skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Victorians generally did not give a crap about "old" stuff and willfully and frequently built/rebuilt/demolished/dug-up/forced-out pretty much whatever they wanted or was in their way to get stuff done. They also had a large and cheap labor force with questionable safety protections.

These days we spend a lot of effort on "preserving" older things, you cant just railroad (pun intended!) your way through a suburb demolishing things to lay railway tracks more or less where you want, and obviously there is a lot more focus now on individual worker safety (for the better).

I guess they were able to build things during the "wild west" where rules, procedures, , respect for individual rights & safety, and laws had not yet caught up with industrialisation.
I want to know how it is going to work in terms of radios.

If you have enough satellites you could just point a mildly directional antenna straight up and know there is always at least one that is close enough. (e.g. another kind of "virtual geosynchronous")

In that case you have a low-cost base station.

If on the other hand you have fewer satellites and you need to track them as they move across the sky, you are looking at a much more expensive base station.
Everest could be a literal landfill and I really wouldn't care. It's not some holy ground or a place people live
As it was mentioned in the thread several times using a credit card and paying it off is just using free money with some extra benefits. I.e. better consumer protection, perks (miles/cashback), expense tracking, etc.

I personally use CC for all my payments unless it is not accepted.
in 2018, 39% left due to ethical violations

This seems like an incredible number. If the number one reason for bus drivers or real estate agents leaving the job was "ethical violations," it'd be some sort of moral crisis.
This is kinda cynical, but get older, no one pays 25 year olds in France a wage that will support an apt in Paris because they reserve it for people with families.

THOUGH, I have heard some good things about the usual big names (Google, Facebook, whatever) and you can get some sweet work conditions in the public (or very near to public) sector.

In contracting the big differentiator seems to be working for yourself vs being sold by a company, so go to more meetups, try getting freelance jobs on your own. I don't know anything about the regulatory environment for such but it's supposed to have gotten easier in recent years.
If it's hyper-targeted political ads to folks who you can tell via their profiles will absolutely agree with you, what is their incentive to hit that report button?

Not to blow this up too much, but honestly, these aren't ads for shoe polish or a scammy mobile game or some other bullshit. These are ads that make people feel valuable. These are ads that make people feel like their thoughts and opinions, and therefore their entire being is validated.
The situation is more nuanced and complicated with fruit juice . Too much is probably bad for you, but moderate amounts have been shown to have health benefits. In poorer areas many can afford juice but not whole fruit.

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/british-journal-of-n...
Ian McEwan on His New Novel and Ethics in the Age of A.I
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Has anybody found a map of what they mean by the "northern US and Canadian latitudes after six launches"? How far north does one have to be?

I'm super excited about this disrupting the north american broadband market, which has little to no competition in most areas where I've lived.
That seems like a violation of anit-trustlaws. I'm surprised the FSF hasn't pursued this route against google.
> Earlier this year the Washington Post reported that many small police departments were abandoning body-worn-camera programmes because of the cost.

> Although the cameras are cheap, officers can generate 15 gigabytes of video per shift; storage costs mount. Police unions often oppose body-worn cameras, fearing they imperil their members by giving superior officers licence to search them for punishable behaviour.

>Other officers complain about the amount of time required to review and redact footage in response to public-information requests.

Sure, the Police themselves don't like the cameras turned on them. Suddenly it is "too expensive".

Then they will turn around and argue for ubiquitous CCTV camera installations.
Yes, because there's only one TV channel and one newspaper.
German native population is decreasing e.g. here https://www.destatis.de/GPStatistik/servlets/MCRFileNodeServ...
So what you deal with is really the business culture or the integration culture in general, not necessarily German culture per se.
Probably feasible, but would create international tensions, in worst case retaliation - many countries jamming foreign satellites or taking other hostile actions. Yuck.
I don't need to see Steve in 4k60fps though... I mean his hair flips are epic and all but still.
Interestingly, there's been proposals to try and let the market evaluate the "goodness" of a CEO. It basically involves issuing futures on the company stock which (1) only pay if the CEO is fired by date X, otherwise the futures are unwound (bought back at market price); (2) only pay if the CEO is not fired by that date, otherwise they are unwound in the same way. If the price of the type-1 future is significantly higher than the price of the type-2 kind, the market is saying that your CEO is bad and by firing them you'll end up with a better replacement.
The Deutschlandtakt project which is being planned right now actually would include many new rail connections purely for passenger rail, as e.g. the https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schnellfahrstrecke_K%C3%B6ln%E... already is.
I was under the the understanding that

1) readers can be tampered with - https://www.creditcards.com/credit-card-news/new-card-skimmi...

and

2) there was some ability to clone the cards https://www.kaspersky.com/blog/chip-n-pin-cloning/21502/
Importing Data from Kinesis Stream into OmniSci
It helps with load balancing. Google Bloon planned to automatically geographically appropriate satellite clusters based on real-time demand, so I assume there are similar plans for Star-Link.
Isn't that a lesson then that you should make sure you're talking to and getting buy-in from decision makers higher up the chain instead of people whose decisions are more likely to be overturned?
Agreed. To her, following through on the result of the referendum was her paramount mission, however she had to deliver that without breaking the country. Which as we've seen results in so many compromises, that leaves no-one happy.

Where she may have gone wrong, is leaving it way too late before involving the rest of parliament, however it can be argued, that as the leader of the party in power as voted in by the populous, she had no obligation to bring anything to the house for ratification.
What does catfished mean in this context? Mislead into a role you aren't suited for?
Theresa May Resigns over Brexit: What Happened?
> $200 for 1 hour session where the lawyer explains me the options

Is that all it costs for a lawyer who specializes in Chinese copyright law in America?
> The problem is that unnatural sweeteners produce a similar insulin response as sugar

Has this been demonstrated in humans? I've heard this many times before but have been unable to find any human studies to support it, and the mice studies I've seen often use ludicrously high dosages of the sweeteners.
Pardon the ignorant question, but is there an accepted "standard" for pronouns when someone identifies themself as you did?

Which is to say, if you say you're a "trans woman", am I able to infer that your desired gender pronoun is female?
To cook from scratch, you must first invent the universe.
Gos: Armed Golang (solutions for go module, goproxy, cross compilation, etc.)
address: https://github.com/storyicon/gos
It isn't rational to base decisions off of sunk costs.
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You conveniently ignored the 30k LOC crypto framework.
Public opinion is what ultimately is the determining factor here. If the public does not strongly want to punish companies for doing something then the government will not be successful at punishing companies for doing something. In a democracy government follows public opinion. In the absence of strong public opinion you get corporate interests shaping what government does.

Yeah, sure, ban it. But without social consensus backing up those laws it will have no teeth in practice.
I spent a week at a computer camp when I was 10 or so, and was exposed to the Atari 800 (and 400). To 10-year old me, they seemed far superior to my neighbors' C64 machines. My only clear memory is being blown away playing some kind of Star Wars based first-person game. For the day, the graphics seemed incredible.
I can confirm that I both got paid handsomely (especially for the second phase of the project where we were on a retainer and literally did one day of work over the course of three months, barring a couple of phone calls) and that I felt very little satisfaction or gratification at the end of it, especially when the whole thing we had built was eventually rebuilt by a different offshoring company using a much clunkier technology stack without so much as a glance at our code.

I stand by my original assessment that, from the perspective of both the client (everyone was happy with the end result) and my consultancy (we delivered work and we got paid), it was a success.
What's the Buzz About 'Marketplace'?
The average refresh rate of a computer display is 60Hz. In this context it's interchangeable with framerate but we think of it in terms of Hz because of the monitors.
There isn't a lawyer in the world that can reliably answer that question in 1 hour that would only charge $200 for that hour.
The answer is de-federalization. There's no need for a 50 state union, IMO. US could have a joint armed forces (if it desired) and a monetary union with independent states. Similar to the EU IMO.
Something isn't adding up with the devs explanation of the situation. He claims they have trademarks for Clicker Heroes in US and EU, so why would Apple be removing the game worldwide.

https://www.reddit.com/r/gamedev/comments/bs6n3l/apple_remov...
don't forget error rate metric too
First You Make the Maps
Do these warnings actually do anything?

It seems very likely that the warnings will work to some extent based on existing packaging. Anything that can be considered "healthy", even for the most dubious and small health claims, has it written on the front in big bold letters. That would imply that what goes on the packet does influence the consumer. It's possible that positive messaging has a greater impact than negative messaging, but that's something that would need studying.

Considering how messed up American eating habits are I have no idea how they could be changed.

Putting warnings on things and measuring the change would be a great place to start.
(DC would also provide a tree structure if Netscape had wanted to use domain names as the exclusive form of identification - but they didn't. The objection was to verify enough information for commerce, which domain names clearly do not)
I beg to differ. Working at an consultancy and we had fixed price projects for large clients. We just had to plan a risk buffer into the price.

But I can also tell from experience that fixed price, more often than not, doesn't work out so well.
I read an HN comment before that convinced me it's physically impossible for this system to work for more than a couple million devices at VERY low bandwidth (I think the quote was like 0.1mbps). Is this true?

I was all aboard the SpaceX hype train until that comment. I remember looking into his argument, and it seemed like everything checked out.
Here's some great visualizations of the orbits and an explanation of what it means that the orbits are optimized for the northern hemisphere. (This confused me at first since obviously any orbit has to go just as far south as it does north of the equator.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEIUdMiColU
I got all the way to evolution but screwed up somewhere in the precambrian. Now I have a race of hyper-intelligent lizardmen living in my basement. Needless to say, the soufflé is ruined.
On the labour point.. it still doesn't make sense to me. Sure, they had very poor oh&s but they also used shovels to dig and baskets to remove fill. It just doesn't seem like the extra cost of safe work practices could possibly offset the productive bump from machinery.
Fake news is the symptom. The disease is confirmation bias.

The internet, and particularly social media, has become the most efficient and effective confirmation bias machine ever. People gladly (read: voluntarily) crawl into their self-fulfilling echo chamber and instantly become the master of their own universe. They get to believe whatever it is they want to believe. No assumption too strange. No "belief fetish" too bizarre.

I'm not sure what the answer is (aside from a mass education in critical thinking and self-awareness), but I do know that deleting FB is a balloon grab. That is, the disease will simply manifest itself somewhere else sooner or later.
This probably makes 9front the only OS still in development to have manuals in book format. Who else misses those old microsoft documentation that used to ship with their software in the 90's and before? I was never a fan of their company, but that aspect of their software in particular was awesome.
The spherical harmonics represent the analytic solution to the Schrodinger equation for a hydrogen in a vacuum. Any other system (e.g. Hydrogen with two electrons, or a neutral Helium atom) does not have any analytical solution (its a many body problem).

In general, determining the wave function for a collection of electrons is a very hard problem. Depending on the accuracy needed, different commonly used methods range from O(n^4) to O(n^7) where n is the number of electrons.
I realised recently that doodling during meetings (yes, work meetings as well!), and brainstorming has helped me capture more details than just writing in my notebook. Having ADHD, it’s often difficult to follow so many ideas and points being discussed.

My colleagues noticed that and I’m grateful that they specifically asked me to doodle during a workshop we hosted. Here’s a cartoon I did during that time: https://twitter.com/prashnts/status/1104060675205316609?s=21
>You get more political parties in parliament leaving lunatic fringe groups their own parties and allowing the centre mostly to rule.

Or you have to put together a coalition to rule which may include cozying up to one or more "lunatic fringe groups" out of all proportion to how many seats they have.
So something like a McDonalds Milkshake, which has 60g of sugar is exempt?

That's kind of insane.
Did you read the article? It's got a lot of good information on how code runs on the ethereum virtual machine. And the benefits of using something like WASI. Even if you hate block chain, it's still fascinating.
Better this than the bloody ‘Sugar Tax’ levied on drinks with a certain minimum percentage of sugar in them we have here in the UK - all it's done is lead to price increases and swapping out of sugar for artificial sweeteners.

Debates about the negative impact of synthetic sweeteners aside, they taste bloody awful, so now most of my favourite childhood treats are dead to me.
> Your tactics worked in the US.

That's fascinating considering I've never been there and I think railways (including maglevs when it's a better option than conventional rail) should be the primary transportation system for both passengers and cargo.

FWIW, most of my objections don't even apply when building HSR from scratch.
It happens regularly.

https://money.cnn.com/2017/06/26/media/cnn-announcement-retr...

https://www.foxnews.com/us/reporter-resigns-after-false-twee...

These were on the first page of results when I duckducko'ed (duckduckwent?) "journalist resigned false"
> Politicians please do it as Hippocrates said: "First do no harm"

This is not tenable for politicians. Bodies are by default healthy, and have enormous powers of self-repair. A do-nothing bias works in favor of that.

Politicians, though, mostly resolve questions of competing interest. A do-nothing bias in politics means yielding to short-term thinking, special interests, and the desires of the powerful. Sugar's a great example, in that it's generally harmful but specifically very profitable, so left unchecked we'll get a suboptimal societal outcome while enriching people who unnecessarily put sugar in food.
I miss Kickass, they were my favorite for years.

I guess I always thought things would go back to IRC once all of these sites got taken down. While I was still getting everything I wanted on Undernet or Dalnet, I remember thinking it was brazen to have this stuff on a public website, and that it wouldn't last long if it was legit stuff. It's funny Pirate Bay is still proving me wrong after all these years.

My IRC revival just doesn't seem to be in the cards. I can't even find an active server outside of freenode, which is basically like a stack overflow chat.
Europe (Netherlands). The climate here is quite mild.

I drive a saloon car, so I can keep the laptop in the trunk, which is quite well insulated. I won't recommend keeping a laptop (or anything for that matter) in the cabin.
It's almost ironic that we're progressing through a social evolution where we have to have conversations with people to understand their desired pronoun; while at the same time developing software that will suffer the same fate. Appearances mean nothing, but that's all (this) software can use.

Perhaps a small badge with visual friendly metadata would be handy. Not that we need to give them more information of course, just thinking out loud. The idea of everyone walking around with a little badge on their chest containing their metadata is oddly dystopian haha.
What programming language to learn in 2019
Two years ago I went on the ‘eat no processed foods’ Fuhrman diet and it had an amazingly positive effect on my health. I realize that I am just one data point but this is my personal experience.

Because we moved for a job I eventually started eating processed food and got off of the diet. Within a few months, I physically felt less good, like I was before before the Fuhrman diet. Again, I am just one data point, but for me the positive effects of the diet were not permanent.

Now my wife and I are talking about both going on the Fuhrman diet. She did not join me before, but likes the idea of all fresh cooking, no processed foods.
My feeling is that this whole silliness will backfire spectacularly! Huawei will develop their own OS. It's hard but not impossible. Who cares if there's buy-in from the entire developer community...nowadays people don't use apps that much anyways. Apps are just another way of consumption. Most apps can probably be replaced with webviews with little lost of functionality. I don't know enough about the technical difficulties they'll have in developing a brand new os, but it's been done multiple times. In any case, this sux for all parties.
I don't think it's that. After network effects kick in, the chances for creating a viable OS are extremely slim. They could have invested three times what Google has invested in Android and still fail.
3mins difference is already not significant :)
NASA requested $1.4B in increase

for comparison, Military budget increased from $586B in 2015 to $713B in 2019
Cooking is a skill and like any skill it takes time to both do it, and get better, and worse is when you fail it really sucks as you've spent a lot of time and you're not happy with what you're eating.... that time, effort, and such is a huge barrier.

A lot of people without a lot of money often don't have a huge amount of time to invest in other things either. Long before I had a better job I worked multiple jobs, went to school, I ate in my car on the way to doing things maybe 60 or 70% of the time. All in an effort to do things that would help me move on. The idea of staying home and coking regularly (and spending extra money gathering up the food etc) was out of the question. Being poor is exhausting.

Having said that I'm not sure what this article means by "cooking from scratch". Would throwing some chicken, veggies, potatoes on the grill count?

There are a lot of varying levels of effort that to me would still count as "cooking" and not just warming some reprocessed stuff.
At 18:00 it looks like a membrane inside the satellite stack is also pulsing?
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One-time pads are extremely impractical and error-prone. You need:

1. A secret key as long as the plaintext.

2. A consistent source of true randomness and a way of sampling it such that your secret key is truly random.

3. To never reuse a key once it's been used once.

Imagine the ramifications of retrofitting servers to use one-time pads for TLS. Moreover, essentially everything we take for granted in cryptography relies on constructions which use pseudorandom permutations and generators. Even if we resolved all these problems and forged ahead in a brave new world using stream cipher-like constructions based on one-time pads, we'd still have to rethink all of public-key cryptography.

This impracticality is one of the major reasons we moved on from information theoretic security to complexity theoretic security by the mid 20th century.
Yes, because that never goes wrong...

Maybe it’s because I’m a hardware guy, but if anything, agile has normalized a lot of bad practices (like developing before getting any specs) that can only be made to work in software development.
It's weird, my Firefox seems to use the vaapi (but my iGPU is only able to hw-decode h264 and VP8 and VP9.Too old for AV1.)
I have a not so powerful laptop so I think the HW decoding capability of the iGPU is actually used, otherwise I couldn't play 1080p videos at 60 FPS (h264 and VP9).
I use the static Firefox from Mozilla. Not distro repo's one.
One more: later, trains will be faster. In the 20 years that I've been in Madrid time to my hometown has come down from 5.5 to little more than 4 hours.

Edit: last hour is not high speed because the rails are regular ones (the train adapts in a ten minutes stop) so the high speed interval went from 4.5 down to 3.
I love reading stories like these. They are insightful and funny.
As first step I switched from terrible Android TV to WebOs and it's absolutely amazing OS. I wonder why nobody is using it in smartphones.
Not to mention that centralization makes it easier for the electorate to monitor the details. If you look for egregious corruption gone unpunished you find it in the most petty of places for lack of oversite.

I suspect more centralization could help with accountability ironically but there are other issue there including harmonizing different needs and values by region and deciding "who is right".

The three things to optimize and balance are "sensitive to local demands" (treating water by conservation needs in the desert or by great lakes or demands of road salt by road area regardless of climate would be a terrible idea), "ability to scale and administrate effectively" and "respectful of rights" - and all three may clash or agree.
There is no middle ground for deep disagreements about facts