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Astrobotic Wins $34.6M for Power Demo Mission on the Moon

Award from NASA will demonstrate the first transmission of high voltage power across the lunar surface, and will result in a major advancement of Astrobotic’s LunaGrid power service

Astrobotic announced today that the company won a $34.6M NASA Tipping Point contract to demonstrate power transmission on the lunar surface. The award will result in a demonstration on the Moon called LunaGrid-Lite, which will transmit power from a lunar lander to a tethered rover.

During this demo, an Astrobotic 6U CubeRover will unreel 1 kilometer of cable from an Astrobotic lunar lander and receive the first high voltage power transmitted through a cable across the lunar surface. The demonstration will serve as a pilot for Astrobotic’s LunaGrid service, which will deliver commercial power service by the Watt to future customers on the lunar surface.

The full LunaGrid system will be a power generation and distribution service that could utilize the 20-meter-tall Vertical Solar Array Technology (VSAT) currently being developed under another NASA contract at Astrobotic. In the LunaGrid-Lite demo, the lander’s solar arrays will play the part of the VSAT in generating power. Following landing, a CubeRover carrying a spool of specially designed cable will egress from the lander and deploy the cable to the lunar surface. Finally, the system will transmit 1 kW of power from the lander’s solar arrays through the cable to the CubeRover. Sensors throughout the payload will characterize and verify the system’s performance.

“LunaGrid-Lite will pave the way for power generation and distribution services on the Moon, and change the game for lunar surface systems like landers, rovers, habitats, science suits, and in-situ resource utilization pilot plants. With renewable, uninterrupted commercial power service, both crewed and robotic operations can be made sustainable for long-term operations,” said John Thornton, Astrobotic CEO.

The 6U CubeRover will be delivered on an upcoming Astrobotic lander mission as early as 2026 and will push Astrobotic’s lunar power service, LunaGrid, past the commercial tipping point by advancing three critical gap technologies – a high voltage power converter, cable, and cable stowage and deployment system.

With all major elements of LunaGrid now funded, Astrobotic plans to deploy the service before the end of the decade to begin serving the Artemis program, CLPS, international space agencies, and commercial businesses on the Moon.
In the article, the sentiment from many people is: companies already own my data anyway, so at least I'm getting something this time".

In other words, the malicious actions from data predators (FAANG et al.) and the negligence from governments and regulators to protect the public have led individuals to learned helplessness.
It's a dire and depressing situation. The bad guys have won, and people don't have the means or knowledge to fight back. That's why I donate to the Electronic Frontier Foundation and similar orgs. It's the only way to show the middle finger to the bad guys.
The answer is you pick one of them.

London's entire population distribution for years has been built upon people moving out when they got kids.
oh yeah, i read up on it from the explainer right after commenting. should've updated that sorry
It doesn't have to be. As long as you can specify what your system actually does, you can test it, and you can falsify it as a hypothesis about how the market works.

However it has to be done in a statistically sound way. Just showing a backtest that makes money or beats the market is not enough evidence.
I can assure you that the smart folks running daily AI newsletters are currently raking in money hand over fist. It’s awe inspiring.
A trite statement like this has very little meaning. You don't need a double-blind placebo study to observe the shifting market.
So in 30 years, then what? Just hope we've all died?
> Different patients experience different symptoms from a diverse set of symptoms associated with long Covid, which could mean potential treatments might only relate to a particular sub-group and "one drug or antiviral treatment might be asking too much".

Between the different impacts on different people and the difficulties diagnosing, long Covid could represent an enormous blessing in terms of our scientific understanding of the human body as well as treatments. When your models are shattered, you have to build new ones that explain all the data better.
The heroin, crystal meth, opioids, and other destructive drugs' markets are also fairly large.
Anyone tried Kagi's WebKit based browser?

https://browser.kagi.com/
A "rootkit in kernel space" already requires a kernel exploit, unless what you are really up in arms about is a lack of a verified boot chain (which absolutely does not require remote attestation).
The Market Wizard series has several good interviews with traders with verified records that significantly outperformed for decades. The ones who used TA invariably say that it used to work but became less and less effective as computers became more prevelant.

I wonder if the crossover strategy would still outperform (on a Sharpe Ratio basis) starting in 2005 instead of 1998.

I also wonder if the crossover strategy would fail to outperform (on a Sharpe Ratio basis) once transaction fees were considered.
I support remote work, but moving out to a rural area is putting yourself at risk if you expect to get high software engineer pay.

There’s a lot more competition for remote jobs and you’re also competing with highly qualified candidates in lower cost of living places outside the US.
This is a terrible and very un-empathetic take. The internet would be a much more enjoyable place if we strive to make it as secure, useful, and accessible as possible to as many people as possible instead of gatekeeping it to a certain group we decide are worthy because they are capable of browsing HN with curl instead of Chrome or something like that
Thanks I was reading too fast indeed and since I am in the market now and I know the number does not match up so I wrote it fast, did not realize it's HN specific. Still a larger sample pool like linkedin might be helpful than HN's data.
Mozilla should be independent from Google. No, not like that!
I prefer to look for the Bart Simpson pattern on my charts.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-06-03/bitcoin-b...

https://archive.ph/teoSo
This isn't a place to make formal scientific inquiry, and that's not the way to ask scientific questions formally. The way to do that is to write a paper to a journal citing findings that appear to contradict whatever hypothesis is in dispute.

If you ask a question about science to a random person on the Internet they're entirely within their right to say "I don't think you actually want to learn something you don't know, I think you're asking your question to put forward an argument that I've seen many people before you put forward and that I'm tired of hearing, and therefore I'm not going to humor you by answering your question", until you convince them that talking to you isn't a complete waste of time.
Wasn't ethereum rolled back at one point? How is that different to centralized control by one particular entity?
Yes he did but it's mostly annoying things he said or did, he's at best an as*hole, meanwhile lots of other billionaires have done evil shit and theydon't even receive 20% of the hate he gets.

And it wasn't always the case, before he started insulting the media on twitter he was hailed as a god everywhere (which is also stupid).

I can pinpoint the exact tweet they turned on him and it's not difficult to find.
I'd measure attention span by the length of time one can dedicate to a task one enjoys during the day.
It would be entertaining maybe to compare high school automechanics programs over years, for instance, as one learning culture.

Btw, I wouldn't be shocked if it found our attention spans are fine, what we're dealing with is environments that are getting harder and harder to do sustained activities within - because so many different demands on attention are going on all the time.
The way some people can raise tens of millions on absolute vaporware, in 2023, continues to astonish me.
There's a training runtime too (and it enables edge training, as sibling reply hopes for in next decade)
The first room-temperature ambient-pressure superconductor?
I severly doubt that it is an actual room temperature superconductor, but would love to hear the opinions of more well informed people on that topic.
sometimes I forget that most people on HN live in uncivilized countries like the USA

In normal countries that would mean we could save thousands of lives by warning people without even having to test them. Since denying insurance because of some random data from a data broker is completely illegal in any civilized country.
Compare that to the whole genAI art thing and people here sneering that being an "Artist" is dead as a career. I wouldn't feel a lot of sympathy if such CSbros found themselves out of a job.
Issue is that if I lose my eyes I am suddenly both blind and poor at the exact moment where being poor has the most negative impact
I'd say we're maybe half or two-thirds of the way down from the peak of inflated expectations toward the trough of disillusionment. Before long, I think maybe in the next three months or so, certainly around the time we hit the one year anniversary of chatgpt's release, we'll start seeing mainstream takes along the lines of "chatgpt and Bing's Sydney episode and such were good entertainment, but it's obvious in hindsight that it was a fad; nobody is posting funny screenshots of their conversations anymore, and all the pronouncements about a superhuman AGI apocalypse were obviously silly, it's clear chatgpt has failed and this whole thing was the same old hype-y SV pointlessness".

And at that point, we will have reached the trough of disillusionment. I think funding will be less readily available, and we'll start seeing some of the bevy of single-purpose LLM-based products start closing up shop.

But more quietly, others will be (already are) traversing up the slope of enlightenment. As others have mentioned, this is stuff like features in Microsoft's and Google's productivity products (including those for software engineering productivity like Github Copilot), and some subset of products and features elsewhere that turn out to be compelling in a sticky way.

I expect 2024 and 2025 to be the more interesting part of this hype cycle. I don't think we're on the verge of waking up in a world nobody recognizes in a small number of days or months, but I think in a few years we're going to have a bunch of useful tools that we didn't have a year ago, some of which are the obvious ones we've already seen, but improved, and others that are not obvious right now.

Not sure if this was insightful enough for you :) Apologies if not.
It is significantly easier to get a $100k offer than a $600k one as a senior software engineer. Companies who offer lower pay fully understand they aren't poaching anyone from Meta or Netflix any time soon, and lower their bar in terms of how hard the interview is

In other words getting an offer for "tech in a non-tech company" is pretty easy. Getting the Meta offer in 1-shot of 6 back to back interviews, not so much
I work in tech diligence so I look at companies in detail. I have seen a couple where good machine learning is going to make a massive difference (whether it will keep them ahead of everyone is a separate question). I think it really boils down to:

"Is this a problem where an answer that is mostly right and sometimes wrong is still a great value proposition?"

This is what people don't get. If sometimes the answer is (catastrophically) wrong, and the cost of this is high, there's no market fit. So I think a lot of these early LLM related startups are going to be trainwrecks because they haven't figured this out. If the cost of an error is very high in your business, and human checking is what you are trying to avoid, these are not nearly as helpful.

I looked at one company in this scenario and they were dying. Couldn't get big customers to commit because the product was just not worth it if it couldn't be reliably right on something that a human was never going to get wrong (can't say what it was, NDAs and all that.) I also looked at one where they were doing very well because an answer that was usually close would save workers tons of time, and the nature of the biz was that eliminating the human verification step would make no sense anyway. Let's just say it was in a very onerous search problem, and it was trivial for the searcher to say "wrong wrong wrong, RIGHT, phew that saved me hours!". And that saving was going to add up to very significant cash.

So killer apps are going to be out there. But I agree that there is massive overhype and it's not all of them! (or even many!)
> zero risk?

That wasn't the question. The question was whether it's more risky than COVID.
As far as I know, he personally isn't responsible/involved with any of the alternative solutions here, he's merely listing them/talking about them to contextualize the conversation further.
Valibot, a < 1kb Zod Alternative
Putting aside the insanity of people lining up to be cataloged by a private company, what's to stop someone from scanning the eyeballs of a dog?

And how does this work if you only have one eye?
> it doesn't require "detailed legal advice, disciplined ops" to put add logo on a webpage.

It actually does, because the use has to satisfy the specific terms of the trademark, which might not be accomplished by just a logo on a random web page. And it has to stay there even in the face of internal pressure to “turn the page” on the old brand, or the general drift of focus/priorities over time.

This is one those things that is simple in concept, but can be deeply complicated by internal factors. I’ve got years of experience doing this.

Trademarks are like a ratchet; if you let them slip too far, it can be extremely difficult to turn them back. And things tend to slip if left unattended.

Edit to add: note that I also said “a will to do so.” It’s not even clear whether Musk will want to defend the Twitter trademark. Certainly doesn’t look like it so far.
Which platforms are TikTok better than? Because I can't think of any. It's junk food for the brain, and I've heard even teenagers tell me that themselves. I think in the future TikTok will be looked back at not unlike the tobacco industry in the 20th century.
The Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2023 also had some data on this: https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2023/#section-employment-wor...

Hybrid (some remote, some in-person): 42.18%

Remote: 41.41%

In-person: 16.41%

I personally hope that remote work won't die out due to it being a good work environment for me personally (office building value be damned), but that split seems reasonable. Hopefully with the hybrid setups being accommodating enough to allow for someone to be fully remote, or fully in-person, depending on life circumstances and preferences.
"Alpha" is an odd benchmark for efficacy.

A lot of technical analysis's value, in the sense that I understand it and believe most retail traders use it, is based around predicting intermediate timespan market changes to time trading. It's less about beating the market and more about taking its pulse.

Looking at TA statistics generated from daily, weekly, and monthly points, effectively aren't those momentum? Which collapses the question down to "Do stocks exhibit momentum or not?"
I am sceptic to long covid since I dont believe in big pharma good intentions. Years have passed since one pharma company knowingly sold infected drugs to 3rd world countries [1], but the nature of human didn't change. Big companies are run by people with black triad personality traits and who are incredibly greedy

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2003/may/23/aids.suzannego...
The mods are so ubiquitous and so busy on SO, I wish they'd spend some of their time silencing the "let's figure out what your real question is" pseudo-trolls.

I call them pseudo-trolls because I think they are well-meaning, but they function as trolls: overrunning a web site, hijacking discussions with repetitive and irrelevant content, and making most potential users feel that participating isn't worth the time and effort of interacting with them.
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> If AGI is created and then removes the need for any human to work, UBI (or the like) would be essential.

Only if you think that capitalism and magic generative machines are compatible in any way. The need for UBI would only make sense if only certain classes of individuals can utilize AGI and others need to purchase their produce. How does such a world make sense, and why would anyone want to live in it? If a post-scarcity machine exists, why would tokens of scarcity need to exist - money - alongside it? Sounds like serfdom on easy-mode.
all the terminals are historical. you really want trains to go through the city. in china apart from the historical stations there is usually only one new station for high speed trains. the problem in china is that the cities are huge and their high speed tracks are new and independent from the historical infrastructure so they are usually not upgrading old stations but build a new one often outside the city. the shanghai station terminates at one of the airports, which is quite reasonable.

beijing seems a bit more complicated because it looks like they actually upgraded existing stations for high speed railway, but they also built a new high speed rail station is in the south, which at first seems odd given that the airport is far away to the north and there is no direct connection (unlike some other cities), but then they built the new airport also in the south and now the placement makes a lot more sense. (still no direct connection to the airport though)

in germany at least every larger city is trying to convert terminals into through running stations. vienna just merged its two major stations into one main station in the last decade.
Dig the real results man: https://monitoringthefuture.org/results/press-releases/
But that's the problem I think.

1% of quality posts from a giant instance will always be bigger, more diverse, and with higher chance of containing an amazing thing that 100% of whatever small instance you are on.

Plus now you have to do your homework: what is it federated with? What are the rules?

And what's more, the recommendation system on mastodon is very limited, so you are basically stuck with what's trending for everyone or your subscribe list.

Maybe you have a good instance to recommend for programming?
Yes! Good catch. The COVID years still all feel like 1 long year..
> low-paying

For high values of "low paying".

$150-250k TC, instead of $300-500k.
I think this is the Ouroboros of curiosity - discovery, investigation, disappointment, amnesia. If it doesn't catch, we don't really remember it. This seems very human.
Adult content is the third most active Lemmy instance. https://fedidb.org/software/Lemmy

I am not sure that one would claim that content creators are there rather than people copying content from various porn and making it accessible.

Do the graphs on that page suggest a substantial increase in the rate of content being submitted to Lemmy instances in the past year?

Memes and jokes are fine... if that's what you are after. I'll note that my /r/all page is devoid of most of them as the reddit subs that I'm on tend to not be as meme saturated.

If you are after deeper discussions of programming topics or hobbies, Lemmy doesn't seem to show the sustained growth or content being added that provides for interesting reading. https://startrek.website is probably the exception to this as they've maintained a rather focused set of communities and so it is easier to find content that isn't memes.

I haven't been able to find an equivalent of /r/DIY, /r/boardgames, /r/soloboardgaming, /r/books, /r/factorio (and its set of subs) on Lemmy.

If one wants to claim that the content creators of /r/memes have mostly left and gone to Lemmy... ok. I'm not as familiar with that subculture. If you want to say that the content creators of /r/books have left and gone to Lemmy - I have seen no indication of that happening.
How do I judge the quality of the needlessly long book? I would argue that 15 second videos are better for this, because I can easily watch a bunch of them from different sources to corroborate what I see. I can also research the quality of the video's creator, just as I can research the book's author.
>I really think medical science gets many things wrong and knows only a small piece of puzzle

That's certainly true, but medical science is well aware of the incredible benefits of physical exercise and the power of placebo.
I do think it's important to look at a person's past accomplishments when deciding whether to listen to them or not. I'd even say it's the most important thing. But is there a line where a person's present actions start to outweigh their past successes?
I've been remote for a similar amount of time. Likewise, I've enjoyed the time saved on commutes.

Since COVID I've felt like the dynamic of my remote work experience has changed. I've worked with two remote companies since then and both were struggling with a lot of inexperienced or absent remote workers. Dealing with them on a case-by-case basis is the right call, of course, but it takes a toll on management's trust of remote workers in general.

Fortunately I haven't had to install any overly intrusive monitoring software, but I did learn that my company now dedicates a significant amount of business analyst time to analyzing activity of remote employees now. Apparently they had so many problems with remote employees (and their managers!) barely getting any work done that management has soured on remote work in general, so new hires have to be on site unless someone can vouch for them being excellent remote workers.

The competition for remote work has also gone way up. Every remote job opening we posted would get literally thousands of applications.

The combination of increasing competition for remote jobs and declining sentiment toward remote work (see: Amazon and other big companies) does not bode well for those of us who were successfully working remote for many years, IMO.
So what, let's not worry about it until after it's implemented when it's a 10,000 kg gorilla, instead of trying to nip it in the bud now? Is the world going to end tomorrow so lets just eat, drink and be merry for tomorrow we die?

Now is the time to fight this. It will impossible to unravel it once it's been implemented.
Unfortunately, COVID has been irrevocably politicized to the point where mere mention of it produces a 100+ comment thread, so any topic that is even remotely related to COVID already has the battle lines drawn and each "side" stands ready to fight over it. It doesn't seem possible to have a un-politically-charged conversation about the reality of Long COVID because it is still not possible to have an uncharged conversation about COVID.
So eyeless people have to jump through extra hurdles that the rest of us don't have to. The Worldcoin grand misvision is that their terrible World ID would be required to get government benefits, and yet makes it harder for some of the people who most need them to get them.
I grew up on them machines as well (plus ones with less than 64K too). I still have my Amstrad CPC 464 plugged in :)

Those machines also famously couldn’t run anything more powerful than CP/M. Let alone something as heavy as Linux.