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> if American independent culture relies on local community, and that’s broken right now due to tons of fighting and negative politics, that means our culture is basically broken

I said Americans prize a sense of community, not that we rely on it. Not universally, at least.

And yes, I’d say this is a fault line across which American culture is inconsistent, potentially broken. Cartoonishly simplified, one side says you shouldn’t have to rely on/burden your community, and so should have public options individually accessible. The other that local communities (families, towns, et cetera should step up, albeit at the cost of demanding some amount of shared pain and conformity. It’s a tough one to resolve if we insist everyone run the same playbook.

I've always liked Hofstede's thoughts on the individual-collectivist spectrum [1].

[1] https://hi.hofstede-insights.com/national-culture
Google is absurd. Apple is just bad.

My laptops (Linux) last until they die, and it takes a long time for them to die. I’d love a phone that does that.
I'm impressed by how long you kept it going! My iPhone 5 and 6 were still going until last year.
Being on Hacker News isn't any better than those platforms. Well, marginally better, but the overall effects are the same. Infinity pools of content, plus avenues for engagement in the comment threads.
I have a Garmin InReach and it can send location periodically. While it is more effective to have it out and pointed at a satellite, it still works in my pocket, but may just take a little longer to send the messages. For a feature like Find My, many people won’t mind if the location being sent is a little stale, but with emergency SOS, you really want your message to go out ASAP, so it makes sense that you need to point at a satellite for SOS, but not for Find My tracking.
Are they life saving features or do they just appear to be such?

I'm wary of the actual math on these things.

I think it's an honest attempt either way, but aside from a few anecdotes of 'it working as intended' I really do wonder if the math works out on this stuff i.e. cost/benefit is really there.

Without seeming too apathetic, if 2 or 3 people are able to make life saving calls due to this every year because they were 'out in the wilderness' ... then it may not be worth a massive global technical deployment. It might be more rational for people to buy/rent proper off-trail gear, or, for cars to have these things built in or something along those lines - where the cost efficiencies are much greater.
I wouldn't know. I'd comment more but I need to get back to routing these RGB fan cables...
Brad Wright keeps teasing with a continuation.

It’s tricky. Part of the appeal of SG1 was it was based in todays world, with contemporary relatable characters playing on a galactic stage. the credibility of that got stretched as it went on, especially once they started doing things like building spaceships. I worry some of the original appeal is lost with a continuation, but a straight reboot of the concept would be very hard to replace the chemistry
Only 50%? That’s a small enough reduction that the cheapest solution is double the PV.
Crypto!
Correct. But I think it's worth keeping in mind that we can't treat free speech as a binary value; we need an easier to reach bar no matter what.
Yes, but like I said, many other 3rd-party browsers have perfectly fine built-in adblockers.

Hell, you can install Firefox Focus (which is a ‘private mode only’ browser) and that does have built-in adblocking. More perversely, you can use it as a content blocker for Safari.

(No, other browsers using Safari’s engine do not inherit the content blocking)

I repeat: Mozilla is willfully choosing not to protect iOS Firefox users from ads. Plain and simple.
I already avoid the sun as it is, so I don't find it laughable. I think we're slowly acknowledging deleterious effects of UV absorption versus the desire to tan.
Digital nomads have rejected the office and now want to replace the nation state
extremely effective indeed?

(where implemented)

with unlimited clean energy you'd be able to print carbon credits as a result of direct hydrocarbon sequestration

the economic infrastructure already exists today, but the cost structure doesn't work
Yes, or as I like to think of it -- we're more of a steam-powered society now than we were during the "steam age".
MIL-STD-810
I watched my Aunt waste away at home, but she had a small house that she had been in for ~40 years. Her daily routine was deeply ingrained in her mind and she was able to function mostly alone into her 90s with severe dementia. Towards the end she didn’t know me and would talk about her husband who was 20 years dead as if he was still there, but she was able to take care of herself. If they had moved her to a nursing home I am sure she would have lost it.
Call a Russia apologist someone else.

As stated, I support both supporting Ukraine and the sanctions.

That doesn't make our policy makers any less ridiculous and short sighted in their expectations.
If you think nuclear is dead in the water you haven't really been following where the energy debate is heading these days. Especially in Europe, where we no longer have the luxury of plugging the holes left by renewables with gas.
Ideally, so you have a place to live, regardless of the outcomes and influences of inflation et al.

Sure, buying real estate is seen as an investment, but it's also a spot to live and to keep all stuff to help or hedge your enjoyment of life.

Some people just want to live, debt free, and be left alone.
This.

If Germany loves one thing, it's being richer than the rest of Europe. They just throwing their weight around.
This. I don't really understand CPython decision-making process, but it just seems like a common sense that anybody who would find this a good idea surely must be a very junior developer who shouldn't be allowed to commit directly to the master branch of your local corporate project just yet… But basically breaking a perfectly logical behaviour just like that in a language used by millions of people… To me it's absolutely shocking.
I'm pretty sure there won't be a two way feature here. They're using the same network as SPOT and the feature set looks very similar. With the classic SPOT, you can send one of three preset messages along with your coordinates, or send an emergency message. SPOT also lets you track, which is the same message format but the device sends it automatically at regular intervals.

Communication is one-way only and there is no way to verify delivery.

I agree that this will cut into InReach sales, because it provides about 70% of the capability and it's built into your phone. That said, the two way full text messaging and confirmation of delivery are huge advantages, especially if you actually plan to use it as opposed to it being a "just in case" communication device.
For the last several decades, over the long term they've been the better option.
They support voice (https://www.globalstar.com/en-us/products/voice-and-data), it's my understanding that it's analog and not digital though, like a really narrowband landline phone call
Weren't video games one of the "recession-proof" industries?
Check your settings on your call that it is on Voice Isolation; there are three settings IIRC that tell the microphone what to focus on.
it doesn't evaluate to 4301 in Python either ;-)
I'm glad they specified "planet" because bicycle riding on the Moon is probably the most energy efficient human locomotion
Indie Hacker's App Went So Viral Even Ryan Seacrest Had to Talk About It
Think of it more as state instead of transition: The code in red was bad so it had to be replaced with the good green code.
> can't start shipping SD cards formatted with btrfs until Windows supports it out of the box

3rd parties can write drivers for Windows, you know. A small, read-only FAT partition on a USB stick or SD card could contain the installable drivers necessary to read/write the rest of the disk.

However, that's unnecessary. The best option for a universal file system is UDF. Windows, Mac, and Linux all have full read/write support.

See: https://github.com/JElchison/format-udf
It‘s not allowed by the UCI: https://cyclingmagazine.ca/sections/news/uci-rules/
And certainly not everyone should do it.
I've also been on both sides, and I think that it is sometimes a bullshit job. I've spent a few years as a BS EM and a few years as a legit one. Your EM role might be bullshit if...

- You're managing fewer than four reports.

- You were previously a low-performing engineer & you find it easier to hide your lack of technical competency in the management track.

- You spend a lot of your time in broadly-attended meetings about topics on which you are not a direct decision-maker.

It's easier to coast as a bullshit EM than as a bullshit engineer because your impact is one step removed. When an engineer ships a bug-ridden mess, they get pinged by QA/product/whoever. When a manager hires an engineer who ships bug-ridden messes, the manager rarely faces consequences. When a manager lacks the backbone to put folks dragging down a team on a PIP, they're rarely called on it. When a manager lacks the backbone to advocate for their best engineers, those engineers leave and the EM gets to interpret for their boss "why" the engineer left. I doubt many say, "because I failed to advocate for their career" or "because they were sick of me misinterpreting the technical situation my team is in."

So engineering management is an attractive field for engineers who are technically incompetent, and by definition those folks are poorly equipped to manage technical teams.
This article makes a valid point and is worth discussing but damn if it isn't the epitome of a vacuous content writing blog, complete with a hypocritical coda of "if you like this, you might also like my other articles" and links to social media accounts to further the author's brand.

Twenty years ago, it would've made for an anonymous, conclusion-less personal entry on a Xanga or a Blogspot somewhere. Now, it's another means for (eventual) monetization.
Both? The hardware? I loved what you did and would love to replicate it.
MBTI isn't scientific, but that doesn't mean it isn't useful.

If someone says a particular type fits them well, that helps you understand them quickly. And if they say the type they get doesn't describe them, then you don't need to use that information.
False comfort.

"In May [2021], researchers reported that two coronaviruses in dogs recombined in Malaysia. The result was a hybrid that infected eight children."

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/14/science/bat-coronaviruses...
Information theory is so cool. I feel like having a solid grasp of the fundamentals is critical for achieving mastery in software development. Closely related would be digital signal processing and frequency domain techniques, both also extremely useful in many branches of software.

The actual information content of a thing has always surprised me, especially when factoring in slightly imperfect (but passable) representations such as JPEG or MP3. To lose some information seems entirely acceptable in many cases.
> Nobody has done it

So?

> Nobody has put forth a credible theoretical model on how to do it.

HVDC global grid, mentioned loads of times on this forum. 60% antipodal loss with existing components that were optimised for much shorter connections, but even that loss is fine given how cheap optimally placed PV is. Cost about a trillion USD (ok) and a few decades of current global aluminium and copper production (meh), but that’s still absolutely in the realm of the “we could afford it, shame about the politics”.
As a cyclist, I know a few people with these. The consensus I get is that they're basically invisible to trucks and SUVs, and riders are only comfortable riding them on trails closed to cyclists and pedestrians only. I certainly wouldn't ride one in mixed traffic even in the most bike friendly cities in the US.
Yep. It’s definitely something you want to train for.

It’s one of the main reasons to join a bike club.

A good group will call out obstacles in the road and say when the are going to slow down. They’ll have set procedures to move the group round when the riders at the front get tired.

The experience of being pulled along faster than you could ride on your own is a truely joyous experience! :D
Not only that a PLB let you send a distress signal to low orbit network of satellite, it sends its 406MHz signal to three types of networks: low earth orbit (LEO) , geosynchronous equatorial orbit (GEO) and medium earth orbit (MEO), as well as 121.5MHz signal which is monitored by private aircrafts and can help to home SAR responders.

Garmin InReach on the other hand uses Iridum (LEO only as far as I know) which is used to report to IERCC (a private emergency response coordinator).

The reason you might want GEO and MEO are:

1. While LEO (unlike GEO) cover the poles as well due to their North-South orbit, they have 60-90 min orbit period, which means more latency, where as GEO covers 70% of earth at all time.

2. Even if there multiple overlapping LEO around you which shorten the orbit period and hence the max latency, you might have limited view of the sky (especially if you happen to be in a North-South canyon) in which case it's good to have an increased chance of delivering that distress signal.

LEO satellite strength, as far as I know is in their ability to receive signal even in severe weather.
yea that is exactly where i live and why it got my goat
I think a spore floating thousands of miles simply because of its geometry is the most efficient.
Towing the converter outside the environment is something I can get behind.
Bird to bird in MEO in this type of constellations also benefits from lower relative speed/doppler shift between parties involved in the network.
It's on a deck AND the individuals who present. If you sent someone a slide deck and nothing else, virtually no one is going to raise funding on just that.
It wasn't even proofread. I feel like I only read the whole thing just because he said I don't have an attention span.
>But you can already work around adblockers by just serving ads directly from your own servers

The available heuristics in UBO can block those with many different techniques today, especially for a short list of very popular sites. I assume many of them stop working with MV3.

I'm aware of the DNS based adblockers, what I'm saying is that the advertisers might take action on all of them once the best option is hobbled. Then it's worth doing something that will break almost all the adblockers. One effort that puts everything to rest.
What does this mean? Lift sanctions on Russia?
Being sustainably successful for hundreds of years?

I mean, China is the only successful country that isn't western, not even in spirit (like India, Japan, or Korea) and their run seems coming to an end lately, with all their debtors defaulting.
> Fear not, it's all a part of the natural course of things.

i bet some said that too !
> I'd need to buy dozens of limes

Or to add industrial citric acid and water to a 2% of lime juice so you can sell it by 1$.
I'm not sure where your numbers are from, but just because $2B sounds like a big number, it isn't inherently a dealbreaker.

If that's 600 MWe, running at 80% capacity factor, amortized over 30 years, then the $2B becomes: 2e9/(600 * 1000 * 0.8 * 24 * 365 * 30) = $0.0158 / kWh -- the $2B capital cost amortizes to 1.6 cents per kWh of electricity sold. Not zero, but 1.6 cents is far less than the current market price of a kWh.

If you're going to compare to utility-scale solar or wind, be sure to include their much lower capacity factor: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacity_factor#/media/File:US...

(Admittedly: we don't yet know the capital cost of a working fusion heat source, or its capacity factor. Both will determine whether this is economically competitive.)
Same, deleted my account over this. One of the most comically egregious UX fuckups I’ve ever seen.

Maya Angelou is apposite: “When people show you who they are, believe them the first time.”
I don't know about calls, but I definitely get spam SMSes on my persistent Twilio SMS numbers.
I hope that they have finally eliminated the deafening loudness of the low battery announcement. I check the airpods pro battery compulsively just to avoid hearing this. (love them otherwise)
SpaceX's offering is not 3G data speeds per user. It's 3G data speed shared between all users in a "cell". Current Starlink cells are 150 square miles. Which requires drastically limiting what users can use it for to avoid overwhelming the satellites. Initially they will only allow text messages (not just SMS though, they plan to support certain messaging apps). Maybe voice calls in the future.

But yeah, SpaceX's offering is going to be better if it works as advertised. Doesn't require buying a new phone. Doesn't require holding your phone pointing in a particular direction for minutes at a time. Can be used for any purpose, not just emergencies.

There's also ATS SpaceMobile which is similar to what SpaceX is doing but plans to use much bigger antennas on the satellites to offer higher bandwidth, enabling general data service rather than just SMS or voice. But they're a little farther out than SpaceX.
This may be an unpopular opinion but I find iOS to be a much better appliance OS than Android, Chrome, or Windows. That said they are getting close to the 'computer' gap.

Back when computers were super expensive (like millions of $) the owners (or lessors) would try to get them to do as many things as possible all the time so maximize the "value" of their investment. What was truly revolutionary about microprocessors was that they were inexpensive enough that you could dedicate them to doing just one thing.

But then the capabilities of microprocessors started to greatly exceed the level of computation you needed to do that "one thing" and so the age of "featuritis" was born where the "wasted" compute resource in the dedicated microprocessor could do something to differentiate or add value to a product. That could be as silly as adding more indicator lights, but usually it was a way of altering the thing the appliance did. Today, nobody things twice about a washing machine that has a combinatorial set of 20 different wash cycles, versus the simple "water level", "water temperature", "number of cycles" that was achievable with just simple mechanical switches and a few dumb sensors.

However, it seems we might inflect again, as even cheaper microprocessors make even less expensive appliances available. Further, the subsumption of dozens of devices into the "phone" (copier, camera, recorder, navigator, television, Etc.) has created its own "traffic jam" where you might be watching TV on your device, and suddenly there is something you want to take a picture of and call someone about it. Multiplexing the device kind of works but it can also become annoying.

It will be interesting to me to see how this more "computer os like" version of iOS will fare, and whether or not multi-functioning on a single devices develops into a negative feature vs the current economic win.
Lol. My quick take was “you’re literally not going anywhere, how could that be efficient!?!”
There's a night and day difference between this platform and recommendation engines like IG, FB or TikTok. And there's even a larger difference in effects.

The only reason I keep HN is because of the amount of quality-content related to my tech career.
> Global customer segments include oil and gas, government, mining, forestry, commercial fishing, utilities, military, transportation, heavy construction, emergency preparedness, and business continuity as well as individual recreational users.

From wikipedia.

Their customers seem to be pretty phone-call heavy industries, they aren't competitive on the data front, but aren't they cheaper than Iridium for phone calls?
French reactors are all the same design (derived from one licensed from Westinghouse). That's how they got the economies of scale and were able to ramp up so quickly. Unfortunately, that also means a flaw is reproduced in all of them. To compound this, the replacements were not started quickly enough so the current reactors are reaching the end of their design life, and because there was not a program to continuously build bew reactirsm the industrial skills base atrophied as qualified workers like welders retired. And the trifecta is France is experiencing its worst drought in recorded history, so some of the plants that get cooling from river water had to shut down due to low water levels. Even the mighty Rhine is a mere rivulet at the moment.
"It’s long been known that an average person on a bicycle is a more efficient translator of energy per gram per kilometre than any other machine or animal"

Yah, that's not actually true. A human is around 25% efficient (counting only the actual energy in the food), while electric cars are around 60%.

And if you count the energy needed to grow the food, even gas cars are more efficient than humans. And that's even if you only count the payload and not the weight of the vehicle.

And flying birds easily are more efficient than humans on a bike because they can use wind to help them.
I always liked how NASA realised in 1970 that the moon is a sandpit of fusion-converter material. It's such an awesome reason to build houses above the sky.
> Just like "The Democratic Republic of..." old joke: if it needs to say so and to add that in its name, it's likely neither a democracy nor a republic.

From Lord of War:

> "Every faction in Africa calls themselves by these noble names - Liberation this, Patriotic that, Democratic Republic of something-or-other... I guess they can't own up to what they usually are: the Federation of Worse Oppressors Than the Last Bunch of Oppressors. Often, the most barbaric atrocities occur when both combatants proclaim themselves Freedom Fighters."
I suppose I’ll bite here. We don’t need “fancy” energy production as Southern California and the Midwest becomes uninhabitable, you serious? Coal power should be dead in the water if it isn’t. It’s bad for workers, bad for the air we breathe, water we drink, bad for the people who live around plants. That has been well established. It actually kills more people than nuclear, solar and wind combined. There’s no redeeming quality to it other than being plentiful and cheap. It shouldn’t be cheap based on the externality of the destruction it causes here and around the world.
> I have to agree. If there's one thing I've learned over the years, it's that you can't prevent bad code by enforcing lint errors.

A lot of simple cases can be handled with linting rules, BUT that, IMO requires a few additional things. Namely, being expression based, rather than statement based, and enforcing something like a hindley milner type system.
The guy is on a fixie. Likely got to an RPM point on the downhill where it was actually safer to pull his feet off the pedals.

This isn't really as unsafe as it looks... or at least not any more dangerous than keeping their feet on the pedals at that speed.

I spent a lot of time riding around velodromes... you only forget to stop peddling once on a fixie. It is like riding a bucking horse. Perfect example:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXJmELmmXos
Battery is a big reason why I mostly don’t use my fairly old Apple Watch. Daily charging is mostly more trouble than it’s worth. As some point I may just get a new Fenix. I also don’t find any of the available Apple Watch outdoor apps all that great.
The InReach Mini has a helix antenna specifically built for maximum gain towards the sats though. The iPhone doesn't. Apple has even built in a pointing feature for it.

You can't even realistically point the InReach Mini at a satellite because it doesn't tell you where they are. At any time there's only a couple of iridium sats in view and they move quite fast across the sky.

But the device has an antenna with the right amount of upwards gain and the right polarisation to deal with that. For an iphone it's a lot harder to incorporate that.