skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I'm just really wondering what the implications for astronomy are going to be

More space based telescopes?
My favorite Knuth quote is from his FAQ on being retired[1]

> Being a retired professor is a lot like being an ordinary professor, except that you don't have to write research proposals, administer grants, or sit in committee meetings. Also, you don't get paid.

[1] https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/retd.html
No it’s not. HDMI can do it, it’s the device that you pick that decided it won’t, by picking an older standard.
Skip on the Helix and grab something like the Crkbd (Make sure it's a model where the outer column can snap off) or the MiniAxe, Yushakobo carries both I believe. Also check out the 'Self Made Keyboards In Japan' Discord server as there are tons of boards available to you domestically via booth! Worst case, Yushakobo should have everything you need to get a build done (and even has a wonderful selection of blank keycaps), go hit their workshop! :)

No worries, we spend all day using these devices, the fact that we're not using them in a highly configurable fashion pains me. Make technology work for you, not the other way around
The entire point of instagram for businesses is to move followers from instagram to your own controlled platform.

Not sure why using google as your main email makes sense with so many others offering email.

You can take the iOS customer off of iOS to a different platform through ingame awareness.. one you control
Exactly. That's why, a new number for every transaction. No merchant requirement.
Fairphone has introduced the new Fairphone 3+, now with 48/16MP cameras and 40% recycled plastics.

To watch just the ad https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnao1Dm5vKg
In UK: "How to send an 'E mail'" (1984):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szdbKz5CyhA
Certainly you can have RSS-enabled blogs of Github or Gitlab. I think Netlify (also free for a single-user instance) makes it a bit easier, but isn't strictly necessary.
Europeans really barely understand the US. Yes, of course, we understand how investing in communities makes a society work. What Europeans don’t understand is just how fucking huge the US is and how low-density huge swaths of the country are. Farmers might live 500 miles from a metro of 100,000 people. It’s a huge challenge to give everyone fiber without the 1% of hyper rural America doubling costs for everyone else.
Could be. The quote was from Umberto Eco though.
Because that's what a country is.
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If you had a localised shutter covering pattern X for 6 seconds, could you compensate for that by covering the inverse pattern of X for 6 seconds to get the same exposure for all pixels? So if you covered 3 satellite streaks of 6 seconds each using non-verlapping patterns (A,B,C) you could compensate for that by ending your exposure with covering the inverse of A+B+C for 6 seconds, adding only 6 seconds to your total exposure time and get uniform exposure.
Not true -- https://www.google.com/maps/place/Aviano+Air+Base/@46.033364...
I vot for calling it civilization.
USPS said they delivered my package on Sunday, but it magically showed up Wednesday.
It was 1990. No one was really ordering stuff over the internet yet. Commercial commerce was still sort of a taboo since, by and large, it was funded by public research monies.

Now? He probably has some webmail account so he can sign up for online banking, utility accounts, and all the other mundane stuff people do online which would have been science fiction back then.
The main disadvantage of DP over HDMI is that if you switch off a monitor that is connected to the computer via DP, then the computer thinks the monitor has been disconnected, and rearranges all your windows for you, so when you come back to the computer and switch the monitor back on it's all messed up. With HDMI, that doesn't happen.
I said it earlier, but if I have to call R from another language, in most cases I'd rather just use R by itself.

Of course there are reasons why you might integrate the two. Perhaps you have an R expert doing the statistics work and the back end developer gluing everything together. That's fine, but at some point the system becomes pretty confusing and is a giant leaky abstraction.
> Fair enough, I didn't know.

IIRC, that's a new rule, added around a month ago. Since your account is older than that, it's very probable that the rule wasn't there the last time you looked at that page. Which means you shouldn't feel bad about not knowing.
Droped my screenshot, nothing happens...
The launch costs is just a small part of the total costs.

You destroy my house and I should be happy you offer me a discount when I buy new blueprints from you.
Such BS, Facebook does not listen to audio passively. If it did, iOS 14 would have highlighted it.

Stop spreading fake news.

Also just because “Facebook” can listen, the TV still can’t receive updates and ads.
West Virginia is a bit cherry-picked, it is by far the most systemically poor state in the mid-Atlantic, and it’s got immense infrastructure challenges due to the mountains. I sympathize with those people, but the vast majority of the US is doing better.
HJKL makes no sense for me at all. It reminds me of the annoyingly designed computer games I used to play on my Oric as a kid, where the various direction keys to control my 'character' often bore no relation to their relative positions on the keyboard.

H and L are just about OK for left and right, but up and down being another left/right positioned key combo, nestled in between, just doesn't work with the way my brain's wired, at all.

Conversely, on my MacBook Air keyboard, the arrow keys are nicely grouped together in an inverted T formation at bottom right corner of the keyboard, with some space around them. Piss-easy to find and piss-easy to feel which one points in which direction, without even looking at the keyboard.

Strange that almost every tutorial on Vim I've ever read begins with "Don't be tempted to use the arrow keys instead of HJKL.." which, in my opinion is just about the "worst advice evarrr!", especially given the rest of the learning curve which awaits you.

*YMMV --depending on your own particular keyboard layout.
I always click such news because i know of some "Self-organizing Mobile Ad-hoc Networks based on Delay Tolerant Networking" (MANET-DTN) technology experimentations at german universities in the last years that use wireless and broadband chips in cellphones (with an app) to relay public service announcements and calls for emergency responders in situations like for example if the cell-tower is destroyed by an earth-quake. See: ftp://ftp.kom.tu-darmstadt.de/papers/LAG+17.pdf (not the whole thing, just a pointer towards more pointers. the apps named in III all seem abandoned)

But the news is never about that :-/ Just "someone shut down the facebook" - boring
Can you elaborate why you find this sad? Do you disagree with the opinion in the comment?
How is what these virus companies are doing not defamation? Are there any legal options you have when this happens to you?

And VirusTotal bears a large responsibility for this too - not only do they not make it easy to find contacts for the various anti virus engines as you have pointed out (while disavowing themselves of any responsibility), they will highlight a "Generic" AI bullshit detection from some random company in the same way as verified malware.
France also has a high population density. Even "rural" areas are still close to major population centers. That is not true in rural Siberia or the Rocky Mountains.
probably what happens when everyone codes using the 'Don't ask for permission, ask for forgiveness later' principle when handling errors
He Raised $200M to Transform Agriculture with the Largest Vertical Farm
Is 15Mbit really such a horrible speed? For a mobile device I think that’s still great.
Oneweb is bankrupt. It may be half-rescued by the British govt as an attempt to build its own GPS system since they got kicked out of Galileo due to Brexit, but it is unlikely to be a player anymore.
Climate Grief: Our Greatest Ally?
I'm not a tax attorney, but I know that there are serious restrictions on how two companies (non profit or otherwise) owned by the same people or entities are allowed to use them to benefit each other. Those restrictions exist for obvious reasons: being able to easily shift around money can lead to all kinds of tax evasion and other corruption.

And I'm also fairly certain that suddenly renegotiating a licensing agreement in which the obvious purpose is to secure more revenue for the Corporation at the expense of the Foundation would be considered self-dealing, and there would be severe penalties, the least of which being the loss of tax-exempt status for the Foundation.

Being controlled by the same entity does not mean that they are allowed to shift assets and money around or spend their own resources resolving each others' financial issues, and doing something sneaky like trying to hide such transfers as part of a trademark licensing renegotiation would not pass a smell test.

> Especially when it's clear that they do so to the detriment of the browser (by firing people in order to focus on other pursuits)

How disingenuous and trollish to put this at the end of your post. In the reply to an argument explaining that the Foundation is a separate entity with its own charter acting independently, you simply ignore the argument and say the same thing over again instead of addressing it.
Weird they wouldn't switch providers for specific use cases. Does Stripe require to be exclusive provider for site?
Ok, so if they are going to force upon us a subsidized 5G connection, what can we do to to hijack that connection & redirect it to some more useful - to the user - application?

(Also good to know that the big telcos will be rolling out 5G universally so all those 5G-connected TVs will work in every rural location, even those with coverage from only obscure CLECs
/sarc )
...and every time i go to print on mine i quickly hit the orange button (skip) when it says "new firmware available"! I just want to print. Plus, not being able to update from SD makes the process a chore in itself.

That being said, I think automatic updates are a good thing when it goes from optional to required. At the corporation I am employed, we deploy via SCCM and have a window where the user can kick off the install. For example, if a cumulative update is pushed on Monday, we give the user until Thursday to install the patch on their own. Then, at 1PM on Thursday, a countdown begins to let them to know they need to save their work because this IS happening. That takes the blame away from the information system (hey, we gave you all week) and on to the user for poor time management. The alternative is your infrastructure turns into swiss cheese with vulnerabilities.
It pops up a big scary per-app dialog (https://mobiledevmemo.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/image-1...) that the app wants to “track you across apps and websites owned by other companies”.

I just wish people understood how much they’re being manipulated by Apple’s marketing here. Credit to them: they’re the best in the world —- if Tim Cook decided to sell cigarettes, he’d have most of us on two packs a day and believing it’s good for us by Christmas.

Apple is a giant corporation, they’re not your friend. They can be total jerks when it suits them. They happen to have failed at their own advertising network and had the brilliant idea to spin this as if they “care” about your “privacy”. It is a convenience of the moment to sell more devices like the iPad Pro I’m typing this on.

The level of rhetoric has reached foaming-at-the-mouth proportions, and we can no longer have a rational discussion that acknowledges the nuances. Even the word “tracking” is so loaded with evil connotations and indistinguishable in most people’s minds from the ever-cited, rarely existent “selling my personal information” that few can see beyond the word to make a conscious choice about what level of tracking is acceptable. (NONE! I can already hear the shouting.)

IDFA is a random identifier that’s been used for attribution and audience targeting (for which Apple provided it). Digital advertising has a fairly unique property, which is that it’s possible (at least sometimes) to connect the dots between “I paid for an ad for my product” and “someone bought the product”. If you’re spending money on advertising and offered the choice between casting it into the void and hoping your sales pick up, versus only paying for successful “conversions”, that second option is going to be pretty attractive.

I saw an ad on Facebook for a food delivery service. I signed up and have been enjoying their products and benefitting from fewer grocery trips. I’m ok with that. And I’m ok if there was a little anonymous tag that allowed Facebook to get paid for the service they provided to the company. I’m less ok if they collect information on how much red meat I’m buying and sell it to my insurance company, but that’s not what we’re talking about here and I pretty wound up when people assume that all “tracking” is the same.
Scite Orcid Integration
Hey hey now maybe they’re just schools where they sing happily and build sand castles
They won't operate online pharmacies. Not because they aren't legit one but because there are so many bad actors out there they just won't engage with pharmacies -- we tried setting one of the up with a cashless solution but Stripe didn't want to.
Is Rust in Trouble After Big Mozilla Layoffs?
I agree that it's irresponsible, but most of your comment is "American infrastructure is horrible, European infrastructure is great. I can't believe American would force this on the rest of the world", even though it's a European company that's planning to put more of these satellites in the sky than every other company combined.
Ask HN: How can I stop AWS from updating Route53 console?
i have already sent mails, submitted feedback . Old Route53 UI and Console were just fine, but the new one not only needs more clicks to do the same job, its damn slow, its incredibly confusing :( .. i use CLI for bulk updates, but changing the console just for the sake of it is not good :(
Tally-ho! I actually get many personal sites with my web searches, but maybe that's because they are both narrowly targeted and expressed in keyword form?
I run an email newsletter[1] that aims to highlight the interesting content found on personal blogs. It's a single link every other day to something interesting, the kind of blog posts that you come across every once in a while that really make you think. The overwhelming feedback is that being able to read the kind of non-viscerally-targeted news and analyses that aren't easily found online is incredibly valuable.

[1] https://www.thinking-about-things.com
How well would this work towards voice activated things, i.e. "Hey Olaf, make it rain?" which turns the sprinklers on.
Speaking of maps, I've always wondered what's in that huge, mostly-unlabeled region that is more than half of Russia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geography_of_Russia

It looks like it could comfortably fit a few countries and then some.

Even when watching history documentaries there's a period where Russia is basically a thin strip at the western edge of its current territory, before suddenly and inexplicably blowing up to engulf almost half of Asia.
I promise myself to check out ROS2 for quite a some time now but I never find time for a proper sit down.

I love the idea of ROS2 but the advice I'm usually giving clients is to only look into it as a part of their R&D and to expect to be very early adopters and therefore most likely needing to fix multiple issues that will inevitably come up.

For the companies that have a single product they are focusing on and that they want to push out of the door as quickly as possible with minimum R&D budget I suggest sticking with ROS Melodic (afaik more package support Melodic than Noetic) but I also recommend them to keep an eye out on ROS2 and switching to it as soon as it makes sense for them.

Right now I'm basing almost all my view on ROS2 on Michael Ferguson's blog (https://www.robotandchisel.com/) and particularly this article: https://www.robotandchisel.com/2020/07/29/five-things-ros2/.

When I will finally start experimenting with ROS2 I'm going to start with Autoware course: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTmlhvlmcf8

About the fake soldier-robot video: I think it's a good satire and I hope we will never get to anything similar to this in real life. As you probably noticed from the article I'm not a fan of military robotics.
Once you get the video or pics there's nothing stopping you from copying and redistributing it I guess. Unsure how it compares with other media types.
You seem to work out of Switzerland, which I find interesting as I thought this would be one of the least favourable places to work remotely from. It seems the opportunity costs of high paid jobs and the high living costs would favour other parts of the world. I would be very interested in your angle on this
Imho, software engineers excel at pattern recognition and correctness (2018)
True, that can be a disadvantage (can also be an advantage though).
But those who are gifted and capable are not usually as inclined towards hate as those who are not.

They are. They just hate different groups. People with low cognitive ability tend to hate groups based on things like sexuality or race. People with higher cognitive ability hate others based on the choices they make such as which political party someone supports.

Hate features universally across the spectrum of intelligence.

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/8qwwzp/who-you-hate-depen...
Nothing about bank risk management is easy. You haven’t accounted for a whole host of risks with this simple analysis, including the most important one: customer retention. The high-value customers sending high-value interbank transfers won’t be impressed that our systems let their wire go out the door incorrectly. Even if I can totally reverse the transaction (and it’s not nearly as easy or guaranteed as you’re assuming) I still have to tell the client about it in most cases. The client will, correctly, think “what if they can’t get it back next time this happens? I’ll find a bank that doesn’t have these kinds of issues.” And aside from crimes, losing a high-value client is perhaps the worst offense you can commit in banking.

Regardless of the dollar amount or outcome I also have to tell the audit committee, the board, the auditors, and all of my regulators. And exactly none of those groups would let me put your write-up along with the conclusion “risk accepted” in front of them.
Very cool project, thanks for sharing.
Somewhat related, a story that digs into who's running onlyfans.com: https://forensicnews.net/2020/08/13/onlyfans-faces-allegatio...
Back in the 90s, they lead in affiliate programs; Every major porn company offered like $30 or more per member. Lots of fraud in those days.
My understanding is the rules are dictated by Visa/MC/Amex, and are largely based on chargeback risk for categories of merchants. There are likely further legal and pearl-clutchy reasons that combine to just out and out ban.

Anecdote: we talked with every payment processor around for a product we were making that involved storing and spending value from a digital wallet. It was close enough to various Visa/MC rules and money transmitting statutes that the usual response was arguing for a few weeks about why we comply until higher management decided something akin to: well if you had a lot of volume we’d take the risk dealing with it, but you don’t so it’s not worth our time.

Last ditch effort was Stripe, who said: sure! And we asked again with more detail, making sure they saw the same issues and wouldn’t make us tear it down in a month. They said: sure! Did it a third time higher up for diligence, and finally just came to the conclusion they have different priorities and are getting big enough to use their scale to throw some weight around for all the small merchants.
I don't want to love this... But I do.
CodeCoda Won Technology Innovator Award
Is that cool? Another award in 2020. Category Best Web and Mobile Developers. We love it!
I don't know if they are, I think, a bit, the "old web" is actually huge, but getting into it takes some effort.. Sometimes, you find these hub-like sites, for example when browsing a webring (shameless plug geekring.net ), that leads deeper into some neocities commune or similar, it's great fun :)
For connecting to a TV, easiest thing might be to buy an RGB to SCART cable from eBay. Less than £15, good picture quality.

Good summary of potential disk/drive issues and cleaning options: http://www.retrotechnology.com/herbs_stuff/clean_disks.html. Spatula-shaped cotton wool buds are handy for cleaning drives, as there might not be much room inside.

As per the article, http://stardot.org.uk/ is a good resource for all things BBC Micro in general.
Your link is not working, had to put www. in front. Seem nice though, I subscribed
Horseflies.
I can't say it is scientific, but I have seen fewer 737 class airplanes and more E195s over upstate new york with add-on since the second wave pandemic hit the US.

Southwest is still flying the 737 (they expect to be doing that in 2120) but JetBlue looks like an E series airline today.
Yes, this is why I think a copyright term of ~7 years fits (for mass media). It allows recrual of costs and it allows participation in media that's still culturally relevant. Further, it allows still culturally relevant works to be remixed, worked on, 'improved' by the populous.

Currently the long copyright terms are not encouraging innovation; the same works are being resold to the same people over and over.
What? There's no way to send a 2mm (width) wave. Yes, parabolic antennas have very high gains in one direction, but they're far from '2mm' and far from 'invisible'.

A helicopter with the right equipment flying over urban areas would have an easy job finding them and even pointing out the approximate location (eg. a building) where they're located. If the antenna was inside a huge apartment building, it would be hard to find the right apartment, if the transmitter was turned off, but with single family buildings, it would be easy.

Ham radio operators hide and then look for hidden transmitters for fun, so it's not that hard, especially with a budget that is given to the police.
Try this one, I just noticed it while on vacation nearby:
https://maps.app.goo.gl/ccm3ZcQ771mb6Jtj8

Edit sorry I can't link to satellite view from mobile. It's the Mola Fortress on Menorca.
Hacking Adventures with Safari Reader Mode
I kinda wonder if it isn't the kids doing it with a parents card.
My site is also using Drev DeVault’s openring, which is a relatively new tool.
I think they meant to say the TV is disconnected from the internet, but the Apple TV is connected.
>when a movie is cammed this cuts into the revenue. //

Is there proof of this?
Apparently HDMI 2.1 which specification is from November 2017 can do it.

My TV itself is even older than that, and a dumb TV doesn't need to be upgraded often. That's part of the purpose of a dumb TV; longevity.

My MBPs from 2015 also don't support it, and Apple only recently released a decent replacement for these MBPs (given the keyboard issues in previous).

My old monitor from ~2014, a BenQ, also does not support it. While I recently replaced it, it still works perfectly fine (it doesn't have FreeSync though), and achieves 144 Hz over DP.
Looks great. An enjoyable alternative to typing randomly selected English phrases. Would indeed be neat to add some form of progress tracking and/or bookmarking.
'Use cli' is a powerful answer to bad user interface problems.