skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I disagree. GNSS systems used to be very complex and hard to design.

Times have changed though, and nearly all the components are off-the-shelf now. If you already have the capability to launch a satellite, adding GNSS capabilities is a small extra step of adding an atomic clock and an antenna. All the signal generation can be software defined. All the complexity can live in models on the ground.

Sure, some of the 'high power anti-jam directional antenna' bits require more hardware, but the basics do not.
The "Jobs page" that's linked to in the article just goes to a page of all the onion articles that are about "jobs". Is that the joke?
I don’t think that’s true for every exit node. Keep cycling your IP and you may find one where it’s not required.
> It is also objectively true that noise is lower on FF cameras, specifically at higher ISO.

This is a meaningless statement - there are too many free variables you’re ignoring.

How large the pixels are is not all that relevant for how much light can be gathered - the actual physical constraint is (the angle subtended by the sensor & lens * physical aperture diameter)^2.
Or it could be mature and stable software that doesn't need constant maintaining.
True, but an indie artist is nearly always the songwriter and publisher (no one else owns the publishing rights, hence “independent”). So it’s a fair comparison, and unfortunately, all else being equal, streaming woefully underperforms to radio to the point of tears.
Ask HN: What do you think is missing in the page analytics?
Page analytics involves simple analytics like the number of visitors, time spent, etc, and also complex analytics like heatmaps where you can see User Click Distribution, Attention, and Scroll Depth.

Is there anything else that you think is missing from page analytics. Are there any unanswered questions that you would like to understand regarding your key pages like a landing page or home page?
I guess I can say this now.

I worked for 5 years at the most revenue-generating microsoft store in the world. We were near the official Microsoft campus. The short answer is that things started to change internally around 2017, where stores changed their hiring requirements and excised a lot of their top talent in favor of lower-paid, less enthusiastic management and employees. This has been a steady downhill process since - It is a shame that the stores will no longer be. I loved my time working there, and loved the people and connections I made there both personally and professionally. We genuinely went out of our way to make customers happy, no matter the cost. It was inevitable that kind of goodwill would be snuffed out by profit motive eventually.
Hello, this is Francesco, the author of Secrez. Just in case you have any question.
>From my understanding "abolish the police" means to reorganize it and greatly reduced the funding.

sort of just depends on who you ask.

I have people within my social circle that want to literally abolish the police -- erase the concept entirely -- citing historical examples groups of people that had no such similar concept as a central policing group.

Because of fringe opinions like that I tend to take care when I read or say things like "'X' means this", because that's the power of language, some folks really do mean abolish the police, while some simply use such language with a somewhat 'hyperbolic' or satirical meaning.
> Govt. SF health + planning made our lives hell. They didn't like our innovations. We had to bribe officials ("lobbying").

San Francisco's population leans quite left, but they seem to really hate change over there. I've never lived in a place so hellbent on ensuring that nothing changes. In fact--the entire bay seems to hate change, and the peninsula may arguably be worse.

There's that old saying: "you couldn't get elected as dogcatcher," that makes fun of the sheer number of elected positions in the US. It feels so true at the local level, with a bunch of domain specific politicians trying to exert their tiny slice of power. San Francisco seemed quite bad while I lived there, but they're hardly alone.
I've been slowly designing, engineering, coding, and 3D printing a 2D Plotter (a printer you can code)
https://hackaday.io/project/171536-diy-2d-plotter

I launched a Twitch stream:
https://www.twitch.tv/travis_the_maker

I also refactored/updated my engineering and photography portfolios.
> In 2011, Yuri Milner and SV Angel began offering an additional $150k to every startup in YC.

What happened to Yuri Milner, haven't heard his name in a while. Is he still actively investing?
Communism (in the sense that the Kerala communists are using that term) is a Western ideology - its originators were Western political philosophers, and they themselves saw it as the logical next step from Western rationalism and liberalism.

And I haven't heard of communists opposed to industrialization and urbanization, with the exception of Khmer Rouge (who were arguably not even communists for this exact reason).
Not that I have an opinion about Mobilewalla's analysis but polling gets accurate results with far less than 30-60% sampling, so that, in and of itself, is not necessarily a problem.
I don't think there is. A fair bit of police hardware is allocated, not purchased. My understanding is that the discretionary budgets for things like training is fairly thin.

This is why police have so much military hardware. They were able to get these things for free due to 1033.
Virtual Career Fairs
OT, I wonder if the shift to remote schooling is increasing the use of remote collaboration among students who speak different languages? One might imagine students localizing their game dialog with the help of remote student locals?
> our dumb parents generation thought that "education" was important and demanded government support for all their children.

100% wrong. The vast majority of STEM PhDs are foreign born. The reason we have a ton of PhDs in certain fields is because of how our immigration system works.

TBH we probably shouldn't be importing PhD students in the humanities or over-saturated STEM fields (looking at you, Pure Math).

> The reason we have too many PhDs

We really don't, at least in certain fields. We might have too many PhDs who want to be faculty at top 10 universities. But, at least in CS, we have a pretty significant shortage of PhDs. My first post-PhD job offers were in the 300K - 500K range. I had zero days of work experience outside phd school. That indicates a significant labor shortage; I'm not that special, I promise, but I was the only person in my particular niche on the market they year, and there were 5 companies with deep pockets who wanted my expertise.

Hedge funds and tech monopolies over-paying for talent is, I guess, not the worst thing in the world. But good luck hiring a PhD to be a professor at your small cash-strapped branch campus when you can pay $60K/yr, your governor is constantly shit-talking lazy academics who in fact work 80 hour weeks, and the competing offers in industry are well into the mid six figures with better work/life balance and better job security.
How did Sift get it, if it wasn’t disclosed by the second party in the first place?

I don’t want my booking site disclosing my location to others who may use it to harm me, full stop. I have no idea what internal controls, if any, Sift or any other service provider has in place to screen their own staff or their own data handling procedures for safety. Even Equifax didn’t get this stuff right.

If I am telling a vendor where I sleep and when I am sleeping there, it is a huge breach of my privacy and safety for them to tell third parties without my explicit consent. This includes even relatively innocuous stuff, like database hosting. One disgruntled employee and a .torrent file later and many people’s lives or safety are put at risk.
I really don't know. I think it's a bit more nuanced than some of the commentary around it suggests, particularly stuff that was based on the original Wikileaks selective cut.
Someone local to me was struck by lightning recently, whilst they were filming the storm on their phone from their porch. The phone screen is split, their arm hurts etc, but the film was recoverable. The lightning was just discernible as just a slight lightening on one frame, apparently. And a simultaneous clap. They were fine, and apparently it was the second time they were struck, although the first time was decades ago when they were caught out cycling.
I have an open feature request for adding this type of functionality to Pandora:

https://community.pandora.com/t5/Feature-Requests/User-contr...

Seriously, I REALLY want a music service which gives me control over the discovery algorithms parameters.

Just in general, I'm sooooo worn out from living in a world where nothing revolves around "super users" and everything revolves around... average decent 21st century people.
Even assuming the models are good, what confidence do you have that the data is good?
What is their business model?
I agree. Every time there is an article like this you get the same arguments, the same discussions, and the same comments. Back and forth, back and forth, over and over again.

But if you actually bother to do some reading on the subject the conclusions are overwhelmingly clear. Over and over again social programs show very clearly that if you improve education and give people better opportunities to escape the poverty trap and better themselves you reduce crime.

The formula is simple really: if you give people opportunities to make an honest living then they will, for the most part, make an honest living; if you don't give people the opportunity to make an honest living then they will, for the most part, make a dishonest living.
It's in the climate change section of the website. I can kind of see a cause and effect (but knowing very little about the topic this may be completely bogus): You add energy to the weather, clouds are bigger and winds are faster, and that translates to increased lightning.
With what seems to be nothing but criticism of policing policies, I would love to know what the ideal or even acceptable policing policies are, presuming that any policing will be accepted.

The most simple minded can be critics, but what is the alternative? What happens when the lawless mob and criminals want to break and enter your home and take your things and burn down your life? It's easy enough when it's the "others" stuff and homes and lives. But this is clearly a breakdown of equality under the law … equal laws that are equally enforced with equal penalties. Is that objectionable to anyone? I thought we are striving for equality. You cant achieve equality when some get away with breaking the law and others don't; and some get light sentences and others have even the clear case against them dropped. That's not equality.
I've gotten more in depth into this in the path, but I don't recommend people move to "the triangle"

(I honestly don't know why that name has stuck, sure historically they may be linked, but unless you want to deal with ungodly traffic every day, you're probably not going to be going between Raleigh and Durham)

Durham has some serious unresolved problems with crime, Raleigh and Durham both have problems with traffic, the tech scene is not that robust, house prices are on a rocketship shaped trajectory and frankly it feels like a bubble.

I think the core of my complaints has generally been, if you want suburban sprawl, you can go literally anywhere on the eastern seaboard. There are safer cities than Durham, there are cities like Raleigh that don't have the same problems with growth it's facing

If you want a "city feeling", RDU isn't it. Raleigh downtown is how many blocks? Not many. Public transport is terrible so you're going to need a car if you can't contain your life in it.

Maybe if you have a family to settle down and strong earning power and good savings it's a good idea (that is to say, maybe I don't know, I still wouldn't). Or you're on the opposite end of the spectrum and have a lower income and really young with more interest in living in a "happening" place.

But for a new grad in tech or something in demand, your earning power is squandered on suppressed salaries (and no, it's not that mindboggling cheap to live there, especially not with all the money flowing in from all around the country), you're a little bit older than the point where most people are more interested in how many breweries per square mile there are. It just wasn't an appealing proposition to me.

I moved back to NYC and now I make 1.5x what I did there, but my living expenses have not risen nearly 1.5x, and I've probably saved up in 6 months more than I did in 1 year there... at that point you can afford a few nice vacations a year to make up for the weather
Facebook could have stopped this but they are spineless and greedy.
I always use cock.li for temporary emails and it never asks for anything. As long as you don't feel offended by the domain names, you can use it too.
Persuasive words are not enough
Except for the useless meetings, is this that different from academia?
This is categorically untrue. It's well documented that people were hoarding[1] due to (and I quote) the "influence of perceived threat."

[1] https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...
It’s clear that incarceration rates are associated with falling violent crime, to the extent that one went up and the other went down, but the existence of large jurisdictions that enjoyed the latter without the former casts doubt on the idea of causation.
The problem with predictive policing is in the name. Inference (ML) predicts the future from the past. If the past is racist, then inference will create a racist future. Since racism is systemic[1], especially when it comes to policing, predictive policing is actively working against an anti-racist future.

There may be statistical ways to factor out systemic racism. There are two reasons I don't think that works:

1. I don't see how one evaluates the correctness of the process that controls for racism. What is ground truth for anti-racist policing?

2. These systems are likely snake oil and the vendors of these systems are (possibly inadvertently) profiting off racist policing. If cops arrest more black people per capita, then send the cops to black neighborhoods and have them follow black parolees. The system works (according to an objective function which maximizes arrests.) Remove racism and send the cops to white neighborhoods. Now the cops don't arrest as many people. The system fails. So I think it's likely that if you remove racist policing from predictive policing, you get the null hypothesis.

I'd be happy to hear a counterargument from someone who has actual statistics on this though.

[1] If you don't believe this, you're in the minority now: https://www.vox.com/2020/6/11/21286642/george-floyd-protests...
Looking at the first 10, none of them are asking for Perl specifically, they're generic job listings with a point "N years of experience in Bash, Perl, Python, Java..."
FYI, I only posted because the ambiguity was ironic.
> ... PhD prepares you for a life of research ...

So you're saying the purpose of getting a PhD is to be an eternal post-doc, or work in a national lab?

Because the moment you become a faculty, you stop doing exactly what you were trained for.
Companies write Windows programs because that's the platform most people have. Most people have that platform because it's what people are writing software for. It's a vicious cycle.
but once i have an account, why would i still need tor?

what protection does tor give to someone logged in to wikipedia?

i don't like to get an account because that would leave a public trail of all my edits, and given the eclectic selection of topics i am interested, in this would allow anyone to deanonymize me. whereas if my edits get spread over multiple ip addresses you may tie a particular edit to an ip of mine, but you won't be able to build a profile of my person from all my edits.

hackernews has the same problem, but on hn the topic selection is more limited, and not all topics i am interested in are being discussed here. also it is a lot more difficult to categorize hn comments compared to wikipedia edits.
AMD has global foundries manufacture their IO chip. They are an American company, but I don’t know where they actually fab the silicon. (I would assume Singapore since that’s where their 200nm fabs are)
Funnily enough, I was doing research one day and came across a local ISP co-op in one of the Dakotas that was selling rural, symmetric 1/1 for $70 per month. Much better service at a lower cost than in SF (been trying to get ATT to finish their fiber install for the past 2 months).

Unfortunately I don't remember the name, but you could probably find it on one of the FCC maps.
NYC has used analytics since 1993 and it's widely credited as contributing to the incredible drop in crime. I don't buy for a second that ending these kind of programs will help anything. Certainly we can decrease brutality by sending police into areas with no conflicts but that defeats the whole purpose of policing. We need effective and aggressive law enforcement as much as ever. We need to root out the worst abusers and show them that bad behavior will be punished severely.

https://www.innovations.harvard.edu/compstat-crime-reduction...
I've seen something not too far from this done in rural areas in the UK. It's not illegal - in fact, it receives public money via broadband vouchers!

Direct-burying of fibre in the countryside is cheap, doesn't require permission (beyond getting access to the land etc.) Landowners are generally hugely supportive, as they get better internet too (and being rural, have useless connectivity to begin with).

You can get street works permits fairly easily, for the "last half-mile", through access to "code powers" [1]. That also helps you bypass certain planning rules. And you can just do a regular premises installation - nothing cloak and dagger here!

[1] https://www.ofcom.org.uk/phones-telecoms-and-internet/inform...
Momentum. A software company's target market dictates their target platforms, and companies buy equipment that best meets their business needs. A typical company can only afford to change a small part of their IT landscape at a time, so IT management must be careful to never break their web of dependencies.
That's pretty similar to how broadband developed in Romania, and a significant reason why they have some of the best Internet speeds in the world.[0] It's also more or less the model that successful community mesh networks have followed, like NYC mesh[1] and Guifi[2].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_in_Romania
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NYC_Mesh
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guifi.net
My interpretation of this subscription landing page was that I could preview a few pages from the book to see if the writing style worked for me. I wasn't able to figure out how to do so, as the 'AVAILABLE' link next to the linear algebra refresher simply went to a Patreon page full of locked/unavailable posts. This looks like it could be nifty, but the ultra-polished marketing is too focused on paid conversions and doesn't meet the basic necessaries of "Is this content valuable to me?".
Exactly. If they were honest about it, it probably would b less impactfull to their bottom line. But now that they decided to take a side on the cultural war, conservatives would be happy to boycott them. I think it's worth it if they can try to chage the result of the election I guess.
Yes! I know next to nothing about African music - just starting to learn about it - but I’m certain that these incredibly subtle wrinkles in time are on purpose. Willful. Being celebrated. In some songs there are beautiful little rhythmic foreshadowing events - the last note of a bassline let slip almost imperceptibly two, three times, in preparation for hitting the listener with a twist or impact. All on a barely noticeable level, interwoven.

I also feel an incredibly strong sense of collaboration in African music. Which is - I guess ironic?, in the context of the article. Painfully and poignantly. It’s interesting.

I’m going to mention Pamelo Mounk’a, M’Pongo Love, Franco, Coupé Cloué, Docteur Nico, Tabu Ley Rochereau, and Simba Wanyika/Les Wanyika, in case their music brings as rich a reward to others as it has to me. From there it goes all over the place – and Africa is big! And old! And beautiful and full of joy and subtlety and craft.
We have ubiquitous access to the allowed functionality, that is as reliable as the functionality provider decides to make it (reliability may be removed after the sale if the provider so wishes).

Modern machines empower people to do as they are told, and nothing else.
Tom Misch used those for sure. I was only talking about it with my wife the other day. Lost in Paris seems to play evry time I open Spotify. I wish you could blacklist songs on Spotify.
Astronomers Find a Pair of 'Super Earths' in a Nearby Star System
It is mind-blowing how misleading this is. You should really consider editing your post. The majority of people in state prisons are there for VIOLENT CRIMES, and the plurality of people in local jails are there for violent crimes.

https://www.prisonpolicy.org/reports/pie2020.html
Funny, I just rewatched Minority Report last night! I had no idea that precrime was an actual thing.
Nice, thanks very much for the pointer- I had never heard of this before I will look into it. :)
> Recently, the FCC and USDA, among others, have created massive funds in an effort to deploy broadband in underserved areas.

The Universal Service Fund was established mid-'90s to get fund telecommunications connections to schools and libraries in rural areas (in the same way the Rural Electrification Act did in the early 1900s). Funds were paid out through 2000 or so but I haven't heard of any contracts being built using USF funds since then. I will however point out that you can still see this surcharge on your phone bill. I also agree that these contracts tended to favor huge CLECs (versus huge cable companies back then) and that more consideration should be given to "mom and pop" shops.

EDIT: The focus on schools and libraries was an effort to get service into these geographic areas with the idea that once it was there, consumers would be targeted as customers who could then "just connect". That's when we also learned that the "last mile" was way more expensive (often politically) than anticipated. In the cable industry, the response was to upgrade plant equipment and create/adopt the DOCSIS standard for data transmission over coax.

DISCLAIMER: I was a member of two of the committees that helped write specific portions of the DOCSIS 2.0 specification.
Why venture capital doesn’t build the things we really need
I can see that perspective and also say that I think what it speaks to is that we don't provide a better systemic solution to drug addiction than imprisonment, which is an embarrassing failure of American culture and society.
Wait until you hear about Elijiah McClain, who was tackled then choked/injected with ketamine until he went into cardiac arrest and was eventually pronounced brain-dead. He had 911 called on him for walking while 'looking sketchy'.

https://www.nytimes.com/article/who-was-elijah-mcclain.html
Among other things, I'd expect this is because YC is trying to break free of the idea that the only way to be a successful startup founder is to be a young, single, attachment-free man.

Successful startups are created by all kinds of people in all kinds of different life situations, and YC needs to be careful to be inviting to as broad an array of people as possible.

At the same time, I agree that dorm-style living (along with other nontraditional styles of living like mulitigenerational or multifamily units, cohousing, coliving, etc...) is a great idea and our culture should work to be more supportive of experimenting with housing. Especially, as you said, in areas with severely impacted housing markets.
Why Statistics Don’t Capture the Full Extent of the Systemic Bias in Policing