skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a very good question, which goes to the heart of statistical Physics. We use phase spaces for this (typically a 6N-dimensional vector space in which each microstate is represented by a point). The system has a probability of being in (or rather very close to) each microstate, which depends on several factors, like the conditions (isolated system, constant pressure, temperature, number of particles, etc). Counting microstates is “just” calculating integrals of that probability weight in the phase space. Of course, most of the time it is impossible, so we have tools to approximate these integrals. There are a lot of subtleties, but that’s the general idea.

The phase space does not change depending on temperature, so there’s nothing weird like the space getting bigger. But the probability of each microstate might, as high-energy states become more accessible.
You should secure everything in your car.

If you crash into something going only 50 kilometres per hour, things that are the same weight as your average smartphone will have enough force on impact to kill you.
And that's why I said "most" STEM and not just "STEM". I'm sure labs could be set up to do experimental work. You just don't need the rest of the campus (and the blood sucking administrators that go with that).

> they wouldn't take an online degree very seriously

They would, if that was the only degree available. And I'm sure Stanford, of all places, can do it as well as anybody.
In the UK, anyone with the banking license Monzo has is protected by the insurance mandate which was put in place after the collapse of Northern Rock. The service from Monzo is substantially better than any other British bank, so it's a risk I'm willing to take.
What They Don't Want You to See
Lots of good memories from Robogames. I had first read about it in Servo magazine when I lived on the east coast as a kid. My family ended up moving to California when I was in high school and I was a regular attendee from that point on. I entered robomagellan regularly during college (except the one year the university's club entered the heavyweight combat robot competition). After college I ended up moving to Orange County and didn't attend much.

Sad to see that it ended.
A favorite quote seen in the introduction of a cookbook
in the 1970s or so,
which unfortunately I have never been able to later attribute:
“The world needs more cooks, not more cookbooks.”
I think this can also apply to some programming environments.
> a huge number of active cases whereas much of the rest of the industrialized world has reduced their case numbers significantly to manageable levels that allow contact tracing and fast turnarounds on testing. The US is still adding to our death rate and case numbers aggressively. Other countries are not. This is what makes the U.S. a disasterous outlier.

It isn't an outlier by any statistical definition that makes sense to me and you are glossing over the way aggressive testing changes the "case numbers" and also aren't being clear if you are talking about "case numbers" or "cases per 1000 tests" or "cases per capita". These details matter in order to have a coherent discussion about the numbers.
Just ran speedtest:

Wifi = 97 Mbps down 9 (xfinity)
LTE = 57 Mbps down (att)

Location = SF Bay Area

11 to 60 Mbps global coverage is totally acceptable speeds and if it holds up, would be a game changer.
> doing that means the GIL doesn't get released so that thread will prevent any further network I/O while it's running, the same as would happen in an async framework if a worker did a lot of CPU work. So Python doesn't really let you realize the advantages of threads in this context.

I don't think that's true, the GIL get released for many computing intensive or IO bound tasks in Python, for example when reading from a socket the GIL gets released at https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/e822e37946f27c09953bb...
"Underwater basket weaving degrees" is a great piece of rhetoric because it lets the listener project their personal most hated field in its place. If you think gender studies degrees are useless, I don't see the value in marketing, and we run into this little meme: boom, suddenly we're attacking higher education hand in hand. Epstein conspiracies are another example. Lots of people think he didn't kill himself. Ask them what did happen and they're at loggerheads, but if you can steer thoughts away from that you have broad public support. It's a clever if disastrous way to build American anti-intellectualism.
I can't speak for the rest of the nation, but a couple years ago the big ISPs in the midwest started phasing in 1tb data caps.
> Weak atomics give you the same kind of performance as benign data races but they have well defined semantics.

That is a great argument. Self-explanatory code make it easier to understand what are the design goals and usage of that code.

> Traditional “benign” races are likely to be broken by optimizing compilers or on tricky architectures.

This is even better. One of the reasons is so hard to move code from one architecture to another one is because not only word sizes but small non-defined behaviors.

I had the pleasure to make C++ code compile for WebAssembly. It is challenging and interesting the unexpected ways that it breaks. And how many times the mental model that we have as developer and the reality of the C++ specification differ in small ways.

My most absurd example was a test application that had to crashi on the push of a button, to verify that all logs and recovery code was working. To crash the application the code was accessing a NULL pointer. Alas, WebAssembly allowed read access to address Zero without problem. So, the button did nothing when compiled in WebAssembly.
I'm starting to see that UBI is becoming the "answer" to many things in the same way that crypto is the "answer" to many things.
Neat, although anyone else think his has an uncanny resemblance to LSD blotters? Talk about an interesting branding opportunity!
I thought the same thing. The new OS betas for iOS, iPadOS, and macOS all have very strong non-tracking functionality.

This should hit Facebook's, Google's, and more companies' bottom lines.
The goal is to hurt the business model. Make people think the service is unreliable and they won’t use it.
Do people not understand that satellite internet already exists today?

We don't drop satellite modems into war torn countries now, and we're not going to start doing that just because Elon Musk needs to check off one of his PR claims.
GPON done properly is much cheaper to operate than DSL or COAX, it's just longer cables, less equipment, less real state, less electricity consumption.

Digging cables is what's expensive. You can use telephone poles for fiber too, but it exposes it to more outages. You can secure the lines with steel cables but that ads cost, and if you are deploying to poles then you were looking for going cheap.
Got an error on signup: Failed to execute 'transaction' on 'IDBDatabase': The database connection is closing.
Hezbollah does a pretty good job of staying out of the line of fire; even though I am sure they have helped themselves to some of the AN from time to time.
Imagine believing that Linux has a "sound architecture".
Army gets prototype for cyber visualization tool
Holy cow, he predicted way more than just indivisible constituents of matter [1]:

> The theory of Democritus held that everything is composed of "atoms", which are physically, but not geometrically, indivisible; that between atoms, there lies empty space; that atoms are indestructible, and have always been and always will be in motion; that there is an infinite number of atoms and of kinds of atoms, which differ in shape and size.

The accuracy is uncanny.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democritus#Atomic_hypothesis
This is also super important for small online businesses (e.g. specialized e-commerce shops).

A McMaster-Carr Or ThermoFisher that moves online already has a customer base and channels. But a site that sells, say, lactation aids, needs to be more than just a storefront.
Canadian telecoms are not colluding.
I meant if the bid-ask spread must be minimum 1 cent, then is it true that bid can't be lower than 1 cent as long as ask is semipositive?
Musk is already playing a game; it's called "the simulation", and we're all in it. I'm not joking; according to him, we are most likely in a simulation. [0]

[0]: https://www.space.com/41749-elon-musk-living-in-simulation-r...
I only know about Seattle where they were not paying for no work in the middle of the day. They had a last 2 mile transit van that would take you from your house to the P&R and back for a while. It was because the park and ride was filling up earlier and earlier and so people couldn't get to the bus to ride it. In this case, I know because I asked them how the pay went. They only got paid in the morning and the afternoon, there was no service and no pay in the middle of the day, only during rush hour.

The drivers I spoke to about this didn't like this because there wasn't enough time in the middle of the day to get a different job so they ended up getting a longer than 12 hour day to get 2 4 hour work periods.
It failed because there was a vote, and a lot of people said they would be a candidate. Nobody explained that you need more than 50% of the vote, so everybody just gave votes to the people they knew, giving each candidate about 10%.

Since there was no majority they couldn't form a work council.
This sounds like where the US is heading. Corrupt. Greed. Lack of civil service, empathy, and duty. People have a right to be angry. They have a right to demand to fix the problems that lead to their loved ones exploding on a otherwise peaceful afternoon.
Your operational and marketing and capital costs apply to all ISP's, not just Starlink. The net present value of $6.25 monthly at a 3% interest rate for 20 years is $1100. For 50 years it's $2000. So that's your breakeven point. You might be able to wire up an entire town for less than $2K per customer but you certainly can't do rural customers for that.

Shotwell has said that Starlink will be competitive with $80/month internet.
What setting are you referring to? The region one is the same as on the search result page. I find it's way too powerful for technical searches, obscuring the stuff I want.

So I keep having to flip it on and off.
I would take 70% versus pennies on the dollar. I have been developing software since the 1980s and remember the days when software was sold into the retail channel. During that period, a publisher never saw anything close to 70% and you were lucky if your product got eye level shelf space. Nowadays, a developer doesn't even need a publisher or distributor.
I think that's true in UK too, but often the people aren't aware how wrong what they're doing is.
I was looking for the catch. Here it is: "It's really simple: Know what encoding a certain piece of text, that is, a certain byte sequence, is in, then interpret it with that encoding."

That's like "knowing" the truth. How?

I have received some very interesting files that made Python yack unicode errors, again and again. Why? Not only did I not "know" what encoding it was in -- the encodings changed at different points in the stream of bytes. I call this "slamming bytes together" because somewhere along the line, someone's program did exactly that.

Everything is simple -- until it isn't.
Though I agree it's not helpful to force your feelings directly. I do think that there are things we "should" feel and those are the things that give better outcomes to us. Sometimes emotions are telling us something true and important but are also harming our wellbeing and we'd be better off without them. If we're lucky enough to lack some harmful knowledge, then all the better.
A friend of mine who served in Afghanistan said that the Afghanis living in the mountains had no idea America had invaded and no idea about a war or 9/11. At first they had thought the Americans were Russians.
I think you over estimate how big America is and how remote some places can be.
Latency runs 31 mS to 70 mS in the speedtests shown. I don't buy their claims that you can game with >100 mS latency, that is not a good experience.

This is a great step forward for internet accessibility but I really wish they wouldn't oversell the capabilities before we're there.
I disagree with the other answers to your question. There's no guarantee that "the masses" would be able to lay claim and ownership on these automated factories. I very much think the world will move in a darker direction, where the owners of these factories ensure their perpetual control over the rest of us. As for what they get from it? The feeling of power and superiority.

As for the forms of control they will exert, I can think of a few options: media, access to healthcare, and employing you to be a useless drone just so you don't rebel--or to stroke their ego by beating you in a video game, like the link below:

https://www.wired.com/2017/02/clive-thompson-future-of-work-...
It seems a bit weird that the example somehow doesn't consider 'fugashi' a compound noun and claims it's 2 nouns, 'fu kashi'.

Maybe that's intended but then apparently this is pointless if you want to know how things are pronounced.
WINDOWS 10 OS.

The amount of updates you have to download weekly is insane.

cripples my connection to do anything else for hours at a time. Have to switch to "metered connection" to trick it into thinking im connceted to internet on a smartphone with super expensive$$$ dataplan, so to leave any updates as 'frozen'.

(for a non tech saavy person, they would be driven nuts... every day their computer would just grind to a halt doing network stuff and not know why)
> Not that many decades

IMHO since removing the gold standard (1970s), this problem came up. I'm glad you have been able to but that possibility was shrinking every year. Less and less people were able to do what you did, starting in the 70s. Financial college administrators kept up with inflation whereas jobs didn't. Income didn't. Expenses took a little time to catch up with inflation as well. So, that might've been why for your situation. It wasn't extremely prohibitive but the issue compounds every year.
Apparently being a Facebook employee means you can't have pro-NVIDIA anti-anything else intentions... even when that's clearly the case.

That’s being a tad disingenuous. Developing a solution to an in-house use case while ignoring alternative platforms that you don’t use does not make one “anti-anything else”. For a business of Facebook’s scale (or any scale for that matter), would you or your manager approve of spending time on such a task? Unless it was simple, there was enough time, or there were known potentials of switching product lines, I would venture to guess: no.

However, trying to upstream such work without considering where it’s going in which the very last patch review of 21 shows the problem isn’t the brightest idea.
The "underwater basket weaving" degrees will disappear if students have to pay for those degrees themselves.

I'm not really understanding students who take on loans they cannot realistically pay back. Finding the salary and job prospects for various majors is a literally trivial google search away. How can one go through 4 years of college and never check this?
I know someone on that tablet plan (which, BTW, you can no longer get - go check ebay) who lost it by consistently hitting 1TB every month.

What's the Sprint plan?
I love how the notion of entropy permeates into so many other things. It's fundamental, universal, and at the heart of nearly every aspect of our existence.

Take philosophy. If the ultimate state of everything culminates in chaos (according to the theory of entropy), the human existence constitues the exact opposite: controlling the chaos that surrounds us, and shaping it into something useful and, in entropy-speak, progressively unprobable. Making ice cubes out of water.

It follows that our existence can at least be described as a function of entropy.

This describes life. Survival is the battle against entropy. Procreation is the chosen weapon against chaos, a force of order in a universe that can't help itself but fall into chaos -- and, undoubtedly, will ultimately prevail in that fight. In the long run, life will lose.

Great article. Fascinating stuff.
> It is a simple view that summarizes really well what happens when public services are privatized. There is more nuance to it, but the main effects are "de-investment", "increase in price", "reduction of service".

It's simplistic because "increase in price" and "reduction of service" have not been observed to happen in private sector services today. If you look at the vast majority of goods & services across the board, prices have decreased over time, and service has improved dramatically. This is because the pricing system and competition act as a downward pressure on price and an upward pressure on service quality. This is obviously not always the case (eg. monopolies), but it is the case for the vast majority of goods & services.

Food, clothing, transportation, information technology, electronics, appliances — have all gotten cheaper over time (even relative to inflation), have seen an increase in investment over time, and an increase in quality over time.

Another concrete example: NASA's planned SLS moon mission is a bit of a disaster — way over budget and way behind schedule. Because the boosters aren't reusable, each launch is expected to cost $1B (with a B) dollars — EACH launch! Meanwhile SpaceX's target cost-per-launch is $50M. Central planning almost never yields the optimum allocation of resources (there are certainly exceptions), whereas the decentralized pricing system almost always does (there are certainly exceptions).

While it's simplistic to say that "government doesn't run services well", it's just as simplistic to suggest that "privatization results in price increases and service decreases".

> I understand your statement as "a polarizing/corrupt government" as I guess that all governments are politicized, it is in their job title.

Correct, which suggests that "government can't run services well" will always be true, for as long as governments are polarized/corrupt. Democracy doesn't yield the best results when you're participating in that democracy with people who violently disagree with you. Governments can be good at running things if everyone agrees on how it should be run, and even then there's no guarantee because central planning usually doesn't yield optimum resource allocation, due to the economic calculation problem.
Why are Android users trying to make demands? You are never going to be Apple users.

Heck, do one better and install Ubuntu mobile.

A few of us see the road of fragmentation and shady businesses and currently trust one company, Apple.
Walmart bikes suck. Mopeds and motorcyles require licenses and insurance. Walking...I'm not sure you're even serious.

Not everything you disagree with is "virtue signalling". As a bike commuter (i.e. ride for transport not pleasure) the difference between a Walmart bike and a $300 Trek is night and day. And between that and a $700 bike is still good, if you can afford it. Quality costs money.
Agreed. My other example is animation. I studied classical animation (in another life, another career...) and then I learned how to do 3d computer animation. I was never very good at 3d animation (I preferred modelling) so I can't brag about it but it's very clear to see who hasn't learned to do it the traditional way first, e.g. when you look at character animations in games vs. animated movies.
I got back into the Retro computing scene over the last couple of months, it's very active. The price isn't bad (especially when you look at the prices of original ZX Spectrum 128K, some Amigas, etc.), and you can find original 48k versions on eBay for <$100.

If you don't want to shell out for a Next (and you don't want to wait a year for one), pickup one from eBay, get a new switch mode PSU like a Triad [1]. While you're getting a new PSU, order the replacement capacitors as the originals don't age well [2]. Modify the RF output to composite [3], or get a VGA [4] or HDMI video interface [5] (the VGA and HDMI quality is amazing, but probably because I had a 13" black and white Ferguson TV back in the day). Finally, most of the units I picked up have broken keyboard membranes so you'll need one of those too [6]. Cases, rubber keyboards and keyboard covers are all available, you can make even the most well-used speccy look like new - and good to go for another 40 years.

There are loads of great resources out there, one of my favorites is the Tynemouth Software blog [7] - loads of great mods for old machines. It'll lead you down a rat-hole, and before you know it you'll be making music demos on a ZX81 [8] and spending money on SellMyRetro [9]!

[1] - https://www.mouser.com/ProductDetail/553-WSU090-2000-R
[2] - https://www.mouser.com/ProjectManager/ProjectDetail.aspx?Acc...
[3] - https://spectrumforeveryone.com/technical/composite-mod-for-... or https://www.tindie.com/products/projectspeccy/zx-spectrum-fl...
[4] - https://www.sintech-shop.de/en/zx-vga-joy-interface-for-zx-s...
[5] - https://www.bytedelight.com/?page_id=1800
[6] - https://zxrenew.co.uk/ZX-Spectrum-16k-48k-keyboard-membrane-...
[7] - http://blog.tynemouthsoftware.co.uk
[8] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eabTH9F2RVM
[9] - https://www.sellmyretro.com
Lol, yeah. I live on the edge of Chattahoochee Estates so I'm pretty far from downtown. I used to live in Cumming and the protein plant in Northern Cumming was brutal... smells there are unlike anything I've experienced. Big reason why I moved to Gainesville.
I have tears of laughter. These videos truly are awesome.
It's also notable though that some themes that Q covers, such as Trump being spied on, are showing progression with a significant milestone today with the guilty plea of Kevin Clinesmith.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/kevin-clinesmith-former-fbi-la...

Q first mentioned Clinesmith in August 2018.

So it raises a question of why the huge pushback and dedication of resources from the media, when, they could just be reporting on it instead of trying to discredit it. Sounds like whatever is going to happen is going to happen regardless so we'll all just wait and see.
Hanlon's Razor... I highly doubt they've intentionally crippled the open source ones just to promote MSSQL. So many things are bad on azure, the slow databases are just one part.
Then increase your prices to a level you would be happy, and if they want to buy somewhere else, let them.

Doing low quality work is a great way to lower both your reputation and job satisfaction. And you better be 100% certain of each customer's lifetime value, otherwise you'll have a problem.
I think it depends if a lot of pages start breaking. Right now it's not happening at scale, but I don't see them having any reason not to refork Blink if more "only tested on Chrome" sites start breaking on Safari.

I'd expect them to maintain all strategic decisions if they did refork, including disabling PWA features; there's nothing that says they have to enable PWAs just because they fork from Blink.
I worked for an ILEC providing cable/dsl/fiber service and just the rough napkin math around SpaceX's launch costs makes it look significantly cheaper.

Besides the whole digging and laying cable costs, last mile work is expensive. You have to employ huge crews. Construction crews constantly dig up & cut your infrastructure "by accident" and the cost of recovering the fines from them is as much as the fines pay out. Having to send an emergency crew of three guys out for 18 hours of work to re-splice a 72-ct fiber every other weekend adds up. That doesn't happen in space.