skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I've read numerous articles and although it seems lots of people knew the situation was dangerous and lots of letters flew back and forth, I'm still not clear on who had jurisdiction or failed to take action.

That's exactly the problem. They weren't either.
If I understood the whole story correctly, the people who ordered the first version waited for 3 years(!) and anybody who heard about that first version and wanted it but haven't ordered at the start, wasn't able order later.

Not long ago, the first version finally shipped, after some started to doubt it will ever happen. Now everybody expects that the second version is much more "sure."

Also note that this is not an emulator, it's a real reimplementation of the old hardware which is, as far as I understood, hardware compatible with the old devices, but also extended to allow modern interfaces and convenience expected today. All that is less simple to implement than one would think. The v2 has also new more "modern" programmable functionality, which allows for some new "demo scene" goals.

There is a whole generation of people who had the first inspiration from that machine for what became their career.

Seeing how many people already ordered, it looks that the price is "right."
not only one side is playing. China has a history of blatant violation of copyright law (helping Chinese companies steal research & tech that US companies spent billions of R&D money on) and using that to attempt to undercut US companies.

China also constantly bans US companies[1] from accessing Chinese customers (eg. Facebook, Google, YouTube, Twitter etc).

It's imperative that the US castrates China & CCP and doesn't allow it to spread its toxic influence further.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_websites_blocked_in_ma...
Ask HN: What do you value most in your ObGyn?
We’re launching a new kind of ObGyn, one that gives women the option to have extraordinarily thoughtful and convenient care.

As we prep for launch, we’re holding a survey to gather input from our target communities on what is important to them, and we would love your input.

We are still in the early days of enhancing and polishing our service, so this early feedback is critical to helping us create the best ObGyn experience possible.

You can take the survey here: https://almondhealth.typeform.com/to/DOYZIdRl#source=hn
It takes about 5 minutes.

We are SUPER grateful for your help!

Thanks,

Tara, Founder at Almond Health

~~~~~~~~

Some context on the problem we’re solving:

To say the ObGyn experience today needs attention is an understatement. Studies show that 3 out of 4 of women in the US are not happy with their care; they are frustrated by the impersonal interactions, loneliness, and inefficient communication cycles, and it’s become clear that the standard care model for other specialties does not work for ObGyn. (A story for another time, but when I moved to SF I checked out far too many ObGyns, couldn't find one that had what I needed, and then ended up sticking with my ObGyn from LA. That's when the seed for Almond was planted.)
An Unelected Monarch Is Shaping Our Public Life. His Name Is Mark Zuckerberg
> There aren't enough people in the US or EU that live in rural areas far from decent internet connections for Starlink to be more than a tiny fraction of the ISP market.

Oh, I'm not sure that's true. 41,000,000 Americans don't have access to broadband [1]. That's the entire population of Canada and then some.

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-02-19/where-the...
Thanks for leaving feedback and the kind words.

I personally think Hey does have lot of neat ideas that they deserve credit for. Email management takes decent amount of effort in today's marketing/spam driven world. Gmail filters solve some of the issues but it's painful to create/update. It requires a strong discipline as you mentioned. This browser extension exists to simplify and make this a breeze.

As a business model, I think Hey will do fine -- as there are tons of people for whom 99$/year is a small sum to help ease this pain. With only 100K users, that's 10M ARR.

And congrats on setting up a clean Inbox!
Messaging via SEPA transfer comments [pdf]
You're welcome to post an example.
>LGBT+ rights are a black and white issue.

That's where you are wrong, i thinks that everyone has the right to marry anyone else (within limits) BUT i also think that everyone has the right to express his believes, and that is why the WORLD and the Peoples are NOT black or White...can you imagine that i met a Christian Gay who was absolute against Gay-Marriages? Yes that exists and i'm ok with his believes, and when i was 16 i got smashed by a Black Neonazi, i was NOT ok with that...funny eh? In fact that was one of my biggest life lessons ever.

EDIT: And i don't say you have to accept those believe, but you have to accept the person who has those believes.
It's a UK thing. Local shopping is pretty much extinct here (not just bikes, anything). If you want stuff, you get it online, full stop. Even, more increasingly, food.

So local hobby shops that still exist try to carve some weird niche catering for old-fashioned people who value a good banter and "service" over inventory, low price, or competent mechanics.

I can pump my own tyres, thank you, but I find it very sad that there's like 2-3 places in the whole country where you can get your suspension serviced. You need to book a couple of weeks ahead, post it, and total price is like 2/3 of new item.
Saying they're making enough money is hardly an argument. While there is value in using an iPhone, there is also value in being a developer that develops for the iPhone and can reach the userbase.

Is the value too steep? Idk, how does supply and demand work? Why do people develop for the market if the cut is slow large.
The chain, cassette and chainrings are a combo. If your chain is worn then they are too.

That's not true. If you change the chain early enough, cassette and chainrings will last for a couple of chains. If you ride with a worn chain, the other components wear at an accelerated rate.
I was being facetious, my Model 3 is three years newer is more expensive new than my 2015 Leaf.
The Coming Online Course Apocalypse
It’s also not a very good energy per unit cost, at about $600 per kWh (assuming $0.50 per brick, which is fairly typical for bulk brick orders). Meanwhile, Tesla is targeting a supercapacitor cost of $150/kWh.
We had our windows washed last year and came home to a fresh burn mark on the floor in the hallway from where apparently the sun had been in the exact right spot with clean enough windows to focus a beam of light... We were fortunate that it didn't focus on something more flammable than a hardwood floor.
In an advanced country with a modern legal system, like, say, Australia, the answer to your question is:

Every single person who knew the dangers is personally liable for up to $50,000 for an individual, if I recall correctly.

And for industrial manslaughter the maximum penalty is 20 years jail and AU$10 million for a business operator:

https://www.afr.com/work-and-careers/workplace/business-fine...
Not sure if it's completely related, but I found the phenomena of the North Atlantic Oscillation [1] to be particulary useful in predicting long-term weather around the South of Norway. This time around, in December 2019, I predicted a rather cold summer in Norway. I made that prediction because the winter was particularly warm and snow-less in the South East between late 2019 and early 2020. For the most part I've been correct. Except a few heat waves this summer has been pretty cold. But the effects of global warming persists, and it would seem the Autumn will be pretty nice here in Oslo.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Atlantic_oscillation
This seems like such a cool idea that I wonder if anyone's already working on it. I've only done the most meager amount of welding, but the "position the tools exactly where you need them to be, snap your head to flip the visor down, do the task while barely being able to see what you're doing, then manually flip the visor back up" workflow seems like it could be improved. The auto-darkening visors mean less fiddling with the mask, but you still can't really see what you're doing, and I think the jury is out on whether or not long-term use of the auto-darkening visors will damage your eyes based on the teensy amount of flash exposure you get with each weld. I wonder if a specialized camera could provide better visibility in the extreme brightness.
No, you don't have the same problems as everywhere else. You said it took 10 years to get fiber, there are rural places where that's not an option.

There are places where there is no sewer and houses must have septic.

There are places where there is no water and houses must have wells / rain capture.

Those are the target audience for this technology. Not people who are waiting to go from 60 -> 100 -> 1000 Mbps. This won't compete there, not based on the specs of these satellites and their 10 year plan.
Also, there are no underwater basket weaving degrees.

There are art degrees, for artists, not people expecting to make well paying careers out of it.
I believe AutoCAD implemented a service which uses a GA to design an optimal solution for desired engineering specs.

At their core, GAs are search algorithms so they are relevant in lots of fields. Combine them with digital simulations (eg. physics, games, war) and you can search at far faster than life speeds.
Honestly, I really don’t care. It’s (at most) a 5 minute conversation between leads on a new repo. Either use this. or an _ prefix or whatever.

Then set it as a global rule in .editorconfig (or whatever equivalent tool you’re using) and never think about it again
One thing I never got about premium password managers is the question of: If I stop paying for the subscription, do I still get to access my secrets? I imagine there is still some grace period to backup your stored secrets, but I still think PW managers should offer a free tier so that you can be assured you will still be able to access your secrets, regardless of payment obligations.
Because it leaves the doors wide open for foreign interference
Another option might be to display the date in a neutral way as “Aug 1”, with the name of the month. This eliminates the ambiguity in 10.08.

I like the simplicity of the app. It feels like paper. The risk with customizations is that they can add to complexity.
sure, the pool only cares about concurrent.futures.Executor interface, an implementation could be processes or cloud resources.
People keep bringing that up as a common use case, but how do you propose that people in China or wartorn countries will get their hands on the modems they would need to use Starlink?
Some theorize that the ammonium nitrate was already being sold off bit by bit on he black market as the harder to procure half of ANFO, and for a lot more than farmers would be willing to pay. Even carting off 500kg a week, after 4 years when 2750 tons turned into 2650, would anyone notice?
Especially when it's minimized like this. Are they trying to hide something? Why couldn't it be formatted in a more readable manner?

(it does look safe though)
Man, I wish I could be saddened by this news but the tears just aren't coming.

A business built on extracting money from the poor and sick? I guess sometimes bad things happen to bad people. Socialized medicine can't come soon enough.
Koreader and coolreader both based on crengine and dont use webview. Koreader devs forked crengine and now seem to be in the process of merging back.
https://github.com/koreader/koreader
https://github.com/buggins/coolreader
The Enola patent was filed under pretext of it being a new organism produced by selective breeding. The pretext seems to have turned out to be false and the patent was invalidated.

The fact it took so long is an atrocity but my point stand - patents for existing plants are not valid.

https://patentlyo.com/patent/2009/07/mexican-yellow-bean-pat...
Frankly, Darktable does not mirror Lightroom in anything but the basic screen layout. Its tools are by and large entirely different.

A few months ago, I tried to do a big comparison of RAW developers, maybe you'll find it interesting: https://bastibe.de/2020-05-01-raw-developer-comparison.html

What I learned from that is mostly that these are all massively complex programs that can't really be judged without investing a few months into them. But even at the superficial level that can be compared in a trial month, there are serious differences in how even the simplest tools work in all of these tools. And that many of them actually exhibit quite severe artifacts.

But Darktable and RawTherapee were among the best of them in terms of results. One truly does not need to invest money in a RAW developer if one doesn't want to.

If you don't already, head over to discuss.pixls.us for in-depth discussions of Darktable's and RawTherapee's inner workings.
11mbps is amazing for what this is. Sure, it's "slow DSL" speed, but if you can get slow DSL you don't care about satellite internet. This is for all the places in the world that you can't get 4G cell service, let alone DSL.

11mbps plus a ping time of sub100 ms means that most people could telework anywhere in the world, even in the middle of an ocean. Unless your job requires you to download/upload huge amounts of data, it's more than enough for surfing, working, zoom, etc.
Speculation grows over pardon for Edward Snowden after Trump remarks
Do you want to call people out or change their behavior?

Public shaming may be successful at the former but often fails at the latter. If anything it often causes people to reinforce a position they might have otherwise conceded. The other negative effects of shaming are well discussed in the Jon Ronson book So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed.

If you work on AMP, for example, it’s easy to dismiss Drew’s rant as that of a fanatic. Many people don’t think their work is unethical or immoral.

It’s much harder to dismiss a reasoned argument that acknowledges the benefits of AMP and gives examples of the deleterious effects of AMP.
DSL might only be 1.5 Mbps where you are but it is standardized between (at least) 0.7Mbps and 300 Mbps. I personally have used it at speeds between 2 and 100 Mbps.
> A lot of people are willing to give, so long as they get to decide what is done with their funds. Of course, these same people have no idea what it actually takes to run a charity; they have no idea what on-the-ground problems need to be solved day-to-day; they have absolutely zero understanding of the organizational supports needed to make any organization function. They're basically in the worst possible position to decide how best to use those funds.

It's a reverse. All donors of charities that aren't casual dilettantes know that the charities are teats to suck on by the fabulous people running them. That's why such donors use "Restricted funds"

https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/tools-resources/understa...
Gdpr has a right to deletion within 30 days. Companies have been fined for failing to do so.
> Its tech salaries average far less than those in the Bay Area.

Can confirm. A number of H-1B holders I know are Canadian.
The fact that people can actually switch from their current ISP to starlink is a big deal though.

Most people just use the internet for social media and video streaming, which starlink provides more than enough bandwidth for
The Signal Beta desktop app takes up 350MB on Linux. (The new release, at least).

Really need to figure out how to install it with a system wide electron.
You can use the same moralitic argument for people who develop apps that go on the Apple store.
It's sort of that way today, except there are disempowered wage workers powering it all and not-so-clean energy.
MVP Voting in the NBA Has Never Been More Boring
Really? Your objection to the fact that a country is not allowed to build cities on occupied territories is "are you saying Jews are not allowed to live there"?. Haha. Sorry, that is funny. Well, you know, it's not really about Jews...
Hold on a second there, they hit their stretch goals so it has two MEGAbytes of ram, that's MEGA! whoa :)
It's how the directionality (right to left or left to right) is decided that is complicated for mixed texts (and always nothing but a heuristic).

I must admit that I was surprised that the following snippet kept the LTR order in my terminal:

>> [(chr(ord('0')+i), chr(0x07c0+i)) for i in range(10)]
[('0', '߀'), ('1', '߁'), ('2', '߂'), ('3', '߃'), ('4', '߄'), ('5', '߅'), ('6', '߆'), ('7', '߇'), ('8', '߈'), ('9', '߉')]
>>> [(chr(0x07c0+i), chr(ord('0')+i)) for i in range(10)]
[('߀', '0'), ('߁', '1'), ('߂', '2'), ('߃', '3'), ('߄', '4'), ('߅', '5'), ('߆', '6'), ('߇', '7'), ('߈', '8'), ('߉', '9')]
(VC here) the source used is is a really out of date list and also missing basic information you would need to properly build a VC targeting list (stage and sector being vital information missing).

This is an interesting enough demo of web scraping but I wouldn't advise using this to actually build a hit list for your fundraising.
Which political party runs the coastal cities? I'll give you a hint, it's the same party that calls the rest of America "fly over states"
Trump Raises Edward Snowden Pardon Hopes Four Years After Obama Said No
How did the spammers hit back?

Can I ask what made it hard / infeasible to continue once the spammers had stopped hitting back?

> seeing the human cost

It seems the forum meant a lot to him/her
That might be true. What would you suggest as a better description.
For some reason my reply isn't posting to yours below, but you seem to have interpreted my comment to be saying things I neither said nor believe. Good luck with everything.
The land I am looking at is in the south western part of Wyoming. Could you link the law? My understanding is that once a line is run, there is a process to decom the line, but that no line is required for a home. Many homesteaders do not have phone lines or on-grid power. The only requirements I am aware of are around septic systems.
We already had a baseline amount from geosynchronous and Iridium. This is increasing bandwidth and reducing latency, but is not establishing the first baseline.
I was specifically addressing your claim that one could just use an LTE hotspot. I'm aware that there are rural communities that have worse infrastructure than the bay area.
> Delivering just 10Mbps to 100 million customers is over 900 Tbps.

50 Gbps * 12000 satellites is 600 Tbps.

Most of those satellites will be over the middle of nowhere at any given time. But those customers don't use 10Mbps 24/7 either.
I do have a strong memory of a small bit of spatter from a welding arc ending up in my boot. Never knew I could dance that well.

I had the same experience during Welding class in high-school. Not fun. :-(
I‘m not sure whether (if any) you habe cold backups at that scale. I imagine cost of the backup would be way to high.
This is an excellent, and puzzling, question! Let me try to provide some insight into how physicists think about such paradoxes, by addressing the specific example you mention, of the presumed uncountable infinity of different possible photon energies in a finite range of frequencies. In the case of blackbody radiation, when physicists analyze the set of possible photon energies more carefully, they find that there is really only an infinite number of different possible photon energies (for a finite range of frequencies) if the volume of space containing the photons is infinite. In any finite volume of space, if we allow ourselves to place boundary conditions on the electromagnetic fields at the edges of that volume (for example, suppose we think of our volume as a cube with mirrored walls), we find that there are only a finite number of oscillating modes of the electromagnetic field in any finite range of frequency. In the case of a cube, there is a very lowest frequency of radiation whose wavelength will allow it to form a standing wave in the box, and all the other allowed modes are multiples of that lowest frequency. So the density of possible photon states per unit of frequency is actually proportional to the volume of space we allow to hold the photons. (By the way, this is also precisely related to the quantum complementarity of uncertainty between momentum and position. To confine a photon to a volume of space, the uncertainty in its momentum must be the same order as that carried by the lowest frequency standing waves which would be compatible with the container.)
As a Canadian who will likely end up working in tech when I finish my PhD and really would rather not moving to the USA, Canadian tech firms are going to have to compensate employees more if they want to siphon talent away from Silicon Valley.

They don’t have to offer the same levels of compensation as SV, but they’re going to have to offer a lot more than they are currently.
I'm not about to say that this is good, but I have no sympathy here. The fact that this company exists is a major failing of our society. $1.18 billion in revenue 2019 alone.
Here's a clickable version of the survey link: https://almondhealth.typeform.com/to/DOYZIdRl#source=hn
Yeah, there's a pretty decent sized community that's been waiting for this, they've been rallying in Facebook Groups - they hit their goal in five minutes, and have continued to have a decent trickle since then. I wonder if they'll hit 2m before the end of the Kickstarter given all the news.

Edit: wow, it's been an hour and it's crossed 1.3m, news / visibility works like heck.
If I want to buy a game to play on my phone, and there is only one seller, it's a monopoly. Yes, I could buy a new phone, and then buy the game from a different store. But then I'd be buying a different product (Fortnite for Android instead of Fortnite for iPhone).
Visual Studio (without third-party extensions) still doesn't offer a way to color/highlight/style static member call-sites differently to instance member call-sites, that's why I always prefix instance member access with `this.` and why I always give static fields a name with a leading underscore.
Or even afford it?

People earning an equivalent of a couple USD a day, or nothing at all, aren't going to be able to afford to pay some US corporation for fast internet.

Fast internet probably isn't even a concern in wartorn countries, honestly.

Let's be honest - Starlink is almost exclusively going to be used by people living in rural areas within developed nations.
If a helicopter is hovering over your dish, close enough to be noticeable amounts of wind (more wind than you say get normally)... you have bigger problems... Like a military group is fast-roping into your home.
This could not have happened to a more deserving company. I take no comfort in this happening to them, yet I have no sympathy for a company who preys on people at their most vulnerable moment. Judge away!
It's not too bad most winters, just either have 4WD or pick a place with minimal hills / decent plowing.
I hope they pay and don’t get their data back
This recurrent memory that you can’t stop replaying is a symptom of PTSD. Of course your work and communal recovery cannot stop, but consider getting therapeutic treatment for yourself to help mitigate the impact of this event.
US government airdrops?
Fortunately the BSD systems are largely free of this kind of NIH.
If I can get those kinds of speeds in rural areas, I would legitimately uproot my life and move. I can work from anywhere, and I reckon, there will be more and more people like me in the post-Covid world. This has the potential to reshape our world and turn the tide away from mass urban migration.
What's up with the layout though? For one, the text alternates between serif and sans-serif fonts, like someone came in and edited the prewritten complaint, but didn't care about formatting. Second, they have problems matching the text to the line number template, e.g. on pages 31, 38, 42, etc.

Is that common for complaints, or is this just hastily written? I remember reading others and noticed peculiar layouts there, too.