skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
HF (which is what this article talks about) works best with a big honking antenna, but if you build your own you can get pretty creative; my dad did 20m from a townhouse.

As far as VHF/UHF, there are compact handhelds[1] with an antenna less than 12 inches long.

1: For example https://www.yaesu.com/downloadFile.cfm?FileID=12831&FileCatI...
Yea, but I don't miss begging for grants, & headaches around funding. With Engineering you get to enjoy life more. You get to pick your poison...
Don't worry, this clears it up:

The particular version number (3.3 representing version 1.2) is due to TLS 1.0 being a minor revision of the SSL 3.0 protocol. Therefore TLS 1.0 is numeric version 3.1, TLS 1.1 is version 3.2, and so on.

Talk about versioning schemes bastardized to hell. If people do that to my specs I hope I'm not around to see it.
> When playing software instruments with latency, most people say the threshold for percieving the latency is between 10-30ms

I really challenge the lower end of this. Sound travels about a foot per millisecond. Bands regularly play at 10ft distances.

The problem is that 10ms latency on a digital audio workstation generally isn't if you start measuring with an oscilloscope.
Congrats and a big thank you to the Phoenix team! Any word on the previously discussed metrics telemetry?

EDIT: Oops. Didn't read bottom of post.
care to explain how to download from ISS via radio ?
Just a warning to anyone who didn't already click: JWZ has a beef with Hacker News, and redirects to borderline NSFW image on Imgur. Cut and paste if you want to read it.
Former Polie (10x; IceCube) - I also noticed this there. I wouldn't trust it 100%, but it was pretty reliable.

I expect that if you knew that the cameras were watching, you could trick their AI's pretty easily (e.g., by faking a limp), but I'd prefer to confirm that before relying on it :-).
Might want to look at https://twist.com/home

It seems a bit like a slakey zulip to me, though I haven’t had opportunity to use it yet.
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How much are we going to teach kids in the future?

Every elementary kid should learn: programming, philosophy, Quantum physics, Media Literacy, Civics, etc;

If we teach it to adults, the kids can learn it at home.
"I'm never going to miss my Vic20/C64 tape drives, ever."

I recently had my childhood C64 fixed up by one of my employees (turns out they are good for something). It now has virtually every game released on a SD Card via a rather modern interface to the cartridge slot. This beast used to have a floppy drive and I remember how amazing that was compared to the tape drive.
How about getting more sleep in the way to work. I do 2.5 to 3hrs daily. That’s about 15hrs more sleep weekly. Or I could have more me time.
From end user perspective, what’s the benefit of a decentralized exchange over something like Coinbase Pro?
I wonder if the radio waves could have been received and read as data by another machine.
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I like both. FT8 is great when you want to multitask while getting on the air.
I've been seeing the same, very frequently especially over the last two weeks.
That's the best NYT headline I've seen, even if it doesn't equal the NY Post's "Headless Body in Topless Bar".
I am surprised that they have not kept up with the professional photography, though. Who is going to be the guinea pig to book a property with 6 blurry photos in a foreign country? It's a waste of everyone's time: host, guest, and AirBnB approving the listing. One time I saw a listing for a shared room in Paris that had one picture containing only a bed.
One thing worth highlighting in the post is that Phoenix now uses Ecto 3.0. This latest version of Ecto separates Ecto's data mapping and validation from Ecto's SQL adapters. Practically this means you can use Ecto's changesets when you either don't need persistence or aren't using a SQL database.

Additionally there are a number of features that make Ecto 3.0 a great release:
http://blog.plataformatec.com.br/2018/10/a-sneak-peek-at-ect...
I think the thickness is because of a special cover on the phone to hide the final design. that's also the reason why they turned down the lights.
I've looking into this issue for the last 2 days:
The APK we all looked into is IronChat-3.40-release.apk [1], after decompiling I think it is a copy/fork of Conversations version 1.14.6 with a few more commits until October 13th 2016 [2] with Secret Space Encryptor version 1.7.2c [3].

About unencrypted support: "supportUnencrypted() { return false; }" is in the config, so probably not [4].
There is a theory (I kind of started [5]) that it might be MitM because of bad UX. This is because they used OTR without TOFU which was only added in Conversations 1.15, after the fork [6].

[1] https://ironphonestore.com/IronChat-3.40-release.apk

[2] https://github.com/siacs/Conversations/tree/6371d2b7a9a2b5d7...

[3] https://paranoiaworks.mobi/sse/

[4] https://twitter.com/BWBroersma/status/1060136620383453195

[5] https://twitter.com/BWBroersma/status/1059851925234036739 / https://twitter.com/Schellevis/status/1059852605801852929 (= the author of the article quoted by ars: https://nos.nl/l/2258309 )

[6] https://twitter.com/BWBroersma/status/1060278116315262976
Sure, when the ISS passes over (and is transmitting SSTV--check the ARISS blog or issfanclub.com), tune your radio to 145.800, turn squelch off, and hold up your speaker to (for example) your smartphone which is running a decoder like Robot36. That's just one specific way...the app will auto-save an image to your phone when it's done. Example video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YAHJfE7EBlI&t=12s

You can use an app like "ISS Detector" to get alerts when the ISS is over; that one also has an IAP that will show you any amateur radio satellite that's over your head, as well as the uplink and downlink frequencies. (Last time I was listening to cubesat AO-92, my social "nerd antenna" apparently went up to about 1 MW transmitting and I ended up pointing into the clear blue sky a lot while explaining to interested random passers-by why people still use ham radio. :-))
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The goal of our current laws are to starve USPS of funds, which results in these awful working conditions. We need to repeal the restrictions on USPS offering a broader range of services, and not force them by law to massively overfund their retirement benefits.
Yikes, I'm not sure how "essentially all" ever got in there; it should have been "the majority of". And even with that edit, our practice is, where possible, to cite sources, and while there's a lot of anecdotal data on this topic, there aren't great published sources for this topic. So whether or not it's shockingly common for companies to have dozens or hundreds of people with shell access to production, we've removed the commentary on what other organizations do here, and just explain our practices.

I really appreciate the feedback!
That's not a point. You deliberately misinterpreted and continue to misinterpret the clear meaning of the text. Thanks for wasting my time.
Entertaining in much the same way as Veblen's commentary, though without as much hilariously and intentionally poorly-concealed contempt. Perhaps if the author wishes to continue to pursue this particular sort of Bildung, he will expand this piece into a much longer form for us. Just think how well that would display the amount of free time he has! And how much more room would be available to flesh out what must be a very well-developed political argument! I am giddy with anticipation.
Not that I know of, but I understand a young employee from an electrical company had a heart attack due to cyanide exposure from an improperly decommissioned pipe; that was the word on street, and I talked to him and that's what he claimed too. I have no idea if it was true or not.
> In this piece I want to discuss an aspect of program synthesis that sounds like it should be easy, but isn’t: synthesizing constant values.

Funny, I had always thought of it this way: I was expecting that the compiler engineers had just hardcoded a couple of constant synthesis rules and left it at that.
If you look on the website there's actually a form where you can download the information a 500Mb spreadsheet with 2.6 million rows, not just what was linked here.

I'm not sure if this is actually priveliged information? Voter rolls typically have some of this information and can be purchased by the general public as far as I understand.
I've always felt it more akin to garbage collection triggered by hitting a resource limit.

(not being sarcastic)
More like grumpy nerds or race-war-fearing survivalists?
Blockchain based elections would be a disaster for democracy
The best one is piping aggregate and other functions in queries!

Something like:

from foo in Foos,
select: foo.id |> filter(foo.bar > 3) |> count()
USPS has a mandate to deliver mail to the masses as a universal sevice, and direct mail is one way to try to subsidize that mandate. When letter volume was higher, the letter delivery business could be viable on its own.

USPS is in a legislative straitjacket when it comes to offering new and competitive services to consumers and small businesses, nevermind the crazy amounts they're bbeing required to contribute to their pension plan: http://postalemployeenetwork.com/news/2012/03/postal-account...
Sadly this isn’t satire, which is the problem.
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I don't disagree with you, but I'd like to point out that iOS apps have long been able to render a view on a television (via an AppleTV) while also rendering a different view on the device screen. This has been possible for at least 4 or 5 years.

There have been a few party game apps that allow a person to drive the game on their device while the other participants see what is on the TV. I don't think it ever really caught on; perhaps partly because AppleTV was a niche product way back when and partly because it didn't get much advertising.
Is there any reason apple couldn't just implement it so that the iPhone runs iOS normally (always) and boots into full macOS when in desktop mode? They share a kernel I believe, and the latest iPhones have plenty of disk space...
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I was thinking that, for religion, the most politically acceptable path is to teach as many religions as practical to children. If they know the details of many religions at an early age, they might be inoculated against one of them being presented as the truth.
Maybe they can have the new secretary of state run another election for governor?
I think one thing you’re missing is how good Apple’s GPU have become (and will be in 1-2 years).

I’m thinking you’re going to have a hybrid architecture for MBP. The T2 will expand to support all of Apple’s own software plus all upgraded one sold through a revamped Mac Appstore (plus hopefully your own compiled stuff when security settings are off). This can power down (all but ~2 cores) and instead power up an x86 coprocessor that supports everything else. If Intel doesn’t deliver that, AMD will. For Macbook I think you’re on the right track, just that the Air will be replaced with a 13 inch Macbook model with the same architecture.
Thank you for this! I was not aware of the absentee ballot system.
I'm not a blockchain nut so I can't be blamed for saying it can be used for "everything". In fact I'm highly skeptical that currency is its best use case. But elections are different.

The original poster is forgetting about a proposed infrastructure for such a system. I'd imagine there'd be federal, state, and local auditors of the blockchain. This means that every "vote" would be verified by hundreds of independent auditors in real time and forever. Second, the reporting would be public. Anyone with access to the blockchain could (and would) be able to verify their time-stamped and encrypted vote, but they'd also be able to count all of the votes for any election. So if they wanted to see precinct level voting totals, they could simply run a query against the blockchain. Same for municipal, state, and federal elections, along with any other items on the ballot.

In order to hack such a system, you'd have to circumvent people from using their identity on a massive scale, something that's just not feasible and if someone were to attempt it, there would be immediate flags and an immediate response. (AI does this today in real-time for general phishing and hacking scenarios - see recent Microsoft article on AI usage).

There'd be no more waiting. There'd be no more damaged ballots. No more lines. No more polling stations with human intervention and hacking capabilities. No more voter suppression.

The value of such a system vastly outweighs the original poster's knowledge of how this would and could be implemented to be safe and vastly superior to what we have today.
The controversy appears to be that you have to agree to something restricting usage of the data when you purchase it, but if someone downloads a publicly-accessible file off of the Internet without some T&C up front, they probably won't assume that there are conditions to its use.
Yes, as their name suggests, bounded model checkers check bounded models rather than models. In the literature, bounded models are virtually never mentioned unqualified (i.e., a bounded model checking algorithm won't be presented as a model checking algorithm).
Note: there's also an ARM version of windows. Although it lacks full backwards compatibility with the x86 version.
"time-series database" is some of the most overhyped nonsense since noSQL.

Time-series is just data with time as a primary component. It comes in all shapes and volume, but if you have a lot of data and are running heavy OLAP queries than we already have an entire class of capable databases.

Use any modern distributed relational column-oriented database, set primary key to metric id + timestamp, and you'll be able to scale easily with full SQL and joins. You can keep your other business data there too, along with JSON, geospatial, window functions, and all the other rich analytical queries available with relational databases.

We have trillion row tables that work great. No special "TSDB" needed.
That's so cool, and single-handedly just convinced me to take the plunge and buy a radio to learn more. I've been tempted for a while but had no idea you could do this. I liked the idea of talking to people from far away, but being able to receive stuff from ISS is just next-level awesome.
"it’s just that existing versions are in some way unsatisfactory"

You say this as if it is an easy problem to solve.
Yeah; if nothing else, the first versions would have been "port Darwin to this SoC". Maybe they never ported the GUI components, but it would be unsurprising if they did.
It's mentioned in the article.

https://github.com/beam-telemetry/telemetry
> “State law requires the public availability of voter lists, including names and address of registered voters,” she said in an email.

> It’s little surprise that the way Kemp’s office approached confirming absentee ballots was met with anger. “While the data may already be public, it is not publicly available in aggregate like this,”

It's interesting how so many laws are predicated on limited resources. Ie, all names and addresses of registered voters should be publicly available, because we don't think anyone has the resources to manually request, retrieve and process all of that data.

Except that even in the old days, corporations and ultra-wealthy individuals did have the resources to do things that were out of reach to the common person. But because it's so rare, and because it's usually kept secret, no one knows or worries about the ramifications.

And then along comes technology and levels the playing field. Things that only the moneyed people could do previously, can now be done by anyone. And suddenly, people start to realize that's a huge problem.

Many people seem to think that the solution to such flare-ups is to introduce more friction, so that the average person can no longer afford to take advantage of the situation. Perhaps that's better than nothing, but it still leaves a loophole wide enough for megacorps and billionaires to take advantage of. Perhaps the real solution is to change the laws so that no one can legally take advantage of these loopholes, no matter how much money or resources they have. Ie, it's better to fail-fast and fix the underlying bug, than to put up a bunch of hacks and fail silently.
The mobile app does a "jump to the first unread message" by default, which is the same behavior the web app follows.
If you don't want to read through all the messages in the current stream you can press "Mark as read" and then the app will be jumping you to the latest messages.
Would that improve your navigation flow in the app?
In this case - given this and the other comments - I stand corrected!
I would love to see some data on examples of this occurring in the wild - and it 100% makes sense that a congested CDN provider would impact neighbors. It would be great if someone could do a writeup on examples and the detection/mitigation strategies. Perhaps issues like these (alongside cost) are driving the DIY CDN adoptions (Apple being the exemplar but also Tesla etc)?
Also the Pinterest example is a great real world example - and they do an awesome job especially given the size of that cache - so there must be so real value from a performance standpoint!
Out of curiosity does it seem like these dynamic switching decisions are better at the server level or client level?
I was watching the NOVA episode on placebo and the definitive physiological effects placebo had for depression, similar to SSRI's. I could not help wondering if the sugar in the sugar pills actually did make you feel less depressed and wondered if an experiment could be carried out with something inert.
Aside from performance, a huge reason to abandon Intel is security. I don't see Apple keeping an Intel chip if they switch to the A-X series as this would defeat much of the point.

Anyways, Apple has never been one for smooth transitions. Their history is dotted with big, bold changes. If they kept x86 they would slow the adoption of their new architecture. Apple will likely take a "take it or leave it" attitude like they did with the CD drive and headphone jack.
Great submission. This claim, though...

"Traditionally, achieving all of these goals has
required an expensive combination of atomic commitment
and replication protocols – introducing extensive coordination
overhead. Our system, Eris, takes a different approach.
It moves a core piece of concurrency control functionality,
which we term multi-sequencing, into the datacenter network
itself. This network primitive takes on the responsibility for
consistently ordering transactions, and a new lightweight
transaction protocol ensures atomicity."

...reminds me of NASA's ROBUS and SPIDER:

https://shemesh.larc.nasa.gov/fm/spider/

So, moving integrity and availability mechanisms to hardware in the middle is a proven method. They even did a proof of it. Good to see that kind of thinking is being applied to networking hardware. A tech like this might have most impact at companies like Google that own some of the lines they use. Might even be a value-added service for Tier 1's if we're lucky.
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Machine-generated event telemetry from mobile phones, cars, etc can easily be tens of millions per second in real-world applications. Human-generated event telemetry (e.g. text messaging) peaks at hundreds of thousands per second if you are working on global scales.

There is virtually an unlimited number of applications that could generate 16k events per second (million per minute).
-> Learn a trade? ... you have to get used to being looked down on.

What is even more striking about that is that among many economists and policy makers trade-schools are seen as a good recipe, last and maybe only hope to counter the effects of graduate-inflation. But yet, what parents make that bold move and tell their kids to cancel their Ivy League dreams and instead become a welder?

It is one of those moments that lay bare what prohibits us from progress: The solution is already there, is affordable and doable for most individuals. Plus approved by all the smartest people. Yet nobody seems willing to go that way, including all of the smartest people.
"Getting Adobe and Autodesk to rewrite their flagship software for iOS was quite a good win"

Now if they could only get Apple to rewrite their flagship Pro software for iOS.
I wonder how much goodwill Google could have generated by locating this hub in say Orlando or Des Moines.

Even if they spent 150k per engineer in relocation costs (1 time fee), it’s hard to imagine they wouldn’t make that up in terms of cheaper real estate and lower salaries.

There were obviously some benefits in choosing New York City (and I realize it’s an expansion technically), but still, it’s so......unimaginative.

Would have been a great contrast to Amazon’s bait and switch yesterday.
I reckon they'd be room on the market for a battery life focussed laptop. If they could hit 24 hours+ they'd be laughing. 2 archs would be a pain, but quite a lot of software already supports aarch64, so it probably wouldn't be too bad..
This may actually be a violation of the votesafe program actually http://sos.ga.gov/index.php/elections/votesafe
If it's going to make NYC a major engineering hub, on a similar scale as Mountain View, then it's a huge deal. If it's going to be mainly non-technical roles, then meh.
It's not that it's against the license, but that the price clearly does not reflect the value that has been added. If the purchaser were slightly better informed, the sale would never happen.

If you're selling a Firefox CD for $5, then the price ostensibly covers the duplication/distribution/convenience. If you're selling that CD for $60, then the buyer likely believes they're paying for the software itself.

And while markets rely on some level of arbitrage, the magnitude is what makes it a "scam".
I would argue you make it a mandatory piece of the curriculum for voting age, or to be, high schoolers

Researching and reading all of the supportive material for a ballot's fill of decisions is a skill and effort

Detailing how to develop that skill and establishing that effort as habit could affect students to continue to keep an interesting in voting

Take your time with each element of the next vote's ballot

let the students discuss multiple viewpoints and coach a civil fact based discourse
I thought the FCC wanted to know where your station was. Doesn't this defeat the purpose?