skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
can satellite dishes be redesigned such that they don't just have a directional peak in sensitivity, but also a controlled suitably low maximum sensitivity in other directions?

or is jamming typically done from drones / airplanes to jam a slanted conical region below them?

when they physically remove dishes, do they discover them typically visually (so they just need to be hidden in a RF transparent box say plastic) or do they already use direction finding on local oscillators?
Is JavaScript dead? what the fuck is my browser running?
The product is aimed at people where time has way more value than money, though.

This will be delivered, perfectly constructed in a home where the cost of the product is nothing for the owner compared to their wealth.

It's not for people whose actual hobby is racing sims, it's for a rich guy that likes to play every now and again.
>The free market in my country has produced two banks that provide banking to 80% of the population (6M people).

I don't want to assume where you are from, but almost every developed country has incredibly complex, expensive, and insurmountable bank licensing procedures which make it impossible for startups to compete. That is not a free market, it is a crony capitalist market which shields incumbents.
> the Character type is closer to what ‘normal’ people think a character is

I'm sure I'm missing some nuanced downside to this, but this sounds fantastic. I've never fully understood the difference between Unicode code points and code units[0], and would love to think less about this sort of thing in Java (for ex. when using String#toCharArray).

[0] I'm just regurgitating language from the String javadoc, this sentence might not even make sense.
The Saturn series might have been enlarged to a level (Nova) that would have been able to push a few hundred tons to Mars in a single launch. But it would have been a slow and super expensive (probably over $10B in today’s dollars for launch alone) trip, and it’s not clear if that’s enough mass to include a return vessel with enough fuel for any size crew.

Given the limitations of nuclear engines, in orbit refueling is the key to making deep space travel possible and affordable. Starship is going to weigh around 100 tons empty, carry around 100 tons of passengers and cargo, but will be over 1,000 tons fully fueled in low earth orbit.

That’s roughly four times the ship & payload that a Saturn V single launch could put into Mars intercept orbit, and Starship can reach Mars in half the time. And it’s cost could be as low as a few hundred million per Mars trip if performance goals are met, making it affordable to launch a fleet of dozens of Starships with hundreds of crews and thousands of tons of supplies and equipment every Synod.

To do this Starship has to show that

1) It can launch and relaunch quickly without a lot of expensive maintenance. Not necessary for Mars versions, but critical for tanker versions needed to fuel them.

2) That its thermal protection system can handle dozens of reentries at very high velocities, such as Mars Intercept speeds.

3) That it can be refueled in orbit, at a scale that has never been done before. Each Mars mission will require 8 tanker flights to top up.

4) That it can provide a robust long term life support system across the various temperature and vacuum levels to and on Mars that will work for years with only on site maintenance.
It's sort of a pun, because the method doesn't need an "end".
Here are the three principles I currently all believe mesh together in discussing stable foundations.

1. Sustainability

2. Chaos

3. Reorganization

Programming in the large has a natural ecosystems quality to it. It resists standardization and falls into patchworks easily. So I have come around to the idea that one should embrace the change and discover points of stability by accident. The sustainable part happens when the system survives chaos and is sufficiently flexible to be reorganized - i.e. there is a benchmark for passing the test.

Long story short, it doesn't come easily by design. Designing small and designing to retarget your output are good ideas, because that reduces two forms of change cost. But we trip over the problem of having immediate solutions at the cost of complexity and single-use implementation. Designing for extension turns your system into a platform, which gives it a definite kind of lifespan and ability to address new problems.

I worked with Go for a while and gradually got fed up with the accumulation of little issues. I have come to the conclusion that Haxe - and most transpiled languages - do the job of sustainability better than Wirthian languages, actually, because being retargetable allows your code some insulation from platform changes. The intent is preserved, and the bulk of breaking changes occur outside the compiler tooling. A cost is paid in having to debug multiple times and often at a distance from the original source, and in having imperfect access to platform features, but this is a much smaller thing than having a codebase with hidden dependencies, which is a thing that constantly sneaks into native code systems, and a thing that makes VM language runtimes grow over time.
This appears to be a banking account and a payment processing system, and not actually giving any money to individuals above the standard index interest rate (which is already given out, but retail banks take their cut).
I really like using Emacs but as soon as I touch a big project I need a point and click friendly IDE with refactoring/smart search support to keep my head from spinning. It would be great with some vanilla autocomplete with a language server thing that "almost just works".
A third category is those chosen for their physical position.
I strongly disagree with your view of Rust.

While it’s true that Rust shows promise in security and embedded, some of the early adopters have been in the server side and microservices.
Oh right. I’m Canadian, so I forget how tied to their jobs Americans are.

Though the non medical ones you mention can generally be handled by insurance. That usually is not tied to work. If you have a year’s savings you can generally afford insurance.
For the first point, use emacs service + emacsclient. Starts instantly.
Responding in your same spirit: Did you notice where it said "Tutorial" in the starting document you ignored, or where it said "Tutorial" in the help menu you ignored?
> It's strict, yes, but most of that strictness helps with eliminating the types of errors that make your app break over and over again at runtime.

Really? Most throwaway-script errors I get are simple things like IO mistakes, mistyped URL, or logic errors. The rust borrow checker is not designed to catch simple mistakes, it's designed for massive multi-threaded applications, e.g. making sure threads access data safely, making sure a variable doesn't get unexpectedly modified by some other file, making sure memory is owned by exactly one place, etc. But in a single-threaded garbage collected script that can fit on your monitor, why should you care? The borrow checker does not check for logic errors; it checks for the things you don't care about.
Time travel backwards is only possible if there is no "soul".

Why? The soul cannot occupy two points in time, it cannot split itself as we would split ourselves in two.

On the time travel backwards a person would immediately cross a point where their soul already existed, and hence a paradox.

If we assume there is no soul, and a person is just a collection of neurons and electrical activity, then time travel backwards is possible, so is teleportation
Perhaps I was too categorical, it is an useless toy... In the context of home security, in others like eldercare or checking the state of unoccupied buildings it might be useful.

Even then I don't think it would in that case, my personal experience tells me that it could be distressing to someone who's disoriented, drones aren't exactly quiet.
(Also it apparently it only moves in premade paths)

A GoPro-esque camera with streaming attached to clothing could be better at that.
A 13-Micron High “Mountain” on a Neutron Star 4,500 Light-Years Away
Where Data Meets Art
The author ignores the "secure" flags on cookies for some reason. This is a standard in pretty much all frameworks now. Most of their ideas of automatic mitm will not work, because the victim will not be logged in on the http connection.
In a generation, vim and emacs will still be around with their minuscule but loyal user bases of tinkerers and VS code will have long been replaced by something newer and flashier.
Was Haiku's file system decided by a contest?

Was Haiku's terminal client decided by a contest?

Was Haiku's window manager decided by a contest?

of course not, why is it ok for UX, audio and design elements to be?
You should watch this to learn the facts about the case:

https://youtu.be/Tb2d9x0amuU

Also:

> "...the new disclosures demonstrate that Mueller’s prosecutors not only pressured Flynn with the possibility of indicting his son; they also secretly assured Flynn’s former counsel... that Flynn’s son would not be prosecuted if Flynn pleaded guilty. "

https://thehill.com/opinion/judiciary/495366-something-seems...

This is also more than a month old and a lot more facts have been released since then. Media simply not reporting them because it doesn't fit the narrative doesn't mean the facts aren't important.
Really? The point why Emacs is better is that it has different keyboard shortcuts?
It can be nice when you're working running code in a repl and don't want to maintain state/code between repl sessions. If you just print the data to stdout, you can just eval it and not have to deal with writing one-off cacheing. It's similar to the use case of pdb where you're forcing yourself into the middle of ten different functions. But print statements are easily added, easily removed, and so is eval.
I'm right with you on the fitness bit, there. Having GPS for all of my runs is fantastic, and you don't have to carry around your whole phone. Music is also nice, especially if you have it on the local storage.
This was a thing starting in the early 10s. URL was something like burgleme.com. It used Facebook posts to identify when people were away from their homes.
WPM? Key layout? Favourite keyboard and switch? Main and/or favourite programming language(s)? IDE/Code editor of choice? How have you been keeping up your typing speed since then?

Not going to let you off so easily here!
(I am bullish on Tesla, so I might be biased in reading your comment)

Thanks for a very insightful and detailed comment. I also watched some of Munro's videos and indeed I had the same take-away that you had.

Time will tell.
> We didn't "choose" to have a free market. A free market is simply the voluntary and spontaneous interaction between free individuals, nothing more, and is entirely natural. Central planning and using coercion to force market outcomes, on the other hand, is definitely not natural.

So what? A free market was the only possible market when society did not have the tools to organize and control resource allocation on the scale its possible today, due to advances in technology and expansion in education. We have better tools today, and we as a society can choose other methods for resource allocation that are now accessible.

This kind of thinking baffles me: horses are the only "natural" way of transportation, by your definition. But we discovered automobiles, trains and all that shebang.
Not really. But I did this: https://liuliu.me/eyes/write-cross-platform-gui-in-swift-lik...

Unlike most comments here, I felt that Swift was a Python replacement to me.
Latest talk about scheduler: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y29SSOS4UOc

Recent summary of scheduler, a little bit out of date (changes to interface): https://www.codeotaku.com/journal/2020-04/ruby-concurrency-f...
Emacs has a lot of selling points, but the keybindings aren't one of them.

I spent weeks trying to switch, but ultimately I found the experience frustrating. UIs follow the same patterns for a reason, it makes it easier for users to adopt the tech.

The biggest draw for me was org-mode with org-babel. I've never seen anything else like it
An ad-hominiem attack would have been to accuse the grandparent of being a shill or an idiot, and I did neither of those. I said their post betrayed a lack of understanding (A.K.A. ignorance); I argued their points on their terms, and did not accuse them of malice or straw-man their argument.

On the other hand, the grandparent did make a statement which could be considered ad hominiem:

>"The US has always been a land for the rich to oppress the poor: the system encourages this. Those who care about the less fortunate are the minority."
I don't think many people are using Vi. Its more likely they are using vim or neovim, which are both far from clunky.
Totally. Curious, do you have any other news/blogs you recommend? I'm always looking for new ones. Epsilon Theory has been a new one for me, although its "pomp" as you put it didn't last long and seems to be on a politically motivated decline, as happened to Venkatesh Rao's blog
I wrote "careless" and "incoherent," not "ungrammatical" or "full of typos." I mean actual failure to communicate because of an apparent lack of interest in communicating effectively.
I imagine a vigorous game of Wii Tennis will cause those candles to flicker.

And will provide a convenient excuse why I was unable to return that serve.
When the open source advocates didn’t like what the closed source companies did, they created open source alternatives. In the case of Linux, those alternatives were so good, that even Azure runs twice as many Linux instances as Windows instances. They won by creating something better.

Android compatible hardware is such a commodity, it’s not that difficult for a company to buy in bulk from an ODM, and put a custom build of AOSP on it. The market just really doesn’t care enough outside of China.
Why our minds can't make sense of Covid-19's enormous death toll
give up on this pile of nak-nak-nak. It’s all too held up by a small bunch of blind fanatics or such. Just use one of the other normal editors. Com’on man, you gotta be blind to not see how idiotic the situation is. And I’ll tell you another thing, these are just fairy tales, all the stories about emacs being great are not delivered in a balanced way. The pain to learn and use all these terrible extensions for basic functionalities is enormous. The amount of stuff that you have to ingest and then the mental space that this takes. It’s just not worth it.
It's not a random document. It's released directly by the DOJ and USAO Jeff Jensen. Everything which doesn't fit the narrative isn't "propaganda".
This bugs me so much. DW's i7-6700HQ laptop only supports 16gb, but my old 1007U supports 32gb. :/
Changing the default UI is a non-problem: new users will like it, old-timers will have an easy time reverting it, or maybe their custom config will undo it right away, depending how it is implemented. Source: I am actually a Vim user, which under Windows comes with some Windows shortcuts by default. I had no problem undoing it.

The idea of copying current UI trends (dark theme, burger menu) however made me think of that quote saying that the best way to anticipate the future is to invent it.

By imitating others you are not modern, you already are behind.

Doing the same thing but only slightly better won't attract much users - Emacs should have learned that from its victories against its clones. Doing something different for the sake of being different won't attract much users either. The challenge - and the opportunity - is to do things differently in order to make something significantly better (vim cough
vim).
It's not that different. But for a company that's trying to be better than a traditional car, maybe it should be? If you need to unlock your phone before unlocking your car, then you don't need to be able to revoke your key remotely.
> wants wrong with being “the C# of Apple”?

Oh nothing. It makes sense for Apple to want a more modern language to replace the now aging Objective C. In turn, that meant Swift was not on my list of languages to try, but instead on my, possibly a language I'll be forced to use one day list, just as Java, C#, JS, and all are, by simply being defacto languages for some platform which depending what you work on, you have no choice over.

But then I started seeing people in the comments claiming things like: "Swift is one of the most interesting languages right now". So I was like... Hum okay, what did I overlook?

Now, I'd be okay with people saying that it improves drastically on C# and Java. If people think Swift is a dramatic improvement because of the sum of its part, like just little details here and there that end up making it much better, and they think that in turn could lead Swift to replace both Java and C# if it gained support on other platforms. That could make it quite interesting as well. So I'd be up to listen to those arguments as well.
Check out the cube by pine64. Not available yet. But I bet it is exactly what you are looking for.

https://www.pine64.org/cube/
Stripe announces new partnership with Salesforce
TIL: Amazon is not run by amateurs.
Where Is the Center of the World Now? New York
Thanks for the feedback. I'll have to update the TOS to be more clear. For the record, the app doesn't collect location.

I think you're totally right to distrust TOS. Most have some really BS conditions, especially for free stuff. In this though, it was just an oversight on my part.
>I don’t know about martial arts. But at least in the few professions I do understand, you cannot just do a few exercises diligently for ten years and come out a master.

As a guy who did martial arts and competed in small tournaments, and as a recent fan of sumo, victories are more won by narrow experts. They learn the basics enough to not be surprised, find something that works for them, and then intensely focus on how to set up fights so their specialty works.
Maybe he has a clear eye toward the practical effect of mentioning his "painting credentials". To say he wasn't sticking to his principles, I think you would have to say he was allowing his own decisions to be unduly influenced by credentials, not just mentioning his own.
I think the author fails to understand the meaning of enlightenment. When you are enlightened in Dharmic eastern religions like Buddhism and hinduism, there is no what, you are in eternal ever lasting bliss and happiness, there is no chasing material desires as you don't care for them. But because we are in a capitalist mindset and we can't get out of it, we expect everything to have something more to gain from it with "now what", which is the greed and ego that enlightenment itself removes.
Link for the curious: https://hu.ma.ne/
Expressing pity on the internet, and voting for politicians who promise to fix things are "way[s] to assuage your guilt without actually addressing the root causes that created poverty and inequality in the first place." Charity can actually help people, whereas your words and your vote are basically worthless.
Cloud Native Computing Foundation accepts Backstage as a sandbox project
As reboot of Babe the gallant pig in Africa, it works. The other option, ending as african prairie hotdog, was worse paid :-)
I said:

> (I'm not against CUA bindings by default - merely pointing out a misconception you have).

And you respond with:

> I don't really buy the argument I'm afraid.

And then you write a whole comment about how CUA is better.

Which argument did I make that you don't buy? Why is this a reply to my comment?

> I do think it's well worth a look at present-day alternatives and to make sure it doesn't fall behind.

In all my jobs that used IDEs (including JetBrains's excellent stuff), I used both the IDE and Emacs - the latter for text editing, etc. The former for all the goodies it brings (navigation, etc). There's no law saying it has to be one or the other. IDEs becoming very popular in no way threatens Emacs.

> Because I think it actually has fallen behind, and it needs to get its act together to retain its relevance.

I could really easily write a whole article on all the features Emacs has that many more popular editors don't have, and then end the article with "Those other editors are falling behind."

We have to clearly delineate what "falling behind" means, and whether it is relevant. VS Code gaining in popularity doesn't necessarily impact Emacs. In my career I've met an order of magnitude more Vim users, and Emacs is not the worse because of it. Emacs's capabilities have grown much faster than Vim's has, and Emacs has a lot more users than it used to. Furthermore, most Vim users I've encountered at work are not fairly advanced users: They just need something to edit files with. Having them switch to Emacs will neither help them nor the Emacs community.

I don't mind some of the proposed changes (nicer defaults, revamping the tutorial, etc). But I really don't want a mindless goal of increasing user counts. More users will not make Emacs gain more capabilities. Passionate users will.
It's probably like good art: you have to find your own niche. The "next YC" will probably be very different from YC, as well as everything else out there.
That's probably true but we also have like two major supermarket chains, so I think it's hard to make the case that government regulation is the only cause of monopolies.
> commoners

When you use the word 'commoners', is this akin to the word consumers, in contrast to producers - who make and invent the things commoners/consumers buy and use? I'm asking because this definition comes up from Wikipedia:

"Commoner: The common people, also known as the common man, commoners, or the masses, are the ordinary people in a community or nation who lack any significant social status, especially those who are members of neither royalty, nobility, the clergy, nor any member of the aristocracy."

> Labor laws greatly expanded protections for the commoners, as did Social Security and other welfare programs.

Many argue those post-war gains are being wiped out [1]

[1] https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2016/11/precariat-global-clas... or video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnYhZCUYOxs
I tried to be accommodating and suggested at least 5 different means of sharing the video with the police. I even offered to provide a description of the person I saw in the video, and they told me not to bother.

I got the distinct impression that even if I did jump through hoops to provide a DVD that they wouldn't be seriously investigating the theft. The officer who took my statement basically said as much.
Oh nice! I guess it's less limited than I thought!
I've made some done some stuff with ESP8266 boards - remote controllers for our A/C minisplits[1], motors for our shades[2], and a humidity sensor (DHT11) for our crawlspace.

Most devices are connected to HomeKit through a Pi running Homebridge. I wanted voice control and Apple is the company I distrust the least since they at least pretend to care about privacy.

I have only messed around a little with HomeAssistant, but that's what I would recommend if you want entirely locally controlled home automation. They even have a voice assistant[1] but for now it's worse than Siri, which is really saying something.

1: https://github.com/SwiCago/HeatPump
2: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:2392856
3: https://www.home-assistant.io/blog/2019/11/20/privacy-focuse...
macOS by day and Linux by night, my experience with the constant switching
TypeScript has this too
I Spent My Quarantine