skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is it correct to say that this impacts GPS not only for the American civilian and military but also the rest of the world?

What are other country’s thoughts? It would be interesting to learn what led the FCC to make the decision they did... how did they deem the safety or consequences of this decision, etc. hopefully it’s not driven purely by profit incentives that put lives at stake.

Disclaimer: I have no background on GPS, whichever wave “band” the issue impacts, or much of any technical understanding of the topic at all. Casual observer.
I have already made the case to privately self-host

What makes you think you can do a better job than Microsoft or github?
I feel like for a long time there has been talk about online advertising collapsing because it is bad or not useful or something else.

Now I expect it will if only due to economic activity, but outside that I personally suspect online advertising continues to be used generally because folks don't see a lot of alternatives. What are they going to do? Radio ads?

The system might suck, but the internet is where folks are, anyone advertising likely needs to go there / try.
So basically you have a more outdated legacy and were able to move out of matlab because its just a shell. I can't explain why but that is extremely funny to me.
This hash is only 64 bits, so if you have more than ~10^9 or ~2^30 elements being hashed, collisions will become an issue.

Granted, most people don't have this problem, but it's not nobody.
Step out of the dark ages by burning piles of cash to generate light.
Factoring is not a constant time problem for quantum computers.
Perhaps they mean instead of Redux, they are using Context + useReducer.
House arrest companies are reskinning apps to enforce Covid-19 quarantines
What App Developers Can Learn from Quibi
IQ is probably the biggest success of human psychology as a field. Personalty tests are notoriously unreliable and can be faked (hell, that is what actors do).
I'd guess comments like this come from people thinking the primary complexity of Redux is the data store, rather than the "all changes to your state are represented as plain objects". The Redux FAQ goes into this: https://redux.js.org/faq/general#when-should-i-use-redux

Can't blame them missing the forest for the trees when you spend all your time writing the reducers and connectors vs the actions themselves.
Aside from whether this matches the typical meaning of "broken window fallacy," I think the substance of what you're saying doesn't match reality.

Open source is famous for fostering a bunch of different approaches to the same problem, and slightly different forks of the same concept. That's the "bazaar" in the famous metaphor, as opposed to the "cathedral" of monolithic, hierarchical, linear proprietary development within a closed-source company.

"Everyone working on the same thing" only works well when there is broad agreement on what that thing should be, and strong governance to resolve disputes. National highway systems, militaries, and power grids are good examples.

I don't think search engines are a good example of where this would work; it's not clear in advance what will make a given search engine better. Thus we benefit from a variety of competing approaches, essentially to expand the space in which we're searching for the optimum.
Just over three years.
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It doesn't seem certain that they won't dogfood in addition to using the expertise internally.
Flat UIs in many cases are objectively bad.

The reason is because humans have two eyes, which give us the ability to distinguish depth easily (meaning low cognitive load - our brains are optimized to process this).

In a UI, whenever there are more that two dimensions, depth should be shown (simulated, technically) because with our two eyes we cannot discern depth easily on a flat surface.

Obviously you can go overboard. For instance, in HN, flat makes sense. But in a windowing system, shadows(1) are essential to show depth. Otherwise it increases the cognitive load required to distinguish between the foreground and background.

(1) - you could use blurring (or other techniques) as well, I'm just using shadow as a simple example.
I actually develop my own solutions, there is no third-party analytics involved in my blog, the only "analytics" I do, is to keep track of which IP visits what resource, the only cookies that are set on my blog are session and chain IDs.

If you have the information available, on what the mentioned threshold is, please do share.

For the less than 10 visits a day my blog receives, of which 98% are bots, I'm not going to do a deep dive into GDPR policies.

In Europe, law doesn't work like in the US in the way that it's to be taken literally, but in the way that the law was intended - which is not to discriminate amateur blogs, but to enforce data protection amongst the big players, i.e. Facebook, YouTube, etc...

Therefore, I still stand by my original claim: For an amateur blog, don't crack your head over GDPR.

EDIT: Provided, of course, you don't use the tools of the big players, e.g. Google Analytics.
Nothing stops one from putting encrypted artifacts into a git repo, encryption could be done via hooks. Except this would negate the delta storage, each version would be completely different, and non diffable.

One can just encrypt the .git folder and wrap the git client to handle the encryption/decryption on use. It's always a question where and how well do you keep the keys.
The fact that the ultimate goal of most startups is to "exit" says an awful lot. It's an obvious signal that they are not prioritizing your needs in the long-term.
Matrix isn’t a company, it’s a non-profit foundation, expressly set up to protect its users: see https://matrix.org/foundation for details.

Riot is a Matrix client made by New Vector (https://vector.im), the company started by the team who originally created Matrix. The endgame there is to sell Matrix hosting (https://modular.im), support and other value-added services for Matrix. We are categorically not going to sell out our userbase - and we have no reason to; if we did, they’d just move to a different Matrix service provider.
I've never read The Economist publishing something wrong about computer science and cybersecurity issues. My yardstick for measuring news source credibility is looking at how they report on AI, security, and CS in general. Do they make clearly incorrect statements about AI or hacking? Into the trash (Fox, CNN, MSNBC, and other mainstream channels all failed this. They're not news, they're entertainment). Do they regularly give questionable interpretations of the state of tech? Keep at arms length (BBC, NPR).

The Economist is the only news media I've found which makes 100% correct statements about CS every time I've read it. I figure that they're approaching other issues with that same commitment to accuracy.
Growth is still exponential in many places in the USA. What you are witnessing is Simpon's paradox. Basically factor out NYC and a few others and you see the exponential. Also all it takes is letting off the brake and where growth is flat will accelerate again.

Also what we want is a 14 day decline in new cases. Then we should consider re-opening.

People refused to social distance and ruined it for everyone.
insert anecdote

insert politics
Ah, I see what you're saying. Yes, you're exactly right.

Brand advertising has a much higher ROAS when done well. The challenge is doing it well, and knowing if you did. My experience has been that SMEs rarely have the appreciation for art necessary to do branding well, and without strong branding, brand campaigns are a waste of money.

And it's not just a lack money. They'd rather spend the money on ads than on people. In some industries, that's a better strategy, but for most they would benefit greatly from recognizing that all customers, both B2B and B2C, are in fact humans.

Founders have an advantage here, because they can operate on a longer time scale.

(Side note, GM spent $3140000000 on ads in 2018.)
How about single core performance? Many games are pegged to one or two cores only. I've always found the AMD approach of throwing more cores at the problem not to be optimal.
I can't say for sure what they mean, but I'd guess it's saying they keep shared state in a parent component rather than having a global data store for their app. The useState hook might explain their chosen wording.
I have a 5 year old Intel i7 CPU. Not to diverge too far from the topic, but would I have any reason to upgrade my CPU for gaming?

I assume swapping my GTX 760 with a latest generation card would give me better gaming performance.
The constant software update tyranny (2016)
> It's in the military's interest to limit the freedom and empowerment of the public as much as possible.

This is an unfair view. The National Defense Strategy states:

> Without sustained
and predictable investment to restore readiness and modernize our military to make it fit for our time,
we will rapidly lose our military advantage, resulting in a Joint Force that has legacy systems irrelevant
to the defense of our people.

And

> Another change to the strategic environment is a resilient, but weakening, post-WWII international order. In
the decades after fascism’s defeat in World War II, the United States and its allies and partners
constructed a free and open international order to better safeguard their liberty and people from
aggression and coercion.
This might be of benefit: https://blog.logrocket.com/use-hooks-and-context-not-react-a...

If Redux is a a vanilla-ish JS store and a Reactified access pattern, keeping the store but replacing the access pattern with React Contexts.

I am not a React expert.
Why not Mattermost (https://mattermost.com/)? If the key feature of keybase was encrypted chat, seems like Mattermost solves the problem.

Or Signal?
You're right, although Ligado's intent seems to be to develop 5G networks on this piece of spectrum.

It doesn't have much relation to the current 5G ecosystem however.
Indeed, the issue here is a company, Ligado, that plans to use the L-band spectrum.

As this is the part of the spectrum that GPS uses, the Pentagon worries about interferences.

This has nothing to do with 5G, the cellular standard, per se, and even even less with Huawei or China.

Edit:

In fact, cellular networks like 4G and 5G ones rely on GPS for correct synchronisation and interfering with GPS could have an impact on them. Just to illustrates that this is a really a spectrum allocation issue regarding potential interferences, this is not a 5G issue.
>The bankrupt notion that somehow 'were funding those people' is meaningless. The factories pour out the goods. Nobody's slaving away to 'fund' that.

Somebody has to create, build, and maintain those factories. Someone else has to manage the output of those factories and distribute it. Someone else needs to work to secure raw materials for the factory. Age you can't produce everything in factories. You don't have a factory that grows food for example.

Programming, especially web development is a great analogy here. You have tools that do almost all the things you would want a website to do. Why do we need web developers at all then? Because it turns out that connecting everything and fine tuning it for your specific needs is quite difficult.
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Ligado (ex-lightsquare) product is a hybrid satellite terrestrial network. The specific component that people are concerned about is their terrestrial network which is very much a 5G creature (in so much at Ligado is marketing themselves and this approval as a step forward for 5G and IoT).
I would say a huge proportion is also caused by moving manufacturing jobs to cheaper countries. It is not just automation.
Errr what?

Their development team is entirely based out of China.

Please, spare me the rubbish about anti-China rhetoric. This has nothing to do with the Chinese people or culture. I clarified that this is for local _government_ clients. It absolutely matters, whether you get offended or not. I also mentioned that my company is a Zoom customer and this move generally has me happy.

We had the same conversation about Russian owned antivirus companies months ago as well. I understand there is legitimate concern about anti-Asian rhetoric. I just wanted to clarify that it's not where I'm coming from. As someone who introduced Keybase to these clients, these questions are going to come to me. And I want to have an answer for my government clients for this legitimate concern.
Are people just using "hooks" to mean "all new functionality in React that happens to be available to/as hooks"? To me it's like (actually very like) "oh we're doing that with methods". Uh. OK? Cool I guess? That's not informative.
That's awesome, thanks for letting me know about it!
For the 'hard lockdown' crowd, how long can we put time on hold? A week? A month? A year? A decade?

It is an elementary fact that life rides on the derivative. Stop work and no wealth gets created. No meat, no veggies, no crops, no gas, no electricity, no metal, no lumber, no stone, no plastic, no industrials, no dentists, no medical services, no schools, no nothing. Modern people cannot live subsistence lives off the chickens in their backyard and a plot of land within walking distance. Our stockpiles will last for a while, but not forever.

At a second degree, the social connections that enable the amazing collaboration underpinning modern society break down. The longer we are locked down, the harder will be to come back and figure out our place in the grand social puzzle.

It is a terrible situation. Most people are going to get infected, and a non-negligible fraction of them [1%] are going to die. Everywhere where the virus got endemic. Perhaps a handful of East Asian countries will manage 100% border shutdowns and 100% contact tracing for years on end. More power to them, the rest of the world lacks the social cohesion to pull off something like that.

Worse, the impact is going to be unequal. Some social strata will have more options to stay isolated for longer. It will appear, for a while, that they are somehow performing better than everybody else. Rest assured, there will be very few that can avoid the disease for long enough (~18 months) to be on the upside of a hypothetical vaccine. All we can hope is that, eventually, this disease goes the way of the common cold.

Toughen up. This is not Man's making. Nature send a Russian Roulette our way, we have no choice but to play.

In the meantime, try to avoid media that does it's best to paint this disease as the second coming of the Black Death. One of the technique is to cherry pick. Say 'one of my co-workers died', implying that they are next. Instead of '1 out of 73,348 of my colleagues' died. It is unavoidable tragedy that there may be anywhere between 73 and 733 of their colleagues that are going to die before we see the end of this.
I've been to one of his talks, where the topic wasn't about him or Mathematica or "Wolfram Language". He talked a lot about himself and Wolfram Language.

Seems like a pretty smart guy, though, and has built up a pretty impressive empire.
Rural area with terrible internet choices (3mbps max). What are my options?
From Rust docs:

It's important to understand that unsafe doesn't turn off the borrow checker or disable any other of Rust's safety checks: if you use a reference in unsafe code, it will still be checked. The unsafe keyword only gives you access to these four features that are then not checked by the compiler for memory safety.
> Socialism is the doctrine that man has no right to exist for his own sake, that his life and his work do not belong to him, but belong to society, that the only justification of his existence is his service to society, and that society may dispose of him in any way it pleases for the sake of whatever it deems to be its own tribal, collective good.

Ayn Rand

I am not a follower of hers but on this particular topic I am reminded of her quotes a lot
My favorite American joke: what do you call someone who you think doesn't deserve healthcare, doesn't deserve happiness, and should die so that you can maintain your standard of living?

A hero!
So I was recently looking at those as options for a very low budget video editing PC for someone, and yes, AMD destroys intel in raw CPU performance for the same price, however in those low-budget applications Intel has an upper hand - integrated GPU. With AMD you either have to go with the super crappy 3400G, which is a really poor CPU(but also very cheap), or for literally anything else + a dedicated GPU(which increases the cost significantly above Intel's offering). I was surprised to find out it's actually cheaper to go with say i5 9400 with an integrated GPU than with Ryzen 5 3600 + cheapest dedicated GPU. Yes the dedicated gpu will be better than intel's offering(marginally so) but if you only care about the CPU performance, don't have a lot of money and yet you need something to drive your monitor, then Intel has that integrated GPU to offer that AMD lacks.
This seems massively less "dumb" and "debuggable" than say, templated HTML that's rendered on the server (erb, blade, whatever).

I get that it's trying to be "dumb components" but maybe that's an invalid starting point?
>> “The same people hold that IQ is heritable, that it determines success, that Asians have higher IQs than Caucasians, degrade Africans, then don’t realize that China for about a Century had one order of magnitude lower GDP than the West.”

Lol what. National gdp seems like an absurd thing to associate with with IQ. This doesn’t prove or disprove a thing. What a waste of ink.
Which keyboard combination moves windows around, the same as WIN+ArrowKey, after enabling "keyboard access" in MacOS?
KGB tool. Hence beloved.
> Keybase felt like WireGuard for its use case, just dead simple and also secure.

WireGuard, however, is "decentralized" because you can run it yourself whereas Keybase was always a centralized service where you always had to trust someone else instead of yourself or a public blockchain!

That being said, congratulations to the keybase team! :-)
It is unfair to compare a western democracy with a totalitarian government. China has options that we have collectively decided we don't want to have.
After reading part of [1], I have no idea how you draw the conclusions you do.

I was playing around with a bunch of different crypto currencies when Keybase did the airdrop with Stellar. At every point in the process, it was opt in. Then I received ~$60 and that was it.

It seems your article was going for sensationalism and was highly disputed by all commenters on HN, not covered up by some capital driven conspiracy.
What do you think LTS entails, exactly?

One of the core ideas of working with LTS is that you can build your software on an LTS release and ship it to somebody else on the same LTS release, either as a source or as a binary.

If you want the latest GCC, that's fine, you're not forced to use the default compiler distributed with your OS. But it doesn't make sense to update the default compiler used in an LTS release. If you want that, then you don't want LTS.
That's what they want you to believe. If you think the US is immune from having a military take over like Nazi Germany, you're deluded.
> Imagine a president who came out in February, even early March, with a message like that ...

Considering the virus was spreading in the US in late January any action at that time would have been much too late.
Go and Parsing
> Economics is already provably not great at doing its core task.

Can you cite any proof of this "provable" fact? ...and also a source that defines Economists "core task"?
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I have a couple of beefy bare-metal servers that I won't be needing for a few weeks/months - they have lots of RAM & CPU currently utilized at <5%.

Any creative/novel ways I can make use of them?
Not necessarily for-profit.
am I right that it's Google apps FOSS alternatives?
If the main reason for this acquision is for the Keybase engineering talent, I hope Zoom/Keybase does the right thing and open-sources the server code for Keybase, rather than letting the product die.
That’s Zoom. Post acquisition Keybase is tied to some of those, but not all. Their dev team is not going to move to China (at least not immediately) and past security issues in Zoom are no indication of Keybase safety.

This will possibly change over time though.
options for what? Are you asking if there's some sort of thing like satellite internet or using data or something to get more bandwidth, or are you asking how to deal with low bandwidth because you've looked through all the options and none of them are good?
I like the varsity website: https://zerodha.com/varsity/. It has very good educational content on Stocks, Currencies, Commodities Markets, and Investing. I really like the last chapter, Innerworth: https://zerodha.com/varsity/module/innerworth/
California becomes first state to borrow from U.S. to make unemployment payments
Is this a joke? The bulk of the labor movement happened before 1970, and it was not because workers were so well-treated and well-compensated that they had a lot of free time on their hands.

I'm a big fan of business and entrepreneurship, but let's be clear here: there is a reason we invented government. There was never a time when we could 100% count on the beneficence of business leaders to advance social goals.

Edit to add: I'm not trying to demonize all business leaders here. There are some bad actors, but even business leaders who desire to do well have to succeed in the marketplace--even against bad actors. Unfortunately, doing bad things in business often confers the benefit of lowering costs, which is a competitive advantage. This is a known structural issue with a marketplace economy and why we need more than just business to have a good society.
>> Many games are pegged to one or two cores only

That hasn't been the case for a looong time. But to answer your question, they are much faster than anything from Intel at comparable pricing:

https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-2020-amd-r...

"The results here are immediately interesting. Despite costing less than every other CPU represented, the 3100 manages to tie the Core i5 9600K in single-core performance and outperform the Ryzen 2600 and 2700X by around 12 per cent. The 3300X is even more impressive, with a single-core score that exceeds the Core i7 9700K and only falls behind the Ryzen 9 3900X and Core i9 9900K."
> I hate to rag on new stuff

Haskell/ML syntax is hardly "new stuff".

> I think it's extremely unlikely you really get a large amount of adoption

Clash is used to manufacture production hardware by at least one of the top 5 largest companies in the world.
I'm in a similar-ish boat. I've got an i5-6600k with a solid overclock on it. Single core performance is completely modern competitive, but it falls very flat in multicore.

Most games will get a huge bump just with a new GPU - You'd do well with an RTX 2070, or the next generation AMD GPUs (speculating - but there's a lot of momentum on that front).

That being said - LinusTechTips did a head to head benchmark comparison between the i7-7700k (the latest my Z170 chipset can handle) and this 3300X. Bottom line - the 3300X is an insanely good value for performance.
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I'm not mocking you for your disorder. Your situation is only partially a result of your OCD. The majority of it is self-imposed because you don't seem to know how to use accessibility features of an OS.
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Yeah, I bet you do.