skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It will end because many people derive a good portion of their day-to-day socialization from work. This is especially true of people new to cities, younger folks without immediate family in the area, and so on.

Here's why I'll head back to the office the first chance I get:

1. I don't want to live my entire life within a 750 square foot allotment.

2. I find my ability to balance work and life enhanced by going somewhere to work. The physical separation between the two creates a mental / emotional separation.

3. Socializing with a bunch of people.

4. Enhanced impact: much of the truly innovative and impactful stuff I've done in my career originated from ad-hoc conversations with people around me. It's not the same over Slack.

5. Someone on my team announced on Friday they were leaving the team and expressed how much they enjoyed working with us over the last 6 months. My immediate reaction was... wait, we worked together? for 6 months? I don't really know who you are. The only people I actually feel connected to at work are the ones I worked with before this madness kicked off.

Humans are fundamentally social animals. That's why it will end.

As for when? Once herd immunity is established, either the American way by throwing old folks and the immunocompromised under the bus until nobody's left, or a vaccine, which will likely be available in global quantities by EOY 2021 -- according to manufacturers in late-stage trials. That's when it will end.

IMO, of course.
Thanks for the data points :)

I think something to consider here is that there is an iterative development process taking place with the satellites. Given the stated lifespan of the satellites is 3-4 years, they likely expect to see additional innovation over time and are gambling that the network will be improved over time, and may one day actually be capable of serving urban areas.

This seems like a wise approach and appears to work well for both SpaceX and Tesla.

The most viable use case in the near term is clearly to serve remote and rural areas which is admittedly a small market. There is a chance you might see governments subsidize service to rural areas that are underserved. I also imagine there will be a number of marine and aviation customers - though that's likely even smaller than the rural market.

But yeah, I'm not one of the people who will claim it will serve urban markets any time soon... That's rediculous - as rediculous as saying Tesla will achieve level 5 autonomous driving this decade
It's important to remember that the root issue is not Apple's profit margin, it's Apple's refusal to allow users to install the apps they wish to install on phones that they've legally purchased.

The margin, if it is indeed very high—and common sense says it must be very high—is just an indicator of how much power this control gets them and what the degree of harm might be.
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My problem with this is the assertion that failure == not making a profit. For the OP, yes, if your goal is to make money off your code then writing free software is pretty prone to failure on that front.

Free software is philanthropy. Even if you somehow are getting paid to write it, it cannot be done for profit. If your objective is revenue discarding the burgeoning international IP regime as a source of income is foolhardy.

That being said, software for profit is hugely contrary to software that is used. Its infinitely harder to see anyone else use your code and you must always be cognizant that your proprietary for sale code is always going to see orders of magnitude less utility and adoption than free code.

So when you write software from day one the objective is going to be to either maximize money or maximize utility. They are contrary to one another. Some would argue that making money == ability to do more work == more utility but no amount of time invested into software used by a few will compare to less software being used by orders of magnitude more people.

And there is also no guarantee of success. Its why proprietary, popular software exists. Making a proprietary or free product does not guarantee money or use. But depending on which you want going for one will hugely limit your ability to obtain the other.

This axis also comes up in free software itself between permissive vs restrictive licensing. If your code is MIT / BSD / Apache / etc you will almost certainly never make money from it. Anyone can just use it however they want with no restrictions and will do so. It will maximize its utilization with no regard for the ethics or objectives of said use.

If you license it restrictively, IE GPL or CC-SA, you will reduce your potential adoption audience to not include those that want to distribute it in propriety without providing their users the same freedoms they got from you. This can, however, be the same exchange of utility vs money, or, more often, time. Infectious free software propagates slowly but does cause the general amount of freeness to increase through permeation. It also lets you sell licenses for proprietary use and is one of the only major ways to monetize free software consistently, see Qt.
Table stakes for a civil society:

Clean water, fighting fires, drivable roads, edible food, reliable electricity, safety net for the poor elderly and infirm...

And delivering the mail.

And running the elections.

How did we get to this point in history where any of this is up for discussion?
Some of these are better to outsource than others. Mail probably needs more active upkeep, but you could more easily block links to reduce spear phishing if you were running it yourself. Expense tracking needs detailed knowledge of accounting to ensure only proper expenses are approved (possibly by an outside consultant) I don't even know if there are low cost software options here. HR systems (includes payroll?) is also specialized and high effort and not core competency.

I've got opinions on collaboration software (why not put text files in git), but ignoring that, I don't really want to run a wiki, so sure, maybe your email provider offers something anyway.

> And what happens when that one server goes down or becomes overloaded?

You fix it? Same like when production breaks; hopefully you have people who can fix production, hopefully you monitor your important tools. What happens when it gets overloaded and its outsourced? You hope your provider fixes it, and you call and yell at them.
Real fascist government, like Russian, would DREAM to have a vote by mail procedure, because it would make frauding the vote extremely easy.

The only thing stopping them is a complete wreck known as Russian Post.
That was playing in the control room. Either they faked it for effect or had some mics wired up to the chassis.
Well, sure, the notion of a total order on political ideologies is ridiculous, but if we are engaging in that silliness already, then the religious fanatics who insist upon their divine right to own women is pretty on the nose for comparison with other ideologies that describe themselves as right wing.
SpaceX is a hopeful story in today’s time
Does your scheme support M-of-N recovery?
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Private vessels in the vincinity of the capsule, one waving a Trump flag? WTF.

https://twitter.com/jeff_foust/status/1290001444968505344/ph...
There's also an extreme supply-demand mismatch in journalism (as there is in acting, music, and similar fields), meaning that many persons in the field take a lot of their "income" from the profession via non-monetary sources: https://jakeseliger.com/2019/11/19/have-journalists-and-acad...
I don't quite get why this is #1 on hn?
There's a veritable crowd around the recovery boat now, lol. 3:13p EST
>>Repeat your exact comment replacing the word “government” with “employer and its chosen for-profit insurance provider” and you’ve described the United States.

You can thank government for that as well, as Price Controls from WWII, and ongoing regulations and tax burdens are the leading reasons employment and healthcare are linked in the way they are.

>>Universal healthcare as a concept is not by itself related to authoritarianism.

If you do not believe that is authoritarianism then I shutter to think what it would take for you to recognize an authoritarian system

>> Indeed, guaranteeing healthcare (whether it be state-run like the UK or all-private like Germany) and paying for it through tax revenue rather than through employment subsidy is a feature of many Western democracies.

That is a false dilemma, I support neither system nor is employer provided vs government provided the only choice we have as a society

Using the Authoritarian nations (though I am sure your going to disagree describing them as authoritarian) of the UK and Germany to support your position is not going to win me over.

I support individual liberty, and individual rights, and generally only Negative forms of right.

the UK, Germany, and most of the EU have adopted a position of Collective rights, and a whole host of Positive rights which are Authoritarian in nature. Sure they are not NK or China, but simply because they are not full on Totalitarian regime's does not make them libertarian either
You typed "the same satellite you are connected on" wrong.
Starlink satellites don't talk to one another at this point.
Companies should be accountable to their customers, not activists.
It was people clapping in mission control but your brain wants to think the sound matches the images so your brain tricks you into thinking it is the sound of water splashing. This is sometimes known as the McGurk effect https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-lN8vWm3m0
You phrased that like it's a contradiction, by it seems like the opposite. I'd expect that to naturally follow, ideologically.
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Random boats swarming is absolutely insane

This is a RESCUE operation and they're getting in the way.

Not to mention, there's still plenty of extremely poisonous UDMH on that thing.
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Maybe it was over the comms from inside the capsule?

I heard it as well.
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I guess we'll see who was right by and by
what if Trump’s new USPS head Louis DeJoy is purposefully cutting the budget and thus slowing mail delivery to mess with absentee ballots ahead of the election?
Yeah, though, once offices reopen and the remote employees are being passed over for promotions and raises, I suspect they'll be back right quick.
Note, it looks like that final link is 404'ing.

The correct link appears to be:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2019/investigations/...
Sounds like the motivation was powers of 2, not 10.
> 2. Disenfranchise voters (a relatively recent campaign)

Recent as in it started the instant the 15th amendment was passed.
100% of apps installed on iOS are through the iOS lockdown walled garden app store. This is monopoly bundling by definition.

It' doesn't matter than they're only ~11% marketshare of smartphones sold.
Give the thread a read. There's a dramatic significance beyond "Philly's mail is delayed".
No, I'm suggesting that reading articles on how amateurs produce alcohol will educate people on why methanol is a part of the ethanol production process.
Browsers are the new operating system. This trend is only going to become more ubiquitous over time.
Digital background on Zoom should help you there. One of my coworkers has their apartment with no people in it set as their digital background.
I don't understand, are we gatekeeping tech now?
You don't see real-time, delay is added, and there is sound sync, they may have delayed the image so the sound is synced
A rambling and condescending look at nothing in particular.
Turns out the only other shamir secret sharing app I know of that's actually usable (ssss or somesuch name) only does the deed for keys, while this does it for files.

This is actually pretty useful, but sort of sad it drags the whole go ecosystem with it (who knows what go will look like in 20 years and if this app will still compile and work).
Here is a video about this robot. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFmeHPVtK0o&feature=emb_rel_...
Edited to remove the 3 words, “because it’s true,” that projected from past elections into this election.

You’re right that the Republicans may very well be hurting themselves by disrupting Americans’ right to vote. They might be hurting themselves. They are definitely hurting our democracy.
You're looking for an enemy where there is none.
It was an interesting time with Windows 95 being shipped without IE or a TCP/IP stack by default.

This lead to needing to install stuff like Trumpet Winsock.

This mirrored the local networking capabilities between Windows 3.x and 3.11 Windows for workgroups.

Eventually, Microsoft would realize the need to include all of this by default in Windows, which led to the antitrust suit.
I am ashamed to be an austrian. This is so extremely stupid, that it hurts. Just for $$$ CASH.
But the people will note that they can't eat this piece of paper, and realize what it is, printed paper.
But whent that's happen, its likely too late, sadly.
Austrian Airlines, you are stupid, that is unbelievable. Just fly into high risk countries, go on. You will stand in front of the world, when YOU spread the virus, because of the piece of paper, you call money.
I'm actually kind of sad, I would have liked that as a convention.
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It doesn’t really seem enforceable though since there is an explicit cutout in that for “urgent” letters. Every letter I send is urgent!
No, that's a good point. I was misled by some of the comments that assumed the posted scheme didn't either. However, I'm assuming "all parts present" is one of many desired use cases.
I took "concentration camp" as a metaphor fwiw.
I built a docker container based on phusion/baseimage so anyone can try this as long as they have docker installed. Just run this to have it decrypt to "Testing":
$ docker run ahnberg/ciphey ciphey -t "01010100 01100101 01110011 01110100 01101001 01101110 01100111"
You're welcome.

Me and my peeps did the yeoman work to both protect the secret ballot and ensure end-to-end auditability.

If every jurisdiction nationwide adopted the rules, procedures, and operations used by King County Elections, we'd be in good shape.

But they won't.
This would be more credible if US in person voting didn’t often involve electronic voting machines with closed source software, no paper trail, and proven exploits.

That’s what mail in voting compares to.
> compiler generates fast [...] reason enough to choose it over Scala or F#

Is the edit/compile/run cycle faster than F#? If either OCaml or F# produce a sufficiently fast program which compiles faster?

Also how seamless is multithreaded operations compared to F#? I have some limited experience with F# (on Mac) and the biggest drawback was getting the environment correctly set up after which most everything seemed very natural.
Photo ID laws is a big one.

Closing polling stations in minority communities.
The only mail I have received in the last two weeks is the usual Tuesday junk mail. There is routine mail I receive that is at least a week late so far.
I agree when it comes to benchmarking for speed in WebGL.

It's much more of a pain when calculations come out wrong though. It's hard to anticipate all the ways that might happen, check for them, and then find workarounds when you don't have the hardware where they go wrong.

As noted in this comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24026914 some of these problems appear to be browser-independent.

Bad calculations can ruin a game, not just due to visual glitches, but by revealing things that should be hidden, for example seeing through holes in walls caused by glitches.
This argument doesn't seem consistent with the idea that college should not be just a path for job readiness.

If the purpose of a philosophy degree is to create philosophers, then we rightly should be subsidizing the education of those degrees which society demands (engineers/nurses/tech/etc). You need to take an entirely different argument to say that society should subsidize philosophers despite the market demand.

The argument exists, and many people have made it. I personally do believe that higher education is good for society as a whole. So why not let those people who are getting an education for the purpose of simply being educated (rather than obtaining a job) be encouraged to learn a way of looking at the world through the lens of science? Just like philosophers, there is no guarantee they will actually do anything with such a degree. But the scientific lens that they learn will affect the way they understand the world around them, and that can surely be a good thing.
Ah, this is slightly disappointing.

For some reason, my gut was telling me each piece would be smaller than the original.

I wonder if this (horcruxes of size ~ 1/N) is actually possible.
> This is a personal value statement

Of course it is. What else could it be?

> different people have different ideas of what dignity means

Then they can come forward and state that theirs is compatible with being subject to totalitarian rule.

Even without trying, I find so many wise words in support to what I know to be true both in my heart of hearts and from decades of lived experience.

> I am well acquainted with all the arguments against freedom of thought and speech — the arguments which claim that it cannot exist, and the arguments which claim that it ought not to. I answer simply that they don’t convince me and that our civilisation over a period of four hundred years has been founded on the opposite notice.

and

> The fallacy is to believe that under a dictatorial government you can be free inside.

-- George Orwell

> the concept of “freedom and the pursuit of non-material goals” is incredibly important, but also incredibly fragile. Not only does it allow us to pursue our own lives, it also prevents us from becoming tools of crime. It is humanity’s first line of defense, or we should say the last. Actually, it’s the sole line of defense. [..] Freedom is not a handout, we need to earn it with our efforts. You can lock up my body but you can never imprison my will.

-- Qu Weiguo

> Suppose that humans happen to be so constructed that they desire the opportunity for freely undertaken productive work. Suppose that they want to be free from the meddling of technocrats and commissars, bankers and tycoons, mad bombers who engage in psychological tests of will with peasants defending their homes, behavioral scientists who can't tell a pigeon from a poet, or anyone else who tries to wish freedom and dignity out of existence or beat them into oblivion.

-- Noam Chomsky

In the meantime, the criticism is that "other people think differently", with not even a hint of what arguments they might have.

And the kicker is, if the arguments are for totalitarian rule, their content wouldn't even matter, I could simply kill or ignore or slander the people who bring them forward to win the argument -- while that would violate my own principles, it would not violate theirs. If being ruled by and deciding facts by force is okay, my force is as well as any -- but if that path is suggested in earnest, the hypocrisy instantly becomes visible. And preaching water and drinking wine isn't even a different set of values, it's nothing.
Mostly i go to sleep at 4:00 or 3:00. Wake up at 10 or 11.
Only at the moment. Normally it is 8:00 and go to sleep at 0:00 or 23 : 00
Quite the silly ramble! But I agree that being a product worker at most companies isn't tech, it's factory work. The market will never be done, at least not until we reach an end of a singularity or something.
Yea, and they both have the same issues, your point is?
Fedex can (and do) deliver letters. They cannot deliver first class mail or use the mailbox, the interior of which is technically property of the US post office.

First class mail is a "monopoly" as someone downthread noted, but not the kind that anyone trying to make a profit would want. The post office cannot set prices on first class mail (that's done by Congress) and needs to deliver mail everywhere at the price Congress has mandated, even when it is done at a loss.
To add to this, we don't even know what the Internet would look like now if half of the U.S. mobile market wasn't subject to Apple control. It's likely that there are amazing apps that never got worked on because of ambiguity about whether Apple would accept them.
Sorry you took it that way. Could you elaborate on the part you found condescending?

I was definitely aiming more for encouraging!
I take it you haven’t played “Last of Us”? It’s quite literally the entire premise of the game (what if Cordyceps infected humans?)

Funnily enough that game has probably taught more people about zombie fungi than biology textbooks.
Ask HN: How do I become better at using a whiteboard?
I've noticed that some of my colleagues are very impressive whiteboard scribblers, being able to do quick-and-dirty flow charts or mind maps that communicate their thoughts and ideas very clearly. Me, on the other hand, often find myself with scribbles that confuse even me. Have you found yourself in a similar situation and actually managed to improve your scribbling?
>FedEx and UPS are subject to the same pension and retirement benefit funding requirements as USPS.

No they FedEx and UPS were required to prefund pensions in the 1970s, but they were given 40 years in which to do it.

USPS was given 10 years. In addition USPS was required to prefund retirement medical benefits, and unlike a private company who can cut retirement medical benefits at any time, USPS requires an act of congress to cut retirement medical benefits.

Furthermore, when calculating how much they need to set aside for retirement medical benefits, USPS can only use a much lower interest rate than private companies are allowed to use because they are forced to invest only in T-bills.
Counterpoint: I'm loving the increased time I have with my wife at home and flexible scheduling . I invested years of my life making friends outside of an office; I'm going out with them more, inviting them to galleries, playing board games with them a bunch.

The mistake was turning our workplace into our everything. Hail the new era, where we find our friends some other way.
I think it is true in an obvious but meaningful sense, though - word choices available impact meaning. If it's idiomatic to use a colourful dramatic phrase, a normally benign saying has subtlety pushed towards different connotations in people's minds etc. Now, I think this is true in pockets. In the larger sense, our available linguistic tools continues to grow, and speakers have no taboos even playing with basic grammar for effect
I'm referring to disenfranchisement by way of disrupting the operation of the mail, which I don't think has been a major focus for quite that long.

Jim Crow laws were much more effective means of disenfranchisement during Reconstruction.
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What do you think NBA players are doing? Lots of individual training with a few 5-on-5 matches sprinkled in. Muscle memory is extremely important for being effective at all kinds of sports and activities, so most training regimes incorporate rote drills to build and maintain a solid foundation.

Unless you're making a critique against games at large (physical and video), I'm not sure what you're getting at.
another way to say this,

hand sanitizing does not do anything (good)

probably harms you in ways that today we are not keen on investigating