skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Not to mention that continued development of terrestrial networks is, IMO, going to further eat geostationary comms' lunch.

I absolutely agree on this part, having been directly involved in geostationary in the past one of the fascinating things to watch was a good portion of Africa disappearing from the target market for two-way geostationary data services, because of all the submarine cables that were installed along the west and east coast of africa, hitting major cities with landing stations, from about 2009 to the present date. Even Mogadishu, Somalia got a cable.

There's a big old ugly defunct C band satellite Earth station on the hill above freetown, Sierra Leone that is a perfect example of this..
What is your definition of the word “goal”?

Example 1:
The person focuses on abstract definitions of words like “mass” because they have a goal of avoiding meaningful discussion. This tactic of arguing about words accomplishes this goal.

Example 2:
Arguing about words makes the poison feel good. Their goal of feeling good about themselves is accomplished.

Example 3:
A cynical loser who only cares about looking clever online chooses to argue about abstract definitions of words… chooses to argue about abstract definitions. This accomplishes the goal of asserting their superior intellect and better understanding of the world.

Edit: LOL what is the blatant lie that I have repeatedly posted?

I’ve mostly expressed my opinion that the author of the article is a masturbatory idiot and people that parrot his silly chin stroking nonsense are equally masturbatory idiots. That… isn’t a lie. I genuinely believe that to be the case!
I don't fully understand where you're going with this question.

Maybe you are implying a terrorist could get their hands on 1kg of U-235 and either make a dirty bomb or a nuke. A dirty bomb would not really be more dangerous than a dirty bomb made with Cadmium. As for a nuke, 1kg is well below the minimum necessary to make a nuclear bomb, which is about 15 kg. But that's not the only thing. You need weapons grade Uranium for that, i.e. Uranium where U-235 constitutes at least 85% of the whole. Civilian reactors use Uranium that is enriched to much lower levels. Currently, the vast majority of the civilian reactors use Uranium enriched to 4.5%. A terrorist who gets their hands on that, can forget about building a nuclear bomb, except if they have means to further enrich that Uranium. In other words, if they have centrifuges, like Iran does. I might remind you that Iran is a state, not a single person. In any case, if you have centrifuges, you might as well start with Uranium ore, there's no point in stealing from an existing civilian reactor.
> "(I've read it's about 25% faster for the same spectrum)"

I get 200-400 Mbps on 5G, on a UK network with 40 Mhz of TDD 3.6 Ghz 5G spectrum. On 4G LTE I rarely see more than 50 Mbps or so (Typically 20+20 Mhz FDD LTE at 2.1 or 2.6 Ghz).
Not personally very interested by I paid $130 for a bottle of wine last week, I don't see how this is any different.

(Also couldn't help but be reminded of the "Bobo" Simpson's episode: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pe8jOp349P8 )
Yeah, but still not turning any profit. And probably still using leftover VC money. With the stock value way down, I wonder if they have issues pumping cash anymore
In defense of coding interviews
this is really cool. nice work
I personally quite like the magnetic adapters which turn a USB C charging port into a magsafe-type thing. About £4 from AliExpress.

Even without the magnetic connection, the right angle works much better for me than straight out.
official and standard according to whom?
Back in my day, if you had Helvetica installed on Windows, it wasn’t made for screen rendering and looked terrible. I remember putting Windows-friendly fonts higher in the stack for that reason
It's very different. Games, at least FPS ones, don't actually try to predict the future at all. They just handle what are essentially sync collisions after the fact. This is why you'll find endless complaints from gamers about "dying behind a wall". Movements aren't predicted, they are instead compensated for by the server which just maintains history of where everything was in the past.
Ah that makes sense! Having current in opposite directions in the two wires in the cable cancels it out. Thanks for explaining.

I guess the warnings about not running loads of current through coiled cables are more to do with heat dissapation then?
This is a monkey, not a great ape. That said, it looks bored.

I hope you make your million.
Existence of staff (and less prominently, senior staff/principal) titles is now common - IC hierarchy does not end at senior as it did few years ago at 95% companies.
Decentralized Autonomous Organization. It's a joint-stock company but based on shitcoins.
Doesn't it make more sense to have that at the power source end (charger) rather than the power sink (device)?

After all, most devices are pretty dumb, and us device designers like it that way. As long as it's optional (meaning I don't have to buy it, because I personally will never use it), go ahead and make the chargers as complicated as you please.
This Talking Heads Show from 11/4/80 has a great take of Once in a Lifetime too:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFvgWguaC9g&t=1763s

I make it a semi-annual tradition to watch all of Stop Making Sense. Never disappoints.
Nice plan... get inflation up, wages down.... who the hell voted these people in power...
Yes, that's just a list price to guide prospective customers. Their actual cost price to themselves (internal accounting cost) is surely way less.
I'll just let Newton and Leibniz argue it out. And I'll go re-read Stephenson's Baroque Trilogy.
Yeah, no. I will pay the premium to Uber/Lyft for safety.
It’s a great serif, introduced with macOS Catalina I think.
> Uplinks and the huts for their gear, while a cost, are not exorbitantly expensive

The question isn't whether it's exorbitantly expensive, but whether it's more expensive infrastructure per data moved to subscriber compared to other technologies that could reach those subscribers.

That is, all providers need transit, backhaul, head-ends, etc. SpaceX will have all of these costs, too.

> SpaceX has both US military and commercial airliners testing their service

Yup, those are exciting markets, no doubt. They really depend upon inter-satellite links, as you mention. And, of course, they're not free of competitive pressures in these markets.

> Terrestrial service is ancillary revenue in markets where there is lower utilization

I haven't heard it positioned this way.
Unlike in most cases, where there is a conflation of fissile and radioctive substances, I believe that the parent comment was actually referring the the problem that occurs when you allow people to get their hands on too much enriched uranium.
That's the percentage of people living off $2 a day. I'm glad to see that number decreasing, but I think most Americans are making many multiples of that. The median household income here is $70k.

Let's say you make half that, and you can sometimes fly in a plane. $35k, 3 person family. You are still in the top 20th percentile globally (while considered quite poor in the States).

Does being in the top 20% make you wealthy or elite? I dunno. If you are making median income here you are probably in the top ten percent, globally. Does that make you elite or wealthy? It's subjective. I don't have a specific number. But the point still stands that you are almost to the top globally even if you are relatively poor in the States.
DIY SSD or hard-drive rack $3.oo (2016)
Bleeping Computer has the story as well - https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/new-windows-s...
I was looking at those, but are there any that'll do pd?
Some people have their company/firm pay for the rides. Why not take it as the main means of transportation?
I see three options if this is a necessary use-case against a shared-changeable dataset:

1. Accept that the results will be unstable as the underlaying set changes. Pagination may either miss or double-include items unpredictably.

2. Store an intermediate result set guaranteed to remain stable for the necessary duration. This will provide stable pagination, at the cost of solving cache-expiry problems.

3. Use or build a version-controlled data store. I don't know of anything in common use, but there is likely something available. This is similar to #2, but moves the work from the application into the data-storage layer. You then paginate against a set version of the data. Imagine something similar to Immutable, but with expiry for unreachable nodes.

Unsure what #3 looks like at scale.
California’s drought has caused entire towns to sink nearly a foot in one year
>I'm not the kind of person who would job hop every 2 years like what seems to be common in the industry.

...you haven't even started. If you were regularly getting offers with 50%, 100%, or 200% more than you currently earn you'd rethink that position pretty quick.
It'd be interesting to see actual statistics on rideshare crimes before and after the introduction of these intended mitigations. Anecdotally, the number of gruesome news stories seems to have remained roughly constant.
think outside the big city box.

5G is only good for high population density.
There are CLI tools like aspell or hunspell that GUI tools are based on.

How you'd integrate them with your workflow is beyond me, though :)
The 25% take is likely only in their best markets.

Most of their markets are terrible markets.
Presentation at the European Energy Law Seminar 2022
I wouldn’t assume immigrants “knows no better”. More likely if they don’t have a better opportunity available. Especially if they are not on a visa.
Possibly a silly thought:

Is there any risk of hitting a “critical mass of consumer magnets” that makes screwing with other technology far more likely?

Like, if every darn product I own tries to solve problems cleverly with magnets, suddenly I’ve got powerful magnets everywhere.

I guess it’s good I don’t have VHS anymore.
I was disappointed to see that this article did not mention python generators (`yield`) with respect to infinite series. They were introduced in 2001 by PEP 255 - well before this article was written. Perhaps they were excluded because of the implicit statefulness?
You are right. That does sound crazy.
Dark Mode Toggles Should Be a Browser Feature
> but with music, you don't really realize all the great music that isn't being written.

Musicians have long complained that their share of record sales was negligible in the old system, at least until they became large and established acts. The money (such as it is) has always been in touring and merchandise.
Isn’t Uber Eats their most profitable business.

At least that’s what Uber recruiters would tell me when trying to recruit.
Point!

You'd want some type of aggregation protocol, so that power-distribution devices can send more granular data up the chain, but yeah, it'd make more sense to build this into said devices: outlets, power strips, chargers, and so on.
Okay. That makes sense, then.
Fixing Safari iCloud Syncing
Squid and octopus genome studies reveal how cephalopods’ unique traits evolved
Been following the development of Dafny: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/dafny-a-lan...
Damn that looks like a high quality forum. I almost wish audio studio was a hobby of mine so I can get something out of that forum.
why do you need math for machine learning? Code first, learn the math as you go. Otherwise, you will learn a bunch of math you don't need when your actual goal is machine learning.

Do you know pandas and scikit learn? If not, start there.
BBC to close BBC Four and children's network CBBC, move content online
Legality also depends on the jurisdiction.

However, to pretend that Uber is now not a taxi company is difficult to comprehend. The original name was UberCab. The intent is clear.
In my ecosystem of choice, I wish Spring/Spring Data had support for anything other than page- or offset-based pagination. But none such that I could find, last time I went looking.
Nothing is going to be able to pull cat hair out of the air before it hits the ground without creating extreme wind.
I was at that 1983 LA Concert! Attending UCLA at the time and getting into what they called at the time "world music". The Talking Head's mix of rock riffs and African beats on this album won me over. The cover art was the first time I had seen digital pixelation.
The worst idea I’ve ever seen on HackerNews
I work remote and am planing to live full time in my van/rv for a year. I might have SOME 4g coverage in most places but it's definitely spotty and if I am remote desktop into a client's machine it need a stable connection.
> A paged response needs to sync state across many machines. As you have said, you need a clientID, a cursor reference, or a sticky session. That's not nothing.

OK, I think this is what I was misunderstanding in your comments above. You can keep pagination state in a distributed store, but it's not necessary. The implementations I've seen and worked with have all embedded all the information needed to generate the next page of results in the cursor token itself. Kind of like with a JWT or TLS session ticket, there's no need to sync pagination state or use sticky sessions. That approach also provides some resilience in case the server that generated the previous page of results becomes unreachable (something that the client needs to handle by restarting pagination if pagination state is just held in memory by the server keeping the stream connection open).
Yep. I own both UBER and LYFT stock. They have been some of my worst investments.
If you're still using devices relying on magnets; it's time for an upgrade.
Do we have formal verification for formal verification yet? I want to make sure my verification does not have bugs.
iOS 15.5 Has a Bunch of Privacy Features Not Enough People Know About
I remember doing a science project involving sticking the larger floppies to the fridge with magnets (maybe even neodymium) and freezing others - not a single one reported any bit errors.
Try reading the submission article ;)

It finishes with:

> Or, if I’m really dreaming, how about 40Gbps for USB 4? Let’s go for broke and make the ultimate cable — give it a built-in power meter while you’re at it.

Links to https://www.theverge.com/2022/1/28/22907150/usb-c-pd-cable-p...
Easy to find javascript programmers for common tasks.
Do you get full speed in your "home" cell?
My Philips air purifier has separate HEPA and carbon filters that can be replaced independently from each other. And also a pre-filter mesh that collects large dust particles and can be vacuumed out.
Yes, it would be impossible to do something as complex as the Uber app with only 10,000 employees. Better to run the company into the ground.
What an amazing community.

I'm always struck at how much money these video game corporations leave on the table, though, if they just leaned into the community a little bit more, giving them the tools to build what they need/want.

And I often wonder about video game development in particular too. This is just me throwing random ideas out there, but it seems like video game design would benefit immensely from certain open-source "tools". Like the ability to edit a mechanic in-game and its values, to discover what the most interesting "metas" are.

In general, whenever I think about the longest enduring games, they all seem to have a period where players are experimenting with rules and mechanics. Then they discover a "stable" meta and over the next decades, make very few changes to keep things balanced. Games like chess, basketball, baseball, soccer, etc.

And I'm struck by how this isn't possible most of the time today, because businesses aren't keen on making any part of that process open with the possible exception of Roblox. I also imagine it would be very hard to build something like a game editor for CS:GO that's intuitive and simple for players to use, to experiment with new modes of playing.

I sometimes imagine a future where players can open up a game, edit the rules, then share that "seed" with other people, until the most popular "seed" is discovered and becomes popular amongst a community. In this way, one would discover non-intuitive, but immensely interesting game modes through sheer trial and error (much like how ARAM was discovered in League of Legends by players).

I think in some sense, video game development is still in its early days. There are so many things we don't know and haven't done.
Yes, sure:

1. The Pulfrich illusion (link to Wikipedia) is the very first clear illusion of this type.

2. Many false movement illusions expose the inevitable failure of temporal error control.

My favorite is Akiyoshi Kitaoka “subway” illusion @AkiyoshiKitaoka on May 9, 2021

3. Have a look at my pinned tweet @robwilliamsiii
Not meaningfully. Physicists can roughly calculate how much energy will be liberated inside the reactor over its power, or a laser's efficiency, but not (for example) whether their grant money will be available in 2 years, whether oil and gas reserves will open up, in general how much oil and gas are available on Earth, the atmospheric budgets, whether some (un)friendly political group will gain influence, etc.

So sometimes innovations don't work because of things like economics, geoscience, politics, funding, and other times it's fair to say that it's the physics that doesn't play. It communicates more by using an accurate word, while "everything is physics" communicates nothing at all?
Brainiac75 on YouTube did some tests on various electronics (calculator, PDA, PCs, displays) with non-trivial magnets.

A Thinkpad with an SSD seemed to be fine; I'm honestly surprised that it didn't even crash:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXITrgRkT5k&t=6m&list=PLiAlc...

The magnet is strong enough to directly affect the electrons in the CRT, distorting the raster into interesting shapes:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yEu2R1gYSs&t=2m20s&list=PLi...
"some influence" is different from a direct justification for a law.
The User-Agent string already has your OS in it. Or have you customized your browser to randomize that as well?
Hum... It seems things are both better and worse than I expected.

Most of the world officially adopted the Gregorian calendar (one of the regions you missed, the Middle East is on the process of changing, with some countries further than others), but most of those countries have a dual calendar system, so depending on what you do, you may need one or the other.

Yes, for counting population, China is what weights the most, and they almost completely moved already.
- Leonardo da Vinci
- John Smeaton, first civil engineer.
- James Watt, invented the steam engine, mostly self taught
- Thomas Edison
- Nikola Tesla
- Henry Ford
- LeTourneau (biggest wheel loaders in the world)
- Konstantin E. Tsiolkovsky (co founded rocket engineering)

or Oliver Heaviside (put Maxwell's equations in vector notation)
Manhattan is surrounded by water, but guess what, there are subways that go to Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx, Jersey City and Hoboken. If your office is in downtown Manhattan, you can get there faster if you live in Brooklyn than if you live in Haarlem (which is part of Manhattan).

In principle the supply side has natural constraints, but they are easily 2 times above what has been built until now.

You can think of it this way: the population density of Manhattan is about 27000/km2. The entire NYC has a density of about 10000/km2, while Jersey city has 7000/km2.
I love threads like this. It assured me of job security in accounting y'all. Thanks for giving me confidence in strange quarters.
That's not the only place where telemetry takes place. Even with that option turned off, FF has other telemetries working in the background.
Not the GP, but the Java Sandbox is now deprecated.

There is an already closed deprecation ticket at openjdk.java.net.[1] For a blog post at inside.java see here.[2] Both links have some explanatory information.

[1] https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/411

[2] https://inside.java/2021/04/23/security-and-sandboxing-post-...
HAM Radio: Meme Appreciation Month
Could be. I'm also in the EU but most stuff on my domotica vlan has no access to internet. It's possible the purifier never updated after I connected it. I know the API I use to control it with home assistant is purely local.

The forum where I read this was also EU based though. Weird.
> Very difficult to find a taxi if you weren’t in popular areas.

Yes, now it's impossible to find a taxi anywhere unless you have a smartphone and an Uber/Lyft account. I miss the days when I didn't have to have a lifelong relationship with my cab.
That is easily changed via settings and I hope that browser developers will "freeze" it in future so that it always reports Windows 10 (which was promised to be the final version of Windows).
Let's not downplay the astronomical math involved and the contribution made by Albert here! Just because we "know" the solution doesn't mean it's not worth valuing putting in the work to prove the conclusion. Thanks Albert!
Good point about the niche problem. It reminds me of freemium pricing where for low volume the service is free but above a threshold (when customers can typically afford to pay) it gets expensive.

It'd be nice to some global service to host your game servers controlled by a single slider linking ping to price. With the slider at its cheapest end, there's only one server and it's in the cheapest datacenter. At the most expensive end, there are servers all over the world linking players as locally as possible.
I just quit my stressful job a month ago, started working out twice a week, and have switched to a probiotic with a bunch of bifidobacterium strains and my depression has disappeared. I can say 100% my experience validated this. The other thing I did was cut out alcohol for a few months.
Adding for example banned.video to a block list, says more about the person adding it than anything.

Block lists are to stop yourself from visiting a site you frequent, or stopping tracking.

Zerohedge was the top 5 places to get macro level global trends for the financial market. They were called fake news and dangerous because they were talking about gain of function research back in March 2020, before it was acceptable.

They also have other bias, but so does everyone. If you are an adult you can scroll past that.

What is the threshold to ban a whole domain, what percent of speculation is allowed.

Is speculating on certain ideas weighted differently?

All news has a certain percent that is clearly aimed to shape your thinking on a topic rather than to inform. In my opinion you have to accept that if want a diverse range of ideas, from the other content a media site has - especially in the financial markets.

Zerohedge is currently on my ban list (russia coverage) so I can't tell you what they are currently talking about. But I made the active choice to add it, it was not hidden deep in a massive blocklist.
Hey, Intel is trying to get into the foundry business, right? Wonder if Renee has any good contacts over there. Maybe they could dodge the supply chain issue. (Just kidding, I know switching fabs is a big project -- but I do sort of wonder if there was a missed opportunity here... Ampere needs some tricks up their sleeve if they want to compete with Amazon and their unlimited funds, right?).
I recently found these too. Very handy! Got some for ~$8 delivered on AliExpress. The ones I got only work with USB-C with PD (won’t fallback to micro usb for example) but I’m in love. It’s so handy to know I’m charging at maximum speed.
Pacemakers have reed switches so a magnet placed over them will turn off heart rate sensing and switch to a fixed rhythm, which iPhone users found out about recently when Apple added magnets to their phone. Other than stuff like that, I doubt it'll be that big of a deal.