skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Starlink is only a benefit for a small dwindling population of rural people in high income countries.

Their claim about bringing Internet to poor countries is bullshit. Countries like Kenya, Nigeria and India have already shown that terrestrial long-distance networking (4G and soon 5G) is the way to reach mass connectivity in developing countries.

Why should we let one American ISP pollute our global nigh skies with 42,000 planned satellites? What happens when an European or Chinese competitor launches another 42,000 satellites? We need to stop this madness.
Even the full planned constellation has a smaller collecting area than Arecibo had (~60 000 m^2 vs ~73 000 m^2 for Arecibo) - and that's not even considering that for half the constellation the earth will be in the way, not the full dimensions of the satellite are usable as antenna, they are pointing the wrong way, etc. etc.
Nevermind that one looses quite a lot of sensitivity when using these arrays..
So reading between the lines, the commercial aspirations won out over the core ideals of the creator who is now being pushed out completely, likely with some form of compensation package to not make a big fuzz, so they can now dive headfirst in a pool of money while abandoning any open source ideals?

So natural question, how long until they start squeezing more money out of users and how severe will it be for hobbyists and small companies?
You also don't _need_ photoshop at all. Just speak with your wallet. No company as large as Adobe is going to be listening to comments online.

It's like people complaining about 1000+ dollar phones, you don't need to buy that, and the company isn't going to listen to complaints.

Most companies listen to the market only.
What do you mean by “connected services”? If that’s just a code word for cloud storage, then no, thank you. I’ve got cloud storage, and I don’t need yours. You’re just trying to justify charging me every month.
> As a nerdy stoner myself this is the perfect counterpoint. The ("my"? "our"?) answer to the hydroxychloroquine/ivermectin/bleach worship coming from the "scientifically challenged" antivax set.

Nitpick: As much as I agree that some people are as you describe, it's easy to fall into the trap of thinking everyone in favour of therapeutics are also "anti vax". Vaccinations and therapeutics can live side by side as vectors of attack for certain illnesses.

I've caught my self falling into this trap my self recently. It's hard not to knee-jerk react when someone mentions something like ivermectin and then make wild generalisations on that persons political opinions, mental ability and then judge them as a person.
You can run multiple DBs in a single postgres instance. "fly pg attach" creates a DB and user for each app you run.
I suppose I can only speak from my experience. I can see definitely how many corp onsite environments are awful. There are productivity killers both onsite and remote and there are no absolutes. If we assume a 'good' remote vs 'good' onsite environment, collaboration is easier and faster onsite. Yes, you need to be very careful, and in my case we are super conscious of 'maker's time' and respect it with discipline.
I will be downvoted but:

Queue in cryptobros saying how cryptocurrencies are a solution to unstable governments etc.
No. I am not a clairvoyante but I think there will be possibilitites to compile to WASM. LLV IRM is a special case but transcompiling is not unimaginable.
It's probably seen more as a herald of things to come. SpaceX will not be the last private entity throwing things in orbit. There have already been concerns about the amount of space debris that currently exists and coordinating it to avoid costly and time consuming repairs/replacements (or in the case of ISS, life threatening) accidents.

It's probably seen more as an opportunity to acknowledge a problem early to try and prevent issue before the problem grows too large and to consider mitigation strategies now.
That just turns into a cat and mouse game.
Perhaps to make WW2 less strange, think of alliances as British/Russian group vs. French/German group with US participating at the end on the British/Russian side.

The Finns were German allies throughout. The pre-war Germans were supplied by Nordic steel while during the war they were supplied by French wheat.

The British/Russians were supplied by US tech, food, and arms
I think that SpaceX has convincingly proven that it is not that expensive to send up thousands of satellites. So, anyone interested in launching a telescope satellite could do worse than talk to them to see if they could help out. Also, given enough money, I don't see why SpaceX would not be using their satellite network for more than communication. Positioning is another interesting use case for them, for example.
They start off by being very bad at search, they then compound the issue by creating the Library concept that transparency blends multiple nodes in the tree structure together. Then they make it needlessly slow.
Improve-Your-Vocabulary Application
Best practices as code using RuboCop
> But why is it that the worlds richest country need to keep 50% of its population on drugs?

100% of humans on earth are on drugs. Everything we consume is mind-altering. Sugars are just as addictive as drugs if not moreso. This is not an exaggeration, it's a change in perspective; wrestling back control of our subjective experiences from those who would outlaw what they don't understand (or for more nefarious reasons...). We have to start looking at food especially food consumed for non nutritive purposes in this new lens too. Heck even singing and dancing have been used the world over to illicit an altered state.

We also need to stop pining for a perfect self that is drug free. What does one gain by keeping oneself "pure"? It's not even possible but many limit the scope of what they consider mind-altering until the goal post matches their current state.

Once you accept that and embrace the idea that our minds are simply faucets of sensory experience that we subconsciously keep at a slow trickle of manageable info, you can start enjoying the turning of the spigot. You can start to appreciate the different subjective experiences that all things provide.

As an added bonus, we can all collectively change our tendency to look down upon those who've used and this energy can integrate others and prevent abuse. You don't have to look hard to find stories of reduced or eliminated drug enforcement bettering society.

The fact that this research starts by calling it "impairment" tells you that they have come prepared with their rose-tinted glasses. I don't want to belittle their work but I fear they've already aligned themselves with the classic anti-drug ethos.
I like to tell people that early humans lived in close contact with animals for hundreds of thousands of years, and until a few generations ago, when most people were still farming for a living. If prions had the potential to end the human race, they would already have.
You can already get gloves to prevent needlestick injuries. I think they use kevlar (or whatever the generic name is).
Okay, I'll bite:

And ten years later, when all developers who did the development for these FOSS products are only found on a sheep farms (because duh, somehow FOSS projects developed in your free time doesn't pay for a 3 bedroom house in SF and nobody bothers to pay for a free (as in beer) *GPL products and all Subscription companies are bankrupt because everyone went *GPL), who would develop these FOSS replacements instead?
Nobody asked for subscriptions. Nobody likes them. People prefer free and second to that a one-time payment model. Maybe that payment only includes a year of patches, but people still prefer it.

Companies prefer subscriptions because it maximizes revenue. It's as simple as that. Zero sum game between company and consumer.
Smoke is different from vapor. When you vape cannabis, you're not actually combusting anything, just heating the plant matter enough that some of the particles on the flower are converted to vapor and inhaled.
12 weeks. Piece of cake. Let’s do it.
I have no knowledge about snowplowing and I was just guessing that the cost of labor could be a factor. "Low-paying" jobs pay a lot better in Scandinavia than most other places. Most (basically all) people are payed a living wage from a single full time (37-40 hours) job. I don't even know if being a snow-plow driver is a "low-paying" job, and I would guess that those who drive the plows have other tasks as well.
Every app on Fly runs in a dedicated private network over wireguard. So yes!
A man who everyone bet against but probably did the most in terms of pushing 100% electric cars and making them mainstream and you say he’s fucked the earth?

Listen, 2 years ago I would have said Elon is a clown and Tesla is going to zero.

And I was 100% wrong.

Dude has massive balls and the kind of personality (warts and all) that pushes humanity forward.

We need to nurture people like him, not condemn them.
They are super, super-specific.

Prions can't self replicate from raw resources: they depend on inducing conformational change in other proteins. The host has to produce, and use, the specific protein they can target in an accessible location.

The upshot of this for prions is that lacking genetic code, or a need for replication machinery, and being a variant of the protein they target, they are perfectly adapted for their environment and host and currently impossible to destroy without also damaging the normal correct protein form.
> Squeezing a percent or two out of a maintenance budget is exactly the kind of behavior that regularly is incentivized.

We're not talking a percent or two here. We've got people claiming that a company whose sole tactical purpose is to get energy to consumers failed sorta-on-purpose. That claim is more wild than some people in this thread realise. It amounts to giving up free money.

If they'd charged outrageous prices that would be one thing. But failure to supply power, by a company that makes money supplying power? This isn't an incentives problem, they were genuinely caught by surprise.

Arguing incompetence is one thing, but people are calling out incentives here without having good evidence of an incentives problem.
These are also selected problems, and they start with easy problems. Those are pulled from very regular parts of languages. If you have a part of a language with no pattern to it, then nobody is going to make it a problem. But it’s good practice, especially as the problems get harder, for finding regularity where it’s difficult to discern.
Starlink satellites are supposed to perform movements on their own, mainly to avid other satellites. But this means you might not know where they are all the time, just for the most part.
Not mine (otherwise I'd 'show HN' it), just thought it was cool.
Here’s my question: what possible reason could they have for removing the option for a vertical taskbar? Ultrawide monitors have never been more popular.
As said in that page and the documentation, the read-ahead is the [,X] part, which is actually disabled by default in every DOS past 6.x (incl FreeDOS). The first part is the number of primary buffers which is indeed "for keeping recently read data in RAM".

Smartdrv, like Fastopen, just allows disk buffers to survive a Close File call. Normally DOS only does close-to-open consistency i.e. buffers are flushed on close. Smartdrv specifically also allows write-back rather than write-through.

And, anyway: yes, Smartdrv is enabled by default in 6.x installs with enough memory.
> What is the reason that we can thank for prion diseases not being much more common?

One reason is that we don't eat each other which would spread certain prion diseases like https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuru_(disease)
Dude where's my coldstart?
It’s less of a loophole and more of a way to make sure software doesn’t collapse overnight, given you’d have to comply with the GPL for using libc or parts of the Linux kernel.
$10K/month to $500/month seems like such a big drop. Why do you think that happened? Because you don't upload new videos anymore?
Show HN: Simple automated screenshot testing tool for gameboy games
I'd put radio above internet. Electricity above radio. The plow above electricity.

If I kept going I suspect by the end of the day internet might not even make the top 100.
I agree with you, as a user I simply don't buy subscriptions.

As a developer I sell subscriptions.

As a business, it's repeatable income which makes it easy to calculate how much you'll roughly make.
I'm also much more inclined to purchase a subscription as a business: you have more money and generally you're buying something trying to save you time or making your more money.

I agree that offline software sold as a subscription is ridiculous; I'd much rather purchase a software and then buy updates if I want to.

That's the reason I do online SaaS: I don't know how I could sell an offline app as a subscription with a straight face.

I think the problem is that companies started understanding how important it is to have repeatable source of income, the cornerstone of your business and they tried to make everything a subscription.
Accurate or not, the title of the article is "Party like a Sumerian"
Ha! You are on to something regarding banks.

A couple of months ago I blocked allcky cards via App (so that only when you unblock it payments go through).

At the end of the month all my subscription services whined that they couldn't charge me they sent an email saying that my subscription was at risk.

Tidal, YouTube, Google Storage, AWS, among others.

AWS and Google Drive did the right thing: it provided me a page where I could manually run the payment (after temporarily unlocking the card).

YT and Tidal were terrible: after contacting their support (For YT I had to go to twitter... what a joke), they told me they had no way for me to pay manually. The only way was to wait for their automatic billing.

Tidal was the worst: After two days they cancelled my plan (OK) and THEN I was able to repurchase the plan to ge charged there... and immediately after I paid , THEY BLOCKED MY IP!!

Automated billing should be prohibited. Or at least companies should be forced to provide manual renewal option.
I think that's the thing we should strive for. It has been shows time and time again that Elon Musk takes PR very seriously. We should make the company aware of astronomers so that they incorporate scientific objectives into Starlink. And pointing both the the nuisances and potential is one way to do it.
The API is open. If you spelunk through flyctl you can see it using GraphQL for everything: https://github.com/flyctl
Ayn Rand reviews children’s movies (2014)
One returns ETIMEDOUT, and the other returns EIO. Even without further understanding the code at this point, we can add two printf calls to identify which path is being followed

Printf debugging feels like stepping back in time. I guess OpenBSD does not have dtrace?
Never underestimate the greed of these people. They'd literally put ads under our eyelids if they could. They'd put ads in our dreams. They see our moments of peace as an opportunity to get richer.
Upon reading the comments on this post, I realised that many people are terrified of prions, as am I.

But why much more than a virus or bacteria? I am terrified of rabies, sure, but not in the same way. Something about prions rubs me in the weirdest of ways.

Maybe it has to do with them not being an "external" assailant (even if originally acquired externally), but an inherent defect of some part of myself?
"This thing humans do TOO OFTEN is simply not human nature!"
>root words literally and only applying it to mean legal rights

No I'm not.
Disclosure: I'm the maintainer of the open source project - openfaas which this blog post talks about. It also covers other FaaS frameworks and why we see a "cold start" even when using Kubernetes as our platform.
Indeed, in mathematics/physics the analytically unsolvable problems also vastly outnumber the tractable ones, yet in a competition you always get questions with nice solutions.
That seems to be a common thing on most sites these days to not be able to click back button on a browser. I'm noticing it more and more even on well-known sites like Microsoft.

On some sites now after you click a link to it and you're on the site the back button is not clickable to go back. Even a right-click on the button doesn't allow you to select page history. I thought it was a bug on Firefox and it seems people are reporting it as so. I'll have to use another browser to test to see if it's browser-related or site-related.
Videos of unarmed people constantly being murdered by police had no effect on the public after activists shouted "defund the police". Silly.

I'm more inclined to believe corporate media convinced people the phrase was an issue.... most people dont have a problem with it, they were just given an opinion to parrot.
Have you ever tried AkelPad [0]?

Several years ago I tried loads of "lightweight" graphical text editors for Windows, searching for something with fast start-up and ability to load (and edit) humongous text files. Been using PSPad back then, with NPP as a side-kick, but when it came to dealing with super large files, this editor came as the most performant and reliable. It's data and memory footprint is super tiny and is quite extensible.

I've never used it as a primary editor so cannot speak much about features (yes it seems dated and configurations seems wonky) but really proved to be workhorse for me.

(Nowadays I mostly live in VSCode but still keep this AkelPad (and Foxe [1] / First Object editor for XML files) around when necessity to deal with something huge arises.)

[0] http://akelpad.sourceforge.net/
[1] http://www.firstobject.com/dn_editor.htm
The slight problem there is, prions probably did end a bunch of tribes which were sufficiently local - and then left the area alone long enough that the prion contamination in the environment broke down.

Today we have international animal shipping and trade, and global distribution. Prions are able to spread from exposure to shared pastures. A couple years of contamination used to be no big deal - today, if missed, it can spread all through the food supply.
> nothing else I can really do other than lock myself up at home

OTC nasal sprays have been used for years by dentists and others, but like everything else these days, are contested, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29620297

If one is concerned about possibly-false positives in a test, there may be value in OTC nasal treatments.

> The Response we filed also includes a new in vitro study done at Utah State University’s Institute for Antiviral Research. This new in vitro study found that the components in Xlear were significantly more effective antivirals against the Delta strain of COVID-19 than Remdesivir, the Government-approved antiviral medicine. Ironically, the Government alleges it is Xlear that has misled the public.
> not compiled to a native executable

except it is, WASM is designed to be AOT compiled to native code.

Sure there is a bit of difference, WASM needs additional bounds checks and WASM also doesn't have all the info a more high level compiler has.

Now Unity is so much more then just a tool to make cross platform easier. So comparing it to WASM is kinda pointless IMHO. Though it probably is a grate choice for any extension mechanism, like mods or even in game scripting.
FWIW, you can use the gmail filter feature to whitelist addresses

Setting (gear) > "See all settings" (top button) > "Filters and Blocked Addresses"

Click "Create a new filter" (centered in the middle of the form) - fill out the "from" etc. then click "Create filter".

[X] Never send it to Spam
> Because that isn't what Apple is charging for, users don't pay this fee -- publishers do. They're charging publishers for the privilege to sell to Apple customers. I'm sure users like the convenience, I do, but the fee isn't for me.

Do you seriously believe you're not, in the end, paying that?

I find it hard to believe that you do. Seems far more likey you're gaslighting for your idol, as Apple fanbois so often do.
It's often preferred for b2b because updates, predictable cost (opex vs capex) and support. It also provides the right incentives: Suppliers work hard to prevent outages because you won't get paid per hour for fixing your own stuff anymore. I guess it's leaking into b2c, where is has some nice uses, but indeed it's getting pretty out of hand. What does help is a bank (app) that lists all your subscriptions, would be even nicer if I could cancel from there.
Not all proteins can exist as prions. (In fact, it's amazing that some can even exist: think about it: a protein that exist in two stable shapes where the shape that does not normally exist in the body can cause the other shape to make the switch!)
Almost no software these days is "made and sold once" because of network support - even the most "local" apps will have stuff like saving settings or document to remote servers, talking to network peers, receiving updates when new OS versions are released, and so on. Anything sold on Apple platforms, for example, nowadays has to be updated at least once a year just to keep up.
Yes, it's almost the exclusive format for cultural heritage object documentation in museums (I'm Senior Scientist at the Rijksmuseum). It's wonderfully versatile in terms of number of bands, storage format (uint8, uint16, float, double, etc.), compression, metadata, and, with the BigTIFF extension, it's basically unlimited in the size of the images it can store. As an example, my 717 GP image of Rembrandt's Nightwatch [1] is archived as a 5.6 TB TIFF file.

Another advantage is that it permits a tiled storage format so that pulling rectangular regions out of a huge file can be very efficient compared to formats that require scanline-based storage. On the other hand, if one uses uncompressed scanline-based storage, it is also possible to memmap the pixel data for a huge TIFF image directly into a big array and to trivially manipulate it in your programming language of choice.

[1] https://hyper-resolution.org/Nightwatch5
This was discussed somewhat recently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28779036
Here's a good video on the subject: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFj-hF8XDQ0
The 'you are doing it wrong' argument cuts both ways. Having an office does not magically make you more productive. You also need to cultivate an adequate environment to allow makers enough focus time and not randomly interrupted any time.
> The bill imposes fines of up to 600 euros ($680) on holdouts once checks begin on March 15. Those who challenge that initial fine unsuccessfully face a maximum fine of 3,600 euros.
My understanding is that all startlink orbital data is available via https://www.space-track.org/.
Virus does not "want" to exist either - they just happen. There is no success criteria or will, just a structure that happens to cause self-replication, with variants that cause more aggressive replication being more present and common.

Prions are in that sense no different - they are just less successful.
I think you are confused. The first link is about iCloud, not iMessage. The Rolling Stone link is behind a paywall. Both don't have anything to do with the case at hand.
It will be as "good" as extinction --- by the time we realised there is a prion pandemic, it will probably be too late.
No, they don't need a pre-trained model, they start from scratch. Also it's only the approach which is common between modalities, they train them separately.
None of the normies understand what it is, so I provided an explanatory illustration. It clears up a lot of the mystery.

Why anyone would pay for an NFT of a digital photo is beyond me. It conveys no actual value other that the small chunk of Ethereum, bitcoin, whatever, it is anchored to.
It’s certainly not going to require 10 starships/month. And they’re aiming to get those down to <$10M/starship launch.
But that's illegal. It's market making.