skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In Mormon culture it's understood to be something you can only do if you've had life experiences that should convey extraordinary faith. (IMO GP makes a bigger deal of this particular quirk of Mormon doctrine than is needed for the topic, fwiw.) Judas Iscariot is commonly referenced as an example of someone who as a disciple of Jesus should have believed in His divinity but betrayed Him. Most Mormons aren't concerned about accidentally committing an unpardonable sin, and most teaching in the Mormon church focuses on the idea that all sin is forgivable because of Jesus' atonement, with scant mention of the idea that there might be sins that could be unforgivable.

(Note that despite commenting on this thread and being a Mormon I'm hardly an examplary Mormon in a variety of ways. It's rare that a topic comes up on HN that I know much about though, so may as well contribute some info in the spirit of satisfying intellectual curiosity!)
If this article is to be believed, Microsoft does double that every year. I imagine many huge companies do. I realize it probably sounds weird, but Google just ain't that special.

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/05/16/how-to-land-a-job-at-microso...
I’m experimenting right now with how far I can simplify the abstractions, and writing my own thing in rust.

Since my use case is integration with gerrit, I poll the updated changes over ssh, and have the regex-based triggers which cause a “job” launches. Job consists of making a database entry and calling a shell script, then updating the entry upon completion. Since job is just a shell script it can kick off other jobs either serially or in parallel simply using gnu parallel :-)

And voting/review is again just a command so of course is also flexible and can be made much saner than what I had seen done with Jenkins.

So the “job manager” is really the OS - thus killing the “daemon” doesn’t affect the already running jobs - they will update the database as they finish.

The database is SQLite with a foreseen option for Postgres. (I have made diesel optionally work with both in another two year old project which successfully provisioned and managed the event network of about 500 switches)

Since I also didn’t want the HTTP daemon, the entire web interface is just monitoring, and is purely static files, regenerated upon changes.

Templating for HTML done via mustache (again also use it in the other project, very happy).

For fun I made (if enabled in config) the daemon reexec itself if mtime of config or the executable changes.

You can look at the current state of this thing at http://s5ci-dev.myvpp.net and the associated toy gerrit instance at http://testgerrit.myvpp.net

I am doing the first demo of this thing internally this week, and hopefully should be able to open source it.

It’s about 2000 LOC of Rust and compiles using stable.

Is this something that might be of use ?
Patches sucked, so Torvalds switched to BitKeeper and then wrote Git.

If my project uses Git, I can easily accept a patch. If someone happens to give me a patch against some old version that doesn't apply to HEAD, I can just "git reset --hard" the HEAD that version, apply the patch, and then rebase with "git rebase".

I would expect most people to be making patches out of their own git repo (using "git format-patch") anyway; they should be able to rebase first.
Unrelated, but as soon as I saw the domain name I got excited. This is indeed the same Douglas Self that has published a ton of interesting information on audio amplifiers. Really fascinating info all over his site, both about electronics and other random things (like the compressed-air power network)
> You can't simply take an average, or your speed isn't representative of what the service could do.

Why not? We're just comparing current satellite broadband offerings' known latency to what Starlink could potentially offer.
That is terrifying. Why do you want everyone tracked? Deaths are not somehow prevented by surveilance.
That's my experience to a tee, although I'm not particularly bothered by it since I don't use "coworking" as a means to socialize or network, though I know it's sold as a way to facilitate networking. If I need to network, I simply go to industry meetups on Meetup.com, which are free.

And yeah, a lot of the events these places have, while certainly well-intentioned, don't work that well in my experience. It's really not that easy to get to know people in these facilities since the expectation is that everyone be able to focus on what they are doing, so few feel comfortable striking up conversations with people they don't know. I'm sure it's regional to a degree, but that's my experience.

I currently use a coworking space because I've found no other suitable places to work, and will have to do so until I find a home with a room that can be my office. Once I move, I won't ever go back to coworking if I can avoid it. Well, maybe I would if it was $50 a month, but paying hundreds of dollars a month for a chair and WiFi is pretty excessive. Most of the perks offered by coworking spaces can be had elsewhere for much cheaper.
> I would imagine bluetooth would most likely be connected if you're the driver.

I would think the opposite. When I'm the passenger, I connect to Bluetooth so I can control the music and navigation. It makes no sense for the driver to do that.
You are correct, it’s more prevalent than I realized, but those people will most likely welcome Starlink with wide open arms.
Why Science Needs Philosophy
Could replace "medieval guild" with college and this would sound the same.
> The problem is that science agrees with it.

Not really. Science certainly agrees that there are differences between males and females. But if you can find me a peer reviewed article showing a causal relationship between sex and performance in a software engineering career, controlling for environmental and social factors, you'd be the first.

> Google preferentially hires high IQ people so it will be skewed towards men, all else being equal.

Note here you aren't arguing about performance, but about culture. But to throw a wrench in your argument, Google hires mostly college graduates, which as we all know, skew female. Sprinklinga wrong "ceteris paribus" into your line of thinking isn't conducive to interesting discussion.
I honestly think any control you cannot manipulate by touch alone, while keeping your eyes on the should be banned within the drivers reach.
>Also, in real life you won't encounter the right answer plus four decoy answers.

On the contrary, if you've ever looked for programming help on stack overflow you'll be quite familiar with the real life experience of being presented with a right answer and 4 or more decoys.
Because they hate the cable company, because some of them have outrageous amounts of money, because some of them would like to have a backup connection, and because they are crammed in tight so even if the takeup is only 1% they still will consume a lot.
Not usually. In my experience, they usually follow the typical popular datacenter areas e.g. East Coast/West Coast. I've mostly only seen really popular games offer Central locations like Dallas/Chicago. But it's getting a lot better now that vultr (COD uses them) and other VPS providers get more and more locations.
In our case it's a hardware h264 encoder in an embedded product, so our method wouldn't be any of any use for you in a more general case. We sussed out an undocumented debug api to get the chip to dma the motion vectors to a debug buffer, and then we can extract and use them. I think those apis are originally intended to be used if a customer is having issues with the product so that the vendor engineers can help troubleshoot.

We were originally looking at analyzing the h264 bitstream in software and getting the vectors out that way. Honestly I don't think that would be extraordinarily difficult, there's already code in ffmpeg to draw the motion vectors as arrows on the decoded frame, so that would be a good place to look if there aren't any preexisting apis or tools to extract them.

Good luck!
I dont know if I'd call it direct line of site, but low bandwidth directional microwave communication is definitely used over-the-horizon from say Chicago to London. This [1] Bloomberg article has a great rundown on microwave in finance.

Bandwidth is low, but latency beats fibre, and you can bounce microwave off the ionosphere between London and Chicago (and various other routes). This article doesn't mention the cross Atlantic transmissions, but it is possible, and does happen.

Disclosure: I have worked at several of the Chicago based firms mentioned in the linked Bloomberg article.

Edit: grammar, formatting.

I wasnt directly involved in any of the microwave networking, but ask me what you want and I'll answer to the best of my ability.

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2019-03-08/the-gazil...
Science behind the longest night’s (game of thrones) poor quality
How is that name squatting?
I first heard about this with plane automatic landing systems, where the planes would always touch down at the same spot on the tarmac. Randomization needed to be added to keep the tarmac from cracking for longer.
Does it? Nothing to do with that massive tech industry? Seattle is a socialist paradise I take it?

If you can get all the Google engineers to go on strike unless Mountain View agrees to build 50,000 homes, it will be done over night.
Offering a GPS-like service would require totally different hardware. Each GPS satellite has 4 atomic clocks. The StarLink satellites will basically be optical routers and their timekeeping needs can probably be handled by a cheap clock and NTP from the ground.
Maybe I was a jaded student, but I always thought of these questions as a game of answering what I know they want me to answer. These types of questions are obviously dumb, and they shouldn't be included in multiple-choice tests.
if anyone here thinks this stuff is super cool and wants to figure out how to solve internet for the public, by making it as cheap and as fast as possible, while private, please shoot me a note at james@communityphone.org (it's my life)
I hear you. But first thoughts: 1. Replacing family structures with free market alternatives means that one must be comfortably wealthy to be able to buy into it. 2. Perhaps this would mean that poly lifestyle is only suitable to a certain sector of the population 3. Perhaps this is why religion found its most viral vectors amongst the poor and disadvantaged as it offered a sort of moral support and hope towards ‘something better’ than strained existence (promise of heaven)in return for their faith in whatever organized religion. 4. That most people now identify as atheists makes me believe that we ahve indeed conquered most of the crushing poverty that was prevalent only half a century ago. I would ascribe it to capitalism. It seems to be a better route than communism which started with atheism but didn’t succeed as an economic system. 5. That marriage is not an attractive proposition in the USA is likely because there are more ‘empowered women these days than before. I don’t think it’s a tinder effect. Most women simply don’t want to be married and pop out kids. They are likely subscribing to serial monogamy than polyamory.

As mentioned, the above enumerated points are ‘first thoughts’...i want to ponder further to see if any of them contradict each other.

Re: the book. I can’t remember!! Somehow I feel like it is probably one by Leonard Shlain. I found his book Alphabet and the Goddess enthralling at one point and then binged on everything he wrote.

From his wiki page: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_Shlain

[..]His books include Art & Physics: Parallel Visions in Space, Time, and Light (1991),[3] The Alphabet Versus the Goddess: The Conflict Between Word and Image (1998),[4] and Sex, Time and Power: How Women's Sexuality Shaped Human Evolution (2003).[5][..]

I want to say it’s one of his for sure. It was beautifully written and I loved the words as much as the content. So I want to say that I am 90% sure it’s one of Shlain’s books!
Bitfinex says funds are not lost but have been, in fact, seized and safeguarded
Since the introduction of wheels I’m mostly happy with package distribution. In most professional projects we include wheels of all dependencies in the repository, which allows us to install everything without downloading any additional data (and this also ensures compromised packages will not automatically creep into our projects).

Good static typing is something I miss more and more in Python, though the tooling around this keeps improving.
This is true. I remember more dog’s names than people’s names from my old WeWork. On the other hand, they do claim dogs are man’s best friend so maybe WeWork needs to double down on the dogs.
Given that the newspapers at the founding of the republic were nakedly partisan and biased and the founders were well aware of it, yes, the first amendment protects journalists who produce biased bullshit.

You can only be prosecuted for slander and libel, and there is a high bar to prove it.
ah, thank you. I missed the forest for the trees.
Do you have kids and a family? My parents couldn’t move to a home within reasonable distance to their kids and grandkids.
As someone who has run a tiny ISP in a tiny town, I assure you “people” are much more knowledgeable than you assume. I was actually able to disable all monitoring systems, since I would get a phone call, immediately following any event that caused high latency, or any kind of internet disturbance. I learned that people who live in smaller rural towns are in some way much more dependent on the internet to provide things like entertainment, news, info, media, since there are fewer social events, theaters (etc, etc).
How can you say they're disrupting anyting? WeWork didn't invent coworking, they don't have a unique offering and I don't believe they have any competitive advantage beyond capital reserves.

I swapped coworking spaces purely because WeWork took it over - they're an incredibly obnoxious company, they're expensive and they've overexpanded. This is one IPO I wouldn't touch with a ten foot pole.
So she's a poor student. That's fine.
You say that, but you do not mention in what way?
That was in fact suggested unironically in addendum initialized "WS" at the end:

> We have all become very marker-prone, but shouldn't we nevertheless admit that, in the end, despite all we try to do, the most effective "marker" for any intruders will be a relatively limited amount of sickness and death caused by the radioactive waste? In other words, it is largely a self-correcting process if anyone intrudes without appropriate precautions, and it seems unlikely that intrusion on such buried waste would lead to large-scale disasters. An analysis of the likely number of deaths over 10,000 years due to inadvertent intrusion should be conducted. This cost should be weighted against that of the marker system.

I'm not convinced. I guess there are levels of radiation poisoning that have effects immediate enough to make it obvious from whence they came. There are also many levels which are not, but will still end or ruin lives.
EDIT: Sounds like this site's measurements for satellite internet are incorrect. Maybe HughesNet partners with fiber providers in some areas and therefore brings average speed down.

We could use objective reporting of internet speeds in finer detail. Any ideas?

Original comment:

--HughesNet's average latency is now 62ms, 58 ms jitter,--

https://broadbandnow.com/HughesNet-speed-test

--That's quite reasonable.--
The trailer looked interesting. I subscribed but I am reaching a limit in the number of hours a week I can spend watching video talks and reading research papers.
> will probably cost at least $6000

What is your source for that figure?

If it's military/aviation/naval phased array radar this is a very different use case. The targets are transceiving from well known locations, not maneuvering to reduce signature. The orbiting target is well above the horizon, not hidden in clutter. There are well defined frequency bands so high frequency agility is not necessary. There are no purpose built enemy jammers to overcome so extraordinary power levels or heroic filters aren't necessary. There are no afterburners or naval catapults to withstand.

About the worse case I know of with the bands involved in this system is rain fade or snow cover.

We already have MIMO beamforming transceivers at nearly disposable prices in the form of wifi routers. I think it's entirely feasible to develop a fixed function civilian phased array at a reasonable cost.

Anyhow, with any luck we'll know soon.
This massive diatribe is symbolic of Melville's inability to stick to the fucking point.
That's a good question. Part of the answer is that a properly run mailing list doesn't require subscription in order for you to post a question or a patch, and also keeps you in the loop (i.e. lets you receive the replies to your posting) by avoiding "reply-to header munging". The barrier of having to subscribe to lists is just a quick and lazy anti-spam measure that decreases usability for everyone.

So that is to say, mailing lists in their original inception didn't require "tracking" as a prerequisite for engagement. They were really just re-mailing robots: you write a message to a robot, and it sends it to others. Those others do "reply all", so that you receive the reply even though the robot doesn't have you in the list. The robot stays in the loop because it is CC'd, and so the list subscribers can track the discussion.

When I have some question, or want to report a bug, I don't actually want to track all of the activities in that project's mailing list. It is rude to expect that of me. And anyway, there are web archives of mailing lists!

All the mailing lists that I operate are in this classic open manner.
I first learned how to make a timed loop for animation in javascript in IE4 when DHTML was new. I'm sure it's a lot different now and I'd need an explanation too. Be happy he wants to know how the new way works. We used to just count to 1000 every loop iteration to slow things down...
Homebrew removing options is such a silly thing. Changes nothing in the end result, just makes things a more inconvenient.
On the other hand, it makes all works of art more personal and interesting when you read into them. Even if it's not what the author intended, it may be what makes the work enjoyable to you.

But I agree that forcing your interpretation on everyone else is pointless and often irritating.
That's a good analogy. It's really hard to "measure knowledge," and in my humble opinion, as someone who once was a teacher, tests are one of the hardest ways of doing so.
Yes, and investing in employees pays dividends.

Many businesses are poorly invested and put themselves at a disadvantage.
You don't have any contact info here or on github (or in whois). Feel free to DM me @ https://twitter.com/mrm or send me an email.
That's why I only ever play their games for free via emulation.
Key Learnings in Rust After 30k Lines of Code
We're focusing on mobile right now because finding a workspace is heavily dependent on where you are or where you need to be. We're a small scrappy team right now so we don't have the resources to build out a proper web experience that we'd be proud of. We'd love to build one in the future though!
Bloomberg are not the sole source here:

"Google owner Alphabet misses forecasts: Google's parent company, Alphabet, saw its shares drop in after-hours trading after the internet giant missed revenue forecasts"

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-48099862

"Alphabet revenue dented by cooling Google ad business"

https://www.ft.com/content/01c12de0-6aa2-11e9-a9a5-351eeaef6...

"Google parent's shares dive as YouTube changes, competition hurt revenue"

https://reuters.com/article/businessNews/idUSKCN1S521N
It looked really good for me
Kudos on writing a solid comprehensive article on mapping, the tooling available, and how to do it step by step. (GDAL and everything!) Not an easy task, and I found the format engaging. Great stuff.

It looks like the city of Chicago might be sitting on top of the Socrata API, which allows you to run a distinct - if you are visualizing counts for each tract (or averages and other types of calculations) it would save you the Digital Ocean resources to grab the API counts either on-the-fly or as static files for the tracts in Chicago and render them that way via Leaflet, but obviously this does not allow for quite as novel an analysis as PostGIS offers! (here's the API page that the City of Chicago links to from their page https://dev.socrata.com/docs/functions/#2.1,)
That is incorrect. Round trip is still 20k+ miles that is ping to ground station before it's sent to one of the sats. It will still be 600ms+
"Among...Included" (excludes the first, Wyoming).

Conflates populist and leftist radical. Throws in some insults as insurance /r/iamverysmart style hoping no one catches the switch.

Literally nothing in that post actually supports the point that leftist radicals are responsible for early women's suffrage in US states.

Not out of oomph. Out of patience. Adderall style google foo writing and people repeating the same thing over and over more stridently with no real backing isn't really of interest to me. If we can't be civil no need in discussing here anyway.
Consumers own their devices. You can't just assume everything a company puts into an agreement is legal, moral or enforceable. They're always trying to put one over their partners and consumers.
There is no such thing as average Indonesian though. Sure, around 50% of Indonesian population lives in Java Island (where Jakarta is) but I won't call people in Java "average Indonesian".

Keep in mind that Indonesia is a large archipelagic nation so wherever the capital is, chances are its "inaccessible" to the majority of Indonesians.
Ah! I've done this, from the other perspective. What happens is that the senior is asked to "lead the team" by their boss with two major failings:

* They don't tell them what they mean by lead and

* They don't tell the team that they have a new leader

Yet another example of just how bad telepathy is for communication, and we should probably stop trying to use it.

I would advise scheduling a short meeting with the 'real' manager and saying that you're having difficulty understanding how best to collaborate with XYZ. Mention that you don't know if XYZ has the mandate to override decisions made by manager and shit will be made clear _real_ fast to both of you.
Fuck you. I started a saying 'free reign' that means this. He adopted it.

Nobody cares about you and your horses.
How do you deal w/ tragedy of the commons type problems? Use to go to a hacker space to use machinery for a project and it seemed that the guys running it constantly complained about stuff not being put away properly all the time.

Another note...

I've recently thought a communal food hall would be pretty interesting where people who are trying to start their own restaurant, food truck, etc. could have some base infrastructure at a low cost so they could build out their product over a few months. I'm sure these probably exist.
That isn't what art is about though. If you feel there's symbolism to you, then that's that. It isn't anything objective, but the author consciously or unconsciously elicited something.
not if the m3 driver is asleep!
Zuul-ci.org had recently caught my eye, particularly because it fully supports heavy integration testing of multi-repo apps. It doesn't yet have support for bitbucket server though, which is sort of a deal breaker for me.
How long until the board removes him? This CEO is out of touch with reality.