skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure. But we all know what the astronomers would answer too. Fibre and coax broadband are plenty fine for them...

I don't know how to measure some objective ranking of the benefits of terrestrial astronomy vs satellite internet services - I doubt there's any way to quantify those two things sensibly.

I _do_ note though, that while the existence of telescopes on the ground doesn't threaten the existence of satellite internet, satellite internet _does_ threaten the existence of ground based astronomy. Doesn't seem "right" that SpaceX(or Amazon or other constellations) can just say "Sucks to be you, we're going to fuck up your entire field of study because we think we can make a buck here".

Pretty sure we shouldn't just let Elon and Jeff decide here, without letting orgs like the IAU at least have their say, and put forward an argument against it...
> Refusing to serve a customer when you disagree with that customer's goal is pretty far from being a "moral arbiter for society."

The civil rights movement and suffrage prove this is patently untrue. The biggest difference is that gender, religion and ethnicity are easy things to point out, while ideologic belief systems are tricky.

Where do you draw the line on what grounds a business can refuse service? Should I be able to refuse service to republicans? How about amputees? I hate the color yellow, so I'm not going to sell to anyone with an outfit on that has that color. I live in Los Angeles, where it's still plenty common to see signs saying "No Shoes, No Shirt, No Service" - which, btw, is not aimed at scantily clad beach goers but targets the poor and homeless population. Same with silly dress codes around baggy pants and hats - all clear examples of bullshit rules intended to single out an "undesirable" customer. Except it's not race/religions/gender so it's cool, right?

I'm in the camp that the reasons businesses should have to refuse service should be a whitelist, not a blacklist.
The IceStick is also nice and a bit cheaper at ~$25 but it has a smaller 1k logic element Ice40 FPGA on it whereas the TinyFPGA-BX has a larger 8k logic element FPGA.
If you invested it in muni bonds, you would pay zero tax.

(Ignoring state incomes tax of course. Since I live in Texas, I’m lucky enough to do that).
More specifically it looks like a new way to capture data without a killer feature.
Behind your question seems to be the idea that all places should be places for discussing the "ideas that matter". I don't think that is correct.

Work isn't a debating society. It isn't part of a political campaign. It's a place for efficiently producing things that people want. If it fails at that, society suffers, even if some really good debates happen. We have other places for those debates; we don't have other places for producing the things that society needs.
There is no constitutional issue.

No one forces you to have a bank account, just like no one forces you to have a driver's license - which also involves giving up some rights, btw.
The problem of FPGAs is their proprietary nature, and Verilog/VHDL are far from the best languages. Gladly there is a number of open-source projects aiming to close this gap - Yosys[1], SymbiFlow[2], Chisel3[3]/FIRRTL[4]. Some time ago I suggested[5] different open source projects should unite and reuse the common intermediate language, akin to LLVM in many software development and analysis tools. From my point of view, FIRRTL is the best designed one, there is a huge problem of being implemented in Scala though, especially for C/C++/etc written projects. Hopefully, there will be more collaboration one day. Either reimplementation from scratch, e.g. in Rust or C++, or using Scala Native.

[1] https://github.com/YosysHQ

[2] https://symbiflow.github.io/

[3] https://www.chisel-lang.org/

[4] https://www.chisel-lang.org/firrtl/

[5] https://github.com/SymbiFlow/ideas/issues/19
Knowing you have the largest factor of your cost of living fixed for the next 15 or 30 years is powerful for budgeting and planning. I've lived places where the increasing rent has pushed me out of my apartment home.
Put all the vehicles (of whatever type) underground.
Wayland is problematic as it goes entirely the opposite direction of X11, which means, for example, that screenshot programs and custom key binding daemons will not work.
Ha, good eye. corrected to 1e6 :)
Do it with tunnels.
Ah yes, the civil point of view that the state should systemically exterminate entire groups of people. That someone should do something about those people. That critic.

But you know, totally fine if they're polite about it...

First, I must confess that over the past few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro’s great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen’s Council-er or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to “order” than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says: “I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action”; who paternalistically believes he can set the timetable for another man’s freedom; who lives by a mythical concept of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait for a “more convenient season.” Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. Lukewarm acceptance is much more bewildering than outright rejection.
https://www.xkcd.com/406/
While you're at it, add a feature to delete just the last sentence of posts.

Someone pointed the phenomenon out the other day and I've noticed it all over here since: a lot of posts are great but then the last sentence goes too far, off the rails. I've been watching for it in my own posts. I think it's just hard to get the right rhetorical flourish.

(BTW, awesome job here dang. I don't know how you do it.)
Ok, I should be more clear. Until we have enough energy that we're all running on renewables and adding more bitcoin-related load uses up spare capacity rather than increase overall usage - it matters.

I mean, unless it's a dedicated power generating station, you're still using renewable power which is not used by someone else and overall we're supplementing that with coal and others.
"You don't get to convert all of that space into a park even if you ban cars. "

Not all the car space maybe, but lots if it.

You don't need parking spaces anymore. No more than 2 lanes for most roads ... that sums up very big.
Alright, that vein of arguments are the biggest cop-out ever. It's like trying to say the 4th amendment doesn't apply to houses because no one forces me to have a house.

The constitution recognizes the inherent right to be secure in your personage and effects. This should include your financial information.

I think it odd that people accept the abrogation of their rights w.r.t. driving. Yes, the government can definitely tax you for road use, but imagine having to carry an ID around that proved you paid your income tax, and that you were required to be IDable at almost all times to be sure you were not committing tax evasion.
If they no longer have that policy then it no longer passed the interesting-new-phenomenon test and almost all of the article is irrelevant.
fort-weekly
Yes, make people say no.

That said, switching jobs is generally the best/easiest way to move up.
But this isn't a discussion of assuming criminal intent of a particular actor. This is a discussion of a rule to prevent actions by a hypothetical criminally-inclined actor...and thereby prevent a platform from getting a reputation for that criminal action.
> nature or nurture

This has been studied now, and the data points strongly towards nature. Country's with a higher level of gender equality have more gender disparity in fields such as STEM, not less. The country's that have done the most to alleviate the issues you've mentioned have the lowest percentage of women engineers.

It was the exact opposite of what everyone thought would happen. These results were so unexpected that we called it the Gender-equality paradox.
An even better one would be how many people do the top 500 employ.

I don’t care what they started with - I care what they did with it.

For instance, if you started with 10MM and built a billion dollar company, great.

But if you started with 1MM and turned it into 1MM, then you really didn’t help out at all.
I really cannot imagine being surprised about this
Renewable energy isn't zero carbon. At the very least you gotta produce the energy generating system somehow. Then maintain it.
It’s still not so easy. At what point does “fake news” become spam?
It does, but as far as I understand that's only because EM spectrum is a very limited (as used in practice) public resource. The logic wasn't (many to one) -> (regulation), it was (limited resource) + (EM interference problems) -> (government controlled public space) -> (regulation). The US National Parks might be a good analogy here - very high traffic combined with limited space availability.

In particular, note that in the public resource analogy the regulation is quite neutral; legal censorship of profanity in the US is very narrow.
"Killed by someone" isn't "killed by yourself", so suicide isn't part of that. Also GP poster is referring to being murdered by someone using a RIFLE, not just someone using a firearm in general.
> what's the difference between 'universe expansion' and 'travel'?

Travel happens inside the universe and expansion doesn't? If a rock is sliding along a stretchy sheet, stretching the sheet will make other things on the sheet move farther away from the rock, potentially faster than the fastest that the rock can slide, even though the rock doesn't move any faster.
> “If you have mobile computing and services people are using while moving around in the world,” said Hanke in a 2016 talk to the Berkeley School of Business, “the question we asked ourselves was, ‘Could these services influence how people behave in the physical world? Could the products they’re using cause them to walk a different path, drive a different path, divert from the trajectory that they’re normally going to go on? If you could do that through information services that you’re offering to people, there’s tremendous opportunity for businesses that might want to change the behavior of people to get them to go places where they wouldn’t otherwise go.” He added: “We were also interested in being an advertising company.”

I think it's crystal clear where this is going. Why you would even bother giving the excuse of "we accidentally added code to collect all this random metadata about you, sorry about that" given this is beyond me.
Interesting. Seems like education inequality given the (implied) causation.
So do bears, and even dogs & cats can walk. Not well, but acceptably.
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Well, uh, it's not on GitLab I don't think, but Plankalkül... "a programming language designed for engineering purposes by Konrad Zuse between 1942 and 1945."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plankalk%C3%BCl

> While Zuse never became a member of the Nazi Party, he is not known to have expressed any doubts or qualms about working for the Nazi war effort. Much later, he suggested that in modern times, the best scientists and engineers usually have to choose between either doing their work for more or less questionable business and military interests in a Faustian bargain, or not pursuing their line of work at all.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konrad_Zuse
If you have an ethical or Maral issue with your work chances are you're doing the wrong work. You can of course try other Ave us but why do you think the business should compromise with a replaceable employee about his personal ethics?

That's not the way this works. He's free to find work that agrees with him or make his own work. But this "I want to work for you and decide what I work on" is a non starter for most people
At times I've seen people reach for their phone and start recording even when their safety is at risk. Similarly if you're at an event the features something like a jet fighter flyby you can look around and see more people taking pictures than actually watching for themselves.

I have no idea what these people are thinking and like you would prefer to actually experience it myself, but I'd expect at least one of them to have reached for their phone before they even realized what they were recording.

There's also been dedicated people heading out with night vision cameras, they've found nothing either.
Reminds me of eye-controlled autofocus from early Canon cameras.
I'd say it was the forced rollout of Beta. I haven't been to Slashdot since... Soylent News is high-quality and not too distracting.
It's about time.

A recent astronomy picture of the day shows the visible impact of Earth orbit spacecraft on astronomical imagery.

http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap191013.html

Astronomers will need precise orbital parameters of all s/c in their telescopes' field of view, so they can avoid deceptive data from known s/c. The data and processing issues will be significant. Obstructive? Destructive? Career limiting? TBD.

The article mentions only high-profile large telescopes. In fact there's hundreds that have scientific significance. Helping hundreds or thousands of observers eliminate local Earth orbiting s/c interference in their observations is hard. And, currently, unsupported by these companies.

They use the public resource, outer space, for their own good. And pollute it for others.
But maybe this is true of most people and most political issues, other than the ones that do affect them? And even then, they might want to get away from politics when they go to work?
More important that you don't lose an argument on the internet than realize you're unwittingly defending innocent people being murdered.
I don't understand why you would say that.

Shortest Path Algorithm has well known heuristics. If all you want is "close enough" then sure, you can compute quickly. But when that route corresponds to how much you spend on fuel to complete your route, usually you want to use something better than "good enough".

This, as with Soap Bubble computation, only really shows it can reach local minima, not global minima, which is really what most people care about.
I like the water ape theory. ie we had a period of time in our history where we spent a lot of time in low lying water that encouraged us to stand upright. There's a few things which point in this direction. iirc we're the only primate which can control its breath; good for swimming under water. Our fingers wrinkle when we spend time in water; good for picking things up in water. And we lost our hair; hair may have gotten caught on underwater objects drowning the hairiest amongst of us.
Too hard to chew gum crawling on all fours
Congrats to the whole Algolia team.

I can’t think of any SaaS business that invested in, and executed such a smooth onboarding and retention ecosystem.

I’ve used them for small sites and large enterprise clients (10B+) and I’ve always felt like I’ve got way more than I’ve paid for.

PSA: Algolia has basically hidden a category making/taking over strategy in plain sight.
Hosting a personal blog is beyond the reach of a lot of people. I feel like a large number of the general public wouldn't really ever have it occur to them as an idea in the first place, and of those that do a surprisingly large number might find it too complex for them.
Fine. Play dumb. I don’t care.
Your PDF link is a 404.
I’ve been involved with several two-sided marketplaces and payment services, and a robust double-entry book-keeping subsystem has always been there from the start. It’s easy to validate the need but/so I also find it hard to believe that Square only started keeping 2E transaction books in the last year. It’s the basis of many high quality controls and their internal audits and reconciliation to GL must’ve been a horrorshow without it.

It’s also the original event-sourced conflict-free replicated data type and the joke about CRDT for your debits is a classic thigh-slapper in the exciting world of accounting software backend implementation
Everyone backs budget spending except people who control budgets
The definition of a profession in the western world has been well established and generally understood for centuries. My comment was fully consistent with that definition.
I think the number of questions like this is indicative that the article is just click bait. Go read about slime mold on wikipedia, and forget everything you read here.
In an earlier iteration of the web page they had really cool examples of controlling sliders, radial dials, panning surfaces, highly specific pinch gestures etc.

All of those have been removed and now it's just waving. It's cool tech and requires solving lots of hard problems, but it's a shame it falls so short of the initial vision.
Thanks! ("X11: It gets worse.") I just made it up (around 1992), based in I18N (which was in use at the time, but not as widely known as today), to make fun of how long the full title of the ICCCM was. It's also a nice way to censor short naughty words like "F2K Y1U"!
From what I understand, it will still work as a mailing list platform, just everything on the web will shut down.
Where do all the EEs hang out?
The workplace is an extension of the society it exists it.

It does not exist in a vacuum no matter how hard you try to put it there.
The white and gray don’t look that bad to me but it’s not for me, it’s for people with various vision impairments. Ignore your lying eyes, trust the math.

Also, to me the superiority of using black is more apparent if the gray is the background color.
All of the actions I didn't take.
I suspect most of us would. Thanks for the sincere answer.
I’ve only regretted what I’ve held back, never what I’ve done.

Be kind, but also be bold. Don’t live in fear, we’re all dead eventually.
I am really surprised that Bitcoin (or cryptocurrencies in general) hasn't solved its energy use yet and is still legal.

I thought the world would switch to proof-of-stake coins and gradually make bitcoins harder to use.
Many of the people I know who make $500k+ in Manhattan are in relatively unstable careers. Finance comes to mind. If you take a snapshot of them in the moment they may seem to have substantial purchasing power, but the smart ones realize the music could stop at any moment and their primary indulgence is saving up enough money to retire early (on much much less than $500k/year).
It would be more difficult to use tools if we had to use all members for locomotion. The ones who started walking straight got an advantage for being able to fight with spears and bows.
It's not anyone's decision to tell someone what to do or not do in their life.

The argument about cost on society also doesn't hold up since we seem to be fine with other "risky" behaviors. Such as extreme sports. Heck we actually encourage it.
I've been using Wave [1] for personal use. It hooks onto all accounts (via Plaid), and it also had a pretty sweet OCR receipts app [2] that posts the transaction to your Wave account.

[1] https://www.waveapps.com/
[2] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.waveaccoun...
Yes the entire purpose of Ingress was to make meat modules walk to under-documented locations, take pictures, and indicate points of interest. The meat modules seemed to think it was "fun". Hard to explain.
Maybe fixed? Not a 404 for me anyway.
For the record, there is absolutely a push to get more male nurses and there are orgs that try to get men into nursing.
> Most large animals can’t run for more than about nine miles before they drop.

Feels like they are implying something here ... Can't figure out if I'm offended
I think we aren’t quite there yet with Ethereum and Stellar.

Proof of stake is promising, but it hasn’t rolled out yet. It’s possible that the migration leads to unforeseen problems, or fails entirely.

The trusted models like Stellar aren’t operating at the same financial scale as Bitcoin. The question there isn’t technically whether they can handle the transactions per second, but socially whether they are as resistant to censorship as Bitcoin is.

In the end, more people want Bitcoin than want Ethereum or Stellar. And people are willing to pay a lot of money to get it, money which in large part goes indirectly to miners’ energy expenditure. Perhaps, in the long run, the more efficient consensus mechanisms will prove superior to proof-of-work. But it hasn’t happened yet.
Birds (especially large birds) inherited a long line of large, fast-moving, bipedal predator ancestors. We don't really have that; primates evolved ~55Mya, and before that we were mostly rodent-ish animals which depended on being small and hidden to survive rather than running fast or long distances.

There's a lot to be said for parallel/convergent evolution, but it's certainly not hard & fast rule.
How babies integrate new events into their knowledge
this is event sourcing
> The workplace is an extension of the society it exists it.

The workplace is a place for getting work done. Arguing about politics is not getting work done. Unless your workplace is Congress, I guess, although they seem to argue a lot but don't get any work done.

When I see people saying things like "everything is political so politics is part of the workplace", I translate that as "I would rather argue about politics than be productive". Or, alternatively, "I would rather argue about how other people should use their time and energy and money, than actually do the hard work of using my own".
Google Play Music is awesome. I love that I can keep my personal collection of rare MP3s there and have them in a convenient cloud player. Ad-free YouTube is just icing on the cake.
> Why can't you criticize your own model, though?

I do but lunchtime only lasted so long before it imploded

> Your assertion that hiring more women will lower standards is premised on a belief that men are inherently better. Isn't that embarrassingly obvious to deduce from what you say?

If you're making "embarrassingly obvious deductions" you might be pattern matching me into your favorite straw man and not really deducing anything at all.

I never said women are inferior to men and it's not possible to logically deduce that from what I said. The only premise I assumed is that there are currently more men than women at the top (e.g., pipeline problem). You can even have the average women be way superior to men and still have the problem of hiring more women leading to lower standards, if the few top women are all happily employed elsewhere. I am not even saying this reflects reality, just that your logic sucks.

Why does everything have to be a dog whistle to fit people into hate groups? Some assholes like me are merely technical correctness assholes.
This is where twitter screwing over third party developers comes in to play. I would have preferred if twitter main feed was sequential and then there were thriving third party alternatives to it. Twitter could have easily monetised by taking a slice of ad revenue from third party developers, or by charging API fees to them.
Reminds me of https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Century_Rain
Reading the "How to Register to Vote" indicates otherwise. sosmt.gov/elections/vote/#how-to-register-to-vote

Specifically "You will need to provide a residence address or specific geographic location information from which your residence address may be determined. The residence address must be in the county in which you are registering."

This clearly allows someone without an "address" to register. In my experience identifying the Post Office on or near the tribe's land is plenty sufficient.