skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> His estimates suggest that once the first 1,584 satellites are launched, for which the trajectories have already been made public, there will be about 15 satellites clearly visible above the horizon for three to four hours after sunset and before sunrise.

Oh no, 15 tiny lights in the sky. Not really a blight.
sugar is not a drug. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drug
Feature wise telegram is definitely the best challenger right now. Signal is good but not as good. I wish it was better because of privacy. I like telegram too much now.
That is what I used as reference. Note how the table differentiates between Security and EOL but doesn’t provide dates for the first, since they are dependent on future releases.

I’ll fix the link.
Loved this story! Also good timing as a lot of us are watching the HBO mini-series now. I especially liked this quote: "The reason it's so beautiful and so peaceful is precisely because we can't consume it. Like, perhaps, all real paradises everywhere."
No, it's not...
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I have seen an ad that informed me of the existence of a product with a certain property, which I had wished existed but didn’t think did, and this led to a purchase of the product being made.

However, I don’t remember the content of the ad, so I can’t be confident that it didn’t also have an emotional appeal to it.

The company in question later did something else I didn’t like, but the added feature (really, the removal of a ubiquitous mis/anti feature) continues to be something I appreciate.

This was in the last 5 years I am pretty sure.
Fair, but as long as nothing changes, let us not stop pointing out the irony merely because things remain crooked. The buck has to stop somewhere, and at the end of the day wapo is profiting from tracking on an article bemoaning tracking. They're free to do so, and being hypocrites doesn't make them wrong, but being not wrong also doesn't make them infallible.

And if someone finally founds a privacy respecting publisher, what better place for them to advertise than a comment lamenting a competitor's failing? Let's keep that door open :)
The perfect VR app would be a visual ad blocker. IEMs have taken care of my ears (at least until iTunes or audible have ads).
> CSS grid, where were you 15+ years ago?

Hiding under the pseudonym 'table'.
It's good advice, but I find it ironic.

Keep your money. Stick it in an index fund. It'll get invested in Google, Facebook, Apple who make money from ... advertising their own or other people's products.

To really be minimalist I think it's better (if less lucrative on average) to start your own business that takes a small chunk of business away from the giants, that you have ethical control over.

It's getting harder to do that without needing help from Google, Facebook etc. though, and definitely hard to do without advertising. But there's simple advertising "Painter for hire" and then there is the manipulative advertising based on spying on people etc. I think they are two different things.
Total war means nukes. There will be sore losers.
From the post:

> “Dot keyword:” In the previous post, a sketch was made of an idea in which certain keywords could be postfixed or infixed using the dot operator. This idea is only a sketch, and is not implied or guaranteed by the decision we’ve made here.
"Advertising exists to make you feel bad about yourself, then inserts product as solution"
I've asked academic economists about this, albeit indirectly. I've asked if any studies of the effect of advertising have ever been made, if they've been replicated, etc etc. I tried to vary phrasing, and use the jargon.

I got a lot of "I don't know" and variants. It seems difficult to google up references, because the key words are common words.
I've always been fascinated by how disgusting the bread is in the US. Do we know what lead to this ?
Modern bread (including in those other countries without the additives mentioned in this article) isn't generally yeast risen. Yeast is added for flavour only. Expensive breads are different but the regular stuff you buy in supermarkets is agitated with hardened fats to trap air. Yeast not involved.

This changes many of the properties of the bread and the long-term effects of this change aren't well understood.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chorleywood_bread_process

No knead bread is really easy to make, low effort, ridiculously cheap and able to fit into a busy lifestyle. It uses long fermentation with yeast to rise and condition the dough. I use this recipe: https://www.seriouseats.com/recipes/2010/03/basic-no-knead-b...
The RDBMS Is Dead (2018)
Yeah, this is why I actually read the privacy policy on every app I install now. I've done this for the past 6mo or so. At this point I basically don't purchase apps that store any of my information on their servers (unless of course it's fundamentally required for the service, such as Spotify or the like).
Not only that, but the only reason nuclear waste is dangerous is that it's radioactive. That is, it's a radiating source of energy. In other words, nuclear waste is dangerous because it's full of unused energy.

The French use breeder reactors to extract this unused energy for more energy. We are literally choosing not to burn all of the nuclear material we have.

It's like taking a train that's got 20 cars full of coal, burning the coal in the first car, and then disposing the "waste coal" in the rest of the cars in a landfill while wringing our hands about the environmental problems that causes.

Future Breeder Reactor Plants on Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breeder_reactor#Future_plants
Dropbox and Box are the incumbents ripe to be disrupted
A decade ago, our digital life started to expand with photos and documents. A single personal computer started to expand to tablets, phones and laptops. We like to see the same photo or document from phone to tablet to laptop. Dropbox solved this problem with a centralized storage where we can dump all our files and access them from wherever we want. To make it a viable business model, a subscription service got attached to storage size. We started dumping all our photos, documents, scanned receipts, photocopies into different folders.

The problem we face today is very different. Some of the important documents such as scanned receipts, tax returns documents are also dumped into the same folders. It is difficult to search and find them. Literally it is like searching a needle in haystack. Sharing the document with the right person is also difficult. We make yet another copy of downloading the document and emailing to share it. Once emailed, the document gets shared for ever without owners' control. Researchers found many corporate sensitive data was shared without knowledge. Check this article published by Adversis. (https://www.adversis.io/research/pandorasbox)

While Dropbox, box and google drive helped solve storing and sharing our digital lives, the innovation has stalled. Monthly subscriptions and ever growing storage size is not the only option.

At proofbox, we turned it around and looked at with a different lens. what if we provide a transaction based service to store and retrieve important documents only and that is tracked in blockchain? Users pay only transaction fee and no monthly subscription cost. checkout https://www.proofbox.io and provide your feedback.
>>Light side: Closing the loop between what the customer wants, what their actual problems are, and what engineering and manufacturing can deliver.

>Marketing seems to have given up on that sort of effort years ago.

Marketing hasn't, but companies' hiring and organizational structure decisions have - especially tech companies.

As long as the only marketing personel a company hires are advertising personel, given authority and responsibility for advertising only, the loop can't be closed.

In tech, programmers are the "engineering and manufacturing", but they tend not to want to be told what consumers want by the marketing team (who, if hired and authorized properly, would be doing rigorous independent research and data analysis using data from that research, user data, and bought research, to come by those insights...)
Even if we counted it as subsidies, the calculation would still be complete bogus, or "controversial" as the paper puts it.

It goes like this: Take the "excess death" figure from the WHO (already a questionable number) and multiply it by the "economic value" of that person. That would be two million dollars for an Australian, $300,000 for a Chinese person and still about a $100,000 for someone from Tanzania.

In other words, we're not assuming those excess deaths are the old and sickly who eventually succumb to a lifetime of pollution, but the young and healthy who have decades worth of earnings ahead of them.
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https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=TFA
Well at least back in the day they would restrict themselves to the UK. Now they fear-monger worldwide :P
Moving away from Oracle database? You have got to be joking (2018)
One thing mentioned in Ben’s post that’s worth talking about explicitly: if you add a post to Medium using their import feature, Medium will set the canonical URL to your original URL. This meant that when if you imported a post from your personal blog and submitted it to FreeCodeCamp, you’d get a big SEO benefit: your post was shared on one of the biggest Medium publications, but any backlinks and ranking boosts would apply back to your original post, on your website.

As part of this migration, FreeCodeCamp has removed canonical URLs from submitted posts - your original post is now competing with freecodecamp.org, and Google (and other search engines) is going to do a duplicate content check. Considering that FCC is in the top 2000 sites in the world according to Alexa[1], there’s a _strong_ chance your site will be penalized. This is a big deal for authors.

[1]: https://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/freecodecamp.org
Thank you - saved me typing it. CSS support for table display predated XHTML 1.0 by nearly 2 years, and worked in XHTML with non IE browsers.
Thanks. I haven't read that book, but I think it is fair to say that the advertisement business has changed a lot between 1986 (when that book was published), and now.

EDIT to add: The blurb says that the author "finds much lacking in the business's importance and effectiveness and much that is problematic in advertising's social impact." (my emphasis).
I'm not 100% sure, but afaik this is true in some states if you are living off of capital gains - I've seen people on the FIRE forums saying, "I feel actually bad taking advantage of subsidized healthcare, but because state law is written poorly and only considering wages, I am being opted in". In CA this loophole is not a thing, and capital gains are considered as part of your income for insurance purposes.
Russ Cox’s response to “Go Is Not a Community Driven Project”
well if you're neither American or Chinese which is true for most people on the planet and you have to weigh which supplier of infrastructure you choose then you do indeed need to weigh who is the worse actor. That's not justification, it's just an evaluation.
Your comment would be much improved without the second sentence.
Homoiconicity, like that found in Lisp or TCL. I have this small system orchestration framework of sorts that I use to maintain my network-wide configuration and send commands to multiple machines. I wish I didn't have to work with code in quote-delimited strings and all the escaping involved. It wouldn't be a problem in either Lisp or TCL.
I am not defending YouTube redirecting a UA it hadn’t seen to download chrome when that UA explicitly went to /new for the new experience. I don’t know what happened there, and if I did I probably couldn’t say.

I am defending using the UA to tier responses based on the principle that it lowers the latency before the page is useful to the user, and I don’t see how that is a sinister practice.
It's ironic that the Pollen documentation at this site is not available in book form, i.e. a PDF document. Or is it?
Yeah, I pretty aggressively avoid giving companies any information, and if required, I now give fake information when possible.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/canadian-retailers-servers-sto...

> A security researcher has found customer and employee data belonging to one of Canada's biggest PC hardware retailers on servers put up for sale on Craigslist. The data, believed to go back as far as 15 years, belongs to NCIX, a PC retailer that filed for bankruptcy and closed shop in December 2017.
That's... true in the specific example, becuase C++'s standard library is a huge, promiscuous mess of obvious-looking symbol names that are just asking for a collision with a user name.

But in general the notion that we want to isolate "everything" into a namespace is a net loss. Clear and simple abstractions have real value, and short undeclared names are an important part of being clear and simple.

The modern convention of separately importing every symbol you use gets really out of hand, when most of the time it really is appropriate that you just declare "my code is using this API" and expect things to work without having to link your program by hand with a giant shipping manifest of symbols at the top of your source files.
> You need to submit a list of domains your app is allowed to talk to

No, that's only if you're not using TLS for those domains. Which almost all are at this point.
I wonder if Germany, France are thinking we need a plan one of ours could be next.
Can you provide an example of mutability in, say, high school or undergraduate math?
Cities and Ambition
What's a war without killing people?
While there are bigger changes we may need to make in terms of growth capitalism you refer to, for the simple subject at hand - advertising - there is a simple fix. Simply ban advertising in more places and ban more types of advertising. It's really not as heavy handed as it sounds. Bans on billboards in parts of the world show the way.

We can ban tracking of users. We can ban collection or sale or personal data. Things like this really aren't that crazy, it's how the world used to be up until a few years ago and the world still existed. Yes it might mean that some websites won't exist anymore. Other websites will be smaller and subscription based. Essentially your service will need to have some utility that at least a small portion of it's users will pay for. That's really not a big ask.
I think that is one part, and the other part is that companies opinions about what is safe or not, holds no weight.
Probably your app is not that special then.

You know: build it, and they’ll come.*

* If it’s worth it.
It seems like the folks making docker files could stand to learn package management with a mature package system before making docker files.

I wonder how many use docker after they learn ?
I speak with Russian accent, and most of the time I find the representation of it by English actors extremely laughable.
It's about whose balance sheet the stock is on.

If Amazon buys an iPhone, and then lists it for sale on the Amazon store, that's Amazon's iPhone. If Amazon doesn't manage to sell it, Amazon has lost money. If Amazon does sell it, they capture the profit margin between the price they bought it at, and the price they sold it at. Apple, who sold Amazon the iPhone originally, has no further business relationship with the person that buys the phone from Amazon; after the initial sale, it became Amazon's phone to sell, and their customer relationship to have.

This is the traditional "retail" sales model. Amazon is only a retailer for a relatively few products—and now fewer.

For any other brand that shows up on Amazon, Amazon is acting as a Logistics-as-a-Service provider to that business. If you buy a Samsung TV on Amazon, then it's coming from an Amazon warehouse, but Amazon does not own that TV; Samsung (or someone else, maybe a retailer!) does. Samsung (or whoever) are effectively renting warehouse space from Amazon to hold their TVs for them, paying Amazon to deliver their products, etc. in the same way that a developer would pay Amazon to hold data in S3 and deliver messages over SNS. If Samsung wants that TV back, Amazon has to give it back. It's not Amazon's property. But nor did Amazon have to buy it. It's neither an asset nor a liability on their balance sheet. They possess it only in the sense that a self-storage business possesses the contents of a storage unit; or in the sense that FedEx possesses a parcel while delivering it.

This is the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consignment model of sales. The Amazon store is effectively a consignment store.

Well known examples of consignment:

• Commercial art galleries where the works are for sale. The gallery doesn't own the works; the artist is renting space to display and attempt-to-sell their work.

• Brick-and-mortar book stores. (New) book stores don't own their stock of books; the books' publishers do. The book-store-as-storefront has some limited power to declare sales, but mostly sales are "ordered" by the publisher. When a book store can't sell enough of a book, and have left-over stock that looks like it isn't going anywhere, they must nominally "return" the stock to the publisher by destroying it (i.e. by ripping off the covers, like this: https://www.reddit.com/r/whatisthisthing/comments/7mw74c/why...)

Amazon, as a consignment storefront, doesn't make money off the sale itself; nor can they set profit margins or declare sales. Instead, they make money by charging the supplier for their logistics services. In some consignment businesses, this is a simple flat pay-per-use fee; but for the Amazon store, this is taken as a cut "off the top" of the supplier's gross revenue from the products sold.
A game indeed. Our investments only grow as a direct exploit of the very “pollution” we try to avoid. As debt increases exponentially, so must consumption to cover it. So we shield ourselves and invest—because the game has winners, and it has losers.
https://cd.tcecbeta.club/archive.html?season=15&div=sf&game=...

Weird indeed. Can anyone explain why LC0 thought it had a chance? It seems obvious (thinking like a human) that white can't make progress: it can't move its rook off the h file without losing the pawn, and it can't promote its pawn without moving its rook. And it can't bring its king up to help the h-pawn without letting black's pawn promote.

LC0 evaluates the final position at 0.04, which I guess is close enough to 0 for it to agree to a draw, but I wonder why Stockfish is able to see that it's truly 0.00 and LC0 isn't.
That snippet seems to clearly demonstrate that it is not fear mongering if only 400 of 40,000 chemicals used have been even tested for human safety.
I call them German Ads. I used to live in the German speaking part of the world, and now and again I would see an ad that clumsily tried to persuade you by telling you about the product, what it was made of, and all that. And then a ridiculously lame attempt at showing a content housewife or something like that. Almost like the ad writer was trying to do a type 2 but was too honest.

Typically some ordinary household chemical.

I mean imagine a Coca-Cola ad where they talk to you about the fact that carbon dioxide is dissolved in the drink and it comes out of solution, giving you a tingling sensation. Versus what coke ads actually look like... snowy streets with trucks decorated for Christmas, a sense of warmth and expectation.
Thou shalt be able to recognise the Unix Epoch 0
The first two ads seem pretty Type 1 to me: they mostly consist of text straightforwardly describing what the product supposedly does, except for a smallish image in the first one. The descriptions are incorrect (cigarettes are not safe, and whatever was in those pills was certainly not as efficacious as the ad claims), but that’s basically an orthogonal issue.

On the other hand, your third example is definitely Type 2.
I've never done the math prior to today. I'll make an honest attempt at it and post the answer I come up with, regardless of whether it makes me look good or bad. :)

For the trip to my parents, I have a choice to fly commercial into Myrtle Beach, to fly private into the small airport near their house, or to drive. I'll consider CO2e and a 4-passenger load.

Commercial: 760nm->1300km(693 flight plan plus 10% uplift for ground ops and APU) => 328kg CO2e + 180 miles of airport transport by car => 32 kg CO2e => 360 kg total

Private car: 30mpg, 4 pax, 844 sm => 149 kg CO2e (burning ~28 gallons). (Also is a 14 hour drive, so miserable.)

Our airplane: 616nm => 1200km (including a 5% uplift for climb and ground ops), at 11nmpg, burning about 60 gallons, which matches our actual historical fuel purchases quite closely. Assuming same CO2e/gal as a car => 320 kg CO2e Add 100 miles or so of ground transport and that puts you around 18 kg for the cars and 338 kg total. (Distance is less because we go to an airport that is closer to my home airport and much closer to my parents' house.)

So it looks remarkably close on the airplane side, if the commercial airline figures below are accurate. I'm quite confident the car and our airplane figures are ballpark close enough (absent a math error). That also requires taking a direct flight, which is not always possible (the direct is seasonal). The emissions on connecting flights are much worse than the above with twice as many ground operations. (Jets can burn ~1/3 of their cruise fuel flow while idling on the ground. Pistons are more like 1/6th.)

Refs: http://lipasto.vtt.fi/yksikkopaastot/henkiloliikennee/ilmali... http://lipasto.vtt.fi/yksikkopaastot/henkiloliikennee/tielii...
They know and they don't care. I suggest finding an HN app that puts a usable interface on it.
CNN for Go at least seems justifiable. The use of a convolution captures the fact that a configuration of stones is mostly the same configuration of stones whether or not you shift it around the board a little bit.

This is much less true for chess, although it might still be true enough.
I dont understand either, they should call it long-life cake or something. My supermarket has racks and racks of bread, and I dont like any of it.
Looks like a perfectly apt use of the word. A fatalistic worldview can mean, for example, that they expect humankind's destructive impulses will always lead to its own destruction.
Not in the US, but a friend of my sister was bitten by a fox while she was abroad in Mexico, it didn't look like anything bad, but her friend convinced her to go to the ER to get it checked, the wait there was long and she ended up leaving after 3 hours of waiting. She developed rabies and was repatriated to France where she died a few weeks later. Nothing could be done because the incubation period had already passed.

Please have insurance, and don't give up getting checked because it doesn't look serious or you don't have insurance, and always schedule a follow up with you GP as the ER only address urgent things for until you follow up.