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> I think that our community's equivalent of "where's my flying car?" is "where's my higher-level language?"

Ηelicopters are flying cars and they are everywhere for you to use. But some people prefer to use a bicycle to commute to work, rather than an helicopter. I'd even say that most people would prefer to take a bicycle every day than an helicopter.

The same thing with lower level languages. Sometimes you do not want to be burdened by the limitations of a "high-level" language.
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It goes all the way back to The Communist Manifesto. These are old ideas that have just been recast through a new lens. Conflict Theory just takes on new forms from one based on class (made sense at the time) to one based on so called “identity” which makes sense in a multicultural country.

In the end these ideas are illiberal and it is my hope they wither away after enough people are able to look past the facade and the tyrannical machinery is exposed. And then maybe some of these orgs can grow into something that’s actually useful.
Aren't payers of literal actual "rent" on a property gaining value from it, otherwise they wouldn't be paying rent on it anymore?
How do you get results, and what kind of results have you got from bugging manufacturers? Genuinely curious.
A BLM protest in East Europe looks partially ridiculous to me, the amount of black people in those countries and the police brutality is almost null. It is more an US problem.

In those countries there are more important issues to protest about, like what is happening in Belarus, and unfortunately is something that doesn't have the same news impact as the BLM protests.
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Can you move the shutter in front of the receiver when you know a satellite will transit?
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Thanks for the kind words! I’m glad you enjoy it!
I don't think so, not even comment that won't be possible.
Disney fools your brain to make lines feel magically short
You point to saying that 2% is a small part of an image as a sign of arrogance? Isn't it a small part of an image?
Could be a tidal lock of a pulsar around a black hole. We only get the milisecond because the black hole is obscuring the burst pointing to us. Otherwise the beam is not pointed at us.

(P)--->---- ( BH ) ----> ( Solar System )
"Dylan might want to buy this jacket" transmits a lot less information than "Dylan skis, Dylan lives in zip code XYZ where he might not own a jacket naturally, Dylan's household income range is M, and Dylan was looking at ski vacation packages".
Ok... lifting body, clean efficient wing, rear-mounted propeller to avoid disturbing the laminar flow - I get all of that. But what are the two gizmos mounted on the top of the fuselage between wing and tail? They look a bit big to just be the air intake for the engine?!
> My worry is that these personal assistants will all be provided "free" by giant companies and hosted in the cloud so I won't want to use them.

That's all but guaranteed if it's any time in the next decade or so.
From the blameful-postmortem:

Q. Why did we click `Send $900M?`
A. Not sure. Tom felt all clicky-clicky, so he clicked it.

Q. Why did we hire Tom?
A. Also not sure. [Action Item: Fire Tom]
Daskeyboard, like most mechanical keyboard makers, uses plastic cherry mx keyswitches or the generic chinese cherry clones. Those will feel nothing remotely like either a selectric or a good mechanical keyboard such as a model F/M. The person who wrote that article has no idea what he's talking about.
Because the government will close your bank accounts if they discover you are making money off pornography.

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/pa8xy9/is-the-doj-forcing...
No, they are apologetic towards their customers.
Put it in a (plastic) box shaped like something else?

"Yeah, that's my 'compost bin'"
I would follow Scala's lead and use square brackets [] for generics.
Presumably air intake and exhaust for the piston engine.
Similar age to you (40) and I've noticed as I've gotten older that distractions are vastly more costly for me.

Til recently I was in an open office, gone 100% remote again (new role starts in a few weeks) and beyond working in an environment I control the thing I am most looking forwards to is the ability to control the distractions and environment (other than the furry ninja's at least).
Doing some non-productive things in your life does not mean at all that you are a parasite.

But if, at the end of your life, your contribution has been grossly negative, then I guess that you have been.

Listen, I don't even think that being a small-scale parasite is a morally horrendous thing. If you are happy, that's OK, you are not really hurting anybody. I'm just very sad that all of our cities are teeming with large-scale ones!
I could not agree more!
45K people die and what is the % that die from autopiloting vs. drivers in situations where they could be autopiloting?
I think you do get this argument and we're actually saying pretty much the same thing.

I'm saying people shouldn't look at this decision as "Apple has our interests in mind" but rather "in this particular case Apple's self interested is aligned with our own because of their business model".
typo: "Email would probably..." ;)
The government enforces copyright law, which is an economic rent given to holders of copyrights.
But are all villages in France like that? I doubt it.

Even in Norway there are thousands of people without access to sufficiently fast broadband, and some 80k DSL customers who apparently will never get fiber at all. The proposed solution for the latter is to use 4G/5G, which comes with its own issues of course.

I'd say even in well developed countries, Starlink is a nice option to have. As I understand it, the 42Mbps they see now is only going to improve as well.
You're right, the "+"-icon is on the bottom (which is even worse). I
got it confused with closing a tab, the tab-list starts in the middle of
the screen.
This isn't about being able to afford infrastructure. It's about population density in rural areas.

North America and Australia (where I'm from) have the exact same issue. No country is going to spend a million bucks to lay fiber to ten person towns in the middle of nowhere.
> So I guess HN doesn't like being called out on

Except they could have been referring to the continent. "some of the places" could refer to different places in different African countries, hence "some"; and doesn't imply all, everywhere, or "forever" in Africa.
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The readout time for astronomy CCDs is typically between 2 and 30s (going faster produces more noise), so there is a lower limit on how short you can make exposures.

In LEO the apparent movement of satellites is around 3.6 arcmin per second, which means for an average sized detector that covers maybe 20 arcmin it takes about 6s to produce a streak that covers the full length of the detector (bit longer depending on the angle).
If you want it to cover less than 50% of the length of the detector you have to limit your exposure time to under 3s, which means your duty cycle will be between 60% (if you have a fast camera) and 10%(!).

And that's without even considering the loss of sensitivity you incur, because each image will have lower signal to noise since even with those long readout time the readout noise is still significant.
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If your inlaws weren't scheduled to get an upgrade to fibre and were instead cut off from the world due to costs of servicing remote areas would this comment be different in any way?

It's a _big_ world.
Killing non-privacy-friendly ads is a great way to open up that market.
Somewhere in your company hiring queue is a resume with:

Strengths: Architecting risk management systems

Weaknesses: Sometimes I click on things to see what happens
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEIUdMiColU is an animation of how it's supposed to work, including latencies

There are enough satelites and low enough routing on the lasers to mean packets will arrive from London to NY faster than even a great-circle fibre.

In reality how much bandwidth is available is a function of money, and HFTs tend to have a lot of money.
I went as far a building my own router out of an ARM box and denying all traffic going to known update servers. I’m now adding auto-detection of update-looking DNS lookups and denying those too.

Ironically, I’m keeping the router’s software up to date though. Security is important. But it’s linux, I can always roll back.
Light pollution is global, while a satellite streak is localised to a part of an image. These are not the same problem.
I'm looking for a way to have a key press becoming a repeated key press (for example 'a' producing 'a' every 150 ms). Is that possible with this software? I'm able to do it with AutoHotKey, but I'm unable to get it to work in Wine.
We're not talking about user interfaces. It's what the user interface calls.
If you work your ass off and you change the world for the better, nobody is saying that you are a parasite.
Well, it looks like enough of us either can't figure out how to attach the TV to the internet, or just don't bother (like me) to the point that -- like with ad blockers -- TV manufacturers are routing around the problem. That they would subsidize a 5G cell connection in order to get direct access to your TV should be seriously concerning. But it won't be, and cries to Congress to block this sort of thing will be met with a big infusion of campaign contributions, and we'll just all have to live with it.
The % of security fixes vs speed ui improvements is 100 to 1. Very rarely do we get issues that require forced updates that a once a year limit on these types of updates would be ideal.
Most big companies uses it for their internal applications. Most of them contract external consultant or companies to develop and maintain these applications. So thousands of consultancies also uses it. These consultancies also integrate a lot of 3rd party commercial components. The component development companies that develops components also uses .net.

How many startups that uses it? Probably not as many as there ought to be and definitely not enough if you ask Microsoft.
To monopolize breach of privacy*

It's laughable at best that anyone would believe Apple isn't continuing to make use of their massive personal information collection to appease their partners, "official" and "unofficial".
[Off-topic] In the Mass Effect games series, Geth (a synthetic race) warships don't have windows as they are considered a structural weakness. In the game, there are some interesting conversations based on that.
> only very few hospitals are even equipped for remote surgery even in the West, let alone underdeveloped countries...

You're talking about today, which is the lowest potential time scenario. How about the time frame of 15-20 years from now? It'll take years just to fully build out Starlink's constellation, then many more years to fully spread its use. Remote surgery will continue to expand, becoming increasingly common, and the prices will come down. As that process unfolds, you will increasingly see the major robotic-assisted surgery companies donate (or otherwise massively subsidize) equipment to poorer nations, exactly as is done with very expensive drugs now. Also, while today robotic-assisted surgery costs are very high (dominated by companies like Intuitive or Stryker), China and others will eventually fully knock down that door and flood the market with lower cost systems that are 85% good enough and will become very widely used.

It's also more likely that it'll be highly skilled doctors in one less developed nation doing work in another less developed nation. That will help keep the costs down more than the parent's example. US doctors will likely do most of their remote work within the US (other than charitable work), where they can command far higher fees.
Well Roku/NowTv did the same to me - "upgraded" my box to remove functionality, namely side-loading an app, which was the only reason I bought it. We were paying for a monthly subscription and I used the box for viewing photos from my PC and format-shifted movies (which was lawful in UK at the time AFAIAA; but isn't now).

I'm not buying hardware from them if they countenance unlawfully (contravenes UK Computer Misuse Act) accessing my device and removing functionality.

Buyer beware.

Anyway, we switched to FireTv - the same app I was side-loading was in the app store, tried Netflix, it's good enough.

Honestly I don't know how much Roku were involved in the process of crippling my STB, but there are other companies so I'm just going to avoid them.
Eventually everyone is going to get connected, yes.

I mean someone in Norway also had to draw a powerline to these people, to use electricity. Why not draw a fiber link, too? It's just part of infrastructure.

I'm not saying that Starlink isn't useful. I'm just really wondering what the implications for astronomy are going to be, whether we will always see these things at dusk.

Now it's Starlink, but what if 3 or 4 companies in total want to have a network? What if on top of that China and India want their own, just like GPS?

It just seems we're running head first into this without anyone thinking of the implications or governance of it.
Do you mean when the mortal clients of the banks are doing them, or when the banks are doing them?

I imagine bank CEOs know each other and can even call each other and say "Oh sorry old chap, that was a mistake!".
It is a small part of an image, but that does not mean it's not a significant disturbance.

Think for instance about CO2 levels. Is it such a big deal if they reach 1% of the atmosphere? It's only a small part after all.
On the flip side, why should the majority of us in denser areas in the US subsidize people who want to live in exurbs/rural areas? If you want to live in a place like that, be prepared to pay the cost for the infrastructure.

We already pay enough subsidies for roads, water, power, etc in rural/exurban areas.
Arrgh, my brain ate up the middle sentence - I meant to say:

"women (and more generally, marginalised people) face hate for who they are."
You didn't say it's small, you said it's "trivial". This isn't about people taking pretty pictures, this is about people trying to do actual work. It doesn't matter if it's 1% or 100% if it still ruins what they're working on. So yes, you're being arrogant by saying that just because it's a "trivial" amount that's ruined, when you don't understand what they're doing.
If you make your own chipsets and processor.
Seems there's enough of these kind of trolls on HN too for this to get flagged. Maybe even some of the same people.
Yes. Unfortunately none of the Standard and Browser Vendor has any interest in improving it.
Some things only happen once.
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People who fly privately don't need to go through any checks ?
There was a big discussion a month ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23926699

In a comment by vilhelm_s in the previous thread has a link to a site that explain that the usual software can select correct the parts of the images and create a nice image https://skyandtelescope.org/astronomy-blogs/imaging-foundati...
What a horribly pretentious rule. And the commonality of these annoyances are only compounded by this capitulation to poor design.

Luckily, there is no rule forbidding complaining about rules.
That's a nice visual disguise but it doesn't do much to help when someone with radio direction finding gear starts looking for unauthorized transmitters on the frequency it operates on.
That would be nice, if the reason was slow packages so it would correlate with The problem at hand.

People are mentioning serious delays in mails, barely about packages.
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Under "Caveats":

> There are limitations to TF-Coder. It can currently find solutions involving 3-4 operations within a minute of searching, but solutions involving 6 or more operations are too complex to find in a reasonable amount of time. Furthermore, TF-Coder currently does not support complex or string tensors, or RaggedTensors. The full list of supported operations can be found in the Colab notebook.
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Firefox on mobile a few days ago.

We developed an extension for client, as part of a solution. Now it doesn't work on most of clients phones anymore, Client is quite upset (we told him this might happen, but he is still upset and wants us to fix it, we still haven't found a robust solution that wouldn't be either total rewrite or side loading old unsupported browser)
Sure. And for small field of view things that might be the future.
But if you are looking at large chunks of the sky at some point with enough satellites the shutter will have to stay shut for the whole duration of the exposure.. so not really a good solution for that.
Huh. My nearest land antipode (from Boston, MA, USA) is Perth, and I get about 150ms ping to there. Regardless, even 400 ms is a far cry from 2000 ms.
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It's quite a common surname in Suffolk, England, and is from Old Norse. It would be odd as a first name, though.
Some background: I'm a professional programmer since 2005, let me say I'm a full-stack, but I don't really like the definition.

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

There's no "realisation" IMHO. It's like when you can barely swim and someone throws you in deep waters: you can swim, but you won't feel safe for a while. You apply for a job and if hired, you simply feel inadequate for a while. Then after a while everything looks ok and manageable. Until you change your job and start again. Happened to me every time I moved to a new job, it's pretty normal.

> 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.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impostor_syndrome welcome onboard!

> 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?

It depends. The era of the solitary uber-nerd is gone. Find a spot where you feel comfortable, try to join (virtual, with COVID) communities...

> 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)?

Don't label yourself. You're a frontend developer... Companies usually expects you can work with a lot of stuff... Practice interviewing is the only suggestion I can give you... Then, again, look at my first answer...

> 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.

Good for you, CS and math concepts are universal, so go for them.

> I have attached my Github here: https://github.com/tpkahlon, in case someone wants to review my GitHub and personal projects.

Looks fine to me for someone at your level. I would start by adding tests to your projects and a travis ci build running them :)
What's 'storage fruit'? dried fruit? canned fruit?
Energy isn’t going to get cheaper and neither is the environmental impact of consuming lots of it.
For those looking for more retro computer restoration, check out the 8-bit guy

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8uT9cgJorJPWu7ITLGo9Ww
AE = Artificial Excuses!
It's an interesting idea. The funny thing is that in the event of a civilization collapse, it might be way easier to find quad cores CPUs and 8 GB RAM modules than antic pieces.
Very interesting.

The article mentions, that the exemption only applies when archivist legally have the source code for the game (usually provided by the original entity that created it).

What are some examples of companies providing the source code to projects? I'd like to support those companies buy purchasing their other products if possible
> My worry is that these personal assistants will all be provided "free" by giant companies and hosted in the cloud so I won't want to use them.

My worry is built on your worry; I worry that people won't even think of using their self control to say no to this, but will wait breathless for some third party to save them from their own bad decisions.
Already being done with existing satellite services.

Starlink is cool and al, but satellite internet isn't new. Both forestry, mining and farming is utilising existing satellite services for monitoring and operations.

Starlink is better than all existing services, but with some drawbacks. Like it will be really expensive to provide service in really remote areas until sat to sat relay is possible as there must be a ground station within 500 km radius of the satellite. This means that to provide service in the Amazonas SpaceX will have to build ground stations in the Amazonas. To provide service in the Pacific and Atlantic SpaceX will have to deploy several floating ground stations in the middle of the oceans.

Again, not taking anything away from Space X. Starlink is really cool and will be a wake up call for the satcom industry, but satcom is not a new thing and Starlink have significant drawbacks for the time being.
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> Your link describes a failure of SpaceX's internal ticketing system which resulted in ESA thinking that SpaceX were ignoring them.

I'm not saying they are anti-space telescope. I'm saying I'm seeing little evidence they want to play nice with other people who have a stake in space. I have seen mostly evidence to the contrary.

Regarding that particular incident; ESA's (way larger) satellite had that orbit / trajectory for quite a while before SpaceX decided to enter it's path. SpaceX should never have created that situation to begin with. And when the situation was created (for whatever reason) SpaceX should have manoeuvred their satellite out of the way without requiring ESA intervention to begin with. And then when ESA had to ask they should have responded. That can't all be blamed on a faulty ticket system...
It's almost a perfect drop-'n-work service. Just needs Discord things patched out. It's a bit creepy how tightly they embrace, defend and push it.
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It seems to me that mathematical objects are often more abstract than data structures are required to be. For example, you can reason about a triangle without specifying how you would represent it. You could represent a triangle as a list of three points, or as a list of side lengths and angles or even a list of angles which forces you to reason about the class of similar triangles with those angles. In fact, to represent certain algebraic structures is an entire subfield of algebra (representation theory) distinct from the parts of algebra that reason about those structures without trying to represent them.