skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The particular signal they used can be captured with a $40 low-noise block w/ feedhorn (I’m using the Visiblewave Hybrid LNB), a 12-16 VDC biasing circuit, and a garden-variety SDR. I speculate, based on my own studies, that the signal they caught is the Starlink “Idle” tone. I don’t see that signal when the downlink is busy in my own experiments, but I can’t be certain yet. Different latitude, different equipment, different assumptions.

The broadband downlink signals I’m interested in require a bit more effort— I’m using a 75cm offset parabolic dish on an azimuth/elevation turret with some nice high-end servos w/ built-in 12-bit encoders. Up until yesterday, we could only capture 60 MHz of real-time bandwidth; but now we have the device we need to capture closer to the entire 2 GHz span of the 10.7-12.7 GHz downlink in one fell swoop.

With all that, I still only get about 11 dB of SNR. I’ve seen hints that I might be able to get closer to 20 dB, which I could trade off for a smaller dish.
The problem is not python programs, it's existing C language extensions. Removing the GIL while retaining compatibility with the extensions and single threaded performance is difficult.
That story disappoints me a bit in that they never found the cause.
It's good for violent crimes though.

Whereas in Sweden for example, a violent rapist was awarded ~$84k - https://www.gp.se/ledare/v%C3%A5ldt%C3%A4ktsmannens-skadest%... - after he turned out to be a minor but had been tried as an adult, and in the end spent less than 2 years in prison.

Some of ThePirateBay founders had longer sentences, absolute clown world.
In hindsight everything is easier, sure.

But if you have a problem only happening sometimes, then you surely want all the data you can get from all sensors recorded, so looking at the saved video ofthe error time seems a nobrainer, but maybe it was not so easy to make them recording something. We do not know the setup.
How does a different strap shift the weight balance? Is there some magic?
> Ford is actually offering customers faster delivery if they agree to “lower feature content”, which translates into fewer semiconductors.

Sounds like a good deal. You get a car instead of a "platform".
Could you explain what keeps you away from writing? Is it youtube, surfing the internet or communicators in your taskbar?

Maybe you could try some time off from Slack/Whatsapp/Telegram?
lol. I worked at Amazon as a SDE and this reply is from Typical shit EM from Amazon. Empathy triumphs your weird corporate logic. Don't just work backwards putting yourself in the customer shoes, learn to work backwards from your report's shoes too.
Susan Wojcicki was awarded a "Free Expression Award" from a company sponsored by... YouTube. [1]

This isn't surprising. YouTube is the home of censorship, and any proclamations of "free speech" are merely corporate marketing.

I don't know how software engineers at YouTube justify to themselves that they're working for a free speech company, given they can easily see the code that "deboosts" content for political reasons, and other censorship.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDcvPf78g1k
Folks reading this thread would likely appreciate this video on the history of C:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=chpT0TzietQ

It goes into a lot of these evolutionary stages.

And the history of W:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=sg2j7mZ9-2Y&vl=en
Considering that within days of the launch, a HW-researcher already found a way to rewrite the AirTag to direct to an entirely different URL [1], a "bad actor" might not even bother with such an easily fixable webpage issue...

[1] https://twitter.com/ghidraninja/status/1391165711448518658
The article I linked to talked about retention being the major issue in the trucking labour market - Which only re-enforces the grandparent's (yyy888sss) point - the issue is with the pay-to-work match, not some pipeline issue. In fact, the pipeline is probably so good that it prevents the industry from needing to solve the retention issue. If there are always fresh truckers to burn out, there's no need to pay better.
I finished a first pass. Added ~500 shows from the wiki page's discussion archives.
Regarding the languages it is easy, hence the pressure of going back to AOT or at very least JIT caching across runs.

https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2012/04/11/facebook-and-cpp/

> One reason Facebook is shifting more work to C++ is to reduce operating costs such as power consumption per user.
Rather, don't use threading for the sake of parallelism in Python.

Threads in Python are mostly useful to avoid blocking:

- you need to make io calls and don't want to bring asyncio

- you need to process things in the background without blocking the main thread (e.g: zippping things while you use a GUI)

- you want to run a long process on a c-extension based data structure (they release the gil, so you get the perf boots), such as a numpy array or a pandas DF
Well, the very concept of the quiet zone is rather unworkable for mass uses. QR code in particular has a relatively large quiet zone (8/29 = ~28% at the smallest size) in spite of also having multiple large finder patterns. If QR code can't function without that large quiet zone, I think it should have extended timing patterns so that the "quiet" zone actually has some pixels (modules in the QR terminology) set so users are expected not to cut the corner. A similar strategy has been used by EAN-13 where the quiet zone is indicated with a placeholder character `>` underneath.
This is something that I've also heared from hot axle box detectors for trains. Their solution: plant a tree.
Can’t speak to the regulations, but essentially the answer is “yes”. Our publications can be found under the moniker “fused LEO GNSS”. Those of Zak Kassas and his students can be found on their website.
> swat team to her house because she tweeted a link they didn't like.

If you tweet the nuclear launch codes, expect to get visitors from people who really don't like your tweet.
The mean from a representative sample is, if you got the representation right, "equal" to the mean from a random sample, and both are "equal" to the population average.

The problem with representative samples is that you can't know whether you've actually constructed one, and even if you have, you'll find it hard to compute the errors of your estimations.

My beef is not with thinking of traditional frequentist-objectivist statistics as a set of algorithms solving specific problems (because that's what it is), my beef is with not starting out explaining exactly when the algorithms apply and why.

When you take a black boxy algorithmic approach to something, you have to be particularly clear about things like that.
Apple has become too big to fail. Most customers and shareholders don’t care about security issues, responsible disclosure or bug bounty programs. And given Apple’s ultra secretive workplace policies, I don’t have a lot of hope that people who actually care within the company can make any significant change either.
You seems to think research and funding exist in a vacuum. This is not the case. You also seems to think that civil nuclear R&D is expensive. It is, but not that much. Gen2 and Gen3 reactor R&D cost was around 50 millions in todays euros. Gen4 cost was 650 millions in France, and might reach one billion, but since we stopped our planned economy for energy and started subcontracting everything our engineering costs have exponentially risen, even with tech we didn't stop for 30 year like barrages.

I seriously doubt your assertion on solar and energy storage. To much of it relies on fondamental or material discoveries made in the 80s, and 2000 for the graphene (probably the next gen will based of graphene). Maybe the wind tech would've been here earlier, but when you see nuclear enterprise capital and compare it to Boeing/Airbus R&D budget, more likely than not, we would've maybe saved 5, 10 years? Not even sure. France took 5 (5!) year of middling effort to develop a nuclear program. The budget allocated then was big (well, not that big really), but compare it to the Airbus program budget, it is ridiculously small.

If all the tax break money since the 70s, and all the war money since the 40s were spend on fundamental physics, chemistry and geology, yes, we would've a much better tech, obviously. Not happening. Moving one or two billions from nuclear tech (that helped a LOT with discoverability of new materials) most likely wouldn't have any impact.
1/2x, 1/10x or 1/100x ? We're talking avg., right?
Response to 'Call for Review: Decentralized Identifiers (DIDs) v1.0'
https://nationalpost.com/news/exclusive-did-huawei-bring-dow...
If you don't accept an idea doesn't mean it's wrong, e.g. Aristotle didn't accept heliocentrism, said it's not supported by observation, indeed observation suggests sun goes around earth, he wasn't even wrong.
UI Path does this in a nice way
> Americans don't feel sufficient shame for living in a city with a large number of homeless people.

I don't think this is true. No one likes living around massive homeless encampments, garbage, filth, and unpredictable people with severe mental issues. This is why the homeless services budget goes up significantly every single year in most coastal American cities. People want this problem to be solved, they just have a different idea on how to solve it.

The difference between the US and Singapore is that "authoritarian" policies, like forcing people to live somewhere they might not want to, would never fly. One side of the spectrum would resent the handouts to others while they themselves continue to struggle with no help, and the other would complain the housing comes with too many rules and is too restrictive.
Exactly.

And even if there is, there may be:

- a small bandwidth

- a limited contract

- a huge ping

- regular network errors

And even with a good, unlimited network, local will always be snappier than doing a round trip.
> I fail to see how this is different to vscode at all, pointless project.

Here let me help; it's a beautiful sunny day outside and you want spend all-day doing software development from your under-powered laptop (or iPad). Instead of compromising your productivity - run this command on your Ryzen desktop

$ docker run -it --init -p 3000:3000 -v "$(pwd):/home/workspace:cached" gitpod/openvscode-server

Install TailScale or WireGuard on both devices; then from your chromebook

http://desktop:3000/

Tada - remote development on your own infrastructure using the exact same vscode bits that powers Gitpod and GitHub Codespaces
I had the exact same use case for my parents' camp site in France. In 1997, I had programmed a camp site management software for the Atari 1040 ST in GFA Basic. It was used for booking reservations, registering new guests, and printing invoices.

At the time, this solution (both the computer and the programming language) were already outdated by at least 5 years. But it was the cheapest solution for my parents, since they couldn't afford a new computer (having just started the camp site).

Of course, it took me hundreds of hours to complete the software but I didn't mind since the project allowed me to sharpen my programming chops at a pretty basic level. For instance, I had to implement my own scrolling routine (there were no text areas in GFA Basic).

Theoretically it should have been possible to make system calls to GEM routines (the UI library in ROM) in GFA Basic, but I never got it to work.

The computer was used until 2005 or so, when the disk drive gave out.

[edit: grammar]
> Can you imagine not being able to heat your apartment/home, or your stores being empty because there's no fuel for trucks? Unless you can really picture that and still tell yourself "yup, I really do want that," you shouldn't be excited/confident about what you're proposing.

This seems like an exaggeration. If anything, compare the current CO2 emissions per capita by country to get a better picture of how things would be in reality: https://i.redd.it/mnt8im0yvvd41.png

It'd probably be a shift in your standard of living, for example when going from the situation in the US (16.5 tonnes of CO2 per capita) to the situation in the UK (5.7 tonnes of CO2 per capita). I wouldn't say that the people in the UK have empty stores, but they definitely have a less rampant disregard for the environment while chasing profit margins.

In practice, if you wanted to be more environmentally friendly, you'd drive a hatchback instead of a SUV or would use public transportation, would live in an apartment building instead of having your own house, would eat meat once a week instead of once a day, would have a new phone and computer every 5 years instead of every year, as well as would do all of the other things that responsible people should do, including exercising your rights within a democratic government. That also seems to be working out great for the Scandinavian countries.

But the most important thing - you'd stop having so many kids and would lower your population density, on the path to which most European countries are already on. On an unrelated note, where i live (Latvia), heating my house is a matter of fetching some firewood and lighting the furnace: that way central heating takes care of making the rooms warm for everyone who lives in the house, while i can also use the furnace for making bread or anything else.

Sources for the visualization:

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/ew2sn7/per_capita_co2_emissions_by_country_oc/
[1] https://www.icos-cp.eu/science-and-impact/global-carbon-budget/2019
[2] https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.POP.TOTL
Singapore also implements border controls. San Francisco cannot.
Are you making an issue of not being happy with the tone, into one of implied motives.

I read those sections, I've reproduced them below as well, and I can't find any advocacy there. Matter of fact, the use of emotional terms tends to be meagre in such articles - however they use the term Horrific to describe the mortality rate of COVID in America.

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The federal foreclosure moratorium officially ended on July 31. However, we don’t anticipate a sharp rise in new foreclosure filings due to a CFPB rule issued in June that established procedural safeguards that have to be met before foreclosures can begin (hurdles are hard to meet and include provisions that a property has to be abandoned, or that the servicer hasn’t heard from the borrower for an extended period). The new rule expires in December 2021, after which normal foreclosure patterns might resume. Foreclosures fell close to zero in the US once the moratorium was put in place. The second chart shows the gap between the MBA definition of delinquency which defines deferred payments as delinquent, and the Fed definition which does not. See appendix for a discussion of homeowner vs renter treatment.

As for COVID, concerns may dissipate in the next few months. As we explained on our August webcast, this fall was going to be a very bad one in the US. Even so, given the high degree of Delta variant contagiousness, a combination of vaccination and acquired immunity should drive down pandemic measures substantially by November. The latest infection and hospitalization data from Hotspot states, horrific as they are (i.e., the world’s highest reported mortality rate) are beginning to roll over; mortality should follow. For anyone that disbelieves COVID mortality data, see the sixth chart below: there has been another surge in mortality from all causes in the US relative to seasonal trends. If you can think of another reason for this other than COVID, please let me know. The biggest risk to this outlook is fading immunity of vaccinated people; we will know over the next couple of months how this plays out in the US. Booster shots in Israel appear to drive antibody levels up substantially, and also result in Pfizer efficacy vs severe infection that rises above 90% again.
Did you mean hantavirus? According to the CDC [0] squirrels do not carry that virus.

[0] https://www.cdc.gov/rodents/diseases/direct.html
If all it was used for was scripting it would be fine, but what is strange is that Python has emerged as a major language for complex data analysis. So I am sometimes confronted with partial solutions in Python that solve a piece of the puzzle that is purely numerical (so all runs on numpy etc) but then extending it to actually solve the real problem ends up either extremely awkward (the whole architecture getting bent around Python's limitations) or being a complete rewrite. It's frustrating that the ecosystem for certain problems is so bent towards a language that is unsuitable for large parts of the job. (mainly, I would add, because it sucks the oxygen away from alternatives that would be better in the longer term).
Months? I'm going to be paying for this folly, probably for the rest of my working life.

I thought you told me that we couldn't compare numbers between different countries, what with them being different and all? Wales is an especially interesting case, because we had significantly more onerous restrictions than England (and if I lived in England, I might not have such a strong opinion that the downsides of lockdowns outweigh the benefits).

As you absolutely insist though, here's the data for England:

https://www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/statistical-work-areas...

For the time period April-June 2020, overall occupancy was at 65%, compared to 90% for the same period in 2019. Some pandemic.
I don't think it's possible without breaking changes.

But if we're willing to accept some changes to the C API, it's at least possible to make the GIL less global.

It really should be obvious that it's possible to have multiple Python interpreters in the same process, where multiple independent threads run Python code in parallel, with occasional calls into a shared data structure implemented as a multi-threaded C extension module.

Currently the GIL makes this impossible: you either can have the multi-threaded C extension module in a single process (but then the Python threads will be limited by Amdahl's law unless you spend >99.9% of CPU time inside the extension module), or you can use multiprocessing which lets the Python code run in parallel, but than the C extension module will have to figure out how to use shared memory.

This is a massive, massive problem for us. We're already invested almost a year of developer time into changing C++ libraries to tell all those pesky std::strings to allocate their data in a shared memory segment. Even then, we've only managed this for some of our shared data structured so far, so this only allows us to parallelize around half of our Python stuff. So in effect, the GIL is causing massive extra complexity for us, and still prevents us from using more than ~2 CPU cores.

We would have been massively better off if 15 years ago we picked Javascript instead of Python. JS is also "single-threaded" like Python, but the JS interpreter lock is much less of a problem because it's not global.

Now Python currently has a "sub-interpreter" effort underway that refactors the interpreter to avoid all that global state and make it per-interpreter. But I somehow doubt that this approach to remove the GIL will be accepted, because again, it will slow down single-threaded execution: e.g. obtaining the `PyObject*` of `None` is currently simply taking the adress of the `_Py_None` global variable. Python will need to split this into one `None` object per interpreter, because (like any Python object) None has a reference count that is mutated all the time. But existing extension modules are accessing the `Py_None` macro -- they don't provide any context which interpreter's `None` they want! This can be solved with some TLS lookups ("what interpreter is the current thread working with"), but I suspect that will be enough of a slowdown that the whole approach will be rejected (since "no performance loss for single-threaded code" seems to be a requirement).

I think Python will get rid of the GIL eventually, but it will take a Python 4.0 with a bunch of breaking changes for C extensions to do so without significant performance loss.
Yep, that's correct. If you're spending many hours a day in front of a phone or monitor for months or years you'll have accumulated a lot of very short focal length time, so to say.
Is it served from the Atari?
Remove the “Pure” from “Pure Function”
It sounds like you've minimized one-time furniture costs by increasing your recurring fuel costs.
That's a pretty big cop-out. Yes it is, but France and England are pretty similar.
No, it is pretty prevalent in my country (GER) too, although it is a bit more underhanded still. But quotas are already prevalent. Seems to be some form of kink for racial discrimination. Gender equality is popular in pop-culture or mainstream, even if there are very few real barriers. It is mostly about making people feel welcome which I think is so subjective that these measures alone scare away more people than if you did nothing.

There are also cringe worthy attempts to make language "inclusive" and gender neutral. I think it is restricted to certain academic faculties but it includes journalism sadly. It creeps into a lot of stuff though.

What is strange is that proponents do not care about efficiency and effect of these measures at all, so it is probably more of a vehicle to stick it to some group they feel would deserve it. I do believe that people don't speak freely about it, but there is certainly also some effort to exclude those that demand inclusion from others by now because they are often plain bullies. At this point I would call that self-defense instead of discrimination. That word was already brought up to be redefined, so why not. So if you are some kind of uterus ultra, you won't come far either and voices cooled a bit down lately.

In the workplace it isn't really a topic at all aside from advertising and PR, because it is mostly a media phenomenon.
> they've just not enabled telemetry

Correct.

> It's a fork.

We have made as minimal changes to the fork as possible to reduce chances of merge conflicts because the fork automatically updates from microsoft/vscode.
Most journals are hybrid now, and offer a choice when publishing- either it's free for the author but kept behind a paywall, or the author pays up front. The article processing charges are really expensive- BMJ is £3,500, Lancet $5000, Cell $5,200 etc, although some major funders have arranged 'site licenses' with publishers so that all their funded research can be published open access without charge to the scientist.
But that's what code-server and theia have done for ages, why is this 'revolutionary' vscode is junk anyway and I would steer anyone away from using it.... it's a monoculture locked into Microsoft's awful abyss
I'm not questioning random sampling. Quite the opposite, and I even said as much in the comment you responded to:

> There is a good reason to do a random sample rather than try to construct a representative sample, but the article just brushes past it!
UK here. I do love squirrels, but trying to feed birds without the squirrels stealing all the nuts and seeds is next to impossible.

Anyone have any suggestions?
Wouldn’t need to be on device necessarily.

At least my bank was comfortable with cloud everything and people using APIs from approved partners. If you can write the report in Google Docs, as long as they were the ones plugging in their API key for the OCR, I imagine it would be fine.
We don't want to because publishing in open access costs us $2000.

Out of curiosity, what does publishing in closed-access journals cost?
I like how there's absolutely no easy way to distinguish different lengthened URLs from each other. Who wants to play roulette? :P

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