skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Saw this outsode the wilderness plenty of times as well. Hiking back down from half dome. At 5pm, miles from the summit groups in flip flops and a small water bottle, clearly exhausted and not sure what they were in for, asking if the were close. Nope, turn around folks and enjoy your walk.
Starlink is saying they're shooting for below 20ms but there's been no verification of that... not clear if Starlink has even hit that target yet. They're pretty tight lipped about everything a this point.
People who buy IPO's, and to a lesser extent, pick stocks, help fund that, but buying the index simply rewards companies that made it into the index and makes it harder to devalue under-performers. As with any statistically large index, some of the companies in the index will be correctly boosted by your capital, while others will be incorrectly so.

My point is not so much to decry index investing as evil as to point out the irony of index investors complaining about more productive forms of market participation.
Use a generic JS blocker. It protects you from workarounds and zero days.
> Self consciousness is an interesting problem. I prefer seeing faces on the screen during the stand-up (such as it is in the days of COVID), but I was told many hesitate to be on camera.

Getting people to turn on their cameras has always seemed to be a challenge in my experience, but it does seem contagious, once a few people do, everyone starts to over time.

It makes a huge difference to see peoples faces over talking into a void. I think empathy is a bit part of it.
Keep in mind that almost everything that is free is because you will be its product.
FWIW search and rescue in most of the US (and, I think, Canada) is volunteer-based and funded mostly by donations from the community. Some areas have laws that allow for them to recover rescue costs from people found to be in some way negligent. Even the most notorious of these areas (New Hampshire) doesn't tend to charge exorbitant amounts of money.

This is overall a really good system and the volunteers love doing it and are happy to do it. It struggles a little bit in areas with communities that can't afford to donate much to a SAR team.
That's the difference between a credit card and debit card. If a scammer drains your credit card, you won't be able to buy anything on that card, but the money is still in your bank account. You also have a grace period of around 2-3 weeks to pay it back, so you don't even accrue interest. If a scammer drains your debit card (aka bank card), then you've essentially lost access to all the money in the account. Resolving that could take days/weeks, which will be a problem if you need to pay bills or buy food/gas.
This is also called Total Least Squares -- IIRC it was developed for use when you have measurement error in X (least squares assumes no measurement error in X, all error is in Y).
Internet deserts can change drastically from block to block.

It's not an environmental thing that gets transferred by geography so comparing the commute distance doesn't make sense. More accurate correlation would be household income in the neighborhoods there is lack of Internet.
Newfoundland & Labrador aren't fans of Quebec Power:
https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/top-court-upholds-hydro-quebec...
Here in Vancouver, we're really close (15 minute drive for a lot of people) to dangerous mountainous terrain that is really popular with inexperienced hikers and so generate a high volume of search and rescue calls.

The S&R folks are really adamant that they do not want to charge end-users for rescues, because that means that people will wait longer before calling them, resulting in more deaths and even higher overall costs because the rescues become more complicated.
I personally would love VR/AR glasses that I could keep attached and do everything on. Phone, CLI, PowerPoint, web browser, unlimited monitor space, Netflix, Xbox, etc.

I know the pixel density isn’t there yet but I don’t want different screens. The AR/VR would be the “single good display” you’re looking for. I want glasses I can use for literally everything I need a screen for.
I agree with you partially. I found something interesting, with this everyone work from home: I'm able to communicate with certain people more effectively via zoom.

I think it boils down to with zoom, you are literally in someone's face, and it's very obvious when you aren't fully focused on them.

Perhaps the new way, with zoom, gave some people an opportunity to reset their manners? Not clear what the real reason behind it is, but I noticed it immediately.

What a great bonus it was.
> Turns out that a cop on their own is more conservative.

They are? It's plausible to me that a cop on their own is more scared and more likely to take drastic action if they feel threatened.
It's a little more nuanced. Yes Bell and Rogers have a duopoly but they are also required to sell network access at a regulated wholesale rate to other ISPs (Teksavvy, start.ca, etc as Ontario examples). It's kind of a weird setup, but you can read more about it here.
https://www.google.com/search?q=The+CRTC+requires+telephone+....

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The CRTC requires telephone and cable companies to sell access to their networks to independent Internet service providers (ISPs) at regulated wholesale prices.
https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-difference-between-control...
> but it does help prevent them from turning other people into bigots

This is the same as saying "I can't logically defeat their points so I will use underhanded censorship tricks". I would not care so much if it was only about actually bigoted things but it seems to include everything that goes against what the average SV google engineer believes.

At the same time you are punishing these that are interested in seeing what the censored side thinks as well as the points against it.
actually not the case that all came from a single ancestor. there's two separate prokaryote lines, archaea and bacteria. they share some things in common so might have had some primitive pre-cell RNA-world thing in common... but their chemistry is different from each other. also we'd never know, since prokaryotes swap genes freely.. they don't have sex, they just laterally transfer genes all over... even between bacteria and archaea ... so you can't draw a family tree...

and they also (early in life's history) modified the environment such that the exact chemistry that might taken place in the alkaline vents can't happen anymore... the ocean has become less acidic as a result of oxygen production
>I know a lot of people wishing for competitive options to disconnect themselves from Rogers/Bell/Telus and would see this as something compelling.

They wouldn't when they realise that it is a cheaper alternative to existing satellite internet services, not cable internet. Also that it would have reception issues in urban and suburban areas which is why they are targeting rural areas.
If a service takes a credit card with no fee, though, I always use that. Earn that cash back for free!
> Prime example is the Apple Watch... who "wears" it now? Sports people...

Two years ago I was on vacation in Hawaii and took a whale watching / snorkel tour. I was the only person on the boat not wearing an Apple Watch. They are pretty much ubiquitous, like the iPhone, among an upper middle class demographic.
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>Why will non remote Canadians get excited about high speed internet? They already have that.

They do? I live in northern New England an hour so from the border and have some Canadian friends who complain that they have at best the same sort of mediocre 5-10/1-2 ADSL I did up until a year or two ago when fiber became available. They refer to their phone company as "the Jolly Roger" with all said connotations. Looking at this Canadian National Broadband Internet Service Availability Map seems to back that up too:

https://www.ic.gc.ca/app/sitt/bbmap/hm.html?lang=eng

Looks like even 50/10 let alone anything better has pretty minimal penetration, with a lot on really mediocre speeds providing wider areas. Even before sat<>sat optical, Starlink has potential to do a lot better for a lot more people. And once density gets good enough with sat<>sat links, Starlink may flat out offer better latency to remote parts of the world then existing connections thanks to the 40% speed benefit of c in a vaccum/air vs non-photonic bandgap fiber and a more point-to-point topology. That won't matter to everyone but it may be very valuable to certain remote workers.
Plugging the site I just created that shows current (live) starlink coverage: https://droid.cafe/starlink

As a Canadian I'm pretty excited about the potential for good internet outside of the cities and well beaten paths.
Given what has played out in the last 6 months, I would say a hefty chunk of money should go towards studying emerging infectious diseases, vaccine development and anti-viral drugs.
Just curious, how does the quality/speed of service of a wireless ISP compare to a wired or satellite connection? Somewhere in between, I'd imagine?
My point has nothing to do with being offended or with section 230. The point is: if Twitter is labeling something as "manipulated content" (implying an earnest attempt deceive) when the content is in fact satire, then Twitter is itself making misleading claims.

It's like when Snopes was "fact-checking" the Babylon Bee (a satirical news website). They initially labeled some of their articles as false, but then re-labeled it more appropriately as satire after receiving push-back.[1]

I'm not even saying Twitter should be sued here. But Twitter is now engaged in speech of their own, rather than just moderating a platform for other peoples' speech.

[1]https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/georgia-lawmaker-go-back-c...
That is why they are suggesting a credit card and not a debit card. A credit card is just that; credit.
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No, a paraphrase bears a burden of being better than the original in some way, otherwise just link to the original. Brevity is usually the default improvement being sought, but ideally there would also be honesty, or maybe even, dare we hope, eloquence - perhaps the use of some kind of metaphor or other dimension that makes clear the meaning of the original in a way that's better than the original itself. Translating into young-person conformist speech patterns like "nah" and "fuck that" doesn't count, because everybody already understands Apple's non-hip way of saying it. And then it turns suddenly from hip and nowish, to talking about sucking eggs, which hasn't been uttered since everybody's grandparents gave up poultry farming and moved to the city after the war. That's the clue that it's a disingenuous characterization of the original, which tends to be the case almost every time anyone says "So basically you're saying..." on the internet. Maybe this was an attempt at satire and I just got whooshed?

On the plus side the paraphrase did achieve brevity, and clarity (at least when compared to Apple's sugarcoating and contortion).
Sure. It matters, I'm guessing because the design prohibits larger calibers due to the physics of how it works.

>Rimfire ammo is limited to smaller calibers since the cartridge walls need to be thin enough to be able to be crushed by the firing pin and ignite the primer.

> The downside?

> Well, the nature of the casing means it’s pretty much limited to small calibers. You have to have some relatively flimsy brass to handle the rimfire set up. As a result, the powder necessary to propel a larger bullet would blow the brass apart.[1]

Correct about the buffer tube. So even if you installed a folding stock on an AR-15, it require some proprietary buffer tube to work like this one.[2]

[1] https://www.pewpewtactical.com/rimfire-vs-centerfire-ammunit...

[2] https://youtu.be/_qr2GTq3v3w
>If we aren't on earth to discover something greater than ourselves, what purpose do we have?

This almost sounds like the secular version of the tower of babel. The point of building scientific instruments ought not to be the worship of science as some sort of ritualistic activity.

We (ideally) engage in science to maximize human knowledge and insight, not to just build a utopia or the 2001 monolith.
The problem I have with it is this part of your statement:

> And it's not like we couldn't stop them: who was flying that giant plane? Who were those guys releasing these swarms from the van? Where did they buy these drones? Where did they get the explosives? Just like many other threats, we'd track them down.

I think that might not be true. Sure, the slaughterbots video showed a swarm released from a van with operators present. Seems like somebody might notice. But it's easy to imagine a scenario where the operators leave the drones in some out-of-the way place, inactive, without arousing suspicion, and they activate on a timer to carry out their mission. How would you track down who committed the act?

A bomb can go off on a delay, but requires the killer to go to the target site to place it. A gun can kill from a great distance, but only with line of sight, the killer needs to be involved at the time of the shot, and even with a silencer it makes a fairly loud noise, drawing attention from those near the shooter. The fictional-for-now slaughterbots scenario would enable killing people at an event without ever going to the event site, without even being in the same city at the time of the event, and at low cost.

Remember the scramble to identify and track down the Boston marathon bombers? They attended the race, set down bags with bombs in them, and then left. Fortunately they were both caught on camera and positively identified by surviving victims. What if they didn't have to go to the race at all, but instead went a week before to an abandoned building, inactive construction site, etc and set the hypothetical slaughterbots in place, set to launch later? Would they ever be caught?

The combination of low cost, low skill needed by the deployment crew, and low risk of being caught (with corresponding deniability by state actors) is the frightening thing.

The other end of it is that you could catch somebody if you had near universal surveillance -- you trace the drones back to their launch site based on reports/footage of them flying midair, and you pull footage from cameras that were watching there too. Or you stop it before it happens with massive data collection online, trying to detect the planning, discussion, or purchasing of equipment. Neither is going to be 100% effective but they'll be enough to get bills passed authorizing more surveillance after a couple attacks.

So you could have a situation where terror attacks happen more frequently, or a situation where everybody is subject to a surveillance state granted even more power than the one we have today, or a little from both columns. Not thrilled about that.

Obviously the tech is not there yet for the bots to execute attacks with autonomy like depicted in the video. But it seems very possible within this century.
Sending checks isn't really any different, since the checks contain the same information that you would provide the company to draw from the account. Even the one additional safeguard checks used to have, that they have to clear through the banking system so there's a paper trail, often doesn't apply any more since many companies will now process the check as an ACH transaction instead of a paper check transaction, the same as they would if they were drawing directly from your account.
It seems to me there is some price arbitrage opportunity for a 3rd party who can figure out how to get affiliate payments.

If the app developer can't advertise that one of their store options is cheaper, a 3rd party isn't limited by the same contractual obligation.
> There will surely be several interesting engineering spinoffs and such.

Just like military R&D. So what's the point of the comparison?
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I have a relevant anecdote for this!

I was placed into the "gifted" program in the 1st grade of elementary school and told for many years that I was somehow special or "very" intelligent.

I never believed them, of course, because of two observations:

1. The adults who were telling me this did a lot of stupid stuff, which undermined the credibility of their claims.

2. Despite their best efforts to insulate us from the normal students, I knew people my age outside of the gifted program who were as clever -- if not even more so -- than my so-called "gifted" peers.

As an adult, I'm glad I never bought their hype. It's a one-way high-speed trip to narcissism, laziness, entitlement, and creepiness.
U.S. science groups wary of new Senate bills to curb foreign influences
Interesting, can you elaborate?
Wow, teach me how! I pay $67 for 13GB data and $60 for 40mpbs at home in Montreal. Which province?
On the other hand, adding a 10 Ohm resistor in series with another 10 Ohm resistor gives you a total resistance of 20 Ohm, just as one would expect.
Once someone in the village gets it he will tell everyone
Streaming services have shown that BitTorrent is practical for streaming in some setup too
That defeats the purpose of having all these things on autopay for me.
This is such an arrogant and narrow minded attitude that's strangely popular. Just because they happen to encounter more people in trouble than most of us, doesn't mean those people don't deserve help.

Imagine seeing a homeless person begging in the street and getting angry because he wants your help when he should have just not made all those "stupid" "unprepared" decisions that led to it. Or imagine someone having a heart attack and getting angry because they should have had a better diet and exercise throughout their life - it's their own stupid fault that they're dying and why should I bother helping them. Or a suicidal person - just get a therapist or stop thinking those stupid thoughts that make your problem worse. Almost all causes of death are preventable or at least delay-able. Most of us will die earlier than we could have because of our own unnecessary pleasure-seeking actions.
I see a lot of convoluted CSS things like this. Is there not much awareness of SVG in the webdev community, or is there some other reason people don't want to use it?
“Why this project updated yesterday and not the project last updated 3 years ago?”

Unless you mean a different one since you didn’t link source
Indeed. Our legal bureaucracy is not built to empower the common man.
Then, I would have to manually initiate a payment, since the amount varies, which defeats the purpose of autopay.
Hey, this is politics, not philosophy. Those philosophical arguments will affect the politics in... maybe 30 to 70 years? Of course, by then the philosophical arguments will have moved on...
If they've started with orbits over Canada, what other countries can they serve with the same satellites?

My great circle skills are lacking, and looking at a globe it seems like a lot of water for the rest of the orbit.
This is a must read if you're working with hex grids: https://www.redblobgames.com/grids/hexagons/
Oh man, I hear you. The amount of sad encounters (especially lately) that I've had as a result of people not understanding what I'm saying because they don't actually read what I wrote are enraging. I almost quit one client over it because their IT guy is the worst. He will decide ahead of time what your email probably says, and that's what he reads into it even if I wrote the opposite.

I try to blame myself first for poor communication, but I asked some mostly independent people to help mediate and they basically came back and told him to read better and review past messages if he couldn't properly remember the context.
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Broken clock is right twice a day.
I would like to see this where each edge is also uniquely addressable.
I've never had a problem with fraudulent debit charges being covered by a bank even though it's not required. The detection is the same as used for CCs and the card gets shut down immediately in most cases, even for legitimate charges outside your consumer profile.
Thanks! I'm the director of ALLFED. dcolkitt, if we knew we had 10 years, it would be possible to store up 10 years worth of food. However, the catastrophe could come sooner, it would cost tens of trillions of dollars, and it would inflate the price of food significantly, exacerbating current malnutrition. Whereas getting prepared to scale up alternative foods quickly would only cost around $100 million: https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007%2Fs13753-016-0...
I would look up the Arian Controversy before asserting there was no religious fanaticism. There were many such disputes in the late empire, some attended by considerable bloodshed.
Ask HN: Who needs help with your open-source project?
While looking for a project to contribute to, I thought about creating a thread similar to "Who is hiring?" but for requests for help from open source projects.

So, if you are part of an open-source project looking for contributors, please post below.

A suggestion for the post format...

Name of the project:

Site/repo link:

Tech/languages:

Expected level of proficiency in the stack: ("novice", "intermediate", "advanced", or "expert")

Help needed:

Best way to contribute:

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> I wish we had nationalized the internet providers a while ago

I don't want to see the actual ISPs become government-run, just the local fiber between users and the nearest meet-me room. Let people have a choice of who lights up that fiber, and what bandwidth and services they want, but make it possible for anyone to compete without trenching their own fiber. (And, closely related, make sure every new development has not just conduit but fiber through that conduit for every home.)
"Millions for defense, but not one cent for tribute." -- Robert Goodloe Harper
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The remote areas you refer to are a small fraction of the population compared to the GTA (greater Toronto area.) Should a highly visible revenue-oriented corporation really aim to improve connectivity out in the boonies?
> but it does help prevent them from turning other people into bigots.

Except that it doesn't. If anything, it's a lot easier to play the "redpill normies" game when you don't even _have_ to phrase your arguments clearly and logically, because censorship gives you plausible deniability. Innuendo, Straussian irony, dog-whistling etc. etc. become the name of the game, and the most truthful, open and pro-social ideas are put at a serious disadvantage.

> A huge number of people have fallen into terrible thought patterns after being exposed to these ideas through youtubers and faux academics.

Maybe, but surely you would agree that there is a useful middle ground between sites like YT which actively promote the most outlandish and click-bait ideas (flat earth, conspiracy theories, discredited urban legends etc.) in the name of "engagement", vs. government-mandated censorship.