skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
All of the major geostationary telecom satellite owners (intelsat, eutelsat, SES, etc) operate their own ASes and IP networks. Nothing quite leads "straight" to a satellite, but you can definitely look at the prefixes announced by a company like Intelsat and try to make intelligent guesses as to which earth station it correlates with.

for instance: https://bgp.he.net/AS12684
It's amusing the "slippery slope" is originally the name of a fallacy, but how now become a simple statement of supposed fact (i.e. "if we do something, we won't be able to, over time, stop ourselves from doing even more of that thing").
It's not clear how the Apple thing is related to Facebook, as Facebook isn't mentioned on that page.
In sports riots, the police just stand by and give a graduated response. They don't run around clubbing sports fans. They are perfectly happy to engage in dramatic standoff and dispersal with political protestors, though.

However to understand why this would be the case(starting from a naive POV), you have to go beyond general discussion of injustices and reforms into deeper examination of the power structure and loyalties, which is hard to surface out of soundbite media.
California used to have programs like this in the 80’s. They were outlawed as part of Regan’s war on mental illness (or whatever he called it).

A friend of mine went through this, so I went through all the options with the a few emergency psychiatric wards.

These days, even if the person has medical insurance or someone wants to pay out of pocket, the mental health professionals aren’t allowed to do anything without getting the person in need of emergency care to sign an emergency consent form under their own free will, and while capable of making legal decisions (which is by-definition impossible). Pre signing the form “just in case” doesn’t count. My friend did this, in fact.

Other than waiting for the situation to escalate to violence (and getting the person incarcerated without care) the only option is to have a police officer (with no medical credentials) come out and make a diagnosis.

The officer almost always (and in this case, did) overrides any doctors and loved ones involved in the case, and finds that the person does not need care.

The triage nurse at one of the care centers told me that most residents of the many waterfront encampments in the city were people her office had previously turned away.
> What percentage of cops kill innocent people, vs. save you from the bad guys

Pretty low I suppose. The point is, we should take every precaution to keep the former as low as possible, preferably zero. The people are not seeing this effort at the moment.
Compared to US police, Aussie cops are pleasant and agreeable. But compared to New Zealand police, they're still brutes. I've never had an encounter with police in another developed nation, so that's my only real comparison I can make, Colombian police certainly aren't polite and civil.

Don't just judge the police on your experiences as an innocent bystander, but by how they treat those they think are less innocent. Police in Australia are far more likely to use violence and intimidation than Kiwi cops, in a large part because they are armed. Carrying a firearm creates an inherent power imbalance and a willingness to use violence and force to resolve an incident than deescalation techniques. NZ cops are much more likely to attempt to defuse the situation, or avoid the situation becoming (potentially) violent in the first place, using force is seen as a last resort than a first option (although it's a different story if you're Maori or Polynesian).
The median American buys new cars, so they could by a used car and invest the difference.

I've known many people who didn't have any cash on hand, yet lived high on the hog with expensive clothes, new cars, and nice houses. They didn't have any cash on hand because they spent it as fast as possible.
This is really true. People talk about rents dropping in SF, but if you dig, it's really the large apartment complexes that are professionally managed. The same apartments that tends to be more expensive.

A good friend just moved to a 1-bed in SF last weekend. Small building (6 units). Rent was $2,200 per month, which is about the same as what it was last year. And they looked at a lot of units. They definitely noticed rents softening as they could knock $100 off most rents with little effort.
I think there's an emotional segregation that happens with age - where you keep work at work, and personal life at home.

I appreciate that a lot younger employees may not be there yet, but I don't think it's correct to assume that everyone in the world needs to emotionally deal with every social/economic/political problem in the world.

That isn't scalable.
Federal Reserve Endorses Ethereum-Backed Alternative to Libor
A top tier journal has 3 papers with >500 citations that turned out to be bullshit in the last 10 years. One of them is probably the premiere example of academic misconduct in the last 50 years, catalysing the anti-vax movement and causing untold harm. What's your definition of poor?
Google and Walmart establish dominance in India’s mobile payments market
Wavebox: Distraction-free Chromium browser for focused work
They could be doing both. Similar to how oxidants stimulate cellular regeneration. If the THz waves induce mechanical destruction, especially on already weakened or damaged actin filaments, it could induce cellular repair mechanisms to create new action. It might be something useful in certain cases. Say, deep cellular regeneration... or not.
SpaceX moved the satellite orbits much lower to mitigate this concern. In their current low orbit, any broken satellites or debris will fall out of the sky within a few years due to atmospheric drag. The real concern is in higher orbits where debris would persist for millennia.
Believe me - I am not a fan of the police in general - but you are cherry picking some extreme examples. There are many cases of police brutality in Australia.

https://www.smh.com.au/national/it-does-happen-here-calls-to...

> “The family of an Aboriginal man who died in custody says protests against police brutality in the US should be a wake-up call about the plight of Indigenous Australians in the justice system.

> Speaking in the wake of video footage of an Aboriginal teenager being kicked to the ground by a NSW policeman, Paul Francis-Silva, whose uncle died in a Sydney prison in 2015, said: "It does happen here in Australia - the brutality, and the injustice against the First Nations people.”

You could also agree Australians are full of racist, evil cops as well, yes? Or is picking a few extreme examples not allowed for your country?
Porting MicroPython and Wasp-Os to Mynewt on PineTime Smart Watch (NRF52)
... and the W.H.O. based their decision making on this ...

What exactly is surgisphere? Hackers that paid for illicit data feeds? A total fabrication? Chinese misinformation? Nothing makes any sense.
I don't disagree. I hope I didn't come across any other way.
Something like this was posted here before https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23206922

It even have a bookmarklet that allow you to play on any webpage

https://gluttonc.chesterdoran.com
I can want more competition as well as more accountability for Twitter when they choose to target specific tweets/accounts.

Facebook has for the most part stayed out of it and they are being attacked for not providing a Ministry of Truth like Twitter does.

So the little bit of competition that Twitter has is being coerced to do the same.

If Twitter continues down the route it's going and continues to publish it's thoughts and link them to other's thoughts then I think they should have their 230 protections revoked and that will probably shutter them. Good.

Hacker News should be all about breaking up monopolies and regulating companies, what gives? Ah yeah, the elections.

Similar alternatives for those interested:

https://www.gab.com/

https://mastodon.social/

https://getaether.net/
I needed a haircut even at the beginning of the lockdown, so it got pretty long in a hurry. My wife finally got sick of it and cut it for me a couple weeks ago.

It’s.. ok. Very short though.
> An American programmer might not be too concerned if a body temperature measurement returns 45 degrees Celcius. Similarly, a patient height of 95in probably wouldn't immediately raise alarm bells for a European developer.

I would be questioning professional qualities of these programmers at this point. That’s just a common sense and base knowledge about the world you live in and people you write code for.
Well, the cultural chauvinists elsewhere in this discussion are certainly in for a rude awakening but I don't know how much pain American programmers will feel. We have a lot of really first-rate engineers and product people, and we won't stop making our own breakthroughs just because new countries are emerging in the global tech scene. And, in the medium term at least, we have the inertia of several trillion dollars worth of tech behemoths having strong ties to the US. Also, this isn't a zero-sum game; American tech companies generally don't have great penetration in markets like China and India with home-grown competitors, and those competitors generally don't have notable penetration outside of their home markets. There's plenty of growth to be realized without anyone being in a world of hurt.
While I agree that property taxes could come down if Prop 13 was eliminated, I highly doubt that would ever happen. The gov't could never turn down a new pot of money.
US Air Force says upcoming B-21 stealth bomber will use Kubernetes
The Confederate States (during the American Civil War) prohibited states from seceding... and this was only a few months after they had seceded from the US!
Protesting can have a lasting effect. There are small changes happening all over the country already. In my city, the mayor has requested a total overhaul of the police use of force policy within 14 days. In another city, the mayor (who doesn't control the local police for weird reasons) has called an out-of-cycle meeting of the police board to address poor behavior by officers during the protests and to change policies. Over the past couple of nights, lots of cities have changed how they deal with large protests, backing off; its too soon to know if those tactical changes will revert in a week, a year, a month, or at all.

At the federal level, there are a few bills being introduced to deal with qualified immunity or other aspects that need addressing. These may not go anywhere, but more pressure may have an effect on that. Also, hopefully next time there's a massive economic downturn, officials remember that not supporting individuals makes the whole nation a powder keg, ready to spawn riots in all 50 states.

There's also historic precedent that protesting has a lasting change.
Virtual Airwaves is working in this space.

https://virtualairwaves.com/

and see their iOS app: https://appsto.re/us/jrj3hb.i
and the web app: https://cb.virtualairwaves.com/channel/1

They have several patents on "3D Audio" style techniques to give distance cues via the signal:

See:

https://patents.google.com/patent/US9730023
There is no best place for a startup. Only a reliable labor pool to grow your business. The bay area has enough new companies so that taking a risk going with a startup does not kill you financially when it goes belly up as most of them do. Therefore the labor pool exists. Other places not so much.
/24 has 7 addresses that return pings from nmap -sn, all have about the same ping as the previous hop on the traceroute so my ping probably isn't reaching space.
Two obvious theories ... pent up demand/renters with savings and jobs are pulling the trigger (to reduce uncertainty in renting/city slickers moving back to cheaper areas). Alternative is people know QE is debasing the currency and people are going for hard assets (stock market is going in the same direction).
AWS has non-virtualized "metal" instances as well. Customer may be be running container workloads on those instances with SMT disabled.
> How big will depend on whether consumers feel comfortable about their jobs+health.

This is a very frightening sentence because obviously not many consumers feel comfortable about either right now.
Oh my bad this one runs on the title bar while the other one on the address bar
Incompatible types error, either at runtime or during compilation depending on the language
Early on in his March press briefings, Trump started mentioning that the drug may show promise and that he was hopeful about it, but people should defer to their physician [0]. It was always qualified, early-on expression of hope for anything really that may lessen the impact (esp. because it's cheap and pervasive).

Trump pointed to doctors publishing reports of how they were using it in China and Korea, amongst others. That regimen, incidentally, seemed to involve a loading dose, followed by about five days, taken in conjunction with azithromycin and zinc. Innocuous, except for extreme edge cases (source: I took HCQ for years and am overly familiar with its health risks, zpacks and zinc speak for themselves). It was suspected (confirmed, I think) that he ended up taking this regimen himself.

Trump may also have known then (as do any of you smart folk) that the odds of a working vaccine for any coronavirus are long, to be generous. So antiviral treatments become pretty important when you know there's probably no vaccine coming. [1]

He also called in a favor to Modi when India (HCQ's primary producer) put a hold on all exports of the drug, and got millions of doses shipped to the US.

So the media treated this recurring talking point as him irresponsibly endorsing the drug and stories started coming out to make it a "gotcha" moment, including the ludicrous story of a retired engineer who drank pool cleaner containing chloroquine phospate, implying he did so only because of Trump's "endorsement" [1]. Further, any story of a retroactive analysis showing inefficacy of HCQ or better - health risks - got an inordinate amount of coverage (inordinate, considering such studies were no better than the evidence promoting it, or made claims of unrealistic health risks).

If you didn't watch the source material of Trump's statements, but relied on new reports, you'd be forgiven for thinking that he has been giving medical treatment advice this whole time and causing deaths from people drinking clorox. It stands to reason, though, that the same sources that pushed Russiagate [3] for years may not be the best authorities on what Trump has or has not said.

[0] https://www.c-span.org/video/?470503-1/president-trump-coron...

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/may/22/why-we-might-n...

[2] https://www.nydailynews.com/coronavirus/ny-coronavirus-no-ho...

[3] https://theintercept.com/2020/05/14/new-documents-from-the-s...
I tried to surf on over to SeatGeek's site to see what they do or sell or whatever but they won't even let you connect if you're using Tor Browser. Ah well, never heard of them before anyway, I'm sure I won't be missing out on much.
Travel insurance did not cover my 2 week vacation I had planned in Florida in May. They would only cover it if I or a family member who was traveling with me was sick. I count myself lucky to have a job that I can do from home. Others have it way worse right now.
I did not say "only".
You could always impact/land violently with it without having to match its trajectory. If your instruments are designed to survive the impact , it could work.
There's numerous factual errors in your frankly disingenuous post.

This article is about H1B's. The H1B is not an entrepreneur visa, and shouldn't be used to start companies in the US.

> A significant amount of the companies providing the jobs

All of the statistics I've seen about immigrants starting tech companies deliberately mispresent their claim by including companies with non-immigrant founders. So if there's 3 founders, with only one being an immigrant, then that's categorized as an "immigrant-founded company."

In reality, companies hire H1Bs primarily on cost. Otherwise, they wouldn't pay extra fees and immigration attorney costs, now would they?
"if you could slingshot around the sun towards relativistic speeds with thermal power"

Unfortunately, no. The boost you can steal from a powered flyby is only of the same order as the escape velocity of the massive object. For the sun, this is 617 km/s at its surface, or 0.002 c. The term you're interested in is "Oberth effect".

To get relativistic speeds on the table, you'd need exotic, compact objects whose escape velocities are relativistic. I.e. white dwarfs, neutron stars & black holes.

No one asked, but: Freeman Dyson pointed out [0] some astounding properties of a short-period white dwarf binary. (Particularly: there are two stars; both are extremely dense; and they are orbiting around each other at an extremely high relative velocity). If you could perform a close slingshot maneuver around one of these stars, you would be accelerated to relativistic speeds in mere seconds. What's more, this would be an entirely unpowered, propellantless manuevuer (stealing orbital momentum from the binary system). And finally, as an incredible example of the equivalence principle, human passengers wouldn't even notice the insane ~10^4 g's of acceleration: it's equivalent to free-fall.

[0] This is a PDF https://www.ifa.hawaii.edu/~barnes/ast242_s14/Dyson_Machines... (1963)
Ask HN: Shouldn't we prepare by making a new mesh network?
I wonder what would happen if the power or just internet went out for a long time, with no cell service. Maybe I should just get CB and Ham radio. But I picture a mesh network that uses GPS coordinates to know how nodes are connected and to route messages in the right direction.

I picture running a solar-powered Android device in my back yard.

Thoughts?
What was specifically wrong? Structural issues or cosmetic. A private house from 1960 that hasn't been renovated since, unless carefully maintained will also look shit on the inside. Look at property that is auctioned in the UK, for example.
I don't think it's meaningful to try to compare them. Is police brutality worse - ok. It's not relevant to the investigation the FBI is looking into.

I also think there may be some suspicions that some violent instigators might be acting at the urging of a foreign government - which is the domain of the FBI.

I think it's reasonable to help them in that effort - while also condemning the police for their role.

The death of ONE MAN, George Floyd, caused mass outrage. If a foreign directed agent is able to instigate a similar tragedy, I think that's very very important to nail down.
How to Onboard Like a Millennial
Looking for feedback on my startup.
Yup, must be that. Couldn't be people just wanting to steal.
It's interesting that the mission control console systems are written in LabView.
It seems that all the frequencies are 10GHz+ which is way past the range of most readily-available SDR dongles... Probably not feasible ATM.
Another end is making it more difficult to flip real estate as a career. But that’s at the buy instead of rent demand side-but they’re totally related and affect each other.

No times been better than post-covid for a desire to branch SV outward. My two cents would be looking at how to employ the people outside SV. Like is it noise about quality of their education or abilities? Not being able to interact with them locally?

I had this thought recently to make a programming “agency”. How to structure an organization that actually works on a programming task comparably to how a 1-3 person team would, but regardless of program complexity. Wonder if this and hiring people to WFH are compatible.
I wonder how many hops it will actually remove. I just tested it, and from my apartment in Mountain View, CA to my VPS in a data center ~20 miles away in Fremont, CA I get 14(!) hops.
Assuming you are referring to the article below, I agree, it's quite interesting and informative.

https://violentmetaphors.com/2013/09/08/an-example-of-how-to...
https://violentmetaphors.com/2013/09/08/an-example-of-how-to...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23383599

It is a demonstration of the author's guide of how to read scientific papers methodically.
These satellites have de-orbit plans after they've served their lifetime use.
Supercuts of police behavior are receiving enormous numbers of views
Original title was wordy. It was:

People Can’t Stop Watching Videos of Police and Protesters. That’s the Idea.

For those who have trouble with the link:

https://web.archive.org/web/20200604011334/https://www.nytim...
How is this a natural experiment? Anarchism isn't just "when there are no police" Obviously looting should be read as exposing underlying ills and unmet needs within society. Like are you suggesting the natural state of people is just to loot and behave completely selfishly? look how many people in just the US riots alone cooperated to form medical stations, to work against police tactics, to make sure protestors had water and snacks etc..
~/Code
~/Code/bin # symlink to ~/Code/for/all/dotfiles/bin,
is in $PATH
~/Code/build # stuff I don't actually write code for
but I do want the repo downloaded
~/Code/for/all # opensource projects
~/Code/for/all/dotfiles # my dotfiles, homedir has symlinks to
here
~/Code/for/me # private projects
~/Code/for/$client # projects for said client
~/Code/for/$client/for/$clientOfClient # projects for said client of client
~/Documents/Personal # symlink to Nextcloud
~/Documents/Personal/$myName
~/Documents/Personal/$myName/1 Income
~/Documents/Personal/$myName/2 Tax deductions
~/Documents/Personal/$myName/3 Housing
~/Documents/Personal/$myName/4 Utilities
~/Documents/Personal/$myName/5 National taxes
~/Documents/Personal/$myName/6 Local taxes
~/Documents/Personal/$myName/7 Healthcare
~/Documents/Personal/$myName/8 Insurance
~/Documents/Personal/$myName/9 Education
~/Documents/Personal/$myName/10 Transportation
~/Documents/Personal/$myName/11 Subscriptions, internet, TV and contributions
~/Documents/Personal/$myName/12 Banking, savings and investments
~/Documents/Personal/$myName/13 Loans
~/Documents/Personal/$myName/14 Retirement
~/Documents/Personal/$myName/15 Receipts, invoices and warranties
~/Documents/Personal/$fianceName # same structure as above for me
~/Documents/Work # symlink to company Google Drive
~/Documents/Work/Assets # any image/video assets etc. provided
to me
~/Documents/Work/Designs # frontend designs not in sketch cloud,
mostly for clients of clients who have
a third party designer
~/Documents/Work/In # documents someone else wrote
no subdirectories here other than
splitting by client, but tags are
heavily used to link a doc to a project
~/Documents/Work/In/$client
~/Documents/Work/In/$client/
~/Documents/Work/In/$client/$clientOfClient
~/Documents/Work/Out # documents I wrote, again no subdirs
~/Documents/Work/Out/$client
~/Documents/Work/Out/$client/$clientOfClient
~/Nextcloud/Application Support # mackup location for things not in the
dotfiles repo
~/Nextcloud/Public # dump directory for shared files

I use Photos.app for my photo's and just organise things in albums.

Passwords are on a bitwarden_rs server and I mostly use the browser clients for
Bitwarden and the Alfred workflow to access them.

Books.app for ebooks but there's no organisation needed there, I just rely on
the search function.

Video's are on my Plex server.

iCloud Drive is just used to store templates for Pages, Numbers and Keynotes.

OneDrive is a tool to transfer things to and from Windows testing machines.

I don't have local music anymore these days.