skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
South Africa won't allow Starlink unless it meets local BEE requirements. As a result several ISPs are importing and registering Starlink in neighbouring countries, allowing us to stay online during almost daily load shedding caused by our crumbling, government owned power utility Eskom.

For those of us who want to minimize our reliance on a corrupt, incompetent government Starlink is invaluable as it allows us to go completely off-grid. Power and water is one thing, but without Starlink our mobile and fibre networks can still go down when the backup batteries inevitably run out.

Where there's demand, the market will find a way.
DataCamp is looking for a freelance instructor for an interactive course "Introduction to Java". Ideal candidate: software developers or engineers with deep experience in their field and teaching experience.
Atkinson's article: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jun/03/electr...
This equipment operates where Ukrainians operate theirs
It was stupid, but the rough gist was I realised you could hyperlink between slides, so I made a "choose your own adventure game" like those books that said to turn to page X. But then I wanted inventory, so horrifically I started exponentially making branches of slides where you did and didn't have items. My 9-year old brain spent days hyper-focused making identical copies of all the worlds with secret parts to click. Finally I discovered macros, which helped a lot, before finally finding CMD in Windows and discovering an actual control flow which taught me variables and what not.

I was the older part of the Minecraft era which was my entry into core boolean logic, and SpaceChem taught me parallel flow before entering university.
Can you connect the dots a bit more than that? To me this just sounds like self-serving hand-waving.
>You’re still generating a loss of income to someone somewhere.

No you're not. A pirated copy is not a lost sale. Many people wouldn't interact with some media/software at all if they hadn't pirated it. Linux on the desktop would probably be more popular too.
Luckily, this is an internet forum and you don't actually need work with that person.
It's almost as if real human relations, perhaps even intimacy, had
value.
Come on, even Safari supports PWA on iOS. At this point it feels like there was active sabotage going on at Mozilla.
So many people here showing they know nothing about satcom or wireless networks
I'm surprised I haven't seen anyone propose the possibility that allowing Russia to use Starlimk is an espionage play.

I have no idea if that's actually what's going on, but if it would give Starlink information on troop locations and open a door for listening in on all Starlink-based communications, you would want the public and Russia to believe the CEO is on their side. It would also align with the fact that Russia's big military pushes to secure and advance the front have largely failed or ended in stalemate. Tie that to the number of Russian ships attacked and again, if Russia is using Starlink Maritime that would track as well.

By no means am I proposing this as the likely scenario, but it does seem possible and one that gets buried by people piling on to hate on Elon.
Assuming everything is reported fairly, I really can't imagine being Nichia's customer. Ever.

Sacking and not compensating the employee that single-handedly made Nichia successful by inventing a working blue LED and saving Nichia from bankruptcy is just not acceptable.
'The Joe Rogan Experience' Returns to Apple Podcasts After 3-Year Hiatus
what’s most useful is how many heads can be removed above the junior level and below the exec level.

that’s a lot of cash saved. basically as good as cash earned, when you’re getting funding rounds of cash.
>he is no way affiliated with the Bulgarian military or army and is likely on russia's payroll

The sheer number of people - Americans, mostly - who consider Russia this omnipotent boogeyman is both hilarious and scary. Everything is Russian propaganda, you can't believe anything a Russian says, all Russians are evil. I mean, where does this mentality come from? It's insane. In some circles you can literally dismiss anything by mentioning it could be Russia. Even the politicians do it.

Take this article: what is the big Russian conspiracy, on some obscure site, some of which can be confirmed on X? Wouldn't someone on Putin's payroll be better served not publicizing that they are using Starlink?
Red, green, blue, etc...

Every state has laws that when a vehicle is in forward motion on a road, that the only permissible colored lights are white and amber. Yes illegal.
Spreading disinformation I see.

Starlink has a service map that excludes certain areas.

Go take a look at Ukraine
thank you for the update! what options give the 138-byte executable?
India to launch Android into space to test crewed launch capability
I don't see how this connects to what I said.
Oh, is that the one with the incredibly explicit, and incredibly unnecessary, sex based around the authors obsession with fucking dead bodies and fucking and impregnating his daughter?

I’m very far from a prude, but JFC. Its clearly the authors vehicle to play out his fantasies, masquerading as a scientific-fi novel.
If you are actively working to protect the ships that russia uses to launch cruise missiles at civilians, then you are on the side of russia.
Are you referring to GDPR? Does it apply to employees too, or only customers?
This is adding more complexity. The solution is super simple, you should be able to report the number as spam, if a few other people report the number then the phone company will block the number and the phone company will have to pay the customers affected a small sum. You will immediately see the phone companies putting the work for detecting mass spammers, making sure that businesses that do mass calls have deposits for the case they abuse the system etc.
> suddenly, you only need 100km of battery when you get on and off the freeway

Except that, because of the battery, your truck is too heavy and it is not allowed to use those roads.
Vulkanised 2024 developer conference slides are linked in the agenda
> "Why are we stuck in this loop?"

Its because its fun to shoot things in video games, and wreck cars, and building forts and demolishing entire buildings and trying to keep up with my kids.

Why are spiderman, darth vader and predator there? Money. There's no coherent story telling, which is fine, the game is still fun. People play it for the fun factor, not the story.
Testimonal photos are stock photos, so I'd say the testimonials are fake, too
Oh brave new world!
I think it’s great, too. Now, where is “Commodore PET detective”?
What the games industry needs is a language packing a disruptive, 10x advancement to get away from C++. There are a lot of accumulated ideas right now that could make, perhaps, a 3x-5x difference, and are reasonably well-represented when looking at stuff like Zig, Nim, Odin, Beef, Jai, and others trying points along the frontier of "possible games languages".

I think Zig stands the best chance of turning the corner by attacking the problems at the very base of the build system, libc, etc. Doing that opens up the floodgates for experimentation over a new base layer, and that will get you to a 10x change.
Same, I'll probably move to https://github.com/unjs/h3 since it's used anyway in Nuxt (which I use for other projects)
Show HN: Presentations for your webcam, not a projector
CueCam Presenter is my Mac app (actually a suite of Mac and iOS apps) to run better presentations on your webcam.

Editing cards should feel natural to anybody used to Markdown.

I came to create CueCam as an "embedded entrepreneur". I had some success with my camera app "Shoot Pro Webcam" back in 2020 and built on this by creating squares.tv.

As I talked to more and more users, I discovered more opportunities to make their lives easier. I started with features in Shoot (camera options, pausing, drawing etc..).. Then I created Video Pencil (which connects to your computer and lets you draw on your webcam using your iPad). Then I created "Beat Sheet" which lets you run through "smart scripts", controlling Ecamm Live, OBS and mimoLive.

CueCam Presenter is how I'm connecting all these elements. It gives you a virtual webcam, virtual mic, and seamlessly connects to Shoot and Video Pencil running on other devices. There are various ways you can use it as a teleprompter while maintaining eye contact.

It's taken a lot to get it to this stage. The video pipeline has been through two major iterations and the audio pipeline even more. The UI has evolved and developed to cover the different ways it is understood by different people.

Educational discounts are a must for me, as I want to help improve the quality of remote teaching around the world.
For other professionals, I believe it transforms the way you interact with people on video calls. It's useful for recording software demos and running live streams.
How on earth is AI going to help?
That's an astonishing claim to make without evidence.

cat *.txt

is a pattern I see being used everywhere.

Same goes for sudo. If you're going to claim that a whopping 99% of users don't use the CLI options or /etc/sudoers, you'd need solid proof. Because a simple search shows otherwise:

https://grep.app/search?q=sudo%20-&regexp=true

This Sudo for Windows behaves nothing like the actual sudo. It doesn't even achieve the original's stated purpose.

Also considering that search results for anything involving Windows tends to be riddled with spams and outright scams, this will negatively affect non-Windows users searching for sudo as well.

So again, this naming conflict is unfortunate.
> TLDR EVs won.

This year maybe. The economy is in a crysis, so only rich kids buy new cars.
In South America, Microsoft brand is waaaaay stronger than Google's for businesses of all sizes. Google is viewed more as a consumer brand.
I consider this whole nonsense disinformation.

The endgame is service termination
SoftBank profits beat forecast by wide margin as tech investments pay off
> "It's a tough meat," says Anta. "We cut the meat ourselves"

For some reason I can't avoid to read this as a masked man with a raspy Hollywood Mexican accent.

I hope that people understands that veterinarians are involved in each piece of meat ending in a public restaurant.
Well, NNUE is surprisingly similar to what Stockfish was doing before NNUE. Before it was doing what's called piece-square tables. The basic idea(the stockfish evaluator had a lot more going on in addition, using multiple tables and interpolating between them based on game phase) is to assign some heuristic value to every square, for every piece. So it's just a 6x8x8 array that maps piece positions to values.

To get the evaluation of the whole position, you add up all of these mappings for the pieces on the board with opposite signs for the opposing players.

If you blur your eyes a little, this already looks a lot like a neural net. It's just a big summation of terms, and if you leave in a 0*(whatever value) for every piece that's not present, you've effectively embedded your lookup table into a giant mathematical expression that can be optimised by gradient descent.

The reason computer shogi programmers stumbled on this is that they were experimenting with adding more dimensions to the piece-square table, specifically via indexing by king position as well. So now you have 4 or 5 dimensions, making for a pretty massive array. Hand-tuning all the values becomes less and less feasible, and so I think discovering this idea of rearchitecting it as a neural-net was more or less inevitable.

So NNUE is actually just a pretty natural evolution of what they were doing before.
I'm using Hono and Deno for https://flashcasts.com

Hono + Postgres.js is getting pretty close to my ideal web stack.

IMO, SSR websites is the best way to get projects out quickly: predictable "builds", minimal surface area, boring tech, etc.

It helps that Hono has a very clean API :)
> Well owning a set of lock picks is illegal in the US so... 6 of one, half a dozen of the other.

No. https://www.toool.us/lockpicking-laws.php

Oddy enough, owning lockpicks is sorta illegal in some Canadian provinces.
Just like bankers - always funding both sides of the war.
There is a GPS in the terminal and I can guarantee the gps data is transmitted to Starlink noc/hub in real time. It's trivial to geoblock terminals.
I think they were geofenced all along. Otherwise Russians could have used captured Starlink terminals to their advantage.

Nothing to do with Starlink or Musk. Those orders were from the State Department.
If you like this one Diaspora seem to have extrapolated some of this ideas and went several step further (and then added much more), and Zendegi that is a lot more modest in extrapolation and tries to be more realistic (and emotional).

He have also a lot of mindblowing short stories. The collection I've read by him was Axiomatic, that had many great ones.
I assume he meant that the 20,000 Starlink terminals donated to Ukraine had cost $100 million.
My pet peeve with Netflix is that it occasionally forgets where I last paused my video. I don't often watch Netflix, so when I do, it's annoying that I can't resume from where I left off
They compare themselves against Celery here: https://dramatiq.io/motivation.html
> Would be cool if someone could recommend sci-fi that equally good.

You could consider „Diaspora“ by the same author a good sequel a couple of thousands of years into the future where humanity is but a faint memory called „dream apes“ as living fossils in this story.
Until the pandemic, we would regularly eat lunch together somewhere. For years, this was a standard routine in my life. It was a perfect way to get a feeling what others were doing, what the problems were, how the general mood in the team was, what was going on in their lives. I invited everyone to my wedding during lunch. I told them I was becoming a father during lunch. 2 people told us they were leaving during lunch.

In the beginning of the pandemic, we even switched to cooking at the office kitchen. Now there are only 2 people left on the floor, and eating lunch has stopped completely. Most of my colleagues I only see 1 or 2 times a year (Christmas party and work stuff that requires physical attention).

I noticed that it is much harder now for people to integrate when they are new. There is no real forum left for beginners to ask dumb questions they would rather not see in some chat log.
> does this mean instant SEPA transfers must now be free ?

No. It just means that your transactions will fail because of poor internet. /s
Why are you fighting against facts from people that were there and why are you white knighting the person who has destroyed firefox’s marketshare?
Related:

AT&T applies to end obligation to service landlines in California

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39238039
That's going to be a major and widespread issue very soon.

Unfortunately, rulings such as this FCC's are ineffective to prevent it. If someone is already committing fraud, they obviously won't care if it's illegal to use an AI-generated voice.
Loved it. Would be awesome if there was a way to run a self hosted version
Ring video doorbell 43% price hike
GDPR applies to everyone in the EU/EEA/UK.

They don't need to be a citizen, they don't need to have any sort of contractual arrangement with the data processor. If they're alive and identifiable, the GDPR applies.
I hope someone is filing FOIA requests to get any communications between the White House and FCC related to this after robocalls were using Biden's voice. The timing here seems pretty dubious and as far as I'm aware the FCC is meant to be an independent body.

If the White House did pressure the FCC to implement a specific rule I'm pretty sure that would be a problem. The White House can obviously set general priorities, like protecting consumers from high fees, but isn't supposed to push specific rules, like requesting a new rule to ban hidden fees. PR in this case, if the White House specifically requested a ban on ML-generated robocalls that would be a problem as far as I understand it.
If the Museum originally got it from someone who stole it from somewhere else, there's a reasonable argument to be made.

James Acaster's comedy bit on the british museum comes to mind: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x73PkUvArJY&pp=ygUcamFtZXMgY...
> The findings do not represent a break of the landmark Paris Agreement, which aims to “limit global warming to well below 2, preferably to 1.5 degrees Celsius, compared to pre-industrial levels” over the long term.

It seems safe to say we are now locked in to a path that will break the Paris Agreement, unless "long term" includes space sunshades, scattering reflective particles in the upper atmosphere, or other similarly drastic geoengineering solutions.
Well.. I guess they'd use an LLM? And if the result is 'a pretty OK and boring reply' maybe that's fine or even good?
this is how we got into this mess in the first place!
RIP John.

I met John in early 1983 at Autodesk. My company, Digital Control Systems, Inc. was one of the first AutoCad “Dealers”. Great memories of the first few years of Autodesk when John was CEO.

He complemented me on my DOS TSR, Concurrent Plot, II which was an interrupt driven serial/parallel background plot spooling program.

I remember John telling me, the reason for AutoCad’s early success was IBM’s decision to include the 8087 socket on the original IBM PC motherboard.

Oh I could go on and on but those are all some great memories and I’ll always cherish the time that I got to spend with him.

Godspeed John.
You seem to have a very strange bias.
Huawei's offices in France raided by financial prosecutors
AGI will make the economy far more efficient, increase the rate of scientific innovation, etc. For example, some ancestor of alphafold could spark a revolution in genetic engineering, creating crops which are far more efficient and resilient, etc.
You'd have to define "sad" but naturally there's a sense of emptiness immediately after a friend disappears from your life. Someone you've learned to know and share jokes and interests with. Not every colleague is a friend though.
Wait, who am I supposed to believe here?!? Prime Video tore down their micro services in favor of a monolith just last year! Which trillion dollar globocorp is my tiny, insignificant company supposed to emulate?

https://thenewstack.io/return-of-the-monolith-amazon-dumps-m...
Yes, but then you wouldn't have had all that imaginary money to spend, so you'd have a different problem
Show HN: Hacker News Story Rank Change Indicator (User Script)
Can copy paste the script in dev console too.

(function() {
'use strict';

var KEY_LAST_CLEAR = 'hackernews-rank-notifier-clear-time';
var KEY_RANK_STORE = 'hackernews-rank-notifier';

var fourWeeksMillisecond = 4 * 7 * 24 * 60 * 60 * 1000; // Four weeks in milliseconds
var lastClearTime = JSON.parse(localStorage.getItem(KEY_LAST_CLEAR)) || Date.now();

// If more than 4 weeks passed since last clean, clear the rank notifier storage
if ((Date.now() - lastClearTime) > fourWeeksMillisecond) {
localStorage.removeItem(KEY_RANK_STORE);
lastClearTime = Date.now();
localStorage.setItem(KEY_LAST_CLEAR, JSON.stringify(lastClearTime));
}

var oldRanks = JSON.parse(localStorage.getItem(KEY_RANK_STORE)) || {};

var stories = Array.from(document.getElementsByClassName('athing'));

stories.forEach(function(story) {
var id = story.id;
var rank = story.querySelector('span.rank').innerText;
rank = parseInt(rank.slice(0, -1)); // removing the dot at the end
var title = story.querySelector('.title a');

if (id in oldRanks) {
var change = oldRanks[id] - rank;
if (change !== 0) {
// the story has moved
title.textContent = '(' + (change > 0 ? '+' : '-') + Math.abs(change) + ') ' + title.textContent;
}
} else {
// the story is new
title.textContent = '(NEW) ' + title.textContent;
}
// update the rank in memory
oldRanks[id] = rank;
});

localStorage.setItem(KEY_RANK_STORE, JSON.stringify(oldRanks));
})();
Oh man Boston Common always used to do this to me — my brain insisted it is a square when it’s actually a pentagon. It also doesn’t help that Tremont curves from nearly parallel with Beacon by Park St to almost perpendicular by Boylston.

The net effect was that my brain considered the Theatre District to exist in another — largely inaccessible — dimension.
For this example, a scanner does nothing. All it will do is tell you that there was a truck there. But in this case the existence of vehicles on the train were not in question - it was about the ownership of them. It should be much harder to fake shipping manifests and every VIN should be manually verified and against a database of stolen.
Even if you can only eliminate the 19% memory related ones - that’s a huge win.
Direct democracy is 2 wolves and a sheep voting on whats for dinner.

I think the real problem is that the system is rigged.

Your vote only matters if youre in a non-gerrymandered swing state.

Even if your vote did matter you have to choose from a a small amount of candidates selected and vetted by the RNC and DNC.

So its less an issue with representation democracy and more an issue with how rigged and pointless the system has become in my opinion.
High bandwidth phased array LEO satellite internet is a relatively new concept. Give them some time.
> trusting a URL which you shouldn't trust

That's actually a feature in Ur/Web, which is a (very niche) language explicitly built for making web servers. It's sort of a domain-specific language though, so maybe it doesn't count.

> making a function public when it should be private

Nothing's gonna stop a programming mistake like that, but in languages with capabilities[0] you can restrict some functions to only be called when you have certain capabilities, and these capabilities can only be made to be acquired after authenticating a user, for example.

[0]: https://borretti.me/article/introducing-austral#cap
The same sats they use for connectivity?
>The same way you can assess the crime rate of a certain area by the amount of littering by the side of the road.

You mean incorrectly?

Also, if I had to guess, proxies that show global warming to be bad are widely publicised, whilst proxies that show global warming not to occur are ignored.
GDPR definitely applies to employees as well. It applies to all handling of personal data.

One of the most important rules in GDPR is the requirement for companies to have an up to date list of all places where personal data is being stored, the reason it's stored there and what it's used for and the retention policy.

So an employee creating their own lists of previous employees could potentially get the company in trouble if it was discovered during some external audit if it wasn't listed.
'Googling' and 'browsing Stack Overflow' said in an obtuse way.

I also dislike the former/avoid it myself, but I just say 'searching'...
RISC-V's success has been mostly in small embedded systems — where a POWER chip would be overkill or unsuitable. The core ISA is very small, thus cheap, and then extensible. The design even encourages proprietary extensions.
Then it has grown from there as ISA extensions have been ratified.
This is definitely processing personal data.

What Rachel is describing is absolutely illegal under the GDPR.
> can predict which terminals sold in other countries will be "illegally" moved to Russia

That's not how starlink works. At all.
ad. penultimate paragraph: Why should the population grow forever? Humanity swelled to ten times or more its size since the industrial revolution; there may be some correction.

Supposed "humanists" justify themselves with talk about there being unlimited "economies of scale" with more people but I am skeptical.