skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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@maps7, Thanks for your inputs.

Do you want to share any further insights about what factors you use to narrow down the choices about the correct ways? Similarly how do you go about managing the Constraints & Trade-offs - Do you change the scope? Do you negotiate to relax the constraints etc.

Thanks.
You Are in Motion, but You Need to Take Action
This is a fairly common phrase in online discussions meaning "I will not budge on this position, and I am willing to take a lot of flak/abuse for it"
It's an idiom.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/hill_to_die_on
I think as long as the sats don't leave blind spots as they move around this won't be an issue? Or are there other factors? Anyone confirm pls..
Consistent 30ms would be pretty excellent, and make it useful for many things. Consistent 50ms, similarly. It starts to get a bit more of an issue at 80ms or 100ms, but my worry is more that jitter may be huge, and 30-100ms is a huge jitter window that could limit usefuless not just for games, but also many other things such as voice calls.
Plus they're transmitting in a straight line without a lot of switches in between.
What a waste of trees.
What are the best mobile app testing companies?
Well, I would add that both satellite and ground receiver have phased arrays antennae. These allow emitting multiple focused beams simultaneously.

Since the angular resolution of these beams is limited, they each cover a fixed ground area (let's say 20km across). If more than one customer sits in that area, they will have to share airtime with the others.

Now, it's probably easier for the satellite to perform (time-division or other) multiplexing, since it knows how much data each node is going to receive.

I guess it's a lot more involved when it comes to sharing upload bandwidth with another client you can't see.

Anyway, this makes it easy to scale in rural areas, and pretty much a no-go for cities.

Now, a question of my own: do SpaceX satellites already have HW for sat-to-sat communication?
This is an interesting idea, but it wouldn't have helped in this case. The trolling on Github was using a logged in account; this would exist within the "safe internet". The co-ordination of this occurred in 4chan, which would likely be in the "unsafe internet".

With your proposal, the trolling would still happen, but it might have been harder for her to track down where it was coming from.

Trolling is a societal issue, not a technological one.
If you want an answer to this question, the search string is "James Webb Space Telescope".

Be warned: it isn't a pretty picture.
> What you are using is a fallacy, emotional statement done by self driving cars developers and enthusiasts

Welcome to HN!
> the party considered in breach would be the app developers

Given that this feature is entirely made by Apple, that's not a reasonable conclusion.
There are international treaties that govern some of this stuff. E.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outer_Space_Treaty (Which I think is for further out than orbit)

You can find out more here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_law
Thanks for the explanation, I didn't realise there was a per-exposure noise component.
Seems like Apple Silicon support is already there? https://developer.apple.com/documentation/hypervisor/apple_s...
This title can be read a couple ways lol.
That's actually better than what most 3rd world countries got, oh god.
fuck you and dang
Ask HN: Which companies are using .NET?
Hey HN, I have been looking at who is hiring threads as I am open to new opportunities and looking for jobs, but I can't find anything related to .NET, it seems like all jobs these days are looking for React, Javascript (Typescript), Python, Kubernetes and similar.

I found like 2 jobs with .NET core by going through around 500. I have been a .NET developer for about 5 years now and it does feel a bit discouraging when searching for new jobs.

Is this just HN bias where everyone is working with sexy new technologies? :)
About 2/5 of the Fed's money goes to research, and about 3/5 goes to "overhead."

"Overhead" then funds $200 million buildings, million dollar salaries, yacht clubs, financial ponzi schemes, press/legal/branding departments, and what not.
Yes. IDFA's full form is "The Identifier for Advertisers" which is generated by OS itself. Think of it like a proxy of IMEI number itself (back in the old days IMEI itself was used instead of this).

All of the Apps get the same ID and that's how your "persona" graph is constructed.

Sidenote: One of the bets people are making with this change is that now free apps will start forcing you to signup (via email/mobile number) which will be used to construct this "persona" graph again because who has time to create new emails for these purposes.
I am interested in that. Are there any international treaties that force SpaceX to comply? If SpaceX has no business in totalitarian country X, do they have any way to sue SpaceX for offering service?
I imagine a black market will establish to get access to starlink even if SpaceX doesn't officially sell access.
Can you expand on this topic?
Is that true? What are they missing?

I thought Hubble, JWST etc could do basically everything a ground based one could do only better? Excluding radio telescopes which are huge but not effected by satellites anyway.
I think there's considerable evidence just from reading the news that Hispanophone, Lusophone, and Francophone countries are _far_ from free of misogyny, racism, homophobia, and transphobia. I don't think hate speech is somehow limited to Anglophone countries, and it would be extremely disingenuous to claim it is.
I watched Star Trek (TNG, DS9, Voyager, Enterprise), The Expanse, Orville, Continuum, Altered Carbon S1, Farscape, Firefly, Travelers, Dark, and even Stargate Universe.

What do you recommend watching next?
So, to be clear, Drakeo didn’t shoot or otherwise harm anyone?

And he’s being held in solitary awaiting a second trial after already being acquitted?
Yeah you're right -- this is very much a curated selection, but the amount of social-ish features that github has taken on lately like the customizable profile pages[0][1] suggests that they might want to occupy this space...

Adding an offering of developer blogging seems like a slam dunk if they want to continue being a fixture of developers world wide. Arguably it's not so great for other alternatives (GitLab, BitBucket, etc) and more lock-in is probably not great, even if the garden aren't locked around us right now.

[0]: https://docs.github.com/en/github/setting-up-and-managing-yo...

[1]: https://oddblogger.com/personalizing-github-profile
This book looks really cool, and I appreciate what they're doing.

If I could humbly add, one of the hardest things about learning Vim isn't reading a list of commands, but rather _practicing_ them. So I wrote a list of Vim exercises (or études for the musicians), files requiring various edits, and a daily practice schedule that can be used to drill each distinct skill. Once you've mastered it, you can drop it from your schedule. I found it was really the only way to actually commit some of the more esoteric skills to muscle memory.

Here's a sample for how to practice muscle memory around named registers for yank and put, a skill almost no one I know regularly uses because it's hard to learn just by reading. After writing this and working through the ten minute exercise daily for a couple weeks, it became second nature, and now I can't live without it.

https://github.com/steveshogren/10-minute-vim-exercises/blob...
> Can't wait for humanity to become a multi-planet species, as then application developers would have to start taking multi-minute latencies into account, and hopefully that'll help me as someone with ~500ms latency to most services.

Stuff that requires realtime (or near realtime) communication simply won't be possible.

What remains is bulk data transfer, here I guess the only viable way is:

1) on both ends in both directions, massive buffers (at least bandwidth x 4)

2) massive FEC (of course it will reduce the net bandwidth, but there's no real other way to avoid lots of retransmissions)

3) sender station transmits the data in blocks, with each object of data having a specified number of blocks

3) receiver station checks all the data blocks for integrity, places it in buffers, and transmits back a list of broken blocks and a list of successfully received blocks

4) sender station receives the list of broken/successful blocks, deletes successful blocks from its buffer and retransmits those marked as broken

5) receiver station waits until all the blocks for an object of data have been successfully transmitted, and delivers the message to the recipient system
A 100ms ping is perfectly playable in everything except twitch-based shooters. In voice calls you will notice it, but it won't get in the way like say a 1-2s delay would (like you get if you phone from one end of the world to the other). It's really a very good result bearing in mind that this can work absolutely anywhere.
Why not keep a thin horizontal sliver of glass instead of removing it completely. In most flights the blinds will be pulled down anyway. You can still peek outside, and no need for fancy electronics all around the fuselage.
As a shareholder I am in favour of investment in development of mitigation software. Better to take the initiative, before a government does.
Pokemon Go Grosses over $3B in Four Years
I imagine one day we'll all have digital personal assistants who can do this, so having a secretary shouldn't be a barrier eventually.

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 personal idea is that Starlink is built for automated high speed stock trading across the oceans, because it reduces round-trip latency by some ten milliseconds. Light is much faster in vacuum, almost lightspeed, then in fiber. In fiber the speed of light is around 68% of light speed in vaccum. Giving "Internet to everybody" is just a marketing trick. People who maybe could need internet for social reasons cannot afford Starlink, that is for sure.
Do you have a source? A link in a different thread paints a somewhat different picture. If they can achieve stable ~20ms latency though, that would indeed be excellent.
I don’t think it’s a conspiracy to imply that several nations likely have a significant body of research on stealth satellite technology that could likely solve the problem at hand.
Yeah, in short: content-addressable systems are needed if we're ever to send data between planets on a larger scale. Systems like IPFS and alike solves this problem nicely, at least in my tests with high-latency scenarios.
True -- but I wonder if Github would be willing to do the "on your own server" bit -- they already let you host Github Pages for free, and you can bring your own RSS support.
I dislike that comments like this are the top voted comment rather than something insightful about the article’s content itself.
It's hard to have such a secretary and printing opportunities nowadays. In academia across Europe, I am hearing complaints that department secretaries are overworked or reduced to part-time status (even as the number of administrative personnel elsewhere in the uni is ballooning), and printing is limited by quotas after which soon one has to start paying out of pocket for printouts. Even grayhaired tenured faculty are feeling the pinch.
lololol good point :D
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Ok. Thanks.

#1 I agree with the value proposition of Apple's App Store.

I disagree with your conclusion in two ways.

Treating these digital marketplaces, including App Store, the same as traditional physical marketplaces would remedy most of our current drama. I'm not saying we must nationalize these private platforms, thereby transmuting them to public open markets. I am saying that given their current economic importance, they must be normalized.

The job is as yet not done. As a long time enthusiastic Apple customer, I demand that App Store continues to improve. I want more curation, more safe guards, more fairness. Yes, for customers, App Store is currently best in class. And yet that's a pretty low bar.

re #2. The only opinion I have on the Apple vs Epic vs Fortnite slap fight is that any and all other content providers should also be able to fight it out with Apple on similar footing.
Except on iOS devices, you can't really install anything you built without Apple having a say. And I'm not quite sure jailbreak is still a thing.
It's not true, obviously. I have been in DK's office, I have seen him read and write email.
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I know we are talking about people's names here and it's a bit off-topic but it used to be that companies did exhaustive research into naming their products as well. Lately, it seems they aren't doing a good job anymore.

As an example, Ford Kuga seems to be a decent car but I would never buy it. "Kuga" means plague in my native language.

That said, there are plenty of them on the roads here, so I guess people don't really mind.
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+1 on this. I expect Mobile Attribution Companies (like branch.io etc.) to die a slow death because of this.

In the short term I expect companies like Liveramp (which acts as DMP (Data Management Platform)) to get more business because one theory here is all free apps will start to force users to login (using email/mobile number) which effectively becomes another ID you can track folks with across-apps over time.
I do believe my statement is correct.

You find some articles via google search about things like "black lives matter" in Croatia and claim it is relevant there somehow. There was a BLM protest in Lithuania too (where I am from). There were maybe 10 black people in that protest. Half of them when interviewed said they were traveling through different countries (Estonia, Lithuania, Poland) to create and initiate those protest. Then if you look at the people who attended - mostly teenagers. When asked why they are attending this protest they came up with "to show solidarity for US". Which is to say - they are being fed US politics over the internet and found an opportunity to join an event here.

So that's how I see it. These US political things leak to other countries. Through media, through twitter and instagram, and now even through HN.
> Please don't complain about website formatting, back-button breakage, and similar annoyances. They're too common to be interesting

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> Religion has nothing to do with it, besides indicating a familiarity with US politics being mistaken as understanding.

It was just another example how US blurs things that should be separated. In most European countries this would be a big NO for government to express a certain religion. You have it literally printed on your money.
I always found it hilarious that this guy was fed up with email 5 fucking years before the first machine was connected to Internet in my Central European country.
India implemented the ban first. Donald is simply copying what India did.
"I have reached an age where my main purpose is not to receive messages."

An object unable to receive messages is soon marked for garbage collection.
This is a much bigger issue than just TVs.

And you seem to have ignored my entire final paragraph, which was about what I think we need to do to improve the situation. I am doing my part; I contact my representatives to draw tech issues to their attention, for example, and I donate to various relevant campaign groups. But I am only one person, and it will take more than just me and a few people like me to effect change on the required scale.
While latency is more important than bandwidth for most games, jitter is even more important. Lower latency is obviously better, but under what duration? If it fluctuates between 10ms and 50ms, while only being 20ms for short periods, many games will have problems with this, rather than a 50ms constant latency where the game servers can start accounting for it without issues.
They don't want to be the single source of truth. Russian propaganda ( which resembles Trumps) acknowledges that it's almost impossible.

They want to politice the "truth": https://youtu.be/nknYtlOvaQ0
There was a "behind the scenes" style documentary about QinetiQ and/or DERA (it was around the time DERA was split into QinetiQ and DSTL) where the engineers were shown analysing the 3D displays from the "Aliens" dropship sequence for inspiration.
Starlink does not at this time use any intersatellite communication links, despite having talked about it.
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My guess is Onlyfans has a very low rate of chargebacks/fraud and negotiated a special deal with Stripe.

The reason that rule is there is because most adult sites are dodgy.
No, radio, the other end of the spectrum. That's why they are called Fast Radio Bursts (FRB). Gamma Ray Bursts (GRB) are (probably) something completely different.
The Archer TV show had a similar problem. (Minor spoilers ahead.) The show pre-dates Islamic State, and the heroes' spy organisation was named ISIS. I was a little disappointed by the way they escaped it, they just did away with the spy organisation as they mixed up the later seasons of the show. It would have been a bold move, but it could have been played for laughs.
Right, right, we need to ask this question because well, she's a woman and everyone knows being good with numbers doesn't come naturally to them.

So there has to be a brain fluke. So for her to demonstrate true above average intelligence there's got to be more - like perhaps writing books on say homosexuality and also perhaps acknowledge her popularity and care enough about her community to do something useful like stand for election. No sir, a genuine love for numbers just won't qualify her as being comparably intelligent in general.
I'm currently using Shotcut. My problems:

* I want an option to repeat the last frame for a while, to add a pause in the middle of the video. (Now I have to save the frame as an image, and add the image to the timeline.) (Most of the time I use a static whiteboard, so a repeated frame doesn't look weird.)

* I'd like to remove some time from the images part of the videos and the same amount of time from the audio. (Now I can do it, cutting carefully.)

* I'd like to glue two intervals of video, and keep them glued forever. (Sometimes I remove a small part, and after that the section is "perfect" and I want to work with the section as whole object instead of two small sections.) (Perhaps also add an option to glue the audio and the image, for the same reason.)
Thanks, I can sound a bit craggy sometimes. It's the internets.

My motivation here is that GPT-3 is a language model and language models are
designed to do one thing, and only that thing (calculate probabilities of
next-tokens). If we observe some unexpected behaviour of a language model, the
logical first step is to try and explain it on the basis of what we know a
language model to be able to do. However, the authors of the GPT-3 paper
didn't do that and immediately jumped to wishful thinking, about their model
doing something it wasn't designed to do, as if by magick, on the sole basis
that it was a larger model, trained on more data, than others. But, the more
data and more parameters make GPT-3 a quantitatively different, not
qualitatively different model and if it's now behaving in ways that language
models are not designed to behave, this requires a very thorough explanation
and a very strong justification. I didn't see anything like that in the paper.

I've given some links above, in my reply to jointpdf from today, to papers
where people have tested language models more thoroughly and found that
despite similar claims (e.g. for BERT etc) a careful examination of a model's
behaviour and training corpus reveals that it's doing what a language model is
designed to do and nothing else.

So, yes, I don't think the two explanations are equally likely: memorisation
and magickal arithmetic. There is a very strong prior in favour of the former
and very little evidence in support of the latter.
Expected, someone should have caught it in code review. Switch statements are generally harder to follow than if/else chain and fallthrough etc make it even more complicated.
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Looks like engine is 90% to blame for that economy
The best protection we have for this blatant invasion of our privacy (and dignity) is CV Dazzle camo.
>build and make it

Depends on how you define 'build' here, I'm assuming you mean come to what would become the final design for GergoPlex. That took about a year and a half, my first two designs (Gergo and Georgi respectively) sought to improve on my issues with the ErgoDox (mostly size, PCB-forehead, height, thumb-cluster). After a year of using Gergo and diving into QMK and a failed attempt at picking up stenography, I came up with the idea for a more chord-orientated layout. It didn't take long to get working hardware (as it was a reduction of an existing design), but the layout took about two weeks before everything had settled into it's final place. I did a bit of a write-up over on the blog of how I ended up dailying GergoPlex from a full size 104 [1] and the slow descent into preprocessor madness [2] to make the Combo decorators work. The weird part was tuning QMK so combos like 'we' wouldn't misfire while typing and analyzing my Vim usage to find comfortable places for frequently used chords. (Such as JK for :, WE or UI for Esc, NM for Enter, XC for -, M< for _, etc)

>get used to the layout

At every transitional step I'd say maybe a week? The harder part was finding a keymap that worked for me. But I started with a Sun-Style layout on the ErgoDox and slowly adpated it as I moved to smaller boards. Control is on 'A' (and ';') on GergoPlex for that reason, and the symbols layers are fairly similar. Honestly, just using it in a active chat server for a few hours was enough to get me 90% of the way there.

Every users needs are going to be different, and their layout should match that (it's _why_ you get a programmable keyboard after all!). How you get there is a fiddly endeavour involving lots of flashing and tweaking, but you end up with something ergonomic and deeply personal!

[1] https://blog.gboards.ca/2020/01/weird-keyboards-programmable...

[2] https://blog.gboards.ca/2020/02/adventures-in-obscure-c-feat...
Videoconferencing does not need imperceptible latency.

The other two things on your list are both gaming.
Ok no problem. If you want to live in a country where the emperor decides on this, it's not my problem.
The interesting aspect is that advertisers can measure the impact of FB-targeting in ads to see whether facebook's promises were true
Perhaps you can offer something better?
> while he was Dean, had his email on three day delay.

I'm a professor. I can't help but think that this is a terrible idea.

As Dean, it is your job to enable the faculty members and department chairs who report to you. To figure out what obstacles they face, and remove them when possible. To figure out who is doing good work -- especially of the sort that goes unnoticed. To sort through requests for money and other resources, and to figure out who will put these resources to good use.

In other words, the same as any manager at any organization.
How the Nintendo Switch prevents downgrades by irreparably blowing its own fuses: https://hackernoon.com/how-the-nintendo-switch-prevents-down...
Last time I checked, London wasn't in the US
Lingua Latina per se Illustrata has the advantage that most people learning Latin will already be familiar with the Latin script, and probably don't care that much about the pronunciation anyway. Whereas for Japanese, you'd need to at least teach hiragana and katakana first, possibly with recordings for everything.