skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Satellite Altitude Lifetime
200 km 1 day

300 km 1 month

400 km 1 year

500 km 10 years

700 km 100 years

900 km 1000 years

Their satellites are 550km, 1000km, and higher.
Nobody is gaslighting anyone. By your own account, the perpetrators of the looting, property damage, etc., were not part of the BLM protests, but clearly differentiated groups adding violence to something non-violent.

I live in NYC and in my neighborhood we also had windows boarded up after days of looting, cars smashed in the street, fires and more. Literally none of it was related to the BLM movement.

Similarly with Portland where many friends and coworkers live, the violence there was literally brought about by Trump and his false allocation of Homeland Security agents to “protect” federal landmarks, yet they abducted people off the street with no due process.

I’m certain looting happened, destruction happened, violence happened. It happened literally around the corner from my apartment.

That absolutely does not give anyone any entitlement to indulge racist or fascist biases to blame that violence on BLM or associate it with somehow representing the purpose of BLM, etc.
You'd likely need to have already experienced the drug in question in order for this to work, right?

This is kinda interesting. It almost sounds to me like brain plasticity on overdrive, where you can basically dictate the interpretative model your brain uses to create reference points for what it's going through.

It also suggests that there are additional subconscious layers beyond what drugs temporarily make consciously accessible, which this particular compound is activating and causing to behave in a way that filters an experience down that matches a certain set of experiential memories.

Also makes sense why removing all the filters and going straight for "let's see what this thing really is" produces uncomfortableness - the distorted mess that comes out of a set of overdriven speakers is painful, semantically meaningless, and entropic to the point of having no discernible pattern.
The reason why we don't focus on deplatforming sites like this is precisely because it's a concrete problem with a concrete solution. If instead you're a culture warrior fighting "fascism" or "the alt-right" you'll never run out of blue check marks to deplatform and your personal influence will never stop growing.
Deloitte billable rates for the higher end folks are $350-700/hour. Scapegoat as a service isn't cheap.
> the client application of a network designed to avoid censorship of bad actors

You didn’t argue this, and I’m not clear that matrix or similar technology makes any direct, intended or significant effort to do so beyond the much broader, all-encompassing goal of “let nothing be unavailable”. But if true, I might be more inclined to agree with you.

What you did argue is that

a key use case for federated messaging platforms is to evade censorship

Which is wholly different, in that the usage is at fault, not the protocol in and of itself (in the same fashion that Bitcoin was not designed to facilitate drug trade, even if it’s a key use case driving its valuation).

But we also know that illegal activity is a key use case of the internet, of email, of encryption and a wide variety of other decentralized and federated technologies. This is hardly a good justification because you’ll ban all sorts of good things.

The only thing that protects your argument against everything else is that you arbitrarily limit it to non-established technologies — in the name of all that is good and wholesome, you would kill anything like the internet, email, etc, that is not itself the existing technologies.

A web browser is only more legitimate because the internet is more broadly used. Which isn’t much of a case for legitimacy.
Big banks own upwards of twice as much as retail. What is the big banks target price and what is retails target price?

Over on WSB they're going nuts claiming that 5k isn't a meme.

The banks aren't holding until then. If they decide to offload at, say, 600, then retail will be left with the bag since the bank selloff will drop the price down dramatically.

That's the claim as I've seen it made on the /r/stocks subreddit.

I have a lot of shares. In at $17. I'm not sure what to think. I've already taken out 5x my initial investment. I've been doing as much research as I can to determine how high this could go, partially for my own benefit, but I also want to "hold the line."

Who knows what would have happened had RobinHood and others not shut down buying. I'm pretty sure I would have retired.
How long were you in that state before the ketamine? That’s fascinating. Wondering if length of time in a state like that affects odds of permanent reversal.
It seems to redirect to https://vams.cdc.gov/vaccineportal/ which redirects to https://vams.cdc.gov/vaccineportal/s/
which redirects back to https://vams.cdc.gov/vaccineportal/ for an infinite redirect loop.

Wonder if anyone will pay me $44M to set up a redirect loop?
The RSS does not want India, they want Bharat, they are for a Hindu nation. This isn't even a hidden fact, but in every basic dossier on India.
Not trying to say you're wrong, but what's the typical short borrow fee? Isn't the WSB argument that if the price stays high long enough, the shorts will have to exit their position rather than pay their fees?

Also, can anyone explain to me why there are so many short positions rather than just buying puts?
Estimates I could find put it around 30-170Mbps, but the top end (speedtest.net average) of Canada is >150Mbps, which isn't actually common (living in/near large city). Average likely around 30-60 Mbps from experience.
https://img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net/tenant/amp/entityid/BB1d...
>At 44 million, you can hire 146 engineers each paid 300k for a full year.

You can, but the government has to jump through a lot of hoops. Even government contractors have to jump through a lot of hoops. Sometimes there are regulations affecting the hiring process even for government contractors, e.g. drug tests, citizenship requirements, background checks, location requirements, etc. Every relevant law named after a sympathetic child adds $5B to development costs. And so forth.
What government managed it right? Anyone in Europe?
Detect IE, redirect to a static site with a 1-800 number, have a call centre staffed with people running Chromebooks schedule an appointment over the phone.

Probably cheaper overall, and certainly a better user experience for the tech-challenged seniors.
No, all Kashmiris are state subjects. However virtually all pandits, about 40% of the population in 1970 and about 35% of other Kashmiris have left the state and that is a majority. Kashmir, the state is a pretty big place. It’s not just the valley.
Many people blame misinformation for the slow and steady erosion of trust in American institutions, but it’s pretty clear to everyone that there is something wrong. The system works really well for some people, but not many.

Now some otherwise disparate groups are starting to coalesce around common themes of injustice. Interesting times ahead for sure.

Remember the system always protects itself.
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Exclude forks. It kills me to see pages and pages of the same code and not being able to find other repositories with code matching my query.
The small problem with your kind of approach is that it would make the army of administrators and contractors like “Deloitte.” quite redundant, and then they’d actually have to do non-Bullshit Jobs!
Serious question: why doesn't the government have its own internal software development department at this point? One that's familiar with all the regulatory and bureaoucratic hurdles and the legacy systems, but doesn't have the incentive to grift. For the amount of money they spend on these contracts surely they could afford to pay competitive salaries?
> So in other words, you change the definition of "protesting" based on if it aligns with your personal political viewpoint.

Not really. All I'm saying is that in everyday parlance, "protesting" implies that you're not infringing on someone else's rights. The gold standard of protesting is something like MLK's Selma to Montgomery March or Gandhi's hunger strike. Nevertheless, figures like Malcolm X or Che Guevara would vehemently disagree.

This definition applies to all spectrums of political discourse. Last summer, a bunch of BLM "protests" weren't protests in this (in my opinion, more correct) sense of the word, either -- people were looting and setting fires.
"That said, building something that works well on mobile (re your point b) but also works on internet explorer is a pretty tough ask."

Bollocks. Stop talking and start thinking.
Which is horseshit (though we know that). I know of another, far smaller, leaner consulting firm that has handled for at least half a dozen states a contact tracing ecosystem tying into DOH, and utilizing the mobile APIs.
Deloitte is using salesforce for the underlying technology of the system. So almost all of this work is configuration and maybe some customization. We worked with another state that almost selected Deloitte but they bombed the no cost bake off and ultimately chose another vendor which completed 80% of the work during the bake off. This approach lowers risk dramatically and you’re able to set an aggressive and a more accurate launch date.

I hope we see more govts adopting bake-offs for buying IT.
It's possible if some money is flowing back to the people approving the deal.
Did 12 sessions, after the first session I had instant relief. Even the urge to drink was completely gone. I should have gone back in for boosters but just let it slide, mostly due to the continued cost. About 3 months later I was back into a depressive state. I was able to get out of that one on my own but I don't think it would have been possible without the ketamine treatments.

It is hands down the most effective medicine to treat depression I have taken. The maintenance is the downside, however the minimal side effects are worth it.
> They're getting paid for a deliverable. Why do you expect free work?

And this is how we get the 737 Max.
Thanks for giving it a try! That’s really great feedback.

I was planning on adding scrollwheel zoom support soon for computers, and pinch to zoom on mobile is a must have.

Regarding snapping pieces inadvertently and cheating, I might try to reduce the snap distance if someone is dragging a piece above a certain speed. That should help a bit.

For auto rotation, I’ve heard from a few people that they want rotation completely disabled, while others want it to be more challenging and not automatic. I might need to offer users an option around this.

EDIT: just noticed your point about preventing snapping to hidden pieces on a stack. Great idea too! I’ll likely give that a try :)
These are mostly front-end issues.

Software is often judged based on these UI/UX nuances, but the complexity of building a competent front-end system remains an undervalued part of the process.

The front-end team is usually (1) brought in too late in the game to provide effective feedback and (2) not given enough time to build.

When there's not front-end representation at early design reviews or at initial discussions on how APIs should work, then it's easy to forget things like form error handling.

Designs don't account for all possible states, services/APIs are in flux, until the very end.

Everything else is late, and then all of it has to get slapped together with duct tape and shipped in a few weeks. Performance and browser support be damned.
>> scaling poorly

>Source?

>It's become satisfyingly fast for me over the past years.

My understanding is that freenet (At best) scales logarithmically where Tor scales mostly constantly. Scalability and (current) speed are not the same thing. However saying poorly was probably unfair, I should have said is less scalable than Tor is.

> You can develop dynamic services on Freenet just fine.
> [...]

What you're describing is how I would define a static page (plus client side scripting). Which works fine in many use cases. But you can't ssh into some server over freenet, or plop your php site from the world wide web unchanged, on to freenet. You can do these things with Tor, along with (at least in principle) all the "true p2p" things you mentioned you can do with freenet (Obviously in the Tor case you need to have your server always going and have sufficient capacity). That's why I would describe Tor as more flexible in terms of the things you can "host" (for lack of a better word). But the flexibility comes at a cost, and in exchange for being less flexible, freenet has a lot of interesting properties that tor does not have.
I'm confused... it's verifiable fact... insurance claims from the riots are between $1-2 billion in damages... dozens of people died and between just a few cities thousands of police were injured, who knows how many protestors and bystanders... support for the movement dropped rapidly once things escalated... these are the facts. How can you look at this, and when someone says they witnessed just a small piece of it, say they're "irredeemably far from fact based reality" and you just can't let it "slide". Consider at least, that your extreme position harms your movement. What is your exact criticism of my opposition? Or at the very least, to what I witnessed?
this just smells corruption. Plain and simple, alas happens not only in “3rd world countries”
How editable are the resources/content to make an 80s and a 70s version?
I can only imagine there are potential lung issues. I am also worried about hot vapors hitting the back of my throat, so one thing I have adapted is that I never turn up the temp of the vape to get the last few hits out. That helps.

Edibles would be better from a health perspective, but they provide a very different effect to vaping. I do have some edible tincture which I mostly only ever have when I'm very sick and playing video games all day. But I vape a pure sativa for it's feelings of wakefulness, and it is hard to find pure sativa edibles. They do exist though, and I think some day I may switch to them. But they take much longer to take effect and they last much longer. I think they also have different psychoactive effects, but that may be down to the different strains used in the edibles I have found.

I've been there with the drinking. Good on you for going 6.5 years! In my original story I left out some details. Marijuana helped me break my nightly binge drinking habit but I continued to drink recreationally for some years. However currently it has been 10 months since I have had any alcohol and I feel great. No interest in starting back up. The plan was to go at least a year but even when the pandemic ends and parties start up again (end of this year maybe) I might just continue to abstain. Alcohol has not been good for me. I am very happy to be away from it.
Do you have a source for these numbers? According to AAA [0] (and my experience), the average cost of car maintenance is upwards of $1000/year.

Also its more than just oil that electric cars don't need replaaced. Electric cars don't have transmissions and rarely ever use the brakes two more leading causes of both regular maintenance and costly repairs of ICE cars.

[0] https://www.thebalance.com/average-car-maintenance-cost-4775...
> abandoned due to bugs

That can be translated into a new corrupt administration is replacing the old corrupt administration and will spend an additional 44 million on a new website built by their own politically connected friends.
alot of these issues can be solved by pushing code to UAT or QA environments and having a bug tracker that allows everyone to submit their bugs. It seems like either none of this happened, or it was rolled out too quickly.
Over a year ago http://grep.app showed up which does basically all I want from GitHub search and Nat (GitHub CEO) said lets talk, but nothing public happend. Biggest thing I use it for is looking for examples of how to use some API, so exact search of the function name and filter by language. The regex is also super nice to have when I need it.
Vaccinating a whole country is a hell of a lot more complicated than just car queues.
Deloitte held a big govt. contract back when I worked there back in the day... long story short, they had a strong track record of providing the worst service, a terrible product, and was ultimately made a very bad reputation for themselves as time went on (through the local media, etc).
Maybe youre correct. I dont know much about how multiplayer games works.

However, having just 1 server render and basically 10 viewport is really the future of cloud gaming for me, once the infrastructure(stable fast internet) is there
I'll see what I can do :)
Sadly no. I actually went full-on "wait a minute...!" a few weeks ago when I discovered this, but practically speaking, nobody's going to do it ("what, factory reset my phone?! hahaha NO"), and so implementing the necessary support would ultimately be a giant burden.

Technically 100% possible, but practically never going to happen.

If someone were willing to write and maintain the necessary plumbing and then poked F-Droid, it would be interesting to see if they cooperated, but they may well be reluctant to.
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There is no "apartheid situation" in Israel. Israeli Arabs have full rights in both law and practice.

So not sure what "blatant example" you are talking about.

> thus easier to understand

There are few situations harder to understand than Israel and Palestine. If you think it's an "easy to understand" situation it's a pretty clear sign you are utterly ignorant on the matter, and should not be posting comments about it.
> if a coordinated group can hold the line...

It's possible in theory, but very unlikely in practice.

A short squeeze is a very temporary event. Once it's over, the share price will begin to decline quickly. Anyone left holding shares on the way down will lose their money. Moreover, if they only joined to squeeze the shorts, they'll lose their purpose. Despite what the memes say, they'll absolutely start selling when it looks like there isn't any more money to be made.

WSB presents an extremely over-simplified version of the stock market. They look at graphs of short interest and assume that no new short positions have been opened since this started. In reality, hedge funds are likely closing and opening short positions all day, every day. They're trying to push the idea that total short interest is a valid indicator of when the squeeze has started, but it's not valid at all.

Frankly, the level of misinformation coming out of WSB can no longer be attributed to Redditors having fun making memes. They deliberately remove comments and accounts that don't toe the line or pump the stock. They deliberately push flawed ideas to convince newcomers to buy more shares. They're pumping the stock, and the early GME buyers will take advantage of the pump by dumping their shares. It's basically a pump-and-dump at this point.
Here is a presentation and blog post where they did a study about this:

"What can you learn from an IP?" https://irtf.org/anrw/2019/slides-anrw19-final44.pdf

https://blog.apnic.net/2019/08/23/what-can-you-learn-from-an...
aaand https://twitter.com/element_hq/status/1355663753380032512
White collar workers trying to claim the mantle of the working class while doing the cushiest jobs in human history would be embarrassing if the people leading the charge had an ounce of shame.
Gamestop is actually profitable. Their stock has taken a hit because people believe there is little future. But its financial situation is not nearly as dire as Hertz or other highly leveraged companies.
re: search, it could definitely be more forgiving. The quote is actually "Identity theft isn't a joke"

https://www.mikescerealshack.co/scenes/s3/e20/3?q=Identity+t...
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I meant 'should' as in 'this is how it should be, but isn't currently', I fully agree with you.
But then that tech department would become government itself, and would that be better?

Maybe, maybe not.

Though rare, there _are_ private success stories, such as healthcare.gov 2.0 [1] and Palantir, though the latter gets in hot water for some tangential reasons. But maybe figure out how these happened, and scale that.

[1] https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/07/the-s...
I would check out https://pedestrianobservations.com/ for information on other but analogous cost disease.

Basically, no, it's not just a meme. American managerial culture (or even Anglosphere at large, as alleged there) really does suck. And no amount of crafty mechanism design gets around the fact that least exploitable system seems to be one where the civil service isn't maimed and the work is done in-house.

Basically government should fund some free software for various general purposes (or just do a decent UBI), and then any "consulting" should basically be public sector and free software sector exchanging best practices.

The higher end academic consulting (ARPA) is legit[1] and should still exist, but it shouldn't be defense specific, and like drug bounties basically should exist to smooth over the "research...development...product" gap --- development is severely sort-changed current since outside of DARPA and ARPA-E so much research that doesn't contribute to someone's rent-seeking agenda just lies wasted.

[1]: I suppose should say I once was an intern at https://galois.com/
The solution in that email is essentially how it works, the only difference is that the scaling factor is forced to be an integer.

>By faking them out and telling them "here's a 200x200 box to do your work" and then later scaling down that box to 150x150 prevents that code from working properly.

Then question I was getting at is: how do you write a renderer that does the right thing and works properly when given a box of 133.333333 x 133.333333 pixels? If you say "round in some direction" this is now a policy that must propagate to every bit in the stack that touches input and rendering.

>It's no worse than the current solution for that screen and better for the one that matches.

It actually is much worse for the one that doesn't match, because now you have lost the ability to do pixel-perfect scaling.
Nah, they can just do nothing at all or bid on other unrelated contracts.

Sometimes people get so caught up with new technology that they forgot about old technology, and technology predates computers. Believe it or not, it wasn’t that long ago that you could go to stores, buy things, eat at restaurants, and even fill up your fuel tank without directly interacting with any form of computer. Heck, it hasn’t been that long since you could fly on Southwest Airlines with little reusable plastic boarding passes that the agents would hang out in exchange for a paper ticket. These systems were imperfect, but they worked and were extremely reliable.
Things were NOT simpler. The problems were different. When you are living them in the moment, they are every bit as large as your problems are now.

And fwiw, people in the 90s looked back on the 50s and thought “oh what a simpler, happier time.”

It’s a filtered lens you’re using and you are deluding yourself if you think that any time before you had it simpler and happier simply because they did not have “X” or “Y” that you do today.

How about date rape epidemics in the 90s? And women’s right and outlook for careers and equal pay?

LGBTQ rights? Hahahahahah

I mean, I can go on if you want?

I’m guessing you were a kid in 90s so things were simpler and happier for YOU because you did not have to worry about adult problems?
Requirements gathering is part of the job. Maybe more of a PM role but still something we all should be able to tackle.
Part of function is layout. It isn't any more difficult to grab Bootstrap or some other out of the box framework that'll give a good consistent look than it is to go "no style".