skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Of that time, how long has life on Earth been generating signals that could be detected elsewhere?

Earth has a magnetic core and there are million things that generate EM radiation. Earth would have started radiating the moment it was created. It has a magnetic core as well. Now as per if somebody could read it 100000 light years away? Well the Sun was way hotter then and it would have obscured anybody looking this way.

Why aren't we seeing signs now, well maybe the signals are on their way but it may take another 20000 years to get them. I hope there is somebody here to receive and respond back.
I have this problem with skype on Windows. It is not constant but sometimes after I talk to someone it still listens to mike. My mike however has mechanical switch and the camera has cover.
If you earned $100k, that would be $2000.

Would you write it off as a rounding error?
Well, maybe they can try to listen to the 99% Invisible podcast in the meantime. Oh wait, https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/the-roman-mars-mazda-....

2016 was apparently a good year for Mazda infotainment systems.
What about in the limit where the number of rounds tends to infinity?
I have to agree with epivosism about the TV experience. Waiting for the digital decoder to catch an I-frame slows down browsing immensely and it's just a lot less fun. Tivos are better, because they have multiple tuners and can scan the channels above/below the one you're on, which helps a lot. But it's still not as good as pushing the button on an analog tuner's remote and getting a new signal in < 1/15 of a second.

Maybe your comparison of live vs streaming TV is skewed because it takes so long to start a new stream that it's hard to imagine browsing content directly, instead of trying to imagine the content from movie posters.
> waymo never killed a pedestrian

Yeah, it was Uber, my mistake.

But that's an example another self-driving company that killed people. It could have easily been any of them -- they have all had accidents that could have resulted in death, and just got lucky. Tesla is not special here.
No I'm not because not everyone goes out and gets covid most days for their whole lives. It's also much much less than 1 in 1,000 for young people in the range of 0-30 where auto wrecks are the number one killer in a lot of places.

So no, it's more like apples to watermelons. The watermelons being bigger, the ones which have killed far more people and will continue to kill far more people.
Well, I'm talking about small litter like a banana peel, which lots of other Earth inhabitants will actually appreciate. Even if these satellites burn into the atmosphere, they still pollute with the fumes. Not to mention the pollution from the launch itself!
That still leads to pollution though - and I'm not even mentioning the pollution from their launching!
Ask HN: Who is hiring independently of candidate location? (February 2022)
Getting ghosted or rejected only because of our current location and timezone is kinda frustrating. So we've decided to create this post to lookup for location agnostic, truly distributed companies. Which also can benefit digital nomads out there.

Please only post if you are not rejecting candidates based on timezone where they are currently at. Remote positions only.

Please only post if you personally are part of the hiring company—no recruiting firms or job boards. Only one post per company. If it isn't a household name, please explain what your company does.

Commenters: please don't reply to job posts to complain about something. It's off topic here.
I can pay with contactless / Apple Pay almost everywhere, except the largest grocer chain in Texas - H-E-B - doesn't support it. Unfortunately, this is where I make most of my purchases, so I end up using Apple Pay on infrequent other shopping trips.
For sure. It basically shuts down the idea that you can assess your confidence in an expert based on experience! Instead you have to understand the underlying principles, which is no easy task. To me the solution is to delegate the oversight; hire someone else to understand and assess the reliability of the experts. Obviously that has a whole mess of problems too…
Growing up in mid 90s Seattle the debate was always between KUBE 93.3 for hip-hop or 107.7 "The End" for alternative (KNDD). This debate destroyed friendships. Getting stuck on KUOW would be a kafka-esque purgatory.
Did we hand Tesla a monopoly when we allowed them to build a bunch of electric cars when no one else was willing to take them seriously?
Trying to avoid site amnesia, like Reddit has, I assume.
>What is your current belief

My current belief is that attempting prohibition against inanimate data (sharing and manipulating) while maintaining the 4th amendment protections in US and simultaneously thwarting those determined to share and manipulate that data, will be minimally effective and will not significantly impact the ability of those determined to violate the prohibition.

My new belief is immaterial to whether I have changed my mind, other than it must be different somehow (otherwise the mind wasn't changed). Changing your mind just means it changed, so the only requirement is the belief is different. Without evidence, I can't possibly predict what my new belief would be. Therefore I refuse to box in what my new belief would be, and I think it would be ignorant of me to make such a presupposition.

Bear in mind 'change your mind' was a notion introduced by you not me, I can't possibly speak for what you meant there when you brought this phrase into the conversation.

>I currently believe prohibition of inanimate objects has no effect. If supplied with this evidence, then I would believe prohibition of inanimate objects would have an effect."

That's actually not my belief. Clearly there is an effect, and the criteria I think crypto meets is much stricter than merely an inanimate object but rather it drills down to just being sharing and manipulating data. You can memorize a seed phrase that resides entirely in your mind, and other than chemical storage in your brain there is no physical manifestation to seize at a national or individual level that would effectively destroy that wealth.

I think prohibition on inanimate objects has an effect, just not usually the intended effect.

The only data that can even comparably be viewed as a candidate for what prohibition of (strictest case) crypto data can look like I think again is CP. It is universally detested, the criminal penalties can be devastating, fellow prisoners may straight up kill you, and the community will virtually always back the jailing for as long as anyone cares to jail the people engaged in sharing it. I think that puts a decent ceiling for what is possible to impose on crypto, because the public will to impose prohibition on crypto surely can't be as high as it is for the prohibition of sharing data of the abuse of children. Given that even this effort has been essentially futile, I'm not seeing much of a prayer of crypto prohibition being effective at thwarting anyone but the undetermined.

There may be prisoners this moment mining some crypto on their phone, smuggled up someone's ass into prison. If they're not, they trivially could be. That's how hard it is to get rid of.

>also under what criteria would be used to judge whether a prohibition "maintains the 4th amendment protections in US"

The criteria would be not to violate the 4th amendment.

>If I go hunting for evidence, I want to make sure the goalposts are not moved.

That's really up to you, you don't owe me anything and I don't owe you anything either.
40 of 49 launched were lost, about 80% loss. Perhaps they intend to learn about geomagnetic storms and deal with them better next time.
There's people who don't use BitWarden? :D
That’s right. If you bet 10% every time you’d get exponential growth.
A function returns undefined if any value was not returned.
20 years ago my life finally fell apart from my mood disorder that’s heavily genetic in my family on my mother side. So while on disability after leaving my job as a network engineer I decided to go full in and try to find out what part of our genetics was causing this problem.

I had the benefit of living next to a large research hospital which I stayed in three or four times during some of my episodes. But once the Internet really came around my learning grew exponentially.

I have the added benefit of probably having aspergers as well. I also perform countless experiments on myself using different combinations of supplements in diet. Each failure let me to great information about what was going on. Now I’m at a place where I only need klonopin on occasion. This is coming from being on four different medication‘s at once.

And thanks.
Riots in the streets? That happened in France when the government increased the price of diesel. Imagine what would have happened if the government had tried to ban cars entirely!

If a state government or the US Federal government tried to ban cars, they would be out of power very quickly, even in the most liberal parts of the country.
It's like LastPass or GitHub Copilot collecting private data. It just goes against their business model to violate privacy. I'd be a lot more suspicious if it's Meta/Facebook, because it's directly part of their business model.
https://meet.jit.si has a similar drop in like experience, where no accounts are required, which I believe is in part the reason Zoom was popular in the beginning.
The way it is used in movies and tv comes to mind.
I use Wallet on macOS all the time with the built in Touch ID reader. I was actually surprised how many online stores accept Apple Pay via Safari. Even a local chain that delivers tacos takes it!
There's many contributing factors. Power supplies degrade over time, ability to maintain the correct voltages can be impaired for worst case scenarios, like running all disks flat out. Drives (and even more so older drives) can be vibration sensitive, especially in worse case scenarios involving all drives running flat out. With modern manufacturing tolerances being so low, whatever triggered the first disk in your pool to die is likely to get a second in a fairly small window.

So sure, the failures are not equally distributed and you've done well with your 184TB pool.
Are you tracking the device errors, or only those that are visible to the OS? But multiple disk failures are not particularly uncommon. My experience in this space was two 16 disk servers that I set up 6 5 disk RAID5s (with one global spare per server). Within one month I had 11 of 32 disks die, and barely managed not to lose any user files, and this was not during the 1st month in production.

Scary. I've since moved to pairs of servers cross connected to pairs of 60 disk chassis (16 x 12 gbit connections per chassis) with ten 11-disk RAIDz3, 10 global spares, and 6x3.2TB of NVMe cache per server.
Re: too old

The Moore's law-like analysis of the exponentially increasing comlexity of life over time suggests the time for life of our complexity is... about now. We may he first.
It's also expensive. The infotainment is the gateway to whatever you'd likely want to do and with the emergence of CarPlay and Android Auto, your "radio" is updating constantly.

The actual circuit to make a radio work is also tiny. Some early smartphones included a radio tuner in the hardware.
Wow, such a nicely written and informative article, and why this is not on the front page is beyond me.

Personally, recently I've been lamenting about the lack of popular Linux distro for network operating system (NOS) [1]. I really wish we have similar eco-system for Linux networking as for server and mobile (if we can count Android as Linux). Next time If anyone ask me why we want that I'll just point to this article, thanks Alex. The SDN trends in networking in particular NFV/NVF really make Linux and networking a match made in heaven.

Just wondering is SmartNIC necessary for the typical private cloud linux router set up? How about eBPF enabled routing to bypass the kernel, is it good enough performance wise for small to medium data center?

[1]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29959234
"Telegram is favoured by Jihadists"

"Telegram is Russian Spying"

"Telegram has extremely weak crypto"

"Telegram is used by pedophiles"

"Telegram is used by far-right terrorists"

.... Use Signal!

sigh

The amount of times people bash on telegram is becoming painful.

But lets take a logical argument; NSA has made it's mission in backdooring basically everything.

We know from the Snowden revalations that their technical capability in 2008 (he only exposed info on things that were already old, his intent was to show illegal surveillance not capability remember) was such that they had some kind of access to every conceivable device on the planet and the majority of communication that went through the US.

I don't think their technical capability got significantly worse in that time. So, if Telegrams private crypto code is backdoored or weak: well, NSA have it. No doubt should remain in anyones mind about that.

Telegram is hosted on Google Cloud, which is under the juristiction of USA. Google cloud claims to not have access to client data, but I think it's not outside the realm of possibility that something could exist between the TLS terminators and the telegram communication relays.

Maybe I'm wrong here entirely, but two things cannot be true at the same time:

1) Telegram is weak, NSA has access

2) Telegram is strong, NSA does not have acces

If telegram was strong: NSA would do everything in it's power to push users to more controlled platforms.

If telegram was weak: Jan 6th and Jihadi terrorists wouldn't use it.

Addendum: all of these same complaints (save: weak crypto) can be used against Signal.

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I don't think this is a good justification for not using telegram, you wont be labelled alt-right or a terrorist or a pedophile.

These same arguments come out time and time again about Tor too. It's pitiful, honestly.
OMG this. That poster was the one poster I had on my wall in high school.

The original "Don't be evil."
I'm very glad to hear that your son had a happy outcome!

"Ear infection" is often not even a heuristic. Pediatricians sometimes say that when it's not obvious what's wrong with a small child that has a little a bit of fever and is crying. Parents need to hear a reason and "ear infection" sounds more convincing than "probably nothing", and sometimes parents can be, well, difficult. I've even heard a pediatrician admit as much once. On another occasion, a nurse practitioner diagnosed our child with an ear infection without even bothering to check the ears.

Emergency physicians, on the other hand, are always thinking about the worst case scenarios and trying to rule them out.
Shopping governments is not a thing. Shopping your online community is.

Speaking freely shouldn't involve changing your life, address, citizenship, passport, taxes, healthcare...
>The only path would be to become a machine instead, slowly replacing biological parts with superior silicone. Until nothing biological remains.

Reproduction has to be intact. But I do agree. We as a species are not fit to these interstellar or intergalactic travels. It has to be dominantly machines.
I dunno, for-profit insurance has always struck me as something predatory by nature. The only functional difference between the two sides is that the sellers of insurance have capital to absorb loss--sure, there's some overhead in organization and risk calculation, but fundamentally it's leveraging the wealth of a few people so they can extract some wealth from many more.
Written like propaganda. There's more trees today than yesterday so calm down hippies things cant be that bad.
I would start with Cash App Tax, formerly CreditKarma free tax software. Depending on your income you might also be able to use MyFreeTaxes, a United Way initiative.
see above

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30268294

(HD Radio, not RDS)
So seasons are defined by temperature? In the UK we sometimes have our coldest weather in March. Does that mean the seasons have shifted? And what about countries close to the equator - do they have permanent summer? Seasons have nothing to do with temperature. Global warming is set to make that even more apparent.
I just read a tiny snippet of Christoper Walken during then 1960s about when he was aboard the yatch with Robert Wagner and Natalie Wood.
What drivelling times are these!
Not quite. My thesis is "The idea that society needs permission to better itself is misguided." It's not limited to human life at all. It's about rejecting your thesis of "Tesla's self-driving beta is unethical because most of the participants in this "experiment" did not opt in." We don't need permission to save lives.
Apple paid out over $60 billion to developers last year: https://techcrunch.com/2022/01/10/apple-paid-out-around-60-b....

Yes, Apple is huge multinational company that pays a little taxes as it can legally get away with; however, as of 2017, it was the largest tax payer in the world: https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2017/11/the-facts-about-apple...
Transistors actually keep getting smaller. 7nm->5nm devices got smaller. The transistors actually got significantly faster too. A lot of the problems are in wiring and powering the things, leakage, etc. so that's where more innovation is needed.

But the leading edge is far from standing still. I GAA and such pan out well that could be a very significant bump for the next few nodes. People act like everything stopped because "Moore's law is dead", but when you look at the rates of improvement in most other manufacturing sectors, semiconductors are still advancing at an enviable pace.
GPS modules are dirt cheap, and easy to interface to even an Arduino. The questions to be answered

How would you power said device? - Using the vehicle's power should be fairly easy. You would want to mount it under the hood, with the antenna disguised so that it's not screamingly obvious, also doable.

How would you transmit the data back to yourself? That is the tricky issue. You'd need some sort of IOT service to do so across more than the range of LORA beacons.

I've not done it, and this is just the result of a google search, but Hologram seems to offer plans cheap enough to make it a few dollars per month, if you are sparse with your broadcasts back to your server.
https://www.hologram.io/pricing/flexible-data

What will you do if your car is stolen? Do you really think the police will be able to recover it in time before it is stripped?
Aggregate keyword data to sell to advertisers and hedge funds. Same thing pretty much every smart device does.
Sandbox it, or get a hardware mute for your device if you don't have a choice.
I never thought of it as backwards. Defining functions before calling them makes as much sense as defining terms before using them or assigning variables before reading them.
For those curious, I skimmed the transcript and basically a "%" followed by a "I" in an audio file name cause a weird shutdown behavior on the infotainment system.
Prevalence and Durability of SARS-CoV-2 Antibodies Among Unvaccinated US Adults
fixedfloat.com does exactly that.
Amateur groups have been launching satellites for decades now...
Yea ~0.033% to 0.040% took ~879,000,000,000,000 kg of carbon with the oceans sucking up another 590 Gt, and land taking 528 Gt from 1750 to 2012. We added another 0.004% in the last 10 years.
This is also going allow trivially easy bitcoin payments at some point: https://9to5mac.com/2021/12/28/comment-tim-cook-said-apple-i...
Start a PAC for the decriminalization of money laundering, accept donations at a Bitcoin address, pay yourself a million a year to run it.
I'm thinking somebody forgot a "." in their station logo and this is the result.

>Station Logos use file-naming conventions with version numbers (this is accomplished in the image client). This is useful for storing and cataloging station logo images in the receiver.

https://hdradio.com/broadcasters/engineering-support/station...
> If telegram was weak: Jan 6th and Jihadi terrorists wouldn't use it.

Pretty sure the intelligence people have a policy to maintain their ability to see their shit rather than blowing their load.

In fact there's probably an evolutionary aspect to the jihadi thing.
Many third parties have analyzed it. FCC, Nasa, their competitors, and others.
> To me the solution is to delegate the oversight; hire someone else to understand and assess the reliability of the experts. Obviously that has a whole mess of problems too…

Mainly, it has the exact same problem you chose it in order to avoid, you now have to understand and assess the reliability of an putative expert in the domain of understanding and assessing the reliability of experts in your original target domain.
I'd say titles with "Tell HN" in general should trigger an alert. A good deal of it is speculative at best, slander at worst.
Perhaps they've been 'compelled' by the US Government to capture:
1: as much data as possible from their users.
2: recordings from specific users, but in order to hide their intentions, it's a universal "feature"
> When polls predicted a 99% chance of Hillary Clinton winning, you and I and most of our peers know that the polls weren't wrong. Sometimes chance comes out that way.

Andrew Gelman just wrote about the difference between aleatoric and epistemic uncertainty: https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2022/02/03/epistemic-...

And it sounds like you're confusing them here. "Sometimes chance comes out that way" is something that applies to aleatoric probabilities. But major elections are not uncertain in an aleatoric sense; they are uncertain in an epistemic sense, and the polls were correct to worry about why they were wrong.
My favorite story of satellite insurance is HGS-1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PAS-22

> However, a failure of the Blok DM-2M fourth stage left it stranded in a highly inclined (51.6°) and elliptical orbit, although still fully functional. It was declared a total loss by its insurers.

> The satellite was transferred to Hughes Global Services Inc., which was then a subsidiary of Hughes Space and Communications, with an agreement to share any profits with the consortium of 27 insurers.

> Edward Belbruno and Rex Ridenoure heard about the problem and proposed a 3–5 month low-energy transfer trajectory that would swing past the Moon and leave the satellite in geostationary orbit around the Earth. Hughes had no ability to track the satellite at such a distance and considered this trajectory concept unworkable. Instead, Hughes used an Apollo-style free-return trajectory that required only a few days to complete, a trajectory designed and subsequently patented by Hughes Chief Technologist Jerry Salvatore. This maneuver removed only 40° of orbital inclination and left the satellite in a geosynchronous orbit, whereas the Belbruno maneuver would have removed all 51° of inclination and left it in geostationary orbit.

> ...

> These operations consumed most of the satellite's propellant, but still much less than it would take to remove the inclination without the Moon-assist manoeuvres. With the remaining fuel, the satellite could be controlled as a geosynchronous satellite, with half the life of a normal satellite – a huge gain, considering that it had been declared a total loss. The satellite was then maneuvered to geosynchronous orbit at 158° West.

This ended up being the first lunar mission involving a communications satellite and the first lunar mission from a non-government entity.

Watching the orbit on the wikipedia page is wild.
Have you contacted Lutron at all? Or your implant manufacturer? Something seems out of alignment.
The most obvious things are their cash cows: the iPhone and the app store.

The M1 is also customer facing, vs partnering with Intel to make it
Well the page title is "PDEs You Should Know", not "PDEs Someone Should Know"