skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
UBI is a pipe-dream. Look what happened when we tried it on a small scale with stimulus to "everyone". Rents went up 20-40% across the board, and demand exceeded supply in most industries. This will happen in any UBI scenario - the cost of goods will rise to meet whatever money people have.

The reason is simple - we are not in a post-scarcity society. I don't know why people think we are. Desirable apartments, land, products and myriad other things still follow supply and demand. If you increase demand, and supply stays the same, you will get higher prices. And no, UBI will not encourage companies to increase supply - with what workers will they do it?
A US border patrol agent fired into Mexico and killed a child. The US protected the agent, and Mexico responded with a strongly worded letter[0]. I don't see any reason to believe the US would have responded with more than that either if the roles had been reversed. Most governments are perfectly capable of avoiding escalations that will lead to wars they don't want. The wars following 9/11 were wars the US government wanted and would have gotten with or without 9/11.

[0]: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-51643636
In 2020 they took my $99 deposit and told me I'd have service in the Summer of 2021. Then at the end of 2021 they sent an email saying that nope, it will be sometime in 2023. Now, this says I might get it this year if I pay an unaffordable price.

Frustrating, since this is the only opportunity on the horizon for more than my current 10 MiB DSL, and I live online. Please Starlink, stop making new promises and shoving them in the queue in front of your old promises!
Truth is a strong word for propaganda. Saying nonsensical responses like that is easy.

In the thread I linked there is a rebuttal of Amnesty's propaganda:

https://www.timesofisrael.com/lapid-attacks-delusional-amnes...
This is what's preventing me from pulling the trigger. 15" or larger would be great for me.
They also need to be in phase
Just curious. What is your avg ping for starlink? I'm looking forward to my future farmhouse and the ability to play ranked valorant on it.
Love the “easy to select for copy and paste” as a usability requirement.
I agree that it's a miracle (or perhaps, a testament to modern engineering) that fatalities are so low. But I don't think fatalities is a great measurement.

I've been rear ended twice, and I've seen 4 rear endings happen. Nobody was hurt in any of these accidents, but it was definitely a pain in the ass for everyone involved.
> SpaceX rocket stage will accidentally hit the Moon and will become first billionaire made garbage/pollution there.

There is nothing living on the moon; what would "pollution" mean in this context?
The countries with the best outcomes, as noted in the article, did not give money to individuals, but to businesses.

Direct payments to people let them squander it while businesses failed, leaving people unemployed.

UBI feeds consumption, not production, and they are not the same thing. Lots of production is B2B and other aspects far removed from the consumption of the pipeline.

Throwing a few trillion directly at people is popular but demonstrably not as well spent as other countries showed.

"Many governments staved off damage by paying businesses to keep workers employed"
Another family fun-fact -- I also own the .com of our family name "oinam.com". Oinam[1] is a community and the name of a place in our hometown. Well, there are occasional events where people will ask me to buy it, email for questions about stuffs of that place, etc.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oinam
If its what I think you're saying, he mentioned that its a question of liability.

If your car is 'driver assistance' then you don't have liability for accidents.
If your car is 'self driving' then now you're going to get sued every accident.

So instead you're always 'driver assistance' just from the risk analysis perspective.
Do we have any account for why he wanted it to be a brine? Is it like sea ice instead of fresh water?
7 months later and I am still waiting for my non-Premium Starlink.
Garbage then. I'm not a native speaker. Does something need to harm a living being to be considered pollution?
> why not use binocular forward facing vision?

Because Tesla have demonstrated that it's unnecessary. The depth information they are getting from the forward-facing camera is exceptional. Their vision stack now produces depth information that is dramatically superior to that from a forward-facing radar.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6bOwQdCJrc&t=556s

(It's also worth noting that depth information can be validated when the vehicle is in motion, because a camera in motion has the ability to see the scene from multiple angles, just like a binocular configuration. This is how Tesla trains the neural networks to determine depth from the camera data.)
It cost them around $1500 to manufacture.
They're building 2 nuke plants worth of solar and 1 plant worth of wind in 2022. In a single year. That'd be about $100B if it was nuclear. Given that it takes about 20 years to build a nuke, that means 60 plants being built simultaneously, total cost $2T. That would never happen.
You have one extra "your" the final clause of that last sentence.

I'm not messing with you; as someone who does an unfortunate amount of DNS hacking, it is crazymaking to see so many people express the opinion that the hard part of doing DNS is just formatting the records. The argument you're presenting is a little like saying that "malloc" would be doing the heavy lifting in a C implementation of a graph minimum cost spanning tree.

This also isn't just an aesthetic argument. There is something profound about it. No language standard library I'm aware of includes a recursive lookup, despite the fact that you've pegged it as a "12 line for loop". They all in some way or other include DNS message codecs, but not the recursive lookup, despite the fact that it would be immensely useful to be able to write programs that did recursive lookups directly rather than relying on the system's configured recursive resolver. The reason for that is at least partly that recursive lookup is mystifying and spooks library implementors.

I've had the displeasure of writing both a series of DNS codecs and a recursive lookup routine. The codecs I've done throughout my career, going back to like 1997 with exploits for the Kashpureff cache poisoning bug. The recursor I finally got around to writing just a couple months ago, because recursive lookups are freaking complicated.

That the author got this recursive lookup so small that it broke everyone's brains is just more reason to be interested in this article. It's certainly not a reason to dismiss it. The reactions on this thread are pretty embarrassing.
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Not who you're responding to, however a rooftop definitely doesn't guarantee clear views of the sky. I have solar pool heating on my roof, it works great, however Starlink requires 100 degrees field of view. That's a lot! There's definitely no such location on my 1.25 acre property. Even if you chopped down every single tree in my yard (not legal) there still wouldn't be 100 degree field of view due to trees in the neighbours yard.

EDIT: To clarify as to why the roof doesn't work, the trees are at least 4 times the height of my roof.
incredible, thank you
Then I guess you also missed that their normal plan is $100?
The semi-truck will come to a stop a lot slower than a bike, and because I won't be able to avoid either I'd rather get hit by the bike.
Not if there are 100 foot trees around you.
By this logic you should promote trailer parks.
I think it is not possible to compress the essence of this very long paper into single sentence.

I recommend to read at least "5 Concluding observations" fully. There is much more nuance to it than can be expressed in a single sentence.

I would strongly recommend also "6 Appendix A. The role of timing".

My personal observation is that when countries managed to start restrictions (not full lockdowns but something that limited contacts) after first detectable infections then the death toll was greatly reduced.

There was huge difference for example between Greece and 2 other Mediterranean countries Italy and Spain. There is also similar difference between Sweden and other Scandinavian countries.
I'm not sure why PULSE is being called out here. This is extremely common on any super-resolution trained on extremely biased datasets like FFHQ. In fact, this discussion is something that led to the dataset being changed. The authors actually extended their research to discuss the bias[0]. I'll also link to the Reddit discussion[1]. IMO the authors here responded to this correctly. It is important to remember that algorithms are only good on their in distribution datasets. And kudos on the authors for doing more experiments and including work on a less racially and sexually biased dataset.

[0] section 6 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2003.03808.pdf

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/hk2ryn/d_h...
No, cause Elon is obsessed with
Mars, and a Kessler cascade would make it that much harder to set up a Mars base, so even just from a totally self-serving angle, Elon has a high prerogative to avoid space collisions.

Not to mention it would be terrible for SpaceX business on a far shorter timescale.

If there's one thing you can count on, it's that billionaires will defend their bottom line.
In my neighborhood now, people rent for considerably more than they would pay per month if they bought here. They want to live here but nothing is for sale. It’s large single family homes. Renters tend to be people who have frequent job transfers and people who are having custom homes built nearby.

Also I’ve never rented anything for less than what I could own something comparable. Maybe you can in some markets. But generally I expect to pay more monthly. It’s a trade off for avoiding everything that comes with home ownership. Down payments, maintenance, and the overall commitment. It’s hard to just pick up and move when you have to go through the process of selling, making contingent offers on another place, multiple closings, all that.
Citizens took home trillions this time around. The 2008 money was loans, that were paid back with interest. The citizens this time around got socialism (and related inflation). 2008 had neither.
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Pegasus Spyware
Does anyone know where the source code for the newish pegasus spyware is?
Nice; so you stumbled on something. IIRC, I kept Keepass around for a while, even after I started beta-testing 1Password during its early program. I believe by 2008 when iPhone was launched in India (I was there for the Bombay chapter in a mall in Andheri-West), I moved to 1Password along with the iPhone.

I double-checked and I already had 1Password on the Homescreen of my phone - https://oinam.fyi/brajeshwar/phone-homescreen/
> The original dish we bought for $500 I think I read actually cost closer to $3k for them to manufacture

$3k? Were they mining the metal by hand and then using only the most hipster blacksmiths shipped in from Portland to hand press the steel for the dish?
Wow, TIL. Can anyone explain why? DAI seems superior to tether/USDC in every way.
Antibiotics do, so do antivirals and antifungals.
Landlords in collusion? What kind of landlords, like mom and pop? My small apartment complex raised my rent 25%. Is this collusion?
My understanding is that the Starlink antenna uses a phased array allowing some electronic steering and that it has motors for physically steering it. The physical steering is just done at setup time to point the antenna in the right general direction for your location and the the phased array is used for actually tracking satellites.

A back of the envelope calculation tells me that when they have all their satellites deployed any given service location will have several hundred satellites visible at any one time.

Question: does a given customer's connection just use one satellite at a time, tracking it with the phased array until it moves too far and then switching to another? Or does it use more than one at a time in parallel?
Not really. There seems not many decent options, do make sense to ask if someone has found a perfect match.
Two trips around the US in a camper van; 41 states and about a year. It was amazing.
You missed the "per day" part.
You might be able to using tmux, if you are on apple you might be out of luck, unless you want to run it on a server and set your DNS to it.
The Malaysian Emergency (1948-1960) is pretty widely regarded as the successful counterinsurgency program. (It also featured little to no external support to the insurgents, who were massively outnumbered by the British. Did I mention that this wasn't an easy problem?) The second insurgency (1968-1989-ish) was largely handled by Malaysia itself, as I understand it, without outside forces.

I was debating the former Yugoslavia, but no one was really interested in rebuilding Yugoslavia; they wanted the region to be quiet and relatively stable. Which it seems to be today and wasn't without the continuing threat of military force from sometime during the Austro-Hungarian empire.

Before you draw lessons from the Philippine-American War, look at the timeline: it officially started when the US took over the management from Spain in ~1899 and ended in like 1913. The (new) Philippine government was created in 1902 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippine_Organic_Act_(1902)) with the cessation of the official war. The US kept a military presence as well as official control until WWII, with apparently a good bit of support from the Filipinos.

The US was very specific about the kind of government it set up in the Philippines and not only didn't leave but stayed and supported the government against the remnants of the insurgency.

If you're interested, I strongly recommend 21st Century Ellis, a (small) collection of articles by Pete Ellis, a Marine officer in the Philippines who went on to be part of WWI and to write the basis of the US Marines' part of the pre-WWII plans against the Japanese Empire. (He drank himself to death while spying on the Japanese and the guy sent to recover his ashes was himself killed in the Kyoto earthquake. It's all very Lovecraftian.) His "Bush Wars" (?) is roughly the basis of US counter insurgency strategy that the US couldn't bother to follow in Afghanistan.
In terms of investments, I like Google the most out of the monopoly techs. Microsoft is my least favorite because they’re just a fund of loosely related technologies at this point.
note 500ms ping. That's pretty much unusable for calls, games, or just loading pages.
FCC only manages a small portion of the earths surface. They have no say whatsoever in my part of the world.
Maybe not integrating it, but allowing uBlock Origin to use Firefox Sync and sync filter lists and other settings would be very useful on Firefox for Android:

* https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Cloud-storage#firefox...

> Firefox for Android can't sync extensions settings. This is tracked in Bugzilla #1316442.

* https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1316442
The blog author complains about the loss of control over the editing experience with the recent changes to WordPress.

Personally I found Drupal to be a much better system for their use case, to provide client 'content editing' that does not disrupt the front end design (allowing user to edit content but limit novice users changing styles or branding).

Drupal has got quite a lot better over the past few years but gets overlooked as it has a bigger learning curve.
What are the upload speeds? Can't seem to find them.
I, too, have disagreed with vorpalhex before, but:

1) Sarcasm is a nuanced perspective. (It's also all that hucksters deserve, and Solana Pay is hucksterism.)

2) Is pessimism something to be intrinsically avoided? Particularly when it concerns the unironically-made promise of "on-chain offers".
I pre-paid Starlink for delivery last Spring and it never materialized. And see similar comments here from others on never yet receiving it after long waits.

So you may be onto something.
Because you let the high frequencies pass through on a high pass filter and vice versa
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The rule was created to lower the risk of kids getting hit by a car.

So let's focus on achieving the end goal and updating whatever law that is necessary along the way rather than taking the existing laws as gospel.

Here it could be signaling to the car where the school or construction zone is so in addition to it lowering its speed it should also bias its perception of kids or construction workers more towards false positive than false negative.
Technical consultant in AWS ProServe. I specialize in enterprise app dev/architecture + cloud.

Solution Architects are pre sales.

Consultants are post sale doing billable implementations. There is some overlap though. I do some SA type work and depending on the day of the week, I’m lumped in with the SA organization.

Out of curiosity, why did you (correctly) suspect I didn’t “grind leetCode”?
What comes first?
Tesla FSD or the year of the Linux Desktop
I’m confused. I usually like to cruise control in the middle lane (at around 3-5 over the speed limit); how does this cause problems for you?

If I were to stay in the right lane I’d be stuck going 5-10 under because of all the semis & constantly having to dodge merging traffic. If I stayed in the left lane I’d piss off everyone who wants to go 20 over. This seems to be how most people drive, and it achieves your graduated-speed-difference standard: the right lane is for semis & getting on and off, the middle lane is for most traffic traveling at a comfortable speed, and the left lane is for passing.

What would you propose I do differently?
Why even write that if you aren't going to say what their response was?
I think this is mostly that businesses don’t realize there are hundreds of millions of people using Apple Maps. It’s improving; it’s a tiny amount of work for them to get more customers, and they’re learning.

I use the “report an issue” link periodically to fix things.
The number of people who have a summer home is extremely high. Having two dishes, or one dish that can be used from two set points is very attractive. Lots of people spend the summer "at the cabin" even when the cabin isn't in the Hamptons.

Or they may live out of a motor home, but it only moves to travel between their regular winter destination and their regular summer destination. They stay in the same two parks all year except for the 4 days of travel in between.

Millions of USians fall into these two demographics. I'm sure plenty outside the US do, too.
I'm still not 100% convinced on the size of this market. Rural FTTH rollouts are happening and over the next 5-10 years I think will get everywhere you have grid electricity. I constantly see people on the starlink Reddit cancelling their preorders or service because they can get FTTH or cable.

There's no doubt it's an amazing technical achievement, and a huge improvement for many people. But I am somewhat struggling to see the business case for maintaining many thousands of satellites, which only last for a few years before requiring replacement, in a market that basically gets smaller each year (because more people can get FTTH or cable as rollouts increase).

Even worse, starlink performance will degrade as more users and/or average bandwidth use ticks up.
They may be using link-layer ARQ which resends corrupted packets instead of dropping them.
I don’t really understand the narrow definition of quantitative analysis referenced here and elsewhere. If you know your metrics are failing you, then you implicitly have a more advanced model of success. Define this more advanced mental model so it can be invalidated.

If your mental model is not defined narrowly enough to be invalidated, then how can you improve upon it? I think the lesson here was that the measure of success was defined poorly, not that quantitative analysis is flawed a practice.
Maybe the dish is connecting to farther away satellites closer to the horizon due to packet losses on the first satellite?
That might be making it harder for smaller rooms to grow, if there's a lot of users less likely to join because of that. Whereas in big rooms you disappear in the crowd.
I would be a lot more interested in a technical article than hearing about the history of Netflix.
If I remember correctly there’s a fair bit of expensive electronics and fancy materials. The phase steered arrays I worked on in college were expensive and they were tiny. https://hackaday.com/2021/01/11/starlink-satellite-dish-x-ra...
Karl, do you have any thoughts on the Simula One project? I see that you specialize in AR, but it looks like there is massive crossover in tech. The Simula team pitches this as the next popular form factor in business computing. Anything to that?
Do you mind linking to any of these? A quick search of C-- makes it look pretty interesting.
What country has GDP on a better trend compared to pre-pandemic than the US?
5x the speed.
Still no scheduled launch date for my part of the world and it's been 5 years :)
It's vanishingly rare for radio-based networks to actually rely on high level IP behavior for redelivery, as it's much faster to fix these issues on the single radio link than to wait for things to go round trip. The data link protocol typically has its own reliable delivery implementation that will result in multiple retries. This results in increased latency in poor network conditions. 802.11 behaves similarly.
Immutant did convert the quake 3 source to rust and hot it to run... They have a blogpost about it kicking around....
If you don’t show losses, and the loan was forgiven, it becomes taxable revenue. As a C corp, Trump got those taxes down to 21%, so it was only mostly free.