skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Keep in mind that this is a phased array maintaining a relatively high bandwidth and high SNR link with the satellite.

Is it transmitting anything to the satellite when you are not actually trying to send internet data?
isn't there a pretty salient difference between soliciting donations and taking payment? I would have thought those were generally agreed to be qualitatively different things.
That's not the rule, patents have to be reproducible by a man of the trade. Not disclosing crucial steps in the claims, even if overlooked by an examiner, is also a handicap: someone can circumvent your patent if the actual substance is missing.

Have a look at the original Gore membrane patent:
https://patents.google.com/patent/US4194041A/en

It's very clear, detailed and reproducible.

And since we are on HN, here a bit on the software side: IBM original arithmetic coding patent.

https://patents.google.com/patent/US4905297A/en

Perhaps it something that should not have been patented, but it's fully disclosed and reproducible.
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If that is enough to be "textbook ADHD" then the definition is even broader than I thought. Being performant when you're focused but having trouble getting there, having difficulty getting basic chores done, etc.? That's just many people in life.

Ultimately, I don't really trust the psychology field to determine what is a mental illness and what isn't. It wasn't that long ago that being gay was in the DSM.
That's income inequality. Try looking into wealth inequality for the real picture. Governments, at least in europe, are quick on the trigger to tax income but never wealth. In Germany, that already leads to an insane level of wealth inequality, among the highest in europe, where tons of families have mini feudalistic empires quietly stashed away.
So why do you use any websites that have ads/tracking? Surely you could avoid them and stick to your high quality paid options?

It’s annoying how self-righteous HN is about Ads.
> Yes. I confess it. I added a link to my donation page within the game, depriving Google of some precious money it totally cannot survive without! How dare I?!? I am such a bad person.

He seems squarely in the wrong here. Google provides a service, and they have rules that are intended to make sure they get paid for providing that service; while, at the same time, still allowing people to offer things without paying (ie, free apps). Using the service but deciding you don't want to pay because "Google has lots of money" doesn't make Google the unreasonable party.

By the same logic, I should be able to walk into a store and just take anything I want because I'm using it to make items I sell "for donations". Obviously, that's ridiculous.
5-10 trillion.
Starlink has said that they're planning on offering a roaming use-case, but they aren't there yet (https://www.slashgear.com/spacex-starlink-cell-location-limi...).

Part of the issue is that Starlink cells are going to be very limited in capacity for the foreseeable future: https://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.php/2020/09/analyst-probes.... Cowen suggests that Starlink "should eventually be able to serve 485,000 simultaneous data streams in the USA with 100Mbps speeds or 1.5 million streams with over-subscription." That's in late 2026 or 2027 when Starlink has deployed around 12,000 satellites (they're at about 10% of that now). If a bunch of people decide to bring Starlinks to a popular area, the cell for that are simply won't have the bandwidth to support all those users. Imagine people going to Burning Man with lots of Starlinks or bringing their Starlink when they go on vacation. It's not meant to be a portable WiFi hotspot. I'm guessing that portable use might cost more since Starlink has to assume that you might be taking up capacity in places where bandwidth is more scarce.

In terms of preordering, you can order without a street address. Starlink's website says, "Can't find your address? Try a Plus Code with City" (and links to https://support.google.com/maps/answer/7047426?co=GENIE.Plat...).

One thing I would also point out about Starlink is that they only guarantee that you'll be able to use the $500 dish (plus $50 shipping) for 12 months before being forced to replace it. Starlink is new tech and I'm guessing SpaceX wants to be able to upgrade things without maintaining support for less-efficient, older equipment. I don't expect them to force upgrades on people on a whim, but they do spell out that the $500 dish might not be allowed on their network a year after your purchase. I don't think they want to make customers unhappy, but I think they want to make sure they can upgrade their network without getting sued for not supporting expensive customer-purchased equipment forever.
Earth-300 a nuclear-powered super-yacht
If only it was that simple.

Google allows large players to have payment services that do not go through Google, as long as all of the money is directed towards a single person and is not in exchange of physical or digital goods.

Of course, that goes out of the window as soon as you're a small developer because then you simply get banned from the play store for doing this, your only recourse being talking to a bot that will never answer you.
I don't know what you mean. Youtube won't function if you block youtube.com. I suppose I don't understand what you mean by "block" then.
It's easy to allow ethnic minorities to grow and let them mind their own business until the moment they decide that they are different enough to secede. Countries, historically, don't like that.
I wasn't aware of those communes. If you have specific examples I'd be curious. Personally I was thinking of the 19th century Shaker movement, which included both women and men, practiced celibacy, and died out.
Exactly this. Also applies to team leads and management.

If I'm going to go remove bottlenecks, mentor, keep the team culture going, solve gnarly technical and people issues, create project docs, maintain relationships across teams so our team is not perceived as useless, what exactly does management do?

I fail to understand that how ownership is thrown at devs without recognition, promotions or higher pay.

At it's core, I fail to see the value management brings to the table if they cannot unblock projects, instead asking devs to do all of it.
This is "technically" circumventing the protections they have in place for users not getting scammed out of their money.
As with all things at scale they have to turn you down unfortunately so they can have a specific stance with no wriggle room
> So, "devops" to me seems a way for companies to get more from their employees by paying the same

It tends to give people somewhat broader responsibilities. And ideally they “do more” in terms of delivering more value, but that’s a “work smarter, not harder” thing—avoiding dev and ops working at cross-purposes and each frustrating the others attempts to deliver value because of lack of understanding outside of their own narrow part of the lifecycle.

But it doesn’t generally mean every developer needs more than a general awareness of ops
> More and more "software engineer" job offers are requiring experience with Docker, k8s, nginx, etc... and I'm fine and all, but hey, if I do know about software development (e.g., Golang and Postgress, and DDD, etc.) and on top of that I do know about "ops" (e.g., Docker, Ansible, k8s), well then pay me correspondingly.

Software engineering salaries are rising faster than general pay levels, so pay is rising with the increased scope of skills. If you don’t feel.loke doibg it what it takes to keep up in one of thr highest
That's a big if. We can punish, prevent through vigilance, and intervene when possible, it's not zero sum. Ideally a conspiracy charge and some reformation would help the guy see the error of his ways and be a vocal proponent of mental health services. That's the goal of all "re-education" programs though, and we're a little culturally opposed to that.
Do you not feel the issues of commercialization and scientific quality are more closely linked?

The state of quantity over quality in academic publishing, which is a force that is compounded by commercially focused journals, does not incentivize deep consideration or rebuttal, and only occurs because the academics care about what they do.
Entitled dev gets told no, throws hissy fit. News at 11.
I don't understand why Google (and Apple) at all are allowed to deny apps on their own.
This is self-administered justice!
They are monopols.
If they say "there are alternatives, just go to Apple/Google/China/F-Droid" that's just a farce that should be punished hard.
Thanks for the game :-)
There's a lot of mystery even among those directly studying Gutenberg, exactly what he invented. There's some evidence that he didn't actually have character-based movable type at all, but was casting slugs of type for each line using punches to set the characters in a larger mold (I'm going on 25-year-old memories of an article I read in maybe Printing History). What is certain is that post-Gutenberg, punch-cutting to make matrices to cast individual characters and wooden printing presses spread across Europe pretty quickly. The press remained pretty much unchanged until the invention of the iron printing press in the early nineteenth century, followed by a flurry of improvements in the coming decades including cylindrical presses and stereotype printing. Typecasting remained largely unchanged until almost the twentieth century when there were the trio of inventions of the Monotype and Linotype casters which combined typesetting and typecasting and the pantographic engraving process which allowed designers to directly engrave matrices using a larger representation of the character rather than having to manually carve the letter at the actual printing size.
Every one of my cats liked to play that way. It was like a video game form of play hunting to them. I miss all of those furry assholes.
That has nothing to do with youtube, but chrome. So your statement is factually incorrect.
Computing is a lot like American cities, in the that the infrastructure (yak shaves) that would make everything easier are almost invariably under-invested.

One of my favorite examples would https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capsicum_(Unix). It's incremental which is good. But people wrote the kernel part and declared mission accomplished like Bush in 2003, ludicrous! One has to do that and then overhaul the userland and either get those patches upstreamed. And these days "userland" isn't a collection of init, shitty scripts and Gtk/Qt, but a bunch of libraries, especially programming language standard libraries.

This would dramatically change the security and ergonomics landscape, because so much global state programmers

"Containers" was always the wrong metaphor because software is about composition, but containers are inert and only their mass and volume composes (very crude). Better to think about plumbing or rail.

Another perhaps more opinionated example is getting everyone to use Nix (or fine, something like it.) Whether with container style virtual global state, or nicer capsicum, we need to make it trivial to install and develop the entire commons. All "builds on my machine but you can use it" just leads to a lack of integration so no one can help the original author smooth over the gaps. It will also allow machines to be demystified, allowing people to toy with all the software on the system, which will help reduce the programmer alienation which allows so much accidental complexity to occur in the first place.

But yeah, almost nobody is doing these things at the scale they deserve, and even the megacorps drown in their own technical debt like sunbelt cities that are just metastasized suburbs. Eveyrone is in the "well I'll eat shit and shut up as long as my competitor is too" mind site. It's disgusting.
lol. yes. i was going to recommend writing a 6502 or Z80 emulator and then write the application in Tiny Basic or FORTH.
Drugs are much easier to copy than software programs (i.e. there's no copyright protection).

And it currently costs billions of dollars to get FDA approval.

Basically assume I find a new antidepressant. I spend 2 billion dollars proving it's safe and effective.

How do I get my money back when any drug manufacturer can now manufacture the same drug?
The article mentioned a very nice point that I find is true for my experience: you can make product trade-off in favour of engineering if you know your product well.

Being able to explain business people why a certain feature is crap made my day job a lot easier than it could have been.
Let's get that quantified:

Chromium LoC: 34,900,821 [1]

Linux 2010: about 12 million [2]

It appears that Chromium has more LoC than Linux. (With LoC being a bad measure, Linux being GNU/Linux, blah). Browsing is hard.

[1] via Google since OpenHub appears down
[2] https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lines_of_Code_Linu...
I always wanted a dog growing up. My parents finally agreed to a cat, so I made do. She knew sit, shake, high five, would "play" the piano, and could be sent off to touch a mark. When my sister's cat came to live with us for a few months, I taught him to sit and to jog on the treadmill. The treadmill trick was no longer allowed after the day mom was running on the treadmill and he jumped on and ran up between her feet.
> I had to explain that the meaning of a fraction changes when you move stuff between the top and the bottom.

Sounds like it's time to communicate that to the entire editorial staff, request a refund, and never submit anything to them ever again.

Nonprofit or not... If a university can't retain staff with even basic competence, they don't deserve to continue in their current state.
there's also the obvious fact that a cat isn't a credible threat to a human. there's no point in "punishing" a creature that weighs 15-25 times as much as you do. would you try to "punish" an elephant if you were unarmed? conversely, any creature that a cat can credibly deter is not a lethal threat to a human. I imagine a large dog understands, at least on some level, that it can actually win a fight against a human. small dogs seem to believe the same thing, just incorrectly.

it would be interesting to study how/if cats defend other cats against roughly cat-sized threats.
Not a good look considering indicators suggest inflation is accelerating[1]. Which would be an expected outcome considering how much money the US government printed over the course of the pandemic, and now how much we are about to print to support the next stimulus/infrastructure program.

>Chairman Powell has very explicitly claimed that money doesn't matter in recent testimony. He's basically said that money and the measurement of money doesn't really matter because it's unrelated to inflation

And I don't know how much faith the populous will put in his reasoning as I suspect confidence in government is rapidly eroding, not just in the US but in the first world. But something is probably wrong if your economic advisors are saying that money in circulation and money velocity suddenly don't influence the value of the dollar.

The US is a powderkeg and last year a couple fuses were lit.

1.https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-economy-inflation-idU...
Ground effect? But I would assume with such low atmospheric density the effect is probably not so strong.
> [...] maybe the end of the bitcoin.

I have only used Bitcoin as a reasonable limit of computation power we can readily make use of. It is completely irrelevant whether Bitcoin is feasible in a long run or not.

> However, in my opinion, if people do not know how your algorithms work, the attacking possibility is dramatically decreases.

There are multiple instances of black-box reverse engineering where attackers were able to determine (and break) the previously unknown algorithm. Your opinion is unsubstantiated. No reason to assume quantum AI at all, which might or might not be helpful for cryptanalysis.

Seriously, I'm okay with learning cryptography by messing with innards, but you need the basic understanding of modern cryptography at the very least, including confusion and diffusion. In particular it is very important to know what not to do, that is critically missing from your claims. Modern cryptographers start learning by breaking existing algorithms known to be faulty by their own. Without this active process you are going to repeat past mistakes.
Well, for what it's worth, if you haven't been thanked, you deserve it.

I've avoided many mistakes due to my friend's sobering assessment of things and I've done the same--though arguably much less so--for him.

At the same time, he serves the opposite purpose, too. He'd build up an idea that he saw value in, which others missed, and would go all-in on it. He frequently referred to the biblical idea that "iron sharpens iron". It's not really the way people operate, but if you're willing to sign on, it'll change your life. :)
mine does! it seems to be an inherited trait, since you can see some of his ancestors marked as "fetchers"
Simhashing is a style of characterizing the similarity of data. The author begins with the idea that we can discard the first characters of { aaarock, aabjeep, aaareep } to prefer the latter two as most similar and concludes with computing the hamming distance of data.
> By the same logic, I should be able to walk into a store and just take anything I want because I'm using it to make items I sell "for donations". Obviously, that's ridiculous.

HN's favorite pastime, using terribly inappropriate analogies for things they don't understand. Because taking actual, physical items (also known as theft) is the same thing as not using Google's paid for service to receive tips.

1/ Developers already pay for access to the Play Store. A minimal fee, sure, but if Google wants to make more money, then they are fully free to raise that.

2/ You are not using their service to process the payment. Google forces themselves into the process simply to extract 30% while doing absolutely nothing.
Its an unecessary complication when explaining containers to the uninitiated. Just tell them they are essentially VMs and they'll follow along with the other concepts just fine instead of looking at you wide eyed as they try decipher how "contained processes with contained storage" interacts with their use case. Once they get experience, they'll learn the details.
Was there an option to cure the violation? I would think devs would have billed less than lawyers.
I said it's less sensitive.
I wonder how much ignorance in the world will be required, before HN stops downvoting people for asking questions?
I think "feral" here refers to cats completely unaccustomed to humans. I know from experience that they will run away or bite and scratch the shit out of you until you back off, and they have no interest in getting to know you.

If you give them food, they'll wait until you're gone, then take it and run. I guess not many people have witnessed them. They're not sick, that's just how they are. They probably can get accustomed to humans after a while, but it would definitely take longer than with feral dogs.
Well, following the same logic, should it be legal for a mall to ban entry to all black people, because they have the highest chances of being shoplifters?
Inform 7 is used to make Zork-style games.

GET covid. GO WEST etc.

Ink is more comparable to Branching narrative software like Twine, or Visual Novel software like Ren'Py.
Outlets always censor themselves and always did. Where to draw the line is obviously up to each outlet. A record store might be able to sell the rap songs about killing cops because they are confident that they can be seen as offering a wide selection and not merely promoting violence.
A record store that only sold that kind of music should rightly be questioned about their motives.

Radio stations are more careful about music selection than record stores, because they are seen as choosing their music making it an expression of their opinion and not their customers. They play it next to messages from sponsors who don't want to be associated with everything and so on. Spotify is obviously closer to record store than radio station, but they do have commercial messages.

(A note for younger readers, a "record store" was a kind of brick and mortar shop where songs were sold engraved onto physical artifacts).

But (and this I think is key): Even record stores have always entirely stayed away from some material. Not just the material that is illegal, but also material that is simply offensive or objectionable. They put Parental Advisory stickers on rap albums, but no main street record stores carried nazi music, for example, even though there was never a shortage of it, and it was never outlawed in many countries. If a band was known as a nazi music band, they weren't showing up on record store shelves with their non-nazi album either. That is - they were boycotted as artists, not merely some objectionable content. I'd put Alex Jones (but not many more of JRE guests) in the "Nazi band" bucket. The ones that record stores didn't have on shelves because customers, owners, employees etc wouldn't stand for it.

My point is: this isn't some "woke" phenomenon of cancel culture. It's the way it's always been.
Journals sell one thing: reputation. That is why researchers continue to publish their articles there, and why they are prepared to pay outrageous prices for it.

And it's not their own reputation that they sell; it's that of their (often paying) authors, and of their (usually voluntary) reviewers and editors.

It's a very comfortable position as rent-seekers for the publishers. And it keeps working because the authors get a needed (for tenure, grants, etc.) boost of their own reputation as well, and because reviewers get pressured into doing the work via arguments like

> every scientist who wants to publish in these commercial journals are also obliged to review 2-3 papers for every paper they intend to publish, otherwise the system would not work.

Good on the author for not being coerced by that, nor misleading themselves they can "engender small and positive changes from within". They're not abstaining from reviewing altogether, so if "the system" would not work, there would still be ways for works to get reviewed and authors to get their stamp of approval. But maybe, just maybe, this time without the middle man.

(Disclosure: I work on https://plaudit.pub, one of several attempts to establish alternative means for researchers to lend their reputation to support quality work.)
Canadian Heritage Minister pushing to censorhurtful words against politicians
Have you tried T-Mobile? I don't know what they have configured, but they certainly own a lot of midband 2.5mhz spectrum in east idaho. They have 140mhz in Idaho Falls and Twin Falls, and 180mhz in Pocatello, and at least 60mhz everywhere else in east idaho. It looks like they have a decent amount of sites too. I'd have to dig a bit more but if you don't have access to 5g on T-Mobile today, it's not gonna be more than a couple months away.
Does it matter?

Btw here is your API:

document.body.innerHTML
My website is a single page, HTML only (no trackers or cookies), very little CSS and JS. "responsive" without any media queries and only a few images.

It's completely free to host on Netlify.

I don't market it heavily and I don't know how much traffic it gets - and I don't care. I completely own it and it does its job.

Why would I pass this off to some company?
That's why one of the seminal books about Open Source is the Cathedral and the Bazaar? Because "there is only one way to do things"? :-)
TLDR: "Cats aren't indifferent to human behaviour, they've just been domesticated more recently so can't pick up on social cues and so are indifferent to human behaviour!"