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It’s really depressing in rural places. I had to teach online all summer with DSL 6mbps down/ 0.3mbps up. Forget uploading any video. My students never saw my face. Thankfully, the videoconferencing software I was using managed to allow me to share my PowerPoint and voice reliably enough. Otherwise, I don’t know what I would have done.
> To crash the application the code was accessing a NULL pointer. Alas, WebAssembly allowed read access to address Zero without problem.

Good thing nothing in the C or C++ standards mandates NULL be address all-bits-zero regardless of how it's sometimes spelled.

Any compiler which assumes that memory access to address all-bits-zero is access to NULL is not compliant.
Facebook's Oculus Store takes a 30% cut just like Apple, not just of initial sales but also in app purchases including presumably services like this, and one of their big goals is to be even more pervasive than smartphones in general purpose computing, through AR glasses. They also hold a bigger monopoly share of the VR market than Apple does of phones and have a monopoly in a secondary unrelated market (social networks) and major market shares in messaging services (monopoly share in some regions).
>But watching the left since 2016 and especially recently after the death of George Floyd, policy matters don't concern me much anymore. I'm afraid of the left. I feel intimidated by their vast cultural and social power. And I'm going to vote for someone that unapologetically opposes them.

I suspect that rioters burning half of Minneapolis down won Minnesota for Trump, after coming within 1.5% of winning the state in 2016. (Yes, the only state that voted for Mondale in 1984.) If he wins all other states he won in 2016, Trump only has to win one of Minnesota, Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin for reelection. Look at how close polls are there already (https://emersonpolling.reportablenews.com/pr/minnesota-2020-... let's see how things look in another month or two, when people are less afraid of being called a racist for vocalizing dislike of violent "protests", even to a pollster.

Don't count out other states, like Oregon and Washington, that saw and are seeing continued violence in the name of Floyd and BLM.
I guess the algorithm doesn't know about Stanislaw Lem
> Tencent, which is worth considerably more than Apple, in terms of market cap

Sorry? Apple's is hovering around $2 trillion right now, Tencent's is less than trillion is it not? And they only own a minority stake in Epic…
That sounds more like what I expected ;)

> The Dutch government is at least as skilled as making its people believe things are going well. Its a actually a bit of a rabbit hole, just like it is for Americans.

I think that’s most governments in general, sadly.
You haven't offered a reason you believe this is one of those cases, as opposed to it being a symptom of the recent USPS issues. Personally, I have no idea based on the information available.
Well, I think he could to get away with 80% after some protests.

But random beating old people, women, kids and ramming random car with 9yo kids in it with an armoured vehicle helped to unite people against him. He is his own worst enemy.
Your local power, water, trash, etc company's have a local monopoly and serious regulation. Internet just has the monopoly bit.
https://archive.is/eb54h
Sounds to me like you need uBlock Origin in case you don't have it.
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not only are some URLs meaningless, they can in some cases be intentionally misleading. by hiding the non-domain portion of the URL, google is showing the only actual authoritative information contained in the URL: what site is hosting the page.
I wrote the original version of this software while working on a FEN-rendering tutorial for Pointless. It ended up working pretty well so I decided to build it into a full product. I figure that anyone who's sunk as many hours into playing online chess as I have has a few games they'd like to show off. Let me know what you think!
Very glad to see this feature coming to desktop!
What a weird promotion. I guess Airbnb approached Blockbuster about this, and is paying them? I can't imagine Blockbuster would have any desire for this kind of advertisement for their own sake.
> KHTML was done by a tiny KDE team.

Yes, 20 years ago.

Fortunately, web technology did not evolve and grow at all since so it should be doable now too, right?
Isn't it what military is for? Surely every military on the planet has protocols and infrastructure around ordnance disposal. As well as logistics capability to pick it up and transport to the disposal/storage site.
Their current plans talk about a constellation of 40,000 says.

While there is limit to number of connections per sat that applies to any routing equipment really, there is not much limit to how many sats can be there .

Sure spectrum is limited today ,however if 5million people use it already, other spectrum could be freed up for this purpose , if there is demand .

The constellation today is not ready for high density usage , it is not that it will never be ready .
A family.
I would say all of marketism is rigged to benefit providers
I think that's what this will achieve to some extent. With big companies like Spotify, Epic turning the screw on say Apple. There will be regulation at least in EU on either allowing payment options, alternative install avenues etc.

My dream scenario would be if like the Microsoft ruling in EU, both iOS/Android have to give user an option to choose the core apps like browser, music player etc. This helps companies like Firefox survive which they are struggling to do right now.
Calling a method on base besides the method you are overriding is a rather malodorous code smell. It's saying "I want to invoke a method on this instance, but with behavior that differs from how it's defined for this instance".
It's still better for FB to take a cut than for both FB and Apple to take cuts.
> The end state then becomes as clear as the state of my final factory - we'd feed raw renewable energy into the system and automatically manufacture an abundance of all goods that people desire. Maybe they all just pop out of the automaton and we gradually lose ability to understand it, fix it, improve it, etc.

This is the premise of E.M. Forster’s “The Machine Stops”.
Residents don't own infrastructure if a local monopoly delivery company does. I don't own the electrical lines coming to my house.

Nothing wrong with a system where the infrastructure is a regulated utility and ISPs can use it. Just don't assume it will be better or cheaper than it is today. There's no reason to believe that infrastructure won't cost you $100+ per month before you buy service on top of it. Or that it will be more widely available than today.
What about the removal of sorting machines? or the conflict of interests of the Postmaster General?
The postal service predates the US government and has been running since 1775 (Benjamin Franklin first postmaster general). It was cash-flow positive until it was sabotaged by Republicans, who banned it from raising prices above inflation (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postal_Accountability_and_Enha...) while simultaneously requiring it to spend $54 billion to prefund pension benefits for the next 50 years.

So if you want to know why they're having monetary problems, look no further.

>"an extremely politicized government can't run services well"

The Republicans normally make this a truism by sabotaging government programs. With the exception of the military, everything else gets squeezed and forced to justify their budget requests, but hardly anyone ever says "you want to raise the DoD budget by $100 billion? HOW ARE WE GONNA PAY FOR THAT?" Notice how if you propose $75 billion for tuition free college, GOP spokespeople are all over the media raising questions about funding mechanisms.

The USPS has been a reliable actor for 245 years. Its infrastructure, like electricity, or roads, and should not be subject to "we should run this like a for profit business" concerns.
I just had a look at IC2 today. Their newest supported Minecraft version is 1.12.2.

I decided to go with Thermal Expansion/Dynamics/Foundation instead though. Also for 1.12.2.
I don't want to detract from anyone's pain but I have been looking for a tech stack change, and if my main plan doesn't work out, my backup plan was to segue back into browser work via Rust. So I guess in addition to getting comfortable with the idea of having to change default browsers sometime in the next couple of years, I also need a plan C.
Does that make this more akin to Helm for K8S then?
> give me an IDE and a language I use regularly, and there's probably at least one default style preference I disagree with

But that is disingenuous. We aren't talking about [insert opensource language] + [insert opensource IDE], where your the IDE's inbuilt preferences match closer to the IDE developer's preference than the random language you are developin in it.

This is Microsoft's Visual Studio and Microsoft's C#. Their linter is recommending the best practice conventions.

You can definitely disagree with them, but I don't, that is why I wrote this piece. I don't like "this." scattered throughout the code when it isn't proper according to the language designers.
>How does brick work for modern wiring, plumbing, insulation needs? Most of that stuff is traditionally routed at least partially through load bearing walls.

it's not much different other than the addition of a masonry drill bit.

in the case of very large plumbing, sometimes whole bricks are left out and the area filled/finished with a conrete mixture and left to set around the pipe.
I led the Stylo project to integrate Servo's CSS engine into Firefox as part of project Quantum [1]. I have the utmost respect for the engineers on the Servo team, and am sad to see them go (though I am certain they will have no shortage of opportunities as to what to work on next).

Servo had two major roles within Mozilla - as an incubator for novel browser technology we wanted to ship in Firefox, and more recently, as a lighter-weight vehicle for Mixed Reality products. The latter has been the focus for the last three years, and those products now appear to be winding down. But the former was a huge success - both Servo's parallel CSS engine and its GPU-based graphics layer are now shipping in Firefox.

While it seems unlikely that Mozilla will continue to prototype things in Servo, we're still building lots of innovative technology (and writing lots of Rust code) directly in Firefox. A few of the teams have blogged recently about the work they're doing [2] [3], and I'd encourage anyone interested to check it out.

The Servo team accomplished a ton and left its ongoing mark on the Web. These changes are tough for everyone within Mozilla, but are not indicative of any change in strategy for Firefox. Gecko is alive and well, and there are no plans to switch to Blink.

[1] https://bholley.net/blog/2017/stylo.html
[2] https://mozilla-spidermonkey.github.io/blog/
[3] https://mozillagfx.wordpress.com/
Huh, that's surprising. $40 seems like a good price for getting the core Google Apps but then if I take the APK and install it on my non Google Play Android phone is it considered piracy?
Too little too late? ARM is already owned by SoftBank, UK had decades to incentivize the company to not take foreign owners or move headquarters, it's strange for the MP to bring this up now.
Who stores fireworks next to ammonium nitrate?
I love the description, welders working over a pile of fireworks stored next to a ginormous pile of Ammonium Nitrate.

So in many ways it really was a bomb, but one constructed by circumstance rather than intent.
Despite the quote, it's just not true that relaxed atomics will give the same kind of performance. They may, but they may not, depending on the situation. The issue with them is that they're still atomic throughout the entire program, even in the situations where you can guarantee there are no other threads running and hence don't need atomicity. (Perhaps in particular scenarios, like with small inputs, you never even spawn additional threads to begin with.) For native-sized integers, ensuring atomicity might or might have overhead depending on the implementation. But it will at least have overhead for larger objects.
Funny, I was just searching for an Airbnb in Bend, OR a couple weeks ago, and they were all bizarrely expensive, like from $600 to thousands of dollars a night.
Sure! I think your questions are very reasonable, we'll have to see how it all shakes out.
> rural areas won’t be safe from desperate people.

That's why you need to buy yourself a private, remote island, or at least a farm on a remote island. Also, if you don't live on it alone (regardless of ownership), it may not import more food than it exports, otherwise the other inhabitants will want to get your food.

Of course this is hard to find such an island as there aren't many such places and unless you're very rich it'll be beyond your budget anyways.

Also want to stress again that it won't be enough to just have an island, it has to be remote as well otherwise people just swim over. The number of boats is limited usually so likely few people will get to you.
Saying that you take it seriously is great, but that doesn't really address the concerns of the parent.

I'd also like to adopt something like this if I knew it would not disappear in a year. How do you plan to monetize it? Ads? Charging a monthly fee?
Oh, that's what I did of course. Some substitution, some Pokemon Exception Handling. At the end of the day, it was analysis, not a random file, so I wasn't worried about security.

What I am pointing out is that "know" is just doing a lot of magical work in that sentence.
Blockchain "skills" effectively have almost zero value in the current climate.

I used to consult directly with Consensys and the like of Protocol Labs etc, been involved in Eth for a long time. Blockchain dev in 2020 is effectively useless...

Please use your time and money to learn something useful, don't give your money / time to these scammers ;) .
i would be very surprised. in my days doing tech support, i quickly learned that this was a completely fruitless exercise as a huge number of people have no idea how to use the URL bar in their browser. they know how to use google, and can click links that are emailed to them or shortcuts in their browser, but simply do not know how to navigate to a URL (even a path-less one).

i could usually tell somebody "go to google" or "click this link", but "go to <my company's website>" was met with confusion.
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Let me be super clear about what I meant in my first comment.

Satellites are VERY susceptible to overcrowding, this is what I mean by physics. Co-Channel interference and Adjacent Satellite Inteference play a big role. The more signal you use the more of a problem it becomes.

Think about it like this. Your car radio, has how many available stations? Have you ever gotten multiple signals at the same time? This is all a really big problem for space based communication you just can't solve with more signal.

Don't get me wrong we can do a lot with our spectrum, but there is a limited amount and if we both want to communicate with a satellite and we live 100 feet apart, our signals will interfere much more than if we live 1000 feet apart.

I'm not saying stringing cables is cheaper, I'm saying laying fiber from hub to hub and then connecting to those hubs is cheaper if you're within 50 mile radius. Maybe cellular is cheaper, maybe a wire to your house is cheaper. It depends on how many people you have close to you.

There just isn't enough spectrum for everyone.
https://web.archive.org/web/20200814203602/https://ilsr.org/...
If 80 upvotes on a minor release post is any indication I'd say HN's love of Rethink is very much not a thing of the past. Glad you had a good experience, I helped right it back in the day.
One satellite cannot route 900tbps of course , just like your local ISP cannot handle that either .

However over 40,000 satellites that’s just 22.5 gps per sat , quite achievable
oh that is so mean. They let you upload first, then they ask you to sign up to see it. There goes one more fake email in their database.
Cool calculator.

One thing that is missing is the opportunity cost of the down payment.

Also, in fairness, the renter scenario should be a smart renter that invests their money. Typically, a renter will have lower monthly housing costs in the beginning and will have more money for investment.

Ideally, the net worth should be compared after 25 years or something.
Reverse redlining has to do with housing. That is a market with many buyers and sellers, relatively good information symmetry, etc.
> in this case FB is fighting for the consumer to get all the money, which is a fight worth having regardless of what the cynic might say

Sure, but that's not quite their goal. No doubt that the "Paid Online Events" feature will be exposing people to ads and generating revenue for FB.

While FB is claiming to be doing this for "small businesses", what it really wants is to get people to use their product. If people offering events had to give 30% of their revenue to Apple, they wouldn't bother using Facebook's event product. Instead, they would use a competing product that takes only a minor cut and no ads, even if it doesn't offer a mobile pay experience.

What FB is trying to do here isn't to help small business, it's to get ahead of the small companies that currently compete with their upcoming events platform by strongarming Apple into eliminating those small companies' edge. All while putting on a pro-small-business facade.
Likely, but Australia might have a bit less of that because all the big cities are very distant from each other. A Starlink satellite with a view of Perth, for example, is going to have close to absolutely nothing else on its horizon. Above the US, for instance, that’s unlikely with many people living in between too.
You know, I had jury duty at the nearby courthouse and meant to visit. I’ve moved out of the Boston area now. I a immensely envious that that’s your LBS.

If You get a chance, CycleLoft is a Brompton dealer and seems like it might fill a similar role in that community. I made the trip from Somerville when I needed some Brompton parts. They also sell a wide variety of other esoteric brands. Love them.

ETA: Bicycle Belle in Cambridge is another lovely shop that knows their customers by name.

Shops that cater to commuters seem to be lovelier in general. At least that’s been my experience, and it seems to be echoed by TFA.
Isn't this how most to-do lists work now? ie. Anylist, the one built into iOS, etc
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I’ll add my voice to that, I’ve been using Firefox as primary dev browser for a couple of years now and it’s a perfectly cromulent choice. I don’t miss Chrome one iota, far from it; when firing up Chrome to investigate browser-specific issues it seems alien now.

My level of respect for origin was similarly the tie-breaker when choosing between Vue, Angular, and React.
What sort of physics?

You can multiplex wavelengths for wireless just like cable right? Granted you'd need to buy the licenses for those frequencies, which should be fairly cheap in rural areas.

I don't think Elon would approve this project if cable is always cheaper and easier.
>Curious, what kind?

Maybe that you might be forced into an NDA for a service that never ends up delivering on promises?
You’ve got that right! I taught remotely all summer long on 6mpbs down/ 0.3 up. Dreadful. Just enough upload speed for PowerPoint + my voice. I’d love for something like Starlink to work.
To be fair, children have to get combined booster tetanus, diphtheria, pertussis and polio shots and combined booster measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) shots for exactly the same reason.

The same holds true for the Twinrix hepatitis A and B vaccine. The first shot gives you partial immunity (measurable but not very effective), and the booster brings it up to a more statistically significant risk level and permanence, which is why two shots are needed a week apart before travelling to certain countries.

A lot of vaccines need boosters.
Hmm yes, they probably free up the bulk of space and just keep extensive metadata instead: "We don't have the picture, but we know you took one at date, time, location, make & model, shutter speed & aperture, and we regognized the faces of these 2 users X & Y, and another non-user for whom we have shadow profile Z wwas also tagged."
Has Apple done something that makes forking WebKit (today) no longer a viable option?
I did not mention this because I had no idea this was even possible. Whoever found this out is an psychopath ;).
>What are some applications that requires more than 10mbps speed in rural places?

Why do rural areas need any lower internet speeds than you do in the city? What are you doing in the city that they aren't?
Why would vehicle weight have any bearing on a vehicles efficiency traveling at a constant speed on level terrain?

If we’re going to compare boats to vehicles I would think that it’s at least fair to say that the vehicles terrain must be equally flat as that of the boat.

If I’m the engine pushing a large truck at 55 miles an hour across the highway, I have no sense of the vehicles weight.
If encoding tech is specific to wireless then not really , just like improving cable medium , number of cable pairs etc will not improve wireless , better transmitter or receiver will not impact wired
And yet such a satellite network is being built and deployed.

The people building this have obviously done the math and have a solution which they're implementing while you're busy saying that it can't be done :)
Would the PlayStation hardware that Sony spends millions on to design and build now must be able to support Xbox’s OS? There’s a lot wrong with such a proposal, much of it being way too onerous on the hardware developers and simply impractical for all the implications associated with requiring hardware be opened.
> if I take the APK and install it on my non Google Play Android phone is it considered piracy?

Indeed. And meanwhile, the same apps are completely free on iOS.
It’s clearly stated that Siri runs on Apple servers and (now optional) that people may listen to the audio to improve the service. So audio that is not accidentally captured is not a problem, it’s sent with consent.

If you don’t have ‘Hey Siri’ on it only listens when you press the button.

Apple does have strong controls but they employ human beings. Control is not absolute, their own secrets leak all the time and of course yours are not immune either. They tried to improve control by making this optional and by moving it in-house where they can for instance make it harder for employees to record, screen employees etcetera.

The point of the program is to improve voice recognition, if Apple could determine with certainty what is an accidental recording and what’s not they wouldn’t need to improve it.

Specific consent, what do you expect? After every question to Siri a pop-up appears that asks you for consent? That’s just not practical.

What laws do you feel were broken? How do you feel consumers were impacted? The thing they consented to happened. Now there’s even more options and control. What more do you want?

Do you believe people at the phone company can’t listen in on your calls? Do you think bank employees can’t look at your statements? Do you think the people at your ISP can’t check your traffic? What kind of law would you want that mitigates that yet still allows these companies to provide their services?