skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, as I understand it the current generation of Starlink satellites are likely to be pretty much unusable when they're over the ocean since they need to have line of sight to a ground station.
That's an important thing to understand and really internalize.

What makes sense in a city context doesn't always make sense in a town context. And what makes sense in a town doesn't always make sense in a city. The difference is huge, to the point that the best approach can be the opposite.

I think this is at the crux of a lot of the country's polarization and inability to understand the other side.
To me, the question is whether the web is a something people use through a middleman, i.e., someone else's website like Mark Zuckerberg's, versus a thing that we use directly, i.e., having our own websites. If we follow the later thinking, then of course we are personally responsible for what content we place on the website.

In either case, the web in its design is still a "public place" where "free speech" can occur, where anyone who is connected to the internet has the potential (setting aside issues of state censorship) to communicate, via a public website, anything to anyone, anywhere in the world.

Section 230 was reputed to be passed in response to a lawsuit against Prodigy, an online subscription service, which technically, IMO, was not the same as the emerging "web". IMO, services like Prodigy, Compuserve, America Online, etc. were walled gardens that could exist outside of the web. Rightly or wrongly, I always viewed Section 230 as protecting ISP's from litigation arising out of the content people included on their websites, not as protecting websites from litigation arising out of the publication of the content. It is up to the website owner to remove offending content, not the ISP to block access to it. This makes practical sense. We wanted ISPs to stay in businesss.

As crazy as it may seem to consider messing with Section 230, there is certainly an argument that the protection it affords has been usurped in ways never anticipated, by enormous "communal" websites larger than anyone could have imagined. When someone's website has billions of pages, comprising submissions from the general public, it becomes impractical to remove offending content. I doubt Section 230 was intended to address this problem, to keep a small number of individual websites in business and ensure the creation of a small number of advertising services billionaires.
> Japanese Americans were thrown into camps for the same reason, but we're not talking about jailing anyone here.

Yet.

At the risk of a slippery slope fallacy, institutional xenophobia ain't controlled by an on/off switch. Dehumanization is a gradual process, and establishing an attitude that people associated with an enemy are aligned with that enemy is part of that process. At first those associations might seem reasonable, going for officials and other important figures, and then perhaps their family, and so might the actions against them, like added scrutiny and surveillance of their communications and travels. The problem is that both ends of that are prone to scope creep - the target set broadens ever so slowly (citizens, ex-citizens, descendants of (ex-)citizens, their descendants, and so on, almost always excused with "well we need to be sure that $CURRENT_TARGET is not part of $PREVIOUS_TARGET"), while the actions worsen ever so slowly (surveillance, profiling, travel restrictions, property confiscation, imprisonment, sterilization, execution) as the rhetoric heats up from "we just want to make sure these people aren't the enemy" to "these people are the enemy and shall be treated as such".

Personally, I'd prefer to nip that in the bud rather than watch 1800's-era sinophobia reenact itself at the expense of my Chinese-American friends and colleagues. I also have enough self-awareness to know that if I would be upset by people writing me off as "will probably help oppress minorities and political dissidents if his government tells him to do so" simply because I happen to be a citizen of a country with a track record for oppressing minorities and political dissidents, then I should refrain from doing so to a citizen (let alone ex-citizen) of a different country with those same tendencies, even if those tendencies are, in my opinion, much stronger.
Or you can just use pixel fonts (which imo look better than subpixel-aa fonts on 4k anyway) and donate the difference in monitor costs to [optimal virtue signalling charity]. Gaming on a 4k monitor sucks also, I don't know what kind of supercomputers people are running but my meager 1080Ti can't peg any of the relevant games to 144Hz at 4k.
They don't? What about VOIP?
I'm currently using a Sony 43" 4K TV [1] as my monitor. It supports uncompressed 4:4:4 chroma subsampling [2] which makes for a huge impact on visual quality. It's also quite inexpensive. I find that the height of the monitor is about as big as I can tolerate. I certainly wouldn't mind higher resolution, but that doesn't exist at this size.

LG now has a 48" OLED TV [3] that supports a 120Hz refresh rate. I'm looking forward to trying that out. Either that or the new Samsung Odyssey G9 ultrawide [4] which is about the same price. It's also 240Hz but with VA pixels (which apparently aren't that bad). The G9 will be better on the vertical axis (not too tall) given its size. The extreme curvature is also interesting - not sure about that yet.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Sony-KD43X720E-43-Inch-Ultra-Smart/dp...

[2] https://www.rtings.com/tv/learn/chroma-subsampling

[3] https://www.lg.com/us/tvs/lg-oled48cxpub-oled-4k-tv

[4] https://www.samsung.com/us/computing/monitors/gaming/49--ody...
Have you seen that Flanagan's JavaScript the Definitive Guide, the famously big book with the rhinoceros on its cover, has recently seen a new edition? I wonder how deep its JavaScript goes :-)

(https://www.amazon.co.uk/JavaScript-Definitive-Guide-David-F...)
You make the companies put that money upfront before starting the well. If that money no longer exist during liquidation the owner goes to prison for fraud.
You are right, I need to add the widget to finalkey, to be honest, I never sold many of them, but I provide a lot of support for people still building them in 2020, and I think more people should use non-cloud hardware password managers! :P
Did you try to contact the provider to provide(heh) an explanation?
Could you please stop using HN for ideological battle? It's not what this site is for, and it destroys what it is for, so we ban accounts that do it regardless of which way they lean.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Well, there is a whole seperate line of research concerning the topic of these input perturbations ranging from PGD to just Gaussian noise. This model does not claim to defend against any of those.
Email assumes that I want to see everything addressed to me. I don't so I have a spam/junk folder. But a lot of resources are wasted sending content that people don't care about.

Email should become a pull system, where you get a notification that a message is waiting for you on server X. Server X is trusted? Then I'll take a look, oh, it's fakegoogle@serverx, I'll block them specifically. I never see that content again, period. No one else can put a message into fakegoogle@serverx's outbox so I can be confident that I'm not accidentally blocking valid content (no address spoofing). If I trust someone, like rawgabbit@rawgabbit.com, then I can automatically retrieve the content until you prove untrustworthy (either by your deliberate actions, or by having weak security that grants others access to your system).

This also handles not just spam, but promotional content. If someone wants to send out promotional content to 1 million customers, I can optionally retrieve it or just "unsubscribe" by never retrieving it. It's on them to continue hosting content that's never retrieved so at some point they'll detect that Jtsummers has stopped getting their content and just stop sending it to me.
It's called OSINT and it's been around a lot longer than 2010.
> Of course, this changes the threat model a bit, since it now needs collusion from a store employee.

An employee? Or the store owner?

These terminals don't offer a choice of destination bank account, if you type $16.94 into Walmart terminal and hold it near Jenny's card the card will authorize $16.94 payment... to Walmart.

For an independent merchant (including e.g. franchise operators) in some sense that's their money in the merchant account, so it makes a little bit more sense, but I still don't think it really adds up. It's like opening a bar so you can get cheap booze, the economics don't make sense.

There are opportunities for insider crooks. In the UK for example there were a rash of what are morally skimmers built into chip card terminals. Here's how that worked:

You own one or more stores with shiny new EMV payment terminals. From an instructional video you learn how to prise open a common model of terminal without setting off its tamper detection. Then you use the huge space inside the terminal left for an optional security feature (never implemented because features costs money) to add a board that taps the communication to the card and uses a cell phone connection to upload it. You seal up the tampered terminal and install it at one of your busier stores.

Customer puts their chip card in, the terminal works as expected but unknown to them your modification stores the card details and transmits them to other crooks half way around the world.

The other crooks are making old-fashioned magnetic stripe cards with details that have been uploaded. They send small fry out with these bogus cards to buy stuff in a country that doesn't have EMV yet. The stuff is fenced, and you, back in the country with EMV, get say 10% of the proceeds for your contribution to this international crime.

Some people in the UK got prison time for this. International card fraud is easier to spot (this person bought groceries just outside Luton, then forty minutes later they bought a laptop computer in Hyderabad or Houston?) but until EMV is rolled out everywhere similar tricks will be done.
> my beef is with Atwood's opinion (and similar opinions) that you must use a three monitor setup

It's weird to me to specify the number of monitors given how they come in a vast range of shapes and sizes.

For example, my dream setup used to be a single 55" curved 8K monitor. That's the rough equivalent of a 2x2 grid of 27" 4K monitors (I currently have two 27" 4K side by side in landscape @ 1:1 scaling).

The only problem with my so-called dream set up though is I don't think my computer glasses, which are sharp only for surfaces between a range of 21" to 27" would allow me to see everything sharp from corner to corner on that monitor, which sucks.
Children Take Cues from Adults on Real vs. Make-Believe
> It's well known that lower-intelligence people become police.

Any data?

> Also, it's well known that the occupation attracts bullies, who love the idea of bullying people and having power over regular citizens.

Again, data?
Isn't it easier to become crook? More pay, less control, more freedom.

I know they are not PhDs but come on.

What you are doing is exactly the same what others do to different races/genders/nationalities, just replace "police" in your sentences with "black", "yellow", "women", "jewish" etc.

Hate against whole occupation, thousands of people.
People start poisoning them (have you seen what happened in NY?), their children are bullied at schools.

Pure and simple hate crime.
I agree that there are semantic issues with pointers, but my point was to illustrate that you need sum types in Go to get any real benefit out of an Option type. If you need an option type and you aren't content with a pointer, you can use `(T, bool)`, but this is still a far cry from a real Option type.
Did LinkedIn just do a small rebranding? Blue is gone
The implication is not that young blood has specific positive properties, but that old blood has specific negative properties. Simply removing some of the "bad old blood" is already enough to measurably improve biomarkers. Identifying the bad stuff may go a long way to counteracting it in a more targeted way.
> The technical details are all right (or seem right to me, anyway), but this is too opinionated for my liking.

The author, Nikita, did exactly mention that point, mid page of the article under the heading of "Get a monitor".

Let me express an opinion. This is my blog, after all.

So yeah, opinionated piece, no big deal. And I happens to agree with him.
(puts on chip designer hat) yes and no, as I said upstream the copyright laws of the time did not protect designs, chip copying (stealing) was rampant.

I can imagine that some CPU designers from a particular world view (especially in the 70s) might only design in terms of microcode - but also design tools were pretty minimal, I can imagine that it might have been far easier to design things in terms of microcode rather than as PLAs - what you might be seeing here is the differences between different teams' in house custom tooling
Honestly, sounds like social media just isn't for you or you have a friend's group that you need to curate.
The serotonin reuptake inhibitor Fluoxetine inhibits SARS-CoV-2 replication
Agreed. I should have also mentioned that I bought my LG as a refurbished unit which made the purchase easier to stomach.
> People don't live in downtown SF because they need to, they already live there because they want to.

Maybe downtown SF is just the lesser of two evils between SF and SV because of job location. Maybe they really want to be with their extended family in a suburb of Cleveland.
It's impressive how anyone can be "doxxed" these days. A few clues, each with a few bits of information, and soon enough you have a unique identifier.
I think features like smart sync and ignore are actually really useful. There’s stuff I don’t need (like Paper), but I don’t feel it is getting on my way.

And seems to be they have been also working with the core product. On the blog they mention rewriting the sync engine (with Rust): https://dropbox.tech/infrastructure/rewriting-the-heart-of-o...
In internet coverage, like with most infrastructure, there are power laws. I'm making up numbers but it's like connecting the first 50% costs as much as connecting the last 5%. Starlink is for those 5% who live in extremely remote areas.
I want to refuse to believe that this actually occurs...
Nobody got drippingbloodhorizontalrule.net yet?
You could just save it on a flash drive and hide it in safe. How does printing it on a piece of paper make it any safer?
The author says that you don't need to choose between 4K and 120Hz, because there are "reasonably priced" monitors on the market that have both. But their recommended monitor ($900) seems a lot more expensive than a 4K 60Hz monitor (which is around $300-$400 when I search on Amazon).

The author also says (they think) that you need the discrete graphics card in a MacBook to take advantage of a 120 Hz display, and that the integrated Intel Iris graphics won't do.

I was actually shopping around for a new MacBook earlier today, and noticed that the 13" MacBook Pros only come with integrated GPUs, and you have to get the 16" MBP if you want discrete graphics. So if you like the portability that a 13" laptop has, this might not be a good tradeoff (not to mention that the 16" one costs $400 to $800 more than the top-spec 13" one).

I totally agree with the stuff they say about rendering fonts on 4k screens, but I don't think I'd be willing to take the hit in portability, or shell out an extra $700+, to get 120 Hz.
A common response is that Apple’s cut is too high. How did you arrive at 2 to 3 percent?
> MacOS cannot drive one 5120x1440 display using Intel display hardware.

For other readers, this is not technically correct. The 2020 13” MacBook Pro can drive the Pro Display XDR with its integrated Intel graphics.
Since Zoom's first 41 employees were from Webex, somebody should compare the streams and files and see if there are similar markers.
I also have 3440x1440 on my Dell monitor at home, and I love it.

My work monitor is a really nice 27" 4k LG monitor, which a coworker picked out. He's a real monitor specs nerd and made a lot of assertions like the OP. The scaling issues are endless and really bother me, and I don't notice the higher PPI at all. I much prefer the ultrawide Dell - it gives me a feeling that I don't even need to maximize my windows and I can still have lots of space.
you're thinking of address bits - going from 21-bits to 22-bits of microcode increases the area by 1/21th
Generics aren't the gap (multiple return values are already generic), but rather sum types. Sum types are what allow you to express that this is either None/Sum(T) (Option) or Ok(T)/Err(E) (Result) or Nil/Cons (List) or etc.
> You also signed up an account for banks, they collect a ton of data on all your payments, got a problem with that?

Yes.
It wouldn't be a problem if anybody at all had the _public_ keys, I think he meant the private ones.
I just recently went from 2 4k monitors to 3 2k 144hz monitors. I'd argue as long as the panel quality is decent, 144hz is a much better quality of life improvement than 2k to 4k is
Twitter begins rolling out audio tweets on iOS
Is there any decent resource explaining how the whole mesh of Starlink sattelites communicate to each others and to the ground ? Do they use RF radio or modulated laser ? What equipment should be used by end users and what frequency range ?
Who said anything about racism? But even still, we see cases [1] where questioning any aspect of the BLM movement is falsely equated with racism.

[1] - https://www.vnews.com/Windsor-High-School-Story-34741525
I think part of our disagreement on the burden is the idea that developers would be able to choose which stores to support.

Of course in principle they would be able to choose, but in practice, by doing so they give up a percentage of revenue.

If price competition brings commissions down to say, 15% on average, developers must support a combination of stores with a minimum combined market share of 85%, just to break even on where we currently stand.

Even if the majority of purchases are made from a few large stores, developers will likely be worse off unless they also support some of the smaller ones, and even then, the fragmentation means that the full cost saving of the reduced commission will likely never be realized.

And in this world where there are 3 major stores and some smaller ones. Every serious developer will be required to support all of 3 of the major stores to get close to the current revenue.

The improved margin just isn’t that much once you start losing access to addressable market.

On top of this, as I have said elsewhere, to actually get into all these stores, your app must comply with the superset of regulations.

I think it’s fair to assume that that Apple, even if they are forced to reduce commissions, will not be likely to ease regulations significantly.

The notion of a safe, well policed store, is a core value and one of the reasons people choose the brand.

Even if they only retain 20% of app sales, developers will still need to comply with their regulations if they don’t want to be worse off than before, and in addition will have to comply with whatever the other stores require.

I don’t think there is any gross exaggeration here.

There just isn’t as much gain to be had.

It would be a different matter if Apple could be pressured into reducing margins without fragmenting the store landscape.

My hope is that they do so pro-actively.
You are not adding any more security than that if you simply remembering some random key (which isn’t that hard if you put your mind to it).
Where U.S. Tech Workers Get Paid the Most
I see this expressed a lot, but from my personal experience growing up in a small rural community, I always wished I lived in the city.

Maybe it’s just a “grass is always greener” thing, but I always wonder why people assume kids really want the suburban life.
v2 is planned to have satellites as low as 328 km. https://licensing.fcc.gov/myibfs/download.do?attachment_key=...
Ironically you'll notice all the pictures of the snow-family devices have UPS labels.

EX https://media.amazonwebservices.com/blog/2020/snow_luna_1.jp... and https://www.slideshare.net/AmazonWebServices/new-launch-intr...
Call of Duty Is Making Ridiculous Money Every Minute from Players
For coding I just use bitmap fonts, and I don't have any blurring issues this blog describes. I can do that even on old IBM T41's screen, and text still looks just fine.
I concur with everything said, but it is still a bit unclear to me who is this article targeting. What is the takeaway? "Anyone who can afford a $1500 monitor should have one, so poor font designers don't have to break their back manually hinting fonts anymore"? Isn't that a bit like solving poverty by moving to a better neighborhood?
We are "flattening the curve", which AFAIK isn't actually yet changing the area under the curve. About the only thing that is changing WRT medical treatment (AFAIK) seems to be putting fewer people on ventilators. Because it turns out its not a good idea to be putting people who are surviving on O2 on a ventilator just because their O2 saturation is a bit low. A change that would have happened naturally if we ran out of ventilators. There might also be some drug studies coming along that provide some better treatment guidelines as well, but those don't seem to be particularly positive either. So maybe in a year we will be able to decrease the mortality rate by 50%, but again, you have to slow it sufficiently to save those 50%.

So, yes we might be saving lives, but that is a small fraction of the total rates. Aka, we might be changing the death rate from 2% to 1.8%..

But, since we are mostly talking about the aged and infirm, its a herd culling. So you might be giving .2% another year or two to live until they die from other causes.

Which is why, there is a persistent bit of pessimism being heard from certain parts of the research community warning that this might be more like the flu than we are willing to admit. AKA, its possibly going to be with us for a long time. We have spent the last 100 years working on flu vaccines and treatments and lowered the fatality rate by maybe 90%. That 60k deaths a year in the US are with large parts of the population being vaccinated, and piles of treatment options.
Here: https://github.com/wbkd/awesome-interactive-journalism
For what it’s worth, the latest 13” MacBook Pro (with integrated intel graphics) can power the 6016x3384 Pro Display XHR at 60Hz.

I am unsure what refresh rates it can achieve with a lower resolution.

But really as someone who made the jump from 60Hz to 120Hz, I wouldn’t bother unless you’re gaming. I accidentally was running my monitor locked to 60Hz and when I fixed it, I barely noticed the difference - it was only really when playing FPS that I noticed.
With paper you can be confident that you will still be able to read it in decades. How true is that of a flash drive?
I'd love to include your site, but, because I want to give people a way to remove their site from the ring again, please use the form or contact me on IRC, so I can add your site and give you your secret that lets you view stats and remove the site.
I guess. It still makes me wonder about the margins for other accessories (let alone Spot itself).
> Sam, Max, and Jack Altman (Max is going to run the program, and Sam and Jack will be available to advise the companies)

Is there a list of advisors we can see as well?
We keep printed keys in a safe. I suppose if we were a bank we'd do it differently. They're in "tamper evident" envelopes, too. These are AWS master keys, Bitlocker encryption keys, etc.
I wish I could have my own VC fund where I could just ramble and get paid for it.
I have similar feelings about memorising in chess. It gets to the point where it's boring for me