skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Seems they didn't even get around to doing so, rather asking other carriers to stop peering with them.

https://twitter.com/TeliaCarrier/status/1300074378378518528?...
Sure, but please stop requiring clinical trials for new medicine, as they have no more relevance than throwing a coin. Oh, and stop throwing coins, as the result is correlated with the future decision which you will take anyway.

In general, all of modern science, starting with quantum mechanics, depends on the idea that statistical independence exists. To truly abandon this idea, we would abandon almost all of the mathematical apparatus that has given us QM and all experimental observations of QM.
I think it's more like if you were quizzed on the chemical structures associated with various coffee aromas
Probably not, but satellites are not the only choice for connecting people to the internet. Sure, they win at the rule-of-cool contest, but traditional terrestrial copper and fiber optics (maybe with some RF backhaul for the really remote places) would have also worked without the complexity of launching spacecraft and building a network of ground stations.
> Most of the deaths happened during the unrests between bands, people settling scores

That’s scary
Are these new constellations at low enough altitude to re-enter within a few years, or what?
Schrödinger's cat was also supposed to show a paradox not be a cool quantum magic physics thing.
Summary: On August 30, 2020 10:04 GMT, CenturyLink identified an issue
to be affecting users across multiple markets. The IP Network Operations
Center (NOC) was engaged, and initial research identified that an
offending flowspec announcement prevented Border Gateway Protocol (BGP)
from establishing across multiple elements throughout the CenturyLink
Network. The IP NOC deployed a global configuration change to block the
offending flowspec announcement, which allowed BGP to begin to correctly
establish. As the change propagated through the network, the IP NOC
observed all associated service affecting alarms clearing and services
returning to a stable state.

Source https://puck.nether.net/pipermail/outages/2020-August/013229...
Let alone the billions that will benefit from the opening of Earth orbit as a new frontier of industry. Good satellite internet is the profitable usecase that will drive development of space. The article already points out that we're already seeing a rush of private and national interests, it's got legs. Start looking for real estate and industries that will be in a postion to support this.
I can make a beautiful conspiracy theory out of this. hell, I could even connect it to operation gladio
As per the article, Republicans support nuclear at a substantially higher rate than Democrats:

> A 2019 Gallup poll [1] found that 65 percent of Republicans strongly favored nuclear energy but only 42 percent of Democrats did so.

1. https://news.gallup.com/poll/248048/years-three-mile-island-...
Not to mention the "insurance" possibilities as soon as the mafia gets one of those!

Gee that's a nice spy sat you have there. Would be a shame if it "caught fire" when you are not looking now wouldn't it. Luckily we have one of our sats nearby to keep an eye out for it, waddaya say?
And yet no one wants to or can pay for fiber optics going to all of the rural places that billions of people live.

Maybe the astronomers who complain about starlink can start a fund where they pay to build out rural internet access for the few billion people who don't have access right now.
Can it do a PDF export? I'm usually providing a PDF of my slides with some comments, as people pretty much always request that if I don't.
I read a long article on Paradise. The town was developed by a group of libertarian developers who took a lot of pride in working around California's regulations on subdivisions. California has rule that kicks in when a property is subdivided more than four times. They worked around that by subdividing the property 4 times, wait then do it again 4 times. Ended up with houses on lots that are too large for the owners to maintain. They don't have fire hydrants. And often there is only one exit.

Paradise also is a bad location that is subject to dangerous wind conditions.

One thing I noticed when looking at zoning regulations in Nevada county is they don't allow for subdivisions that are defensible. Defensible means clusters of houses on small lots. With fire hydrants. But you can't build that anymore.
PPS: In case you're interested in speaker notes, I used `present` + tmux + a keylogger + reveal.js speaker notes view for a presentation last week. I posted about it here: https://vinayak.io/2020/08/24/day-11-reveal-keylogger-tmux-p...

Though I want to work on a terminal-based speaker notes view some time! https://github.com/vinayak-mehta/present/issues/5
The members of a system can 'experience' free will from their perspective, but it's a still a deterministic line of causation; their free will is part of the determinism.
Two letters appeared on a Safari tab, I typed them and nothing happened. Why?
So fun. I like to imagine the workings of the universe as an infinite dimensional game of life. Not sure how we will ever wrap our minds around the complexity.
The bigger problem is the VC scum behind the company which as per the typical VC playbook does not care about the negative externalities caused by their creation and will only do the minimum they can get away with.

> In January, Bigham discovered cameras in his rental that he says were never disclosed. After he reached out to the Trust & Safety team, representatives told him he and his family had in fact consented to the cameras because they were visibly displayed in photos on the listing. After Bigham’s blog post on the ordeal went viral, Airbnb apologized and refunded his money.

This kind of behavior is often explained by excuses like incompetence, human error or poor training. There are 2 possible outcomes:

1) It's an obvious lie and tells you everything you need to know about the company, but somehow people keep swallowing it instead of calling BS.

2) It's the true reason but highlights the fact that serious incidents like these are delegated to people with insufficient training because the company doesn't consider the problem serious enough to invest in proper training.

Either option doesn't look good. This is not limited to Airbnb by the way; here are some past examples from other VC-funded companies:

Kitsplit's mis-sold insurance doesn't actually protect against stolen gear, fobs the person off but then does the obvious damage control and pretends to care when the story blew up (no fucks given about the impact on the people until their own reputation becomes at risk): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20276631

Wag "dog walking as a service" startup that tries to silence a killed dog's owners with an NDA, again no concerns for the wellbeing of the owners, only concern about their own reputation: https://www.facebook.com/nick.moore.7140/posts/3600186133211

Wag again, realizing that their entire business model is broken, introduces predatory fees to stay afloat that might not even be enforceable in court: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20854100

I could find many more examples (even from companies I unfortunately worked for in the past - because yes, as a lot of people here I used to be drinking the startup koolaid and was part of the problem too) but I think it's enough to show a clear pattern here - these companies could not care less about the negative externalities of their business or actions on society at large.
There are other ways to get cheap internet...but Musk et al are actually doing this. No one else is working on some earth-based plan for getting the last few billion people on the internet AFAICT. Google and facebook did some things with balloons and aircraft but that was more of a tech demo than an actual attempt to provide internet service.
I stand corrected then. I wonder why for a cohort that doesn't believe in science.
Not currently. A lot of people have requested that feature, I'll look into how that can be done! Tracking it here: https://github.com/vinayak-mehta/present/issues/43
This is a perfect example of what I was talking about in other parts of this thread.

Developers have this really bad habit of coming to conclusions that don't actually follow from the premise.

The fact that they made the assumption that an SSN would be input exactly the way it's always input everywhere is not indicative that they would make dangerous assumptions elsewhere.

If someone were to bring that up to me I'd probably laugh at them and tell them to write an extra function to normalize the input first and pass that off to the validation function because they're separate concerns.

Because that's exactly what I would do, assume it's in the typical format. And if it came to light that the SSN had to be normalized, I'd normalize it at the edge of the system rather than making my validation function more complicated by giving it concerns that are unrelated to validation.

Which means you wouldn't hire me, despite my 24+ years of experience building software.
Are algorithm interviews just a legal loophole? They allow companies to do something that is nominally illegal: discriminate against candidates with anxiety disorders and women.[1]

[1] https://news.ncsu.edu/2020/07/tech-job-interviews-anxiety/
So making a profit most of the time means that you have 100,000 customers whose live are better off because of what you're doing.

Sometimes this breaks down because you make other people's lives worse in order to make the 100,000 better, i.e. externalities.

But continuing to get funding for doing a social good means you're convincing someone you're making someone's else's life better(i.e. nonprofits). The problem is sometimes this convincing is entirely unrelated to actually making people's lives better.

Or you're convincing a beaurocrat that you'll make his life better. And hopefully the incentive structures are aligned such that this involves making someone's else's life better. But this can be incredibly tricky with the layers of reporting up to some political appointee who reports to a politician who reports to the people. And any break in incentives or more likely attention along the way can misalign the work with social good.
Uber employees sue over stock price decline
yes yes yes yes yes. can’t wait to try this out. heavy vimium user
One this I always notice to be missing from discussions of quantum physics is the effect of scale. Does differences scale have relativistic effects, in a similar manner to differences in internal frames, and if at what do events in one scale frame of reference become simultaneous of an observer in another?

Note: IANAP
Cameras pointed at the bed? Sounds like voyeurism not security
Chis,
If somebody hires you based on this thread let us (or me) know who the employer is.

Like 'headmelted' pointed out, part of 'agiesm' is that it’s just that you’ll be impossible to abuse relative to someone who they know needs the money.

Programmers, especially the young are insecure douche bags, and I suspect that their insecurity leads to hiring docile individuals who can be coerced.
It's finee, compared to the multitude of other problems facing humanity this one is so so small and solvable, it feels like an HoA complaint. It's like demanding that your housemate who likes to talk on the phone at night keep your schedule rather than putting in some earplugs. People love to get mad.
Now we just need to make it affordable.

Cost overruns seem to be a big problem in the industry. The US recently canceled 2 plants, and we’re struggling to finish the other 2.
It's definitely not just a problem at AirBnB's. It's also a problem at Korean love hotels for example https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggYIsnUgUdU&feature=youtu.be

AirBnB's are more affected though, as the penalty might just be a warning/fine/bad review affecting a single property. At a hotel, the entire hotel of X rooms would be affected by the bad publicity, so they have more at stake.
this is essential the key (haha) to all shared/shared scenarios, regardless of what tech they are implemented with. The challenge can be migrating from single tennant to this could be fairly impactful, depending on how you built your original solution.
We went through great lengths to be able to do parameterized YAML using jinja2 templates. I designed a system that let us effectively create a new yaml out of two other yamls which let us handle repetitive configuration tasks reasonably well but there were occasional unexpected challenges thanks to the syntactically significant white space of yaml.
That’s an ok(ish) definition of indistinguishability for a block cipher, but not for a mode of operation like ECB.
Agree, like a Clay mathematics prize.

The current answer is amazing screen saver, but part of me thinks the answer is in microbots that are super simple to build and have limited instructions, but could be placed in a configuration to do something useful (like build more?)
About 3k un-natural deaths in total for the year, in a country of 3mill. Which is a lot, but considering the country has about 30 mini-regions/towns, it is about 100 deaths per region. (in contrast, Oakland, CA has about 60-110 murders a year, (depending on the year).

Currently the whole country has about 50-60 murders per year, which is close to the E.U. average,

When I saw the movie 'The Purge', I was like: that's like Albania in 97....
So, you're bitter because you didn't get educational discounts just because you live in Taiwan. Because of this, you decided to not give .edu discounts. I.e. you turn against the "privileged" .edu students rather than the companies that were too lazy to extend discounts to non-US universities. That's just a misguided grudge (to say the least).

What do you really expect to gain business-wise by publicizing a misguided personal grudge with a poorly written post? You don't mention you live in Taiwan. You don't even mention that you give discounts to non-US universities. So, in the end, you come out no better than those "other" companies. The post doesn't work as a publicity stunt either, as you make no mention of the product you're selling.

Why not opaquely offer e.g. a 10% discount to .edu emails and a %40 discount to less-"privileged" universities. No explanations needed, you just receive a discount code in your email address. No drama, no grudges, no need to write lengthy posts and argue with strangers on HN.

Disclosure: Never had a .edu email.
Cellular automata are like the `y = m * x + b` of the algorithmic universe.

Personally, I believe it is inevitable that a vast and rich new mathematical world will spring up around simple computational systems, where they are the primary object of study and not relegated to being games, "simulations" of something else, curiosities, etc. CAs are just the "hello world" of this universe.

In that future, your attitude will be seen as a kind of parochial holdout of 20th century attitudes.

The new mathematics will:

* privilege finite, discrete systems

* be explicitly constructivist

* not shy away from computational enumeration and
classification

* be much more visual, but no less rigorous than our last few hundred years of mathematics

* make deep connections with many new technological systems, like Git, distributed systems, blockchains, computer networks, trust networks, social networks, etc.

* most importantly, be way more fun than old math!

It will exploit to the full the capabilities of computer systems to make the new systems tangible, so that the idea of a 'math paper' will be itself quite old fashioned -- most mathematical work will start with forking a Git repo or the equivalent, and most communication and education will be interactive interrogation of computational systems using a kind of souped-up, computation-focused REPL. It's the kind of mathematics that will be natural when Brett Victor's ideas are actually implemented.

Wolfram's NKS book is the prototype work of this kind, but it will also be seen as quite a product of its time and of the author's prior commitments to physics, math, etc. And of course distorted by the classic Wolfram immodesty.r
Made me think of this that I have used previously: http://suso.suso.org/xulu/Shellshow

I had played with writing a pandoc filter that would add formatting escape sequences based on markdown, your tool does a better job than where I got to.

One thing I want in a tool like this is to be able to display ascii charts like from gnuplot, which is why I liked the simplicity of Shellshow. I will have to dig in to see if this is possible, if not I expect it would be easy to add.
Is Big Oil really in trouble?

Or is it just the aspiration of so many hoping Big Oil is in trouble?

EVs are starting to sell in some volume in some locations.

Exxon Mobil has just been replaced on the S&P 500.

CV19 work from home is limiting some people’s personal direct use of liquid energy.

But it wouldn’t be embellishment to say we die without liquid energy.

If I had to make one single bet with a 5-10 year time horizon it would be going long on Big Oil.

Exxon Mobil’s specifically, due to it having the largest war chest, proven reserves in stable countries, and extraction technology.

I look forward to a post-petroleum economy, but we aren’t going to get there today, tomorrow, or next week.
No principal investigator of a clinical trial has perfect knowledge of the current state of reality, nor the means to calculate subsequent states. Therefore statistics are very useful.
There's a saying about "Why look for conspiracy, where incompetence explains so much?"

That may be something that comes from it, but it really is about people that have been taking it in the shorts for decades, and have felt completely powerless (by design) to affect it. The "defund" thing is a blunt instrument that they hope would work; more as leverage to effect change, than anything else.

Of course, there are anarchists, who want all restraint removed from society. Those types of folks can usually be found in The Darwin Awards.

The rich are just really good at leveraging anything to their advantage, and have the tools to do it. They'll usually come out on top; regardless of what happens.

It's just that nowadays, "The Rich" includes a lot of young folks that look a lot like their employees. It isn't just a bunch of old robber barons with handlebars and muttonchops, anymore.
So if I decide to change my own behavior rather than trying to change my spouses behavior, it's because I'm really saying the marriage is broken?

That's a non-sequitur.
It wasn't civil war, it was anarchy. I was there.

People lost the money they thought they had 'invested' for irrational high returns (sometimes over 20% a month). Then they started protesting when the schemes collapsed.

Certain groups first attacked the police. Police melted away. Anarchy ensued.
A colleague implemented a hybrid system for a SaaS product he was leading. Normally the product is a single app, single database with column as a tenant ID discriminator, but for specific tenants he built in an option to specify a separate database. This allowed all tenants that wanted higher performance or data saved in a separate location to be able to buy in, while most of the tenants were in a multitenant database.

Solution I implemented on my project (IoT) was shared apps, shared database. When we were starting the project, we decided to use a column as a discriminator and designed the system so that developers for entities that need to be tenant specific, just need to extend an abstract class, the rest of the system detects when you are trying to save or load such an entity and in those cases it applies a filter or automatically assigns the tenant ID. This means that normal developer can work just like he would on a single tenant application. I feel this is pretty normal stuff.
I am not evading any local regulations, BitMex is.

The Ontario Securities Commission trying to keep Ontario residents safe by not allowing them to trade on exchanges that have not been regulated by them.

I was already in violation of the OSCs wishes prior to BitMex banning the use of my account from inside of Ontario.
A threat to retaliate is a form of retaliation.
well i mean vimium implements a lot of similar bindings from com.

navigation
visual selection
find
scroll
Who Is Hiring in London?
I'm looking for a VP of Engineering position in a startup in London (or whereabouts). I am clever and hardworking, and very opinionated about everything.
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For strongly type languages (like Java), how can ==true make it more clear?
Then those kinds of rules should apply both ways: Apple's can't disparage others either.
It's such an irrelevant surface-level thing to judge someone's intelligence and coding ability on. Just because they wrote that doesn't mean they don't understand that it could be simplified or that they aren't capable of handling much more complex boolean logic. Sometimes I write things like that just because I am typing my thoughts into code as they come to me, and that's just how I happened to vocalise it in my head.
You mean like this? https://github.com/abishekvashok/cmatrix
Is this satire LOL
Not all that relevant to the article, but students in southeast Asia(I was in a Sri Lankan university) rarely ever get access to any of these discounts. The only educational discounts I remember getting are free licenses to some Microsoft products, because the Microsoft regional manager for the country was a friend of my department head, and github students pack.

We never got access to any Adobe, Mathematica, or any other math/engineering related software. Only things we had access to was couple of half a decade old dog slow computers in a "lab" with similarly old software versions with legit licenses. Students used to use cracked versions of everything to get stuff done.
You may know this already but emacs keys are supported in all text input areas on Mac. Carl-a (start of text), Carl-e (end of text) Carl-k (cut Text to end of line) Carl-y (yank/paste cut text) and many more.
Sean is amazing and has great expertise with webrtc, excited to read this :)
Albania was not communist at the time, and Italy mostly wanted to help as it had already a lot of Albanian immigrants at the time, and Italian - Albanian relations are excellent. (we forgave them for the multiple times they tried to invade us between 1919 and 1943. They actually built a lot of stuff, and the current Tirana's center and architecture was built by Italians in the 1939-1942 period), and Italy is currently a good ally.

The conspiracy theory is the army depot were destroyed open by agents paid by the Greek government, which wanted an excuse to invade the south of Albania.... (which it had tempted back in 1920).

Those theories were not that far off, they were seriously planning to send some kind of invasion. One reason that many Albanians don't like Greeks in general. They have historically been a bad neighbor.
This strategy is really hard to make work with 100's or 1000's of tennants because of the resource overhead and scaling issues, even with virtualization. It makes integration a hard problem if you sell a modular or component-based suite of options as well.
The Cloud Skills Shortage and the Unemployed Army of the Certified