skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yikes, were you okay when you snapped out of it? Glass (and ceramic) shards are remarkably sharp and dangerous.

Ask me how I know..
As an aside, I wish that Stoplights would factor in Aggregate Kinetic Energy of the Traffic they manage. I feel a bit bad every time my Single Stopped Car gets a Green, causing a group of 10 Cars at 40 mph to Stop, then later Re-Accelerate. If the stupid Junction had waited some time, the 10 Cars would happily carry their 40 mph through, allowing me to go once the Large Kinetic Energy Traffic had passed uninterrupted.
With a very heavy perspective. Among the recurrent signs, the following suffices:

> inviting laughter and derision toward the... community

No. Just finding an occasion for the selected direction in creativity. Which the writer of the article seems to want to make ideological, with the exception of one use of the expression "«cheap laugh»" (which, for that matter, may bring attention to the other "celebrated" subplot of "the elders of the Internet" - using the same perspective, it would be as if "making cheap laughs through a sort of "ableism"").
You can enable per domain by clicking on the lock icon by the URL.

That said the modern web is generally very broken with js off, but it does get rid of most cookie banners, modal email sign ups prompts and generally lets your read article number 6 of the 5 free ones.
Wow! An analog dead reckoning computer with a beautiful display. I'm especially intrigued by the cam based CVT (constantly variable transmission.) I'm glad to know this exists. Thank you for sharing the details.
> Has the Apple Newton really fallen so far out of the public consciousness that this wouldn't be obvious?

Yes.

> What about the Palm Pilot?

The what?

Kidding aside, I doubt anyone who finds their way to this FAQ without knowing what it's about will care enough to find out. If they do, there's no shortage of obvious search terms throughout the text that will make the context very easy to come by.
I felt the same way but clicked "Launch skyfi" anyways. It takes you to a login form in the browser. Bad name for a link.
That’s not an instance of the Ministry of Truth. My brother in Christ, that’s a corporation doing that.
I picked an area. The preview low-res image seems to indicate that they are happy to sell me pictures of clouds!
What Should Software Engineers Work on as They Grow?
It would be really cool if I could upload a short python snippet/map-reduce job to run a piece of code over the entire globe. Could be super useful for e.g. counting all of the solar farms in the world.
Timmy's Brown Bag Sandwich Menu
With over the top design and ludicrous sandwiches this menu is a work of art.
How often do you write methods that you dont use? I only write a method if I'm going to use it. In which case testing doesnt offer that advantage.
As someone who has had to take over the projects of other people, I will say the third point needs a caveat:

Picking a non-default tool needs a written explanation with sound reasoning

When there is a default, new members to the community will gravitate towards it and, if there isn't a good reason, will avoid learning other options.

In time, this ends up being anywhere from a minor annoyance to very frustrating, as not only are you losing time to learning, but potentially losing time to not having access to extras as the community around the default expands and your now special snowflake project goes without.

For very specific tools and libraries, it might be okay if they are easily interchangeable (but is apparently bad UX?) But for things with larger responsibilities - a full blown ORM, package manager, etc- it can end up being a millstone.
Why do you think it's better I wonder? You don't experience the nothingness since you cease to exist (assuming you meant no afterlife which the nothingness implied), so you aren't able to compare it to anything and say ”man I'd rather have antagonizing pain".
I think we need something more like ePaper or the tech. found in pebble watches.

LCD but persistent (if nothing changes very low power) and with colors (limited is ok, pebble time had 64) and higher frame-rates.

Contrast was suffering on those displays compared to the pebble 2 ones, but maybe there is something better now?
Looks like 503 Hugged To Death Error.
It’s effective altruism
That's quite an interpretation.

I suppose "memento mori" can be argued in the worst sense as leading to nihilism. However, it'd be impossible to say anything of substance if we were constantly trying to avoid any worst-case interpretations. Most reasonable people can surely understand there's a difference between the colloquial usage of death versus suicide.
That button just opens a web app in your browser though. Did you not try it?
I don't know why you'd care about a brand new test being broken overnight. It's not like you're submitting the change yet anyway. It's just leaving a breadcrumb.
Would Chat GPT3 Get a Wharton MBA?
Nah, I don't actually have a use for firmware decompilation. I've used ghidra once just to poke around, but that's it.

My understanding is that IDA does some things a lot better, but at a significant cost. Ghidra has become the de-facto tool for hackers and makers simply because it's free.
Banks prepare for deepest job cuts since the financial crisis
Better than the Confederacy my cherry picking cliche replyguy.
Looks promising! Does it have mobile apps or even better, support for standard protocols like CalDAV or Etesync?
Why is this a surprise to the author? At no point in the history of social media has anything been organic. They are fully controlled, for-profit, social manipulation/propaganda ecosystems.
>The trend, amplified in instructional videos on TikTok and other social media sites, is not new, but law enforcement officials say they are seeing an uptick in thefts.
If you want to save physical space, you can rip them all and store them on a drive that's smaller then the DVD player you use to play your DVDs. That's what I do.
After many years of experience, I agree.

Tests are a business investment, of tech resources, to create business value.

It's good to focus on the Testing Pyramid [1]. High level tests are slow and brittle, but connect the low-level code to business features. Unit tests are fast and detail oriented.

In practice I write 1-2 high level tests (generally end to end, sometimes UI, or API/integration tests) to help focus development and have something that the business understands. Unit tests are helpful to "smooth the path forward" to ensure the code works as expected. Integration tests are great to iterate on, so that new code and tests actually work with real APIs correctly.

Tests are not free. However they create a lot of value -- they create (business and tech) confidence that the system is working as expected. Like you mentioned they assist refactoring, which makes the code much cheaper and easier to work with.

[1] https://martinfowler.com/articles/practical-test-pyramid.htm...

(disclaimer: writing a book about tech feedback loops, e.g. tests)
The Werther Effect is thoroughly studied effect. There are plenty of studies on the issue.
*32kB average filesize
Chatbot’s MBA exam pass poses test for business schools
I like how it goes from full black to full white background. Anything to blast my eyes.
If it isn’t trying to take over the government and replace a decadent democracy with the Old True Values it isn’t really fascism.
Copyright will prevent that from happening, I'm guessing.
Do you have javascript disabled? Some design heavy sites like to replace the default cursor. The CSS standard[0] still only really supports the few custom cursors that we've had for decades now and provides no way to style them so the only way to achieve this is through javascript currently

[0] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/cursor
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Such a shame they do not accept bottle caps.

300 nuclear missiles are heading your way. You must respond. What now?

Assuming a full international exchange from all the nuclear powers, I would put on some noise cancelling headphones, get in the basement and hope none of the compression waves or fallout comes my way. I assume all of the world's economies would collapse and those that survive go back to the grass age with hunter gatherer lifestyles and maybe some lucky ones go agrarian. People mistakenly reflect on how things went for Japan but that was just two tiny single-warhead nukes.

Otherwise I assume others here have also stocked up on painters suits, duct tape, full face masks, P3-100 filters, water, lots of water, more water, freeze dried foods, wood, etc...
Hey, at least they referenced the (hopefully appropriate) JIRA ticket!
I did a physical media purge a few years back, and kept just a drawer-ful of my absolute favorites. This past Christmas I thought I'd watch one of them - but then I realized I don't even own a DVD player. I don't think I ever did. Some game console would play it, or my PC. But now the PC has no 5.25" bays, and the game consoles are all-digital.

My conclusion is not that the author's husband is right. But rather that I should get rid of these remaining DVDs. I've never thought much about digital nomadism, but I suppose I practice it. There's always something new to watch.
There are some episodes like that where... like, I am against censorship in general especially considering the state of our world right now, but it is still weird to me that a cadre of writers thought that would be a good idea to make - and network executives agreed!
Society of mind. We're all just a bunch of different people in the same head.
You make a really good point, I should have cited a source. Let's compare California with the top state on that list.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/187834/gdp-of-the-us-fed...

https://www.statista.com/statistics/187861/gdp-of-the-us-fed...

What's kind of a joke about that is that between 2020-2021 California added an Idaho.

Also, to undermine my point, Texas seems to have grown at almost exactly the same rate (80% increase in 20 years):
https://www.statista.com/statistics/188132/gdp-of-the-us-fed...

Compare this to an excellent first world economy, Germany. I think all Europe and Japan is worse. South Korea is probably much better.

https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.MKTP.CD?end=2021...

So I think you could say California only grew at the pace of the fastest states in the US in the last twenty years (all with non-competes, which was my point) but the overall amount of growth was by far the most. The point is having no non-competes didn't seem to destroy it.

And here's the propaganda version -- I think being skeptical of this stuff is a good idea. https://www.gov.ca.gov/2022/10/24/icymi-california-poised-to...

I was being too flip and you were right to point this out.
I'd argue that PowerPC and most modern archs have done this. For a couple decades all of the major archs have documented 'preferred NOPs'. They then document that other NOPs will give them same results but hint that this might cause your code to run very slow, on the order of worst case of code not optimized for newer uarchs.
Looks like maybe, depending on several factors: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RestrictedFormats/BluRayAn...
48 hours from new image capture to being able to download it.
didn't see info on the time between requesting a new image and how soon it can be captured
> Many Reg readers will know Capital One best for the break-in in 2019, where an attacker raided Capital One's cloud storage buckets and stole personal information on 106 million credit card applicants in the US and Canada. Stolen data from people who applied for credit products included 140,000 US social security numbers and 80,000 bank account numbers, as well as one million Canadian social insurance numbers, plus names, addresses, phone numbers, dates of birth, and reported incomes.

> Former Amazon engineer Paige A Thompson, who also went by the handle "erratic," was collared by the FBI the same week of the attack, and was convicted in June last year of pilfering millions of folks' data from the "misconfigured" storage buckets. In October, Thompson was sentenced to time served and five years of probation with location and computer monitoring.

So wait, he stole millions of dollars worth of data, got rich off of it and was sentenced to time served?
On macOS Safari, it causes the mouse to disappear when you transition from the browser window to another screen. I can't help but wonder how much money they spent creating that nuisance.
> if you produce something that saves lives, then it's "greedy" to charge as much money as possible for it.

If you take billions of taxpayer money to fund your research and get special access to information from government agencies like the NIH that the taxpayers paid for, and then you try to quadruple the price of what you're producing after you've already sold billions of units at a nice tidy profit, yes, that's greedy.

If pharmaceutical companies were free market entities who took all of the risk of developing new drugs, then it might be justifiable for them to charge whatever the market will bear. But that's not how drug research works in our society; in our society, we already pay for much of the research with our taxes, so pharma companies that are doing parts of the research and producing the drugs are not operating in a free market. They are benefiting from government largesse, and there are limitations that go along with that.
Google is absolutely doing the same, not that that's an excuse, just an observation. Chrome has dominant market share and it's scanning your computer for "harmful" software, running processes and reporting that data to Google.

chrome://settings/cleanup
That said, knowing what is known now, the transition also would've been smoother. Deprioritize "2to3", and require single-codebase-compatibility features from the start. Maybe even decouple the C API change release from the language change release.
Concur. This is so obvious to me I do not understand why not posting a price — no matter what it is — is still considered good business practice. Perhaps once upon a time before the internet but no longer.
If this were true we wouldn't have Octave in the first place. People are motivated by other incentives besides money.
I really don't know what the person is on about.

> Canva are also one of the worse companies with shareholder liquidity, which I know in at least a few cases lead to fire-sale dispositions.

"dispositions"? Makes no sense in the context. I worked at Canva and got to sell 20% in 2020 and 2021, the latter at the $40B valuation. So as a shareholder I'm relatively happy with the amount of liquidity in the stock.
I didn't realize `-k` wasn't posix, good to know.
You can do exactly that from this link: https://app.skyfi.com/welcome
It's amazing that they have the bandwidth for this. I assume there is a US or NZ based server that serves the world, but still.

I was there in the 92-93 season. We were lucky to have e-mail back then.

We did our own special internet link for a project that used spare bandwidth on a non commercial satellite. We had 1.544mbit up and 9600 down. We sent what would eventually be called motion jpeg for "video". There was no audio. The satellite dish was pointed 3deg below the horizon; but we were on a mountain, so that was fine.

McMurdo is a fabulously weird place. The US Navy manages all the food/fuel/housing logistics. Then you get the researchers coming through to do projects. They may be working from McMurdo, but most are just be gearing up to go out on the ice. These are often grad students, researchers, and faculty. So the average IQ is much higher than your typical ski town.

The staff that works the station is there because they like the environment. You find people with college degrees doing maintenance and safety trainings. Most are just there for the summer season (which is now). Some will winter over.

Most of the fuel and cargo comes in once a year. The ice breaker is at the ice dock, so that can happen any time now.

Everything else is flown in/out from NZ at considerable expense. Early in the season the ice is thick enough to land jets like the C-5 and C-17. While they are in the ground, they have to move them every few hours to keep the ice from cracking under all that weight. By this time in the season it's probably just C-130s doing everything. Once the sun goes back down, all flights cease and there is nothing can get out for 9 months.
I put all my old disks in sleeves or stacked on spindles, organized alphabetically. They take up almost no space and it's practical enough for infrequent use.
What are people using these images for? Just curious.
Counterfeit Monkey by Emily Short. https://github.com/i7/counterfeit-monkey/releases Maps and cheat sheets are in the "Counterfeit Monkey.materials" folder.

If you don't want to install a parser on your computer, you can play it online by putting the link to the .gblorb file into https://iplayif.com/ I.e. https://iplayif.com/?story=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2Fi7%2Fc...

Modern games are generally going to be more approachable than old ones. Tastes have changed considerably. In the days when you couldn't pull up a walkthrough in a few seconds, taking days to think of the next step was part of the fun, and just getting permanently stuck at some point was fairly common. Also, letting the player keep going even after they have done something to make the game unwinnable is now considered very uncool. Navigation is much less tedious these days as well, fast travel for example, although the exact mechanics depend on the game.

And that's not mentioning the amount of CPU and RAM available, not only for the game's runtime, but also for tools like I7 (which was used to write Counterfeit Monkey).

For an quicker introduction to modern "interactive fiction", as it's called these days, check out competition entries. https://intfiction.org/c/competitions/7 These are generally written in a shorter amount of time and the results are quicker to play through.
This is a horrendous privacy violation. Being able to purchase high resolution, newly-created images of arbitrary locations is way over the line of an acceptable offering. This will be used to stalk and harass individuals. There's no mention on their website of how they plan to prevent this type of intrusive surveillance either.

Loads of people complain about the NSA's bulk data collection for the purposes of national security, but we barely see any opposition to bulk aerial surveillance imaging such as this, despite it being even more of a privacy breach due lack of safeguards around who can obtain and exploit such data.
Did nations exist before passports? What is I don't have a passport? If I hold a passport for a nation that no longer exists, what nationality am I?
Rail travel is one of the last places that you still see this in the US.

I took a cross-country Amtrak trip right before the pandemic, and most of the conductor's announcements were just to tell us when the next smoke break would be.

When the train got stuck waiting for cross traffic at a freight yard in rural North Dakota, an incipient passenger mutiny forced them to break the rules and let everyone pop out for some light trespassing and nicotine consumption.

It felt strange in a similar, but opposite way to what you're describing.
San Francisco Falls into the Abyss
Even governments use this technology to calculate how high stockpiles of certain minerals or resources are based on shadows and time of day
There are also many domain-specific tools (e.g. Simulink) that do not have similarly functional open alternatives.

It's interesting how close GNU Radio Companion is getting to Simulink's domain. I don't know if that's their plan or if things are just evolving that way, but I like it.
Intersex is about characteristics, not biological sex.
I saw this linked somewhere yesterday and bought an existing image of my neighborhood from late last year. Resolution is 0.75 meter. I'd describe it as notably worse than what's on Google Maps (which might be aerial survey), but several years more recent.

I have no particular use for it other than curiosity, from that perspective it was worth $20.
The same that happened to the valuations of the rest of the companies on the list. There's been a massive haircut across private software companies in the last 12-18 months. Stripe has had a similar fall in valuation.
I knew about the Hemingway method but didn’t know there was a psychological name for that effect.

It also goes well with the pomodoro technique, because that almost forces you to interrupt your progress while in the middle of something, leaving things unfinished, so they end up easier to pick up later.
I wonder how long until you can buy the ability to aim a satellite using your phone and take just the picture — with the exact resolution — that you want. Not if but when....
For the record I don’t believe Apple is collecting that info - having said that I think the biggest issue with Apple is that it is not possible to fully audit and determine what they collect and what they don’t. Just because they aren’t constantly sending hashes over the internet after viewing each photo in finder doesn’t mean that similar data isn’t collected at all over the many encrypted connections apple maintains with their servers and Mac computers.

It would be colossally stupid for them to betray user trust in that way as it would almost certainly come out eventually, but that doesn’t change the trust problem they ultimately do have.
No, I didn't.

I also didn't try the "culture" link in their page footer ... since I had the same interest in their culture as I had in "launching" anything.

OK, onward ...
That's just the part of the equation when using electro-optical imagery. You're paying to task a satellite, not necessarily a clear picture. To me this will be an interesting test for SkyFi. Casual customers just expect to see the ground when they "buy an image" and giving them clouds will put them off from using the service further.
No, but it might uBlock origin blocking something, I dunno.

I went into devtools and modified the CSS attribute and was able to get past it.

Dumb.
> Startup is a really good book.

A Google search is surprisingly unhelpful at a finding the book you mean. Who is the author?
At an old team of mine at Amazon we would assign an SDE to that role and switch it around every few months or so.

They were in charge of getting the right people together for any meetings, asking for extra info to be added to any backlog items, and telling teams when we were planning to deprioritise or drop the backlog items they asked for. It worked pretty well for us, and took maybe a day of time per week
That ship sailed a long, long time ago.
Why did the Soviet pilots open fire? Are there any records that give more information as to their motives? Surely the Soviet brass wanted to avoid direct confrontation with the Americans as well!
Detect breaches with Canary credit cards
The classic issue with censorship. "I don't enjoy it, therefore, nobody should be allowed to enjoy it. And I won't be happy until nobody else can enjoy it. If you enjoy it, that makes you <insert moral judgement here>. And because I am not that, and nobody who is <insert moral judgement here> is for that content, it should be removed."

Now... I will admit, it isn't always wrong (CP). But it often is the fruit of an unwitting narcissism.
I've seen both versions of these. A good TPM is extremely valuable though, especially for work that is highly reliant on coordinating other teams. The bad version was a net negative to team productivity.
The problem with democracy is people want the wrong things. Bombs and football stadiums are preferable to schools and community.
Well, yeah? That is, essentially, the definition of greed: a "selfish and excessive desire for something".

I would say that excluding people from accessing life saving drugs, is definitely "greedy", even more so if the company has received a massive influx of cash from the government, like Moderna.