skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sydney-Melbourne-Brisbane, even. Between those three, there's over 2,000 flights a week. The land issues are also easier than in most places.

Ultimately though, these routes are pretty well serviced by flights. These trains are pretty amazing, but not cheaper or faster than flights.
Just buy some FB stocks to be safe.
This is how you get billion+ defense contracts. Because Intelligence Services always get what they want regardless of the price and we pay for it.
I always had both of those things (and a coach).

My personal injury was a pinched sciatic nerve brought on by a session of improper deadlifting. I made the mistake of rushing through a workout near when I was lifting my heaviest. Took about 3 months for the pain to go away.
which ended with Microsoft running to give them windows source for inspection.

redflagOS was a huge success when you see the goals and few resources invested.
Doctored videos shared to make Pelosi sound drunk viewed millions of times
Getting lots of exercise always seems to fix this for me.
There was no Huawei disaster... it was all FUD for Trump's triumphant trade war. As Trump shows his hand, the world now can see that the real disaster is US hegemony:

https://edition.cnn.com/2019/05/24/tech/donald-trump-huawei-...
Chroma subsampling is a natural way to leverage the information content produced by Bayer filters in most cameras.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayer_filter
It's a flat box the size of a pizza box.
If you have a building with a flat roof it should be pretty much undetectable visually.
I always hear my German colleagues complain about DB but having taken UK trains for a few years I can’t fault DB.
I think one big issue is that professors certainly don't care to explain how a certain building-block really affects something in the real world. For e.g. as Joel explains, how having all rows in a DB as fixed length dramatically improves performance vis-a-vis XML (because .. you know CPU operations :-) ) really will get students think through the strategy of "Oooo!Shiny! Let me use this" prevalent in lots of companies.
The Tele-Lens in the device actually has 3x zoom only.
10x Zoom is achieved by using software algorithms combining data from a cropped main-camera image and the zoom camera.
Such periscope camera-modules are quite popular among chinese device-vendors these days, you can find the same on a few devices from there this year (i.e. Oppo Reno, Vivo).
That would only be 100% accurate if the government approved ID was perfectly secure, and no one ever leaked databases of those personal details. Tens of millions of passport and social security numbers are already out in the wild.
Berlin is a nice city, with still more disposable income for devs than the rest of Europe.

just saying
Cool, I think that does answer my question.

You do both, but the feasibility part is in the form of hardware assumptions that don't comment on the current or future state of hardware.
I mean what's to prevent me putting up ads that I say aren't political, but are? By the time they've been reported and taken down it's already too late?
Also note, that today's 21-46 million is active, while the 12.5 million was over hundreds of years.
I meant do you have a source for the court notes where they said that. It doesn't sound like a quote to me, it sounds like a precis.

In fact it sounds like a precis of the quote I provided, but I could also imagine the defendant's lawyer saying it in the more loaded way presented here.
Monning amended the bill to exempt flavored milk drinks

Why? (By the by, he started his career as a lawyer for a major farmworkers union. Draw your own conclusions.)
The problem you describe was solved in 1792 by the US Constitution, but has not been deployed everywhere.
Incompetent and failing administration flailing around in an increasingly desperate way
I wouldn't be too optimistic. The theory they are talking about is BCS theory. Most of the other high TC superconductors cannot be explained with it and high TC BCS superconductivity so far requires crazy environments with no clear path to making them easier to use. With the kinds of pressures required to make this happen, it's probably easier to just buy liquid nitrogen and use other materials.
I think the concern is more widespread use by LEO and corporates who have far less oversight - and will effect several orders of magnitude more people.
Using the LaunchDarkly Relay Proxy for Fun and Profit
Starlink will not just serve one country so the cost per country/customer goes down a lot.
True, I do not see it turning out well. But it would be a laboratory into behavioral control. Something like this would eliminate needs for safe spaces, anti/hate speech, etc. because this would regulate all this anti social behavior in the first place.
This news site is strange. Every article headline has a rather positive view of China.
One time pads can't do public key cryptography
Simple really.

1) Ban any political figure who buys a political ad. If you set an example others will follow.

2) Facebook/Twitter/etc already have a verification mechanism and so anyone who isn't verified and using words like tax, election, vote etc can be sent to a moderation queue.
It’s not miserable really, I just sense the pointlessness in it, and in what happens in most of corporate America. Where I work is considered rather desirable actually, here and elsewhere. I’m well compensated which is the point of a job after all.

I think there is wisdom in acknowledging that you’re there to shovel the shit, and then shoveling the shit, and leaving it at that.
> H.264 is special - it seems to occupy a kind of inflection point on the complexity / efficiency curve.

15 years ago there were people who said exactly the same thing about MPEG4-ASP (eg. divx/xvid). It all comes down to Moore's law and hardware acceleration.

Another thing about hardware acceleration is that on many platforms you really did not want to push 622Mbit/s worth of raw chroma-subsampled YUV FullHD video across whatever interconnect to your GPU, so moving things like motion compensation into GPU hardware was only way to actually play FullHD content. And this is also part of the reasons why is H.264 somehow special today.
Exactly - so "the US could flip a switch and sabotage our technology" may not be a particular concern for them.
Hard to understand why the wish to homeschool your child would fulfil any of the criteria of 'refugee', which primarily is about bring persecuted and having your life threatened. That is rather unlikely in Germany...
And it also seems that many of the character designs are copied from Warcraft3 / DotA.
I can't agree more with this. I'm in Chile right now, and they have put warning labels on all sorts of food here, saying things like high sugar, high fat, high sodium, and so on. Well, now it seems all food is unhealthy, so you might as well eat whatever you want. Yes, there is such thing as reductionism, losing sight of the forest for focusing on the trees. Sugar from fruits is not the same as refined sugar, despite them being the same molecule. The world is built out of interrelations not of platonic essences.
The World will be a much better place once more people recognize how important it is to eat healthy. Not because it has some miraculous effects on the environment, either.

A wholesome and mindful diet will change you as a human being. I'm perplexed as to how a country as big as the USA is living in the "stone age of food".

I've had great success this year to cut out refined sugar entirely. I have stopped adding it to my coffee, too. And let me tell you, the withdrawal symptoms are not nice.
Long term rentals require much lower level of attention to tenants. If owners are okay with switching from long term to short term and servicing their property, I don't see a problem here. It just means they didn't have an opportunity to enter hotel business before, despite having means and desire.
How does the West's policies increase competition at the low end of the labor market? By your argument, the West is harming itself by cutting off access to cheap Chinese labor.
To me, it's Pandora's Box. It's an information singularity. We have political information anarchy. Anyone can do a hack job on a video and get 100,000,000 views and a Presidential tweet and control a news cycle. People are afraid of "Deep fakes" but the reality is is that people are so conditioned towards accepting faked information that "shallow" (lol) fakes are already extremely effective.

It's not "social media" which is doomed, but it's our systems of government. China does just fine with controlled social media that is heavily censored precisely as the government wishes. It's not social media which is doomed, it's democracy, because authoritarians can exert power and control.

It reminds me of the Paradox of Tolerance. [1]

So long as social networks (and we as a society) tolerance this anti-intellectualism and choose fake news over real news, real information can never flourish.

But what can you do? Pass laws (which explicitly violate our American 1st Amendment)? Wait on Facebook to fix one of their biggest engagement (read: profit) drivers? Or just let everything come crashing down and shrug?

Who knows. The answer is aggressive moderation and banning fake news. Recreating the culture of intellectualism and truth. Emphasizing critical thinking. But I am extremely pessimistic that anything will (or even can) be done.

We're in meme-fueled political quicksand. I don't want to sound defeatist, but maybe after a generation or two passes and the millenials are older, this type of information warfare won't be nearly as effective [2]. Until then... good luck.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance

[2] https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/5/1/eaau4586 ("We also find a strong age effect, which persists after controlling for partisanship and ideology: On average, users over 65 shared nearly seven times as many articles from fake news domains as the youngest age group.")
Yes, let's go back to when only the press could lie.
Probably meant specific impulse.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Specific_impulse
> with such a large population you will have a large number of smart people.

Nine mothers don't make a baby in a month.
Another takeaway: Prudential skimmed fake 'referral fees' for a task that a web page could do just as well. Of course this was in the old protectionist days when the web was new. But what dense, backward thinking went into this final decision to keep the old phone/paper system in the end.
There's an excellent word in Russian, кайфожор, (I can't adequately translate to English - it's more or less "glutton of high"), which describes behaviour that stands behind most of drug user's health problems. Basically, it's a desire to get high, on anything, at any cost, which drives people to do the most stupid things with alcohol and drugs. Sadly, that's also the most paying client base, so you see a lot of drug producers catering to this audience specifically, always emphasising the strength of substances as a primary selling point. Among hundreds of shops on the marketplace, 99% talk about how strong their stuff is and how it can beat tolerance and almost none - about health.
It is such a good time for Firefox OS / KaiOS. Really sad Mozilla threw in the towel.
A favorite format on Reddit is for the entire submission to be a screenshot of tweet text (just the text), or tweet text caption and an image or article headline, possibly with no visible link to the source, not even a link to the tweet. Something you can just create in MS Paint.

And 10k comments taking it for face value, getting riled up over a screenshot of some text. Often when you google the headline, you either can't find it or it's on some bullshit website. Or you read the article and the tweet text everyone is replying to is 100% bullshit like any other clickbait.

It's not just Facebook.
I'm pretty sure it will depend on who you are and where you are.
Supply and demand.
Because it is preposterous to consider the German "Schulpflicht" (ie, the obligation that children visit a public^W school) religious or political persecution.

You can teach your children whatever weird shit you want. What you cannot do (in Germany) is take them out of school, where they will also be taught what everyone else is taught, including sex-ed, history, comparative religion, etc.

EDIT: correction, it's not an obligation to visit a public school, it's an obligation to visit a permissible school (there are private ones, but homeschooling does not constitute a permissible school).
Do these warnings actually do anything? In CA almost anything has a cancer warning. I don’t even look at them anymore.

To me these warnings are a way to say “we are doing something “ but I doubt they really have an effect.

Considering how messed up American eating habits are
I have no idea how they could be changed.
Omigosh, thank you for mentioning this! I am also transgender and had never even considered the implications of this.
almost makes you wonder why we build ladders that tall in the first place, doesn't it?
+1 from another trans woman
I don't like the animation on the website. I'd expect stationary satellites, not moving criss cross around the earth. Or will they not be stationary? This is confusing..
Oh, okay, so you're talking about being able to use it as a "travel router". I normally don't need that, although I have a usb wifi stick on order just in case.

True, performance could be better. I wish it were more in line with the odroid family.
In your case just use the same approach as spam.

Ask all users to report political advertising. If it reaches a certain threshold take down the ad. Manually review it. If it is political then ban the user, payment method and IP address.
Supporting:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19967740
Every time I visit London, I'm puzzled by the seeming paradox.

That system was dug in the 1800s, when light-bulbs and bicycles were still in beta. Over 150 years later, a project like that is out of reach for nearly all western cities. It's like the "we can't go to the moon anymore." It just offends my/our intuition about progress.
600 km/h at seal level is Mach 0.5. Commercial aircraft cruise Mach 0.70 - 0.85.
They aren't in geostationary, so they won't be stationary (relative to the ground)
Concentration meditation is an extraordinarily powerful method. Ordinarily, the mind wanders haphazardly from topic to topic even in the middle of tasks [1]. Most people find it a challenge to focus on even one thing fully for 30 seconds without their mind wandering. With good concentration practice, the mind concentrates fully and effortlessly for as long as the meditator wants. As you can imagine, that can be a real boon for productivity.

[1] http://www.danielgilbert.com/KILLINGSWORTH%20&%20GILBERT%20(...
I’m not sure I agree with this. I’d prefer regulating advertising of sweetened products in general. Health warnings cancer risk notices or labels have so overwhelmed the senses, you take it as a fact of life. But advertising is the big piece of bait that gets us to consume these things.

On a tangential note, these cancer risk warnings should not be binary. They should have a risk value or class. Asbestos class 1, smoking/air pollution 1, new carpet outgassing 3, drinking beer 4, etc. so people have an idea if a risk is tolerable or not. Otherwise it’s just a kind of waiver/risk indemnification for the one putting up the warning.
Even the largest US companies will appropriate IP that isn't nailed down. Cases appear here every few months.

In the 19th century, American entrepreneurs took the same attitude to European IP as China now does to America - if anything, IP appropriation was even more blatant than it is now.
Your comment was something like eye - opener for me.
Global Times is a party-run foreign affairs tabloid. So yes, it's pro-China bordering on nationalistic. Still, it's a useful source of what the CCP likes to say when they have a small sense of plausible deniability.
When I visited California I chuckled every time I went into a restaurant with

blah blah blah "known by the state of California to cause cancer" blah blah blah

signs above the door...
I think neutral good as an alignment inherently comes with a disadvantage in making impact. You have to take certain levels of risks at certain extremes to be able to influence anything.
Having followed HN and similar dev culture (Dilbert etc.) for some time now, I feel a growing contradiction that I cannot fully resolve.

On the one hand big corporations are presented as these incompetent behemoths that are locked in their internal petty office politics, managers are clueless as to what is being or should be developed, and tons of money is wasted, they are wooed by empty marketing etc.

On the other hand these organizations are immensely wealthy and successful.

It may actually be that they are right, and for non-tech-centered companies this whole software stuff is really peanuts and their mental energy is better spent on other business-related stuff. So they will come up with random low-effort comments on all sorts of details because ultimately they (rightly) don't care. What actually matters is to negotiate deals like referral fees, or coming up with other contract ideas that will bring a lot of revenue in.

Or maybe it's just an equilibrium, a local optimum. You don't have to produce "good" stuff (in the developer's sense) without waste, precisely because the other company that you're targeting is also inefficient in similar ways.

I'm really not sure but I think it's important to look beyond just "haha, stupid managers, they can't make up their mind". There must be deeper reasons.
The animation is accurate. To stay stationary, a satellite has to be 35000km away from the earth, these will be about 500km away. They will move very fast across your line of sight, but have very low latency.
America is turning against facial recognition, until it's not. Total surveillance looks like it's inevitable.

Surveillance will come slowly, then suddenly
So, is there some alternative quantum-resistant cipher ready (i.e. with open source implementation, say on github) that we can use today to encrypt out long-term secrets?
NASA executive quits weeks after appointment to lead 2024 moon landing plan
Open access paper here: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1804.00162.pdf
Mostly it's just because the standards say so. There's nothing about how MPEG-2 works that inherently makes it impossible to encode 4K video with it, the standard just says that MPEG-2 video shall not exceed 80Mbit/s, 1920 horizontal pixels, 1152 vertical pixels, or 62,668,800 luminance samples per second.

The limits are just there for interoperability. As is, if you encode a video that complies with MPEG-2 High Level, then you can be pretty confident that any MPEG-2 High Level decoder will decode it.

Without the limit everything becomes a mess. You're writing a decoder, what max res should you support? 4K? 8K? The people writing decoders don't agree and then people trying to distribute these high resolution files find that they work in some decoders but not others.
Could this lead to low population density cities?
Do you mean stationary with respect to the earth, or with respect to each other?

The answer in either case is that they'll be moving, because the low orbits they will be in require it.
> it's only a matter of a couple decades where HK today will cease to exist

Well, at most three decades, to be precise, when in 2047 it will fully revert to China under the Sino-British Joint Declaration, and lose its status as a Special Administrative Region.
Oh nice. Thank you for the explanation.

Does that have an impact on how long a scrub takes? I’ve always loved the ability to do online scrubs but they can take a long time
Harsh, but not wrong. :-/
Merged: http://git.videolan.org/gitweb.cgi/vlc/vlc-3.0.git/?p=vlc/vl...

So it's fixed in the next release (VLC 3.0.7).
In trains, most of the cost is the fixed cost of the track and it makes sense to get its utilization way up. So the question of cost vs flights is a very dynamic one.

Sounds like a good way for Australia to decrease its CO2 emissions would be to subsidize the track and try to get the air travelers to move over.
Warnings sound nice, like we're doing something, but they do not work.

The only thing that works is increased prices or laws to restrict public use.

We know this from years of alcohol and tobacco policy.

If we want to change people's behaviours we need to tax soda and fruit juices.
I don't make a judgment call towards if one is better than the other but I do firmly believe that 50% + 1 vote is not a mandate. I would really like to see a proper 2/3 majority before you let someone impose their will on the other group. Proportional representation has one interesting side effect it seems. You get more political parties in parliament leaving lunatic fringe groups their own parties and allowing the centre mostly to rule.
I don't really agree with this. Betty Edward's process is great for drawing from reference and learning to see. Drawing from imagination relies on a completely different skill-set.

In Cocteau's case, I would even argue that it leans more towards symbolic drawing, but with a more comprehensive visual library to draw upon- one that would've been developed from his profession.
there are of course examples of technologies that do not work for their stated purpose, but I think in general technologies do work pretty much for their stated purposes if people can use the technology correctly.

Generally the arguments against a technology is not that the technology does not work for its purpose, but that the way humans will use it is problematic.
You sure have lots of excuses. “You only save 1.5 hours”. That’s for 180 million passengers a year.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beijing–Shanghai_high-speed_...

Your tactics worked in the US. China does things a little differently.

China is building 25,000 miles of high-speed rail. They must be reasoning differently? Think they are testing 480 mph maglevs for a reason?
If the first traffic light was green, the difference is actually insignificant :/
are you trying to imply that modern day slavery is ok because its not state-sponsored? how about no. Slavery is wrong no matter who sponsors it.
They also fly at altitude, where air pressure is much less obviously.
> The report I got about the demo was that the real estate people loved it, it was just what they wanted.

> “But,” they said, “how do we collect the referral fees?”

This is why you need to understand what problem a client wants solved and not just build what their suggested solution is. Even if you build their suggested solution perfectly, they're not going to be happy at the end if their original problem isn't solved. Their suggested solution should only be used as a starting point to understanding their requirements.
Geostationary is around 35,000km, starlink satellites will be around 300-500km, hence the low latency.
Have you tried foobar2000 or AirSonic?

foobar2000 handles my multi-TB library just fine, with very fast searching and playlist creation capabilities.

AirSonic provides streaming on the go, with a "Random Album" list which is an amazing way to explore your library.
The problem is that most foods available in supermarkets are unhealthy.
React, Vue, and Angular are the big front-end frameworks right now. React is on top currently, but I think Vue will take over the industry within the next couple years. Angular seems to be going away. Most developers I talk to say they want to like it, but it's just too hard to work with in comparison to Vue or React.

A good place to start would be to learn GatsbyJS. It's a "static" site generator using React. It's super fast and easy to get started. Gridsome is the Vue alternative, but it's not quite as polished as Gatsby.
So this isn't about advancing scale and distribution, it's at the end product and product sub-component level. Good to know.
Cool. Now don't run up debt and fail like Tesla.
Postpone the Switch to Wayland in Debian Buster