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I do applaud wireless internet companies that are fighting the good fight today. However, I feel like the big three wireless companies (Verizon, T-Mobile, and AT&T) are likely going to eclipse them in the near future. When dealing with wireless home internet, a lot of it is going to depend on the amount of spectrum you have, how much that spectrum can cover (lower frequencies travel farther), and how much resources you have to deploy it. I think that the big three wireless companies are going to win on those fronts.

Aristotle has 40MHz of CBRS (3.5GHz) spectrum and can also use up to 80MHz more of unlicensed spectrum (though that could suffer interference problems from basically anyone else that wants to use the unlicensed portion). The big three companies have more spectrum - T-Mobile has 335MHz, AT&T 246MHz, and Verizon 290MHz. Not only that, it's across more frequency bands which has implications for coverage. Low-band (below 1GHz) spectrum will travel farther and be less susceptible to disruption. AWS/PCS spectrum from 1.7GHz to 2.1GHz and 2.5GHz BRS/EBS spectrum will travel farther than 3.5GHz spectrum. And yes, the big three also have CBRS/C-Band 3.5/3.7GHz spectrum.

These companies are going to have an army of wireless technicians, a lot more spectrum, and the money to invest in deploying it. T-Mobile already has 30M eligible households for their home internet (around 20-25% of US households) and I'm sure it isn't perfect, but it will be improving rapidly over the next few years as they bring lots more spectrum online. Verizon has announced home internet plans as well (I think hitting 30M by the end of 2023 and 75M by the end of 2024 or 2025, but this is from memory here).

To make a simple comparison, Verizon is going to be averaging 174MHz of 3.5/3.7GHz spectrum vs Aristotle with 40MHz. To me, it seems like Verizon is going to be able to deploy a better home internet service. However, rural wireless carriers have put up a good fight in the past and often serve areas where the big three don't. Aristotle might also invest in equipment that simply works better for what their customers want.

For example, T-Mobile's home internet service just uses a router/modem that's the size of a WiFi router. There's no fancy large antenna or anything. Aristotle might work with their customers to install high-gain directional antennas much like rural people are used to installing for terrestrial or satellite TV. Localities might be more willing to give a small, local company like Aristotle access to their water towers in a way that they wouldn't give the big three access. Aristotle might also be better able to find a report with customers about the trade-offs of adding more capacity, cost, traffic management, etc.

But T-Mobile could copy that playbook in the coming years. T-Mobile has talked a lot on investor calls about seeing rural customers as one of their big growth areas over the next 5 years. If Aristotle can make it work with 3.5GHz spectrum, T-Mobile's 2.5GHz spectrum has better coverage and they have more of it.

I'm probably being overly pessimistic, but it just seems hard to compete with the big three wireless companies.
Here I thought it would be about NASA WorldWind, a 2003-era project which was sort of like Keyhole but with all sorts of layers for the GOES and Landsat and MODIS imagery.

Some of those layers were updated every 12 or 24 hours, so you could get near-realtime views of stuff like forest fires and crop growth, which are easily visible using specific spectral bands which are imaged by the satellites.

And clouds, of course, updated every few minutes.

Then the project changed directions and it's more of an SDK meant to be baked into other software; the old interface with all its wonder and depth seems to be gone.

Here's what it was like: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rfxy7mn7mw
Poor broken families & communities with low education and few options generate large numbers of such people.

A simple look at the background of violent offenders shows this.

This is partially an economic problem, but also has social roots with multigenerational feedback loops. >50% of violent offenders were physically abused, raped, or neglected by parents. Many were unwanted or abandoned by one or more parents.
I stop reading when it says microsoft. That is my rule.
Mainly because both Americas where inhabited way before the pacific islands. For example Easter Island is estimated to have been inhabited around 300 to 1200 CE. This is also confirmed by genetics, with an origin of the Amerindians located around central Siberia.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_history_of_Indigenous_...
The robbery rate went down in 2020 along with most other types of violent and non-violent crime. Shootings and homicides were the only types of crime that skyrocketed.

In addition, low wage workers who got laid off made more money than they were making working. And there was a moratorium on evictions.
One interesting tidbit is that Macbooks will (don't know since when) start booting up if you press any key after having shut the laptop down.

That's a bummer when you want to go clean your keyboard and don't want the laptop running at the same time.
All the "place in Småland" had me Google "ikea Småland," because I vaguely recalled it's their customer daycare, and I found this horror:

https://www.facebook.com/IKEASingapore/posts/129956202012053...

> We’re about to transform Småland from a playground into a ‘press-play-ground’!

> Our studies of children's play habits reveal that today's kids prefer tablets to physical activity. So we're replacing the magical forest with a haven of sitting pods with tablets—recreating the way your kids play.

Edit: I guess it might be an April fools' joke, though timezone differences show it as March 30 for me: https://mashable.com/article/ikea-trolls-everyone. Man am I tired of corporate April fools. It's lame and literally never ends.
I assume these are all communications cables, but I'm curious if anyone knows what the logistical issues would be to laying high-capacity high-voltage DC lines across oceans? The idea being that as renewable and specifically solar power becomes a larger percentage of electrical generation, it'd be really nice to be able to buy and sell power between the Americas, Europe, Asia, and Africa. It's either that or use a lot of batteries, and power lines seem like they ought to be the more efficient, effective solution. HVDC losses can be reasonably low even for thousands of miles* [1].

I'm thinking of having undersea links, for instance, between Brazil and Western Africa, or Canada to Greenland to Iceland to mainland Europe, or Alaska to Russia.

(Wikipedia shows a number of short-distance undersea HVDC links in Europe [1].)

* "Depending on voltage level and construction details, HVDC transmission losses are quoted at 3.5% per 1,000 km, about 50% less than AC (6.5%) lines at the same voltage."

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-voltage_direct_current
A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry – A look at history and popular culture
I agree with the sentiment but it should be pointed out that even public works have to pay their workers at market rates when there are no forced laborers (so: most of the time). Throwing a bunch of forced laborers at public works kind of screws over the average Joe that used to do that for pay.

So, like you say, it shouldn't take away from the rights of others. Just pay the prisoners just like you'd pay any other worker regardless of the kind of job.
> If shoppers can't tell the difference without this analysis, then it implies that the price differential between these two products is larger than it should be.

But their bodies might.

Standards for meat are much higher in New Zealand than in China. I would be curious to have a health inspector take a look at the facilities where the beef was produced and handled...

Let's just say the country isn't new to food safety scandals...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gutter_oil

https://www.businessinsider.com.au/chinese-street-vendors-us...
Its unlikely the virus was engineered expressly to kill millions - it seems increasingly likely that the virus was engineered to drive mRNA vaccine sales, as well as to disrupt the 2020 American election (by forcing an unprecedent switch to mail-in paper ballots and upending a vibrant US economy - at the same time as China was struggling under international tariffs).

Just look at what an investment in BioNTech would have done if you bought in October 2019:

https://www.google.com/finance/quote/BNTX:NASDAQ?window=5Y

You'd be 25x in less than 2 years.

How convenient for the Gates Foundation to invest $55 million in September 2019! https://investors.biontech.de/news-releases/news-release-det...

The chief innovation of mRNA vaccines is that instead of using expensive egg cultures, you can reproduce viral proteins inside the vaccinated patient themselves. This presumably means much cheaper manufacturing.

Additionally, you can drive long-term vaccine sales, since antibodies based on a single protein (spike) are more likely to fail compared to immunity based on the complete protein structure. We're already seeing this now with the 'need' for booster shots in response to variants driven by these leaky vaccines.
It’s not 0 tax for personal after-tax accounts, not for PE, hedge funds, 401k accounts, IRAs, so and so forth. Guess where most of the stocks are actually held. I have 0 in my cash account, lots in my 401k account.
Is this really true? If someone from 1950s America time-travelled to the present day, is there anything at all that they conceptually couldn't fathom?

Maybe if you transported someone from 1950s China to present-day China, they would be more shocked, but a present day suburban home in 2021 is not all that markedly different than a 1950s home -- and neither is the workplace, the commute, the cars. Mostly replaced paper with screens and tvs with bigger, flatter tvs.

The most conceptually difficult thing would be understanding that wireless telegraphs with cameras are pocket-sized and everywhere.
Your comments is condescending and counter productive to what was a generally inquisitive question by OP.

Try shedding light instead of nit-picking. Your proposed question is not as superior to OPs as you think.
I don't have anything in particular against 'big tech', but this (Facebook) case does seem like an example of (enabling) libel via willful blindness to me. I also think Yelp and other sites are close to, or past that line as well (in how they enable extortion of many small businesses by fraudulent 'reviews').

Merriam-Webster defines "Willful Blindness" as:

>"deliberate failure to make a reasonable inquiry of wrongdoing (as drug dealing in one's house) despite suspicion or an awareness of the high probability of its existence"

The case law would also appear to go against Facebook: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_re_Aimster_Copyright_Litiga...
Sounds good but as far as I'm concerned, Oculus is still hot with the radioactivity of Facebook. I have no interest in giving them direct access to a device I put on my head. As soon as they announced the account merging I sold my Rift CV1. Just bought an Index since it's superior hardware for PCVR anyway and Valve cares about user freedom (their Linux gaming work being one example).
Great analysis but a shame to see an unreadable mobile site in 2021
Ironically, that was about the same time it came out...
> Unless you have a local telecom willing to run CAT6 out to your house, you can't really find speeds like it.

Is CAT6 all that common? 100m runs seems pretty limiting in a rural setting. I think even the fibre that was strung up to my house in a fairly dense inner city neighbourhood has a longer run than that to the hub.

Is it possible to provide power to signal repeaters with POE to get around the ~100 meter limit?
You must have missed the “army of tiny telecoms” in the headline.
Would love for some of these commenters to tell my customers to go back to Zoom because it's a "real product" lol

Really appreciate the support man. I've built enough "real product" to be confident that this method of building is just as real as the rest.
If only Alaska was considered "domestic" enough...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaska_Permanent_Fund
A machine doing something I didn't tell it to is insane.

I am the user. I use the machine, not the other way around.
Over Ten Thousand Voters with Same F/M/L Name, DOB Found in Multiple AZ Counties
Over Ten Thousand Voters with Same first, middle, last Name and DOB Found in Multiple AZ Counties.
Then instrument the endpoints. Surely a developer has code level access and can inject a debugger, logs session keys for later decryption, or intercept the crypto api calls to inspect preencrypted values.

Https does nothing to prevent, help nor hinder the visibility to the developer. It merely provides confidentiality of communications between two endpoints, which is a highly desirable property in secure systems.
This is true, however the current push to enforce HTTPS everywhere normalizes encrypted traffic. If encrypted or obfuscated connections were rare, you could make a filter that only lets through inspectable connections and deploy it without much breakage. If all connections are encrypted, you cannot distinguish between safe and suspicious traffic at all.

Together with eSNI, DoH and QUIC, the goal is pretty explicitly to treat the network as an adversary. That's a good thing if you really don't trust the network but a bad thing if you lose control over your own network.
And what evidence do you have that covid vax is bad for you in the long term? None lol.
I bet the new child tax credit will stay on the books. It's such a game changing boost to lower income families.
>including turning those digital funds into spendable cash.

Crypto can be spendable cash. You can buy a coffee or a bar of gold with it, even bullets. Sounds like it can be used as a currency to me. It only takes a willing counterparty.

> Crypto is not more energy efficient than existing financial infrastructure.

That depends on the place and circumstance. I concede that Kenya was a poor example and I should have used someplace like Central African Republic instead.

>Additionally Kenya has digital banking infrastructure. Send a SEPA payment instead, no need to Western Union.

Assuming you are one of the one third of Kenyans who have a bank account. And assuming the one sending the money has a bank account. Both of which involve documentation and KYC, something not necessary in most crypto transactions.

>because your ignoring all the infrastructure need to do that fiat conversion

Not really, crypto to fiat can be done informally. There's several people in my city who buy and sell it and all they need is a cellphone and local currency.

It's only from the perspective of someone that thinks like a loser, always trying to find something wrong, that you can find zero uses where using crypto is more energy efficient than other financial options. And not all cryptos use the same energy or transaction cost as others.

For an example of transaction efficiency, I can buy a bar of gold from some established bullion vendors in litecoin much cheaper than with a visa card due to lower transaction risks for the merchant and lower transaction fees. If you can't wait multiple days for an ACH transaction and have to buy precious metals online, crypto is actually the cheapest way in the US.
A lot of people on the left do want to make the child tax credit permanent, and there is no logistical reason we couldn't do that other than political constraints.
This is going to last only as long as it will take for the labor supply pressures to squeeze out small- and medium-sized businesses for the large corporate interests to scoop up on the cheap. They're not going to permanently constrict the reserve army of labor.
I'm sorry, do some research. A few large operators keep the remittances costs high. https://voxeu.org/article/stubbornly-high-cost-remittances

As for fortran and cobol, why change the technology if you are sitting pretty?
It was marked security-sensitive some time within the last 14 hours. It was available to me when the link was submitted here on HN.
When you say "+ dependencies" do you mean the package lock file? I measure written-by-humans LOC.

This particular rewrite happened to drop about 14 unnecessary deps in favor of vanilla Node.js, Typescript and Socket.io
USB-C is rated for 10,000 insertion cycles
Just a note: this was posted on April 1st (may show up as Mar 30th for Americans).
Or raise taxes among the top earners, corps, cap gains. Seems worth it to me.
Right, so given this a naive observer might imagine the rich would elect to have more children, and the poor fewer…
FWIW:

1) Looking at System Preferences right now, the setting for Power Nap reads as follows:

> [x] Enable Power Nap while plugged into a power adapter

> While sleeping, your Mac can back up using Time Machine and periodically check fro new email, calendar, and other iCloud updates

This indicates that it should not have any affect on a sleeping MacBook in a bag (presumably disconnected from power).

2) That said, I have on rare occasions found a former work-issued MacBook Pro to be hot to the touch when removed from my bag after a commute. I assumed this was some bug (not a feature), and I can neither rule out nor implicate the involvement of the nanny software installed by IT.
The article mentions 2001 for Google Earth, but I am pretty sure it must have been released later. Wikipedia collaborates as much.
This brilliant April Fools' joke you mean.
I’m with you. I suspect this is in places where you need to be careful. If you go “we provide service to this node - last mile is your problem” and sell wholesale fiber optic I’m sure you could make it cheaper. Let the guy run his own repeaters and cable. You just provide the link to the closest node.

I wonder if there are consumer laws that make that infeasible.
Niceboard.co a no-code job board make me lose $30K
I am a disabled entrepreneur who bought 10 Niceboard LTDs on Appsumo and upgraded them, which cost me $4000 US. My partner and I spend around $25K between the cost of purchasing these LTD, paying additional fees to upgrade, customize, and hire employees to manage them.
A few days ago, my partner informed Oliver about a bug. Oliver replied to him by threatening to block her account because one of the developers working on customizing our websites created an agency to help other Niceboard website owners customize their website.
My partner, who was a friend of the developer, supported him and let him use her reference as a happy client. It was not wrong until I and I decided to stop working with that developer and terminate our relationship.
But when Olivier replied to my partner about the fact that our website is using his brand name, my partner informed him that we no longer maintain a relationship with the owner of that project, and we did not know the website he created to offer the customization service was still active; however, my partner promises him that we will try our best to resolve that matter.

But, to our big surprise, Olivier menaces us to block our account because of that, as an illegal reason, of course.

We reply and ask him to take anything irresponsible as the platform hosts the data of +5000 users and more than 3000 employers who sign up for trial. So we got around 8000 users who cost us 9 months to build and a thousand in marketing efforts.

Today, he decided to block and delete all accounts and data, without any refund, access, or the possibility of restoring data.

My partner and I spent all our resources to build that brand that only that month reached 2000 visitors per day organically, and we were hoping to be able to get our money invested back later that year. We also have around 8 full-time employees, primarily virtual assistants and other contractors who rely on us to pay them.

We also have paid customers who will suddenly lose all the applicant's data and access without any prior notice.

We want to get the community's help to firstly get the data of the customer and database back as they are our property.
Get a full refund from Appsumo and Niceboard of our $4000 spent for purchasing these LTDs.
Inform the community about the abuse behavior of Olivier Breton, who firstly disrespects us as clients, causes loss and damageable reputation loss.
Get the help of some developers who can help us build our own platform in a brief delay.
As a 63 years old disabled business owner, I feel my morality attacked as my partner and I spend all of our resources and sometimes sacrifice our bills to run those activities that Olivier abusively destroys today.
A bug fix can still work well even if you don't address the root cause. But sooner or later it will reveal itself again.
I just refer to everything by its domain name minus the suffix. There is no "U of M", there is "UMich" and "Memphis" and "UMT".
> ZFS/btrfs has nothing to offer someone working on an S3-like service, or a globalized database, either.

Why would that be the case? Let's say I want to setup a vitess cluster (planetscale = globalized database). I can easily delegate the compression logic to zfs, which works way better than innodb table compression or transparent page compression. I can rely on zfs atomic write to safely disable innodb doublewrite, which has been the number one bottleneck to scale writes until it was enhanced recently.
I don't want to say it since this, along with the rest of my message history may be able to identify me. Maybe I need to switch to a fresh account again.

Anyway, it's a low-level library that is used by a small handful of libraries that a ton of people use. All hail the easy-to-use abstractions.
Did you mean the 1880s? The US population has been majority urban / suburban since the 1920s. The rural population is declining, but remains 17% of the population. That's a significant portion of the population and would be incredibly wrong to write off.
> If you are self-taught, lacking credentials, and don't live in a major market, it can be difficult to get in the door at a FAANG. Whereas start-ups can be much more likely to take a chance on someone with a non-conventional background.

Don't self select out of these jobs. I've been an interviewer at FAANGs. We take talent where we can and count ourselves lucky.

Our recruiters call everyone given enough time. Reach out to one directly on LinkedIn for an even better chance at an initial screening call. Ask for a referral from someone already working there in your wider network. Ask for a referral from Blind. Ask for a referral from HN.

From there it's your ability to pass the interview, not any set of credentials (different thread please on the interview process).
Yeah the whole 230 discussions is at best naive and at worst a cynical attack on 1A rights by no nothing dead enders and authoritarian leftists. The same coalition that brought you the drug war, the satanic panic, and the global war on terror.
I actually have a very similar story. When I was younger, I was witness to a pretty bad car accident, and I gave them my information, and was later subpoenaed as a witness. Before going, I thought I had a pretty good recollection of the event -- it happened right in front of me. When I got there, I was also stumped by simple questions about which direction one of the cars was going.

It was really eye-opening for me. Thinking about it is still kind of eerie. I remember the accident. I can see it in my head. But apparently the memory is not exactly correct.
^ and of course, downvoted. This community isn't very friendly anymore.