skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wrong. You can put anything into orbit, from a house to a bacteria. The ability to track an object is a function of its size and material composition. These days, you can easily make a functional satellite with scientific payload that's too small to be tracked.

I'm going to guess here, but you might be thinking that orbits are permanent and space is empty, so once you observe the point of insertion, you can calculate object's position anywhere in the far future. This is very wrong. Orbits are unstable and decay with time, due to residual atmospheric drag, solar radiation, interactions with Earth's magnetic field, the irregularity of the Earth's shape itself, and other factors. All of these combine to the need for continuous active monitoring of space around the Earth, and recalculation of trajectories of existing satellites. A satellite needs to be trackable in order to be able to update its trajectory, as it changes naturally.
Same in Sweden, but in the UK there’s no national database of citizens, and therefore no fingerprints associated.
Not if you want to stay middle class.
I think you're trivializing it a bit in here. For many people it is indeed a chemical imbalance and no amount of wishful thinking would change anything, but regulating with chemicals (obviously) does.
Great advice. I don't see it as "change the world ideas" vs. something that is not. Pinterest isn't a changing world idea, so is Atrium or something else.
The difference is do you want to work on a business of your own and as with any business it has to be profitable (I don't why it's called lifestyle business - it's just business). The other option is to try and get someone to gamble millions of dollars on your idea without being profitable for years. Getting someone to gamble like this just requires a lot more time. That's all.
I think a solution that actually helps the commons is to time-bomb the "Commons Clause" for a 3-5 year period, after which the software reverts to full open source (similar to the GPL Time bomb discussed some time ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12459492 )
This way, the developers get paid fairly, for what they actually deliver, but they can't lock the users in. If the developer dies, goes bankrupt or falls into a predatory phase where it milks the product for cash without reinvesting sufficient back (Adobe), then the project can be salvaged as open source by those who use it. An even better option is to allow any commercial developer, after the 3 year period passes, the option to fork and develop it's own version with similar licensing conditions.

This will ensure a healthy, competitive environment where the software can be monetized traditionally, yet the 4 freedoms are (eventually) satisfied. As a user, this is what you care about above all else; you will pay the commercial license fee to get the bleeding edge product, knowing you are in a way "leasing to own" the software and you will be able to fork it in-house if the way you use it diverges from what the publisher will want in the future.
Having just spent sometime actually learning "serverless" between lambda and GCP I am presently baffled as to how this isn't weirdly hard to use docker containers.
Yes, and I think we can sum it up with Europe = old money, US = new money.

It is hard to become rich in Europe, families that are rich became rich a long time ago.
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Of course not - I haven't practically applied Turing Machines either. You'd have to be mad to implement a functional programming language purely in terms of S and K - which of course is what I did for my final year project and got a 1st and a prize!

What my encounter with the fundamentals of Computer Science did give me (apart from the necessity of implementing things like garbage collectors) - was an abiding interest and love of the mathematical foundations of computation and with maths as something interesting rather than something to be endured.

That interest did lead to me doing postgrad research in a control engineering group, which did lead to me co-founding a startup.

So did I ever apply S & K in a practical circumstance - no. Am I glad I took a turn down the more mathematical side of CS - absolutely.
Very cool idea. I will be keeping an eye on this one. 1 tb of practical storage for 5 bucks a month. You could have a petabyte of storage for $5000 a month!
Tracking brain waves to decode mood could help fight depression
Show HN: Tok'n'talk – Conversations using your ERC20/ERC71 tokens
Hi, we've created an app https://tokntalk.club/ to experiment with using tokens ERC20 and ERC721 in slightly different way than monetary use cases you're familiar with.

ERC20 - They are treated as memberships in 'token clubs'. If you have given ERC20 token you can write messages in its dedicated club. eg. Maker MRK club https://tokntalk.club/clubs/MKR or in Berlin Coin BRLN club https://tokntalk.club/clubs/ethereum:0x80046305aaab08f6033b5...

ERC721 - Those tokens can be used as avatars. To give you ability to change 'personalities', create their history and grow them as recognizable characters. We are supporting ~40 different kinds of ERC721s and we're always looking to integrate new ones.

Now, you might be asking: Why?

The reason is simple. We believe that this is the only way for blockchain community to go forward. Communication based on signed messages is crucial for progress but it's not enough. We need filters rooted in the very base of our beliefs. Filters that will help guard our attention from irrelevant information.
We are able to provide filters based on all information kept on the blockchain. Amounts of tokens, number of transactions, history of those transactions or any combination of above.
You will be able to set your filters to only see messages from people who hold the token for at least 6 months, never sold high and bought the dip later, are really using given token (eg. > 100 transactions in a week).
Currently we are focused on Ethereum blockchain but are able to integrate also others.

We are also exploring providing APIs for various use cases from simple chat boxes on exchanges, through KYC process based on your blockchain history to monetization platform for crypto influencers.

We are looking for feedback on all aspects of the app (we are still improving he UI, it's still not the most friendly thing in the world).

We are also looking for partners to explore this space.
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Self-tests to screen for common mental health issues
Design issue then. Actually, the results are shown automatically when you change the parameters. You don't need to push a button. I will see how I can improve it, thanks for the feedback
The problem here is ethernet. Even the latest greatest many gigabits per second ethernet can be bridged to plain old coax based 10 Mbps ethernet.

Within the ethernet protocol there is no way to negotiate the maximum frame length between stations. So IEEE standard still has a maximum of 1500 octets for the payload.

There are some RFCs that go beyond 1500, but mostly the IETF follows the IEEE specification.

Note that the 1500 link MTU applies to ethernet (and similar link technologies). For anything else, you can have larger (or smaller) MTUs.
That's a very cool project, kudos on the stamina, that must have taken you a really long time. And thanks for the reminder the fix the pictures on my own blog, exact same story.
Experimental app lets iPhones monitor blood pressure
On the contrary. This was _investigated_ by a reporter(s) from the mentioned source and published. Other news publications need to verify it independently before publishing it themselves.

And on the "official statements" part, it's kind of naive to expect that they (UIDAI) would put out any statement given that in the past they have

- Not acknowledged security issues or made any efforts to do their own investigation in spite of the numerous reports

- Turned hostile towards entities who have exposed or reported weaknesses instead of rewarding them and plugging the loopholes
US military builds barracks using “world's largest” 3D printer
I wonder if there's any historical data back to the late 90s, and how much might be driven by anticipation of future economic conditions.

I know at my work there's a sense of---not quite despair, but---waiting for the other shoe to drop. Even though the recession is officially over, the whole system still seems fragile.

I'm sure there's other factors at play too, but I feel like at a macro scale the economy is towards the base of a society's pyramid of needs. It's a proxy for availability to food, shelter, etc. James Carville said it best: "it's the economy, stupid". Looking at the CCI[1], although it's recovered a bit since 2008, it's below historical levels.

IMO, while there's plenty of other issues, it makes sense to address the more fundamental ones first. But I don't have any solutions---just my two cents.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consumer_confidence_index#/m...
Take a look at repl.it - I've been using it a lot after trying glitch and a bunch of others and it's really flexible and powerful. They released some more collaboration features very recently. It's a bit rough around the edges, but it's been working great for me so far.
I'm pretty new to it but so far I think the big selling points in a corporate environment are:

1. (Maybe, someday) no real Ops work.

2. 100% utilization (at a cost).

3. Measurability of cost in #2.

I agree about the ball-of-locked-in-mud danger. And so far I've seen the Ops part be actually a bigger issue than it was before, because there's so much opaque, badly documented madness involved. With AWS Lambda + API Gateway anyhow, I can't speak to the others.

Even so, it seems like long-term the Ops end of the puzzle can be planned/automated away for the most part. That leaves utilization and billing.

It can be very very useful to say "This costs exactly $X and that cost scales linearly" when planning resource allocations. Even if everyone agrees it could probably be done for an unknowable amount less. The predictability and the isolation of the cost is sometimes worth spending more money. (Of course the predictability requires that the Ops Ninjas not be required, which again I think is possible long-term but definitely not short-term.)

Anyway that's just for one realm of application, which I think is getting more popular ("do this internal thing we used to have some EC2's do").
It is in embedded, and Rust should be suitable for that. Having only 64k of flash is not unusual.
The SLA on beta according to google though is "we reserve the right to turn it off with no notice".
> how does Tidelift avoid people gaming the system?

From the website [0]:

"For each package, we compute a share of subscription fees. There are three main factors in this computation:

- Subscriber usage. Packages receive a share of fees only from those subscribers using the package. More subscribers using the package means more money!

- How much subscribers pay. If we charge subscribers more, there's more to divide up.

- A weight. A package containing a large framework gets a larger share than one containing a 2-line function. Currently, the weight is based primarily on code size. Please do not try to game the system by putting extra junk in your package—we will penalize this, and more importantly your users and other maintainers will suffer. If we tweak our weightings in the future, we'll strive to do so in a way that avoids radically changing existing income levels.
"

It seems they're aware of the possibility of gaming.

[0] https://tidelift.com/docs/lifting/paying

Edit: formatting
While this is a fairly balanced description of Bitcoin Cash, there are a few glaring errors that should be addressed. It's about 1000% better than most though. Kudos to the author.

> It has made a number of subtle but significant changes to distinguish itself from Bitcoin

It has made a number of subtle but significant changes to survive as a minority hard fork until it can attract enough hash power to take the network.

> This has lead to nearly 2,000 Forks of the Bitcoin network

Almost all of the 2000 "forks" referenced here are forks of the codebase. Bitcoin Cash and only a few others are forks of both the codebase AND THE BLOCKCHAIN. When the blockchain is forked, the new coin contains the same transaction history and coin distribution up until the fork point.

> However, the person most directly connected to the currency today is Roger Ver, an early Bitcoin adopter and investor.

This could not be further from the truth. When the censorship started in r/bitcoin, multiple teams started working simultaneously on separate clients to fork the network. The team that was first out of the gate is said to be affiliated with ASIC manufacturers Bitmain. It took months before Roger Ver even spoke about it. It wasn't until the Segwit2x fork failed on the Bitcoin Core network that Ver actually put his resources behind it. He was even criticized for not supporting it immediately.

> A brief history

The history goes much further back. See the following links

- https://www.reddit.com/r/BitcoinMarkets/comments/6rxw7k/info...

- https://www.reddit.com/r/decred/comments/6wxueo/your_best_pi...

- https://medium.com/@johnblocke/a-brief-and-incomplete-histor...

- https://www.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/7hckeb/in_response_to_...

- https://blog.coinbase.com/what-happened-at-the-satoshi-round...

> Because the Bitcoin Cash blocks are significantly larger, that makes them tougher crack, and harder for small miners to solve the blocks.

Block size has nothing to do with difficulty. Difficulty or "how tough to crack" is set by a function called the "difficulty adjustment algorithm" and is completely separate from the code that handles block composition.

Edit: formatting
Wow. Thanks for the sharing. Sleek design ! I only do stocks, mostly companies with good growth and high entry barriers
What’s wrong with open infrastructure for Remote Sensing geodata?
> There is a floor, however: if the payment computation arrives at a trivial total for a package, we reassign the money to other packages.

Not sure I like this. It’s not very clear for a start. I read it as they do a calculation on each subscribers code use, if they deem its “not worth it” they give the money to someone else, they didn’t say what that floor is or offer to “hold the money until it reaches a valid payout value”.

From what I read it as if your code was valued at $0.05 for a sub they will give that 5c to someone else but what if 1000 subs was using that code? Would the maintainer get that $50.

Also seems they are weighing it on the code side of the project not the actual code used. What if I’m importing Newtonsoft’s Json library but “only” using using the object serialization function The release zip for that is 6.something MB where I may feel that the websocket server/client I use which come in at 130KB~ provides me with “more value”. But based of the size of the two repos Newtonsoft would be getting much more of my sub than the websocket lib.

Edit: > Each maintainer will have to sign the lifter agreement.

What happens if they haven’t signed the agreement? (The link to the agreement 404’s) lets say a sub signs up thinking “great all my repo maintainers will get paid...”, you detect they are using Repo X that has not signed up to your service because they don’t know about it (yeah sending a email / issue on GH saying “Hey, we have money for you, just give us your bank details” won’t get the email immediately sent to spam :-p) What is happening to those funds? Are you letting the subs know their money is not being collected? What if I don’t want to agree to your terms (I dunno, don’t like your font choice or something) and I will never sign up, would the money I would be getting get split up to the other repos the subs are paying for? Do you tell them that Repo X isn’t getting a cut of their money? (Remember the sub may think Repo X is really worth the money.)

What about if they are using a Microsoft Library in their DotNet Core project but have a paid account with Visual Studio / Microsoft?
Yes, I even understood the feeling you were conveying the first time around, because I think every last one of us reading this has it - but it also felt so familiar to read your 'solution' to the dilemma. 'Hmm I hate sitting down behind a computer all day, I'd love to do something physical, hey you know what - I'll just start doing that one thing besides programming that requires no physical effort at all!' (that's what it reads like, I know it's not actually like that). Not mocking you, it's funny because it's so relatable :)
I am European. Just because it's a less popular opinion, it's not any less true.

I don't even understand the logic itself. States are supposedly not evil, and we need them because ... well because people are more evil. That's the idea.

But states are people. Isn't that by itself a massive contradiction ?

The difference between, say, the Netherlands and Monsanto is the method of incorporation, and the legal authority it therefore has. Not the resulting decisions. That's, of course why the Netherlands got rich by having it's military protect and pay raping pirates, in trade for their loot, including of course, if they had to sell the passengers to prostitution houses and mines, and still does things like extracting money from it's poorest citizens through mental health "care".

Monsanto merely mass-poisons people.

But the big difference is:

1) the dutch state has never apologized

2) has never paid any restitution to anyone

3) never will
It very much reminds me of "Experts Exchange" back in the day, and we all know how that turned out. We just need someone to come up with the Stack Overflow of the Pinterest world.
Unfortunately the term deepfake is horribly loaded in negative ways.
There is a reason why MTU's are generally small.

In early internet there was a clash (IMO unsettled) between fixed-packet-length and dynamic-packet-length networks. Compare ethernet to ATM.

The benefit of ATM is bandwidth guarantees. You can precisely allocate bandwidth to each tenant.

With ethernet you don't have such guarantees. Single tenant can potentially use all the resources. If you allowed jumbo frames in early slow ethernet, you could totally imagine one tenant blocking the line for a-very-long-time, and starving everyone else.

Of course, times had changed, bandwidth shot up, and 1500 is indeed way to small. But there is still a limit. You probably don't want to allow gigantic 1.5MiB frames. Normal jumbo frames of 9KiB are fine. It's just a historical accident they aren't made more popular.
Did you read the article? It's not about a "Aadhar breach" in the sense of data being stolen. The news is about a software hack that has been doing the rounds among operators that allows them to compromise the aadhar database by introducing duplicate or weaker biometric information.

"The patch lets a user bypass critical security features such as biometric authentication of enrolment operators to generate unauthorised Aadhaar numbers.

The patch disables the enrolment software's in-built GPS security feature (used to identify the physical location of every enrolment centre), which means anyone anywhere in the world — say, Beijing, Karachi or Kabul — can use the software to enrol users.

The patch reduces the sensitivity of the enrolment software's iris-recognition system, making it easier to spoof the software with a photograph of a registered operator, rather than requiring the operator to be present in person."
Is there a SSG plugin built on top of rich text editors like docs to just publish/deploy static web pages?. I remember buildin static website's for non tech friends and maintenance/keep up over time is always painful for them.
You've been gaslit. Remember you live in an extraordinarily wealthy country. The population is not that large considering the resources and wealth within it. The wealthy are not as mobile as you think and will not bail to Singapore if you try to tax them more. There is no reason why a tiny pension can't be paid to those who've paid into it for decades.
> There's no ceiling on how much a package earns. There is a floor, however: if the payment computation arrives at a trivial total for a package, we reassign the money to other packages. It's impractical to pay very low amounts, because there's some administrative overhead for us to pay and for you to lift.

The less-known players are typically the ones that get nothing for their effort, regardless of the size of their codebase or the effort put in.

I didn't see any mention of what "trivial" is - presumably that's dependent on payment processor fees, etc?

I get that this is early days - very well known packages have 0 subscribers - what is the plan to springboard this? I'm guessing a couple of big names with big paychecks to spread around is part of the plan? Or just hoping for HN notoriety? ;)
I keep seeing this complaint but I've never come across it. I honestly can't remember ever being sent to Pinterest from GIS. Perhaps I'm searching for the wrong things?
It was only a year ago. Would it be substantially different if written today?
Then someone else will come along and offer exactly the same functionality...
Slack is down in Europe
How is that different from a 4 year old complaining that if everyone just listened to him, the world would be at peace ?

"Normal" politics is a perspective. Everyone has got a different perspective.

The only strategy is to take power away from politicians as much as possible.
Government have to improve security on public database.
https://marketcapcoin.blogspot.com/2018/09/bitcoin-mutual-fu...
You've clearly made your mind up! I won't be continuing this conversation either...
I really like the sound of this, however when there is a lack of transparency on the site regarding costs, and breakdown of how the money is divided (payment handling, a cut for the company themselves etc.) - and you need to "request a demo" to find out enough to make a decision, no matter how genuine this proposition is, I feel it loses a lot of it's open source positive credentials.

As a side example, Elementary OS App Store is an example of more what I'd expect, they try to encourage payment for open source projects and handle the distribution of funds, but they have transparent costs and the project itself is open source.

Please can you include more information on your website.

Also in terms of vulnerability mitigation, NPM have started giving me warnings, so I am much better able to handle the upgrade / management / damage limitation of using packages with known vulnerabilities for JS at least. I'm sure that's coming more widely, so for me the Licence stuff is great, and some of the vulnerability info is handy, but if I was to use the service it would be to primarily pay out for packages I use professionally, so with the current info provide, that's an instant no. I'd have considered it genuinely if I knew what it was exactly you were proposing.
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I'm thinking realtime deepfakes plus augmented reality.

You could transform anyone you're seeing to anyone else. Your colleagues could become the cast of Start Trek. Turn everyone into monsters for the day.