skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nice! I hadn't heard about R-Trees before. I guess you can potentially make do with a quadtree[1] but it seems R-Trees are better suited for geodetic data.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quadtree
Starlink is a satellite constellation being constructed by SpaceX to provide satellite Internet access.

Presumably their router would connect to this.
Instead of blaming the customer for not being able to navigate properly, maybe the website should be built more intuitively?
I think by far the best documentary on Cambodia is -

The Cambodian Space Project: Not Easy Rock'n'Roll (2015) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4678238/

It ties the past to the present and it doesn't bring the whole country to that one incident but also acknowledges it has affected so much.
I am feeling suddenly inspired by this idea, so thanks!
The round to 64 bits (it's a round, not a truncation) never occurs if you use a language type that is 80 bits.
I'm sorry, what? You think it's a good thing for our politicians to waste everyone's time by pushing policies they know will never pass / will be struck down in court, just to win political points? IMO this sort of thing is exactly what's wrong with the political climate right now. This sort of behavior makes it all about "us vs them" and shuts down any sort of nuanced discussion about what's best for the country.
This [0] guy is going to burn himself out, going by his contribution chart recently.

[0] https://github.com/gyuho
So, will they look like little rockets?

https://fcc.report/FCC-ID/2AWHPR201/4805891
Some style guides allow for surrounding the em dash with spaces. It's a matter of preference.
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This is insanity. How did this study pass an ethics council? They admit to exposing people to negative emotional cues at random?

Their N is 689K. At this point, they are certainly responsible for some number of suicides.

The authors should be ashamed of themselves. Their salary is being paid by manipulating people's emotions on purpose. Something is wrong with that.
That would be a nice workaround. How do you know though? Is there an online configurator already?

But won't opening the box to add your own GPU void warranty? This workstation kind of gives off that vibe of a professional machine that's pre-built for you and you're not supposed to open it.

Hope I'm wrong.
You have some very peculiar ideas about morality.
Are you saying that because the author said "I want to apologize" instead of "I apologize"? I don't remember how this phenomenon is called but basically in English and other Indo-European languages there are expressions that don't really modify the meaning of a sentence, another common example is "you know, I think I'm going to have a sandwich" vs. "I'm going to have a sandwich" - the two sentences have the same meaning, the speaker is not really asking you whether or not you know that they want a sandwich. This might be confusing at first, depending on your linguistic background.
And controlling the content narrative. E.g. pro-china content could be promoted directly to young Americans.
Because of its purpose, you would know immediately.
It's common in certain cities. More in Europe than US. But more among US urban politicians than perhaps even their constituents (which is why the GP about public policy is silly).

US major cities I'd wager is like even split between politicians that like cars, politicians that dislike cars but are too scared to do anything about it, and politicians that dislike cars and aren't scared.

Here's to hoping we get more Ada Colau and less Bill de Blasio.
I wish personal aviation was a little more accessible. The only innovation I can think of that would really change the math on flying would be very high density batteries, and electric planes. Otherwise flying costs are going to continue to be dominated by expensive engine maintenance.
I really hope Starlink works out. I have relatives whose only option is satellite internet and with the ultra-low data caps streaming video is just not an option at home. Imagine living without Netflix or Youtube.
Yes China is definitely an example of a great place to live now...
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Thank you.
You mean a percentage (77%), like the one you usually see on a README badge?
>> Quite some people live on a land or water vehicle, but I don't think anyone realistically lives on an aircraft for an extended time, do they?

Not unless they are Robur the Conqueror :)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robur_the_Conqueror
For those unclear on the concept: Starlink is SpaceX's satellite network. The Starlink Wifi router will connect to that satellite network to provide wireless home internet.
Your criticism of my attributing the cause of the 'feature' to Reg NMS is fair. Although it is worth looking at the entirety of Rule 612, especially paragraph (c)[0].

You are correct that brokers are required to execute customer trades at the best available price aka the NBBO. The issue here is that the NBBO is relatively slow as compared to data feeds offered by various exchanges and many brokers use the NBBO simply to satisfy Reg NMS Rule 603(c)[1].

If price data was able to travel instantaneously then the NBBO might represent the true best price(s). But the laws of physics say it isn't so and orders can be executed at a less-than-best price yet still at or better than the NBBO.[2]

Fortunately, more are aware of this these days including the SEC which released a proposed order calling for exchanges to submit revised NMS Plans for consolidated data earlier this year.[3]

A great summary of how money is made with all of this I highly recommend giving this a read: http://www.nanex.net/aqck2/What-Every-Retail-Investor-Needs-...

[0]: https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/17/242.612
[1]: https://www.sec.gov/comments/4-729/4729-4560068-176205.pdf
[2]: https://iextrading.com/docs/The%20Evolution%20of%20the%20Cru...
[3]: https://www.sec.gov/rules/sro/nms/2020/34-87906.pdf
The significance is that it's related to the much anticipated (by people with poor internet access) Starlink satellite internet service.

https://www.starlink.com/

People would be just as interested if it were just a plastic mounting bracket with the "Starlink" branding.
Your article says “allegations”, but you’re stating it as fact.
i didn't downvote you, but since you're asking – the first part of your comment is needlessly snarky and doesn't really add much beyond "yeah, i'm frustrated by people adding unnecessary complexity just because it's trendy". on the other hand, the part added in the edit sounds like it could be an interesting story! expanding on that would make for a more interesting comment:

> I saved a bunch of companies around 100k in AWS fees just by pruning their server requirements. One of the projects was a simple set of web forms that required 7 servers to run. We pruned it down to 3 and that was just for redundancy and load.

EDIT

and if that thing about cutting down the specification really happened, just tell the story – no need to wrap it in a performance piece:

> I've actually had people come to me with specifications so over-engineered that the whole 20-page doc could be simplified down to a single page without loss of functionality!

EDIT 2

and i'm not saying "never use hyperbole"! just don't make it the whole point of your comment :)
"Democracy is the worst form of Government except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time"
I personally think that a single player game should not be hoovering up data to begin with. Just because they disclosed it 30 page contract almost no one reads does not make it right in any sense of the word. At best, it is legal. I am getting mildly miffed over the fact that I have to consider having my privacy raped to play a simple shooter game.

How is this normal or even in the realm of being accepted AND defended?
I really hope some resellers proactively test the "I want this to be my workstation and a gaming machine" setup and have people ready to put an RTX 2080 Ti in. So I hope you're right.
I mean, is it really this hard? This is not a good/bad manager problem to me, this is an organizational culture kind of problem. As a manager I'd expect my three top priorities to be ensuring enough devs are on the team, communicating priorities effectively, and unblocking the devs on the team as needed.
> Based on this work, it is possible that open access alone is not enough to give poorer universities, etc. the access to scholarly work.

I’d say it does give them the access, by definition. But it doesn’t ensure that they use that access of course.

It’s the good old equality of opportunity or equality of result debate, right?
You're the one who decided to explicitly compare Kissinger with Milosevic. Milosevic was trialed for his role in he Bosnian genocide, among other war crimes. If you cannot understand why Milosevic was on trial but Kissinger wasn't then please explain, in your own word, what did Kissinger do that was worse than genocide of his own people.
The cleaning performance of my Roomba degraded over time.
The smaller the temperature difference, the worse the efficiency. The linked article said it got up to 85C, if you assume the cold end gets down to 25C, you could only recover 16.753% of the thermal power as useful work, theoretical maximum Carnot cycle.
I love how the argument being played is that VAT is used to fed a big government. Like the US is huge, it requires a large government..
1. Did you have any hesitations before the jump?

2. How do you know you have actually woken up?
Replace White House with Nazi and Hitler, you'll see why your argument is wrong. You are trying to deny truth and crafting it as taking opposite sides.
I could care less about Bari's horrible writing. I am just saying that bullying her on Slack is not correct response.
> I don't fully understand why etcd switched from HTTP to gRPC. It seems weird to me. I wouldn't do that for any project I run.

At a (very uneducated guess) I'd imagine that the query payloads would be smaller with gRPC since it's binary which would save money when running in the cloud for things like traffic egress, cross-zone, or cross-datacentre billing. HTTP can be unbeliveably verbose.

It's also probably quicker to deserialise which means you get more bang for your buck on your machine spend.
Same with the "Muslim ban" , "DACA", its posturing but works very well with their base.
This is a great post, thanks for sharing!
Do you have any evidence that the U.S. directly supported the Taliban or al-Qaeda?
One of the original complainants from Spain was some one trying to stop google showing results from documents in the public record I seem to remember
Kissinger's documented order was "anything that flies on anything that moves".

While the Nuremberg trials had a lot of evidence, they never had such direct documentary evidence of a call for genocide like that.

(or is that overblown? Perhaps only for the Cambodians fighting against the CIA backed coup of Lon Nol should shirts be torn in accusations of genocide).
We were actually toying with the idea of showing vertical lines for releases on the various charts.
So for example: # of open issues over time, and you can see if it correlates with a major release.

Identifying user satisfaction automatically is more tricky (sentiment analysis, which would be amazing, but we don't have the resources to do that well).

For now, one of the things we might do is to ask people to specify a version whenever they rate/review a package (or somehow deduce that automatically based on the date of review, which would not be as accurate...)
Yeah you gotta physically go to a Redbox and rent a DVD and stream HBO via satellite. It's almost unbearable.
Could you please point out which genocide are you talking about?
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Are these valid criticisms? Did everyone forget about the NSA spying scandal a few years back where the US was monitoring huge amounts of internet traffic in Europe on American owned platforms.
Debate only works if one side isn't arguing in bad faith.

We should simply allow political stances that have real harm to simply run amok with "debate"? That got us 140,000 dead.

Yeah, I'm kinda done with the "debate" idea. It's time to bring "consequence" to people's political stances.

The only reason people are bitching about "cancel culture" is that they finally have to face some consequence for their political stances.

The problem I have with "cancel culture" is that it feels like "animal rights" activists that throw paint on old ladies but leave Hell's Angels alone. "Cancel culture" only seems to attack people who won't do real damage if they fight back--somehow I don't see Trump, McConnell, etc. suffering very much.
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The government shouldn't continue to prop up businesses and systems which are not essential.

Help people who are affected by the disruption, but not outdated systems.
To echo what lanecwagner said, this can be a single role. I'm a Team Lead at my current employer. My job involves coding, being the Tech Lead, _and_ managing the (small) team as a people manager.
I have fiber to the home that is super reliable... I am still anticipating this and will be signing up to supplement my fiber

so it is not just for people with poor internet
As a Hindu myself, I am completely disgusted that our religion is perverted in the name of discrimination. The caste system is a horrific remnant that has to be eradicated no matter where we see it.

If you cannot protect our fellow humans with compassion, no matter their creed — then you do not deserve to be a Hindu and you bring shame to all of us.
They don't need anything more than a single Chinese national who they can blackmail to be able to get what they want. A quick meeting to the persons family to make sure they get the message its all it needs.

The CCP has leverage on any Chinese national who still has family in China.
It's not really a "But everyone is doing it" defense, because the categories are so broad that if you are doing anything other than anonymous cash transactions you are going to end up having to say "yes" to most of them. Thus, you end up with a ton of "yes" categories even if you are not doing anything even remotely wrong or shady.

The category that includes medical information is "Customer Records", which is:

> paper and electronic customer records containing personal information, such as name, signature, physical characteristics or description, address, telephone number, education, current employment, employment history, social security number, passport number, driver’s license or state identification card number, insurance policy number, bank account number, credit card number, debit card number, or any other financial or payment information, medical information, or health insurance information

If they collect anything that falls in that category, they have to say "yes" to collecting "Customer Records".

Similar for most of the other categories they list. Your web server logs accesses? That's a "yes" on "Usage Data". You keep a list of purchases by each customer? "Yes" on "Purchase History and Tendencies". Oh, those web server logs probably have IP address, which gets you a "Yes" for the "Name, Contact Info and other Identifiers" category. Do you record support calls? "Yes" on "Audio, Video and other Electronic Data". If you use an IP to location mapping service, that might get you a "yes" on "Geolocation Data". Try to deduce things like what kind of games someone likes from their purchase history--"Profiles and Inferences" gets a "yes".

BTW, there are some categories that they have not listed: "Biometric Information", "Professional or employment-related information", "Protected Classifications", and "Education Information".

I'm kind of surprised "Protected Information" is not listed. You get a "yes" on that if you collect age. I'd have expected a gaming company to collect that.
If you’re looking to bring HDMI content into OBS easily and cheaply, check out my review on the $15 HDMI capture card that recently made the rounds here on Hacker News. Essentially this card has a native resolution of 1280x720, which is a good target if you’re trying to make text legible.

https://www.naut.ca/blog/2020/07/09/cheap-hdmi-capture-card-...
Imagine living without Netflix or Youtube.

You mean, the way I and several billion other people do right now?
It’s called an “Executive Order”.

This will bypass the constitution every time. It’s how the president takes a dump on the constitution.
I really do relate: I have put pieces of electric insulation black tape on all the LEDs everywhere I can't turn off!

Best devices have an option to turn lights off though, which makes me happy when I find it.
In every single transaction? Why if there were some form you sent in and recieved every year that contain exactly the financial transation for that year between you and the state.. hmm.
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Don't forget the LA to New York drive by 2017 with no interventions, on completely different less powerful hardware.
The Khmer Rouge weren’t dumb. Pol Pot came from a wealthy family and was educated at the top French-Cambodian schools.

Similar to the North Vietnamese massacre of 3,000 civilians during the Battle of Hue, it’s the doctors, teachers, professors and other elite who have the power to oppose you. The rural folks have little power or money to resist.
This reminds me of a very funny moment I saw where a streamer was opening his beta invite key for a new game live and realized when he did that he had just leaked the key and someone was going to steal his invite, but he had a 10 second stream delay setup which give him just enough time to rush and enter the key before anyone else could use it.
Hah! The classic refrain of the self-styled expert!

How about instead of being dismissive you explain: (a) Why you believe double entry bookkeeping has modern value. (b) How you believe double entry bookkeeping enhances rather than inhibits fiscal literacy.

None of these are covered in the grandparent post, and I am genuinely curious to hear your answers.
Would you care to cite some evidence rather than baselessly slander the 2nd largest US newspaper (by circulation)?
I never once thought of doing that. I always restart the browser. Thanks for the tip.
Can you please help your brothers out and hint at what company this is so we can all avoid?
Most non-tech companies' websites are absolutely awful. Either the login/authentication system is half-assed and you can't access your own account, or the documentation is not easy to find and there is no good search feature, or the website itself directs you to chat/phone once you finally find what you were looking for.
i reject a future driven solely by efficiency. therefore, i support the penny.
Or Star Fleet comm badges?
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Hindsight is 20/20.

It takes more work to produce succinct code and it can take surprising amount of effort and care to land at a simple solution to a complex problem.

My solution is to try to involve other people in my "process". This helps me transfer some knowledge of the decision process, helps debug ideas early on and hopefully is useful mentoring for the team.

I can do this because I am senior engineer / tech lead at my org. For other engineers I highly recommend pair programming and constantly rotate developer pairs so that everybody can get some appreciation of everybody else.
When we debate cancellation, we're mostly debating other kinds of harassment: doxxing, pressuring one's employer to terminate an employee, and defamation. Specifically, we're talking about harassment campaigns--in other words, large movements that engage in any of these behaviors for the purpose of punishing wrongthink. While these mobs have a few people who make death threats, there aren't usually large enough numbers of these threats to constitute a campaign, and even if there were, I like to think that even cancellation advocates would consider this out-of-bounds of acceptable behavior. The debate mostly revolves around the question of whether these harassment campaigns constitute criticism ("the opponents of cancellation just don't want to be criticized" and all that). Of course, harassment is never criticism, and it's always morally repugnant; however, sometimes harassment is legal either in theory (e.g., afaik there is no legal prohibition against doxing) and other times it's legal in practice (e.g., 'defamation' is illegal in theory but the burden of proof is absurdly high).

From the perspective of free speech ideals, "speech" is the expression of an idea; it may be "persuasion" but not "coercion" or "intimidation". Cancellation is both coercive and intimidating by design and by definition, so it falls outside of the boundaries of 'speech'; however, not everything that violates free speech ideals is illegal to the great glee of free speech opponents.
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Yes distributed systems are complex, but IMHO at least a large part of that complexity is caused by people who think they understand the problem, and go off and create some "great" new technology. Which then gets a lot of press, and other people building systems on it, only to discover that the edge case being ignored as inconsequential starts to create lots of failure modes. Sometimes these critical problems are "human factor" ones like with kubernetes configuration, or they are just a lack of proper engineering hygiene. Then you get another layer of crap on top. Repeat that a few times and what you actually have is a giant mess that frequently only works through the sheer effort of a large operations team.

To put this another way, if you read the Jepsen reports overwhelmingly what comes across is a lot of hubris. Its overwhelmingly old stodgy technology these new systems are meant to replace (posgres for example) that are satisfying the promises being proclaimed on high by $NEW_TECHNOLOGY.
Milosevic was tried not for genocide against his own group of people, but an opposing ethnic/religious group in a civil war. Are you trying to say that because the area where the conflict took place was within the boundaries of the former state of Yugoslavia, the people his forces killed were "his own people"?

Perhaps you may wish to familiarize yourself with the ethnic and religious differences between the Serbian forces commanded by Milosevic and the persons they killed.
Exactly, even if it is just a bit of tape, it cannot be replaced by the LED.
Sorry but you can't hold someone else responsible for suicide unless they were specifically taunting and influencing someone to commit that act.
I wanted to kick out the students but I wasn't able to convince the deep state so re-elect me isn't the most compelling campaign message under any scenario.
For many it is a sigh of relief. I am almost afraid of hitting administration too much for fear of having them dig in again.
Tabletop game OFMOS is a model of the economy as a complex system (Print&Play)
And you can add paging, empty states, accessibility, security, browser compatibility...
Interestingly, this device seems to only be a WiFi router. The test results don't mention any protocols other than 802.11, or any frequency bands other than the 2.4GHz/5GHz bands used for WiFi. So the actual satellite communications must be handled by something else.
Who else is hoping to run a bonded internet connection with their existing ISP and Starlink? :)