skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Swiping and zooming a map on a phone or tablet is quicker and far more intuitive than clicking and dragging with a mouse. You can't scroll to a precise depth without moving your mouse to a specific UI slider. Whereas with touch you control it with the spread of your fingers.
Blizzard bans three college Hearthstone players for Hong Kong protest sign
Do you find it a little odd that in response to an article about rampant pedophilia you are admonishing people for not using Monero?
That's absolutely true. However, even then, space debris is already a major concern[0], and let's not forget the recent debacle with the ESA[1]. What happens when you pump 30,000 more satellites up there?

[0]: https://orbitaldebris.jsc.nasa.gov/
[1]: https://spacenews.com/esa-spacecraft-dodges-potential-collis...
Unless you try hard to provoke one, there is no unaligned access. Adding a pointer and an integer in C always displaces the pointer by elements, not by bytes. So if p is a pointer to some type T and is aligned, then p + 1 will be aligned as well.

You need to cast to another pointer type, do arithmetic on that, then cast back to produce an unaligned access.
Yea, it’s pretty stupid that filling in 50mi^2 of water bodies with soil, retaining all of that land, and then building on top of it is the smarter thing to do than re-developing current land to fit changing needs.

The Bay Area could also just build taller buildings with more living space on land they already have in a denser area.

Also, I like that the article complains about how bad sprawl is, and then their solution is basically create sprawl from new land.
Imagine an area of the size of surface of the earth. Put 30k objects of the size of motorcycle on it. There are currently something like 200 million motorcycles in the world. Seems like plenty of space, doesn't it?

But wait, you don't actually need to restrict yourself to one spherical surface. You can place your 30k sattelites anywhere in a Earth's-surface-sized spherical shell that's 400 miles thick. You could literally put those 30k sattelites in a single straight line above some point on the earth, and still have 350 miles of shell thickness left.

Congestion on low Earth orbits is really a non issue, especially if the satellites are designed to deorbit after their useful lifetime.
> This was somewhat discounted only 10 years ago, but now is more than the majority consensus in the field (“Younger Dryas Impact Hypothesis”).

Is it the "majority consensus"? The hypothesis' Wikipedia article (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Younger_Dryas_impact_hypothesi...) has links to multiple recent articles arguing against it (in both the "Evidence" and "Criticism" sections), including ones like https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/11/massive-crater-under... suggesting that the Greenlandic impact event might have happened at the wrong time or not produced the widespread effects you and other proponents of the hypothesis suggest:

> Even if the asteroid struck at the right moment, it might not have unleashed all the disasters envisioned by proponents of the Younger Dryas impact. "It's too small and too far away to kill off the Pleistocene mammals in the continental United States," Melosh says. And how a strike could spark flames in such a cold, barren region is hard to see. "I can't imagine how something like this impact in this location could have caused massive fires in North America," Marlon says.
The viewpoint presented in the article looks "way better" only because you've been exposed to it much more recently than what you've studied in the past. Newer = shinier.

Also, you've not been asked to solve any chapter exercises using this shiny theory, where you have to obtain correct numerical answers.

Ash and Bernard crawling from the apple's equator to its stem is cute, though.
I am fascinated by people who can hear any of these properties. My wife will tell me "so and so (millions of records sold) always sings off key" and I'm left to wonder what it would be like if I could hear that. Never mind hearing good relative pitch (e.g. the frequencies are all relatively correct but the notes are A432 or A444 rather than A440). Someone once tried to teach me about I-V-VII in rock music and I think I can hear it but I don't know what I'm hearing really. I think I can hear discordance and I think I can tell when blue notes are used. My reference for 400 Hz is the high-pitched "hum" you used to hear in airline audio headsets. But these are just memories and not analytical tools. Congratulations to all of you who can sing in a choir without pissing off your choir-mates.
Autonomous mobile portapotties as a service.
Does lack of anonymity affect BitCoin fungibility? If you are using coin known to be used for illegal means, does it taint the coin?
Most social norms also prohibit violence. Putting up depictions of violence (real, not video game/cartoon ones) can get the LE on you. Sadly simulated violence is given a free pass, despite some studies indicating there may be links between childhood exposure to simulated violence and actual violence later in life. As for why violence is less censored than sex, I suspect this has something to do with the fact that most of our history has been male dominated. For the male of the species, violence has been a way of life while sex was the ultimate end, so the prize was locked behind several closed doors. Violence was on the other hand was just a tool to achieve the prize, so there was less sense in censoring it.
I have always been a fan of stripe product launch page. The text is clear and to the point, the graphics/animations are engaging, not annoying pop-ups, the color scheme is not hurting my eyes. The best UI/UX experience I have of any website. I remember the web page which had game of life as the background. Really geeky yet fun to watch. Also, stripe's REST API documentation is just too good.
I think the obvious first step for learning any new command is googling how to do X and clicking in the first stackexchange link.
Some people find joy in maintaining their privacy. They also ruin some of the fun, because "regular" people (non privacy enthusiasts) find joy in cool new technology like this. They make a good point, but they also probably didn't read the documentation, because it clearly says sensor data is never sent to Google.
This documentary is very interesting about a man's obsession with pizza:

Scott's Pizza Tours

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5252674/
LTO8 for cold storage, Backblaze styled pods for warm storage. I’ve had some help in acquiring supplies and equipment. All of the racking, colo, networking, and sysadmin is me for my gear (and my wife; she is a cable management fanatic, the right color for the appropriate VLAN!).
Are you equating "left" to "Dems"? Because the left that I know is all against war and interventionism.

Maybe there is something to be said about how people think Liberal means leftie.
I never said that drugs don't work. I said they do work as amplifiers and "convincers". Combined with a good set and setting lots of people, myself included, have had "good trips" that include mental emotional and spiritual healing.

My concern is when people get confused and think that the "magic" is in the mushroom.
Yep. This is the kind of "create new markets" move that seems to not make sense, but will be a spectacular success if it pans out. And no one else will be able to compete. There is only one company in the world that will be capable to economically launch 30,000 satellites in a single-digit number of years.
No. The real use cases for true microservices are only 10% but at this point in the hype cycle you would be crazy to even suggest that would design/develop a monolith. You will be looked upon as someone from another generation. This is so unfortunate but it’s the reality in a lot of organizations that I see.
Why? As a salaried employee you're literally paying me for my ability to get work done, not for my hourly output. If the goal is to keep me busy for X number of hours a day, instead of getting a job done whatever it requires, why am I salaried?
They don’t NEED to

It will be made so trivial to do so it will be impossible to avoid it

Medium will be awash in howtos, github will have 9,000 CLI tools to generate yml templates for all this shit

Nothing stopping us from taking advantage of this and building local hosted Docker/Kube setups importing from github what they need to run private social media portals for friends and family, with dynamic DNS and other tools for finding each other
Yes, absolutely. If you have exhausted the better options, get high.
Probably, but that doesn't sell $650 phones
No one discussing UBI as a nation-wide comprehensive solution here?
tl;dr That some people are forced to use it in order to have a social life.

I was talking to my friends about social media, and how it can be bad for some people. I said, "Ok, all they have to do is turn it off". The response was general outrage, and it was pointed out that I already have my social circle and if I don't use Facebook then it is not as if that goes away. But for many people, if they are not on Facebook / Instagram / Snapchat / whatever, then they lose access to friends. Picture kids in high school who don't talk to each other in-between classes and coordinate everything via a social platform. So it is bad that some people can't just "stop using it" because if they do then they'll be left out of activities.
Jews could leave Germany until 1941. In fact, they were encouraged to do so. Finding a country that would take them was the problem.
Yes, and they make "so brave" political statements like giving Obama a Peace prize, which to some has the appearance of controversy.
Not to mention, that cell towers may be a lot cheaper to operate over Starlink.
It remains to be seen if the methods used by monero, dash, and various zk-proof based coins are enough to prevent de-anonymization when a motivated state actor is involved.

Gotta say though, this is one of the few times I'm glad to see someone too stupid to use proper anonymization tools.
If you think that's an appropriate and proportional response to an employee making a mistake or misunderstanding an internal policy, I sincerely hope that you're not in charge of anyone at your day job.
Yes, Bitcoin is anonymous only under certain circumstances. You can get Bitcoin anonymously, and you can make transactions anonymously, but it takes know-how
Currently working on this with Secure Scuttlebutt, FWIW.
It's not quite so bad, with many experiments looking at solar or atmospheric neutrinos seeing hundreds to thousands of neutrino events per year. Experiments at particle accelerator-based neutrino beams can see much larger event rates despite the small cross section, and as one example, the upcoming SBND experiment (https://sbn-nd.fnal.gov/) will see 7 million neutrino interactions in about three years.
It's relatively easy to identify mixers, so by sending money to a mixer you immediately flag your sending account as high risk...
Maybe not. The receivers are not low-tech, they can ban possession and track anyone using it by the signal. The great firewall is not perfect either, it just needs to be good enough to discourage most of the population from even trying and tag everything else as suspicious activity.
Even if we have ~1Tbps total satellite network capacity, what kind of bandwidth can one user on the ground have to themselves?
This problem is called Chinese Postman Problem and can be solved in polynomial time using matching algorithms:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Route_inspection_problem
Yep, the lack of any plan is usually the issue. Often it's not even clear there is a goal.

The New York Times was recently criticizing Trump on the basis of him having reduced US influence due to his recent actions. I was a bit confused by that claim, as I wasn't sure what we needed the influence for. The previous stated goal was "defeating ISIS", which largely already happened. I have no real idea what the current goal was supposed to be.
Most tech-company engineers have exactly the same infrastructure at home as everybody else. Comcast and the like, also mad about data caps, latency and DNS hijacking.
API incompatibility is largely why AppEngine failed. Cloud adoption suffers greatly when the platform is not compatible with the data center.
And what do the Chinese hear about the world outside the GFW?
In theory a tumbler could disconnect the identify information even on coins bought initially on an exchange with KYC compliance. Not sure if anyone's figured out how to track transactions through those yet with just public info from the blockchain. (I imagine they'd keep it pretty quiet if they had)
I'm not suggesting the city becomes a landlord and starts renting out apartments to people.

I'm suggesting the city owns the land, you lease the land for something like twenty or fifty years and do what you want with it. next lessee gets to decide what they want to do with whatever you built there.
I live 60 miles from san francisco and can't even get DSL - Satellite and cell only, cell is no service 40% of the time, 1 bar 60%
This isn't true for smartphones anymore. Touchscreen keyboards provide much more data that can be used for autocorrect. Also, you can't swipe type on a keyboard.
Your quotes quotes sound impressive but I wouldn't take them at face value and think that the Iranians are unaware of and unprepared to face these threats.

You may want to read articles by this guy for an alternative view on Iran's capabilities.

https://oilprice.com/contributors/Yossef-Bodansky

as a sidenote, some people even believed the US claims that their air defence systems are the best in the world, until a few days ago.
Because it's often enough to ensure you're anonomous when transfering to/from $GOVERNMENT_CURRENCY (in person meetings in the woods for example) for the transactions to be untracable.
Good luck making a business case with ARPUs of 3-4 USD / month from those people.

They have nothing to do in big cities, they cannot deliver the required data-rate density (bps/km2).
I'm excited by Dapr!

If I understand it correctly, it will make it easier for me to build applications by separating the "plumbing" (stateful & handled by Dapr) from my business logic (stateless, speaks to Dapr over gRPC). If I build using event-driven patterns, my business logic can be called in response to state changes in the system as a whole.

I think an example of stateful "plumbing" is a non-functional concern such as retrying a service call or a write to a queue if the initial attempt fails. Since Dapr runs next to my application as a sidecar, it's unlikely that communication failures will occur within the local node.

There seem to be extensive, nice docs on the concepts behind Dapr: https://github.com/dapr/docs/tree/master/concepts.
Interesting! Is there a way to use this, or some other library, that can spin up a GPU instance, on AWS or GCE, if there are no GPUs available, and discard GPUs when no more tasks are left? Maybe also allow some "overtime", in case a new task may get registered in the time when the instance gets free and a new one starts up?
Way I see it, the ego manifests as a bunch of defense mechanisms that seek to preserve the status quo of one's existing personality, by distorting one's perception and generating sometimes-intrusive thoughts. The ego is also the thing that always wants more... more adulation, attention, money, etc.

As an example: given that you have free will, at any moment you could say to yourself, "hey, there are X and Y habits/traits I have, let's not do those anymore and do Z instead." Maybe it's smoking, eating badly, you don't treat people the way they deserve, being a doormat, whatever. You could absolutely choose to become an entirely different person overnight. You might also change your career/lifestyle overnight (not everyone is so lucky though).

Now the ego swoops in and says, "Hold on, let's not do anything crazy, it'll be scary and embarrassing if I suddenly act differently, what will my friends think? It's easier to keep on keeping on. These habits are just things that I would do. It's okay when I do these things because I'm me." and so on like this.
> Its extremely difficult to change a monolith to microservices

I beg to differ. It's completely straightforward, for the most part. You split them out, one by one. That's a big part of the reason for its popularity.

If it's really that difficult, maybe it's not a great fit for the problem at hand.
> We built a web interface to allow us to visualize and manipulate our color system using perceptually uniform color models.

Is this tool available anywhere?
Project Promotion Checklists for Developers
> "Whatabout SecuROM"?

I don't understand what you're attempting to get at with this.

PC DRM back in the day was notorious for rootkit vulnerabilities and even bricking CD/DVD drives (example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_BMG_copy_protection_rootk... ). The point was just at least SafetyNet isn't straight up broken like the wild-west of arbitrary DRM providers of yester-year.
Lies are lies. Some are more evident than others. This was blatant. If you do not care about facts and truth then don't complain about the world you're allowing to be created by liars. Don't complain about shoddy products sold as good quality, don't expect contracts to mean anything, don't complain when politicians are dishonest. Do expect a race to the bottom, that bottom being a very ugly place.
Are any of the mixers still up? I remember about a year ago when one of the most popular ones abruptly shut down when it became clear the government would go after him for abetting money laundering if he continued.
Absolutely true. Safety, good schools. Most major cities compromise on both if you're middle class or below. In our case we're already planning our move away in time for public school and it's a few years out yet.
Also read as serverless and you will understand the hype. I think depending on the type of application I'm building I would use either approach. I also am a fan of having both approaches where sensible, but only if I'm already deploying to the cloud. If I'm on local hardware I don't care it can all be monolithic until something in my service requires more dedication.
The Tractability of Software
Backdrop-filter – biggest new CSS feature of the year
IAU Statement on Satellite Constellations
you don't get to resell the land when you're done with it, so it loses its value as a speculative investment. also the government gets a window whenever the lease ends to decide to do something else with the land (eg, build a train station).
Given that it's always-on, I wonder how much it interferes with 802.11ad (WiGig) which also uses 60 GHz.
If you're a small enough fish you can assume that law enforcement won't bother to get back to you, especially if you're purchasing a small amount of weed or shrooms online instead of child pornography or hiring a hitman.

Then it's more about convenience than anything else. Bitcoin usability is abysmal when compared to Paypal or Visa but it's pretty great when neither of these things are an option and usually drug dealers won't manage to get a Visa or Paypal vendor account working for very long.
You're right that the UK government bungled the high-rise housing in the 60s and 70s (as documented by Adam Curtis in "The Great British Housing Disaster" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ch5VorymiL4).

But I'd like to explore the UK/Moscow comparison though. I don't have first-hand experience with Moscow but I am familiar with the Czech Republic where paneláky house a sizeable chunk of the population. Many of my friends live in them and they're generally quite pleasant, well served by transport and amenities (shops, bars, things like hairdressers and such).

What I'm getting at is that this - in the "west" there is a lot of misunderstanding about life in Warsaw Pact countries. From my Czech experience it would not surprise me in the least if much of the Moscow mass-housing you're referring to was planned and constructed better than similar developments in UK.

So I think the comparison between (say) Red Road flats in Glasgow or the Banana Flats in Leith and Moscow's suburbs might be unfair to Moscow.
It means they are off the grid and are trained to act independently of the central command.
I keep seeing this "AWS"d claim regarding MongoDB, but I can't find any references to any service by AWS at any time in the past that run or used any code of MongoDB. I can find services that run or use PostgreSQL, MySQL, Redis, ElasticSearch, but simply no MongoDB.

What I can find are references to small companies like mLab that provided MongoDB hosting/managing as a service, that MongoDB Inc. either bought out for cheap right before going proprietary, or outcompeted.
What happens when a city bans cars from its streets?
One of the more plausible invention stories is that Satoshi was an arms trafficker who needed a verifiable way to pay large sums of cash anonymously, so it isn’t a lot of work to consider that it could be used successfully for such purposes. That won’t stop idiots from being caught by good investigative work - nothing can prevent that! - but it certainly does appear to meet the needs of highly competent criminals, whatever other pros and cons it may have.
Raise your hand and try to make 10-20 swipes. You will start feeling pressure in your wrist. In contrast, you can swipe for hours holding the phone in your hand.
>So pay out those people!

If you give a mouse a cookie...
The Decimal Separator
Assuming all this tech is actively and deliberately spying on you, wouldn't your phone in your pocket provide the same information?
Anecdotally as a resident of Minneapolis, I'm not sure what its inclusion on this list is supposed to signify. I think it's a great town to raise a family. We recently chose to build a new house just a few blocks from our current one, instead of move to the suburbs; our children are thriving in their public neighborhood school. There's tons of parks and green space nearby where we often run into neighborhood kids.

One possible explanation I guess is that the city is doing well economically, but is not as overpriced as some of the others on this list. It's still attractive for both young professionals without kids to buy houses, as well as older adults without kids to remain in their houses after their kids have grown.
It's the narrative though. You cannot deny that western media has a narrative structure that is organized around conflict. They will always seek out and exaggerate conflicts because strife lures more viewers than harmony. If it bleeds, it leads. Even ad-free media like publicly funded institutions are prey to this in a race for eyeballs. This creates a certain kind of filter that prevents an informed populace.

As someone who leans left I notice this strongly with all those "left wing" causes. They will choose a variation of that to carry that is least likely to be informing and most likely to exaggerate conflict. For example, they will put the anger and tears of Greta Thunberg and voices like hers front and center again and again, while ignoring the literally thousands of climate experts who could come and explain the facts in a sober and non-polarizing way. This is no accident, it is by design, because it gets more viewers.

The end result of this is that media makes it easy to misinform and lie, hard to inform and tell the truth. This makes it easy for "the powers that be" to push a false narrative to get what they want. All they have to do is set up a conflict and the media laps it up.
Yeah, this was my first objection, and the article addresses it in a way that I find completely misses the point.

I think it's a fantastic idea overall, but not at the expense of wetlands preserves.

Then again, what would actually be a fantastic idea overall would be increasing density in existing areas, but clearly that's politically fraught right now.
CVE-2019-3010 – Local privilege escalation on Solaris 11.x via xscreensaver
kind of like npm