skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"It has now passed beyond Saturn’s orbit and will travel another 10,000 years before exiting the system".

How big is our solar system? I always assumed it referred to everything between the sun and Pluto, but 10,000 years suggests it's far larger.
> “We strongly dispute these claims and we will defend ourselves vigorously against them,” Castaneda said in an email.

I've seen this _exact_ phrasing so many times in responses to lawsuits that I'm now starting to wonder if future lawyers receive this template as a graduation fair well package.
Years ago, astronaut Chris Hadfield told an audience of software engineers (including me) that the moment the space shuttle was in stable orbit, the crew would pull out laptops and set up an ethernet network for all the scientific work of their expedition, as the space shuttle's own computers, though limited in raw computing power, ran software that was so thoroughly tested that there was every reason not to "upgrade" them in any way to support the scientific work.
>casting it more as a right to personal self-defense rather than a right to private military rebellion against the government acting unlawfully.

Then again, it might be hard to drum up support for a ban on rebellions, among people who were at the time in the middle of a rebellion.
Correct they can dock to ISS and return fully automatic without astronauts being involved. However the touch controls allow to take over, if need or safety protocol require to.

SpaceX has a marketing version of the control interface in this simulator: https://iss-sim.spacex.com/ How closely that resembles the actual interface I don't know. The astronauts claimed the simulator they used matched reality quite closely.
There is a great deal of evidence around algorithms exhibiting bias, which can harm consumers. Here's one example of facial recognition algorithms: https://nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/ir/2019/NIST.IR.8280.pdf

Users may not consciously "empathize" with products, but they will be discouraged from using them when their experience using them is sub-optimal.
One thing I've never understood is how ACLU has legal standing to file many of its suits.

I'm assuming that ACLU isn't claiming to be the injured party in suits like this current one. Are they acting as attorneys for one of the alleged victims?
Pricing?

Also: similar (from yesterday I think) https://www.walkie.chat/
No, we aren't. Not even close.
Suddenly, a Microsoft HQ promising thousands of jobs appeared in the city.
You still need propellant mass. Energy in itself doesn't get you anywhere. But in practice you'd probably be better off electrolyzing water ice which is ubiquitous in the outer Solar System.
Saying anything else would hurt their case.
Or just follow it.
Ask HN: Why have there been so many new P2P protocols recently?
I think it's amazing that we're seeing the proliferation of all these new breakthroughs in P2P protocols recently, but I'm curious why that is or is it just my imagination?
Most of that military/police population are adult physically able males. The regular population is everyone, if you constrained that population to males/females 18-60 then subtracted the military/police numbers, you’d be closer. It’s probably more like 150:1. Also consider all those officers know how to use weapons, have certain training, it starts to get closer than you think.

We have too many police and active military and too many things are illegal that shouldn’t be. The problem is that the military is basically welfare for small towns and southern states.
> I kind of feel like people here are not reading what I'm actually writing.

Perhaps. I think I did read what you wrote. Let me look (again) at your top-level flagged post. I've now vouched for it, by the way.

> It's a pity that some on the left in the past have been so ready with the word 'fascism'. It's a serious word describing a serious problem, and it should not be used casually for "people on the right I disagree with". I believe that the word is appropriate to describe this administration.

Let me dissect this a little further.

> It's a pity that some on the left in the past have been so ready with the word 'fascism'

Now after our discussion, it's clear that you're not meaning "past today but in the context of Trump in general". I'd assumed that meaning since in general that's the context I've seen the word used. And indeed, Trumps election is in the past.

> I believe that the word is appropriate to describe this administration.

I don't remember this part being in your comment in my first reply. HN doesn't let me see edits or edit history or that a comment was edited. I'd like to think my memory's good enough to remember what I replied to, and there's also in general a netiquette of calling out substantial edits to messages. If you didn't edit your top level post then you are right; I didn't read it and I'm sorry for the confusion!

Edit to add:

> In the past. Say, GHWB, people would call him a fascist because they didn't like some bit of policy. I didn't care for his policies by and large, but I also do not think he was a fascist.

I was under ten for the entire duration of GHWB's presidency so I don't have that experience to draw upon. My experience is almost solely on reading history books and following politics since around Bush Jr's election with the "hanging chads of Florida" being the most prominent political memory I have other than being in polling lines waiting for my mom to vote.

Indeed, I can see how use of the slur during previous presidencies has significantly watered down its meaning today such that people skip over its use thinking it's political rhetoric.

> Is that clearer?

Yes, thank you!
As far as I understand it, he basically acted as a proxy for Les Wexner (and I wouldn't doubt if he was blackmailing him to stay in that position based on some of the accounts of the assault victims) and just treated Les's money as his own. These grand ideas about vaults full powerful people on tape are a lot less plausible than him just taking advantage of a single billionaire to fund his lifestyle.
Thankfully we have modern Agile/Scrum with all its process and meetings to soak up that time and give us the feeling of business.
Oh, sorry. I even forgot to figure in income and marital status.
I'd love to work with physical software (software that interacts with the real world through sensors and actuators), as a C developer, how should I move into this space? Every time I try intro to ARM kits I feel like I'm in over my head.
Even with macs running OSX there were OS and driver problems with overheating, downclocking, batteries, keyboard missing keypresses, keyboard going missing on reboot, touchbar disfunction and problems with the touchpad like broken palm rejection. And thats just stuff from a few weeks of reading HN comments...
this seems like basic common sense. if you have two job offers for the same salary, but one sounds really fun and the other sounds really boring, wouldn't you pick the fun one? but at the same time unless you're already pretty wealthy, there's probably a dollar amount that would make you pick the boring one instead. iterate this choice over enough people, and the "fun factor" depresses wages.
"How could ancient Sumerian wheel builders have calculated the ideal shape without modern computers and software? We may never know." I don't think figuring out the shape of the wheel was ever the problem. People have been moving huge stones by rolling them over logs since the dawn of time. Figuring out that the round thingy is of more use if you pierce it in the middle and let it rotate around an axle was, I think, the tougher nut to crack.
Yes. Read the filing here: https://www.aclu.org/legal-document/goyette-v-city-minneapol...
Not OP,

WebGL is a fast path to direct hardware execution and kernel space execution.

It’s difficult to patch when things go wrong often requiring driver or kernel coordination.

There might be issues with cross site memory leaking, but I’ve only seen white papers on how this might be an issue.
> they actively prevent certain sorts of abstractions.

Like what?
I am aware of this as a developer. But as a regular user, when I am told that visiting HackerNews in incognito mode won't prevent HackerNews from tracking me doesn't tell me that it won't prevent Google and Facebook and who knows how many others too.

Basically, this is one of the key ideas behind the GDPR: that I should have a legally-enforced expectation that when I'm agreeing to share my data with X, I'm not implicitly agreeing to also share it with Y and Z; and that it is X's responsibility to see to this.

So sure, X is free to use GA, but as a User I shouldn't have the expectation that Google knows I've visited X's sight.

And comparing GA to React is really disingenuous, especially in this context. One is an active monitoring solution that hoovers up data and sends it to a 3rd party, the other is a static library that is entirely run in my own browser, or sometimes on the origin server as well.
This might be a silly question, but why on earth would China trade USD with Iran ? Then can just barter with Iranians for oil (and none would be wiser).
Uh, secret meetings and confidential cover-ups? This reads more like a spy novel than a trustworthy document.

Sorry.
Here's some evidence that refutes your claim that he "did nothing". If you want to judge results in a binary fashion then fine. Luckily, most reasonable people don't think that way.

> On January 22, 2009, Obama signed an executive order restricting interrogators to methods listed and authorized by an Army Field Manual, ending the use of "enhanced interrogation techniques." [...] The prisoner population of the detention camp fell from 242 in January 2009 to 91 in January 2016, in part due to the Periodic Review Boards that Obama established in 2011. Many members of Congress strongly opposed plans to transfer Guantanamo detainees to prisons in U.S. states, and the Obama administration was reluctant to send potentially dangerous prisoners to other countries, especially unstable countries such as Yemen. Though Obama continued to advocate for the closure of the detention camp, 41 inmates remained in Guantanamo when Obama left office.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presidency_of_Barack_Obama#Gua...

If you want to argue he could have done more, or failed to live up to expectations, you'd have many people agree (probably including myself). Saying he "did nothing" is just willful ignorance of the facts.
Magneto-braking maybe?
But Facebook does regulate the feeds of their users by employing algorithms to surface content that they think the user will engage with, and so get bucks for the eyeball.

This distinguishes them from libraries, the only other similar platform for unmediated content. Libraries treat all information as equal and curates it as such. Facebook does not treat information equally, this means it is already moderating content.

Facebook already censors content that politicians deem unsavoury, so why should one political message get a free pass while another is removed?
Building a resilient software engineering career
Yes, I think a bit part of the societal change is that we just don't need extremely high-resolution pictures any more. We're consuming the photos on our phones, or if we happen to view them on a TV or a desktop/laptop monitor, we're willing to not look super close and criticism the resolution (after all, we know the photos are intended for phone screens!).

It's closely related to "quantity over quality," and I don't mean that in a bad way! If our personal photos are primarily for capturing memories, then having more memories captured is actually great, even if each memory doesn't have the resolution to blow up to a poster and hang on your wall. Another common way to phrase this is "the best camera is the one you have with you" (which, yes, I realize is considered overly dismissive by lots of photographers and camera enthusiasts).
FWIW in each of these countries, except perhaps North Korea, Windows is still king. Kylin, Red Star, and Nova are all very long running projects at this point, and as far as I can tell none of them are a majority even of government desktops.
I mean as a country... during the covid period China sent tons of medical supplies to help sanctioned Iran. I also don't think we should lock up the execs at the medical supply manufacturing companies because they were doing the just thing.

I think most of the countries on the planet should start to ignore these US sanctions when they are based on nonsense, especially when the underlying reasons are "regime change" related. Start routing around the SWIFT system as well.
Large governments have access to Windows source code.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/securityengineering/gsp

It's more about long-term strategy. China wants full control over their OS. They want features Microsoft would never add. They want support for their own hardware, etc.
A rather hyperbolic comment. We don't do business with Iran- simple as that.
Sounds like you're describing the Halo Effect: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halo_effect
> There should be prison time if an investigation determines that this was done to increase certain drug sales.

What if it was "just" done to dunk on Trump after he touted the drug? The media sure did love the narrative that his favorite drug might be killing people.
I think you mean cascadia :)

but somehow I think that the more liberal leaning parts of it would say no ...

(note, some border lines of cascadia reach through big swaths of California, others do not).
What the hell is Facebook?
I don't mean to be critical of your image - I'm always glad when someone is happy enough with any image to actually print it! That said that is an insanely ideal condition. It's during the day, with snow being a natural reflector.

It's well exposed but like pretty much all cell phone pictures it's oversharpened. This was taken during my first year doing professional photography, so don't be too harsh. It's probably a good comparison for that reason though: https://imgur.com/6qtTl89

That would have been with an D3200 or D610, both of which are pretty old tech nowadays.
The top entry in my link above simulates 50 million years in 6 seconds for an n=6 system. That's 11,000,000,000,000X running on a normal PC.
A lot of people maybe know someone who do ;)
You managed to dock in a simulation in which it's guaranteed that nothing goes wrong. Most of the switches and buttons are there for when something does go wrong.

I think the main reason there are so few buttons on Dragon is that it evolved from an uncrewed vehicle that was designed to be flown from the ground, so everything is much more connected and software controlled than was even practical in the shuttle era.
Yeah, though there's lots of water in the outer solar system you can get your propellant from. The term to google is In Situ Resource Utalization (ISRU).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_situ_resource_utilization
It's "safe" in that you can't read or write memory you're not supposed to be able to access. The program will crash, but at least you can't steal (or sabotage) data in memory.
> They have close but opaque connections to the government,

You could say this of the US too; SV is almost blatant about this.
Here in Switzerland, all carriers which build their own cellular networks have chosen different partners for their 5G infrastructure:

* Swisscom: Ericsson

* Sunrise: Huawei

* Salt: Nokia

The whole Huawei scandal wasn't too big news here in Switzerland (as far as I know?) which is the reason that Swisscom and Sunrise were able to cover 90% of Swiss population with 5G at the same time (end of 2019).
Not just schools, what scares me is that healthcare is moving to the cloud.

I know from an insider that one of the largest areas of Sweden, at least one, has been moving to office365. While conscious people inside the very same organisation have been trying to prevent the move of data into the hands of a foreign company.

And at the same time large telcos with a lot of government clients have also moved to office365 but with warnings to their employees that they should avoid storing certain client files in this cloud solution until the legal situation is resolved. WTF

So basically these consultancy companies have a legal requirement not to store client data in a foreign cloud if that client is part of the Swedish government. But at the same time healthcare is moving to the cloud.

I wish I knew more about the legal situation, all I can give you are the observations and musings of a geek.
> In a free market, the laws and forces of supply and demand are free from any intervention by a government or other authority and from all forms of economic privilege, monopolies and artificial scarcities

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_market
Yes, but the quote says:

“Free users for sure we don’t want to give that because we also want to work together with FBI, with local law enforcement in case some people use Zoom for a bad purpose,”

So they want to keep the data unencrypted so they can give it to the feds. That doesn't sound like privacy to me.

edit: So I mean, something like that should not be allowed by law. Though it's rather the FBI that is breaking the law here, but Zoom explicitly says they want to work together with them. So that means they approve that injustice, making them also unjust. If they would encrypt their data to protect their user's privacy, they would not be unjust on this aspect.
Resist the Urge to Simplify the Story
Funny how easy it is for "independent" reporters to find financial malfeasance goldmines when it is in the interest of US military leadership.

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Daily white collar crime? Panama papers? i sleep

Manufacturing consent for endless war with Eastasia? REAL SHIT

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"China’s foreign ministry said the United States was politicizing economic and trade issues, which is not in the interest of Chinese or American firms."

Hard to disagree.
https://m.timesofindia.com/home/science/Lowest-temperature-e...
Put everything in the context of sino-US relationship, and the propaganda exercised by both parties.

But I doubt either side is surprised by these type of behaviors. These are all just minor details. The strategic shift in the sino-US relationship from collaborating to confrontation is pretty much set in course.

Now it's more of the question how to avoid the disaster of the previous cold war. Given that USSR collapsed, either one will be desperate to avoid becoming the new USSR in the confrontation; and they might be doing something stupid in the last resort...
It's been several years since I've used Java, but from what I remember most devs rarely catch unchecked exceptions (like out of bounds access) in their code.
Difficult question: how do you make people in power agree on a solution? Not even universities managed so far to standardize their IT infra.

Most universities probably already standardized on Microsoft's ecosystem of product and solutions.

Question is: why change for something open source?

Answer: licenses for MS are costing a fortune and privacy considerations.
I've pasted this before, but there's a middle ground between touch screens and buttons:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6YYun90S8g&feature=youtu.be...
https://ndi.tv/tools/

He's talking about the poorly named NDI Scan Converter
The extradition charges were dropped a long time ago, but yes please tell us how the US/UK are the vanguards of 'human rights' and 'free speech'.
There are German cloud providers (DT, 1&1, Hetzner, Exoscale are the best known)
C# ref returns and ref locals (2017)
The pilot interface, though, is not just for executing single actions; it's for executing against complicated checklists, some of which may be less familiar to pilots, some of which may even be uploaded asynchronously from the ground (for instance, consider the unorthodox procedures developed for the Apollo 13 astronauts), and some of which may be concurrently ongoing.

This lends itself extremely well to hypertext [0] and to interface components such as collapsible sections of text, being able to display multiple procedures simultaneously, being able to resize them relative to a dashboard of diagnostics (if not a window manager, a split-screen), and placing the button(s) required to execute a step directly near that step without needing to manually resize boxes when this is requested. Browser technology is exactly the stack that has solved all these problems!

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypertext
I strongly dislike voice control. Speech is a high-latency, low-bandwidth, error-prone medium. A button is a button. One bit, clear unambiguous.

Tactile controls can become so thoroughly integrated in muscle memory that well-designed tools and machines (including cars) feel like an extension of thought. Think "volume up", it just happens automatically from thought to fingers to buttons.

Compare that to a multi-word speech command that requires perfect diction and phrasing over a span of five seconds. That's five seconds of distraction, longer if the command has to be repeated, vs milliseconds for the button.
> I mean once I understood how to configure it...

AD is a misnomer. It's not simply a directory. It not only does what OpenLDAP does but also what Kerberos does.

Openldap is aweful to configure by the way. The documentation is terrible, sometimes lacking important piece of information. I remember TLS being a pain to setup. Actually I think everything having to do with authentication (PAM, OpenLDAP, Kerberos, nss) on Linux is a pain to setup.

By comparison, AD is fairly nice.
Unemployment to some degree is functionally a form of a buffer or reserve of labor. Obviously there is also a measure of skill mismatch, lag time, and similiar as well but lacking a reserve leads to disruptions which interupt growth and advancement.

While there is a bias against raising minimium wage there is also a fundamental constraint - if a job can't pay for itself in value generation it isn't sustainable.
> city documents

You realize that AWS/AZURE ect. all have GOVERNMENT contracts right? They have special infrastructure and portals just for government customers.
US extraterritorial laws are far reaching and used as way to promote US interested. Two foreign entities can be subject to them if the transaction is done in USD for exemple.

https://www.natlawreview.com/article/aggressive-extraterrito...
> Saying that "Google Analytics is NOT the website I visit" is the same as saying "React is NOT the UI I'm using"

Uh, no.

Using a web framework is very different from using a third party data collection tool that gives the third party access to the data.

Unless the React devs are also tracking user behavior on third party sites. But that would be a separate lawsuit.

Full disclosure: I buy ads from Google.
For me, the lens speed issue is the real killer that phones have never, and may never, come close to real cameras. Yeah, the bokeh can be simulated through software. However, for things like low light, anything far away, anything fast, (basically anything that needs information) you can't make up for it with software. <Insert CSI "enhance" joke>

I dabble in sports photography. There is no way I get the shots I get with a phone.
Ask HN: Anyone interested in joining me in applying for Mozilla Builders?
The deadline is 8th Jun 2020 and the project I am ideating on will be opensource and non-profit. The domain is edtech. The project's aim is to help eliminate student loans and increase teaching and non-teaching staff income. The goal is to apply to The MVP Lab. Let me know if you are interested. Contact email is in profile.
Ask HN: Do I need a degree for a job as an ML engineer?
Up until recently, I dropped everything and have been working on an ML project and studying ML, in hopes that I would be noticed (or at the very least, I'd have it to put on my resume). Recently, I learned it is near impossible to get a job as an ML engineer without a degree. Is this true?
Keep in mind that the whole motivation of these is "we don't trust outside group X"; these governments have no reason to believe that OSS isn't compromised, and one of the easiest ways to know everything is to do a lot of the work yourself.