skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The atmosphere is fairly transparent to microwaves, so the loss shouldn't be much worse. The book The Case for Space Solar Panel cited net efficiency of 40% with the tech at the time it was written, with a theoretical maximum of 60%. It's a pretty good deal given that a panel in geostationary collects five times as much energy in 24 hours as the same panel on the ground, and the power flows 24/7 for most of the year with no need for storage.
My guess is that Ubuntu (and derivatives) is the only major distribution that installs snapd by default.

> Source?

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/feature-freeze-exception-seed...
If geeks and their desktops are out, the only thing remaining for Ubuntu is server and cloud. That is okay, actually, but a bit sad.
I have taken over quite a lot of Ferraris in Zurich by a bicycle on the bicycle road when I was living there, it was always fun :)
It might have value in a military setting, but it’s got to be really really stupidly cheap to compete in the civilian space.

Which seems extremely unlikely.
software fine, hardware fine except camera quality and battery size, a bit expensive
Every energy source does require some sort of energy to make it possible to harvest it. And nuclear is no exception. We do not have any sustainable way to filter out enough carbon dioxide with any of the hypothetical excess energy.
So saying there is a any energy source without any carbon dioxide emission is wrong.
"If you don't have a root privilege on your device - this is not your device"

But even without root I can side load an app via APK on Android. This way my Telegram messenger almost always a version ahead Google Play.
https://youtu.be/0kahih8RT1k
This article explains it pretty well: https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/10/07/the-gervais-principle-....
Hey there,

We just fixed the link and reposted at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31138880
> functioning markets are by definition competitive

Depending on your definition of 'competition' and 'functioning'. There are markets that aren't competitive but are functioning, and markets that are competitive but aren't functioning.
> Why would you compare violence from 1980's to 2020? You realise thats a gap of 40 years?

I said 90s too which is a gap of 20 years. I skipped 00s because I don't recall the data completely now, but I will check.

> In terms of trends in the 20th century, there's been a clear noticeable jump after the current government came in, which is what should matter.

00s had clearly more terror incidents in India than 10s. There were several major metros and big cities hit with blasts every year. So, one form of communal violence has definitely gone down. Even early half of 10s had much more of these than the latter half. There is a whole Wiki article that lists these incidents, you can have a look at that.
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2021/09/ubuntu-makes-firefox-sna...

The reason probably being that for Canonical and Mozilla, it is a pain to support/backport multiple ubuntu versions, so why not just support 1 build.

It makes it simpler for them to release as it's directly integrated in their build system.

Considering how small a percentage linux users are, it isn't an illogical decision.
really sorry about it! we just fixed the link and reposted at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31138880
I'm glad Warnock and Geschke didn't already have the ideas of the modern Adobe in their heads. If they had, the LaserWriter would have required a monthly cloud subscription, and if the customer cancelled, both the printer and everything they had already printed would vanish.

I also think that Illustrator 88 was a great improvement on its successors.
While I loathe apple's moves lately, including this one, I have to agree with this comments sentiment.

Software is not free once written. You need to expend resources to keep it up to date and secure.

If you aren't keeping things up to date, you are neglecting the maintenance of your application. You wouldn't be surprised if your car stopped working if you never change the oil. Apple is taking proactive actions here, presumably to protect the end user experience. Wether or not I agree with the manner of proactive action is a different issue. We know apple loves to exert tons of control over things like this.

Apple is difficult to work with. It takes maintenance to keep apps up to date. Yes, the two year thing seems a bit over the top but remember the real issue is that this guy can't submit a new build because he hasn't added support for the last two OS versions.

The app store is hard to work with, but they payoff is immense also.

Welcome to the real world.
Is there any effort going into iOS game preservation? Or current mobile games are just not worth it?
I'd call that an "open 5th". That might come from a classical pov.
Asus Will Be Entering the New Wave of Hybrid Tablet-Notebooks
I've had to remove deprecation warnings because downstream users enabled warnings as errors in their releases. They could fix newer versions of their software, but being able to build old versions on new dependencies was a requirement.

The solution was to introduce a deprecation message that wasn't technically a warning, and warn about the upcoming depreciation warning.
This is not a good comparison. Nobody is trying to use a new battery. They just want old battery to continue working as it has. Code does not rot like batteries wear out. Companies deliberately break compatibility, and then they blame arising problems on “code rot”.

Changing icon should not require a new build. A new build should not require iPhone X support. iPhone X build target should not require Xcode 9. Xcode 9 should not require macOS 10.12. OS update should not break old Unity3D. Upgrading Unity should not break builds.

These are all examples of shitty engineering decisions that throw backwards compatibility under the bus for shaky (expedience, mostly) reasons.
> 1km through the atmosphere is probably all you need to verify that the approach would work for Space Based Solar.

How so? Wouldn't a space-based-solar facility need to transmit through the full height of the atmosphere which is much more than 1km?
Reader mode has been built into the iPhone version of Safari since 2010 and native support for third party “content blockers” since 2013.
You can of course search for that yourself at Worldcat. DuckDuckGo !bang search !worldcat.

Or https://worldcat.org/

There appear to be three listed copies worldwide.

https://www.worldcat.org/title/transgender-industrial-comple...
Brains are networks.
Our concept of a unified "self" is illusory
and collapses when subjected to any serious philosophical scrutiny.
If some people prefer to conceptualize themselves as multiple entities sharing a body,
that's no less accurate than the useful fiction
that, for instance, we remain the same person throughout our lives.
I agree that most people who identify this way
can't accurately be described as having a mental disorder
-- because there's nothing wrong with it.
It's true that you shouldn't revel in your mental dysfunction
or let your identity distract you from your real problems.
However, there's no reason why people can't have a plural identity and choose not do those thing.

The kids are alright.
Correct, if you have two powerful participants, who can hold mutually assured destruction over each other, then — stars above! — they play nice.

Now try the same scenario when you’re an ordinary Schmoe who wired money to an obvious scammer, and then tell me whether you still believe Patrick’s model of the banking system as a giant kumbaya circle run on gentlemen’s agreements to Do The Right Thing.
I wonder if study results would be different for aphantasics on psychedelics. I imagine aphantasia is like most other human differences and exists on a spectrum, so perhaps a mild psychedelic like THC may affect results.
We're a long way from geostationary orbit with this tech, though. They got 1 km, now you need 35,000.
I'd question whether anyone writing "the atmosphere is fairly transparent to microwaves" has calculated the link budget, then implemented in the real world an FCC part 101 licensed microwave radio system (example: 1024QAM modulation, 11 GHz standard FDD band plan, +16 Tx power, 80 MHz channels H&V dual linear, 35 km, 180 cm high performance dishes both ends) and seen the path loss in reality.

I think anyone that's done terrestrial point to point microwave telecom professionally will take a very skeptical view of things like 10 GHz band, 1 km power "beams".

the reality is that the atmosphere absolutely eats microwave, and when it's not eating it, you have temperature inversions, ducting and diffraction effects to take into account at long distances as well. this is why their demo only works at 1.0 km.
Most solar power satellite designs put the sat in geostationary, which simplifies things dramatically. It makes the power density low enough at ground level that birds can fly through the beam without harm. The receiver has to be several square kilometers but it's mostly antenna wire.

The transmitter would be a phased array antenna, and getting even that much focus would require a reference signal transmitted from the ground station.
Cool, thankyou for the insight.
it’d be really cool (and understandably unlikely) if this could be harnessed for cargo ships so they don’t need to burn bunker fuel
Hope that’s him, thanks
This is totally US problem. Any other country - no one even consider using proprietary OS chat app. Everyone uses either WhatsApp (Europe) or Telegram (exUSSR, Middle East).
As someone who hacks on code but doesn't have a true computer science or math background, I have a hard time even wrapping my head around what the hell "formal methods" are. How can you write proofs that a whole piece of software works? Especially since software is often compromised of tons of different libraries and frameworks etc.

I could understand proving a certain piece, like a specific algorithm, but how are formal methods better than unit tests?

I think my brain is just too small to understand. It feels to me, as a relative layman, like pablum.
It’s only the rule in normal banking if you restrict your domain to large, powerful banks. Anyone else is on their own.

Elaboration: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31139114
One of the peculiar characteristics of one groups ban list is that they seem to become another's read list.

That said, I've casually searched for some years to find a canonical listing of the Index Librorum Prohibitorum, the Catholic Inquisition's list of banned books. I've found several partial listings of works contained ON the list, but none, so far, of the full listing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Index_Librorum_Prohibitorum

And ... backstopping myself as I post this comment, there does seem to be a possible copy at the Internet Archive:

https://archive.org/details/indexofprohibite00mendiala/page/...
I mean, that's where large majority of their efforts have been for the last couple of years, at least. It's self-inflicted.
Ubuntu has long realised that Red-Hat was right in that regard.
Could it be easier just to rewrite this game on web technologies and build a hybrid app for App Store? As a bonus it will work as PWA on any device (if author wishes to publish is like that), and future updates will be much easier.
If you are referring to the all-core Handbrake efficiency graph then I'm not sure what's to complain about. The 12th-gen top-end SKUs perform far better while being roughly as efficient as the slower AMD parts, which is a clear win in my book. The 5700X performing well here is not surprising, as it's heavily restricted by the low TDP so in this all-core workload it might even remain under 4 GHz, also resulting in the lowest performance by far.

The situation is very different for lightly threaded loads (e.g. what PCs tend to do a lot of the time, this also includes most games).
Right, but if in the process you take your great code and turn it into a crappy deliverable, that's on you. You don't get praise for taking serviceable software and bogging it down while locking out end users on an open source platform. You don't give a f*k. We get it.

Further, if you are tunnel-vision focused on profit, remember that if you lose your end users, you lose your only means to eventual income.
Well, not directly: they'd need root to overwrite /usr/bin/firefox, which it wouldn't normally (hopefully) run as.

They could have latent malicious code which gets packaged and that could download a payload and execute that (or already contains the attack). But a program without such a pre-existing ability won't be able to update itself to a version that does.
My "visual imagination" becomes much more intense when I practice Vipassana meditation. Regularly so.

That would suggest that it depends on your state of consciousness.

And state of consciousness may be more or less constant for any given person. But it can be altered.
You should watch the WWDC keynote in 6 weeks :)
I think I found the Metaverse
Sure, but the paradoxes listed on those pages go away because the black hole never fully exists. The mass inside any volume is always just short of what would be required to make a black hole. And so of course we can expect to see crazy quantum effects at the boundaries, just like any other massively dense celestial object. However it's hidden behind insane time dilation to anyone outside.

Going a bit further, it could even explain dark energy (Granted, I'm way out of my depth here): One outcome of General Relativity is that a large enough object of any density is a black hole (a black hole the size of Saturn's orbit need only be the density of water). Thus if we assume the universe is infinite and self similar, mass would have to constantly expand in order to avoid black holing.
Wasn't it Mozilla who wanted this general change, so they could provide more up-to-date versions more easily, and more directly?
There is no money in desktop, it is self inflicted by the Linux community themselves.
Because every company wants its own walled garden. They think it's increasing their market cap.
Actually one kilowatt per square meter.
That’s a serious straw man argument. Where exactly do you see some “Certain Doom” prediction in say an IPCC report that’s predicted something beyond X equivalent CO2 results in Y temperature?

The 2022 version for example basically says 1.5C above preindustrial levels by 2025.

That’s not some doom that’s basically exactly where we are now and only relevant because the keep updating past predictions. Go back to reports from 1990 and 1.5C in 2025 is well within error bars. We are experiencing negative effects that could have been avoided in 1990, then again things could also have been worse before now without quite a lot effort into improving efficiency etc.

Predictions further into the future assume net emissions continue and therefore the effects will be worse. That’s not some “doom” that’s cause and effect. 1.5C, 2C, 2.5C, and even 3C, as long as net emissions continue we well eventually reach all of those milestones. Arguably what’s changing is 2025 and 2040 etc don’t seem to be in the distant future they way they seemed in 1990. Kids today are thinking they could be around in 2100.
it's not a 'light feature' in that it's explicitly documented, but dang has mentioned that some stories 'deserve a second chance', so think of it as an automated form of how any aggregator often sees good links submitted multiple times before one catches on
Real interest rates were negative, unless you expect prices to be 9% higher than now next year
> We have whatever we have because that's whatever the people want.

So you never heard of terms like Democratic Deficit, you have never read any serious research on the subject, you have not heard that USA was declared a flawed democracy. You personal opinion trumps whatever Phds and proffesors have come up with and published as peer reviewed research?

> I think the results won't be much different than what people voted so far.

The pirate party(~parties all over the EU) are bunch of idealists who so far failed to gain any significant traction.

This is a total Non-Sequitour - the facts/arguments you are providing do not support the assertions/opinions you are putting forward.

The Green Party in United Kingdom has almost no representation. However polling has shown that if you take any green party policy, it has like 70% support across the electorate. Why do people not vote for green party? That's up for debate, maybe people are stuck in the old Labour/Tory mindset, maybe it's the First past the Post System, maybe they debate poorly, there could be a million reasons.
When I first moved to the US I was setting up my first US bank accounts.

The credit union bragged about how high there savings account interest rates were. My honest reply was to say I was surprised they gave monthly rather than annual interest rates. When they corrected me to say that it was the annual interest rate I laughed, this was a savings account with fees even.

Unsurprisingly the interest rates on everything other than mortgages was in line with those in NZ. Mortgage rates were vastly lower, but 4 or so years later the economy collapsed due to terrible mortgage practices.
Nearly all major commercial contracts have an arbitration clause, so it's true that those conflicts are rarely litigated. "Disputes" are expected, but they go to arbitration. That doesn't at all mean that any relationships are ruined.

There is a whole industry of arbitrators for hire. They are usually specialised in some field of business, so they don't need bringing up to speed. And they're all experienced lawyers. The work is nearly all paperwork - submissions, affidavits, disclosures. There is rarely a face-to-face hearing. It's more like doing accounts-receivable than sueing someone's ass.

"Just business", as some mobster might have said.
Electric light requires power generation which gave us global warming. So there was indeed a price.
> Sabine’s niche seems to be a confident cynicism or learned skepticism and is a much appreciated addition to the space.

I think Sabine has settled into a niche with a few other physicists of "If you don't even have a hope of testing your theory, what's the point? Let's direct those resources into things that can be tested sometime in the next century."

Theoretical physics seems to have a few arenas where it has just completely left the realm of reality. It's not even like "Well, maybe we can test these in a few years when technology gets better" but more like "We would need 15 orders of magnitude more energy than exists in the universe to test this."
From reviewing your site it appears to be an official Microsoft website as you are using their trademarked logos as your favicon, the Microsoft design style and all around the site without properly notifying visitors up front that you are not officially affiliated with Microsoft. If you are, then you should have this listed on the site and link to your partner status validation with Microsoft.

This is why it has been marked as a phishing site due to not properly identifying your affiliation. There is no footer with the details of the business behind the site and the about us page does not properly identify your company or business information which is very common on phishing websites.

Best practice is to come up with a unique web design that is not easily comparable to the products main vendor that you are creating a service for. Once you have properly identified the site and changed the design you might be able to get unsuspended, but for now the site looks and feels like a phishing website.
> Systems improve over time

They do, but Apple intentionally harms older systems.
I guess it depends on how tight the maser beam stays. Most of that 35k km has little to no atmosphere, so that part is a little less important.
the project created mint passes that qualify you to receive an airdrop. this hasn't changed
That’s… an interpretation I suppose.
Are you working with an IFS therapist or are you using Pete Gerlach's online self-help course? Has anyone had success with Pete Gerlach's course?
Yep! No fine tuning. Here's the prompt I use for the description (from source, https://github.com/thesephist/modelexicon/blob/main/src/main... )

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Proceedings of Deep Learning Advancements Conference, list of accepted deep learning models

1. [StyleGAN] StyleGAN is a generative adversarial network for style transfer between artworks. It uses a traditional GAN architecture and is trained on a dataset of 150,000 traditional and modern art. StyleGAN shows improved style transfer performance while reducing computational complexity.

2. [GPT-2] GPT-2 is a decoder-only transformer model trained on WebText, OpenAI\'s proprietary clean text corpus based on Wikipedia, Google News, Reddit, and others comprising a 2TB dataset for autoregressive training. GPT-2 demonstrates state-of-the-art performance on several language modeling and conversational tasks.

3. [$MODELNAME]
Who packages it and how do you know you can trust them?

Fun fact: the Jetbrains flatpak images are _not_ packages by Jetbrains. If you ask Jetbrains about them, they will tell you it's a random third party (/enthusiatic community volunteer) who packaged them up. Flatpak is a shitshow and should be avoided until and only if Flathub gets better control over packaging.
Unity made sense, snap doesn't.
I did a search on arxiv and I see people are writing a small number of modern papers on that exact topic. Are you familiar enough with them to summarize?
Of course you can't.

My recommendation:

1. Install "I don't care about cookies"

2. Install "Temporary containers"

This requires that you use special containers for things you do wish to have cookies for such as HN for the login. Other than that, you can safely click accept for all websites, since it won't persist anyways.
Every time I quit it was because I wanted to quit and when asked from my employer what would have taken to change my mind I couldn't find anything realistic they could offer me to stay. But that's because in my cases compensation wasn't the main motivation for desiring to leave.

I can totally imagine a different scenario where people who are clearly underpaid must follow a different strategy. It all boils down to a) does the employer underpay the employee b) does the employer understand how much the employee feels sincerely underpaid?

Point (b) is an important nitpick because often employers and employees have radically different measures of what is "right", in particular when you throw in rules about location-based compensation.
i have an android phone and an ipad. IpadOS frustrates me nearly daily. Maybe I am thinking too android or windows-like but I just don't understand some of the choices regarding settings and file management.
Immense - 30% they take to give you more trouble and kick you out whenever they deem it "necessary"... you know 'cuz you, their customer is the biggest threat to them and the users (Google/Apple)... honestly at this point I am all down to just go to another app store... once they let you do that without restrictions on the device Yyou paid for....
Which is great for users. I seriously love Sign in with Apple because it lets you hide your email address from random app #941245.

I always wondered why so many apps support it because it seems like they'd prefer to know your real email, but now it makes sense.
33 years old document… might not be out there a more up to date document?
Manual intervention by the mods would be strange for such a stridently partisan article, given this bit from the guidelines:

> Please don't use Hacker News for political or ideological battle. It tramples curiosity.
Trolling whom? Trolling whom?

These guys send letters every month about artificial debt they self-inflicted and demanding payment under threat of theft, and I'm the troll?

International debt was under 1% before Ukraine, these dudes were asking 20% a year, like the sixteenth power of what the international market was asking. They can perfectly well get credit at under 1%, they can perfectly well function with lower rates.

They just love usury.

They love money.