skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> First of all, could you give some concrete examples of the kinds of data people using this would be handling?

Planet operates imagery satellites, and as far as I know that's the bulk of commercial data _produced_ in orbit that needs to be downlinked. Other commercial services that
could include radar data (ICEYE, Capella), ship/plane monitoring (Spire, Iridium NEXT), or high-latency low-bandwidth data (think devices out in the field, on vehicles, with relatively light telemetry and/or control needs). Telecom is usually "bent pipe" (think dumb repeaters) and not any kind of store and forward setup that would use this.

In the future, I could see some broadening of the field with more tech demo/development that needs dedicated hardware, and the possibility of commercial experiments run in an automated orbiting lab downlinking data.

Of course, all of those also need what's called TT&C (Telemetry, Tracking, and Control) links, which I've nearly always seen on a separate physical radio. That tends to be a less demanding link, and more likely to be able to make use of something like this IMO.

> Could you give some ballpark numbers and breakdown of the costs involved?

Unfortunately, I very much cannot do more than point at what's already public; that's one thing Planet is very tight-lipped about. The idea that one spends about as much on launch as on the hardware they launch seems about right, you can go see what Rocketlab[1] and SpaceX[2] quote as prices. I'm sure you can imagine there's still a lot of negotiations once you're talking about big stickers.

Someone's already mentioned SatNOGS[3] further down in the comments. They seem neat although I haven't looked too much into them yet. Schools are spinning up a surprising number of satellite projects, and amateurs are already developing hardware, running tests, and practicing with radioing the hardware that's already up there. I'm sure it's not far from some pitching together on the group buy of a very small amount of launch space.

> Is there some secret cabal of millionaires and billionaires that are really into space?

Yes, but they're not so secret. Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Richard Branson, off the top of my head. DFJ and Data Collective are VCs that have been fairly interested, I'm sure there are more looking to get a piece now.

[1] http://www.rocketlabusa.com/book-my-launch/
[2] https://www.spacex.com/about/capabilities
[3] https://satnogs.org/
I work in the public sector. We operate more than 500 systems at the muniplacity where I work. Some are major, some are not. Some have support completely handled by the providers, some do not. Some are build in house, some are bought by local software companies and developed specifically for us others again are standard software.

What’s common among them is that they run on different technology.

So we have 500 different ways to do front-ends, middle-ware, back-ends and databases. So literally thousands of combinations.

We have 5 IT-operations staff to run and maintain it. They’re very good, but they are very good at specific things. Like one guy knows networking, another knows server infrastructure and user management, but only for Microsoft products because that’s our backbone.

But we’d like to run a JBOSS server on redhat, and we’d like to run some Django and Flask servers, and we’d like to have a PostgreSQL and a MongoDB for GIS, a MySQL for some of the cheap open source stuff and a MSSQL for most things. And so on.

Guess what makes that easy, docker for Windows. Our IT staff can’t support all those techs, but they can deploy and maintain containers and keep surveillance on them. Sure the content of the containers is up to the developers, but it’s infinitely easier to operate than having to support the infrastructure to do it without docker.

The same thing is less true in Azure or AWS where your cloud provider can act similarly to containers, with web-apps and serverless, but it’s still nice to keep things in containers in case you need to vacate the cloud for whatever reason.
With the extraordinary growth of China their might be some benefits to communism.
How much does it cost to run, from Programmers to Hardware infastructure for iMessages ( Free ), App Store ( Free ), iCloud 5GB per account ( Free )? I am betting less than $2B a year.

Apple gets $9 Billion from Google just for being default search engine.

And people continue to mix this "Services" Revenue from App Store as investment to Software, Garage Band, iWork, iOS Development etc.... They had been part of the product cost for YEARS before the 30% cut. Apple didn't need App Store revenue to continue developing OSX when iPhone didn't exist. It is what makes software as an industry so profitable in the first place, the cost of making the same software is the same regardless of 100 customer of 100 million customer. And now Apple has 800 million iPhone customers, or 250M customer every year.

I say this again, most developer aren't really concern with the 30% cut as it is, people not happy because they are not getting enough value from it. If Apple had offer additional developer services from that 30% cut it would have made them easier to swallow. Instead Apple is just happily collecting cash and do nothing.
An oft-repeated, and understandable, assumption in such research is that it's a 'tolerance' factor as opposed to some other, less anthropomorphically satisfying, and potentially unpalatable, variable. There is a dearth of research on the motivations behind the feline inclination towards literally biting the hand that feeds.

The violent and aggressive feline reproductive spectacle provides the uncomfortable theory that this 'tolerance' factor may actually be 'arousal'. Pitching this research topic has not yet yielded any funding; or at least any funding that didn't come with conditions with which the researchers felt they could comply.
Emacs Lisp is most certainly not a Scheme.
You need to read/speak their language to get the good research materials.
So how do you build consensus if everyone is responsible for hosting their own part?

Suppose I wanted a group activity. Who enforces any rules? What if someone deletes something?

How does a personal swarm recover from the same user making two conflicting edits? Is it just totally borked from then on?

And about consensus... how in Dat can I have the others deny an operation in the Dat, if it violates some rule? Like if I wanted to double-spend a token, for instance. A single, non divisible token, mind you.
Sellafield's owner is the NDA. Liquidating Sellafield would likely only end up with it being handed to... the NDA.
I vaguely remember he was talking about some known environments and languages that were defined by industry standards that they were using, but that I'd never heard about before (but not a common one like LabView, Max, PD, etc). I didn't get the impression they were developing the language themselves, just using it, and also interested in things people at Media Lab were doing along those lines.
"Stronzo!" will get you pretty far in Italy.
How so? Jenkins is just a job scheduler, it has lot's of options for scheduling and dispatching jobs.
Perhaps. And like salt in ancient times, there are luxuries of the rich that eventually, become less expensive and more accessible to people of more modest means. I can see that being the case for genetic engineering too. Consider that the first genome sequencing (the human genome project) cost around $2.7 billion dollars in the 90s (https://www.genome.gov/11006943/human-genome-project-complet...). These days, you can do a full sequenincing of your DNA (not like the 23andme style) for around $1,400 (https://www.genome.gov/11006943/human-genome-project-complet...).
2 downvotes in 45 minutes on a discussion that's at place 44 on page 2? Hah. Instead, actually answer. The top comment states:

> It's hard to trust a paper you've published on the impact of #MeToo when your department is literally rewarding the founders.

Which does raise the questions

> why would an engineer write a "paper on the impact of #MeToo" that anyone would need to "trust" purely on the engineering experience of the author?

and

> what would a paper on "the impact of metoo" by an engineer even look like

I didn't post that up top precisely because I didn't want to trigger silent downvotes. But some apparently can't even leave something that is at the bottom be. Well, if it's so horrible, let's actually hear it. Anyone who asks anyone to have a opinion on a thing, or downvotes someone for asking what that thing is, should at least have a mental model of said thing they can explain to others. So do that.
No, it's not. I in the UK the terms Parliament and Government are not at all interchangeable.

I'll see your link and raise you this one.

https://www.parliament.uk/about/how/role/parliament-governme...

"Parliament and the Government are different. They have different roles and do different things."
I ordered the op1 back in August and haven't received it yet. But I just picked up the opz last week and it's completely blown my mind, surpassed all my expectations by a considerable margin, and proven to be my go-to subway entertainment. I intend to listen to all these tracks at work tomorrow, If you have any more in an organized list somewhere I'd love to hear it. I've recently become completely obsessed with house and I can't get enough.
Hot Seat for Facebook, Empty Chair for Zuckerberg and Vows to Share Secret Files
It'll be interesting to see what the pricing numbers actually mean.

Say my app generates 1GB of logs per day. If I create a dashboard showing hits/errors for the last 24 hours and have the dashboard refreshing every 5 minutes it might cost me $1.44 per day (0.005 * 12 * 24).

By comparison list price for Sumo Logic is $90/month for 1GB/day of data (stored for 30 days) with queries being "free" (although there are limits to the number you can do).
> Bitcoin is piss poor cash

Agree, but I'm not promoting Bitcoin, I think it's poorly designed by someone who doesn't understand the properties of good money. Another crytpo with better properties will supersede it. It's the idea of crypto that's great, not the particular implementation of that idea called Bitcoin.

Once you know an trust a vendor, paying with cash will eventually be a few percent cheaper just as it often is as brick and mortar places sometimes when they offer cash discounts because they too don't like the fees the cards companies force on them.

It's not an either or scenario, it's a both scenario; you should have the option of cash or credit online, just like you do in the real world.
A Deep Dive into the Compromised NPM Package: event-stream
> I do see it as an outdated language, just one that doesn’t really have a good replacement yet

Thanks for the perspective beyond the typical binary "X is good" vs "X is not good".
You trade one regular issue boss with the biggest, baddest boss there ever is, the Free Markets.

It certainly lends credence to the saying that having to earn earn for a living is incremental indentured servitude, instead of buying your freedom outright, you pay for it in micro transactions and pay interest for the privilege.

It doesn’t matter who your immediate counterparty is, whether be it your boss or the board or the stock exchange, the ultimate counterparty is the market itself. Having a business I think just makes the transaction a little simpler, a little more obvious.
No, parliament is not the govenmnent. At least, in the UK when we say Government, we refer to the executive body (prime minister, cabinet etc.). In the US when you say government, you mean the whole thing. So your wanting to correct me stems from your using the US meaning of the word and me meaning the British one.
Voting on the Tangerine Edition (2 of 8) of R7RS-large begins!
Destructive Collection – 19 reasons we destroy things
Content apparently copied from

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I feel it isn't a big priority.
Production Servers run Linux, Docker prioritizes features for Production Servers.
We will probably see Docker being better in Windows than in Mac soon with Microsoft investment due to Azure. If I had to estimate I would say 90% of the servers are running Linux, 9.5% windows, 0.5% Mac.
Blockchain smart contracts use-cases and Real Life examples
I went the other way. I like it when my code doesn't look like a jumble of random letters with the least important words capitalized.
I probably have seen your work, so thank you. :)
I'm not suggesting moving the goalposts now. I'm just saying the whole thing was misconceived in the first place.

Cameron, when he called the referendum, never beleived it would go Leave. All the polls at that time said Remain would win easily. He believed it would be a clear Remain and we would all move on.
tldr: Site of a 1957 uranium fire at Windscale.

"Safe, clean, too cheap to meter." =>
"The estimated lifetime undiscounted cost of dealing with the Sellafield site increased to £67.5 billion." - WP

Not found anywhere: total, worldwide taxpayer funds spent or committed to subsidize and decommission.
it's also true for the xray/gamma ray/etc... observatories
I highly recommend Pimslers (at least Mandarin Chinese was good).
Yes, that used to be a common misconception in Korea until recently. It is completely false but such rumors can get viral very quickly. There are also many such misonceptions in the West. For instance, in the West, many people still believe that different areas of the tongues are used for different tastes (sweet, bitter,...).
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>That selection post excludes personally identifying information.

How would you select a candidate this way? A CV is a document comprised entirely of personally identifying information and potential sources of bias. Would you ask for the CV when you invite them to interview, and invite everyone who applies? You certainty couldn't ask for recommendations until after the interview as well.
We can agree that deciding major changes on a simple majority referendum is a foolish endeavour, and a recipe for division and bitterness.
Even the typos are ripped directly from

https://macpaw.com/how-to/fix-macos-mojave-problems
> Happy to help you achieve a similar setup.

Thanks, I might take you up on that. A dedicated GPU might be a step too far though.

What VM host software are you using?
We can control polluting vehicles by imposing a pollution charge, or even banning them from some roads. Or by limiting them to only one lane.

I was trying to think in an idealistic or "from first principles" way as opposed to the practical / realistic approach you took. From that point of view, I'd want all roads to be straight lines to minimise travel distance.
The way I'd describe Rust is, it's what C++ would have been if it used ML as a source of inspiration rather than Simula, and didn't care about preserving syntactic compatibility.

To unpack, this means that it's still a language that is very "close to the metal" in terms of lack of overhead, and broadly follows the don't-pay-for-what-you-don't-use C++ maxim. But at the same time, it's a very high-level language with lambdas and ADTs and destructuring.
That's not a "better solution", it's a workaround.
It is not communism. It is "socialism with Chinese characteristics" :) as Xi Jinping likes to remind everyone!
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Not if you do it more like hockey does it.
We used sit around and joke about the type of music that Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, etc would do with studio equipment from today, but without letting them hear anything produced with them. Would they create similar compositions just with new voices? Seems logical as that's what they "knew". Or would the new eventually end up completely changing styles with the capabilities of the new instruments. Yes, we'd conveniently ignore the fact most of this gear benefits from computers/sequences, but just a synth and the different sound devices. Here's some keys, knobs, buttons and flashy lights. Go to it!
Polychrome Woodblocks of Itō Jakuchū Birds
You can imagine an infinite set of negative consequences of practically any action --- your choice of breakfast cereal, via a chain of consequences, might cause the end of the world. Still, we make choices, because we have to terminate the chain of hypothetical situations at some point, using the heuristic that without a specific reason to believe that some effect happens, it doesn't.

With respect to the topic under discussion: absent any particular reason to suppose that this kind of gene editing causes your hypothetical wartime probability difference or your hypothetical 1% fertility drop, there's no reason to use the possibility of these effects to ban the treatment, since there's as much reason to believe you're making these things less likely as reason to believe that you're making these things more likely.

Regarding changes being advantages: do you really believe, deep down, that being weak is just as useful as being strong? That being resistant to disease is just as good as being vulnerable? That being dumb is just as good as being a genius? Give me a break: I can't seriously entertain the idea that we don't know which traits we'd want our children to have, given a choice.
School fire alarms and PA systems. It’s insane. Checkout the images in the below
https://i.stuff.co.nz/auckland/76557734/These-biker-gangs-ar...
It's enriching to see how needs are different for an organisation that's not building software, but using software to build something else.
Meet Silicon Valley's most unlikely venture capitalist
I never said "autarky" and I'm not sure where you came to that interpretation across comments. I'm for making hiring practices blind, and making similar progress for equality of opportunity across society.
Companies 'can sack workers for refusing to use fingerprint scanners'
I want parliament to do its job we elected them to do. I want it not to use referendums to make major far-reaching decisions on simple majorities. We elect representatives to govern on our behalf not ask us what to do with a referendum at every turn.
A delivered brand new $240k Ferrari requires a 25 hour detail to look new
Text ripped wholesale from

https://coinaio.com/china-cryptocurrency-mining-machines-rep...
> Conceptually fusion seems pretty simple: why in principle does harnessing it require super-human complexity?

All your useful materials melt at 2000 degrees.

The fusion takes place at 20000000 degrees.

Mystery solved.

(Yes I know these numbers are grossly oversimplified.)
Interestingly, Portland is roughly the same size as Helsinki and Washington, DC, but only has 10,000 city employees from what I can find (1), although there is probably much more incoming traffic into DC or Helsinki on a given day than Portland, which would require more city upkeep.

(1) https://www.portlandoregon.gov/oehr/article/595121
Given that presumably it includes a space down to a certain depth..

could one now confidently refer to it as a Hessoid?
In Praise of Quitting Your Job
Even free software does not care about the developers of free software. When did rms ever mention there well beeing or the well beeing of those who financially depend on them?
Building Serverless File Hosting Web Application (Front-End)
The attack could have been prevented by making use of CSP (Content Security Policy). This is a standard for specifying which URLs a webpage can communicate with and is specified via web server headers. Cordova even has its own mechanism for specifying which third party services can be contacted. However, the Copay application appears to have disabled this feature.
Los Alamos National Lab: "The Human Plutonium Injection Experiments". (1995; 233 pp.)
https://permalink.lanl.gov/object/tr?what=info:lanl-repo/lar...

DOE: "Human Radiation Experiments"
https://ehss.energy.gov/ohre/
> 1. Immersion is overrated

Well... That depends, I'd say. I'm learning Japanese, and my learning rate always spikes when I'm actually there, hearing and speaking the language all day every day.

On the other hand, most people I encounter in Japan don't try to switch languages because my Japanese, clumsy as it is, is still better than their English.
I'm happy about this roadmap and thankful to everything the React team has done.

I would love if MobX's computed-value expressions would become more natively integrated into React (or better yet into JavaScript itself). As a quickfix, it would be great if it were possible to use MobX with decorator syntax in create-react-app without ejecting, because MobX without decorator syntax gets a bit unwieldy.
I remember having a conversation with our AWS rep about 2 years ago during our quarterly feature request meeting. I remember asking for DynamoDB autoscaling and burst capacity; pretty happy they finally delivered.

Since then we've pretty much cut our DynamoDB bill in half and had a drastic reduction in throttled responses.
Hyperdex Warp - I'm not sure if it's still available - which purports to provide serializability over multi-key transactions. In the HyperDex model that means over all defined spaces in the cluster. That's a stronger guarantee than DynamoDB provides, which is still susceptible to phantom reads. The DynamoDB team ought to be aware of it, because it's one of the first hits for "multi-key transactions" and the paper is an important one for designing transactions on KVS.

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1509.07815.pdf
Communication skills are tested in the interview.