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I am not Lebanese but I am aware of all conflicts going in the region, Lebanon had the second largest number of Syrian refugees after Turkey and many of them are used there as cheap labour, so that also could go with what was mentioned earlier of corruption go hand in hand with incompetence, so getting a cheap labour to fix the door would mean very likely these people were not trained in handling or working in near proximity of dangerous chemicals, I think mentioning that they were Syrians would clarify the point, rather then accusing them of being the cause of the accident
Yeah but we're talking about a company that has in their near-term plans the capability to _launch 4 rockets per day_.

They're completely capable of adding capacity like that and having a high satellite count.

I'm not saying that it doesn't have a cost, but they have no middleman. They don't need to buy space on somebody else's rocket. They also don't have to pay any ongoing maintenance cost beyond equipment replacement and it's much cheaper than doing it on land. I know that you have satellite experience but their launch costs are a fraction of what other companies have done till now.

I worked for a suburban, regional ILEC and our operating costs were around 100 million a year to cover like two counties of maybe 100k customers and the local businesses.

...

I actually do agree with you about costs delivering in dense markets as providing locally has certain "economy of scale" benefits. It's also not going to compete on the "Gigabit in every home" front, because I do agree that the bandwidth is more limited. Operating a local provider in general though is extremely expensive and doesn't really provide any additional benefit to the provider. SpaceX themselves have uses for this network. I also hope that I'm right here :)
NYC still has DSL option ? Wow. I left NYC in 2005 as a resident and would assume that it has fiber everywhere by now.
Btw: interesting comparison between Facebook and Google data https://arxiv.org/pdf/2007.07095.pdf
This is a fantastic idea, and I'm pretty sure that if nobody has been before now, someone will now!
Many parts of the US prefer the aesthetics of brick. It isn't about the cost.
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The tricky bit to me is that fundamentally deletion should not be harder than insertion, but because we have historically only focused on the happy path nobody cares at all about the deletion mechanism. Whereas a secure erase-in-place of a field option alone would already take you to 80% or more of a workable solution.

Perfection, the way you describe it is for now unattainable. But the bigger problem as far as my practice tells me is that people simply don't care and set the 'deleted' bit and leave the plain text records + backups + log files all untouched.

The low hanging fruit is pretty much dragging the ground.
And what about memory requirements? Also there are no addons in mobile Chrome!! Big issue for me.
Except that Linux isn't the only game in town, there are the BSDs and commercial alternatives.
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It was a snide remark. My apologies

Can you respond to the rest of the comment?
Common sense is always welcome. Note the word 'plausible' in that guideline—it extends over the whole.

In this particular case it looks like we see common sense as pointing in opposite directions, but such differences are inevitable any time that interpretation and judgment calls are involved, which is certainly true of moderation. Beyond that, it's hard to answer general statements about HN moderation when they don't include specific links. You might well be talking about comments that we simply didn't see (cf https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24161292). There are many other possibilities too.

Usually when I hear generalizations about HN moderation on political/ideological issues, they're being made by strong adherents to one ideological position who perceive the moderators as being secretly against their position. That's problematic because there are intense cognitive biases conditioning such perceptions, such as the one where people are more likely to notice cases they dislike than the ones they agree with, and to weight them much more heavily (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...). If you consider that phenomenon, you'll notice that it guarantees that unbiased moderation will always be experienced as biased by passionate perceivers, regardless of which position they adhere to. This is a double bind situation for the moderators, and it makes such complaints difficult to respond to except by pointing out that the other side feels exactly the same way.

I don't mean to say that that's the case with your perceptions, just that it's hard to discuss these things without concrete cases to look at. Based on your comment, my guess is that we would agree on egregious cases (and those certainly get moderated here, except when we don't see them), but would perhaps draw the lines differently on borderline cases, like the GP. That too is inevitable when one is trying to moderate a community that has countless different perspectives—it's impossible to satisfy everyone, or even to satisfy anyone completely. But there's a choice here too: we want HN to be different from the places on the internet that are dominated by the online callout/shaming culture (not because the callouts are always wrong, but because of the systemic effect on the community when they become the default). For that, I think the plausibility guideline is the right medicine. It basically leads to scolding/banning for egregious cases, forgiveness for borderline cases, and open-mindedness in unclear ones (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24073607).
How much of that comes down to municipalities not allowing competition on the poles though?
The answer I've provided elsewhere in this thread is along the lines of: Other than melting icecubes and scrambling eggs, the only other difference you notice between the past and the future is that you can remember the past, but you cannot remember the future. If you could remember the future just as well as you remember the past, you probably wouldn't have strong opinions about which way time goes (or which direction is "clockwise"). If you, Merlin-like, could only remember the future then you'd probably be here asking why you always observe entropy decreasing in closed systems.

But memory operates on systems of increasing entropy, so you'll always only remember the past having less entropy. [1]

(Edit: citation)

[1] https://phys.org/news/2009-08-physicist-solution-arrow-of-ti...
> It really doesn't take much.

Setting fire to ones own clothes is surprisingly easy with a grinder, and when you’re up a ladder that’s particularly bad.
> there's so many politicians that have been creating legislation that prevents new entrants from coming into the market with regulatory capture.

Politicians paid for by the incumbents.

Not everywhere though:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utah_Telecommunication_Open_In...

* https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/06/what-...
No, the theory describes it (well mostly): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_exciton_generation

Someone please inform me if I'm missing a subtlety, but this seems like news for this specific kind of photodetector not physics in general.
>symmetry of time

Time isn't symmetric.

"Since the second law of thermodynamics states that entropy increases as time flows toward the future, in general, the macroscopic universe does not show symmetry under time reversal." - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T-symmetry
One is a proposal, which at the time, was mainstream enough to gain the support of a majority of California voters. (And, even today, although I don't think it would get a majority any more, it probably still would get a significant minority of California voters supporting it.)

The other is an extremely fringe view which has only ever been supported by a tiny percentage of the population.

I also don't think Eich was "out there advocating" for something. He made a private donation, which was not a significant amount in the grand scheme of things ($1,000 either way was not going to make any difference to the outcome). The law required that fact to be made publicly available, and then others publicised it; he didn't voluntarily choose to publicise his donation. When people publicly asked him about his beliefs on the topic, he avoided answering the question.
It's definitely a better business model if you approach it with both eyes open about what you're getting into.
Fair enough... except everyone here is in awe of 11Mbps satellite service, as-if satellite internet is some brand new thing.
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I have no military experience. But I've talked to people who have claimed that the experience erases racially biased tendencies in a lot of people through exposure and a familial bond with people from different backgrounds. It's anecdotal, but I sincerely hope that is the case
> I'm not sure what you mean. I've never had an ebook or paper have any influence on how my PDF reader works or how I interact with it.

I was responding to a quote which I think, in retrospect, I misread:

> > I don't want random authors to be able to dictate how I interact with a medium

To me, random authors of PDF files do dictate how I interact with the content of the PDF file—I'm not sure whether or not to call that "the medium"—because they lay it out, and there is very little that I can do after the fact if, for example, I don't like their line breaks or their text layout, or if I want to be able to do a proper full text search, or cut and paste, etc. etc.

However, on re-reading (including your response above), it seems clear that what you meant, and what I should have understood, was not about being locked into the author's presentational choices, but about the UI of the PDF reader itself. I agree that what I said is irrelevant to this.
Oh I do play a bunch of games. I have no problem enjoying strategy games like Civ, EU4 or base builders like RimWorld. Factorio is just too much like programming for me to find joy in it.
Seriously. I don't understand why there isn't a movement to regulate ISP's like utilities at this point. Why aren't mayors and governors running on this as a major plank?

ISP investments, profits and pricing would all get regulated by the municipality. Performance is monitored and guaranteed.

I've lived in many, many apartments in NYC and each building has only ever had one choice -- Spectrum (was Time Warner) or Optimum. And it's always the same -- it's $24.99-39.99 at first, then after a year it's jacked up to $49.99-54.99, then another year up to $69.99.

It used to be you'd call to threaten to cancel and they'd re-lower it. But they haven't agreed to do that for over 3 years now -- they'll just let you cancel. They know you don't have a choice.

ISP's are so obviously by now a utility like water, gas and electric. Why aren't we treating them that way?
People keep paying for it. That's pretty much it. There's no legitimate reason for a game at the resolutions common to modern consoles to be that big.

Then again, I guess you have to store all those textures for the $9.99 exclusive hot pink and baby shit yellow digital camo shotgun skin somewhere...
This is one of the reasons I like the Nix package manager—I can use Nix to de facto vendor dependencies (at least in the sense of having a local copy where I fully control the version we're on) without the attendant Git/build tool/etc hassle.

If anything, a Nix derivation with a hash is going to be more reliable than a git commit hash even when you control the repo because it forces the build of your vendored dependency (including any transitive dependencies) to be deterministic. The downside, of course, is that it can be a lot of effort to retrofit deterministic builds on top of external codebases not built with that in mind...
...and I do not believe for one second that they have never discovered a copy of data lying around somewhere after they thought it was deleted. The choice is to admit it, or lie about it.
It was supposed to. NYC gave Verizon a deal in exchange for wiring fiber citywide. They never did.
Super cool idea!
Thanks to Coronavirus I’m now using them daily in Australia to record my visit to places.
I'd argue if you get 100 Mbps down, you're not all that rural.
Sitting and typing at a computer all day isn't particularly healthy either, for what it's worth. I do recognize that standing desks can mitigate this, but it's even tough on the wrists.
Is it maybe sarcastic, meant to satirize various other crises that people write about? My first reaction would be it's at least 50-50 this person thinks AGW is fake news.
The comment was "physics being cheaper/easier"

I'm just not convinced the "physics of trenching and stringing cables from poles" (whatever we're taking this to mean) is cheaper and easier than wireless points popped up, either terrestrially or in space.
I have 4, which is unusual. To some the problem, more local competition is needed. The problem is curbing the anti-competitive prentices that prop up local monopolies. States don't seem to care about consumer choice.
As a transplant to Boston I was thrilled that for the first time in my life I actually had a choice of internet provider; I went with "not Comcast", aka RCN, because they were the one who didn't charge an absurd fee to let me use my own router, and the service has been extremely reliable and inexpensive. Apparently Verizon has just begun fiber service as well to my area, so with a whopping three providers to choose from I am perhaps the luckiest person in America.

(The microwave service you mention, Starry, sadly isn't in my area yet, but HN will be delighted to hear that their microwave relays use Rust internally in embedded context.)
the United States population is equivalent to 4.25% of the total world population while accounted for 15.2% of global gross domestic product (GDP). The world definitely need more diversity in the wealth distribution , let's start by just cutting every single American's income every month by 11% and donate it to other countries in the world.
University of Michigan will be hit for $1B

It's definitely an existential threat to the system. The reason unis might survive are 1) government aid direct and indirect 2) Unis have otherwise heavily incumbent positions and the banks will provide money, maybe on ugly terms.

Most colleges are panicking right now, this is not the kind of situation they are in any way equipped to handle.

[1] https://www.newser.com/story/289974/2/colleges-face-existent...
My parents were in a similar situation. They only had terrible DSL in their area.

T-Mobile actually offers a home router with Ethernet out, they got accepted into the beta about 6 months ago and it's been a godsend.

- https://www.t-mobile.com/isp
If you're talking about Start, Tekksavy, Tbaytel and similar, they're all bound to Rogers or Bell. I think the user you're replying to is pretty much right when it comes to Canada, and it shows in the prices you get. Same thing for phones.

A couple providers are through satellite and such in rural areas and in those cases it's typically even worse since the service truly sucks while costing much, and they're in no rush to do anything about it when there are issues on the line. And I'm not even talking about middle-of-nowhere stuff, just places north of Sudbury for example.
No offense taken, but I'm honestly an Associate Professor at a major research university. But no worries, I respect your viewpoint.
Yeah, I'm out in the country with Hughesnet, and it works fine provided you haven't hit the data cap. But streaming 720p or higher is going to be pausing rather consistently.
> Seriously. I don't understand why there isn't a movement to regulate ISP's like utilities at this point. Why aren't mayors and governors running on this as a major plank?

Who do you think gave them these monopolies in the first place?
Totally.

A couple of years back we lived in some mountains in Mexico and the best connection around for miles was less than 5Mbps. Most people had less than 1Mbps.

We then moved closer to civilization and I remember being amazed to be able to watch Netflix in 4K with a 20Mbps connection around 2015 or so.
It's true. Have you read the book "What is Life?" By Schrodinger? He discusses the very concept you're talking about as he speculates on the physical substrate of genetic information (which was discovered to be DNA not long after the book was published).
Speaking of luck, the Formula 3 crash involving Sophia Floersch is one of the craziest displays of luck I can think of.

All of it documented here:
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/formula-1/2020/04/23/sophia-floe...
Almost always, the answer is yes. The exception is in areas where the municipality operates an open access network (i.e., the city installs and owns all the fiber, but multiple ISPs provide service). Community Networks, which is part of ILSR, has a list of some of those communities. [1] UTOPIA is perhaps the most prominent, as it covers several municipalities in Utah. Snazzy labs recently posted a video discussing their network. [2] I have family that has UTOPIA and they can choose from something like 11 ISPs all over the same network. [3]

[1] https://muninetworks.org/content/open-access

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2e9DNwInTE4

[3] https://www.utopiafiber.com/residential-pricing/
It asks for permission to use my camera, with no detail of what the site does. I'm assuming it would also need access to the microphone, but with no indication as to what it is, I'm far less inclined to give these permissions.

Perhaps you could add some sort of description.
What's more amazing is that all his math was done with pen and paper - no computer assistance of any kind. Log tables were available, but all the analysis was done by hand. And brain.
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Apple already provides a completely free portal for monetization - the safari browser. If Facebook is really hell bent on giving the owners all the royalties then redirect them to the webapp. Apple makes the fastest mobile browser to date. It won't be a bad experience.
Well, on a rainy day both LTE and point-to-point wifi here go bad anyway, so it's still an improvement (more signal routes = more chance one works).

People keep comparing Starlink to their ideal non-rural internet connection. That's not what it needs to compete with.
> It is now widely recognized that this attempt to define the semantics of data races has failed, and the Java memory model is broken (I’m citing Hans Boehm here).

This is a bit misleading. C++ also ended up defining the semantics of data races with memory_order_relaxed. In the standard they are not called "data races", but they correspond closely to what Boehm calls Java "giving some semantics to data races". C++ relaxed atomics also have the same issues with causality.

See Russ Cox's talk http://nil.csail.mit.edu/6.824/2016/notes/gomem.pdf
And Viktor Vafeiadis' slides: https://people.mpi-sws.org/~viktor/slides/2016-01-debug.pdf

> Weak atomics give you the same kind of performance as benign data races but they have well defined semantics.

This is mostly true, but not at the limits. GCC, clang, MSCVC, and icc tend to be pretty conservative in how they treat relaxed atomics. For example, on x86 they tend not to generate the reg+mem form and instead generate an explicit `mov` instruction (https://gcc.godbolt.org/z/K135Mo). This requires extra resources for instruction fetch & decoding and uses an extra named register (potentially causing spills to the stack).

> Traditional “benign” races are likely to be broken by optimizing compilers or on tricky architectures.

This is true, but the sad thing is that the implementation of the C++ memory model is sometimes broken too. GCC had lots of real bugs up through about GCC 4.9 (I think...). And then there's http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2017/p066... -- "Existing implementation schemes on Power and ARM are not correct" (2017)
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How many governments do you think have a ready-made safe and secured spot in waiting to store thousands of tons of explosives? Some very wealthy nations might, but I suspect very few could have handled this much better.
Wait, you complain about feature creep then list two non trivial features you want in Firefox?
I personally had a good time re-reading this over and over again when I was migrating python 2 to python 3, it's a great resource: http://farmdev.com/talks/unicode/
They are pushing the Blink engine now instead, though...
You seem to be confusing posters and issues.

I'M the one who said it took 10 years to get fiber. I'm not convinced wired infrastructure is cheaper/easier to deploy, when it means digging up millions (billions?) of miles of trenches across the country.

Nobody claimed "having fiber in silicon valley today" is not better than "having crap internet in rural america"

I have good LTE at my house. That doesn't mean I can get terabytes/month of transfer for a reasonable cost.

And by the way, my ENTIRE POINT was that "the physics of wires" is NOT "cheaper and easier".

Reply to my parent if you're looking for an argument as to why wired is better than wireless.
Interesting perspective. Thanks for sharing. Enjoyed reading your story. Sorry about your memory and aphantasia.

> I have aphantasia, do you happen to have it?

Nope, I'm completely fine. The only thing is that for months afterwards I couldn't head the ball in my weekly soccer game, so I had to give it up. I still kick it around with my friends, but I can't compete in rec because a centre-back has to head the ball, so I don't. I was comparatively advantaged in the air, so that sucks, but c'est la vie, right?
May be this 'would not happen' since most of the 'social' internet is within a single state (CA) and this state is the most hostile to current president?
> make everyone a billionaire

In much the same way everyone can be a Zimbabwean billionaire: the monetary unit is near worthless. Gold’s rarity gives it value beyond its utility.
The ISPs have bought themselves some democracy. They've managed to get numerous state laws passed to prevent local government from doing any of this.
> Public utilities are supervised by the public

I have municipal fiber, which is not common, so I guess that's a fair point.
> Survival is the battle against entropy

See my username ;) But my inspiration was from trying to make a difference within corporate culture, not raw survival.

> controlling the chaos that surrounds us, and shaping it into something useful

i.e., work

> In the long run, life will lose.

Unless there is a transcendent being beyond our universe, an explanation believed by many people for why, a long time ago, entropy was microscopic. The article admits it can't come up with a materialistic explanation and ends by calling it a "mystery".
11 mbps in the middle of a rural location in the heart of Chile ? Count me in!
When I tell people that Finnish middle schools don’t have bells and the kids just go places when they need to they look at me in disbelief. Kids live up to the expectations they are given. The patronizing nature of the American education system is one of the reasons why people here have such a hard time taking personal responsibility for things in my opinion.
I have been mostly happy with Alliant Credit Union.
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You can easily turn that last part around.

It's not for astronomers to ruin our ability to provide essential (and yes, internet is essential at this point) services for billions of people around the world that otherwise can't get it. Incredible entitlement.

It just depends on what you value more, observing the sky, or providing internet.