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> To me, Starlink is for SpaceX what self-driving taxis are for Tesla.

The difference is that self-driving taxis is very clearly in the far future, with major technical and regulatory hurdles, whereas Starlink, while still in the beta, now has tens of thousands of paying customers in a dozen countries, and more are added constantly. Given that the user terminals work, the satellites work, and they seem to be executing well in scaling the system, it's very hard to see a future where it won't be wildly profitable.
I appreciate the feedback.

So far, it hasn't been an issue, but I don't do podcasts; just the occasional class. Most of the folks that I know, who do podcasts, use wired mics with filters.
In a life in Australia I got shot at once by a guy who thought I was a kangaroo and apologised, in five years in the us, I had guns drawn on me 5 times twice by police on one occasion at least five guns, twice by strangers unprovoked threatening to kill me, and once more or less abducted. I love California, I really really love it, but gun violence and the threat of it is not a media beat up. The difference in the feeling of threat in us v Australia is quite different, on average, there are places in Australia that are not safe, and in the end I believe the causes are the same, there are places in both countries where the inequality is brutal, and where the sanctioned violence that maintains economic disparity is on clear display
Or push a firmware update that removes that check.
Twilios base prices are way higher than their competitors so I don't know why you would use them in the first place
Technological Luxury Is Powered by Oppression
The agencies have separate privacy regulation concerning their data handling, however. It is more stringent except for consent.
Mystery tree beast turns out to be croissant
As an embedded hardware engineer working on yearly quantities in the low thousands who doesn't have to focus on unit cost quite as much as Sony, maybe a bit naive in this area? I've been using supercapacitors instead of batteries for my RTCs. Mainly to avoid service calls for dead batteries in hard-to-service products. I haven't done the math, but my engineering sense tells me that the added cost of the supercapacitor is more than evened out by the cost of batteries over the life of the product + service calls. Not quite applicable to consumer electronics, I suppose.

This smacks of poor coordination/planning rather than planned obsolescence, though for some "suits" the side effect is a beneficial one?
You’re always gonna connect XLR over USB anyway, so not really. It’s just that XLR gives you a lot more flexibility to change microphones, use your interface to control gain or add padding, or if you’re a musician record instruments. But a USB AT2020 or similar is gonna be excellent for calls no matter what.
Is Apple Computers competing with Peleton bikes or their treadmills?

Everyone is trying to be megacorp these days.
I am guessing you mean the popularity of Apple Watch as a developer platform, which is totally correct. In fact, it might be the first platform where developers said “sorry Apple, we aren’t interested in making you more money.”
FTR here's my deal breaker with Firefox:

Just tried using it and was pleasantly surprised that it mostly worked fine with DWM (an X11 window manager), and it could play sound from my built-in sound card fine, even though I don't have pulseaudio.

However, once I switched to the external sound card, Firefox wasn't able to produce any sound (tried Youtube and some local videos); so I'll be staying with Chromium, unless some patched version of Chromium (with privacy improvements) makes its way to the Archlinux repos.
It became less trendy in the news but the user base is consistently growing (source - https://9to5mac.com/2021/02/11/there-are-more-than-100-milli... ).
Yeah, it's possible to write a disciplined form of C++ that abides by those rules, but I think it's important that the idiomatic form of error handling in Rust is returning Result types instead of unwinding, the standard library doesn't have coercions that allocate, etc. If you write some Rust code following a Rust tutorial, it would probably be kernel-suitable. That's also largelytrue of C but not of C++.

(And Linus noticed one of the big parts where Rust doesn't live up to this - the idiomatic thing for memory allocation failure is to unwind - and that's a solvable problem.)
This reminds me a little bit of the filesystem from BeOS (RIP) and Haiku. You cant attach any metadata to any file you want, and it has a system to create queries on that metadata.
> genetically, we were just as capable (if not moreso) before modern times

They're claiming that, but on what evidence? Comparative measurement is very difficult, but at least with skeletons you can measure height. Which has increased.
Insert standard Cory Doctorow style rant about how if Peleton had Open APIs on its devices and its services, anyone could add Apple Watch support without their permission.

From the article:

> But even if it is planning a release later this year, taking away some of the Apple support now could be a strategic tactic to help early adoption.

Is this the type of competition that's good for consumers? Is this a good market outcome that we like to see happening? Or would it be better if Peleton was forced to compete by adding new features to their own smartwatch rather than taking features away from every other platform/device?
Yes, sort of...
Apple Fitness is fitness videos, using the Apple Watch to track HR and other stats, with Apple's Health app used to view info later.

Peloton does the same, but also has bike hardware as the foundation of their experience.

If Peloton releases a fitness watch, then in addition to competing on fitness videos, they begin competing on the watch. At that point, Peloton's only unique offering (WRT Apple) is the bike.
Fare uno squillo in Italian
>Welcome to the non-fungible, memeified, cryptodenominated, degenerate future of finance.

I think a lot of that is the now of finance rather than the future. We'll look back on meme stonks like we do on the pets.coms and webvans.
Mostly because of the need to keep BT a low-energy medium.

Bluetooth was designed for embedded devices that need to conserve power.

That said, I know that there's active work going on, to improve this exact thing.

Might be a while before we see video over BT, though.
Substitute Google with the Chinese Communist Party and most Chinese people right now have the same attitude as your friends.

How would those friends feel about Chinese people being able to gain their information independence from CCP? If they would be in favour, then at least metaphorically they answered their own question.
Right, based on this acquisition
https://atlaswearables.com/

The article indicated that people were buying Apple watches specifically for use with Peloton, so there does seem to be at least some market there. By disabling Apple Watch, those people won’t have an alternative option.
Yeah, in particular you need headphones whose 3.5mm cable is detachable. Thanks for flagging, I should have included a warning!

For other headphones you can use the various flavors of Antlion ModMic, but it’s more expensive and less convenient because you have two cables.
Did you even read what you were replying to?

The conclusion of what you're replying to: "You can fix up a $100 Huffy with any old welder. A $2000 steel frame with thin-wall double-butted tubes? You want a really skilled welder and close inspection to make sure it's not compromised."

Yes, it's possible, and yes, I know folks whom I'd trust to do it. The guy in my local auto shop? Definitely not. Random car shop in the developing world? I've seen the results. They'll drive, but they're far from save by Western standards.

What you wrote: "if you're willing to invest in the tooling" "The welding issues you are describing are simply not an issue for skilled welders"

I mean, seriously. You responded to a something entirely different from what I wrote, repeated roughly what I actually DID write, and mixed a few errors in (if car cabins weren't made to flex, they'd be using a very different type of steel; virtually everything made to be tough is made to flex).

Please find a place in my post where I "proclaiming [repairs] to be impossible"
This has to change, with the diminishing birth rates. Growth will stop then reverse. Housing maybe become an issue of dealing with empty buildings and abandoned neighborhoods.
or change rules for social housing to something like singapore. anyone who doesn't already own a house is illegible to buy a social housing unit (paid as rent). but it requires huge investments.
I also don't want to work my ass off just to end up paying the same % of my salary to the landlord.
The “woe is me, how do I know how to invest?” drivel in this article is solved by a sufficiently diversified portfolio. The article even admits that these shenanigans have no impact on the larger market — so invest there.

If you want to take on more risk, great — but with great risk comes lots of market manipulation. The wider public is now learning what every MBA is taught in investment theory classes: investing is a racket where the house always wins. Either you play long positions in a diversified portfolio or you enter the water with the sharks. If you’re not sitting on a billion dollars, you’re at an extreme disadvantage in the options market.

And the biggest risk in corporate America today is negative PR. The sharks you’re playing against have the connections to get insider trading info, the sophistication to hide it, and the influence to get away with it. Retail investors are at their mercy. I guarantee Elon Musk is making money moves off his tweets, he’s just sophisticated enough to hide it in a trust. And he’s not the only one; hedge funds have been known to actively seek out scandals to generate negative PR, then trade on that info.

The vibe on Reddit right now is “the system is broken and they’re cheating like crazy”. But that’s no revelation, this kind of crap has been completely normalized because the SEC can’t stop it (the people working there are largely the ones who couldn’t hack it on Wall Street). I fully expect that Wall Street will end up coming out on top in the end because the retail investors don’t quite understand the role of market makers and the level of coordination done with the investment side of things. Yeah, it’s flagrantly illegal, but if you get away with it (as they almost always do because the SEC can’t prove anything) you’re going to be rich.
That's a nonsense argument.
I took it seriously at first. Anecdotally, I see them being worn much less by my peers than 2-3 years ago. Cool/newness factor died, IMO. Then I looked at stats:

> Apple shipped 7.6 million smartwatches worldwide in the first quarter of 2020, according to recent data from Strategy Analytics, an increase of 23% compared to 6.2 million in the first quarter of 2019. As such, Apple now claims 55% of the smartwatch market, representing a slight increase from the 54% it controlled in the same period one year ago, according to the research firm. [0]

[0] https://www.businessinsider.com/apple-watch-sales-numbers-st...

Also: https://www.statista.com/chart/15035/worldwide-smartwatch-sh...
Show HN: Pay to Play Social Media
Literally every file operation HAS to go through the kernel. This is implementing "what does it mean to read/write this special device file"
Show HN: Sealhouette – use shapes, not words, to search for shoes
Wow, that's such a cool website!
You can't miss REDLINE (2009).
Oh man, only 5% grow? That's the death knell.
A software solution like Krisp is an easy solution that goes a very long way.
I did. Compiling is the a pain in the ** though. It takes almost 24 hours, and I can't even make use of ccache.
Until a court says otherwise I will continue to act as though it’s fair use. (Provided you’re not selling Hackintosh machines, which has gone to court but is clearly different from a personal setup.)
Colossus (Novel)
This is why I bought a Wahoo Kickr. Mostly open platform, I can use it with whatever apps I want (Zwift, TrainerRoad, etc). And at a fraction of the cost.
The kernel is not the problem with Windows. Arguably the NT kernel is better in design and cleaner in implementation than Linux.

The issue with Windows is 30+ years of legacy cruft and APIs that are all bundled in, mostly in user-space. Needed for backward compatibility which how Microsoft won and keeps the “enterprise” market.
Under which law is the privacy of a private letter enforced?
> Note that this function may not catch all panics in Rust. A panic in Rust is not always implemented via unwinding, but can be implemented by aborting the process as well. This function only catches unwinding panics, not those that abort the process.

The most notable way this can go wrong in pure Rust code is that panic-while-panicking aborts. So you have to be careful that your destructor can never panic.
Exactly. Home page belongs to the marketing team, not to engineering, and those wizards of target audiences quite often find counter-intuitive ways to reach their goals. If message „we are like X, but better“ gets visits and reaches the expected conversion rates, then who we are to challenge that work?
My answer to these questions and other unknowns about the fed, fiscal policy, America and its role in the world, the economy etc. is that the future will be a lot like the present, but more so. So extent the current trends into the future. Sure, things sometimes change, even dramatically such as the fall of the USSR or 911, but we are living in a steady-state world in which the underling trends do not change. Inflation will remain low in spite of printing, America remain on top economically and militaristically. Stock market keep going up. US dollar remain strong.
The movie is a classic that still holds up today! https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064177/
This is a great start. I’m going to try it.
It’s sad when most people discuss things based on a one line title of something they haven’t read. Many questions here were answered in that article. I recently asked someone on a different site “didn’t you read the article?”. The obvious answer I alluded to was “No, I don’t have time.” Yet they managed to post about 15 different comments asking more questions about the article (title). I really wish there was a way to have a public forum with proper discourse with the caveat that people must read the material before they comment on it.
While I agree with you, I think the parent's advice of "autoscale your consumers" is also a good advice, if interpreted in certain sense: that is, when you see that your queues start approaching the uncomfortable sizes, start dropping your clients. When they try to reconnect, they will probably get routed to a different, less busy node.
Reasons to Be Optimistic About the Future of Work
They'll keep the name, but is it still the Perle? It's a modern "ship of Theseus" situation

It's the Perle if the crew believe it to be the Perle. That's how ships - or regiments, or squadrons - become "living things" almost.
With fitness trackers people ultimately care about how well the tracking data syncs with third party systems. Given that the Apple Watch is a fashion/status symbol that also happens to have a highly accurate fitness tracker in it as well I suspect people will be more willing to drop their Peloton than drop their Apple Watch so I hope Peloton knows what they are doing.
The ‘Engineered’ Recovery Will Crash This Part of the Stock Market
Sure, because Pullman strike, Pinkerton's and strike busting were never a thing. Corporate owned stores with gouged prices, and so on. Oh, and whole towns being sold out in bankruptcies, people forced to move. (Latest example being slow dismantling of Scotia.) All sorts of paternalistic policies.

Nowadays the corporations do not have this kind of control because they don't want real estate on this level. The towns were extremely vulnerable to downturn in business, and still are. (Even whole industry sector cities have problems, such as Detroit.)

Capitalism itself is based on profit, which is not shared to workers. By definition exploitative, unlike taxes, which are supposed to be redistributed back to populace as services almost in whole, if the government works correctly.
(Excluding public sector salaries. Monarchies and dictatorships excluded to a point.)
Do you have a link or keywords to search for?
I feel your parent post was probably looking for software that successfully uses datalog to fetch/query its data, not one that provides data through datalog. User, not provider.
Great quote. Civilization is a spell that we're under. All true political power is built on belief strong enough to enable coordinated action. This flies in the face of the modern conception of politics which views everything as the result of coercion or the state's monopoly on violence.
Thanks, it made the rest of this whole comment section a rant.
>https://www.roastmylandingpage.com/

150 pounds for a 20 minute roast seems a tiny bit much
If its a cardioid pattern mic (it probably is), they are less sensitive from the back -- so if you can have the back of the mic point at the keyboard, that would help.

If you don't mind that I self post to a youtube video, but this segment shows how the pattern and placement of the mic can reduce pc fan and keyboard noise.

https://youtu.be/7WyNIQlOFIA?t=858
An agency that operates in secrecy with little to no oversight now takes the privilege of modifying personal computers? I'm sure this will end well...
All websites seem to have a cookie/GDPR banner, might as well add a Firefox link to those.

(I suspect if you added that to whatever default plugin people recommend for Wordpress you could have a noticeable effect.)
Not the GP, but I've been using a Razor Kiyo because it was about the only good quality camera available for a reasonable price back at the start of last year. The microphone on it is predictably terrible, but video quality is fantastic, and it has a ring of LEDs around which are suprisingly effective at dealing with the usual unhealthy glow given by sitting in front of a monitor.
You literally will get banned if you changed the words "Google Chrome" with "Apple".

Not sure if Apple Astroturfs or if god mods, but it's incredible to see the difference. Has google been caught using slaves?
That comic is missing a trick. The evil data-mining bot uses a completely unpersonalised method of torture?
I like it =)
> "Looking around the codebase and see if you have any questions" ... getting up to speed...

I like to do this (explore the codebase) with any new code. My approach is to pick a piece I'm interested in (eg, auth, orm, some api integration), and either:
a) see if I can just develop that bit from scratch using the codebase as example - that really helps with my understanding of the required components that get that bit working, or
b) delete non-relelvant bits of the codebase until just that bit's left and it's not broken. Then you can tweak, extend, explore, experiment, and slowly add other bits back in.

Point b) works well with tearing apart smaller github projects to see how the bit I'm interested in work, less so with a large codebase.

But tbh, yes, it's pretty much sink or swim. I expect to be put on projects with little backgroud knowledge and expected to get myself up to speed and be productive. Anything else is a bonus.

Where structured training has really helped is in the softer skills, like project management, problem analysis etc. This makes it easier to communicate common concepts, thoughts etc to people who aren't just devs (eg, being able to put a timeline on a problem, identify a change point, and perform root cause analysis that leads you to fixing a fundamental bug). These are skills that you _could_ absorb through good company practice, but better to spend a day learning and be on the same page.
It's hard NOT to have the metrics of a "boom" when the Fed just buys up any bad asset on the market and puts it in a black bag.
Enabling Debuginfod for Fedora by Default
file sizes intensify
Some virtual camera software comes with audio noise reduction. I use SplitCam on Windows. It doesn't eliminate keyboard noise entirely, but it does help. And it has the advantage of working on Teams, Zoom, etc, so that I have one place to set it.
I run a system that syncs with all the fitness trackers. Apple watch devices present in our system just keep growing.
I have one for work, albeit running Windows. My gripes are:

* Nonsensical keyboard layout that I personally can't get used to. Perhaps this is a unique issue with the Belgian azerty layout.

* Trackpad is way too big for my tastes

* Touch screen adds little value and I hate the fact it's glossy. It also attracts dust like crazy.

* Fans are ridiculously loud even when just running an IDE. I can just about tell the IDE is loaded when it sounds like actual lift-off

* Battery life sucks compared to my ThinkPad

* Dell has some very unique issues with DPI scaling. Perhaps this is a Windows-only thing

To summarise: I would say it's overpriced garbage. Perhaps that assessment changes if you like the aesthetics.
The page you link to says that this doesn’t apply to mobile providers in general.
Does Rust support every architecture that the kernel supports? Seriously asking, not rhetorical.

I get that new Rust code will be limited to modules, but here's my concern:

I do work for embedded systems based on the PPC architecture. I'm not sure if Rust supports PPC, but let's just assume we're talking about an architecture that's not supported.

Suppose some company creates a PCIe Ethernet adapter and writes their driver in Rust. If Rust doesn't support PPC, then I won't be able to use that hardware even though there's no physical or technical reason why it wouldn't work. If it was written in C like everything else, then there's a good chance it would just work (assuming they didn't make any endianness assumptions).

In fact, I'd bet that the majority of the drivers written for the kernel are really written for X86 and ARM, but just so happen to work for PPC as well for free. I'd be concerned about getting left in the dust, so to speak.
This was my question too.

I’ve never done it myself, but I’ve heard anecdotally that the Mac OS 9 ntp servers are still running...
check out what interests the HN crowd

placed first: "$X makes you sound smarter"

closes tab
That's a cool story.

I have no way to say whether or not I believe it all. I generally find my opinions on things like this mean basically nothing, so I'm best off keeping my mouth shut, and enjoying the show.

I have always gotten along well with animals; even bad-tempered ones. They can definitely pick up "vibes."
Cities change, often for the worse. Replacing the people that made a city’s culture notable because they can’t afford it is not good for anyone.

Lower Manhattan is a shining example of this. That area is built on the memory of artists who can no longer afford to live there. It’s a weird sort of fossilization and museumification.
> Everyone is trying to be megacorp these days.

Been playing Rome: Total War for the past few days. It going me thinking that empire just can’t stop expanding. You conquer one province, thinking that barbarian neighbor won’t be a problem ever again. But then you realize your empire now borders some other barbarians who start harassing you. And then you need more troops to keep the new citizens from rioting. Which requires money, which means the drums of war are at it again...