skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is Iridium really competitive for business jets? The bandwidth of even their next-generation satellites does not seem competitive with the GEOs, and I'd guess bizjets should be mostly fine with their latitude limitations.

I'd expect most of them to go with one of the Ka band these days; they have pretty small antennas available these days as far as I know.
Pretty much in any country forcing your way upon armed security in a top government building would lead to something like this.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunflower_Student_Movement#Occ...

In 2014 political activists in Taiwan occupied the legislative yuan (something like congress or parliament). No one was killed.

My position is shooting and killing an unarmed protestor entering a government building is abhorrent, full stop. Doesn't matter if you disagree or agree with their motives.
I had to complete two rounds, each with two grids of photos.
> Literally no one here cares though. Brits tends to hold the opinion that if you just don't say or do the wrong things you'll be fine.

I after ten years of police incompetence, failure, sheer ineptitude and negligence of the police to deal with abusive heroin/crack addicts did my own survaliance and with all the evidence, they still failed to do a thing. Even predicted drug dealer activities and events before they even happened and then with fair and sound warning, they still failed. Even with evedence they failed to even offer any up against the offenders in crown court and they walked. I could write a novel at the failures they have done, from passing witness satments onto drug dealers to bending over backwards for them. Even predicted and warned about danger of life to others and they were allowed to just die.

So yes, you can say and do what you like without being held to account as long as your a criminal who can play the system and get away with it.

Which is why I'm in the process of making it all public and shame all those failures in the open. Already have the Met Police on special measures. Already flagged and raised two major security flaws in their systems to entities higher and dare say I'm not even scratching the surface here.

Hence your comment about "litterally no one here cares" rings true too me of the police themselves who have for all effect enabled crime and victimhooded the real criminals at the expense of innocent lives and with that. I dare say they will find a way to charge and arrest me once I do it but damit, this can not carry on and the levels of failure are so deep and wide, it is the right thing to do.

Any suggestions about releasing such whistleblowing level of data to augment what I have inplay would be welcome though.
It depends entirely upon how you define “modern.” Even plain old CSS and HTML can be used in a “modern” way.
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> In other news: your partner may also leak your most intimate secrets

Indeed, and that's why it's important to choose the right partner. Likewise, it's important to choose the right friends on instagram to share your photos with. Because as you noted, they can always screenshot away and there's nothing Facebook can do.

What's dangerous is thinking that Facebook/Meta is the keyholder. That's a false perception, perpetrated by Facebook because they want to monopolize everyone's data. It was and always will be about the people who you share your information with. Don't want your profile scraped and leaked? Don't share it with sketchy people.
For example, nightly family prayer where everyone is given the opportunity to contemplate/share what they are grateful for that day. Also a time set aside to practice saying sorry/reconciliation. Contemplating the beatitudes, etc.

Amazingly fruitful practice that only takes 15 min or so. By the time the kids graduate from the home, they are quite mentally/emotionally prepared for the world from the practice :)
I feel this in my veins.
Ironically work I dabble in the security automation space and I'd say this is the real "social ill" of all regulatory cultures. It is not the automation that's important is sharing and reusing agreed upon understanding of requirements and best practices (what and why we automate and the real goals not just cargo culting or copying). Most unintentionally hoard and others (auditors, special consultants) intentionally do with the belief this is their market differentiator. This is good but still falls short by not sharing and dropping hints. This is the default I see most of the time.

Most higher level attempts to meaningfully share and reduce toil and wasted effort are not incentivized in risk/governance/oversight culture, so we all get to lose.
That only makes sense. There are McDonald's in China, so they already need the capability. Why bother shutting it off outside China? There are Chinese tourists in most places.

The system is often more reliable than the staff. I bought a gift card from IKEA in China and wanted to see what would happen if I tried to use it in the US. It worked fine, in theory. But when I asked the American cashier how much was on my card, she happily reported to me that it was $100. (It wasn't; it was ¥100.) The receipt she gave me, though, correctly listed ¥100.
There is a medium-low amount of overlap between #1 and #2, leaning more towards low. There's not no overlap. It's a weak positive indicator.
It was written by the person with (by far) the most HN karma, so they definitely know their audience.
I am /shrug
Google got fined ~3.5% ($5b) of their global revenue by the EU in 2018. I didn't see any troops. Granted, they're still fighting that one in court.[1]

It's not looking good for them though, with courts already having upheld another $2.8b fine against them (from 2017).

Also note that "not paying" a fine is not really an option if you have business in the EU or countries friendly with them. They will quite literally just take it out of your accounts in the end. If you don't wish to have your business disrupted by that, you better pay before that happens.

[1] https://www.businessinsider.com/google-faces-eu-in-court-ove...
Yes, a difference is price. My 4 bedroom house in flyover country was a bit over $200k, and we had the cash from having worked for about 6 years after grad school for a flyover salary while continuing to live like grad students.

We went through a variety of simplistic formulas for "what you can afford" and entered half of our incomes to get an idea of what we actually wanted to spend.
Same story everywhere, Not in my backyard protests. People get what they deserve.
Is there a for-profit venture targeted at children which isn't harmful?
Book publishing I guess. Struggling to think of others.
> Xi is illegitimate

What does this mean?
"Public service broadcaster" is even more correct.

Your original comment had truth to it but bundling the BBC in undermined that, however you define it here.
So you're quite a fan of that Minority Report movie?

We should just arrest everyone and put us all in home detention, then we'll never have crime! That's a big win, right?

And we'll be monitoring the Politicians and Police with this too right?
Member of the Supabase team!

Would love to hear your pain points with local development. Always looking for feedback so that we may improve your experience.
>Most reasonable people don't alienate friends over different beliefs,

like the different belief that not having kids is a fail? Or can you alienate friends over beliefs you disagree with, but not ones you do?

I mean I do not have any kids, but I know many people that believe one of goals of life is to have children, and I am intelligent enough to understand that procreation is evolution's goal

Thus I do not get offended or alienate people from my life if they say me not having kids is a failure
I wonder how many of us have independently done something similar at our respective companies during a hack week. I did something nearly exactly the same, except you'd type "resurrect team-member-username". The idea was that you could get old co-workers to come back, though it also worked for active co-workers.

There was a similar disaster story, in that while I was presenting the bot to the company, someone decided to have it generate a message from the then CEO. Unfortunately, the CEO didn't spend much time in Slack, so the only message it could generate was one from a few months prior that was harmless but ended up turning into an embarrassing joke.

Unfortunately, I also happened to be one of the main people who had turned that message into a joke, and it spiraled out of control a bit. So when my bot ended up essentially doing a callback to that with me standing in front of the company, I couldn't help but facepalm. Thankfully he was good natured about the whole thing (again).
Also worth noting that as the grid goes green, so do all EVs. Not so for combustion engines, unless we somehow switch to synthesizing hydrocarbon fuel from non-sequestered carbon sources.

(Which tbh I think will happen more as we near 100% green energy - you'll still end up with special cases where the energy density and portability benefits of storing energy as bonds in hydrocarbons still makes sense and justifies paying a higher cost for such synthetic fuel!)

But with how everything is going with solar, batteries, and nuclear, I suspect that the invisible hand of the free market is going to make the default "I want to make 1-7 people go about 70mph for 0-4 hours" vehicle be an EV, rather than doing complicated and expensive chemistry to make renewable hydrocarbons.
How about "reduce coupling" in that function, "increase cohesion" in this other function. The DRY principle is intending to get you thinking of coupling and cohesion, which, when gotten backward dramatically increase complexity.

The mechanism to "SPOT that code out, bro!" can be applying varying techniques for reducing coupling, and tightening cohesion. A proper review on a merge request should be making more specific comments about how, not a hand-wave to say "DRY that sucker up."

One final comment: DRY is three characters, therefore obviously more efficient :p
I think they're intrusive and mostly unuseful, but I can at least see the rationale behind it at the kinds of companies that hire people en masse, or the kinds of jobs that people get bonded to do.
> The EV Tax credit needs to do away completely, EV can either compete with ICE in the market or they cant, government should not be picking winners or losers.

One of the governments jobs is to make sure externalities are accounted for, and ICEs should not get a free ride by not dealing with their pollution.

There are many things that do not make sense on the open market, unless we can collectively agree to tip the scales in the direction it should go for a better society, till the "market" can manage it on it's own.
I did the same as soon as Starlink launched. I saw it as an existential threat it is to all the Geo operators.

I was headhunted for a SRE position with Viasat last year due to my extensive Satcom background. I noped out as soon as I found out it was Viasat. Not because I dislike them personally, but because I don't want to be laid off next year.
"RTFM" -> "read TFA" is a fairly simple derivation.
Chances are, you, dear reader, will not get any of this sweet, sweet, low latency.

Most likely these laser links only go from each satellite to the one ahead and the one behind, in the same orbit. That is good enough. For example, there is an orbit that goes right over New York, London, and Hamburg.

Who wants low latency most is hedge funds. It would be surprising if Starlink did not make anyone who wants it pay through the nose to get traffic one millisecond faster than fiber, 100x that for 2ms, 100x that for 3ms, and on up for longer links. What they would really be buying is not so much getting their own packets N milliseconds ahead of the fiber crowd, which is OK, but rather for their slightly poorer competitors to get packets only N-1 milliseconds ahead, which is super-great.

In fintech, they like to say a microsecond is an eon, a millisecond an eternity. When they can get a millisecond jump on the competition, that can mean millions of dollars every day. So, they will pay it. Gladly.
One of the reasons is that a gearbox capable of withstanding the torque from an electric motor would need to be rather heavy. I suspect that if there are any efficiency gains to be had, they’d be offset by the increased mass and transmission losses. Not to mention the increased parts cost, manufacturing complexity and packaging challenges.
Where did you even get those links? When I go to lenovos's website I and filter byt processor I cannot actually find any laptops with these specs to order... So maybe these are only available for businesses to order? Or they are not available yet???
I guess I could just export the audio visual effects based on the audio track on a green background and then key them out. So not a major issue just extra steps.
The problem of slow joins isn't the client, it's the protocol. Just join the Synapse admins channel on matrix.org (will take half an hour to load, your client will time out and give you an error but it will load eventually) and the other admins will tell you they're all aware of the problem.

Shocking to see Arathorn deflecting about this. I run a server and just never use federation to avoid the problem.

Not sure why I keep getting flagged
I would like to add details on the externalized costs of SUVs.

The damage to roads scales O(n^3) by vehicle mass.

The death rates have already been spoken for.

The space taken by SUVs on roads and parking is subsidized by people who drive smaller cars, cyclists, and pedestrians.

Road-goers should not be subsidizing SUV owners.
Wow, I know severance isn't generally a legal requirement but effectively one day per year at the company...
Dems propose raising taxes on couples making more than $500k
I disagree.

If I'm reading a list of names like in a contacts app (e.g the example), I find it much easier and a better experience to skim entries if they have equal height and spacing. Having the trailing characters of a long last name being replaced with ellipsis is completely worth it to get the speed of skimming the list.

If I actually need to interact with the person that has the long name I'm going to click their entry and get their full details anyway.
Not really:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5hdIR5vHMo
I'm glad the author wrote this with Guile scheme in mind and mentioned Racket/DrRacket. Both are certainly beginner friendly ways of getting started with scheme in my opinion. I love how this goes from here's how to define a procedure to really showing some muscle flexing. I think the real way of getting someone turned towards scheme or lisp is taking them from the easy stuff to doing things that would be harder to understand/implement in other programming languages without lots of expertise in those languages.
On the contrary, how are you gonna have a kid of you’re in prison for 20 years?
Americans still think they can make money flipping houses
I'm old school which means tags and cscope. I need to be able to walk the function paths of complex code in a terminal. I simply don't see how other folks can review code by staring at pages of code without similar context.
So don't use them for towing, or wait 5-9 years. Towing is not not done by a huge fraction of trucks, in fact most are probably looking pretty in suburban driveways.
What's the difference? Your term sounds like mine but dressed in less neutral, more positive language.
To me it seems like a simple case of supply and demand. Of course, you can't easily increase the supply of historic super-walkable towns, but you could design and create a modern super-walkable town if you wanted to, and had the resources. Could even make it cute, probably, with the right design regulations.
The solution to the Dichotomy Conjecture for Constraint Satisfaction Problems [1] (also [2], but this proof is much more difficult). This gives a clear dividing line between the types of problems that are easy to solve exactly and the types of problems that are difficult to solve exactly, for a fairly large class of problems. I wouldn't even dare to dream that something like this could be done until I saw it happen!

[1] https://arxiv.org/pdf/1704.01914.pdf
[2] https://arxiv.org/pdf/1703.03021.pdf
I recall building my first FLTK app in 1998 and being somewhat dismayed that it was more than 1.2 MB in size. With some craftiness I had it down to just under a Meg.

It was a 3D model viewer that allowed me to load some common 3d files including vrml and do some basic manipulation like picking a face, moving it, changing its color etc.

This was all in a single static executable. Maybe OpenGL was linked dynamically don't remember.

What the fuck happened in the last quarter century? The desktop apps of today that do little more than my viewer take three orders of magnitude more space and run slower than my thing did on a 350MHz Pentium (GPU performance excepted as there have been impressive progress on that side).

And yeah, no they are not "fast enough".
Another issue I have here is that I want to be a little bit cagey about what our specific controls are, not because they're sensitive to us, but because there's a limit to how much we're supposed to talk publicly about the specific results of the audit (it's a Type I, people who know SOC2 know that means there are no unhappy surprises in it) --- the audit results are confidential, as a term of our engagement with the auditor.

(This is why there's a SOC3.)

Long story short: it's not complicated, and if you're currently doing a SOC2, like right now (or in the future) and you have reached the point where you're trying to get out of background checking everyone, shoot me a line and I'll tell you what we did and what we said (I may performatively NDA you in the process, because I like our auditors and don't want to irritate them).
School’s out for summer and many teachers are calling it quits
How often do people who aren't mega wealthy find themselves in the middle of the ocean anyway? What non-wealthy person is even looking for this?
In most of the western world, there is usually no criminal punishment, but there often is a gassing, a beating, an arrest, and a detention. Followed by no charges getting filed, because nothing illegal was done.

This kind of extra-judicial justice isn't exactly a ringing endorsement of the system, either.
> It completely failed and SUV consumption skyrocketed and people stopped buying minivans and station wagons.

The government put fuel efficiency regulations on sedans in the 1970s. This effectively killed station wagons. The rules around light trucks were different though, and that's why the minivan was created.

The SUV is an outgrowth of the same thing.
I see you didn't have a red, black, and yellow carpet in your house growing up. Not sure what decade that was from, but was still around when I was growing up in the 80s.
>>One of the governments jobs is to make sure externalities are accounted

We clearly differ as to what the role of government is, because I do not believe that is one of the governments job at all.

Government is simply the organization of the natural right of lawful defense to protect persons, liberties, and properties; to maintain the right of each. Nothing more, nothing less

Given the federal tax credit is US Law, I would also like you to point to where in the US Constitution is the power granted to the federal government to "make sure externalities are accounted" I missed that provision in my copy of the Constitution

>>There are many things that do not make sense on the open market

I am sure we are going to disagree widely here as well, as I am very much an Adam Smith invisible hand adherent
How long is a shortest thread?

Complexity between backend and frontend is not comparable.
This was also a big one for me. The best workaround I've come up with so far is to set up a global hotkey to toggle microphone mute in KDE, and then set my Discord (etc.) to have very sensitive "voice activation" settings. Essentially I've replaced push to talk with "push to toggle mute". Not the same thing, but I got used to it pretty quick.

Having read some of the threads on the freedesktop wayland gitlab repo about push to talk, I'm not confident push to talk or any other system for applications to register a global hotkey is something they'll deliver any time soon (if ever).
The typical workaround (and it's not ideal, but it's not zero either) is to lease the car, where the finance company can take the credit and return most of it to you in the form of cap cost reduction on the front end of the lease. (Yeah, yeah, it's not as good as money in your pocket, but it's better than a stick in the eye.)
The market would respond to the existence of the extra coins, inflating them to zero.

Those with long LP positions in pools with exposure will take a large loss.

No bail out, some win, some lose.
In fact, what I think you'll find in a lot of SOC2 background check regimes is that they're pretty much just automatically filed away without any careful review. As long as you did the check, you'll be fine with the auditors. We could have just did that with our US employees; we were fine, in the audit, with not doing them for people in Europe. But that's stupid, and we're not going to do stupid stuff for SOC2.
What is the lightest cross platform toolkit to make apps in? Is is WxWidgets?
Seems like speculation / projection. If your argument about unions and extremism was supported, you’d expect to see a correlation between high union membership and “extremism”. If anything, countries with high union density (Sweden, Iceland, Finland) seem to have fewer extremist parties than low union countries like the United States, The Philippines, and Poland. In the United States, the long-term decline in industrial union power, as also seen in Great Britain during the Thatcher “union-busting” era, has presided over an increase in extremism.

So whatever effect union has in employment, it’s not the kind that is shown to lead to extremism.

Again, you cited a paper claiming that it supported that “unions == unemployment” when all it said was that unions are correlated with small increases in unemployment among the very young and very old.

What we know is that union membership is shown definitively to result in better working conditions and safety, higher job satisfaction, and higher wages across entire industries.
Can you not see the irony in saying we need more truth and then cherry picking to suit your argument?
Without going into too much detail I know someone who was headhunted for Telesat's proposed LEO network (too late, too low budget, too little technical clue) and ran away quickly once he had an idea of what he would be getting into.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32022022
But ultimately the government decides who is in charge of the BBC, with only minor indirection: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_Board
Really? I've been doing the Futurama "Good news, everyone!" thing with the kids for quite a while now and they twigged on pretty much immediately.

Obviously more subtle sarcasm is harder to pick up on, but even adults struggle with this, eg. Americans having a hard time with British "bone-dry wit".
Sunrise means that the sun is fully above the horizon. Dusk is when the sun light is starting to appear but the sun is still below the horizon. So yea I think the original 99% is experiencing daylight is from from accurate but almost everyone will be experiencing sunlight… technically.
I’ve heard that many times and never seen it. Among people I know who’ve had payouts in that range the response is typically, “Well that wasn’t so hard. Maybe I’ll try to do it again.”