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>Author doesn't seem to have any love for Starlink. I wonder why the built the site.

from the site
>Impact on earth based telescopes has not been discussed

I am guessing the author wanted to show how they fill up the sky.
Just because the peer-to-peer software known to you may suck does not mean that the concept of peer-to-peer is obsolete. Nevermind Wireguard and other known examples of peer-to-peer software that does not suck, consider that there is software you do not know about. The idea that "peer-to-peer" is Napster plus some list of crappy, widely known software fiddling around with DHTs and dreaming about "the next big thing" is nonsense. Peer-to-peer is just a design principle
The term the parent comment used was "middle man" not man-in-the-middle. As for "E2EE", I have never seen djb even use that term. I see many untrustworthy "tech" companies using it though.
Took me a few days before I could get to it, but this has been fixed now.
For people who don't live or haven't been to the bay area recently: Nobody does the 'what are you pronouns?' as a party icebreaker in the average bay area population. The people who do travel in very, very specific social circles.
> Starlink isn't designed to offer lower latency or lower prices than existing terrestrial wired or wireless ISPs (at least, decent ones). Instead it's designed to offer a low latency wireless service in places where that has never been available at all. Which is most of the land area of the Earth, and all of the ocean.

It is widely believed that a huge chunk of Starlink’s revenue, if not ~all of it, will come from leasing faster-than-currently-available low latency links to HFT companies for nyc-lon and such. This is why their first orbital planes being launched are for the north atlantic and CONUS.

Providing internet to the underserved areas is secondary; the cash will come from beating terrestrial fiber links (even idealized great circle ones) between markets that are already extremely well connected.

One such private low latency link between Seacaucus and LSEG will probably pay 2-5x what everyone else on the planet combined pays for internet access in underserved areas.
The 8088 was an 8086 with half the bus.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_8088
>>> If anyone else had done the same, I have no doubt it'd end the same way.

But isn’t that the problem though? Shouldn’t police only use deadly force in the face of an imminent objectively reasonable deadly threat?

Someone running away from you with a taser doesn’t constitute that threat.

The reason the cop shot was pure ego. Him and his buddy just had their ass handed to them, and now the guy was getting away.
Many people who are not "internet nut-jobs" support violent protest when necessary. we've had many years of "voting to effect change" already, and it hasn't worked! Recall the four boxes of democracy: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. If you get to the ammo box, you can damn well bet there's going to be violence.

In this particular case, I do find some of the violence justified, and I think it has more effect than a simple non-violent protest would. We get to see exactly how police respond when a few thousand dollars worth of property is being damaged versus when they have someone's life in their hands. The police are digging themselves into a hole here, and it's glorious.

That said, we aren't at the point where violence against people is a legitimate form of protest. In self defense, sure, but protesters should not, at this point, be attacking people. Burn down all the Targets, police stations, and cop cars you want. Let it be the cops who do all the violence against people. That's what's actually going to get peoples' attention.
Well, there are no redirects in gopher, although a similar thing can be done, by having a link to the ring menu, and then doing the rest there. The ring menu could be programmed to put two asterisks next to the active item, so that you can easily see where is next one and previous one. Some item could denote it as a ring menu, so that client software that supports it can display it in an alternative way if the user has enabled that function.
I don’t mean to pick on you personally, but what a stupid argument that is.

How is more pixels and more legible text not strictly better than lower resolution monitors?

It’s like preferring 10 DPI mice to the modern 1000+ DPI ones, saying that PCIe 4x was better than 8x or actively disliking a modern DSL connection compared to a 56k dialup.

Yours is just an idiotic stance to feel superior than everybody else.
Eustress, that's a new one. I thought that was called hormesis.
No plasma donors. Old plasma is replaced with saline and albumin.
I also hated memorizing openings. I did it, years ago when I was a middling level chess player and played in tourneys, like everyone else, because of the time pressure from the chess clock. Nobody could afford being stumped 4-6 moves in, pondering what to do, when you had a better chance arriving to the mid-game with a non-terrible position. Burning too much time here meant you'd lose on time.

I was not good enough to play an unknown variant and come out better, as you were!

So over time I drifted to variants like bughouse or speed chess variants, to play for fun and not feel like it was studying or being constrained by the standard moves.

And then boardgames took over; for me personally I need to have a mix of luck and skill in a game to enjoy it.
That's completely unrelated to what I wrote. I was suggesting that opiates themselves aren't the problem and that we shouldn't persecute their use.

(Also Purdue wasn't prescribing anything. They're a drug manufacturer not a clinical practice.)
Some things I’ve observed about families I know who seem to have suburban life figured out:

- regular (meaning periodic) physical activity is essential, for the adults and kids. Sports leagues, gym classes, whatever. If you’re not into sportsy physical activity, you need a physical hobby like woodworking, gardening, or literally anything to get your blood flowing

- your weekly schedule looks totally different as the seasons change. Skiing in winter, hiking and camping in the fall, beach vacationing in the summer, etc

- regular domestic vacations to escape the boredom, and to make you long for home.

- regular home improvement, to make your life in your house 1% better every month

- regular visits with nearby close friends and family. At least one visit to a close relation every two weeks. Non negotiable, and ideally tied to holidays

- overdo your holidays. Birthdays are huge, winter holiday (Christmas etc) is huge. Thanksgiving is huge. It has nothing to do with the meaning of the holiday and everything to do with getting people together.

These kinds of things are less achievable in the city because you have less money, less space, less autonomy. Just my observations from happy suburban families, I’m curious to see others’ notes.
Wow, that seems really messy. If you're just after the API key or whatever, wouldn't reversing the Android app be simpler? As far as I know, you can't do all these low-level tricks on the Java platform.
Snapchat acquired Strong Codes in 2017. Before the acquisition they used Strong Codes compiler for obfuscation.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-07-21/snap-hire...
Could you elaborate a bit more? What were the differences between transformer adversarial examples and cnn adversarial examples?
Justifying lethal force against people running away astounds me.

It’s one thing if you’re running away with nuclear launch codes, but I’m skeptical that was the case here.
I don't know what the actual charges are, I can't seem to find a copy of the criminal complaint. But the DOJ press release included:

"If convicted, the defendant faces a maximum possible sentence of eighty years in prison, followed by three years of supervised release, and a fine of up to $500,000."

She might be charged with terrorism crimes, but either way it looks bad for her. At least a felony - even without prison time that will sting.
This is the right call, once you realize that the article buries the lede - this only happens when the phone contents are deemed relevant to the investigation.

If a complaining witness refuses to cooperate in an investigation by handing over relevant information, it would be inappropriate for the government to proceed toward a prosecution.

In the United States, there is case law requiring the prosecution to turn over exculpatory material known to the government. In my jurisdiction, that specifically includes the existence of relevant exculpatory material held by a complaining witness.

The fact that the only person capable of providing that evidence refuses to do so allows the drawing of an adverse inference, which means it's presumptively exculpatory. Refusal to turn over exculpatory evidence is per se a violation of the defendant's rights.

Sexual assaults of all kinds are horrific, and we should generally do a better job investigating and prosecuting them, but not at the expense of basic due process rights. Everyone deserves a fair trial.
Have lived and worked in Manhattan for years, and this is an exaggeration. Retail vacancy rate is more like 12-15% in Manhattan, and lower than that city-wide. It’s a problem, but Manhattan was in no way a “ghost town” with half the stores empty before the pandemic.
The police department receives federal funding. It's mentioned in the affidavit.
While you normally don't regard it as a bracketing we also use "", '' and `` to bracket things.

In Perl / / was used to bracket regrexs in C and many C languages /* */ is used to bracket comments.
I agree, I think from a visual perspective the type declarations blend in with the rest of the type/function signature. I'm curious how quickly I'll get used to it.
This is actually a rather bad time to buy a high-end monitor because if you get one right now it will likely be outdated by the end of the year.

If you want a monitor that can do all of the cool things at once (2160p, hdr, 120Hz+, freesync) without using hacks like dual cables or realtime lossy compression, then you need both a video card and a monitor that support hdmi 2.1 or displayport 2.0.

Currently there are very few monitors that support the newer hdmi/dp standard, and there are no video cards that do. However both of the new consoles scheduled to be released later this year (xbox series x, ps5) will support hdmi 2.1. This also implies that upcoming discrete gpus will support this as well.

This means if you want a monitor that can do everything, right now there are only a tiny number of screens, and no video cards. Barring any delays, the situation should be very different in a few months.
None of that is how anti-trust works.
Maybe you just chose a bad suburb (and maybe the city haters chose a bad part of the city or a bad city)

I grew up in the suburbs. I loved we had a 2 car garage with tools. My dad had a radial saw and built all kinds of stuff. We ran a neighborhood haunted house in it. We also had a pool in the backyard, all our friends came over often. We had a 20x30ft family room that was build to be sound proof so my dad could practice drum playing. It was at the far opposite side of the house from my parents bedroom and they let us use it for slumber parties often. There was a collection of hobby stores a few minutes away by bike. One neighbor had a small farm in his backyard with 4 fruit trees and various stuff in between. I loved all the neighbors. One had a go-kart that we would ride from time to time. My parents entertained often including an 80person new years eve party every other year. Could walk or ride our bikes to school where we launched model rockets and watched people fly radio controlled gliders.

That said I'm not dissing the city. I can't really imagine what its like to be in NYC as a kid but many European cities seem like great places for both adults and kids.
Blood donors?
I guess "broadened" could be interpreted two ways. I don't mean the numbers grew. I mean that userbase came to incorporate new, different types of users.
You don't care about mathematics in the sense that the word describes what mathematicians do, then. You care about physics. There's a distinct difference. Mathematics predicts nothing; it simply illuminates what is already there.
I'm going to get in trouble for saying this too often but why do Americans persistently complain about lobbying until an election when they suddenly forget that and instead vote for whoever from their favorite party spends the most money, much of which came from lobbyists? If you don't want lobbying, then stop voting for it!

I know people have a mindset of wanting to be on the winning team and not waste their vote on somebody who can't possibly win because they didn't spend enough money, but if that's really more important to you than lobbying, then stop complaining - you're getting what you want at the expense of something you want less. Maybe you can't have your cake and eat it too in this situation.
I think you mean rent control, not prop 13.

Anyhow this commenter sounds like they know what they're talking about and are saying that landlords in SF cannot beat rent control in this manner: https://socketsite.com/archives/2020/06/complimentary-rent-o...
No, but it would have to violate federal laws. Most crimes are crimes under state law. For example murder is illegal under state laws[1], it only falls under federal jurisdiction under certain circumstances, like if it is on federal property of involves from federal employees.

Sometimes when states fail to prosecute, or fail to get a conviction, the Feds will prosecute. But the original crime might not be a federal crime, so they prosecute under something else (there are ~3000 federal laws to choose from).

For example, sometimes when police kill citizens, and DAs don't prosecute, the Feds will. But the murder isn't in federal jurisdiction, so they charge them with "color of law"[2][3], which is a federal crime.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_(United_States_law)#Jur...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_(law)

[4] https://www.justice.gov/crt/deprivation-rights-under-color-l...
Awesome. Works great!
The orbital planes top parts are all up there at high latitudes. The circle you are seeing is actually made up of several different orbital planes that swoop down toward/past the equator and then up/down to 60 degrees N/S.

Seeing them move will make it clearer.

Here’s an awesome visual explanation with a ton of other cool info:

https://youtu.be/m05abdGSOxY
Acting Art
> the Minister said that [some of] the imported foods into Rwanda are preserved using nuclear technology

Huh, anyone knows what this is referring to?
When Android apps can freely draw over other apps without warning, privacy permissions feel almost like security-theater.
It'd be super not efficient...

Also, nobody wants a figure-8 demolition derby in space...
Men can't... unless they donate whole blood regularly, which is a pretty easy way to reduce iron load.

(And, in fact, donating blood regularly or even more often than usually recommended is the standard treatment for hemochromatosis, an inherited condition where too much iron is retained.)
lol, no. they just looked at the t-shirt she was wearing in the videos, found where the t-shirt was sold, saw a review which said they were in philadelphia, googled the username of the reviewer, and eventually found the place they worked

actually investigative work

no subpoena's, no user profile aggregators

its the most acceptable use of public resources and is hardly news in 2020 but its nice to read that public servants will do some basic stuff like this.
It depends on whether or not you view "oops, that shouldn't be nil right now" as a categorically different problem than "oops, this integer shouldn't be greater than 10 right now" problems. Or "oops, this array shouldn't have an odd number of elements right now" problems.

Yes, it's nice to have the type system catch problems. And yes, in the context of memory-unsafe languages null or wild pointers are a big problem. But I've found that you'd need a combinatoric explosion of data constructors and abstract interfaces to enforce the interesting invariants of my programs. A nil pointer (which panics at runtime with a good stack trace!) tends to be among the easiest problems I have to solve when my programs violate invariants.

I'm not arguing that sum-types are a bad idea. Only that dependent products (with or without enforcement, static or dynamic) are an under appreciated technique. Sum-types are really just one special case of dependent products.
https://xx.reddit.com/r/AskNYC/comments/h9nzrg/my_landlord_i...
An earlier smaller-scale version of that enthusiasm was visible during the Howard Dean campaign, which was considered the first Internet-centric or at least Internet-adept major party presidential campaign in the U.S.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Dean_2004_presidential_...

This was said to have disintermediated the connection between the candidate and the public, which, at the time, the press generally admired. While Dean apparently pioneered the idea of this direct connection through the Internet, he wasn't credited with the database and psychology expertise that Wired attributed to the Obama campaign four years later.
Is It Dark Matter? Mystery Signal Goes 'Bump' in the Most Sensitive Detector
they went to a seller of it on etsy
I graduated 4 years ago, and I never put my linkedin on my resume (actually deleted it a few years ago) and was never asked about it (nor was I ever turned down from an interview).

> Plus every career counselor I've seen has suggested it.

They're probably right, if your goal is to get a job as a career counselor.
Another conclusion I disagree with is the author's insistence on only using integer scaling multipliers. The article talks about subpixel rendering and then mostly ignores that for the rest of the article, instead assuming pixels are all small black squares (which it isn't - "pixel density" isn't a particularly meaningful term when you're dealing with clarity on modern screens). IIRC, macOS renders text on a higher-resolution internal framebuffer and scales down, anyway; in practice I don't notice any difference in clarity on my MacBook screen whether running at an integer or non-integer scale of the native resolution.
https://www.fda.gov/food/buy-store-serve-safe-food/food-irra....

Kills the bugs
It looks like many Americans do now.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23424245
Fewer potential users in the near-polar regions,
so the orbits are angled & aligned like wrapping
a ball of twine, while polar coverage would require
multiple tracks in north-south orbits.

edit: more answers at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23556843
I’m led to believe that the CIA is run like Equifax but I can't shake the feeling that this is all a smokescreen.
I believe that Web 2.0 / whole user generated content thing was kinda mistake, or maybe "we" (or actually you, oldas) weren't prepared for its consequences.

Not in the first years of its existence, but in last like 10 years.

Yes, I'm aware that HN's like that, but if the price for fixing that whole mess is this small, then go ahead.
Maybe not murder with impunity, but imprison with impunity. Which is pretty bad when you consider how privately run prisons factor in.

> “You want to know what this was really all about,” Ehrlichman, who died in 1999, said, referring to Nixon’s declaration of war on drugs. “The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and black people. You understand what I’m saying. We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did.

A country that is supposedly about freedom finds reasons to keep people in prisons. Imprisoning people for things like possession of marijuana (while we over-prescribe opiates) is unbelievably cruel.

[0]: https://www.drugpolicy.org/press-release/2016/03/top-adviser...
You can adjust your public profile to only expose the minimal details and have the recruiter connect to you for anything more. I agree it would be great if LinkedIn had a way to have a purely private profile that is only shared on demand, viewable with a key or something for a restricted period.

But yeah, it does not solve the problem of social pressure where you could be considered as less reliable or trustworthy if you don't have a public profile with many details.
The thing that always gets left out here is that you can just show up to court and ask for your property back, and 99 times out of 100, the judge will give it to you - because it's still up to the state to demonstrate that the property was the proceeds of a crime.

...but 99 times out of 100, the property owner doesn't show up to court.
Like I often see, it is readable if you disable CSS too.
Yesterday there was a Show HN about a purely client-side (?) implementation of Shamir's secret sharing algorithm.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23541949

https://github.com/simonfrey/s4

Additional references from the app's About page.

- What is Key Sharding? Shamir’s Secret Sharing Explained (Easy) https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/TQ-DsEZBuQY

- Shamir's Secret Sharing - Solution and alternative to Lagrange (More in-depth) https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/rWPZoz0aux4
That or they're just running fridges with nuclear power ;)
> Physical link training and negotiation

That still shouldn't take that long, though, should it? 3s sounds like some O(N^2) process is happening.

Keep in mind that this stuff is happening close to the metal, on a nowadays-unshared medium (no Ethernet hubs around any more), with negligible speed-of-light delays because the nearest switch is probably ~100ft away at most. If some high-level protocol like Steam Link can have no perceivable latency, then certainly PHY negotiation shouldn't.

My naive guess would be that the medium is speed-tested in order, first seeing if it works at 1Mbps, then 10Mbps, then 100Mbps, and finally 1Gbps; and alternating in the crossover-cable versions of those tests; satisficing with the last-achieved line rate when the next up-clocking fails.

If that's the case, then I have a feeling that modern hardware could get a bit of an advantage just from doing things in the opposite order: 1. optimistically assuming everything is set up for 1Gbps, and then, if not, ratcheting down the link-speed until the link starts working; and 2. only doing the crossover-cable tests after all the non-crossover tests fail.

You'd still have the same worst-case performance (3s) as before, but now that worst-case would be for old 1Mbps crossover cables: not a common case!
Many HOAs have rules that require children under the age of 13 to be supervised by an adult when outside the home.

Technically this is policy and not law but you could rack up huge fines if you do not supervise your kids. Often times parents trade off and coordinate but it’s still a hassle.
Fans don't think Netflix's Space Force as bad as reviews say
just use PyTorch, it’s generally going to be the nicest.

TF2 is much nicer than TF1 but most of the changes were just to make it more like PyTorch.
Huh. Does that apply to WASM too or just to binding from Node?
Who Are Boogaloo Bois, Antifa and Proud Boys?
Apples App Store policies are bad – its interpretation and enforcement are worse
1. Some move into management as they progress in their career.

2. Data collection could be misclassifying people we typically think of as "programmers" and they're not being counted due to job title being "software engineer".