skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
the fact that you call Ethereum useless shows that you are way too ignorant to voice such a strong opinion.

educate yourself and try again.

i work with bchains since 2013 and ethereum is a major driver for a lot of innovation and real life applications. i've built an energy trading platform on top of it that allows local business to localize their energy management. its deployed and working, granted , in a small poc here in Adam. but still.

also what do you think powers 99% of all altcoins?
I wasn't commenting on your morality and I probably could have phrased it more neutrally. I wanted to point out that China's actions aren't a mystery, so the scenario that you appeared to phrase as a possibility/hypothetical is more clear cut than that. I honestly found it odd that you'd phrase it with "as long as I don't think..." as if China's actions aren't well established.

My last sentence "Or maybe those people just aren't anyone you care about" isn't necessarily some kind of veiled insult, it's a real position that some people hold and one that I offered as an option. There was actually a reply to my comment (it's currently flagged so you may not be able to see it) that implied China's actions are justified because Falun Gong is a separatist group. This kind of reasoning is not uncommon in Chinese nationals, among others.
This is why I take 500+ images and process them. I don't think the moving satellites would cause any harm to long exposure deep space photography. I agree if you take 30 pictures, it could be a problem.
which pretty much keeps it restricted to overland only. it took a long time for the FAA to permit twins to fly across the ocean? ETOPS (Extended-Range Twin Engine Operational Performance Standards) is just what it says, twin engine but is there any possible means a passenger carrying single engine could get certification? Now as an unmanned cargo drone it might get this permission.
Being unable to find a point at which I'm happy with the outcome. I have an uncontrollable fear that what I create is not good enough to share, be it articles or code, while my rational self acknowledges that the quality is more than ok and might help others.

I never wrote about basic "How to FP in X language", "Here's a script I wrote over the weekend, it's amazing", "How to git" articles. This limitation I have on myself pisses me off when I read most of the content on medium / dev.to. I see that people are going for cheatsheets / how-to-x-in-10-minutes-but-not-really-understand-what's-going-on content, and I feel that either my content will not be consumed, or it will be discarded as pretentious.

Add to this that English is my second language, and other personal insecurities and flaws (vanity - "I need to appear smart to my peers", vanity guilt - "I'm trying to pose as someone else", etc), and you've got a pretty bad recipe.

Over the years this has turned into over countless abandoned blogs and side projects.

Lately I'm trying to fix this and other issues (not connecting to people, etc) by streaming while I do stuff, but often I don't manage to convince myself to do it.

This is very much an emotional problem that I am aware of, and I notice the harmful patterns as the thoughts surface in my mind, but I'm not strong enough to block yet.

^ everything here applies to comments as well
Not as popular as Wireguard, but Tinc VPN is a mesh VPN where each client is also a node. I've got it running on my actual router (pfsense), so my phone will then attempt to connect to the router node when I'm on my home network so any connections will stay in my home network. And then for everything external I can have it go through a VPS (or multiple) like you.
And why is that? Being friends with gangsters is a crime now too?
“IDFA” is too similar to “IDKFA”... or “IDGAF”.

I’m sure there’s a joke in there...
If you check out the comment I made earlier, I'm very aware of that (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24291548)

But it's more interesting if we discuss the latency itself, rather than complaining about previous discussions around the latency.

As it seems right now, the latency is more than alright, at least for people who are used to really shitty latency. Sure, it's not gonna replace your home connection if you live in-or-near a city, but for the rest of us, it's much better than what was offered before.
Unfortunately, even if you have a right to send something back, it's not always practical.

Typically those consumer rights only protect individuals, leaving businesses (even small ones, who are at a similar disadvantage to consumers in not being able to negotiate anything with huge manufacturers/suppliers) with little if any protection.

One key difference from days gone by is that modern devices often contain large amounts of private data, which you might not be willing to hand over.

And it's all rather academic anyway if competition in that market has failed and all the major products are doing to same user-hostile things. This is normally the point where government intervention would be required, for example through legislation or regulatory action, but governments have been unwilling or unable to keep up with the pace of technological advancement.

I believe this is, at least in part, because representatives usually aren't technical experts and so may not understand the implications of modern technologies or the potential alternatives to current practice. I have reached the conclusion that until we educate those representatives and show them that people do care about these issues, the tide of increasingly user-hostile actions will only continue to rise. But of course that means people have to care enough themselves to get involved in contacting their reps or at least supporting organised campaigns, and sadly, it seems a lot of people either don't care enough to do that instead of moaning on Twitter of Facebook and then accepting their fate.
Most bank transfers are actually not reversible, except for some limited retail client (including small companies) operations where specific terms & conditions allow the bank to reverse payments to the extent possible, which they really prefer avoid using as it looks really bad for a bank whose most important asset is the confidence of its clients and counterparties. Reversal may also no longer be possible if the money has already gone out in a system that does not allow reversal, or if the client is bankrupt in the meantime (depending on local banking and bankruptcy laws and circumstances).

For any other payment system for larger sums / corporate and institutional parties, settlement finality is a huge thing that is the subject of all sorts of specific legislation, as it would be a real issue for the health of the financial system if a settled payment can simply be reversed, as it would have a lot of unintended consequences further down the line. So banks actually do have strict risk management policies to avoid wrong payments, but there are so many complex transactions for which ultimately a human (actually at least 2 due to 4-eyes principles) must confirm whether conditions for payment are satisfied and whether payment details are correct, and humans are always prone to making mistakes once in a while.
I'm not holding my breath about the TV use-case of 5G. The ISPs will just make it too expensive to allow you to watch as much TV as you like.
The answer shouldn't be that astronomy has to have smaller, less efficient and slower built space telescopes that cost up to 100 times as much as ground telescopes.

Size matters for telescopes and there's a limit to what can be launched. Whilst Hubble provided amazing insights it can't replace all ground telescopes. Additionally ground based telescopes can be fixed and upgraded without the need for an astronaut to be flow to repair it, a capability that doesn't currently exist.
Just to clarify I didn't mention it because she was a woman but because she seemed to be an equal and important partner in the foundation but the accomplishments always seemed to land in Bills corner.
The two donated telescopes were the same diameter as the one Hubble had, but were designed to cover a larger field of view (since the small FoV of Hubble wouldn't have been very useful for reconnaissance). But they came without any instruments, so one would have to develop (or adapt the ones from Hubble) to be able to actually use it (and that's were most of the cost is).

And the main limitation is quite simply money.. and since a lot of the things that were only possible with HST in the past are possible from the ground now people started focusing on building space observatories for the parts of the optical spectrum that simply cannot be done from the ground (x-ray, far-infrared, gamma-ray).
This approach certainly gets rid of a lot of unnecessary communication. It is like a special spam filter. Not many people will go through with writing a real letter. For most requests it's probably not worth it for them. Et voila... filtered.

If you don't need anyone reaching you this seems like a good strategy.
People talk about latency but what about packet loss?
To put that claim into context the manned single engine piston height record is held by a specially modified Rutan Long Ez and was around 35,000ft.
Anything that requires real-time interaction between a client and a server and other clients, e.g., gaming, stadia/geforce now, videoconferencing, ...

< 100ms is usually the "minimum", > 150ms is often "unusable", and for a smooth experience you might need < 30ms depending on the application (e.g. depending on the game you might need < 90ms or <60ms or <30ms).
Being from the same region, I just don't feel hostility you describe.

For one, I really don't get offended over Americans discussing American history and society in terms relevant for American society.

For the other, I don't understand why you living in completely different region with very little knowledge of America should talk about BLM. You can ship that discussion entirely if you wish.

But when you join to take side with little knowledge of issues involved, the yeah, should not be surprised that people downvoted you.
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The argument made by advertisers and Facebook is that this is anonymized data which helps in making advertisements more relevant to people.
I also remap shift-tab to tab in Vim, and then somehow manage to live without being able to actually shift-tab in Vim. I should probably think of some solution for that at some point...
The article you're looking at is Github ReadME. It's a one-off magazine / project, not a publishing platform.
You're going to have to show me the quote that makes you think astronomers claim to "own" the skies instead of just not having their usage limited and infringed upon.
Sure. Governments regulate space pretty closely and they have the ability to account for that. I'm sure the commercial potential of global broadband internet is high enough that some funding for astronomers wouldn't be a huge obstacle to the constellation operators.
That day was back in 2013.

* http://jdebp.uk./Softwares/djbwares/

Felix von Leitner added support in a different way some years even earlier than that, requiring new record types. The 2013 mechanism simply extended the existing + record type (and indeed all of the other record types that have an "ip" field) so that one could give it IPv4 addresses or IPv6 addresses.

* http://jdebp.uk./Softwares/djbwares/guide/commands/tinydns-d...
With TVs specifically, this could be a tough sell for manufacturers, because of all the hardware-enabled rights protection that is needed to watch content in certain formats now. There will be some level of exclusive access/control involved as long as those schemes are operating, and that gives them power.
They put in VM 2 years ago - and missed off the suburb in which I and 2k others live.

I'm not holding my breath... but I had VM before I moved here, and prefer the BT-network service to it.
To claim that any of the points that you have mentioned are merely political is absurd. Words themselves are apolitical, and to say "that's racist/sexist/etc.", is merely an observation, and does not represent a political opinion.

The author of the article is not trying to promote a political agenda, asking you to support "cause A" or "cause B", they are merely trying to document a traumatizing experience that they have had.

And even if it was US politics? A large chunk of HN users are from the US. And as you have given me your political opinion about transphobia being "US specific", so does the author of the article claim "This thing happened. That's bad."
Well, thats a paddlin.

Wonder if someone just forgot to rate limit their side project
The right way of making sure this doesn't become a monopoly is to treat this satellite infrastructure just as you treat the fiber infrastructure in many countries. Where instead of having the ISP owning the infrastructure, they can rent the usage of it, so you can have many competing companies using it.

So Starlink would be the infrastructure and they need to allow others to use it on the same level as the Starlink ISP uses it.

One example of this already working is in Sweden, where Telia-Sonera is owning the actual infrastructure but they have to allow others to use it as well. So in Sweden you have plenty of ISP choice, one of them being Telia-Sonera, but not only them.
> Also, punishing the entire group is very effective in the military.

So how does banning an ISP subnet equate to punishing 4channers?

> I am surprised how consistently the unit will turn on the offender

That implies that you communicated the reason for the ban and there is actually a consistent group aware of what is going on. Randomly banning vpns and ISP subnets does not imply that.
That list of commandments for software updates is pretty good. But we'll be disappointed if we rely on each software vendor to voluntarily conform to them. Some of these could be enforced at the operating system level, I think. And I don't mean a centralised App Store with policy enforcement. I mean OS architecture.

> must allow a revert to the previous situation

So each app on my system would have the base 1.0 version code, plus any number of patches. I could choose to run it with zero or any number of patches up to the current version. And I'd be able to stop subscribing to patches from the vendor if they are taking the software in a nonpreferred direction, and switch to someone else who's forked it. The UI for this would be standardised in the OS, not controlled by the particular app developer.
Presenting SpaceX “Dyson Sphere but wait fuck that's the wrong celestial body isn't it oh well let's just roll with it”
The iOS 14 runs great on my iPhone 7. it will also run on the 6S, or the 2016 iPhone SE. The new SE will probably get OS updates for around 5 years or so.
What you're seeing is utter dominance of the US over English-language web. It's like people in the UK, Canada, Australia and company barely ever post on the web, and Europeans just hang out on local sites instead. Hence, English-language web is pretty much ‘US web’, and US politics is all over it.

Ironically, you're posting this on a California-specific site where even other US people complain of too-local content and discussion.

Among top non-regional sites, one that has more Europeans than Americans is 9GAG—but I doubt it that it's very interesting to grownups.
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What's fun also is that "Celera" sounds just like "scélérat" in french, which is an old word for criminal.
The president’s actions, granted on behalf of congress, are already being challenged in court.

Religion has nothing to do with it, besides indicating a familiarity with US politics being mistaken as understanding.
We paid operators huge sums of money to build fiber internet across the US, but they kept the money instead. Now we're trying with satellites.

The whole astronomy problem could be solved if FCC had teeth and forced us to get the fiber connections we already paid for
Dropping the metaphor.

People don't use their network equipment to its full potential, because they think the web == internet. So they have all this crazy equipment with functions they never even imagined, and only use it to browse a few websites. So I actually think the issue is even worse than what you describe and I'm frustrated about it too.
Yes and no. At least in this case the OP could have installed a different version of the app (older or customized), and kept the 20 years of data usable.
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For non-coders, this video by Steve Cutts shows excellently how the concept works: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jid2A7ldc_8
Great run down, thanks for sharing that. I wanted to make sure you saw this article, I wonder how it changes things when we have a "fast, cheap and out of control" approach to science with many cheap satellites. The article is about ground-based telescopes, but seems extendable to space-based telescopes.

Optical aperture synthesis with electronically connected telescopes
https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms7852
It doesn't look like an alternative to Medium to me – its a collection of posts by nominated open source developers, as opposed to a technical blogging platform
It's easy not to have email if you have a secretary who filters and prints out the incoming messages for you.

I guess he never orders anything on the net, doesn't use any online services, because those usually require an email address where the receipts and acknowledgements are sent.
That is the thing they call bias: you don't really know, but make guesses and imagine events to confirm pre-conceived idea on who is bad, based on political affiliation, gender and race.
I agree with you. Should be a blanket rule
Is this a cross-app identifier for non logged-in users? I.e if you log in to an app then that provides the tracking identifier (email).
There's actually a good primary source for this cited in the article [0], stating:

"However, at low elevations near twilight at intermediate latitudes (45°–55°, e.g., much of Europe) hundreds of satellites may be visible at once to naked-eye observers at dark sites."

This is referring to Starlink's 12000 satellite constellation, so thousands absolutely is the order of magnitude we're talking about when (if) they go to the planned 30000 and when other companies do the same.

[0] https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ab8016
The field isn’t called patient satisfaction anymore. It’s called patient experience and it is pretty much ubiquitous to ensuring high quality patient care.
I thought the story was that China bailed the world out in 2008 ...
Probably because the content is not public. I heard users just share cat pictures, so there is plausible deniability.
I’m using nfs for Docker on Mac, as its native share system (osxfs) has awful performance. Not the best setup, but didn’t find a better one yet.
While it would be obviously a good idea it will not be do-able from a technological point... first, because such a detection, most likely with cameras, would need to always run even when the car is powered off. That means a lot of electricity being wasted. Second, because it will get abused by thieves - projecting, e.g. with a laser, something onto the cameras and boom, the windows open.
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How does this work at sea? I don't know much about how aggressive (or not) "freedom of navigation" operations really are. They don't appear to be too friendly in the Strait of Hormuz or the South China Sea.

However it is supposed to work and however it does work at sea, is the situation similar for space?

> What if countries decide to extend the airspace to the aerospace?

I imagine the US would consider it an attack and retaliate (maybe economically, militarily, or covertly) against the "attacking" country.
1) we can make an international project to put some telescopes in space, nobody should be excluded because politics, should be only scientists.

2) this always happens, look at intellectual rights. The country with the bigger army forces the rest to play by their rules.
The amount is unknown because very few are studying it. The 10% comes from a German doctor which was interviewed.
> This is why I take 500+ images and process them.

If you do 500 exposures you get 500x read noise of the sensor mixed with signal. Modern CCD and CMOS sensor have low read noise (compared to thermal and shot noise) but not zero.

For scientific observations of faint objects long exposure times on order of hours are necessary, for amateur astrophotography you can just go with multiple exposures.
Not the right term, but certainly a 'dark pattern'. It could be 'button hijacking', though.
I don’t think it would be, however the party considered in breach would be the app developers and not Apple.

Consent should be opt-in and granular (a user might wish to opt-in for one app but opt-out for another one) so every app should’ve already implemented their own toggle (like iOS 14 would force them to) instead of just using it in the background and pointing users to the system-wide setting if they want to opt-out (which isn’t ideal if the user wants to remain opted-in for some apps only).
This displays the critical stance of HN users against Facebook, which is an important expression, culturally.
> People who routinely reset their ecosystem tend to lose then get forgotten.

ARM seems to be doing well and they release binary incompatible chips every so often. And resetting had long been the norm in the world of games consoles.

So I wouldn't take what we observed in the personal computer industry as a universal truth. It's probably rather contingent.
There is no issue with controlled and tracked satellites; we could have orders of magnitude more. The real issue is space junk, derelict satellites and collision debris. In high orbits space junk is essentially permanent pollution, which is very worrying. However, in low orbits space junk is guaranteed to fall out of the sky within a few years due to atmospheric drag. So there is no real space junk issue in low orbits, and SpaceX has modified their constellation plan to use lower orbits for this exact reason.
How would I get people to read it? The search engines of today won't show my tiny blog when they can show a huge, popular site instead. It would take years of work to get any kind of a decent following.
Best thing to do midnight is watching youtube conspiracy videos.
My understanding is, that it's a random and unique identifier, and therfore very high entropy. Pooling that data allows FB to identify you in different apps that use the SDK, even if they don't have any other identifying info.
This does not kill all forms of tracking

What mechanism remains for tracking a user across apps?
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Hello everyone
I am the author of this blog post

OCR is considered a solved problem in general.
But not in entirety.
A key component of it HTR is still a challenging problem

Handwriting Text Recognition(HTR) is the task of recognizing handwritten human text.
Every person has a different style of handwriting.
Thus solving HTR is much more difficult than OCR

It needs to combine the skills of both Computer Vision and NLP.
In this article I cover the progress of techniques in solving HTR and various SOTA models.
In addition I have discussed the way to train your own HTR model on your own dataset

Happy to discuss more if you are interested in solving Handwritten Text Recognition