skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The downsides are extremely minor. Nobody ever complains about jets polluting our night skies (as opposed to our atmosphere, which they do of course do bad things to).

Starlink's constellation will have 12000 satellites when fully deployed. There are between 8000 and 20000 jets in the air at any given time, so you might expect jets and satellites to be roughly equally present in any given person's sky.

But wait...satellites generally are higher up than jets, so a given satellite will be visible to a larger area than a jet will.

If the Starlink satellites were in orbits that covered all of the Earth equally then when the full constellation is deployed there would be about 360 visible from any give point on the surface at any given time. I believe they aren't using any orbits that cover the far north and south, so the actual number visible for most places should be a bit higher, but lets stick with 360 as a lower bound.

That's way more than the number of jets visible at any one place.
Doesn't make it okay to stretch the meaning of something that is well established. Not all VCs are bad, not all companys funded by VC money turn into crap. Not all VCs use the same model.

It would be best to explain this. Like I mentioned, why not plainly explain that they did all this with just seed money? That's a really amazing accomplishment in and of itself, and nuance is something that can be explained.

Not to mention, trying to stretch the meaning here is trying to glob a positive onto something that didn't earn it by fitting the definition. Again, why try to obfuscate the truth? Be proud of your background if you think you can be proud of it. Nothing wrong with that.

Just don't try and redefine something that already has concrete meaning. That's nearly the same thing, in my mind, as lying.
"In the 1980s and 1990s, Walter demonstrated that when too many unfolded or misfolded proteins—which are characteristic of neurodegenerative diseases—were detected inside a cell, it triggered the equivalent of an emergency shutoff switch that halted all protein construction until the problem was solved. The action, which Walter dubbed the “unfolded protein response,” was akin to a blaring red alert at a busy worksite, stopping work; cellular repair crews would then converge on the site, attempt to fix the problem, and if all else failed, eventually order the cell to commit suicide."

So... if the body will naturally restart protein production when the problem is resolved, and if ISRIB forces it to restart without solving the problem...

Is this going to result in a few months of improved performance followed by a collapse as cells start dying for good?
It's not a lack of good places to put money.

It's income inequality.
Assuming you were right that Fortnite was really at the same level as Facebook, you're really just arguing that we should antitrust Fortnite.
Correct.

On a side note, counties here a little bit wonky. I live in Dublin which is about 20 minutes out of Marysville.

If you live in Dublin you could be living in one of THREE counties
MIT for Noncommercial Is Broken
Thanks for the feedback. I think now that the bug with the syntax highlighting is fixed the accessibility should be ok. I need to find a better way to test though because I am using the "invert" hack for the light theme and the build-in accessibility checker for Chromium and Firefox don't appear to take this into consideration. I'll need to find a basic calculator and do the math manually when I have time.

Typo fixed.

Thanks for the flow feedback, I thought the full-width code was cool and it can help for wide code without making the page text too wide (it allows the code to grow to the right) but maybe it is more confusing than it is worth. And thanks for the feedback on the background and breadcrumbs, it is good to hear both positive and negative thoughts.
I'm very interested in this topic. There were many interested viewers on my stream the other day and we talked about related things.

I'll give it a read after work and let you know my thoughts. Thanks for sharing.

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Any chance at getting a sample chapter before needing to buy?
Power is already consolidated. It just passes generationally. Living longer won't change that, especially when we're talking optimistically about 10-20% longer lifetimes and, more likely, not much longer lifetimes but more healthy years with the same end date.
Berty is also interesting
How is that not an answer to the question you posed about crypto?
Rent in Columbus appears to be roughly comparable to Tokyo: https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/compare_cities.jsp?cou...
Almost no one can do game development as a small company without a large platform of some kind. The economies of scale are just too much for small indie dev style game studios to overcome. Speaking as someone that was an indie dev and has been around the game industry for 20 years. I highly doubt that is going to change anytime soon. Webassembly certainly won't fix that issue. I'm not sure what that comment has to do with the subject. With Webassembly you won't have to pay for server side gpu but you will have to pay for discovery, hosting/bandwidth, payment, likely some form of advertising, and some level of support. There is no free lunch and large platforms will nearly always win for software distribution.
> Poverty traps are emergent phenomena, not a conspiracy

Except that when everyone knows what a poverty trap is, how they form, how to spot them, and what to do about them, and none of that gets done, we start to fall on the opposite side of Hanlon’s razor. It’s not like that scholarship is new or controversial, so why is this still a problem?
There are a ton of IP connected devices that aren't running a sophisticated OS. IPv6 may not be available or, even if it is, the codebase is fossilized around handling and storing IPv4 addresses.
That's not a good argument. It's just as bad as 'I use Arch BTW'. No explanation or reasons given.
>> and reliably corrupt memory
> Who said memory corruption had to occur "reliably"??

Usually when I write code that corrupts memory, it reliably corrupts memory an unreliable way.
Please distribute it via distro repository
Note to the website developers: currency != language. I'm an American in Germany. My handle of the language isn't (yet) great, thus I still work with English primarily. However, I pay in EUR exclusively.

Just the same (not that it appears to be a problem with Framework, though it's easy to make the same mistake), country != language.
Don't you think it's a bit backwards to deploy pihole to prevent trackers, while being ok with your DNS traffic being tracked?

Agreed though, the DoH recursor should use DNSSEC in actual DNS upstream queries. IMO you want to use both.
Yes, it was a simple example but regardless I have a hard time believing that the needed changes would happen before powerful people achieve and take advantage of supraphysiological lifespans.

Also I’m not sure how simple changing it would be to change Supreme Court justice retirement.
> and easily costs millions of dollars

Looks like UB bugs can cost more. It's a new age of UB sanitizers as a reaction to a clear problem with UB.
Writing a C compiler that does a trivial translation to ASM is not very hard, in fact there are already quite a few. I don't understand why people don't use that if that's what they want.
Google Labs starts up a blockchain division
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What are the risks of them being weaponized as biological weapons?
> Enjoy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5G#New_radio_frequencies

I know 5G uses different frequencies. I was asking about 2G-4G.
Performance Budgets (Budget.json)
Please enlighten me but what I don't understand is how total output can be maintained

If...

Output = Productivity * Time

Then to reduce the amount of working time by 20% requires an increase in Productivity to maintain the same output, and therefore earnings and wealth (certainly at socialte level)

How does the 4 day working week movement hope to achieve this simply by working less? (I.e. without the traditional capital investment in machinery to allow workers to operate more efficiently)

Does being more relaxed or having more time off really achieve that?

Also what about competition with other societies? China's 996 culture seems completely nuts and too far the other way, but damn are they prepared to work hard!! There's a danger they will just out-compete (in terms of overall output), which doesn't seem desirable
I'm curious as well. Maybe it's only a "drug" after they've combined the active ingredient with specific fillers, buffers, etc.?
Yes, god forbid you pay for a service you find valuable!
We're in the process of building an alternative to Google Photos over at https://kubesail.com. You can use it now with a spare PC, or buy our custom designed hardware at https://pibox.io.

Today we're prepping to publish our App to the iOS app-store, which will do local-wifi-photo-synching much like Google Photos, only faster (due to only transferring over local network, not the internet). It's going to be a long battle to catch up with hosted Google Products, but we're on our way.

As for Google Drive, apps like NextCloud (https://kubesail.com/template/erulabs/NextCloud) work really well, though they're not quite as slick as google products. For Google Sheets, there is https://seatable.io/.

Self-hosting software is coming along nicely. All it really needs to get as slick as Google products is more users and more money and more attention. We're hoping to provide exactly that by making it far easier to buy a "Google-Photos-replacement box" (PiBox + PhotoStructure) or a "Slack-replacement Box" (PiBox + Mattermost).
Interesting that you're selling a GPL licensed app. I think that's actually quite viable in many cases. I'd rather pay a low price and get something in the app store than have to build it myself.
what Microsoft fat client technology are you using?

the current problem for me with Microsoft fat client is there are too much options and no clear one that Microsoft will support long term.
> I meant it more as a figure of speech.

I sort of figured, but then it wouldn't be much of an argument to claim that it can't be beneficial.

But fair enough, I misunderstood your argument. Your argument is actually that any claims of a fun "poison" being beneficial are highly suspect.

To that end - that would make sense for novel poisons or poisons that are rarely consumed. But this is one that's been consumed by many successful cultures for thousands of years. Animals get drunk on fermented fruit. That makes it seem more plausible to me that there could be something beneficial to it. Perhaps it was only beneficial in the days of unclean drinking water (unless that one is also not actually true! It's hard to believe anything anymore.).
tldr - the author is sick and tired and angry about women's clothing not having pockets, or not having real pockets, or not having pockets big enough for a real smart phone, or ...

(I seldom buy lady's clothes...but I'm thinking that the clothing industry would respond very quickly if a substantial number of customers actually bought women's clothes with real, big pockets. Otherwise...it's just like customers bitching about all the slow, bloated, buggy software that they keep buying.)
The problem with this conversation is that it's about immortality, which no one is going for right now. The best research is looking at addressing specific age related issues in order to increase your healthy years and, potentially, increase your lifespan by maybe a decade.

But the conversation is always "immortal billionaires".

It's a totally fake problem to talk about that.
Aren't coal power plants made from recyclable materials like metal and concrete rather than unrecyclable composite materials?
I don't have a Mac do I'm not your target customer.

However I really like your approach having a pay-once personal edition and a subscription team/business edition. It's something different from the subscription-everywhere trend.
Being relatively new to macOS, I really like this program because there are settings I wouldn't even know exist. Also, it tells me when other programs, like docker or cyberduck have an update which is also nice.
Certainly, Starlink's ground equipment has multiple functions: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/outdoor-cats-are-u...
Because I'm down the rabbit hole of highly customized keyboards, at one point I did a frequency analysis of the keys I use the most.

Guess what was the most frequently used key? Cursor down followed by cursor up.

For example, cursor down was pressed ~2.5x more times than space, or ~4 times more than letter E, which is was the most frequently used letter.

Guess what are the smallest keys on a Mac-type keyboard (the layout also used by the Framework laptop). Cursor up and down. Madness.
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Our company sells HW and SW for the dental sector.

We have a desktop app that processes DICOM data to do implant treatment planning (where to place an implant in the patient jaw). Output is a STL file to print a drill guide for the oral surgeon to perform a guided surgery.

Our desktop scanners for dental labs and our intra-oral scanners for dentists generate 3D meshes of the patients oral situation.

Those meshes are the input data for the CAD/CAM Software my team builds. It is a desktop app for the digital design of dental restorations. The GUI is in javaFX and 3D visualization is done with OpenGL 4.5.

Once the restorative Design is done, that app can generate many different output formats. Labs will feed the design files their local milling machine or 3D printer. Dentists can send it to centralized milling facilities of their choice to produce the crown or bridge or what have you.

Some impressions can be seen here:

https://youtu.be/5THQMr5SAH0
* crisp display

* nice battery life

* Linux friendliness

Not elusive at all, you can find an M1 MacBook Pro at any Apple, Best Buy, or Costco store.
It's pretty shocking to me people are so willing to experiment on themselves with some research chemical that has mostly studied in mice.
Since there's a few people here using hot water bottles and I didn't found the information in the article, how long does a hot water bottle stays hot? (starting from hot tape water or boiling water from a kettle)
I'm not a rocket scientist, but this seems unlikely; sure two large satellites colliding could create smaller debris with a much higher apogee, but it seems to me that the perigee would not increase, so it would still spend a significant fraction of its orbit in atmospheric drag.
I think that analysis is spot on, we now have a second flu-like disease, that is very similar to the flu.

What remains to be done, is remove all these restrictions put in place and go back to treating Covid as we treat the flu.

That includes letting the COVID passport go and realise it's no longer needed. I'm looking at you Europe.
" The answer is that you would need 39 or 40 decimal places."

No, no, no!

The answer is 42...
42 decimal places -- sorry couldn't resist.
I love the side by side. The crisp debauchery shines next that other flabby timid slop
Starlink satellites are tiny which limits how much you can slip in undetected. You can’t get anything close to useful resolution from something like a cellphone camera at those altitudes. Maximum resolution really requires something the size of Hubble.
Yes, WASM in combination with an unsafe language is less secure than memory safe languages, but more secure than a hypervisor. You can also use WASM with a memory safe language.
For the "Growth finally kicks in" section - what was the primary driver of your traffic at that point? The increase is fairly pronounced, I wouldn't think that it was just a result of your content ranking higher?
It’s standard terminology in the pharma world.
Wouldn't that be because these keys are difficult to use in typical laptop keyboard, as in self fulfilling prophecy?
What does health care look like without coordination? Shaman and voodoo?

I confess that I'm struggling to follow your reasoning(s). Government is just coordinated action, no? So then what is the state? Just a coordination strategy you oppose?

All your objections are very confusing.
The Tax Bills That Came Out of Nowhere at Vanguard
Why is it unhelpful? Its okay for things to be binary sometimes. This is one of those cases, where the meaning of something, beyond even tech circles, has always meant starting and building a successful business without raising outside capital.

There's no good reason to change the definition of this. The disparagement is trying to co-opt a term that shouldn't be co-opted. If the headline was how we built a 1M ARR business from seed funding it'd be a very compelling article still. Now the sourness comes from trying to redefine a term that has very concrete meaning without providing strong justification for doing so.
Are you not worried about electric shock? Blankets get worn out over time, and then there is possible liquid damage…

I’d love me a <36v blanket but 110v or even 220v gives me the willies.
Weird. I could swear "-flatten" didn't behave like this years ago when I last used my script. But maybe I am misremember...

Edit: haha! The "-flatten" needs to be replaced with "-alpha flatten". This way, multi-page documents are still handled correctly, and alpha transparency is also handled correctly. I just tried on this sample file with transparent images: https://tcpdf.org/files/examples/example_042.pdf
> There are some drop-in solutions for this, but all of them are really quite basic and almost universally suck. However, the good news is that is fairly simple to roll out your own online licensing scheme in a matter of few work-days (assuming you know a bit of web backend and frontend).

I wouldn't say all of them suck. But that's because I built one [0] for the sole reason that, back in 2016, I too thought all of other ones sucked.

[0]: https://keygen.sh/build-vs-buy/
Similar feelings, yes. I don't mind the size at all. It's just that I've got a sweet thinkpad x13 already. My next laptop though, surely a framework (if they are still around)
First of all, your claims about well being are nonsense. Use a real statistic like literacy or average number of lost teeth. The white-Black literacy disparity or dental health disparity is clearly lower than 1950.

Also, none of your claimed income statistics are sufficiently granular to start a discussion since the average Black American worker may be something like 10 years younger than the average white American worker and also a weighted average by county of residence shows that Blacks live in places with lower wages compared to whites.

Edit: you're not wrong that social problems have changed and some could be due to government interventions but you paint a broad brush that is not accurate and sounds like a talking point blurb
I guess, when such administrative procedures are decided, then the kinds of considerations that go into it have to do with whether the document is more to your advantage or more to theirs. In a high stakes situation where the document is to their advantage (like you sign an employment agreement), they routinely will insist on having a signed original rather than just a copy or scan. In situations where the costs of dealing with paper originals outweigh the potential benefits, they might well not insist on having paper originals.

But, to come at it from the other side: If you want to make sure you can actually rely on the document in court, it's probably a good idea to keep originals and definitely a bad idea to use this FalsiScan tool.

The lowly-paid administrator who deals with you might not be able to detect the FalsiScan that you submit. But if something goes to court and it benefits them to undermine the forensic value of the document, then you might well find yourself faced with a digital forensics expert proving to the court that the document came from this FalsiScan tool. This opens the possibility that, for example, a third party with access to your computer that contains all the digital assets to create FalsiScans (like a scan of your signature) could have created the PDF.

It's not obvious that you would want to respond to that by saying "but I definitely definitely did use FalsiScan myself, meaning the PDF to represent my signature on the document".

If the other party can make it look like you purposefully sent something that would make it past their administrative procedures but would have questionable forensic value so that you could later have it thrown out in court, then you can no longer rely on the document yourself and could even be liable to damages that resulted from their relying on it.

If they can clear a slightly higher burden of proof in the general direction of fraud, they could even come after you criminally: Fraudulent creation of digital assets of forensic value (like scans of paper documents) is a criminal offence. -- At least in Germany; I don't know U.S. law that well.

That also applies to your original suggestion about making a document not exist whenever it serves your purpose for the document to not exist. ...that too is kind of a criminally relevant thing that you probably don't want to do.
It's not sarcasm. I've looked pretty hard for the right app and haven't found one that meets all of those requirements. If it's that saturated, then what would you suggest?
US visa policy is slow, apparently pew found there are 700,000,000 people interested in immigrating to the US, open the gates!
Here you go: https://www.businessinsider.com/tim-cook-versus-a-conservati...
Definitely this. What people don't get is that an optimal solution in insurance is to have everyone healthy. If everyone is healthy then there's no one drawing money from the pool and the insurance company is only collecting money.

Of course the other optimization is forcing everyone to have insurance when healthy and kicking them off when they get sick.
He took over as CEO a month and a half ago. I really doubt he has been able to change the company culture or user experience to the extent that people can form opinions on his tenure.
It gets even worse in Windows 11.

I love the example of the Task View to show that they really don't use their own darn things. Since 2018 it has been incredibly buggy. Reproducibly even.
We put mayonnaise on sandwiches instead but we use butter for toast.
I wonder if they will accept DOGE?
Binance is going to zero, the bubble has already started to burst and after it’s all over the truth will come out. They will never IPO because an IPO would involve conforming with securities law.
You say we can't wire up America, but what's your source? I'm not personally seeing a problem with a TVA-level engagement to bring high-speed Internet to as many people as possible. Starlink looks like it will be half the price, but Musk has gone on record saying this is for rural areas.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/03/musk-...

Further, I was getting 150 Mb a few months back, but now I'm down to 30 Mb. This isn't a polished product yet and it's in danger of losing federal funding.

https://broadbandbreakfast.com/2021/12/starlink-download-spe...
Open heart surgery - let alone replacement - isn't likely to be side effect free in our lifetime. A detached sternum is also a side effect, after all, requiring a couple months to recover to basic function...
I'll report back in a year or three if it does in fact work in real life hehe
Thanks man! Definitely working on that direction. Do you have other contemporary projects to show? I'm going to browse through your blog this weekend :D
The response was about leaving the windows open. Do you leave the door of your tent open when you winter camp?
Uber Eats vs. DoorDash in the U.S. Advertisers made up 18% of Uber merchants
Thanks, I'll keep my eye on it!
> I can easily understand people not liking the book, but the level of loathing that some show for it is odd,

I had a similar reaction when I read Battlefield Earth a few years ago. It struck me as an overly-long, painfully generic scifi novel. It wasn't unique enough on any level to justify either love or hate.