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> Neither do GNSS satellites

Is it a similar problem? I hadn't thought about how GPS satellites know where they are. Do they need regular correction?
> Mid sentence I stop, grab and smash the radio open on the curb, pull out the magnetic head and continue talking about the said magnetic head. Guys were bewildered.

In what world is this acceptable to take some trash and make the trash situation worse by bashing it apart in the street?
This looks like a random website and not a Microsoft website. How could I trust such list?
The knowledge was there, but it was in part thanks to the printing press (and political / sociological reform, e.g. schools and improving quality of life) that it became more accessible to more people.
> Most of these domains show power law like earnings. 13% making $100K or more is actually fairly healthy and way more than I expected.

Exactly.

Seems like a way better shot at wealth for most people than professional sports.

There's probably many other professions like real estate agent that follow a similar pattern.
Thanks for the feedback,
I am solving the problem of project management software specifically for freelancers. I am trying to implement AI features into this tool. It is currently in the early stages of development and I am currently adding more features to adapt it to mobile. I am also integration more AI into the software, such as a feature for auto task priority. I can provide a demo page, this will take some time to implement though.
The info about pricing is on the pricing page once you signed up, I can put pricing on the home page if this would make it easier. There is a free tier on sign up.
I do not intend for the people signing up to be unpaid bug finders if you feel this is what is happenin. I mostly wanted people to use the service just to see what they think instead of using them to find bugs.
Thanks again for your feedback.
I do think the main point of the article, that automations designed to cut corners and save costs erode our social bonds and the fabric of our society is a poignant one.

A lot of times, especially here on HN, we only accept things that can be backed up by facts or stats or a study of some kind, but we don't have (and cannot automate) such things for every possible hypothesis.

This seems like one of those things. Cost cutting by individual companies in this way hurts society as a whole. Maybe on paper those savings are returned to shareholders and maybe that leads to greater GDP per capita, etc. But the social bonds that fray when human interaction is deemed to precious or too expensive to waste on the average joe is real.

Don't really know just yet how to fix it. I too worry that this amazing technology (like many before it) will be abused by upper middle managers in the worst possible ways to make our societies worse...
Pan-European party Volt is going to change that. They are slowly gaining popularity and on recent elections to EUP performed better in Germany than some mainstream parties (3% nation-wide, but much better in politically affluent Berlin). I‘m sure they will become mainstream in the next 2-3 election cycles.
It can still be true when scaling horizontally, depending on utilisation levels and other system characteristics, as well as the economics of errors.

Statistically speaking, I more often find the blurted out answer to be further from truth than 1 + rho.
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State boundaries date to 70 years old or more. The original “gerrymandering” of those boundaries is incredibly out of date. DC was given electoral votes most recently in 1961 with the expectation that it would be a “swing state” evenly split between parties, for instance.

Many solid “red” rural states today frequently elected statewide democrats just a few decades ago.
Don't those motion lights typically use passive infrared sensors? I'm surprised it's sensitive enough to see spider silk moving. Could the strand possibly have been blocking some radiative source behind the strand (the sun?)?

Now if the spider knew THAT...
Latex allergies might make this bad for furniture.
"Kelso would've wanted the surveillance state, and he banged Eric's sister so he is someone to look towards for moral guidance"

"Oui oui!"
Claims by an unidentified author(s) replying to comments with a 4-hour old HN account.. How did this make it to the front page other than the catchy name?
Sure, but that's exactly my point: The primary factor limiting EU startups isn't regulation, it's that they don't have access to a large, homogeneous, monolinguistic market
There's a degree of moving the goalposts there.

Shipping some machine code today to run on a GPU released tomorrow doesn't work anywhere. Cuda looks like it does provided someone upgrades the cuda installation on the machine after the new GPU is released because the ptx is handled by the cuda runtime. HSAIL was meant to do that on amdgpu but people didn't like it.

That same trick would work on amdgpu - compile to spir-v, wait for a new GPU, upgrade the compiler on the local machine, now you can run that spir-v. The key part is the installing a new JIT which knows what the new hardware is, even if you're not willing to update the program itself. Except that compile to spir-v is slightly off in the weeds for compute kernels at present.

It's tempting to view that as a non-issue. If someone can upgrade the cuda install on the machine, they could upgrade whatever program was running on cuda as well. In practice this seems to annoy people though which is why there's a gradual move toward spir-v, or to shipping llvm IR and rolling the die on the auto-upgrade machinery handling it. Alternatively ship source code and compile it on site, that'll work for people who are willing to apt install a new clang even if they aren't willing to update your program.
Interesting that there doesn't seem to be any information about the actual platform itself, just its governance. What is the product? My assumption is it will be a twitter clone, but I don't see anything about that.

While the idea is nice in theory, I don't see any way that this could expand beyond a highly niche platform. But it doesn't seem like a very monetizable niche, so as a for-profit endeavor the prospects don't seem great.

Regardless, it is nice to see people working on people-focused software.
The way to win a war, is to demotivate and demoralize a population, not win a battle or destroy an army, but to make it so that the army never mobilizes.

Look how demotivated and demoralized everyone in the EU is becoming. I really wonder why that is.....
I used to sneak into my older sister's room to play it on her PC when I was a kid. I remember the stage with the toxic chemical facility or whatever it was, where the dead bodies would rise up behind you after you passed them by. I was too scared to play past it after getting jumpscared several times from behind, lol.
I usually use Clojure, Huff for html templating, and whatever DB libs. Pretty much whatever is in Biff[1] is what I want to use.

[1] https://biffweb.com/
I'm curious as to why you think artists (and other people who make stuff) shouldn't want to get paid.

I write code and I expect to get paid, for instance.
The more relevant comparison is to similarly priced Intel/AMD laptops, not the MacBook Air. And all these Copilot+ PCs have fans, so I think the 14” MacBook Pro is the more relevant comparison for a Mac.
Saw him briefly at my first job at Lionhead Studios, and also worked with Alex Evans (Media Molecule cofounder, coauthor of InstantNGP, legendary demoscener, ...) there. Pretty amazing how much talent was buzzing around there.
I have multiple "mentors" for various aspects of my life. I don't call them "mentors," though; I generally call them "buddies."

There's plenty of successful people 10-20 years older than you, who want nothing more to tell a younger person what to do and then have them ACTUALLY FOLLOW the advice they are given.

I have a close friend who's about 12 years older than me. He told me I'm the only person he talks to who actually takes action on the advice he gives. Because of that, he gives me more advice (pro tip: none of it is complicated).

My recommendation is to ask people for small pieces of advice who you respect, implement the small things, then follow up and thank them for their advice and show them you've implemented it. Sooner then later, they'll start sharing more unsolicited advice that you can continue to follow.

Joining an organization (club, church, or charity) where you can be around people who are older than you is a great way to bump into people like this.
An overnight baker with bag-uettes under their eyes.
I feel this in my bones.

So, uh, one time I mentioned to my doc that sometimes my meds were wearing thin by lunchtime. He wrote for another 15 pills that month so that I could break some in half for an additional half dose at noon. (I’m on a low dose of my stuff. Adding another half wasn’t a Dopesick jump or anything.)

Turns out, because ADHD I often forgot to take the afternoon dose and ended up with a couple weeks of buffer. That was a nice outcome on its own.
Haha love it. we had one which would just shake her head at certain foods. 'nope, not gonna eat it' and just sit nexto the bowl sad :D (we really really tried.. but had to shift foods :D)
Not the poster, but the issue is one of scale.

Any visualization that showed a full orbit in a visual field that a human can see at once, necessarily has to exaggerate the size of the satellite or it would be completely impossible to see the satellite at that same scale. By millions or even billions of times.

A GPS satellite in medium orbit has an orbital diameter of around 45, 000 km but is only a little over 5 meters in size. A ratio of roughly 10,000,000 to 1.

If you had a visualization a meter wide of its orbit, the satellite to scale would be less than a micron in size. Completely invisible.

The same problem comes up with those ‘topology of the earth’ maps that try to show how things like depth of the oceans, height of the Himalayas, etc. on a globe.

They have to dramatically exaggerate the actual altitude differences for them to be perceptible. [https://www.quora.com/If-Mount-Everest-was-on-a-globe-and-wa...]

The actual to scale difference in height of the Himalayan mountains vs sea level on a regular sized globe would be less than .001 inches. Completely imperceptible without precision measuring devices. Even producing such a globe accurately would be a feat of precision manufacturing.

Even on a giant (1 meter) globe, we’re talking less than 1mm.

Literally smoother than a billiard ball.

But they are the highest mountains in the world, and absolutely breaktaking if near them.

And space is even bigger, and satellites even smaller.
I mentioned this in a thread regarding AI stealing jobs and got downvoted for it. There seems to be some new expectation that being a creative is an easy job. Lots of finger pointing at AI, Spotify, Instagram, etc not paying enough but you're exactly right. It's easier than ever to get your content out. Not being in the elite few of a creative job seems to be a tough pill for the masses to swallow.
I see this hysteria about social media and young people to be an object lesson in mistaking correlation with causation.

Teenagers aren't stupid. In surveys [1] they have a bleak future outlook. Now, we can look at that and blame it on doomer social media. But look at the facts: young people are facting bleak economic conditions and a lifetime of debt serviced by an underpaying job. Student debt, housing debt, medical debt, it never ends.

Another data point: despite a bleak outlook for the economy, consumer spending continues to rise [2]. Why? One hypothesis is that a lot of people think they have no future so there's absolutely no point saving (eg anecdote [3]).

So is social media really the problem? Or is it that people feel like they have no future? And if it is the latter, blaming social media for creating that sentiment feels a lot like shooting the messenger.

[1]: https://archive.is/HmZ9d

[2]: https://www.vox.com/money/24159281/consumer-spending-economy...

[3]: https://www.reddit.com/r/GenZ/comments/16u9suk/does_anyone_e...
What's the secret sauce that makes this unique over every other PM tool?
Genuinely curious.
Even as an adult I don't really know how anything works, lol. I just copy whatever's on Stack or GPT, get paid in magical numbers, and exchange those numbers for food like my mom did. At least a bumblebee knows how to make flowers. When we want to grow something, we end up copying them...
Yes! Tl;dr:

Jack Welch - executives are valuable.

Milton Friedman - regular staff benefit from competition (in their own industry to keep wages high, and elsewhere to keep products cheaper/higher quality); owners are important because you made an agreement with them when you took their money; executives exist, but are not particularly valuable.
Did I get that right? A laptop that needs a 230W power brick and wasn't really intended to run on 65W, though it does? 800MHz, that was what we had in the 90s, I assume that's the era? Meanwhile, my laptop is idlying at ~9W playing YouTube. Crazy.

How long did the battery last? Less than 30m I assume.
It seems natural that in a world in which you need money to survive people who like to do a thing would like to be able to do that thing for money so that they don't have to do something else to survive.
I agree. An influencer is just a marketing person. It's gross actually that we call these people creators and compare them to artists, musicians etc.

Artists and musicians produce genuine creative work that creates a great deal of skill and creates a lot of enjoyment. They often do this for little or not money purely out of their love for the medium. Meanwhile influencers post photos of themselves with products in order to get you to buy stuff. Or they record clickbaity YouTube videos interspersed with ads from sponsors. They specifically identify themselves as commercially oriented - the term "influencers" comes from the concept of "influence marketing" which has been around for decades and has simply been taken up a notch online.

It's not on the same level as genuine art, which is not there to change your purchasing habits. All the influencer content is "optimized for engagement" i.e. they have thought about how to get you addicted, so you consume it, but you would be better off if you consumed actual art and music instead.
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I was born in the 80s and said all that same dumb crap as a kid too. I learned it from music.
Exactly. 13% making over $100k is almost exactly in line with the individual incomes of earners in the broader economy.
A single-word common name usually refers to a genus: "oak" is anything in Quercus, "wagtail" is anything in Motacilla and so on. That's not conclusive because there are plenty of exceptions, and "human" could easily qualify as a special case, but I don't see why "human" shouldn't be any member of Homo.
And if you can't find a group to your liking, create one.-

At any rate, move. Act.-
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> I believe on YouTube it's something like only 0.25% of channels make any money.

That's because "channels" is incredibly, incredibly broad. The number of channels has very little correlation with the number of creators, because the number of channels also includes the number of commenters (any number of which could also be creators).
I had the opportunity to chat with Sam, and I would say that the majority of publicly written opinion about him is false.

He’s a pretty genuine guy with a lot of advice and wisdom. He definitely doesn’t come off as a capitalist but more of a helper type — someone who helps people become whole.

I felt like OpenAI and the sector in general made a lot of sense — now he can help everyone in the world.

As for the issue at hand, for one it’s doubtful he prepared this, but moreover, I have seen quite a many resumes in my day and not one wasn’t padded so to speak.
It's easy to say that when you've ignored the statements made from Israeli government officials in regards to Palestinians.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/defense-ministe...

"I have ordered a complete siege on the Gaza Strip. There will be no electricity, no food, no fuel, everything is closed,"

https://www.npr.org/2023/11/07/1211133201/netanyahus-referen...

> MOTTI INBARI: The biblical commandment is to completely destroy all of Amalek. And when I'm talking about completely destroy, we're talking about killing each and every one of them - including babies, including their property, including the animals - everything.

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Again, the main point is, the vast majority of the world wants to see a ceasefire and a stop in US veto abuse. That's as "illiberal" as it gets.
A side note. There’s a whole anime about this that’s actually realistic. It’s called planets.
Greenarrays comes to mind, it's a Forth-oriented chip:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23142322

The article doesn't really mention transputers, which were existent at the time and were remarkably similar in vision, with parallel multiprocessing, hardware network links, the Occam language, a ground-up Helios OS, and custom graphics card (Blossom, which would lead to the VGA standard).

Having a 3-element hardware stack somewhat restricts the use of languages on it - I imagine that Occam is similar to Forth in operation?
> If you’re an actor you’re either in Hollywood movies or you’re not.

Being an actor is a gradient, not a binary.

On the one side, you can be a nameless extra, and on the other you can be a huge "face". Most people in movies are not on the side of the gradient that makes tons of money.
Anyway I really like the take that Haskell is pure in the same sense that Rust is safe

Haskell has impure constructs but sets you up to define referentially transparent abstractions with them, and this is actually valued by the Haskell community
That’s revenue though, isn’t it? What are influencers’ costs?

I guess living the lifestyle is part of the benefit but the successful influencers I’ve seen often pay production crews, rent luxury products like expensive cars, travel, and just a ton of little things that add up. That’s not including the promotion costs like paying to cross promote with other influencers and other growth hacks.

I suspect it’s more like 1-2% make a significant profit.
There's advanced features that FOSS equivalents dont do quite as well.

I also wish Microsoft would pull its head out of its rear and make a preview clone for windows because that app basically supplants acrobat for basic use.
Nice! I recently perma-switched to linux and KDE has come so far from its v3 days, where to be frank I just didn't like it much. Definitely enjoying it now though. Its very usable, customizable, and mostly consistent.
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> China is taking over Russian car or consumer electronics markets, for example. The trade between two countries is soaring, Western brands are being substituted by Chinese production.

I see - yes I don't disagree with that, but wasn't entirely sure what you meant. I think on the whole the west doesn't really care outside of the oil and gas which they've managed to put Russia's infrastructure into a desired state. Exports halted, Ukraine is attacking infrastructure, Europe is doing whatever it can not to buy Russian oil (good for US and Saudi Arabia), and what oil Russia does sell is sold at a discounted rate to India last I checked.

> Strategic imperative of the West was that European borders cannot be changed by force and the global order based on rules and international law will ensure that. It is clear now that without direct NATO involvement the best achievable outcome will be a new iron curtain on Dnepr river. No sanctions or military supplies can change that, it is just too late.

Well the war isn't over yet is it? The US and EU just gave Ukraine around $100bn which is 2x the official Russian military budget. It seems that things in the east have sort of stabilized with neither side able to do much, so perhaps the west will have "lost" because Russia took over that part of Ukraine and no more? If so I mean it's not that big of a deal in the grand scheme of things given the cost imposed on Russia.

> This in turn means that the old order has collapsed, USA cannot be trusted as a guarantor of security, EU is not a serious power and we already see how other nations are recalculating their alignment.

This I would strongly disagree with. I don't think Russia throwing body after body into Ukraine which is much smaller in every aspect only for it to be stopped at the Dnepr River means that the entire western order has collapsed.

I would also strongly disagree with your assessment that the EU is not a serious power. The EU as a whole sure in the sense that the EU doesn't have the ability to unilaterally field an army, but both France and the UK have quite serious militaries and are able to project power at least as well if not better than Russia with or without American help. USA not being trusted doesn't make much sense to me either. Trump scares our partners (rightfully so) but almost everyone in Congress and in the military and intelligence establishment recognizes the US's need to defend allies and shore up alliances.

Frankly, if you take a look at troop deployments and training exercises, both Sweden and Finland joining NATO (and NATO troops heading to Finland), it's pretty clear the US is committed to the defense of Europe. Actions speak louder than words.
Figma dodged a bullet.

Dylan Field was initially very anti-Adobe, I don't know why he even agreed to sell to them.

Its completely okay to sell your company and cash out but I still don't understand, why Adobe?
It also extends to IRL, there are mansions you can rent by the hour to film content as though you live there. That's a big reason why so many influencers are in samey giant empty kitchens for their "stupid food" videos where they make a giant mess - it's not their home.

Ditto the above for luxury cars, watches, anything that can be rented for show frequently is, especially when ostentatious displays of wealth are core to the message, like finance/crypto influencers peddling courses or coins.
Something I didn't mention in my original comment, but have mentioned in another reply somewhere, is that I have the websites running behind Cloudflare, and I allow Cloudflare's ASN into port 443 but block everything else.

Essentially outsourcing the security of port 443 to Cloudflare.

My use-case is "hobby / enthusiast", so I believe I'm losing nothing and the "world at large" is losing nothing from this setup. Having said that, all policies on this kind of thing need to be strongly thought about in terms of their applicability to the use-case.

Were I running a small or even medium business, I'd probably do it exactly the same with maybe a bit more of an eye on what's being blocked and the ownership of the IP addresses, and I'd have some stats to point to on the range of sources of legitimate traffic. It'd have to be a pretty big, international business for it to cause much of an effect (although I'm talking well out of school here because I don't have anything at stake).

Flipside, though, I have my outgoing traffic routed through a couple of different exits, and I've had to make specific rules for some websites that block traffic from VPNs and VPSs, which is annoying, so I'm not completely dismissing your point.

Lastly, however, at all scales I'd still block the Internet Scanners for reasons I've given elsewhere. Blocking them massively cut down on the uninvited activity - again, it's not about making clean logs, but it really helped clear a lot of the noise.
He thinks Worldcoin is a great idea.