skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The personalization makes it easier to lie with statistics.

For example, did you know that 80% of people who purchased Product X saw a Product X advertisement through our network?

Sure, that was achieved by showing a Product X advertisement to people who'd just bought Product X (reversing cause and effect) but are you sure your marketing people would realise that and not be excited about how powerful this network is?

You can't make these targeting claims for an untargeted advertisement, and so idiots will believe they work regardless and there is a lot of idiot marketing budget.

Conventional adverts will have to be cheaper to compete, which means they earn less money for the host, which means that - for the intended audience of this Facebook message - those conventional adverts are definitively worse.

I don't run an ad blocker, although I do happily pay people who offer to give me a service without adverts for money.
I often wonder how come we(as in, humanity) ever only launched a single Hubble telescope. Surely, once you built one, you should be able to build more. Or other countries should be able to take the designs and launch their own versions. Hubble was(and I imagine still is) occupied for weeks at the time taking pictures of certain areas of the sky. Why don't we have 50 Hubbles up in the orbit, doing different things simultaneously? Is it simply because there's no money to do so?

I also do remember the story how NASA got a couple decommissioned telescopes from some intelligence agency, which turned out to be an order of magnitude better than Hubble is, and the agency was getting rid of them because they were already outdated. I do remember reading that if those were put into astronomy use they would be a lot better than anything we have currently, but of course those are being used for taking pictures of military sites and tanks, rather than stars.
That's fantastic. It reminds me of the GNU Hurd mutually recursive acronyms :-)

> It's time [to] explain the meaning of "Hurd". "Hurd" stands for "Hird of Unix-Replacing Daemons". And, then, "Hird" stands for "Hurd of Interfaces Representing Depth". We have here, to my knowledge, the first software to be named by a pair of mutually recursive acronyms.
HBM2 is totally tame in terms of signalling rate. I think it's like 2 GT/s, while GDDR6X is at 20 GT/s (both per pin). PCBs aren't too slow for HBM2, a silicon interposer is just the only practical way to route a memory interface using something like 7000 pins directly between wafers. If HBM2 chips were using regular packaging and pitches suitable for PCB use, each stack would have to be a huge package with thousands of balls.
I'm not sure you can draw that conclusion. A significant number of people "flagging" something as uninteresting _to them_ does not necessarily indicate that it is uninteresting to "hackers". People have all sorts of reasons for flagging, but they should normally be positive ones e.g. "this violates some guideline and here's why", not "I do not find this interesting and therefore no-one else will".
I am more in favour of going back to installing apps from the web, reading app reviews (also from the web), bringing back app listing websites (remember nokia days?), running an antivirus and cutting any chance of another monopoly rising.

Alternative app stores won't break this monopoly. Android for example already have alternatives.. but how many know them and how many use them? The one that's shipped with the OS always wins. Besides, most of them take like 20% tax.. which is still hugely profitable.
Considering the end result, 'Dyson Sphere' would have been a more interesting name choice than Starlink.
What did he do to impress you?
It's what UK schools called IT when it entered the school curriculum. Not really sure what motivated the C, maybe it justified classes using the nascent web.
On my home fiber, pretty much all sites I visit are like 80 ms away, Starlink would be an upgrade for me, latency-wise
We can judge the value humanity places on astronomy by looking at how much money is allocated for it. I suspect it will come out less valuable, to humanity, than the service Starlink will provide.
ok, so 30k satellites from SpaceX, 60k from OneWeb. I anticipate this is just the beginning, other US companies and other countries will want to launch similar amounts.

What will the impact be when there are 500k+ satellites in LEO, who decides who can launch more?
How much of that ARPU is covering overheads of the advertising model (all the infrastructure and middlemen) as opposed to being actual money spent by brands on customer acquisition? If ads didn't exist and people wanted to pay for stuff, wouldn't brands be able to offer lower prices because of easier customer acquisition (not having to pay for ads) and thus people wouldn't need to share accounts if the account costs a couple of bucks a month?
Probably cause Stripe likes money?
The final orbits are approved in advance by the government; there's no mystery. They are not visible to the naked eye in their final orbits because they are farther away and they maintain an orientation that allows their sunshade to reflect sunlight away from Earth instead of toward it.
You can even see shape(solar panels) of ISS with naked eye, pretty mind blowing...
I think I have the CD somewhere still. Should probably send an image textfiles.org way...
very cute, would be interesting to see something like https://collapseos.org/ running on it
This is my issue. How hard is it to add some patch notes? The people who don't care won't read them anyway. It's helpful for the company as well to document their changes, so hopefully someone is doing it internally regardless.
I've been there, it's beautiful. Although under ten kilometers from a town of tens of thousands wasn't exactly what I had in mind; I was picturing some of the places I've been in Africa that don't have mobile reception and may well never get it if it means laying fiber. A solar powered base station that relayed mobile internet, even if slow, would make a meaningful difference.

The point of my comment isn't to defend the satellite launches, quite the opposite.

It's saying that even as somebody that would be in favor, not carefully considering the trade offs before giving permission to permanently alter the night sky is not acceptable. This is exactly the kind of thing that bureaucracy should make painfully slow.
Do you have anything you can cite in support of that, please? I've been planning to raise some of these issues with my representatives, so any solid evidence I could include might be helpful.
Logistics: already done via gps receivers and low bandwidth spot style satcom. SpaceX hasn't designed for mobile/vehicle mounted ground stations either.

Shipping: already done via AIS

Real Time Weather: already done by satellites with the required features. SpaceX is not building this.

Real Time Video: again, there's no way you're getting animal scale images out of a starlink scale sat.

I swear people have taken the usual Elon hype with this and gone to absolutely absurd lengths. This is not your iphone suddenly works globally. This is not a star trek communicator. This is an alternative to sat internet like Dish network et all. Is your hiker really gonna be hauling around a giant freakin' dish?

It's going to be a premium priced broadband service for rural customers and institutions that can afford it. If you know anything about the market you know DoD is gonna be the customer they focus on.
Build domestic industries by stealing IP from foreign competitors? that’s not super cool to do.
> We can judge the value humanity places on astronomy by looking at how much money is allocated for it.

That is a very naive viewpoint.
Nah. Do you know nurses? Their hours are pretty damn long and much more stressful. So longer hours does not sound like a valid reason why someone would choose one profession over another.
- No design is ever perfect

- There are many correct ways to do things

- It's all about constraints and trade offs
Why is a single global isp good? That's basically saying a single company owning and controlling the internet. That sounds dystopic
As there are objective downsides that we, collectively, are ignoring right now.

Financial capitalism shouldn't be praised, at the very best it's a lesson, we got useful tools out of it and that is all.
Your argument for why it is not white supremacy or misogyny is that people like there perpetrators always existed and that they are possibly young?

How exactly does the latter disproves the former? The are independent claims.
Any tech companies hiring Software developers in Canada with visa support?
Hey guys I am wondering if there are any tech companies hiring Software Developers in Canada with Visa support ?
If easy is the goal, have a look at Multipass (https://multipass.run/docs/installing-on-macos), which uses hyperkit as the backend (https://github.com/moby/hyperkit)
Dude, the astronomers don't pay , the public pays.
So the people in all the world will have to pay more billions to american companies to workaround the mess those created. This sounds very mafia like - or Cyber Punk where you can't see the sky or the sun anymore unless you are a billionaire.

Someone had a great idea, we tax all bright objects put in orbit, then there is an intensive to make the satellites less bright and we make the people that pollute pay and not the public.
Thanks!

I started by doing two projects on Upwork while working a full time job, then I decided to quit without any projects lined up and was very lucky to find a long term project on Upwork before my 1 month notice period finished.

Marketing wise at the beginning it was just Upwork. Shortly after I started I tried writing technical posts for my blog (mostly related to ROS and some hardware testing/reviews). Around that time I also started Weekly Robotics newsletter (https://weeklyrobotics.com/) but so far it brought only one client onboard but it's a great way to show potential clients that I'm following what's going on in the industry.

When it comes to tips: I would suggest learning ROS - if you have experience in software it should be quite easy for you but expect some learning curve. Then I would suggest doing some projects like integrating SLAM and obstacle avoidance on a mobile robot, ideally with a physical platform.

If I were you I would treat it as a hobby in the beginning and try to have fun and if you find a niche that truly sparks your interest it might be worth specializing in it.
I'm not sure this scans. It would be true if the only regulations that applied were the ones being discussed but Portland goes out of its way to avoid large apartment buildings in many neighborhoods and they have a vendetta against building roads that aren't shit for some reason. If you removed all relevant regulations you wouldn't see the kind of buildings the article is praising you'd see large apartment buildings and suburbs sprawling jnto the woods. Good on Portland for doing something about the situation I guess but it's hard to feel impressed when they created the problem in the first place.
No. Privacy is generally considered a right. Opt-in/off-by-default is the correct position.
That it is likely to be illegal in many (most?) countries.
that's actually a fascinating idea. think about how humanity solves the environment problems and fusion works out, bringing global peace and prosperity for once. Now a smallish rock comes from space. We don't see it, because of "we go to mars, bro"-elon making ground based astronomoy infeasible and debris from crashes from his great internet satellites making 9/10 new launches fail. so, even if we saw it, we couldn't launch a nuke to deflect it. BOOM. There was the USA and Elons android son is just reduced to dust by his daddies hybris.
For people based in Europe who might be interested in an Ergodox or similar, I can recommend a visit to falba.tech.

I've ordered two Redox from them by now (for work & home) and am very satisfied with the product so far.
maybe something like this? https://www.newscientist.com/article/2241717-infrared-reflec...

Would still be bad for astronomy but at least the impact for naked eye would be less.
But by the existing evidence, the latency seems to be fine: https://www.reddit.com/r/Starlink/comments/i8n1s5/here_is_a_...
I think you missed my point. I don't really care whether this is the right move or not, and to be honest I don't really know.

But I care that some president can simply say "Hey specific corporation, you have 45 days to comply with the rules that are in my head."

> You can't even do something as simple as set up an S Corp in the US if you are foreign.

Sure, that is a rule in the law, no problem with that. But what if I'm friends with Trump and he makes an exception just for me?

Here in Europe, we have separation of law, government and religion. I know it's a bit more blurry in the states (see the "In god we trust"). In this case (and in some other cases such as pardoning prisoners), your government seems to interfere with your law. In my opinion, that becomes very tricky business if you start eroding those rules. Because when you're friends with the government, the law doesn't apply to you. And if you're enemy with the government, forget about your rights.
Haven't done that exactly. What benefits are you hoping for? What negatives do you think it might have?
Gradient descent is already about as easy a training method as can be. Just a little freshman calculus and programmers can do the "state of the art" optimization of modern times. It's also scalable. If your polynomial regression gets too large because of the model complexity (for comparison, typical deep networks can have millions of parameters) you can't invert your matrix and probably end up using a similar method anyway.

I would have thought a computer uses tables to compute e^x. There's also piecewise linear activation functions that are trivially easy to compute gradients of.

The whole "universal approximation" perspective is pretty vague to begin with. I'd say generally people don't understand why NN's work as well as they do. Previously theorists expected they would need a lot more training data to work, given their complexity. So it's driven to a large degree by empirical success. I am certainly really interested to see people accomplishing the same things with less sophisticated methods, since there is no doubt it has been overused/hyped in some areas just to make the papers and proposals sexier.
>I'm just speculating there's much more behind it than her politics.

Regretfully, I used 4chan a lot over the last decade, and I strongly agree with the author's description of it and most of its users. It really is enough for someone to catch the attention of trolls on the /g/ board if they say that there exists attention-seeking woman who is a fake programmer and who says bigotry is wrong who needs to be taken down a peg.
I don't deny that such people exist. There's always outliers. But those who are gifted and capable are not usually as inclined towards hate as those who are not.
No, they'll simply deny licensing of spectrum over their land area, and SpaceX will comply.

This will never be some tool to counteract totalitarian governments.
In many cases: yes. It depends on whether the driver aids the criminal knowingly (eg: overheard "To my ex-husband's, driver! Can't wait to shoot him in the face"), and of the driver's own free will (eg: did not overhear "if you don't take me, I'll shoot you, too!")
Think about it as inivisible laser beam in terms of beam width. We are talking here 2mm wave with very directional antennas - its very hard to detect it.

That's actually how spies send data back over the satellites:

>Unlike with SW signals, a radio signal to a satellite is very difficult to intercept and trace, as the waves are 'beamed' straight up rather than all around.

https://www.cryptomuseum.com/spy/rs804/index.htm
They spent alot of money to make Javascript faster, so they could push apps from being local to being dumb terminals. Probably to ensure espionage and making the users reliant on big corp?
I am very happy with my proliant microserver gen10 plus.
holds 4x 3.5" drives, is absolutely tiny, good at virtualisation, quiet-ish, upgradeable
How to Build a Variational Autoencoder in Keras
This paper suggests otherwise, what are your thoughts?

Optical aperture synthesis with electronically connected telescopes
https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms7852
Although these bursts are coming from a place where time is rather more spread out than it is here.
"I have reached an age where my main purpose is not to receive messages.'"

This is my goal. Avoiding unnecessary stress and interruptions is a bigger goal for me than creating more wealth.

It's not an age thing though. I'm 37. I still happily communicate with other people, but ideally it's only when I make or take the time for it. That's why I worked from home, in a rural area, trying to get to 100% 'passive' income by the end of 2021.
Not that it will matter by then. The effects of your spreading FUD about imaginary realities aren't going to just be reversed by you acknowledging you were wrong in a couple months.

You are actively detracting from real issues today by posting this nonsense.
My conclusion is that my home lab was a learning exercise that comes to an end and that having physical hardware was actually detrimental to it.

I still have a home lab. It's just virtualized.
Yes, I am sure astronomers believe in their hearts that whey they are doing is supremely important and valuable. But astronomers should also understand selection bias. Astronomers are inherently biased to believe highly of the value of what they are doing, or they would not be astronomers.
Well, he only gets to do this because he's achieved some measure of success in his life, right? I dare others not so distinguished to try and reproduce his approach.
It's a consortium, that is, it exists to represent the interests of corporate members. It's actually set up that way partly because his stupid toy hypermedia system made a lot of people very rich and Sir Tim would like some of that money.

Now, it should not come as an enormous surprise that most of the W3C's corporate members do not have your individual interests close to their hearts. And so you can't really expect them to consistently vote for things that help you and hurt them.

If you would like to work on technology standardisation but you aren't a corporation find an IETF Working Group that's doing something interesting to you and pitch in. Unlike the W3C the IETF isn't a membership organisation. Indeed it arguably isn't an organisation at all which makes it pretty unique among Standards Development Organisations...
On top of the points made by q3k, about this being a US centric issue, being projected as a global issue, why do you believe this implementation will be able to deliver global pervasive internet?

The obejective is noble but can you provide any realistic data or estimates of how this infrastructure can scale to more than a few million users and _still_ be high bandwith. Beyond that your bandwith will go down as you add more users.

The only use-cases that this serves are high-income people that want to go off-grid but are unwilling to sacrifice high-bandwith, and military deployments (which SpaceX does not hide as an objective).
> This and aircraft's other notable performance characteristics are made possible in large part due to its highly aerodynamic overall laminar flow shape, which produces approximately 59 percent less drag than existing similar-sized, more conventionally-shaped aircraft.

Wait, if the shape is that much more efficient, why don't we already see this sort of shape for commercial jets? Are there other compromises involved?
summary: stories[1] about history, despite being epistemically weak, are rhetorically strong.

[1] pedantically: narratives with tropes, things to make movies out of...

> "When I say “narrative,” I don’t mean a chronology of events; I mean stories with plots, connected by motivations, by people’s beliefs and desires, their plans, intentions, values. There’s a story."
When looking for something like this a year or so ago, I found [1] which supports both NFSv3 and v4 as well as p9. It worked alright in my experience though I eventually switched to ZFS which has built in support to auto-configure NFS shares.

[1]: https://github.com/nfs-ganesha/nfs-ganesha
I have a Sony TV, one thing I've learned with them is that you have to wipe your tv after each upgrade...
I do agree with you tough, it's still really sluggish, full of things I never asked for (icons of netflix, hulu and other stuff that I don't use) and I definitely don't feel that this TV is smart at all.
My next tv will definitely be as dumb as possible. If I needed anything smart, it will be via a pi or a similar board connected to it.
What type of passive income are you aiming for?
It's been a long time since I've had a look at Sky; I was just about to comment on how good the offering is on NowTV's Sky Cinema Pass... until I realised that it only included movies.

For a similar price with Netflix you get movies + TV shows. Granted that the selection of movies on Sky Cinema do seem better, but if you're a fan of both then its still hard to beat Netflix's offering
You missed my point: If this is your view, why does a president need to pick on 1 specific company? Why not make it a rule that applies to all companies?
As a non-native English speaker I never connected SVN's trunk with the concept of a tree from which branches grow. I mean, I knew of this meaning of the word trunk but I never thought of it in this context. I was more familiar with the other meanings, the long body part on the elephant and the storage compartment on a car.
> No normal adult with a job, maybe a family, maybe a pet, and a million other things to do has time for this.

This is simply not true. "Normal", regular people do this too. I remember a while back a Finnish journalist wrote an article about meeting one of his online abusers[1], who had - on a Finnish copy of 4chan - wished that an immigrant would stab him and his whole family to death. Turned out the offender was a regular family man with a job and young children. He could not offer an explanation for his words and was not politically active.

These boards, their super hateful environment, and the presumed anonymity can get even a normal person to sling online hate. Even this person in the article said that his public persona in his normal life was completely different and not representative of his online comments.

[1] https://yle.fi/aihe/artikkeli/2019/05/30/nettivihaa-tyossaan... (in Finnish)

EDIT: Found it in English: https://yle.fi/aihe/artikkeli/2019/11/06/face-to-face-with-a...
Plenty of hate for unions here in Canada too. Some how, in North America, we've convinced a large percentage of people who should belong to unions that unions will destroy society.
> I’m giving up control of the devices I own

You never had control of ios devices to begin with, the iphone always has been everything but "free computing"
Bank transfers between banks are not reversible.
This freedom seems directly tied to where you are on the totem pole..
>>Someone had a great idea, we tax all bright objects put in orbit

Well, couple small problems with this idea

1) who collects the taxes? I can imagine some international agency in charge of it which then proceeds to spend the money on other international projects, but how could you guarantee compliance?

2) Countries which are only now starting to launch things into orbit would(rightfully) say - hey, how is that fair? Others have been able to launch thousands of satellites for free, but now that we finally got the capability to do so, we have to pay? Why?