skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The CEO himself admitted to going into The_Donald subreddit (before it was banned) and editing user comments. I don't think this guy is leading the charge to admin transparency.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/reddit-ceo-edits-user-comment...
Who would take a picture of the entire earth as a single image at one time?

Take that 500 Trillion Square Meters and divide it up by 1000 satellites (or whatever Starlink plans) and take images sequentially rather than all at once and it becomes rapidly much more manageable.

You don't need a single mult-terapixel image. You just need lots of much smaller images covering more territory on a continuous basis.

if you wanted pictures of the entire earth every 20 minutes, you'd need to figure out how many satellites would give you that coverage, the amount of resolution per image, and the bandwidth requirements transportation of those images in parallel.

Realistically, to get whole-earth coverage every 20 minutes would require a very large constellation of satellites. It's much more reasonable to get some less-than-100% coverage of the earth on a less-than-every-20-minute schedule and scale up from there.
Her partner posted content about being attracted to children as far back as 2015.

A five year setup followed by a Twitter hack seems incredibly unlikely.

Edit: The unique name used for her partners keybase account is associated with similar content posted in 2004. The evidence appears concrete that her partner is a self-confessed paedophile.
> I feel that Starlink will drastically alter this market and open up so much more remote working environments

You're not allowed to use Starlink in other location than you ordered. It's not for nomads.

https://www.starlink.com/legal/terms-of-service-preorder

6.3 You acknowledge that you are only authorized to access Services at the location identified on your Order, and you will not divert the Starlink Kit or Services to any other locations
In 2021 it got a new name and a new definition, as "the things that other people do that I don't like". Instances of it that we do don't count, because reasons.

It'll pass in a year or two, when they've come up with a new thing to admit to. (In this domain, every accusation is a confession.)
I will go on the record calling this person crazy. We need to stop pandering industry interests and the people they have deceived.
>lifestyle business" passive-aggressive shaming

I should have added: by VCs, to founders or prospective founders, for their own selfish vested interests, of course. The more dupes join the startup lottery, the more the "house"[1] (a.k.a. VCs) stands to gain, because it is a numbers game.

[1] Think Las Vegas.

In fact, top VC Fred Wilson wrote a blog post about this "lifestyle business" passive-aggressive shaming business a few years ago, and it had a ton of discussion in the comments. You can find it by a Google or blog search.
If GEO becomes crowded enough, it's not possible to just send more hardware and park the defective one somewhere else and launch costs keep going down I wonder if we'll see more human serviceable hardware.
The article misses the point the grand parent is making:
People with autism lack (to varying degree) the ability to decode social clues and - based on that - behave in socially agreeable ways.

Since the other side (non-autists) can usually not distinguish between disregarding social norms on purpose (being a jerk) or by accident (autism), autists are often judged as jerks.
Escpecially since the high frequency of "social fuckups" rules out "normal" human mistakes.
Dude, actually it's more like, what's the term folks use... "Enabling", you argue with the trolls, or anyone, you are in effect enabling their conditioned dopamine addiction... It's not like we say when a junkie scores a hit that "they win." far from it, Dude.
Much above 13" is definitely sub-optimal for travel. If the rumored Apple Silicon MacBook is similar to the rumors though I may upgrade to that--mostly though because I'd use it to replace both an iMac and a 13" MacBook Pro that are both 5+ years old. (And I often travel with just a 13" Chromebook anyway.)
Time will tell... For the moment an arrestation over a trivial matter like this is a very big deal. Also the red guards are actively brigading here, elsewhere on the net and irl to impose their cultural revolution, in addition of hijacking the legal system, so the comparison with communist China is very apt.
The problem isn't simply that the DNS becomes a CA. It's that it can't replace existing CAs --- the browser still has to support the WebPKI. So what you have in effect is another CA, a 1001th, if you will, and one that the browsers can't revoke.
I'm aware of that and that's why I said in that case, say "TLS" when you're referring to the protocol itself.
Honestly I'm not sure anyone has an end game here. Someone on UKpolitics posted a basic link to a recent news article and got banned. People are getting banned for mentioning her. This is what most of the controversy is about. They're stifling any discussion of what are quite serious issues, because they hired her. Posting a link to a public newspaper shouldn't be ban worthy. However now that Reddit has been grossly overstepping in their reaction, people are getting very upset about censorship and the perceived conflicts of interest.
100% this. I don’t expect you to go crazy over programming, but the gulf between passionate programmers and just-collect-the-paycheck programmers is extreme. Just-collect-the-paycheck programmers are useful and necessary, but a team composed exclusively of uncaring engineers is pretty much doomed to fail.

Lightbulbs are flashing for me right now because I’ve never really thought about it like this, despite caring a lot about passion.

In the teams I’ve been on that have over-performed (aka released quality software on schedule), there was always at least one or two (sometimes the majority) engineers who actually cared. Cared enough to push back when we tried to skimp on standards compliance. Cared enough to upstream a fix to a library we use. Cared enough to notice patterns in problems we had and write internal articles about how to avoid those problems.

I’ve also been on teams of (primarily European, as the author points out, the culture is very different) engineers who really are just collecting a paycheck. As long as they keep working, it’s really not a big deal if the product ships on time, or a year late. It doesn’t really matter if the product meets customer needs well, because we know they will buy it anyway. It doesn’t really matter if your colleague knows enough to get their work done. And if I see a new problem the team encounters, I’m certainly not going to learn anything to solve it, or assist a colleague who does; job descriptions are there for a reason.

I guess a good test is the “job description” test. Does an engineer ever say “that’s not in my job description” and refuse to do needed work (note this is very different than pointing out there would be someone better equipped to do it, if that is the case) to the detriment of the team? Does an engineer not bristle when someone else brings up “the job description”? If so, that’s a pretty sure sign that they don’t care about their work, which means they don’t care about your team’s success.
I mean, that’s fine, but that exact sentiment is trotted out every time anything critical about Reddit comes up. “Having a bad time on Reddit? You must be subbed to the wrong places” and/or “I’ve not noticed anything on my carefully curated sub list” means it’s much harder to have a realistic discussion about the actual, sitewide problems like hiring someone uncomfortably close to realized pedophilia on a site chock full of young children (believe it or not).

I used to say the same thing you have here to say pretty much the same thing about Reddit. That’s why I cited my experience in response, as you say you’re sharing yours, to point out that beyond what you’ve experienced there’s some nuance you may not have considered (and learning it was valuable to me).
> Rails used a gem by a different developer, a gem that had its own MIT license. The Rails project and all others using Rails can not be expected that they ought to have known the license is invalid, so usually the GPL does not count for their usage back then.

> You can in general never retroactively change a license, so their usage back then was certainly valid.

I would ask a lawyer about that. As it has been explained to me, the original author didn't have the right to distribute it under the MIT license, so they (rails) never had a valid license. It's similar with images, even when you grab it off flickr or another page and it specifies a license you like, that does not mean that whoever posted it there actually had the right to do that, and if they didn't, you can get sued.
For sure! I learned on something my parents ordered from Sears for $100. I think they still have it. Some of the parts look like they were composed of boxwood or balsa, and even cardboard.

It was horrible and I would play until my fingers would bleed, then quit for the day. I learned to play on that for years. It made learning a battle, not just a challenge.

It's another league entirely these days.

I would argue to the bitter end about instrument construction and argue that "good" instruments are indeed better than the commoditized versions of the same, but for people starting out and coming up and even recording they're fine tools! Memorable is Mike Campbell absolutely tearing it up on an Epiphone Florida Gators LP special AKA a cheap novelty guitar (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e25p0Y3Vd38).

But I to explain my original point further: It's not as simple as just being a function of the commoditization. That is undeniably what's happening, but the why is, at the root, a demand that didn't previously exist, and not just for novelty or aesthetic but playability. The need for playability and a pleasing sound follows adoption, and widespread adoption is what I think signifies renaissance. There are more capable musicians than ever, and even through the noise there are more capable productions than ever, in all manner of genres and tuned to all manner of tastes. Similar to how printing brought music to the wider public and a generally supportive environment for the arts during the period of the (capital R) Renaissance.
Who exactly is orchestrating this massive, species-spanning conspiracy?
Parkinson's gene may impair how new neurons are made throughout our lifetime
Why are you advocating for DNSSEC? You don't even use the DNS.
Slack uses distributed tracing to understand client performance
For me, those sorts of intense bursts of creativity aren't "thinking about work." It's an unconscious rush of thought that I couldn't hold back if I tried. It's basically a natural high, and I find it extremely refreshing and mentally healthy.
I am curious what is the APR on that loan? BTC volatility should make it very high.
What's with the change over to these '40' style naming schemes? I absolutely detest it if it's not done for a real reason.

Firstly, without major versions it does not single anything to end users and end developers. Is '40' still mostly compatible with the gnome 3.x.x API? Is there a major divergence between 40 and 41? Is 41 and 40 a total rewrite?

3.x.x works and there's a reason why. It conveys a lot of information quickly and is well understood.

reducing things down to a single number is meaningless and clearly branding drivel. I guess they want to obfuscate as much as possible and dumb things down for users like they have been doing for close to a decade.

Yawn
Well, it is easier to place all the components in a bigger phone :)

I too prefer small screens, but I bought a Pinephone anyway to support the effort and help testing.

Typed from Firefox on my Pinephone Braveheart running Mobian (works fine for me).
All we need to do is build a Stargate on each and have them swap atmospheres!
I must be out of the loop on the sexual assault accusations. Is this one of those Twitter-exclusive stories I hear so much about?
Safe Deposit Boxes Aren’t Safe (2019)
Not really a digital nomad right now, but my work setup is what I did use as a software developer. Just my laptop, my phone for a hotspot, and a backup USB rechargeable battery for the phone.

The most important things for me are simplicity and robustness. So it's a light, relatively cheap laptop with a very long battery life. The phone is also cheap and robust. I would normally work outside somewhere, so the laptop needs to last a while.

I'm lucky enough that in my country we have a very comprehensive 4G internet network, I've even been able to work in national parks in the sticks, although if I'm at a national park I'd rather be exploring that working anyway!
We're talking about literal fatalities for people that aren't behaving that way. I'm all for improving the infrastructure and reducing death, but until we do, put your dang phone down!
You're still relying on closed source drivers for the vast majority of devices using AOSP, that's pretty far from "fully open source".
Not if you're a rabbit.
OK, but in this scenario, the wealthy individual is trying to do what? Take over the country?

Fine. Let him. When he does so, he quits being anonymous. Then assassinate him and restore the previous government. Bonus style points if you assassinate him with a drone.
Are we on the same Reddit? All of the comments in popular subs are off-topic rehashed jokes. It's a struggle to find on-topic discussion in anything but the smallest subs.
They've been putting a lot of work into an experimental automatic C++ header generator lately.

https://dlang.org/changelog/2.096.0.html#dtoh-improvements

Each changelog for the last good handful has seen a lot of work in this area.

I recently had to write and learn a bit of C++ for the first time, and tried at all costs to avoid it (FFI/interop from Rust or D).

I wound up biting the bullet and writing C++ but I learned a lot about FFI in general and how interop works, plus your options available in both languages.

D has this new experimental C++ header generator (which is exciting), plus D has always had:

extern (C++)

Which is capable of directly linking + invoking most C++ things (except constructors/destructors, it can't handle those, you need a function which calls the constructor from within C++) just given a type definition.

Then you have "d++", which lets you "#include" C/C++ headers.

Under the hood tries to run an automatic syntax conversion. It can't handle <std> but for simple code it works and can spit out the equivalent D.

https://github.com/atilaneves/dpp

Also you've got "dstep", which is "A tool for converting C and Objective-C headers to D modules"

https://github.com/jacob-carlborg/dstep

And finally you have the somewhat abandoned (but as far as I know mostly functional) Calypso, which is a fork of the LLVM-based D compiler that supports direct interop with C++. It's a pain to build though, haven't gotten around to trying to build it, but it does look wicked cool:

https://github.com/Syniurge/Calypso

pragma (cppmap, "cppheader.h"); // tells Clang to parse cppheader.h but do not import anything

import (C++) NamespaceA.Class1; // imports NamespaceA::Class1
import (C++) NamespaceA; // imports the full namespace
import (C++) *; // imports the entire translation unit

So I am hopeful about the future of the relationship between C++ and D. I would really have loved to have not written that C++ lol.
DNSSEC does not protect your scummy commercial ISP DNS server from lying to you. Your stub resolver trusts that scummy ISP DNS server to validate DNSSEC for it.

People have a lot of funny ideas about what problems DNSSEC solves. This is demonstrably not one of them.
Putting the Joy Back in Learning
Starlink does not allow you to be mobile. You have to give them a service address and that address cant change (often enough for RV travel)

Edited - spelling
Compile time is the only reason i moved to reactnative. It has some issues, but its well worth to have the fast build cycle.
I just want to mention, if you feel there's some excessive padding and it's a waste of space (especially vertically), I suggest you take a look at a compact theme at GNOME Look.

Currently, not all themes work properly with GTK 4, but they will eventually get there. Personally, I use the Mojave-gtk-theme. It wastes no space and is beautifully designed.

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I happily replaced my go to scripting habits of using Python with D. Fast, fast, fast — all I can say about its compile times and data crunching capabilities.
>no one in their right mind would tweet something like that.

You must be blissfully unaware of the child-oriented fetishes that exist online. I know kink-shaming is a no-no, but I find it hard to believe that adults who participate in these activities don't have any desire to include real children. Just like I find it hard to believe that someone who uses an "islamic terrorist" target at a gun range doesn't have any desire to shoot a real one.

EDIT: replace "islamic terrorist" with "gangster thug" (I don't like altering comments in this way so just pretend I did)
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Photos of the Tiananmen Square protest, arguments that Mohammed was not really a prophet of God, arguments that God doesn't exist, and maps that claim that the actual boundary between two countries are on one or the other side of disputed territory, are also illegal in many districts and countries.

Probably it would be bad if the only speech allowed on popular web sites were speech that wasn't illegal anywhere, or illegal in only a few places.
I dunno which it is, but the typography/font rendering is just jarring in these screens. I imagine there's a bunch of hacking you can do to make it look crisper/aligned but no way I'd have time for that.
> if a sufficiently large portion of the bidders is actually honest like, presumably, is the case here.

I’m not sure why you think this is the case here?

If you create a system that can be gamed by a large portion of the bidders being dishonest, a large portion of the bidders will become dishonest.
More interesting backstory here: https://grahamlinehan.substack.com/p/something-rotten-at-the...

This whole thing is a massive yikes from me. She even called the child victim a 'lying little slut': https://twitter.com/fixedforlicks/status/1035647401783173121...
NASA's $10B Time Machine
I bought the postmarketOS edition phone last year. The software is improving although there is an annoying bug specifically with postmarketos where the app repo doesnt list anything you dont already have downloaded, You have to search for software by name.

The build quality is on par with some early android phones before glass screens became standard. performance is kind of what you would expect. Not great but it works. I definitely wouldn't consider this daily driver ready yet. I still think its worth supporting. With RISCV gaining steam perhaps the next version will use a mobile optimised RISCV SOC instead of the weird janky embedded ARM unit they have now.
And this does not mean that I am advocating that no one should start or join a startup. I just mean, for your own sake, do your due diligence. It's not only companies or VCs who need to do that.
Thanks for your feedback I will fix this :)
Obviously, SSH authenticates. But on that first connection, when it prints the "you've never seen this key before" warning? You get that you're not getting any real security on that connection, right?
Companies should have different hiring processes for prolific open source code contributors and folks that don't do open source (presuming they want to hire both).

There are plenty of amazing developers that don't to open source and are great employees.

Other devs have extensive open source code. It doesn't make sense to give popular open source devs coding tests. Open their GitHub account, see their popular repos, see how they communicate on issues, etc.

The most powerful teams I've worked on have a mix on OSS devs and folks that only do closed source work. Hiring both is the best from what I've seen.
I have absolutely no first hand knowledge of these beasts, but some common sense here below:

The engine can most likely work both directions equally.

The propeller is optimized to work in forward direction, so it will have worse efficiency going in the other direction.

The rotation would have to be limited when going in reverse because of cavitation (and maybe other structural limitations). That again is a result of the wrong shape of the propeller (when in wrong direction).

The hull will have significantly more drag when in wrong direction.

Now, engine power is defined as whatever it can put out and if the engine works the same way in both directions then power is the same also.

So you can think this way: most likely it has the same power as going forward but it can't use it and whatever it can use will be much less efficiently translated into motion.
So Trump was right at calling it the China virus. /s
I'm asking myself the same question. There many LGBT+ activists out there; hiring this particular person is just asking for trouble. And the current censorship situation simply makes no sense.
They were removed strictly for (supposed) violations of law - what reddit hosts is, at the current time, unquestionably legal.

Gab/etc were accused of inciting violence, threats of physical harm, treason, etc. Reddit hasn't been accused of anything like that recently. Regardless of reality, infrastructure companies can make their own decisions on who is guilty and innocent.
Everyone is talking about hotspots, but since I got used to having WWAN (as opposed / in addition to 'WLAN') directly in my laptop there's zero chance I could ever go back to tethering.

My main portable is one of those custom modern motherboards for a 2011 ThinkPad X-series shell since I hate the keyboards on all the new ones. Originally a "third-batch" I7-8250U that I've since supplemented with a "fourth-batch" i7-10510U system so I have a spare just in case something happens to it, and paired with a Telit LTE card and a T-Mobile "unlimited" (50GiB soft-cap) SIM.

T-Mo is probably not a good choice for very remote areas since their reception is spotty, but the price is right since I have a family plan of four unlimited lines for $130/mo thanks to some grandfathered stacked promotions. Pixx: https://imgur.com/a/JWGC39n

I don't have a good recommendation for the Zoom bandwidth issue, but it is possible to host an audio-only meeting if your participants are okay with that :) https://it.umn.edu/services-technologies/how-tos/zoom-host-o...
IDM = Internet Download Manager , in most people's mind
A year of fear: Dr Gary Sidley analyses the NHS's Covid-19 public messaging
We made up a problem with technologies that we use at work targeted at frontend engineers. So we set up a project with a Symfony backend and made the candidates create Twig templates and SASS styling based on Bootstrap. Then we put that up on Github with a README. So the candidates could focus on the frontend stuff without caring for the backend. Still they had to figure out how to set up SASS compilation and modularization of Twig templates.

As I said it's not very hard but you can get bonus points if you come up with considerations for responsive design or stuff like that. Overall the aim is to create readable idiomatic code and not come up with something clever that no one but you can understand.

I guess that's a very specific task that's of no great use to others but the point is to have a specific problem with some blanks that can be filled out with a reasonable amount of work by the candidates. Plus the general workflow using git and such.
As a slight diversion, this thread danced around a pretty interesting point in my eyes - why are ordinary people denied access to brokerage accounts with advantageous rates - it's not likely that the money actions will be nearly as dynamic or require nearly as much oversight as folks with a lot of money and the minimum investment bars seem unreasonably high before you start dodging the heavy fees. Isn't that system just furthering wealth inequality?