skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think this quote better summarizes the change.

"Under the modification proposed herein, SpaceX would reduce the number of satellites and relocate the original shell of 1,600 satellites authorized to operate at 1,150 km to create a new lower shell of 1,584 satellites operating at 550 km"

This shell will also now use 24 orbital planes instead of an originally planned 32. (per a table in the technical information pdf).

The total number of satellites in the constellation goes from 4,425 to 4,409.
Jon Postel (who wrote an early specification) of TCP would like to have a word with you:

"be conservative in what you do, be liberal in what you accept from others"
So you think they should protect civil rights through lobbying while simultaneously profiting off of the erosion of civil rights? What about leading by example?
The problem I have there is that Akamai and other CDNs seem to return different results if I'm using my ISP's resolvers vs any others. Getting good local nodes is important in a bandwidth constrained (and far away) environment like Australia.
What about at lunch? Sometimes, I go out to lunch and want a martini or two...
A sentence of 30 to Life might as well be Life, at my age.
That's not a "Disclaimer". It's actually the polar opposite... a "Claimer"? ... I think "Source" is the best word to use there.
Bees Are Dying Off. Tiny QR Code Backpacks May Help Save Them
I need an invitation code to install..?
Show HN: Votum – Crowdsource and vote ideas from your team
The House Science Committee May Soon Become Pro-Science
Yes. Two. We live in <1000 sq ft right now and they don't mind at all.
personally, I will generally just want to construct some artifact which has some property, e.g. the proof is a program to construct something. Where a classical proof doesn't give you this program, it merely states that such a property holds. Which is perfectly fine if that is what you want to know.
The "Summary" section in the PDF gives a pretty concise and straight-forward overview.
~~No, really. He's talking about the earths surface, the xkcd is about the earths volume.~~

Ok, the xkcd is about nanobots with a volume of "a few cubic microns"[1], whereas atoms are much smaller.

[1] https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/865:_Nanobots
Ever tasted raw caffeine? Yeah I am sure.
Booting a physical Windows 10 disk on Linux using VirtualBox
That was more of a pun on the irony of name/situation, sorry just couldn't resist.

I've never researched their actual background, but over the years I've noticed their content to be usually of very good quality.

I suppose it's a good example of why one should never judge a book by its cover, or in this case, the content of a website by its domain name ;)
note on this - Tkinter does come with a TCL interpreter for sure. But not all Pythons come with Tkinter (source: I've packaged Python for embedded systems)
Indeed. Software is just like a person: what you see is an "interface," but what you are actually dealing with is the "implementation."
Frye's Electronics does as well
The only third part SSD vendor I’m aware of is OWC: https://eshop.macsales.com/shop/ssd/owc/macbook-air/2013-201...
Yes, that would be clearer language. I'll look into updating the text.
> as far as I understand it works approximately this way in Haiku

Yep, it is indeed. You can of course write your own translators for custom file formats and install them along with your application; but then anything which already handled whatever representation they produced (e.g. PNG/JPG/etc. images -> BBitmap, Haiku's image buffer class) could then handle those filetypes also.

> This is not true, the patent has expired AFAIK

Only last year, and this document was mostly written a decade ago :)

Haiku can now play MP3 out of the box also (and since the servers and buildbots are mostly in Germany, we don't really pay much attention to U.S. patents anyway at this point.)
This won't actually be in practice long. Retrievers will realize that they can manufacture income simply by badly positioning every unused scooter they see, then using a second phone to "report" it while they are still nearby to collect on the reposition. Lather, rinse, repeat.

Result: more costly, and the bad-actor positioning problem worsens.

This is strictly a P.R. move.
Back in the day, it used to be hard to be a Costco membership (late 80s/early 90s). I recall that only people who worked at certain companies (Boeing comes to mind) could get memberships.

It's not considered an exclusive thing anymore, though, since membership only costs, what, $55?
Universities training tech talent won’t help Midwest cities all that much if all the developers decamp for the coasts immediately upon graduation anyway.
[Scylla employee] Indeed a mixed cluster isn’t supported, since the inter-node protocols are incompatible.
“Please note that Badger obtains a lock on the directories so multiple processes cannot open the same database at the same time.”

With RocksDB there is not such limitation. Do you plan to lift it?
This part:

> how your massively parallel algorithm behaves on a 96-node cluster / network, such a box is just $500, and is portable and can work offline.
The wrong partner contributes to this.
In case patio11 is not reading this, I'll post a link to one of his old post:
https://training.kalzumeus.com/newsletters/archive/consultin...

> What's the difference between $100 an hour and $4,000 a week? Aren't they mathematically equivalent? No. Weekly billing strictly dominates hourly billing.
Post-Hoc or not would depend on what hypothesis the researcher had before looking at the data. We don't really know, or at least I couldn't tell from the article.
Let’s require license plates for bikes then as well. And skateboards.
It seems like a news group dump.

Compare

http://computer-programming-forum.com/80-microsoft-visual-c-...

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!search/%22Don$27t$20want$2...

Wayback Machine earliest snapshot is from 2012. It probably never was a proper forum.
Yes, I'm generalizing but it's definitely a trend. The schools in my city used to fight for attendance and now they fight crowding and the PTA rates in 7 figures. Families are staying in the city more than ever.
I may disapprove of one's views, but I'll commit my code for their right for better software!
> it can easily link against musl instead of libc for an even lighter footprint

I'm not sure if you were implying that it doesn't, but Rust also supports musl:

$> rustup target list | rg musl
aarch64-unknown-linux-musl
arm-unknown-linux-musleabi
arm-unknown-linux-musleabihf
armv5te-unknown-linux-musleabi
armv7-unknown-linux-musleabihf
i586-unknown-linux-musl
i686-unknown-linux-musl
mips-unknown-linux-musl
mipsel-unknown-linux-musl
powerpc64le-unknown-linux-musl
x86_64-unknown-linux-musl
Sexually transmitted disease with 100% mortality rate.
There you go, being all "logical" on us.
People generally interested in this topic might also find the CMU Intro to DB Systems youtube of interest.

Note that it's an introduction to building database systems (not just using them).

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLSE8ODhjZXja3hgmuwhf8...
> It is not a norm in other companies to penalize people's performance reviews for failing to complete routine training

It's a norm pretty much everywhere to penalize people's performance reviews for failure to perform required job tasks on time, I know of no employer that doesn't do that (or, at least, expect supervisor to do it.) It may not be normal to apply a systematic penalty of a preset value to failing this precise failing (from my experience in enterprise environments, the normal consequence for a wide range of required trainings is a nag email from HR or an HR-owned bot to the supervisor and/or employee with escalating urgency,and sometimes escalating up the org chart, until some point where more formal organizational penalties are imposed, which the supervisor may or may not also use as the basis for ad hoc penalties in performance reviews even if formal direct penalties aren't imposed because the delinquency is cleared before that point.)

> For another, it throws the objectivity of performance reviews in question

Having a defined, fixed, concrete Perf penalty for a particular violation does the opposite of calling objectivity of the rating system into question.
[Scylla employee] We’re bootstrapping our LWT implementation now and we do want to take it much further, with multi-partition transactions.
Sometimes the cashiers forget to hand you movie tickets or the consumer forgets that they need to pick up an item from the electronics cage. Once they caught that I didn't get the movie tickets I had paid for, felt really nice.
I've always thought of the main IRC channel like being in a crowded room. You can listen in on various conversations, but if you want to have a conversation with one or more people, you move to another location and converse amongst yourselves either by private message or another (tempoarary) channel.

Threaded conversations are better handled by email or newsgroups as opposed to chat in my opinion.

Edit: Removed extraneous word.
... but it does solves our shareholder's ones.
The Rosie Pattern Language
> The first one, because he was a young boy

He was a 16 year old Al Qaeda member who was the son of a leader of the group.

> The second, because the president using his sole authority to order the assassination of someone shouldn't happen.

Ever?

> Regardless, not taking action at that time would likely have been better. They were US citizens, their rights were abrogated and they were killed illegally.

Agree that because they were US citizens they should have been given due process, or at the very least, the legal rationale for their killing should have been subject to public scrutiny. But I don't think this really makes the case against drone strikes as a tool.
I have pretty much given up on the prospect of running a full fledged FOSS OS on devices that don’t give access to the bootloader’s root of trust, or give you a userland that works with a kernel you can’t control (eg Crouton). It all sounds great until you start trying to do actuall work. As soon as you need anything that’s not provided by the manufacturer software image you start to notice all the foundational things you’re not allowed to do with your system.

Need a kernel option or module not provided? Nope, can’t build/sign it. Remember, not all modules are for new hardware (no VMs for you!). Current version of OS? Distro security updates for kernel? Um maybe if they get around to it lol.

It kind of reminds me of Doctorow’s thing about war on general purpose computing.* Like how is it in the interest of handset manufacturers to let you have a general purpose computer that could run unsigned (by them) code?

To have a real linux distro, you would have to be able to run unsigned privileged code, but that would make it possible to do all sorts of naughty things like unauthorized disk encryption, subverting DRM, mucking around with the radios, etc. You can’t really have have one without the other.

* http://opentranscripts.org/transcript/coming-war-general-com...
That is a very broad brush you're painting with.
An Evolutionary Neurotheology Approach to Depression (2015) [pdf]
Those justifications simply aren't believable. All of the problems supposedly being solved have cheaper, more effective solutions than paying someone to stand at the door harassing customers. Employee-assisted theft doesn't.
Maybe we should have some good metric showing how small the sample size is compared to the whole. And maybe make it a rule to add 'Approximation' in the title if it uses that.
The absolute minimum latency you'll ever see with geostationary is about 489ms. That's assuming 1:1 dedicated transponder capacity and something like a higher end SCPC terminal and modem, accounting for latency and modulation/coding/FEC by the satellite modems on both ends.

Consumer grade hughesnet stuff will vary anywhere from 495ms in the middle of the night to 1100ms+ during peak periods due to oversubscription.
Actually, looks like Haiku is a compatible reimplementation of a "legacy" OS.
See, when you read my comments and try to infer what I'm saying, you seem to do a pretty good job of it. So, can I ask, rather than nitpicking (for instance, that termination is itself a form of performance-based penalty), that you simply take whatever inference you've drawn and respond to that?

You've put a whole lot of effort into clarifying what it is I'm asking --- well done! I think you've nailed it! --- but you've come no closer to addressing the question I asked.

Regarding drama: again, given only the level of a peer, you don't know whether that's the product of work they've done, or some weird protest they're making against sexual harassment training. Which brings us back to the simple question I asked: why even allow for those weird protests?
I appreciate your edit.

Please understand, and maybe I didn't make this terribly clear, but I am not saying I'm against people taking painkillers when needed. Obviously if you have crippling pain of course you should get pills. "Monitoring Doctors More" does not equate to "ban opiodes" any more than saying saying "regulating business" equates to "no business". There's a middle-ground here.

I'd also like to point out that I don't think I'm being non-compassionate in this case. Living in NY I get to see the terror of severe drug addiction every single day when I see (certain) homeless people. It seems "non-compassionate" to me to reduce all of life-crippling addiction to "making a bad decision or lacking self-control".

While some people have more addictive personalities than others, the stronger opiodes are addictive enough to ruin lives. It's easy to dismiss this as "people without self control", but I can almost guarantee that someone in your slightly-extended family has had severe problems with opiodes.
They have detectives (sometimes ex-cops) roaming the store to spot shoplifting, tag swapping, etc.
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Welcome to the war, majewsky.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17607457#17618288
You've stated my feelings on the matter perfectly.

> $3400/mo for 2400 3bd 2bath two floor apartment with a private backyard

though I prefer single floor condos more, and don't want to pay that much in rent. But, that's 20 years too early to be talking about it.

___

I stay in Boston right now, and Charles bordering Boston-Cambridge neighborhoods are similar to how you describe NYC living, just on a smaller scale.
I really enjoyed reading this too!
Yes, I'm also having a hard time understanding why is this illegal.
> $28,421,885 Funds raised for literacy & libraries

Woah, that's cool. I'm definitely using this site. How can ‘they afford the free shipping?

Edit: And they ship free to Canada... no "free shipping" thing ever works to Canada unless you spend a lot of money.
I don't think that's true. If you want to know which cashiers are double-scanning items, you just need to know how many double scans there are per cashier. Then you can compare people against an average and retrain the cashiers that are significantly above the average.
I appreciate you making the distinction, but I still don’t think outcomes are the place for equity. My gender example still stands using your clarified definition.

Is it fair that now a sub population has different gender distributions? Is it fair that 90% of programmers are male? Etc etc. I think it is counterproductive and too late to making meaningful changes based on outcomes.

Perhaps if you get to a high enough macro, but even then, I see logical weaknessss in opinions comparing income based on gender because outcome does not, necessarily, mean bias. It’s just easier to measure.
If you care about disabled mobility, the NYC’s subways need to be at the top of the list for any outrage. Elevators are every half dozen stops, if that and the ones they have are used as urinals half the time. Disabled mobility in cities has bigger problems than scooters.
> Every generation, we somehow compress our knowledge just enough to leave room in our brains for one more generation of progress.

I imagine it'd be pretty easy to do that today given the state of math edjumacation in American schools (never went to one). Looks like the bulk of it is calculus and not even the rigorous kind or the kind that could at least be immediately applied to problems today. A 1368 pages calculus book doesn't have a word about something as immediately useful as Gamma function (comes up a lot in today's compsci). Wouldn't it be more fruitful to chop all the current calculus sequences and instead have a semester of finite-dimensional vector spaces first followed up by a semester of functional analysis while introducing only the important bits of analysis as one goes? The relevant bits of mulitvariable calculus and differential geometry of curves and surfaces could be easily introduced within the framework of linear algebra within the first or second semester. That way students could progress to the frontiers of math and bleeding edge of engineering and sciences much faster. As it stands right now, it seems to me the students are forced to waster time, energy, money, potential on memorizing how to solve old chestnuts like the optimization problems from the single variable calculus that were (probably) barely relevant in the middle of the last century.
Show HN: SEC Open Letter a legal framework for Blockchain Stock public offering
Open Letter to the SEC submitted through https://www.sec.gov/finhub on 31 October 2018

“If you want to do an ICO come see us.” – SEC Chairman Clayton

In direct response to the SEC Chairman’s request, THE BLOCKCHAIN STOCK COMPANY, LLC, a Delaware Limited Liability Company (hereinafter the “Company”) submits the following enclosures:

1. The Green Bay Packer’s Proposed Stock Offering “No Action” Letter

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1hhv5dKkU2R9D81wZUYaH5wxWAE1...

2. A redline version of the Green Bay Packer’s Proposed Stock Offering “No Action” Letter

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ATCnecraourkjNx5FYPsXzPsoJe...

3. The Blockchain Stock Company’s Proposed Blockchain Stock Offering “No Action” Letter

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1XbUuDO-R1JUMh_BnHnSbcq5rRG5...

a. Exhibit A - The Blockchain Stock Company’s Certificate of Formation (Articles)

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1mrzY9mTXAqgXq-0SzevvYOmGCvK...

b. Exhibit B - The Blockchain Stock Company’s Operating Agreement

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1noePTMojVq-sw3UVMxSffAss1zX...

In addition, please find:

1. The Green Bay Packer’s Public Offering Document

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1yrfu1eTGiev8bOa_cnGiOPr3-YU...

2. A redline version of the Green Bay Packer’s Public Offering Document

https://drive.google.com/file/d/10J1-oGCKXmuK1WeUqdcNk0ntjy1...

3. The Blockchain Stock Company’s Public Offering Document

https://drive.google.com/file/d/12IC7oYYNzIcLp3uX1JJbumPY0Qe...

Thank you for your attention to this matter.

Sincerely,

THE BLOCKCHAIN STOCK COMPANY, LLC

By:/s/ AI

AI, Trustee of The Satoshi Nakamoto Trust Dated 31 October 2018, Operating Manager
GE Sells Most of Its Stake in Pivotal Software
Wow that was a very good, if scary, summary of the situation. Whenever my phone browser drags now I'll just say: "thanks CGN".
It’s easy to crap all over the publisher, but it sounds like there were a lot of opportunities to mitigate these issues throughout the process before they became a problem.

Sold half a million copies of the last book and didn’t bat an eye when the publisher mentioned the initial print run is under 20,000 copies? Come on.
The application lists the following benefits

- Rapid, passive disposal in the unlikely event of a failed spacecraft

- Self-cleaning debris environment in general

- Reduced fuel requirements and thruster wear

- Benign ionizing radiation environment

- Fewer NGSO operators affected by the SpaceX constellation

The first two are because there is more atmospheric drag. I believe that orbital debris in the case of a collision was something that SpaceX was struggling to mitigate (every struggles, but no one has put up this many satellites before).

The third is because originally the plan was to launch to a 400km orbit and then have the satellites lift themselves to a 1150km orbit. Now they intend to launch to a 300-350km orbit and lift themselves to 550km. They expect that the smaller amount of lifting will increase satellite lifetime by 50% even after accounting for atmospheric drag.

The fourth is apparently just "there's less radiation lower, and radiation is bad for electronics".

The fifth is just "less of the other theoretical internet constellations are at this height" as far as I can tell.

(All information sourced from the technical information attachment)
I grew up, 6 people (With frequent guests) in a ~800 sqft house.

Something like ~2500 sqft. sounds amazing to me, as long as it is all on one floor.
It depends a lot on where are you going to send your resume. In soma places they prefer a short 1 or 2 page resume. In other places you must include everything, even the public dance at the end of the year in kindergarten.
> It's not up to the company to protect civil rights through limiting the use of their product -- that's the job of the government.

People and companies have a responsibility to behave ethically, whether the law specifies that or not.
Broker Dealer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broker-dealer
If the intersectionalists had it their way, they'd ban Amazon from selling any and all services to all agencies and people whose politics they disagree with. They're yearning to stop serving Republicans and conservatives - almost 50% of the population.

That's OK, just as long as these intersectionalists are the first to go when revenue declines from their extremist philosophy stops supporting Amazon jobs. I think they should take their activism to it's logical conclusion and start cannibalizing both revenues and operations with their manufactured outrage and activism - only then will this reach fever pitch and force management to openly call this group's hypocrisy out.

We really need center of the aisle, common sense to be popular again in this country
I haven't looked since, but jemalloc I believe was a significant cost in this. Recently there was a change merged in to use the system allocator by default:

https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/9twam5/jemalloc_was_j...
> that you simply take whatever inference you've drawn and respond to that?

I rather explicitly did that in my first response, where I both set out what I inferred you were really concerned about and responded (in a speculative manner) directly to that inferred concern.

EDIT: to be absolutely clear—

Inference: “What you probably don't understand is really why is the penalty not immediate termination, or termination after a certain period of delinquency”

Response: “and I suspect it actually is [termination after a period of delinquency], and the downgrade in internal rating is the immediate and automatic consequence of delinquency”
I did mean 10% as non/binary, but my numbers were just notional. I should have been more clear.

I think, especially with improved technology, that 10% will be more common. Cynically thinking, it will be easier if there were some specific quota. Gender is probably the easiest protected class to change after religion, so it’s especially sensitive to outcome quotas.
"There are and always have been professions dominated by men and those dominated by women."

And a lot of that was caused by pervasive discrimination.
Best Buy has done it for as long as I remember
Also the domain was registered in 2012.

Probably a newsgroup dump in support of some spam or ad fraud scheme.

https://whois.icann.org/en/lookup?name=computer-programming-...