skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What I don't understand - why is there this "cover table" with precomputed per-cell-row coverage? I.e. why is the cover table computed per-cell-row when the segments are specialized per-cell? There is the paper "ravg.pdf" that gets by with basically one "cover" integer per tile, plus some artificial fixup segments that I believe are needed even in the presence of such a cover table. I'm probably missing something, someone who is deeper in the topic please enlighten me?
I know it's awful that I thought of this, but I half-expected your second sentence to call him a label-ist.
The cells are 22km and the traffic path strictly client<->satellite<->ground station at the moment. There isn't really any reasonable scaling concern until you start talking about serving densely populated areas but that's not Starlink's market nor what the RDOF targets/measures anyways and the inability to service a user in a city as well as a rural user shouldn't be reasoning to not provide funding to service those rural users.

That said I don't have a problem with the funding being held until the conditions are demonstrably met instead of as funding to meet them. The latter has failed too many times with providers just pocketing money to then stop executing once they have it.
I'm intrigued by this statement. Maybe we run an unorthodox version of Agile, but I'm a solutions architect with imposter syndrome (which is why I clicked this link) and I spend about 3/4 of each day in meetings with PMs and SSTs (Business Analyst) generating a backlog and acceptance criteria that's structured and detailed enough that our developers are generally happy if they get to choose the variable names.
Have they gotten better at that? I had a favorite pair of ski pants replaced instead of being repaired several years ago for a relatively minor zipper replacement. The cost of replacing a zipper is ridiculous compared to the cost of the zipper or even the pants. Probably because the pattern is not made with zipper replacement in mind. I was content to pin that pocket or add a flap and button over the zipper.
It's worth noting that you and I are probably wear more times than the average amount. For example I've seen numbers like the average garment is worn on average seven times[1], and garments being considered "old" if they're worn twice.[2] Even if these numbers are exaggerated it's still much lower than typical use and waste compared to the average.

[1]https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ghana-fast-fashion-environmenta...

[2]https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-08-12/fast-fashion-turning-...
Because Condorcet is still better than nearly all implementations of first past the post. But I think the commenter is getting at instant runoff voting methods: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instant-runoff_voting

There is a comparison between these three systems in the Condorcet wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Condorcet_method#Comparison_wi...

None are perfect but IRV is in use and effective. Tactical voting is still an option but at scale either obvious or difficult to organize without being obvious.
> When I used Android, knowing I _could_ fix those annoyances meant I _did_ fix those annoyances. That's just not something important for me to be spending my time on, but I know I will if put in that situation.
> Government has given hundreds of billions in broadband funding to the giant telecoms

Can you share a source for this? I'm very curious to see the breakdown of funding sources.

> there are others less well off within a hundred miles who were hoping to get Starlink if the monthly cost could be brought down by this program

Why would the company receiving free money make it cheaper, are there price caps that SpaceX wouldn't meet? You've clearly laid out that they have no competition.

> Funding very promising technology that is aggressively trying to ramp hard and has a clear 1-3 year horizon

They had 1.5 years. "1-3 year horizon" is thus clearly misleading, since halfway through that timeframe they are unable to meet requirements.
IDK, nine years of driving cabs in Phoenix I think I’m a pretty good judge of crappy neighborhoods.

Quad-Cities seems like a good area to me, that was my original plan but this about 45 minutes away in Clinton. Probably won’t be able to get away without a car like I did in Phoenix because I can’t really see me riding a bicycle in the real cold but everything I need is within easy biking distance. Hell, the Mississippi River is a leisurely seven minute bike ride away.

I’m actually totally randomly headed out there on my next load, will have to be on the look out for confederate flags.
I have not made any such statement. I have opinions about how USAians might better organize their affairs, but it's not my place to express them.
0.1 hours?
> This is completely wrong though

are you accusing the FCC of lying or just being too incompetent to measure network speeds?
"No Semantic Web until the Incentive Problem and the Trust Problem are solved."

No. The semweb is already functional as is (see my other comments here). Trust is orthogonal and can/is being solved in different ways (centralized/decentralized as in Wikidata/ORCIDs/org-ID-URIs).
I never heard of FCC's own speed test app. So I tried to use it.

1. Apparently I have to install an app on my phone. I can't use a web-based tool from my desktop. (I was thinking there must be a version for regular computer users, right?)

2. Thinking I missed something, I searched for "FCC speed test". The results all point back to this app.

3. On a whim, I tried visiting speedtest.fcc.gov. Of course nothing lives there.

Why is FCC bothering with this if they're going to obscure it behind app stores? Seems like a way to only get outlier users.
> a very good performance optimization is not to try to reject segments on the X axis in the shader. Rejecting segments which are below or above current pixel boundaries is fine. Rejecting segments which are to the right of the current pixel will most likely increase shader execution time.

Thread groups are generally rectangular IME--nv is 8x4, others 8x8. So it doesn't make sense to distinguish X from Y in this respect. But yes, you do want a strategy for dealing with 'branch mispredictions'. Buffering works, and is applicable to the cpu too.
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> So it was true but only kindof.

I'm almost certain that's the case when most of those kinds of logos are shown.

Most likely that's 80-90% of what happens when companies show logos on their website. Does Netflix really pay for that many SaaS products? Or is it really that one or two Netflix employees use it...
Thank you for this detailed reply.
I recently (Aug 1st) was on a product page that said "Prime One-Day", but when I ordered it, it said on the confirmation page it would be delivered Aug 11th. That confused me so I checked the product page again and it still said "Prime One-Day". I took a screen shot. I clicked the link to change delivery schedule and it said "Confirm Aug 11 delivery", with no options to change it.

I did an online chat with an Amazon rep, explained the problem, they apologized and changed it to next-day delivery. The rep said that I had to click something on the order page to get 1-day delivery. If that's true, it's a pretty slimy way to treat customers, hoping they won't click that option and thereby saving money on delivery.
And in this photo, grandson, you can see where your grandpa spent 2 years running into walls at different angles, as part of the daily regression test for players being able to clip outside the world.

Of course in the end it turned out you could clip out of the world by summoning your horse in a doorway - but not by running into a wall, no siree not on my watch.

Did you know it was the first ever game where the in-game billboards for each player were auctioned dynamically? A complete auction took place in less than the time it took to draw one frame on the screen! I wish I could show you the game itself - such a pity they decommissioned the servers 15 years before you were born.
The yosemite variant is fine, but maybe we shouldn't take the world's best climber as a reference who has a lot more context and experience to make very measured tradeoffs:

> IMPORTANT: This knot is methodically NOT recommended and yes, it MAY untie while you are climbing. It can happen if your rope is new-ish (and that means it slides easily) and if you don’t tighten the knot with a lot of force. I am always splashing chalk on the knot in case of new rope to increase the friction and I do tighten it with a lot of force. The reasonable and recommended alternative, pretty common and very safe is double bowline. It is almost as big as eight, but at least it is always easy to untie.

https://adamondra.com/updates/my-climbing-more-about-feeling...
I suppose that amounts to the same thing as what I’m saying.
"Cory Hauer, LTD Broadband’s CEO, told Fierce it is “extremely disappointed in the FCC staff decision” and is evaluating next steps. He added “I don’t believe the FCC fully appreciated the benefits LTD Broadband would bring to hundreds of thousands of rural Americans.”"

Except of course the facts suggest the exact opposite, where the FCC very much appreciated the benefits that you "would" bring, so much so as to select you as one of two potential contract recipients, but has determined that you lied during the bid and in reality can't bring what you claimed you'd be able to bring.
Looking at Meta’s product line at the moment it’s easy to see how people might not be motivated to give their all. Facebook and Instagram are so markedly driven by numbers rather than any kind of product vision, i can imagine it being pretty depressing.
The only caller of said API would be the SFSafariViewController itself, the same way the Share Panel can see your Contacts despite you not having given the app that opened the Share Panel Contacts "access". This way, only organic page navigations get recorded (or at minimum is equally susceptible to any history pollution as a normal web page that you encounter). The idea was not to have SFSafariAddURLToHistory(), apologies if that's the way it came off.
a usual reason to use it outdoors is that it’s easier to untie than a figure 8 when the rope is dirty or frozen or you were whipping on it for hours.
This exactly (although I tend not to sleep in former shop clothes, too much grease in my shop).

Nothing beats a t-shirt for cleaning a bicycle chain, though (and they make perfectly good handkerchiefs too).
> would be I happier if I just cleaned the chain and dropped it in a pot of hot wax?

Quite possibly. Chains stay clean and efficient for longer without intervention. And can be handled without dirtying your hands. It's nice. Other drivetrain components wear slower because there's less grit and the chain stretches more slowly.

> is there anything to look out for?

Main downsides:

* For bicycles, a lot of chains (Shimano, KMC) come in some kind of factory oil/grease. Stripping that off takes time and working with solvents. Fine if you have time and a garage, less great for busy people in apartments. I think some manufacturers sell dry chains (I've heard YBN does).

* Heating wax up is slow. I use a $12 crockpot and it takes a couple hours. Obviously, it's not like it takes any effort on your part, but there's some built in latency. ("Low" heat is about right in the steady state, but it melts faster if you use "high.")

* Again for bicycles, some kinds of quick link / master link wear quite quickly and can only be reused a handful of times (e.g., Shimano 11 speed). So one surprising expense in repeatedly removing chains to hot wax is the consumption of quick links. Can be mitigated with different brands of quick link, and/or using drip-on wax a few times between hot waxes.

* A freshly waxed chain will be stiff from the hardened wax. So a pre-install step is going through every link in the chain (on bicycles, typically ~110-120 links) and making sure each one rotates freely around the pin. This takes a few minutes.
I had a look at the OERProject YouTube channel[1] (which it turns out _is_ freely licensed—at least for some videos, as pointed out in another comment here[2]). But the thing that bothers me so often about video content is a dearth of sources cited. We can start out small potatoes: simple attribution—okay, great, your video is CC-BY-SA, but where did you get the still that you used @x:29 into the video? From there, though, what I'd like to see is Wikipedia-style sourcing, or, failing that, where all major inflection points in the video come with at a minimum a sort of "See more" block of links that you can use to dive further into the topic. Not only is it the right thing to do, it would be a tremendous boon to teaching the fundamentals of scholarship, which students already have dedicated classes for, to learn e.g. how to write research papers and discriminate between reliable and unreliable sources. What these videos do, on the other hand, is to say, "Hey, you know all that stuff that you're learning in your writing class? It's all bullshit—after all, look at us; we're actually a part of a professional publishing pipeline, and we don't do anything like that."

1. <https://www.youtube.com/c/OERProject>

2. <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32338460>
Especially since he's burying the lede about the people he's servicing--its true 'in general' that the area is lower income, but most of the homes he's serving will be millionaires.
Your employer — and particularly your hiring manager when they become your line manager — is grateful for your time, I can assure you of that. You didn’t have to work there and a large part of accepting a role is wanting to work for / with someone.

It’s uncharitable to not bring at least some level of social pleasantry to the office every day.

I mean unless you work for Walmart or something. I assume we are both talking about senior, highly remunerated, creative and specialist technical work here, not breaking rocks.
So why are iframes then not allowed by some legislations? Because an iframe is also "just a browser".
I was in a team like that. One person in particular would pick ambitious tasks, do a completely inadequate implementation, reject all feedback and then leave everyone else to deal with the production outages.

Unfortunately management only saw the “picks ambitious tasks” and were blind to everything else.

You can’t really blame people for responding to absurd incentives in absurd ways.
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gns3 perhaps? I haven't had that setup for a while but I loved it. I had my whole small ISP in it at some point to work as a test/lab env for testing things out. It's a trick to get going but was kinda fun. I took a copy of that when I left and every now and then I fire it up and mess around with my old dsl/dialup ISP from back in the day.
To really do this right, the yubikeys would need to have some kind of display to see what action you're confirming. Slightly better than nothing, the OS/browser UI could show it.

Something like Plaid is unfixable though, that's just a garbage heap of insecure patterns. I refuse to use it.
I had a mushroom trip that made this all make sense (at the time). The gist of it was, there was never nothing. Nothing is a made up concept. It's deeply valuable, but there is no instance of any kind of nothing that actually exists. There is only "exists". The most basic form of existence is change. Even if there had been nothing, and something came from it, in order for something to come from it, there would first need to have been some change. So regardless of how it could have started, change has to be the first thing. But in my opinion, recursive cycles is a more likely explanation than a linear universe with a start and end that are both in 'nothing'.
I'm posting this nonsense tongue in cheek but.. I don't think it's completely wrong.
My experience with the Starlink at my brother's house in Maine is that it's "OK" relative to wired broadband. Speeds are reasonable and, while I've had a couple multi-hour outages in the limited time I've spent up there, it's pretty usable. I could work up there if I wanted to.

But there are no good alternatives. ADSL was 1Mbps down with a tailwind and it was the last house on the road that could get it. Cell service is very sketchy, especially if not on Verizon. HughesNet limitations are well-known. So it's pretty much a game-changer in terms of Internet access.
While I share the sentiment and willingness to do the same, the convenience of using the washer and dryer is immense! I cannot bring myself to separate clothes into lots based on their washing instructions, nor can I bother to hang dry them. Even the best quality clothes become rags very quickly in a dryer.
In particular, people who never really figured out how to do more than bare minimum technical work tend to fail upwards into primarily "collaborative" roles.
Thx Elango, I added those canned answers examples for those situations.
Without reading the article, my opinion is that whatever potential exists in this idea is rooted in the fact that people buy all sorts of things in video games all the time. Buying virtual things in video games is wildly popular.
If someone is knowledgeable and committed enough to dig through all their apps, find any in-app browsers and try to break out onto the web, they will also realize that simply using another device will bypass all your silly blocks.
exactly. the sales department has targets for the quarter and they won't give 2 damns about how many story points your team got through this sprint. They want on this date or else.
From what I understand, Netflix doesn't cull the herd — they get rid of good (but not excellent) performers too. The article is talking about actually cullung the herd and getting rid of the mediocre performers who previously could skate by.
Almost always the downside to a non chain drive is a loss of efficiency. A chain and cog setup is really really good, like 99% efficient with a clean lubed chain. Internal hub gears, drive shafts, strings, almost all of them have losses a bit worse than that, which sucks when you are a 0.5hp motor.
> We (the rest of the world) by and large do not care about your culture wars. The fact that saving the goddamn climate we rely on is somehow controversial is maddening. You collectively sound like children arguing about who started and who’s the meanest.

Trust me, it gets annoying to a lot of us over here too.
What gear do you have? I use North Face futurelight and if I'm biking at reasonable to slower speeds I don't really sweat that much unless it's more than, say, 22C.
They not only track very invasively what you are doing but they create real problems for websites because certain features wont work anymore. Be it due to them disabling them or third party services having to block their usage because of the huge privacy and data safety issue.

Simple example: try to use "Login with Google" from within one of those in-app browsers and you will notice Google had to actively detect them and block the attempt because otherwise the app could spy on the login credentials without anyone noticing.

Instagram, Twitter, Facebook Messenger, TikTok.... the list goes on and on.

I am very confident that these companies are breaking GDPR laws left and right on an absolutely massive scale. They are spyware at this point.
This is how govt employees treat their jobs in various countries. In the private sector, there is no job security. What happens when one gets laid off with rusty skills? That's why folks want to use the existing job to improve skills. That explains why people want to use new frameworks, tools, languages at work.
Often times the interesting teams knew who they wanted to fill headcount with. They would say "stop by for an informal chat", then in that chat they would interview you on (e.g.) very niche terminology. After that they would tell you it is not a good fit. Tried to go to 3 different teams on my way out of Google and none of them were interested. I think it is a bit of a status game, like they are looking for a PhD or to justify a visa.

Specific examples, an Android static analysis team and Fuchsia security both passed after informal chats (unprepared interviews). I've spent a ton of time in reverse engineering frameworks, malware, and building automated code analysis solutions (with tons of bugs found to my name). When you have that experience, and they bring you on to do front end dev on some internal tool, like there is just such a disconnect.
> 3. From address A, transfer WETH to Uniswap v2 DAI/WETH pool

> 4. From a new address B, call skim() on the Uniswap contract and get all the WETH you just transferred to it, but now it looks like it was from Uniswap.

the second one is dangerous! are you suggesting to just transfer WETH to the pool address without using the pool's swap function? that means anyone can see the imbalance and skim before you do! and if you did a composable or flash loan style transaction to do it all in a single transaction, that just makes it more obvious (eventually) that the same party was involved

and even that could be frontrun! which is actually kind of funny because maybe you could frontrun yourself for plausible deniability, and put MEV protection around that transaction!
I guess, at that point, the textile is just trash? Literally, just trash it.

I think the article was more about no place to donate perfectly fine clothes, and the uncertainty what happens to them after donating. Having to throw away 5 items (e.g. because your size changes) will weigh on your conscience a lot less than having to throw away 15.
A bicycle is in my opinion one of mans greatest inventions. It empowers almost everybody to transport themselves five times more energy efficiently than walking. For two hundred years the bicycle has been improved by countless ingenious inventions. Cities where the majority commute by bicycle, are much better to live in.
My point is that sRGB linear interpolation does not accurately model the blending of color that happens in nature, which is something that should happen with CP-437 shade blocks. Here's a web page I set up so you can see for yourself. https://justine.lol/color.html Even within the context of sRGB itself, it's not "correct" at all. For example, yellow and blue should make pink. But sRGB predicts it as being grey. Depending on how good your monitor is, the shade blocks should make pink, but even that is usually thwarted somewhat by subpixel layout. For example, if you drag the window around on an LCD, the coloring of the shade blocks will change weirdly as subpixels move. Subpixel layout shouldn't be an issue with IBM-PC CRT monitors. I wish I had one to confirm what it does. But in general this is just one of the weaknesses of the sRGB colorspace. But if you use something like CIELAB then it does predict pink. But that space has weaknesses of its own. But those problems are nowhere near as challenging as shade blocks, because linear interpolation just chooses a new color and doesn't need to predict anything. To choose colors for shade blocks you're applying your model to predict a more natural phenomenon.
Just remove the quotes from the title
Look at the minimum setbacks (5 ft. on the sides of a quadraplex, 10 ft. in front), and the 2 parking spaces allowed in front of each 4-unit building, and tell me how this will work. Also, we are already a heat island and this will dramatically increase our contribution to climate change. Also, if you think this will bring down the price of homes, I have some land in South Florida to sell you...swampland!
i imagine because you’re required to be present in some sense for ~8 hours a day 5 days a week. that doesn’t leave much time for anything else, especially if you have caring responsibilities or any other life commitments. once you’re in a depressive state getting out of that hole can be a real struggle
Anyone who cares about communicating with Android devices uses WhatsApp. This is a non problem for 99.99% of the population. Google’s just complaining about sour grapes since they can’t compete.