skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The hype a couple of years ago was at a fever pitch. Starlink was going to replace all forms of internet with space-ey goodness. Millions of people getting 100mbps for $50/m on cable who just didn't like the cable company's call center reps were clamoring for Elon to save them from their predicament.

I was working in the ISP space, and we did some rough back of the envelope calculations which showed that Starlink could only ever service a very low population density, based on the radio spectrum fundamentals.

Now people are realizing the obvious- it's an incremental improvement over other satellite internet options. It's great for people in very rural places, but if you are in or near a town of any size, you likely have a better option available.
The article states that it's because of length restrictions. European leangth restrictions include the truck, American restrictions don't.
For me, it's the local cycling community. Rides and ride groups all use it as their point of coordination.

>Most of the local food trucks only post their schedules on Facebook.

Oh, god, that's annoying. I've actually seen some businesses forgo a proper web site and instead JUST USE FB, which is crazy annoying.
Cab-over trucks were more common in the US in the past.
Why not both? Trump behaved in a provocative way for a reason - it's not like he was a poor misunderstood thing and the media picked up on him for no reason.
There are definitely a lot of people who think this. Go on twitter and search for "TSLAQ". There are people deluding themselves that Tesla isn't actually shipping the number of cars they claim.

Maybe 7+ years ago you could try to make that claim and not be a laughing stock, but it's very odd at this point.
restaurants provide food. serving bad food gets clients killed.

no comparison whatsoever with some websites. what you're writing about has to do with state overreach.
You know, CP/M and DOS computers were kind of the exception among their contemporaries: most 8bit (and some 16 bit) microcomputers of the era booted to a BASIC prompt, and would either user special BASIC commands or POKE calls to load stuff. Looking forward to seeing what comes out of this re-imagining.
I think the grocery analogy is a bit strained.

I've never seen a grocery store review mention how good the non-store-brand potato chips or chocolate bars are. I _do_ see reviews regularly mentioning the quality of produce and meat, which stores do have some control over. I think most people who take the time to go to Yelp / Google Maps / whatever and leave a review are aware that they're reviewing the store and not their Mars bar.

The experience using an app is completely different. Here's my dumb analogy.

You're browsing the snack food aisle in the grocery store. You really want a Mars bar, so you pick one off the shelf and go to put in your basket. As you're picking it up, a voice asks you from the heavens: "How much do you like this?"

How much do I like what? The grocery store? The Mars bar? Being asked the question at all?

My guess is that most people leaving 5 star reviews for the Apple Podcasts app had a similar experience. If you just finished listening to a 2 hour podcast that you enjoyed and are greeted with a "rate your experience" pop-up after unlocking your phone, you might be inclined to select 5 stars without thinking about what you're actually rating.

Is this some dark pattern from Apple added to pump up their app ratings? I have no idea. But I do think that the lines are very blurred, intentionally or not, in something like a podcast app. An app certainly _could_ mislead its users into leaving positive reviews.
Why growth is so bad
Occulus is a feature complete product that people can pick up, buy, and use. You dont have to own a desktop computer. Its the single most affordable VR option on the market right now. I saw plenty of parents buy them for their kids last Christmas. (The lack of PS5s and Xboxes probably helped that as a fallback choice)

Valve's stuff isnt really superior for most users for what you get for your price point. There price point for entry is TEN TIMES what Occulus is, and I've used both headsets. Yes Valve is better. It's NOT 10x better. Maybe not even 2x better. And if you want to play Half Life Alyx, the cheapest way to do that is to buy an Occulus and hook it up to your computer. Valve has effectively put themselves in the luxury sports car lane when it comes to VR.

Occulus and Sony's VR for Playstation seems to be the actual entry points for most people when it comes to VR. And Valve isnt even really positioning themselves as a competitor to Occulus sense Steam VR has Occulus support. They seem to be fine wiht letting Occulus be the entry point sku and Steam VR being what people do when they go further down the ecosystem of what is currently the VR niche hobby.
is censorship applied justly at all times?
You do realize there are a good number of crypto billionaires right?

I mean I get your point and it kinda stands, but the latest batch of crypo fueled wealthy people are less the pioneer/early movers and more the "I'll create a crypto product nobody understands and, boom it has a market cap of a couple hundred billion!". And since you can trade whatever crypto you want for eth, all you have to do is convince people your coin is worth something and you can do exactly the above thing.
I don't understand why they can't do it again if a person relapses. Why is it a one time only event? Or, to put it another way, when the efficacy wears off, why does it persist?
Not in money laundering.
Two clarifying questions:

1) What does the feature look like, screenshot-wise?

2) Can you confirm the HD/4K option actually disappears or is disabled, or if the site(s) in question just trend toward autoselecting 480p/720p over time?

Like most other comments here I suspect IP-based bandwidth limiting. Given the unbounded complexity scale of keeping the internet actually working :) I can totally see infrastructure being able to single out the activity of a single connection and track what it's doing over time. The chances are the implementation is eyebrow-raisingly impressive but still compact and approachable at the end of the day.
There is no way this isn't on purpose. They wouldn't expose something sensitive to satellite imaging unless they wanted to.
I think I will stay away from this comments section and have a stiff drink.
Ocean shipping is extremely carbon/energy efficient and would likely be advantaged with a carbon tax. It’s emissions are concentrated in sulfur from the low grade oil it burns, which is harmful to humans and the environment in other ways.

You could potentially argue that a carbon tax's impact on transportation generally would increase local manufacturing, but I kind of doubt it- it would advantage those manufacturers best concentration of raw materials and suppliers as those get transported multiple times in the production cycle, whereas the finished production only moves once.
I also fail to see where the personal attack lies...
Fuel is more expensive, but not more expensive than trimming 8 feet off of the trailer (and reducing hauling capacity).
If a lot of 5 star reviews come from mistaken reviews for podcasts, should apple reap some of that glory for curating their recommendation system so well?
If it was garbage, the app would be rated 1 star.
> but technically

well, the difference is quite important.
There must have been a lot of people that had access to record stores but not to the internet, and not enough money for lots of CDs. And Napster launched in 1999.
This sounds very similar to how a Smalltalk development environment works. Instead of a file system you have a class browser that you use to navigate your code.
> This makes sense for human players, but the Chess Engines aren't human, so their matches can proceed in parallel.

And if they wanted to they could show multiple matches in parallel. After all that's what happens in the case of a tournament such as the recent Tata Steel tournament. I assume that the issue is that they want to maximize resources for the engines and for that you need to run at most a few engines (and therefore matches) in parallel.

If I read things correctly it's all running on a single server with "only" 96GiB of RAM per engine (https://wiki.chessdom.org/TCEC_Season_Further_information#TC...), running more matches in parallel would be detrimental to the quality of the chess played.
U.S. lawmakers introduce 'Right to Repair' bills to spur competition
But your gripe seems to be centered around something they never claimed as a selling point initially.

Just because they do not have the coverage of other satellite systems does not mean it is still a beta.
Show HN: I made a little digital circuit simulator that operates on PNGs
This is a little toy project of mine that lets you simulate digital logic graphs. It was inspired by Minecraft's Redstone and the Piet esolang.

It's got some serious drawbacks-- you write circuits as PNGs and simulate them with a Python interface. It's slow to run and slow to experiment with. And it is certainly difficult to use for people with any kind of color blindness. But despite that, I hope this can still be a fun toy!
The ACLU are full throttle political partisans today, and don't give a fuck about free speech except in the same sense Stalin does: What they like should be allowed and what they don't like should be banned, and they act accordingly.
Maybe automatic vs manual gearboxes?
"Free lunch" was the same idiom that came to my mind when I read the parent comment about "no-loss lotteries," as if the electricity for hashing was clean and free.

The responsibility and risk of maintaining wallet keys seems on par to me with storing literal gold bullion. Laypeople aren't qualified. I'm not even convinced most programmers are qualified.
Several are only accessible through a HTTP REST API, even.

E.g. I'm not aware of an, out of the box, elasticsearch interface that is not the HTTP API.
American drug policy is written, interpreted, and implemented by profiteers and that's just the end of the logic.
IPFS has existed for years without any crypto involvement
Maybe you could change your country/nationality to some EU country and delete again.

EU has much stricter rules.
Probably because Apple has invested a lot of money in their "Privacy: That's iPhone" advertising campaign, and used the closed nature of the iOS ecosystem to defend their position in the highly popularized Epic Games v. Apple trial.
What about things said by them directly, their Twitter, etc?
Nearlyfreespeech.net Turns 20
Just call your buddies over at Bitfinex, and get them to turn on the Tether printer.
> it’s just that this whole thing is complex, and politicians are not virologists

What's really really really bad is that the entire narrative has been built on "we are science, follow us, if you don't, you are an idiot, you are endangering others"

Except science is much more nuanced, and hey, it turns out t-cells do things too not just antibodies (of course this was known pre 2020).

Maybe if communication on this issue wasn't turned so black and white, and us vs them, by the media and politicians, we'd be in a better place now. But they didn't do that, they turned this into politics too.
My utility charges separate amounts for generation and for distribution. In theory (I don't have solar), the electricity generated by the rooftop panels should be compensated at the generation rate. The the utility would then charge the consuming customer the distribution rate.
A combination of writing personal code and watching failure occur in real time over a long career.
They skirt it because regulators are largely clueless and don't take action until it blows up into a public scandal.
> - terribly slow synchronization between phone and Desktop, catching up on a few hundred messages takes minutes

I agree with everything you wrote. In principle, I'd like to support Signal but their UX is terrible for such things. Tried using it for a group and it was so painful. My phone was constantly warning me about it chewing up battery, and message sync between the desktop app was like it was using a 14.4K modem from 1994. I simply could not use it meaningfully for group messaging. Ultimately we went back to Whatsapp. But hey, at least they fixed the Fisher Price background colours for group messages.

Here in India, everyone uses Whatsapp. There was a brief time during the Whatsapp terms of service brouhaha that a bunch of people I know said they'd move to Signal, and they've all slowly moved back to Whatsapp because that's what everyone in the country uses. Seriously, it's practically infrastructure here.
Because that's how Apple publicly justifies the closed ecosystem. You and I are savvy enough to know that it's hogwash, but you would be surprised by how many people, including technologists, buy that marketing.
Does Apple sell access to podcasts now?
I think it works exactly because you are not moving in a real car, the car is moving.

With a physical wheel then just simulating vision makes it true virtual reality for car driving.

Almost nothing else is like this though. Virtual reality swimming I think is the best example of why VR sucks in the general sense. The visual aspect is just a small aspect of the experience of swimming. We can't simulate any other aspect of it with VR goggles.

Simulating most real life experience is much closer to the problem of swimming than the problem of driving a car.
The people on this website already know all of this stuff. "Few understand" might work on less technological adept people but it is not appropriate on a tech forum
If you can lock the movement into a specific position and it's repeatable because of the geometry of the motor, it's a stepper.

Yeah, of course it doesn't have the same design of the steppers you buy around. That's obvious from the title alone. That doesn't make it not a stepper. And yeah, it's less precise than the ones you can buy¹. That should be expected too.

1 - Although, that conclusion is way too simplistic to make. It has a different kind of imprecision, so depending on how you compare, you may as well conclude that it's more precise.
Imo WhatsApp also should have been interoperable and without phone number obligation.

WhatsApp basically killed interoperable chat by jumping on phones and building a near-monopoly.
Slight tangent but the balance of interaction and pulling users back of Wordle is brilliant. Users can saturate and over indulge and reach a point of cutting off over maintaining that momentum.

Oh and yes, TikTok seems to of hit a sweet spot(also the best stock bet currently), but if they can pull off 18 years of solid growth in interaction, that will be amazing.

Paradoxically, the stock market itself for many is their social media outlet, which probably seen a longer streak of growth than any social media platform.

Be interesting how HN growth and interaction has tractioned over the years, but then it doesn't matter as this is the Sparta of social media interaction in many ways and I ruddy love it.
That's what's going on with the Apple Podcasts users, right? Isn't that what this article is saying? Users are rating podcasts, not the player.

If you've gone through the trouble of downloading the app, and finding a podcast and listening to it, I'd say you're more likely to give it a positive review.

More technically inclined people, who know the difference between the player and the podcast, are probably also more likely to use a different player, like Overcast.
Even if you can get cheap USDT, that's is still real money that can be exchanged.
PayPal Gets Stung by ‘Bad Actors,’ Shuts 4.5M Accounts
As someone who’s been allergic to eggs their entire lives, and tried every egg substitute under the sun, I find that the best course of action in replacing eggs in a recipe is simply finding a recipe that was developed without eggs, rather than do direct substitutions.

I like to think I’m a pretty good cook and okay baker and understand different egg substitutes and where and when to implement them based on the function of eggs in the recipe, but 99% of the time I’m left eating a sweet that turned out like total garbage.

But following recipes that are egg free from the start makes it more like 75% of the time it turns out great!
Napster was the first big name, but there were other schemes for downloading music earlier. Mp3s had been around since the early nineties. Even without downloading, high CD prices saw kids copying and burning CDs for each other as soon as burners were available. So long as you had some social connections you knew someone with access to free music.
it is not that hard obfuscating the money in small amounts
What I find surprising is how the majority of semis in Netherlands appear to be very new and presumably in good condition. In Texas, by contrast, few appear to be new and well maintained, while many look quite heavily used. The trailers are even worse.

Considering how expensive those things are, who is affording the new trucks in NL? Is it because they are company owned instead of individual (owner-operator)?

Where do the worn out NL semis go?
Ask HN The wormhole WETH hack on Solana is being ignored
This hack is already being ignored by the crypto media news orgs. No one is talking about it...

I guess that means hacking on blockchain is a good risk reward.

Can the hacker that made 325 million start a bootcamp on how to hack blockchains?
> How do you define uselessness? What's the metric?

Despite the billions we have poured into fighting illegal drugs across all western countries they are sold nore or less openly a few hundred meters from here.

> Legalization means less competition, lower prices. It will simplify the process of selling, but nobody's in this "business" just for fun. They want to make money.

Exactly.

Organized crime has massive overheads (bribes, protection, losses due to raids, probably more).

The moment someone starts selling at pharmacies their illegal marijuana market collapses even if government adds a fair tax on it like many governments do with tobacco and ethanol.

> No. When a substance is allowed for everyone, but someone (eg school students), then it's even a bigger problem. Marijuana usage in public US schools is a massive problem. Teens find ways to buy and sell the drug.

All this holds true for ethanol as well and yet all western countries realized almost a century ago that the attempted cure was worse than the disease.

We still deal with people abusing it to the point were it hurts their families, themselves and society but at least deaths due to methanol poisonings are down and there's one less lucrative market for criminals to tap into.

I'm not saying this is easy.

But after being a supporter of though-on-drugs policies for 20 years (since I was 15 and formed my first such opinions) I have changed my views.

Not because I wanted more people to get stoned or because I want it myself but because I cannot see any good end in sight.
Part of the lack of Federal push is because many individual states/industries have interests in it not happening.

And one thing about the way the US has things set up, the States often function as the laboratories for social experiments. That's why you get things like Colorado being the first to legalize weed and Texas attempting to soft-ban abortion.
Yea, again, very complex and experimental technology. Now the entire blockchain you are bridging to needs to be written in an experimental VM technology which is being developed real time by dudes on twitter. And this Solana hack was a VM issue on Solana. That vm issue would presumably be present in whatever was running the fraud proofs on the other side. Rollups are only useful if the scenario you are worried about is a 51% attack
There are a number of industries where I could indeed make a huge amount of money by applying software to extract value from a system without providing anything. I'm not super interested in working in one of them.
Pokémon DP sound library released for non-commercial use
The Pokémon Company have released the entire soundtrack of Pokémon Diamond and Pearl, with download links permitting non-commercial use!
> And there are many ways to earn yourself a felony in MS, often for things that wouldn't be elsewhere.

Isn't a felony, by definition, a federal offense? How can they be different in different states?
Any article that says "crypto bad" hits the front page, but wow you weren't exaggerating

> buy drugs

> ransomware

> uses the same amount of energy as the Netherlands

There's nothing here but trite clichés. The most nuanced criticisms of Web3 come from its proponents these days.

I wonder if there's any conflict of interest for the author?

> founder of Cantab Capital Partners [a hedge fund]

hmm
It takes time to work through, but ultimately I don't find it very complicated because it comes down to the single issue:

Someone today has a shelter atop some soil and believes that someone else should not have a shelter atop some soil, and the person who currently has shelter atop some soil profits by preventing people from creating new shelter atop some soil.

People generally introduce the other issues that are outside of this narrowly defined immoral position.
This was the first (of many) vegan cookbooks I've collected over the years and to this day is still the one I reach for the most, very well thought out.
No, that still makes sense. They limit the bandwidth to/from a particular domain. The VPN hides that. SSL doesn't.
Presumably, though, the length restrictions are due, at least in large part, to [lack of] available space on the streets.
Yeah, I get that it's not insignificant but it's not just a router, it's also uploading my packets to a fast moving object around 340 miles away. I'd like for it to be less but I'd also like for Openreach to put a green cabinet near my house and give me VDSL.

To put it in context, my PC isn't on 24 hrs a day but it's almost certainly drawing at least 250W for the 9 or 10 hours it is on. It's just a cost of working from home.
There was a long period of purchasing music from stores before Napster was even an option. Having to spend $12-$16 on a CD you intended to listen to one, maybe two songs on absolutely stunted the amount of music people listened to for a very long time.
Many Android phones work with USB-C monitors. Just plug it in and your phone screen is mirrored on the monitor.
No, not all their code is open source; they're claiming it is for spam protection
Old World Business, New World Business (2021)
As far as I'm aware, in the mexican transport industry is a common practice to overload the trucks as much as possible.

This is so widespread that any company which doesn't do it is likely less profitable than all the rest which do overload hence they have to overload to be competitive.

I like to frame this in terms of an overruling pragmatism in mexican culture, as long as the truck still goes everything is just fine.

I suppose overloaded trucks (under more stress) are louder.
Author here. Tell me about it! I have to remind myself that all the excitement around fund raising announcements also come with the side-effect of raising the stakes and increasing risk even more for the company, along with increased pressure to grow, cover more use cases, make the product complicated, etc. Then fund raising announcements become unenviable.
The top-rated answer there is IMHO an excellent response to OP's question.