skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Motorola solved this problem with its Iridium constellation back in the 90s.

Handoff between satellites isn't really that hard. Your phone knows where it is and what birds are overhead (and which are about to appear/disappear) so they can adjust automatically. Routing through the satellite constellation gets kind of hairy, but is also solvable via orbital mapping and some arcane routing algorithms.

The real trick is getting enough link margin with omni antennas to get good bandwidth. As fun as they would look, nobody wants a cell phone with a little cartoon satellite dish on top that whirls around to track birds passing overhead.
Cross-species analysis of the plurality of obesity epidemics
Isn‘t the summit of Chimborazo the farthest point from earths center?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chimborazo
Just compare it to the current German minister of defense, previously family and education minister, physician by education.
The thing is that in 2018, JS is a requirement. Yes developers could spend extra time adjusting for static vs dynamic content but there is a tradeoff to everything. In most cases, it is not worth tweaking the site to cater to audiences who turn off JS by default. You are just a small minority and not worth the time. It is all about trade-offs.
Most JavaScript frameworks load content just fine without JavaScript. For instance, React, Vue and Angular can all do this with server side rendering.

But it requires a bit of work to set up, and so some developers either can't figure it out or can't be bothered to try and figure it out, hence the JavaScript needed to render the page at all thing.
Yeah that has always seemed a bit jumbled to me. It's not clear to me why that point, 33,500 feet below the peak of Mauna Kea, is appropriate to use as a basis of measurement for the mountain. And why not a lower point? And why can that point not be used to measure the height of Mount Everest as well?

Anyway, I think what you're asking can usually be described by the concept of Topographic Prominence[1], one definition of which is "the height of the peak’s summit above the lowest contour line encircling it but containing no higher summit"

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topographic_prominence
New grads don't have the liberty of filtering out 85+% of companies that have shitty morals. The ones that are too small to be newsworthy likely wish they could do what facebook does and more.
It is their personal moral decision, you can't make it for them. I encourage everybody to try to align their values with their work. Capitalism is wrong that we are all just replaceable cogs that can be put to work on any capitalist's dreams.
I'd prefer to have a really small device, like something I'd leave on a physical keychain. I don't always take my phone with me when I step away from the desk.
Why would this be true? What if we, by luck, had 14 days of good weather at the end of monsoon season? Your observation seems to be a function of the probabilities changing as the calendar date advances and not a historical run of good weather in the past.
> If you don’t want to sometimes worry about forest fires, don’t build your house in the woods. It isn’t that complicated.

Bushfires in Australia have previously covered more than 10 million acres. Recently people in greek suburbs were literally driven into the sea. It is pretty complicated.
Well said, part of the research project is to evaluate how people use it, etc so it should serve to validate or disprove the hypothesis
For many jobs, the pay and working conditions really are a product of market forces. For other jobs, not so much.

For software jobs, and for jobs with garbage pay and which also suck, it's mostly true. People who can competently write software aren't that common, and there's tons of jobs and demand for them, so the pay goes up, and companies compete with each other for them by offering better pay, better perks, etc. Jobs which both suck and have horrible pay are that way because there's desperate people willing to do them, and because those jobs generally have a very low barrier to entry.

CEO jobs aren't very common, and are largely a factor of "who you know". Going to the right fraternity in college is more important than how competently you can run a company, so obviously it's not a merit-based job.

As for immigrants with medical degrees, here again there's a barrier to entry: you can't just immigrate here and get a medical license by taking a test; the industry actively limits how many licenses they allow.

>In western societies, no job should pay less than a living wage, no matter how enjoyable it is.

Software jobs that pay poorly DO pay "living wages"; they surely pay far better than any random horrible minimum-wage job. You're not going to get any sympathy from me about not getting paid "enough" for some software job that doesn't pay median pay, but is more "fun". If you want more money, go find a big-corporate job that's boring as hell but pays well. Nothing is stopping you.

For actual shitty jobs, this sounds good, but how do we enforce it, besides simply raising the minimum wage? And there is an argument to be made that raising the minimum wage will simply cause many of these jobs to go away (increasing unemployment), and also cause the prices of products and services to raise, increasing inflation so that poor peoples' purchasing power isn't any better than it was before.

IMO, what we really need is more automation, plus a Basic Income so that people forced out of work by the automation can still enjoy the fruits of society's success without having to toil in some pointless bullshit job, and perhaps use their free time and efforts to do something more productive (like start an innovative new business, write a best-selling book like Harry Potter's author, etc.). Automation is going to put more and more people out of work by rendering so many jobs obsolete, as machines can do them faster and more efficiently, and as a society we need to prepare for that. Remember, a century ago people thought that in the 2000s, we'd all be working 10 hours a week.
The argument that quantum computing relies on manipulating continuous variables with "near-infinite precision" is flatly incorrect, if my understanding of the threshold theorem is correct. So no, quantum computers do not require extreme amounts of precision or extremely low error rates because it is possible to correct errors by making the computer larger.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_threshold_theorem
I built it all from scratch, and I host it on dedicated machines colocated in Philadelphia, with backup facilities in SF. It's pricy for the current scale, but as it scales will become very price effective.
I coach soccer for my kids. The primary obstacle to players development is that they've never watched a game therefore you have to teach them everything.
Let's not overlook the role of psychopathic / sociopathic women driving men to suicide purposefully, like my step-sister did to her first husband, simply because they enjoy it.
Clearly it can't be that prestigious since they declined me :).

But seriously, while they probably are prestigious and cool right now, I do feel that there's enough hostility towards FB in the hacker community (and thus their supply of employees) that it might start forcing them to hire average-at-best engineers.
Theresa May's Irish trilemma
> "Consistent (aka stagnant) profit is like running a zombie startup. Very difficult to exit that."

I think you might have inadvertently adjusted - in a good way - the valuation lens. That is, it's not about valuation per se in the more traditional sense but valuation relative to exit / the ability to exit.

That is to the VCs, that's ultimately the goal / figure that matters. And their POV takes form of the public (to so speak) valuation. Put another way, it's not about the (broader) market per se, it's about the VC market.

That is, now $1.1B kinda makes sense.
there are so many ethical things you can use your brain on. first of all, you can start by not investing your talent/intelligence on advertisement. everybody knows ads are bad and they make making people suffer in many ways. we know so well that facebook, google et.al have no good intentions for the planet and are harvesting massive profits. ultra capitalist, maybe? we have many choices as humans, we can choose to organize, work for honest people and take a big shit on evil companies destroying our environment!
> Are they worse than google or amazon? What about people who work for Coca-Cola? What about the people who make mobile games and loot boxes for Blizzard?

The recent Times article indicates that they are dirtier than Google and Apple, so yes.
So very few of those web interfaces used by half the population of the planet actually utilize semantics, standard composition rules, and generic UIs - even though they're available.
How to Design a New Hardware Component
Fake article to promote a fake Bitcoin Cash version.
> What made them the most valuable company in the world was selling billions of phones, not their stance on privacy.

Can't just be that as others sell more billions of phones, right?

> I didn't say anything about maps.

You're right, I misread that part of your post.
Hey, this is pretty neat!

One quick bit of feedback: In the audit log, I noticed oauth tokens being issued even though I didn't recall granting any. I had a moment of pause worrying I was breached until I realized it was the various sr.ht services requesting the tokens. It would be cool if there was something to map the client ids to the names of the different services in the audit log.

Anyway, thanks for building this service. Like other's have already said, it's cool to see a useful dev-focused tool from within the community.
RIOT-OS 2018.10 Released
The guy they’re quoting sells SpaceX stock on the secondary market. Of course he’ll say it’s selling like hot cakes—it’s what he’s hired to sell.
Jaromir Jagr is 46 and still playing professional hockey (not in the NHL anymore though). He was famous for staying at the practice rink until everyone else left.
I tried it for a few companies I’ve worked with (including my own) and some of the logo suggestions shared similar concepts with the actual logos in use. Not bad.

Coming up with the concept is the hard part IMO. Making it pretty, once you have a sense of direction, is easy. What are you doing in your algorithm to come up with the concepts?
Transcendental meditation, and making it a daily habit. Changed my life.
If you can link the fall of democracy to misinformation being spread on their platform, genocide and mob murders, yes I’d say not all tech companies are that bad.
Uber Releases Ugly 3Q 2018 Results: Losses Widen to $1.1B, Growth Slows
Right, you would definitely want some oxygen candles if you were trying to hunker down and ride out a fire.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemical_oxygen_generator
I would imagine that it gets excerbated when people can't afford to have kids and are required to get a double income just to survive.
What do you think you'll be remembered for after you pass?
I got an auto-adjusting machine which was set to a fixed pressure by the medical provider. I had a difficult time tolerating it. I had to do a little research to figure out how to use the settings at which point, I made the machine auto-adjusting. It was a great deal more tolerable after that.
LOL, worth it for the title alone.
> There is just far too much space for 100k objects, let alone 10k to ever run the risk of collission.

No, there isn't. Satellites can and do collide despite the vast amount of space in a given orbit. It is improbable, but likely enough to warrant at least some concern.

> Why don't you hold that same fear for existing satelittes which typically operate at an orbit with far lower decay rate?

I do, as does the FCC. This is evident in the fact that they now require any body wishing to launch a spacecraft guarantee that the craft can be put into a graveyard orbit.

> Your comments just echo the same type of delusions of people who think in their brillance they've found problems others have not foreseen. SpaceX is really just full of amateurs you ought to submit your findings.

I'm genuinely sorry this post made you feel this way. If I already had the brilliance to answer this question as I'm sure many bright minds at SpaceX do, I would not have asked the question and rebutted the responses to begin with.
How much is hidden by the US drug epidemic?
The advantage of rocket science as a business is that there's a pretty big barrier to entry for anyone who wants to spend a lot of money to get in. Plus a lot of the rocket scientists who work for SpaceX (as opposed to ULA or Astrium) are there specifically because of the Mars colonization mission.
Which of the last 20 comment threads I started do you consider "ideological flamewar"? Many of them have been voted up. Quite a few of them are on technical topics. And why is my comment "flamewar" when the other 3 replies to that post all make similar points, but aren't?

This is a discussion thread about reasoning around controversial topics. I cited several examples of controversial topics where there is in fact either scientific consensus that is controversial or where there's a lack of consensus despite being presented as the opposite. That seems highly relevant to me - the fact that these topics of scientific exploration are unpopular is not sufficient to justify downvotes, let alone flagging or a finger-wagging.
I had a facebook page, maybe for 3 or 4 months in 2009.

Deleted it.

Freedom.
Data in the spotlight: improving scientific communication
Gee, I wonder if this has anything to do with the pay discrepancy between CEOs, investors and us wage slaves.
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There are a lot of people who interview at the big tech companies + a couple small impact oriented startups, but it's very rare for them to take the small impact oriented startups offer. It's hard to turn down 250k a year.
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This is a lame article, bordering on click-bait.

It is totally reasonable to predict a quantum computing winter, but all the supporting arguments here seem to be about how "hard-headed engineers" know best.

> So the number of continuous parameters describing the state of such a useful quantum computer at any given moment must be at least 2^1000, which is to say about 10^300. That’s a very big number indeed.

Yes this is the whole point: if it wasn't this big, we could just simulate it on a regular computer.

> To repeat: A useful quantum computer needs to process a set of continuous parameters that is larger than the number of subatomic particles in the observable universe.

Yep.

> it’s absolutely unimaginable how to keep errors under control for the 10^300 continuous parameters that must be processed by a useful quantum computer.

I do imagine it, every day. But I'm a professional, so maybe that doesn't count?

> How many physical qubits would be required for each logical qubit? No one really knows...

There are plenty of such estimates around. Obviously it depends on the noise rate of each qubit.

> all of the assumptions that theorists make about the preparation of qubits into a given state, the operation of the quantum gates, the reliability of the measurements, and so forth, cannot be fulfilled exactly. They can only be approached with some limited precision. So, the real question is: What precision is required? ... Amazingly, not only are there no clear answers to these crucial questions, but they were never even discussed!

There are boatloads of papers (and conferences) that discuss exactly this. Obviously it is a vital question to answer!
Are they rare, or do they just happen over longer timeframes than we want? Just about any mainstream technology today would appear to be too good to be true to someone ~100 years ago. Air travel, television, computers, phones.
Elon Musk’s SpaceX wins FCC approval to put 7,000 Internet satellites into orbit
Then you pull the printed backup codes out of your wallet.
Right what I'm confused about is that first bit, my understanding from the RFC is that the implementation should have look something like

return pbkdf2.derive(password, email, PBKDF2_ROUNDS, STRETCHED_PASS_LENGTH_BYTES)
.then((quickStretchedPW) => {
result.quickStretchedPW = quickStretchedPW;
// stretch to twice the length necessary
return hkdf(quickStretchedPW, kw('generated'), HKDF_SALT, HKDF_LENGTH * 2)
.then((generated) => {
// split output into two cryptographically strong keys
result.unwrapBkey = generated.slice(0, HKDF_LENGTH);
result.authPW = generated.slice(HKDF_LENGTH);
}
);
}
)

but my read in pseudo code of what they end up doing is closer to this:

hashed_password = hash(password, 'salt1')
hashed_auth_tok = hash(hashed_password, 'salt2')
hashed_unwrap_key = hash(hashed_password, 'salt3')

which seems secure because the server can't reverse hashed_unwrap_key to find hashed_password and thus shouldn't be able to calculate hashed_auth_tok. However the point of HKDF is to make multiple cryptographic keys while it looks like in practice we are just using it as a one way funciton.
> From a user perspective, Dat (and ZeroNet) maps to folders and filesystems much more coherently than IPFS does.

How so? Once you have the hash of a folder in IPFS you can access its files and subfolders using the classic slash notation.

Take for example my web page at /ipns/pablo.rauzy.name, the structure under that folder is exactly the same as it is on the classical web version of my web page, and is accessed in the same way.
I am German and I can definitely tell you that I am not living in socialism right now.
> This sophisticated procedure

evolutionary algorithms are anything but sophisticated. i love them, but sophisticated they are not.
reader is not the culprit. The website translating the content for free could have its own good/bad intents.
Moving goal posts here? I thought we were speaking about C.

Yes Rust is great and all, sometimes getting people half-way is better than not at all.
Thanks! I should hide internal oauth tokens from the audit log. I'm glad you like sr.ht!
Wrong. You're conflating crisis care with on-going care. Crisis care maybe free, but on-going care is definitely expensive in the US. Crisis care is no substitute for on-going care because it's a bandaid.
Why Is New York Paying Amazon More Than Virginia?
That's what the article says.
Perhaps not, but the point being that money doesn't matter if you commit suicide.
LeBron James has a similar ability to recall plays, http://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/11067098/lebron-james-gre...
Mark Zuckerberg: It's 'simply untrue' Facebook hindered Russia investigation
Nah, can't be! A rising tide floats all boats, doncha know?
Athletes are performing difficult, demanding physical and mental tasks, in a team environment, and without a "safety net". Programmers are not performers, and we have a huge set of safety nets, but we can still learn focus, how to stay cool under pressure, and how to reach 'flow' from athletes. Exercises like Yoga and Tai Chi stress the mind body connection more explicitly than the NFL, but it's there in every sport.
I think it's a positive, but I also question what the point is.

What I'd like, is a better IDE, not an IDE that can provide features I've had for 30 years, for 30 different languages, in a consistent manner.

I dont' want 30 languages, and 1 basic lowest common denominator ide. I want 2-3 languages, and excellent ides that push the boundaries of the unique features of each language.
Out of curiosity, why does one deserve this? What universal truth is behind it?

I understand that the question might be unpopular, but think about it. Suicide is well within the realm of self-determination. If a person decides, "I'm done.", why should we not allow that, or, seek to prevent it? We might say, "It causes harm to the family." So does divorce, but our society is practically giddy about out growing spouses as a sign of maturity and knowing ourselves better.

"It's so final for a temporary condition.", might be your next line. Is it temporary? Let's say you have actual depression. Not mild depression, but major, chronic depression. That's not temporary. Drugs don't appear to work. If they do, they're masking the problem. Stop them, I mean wean yourself off them, and you're back to being depressed. Why not allow people to end it?

To loop this back to the original question, why does one deserve, where deserve sounds like a right, to be happy? When did the Universe declare that? When did we vote on that? Ultimately this idea seems to be only emotive with no thought about the human condition and ability to make our own choices.
>The most important part is the first sentence as this is often the only part that drives your buy/leave in the store decision.

I usually sample books from the middle. I wonder what the heatmap of bookstore reading really looks like?
There's no question that three measurements of some property of an object are three data points. I vaguely recall that my first physics lab experiment was measuring something with a ruler.
Good question. I think the sea change will come when there are cheap and widely available sleep monitors which include continuous pulse oximetry. We're close, but not quite there yet.
Today's weather affect's tomorrows. They are not independent variables.
I took it as OP being modest and not wanting to sound holier-than-thou.
The real trick is getting enough link margin with omni antennas to get good bandwidth.

What about phased arrays?

Also, why not have a completely different scale of ISPs? How about something the size of a soda vending machine or something the size of a suitcase which contains all the hardware for a very small scale internet service provider?
Which center? The centroid of the spheroid that is the earth (i.e. the point that's as close to equidistant from all points as possible)? The center of mass? The gravitational center (I think this would be the same as the center of mass, but i'm not positive)?

I'd be curious how the different centers change the results.
Try book "Mastery" by George Leonard.

https://jamesclear.com/book-summaries/mastery
The point is that these peoples in the article have leverage. Companies are competing for them not the other way around, so it's natural for them to consider ethics because it will not affect their standard of living.

If I have the choice between working for Palantir or Facebook, I choose Facebook. If have to choose to between Facebook and Apple I choose Apple. Whatever I choose I will still live extremely comfortably. And yes not all those companies have an equally bad impact on society.

In both of your examples it's fair to say that you (or CS grads in Denmark) probably don't have that kind of leverage, because this is not the Silicon Valley.
If you have to choose between working for FB at 150k$/year or public service for a third of that, then yes, choosing ethics has a big negative impacts on your life and it's hard to blame anyone for choosing FB.

They don't have this problem.
How sad for you. My judgment at age 18 was perfectly fine, thanks.

By point of comparison, at age 23 Horatio Nelson was the captain of a warship and responsible for leading hundreds of men in combat. Nowadays we're way too tolerant of young people who refuse to grow up and accept the consequences of their actions.
This link of yours links suicide rate to social welfare spending, this is unlikely given that France, Finland and Belgium and specially Japan offer free healthcare and have much higher suicide rates. In fact, if you take out suicide by gun in the US, you get much lower suicide rates and it is a fact that guns make suicide easier and more likely.
I've witnessed this first hand. After having a sleep study and finding that I have mild OSA my ENT suggested removing my tonsils, uvula, and part of my palate to open up my airway. I told him that sounded like the nuclear option and he seemed somewhat surprised by that conclusion.

He also suggested palate coblation, which seemed more reasonable. I chose to forgo both of those procedures and eventually ended up with a mandibular advancement device from a TMJ specialist, which has made a huge difference.