skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What sort of areas is low latency important in outside of video games?
Maybe she deserves it, github is for software code not for your food blog.
The first few are bright, but as you said only at dawn or dusk. The vast majority of future ones are intended to be dark, with partial mitigations (not perfect, nobody is making that claim) like dark coating applied by SpaceX at their own expense.

With plentiful availability of orbital delivery, we can also expect more earth-orbiting space telescopes in our future, including private ones and with numbers possibly several orders of magnitude higher than what we have today. These will have higher orbits so that will help, and they will be largely immune to atmospheric effects.

I would suggest the astronomy community ask SpaceX and others to commit to giving key projects free or low cost launch services or ride sharing to orbit, to help compensate for some of the costs you allude to. If asked directly, Elon is often responsive.
Which private info do they have?
Not if the entity selling the ad takes notes.
There was a great article in Wired recently about NPO’s efforts in the space. Unfortunately it’s not available as a service and is only an internal platform but there is definitely a model ripe for working on there.

https://www.wired.com/story/can-killing-cookies-save-journal...
For polynomial regression of the type y = p0 + p1x + p2x^2 + ... + pnx^n, the "training" algorithm is linear least squares (no need of gradient descent). Assuming you have data (y, x), the explicit least squares solution is P = pinv(X) Y, see:

y = [1, x, x^2, ... x^n][p0, p1, p2, ..., pn]^T = XP

XP = y

(X^T X)P = (X^T) y

P = (X^T * X)^-1 * (X^T) * y

(X^T * X)^-1 * (X^T) is called the pseudo-inverse of X (which contains all your data). No need of iterations. A similar solution is found for multi-variable polynomials i.e. y = f(x1, x2, ..., xm) where f is a polynomial containing combinations of the independent variables xm and their powers.
Eric Schmidt: China could be AI’s superpower
I get that feeling. But it's probably exactly the opposite. If you can share your niche, others in the niche may look to you as the expert.
Sounds more like you don't have to worry about mapping your variables to and from an underlying persistent store - it happens automagically.

It's an idea that has been tried on and off for decades and is obviously very appealing but tends to have lots of interesting problems when it has been used for a while - often when you want to access your data outside the context of your application.
Surely this will depend on what your software does and the data it works with.

Huge amounts of software, particularly embedded software, doesn't have any sort of single structured database or a simple set of data files that you could just dump. Even where you do have these things, the dump won't be worth much unless the DB schema or file structure can be successfully interpreted in order to reconstruct the meaning of the underlying data within some other system.

That might or might not be easy, depending on how complicated the original data formats were. If it's something common and widely understood, perhaps some text a user wrote or a photo they saved, that's one thing. But what about something more specialised? Suppose you're moving to a new home. How do you export the training data from the AI in your old smart front door lock, which now recognises your friends and family's faces, so you can set up the smart locks on your new home to recognise the same people?

Unless there are industry standards for representing whatever data you're working with, providing portability between applications or devices that offer similar functionality from different manufacturers/developers is always going to be a problem. Encouraging standardisation is certainly beneficial here, but imposing some sort of blanket obligation on the manufacturers/developers to provide import/export functionality in the absence of any relevant format probably isn't.
If it's urgent, drop a call.
I hope that we're not stuck writing piles of low-level code for all eternity. We don't need more than a few pages of each low-level language, and while I do really like Zig's qualities compared to C, I'd still like to minimize the amount of Zig or C total that has to be written.

I think that our community's equivalent of "where's my flying car?" is "where's my higher-level language?"
>"...they just don’t like any change at all. It’s silly stubbornness"

Why would I like a change in routine unless it brings major benefits? You want to annoy customers because you just feel like it? Now this is what silly is.
For anyone else who had never heard this and wants some background: https://hackernoon.com/how-the-nintendo-switch-prevents-down...
Exporting US centric laws to the world and ensuring that preferable conditions for the US are "legal" is not cool either.

China has only recently become a big enough economy in their own right to say "nice try but no thanks" to US driven international law.
A BT private equity buy-out would sound the death knell for full fibre broadband
This is going to be epic (accidental pun). A vs FANG gang[0].

Follow the money. Apple gets its money from consumers buying devices. Amazon from selling stuff to consumers. FB and Google just feed on people's data.

[0] FAANG = Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Netflix (big tobacco)[1] and Alphabet (Google)

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/newsbeat-48864769
I know Apple does somethings wrong (App Store) but they’re one of few manufactures keeping the big ad-driven tech companies in check.
> Of course, "email" has been a familiar word in France, Germany, and the Netherlands much longer than in England --- but for an entirely different reason.

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Émail_(verre)

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email

https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email_(glazuur)
As a member of the younger generation that pays nearly 50% of my salary in taxes, I agree. I love my country and I love to pay taxes for it to be better!

I do not understand why do you say it is involuntary, however? In a democratic country the amount of taxation is agreed upon by the majority.
I'm curious: how much revenue are they making off others' games written on Unreal and appearing on iOS? This isn't some coy "oh, well Epic takes a cut, too!" because IIRC their cut is reasonable. But I do think one could consider Unreal licensing for iOS games part of their iOS revenue.

Edit: also recall that Apple can't currently prevent others using Unreal to make games for iOS: https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2020/08/judge-issues-restrain...
Having committed to free software to solve a few problems, I'd say it's not all that rosy either.

I wouldn't say I have much more control over the open source software I use. I spent more time fighting desktop Linux than I did fighting Mac OS. I spent hours setting up self-hosted software that's more often than not just passable. Now I control the data, but I'm also responsible for it. I have to worry about updates, backups, migrations and so on.

If I measure how much effort I put into maintaining open source systems vs how many times I've been screwed by commercial software, I'd say both sides are worth considering.
Ask HN: How do you realise that you are not a false positive developer?
I was an average Frontend Designer from 2015-2018 who used to do code WordPress custom development, Bootstrap Sass customisation, Frontend coding etc. for small agency. Beginning of this year, I spent most of the time acquiring knowledge in JavaScript and React ecosystem. I have built open source projects on GitHub to demonstrate my ability to handle Frontend aspect of an application. My questions are:

1. What is the key criteria or realisation point where I am able to work a job as a professional Frontend Developer?

2. The more I learn JS, I realise the lesser I know and there is much more I need to cover. Some days, feeling of being a false positive kicks in and I start to believe that I am a fake and is not ready for a junior position even. This barrier tends to grow in day by day.

3. The decision to spend more time on learning technology and building personal projects solely over a longer period of time costed me on soft skills part and making connections. Is being an extraordinary articulator or good salesman a new vital facet of a Frontend developer?

4. Having a likening for CSS in JS world, or getting generalised by “UX Developer” not “Software Developer”, Does it lower the chances of being employable in current market (even though, you as a candidate are willing to learn React ecosystem but where is the line for a self-taught developer: design patterns, hooks, context, redux, saga, reselect, custom webpack bundling, flux, typescript, unit testing, jest)?

5. I have interest in CS and Maths but no clue on how these two fields amalgamate and what pathways from Frontend lead to them? I have curiosity about UNIX, Maths in general and would love to learn them more at an academic level to attain mastery.

I have attached my Github here: https://github.com/tpkahlon, in case someone wants to review my GitHub and personal projects.
After installation the antenna does not move. That antenna has the capability to connect to two satellites at the same time.

What would change would be the latency which would have a bit of a jump on a handover.
You didn't answer my question though.

Let's say I live out of rent from my mid-30s.

In the first case, it's because my rich father died and I inherited; in the second case, it's because I worked 10 years as a highly successful professional, which allowed me to buy the property.

Am I a parasite in the first case? Am I a parasite in the second?

Variant: am I a parasite if instead of having inherited / buying property, I inherited / bought a large amount of stock in index funds and I live off market returns?
Hammering it won't make your point across. Most of this issues are not really very relevant to those societies. What you're looking for is activists (now journalists) writing pieces, and drinking from US narratives.

People in other countries is worried because every time a problem is framed under anglo-narrative constraints it becomes distorted, unnecessarily confrontational, and it distracts media from talking about the real problems people care about.

BLM protests in particular were weird in many places. In my city there was a bunch of people (mostly whites) and it wasn't very well received, because there were other very pressing issues (like people dying by the thousands by a virus).
" since the demolition of homeless camps are often perceived as being for show or just something that happened because officers were bored and simply had nothing to do that day."

???

Someone doing something illegal, facing the 'force' of the police (who are acting in the interests of the rest of the community) is obviously going to want 'less police'.

So yes, 'Bank Robbers' also probably want 'less police'.

Ad-Hoc homeless camps are not removed because 'cops are bored' - they are illegal for good reason, they spread and metastasise.

There is a medical clinic across the street from where I live - and on a monthly basis, when the 'welfare check' day is, in the evening, they convene, smoke crack and 'camp out'. They generally linger in a small, makeshift 'camp' until eventually - and thankfully - the police come to break it up. It's a monthly cycle.

Whatever the 'underlying causes' - the solution is not 'makeshift camps'. FYI - these guys are eligible for welfare, which is about $1K in Quebec, there are tons of rentals around here for $400, meaning, there is no reason for most of them to be 'homeless' (though obviously there are serious mental issues with some of them). Free healthcare and a ton of other free services. I'm not saying living on welfare is easy, rather, there are 'just enough' services there to enable someone who is 'socially coherent' to be able to not be homeless.

As for 'more police' here is far-left Vox on the issue, specifically Matthew Iglesias. [1]

Under policing of Black neighbourhoods [2]

[1] https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/2/13/18193661/h...

[2] https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-underpolicing-of-black-amer...
I also remember that. I had a WiMax dongle that I got when they first came out (Internet while commuting, how novel!), and it was very very fast. I was blown away. A few months later, the first WiMax phone came out (yeah...) and the network became completely unusable. Sprint actually ended up giving me a full refund, it failed that badly.
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It requires line of sight and doesn't work indoors.

It also can't be an alternative to cell networks since the antenna is huge and heavy compared to phones, requires LOS and needs to follow the satellites [1].

[1] https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0173/8204/7844/articles/GM...
Have you perhaps heard of "reform and opening up"? It started being a thing in the 1970s and every Chinese government since then has opened up more and more, because that's how they're getting rich.

The latest big move in that direction was the new Foreign Investment Law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_Investment_Law_of_the_... that went into effect this year, which introduced a bunch of big changes, such as switching from the previous system of "everything is off-limits to foreign investment unless explicitly allowed" to "everything is open to foreign investment unless explicitly forbidden". That list of restrictions http://images.mofcom.gov.cn/wzs/202006/20200624143734575.pdf already includes provisions for further opening in the future, such as removing the last restrictions on manufacturing passenger cars by 2022. (Special-purpose vehicles, electric cars and commercial vehicles are already exempt.)

If that doesn't demonstrate "intention of opening up", I don't know what would.

The only thing about China that hasn't changed seems to be Western commentators' knowledge of it.
I'm working my ass off so that I won't have to work on what other people want me to do. I want to create the changes I want to see in the world, but right now that's not economically possible without amassing capital.

If that amounts to me "parasitically" rent-seeking, then I'm sorry. I'm all in on that plan.
It's much easier to simply block payments to Starlink.

Can't use a service that you have no method of paying for...
Prob more a combination of IP address, user agent, iPhone model, plus prob some other device fingerprinting identifiers these ad trackers found
I don't see anything about that being a used key. On the contrary, it warns you it can only be activated once for one hardware combination.

Edit: those are usually MSDN or volume license keys that shouldn't be resold but will activate nevertheless. Reselling those may be legal only in the EU, but still, they're not used.
How do you define "hacker"?
Google/Facebook block those.
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I assume that this is the only internet connection where gravity plays a part in the up/down speeds!!! :)
Excessive tear gas usage in Portland may have polluted the water
maybe take a look at projectors. they have their downsides, mine is a bit noisy, but I got me a cheap one for less than $200, just to see if its a good idea. Covers half the living room wall with a screen. Is connected to a PC, I can use my bluetooth mouse and keyboard from the tv couch, which means i can surf, download stuff or watch streams without getting up. And, of course, no ads and no bullshit udates
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I've had decent success establishing in my workplace that I check email in batches a few times a day.

If you want me immediately, call me, message me, or walk over to me (well, pre-COVID, anyway).

I'm confident I'm not as distinguished or successful as Donald Knuth.
Sorry, I am failing to understand you. "Gives them power", who?
From https://www.ottoaviation.com/technology

"The design of the Celera fuselage takes advantage of an optimum length-to-width ratio to maximize laminar flow. These benefits will not scale for large jet transports and are therefore well suited for an aircraft like the Celera."
Finance, stock trading. Theoretically Starlink should eventually have lower latency than the optical cables under the Atlantic.
I bet you could make a DWM patch that does that... Do report back on how you get it done - thanks! :)
I'd imagine it could be hard if a company folds. No money to pay to keep servers running. No money to pay employees who know SQL to keep working.

Possibly, you could mandate that all software include a working self service data retrieval feature and fine the trust if they shut it off before a certain point in bankruptcy, but that seems heavy- handed and still won't work if there's no money in the accounts.
wavelets, sum of exponentials, fourier, ... I just mentioned polynomials because they are easiest. But people just jump into the NN bandwagon to get attention. Truth is that is just another tool, and a good engineer has to choose the best tool form the toolbox and not just pick the hammer everytime.
Have you tried a model F? They feel closer to a selectric than a model M / unicomp
I think this is a good place to have a look : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravitational_time_dilation

My assumption is that the place that this burst is coming from is near a very large, very dense mass.
I don't think it is possible or planned to use StarLink directly from a mobile phone.

You will need a ground station to communicate that isn't going to fit in a pocket.
What does cause it, some green-eco-pressure or a bare underbudget reason?
> essentially impossible to create paid content on the internet

Really? I see far more paywalls now than I did 5-10y ago
I was curious about this “Ursula N. Owen”, thinking perhaps she was an assistant of Knuth’s back in the 90s. It turns out that it’s a pseudonym sometimes used by Knuth himself, and is a reference to “U.N. Owen”, a character from And Then There Were None, a best-selling Agatha Christie novel first published in 1939 and one of the best-selling books of all time. The name “UN Owen” itself is a play on “unknown”, and I like to think of Donald chuckling to himself whenever he used that pseudonym.

From the postscript on https://ryanwaggoner.substack.com/p/could-you-delete-your-em...
What’s wrong with showing ads simply based on content a person is looking at?
At least its C FFI bindings story is much more pleasant than Rust's complicated swiss army knife of toggles and flags in bindgen.

The Rustaceans should be taking notes on this.
Fun fact: Samsung Galaxy devices have a physical e-fuse that will trip if you root it, thereby voiding any warranty. If there's any way around that, I'm all ears though!

My next phone purchase obviously won't be from Samsung. And that concludes my venting about it in this thread.
I recently started using garmin products, is there a way to opt out?
Damn the worse news is the source isn't accessible because BitBucket now doesn't support Mercurial repos... as of yesterday they're not accessible :scream!
A company I worked for tried to use Stripe but couldn't because they don't allow "fantasy sports leagues with cash prizes". They definitely aren't willing to make exceptions for everyone.
Am I the only one wondering why they used 40 computers, if the computation only lasted for 30 minutes? Does anyone who read the full paper jnow the reason? The article does not explain anything in that direction, but I would expect that if they could just do it on one computer and wait for two days, they would have done it...
This was written a while ago. Can we figure out how long ago?

Well, internet archive verifies it existed on the web in 1997.

https://web.archive.org/web/19970526031736/https://www-cs-fa...
Cantonese doesn't have an r phoneme, just l, and only initially. In casual speech, initial n and l are pronounced the same.
> I think car mechanics are also upset that years of driving cars have taught people so little on how a car works

To an extent I'm sure that dealing with customers that don't know their engine needs oil is tiring

On the other hand dealing with customers that don't know their engine needs oil is lucrative
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.NET Core isn't as feature rich as Java the GUI side, or supported platforms thought.

Almost anything with a CPU has some OEM shipping JVM implementations for them, while Microsoft focus only on the major desktop and mobile OSes (one of them with its own coffee brand).
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So I guess companies will now fill the entire global sky with thousands of sats just to make up for the fact that the US government ignores rural houses when it comes to digital infrastructure?

I'm sorry but how is 42Mbps worth spamming the entire nightsky with to the point that it prevent astronomers from obtaining useful data? Not even 10Mbps upload?

My inlaws live in a village in France that has 70 people total. It's 25min drive to a bakery, 45min drive to anything resembling a supermarket. I'd say it's rural.

They now have 16Mbps *DSL and are scheduled to get Fiber in 2021. Next village already has it.

But because the American government refuses to invest in infrastructure the rest of the planet just has to accept some American company is going to put 14,000 sats in low orbit?

Besides the progress this resembles I still think it's pretty strange the US government can greenlight this plan even though it has global implications.
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Isn't it down to the app developers though whether they allow the ID to be used to serve ads in their app (whether or not in practice there's a mechanism to do that, it's the app developer that's essentially choosing to use it by implementing ad networks and SDKs that use it, not Apple forcing it on them).
There's an option to hide stories - it also hides comments for those stories on the new comments page. That's the appropriate action to take for stories one simply doesn't want to see, if one cannot muster the intestinal fortitude to simply ignore them and move on.
Its in the app code, runs when you launch the app. I'm still not sure how this compromises me, but it does not feel right.
Wow, I had no idea about the dot operator. And TIL about `gd` (moves to the word's definition) and `gf` (for file imports) as well.
Real passive income does not exist, that's why I put it between quotes.

If you rent out an office building, like me, you have tenants, you have to do maintenance, you have risks.

I also have a Saas with clients that I want to keep happy by improving the service proactively. I have free websites with a lot of very useful information and a tasteful amount of ads. That requires work. For mee it's stress free work as I don't have many deadlines, but that was the goal.

I don't know why you think I'm a parasite. I am providing a service. If the users of that service are happy, then what is exactly is the problem?

By the way, I rebuilt the office building myself. It took over 2 years. It took all my evenings and weekends, it was funded by my own money and a small loan from a bank that I paid back. I also built the office I'm sitting in right now from the ground up. I even made the desk myself. I worked hard to get where I am and I enjoyed doing it.

I don't consider myself a parasite for choosing to focus on stress free work with recurring revenue. It's not easy. It's not lazy. It's a choice.
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There's a lot of active gear introducing delays between those ends. Pinging www.govt.nz, which is about 17000km from me and as close to the antipode as I can find in a quick search, pings at around 300 to 400ms, so only at about 15 to 20% of c.
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