skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You mentioned 2600 as the top range for the number of satellites needed for a GPS system. Let's use this number, shall we?

Second, OneWeb already has bought rights for 3 launches with Ariane 6 [1]; ArianeGroup is a joint venture of Airbus and some other company. Airbus was reported to be quite enthusiastic about the UK bid, so Soyuz is unlikely to be in the picture for long if UK wins the auction.

An Ariane 6 launch can bring between 10 and 22 tons to LEO. Let's take the middle number of 15 t, that would be 100 of their current satellites in one shot. That's in line with the 60 satellites per launch for Starlink (which are heavier at about 250kg).

They could maintain a fleet of 2600 satellites in orbit for less than 3 launches per year.

Did I mention that Airbus is the biggest OneWeb creditor? They have all the reasons to see OneWeb succeed, so I don't think they'll limit OneWeb's access to Arianne 6 launches. If anything, one could be worried about a conflict of interests, that they'll get more launches than one would strictly need.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ariane_6#Launch_contracts_and_...
Extensive discussion a few days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23610416
You can try something pushshift.io
>Myopia is caused by insufficient bright light as a child

That seems like an /extremely/ dubious assertion. Maybe it's counter-intuitive and correct? Anything to back it?
> I've tried to make this point

"Point" in your comment means the muzzle of a gun, not a logical argument.
Fundamentally I see the web business from the lens of "data is the new oil". The internet industry is a utility and infrastructure business, period. Content is just one of many things that can be monetized through commodity web technology.

Streaming video for example has more or less stopped producing viable venture startups on the B2C side. Successful new ventures in streaming, the ones who will actually make money, are folks like Disney and Warner with IP. Their business advantage is horizontal integration, rent seeking for content with killer margins over company-controlled pipes. Disney Plus, HBO Max apps have zero notable tech innovations. The only criteria to the consumer is that the content is exclusive and the app stays in the background and doesn't fail. OTT video, as a vertical for consumer innovation, is over.

Same goes for SaaS, ecommerce, social networks, gaming, music, news etc. Maybe we'll get some standout disruptions from time to time as hardware evolves. But the tech is all about plumbing from here on out..
Except Amex is the highest end card used predominantly by financially secure individuals. Bing is... not that.
How about letting developers pick or come up with their preferred way of working instead of mandating Scrum?
I just realized what I described is not giving a lower bound.
How to Run a Successful Remote Workshop for Mobile App Developers
I'm sorry but I'm unfamiliar with what a tree surgeon does and now I can't get it out of my head, could you link a Youtube video to sate my curiosity please?
[Unfortunately, IMHO] Lua "minor versions" tend to break compatibility with older versions, making it problematic to upgrade to new versions without breaking scripts written for older versions. I believe mpv is stuck on 5.2 due to this. Here's the list of incompatibilities for 5.4: https://www.lua.org/manual/5.4/manual.html#8
Now rate limit is over:

My post didn't say write that Molyneux's statements were true. My post didn't 'imply' they were true either - they provided possible arguments both for and against. The point is that you disagreeing, taking offence, or providing alternative explanations has no bearing on what is true. Which is true.

A. You did not state lack of evidence. You stated that you 'disagreed pretty hard'. Please read your own comment.

B. You suggested another possible explanation for Iraq not forming a viable democratic government. I could think of a third argument which I personally think is the more likely explanation. But that doesn't refute the original point. It just suggests another possible explanation.

You are suggesting that someone finding an idea offensive, or someone bad believing in an idea, or an alternative idea existing would make that idea wrong. That is not how logic works.
The opposite thing is true of HN.
The new random library implementation should stop me dragging in a Mersenne Twister for every other thing.

It was libc's random, which is... Trash.

Now it use's xoshiro256 [a], which I hadn't heard of. (Not my area). [0] It seems somewhat similar to the MT, as it isn't cryptographically safe, but should give you a fast and fairly random set of integers back. It's also significantly faster than the MT.

[a] Followed by two asterisks. I give up trying to make them appear in HN's formatting.

[0] http://prng.di.unimi.it/
One reason is that you might need a machine now, as opposed to in a couple of years.
I asked someone who worked on the C++ modules proposal and they said it might both help and hinder compile times.

On one hand, compile time would be lowered because compilation units are larger and less can be done in parallel. But in future, incremental builds probably become quicker because it’s easier to tell what’s actually changed and what that affects.
No, it's not. It's because people make point-in-time observations about HN and don't see the community working over hours, which is what you have to do, since anyone can make an account and write any comment they want here.
The part about Facebook becoming WeChat at the end and thus bypassing the restrictions Apple puts in place doesn’t ring true unless Apple is prevented from restricting apps from building their own mini app stores for games: https://9to5mac.com/2020/06/18/apple-refuses-facebooks-gamin...
Boulder and Denver are close enough that you can really benefit from both. There aren't as many startups there as SF, but the people seem to be more interested in building relationships than just pushing their own app.
Stefan Molyneaux is a racist. Racists can be concerned for child welfare.
Techdirt is fine. Compare today's response to David fucking Duke being kicked off of youtube.

FWIW it's totally fine that people wanna curate the content on their site. I'm not under the impression that any of the lefties are there on good faith; that's a great reason to kick folks off your platform.
Yes, and those acts of violence are crimes at the federal and state level...

The First Amendment protects the content of their speech, however hateful it may be, which means they can generally think whatever they want, and say nearly whatever they want. The dividing line is when speech is action (i.e., yelling "fire" in a theater; the content of the yell is protected but the act of yelling is not).
Speaking from experience..

This is fine if you have a small single node database that can have some downtime. Once you need replicas, to fit your database in ram for performance, or reliability with a hot standby for failovers it becomes a lot more complicated.

You should consider what (if anything) you miss out on by just running in a single vm that you can scale out much easier down the road should you need to. Alternatively pay extra for a hosted solution that simplifies those steps further.
I am in a big project which assembles 45 teams and all of them shall adopt Scrum (for various reasons). My observation is that all those teams which have a sustainable pace with regards to architecture, technology, quality, output, social behavior, etc have done so while adopting and embracing Scrum in a clean way since the beginning of their existence as a team. All teams severely struggling with their content of work, output and collaboration have also severe issues with regards to Scrum-adoption, and show anti-patterns similar to the Stackoverflow thread creator‘s. However I would say the root causes (which we discussed in maaaany meetings) are certainly neither caused by Scrum nor increased by it, but individual mindset, dysfunctional team dynamics, pressure, weird contracts, etc. and would be there under any other or no process framework.

I am no Scrum fanboy (I think), but this experience and also from former projects make me quite sure to not blame Scrum in the first place when I see struggling teams, but trying to understand the underlying problems and solve those.
<close> is equivalent to golang's defer (either can be implemented in terms of the other) except at the block level. imo calling it RAII mostly leads to confusion. One mailing list user recently asked a bunch of questions around using <close> for RAII. They expected RAII to work even for resources that are never bound to a particular type of local variable, for example if one writes do_thing(io.open("foo.txt")), where do_thing is not responsible for closing files because sometimes it is used with files that will continue to be used. They eventually concluded that the closest thing to RAII available was __gc.

Some users presented separate complaints about resources kept in to-be-closed locals in coroutines not necessarily being closed. You can do something to try to solve this, like setting the __gc and __close metamethods of coroutines to call coroutine.close. A "real" solution would look more like dynamic-wind. Notably golang doesn't attempt to solve this one, so maybe not solving it is fine.
US restricts Windows exports to Chinese/Russian/Venezuelan military and police
Sometimes it's manual and sometimes it's software. If it's software, it won't permanently ban the account, and you'll more likely see [dead] comments followed by live ones. On the other hand, a banned account can have its comments restored to live status by vouches from other users, which might be hard to tell apart. On the third hand, software sometimes will permanently ban an account, but that's linked to patterns of spamming. Spamming and trolling are different phenomena. Spam is easier.

> I don't see any reason why posting about [...etc...] is a big red flag [...] It is certainly easier to troll on these subjects than it is about how much Rust sucks, but, in isolation, I'd call this a chartreuse flag, at best. I do agree with you about your assessment of this user's current comment history, however

It isn't a red flag in principle but it's a big red flag in practice because these accounts pattern-match extremely reliably with certain classes of users who routinely end up getting banned. Once you've been doing this for 10 years you notice these things early. I don't mean to sound like this is some sort of special power. It's just gruntwork. Believe me, it's boring.

Occasionally someone comes along who (a) is truly a new user who hasn't been banned before; (b) walks like a troll and quacks like a troll on troll topics; but (c) turns out to be an intellectually curious person whose mind, let's say, functions a bit differently from most people's. They might even be that thing we all dream we are and basically none of us is: an independent thinker. Obviously we want such a user. But the sad truth is that the dreariness of pattern-matching turns out accurate the overwhelming majority of the time, and for every such outlier, there are hundreds of trolls - or dozens of trolls making hundreds of accounts. So we play splat-the-mosquito, the mosquitoes respawn, and the karmic wheel turns.
While the sample is small, the article states "Researchers built on their previous findings in mice, bumblebees and fruit flies, which all found significant improvements in the function of the retina's photoreceptors when their eyes were exposed to 670 nanometre (long wavelength) deep red light."
This might not be so out-of-the-blue implausible.
yeah like a lot of OSS backup products the docs are grandiose without focusing on ease of operation / feature parity with dropbox
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Do you have data to support this claim?

For example, GHC moved from Phabricator to GitLab in December 2018, citing ease of contribution as a major benefit:

https://twitter.com/bgamari/status/1069047550727069696

As of April 2020 (about a year after the transition), the GHC year-over-year contributor numbers didn't appear to change:

https://twitter.com/evanpriestley/status/1245817419441926144

(I'm not sure this is a fair comparison, and am not aware of other possible changes to GHC during those years, and bear in mind that I'm a highly biased party.)

Can you point at a project which made a switch like this and saw an actual significant change in contributions or contributors afterward?
That's the beauty of Macs: they are (or were) reliable for at least a decade, unless Apple decides to drop software support for them. Waiting was never a problem for Macs. It's the architecture transitions that kills them.

The new Mac Pro is not even shipped, it's basically obsolete now. Or in two years, if Apple keeps their promise.
> he end goal of Kubernetes is to able to create and recreate environments and scale them up and down at will all based a declarative configuration.

PG already has its own clustering solution to scale up and down, which is orthogonal to Kubernetes. So running PG in Kubernetes does not add anything. Also, you are much more likely to mess them up when trying to mix two orthogonal technologies.

And the DB is not meant to create and recreate often unless you want to purge the data. So my take is this: Kubernetes is to manage and configure microservices and DBs are not microservices.
Nothing you said is useful(in the USA at least): we aren't going to do "contact tracing", we aren't going to "keep people at home" unless they want to stay at home. We can't "diagnose" anyone b/c the testing is too slow.

So everything you talk about is moot, beside the point, and useless in the current context (which will not change). And in particular, everything about the "superspreader" concept is useless in improving our situation vis-a-vis Covid-19.

And in reference to your AIDS story: I'm familiar with it, so is almost everyone else and HOW THE F* DOES IT PROVIDE INSIGHT INTO OR GUIDANCE IN OUR CURRENT SITUATION? (Please do not answer - that is what is termed a "rhetorical question" - one intended not to be answered, but to make a point known).
I don't know about "most", but I phone-screened four candidates last week, all claiming to be currently employed (with 3-10 years industry experience).

Two of the four couldn't finish fizzbuzz (in the language of their choice) in 30 minutes. It feels a bit unethical to name their employers, but they were companies that would be familiar anyone who reads HN.

When I worked for FAANG, IIRC, the ratio was about the same, so I don't think it's a problem of recruiting.
Why not just bind the sso Mail to an local Account, then it doesn't matter what identity Provider gets used by the customer. In addition, add a check that prevents Account creation of ...@privacyrelay...if you have a problem with it or nag the user to provide a real mail for this account if you detect this type of mail.
This way you would have a user friendly implementation without giving up on sso.
Could also be that they never expected this to blow up. If they were just doing it for fun, why bother taking backups? It seemed like when this first started making the rounds a few weeks ago, they were just talking about it in passing, but people kept asking questions and it became A Thing(tm)...but that may not have been the plan at the start.
> I believe what they meant was that Apple needs to support less hardware variations.

I understand that very well. My point is that they wouldn’t be doing it regardless if they didn’t want to, and if they really want to (for reasons I outlined) they have the resources to make it happen essentially regardless of the constraints or hardware breadth.
Yup, this border issue may well be a good thing for India. New Delhi can now officially treat China as an adversary nation and take steps towards securing its national interest without any moral dilemma and without any care as to how CCP will perceive such steps. CCP is now considered hostile so there’s nothing to lose for India.
Show HN: Raspberry Pi (or any Linux machine) monitor app
I made a system monitor app for new linux users.

When I started playing around with raspberry pi, I always wonder why things like htop don't show cpu frequency (really, for me (and maybe a lot of people from windows) not seeing the frequency is super uncomfortable)
So here we are, a monitor app that will display the cpu frequency, temperature and more!

Some features:
- Zero setup
- Nothing is needed to install on the raspberry pi

Prerelease download link:

https://cloud.pegasis.site/s/HoXZEs7wLecMrsZ

Github: https://github.com/PegasisForever/raspi_monitor_app

This is my first post on hacker news :)
The Donald Subreddit Banned
The sad thing is that it already happened 2 years ago [1]. And nothing changed apart from some general apathy on the interwebs.

The JavaScript ecosystem is past the point of no return right now. Any improvements will only be band-aids.

[1] - https://www.trendmicro.com/vinfo/dk/security/news/cybercrime...
The only potential result of a competently run scrum process is exactly that - a process that was designed by the team.

If you are stuck in some weird cargo cult that doesn’t allow the team to iteratively change the process, you should call bullshit.
I know, but someone changed it, so I changed it back.
I bet your life is tough, being as dumb as a box of rocks.

The above answers are from somebody who doesn't know what they're talking about, either about database administration or compliance.
Mainland China? I'm confused too...
Top-down is how governments work. Policy first, technology third.
Yeah, Lua doesn't use semver, which is ok. Just multiply by 10 and pretend it does. So this would be Lua 54.
His critique goes well beyond just the quantity of data.

This is, perhaps, also the point where I should briefly mention the fact that the sort of knowledge with which I have been concerned is knowledge of the kind which by its nature cannot enter into statistics and therefore cannot be conveyed to any central authority in statistical form.

His bigger argument though, is even if it were effective, it is inherently undemocratic.

It will often be necessary that the will of a small minority be imposed upon the people
Jobs said the same thing (about new Macs) about PowerPC in 2006. By 2007, Macs were all Intel, and the Intel-only Snow Leopard debuted in 2009. Complete abandonment of Leopard in 2011.

I give it 5 years at the most.
I can see his point about national parks, a ton of people are out on the bay area hiking trails nowadays, just eyeballing it I would say 50% increase easy
If it really was a totally foreign concept to native Americans, who did the European invaders steal the land from?
Unless you need Bootcamp to dual boot Windows 10 with MacOS.
Isn't it funny how reddit ended up the opposite of what it was seemingly designed as? A system with a community policing vote process turned into a community that is one of, if not the, most top down moderated spaces on the Internet. Where the voting system turned into a supplementary group control system rather than a liberator.
One interesting change in this release is the move to a stackful VM. This creates a pretty small (edit: actually huge, 1978 stack frames in a lua 5.4 repl installed with luaver just now) limit on the depth of the Lua call stack. I wonder what motivated this decision.
The new Mac Pro has indeed shipped. It was released in December 2019, and people started receiving them months ago. And “it’s basically obsolete now” stands in apparent contradiction to “they are reliable for at least a decade, unless Apple decides to drop software support for them”, which Apple has made clear they’re not looking to do with the transition to Apple Silicon.

Reliability doesn’t necessarily play a role here at all. For some users, the trash can Mac Pro did not meet their needs. The 2019 Mac Pro is a completely different beast. The last machine I’d argue that was comparable was the 1st generation, which no longer supported the most recent versions of macOS.
A Thousand Pounds of Dynamite (2014)
Please. I’ve read plenty of biologically motivated drawbacks of the male sex, both here and other more “enlightened” corners of the interwebs Supposedly, they are bunch of pre-verbal, emotionally out-of-touch nitwits so focused on competition they can’t figure out how to cooperate.
I'll do that. Thanks!
There is an option for normal chronological ordering on the posts page though I can't comment on the mobile version.
A curious thing I noticed was every time I loaded more posts it would take longer than previously. Going through hundreds of posts like this would result in waiting for minutes for the next set of posts to load in.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Near-sightedness

It is described here in the top section
It might be the case that advertisers aren’t interested in such content at all. I think similar things happened with PewDiePie a lot before he started censoring himself.
We allow Neo nazis to march merely because the first amendment prohibits us from stopping them from marching, and for no other reason.

That is pretty much the exact reason the Courts have given for allowing Neo Nazis to march, so its not anathema to how the first amendment has been understood.

It doesn’t say anything about whether it’s an appropriate policy in view of the principles embodied in the first amendment.

The Bill of Rights is a limitation on government not private entities and attempting to turn it into a club to force private entities to publish speech they find abhorrent is inappropriate policy in view of the principles embodied in the first amendment, which provides that individuals have the right to say something but not to force others to disseminate it (or even pay attention).
I imagine the author is pretty busy with Tailscale right now.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-channel_network

https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/2737059?hl=en

It's an established term to describe org affiliated with youtube/twitch/tiktok/instagram etc.
How would you justify the genocide of uighur Muslims in that case? Let's be honest with ourselves. The USA is not the same as China. Let's not lie to each other to prove non issues.
> There it is again. Yes, it absolutely is contradictory to proclaim that you support freedom of expression while threatening to punch someone

True fact: The words aren't the problem; the nazism is the problem. Don't punch them for talking. Punch them for being nazis.

But yeah, man, like, nazis are just having ideas, you dig? It's cool, nbd, my guy. What are a few race or gender domination life goals between friends? Just ideas! No harm!

OK.

You talk like a person who thinks that white supremacism isn't harmful while pretending otherwise. There's a name for that. I see you.
I really think we need better representation in the government for protecting citizens from technology.

I was talking to some people about how food delivery apps/companies are basically stealing money from restaurants by using a smaller restaurant’s ad space to promote bigger clients. They just sort of glazed over at the details which in my mind are not terribly technical.

I don’t think Uber should go to jail over what they are doing, it’s more schemey than evil, but the average person is unable to care about technological details so we need better representation in the government against this sort of thing.
This is the death knell for Hong Kong and for One Country, Two Systems -- which has effectively been over in Macau for years.

I can't help but wonder if things would have been different if the US had different leadership -- actually interested in furthering the cause of freedom and democracy throughout the world. While of course the UK is responsible for policing the handover agreement, it's been too busy staring down its own irrelevance while nursing the self-inflicted gaping wound of Brexit. I tip my hat to Beijing, they sure did know when to strike.

It'll be very interesting to see if the UK goes through with it's offer to provide a path to citizenship for 3 million HK'ers. Frankly, it's the least they could do.

It's probably time to learn Mandarin, huh?