skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Context is important, though. Network performance advances are always relative. If satellite fully-congested download speed improves 10x while hardwire link performance improves 10x, satellite will still be perceived as "too slow" by some segment. Our experience thus far has been that advances in applications tend to consume the bandwidth available. Whether that trend continues remains to be seen. (To be fair, I have never saturated my bidirectional 1GBps fiber link and I don't foresee ever doing so except for very brief periods of time.)
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The data needs to be sampled in many different location types, the problems discussed can easily be framed as solutions in areas with a lot of animals labelled in the "vermin" category.
It doesn't seem all that different from scaring a herd of buffalo into running off a cliff. No reason that we need to by flying to spring the trap on wild resources.

> Fish Farming seems more sustainable.

It does seem like any major market should be required to farm their resources rather than taking from the commons.
Wow that is a good reminder to secure my robots when driving... a deer jumped out in front of me recently and I had to hit the brakes hard. Luckily didn’t have my robot in the car. As a fellow Robogames competitor I’m glad you made it out of that crash!
Thanks! That convinces me to give it a shot.
> yeah the fact that this company exists and is making a lot of money doing it and likely has an undue influence in how our laws are made makes me shed not a single tear.

I don’t think so. There is a huge undercurrent of government is bad in the US that can be seen in the voting records of the population, and I believe it’s a fundamental issue of people being tribal and not wanting “their” tribe’s resources to benefit another’s tribe.
> They are fundamentally not entitled to the profits of the companies who have to be on their market.

that's not how markets work. Apple is absolutely entitled to charge whatever amount of money they wish, firstly because other companies engage into trade with Apple voluntarily and no one is forcing companies into App Store, they enter it because they know they are going to make money there, and secondly because if Apple is not entitled to this money by their right of ownership of the platform that millions of customers find outstanding, everyone else is even less entitled to own and dispose of these earnings.

It is also up to Apple shareholders to decide what is comfortably profitable.

As for the debt that you mention, accounting doesn't work that way either. Their total long-term and current operational debt as of 2020 can be paid in full, by the half of their immediately available disposable cash. This IS a prime example of a healthy business.
I got a 26" bike for my son a few months ago [1]. It was the last one in the area so I had to pay full retail, which certainly was a disappointment, but it's got a great frame and we can upgrade components as he wears them out

[1] https://www.trekbikes.com/us/en_US/bikes/kids-bikes/kids-hyb...
Pretty sure an American company deliberately subverting another nation's laws to make a profit isn't going to be looked well upon, even if it is unjust CCP laws.

Regarding an American traveling to China - I think you're still beholden to the host country's laws, no? You can't break their local laws just because you're from out of town.

Not to mention the punitive actions CCP could take against Tesla (as they try to build out a business there) to put pressure on SpaceX to stop allowing Starlink access in China. That wouldn't be fair either, but Musk is CEO of both organizations and I'm not sure the CCP would distinguish them separately.
Do you already have a degree in mechanical engineering? If you do, you will likely be able to switch to software without doing another full undergraduate course.
They did not managed to kill anything, there are plenty of markets where iOS is not a presence we care about and keep doing mobile Web applications, business as usual.
I hope it's an act of god or a prexisting condition, and their insurance carrier refuses to pay out.
Oh yeah, I have two of those myself.
China has supposedly been trying to make their own system. The big problem with that, as I understand it, is that they have massive currency controls - people and companies outside China aren't generally allowed to buy and hold their internal currency, and people within China aren't generally permitted to take it out the country or exchange it for other currencies, with some exceptions that have been clamped down on heavily in the last few years. That means they're not a terribly attractive option as the big central clearinghouse for international payments compared to US dollars.
I hope whoever it is donates it all to one of those groups that buys and forgives medical debt
"Picture to QR code converter"?
The US does have a lot of people in rural areas where 5G coverage won't be good. And even if you have good 4G coverage, take take a look at the 4G home internet plans from Verizon: https://www.verizonwireless.com/home-services/lte-internet-i...

For $60/month you get 10 GB of data. For $150 you can go up to 40 GB. Overage is billed at $10 for each additional 1GB.

If I did my math right, at 12 Mbps you can chew through the largest monthly data allotment in under 8 hours.

In practical terms, for $150/month you can't even download one AAA game, and even if you buy all your games on disc you'll probably still go over the data cap just downloading mandatory updates.

Starlink hasn't said anything about data caps yet, but there's plenty of room to compete with terrestrial broadband providers on things other than download speed.
It's degrading ("toxic") to tell a contributor they don't belong in kernel development with comments like the above and the follow-up:

"...you really disqualify yourself from kernel work. Please really just go away and stop this crap."
Not quite. Flash and Shockwave were centrally controlled systems. What Kay probably had in mind, as you can read in Personal Dynamic Media, is all the GUI object frantically sending messages back and forth and aligning themselves.

You still see that now and then, with things like chat bubbles in 3D worlds maneuvering themselves to get clear of other chat bubbles and such as viewpoints change and characters move. But for more static general layout, no.
Perhaps related: our load tests this week showed an increase in 502s from the ALB. The app server request logs indicate those requests never made it from the ALB.
Starlink can't handle that many people, so it's a moot point that there are a theoretical 41 million potential customers.

You can build out landlines far more easily than you can launch satellites; you just need the cable/fiber and some guys to dig a trench. The reason it hasn't happened is because it's not worth the financial investment without government subsidies (and this is why the federal government provides some subsidies for rural broadband buildouts).

Iridium tried to be Starlink a decade or two ago, and they ran into the same problem: the cost of servicing rural and remote areas far exceeds the money you would receive from rural customers without massive government subsidies.
Will Wright has a great quote on game design that I can't find, but it's something like "What makes games fun is when the player has as many choices as possible, and all of them are good choices."

I think factorio succeeds in this well: there are always many things to do which will improve things, so you have to try to optimize which is is the best decision to advance furthest with a given amount of time.
Right-clicking worked for me. Also works with YouTube. Lovely tip.
Scarey that a judge ordered the detention of this material and kept it and kept it in a populated area for years despite multiple regular objections...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Beirut_explosions
https://www.sae.org/news/2020/06/tesla-model-y-big-castings
It's also important to note for this discussion that dogs and cats account for around a quarter of emissions from animal agriculture: https://www.forbes.com/sites/jeffmcmahon/2017/08/02/whats-yo...

As obligate carnivores it is difficult to decrease the overall footprint of a cat. Pet ownership may be one of the biggest components to one's personal carbon footprint. I'm often dismayed by friends and colleagues my age who use environmental arguments for why they won't have children, yet own multiple animals.
Mitchell Baker, Chief Lizard Wrangler, President of the Mozilla Foundation on launch, and MBA middle manager and not a founder, apparently. =( How we like to rewrite history.

https://blog.mozilla.org/press/2003/07/mozilla-org-announces...
Fortnite trolls Apple with 1984 parody video amid App Store ban
4G is slower in the US, largely due to congestion.
An interesting “mundane” fact about this explosion is that it destroyed so many windows that there probably isn’t enough replacement glass in the country to fix all the windows. And with the port destroyed they don’t know how they’re going to receive more glass. Not to mention aluminum and other materials.
I read the links you provided (except [0], which I do not have time for at the moment). I do not think Awodey and McLarty come across as well as you think they do, and I do not think Friedman misunderstands anything.

Moreover, you omit some of Friedman's best postings on this topic. The challenge is to show what advantages this proposed theory has over the standard foundations, or to demonstrate some interesting problem or conceptual issue that it resolves. I did not see any serious replies to this.

(Incidentally, the same challenge is my reply to the other comment to my previous post, about the ZX-calculus.)

Here's an analogy. Why do mathematicians consider groups interesting, but general Moufang loops not interesting? I propose the answer is that the additional generality provided by Moufang loops doesn't aid in addressing any interesting questions external to their theory. On the other hand, the utility of the group concept is obvious to anyone who studies a subject with connections to algebra.

This reasoning is roughly why the vast majority of mathematicians don't give two hoots about category theory, beyond picking up the few tricks like Yoneda's lemma that are actually useful. You can – as certain members of the category theory community have shown – take any mathematical concept, consider some generalization, and play various definition pushing games. But that's pointless without a good motivation (e.g. a concrete problem).

The previous two paragraphs concern "actual" mathematics, but similar remarks apply to foundations of mathematics. Friedman is pointing out that we already have a perfectly good foundational theory of mathematics and asking what gain we get by introducing categorical concepts.
Wonder if an ulterior motive is to hit back at Apple fo Apple increasingly limiting the ability of Facebook and other ad companies to track iOS users.
Over the past few months, I've been trying to recreate some of the alternative data tools commonly used by hedge funds and other professional investors to inform their trading decisions.

The goal of this project is to bridge the information gap between retail investors and Wall Street, by building a free, easy-to-use alternative data platform.

For this dashboard, I have been aggregating daily Twitter follower counts for members of the Russell 3000. I wrote a script to match each company to a Twitter handle (using Selenium to do Google searches for "company name twitter"), and then used the Twitter API to update the follower counts every day.
Before adopting containers it wasn't unusual to SSH in and change a line of code on a broken server and restart. In fact that works fine while the company/team is really small. Unfortunately it becomes a disaster and huge liability when the team grows.

Writing a script to ssh into a bunch of machines and run a common command is the next step. That works far longer than most people acknowledge.

I pine for the old days - I really do. Things are insanely complex now and I don't like it. Unfortunately there are good reasons for the complexity.

Meh.

Containers provide solutions to the problems that someone else had. If you don't have those problems, then containers just create complexity and problems for you.

What problems do they solve? They solve, "My codebase is too big to be loaded on one machine." They solve, "I need my code to run in parallel across lots of machines." They solve, "I need to satisfy some set of regulations."

If you do not have any of those kinds of problems, DON'T USE CONTAINERS. They will complicate your life, and bring no benefit that you care about.
That would have been absolutely awesome. If memory serves me right, my latency was around 150ms on average, which was ok-ish but not great.
They don't pay.
That is fair, will gladly delete, but it appears I cannot since it is flagged.

1 Question, people post the same kind of comment just pro china, I am just taking the other side. Is there a way for me to report those comments to you so that I do not need to break the rules by responding to such a comment with a comment?
It's not a redefinition at all!

Actual deletion is what Facebook told us they did; that's what everyone assumed when they said they were complying with GDPR. This is like advertising a car as 'faster than Mach 5', and then when people call you out for lying, saying, "well, 'faster' is a relative term."

This kind of crap is exactly why people don't trust Facebook. It's not because people are paranoid, it's because Facebook systematically creates expectations in their advertising and public releases that they're acting responsibly, and then acts like they're the victim of unfortunate circumstances and misunderstanding whenever they get called out.

If three weeks ago a tech journalist had written an article saying, "Facebook will fully delete your data when you ask", no one at Facebook would have been reaching out to that journalist saying, "Oh, in the interest of preventing misunderstanding, we don't actually delete the data, we just mark it to be ignored." But now that they've been caught, now it's just a big misunderstanding by people who don't understand database architecture.

When companies tell the public that they're doing something, it is reasonable for the general public to assume that they're referring to the commonly understood definitions of the words they use.
It also may not be limited to 12,000 satellites. They're seeking approval for up to 42,000.

Oct 2019: "SpaceX submits paperwork for 30,000 more Starlink satellites"

https://spacenews.com/spacex-submits-paperwork-for-30000-mor...
Gigabit speeds are great, but 80% of the value of Starlink is just getting the 11 Mbps to the people who can't get even that speed in any better way. There are many (millions?) of Americans who don't have that. So let's calculate from that number (or 10 Mbps, to make it easy).

240K Gbps * 1000Gb/Mb / 10Mbps/customer = 24M customers.

I've heard that in most residential cases, people on average use about a tenth of their bandwidth. That gets us up to 240M customers. That's only about a tenth of the world's rural populations [1], but that is still pretty great.

[1]: https://www.un.org/development/desa/en/news/population/2018-...
More or less, the "top" universities have maintained an ecosystem that attracts so many people over the course of their live and makes people believe that's the "road" to a better life. The problem is not about the pandemic, it's about what's in the mind of average people. People start to have doubts. It doesn't really matter what's the decision afterwards. People start to think about the next level things.
Unfortunately with the immense popularity of SUVs in the US, a lot of people no longer have trunks/boots that are isolated from the rest of the cabin.

I was in a 40-mph crash last year with a large old CRT in my SUV. It shot forward from the back and crashed into the dashboard but if the car had rolled, like yours did...who knows
Even if DSL can get there, reliability of the connection in rural areas is often very suspect. A tree falls over in a winter storm, a bad crash that takes out an exchange box, a pole just plain falls over due to shifting ground, or maybe construction takes out a main trunk... these problems happen in cities too, but in a city you have maybe 1 km of infrastructure to worry about. In rural areas you could have 100 or 200 km of infrastructure just waiting for a calamity. Even just as a reliable alternative Starlink would be a big boon to rural users.
Interesting. I couldn't find the exact law to link to, but did turn up this WaPo article talking about 4 states starting to relax the requirement.

> The universal landline requirement has been repealed in Florida, North Carolina, Texas, and Wisconsin. There, new homeowners have no guarantee that they could order phone service at affordable rates, consumer advocates say.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/landline-rul...
> a single data point is representative

Please feel free to add your data. I don't think it will change the estimate dramatically. An airport trip takes about an hour and costs $80, which sums up to similar numbers.

> that assumes drivers are able to drive 100% of the time

No, it doesn't. Reread my message.

> it assumes all times of day are equally viable

True. I've ignored surge pricing.
Well, we all vote when we use Facebook (or don't use Facebook)
Curse of Tippecanoe
You can't get into the halting problem with finite memory.
You can easily get into the "runs really slow" problem, of course.
I look forward to it. Lithium batteries are quite 'meh' compared to other battery technologies using carcinogenic materials, or combustion technology which leaks many nasty liquids.
I can run an emulator, I would wish for something that looks and feels like CPC.
Relaxing. I took a new job shortly before the quarantines started in the US. I have not performed very well, the blame is about 50/50 between me and the boss/organization. But my boss would rather lay it all on me and I can't get hold of him to discuss the issues, so it's been kind of a crappy week.

So I'll be doing some trivia games with friends over Zoom tonight, run Dungeon Crawl Classics for friends over Roll20 and Discord tomorrow, and relax on Sunday. Only other plans are standard yard and house work.
Ever wonder why "download my data" usually takes a few hours/days on most services before you receive the download link in your email? I promise you compiling the production data doesn't take that long.

Backups are covered under GDPR, although when a user requests erasure you can say "your data will be rotated out in X months/years". Not sure how this applies to access, but I assume it's similar: https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/guide-to-data-protectio...
People can switch from their current ISP now, unless they live in a rural area. They can choose between DSL, cable, or go fully mobile and rely on their 4G/5G connection.

Starlink's bandwidth rates only apply to their beta test. Think about that: with minimal users, speed caps out at 60Mbps! 4G can handle that even when the network is fairly congested.
I do, however its an Associates Degree
USPS Announces Temporary Price Increase
It's not a sigil, it's just a naming convention. For example, in the OCaml world there's a convention for functions that throw exceptions to have a '_exn' suffix. In Haskell there's a convention for monadic function to have an 'M' suffix.
It wasn't a fight over linguistics, it was a fight for the right for same-sex couples to be able to enter into the same legal contract as any other couple. the idea that there existed a "separate but equal" set of rights under a distinct legal contract is questionable, but also not a fight over linguistics.
https://signal.nfx.com
American railroads were privately owned from the beginning, until passenger rail started dying off due to competition from airlines, when the US nationalized passenger rail. Freight rail is still private and owns the actual tracks, and passenger rail is even less important today outside of Acela, which would probably do even better than it does today if Amtrak were privatized and allowed to drop the legacy long-distance lines that only lose money in order to reinvest in Acela.

AWS isn’t the highway system. It’s the railroad. Now, railroads aren’t all good. Farmers were once relieved that the railroad would buy all of their produce but ultimately grew resentful that the railroad had become the only cost-effective buyer and shipper and could dictate prices to them—this is the etymology of the term “railroaded”. And eventually with the interstate highway system, the railroads had to compete with trucking.

And from that perspective, AWS isn’t even the railroad. It’s a trucking company. The railroad owns the tracks. AWS doesn’t own the tracks; they operate on the same highway that Azure and GCP use. If someone invents something better than AWS, people will invest in migrating to it; that’s how they ended up on AWS in the first place.

Does that mean that the network connectivity should be a public utility? Maybe at the last mile (municipal broadband?) but the backbones seem to work fine as a competitive market, too.

Did you know that the US was one of the only countries where radio was privatized when it was first invented? Most countries nationalized their radio airwaves and had the government control all the broadcasting. We do have the FCC to allocate spectrum but we also had a remarkably free market in broadcasting and, as a result, led the world in radio technology well into the 20th century. Even Britain was so committed to controlling the radio that as late as the 1960’s, the unmet demand for listening to rock music on the radio could only be met by pirate radio stations broadcasting from ships at sea.
Ask HN: My tower defense game is almost ready to launch
Hi everyone, I've been working on this tower defense game and I'm inviting people to get to know it because I plan to release it soon. I'm just serious in doubt where should I released it, given that I want to charge people a small amount of money.

Where would you like to play this? On your cellphone or desktop? Any specific platform (steam, itch.io)?

I've been thinking about releasing a package of levels for free on my website and then sell (for a small price) packages with new levels. I think this is a good strategy where I could demo the game and if people really like it, they would contribute buying content. How do you feel about that? Could this strategy hurt me in the long way, if I want to become a game dev (Epic x Apple/Google polemic)?

Please, help me out on this. Here's a little play through I recorded today.

https://twitter.com/victorqribeiro/status/129435445402472448...
"“It has been a long-standing objective of the Mozilla team to create an independent organization so we can continue to lead and innovate,” said Mitchell Baker, Chief Lizard Wrangler at mozilla.org, who will become President of The Mozilla Foundation."

Just a lawyer. MBA middle management. Not a founder. Right.

https://blog.mozilla.org/press/2003/07/mozilla-org-announces...
Signed up! Will use this 100% for sure for my YouTube channel, called Landing Page feedback on the tube - because I need a more robust way to highlight things and this looks like it has the editing capabilities i need without the overhead
Would he care though?

A good 80% of the people I see riding 3k+ road bikes (in an area that likes to bike, there are lots of them) are carrying far more extra pounds on their bodies than they could ever shave off the bike. It's probably safe to say that the vast majority of people riding bikes have far better bang-for-buck performance improvements available to them than a new bike or components, but don't choose them....
This is why I would love to see more devices with physical disconnect switches for mic and camera.

Software just can’t be trusted for this use case.