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Shooting down another country's satellites is an incredibly bad idea.

First, it's one of extremely few actions actually likely to get you nuked or "liberated" - you just threatened one of the most valuable strategic advantages (even if it's just a civilian satellite, it wasn't yours, and militaries will consider their satellites under threat).

Second, in case you're not aware, the remains of the satellite now are a danger to any other object in that orbital plane, and this can trigger a cascade reaction and take lots of them down, making new launches impossible for many years. Look for Kessler Syndrome.
That has more to do with access to abortion and lower water lead levels than anything else.
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How about: a group of highly sophisticated and very skilled mathematicians generate a proof no mere mortals (and lesser mathematicians) can understand, but fret not: another genius mathematician can assure us of its validity.

Hmmmmmmm. Yeah, that sounds much better. What do you think?
Wow, that's actually the least stupid domain in the list...
They must have provisioned less spectrum to uplink. Usually people want more downlink, less uplink. Symmetric services exist, but are usually offered as a "pro" or enterprise solution.
So everyone should work until they die? Sounds delightful.
The demand is not limited to americans, most third-world countries will benefit from having high speed internet unconstrained by local infrastructure and lack of investment. Having stayed in South East Asia I know the locals would very much appreciate having more than one option: pay-as-you-go mobile data bundles.

Even in rural parts of Scandinavia where I spent my vacation, 4G signal was too weak and ISP's refuse to lay fiber unless the whole neighborhood commits to subscribe.

This may concern millions of people who need basic or better internet access, meanwhile there are only a few thousand astronomers in the world.
There would be less spam if sending it had an actual cost.

Perhaps we should just add a (small) price to sending email?
This isn't a good cross-platform option but on AWS I just use systems manager and don't actually allow direct SSH login. There are a few things you can't do like using SCP but in my world this is a feature, not a bug. It means that to send stuff in and out of the environment requires a S3 bucket which we can analyse.

I'm sure that you could either build your own using xterm.js [0] or by using one of the many projects that implements it. I'm not sure if systems manager uses this project but it certainly looks very similar.

[0] https://xtermjs.org/
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I'm confused. What's the 30-year-old problem?

Whether there is a classification of gamma ray bursts or two classes or predicting in what class a burst belongs into?
If you check out the livestream on youtube, you'll see that he does the writing in Bear (Mac/iOS only app). Presumably there's some custom code to export everything and build the HTML with backlinks, but as mentioned in the link posted here, this code is not public anywhere.
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> I don't understand this, can't we just grow more trees?

Sure.

But you also have to transport people to the forests where they grow, operate machines to cut them down and trim them, transport them to pulp mills, use a lot of water to generate the pulp (often add bleach to whiten it), and then distribute the final product. There's also the create of printers and ink/toner.

And once DK has spent 30-60s reading the printout, it gets tossed into (hopefully) the blue pin where more energy is spent trying to recycle it.

And a lot of the energy used is generated from fossil fuels.
Programmatically? Certainly. As a matter of App Store policy? Facebook shouldn’t count on it, even if that were allowed by the rules as written today (which I don’t think it is, but Apple has pretty much covered all of their bases as far as arbitrarily changing policy on the fly goes).
> Changed by: Ursula N. Owen, 8-Mar-1999
Yes, in Natural Selection 2 you can't properly ambush anyone unless you take into account the ping and jump on them before you even see each other.
> expensive to feed ... take up a lot of room ... family ... become needy balls and chains.

So you go rid of the lab instead of the obvious solution?
yes, because running on the whole number #1 cluster is just recompiling your non-trivial software. no, it's not (just take a look at QuantumEspresso, which is widely used, not too bad, but does not scale tooo god with non-Fortran and QE experts testing). And as I said, this is a fine price, I just doubt that it's worth anyones attention who is not building an upper 6-figures to some millions cluster. And unless you actually port your application with Fujitsu (which incurs also personell cost) to take advantage of the arch, you will just fare better if you buy a bog-standard EPYC or even Skylake-Refresh, which "just works the same way it did before"©
More and more users use 4G at home rather that WiFi. In general, home WiFi seems flaky, stops working in some rooms, cuts out if you go outside, etc.

It's often easier to just use 4G always.
This.

Writing a book and selling copies of it is a perfect example of a productive activity. How on earth writing a book can be construed as a "passive" activity?

A clear example of non-productive (parasitic) activity is renting real state that you inherited. You are extracting, continuously, a lot of money from society without having ever produced anything of value. I do not understand by what crazy mechanism this is regarded as a socially acceptable thing to do.
Which is quite sad, given how relevant both countries were in giving birth to them during the early days of industrial revolution.
Also, people complaining on back button removal, but it is not removed.
The DRM module could be on a separate bit of memory from the actual OS, meaning that it would stay upgraded even if the rest was downgraded. It doesn't use fuses (AFAIK anyway), but f.e. the baseband on your phone works like this.
I fail to see the difference between SaaS and book sales.
People are still working to sell new copies of the book you wrote 10 years ago - it needs to be printed, distributed, sold to the customer (and maybe shipped to him afterwords). In the same way, SaaS needs to be maintained and operated.
In both cases someone gets to do the ongoing work, and someone gets paid for the original work.

Why do you think they are qualitatively different?
I usually hate scrollbar hijacking like this one but for once, I think the effect looks really cool and fits the theme of story nicely.
As it is, I'd like to encourage what feels like the only large corporate entity that cares even a little about users' privacy.

If there was even a single other large consumer company with a slightly better record on privacy than Apple, your view would be more understandable. As it is, at every turn industry after industry is getting infected with the "extract value through users' data" disease. Apple seems to be resisting that trend at least for now.
I don't know about anybody else, but I know I have a huge motivation cliff when it comes to continuing to pay the consequences for old mistakes that I have already sacrificed to make amends for?

Sometimes, you just have to be professional and deal with it, if you want to have a quality product and look after your users.

We'd never accept a doctor or an engineer taking this attitude. If they discovered a mistake with potentially serious consequences in their earlier work, we would expect them to make it good as quickly and safely as possible.

Software makes a crazy amount of money and has a huge impact on billions of lives every day. Frankly, we as devs enjoy good and often very well paid jobs. I don't think we should accept that attitude in our industry either. If anyone doesn't like that, maybe invest more in writing better code in the first place and in testing before going into production so there are fewer problems to revisit!
Oops!

Deary me. Reading comprehension fail.
Perhaps that should be taken as a sign that MPAA and RIAA are overstepping acceptable behaviour and should back off

... rather than abusing international laws intended for serious infractions

The rest of the world should say "did they shoot innocent civilians in a foreign country? ... no, oh well then we'll put it at the bottom of the pile and get back to it when you , the USA, have cleaned house on REAL criminal activity."

Just how screwed up does "justice" have to be to put corporate profits derived from rentseeking on digital goods over war crimes ... ?
The alternative is that your phone shuts down
My sarcasm rose out of the way your question was framed. Seemingly to suggest that the only options are either being gifted in multiple fields or being a fluke by nature of being gifted in only one.

Perhaps my comment missed highlighting those facts that she wrote a book on homosexuality back when India didn't even acknowledge it exists and that she contested elections standing against the then Prime minister of India.

But even she hadn't why was the question framed as though the only explanation for her abilities, in the case she wasn't a polymath, is fluke?
I remember when 4G launched here in Atlanta I could pull down 100Mbps no problem.

I still can (pulled 150mbps down as a test for this comment), but I could then too. Getting 150/30 to nearby servers.

I guess I live next to the tower lol.
I assume you are talking about the pendulum.
PID tuning is fundamentally restricted to holding set points and can't deal with non-linearites to reach those set points.

MPC if solved over a to small time horizon might fail to find a windup trajectory. But that isn't a restriction. However i would consider MPC overblown for this, as MPC is usually a series of optimal control problems.

By optimal control i assume you mean things approaches where you optimize a u() so it minimizes some integral. This approach does just that, only that u is not parametrized by polynomials/splines but by a neural network, taking state, time and other things into account.
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No. The welfare state (and the UBI) are great social constructions! Unfortunately, they are in danger precisely by the parasitic activities of rent-seekers.
How does this contradict anything of what I said?
Would it be different if I rented real estate that I bought with money I earned with my labor? In that case, I would say that your beef is with inheritance, not rent.
Downgrading might also break apps and streaming services.
>Making Sense of ‘One of the Most Baffling Animals That Ever Lived’

>Important mysteries have been solved about a reptile with a giraffe-like neck that hunted prey 242 million years ago.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/12/science/reptile-long-neck...
Lex Fridman had an interesting interview with Don Knuth close to his 82nd birthday[0]. It's fascinating to learn how much energy he still spends at verifying and investigating each aspect of newly published algorithms. E-mail would probably cut away too much time from what he considers more important.

[0]: https://youtu.be/2BdBfsXbST8
The way you address it is unfortunate, but I think you make a salient point about the learned helplessness of a lot of people. That's what's moving companies to do ever more evil things, they're not some unstoppable force - they're just being enabled.
What does that mean!? Might a millisecond there last as long as a few of our Earth seconds? What is this concept called ( for me to read up on it)?
I'm eagerly awaiting reports from beta users about the length of downtime during antenna repositioning and handover to another satellite.

Hopefully it's sub-second. I can't think of anything apart from a competitive gamer playing a shooter that might be intolerant of this.
I speak a lot with customers on satellite phones more or less every day. When they are calling from a BGAN terminal the latency can be a problem. Latency is around 1000-1500ms. But when speaking on a VSAT Ka-band terminal the latency is less of a problem. Data latency is around 600-800ms on VSAT. So I doubt latency of 100ms would be a problem at all. Most VOIP solutions have some mechanisms to reduce the perceived latency.
Because back in the 90ies when credit cards didn't have CVV etc and you could simply generate "valid" credit card numbers, everybody used them to get access to porn.

And still today, porn accounts are next to netflix & co on the DNMs. It's a sought after thing that's digital. Carding material products is much harder and riskier.
And that has nothing to do with Disease Control and is a clear demonstration of mission creep. The CDC has recently displayed its incompetence regarding its core function. Maybe it should master that before addressing other issues of society which are, at best, only tenuously in its purview.
Ask HN: Why is there so little discussion of the MPL 2.0 license on HN?
The license appeals to me as a good middle ground between GPL and MIT but I am unable to find a high quality debate about its merits or flaws on HN or anywhere else for that matter.
Yes, you should subsidize your employer by investing in your own specialized training and your own specialized equipment. With all the cutbacks the government isn't doing that for them any more so it's up to you to deliver solid value to the shareholders and quarter-over-quarter growth.
It reminds me of the StarCraft briefing room:
https://superiorrealities.files.wordpress.com/2014/04/screen...
But that kind of marketing is like saying you should drink water to replace your beer: it doesn't claim the water is beer; it's claiming you probably will be happier with water.

See also the "What's a computer" ad for the iPad Pro.
I find their argument somewhat disingenuous, as they are paid for that mining directly by governments (they famously created the MVP with the express intent of selling it to the US), and therefore have never needed to consider advertising.
The USA is doing it: The permitting authority is a US government agency taking unilateral decisions that affect the entire globe.
Good. Let Facebook’s app die in a fire. Their propensity for user data is second maybe only to Google. It’s creepy. And doesn’t really do much in the way of good. I laud Apple for their move here.
Interesting. I remember having written an email to Donald Knuth about 15 years ago. And, surprise surprise, I got a reply! In retrospect, my question was extremely naive. However, I am still thankful for a honest answer.
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anyone know, what happens if some of these satellites fail and are uncontrollable (which is bound to happen at some point)
You could be right when it comes to the network "piece." The reason I proposed it is to enforce identification tied (indirectly) to a single human being, in perpetuity. It would also be attractive to make transmission of old-style web traffic over the new network difficult, to avoid the existing web subsuming the new one. There may be other ways to wind up with the same result. Ha! Maybe neither way is possible! The internet is so complex, it's hard to reason about.
If you want to make tracking opt-in, that's great. Doing so would obsolete the do-not-track header. But do-not-track was never going to do that itself. The purpose of do-not-track was to be an explicit declaration of intent. Trying to co-opt it benefited no-one.
That is absolutely not what rent-seeking means. Users of the SaaS are still gaining value from it -- otherwise they wouldn't be using it anymore.

It is only economic rent, and rent-seeking behavior, if the OP instead focuses their energy on (for example) making it so that it is illegal to use anything other than their SaaS application for that particular purpose.
I still remember when phones had replaceable batteries.
One user more for ChromeOS.
That is only true if you are not in banking. In banking, earning interest is an 'ancient virtue'.
I would take a middle of the road approach and say that you should be incredibly sparing with who you give your email and maybe have a custom spam filter so you only get a few really important emails per month.
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Have a look here then ;)
https://retrohax.net/beeb-errr-bbc-micro-restoration-and-upg...
You can get digital disposable phone numbers online
Fortunately the sorting machine dismantling has been stopped for the relevant future.
I'm not refuting anything! What I'm saying is if you claim to know how to change and improve education you better have some evidence to support your claim. As to why I feel like I can comment..my father has been an education consultant for the past 30 years, before that he was a teacher, my sister is a teacher and so was my mum. What you're espousing is an ideological approach that you'd like to be true. Why not claim its true, I mean, you're smart right, why would you need evidence to backup what you're saying?
Get a keyboard with layer support, https://docs.qmk.fm/. No need for different modes ...
That’s one way to look at it.

Apple has two sets of customers. They architected the worlds greatest casino through the AppStore, and the developers who make the machines are just as morally pure as Facebooks customers.

Look at the Epic controversy, which boils down to who should get the biggest cut of real money from selling bullshit virtual funny money.
This is essentially the austerity that was pushed onto Southern Europe because the ECB didn't have any mandate to engage in monetary policy until 2012, when the ECB started to rely on more creative readings. By this time it was QE from the US Fed that was driving the recovery, but the ECB did eventually engage in similar practices, if only to bail out assets owned by the northern banks.
I assume financial software has the concept of a set of atomic transactions - ie. "debit bob $X and credit mary $X".

Given that, presumably all buttons an operator clicks should generate a set of atomic transactions between customers and the bank.

An automated system can then check that the total loss to the bank after these transactions have been executed isn't too big.

I can't really imagine how any bit of software didn't have those checks in place...
"Jonny" sounds like the kind of person that wants to purchase software at a one-time cost, and then expect free lifetime upgrades (which include all the outrageous demands such as supporting legacy UI).

I think Johnny sounds like the kind of person who wants to buy software once, then simply have it keep working the same way indefinitely unless he chooses to buy a newer version. The only updates Johnny wants for free are the ones that fix defects in the original product that should never have been there in the first place like security vulnerabilities.

I don't see how Johnny's position is unreasonable. If you bought a fridge or washing machine and it turned out after some years that a design flaw created a dangerous situation, you would expect (and in some places, the law would require) the original manufacturer and/or vendor to recall the product and make it right. Software developers have enjoyed a free ride on this issue for many years, which was OK when the culture was that they would issue free bug fix updates from time to time voluntarily. If that is no longer the case and they're not going to fix important problems without also forcing other changes that the user might not want, maybe it's time software developers stopped getting a free ride on shipping poor quality products in the first place.
I don't have the same impression. The issues are there, but there's much less tension and conflict. If you read news, you're mostly reading activists though.
Im seriously pissed that Garmin Connect iOS app has Facebook SDK in it. I found it googling what apps were crashing because of recent few FB SDK bugs. My Garmin watch has most sensitive data ever, health data like exercise, sleep and heart rate, and location from GPS.
Interesting... maybe give Gluster a spin when you bored of have time.
Oh wow, I thought you were replicating it off of the site, not the actual designer of it! That's awesome, I've seen it before and been curious to try to make it myself. Helix keyboard is pretty popular here (Japan) but never tried it more than brushing them (pre-COVID lol) in the mech specialty shop in Akihabara.

I'll definitely make the plunge at some point, just gauging expectations on how roughly much I should expect to invest time-wise before :)

Thank you for your work, I think it's hard to appreciate the contribution things like the ergodex is making for moving towards chorded and other more suitable text input interface for computers. Especially as we transition to VR.
> They've studied it enough to know that it doesn't have any appreciable effect.

Well results seem conflicted on this. This very study (the one linked here!, ie[1]) shows a significant result.

It's an observational study, but that is a normal part of the scientific process during medical research.

There are plenty of other studies showing no result. But this is hardly the only one showing positive results.

So I don't think the science is settled on this (and it would be astonishing if it was in the 4 months since this process started!). I think Trump's behaviour on this has been atrocious and has caused harm, but that doesn't mean anything regarding if it works or not.

[1] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S092485792...
Why would we need to hand off our data to Big Tech, though?
MS certainly got the ball rolling with their anticompetitive behavior. But it was not until Facebook and Google created their spyware empires that it became essentially impossible to create paid content on the internet. Now the entire internet economy is broken.
Polynomials (or rather multinomials) suffer from the curse of dimensionality badly when needing more terms (look how taylor series terms explode). Neural networks do better.
The fact that a neural network is computed using polynomials is irrelevant since the way the NN is parametrized is different from a sum of a basis of polynomials.
You can inspect the vector field to proof certain properties of the neural network.
SINDy is already mentioned in another reply.
> Figuring: The Joy of Numbers

Archive.org (link to the chapter): https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-505/page/n81/mode/2up
Language websites are meaningless to me.

I pick languages based on frameworks and platform SDKs.

The language is a side effect of the ecosystem being targeted.

Otherwise it is just like picking books based on the cover.
> That’s not necessarily out of malice

It is not malice, it's laziness and stupidity. Most apps are so trivial it is absolutely not necessary to break compatibility when you release a new version.
All the "wealth" I have results from my own income.
And my "power" simply doesn't exist.

Although I think these sort of comparisons are pretty useless,
I am sure there are a lot of black people with more power then a blind white man.
I'm struggling to imagine a network path that could induce a 1-2 second delay from one side of the world to the other. Even at just 50% of c-in-vacuum that's only a tenth of a second.
> Imagine being able to conduct a robot controller surgery in Africa, by a doctor in the US.

Highly unlikely for many reasons: latency too high, cost of equipment way too high, only very few hospitals are even equipped for remote surgery even in the West, let alone underdeveloped countries...

> Imagine an electrical engineer being able to help his colleagues in Africa

That's already possible even without satellite-based internet and doesn't require it at all.

The only point I agree with is the military - surveillance and remote controlled drones could benefit from greatly from low-latency high-bandwidth satellite internet.