skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Downlink frequency is 437.025 MHz. You'll be able to download telemetry, but you won't be able to decode photos because NOAA says no.
Border towns might be a decent idea. I was only considering crossing northern Mexico by car which natives visiting the US have told me is something they never do.
A Brief History of Spinning
'Topics In Algebra' by I.N.Herstein. Back in college years this was my first book. Despite many other books (which might look easier) I always came back here because of the care it takes to walk through well crafted progression of concepts. (Not a 'computer science' book but you will need something like this for the Algebra part)
At this point I'm just wondering why some major online news player hasn't made a platform good enough that these papers don't feel the need to make their own. It could also make bundled subscriptions trivial and a way to get good national and local coverage while reducing cost.

Does the LA Times really have a chance of competing with NYT or WaPo? At this point I'm not sure why they should try, other than hubris.
> I would totally drop Go for an ML language if any of them had a sane syntax, usable build tooling (including native, static compilation by default), and a (single) decent standard library.

F# seems to meet all of that except that native static compilation isn't the default (but is available).
Don’t people still keep cats for pest control? They’re really good at it.
Many others are facing the same issue (https://support.google.com/chrome/thread/9379810?hl=en). But still no official reply.
Do You Know Why Employees Leave Your Company?
At least, not pronunciation that's unambiguous whilst you're not also writing on a blackboard.
Yes, but I think the cost of the chip (and cost per transistor on the chip) is starting to go back up again with each die shrink, rather than down every die shrink.
They had already developed the node, or in any case, IBM had (and they purchased the IBM fab research division). But they didn't have the capital to scale out. They decided it would be more profitable and less risky to stay on 14nm and serve the long tail of customers that don't use leading edge nodes.
Thanks! I was looking for that kind of answers!

So does that mean that at any given place, there won't be soil for deeper than the roots go? What happens to the soul if all the roots die or are removed (assuming it is not washed away by water)? Does it decay into CO2?
https://youtu.be/3VZSJKbzyMc

This guy built a whole forest.
From the article:

> Where do these correlations ultimately come from? Well, they come from where everything ultimately comes from, that is from the initial state of the universe. And that’s where most people walk off: They think that you need to precisely choose the initial conditions of the universe to arrange quanta in Anton Zeilinger’s brain just so that he’ll end up turning a knob left rather than right. Besides sounding entirely nuts, it’s also a useless idea, because how the hell would you ever calculate anything with it? And if it’s unfalsifiable but useless, then indeed it isn’t science. So, frowning at superdeterminism is not entirely unjustified.
Availability tends to be a closely-guarded secret; they don't want a competitor typing in every address in the city and then getting an easy list of customers.

ISPs are way too paranoid about this, though. Simple rate limiting is more than enough. If someone builds a botnet to check what buildings you're available in, maps the addresses to the person in charge of IT at every company in the building, signs the necessary access agreements, digs up the streets to install fiber, then calls your happy customers and asks them to switch, ... good luck to them. Meanwhile, an easy-to-use map or availability checker for potential customers probably has a high probability of getting you a sale.
Pick natives and don't ask for permission! (https://www.reddit.com/r/gardening/comments/bwuxsf/guerrilla...)
Basic knowledge of cats, most likely. A high number of outdoor cats I've known would hunt animals and bring the complete flailing bodies or corpses indoors. It's just an understood part of cats, kind of like how humans will do things even though it isn't necessary for survival.
Late October, when the crowds have thinned but before the heavy snows arrive, is my favorite time to go backpacking in the mountains. It’s a completely different experience than visiting in the summer months. It does tend to get cold at night (below freezing, even) and can snow on occasion, so you need to plan accordingly.
> Buses can also have dedicated lanes with right-of-way.

IME they're an improvement but no where near as good as separated rail. It's like building a 32 lane highway, it speeds up most of your trip but then 90% of it is spent at the exit ramp.

Underground would probably be an improvement for travel times but I'm not sure how much, part of the benefit of trams is their frequent stops so being completely unimpeded is less critical. I doubt you'd see the same level of retail build up along the lines too.

One option I'd like to see return through the CBD would be elevated lines, I'm not sure why they fell out of fashion.
So we can buy houses and lease cars on credit
Precision is important, but understanding context, common cultural idioms, and responding substantively to them is more important.

> Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith.

On the odds of the payout literally dropping below $1, that would require roughly 21% of eligible people to sign up - 31 million. The FTC has claimed that "millions" have already signed up, but hasn't given more exact numbers.

We can assume that the rate of sign ups will slow down as time goes on, but people also have until January 2020 to file a claim. If 4 million people file, that will drop the payout to $7.75.

I doubt the payout will drop below $1, but if I were a betting person I'd be willing to bet a moderate amount that the (initial) amount will drop below $10. Depending on the odds given, I don't think it would unreasonable for someone to bet that it will drop below $5. Note that this is assuming that the FTC doesn't literally turn off the option and prevent people from claiming the money.

In either of those scenarios, the original commenter's point is still basically the same, which is that this is an absurdly low amount to pay for a breach of this size. I'd also also potentially support the government dismantling Equifax, which was the actual point of the parents post.

I'll even add to that point that Equifax's free credit monitoring comes with its own arbitration agreement, which is so egregious and tone-deaf that it makes me furious. The government should not allow a company to put an arbitration agreement into a service it's being forced to provide as a result of a class action settlement.
So much this. These kinds of workflows are far more common than you would think they’d be, looking in from the outside.

This is true even if your company has in-house developers. At the small company I work for, we have barely enough developer bandwidth to cover most things related to our core products as it is. Improving internal support processes just isn’t even on the radar for us as a dev team. So those things either get contracted out (where we as a dev team may have limited or no evaluation input with regards to the quality of the solution), purchased (again with little or no input from us as devs) or are built ad-hoc by the less technical side of the business.

Companies have a lot of internal moving parts and resource limitations that together lead to these kinds of things.
It's not quite negligible at 700km. The effects of the atmosphere are also proportional to the craft's B* value (atmospheric drag coefficient), which is partially based on the surface area/mass ratio.

Id imagine that a sail's effectiveness probably increases as its area increases and mass decreases so it should have have a relatively high B* compared to similar objects. Looking at the published TLE's seems to back this up— Lightsail 2's B* is larger than any current cubesat's value (https://celestrak.com/NORAD/elements/cubesat.txt)
It would be nice if there was more discussion of the architecture and how the service achieves its claims. How are users synced reliably without a central server? It’s not a matter of reducing latency at all costs. Game server architecture is based on the concept of server authority that prevents hackers and cheaters from performing client-side operations from altering the “source of truth” that lives on and is only altered by server-side operations. This looks like a fun approach to learning the API but there isn’t enough information to justify replacing existing hand-made systems built for online games.
Great anecdote! My dad was an engineer on the Hubble and its servicing missions so I'm sure he'll get a kick out of that story if he hasn't heard it before. Thanks for sharing it!
> I always felt like subscription boxes for something non-consumable, like socks, wouldn’t work. After a few months, you would have enough and cancel the subscription.

Socks and underwear are definitely consumables - they wear out from regular wear and washing. And they have a definite advantage over cigars: they don't give your customers horrible diseases. (I watched someone die of lung cancer. It's not a pleasant way to go.)
There are several control methods available to solar sails that can work. They were studied quite extensively by NASA during the 60s.

The thrust generated by a solar sail is proportional to the angle between it and the sun, as is the direction of that thrust. If any part of your sail can twist, then you have steering vanes that are quite useful. You can twist the vanes to angles where the vane on one side of the craft is reflecting sunlight while the one on the other side is not in order to get a rotational acceleration.

If your sail is carrying a payload, then that payload will likely be in the center of the craft, with the sail spread out around it symmetrically. If you can shift the payload side to side relative to the sail, then that will shift the center of mass of the whole craft. With more of the sail to one side of the center of mass you will again get a rotation.

If you want more information, find a copy of the book Space Sailing by Jerome Wright; it's quite good.
Not sure what you mean. LED’s don’t have internal resistance. Can you ckarify?
I mean I agree but it's also possible to store a list of recently unsubscribed email addresses on the servers sending the mail out. Is it worth the trouble? Probably not.
I have family in LA and they subscribe to the NY Times over LA Times.
Yeah damn it’s good, I was assuming this was a company posting? Also the plans are good value. And backend/front end integration is well thought out.

My concern for you is there are a lot of GUI site builders out there. So I wonder how this stands out?
What's unfair is the pretense that this is a market transaction between two equal parties. The "person" loaning the money is quite frequently a large corporation with access to resources allowing them to leverage the credit bureau system and the legal system to achieve an outcome in their favor. Most consumer borrowers don't have the resources to retain counsel or sue.
Most of what you say is correct but it's wrong to say that regulation isn't responsible for race being absent from FICO calculation. It's fair to say that lenders would use factors like race in a heartbeat if it weren't illegal, but it is illegal to do that. If FICO were race-based, using FICO would be depending on race indirectly, but explicitly, to make loan decisions. Thus FICO can't be dependent on race.
In some cases employers we work with are very open to offering visas for potential migrants, but because we mainly focus on startups at the moment this isn't super common (yet!)
I hate this argument because it seems altruistic and empathetic but most of the time it's entirely self-serving. People wheel it out when something that would inconvenience them, specifically, is proposed.

Example: in Manhattan we still have free street parking. It's insane. Yet any attempts to remove it get this same argument of "what about the poor who need to drive?" To anyone who says this or thinks this I challenge you to walk several blocks of pretty much any street below 110th street and look at the cars parked there. On some I see Maseratis, Teslas, BMWs and so on. It's not poor people who own these cars. It's just another giveaway to incumbents and the wealthy for no good reason.

I lived in London when congestion pricing was first rolled out. The difference in traffic in the West End was night and day, overnight. It was unbelievable, so much so that Ken Livingstone (then Mayor of London) worried they wouldn't hit revenue targets.

The problem with London's congestion pricing is there's an exemption for those who live in Zone 1, basically (technically, it's a subset of Zone 1). Why? These are the people who have the least need for private vehicles (by virtue of good public transportation) and are probably significantly wealthier than the average Londoner.

This is also the problem I have with what NYC is doing. They're also flirting with congestion pricing. So far all they've done is make Ubers stupidly expensive (there are rides that 5 years ago would cost me <$15 that now cost $35), which is again completely wrong. Uber and Lyft make efficient use of vehicles. They're not driven once a week and otherwise block the street cleaners in their free parking. Private vehicle ownership for Manhattan residents needs to be punitively taxed and street parking should require an expensive permit. There should also be a lot less of it.
For a one off project, why wouldn't an old android phone work? It isn't that hard to sideload an app onto the device, and apps can be developed to comm with external devices through USB OTG adapters.
Hello Jaclyn!

Hatchways sounds awesome. I hope you don't mind, but I sent you a message on LinkedIn regarding utilizing Hatchways. I could not PM you on here and my question revolves around a story that I would prefer to be kept private. Huge shoutout to everyone posting their non-traditional stories in this thread, by the way!

I hope to hear back from you,
Thanks, and keep doing great!
Google Makes Adv.Prog. Available, Launches Titan Security Keys Internationally
That really depends.
If it's buried under enough dirt, there won't be enough oxygen for it to decompose.
So it's important to call out here that they're using a modified LCD panel. A traditional LCD panel has two components: a backlight that constantly provides solid white light, and the LCD in front of it, which darkens each pixel. This is why on your computer monitor, if you send it a "black" signal, you still see some light. The LCD is as dark as it will go, but some light still bleeds through because the backlight is on all the time.

In the paper, they're effectively using two backlight configurations. When displaying the solid object, they shine the backlight on the object, which scatters some of that light back towards the viewer. During this phase, they mask the image the LCD wants to display by having it render a greyscale image, where black pixels should hide the physical object, and white pixels should let the physical object shine through. In this mode, the physical object becomes the backlight, effectively.

In the image display mode, they point the backlights towards the LCD panel, and display their super-imposed image. In this mode, the object is not being illuminated, and so its contribution to the image is minimal. This is also why an enclosure is required, because the display needs to be able to throw the physical object into shadow during this second phase.

All of this is, of course, happening extremely quickly. The panel alternates between these two modes so fast that the human eye can't perceive the flicker, and persistence of vision simply combines the light contributions from both modes. The result is what you see in the images and video example.
The contention was that Sonic's "business model is fundamentally to advertise a low price and charge a high one" and that other ISPs will openly "rip you off" while Sonic will
"lie about the real price".

I can't see how the bill supports any of those arguments. Sonic indisputably offers lower prices for their service than any other ISP. Their advertising and billing practices are, at worst, indistinguishable in terms of being more misleading. At best they're far better as my experience with Comcast and other telecom providers has been steady increases, whereas I'll be shocked the day Sonic increases their price.

All the voice line taxes might be a surprise to people, but Sonic isn't pocketing that money (except maybe the $0.36 property tax allotment), no more than any other tax, so I don't see how it's a strategy to make more money. Even if they disclosed them upfront their advertised price would go up a commensurate amount along with every other ISP.

I won't argue that the world would be better with greater pricing transparency, but so would world peace and eradicating homelessness. But there's absolutely no reason whatsoever to single out Sonic in these regards.

It would be reasonable to say something like, "Sonic is at least as good as any other ISP, but it would be nice if they also lead the way in terms of pricing transparency". But that's not what was said.
You should be using an existing scripting language as your configuration language.

Seriously, Every single fucking stupid infrastructure-deployment-tool/"platform" whatever has it's own, dumb in-house language that winds up basically re-implementing the programming language the tool is written in badly.

- Puppet: Has a stupid ad-hoc config language.
- Terraform: Has a stupid ad-hoc config language.
- SaltStack: Has a stupid ad-hoc config language.
- Ansible: Has a stupid ad-hoc config language.

If you're even considering implementing a tool like this, use a goddamn existing language for your configuration files.

You don't need to use the entire language, but at least use the language's lexer/parser (cf. json/javascript). That way, all existing tooling for the language will work for the config files (ask me about how saltstack happily breaks their API because you're not "supposed" to use it, despite the fact that they have public docs for it). Additionally, people won't need to figure out all the stupid corner cases in your terrible piecemeal configuration language.

Additionally, by making your configuration language an actual language, you also simplify a lot of the system design, because the configuration can act directly against your API. This means using your tool from other tools becomes much more straightforward, because the only interface you actually need is the API.
Do you use the Neo4j GraphQL integration? [1]

Or some other approach for building your GraphQL layer on top of Neo4j?

[1] https://grandstack.io/docs/neo4j-graphql-js-quickstart.html
Ask HN: Bonding Internet Connections
Hi Guys - I'm based in Australia and have slow ADSL2+ (4Mb/1Mb down/up). I live semi rural so have limited to no mobile reception. I can get 'skymuster' which is a satellite connection that should provide about 20Mb down. That said I've has mixed reviews like it 1) stops working in heavy rain plus 2) accounts are limited to 200bg and I probably use double that in a month and 3) I run my mobile calls over wifi so worried about the latency of satellite only.

I’ve started looking at signing up to both services to get the best of both and bonding these 2 connections. The solution to bond connections that keeps showing up is Speedify. There doesn’t seem to be a huge amount of options for a non-technical person like me.
I'm wondering if people have any recommendations on the best way to bond 2 internet connections?
American Wealth Is Broken
Can you shed insight on why the acceptance of the NHS is like a religion or seemingly tied to national identity so much?

Modification or criticism of NHS seems like an off limits topic with UK residents, and it just seems like a weird topic to be off limits so I don't really understand
Can you speculate on what that generation perceives as normal ads?
i bought conductive thread many years ago with the intention of sewing it into clothing for just this purpose, but then reassessed my general threat position, and realized i could probably put it to better use as lighting for a halloween costume.
You can send it back, but (supposedly) if you do so they charge you a fee to send a tech out in the future. I say supposedly because it seems like a weed-out warning to reduce support tickets from people who made their own problems, but I haven’t had to find out since my Sonic fiber has been flawless for two years. There’s an ONT on the wall where the fiber comes through, providing one data jack and one phone jack. I just plug an ethernet cable between it and my FreeBSD router PC, request a DHCP lease on that interface, and go.
It's worth remembering that an important aspect of your score is your value as a customer. Risk is one element. Carrying a balance gives you more value than if you never carry a balance.
One concern for you about pricing. If I stick a varnish cache or cloudflare in front of my site (or your api), I’m unlikely to need a big plan. Free plan could do for a very popular site.

Maybe consider pricing by amount of content and requests?
Whipple shields are cheap and effective. The impact does indeed impart a lot of kinetic energy, but on a thin sacrificial layer. This breaks the projectile into thousands or millions of tinier projectiles in an expanding cone of debris. As each of those smaller projectiles carries much less kinetic energy, and they impact your craft over a much larger area, the damage to the hull is minimized or even eliminated.

Since a solar sail is just a huge sheet of plastic coated in aluminum, any impact with the sail will tend to leave just a pinhole, or possibly a tear. You do need to design your sail with ripstops, but the total area lost to the pinholes will tend to be quite small.
please convince my employers and all other employers to move to those small cities. i don't think employees have much power to decide where they can work: employers have all the bargaining power. Why else would any company set up shop in places like SF, Palo alto, penninsula, etc?
I usually start with saying that an Application User Interface describes how a user (i.e. person) uses the website to get information while an Application Programming Interface describes how another program get information from an application.
True, but because all ads are spread via media, and interrupt the experience of enjoying that movie, song, paper or magazine or book, the delivery of every ad inevitably lessens your enjoyment of whatever activity they interrupt.

Nobody chooses to watch a TV or radio show that's all ads. Ads are the opposite of entertainment, otherwise we'd tune in Wednesday at 8 PM to watch our favorite ads.
Video calls are absolutely useless. They add absolutely nothing and make many people uncomfortable. Not to mention the extra preparation needed by the participants to look good. This isn't a beauty pageant. I've been working remotely for over half a decade and never needed a video call or found a single meeting it would not have detracted from. This isn't management 101. Frankly, it's stupidity. It's what idiot managers think is management 101 along with micromanagement and never giving raises. I stopped reading after that. What a stupid thing to add to the list.
British army fights fake news with propagandists and hackers in one unit
Uncovering the Secrets of the Ranger 7
Congressman Has Written an Official Letter to the Navy Demanding Answers on UFOs
HP adds hundreds of repair videos to YouTube channel
I'd be fine with a means based program to avoid congestion pricing then. I've never driven in Manhattan myself.
Mind Exercises You Can Do Regularly