skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If it's your only (or best) option for decent internet, that cost probably won't consern you at all.

People who are off grid might grumble at having to provision more solar, battery and inverter capacity.

But for people who have other Internet options, $18/month might influence their decision.
Maybe, but it seems like people largely don't care enough to take action unless it has impacted them locally. Even then, many people have personal problems that affect them more directly that they tend to focus on.

For example, genocide in Sudan was pretty heavily covered, including some graphic content. Yet we didn't do much of anything to fix it. There were not many people saying "send me over there so I can stop it".

Most people always want someone else to fix the issue for them rather than take direct action themselves. We know that socioeconomic issues are the main drivers of gun violence and violence in general. Most people are not willing to address those issues through paying higher taxes (it's always tax some other person), volunteering, or even being neighborly. Many of the better off people do not live in the areas affected most by gun violence.
This is such a good title for a book. I bought it inmediately after it catched my attenttion while browsing a friend’s personal library. I could never really read it, too many words, did not connect.
There are so many types of meditation.

Mindfulness meditation makes you more aware of you and everything around you.

Another type of meditation you would do would involve sending love to people, the world. This is the meditation that makes more generosity and fills you with love.

The second type works better if you can enter a deep state.. mindfulness is a step to achieve that.
> What do you think about people who wouldn’t mind being spied on in exchange for free or cheaper services?

I would really like to know how many people are actually like this, if they knew the full, total picture. There will be a lot, that's sure, but maybe not the overwhelming majority of uninformed people we have now.
There are whole-page optimizations as well. For example, to avoid clashes in color between adjoining paragraphs.
Hard to get a man to understand something when his paycheck depends on not understanding it.

Aside from growth consultants, importance of privacy will be lost on a large and critical subset of engineers. This is why a huge blame goes on academics who train wave upon wave of new engineers with pathetic levels of ethical training.
Me too. Especially no longer having to explain to TS in many places that "yes, I already checked this type!"

EDIT: What I'd like to see now is a "cleanup" hint, which says: hey I already know what type this is, you can remove these 10 lines of aliasing code in this function.
I generally agree with all of these, the one thing I guess that can be an issue for me is if I go too long in between picking up a book, then I'll kind of forget the context.
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The problem isn't bribery, though. It's entirely legal lobbying, made legal by the people accepting the would be bribes.
> But it took Teslas to spark the electric vehicle industry. Now there's a lot of choice. I wouldn't be surprised if something similar happens here.

I really hope not. There are enough satellites out there, there are already too many, space pollution is real. Maybe we can find a better solution to this particular problem.
I always wonder if people who make comments like this are old enough to remember when gay people were considered deviants by most of society.
> Gigabit service is but a mile and a half away but no one is going to pay to lay the fiber into our neighborhood. So the last mile and a half is copper from 20 years ago. I think that's going to require political will to fix

I imagine once Starlink is an actual choice, the telecoms will install wireless at the end of the fiber and offer you faster, more reliable service than Starlink.

They don't do it now because they get your money without having to do anything at all.
>Expecting a valuable service with absolutely no consideration in return absolutely is a case of entitlement. If that consideration isn't cash, it has to be something else.

And that's well understood, and it was supposed to be advertising.

Which can be orthogonal to tracking, privacy violations, selling your data, and so on.
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Wouldn't practically all printers do middle grey with only black ink/toner/whatever, thus having very little chance of having any color cast? Considering how color temp adjustment is not very exact thing to start with, I feel that generic printout should be good enough for most uses. And for color critical work, you'll want a full color swatch (eg colorchecker) anyways instead of just middle grey.
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The police couldn't compel you to reveal secrets (all or some) and a password is a such a secret. But your face is not.

Should the judge say: Because the face could be used for a task that is often performed using a secret, it is a secret in the sense of the law?
On one hand he says companies have no incentive to allow you to block tracking. On the other hand half the article is about how Apple allows you to do precisely that.

Silly author.
pledge(4)ing an image or video viewer under OpenBSD doesn't look difficult at all.

Also, you can convert your PNG images to Farbleld (+.gz | +.xz) without losing quality.

And the farbleld image format it's more difficult to exploit.
I was with you until the nazi thing. I doubt GP would condone actual violence.
I put a section in my CV for open source contributions with a little summary of the patch. It's just a sentence with the Github link.

It's sometimes a good talking point for the question, 'describe a difficult technical challenge you solved'.
It is an ad hominem, I agree, but the opinion stated by GP is clearly dictated by their past career and experience. Actually seeing the ad-hominem made me check the GP profile.
And feels like it still is.
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That's interesting to see with knowing that just a fraction of the planned constellation is there. That's a lot of dots already. I'm guessing that the few visible string of dots are more recent launches that haven't quite reached their final positions yet. That's also interesting to see how long it takes the train to not be a train any longer, while at the same time showing how frequently new launches have been occurring.
> And if they don't someone else will so I'm not worried... I wouldn't be surprised if something similar happens here.

I'm a little worried about it. Other than Amazon's Project Kuiper, I don't really see who else can compete.

Unlike EVs there's not an existing industry that's doing _mostly_ the same thing, that just needs to start offering a new line. Running a LEO megaconstellation is extremely different than putting up a handful of massive geostationary satellites. I just don't see the existing satellite internet players being able to compete.

Frankly, it's a massive investment of resources to get started (which is true for auto manufacturers as well), but doing it economically requires launch costs that only SpaceX is currently able to provide.

Nobody else wants to build a competitor to Starlink by paying SpaceX. Which is why I think Amazon's Kuiper is the best shot to compete—but it requires Blue Origin's New Glenn to come online to really get the economics working. I know Amazon has tapped ULA as a launch provider in the interim, so they'll be able to start getting satellites up and running soon, but the economics seem...painful if they're going to use expendable rockets for the bulk of the constellation.

It's definitely possible that we see a flourishing of offerings, but I could also see a world where in 5 years time there's really only still Starlink.
>OK, that’s how you feel, and your choice. What do you think about people who wouldn’t mind being spied on in exchange for free or cheaper services?

I'd feel like there's no universal God-given social contract that says they have a "right" to this, so I'd suggest we ban it anyways (just like they're free to suggest to allow it).
First thing is find out what your local power company will let you do.

There's places you can push or pull power easily; and some where they require you to buy their grade of isolation equipment before you do anything that might ever risk backfeeding a line. That's at the engineering level; the bureaucratic levels can be much worse.
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> I don't recall anyone claiming that

I guess this really comes down to your definition of "anyone" because I've certainly seen a number of comments alleging this and Ron Johnson has said "It wasn't an armed insurrection" which, again, depends on your definition or on how pedantic you want to be.
ok. thanks.
Do you have any recommendations for lightweight solutions?
I ran a ceph cluster a few years ago but remember it being quite a bit of work.
Right. Now for some physics. You could break the speed of light by changing the values for the physical constants vacuum permativity, vacuum permeability and fine structure.

If you found a way to actually do that then you'd get a damn side more than a Nobel prize - you'd change the universe as we know it and you, we - all of us would cease to exist.
> $5000? The median pre-tax income in the US is only $2854/month. https://www.ssa.gov/oact/cola/central.html

Op is probably in NY or SF where that doesn't even make you middle class and people who make double that still don't feel rich. $2854 a month would be absolute poverty wages in many parts of the country.

Conversely my company has announced it's not going back to the office ever. I'm tempted to go back to Tennessee where I can live live a king on my California middle class income.
This is a great idea, I have exactly the same problem. I'll try it out, though I'll probably have to print a hundred pages ha...
A "small" solar panel? A 100W solar panel is 2 x 3 ft (.60m x .90m). You'd need multiple panels even if you run it only during the day, because fixed solar doesn't just go from 0% to 100% once the sun rises.
Yeah, $5k a month for "basic expenses" is beyond ridiculous.
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I would be very surprised if there is a meaningful number without adding much more context. Some early stage startup might be able to fix a low impact bug in production at only 10x cost, but I wouldn't be surprised if the two bugs exhibited in the first test flight of goings Boing's Starliner crew capsule have cost them over a million times as much as fixing them earlier, with the retests, the massive timeline slip, and all the knock on effects from the delay that majorly benefited their most promising competitor
why use blockchain key pairs under the hood? what’s the actual use case for that?
A kind of procrastination I guess.
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I don't know about grapefruit and caffeine specifically, but it's at least a great example from a tongue-in-cheek perspective. Grapefruit has a kind of ridiculously long list of drug interactions. It seems like pretty much everyone I know over the age of 65 is under doctor's orders to stay away from it.

https://www.fda.gov/consumers/consumer-updates/grapefruit-ju...
The thinking though feels a little narrow. If the non-wealthy (i.e. the vast majority of the planet) are driven to tribalism, rioting, war or otherwise die off what sustains the "wealthy"? A vast underground bomb-hardened prepper cache?

The wealthy fleeing global warming feels like it will merely be a footnote in Chapter 1 of what will eventually play out.

I worry not simply for the planet but for my children, my grandchildren, and yours, all of ours, as well.
I have no idea what you’re talking about.
The times to resolve the bug in code may not be significantly different at all. In the 1967 to 1981 period cited, the expense isn't putting it in the main branch of your repo and letting your pipeline put it everywhere. It was putting it on tape or disk, sending it to a customer, sometimes flying your own technician to the customer's site, installing it, maybe performing a backup beforehand, letting your customers know this is all necessary, publishing errata in a physical manual, and convincing these customers you still take quality very seriously.
> Except no one wants to take the risk that the small fire becomes a huge one

Generally controlled burns are scheduled during wetter seasons for this reason. But the difficulty of getting the general public to understand this and go along with it is probably hard to understate.
> In 1876, as a young student in Austria, Sigmund Freud dissected hundreds of eels in search of the male sex organs. He had to concede failure in his first major published research paper, and turned to other issues in frustration.

What a Freudian story, looking for male genitals. I wonder what would Freud say about that...
This is more of a gallery than a museum. Where are the texts that explain the historical significance of each level chosen to be presented to visitors in the greater body of all video game levels, and the information who made them, as part of which tenure, inspired by what, etc?
> So the last mile and a half is copper from 20 years ago

In the UK, BTs 'fibre' rollout is almost exclusively FTTC and then copper phone lines after that. My parents have a phone line from 35 years ago, and the cabinet is maybe half a mile away, but they can get 50 Mbit down (I can't remember upload, maybe around 15 Mbit). The provider rolled this out a lot quicker than ADSL (we never got ADSL2), so I assume it's technically not that complicated.
I do:

https://old.reddit.com/r/LearnJapanese/comments/gwo4o7/in_so...

https://old.reddit.com/r/math/comments/gw4uca/rmath_will_be_...

https://old.reddit.com/r/history/comments/gvsvq8/rhistory_is...
You can’t perfectly distinguish between intolerance and dissent from first principles because the distinction is inherently political, and intolerance could also be characterized as dissent in a society that practices tolerance. In most cases though I think intolerance is pretty clear: when you start denying people’s status as full citizens of a nation, you are being intolerant.
"Freedom of the press" in US law just means the freedom to create and distribute media (as opposed to freedom of speech which is specifically about the spoken word). "The press" references the printing press not the news media or journalists who are in modern times called "the press" also in reference to the printing press. Journalists have the same first amendment rights as everyone else (actually they could be said to have less because for certain purposes such as defamation they are actually held to a higher standard).
Oh good to know! That's adequate.
A strong correlation isn't a blanket statement, and I'm referring there to my experience. How many dyslexic and brilliant inventors would I need to have conversations with before the correlation weakens to nothing?
When I bought my first car, I was friends with the seller and wanted to prank her a little. So when I gave her the cash, I had the first $20 in $2 bills. I don't do stuff like that any more because of the inconvenience but it was fun at the time.
Banning his name and pictures? On what basis? I guess you're not also asking for Stalin and Hitler plus a whole galaxy of mass killers who've massacred their way across the 20th century to join the list of banned killers? Or do they not qualify for banning because they killed orders of magnitude more people than the appalling Breivik?

Should Breivik have killed more to qualify for banning. Yes, a ridiculous suggestion as with the idea of banning mention of him.

There is probably even more work to do on Stalin's legacy not to mention the others.
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I have a backup 4G modem here, and when the leaves come out on the trees in the summer, I see a signal drop. 4 bars to 2 bars.

The trees (forest) is line of sight between me and the only tower.

I presume it's all that water in the leaves.
It works with video calls, I’ve done it often.

Occasional blips occur, but the call isn’t dropped (and this is with some tree obstruction).

So it’s worth just getting it if that’s what you want it for. It’s probably 10x better than your existing connection.
Game Boy, Game Boy Color, Game Boy Advance.

As a programmer, these are machines that you can understand in their entirety down to the metal (I don't mean the hardware internally, just everything that's visible to the programmer), because they are relatively simple. It's also hardware that many grew up with and can relate to. They're well documented and ready to develop for, including very good emulators and debuggers. They're cheap, or you can just use an emulator to play around with them.

GB original is fun because it's so limited, and it's like a puzzle to figure out what you can do with it (including making graphics that prayers can actually recognize). Writing asm for it is like an adversarial puzzle.

GBA is based on ARM so it is a relative of modern cell phones, but running only at 16Mhz. You can still do a lot with it, because it's still pretty powerful (e.g. it runs Doom). It also has a very powerful 2d graphics chip that's still easy to work with and try to figure out effects for. Writing asm on it is a joy.
That's actually non-trivial. That makes the monthly cost nearly 20% higher.
os.Open has been using openat since 2015.

https://github.com/golang/go/commit/e7a7352e527ca275a2b66cc3...
I find that still slow compared to full blown dual install of Linux.
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I think these LEO constellations are actually the least concerning part of space pollution.

There are many more LEO satellites, true, but their orbital placement is such that the satellite's orbit naturally decays in a few years. Which means if a satellite becomes uncontrollable (or is destroyed in some way), the debris will clear in a relatively short period of time.

I'm actually much more concerned about the much smaller number of satellites in medium and geostationary orbits, where the decay time is decades or centuries.

Failed satellites or debris in these orbits will take a very long time to clear, and strikes me as a much larger concern than the larger number of LEO sats
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probably just get some investment to buy mattermost lol
Also even though starvation was much more common back then, people still had access to excess food and didn’t get fat. Some animals will eat until they literally explode. People have a fullness indicator but we ignore it, or it gets shifted towards eating too much.

I’m on the side that we’re overthinking it and a big contributor to obesity is just really bad cultural habits. A lot of people barely exercise at all, even walking, and when they get hungry they grab an unhealthy snack in 5 seconds. Even though are ancestors didn’t understand or care about exercise or getting fat, I doubt they had those habits.

Unfortunately once someone develops those habits, even as a kid, they’re hard to unlearn and they could affect the body’s set point. And they’re so ingrained into our culture that even people who try to be healthy (e.g. by eating a “healthy” fruit bar or exercising 30min on top of their sedentary lifestyle) don’t avoid them.

Now, there are people who got obese even though they exercise and eat whole foods, but I would be surprised if they aren’t a minority.
>>For me, Kurt Cobain’s suicide or Tupac’s murder don’t overshadow their music.

I don't know what "overshadow" means here. They were both considered top artists in their genres, and their untimely deaths are massive parts of their legacy. I don't think people know them more for their deaths than their songs, but I feel like there are very few people who would consider themselves fans of Nirvana that don't know about how Cobain's mental health/relationship affected and influence their sound or who love Tupac and don't know about the East vs. West coast feud in rap at the time and Pac's place in it.

I feel the exact opposite about Buddy Holly. He died in a tragic plane crash. I don't know what that means about his legacy other than "he died in a plane crash". It obviously didn't influence his art other than him not being able to make any more

(I'm 36 fwiw.)
Let's say glue code is information preserving.

float to int destroys information... unless the first program uses a float to store integers, so that that information is not destroyed. Similarly, the values could all be something-point-5 (1.5, 2.5, etx). That is, the literal type may be a float, but the application type is narrower than that. Like non-significant white-space, or a set whose elements are listed in an order, but that order is not significant.

A similar view is that, even if the application type for the first program really is a float, and the non-integer part is signicant to that program, that the type for this specific transfer is an integer. The specific way it's done depends on what's needed.

Is this "business logic"? Maybe. I would tend to say business logic requires some computation, other than a lossless transformation. Putting it into a different form, that is exactly equivalent, I would call glue.

I don't believe there is any authoritative definition; all we can do is note distinctions.

Perhaps I'm just playing semantics with a "transfer type"... but I think there is something important and useful in this distinction.
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Greenhorns are the new and inexperienced.

See also: green usernames here on HN.

Note: I'm serious and not serious at all here at the same time.

No: the colors doesn't matter at all. Yes: If someone wants to get offended they will find a way, even how they are held outside since no one makes jokes about them.
They actually said "sounds more like to me". Two unmentioned qualifiers.
I think that's the point here though. Currently there is no extra protections offered to journalists than any other person. Everyone is "free".

This new law infringes on that freedom. It is reported as a law against journalists but it is a law against anyone who wishes to expose government wrongdoing.

They are politicising it as a fight for/against journalism, mostly because there is a large segement of UK society that have a strong disliking of journalists in general - many have living memory of several journalism scandals from invasion of privacy (e.g., "phone hacking scandal"), to dressing up as a "terrorist" to invade the palace (read: dress up in clothing worn by cultures in the middle east and, literally, blackface and then walk into the palace as a tourist and deliberately "get lost") to some general shitbaggery (e.g., The Sun blaming Liverpool FC supporters for the Hillsborough distaster)

It is so so important to remember/realise that a "journalist" is _anyone_ reporting or publishing something. Even just a tweet that exposes some wrongdoing by the government would get you nabbed by this law.
These are great, thank you.

EDIT: Do you have any insight into why people still work on packages for type-1 fonts? Who still wants to use these, and why?
The Scarlet Letter worked well in other words. Maybe we should bring back public stonings, pillory, witch burning and other social credit feedback mechanism. An asshole free utopia awaits!
Anyone know if Starlink is happy turning off and on again throughout the day?

I know we are all used to 24 hour internet, but if I were energy-conscious or off-grid, I might want to turn it on for 3-4 half-hour sessions during the day.