skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They're not limited to SMS; that's just the minimum viable product. They can do voice and data as well with the same technology. It also should be a lot easier and cheaper for Lynk to deploy than it was for Iridium, since launch costs have gone down significantly (while reliability is higher) and they use extremely small, cheap satellites (at least initially). They are planning on providing a fill-in-the-gaps service and are partnering with existing terrestrial service providers... Providers, at least with the next-generation version, won't have to provide cell towers (in places where there isn't otherwise enough demand to justify the large installation and upkeep costs) purely for gaining complete coverage. This is the sort of thing Iridium was never capable of.

It should be pointed out that Iridium (post-bankruptcy) became profitable and has recently finished launching their entire second-generation constellation (on Falcon 9). Their subscriber base continues to grow.
Change causes instability. We are only just now entering an era when large segments of the population aren't defined by a large tribe like religion or where they were born. The instability right now is arguably the result of cultural whiplash as older generations and their view of themselves are heavily out of sync with how younger generations live their lives and see the world. In any case there are so many factors at play here that assigning multiculturalism as the key factor when it's always existed seems to be excluding a lot of other key issues.
Of course it is. When one approach is far more likely to introduce bugs, complicated interactions, and be more difficult to maintain, it is absolutely a reason to not take a particular approach. It’s one of factors you need to consider in everyday software engineering.

If you don’t take this into consideration then you’re detracting from the business to satisfy another need.
MarketWatch can be bad about this, it's true.
Emulating Persistent Memory in the Linux Kernel with Different Page Sizes
Just a guess—probably designed using high-reliability / realtime principles. This might involve e.g. allocating memory only at startup, which would explain things. The limit has to be some number when programming this way.
The military does not have a different system, though - at least in the past, not sure how things are now - they had access to different modes of precision, and it is possible to augment GPS by using ground based reference beacons if you want.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Differential_GPS

For additional precision of reliability.

As for the signal levels at the antenna, that is just a function of distance of the transmitters and the crappy antenna on the receivers. The fragility is to some extent overcome by using multiple satellites (more than you need a fix for), but of course these can still be overcome by a jammer.

If you really want a stronger signal you have a couple of options, the first one would be a better antenna, the second to chill the receiver pre-amp.

The best analogy is to imagine someone who is 100 yards away from you shouting at the top of their lungs and then someone who is whispering up close straight in your ear. That's just the physics side of it and no amount of trickery is going to change that in a way that will make the system more robust against jammers. Any radio based system can be jammed like that.
Your comments are over the top. In re her grandma, the author was convinced by "science" but it turns out the claims made by 23 and Me were essentially a lie, in that they were given with far too much illusion of certainty.

In re the "probably total junk" comment, that's in reference to this: "companies are popping up every day, promising to use your DNA for everything from figuring out what wine or marijuana varietals your genetics predispose you to, to what skin care regimen is best for you". And the quote is spot on. There may be research pointing vaguely in those directions, but the reality is far more complex. And the chances that the actual science will appropriately inform the recommendations give to you by startup companies built around trying to make money off telling you "facts" like these based on your genome, it will absolutely and without question translate to "junk". Even if they could make correct predictions, there would be so much more money in bending the truth just a bit to satisfy advertisers and affiliates, that the end result would be junk, not science.
It's not just the Navy or military; all kinds of things are breaking down in this country, though most people are completely in denial. Just look at how this country compares to others in terms of: obesity, healthcare costs per capita, transportation infrastructure, housing costs, gap between rich and poor, gun-related deaths, I could go on and on.
Strong factors, but they all started in the early 20th century, not in the 1970s. Huge contributors to the failure of the business model of private mass transit (streetcars).
I live in a pretty small city, going basically anywhere is a guarantee for running into friends. It’s not the same when I’m in other places
What's the law on this? Is it only illegal if I cripple a company instead of my friend's website? It seems so grey
I've been using this setup for a couple of weeks. Works good in general with some bugs. The main issue is you can't run Docker on WSL. You have to install Docker for Windows and connect your WSL docker daemon to it.
Ah, the delay feature is amazing. I set mine for 4 hours at 8 or 9pm. Then, it'll go off at 12 or 1am if I don't do anything. But in the meantime, if I have any glasses or other late-night-snack-dishes, I just throw them in in the meantime.
Because sometimes he "wrong" action is the right thing to do. No automated system can anticipate everything. Think the NASCAR "drive at the wreck in front of you" - by the time you get there it will have moved.

Especially on a ship that might have to spring from "situation normal" to active combat (maneuver/attack/defend all at once) without a pre-knowable trigger condition.
I work as a support engineer. A while back, one of my managers suggested we should make a t-shirt that reads "Yes, I can fix your computer!"

I'm glad we didn't go forward with that idea. I'd never be able to go out in public.
Shell Startup Scripts (2013)
If you can't be bothered to communicate clearly then you have expressed a lack of interest in being understood clearly. If you don't want to publish in English then don't publish in journals that require English.
Even as someone who has several terabytes sitting next to me in a homelab, I still leverage dropbox. You need something with strong integrations into other services to treat like a kind of internet RAM for short term storage.

My current approach is to have a nightly job which pulls my dropbox and other cloud storage into my local storage, but I'm planning to look into an S3 compatible service to see if that integrates well enough for my needs.
For various reasons (such as, it can cause interference), I do not want to transmit, and would rather have one that cannot transmit or that has a hardware switch to disable transmitting when you do not want to transmit.
It was a bit hacky, i just had rtl_433 output the values as json, piped them into a mqtt topic and used node-red to inject the values in influxdb

nothing fancy
These improvements to bokeh on the Pixel 4 and Pixel 4 XL show some pretty good results: https://ai.googleblog.com/2019/12/improvements-to-portrait-m...
I don’t know the exact details, but there are users identified via fingerprint who can connect from anywhere and there are users identified via password who can connect only from an activated terminal. In the first case you pay for the user, in the latter you pay for the (potentially shared) terminal.
The Human Brain Evolved When Carbon Dioxide Was Lower
Or, you can buy pure:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trisodium_phosphate
in the paint section of your local Home Depot for peanuts and add it to your detergent(it's marketed as a paint stripper, but it's safe, all detergents used to have it) and add it yourself. You can buy commercial grade dishwasher detergents that are allowed to contain it due to an exemption, but this way you can add it to the washing machine too, for which there are no exemptions.
> It's a little frustrating that the hammer is changing the shape of our hands, and not vice versa.

the "hammer" in this case being "doing things in causal order" - hard to find a different tool in the shed.
In a real-time safety-critical OS, you absolutely do allocate memory only at startup, but this kind of OS usually isn't used for any kind of GUI interface, it's used for much simpler systems. Another trait of these systems is that the CPU caches are all disabled, because those prevent determinism. But again, this isn't something you'd do on a GUI system; it's something you'd do on an ABS brake controller or an engine ECU, where the amount of memory ever needed is easy to determine in the design.
Maybe you prefer money over privacy. Not my choice but I think a lot of people would choose to sell some data for a monthly check.
Just hop on Amazon and search for rtl-sdr dongle. AFAIK they're all roughly the same since they're based off the same hardware; any with decent reviews should be fine. I think mine was a Nooelec brand or something; comes with the dongle and an telescoping antenna.
Unfortunately you have to use their custom fingerprint reader.
Interesting! When would you say this puberty hits startups in general? A round? We might be early with it
I doubt it was a magic number, but just an emergent property of how quickly the system could track a certain number of targets. When they saw problems in testing, a workaround was devised, and the 150 number probably came from just counting the number of targets when things started to go haywire. Most likely a bug report was put in the queue, and it never got prioritized because new complaints stopped coming in.
Hardware IPOs Continue to Struggle
i'd love to read more about how Bloomberg Launchpad was implemented [0]. that seemed like a HUGE departure from the clunky old bloomberg interface. it had all the visualizations you want, excellent snap to grid, and was live updating everything. just amazing for its time.

[0] https://www.bloomberg.com/professional/product/launchpad/
Maybe it was due to a weird hardware dependency like the correlation of each ship to a dot on a 10x15 light matrix or something
Implementing WebGPU in Gecko
The Deadly Airship Race
It's ironic that as we move into a world where anyone can be a "journalist" and anyone can have a voice, we need professional journalists more than ever.

Now a journalist will not only need training in writing well, conveying a story with facts, and investigating, but they will also need to become experts in identifying fake source material.

In a world where anyone can make a video or photo of anyone doing anything, we'll need to rely on reputable journalists to vet that material for us.

Saw a video on YouTube of the President saying something bad? No idea if it's real anymore.

Sure, a lot of this technology has existed for a while, but it was usually in the fringes (see The National Enquirer). Now it's going mainstream.

And the worst part is, there are a whole group of people who will not trust a professional journalist (sometimes with good reason) but will trust anyone online who happens to provide evidence that boosters their existing opinions.
Six Reasons I Bet on a Startup Reimagining Auto Services
For those who could, journaling (or even paying someone to chronicle you) was a regular activity that consumed significant time. Especially in a time when sending mail was involved so you wanted to send data dense mail less often to your friend circle.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperial_Airship_Scheme
The original icon: https://disrn.com/news/santa-hat-on-visual-studio-code-icon-...

How on earth is that offensive? It's literally just a Santa hat on a cog...
This article is bs. We were all that in disguise. Do some bout it. Bye.
Deploying AWS EKS on Fargate
That's not a counterpoint. That's his opinion which is not supported by his research.
AWS launched EKS on Fargate at Re:Invent this year. I wrote a post that explains how to spin up an EKS cluster on AWS Fargate and why I think EKS on Fargate will be a huge benefit for companies that don't have dedicated DevOps teams but want to modernize their deployments using a tool like Kubernetes. Comments and suggestions appreciated.
The key thing about the performance aspect is SQL produces bi-modal behavior due to there being a query planner / operator execution. If all of a sudden your performance characteristics change dramatically because the query planner produced a different result than normal due to something changing about your dataset, that could be pretty bad. So, not having this risk of bi-modal behavior is a nice feature of dedicated pub/sub and queue software.
Avoiding running the pump on my artesian well a couple seconds more and putting a couple gallons more a day into my over-provisioned leach field is not worth having to run the dishwasher multiple times or handwash them first.
Very soon every ship station will come with a miniature tutorial to bring even a layman up to speed on how to steer a destroyer. I cant wait for a the first school class who hijacks a military boat listening to youtube videos while singing pirat shantys.
Agreed, the author did hint at this idea with the statement "SQL databases are readily available if you don’t have access to the dedicated messaging infrastructure. They also have some unique features that turn out useful while working with message-driven applications." Specialized tools are wonderful but sometimes their use represents a premature optimization when a familiar general purpose tool is good enough to get the job done in the short term.
I expected it to be something about shark attacks on the economy or something. Very confused when it turned out to be about an Intel motherboard.
faster than a 7+
Original ticket: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/87268
Split controls, in this case, of the rudder, played a major role in an earlier landmark shipping accident, the 1967 wreck of the Torrey Canyon, the first of the modern age of major supertanker oil spills.

Tim Harford covers this in his new podcast series, "Cautionary Tales", episod "DANGER: Rocks Ahead!":

https://traffic.megaphone.fm/CAD1539409189.mp3?updated=15738....

As described in the episode, there were a number of contributing factors: tight schedule, miscommunications and assumptions between captain and helm, changes of watch, sleep, limited visibility, and the unexpected presence of other traffic.

But at a critical moment, rudder inputs failed to change the ship's course because authority had been transferred to the other set of helm controls.
You've gotten lucky.
From your linked source:

> To me this is almost equally offensive as a swastika

Sigh.
It is possible for researchers to have limited institutional budgets and relatively low wages. Of course, final versions should be properly corrected. But please keep in mind that some might not have the best means / fortunes. Science does benefit from the substance of the paper getting reviews before the final version that will be there for the ages.
> Then let me search that.

Like Firefox's Awesome Bar?
>> I wonder if it's a side effect of prosperity.

This is purely anecdotal evidence for your point but I'll mention it anyways.

When I was growing up, I lived on a dead end street, in a blue collar part of town. The houses were so close together, as a kid I could almost straddle between them and touch both houses. I knew every kid and their parents names, could recite every address on my block. The kids were constantly out playing sports games of all kinds, in every season. We made up games, went to the park and played baseball together. We had summer block parties and biked to the local pool to swim and chase girls. Everybody knew everybody else. We all helped each other out when things got tight. The few elderly people we had in our neighborhood got their driveways and sidewalks shoveled by us younger kids. We collected firewood for their fireplaces, we kept watch on their houses.My extended family all lived within a few blocks so I was always close with my cousins as well. I look back now and feel like it was pure Americana. When you think of the American Dream, this was the textbook definition of it.

Then in 1996, everything changed. My dad landed a new job, was suddenly making way more money than he used to. My sister went off to college and we moved to the other "wealthier" side of town. Bigger house, pool in the backyard, in a sea of larger homes. I was an only child, started high school and you know what? I didn't know anybody in my neighborhood. To this day, I couldn't tell you the names of the people who lived on either side of our house. No more sports in the streets, no more BMX racing down at the trails at the park by my house. No more hanging with the kids who would just congregate in their yards until we had enough kids to do something fun. After that first year, I struggled to make friends and for the first time in some 17 seventeen years, I actually felt alone and isolated. It lasted for at least another year when I was a junior in HS, I finally found some friends who like to skateboard, snowboard, mountain bike and play sports like I did and things got better.

But I agree, when we were living in a blue collar town? Everything felt close and you had a tight knit community. When we moved? I just felt alone and isolated. My neighbors treated us the same way. They stayed in their house and we stayed in ours. Doing better off financially was good, but I lost a lot on the way.
And so it appears that the inevitable has 'finally happened'.

Mark Zuckerberg's website is now a place not to be trusted as a source of news, finding friends and meeting others if there's a possibility of AI generated profiles being proliferated on the website.

I've heard that meeting real humans outdoors makes it less likely to be deceived. Their authenticity is vouched via word of mouth and experience by other humans, rather than robots on the internet.
> "The Santa Hat on vscode insiders and pushing of religion is very offensive to me, additionally xmas has cost millions of Jews their lives over the centuries, yet even if that was not the case, pushing religious symbols as part of a product update is completely unacceptable," the user wrote. "Please remove it immediately and make it your top priority. To me this is almost equally offensive as a swastika."

Santa is about as non-religious as you can get. IMO, I think Microsoft really put their foot in their mouth on this one.

Edit: Because I can't let this go, it's important to point out that what we find offensive is subjective. I wonder if whoever wrote that is really just trolling Microsoft, or just has an axe to grind.
> "Please remove it immediately and make it your top priority. To me this is almost equally offensive as a swastika."

I don't know about their part of the world, but this person would not make it 1 meter through a shopping mall in Europe from November to January. Swa... Santas everywhere!
The « physical terminal itself » is your PC. The Bloomberg « terminal » is just software plus an authentication device.
I either had a terrible antenna, interference or reception at my apartment and so my dongle gathered dust for a few years until I camr across an Android SDR Touch app. Using a USB-OTG I could easily listen in on the go for cheap.
One idea: develop some useful information product (a report, an ebook, a newsletter, etc.) that would be relevant and useful to the folks you're interested in, then give that product away for free online in exchange for an email address. Then treat the incoming email addresses as leads -- follow up with them individually, don't just dump them into a mailing list and blast spam out to them.
No inside knowledge here, but in tracking moving objects it would be easy to build in an O(n^2) algorithm when predicting interactions or intersections between ships.

Combine this with the sort of logic used in real time displays (or video games) and as the number of ships increases, the processing time required for the analysis goes up rapidly until you miss a critical time deadline and get your analysis ignored. At which point the system is classified as broken.
My guess would be they create an excuse while elsewhere do it. I don’t picture a boat on top of a submarine performing the procedure. The boat{excuse} is the excuse that renders any monitoring of the signal useless when the tap is done.
150 tracks without knowing the range of their navigation radar systems doesn't say much. It's hard to put more than 150 objects in a 5-10NM radius. Since it's a navy ship the nav radar is probably more powerful, but still, it's not like a 200NM range air-defence radar. I'm guessing they spec-d the system with incoherent requirements, and either the contractor that won went for the cheapest working hardware without asking too many questions, or maybe they took an old system's spec and asked for an incomplete upgrade... or nobody wanted to go to their boss saying the system didn't work because of some badly written spec or badly managed contractor and we need more money, please ? That would track with leaving the system badly working like this without even having some face-saving 'we're trying to work it out with the contractor right now'.

Or, most likely, normalisation of deviance. The system came at first with so many bugs and problems that when they got it in some stable state, they'd got so used to work around the bugs that they kept on doing that. Look we already put so much effort in this, what's a bit more? Yeah, we're quite happy with the system, at least it doesn't crash every hour like when it was delivered...
The thing you're completely missing here is that these systems are built by military contractors, so it really shouldn't be too surprising that they have such awful UI. These companies do not make any commercial products (except Boeing). Their real strength in the marketplace is being really skilled at acquiring valuable government contracts, and being a big enough company (thanks to history and inertia) to actually win these contracts and deliver on them (even if it's late and the product is poor, though it meets all the specs). These companies would not survive if they had to sell their products to consumers. The negative reviews on Amazon would kill them quickly.

>I have never built anything for a ship or vehicle. So I may be speaking total stupid to someone in that industry.

You don't need to have experience building ship control systems to know this stuff is stupid. You probably drive a car, right? Can you imagine a car with UIs anything like this? If military contractors were doing car UIs, the roads would be a bloodbath.
Ask HN: What would've been Python if Python didn't exist?
What language do you think would've taken the place of Python as the predominant language for ML and data manipulation if Python was never invented? Would languages that aim to be "Python except better" like Julia still exist? Would the "AI revolution" have even occurred?
Looks like a pretty nice way to debug Java programs! I look forward to testing it.

One quick note though, you might want to consider removing the politics from your screenshot before really releasing this product. You've got a great product here, but there's no need to inject politics - even if it's amusing to some. It takes away from the seriousness of your project and makes it feel more like a personal side project instead of something I should pay for and build into my workflow, in my opinion. Just my two-cents.
One would hope that would then have been understood at the planning stage and not discovered unexpectedly once the system was running.
Submitted many times, the most active discussion was in 2016 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12448545
Sure it is. If one approach is easier to mess up than the other then take the approach with less footguns.