skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Algorithms.

Don't know if this is the case here, but if a mod notices something interesting and it doesn't gain traction, they will invite the submitter to submit it again at a later date and add a bump to keep it up a little longer to see if it gains traction then.

It's nice that there is some variety of interesting things here so that it's not all tech-related. Most hackers love cats I think.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_didn%27t_build_that
Do we have the capability to manage the traffic with these 3k Amazon satellites + Starlink's 12k + OneWeb's 650 + all the stuff that's already up there?

Starlink is the only one that mentions collision avoidance during operations.
I thought sats in LEO have fundamental issue that they can’t stay up too long. In rather short time, their fuel would run out and they will burn off in atmosphere.

Does this mean you have to keep replishining them at regular intervals like less than a year or two?
I worked on both GA and SA and I think it really depends. There are some effective evolution strategies that can speed up the evolution, combine that with a parallel implementation GA can be really fast. But yeah it can take time to figure out a good evolution strategy and SA can solve some problems just fine.
Well, if we want to generate the efficiencies of scale that would ever allow us to get off this rock, we've got to start with something. There is a lot of money kicking around not doing a whole lot right now, and building rockets is more likely to get us going in the right direction than acqu-hiring another Uber for Cats whizzbang startup for grossly more than it is worth.
What modern/good features do you like the most? (i.e. what are the things that draw you to Slack)
Was very lonely in my twenties, now desperate for alone time. Suppose that’s comforting or the opposite. In any case, things change so give yourself a break.
But nothing has changed recently in the culture of HN that would recommend using alt accounts to push conservative viewpoints. However, there’s been a big uptick of these new accounts in the past 6 months or so.
Has anyone considered colonizing asteroids? If you can spin the asteroids you can generate enough centripetal force to mimic gravity.

Not sure what the chances of asteroids being solid enough to be spun without flying apart though. Another option would be to build a track around the asteroid and move a colony along that track.

Need about 1 kilometer of radius from center and 1 rotation per minute to generate 1 g force.

Interesting.. gravity train: https://i.imgur.com/Q2D5i1K.png
That is impressive. Congratulations on your soon-to-be newest addition!
You did say up to 2013. I know a lot of games that were heavily IRC based in coordination, but move on to either Slack or Discord around 2015. Though the link suggests it's still IRC main.
I think the point is that most people don't transfer money between accounts.
You're kidding, right? SPLC is a virtue signal cesspool run by con men that has been forced to retract multiple smears in the last year alone, including smearing many "left leaning" journalists as Russian spies and fascists.

https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2018/03/09/update-multip...
Aren't SpaceX creating Starlink to generate funds to support other projects; in particular, their plans to create the rockets and infrastructure to ultimately colonise Mars?

i.e. not (primarily) to "enrich a much smaller set of investors (and particularly Musk)"?
It had some deeper financial analytics capabilities that you'd traditionally only get with a service like Mint or a more modern bank like Simple, such as flow analysis (seeing comparisons between amount-in/amount-out and extrapolating for the month) and expense categorization analysis. More importantly, it had a Great UX; the primary Chase app is Good, but not Great, and having a Great UX encourages the usage of these features to better maintain strong financial health.
The only way to really find out is to go there and live for a while :)
From some distance it looks to me like kids today are aren't exhibiting the same behavior as their parents. Their parents were oh so much much worse behaved.
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I don’t think that’s true, besides, couldn’t the same argument be said about raising the corporate income tax? Yet many people are in favor of that.

Tarrifs directly benefit American workers and factories, who find their prices 20% more competitive.
Is that a law? I feel like that should be a law:

If you think you don't like X, just wait until your company forces you to use Microsoft Y.

- _emacsomancer_'s law

I've used slack for school, and it was pretty useful. I'm using Teams at work, and it seems remarkably less so. I'm not sure if it's because nobody's comfortable using it for anything other than skype meetings, or because it somehow seems less intuitive or well thought out as slack. Probably a bit of both.

One thing that kind of kills me - we use visualstudio.com too for git (incidentally, it's interesting to see a strong tfs team struggling with git - vs/git integration is useful only if you're relative comfortable with git in the first place), and there doesn't seem to be any kind of strong integration between vs.com and ms teams. That's weird. I see my team on teams, I converse with them on teams, I have access to my backlog items on teams (with an azure plugin), but why can't I see my team's board? vs.com's UI takes some getting used to, but at the very least it seems like it should be accessible, with very little additional work, within teams.

Teams feels a lot like a half-baked (maybe 3/4 baked) response to Slack that could really be so much more.
This is a business that Apple should get into as well. They have the capital and Phones+internet would have great vertical synergy.
Is it just me, or is something screwy going on with this post? I feel like I've seen it every day for the past week, with the same comments getting forward-dated each time.
Pretty much - I think Starlink satellites will have an estimated lifespan of 5 years, not bad.
Median household income is 56k.
Ugh. These sort of pseudo-intellectual articles that mix economics and politics are my least favorite things to see on this site. They are super misleading and play towards people's biases about how they view the world while selectively interpreting the sparse data they present to do so.

An example:

If there was too much money, you would think that bond yields would go down. Look here: https://www.cnbc.com/quotes/?symbol=US30Y -- looks like they are! Guess we can all go blame the fed and "trickle down". But oh wait, scroll out to a longer time-span. Looks like yields have been falling ~linearly from 1989 till today, 2019. Show me where QE/ZIRP started based on the chart. You can't, because the trend didn't change at 2008/9. All this "blame the fed, im smarter than them and would've not done QE" nonsense maybe isn't as supported by evidence as some would like. The world is a little more nuanced than that.
On the surface level, the data seems to agree, but you look a little deeper and it quickly becomes apparent it's all bullshit trying to spin a narrative.
Yes, there is a finite limit, but the number is much higher than you would suppose.

First, in terms of spectrum, realistically all the satellites in a constellation can (and should) share a small number of relatively narrow frequencies. You can almost imagine it ma be the equivalent of one more cell tower in your area per constellation (at worse).

In terms of space, astronomy aside, the actual space these satellites are flying in are “huge”. As a perspective if you hold your thumb up to the sky, the distance “covered up” by your thumb (if I did my math right) is approximately 480 miles [1]

Yes things travel very quickly at those orbits, but the point is that even if we throw a ton of satellites up, they will remain fairly sparse.

That said, possible reflection and how noticeable they will be, that is a whole other question.

[1] assuming orbits of 366 miles up, higher orbits would be even farther apart
But there is no single right answer! Even a given person may want one answer in one context and another one in a different context. Popularity is not the answer, but neither is currency.

A problem I run into repeatedly with Google is that I enter search terms and when it gives me the wrong thing, sometimes the opposite of what I want, it strongly resists my refining it. For instance, if I search for "turning off feature X" and everybody else searches for "turning on feature X", Google will "correct" me implacably. You're not allowed to turn "X" off. Back in the old days when it wasn't as intelligent, you could add words that would divert it from the popular cluster of hits. This isn't just an annoyance, I believe it's shaping society by determining which ideas and information thrive and which wither.
While Lenovo still sells the wired version[1] (ThinkPad Wired USB Keyboard with TrackPoint), they regrettably stopped selling the bluetooth version a while back. Hopefully it's clearing stock for a refresh, but...

[1] https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/accessories-and-monitors/keyboa...
Many service workers work 2 jobs to make ends meet. If they start earning enough from one job, that's extra time and money that can go towards a certification. I know Amazon has offered many of it's workers $10,000 to quit and start a delivery company. They are trying to help them transition as bots are taking warehouse jobs.
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Hey terryf - Zach here from DO. If you ever encounter an issue that you don't feel is getting the proper attention feel free to reach out. We constantly engage with developers on social, which is primarily Twitter, and we don't look at follower count to determine who to reply to. If for whatever reason you don't get the help you need, you can always email me directly (first name at).

Thanks,
Zach
They are not a lot of work to produce unless you're a GPU. A sophisticated audience might not be impressed by video alone but seek correlation from witnesses, the date and time of the alleged event etc., but a well-timed lie is often enough to swing an election or trigger a political crisis.
People who care deeply about the planet are exactly the people who should pass their sensibilities to the next generation.
I was curious to know how cascading failures in one region effected other regions. Impact was " ...increased latency, intermittent errors, and connectivity loss to instances in us-central1, us-east1, us-east4, us-west2, northamerica-northeast1, and southamerica-east1."

Answer, and the root cause summarized:

Maintenance started in a physical location, and then "... the automation software created a list of jobs to deschedule in that physical location, which included the logical clusters running network control jobs.
Those logical clusters also included network control jobs in other physical locations."

So the automation equivalent of a human driven command that says "deschedule these core jobs in another region".

Maybe someone needs to write a paper on Fault tolerance in the presence of Byzantine Automations (Joke. There was a satirical note on this subject posted here yesterday.)
Yeah, but I believe it takes ~10 million years for a Mars atmosphere to escape.

So it could be entirely feasible to treat the Mars atmosphere as a tire, that you "inflate" every now and then to keep the pressure constant.
You are right for spontaneous emission, there we need to connect the system to something else, or to formulate a detailed-enough relativistic model with retarded EM fields that is able to lose energy (ordinary Hamiltonian of charged particle variables only cannot describe loss of energy to radiation).

But for spontaneous absorption/emission, you are not right. Describing atoms by psi function is extremely successful, it is what Schroedinger did in his papers, what got him the right results for positions and intensities of spectral lines and what put his equation to the center of interest. It is true this successful description has some problems, such as the question of consistency of different world cuts (into system and environment), but the ordinary way to do the split for atom-radiation interaction (time-independent atom Hamiltonian and time-dependent external EM field) describes stimulated emission and absorption very well.

Stimulated absorption/emission does require presence of external field, but this field can be taken into account in the usual psi function formulation - this is called semi-classical theory of radiation, it is what Schroedinger proposed in 1920's for simple atoms and is still heavily used for description of interaction of radiation with atoms and molecules.
The "trickle down" story keeps coming up, but it's untrue. It simply doesn't work that way.

If someone who is already rich gets even more, it won't be spent in a way that is good for someone poor. More likely, the excess money will be invested in a way that provides yield, like buying real estate, driving up prices and rent. Or merging businesses to lower competition and costs. Leading to money streming 'up' instead of trickling down.

The trickle down story is a hoax that needs to die.
I've wondered if, in this context that we are in, it actually starts to make sense to both raise interest rates and simultaneously monetize government debt.

We want some inflation, but we also do not want a late-1980s-style Japanese asset price bubble.

I cannot find a real answer to this question anywhere - would this plan produce any negative effect? The plan would, as far as I can tell, help the long-term outlook of our currency and economy while incentivizing wealthy people to stay invested.

I might be missing something obvious. Maybe this would lead to businesses having a harder time employing because of the higher borrowing cost (but we are at full employment now), or maybe the effect is just too uncertain on the money supply. Either way, I really want to know the answer, so I'm asking it here.

To be clear, I am not suggesting that politicians have direct control over monetizing debt, but rather that the central bank deems this to be best for the economy in the long term.
This used to be a huge issue when satellites had to be very big and expensive to launch. But today satellites can be much smaller (several hundred kg) and are much cheaper to launch, making this approach viable.
Using 32-bit pointers in 64-bit code on Windows (benchmark)
You've read the figure incorrectly. Smaller values for Intergenerational Earnings Elasticity represent greater equality of opportunity[1] and correlate with less inequality.

[1] https://www.businessinsider.com/intergenerational-earnings-e...
The universe is everything. By definition, there can be no evidence for anything outside, before, or after it. Any such evidence would be in the universe. There are no valid questions about it, nor valid answers. Any claims about something outside the universe are neither true nor false—they are completely arbitrary. They have the same intellectual status as God.
Pure nothingness cant be detected or measured because nothingness isn't there. if it was there it wouldn't be nothingness it would be something.
> Often times those two are combined in one device.

Even when they are combined in one device they are often separated on to control plane and data plane modules. Redundant modules are often supported and data plane modules can often continue to forward data based upon the current forwarding table at the time of control plane failure.

Often the control plane module will basically be a general purpose computer on a card running either a vendor specific OS, Linux or FreeBSD. For example Juniper routing engines, the control planes for Juniper routers, run Junos which is a version of FreeBSD on Intel X86 hardware.
Elon vs. the Alligators (Part II)
If you think this is anything other than post-capitalist market capture disguised as philanthropy, I have some bad news for you.
I am allergic to cigarette smoke. Whatever gathering/party it is, some always light up cigarettes and that party literally ends right there for me. So, I have given up on conventional social gatherings. Even people I play sports with (I am a regular at badminton and football/soccer) smoke when we hangout.

I have always loved travelling so that's what I do every weekend - to some town or hills or a beach or trekking somewhere. Treks are where I meet quite some people and they don't smoke, at least not there.
Wow, that would be something else. I assume whoever gets that to market first would make a killing.
Except Valve could issue a final update that disables the DRM Check, and the game is still playable locally, right? More likely than Stadia developing a local client to sync game content/licenses to.
The IRC protocol is entirely open. You can make extensions to do anything you want.
Postel's law belongs on this list, as a rule to live and code by.
We programmers get our noses rubbed in our own mistakes many times a day. Once in a while we get to find out that code we were sure of for years was embarrassingly wrong. You would expect people with so much experience of fallibility to become especially aware of it, especially ready to have their minds changed by argument, when it comes to unrelated even-more-complicated topics like politics and economics... if you were an alien unexposed to human nature.
I think you're misreading the graph. The Y axis is immobility. In other words, Italy and the UK have lower mobility than the US. Every other European country on the list has greater mobility.
What's "post-" about it?
That’s totally backwards. If nobody had had any money nobody wouldn’t have bought any phones. You Can’t just invest into things nobody can buy.
Your comment reminds me of a cautionary essay by a adolescent psychologist. Her warning was that psychologists are not a normative group because of the conformist selection process. Getting a PhD in psychology is an exercise in knuckling under. That is something that is pretty alien to a typical teenager.

As a result psychologists often see aberrant behavior in adolescents that is actually gob smack normal and ultimately harmless.
They all want to go to space because guillotines need gravity to work.
Not sure if I missed something, but I can't add fonts. Is that not possible?
To me, it seems like gym isn't the place. I've been taking group class for over 4 months. I've not made a single friend in this time. People come on time, do the class, pack up their shit quickly and leave.

It is in bay area, and I go-to my company gym which is fairly busy and big.
Tacking a disclaimer on the end isn't sufficient to justify posting so much flamebait.
Capitalism is free markets, but that quickly devolves into regulatory capture and such, as per Adam Smith, Karl Marx, et. al.
Imo you are taking on a huge risk. Your shares will be worth nothing the majority of the time. In the future if your shares are worth a lot and you need to pay taxes that will be a nice problem to have.
Yep, I use IRC all day, every day. I keep in touch with many of my friends on IRC, hang out in social and technical channels, organize developers on my projects, provide support channels on IRC, ask questions and reach out to projects I'm collaborating with... I'm in hundreds of channels on a dozen networks. I run a dozen IRC bots. IRC is still king. Nothing beats plaintext communication on a well-established protocol with hundreds of implementations. Least of all a proprietary walled garden like Slack, Discord, etc
Parts of New York City that aren’t safe are filled with multimillion dollar brownstones, private schools and opportunity not available in other parts of the world.
In the US, Amtrak often gets "stuck in traffic", because freight trains have priority. I think a lot of people don't realize this and it contributes to the general opinion that Amtrak just sucks for no reason.
An internet summarizes and makes a well informed conclusion :-

Which is, I probably don't pay for things and felt hurt when I saw "yet another paid note taking app" amongst dozen others on the internet.
Fidelity has a biyearly traded SpaceX fund.
> I mean, humans are also the only animals on the planet with language.

orcas/other dolphins/whales want a word.

> Or like, the only ones that can associate abstract concepts with value (so trading shells for food, etc).

i don't know about this...

https://www.zmescience.com/science/prostitution-animals/
It's "83(b) election." It's interesting a late stage startup is offering this. But do NOT do it.

Do this only for very early stage startups where your total expense might be a few thousand dollars for maybe 1% or more of the startup. At most, you lose a few thousand dollars.

Spending $100K to optimize possible future taxes is a bad idea. At this stage, you should just think that future AMT is a good problem to have. Put the $100K in safer instruments.
Every day. I have a long running tmux session running irssi on a community Linux host that's been humming along in some forgotten corner of a vast data center for the past 11.71 years[0]. My ~/.irssi/config has me on a number of channels on a handful of different servers. Some on networks like chat.freenode.net and irc.mibbit.net, and some on single servers hosted by different groups of friends.

Freenode has been really helpful for me. I've had great conversations on ##aws, #lfs, #tmux, and #hammerspoon in recent weeks.

[0]:

root@eidolon:~# smartctl --all /dev/sda | grep Power_On_Hours | cut -c88-
102567
> the problem you're trying to solve is not very time critical (GA can take seconds to minutes depending on your problem)

Ha. Days or weeks is typical for complex problems.
> above the allowed 2% per year.

The US Fed's inflation target is symmetric about 2%, though it has almost consistently undershot it in recent years.

Some argue that higher inflation is less scary than deflation because "interest rates can always go higher", but I would agree the Fed does seem to be more worried about upside inflation risks. Possibly because monetary policy has been "accommodative" (in their view) for so long, and "normalisation" has been a clear long-run goal. There are signs those tendencies have changed, though -- they've been talking about being "data driven" since last year, and recent messaging has smoothed the road to possible rate cuts too.
Hi treis - All DO customers have always received free, 24x7 Support. Of course, we're working on being as responsive as our customers deserve. A few months ago we also implemented a new paid Premier Support tier which features a live channel with 30-minute response times.

Here's some more information for anyone who's interested - https://www.digitalocean.com/support/#PremierSupport

Thanks,
Zach, DigitialOcean Support
That's a separate problem- students play dumb so class is easy as the teacher struggles to figure out how the kids made it so far. Then they get dinged when kids do miserably on standardized tests. And they don't dare just flunk them, or the parents will be in demanding the teachers head for disparaging their little genius.
Don't take a pay cut.
The founder's edition is just to pre-order the countroller (and Chromecast + few more goodies), but at launch you'll be able to buy the subscription until the free tier becomes available
The issue is that this indoctrinates children into living in a totalitarian state. If you never have any freedom as a child, how will you know it's missing as an adult?
That was my mistake in my last relationship. Everything I did alone and loved it absolutely - sometimes even more, I started doing pretty much "only with her" and after we parted ways that has been the most difficult part - I kind of forgot how I was happy, active, engaged with just being myself and not with anyone else necessarily.
To be fair, I think most police chiefs may have an actual obligation to let prosecutors know about it?

There are groups of people that have a “must report” obligation listed in the law. I cannot remember if it’s state or federal law.