skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The subscription ratio (people: satellite) is a big one.

I'm also quite nervous about uplinks. According to dlgeek there are 893 satellites up right now [1]. If we grow to 10x that number, and each satellite can do 20Gbit (where is that number from, btw?), how do we begin to provide that throughout, whatever fraction of that max 2.2Tbit/s aggregate downlink for the satellite fleet? What is it going to take to literally uplink such huge volumes? I'm not well versed in satcom & how much spectrum is available, & how good ground stations are at pointing. Can one base station potentially fully saturate 10 or 50 or 250 satellites, once the sky starts to fill? Maybe we are that good, maybe we can shoot tiny narrow high-bandwidth wide-spectrum needles exactly as needed up into the sky, en masse, dozens of high bandwidth beams emmentating from each ground station. Or maybe we just need millions of ground stations, but can work that.

Does even that work? I keep hearing of "constellations," trains of satellites. How close will satellites stick? Can a ground station reuse spectrum across multiple transmitters seen talking to constellation members? or are the satellites too close, lumped together? this filters back to a previous question, how much spectrum is available for uplinks?

Trying to imagine the scale of this project, seeing both how we get data to in to the sky, then down to folks, it's epic. All the "zero to one, one to many" modes of growth discussion feels short of the epic planning & demands it'd take to both hoist satellites up (which SpaceX Starlink seems to be doing!) & the supply network to make the satellites useful.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25109020
Sugar does seem to be involved in gout but high fructose corn syrup is basically indistinguishable from sugar metabolically.
Show HN: Chrome Extension for Fixing Bad Name Format on Slack WebApp
I like that UI! Out of curiosity, do you use a kind of wysiwyg (a la qt designer) to make your interfaces, or do you write Python code directly? Coming from JavaFX using scenebuilder to design UIs, l tried Pyside2 some years ago, never managed to find a way to make it work with a wysiwyg the way I am used to with JavaFX. Writing and styling widgets by hand is painfully slow.
> There are a lot of papers on the fact that beans and nuts increase chances of gout.

I can't find any, link?

Sounds like there are vegetables which are high in purines, which are suspected to be related to gout. But studies consistently show that those vegetables do not have an effect, whereas meat, fish etc do.

(Also I suspect the downvotes are because the comment claimed that this was the "prevailing opinion", which it is not)
No idea. Daniel's channel is solely devoted to chess. My best guess is his editor made a mistake in making the playlist, maybe thinking he was logged into his own personal account? I didn't realize it was there in the playlist, as I just watch the new videos when they get posted.
Half true, I guess? I'm definitely in the camp of the CRUD developers. I do accept that I don't do lower level work (even making plugins/affecting how the framework works) in my day to day job. And it's fine. Evidently these skills are worth paying for and create value (monetary or otherwise) in the world.

An interesting take on this and the wider topic of how to write software is DHH's keynote from 2014[0]. He states that he himself is more interested in the 'Information System' parts instead of the 'Computer Science' part. I think there's space for more specialized titles to differentiate these jobs/skillsets.

0: https://youtu.be/9LfmrkyP81M
My Linux computer uses a tiling-based window manager, and damn, I could never go back. The workspaces concept they use is infinitely superior to alt-tab.
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You'll probably end up just paying extra for priority.

Eg. It costs $50 per month for regular speed, $100 for double regular speed, etc.
I'll have to try KDE again, I always found it really messy and disorganised (but that was many years ago).

It's really hard not to have some bias, but I used OSX for work for about five years, currently been using Windows at work for about two years, and I still find Gnome to be the most usable and aesthetically pleasing desktop by far.
IT metrics: Why the five 9s must go
Ideas must change in response to feedback from the problem to be solved.

The initial idea and its nth iteration are downstream from the real problem. What matters, therefore, is the iterative execution of those solutions. So instead of basing our judgment on the quality of the idea, we should rely on the execution ability because that is fairly constant in the development loop.

If you end up on the far-side of an idea-driven development process, you'll have solutions looking for a problem.
Another person, but no.
The actual papers that Einstein wrote weren't that hard to read, that's why he got so successful after all.

For a more recent treatment, the works of Carlo Rovelli are all about more human scale applications or implications of the theory.
Diabetes can also cause damage to the kidneys in turn causing the inability to extract uric acid, and nowadays this is the leading cause, not a genetic issue anymore. That might not apply to you personally, but to most people it does.
Just for peoples information, Able Gamers is a wonderful charity that advocates for accessible games. It is led by https://twitter.com/stevenspohn and is really doing amazing in this area.

Literally 4 hours ago they hosted the Accessibility Awards to shine light on games that have really put in some effort in Accessibility this year

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/804780340
I was thinking about the coast-line. Somehow more coast-line seems like more better places to live.

And mountains? They increase the surface area but would seem to make living and travel more difficult.
Night is hardly a good moment for a highspeed race. Very poor visibility (extremely easy to outrun car's lights), but even if a race happens on a nicely lit highway, there's no protection from wild life that are more common in night time.
This doesn't sound like an advertising problem, it sounds like a data problem.

At some point Amazon ran tests to see whether this stuff worked and realised that it did - they'd probably see the same results sending emails and ads that are just a big Amazon logo.
Rule 1: It’s Always DNS
The OP feels like clickbait and should include "chess.com Blitz rating" in the title.
If you have the time, and it's fun, why not?

Many ordinary people spend more time every day watching TV.
I agree with you. But pmontra seems to operate differently than that, and have files with mismatching extensions. In that case the extensions tell you something on Windows but not on Linux.
well... yes, no javascript of sr.ht is great. just to be fair, there's no 1MB script in github or gitlab... just few kb.
I wholeheartedly agree with everything you said!

What’s making the PPX situation even worse is that they seem to break with every new release of the compiler.
I was asking in previous threads if we could look at some info directly from Apple before declaring the end of the world, and I was downvoted to hell for seeking more clarification amidst the outrage.

Sometimes, waiting to hear a response isn't unreasonable, don't you think? Maybe rethink the plan to abandon Mac for the rest of your life based on the story of the minute?
Still displays a fraction of the article.

Full archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20201114113947/https://www.newyo...
I didn't even realise. That's hilarious!
All ads are deceptive since the introduction of psychology in ads.
This kind of stuff feels extra stupid given it's 1-to-1 personalised targeting.
How to improve your Brand Reputation Management
> There's no comparison to how blacks were treated in America, we are not barbarians.

They've literally been genocided with few Europeans actually caring at the end of the day (the holocaust killed almost a third of them). They're arguably treated worse than blacks in America.

The way Roma are and have been treated is pretty much definition barbaric.
Why Obama fears for our democracy
Right but mountains make it hard to travel.

Whereas coastline, if you have lots of it you can have your house on the water not too close to the neighbor
> This is already taken care of in the proposal, by permitting clients to access only data they own.

But you don't propose any method for that apart from hand-waving about "database user accounts with read access", which is largely irrelevant unless you're proposing to give every one of your customers a database account and do row-level database security.

Let's talk about a concrete example: A call arrives at the back end to change the user's name to "dickwad".

In a conventional backend, you'd check the session, work out which user that session was logged in as, check that it's the same account as the name that's going to change, and maybe then run a profanity filter, or not.

How would you build your minimal backend to do that? Remember, you don't actually know that this call has come from the front end, it could be sent from curl.

> Nothing prevents you from mapping the entities to different ones for your frontend, in cases where you need that.

True, but that's not mentioned at all in your article, and defeats half the point of it - the front end engineer still has to worry about what the database needs and how to do that mapping when it changes.

> I don't think you even understood the advice in the first place, as I can see from your misconceptions above.

What misconceptions? I understood you (almost) perfectly. It's a well-written article. Still wrong, though.
My wife's Dell gaming laptop just installed a BIOS/Firmware update today, straight from Windows Update. Surprised me to see the firmware update after doing a reboot from updates.
No, it's right? California, according to the site is around 424 thousand km², Japan 378 thousand. Japan couldn't fit in Cali's borders though if that's what you meant.
Yes, I had the same confusion. There seems to be a standard for TCP over UDP [1]. But in general, I would assume that it does not help at all WRT any of the packet loss/latency problems posed by satellite links.

TCP is designed for encapsulation in IP, this is why it is called TCP/IP. And UDP is very similar to IP, only difference is that UDP gives you source and destination port numbers and a payload checksum, where IP only gives you a protocol numbers and non-checksummed data. None of these "features" is going to have any effect on how TCP is delivered.

So the only effect that use of TCP over UDP would have here is:

- increase the overhead used for headers, thereby decreasing the MSS (segment size)

- "cloak" the TCP traffic as UDP and thereby prevent any routers and/or middleboxes [2] from applying special treatment to TCP (i.e. traffic shaping, buffering etc.)

Maybe the latter effect is what made a difference for the link in question.

[1] https://tools.ietf.org/id/draft-baset-tsvwg-tcp-over-udp-01....

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middlebox

edit: formatting
Oh, good point. Yes, I can change the behavior by resizing the window. Below a certain horizontal width it works fine; above that width it breaks like I described.

Note that my screen is 1920 pixels wide, and the switchover between the two behaviors seems to occur at around 1820 pixels. Narrower than that and it works fine, wider than that and it breaks.
The way I like to think of it is like moving your hand through water in a swimming pool; the faster you try to move, the more the water (time) pushes against you. If you don't try to move your hand at all, the water (time) has seemingly no affect on you. In this analogy the water itself is space and time is the measurement of movement resistance.

Of course there are nice little things to explore with this, like moving through running water, currents (localized loops), deep water (dense space), resistance on small vs large things, etc.

If we imagine on the small enough scale where we're looking at single water molecules, resistance (time) doesn't even mean too much. As long as your water is liquid, your little molecules are bouncing around in all directions, only tending towards a given direction with some probability. Otherwise each direction is near and damnit equally easy to travel in.

That's my two cents anyway.
Thank you for sharing this. I'm ashamed that in all my years on this planet I thought that Greenland was nearly as big as the whole of Africa.
I started late too. Not as committed as him.

The most useful resource for beginner I found was "Chess King Learn" series of apps. The ones with beginner tactics puzzles - capturing pieces were invaluable. Those are simple drills, but when you do them you will be able to "spot" opportunities without effort. That made massive difference in my play.

That and Magnus trainer. I did not paid for subscription, but there are exercises focused on training your imagination, pathfinding and other similar skills.

Lichess people recommend is great for online play, but the above are much better for learning.
The only way this could make sense if business increased wages by 5% for remote workers, so they don't have to rent such large offices etc and still get all this manpower.
Right but mountains make it hard to travel.

Whereas coastline, if you have lots of it you can have your house on the water not too close to the neighbor. And you can have more beach.
We're taking about two different types of latency. You, and the other people telling me that I'm wrong, are referring to latency at the packet level, and I am referring to latency at the message\data level.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latency_(engineering)

Ultimately, the latter is the kind of latency the user cares about.
The parents are talking about ignoring as a method to (implicitily) say no.

Ignoring: for the maintainer: open loop or maybe hidden closed loop (e.g. afraid of confrontation); for the requester: open loop.

The intention of saying no is a closed loop.

> Nobody should ever have the expectation...

Yes, but that's not a pragmatic solution. People sometimes DO have the expectation.
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The only data that shows lockdowns being worse than the disease is from a clearly biased source.

The data from non-biased sources is diametrically opposed: the disease is, to the best of our knowledge, much worse than the effects of the lockdown. You have to look at data from the real experts: WHO, NHS, NIH etc (NOT right-wing or left-wing think-tanks, actual public health orgs).

With the unprecedented lockdowns and other mobilization measures, this disease has killed more people worldwide than the flu (~2x as many), malaria (~3x as many), AIDS (~2x as many), and may surpass deaths from TB by the end of the year, with an IFR hovering around 1%. In regions that didn't observe lockdowns (e.g. Italy in the early days, Iran in the early days) the death toll rose to around 5% of the confirmed infected population, because hospitals were completely overwhelmed and simply couldn't treat patients anymore. Even if a good portion of these deaths are not directly caused by the disease, it is still much worse than any other viral disease currently active in the world, and much worse than most infectious diseases, with few exceptions.
I don't think that they are unethical, but they are deeply offensive (and also annoying).
Any recommendations on brands for good decaf? I've never tasted decaf coffee that wasn't awful.
In 2018 I ended up calling both Apple and Microsoft for phone support within a few months of each other and, to my surprise, got excellent support from both of them. The Apple issues turned out to require an NvRAM/SMC reset to fix a weird performance issue. The Apple support person was very polite, helpful and knowledgeable.

The Microsoft issue was I’d bought a laptop which came with an Office trial, but wanted to enable Office using a license I bought through work. It required uninstalling the trial version, running a power shell command line tool to clean it up, then install the required SKU of Office. The MS rep was also very knowledgeable, logged on remotely with my permission and I watched the whole process. It took a while, but the engineer knew exactly what to do and did a great job.

That was the first time I’d had phone support from Apple or Microsoft. I wasn’t too surprised at Apple, I’ve had great support from the stores before so that extending that to over the phone wasn’t too much of a stretch. I was pleasantly surprised at the speed and quality of the support from Microsoft though, I really couldn’t have asked for more. It’s just brain bindingly ridiculous that getting their software, that’s supposedly already on the blasted machine to actually work took such a torturous set of steps to perform.

I suppose that’s all incidental to the thread, but anyway. The things that annoy me about Linux are the lack of system upgrade options, you basically have to reinstall from scratch every time, and the awkwardness of system backups. I’m spoiled by a Time Machine I suppose, it’s the thing I miss the most on Windows as well.

[EDIT - Looks like I'm missing some options on keeping Linux up to date, thanks for the tips]
Lately I have been enjoying chess with my SO, if you put aside stupid rivalries, it is another great way to bound over something simple.
It started around in the 1910s, 1920s when psychology was introduced to advertising:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_advertising
Forced signup for Medium. Meh.
This is just awesome. I wish there are open and arduino like dev env for FPGAs.
> He probably saw benefits from using UDP because he's no longer limited by TCP's congestion control and can flood the pipe with duplicates of his packets.

But he wrote that he'd used "TCP over UDP". The first lines of the TCP over UDP spec already state

"It provides exactly the same congestion control, flow control, reliability, and extension mechanisms as offered by TCP." [1]

[1] https://tools.ietf.org/id/draft-baset-tsvwg-tcp-over-udp-01....
I do tv watching equivalent at times when I tired for focused activities or when I also do something else on the side.

It is just not the same. You play chess at your mental prime-time basically, to challenge and tire the brain. You watch tv/youtube to get rest.
Weird, I did a ctrl+f for "dona" and there were 0 matches. So none of the front page of comments mentioned donations and the blog post didn't mention donations. There is a "donate" image on the right, but that's on every post.

The point of the blog post seems to be much more "we're being persecuted" than "we need money" to me.
I think this ignores that the reasoning for this is not because faulty programmers, but worry about hacking. It is more that I am worried that the machine was hacked and that it prints something different. Elections are high value targets and last I checked nothing was unhackable. Quite the opposite actually.
German knowhow set to play leading role in coronavirus fight
Ads make people ignorant as they are not based on facts but making you believe insane things how products will change your life. Axe deodorant won’t make women crazy for you
I also came to note the ridiculousness as well, castigating thieves for stealing and literally burying something of great value to the world and then, in the very next breath, casually allude to their accepted fate, being sold off to the mega-rich and hidden away for maybe one person to infrequently gaze at through glass or, more likely, to sit in a dark climate controlled vault waiting to be sold on to the next collector for the same fate.
What if they are not aiming for "efficiency" in the same sense as you are describing it. What looks grossly inefficient to us may actually meet the minimum level of "efficiency" these "entrepreneurs" of online advertising need to generate a return and declare their "business" a success.

How effective is spam? From the perspective of the spammer, it's effective enough.

In both cases, these forms of "business" are certainly effective in annoying a large number of people, a tradeoff the operators apparently deem worthy of making.
>that it is OK to enslave a horse but not a human, because humans have more capacity for autonomy, suffering, and so forth.

That's illogical. No, we enslave animals because we can. If animals were to coordinate and start a rebellion we would stop enslaving them and try to appease them through diplomatic means. Humans are known for their coordination and so monkeys with human intelligence and communication like humans would coordinate very well.
Taylor’s and Wheeler’s “Spacetime Physics” is quite approachable and easy to read introduction to Special Relativity that has hardly any math beyond basic algebra.
If you just want to host simple HTML files, I recommend using a DigitalOcean droplet for $5 or $10 USD per month, depending on your needs.
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I would say all media outlets strained and stretched relationship with the truth.

Trump did not appear out of thin air. The out-of-touch media and politicians created this phenom.
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Forbes is so broken on mobile
Gypsy was always a slur. It's not a case of a euphemism treadmill.
I asked which Chess service to set my dad up with on his iPad a few years ago on here and someone recommended lichess. He's put hundreds and hundreds of hours in since and absolutely loves it. Amazing service.
there is inflation (deflation too) and all kinds of fraudulent schemes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elo_rating_system#Ratings_infl...
Coronavirus emerged in Italy earlier than thought, Italian study shows
This is fascinating, I've done few tools around Japanese but never so deep as this. I find this conversion to the full foreign word a bit odd though:

カツ丼。豚カツ。カツカレー。カツ。

Katsudon. Tonkatsu. Cutlet curry. Cutlet.

The library doesn't seem too complex (except for the many unknown imports), I might try to port it to JS at some point
A fair complaint. These kids are present intelligence. The monkeys are possible intelligence. I think the truth is that I would spend no money of my own on either of these things. And since the activation energy to turn a smart-monkey grant into a save-the-Somali-kids-from-guineaworm-grant is very high, I am acting in the margin to ensure that a smart-monkey grant doesn't get turned into a should-we-make-smart-monkey grant or a how-smart-is-monkey grant, both of which are far more likely.

Secondarily, I value some sort of backup intelligence system as a protection against human intelligence monoculture. Though one could reasonably argue that adding a human brain-fold gene to a monkey does make it more human-like than truly independent.

I suppose I'm hoping that we get better at this and eventually are capable of uplift that yields not necessarily human-style intelligence.