skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
”Starlink satellites are over 60 times closer to Earth than traditional satellites”

Goodness! I really need to learn more about satellites! For some reason that statement really strikes me.

I wonder what the ‘band’ of distance from earth most satellites fall into. The range of area a satellite can orbit earth must be pretty wide if this is the case.

Now I need to look up what is the closest & furthest distance a small object can reasonably orbit earth. I mean, now that I think of it, the moon is a satellite. How far is the moon?

Dang it, I’m realizing I really take all these things for granted. I just realized my reading TODO list for the weekend :)
He (like me) probably uses BOTH vscode and vim. VSCode has a number of great extensions I love. VIM has a number of great plugins I love. I love both editors! Now, I just need VIM input scheme on both, for fast, consistent keyboarding that leverages my muscle memory.
Satellite typically doesn't use cdma. See dvb-s
It would be a big risk, considering defamation laws in Australia, not to mention being at the mercy of the government for your business model.

I suppose it has worked in Russia and China though.
This reads like an xkcd, and that is one of the highest compliments I can give.

Also, where can I read more about this? I assume wikipedia's a good place to start, anywhere else?
They only have the form for people in California or Europe.

long live strong consumer protection laws
Repeating bad advice you heard from other sources doesn't make it "good advice".

We expected more from all health authorities all over. Fauci failed us, the WHO, the CDC. We needed more from all of them.
They don't use cpus. They use fpgas, and the signal processing is done regardless of whether a user is there.
Pablo Hasel protests: Thousands demand rapper's release in Spain
I've never seen a gym that you can join without signing a contract. My sample size is three, but still, seems pretty common.
There are companies and research groups in a number of countries currently experimenting with next generation fusion devices which have a new class of superconductor in them as compared to ITER (in essence, they run at a higher cryogenic temperature so need less exotic refrigeration to operate). None have as yet proved their work to be commercially viable (to my knowledge) but there is real work being done.
Twitter is a big one that doesn't seem to be included at present.
I don't buy the dichotomy that many are presenting in this thread. The either your parents let you walk around on your own or you'll have less life skills. I think you can teach kids life skills and independence while also keeping an eye on them.
When it blows up, it will take Bitcoin with it.
The biggest thing Starlink will bring is competition now people will be shocked at how the older ISP's are suddenly able to provide better speeds for cheaper and no download upload limits. Just like it area where google fiber was introduced.
It is. The antennas are heavily subsidized to get that $500 price point.
I absolutely love this idea! I’d happily pay for this.
Interesting, I'd love a book recommendation :)
Library of libraries is ok. By product of DRY principle and actually not all bad.

Frameworks built upon frameworks upon frameworks is bad, because you lose stability and reliability, because you depend on libraries and frameworks. Better choose a good framework and spend time on it.
This accurately summarizes our current roadmap with this customer.
Magic algorithms don’t exist. That’s the true reality of AI. I also felt the same thing and became dismayed as an undergrad at what was going on in computation having also studied neurobiology. But as it turns out, a shit ton of data with some stats can get you very, very far.
The data processing steps in Wialon (fleet management platform)
WSJ is even worse. You have to call their US number to cancel the subscription. I haven't been able to cancel it since 3 months.
The ones I've seen still need people going around to update tags. They have an NFC/RFID thing that powers that tag while it updates
How do you make a fake cursor that works? When you click anywhere within the text, how do you know where to position the fake-cursor then? If you use arrow-keys it should move the cursor left and right and up and down respecting the line- and character boundaries.

One of the shortcomings of HTML/CSS seems to be that you can not style the cursor a.k.a caret.
I have not had good experiences with cancelling subscriptions through PayPal. My one attempt at reversing a transaction there went nowhere, and eventually I had to contact my bank to do so.
Because efficiency for one doesn't mean efficiency for the other. The business gets expertise on-demand without paying over senior rates, but the over senior professional doesn't have any real stability. It's a failure to unionize and negotiate the pay scales and progression, because it's basically a pipeline to force people out into uncertainty. Why participate then?
Sounds like combinatorial explosion peeking from backstage
I bet you will everthing if you miss this as JavaScript DEVELOPER
https://youtu.be/yCcZ5Fjb9Qc
You mean those that were paying 80% to mobile operators stores?
US insurance companies might be paying higher prices for medicines, but they're not doing it for the purpose of keeping the prices of medicines "inflated".
I no longer run Linux on any machines I own, but grew up with booting slackware off of floppy disks.

X works as you said for many use cases but also has some limitations for other modern use cases. I guess the Wayland folks want to bring parity with other modern desktop systems such as OSX and Windows. None of this is going to be a reality unless there are folks contributing and hacking on the system. The Wayland folks are trying to get mindshare so that the hackers feel they are working on something significant and worthwhile - as opposed to just fixing some X bugs. As much as users just want to just get bug free software, hackers like to design and reinvent the wheel so they have something to cherish - especially when no one is paying for their work. Just my .02.
My freshman Bio professor said the same thing. He went through and listed a bunch of drugs/antibiotics, when to take them, and their pet (mainly fish) counterpart. This was all done with the intention of helping us poor college students. I think I still have those notes somewhere....
How do you subscribe through Google? Do you need to download their app or something?
You're right! I didn't know Niantic started inside Google.

And what do you know - it's a successful game studio! We come full circle to Stadia.
You’re far more likely to walk your child straight into death by teaching them to drive.
Not if he's licensed by a certain Italian car manufacturer demanding that you get your car inspected every year or risk losing resale value.

It is a lucrative recurring revenue model after all...favours or not ;)
I found the following article by Googling "tablet sales versus ebook reader sales":

"Kindle Sales – The E-Reader Device Is Dying A Rapid Death"
https://justpublishingadvice.com/the-e-reader-device-is-dyin...

I'm aware that many people find reading on an E Ink display e-book reader preferable to reading on a tablet or phone. When consumers pull out their wallets to make a purchase, however, they prefer tablets and phones.
That may be a good feature for teams as things progress.
Many wired leased lines that connect data vendors to exchanges are only ~2Mbps even in 2021.

You tend to get bandwidth spikes on most feeds at market open and close, but intraday rates are low
Telegram rumours to place bonds for $ 1B
A shortcoming of this would seem to be that there are no line-numbers. (?) If you send a picture of code and want to discuss it with others it would be helpful to be able to refer to parts of the code by line-number.
> society has an interest in seeing him punished, if for no other reason than as actual prevention [it would be quite hard for him to molest more girls while incarcerated].

If Polanski hadn't fled, how much time would he have actually spent in prison? He had a plea bargain for time served (he'd already spent a bit over 40 days in prison) and probation. That plea bargain was approved by the victim and her parents. The judge started (rather unprofessionally) bragging to people he was going to cancel the plea bargain and send Polanski to prison for 50 years. Polanski heard about it, panicked, and fled. But, realistically, the judge was unlikely to give him anywhere near 50 years. He probably wasn't even going to get 50 months – possibly, the unprofessional bragging might have been all for nothing and the judge might have stuck to the plea bargain. Even if the judge decided to overrule it, given sentencing practices at the time, the sentence probably wouldn't have been for very long (more likely months than years), and a heavy sentence would have had high odds of being overturned on appeal. Indeed, lawyers who have looked at the case say that, were Polanski to voluntarily return to the US (or somehow be captured by US authorities), he is unlikely to serve much time at all for his original crime of abusing Geimer – if he is facing serious time for anything, it is going to be for fleeing from prosecution rather than the underlying offence.

If Polanski had got time served (original plea bargain), or a few months in prison (likely outcome if it the judge overruled it), how much protection of children from harm would have society actually received? If Polanski spends 6 months in prison, that's a mere 6 months in which he can't abuse anyone. He might not have abused anyone in those 6 months even if he were free. It is hard to take the preventive justification for sentencing seriously in the context of the magnitude of the sentence Polanski was likely facing.

> I don't think this is solely, and maybe not even primarily about the state seeking power, but rather properly exercising power granted it by the people.

Geimer feels abused by the system, and I think her feelings are entirely legitimate. The prosecution and judges should take some responsibility for what they've done to her (a real flesh and blood person with real thoughts and feelings) rather than hiding behind this inchoate abstraction of "the people".
What makes you think that?

Alternatively, it could make bitcoin stronger by removing an alternative cryptocurrency
Yep - Profit and loss are pretty much meaningless while investors are still willingly to fling cash at them faster then they can spend it.
I don't think KPop artists are sex slaves, though?

Rather, it's a really rough, possibly exploitative gig. They are just like models, but they also sing and dance.

The Music Industry and Hollywood though, they will protect themselves.

We hear more about someone being cancelled for the slightest Tweet than for example Bryan Singer's decades long rapey escapades.

Corey Feldman was literally mocked in public for suggesting that he was abused. By none other than Barbara Walters.
Yay Capitalism !
How much harm is caused by not teaching them to be safe in such circumstances?

More pointedly how much harm is caused by not giving them individuated and appropriate but also real independence? Skills take time and practice to develop. What would you expect to result from a failure to actively and persistently develop the independence that a child will require for the rest of their life?

The same dynamic has come up with COVID. There is known harm through infection but also through isolation. In my family we are extremely conservative and careful (probably overly, privileged-ly, and wastefully so) but we ensure regular playdates with a small set of children with careful parents so that our young child can still develop friendships and social skills. And, you know, be a kid. Taking a year off that, particularly at the current age of my child would be extremely harmful so we spend all of our risk chits on that.

Similarly, while never doing anything would reduce many active risks studies have shown being sedentary is more deadly than smoking.

A cost to benefit maximization process is almost always appropriate.
Those companies were paying up to 80% before Apple came into the picture.
Many medicines aren't commodities with lots of suppliers, so the seller has a lot of power in the pricing negotiations. Insurers aren't paying higher prices to "keep prices inflated", they're paying them because there is no other choice.

Sellers might also want to sell to insurers and others with deep pockets at a higher price than to non-insured or buyers with less money. So they will negotiate one price with an insurer, and the insurer will try stipulate they can't offer anyone a lower price, but then the seller might be able to get around this via rebates or discounts for buyers that can't afford insurance, etc.
Haven't western countries typically addressed the issue of protecting borrowers through corporate entities and bankruptcy protections?

If my company borrows money, then goes bankrupt, the lenders cannot come after my personal assets unless I've personally guaranteed the loan, or broken certain rules about mixing personal and business accounts (allowing the creditors to "pierce the corporate veil"). In personal bankruptcy, my primary residence and vehicle are protected up to a certain value, along with retirement accounts.

It certainly doesn't seem like a pleasant process, but at a theoretical level the rules generally seem fair to me. One huge problem is that people don't know the rules, a situation which I suspect lenders and debt collectors are happy to encourage. There certainly are a lot of corrupt financial practices, but I think lending money can be done fairly (at least in theory). I find other perspectives on the matter very interesting. I'll be sure to read some more about Islamic finance!
Another naive question: why is this better than creating a separate, smaller model for each expert?
"As of 2020, due to underinvestment, there is no credible Western alternative to Huawei, whose rise and adoption across broad swaths of Asia and Africa, and now Europe, has been subsidized as a national priority project of the People’s Republic of China." - to me that's a strange utterance considering 99% of global mobile OS are IOS or Android, two American innovations.
I just tell them I’m unemployed and wosh nobody wants to offer me any services at all.
> normal honest

Well, which one is it? /j
Google probably have servers in your ISPs data center
Game consoles did it first.
Funny that very simple code to earn $$. Even geohot can't hide this operation? (something like ship prebuilt binary, or Ken thompson backdoor variant)
Google's legal team would be freaking out if any of its engineers propose open sourcing model weights. This is a mine field full of legal and privacy headaches and I guess it is infeasible to audit 1.6T parameters anyway...
Dynamic Storytelling in the Novelist  [video]
And correct answer after first cycle is. "All done! Service will end tomorrow!". And if customer tries to cancel, just tell them the new higher price with not leeway any more for them.
Cabinet Magazine is amazing. It's got topics about literally anything with one common theme - well researched, cited and in-depth. I've been a subscriber for many years and have acquired most of the old issues through eBay.

If you want to take a break from the noise of the internet, brew some tea and sit back for a couple of hours and read something deeply interesting, Cabinet Magazine is a gem in the otherwise mud of the internet. Physical magazines have special features such as postcards and cutouts, I highly recommend subscribing.

> Cabinet is my kind of magazine; ferociously intelligent, ridiculously funny, absurdly innovative, rapaciously curious. Cabinet’s mission is to breathe life back into non-academic intellectual life. Compared to it, every other magazine is a walking zombie.
—Slavoj Zizek, philosopher

It's New York's finest.
Source? I'm not from US but I googled around and Viasat offer 30/3 mbps with a soft speed cap after 100GB for 150usd/month [1]
Hughes offers 25/3 mbps priced per data cap 50GB is 140 usd + equipment lease of 15usd /month.[2]

Neither of which is even remotely close to Starlink's offering.

1 - https://promo.viasat.com/plans/standard-30-715T5-11796UC.htm...
2 - https://www.hughesnet.com/get-started
I wouldn't call it FUD, but I would call it highly manipulative. There was a huge round of VC investments so far in 2021 and some people are now getting fidgety about interest rates. VCs make money by flipping deals. The author has HUGE financial incentive for people to continue to be open to risk. The only reason he cites the 1-year is because the graph supports his point and he has a lot to gain from coaxing readers who don't know about other things like the yield curve or credit spreads or ....
Fraud is shaking down customers for money.
If I might give a potentially upsetting, but honest, opinion: you aren’t ready for work if the content in Eloquent JavaScript is beyond your current scope of knowledge.

I am in the process of applying to entry-level jobs and I can assure you that I have not encountered a single technical interview that did not require knowledge beyond what FCC covers.
From: https://wayland.freedesktop.org/faq.html#heading_toc_j_4

> ## Is wayland replacing the X server?

> Mostly, yes. User sessions are able to run under Wayland today, via a number of compositors: Weston itself as well as Enlightenment, GNOME Shell, KDE, and a number of others under development. With most toolkits having Wayland ports, as well as frameworks such as GStreamer and SDL, it's perfectly possible to run a purely native Wayland session as your desktop.

> That being said, there are some clients which rely on X11, and always will be. To that end, XWayland provides a plugin for Wayland compositors, running a real X server. This gives legacy clients a real and compliant X11 platform to run on, displayed side by side with native Wayland clients in your Wayland session.

> ## Why not extend the X server?

> Because for the first time we have a realistic chance of not having to do that. It's entirely possible to incorporate the buffer exchange and update models that Wayland is built on into X. However, we have an option here of pushing X out of the hotpath between clients and the hardware and making it a compatibility option. What's different now is that a lot of infrastructure has moved from the X server into the kernel (memory management, command scheduling, mode setting) or libraries (cairo, pixman, freetype, fontconfig, pango, etc) and there is very little left that has to happen in a central server process.

> ## What is wrong with X?

> The problem with X is that... it's X. When you're an X server there's a tremendous amount of functionality that you must support to claim to speak the X protocol, yet nobody will ever use this. For example, core fonts; this is the original font model that was how your got text on the screen for the many first years of X11. This includes code tables, glyph rasterization and caching, XLFDs (seriously, XLFDs!). Also, the entire core rendering API that lets you draw stippled lines, polygons, wide arcs and many more state-of-the-1980s style graphics primitives. For many things we've been able to keep the X.org server modern by adding extensions such as XRandR, XRender and COMPOSITE and to some extent phase out less useful extensions. But we can't ever get rid of the core rendering API and much other complexity that is rarely used in a modern desktop. With Wayland we can move the X server and all its legacy technology to an optional code path.
There is no part of the government you can complain to, to put them on a shit list?
Over here it’s called:
The National Board for Consumer Disputes.

It keeps companies in line.
Chernobyl may have less deaths, but it affected the health of hundreds of thousands.

If you think about the danger of renewable sources of energy, know that there is not alternative because we have no alternative planet.

Betwwwn 250,000 accidental deaths and billions of suffering people, I choose the former.
This really is unsolicited advice. You really cannot assume your situation and circumstance is identical to OPs. He may well love his family dearly and already feel resolute its right for him to care for them. To walk away from family (unless you have another valid reason, such as its a dysfunctional situation) can haunt for the rest of one's life.
Are people going to pay a $500 equipment cost upfront and then $99 a month if they have alternatives?

For me in my big city i can get 360mb down unlimited lines for the equivalent of around $50 per month.

Anyone choosing the Starlink option in that scenario probably shouldn't have financial independence in the first place.
I had a funny episode with TD when I was closing the bank account when I was leaving Canada for good.

Very hard to close the account, even in person. My point was to make sure that there is no recurring payments left on the account.

Similar bullshit. You ask to close the account, and they keep asking you back with a square face.

In the end, a year after I left Canada, I get a call from collectors saying that they have $600+ debt+penalties+interest on my allegedly closed credit card from a service the bank added itself, and that they set my credit score to zero.

Then I found that TD subscribed me on some bullshit "credit alert" right in the month when I asked for account closure.

An immediate WTF was how in the world my credit card was still active. In than latter came out that TD does not let people really close their CC accounts, only "stop them," which only amounts to just hiding you CC from web UI, and that you need specifically say that you want to "really close" the account, which I did. So, next time, if will ever set my foot in the country, I will need to ask them to "really, really, really close my account"
Does this sort of thing still end up hurting your credit score though? I don't know how this actually works, but I feel like I've heard scary things about it.
PC market share.
Or a simple `=() { bc -l <<< "scale=10;$1" }` in the usual bash
file and you can use bc to do calculations by starting with a =.

Just a little shortcut but REPLs like Python's take a while to
spin up, so it's pretty convenient.
React RadioButton
People have short memories.

If you remember those days, this should chill your blood.
It sounds like a fictional movie, but it was very real.

Tapes: Enron plotted to shut down power plant
https://www.cnn.com/2005/US/02/03/enron.tapes/
Thanks ... I'll think about "portable" after moving to a bigger house)