skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That depends of what exactly is that anomaly. If your GNSS receiver tracks 4 satellites from the same constellation then obviously, this kind of ionosphere anomaly will with some probability lead to some kind of unexpected fix error (but with some high probability still smaller than the specified error of such receiver). I believe that typical somewhat modern multi-constellation GNSS receiver will either consider satellites affected by that as invalid outliers or just average that out.
I'd be one of those. I've become disenchanted with Reddit, and found Mastodon unsatisfying, so for now I'm mostly here.

This is ... often a strange and uncomfortable place for me to be. I'm geeky, and work in tech, and I tend left wing and have absolutely no interest in finance, and have a deep deep distrust of "tech bros" and startup culture.

I've also found that I have a tendency to come across in online discussions as far more strident and argumentative than I really am, especially when I'm tired. That's something I'm working on.
how are they stifling imagination? You can still get a compiler and text editor like always. Those two things were all we had back in "the good old days" of so-called general computing.
The second slash third questions are easier. In the US at least (and many other modern monetary systems) the money supply (it can be measured lots of ways, in the US a number called M2 is usually a good default) is (mostly) manipulated/guided by what are called “open market operations”. When lay people say “The Fed” they usually mean the “The Federal Open Market Committee”. Open market operations are give or take buying or selling US sovereign debt (a privileged kind of bond) to push the price up or down and therefore the yield (interest rates) down or up. Almost all interest rates are directly or indirectly indexed to US sovereign debt (Treasurys, etc.) and because of the way that money enters and leaves the system via lending activity (which is a whole topic), that “benchmark” interest rate “target” roughly increases the availability of money to say hire people or build a factory, or decreases it because too much money is chasing too little productivity (AKA inflation).

From roughly 2009-2022, the “benchmark” target was ~0, a policy position called ZIRP (Zero Interest Rate Policy). This might have made a little sense to like, avoid a depression in the 2009 housing-originated (ha!) financial crisis, but it turned out that running the economy in this super whacky way drove asset bubbles in a bunch of stuff which is an effective wealth transfer from people without serious estates to people with them. This was very popular with the sort of people who decide stuff. There’s this other whole can of worms called “easing” (QE) that arguably made the target rate negative, also a whole other topic.

For reasons that I haven’t heard a persuasive explanation for, beginning in roughly March of 2022 the FOMC started cranking this target up (selling a ton of bonds) and is still doing it, the most recent increase in the target was 2 days ago.

This is going to slow economic activity and on paper inflation, but the effects will usually be felt first and most in what are called “growth” sectors, basically stuff where the value is perceived to be largely in the future rather than the present. With a healthy hand-wave, “software” is a “growth” sector, which is why 500k tech people can be fired in 6 months and the Wall St. Journal can still keep sort of a straight face that labor markets are strong. There is a roaring demand for gig workers who don’t get dental.

This is already too long, so if you want my personal opinion on price discovery in elite software talent markets, reply to indicate it and I’ll write a mother micro-blog :)
It is well known that potential points of conflict are a huge issue. That's why a round about is safer then intersection.

> And to be safe

Tell that to the 40k people killed and the millions hurt by cars in the US alone.

Cars constantly turn and intersect routes with other cars without any planning, even if perfectly handled and most of time they are not.

> The challenge with satellites is that steering is hard and very limited. And they don't have brakes they can slam to come to a stop if they need to suddenly avoid a collision.

They don't need to break, they just need to know the position of speed of other objects and correct position ahead of time.

The only reason why this is even a program at all is because only the US has even minimally invested in monitoring. If each nation just did the same our accuracy would be far, far higher and things would be way better.

So, as of now, we have minimally invested in solving this problem and it isn't a big issue. Slightly more investment (that is justified if we 10-100-1000x the amount of sats) is required eventually.

But compared to what it takes to make cars not crash into each other its nothing.

(Unless its like US infrastructure design that seems to want to make cars crash into things, but I hope in Space we can avoid that)
you could run kodi or similar on the TV, and push videos using a remote app.

I'd suggest using KDE connect, if you really want to use a browser on the TV. I just use a $20 Logitech wireless mouse/keyboard personally.
I hope I live to see the day when the people of China rise up and summarily execute every single member of the Communist party down to the lowest village functionary. That would be the best thing they could possibly do to ensure a positive future for their country, and the rest of the world.
> huge nuisance on the bike paths because they're faster than everybody else

I doubt this, there is a huge range of people traveling at different speeds, from road bike users, to ebike users, to kids and parents. Why pretend everyone is doing the same speed?
> I have yet to see a good frontend test

You haven't written one yourself? Is your theory that since you can't write one, they aren't possible?

All my tests are good enough to ensure that if I upgrade a library or change underlying functionality, something breaks if the output is not expected. That is my primary concern and that is what I test for.
The title should say "80 times more efficient". These are also trikes, not bikes.

As a rider of a regular e-bike I won't be getting into one of these; compared to an upright bike, the rider can't see or be seen well at all.
Is the scratch any more pleasant than on a fountain pen?

With FPs, I ended up gravitating towards a buttery-smooth, can't-feel-the-paper type setups, so I'm curious if glass pens are worth trying.
The "following" tab inserts algorithmic posts, and has for years now. Tossing in likes and other recommendation experiments. This means that even if you carefully only follow people you specifically want to see on your feed, if they start liking stuff that interests them but does not fit their feed, you now see it.

Some of these aspects have changed, but again, they are part of a larger recommendation experiment that twitter constantly pushes because a strict following feed = less money less engagement.

You cannot curate twitter as well as you think you can. It would be nice if that was possible though.
If the owner of the number is a customer of a different telco (not Twilio), by what mechanism can Twilio determine whether the it's a physical (sim/esim/landline) or virtual number?

Sure, some operators operate only physical or only virtual, but others (like Google) operate both.
Experts[1] agree that boilerplatey declarations and verbose keyword groupings are bad and Java has been deemed inhumane because of this.

[1]Me
Agreed, cars should be nowhere near people.
Just last week, the first such defection in 40 years I believe: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Travis_King

He was meant to board a plane back to America where he would be thrown out of the military, but he evidently decided to jump out of the frying pan and into the fire.
I’ve used both, currently on an iPhone, and I can’t understand this sentiment at all. Both are shitty in different ways.
A toy-sized tear drop with barley enough room to fit a person in it, and the safety profile of a soapbox car is only 80(x?) more efficient than a full-sized EV? That is surprising.
I seriously consider paying for Nebula & Curiosity Stream. I want to leave YT.
Going to New Orleans. Seeing Crash Worship. Met a girl there. With her best friend, all 3 of us climbed a huge, ancient tree. Watched the moon rise over the city.
Is there a particular article or essay this is from? Would love to read about this.
> which is Bret Devereaux’s fantastic essay

Discussion:

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32607187
> I think the pandemic has taught us that our infrastructure is not well designed to prevent the spread of disease, and that investment in this area can help prevent future pandemics.

The only thing the pandemic has taught me is that other people were getting me sick (at work and/or gym, most likely).

I have not been sick with any respiratory sickness (even common cold) since the beginning of COVID, mostly due to going remote.
Damn, you are on the spot. German is my first language and I have dyslexia.
That film was so bad.

It became the SpaceWar' equivalent of 'Airplane' (aka 'Flying High') with every cliche possible that it became a satirical comedy.
Lazy comment - Navy has 4 letters.
I kind of dig when things go down, I sort of like sitting around the gas fireplace and listening to my ham radio in a dark house for a few hours. If shit really hits the fan then it’s time for the tabletop gas burner and some beef and shrimp with veggies.

Jira can wait until the power comes back on.
This becomes a separate problem of against whom they choose to enforce it.

Defending yourself legally, no matter whether there's a lot or a little evidence, is an expensive, stressful, drawn out exercise.

Sometimes the accusation is the punishment.
The only thing you use your cell phone for is making a single phone call? Literally nothing else?

Also, where are you spending more than $25 for a hamburger? I'm sure you can find some high end restaurants charing that, but even in places like airports, you're not spending that much.
If only there was some way of bringing this technology to the browser, like a plugin or something..
Yep. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercatus_Center

Brought to you by the same folks who denied global warming for years like Cato to shill for corporate interests at the expense of our survival and that of all life.
My uncle started pumping by himself while on vacation. The attendant came running and pulled the nozzle from my uncles hands, spilling diesel all over his shoes.

This is part of my family lore.
It’s been a while since I’ve worked with universal linking, but doesn’t Apple’s APIs allow you to carry context? Or at least preserve the URL so you can take the user to where they were? I don’t think you need to hijack the pasteboard just to continue the users flow.
Well, yeah, but androids and iphones are not "one and done purchases" but are interfaces with a 30% profit margin on digital goods.
Cool thing about satellites is if you're on the same path, you must also be going the same speed.

Collision avoidance in LEO is quite elegant. When two satellites are predicted to pass uncomfortably close to one another, one satellite will fire its station keeping thrusters to raise its orbit above the other. No brakes or swerving needed, just a slight push well ahead of time. Starlink sats do this over 1000 times per week.

Even better, energy used for avoidance reduces energy needed for station keeping on a 1:1 basis. Avoidance maneuvers are effectively free.
>so we're talking about 0.2% of the area facing the sun

Doesn't sound small at all.
This assumes that platforms never change policies and that admin privileges are expensive and impenetrable. Neither are true, as we've already witnessed multiple times now across various platforms.
+++ my computer is on ethernet connection
>> im using spectrum
>>as soon as his tesla comes in the driveway my internet just goes out
>> the lights on the router are still on but i hav no connection
>> no his wifi is not connected to mine!! >:( if it was i would very angry
>>sometimes it doesnt disconnect fully but its lags the hell out of my games and my ping skyrockets i think it reached 2,000 ping lmaooo and goes up high unlike telon husks rockets. but seriously tho wtfff!!

><> i try everything i might call my isp to fix this shit
>> maybe i overload his tesla and disconnect his shit and see how he feels when
Ask HN: Does Coinbase periodically wipe user funds?
I've had two separate Coinbase accounts over the past 8 years, and this has happened to both of my accounts. The first account which I created around 2014-2015, was funded with 0.5 BTC. I didn't log into that account for years (until 2017 when the number was going up), and I painstakingly got back into the account to see that my balance had been reset to zero. I created a second account in 2020, and had a fractional amount of BTC and ETH in my wallet. Coinbase forcibly logged me out of my mobile app sometime in 2022, and I never bothered to try to get back in until today to find that my balance has once again been reset to $0.00.

Has this happened to others? I saw some articles from 2021 that claimed they did this to accounts that hadn't logged in for a number of years, stating that it was considered "unclaimed property" (and apparently claimable by Coinbase?) ...
> Its bad for business for Apple to capitulate to the UK. It's bad for business for them to not capitulate to China.

It's very difficult to square these two sentences together.

On one hand, if they break their privacy and security for the UK government, it's bad for business because they'll continue to sell iDevices and services?

On the other hand, if they break their privacy and security for the CCP, it's good for business because they'll continue to sell iDevices and services?

You're tacitly admitting my assertion - Apple's morals are for sale.

If the US threatened Apple, we can expect they'll sell out there too, no?
i think the point is all iphones are pretty solid. Androids range from "at par" to crap.
Doesn't seem like a myth regardless of who debunks their interpretation of what 'dark ages' means. Things before and after the fall of the western empire seem quite different, maybe it wasn't the fall of the western empire alone but also the rise of christianity that caused this decline. After all it wasn't until religions lost their power that progress picked up speed and things started to get better.
Odd interpretation? I am going with how the courts and case law interpret it.
Have you tested getting a corporate MDM to provision onto one of the cophones?
I have digital locks on my front and back door, but they have no external connectivity (something I specifically looked for). No wifi, no bluetooth.

So far the only failure mode has been the battery running out, but it gives you plenty of warning. And if you're super lazy like me, you just go in the other door when the battery runs out. :)
And people still say "land of the free, home of the brave" very un-ironically.
I don't think anyone can seriously use the word totalitarian without having read Hannah Arendt and showing some knowledge of her assessment of it. It's definitive, and a doorstop that is hard to ignore. Even just the addendum essay "ideology and terror" summarizes a lot of it. Making up a definition for it for the sake of a blog post is dumb. It's a term of art in political theory and history, and not a placeholder for whatever you think is bad. I can't quite believe I'm calling Scott Alexander (whose work I have always loved) an idiot, but on this, I think his idea would benefit from the feedback.
I’ve entered close to 25 times since submitting a I-130, never had any issues whatsoever, barely even a question from the officer. I even got global entry just fine. Dutch citizen here with wife living in the US. My visits are usually on the order of 5-10 days and I do have a strong track record of leaving the country which might help.
> not its car orientation but its (indoor) car-free urbanism

Which is why suburban Americans spend all their time at the shopping mall . . .

/s
Much obliged, you answered that better than I could have.
I'm not sure if I've just already found all the good music released in the past few years by my 10 favorite artists or what, but the recommendations I got were either songs I didn't like or songs that Spotify already tends to recommend me (which are great, but I already have them all saved)
I wonder if there will ever be Python 4, it seems that the core developers want to avoid bumping the major version number ever again after 3 under any circumstances.
Making a new language is not the way to do it. A new language means you wipe out all the tools you were using before, from syntax highlighting to libraries to optimizations. Even languages like java, go, julia, lua and D worked on their garbage collection for at least a decade.

Not only that, there is no reason why the math can't be done in a library and used in another language in the first place.
No. There's nothing that would have stopped that. If the US wants to make an example of someone, laws don't stop them.

Nice thought eh?

Doesn't help that Australian has some sweet FA to help one of its citizens. Weak as piss.
>arguably started and in line with Brexit

I disagree with this part. The EU is on that same path. The EU Great Firewall idea has been kicked around for years and it has even shown up in some policy suggestion documents.
100%, once Twitter falls, I would probably just leave it all.

Maybe LinkedIn for the professional stuff.
> able to take responsibility

This is the big difference - seniors will track and resolve a roadblock or issue that they could justifiably ignore, in particular where other people in the organization are being difficult or obstructive, giving incorrect guidance, etc.

A junior will just go "We were told it cant be done/will take 5 weeks" whereas a senior will know that's bullshit and escalate it to the right people.
Optimizing LLM Latency
The funny thing is that in most ham radio usage, the "high frequency bands" are actually about as low a frequency as most people will ever use. I don't think I've come across anything about low and medium frequencies except in reference materials. People generally use "high frequency", "very high frequency", or "ultra high frequency".
Firstly, I just want to point out this is kind of a silly argument. A $300 difference in a multi-year investment for a device that drives the way people communicate, pay bills, and even entertain themselves is so negligible that it's not very much worth discussing.

But okay, that's cool and all, but you WILL need to refresh it 1.5x as often or more.. The Pixel 7a goes EoL on security patches in under 5 years. Meanwhile, Apple is still providing patches on iPhone 5 series products released 9 years ago, and latest iOS is available on iPhone models released almost 6 years ago.

Anyway, let's say none of that matters and that tech conservative people only hold their phones for 4 years anyway. An iPhone will hold its value better for that period of time, when you go to sell it on Craigslist. A 4 year old Google Pixel 3a XL can be bought for $72 on Swappa. An almost 5 year old iPhone XR is for sale for $195.

And that's not even to point out the iPhone SE as the other user did, which is cheaper than the Pixel 7a, though I think it would be a fair retort that the iPhone SE is more a competitor to the Pixel 6 generation. 6a being just a tad cheaper than the iPhone SE.

Thinking of tech as a multi-year investment makes the price differences negligible. It's really all about which garden you prefer to be in. Even if your credit sucks and you just need to pay cash for a phone, Swappa makes being in either garden so cheap that you hardly need to worry. And phones are so fast these days that exact tech specs hardly matter anymore unless you're big on mobile gaming.
Glasses transcribe speech in real-time for deaf people
It might be apocryphal but I vaguely remember reading an article from the late-90s or early-00s where television executives were shocked that people wanted TV box sets. The logic was ... Why would people want to watch reruns? Whole swaths of soap opera episodes were totally lost, the masters being taped over, occasionally found in a box in some remote TV station.

I have a small personal project of cataloging all the movies that played on television in the 90s. There are tons of television shows that are not only not available on DVD or VHS but also seemingly no one has it. Double goes for cartoons, tons just totally unavailable. It is sad.
I don't think it's cynical, I think it's the point. Describing the problem is not easy, and to your point, is sometimes controversial.

One advantage of focusing on describing the problem is that it naturally lets you have an impact on what you believe to be the important parts of the solution.
for anonymity, yes (if using a "private" snowflake). for daily use or basic firewall circumvention, not really. as others have mentioned, it is more convenient and faster to just use shadowsocks to a digital ocean droplet or other vm.
If you live in the UK, then please go to the UK Government and Parliament website
and sign your name on this petition: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/634725

It's currently at 6,327 signatures; it needs 3,673 more for the government to respond and 90,000 more after that for a debate to be considered.
Oh yeah, for option A I meant to just stay in Canada until my company hopefully gets profitable and then "transfer" it to the US and move to the US if somehow I can self-sponsor/sponsor through company.
I swing by Hacker News almost daily. Thanks for all the links and comments.
There's a demo video at https://twitter.com/igorsushko/status/1684645290132000768
I think you need a more nuanced take than "journalism is dying" – a more accurate take might be that journalism is centralizing for professionals (NYT, major cable networks have scarcely ever been doing better... don't take my word for it, read the financial statements) and decentralizing for amateurs (substack, twitter, etc.).

Journalism is evolving and changing, but it isn't dying or going away. Hyper-targeted ads will not "save journalism".
> If Rome hadn’t collapsed, they might, within a matter of centuries, have advanced to the stage of industrialization.

That betrays a deep misunderstanding of the Roman Empire. Because although Rome was sacked and conquered, the Roman Empire continued for another thousand years. The eastern Roman Empire, that is, which was arguably the more educated and advanced half.

I know a lot of people love to see the Western Roman Empire as some pinnacle of ancient technology after which the world plummeted into a thousand years of backwardness, but it only looks that way from western Europe. And the real strength of the Romans didn't lie in its technology, but in its massive trade network and in its organisation. They were good engineers because they could organise big engineering projects. They maintained massive road networks. That helps a lot in the spread and use of technology.

Of course the collapse of that trade network did slow the spread and therefore development of technology, but most of the technology was never lost (except underwater concrete, I believe), and the collapse of trade did create new problems which lead to other forms of technological progress, especially in agriculture.