skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not sure where you got 116. Looks like the number is the same but they're relocating some.

"On March 29, 2018, the Commission authorized Space Exploration Holdings, LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (collectively, “SpaceX”), to construct, deploy, and operate a constellation of 4,425 non-geostationary orbit (“NGSO”)satellites using Ku- and Ka-band spectrum. With this application, SpaceX seeks to modify its license to reflect constellation design changes resulting from a rigorous, integrated, and iterative process that will accelerate the deployment of its satellites and services. Specifically, SpaceX proposes to relocate 1,584 satellites previously authorized to operate at an altitude of 1,150 km to an altitude of 550 km, and to make related changes to the operations of the satellites in this new lower shell of the constellation."
3/8 or 3.0.0.0/8 means the IP address range from 3.0.0.0 to 3.255.255.255 - this is 2^24 or 16.7M IP addresses.

Why does Amazon want it? - Amazon has a lot of customers who want EC2/ELB instances with their own IP addresses. IPv4 addresses are a scarce resource.

Why did GE have it? When the IPv4 address space was formed, various big US companies managed to get the initial IP address allocations. You can see more on these allocations here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_assigned_/8_IPv4_addre...

Why so many upvotes? It's relatively rare to see what is 1/255th of the IPv4 address space sold.
>Does no one realize that this claim is not based on any evidence whatsoever?

And yet it remains an interesting thought experiment, doesn't it? Didn't it work on Reddit, in which they found that driving hateful communities out raised the level of discourse? And a possible way to structure society. Hitler himself admitted that had the Nazis not been tolerated, they wouldn't have gained the foothold they did. Not only do I prefer Popper's claim, but I prefer the Frankfurt School's claim too[0]. Which, in my view, stands firmly in line with the democratic functions of society envisioned by such liberals as J.S. Mill for instance.

But it comes down to ideology; it is not a crime nor an intellectual failing to dismiss liberalism on ideological grounds.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18368318
https://leehamnews.com/2018/11/07/boeing-issues-737-operatio...
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Brand and marketing is important. Scooters have successfully been marketed and branded to look cool.

Even on their landing pages, those products look ridiculous. Convincing people in mass to ride around on those things is going to be hard.
Makes sense. I wonder if they also offered no fees (6,12,24 months) as a form of loan as well if that would be appealing to their customers. At the end of the term, you'd be responsible for paying back all the fees during the term plus interest.
How about banning all mandatory arbitration so that it is fair for everybody?
Do you know why are they doing this? Lower orbit is probably cheaper?
Exploratory work is extremely valuable, but less trustworthy ipso facto.
IP-Addresses and domain-names are only tangentially related. Just because you pay a fee per domain-name does not mean it's the same for network addresses.
Washington state has an excellent system where all ballots are on paper and are mailed in. It's not perfect, there was a gubernatorial election where they kept "recounting" and "finding" more ballots until the correct person won, but it's a lot harder to corrupt than those hackable electronic machines.
You also have to be 21 to buy JUUL...
> the pilots didn't exactly do the wrong thing

Wasn't the one pilot pulling back fully on the stick and not communicating that he was doing that? And weren't the pilots aware that they were in a stall scenario? Which means that pulling back fully was the exact wrong thing to do?

My impression is basically that it was almost entirely the fault of the pilot that was pulling back the whole time. Of course, it sounds like Airbus' controls could provide _a lot_ more feedback to pilots, especially when there are divergent inputs.
Both views could be correct: Taleb's point is that absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.

I haven't read Sapiens, and I hope Harari is correct, but I'm not tracking the second argument. Certain governments believe they can conquer minds, as evidenced by detention/propaganda camps and universal surveillance/scoring. If a government with this perspective successfully invaded another country, wouldn't they institute a similar program there and expect similar results?
Doesn't seem practical. It might be useful as a learning-framework for MPI / Supercomputer programming... but it wouldn't be a tool that I'd use personally.

A practical baseline for anyone interested in ARM-compute, would be the Thunder X CPU (Cloud rental: https://www.packet.com/cloud/servers/c1-large-arm/). 48-cores per socket, 2x for 96-core servers.

As another commenter said: the primary use of this NanoPi is the ability to emulate a "real" super-computer and really use MPI and such. MPI is a different architecture than a massive node (like a 96-core Thunder X ARM), and you need to practice a bit with it to become proficient.
25 years professional experience.
C/C++/Java/Python mostly in capital markets/trading.
Mostly remote.
USD1000/day.

If the project is FOSS, I'll take a steep cut on that.
Wow, I looked it up and you're right. Thanks for the info.

What's living in Hayward like?
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Haha no one using it means they can go ham on trying good designs as they are unbound by legacy reasons.
Well you already said it yourself. It is but a secondary goal. Those that do things worthwhile do it because it is worthwhile, however they understand that we live in a capitalist world where you don't eat if you don't profit.

Only the investors (or gamblers) are in it for money.

> This is literally the startup culture that resulted in the biggest corporations on the planet.

So you think having these corporations are good for us? These are simply big because it allowed gamblers to take a share in the pie. Once the actual people who truly want something worthwhile happen leaves, then we are left with Oracle or Balmer.

> Anarchism is an unworkable utopia that manifests itself as warlord-based tribal disaster akin to what is happening in Somalia and Afghanistan with warlords holding all power in a region, or El Salvador and Honduras with gangs and crime.

What do you really think Anarchism simply means chaos? It's like talking to this person then:

https://pics.me.me/i-dont-know-what-marxism-is-but-letmetell...

> What special credentials or expertise give him insight into work?

His credentials doesn't matter. What matters is what he said.
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The current state of things is not conducive to the continuation of our species. We should change some things.
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Okay, but… low bar and all that.
It mainly comes down to the software and algorithmic techniques.

I'm not convinced. The architecture of a computer, with its extremely fast CPU cores and its extreme bottleneck of a memory bus with a tiny cache set up in a hierarchy is radically different from the architecture of the human brain.

The brain is parallel on an unimaginably larger scale than anything we've ever built. The brain also doesn't put a wall between "storage" and "compute." I think there are tons of problems the brain solves easily with parallelism that would be bottlenecked by memory latency on a computer.
This is cool! But why test on this instead of using a virtual environment locally?
Thanks for the effort but unfortunately for me the page just says running and nothing ever happens, especially no output at all. Not even for the small example included by default.

But besides that I did not really want to make any claims and certainly nothing that could be easily addressed by a proof, I think. My point was more that one has to take care that the type of logic one uses has to fit together with the domain one wants to reason about with that logic. If in the domain you want to reason about the law of excluded middle does not hold or only does so in a non-straight forward way, then using a logic with law of excluded middle will at least be not as easy as it could be or even painful or in the worst case lead to wrong conclusions.
He does not maintain the postgresql planner. He's a PostgreSQL developer, but he has not focused on the planner for at least a decade.

Edit: Grammar.
I did gig work while homeless. I pulled that link off a site I own called pocketputer.com. From there, you can also find the San Diego Homeless Survival Guide and Street Life Solutions, two other sites of mine.

It will also link you to Write Pay, a quick intro to working for Textbroker. You do need a bank account and a PayPal account to make money via Textbroker, but you don't have to apply for gigs. Once you have an account, you select work from a pool of articles. It is possible to make a few hundred a week if you apply yourself. It's not glamorous, but if you need to eat, it can cover that.
VW plans to sell electric Tesla rival for less than $23K: source
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> The problem of "problems getting harder" is a continuous phenomenon. Why would that be the case suddenly after 2000, and not before?

Well, there was that whole dotcom boom and a lot of things changed for computers & the internet which led to researchers being able to share more information, use more powerful computer techniques, etc.
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The Snapdragon 835 is not the enabler here. A mid-range 5-year-old phone has 4 cores at 2+ GHz, more powerful than a 10-year-old computer. Even back then this was powerful enough to run plenty of desktop workloads. The thing that's enabling usage of phones as desktops is USB Type-C which is fast enough and versatile enough to carry video output and a USB singal while powering the phone.
I do lots of work on my phone thanks to Termux and a 60% bluetooth mechanical keyboard. It's one of my most essential apps on Android. Either using it directly or using it to SSH into servers, raspberry pis, etc.
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This was a fine imposed against the founder individually, not against EtherDelta, the company, which is owned by Asian investors.
Interesting.

So inciting panic online is fine but not in a theater ?
It's not a secret -- quite often they will tell you exactly why they're checking your receipt: to make sure "the checker didn't miss anything or overcharge" and "that you got your movie tickets/food/etc".
Practicing very slow landings, or power-assisted landings, would fall into this category. There's a wide range of marginally legal behavior such as low flight, back country flying, or even gliding, that might serve a stick-and-rudder pilot well yet if a concern is raised either because of an accident or because of an ATC or pedestrian concern would result in action on a pilot's license and subsequent additional explaining to airline HR.
It seems more likely more fundamental innovations are going to come from academia with a culture of seriousness and decades of work without returns.

On this side there is a strong tendency to be blinded by hype, underestimate problems or wish them away with naive desperation that things will just happen based more on hope than reality.

We saw that with the self driving crowd underestimating the problems and overestimating the existing technology, and now with the AI folks, who are already guilty of perpetuating hype knowing fully well that their extremely limited definition of 'AI' is nothing like what the world understands by AI.

All the privacy shenanigans, crypto disaster, self driving cars and AI leave the reputation of tech community in a very bad place.
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2011 is back! Meet the Motorola Atrix + Lapdock

https://www.cnet.com/news/how-does-the-motorola-atrix-4g-lap...
My comment is addressed at "Same goes for DNS. You used to request the name and it was yours. No yearly fees."
I don't know what ethnicity has to do with it either.

In the US, black skin is associated with the socially constructed term 'race'.

What I mean by this is that in the US, carrying guns has been something that whites do much more often than blacks. Historically, when blacks try to exercise their rights to carry weapons, as the Black Panthers did in the 1960s, white politicians passed laws to take those rights away, like the Mulford Act.

African-Americans surely know of events like the shooting of Philando Castile, who had a concealed weapon, informed the officer that he had a concealed weapon, and was shot by the officer who, IMO, was scared of the idea of a black man carrying a gun.

There are plenty of African-American farm workers - farmers for generations even. They must certainly have a "rural" mindset, by your definition.

How many of them fit into the category of the type of "extreme rural/suburban people [who] would be keeping their hand near a concealed weapon"? Knowing that if they are stopped by the police there is a much higher chance of harassment?

Quoting then governor Ronald Reagan, after the passing of the Mulford Act: "There’s no reason why on the street today a citizen should be carrying loaded weapons."
> That's why, in fairness to HN user wufufufu, we should point out that they do NOT control for the age of the female

The article is so poorly written that one can't tell whether they controlled for it or not.

The first, second and third paragraphs all list increased health problems or indicators of health problems without mentioning whether they control for the mother's age. The fifth paragraph gives some more figures (born a day earlier, weigh 20g less) which don't contradict the other paragraphs, and explicitly mentions controlling for the mother's age.

If they didn't control for the mother's age (a huge effect and hugely correlated with the father's age) the study should never have been published or reported on. If they did control for it and found such insignificant differences, it should have been published, but not reported on. For my faith in research, I'm left hoping they did find some large effects after controlling for the mother's age but the Guardian has failed to communicate that.
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Uniform in writing, though pronunciation shifts with casing.
Maybe I'm old fashioned but I just don't understand what's so difficult about typing in a password that warrants the facial recognition system.
Probably a good idea to change the title from "Gb" to "Gbit" to avoid ambiguity.
We've reverted the title from the submitted “SpaceX Files to Introduce Starlink with just 116 Satellites 550 km”.
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Cheaper how? I would assume with a lower orbit they experience more drag and deorbit faster meaning they need to be replaced more often.

Maybe using the ones in lower orbit to cover more densely populated locations?
It's back up again
Your question has so much baggage in so few words.

Your premise is that if the CDO’s role doesn’t include your vision of diversity it is “just skin deep”. Not everyone shares this premise, and focusing on this point also makes it sound like you dismiss all the other aspect his role could have (they’re just skin deep after all, right ?)

To get back to yor question, Google has offices all around the world, I find it hard to fault them for lack of diversity of experiences, nor do I think the thousands of people they employ all have the same ideas. I’d actually think it would be harder to find people all sharing all the same ideas.

Or do you have something a lot more specific in mind ?
The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled in favor of book resale, regardless of publisher's market segmentation.
Author here!

Alexey-Slyusar has ported my old Logo Adventure to LLOGO on ITS running on a PDP-10 emulator!

https://github.com/PDP-10/its/issues/1268#issuecomment-42793...

https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/42380964/46626903-...

Now that it’s running on a vastly more powerful computer than the C64 (like a PDP-10), it’s finally possible to add additional rooms and items, more magic, and maybe even a maze! ;)

Maybe even a Wumpus-like turtle that wanders from room to room and attacks you with its pen, which is mightier than your sword! ;)

Another thing that REALLY inspires me, which goes a hell of a lot further than NeWS ever did, and is one of the best uses of JavaScript I've ever seen, is the Snap! visual programming language!

https://snap.berkeley.edu

Snap! is a visual "blocks" programming language like Scratch, but with the full power of Scheme:
First class functions.

Visual lexical closures.

User defined blocks including control structures.

Macros and special forms.

Call with current continuation!

Written in JavaScript and easy to integrate with JavaScript libraries.

It's the culmination of years of work by Brian Harvey and Jens Mönig and other Smalltalk and education experts. It benefits from their experience and expert understanding about constructionist education, Smalltalk, Scratch, E-Toys, Lisp, Logo, Star Logo, and many other excellent systems.

Snap! takes the best ideas, then freshly and coherently synthesizes them into a visual programming language that kids can use, but is also satisfying to professional programmers, with all the power of Scheme (lexical closures, special forms, macros, continuations, user defined functions and control structures), but deeply integrating and leveraging the web browser and the internet (JavaScript primitives, everything is a first class object, dynamically loaded extensions, etc).

Here's an excellent mind-blowing example by Ken Kahn of what's possible: teaching kids AI programming by integrating Snap! with existing JavaScript libraries and cloud services like AI, machine learning, speech synthesis and recognition, Arduino programming, etc:

AI extensions of Snap! for the eCraft2Learn project

https://ecraft2learn.github.io/ai/

>The eCraft2Learn project is developing a set of extensions to the Snap! programming language to enable children (and non-expert programmers) to build AI programs. You can use all the AI blocks after importing this file into Snap! or Snap4Arduino. Or you can see examples of using these blocks inside this Snap! project.

https://github.com/ecraft2learn/ai

http://lntrg.education.ox.ac.uk/presentation-of-ai-cloud-ser...
Powell's, in Portland, OR, has an online arm.

https://www.powells.com

Local bookstores can typically order virtually anything.
They are there to catch theft, but a different kind of theft. The "I put three items in my shopping cart, and then my buddy, who is manning the cash register, only scanned one" kind of theft.

Insider attacks, essentially.
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https://github.com/PDP-10/its/issues/1268

Alexey-Slyusar commented on 9 Oct

I know that the Adventure game code is not fully functional. But it has
interesting functional programming elements.

Logo world has purely functional code examples such Albert Cuoco's
Investigations in Algebra (I read the book in short parts that available
from Google Books, but I believe that it is true for all book's code. I've
tried to get the whole book in hard copy but unsuccessful - international
book delivery in Amazon is just terrible). And some examples in Brian
Harvey's wonderful CSLS trilogy. (Which I am continuing to learn).

And am I right that the LISP LOGO implementation written in not fully
functional way?

SimHacker commented 29 days ago

There are several meaning of "functional", and the Adventure game might be a good way to help explain that.

One sense is simply that something works, and is not broken.

Another sense is that something manipulates functions, which it does.

A deeper sense is that it manipulates functions and data in a particularly constrained way, without side effects, using read-only data, which it doesn't.

It uses a mutable model of the world. The rooms and connections between them don't change, but you could add mud-like authoring and editing commands like "dig Room", "link Room Direction" to edit the room model.

You edit the item model when you drop or pick up an item, by mutating its room number.

Another aspect of the model is the player's room number, which you change by moving from room to room.

And yet another aspect of the model is the value of the pronoun "it", which gets set to the last item you said by name, because that name is actually bound to a function that sets "it" to the item name and returns the same item name. Nouns remember themselves in the global pronoun "it".

Side effects like changing global variables is not good functional oriented programming style, but it gets the job done. And the way it does it is by dynamically manipulating and defining and naming functions for each item.
But it's actually just a trick that lets us use the Logo top level interpreter conveniently without writing our own parser!

Logo lets you program in a mix of procedural and functional styles, and has its own parser that we can build on top of to define "Dungeon Domain Specific Languages".

Off the top of my head I can't think of a way to implement a purely functional adventure game!
But it might be like heaven, which is a place where nothing ever happens.
I've used Device42[0] in the past and found it pretty good for asset tracking. It can map software to hardware and manage software relationships. It's a datacenter manager first though. That said, it's been a couple of years since I used it and I hardly scratched the surface of it's capabilities. It was reasonably priced, IIR.

[0] https://www.device42.com/
Umm, not sure what social security has to do with this? Nor do I understand the condescension in your tone.

However,
> pay no taxes, vehicle license fees, parking fines

These all make perfect sense to me. How __else__ do you expect mail to be delivered even moderately efficiently?

> government monopoly

Only on first-class mail, first of all. Second of all, if you read tfa you'd realize that a mandate for maintaining a government-run post office is literally in the damn constitution. Are you also upset that there are government monopolies on the judiciary and declaring war?

edit: formatting
That depends on the provider and the database. For AWS Lambda with DynamoDB connection pooling is handled "behind the scenes", and you don't have to worry about it. AWS supports SQL databases as well, I would assume it also is pooled for you.

NOW currently doesn't have databases and tells you to use cloud DBs. So more than likely the connection is dropped when the lambda shuts down.

But if you'll let me go a little bit meta, the idea of serverless is that you shouldn't even be thinking about things like connection pooling. If you just use the databases that your provide supports those types of concerns are their concerns now, not yours.

In other words, if you want to pick your own tech stack then serverless is not for you (yet). If you're willing to surrender your opinions and just use what the platform provides you (if you're using AWS just use DynamoDB) then you can stop thinking about these problems and focus on your business logic.
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yeah but kdeconnect cannot become your desktop from your phone. Thats just not the same kind of use here.
Link or search term?
Good software should expose its interface, not implementation.

The implementation will shine through sometimes, or will be (easily) detectable via "side-channel attacks", e.g. an interface feature can be slow due to an implementation.

OTOH this allows to upgrade and entirely change the implementation without affecting the user interface, or at least while keeping it largely backwards-compatible.