skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Where do you live? (I'm Italian as well). Mobile connections aside, there are some vendors who would reach you through WiFi if you're in line of sight with any of their repeaters. (eolo.it and alternatyva.it came to mind, but there are others). In 2009 I brought a whoppy 4DL/4UL connection (with a really low latency excellent for online gaming) to a house in a rural area where the only available option would have been a 57k analog modem. Now there are much faster solutions.

Also, don't trust the national provider Telecom Italia. Before finding that solution, we pestered them with requests to cover that area, and their canned response has always been "we're working on it", while actually they were waiting for more people to move in that area so that it would have been more convenient for them.
Ask HN: How to make zoom classes more interactive?
I'm teaching a data science class at a non-profit and due to corona, it'll be virtual. I've been looking for some ways to make the class more interactive and not me just talking to blank faces for 2hrs.

I've used https://www.polleverywhere.com/ before, but I'm afraid I'll go beyond their free plan.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!
Really, am I the only person here who can't understand the complaints on hiding scrollbars? I do agree with a lot of things that resonates HN, but this is one thing that I have never understood.

Stop complaining about discoverability, everyone that knows how to browse the web knows how to scroll. It's like worrying whether the user will know how to use a mouse when you're designing a web page. Scrolling is not something like shortcuts or tabs - you need it to move around, which means you get to know it as soon as you start your computer and after the first knowing phase it's visual clutter.

Also, I would like to ask whether users will usually even want to click on the scrollbar to move around. Unless the small number of cases where the page is long and you want to move around quickly (and if you have ever been in that case, you know that even there using the scrollbar is pretty useless because it's too sensitive - you are usually less precise when you use a scrollbar, not more), there's virtually no reason to click it. Computer screen estate is precious because not everyone is using a 27-inch display (13-inch display here), so that's a pretty big reason to hide the scrollbar.
Something like 45% of the world's people don't have internet access right now, so that number would be billions, rather than millions.

Also, Starlink doesn't have to be too costly for them. The constellation's operating costs could potentially be fully paid by North American and European users. The satellites would still incidentally fly over the southern hemisphere, and any revenue at all from Africa/South America/Asia would mostly just add to Starlinks bottom line profit. The marginal cost of additional users should be minimal once general revenue targets are met.

I'd like to hear whether the throughput will increase with additional satellites, or whether it requires re-designs. I wouldn't expect the current satellites to be saturated with users by the currently "limited" number of beta test users.

Cost of end-user terminals also will likely have to come down significantly before the worlds poorest would have any access. Although sharing the cost of that among a large group would help, it would also help a lot if the speeds were actually closer to gigabit for sharing the connection.
Zig already has generics, gp was imprecise. They are not a part of the language, but an emergent feature that is simple enough to implement using comptime.

Edit: clearly gp was not mistaken, just imprecise.
I would very much want a way to toggle scroll bars on and of within the browser, eg a Toolbar button that I can add through an extension.

The fact that I can only toggle it at an OS level is pretty bad. I love the invisible scroll bars and I would prefer to have them in all apps I use myself, but I do respect the platforms and users who have visible ones, but I shouldn’t have to choose between my own user experience and testing for their user experience
He repeatedly mentions Arabic as the local language instead of the various Turkic languages of the region, indicating that he most likely doesn't speak any of them, so he probably didn't have much interaction with less-educated people, who'd be the major targets of forced Mandarin education etc. So when he talks about people feeling safer now, is that representative of everyone in Xinjiang or just the people he chose to associate with?

It's not unlike a European visiting the US when they were busy killing natives and enslaving blacks, but being thoroughly enamored by their egalitarian democracy.
Because it's presenting a very blatant false dilemma:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_dilemma

It could have not been on purpose, but it doesn't come off as a good faith desire to find out what people believe. I'm not sure how you can really, effectively figure out what specifically people think on this forum, especially because it very well could be the case that most people reading and commenting on this article haven't been following the situation incredibly carefully beyond just having a sense that something really bad is happening in China concerning persecution of an ethnic and religious minority and the occasional headline with a few more specifics.
> “There’s no place to hide in the middle of the night from such a satellite constellation,” says Tony Tyson, a physicist at the University of California, Davis.

Fortunately this has never been true for Starlink, which are at such low orbits they are always in the earths shadow at night, excepting dusk and dawn.
Regarding your last point, I feel the same way about the 30% Apple tax.
> "But those who are gifted and capable are not usually as inclined towards hate as those who are not."

I have some passing familiarity with academia and with FAANG companies. Try doing something something that risks a professor getting publications/tenure or risks an FAANG employee their next bonus/promotion and you'll find out rather jarringly why that belief is pure fantasy.
I wanted to ask this because the other day, I was in literally the worst zoom of all time and want to make sure I don't repeat that for my students.
This (it’s only for rich people) is silly. North Carolina officials are already planning for Starlink terminals to provide rural internet hotspots to help with folks who need good internet due to COVID-19 school closures.

Actual rich people can afford to put in fiber or line of site wherever they are. $100,000 or whatever, doesn’t matter. This is for the regular people in rural areas.

Seriously, has no one making these claims ever talked to someone whose best internet is geosynchronous satellite? Do they think only the very rich live in rural areas?
Because we see you in every thread spreading Chinese nationalist propaganda. We recognize your username.

Option A is the CCP party line, and by presenting it as a legitimate alternative you are minimizing what is going on in Xinjiang. I understand that you might not want to believe the reports. But there are apparently a significant contingent of people on HN, myself included, that think what you are doing here is irresponsible.
Disabling automatic updates is always one of the first things I do on a new Android phone. I would happily enable it selectively for a few Apps of my choice (e.g. the browser), but unfortunately the Play store doesn't allow that - unlike F-Droid.
So I occasionally do update Apps I want to be up to date manually instead. Also reduces unpleasant surprises like randomly being logged out or randomly becoming incompatible with backend servers (seen e.g. with Mattermost).
It looks like that's done at China's borders. Most journalists and tourists fly directly into China.
Some here

https://www.sec.gov/page/litigation

I dont think SEC reports all

All states have an equivalent agency

CFTC gets involved sometimes and there are some capital offerings and issuance solely under its purview
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To me, the unusual part is that there are people who live with and use systems on a daily basis without ever becoming curious about them. I mean, hours and hours of every day, dependent on the internet and people never stop and ask, “What is this thing? How does it work?”

In that vein, I was pretty impressed the other day by the Wikipedia article on traffic lights.
They're doing tunnels, not pylons to avoid those frictions.

The Boring Company is moving forward at a good pace, including still doing competitions for last 4 years at universities for teams to create the best skate that will be used to accelerate vehicles in the Hyperloop.
Zig has generics, they are just not part of the language (very easy to implement using what zig gives you).
I need to use a MacBook as my work machine (for a little over three years now), and generally have a strong dislike of the platform. It's just similar enough to Linux to lull me into believing that I kinda know what I'm doing, but just different enough to make me feel incompetent whenever I try to actually do anything nontrivial.

System Preferences -> General -> Show scroll bars to Always.

I stumbled across this little gem about a year ago, and has been one of the bigger quality-of-life improvements I've found on this machine.
As far as typical user-experience goes, you shouldn't think of IRC as "an instant messenger with channels as a kind of extra thing on the side". The public multiple-participants ongoing conversations in channels are the primary thing an IRC user is involved in. Direct private messages to a single other user are the extra-thing-on-the-side.
Amazon's latest grocery store concept opens, with high-tech carts
Unlikely. The automatable parts are basically all automated already (autopilot, take-off, landing). Making an aerial robot take off from runway X and land at Y in clear skies with a well-maintained machine is solved.

Human pilots, in addition to piloting, do a bazillion small things which add up to a safe flight, such as tons of systems checks. Often, e.g. under autopilot, their job is to act as fallback when the automated systems fail. When the automated checks fail to catch issues in other automated systems, the buck stops with the captain. Or maybe it's an important radio call. Even if you patch the uav into a pilot in a sim, there's so much situational awareness lost.

I don't see it happening any time soon in the commercial space.
Companies buy delivery or dining for their employees all the time. Real estate could be owned by the company, same for cars. The feasibility of this probably differs a lot by country, depending on how anal the tax laws and authorities are.
https://alhambrapartners.com/2019/04/22/eurodollar-universit...
> 1) Right click on element you want to grab all of the contents of, and select Inspect Element. NOTE: If this element is the sort that isn't properly placed in the DOM and/or disappears when focus/mouse leaves, you can freeze the current DOM...but the right way to do that will depend on your context.

Just to extend a touch—I use CMD+Shift+C or CTRL+Shift+C countless times in a day while debugging, or sometimes for this very reason. The shortcut is the same across browsers—at least Chrome/Edge/FF/Safari.

Instead of right clicking, it'll give you a "target" for selecting an element and highlight it before clicking.

In the console the selected element will be immediately accessible by `$0`.

Eg,

$0.innerHTML;
Ha! I'm writing this on a DasKeyboard and have an IBM selectric ii on the desk next to me - they are worlds apart.
Rare interview with generative artist and Etsy co-founder Jared Tarbell
$100k ARR Milestone
ConveyThis hit $100,000 ARR last week! It's a huge milestone for us

Launched just under 2 years ago
Fully bootstrapped, no money raised
Fully inhouse
No outbound sales
Team of 3

I'll probably write a blog post about it so let me know if there's something specific you'd want to hear about.
> I would argue that Apple is at least in some ways structured so that its own self-interest regarding privacy results in positive privacy conscious outcomes for everyone.

Is it though? I thought they still had an ad network so I searched a bit to find it and how it was itself impacted by this button to find this:

https://support.apple.com/en-ca/HT202074

So they only got ads on their store, perfectly fine, and it seems to be impacted as the button does say All advertisers. It even seems to show what information they use on the store, seriously that's well beyond what I was expecting A+.

And then I saw "Turn off location-based ads". Weird the first screenshot didn't have that checkbox... It's hidden in System Service, who really go there to set Advertising setting? Even more so while you got the perfect place already on the perfectly logical "Settings > Privacy > Advertising".

Their self-interest regarding privacy aren't aligned at all with yours. They are just trying to make the most buck out of you and they found one more profitable than ads. For location based ads, it seems like they still believe it will bring them more cash.

That means that the day ads will be back as the most profitable way for them, you'll be back to square one ;) with just much less competition. Good luck!
That sounds like a no
Copy/pasted from google search:

> A sound type system means you can never get into a state where an expression evaluates to a value that doesn't match the expression's static type.

It's not actually that hard to make a provably sound type system. The claim can only strain belief if it includes some type-level feature that makes this difficult.

Of course, it should also be proved. e.g. Java's type system is not sound even though there is no good design reason while it shouldn't be (to be fair - it only happens in cases so intricately twisted that nobody will ever stumble on them by accident).
the whole page too; it starts with:

<body style="overflow: scroll;">
<div style="overflow: scroll;">
<div style="overflow: scroll;">
<div style="overflow: scroll;">
Contrast is issue I've found to be annoying, as though UI designers don't really want you to spot it easily and to show the information it conveys. On the windows side I think it's after winxp that they moved away from having color to greys, and then later to solid blocks
If you had gotten a bit further, you would have seen the type system is so amazing it stops you "misinterpreting data". Truely the future has arrived.
There is absolutely no way to do this.

These are low-orbit satellites and they will eventually "fly over" every point on the Earth up to their maximum inclination. Only geo-stationary satellites are "hanging above an area" and suffer from high latency because of the speed of light.

Legally speaking "airspace" does not extend beyond the atmosphere. There are treaties for this, otherwise almost all satellites would need approvals from almost all governments.
Look into scales, you can put whatever you want in the same chart by positioning it using the same scales. https://github.com/d3/d3-scale

You can use that same scale to draw just one set of axis.

Need multiple Y axis?
Create two Y scales with the same range, one X scale.

Also I think it's good to understand that "chart" is not really a concept in D3. You just get all the elements of a chart which is why it is so awesome as you get to compose your own chart just the way you like it!
That would be the domain of mycroft.ai
By that logic you should be able to sue people for lost sales because they were not interested in your product at all.
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The fact that they are doing tens of dedicated launches solely for Starlink says otherwise.

Starlink is looking to be a multi-billion dollar business by itself.
No.

Providing satellite internet access is a very good thing, and imposing costs on astronomy is acceptable.
I didn't say I actually use it, I said it's the perfect language for that use case. In practice there are many other factors that determine whether a language is adopted, e.g. library availability, compiler maturity, and the fact that it's not simple to integrate a new language into an existing codebase of very many lines of C++.
archive.org! My copy was on the bookshelf next to the computer. (-:

On the subject of memory: The section on pi has two mistakes, alas, which I found to be particularly unfortunate. One of the mnemonic poems has a misprint "never more" instead of "nevermore", leading to a knock-on error in the digits beneath it, and there's a second error in the digits where the word "passed" in the poem is counted incorrectly as 5 letters.

Unfortunately, that's what I first memorized pi from. I had to re-learn the correct decimal expansion.

As for the 66th puzzle, there's a clear inspiration for slipping that sort of question in and seeing if anyone who doesn't know better actually comes up with an answer. It's interesting to note that some of the items have indeed been answered since 1985. I wonder whether M. Devi had heard Robert Schuller's tale, which was in wide circulation by 1983.

* https://snopes.com/fact-check/the-unsolvable-math-problem/
This has to be the biggest pile of garbage I have ever read.

No doubt the guy is probably not a saint but the article starts with the site being worth "between $810m and $936m." and ends with him pivoting into drug smuggling? according to "xoxgoldenfox"?
Have you ever read The Register? Its been this way as long as I can remember (1999?). I consider it more of a cheeky, poking-fun style rather than it being inflammatory. They've always created an air of not taking IT/Technology too seriously.

Take this job listing for example: https://www.theregister.com/Page/devoops.html

1. DevOops.html

2. Titled: "Vultures seeking penguin-tamer"
Interesting. Despite my efforts to consider that people have different preferences for almost everything in life, I am constantly surprised by my assumumptions about how other people do things that turn out to be very wrong.

It didn't even occur to me that someone who uses a computer all day long would use a touchpad, even though millions of people own one, Apple continues making them bigger, and the only thing "wrong" with them is that _I_ can't figure out how to click things on the first (or 5th) try.
The scrollbar does still provide valuable context over what scrolls, how big the scroll area is and how far you have scrolled. The second two you can solve by just scrolling a little to see the popup scroll indicator but discoverability is huge and I often am confused by this when I am using macOS.
I wonder whether he owns a smartphone now and if is is using it for personal communication with his family.
The magic of ion channels in the neurons
I never thought clearly about this, when deciding my kid's name I thought about people who I really admired and picked up the name I liked the most. But of course, I'd veto any name that reminded of someone I don't like.

What hit me hard about your comment is that I know a bunch of couples who have kids with my name, and it's not a common name. I will sleep happier today :)
A Short Guide to Minimal Web Development (2018)
> I personally believe that pervasive high speed internet even in remote locations will do more for humanity than the scientific cost of these satellites.

If the internet was simply a wellspring from which one could obtain knowledge you may be correct.

But most likely, the internet will instead be used to proliferate bigoted and intolerant opinions, while spreading lies and misinformation in the form of crude memes. As the last of human populations without high speed internet comes online, they will expand their capacity to inflict harm at speeds never before seen.

Weep for the clear skies we have lost. Forever.
I could see airlines charging more for "thrill" planes that have 360 immersion "windows" wrapped all around you.

Wonder Woman eat your heart out! (Her flying in that invisible jet in the cartoons always freaked me out when I was a kid)
> 3) Why would anyone _want_ to be tracked if they can avoid it?

People get value in return. Free to use product and ads about stuff they’re interested in. For some it’s not enough of value proposition, but for others consider it fair value exchange.
If the entire field of astronomy is so educated on the subject, why do most not know Starlink was never visible except at dawn or dusk, and it’s already implemented successful mitigations for those tones with visors?
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how many space-based telescopes are there? And how many will where be, once 9/10 launches fail?
What Intel Is Planning for the Future of Quantum Computing
ahhh, evilMe likes this. likes this a lot!! except, you better train it well to differentiate the specific music you don't like lest your own partying have negative consequences. (which don't all evilMe type plans usually fail from some whimsical reason?)
This is the kicker, thanks. I'm using a (non-Apple) mouse and changing the settings didn't seem to have any effect.
Currently you MUST install Messenger (or use Facebook's retro mobile site for old Windows Mobile phones) to send/receive messages.

Eventually, their mobile site will be nerfed and a popup will appear saying "Facebook is best experienced with the app".
Why should the rural people in podunk nowhere subsidize our food?

Ultimately it is in the best interest of cities to keep on good terms with their breadbasket.
The one kind of founder vcs will never fund
I would expect devs who use macbooks to generally use them the same way as the general population generally uses them. I can't think of a plausible reason to suspect that developers specifically might prefer traditional mice.

One demographic I would expect traditional mouse usage from would be gamers. When I play a first person game I always use my trusty old intellimouse. Otherwise, I use the trackpad unless I'm simultaneously using my mechanical keyboard, but if my keyboard had an attached trackpad I'd probably be using that. But mousing in general just isn't a very important to my workflows and trackpads work just as well as mice for nearly all tasks. Arguably they work better for some since you don't have to move your hand far from the laptop's keyboard to use the trackpad, while using a dedicated mouse means taking your hand completely off the keyboard.
Software Heritage have a copy of it here https://bitbucket-archive.softwareheritage.org/projects/ba/b...

Not sure exactly how to do it (not used mercurial in a long time), but I extracted the repository tarball to a directory then used hg clone to make the code usable/readable
Embodied Cognition: Environment as an Extension of the Mind
What is Microsoft extinguishing here? Email?
The amount of light blocked by the satellite is too small. The problem is that the satellite reflects a lot of light from the sun.
> There is almost no charter or scheduled flights allowed on single engine aircraft in Europe

So, without new regulation, this aircraft will not carry out "charter or scheduled flights in Europe" ?
This really does not work anymore in most civilized countries, and most of the time they have explicit limits on that kind of stuff, unless you can REALLY justify that (hospitality industry etc).
I really didn’t enjoy this presentation. Her attitude is what killed it for me and it’s unfortunate, because she has some amazing skills.
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being Disney, they would sue him, regardless what
Elon has already cut the cost of putting scientific payloads in space by nearly 80%, what else do you want him to do?