skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, space is big. Lower earth orbit is still very big. However if you have dozens of operators, each with thousands of satiates making multiple round the world trips. The chances of a specific satellite colliding perhaps is tiny (given how big space is). However the chances of one of the thousands colliding with any of the other thousands over any of their orbital periods increases exponentially as the number of satellites increases.
Just out of curiosity, was the phrasing of your letter (or email or whatever) to Stanford a deliberate echo of https://lettersofnote.com/2011/02/14/regarding-your-stupid-c... ?
I love how the only things you can associate with crypto is scams, which are celebrated gleefully.
That's the claim made, yes.

Now, how many other satellites are likely to get hit in "5-10 years" of flak flying around at orbital velocities? It's nice if your goal is to say "Well, it probably won't render space useless forever..." - but that assumes one collision, and no ongoing collisions. If it's "5-10 years per collision," and each new one resets the 5-10 years timeframe, well, there's a lot of stuff up there that can make a mess.

Unfortunately, the low orbital shells are also "everywhere." It's not like geosync orbits where if you Kessler them, well... not going to have geosync stuff anymore, but you can still use other orbits. If you Kessler LEO shells, you pretty much have a high risk of anything you try to send to space getting blasted on the way up. It doesn't take much of a bit of debris, at orbital speeds, to trash your booster and make you have a bad day. I guarantee a bolt at 17,000 mph will do some damage (typical LEO velocities) - that's about ~22x the speed of sound in the atmosphere, depending on altitude.

If there are tens of thousands of things up there and you start things colliding and blowing up, you've basically put a defensive shell around the earth for a century, if not longer, by the time all the satellites get fragged and the debris eventually comes down.
Previous HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29863672
Please keep this sort of insinuation off HN. It's against the site guidelines, because our consistent experience has been that these perceptions almost never hold up under investigation. They're almost all pure imagination.

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There isn't just one satellite zone. Starlink satellites are about 4 times closer to earth than than they are to the geosynchronous Hughesnet satellites. The starlink satellites are close enough that even after full Gravity-style Kessler syndrome, you could just wait several years and start over from scratch.

Obviously that is something to avoid, but it's not like we're filling up a non-renewable resource in low earth orbit. It cleans itself naturally.
>Almost like these troll farms know about HN as well...

I checked every reply to koheripbal's comment, and everybody there looks like they have a consistent comment history prior to this thread. I suppose russian troll farms could also be keeping accounts "warm" to prevent this sort of suspicion, but that starts to get into "unfalsifiable claim" territory.
i use metaX for my movie and show database, game playthroughs and others might need different tools
Donner Party
Please don't post this sort of evidence-free insinuation to HN. They're against the site guidelines, and have been for years, because they almost never amount to anything, but do have a poisonous effect on the ecosystem as users get each other riled up about them.

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https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29867733.
I haven't seen any of these supposed Red Hat projects that have dependencies for political reasons. If that were really true then it would be trivial for anyone to remove those dependencies, and there wouldn't be anything for anyone to complain about. Any way you slice it doesn't seem like a cause for alarm.
You should always commit a lockfile (either npm's or yarn.lock) alongside package.json
People thought other people wanted Juicero enough to invest $120M into it, but they were wrong. People actually want crypto, for various reasons.

You're not going to get many people agreeing with you on the removal of stock markets, and therefore I think that conversation is outside the scope of this conversation about crypto.
You couldn't override the package locally? Or was too much of that code actually needed?
This reminds me of my favorite "true but hard to believe" fact.

Imagine you have a string wrapped tightly around the earth, how much more string to you need to raise the string 10cm above the ground everywhere? The answer just feels so hard to believe, but it indeed only depends on pi and 10cm.
GDPR countries: https://archive.fo/ng3KR
What's the community and what happens when you enter it? What are the perks to buying into it?
> One of the mods even said, that the subreddit is for socialists and communists and everybody else is just conservative.

While the growth of the subreddit has somewhat polluted the term on the Internet, "antiwork" referred for years before the subreddit to a particular line of socialist thought that often rejects labor outright.

Texts like The Right to be Lazy (1883), Labor and Monopoly Capital (1974), and Willing Slaves of Capital (2014) are all decidedly Marxist and indicate that this line of thinking has a pretty long lineage in socialist circles.
Fire festival on steroids
True, but probably not something your doctor would tell you to do, and those tests don't even begin to address all the environmental factors that could be tested for that could affect health. One thought I've had is that everywhere in America with old industry should be tested for toxins, for example all of Eastern Massachusetts. In the old days bad stuff was just poured out in the woods and is probably still sitting there today. Waiting till it shows up as increased health problems in a particular geographic location doesn't seem proactive enough. Your doctor should ask for a PM2.5 count from your home, as well as a measure of organic volatiles, noise levels, allergens, CO2 levels, an air sample to put into a gas chromatograph, a soil sample to analyze, and more to know how your environment could be affecting your health. It wouldn't have be done often, but as a new patient it should be one of the first things done. Hell, even when geographically located disease is obvious like near the chemical refineries in Texas little is being done by the medical community and they certainly are not asking for environmental tests for industrial byproducts.

Rules requiring better informing citizens are good. I'd like the warnings to be proportional to the risk though, and I'd rather see the risks studied and reduced rather than just a warning meant to alter human behavior. Medical warnings often seem like EULA's, everyone pays no attention to them and clicks through. If there was instead a warning that described how to reduce risk, and where the worst risks are, and how to mitigate some of the risk, maybe people would pay more attention.
If you work for "crypto scammers" just take partial or complete payment up front, in crypto which can't be retroactively taken from you.
>There was a poster here that identified a large amount of accounts as bots by sending them a DM with a link and seeing how fast they opened it.

source?
Please don't post this sort of evidence-free insinuation to HN. They're against the site guidelines, and have been for years, because they almost never amount to anything, but do have a poisonous effect on the ecosystem as users rile each other up about them.

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https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29867733.
Careful. It's summer in Southern Africa and the population is much younger than the US.
Please omit personal swipes and name-calling from your comments here. They're against the site guidelines: .https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html. Your comment would be fine without the "nuts" bit.

On the plus side, thanks for using italics instead of allcaps :)
One thing we do know, however, is that the immune system has fewer tools available at the mucosal membrane in the respiratory system (where the battle against SARS-COV-2 happens) than it does in the blood (where the battle against HIV happens).
I posted https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29110790

The costs of global warming: 2% of global GDP (marginalrevolution.com)
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Three. A hole is a distinct pathway from one open end to another. A regular cylindrical straw is a torus at heart, it has only one way through. A Y-straw would have three paths from its three openings.
How did you objectively measure your IQ?

Did you control for other variables?
> He is saying it went from "we should have more vacation" to "we should send mangers to gulags"

I've been following /r/antiwork for a while and I never stumbled upon anything remotely similar to the story you've made up. Practically all comments are in the line of "good for you for quitting", "you should have done it sooner", "why even put a two weeks notice?", "You should talk to a lawyer to not get screwed over". But feel free to link to posts that support your personal assertion.
So... You do realize that this is all related to NY allowing residents to vote in LOCAL elections and that my comment is about that? With a specific comparison to the EU that does the same (but only partially sadly)? Why does it matter what is theoretically possible? It is currently the case that it gets funded from taxes I guess pretty much everywhere. Thus despite not having a citizenship, foreigners have an additional claim why they should decide how the pie is sliced -- namely, that they pay for the pie. I never wrote anywhere that taxation should be the only factor in who gets to vote, and if there was any confusion about this, I wrote so explicitly in another post. So I would encourage you to start reading what other people specifically say, the context behind it and not have knee jerk reactions.
I take it you've never read a virus magazine like, say, 40Hex or 29A?

What is "malicious code" anyway? Maybe Microsoft Windows is malicious. It does contain code to format your disk.
Or you could use a lock file
That's just re-stating the grandparent comment! If you think everyone is entitled to their opinion then the only tangible way to express that opinion would be to produce new code. What use is the opinion if nobody ever implements it?
These are not unfamiliar words to my northeastern US ear, although one might choose to moderate their use to limit distraction.
I think a better option would be, "Like Gila or like dagga?"
Despite the need to keep it clear, copyright does not reign supreme.
I like this (true) 1 hour pizza dough recipe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQ-k1YMx3Ik

On the other hand, this guy has a "1-hour" pizza dough recipe that you have to start the previous day...
How many holes does a donut have?
What if you keep stretching the donut making it taller?
Here's some information:

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-new-york-bomb/new-yor...
Please don't do this. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29869127 for more explanation.
Were we ever so different? Perhaps what has changed is not our nature, but the affordances present in our environment. For all our billions of years of evolutionary history until just about last Tuesday, there has never existed a global market with virtually zero cost of creating “goods” to sell. Now, with digital “assets”, there is.

The ratio of perceived benefit (make money from selling shitty NFTs or shitty beats) to cost (essentially zero cost to mint a shitty NFT or create a shitty beat) is infinite, NaN, divide-by-zero. Of course this results in near-infinite supply and thus most people don’t make any money. But the zero-ish cost means the flow of supply doesn’t stop.
Could mean links in the form of SharePoint / OneNote location of a spreadsheet file to edit with desktop Excel.
I'm not entirely versed in NPM politics, but:

1) GitHub and npm are supposed to be separate things. There might be stuff in that GH account that affects other ecosystems. By all means block the npm account, but that should be it.

2) in the end, one is responsible for the packages one pulls. We keep relearning that lesson over and over, because global package repositories made us lazy.
Your Content belongs to you. You decide whether and how to license it. But at a minimum, you license npm to provide Your Content to users of npm Services when you share Your Content. That special license allows npm to copy, publish, and analyze Your Content, and to share its analyses with others. npm may run computer code in Your Content to analyze it, but npm's special license alone does not give npm the right to run code for its functionality in npm products or services.
If you read it in a more realistic fashion, and see the implementations that are happening today, it makes much more sense.

Governments are rolling out policies that vehicles manufactured after 2030/2035/2040, etc will not be eligible for vehicle registration.

This makes much more sense than banning existing fleets, as the vast majority of any car fleet will be replaced over the period of a decade. (Average US car lifespan is 12 years).

This serves as a slow ramp up time, as well as less political pushback. Will the electric grids be able to keep up? Mostly. Will electricity prices increase as a result of demand that is costly to build new generation sources to satisfy, almost certainly.

Most of these "green" policies are taxing those with little upfront capital to invest (bottom two quintiles) and subsidizing those with capital.

Are these policies going to impact me or my family? Not really. I'm specifically investing tens of thousands of dollars in my home to reduce my grid costs to negligible levels and make my home non-grid dependent. The grid is mediocre, at best, where I live. Also, there is no net metering, so I need batteries to service a large portion of my non-solar generating hours.
> Our Teams installation not only disables API calls (official Teams client only)

Wait? Can you even make API calls to Teams without getting the account owner to make a key for you? I’ve been looking for a way to use a personal key or credentials to make some calls, but the docs are absolutely impenetrable.
I think that's the point GP was making i.e. it's not an absolute.
The correct why to pronounce gif out loud is "image," because who asks for a particular file format, and if you do care about the format of the image, it should be something other than gif.
As that announcement itself will be affected by the shutdown, archive:

https://web.archive.org/web/20220110004117/https://git.fenea...
I'm curious, what do you do for a living? Do you not do what you choose to do, rather than what is of the most importance? Many people on HN work at Google, for instance. Is an ad-tech really the most important issue facing humanity? The "research community" isn't a single organization that is gate kept by a centrally planned authority. It's comprised of individuals and organizations of varying sizes, all operating independently. You are free to join the research community yourself and study the things you think are important. Most people I know don't choose their jobs based on what is most important, but rather what fits their lifestyle, what is most lucrative, etc. These people still do good work and are trustworthy.
No, they still get something out of it. If they just study. Study anything, learn anything, actually open a book, it'll pay off in time.
I’ve used this on both Mac and PC and have had some pretty good luck. I attach the usbA port to a hub an mount the whole thing beneath my desk

https://www.caldigit.com/usb-c-soho-dock/
I was wondering what are the sci-fi books, series, or films that have either inspired you the most, or you found the most interesting and intriguing?

ps. Thank you for sharing this list. It will present many weeks of interesting scrolling!
After 30 min of poking, i think this might actually be legit lol
And it's on iconify!
https://icon-sets.iconify.design/iconoir/
>to straightforward Marxist talking points and desires to abolish work.

Seriously? snapshot from jul 2019: https://web.archive.org/web/20190703081543/https://old.reddi...

looks like it was always like that. Looking at the sidebar:

>Links

>Bob Black - The Abolition of Work

>Abolish Work - An Exposition of Philosophical Ergophobia

>Related Subreddits

>r/marxism_101
Individual action is not gonna solve anything, you have to understand why people choose permissive licenses in the first place:

- They're contributing while at work and work only allows permissive licenses
- They're familiar with permissive libraries because of the previous point
- Permissive licenses are perceived as simpler
- They've been pushed away from the free software movement by the FSF/Stallman/Linus
- They don't think copyleft is the right form of enforcement
That subreddit has had links to extensive anarchist/communist reading lists in its sidebar since it was founded. Perhaps it went through a lighthearted period, but its roots are radical and the links, related subs, and moderator list from its earlier days make that abundantly clear.

https://web.archive.org/web/20190430233904/https://old.reddi...
No, there really is no mandatory PTO in the US! It's real, not a dream!
IDEs with vim bindings is the way to go
To be fair open source licenses tend to mix both.

Is there a license that is like MIT but with special clauses for people making big bucket?

I don't think I can just put an extra clause on it that says something on the line of "if you are using this to earn more than X big macs by year then you have to pay me or be subject to a fine".

This radically changes things as it may void the liability clause and also make code less fungible. And there's the issue of fairness to contributors.
what model predicts 5m rise in 100 years?
It appears that all they (github) did is rollback the npm revision so that it pointed at a version that didn't break semvar:
https://www.npmjs.com/package/colors?activeTab=versions

note that they didn't do that to faker, since it had a major revision:
https://www.npmjs.com/package/faker?activeTab=versions

I'm not very familiar with npm/js, but isn't this policy since left-pad?
> … introduced an infinite loop that bricked thousands of projects …

What a terrible choice of metaphor. Apparently the author of this article has no idea what an actual brick is.

You can brick a device, but hardly do the same with an application, much less a web page.
What? You think signal is the new "grand canyon"?
Yeah I have, I'm just focusing on getting the Rust language server working first which is quite tricky, then I'll be adding other languages.
*Nobody is pretending that lockdown DIDN'T hurt people.
Good stuff. With forgefed trying to decentralize git, this would be a great federated social counterpart.

i found the glossary page to be quite useful for scoping this project: https://github.com/eiffel-community/eiffel/blob/master/eiffe...
He’s breaking the law
Not to mention the aggressive privacy-violating telemetry and advertising.
Charge backs are not only intended to solve card fraud. It's the most convenient tool you have as a buyer to deal with seller fraud. If you have good evidence, you can win them consistently.
I might have missed something, but it seems like it was the tournament organizers who made the mistake. They were the ones who told Djokovic that he had a valid medical exemption, whereas the government's position is that he does not have a valid exemption. If that's the case, then Djokovic could potentially take the issue up with the tournament organizers, but I don't see why that would mean that he should simply be let into Australia.
Gee, I wonder why his apartment caught on fire.
posts like this are the worst for meaningful discussion. Imagine a person comes at you and dump all sort of thoughts about everything under the sun in one go, most of the time mixing informed opinions with those on fields they have no expertise in. Who are you, the president? An activist with no agenda (all of them)? A generic "scientist"? A wise person? I would run from that as quickly as I can.

I wouldn't assume a person doing that wants to have any conversation, they have a speech and just want a megaphone (an approving audience) to relay their speech.
My first born never smiled until the 2nd month I think. I was worried he was blind. My second one knows how to smile from day 1.
The author didn’t write all of the code, though. The code has a long history (including in other languages) and many contributors.

Why should this one developer collect payment but not everyone else who contributed it?

Regardless, it’s ridiculous to give something away openly under a permissive license and then later get angry when people use it exactly as you license it.
If anything women are considered to be more risky/dangerous players, it's quite anecdotal though AFAIK.
> observed the red supergiant during its last 130 days leading up to its deadly detonation.

I get that it’s a metaphor, but I can’t help thinking deadly to what?
You're correct that collision resistance is not sufficient for the above construction to be secure, but you don't need to assume H() is a random oracle. You could instead model H(k||s) as a pseudorandom function with k as the key. And of course, if you don't trust existing functions to be directly pseudorandom, then a PRF can be built from one-way functions: so pre-image resistance is sufficient. (The remaining question is how to get there from CR alone.)
This uses Bash extension not available in POSIX. Bash also has lastpipe shopt that helps when one needs to read from a process.

To stay compatible with POSIX one needs to use either named pipes or extra file discriptors to communicate from the sub shell.
I'm pretty sure that Matthaios, Markos, Loukas and Ioannes would not recognize their own names in the present-day English pronunciations (well, Mark and Luke might, but John would certainly not).
Gif became part of the vernacular to describe a short looping video clip or animation with no audio that can be easily shared. Nowadays people are often actually sharing mp4s or webms even when they think it’s gif. It’s just a bit of internet heritage, and causes little harm.
>If a bug is in systemd, I can't easily fix it myself. I now have to fight upstream to recognize my issue and fix it for me.

That's not true. You can do as you would with the shell script and patch it in your local copy. If this is too much hassle then that shell script workflow shouldn't be broken by systemd and you can always fall back to it. It's still possible to run shell scripts as systemd units. You could also run another service manager as a systemd unit as another workaround.

Also, in my experience, if you're fixing an actual crash, those patches are really likely to get accepted. Upstream appreciates that, I haven't seen them fight anyone over an easily verified issue. If you're submitting giant 10,000 line patches that change the public interfaces and cause regressions, that's a different story.