skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It was via Handshake that I came across this concept (though I heard it as "Zooko's Trilemma") a few months ago! Handshake indeed looks pretty cool and interesting. I bought-in enough to register both my real name (firstnamelastname) and commonest online handle, but I haven't found time to actually do anything with them. I should make a personal web site. I should do a lot of things.
Economic mobility is enabled by jobs and education, not location. Speaking as someone who grew up in a small town and ended up making 10x my parents combined, a small town upbringing is not a hinderance if you’re inspired by learning about the world through the Internet.

If the remote working and education trend continues, location will be more or less irrelevant.
But what if your company ultimately acts as a selfish individual, too? Perhaps it even has a fiduciary duty to do so?

There's a good argument that most venture backed software companies are exactly "a selfish and cynical bargain".

It's been a good few years since I've met a senior technical staffer at a 'successful' Bay company who genuinely thinks they're "making the world a better place".

EDIT: Not that I disagree with your broader point that selfishness is an undesirable characteristic for an individual, society or ideology. But it seems inappropriate to attribute the problem to ICs or their managers.
What's the best guess on where the actual cash sits in the meantime, or long term?
It would be cool if billing was usage based. Like I have a cabin but I’m not there all the time.
does anyone know of a simple way to prevent guest OS from detecting that its running under virtualbox? i had a similar software that refused to run in a vm and said "this software cannot run under virtualbox"...
Dedicated lockable rolling carts work well in this situation. My external keyboard, mouse and miscellany roll around to whatever desk is available.
Zipline is having real impact in places with insufficient infrastructure to quickly transport medical supplies.

https://flyzipline.com/
Alright.

So run something by me.

If, as you say "history is always written by the victors"; wherefore do you get legitimacy to your claim this makes history a waste of time? It appears to me, in fact, you're drawing conclusions based on historical occurence to lend predictive credibility to your assertion that history is always written by the victor, and therefore, worthy of dismissing.

If I accept your assertiom, your claim is baseless and bereft of any rhetorical power whatsoever. That's before we even touch on the factual errors. Some of the best and most valuable history is not that written by the victor, but that recorded by the eventual loser. Historians hunt for, and preserve these false starts, and spend lifetimes teasing out the circumstances around them.

You want examples of predictive power?

Power vacuums:
why sometimes you don't kill the dictator you can get along with

Involuntary relications: They never end well; ever.

Regicide: Fun for the whole family

Genocide: Fun for the entire ethnic group

War:
As the atrocity of the means of conducting war increases, the stomach for employing it consistently decreases sharply.

Bugs and common defect classes: ever tracked a development teams bad habits? Great practice. Helps immensely in making you look like a psychic because you just learn where and how everything is going to break.

Numerical interpolation/integration:
History has non-human aspects as well. To ignore the impact or utility of history is to entirely dismiss the field and methods of simulation and engineering. Those mathematical constructs are underpinned by relationships that are predictive by their nature.

I mean, I can go on. Look, I was like you once. I gave the history majors I knew endless amounts of guff. Then I actually read some, and wondered why I was seeing so many old issues rearing their ugly heads.

History is critically important to ynderstanding and contextualizing the human experience. There are thoughts every human in their lifetime will think. Watch someone elses children and pick them out. Go ahead. We record history so that those that come after us can see how we reasoned, and how it turned out. That way. You don't end up repeating the mistakes of your forebearers. Which can only come to pass if you read the bloody thing and absorb it.

Techne itself is a form of historical record; a network of interrelated knowledge, contexts, and applications thereof that are composable to bring about an end.

Our history, the history of humanity, is a network of the excesses, vices, illusions of grandeur, tales of victory and crushing defeats laid bare before us. It is the path of cobbles that brought us to where we are.

You know what? Go watch Connections if you haven't. If you had, you should have managed to absorb why understanding the past informs better decisions moving forward by priming your pattern recognition faculties and breaking you of that most horrible habit of "This time it'll be different."
> consumers seem to have a preference for LCD or OLED devices

Have anything to back that claim up, or is this your opinion? Because considering there’s only one major category of consumer devices with eInk displays and they are used in all the leading devices in that category, I’m not sure I personally agree. Without additional product categories available to purchase and because there is a pent up desire to buy them despite them not existing, I don’t feel your conclusion can be proven categorically.
I'm a big fan of ATP synthase. It brings me joy to imagine a quadrillion spinning doodads powering my body at all times. We don't just have a rotor and stator like a jet engine, we have a quadrillion of them! Possibly even a quintillion! Wheee!
The UK has Dinorwig Power Station which is a pumped storage hydro station to supply spot demand when it's time for tea:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinorwig_Power_Station

But at the end of the day, it uses more energy than it generates due to the inefficiencies of pumping water up to the top of the mountain (basically, it's playing arbitrage with spot electricity pricing & demand).
Agreed, I wasn't trying to say that your computer counts as enough of "what you have" to third parties. Is why I don't think it counts for most accounts you have access to.

That said, your phone is growing to take that privilege.
Yes, the regulatory and NIMBY challenges are extreme.

Best way to do it is to go:
1. All underground transmission.
2. Expand the natural gas pipeline permitting process (which is controlled at the Federal level and already overrides state's jurisdiction) to include underground electrical transmission.
Please don't take HN threads into regional flamewar. That never ends well.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
They are both used to add client-side interactivity. I agree vanilla JS is often a capable alternative. jQuery offers a lot of convenience though.
Does your editor not have a print menu? I just printed a file from MacVim, looks great on paper.
Britain's Giant Airship: R.101
> > In California it’s about 30 to 40 cents kWh during normal times.

> It didn't have to be this way :(

And, it's not! The claimed price is in the ballpark of double the actual price.
Traceroutes are all going out to the world through this google AS right now. Using the hurricane tool as a convenient GUI presentation of what it is: https://bgp.he.net/AS36492

nothing obviously satellite related shows up at layer 3. There's a few hops of stuff with no rDNS, and then the edge of the AS36492 network and whatever transits or peers your traffic is going to.

You can clearly discern from pinging your first hop (15.9 to 30ms away) that it's something on the other side of the up-and-back satellite link.

topology at present is logically a bent pipe. satellites need to be simultaneously in view of your terminal and a spacex earth station. The ten satellites they launched into a polar orbit last month are the first with inter-satellite laser links.
Plus one. I was totally put out by this process too.
Wouldn't surprised me if this is offered as a premium service in the future. Maybe first for enterprise customers like airlines or shipping and then later for consumers.

If part of the reason for the current location restriction is managerial overhead then I suppose SpaceX could justify an extra charge for this feature.

Edit to add: It may also be that supporting moving terminals is much easier to implement when the terminal is traveling along a known route vs on something like an RV that can pop up on the network anywhere.
Citi banks’ $900M error happened [pdf]
Adam Fein is well known in the industry and his blog is a great source of info on how drug distribution works in the US. A real rabbit hole if you want.
Interesting! Thanks of the book.
I completely agree you can build hardy solar/wind generation (i.e. runs in winter), however, the sun still sets each day, and wind is intermittent and unpredictable. until there is a revolution in battery technology, relying on those two sources (without others types of generation) will result in large electricity price spikes.
I'm a big believer in Starlink and SpaceX generally.

It annoys me that I can not invest in these big bold innovations directly. Has anyone thought about how to invest indirectly on the belief that Starlink will succeed? For instance, are there satellite equipment suppliers or other upstream supplier who stand to profit with Starlink's success?

Likewise, who might fail based on Starlink's success? Should I be shorting Satellite based ISPs?
Banks and credit cards cancel inactive accounts.
Thanks! I’m sure it will help saving trouble for a lot of people.
Maybe naive question, but what are the tech and/or economical hurdles that impede 'edge' nodes to become satellites now that Starlink is approaching a large scale?
That's not how employment works. There is a certain amount of natural unemployment even in a full employment economy: this is called "frictional unemployment." Like, you just moved or quit your job or got laid off and are looking for a new one. You are unemployed for a couple weeks or months, or longer if you're retraining. There's also structural unemployment, people who are unemployed (or underemployed) because their skills are not suited to the current environment. Central banks can't do anything about that with interest rates. There will always be some people unemployed.

Full employment is defined by the concept of the NAIRU, the non-accelerating inflation rate of unemployment. The lowest sustainable unemployment before inflation begins to take off in a feedback loop (as higher inflation pushes expectations of future inflation up, resulting in a spiral).
It wasn’t quite that bad, but I had a similar tedious chat session in order to cancel my NYT crosswords subscription. I don’t think I’ll ever pay that company another dime.
In the case of gas fireplaces, all of the heat generated is used, so I would think it would be perfectly efficient. As long as you shut it off during the warm seasons, anyway.
The local McD's drive thru has a giant LED screen where you can see your order and total cost. Very nice for confirming they understood what you ordered after:

Me: 3 Big Macs and 2 large Fries

McD: What?

Me: 3 Big Macs and 2 large Fries

McD: 4 Quarterpounders?

Me: T-h-r-e-e B-i-g M-a-c-s

McD: 3 Quarterpounders?

Me: Yes, and fries
theoretically, great, and I would be shocked if they did not release a product functionally equivalent to the iridium and inmarsat aviation and maritime terminals, because of how much potential revenue is there. it will also be much better and faster than a multi-axis motorized tracking geostationary maritime terminal ($40,000+ things you can find in radomes on large ships, operating in various ku and ka band networks). there has been no official announcement on that sort of thing yet.

the current terminal has motion sensors in it and is not designed for a moving vehicle, it will turn itself off. the same 6-axis sensors that are used to orient and tilt it to the proper angle can also tell it when it's being moved.
There's a growing movement to get away from index funds. This year, tech stocks have exploded. ARK Invest has vastly outperformed the S&P 500 and Nasdaq-100. Ultra-low interest rates tend to have people going for increasingly high-risk, speculative investments, such as tech companies. The bolder and more futuristic the vision, the better. Obviously, this could end badly as well, but, people are starting to pick individual stocks instead of index funds.
A RISC-V assembler in Tcl
https://xkcd.com/925/ comes to mind
These are small, and so far the courts have ruled those small interconnects do not open them to federal regulation. There were lawsuits back in the 70s over this.

Mess with the status quo too much and that could change. If they want to continue to avoid federal regulation, it's in their best interests to not invest heavily in interconnect.
The mainstream media is obsolete garbage, and that’s if I pretend 95% of it isn’t blatant, literal propaganda.
Not sure where you’re getting 16 cents, the lowest PG&E tier is 24 cents [0]

[0] https://www.pge.com/pge_global/common/pdfs/rate-plans/how-ra...

To add, Santa Clara city is served by Silicon Valley Power which I believe has substantially lower rates than PG&E.. there may be other such local providers..
If you don’t use Amazon Prime during the trial period (or over the year if you sign up for a year) Amazon auto refund you.
No type of power plant is immune to mismanagement, sadly.
Are they also used to transmit power from one gear to another?
Yeah, a large fraction of the natural gas infrastructure froze and the governor prioritized gas for home heating over electrical generation.

So natural gas spot prices have gone from around $3-MMBTU to like $350-MMBTU and there is 30GW of electrical generating capacity offline.
Just curious, how do you know it’s based on openwrt?
I was surprised so clicked through on the graph. Looks like it is 3,000 per 100,000 people, not just children. Graph should have had more context in the article posted.
Looks reasonably active: https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash
My org has started work on psychological safety based on “The Fearless Organization.” I think it might be a route toward an antidote for the delusions you describe.

https://fearlessorganization.com/
You're getting emotive responses from people who've already deleted their original comments. I suspect this is a troll with how successful it is.

The thing about being wrong on the internet, is that we won't give you any leeway.

The idea after you have COVID is you don't leave your home. Depending on your country, that might not be reasonable. For instance in New Zealand, for those staying at home - the government either put them into managed facilities by force (for those who disagreed, were detained by police and put into a hotel with a police presence), or delivered parcels of food to positive testing people.

I really don't see that happening or playing out without a lot of outrage in some countries. Australia tried that and you'd think their political climate was similar, but the politicians involved have likely just nuked their careers.
Estimates for the satellite dish from people in the industry are well over $1000 (see e.g. [1] https://spacenews.com/news-analysis-spacex-has-a-lot-riding-...)

Unless SpaceX has made a huge unannounced breakthrough in phased arrays they're actually taking large losses on the up-front cost at this point.
> For what it's worth I've never had trouble canceling anything I've subscribed to.

You probably don't subscribe to things that are hard to cancel!
Most aren't putting more than 5% in. Tesla is one of the larger buys I think they put in around 7%. Still, if it goes to 0, it won't matter much at those percentages. Conversely, if it ends up going up more, it'll probably go up a lot more since it's still a small asset class relatively. $1.5T market cap is nothing compared to the stock market and still a lot less than Gold.

And with interest rates so low and all other asset prices ballooning, cryptocurrencies probably looked cheap to a bunch of fund managers. Up until a few months ago, BTC was still sitting below its all time highs.

So I think that's the mindset people are taking. Even with big money behind it, it doesn't mean BTC is now a safe thing to buy, but the upside is still so massive that it's worth taking a chance on despite the risks.
They're not a charity or a nonprofit that relies on donations. They're a business selling a product, and the only thing that should rationally factor into giving them money or not is if you want to buy the product. Need doesn't factor into the equation.
I wouldn't have high expectations of SoftBank but it does illustrate one key point. Everyone noticed that SoftBank was willing to burn a couple of billion on stuff like WeWork. It is considered reasonable in the VC/private venture industry to take bets on AI/ML, internet services. If those companies fail, nobody is going to fire you even if you vouched for obvious disasters like WeWork. The same VCs would never even consider taking a stake in startups that do the incremental improvements in pieces of display technology like TFT or material science improvements. I work in the display industry and I can only smile when people say it is being held back by patents and stuff like that because the real reason is really about investment.

> Is there something commercial players realize about e-ink that the rest of us don't? Or do they lack vision (seems unlikely under current market conditions)?

What I know is that their technology is limited by the physics of moving large particles. Their volumes are not high enough to achieve high scale. There was another post that explained this very well by showing the multi-billion cost of a typical LCD factory. I think E-ink can only re-purpose existing LCD factory lines and they can't get good yields on their products doing that.
I just unsubscribed using web form. There are some dark patterns involved but not too dark. E.g. first option is the chat with representative, second is the call by phone and third option is the web form.
After I have navigated 3 pages using "default button" for canceling the unsubscription process - it is done.
It's not the best experience, but not the nightmare the OP described.
Ah, yes. Treat others as souless automatons option.
I expect a fair bit of interest from latency-sensitive markets (eg finance) here in Australia.

A few years ago when I was in the WAN optimisation space, IIRC Sydney/Singapore latency was ~150ms, partly raw distance, partly because the route was physically quite convoluted.

There's some expectation that once Starlink's mesh comms ramp up, it'll be significantly faster to go up to a bird, across through one or more at close-to-c, and then down into the local base station.

The fiber cable they ran from Perth up to Singapore a few years certainly won't be abandoned - it'll still be much cheaper / wider - but I can't imagine much appetite for any future under-sea cabling out of Australia (f.e.).
Can someone review Dapr, someone who used it fairly.
> I prefer to think of it as "depreciating fiat currency worth less every year", but sure.

How is a dollar worth of Tether less impacted by dollar inflation than a dollar in a bank account?
Extremely high barrier to entry + (necessary) complex regulatory structure = industry with fewer players.

And in that situation, you've basically got breeding grounds for cartels and price-fixing. Even if not all the players hold the line, prices will take a long time to come down rather than how quickly they would in a high-competition market.

Heck look at how long it took carriers to stop charging insane money for SMS! It did eventually happen, but over the course of years as each carrier in turn put through small incremental price reductions to show growth for shareholders.
You buy based on maximum expected value for your risk tolerance and then hope you don't end up on the low end of the distribution of outcomes.

Example tail outcomes:

- Anti-capitalist uprising destroys all records of ownership.

- Massive fraud in companies you invest in.

- Competitors outside your holdings outcompete and take the market share.

It's pretty reasonable to bet that these won't happen at a sufficient scale to affect you, especially with international diversification, but you do also hope they won't.

Also, the stock price is backed by people's perception of the health and growth of a business, and by the price and performance of alternative assets. Pricing is hard. Obviously fundamental earning power influences price, but it's not the only or biggest force in price discovery, especially on <10y scales. As we have seen in the past year, expectations of money supply have a drastic nonlinear effect on stock prices across the market. A major (and unlikely) Fed strategy change could halve the market and keep it below ATH for a decade.
There aren’t any mandates to provide service, so it’s hit or miss.

My parents live in a town where the local franchise agreement allows the cable company to cover whatever they want. The company opted to cease maintenance of cable on their road. So their options are spotty 4G service or rolling a DIY wisp with a friend across the valley in a more civilized town.
it's pretty crazy. even when we are not in the middle of a 'once in a generation' winter storm electricity prices regularly spike as much as 100x as peak gen ramps up, and the whole world (basically) goes on consuming it as if the price is static. like what if gasoline cost gas stations $30/gallon between 4-7pm and they just kept on selling it at $2-3/gallon?
in terms of raw capacity, I do not think that the intersatellite laser links (if/when they do get that working, which is a long ways off, 10 out of the 1050+ satellites right now have them, and none in production use), will approach anywhere near the capacity of a 40 or 80 channel, coherent 100/200/400GbE DWDM submarine line terminal. it's a whole other order of magnitudes.
Looks around 1k right now.
http://www.ercot.com/content/cdr/contours/rtmLmp.html

There must be lots of generators making bank.
The house I live in has two gas fireplaces, both 20-30 years old. They work in the same manner described above, with no requirement for electricity. Each one also has a blower that is simply plugged into the wall (one runs continuously, the other is thermostatically controlled; both are very loud). The blowers are optional, and the house gets adequately heated even when they are off.
>The question is what happens when 50% of volume disappears.

Surely this isn't an issue because the volume will just move the other exchanges? The bigger threat is investors getting cold feet and not wanting to buy at all.
When I tell someone I want to cancel a service, the only thing I ever want to hear is, "Yes sir." followed by, "All done, sir." And maybe a, "Have a nice day, sir."

Period.

I give you money. You give me a service. I stop giving you money. You stop giving me the service.

Its just that goddamn simple.
While some of the satellites do have point to point laser links for communicating directly with other satellites in the constellation, it's not widely utilized yet, and all communications are ground station to satellite and back to base station.

https://caseyhandmer.wordpress.com/2020/09/23/starlink-packe...

It's unlikely that anyone's traffic is passing through multiple satellite links at this time, but that may change with higher elevation orbits serving states like Alaska.
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Mentioned in the FAQs [1] you cannot take it with you if you move area, you are assigned a "cell" and it won't work for you outside of that. I spoke to someone who has it and he said he it is quite a big area maybe up to 100 mile radius.

[1]https://www.starlink.com/faq
>If it were just me, I know I can live cheaply and get by if I have to, and therefore could afford to take on high risk/high upside ventures.

Me too, and I could see there was no other possible way to save my parent's house than to start my company.