so much more video preserved from the 80's and after uploaded to YouTube.

[1] It was expensive enough at the time that it was often recycled (recorded over) after whatever show it was for was aired rather than archived.

[2] Also expensive and is a write-once medium so used even more sparingly.
There is a growing body of research indicating that VE declines over time. After 6 months the vaccines reduce the risk of getting covid by 2x, VEaI = 50%. Not sure where you picked the 10x number.

(OA) US, veterans, 3 months VEaI = 78%, 6 months VEaI = 50%, https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abm0620

US, 5 months VEaI = 47%, https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...

UK, 3 months VEaI = 75%. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-021-01548-7

Qatar, 3 months VEaI = 70%, 6 months VEaI = 12.8%, https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2114114

(preprint) Sweden, <50yo, 2-4 months VEaI = 83%, 4-6 months VEaI = 50%, https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3949410
Should <> need.
Neil Stephenson was just talking about this concept on Lex Friedman’s podcast.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAfdSak2fs8
It speaks NVMe. NVMe is the protocol, and it is used for both storage access and transport.
iSCSI is just SCSI commands encapsulated in a packet and sent over an IP network.
The most miserable software experience I've had was trying to support a Microsoft BI system built with a no-code tool. It was all drag-and-drop and fill in the boxes. Instead of code you were left with an inscrutable XML file. It was nearly impossible to trace the flow from input to output, and even worse if you were trying to go backwards from output to input. Good luck to you if someone had a question about how a value in the database was derived.
> A neutrino interaction with the electrons or nuclei of water can produce an electron or positron that moves faster than the speed of light in water, which is slower than the speed of light in a vacuum.

This is the important but I think confusing part for many people.

The electron/positron is not moving "faster than light" (nothing can) it is moving faster "than the light" in that specific medium (water).
That's one of those classic disingenuous gotcha comments.

The fact that there's a pretty common way to value public companies doesn't mean that you can make a fortune with it, because it sweeps aside the importance of time.

Have you never heard of Keynes' classic "The markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent" ?
Scott Manley has made a video about it https://youtu.be/JAczd3mt3X0
I'm an investor in SpinLaunch and am extremely excited about it.
> and besides a lot better for our precious climate, which is the main reason I wanted to cut down on the use of my car.

I'm sure building an e-bike is a lot of fun. But there must be plenty of other ways to help the climate if you'd like to use your car occasionally.

For example, people who bike a lot might still order a ton of goods online (say, from Alibaba?) to save money, which then has the double effect of encouraging the global trade + transportation routes that are not climate friendly, and encouraging the "emerging market" businesses which don't necessarily produce products in the most sustainable ways in order to lower cost.

I know somebody who refuses to turn on their central air conditioning lower than 77F "because that wastes energy so it is irresponsible", and another person who turns off their hot water heater in between daily showers. Really I'd just like some sort of website that compares people's ideas about what helps the climate, to what actually helps, and how to balance things out in one's life.
They probably referred to the similarity of Cor-i-na to Cor-o-na, and the 2020/03 as the month when COVID-19 truly went "mainstream".
Yes, the term "lose one's shirt" just means losing some portion of the money you invested. It most definitely does not mean what Oxford defines as "losing all of one's possessions", or what Collin's Dictionary defines as "to lose all that one has" (https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/lose-on...), or what Investopedia explains has its origin from the Great Depression to mean:

"This phrase implies not just loss, but ultimate loss. You may lose something important and precious but if you have lost the shirt off your back then you are not left with much."

Of course from context anyone would see that what you meant by it was just losing some portion of ones investment.

I must definitely have been too insecure to understand your point and thank you not only for clarifying your position, but making such a substantial contribution to this discussion.

You clearly have a deep and nuanced grasp of finance.
You really just need an honest product. Plenty of companies are perfectly happy to charge several hundred dollars for their product and then still use it to spy on their users so that they can stuff their pockets with even more money at our continued expense.
Many of us leapfrogged the desktop age and instead skipped straight from CLI apps to WWW apps. Most of the computers I've used don't have desktops because they're in a datacenter somewhere, or inside something like a Docker container. It's easier to get the backing of big corporations when you've created something that can be part of automated backend infrastructure. Those are the people who want privacy the most, since protecting confidential information is a big concern. Backend systems also usually have the necessary tools in place that make sure programs don't do anything evil. That's a feature where most desktop operating systems leave much to be desired, and it therefore means that desktop apps still require a similar level of trust as a web service. But the automation aspect is probably most key to getting support, since desktop apps are better for consumers, and consumers want convenience more than privacy. If you're really passionate about privacy then backend CLI is something worth pursuing, since that's where you're most likely to find people who share your values.
You're reading way too much into what I wrote. I'm certainly not addicted to numbers or social media. I don't participate in the latter really (yet here I am!) and I generally don't care what people think. I don't have any projects or stars on github and I'm not seeking them.

I was just expressing an alternative to view that seem to dismiss nerdy people who derive pleasure and satisfaction from github and a fairly smug sounding "be normal."

I'm early Gex X FWIW.
Well that does sound like a lot, I hope you can negotiate for a raise at some point.

Long-term I'm not sure what you mean building solutions for the next decade, it seems quite hard to design something perfectly in hindsight. And of course you have to compare the cost of it to just slapping something in a VM and putting a firewall over it and calling it a day...
Cool to see some new ideas here. Saturn V burned nearly 200 tons of propellant by the time it cleared the launch tower. Tsiolkovsky got us to the moon but he won't get us to the stars.
It'll be realistic once China starts building a new reactor every month, which is something they plan to do.
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Awesome! Feels like we're starting to get big ideas again.
Not everyone can have a better job. Sorry but your comment reveals how little empathy we, software engineers, can have at times.
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is this really more efficient than just launching the rocket normally with chemicals?

the article doesn't really go into detail but alludes to the answer to my question being "yes".

I guess the idea is:

you can spin a smaller rocket which requires energy EnergySml. Alternatively you could have a larger rocket which requires EnergyLrg to get out of the atmosphere.

So EnergySml + Fuel in rocket to leave atmosphere << EnergyLrg (which is launch + leave atmosphere)?

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other questions I had were:

- wouldn't the rocket being spun have to be heavier than the equivalently sized chemical rocket because it has to be able to survive being flung around in a centrifuge?
The framing of people as prospectors looking to stake out their plot of a mine.

I'd have framed the analogy in the terms of a tick climbing a tree for the opportunity to latch onto a large, diseased animal.

A prospector might go on to do something great with what he's extracted. A tick just wants to survive, and hopes that his meal will outlast him.
How do you get stakeholders to buy into variable scope product pitches?
Xerox copiers might alter numbers, text in documents (2013)
Nice work. Funny coincidence I was just going through https://rustwasm.github.io/docs/book/ today, so Rust, WebAssembly, and the Game of Life was already on my mind.
RIP. Those unfamiliar with the Moody Blues should listen to "Nights in White Satin" and "Tuesday Afternoon" among other songs. Also those familiar :).
They can have the same battery tech, but if the rest of the hardware is less efficient, then the battery will not have the same "performance"
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Removing the opposition's right to vote is a NAZI tactic. Every totalitarian government started with tactics like this. Often campaigning on a popular platform. The vaccine is no different to the socialist utopia promised by the Soviets. The utopia is not the problem it's the means of getting there.
cool design, what's org mode?
> I don't see why the semantics of it not being included yet doesn't make it JS.

You don’t see why something not being included in JavaScript doesn’t make it JavaScript? Really?

> I'll concede that it's not "JS" it's an "experimental JS feature"

JSX is not an experimental JS feature. You’re trying to draw an equivalence between decorators and JSX, but they aren’t equivalent at all.

Decorators were submitted for inclusion into JavaScript. They have undergone a lot of review to determine whether they belong in JavaScript, and people agreed they did. The specification has been refined to make them suitable for inclusion into JavaScript. Everybody plans on decorators becoming part of JavaScript. Browsers will implement decorators.

JSX, on the other hand, is explicitly not proposed for inclusion into JavaScript. The second and third sentences of the JSX specification read:

> It's NOT intended to be implemented by engines or browsers. It's NOT a proposal to incorporate JSX into the ECMAScript spec itself.

The second sentence is even bolded in the specification. They wanted to be 100% clear about it.

The standards committee isn’t reviewing JSX for suitability for inclusion into JavaScript. Nobody is planning on JSX becoming part of JavaScript. No browsers are planning on implementing JSX.

These are two entirely different situations. Decorators being on the cusp of becoming JavaScript does not mean that JSX is JavaScript.
I couldn't resist mashing these two together

http://www.youtubemultiplier.com/618f3abec89ec-you-spin-me-r...
that seems unfair.. OP is a nerd doing nerd things with the side effect of a feel good environmental story/reward.. vs turning off a hot water heater between daily showers is more like a misunderstanding of thermodynamics(?) or some part of physics. or not running an A/C which, hey, if they're happy, who gives a shit?
It’s not just clients and nice formatting. Courts can be very specific in what they will accept. If court rules say an appellate brief can be no more than 50 pages, it damn well not be presented with more than 50 pages, and lawyers will want to use every available word they can get into that 50 pages.
Using the Redis protocol doesn't seem like the most efficient way to implement a fast client/server architecture. The Redis protocol[1] is text-based, where each command is an array with a header describing the number of elements in the command, and each element is prefixed by `$` and its length, with abundant \r\n to separate all those (this is a simplification, but almost all commands sent to Redis follow this array format).

For example, to send "SET my-key hello" to Redis, this is a 3-element array (the initial *3) with elements of length 3, 6, and 5. So you'd send:

*3\r\n
$3\r\n
SET\r\n
$6\r\n
my-key\r\n
$5\r\n
hello\r\n

(^ all of those would be joined together, this is presented on multiple lines for readability)

Decoding lengths from their textual representation is inefficient in both space and time, and the various \r\n add to the request and response sizes without adding anything useful to a program that uses it (it is of course useful for humans typing those commands, but who does that?).

Even using something as common as protobuf would likely be more efficient, with smaller requests and responses – although object creation can lead to memory pressure for complex messages.

But really, since Elixir leverages Erlang, why not have a basic common protocol with pattern matching on binaries? This would make a lot more sense than using a text-based protocol, in my opinion.

[1] https://redis.io/topics/protocol
You might ask them why, because views and subscribers are interesting metrics.

I always pay attention to them because they reflect how the general public respond to different things. So they might be thinking "wow this is so stupid but it's got so many views!"
Nah, JSX also gets converted to Javascript. The difference is in that the React runtime re-renders whole components every time something changes, and Svelte is more granular about it even during the compilation step.
Not really, it’s all about payment history. Use your card for gas, etc is more than enough to demonstrate a pattern of on time payments.

People who don’t use credit often get penalized from a scoring perspective because they don’t have a large credit line and have a higher utilization.

The bank wants you to make payments, period. More credit lines means you have more resilience.
At first I was wondering, wait, then how do you talk to the server from the browser? ...Wait, if you control both the client and server, why even use HTTP?

I feel like there's this distressing trend where web programmers export their practices everywhere, and over time, those become the new accepted "primitives" instead of the actual primitives. What used to be a socket is now apparently a whole black-box protocol, where swapping one protocol with another to get speed gains is now noteworthy, and what used to be just FFI or a shared library is now a whole client/server architecture. This is basically the intellectual lineage of stuff like "language servers" where every keystroke your editor heap allocates a JSON tree, serializes it, initiates an HTTP connection, sends it over, reads the response, deserializes it into more heap allocated nodes, etc.... when the actual stated goal (making code intelligence consumable by any client) could be achieved using much less.

Standby as I follow up on this with my own post, "Build a TCP server that's faster than the Redis protocol."
the important thing I think is that your energy-consuming device (the spinny part) can be huge and heavy and remain on the ground, so it doesn't need to be designed like a rocket first stage. Even if it's actually really inefficient in terms of watt-hours used to spin the thing, doesn't matter.
Why are there some kids pics on this url?
Jtbc, this was the altitude it made it to with no rocket motor right?
Makes me wonder about the military uses of such tech. Remember Gerald Bull and his quest to launch a satellite with an artillery piece? He later was embroiled in a project for Iraq to create a supergun that could potentially provide ICBM tech to a country without rocket tech.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supergun_affair
I wonder if the onset of globalization and offshoring US factories to China on top of Citizens United will be remembered as the US's "Fall of Rome" moment. The US essentially allowed the government to be bought and paid for by foreign entities and is relying on said countries for most manufactured goods. So now the other country can essentially say "Our laws are your laws otherwise we're not going manufacture your goods." China doesn't need to occupy us, they just need to buy us out.
The risk is different a large volume of liquid that can spill and is volatile vs essentially a solid (yes electrolyte is liquid/gel).
I'm interested in the same. I have a small cache of Palm OS devices collected through the years, and it would. Be nice to breathe some new life into them (or at least make them work as some easy universal Arduino project display and/or control device.
seemed to be going okay until he was assassinated by the mossad. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_Bull#Assassination_and_...

have seen it described as the "canadian iraqi space gun", which causes some people to do a double take
What do you think is most likely to "give" in this scenario?
Fantastic! This appears to be available in the command line version of herbie with the `--pareto` flag:

> Enables multi-objective improvement. Herbie will attempt to simultaneously optimize for both accuracy and expression cost. Rather than generating a single "ideal" output expression, Herbie will generate many output expressions. This mode is still considered experimental. This will take a long time to run. We recommend timeouts measured in hours.
This is entirely gray area. The rules of thumb are following:

- Owning companies is totally fine.
- Generating income from various sources is totally fine.

What is not allowed is:
- You should not work in any capacity where an American citizen could have been gainfully employed. Lot of people mis-represent is that you can not get paid a salary, that is not true. Salary is just an evidence of you worked.

How many people structure this is the following. Partner with an American citizen and start the business. The American partner will hold 51% stake and you will be a passive investor with 49%. If you are married you can apply for H4EAD. You spouse has unconditional EAD and she can run the company.

Important note: This issue is only for people born in India. Everyone else can get their EAD/GC in an year or so.
Factor in inflation and the price range of iPhone models and you see $499 is reasonable for what Starlink's gateway device does in the techspace of under served unreachable areas. Would be interesting to measure that value to industrial farming machinery parts and servicing.
Well, there's hours of audio/video recording of conductors like Toscanini, conductor/composers like, Bernstein, performers like Gould, Callas, and they'll be studied for centuries

In the Jazz world, people from Ella Fitzgerald to Miles Davis preceded and succeeded the Beatles, and they're sure to be studied for centuries, too.

In Broadway, people like Sondheim will be studied for centuries, his career both preceded and succeeded the Beatles.
Do you feel that the "discretion" violates the equal credit opportunity act? Technically, credit discrimination is illegal, but I could see a bank taking liberties with people who don't have the means to protect themselves.
this is the non-vandalized version of the doc if anyone's looking for it
Sure you can detect neutrinos that way, especially at higher energies. But you're going to be swamped by natural neutrinos (e.g. atmospherics), unless you have quite the beam. And how do you know where to point the beam?
no clear benefit on short term metrics != probably harmful
I really love that the very first piece of advice is, in essence, get really good at something valuable that not many people can do. Yes.

Too many people want to find some kind of hack or shortcut, but having distinctive skills that you put to work in creating a lot of value for your clients is the way.
1. This was just a POC, and there's yet no document. Testing may be added later but for there's only 400 lines of code, it could hardly go wrong. The demo itself acts as a proof of correctness as well.

2. Hyperapp actually does have some sort of compiling (at least parsing a string for a tag)

3. There're far more advanced usages that you may not aware of, so build function has no need to care about whether it's in test mode. More usage demos may come later.

4. I'm actually not a fan of writing redundant tests. IMO tests are more of a psychological comfort for users to see rather than a practical proof of robustness. Though it could gaurantee some sort of correctness, it won't cover how users want to use it. It's a waste of time to write a whole bunch of tests and run them every now and then.

5. I don't want to make this project "heavy", and I hate "heavy" projects.
> Is it possible that you actually learned some important private cryptographic key

No, it was more like "this chainsaw cuts through 3 inches of wood per second and it falls apart in half a minute, so the amount of wood you can cut with it is [REDACTED]"
I wonder how big it would have to be to even consider putting people on it, albeit sleeping ones. A younger me would look up the required velocity and do the math. A slightly older me is going to sleep soon and will dream that one day he gets to get into the space flinger.

Edit: and not come out as human paste
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You don't have to lift the fuel. A huge proportion of the fuel in a rocket's first stage is used to lift the fuel in the first stage off the ground for the first few hundred metres of flight. It's almost diabolically inefficient.

Using a really big cannon, not entirely unlike in the Jules Verne novel, has been investigated seriously. It has similar efficiency benefits. Some limits on what can survive the acceleration though: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_HARP
pfft, they're late to the party.
Because they left suggesting mode on, so anyone who sees the document can add to it.

Change the document to "view" mode in the top right to see the original.
I think you mean Citizen's United.
I wish someone wrote this in 2005 when both were coming up as popular languages!
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This is, sadly, something the US government is too dumb to copy. More than half the country already had the disease and they pretend it's not the case.
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