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Capitalism at its finest. Harmful measures to ensure profits, and mostly getting a pass because.. shiny things.
Depending on your motherboard you might need two GPUs. In my case I use Proxmox and control VMs through is web GUI.
The moon being destroyed by a blast of light.

I’d be convinced by that. Kinda hard to fake it.
I think Tesla and Comma are by far the best positioned for the consumer tech. Trucking is not something I feel qualified to comment on, because I don’t have a sense for the economics. But I know a bunch of R&D is going on here.

Most players in the space made investments in driver replacement tech which is multiple years from profitability. I think the places that this kind of tech makes sense is in licensing it to TNCs or operating a fleet of vehicles that you list on a TNC’s network.

On the other hand, driver assistance features are the only systems that can generate meaningful revenue today. One of Tesla’s finest selling points is their AP software.

In this vein, Comma is the Android to Tesla’s tightly integrated iOS. They are profitable today and ultimately have a larger TAM (new cars vs Tesla owners).
> resold AT&T fiber

Only in certain areas! Within San Francisco on overhead-cabled blocks (for example) their lines are their own.
Do any other launch service providers, like United Launch Alliance, make these specifications publicly available (without needing to sign an NDA or whatever)?
It may be marketing, but believe it or not, this is standard practice for rockets!

Here's the ULA Delta IV User Guide - https://www.ulalaunch.com/docs/default-source/rockets/delta-...
> has progressed all of humanity more than anyone else alive today IMO

Tim Berners-Lee is alive, for a simple but not maximal example of someone I think could reasonably be said to have advanced humanity more than Musk.
I sometimes wonder if the problem is that we don't have enough nulls.

null is typically used as a flag value, but the meaning can be ambiguous: maybe it's the absence of a value, maybe an error occured, etc. Sometimes it has more than one meaning for the same type.

Maybe types should be allowed to declare multiple nulls (effectively like an Enum in java) for different flag values. Operations on the different nulls would throw specialized exceptions indicating why that particular null value exists. Equality... hmmm.
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If you take diagonals to be 1.5, then distances are <10% high.

The half-short-side heuristic (sqrt(aa + bb) ~= a + b/2) makes taxicab very close to correct for non-square distance as well.
They're already testing satellite-to-satellite, which for long hops, has the potential to actually be faster than terrestrial fiber, since light is significantly faster in vacuum. Access won't be limited to those near ground stations.
Nobody was hiding anything as far as I can see. The state epidemiologist asked her department to temporarily remove one data field from the public report while they verified some data. Then, they asked it to be re-enabled a few hours later.

From what I can tell, Rebekah's supervisor didn't mention the reason for removing the data, he just told her to remove it. She told him it was "the wrong call", but did it anyway. He then told her to add the data back a few hours later, which she did.

So, it looks like she got the wrong end of the stick about deleting data, and was then fired for insubordination. Apparently she has also has a criminal history including battery against a police officer and sexual cyberstalking of her ex-boyfriend.

https://www.tampabay.com/news/health/2020/05/19/florida-heal...

https://www.lsureveille.com/daily/crime-briefs-student-charg...

https://tallahasseereports.com/2020/05/20/rebekah-jones-firi...
Yes.

Here's Delta IV: https://www.ulalaunch.com/docs/default-source/rockets/delta-...
I wonder if there’s some 64 line I/O somewhere with a couple traces bridged together, where:

0 and 0 are still 0 and 0,

1 and 1 are still 1 and 1,

but 0 and 1 become 1 and 1 (or 0&0)

and 1 and 0 become 1 and 1 (or 0&0).

I remember seeing this wackiness when I bridged two address lines on an EEPROM with the tiniest amount of solder.

RoHS/tin whiskers strikes again?
Currently you are correct in that the ground station and the end user need be in sight of the same Starlink satellite. In a future revision, the satellites will be able to bounce traffic between them in a mesh, thus allowing coverage in the most remote regions.
Lol I have been the victim of police misconduct and filed a (successful) complaint against them. Maybe if you took some training and educated yourself on law and law enforcement, you would have some empathy for both sides instead of just one. There was no violence here.
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Studies have shown that light drinking has a positive effect on work performance, especially in creative areas. I had no idea that this was frowned upon and I'm from Texas, but that's probably just because I've lived my entire life in tech. Lots of startups provide copious access to booze and some even have full bars onsite. IIRC, oil executives drank liquor back in the day as well.

The situation with Tsieh is really sad and probably not a result of him being an alcoholic or drinking at work or anything else. Depression rates have tripled during the pandemic, and deaths are way up from overdose caused by people coping with isolation.
If it was an option? And I didn't have to travel? And I could review the warrant application and just "go in first" for houses like this woman's, and Breonna Taylor's? Ok?

Being a police officer isn't close to one of the most dangerous jobs in America, but being in contact with an adversarial police officer is one of the most dangerous situations to be in. I'd be more afraid of the police, like many people.
I think discussions about Elon used to be quite positive here on HN which detriorated over time - partly due to the things Elon did (calling cave diver pedolphile and his Twitter rampage), but I suspect also due to how fragmented we've become in last few years. Downvotes have been omnipresent, there is no nuance in arguments, its either black or white. Left or right. I personally think Elon is a great, smart enterpreneur who has a genuine passion for engineering, science and benefit of the world. He is also arrogant, self-serving and inconsiderate jerk at times. I think this was true for Bill Gates until he retired and mellowed out.

Anyways, I am curious if people here have observed similar trends in all areas of public discourse? There is so much division in the world and I am not convinced it is 100% due to the merit alone - it is sort of this ugly evil tribalism of humans that have recently kicked in.

Just recently, the Vice is spinning a hateful contempful justification for space exploration: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v016_pe3tCk
I don't see how you're connecting the dots between executing a search warrant and "unfair trial".
Both options have trade-offs.

When I used to work in the telecom industry, burying conduit or cable in the ground was anywhere from 3x (bury in some dirt on the side of a county highway) to 20x (directional drilling in a heavily populated city where there's utilities all over the place) the cost per foot compared to hanging it aerially from a labor standpoint.

However, as you correctly point out, there may be restrictions on what you can hang on the poles and where, and oftentimes you'll find poles where it turns out it never should have had the number of attachments it did, but guess who gets to foot a large part of that bill if they want on?

But even then, I've seen absurd lengths gone to in the name of not digging. On Martha's Vineyard, I believe they wound up using a super-special Self-Supporting fiber that could be hung in or near the Power area of a Pole. Yes, that requires a far more trained/well paid worker than normal aerial work. Also, in that region, NESC 250C/D comes into play which makes it even more of a PITA. But it still was far cheaper than putting cable in the ground.

I wonder whether Teraspan or other Vertical Directed Conduit would be a good fit for the bay area (Saw-cut a minimal depth in the street, just lay in a special zip-up conduit for fiber or twisted pair.) If the weather doesn't tend towards large temperature shifts it works well.

Speaking of which, a couple drawbacks worth noting for buried conduit; You have to go out and do your markings, or pay someone to do them for you when a dig request is made, and you have to be ready to handle the repair when someone inevitably forgets to call or the markings are done incorrectly.
Law enforcement had existed for millennia, not the last two centuries. Greek polis had nyctostrategoi (literally, "night officers") that patrolled and enforced laws as early as 500 BC. And Mesopotamian city states probably had police, too. Do people really believe that professional law enforcement didn't exist until 1800 AD?
If anything that would make me less likely to believe...
Where I'm from, the government bought back the taxi licenses from taxi drivers and changed the law so now Uber doesn't have an advantage over traditional taxi companies.
The minimum evidence I would accept would be a widespread TV news reports quoting several sources over a number of months backed by a multi-government investigation.

Of course if it turned up on one of my camping trips to introduce itself I'd believe, but would just keep it to myself.

I could imagine meeting it again at a public function and we exchange knowing nods; 'Dude', etc.

It's very likely to need a space suit and couldn't drink beer.
Your analysis is spot on. The question now is if Gavin Newsom is going to lock him down which would be a big bummer for Californians.
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If the sensor gets saturated because of a satellite that's your measurement gone, obviously it depends on the specific experiment.

In the month that Arecibo collapsed I think it's potentially worth pointing out that astronomers aren't exactly suffering from an abundance of money.
This sounds like an insane rich get richer scheme. I can either set a high value on my land and pay to much in taxes, or pretty much guarantee that someone would by my land. Why wouldn't they? They can buy the land, immediately place a higher value (they make the money on the resale) then charge a user few to cover the tax plus their income.
As a current homeowner about the only thing I can do is place a high value on the land myself. Enough that is someone buys it out makes it easier for me to move. But then I'm paying higher taxes. Of course I have the problem with the new house.
Essentially this removes land ownership from the average person. Some might say that isn't a bad thing, but it is when only the rich can afford land.
> Uh, you can absolutely be pollution neutral. You can be carbon neutral, and I don't buy for one microsecond that there are 0 technologies that could filter soot from smokestacks. In fact, we could recapture all of it.

You said “pollution” should be banned. That includes a whole lot more than soot. And no, you can’t recapture “all” of the soot from a smokestack. Filtering particulates out of flue-gas stacks is a whole field of engineering. And that’s just one source. PM2.5 is produced by a huge variety of human activity: https://www.pca.state.mn.us/air/sources-air-pollution-most-i.... The dominant source is actually residential wood burning.

> If you read about the history of pollution, you'll see that the "informed tradeoffs" is a complete fairy-tale. It's mostly ignorance and abuse of the poor by the wealthy (who put polluting factories in poor areas like West Virginia).

I focused on environmental policy in law school. It is absolutely about informed trade-offs, within an economic framework. Equity is one part of policy, but the field is not “mostly” about that. Of course that aspect of it gets a lot of press, because it makes for easy narratives for liberal arts major journalists who have trouble with science and economics.
I'm not 100% sure if you're being serious, but in case you are, Algebraic Data Types exist to accommodate those ideas.
Yeah, that case was terrible[1]. The video is horrifying[2].

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/10/30/philadelphi...

[2] https://www.npr.org/2020/10/30/929752605/mom-dragged-from-su...
Looks like you did more research than the original article.
I, personally, don’t have an issue with it. The context was that I am trying to give a good faith steelman argument for those who don’t think it’s the best use of money when other, perhaps more pressing, problems exist here “on earth” (quotations being used because I think the original intent of the phrase was too literally interpreted).

To extend that argument, is it better to give underserved internet access or spend the money on something that potentially saves someone’s life, like mosquito netting? I think even though HN is very in love with high tech problems, many would argue we could serve humanity better by prioritizing those lower tech problems that tend to solve more fundamental needs
> If one wants to learn what the Monad abstraction is, then one by definition will have to learn some category theory!

Actually, I always thought people were referring to Doug Crockford's talk about monads where he makes an offhand analogy to burritos at the beginning. In that talk the analogy has absolutely nothing to do with the 45 minutes of slides he presents, so it always struck me as weird. I had no idea bloggers had actually used a burrito analogy to explain monads-- I now realize he was making an allusion to that.

At any rate, in his talk he explicitly avoids both category theory and type theory in an attempt to explain monads to Javascript programmers for practical programming purposes.
> Server logs with an IP address would hold up in court.

TIL I can frame somebody by breaking their wifi password and doing some crimes. Cool.
I didn’t downvote, but calling people out for not reading the article — even if it seems blindingly true — is against HN rules and always gets downvoted.
> If I think I'll get shot for no reason, then there's no point where I think I can do anything about my chances.

Thats terrible judgment. If you think you might be shot for no reason at all, then it certainly doesn't improve your chances to start giving people reasons to shoot you.
I don't know if it ever was true... it'd be an interesting project to figure out where this urban legend came from.
Maybe skimming them? Or the books are around 100 pages each? Otherwise it seems almost impossible. Having them read out at 2x and it’d take more than a day so Im befuddled at how this is possible. I wouldn’t be able to pull this off and would probably not even enjoy much of it...
>I will resign immediately if you don't do X, Y, Z.

>We accept your resignation with immediate effect.

That couldn't be clearer to me. Negotiation is bad in those cases because they'll always resent you (and such demands are only made when emotions are at boiling point).

I've literally never given ultimatums to any employer, because that's like negotiating with a nuclear weapon equipped.
You do not see any motivation here for a Covid activist to use a shared login to send an emergency message? The motivation was to save 17k lives.
"Popular" was a touch sarcastic. AS/400s were most recently called the IBM system I, and are now a discontinued product. IBM still sells mainframes, and they have discontinued the AS/400.
Regarding the PDF:

Why does it seem so hard to get good looking justified text? It appears to me that only (La)TeX manages to get spacing 'correct' / aesthetically pleasing (IMHO). Going from the metadata, this file was generated by "Microsoft Office Word": you'd think MS would have the resources to figure this out.
It's also a solution to the Fermi Paradox: we can't see other species out there, because they're hiding and have chosen not to show themselves.
They said ethics, not morals.
Kremlin hackers 'hijacking systems via VMware software security hole'
The most unbelievable thing about that story was trump wanting to tell the public about aliens and being convinced not to. If he wanted to do it we would have a tweet or two alien diplomatic efforts or no
my state run pension invests in private equity funds to diversify the portfolio
my fear is that an influx of zoom professionals to places in the desirable parts of 'flyover country' will cause us to repeat the mistakes of sf and seattle in hundreds of times over across the country. most people here were still barely hanging from the recession and now the combination of rapid expansion and quickly rising prices on top of shutdowns is not giving lifeblood to the people who need it, they're being pushed out and the californians are moving in along with big box stores and sodosopa

>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eoUtoqeEw8U

you can excuse the resentment
Railroads, telecommunications, aerospace, integrated circuits, electric power...

I think a better question is when has it not worked?
TypeScript and, AFAIK, Kotlin provide exactly that.

The problem with that special syntax sugar is that then there's no monad to compose with. But it does feel nice for many use cases.
More systemd outrage, but nobody cares.
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Just a few mins of googling to try to dig up the facts.
Yes, like the other day I pointed Google Lens at a QR code! The AI dutifully recognized the QR code … as a QR code, and promptly searched the web for other pictures of "QR code".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi_paradox

What explanation do you think is most likely to explain the fermi paradox?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi_paradox#Hypothetical_exp...
They might require you to have a registered spaceport in your yard to land and pick you up.
It's unfortunate. I'm surprised he couldn't hire a lawyer to respond to the lawsuit anonymously. The public has an interest in knowing about ongoing litigation, but maybe not before a chance to dismiss suits that are nuisances
Please try to make comments that add to the conversation
Police are often the highest paid employees on a government's payroll. They get to retire with a full pension after only 20 years of working, and they often make as much as, or more than, software engineers do. The strong-arm of the state needs to be held to a high standard.
^that
If you told me that MSFT championing OSS space ten years ago, I would have assumed that you were trolling.

With the acquisition of Github and NPM, MSFT might just be the new ally of the open source movement.
How does this compare to what the Space Shuttle offered in terms of delivering large payloads to orbit?
> they're a reseller of AT&T

Note: Only in certain areas. In SF they string their own fiber.
Funny, I was just reading that we know that this article isn't real as he wouldn't have been able to resist tweeting about it. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I wasn't going after you, apologies if it came off that way. My frustration is aimed at the system which tacitly consents to needless police aggression.

When I read about police behavior I am always reminded of Dr. Zimbardo's suggestion that systems may be corrupted not by bad apples, but rather by a bad barrel that damages otherwise healthy apples within. Your comment about decent people hits near the same concept.
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Be curious how feasible this is in practice.

a) None of the launched satellites will be able to support it.

b) ESA Sentinel laser link is only getting bandwidth of between 1.8-7.2 Gbit/s which isn't all that much.
Why would a switch/router recalculate and rewrite the TCP checksum?
That is not how Comcast's wifi works. You'll find that when you connect to an Xfinity Wifi network in a subscriber's home, you're on a completely different network from their home network.
Without details, could you easily bypass your own anti-cheat with your past experience?
https://thatdan.github.io/sonic_fiber/
"To lead" has nothing to do with that metal, "lead".

The US hegemony has always relied on science and culture more than brute force. Proof: during the Cold War, both sides had about equal militaries. Or, at least, equal for all practical purposes, i. e. killing everyone and everything 20-times over.

And yet it were eastern regimes that had to build walls to keep their citizens from stampeding westwards. Nobody in West Germany was prosecuted for watching the East German TV channel. Not just because it wasn't illegal, but mostly because it was done rarely, and mostly ironically. The reverse landed quite a few people in jail.

Judging by peoples' actions immediately after the fall of the wall, they weren't afraid of anything American. Or else it's hard to explain how about half of them used their first trip across the border to get a Big Mac.
I like octagonal grids. Sure, you have to have your game in hyperbolic space, but you can have accurate movement in 8 directions. Your players will just have to deal with parallel lines diverging, there being unique things like pseudocycles, horocycles, circles with a circumference that grows exponentially with increasing radius, etc. Sadly such geometry isn't supported by any tabletop software I'm familiar with, and crocheting a game board of sufficient size takes a very long time.
I think dart made the wrong choice here, but I've never used the language personally or professionally.

I give the author the benefit of the doubt but Optionals are so much more powerful than what this article covers. You can map, filter, reduce, chain, compose functions that all work with optionals, and lift functions that work on numbers (or any other type) to be functions that work on Optional<number> but none of that is even mentioned in this piece (likely cause then its harder to justify picking nullable types instead)

I also found the Some(Some(3)) example just plain wrong. In those scenarios, typically you just use chain (aka flatMap) instead of map... Seems odd this was even included as a motivating reason when this is very much a solved problem.

I'm certainly biased, as I think FP is an incredible mental model for coding and it seems to be catching on in lots of places too.

I understand language designers have to make choices that benefit their users now and be as simple as possible to opt into without any overhead to account for changes, but man, what a missed opportunity to give developers better tools and mechanisms in addition to opening up the doorway for many people to functional programming. But even Java has support for optionals.

Overall, this appears to be like a missed opportunity and the justification doesn't seem to really reflect an understanding of the benefits optionals provide, and misconstrues their use and capability.
Seriously. Better better be careful about whose pull requests you accept.
It’s quite a delicate balance between supply (cars) and demand (riders). If you have too much supply, you aren’t making money because you have to subsidize all the cars without riders in them.

If you have too much demand and not enough supply, then wait times shoot up, and people return to your competitors.

Plus demand is non-uniformly distributed across time. If you have enough cars to handle peak demand, then they’ll be sitting idle the remainder of the day/week.

Most people think that trains are busy, because most people ride trains in high-demand times of year. If the same is true of a TNC, then it’s much better to list your cars with a bigger network and let them keep your cars busy more than you can.

It’s much more expensive to properly balance the marketplace than you think.