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> If you already have internet, then Starlink is not for you.

We bought a property in a very rural area in mid 2020. One of the hard requirements was verified high speed Internet access.

Our home has good performing Comcast. But I also pay $100/month and have a Dishy on my roof. Fortunately our home is very tall and we're able to get about 95% visibility, since our home is in the middle of a forest.

Why am I paying an extra $100/month? Because our Comcast has outages. It's not surprising since we're at the end of miles and miles of above ground cable that has hundreds of trees pushing up against the wires and poles.

I'm a pretty well off 'tech person' so an additional $100/month to cover a few hours of use makes sense.

(Wireless coverage is terrible around here, so that was never a backup possibility.)

I'm pretty convinced that Starlink is not only going to revolutionize many people's lives, but it's also going to be a cash cow for SpaceX, in large part funding their Mars ambitions.
Are you implying this startup can somehow get free Tether? Are they affiliated at all?
Hmm. How do RVs fit in all this?
The dish won't work since it knows where it is via GPS and where it is supposed to be. There is a little bit of tolerance in where the dish can be moved, but certainly not 70 miles of leeway.
How did you find out it was a fraud company?
I guess I have not understood why the port in Long Beach is the one all these ships pile into? Aren't there large ports in San Francisco/Oakland? and the entire Puget Sound? Or are they, but the media doesn't talk about them as much? Portland's old container terminals are empty last I drove by them (although its been a while). I know the Portland terminal is limited on how large of a ship by how deep the water is dredged, but wouldn't it make more sense to utilize the smaller ships to get your highly important cargo delivered faster?
Thank you for your feedback!

We do plan on introducing chef tips and user-generated reviews of veganized recipes.

Currently the substitutes aren't specific to cooking style or type of food. It's tricky but not impossible. And we are on it!

Brand recommendations are important too. But maybe with user feedback and applicability. Most transitioning vegans don't know which cheese melts and which milk works best with coffee. And I think that's how our recommendations should evolve.
Hate to break it to you, people are not rational.

Did you read the blog post? Not reading it… Seems irrational.
Show HN: Directory of Breeding Birds in Puerto Rico
I don't mind the default colormap (parula). If I'm using the color for any sort of dimension then I start to care about the colormap choices. Perceptually uniform and colorblind agnostic choices are important for any sort of publication, and arguably a starter for any sort of accessibility considerations.
indeed, it's probably not the author's intent but it's really clickbait for coders
Probably a nice uptick
Yup, Facebook has their tentacles in so many places that walking away from it is difficult, especially if you are involved in local community activities.

My neighborhood exclusively uses Facebook for neighborhood communication.

My kid's school PTA exclusively uses Facebook.

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

Since the pandemic started I have been taking the opportunity to go through my house and clean out lots of things that have just been hanging around for years. I list everything I sell on Facebook, Craigslist, OfferUp, and Nextdoor. I can’t remember the last time I got a bite from any of the other services that aren't Facebook. It’s been awhile.

It honestly drives me be crazy how this company has wormed their way into being such an essential piece of communication infrastructure for so many people that I can’t quit without sacrificing my ability to participate in some of the things I really enjoy.

So I begrudgingly tolerate Facebook.
If useful ads designed to genuinely inform consumers were the norm it'd be one thing, but I don't think that's the case. The norm is deception and manipulation.

The majority of advertising boils down to this fundamental assertion: your life isn't as good as it could be and the solution is to buy <product>. It's plainly manipulative, and the effect this mindset has on society is hard to understate. It fosters feelings of inadequacy and stokes the fire of consumerism that's destroying the environment.
Web3 already exists it's called browser extensions plus all other software solutions that can be embedded inside browsers and websites. The thing is it all has to be standardized.
No, and when I read about this I couldn't imagine doing such a thing myself. It just seems so stressful.
Starlink is definitely demonstrating that there is demand and a willingness to pay.

Part of me wonders if it will suffer the same fate as Iridium - terrestrial service came in and took the market away. Especially if the rollout continues to be so slow.
But even in that case you are - at least usually - still interacting with some kind of DBMS. I am not really familiar with the examples you named but with SQL Server Compact you are essentially just loading and running the DBMS in your process. But as I said in my other reply, at some point the distinctions become blurry.
“Non profit messenger with limited resources is not working as if it had unlimited resources, so I won’t donate”
Most lists that include analytics services will block it in a way that will capture the most possible instances.

My privately hosted Plausible instance is blocked because the filename is still "plausible.js" even if it's a on a first party domain.
There are a lot of 1-star reviews of the Yelp app which are actually reviews of restaurants.
My account is deactivated, but not deleted. I wonder if I am still in their counts?
Note that isn't the case any more with modern browser + server, TLS 1.3 Encrypted Client Hello (ECH) fixes this.
I did the same. It's dead simple thing in fact - https://tildegit.org/severak/millions/

It helps my to answer questions like "did anyone clicked on my pet project link I posted on HN yesterday?" (yes, 15 ppl :-D). For this purpose it does well.

But I want to rewrite it as in current incarnation there is slight possibility to tracks users by manually quering visits records from database (if I suddenly turn evil). I want to split these numbers to separate data structures, but this project has low priority.
We came upon this development after doing our regular scans of Planet Labs' low-resolution imagery of various locales of interest across the globe… When glancing at daily 3-meter resolution images of the base

Whoa. I didn’t know that daily satellite imagery was available to civilians.

How much of the planet’s surface is imaged and available daily?

Edit: Ooh, just posted and relevant: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30193804 . 10cm imagery from high-altitude balloons!
Nah, we still need an FPGA that takes CSS as its bitstream format, and a "CSSDL" that lets you define the hardware layout in CSS...
Need to justify your disk quota? Now your tables can expand to fit the available space. Who said table-based layout was passe.
While true, “some level of lasting immunity” is not necessarily all that useful. Norovirus infection and recovery for example, only last 6-24 months. I don’t know what the long term immune system response is for covid, but I do know that planning in general needs to be for the more pessimistic end of what is seems possible, and that quite a lot seemed possible in the early days of the pandemic.
> The exchange of cash in your coffee example is definitely not free. Vendors spend a lot of money in cash management. Compliance costs, loss prevention, storage & movement etc. They price that in to the $5.

Fair point. But there are still many more informal cash transactions that don't have that issue, but maybe that's not what cryptocurrency will solve. That's fair.

> But frankly that’s besides the point. There are very few physical transactions in the “cash” world. Crypto can become very successful and never touch those transactions if it can work to standardize & disintermediate the electronic movement of money it could be a massive change.

Definitely agree traditional electronic money transfer today has many issues. But I don't yet understand why cryptocurrency is the necessary solution. Sure it's a solution, but surely it's possible to fix the issues without cryptocurrency.

I think I understand the core principle and appeal of crytpocurrency as a decentralized currency, underground currency among those wishing to avoid traditional financial institutions. But everywhere I look I see cryptocurrency turning into traditional banking and I don't really understand the overall benefit. It seems the few benefits it does have over traditional banking (speed, ease of transfer, univeral currency) are outweighed by the drawbacks (power hungry, surprisingly insecure, easy to simply lose everything you have with no recourse).
What class of voters would it win them?
What's the story for accessibility in font-based icon sets? Do you bind the glyphs to long self-descriptive ligatures or something?
AR will definitely be bigger, it will be a game changer, who needs to buy a TV or extra monitors at that point.

But I disagree that VR is anti-social, it is not exactly the same as being irl social, but the success of VRChat (a social VR platform) and Zenith (the first good VR MMO) has shown how big the social aspect is.

Social VR easily showed its use during the pandemic and the lockdowns.

However, social VR is also immensely useful for more introverted people, which more extroverted people might not realize. It is quite simply easier talking to people in VR than it is in real life. It is good therapy if you want to view it like that.
I think "con man" is a bit too strong, but he does have a history of making promises that either slip significantly (misses deadlines by years) or end up not playing out at all. There are various reasons I can imagine for that, from naive optimism, to marketing or wanting to motivate people.
> But they have no satellite coverage in that area according to their own map.

There is nowhere in the lower 48 where starlink has no satellite coverage, I believe there are still areas where they have not built out ground stations though, and since most of the satellites don't have laser links to talk to other satellites (due to issues with their original lasers not fully burning up on re-entry - now fixed) they need to have a ground station under the same satellite as the customer.

They also have limited bandwidth to any one satellite, so they need to limit the density of their customers. Satellites move up and down lattitudes, but at any one time the density of satellites is higher at higher latitudes, so they should be able to serve more customers there.
But the provider knows where you are connecting, no matter if https is used or not. Https will encrypt the payload/data (layer 7) not where you are connecting (layers 3/4)
WETH (on Ethereum itself) is totally different. It's a pretty simple contract, doesn't require code on other blockchains or offchain code, and there are no Ethereum accounts with "special permissions" so the attack surface is much much smaller.

Contract code if anybody is curious. It's less than 100 lines of Solidity, easy to read even if unfamiliar with the language: https://etherscan.io/address/0xc02aaa39b223fe8d0a0e5c4f27ead...
I don't think it's clickbait at all. The concerns about power usage, proprietary connectors, and lack of ethernet or WiFi 6 seem spot on.
Bad actors probably don't have the capacity to check every pull request. Yikes, though. Wonder what the outcome would've been if this was exploited before a patch was available in trunk and ready to be rolled out.
Problems at Roblox
sell the ads in newspapers? is this the 1950s? j/k

Seriously though, what newspaper(s) would you honestly be willing to spend ad dollars with (and for what products) thinking that this would be a good investment? Geritol? Now, if your suggestion is buying newspaper ads would then get ads in their digital versions as well, then maybe. However, seems to me that most viewers of news sites are from link aggregators more than just readers of a website. Not sure how that would affect ad placement.
He’s got a video where he tried this and was unable to get it working.
What makes you feel that malicious apps are the only vector for these exploits. The web is open and iOS users can still download files on their devices. Let's disable file downloads altogether and limit people to an alternative "reviewed" web.

Please don't use the flimsiest of excuses to bootstrap an argument for a more restrictive world.
The change I made was to change my facebook bookmark to messenger, and thus I can still chat to all of my mates who use it to talk but otherwise have to consciously decide to visit facebook itself. I find myself doomscrolling WAY less, and maybe visit it once a day if I'm bored.
Guess thats the claim anyway.
I've seen a few DBs accessible through a REST API.
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> You are not suggesting that the quality of the podcast and that of the app are inseparable issues, are you?

I am, actually. The experience is the listening of the podcast, how that is produced and how that is delivered are technicalities that you cannot know without investigation or prior knowledge and that is useful only if you are looking into improving or duplicating the experience.

So, it makes sense to me to rate the app based on the podcasts you listened as well us the UI experience. After all, that would be the experience of other people who are about to download the app.
Starlink won't work well for the sort of sprawling exurbs you live in, fyi. It can't support a very high density of dishes due to RF bandwidth limitations.

Starlink's key markets are fairly spread out rural areas, not infrastructure expensive exurbs and suburbs.
The closed system is just fancy words for "you don't really own your phone, we do". Doesn't help a tiny bit against the devices getting pwned, if you'll excuse the pun.
Insinuating that there is a lack of social skills for those who majored in CS or that those doing so will seemingly stagnate in their technical knowledge (which can happen to anyone, no matter their major) just comes of as childish.

History of binary? I guess either Ada or Babbage (or both) were the first. It wasn't part of my curriculum though.

Unnecessary basics learned? It comes in handy knowing a bit about data structures, big-O and compilers when the need and situation arises. Oh yeah and normal forms and automata are fantastic.

However I agree with the authors point that having cross disciplinary skills and backgrounds will help in this field, and that those who come into it without formal training should not shy away from applying for positions that they think could fit them.

Having only a BSc in CS, I for one do not plan on getting a MSc in it as my next degree (if there will be another). Probably something involving business or design instead to deepen my knowledge in related fields.
It surprises me to see GoFundMe bow to political pressure, when the platform is designed to fund people that are standing up against governments.
Is CSS turing complete? If it were you could cross-compile SQLite into it. You'll probably want to have it run Doom first though.
I see that as a pure contextual behaviour.
Let's say I switch Internet off and let them watch the same movie, and they will stay focused during the whole 87 minutes.
This is a really good blog post, and a timely one for me. Our company is also taking this road less traveled and it's really not easy (not that building any business - VC backed or not - is easy!). My co-founder and I struggle with this decision constantly since this is no side hustle for us - we're in 100% and are paying for living expenses and businesses expenses with our own funds.

However, money is not the biggest issue because we saved and planned for this effort. It's exactly what was written "The Tradeoff" section that's the biggest difficulty with not working with VCs. We constantly see competitors and semi-competitors in our industry posting on LinkedIn about recent fund raising rounds, new contracts, acquisitions, etc. and every post seems to have 1000s of likes. Obviously it's not all due to VC support, but that community and network really does help (and is enticing).

It's funny... in my industry people seem to have forgotten that you can build a company without taking VC. It feels like our customer base equates small business with any new business even if that company has taken $250M of VC.
Looks like Saab 35 Draken.
You would want to cheat only the one time, and have your program copy the original program into place, change the timestamps, and delete itself.

More obvious is don't collect it with a person who is legally not allowed to collect it. This person should also not be seen buying the ticket on camera. I would probably have someone play the same numbers every week for months before it hits.
"Do Apple or Google get a cut of my contribution?

No."

How?
I've had some excellent "pulled pork" made out of jackfruit. The consistency is similarly chewy/stringy, and if you are looking for American-style BBQ flavor then a lot of that flavor comes from the sauce anyway, so it's pretty easy to sub out the meat. When I lived in a country where it was trivial to buy fresh jackfruit, I just sliced it and threw it into a stir fry and it worked pretty good as a meaty consistency in those too.

One thing I still haven't found is a good plant-based version of carnitas, which is a sort of pulled pork from Mexico where they crisp up the top of it as well as have it swimming in lard. I think you could probably get somewhere close to it by using toasted pepitas (pumpkin seed) or something to get the crispy aspect, but to nail all the textures and flavors you'd be getting into a big time-consuming exercise for home cooking. Although, to be fair, I'd never cook meat carnitas at home either due to the time requirement.
Why? Were cats sleeping on it?

There were recent reports that cats just liked to sleep on the dish in very cold weather as they are self heating.
> Yes, I do believe it should or at least decriminalized. There is much more danger in illegal drug trade and a dysfunctional uneducated society.

Once again, similar to what I said to the other commenter. Fix the uneducated society first. There are much more uneducated weed smokers than educated ones.

> Not any recent ones unless you're talking about youth. There are studies that show marijuana can improve brain function and capacity.

Erm... I'm a HN reader for 8+ years. There are a handful number of research papers reach the front page several times a year.

THC is able to alter the functioning of the hippocampus (see "Marijuana, Memory, and the Hippocampus") and orbitofrontal cortex, brain areas that enable a person to form new memories and shift his or her attentional focus. As a result, using marijuana causes impaired thinking and interferes with a person’s ability to learn and perform complicated tasks. THC also disrupts functioning of the cerebellum and basal ganglia, brain areas that regulate balance, posture, coordination, and reaction time. [0]

Marijuana has been even linked to schizophrenia development [1]. Let's for sure legalize it.

[0] https://nida.nih.gov/publications/research-reports/marijuana

[1] https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapsychiatry/article-abst...
> For me I often feel it's a refusal to accept that life is short and I'll never have time to explore every single thing that has ever interested me in enough depth, and that no matter how much I learn and explore in the time I do have, I'll never be satisfied

I love your comment and share your approach: my bookmarks are what will pop up if I search something before Bing tries to take me somewhere else.

By bookmarking, I both accept that I do not have the time (not now or ever) and therefore I may never read this, unless serendipity or need drives me to type the exact same keywoard

> I gotta bookmark this comment and review it later

No, as that would be an attachment: instead, you should let this comment go :)
It's a low orbit satellite, which limits the amount of coverage for each satellite. And currently (without the sat-2-sat laser link), there needs to be a ground station also in range. If his cousin's house isn't close enough to a ground station, it just doesn't work. That's why Starlink is allocating based on addresses.
And I actually wondered for a short moment whether there is any DBMS with a web server.

I don't know if it's still the case or not, but Oracle had the option to run a web-server as part of the database at one time. Back in the Oracle 8 or Oracle 9 era, as best as I can remember.

EDIT:

OK, here we go.

https://docs.oracle.com/en/database/oracle/oracle-database/1...

You can use an embedded version of the PL/SQL gateway that runs in the XML DB HTTP Listener in the database. It provides the core features of mod_plsql in the database but does not require the Oracle HTTP Server. You configure the embedded PL/SQL gateway with the DBMS_EPG package in the PL/SQL Web Toolkit.

Some advantages of using the embedded gateway instead of mod_plsql are:

You can invoke PL/SQL web applications like Application Express without installing Oracle HTTP Server, thereby simplifying installation, configuration, and administration of PL/SQL based web applications.
Seems that some people are get angry in the other direction as I'm getting downvotes.
Feeling like I started my career too early at 18
I started working for a tech company two years ago. I have quite a lot of responsibility in my role and generally have worked on interesting things. But now I feel more tired than usual. I spend a lot of time at a screen every day.

I have always worked from home, communicating with colleagues around the world. Quite a few of my colleagues are in a timezone greatly offset from me so working hours can be hectic.

I sometimes feel that I started all of this too early. I have learned a lot but am now struggling to get out there and meet new people. Because I work from home, I find it all too easy just to keep going with the status quo. As a result, most of the people I know are internet friends rather than those I have met. COVID deters me from travelling so I have only been one place to make new friends in the last few months and nothing really stuck.

I'm in a rut and I wish I had more friends. Although starting on that front isn't easy as I don't know many people near to me (and those that I did know are mostly away to uni).

Even in my free time, I feel like I have to be working on something tangible (which seems to be an occupational hazard if you write code!).
Finally! Someone who asked and explored this question!

I had this same question for years :)
Do things, tell people (2012)
+1 for this comment. I started as more of a "multi-media" guy in the 2000's and eventually out of necessity moved into the developer space. Sure, I could brute force learning things and regularly would challenge myself to sit in a chair until I could figure it out watching many sunrises on the way. The web sucked back then and resources like stack overflow were barren and mostly full of trash. I had few peers to ask questions or advice and the tiny usergroups that did exist might yield you a hint here or there. It sucked.

Then I got to work with and eventually hire people who had the CS degrees and not only did my knowledge explode, work got done way faster with higher quality. I'm sure it's a whole new ballgame with the wealth of resources out there but when you have time, space, and support to become a true practitioner it's got to be an advantage if not confidence builder.
I'm guessing maybe the algorithms figure out if you are into political battles or not and adjust your feed accordingly? I get hardly any of that stuff personally.