skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So no broadband in Greenland or northern Norway? If the graphics are accurate, Denmark gets high density coverage while north America is pretty sparse.

I look forward to seeing more details.
openAI + starlink = SKY NET

its unclear if elon wants to avoid an ai apocalypse or just get ahead of it.
Galaxy A70S to feature Samsung's monstrous 64 MP camera
> Safari already segments cookies

You said browsers in plural, though.

* >The user agent string does not provide as much information as people seem to believe.*

How much information do people seem to believe that it provides?

> Whitelists aren’t usable, and don’t work at scale.

I don't need it to "work at scale". I need to be able to turn blocking off occasionally. Also, "at scale" and "usable" are vague to the point of meaninglessness. Why aren't they usable? What scale does a whitelist need to work at that makes you say that it can't?

> Every study and survey has found that users value their privacy, but have been told (by advertisers and I assume you) that privacy is dead, or that they cannot have the internet without it. It is absolutely not something that just “power users” care about. It’s just power users are the only ones who currently get any.

That's my point exactly, because privacy isn't the browser vendors' top priority, nor are they generally doing "everything they can" to improve it. The standards don't even allow it.

> Finally, the attribution isn’t attributing to a specific user - the entropy is heavily limited, the reporting is time delayed by a random amount, and is made with a stateless session so there isn’t any way to directly tie it to a single specific user leaving just the IP address, which is now typically shared, and frequently changes.

"It's not so bad, really, for most users" is not the same thing as "browsers are doing everything they can to prevent user abuse."

Add, I don't know, User-Agent and Referer to the mix to more reliably track different sessions on the same address. My address doesn't change frequently. I'm on a temporary lease but when it expires I get the same IP again or at least have since I started my account. This is not uncommon for a broadband connection in my whole country.

If you consider tracking individual users' behavior for ads user abuse, let me remind you that one of the largest perpetrators of that are working on their own browser and regularly get a say in how the web works.
France has a few territories in a rather similar situation, and possibly the Netherlands as well.
They probably don't want to anger the UK because they might need their support in the future if the same kind of vote happens to them, but at the same time, if they support the UK, a lot of countries will remember it and it could swing the vote against them.

At this point the best game is not to play.

For Germany, I do not know as they do not have overseas territories as far as I know.
However, they are pretty keen on the UK staying in the EU, so that might be the reason.
It's an amusing story, I've seen this countless times as well. I think what finally sunk in for me was that if you're focused on saving money or efficiency on small projects then the upper limit of benefit to the company is less than the budget for the project. Instead if you focus on optimizing for the market, the profits can be unbounded essentially, and any wasted money to get to market is simply part of the learning process.

And if you're the contractor having to run around as the plans change, well just make sure you get paid enough :)
They covered this. It's isn't for cellphones. You need a pizza-sized receiver on the ground. (EDIT: typo)
Actually during the last 4 years, which I used to do consultancy on Windows native apps, all of the green field apps were either WPF or UWP.

The only exception was one that had to integrate with an existing Forms one.
Pretty cool, it doesn't even have to be fast to make a difference, even old modem speeds will allow for payments, messages etc. It would have made a big difference for these two girls [0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deaths_of_Kris_Kremers_and_Lis...
I guess they will maneuver to their respective orbits as soon as they separated enough to do so safely. But yes, there's something delightfully simple about just shoving the bunch of them out there and wait.
Not only is this technological amazing, hopefully it will provide competition to areas with monopolistic ISPs. More choices, lower prices, faster speeds!
That was quite the shaggy dog project. I'd say more, but it would spoil the disappointing ending.
Ever bothered using Blend?

Former Delphi / C++ Builder fanboy here.
I'm no expert, but I would think that the first customers will be the same people using the very expensive but low-latency terrestrial microwave links. Though now that I actually researched it, I don't know if Starlink will be able to beat 8.5ms round trip of this Chicago-NYC link.[0]

[0]https://www.zerohedge.com/news/chicago-new-york-and-back-85-...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4390997

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11043329
Krypton (from Ancient Greek: κρυπτός, romanized: kryptos "the hidden one") is a chemical element with the symbol Kr and atomic number 36. It is a member of group 18 (noble gases) elements. A colorless, odorless, tasteless noble gas, krypton occurs in trace amounts in the atmosphere and is often used with other rare gases in fluorescent lamps. With rare exceptions, krypton is chemically inert.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krypton
What would the actual latency be more or less for a consumer?
Here in Germany I knew basically no one who had an 8-bit Atari, it only became popular enough with the ST. And even then it led a bit of a pariah existence behind the Amiga, just like the Midgard RPG was behind the Dark Eye RPG (to keep with the 80s/90s nostalgia mood).
It's not a fuel, it's a propellent (simply put, solar electric is used to accelerate the Krypton out the end of the thrusters)
> not a digital synthesizer,

All original synths were analog
> Other than following the style of the project you're working on is there any reason to use a reference ever over say a const pointer?

One reason is to use overloaded operators. With pointers, adding two matrices which are arguments to a function would look like `( <star>a ) + ( <star>b )` (using asterisk makes the text italic); with references it's just `a+b`.

Another, stylistic, reason for which I use references is as a hint for two things: 1) the parameter is NOT optional (whenever you see a pointer parameter you wonder whether it can be null), and 2) that no ownership is transferred.

For these reasons, unless I actually need a pointer (e.g. optional parameter), I use references: less syntactic clutter at both call-site and use-site. With a decent IDE, it's easy to see how the parameter is passed.

> And member functions defaulting to const

That wouldn't fly and in many scenarios it wouldn't make sense because whether an operation is "const" is unclear. Like, you have a class representing a socket, and methods like read, write and close. None of the methods change the in-memory contents of the class (so, yes they're technically const), yet their behavior changes depending on the sequence in which they're called, e.g., calling close before write instead of the other way around (so no, they're not really const).
Herb Sutter has said again and again that his goal is to create a language that allows you to write less even though the committee is adding stuff. this fits with their goal of backwards compatibility. I don't see an issue
I'm sure the research stations already figured this out.
It reminds me of an op-ed about Imperfect Produce destroying local food coops. Their whole pitch to investors is they're environmentally friendly but in practice they are actually entrenching the agribusiness industry by competing with better alternatives:

https://newfoodeconomy.org/imperfect-produce-ugly-food-waste...

Startups need to make money, and it will always be way more profitable to sell software to those with power/money than those who are disadvantaged.
And given that Trump announced his desire for tariffs around those products even earlier, I expect the prices began rising in anticipation.
Which browser do you use?
Well, in the UK we have the people who long for the heyday of empire as well as the folk who treat skin tone as a sports team, and both groups are on the telly a lot more recently, though I don't think have actually increased in number. As an indication of the connotations, some people here may refer to Zimbabwe as Rhodesia as an indication that they support aparthied and some others may do it out of a misguided nostalgia for the days when we were in charge of stuff.
A lightweight deep learning framework made with love
It'll become the latter, orchestrated space ballet, once they get far enough to safely startup their ion engines.

https://youtu.be/riBaVeDTEWI?t=435
The krypton isn't being used as a chemical reactant, and in fact being largely chemically inert is a benefit for ion thrusters. I suspect they're using krypton instead of xenon due to the latter being more expensive, even though the higher atomic mass of xenon would be beneficial.
One day they could possibly teleop cars autonomously (streaming sensor data to servers through the starlink terminals, then processing and sending output data back to the cars through the starlink terminals). Obviously latency is a huge factor in this, but it could be possible.
Fossils in Burmese amber offer a view of dinosaur times–and an ethical minefield
Not to talk about Mellotrons
> There should be no consequences for carrying out criminal activity across borders due to matters of jurisdiction?

In China it's against the law to publicly criticise the government. Should the US extradite people to China to face the penalties for violating that law?
+1 for kitty, it is fast and lightweight and provides all the features I've wanted out of my terminal
Latency, being LEO, should be ~30ms, though it definitely depends on the number of satellites / coverage. Bandwidth can go up to a gigabit, but it's not clear how it'll be packaged and what the price will be.
I think they have limited fuel. According to the site, at the end of life, the satellites de-orbit. Maybe they will be recovered and recycled, too? Either way, the Starlink grid needs to be replenished with new satellites from time to time.
The Huawei Disaster Reveals Google’s Iron Grip on Android
The biggest failure in this whole debacle is Europe's. The evidence was that the US was massively spying on us, and not one nation (France, Germany, Netherlands) offered him amnesty.
That's cool, they're using solar-powered ion propulsion to compensate for the atmospheric drag inherent in low earth orbit.

So from a space debris standpoint, it's "walk away safe" in that a dead satellite can do nothing but fall into the atmosphere.
I'd imagine this is the sort of situation where Mauritius uses this embarrassing (for the UK and US) defeat to pressure the UK/US for a lucrative base hosting agreement. There's little value to Mauritius themselves in having a massive naval complex on an isolated island, their economy can't sustain the sort of military that would benefit from it. Their best use of it would likely be to reestablish sovereignty and then "rent" it to "great powers" like the US/UK, Russia, China, India, etc.
Yeah, last I remember, Netflix and Youtube alone use something like 50% of the internet's entire bandwidth. Video is pretty data heavy though so I'm sure there's a huge push to switch to something more efficient.
P2P could have totally transformed the industry if it had worked out a way to pay creators - especially niche creators and beginners.

It would have owned discovery, which would have badly damaged the big studios. And Netflix would probably have never happened.

It would have been a similar story in music.

But P2P was always about people who think a file is a file is a file, and creation costs are an externality, which can be ignored as irrelevant.

So now we have TPB limping along, and new creators are mostly owned by YT - which is legendary for draconian application of copyright in the favour of fellow corporates.
Why don't I see more discussion about ablation cascade, aka Kessler syndrome? That seems like a serious concern.
They won't be operating in China, as China will blow their satellites up if they open up service in China. Their govt cant imagine a world where people have access to non-state controlled media. What an Orwellian world we live in.
That is pretty awful. But you know, and maybe this is just me being too fatalistic due to what’s happening in my own professional life, but most of what we do is a waste of time in some sense.

Just shovel the shit, get paid, and move on. They want it changed? great, change it. They want a form that does something stupid, fine, build it. A lot of people spend their work day ringing up plastic crap that people don’t really need, or whatever. Which is to say it could be worse.

Of course part of what sucks about this story is that the author failed to do the “get paid” part correctly, but I’m speaking generally. I just can’t get too attached to outcomes anymore.
Vingette – Import Contact Photos Using Social Media
If he was paid by the hour it would be typical, perfectly reasonable contractor project.
Sounds like a good thing to add to Travis CI or some static analyses tool.
Ion thrusters are nothing new: they've been used in space for over 50 years.
That’s an R&D/lab question. Not a production device question.
The new signals are trains communicating their exact location with each other and a centralized control system, and determining their speed based on the train in front of them. The same kind of vehicle-to-vehicle communication that doesn't really exist in personal automobiles today, despite billions of dollars in investigations. You can't use LIDAR or anything used in commercial AVs, because trains are much heavier and take longer distances to come to a complete stop, and line of sight is not sufficient.

If a satisfactorily reliable solution for such a problem could be engineered on the cheap, a private company offering it for much less would make a fortune off of all the railways chomping at the bit to save billions of dollars. The fact that no such solution exists anywhere leads me to believe that it isn't trivial.
Google Allo maybe? It seems they have a trademark on that
Hosting-compose (or) the sad buyout of Webfaction
That joke was mildly funny when I first saw it five years ago. I’m not sure why you think Hacker News is the right place to regurgitate such a hackneyed, distracting and irrelevant joke.
Yes, they have thrusters and they will go from ~440km to ~550km orbit themselves

> Krypton ion thrusters activate in about 3 hours to raise orbit
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1131782570864066560

Lots of info here: https://www.reddit.com/r/spacex/comments/brfbic/rspacex_star...
He lied about using a condom, the rest was consensual. Realistically how heavy a penalty would he get for that in Sweden? I can't imagine he would have minded sitting out the few months vs getting extradited or living in an embassy.

He really believe Sweden would extradite him, imo.
They should fix their orbits shortly.
Registering trademarks etc. should be a part of the added value that an app store brings. Don't forget that they take a heavy 30% cut per sale.
I’m trying it now, thanks. It seemed a bit too much when I considered it once but I can see the appeal.
I'm convinced that Elon Musk and his whole agenda is to get off the planet before we destroy it. Tesla to buy himself time, SpaceX to get him a lift home.
You forgot to mention who stole the game. Maybe for some people it's not so important and stealing is just how they used to do things?
History in the making
It's also quite large. 12MB. Odd choices, given who I expect to be interested in satellite internet. But its just tech porn right now after all.
Or produce locally where possible to avoid that altogether. The risk is higher than then higher production costs in many cases. Its not nationalist drivel to support your own area when it is feasible.
Excellent idea! Bonus for frozen turds, yellow snow, and body parts.
Heap (over)use by the GC is effectively a scaling factor. How large the underlying objects are remains remains relevant: if your objects are twice the size necessary, the GC will "bloat" that further - and this tradeoff isn't entirely GC specific, other allocators such as those used to implement malloc/free have related tradeoffs to make; free() won't release memory to the OS either (and memory, released or not, may end up evicted from RAM anyhow).
Natural places don't seem like a scalable form of entertainment.
Software learns expert behaviors from demonstration
Fuck yes I'd pay for a drm free audio service. Any competitor of Spotify's that offers this would instantly get me as a customer - assuming, of course, they have a similar offering to Spotify. Spotify is already mediocre compared to Grooveshark and YouTube, it really shouldn't get worse than that.
They're low enough that junk simply can't stay aloft very long—one to five years is what they predict for a Starlink satellite with failed thrusters.
Thank you :D

Couldn't have written it better myself.

Maybe there is an minimal test case that could demonstrate deeper understanding. Sort of a fizz-buzz for AI, to separate the parrots from the thinkers so to speak. Food for thought. Meanwhile I am to busy on other grandiose plans to give it to much attention ATM.
VP9 outperforms H.264 on both objective and subjective metrics:

http://www.compression.ru/video/codec_comparison/hevc_2018/

http://www.compression.ru/video/codec_comparison/hevc_2018/#...

Their subjective testing methodology:

http://www.compression.ru/video/codec_comparison/hevc_2018/p...
I think starlink is aiming for latency on par with terrestrial solutions (e.g. sub 30 ms rt).
The obvious (though depressing) solution to this is DRM on the containers and dispensers.
> This reservoir contains so much ice that, if melted and brought to the surface, it would submerge the entire planet.

Wow. Unfortunately it's 2km down, but imagine if our only problem was that there was no land on Mars, the ocean planet!
Nothing illegal happened?

Genuine question is it not their IP not regardless of whether a patent was failed - atleast meaning ripping of assets / code would be illegal
You can search the CVE database, but it will give you a lot of vulnerabilities that were detected in apps on the platforms, and not only the platform itself.

https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvekey.cgi?keyword=android
As contractor I like jobs where I can basically recommend “Just don’t build this at all.” For example the young startup that wanted credit card payment and automation for essentially a two digit number of invoices per year for a target market where bank transfer would be much more common. Replaced with an excel sheet. Customer happy. I don’t want to build crap just for the money that’s in building crap. Let me actually add value.
> Crossfit (done properly) is leagues better for your overall health than weightlifting, running, bicycling, you name it.

Says who? Links, please.
Orbital is the form of wave function in atom, but here they are talking about free electrons confined in quantum dots.
Is your approach here to focus on the theoretical background or is it also to comment on feasibility on hardware in the next x years?
No, inefficient production and ignoring comparative advantages is bad regardless of what language you use to play it up.
a common misconception, OpenAI is not owned by Elon musk.
Interesting possibility. I don't think it would make sense for teleop to be the normal mode of operation, since it would consume a ton of bandwidth, but maybe they could use human teleoperators to handle occasional edges cases between "level 3" and "level 5" autonomy, in particular for the autonomous ride-sharing network.

They could colocate the teleoperators at Starlink ground stations to minimize latency, and prioritize teleop traffic.
I would counter most IOS vulns generalize across more devices, as iphones are a reletive monoculture compared to the huge array of android devices. So even ignoring popularity differences, numbers alone will not tell much about which is more secure for the end user. Some type of apples to aplles comparison, would indeed be interesting.
Being public isn't the primary problem for Tesla.

Tesla would do a lot better if they had a world-class industrial CEO like Alan Mulally or the equivalent running the show. Tesla needs their Gwynne Shotwell. Musk should focus on product, technology, evangelizing, etc. Tesla needs more Tim Cook right now, pushing manufacturing efficiencies and process perfection, than it needs a Steve Jobs running the show. There is no great reason Musk needs to be CEO of Tesla, his particular skill is elsewhere.
HLS and DASH, or any other protocol along their lines (like what youtube used long ago for own HTTP streaming) are still completely inferior to proper streaming protocol on latency and such. I'd say plain "seeking over http" with range requests does often work with lower latency than best HLS/DASH servers on SSDs.

A proper udp based streaming of course tears HLS to pieces
Everest should host Freezing Man and Iyce Festival.
To clarify: the judge was holding the devices, the lawyer was 10ft away:

> “Not at this distance your honor,” said Sullivan, who stood at a podium roughly ten feet away.

(I thought you meant the lawyer couldn't identify a tablet she was holding in her own hands)
With Hollywood accounting there is no way to proof this and well .. with all the shady things the movie industry and their cronies did over the years they kind of lost the "but you should trust us on this" position.
Maybe if we fixed it we could have a real discussion about what makes money and what doesn't.
126 members of the House support it:

https://www.thenation.com/article/voting-age-16-climate-stri...
Although the authors have designed hardware for this, I can imagine it being used by a language's VM (e.g. the JVM), making use of cache size-aware Zippads.
Here's one. See the "High Quality (AV1) Report":

http://www.compression.ru/video/codec_comparison/hevc_2018/

As for HEVC's obsolescence, Leonardo Chiariglione, founder and chairman of MPEG, thinks AV1 has the bigger future because HEVC's licensing is too messy:

http://blog.chiariglione.org/a-crisis-the-causes-and-a-solut...
I have seen people suggest that the "10 year challenge" was created to build an age-related training dataset. While the mannequin challenge was probably just spontaneous, I wonder if we will see an increasing number of viral challenges in the future that center around the creation of structured information.
So do you think it's OK for me as a white Englishman to consider a black person born in England to not truly be English?

What about for a German to consider Jews to be less German? Is that ok too? Its just their "culture" right?

Edit: I suggest you watch this exchange between a black Englishman Gary Young and the white supremacist Richard Spencer. It's nasty stuff right? Him telling the guy "you're not a real Englishman". Yet you have japanese friends who say exactly the same thing about non ethnically Japanese people and you think that's fine? How do you square that circle?

https://youtu.be/puJ-arJgkZU
Doesn't Work for Me
Their announcement is fake. My MacBook still workable but the keys have issues. They checked everything of my MacBook and tell me to fix other parts together (USD 4xx). They can't just fix a single key.
You may want to revisit VLC. It now has the option for you to run it with with minimal UI or even with no UI at all (just a video frame), and if you are brave enough you can also design a custom UI for it.

The only thing I really don't like about VLC is the traffic cone icon, but I get that's their brand so I have to live with it.