skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sitting here from texas with no power. I'm cold. I hope my fish don't die. Not looking forward to my gas bill.
I don't understand. Starlink is a narrowly tailored cool tech solution for internet access in remote or rural areas, not world hunger, inequality or evil.
It was covered recently on Linus Techtips:

https://youtu.be/Fh1a2K9ZgNA
There's nothing wrong with protecting the privacy rights of individuals when the largest companies in the world are running robot cameras down all of our streets.
How can someone help you out with this? I think this is really important work.
There are many gear-like shapes in proteins.
> Do they really think that they can curve their churn this way?

I don't know. Ask Amazon[1] I guess?

My point is that it's wrong to attribute this to a "fragile" business model. It's just plain, old greed and contempt for the customer.

[1] https://www.techtimes.com/articles/255977/20210114/amazon-pr...
> So are the early adopters subsidizing the masses down the line?

"Subsidizing"? No, they're paying for a service. It may or may not get cheaper over time... but that's rather irrelevant. SpaceX isn't a charity, they are in this to make money. It's also not like SpaceX is making a ton of money off of the early adopters. The satellite dish almost certainly costs the vast majority of those 600 dollars to produce, and the $100/mo service fees from the small set of early adopters aren't going to pay for the satellites and launches any time soon.

> the encryption policy

They don't prevent you from encrypting your traffic... just like any other ISP. What more do you want?

I don't know if they further encrypt traffic inside their network, but I rather assume not because that would be rather pointless. The traffic you send out should be considered more or less public because the internet will send it to malicious third parties regardless of what SpaceX does to it, see all the BGP highjacking attacks that have taken place for instance. SpaceX is obviously unable to encrypt things once they're out of their network into the internet at large... that's just not how the internet works.

> The Privacy policy

Is quite good for an ISP really https://www.starlink.com/legal/privacy-policy
Able Archer War Scare “Potentially Disastrous”
The other issue with audible cancellation is that you throw away your credits...but then if you try to spend 5-10 credits quickly it becomes challenging...so you don't cancel. lol
a. absolute lowest latency I've seen to a major IX point in seattle is about 15.8ms. More often it's 22-23ms. On a longer term, averages between 20-30ms. That's for the combined total of four 550km paths through space plus terrestrial latency from their earth station to seattle.

Keep in mind that on something like a DOCSIS3 cable coax last mile segment can have a minimum latency of 12-16ms from just the cablemodem to the local CMTS in the neighborhood, so that's actually really good. It's not as good as fiber but it's significantly better than many other options. One has to account for the need for the antenna/modem to modulate and apply FEC on the Tx at both my CPE antenna and the spacex earth station on the other end (at least a few ms).

b. no ipv6 yet. They have people who know what they are doing for neteng so I am sure it is planned.

c. all IPs are in cgnat IP space right now. Nobody is getting a discrete dhcp-assigned public ipv4 /32 yet. You can hook up whatever router you want, anything you plug into the PoE injector that is an ordinary 1000BaseT 1500 mtu DHCP client will be given an address. The router they hand out is a very bare bones 802.11ac 2x2 MIMO thing that is based on openwrt.

restrictions, you can't move it from your designated service location. That's part of the beta TOS.

Using it, it is a real 150 Mbps down x 16.5 Mbps up. I have put non technical guest users on it doing various things and from their perspective it cannot be distinguished from the separate terrestrial connection at the same location.
Ask HN: Do you dislike the software you are developing?
Yes, you’ve just summarized the ethos of “management politics”. My contention is that this reasoning is part of what got us into this mess to begin with.

He should be removing obstacles on the path to what?

Conspicuously absent from your view of politics is any notion of policy or project. What are we even hoping to achieve? This is like driving aimlessly whilst avoiding potholes. It’s hardly thriving.
There is also https://github.com/kragen/stoneknifeforth
This is a very high price. A peak price of over $100 used to be considered high. But peak power prices in CA have been going up, specially in Southern California. In this case the reason is high natural gas prices due to the cold weather and production freezing -- gas is the marginal fuel and tends to set power prices in CA. Anyhow. CA should have been OK, since it has a lot of storage. Unfortunately, regulation has prevented the utilization of a major storage field in Southern California. So gas prices went up, to well over $100/MMbtu (they are usually under $5). In Nor Cal, where storage is allowed to operate, gas prices remained under $10. But the power market is pretty much a single market in CA and So Cal dictated the prices. (I used to be a trader in the market).
Take the North East of the US, there's not enough solar year round, nor is it generally windy enough of the time to generate power for a densely populated region & power hungry growing region.

So my logic is go Nuclear, like France. Keep the natural gas for heating (since it's relatively efficient and cleaner than other fossil fuels). Supplement with solar/wind where & when available.
Its worth looking into what ARK (specifically, ARKK, the main one), actually holds. Its not really "tech"; its more "tech which is expected to explode". Its far riskier than just your Big Tech AMZN/GOOG/AAPL/etc.

1. Tesla (~9%)
2. Roku (~7%)
3. Teladoc Health Inc (~5%)
4. Square (~5%)
5. Zillow (~3%)
6. etc
The costs are all hidden. Removal and dismantling of nuclear waste and the decommissioning power plants is ridiculously expensive in places like the UK. When you factor that in also, nuclear ain't so cheap at all. Those costs only rise also.
It's because the model weights are the valuable thing here. The fancy new architectures are nice and everything, but transformer models are a dime a dozen these days. Seems like they're using this as an example to point at and say "Hey, look at us, we support open source!", whereas unless you're willing to go ahead and spend a small fortune on compute (possibly using their GPUs), these models are somewhat useless.
And Republicans down there seem to be pushing for even more!!

Rick Perry just said this in response to the White House pushing infrastructure spending after this disaster: “Texans would be without electricity for longer than three days to keep the federal government out of their business”

But it was alright when Trump wanted to launch 'infrastructure week'?

And it's totally ok to send in FEMA and a lot of other government assistance?!?!

BTW tangent why hasn't FEMA sent in the ships that can provide power? I think the nuclear ones can and maybe even the Comfort but i'm not sure on that specifically
Here is what I think:

- In medical: your doctor should be responsible for your diagnosis and drug company is responsible for defective drugs, except when they get away with lobbying and hiring good lawyers.

- In physics: I'm not sure if it's as big of a problem as in social networks. But consider this case: If you cannot reproduce the result of an experiment due to a ML model being cryptic, that would lead to huge credibility issue in science.
When I lived in Hawaii in the Obama I years, there was a noticeable consumer solar boom. From what I’ve read, they are meeting their renewable goals so far. There were a few windmills coming along, I think. Another big source of power is trash incineration, which is of course located near the people with bad social capital and terribly polluting, but developers wanted to move in that direction so there was talk about cleaning it up. Not sure anything ever happened though.
20 ms was cited elsewhere in the thread. Unlike older satellite Internet solutions that use geostationary satellites (~36000 km altitude), this uses satellites in low earth orbit (~550 km altitude, with additional, slightly lower and higher levels planned).
Correct. These places aren’t getting fiber or strong 4G/5G connections. Have you visited rural towns?
What is the term of the contract? I have a family cabin in an area that is not served by cable, it's not a place I am going to spend 12 months or whatever and at $100/mo I am probably not going to pay for 12 months out of the goodness of my heart. But I would love the ability to go up for a couple weeks or a month and just work from up there. Could I sign up month by month, or for say a quarter at a time?

Or I guess more generally, as an existing user of the service who is seeing dashboards I'm not seeing, how do you think this would play out for "occasional" users.
> b. no ipv6 yet. They have people who know what they are doing for neteng so I am sure it is planned.

heh, my assumption when I hear that people who know what they're doing are involved is the opposite ;)

Thank you for the detailed report! I'm very excited for the tech, especially once the lasers are up and it doesn't rely on the base station (i.e. I can take my uplink on a road trip)
> We had server set up in a storage closet with a huge porn cache. When the project managers came back to the US we would copy all the porn they had collected to the server, replace the porn on their laptops with new porn from the cache, then send them back abroad again. We never knew what people would come back with but it ranged from "Cinemax" to "Only Legal In Kentucky".

Wait, sorry, what? Why were you storing this porn, exactly?
You're allowed to tell people what to do, but you can't make them do it, they can always choose not to. Worst case you get millions of people starving rather than doing what you try to make them do, like in communist Russia/China.
I know you're not asking about but did you think about starting your youtube channel and share what y you know and learning? This helps in multiple folds, you get to learn things in depth as you're teaching. You get another Income stream and it could present you as an authority.
there is no contract for the beta, it's month to month, you can cancel whenever you want. unknown what they will do in the longer term.

there is no seasonal 'pause' service plan offered yet.
It's possible. You are right that productivity growth is the big driver behind everything. There are some people that make the argument that massive growth is behind us, that the internet revolution is not the same kind of game-changer like trains, planes, etc. Not clear how much more "Smithian" growth via trade liberalization is possible, either. If you look at the long histories, there have been plenty of times in the past 2000 years when interest rates and economic growth were very low for an extended period of time. Inequality tends to grow to it's maximum sustainable level in between catastrophes, though that level is likely lower now, because there is a certain amount of disperse affluence necessary to sustain the modern knowledge economy that creates that wealth in the first place.

But at this point, we're talking technology and society instead of economics. Will innovation continue, and are those innovations a big enough deal that they will continue to make our world more productive, wealthier, more successful? I lean towards yes, but it is not at all obvious. It is certainly possible that productivity growth stagnates, most countries catch up to a generally-developed level of output, and asset prices stagnate as temporary demographic bumps are smoothed out.
Irrespective of the quality of the publication or whether one wants to support a specific industry or publication by default, there's no good-faith reason why canceling a subscription has to be difficult.
I've experienced the opposite with Amazon. If you complain about a product you've gotten they simply refund the full purchase price, no need to return the item or anything. I've even gotten months of prime refunded by telling them I forgot to cancel.

I assume that eating the cost of a bad purchase is cheaper for them than upsetting a long-term customer.
Why do you assume nobody wants it? It works fine. Some people use it every day.
It is new and unproven over time.
People were saying bitcoin was a nonsense idea no one wants at one time too. I acknowledge you don't like bitcoin, but assuming others don't is a bad position.
Isn't gas also at like 50% production as well? It's also heavily knocked out?

Like it's pulling a lot of weight because it's 80% of the capacity if nothing's going wrong! If it was 100% then maybe 40 GW of thermal capacity would _also_ be offline.

ERCOT assumed 0% from Wind. Instead we're getting 25% They assumed 100% from gas. Instead we're getting 50% (or 70% or whatever). You look at that and tell me gas is what's performing well here, and the segment that should be expanded. (EDIT: Sorry, I think your original thing was "all in nuclear." I think I read nuclear was also having some issues but it's at least not the "more gas is the solution for a situation where gas is failing" narrative)

I get that wind + solar can't cover everything, but right now what we're seeing is massive failures from gas. In a universe where we had more wind + solar, there could likely be more energy going around right now.
Renewables are very reliable if you winter-proof them, the same as other sources.

The problem at the moment is that none of the sources for Texas was prepared for a cold winter, renewable or otherwise.

Quebec is 99% renewable[0] (95% hydro, 4% wind) and runs through the coldest of winter just fine!

> With over 40 853 MW of installed capacity, hydroelectric stations generate about 95% of Quebec’s electricity.

> Wind is the 2nd largest source of electricity generation in Quebec. In 2018, wind capacity reached 4 096 MW and accounted for 4% of the province’s generating capacity

[0] https://www.cer-rec.gc.ca/en/data-analysis/energy-markets/pr...
If they consistently got a ticket for exceeding the number on the sign, I'm betting people would suddenly feel a lot less comfortable at higher speeds regardless of what the road looks like.

The reason people drive as fast as they feel comfortable is that speed limits are seldom and inconsistently enforced, so people are more restricted by their own notion of safety than the risk of any legal consequences.
I don’t see how willingly deciding to use a closed platform and criticizing it for not being open and then asking the platform to open up affecting everyone else who also decided to use a close platform is logical.
And so the law just pushes the service out of existence, like a high minimum wage just leaves the people who couldn't generate more than $5/day jobless (otherwise Africa could just set the minimum wage to $20/hour and eliminate proverty. The world doesn't work that way.).
Android having one or two external app stores of any note with the vast majority of users hanging out on the Play store tells me that this doomsday scenario is unlikely.
I'm all for more nuclear, but FYI, nuclear plants were affected like everything else in Texas this week: https://atomicinsights.com/south-texas-project-unit-1-trippe...

Ideally new ones would be designed better to avoid this possibility, but new nuclear plants take a minimum of 5 years if you're really sprinting. It's probably the most difficult, expensive, and time-consuming option compared to weather-hardening existing power plants and building new wind, solar, and storage.
Last time I had to get a prescription, paying cash with a GoodRX coupon was 25% cheaper than my out of pocket cost with insurance would have been.

The mind boggles.
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True, but you have to opt-out from Facebook too if an end user shares the link. Their argument only works if the news outlet shares the link.
If I was them, I'd offer uncapped Internet, but prioritize based on past bandwidth usage if there is congestion.

So if you use a lot of bandwidth, you still get full speed at night, but during peak times, other users get priority and your connection becomes slower.

Bonus points if they only take bandwidth usage during peaks into account, incentivizing customers to move bulk transfers to off-peak hours when the traffic is effectively free.
At least gas is pretty cheap.

I hope your fish make it.

And now you know the value of camping gear :)
Yes, and the same holds for self driving cars. I fail to see the difference.
my guess is these are cell ids, not towers. no way north texas near dallas has 200k towers. also, no mention of active or inactive. 82% of lat,longs are distinct to 5digits (about tree resolution), which implies most towers have only a single cell id. 40mil seems way to high for active.
Work-necessary software probably involved an enterprise provisioning profile, which for all intents and purposes, gives the holder of the profile full rights to your phone.

As for social, why isn't this happening on Android if it's so inevitable?
I get that this is an unfolding disaster. People are trying to push through as best as they can. And I really don't know anything about the Texan energy-market. But the quotes in this article rub me the wrong way.

> Stressing that he is hoping for a relief package from the state to help with the bill, Pierce said he is just living under the assumption “this is a later problem.”

A twisted form of privatizing the gain and socializing the losses. First they went with Griddy so they didn't have to pay for future capacity during exceptional events. Now they're out-bidding everybody else on the spot-market. And they hope that those bids will be paid by the community.

And then Griddy adds their tune: “We want what’s right by our consumers, so we are encouraging them to leave.”

Oh you didn't tell them about this risk did you? You said it would be cheaper, didn't you? And now you hope your customers will go quietly and won't try to hold you liable for not telling them. I'm not even sure at this point Griddy doesn't bet against their own customers in this. I mean, others are doing it too, why shouldn't they? And Griddy can observe first-hand who's flexible on price.

> “I think people are greedy. It doesn’t make sense,” she said. “I am dumbfounded. There is no compassion or grace for people.”

Said somebody after becoming the sucker on a market they'd embraced as long as it worked out in their favor.

I mean, I can very well see myself in that situation. Not having thought about the consequences. Having to rely on a provider that's connecting me directly to the leeches who assure everybody how much efficiency they're providing. It's not the time for reflection. I just worry that when this blows over people will be right back not wanting to pay for critical infrastructure because that's something communism.
I am also Aussie and agree with this.

FB has worked hard to make itself the walled garden of “internet”. It tries to encourage people to use the FB search box to find news agencies, brands, etc. rather than the URL box.

The monopoly positions of tech giants and their efforts to build walled gardens is the real problem. The fact that they’re where everyone consumes news media is a byproduct of that. We’ve seen the harmful damage it does to democracy and to society in general.

This legislation is stupid, and attempts to place stupid demands on the tech giants such as sharing algorithms. It’s a blatant attempt to kowtow to Uncle Rupert, with some funds also regrettably going to those dirty socialists at the government-owned news media organisations on the side to make it a little less obviously on the nose.

However, I think FB was more stupid to not just follow the Google approach and negotiate it down to a dilute bother, in effect paying a chump change tax to retain that monopoly position. Aussies are notoriously apathetic about any issue which doesn’t directly affect them. FB has made a tactical misstep here by making the issue affect everyone.

I hope this is a step towards smashing that walled garden. I hope it just ends up teaching Aussies to go to the actual websites of organisations whose content they want to view. I hope FB withers back down to being the place you check a few times a day max to see what your friends are doing and to see some memes, rather than where people endlessly doomscroll and never leave.

The Aussie government does not have the clout to challenge these monopolies directly, but but this legislation starts that process then they will have Steven Bradburyed [1] their way to a fantastic outcome.

The reduction of these all-encompassing walled gardens will be to the betterment of society as a whole.

Now we have to start dismantling the NewsCorp behemoth as well.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Bradbury
> We paid 33 cents / kWh on the bay area last year. Not sure how the rest of CA is doing.

Forget “the rest of California”, that's extremely high for the Bay Area. Last year, SF Area average retail electricity prices by month ranged between 22.9 ¢/kW and 24.0 ¢/kW.

https://www.bls.gov/regions/west/news-release/averageenergyp...
I have to replace my simple.com account, so instead of doing that for a dozen or more subscriptions, I just changed the funding provider in Privacy, and keep the vendor-specific virtual cards.
I wouldn't call this generosity. This is the normal conduct of normal honest businesses.
>>You buy a stock with the hope

I don't buy anything on hope. I do lots of analysis fundamental and more.

I invest only if the company is and will, with, enough metrics to support it will perform in the future. The stock price is backed by the health and growth of the business.

The easiest way to to do this is an index fund. Which by some definitions tracks large segments of the economy itself.
Mate, you are something.

And you're suggesting the encryption, privacy and data mining of location history policies exist and are diligently followed by current ISP's?
That would be a welcome surprise if it delivers and finally gives people an alternative to the one wired option they usually have.
If that comes to pass, there will be no highly-guarded, highly-moderated mobile OS to choose from.

But we're not talking about changing the operating system, are we? We're talking about opening up the marketplace.

If you're relying on perfect/near-perfect moderation of every application in your marketplace to protect your users from abuse by developers, that already seems like asking the impossible.

The operating system should have a robust security and privacy model that protects users, regardless of what software they run on it. But if you have that, the source of the software matters a lot less, and any argument based on restricting distribution to authorised channels will be weakened.

Conflating these two fundamentally different issues might be convenient for Apple's PR or legal departments, but it's still obscuring how a customer's device is being restricted in ways not necessarily in that customer's favour.
That sounds like more conspiracy theories. For all we know it has a GPS receiver as a precise reference clock.