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Wouldn't SpaceX be amortizing though vs their satellites and rockets too? They must have had to invest a significant amount in R&D and supply chain setup already to figure out aerospace grade electronics. It seems like the terminals, despite being extremely impressive, would still be much easier (and could reuse some know-how) than what they've needed to deal with for their rockets, capsules, and satellites? And they're definitely aiming pretty mass market with millions of terminals in the US alone.
No, to produce milk a cow needs to be pregnant or recently pregnant so milk production requires forced insemination and giving birth to the calf. After birth, the calf is separated from the mother to be caged for veal, raised as a milking cow, etc., and the mother is re-inseminated so she can keep producing milk and the process starts over.
The amount of ads on this website is insane.
I'm sure that will make those 5,000 who have trouble walking or smiling feel so much better.
If you hold an Amateur Radio license it would be entirely legal for you to repurpose this hardware for transmitting in one of the many allocated amateur bands, as long as the standard rules were followed. (No encryption, always identify yourself with your callsign.)

There is a long tradition of radio amateurs re-purposing other radio hardware. CB radios can often be retuned into the 10 meter band, wifi transceivers can work inside the 13cm band, for example.
Though there are reports that approval will come "within a few weeks" of the December 10th meeting.
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A majority of people dont do bad deeds because they're "good hearted". They dont murder or steal because they're afraid of the consequences. Theres plenty of folks you want to punch in the face. Maybe once, twice or until they stop breathing. You lie to yourself that you dont do it because you're a good person. No, you're afraid they'll punch back, or their friends will intervene or assault charges. Or even better, you're too weak to cause consequential harm.

Yes nukes stopped a lot of potential wars. Good. If the mere existence is all that's needed to stop like half the wars that ever could be... and? Obviously I dont want them used. But wars happen and theres nothing anyone can do about that. Its human nature to be a bunch of cunts.

And there have always been a bunch of existential problems on the horizon. A decent reading of history shows that people have been fearful of whatever the latest fad of problems. The only real difference, in the last 100 years we are not at the complete and total mercy of nature. Only partially. It's only fairly recent that a drought here and there, blizzard, tornado, hurricane or volcano doesn't have epically large consequences in death toll. Those numbers are far less than they used to be.
> Am I being cynical in thinking there are probably plenty of enterprise suppliers out there providing similar creepy "user insights" information to dodgy managers, but just aren't in the spotlight like Microsoft?

I would be highly surprised if there weren't. However, it'd far worse if Microsoft provided such features, because that would mean there'd be much less friction for an enterprise to adopt them (since pretty much all of then already license Office). At least with those other suppliers, a company would have to have decided it wanted worker surveillance and seek it out, rather than getting it out-of-the-box by default.
> Is it like this across USA?

The person you replied to isn't in the USA.

That said, broadband costs are inversely correlated with population density, more or less. In most (but not all) US cities fast, reliable broadband is easy to come by. Obviously you can find one-off complaints here and there from people who have exceptions, but the general situation isn't as dire as the edge cases.

> I have a 350mb/15mb connection for £50($66)

For comparison, I have 1000Mbps for about the same price in a medium sized US city. I have friends in other US cities who pay more than you for less bandwidth, though. It just depends on the location.

> In the UK...

The challenge with the USA is that we have a lot of land, some of which is very sparsely populated. We have 10 different states that each have more land area than the entire UK. For example, Texas is almost 3 times the size of the UK, but has half the population. It's a challenge to get high speed infrastructure everywhere, and another challenge to keep it updated every decade as speeds advance.

That's where Starlink shines: The sparsely populated areas where running high speed infrastructure to everyone is prohibitively expensive.
> Oh, by the way, this makes "OpenMPW" totally unusable for any RF work, or any design that needs an analog input.

Pretty sure that there are some analog io pins in the caravel harness.

> This sort of Management Engine garbage is exactly what we need open silicon in order to avoid.

The comparison of the caravel harness to Management Engine seems weird - caravel itself is also open, from RTL down to GDSII.

> Serious MPW providers

It's been pretty obvious that this first free shuttle run is not a "serious" MPW provider, but the first trial of a new (open) PDK and a lot of new tools. If you are looking for a serious professional provider, look elsewhere or perhaps come back later.
Firebase is safe...right?
No. You can only cross a rubicon that actually exists.

The world has always been too complex for any of us to understand.

Edited to add: if you find the modern world unintelligible, wait until you study the prehistoric one upon which that modern world still depends. It has absorbed millennia of investigation by the best minds in history so far, with no end in sight.
Except it has nothing in common with that joke or situation.

Microsoft didn't say sorry and then do nothing. They did the inverse: they did not apologize, but they did respond to criticism and fix the issue.
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I used to follow the "separation of concerns" ideology, but there's a single sentence in the Tailwind CSS guide[1] that changed my entire perspective on this:

"No more adding silly class names like sidebar-inner-wrapper just to be able to style something, and no more agonizing over the perfect abstract name for something that's really just a flex container."

I work in front-end primarily, and so much of my time is spent building a tightly coupled dependency between a HTML template and a stylesheet, coming up with names like ".container" and ".wrapper" and ".content", and when the layout changes, I have to change the stylesheet too. Do these things really need to be separated? Outside of uniquely implemented animations, I'm now of the opinion that... no, they really don't, and I've started adopting Tailwind into my projects to great success, less maintenance toil, and faster iterations.

[1] https://tailwindcss.com/docs/utility-first
Why should we weight the life of a person who attempts to kill themselves three times as three times as valuable as the life of someone who succeeds on the first attempt?

Even within a given category of method of suicide, men have a greater success rate. Places where the most efficacious method of killing yourself (guns) are banned still maintain a ~3:1 male:female suicide death ratio.

A naive read on suicide attempt:success rates suggest that men are literally 10x as effective of women in achieving their aims. That's the kind of ratio that suggests that there's something big not being captured in the statistics, and in that case it's important to focus on the more objective measure (a death by suicide) than something relatively subjective (a suicide attempt)
Looking at the frequency of the art uploaded and the effort in it I bet the artists and those who used that platform would indeed care about it being killed by Google.
Words like "natural" can be tricky. Dying when struck by a bus is natural. That doesn't mean that busses are a natural feature of the world, or that you shouldn't look before crossing, or that an ER shouldn't make an effort to save the bus-stricken.

What do you make of the fact that connecting aged organs to young mice restores the organs? I think we should pursue drugs and treatments that improve function in aged populations, do you? Maybe ageing bodies just need to be occasionally cleaned out to restore healthy function.

Maybe it is "natural" to die, but unnecessary to suffer collapse along the way? Worst-case we have to compete in our careers and marathons with then healthy elderly and endure that same happy fate ourselves.
The answers seem sort of trivial: using the same ethical framework that informs your decision-making process on other ethical questions. Regardless of the unique flavor of one's moral tradition, most seek to limit the suffering of sentient beings.
Innovation is over here, and Stagnation is over there.

You can't expect them to a) Innovate, and b) Pay forever for something that's not succeeding.

You may draw the line differently, but in this specific instance, I think you're being unfair.
It's strange that getting promoted is such a universal goal. Many or most people who start on the promotion ladder get stuck in the miserable middle. There's surprisingly little reflection on whether or not the extra money is worth the extra hassle, or at what point one should avoid further promotion.
"The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function” - Albert Allen Bartlett
It's not realy moral hazard, it's about what is the goal.

If the goal is to slow down the pandemic, then the "irresponsible spreaders" should be vaccinated first.

On the other side, if the goal is to punish "irresponsible spreaders", then they should be vaccinated last. But that also means that pandemics would not be slowed down, and the ones taking that decision will be responsible for further spreading.
The law keeps a fleet of US shipping vessels and seamen around, but makes some things in Hawaii quite a bit more expensive.
Ah, my mistake then.
>When a big company offers a service or product you expect a long shelf life so you can justify the time/money investment to use it.

I bought a Chromebook in 2014. It still works, but support was discontinued earlier this year. That sounds okay to me. I wonder if Poly was popular? I've never heard about it 'til today.
Yep, that and the mention of an apology in the headline when there is none in the body is enough for me to flag this piece of corporate propaganda.
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>> huge amount of force in the middle of a ship to break it.

But that isn't what they are doing. This isn't cracking the ship into halves. This is very slowly grinding a hole through the structure. Look to the edges of the cut line and you will see the failure mode of the metal is very different. No sharp/jagged fractures, more round peeling off of metal. It is the difference between using an axe and using a saw.
Understand is doing a lot of lifting here, it's also probably wrong that all the black boxes are understood. No one actually understands economics, we are all using a bunch of decades/century old models that don't really hold up in the real world and when they don't are dismissed as being influenced by outside factors in a complex system. See raising the minimum wage causes unemployment and inflation is a monetary phenomenon for 2 examples.
I would guess the opposite actually. There must be such a small number of companies that can handle these scales but a disproportionately large number of ships that we’ve produced of this size. I would bet there’s real good money to be made.
Reminds me of a story I read - some company had a batch job that ran for hours and for some reason if the computer went to screen saver, the batch job crashed and had to be restarted. Rather than actually find the root of the problem (of course), or disable screensaver (not allowed per security policy), they just assigned somebody to move the mouse every few minutes to keep the screensaver from activating.

So one day, the guy brings in a vibrating baby bouncer, puts the mouse in the baby bouncer, and kicks back for the rest of the day.
> There is no second hose. They've mostly given up on the idea of a clever person finding a new money-hose.

I think they are quite shortsighted. The idea of running Google as a conglomerate, turning it into Alphabet, was good. But somehow, they have not been able to get rid of those layers of middle management that kill innovation. I've heard that Calico and other ventures are really political, and lot's of people that moved there hoping to do great work are quite frustrated.

Which is a shame, because they do have know how and technology to achieve great things. Just out of the protein folding results of this week you could spin off dozens of highly successful startups.
A better measurement would be million transistors per square milimeter(Mtr/mm2).

So Intel's self reported 44Mtr/mm2 @ 14nm, and 100Mtr/mm2 @ 10nm(but currently 10nm is having problems).

Comparing this to Tsmc's 170Mtr/mm2 @ 7nm and 250Mtr/mm2 @ 5nm - is a pretty valid comparison, I think.
Says the commenter with zero evidence to support their claims.
I have ~350/20 (just tested 342.6/20.9) in a small city in the USA (300k pop). I currently pay $80, but on nonpromotional pricing, its about $100 for internet only. Reliability has been great, but it's important to note that this is the only high speed internet option in my area. Basically, most of America is split between Comcast(xfinity) or Charter(spectrum), and some lucky places have real competition. I _could_ get worse internet via satellite or w/e, but if I want over ~20mps (last time I checked), I have to use Charter. I've used Comcast when living elsewhere, with similar pricing, but anecdotally worse reliability.
Apple fundamentally has more units to spread their designs across. Also, for Apple performance per watt is king. Getting 5% better battery life for a phone is massive. For a desktop or even a laptop, it's nice, but maybe not worth paying the premium for TSMCs latest die shrink.
Firstly, it's not yoy. It's for one arbitrary month. It's not a trend. And it's insignificant. Suicides make up a tiny percentage of japan's death and population. Sure every suicide is tragic but it's really not a serious problem. Their 30 year economic stagnation and their low birthrate is far greater concern than suicide. It's the washingtonpost earning money by fetishizing japan/suicide and virtue signaling. It's one of the many problems with news. It's not that they report news, they have to manufacture news every single day. On slow news day, it's back to "japan suicides".

Also, wasn't there a study that said news of suicide actually contributed to more suicides? That spamming national suicide hotlines across social media actually increased suicides. That most people, including borderline suicidal people, don't think about suicide until it is broadcast all over news/social media?
Of covid or the vaccine? Vaccine side effects are, generally speaking, either immediate, or are a problem with the immunological response that they elicit. I would say that these scenarios have not been fully evaluated, but the risk of other kinds of side effects is very very low.
Ask HN: Could a phone at sub-zero (C), heated by load, result in net inc. usage?
Those who've spent time in a sufficiently cold environment (below zero C), and spent time outside with a fully-charged phone, may have experienced taking it out to snap a photo, only to have it suddenly register low-battery life, and then completely shutdown, sometimes within seconds. Mobile phone batteries at sub-zero temperatures lose voltage, and as a result can incorrectly think they have depleted the battery. If cold enough, they will shut down completely. Observing that the same phone, when under certain conditions of high load, can exhibit significant increases in overall temperature; could there be a net positive in terms of usable time, by intentionally ladening a sub-zero degree phone with redundant tasks, with the intention to create sufficiently distributed heat in the phone housing, and therefore warm the battery to the point it performs nominally, resulting in a net positive in terms of being able to use the phone for a longer time - or in extreme cases - at all?
Bootstrapping is fun until you can't make payroll.

If your goal is an exit, and you can raise this much, why not.
I agree with you that a world without high-quality natural animal products would be a dull one, but most meat sold is unfortunately from mass production AG.

I don't know for the US, but in France 82 % of poultry, 90% of pigs et 99 % of rabbits come from mass production.

So if you live in the city and cannot really know the origin of what you eat, you can bet it's been mass produced.

I think that's why there's such a hype around vegetarianism and veganism right now : not so much because eating animal is an absolute evil, but because most animal products available do not come from a family owned ranch in Wyoming but from places like this one : https://animaux.l214.com/poulets/elevage-poulets-duc-yonne-2...
Hope she wins the Nobel Prize.
Well, Kashmir under India has their own problems, more shocking. Nationalist Hindus are angry about a muslim-hindu kiss on Netflix. Meanwhile the government wants to stop inter-religious marriages.

https://time.com/5915872/love-jihad-india-democracy/
TIME: Laws Against 'Love Jihad' Are Yet Another Serious Attack on India's Once Secular Democracy

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/23/world/asia/india-netflix-...
NYTimes: With a Kiss, Netflix Gets Tangled in India’s Religious Tensions
I learn about a lot of niche google products by seeing the announcement that they're being shut down.
There are better ways to reduce burnout than surveillance.

Examples:

- periodic, mandatory paid leave

- "no emails after 6pm" policies

- anonymous surveys to identify managers who create burnout

- hiring the right number of people

- effective planning
How much should Google pay for something that's not getting much usage?
Oh wow the 3D map of Bergwelten.com is actually made with your library! So cool!
With diamonds embedded in the chain to prevent it from wearing out as fast.
So... Maybe the cause of this surge is just that women have become more effective in their attempts?
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> Do you mean the Internet Archive?

Yes - thanks. Fixed.
I read your comment but it's not clear to me how what you are suggesting would work practically. My friend and I are bootstrapping a startup that would primarily cater to Pakistan audience. We are hosted on AWS and use Stripe for payment processing etc, like most startups. Even if we wanted to host something in Pakistan (which we don't), no such infrastructure exists and we are in place to hire any dev resources in Pakistan either.

Per the article, if you are not hosted in Pakistan, Govt will fine you 3.x, which will probably kill our project, but it's not clear how Pak Govt can find us if we have no presence there?
I promise you can achieve what the designer envisions with Tailwind, and I would challenge you to describe a design case outside of Tailwind's abilities. I was skeptical too for a long time.
Yeah I think that basically sums it up. The dangers of long term COVID far, far outweigh the potential risks of the vaccine. It seems many people have a fundamental distrust of vaccines and many also still don't understand how dangerous COVID seems to be for people who have relatively little risk of dying from the disease.

I haven't been able to come up with a theory as to why public health departments and the media haven't been making the long term effects a key part of their messaging.
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> The "graphical linear algebra" makes a good case with a larger blast radius, for example. However even that has nowhere near the impact of, say, Feynman diagrams.

These are sort of the same example! They're both string diagrams (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/String_diagram), just in different monoidal categories.
Is that not true of all medicines? There is a net benefit calculation to be made.
Well look at the rate of suicides though, the low death number have come at a high cost.

The pandemic response isn't just about case numbers, there is almost zero social welfare here, the economic is getting crunched, zero help for people with mental illness, elderly people are locked inside homes and can't go out, businesses are closing down constantly.

There is also a major shame culture here around being infected, if you're infected, you can be bullied to the point where people have had to move homes. People choose not to get tested for this reason. I don't think if people do die here, they actually are tested unless the family requests it, most don't because of the shame of it.

The only difference between Japan and most other countries is that people voluntarily wear masks here for some inexplicable reason, thank god, because without that, it would be ultra ugly.
Maybe. But even in gaming circles, people often cite "Google may discontinue it" as one of the main reasons for avoiding Stadia, which is a Google gaming service. I believe their reputation goes well beyond the HN tech circle.
The problem is that if Google holds this attitude, that means I as a user must absolutely stay away from anything that isn't promoted extremely heavily by Google.

And if I and everyone else thinks this way, as Google is conditioning them to, then no one will ever adopt Google's non heavily promoted products, which will make their failure a self fulfilling prophecy.
Thanks for reading!

Yeah, I still participate in code reviews now that I work for myself. I receive a lot of PRs to open source repos I maintain, and I sometimes hire developers on a contract basis to take on coding tasks that are easy for me to delegate and spec out.

With open source contributions, I try to minimize my expectations of the author valuing my time as a maintainer because they're contributing work for free and a lot of them just aren't aware of how their choices affect the reviewer. But I do plan to link to this post in PR templates so that people can better understand how to contribute more effectively.
If you’re looking for an open source alternative to Algolia, checkout Typesense: https://github.com/typesense/typesense

Comparable in performance to Algolia.
Look into AutoHotkey if you're on Windows. It's a nice automation tool, particularly shining for anything input-related. You should be able to whip up a script that moves your mouse around on idle quite easily.
Saying it is or isn't true is just wrong, there is no one America. How many EU nations could you fit inside of Texas?

I'm in NYC paying $65 a month 500 Mbps (up and down), with no contract, 2 year price lock-in.

For $75 my provider offers Gigabit with a lifetime price lock-in, I just don't have a use for it since I'm not big on streaming.

In Raleigh, NC I was paying $75 for 500 Mbps, same deal on no contract