skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The current patent regime does nothing to deter going after the little guys. Or even, really, the big guys. Newegg was essentially gutted by the same patent troll that Intuit beat, as the article notes. Also, Intuit's victory didn't invalidate the patent, they just were found to be not infringing.
Yall are getting it backwards:

I believe Jesus was God because he claimed to be God. Also, the "unlikely events" (aka miracles) don't disprove he existed and was God.

Other people have claimed to be God, too. They were either lying or were crazy. Jesus was neither.
> Thought you could be untrackable off grid? Think again.

If you want to be untrackable and off grid why are you bringing your cell phone with you?
This will shake up a lot of things in the sattelite market.
It will take a lot of marketshare from satellite trackers like inreach.
Also living in a remote area, and being familiar with the existing tracking solutions for transport this could be a lot cheaper per asset. Also remote sensor locations. Anything low bitrate.
Getting regulatory approval for the spectrum is one of the hardest problems, the hardest non-technical one. T-Mobile agreeing to allocate some of their spectrum to SpaceX is something that will probably happen with other carriers later down the line. AT&T and Verizon in the US are probably going to explore similar moves if the T-Mobile plan works well (IIRC, Verizon has plans for something with Amazon Kuiper). Wouldn't be surprised to see AST SpaceMobile as a target of M&A if they have something that works.
> That is, apply to and interview at companies you don’t want to work at first to get more practice problems.

If you have enormous amounts of time to waste you might as well do a take-home.
NIH terminates grant after Wuhan partners refuse to share coronavirus info
When there are issues with debugging breakages of such environments, will a wrapper be sufficient? Does devbox have extra handling for such scenarios?
Anecdotally, 5G is significantly better at line of sight at significant distances than previous technology. While sailing 40+ miles offshore this summer, I've gotten 5G on deck, with decent upload performance using my iPhone, when in years previous I didn't get coverage much beyond 12 miles anywhere around where I sail, despite there being tall buildings with cell towers on them with a 30+ mile horizon for at least 2 decades. I use ATT, but super excited for this cell service anywhere future, will be switching to T-Mobile SIM for my dev phone.
Google tracks 39 types of personal data, Apple tracks 12
Another wolf in sheep's clothing, just like Cloudflare.

Puppies and rainbows and safety and privacy... all you have to do is channel all of your information through one entity!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A
I’d run other software in a maximized vm window and hide it entirely when required. Try escape that. More abstractly, when parties cannot negotiate, you should set up a supervisor for them. On linux/x11 it would be a custom wm script which knows the priority of window classes and stacks them accordingly, regardless of their requests. Windows wm delegates geometry to apps and by that creates the whole issue.

There should be a webext-exclusive API for placing items above the top layer.

Together with a priority in extension settings.
I think you might have a point w.r.t. tracking, but you brought up "RF free". There's next to nowhere on earth you can go to escape radio transmissions completely, except a faraday cage or maybe a deep mine. Besides GPS, there's been shortwave radio broadcasts bouncing all over the place for a century.
GPS receivers do not transmit information back to the satellites. Presumably these cell phone users will want two-way communication.
It's being transmitted to existing phones, so it's going over 5G, LTE, or both.
Radio's got some crazy physics.

So baseline, a modern cell phone can connect to a tower about 45 miles away. Stsrlink satellites orbir about 10 times out from that. They are solving this problem by some very clever phased array technology to be deployed on the satellites themselves, because when it comes to radio, you can often solve the problem of signal reception by boosting either the transmitter or the receiver side of the story.

This is how we've kept in touch with the Voyagers all this time. The Voyager radio technology is getting no better, but the technology we can throw at it from a ground station has been out-stripping the loss due to distance and degradation (or at least approximately keeping pace).
It really, really isn't a change in policy, and that's why there's no need for examples that were "previously allowed" but now aren't.

This is a distillation and synthesis of existing policies in place at hundreds of major institutions and organizations with their own ethics policies for qualitatively and quantitatively estimating the harms and benefits of proposed research.

An anthropologist disturbing a culture to document it is a trade-off maybe not worth making. A summary of behaviors found in autism spectrum disorders that is insufficiently inclusive of their lived experience is a bad idea. This is the kind of evaluation researchers need to perform sufficiently to justify their work (and their funding), and they do it all the time.

Increasingly they also need to evaluate whether they themselves are fit to perform that evaluation, and the guidelines here suggest situations where researchers may want to look outside themselves, situations which hitherto were not as frequently considered as, for example, race, religion, or income level. Being more inclusive on what matters should be thought of as potential sources of bias or inadvertent harm is not a change in policy, it is an acknowledgement that the existing policy was not sufficiently well delineated.
Could they not still send the debt to collections and ding your credit?
Business productivity and worker efficiency are not the same thing. When WFH, it's convenient to use down-time for whatever, so the company doesn't get any fringe productivity out of it. In the office, down-time is both harder to spend on personal items and much more visible, so the company is more likely to get some extra work out of it.
This looks like an evolution of Meteor, doesn't it?
I worked for 5 years on VMS for a real-time satellite image processing HW/SW system for NASA. VMS was wonderful. At another company, I then worked on a Unix system for a few years, then 2 years on a port of our software to Unix. (The port was smooth and quick, thanks to VAX C and its relatively complete library; most of the 2 years was spent adding new capabilities for a particular customer.) The rest of my career has mostly been under Unix.

Microsoft hired the main architect of VMS, Dave Cutler, away from DEC to design Windows NT. (VMS++ = WNT!) I haven't worked on any in-depth Windows programming projects. I did read an article some years ago about Cutler, VMS, and WNT. The author pointed out an insightful distinction between VMS and Unix with regard to I/O operations: VMS tells you when an operation completes, whereas Unix tells you when you can begin an operation. As a result, I think, asynchronous I/O under VMS was there and available from the git-go, but always seemed like some odd thing grafted onto Unix, making it more painful than it should have been. I have never used it, but I believe WNT's overlapped I/O was patterned after the VMS model?
The market seems to be big enough for multiple providers. AST will definitely be providing services to Rakuten in Japan and thus many more clients through their Symphony offerings
I guess they position themselves as a competitor to Pusher, which is a hosted service.
Environment is everything imo
It's pretty much no longer necessary except for all but the most demanding applications.

> Since the cessation of atmospheric nuclear testing, background radiation has decreased to very near natural levels, making special low-background steel no longer necessary for most radiation-sensitive applications, as brand-new steel now has a low enough radioactive signature that it can generally be used in such applications.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low-background_steel
Un-syncing the brain can help Parkinson’s patients
The Justice Department blocking the AT&T/T-Mobile merger has had huge benefits for consumers.

Even though I am on another cell carrier, the competition has pushed them to increase their level of service and lower prices.
I think the "complicated antenna requirements" still exist - they've just put the complicated antenna on the satellite, instead of on the phone.
Clearly you've been reared on American bleach, for which I beg your pardon. French bleach is an entirely different experience, approximate to most US wines. Although more serious cleaning jobs typically demand a good name-brand bleach, Californian cabernets do come close. I wouldn't bother with a chardonnay though, as some of them, while multipurpose, are probably mild enough that they could be safely consumed in error.

Also keep in mind that a good bottle of French bleach comes with a much deeper punt than do the gaudy plastic jugs in America. The oakiness is more pronounced. The bouquet is more authentically floral and the labels aren't in english.
> I care if other people like my work, because that’s the whole point of being a creator!

That thinking is completely wrong. You create something because you want that thing to exist in the world, not in order to be liked by people.
2-4 megabits per "cell zone."

If you're really out in a super remote location you might be the only person in your zone, but if you're camping with a dozen friends you'll all be splitting that 2-4 megabits.

Still tremendously impressive though, if they're able to pull it off.
Meteor certainly inspires us!
The dollar is not falling. It has been extremely strong against any standard world currency basket. So strong it hurts exporters.
Most of the complaints were about the subscription model - the comparison to the ad model is relevant.

What features and utility were lost? It has way more features and utility now that it had previously. The happy path is the 99% use case, but it also stores non web passwords, docs, and notes etc. just fine.
Their biggest (m2 max in studio) are more like chiplets with interposers, which exponentially lowers the yield problems depending on how much you can split it up. Also larger chips can still set a threshold on gpu cores to disable due to defects and that kind of thing, where a mobile one might just throw out the chip with a much lower number of (or any?) defects.

Nvidia can make tons of tiers out of the same chip by just setting different thresholds on the number of usable cores, it isn't all just price discrimination (though sometimes I think they have been found to be fusing off much more than needed for the number of defects as a pure price discrimination play, or that might have been Intel with cache size).
The Lost Projects of Satoshi Kon
> classless

Uncivil, violates site rules. You can express yourself without putdowns.

> I'm not going to respond to all of the points that you raised that I think are false or misleading, but I'll respond to some.

Eh, rather dismissive yourself.

> I grew up near rural areas and lived in one for a bit. I don't know what "infrastructure heavy" you're talking about.

How many miles of roads and power lines in your rural area, divided across how many people?

Again, I very clearly expressed what I meant by "infrastructure heavy", but with you self-admittedly not really being a full and fair participant in the discussion, I can see why you might have some confusion.

> Recreating your post after it was flagged and dead is classless. I'm surprised someone did this so brazenly.

The saying goes that people use the "downvote" like a "disagree" button and when it comes to political debates people use the "flag" button like an "I really really disagree" button. If I don't see a particular reason a post is flagged then yeah, I don't really have a problem with recreating it.

I shouldn't be suppressed by average users for expressing a well-reasoned argument they disagree with, nor censured for a single disagreeable line. Even you yourself cannot avoid technical violations of the site rules, your comment itself is violating the same rules to the same extent as mine.

Realistically, that rule is a "please", as I've been repeatedly told when I point out violations of it, and virtually every comment has something that someone can be offended about. I'm not going out and attacking people here, it's just a "jaywalking" violation that everyone does and people fall back on when they're losing an argument. The strictest interpretation of the rule essentially forbids any sort of "active-voice" argument that's strong enough to make a positive point (because someone can ALWAYS find be offended by any positive point) and that's incredibly harmful to discourse.

If you have a problem, call it out specifically, or get dang, otherwise if people don't bother replying and are just using flags as a way to suppress opinions they disagree with then yeah, I don't really care and I'm not going to be suppressed just because of some meta-gaming from people who disagree with me so little that they can't even reply.

Similarly, I find your "won't respond to the comment because I disagree with it" against the spirit of this community and doesn't belong here either. If you have nothing to say, don't post at all, but "cheerleading" is not constructive or beneficial to the discourse here at all.

Spirit of the rules vs text of the rules, my fellow. Your comment violates the textual rules. Actually your post attacks me as an individual, so in that sense it's really kinda worse, isn't it? And on the flip side, I was dismissive of an argument in a single line of a 3000 character comment. Oh no.
Ever since hearing about Starlink I wondered if SpaceX would eat the lunch of iridium and every other geosync satellite player. Seems like maybe it will happen.
Super stoked for this upcoming Black Friday.
Yeah I never really got the whole "ableist" thing; for example, obviously someone who can't see is less capable of performing visual tasks than someone who can. Does that mean shipping a device with a screen is ableist because not everyone can take advantage of the fact that it has a screen?
Nahhh... even the best apartment buildings suck compared to a detached home.

I've lived in all concrete apartment buildings and you can still here some noise as it travels through solid concrete pretty well.
This is nothing more than a way to manipulate scientific publication to empower white elites at the expense of both less privileged whites and minorities alike.

First, there is absolutely no hope of anything like this being applied in a fair and even handed way.

> Academic content that undermines the dignity or rights of specific groups; assumes that a human group is superior or inferior over another simply because of a social characteristic

Will the “dignity” of white people preclude publishing academic research suggesting there should be race segregated spaces in colleges? Will these rules be applied to protect the dignity of white Appalachians? Not a snowball’s chance in hell.

Second, insofar as elite whites have very different views of minorities than minorities themselves do, these rules will be used to suppress research that both comports with what minorities themselves believe and what the data could show is in their best interest. For example, Raj Chetty’s recent research showing that the two most important community factors for upward mobility for Black kids is (1) low racism among white people in the area; and (2) high levels of fathers present in the home (even if the child’s own father is not present): https://ifstudies.org/blog/for-black-boys-family-structure-s...

White liberal academics love the former finding but hate the latter finding, and these rules absolutely will distort the research that comes out as a result. (If you weren’t an Indian guy in the UK, might you be incentivized to just run with the first finding and not the second?)

> Yet, people can be harmed indirectly. For example, research may — inadvertently — stigmatize individuals or human groups. It may be discriminatory, racist, sexist, ableist or homophobic. It may provide justification for undermining the human rights of specific groups, simply because of their social characteristics.

And who gets to define what’s “racist?” “Good” white people: https://contexts.org/blog/who-gets-to-define-whats-racist/ (“Rather than actually dismantling white supremacy or meaningfully empowering people of color, efforts often seem to be oriented towards consolidating social and cultural capital in the hands of the ‘good’ whites.”).

Social sciences have so little credibility to begin with. They shouldn’t be shredding it by creating rules that will require them to put political concerns ahead of the truth.
It shouldn't be both.

I'll agree it is confrontational, but I addressed it to people in general, so it's meant to be confrontational to the collective. And it's justifiably so because these beings continue to be held in captivity, bred in captivity, and even captured from the wild to be held in captivity. It's pure torture that people charge for visitors to come and laugh and gawk at.
I paid the ~cost of learning Nix mainly to get out of needing VMs for daily dev work on macOS. I won't sugar-coat those costs, but I'm glad I did.
Bullshit.

In the 90s, it was just easier to remain in a comfortable bubble of ignorance of just how violently people disagreed.

Today, the reality of the discord is shoved in our faces every day.
Isn’t this where the “cruise missile program will run out of RAM in an hour but the maximum flight time before detonation is 30m so we good” story goes?
As jitl points out, in multiplayer settings, what you need is some way to commit a series of transactions all-together or not at all. We support this.

In the case where you want to read the database inside your transaction, we take inspiration from Datomic. Datomic runs all mutations in one high-memory box. You can provide functions that run in that box. This way, you can guarantee that the reads inside your transaction have the latest value. There's a lot of UX to figure out there, and this would be something to try to avoid in an offline-available setting.
> So baseline, a modern cell phone can connect to a tower about 45 miles away.

Isn't that primarily because of the Earth's curvature and obstructions/hills?
More detail here: https://www.cnbc.com/2022/08/25/spacex-and-t-mobile-team-up-...

"T-Mobile users will be able to use messaging, MMS and certain messaging apps, from remote points across the lower 48 states, Alaska, Puerto Rico and Hawaii and even some remote points in the water.

Eventually, the service will work with voice, Sievert said. T-Mobile plans to include the service in its most popular mobile plans but did not disclose specific pricing.

Musk said the service will work with Starlink’s second generation satellites, which have very large antennae and will be able to transmit directly to a cell or mobile phone.

The service won’t require mobile users to get a new phone. Musk said in or after a natural disaster, even if all the cell towers are taken out, the planned service should work."
I assume they were referring to the "RF free zone" claim. Which is nonsense, since RF noise existed long before humans figured out how to generate it, from storms, or even the sun itself.
Unless it's Elephant Man.
If you don't want to be tracked, don't carry a cellphone.

If you want to live in an RF free zone, well that will be tricky. Avoid lightning storms and the sun.
Second this. 1Password is excellent, and when I had a critical support issue, their team (and even CEO, believe it or not) went above and beyond.

The claim that they're censoring critical posts on their forum is fairly baseless until they've had a chance to respond — Occam's razor would suggest there's a much less nefarious reason for posts not showing up.

Finally, the Hacker News crowd has a clear bias towards shitting on Electron apps in the war against perceived crimes of not being performant on ancient systems. I'm sympathetic to that way of thinking, but it's not justified grounds for how much flak 1Pass is taking here.
To wit: if your mustard isn't a powder that smells of a chemical agent banned under international treaties on warfare that you need to reconstitute with water before it becomes only mild poison, you haven't experienced the full mustard spectrum.

There's a reason mustard gas is banned. But no clear reason why Colman's isn't.
Yeah, there's anime and then there's Miyazaki. My wife and I love to watch his films.
> T-Mobile plans to include the service in its most popular mobile plans but did not disclose specific pricing.

No, he said that it would "most likely" be included with the most popular mobile plans for free.
Doesn't this require specific hardware?
Who cares? Federally funded research is going to be open access now. Nature is trying to remind everyone it exists the same day it was made obsolete.

The peer reviewed journal has not scaled well. Instead of actually ensuring the validity and integrity of claims it merely acts as a middle man extracting wealth. There re better ways to get the same benefit in the 21st century. Maybe if they actually verified experimental data they would still have a use. But they don't do that.
GPS satellites broadcast data, and the GPS receivers (e.g. your phone) only receive. That means that they are completely invisible to the satellites.

You are tracked on your phone because it is connected to the Internet somehow, so it can send your location. But with only a GPS receiver (my Garmin running watch for instance), you are completely invisible.
I'm doubtful that the Danube is deep enough to protect against elevated background radiation, like the deep sea does.

Furthermore there is this nice graphic

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danube#/media/File:Danubemap.p...

marking the flow of the Danube in red, and beginning with the two first maps in

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liste_der_Kernreaktoren_in_Deu...

I'm even more doubtful. Of course it would depend on how far upstream the wrecks are, but...
The best implementation of this delightful UX pattern should shock the reader, make the hair on their back stand up, perhaps jump a little in their seat, and completely forget what they were reading - then immediately close the browser tab with adrenaline and anger.
Iridium in shambles.
How is collections going to know whose credit to ding?
As a Dutchman: there's no such thing as too much mustard. Then again, the same is true for caffeine and licorice.
Yup. Writing passwords on paper, at home, is just about as secure as it gets.
I recently moved back to the US after living in France for nearly a decade. I bought some Maille Dijon mustard thinking it would taste the same...boy was I wrong. I was disgusted, it tasted nothing like what I had in France. Would the recipe change per country? I checked the label and it seems that it was fabricated here in the US, so perhaps that has something to do with it?
Ask HN: What was life like before and after a baby
My first is due 3 days ago. I'm told that I'm going to have no time any more and good sleep is a thing of the past.

I'm worried, I don't work well when tired. I'm just starting to get in the habit of investing in myself as a developer and am reading a lot, practicing a lot. This has made me, in my estimation, a much better programmer. Does this end when you have kids?

What was it like for you out there that have gone through this change in life?
> don't trust anyone who calls you

Or emails or sends you a text message. This has become my policy. Recently had a medical procedure scheduled. Hospital called me from a random number but wanted me to verify my SSN and address to them. I told them no, but I would be glad to call in to the main hospital line to be transferred back to them so I could be sure that I was providing that information.

There are just too many scammers today.