skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are dozens of custom ICs from STMicroelectronics in each terminal. ST is a public company; NYSE:STM
The terminal is also using a large amount of high-frequency substrate. That could be Rogers, but maybe one of the much cheaper Chinese materials. But I don’t think a position should be taken based on what’s inside of a terminal. The real play is in shorting the entire satellite industry.

Every existing satellite operators stands to lose from Starlink’s success. Maybe not SiriusXM. Crazy that their net income is still increasing every year.

Intelsat’s cost per bit is much higher than Starlink’s. They also have much less system capacity.

EchoStar owns HughesNet. NASDAQ: SATS

Eutelsat: same as Intelsat, but with less debt on their books.

SES: Wild card among legacy satellite operators, as they have a new, high capacity (O3B mPower) system in the works.

Viasat’s 3-terabit GEO system should be competitive from a cost-perspective, but latency will be much worse. If price is the same as Starlink, they will lose on quality of connectivity/latency.

Iridium, GlobalStar, Orbcomm. Public companies that focus on narrowband/low bitrate/IoT communications. Much of the use cases can be solved with a Starlink terminal and an IoT hub/gateway, rather than going directly from a small sensor to a satellite.

There are a few public GEO operators in Asia; they’ll have the same problem as the European and American operators.

There’s virtually nothing that these companies can do to compete. They are all procurement specialists, rather than being engineering-led/driven. Most importantly, they all pay full price for launch, whereas SpaceX gets it for not much more than gas-money.

And SpaceX can get way more cash than anyone else at a much cheaper price. It’s tough to fight against that kind of war chest.
Hey thanks! That’s nice to hear for sure. Similarly I’ve given way to much to work as well. My problem is they hold the cards for the moment!
I'm with you. You'd really have to push me to ever sympathize with facebook at this point but here we are.
Look at the combined annual revenue in billions of intelsat, eutelsat, ses, arabsat, yahsat, russia's geostationary gazprom, amos spacecom and other geostationary satellite owners. plus the revenue of the various latin america geostationary sat owners. The market is there, worldwide.
I recommend the book by Andrew Fergusson called "When Money Dies" which is about the period of hyperinflation in Weimar Germany. Note that I do not claim to know 100% that this will happen in the USA .

It was written in the late 1970s I believe so is not geared to anything "trendy" for today and I think this makes the book better.
I have something like 4 subscriptions that I cannot figure out how to cancel on my AMEX. So I cancelled my AMEX. They now have a feature where your subscriptions will follow you any way. I literally have no way of getting rid of like $200 worth of fucking subscriptions unless I want to close my credit card account.
No, I've lived in the SEO world my entire life and I guarantee you that if the ranking changes were published spam would be so bad is to make search engines or social media totally unusable.
I just checked mine. I get about the same.

Pinging 8.8.8.8 with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 8.8.8.8: bytes=32 time=12ms TTL=115
Most of these subscriptions (nyt, prime, etc) are not debt. They are a service you pay monthly in advance for.
"Power will go to the hands of rogues/freebooters.All Indian leaders will be of low caliber/men of straw.They will have sweet tongues/silly hearts.They will fight among themselves for power; India will be lost in political squabbles" --Churchill (b. 1874)
I had a meteorologist explain this to me once: weather forecasting is highly complex, near to an art form. It's not yet possible to model the forecast with precise enough rules that it can be done by machine within a reasonable compute budget. In addition, as others have noted, variations in topography can create many microclimates, so that the forecast for a given region is actually the average forecast for all the area within that region.

Very accurate forecasts for a specific spot are possible, but today require a trained meteorologist. In practice, the only time people are willing to pay for this expertise are when they're running an airport, planning a war, or launching / landing a spacecraft.

Perhaps in the future we'll have enough compute power on demand for anyone to accurately model on-demand forecasts for specific spots.
And? He's "zooming in on the managers more than the politicians" because they can be easily replaced by any politician who gives a damn about infrastructure, and the whole point of the project is to give an idea of cost so politicians who give a damn can determine when a manager is bad.

He's not trying to address what to do if a politician doesn't care about infrastructure.
I think a lot of recruiters just drop the ball a lot, especially those in very large company. I imagine they get 10 applications an hour, sift through some resumes, schedule some interviews, then find someone and ignore the other 33 people who have scheduled an interview.
Your "hope" is tactic admission that there is no alternative and admission that Apple is willing to limit choice on their platform. "But Android" doesn't challenge the idea... it simply proves you can't defend Apple.

"I Buy apple" and others buy Apple while still wanting choice within that ecosystem of hardware. Why don't YOU get that through YOUR thick skull? You aren't the only customer and other people deserve the choice - which is why regulations exist to break up monopolies.

Thanks for, basically, admitting that I'm right and that the Don is willing to break kneecaps to keep control of their fiefdom.
That works during the day, but overnight you have to worry about people using your car for various things and leaving various potentially dangerous substances and items in your car.
> It's harder to imagine how extreme cold affects, say, a nuclear power plant.

From what I can tell, there are only two nuclear power plants in Texas, providing about 2.5 GW of power. But one of them is currently shut down because of a problem with a feedwater pump:

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/energy/how-and-why...
100W bulbs used to be common and standard.
The real crazy story is how anyone can buy any CAS numbered compound from a lab for usually thousands of times less per mg than at a pharmacy.

An example is Azithromycin, which typically costs about $15/pill at 500mg, yet if you buy it direct from a lab that syntethizes the compound themselves at 99% purity, it costs around $0.04 for the same pill.
> Quebec is 99% renewable[0] (95% hydro, 4% wind) and runs through the coldest of winter just fine!

Hydro has huge impacts on the environment and can only be built if you have mountains and large amounts of water.

Oh, and it’s one of the dealiest sources of energy. The Banqiao dam disaster in 1975 killed as much as 250.000 people while there are less than 50 deaths attributed to Chernobyl according to UNSCEAR/WHO.
Ask HN: How do I find an apprenticeship at a startup/internet business?
Hello Hacker News! I saw earlier today there was a post on finding remote jobs... so I'm posting a similar follow-up: how do I find a remote apprenticeship at a startup/internet business?

My background:
- fresh graduate (Bachelors in Computer Sci- Highest Distinction)
- did mostly ML stuff in college, picking up JS/Rails right now because I realised I can't build for nuts
- have multiple indie projects like podcast, newsletter etc

Why apprenticeship:
- I realised I'm not a good operator (ref Andrew Wilkinson), so I want to polish my skills under someone who has done it before
- I will be a future founder, so it'll be relevant to learn what it is like to build a business

Why remote:
I'm from Singapore, but I don't want to limit myself to my own geographic region. Open to moving to another country, but due to the current pandemic I'm much more inclined to stay in SG first

Looking forward to hear your advice- thank you!
Well, yeah. They're following a flowchart that labels common objections and the responses to overcome them. You're in a pipeline. Your job is to get to the end of that pipeline without being shunted off in long and meandering side paths.
This are end-user-prices, but the website is about wholesale prices which are normally much smaller e.g. in 2020 the wholesale average had been around $38/MWh (the price companies selling electricity to end-users and companies pay).

Also note that the site contains not just "real-time" prices but also day ahead prices (selected by default) which due to instabilities are quite a bit higher then real-time prices.
For California residents, canceling NYT is very easy. Click "manage your subscription" and then "cancel subscription."
I use Privacy.com for this reason and to not worry about my cards getting leaked. I create a card per-subscription and set the monthly limit to exactly the cost of the subscription. When I want to cancel, if it's not easy I just destroy the virtual card.
Honestly they got me for a couple of years with this. The $10/month digital subscription was hitting my credit card, but every time I tried to cancel I ran into issues. It took took quite a while before I got annoyed enough to put the effort in to actually cancel it.

It is such a scummy tactic. I tell everyone not to subscribe to NYT just based on that experience.
It's 100-140W.

Mine is averaging about 0.5% packet loss over a 3 hour period. There will be very brief periods of slightly higher loss. I don't play a lot of fps but most realtime lag, loss and jitter sensitive applications work just fine.
Thank you. I suspect this is more of a CYA clause in practice
It's complicated, but you're getting the gist of it.
This. I think a lot of people miss the bigger picture. If Epic win this, do you really think games consoles are safe? What about car infotainment systems etc.? An Epic win could effectively make all walled gardens illegal
According to this, there was a Jan 15th date for documents that was pushed back 30 days: https://www.ft.com/content/3ac4809e-7c4d-4d9f-83ea-7112bfd34...
'Well unfortunately for humanity, people who are "curious learners and experts" are most of the time bad managers'

Why do you say that? All my best managers have loved to learn, and been expert in some areas. They just -also- were sufficiently self aware to recognize that having the people under them all be out learning things, and owning the decision, was far more efficient than them trying to learn and become an expert, and then dictating decisions. You need the latter to be good; I'd argue the former is entirely orthogonal (except maybe being an added benefit, in being able to recognize who is going to be aggressively learning).
> Would you care if they took the same approach for your laptop?

I don't ask for my laptop to be an appliance. The laptop is one type of product that can run arbitrary code if I want it to. The iPhone is not, and that's the type of product I am specifically looking for.

> Us, being HN posters obviously find such a statement absurd

HN is probably just as representative on the authoritative/libertarian scale as society as a whole - this is just a forum for anyone remotely associated with technology after all. Just because you're on a forum doesn't mean everyone will view it from the same viewpoint as you, even if it does dictate how much people downvote/upvote your posts.
Could maybe be solved by adding some more technology (e.g. a barcode) that allows them to reserve the item at the current price, plus maybe some other kind of incentive.
Arguably this is a sign of an Israeli tendency to complain about things and arrogance. Maybe they were right, maybe they weren't.
Kind of wild how little coverage NFT's receive on HN. I'm super long on this new metaverse, and dipping my toes as an artist. Feel free to follow along on Twitter: http://twitter.com/WARHODL
Is it a testnet or not? How does it relate to the accusations being made here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26175655 ?
IMHO if your code snippet image isn't scale invariant, I'd rather just take a literal screenshot with my editor. From my experiences with Carbon they don't support SVGs well - could be that it's a hard problem.
No they aren't. I had my account stolen twice which took calls to customer service to get back and finally cancelled which took hours and you can't do online when you can't even log into your account. I have like $90 of fraudulent Netflix bills.
Crime rates have lowered since the 90s but they are still far higher than pre-1965 levels. We are a long way from safe 1950s America.
Nuclear works under nearly all environmental conditions. Heck, we have nuclear powered energy sources in space.

Russia built a floating nuclear power plant in the remote city of Pevek in the polar circle where hardly any wind turbine or solar panel will be able to generate sufficient amounts of electricity.
Facebook Australian news shutdown (extended version)
..."Facebook didn’t just shut down Australian news sites, it shut down government agency pages: Hospitals, Fire & Rescue, Bureau of Meteorology, just hours after Zuckerberg spoke to our Govt & without warning. If a foreign government did this(e.g China), it would be called terrorism."
> due to eInk's bullshit monopoly practices

A recurring meme from people who meet one or more of the following conditions:

a) Don't understand business

b) Don't know anything about the display industry

c) Don't know anything about manufacturing anything at scale

d) Don't have any real information other than repeating something someone said

e) Never take the time to do enough research and gather enough data with which to support their opinions

f) Don't seem to care about the truth

As someone who worked in the display industry for over ten years, conducted seminars for thousands of engineers and business professionals on the design and manufacturing of display systems (down to pixel-level electronics) and, generally speaking, considered myself an expert in the domain...these kinds of comments come off as --to be kind-- terribly misplaced.

It would behoove HN commenters to at least exercise enough restraint to only comment in domains they have either researched profusely or understand to a good level of proficiency. That is, if they care about HN signal-to-noise ratio not degrading to Twitter/FB food fight levels.
I gotta be honest I'm on a completely different track than this thread: these displays are pretty bad! No one is choosing a 4096 color 2560x1400p 30" with a refresh rate thats so poor they won't share it - its surely measured in seconds.
Yes and even more so if you have the past viewpoint and perspective of having previously lived on geostationary satellite for months at a time, and could imagine using starlink in a really remote area.
If everyone in Texas was on Griddy, demand would have been properly modulated by price and these rolling blackouts would have never occurred. The insurance that flat rate power plans provide are precisely why people feel comfortable wasting electricity on computers and televisions instead of using the bare minimum. Their neighbors in a different cell are freezing in the dark, but when the incentive to reduce usage is $0.10 an hour, who the hell cares?

In a world with cell phones and smart things, Griddy makes perfect sense. It's ecologically friendly. It's economically efficient. You do care about the planet, don't you?

A lot of power companies are going to be bankrupt after this. Griddy will not be.
Because my beliefs are more ethical than Apple's current implementation.
Confirmed for Santa Clara -- 11 cents for the first 300 kWh, slightly less for off-peak hours (if you install a Time of Use meter):
https://www.siliconvalleypower.com/home/showpublisheddocumen...
His stated position is that war spoils are more ethical than interest because the raiding party shares the risks and profits equally
How can the pharmacy refuse method of payment?
Amazon Build It
Sometimes, politicians need to look busy; often during or just after a big fuck up.
"for free" and yet Apple will still make a profit due to physical phone sales, $99/year fees, etc. To imply that they aren't profitable outside of the 30% cut is laughable. Plenty of companies "research, develop, provide opportunities" that can't and don't resort to monopolistic and territorialistic practices to block competition.

There's no reason that EA can't accept payments outside of the Apple store other than monopolistic protectionism. "research and development" of something 100s of other companies can and do is a weak excuse - and one easily picked apart with relevant examples.
How has it performed on cloudy/rainy/harsh weather days?
> The business is hurting and valuable.

That’s not your problem if you want to cancel.
Let me guess was it hate speech, were they just trying to hurt themselves in Australia
Your wording is a little confusing. Are you saying that your card number changed and the subscription was updated to charge that new number?

If so, that's known as account updater or card refresher.

https://developer.visa.com/capabilities/vau

https://www.americanexpress.com/us/merchant/cardrefresher.ht...
It's surprisingly easy back in my home. Furthermore, they even offer me a discount for 6 months if you want to change your mind, and let you keep their card if you want to subscribe again.
Wind and solar heavily depend on the weather. They cannot therefore produce any sufficient amounts of electricity during a blizzard.

And the blame doesn’t lie on natural gas but on the idea of shutting down baseload-capable sources like nuclear in favor of renewables.
A Newbie Guide on How to Effectively Use Live Options Flow to Find Good Setups
Worth noting that at least major ones like BOM, Queensland Health, Queensland Police and Betoota Advocate were blocked but that has been reverted now.
> I'm finding myself increasingly distrustful of the work of journalism outlets

You can't say something like this about Bloomberg News and what happened with the Bloomberg presidential campaign and have credibility.
As far as I know many electric contacts for end users have fixed prices. (Potentially with some auto price correction every year or so based on averages, but this shouldn't matter for now.)

Given that this are wholesale prices it about how much the company selling electricity to end-users pays for it to (simplified).
I had a similar thing with Comcast which kept referring me to their retention department and asking me to call.

I replied to them no less than 5 times, each time pointing out that (a) I don't have time for phone calls (b) their terms and conditions permits cancelling by e-mail.

Another way is to notify them once by e-mail to end your subscription per [insert T&C clause and citation] and just stop paying. If they don't get payment they'll stop anyway, and if they come chasing after you, you have the notification you sent.
A proper backup generator works too. It might actually be a cheaper option and allow for added batteries later.
I see you are representing all of Islamic jurisprudence here but somehow condemning things like sukuk?
Taat makes sense, with a small number of users they are not likely to spend CPU time doing fast Fourier transforms and whatnot for areas with zero subscribers
Sweet, I'm going to be immortal.
And nuclear is providing 100% of its installed capacity after South Texas Project 1 was offline for some hours.
The Ars article (can you post a link to it?) is wrong if it says that. Wind generation collapsed as it froze.

Only 7% of ERCOT’s forecasted winter capacity, or 6 gigawatts, was expected to come from various wind power sources across the state.

https://www.texastribune.org/2021/02/16/natural-gas-power-st...

Wind shutdowns accounted for 3.6 to 4.5 gigawatts

“We are seeing wind generation down 60% week-over-week”

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2021/02/16/nation/why-is-power-o...
Netflix has shown that they can make bank[0] even after pulling their subscription from Apple's platform[1]. Your entire comment doesn't really add anything since it's all plain-as-day information - Apple's 30% cut is effectively revenue they get for creating the iOS devices, so yes, as long as they continue to sell product, they're going to continue to require 30% of digital content revenue is pocketed as profit.

0: https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/business/story/20...

1: https://techcrunch.com/2018/12/31/netflix-stops-paying-the-a...
There is this legendary Comcast cancellation recording you can commiserate with: https://soundcloud.com/ryan-block-10/comcastic-service
There’s an elegant solution to all this: better energy efficiency for buildings.

It’s funny seeing people in this thread jumping right past the root cause and suggesting elaborate solutions like nuclear power. And before you say it’s not feasible to upgrade hundreds of millions of buildings in the USA, you should be aware that upgrading homes to be more energy efficient actually pays for itself (albeit in the long run, which is why most of us have not bothered doing it).
Yes. I have heard of sexual favours being provided by a trainee to get into a (highly sought after) Dermatology training program.

Another way to put it is that anyone who can be exploited will be exploited. The differences are only in frequency and visiblity.
No discernable impact on rainy days. During heavier snow speeds will be more like 55-60Mbps.
> be able to cancel any service we want through an online form, but in reality that is a pipe dream.

Not if you use a service like Apple Pay or google play. They don’t let companies hold your financial information hostage.
They could also integrate it with Youtube and add some fancy AI stuff that assists artists in creating content. I've always wanted something that makes making animated videos more approachable. If they did that I'm sure it would usher a huge wave of content creators.
Facebook news goes dark in Australia as content payment dispute grows
Do they have to operate in extreme weather? If they work for 99% of days and they are 100x more convenient than owning cars, I'm sure we would deal with transit during extreme weather some other way.
Use x1e.32xlarge on AWS with 3TB of RAM. Just $12,742/mo - https://calculator.aws/#/estimate?id=7428fa81192c57087ac8cdf...

Alternatively order something like the HP Z8 with 3TB RAM configured, which is only $75k - https://zworkstations.com/configurations/2040422/

It's interesting. It would take ~six years for the Z8 to break even compared to AWS, but traffic into and out of the machine would be $0, and I don't think you're running directly on the metal with AWS, so performance would probably be a bit higher. And then there's storage - I configured, uhh, 120TB of a mixture of SSDs and HDDs. I'm not even going to try and ask AWS for a comparible quote there.

I may or may not have added dual Xeon Platinum 8280s to the Z8 as well. :P
I don't know much about US history, but I know this happened in the 50s, so "safe 1950s America" may require an asterisk:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmett_Till
> So doesn't Australia have any process to compel the government to comply with the constitution?

Australia has the most volatile politics of any English speaking country. The two ways for a government to be forced to follow the constitution is for the Queen to fire them, or for a military coup.

Both were considered during the last time the government was in deadlock: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1975_Australian_constitutional...

>So far, your claim about less informed people is essentially just "other people voted for a government I don't like so they must have been less informed than me".

My claim is that an Australian government is acting outside the constitution and responsible for the deaths of thousands. Not sure what you're trying to do with your strawman argument.
2045? A 30 year transition plan (since '15) sounds like doing nothing and branding it.
South Texas Project 1 was already fixed and should be back online:

> https://twitter.com/Beazy_Rampezy/status/1362043827800977414