skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There was just an article yesterday about the owners of 7-11 making a net income of $37K a year. Small business owners aren’t getting rich.

If you don’t think that businesses don’t “deserve” to exist if there business model can’t be profitable at “livable wages” that seems hypocritical to me since a lot of techies work for companies that only exist because of VC funding and if their company had to exist based solely on profitability they wouldn’t be working either.
My first internship was at a company that was doing this over a decade ago, but before machine learning had proliferated to adjacent fields. It's easy to separate out stationary signals like ambient noise, which are easily isolated in the frequency domain. But it's a totally different thing to remove something like a baby's cry, shuffling of papers, or other sharp transients. Blindly separating without a large corpus of inputs + machine learning techniques seems impossible.

I remember as intern spending hours in front of spectrograms manually deleting noise so that the researchers could get clean targets. Let me tell you, I started being able to identify a lot of phonemes just by visually examining waveforms.

Eventually, the company did pursue some noise cancellation, but only as one part of their offering. I don't think they ever could get the holy grail of separating non-stationary noise.
Now this actually raises an interesting question. Would you define a monopoly based on the service a platform offers, or the resulting combined services created by everyone utilizing the platform? One could argue that any service that allows you to upload and share video is a replacement for Youtube from the perspective of the platform's service. But you're auguring that unless another platform has a comparable amount of content, it is not a viable replacement.
Advanced Protection changes your relationship with the administrators (Google). But for GSuite the administrators are some other member of your organisation, so Google can't make a web page that changes that relationship.

If your company decides that the New York employee named "Steve Smith" and the London employee "Stephen Smith" are the same person, and either should be able to request account password reset for steve.smith@company.example, both of these chaps are going to have a bad time. Google can _tell_ them this is a terrible idea, but GSuite is a company product, so ultimately it's their terrible idea if that's what they want to do.

The _technical_ features of Advanced Protection seem to be mostly: Use FIDO Security Keys (U2F/ WebAuthn), disable stuff we know is useful but insecure. You can opt into those technical changes for your GSuite, either for everybody or a selected group e.g. "Company Security Nerds" or "Executive Level Employees" or "Everybody except Pamela. Damn it Pamela". But the non-technical feature is hard and probably just not replicable at all.
Which leads us back to square one, because to do that efficiently they need experience. If they can't tell a dumb feature request from their ass, they're part of the problem.
You need more than just any satellites to provide GPS. Each of them needs a very precise atomic clock (among other things I'm sure I'm not aware of).
> The police are always around on the streets, they don't have time to arrest people for just "drugs"

Meanwhile, my local police blotter is littered with "adolescent charged with drug possession/paraphernalia" reports.

> No jail for weed in a lot of places for a very long time.

There are plenty of fines, and if you can't pay them, you have the option of voluntarily or involuntarily spending time in jail over them.
Ever read the book of Revelation? It has a lot about an authoritarian government that forces people to put a mark on their hands; without which it's impossible to buy or sell anything. I doubt they would want the implantee to mess with it.
Plus a sales and applications team that apparently doesn't suck.

Don't underestimate that.
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People in power love to censor. When the religious right had the power, they tried hard to censor what they didn't like. Now it's the left that is in power and they are trying to censor what they don't like.

The fight for free speech is a neverending one because one side will always be in power. It's why the founders made it an inalienable right, not given to us by the government, but by "the creator".

Free speech isn't a privilege provided to us by the government. It is something we are born with.
I actually like the definition through "substitutable". Is it official in any way? Because if it is not, it should be.
Hi there. Sorry I'm a bit late, but Firefox definitely supports native messaging with their new WebExtensions architecture; the extension I use with my Estonian ID card uses native message to talk to a native component, which in turn talks to my card.
I really hope that web components take off, because I'm getting pretty tired of having to learn different ways of building components every damned year. Most components don't need blazing-fast rendering engines, the templating engine of the now, or even two-way bindings out of the box, and thus I'd like to use components that can live on their own but also be easily wrapped into whatever framework I'm using.

I'd like frameworks to be a lot closer to scaffolds, or actually be frameworks, as opposed to what most of them are now which is reimplementations of application units. The web components standard can help make it possible for tools to become interoperable between frameworks(okay, and view libraries), that would be wonderful.
I thought the monkey paw on that deal would be that the SBC comes with only a single USB-C port for all of its I/O, including power.
£160k/year won't allow you to even buy a family home within 1 hour distance to the office over 10 years that is around maximum you'd spend @ FAANG as a SWE. It's truly pointless to feel good about it even if it is considered "insane money" due to really low London engineering salaries (worse than Munich on average). For the same work you'd likely get 350k CHF in Zurich (and won't be able to buy apartment either as Swiss aren't selling).
They have an API: https://2hz.ai/api/index.html

You have to apply for it and it's apparently priced per minute. I applied and I'm waiting for pricing info.
Not on my network, since I ban dns rebinding
Getting acquired by Dialpad in 3, 2, 1..
User applied stylesheets are fairly uncommon, but then again, so is using a screen reader. Both are essentially a kind of accessibility tech, and when it comes to accessibility questions, the chief concern isn't necessarily whether everyone uses it.

It's probably worth noting that reader-mode -- another accessibility tech -- does seem to be fairly popular.
There are clear rules about using lethal force in the United States which are the same for police as anyone else. The major difference is police are required to engage in situations that necessitate it rather than required to retreat from them.

Unfortunately the SWATer knew exactly what to say to provide the requirements for lethal force. Jeopardy, (I will kill you), capability (I have a gun), and Imminence (I will shoot them when they come out.)

The police had reasonable cause to believe the call was legitimate. Any reasonable person would have believed the same, given the information they were given and training they have gone through. Just because the guy wasn't pointing a gun at them didn't mean he couldn't do so before they can react. If you have time you can see demos and videos of situations exactly like this one that end with police and innocent bystanders being killed.

The blame lies with the SWATer himself and the systems that failed to recognize that the call was bogus. We can't blame police for failing to recognize that this situation wasn't like the ten others that they or their coworkers responded to where the man was armed and the kids were dead.
Wouldn't it be easier to start with TLA+ / PlusCal? It offers higher level of abstraction and helps catch specification bugs.
PG&E bills literally include a line item for maintenance, beyond the basic costs. PG&E has repeatedly issued bonuses and comp packages funded by cash they received from that line item while not performing maintenance of their network.

This is exactly what happened last year (line that they weren't maintaining caused that fire), and when they blew up san bruno (when a gas line that had even been stated to need maintenance exploded and killed people).

If you can make a profit while doing all the required work, then fair play to you, but if you're turning a "profit" without performing all the maintenance your network requires, and then getting tax payer support whenever that goes wrong you are not running at a profit. You're a tax payer subsidized siphon, taking money from tax payers to fund bonuses and investors. If you can't run a profit without tax payer backup, you aren't profitable.
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The answer is probably yes, but it would be a side-effect since data transmission will be the primary purpose. Actually it may turn out to be pre-condition for getting the best throughput - i.e. knowing when and where the sats are and when your transmission window is to within a tight tolerance will be necessary and that's what you need for GPS.
> Think about switching your router every 10 minutes.

Cellular and WiFi AP roaming are solved problems. For SpaceX, this will be rather straightforward as the design specifies fixed ground stations that will handle negotiating/maintaining upstream connection(s).

> Or you get a rainy day and your signal clarity goes down.

That's more likely to be an issue, but having multiple satellites overhead, plus the fact that the constellation will be located in LEO (thus higher signal strength due to proximity) will help mitigate signal attenuation due to clouds/precipitation.
Yes, but your cell tower aren't moving around relative to each other. And in order to get the data rates that they need at the speed they need, the signals between the satellites will be more focused rf or laser communication. So all of the satellites have to constantly know which satellite is closest to them and how to point antennas and/or lasers.
This scares me a bit. The idea of having LEO internet is great and all, but the idea of quadrupling the number of functioning satellites, all operating in different orbits but at a similar altitude seems incredibly dangerous to me.

The article mentions the movie Gravity, which is a bit unrealistic as it portrays multiple large bodies in orbit all being at about the same altitude (which isn't the case in reality). That is not the case with this web of satellites. If a chain reaction of collisions does occur, it would cause a field of tiny, fast, deadly debris all orbiting on a similar orbital "plane". It would pretty much blanket the planet. Wouldn't this cause a large issue for anything attempting to reach orbit? What am I missing here?

EDIT: A lot of replies here mentioning the fact that LEO spacecraft decay more quickly than higher orbits. Please note that not all LEO orbits are low enough to guarantee a quick decay without powered retrograde thrust. Stuff can hang up there in LEO a long, long time depending on the actual altitude.
Which is why you're buying this one, right?
My knowledge of satellite internet is circa 2004 when I was in the desert of Iraq.

For the client premises equipment it's a hard problem but entirely solvable. Frequency hoping radios have been around a long time. Link bonding has been around a long time. Which satellites will be in view, where, and when is knowable. I think the harder part will be the backhaul... in space.

I'm curious if they'll use beam shaping antennas for CPE. Surely they won't ship antennas with moving parts right? Also I'm curious about the power requirements of the CPE.

Another problem will be security. This is a known problem with satellite uplinks. They basically spray everyone's traffic all over God's green Earth and if you listen in you used to be able to grab lots of data right out of the sky. These days it should all be encrypted, even then some of the encryption was easily cracked.
Thanks! I didn't know the term ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multilateration ).

I was thinking of WW2 radio pinging when I asked. I'm sort of imagining a software simulation that has real-time updates of sat positions - I assume more than 3 in any useful domain - that checks delay/ping against where the sats actually are.
The elements of good learning are still deliberate practice, good in-depth textbooks, working on real projects, practice, talking to experts and more practice.

If this tool, enhances some people's workflows doing the things above, it will be useful to them. If it distracts from or aims to replace the process, it will fail like so many learning apps, sites, MOOCs etc.
Well I am willing to help anyone with XS dump it.
Such an obvious answer that eluded me for some reason... Thanks for the suggestion.
Probably not many, I use a bunch of my own styles all over the place to change things I don't like.
I haven't read the book or really know much about Angela Duckworth's research. I just recall reading somewhere that much of her conclusions have been found to be incorrect. Quick search results from NPR: https://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2016/05/25/479172868/angela-...
Had to read to the bottom to get to the (really weak) "case against Quantum Computing":

> I believe that, appearances to the contrary, the quantum computing fervor is nearing its end. That’s because a few decades is the maximum lifetime of any big bubble in technology or science. After a certain period, too many unfulfilled promises have been made, and anyone who has been following the topic starts to get annoyed by further announcements of impending breakthroughs. What’s more, by that time all the tenured faculty positions in the field are already occupied. The proponents have grown older and less zealous, while the younger generation seeks something completely new and more likely to succeed.

I was really hoping for a real technical argument, not speculation about bubbles or politics in academia. (Especially given that most of the real research is done in industry.)
This video [0] really puts into perspective what SpaceX is trying to accomplish. Incredible stuff if they pull it off!

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=AdKNCBrkZQ4...
Why is everyone talking about startups? It sounds to me like this is talking about research. The problem with publicly funded science projects in Europe: Salaries/Hourly Rates are set at very low levels and the rulebooks make zero allowance for being able to pay better people more money.

Over the decades of doing this type of funding they've created a caste of technology workers who wouldn't even have jobs in technology if it weren't for the fact that they can go from one government-funded project to the next, where the quality of your work means little and the willingness to work for little money means everything. Every couple of years they slap a new label on what kind of technology it is that they want created, but the people doing the work stay the same people, and the output remains nonexistent because no one is even asking for any in a meaningful way.

Plus 3B over 6 years for such a huge economy isn't really an impressive sum of money at all.
Browsing from mobile so not easily able to poke around, hence pardon my ignorance, but what is meant by “software forge”? Is this common terminology? I haven’t heard it before. Initially I assumed this was some sort of web-based IDE, but I guess it’s more of a source control, continuous integration, devops, and deployment system? Is it like Github meets Jenkins meets Jira? It might be valuable to have a more clear overview message on the site.

Edit: The actual project homepage has a much better overview of what this is, sorry for my initial cluelessness. The more I look into it, the more impressive it looks, thanks for the great open source contribution!
It's anecdotal, but I've noticed this a lot in the years since I've graduated from a "top-ranked" school.

I worked on Wall Street after graduating from school and burned out very quickly. I had a very high estimation of my own ability and importance and a desire to accumulate visible markers of success. I saw this in my peers too.

I've been working through these feelings personally and now feel much more well adjusted and resilient, but it's not been an easy journey, and sometimes I feel like I'm working through the baggage of being a former "top-performer" in a world that's just too big to really care about me (or most anyone).

Happy to share specifics if it'd be helpful to anyone.
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With the AppStream, does that mean Software Collections is no longer needed?
I'm not sure what "fairly impervious" means but this article looks interesting:

“We know from the experience of the 2009 Victorian bushfires that some people did perish in what they thought were bushfire shelters that they’d built themselves. Whether it was secondary to a wine cellar or it was some sort of building container, shipping container, they died. And it wasn’t necessarily they died because of fire; they suffocated. The oxygen was extracted out of the bunker because it wasn’t air-tight or the heat essentially killed them.”

https://www.gatewaycontainersales.com.au/shipping-containers...
The radio spectrum is limited, and belongs to the people. Careful regulation ensures it remains usable. Likewise, regulating orbits is important. For example, to limit potential damage from space debris.
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How would the application know what's noises are being made in the environment around you?
Probably right. I think I might just be paying attention to it now looking for IBM-isms :)
It's a catch-all term for projects which fill the same niche as SourceForge, including GitHub, BitBucket, Gitlab, gogs & gitea, and so on.

>The more I look into it, the more impressive it looks, thanks for the great open source contribution!

I'm glad you like it :)
No. It's all about context. Thinking in such absolutes is a sign of low intelligence and empathy.
In some cases, maybe, I do think anti-Semitism is bipartisan. But I don't think it's the driving factor for either the left or right (in the US,) that's more of the fringe. I would be willing to bet most people who know of Soros and don't like him, have no clue he's jewish.
Is Soros supporting "global centralization?" Or is that more misinformation? Also that term is a bit vague for me, not sure I understand all the implications.
They have probably been to a school at some point though. This guy is on another level.
My fiance works for a major ISP in the US. She started in sales while we were living in NY, but I got a really good offer for a gamedev position in CA and we both moved across country. She transferred her position to be a dispatcher for techs, which came with a significant pay cut (no commission, similar hourly rate).

They have a well defined training/progression system where you study IT materials they provide, take a few in-person courses, and pass some tests in order to get a new title, more responsibilities, and a raise.

She's one of the fastest people to progress from 1 to 2 (~4 months), her manager is scheduling the in-person courses for 3 ahead of time.

There's an office closer to where we live that does support for business class customers, they're looking at maybe bending the rules on how long you have to wait between internal transfers since she'd probably be more valuable there and it would be closer to home.

If you take the path of hiring employees that you train, you should work with them and give them raises as they're trained to get them closer to market rate. A lot of them will want to stay. At least for long enough to recoup the cost of training them. Also consider how many of those people don't have the right qualifications on paper but could pick up the necessary skills quickly. They'd be underpaid for a while, offsetting the cost of the people who need more training or are slower to learn.

Tangentially related, my job gave me relocation for both of us. If I leave my job before a full year, I'll owe all of it back. It makes sense for relocation since that's generally money the company gives you up front (that counts as a bonus, and is taxed as such). The only way I can see this applied to training would be if the employer covered the cost of taking courses at a local college or something like that. If you have your own in-house training staff, I'd count it more as a benefit of the job than a conditional bonus.
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And at the risk of being down voted, weight loss: https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/weight-loss-breathing-de...
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Why do owners of airplanes need approval to fly? It's not like the air is owned by anyone?

Just because someone doesn't own something doesn't mean you can just launch stuff up there with no regard for other such things to be launched/already in the air. Things can and do collide, and the ramifications of that are actually much more dangerous when you don't have an atmosphere to pull the pieces down in the event of a collision.
There is OpenAPS, the Open Artificial Pancreas. They are connecting commercially available insulin pumps and glucose monitors with open source software to auto regulate blood sugar in folks with diabetes. https://openaps.org.

There are also folks making implants, LED lights and rfid tags and such. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grindhouse_Wetware
I would describe the difference in a much more simple way:

For the security of my Gmail account you need 1) password, 2) TOTP code, 3) an internet connection to Google

For the security of a physical place like my house, you need 1) key, and 2) physically be at my house. The being at my house part is more analogous to having an internet connection than another authentication factor.

The phone as a material object follows a threat model like my house. If someone has a copy of my fingerprint and is physically at my phone that's like having a copy of my house key and being at my house.

It's true that someone in China can't remotely break into my phone with the fingerprint, just like someone in China can't take a copy of my house key and steal my television.

So yes, there's security value in needing physical proximity, but I think it's a stretch to describe it a second authentication factor.

How the secure enclave and encryption works is immaterial to the fact that if I leave my phone sitting on my desk, you only need one thing to get to my data, and it's a fingerprint that for all I know someone pulled off of a Starbucks cup 10 years ago after I tossed it into a rest stop trash can, and my only option to avoid that is "disable the fingerprint scanner" because it's a single authentication factor that I physically cannot change, unlike a leaked password.

Anyway, I think we agree on how it works, we're just arguing over the semantics of how to describe it.
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> It would be great if sites had an option to remove reset support for your account permanently.

That falls apart pretty quick when you attach things like recurring billing to your account. Nobody is perfect and at some point somebody, somewhere is going to want to cancel that billing but not have access to their account and checked your "never reset this account" box.

How do you deal with that very real edge case? Especially since that edge case can easily escalate to a lawsuit depending on the account in question.
In the real world you can't usually separate diagnosis from treatment. The initial diagnosis may change depending on how the patient responds. And it's not always feasible to communicate the important nuances of a particular diagnosis from one doctor to another. Bungled transitions in care are one of the leading causes of harmful medical errors. Care continuity is important for patient safety.