skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Telegram boardcasting phone number lead to arrest of Hong Kong protestors in 2019. I know it is fixed now, but a couple of years and a lot of people jailed too late.

Most people I know would rather use Signal now.
Steps down from the board. But does he unplug the giant, heaving pipeline of data directly from Menlo Park to Palantir HQ?

Will he uncompromise your already compromised personal data?

Or will he use your Shadow profile to predict your every move for decades and profit.

Only time will tell! Trickle down guys!!
I fail to understand who would benefit from a DDOS on SO.
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I think it is of questionable rationality to accept the null hypothesis between uber (0.4 miles/disengagement in 2018) and waymo/cruise (~700k miles, ~30k miles/disengagement in 2020; ~11k and 5k miles/disengagement in 2018, respectively), but reject the null hypothesis for tesla which reported....... 12 miles of self-driving in 2020.
I'm not so sure. They had the satellites in their "flat" mode and adjusted them to be edge on into the worst of the drag induced by the storm. They effectively tested that profile and have measurement data on how much drag they have to deal with under those situations. That data may allow them to limit damage to the entire fleet with larger storms, or make more informed decisions about future launches.

That data probably isn't worth the cost of the satellites they lost though...
Let's be fair, Jihadi terrorists probably don't know which platform is actually secure for their terrorist operation (none of them is, actually). They could've used WeChat if they were able to register an account for themselves. It's simply not a good metric.

It's the same reason why you don't want to measure someones kindness by comparing it with Adolf Hitler. "Oh I have such good neighbor, he is the completely opposite of Adolf Hitler", it just don't compare very well.
I don’t think Bitwarden would be helpful. You still need to protect your master password and the company is still subject to the will of law enforcement.
Microsoft has a version of this from what I'm aware of, would it still be worthwhile to pursue this venture
I don't know anything about Common Sense Skeptic but Thunderf00t has a well known hate of Elon musk and tries to trash pretty much everything he does.

I watched a bit of the Common Sense Skeptic video and heard several completely incorrect claims in the first couple of minutes. It not even remotely close to an impartial look at starlink. Just for a start, they can't use the list cost for falcon 9 launches as the internal cost to SpaceX, and then add in estimated SpaceX costs such as employee salaries.

And as for laser interconnects between starlink satellites - Its already happening. The last few launches have been starlink sats that utilize these laser interconnects.
I have a different model car and I've been noticing a similar thing since getting a new phone, where sometimes it will just freeze and reboot when bluetooth is being used, and I can't quite figure out why. I thought it was random but am now wondering if there's a pattern I haven't noticed yet.
On the flip side, most of us could already live quiet, comfortable lives in Thailand or Cambodia on our normal software engineering income.

Maybe these guys are thinking if you're going to be a criminal, you had better make the juice worth the squeeze. Live large, party extravagantly, and probably just rent everything from hotel rooms to yachts so there's less for the authorities to eventually impound when it catches up to you.
I think this should be discussed more. The frequency of outlier storms is higher than the actuarial tables were designed for. The line that delineates “hundred year storm” seems to be mislocated in the actuarial tables.

This seems to happen with hurricanes, floods, fires, and these polar vortex storms bringing extreme cold down into the lower continental US.
It is a little bit dated. But the core concepts are all still valid. I posted it because - as someone working in the industry - I find it is somewhat rare to find a public article that attempts to explain the "big picture" landscape of the semiconductor ecosystem.
I mean, I've seen hit pieces before, but man was this elaborate. It even had chapters!
I fully expect they will. But I want to actually see it happen instead of just blindly regurgitating corporate statements that it won't be a worry in the near future.
I think it is worth having a conversation about the actual numbers for carbon cost for launches, vs cost of other internet deployment technologies. Starlink is really cool but I want to know if I'm a fanatic or making rational decisions.
> I want to completely replace medical doctors from the entire landscape and make it frictionless.

Why? How does this make “it frictionless”?
Developers/sysadmins, and people for whom documents matter remotely that much, are two different groups of people.

It's a tool for tools.
Ask HN: Where do you think IoT is going?
Where do you think IoT is going? I'm interested in your broad perspectives, as well as your take about whether it's worth investing in the skills to run IoT infrastructure.
When people say something will "burn up on reentry", a phrase that I've heard almost all of my life but never really given much thought too, how burnt are we talking? Surely it doesn't just completely atomize?
> Atari Flashback 2

I have one of those. Picked it up for six bucks at Goodwill about 5 years ago, specifically because you can add a cartridge slot and run actual 2600 games.
Texas is uniquely dominated by energy interests. Most of the quacking about cheapness is just noise.

I have a relative who moved from an “expensive” northeast state to South Carolina. His big bitch was about taxes, but he didn’t really do the math. He saved on property taxes, but between more regressive sales tax, HOA, etc it doesn’t really compute.

Most significantly, he discovered the tyranny of local government is nothing compared to a HOA that actually runs public services.
There are T&Cs like usage caps that make these deals much less valuable than the marketing conveys.
The middle of the Atlantic is the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, where (as you can tell by the name) the ocean is shallower than on either side. The ridge is pushed up by convection from below and by the rocks being warmer there. The gentle slide of the ocean crust down from spreading centers helps drive the spreading.
If you're a federalist, shopping governments supposedly, is possible.
You're right, gathering multisigs would be much safer than gathering SSS shares because you wouldn't be carrying around bits of the private key.
It's still a regulatory failure in the end. If the government does not want to lay down exactly what path should be taken in getting to FSD, then we should not complain when we don't agree with the path that the manufacturers choose.

As long as Tesla can demonstrate a similar or better rate of serious harm than human drivers, why should we stop them? It's up to government to do their job and outline exactly what price society should bear in the pursuit of this paradigm shift (because let's not kid ourselves, FSD is a complete shift in paradigm for society).
That infographic is a very simplified view of a complex subject. Here's a more detailed overview: https://www.spaceacademy.net.au/watch/debris/orblife.htm

Bear in mind that Starlink is much lighter and "draggier" than typical artificial satellites. Based on publicly available data, I get a ballpark figure of roughly 20 kg/m^2 for the ballistic coefficient of a tumbling Starlink satellite.

Just eyeballing the graphs in the link I provided, that corresponds to a lifetime of something like 2-9 years, depending on solar conditions.
The longer you have to reach the cap, the smaller your initial bet becomes, because you have more time to catch up. It doesn't converge to Kelly, it converges to 0.
No one is telling people to transition because they're trans.

There is some tension between the two positions, but they are reconciliable. As far as we have gender as a social construct, and we will for the foreseeable future, gender identity is inevitable.
The classic libertarian adage is that a government powerful enough to give you everything you want is powerful enough to take everything you have.

Some corollary would apply here. (it's not that anyone particularly loves letting criminals off the hook, it's granting that ability is a slippery slope)
>It's a defence of the market's ability to stretch to accommodate rising wages in a sector

I don't see how this can be solved by the market. At the marginal level, raising wages can do a little to push the income of the lowest earners slightly higher, but it's not really a solution to the general problem of "people who can't earn enough money to afford some minimum standard of living". For one, it actually doesn't increase overall earnings, because businesses end up cutting hours[1]. Second, it only affects people who are employed, so the policy does nothing for the unemployed/disabled. If society wants to guarantee a minimum standard of living to their members, they should just do it (ie. redistributive policies), rather than trying to coerce the labor market into doing so.

[1] https://www.nber.org/papers/w23532
As a fan of Rust, this seems like the perfect application domain for "fearless concurrency". Having gone through the bowels of a few different connection pool implementations in various languages (because they had bugs in production), I can tell you the concurrency management becomes extremely difficult to reason about as the feature complexity increases. I think you're making a good bet that offloading a good chunk of that to the compiler will improve your ability to iterate in the future.

GoLang seems like the language du jour, but I think this post [1] really illustrates how powerful it can be when you have a compiler that handles so much more for you. It's not just about performance. Deadlock detection and a robust compile time set of error checks are huge wins over looser languages.

1: https://fasterthanli.me/articles/some-mistakes-rust-doesnt-c...
Certain people high up in the org get irritable over launch delays. Sometimes others think the risk isn't worth the yelling and go ahead in less than perfect conditions.
Only semi-related: March 30 deadline to opt into (or out of) the Zoom Class Action settlement:

https://www.zoommeetingsclassaction.com
Is the manufacture of biofuels actually carbon neutral?
What about the massive deforestation of Indonesia - caused by Germany's biofuel mandate?
I stopped channel surfing the day we got a digital box. I used to be pretty fast on the remote with the keypad, and could cycle through a number of channels. I forgot how disappointing that digital box was.
Heuristics are literally an evolutionary mechanism, the same reason we don’t stop and observe every blade of grass. If we did we’d be easy prey, and extinct. As would other species capable of the same contemplation.

They’re also very seldom so weighted. 99.9% confidence in anything is so uncommon that it’s not even a marketable confidence. How many nines? Not this many.

And many of the examples in the article are clearly strawman arguments where the exemplary person would never express the same level of confidence. Or if they would, they’d expose themselves as incompetent or a fraud.

I feel like I’ve spent more time and mental energy on this than it deserves, but to round it out: heuristics are intended to be hypotheses, and intended to be tested. They’re not rules. The only reason anyone would treat them as rules is if they’re 99.9% confident. If anything is that sure, you’re either dealing with business that cares about that probability margin or you’re gambling against yourself.
I think Rail's latest take on frontend build tools is a great direction. They really messed up their Webpack integration in my opinion, and Laravel Mix isn't much better (but it is a lot easier to use).

Overall, I think it would just be a matter of which language you know better.
I always thought that with substances like that you were only ever borrowing from the future.
Keeping the government from "seizing" assets is a big crypto goal, and avoiding taxes is included in that for a subset of users (which is "theft" if you agree with them). What to do with actual theft is kind of swept under the rug until it actually happens to a cryptobro, at which point they are very much in favor of a central authority getting their bitcoins or ugly monkey jpegs back.
These two cities have a combined metro population in the realm of ~30M. At $100,000M this will cost ~$30,000 per person. That’s enough money to buy every man, woman, and child hundreds of flights.
That would be a reason to have not climbed more than a specific rate ever. It wouldn't be a reason to scale down the rate of climbing as you age.
I don't think you need that super fast brain to be good at math. I'm sure it helps, and I know some people who have it and I felt I could never be like them. But I've also known some really top mathematicians (one Fields medalist in geometry and one of the biggest cheeses in mathematical logic) who weren't like that, and I felt like I could keep up with them, at least on a conversational basis (I don't claim that I would have been much of a researcher if I had stayed with it, much less at their level). Pure brainpower goes a long way, but personality and commitment count for a lot all by themselves.
A big part of that is the 70s/80s inflated destroyed capital budgets and reduced capital spend.

Regulators always have a bias towards rate reduction. Once the deregulation movement set in, power generation became a fat hog ready to be exploited. In some cases, investors even got to use tax free municipal borrowing facilities.
I wonder if there was additional unannounced payload. SpaceX frequently seems to launch spy satellites. It may be that other cargo timing took a higher priority…

Also curious if atmospheric warming is a predictable side effect of one of these storms or if we’re just learning about it.
I see this mentioned periodically in discussions about UTF-8 and it just doesn't seem to match reality. Very often you can be certain you're not operating with multi-codepoint grapheme clusters. Whether through string literals, conversion from other types (e.g., numeric to string), restrictions on identifiers, specification for file formats, company-policy on language for source files, conversion from strings with an ASCII charset, etc., you very often can be certain about the contents of that string. And optimizing around that information is considerably faster than a naive linear scan for the string, constantly rediscovering properties about that string.

E.g., Ruby runtimes scan the bytes in a string and then cache data about them in value called a code range. Knowing the code range, you can optimize many operations to not require additional linear scans of the string. Knowing a UTF-8 string consists only of ASCII characters can allow operations to be just as fast as if the string truly were ASCII-only (Ruby supports 100+ string encodings). And that fact is used throughout the core library to provide fast implementations of many operations (upcase, downcase, capitalize, gsub, substring, and so on). Moreover, a JIT can generate extremely tight code in those situations. Having to take a linear pass through the string to discover codepoint boundaries incurs a huge performance cost. While all strings could be treated uniformly and use Unicode tables for case mapping and such, the extra overhead is brutal. It has a measurable impact on string-heavy applications, such as template rendering and text processing.

In the most general case, yes, you know nothing about the string and can't make any assumptions. You can't even be sure the byte sequence is valid UTF-8. But, very often you do know properties of those strings. And you can manage boundaries where strings with known properties are joined with strings with unknown properties (e.g., variable interpolation in a template file).
But won't you just hoard all of your earnings if it isn't inflated away by 2+% every year? I've been told spending would grind to a halt. Also without holding your wealth in cash in a bank, how would banks use your money as a reserve for lending out to their favored clients?
as i wrote in my other comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30268565

if modules are always addressed by their full path then adding new functions to a module is not a problem.
I think some of Picasso's paintings were exceptional.

The bullfight paintings define to me how a master can do so much with so little:

https://www.pablopicasso.org/images/paintings/bullfight-3.jp...
See related

https://youtu.be/vSnCeJEka_s - The death of Agile - Allen Holub
The article reminds me of this: https://xkcd.com/937/
Electronics and occasional robotics. 3D printing (which I guess is just specialized robotics)

Beyond my office and computer, I really like baking. I’ve enjoyed making bread, croissants, cookies, pies, cakes, and more. Every week we have home made pizza.
Some companies use Zoom for chat and phone lines, in addition to meetings, so not a lot of choice in that situation
Probably wrong, but I immediately thought Sleepy Hollow.
PredictIt has two large limitations it created to appease the SEC: a max $USD per player per market and a max number of players per market.

Markets need a much less restrictive environment to be liquid enough to have accurate predictions.

Also, the granularity of bets is in 1/100 units and there is a huge market tax on withdrawing funds.

There may have been lots of promise, but there is a lot of friction which explains why PredictIt didn’t live up to that hype.
Yeah the British Govt with collusion of the so called free British press were pushing it when everyone was forced to go into lockdown and work from home because of covid.

Massive GCHQ data grab!
EVERYTHING has more latency these days. Phone calls. TVs. Radios. Computer keyboards. PROFESSIONAL WIRELESS MICROPHONE SYSTEMS. It blows!
I already write off 43k due to taxes, so sure, why not .
It depends on density and cross section (and solar flux); a 500km orbit can be 2-30 years, depending. That's all basically still in the "self-cleaning" domain. Being rather dense and flat, I'd expect Starlink to be on the lower end of that range.

http://www.spaceacademy.net.au/watch/debris/orblife.htm

The Starlink "0.9" batch was launched in May 2019. Most reached operational altitude; those that did not decayed quite early, as expected. Those that remained operational have by now been deliberately dropped, but some 5 seem to have become unresponsive at a more-or-less operational altitude.

See dashboard at https://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=49936.200

Starlink-43 is the first of those to fully decay, reentering around 26 January.
https://in-the-sky.org/spacecraft.php?id=44257

Starlink-24 is probably going to be the slowest of that cohort. It might have a couple years left.
https://in-the-sky.org/spacecraft.php?id=44257

Natural decay in <5 years is really quite fast as these things go.
I was bi. I listened to both. And KUOW
Probably more related to this line:

> It is critical that the station call sign be transmitted correctly. Station Logos follow a file-naming convention that includes the station call sign. This way the receiver can quickly read the call sign and determine if the Station Logo is already archived for immediate display. The filename for a Station Logo includes the station call sign, the program number, and the version number.

Sounds like they didn't sanitize their inputs. This is going to be a huge hassle for everyone involved.
Semiconductor industry is almost all B2B. People don't invest much time into trying to make technical content look aesthetically pleasing. It only gets read by other technical experts who don't value aesthetics as long as the information is clear.
But you missed the key point. The goal was not to get more money for Google. The goal was to get a fat bonus. Doubling an orgs profit by destroying value requires some good, high-level holistic analysis to uncover. Meanwhile the VP in question will be doing everything in their power to obfuscate that, at least until after the next comp planning cycle.
I think the exception is where using Windows makes sense, which is for legacy .NET development, needing VS, of which there is a lot of companies.
Should be more than zero though, no?

https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/infographics/an-early-history-of-sa...
I think I'll leave that a mystery for now.
it doesn't have sharding and failover..
Crazy they employ these people just as a negative filter on who to talk to.
Hey, I was checking out what tribe is doing and it looks quite neat, would like to get in touch w/ em. Could you hook me up? My email is on my profile. Thanks.
To the people that provided third party analysis, thank you, to everyone else, be like those people.
Wow, justification for rape right here. He was 43 when it happened.

https://idlewords.com/2010/05/an_annotated_letter_from_roman...

A link in there has expired. Archived here:

https://web.archive.org/web/20100130223615/http://www.thesmo...
I wonder if it can help. Carry on is partly about cost, but for many is mostly about efficiency. If they can speed up the baggage claim, it might make people more likely to use it.

The time delay of baggage claim is actually rather small compared to getting to an airport, getting through security, waiting for the plane, etc. But it looms large because you really just want to get to your destination rather than wait for one more thing. Aiding the perception of that interval will matter more than the actual time.
> what ultimately matters is how people actually use it, and that is probably in an unencrypted manner

I've heard criticisms about Telegram's MTProto encryption on HN, but in my usage of Telegram nobody has ever turned on the secret chats mode enabling it anyway. Anyone privacy-conscious asks me to use Signal, Matrix, or even Threema.

I have heard compliments about Telegram sticker packs though, if the other apps want more users they could consider making "cute stickers" :)
I can't tell if you think the affected person should become an outlaw, or are you defending attempted death-by-police as a freedom issue. And I'm sad we're at that stage...
alternate take: PATCO union overplays hand, then disobeys multiple court orders and ends up decertified by the NLRB as a union. And striking members banned-for-life!

My opinion is their initial ask and even strike was pretty reasonable, but then rejecting a pretty good offer and then doubling down by ignoring a court order in a public safety industry - well - gets you fired and that ain't a completely bad thing.
My practice is that if I'm paid, I'll use company software. In the real world (my own time)... not a chance
> People act like everything stopped because "Moore's law is dead"

This is really not what I said anywhere. What I said is that the pace of advancement is slower now, and that process supremacy is no longer sufficient to guarantee performance supremacy.

That's a problem for Intel, since it was a core assumption of their business model.
Postgres is the greatest.
A shorter (and less Web 3-focused) response to Marlinspike's claims in ‘The ecosystem is moving’ is this post by Daniel Gultsch, the maintainer of the "Conversations" XMPP client:

https://gultsch.de/objection.html
>Raising the spot MWH prices to 9 billion USD would have made no difference in what could be brought on-line, only how badly load serving entities were getting screwed.

Why not? If it's expensive enough you'll get people flying in spare generators from out-of-state to supply the demand.
Theories and models would count as evidence, just like it does for the weather. When someone talks about "the incoming rescission", it sounds an awful lot like they've read or heard something that convinced them one is on the way. It's worth asking them to share that with us.