skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I spent many hundreds on photocopies... not ones I made, but ones I had to buy at the uni bookstore if I wanted any chance of getting through the courses. Exactly as mandated.

When they sell this way instead of providing actual books I paid for, and still charge full text book prices, I can't not think this is all a big scam.

These piles of university-purchased photocopies I had to tote instead of the real books is a huge embarrassment. They would give real book if they weren't operating as govt-sanctioned versions of Pirate Bay.

Obviously even though I paid for books but got photocopies instead, the authors got ripped off along with me...

The fact that every year you can go to the uni bookstore and rummage through the used photocopy tomes always feels like such a bad omen as to what the program they are offering is really worth. Used photocopies with someone else's highlighter markings throughout for $60??? Sham.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19998908
"Starlink satellites are equipped with efficient ion thrusters powered by krypton that enable the satellites to orbit raise, maneuver in space, and deorbit at the end of their useful life. Starlink is the first krypton propelled spacecraft ever flown."
I don't do pills. When I did do things, long long ago in another galaxy, behind the statute of limitations veil, I don't recall people being very good about not doing things to excess. Also, I am told a constant issue with pills is dosage is deeply uncertain, hence the MDMA deaths issue at Australian festivals, and the pressure for pill testing.
The tariff on aluminum is from March 2018, not a week ago.

Assuming the merger in question is the acquisition of SABMiller, then the number of jobs eliminated was ~6,000[1]. That’s a merger of the two largest (at the time) brewers.

Either way, an industry spokesman isn’t going to throw out numbers from a single company.

1. https://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-ab-inbev-sabmille...
There is still GPS in leo. It can use more power than some smaller satellites can budget for is a reason it's not always used.
No Antarctica coverage? It could be useful for research stations there.
I don't really know a lot about D-wave to be honest. I defer to Scott Aaronson's posts [1] and to the opinion that the main criteria for success is "solve hard problems" as opposed to "solve hard problems with a quantum computer" [2].

[1]: https://scottaaronson.com/blog/?s=dwave

[2]: https://youtu.be/XbFoXT73xVQ?t=355
Sony sees smartphone business as indispensable, says CEO
Even if that would be the case and we use the long scale (million/milliard/billion) system, which I actually grew up with in Germany, a billion would be 10^12 and a septillion 10^42. It still doesn't add up.
Debian is looking for corporate sponsors for our annual conference:

https://debconf19.debconf.org/sponsors/become-a-sponsor/
SpaceX actually launched the first all-electric ion propulsion satellite, ABS-3A.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ABS-3A
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zI0Z68Yv5Ms
> nobody wants or uses native desktop apps anymore, so that's a big plus for React (either via Electron or just plain web app)

The customers I served during the last four years beg otherwise.

Like them there are plenty of European companies willing to pay for native desktop apps.

And I mean green field development, not maintenance.

Not everyone has business cases that can stuff into Web or mobile phones.
Interesting tidbit: the satellites were simply shoved out into space on the orbit they were already on without any effort to separate them or spread them out nicely along predefined orbits. It's funny how I imagined this whole thing as a giant orchestrated space ballet and instead it's more like throwing a handful of sand into the winds and wait to see where they end up.
I think there was an interview where they talked about aiming to get the cost of a base station down to ~$200 (some number of hundreds, think it was two). That was probably cost to SpaceX not an end user though, and it obviously doesn't include cost of service.
> No low latency system will be anonymous in the face of a global passive adversary.

That isn't true. The trivial system is the one where everyone has a broadcast transmitter and transmits constantly even when there isn't a real message.

The implementation of that over the internet is full mesh, which is impractical, but it's a spectrum trading off anonymity for bandwidth and there are potentially interesting points along that spectrum between Tor and full mesh, where they use more bandwidth but then a global passive adversary can't learn anything. Something like virtual circuit switching could potentially work for example.
Toyota Industries charges fuel-cell forklifts with solar hydrogen
I know what merge are for and how they work.

I’m skeptical of the number. Even half of 40,000 is a huge number for a company with ~170,000 employees, especially in manufacturing.
> the player still used a lot of bandwidth for whatever reason when playing only cached songs

Reporting listening statistics for royalty payouts.
Fun story containing a valuable lesson for developers thinking about going into consulting, especially for larger companies.
It can be legally prevented, although the enforcement mechanisms are murky. To the best of my knowledge they've never made a public claim either way.
This sentence reads like science fiction. I had to google “krypton ion thrusters” to make sure it wasn’t a joke. It seems it was not. Very cool.
Ask HN: Which websites do you use to explain your open source project?
I am interested in knowing which websites or tools are commonly used by the open source developers to explain their open source projects apart from GitHub pages?

Or if someone wants to explain a piece of code where do they usually write about it?

If you are given a chance to build such a platform what would be it like?
>Getting to the top of Everest is an impressive accomplishment.

It's not technically difficult, it doesn't require a particularly high level of fitness, it's just pointlessly dangerous. A substantial proportion of Everest climbers have negligible mountaineering experience and no real interest in the sport, they just want the bragging rights. You pay your money to an expedition company, you follow their instructions and they get you up to the death zone; whether you make it back to base camp is in the lap of the gods. About one in twenty people don't make it back. The only people I feel sorry for are the Sherpas.

This place is not a place of honor... no highly esteemed deed is commemorated here... nothing valued is here.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_who_died_climbi...
Most probably, to use Starlink, they would have to abide by local laws and regulation. So in the case of China, I don't think the connection would be any different from what you can find consumer ISPs today. Or Starlink simply skips China.
I don't know why this is discussed on reddit and not in court, tbh.
This is an amazing achievement. The pace at which SpaceX is doing things is nothing short of a miracle. Congratulations team SpaceX. I can only feel envy at the super cool engineering being done there.
Where do they get more krypton? Or they have limited fuel?
At least he didn't have to install Solaris on Sun executive's workstations.

http://www.art.net/~hopkins/Don/unix-haters/slowlaris/worst-...
Oh I so wish, but satellite communication is restricted (requires special license) in most countries. So this is still out of reach from the masses.
So, part of Musk's long-term play here has got to be, eventually, to include a Starlink terminal into every Tesla, right? Probably without even charging any subscription. You and your passengers get free broadband internet in the car, and Tesla get a high-bandwidth channel to every vehicle on the road, allowing them to stream live, high-fidelity telemetry data back to their HQ and push out software updates as and when they need to.
That makes me wonder if the signals from such satellites can be jammed by nation states.
> We see virtually nothing from the likes of spotify thanks to backroom deals selling us out.

Blame your publishers and companies you sell your rights to: Warner Music, Sony etc. They demand up to 70% of revenue from “the likes of Spotify” in royalties.
Japan's new supercomputer Fugaku to begin operations around 2021
It is mentioned within the article : Either they will be de-orbited by their own ion thrusters or they will fall on earth their own within a year to 5 years.
Has anybody published an analysis that clearly demonstrates AV1’s compression efficiency over HEVC?

I’ve seen claims of benefits, and analysis versus h.264, but not the clear evidence that HEVC is going to become obsolete.
Maybe this could be what I'd hoped Google Fiber would be. Any information on latency/bandwidth/cost yet?
x264 is really amazing because it has an amazing team of knowledgeable people who are personally interested in its success. x265 seems to be just some commercially run open source project and I'm not sure if it will ever make as good use of the spec as x264 does. For a time x265 was only about as good as x264 regarding subjective quality per bit.
Been doing it for six months and never seen any of this.

Obsessive people are gonna obsess, and some will be drawn to Crossfit, but I've seen nothing more obsessive about Crossfit than other sports I've participated in like tennis or hockey. And honestly I'm not sure any of them hold a candle to software development in terms of obsessiveness... never known anybody to exercise 60 hours a week, but I know a lot of coders and gamers who hunch over a keyboard for that long. (Including me)

> move to multi-level-marketing

I just go and work out and have no idea about the community around it (other than liking the folks at my gym) but I don't get the MLM jab here?

I've never heard of any kind of referral-based or MLM opportunity in crossfit.

> chronic injuries usually only seen in professional sports people

I can only share my own anecdotal experiences and that is that our gym's trainers are super focused on healthy techniques for weighted exercises. (And I might add, at least at our gym, you're never supposed to do them at anywhere near your max weight!)

Ultimately, a lot of athletes including me are making a reasoned choice. You can't really control a lot of things about your body, but you can definitely control your cardio fitness and your muscle mass to an extent. There are some risks involved with furthering your cardio and strength but also massive rewards.

> including one friend whos wife divorced him because he didnt share her love of CrossFit

Is her exercise routine really the cause here, or is it a symptom? This doesn't sound like the healthiest marriage.

I definitely understand that it can cause friction when one partner puts effort into healthier living and one doesn't. I've been on both sides of that coin. Right now my wife's taken the lead, I need to catch up.

I've watched friends die because they refused to be proactive about diet, health, and exercise in general. Never had a friend die from exercising yet. Although some of them really ought to talk a bit less about it if you ask me.
I have been posting a lot of SpaceX kudos lately, but they absolutely deserve it. I wonder if Tesla were private, away from the watering mouths of Wall Street greed, it could do a lot better.
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Because any UI code that requires performance should be async and lenghty work must be done outside the main thread.

So Microsoft learned how lazy devs are and how ignoring such advises contributed to bad perception of GUI apps, e.g. Swing, and forced everyone to code the right way.

It is relatively easy to turn async code into sync, if really required.
I’m not sure what you mean by “along something”? Do you just mean a standard by which to measure?

If you just mean that there needs to be a way of determining, in some cases, that one thing is “more intelligent” than another, then yes, that is necessary for “intelligence” to be a useful notion.

But we do have methods of doing that, so there is no problem there.

Note that the way we have of comparing intelligence needn’t be a linear order. It can be a partial order.
Limited fuel. Thing is that ion thrusters have very very high specific impulse so you get a lot of oomph from them, especially if all you are doing is LEO stationkeeping.
Japan to remodel Izumo-class carriers: Needed upgrade or mere show of force?
Plus, it also avoids interrupting all the others in the same office.
I repair DX7's for a hobby, it's interesting to see how clever devices from that era are. Time and again 'that's clever' hits me when I finally understand how some part of it works. They're incredibly sturdy too, one survived a fire, the outside was pretty grim but it still worked, and parts from that one helped to make a whole bunch of them whole again. I have it down to a pretty simple process now, the only tricky ones are mainboard failures and I still have one mainboard that I've spent multiple days on that I can't get back to life.

I'll make sure not to lick them.

BTW, Suzanne Ciani, mentioned in the article is definitely worth listening to.
> Also, since private sales are just that - private - how does the manufacturer know who the data is now about?

They'll know when you need to pay the bills for their spying network and because you are forced to go to them to get the car serviced.

A Tesla without Tesla dealerships is a brick. I'm super curious how much those used Teslas will be worth in 10 years time.

Also they can just check all that GPS data they're collecting.
Trump suggests using Huawei as a bargaining chip in US-China trade deal
AFAIK foreign satellite phone operators don't modify their service over China, but satellite phones are illegal to possess in China. I'd expect Starlink terminals would also be illegal to possess in China.
Most people probably won't buy the terminal outright, though, I expect? You'll just buy a Starlink subscription with a fixed initial term and they'll lease you the terminal as part of that.
Game of Thrones Fans Attacked by Malware at the End of the Season
The question is which is more expensive for the Chinese:

Build all components locally and not be able to sell to US market. Or buy some components from US and still not be able to sell to US while being forced to agree to some US demands.

Remember, the first one also give you the option to ignore patents and licensing fees because "hey your honor we asked but they didn't want our money".
I think it's multiple things. First, they don't want to piss off their allies, the UK and US, by voting against UK occupation. Second, they may themselves have similar territorial arrangements and are concerned that this sets a precedent for use of the International Court of Justice to delegitimize such possessions.
I think you might be underestimating what a "zip gun" can be.

Yeah, a "bang stick" is a couple of pieces of metal pipe with a nail for a firing pin. It works once with a 12ga shotgun shell - but a Sten SMG can be made from the same sort of materials, and is an effective SMG. They cost about $10 each to make in 1942.

Plans are dead simple to find: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=sten+plans&ia=images&iax=images

Here's a thread on another forum where a guy builds an AK receiver (which is much more difficult to get right) from a shovel: https://www.northeastshooters.com/xen/threads/diy-shovel-ak-...

Check out this 9mm machine pistol, produced by R9 Arms: https://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2015/08/11/mystery-9mm-m...

There's one problem with that - there is no such company as "R9 Arms". These things have been showing up all over Europe for the past few years, and they're definitely a "professional" product... made by a company that doesn't exist. The best guess is that they're being made somewhere in Croatia, but to my knowledge that's based only on the fact that several were seized there shortly after they appeared.

The fact is, it's easy to make a firearm. It's actually easier to make a full-auto firearm than it is to make a semi-auto - a semi-auto is effectively a full-auto with an extra design step to include a disconnector that prevents it from continuing to fire.
I imagine the same countries[0] that don't allow satellite phones won't allow Starlink.

[0] https://www.outfittersatellite.com/Countries-with-Satellite-...
Anyone else do a double take at the word 'Krypton' and question whether that only existed in the superman DC universe?
https://www.wired.com/2003/09/ecstasy-study-botched-retracte...
Broadband in car all over US and Canada. Yes please!
>A Google search seems to reveal that they were targeted by a patent troll in 2018 as well. Seems this company can’t get any slack from life.

Sounds like a case of ex-employee leaking their business processes(or lack thereof) to companies that can exploit the issues
This is true according to my observations. And really, nobody cares about "objective" quality (except for quick feedback during development, I guess). It has to look good.
Well, the website is actually pretty nice, maybe it's time for you to get a modern browser.
Or a boat.

When I can get cheap high-speed low-latency internet in the middle of the ocean then I'm buying a boat and going to sea.
I can understand that, for sure!
I didn’t realize krypton was a fuel source. I thought Elon put in an easter egg, only to be disappointed by my ignorance.
A company called Behringer are currently making modern ultra-cheap clones of as many vintage ultra-expensive vintage synthesizers as they can. Three models are complete and shipping, and there are rumoured to be another fifty or so in the pipeline - including the P5.
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Nasa officially orders its first segment of a lunar space station
Limited fuel, but ion thrusters are at least an order of magnitude more efficient (specific impulse) than the usual chemical propellants. The downside is low thrust, but these satellites can be patient when maneuvering between orbits.
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Strictly speaking, the star trackers don't provide any position information; what they provide is a very accurate measurement of the satellite's orientation. And yes, they're commonly used on satellites.
Could be useful underground and underwater, and on the Moon too!

It is not reasonable to increase program cost by 50% just to provide internet to 1000 people living in Antarctica, who already have satellite internet.
Good point, a lot of work really falls below the threshold where replication would still make sense.

However, I do think there is a lot of incremental, piecemeal type of work that over the years could amount to a decent step forward. It's just that currently, from looking at the code behind quite a few published papers, the statements often just cannot be trusted enough to actually build on these works. It is my view that some subsubfields in CS sustain themselves by avoiding the most pertinent questions, because their answers would reveal that the entire subsubfield has been superseded, or was never that promising to begin with. Unfortunately, that type of noise generation is actually more profitable than a single paper saying "nope", although the value of the latter in terms of knowledge generation is enormously high.
> Getting to the top of Everest is an impressive accomplishment.

It's certainly an expenditure of effort and resources, which ought to require a an impressive accomplishment to justify it, but tasks, however expensive and/or difficult, aren't accomplishments, only (at best) the cost paid for accomplishments.
It depends on how conspicuous the transmitter/receiver is. The authorities could just roll up and confiscate your antenna if such is easily visible and uncommon. Or deploy a jammer in your area. I think it would be about as safe as operating a pirate radio station.
Wow, amazingly well put. claps
So does this mean it is possible to hide a crime by making it classified, making it illegal for anyone to reveal that such a crime was committed?
I use to believe that Netflix or a similar service could be a serious competitor to piratebay and other torrent sites. But :

- they all have rolling and incomplete catalogs. Pretty often I want to watch a duo or trilogy of movies. Only one of them is available on netflix, or I start watching a serie and it gets removed from their catalog.

- I saw the Lord of the Rings on Netflix. I thought it would be great since I had only watched it once in a theater. But the version that was there was just Netflix's version. Not extended cut, not director commentaries, not bonuses. Just what Netflix gives you and that's it.

- Maybe that's just me, but most of the new Netflix produced content seems to be of lower quality than what was launching 2 or 3 years ago. It seems that Netflix is focusing a lot more on delivering tons of original content even it means having duds.

Bitorrent does not have these issues. Pretty much all the movies are there, in whatever language and cut I would like to see.
The irony is that I am ready to pay for a streaming service, even more than what I pay Netflix if necessary but still, while it might be more convenient to just push the netflix button on my remote, it just not up to the task compared to torrenting.
DX7s are far more likely to have traces of coke than LSD.
First of the breed: Inside the GFX 100 pre-production assembly line
MFC used to be cross platform (Windows / Mac OS System 7) during the early days.
I'm not convinced.

For an article talking about the magic of compression, comparing to uncompressed png makes a lot more sense than, say, starting your comparisons to something that's already compressed like jpeg.

That png is a much closer pedagogocal relation to the previously discussed "3D array of pixels, 2 in space and one in time" that he's building on.
Even so, the website is just static content basically (except the globe at the top that you can rotate) so requiring webgl for the entire website (or even JS) feels a bit too much. Could just have hidden the globe if webgl/js is not enabled.
>Thanks to the jobs boom, unemployment, once the central issue of political economy, has all but disappeared from the political landscape in many countries. It has been replaced by a series of complaints about the quality and direction of work. These are less tangible and harder to judge than employment statistics. The most important are that automation is destroying opportunities and that work, though plentiful, is low-quality and precarious. “Our jobs market is being turned into a sea of insecurity,” says Jeremy Corbyn, leader of Britain’s Labour Party.

From the article.

They do spend some time engaging this. However their rebuttal is insufficient to assuage, at least in this article.
Apple doesn't toot their privacy horn in countries like China for a reason
who gave you that impression - ofc there is GPS in orbit. it is just that the usual commercial GPS software refuses to deliver coordinates above a certain height or a certain speed.
this is ostensible to prevent GPS from being used in non American ICBM and cruise missile weapons.

the GPS birds are in a 20k km orbit and you should be able to use them just fine at lower orbits (starlink sats are planned to be in several fairly low orbit shells 320/550km).

I suspect you can even use GPS all the way out to say the moon if you are a bit creative. (catching GPS sats coming aroud the earth for positioning, or using a special dish antenna to get reflected GPS signals)
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What I don’t understand is how the Starlink satellites will connect to network clients. For instance, if you connect your phone to Starlink, does your phone have antennas powerful enough to propagate signal back into low earth orbit?? I can imagine satellites having powerful enough antennas/RF, but your cell phone?

Any RF nerds know if this is easy to do?
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