skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The satellites will be everywhere, so not having offerings outside the US seems like it would be leaving money on the table. I could imagine it might take them awhile just to manage the logistics of selling a product in many countries, though. Maybe they'll partner with established companies for that part?
The problem is that one (keeping wages low) gets pushed, and the other does not.

Something tells me you would be perfectly happy if wages were kept super low, and the other things you said did not happen.

That is not a solution.
They referred to books weaponized in the last century. As far as that goes, The Bible and Uncle Tom's Cabin, sure. But "Das Kapital"? Was that even widely read? How was it weaponized, e.g. did people refer to it, even though nobody had read the book?

As for a book causing change "by itself":

One thing about the Bible is that the content itself is nothing compared to the claim that it's the word of God. It could have completely different content, as long as there were people seriously devoted to it being the word of God, it would have an effect. That's why it usually it involves missionaries or being raised into it. Is it even possible to encounter that book "by itself"? And it didn't exist for a few centuries when the things it supposedly causes already were done.

A book breaking a taboo for example, and that in turn faciliting social change that was a long way coming, is not the same as a "book causing social change by itself". I don't know enough about it and the context, but it says on the Wikipedia page about Uncle Tom's Cabin:

> Uncle Tom's Cabin first appeared as a 40-week serial in The National Era, an abolitionist periodical, starting with the June 5, 1851, issue. It was originally intended as a shorter narrative that would run for only a few weeks. Stowe expanded the story significantly, however, and it was instantly popular, such that several protests were sent to the Era office when she missed an issue. Because of the story's popularity, the publisher John P. Jewett contacted Stowe about turning the serial into a book.

So at the very least, there was something there already. I'm sure it was weaponized, but how did it cause social change? Did it cause people who loved slavery to now dislike slavery? Did it make formerly happy slaves unhappy? I honestly don't know, and since my asking for examples is taken as the claim "there are no examples", I would ask you to treat my questions as actual questions.

Das Kapital was written to prove an scientific underpinning for a labour movement that already existed, long after the Communist Manifesto. So here too I'd ask, what social change did it cause by itself?
SpaceX and One Web both have an unfortunately low number of ground stations per square km, so remote areas can have a receiver for everyone, and urban areas will max out the number of receivers pretty quickly.
So it doesn't have a database (or it has an embedded database)?

With me, the gripes of installing these apps are not just the app itself but the dependencies, which is a necessary evil and impossible to avoid once things get sufficiently complicated.
I've have the exact same problem. My tenaciousness has given me the ability to understand concepts and obtain skills beyond my "natural ability". But it doesn't make me fast at them.

Anyone out there successfully overcome this problem?
Yes it does and it should be dealt with.
Thanks for setting the record straight. I'll take another look at blockstack.
One missed point is that companies should also fill jobs with people who are willing to do the work. Most of the time, their economics and hiring processes are blurred by trying to get what they perceive the best and those who usually have a lot of clout based off some social media information they have gathered.

It is far easier to train and make an expert of someone who wants to work with you than getting someone who has all the nice credentials that pretends their expertise. People who embrace what you are providing are generally more inclined to stay and contribute.
I'd expect the first and easy goal to be to sell high speed access to airline passengers.
I value equity at 0, so that's why might be seeing them as not that different.

If you are a bit of a startup veteran you can also make good bank at German startups, probably even more so if you come from SF. There are sadly (but also understandably) few software engineers that stay in the startup ecosystem for long, and those that do can be quite valued. That combined with the low cost of living, actually makes it very realistic to build up some wealth and achieve financial independence, no startup equity lottery needed. From everything I read on HN, that looks very different in SF.
Firms like Facebook, Google, Intel, and Microsoft have monopoly rents [1]. The structure of the business makes it difficult to have competitors. e.g. Intel architecture and Windows OS for most PCs.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_rent#Monopoly_rent

See also: Rent-Seeking: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rent-seeking
Good question. I doubt the Russians or Chinese consult the FCC for launches.
In the past, the CPAP machines my wife and I used needed to be programmed in various ways, and they had separate data cards as described. The ones we got a couple of months ago are completely dynamic, they aren't pre-configured in any meaningful way.

Also, they send their collected data up to 'the cloud' over a cellular network, where we can view the data, in some detail, with our web browser, as authenticated by a code printed on each machine.

Seems like a good way to go.
> to avoid using Google is difficult, if not impossible.

Sincere question - why? Aren't there alternatives to all google services? I have not opted out of using Google services, so I'm genuinely curious. Everything I can think of has an easy alternative to use.
Those tools aren't added to the compiler, they're standalone pieces of software which use the LLVM toolchain as libraries.

And that's an LLVM principle, not Apple's. LLVM and its related tools have always been designed to be used as libraries, not simply executables.
I don't take op comments as a criticism of Qt. I think he was just lamenting that there isn't as easy a way to build a GUI app as there was in 1999! I agree, and have to say that a Delphi-for-Python would be hugely successful in the SME getting-things-done space. I wish I was skilled enough to write such a thing.
> Also, I am not sure they will have enough power to provide in building service.

The issue for that is the wavelengths they are using. Their properties basically completely rule out any kind of in-building service, there needs to be a clear uninterrupted path between the receiver and the transmitter. (But they penetrate water well, so should not have a problem with clouds.)
JMP.chat gives you a new phone number that you use via XMPP, with Quicksy you use your phone number to automatically discover other users on the (federated) xmpp network.
Thanks for making it public and open! Might use parts of it in an upcoming project.
Is Amazon Bad for America? – NYT Opinion – Audio
These satellites are planned below 2000km altitude, where the radio signal delay is more like 3 milliseconds. It should be comparable to accessing AWS us-east datacenters from St. Louis MO
As I understand it there was a new TCP/IP stack added to the linux kernel back somewhere around 2015/2016 that couldn't be backported to the RHEL7 3.10 kernel without breaking the kernel ABI that red hat tries to only change with major versions.

So new to rhel TCP/IP stack not to linux as a whole.
They are airtight in as much as they can effectively deliver the prescribed pressure without leaking air. Not truly airtight. The system HAS to have a safeguard against malfunctions, as power loss is always a possibility. They generally have a passive airflow built into the line somewhere.
And then there is phased arrays, a computer-controlled array of antennas which creates a beam of radio waves that can be electronically steered to point in different directions without moving the antennas.

Pure math (matrix of delays per element). Go crazy :)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phased_array
Sourcegraph CEO here. We would love to help integrate Sourcegraph into sr.ht for code intelligence (hovers, go-to-definition, etc.). We’re kicking this off with GitLab next month.
Just to be clear, sleep apnea causes organ damage. I had oxygen levels dipping to 71% in my sleep study. It was enough to dramatically affect my cognitive abilities and took months of CPAP therapy to recover from. I'm 43, relatively fit, and don't have a history of snoring. If you have excessive daytime sleepiness, confusion, and difficulty thinking, get checked ASAP. Fortunately you can reverse the damage:

https://aasm.org/brain-damage-caused-by-severe-sleep-apnea-i...

Sleep apnea is not a joke. My dad has a pacemaker because of the stress placed on his heart from years of untreated apnea.
The fact that there's a 0-byte file instead of a completely broken file system is already the result of a journal. You can reliably observe this with ext4.
I'm German and don't think there are fancy dinners needed, before you get the funding money. It's much more bureaucracy. It can be so much overhead in administrative work that companies which try to find a stable business model may not want to invest into getting research funds and other companies may have specialized in applying and getting research funding.

From what I hear it's not unusual to use the money for paying people who work on other topics, produce a little output and write in the report "we did some research, but more research is needed..."
I use GreaseMonkey/TamperMonkey, but WebComponent even make modifying a page using dev tools hard.

Edit: e.g for printing or to make reading / using easier.
I really like your interface. It's easy to use and I was able to find some podcasts relevant to my queries. Bookmarked.
This FCC approval is to be able to talk between orbit and the ground in the US. SpaceX needs approval from other countries for the same, in order to offer service there.

Launch approvals are a separate thing.
Maybe thats true of some alt-right factions (like the white nationalist types).

Typical republican conservatives tend to be the opposite of antisemitic. They are very pro Israel, for instance. They are the people who might applaud Trump for moving the US embassy to Jerusalem.

There's a twinge of antisemitism that creeps in on the fringes of the left too, also stemming from Israel (and its conflict with the Palestinians).
You worked too hard.

https://uetoken.com
I'd say people under 40 are no better. It is just that when you are young your body can compensate for poor habits and excesses.
And/or a power failure alarm.
The pay well compared to other german companies. However not compared to US/FAANG companies.

As a reference, most of those companies will pay engineers according to the IG Metall Tarif, which can e.g. be found there: https://www.igmetall.de/docs_MuE_ERA_Entgelte_Juni2018_78d3e...

This is per month, and there's 13.26 monthly salaries per year.

Engineers will typically not receive the highest lines which are reserved for managers, but something below (e.g. EG15 in Baden-Württemberg).

There are some company specific and performance bonuses on top of that, which might be up to 30%, but are typically far less (and often not performance but age-based). In the end things top out far below 100kEur for most engineers there, with no chances to get higher without moving into people management.

I worked at one of those companies (not the listed ones, but a similar one) for a couple of years, and found these things pretty frustrating after a few years.
Iridium already employs SpaceX for their launches.
The Next Autonomous Revolution
Great! My email is sir@cmpwn.com. I can't guarantee a lot of cycles right now, but get in touch and I'll keep it on my radar.
/me feels the unsettling presence of a doppelgänger
As a bonus, these usually beep loudly when power to them is interrupted.
I was for a year or two while I was in college. I stopped because it felt like I was paying the membership fee for the privilege of possibly paying a second membership fee for one of the field-specific organizations... for what I still have no idea. Several years post-college one of my fellow classmates noted to me that he stopped his membership as well, and for similar reasons.

In the last year or so of college I was asked if I was interested in joining the Society Of Women Engineers [SWE]; engineering activities for Girl Scouts, field trips to engineering-related museums, actual stuff going on. I'm now a lifetime member. Once in a while these days I go to an event or meeting. I enjoy the magazine.
Wayne Gretzky and the Mysteries of Athletic Greatness
The past link searches the exact title, if you just search "Crater under Greenland" your thread shows up as well.
I do have a Mac, I don't have Unity Editor :-(
Yes! It's actually great -- you can rant as hard as you want because you know the author won't be upset.
It's for keeping your body in ketosis. High fat, moderate protein, and zero/very low carbs - which is why people diet this way.
Lots in diabetes care.
They're typically done by splitting the antenna up into infinitesimal pieces, then summing up all the effects. Like a 3D integral.
> Traditional satellite internet uses satellites in geostationary orbits, or 35,786km high above the equator. This is great because satellites in that orbit are stationary relative to the ground, so you just need a parabolic antenna pointed at a specific point in the sky to get great reception. But it's also terrible for latency because the signal takes 120ms just to get up, and another 120ms to get down. Assuming you live on the equator, directly underneath the satellite. For someone living in the temperate regions, typical real rtts are in the 700ms area.

This doesn't check out.

The radius of Earth is 6,300km. Assuming a receiver on the north pole, the total distance should only be sqrt((35786 + 6300)^2 + 6300^2) = 42555km, which isn't notably larger than the 36000km at the equator.

I'm sure you're still right about the latency, but it can't be just distance doing it.
I like Anvil, but the use case is different.

I sometimes have to write little enterprise apps to do little things around an ERP What I want is to do that little thing and build it into an installer that my IT team can just install.
Only until your brain reaches a threshold where it says "OOOOK, we definitely need to start breathing now. Time to wake up". When you reach that threshold, you wake up on a very low, subconscious level that disrupts your sleep pattern, which in combination with the lower level of oxygen, is what causes the damage to your system.

The difference with a malfunctioning machine is that you still cant get air even after that threshold has been hit (or at least it's very difficult to do so). At that point, your brain kicks you totally out of a sleep state and you awake completely.
On my fedora 29 box:

[root@laptop ~]# which yum

/usr/bin/yum

[root@laptop ~]# ls -l /usr/bin/yum

lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 5 Oct 15 12:47 /usr/bin/yum -> dnf-3

Pretty sure "yum" in rhel8 will actually be dnf as well, but keeping the name for backwards compatability
You mean more efficient, right? Because the single page "applications" that download UI and data with javascript take a three-digit number of requests and multiple seconds to render everything and be "done".
Pretty much all Weber (a very, very mainstream grill brand available the world over) grills/“grates” are cast iron. It works fine! You do typically have to replace them every three to five years, but this isn’t that big a deal, the replacement grates are stocked at most home improvement stores.

It’s extremely common in mid to high end grills.
Nuxt.js uses Vue.js to create static html that doesn't require javascript in the end-user.
If this library is well made should provide a fallback to load the images synchronously.
Given that this went way up, and then way down, I'm curious who is working to vote this way? I find it kind of curious who gets offended by statements like this.
I’ve heard Music majors are great at computer security.
#5 is basically an overclocked mind running DFS.
>money a business doesn't have because it was spent on wages should nonetheless be counted as taxable earnings.

that is exactly how it works. All business revenue is counted as taxable earnings unless that amount is reduced by deductions. Money spent on wages is just a such a deduction. Charitable contributions is just another such a deduction. No difference.
> Would love to hear why people think this is a non-issue

It is an issue, but like, you have to get over it.

Most of the complications come from dependencies (db, caching, etc). How can I, as a web service creator, make it easier to install and configure a postgres DB? I can't! Software is complicated, and sometimes the requirements for software are complicated.

Sure, I could release a version that uses sqlite but then people will whine that it's too slow and doesn't scale. If I release a version that supports both, now I've introduced an entire layer of complexity that I have to support (and tends to break endlessly in my experience).

Yeah, it sucks. but if you're really that worried about it, like you mentioned, use a SaaS service for the app itself or for its dependencies.
They are still in Firefox, but hidden from the user.
No, they plan to implement dm-integrity target as one of available dm layers.

See section 9.2.2 in https://stratis-storage.github.io/StratisSoftwareDesign.pdf
Physical stablecoins, ICOs regularly and advertises in the press.

https://www.royalmint.com
Whether or not he hated Trump, he believed that Soros was funding a migrant caravan of invaders, a lie that both Trump and Fox News was pushing constantly, and continued to push even after the shooting. He didn't get those ideas from out of thin air. He got them from the right wing party establishment.
I guess if you cross a Red Hat and a Big Blue dinosaur a big purple dinosaur could be the result...

https://i.etsystatic.com/5700633/r/il/ea2ba9/1552167872/il_5...
Raspberry Pi^N
I remember someone publishing a book called You Need A Cellmate Not A Soulmate. Maybe I'll buy it.
Same here. As I have lost significant amount of weight over the past 18 months, the higher pressure actually became an impediment to restful sleep. A quick google search and a couple nights of trial-and-error and I was good to go.

Which reminds me... it's time to lower it, again.
This is such a cool problem.

We already have a ton of Geo sat which can do this kind of communication but they are super expensive and have a limited bandwidth.

These satellites will actually have a ton of limitations in how much data they can send around and how they'll have to balance out their signals. Geo are easier to point to because, well they don't move.

But these are going to be moving and changing all the time so you'll have to connect to multiple satellites every day. I'm spit balling here but they'll probably be overhead for 10 minutes? Think about switching your router every 10 minutes. Or you get a rainy day and your signal clarity goes down. Or you are over the equator in a band that is used strictly for GEO.

This is going to be a super cool problem to solve. And I'm sure I don't even understand the half of it.

Edit: Sorry example of router is pretty bad. It's more like running your phone but you have to specifically aim your antenna at each tower that you're passing while driving. The complexity is moving nature of the network and the targeting nature of the antennas. I have 0 clue if phone signals are targeted but I believe they are radial signals and more like a beacon than a laser.

Load balancing these can be a pain as well because if you get too much signal on an antenna it can actually block all signal.
It seems like the * CSS selector would still apply to these new elements? And in js things like el.children? I wonder if user styles via something like Stylus[1] could style them also? Now that I think about it, it seems like some of the worst (and most likely) applications will be advertising (to try and avoid blockers).

1: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/styl-us/
> some people I know keep Social Security numbers in their contacts

That's now how this works. That's not how any of this works!
I think the interesting thing is that the users aren't the customers in these examples. Anti trust law would be concerned with the advertisers and fb/google. Not the users.

I suppose you could make the argument that fb/google are monopolies because the advertisers have to go through them to reach us. It isn't clear to me though that this is the problem we actually want to solve. This leads me to believe that anti monopoly laws might not be the correct tools for dealing with these companies.
> They should naturally go bankrupt.

No, they should disinstitute by themselves.
even doing email at 2400 baud(!) proved useless

In the late 90's I did a lot of my grad school coding and implemented a website for a state agency though 9600 baud modems. EMACS was great in those days, precisely because it's a Lisp machine OS masquerading as a text editor. I used to read USENET news, read my email, do my work, shuffle between multiple remotely logged in shells, all through EMACS.
I mean, if she shot up youtube because she got worked up by another alt-right 4chan conspiracy theory, then you'd have a point. But she wasn't, she was upset youtube wasn't paying her enough.
At the beginning, it will be nowhere near that. The price of the receiving antenna alone will be in the range of $10k-$1k. So for the first phase they are mostly interested in providing backhaul for remote cell towers and the like, and service for the odd people living in the sticks who are willing to pay through the nose for the ability to have both great internet and live in the middle of nowhere.

Then, once the antennas are in proper mass production and cheap enough, they have an investment of a couple of $B worth of satellites to pay for. So long as they can provide something no other ISP can (low-latency access in the middle of nowhere), I very much doubt their prices will be lower than those ISPs.
Wow. That case is really concerning. She was basically prosecuted for applying modern label to past events: calling a muslim figure marrying 9yo a pedophile.
Perhaps their true market will be for industrial IOT devices that need to connect from all over the world.

If I'm selling large HVAC units with cloud monitoring functionality, it'd be attractive to ship units that are pre-connected to SpaceX's satellite network. I wouldn't have to worry about setting up agreements with multiple cellular providers or having to depend on site-provided Wifi/ethernet.

The point is, those devices could very lucrative for SpaceX without requiring as much bandwidth (no need to stream Netflix).
Bank of America Trends in Consumer Mobility Report [pdf]
CPUC isn't there just to prevent price gouging. They've already decided a guaranteed return on equity / return on rate base. If the legislators decided tomorrow the lines must be buried, and the CPUC allowed the rate hike necessary to do so, PG&E would happily comply.

> The PG&E and other investor owned utilities that are essentially granted monopoly status in California are guaranteed a negotiated fair rate of return on equity (ROE). PG&E's ROE rate was set at 10.4% and a return on rate base (ROR) was set at 8.06% by the CPUC in December 2012.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Gas_and_Electric_Compa...
Seems to me that this has been pretty thoroughly explored already.
Progressive citizens might favor accepting refugees etc. But they certainly did no call for abusively expanding H1B to suppress wages.
It spreads because devs who are willing to kiss butts to get hired are also willing to be paid less