skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the analogy works the other way. Thermodynamics, like politics, is a thing we can't be rid of. Therefore, even if you don't care about the exact temperature of your groceries, put them in the fridge. If you have a bag of fresh bread, milk, and frozen meat, it's a lot better to stick the whole bag in the fridge than leave the whole bag in the counter. Obviously it would be even better to put them away properly, but if you want to not care as much as possible, you still have to care a little bit. There's no way to avoid it completely, and ignoring it doesn't make it go away and is certainly not meritorious.

The NRA is "more political" in the sense of their daily activities, of course, but I think you could construct a great argument that the IETF has more impact on world politics (or, let's say, the governments of the world) than the NRA. Everyone knows the NRA is taking an absolutist give-everyone-an-AR-15 stance; they work very hard on it, but at this point they're almost an anchor. Some parts of the US give easy access to guns, and they're going to do so regardless. Other parts (NYC, where I live) make it very hard to access guns, and the NRA isn't able to do much more. And the rest of the world doesn't care. Meanwhile, the IETF, in how it chooses to distribute power to network operators vs. service providers vs. end users, which protocols it facilitates standardization work on, who is in the room, what sorts of threats cryptographic protocols protect against, etc., has a lot of influence on who has power over digital communications.

I think I'd even argue that it's more important for someone at the IETF to be aware of the political implications of their work than someone at the NRA. The NRA has an obviously political mission; whether you choose to pay attention to it in how you do your job and what you prioritize or not, you're going to further that mission. (Imagine, for instance, being a gun-control advocate at the NRA and see how much impact you'll have.) The IETF's mission is more open-ended, which means you can develop protocols to facilitate government surveillance or to subvert it, depending on what you think is more important.
Pretty much everyone on this site would likely switch to starlink given the chance despite the limitations you listed. I doubt very many of them are "rich." - ltehacks.com
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The problem is ISPs dont provide any options for decent upload speed. I have a 200 Mbit download connection and spectrum throttles upload to 10. There are no symmetric options. Users can never win against a vertically integrated monopoly.
Chrome tools will tell you if it meets the minimum "don't sue me" standards, not whether it's readable. Their other choices - thin stroke font, minimal font size - make the contrast insufficient.
A 'principled stand' in Russia would be to accept all the legal punishments that would come from flouting Russian law and the moral conventions of the dominant religion in Russia. That would be consistent with the principles of 'civil disobedience.'

However, globocorps do not do that. They are woke where the educated elite are aggressively secular and the laws support it, and they are profit focused and 'business-first' where it isn't. The US educated elite is under a mistaken impression that its secularism is 'tolerant' or 'universal' when it is actually rather parochial, particular, and incompatible with most of the largest global faith groups. The US outlook is also incompatible with Chinese political culture, and China will control the largest and most significant economic power bloc over the next 30 years -- no one else will be close, including the rapidly declining US.
You're not even allowing for the idea of opposition to exist which is a radical view pretty similar to the ones held by all the people you have mentioned.
Try writing in Nim ... at least one compiler bug per day.
You can only attack difference that is broadcasted. "Keep to yourself" is another way of phrasing it. This means don't go advertising and monpolizing the attention of others with your differences. Live your private live in private.
I mean, technically you need to drag a cable AND place a tower, unless you want really awful service.

I have heard Kuiper is going to focus on basically eliminating the cable, though, and do space-to-tower, and let the tower be the last mile. I don't have any hard information to back that, though.
While the advancements are impressive, do you have any more insight into the improvements in rendering technology?

Also, I'm not a graphic designer, but I spoke with a developer years ago who mentioned that indoor and outdoor rendering are quite different. Your image is an outdoor scene, but the NVidia video focuses on indoor architecture. (I see that they have a window in their example with some grass, but it's not a very wide space.) Do you think your rendering time would have been cut down back then if you composed a scene similar to what NVidia demoed? Any thoughts on RTX outdoor rendering?
No one is saying opposition to the so called status quo should be silenced. Simply that political advocacy may be outside the scope of your role as an employee for your company.
Nitpick: those if statements need parentheses.

> unsigned char can be as wide as an int, so "p1[i] - p2[i]" may actually evaluate to unsigned int which is not what you want

Would this matter?
For me, on Windows10/FF82b4, I had to click the reader view mode. No clue why it rendered like that by default.
Ah ok, thanks. I guess in that case a good strategy could be to pursue a lot of specific goals, even if they don't seem worth it on the face of it. Seems like an approach the Ig Nobel awards would appreciate.
I get what you're saying, but decreasing vision acuity is one thing everybody in this world is guaranteed to run into (barring an early death, that is).
Even the most expensive cellular data subscription will cost much less than the cheapest satellite internet connection, assuming you are comparing apples-to-apples (bitrate and total data transfer).
So what does the future hold? Will there be left-leaning companies and right-leaning companies? What if I am centrist? So when I apply for a job, do I have to make sure my political leaning fits with the employer? Brave, brave new world.
I had whitespace removed by XSLT moment. Why would a format designed for application consumption have insignificant whitespace?

Also HTML whitespace handling makes all sort of bugs in contenteditable. Chrome inserts &nbsp; instead of space, finally found solution

* { white-space: pre-wrap }

Still it removes first newline in <pre>, at least that is solved in XHTML.

I would love to see how XSLT can be implemented on s-expressions. Attributes are not required.
Seattle minimum wage is $16.39 an hour for companies with more than 500 employees. Otherwise it's essentially $15.75/hour.

edit: either i misread your post or you edited it right as i posted this
This is heartening. I've made some goofy stuff recently that I've been vacillating between releasing or not.

The most complete thing is a uhh.. parody text editor.. game. I've seen other indie projects recently that gave me all sorts of imposter syndrome and made me second guess the value in something so critical as a text editor made for laughs. I'm encouraged by a 28$ icon pack to wrap it up and put it out there, even if it's for 2$ and doesn't sell at all. Ride or die, right?
They're probably operating on hope. Maybe something happens in 2 weeks like a company announcing they've been making billions of doses of fool-proof vaccine. Or more likely, governments relaxing restrictions because they can't handle the economic pain anymore. Or the flights are actually legally possible, but if only 5 people have booked the route, they don't want to burn all that fuel and pay all the wages and fees to earn the 5 ticket prices, so they'll wait to see if a profitable amount of passengers show up (makes me think of buses in Asia that wait until they're full before setting off...).

Also if you've paid them and they cancel, guess who can use your money to try and survive for a few weeks more. Or even longer since they can give you a voucher.
Heh, the whole page just looks black to me, and I have normal vision and the latest version of Firefox.
Yes, it would be a necessarily political act in direct furtherance of the company's mission, not a misdirection of finite resources and effort.
> your political agenda

And the alternative is the company's political agenda. So you are saying we must all, 8+ hours a day, support our employers political agenda, and then in the time remaining we can try to counteract that a bit.

If you think political action begins and ends at the vote then you have a lot to learn about the nature of politics in practice.
Like the rest of teenage engineering's products, I'm not sure what this thing is about, but I probably will be buying it.
> Companies muscle in on workers' identity.

Great point. Maybe this is it?

I have been skeptical of work activism, but maybe it makes given the size of the lever (vs alternative activism options).
No idea since I don't live in Vienna but afaik worse than in German/Swiss tech hubs but at a lower CoL.

Whether the overall salary/CoL ratio is a better deal for you here than in the other hubs really depends on how good your salary is and how much you'll spend.
If that location had internet already it was presumably acting as a base station.

Starlink needs somewhere to send packets to eventually, ideally without wasting bandwidth and latency by bouncing off ground relays, so it makes sense that they would setup a ground station at the closest place with intact high-speed internet during disaster recovery efforts.
Thanks for a detailed, honest, and inspiring share. That’s a pretty amazing story.
> Being trans is not political.

Until that trans person needs to go to the bathroom.
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I mean, I agree with you, but it's still not work appropriate discussion.
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> I (and many others) are of the opinion that you can’t truly be apolitical; claiming to be so is its own form of politics

This is a Kafka trap
I've been on a bit of a roman history binge lately, fueled by the discovery of Mike Duncan's podcast, "The History of Rome" so I'm going to tell the story I understood from that here for context:

In his telling, the Catiline Conspiracy was a product of its time: Marius and Sulla showed the Roman aristocracy that if you just ignored the law and had popular support + an army, you could basically do whatever you want, and so that became the norm for the next generation.

At the time, Cicero was one of the two Consuls, the heads of state that were elected yearly by the senate. And Pompey, a charismatic and popular Roman general was in command of a large army and had just won some wars in the east. Cicero was afraid of what Pompey might do with all his popularity and legions (again, ambitious men taking what they wanted by flouting laws was all the rage).

So when Cicero learned of a (not very well-organized) coup was being organized by senator Catilina, he attempted to use it as a way to unite the Roman senate against treasonous behaviour.

Cicero convinced the senators, and Catilina was exiled, protesting that he'd been mistreated. But he went and joined the army of centurion Manlius, who was helping organize the rebellion.

The rebels then tried to get a Gallic tribe, the Allobroges, to join them, but were betrayed to the senate and letters they had sent were used by Cicero to convince them to sentence five of the conspirators to death without trial.

Julius Caesar, at this point just another politician, protested this "sentenced to death without trial" outcome loudly, seeing Cicero as an enemy of his own ambitions.

For the rest of his life, putting five men to death without trial would be brought to discredit Cicero again and again, including being used as an excuse to exile him.

@throwanem -- does that sound like a reasonable summary of the context of your comment?
Crystal has no metaprogramming. Lang is far less useful than Ruby imo, doesn’t deserve equal comparison.
This is excellent! Lots of potential here.

On mobile, I just tested the default French lesson. Right now, the 'dictionary' seems to be displayed dependent on where the last appearance of the word in the text. This means that if I select a word in the first paragraph but the word also appears in the last paragraph, I have to scroll to the bottom to see its definition (and add it to 'my list'). (ex: 'protestaires' in the default FR lesson) The column, in mobile view, gets bumped to the bottom.

I don't think you have to go as far as a modal window - something as simple as 'position:fixed' would let it pop on top of the text (though right now, the dictionary box doesn't have a defined independent class and is not contained). It's probably best for the large-screen view as well: you don't want your text body to be moving around while reading.

But seriously, this is one of the simplest, smartest and most extensible language learning tools I've come across. Thank you for sharing it.

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It's a FF/Webkit quirk, but because the parent element (.bx--content) has 'transform' property applied to it, it will prevent the child div from actually responding to 'position:fixed'.
might be a fun guitar amp with interesting loop effects
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> comparing function pointers is not deterministic

The comparison is deterministic - the perhaps unexpected part is that two distinct but identical functions in the source code are folded into one in the binary.
I would think re-publishing that data violates the copyright of the original publishers.
Personally, when I was commuting for work I would spend the 90 min ride in or back working on some things, though I spent more time with the OP-Z.

Sure it takes time to reacclimate to the controls but these things are not simple machines like bicycles. The overlays with the OP-Z for example are really handy for quick reference.
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You aren’t being paid to promote your political agenda, you are being paid to perform your function as an employee. If you don’t support your company’s agenda, why would you work there?
Such as?

Petrochemical fuels afford a near unbeatable energy/volume and energy/mass density. The best theoretical battery might attain 1/10th this, practical batteries are nearer 1/100th, if that. A ~100 kWh battery holds the equivalent of 2 gallons / 8 litres of petrol or diesel.

Electrics have advantages of vastly more efficient potential-to-kinetic energy conversion (90%= rather than 30% for an ICE), a more efficient drivetrain (often in-wheel motors), and regenerative braking. Air and tyre drag are equivalent for both domains.

Capacity, energy management, and recharge access are all there is.

Two-order-of-magnitude improvements in any non-informational domain are both very hard-won and utterly transformational. Commercial passenger aircraft are ~2 orders of magnitude faster than walking. A semi-trailer has ~2 orders of magnitude more cargo capacity than a man with a wheelbarrow.

Getting two orders of magnitude out of long-haul road-based heavy-cargo EVs is a very tall order. Mains-fed electric trainsets would be a far more likely technology, and are extant and commercially proven
This has not been my experience trying to get internet at a not-at-all-remote cottage.
>Hi guys, I am part of the team working on all things T2.

So there is a team working on this? What is the incentive model? Are you paid to do this work? What is the revenue model?

I woke up today learning my MacBook Pro is now substantially less secure but why? So I can run games on the touch bar? So I can use the T2 as a raspberry pi?
How does that work now for part-time work? I would assume that working at Walmart for 10 hours doesn't include a clause that says I can't work at Target for 10 hours as well.

All of this gets messier because most "normal" jobs in this space don't let you pick your hours. It's clear you can't literally be in two places at once, but you can be "on call" with Uber and Lyft at the same time if you want to, and it's somewhat beneficial to all parties for them to do so.
> A passive stance is, by definition, not active support for anything.

Passive support for the status quo is that we all have to work and survive in this world. If you have to work for an airline to live, but hate what co2 emissions is doing for this world, you are passively supporting the currently political narrative.

Insisting that any belief that is non-status quo be silenced is active political action. You can pretend that it's passive, but that is just a cowardly way of abdicating political responsibility.
Many do, yes. In the north american market there's the "consumer grade" VSAT category for stuff like viasat/hughesnet/wildblue/xplornet highly oversubscribed small ku/ka-band VSAT terminals, with monthly costs under $200/mo.

In the developing nation market, go to a remote part of some place in Nepal that has no fiber or terrestrial microwave links back to the big cities. Find an "internet cafe", what you're likely to see on the roof is something like this, a cheap 1.2 meter VSAT on the roof with a 4W BUC:

https://www.satsig.net/vsat-equipment/andrew-123-antenna-mou...

In a highly contended, highly oversubscribed TDMA network in some ISP's small piece of one transponder, linked back to an earth station elsewhere. For 200, 300, 400 bucks a month.

What's going to change is the quality of service and speeds that somebody in $small_nepalese_city is going to get for their 250 dollars a month.
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It's a bitter truth but it's true. Everyone at a company, except the founders, are essentially resources to help the company along with it's mission.

And I have no problem with this, when I decided to work for a company that relationship is you provide them your services for pay. If you like the company and feel you are treated well, stay. If you don't like it there, leave, it's that simple.
> I think it's more like saying you can't truly be unbiased. Try as you might, it's arguably impossible to truly be unbiased when making decisions an interacting with people.

That's the point of blinding yourself to the people you interact with, isn't it? If you pick and choose who to do business with, I agree. If you have a website where people buy things that get mailed to them, there is no biased decision making.

> if highly trained journalists still have trouble with this, everyone else will as well

Not sure about this bit. Journalists today (at least for Europe) tend to be politically active first, journalists second. They view their role as educators of the masses, not information presenter, that is, to explain to their audience, why they should believe whatever the journalist believes, not provide facts to their audience and let them decide. I don't see a lot of evidence for individual journalists and even less so companies trying to be neutral.

I understand the argument to be more that, if you don't actively fighting for whatever you believe should be the way society operates, then you're implicitly actively fighting for whatever way it currently operates. I don't agree with that at all. It would include that a doctor who saves a person's life without checking whether they are for or against some issue would be considered putting their weight on one side of the issue. They're not, they are doing their job and saving a life.
The book Sapiens talks about this well. People have a limited number of relationships they can maintain in their head. The only way societies can form to be larger than that number is shared myth between people. University graduates are in large part taking on the role of clergy in this wokist cult.

The cynical side of me sees it as America being transformed into an economic zone instead of a country. This is just what a religion looks like when you're binding people together in one large brutalistic finance zone.
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Yes, the Nim compiler is a disaster area, especially if you do lots of templates and macros.
First guess is the FM is more of a toy experimental feature combined with DAB probably requiring license fees. Also there's no DAB in the US or regular service outside of Europe.
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It's funny you bring up bakeries. In 1905, the Supreme Court ruled that a NY law limiting daily working hours for bakers was unconstitutional under the 14th amendment (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lochner_v._New_York). The point of the law was to keep overworked and tired bakers from making a mistake and blowing the place up (aerated flour is quite the accelerant). This ruling began the era of the Lochner court during which many of the labor protections we take for granted like child-labor laws and overtime protection were struck down under the 14th. Fortunately, we have since pivoted, but that bakery owner's seemingly benign decision to work his employees a bit harder had massive political ramifications for years.

It's not as easy as one thinks to just steer clear of politics. Just about everything has an impact.
The starlink earth stations in WA are in Redmond, North Bend and Brewster. With another one under construction near Prosser. In the photo that's not a starlink 'trunk' link/earth station antenna, which is much larger. That's an end point CPE.

the beta-test starlink earth stations look like this: https://imgur.com/a/mg3cq9R#RssFOnG

The one in Boca Chica, TX is the same radomes, unknown exact dish/electronics configuration inside, mounted on steel pedestals on concrete foundations. But otherwise the same.
Yes. But that is a problem that you can work around with distributed hosting. Won't be perfect, because I think initial connection will take several seconds for every visitor, but should be faster after that.
Classically polymorphic visit replaces some uses of dynamic_cast
This whole website is really great; it has been a fantastic resource for me. https://interrupt.memfault.com/blog/cortex-m-fault-debug in particular was really great.
£599. Nope.
Between this and blocking VPNs so I have to be vulnerable to use their service when assets are on the line, I’ll be looking for my own exit
Looking at the page source they seem to be using the library from Project Nayuki[0]. I'm actually quite amazed at how few lines of code are required for an FFT implementation[1].

Anyway, I might give a simple draw-on-canvas website a go, give me a few hours.

[0] https://www.nayuki.io/page/free-small-fft-in-multiple-langua...

[1] https://www.nayuki.io/res/free-small-fft-in-multiple-languag...
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Do you think there was only one? They definitely made it sound as though they had more than one in this CNBC article - https://www.cnbc.com/2020/09/29/washington-emergency-respond...
"once the evidence of climate change became too obvious in our day to day."
Citation?