skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nice, I'm trying to figure out a way to generate RSS from my org notes. Reading your post now :D Thank you so much :+1:
> It’s not clear whether the inquiry will result in disciplinary action against Swarm, and it’s even less clear what the nature of that would be

Replicate SEC civil penalties. Swarm gets fined, the company that brokered the launch gets fined, and the person who submitted the FCC application (hopefully the CEO) gets fined. In addition, the person who submitted the application and the company are barred from registering new satellites for N years.

If the CEO represented, to the broker or the Indian government, that she had the necessary approvals I'd also hand the case to the DoJ for criminal prosecution under anti-fraud statute.

I'm a huge believer in the commercialization of space. Going renegade in LEO is like flying around without registering a flight path (EDIT: bad analogy, more like drilling in a city without a permit). Eventually you'll have a horrible disaster, and it will have been because you were impatient with a straightforward process.
Keep in mind that this is live tracking by a commercial company, where the US Government is more interested in whether it can be tracked by US Government systems. JSpOC has a variety of detection hardware, but much if it is quite dated at this point. It's quite likely that the object is too small to be tracked by JSpOC who coordinates Space Situational Awareness, and so it still may have posed problems.
New Relic shifts with changing monitoring landscape
Other way round - he's Goldman alum
One can make a good argument that the "why" of math is really the only reason to teach it as a standard subject required for everyone, at least beyond just elementary arithmetic.

We like to pretend that all kinds of jobs require knowing algebra and geometry, but no, but that is greatly exaggerated.

What you learn when you study those subjects that you have a decent chance of actually using on the job is how to reason.

There were a couple of interesting essays on this point by Underwood Dudley.

One is called "What is Mathematics For?" (which he admits is click-bait, and it should really be called "What is Mathematics Education For") from the May 2010 "Notices of the AMS" [1].

The other is called "Is Mathematics Necessary?" [2], which I believe is an earlier, shorter version of the what later became the AMS article.

[1] https://www.ams.org/notices/201005/rtx100500608p.pdf

[2] http://www.public.iastate.edu/~aleand/dudley.html
Yeah, the human condition, and human nature, aren't exactly changing.
AMD Announces Four New Ryzen CPUs: 2700E, 2600E, 2500X, and 2300X
I can call something bad without also calling it election interference.

Regarding spying, of course that serves purposes other than interference. Think of insider trading - you get the insider info not so that you can change the outcome if you don't like it, but so that you can make a profit on that outcome when it actually occurs.
I share a similar sentiment. Articles with an abundance of memes/gifs -- ones trying to be funny/cute, not contributing to the subject matter -- are placed in the same category.

At best it adds clutter, but usually lends to distraction and/or frustration and moving on.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17946145
Most 5K training programs have you running about ~18 miles a week. A full marathon is 26.2 miles in a DAY. That's quite a difference. If you ran every day with no rest days, for 24 miles a week (per your post)...that's almost a 5K a day. I never said that was a definitive number. Hence the "~." There are other studies that back up this idea.

As for your last sentence...no one here said anything about that. No one even said it would cause "bad health" to run a full marathon. However, when you run long distances, it has tremendous effects on parts of your body that are prone to injury and strain. Women long distance runners even have fertility problems. The human body was not meant to run long distances as the person I was replying to suggested. It's not "healthy" when contrasted with lower distances. Running itself is good.
I know this deals with a US company and the FCC, but suppose a small country which doesn't belong to any international agreements decides to launch a satellite into orbit for whatever reason. Who is to stop them? Does anyone have the right to stop them?
[Dupe] of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17931801
Hi, I added attribution to the Mapbox maps. Please reply if any of the others are wrong as well.
Up until recently, the Taiwanese flag emoji would crash Chinese iPhones[1].

> "Basically, Apple added some code to iOS with the goal that phones in China wouldn't display a Taiwanese flag," Wardle says, "and there was a bug in that code."

However, I don't believe it is fair to compare state censorship with an individual whose online reputation could prevent them from eating or having a roof over their head.

[1] https://www.wired.com/story/apple-china-censorship-bug-iphon...
Am I missing something, or is their example at the start of section 3 (bottom of page 7) plain wrong? If x is an uint32_t, then ((x << 31) >> 31) + 1 returns either 1 or 2; while the "optimized" version ~x&1 reutrns 1 or 0 (which matches the semantics they describe, while the initial code does not).
I'm not sure what you're trying to argue here, but you can't call people names like bootlicker on HN. This is in the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

If you'd please err on the side of being respectful in the future, we'd be grateful.
I've tried so many static generators, but they just all fail miserably past a certain point. For a simple blog, just text, etc, they're great. But once you get into adding images, rss, or any sort of complex layout and routing, none of them are really designed to handle that much complexity. Metalsmith came the closest because of it's plugin system, but only because I ended up writing my own plugins and just basically writing a static generator on top of it. But it can't do live previewing at all which is really annoying.

Recently I tried Nuxt because I really like Vue, but although these new types of generators are great for handling layout, and the live reloading rocks, they're not really designed for a truly static site, the pre-rendering includes a lot of unnecessary bloat. There's basically a copy of every post both in the html and the javascript, it's also super hard to control it so it's only the posts for that one page. You can remove the scripts manually but then you lose all js functionality. I gave up trying to find a sane workaround. They're not really meant for content that's truly static that you don't need to update.

I've given up on this point and have just started to write my own, focusing on fast live reloading and easy config (like Vue's cli) because that's one of the other huge problems with all generators.
NameNgine?
From the camp of people that decided to let algorithms draw voting districts:

"just redistrict, lol. But after the election"
I imagine the discrepancy is because a lot of people think that sex work shouldn’t be illegal, and there are good reasons to think that shutting down sites like Backpage just makes things worse. Whereas here, most will probably say that this stuff should be illegal, and getting it banned from Facebook is probably an improvement.
Unfortunately not. Currently vector tiles are outside my personal scope for the project, but I of course welcome PRs.
Lessons from the irrational human quirk that made Amazon a $1 trillion company
So what would be the recommendation for something that generates static blog-like pages? Assume I know nothing, or maybe python and a liiiittle bit of jinja.

Thanks!
It may be alien to us, but there are millions of people for which this describes their reality.
The rules and regulations of a foreign country may not prevent you from operating powerful transmitters aimed at critical US Government or commercial satellites in GEO.
Your Flight's Been Cancelled: Mobile Airline Apps Are Vulnerable to Attacks
US to threaten sanctions against International Criminal Court
That's true. It's a good way of personally justifying something morally/ethically dubious because the person doing it has a biased opinion it's a good thing. But what 1 person thinks is good isn't necessarily true for the larger body of society. Of course this is not 100% the case all the time, but that's why we have things like checks and balances and governing bodies to hopefully look out for these instances.
Here you have a picture of the world as Wells would like to see it or thinks he would like to see it. It is a world whose keynotes are enlightened hedonism and scientific curiosity. All the evils and miseries we now suffer from have vanished. Ignorance, war, poverty, dirt, disease, frustration, hunger, fear, overwork, superstition all vanished...But is there anyone who actually wants to live in a Wellsian Utopia? On the contrary, not to live in a world like that, not to wake up in a hygenic garden suburb infested by naked schoolmarms, has actually become a conscious political motive.

This is a neat summary of the ideological contradiction of the Bay Area and Silicon Valley. Everyone wants edginess with safety, but no one wants the Disnified, safe version of edginess. We want the hard-nosed meritocracy of innovation, technical prowess, and commerce, but we don't want to let our children risk even the failure of losing in sports.

All ‘favourable’ Utopias seem to be alike in postulating perfection while being unable to suggest happiness.

'Favorable' Utopias are like Mary Sue characters or fanfics without real conflict. There is no interest without real risk and real adversity. Even Iain M. Bank's Culture universe has imperfections, conflict, and death, even if there are untold trillions in it living idyllic lives of enlightened hedonism and curiosity.
I think it would rather be short-time revenue stream... We aim for a long-term relationship with our future customers :)
> haven't heard of anyone feeling offended

There are certain people that enjoy the feeling of righteous indignation at finding "offenses" and "calling out" other people on them. This allows them to feel morally superior and as if they contribute something to the society. So instead of writing code or positively contribute in some other ways, they play the Red Guard and police other's speech. I've read several articles of people coming off this dangerous drug and realizing, post-factum, that this was exactly what and exactly why they were doing it, but too many people are still doing it anyway.

> i'm not sure this ever referred to skin color...

It never did. The Red Guards don't care.
I found the layout confusing but stuff like this is desperately needed. Encryption is a difficult subject but so important to how the Internet functions; the better people understand the concepts the better decisions they will make.

I tried to explain explain how the web browser retrieves a web page (including HTTPS) in simple terms once; the resulting text quickly got away from me[0] so I respect the creators of this for trying.

[0] https://sheep.horse/2017/10/how_you_are_reading_this_page.ht...
Co-founder here of intermix.io

We've compiled a write-up of the performance tuning techniques we've used in the past two years to get the most out of our own Redshift environment.

It covers the major pain points that people have when starting with Redshift and when scaling their workloads. By using the techniques, a lot of our customers stayed on Redshift vs. doing the switch to e.g. BiqQuery or Snowflake.

Would love to get opinions on this thread if you've successfully used any of the approaches we describe.
> But they did appeal to enough of the electorate. Clinton received ~3% more votes, which was in line with the polling data.

No, they didn't. The right and correct way to count votes isn't the method that would've given your side a victory; it's the way that was prescribed by the law as it existed at the time of the election.

> Unfortunately, because we have a system that makes certain Midwest and rust belt votes worth 3-10x more

This is the the result of a very old compromise. Maybe it should be reevaluated, but that's a separate issue.

I agree with the rest of your post.
> a small country which doesn't belong to any international agreements

Look at the map of ITU member states [1] and tell me where you'll find this spacefaring nation.

[1] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/33/Member_s...
The whole point of the cloud was that we wouldn't have to concern ourselves with performance tuning and other issues like that, where are we headed?! Great article nevertheless :)
From the perspective of an ISP that buys a lot of many different types of singlemode fiber optic cable: This is cool and all, but we care about dollars per meter for cable purchase orders.

Until the cost per kilogram of launching stuff into orbit is drastically reduced (think: massive fleets of 100% reusable BFR-sized rockets sending stuff into LEO on a regularly scheduled basis), I don't see how this will have a real world application outside of special non-profit, government funded R&D projects.
How dare educators attempt to entertain?

Technology isn't only for the wealthy elite who have the time to sit and read hundreds of pages of jargon anymore. The internet is for everyone, not just us nerds.
Most components for commercial space have been reclassified to EAR from ITAR in the last few years, so this is not nearly the concern that it was in the past.
No, of course I'm not using the definition of beauty from a specific branch of philosophy. In common language, that's simply not what's understood by the word beauty.
If this kind of thing bothers you, please help make Bitcoin successful.
I feel the same way. Another thing I've noticed along the same lines is companies and technologies named after words in "toddler speak" by adding -y or -ly to the end of a word (e.g. dog -> doggy). I initially chalked this up to the .ly TLD but that doesn't seem to be widely used nowadays. Maybe it started out that way and took on a life of its own?
Understanding Big Debt Crises (Ray Dalio)
Recipient activity is not part of DMARC, so there are no concerns there.
It should really not be a surprise that imagination is lacking here because for a lot of people, happiness is just defined as having things other people don't have

The psychological research suggests that this is how people are wired up. Just as we're wired up to consume fat and sugar whenever we come across it, we're basically wired up to start marauding our neighbors if they're way richer than we are.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3XYHPAwBzE
"This Christmas Day, hundreds of men will be bleeding to death in the Syrian, Iraqi and Afghan sands, or blowing one another to pieces in the Mexican drug wars; homeless children will be begging in the streets of one of the wealthiest nations in history".

I know that it's not fair to compare the death rates today to that during the height of WWII, but _completely_ alien? That seems extreme to me. There's still plenty of suffering, and while it may not be quite so universal as it was during the 1940s, it's still prevalent enough that the essay should be relevant today.
Intel Buys NetSpeed for NoC, Fabric IP
I see you bump levels based on story shares - but if I'm logged in with my email instead of social media, I don't see how that will be tallied to my account.
Oh, my apologies, I understand the question you were asking. You weren't asking for my opinion on how this should work, you were specifically asking about what kind of data is needed.

Ok, got it. I'm interested in how viable a career path it is to try to go into software development without any degree, without a CS or related degree, or without a MS or PhD. The reason is that I've been on interviews for "data science-ish" positions (this was before it was a term), and I was whiteboard quizzed on:

Tree operations
Markov chains
Formulating linear programs
Set permutations (you know, all permutations of a string, but hidden in a different question)
Database normalization and queries.

I have an MS in industrial engineering, so I've studied this stuff, but I definitely have to hit the books and re-study for my midterms every time I go into an interview like this. I could look it up on the job, but to have it sharp and ready enough for a whiteboard quiz, I definitely would need to study.

So I guess I'd be interested in knowing the salary bands, job title, and degree. But here's the thing, that only tells you who got the job. To really analyze this, you'd need to know the percentage of people who apply and get interviews. I definitely think that having an MS from a top program does increase my odds getting some of these interviews. The difference is that it doesn't save me from having to re-take the exam every time I interview, unlike many other professions that have a more formal process for taking entry exams and keeping credentials up to date.
It's not biased at all. Debt is a trailing indicator. Deficit is the rate at which you create/paydown debt.

If you want to change the debt level, you change the deficit and then apply time. $X/year * Y years = (X*Y) difference in debt. It's literally the only way to do so.

Is that honestly controversial or hard to understand? We're talking 8th grade algebra here.. you don't even need to generalize it into calculus.
> I don't mean to make fun

Maybe some things should be made fun of. Like pretending you are deeply injured by a word "whitelist". Otherwise we'll find ourselves in a world... well, the one we're finding ourselves in now.
By self-taught, do you mean you don’t want to take classes, even if they’re online or get any kind of mentorship, or just that you’re not going to go back to college and getting a CS degree? Also, do you have any understanding of programming/CS basics?
Author here. I take that as a compliment.

Not everything is meant to be deployed to production.
Absolutely agree. I tried Hugo after Jekyll and I run back to Jekyll screaming after touching Hugo. It is an implicit horrific mess with fucked up (il)logic.
For me whenever I visit the new reddit, the fan in my Macbook Pro spins up and sounds like it wants to launch into space.

The old reddit is buttery smooth in comparison. I really don't get it
An open-source and non-profit version of something like StackOverflow would be nice. Dependence on one commercial company is risky. The now-defunct C2 wiki had interesting discussions about software engineering, but couldn't really deal with specific products or languages. Such a tool(s) would probably need to be split or marked to distinguish between formal research, philosophical discussions (such as whether to optimize for programmer heads or machines), and specific languages and tools.
If there are other ways, you should patent it because it'll be worth trillions.

They're not shrinking it just for the fun of it, they're progressing the technologies to accommodate the explosive growth in computing every year.

The major problem with the growth is the energy consumption, we can't sustain it without reducing it.

Shrinking the process node allows them to double the transistor capacity without doubling the power requirements and they were on the path of doing it every few years, alas also the Moore's law.

Also, the mobile devices are outpacing the desktops, which means the market is demanding lighter, more power-efficient devices.

It takes several years and tens of billions of dollars to develop a new fab, so Intel has to predict and work on future technologies continuously the best ways they can; they can't risk losing their businesses to other fabs that is also doing the same thing.

DRM is the least of the problem, the biggest part of the Intel CPUs are the integrated graphics now.
Well, individualized to the gentry and those with enough wealth to avoid labor, but certainly not the slave population.
Introducing Jupytext
Depends on whether the angle is above or below the horizontal. (The ball won't make it this far regardless.)
What does learning mean outside the context of any problem to be solved?

Games are fun, but games almost always involve something that might be useful. But what is useful if everyone already has everything they need?
I've always thought of Utopia being peace insofar as a society that cannot harm an individual, and cannot allow individuals to harm other individuals, which I suppose aligns pretty closely to Orwell's notion of "brotherhood".

Such simple principles would solve the issues of:

* racism

* homophobia

* moral indignation

* xenophobia

* extreme economic disparity, such that those with means are actively holding down or holding back those without

* lack of access to health services

If we solve all of those things, we'll still have problems. We'll still have people disagreeing, people fighting. People struggling. What we might also have, however, is the desire to also work with others, rather than go to our deaths over issues because of such potent underlying bitterness.

The human race is flawed enough as it is. We don't need manifest disagreements spawned by religion or dogma, for instance, to fuel the flames.
It's the typical path of "crude conceptual prototype -> complicated advanced solution -> highly optimized stripped-down late version" constantly seen in engineering, especially in software where iterations are fast.

I hope that much of today's advanced, complicated, and expensive tech will eventually make that next step to simplification based on huge accumulated experience and knowledge.
Some missing context:

Only bitcoin eclipses the amount of regulatory uncertainty that surrounds satellites in the US. There are clear international law reasons that the US government approval is required for launch, but there is absolutely no statute that gives the FCC authority to deny the launch on the grounds that they did -- it's a regulatory power grab on that agency's part, trying to assert regulatory authority they were never granted.
The FCC rejected the launch on the basis of tracking ability, which is something that FCC doesn't do and doesn't have any insight into assessing. If it was spectrum or comms, my assessment would have been different. However right now the satellite regulations are really in flux due to the rise of commercial space and uncertainty about space force reorganizations, etc.

FCC asserting authority over orbital trajectories (vs. say, the FAA or US Space Command who HAVE been the point of contact on those issues for decades of military and NASA space launches) is an inter-agency regulatory power grab. FCC has handled domestic issues regarding geosynchronous satellites, because those are nearly all communications related. Now they're trying to unilaterally extend that to ALL Earth-orbital trajectories.

What do you do when your local Parks & Rec department sends you a letter rejecting your claim of special tax status on your import/export business? That's basically what happened here.
For every old curmudgeon who hates this style, there's probably a young whippersnapper who loves it. No reason we can't have both.
I don't want to learn Go. I want a static site.
Unfortunately, you're totally right.

I like Ted Nelson a lot, mostly because I relate to his chaotic way of thinking, and I admire his ideas, and the work he puts towards making his ideas reality even more so.
Yet, even in his more recent content, he's still stubborn as ever, anyone who wants to simplify his ideas to appeal to a mainstream audience "doesn't get my vision".

He's had great ideas, great visions, but he shoots himself in the foot with hi is approach.
An Amazon patent put humans in cages and let robots roam free
Driving Jane
Also, it would be helpful to know more specifically you're hoping to achieve by the end of that year. A software engineering job?
I don't really like it for non-mobile apps, but it's also a fast and easy "UI kit," so I use it for side projects because it lets me get the app out faster. That said, I'll often do things like adjusting padding to make the layout more compact when you're expected to have a mouse.