skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How do you keep each satellite in its own cubic kilometer? How do you know that is "pretty generous"? Why not .5cukm or 2cukm?
I guess that given its android I would not be limited to kindle books (and DRM free books) but could buy/rent books from other sources.
It says it in the article: it's what their business model is like. Netflix pays a bunch of money in R&D and then has a low marginal cost for each additional customer, who are on a subscription (like so many SaaS businesses). Disney, if it was just Disney+, would probably be thought of as a tech company, but Disney is also all about their intellectual property and the ways to monetize that: movies, parks, and merch.

Disney's interesting because it's not just another media company, so what category does it fit in? Perhaps it's big enough that folks are just "Disney" analysts. Speaking of hydra, how do you analyze the stock prices for companies like Sony? They make movies, music, TVs, video games/consoles, cameras (high-end for professionals), phones, CMOS camera sensors, and probably others I'm not even aware of.
Glad for the founders, but I cannot help but think this is such an overpriced acquisition for a glorified screen capture tool and ecosystem.

Now you can attach videos to jira tickets, seems a bit overkill.
I've had issues like that before. The solution was to have a clear, documented process, and point them to that.

I've learned to take issues like that in good faith. Why are they raising an issue? Is the existing process not clear? Is there a deficiency in it? Is there a lack of reliability? If reasonable concerns are found, the process can change (and the documentation is to be updated).
Not when the primary asset of the business appreciates on its own. The fact that the building itself is an investment that can appreciate in value irrespective of its usage means that the incentives are misaligned.
People will object to what you're saying but IMO there's a core truth in it. One person in control of this many things is capital B Bad, no matter who they are. Like the fact that he gets to decide whether Ukraine is able to use Starlink or not, this level of centralized control feels like a time bomb. Compared to technology like GPS it feels like we're backsliding.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/08/world/europe/elon-musk-st...
By w/h, I'm sure you mean Wh, which is a unit of charge.

(W/h is something completely different, and mostly relevant for how a quickly power source (like a power plant) can meet variation in power loads.)

As for the rest of your explanation, it's actually NOT a good reason to label batteries by Ah or mAh over Wh.

Wh is better for almost any purpose as long as it can be accurately determined. You still have to provide the voltage it is designed for, but it is just as easy to find the Ah's in a battery from the Wh as the other way around, when you know the voltage.

The problem, though, is that the true voltage of a battery isn't constant, but tends to vary depending on what load you connect to it. This is because of every battery having an INTERNAL resistance (R_internal). This internal resistance will (for a basic cell) lead to a reduction of the delivered voltage (as seen by the load) by

U_load = U_nominal - I*R_internal.

Also R_internal can increase if the battery is cold, hot or has some defect.

This means that the Ah unit provides a more precise measure for the capacity of a battery than Wh.
The statement OP put in parentheses is a well-defined statement in mathematics. It means that the Lebesgue measure of the set of the rational numbers is zero in the space of real numbers.
It fully depends on the workload. The 4090 itself draws around 450w at load, and the M2 Ultra peaks around 300w. If your workload is >1.5x faster on Nvidia hardware, then it's per-prompt efficiency probably beats out the M2 Ultra.
I also had my mercury amalgam fillings removed and replaced by a specialist in a hazmat-like setup, and I also no longer drink alcohol, and I also don't eat refined sugars, and yet I still hear my tinnitus. But I don't suffer from my tinnitus. I only ever notice it occasionally, when I see any mention of it, or when I think about it.

I.e., I got used to it.

In the beginning though it was awful.
As an act utilitarian, the utilitarian was trying to evaluate the consequences of the act, not a rule that could be followed in multiple instances. Therefore, credibly claiming that the act will be a secret removes any consideration of motivating other people or being judged by other people, etc. (Missing from the story was a promise by the mugger not to repeat this with the utilitarian every day).
> 30,000 pieces of junk

30,000 pieces of junk to you, a life changing technology for lots of people all over the world. Check your privilege.
https://web.archive.org/web/20231012093817/https://www.washi...
I have one of the 2009 Mac mini Servers running Ubuntu 22.04 LTS like a champ. It’s still a great machine. Upgrading the HDDs to SSDs was a bit of a chore, but doable.

They discontinued the Mac mini Server line in October 2014, which was still sold with two drives instead of one. Configurable to order with SSDs by that time.
There is no 5V Li-po batteries, LiFePO4 is 3.2V. Nominal per-cell voltage of a battery depends on anode/cathode pairs. Can be tweaked, state of charge dependent, but isn't an adjustable parameter.
The M1 Max and M2 Max are quite serviceable too in not jumping to an ultra.
Yeah, I was going to come say something like this. LSP is much better than the status quo for most languages, but SLIME is so much better there's just no comparison.
Is sqlite the world? Does any single example invalidate anything if it is not representative of the majority?

If sqlite is one example, then the "open source" displaylink drivers are another. (they are nothing, they just create shim for a blob)
For sure an influential engineering codex. Feels almost strange thinking about all the easy abstractions we have now for hosting, like Render or Vercel or that this was written in 2012, when web apps were much much more of a wild west in terms of accepted/shared practices.
This is really cool, have you seen our project Remuse? https://remuse.co

Really admire the fresh, sleek, simplicity of your layout. Question, is it form-based to add the data to the app? I notice the source code suggest data structures for the config.
Sharing this in a forum full of "billionaires temporarily down on their luck" is bold and not likely to end well; yet, I agree with you and GP. Hacking should not be synonymous with runaway capitalism, siphoning human energy, and plundering the earth.

Star Trek economy for all!
Question about this indie auth thing, or anonymous clients, mentioned at the linked page.

Wouldn't that effectively grant access to your user data to everyone, regardless of their intentions?
Meta, for instance, has very strict TOS and privacy policy checks before approving a client_id. And those checks are on-going.

https://aaronparecki.com/2018/07/07/7/oauth-for-the-open-web
Frequently Investors and Founders get money before Employees.

Investors frequently have clauses (warrants/ratchet) to increase their position if the sale wasn't at some threshold, which will affect (to downside) the basis for Employees payout.

If the Employee thought the stock was at $150/share at 1.5B they will get less than $97 on payout.
Funny, I saw one of those used somewhere recently.
https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5df7c3de2e4d3d3fce16c...

"Analysis of land title records by TI Canada found that nearly half of the 100 most valuable residential properties in Greater Vancouver are held through structures that hide their beneficial owners. Nearly one-third of the properties are owned through shell companies, while at least 11 percent have a nominee listed on title. The use of nominees appears to be on the rise; more than a quarter of the high end homes bought in the last five years are owned by students or homemakers with no clear source of income. Trusts are also common ownership structures for luxury properties; titles for six of the 100 properties disclose that they are held through trusts, but the actual number may be much higher as there is no need to register a trust’s existence."

This is exactly why the Prohibition on the Purchase of Residential Property by Non-Canadians Act and considerably stricter source of income requirements went into effect this year. The reality is nobody really knows, people have a hunch one way, numbers show another, context another again. It's difficult to say.
Congrats! Did you listen to the pink noise on headphones or speakers?
I would say this "billionaire demagogue" has done more to reduce CO2 emissions and advance space accessibility than any other human in history.
> It is the correct tern, physically.

Agreed, but not from a consumer perspective, where it is very confusing that a battery with half the capacity might have twice the energy due to differences in voltage.

From a consumer perspective, the battery capacity is the amount of energy, regardless of whether that is wrong.
One prompt LLMs can't handle: Answer in reverse
To my understand, autoregressive models should be unable to handle the prompt: You must write every answer in reverse, character by character.

Also maybe add in an example: For example if you want to say "hi how are you" you must say "uoy era woh ih".

Then ask a question, and have fun seeing them fail.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satellite_collision lists six unintentional high-speed collisions involving satellites that have already occurred. That's with 2-8k or so in orbit at the time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_satellite_collision alone made two thousand cataloguable fragments to track on new paths we didn't get to pick.
This is good. Might as well switch to carminic acid (aka ground up bugs) for that cherry red color. That's been used for ages.
Ironically, some IRS accountant must have some msft-back-taxes_v3_new_newer_final.xlsx file on their computer.
I think you meant “how is signing up for GitHub harder than that?”
And still "w/h" makes no sense. As explained in other comments watt is already "energy per time", i.e. power, i.e. "1w = 3600 J/h".
My next thought was that if I had a bearing on that luminous streak, and if at least one other person in my region also had such information, we might be able to triangulate on it and narrow down where any landing zone might be.

It seems like deploying these in pairs at a minimum would make sense. In addition to adding spatial information, it gives you a backup for any observations at all.

The illustrations are great. Reminded me of how the storage disk from the starhinge in Stephenson's Anathem must have looked.
> I really don't know why they do this though.

Because you're looking at absolute numbers and not percentages/relative values. That much cash on hand sounds absurd when you're only looking at the absolute number of it, but the amount it represents is "just" 6 months of revenue. And any good financial advisor will tell you it's a good idea to keep 6 months of earnings as savings.
If all those satellites were static instead of zipping around at several tens of thousands of miles per hour, that would work out...
The current two-party arrangement in the U.S. starves the center. But it isn't so much because of the two parties. It is because of the 2-phase voting scheme.

In order for a candidate to win, they must win two elections. The first, or primary, election requires them to win a vote within their private club or party. Currently, that means that you have to be radical within that party. You have to take what would be an extreme position in the general population in order to appeal to enough people within the party. It guarantees that all candidates that emerge from the primary will overrepresent the fringe.

So then you get to the general election where the only choices are polar. You see where even a pretty far right Liz Cheney fails the Trump test and isn't "Republican" enough to survive round one. Same thing happens with the Dems.

A third party could lead to disaster. If you get all the conservatives that can't stomach Trump to split away, you hand elections to the likes of Sanders. And not just occassionally. The conservatives would never win another election ever because they would split the vote every time. If you get the liberals that can't stomach Biden to split away, you hand elections to the likes of Trump. Forever.

I think you have to fix the process to solve the party problem. Tweak the process to push candidates back to the center instead of away from the center.
Act utilitarians specifically don't believe in evaluating the overall consequences of a policy. Rule utilitarians do that. That is, in fact, the major difference between the two.
Not acting to constrain them. If you read the federalist papers, you will see that they considered it. They just couldn't figure out how to resolve that.
This is an unhelpfully reductive view of needs and wants. Many of the systems humans have in place for regulating behaviour towards needs and goals are intensely focused on the short term.

The point of these incentives is not to override your actual long-term needs and wants, but rather to artificially bring their consequences up to the near term so that you work with your inherited systems rather than against them.

You shouldn't set a goal to exercise daily if doing so makes you feel bad. You should set that goal specifically when you have recognized it makes you overall feel better, even if it costs a discomfort in the moment.

Some people can easily align their behaviour with their long term needs and wants. If you are such a person, these incentive structures will not help you and you will be confused about the need for it.
It would be neat if someone wrote the software to turn something that into an astro-navigation device like https://airandspace.si.edu/collection-objects/sr-71-astroine....
How much of an impact will sending up 30,000 satellites have on the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere?
I was kinda expecting this from the title to be some sort of commentary on two factor authentication, like an app that needs passport photo, face scan, drivers licence, sms text, google authenticator, email link, password, fingerprint, all together to log in just once.
Now that you mention it my tinnitus has improved (but not gone) since quitting alcohol. That stuff is just worthless poison.
I've had tinnitus for around 15 years now. I've followed the research pretty closely. One thing to be especially weary about is the placebo effect. For some reason it's especially bad when it comes to tinnitus. I think that's how so many snake oil products can thrive in this area.

Back when they were doing the OTO-313 study a year or so ago, I read several reports from people who were in the study the drug had made their tinnitus go away (one on the TinniusTalk forums, and a few in a tinnitus Facebook group). However, when the results came back, the drug did not beat placebo. A similar thing happened with the FX-322 drug (that one was for hearing restoration but people were hopeful it could address tinnitus too).
It is possible by reducing neck and jaw tension but there is no permanent solution. Reducing caffeine intake also helps because caffeine is a stimulant and makes muscle tension worse.
yes it is hyperbole
Yep. Since I was a child, as long as I can remember.

I just thought everyone heard that high pitch TV tube sound all the time.

When cartoons would show "ringing in the ears" with a bell, I thought that's what they meant - that you heard an actual bell sound. I never knew that I was hearing "ringing" all the time.

I used to play in bands and listen to live music a lot, so I got my hearing tested a few years ago. I have no damage at all. Surprisingly, I have better hearing for my age in some frequencies.

The theory I subscribe to is that it's structural - like, a blood vessel that's just really close to I dunno, something in my ear that is constantly stimulating some sound sensing nerve or whatever.

It's been constant, kind of annoying, but not worsening. I'd go nuts if put into a silent room. Fortunately, the world is not completely silent. But I prefer to sleep with white noise or a fan. Sometimes it just fades into the background, but if I think about it (like I am right now) it's really noticeable.

I don't consider it a problem, but it would be nice to get rid of it.
It's kind of silly but at my work we're using Gather. Walking your little pixel art character around the "office" is silly at first, but it's really lowered the friction to short video interactions. It's way less friction than sending someone a link and waiting around for them to join a meeting.
What an AH take.

I've lived with it for my whole life, and I've accepted that it likely won't be fixed.

But if you've had it, you know it can also be HELL at times. Trying to sleep while hearing loud, incessant ringing can be impossible. Being unable to pay attention to a conversation or movie because it's so loud. Never hearing true silence when you just want to decompress. Fear that it will get worse or you'll lose hearing completely.

Sometimes it's not bad. Other times it feels like water torture. It's technically harmless but the sensation can make it difficult to even stay sane.
Where I’ve worked Game Mode was disabled by GPO in enterprise environments.
We have oaths that keep people from acting in foreign countries' interest. The same can apply here. No mandatory party-line votes. No ordering representatives how to vote on issues.
Junk? Why do people who dislike the outcomes of capitalism use hyperbole?
Agreed and I think it's due to two things:

- The app just requests may more permissions than required. Often times you'll see an app that just requires read access that is requested read, write, personal email, and blood of your first born.

I worked on a service that integrated with a lot of services that store data that one would deep business sensitive. When I'd always minimize permissions while setting up development, I had PMs/decision makers require that we ask for maximum permissions so future changes are easier. Felt wrong to me.

- The service (OAuth2 provider) not have fine-grained enough permissions. Sometimes there would only be the option for "read" or "write". Sometimes you'd get access to "read documents", but you couldn't restrict the type of documents. The more options there are, the more confusing it can be, but the more control and security the user has and I think that's much more important than development confusion.

I will say that I really appreciated what Notion does where they'll give you the ability to approve access to individual pages and while querying for pages you'll only ever see ones you've been granted access. The other side is that now a user has to approve each next page. The is also the option to allow everything existing and going forward. I think that's a great middle ground that gives control to the user. Whether the average user takes advantage of that is another question all together.
What's a kWh? (And other money-saving tips)
You have to fill in the mandatory metadata correctly (both on the meeting and in the linked Epic, you did remember to link an Epic right?) or the meeting won't start. Just imagine how pretty the Atlassian admin's productivity dashboards will look now!
The government isn't like a bank they can print their own money and issue nearly infinite debt. $29B is a lot but it's it's a blip in the annual budget of the government. Generals sneeze and spend a billion dollars.
Give an example. Like most things, it's context dependent and there are grey areas, but I think most devs use 12 factor like a north star. I wouldn't block a release due to some minor deviation, but generally lacking alignment should be treated as tech debt as a minimum. If a release regresses significantly in one of the factors, I think it's fair to block or at least force more detailed review to understand why the dev felt the tradeoff was worth it for that release.
Bing is currently partially out
I don't know what is happening but now it's around 20:14 IST, and many bing search query are returning empty result and also the bing ai is also not working

*It's partially out*
This project has an interesting trait - despite the simplicity of source code, the resulting apps have a decent quality, even by today's standards. Imagine what would have been possible if we had such tools in 1980s.
this is such an insane stance

the US government spends orders of magnitude more cash, at much lower levels than the federal level, more than any billionaire does in their life on a yearly basis

the political parties in control are also holding hands with media companies, and have no regulation on their own actions either personal or public, they can trade whatever stocks they want and move onto whatever job with a conflicting interest that they want afterwards.

musk has nothing compared to politicians, and much more oversight than any of them because he's spending his own money. it didn't fall from the sky, he has it because he's successful. unlike the politicians who print as much money as they want and retire with $100m+ and zero accountability for all of their failed and inefficient projects
Excellent callout. Might be a component of Starshield. Hard to say until the RF is active in the wild or FCC filings are public (is it possible SpaceX is filing in Tonga to sidestep FCC public filings on the tech?). Would be wild if this system will be able to provide global airspace radar surveillance to the US DoD with high precision.

https://www.space.com/spacex-starshield-satellite-internet-m...

https://www.spacex.com/starshield/
"Snooker" would be so much simpler, unfortunately it just turns into super high speed shrapnel.
> but they seem to be much more useful to people whose only "value" is to provide ivory tower technical leadership.

I've found it pretty useful in practice. I don't see why it's much more useful to those people than it has been for me.
I loved In This Corner of the World! It's a really good take on WWII in Japan told from the eyes of an ordinary housewife in Hiroshima.

For Fukuoka, I also remembered that the recently aired Buddy Daddies is also set in Fukuoka. Two assassins end up taking custody of a little girl who is the kid of one of their targets. The kid is super innocent and cute, and from what I've seen, it's more about bringing up a kid (the checklist for things to prepare on day 1 of kindergarten seems very real) in Japan. Can recommend!
New Entry-Level Lucid Air Pure RWD Starts at $78,675, Still with 410-Mile Range
See also Nat’s twitter announcement: https://twitter.com/natfriedman/status/1712470683207532906

$700k is a life changing amount of money. I admit, it’s tempting to drop everything and go devote myself like a monk to the pursuit of ancient enlightenment via modern ML. I wonder where we’d start…

It’s also funny that the scroll might just be a laundry list.
Your arguments are not related at all to the original infamous comment.

Your points are valid ones about data privacy, and redundancy of important data. And how Joe public doesn't seem to notice those.

The original infamous comment dismissed a tool that made a task easier for regular users because the server nerd says: "I can build it in my shed out of rsync and bash using a server I maintain, why should I use this?".
Most plastics are pure carbon and hydrogen so burn cleanly at high enough temperature in the furnace. Naturally CO2 emissions still an issue.
Third places don’t need to be free. Wikipedia article cites bars, cafes, coffee shops, gyms.
I suspect if he does enough fucking around he will end up doing some finding out. And he's doing a lot of the former and annoying nation state and union level entities.
Your average centralized crypto exchange.