skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
...wow.

(1) astronomers are pretty darn aware of everything going on, and it's really shocking as an astronomer to see these sorts of claims. There have been close collaborations with Space X to try to mitigate some issues, but these are partial mitigations and the most important ones are only planned, not implemented. The "successful" mitigations I think you're referring to is their "DarkSat" coating, which is not actually a successful mitigation. It is still ~2x as bright as the ~maximum level of acceptable brightness for e.g. LSST.

(2) Space-X did not release any details about brightness characteristics, and they themselves claim that they were "surprised" by the brightness. To people that work in space rather routinely, that is staggeringly incompetent.

(3) > why do most not know Starlink was never visible except at dawn or dusk

Near earth object (NEO) detection only happens during these times. NEO includes "asteroids that threaten human life" so I would hope you agree that this is pretty important. Also, depending on latitude and time of year, "dawn or dusk" can constitute your entire observing window. So this doesn't really make things better.

(4) all of these mitigations should be done before companies can start doing ~10,000 satellite launches. The only reason this isn't done is outdated legislation that never conceived of this being possible.
Using Go at Google
Is warning about using a product or blocking government officials from using it the same as the President unilaterally forcing them to be sold?
Is the hand writing correction any good? I really have to rely on this myself. My handwriting is very poor.
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But it was the financial institutions that fomented the current crisis, by creating risky products, encouraging excessive borrowing among consumers and engaging in high-risk behavior themselves, like amassing huge positions in mortgage-backed securities, Allen says.
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Which is probably a big reason why many economists weren't watching harder. If the banks are reporting things are fine while incentivizing bad loans on the down low then it's not especially surprising that a data driven field was caught offguard by tainted information.
Are we short some raw material or why do you mean it couldn't work?
Also lower is the number of transactions. The ratio stays the same.
Consider that an actual timeline is a better interface for chat history than an infinitely scrolling log.
Energy density matters greatly because cost is a function of the material you have to handle and the amount of facilities you need to build to generate the power in the first place.
I think you might have bad information. Go is not a systems programming language. You may be thinking of Rust? Go and C++ serve very different needs.
Try Trader Joe’s - they have similar corn & flour tortillas under their house brand.
Many antibiotics dont actually kill gram negative/positive bacteria, they merely prevent them from reproducing. Now if you want to kill bacteria, look to Russian phages, or swallow some sea water where a 1ml sample will contain billions of phages but its pot luck if any of them are right one's you need for your bacterial infection. One other little know fact about antibiotics, is the penicillin based one's get metabolised in the liver into penicillamine which is used to reduce copper levels in the body and ironically copper also helps to kill bacteria.
https://www.nature.com/articles/151107a0
Considering what Penicillamine does to the body and how it affects Vit B6, you can see why you get pain in different parts of the body when you take too much Vit B6, however its also a good way to find out where bacterial levels are high in the body, dental fillings can be a common area.
Creatine gets broken down into creatinine and happens to be one of the few things that can kill both gram negative and gram positive bacteria, of course you need to consume a lot of it though, but havent worked out why we get told to not consume creatine for more than a few weeks though. Anyone know?
I often got email addressed to Prof. Hosek or Dr. Hosek when I was in undergrad courtesy of my activity in the TeX world. I don't think I've gotten any such misattribution once after actually getting a degree, even when I was teaching college as an adjunct.
Larry has been reading some very reputable stoke-the-racial-fear blogs!
Why WAF Isn't Enough Against Third-Party Website Attacks?
Well, you might be using the best web application firewall (WAF) solution to secure your website, but the risk of a third-party web breach is all over. Your website is still exposed to Magecart type attacks, web-skimming and client-side risks that cannot be detected.
Sounds like something else is going on. There shouldn't be much difference between the amount of water flowing into and out of a hydro dam.
It's also important to note that TikTok is one of the first platforms where young people expect the platform to curate globally-trending content for them. This is a stark contrast to the algorithm-driven news feeds and hands-off trending-sections of most other social media, and it opens the doors to thinking about TikTok the way one would think about a traditional media and advertising play, albeit one executed with significantly more sh$tposting. MSFT, especially post-Ballmer, is full of smart and agile-minded and empowered people who can understand this.
I think that's an example of a system where the performance demands weren't high enough to justify using C++. There are lots and lots of applications where the overall architecture can't take advantage of the speed of C++, but I think there's no question that the peak performance of C++ far outshines the abilities of Go.

Taking an example from the article, parts of Google's indexing pipeline are now in Go, but nobody is suggesting that the search engine would be.
It's success is in part because of that, not despite it. Contrast with Python3, which alienated masses of users by making breaking language changes.
Cascading payments might be the real answer, and shuffling higher risk charges to non-Stripe providers, but in my experience, Stripe can get pretty moralizing pretty quickly.

We built an adult ecommerce site (purely toys for purchase, no porn) and because other adult toy sites had been successful on Stripe, Stripe assured us this wouldn't be a problem.

Six months and several million dollars processed later, Stripe informs us we're going to be deplatformed because Wells Fargo (their banking partner) had reviewed our account (apparently because of its volume) and determined we violated their standards because of the nature of the toys.

We did a bit of back and forth where Stripe suggested we alter the colors available (seriously) to assuage Wells Fargo's puritanical concerns, and Stripe insisted it wasn't _their_ moralizing, but rather Wells Fargo (paragons of fucking virtue as they are), but we weren't willing to compromise on the nature of our product or have our product's options or colors dictated to us by one of the most corrupt banks on the planet.

We ended up deplatforming and moving to a high-risk processor who was willing to match our competitive Stripe rate. That processor sucks and their fraud protections are weak and their interface is garbage, but they're not telling us how to run our business.

Was mostly disappointed that we went through an arduous review process with Stripe beforehand and received assurances we'd be fine since our chargeback rate is insanely low and we ship actual physical product and have no nudity on our site, but alas.
> may spook some people

Right. I think the word "hacked" feels more aggressive and even scary than something like "This printer is vulnerable. We are security researchers but it could be real hackers. Here is how to secure it..."

It definitely draws attention, but in a very uncomfortable way.

It's even worse for people who do not speak English. As a Russian, I guess "hacker/hacked" is recognizable in a lot of non-English speaking societies, but other parts of the printed page are less so. So it definitely can unnecessarily spook some of those people until they find a way to understand the entire message.
Sorry, in my mind I must have misread WebForms as WinForms... I stopped using WebForms really early on, some monorail or ashx, and then mvc. The performance and state overhead for webforms was really bad imo.
Here you go, save yourself $590

https://www.amazon.com/Cimetech-Electronic-Scribble-Erasable...

You're welcome.
> deliberate policy decisions to under-invest in those communities

You're missing or ignoring the fact that government is funded by economic activity. The government invests in protecting the revenues streams that allows it to continue to operate with surplus and those communities that don't provide much if any revenue benefit disproportionately relative to how much they contribute to funding the government they rely on for help.

What you're proposing is to divert dollars from activity that creates the very surplus that affords the government the budget to help those that can't help themselves.

Pretty much all countries cannot provide even a fraction of the support the US is able to provide to its disadvantaged communities. This is largely due to the fact that our government makes the smart decision to protect its cash cows. We have so much surplus that we're actually able to provide to many disadvantaged and advantaged communities beyond our own borders.

We can of course debate the particulars of how much goes to protect the cash cows and how much goes to the communities less capable of contributing, but what's not up for debate is that the optimal solution we should both be solving for is the one that creates the greatest surplus.

Many of these poorer communities are often better prepared than the cities where well off people are. During Katrina, much of the support rendered came from people outside the city that are self-reliant. They even had a name for these people, the Cajun Navy and they did far more to help the poor people in New Orleans than the rich people in New Orleans.

So I ask you again, as someone who is a director of engineering at a tech company in one of richest zip codes in the country, what have you done to prepare to help both yourself and others within your community that are more vulnerable such as the poor, elderly and infirm? Or will you be another helpless victim adding to the burden that FEMA responders will have to attend to?
Awesome. Keep it up and I look forward to seeing the feature roll out over the coming months!
https://go.dev/solutions#case-studies

Link from the article

Honestly, it's not breaking news that Go is used heavily outside Google.
Thanks for that explanation.

What would be even more useful is an actual answer to the underlying question the OP seems to be making: how much further until one of the many dimensions you are talking about simply runs out of Si atoms?

In other words, however "made-up" the 3nm marketing number may be, physics limits should still dictate a lower bound for it, and the OP seems to be wondering what that is.
It's a tough issue because it's hard to give the Chinese government credit for lack of evidence when they're not letting journalists in in the first place.

I looked into it a year ago and the strongest evidence I found at that point was two dudes drove around and took pictures of a bunch of facilities that looked like re-education camps. They guesstimated 100k-1M, one news article wrote "a million", then the rest of them started writing "millions", and hacker news commenters write "genocide".
Will probably be downvoted like crazy but it's insane that the US would allow TikTok to operate in the US when China doesn't allow most US apps to be used at all.

If the Chinese want equal access to US markets they need to cooperate too.
All music is at 3AM. We're halfway there!
No, I’m not an analyst who crunches those numbers. But it’s worth highlighting that Ontario didn’t find it worth building more reactors, even with all of the necessary infrastructure in place and plenty of public support for the nuclear industry. And in the 10 years since then, renewables have only gotten cheaper.

How about asking what conditions would be needed in a different country to make new reactors much more feasible than in Ontario?
Firefox Quantum made it so that extensions can't hide the tabs on top. It can only be done manually, by making and editing a userChrome.css file.

https://superuser.com/questions/1268732/how-to-hide-tab-bar-...
It's a shame indeed. Then again we are a pretty small market with arbitrary customs screening at border.

I usually ask one of my friends to get similar products when they visit India but with the pandemic, it doesn't look like it'll happen for a year.
This is also the difference between fuel cells and batteries in the road to electrification
> Imagine being able to see live video, or AI enhanced video (movement detection, etc). A lot more bandwidth will open up many areas for innovation.

For what benefit?

> Imagine being able to get real-time data of patients being transported in planes or ground vehicles.

This is a very niche use case.

> But there is not much data about wind patterns, directions, barometric pressure, etc. Satellites can observe on a macro level. If you can combine that with micro level ground data, perhaps predictions for weather would be more accurate.

I'm sorry but this is incredibly ignorant. There's a huge volume of data that's fed into several global weather modeling supercomputers continuously. That's literally where the weather forecasts on your tv come from.

> Perhaps, but periodic photos, would be possible, and that would be enough for many innovations.

You still aren't getting it. There are fundamental physical limits to image resolution based on the size of the optics. You'd have trouble resolving individual creatures even with a telescope the scale of Hubble/KeyHole. Starlink changes nothing about this.

> However, this is different because there are billions being spent to send actual satellites to space.

The hype is people speculating on applications like the above that are entirely implausible and unrealistic. It's on the same scale as thinking the next Tesla is going to be a flying delorian with fusion power.

> But Imagine if you could have one.

But you just aren't fantasizing, you're claiming these fantasies will become real in the short term without understanding the limitations that preclude them.

> Would it be too far fetched to think that those can be shrunk down, perhaps to the size of a suitcase or a backpack?

Yes, it is too far fetched. You cannot shrink a wavelength. In addition, starlink's design requires the transmission/received lobes have a certain maximum beam width. The global capacity of the system depends on this parameter. That means they need phased arrays of a certain minimum size in terms of array area and number of array elements to meet their specs.

> But, when the iPhone was made, the app store, as a concept was at best, a theoretical idea in Jobs' mind.

There were examples of app stores before iPhone. That wasn't a unique new concept.
Scroll bars have always been a compromise. Today, I have a 4K monitor connected to a 2K laptop with a USB-C port for yet another big monitor or more. I can span a window across 3 big monitors, and still the horizontal scroll bar appears because of the platform agnostic attitude of "good enough."

Up until Android and iOS mostly phones and tablets, we had a monoculture Intel and Windows. Windows is still almost 90% of actual laptop/desktop users. [1]

I am an ex-Mac developer. I do not have a modern Mac, I do not have an iPhone, and I set the date/time format to pretty much whatever I want on Linux, Windows, and 15 year old Mac OS X. And, I just have to deal with broken date/time interfaces on the web. For far too long, I would go along with the Intel / Windows developer monoculture of "good enough" software, and comments like Mac? Linux? What's that?

[1] https://www.netmarketshare.com/operating-system-market-share...
It is a bit absurd to think of the financial consequences of that. More money chabged hands than the GDP of many countries in that divorce
> Yes, it is possible for data workflows to post-process these streaks away, but not all configurations allow this, and whereas previous intrusions were somewhat rare and could be ignored that simply won't be the case due to three companies from one country.

Not to mention there will be far fewer non-processed photos. Most people won't care, but it just seems like nothing we see anymore is real.
Not just radio astronomy but any other type of research astronomy. Astrophotography has different goals. If you want a good picture, this isn't a huge deal. If you're measuring pixel-level brightnesses using state of the art equipment, the story is completely different. The "fear mongering" you state is not fear mongering, it's an illustration of just how much of a research image is ruined by these tracks.
This is a silly hill to die on. Did you complain(or would you have complained) when tax dollars were building space probes, meanwhile people are starving to death on earth?

"Won't somebody please think of the astronomers!" is a moral panic that I just can't get behind.

Astronomy is great. But world-spanning wireless internet is great too. If 5% of astronomical observations get messed up because 100% of people can now have access to the internet, then that is just a big shrug from me.
> In the past year, we’ve posted sixteen case studies from end users around the world talking about how they use Go to build fast, reliable, and efficient software at scale.

Click on the link about the "sixteen case studies" and you'll see the rest.
Space X will need a license in each country/regulation to provide their service there. They will probably employ some geofencing or similar to comply.
This is a lot more complicated than renewables/unrenewables. For example, hydroelectric power is almost the exact opposite of this. Geothermal, on the other hand, gives you a stable energy source, until it doesn't.

Also, the grid doesn't use power evenly, but nuclear power (like geothermal) produces very even output so the US & Canada have agreements where Canada supplies excess hydro power during the day and then buys back cheap nuclear power at night.

Of course, wind & solar are very intermittent, an many places don't have easy access to hydroelectric power, so this is certainly true in some places.
I think Walmart is making an honest investment in tech. They have some solid open source tools (Hapi.js, Electrode) and they have Walmart Labs / Kosmix.

Now potentially acquiring tiktok.
AzureFunBytes Episode 12 – IaC, HashiCorp Terraform, and Azure ARM Templates
Are you counting the recessions caused by central banking policies being mistaken or outright wrong? There have been at least two in the USA in the past century that can be directly linked to the Federal Reserve, and who knows how many in other countries.

In the USA the two are the Great Depression (which the former Fed chief Ben Bernanke has argued was largely the result of Fed policies) and the early 1980s recession caused by the Fed increasing rates in an attempt to combat inflation. (It worked, inflation dropped, but many people lost their jobs.)
I am not sure how the kind of videos that do well on Tiktok will do on Youtube. Tiktok video seems to be the 10-30 second entertainment ones. Youtube by its very nature has a whole breadth of other content. Their recommendation can be certainly improved though.
CTO and VP Engineering: Needed or Redundant?
So does coding bots to do the long work for you count as hard work or long work? Because that's the kind of work I've always preferred.
I agree. But the key is going to be that you can't easily classify most microbes as "good" or "bad" without talking about the host factors (genetic, diet, etc).

Uropathogenic E. coli are a good example of this:

Bacterial virulence phenotypes of Escherichia coli and host susceptibility determines risk for urinary tract infections
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5653229/

One size doesn't fit all: unraveling the diversity of factors and interactions that drive E. coli urovirulence
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28217693/
"Never trust summary statistics" is a misnomer. Data is lost in the creation of summary statistics, that's basically a tautology. His example could look like a fuzzy line, or a dino, or a cross, or anything else. These facts don't refute the usefulness of summary statistics, however. At issue here is the competency and good faith of the ANALYST.

If the summary statistics are chosen and presented in a way that is useful, in context, and not misleading, then there is nothing wrong with omitting the full data visualization. If some of these pieces are missing though, then yeah, check the data.
In addition to what the rest of the comments are saying: if you're talking about front-end Javascript, take the time to really learn the devtools in your browser of choice (personally I'd recommend Chrome or Chromium, but I'll grant that I don't have a whole lot of experience with Firefox.) It's basically an entire IDE right there waiting for you to use. (With a little bit of futzing, you can even use the Chrome devtools as a debugger for Node.JS, which absolutely blew my mind when I first gave it a shot.)
Go is pretty well optimized, for a garbage collected language, though of course it doesn't match up to a language without garbage collection. But much investment has been made in fast compile time and runtime simplicity, at the expense of some remaining potential performance gains.

While Java is generally slow, that's more the fault of Java developers and their FooDangleProviderModuleBuilderBuilderFactories. Due to runtime optimization Java can be nearly as performant as non-GC languages. In principle there are even scenarios where it can exceed the performance of any ahead of time compiled language.
>I think people in the SV/HN bubble play the "what about the elderly?" card too often, because we're afraid to admit that we, too, don't know how stuff works anymore.

Perhaps but even when I don't know how an app works I can usually figure it out, either by trying different things or just googling. Older generations tend to be afraid of "breaking" the device and avoid doing anything they dont already know.
Economics isn't about making some projection like "GDP number going down so will go down more!" Current behavior contradicts this outright. Economists are broadly warning against being too optimistic about interpreting the current upward trend as meaning that a speedy and full recovery, without any economic damage, is inevitable.

There are many ideas and models about economic shocks and recessions that had important predictive value in demonstrating how this recession unfolded. It's not like this is something beyond understanding when you can compare the actions other countries took compared to the US.
nm unit is not particularly telling us anything.

Watt/TeraFlop is a much more tangible way to understand why this is cool.
Green threads without explicit language syntax for yielding - called goroutines influenced similar features in Kotlin. Unfortunately Kotlin is bound to working inside JVM and had to introduce “suspend” keyword.

This is a friendlier world to work in than explicit green threads using keywords like async/await in other languages (Dart, Rust, JS)
I have the current version, and between my Kindle and iPad Pro and spending 10 hours per day in front of my laptop I don't use it as much.

However, there is no better device on this planet for reading long-form PDF documents, research papers, or scans of textbooks. It wins. I wish the annotations were more useful (they're sort of kept a separate layer) but the reading experience is great.

Andy Matuschak has some good notes on the current version here too:

https://notes.andymatuschak.org/reMarkable
TSM will build a factory in the USA: https://time.com/5837274/tsm-chip-plant-arizona/
lol, and im pretty sure YT separated from google would be operating at a profit defecate
We've decided to do nothing. Discussing the price of doing something is pointless.