skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The current satellite version (VisorSat) has a magnitude of about 6, which is generally considered to be the limit of what is visible with the naked eye in a light-pollution free area.

Once you start using any optics they will be visible.

https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/2101/2101.00374.pdf#:~:te....

https://earthsky.org/astronomy-essentials/what-is-stellar-ma...

I might sit down and do the math to see how 1500 satellites at mag 6 compares to 60 at mag 2.

> I think it's a bit early to dismiss the whole sky effect of multiple Starlink-style constellations in operation.

I wasn't trying to dismiss their effect, just address the people who say "you think those 60 are bad, imagine when there are 20,000", or "there go the Americans, ruining the night sky for the whole world".

I have no idea how oneweb or blue origin will handle this issue.

> Also isn't Starlink intending to do launches for the rest of time?

Their satellites are designed for a 5 year lifespan. Without constant boosts, they will deorbit and burn up fully in the atmosphere. This is great, because they will not become space junk, and they can't cause the dreaded kessler syndrome. The downside is that they will need to be constantly replenished. Hopefully this will be streamlined when they can launch 600 at a time, reducing the number of launches by a factor of 10.
I say this because investors sit on boards and work alongside these lawyers once they invest. They learn pretty quickly who is great and can often give very direct recommendations: a specific lawyer, not just a firm. At the startup stage you should choose the lawyer, not the firm.
i dropped you a line! :P
I know that these sats will affect many telescopic observations, but that's been happening a long time.

I understand that this interference will end up being several times more frequent. However, for many years, satellite streaks have been algorithmically removed from observations. It's possible that those algorithms will need to be upgraded.

That's a small price to pay in exchange for robust and high speed Internet becoming available to huge numbers of people all over the world.
Great job! Would be nice to see a docusaurus plugin for this.
I'd guess it is more efficient to have them boost themselves, so that they act as an additional rocket stage. (and so not need the delta V to elevate and then de-elevate starship's orbit.)
>If you're visiting sites which cause you to make requests to facebook servers you're leaking information to them, even if you've deleted your facebook account (and they can probably still track who you are).

This is an important point that raises the question of threat model.

For me, the threat is not "Facebook can track me," in the same way that my threat model doesn't include state-level actors. Because, let's be real, Facebook is as good as a state-level actor.

The threat is in showing me ads or content that modify my behavior. For this reason, I:

* Block facebook/insta at the DNS level
* Don't have a Facebook account
* Block all ads
* Block all comment sections, like buttons, etc

I know this isn't something everyone can do. I know that there are tons of people out there who find value in Facebook. I just hope they are taking steps to at least block ads and are aware of when the platform is manipulating their emotions through targeted content, and have the sense to walk away from it from time to time. Perhaps that's asking too much, but I'm not going to stop making noise about it, not going to stop telling people they need to watch what they post / look at, because I think the platform is really damaging to people's attention and mental health.

For your grandmother -- I doubt it's making her buy stuff (fixed income) and I doubt it's making her turn to rage-tweeting about politics, so it's probably OK. And you're probably OK, too, being someone in tech who knows how this shit impacts people. But everyone else? I just worry, y'know?
Diagrams of panoramas from various peaks around the world
This is a great use of digital elevation data to generate images of what's visible from various places. It appears to be a real labour of love from the author.
Now they need an official Jetbrains IDE and we'll know Rust has made it.
I'm sure they're great. No part of what I have to say about this has anything to do with how competent they are.
It's introducing a fuck ton of low orbit debris that is already interfering with astronomical research. Satellites that fail or break are stuck up there.
How'd that turn out?
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The company is a little bit litigious in a weird way, but I like the idea. Just needs more of an open brand instead of some over-domineering steward imho:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/that-litt...
https://littlefreelibrary.org/letter-from-the-executive-dire...
Mech e problems are more regulatory and data driven. Lack of testing data and consensus amongst experts are what good back innovation. Mechanical stuff kills people, even if it’s has software people blame the gun not the bad software
Your translation is not correct, it says "filming the victims of an accident". So presumably filming an accident from a distance (where the victim cannot be identified and you are not in the way of the rescue workers) is not illegal.
If your county dump is not accepting household hazardous waste, they're encouraging people to dump their garbage on the side of the road.
It's the same argument as for a carbon tax. It's imperfect, because the benefit only flows to the local government (when the commons is globally shared, as you point out), but it's the best practical solution since it broadly aligns incentives with that of the commons.

Your solution to simply deprive rural communities/poor countries of internet access is a non-starter. What you're ignoring is that the positive externalities of the tech vastly, vastly outweigh the negative (and supposedly fixable) externalities. Not to mention it's a take that's rather selfish since you're not the one that pays the price of banning this tech.
No reason to innovate insurance pays the same regardless
Sucks that people in your neighborhood still think surface transmission is a thing almost a year after we discovered it isn't.
From the link:

>[ZFS] was always more of a buzzword than anything else, I feel,

This is deeply ignorant. I feel that Linux has been handicapped by the fact that many developers have never done any serious enterprise administration and thus not having clear understanding of the needs of a set of their users.
Good advice. Thanks. But it's kind of scary, as i am more of introvert (quiet-kind) and business hustling requires being an extrovert which exhausts me.
The author artfully describes CRT as apocalyptic. What possible solutions are available through this lens that aren't anathema to liberal democracy? If all Whiteness is unethical then what is to be done about White people? Move them all to Alaska?
Variable names are not removed (well, shortened) for obfuscation purposes but to save space.
These things mostly live in white / rich neighborhoods where the residents are perfectly capable of purchasing these books on their own and there appears to be no concerted effort to bring books / literacy / etc through this program to low income / black and brown neighborhoods.
Think about it - when Starlink is fully operational there won't be a single place left on earth without several of their satellites always in view. The same definitely cannot be said about planes. Also countries retain full sovereignty to decide whether to allow planes flying above them - same cannot be said about satellites. Countries which cannot even use Starlink are having their night sky polluted by it.
You need to hire the highly skilled Mike Newbon to design your reports.
I asked the user about it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26776960

Dang didn't seem to mind. <shrug>

I get the impression that some prolific users repeatedly post content that the site isn't very interested in until it finally takes the bait so as to earn magic internet points ('This account is valuable to HN!') as a cover for posting divisive content. There are also groups of accounts who appear to accomplish this by sharing reposting duties.
I’m not trying to blame illegal immigrants for our pandemic. They didn’t cause it and I really doubt they made it appreciably worse. Like you said, we didn’t even have restrictions on anyone.

But in my hypothetical where we got to where NZ and AZ are right now (no covid in the community), and quarantine controlled entries, uncontrolled border crossings would 1000% bring in new cases. My point is you need to seal your borders nearly 100% to pull off what NZ and Az do.

And some of it’s a law of large numbers issue. If there is a 1/10,000 chance covid makes it through border quarantine, then if we have 50X as many crossings, we’ll need 50X as many mini-lockdowns. At some point it becomes impractical.

I don’t think it’s fair to say “lockdowns work” when you really mean “lockdowns work at the very start of an outbreak when paired with a strong contract tracing, quarantine, and border sealing.”

I think there is a point of no return at which you cannot lockdown/trace your way back to zero because the virus is everywhere is large numbers.

Total speculation, but I think the US would have had to implement the NZ plan + military on the borders + internal restrictions on travel to different metro areas in Feb. 2020 to have really successfully avoided Covid.
I've always loved science. I wish I could switch to biotech, but that would mean basically starting over.
Only a tiddler. SkyLab was around 70 tons when it fell from orbit in the 70s.
In general, it's better for sites to not take away from the user the choice of opening a link in a new tab or not. When I follow a link on my iPhone, when I use the Back button, the page is still scrolled to where it was before, which is my typical experience in mobile Safari.
Honestly it’d be nice for a comprehensive “make it gone” service. Like, the last thing I want to hear is “sorry, we don’t take that” when I’ve decided to part with something. I just want it to be reused if it’s perfectly good, or disposed of if not. If it’s hard to dispose of, charge me accordingly.

If you make it hard for people to get rid of things, they will find an easy way to do it (e.g. those rando tube TVs in the woods)
Golly. If that is a hill you will not budge from it may be a hill you die on.

All the cherry picking data in the world will not help you if you get sick.

I am really sorry that some abstract principal becomes a hill to die on.
As someone who grew up with a detuned piano I was kinda shocked how boring a tuned one sounded like. No/minimal beating phantom tones between similar notes. No detuned chorus between the different strings of one tone etc.

Our modern tonal systems make sense, but to me microtonal ones have more spice to them. Even stuff like Aphex Twin constantly uses "incorrect" tunings (analog gear is like that) and this makes up a signifikant part of the sound.

Or listen to stuff by Wendy Carlos. Just otherworldly
No compression..
It's basically already here (in the form of a plugin): https://www.jetbrains.com/rust/
I've been enjoying it quite a bit.
The climate doesn’t care about per capita though. If more than half of all coal plants are in China, then China needs to change if we have any hope of moving the needle. All the other countries can change but it won’t matter.
Because the largest industries are adtech and a million and one companies cranking out useless apps? technological innovation in the computing space is been stagnant for 10 years almost. what was once AI has just been co-opted by marketing types and redefined to mean machine learning, which is glorified brute force pattern recognition. we stifled innovation and I've been going on a trend of bloated uselessness for quite a while.
I believe Jetbrains have stated that there would need to be more value to create a whole new product.

Using the plugin with CLion feels very well integrated, and I’m not sure what else we’d get out of a seperate IDE other than more distinct branding.
I agree, a 4x or 16x downsampled version seems like the obvious way to quickly denature an image without bias. The algorithm is trivial to implement and will run insanely fast. And the smaller amount of data has the added bonus of loading faster too.
>"the 5th gen F-22 level engine isn't happening in the near future and thus they need a plan B"

Accordingly to online sources they are actually testing second stage 5+ gen engine for SU-57 and are hoping to deploy it sometime in 2022. Will they succeed is a different question of course.
I was about to post this link, saw you already did. Goodwill, like so many 'non profits', are very shady and need a lot of regulatory tightening up.
Right next to the togglswitch, there’s a learn more link that explains in more detail...

Tracking
Apple requires app developers to ask for permission before they track you or your
device across apps or websites they don’t own in order to target advertising to you,
measure your actions due to advertising, or to share your information with data
brokers.
If you give your permission to be tracked, the app can allow information about you or
your device collected through the app (for example, a user or device ID, your
device's current advertising identifier, your name, email address, or other identifying
data provided by you) to be combined with information about you or your device
collected by third parties. The combined information can then be used by the app
developer or third parties for purposes of targeted advertising or advertising
measurement. The app developer may also choose to share the information with
data brokers, which may result in the linking of publicly available and other
information about you or your device.
When you decline to give permission for the app to track you, the app is prevented
from accessing your device's advertising identifier (previously controlled through the
Limit Ad Tracking setting on your device). App developers are responsible for
ensuring they comply with your choices.
In some circumstances, the app developer is not required by Apple to ask for your
permission. The app developer may combine information about you or your device
for targeted advertising or advertising measurement purposes without your
permission if the developer is doing so solely on your device and not sending the
information off your device in a way that identifies you. In addition, the app developer
may share information about you or your device with data brokers without your
permission for fraud detection or prevention or security purposes. However, the data
broker must be performing the fraud detection or prevention or security services
only on behalf of the app developer, which means the data broker cannot use the
information about you or your device for any other purposes.
You can control whether apps can ask for permission to track you. If you don't want
to be asked for your permission by each app that wants to track you, you can disable
Allow Apps to Ask to Track. On iOS and iPadOS, go to Settings > Privacy > Tracking.
On tvOS, go to Settings > General > Privacy > Tracking. When you disable Allow
Apps to Ask to Track, any app that attempts to ask for your permission will be
blocked from asking and automatically informed that you have requested not to be
tracked. If you previously gave apps permission to track, you can tell those apps to
stop tracking you at the same time you disable Allow Apps to Ask to Track.
You can also control the tracking permission on a per-app basis. On iOS or iPadOS,
go to Settings, tap an app, then tap to turn off Allow Tracking, or go to Settings >
Privacy > Tracking and tap to turn on or off each app displayed in the list of apps that
have requested permission to track you. On tvOS, go to Settings > General > Privacy
> Tracking and select the app in the list below Tracking.
You could probably chalk it up to a home-grown file sharing repository. Instead of buying a quality commercial product they lashed together something built of free and cheap parts. It probably replicated the files to all the mentioned countries to cache them in case they were needed and the DIY system didn't check whatever security level flags were set.
I'm waiting for the app that will let you take some pictures of stuff, enter a description, have it run some AI to classify the product, look at market rates in your area, and then make an offer. iStuff.
> "Some employees earn just 22 cents per hour." Can you guess who they're exploiting? Disabled people.

I’m not usually one for posting low effort/quality comments, but this right here is incredibly fucked.

Goodwill needs to be investigated and brought to the cleaners.
> Just like our newer SDKs, AWS used the Smithy toolchain and service models to build AWS SDK for Rust

This is pretty impressive. I haven't looked at the SDK in detail, but managing to produce ergonomic APIs (semi-)automatically based on some service models for language as complex as Rust seems like a major accomplishment. I have most experience with the Python library (boto3) which is bit weird at places, but the Pythons dynamic nature is pretty good at hiding lot of that weirdness. Interesting to see how that works out for Rust where so much is static and explicit instead.

This also means that the possibility for multiple runtimes might not be that far fetched idea, if they can just make a code generator that spits out different flavors of the SDK.
You could remove the first 14 words and the entire last sentence and this would be even more accurate.
Can my government simply issue me a card that looks like this, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estonian_identity_card, wherein one side has an official ID chip and the other side has a user-managed chip for solvent identity? Then, we can all stop mucking about with this or trying to hock something.
I think that’s because, if you follow selection of a full line by a backspace/delete/cut, you expect the new line to disappear.

Apart from undo state, you also want cut to be equivalent to copy; backspace.
Well, there goes my weekend. Happy to see the Hypercard love is still out there. I think about it a lot. I love the idea of a coffee shop or a bicycle shop that's run on a Hypercard stack on an old Mac.

In case you've never seen it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FquNpWdf9vg
1. I'm sure you have a good example then? One where the benefits are commensurate with the non-consensual destruction of privacy that was committed to allow that Ad to be shown?

2. Citation please? The "progessivity" of ad supported services is debatable... especially when there aren't paid alternatives. Advertising is mostly a zero sum game so if a loss of tracking reduces effectiveness just means that other mediums that don't provide tracking wiol pick up market share.
The Distribution Vector That Changed Linux Forever
That's amazing, thanks! I was even thinking that Rachmaninoff's recordings would be where I'd start.

It's like a ghost playing. Absolutely crazy to hear his touch but with modern fidelity.
Or different people just have different value functions, and many of them don't care about "wealth maximization" when they're already comfortably in the 1%...
I tend not to personally donate to any religious charities, Goodwill and The Salvation Army among them.

There are probably good ones, but there are enough bad ones (like these, some of the biggest) to avoid the whole class.

Give your money to GiveWell instead.
One could simplify that to just Firefox for both properties.
This is wonderful to see and a great outcome from the effort put into Rust and Rusoto.
Several governments can trivially do a 51% attack and take over Bitcoin if they so wish, for example:

- The Chinese government can get all the main pool/farm owners (all self-doxed) in a room, offer them the choice between being executed or send all blocks their way for central validation. If they choose execution, send government employees to reboot the farms with new code.

- The Taiwanese government can cease the next batch of mining kit as it comes out of TSMC and lol all the way to the (central) bank.

- The US government can tell Coinbase "regulate this thing as told or die". Then all the suits who now own crypto via suit-friendly custodians will in a panic coordinate and fund a 51% attack to save their "investment".

Just a few ideas :-).
In other words: "Despite being world factory China's emission per capita is only 57% of US's"
Yes, don't disable link underlines within the code blocks, let the default be. It's not like there's a competing convention for underlining within code blocks.
Soon only the super rich will have sunlight, with satellite networks blocking out the sky in other areas.
This wasn't foreign state actors operating inside our borders it was a sloppy, DIY file sharing system that shipped the files all over.
Good article.

Interesting excerpt:

"In Critical Race Theory: An Introduction, Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic explain that “unlike traditional civil rights, critical race theory questions the very foundations of the liberal order, including equality theory, legal reasoning, Enlightenment rationalism, and neutral principles of constitutional law.” Concepts like the rule of law, merit, reason, knowledge, and even truth are seen as fictions constructed by the “white cisheteropatriarchy” that are used to perpetuate injustices against BIPOC groups (Black, Indigenous, and People of Color).

Arguments against this view are rejected out of hand. Logical analysis — or any independent thinking that questions the theory’s pivotal presuppositions — is evidence that the questioner is ideologically suspect and requires either education or ostracism. In fact, logic is itself seen as a tool of white supremacy, thereby invalidating it as a legitimate way of making a case. Perhaps this is how people who subscribe to critical social justice ideology can be blind to the inherent antisemitism within it. They must adopt the doctrine as a belief system rather than doing the critical thinking necessary to work through its internal logic.

Simply put, the “critical social justice” movement, informed by critical theory, represents an assault not just on core concepts of liberal democracy, but also on the epistemology that undergirds it. That’s something that ought to concern anyone, Jewish or not, who cares deeply for freedom and reason. And it should also concern everyone who wants to see true social justice succeed."
How long until someone asks Elon about it to his face in a public setting?
Roughly, latinization was a Lenin-era policy. However, when Stalin came to power he had different goals and philosophy than the preceding regime of Lenin. For one, Stalin abandoned the idea of spreading world revolution in favour of "socialism in one country", which in large part was about keeping the USSR (and, as its satellite, Mongolia) walled off from the outside world for the sake of tighter control.

For speakers of the USSR’s Turkic languages (Kazakh, Tatar, Crimean Tatar, etc.), latinization was therefore seen as harmful, because these languages are often fairly mutually intelligible with Turkish of Turkey, and a common-ish Latin alphabet would mean these peoples would be susceptible to anti-Soviet ideas coming from Turkey. Therefore, the Stalin-era language authorities not only gave them a new Cyrillic orthography, they gave each language a different Cyrillic orthography than the rest to fragment them even further.

In the case of Mongolian, Cyrillic helped better separate Mongolian of Mongolia from the mutually intelligible dialect of Mongolian spoken across the border in China.
They have been very secretive and didn't have a working website until recent, we will have to wait and see!

When it comes to quantum computing companies I do think it's best to take any of their claims with a grain of salt by default.
It's not the vital stat from the climate's perspective, but:

1. Qatar

2. Kuwait

3. UAE

4. Saudi Arabia

5. Luxembourg

6. Australia

7. USA

8. Canada

9. Estonia

10. Kazakhstan

https://www.statista.com/chart/20903/countries-emitting-most...