skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Instead of geostationary, I think you mean low earth orbit (LEO). There is a link to the Wikipedia article on LEO in an adjacent comment. A circular geostationary orbit is at an altitude of 22,236 miles/35,786 kilometers.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geostationary_orbit
Agreed. FWIW, current title of the article is "Microsoft hack: 3,000 UK email servers remain unsecured". And even that title is pretty ambiguous if the news of the Microsoft Exchange vulnerability passed you by.
Voting systems often amplify propaganda spam. Every day r/science has multiple posts upvoted to the top with titles exaggerating findings, and/or linking to shoddy studies.

Upvote/Downvote is very susceptible to headlines that exploit confirmation bias, and bot activity.
It's typically because they get wealthier as they get older. I'm not expecting millennials and gen-X to get more conservative. Zoomers, maybe.
We're using the blockchain to register unique usernames, drive addresses and store drive memberships (public keys) so there is no central database required to keep the system up and running. The goal is to provide the convenience of a centralized system, without a centralized system. That said we still have to improve convenience... beta as it says
Thanks for sharing, I’m the author of the article.
I accidentally posted it here just minutes after you. Didn’t think anyone had already shared it.

As a non native English speaker I appreciate any feedback you may have on my writing. There’s always a certain level of friction when it comes to expressing your thoughts in a second language.
The outer belt objects are small compared to planets, but are enormous considered as extracted volume, and uncountably numerous; whereas on inner planets you are effectively limited to the solidified skin at the bottom of an annoying gravity well, bathed in heat that must be shed.

Kuiper belt distances are inconvenient only when you are in a hurry and have limited speeds. Given fusion propulsion, nothing inside a solar system is especially far from anything else. But a large volume to operate in, which grows as r^3, is valuable, and an unlimited sink of cold, moreso.

If you need more mass, Neptune is right there.
Won’t find it on Hacker News either

All just SaAS and exits and praising Katie Haun and A16Z as Ross serves life in prison

Uggh hate fake hackers and SV
A minor nitpick but it's not relativity (as in Einstein's relativity,) it's just relative velocity.

The launch imparts velocity on the satellite but that velocity difference doesn't mean it flies in formation with the ISS a few hundred meters or a few kilometers apart. If they were launched in the direction the ISS is going (positive delta-v), that extra velocity means a higher orbit; if they're launched backwards (negative delta-v), it'll be a lower orbit. If it's launched sideways, it's either higher, lower, or same depending on delta-v but a different inclination (angle to the equator.) I couldn't quickly find where exactly the deployer is located but I'm guessing it's aft because it's the same module the ISS launches it's trash out of now (the Bishop airlock,) and I'm guessing they wouldn't launch anything in a fast decaying slightly higher orbit just to get hit by it a few cycles later.

The whole thing it's pretty cool, and it's quite new, it was installed only 3 months ago.
Yes, I think that's an important distinction - you need a critical mass of people sharing in countercultural behavior/practices in some way to get an actual counterculture. Many people have eschewed social media for one reason or another but not in some unified way that I know of.
What you're saying is and isn't true. One example of a countercultural movement that's been in the news recently is the DDoSecrets leaks/hacks (they get upset if you aren't clear that they're hackers). They've got a strong Twitter presence that helps them get their message out, but they conduct no "real" business on Twitter.

So a counterculture can use the mainstream platforms, but they choose to do so only as a microphone, not as a gathering place.

Edit: That said, one of the members of a related group just (as in, after I wrote this but before editing was made unavailable) got banned from Twitter, so maybe they can't actually use the platform as a microphone for very long. It looks like the law is getting involved, specifically related to the Verkada hack.
I'd encourage anyone with advice for the farm industry to work 1 week on a farm if they haven't before. Many probably were born and raised on it but if you weren't, it'd be worth it.
Everybody would know what they did. They could just as well toss it out right now. People are not stupid.
Doesn't help that this occurred in the same week as a patent pending MS Patch Tuesday that borked a lot of corporate machines. I'm still cleaning up messes from the changes they pushed out that break Kyocera drivers.
To me it sounds so weird, that it is quite difficult to believe that it is not money laundering. Sounds exactly like someone somehow gained access to some old, retired persons old business account and decided to cash it out via crypto.
That's why the first line of remedy is to help the company achieve compliance. Good faith on the part of the company goes a long way too.

The law is not like code. Thank god.
Boise Became a Sanctuary for Refugees and Their Cuisine
While I don't have any reason not to take this explanation at face value, I am curious about the timing. Did they just have too many potential customers to justify subsidizing the cost?

That, or from a different perspective, as commercial launch capabilities increase, they don't want to kill competition by subsidizing a service that other companies want to be able to offer (at a non-subsidized cost).
It's like the rule: "Don't debate Nazis, just punch them!"

Sounds reasonable, but the real fun begins when you add: "Everyone who disagrees with us is a Nazi."
>but the rising popularity of sites like Parler and Gab seems undeniable

It does? Any evidence to support this?
There's http://www.vimgolf.com/ where people compete to do a task in the least keystrokes possible.
elitist nonsense.

They ought to be annoying. so sites that do not track you for advertising can just add your cookie when you actively sign in, without the annoying popup on first visit, and receive more traffic because they are less-annoying.
Why Channel 37 Doesn’t Exist
Ah yes, the playground bully martyr defense: "Anyone who disagrees with me is just proving my point."
Rifle bullet speed is a relatively small delta for orbiting craft, it goes up quite a few orders of magnitude from that. Pretty much anything you encounter that you didn't specifically try very hard to match orbits with is going to blast right through a net.

There were studies on using the Shuttle to repair satellites, but aside from the maintenance mission on Hubble those plans were shelved. The cost of a new satellite was generally a lot less than the cost of a shuttle mission dedicated to repairing it, and it would often need to be dedicated due to the requirement to match orbits.

Even if the ISS released a smallsat, which it does from time to time, that doesn't help you. By the time you need to do maintenance on it, the cubesat will have dropped into a much lower orbit due to upper atmosphere effects.

The safest, and practically perhaps the only viable way for the ISS to do maintenance on orbital instruments is if they stay attached to the ISS.
In what important ways is the GDPR flawed?
In the event that I do need to use something that is Wayland-only, I'd like to have the ability to run it without breaking everything else.
I don't really consider that censorship. We made it illegal to exploit minors that are unable to make decisions for themselves (both legally and maturely).

Then, at the arbitrary age of 18, we (the US, other countries differ) decided they can participate in, create, and distribute as much self-pornographic material as they want.

The entire LEO world dedicated to combating child pornography revolves around the exploitation of children and how wrong that is.

That's not quite the same as banning ideas, books, etc, simply because some find the words objectionable.
These notes (on a different yet somewhat related subject) seem a little more friendly in the way they explain the basics:

https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~kmcrane/Projects/DDG/
FossaPup a perfection companion for Windows 10
This is a discussion about the CFTC's use of public resources towards a completely offchain use case
I thought Roblox was a Minecraft-like with building aspects to it?
Reading this felt like listening to an obese, wealthy American speaking jealously of a poor Ethiopian's thin physique.
The Mozilla one was being used to deploy malware, so you should watch out for that in advance. Frankly, I don't know how though, and I think Mozilla couldn't figure it out either -that's why it was shut down instead of fixed
Move over Shar, Tar and Stamp – It's RSEA: Ruby Self-Extracting Archives
See recent discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26430266
Just briefly skimming over your post, a quick correction to the Continuity section:

> Definition (Homomorphism) There is a homomorphism (i.e. an equivalence relation) between two topological spaces if there exists a function f:X→Y, where X and Y are topological spaces (X,τX) and (Y,τY) with the following properties

This should be "homeomorphism", not "homomorphism". A homomorphism is a structure-preserving map, like a continuous function (in the context of topological spaces) or a linear map (in the context of vector spaces). Homomorphisms are very much one-directional. Homeomorphisms, on the other hand, are specifically equivalences between topological spaces, and are defined as continuous functions with continuous inverses.

Edit: finished reading it. I'm impressed by how much you cover in such a short space. Overall it looks good, so thanks for taking the time to write it. Some of these ideas are at a pretty high level of abstractness, so I sympathize with anyone who struggles to get any kind of intuition for them at a first go.
Your response fits the same pattern: allude to the existence of storage solutions, but neglect to actually specify what those solutions are.

> There's a few papers on managing the mix of this but theyre not widely read or reported on.

Again, great of you to cite these papers.

> For a long time the carbon lobby pretended that lithium ion batteries were the only thing that could be used to manage renewable intermittency. This was precisely because they wanted to charactize it being technology that was impossibly far fetched. In reality it's the most expensive of many options and the best last resort but as a result most people think it's just "the solution".

Okay then: if not lithium ion batteries, what is the storage solution? Pumped hydro is geographically limited. That leaves approaches still in testing, like thermal storage or hydrogen storage.

> However, if you're Germany and you've got a calm and overcast day the most cost effective approach is to tell heavy non time sensitive industrial users like aluminum smelters to ramp down production today and ramp it up extra high tomorrow when it's very sunny and windy. The cost of doing this is comparatively very low for many users like smelters and we've barely scratched the surface of what's possible in this space.

So we have to tell people not to use energy. Because we have no effective way of addressing intermittency.

You're assuming that industries can just "ramp up extra high" when there's excess energy. Not all industries work like that. If a factory uses 100 MW at peak capacity it can't just produce 3x as much product if you feed it 300 MW. The reality is that few industries can be flexible like this.

What about things like street lights? Or sewage and water distribution? Hospitals, data centers, and essential services? There's plenty of things that cannot shift load like this.
I have to swallow the fact that any reply means downvotes in this Silicon Valley community, but:

1. Because you're not actually removing right-wing extremism (which would be nice), you're pushing people into the corner. You can't legally or morally prevent people from having extremist views among themselves, having conversations, and in an Internet age you're going to play wack-a-mole if you try to chase after things, monitor and shut things down. Not to mention the overreach inherent in a real crackdown. By punishing them publicly, you feed into conspiracy theories, you feed into the idea that they are victimized, you feed into the idea of bias, and in the end you make people, more, not less radicalized.

edit: two more (I think) good arguments. One, the U.S. has less extremism than Germany or France, with regards to right-wing extremism, and yet those countries have hate speech laws and ban books and fine people with extremist views. Yet, the FN in France and the AFD in Germany have power locally and possibly nationally. Two, people will use innuendo and implication and code. Thus, you have to ban the code and innuendo. Is that the path you want to go down, banning and evaluating interpretations of speech that is constantly changing as one thing gets banned and a new one sprouts?

This is not new, and we already know this, and we know this from over a century of extremist views. It's not in 2015 that magically extremism started to exist.

The correct way to combat right-wing extremism is to let people be lunatics, make it obvious that they are lunatics, reply to the lunatics with logic and reason, and don't infantalize viewers are being influenced by bad views.

The "megaphone" theory being espoused by mainstream pro-censorship tech people is a cover for the underlying assumption: I know what's good for you, and I feel if I hide content from you, then I can prevent you from being influenced, in short, I, tech censor, protect you from yourself.

I cannot get behind that, and I hope the question that should be on everyone's mind is, who decides what's extremism.

2. Absolutely. Where do you want to start. I could go to Twitter and spend a few minutes to find some, but that would be awkward and appear like cherry picking. There were and still are many posts asking for abolishing of government, of authorities, of institutions. That's been extremist since the 19th century. With regards to racist speech, I offer to you Sarah Jeong (editor from the NYT) tweets which were deleted and apologized (ish) for, but had the editorial board stand behind her and no warnings from Twitter itself.
> of several hundred thousands

That’s extremely inaccurate.
The TV app doesn’t require a subscription to any particular service.
The bog standard opinions of CPAC, a recent President, nearly every straight-laced conservative, and the majority of Republicans aren't counterculture, they're just grievance culture. There are some grievances they like to complain about, but it is still part of mainstream, popular culture to do so, and plenty of people have ridden to fame and fortune repeating those grievances to mainstream audiences.
There is no policy that is better for the environment than stopping deficit spending and balancing budgets - its just not branded as an environmental policy.
This isn't about KYC and AML laws, this is about unregistered futures and swaps being merely accessible by US residents.
> Fun fact:...

Fun is weird where you are. What are your amusement parks like?
In an age of corporate sponsored wildly increasing visibility & reach, it's a counter-cultural act to forgo visibilty & reach for other goals.
I've worked at at least one place where if I stated "male and female are real concepts" I would have raised eyebrows at min and received some official reprimand at max
I've similarly ghosted social networks and other "platforms" some years back. A culture is usually formed around shared experience. In the case of social media escapists there are two sets of shared experiences:

The escapists themselves are simply living their lives as usual. This sort of baseline human experience is a rare thing these days, but it doesn't get much exposure because escapists aren't likely to go out of their way to broadcast their experiences - that would be antithetical to the idea of disconnecting from social media.

Other people are wondering where the escapists have gone. Did they die? Move to Mars? Get convicted of a major crime and sentenced to a long stint in state prison? This too takes places quietly: it's not as if anyone's mounting a nationwide search to locate the escapists.

These experiences to me form a kind of bifurcated culture.
They have to be 'roughly' in the same orbit as the ISS. You can go up or down. You would't really do any inclination changes (if you, say, wanted an equatorial orbit) as there's no way a microsat would have enough fuel. Better to launch in the correct inclination.

> Can we go the other way and use the ISS as like an orbital garage to capture and fix satellites?

Moving the whole station doesn't really make sense. Even a vehicle would burn a lot of fuel, and would only really work, once again, in the same (or close to the same) inclination.

Inclination changes are so expensive that there was at least one case where an operator sent a satellite all the way to the Moon and back, because it cost less fuel that way.
A Mac-only widget sounds like a profitable enterprise. Mac users still buy their software, like the old days.
There's a reason why deploying on a Friday is not really a good idea.
Old farts still had irl friends. The amount of teens who have no tangible friendships outside of Discord is sobering.
It has 0 issues that you know of. Yet, the kernel it just the same...
A note to mods, I have edited the submitted title, omitting the "(And What It Has to Do With Aliens)". IMO, the article explains the title well enough, and the subtitle strikes me an extra bit of sensationalism that adds nothing to the article. I am willing to edit the full title back in if that would be preferred.
Exactly. I see a beaming and anxious engineer standing at the railing of a wharf, watching a cargo ship slowly and unstoppably glide away to a distant port. As the engineer's scarf flutters in the wind she looks down at her trembling hands, hands detached from their creation, hands with energy and nothing to do, hands that slowly acknowledge the building phase is over. Now it's time to evaluate.
Martial arts is not politics, and the western mindset is to respond with equal or greater force. In fact the military doctrine is to respond with disproportional force. Yielding may be the smarter thing to do, but that's would be seen as weak in most of the world (including, I suspect, China).
Is there any reason your example would ever happen? That seems a little far fetched of a security concern to me.
I think more correctly, they're re-defined from scratch on every iteration. The previous const is no longer relevant on the next iteration
Just to add another tale from the past:

Sometime in the late 90s I ordered a Red Hat CD from cheapbytes.com (CD burners weren't common yet). I didn't have a credit card yet, but I did have a checking account, so I paid for the order by mailing in a check.
> Imagine if windows (or MacOS) had a control panel where you could paste "Update subscription URLs", and uses crypto to verify licenses (optionally), and implemented binary diffs and what not, and provided a standard operating system component for navigating, purchasing, and installing/updating software?

I imagine that being completely unusable for a lot of people, and a total disaster of social engineering and malware exploitation.
I have a lot of retro telecom equipment (mostly WAN line analyzers tbf) and I guess you could call a lot of it cheap, but a lot of it is curiously expensive too.
I don’t think MicroFocus is really organized around integration..it’s more of a PE/holding company like Vista (?imo). The problem remains that they bought the entirety of HP’s software portfolio and transformed it to a declining legacy market valuation. I would not be surprised if a Vertica IPO would raise more than MicroFocus market capitalization (~$2B) and debt ($4B) combined...sort of like SUSE in this case. AWS deal should help, but in reality the mix of holdings doesn’t make sense to me and several of their properties would make more sense standing alone.
It's just one way of representing the uncertainty of the encoding. I think it's sensible to say 'the code covers this area' vs 'the code is for this point and you can't represent nearby points'.
What happened to cash is the king?
> lowering environmental standards

This is much talked about but so far I've only been seeing the opposite. Since brexit, the UK has so far banned fish trawling in the North sea, banned live export of animals, banned the import of fois gras, and created a much more environmentally friendly alternative to the EU's (absolutely atrocious) common agricultural policy.

> lowering regulatory standards

I'd argue that not all regulation is good regulation, e.g. the GDPR

> Lowering taxes

This is could feasibly happen and you could say it already is by looking at the way the tories have further rigged the housing market and stamp duty post-covid. But I fail to see what that has to do with the EU really. I don't know a lot on this subject though.

> undoing workers' rights legislation

I can see this one happening sadly. Am I not right in saying though that a lot of workers rights come from the judiciary, not the government? Example: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-56123668
My day's schedule just got put on pause.
> And yet, it seems majority of HN wants to rewind from the App Store

It’s definitely not the majority of HN.

You’ll notice sentiment varies a lot from thread to thread.
Do they move Halley's Comet? Its period is short enough that a decade makes a real noticeable difference in its distance from the sun, and its total period is shorter than some science museums have been open.
Yes - but here, you can also save hosts credentials (ip, port, user, password/key...) on a remote server. This data is E2E encrypted, and the key to decrypt it is a hash of your master password (the hash is stored in the credential vault of your OS, but never your clear password - and the remote server only stores the encrypted hosts data).

This allows you to connect to your account on the app from any computer and be able to connect to your saved SSH hosts.

This also means that only your master password can unlock the encrypted data, so if you lose it: no way to recover the data.

Note:
You will be able to self-host the server if needed.
Very cool. There’s some of that curiously expensive stuff in here too. My oscilloscope and plug-ins cost about $70k new. I paid $200 for it :). It’s amazing that stuff I couldn’t afford I can now
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I was wondering why a post from 2019 is appearing now. So I checked out the submitters history. This dude seems to have a hard on for Google's failures.

Said person has submitted "How Google will Collapse" no less than 5 times.
WSB is a shade of its former self now due to the onslaught of new members
That sounds like a massive incentive to hire very locally!
It's an open game similar in some ways to Minecraft, but the amount of pre-canned games means it's more likely for a kid to lazily consume rather than work towards creating. (In a way that's slightly worse than Minecraft, IMO.)
You need to quantify what that means for energy usage, as that is the main point of contention. Fossil fuels are the primary contributor to global warming as they're used now, but no one should have any problem with, say, a portable gas generator used during an occasional blackout.

You explained how this applies to ETH 2.0, how about Cardano and Polkadot?
I hear Waterloo is where all the vampires hang out.
Are you kidding?
CHAZ/CHOP in Seattle.
Portland occupation.
The various summer 2020 riots.
Numerous conservative speakers over the years being blocked from speaking on college campuses...
Really?
Isn’t it already trendy to bash big tech and diss tech platforms?