skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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Keep in mind current cell phone coverage is spotty, with many unserved or underserved areas, and towns where Verizon is clearly better than AT&T, or vice versa.

Running that kind of cell tower network might be cheaper, but running a cell phone network that spans every inch of the globe would be an engineering and logistics feat that would almost be impossible to profit off of.

Even maintenance-wise, servicing a cell tower requires keeping a bunch of contractors around to drive to drive, fly, or even boat to remote areas, and climb a hundred feet once they get there. With starlink, they can just piggyback replacement satellites on customer payloads.

Also, there are around 4 million cell towers in the world to achieve spotty coverage, whereas starlink is targeting 40k satellites for global coverage. I'd have to believe that launching 40,000 similar payloads via similar methods has huge vertical integration advantages over the extremely heterogeneous approaches we use to put up those millions of towers.
I like your style! IMO scripts and documented examples should use long options.

You can shorten flags in powershell, fyi.

I made the switch to powershell from bash recently (after 20+ years with bash and its antecedents). I didn't love the aesthetic of powershell to begin with, but the advantages are pretty convincing.

Short aliases are "unsafe" across platforms but this is a non-issue since this situation is so much worse for bash, and at least you have long canonical names for things when it counts (i.e. writing scripts). How much bash code has been written over the years to figure out which code path to follow based on which flavor of awk you have or safeguard your function from user aliases for rm?

Thinking there is a "higher bar" to learn powershell vs bash is purely bias due to what you already know. I'm not saying everyone needs powershell and I don't think it's great for everyone but it definitely isn't harder to learn than bash. It's much more discoverable (even if only thanks to actual types and 'gm'). I haven't used ISE at all.
Judging from Chomsky’s critique of Žižek I really doubt you can call his position Hegelian
Both comforted and alarmed to see all that perfboard in something that crossed the Karman line.
Try to find one here: https://github.com/jstimpfle/language

Not every project can be written 100% in this style, but the problem is very often programmers trying to mimick C++, e.g. doing object oriented fine-grained initialization/destruction stuff in C.
Ah, so anyone who doesn't agree with the existing norms in your office, like gay people being out at work and men and women working together, would just have to quietly live with it or leave.

That sounds fine to me, because I think that's a good status quo. But twenty years ago I bet the status quo was different and a totally different set of people was being made uncomfortable and encouraged out.
I meant middle ground as in "you can talk about it, but you're neither forced to nor is it banned".

Also, there used to be a political spectrum and not just "progressive" and "conservative": This is something completely different than left/right - a right-wing person can easily be a progressive about his right views, while a left-wing person can be conservative [or even reactionary] about his left views.

[Edit: Note, I'm a non-native speaker: Maybe this differentiation is different between English than in German?]
How does it generally work? Surely the money you steal / embezzle will be taken from you when you get caught no?
That's where I was going as well, LISP style and APL style claims "reads left to right" but having to build up a stack of buffered work which you can only unwind once you get to the end, is annoying and unhelpful and limiting.

But simply turning it around to cards.shuffle().deal(4) isn't a good answer, it's still the case that you can only put a small number of things together in a chain because it stops making sense. If the next move was to start the game, "cards.shuffle().deal(4).startgame('some-card-game')" does not make sense because starting the game is not something the cards do, but "start(deal(shuffle(cards), 4), 'some-card-game')" can make sense because start is a function which takes a board state and a game to start. It describes the world state, not the cards and their abilities.

That is, neither style is right, but a mixed style where both approaches are available and you can mix and match to be more expressive, works much better, IMO. Chunking a small number of things with prefix into one operation, or with postfix into one operation, but combining those chunks flexibly at a larger scale.
Navajo speakers aren't a political bloc, they're a linguistic bloc, and support for languages is driven by revenue potential in any software company I've ever seen.
You can sell Bitcoin in person for cash.
no ones talking about forcing you to talk about it, question is, if you wanted to talk about the ethics / poltical impact of what you are doing with coworkers, shouldn't you be allowed to?
Thank you for the well-wishes. We've been fairly successful thanks to some tenacious members with an excellent knowledge of local ordinances and the willingness to attend council and planning meetings.

We just had our bi-annual meeting last night and the discussion around raising dues was raised. The motion did not pass however, as our most active residents are also the least wealthy. It's an odd dynamic but they are good people.
Cash sales of cryptocurrency.
Towns and villages in Europe are almost always highly compact compared to the US - I put it to that auto ownership was a bit lower and trains could be more efficient. Plus the relatively homogenized cultured meant there was less of a need to have sub enclaves on things other than economic class.
Python 3.9: New Changes Data Scientists Should Expect
Amazon is great yet I wish there were more sites like Amazon and eBay so healthy competition between them would stimulate further improvement.

BTW why people won't use OpenBazaar instead?
beefield: a self driving car doesn’t NEED to take up space in a crowded city. It can drive you to work, then you get out, then it can go drive itself to a less crowded area. Then when you’re ready to leave the office it can be there when you’re ready to go.
Wait a few years for TVs to include the chip and rely on a little piece of levitation tech called "wall mounts". :)
For anyone struggling to understand why this might be interesting , do yourself a favour watch “one of us” on Netflix. The disparity between Hasidic culture and our modern world is massive.
Topics like "who should we hire" are relevant to the business, and that overrides politics. Obviously topics like "what business should we be in," "what countries should we sell to," "what customers do we want" and on and on can have political components. But those are nonetheless important conversations to have at work.
With this transformation, microservice architectures have become the standard for building cloud native applications, and it is predicated that by 2022, 90% of new apps will feature microservice architectures

Wet dreams and bunch of propaganda.
More remarkable than ecopassages are the underpasses built specifically for canals or major rivers. There are a few of these on the way from Den Haag to Utrecht that are pretty mind-boggling. It's also interesting to see cargo shipping going OVER the highway.
So where do I go to buy kitchen tools from a company that does spend resources on vetting their customers' morals?
> I don’t understand why it’s encouraged (in some companies) to discuss politics at work in a way that leads to internal issues. Purely from a commercial stance, team cohesion has a positive impact on people and product. Why do anything to disturb that?

The issue is the null stance is functionally equivalent to support for the status quo which at this moment includes a lot of stuff people would not actively sign on to but often feel very content with passively signing off on it.

> If the public wants corporations to not interact with certain countries, they can ask their legislators to fascilitate passing of sanctions (like we have today against Syria, making it illegal to provide services to them).

This ignores both just how much the business tail wags the legislative dog in the US and the mountain of other factors that prevent or slow Congress from taking action against specific countries.
When trying to fill add positions, second field stays in red, don't understand why.
This looks like a good basis for a color scheme for code (vscode, terminal, emacs, etc), anyone working on this ?
America has become very polarized over just the past decade. We say we want diversity, but that doesn't include that one fundie Christian person who reads his or her Bible at lunch and believes that homosexuality is wrong, but still wants to be friends with and accept everyone. We want diversity of people, but not diversity of ideas or ideology.

People are afraid to talk about anything remotely controversial today, because it could result in a call for them to be fired or resign. We've seen it in academia and I feel like we're going to see it more in industry. One opinion stated on a blog or social media will be enough for others to dig up every hint of anything someone has ever posted that could be seen as negative and outright calls to have them leave.

There's almost a point system in call-out culture; a subconscious social credit system among those who participate. The Coddling of the American Mind is a great book that talks about this growth in the academic space. It's made professors afraid to talk about difficult topics with their students.
I acknowledge there has been long-standing government oppression of these groups. In response, I suggest that these groups no longer be subject to the government that oppressed them. When a parent is mean to a child, a child deserves its parents apology. When a friend is mean to a friend, they won't be friends anymore. In a partnership of equals, the behavior you described would result in the equals separating their interests and continuing on with their existence, not continued apologies starting again the cycle of abuse.
Many people don't get caught.
thanks. I often got downvoted without a clue to myself, everything has to be perfectly 'politically correct and grammar perfect' these days, maybe because I was not a native speaker per se. I do feel that some people here are so sensitive these days, to the point I sometimes think their mental health is probably not that great, I know this is going to trigger more downvotes, you're welcome.
The difference here is the potential for revenue generation stemming from the ostensibly political stance. Gitlab's goal is to make money, and they're signalling that this goal is firm regardless of who is hurt by their customers, using their tools. So they're happy to sell you a rainbow shirt to support women in tech. If there was a similar shirt they could sell about ICE and CBP (and that would be the end of their involvement in said political stance) they'd sell that too. Instead, the moral stance is obviously to not work with these organizations, and that will potentially cost them money.

This is pretty standard neoliberal politics. Just as with similar decisions at Microsoft and Palantir, this change will never come from executives. It's up to the workers to change the company's direction, and I hope they will.
> Should Gitlab not allow projects from churches who create tools to help minister to homosexuals (in trying to convert them away from homosexuality)?

No matter how misguided in practice, is it even immoral for people who believe that homosexuality is immoral to try convincing gay people to change?

> There are really complex questions here.

This is the sort of question that GitLab should not be asked to answer.
The tweet appears hidden, replaced by a text explaining that it’s unacceptable and a link to reveal the original message.

It seems little but it does send the message that the content is not welcome. I don’t know of any large scale attempt at using that approach to reduce unwanted content. Other approaches, for instance, flagging links as proven false by fact-checkers, has significantly back-fired so I’m curious.
we discuss brexit every day at work. in my previous job too. i don't believe there is an office in Britain where brexit is not mentioned.
I've noticed this when I click on embedded tweets for other apps. Safari opens up and I get the bug you're mentioning. A refresh usually fixes it, and I don't have a Twitter account, so I've never reported it.
The topic might be heavily upvoted, but the overall sentiment in the comments in notably negative.
>America has an attitude problem

Yup.

>Like, there is nothing left to do.

Nope. That's not it.

More like: There is nothing you're allowed to do.

In my town, we tried to get a town only beach, since most of the beaches in town are owned and controlled by CCNS and fill up with tourists in the summer.

But our town owned undeveloped beach-front land, so we tried to get a parking lot approved. Sounds easy right?

Environmental impact study, traffic study, land use issues, etc... The final reason why we couldn't make this happen was a MOTH...an insect. That is why we don't do much any more. They want you to spend $50K on studies...just so they can tell you no.
I have such a love-hate relationship with him. In this case I feel he's nothing but correct. Maybe it's that the news outlets feel the same way and instead of being honest about their differences they'd just rather not provide any sort of dissenting opinion. With which, from what I can tell, he would agree.
Twitter sucks since it started caring more about creating interaction no matter what the cost. They don't believe in good for all anymore.
It's tough to make appropriate analogies (which are hyperbolic) without the topic being blasphemous. But companies like IBM, Hugo Boss, and Volkswagen still get talked about as supporting Nazis during WWII. BASF even has a page about their involvement manufacturing Zyklon B gas [1]. I do think you have a point of bespoke vs mass market, but I still think there's a line. Even in the bespoke category you hear about celebrities taking large paychecks to attend parties for questionable people and often get defended because they're not formally supporting them but are draining their wealth by some amount.

I think the difference might be a commodity relationship; nobody would question <villain> using Windows, but a business account with Microsoft would. Even with <villain> using Windows, if it was a prominent and ongoing thing I imagine people would expect Microsoft to intervene.

[1] https://www.basf.com/global/en/who-we-are/history/chronology...
I think anonymous/not anonymous binary distinction is too black/white.

Bitcoin is more anonymous than a bank transaction. If I buy something with a credit card, they have my credit card number that is easily linked to me. With Bitcoin it is less easy. Unfortunately with Bitcoin once you have been 'revealed' then your transaction 'graph' is then revealed in the public, whereas the credit card doesn't have that problem.

It depends who you want to be anonymous from. Governments can easily get bank transactions, and also they can investigate bitcoin-based crime and then just trace the public ledger.

Businesses will not easily get bank transactions or map general bitcoin addresses to people, but if you use a credit card you tend to have to give them a lot of other matching information such as your name and address, whereas with bitcoin you don't need to give them anything. Assuming there is no delivery involved it can be pretty anonymous. But again if they did happen to pattern match (maybe they have another customer who you have dealt with too) they could join some dots.

But to be safe it's best to assume Bitcoin is not anonymous and that anyone can find out eventually where you have spent your money.
That's frustrating to see how they treat their volunteers, which are IMO the lifeblood of SE. If they go away, SE is nothing else than an archive of Q&A, which will crumble away over time.
The benefits you get from implementing asynchronous communication with your organization are huge. This is exactly why I felt the need to resign from my job last year to go build a platform that is designed from the ground up to support this.

As a remote team, implementing the async communication style will allow you to never have to depend on fixed calendar meetings. No need to have to organize everybody together in a room, at a specific time, to just make a decision.

I wrote a bit about how to do this within a remote team, which is a guideline into how to set a basic async comm process for a remote team. Hope you find it helpful:

https://standups.io/blog/a-basic-guideline-for-async-communi...
I had no idea. Ordered some camera gear from them years ago and they had great prices/service. Cool.
Preach. Politics being silenced in a work place is so short sighted and dumb. We should strive for a world where disagreement is not the end of a good working relationship, not one where crypto-politics is the new normal in the workplace. Because if you genuinely belief people want try to identify who is and isn't racist in a "conforming" way then you're delusional.
Yes, I would be very curious as to your sources for this. I did medically supervised psychedelic treatment; I found the setting rather unpleasant because it took place in a doctor's office and one of the many anxieties I was treating was a lifelong phobia of germs and anything medical. This was a far cry from a sweat lodge or from recreational psychedelic experiences I've had with friends in nature etc. I did not enjoy all of my trips and some were hardly even reflective experiences because they caused me so much anxiety in the moment, yet I got massive psychological benefits from them nonetheless.
The health of democracy requires that individuals be able to speak their mind and advocate their beliefs.

This doesn't work if their livelihood is controlled by a group of hyper-intolerant political totalitarians.

What GitHub is doing is giving individuals rooms to breathe, think, and live. It's preventing the rule of the intolerant minority, the forced homogenization of thought and suppression of dissent. We banned these things from the government long ago; this is a good step towards reducing the power of non-governmental power centers in corporations to coerce speech and thought of people around them.

As a free-thinking person this would make me much more likely to want to work for GH. At a place like Google I know I'd have to be deeply closeted as others flagrantly denigrate my identity and ideas around me. Here at least everyone can be closeted together, and live in a pluralistic way with different beliefs alongside each other.

This is how we suppress constant political conflict. You just aren't allowed to go after people for who they are or what they believe; we accept differences. And reducing political speech at work helps with that.
So that means this is incredibly historic, yes? We have only witnessed one other interstellar object and we did not learn about it in time to make meaningful observations?
The modern state of Oklahoma was effectively the dumping ground for all of the Indian nations that were forcibly relocated, predominantly the "Five Civilized Tribes" of the Southeast who were forced out by Andrew Jackson. From 1889 to 1895, the unassigned territories, and later "unused" lands previously allotted to the relocated Indians, were given out to settlers in a series of land runs, and the involved lands were collected into an Oklahoma Territory.

In response to these pressures, the Indian Territory then attempted to turn their territory into a full state (Sequoyah), but this was turned down by Congress, which wanted the Oklahoma and Indian Territories merged into a single state instead. I believe this was motivated by political concerns, but this isn't an area of history I know very well.

It should also be noted that many of the actions the US government took during this time with respect to the Native Americans were flagrantly in violation of laws and treaties that existed, too. Any treaty the US government made with the natives were not worth the paper they were written on.
> If you think businesses should be held to a higher ethical standard than they are currently, get active with local or even national politics. Start a letter writing campaign to your elected officials. Do something productive.

I would say the productive thing to do would be to start your own business that holds itself to a higher ethical standard, and then out-compete the other businesses.
I disagree. Selling LGBT T-shirts and partnering with non-profits implies discussing both of these hot-button issues at work. The corollary is that only certain viewpoints will be allowed to be discussed at work, and that's how you end up with situations like James Damore.
They probably were able to save money by delivering it directly, instead of taking it to a postal office to ship it which probably would have been more work anyway.
Let's be careful here, and use precise words. Yes, they are powerful, and they are to be feared, but they are not what you think they are. They're on Schedule 1 because the people banning them had an extremely narrow view on what they were capable of, as you seem to, about what they're good for.

Schedule 1 says something to effect of "No medicinal value". That is a lie, as much as 2+2=5. It's becoming increasingly clear through (slow) research and many anecdotal reports that the knee-jerk reaction most people (including myself) had to natural mushrooms is just flat out wrong. Every month we get more results about people having the worst parts of their lives changed, almost miraculously, almost as if God created a substance for healing and called it good, and for Humans to use. And then Luddites come along "drug bad always, God wrong about creating and calling it good, man ban drug it hurt man once in some circumstance" and the same Luddites leave a swath of suffering in their ignorant wake.
LeapMotion, the last I looked, was two stereo cameras and three IR emitters, plus their own special software algorithms. I don't think this makes the problem simpler if the problem you're trying to solve is a low-cost, extremely robust hand detection system that can be used with any device that has a camera.

Those three IR emitters aren't standard on any device or category that I'm aware of. (Apple's iPhone uses an IR pattern emitter.)

A software-only solution has the advantage of potentially improving dramatically with new ML models. LeapMotions's physical hardware - revolutionary when it launched – now seem like a disadvantage given the pace of human model detection (range of the IR sensors, locked into lower resolution cameras, etc.)

Solving it in software...assuming there's not a performance hit, is usually the better solution, in my opinion.
I never thought about that. I figured Amazon was just being a middle-man for some insane amount of money and making a nice spread off of it.
Not exactly the same, but have you looked into Penzeys Spices?
Cars kill thousands of people a year....in a country of 330 MILLION people? Sorry but the sheer convenience of automobiles greatly outweighs the cost.

This trend to “ban cars” is one of the silliest and dumbest ideas I’ve ever seen. Just because you don’t like cars doesn’t mean they aren’t often the best option for many people. Banning them and pretending they don’t exist doesn’t change that fact.
> I wrote a bit about how to do this within a remote team, which is a guideline into how to set a basic async comm process for a remote team. Hope you find it helpful:

> I wrote a bit about how to do this within a remote team, which is a guideline into how to set a basic async comm process for remote teams. Hope you find it helpful.

> I wrote a bit about how to do this within a remote team, which is a guideline into how to set a basic async comm process for remote teams. Hope you find it helpful:

Joke about async communication or copy-paste error?