skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How will two starlink satelite communicating with a single ground receiver cause interference for GSO communications?
Do Funding Agencies Select and Enable Risky Research?
It's actually our response to Covid that really cemented the idea that we won't solve our environmental problems by asking people to consume less.

People weren't prepared to put on a mask to save their own lives, they are sure as hell not going to vote for a government with policies that result in them consuming less, just so that people of the future wont have to deal with climate change. It's too far away and somebody else's problem.

Degrowth will never willingly happen in a democratic country. In my view its a waste of time discussing.

As you said, we need to find solutions to our environment problems that will make people richer, more comfortable, with more stuff.
Fascinating. This makes me wonder. How legit can things get with LO Calc? That's been under heavy development. Or Calligra Sheets, Gnumeric, sc-im, Pyspread. Like what's really power-user stuff in those worlds. What level of business logic, what level of gamedev, what level of appdev, etc.
Sri Lanka banned the use and importation of chemical fertilizers before though.
"So what?"?

They could have had it all.

Every company wants to grow as big as it can. Netflix could have been the total entertainment package and had near monopoly power.

They played their cards wrong, and now their incredible growth story looks to be at an end. They're going to be bumping up against the HBOs of the world, meanwhile Disney will leapfrog them and grow into what Netflix wanted to be.

Your kids will be buying Star Wars merch and games and demanding to go to Disney World. Every house needs the Mouse, but Netflix is just another Paramount+.

At this point even Amazon and Apple will steal eyeballs and make Netflix's product look less appealing and less worth the cost.

Disney is what Netflix wanted to become. Now they have to fight for a smaller, more humble market. They're boxed in. Nobody will fund a bigger vision. The big dream is dead.

Long DIS. Short NFLX.
No professional organization that depends on Excel to make things with real consequences should be using Google Sheets.
A belt system is simpler and probably lasts longer (but not as long as a chain)
Almost all surveymonkey type forms wind up collecting a shedload of categorical data which is then pounded with jackhammers into specious numerical form, to theorise about.

Managing categorical data is pretty much about how long you've been playing with it. I can think of a lot of past SQL schema which used typed fields, and our entire working days could be filled by agonising conversations about when to change from a restricted type of categories, to a freeform field.

Dewey and the like has surprising outcomes. The Name of the Rose Models the complexity of Borges Library in 3-space, but everyone knows that there are alternative L-space forms of relationship between works, which defy simple typing.
I found both this book and the above JSM quote to be violently antithetical to the very existence of all pleasure seekers.

My disdain for them led me into the arms of the philosophers who don't hate pleasure and the sensual world, like Nietzsche, Max Stirner, and the works of the critical theorists.

The general disdain for hedonism felt in this world is extremely stupid. Brave New World is objectively a utopia, regardless whatever that one native american MC thought
Yes, the reallocated wealth is itself previously captured growth. Value is created from wealth when it is reallocated but while it is held no value is created.
When they talk about Riemannian geometry, is that related to the Riemann curvature tensor from general relativity? What’s the significance of being non-Riemannian? Is it just that (as the abstract says) “the distance between two colors is [not] the length of the shortest path that connects them.”?
It’s annoying how many people talk about “web3” like it will inevitably become just as popular as the internet is today. The internet is the ultimate outlier. Web3 might just as easily end up as a Tamagotchi or Virtual Boy or Adventure Game or Zip drive or Kazaa or MySpace or Google+ or iPod or LAN party or Google Glass or.. you get the idea. Just because you like a technology and are invested in it doesn’t mean it’ll become bigger than sliced bread.
Agree with the grounding opportunity.

It's worth noting that much of the time the grounding source might be just something like a product database (not a knowledge graph at all).
Henry the vacuum cleaner became an accidental design icon (2021)
I assume because you literally spend most of your life there, and if it doesn't mean something, that is ... awful?

I mean, there have been times / places in history where you work so that you have enough money to not die; and you enjoy your life with whatever pittance is left afterward.

I doubt anyone reading this website is in such a time or place.
I'm not suggesting it, those were literally the exact words that I wrote.

Of course, that claim turns entirely on the meaning of "plausible", so I'll amend my claim to simply say that all attempts to detect dark matter to date have failed.
Every competitive has a stack ranking system whether they admit it or not.

They put lipstick on a pig but everyone's getting ranked and the lowest performers getting weeded out.

The whole "People get fired even if they're doing a good job just by being a low performer on a strong team" is an edge case that happens INCREDIBLY rarely but when it does gets all the attention.
jails and lxc are great but Docker won out because they made those features significantly more user friendly and spent serious (VC-supported) coin on marketing that.
Of course your correct. I can see that by the size of the wall of text that you must be. Clearly by not reading any of that I'm in the wrong and my life is wasted...
"society" doesn't decide if we should have volume pricing. The seller wants to sell more to the buyer, so they offer a discount.

"society" could, on the other hand, decide to impose taxes on individuals that consume more than their fair share.
"Idiocracy" presents a credible argument against.
Un-paywalled: https://archive.ph/XCzbm
I don’t disagree that things are more extreme now and that the algorithm reinforces the most toxic stuff, but as someone who has been on the internet for most of my life , I can assure you that being a woman on the internet has always been terrible (I had pedos trying to get photos from me in AOL chat rooms in 1994 when I was 10 years old), there have always been edgy shitlords making Holocaust jokes, and the whole modern grooming discourse literally started with chat rooms in the early to mid 1990s.

Yes, it is absolutely worse in some ways now, not just because some stuff has become desensitized and de-rigeur, as well as the aforementioned algorithm, but let’s not create a hagiography around the halcyon days of “online” that never actually existed.

Like Bane, I grew up in this pit of darkness and was molded by it, and I have true love and affection for it, but like, this element has always been here. Always.
What makes you think it's because you're unattractive? Even so, you can achieve a lot with 3 months of strength training at the gym. (hell, you'll see results in the first couple of weeks)

Consider that the vast majority of people don't even do that much - It doesn't take much to be above average.
Oh wow, TIL. Sometimes history rhymes too hard.
Large audit firms (Big4) use google sheets and they do some real crazy/awesome stuff.

Why are you poo-pooing on the tech?

Edit: They also use Excel, btw. It’s just the right tool for the right job.
Apparently you don’t either. In the US at will employment doesn’t mean you can’t have another job. There may be a clause in an employment agreement that says you agree to not work for any other company, but I’ve only seen this clause once in 10 jobs. Do you know what this clause is commonly called?
Earlier this year I was pulling 250/40 in Utah. Now during the day I hover around 120/15, with speeds back in the 200’s late at night. Of course YMMV, but it’s more than sufficient for my needs of remote work with several zoom calls per day, as well as streaming 4K content. It is a drag for things like large Steam downloads but I honestly can’t complain.
Also very much worth reading on this topic: Tubes by Andrew Blum (https://www.andrewblum.net/tubes-2)
I dont even use espn+ its just bundled with my Hulu subscription, I literally do not care for major league sports. I rather just play with friends instead.

But yeah if they are counting people like me and not Daily Active Users across platforms they are foolish.
They did the same thing for us once where they “upgraded” us to a better tier and the DNS migration we never asked for went bad. They were very difficult to get ahold of because we didn’t have a high enough tier of service. It was awful. Shame on us for not paying for a high quality vendor for such a critical service…but still.

We switched everyone over as quickly as we reasonably could right after that.
I thought it was already known that perceived large differences in colors were not geometrically consistent with small differences. For example CIECAM02-UCS is based on a compromise between fitting the small-difference data and large-difference data.
For me it's altered somewhat by personal life changes that occurred in both times, in that I secured myself well in 2007/8 and unsecured myself in 2021/2. I imagine many people have similar life situations that skew their perception of the zeitgeist.

That said, the 2008 recession seemed somehow more "fake" to me despite the results being more abrupt and obvious - domestic manufacturing and production being the most sudden and visible, with entire swaths of America suddenly shut down, abandoned, paranoid, desperate. But nobody could really tell you why. Sure, smart pundits would talk your ear off about banks lending more than people could pay and housing prices and such, but to the regular person, why would that suddenly make their job not exist and gas prices rise? It made no sense. And then it got fixed, sort of, with a "new normal" of working 2 or 3 part time jobs and still not having affordable healthcare despite hope and change - in many cases, healthcare plans suddenly became a charge that hadn't been a consideration before.

It was a long slog, and was only slightly beginning to perk up by the time 2016 rolled around and frothed everyone up one way or the other ideologically, then things started to get pretty good, but half the country insisted it was false and that everything was horrible and getting worse and only removing the President could fix it. Then pandemic, ousting of that President, and more pandemic, and war, and housing shortages as population outpaces supply in desirable areas, and people are forced into "the bad parts of town" and tell the Internet how much they love it and how it's not that bad even as they install expensive surveillance and rarely leave their fortified homes.

This recession? I mean, not a recession, because that's not a well defined term and has multiple factors and it's not a recession this time if we don't say it is? This time? It seems inevitable, slow paced, easily fixed (although nobody knows how). It seems more real than the last one, because we can point at why, but it also hasn't effected many lives too abruptly. Yet.
They're on the same frequency band and traditional satellite dishes can pick up some amount of off-axis interference. Assuming constant power per beam, more beams (Nco) eventually overwhelm traditional receivers.
Granting the facts, your hypothesis is equally plausible if reversed, to wit:

People who have difficulty forming intimate relationships will often turn to habitual pornography viewing.
Depends what the behavior is and who the 3 people are.
Well, I care about raises. I can coast along in my current role, but I want more money, so I need to do impactful work.

If I can earn more on some side work or investment and those earnings are stable enough, then I too will not care about work.
Did you actually activate all the separate subscription accounts for those partnerships? Especially the 2 Hulu free ones - if so, why?
Netflix doesn't care about product. they forgot about it when they started making content. that is why they will fail
If you like alternative services, great, but small companies are also prone to getting hacked, don't have resources to fight government warrants and can just go under and lose your data. Many store unencrypted data on common cloud providers like Amazon.
The Hallmark if a bad manager is having zero consideration for their subordinates.

I find bad managers usually can't grasp the cost of interruptions from meetings - because their work isn't interrupted from meeting - because their work IS meetings.
Yeah sorry I did edit the number down based on digging deeper into my link based on your comment here. I still think 0.3% (my original number was 0.1%) is not a meaningful amount of engineers for a "starve the rest of the world of talent" strategy to work.
> Few people understand how much of a golden ticket this would be…

Uh.. I think you got that backwards. Nearly anyone would recognize that as a major golden ticket!
I really don't care as long as it doesn't mimic Google and try to destroy my privacy. Lots of other launchers to choose from and changing is easy.
I'd like to see documentation on your workflow. You can also post it on https://github.com/devbisme/skidl/discussions.

There is a generate_pcb() function in SKiDL that will output a kicad_pcb file that can be directly opened using PCBNEW (no need to generate the intermediate netlist file). That function uses HierPlace to group the parts based on their hierarchical organization. That would be a good place to inject some autoplacement if you get it figured out.
BBC uses the term frequently, so even as an American I refer to it as such, depending on the context and audience.
It is a bit dated (he talks about GIL improvements in 3.2), but regardless I think it only proves my point. The examples David shows are threads with zero IO unable to properly cooperate. Having threads that are mostly doing IO would actually allow them to cooperate natively by releasing GIL.

Another interesting example he talks about is IO-bound threads competing with CPU-bound threads, where CPU-threads are getting seemingly unfair advantage. But the same example would only get worse with coroutine implementation: since there's only one thread, CPU bound code would just block IO forever. IO-bound code would not just be slow, it would never execute.

What David illustrated is that GIL makes it harder to mix CPU- and IO-bound tasks in the same process. But coroutines are not the solution here. Solution is not to mix them.
I feel this in my bones, as I'm having to fill out a 27-page document to ask permission to use a new piece of software on the intranet.
Ironically they were blue collar just disliked the ANC which is why I didn't understand the politics and all the angles fully.

Thanks for letting me know :)
Black Hat USA: Former CISA director Chris Krebs warns clouds of cyberwar are
Sure, but nothing is stopping you from writing a `validate()` method right? It also appears to me that having so many validations for a base type `String` is indicative that there should be a `Date`, `Time`, and `Zone` type respectively for each of the arguments.
I have been working for about 4.5 years now across 3 big tech companies (Google included).

I would consider myself a hardworking and ambitious person who loves computer science. I graduated top of my class at a state school. I've gotten promoted, consistently "exceed expectations", lots of positive feedback, etc. But I have not actually accomplished a damn thing or written a single interesting or useful component in my professional work.

The thing is, it's becoming clearer and clearer that so much of what goes on is bullshit. A pattern I have seen 3 times now is managers significantly over-hiring to build their little management moat of mediocre junior devs, then leaving on to brighter pastures with their shinier resume or promotion.

Most of the work is dealing with other people's code messes, operational gruntwork, and ticket grinding that will have little to no impact and is a complete waste of smart people's time. It has little to do with building software or solving hard problems, just maintaining and tweaking the existing systems. It does absolutely nothing for your career. You could be Jeff Dean stuck on worthless legacy grunt crap with no upside and I doubt you would get noticed.

On the flip side, people who actually get interesting, promotable work are the luckiest in the world. It is the difference between a rocket ship advance of career and skill or stagnation and frustration. But this is rare IMO.

And it's so hard to tell going in which you're going to get. I've now taken a gamble on three teams that looked good on paper but turned out to be legacy management empire crap. It pisses me off that once you choose you're basically stuck there for a year or two before you can try again. I don't want to waste any more of my life on this merry go round.
Directional can scale enormously vs omni directional. And MIMO can scale to a ton of antennas, especially in something like home internet where device size isn't a limit.
Since he is active here: Feel better Jeff! Your content sparks joy!
Can someone with the appropriate background please confirm or refute?
"But a simple test suggests that dark matter does not in fact exist. If it did, we would expect lighter galaxies orbiting heavier ones to be slowed down by dark matter particles, but we detect no such slow-down."

Is that hypothesis correct? (i.e. would we expect lighter galaxies orbiting heavier ones to slow down if dark matter exists)

If it is correct, and we don't observe that effect, would it not be a very strong argument refuting the existence of dark matter?

For folks mentioning this as a "crackpot" or "anti-dm" theory, is the strong claim that the hypothesis is incorrect?
> Kids need to be taught digital safety more than we need to continue the losing fight about securing access. Kids are smarter and more motivated than you are, they'll find a way around it.

I totally agree. When the reports of how school-issued Chromebooks will monitor texts from any phone plugged into them came out last week, I was tweeting about how we need to do more to teach kids opsec and digital safety/rights. I got some pushback from people who either think that it’s common sense stuff (it isn’t) or that the solution is to legislate something, but I live in reality and reality, as you say, means fhaf kids are smarter and more motivated and will find ways around things.

We need to teach them to protect themselves from prying eyes and how to circumvent the systems their own way.

We also need to stop holding people hostage to stuff they said/did on the internet as literal children, but that’s a separate issue.
There are badgering competitions for dachshunds too!
Useful idiots.
I almost made a Numbers joke!
I knew this was inevitable, but I didn't expect it _this_ soon.
> You spent 3 missles at a cost of $10 each, but you got a whole ships worth of minerals worth $60, and some more missles.

Okay, but where does this money come from? Obviously, the $60 ultimately comes from your bank account, but how does the game stay in business if you can spend $30 (you said only three missiles were fired) and get $60 worth of in-game resources, which you can then sell and convert back into real currency?

If the answer is "other players", then what happens when the player base stops growing, or begins to shrink?

None of this stuff works without a continuous stream of new marks^H^H^H^Husers.
> Apple and Google cannot guarantee that their code will ever see the X-Frame-Options header, nor can they guarantee that an embedded webview will even be implemented using their platform code.

Apple absolutely can. They already out severe restrictions on what apps are allowed to use for rendering web views. They also approve every app. They can enforce whatever rule they want.
there's irony in having "degoogled" Phones built upon a platform that is at the technical discretion of Google, but you'd discount a lot of mindshare that grew around Android to say GNU/Linux is the only way long term. I don't know if the community could sustain a AOSP hardfork (or if it's necessary), but combining a mainline kernel with open firmware is a possibility for Android handhelds too.
I was surprised it wasn't the Ocho
That is fair. I don't enjoy being inside stores all that much so I didnt consider an enjoyment factor.
The explicitly said that my viewpoint was a common conservative one. This implies that it isn't a call back to my claim about chronic porn users having a hard time forming relationships. The common conservative viewpoint they were referencing is that "people today generally have a harder time forming relationships". Not "The people I know with chronic porn addiction have a hard time forming relationships".
Starlink is mostly a bet on Starship. If they can actually get big reductions in cost to LEO, the cost of maintaining a large satellite constellation goes way down —- the capital cost of building each satellite is in the five-figure range, and the really expensive part is launching them. (Which, as you mentioned, they need to keep doing constantly as the older satellites are de-orbited.)
Directionality of antennas/electronically steered beams (off axis gain is not zero on the satellite or the terminal) and the relatively large bandwidth involved in these links imposes a limit that you'll hit even with an unlimited number of satellites. Calculating that limit is tricky but I don't think it's practical to cover urban areas for the reasons the parent brings up... cellular networks rely heavily on short effective range; the minimum achievable spot size for LEO satellites is still much larger than a typical urban LTE cell, and the terminal has the same problem of spot size in orbit being quite large.
A music video in 691 images from DALL-E Mini
The Constitution doesn’t stop them from requesting or paying for a service, just ordering companies to do it. This is how they are allowed to buy all your location data, and how the cops usually get all your data from social media (no subpoena needed, they just ask), and how it is that crime perpetrators are zapped off social media almost instantly before regular people can look their posts up.

There’s a big, big loophole that people overlook here. FAANG etc have whole departments of people dedicated to voluntarily turning your data over to the state.
> But also 1 thing to keep in mind is that the people you've met are probably not representative of the vast majority of the country.

Oh I would assume not, nor would they pretend to have been. That's why I was curious was it a coincidence or a product of them being in academia. (Bit of both I suspect)
Ah yes, compound interest, the magic that makes everything grow exponentially.

I do not believe the human mind can grasp exponential growth.

If compound interest is absolute then 3% interest over 2000 years is equivalent to colonizing every single planet, even the barren ones, in more than 50 trillion milkyways.

Even at the speed of light it will take 4 years to get to alpha centauri, you're not getting to the edge of the universe in 2000 years, the actually achievable interest rate must therefore be much lower than 3%, most likely closer to 0% than to 3%.

Before you argue that there will never be uninterrupted exponential growth, because of political instability and conflict, consider for a second that the inability to fulfill the endless exponential growth nonsense is the origin of the political instability and conflict.
I started building this guy in early 2021 and just a few weeks ago had the opportunity to showcase it at a real event. Have you seen anything like this before? Do you think it is a good or bad idea? I am looking forward to hearing your thoughts.