skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just coming out of a higher education position I held for about 10 years...we were really only using GSuite for Education on the periphery of everything else we were doing (which was all Microsoft-based). So we were really only setting up the needed GSuite integrations to give some access for students/faculty/staff to use the GSuite apps if they wished, so the "unlimited" storage side of things was an extra bonus.

While our actual students/staff have not abused the unlimited-ness at all, there's been a big trend in recent years for fake spam/bot type accounts to submit online applications (particularly for the inexpensive community college level here in California) which would allow for those fake people to get issued accounts within the college systems (typically giving them a student email account).

In essence though, one bad account could in turn create multiple shared drives it seems, and then from there grant access to other external Gmail accounts and swap the ownership to them, while still leaving the unlimited storage capabilities in place (at least that's been my perception of what I had seen in our instance). Before I left recently, I had seen pages upon pages of shared drives in our GSuite Admin area of Shared Drives that were terabytes large (one as high as 100 TB or some ridiculously high number like that)...with very little mitigation options being provided by Google to help avoid that from occurring in the first place (aside from taking the extreme measure of locking things down after the fact...but cleaning up that existing mess seemed to not have a solution...supposedly there were going to be some new tools released early this year to help out, but not sure if those are available yet).

Suffice to say...some bad apples are making it hard for all of the good people to take advantage of what was otherwise a wonderful offering for educational institutions (having administered many systems over the years...it's always nicer to not have to worry about license limits and other baloney like that since it simplifies things for what is usually an already overloaded IT staff).

I could clearly see all of the bad accounts abusing our instance...if only there was an easy way to filter all accounts > 2 TB and then delete them I could have reduced our storage usage down considerably for Google.

That multiplied by hundreds of institutions where this may have occurred during the pandemic and I can see how storage usage could have went up dramatically on Google's end...but I think that Admins in those institutions would be more than happy to clean things up if they had the tools/ability to do so.
I like to think that a society that can control antimatter has solved the problem of scarcity. Which would hopefully end most human discontentment and hostility.
> Radios used to be mechanical devices - punch a button and the new station would immediately start playing.

Frustratingly, my Toyota Corolla will start up the radio immediately, but the on/off/volume control doesn't work for several seconds. If someone in my family left the radio blasting, I'm left mashing the button repeatedly until it kicks in. Ugh.
Exactly, it's about optimizing profits by lowering cost, and not lowering price. A "free" market doesn't mean a competitive or efficient market.
What Is 'Finlandization,' a Status Proposed for Ukraine?
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Good lord, imagine subscribing to see rates, seeing that the rates are absurd, and then not being able to back out. What a grift.

Honestly, I'd add death-by-a-thousand-chargebacks to their list of business risks. In their case, it's actually non-trivial.
“When a man is denied the right to live the life he believes in, he has no choice but to become an outlaw.”
― Nelson Mandela
Some Jan 6 folks did. Presumably not all of them did
This is precise the argument at the penultimate time-step in the dynamic programming solution of the multi-round case. The other interesting aspect is that the expected returns are logarithmic, i.e, with y = (2p -1) x

p log(x+y) + (1-p) log(x-y) = log(x) + C

where C is the Shannon capacity of the binary symmetric channel with cross-over probability p.

By the same argument, the expected wealth after T rounds will be

log(x) + T C

So, in addition to the optimal strategy, we have also derived the rate of growth of wealth. This is also in tune with the motivation of Kelly's paper where he was showing a relationship between Shannon capacity and optimal gambling (without using a dynamic programming argument)
As far as I can tell, they didn't lose 40 because of the storm directly, but because they entered safe mode before reaching their orbit, and were then unable to exit safe mode because they were too close to earth. So the data, other than "don't launch during a geomagnetic storm" is likely to be minimal.
Yes this is true. I think knowing your genetics would go a long way knowing which drugs might help you understand the pathway to stability.

I am pretty good now, I’m disabled so I don’t have to work which was one of my hardest challenges. But I’m still so reactive to my environment that it’s just a hassle most times and I have to be careful. I will say this without a tinfoil hat on my head that I know electromagnetic radiation from household wiring and now I’m finding from Wi-Fi and smart phones are a trigger for me.
Your numbers are a bit on the low side.

They start off at a 350 km ( https://in-the-sky.org/spacecraft.php?id=50803 was launched earlier this year).

They then raise them to about a 550 km orbit for its operational lifetime ( https://in-the-sky.org/spacecraft.php?id=45102 )

And then they lower it a bit, and it decays more rapidly ( https://in-the-sky.org/spacecraft.php?id=44249 )

Another one that didn't go operational - https://in-the-sky.org/spacecraft.php?id=44282 - you can see it go up, fail, get lowered, and decay.
I assume they’d get it on roughly the same basis as the warrant they got for the cloud storage.

I’m also curious what here looks like parallel construction to you - I thought the statement of facts was surprisingly mundane, but perhaps I missed some red flags?
Why are we assuming that we would be able to see intelligent alien life by just looking at the right spot in space? If we take it at face value the figure that the universe is 13 billion years old, and that the observable universe is 90 billion light years wide, presumably that means that there's a whole lot of universe that could have evolved intelligent life at a pace similar to our own, but that we just can't see because there hasn't been enough time for light to get from there to here.

The assumption that an advanced life form would be able to take over the universe and be visible to us requires that said life form is able to travel large distances. So to be able to travel far enough to enter our field of vision, they need to basically speedrun evolution and space travel proportional to the distance from us, i.e. the farther they are, the faster they need to evolve and the farther they need to travel for us to be able to see them. But the age of the universe poses a hard limit on how much of a head start a civilization can get over us.

So if we think this way, it seems somewhat plausible that life could exist, but be undetectable due to the sheer size of the universe and time constraints, even if they are capable of interstellar travel.
The mindless chatter of radio hosts is still enjoyable for me. After a long day of work, getting to listen to replays of which ever prank call they made in the morning while trying to merge through traffic is a nice way to unwind and begin the evening. Plus I appreciate their small attempts to get community together for events and do ridiculous giveaways.
> If they're to teach, there's no time to do significant research. If they're to do significant research, there's no time to teach.

You may not be familiar with competitive US research institutions, but many prominent researchers are expected to teach. At some schools, the entire teaching staff is composed of researchers (who don't give a shit about teaching) and graduate students (who likely don't give a shit about teaching). The actual instruction at a lot of top-tier research institutions is terrible.
1. ambiguities

what is wrong with using the full module name? i find it makes the code more readable.

2. bad search & code completion

when i don't know what function i need, then i need to search the whole library anyways. if i address modules by their full path then code completion will only need to complete on the top level namespace (the list of modules) and then drill down. a clever IDE can track what i already used and offer that first.

3. compiling more than necessary

the compiler only needs to track what functions are actually being called and only compile those or the modules they are in.

4. dependencies are not obvious

an ide can track which modules are used if i use the full path to address them.

without an IDE i'll have to read the code. ok. the long module names stand out, but granted, grepping for import is easier.

the pike programming language works without import. modules are always called by their full path, so the parser and compiler can find and resolve them and compile those that are needed.

pike does have an import statement. it loads all the symbols in a module into the local namespace. it is the equivalent to pythons "from foo import *"

i am not sure about this but my understanding is that otherwise only the symbols that are actually used are being loaded. import is a mere convenience for the coder but potentially causes more memory to be used and may make local namespace searches slower so it's use is not recommended. (not that this would be significant unless you import hundreds of modules)
>Little Snitch

Just FYI, Little Snitch resolves the DNS request (to IP) while the dialogue is onscreen (i.e. before you click `DENY` or `ALLOW`, a DNS query has already been sent).

All Little Snitch does is prevent the connection to the IP address, but your DNS host (e.g. ISP) knows what URL(s) you are requesting, even if/when you click `DENY`.
I have one very good use for analog radio, which is the 50kW AM radio station that does traffic notices in my city every ten minutes. It's often more accurate and better described than looking at red lines on Google maps for traffic jams, and provides other unique local knowledge of construction, temporary detours, etc.
> Try not to assume the worst, especially when it's pretty silly.

I'm just asking questions -- I would be genuinely curious if SpaceX has a system for determining and evaluating risk when it comes to a situation like this. It does seem absurd that they wouldn't review the active warnings prior to launches. What is indisputable here is that they've announced the loss of 40 satellites during an active warning. I think it's valid to wonder what the criteria is for a launch, given that the cost of the launch + payloads is quite high, and the cost of delaying the launch is (relatively) low.
That's an absurd representation of many things.
In Pittsburgh, I have not been able to find a company that lets software engineers use OS X or Linux. I'm actively looking so I'll be very happy to be proven wrong if anyone knows of a place.
It must be noted that the satellites were not directly damaged by the geomagnetic storm. The storm warmed the atmosphere which caused it to expand, leading to additional drag that prohibited the satellites from leaving their low "safe mode" orbit.

Shortened excerpt:
"These storms cause the atmosphere to warm and atmospheric density at our low deployment altitudes to increase.... speed and severity of the storm caused atmospheric drag to increase up to 50 percent.... The Starlink team commanded the satellites into a safe-mode where they would fly edge-on (like a sheet of paper) to minimize drag...

Preliminary analysis show the increased drag at the low altitudes prevented the satellites from leaving safe-mode to begin orbit raising maneuvers, and up to 40 of the satellites will reenter or already have reentered the Earth’s atmosphere. The deorbiting satellites pose zero collision risk with other satellites and by design demise upon atmospheric reentry—meaning no orbital debris is created and no satellite parts hit the ground."
Seems like a great way to test the resilience of Starlink launches during a predicted geomagnetic storm. And great PR considering how much negative press they’ve been getting over space junk.

https://www.google.com/search?q=starlink+space+junk&rlz=1CDG...
The status the western powers will most likely eventually cave into accepting, if perhaps with a bit of a delay and couched in 'diplomatic sleight-of-hand', I expect.
Benzos bring me to a place where all of you people live. I take klonopin as needed because I think way way way way way too much. I know glutamate plays a large role in my schizoaffective disorder and I can bring me out of an involuntary trip and a half an hour.

So I just wanna kind of correct what you said, Xanax is for people who think too much and psychedelics are for people who think too little.
The way you make money on the way down is different than the way up. Radio was a sleepy backwater medium that was mostly advertising for record companies. When deregulation happened, it became a hot, disruptive market where talk and new music genres grew and grew.

The train slowed down in the late 90s and consolidation of syndication and station ownership picked up. Now a few companies own everything and they’ll pump every dollar until the spectrum is turned over to cellular.
Blockchain rare earth scheme to certify sustainable output for EVs
After the digital TV transition in the U.S. I didn't use my set for a few years since I didn't have a converter and didn't care enough to do anything about it.

One night we were hit with some severe storms and I decided it was worth it to have an antenna and converter for emergencies. Did some research, purchased a box from a friend and a decent antenna, hooked everything up, turned it on, and 5 minutes later tore it all down again.

I'd gone too long without it and lost all tolerance for commercials.
I wonder about term limits.

I wonder if they should apply to all positions, or would it lead to a somewhat poorly run country because all people in charge are all noobies?
It actually doesn't require THAT much energy to get into orbit. The energy of a kilogram of mass in low earth orbit is about 9 kWh, although rockets will use a bit more than that (not enormously more, though). Fuel cost remains a minor fraction of launch cost, even with Falcon 9.

In comparison, the best aluminum plants in the world use 13 kWh to make a kilogram of aluminum. Yet no one says aluminum is out of reach because it takes too much energy to make it.

The per capita primary energy consumption in the US is about 10 kw; your share of this energy over your lifespan would be enough to accelerate 1 kg to 2% of the speed of light.
I’m curious to what dose of Seroquel you take to get you out of the trip.
An alternative to using cloudflared is using TLS client certificates to authenticate that requests to your origin server come from Cloudflare [1]. This is not quite as airtight as Cloudflare Tunnel because you expose a port for TLS but it comes close.

[1]: https://developers.cloudflare.com/ssl/origin-configuration/a... "Set up authenticate origin pulls"
That's wrong. There were four missions that were deployed to apogees above 300 km, but most are deployed to 250km and below. That means that satellites that fail tend to burn up quite quickly, in a few years.

Here's a chart of deployment apogee and perigee.

https://twitter.com/planet4589/status/1491256299002155012/ph...
Check out my comment above here in this same thread which basically confirms exactly what you just shared here...this is the same tactic I was observing being used with fake student accounts sharing with outside external Gmail addresses which then appeared to take over the Shared Drives being created in GSuite, allowing for TBs and TBs to be added in to the drives by outside users. It seems like a big problem to me...but at the moment I don't think Google is providing good enough tools for Admins to see/eliminate these situations very quickly/easily.
> That was a minor event to everybody else. I checked the PJM power grid alerts, and they didn't issue a geomagnetic disturbance warning. Their last warning was on 11.04.2021, and it didn't reach a level that affected operations.

I think it's entirely possible that this type of warning would _only_ be relevant to SpaceX, because their satellites are so low and so small. They're going to notice atmospheric drag to a much higher degree by virtue of size and orbital insertion point, compared to other interested Space Weather parties. G1 is relatively minor for most space weather customers, but there are obviously times when G1 conditions aren't observed that they can launch during too.
It doesn't say anything about the new mathematical techniques.
If you use their logging api ( stackdriver) they do. I assume it was probably automatically shipped from a gke cluster
And can be easily seized by the government with a search warrant.
Modern vehicles have very high belt lines for crash safety, but that also makes for even larger blind spots.
The really tragic thing is that UTF-8 was invented before UTF-16. But a few big companies had put a couple of years of heavy investment into UCS-2, and weren’t willing to let that and the attendant pain they were beginning to foist on developers and users alike go to waste, and so ruined Unicode with UTF-16 and the disaster called surrogates that is the cause of the significant majority of programming languages handling strings incorrectly (e.g. JavaScript uses potentially ill-formed Unicode, indexed by UTF-16 code unit; and Python strings are sequences of code points rather than scalar values). If only they had reversed course and said “sorry for all the pain we were just starting to put you through, that fixed-width 16-bit encoding thing didn’t pan out, we’re going back to 8-bit encodings with this UTF-8 thing that is conveniently also backwards-compatible with ASCII”. If only.
Yeah there is really no “need” to explore other than survival. If vr can provide an exponentially better world for life, the entire planet goes dark.
Seems like the receiver should use values it can trust to index the logos. Some kind of simple hash would be trivial to implement and likely as effective.

If this is what could happen when you omit a dot, good luck if there's a malicious payload. Infotainment systems generally won't get the safety critical audits/oversight that other car systems would get.
Does anyone have experience with software you can self-host a dial-out tunnel to achieve the same? I'm looking into a similar setup (connecting from an internal site to a private cloud, rather than to the Internet) and would prefer not to write the software myself if I can avoid it: network programming is tricky; network programming with failover, doubly so.

It's a real system with various security and compliance concerns; Cloudflare and dev-focused services like Inlet or simple SSH forwarding are unfortunately not going to work.
I stopped listening to the radio when I realized I was spending half the time listening to commercials. (99% Commercials are complete mind rot or appeals to emotion btw; if any advertising moguls read this, no one wants to listen to bad jokes and jingles. Just tell me about the product and I might buy it)
It is really up there with the HN classic "Does anyone else think the entire multi billion dollar targeted advertising industry is a scam that doesn't work?"
France is not America, thank you very much. I have never seen people leave tips here.
Wow, even shitty publications have paywalls now. Guess I've been saved from wasting my time!
There is a winter weather event report that covers what happened in granular detail and lists all the initiatives in progress to lower the chances of something similar happening again.
Remember the T-Man show in the morning on KUBE93?
As someone who grew up in Texas, Texas history (not just of their electric grid) is crazy.

The Alamo was about illegal immigrants from the USA fighting for the right to keep cotton-picking slaves in Mexican territory, then revolting when the Mexican military came to enforce the law. And it was a tactical loss for the revolution. It’s crazy that it managed to become a rallying cry.
That could be an EU/US issue. In the EU it is common to separate thousands (or millions) with dots, and decimals with commas. In the US it is the other way around. So those sources could be saying (or were read by GP) as 33 thousand million (33 billion) or it could mean 33 million and 0 thousands.

The billion sounds linguistically more correct, but I have no idea if those are inflation adjusted dollars or whatever. It could be an error that telephones around the internet as 33.0 million by the US system then converted to someone in the EU to 33.000 because they misread the number.
Is anyone else concerned by their statement? i.e. in spite serious engineering efforts to ensure satellites function+orbit or nonfunction+deorbit, they don’t assert or furnish a way of understanding (today or at some future date), that of the 49 satellites:

* how many are functional+orbiting

* how many are nonfunctional+orbiting (i.e. space junk)

* how many are nonfunctional+deorbit(ing|ed)
I think there is always going to be diversity in how humans choose to live. Just like the Amish, whom have neglected much modern technology in their world, there will always be cultures that choose a different path. Some will want to never leave Earth, avoid the Matrix for the real world and experiences, not want to become a cyborg, etc. Diversity of opinion really is beautiful and is the modern evolution.

Edit: and some will want to dedicate their lives to the expansion of life throughout the universe
Absolutely the best.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCDIYvFmgW8
A reminder that space weather affects years of human efforts not just the satellites we launch now. I hope that there is much to learn from 40 failures.
There is another problem: all of the equipment makers have stopped producing the "old" tools that are used for >40nm process 8 inch wafers. People in these "old" fabs seriously go on eBay to buy used parts to replace broken parts inside tools in their fab because the original tool maker stopped making spare parts years ago.
At some point, I think we have to start asking if the addition of non-critical features like having a favicon for each radio station is worth the increased attack surface.
I’m picturing an anthropomorphic Earth going “come back” and dragging the satellites out of orbit.
AI in Healthcare Idea
So I found gpt3, tried it out, and was generally impressed by what it could do. I wondered if I could make something that can do symptom analysis and ultimately replace a clinician entirely. So it is an AI symptom analyzer that can adjust/suggest new medication a patient needs to take if their current one doesn't suit them or refill via e-prescription. I want to completely replace medical doctors from the entire landscape and make it frictionless. Thoughts?
Can you elaborate on this? I see NAS companies like Synology using btrfs in their products. I don't understand why btrfs RAID 5/6 is still not stable.
This is a really great example of how it's never just Teams. You're also going to have to pretend that phrases like "UCC suites" are real and helpful.