skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Foreign owned maybe, but the satellites are manufactured in the US. There are US commercial interests at stake in Oneweb, and the services it intends to offer to US clients too.
I would ask the question: what is declassified now and what year do things automatically become unclassified etc...?

Not saying its proof, just very plausible
Your paying a lot for all of that GPU compute with the amount of die space it takes up. Apple's Intel CPU options were also pretty old and low power, so it feels like a much bigger difference if you are stuck on apple platforms to do your work, like iOS.

If apple kept up with x86 CPUs the difference on macOS wouldn't have been as wide. When you compare a Ryzen 5000 series with the same core count, they are fairly comparable in compile times AFAIK.
The GömböC: An object that shouldn't exist (2014)
No question, just a thank you and appreciation for your excellent articles.
It sometimes fills me with awe that artifacts like the Eid Mar coins, born out of a history defining moment without equal, two millennia ago, not only persist but can be viewed by the public for a paltry sum. There's just a certain enchantment in having that history and its attendant mythology embodied in a physical object.
I would go back and forth between vendors who were selling the same thing, and try to lower the last price I got. At some point you'd reach some sort of floor where nobody would bulge. You'd really know you made a deal if the vendor would be upset at you even though you were buying, and you knew you got ripped off if the vendor had a huge smile and made conversation after you bought.
Heather Morgan and Ilya Lichtenstein in plea talks with federal prosecutors
Oracle V2 was known as the "roach motel of databases". Data went in and it didn't come out. By V5, Oracle was a solid database. Why do people not give MongoDB the credit for growing up from a memory-mapped db to something far more serious, where they say they have ACID transactions, HA, a managed cloud service, etc? The industry memory of that meme is impressive, hilarious...and misplaced.
My HVAC technician does that for me along with checking line pressures and cleaning in air handler as well. But I also don't change my own oil on my car, so YMMV.
Your solution to fundamentalist terrorism is to "just leave them alone?" My goodness, why has no one tried this brilliant strategy before?
Sounds like the definition of a good economy is fundamentally broken, then.
In theory one can be sued for filing false takedown notices. In practice it never happens because it requires proving that the defendant knowingly sent a false notice. This is an impossible burden of proof because the defendant can just plead ignorance and/or incompetence.
I suppose the real question is what credibility is left for the government to demonstrate it no longer "dabbles", and/or what is the line?
This is incorrect. France has 135 GW of all electric power generation installed.That is 2 orders of magnitude different.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity_sector_in_France
I dunno, that kinda seems like throwing a bunch of straw-man arguments and unjustified claims like

>Anybody using a simple text editor is very fast at adding markup for headings, font variations, and so forth. The previous section proved that other markup languages clearly fail in many cases.

Markdown is not quick to add markup with a simple text editor? Really?

Org mode has weird and nasty corners and multiple ways to do things too, they're just ignoring them: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30523684

Then there's

>Org Mode Has Excellent Tool Support

No, it has a single tool's support and no spec (though it's in progress last I saw, which is great). Almost everything else compared in that page is superior here, having specs (even if multiple competing specs, e.g. commonmark vs github) and multiple implementations.
Isn't there another factor here? The 1970s was still immediately after a huge period of rapid home building. Home building has stagnated and fallen far below demand since then, leading to an outright housing shortage in some metropolitan areas.

NIMBY politics are a major factor here. Another factor is that the expansion of the suburbs has hit the limits of practicality. Suburban size is limited by things like commute radius from major city and town centers, the ability of roads to take more cars, and whether or not mass transit is available. Housing too far out starts to become indistinguishable from rural housing. Coupled with NIMBY politics this creates an environment for scarcity to explode.

If housing was going up during a period of otherwise tame inflation, it's possible that housing will now really explode. That's what seems to be happening so far.

The only thing that is going to bring it down or at least tame the rise is taking on NIMBY politics and zoning and other artificial barriers to increasing the number of housing units.

Edit:

Of course yet another possibility is that there's some truth to the allegations of inflation hawks over the past 10-20 years: that inflation is actually a lot higher than we think and has been masked by the deflationary effects of technology and globalization. Tech and cheap overseas labor have held down the price of manufactured goods and kept the price of some consumables like food in check, but things not subject to these efficiency gains like college tuition and housing have exploded. In general anything that can't easily be automated or outsourced has gone up in cost.

Personally I think all these factors are in play.
> Startup founders do not care about providing careers for engineers, and usually want to stop being a "startup founder" as soon as they possibly can - they are chasing huge exits and being a founder is incredibly stressful.

Imagine you were the founder of a business you've now realised... isn't going to be the next Google.

Your product hasn't failed! By some metrics it's very successful! You've got investors who value your company at $10 billion, and they're ready to loan you $1 billion.

But also, you've never made a profit, you've tried the most likely routes to profitability without success, similar businesses have suffered sudden implosions, and you'd have gone bankrupt years ago if it weren't for the fact there's chumps who'll work for you for free. You've got no plan for how to pay back that $1 billion.

But so long as you keep your mouth shut about that last paragraph, and accept the $1 billion? You get a high-status job, a thousand-person empire, and a fat compensation package. 1000 of your colleagues stay employed too.

Why would anyone climb off that gravy train?
Lanai is significantly older than RISC-V. These days you'd likely easily pick designing or using an existing RISC-V core for an application like this, possibly adapting it to your particular usecase.

The decision is different, however, if you happen to have the entirety of the Lanai engineering team on board and own the entire Lanai IP portfolio. :)
Keep in mind that this is Canada and that many dwellings only have electric heating. This is likely the reason as to why electricity is not allowed to be cut during the winter months.

Furthermore, the kind of person who would struggle to pay their electric bills likely rents a place that has poor insulation and resistive heating, with limited options to improve their energy efficiency.
And people will just stop providing service to Europe. It's already started, there are tons of sites that refuse service to Europe.
Safety codes are not insignificant, though. One of my colleagues is spending 20K to get his house "up to code" because the upgrades he wants to make would end the grandfather clauses for things like having a three pronged dryer outlet instead of a four pronged one and needing an exterior disconnect switch for his electricity. The house is fine as-is, it's no deathtrap but the cumulative cost of compliance changes is substantial and the actual safety gain is minimal in comparison.

For those who don't know, the city requires a switch on the exterior that cuts power to the whole house. It is meant for first responders but the problem is that you can't lock the box (so literally anyone can cut the power to your house at anytime, think of thieves and vandals) and the electric company actually has the ability to remotely cut the power already. The Fire department can call this request in on the dispatch, so the point of the physical switch is primarily moot. But the requirement still exists and it must be paid for.

I'm not defending NIMBYs but I don't want to dismiss what the GP is talking about. Compliance costs are significant and especially so for non-new construction.
Given that “the cascade” has been a worthless anti-feature since the beginning, I feel he could have said this in a less condescending way.
ParrotOS -S.E. (A special purpose OS designed for Pentesters/Red Team Ops)
> For the English monolinguals reading this, imagine studying English and stumbling upon the sentence "I fell for her", except that you only know the literal meaning of the verb "to fall" so while you understand the words in isolation the sentence remains completely opaque and meaningless to you.

This isn't a great example; from a dictionary perspective there are three words in the sentence "I fell for her", being "I", "fell for", and "her". Trying to analyze it as the four words "I", "fell", "for", and "her" is doomed to failure[1], because two of those words aren't even present. But if you did know all the words in isolation, you'd have no trouble with the sentence; nothing tricky is going on.

(The four-word analysis actually does work, but it would be an unusual reading, with "for her" being a benefactive construction analogous to "I wrote a song for her".)

[1] You can get a sense of why this analysis can't succeed by trying to relate "her" as used in the sentence to any standard sense of the preposition "for". ( https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/for#Preposition ). None of them work.
Speaking of working with what you've actually got, CSS source code so looks dull and boring, all in the same font and style and format.

I want to be able to mark up my CSS sources with HTML tags, and style it with CSS, so it's beautiful self documenting literate code!

Imagine how easy and pleasurable to read and understand CSS would be you could simply use CSS in your CSS to format "font-weight: bold" in bold, and "font-style: italic" in italic!
Hacking is exactly what we are trying to avoid. Just change the variables to suit your branding and compile the SCSS yourself, just like Bootstrap (which was using LESS but otherwise the same idea).
Give every home owner 30-year locked interest rate mortgages at <3%, then immediately raise the rates again, and no one wants to sell...ever.

It makes no financial sense to sell a property locked into such a low interest rate while rates are moving up.

Combine this situation with fairly stringent housing code requirements that make new housing difficult and expensive to build, and you have a recipe for low supply. Housing prices are exploding, and will continue to do so until one of the above situations change.

At the current rate, we will have an entire generation of renters unless they inherit property.
Just a suggestion: Try one class with a good professor and see what the difference is. Expert mentoring is a thing, outside academia too. How do you even know what books to read?

> I'm highly skeptical of university's value-add

This new social trend - which suits the reactionary movement very well (which doesn't mean you are a reactionary - is really tragic. We are just destroying so much in instututions and potential, so many years and resources lost, and mostly just to destroy things. It's not hard to grasp that knowledge and learning move us forward, and it's better with experts.
The author seems to be advocating the photographic composition technique of filling most of the frame with the primary subject without discussing photographic composition in general. This is a standard approach for portraits, which are typically of humans posed in a sitting or standing position such that they're taller than they are wide. The term "portrait orientation" comes from this fact and indeed, the author's example of the Mona Lisa is a portrait.

It's no surprise that humans are more interested in portraits of humans than images of most anything else; we're a social species. A Google image search for "most famous photograph" also returned a portrait as the first result: Afghan Girl. Interestingly the first result for "most famous painting" is a squarish landscape: Starry Night. (Standard disclaimer about this not being a scientific method goes here)

Ultimately, I don't think the author has done his homework here because he doesn't address elements of photographic composition beyond "fill the frame" even to dismiss them. I also disagree with his claim that "nowadays we’re surrounded by rigid landscape screens". Laptop PCs have those, but phones and tablets can be freely rotated and are most commonly used in a portrait orientation. Rotating mounts for desktop displays are very common, though it's rare I see anyone else's in anything but landscape.
I blame "Product Managers" or "Product Owners". In my 20 years of being at different technology companies, I´ve realized that people in this position must come up with new "features", bells and whistles to keep justifying their job.

Think about say, Microsoft Word (only word, not office). Word has been feature complete since maybe the 2000 version. But, where would all the "product development" arm of the Word application go if they declared it as such? The only required people would be "project managers" to manage bug fixes projects, and the development chain (programmers, QAs, etc)...

But these people have to eat, so they keep adding crap to an otherwise good product, they keep shuffling things around and "experimenting" to maintain their job.
Spend a week in a workplace with an average IQ of 80 and get back to me about which feels worse.
I'm sure both still exist. Slang always is prone to regionalisms and in-group markings. What I've heard (on Xbox voice chat primarily) as commonly used today is "bruh" like much closer to how most people pronounce "duh". I don't know where it originates dialectally other than "often heard in Fortnite and Minecraft".

(Definitely the one closer to my youth came closer to "bra"/"brah", and while some of that was assumed to be surfer-originated, I can't tell you how much it was related to Hawaiian pigdin or just convergent evolutionary vowel shifts.)
By skilfully omitting details and cleverly juxtaposing statements, the article you cite evokes connections and conclusions that are not correct. I would therefore like to mention a few things that are also important in this context.

The decision for abondoning nuclear power did not follow the Fukushima desaster of 11 March 2011, but preceeded it by more than 10 years. The agreement between the German federal government and the energy supply companies to phase out nuclear energy dates back to 14 June 2000. The first nuclear power plant was shut down permanently in Nov. 2003. It was planned to shut the last one down between 2015/2020. In 2010, a new government extended the operating term by several years (depending on the individual power plant), but returned in 2011, after Fukushima, to an earlier phase out, but which was still later (2022) than the initial decision from 2000.

The first decision for abondoning nuclear power was a project of a coalition of the SPD (labour) and the Green party. From late 2005 to late 2021 the Green party was not part of the government. The result was a slowdown in efforts to switch to renewable energies, in particular before 2010. But even after Fukushima the government was very slow to push ahead with the measures necessary for a switch to renewable energies, especially the planning and implementation of new long-distance power lines.

The operators of the nuclear power plants were more or less the same as the operators of the coal-fired power plants: RWE, Vattenfall, E.ON/PreussenElectra, EnBW. (The STEAG is the only major coal-plant operator that was not involved in nuclear energy.) In other words, Germany's nuclear industry is more or less identical with its carbon-based industry. It was their lobbying within the Merkel cabints from 2005 to 2021 that resulted in the deal to replace nuclear with coal, instead of switching to the new technologies of their competitors faster.

The deficits in the current situation were therefore not caused by the political forces that advocated a switch from nuclear and coal to renewable energies, but by those who stood in the way of this change.

Personally, I very much support this restructuring, but I am not dogmatic. In view of the situation in Ukraine, I would have spontaneously thought it appropriate to extend the lifetime of the last three nuclear power plants. However, I have read in the press that this is not practical for at least two reasons: firstly, in order to keep them running longer, they would have to be maintained (technical tests and repairs would be necessary), which would mean that they would have to be taken off the grid soon for several month, and secondly, the procurement of new fuel elements would reportedly take about one and a half years.
Dang it, I can see how the title was deceptive. This is headless component, leaving the markup and styling completely up to the user. Many of the tree components I looked at before building this didn't let me do exactly what I wanted with the style like this one does. However, I was thinking of shipping a default "<Item>" component that comes with some default styling to get people up and running quickly. I've just made an issue for this.
This is great. My video tips:

1. Edit it down. You need to be brutal (it's painful) but you can start off with the less painful low hanging fruit. E.g. there's no need to mention health and safety at all. You don't need to justify using a PSU. You don't need to explain significant figures or accuracy vs precision in detail. Your audience is interested in technology. You can just say "it doesn't matter if the sights are off as long as the grouping is tight". The video could probably have been 1/2 the length. Easily 2/3.

2. You're a little monotonic. Sorry that's not a nice thing to say and tbh I don't know what you do about it. Tighter editing might help. Also maybe more improvisation of the script?

Anyway I subscribed. Good luck!
I see you're getting a lot of pushback on this. IMO, this guy knows what he's talking about. Not in the sense that it's absolutely correct. In the sense that this is what Russian Nationalists actually believe and think.

Keep in mind, the Russians that think like this mostly only speak Russian. If they speak any other language also, they choose to spend most of their time in the Russian-language world. They consider Russia their motherland, and aren't about to leave to nations they consider foreign and hostile just because things might be tough for a while. They're not listening to Western news even when they were allowed to, and they don't know or care much what Westerners think.

Are such types of people "ignorant", "uncultured", and whatever else you might call them? Kind of, yeah. But what nation can survive long without any such people, especially in the face of the invasions they've faced in the last few hundred years.

These are the people who are Putin's base and make up most of the Russian elite. They're also the ones that will decide whether he stays in power or goes. They really do think that those uppity Ukrainians had it coming, don't know their place, have no business considering themselves a country and cozying up to Nato, etc. I'm pretty sure if he does end up getting the boot, it will be because his backers are horrified at how much he let the once-mighty Red Army degrade and how vulnerable he let them become to the West, not because they realized that Ukraine deserves to be independent after all.

The trouble is, Putin and his crew spewed a little too much propaganda, and believed it a little too hard. They talked up how Ukraine was a bunch of drug-addled half-assed wannabe Nazis to themselves so hard that they actually believed it. They went in with a plan based around those assumptions. The trouble is, it seems they were quite wrong and are getting their asses handed to them. So what are they gonna do now? I don't think that pulling out and going home with their tail between their legs is gonna be a good option for Putin. Beats me what they'll actually do, but I'm afraid it won't be pretty.

If you really want to understand things, you need to understand that it's a different culture over there. They really do believe this stuff. The few Westernized people who think it's all terrible are a tiny, unrepresentative minority. Don't make the mistake of thinking that everyone everywhere is really just like us, with maybe just a couple of weird assholes in charge for some reason. Our enemies are sincere. America has made such assumptions more than once in our past, and got our asses handed to us over it. Now it's Russia's turn, at least as long we we don't screw things up even more than they did.
They're getting paid 19% more?
"Those aren't SSDs. Those are raw storage modules."

https://twitter.com/marcan42/status/1506022589357260801
I have a nice dream that Elon will build rocket and space enterprises, get them profitable, only to break them up and go public to allow them to be independent corporations and allowing real competition to begin (plus remove all his other business interests from each companies mission)

He could still rake in cash from their owned shares it would just be them creating a real public space sector for the good of humanity. This will never happen ofc, but I can dream.
I'd be interesting if I could, today, look at my dependency tree and decide to donate a number X that would be shared amongst all the dependencies that have declared a donation API (perhaps a cryptocurrency address). This way I contribute to all of what I depend upon, making my own part of the ecosystem healthier.
You add more weight by making the pack easily removable, and you need battery standardization.

If every brand or every model has a different pack size, then swap stations aren’t very scalable.

If you standardize pack sizes, then some cars will have less range than they could, given that they could fit a larger pack.

It makes a lot of sense for the relatively small, light, and inexpensive scooters. The packs can be hand carried, and different vehicles can just have slots one, two, or three packs as needed.

You aren’t trying to squeeze 300-400 miles out of a scooter by packing every inch of the frame with batteries. “Good enough” is perfectly fine for urban scooters.

And I think the reality is that it just won’t be economically viable for large cars. We are quickly reaching the point where the battery packs will last the lifetime of the car, and roadtrip charging stops are falling under 20 minutes.
I remember watching a TED Talk in 2009 that had a pretty similar idea https://www.ted.com/talks/shai_agassi_a_new_ecosystem_for_el...

Seems like they went bankrupt though in 2013
But that subsidiary would need to build and operate a satellite constellation, not simply distribute internet services or act as a purchasing agent of a foreign competitor.
The Worldwatch Institute regularly put out 80-page studies in the 1980s. Disappointingly, they published one on The Future of the Bicycle which never once mentioned the word 'rain'.

FWIW, the Aptera three-wheel EV design gets IIRC 10X better distance/kWhr than most EVs, and has a US classification as a motorcycle.
The biggest benefit of using the Bay Wheels subscription over owning is not having to worry about your e-bike being stolen. It's definitely worth it at the price point it's currently at.

The only downside is that as people return to the bay, the e-bikes (and bikes) are going to become more and more scarce at docks.