skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Their target launch cadence has been missed by quite a bit for many years. At this point they are only launching their own satellites at a cost to them, and not launching very many paying customer payloads at all.
Nothing in my business experiences matched the experience of the British explorer-aristocrat who guest lectured one day.

He was supposedly in his 80s but appeared 60. His ancestors were some kind of lords of the forests; his father was responsible for training Gurkhas, though he himself preferred the company of the muhajadeen as a boy (photos provided).

He displayed gold disks which could buy humans at certain markets, and spoke of tribes which taught him how to travel in Dreamtime. It was literally thrilling stuff, all too fantastic to believe if not for the artifacts....
Some permanent skills in my trade:

Programming -- in general, not just language specific. Many people simply can't do it, and I don't see it going away in my lifetime.

Quantitative problem solving.

Scientific reasoning.

The laws of physics won't change any time soon, being able to interpret them is a skill.

Being able to see my way through fabrication of a complex prototype using the materials and techniques that are available and practical for the job at any given moment.

Being able to entertain people creatively.
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I thought “integer literal zero (in pointer contexts)” was the definition of NULL in all versions of C. As I understand it the resulting pointer doesn’t necessarily have to have a value of 0 (even though that’s what it says in the source code) so long as it behaves appropriately nullish—i.e. the compiler can translate “int *foo = 0;” as “MOV foo 0xDEADCODE” so long as that value won’t be used for any legitimate pointer.
I've been a digital nomad for almost a year now. If I can get 5 Mbps down/up, I can do my work without interruption. In a couple places where I could only get 1 Mbps down/up, I could still do my work w/ a bit of patience on transfer speeds & good enough audio, as long as I didn't need to do much screen sharing & video uploading, and I could usually compensate when I really had to by tethering/hotpotting to my mobile phone. !0 Mbps would be fine for one person for most things. Might feel slow for a family during peak times.
Exactly what I was thinking, maybe it's attuned to manufacturer vs owner legal statue.
> You can’t sign up with a fake email if they force you to do an email confirmation. But that also means that I need to keep up with a separate email for each service.

> I don’t want a relationship with every company. I don’t have a “relationship” with the company when I buy their products in a physical store.

That's your prerogative. Apple doesn't need to step in and do this for everyone. They're knee capping everyone just because they can.

When Apple refuses to send marketing emails or promotions, then I'll think this is fair. But they won't subject themselves to the same punishment they dole out.

> Did you see the hearings two weeks ago?

I watched it twice. Lucy McBath is my representative. It was a highlight of 2020.

> Are you also proposing that Apple licenses their operating system to other vendors?

They'll probably have to if they're split into two companies. I don't see any problem with that. Microsoft is doing an amazing job right now doing just that.

> Which company owns the OS? The processor division? The IDE?

Software+Services, Hardware, Software+Services ... these are easy questions. If the DOJ hands down this ruling, Apple probably gets to decide for itself.
Heh Heh Heh. Well, Isaac Butterfields response applies:

https://youtu.be/t1uZZ_xRYvQ?t=153

Snakes and spiders are pretty much it. Snakes are very rare to see unless you travel to the bush. Spiders though, are common outside.

Once you've learned not to turn over rocks in your garden (with your bare hands anyway), you're fine. :)
One question on the $70 price tag. I get that it is high compared to, say, Europe or Asia, but not by much. Comcast/Xfinity gives 1 or 1.5 TB per month for that money.

Now let us compare to business connection. One would think a business has “options” - they are someone who can’t be toyed with. Even their rates are not cheaper! I am talking about price/mbps or price/TB . I don’t think you can get a business connection for less than $100 - yes, you get static IP. We (at home) expect the same “reliability” as a business.

We can cut it down to $50, may be, if we did muni internet. But it won’t become $20
Because hedge funds aren't the only entities that trade in the market.
This hasn't been my experience, and I've worked there. There might've been a couple dicks like that but definitely not the norm
> The key issue in the abortion debate is – "at which point in the development of an individual human does it gain the moral status of a person".

Its sometimes framed that way, but since the situation is sui generis in other ways (no one ever has entitlement to another human's body the way necessary for compulsory continuation of pregnancy in any other circumstance) there are other valid framings; particularly, its equally valid to frame it as "what is the extent of the right of bodily autonomy against intrusions by other humans".

In truth, there is no single key issue, and there is a fair degree of correlation between the differences on those issues, so its often difficult to even pull one out as decisive for any individual, much less for the general debate.
The problem is that the target audience you refer to doesn't have the amount of money it takes to sustain a system like this. Otherwise any of the existing satellite providers could continue to launch more and more satellites and serve very expensive internet to them. Starlink will be just as much, or more expensive.
Firefox has a lot of telemetry built into the default install. It has Pocket, everything you type into the search bar gets sent to Google by default, phones home to Mozilla by default, I could go on. Ungoogled Chromium doesn't do any of that. Firefox is also less secure than Chromium. If an actual malicious attacker can access my browser, that's a million times worse than any kind of concern about Google bulk collecting my data as far as I'm concerned.

https://madaidans-insecurities.github.io/firefox-chromium.ht...
It is just an example.

Some people mention an extinction level event.

I mention a number that is horribly catastrophic, just to show that even that huge number is very far from an extinction level event.
The 'its bad' section could use some work; it isn't immediately obvious why it is bad. It says things like 10% decrease in grain yield. World population has increased by ~40% in my lifetime; so a 10% grain yield is not the biggest problem we're facing for food security.

Ditto the 10 million migrant number. Australia has 7 million migrants living here right now; 10 million globally spread over many years is not particularly devastating.

Climate change is supposed to be a threat significant enough for people to abandon their way of life, not those so-so numbers.
IANAL, but I don't see how you would have standing to sue if he simply passed you on the road. If he crashed into you, sure.
Fellow middle of Kansas guy here. Check for fixed wireless in the area. We just got KwiKom which handily beats CenturyLink DSL on price, speed, and latency. And our neighbors couldn't even get DSL.
Indeed, and it's becoming even more clear that this is by design. The Voice of America is the latest agency where this has happened:

Among the changes on Wednesday, USAGM’s front office removed the agency’s chief financial officer and former interim CEO, Grant Turner, and its general counsel David Kligerman, according to three people familiar with the matter.

Prior to Kligerman’s removal, the front office was trying to go around his legal advice on mission critical agency issues, one of the people said. In a number of instances, staff for the general counsel were instructed to not share things with Kligerman.

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/08/12/trump-purge-us-agen...
Oh I see you already mentioned fixed wireless. You aren't me, by any chance?
Because the speed tests show it, and there are no inter satellite links. In fact, because of the limited coverage in a very specific area, is highly likely that what you're seeing is on the lower end of latency for the final system since they will have more hops.
In ten words or less: Sets are just 0-categories [7][8]. With more words: Set theory is just 0-category theory. This is obvious today, but two decades ago, Friedman couldn't just go to nCat [0] and educate himself.

Friedman repeatedly demonstrates [1][2] that he isn't interested in grokking why category theory is even a thing; he doesn't see e.g. Pratt's careful explanation that category theory is motivated by studying (natural) transformations. Simpson comes across as a spoiled brat [3] and Friedman comes across as a narcissist who needs to fuel himself by being the bastion of FOM [4]. Seriously, in [5], he has the audacity to simultaneously claim that Lawvere's foundations are the same as Friedman's set-theoretic foundations, and also to ask what a Lawvere theory/sketch is! Unbelievably rude.

I read the entire three-month slapfight again, just to double-check that I hadn't mis-remembered the general outline. Simpson wastes message after message being wrong about Boolean algebras vs. Boolean rings (they're the same picture) and doesn't understand how categorical dualities like Stone duality lead to equivalences. At no point do either of them manage to fully grok a 2-category or how ETCC could be a practical foundations. Tragesser says it well in [5] when he analogizes the entire affair to the sheep and their shop [6], going around and around and always changing the framing but never actually getting to the philosophical meat of the inquiry.

[0] https://ncatlab.org/nlab/show/periodic+table

[1] https://cs.nyu.edu/pipermail/fom/1998-February/001182.html

[2] https://cs.nyu.edu/pipermail/fom/1998-March/001303.html

[3] https://cs.nyu.edu/pipermail/fom/1998-February/001228.html

[4] https://cs.nyu.edu/pipermail/fom/1998-February/001234.html

[5] https://cs.nyu.edu/pipermail/fom/1998-February/001210.html

[6] Edit: I can link directly to the text! https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Through_the_Looking-Glass,_an...

[7] https://ncatlab.org/nlab/show/0-category

[8] https://ncatlab.org/nlab/show/negative%20thinking
The problem with this argument is that climate change presents an existential risk for our current global civilisation and ability to support the numbers of people currently living on earth. If climate change (along with the other types of environmental destruction we are currently reaping) is as bad as predicted (and scientists are actually fairly certain of the likely impacts. Read the IPCC reports and then remember that these are the outcome of a process designed to produce the most conservative estimates) then we face an enormous die off of the world's population as large swathes of the planet become essentially uninhabitable at current densities. The costs of mitigating climate change are, in comparison, tiny. A few percent of GDP if we don't replace current polluting industries with cleaner ones. Given this it makes sense to mitigate against climate change, even if it turns out that the predictions are overly pessimistic, because the risks are so high. It's similar to taking out fire insurance. Sure the chances of your house or business burning down are pretty low, but the impact on you if they do is so high that it makes sense to pay the relatively low cost.
> but a runaway green house effect is certainly possible

Could you go into detail about how this could happen? My understanding is that this would require lots of greenhouse gasses getting pumped into the atmosphere somehow (Something like all the forests in the world burning down). I remember hearing one theory regarding methane calthrate [1] causing this effect, however I haven't read any studies going into the specifics of how large this effect could be.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methane_clathrate#Methane_clat...
You’ve never taken a job for a product you felt should exist in the world, even if the salary wasn’t the best?
My guess is that insider trading practices are simply getting smarter. e.g. receive a hot insider tip? In the old days they'd just buy up a bunch of that stock. Nowadays, there are systems that can trigger diversified purchases across multiple asset classes & markets that end up reaping just as much profit (if not more), while obfuscating the financial ties.
10Mbps to 100 million customers equating to 900 Tbps would be more akin to serving 1 billion customers, since on average someone isn't even close to saturating their bandwidth.
I think you're overestimating how much those people are willing to pay.
A "couple dicks"? It's endemic, dude. You can't be given everything you could ever dream of and _not_ end up like this.

By comparison, I have nothing. zilch, for my hard work. Neither do most people working on core tech at AWS. That's why they empathize with their customers (I'm guessing).
"Black Lines Matter"

But seriously, prosecution of white collar crime on a scale that actually makes change seems to have gone the way of the dodo here.
There isn't a usable 4G signal everywhere. Not even everywhere in the US. On my 2 mile commute in Kansas, there's about 1 mile where I cannot even place calls or send texts, much less use data.
> They'll probably have to if they're split into two companies. I don't see any problem with that. Microsoft is doing an amazing job right now.

Microsoft did great with phones didn’t they? So this Apple company that is going to have to license its OS - is the government going to also tell them how to design their OS and for what hardware? Is this mythical company going to have five different licensing programs? One each for watches, phones, tablets, computers, and set top boxes? Are they going to also split up the processor division?

While the government is at it are they going to force both Google and Microsoft to divest their hardware business?

As far as your Senator. She asked why Apple removed apps that were spyware and recorded everything kids did on their phone. Yeah she’s bright.
Maybe in terms of recent home sales otherwise you’re most definitely on point
My reading of the comment you were responding to is that they were saying "We needed to leverage fossil fuels to get to the state of development where we can build rockets, and if we didn't have that fuel in the ground, we'd be stuck pre-industrial. Future societies won't have that fuel, so we're the only chance (for millions of years) of becoming multiplanetary"
What you said at the end is not true. It does not have a relatively uniform signal at all areas of the earth (on purpose, since they know where the customers are), and it's not a benefit to be standing capacity where nobody lives.
This is why I think Waymo got it right that they were never going to market with level 3 self driving. You can't reasonably expect people to pay attention all the time when it works on its own 99.7% of the time.
Maybe there could be a "broadcast" mode where starlink users can "tune in" to a fixed number of "channels" which broadcast extremely popular content.
When I got to the heavy oil, light oil, solid fuel ratio thing to make rocket fuel it made my head hurt a bit. :)
Sure. Congress isn't required to provide for the national defense.

It's a short-lived government that fails to do so, however.
Including the most critical group of all - customers. It’s astonishing how little Google cares about its paying customers, at least when it comes to AdWords and GSuite, and GCP.

I think the Pixel division is the only exception, though I don’t own one so I can’t comment personally.
Same here, Mojave and Chrome.
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ah TIL
The way I see it climate change could be awful but it's never going to be catastrophic as long as we're alive. All we have to do is send up hella reflectors to block the sun and we can be cool again.

The real risk IMO is making the oceans acidic with all this co2. That has the potential to be really really catastrophic.
I'm kind of amazed at how the trains keep running (apart from my own inability to truly understand signals)
>He could have spent the past 4 years fixing this problem

He doesn't consider it a problem in the sense you mean.

"President Donald Trump said Thursday that he opposes much-needed funding for the United States Postal Service because he doesn't want to see it used for mail-in voting this November."

https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/13/politics/trump-usps-funding-c...
That's not how it works. The FCC doesn't just free up massive spectrum from other places. We're talking about 500MHz chunks that just don't exist. The FCC favors cell technologies, so if anything, they would take it away from them.
Well as a kiwi I remember at the tender age of 11 going to Australia for the first time and finding a stick insect on the footpath about as long as my forearm the first time we left the hotel. That was fun.

Actually I lived there a couple years in my late teens and you look up at the power lines and see big spiders in them but that's about it.

I've been far more terrified of my encounters with Suzumebachi and Mukade in Japan.

And the one time I went to the USA I nearly had a panic attack as soon as I left the hotel and didn't spend more than 2 hours outside the whole 6 days I was there cos the idea of a lot of poor, disenfranchised, mentally unstable people with guns just freaks me out.
I called the police on someone who was stumbling around on the sidewalk next to a calm but normally fast street. I was worried for her safety, that she was going to stumble into traffic, so I called the cops because I had no idea what else to do. In a way, I guess I assumed/hoped that they would be smart enough to dispatch a health worker after hearing what I told them.

Why didn’t I try to help the woman? Simple. I’m black. She was a drunk middle aged white woman. It would not have gone well for me.
If you bothered to read the terms before you sign up for Metal, you'd see that the subscription duration is ONE YEAR. They did not hide this fact either, it is written there "Duration: Annual" at the sign up page.
Reviewers are meant to send back their review units. A lot of professional reviewers refuse free review units entirely and purchase the items themselves.

Google has posted a warning on their Webmaster Blog about providing free review samples, they will take action against companies that do it:

"Bloggers should use the nofollow tag on all such links because these links didn’t come about organically (i.e., the links wouldn’t exist if the company hadn’t offered to provide a free good or service in exchange for a link)."

https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2016/03/best-practices-for...
For what it's worth, satellite is typically around 1-4 bits per second per Hz.
Competition will push prices to almost zero too ideally. This is how capitalism should work. Technologically driven deflation is key but cronyism likes to mess with it and try prevent it thus the complex financial system.
Yeah, when I went from copper and iron moving on belts to belts and inserters as items moving on belts I started to realize the rabbit hole was getting pretty deep.
>It is also very difficult to remove the president from office and essentially impossible unless he does something provably illegal.

I don't think that is a meaningful sentence. You can say it's "essentially impossible" because apparently nothing will sway Republicans to vote for removal from office recently. But if they could be convinced, then any pretext would suffice.
I’ve seen this term repeated five times in this thread, and still have no idea what it means?
Why initiate over BT? Wouldn't you bootstrap from QR to WiFi?
There's a thing called ethical beliefs and people tend to feel quite strongly about them, even though they're not consistent or reasonable in many cases. Like most of the people in my country are pro gay marriage, however most of them are also against marriages of more than two partners or between close relatives. None of those type of marriages harms anyone else, and yet people don't support it, just because it feels wrong to them or because they want to draw the line at one point to not make marriage arbitrary.

I'm also pretty sure that you draw the line somewhere and I'd be surprised if you were fine with siblings being allowed to marry each other, even when they're deeply in love, they take care of each other like other couples and them being together doesn't harm you or anyone else the slightest.

Edit: My take on this is: Even though I'm married myself, I don't think marriage should be part of the legal system or the concern of the state. If the state wants to support people who take care of each other, it should state specific requirements and everyone who fulfils them gets the benefits, no matter who they are. And if people want to get married they can do that as part of a private ceremony, provided by the church or whatever, and if they can't live without the consequences of being married today, they can sign a private contract to their liking. No reason to involve the state in this private matter.
What encoding technology is specific to wireless? (Hint: none)
We use roomservice.dev which indeed uses JSON CRDT types.
Beta speed tests show that this is the best they can possibly do?

And I think you're being ridiculously unfair about hops there. If you're in a situation where your data could spend 20ms on starlink's network and 40ms on the ground, and they route it so it spends 30ms on starlink's network and 15ms on the ground, would you complain about that?

It seems clear to me that the 20ms number was about how much latency is unavoidable on starlink, the number you get without extra hops, because hops should be pure benefit. It's not like 20ms was supposed to include the path all the way to arbitrary servers, because that's blatantly impossible with the Earth being 130 light-milliseconds around.
> Microsoft did great with phones didn’t they?

Ballmer missed the boat, but Nadella is launching a new line of Android phones. I don't have a high degree of confidence in their venture, but time will tell. I really don't get this criticism, though. Microsoft has a market cap with the same order of magnitude as Apple. They're far from a bad tech company.

> is the government going to also tell them how to design their OS and for what hardware?

No. The government is going to split Apple into smaller companies. Apple will be told not to collude or do business exclusively with its old business units. They'll be free to do whatever they want from that point.

> While the government is at it are they going to force both Google and Microsoft to divest their hardware business?

Google will be split up as well. They're extremely anti-competitive. Every single company that went before congress is under incredible scrutiny right now, and rightly so.

Microsoft has been playing nicely and isn't behaving anti-competitively. They learned their lesson in the 00's.
At least they could've dispersed it in multiple smaller storage areas, rather than accumulating it all together.
A government shutdown isn't really a cyber-attack though.
Artemis was vaporware. It never made it into the field.
Google is an absolutely fantastic company from which to get free stuff. Gmail, Maps, Docs, Youtube? Mmm-mm good!

Buy things from Google, though? You mean, give Google money and in exchange expect them to adhere to some kind of standard of behavior, support, and customer service? Go get a coffee because you're clearly not awake yet.
That's not comparable to sending a signal from space.
Also the coordination/communication is being done with burner phones and encrypted chat apps, so there's no paper trail.
Existing satellite internet doesn't go out with clouds, and only with heavy rain.