skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wondered this too, but came to the realization that it will be like any other ISP, and comply with any/all local laws it has to comply with to get the revenue that it is ultimately a company's job to get.

Most companies don't engage in activism/disobedience at the expense of revenue. Apple censors the App Store and backdoors iCloud for the CCP (via state-operated servers) to operate in mainland China, for example.

The ground stations will have to be fairly close to the customers for a while, and the customer antennas aren't particularly covert.

It will probably have all manner of government-mandated filtering like any other established commercial ISP. After all, it's nothing without its ground stations right now.

EDIT: It was HN that changed my view on this, in some of the comments in the HN thread on my Starlink blog post. I started out hopeful and idealistic about Starlink being an anti-censorship technology.
> BART was closing at 9pm!

Yeah. There’s this COVID thing going around. Have you heard about it?
I am sure it is going to be prohibited to use it over there. I feel like I already read somewhere that government in Russia is concern about it.
Certainly, there is spare capacity of empty ride-sharing cars; it's not just-in-time inventory where they drop someone off and immediately pick someone up.

Also, in many jurisdictions, capacity for taxis is limited; that's what the medallions are for. Ride-sharing capacity is not limited.

I haven't seen data on whether taxis or ride-sharing have more spare capacity in terms of miles, but I have seen data that ride-sharing vehicles significantly increase traffic.
Microsoft Access and Claris FileMaker have nearly 3 decades of success at low-code.

I genuinely think they get a bad wrap because the really successful apps you never hear about, but the problematic ones need a real programmer to sort out.
Modern C++ is extremely powerful, more so than any other systems language, but not simple. I’m not even a fan of the language per se, but there aren’t any alternatives currently that are as powerful or expressive and I actually use that power pretty regularly. You can’t express modern C++ in other languages with similar code gen in remotely similar lines of code, which is its unique strength.

In my experience, if you use the full idiomatic toolbox of modern C++, code mostly works the first time. That was never the case when I was writing C, or even legacy C++ (which was terrible).
"Russia may fine citizens for using SpaceX's Starlink internet. Here's how the internet service poses a threat to authoritarian regimes."

https://www.businessinsider.com/russia-may-fine-citizens-spa...
Check the link -- there is an older bridge which ran the client with some monkey-patched JavaScript, but this is a new bridge that does use signald.
I don't want to write out a thought out response to such a joke of a post, so I'll just jot down some notes:

1. Aditya being affiliated with UMN should not damn him to being falsely accused of malice. Greg and others have repeatedly falsely accused Aditya of making malicious contributions, and your answer is "well he goes to UMN"?

2. Plagiarism is irrelevant, as is your entire reference to some unrelated event.

3. Aditya didn't engage in it, though 'savage' is a fine word for how Greg behaved.
I thought you just tied the zeppelin down. Couldn’t you reduce the amount of helium in them?
Plenty of people live with dirt floors too. Doesn't mean they like it.
Another book which talks about this:

Information.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Information:_A_History,_...
Grand Rapids to Orlando:

Driving: 18 hours, 1269 miles x $0.56/mile = $710 each way (IRS millage rates as proxy)

Train: 55 hour travel, $209 each way (no refund)

Flying: 2.5 hour flight, $68 each way on a budget flight. Double both time and price for non-budget.

I would love to take a train, its just not practical.
Another report - seems little users can do (by design of crytpo currencies and the exchanges people use)
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/turkish-crypto-exchange-go...
> It's impossible to sustain most big cities with just bikes for the last mile problem.

You've made an assumption that most cities have a period of un-rideable weather every year and that's just not the case.
For other sat phones and sat internet, if a country makes it illegal, the sat carriers don't provide service when you're in that country.
Right, and they called it "ride sharing" to try to deflect attention from that fact, as if people were really just picking up strangers along the way on drives they were making anyway.
Fluffychat is another good matrix client that may help widespread adoption ...
Ah yes. That horribly failed project back in the day. Quoted 8 weeks to generate a requirements document and particular experimental prototypes for certain narrow areas to explore those requirements. Allowed two weeks for requirements gathering. The rest was then expected to be cycles of requirements and prototyping. This was all readily spelt out in the contract.

I made the mistake of using UML. They argued about lines and shapes of the sequence diagrams for around 3 days. Then it was fonts. Then it was colors. They wanted images. They wanted all sorts of nonsense in the diagrams. But the actual content? Apparently not so important.

Three weeks passed without a single line of code and the requirements gathering still wasn't complete or even approaching a first draft. I aborted it before this project had a chance to go into actual development which was the next stage and a separate contract. I learnt many valuable lessons. Including the wise counsel of having a contract with exit clauses. Thank you to the lawyer who wrote it up at relatively minor cost. The same lawyer who apparently was a waste of time according to colleagues at the time. Colleagues I later abandoned when they made other stupid decisions. Always get contracts verified by legal representation. Sounds obvious. But apparently not.

UML wasn't actually the issue. I just lacked the crayons and experience to stop what would later come to be termed "bike-shedding". Because the diagrams etc were "human readable" it was deemed that anyone could have an opinion. So they did. Repeatedly. Ad nauseum.

Later projects went better when I limited the size of requirements gathering and who could make changes. Experience built up and my BS detector got a lot better.

But I kind of didn't mind UML as such. I actually prefer waterfall. Real waterfall is cyclic and resembles agile. But no one ever does it that way. They think it locks things in at each stage and the deliverables are like unchangeable stone tablets from on high. Ugh. So painful when done that way.
There are already a handful of countries that restrict the import of things like sat phones, CB radios, etc.

The Starlink dish will just be on that same list of prohibited goods, and Customs will stop them coming into the country.

(I was warned NOT to take a sat phone on my trek all the way around Africa - governments of countries like Rep. Congo, Sudan, Nigeria and a few others don't like civilians (especially foreigners) having that tech)
The dev-ops axis is orthogonal to the product-infra axis.
Mostly ignore. Majority of the recruiters are shady or are recruiting for jobs worse or only marginally better than my current job. Many of them have numerous grammatical and spelling errors and the job may not even match my resume or there’s a mismatch between the job in the subject line and that described job.

I don’t normally get phone calls from recruiters unless I’ve been actively applying recently. Some of those I ignore and the ones that don’t normally ghost me or don’t pan out. I even had one try to modify my resume while on the call.
The obvious solution is to the free-market one: Businesses who want to use a scarce (in the economic sense, i.e., 'limited') public good, road capacity, bid on it.

If I understand correctly, that's what taxi medallions are. Many respond with outrage about anything that limits ride-sharing, but they are taking my road space, which my tax dollars pay for.
Everyone has tons of resources / big GPU farms / etc in F1. It's one of many limitations to stop the cost to be competitive from going to infinity.

Typical contender teams spend $300m/year.
How much of the measured additional increase of congestion (from the flood of hail sharing services) can also be considered from, sheer weight of numbers, poor road infrastructure, wasteful navigation (bad driving)?
That’s fair. When I was writing Java code I wanted desperately to evaluate Kotlin, for the obvious reasons you’d expect, but there was not an easy Lombok-to-Kotlin migration path.

I probably would not choose Java with Lombok for a greenfield project today, were it up to me. But if I was forced to use Java, I would use Lombok. I was forced to use Java and I did use Lombok, and it didn’t really suck that bad.
Very much so. Even with the best of intentions, the opportunity is going to be there and just way too easy to exploit.

Getting on a spaceship where it's an 8 month return journey from Mars, with alignments for transfer happening every 2 years, is going to be taking a hell of a risk with whoever control's the destination's intentions.
"Twitteriffic" and "Tweetbot" exist as accepted third-party Twitter-related apps, despite the fact that Twitter owns the "Twitter" and "Tweet" trademarks.
The federal government is the issuer of our currency and is well-positioned to fund intercity rail in a way that states and cities just aren't. It's bad that, as you suggested, the senators from large and sparsely populated western states could shoot the idea down because it doesn't happen to work for their states, even though it could be a great solution for 200+ million people on the coasts (California included) in the South, and in the Great Lakes region. If the United States can't mobilize to build infrastructure because a minority of the country doesn't want to, that's an existential threat to the country.
Ah, that is a good point, of course.

What kind of ground station density does Starlink need in its eventual state?
I have a T420 that stopped powering on one day and it worked fine when I swapped the whole keyboard assembly for a new power button... maybe that old keyboard is actually still working
Also, it's a solution for a physically able demographic. Elderly people and many others need last-mile transportation too - and they are even more dependent on it the physically healthy.
For single-dev projects it's not uncommon to have a massive first commit.
What does that mean? Wouldn't scope only come into play with e.g.

a = "hello"
{
// new scope
a = 3
}
// a == "hello"

and is there a difference between Rust and Python?
A majority of cities always have rideable weather? Which ones?
I wish they’d release all data for currentMinusX years ago.

There could be so much fun playing with that data. Could make an accurate iRacing model, could compare teams historical downforce levels, could make tiny 3D models to paint
Most people I talk to much rather take public transport. Uber is way too expensive for everyday travel, and you have the same schedule variance as if you had driven a car in.

One of the great benefits of a train network is that you're not amongst the car traffic, so you don't suffer congestion.
I use a custom built app https://logctl.herokuapp.com/, me and my friend have built this. We use this to keep track of all our learnings at one place.
An interview prep guide for GCD in Swift
Is that the only obvious solution? Wouldn't better public transportation (which benefits from economies of scale unlike private automobiles) be equally if not more obvious? Especially since it has a much more proven track record.
I have, in several decades of operating and servicing computers and other electronic equipment, never heard of the term "flea power". According to that article it seems to have originated in a Dell service manual, which erroneously calls it "static electricity".
> they are taking my road space

And what's the alternative, assuming N people still need to make trips to a particular location? A traffic jam of people driving around in circles searching for half an hour for parking spaces to snatch?
>groceries

Ever heard of fish?

>boat repair

Ever heard of the fish people?
> Howard and Heidi case study

This is the crux of the argument, and it is something that needs stronger evidence from the author. The Howard and Heidi case study is not related at all to how someone will be perceived negotiating a salary. It is a very weak piece of evidence.

It also doesn't make any sense to me, and doesn't match up with my experience hiring or being part of the process. Women and bipoc have the same leverage in negotiations that white men have. If the employer wants to hire them, they will pay what they are willing to pay them. If someone wants to work for a company, they will take the amount they are willing to be paid.

> A salary range effectively puts a floor on how much you can underpay someone. Does that fix every problem? No, but it's certainly better than the current system.

Maybe salary ranges do help people that are being absolutely fleeced by their employers. Again, I do not buy that has anything to do with gender or race. This happens when people are simply not doing basic things like applying to multiple companies or negotiating at all, or staying at the same company for years without a raise. It is true that many, many people do this and end up being underpaid. There is no barrier for someone in an underprivileged group from learning that they need to negotiate and shop around.

As you said, a salary range might help a small amount for people who are being taken advantage of but they will still be underpaid. The only way to actually get what you are worth is to navigate the market. It is a very simple process.

> Why does this have to be a prerequisite for getting your full worth? Negotiation skill has nothing to do with the actual ability to do most jobs.

It doesn't have anything to do with how good you are at your job. But it does have something to do with how much you get paid for doing your job. The market sets the price of your labor, and you have to engage with the market as best you can. That is just the reality of working in a market.
What? How is that even enforced?
IIRC it was mostly to reduce overall expenditure on aerodynamics. Before FIA restricted resources, teams would use wind tunnels 24/7, up to 70 days per year. This was crazy expensive so the restrictions were implemented (and they happened to include CFD limits too).
OK, so now only foreign software companies are providing these services and you aren't even getting the tax revenues or employment. That doesn't seem like an improvement.
>A total of 180 undergraduate psychology students participated in the study

Ahh. I had initially assumed kids, given the penny per pump thing. Though I suppose undergrads might feel pretty anxious about risking pennies :)
Taxi medallions are bullshit because they have decided in advance that taxi’s only get to use X amount.

The actual free market solution would be per mile tolls that increase with congestion and charge regardless of vehicle type.

The last thing you want to do is charge ride sharers and not single commuters, which are much worse.
Well, for me it was what made love the classes. I guess the teacher has a big influence here.
Uber and Lyft business are terribly dishonest. Getting billions of dollars pumped into them so that they could use their non-profitable momentum to destroy other means of transportation is the modern equivalent of streetcar company takeovers of the 20th century.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Motors_streetcar_consp...
There are as many pixels on my iphone as there are on my TV. Wtf do you mean its a fixed size?
...you know you don't need an editor with support for Markdown, right? Markdown is a plain text format.
> strongmen with guns

You mean the democratic choice of local citizens?
Would you look at that, you really do say "ye gods" a lot.
Meh. Nostalgia is a very strong emotion (so strong that I will pay a price for making this comment), but it's ultimately empty. It doesn't point to any global value, it's all personal aesthetic value.

I feel sad that my children won't have the experience of going into Blockbuster on a Friday to pick out a movie. That doesn't mean there's anything actually special about that. My children will feel nostalgic about other things.
Things may have changed, but last time I read about this topic, Uber is doing a lot less to help the efficiency of the drivers than you’d think. Making real money requires the driver’s themselves to learn their local area’s hotspots and strategies. Which probably makes sense from their incentive perspective.
There are photos here:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Starlink/comments/m8maa9/wise_nc_st...

Across all the photos I've seen it looks pretty consistent, they build a fence and mount the antennas on small pads. It doesn't look like Starlink is building their own shelters (the ones in those photos are the carrier's). The carriers will readily offer rack space in their shelters for the right price but this does tend to suggest that the antennas are pretty self-contained and don't require a lot of external support equipment.
Common Data Annotation and Labeling Types in Autonomous Vehicle Industry
https://millionshort.com/ is still a fairly decent tool for scouring the non-SEO'd web.
Forgive my ignorance, but NFTs use the same algos as bitcoin, correct? And are the blockchains public, so that you may know who owns the NFT for the physical item? If that is all true, then trying to launder money via an NFT means that law enforcement can access the blockchain and see the whole chain of custody too, right?

I feel that I am missing something key though.
Some past related threads:

The Reason McDonalds Ice Cream Machines Are Always Broken - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26932344 - April 2021 (3 comments)

The Real Reason McDonalds Ice Cream Machines Are Always Broken - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26922378 - April 2021 (1 comment)

ArsTechnica has retracted the story about McDonald's Icecream - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26918415 - April 2021 (8 comments)

McDonalds' Secret Ice-cream Menu [censored?] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26894406 - April 2021 (2 comments)

They Hacked McDonald’s Ice Cream Machines–and Started a Cold War - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26874436 - April 2021 (3 comments)

I reverse engineered McDonalds’ internal API - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24861623 - Oct 2020 (420 comments)
> An economic engine like ride sharing

How is it an economic engine? Who benefits? The jobs don't apy well. AFAICT, the main economic beneficiary is the shareholders of the ride-sharing companies, but I genuinely wonder what the truth is.
I guess maybe bits will get flipped in the saved program code and operating systems also? Thus rendering the device inoperable since there's no way to perform a reformat/reinstall
Trolleybuses can have batteries too, the new Chinese buses in CDMX do.

https://www.sustainable-bus.com/news/yutong-begins-the-deliv...
It’s about communication. Occasionally one needs to communicate complex structures to an audience with unclear capabilities. The ability to fall back to something that one can reasonably hope is understood more or less the same way by both the writer and the reader is invaluable. If you are not dealing with complex structures or have other ways for communicating them or share another language with the reader (what do these boxes _mean_?), UML is not useful.
Totally agree, but it's even happening in America, too. My pet hypothesis is that the Internet has made it so pretty much the primary or only way some people are exposed to nudity is in highly sexualized (and unrealistic) scenarios.

For example, when I was a kid/youth, everyone just changed and showered in the locker room. Nudity wasn't "flaunted", but it was just a natural consequence of, well, changing clothes. As I got older, I noticed that most of the younger generation (I'm Gen X, so basically talking about Millennials) would do the "under the towel caterpillar shuffle" to change. This always struck me as completely bizarre: the caterpillar shuffle was something you did when you needed to change your bathing suit outside, in public, not in a men-only locker room. Honestly, it struck me as kind of sad.
These were posted by a user on Reddit

https://m.imgur.com/a/DkfdjbU

Basically a gravel lot fenced in with a bunch of radomes mounted to what look like prefab concrete pads.
I could see lots of reasons to do software encoding at a company like Facebook which are probably not mentioned in the article, including e.g. extracting the optical flow which can be reused as part of various machine learning workflows.

For example, if you want to only annotate 1 in 100 frames and interpolate with optical flow, you can get the flow in the process of doing video compression.

I don't have inside info but there are various other things like this that I can think of for wanting to do it in software.

Also, hardware encoders suck if the company making the hardware decides to suddenly EOL the product. With software encoders you can easily scale the backend whenever you want, at any time in the future, and without succumbing to supply chain issues.
Sorry, good point. I meant, given that ride-sharing exists, this is the solution.

No idea why you are getting downvoted!
I don't really find this surprising at all. Isn't this why Brexit happened? Britain was flooded with poor from all over Europe looking a piece of the wealth for which Britain is famous. It's not surprising then that there is great divide between the richest and poorest.

It seems like the article implies that now that poor immigrants have been allowed into Britain, the people who built the wealthy society are now obligated to hand over all the wealth created to the new comers who didn't have anything to do with the creation of said wealth.
The Wikipedia link does not back-up your claim in the slightest. On the contrary, it states:

> The traditional way of counting consists of continually increasing a (mental or spoken) counter by a unit for every element of the set
If you throw pejoratives at $country, that's going to lead to a nationalistic flamewar. It is not complicated.

No more flamewar comments of any kind, please. It's not what this site is for.
I don’t think it’s that they don’t want to admit it, it’s that the cost savings from something disruptive may make it worth it at scale. Or that somebody wants to risk their career on it haha and big tech has tons of cash to throw around.
> and has a camera for some reason.

There is a new Pokemon game coming out called "Pokemon Snap" where apparently the whole game consists of traveling through the game world and taking photos of Pokemon. Similarly there is a feature in the Pokemon Go game where you can take photos of your Pokemon in AR.

I just cannot even fathom who this would appeal to, but apparently there must be a demand for it. Are people sharing these photos on social media or something? That's the only thing I can think of that would make sense.
That seems unnecessarily harsh towards Pascal/Delphi. I’d stick with the COBOL metaphor.

I’d also add that while Java does suck in some fairly obvious ways, most languages suck and at least Java can actually run concurrent threads in parallel.
Building intuition for p-values and statistical significance
BART is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commuter_rail rather than a bus. In San Francisco it’s a subway line, in the suburbs it’s elevated and makes one or two stops per town.