skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I work as a professor at the University of South Carolina.

I suspect that my employer, as well as similar universities, will be more-or-less okay.

To be sure, there will be pain. Faculty hiring, for example, will take a huge hit -- I feel bad for everyone finishing up grad school and postdocs now, and who was anticipating hitting the academic job market.

In addition, there might be layoffs of tenured faculty, and/or closure of programs like history which are deeply worth preserving but which don't generate the big bucks. You might see a lot of sports get cut -- think swimming, wrestling, golf, etc. -- not the sort which get broadcast on TV. This already happened at Stanford.

But my estimation is that we, and similar universities, do not face an existential threat. Hopefully I'm right.

The schools that are most screwed are small, non-prestigious liberal arts colleges -- most of which are not very well known. Indeed, there were already a number of such closures before the pandemic hit.
Eg what if the phone isn't encrypted but just random bits. What do you do when you are compelled to unlock it?
So, when the post office approached the treasury and requested financial assistance to continue paying pensions, delivering the mail, and doing everything else the post office did – Trump didn’t see a foundational institution of U.S. history – instead he saw a chance to stick it to that fucking Bezos.

He had a secondary reason, that actually might have been more compelling than the primary but which carried less emotional ammunition – the Democrats were increasingly clamoring for a mail in vote in the 2020 election – something that would hurt all the ‘traditional’ election rigging that all of his cronies were engaged in.
It's comparable in so far that both are on the job market right now. From what I read, recent grads seem to have an extremely bad experience because of Corona. It seems that the virus has enlarged the gap in how people just starting their careers are treated vs people from a place like Mozilla, instead of treating both equally worse.
It's the pretty standard response when you're a service provider and you know your customer isn't directly footing the bill: you either just flat out raise prices, or you add on expensive amenities to make you look more competitive/attractive.

I guess you could say the same for a publicly-funded system, but at least there the funding is limited and controlled. A lot of people sadly won't blink twice at taking out a larger college loan, even if it'll saddle them with crippling debt later on.
Totally. And people who use cars to travel to work buy the cheapes cars available.
You can change the settings on that page and get the link which contains these setting in the URL. Next time you go to https://duckduckgo.com/?kl=no-no instead of https://duckduckgo.com/
I've read somewhere else that its in the territory of $250. But that was reporting from a while ago, and things might be different now.
So I take it that you are the coward he was referring to.
The key aspect not captured here is "rendaku" -- the voicing of a normally unvoiced consonant in a compound word.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rendaku
> it's become more or less a requirement to have a cell phone to function in western society

Owning a cell phone doesn't mean everyone keeps it with him at all times, and this will limit potential uses. Hopefully people don't become tied to it that badly.
> we are completely re-examining the utility of taking out a student loan that many cannot pay back in their working lifetimes.

Many? Only ~10% of student loans are in delinquency. 90% of borrowers are making payments.

https://www.newyorkfed.org/microeconomics/topics/student-deb...
Questions for the people from areas that do have: do the different providers have separate infrastructures and facilities (optical fiber cables, switches, etc.)?
Once they have inter-satellite links I'd expect long-haul latency over those links to beat cable latency for equivalent hauls.
M3TA: The Hackathon for Hackathon Organizers
A video? From "the Epoch Times", i.e. Falun Gong?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Epoch_Times

Edit: Which is in turn sourced from a document published by CSBA:

"Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments (CSBA) is an independent, non-profit, Washington, D.C.-based think tank specializing in US defense policy, force planning, and budgets."

(Wikipedia)

Whose notable people on the board include an under- secretary of the army under G.W. Bush, a gas lobbyist and a Fox News analyst.
Prefixing "this.field" is nicer looking than "_field" for signifying a field rather than a local or parameter (These days most syntax highlightrs should be clever enough to distinguish this by color, but in the past this was useful. As an added benefit autocomplete will be triggered after "this.".

> But even in this case, you should really be using Pascal casing as per Microsoft's Capitalization Conventions

Not sure what this is refering to. In assignmenmt this.foo = foo, both the field and the parameter should have the same casing, that's why "this.foo" is needed to distinguish the field from the parameter.

In the end, these are mostly cosmetic/style choices. Consistency matters more than whatever style is chosen, but I of course find it very important that we agree on my preference.
>... "the mechanisms you add to prevent failures are themselves a major cause of failure".

When those failure-prevention mechanisms are bolt-on solutions that make a complex system even more complex, perhaps that's not surprising.

In this case, for example, the complex system needed to be simplified, by removing the explosives. But instead it was made more complex.
> Apple doesn't make money off web eyeballs, but they do make money off native app eyeballs (iAds)

Apple shutdown iAd in 2016
https://developer.apple.com/support/iad/
Show HN: I made 1M (!) syntax highlighting themes
There is a good chance that if we don't win the election this year, we'll see a massive civil war.

I'm ready
For quantum objects, the distinction between a wave and a particle is not very meaningful. The energy levels of an electron around a nucleus are discrete, regardless of whether the electron behaves more like a wave or more like a particle in the specific experiment you’re doing.

Otherwise, you’re right: we count states by integrating (at times discrete, continuous, and often very complex) probability distributions.
He is going to end up like Nicolae Ceaușescu.
This isn't a longer gap, but I think it's interesting. Black holes were first hypothesized by someone named John Mitchell in 1783 [0]. Interestingly enough, and back on topic for the article, Laplace also independently came to the same conclusion in 1796 [0].

It's a little fuzzy as to when black holes were "discovered": most sources say 1971, when Charles Bolton identified Cygnus X-1 as a black hole by measuring its mass indirectly using the wobble of nearby star HBE226868 [1], but the first image of a black hole was only taken in 2019 [2]. Yes, it looked just like in Interstellar, because Kip Thorne consulted on the film [3].

The gap from 1783-1971 is "only" 188 years, but 1783-2019 is 236 years. And, from Laplace's rediscovery of the idea, it's 175 and 223 years, respectively. I think that's pretty cool, too.

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[0]: https://blackholecam.org/john-mitchell-developed-theory-of-b...

[1]: http://torontodreamsproject.blogspot.com/2012/01/very-first-...

[2]: https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/edu/news/2019/4/19/how-scientists-c...

[3]: https://www.wired.com/2014/10/astrophysics-interstellar-blac...
> Modern car companies mostly do integration and final assembly along with some marketing and finance.

May I know what is the basis for those claims? As someone who works in the field, I feel very curious to know where you got such a wrong impression.
I've seriously thought of using Factorio for programmer job interviews, as a way to really get inside of somebody's head and see how they solve problems.
My father in law had a running gag about wanting to do this for a couple years. Replace all the cabinets with dishwashers and just cycle between them.
I recall when Iridium was going up, there was discussion about the complexity of the software that managed the pattern of transmitting packets among the satellites. The description indicated it was a complex software problem and they were struggling to get it right. (I went looking for articles from the time period, but couldn't track one down, however, came across MIT/Motorola FCC application for what would become Iridium.[1])

It's likely(?) that the orders of magnitude more Starlink satellites, their LEO speed, and other factors that impact optimization (amount of data to transmit, type of data, current load on intervening sats, positional changes during transmission, handoffs, etc.) can make this pretty hard. Or... It could be a learning system via neural net, etc.

The notion that the system could get faster and more efficient over time, simply by operating and without the usual trudge of scheduled software releases and upgrades, is an intriguing possibility. Tho somehow, that's not a novel notion...

[1] https://web.mit.edu/deweck/www/research_files/comsats_2004_0...
In the UK, Starling is worth a shot, although Monzo is constantly being mentioned as a good bank in my circles.
Bandwidth is great and all, but satellite latency is a killer. Been there, done that.
Yup. This is actually one of the more important factors for consumers that is underestimated.

I've been pegged at 1000% excitement since I first found out about this project a year ago. This is the best thing to happen to this service industry since probably ISDN.
I wonder if this could be used with the bricks used from expelled tunnel material from the Boring Company. It would dovetail nicely into the rest of Musk Enterprises.

https://electrek.co/2018/07/13/elon-musk-boring-company-bric...
Those FAANG developers have to use their employers laptops and VPN.
Recent and related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24119838
I have a t-shirt that features the Google T-Rex Game and I found that a large number of people do not recognisee the dinosaur nor know the game despite using chrome daily!
https://about.fb.com/news/2020/08/paid-online-events/

>
We asked Apple to reduce its 30% App Store tax or allow us to offer Facebook Pay so we could absorb all costs for businesses struggling during COVID-19. Unfortunately, they dismissed both our requests and SMBs will only be paid 70% of their hard-earned revenue. While Facebook is waiving fees for paid online events we will make other fees clear in the product.
OK ... good luck!
As experienced developers they will find new jobs somehow. But it won't be to work on Servo.

> Microsoft has better alignment with free web than Facebook or Google.

Microsoft gave up on browsers a long time ago.

If someone would want to use Servo outside of a hobby project, it would be Google to integrate it into Chrome. The chances of that happening is almost zero.
Statistically, it's usually a hospital, nursing home, or your own home. So you may already know the three most likely coordinates, if you're old enough that you aren't moving again.
I work for a tech company and I get no free food, no free drinks, we have gym membership partnership that basically is the retail cost of any generic gym membership (so it offers no real benefit), no free yoga, and no free massages.
How is this funded, now and also a few years from now?
Was this in the outer areas (San Bernardino, Ventura, Imperial, etc.)?
Can you elaborate? And what if I used as comparison something like room-temperature doped polysilicon?
I clicked the link but keep being met with a blank screen? Maybe it's not optimised for mobile?
>Entry-level FAANG engineers make significantly more than $120k in the Bay Area

Yeah, people seem to conflate base cash salary with total comp, which is very misleading. Sure, you start making $120k in base salary at google as a fresh grad, and you top out at around $150k as a senior engineer.

However, the total comp ends up being mostly covered by stock, which is what drives that senior engineer total comp to be more in the $400k-500k range. And even at the fresh grad level, I expect the total comp at Google to cross $200k/yr easily.
They develop because they make money and often more on iOS than Android even though Android has a larger market share.

That said, people would be still complaining if Apple's cut was only 10%. People complain about the 3-5% that payment processors charge retailers. People complain about the $.35 Arco gas stations charge for using a debit card. People complain about the dime grocery stores charge for paper bags in California.
1. The idea that these standards need third-party write-ups for basic reference (not tutorial) use boggles my mind. Why is the main standard so unusable that we can't rely on it to explain what a form element is. The web "standards" have a history of this. It's a self-caused problem -- fix the problem, don't paper over it.

2. A lot of this complaint seems to be about needing to repeat manual browser testing regularly. Why is it manual?

3. The web is a bloated, overcomplex, platform with hundreds of talented people full time employed to make it more complex every day. Since it seems HTML+CSS+Javascript cannot be contained inside any line drawn, can we figure out something like a WASM + son-of-DOM simpler reboot that throws out as much of this complexity as possible? As in, stop using the existing HTML tags and default CSS, let the app define new ones along the lines of WebComponents, and make the DOM be just a rendering engine to get things like universal text selection and copy-paste (as opposed to everything just blitting to a canvas and reimplementing that). Of course I'm oversimplifying -- but I really think the world needs an old school "hourglass figure architecture" here to limit this feature creep.
They're targeting a battery cost of $100 / kWh per Elon some time ago.
Executive appointees are not unilateral, they have to be approved by the legislature.

And setting aside appointments, you also have politicized budget appropriations, i.e. how can you be certain that the government will adequately fund an agency if there exists a large enough contingent devoted to gutting it?

Either you're suggesting creating an agency whose appointments have no accountability from the legislature, or whose budget has no accountability from the legislature. If that's not what you're suggesting, then the core problem is not the system of government itself, it's the polity, the people who are actually voting for that government. You can't have an effective government if half the governed don't want to be a part of that government with you.
>The deal with Google just got renewed well before the lay-off's, despite the empty words about global pandemic being a reason, there is no major impact on their revenue ( or Google's for that matter).

I'm not an expert, but I'm fairly sure that "our revenues stayed the same between 2018-2023” would be seen as a failure in most companies. Not only do costs rise every year, employment decisions are made assuming it will lead to increased revenue.
It’s not even a question of losing their soul, this is their core product.
> It really doesn't take much.

I always remember the Imperial Sugar Factory. _Dust_ is enough. Sugar dust is violently explosive.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jg7mLSG-Yws
Uncanny indeed, especially when you consider that Democritus's understanding of atoms is a mostly sufficient underpinning for the science of chemistry, at least up through the end of the 19th century.
Whats the most elegant way for cutting edge Django to do websockets? is it still to 'tack' on the channels package [0] ?

compared to FastAPI[1] I really don't want to use it, I only miss the ORM since in FastAPI it looks like you have to manually write the code to insert stuff[2].

[0] https://realpython.com/getting-started-with-django-channels/

[1] https://fastapi.tiangolo.com/advanced/websockets/#create-a-w...

[2] https://fastapi.tiangolo.com/tutorial/sql-databases/#create-...
Conservatives explain homelessness as due to liberalism. They say this works two ways.

In way, liberal values causes people to make poor life decisions that lead to them lose their jobs.

In the other way, liberal economic policies lead to a lack of jobs and also overly expensive housing.
> Ubuntu Touch is still going, fairly strong too, though I think it's aim is to fill a niche rather than challenge Android and iOS anytime soon.

Do you consider getting no major OEM adoption in 5 years “fairly strong?” Mobile OSes depend on network effects of both users and developers. It’s no surprise it’s a duopoly.
Joe spoke on this topic at RustConf a few years back https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CuD7SCqHB7k
Ask HN: What desktop applications would you most like to see “Firefoxed”?
Firefox (originally named Phoenix, then Firebird) was, in 2002, a reaction against the Netscape Suite™'s kitchen-sink approach of piling on features in order to tick marketing checkboxes, and an increasingly complex user interface that wasn't serving users very well.

What desktop software do you wish would (or could) be reborn today as a leaner, simpler alternative?
My parents' current and previous homes both had two choices. One was AT&T's fiber option (probably FTTN, not FTTH) and the other was cable through the local provider.
In a dead stop, maybe, but a car isn't likely to be stopped dead.

I've been told on motorcycle hazard awareness courses that if your body hits a solid object at 50 kph, it's 50% mortality risk - it's enough deceleration force to rupture your aorta. Take something like a sign post to the chest and you'll be lucky to survive.
I see, thanks. Is it required to define models twice as this page seems to recommend?

https://fastapi.tiangolo.com/tutorial/sql-databases/
I'm sure the objections to mail-in voting would disappear if positive Id were a reality.

Maybe fingerprints, a PIN, anything. As it sits, it does look susceptible to fraud. Pandemic or not, we shouldn't make major changes without ensuring integrity, IMHO.
It depends on how the court decides to define the market. Is the market limited to Fortnite on Apple devices? All games on Apple devices? Fortnite on all devices? All video games everywhere? The laws and precedents provide some general guidance but there's no clear and simple procedure defined for deciding what constitutes the "market" in the context of a particular case. Don't presume to know what a court will decide. In particular the legal concept of a product doesn't work the way you describe.
If they all lived in the same location. If the cost is hundreds per square foot and each customer is 1000ft away from each other than thecosts become hundreds of thousands per address.

Line of sight or cell tower might work but when it doesn't a satellite will.
I used to work for Simple and was always very happy with how I was treated along with all the employees of the company.
100Gbps microwave links have been shown on land. If you take that as a theoretical limit, 12k satellites can give you 1200Tbps.
In case where corruption and nepotism are wide spread in a society, only thing competent people can do is leave the society or country.

In my opinion, nepotism is bigger problem than corruption in the middle east. A lot of these corrupt deals happen through family connections. And then you go to private industry, and you will find that all the higher up people are usually related to each other.

So most of the ambitious people leave for the west causing further damage to society with brain drain.
Making payments is not the same thing as being able to pay back loans in a reasonable amount of time.
Could this instead be about trying to boost the value of his Amazon stock somehow?

https://www.theverge.com/2020/8/13/21367736/postmaster-gener...
That’s crap.

The idea for Minimal government is centuries old.
> it is a real issue - just not quite as crazy as it looks from that photo

Aren't they planning to add a bunch more satellites?
Typically, you'd have one fiber provider and one cable (coax) provider. I've never met anyone that has two fiber, or two coax providers to the same residential address.
50Gbps aggregate per satellite (actually 25 since you have to go up and down). 12000 satellites in the constellation. Those satellites will be over the ocean or unoccupied land most of the time, so estimate about 1% utilization ratios to be conservative. Standard ISP oversubscription allocations allow about 1Mbps per customer.

That math gives me 300M customers.
People don't grasp how good America has it for jobs. I have a friend in Australia who emigrated recently and struggling to even get an interview. This is a guy with intellect through the roof, ex-Microsoft, ex-Amazon software engineer and has trouble finding someone who can hire him.

In my personal contact graph - every engineer I know who has graduated (even with C grades) has obtained a job and is happy with what they're doing. If they have loans, I am sure they're paying them off.
Ex-FBI Lawyer Expected to Plead Guilty in Review of Russia Inquiry
Agreed, and it becomes an even more significant difference thanks to compounding interest. With the same aggressive level of savings, you can get to the same level in the US at a FAANG company in under 10 years easily. You can even make it a bit less aggressive, and still easily get there in about 10-15 years, while enjoying a way more relaxed and luxurious lifestyle than you would have in EU.
Lol here in .it I get a 1 Gbps ftth connection for 24,95 €/month
Do you at least get a manual confirmation? Because if not, I've a QR code I'd like to show you...
really glad to hear this. What kind of device they use?
Would you feel the same way about, say, a CEO donating to NAMBLA? I mean, if they have a good technical background, does it really matter if the public face of the company is out there advocating for relationships between adults and young boys? It's just politics, after all.
AT&T Fiber is FTTH.
Dug out a link to the orginal research paper (mainly because I was a bit skeptical of the claims)

https://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/~junhan/papers/SpiKey_HotMobile2...
We don’t have an answer to this question. I don’t want to discuss metaphysics here, but there is a very interesting discussion on that subject here: https://youtube.com/watch?v=-6rWqJhDv7M
That's great. The pings not even that bad..
Technology only improves compression ratios to a certain point, and we passed that point with lossless compression decades ago. We're approaching that point with lossy compression now.

Going beyond that point requires the laws of physics (more precisely, the laws of information theory) to change, and that's not going to happen.
Yup, agreed. I figure most parents don't even have the $50k lying around to give their new HS graduate (they'd get it for college through loans and grants). Good luck getting a small business loan as an 18-year-old with no business experience. Savings vehicles for education like a 529 plan certainly won't let you take that money out to start a business.

Life works this way because life works this way. Social structures exist to reinforce the status quo, and these are only changed incrementally, over a long period of time. Potential college-goers who want to jump the queue and do something radical right now, even if it's a much better thing, are going to have a hard time unless they have well-off parents who are willing to take a shot on them.
Wine Developer Begins Experimenting with macOS ARM64 Support
Nice, what canton are you in?
In our case they definitely do. We finally had an opportunity to ditch AT&T’s pathetic 3Mbps DSL offering in our area (which was their best plan...) recently in favor of Comcast’s 200Mbps which was cable-based (so obviously different infra). Same price, too...
I feel like we should get to a point where it's common for companies to give their employees a donation budget to spend on whatever they see fit.
I agree. And the market is telling us that more jobs in these fields are not needed, while STEM has endless technological problems to address and high salaries for the taking.