skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In principle a satellite link like that could run at the speed of light in vacuum as opposed to the much slower speed of light in an optic fiber. You'd save enough that you could afford to detour 300 miles up to get to the network and 300 miles back down.

In practice it is tough to realize because the satellites are moving and different packets will follow different routes. Getting that last bit of performance consistency would be difficult if not impossible.
> Fat lot of good that will do you with your project that needs to be completed next year or your company is hosed no?

You can do both.

> And once you do the fix - which won’t require ipv6 or will use a different vendor - then you won’t be talking to them anyway.

It depends on whether you actually want to fix it.

> The underlying issue is that there is a lot of momentum with v4, and hacks mostly work and work faster and easier, so most people end up going that way. So it keeps the momentum.

Yes, which is very different from being unable to get the equipment you'd need.
The problem with government solutions is that they are so easily corrupted. For example, here in Washington State, USA a law recently passed mandating long term care insurance. Sounds nice right? The reality is that this will be funded by an income tax that will then pay $116,000 per year person in a long term care facility. I have a friend who's dad owns a big chain of these, and they are profitable beyond any of our wildest imaginings. What started out with the legislature's nice intentions is really just a massive pork benefit for old and corrupt businesses.
The rationale in OMB memo M-18-23 for withdrawing the DNSSEC requirement in M-08-23 doesn't seem very convincing: we don't need this anymore because everyone should already have DNSSEC by now?

> M-08-23, Securing the Federal Government's Domain Name System Infrastructure (August
22, 2008)

> OMB is rescinding memorandum M-08-23, which provides additional guidance on the
Domain Name System (DNS), specifically focusing on new security protections for the Federal
DNS. The requirements in this memorandum are outdated; agencies already should have
implemented these security protections.
I don’t understand why the stooge with conflicts of interest[0] that the former president put in charge in an attempt to subvert and hamstring the biggest vote-by-mail election ever is still the postmaster general.

Shouldn’t the new administration have replaced him with someone competent?

[0] https://oversight.house.gov/news/press-releases/experts-agre...
> Why is that ridiculous? If you set up a farm that releases GHG surely you are the producer of it.

Are you saying this is actually how GHG calculations are done with respect to rural/urban, or that's how it should be counted?

>consumer can aknowledge that what ever they do makes no difference in the big picture.

a single consumer can't make a difference because they're one person out of 7 billion. consumers in aggregate can make a difference.
It also is an issue for all others. FX I don’t know if it is appropriate to say “you guys” to a mixed crowd anymore, but if I hadn’t seen that some people get upset about that I wouldn’t think twice about it and just emulated American movies. Buffy isn’t exactly sexist and she says it often and to a mixed crowd.
For that matter you can use an empty wine bottle.

My problem is that plants can usually be OK up to a week or so. It's when you get into the two week range that it becomes tough. I've never found the gravity feed options really worked for the time periods I've needed them.
To add on to this, the current most preached about "best practices" comes largely from a de-risking, never-ever fail point of view, ie. 'safety'. Unfortunately with such standards also comes a concept known as 'acccountability', ie. 'ass-covering' practices that provide little practical value.

This results in programmers no longer being able to iterate fast and having to rely on some third-party whose tradeoffs they don't understand, resulting in slow, bloated software and dissatisfied programmers.
The old guard on Hacker News is comprised of absolutely terrible people.

I was here 12+ years ago and HN has always sucked, but it's been driven into the ground by the mods coddling these goofy man-boy dipshits, whose idea of success is writing widgets at a FAANG in the furtherance of the destruction of society.

I stopped constructively posting here many years ago. It's just too much work to correct the endless list of preposterously stupid things said on this website.
Windows 10 is better than any previous version of Windows. So how did it go downhill?
Same with paintings, etc. So yeah it's a wonky argument because it ignores subjective judgement
No, the prices will still be comparable to scalper prices, and the cost-conscious consumer market will remember the company's price gouging when they make their next-generation purchase
https://nitter.eu/JesseLehrich/status/1443451725768105986
Price gouging laws target the products with most serious risk of shortages and guarantee shortages. I think back to the gas pipeline shutdown earlier this year, and how simply that could have been a non-issue if stations had been allowed to raise prices.
> Scarcity is fundamental to any store of value. There are an infinite number of potential NFTs.

I'm a pretty big crypto-skeptic, and I'm especially an NFT skeptic, but this is a weird argument. It's kind of like saying there could be an infinite number of paintings, so why should Picassos be worth very much? Even more, it's possible to create extremely high quality reproductions of famous Picasso paintings, but they would have just a teeny amount of value of the original.

Reason being, with very expensive art, and other things like a signed book or baseball card, what you're really paying for is the provenance of the item, not so much the thing itself. While I'm skeptical that the NFT form of "digitally assigned provenance" will be valued similarly, I can understand the argument for why a piece of digital artwork with an associated NFT isn't that different from a piece of physical art with the artist's signature.
Previous comment was a quote from the song “Losing My Edge” by LCD Soundsystem. The genius of the lyrics is in sardonically complaining about the new generation but also admitting the real problem is that the singer is growing old.
The common brushtail possum is very common in Australia and far from endangered, if anything it's adapted quite well to urban life. There are other species of possums that are endangered, but they're not the ones in NZ.
> according to their own research

I mean... you just read Cory's whole story about how maybe Facebook and co. are manipulating the data to make it seem like their product is better than it is, and now you cite Facebook's research saying that Facebook reaches 2 billion people?
I wish it was clear how much of the work was supposedly done by an AI. The skeptic in me thinks.. not much.
Atlas: Push-Button Publishing
https://twitter.com/DanPriceSeattle/status/14436282057352233...
You've hammered your point with four identical-structure sentence pairs, and used all-caps and absolutist wording, all in the service of implying, but not stating, that NASCAR is to Busch as women's chess is to breast implants, and so if the former is harmless than the latter is necessarily harmless. Analogies are extremely bad at making arguments about real world things, because they are typically presented with no supporting statements, as if their very existence is self-validating.

Anyway, the difference is that chess has a history of sexism and female exclusion, and breast implants are frequently seen as demeaning toward women - not intrinsically, of course, but by context. Some people find this combination tacky, or disrespectful. Now, whether I think chess's history of sexism is a legitimate factor, or whether I think breast implants are demeaning in any given context, are both irrelevant. I'm sure I haven't provided the best possible explanation of how other people feel, but it is an obvious one.
time to buy more FB shares
Is that Momma bear charging looking at you, or just happening to be in line going after a fish? Either way, great shot!
Woman who survived 1918 flu, world war succumbs to Covid
It possibly comes from the signs for deaf. One is a motion from ear to mouth. An older one is ear and closed.

If you watch the video of him at the hospital, he is almost entirely nonverbal. So it is not surprising that his word choice was a bit odd.

Why would you insert “,uh,” into your comment? What does that intend to convey?
Switch majors. Now.
In the original, non-"modernized" list, it seems like there's a lot of points that people on the right would agree with way more so than people on the left.
Pretty sure few people would be enthusiastic about doing those "testing" jobs. A graduate student spending six years testing others' "high-impact ideas" would have no future on the cutthroat academic job market.
Its a little too easy to mistake people "brand building" themselves for a community nowadays.
They are definitely hardcoded in many places (e.g. embedded systems, early bring-up - udev style stuff is used for most things these days, but the core /dev/zero, /dev/null, /dev/console stuff is hardcoded everywhere). This would be a kernel-userspace ABI break, which is a big no-no.

You could add a new major that does this (keeping the old numbers for compatibility), but I think you'd have a hard time convincing people that this is a worthwhile enough idea; hard-coded new major numbers are in short supply.
This is exactly the sort of shallow understanding I mean to point at. NFTs are so much more than "owning jpegs." This is the same mistake as saying "owning bitcoin is just owning a cell in a spreadsheet."

Can I have the title to your car? After all, it's just a piece of paper.

NFTs are access tokens to social communities, where owning a particular token grants you access to a community that shares ownership. Collab.Land is a tool communities use for NFT ownership based roles, revoked upon sale. NFTs are a distributed system of title. I'd be shocked if every concert ticket isn't a form of NFT in ten years--you can transfer them verifiably on the secondary market while giving a royalty to the issuer, use them to access a concert, and keep them as a souvenir like a traditional ticket stub. And yes, some people make profile pics, and generative art projects. You don't have to like or participate in those. But dismissing all NFTs as idiotic is not a position that is going to age well.
Deepfake voices can fool voice-recognition software
Example argument: "the reactionary might happily ban pornography while the liberal insists it be shown to grade schoolers".

And that's the quality of this article. Yawn.
Ouch, yes I think it is odd to have a broker manage both seller and buyer.

As for blind bidding, this is where our realtor did a great job, by inquiring with the selling realtor to find out where bids were and finding comparable houses recently sold. Also, on one house we bid low on, our realtor was able to convince the seller to come back with a counter offer.
Yes; if anything the hype is even stronger today. The difference is that neural nets on modern hardware really do quite a few useful things, while expert systems on 80s hardware mostly did not.

The reason the hype of today is more dangerous is what I call the grandmother issue: In the 80s we dreamed of a program that would recognize your grandmother when she walked in the room. That was one of our holy grails.

Good news: The grandmother recognizer was finally built with deep neural nets in the 2000s and it works pretty well. It's not perfect but if you tell it to play grandma's favorite song when she walks in the room it's no big deal if it occasionally fails to recognize her, or if it plays the song when someone other than your grandma walks in the room.

Bad news: We now have people who (effectively) want to attach the grandmother recognizer to a machine gun with instructions to shoot your grandmother and only your grandmother, and never to fail to shoot her if she walks in the room. Suddenly the Type 1 and Type 2 errors are a whole lot more consequential. Modern NNs are simply not fit for that job.

We have pretty good AI for low-consequence purposes, but it cannot be used for high-consequence purposes without a lot more fundamental research. Incremental improvements to deep learning are not going to get us there.
There are people on both side arguing that "best practices" are good and bad. But that's not the point.

Best practices are necessary. The value of "best practices" rests not on whether it is good. Its value is that there is an enforced standard across a business/organization. The existence of a standard (and recommended way) helps smooth out the execution/operation. In software engineering, that means easier refactoring, easier migration, easier tooling development, easier training, easier for people to move around within an organization instead of moving out...

I'd recommend any organization to find, install and periodically improve their "best practices". Just the virtue of their existence is a net positive to the business.
Details of the rotating key used so that persistent tracking based off of the BLE beacon isn’t possible: https://www.wired.com/story/apple-find-my-cryptography-bluet...
They could be off by an order of magnitude and it would still be pretty bad.

Here are their official numbers from Q2: https://s21.q4cdn.com/399680738/files/doc_financials/2021/q2...
NFTs are money laundering.
Why would anyone care about an undergrad definition of what art is?
sorry to be pedantic, but it's literally not multi-level-marketing? Specifically, it's missing the multi-level part. Your upline isn't getting $$$ when you sell a NFT. I suppose you can make the argument that if you then take the money and buy more stuff, then your upline gets paid, but that describes most distributor arrangements. Come to think of it, there isn't really even an upline. It's just a network of artists and traders with no set hierarchy.
> Should gender matter here?

Isn't it common and normal for women to not want to live with men they don't know?
I don't see how this email is supposed to describe NFTs. This email describes cryptography being used as an artistic medium, which is different.
Windows 10 is better than any previous version. I mean my Windows laptop is far more stable than any distro I run on my desktop and work laptop.
ML is just as much marketing as AI. The machine isn't actually learning.
90% of the people I know use Facebook. And more people use Instagram. Most people over 30 use Facebook.
Firstly I was only pointing out your assertion that the USSR was a good model of socialism is wrong.

As to being 'competitive in free markets', I would suggest that is more of a measure of capitalism than socialism.

Socialism is about equality and a better measure of equality would be something like 'standard of living'.

When you look at which countries lead the world on that measure it should come as no surprise Social Democratic nations dominate:

https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/standard-...
If an application (videogame, social network, website, etc.) gives the holder of the NFT special rights, then that is the utility of the NFT. It does not matter about legal ownership of a graphic.
Since the page doesn't mention this: the title is a reference to "What the Butler Saw", a famous early 1900s (mildly) erotic film.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_the_Butler_Saw_(mutoscope...
We faced this migration, too. My sympathies.

Adding to your list of options that still require _some_ downtime: we used Bucardo [0] in lieu of logical replication. It was a bit of a pain, since Bucardo has some rough edges, but we made it work. Database was ~2 TiB.

[0] https://bucardo.org/
Non removable battery and minimum percentage of phones sold with gps were promoted by governments (from old HN posts if I recall correctly). Actually there is no technical need for most phones not to have non removable batteries.
Store of value requires being backed by something, scarcity alone is irrelevant.
Nfts satisfy the same ponzi urge as memecoins (bitcoin, doge, etc) but also work as visible status symbols - expensive nft can be used as a profile picture, which is why they're taking over.
Scarcity is necessary but not sufficient. What sets BTC apart from NTFs is its fungibility. In theory, there are an infinite number of potential cryptocurrencies, sure. But everyone has already embraced bitcoin (and a small handful of others), and replacing that userbase is an incredibly tall hurdle.

On the other hand, minting a new beanie-baby-NFT takes less effort than making an actual beanie baby.
...on the other hand, Summers was also the one who tasered Mistic, according to the article.
A couple years ago, Connecticut got records of all the Newegg purchases in the previous 5 years or something that had shipped to Connecticut, and mailed everyone a bill for use tax they evaded.

https://www.techspot.com/news/73582-newegg-customers-connect...

All I know is if you are trying to evade taxes, you might want to do it with some plausible deniability. When tax receipts come up short, they are going to come after someone, and many things are a few seconds worth of search query away in a database.
Yep, several years ago it was trendy to shill the idea of "cadastre [land records] on the blockchain" to solve some imagined issue with the central authority of land registries, never mind that of any particular asset class, land title was the very last thing any sane individual would cede to a "zero trust database". If you're going to sell or buy land, that title better be backed by all the legal and otherwise mechanisms of force available to the state!

NFTs are just a further abstraction on that same failed idea – a cyptofinancial derivative to make something appear real that isn't real.
No matter how good it might be for the general public, USPS doesn’t meet the definition of a “public good” as long as they require stamps and put more mailmen in trucks every year.

The classic example is a lighthouse. It serves an unlimited number of sailors, but it’s hard to make them pay for it, which is a rationale for using tax money to build one and ignore the free rider problem.
Looks like I either failed to get my point across, or hit too close to home. Many who get angry at this story also enjoy seeing penalties (such as mandates and passports) for the unvaccinated. These penalties will create more pathos, whether you empathize or not.

Maybe people think talking about unvaccinated people here is irrelevant or inflammatory or something like that; I don't know what exactly ties these stories together in my mind, but I suggest that maybe it's technophilia, that there are people who love to throw technology at every problem. Or, perhaps the hate comes from the sense of certainty some people have in their information sources, and they can't empathize with anyone who may be suffering from false or ideological info sources. Instead such people must be stupid and trolls.

If it is a lack of empathy -- I think it's more likely a lack of sophistication -- I can see this same mode of hatred and blame we are seeing now, being directed at criminals back when those draconian laws were being drafted that put the deaf man in jail.
More Than 800 People Have Been Arrested as the DOJ Clamps Down on Fake Pills
I saw the author had moved to either a self hosted domain/ghost but didn't want to risk hugging them to death...however unlikely it is that anyone would click on my random link.

Reading your comment history I would hypothesize you generally follow a coherentist/constructivist school of thought. I'm drawing this from repeated efforts to ensure alignment and clarity of actual meaning, especially in cases where vagueness in the language used by others might induce misunderstanding by someone who only gave a cursory read to a concept. You value whole concepts rather than individual facts and seem to approach things with the idea that your understanding grows over time through ongoing experience - i.e., understanding is constructed.

I would highlight this quote: "I instantly started learning very useful features reading the GNU docs. (I still need to fully internalise those). Yes, the full manual is very much better than the manpage."

No one has ever actually taken me up on this before...
Car/bag/cloth/jewelry/art - these type of things are sometime considered status symbol. It help people convey certain “message” to other.
NFT might could be the same in the ever more virtual world.
I might not be be the target audience; but it does not meant that it hold no value to other.

People spent lots of money on game skins, rare weapon.
So there is a market.

When one goes to a physical conference: flair/badges serves similar purpose. NFT could be that in zoom/team/slack.

My naive way of looking at NFT: Maybe it can be used to help fund open source free software. Instead piece of art; a flair/pin/badge for showing your support for your favor projects.

do not underestimate people's vanity.
The comment is a bit incomplete in its description, but it looks like an accurate description of how Find My Phone has always worked. All that’s new is that a turned off device will be respond to queries.
Tho no one is behind the wheel, do you still have people operating the car remotely when there are issues?
Yeah, but it’s far easier to find someone who can check in and refill them once in a two week holiday vs 6-7 visits to water.
yes, i know that's law. Do you think this listing above are discriminating any gender?

if you read the wordings carefully, it is describing the gender of the other person living there, just to give more information about the place. it does not demand the gender of rental candidates.
I think you could argue that the 'upline' acrues value even if they aren't paid directly. Greater interest in an NFT drives the value up.

As with everything NFT crypto, the value is all probabilistic anyways /s
You do realize there are blockchains that don't suffer from just... not working? like PoS fixes the electricity issue, and there are many solutions to making transactions much cheaper, quicker, and having more bandwidth.
I thought the whole point of Section 230's existence was that sites wouldn't have to do hamfisted automatic moderation like this to avoid legal liability.
> In fact, someone can "sell" an NFT to themself in a wash trade between two wallets they control. The last trade price of the NFT is now recorded as the transaction price, but it's possible that money never actually changed hands.

I heard rumors this is what happened with the Beeple nft
Can't you do that at normal auctions using (for lack of a better word) a shill bidder?
You can hang a painting on your wall and flaunt it. Nobody looks at the bits on your hard disk.
I wasn't really grinding an axe at all. Just pointing out the fact that "super powers" with lots of toys and training does not always mean an automatic "W" on the scoreboard. It was true in the days of Sparta, and it is true today.

What axe are you wanting to grind?
Wow never knew this was a thing.. how glorious
Facebook and Instagram employees responsible should be sent off to work in agriculture or be drafted into the military.

Military and agriculture are the foundations of every powerful state.

The state would become more powerful and those employees reassigned to more productive tasks would be morally progressed.
this listing doesn't express a preference based upon sex.

it only describes the gender of the other person living there, just to give more information about the place. it does not demand the gender of rental candidates.

Is there laws that prohibit providing details about the gender of the people living in the place?