skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Regarding the number of proposed starlink satellites:

The constellation is proposed to be approximately 10,000 satellites.

I wondered how this compares to the number of US commercial flights per year. The FAA claims it handles 45,000 flights per day [1]. If we assume each aircraft has 5 flights per day and spends half it's time on the ground, then we might guess there are approximately 4,500 aircraft flying above the USA at any given instant.

The USA is only a portion of the globe, let's say it's 1/50 of the global surface area, and let's assume starlink satellites are distributed evenly across the sky. From this we can guess, there will be approximately 200 starlink satellites above the CONUS at any instant.

So the starlink constellation will be about 5% of the problem that commercial air traffic is.

[1] https://www.faa.gov/air_traffic/by_the_numbers/
It's become a bad joke at this point, arguably worse than the half life 3 one, because it showed some kind of promise.
"Blindly" is a stretch but people have built transistor level simulations of old chips from photographs. Check out the delightful Visual 6502 if you've never seen it before:

In the summer of 2009, working from a single 6502, we exposed the silicon die, photographed its surface at high resolution and also photographed its substrate. Using these two highly detailed aligned photographs, we created vector polygon models of each of the chip's physical components - about 20,000 of them in total for the 6502. These components form circuits in a few simple ways according to how they contact each other, so by intersecting our polygons, we were able to create a complete digital model and transistor-level simulation of the chip.

This model is very accurate and can run classic 6502 programs, including Atari games. By rendering our polygons with colors corresponding to their 'high' or 'low' logic state, we can show, visually, exactly how the chip operates: how it reads data and instructions from memory, how its registers and internal busses operate, and how toggling a single input pin (the 'clock') on and off drives the entire chip to step through a program and get things done.

http://www.visual6502.org/
It might be worth pointing out that when the New Left arrived on the scene in the late 60s people like Marcuse (who wrote in the 50s early 60s mainly) were seen as overtly pessimistic and not terribly useful theoretically. Adorno and the Frankfurt School was never a darling of actual activists, just academics.

Marcuse was booed at the Free University of Berlin in 1968.
Please. there's a lack of cool software because people don't want to run through the hoops apple sets up.
> Sometimes, the right answer to "How long will this take?" is "It will take this long to get an answer to that question."

Yep, or sometimes "no idea, let me work on it for a day and get back to you". You can't expect an estimate for something with many unknowns to be very accurate so best to reduce the unknowns first.

Real world projects have too many factors out of your control as well (e.g. decision making and schedules of stakeholders, combinations of software/people/requirements you've never worked with before, evolving requirements) so this idea that you can guess the total number of hours with high accuracy as you get more experienced doesn't make a lot of sense to me.

Fixed price projects are also a way of saying "we genuinely don't know how long it's going to take, but we'll take on that risk instead of you".
In reality, few people have the time or want to make the effort to comb through and analyze original sources. So most of us rely to varying extent on who we trust and consider to have accurate opinions or assessments.

One huge problem with COVID has been the emergence of essentially propaganda pieces masquerading as detailed, rigorous analysis. These give people a false sense of confidence- "Hey I've done my research!" when in reality you can google for 20 minutes and come up with impressive looking links for whatever view you are already predisposed to believe.

I'm sure these existed before, but COVID has taken things to another level.
>but more importantly they're not reliant on another company's users.

Must be why they paid Apple $15B last year to be default search on Safari, a mob fee that increases by the year.
Tumor vaccines are not at all equivalent to CAR-T. CAR-T involves genetically reprogramming T cells with information encoding a specific signal to find cancer, recognize it like a lock and key, and then destroy it.

CAR-T > tumor vaccines in humans for blood malignancies, and we envision the same for dogs.

I know there are groups seeing some successes in solid tumors with tumor vaccines, however.
> and probably carry lighter loads

The EU standard is 40 tonnes (88000 lbs), usually in 2/3 or 3/2 axle combinations (2/3 usually includes a lifting axle).

Some countries have higher limits e.g. Finland allows up to 76t with special permits
> Now it seems that more of the contrarian (and even mainstream) takes are just repeating talking points.

This is the main thing to me. If someone disagreed with me here 15 years ago (I wish I still remembered the account, but oh well), I would have assumed that they personally saw something wrong in what I was saying and were reacting to it. Even if somebody wanted to pick a fight with me, it was because they, personally, wanted to pick a fight. (Whether with me or just the first person they disagreed with).

Now, someone disagreeing is likely to be knee-jerk reacting to what I said because it tripped across some red or blue team media shibboleth and I didn't say the right things so I must be one of the 'bad people', which is then how people proceed to talk to me. There are certain words, phrases, and topics that the media have turned so completely into litmus tests that they act as triggers to bypass people's critical thinking.

If you want to disagree with me, I want people disagreeing with ME, not the strawman communist or facist they've constructed in their heads.
You should have done more research before signing up imo.

I have synchronous gigabit wireless internet from Sail Internet. It has pretty much all the same issues you mentioned about Starlink except the last one, but I'm not making a video to complain about it.

Engineering involves trade-offs, and it's just a reality.
Apple never deploys dark patterns?
Also: elite isn't a multiplayer game.. It plays and feels like a single player game..

You be with 5 people on ship in star citizen and do different things.

There is no game like this...

None
It's strange that llvm runs slower (perhaps the of the 5s some of that is spent being compiled).

Could you share the fill_buffer.wasm (or the WAT file) so I can do some tests? Thanks!
Kremlin bans Deutsche Welle from operating in Russia
For sure.

I think there are two types of memories, and two types of notes as a result -- there's specific figures where you might only have to remember it for a couple days, and the exact value might be important, so that note/memory's value is very temporal. Then there's the stuff like problem solving strategies, where hopefully that information is integrated into your brain at some deeper level. The former might never be looked at again if it turns out you don't need the figure, the latter might never be looked at if the integration was successful.
Yeah! Most people don't realize it because it does pretty much just behave like UMA until you get to the extremes of performance tuning. The one gotcha that does potentially affect the general public is that thing about making sure you populate sets of 8 sticks if at all possible, but most server users will be populating sets of 8 anyway.

It's actually stunning how good a job AMD did there, I'm not dumping on it at all, for 99% of users it might as well be UMA. Naples very much acted like a four-socket system and Rome's quadrants more or less Just Work. I've always been very curious about what changed that it's so different, whether it's the off-chip interconnects being that much higher-latency than the on-chip interconnects, or what.
Those aren't general-purpose devices. You can't even get official SDKs unless you're a game studio.
> so when comcast goes to crap it's very important for her to be able to reconnect over starlink ASAP

Have you looked at something like Firewalla and multi-wan setup? https://help.firewalla.com/hc/en-us/articles/360051575473-Fi...
> If there’s any conclusion to be reached from BI‘s reporting, it’s that Microsoft wants to design the software platforms that the metaverse will run upon, rather than committing to the device itself. Microsoft said last year that that was Microsoft Mesh, a platform we were skeptical of at the time it was announced. By November, Microsoft’s mixed-reality plans had seemingly been scaled back to Teams avatars.

I always thought that Bill Gates' long-term plan/Microsoft's natural evolutionary direction was to get us all interacting with apps through a VR/AR platform called Microsoft Doors. Clearly I gave them too much credit.
Before I reached the end of the sentence I was imagining the solution to be some more exotic and nimble aircraft. Or maybe a deployable helipad. I just wasn't thinking with enough excess.
I like this take. There's a book called "Games people play" by E. Berne that changed how I think about things like this. It talks about how people on a biological level need to interact with others and how they'll unconsciously repeat a script (game) with predictable roles and results to accomplish that. The main insight is that these games don't necessarily need to have a positive outcome - people still get something out of it. So it gets repeated, to the puzzlement of any observers and sometimes even the participants.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Games_People_Play_(book)
Any idea which particular paperwork?

I know that the Democratic party uses the term "undocumented" rather than "illegal", presumably for rhetorical reasons. But I assumed that they also meant "undocumented" in the literal sense, i.e. that a person would have little or no paper trail to prove their residence.
>>What exactly would cause them to never deliver

concurrency issues, latency issues, poor database schemas, scaling issues, there's a lot of reasons internet scale things can grind to a halt.
What Was the TED Talk?
In 1992 we still used joysticks plugged into OG gameports, the ones using NE558 timers and manual pooling IO until all capacitors are charged http://www.minuszerodegrees.net/oa/OA%20-%20IBM%20Game%20Con...

Reading such gameport took >1ms, and you wanted more than one reading per second :)
>>> The reason why it is not done is because it would lay bare all the inequities in the system,

Is that a common justification for UBI? I have not heard it but it would be a big reasons for me to support it - any reading you know of?
> This is completely different than something like a military communications satellite where both ends of the connection are communicating through the same satellite.

Tell us you know nothing about military satcom without telling us you know nothing about military satcom.
Well hey, I was too young to be involved in the Battlecruiser 3000 AD usenet wars of the early 90's.[0] So this is like a second chance!

[0]https://web.archive.org/web/20060703160929/http://archive.ga...
Absolutely! We visited family in Italy last summer, and had an all-day drive. Just constant attention and input, compared to cruising along some 2 lane road in the US. Cars coming up behind you, whizzing by you. A slow old car up ahead. Big truck to pass. Tight curve. Road narrows. Road widens. Some dude in a BMW riding your bumper. For like 8 hours... I was so glad to get out of the car. If it hadn't been for the pandemic, I would have much rather taken a train and relaxed.
Very interesting! One reviewer on Steam summed it up as "Eve Offline" which is a great moniker
I think that an air/water heat pump on the tub, with say a COP of 8, would be less expensive to operate than propane or straight electric. But, I couldn't justify the capital expense. (Small hot tubs are electric.)

I like my wood/propane mix for heating, because it's immune to power outages. At some point I'll get too old to cut/split/haul wood, though, and will have to figure something else out.

I'm not sure why there's a push to eliminate gas cooking in favor of electricity. Perhaps some people are concerned with methane leaks in the natural gas distribution system.
I think you are both right. In Europe 55 (90 km/h) saves lifes, with some exceptions. Highways are rarely wide and straight, and they are packed with traffic. I cannot imagine a truck happily cruising at 120 km/h here.

Also we pay higher gas prices, no way a truck is profitable cruising at 120 km/h.
I checked because it seemed a bit expensive. :)
I don't know if you'd call it a bug exactly, but the fact you still can't name a file "con.txt" or "aux.bat" etc is pretty silly.
It sounds like the kind of game I'd like to watch other people play, with how big and expensive everything seems. Why would I want to spend $1k and wait to be bad at the game, when I can instead watch someone else who spent $10k and does cool things?
> So, "we" might currently view the BJP that way.

I'm not talking about "our" views. I'm talking about the BJP's conscious formulation. It's not an accusation, it's how they self described.

Just stay there instead of doing a grievance rodeo. I find the jazz playing in this comment far more confusing than Adorno. You seem to think what you're saying applies to everything, so it shouldn't be too difficult to apply it to one thing. I'm personally interested in why your first example would be a religious-nationalist party, intentionally patterned on European fascism, speaking a language constructed intentionally to remove "Persian" influence, which seems on the verge of doing ethnic cleansing.
IIRC trucks also get special speed limits (usually to 80 or 70) on some difficult highway spots, they also often et additional semi-dedicated “slow vehicle” lanes on climbs.
> It's an object lesson that too much money can be a bad thing. It's so easy for an embarrassment of riches to lead to hopeless feature creep and not really delivering anything.

Totally agree. I think they're addicted to keeping people engaged through upcoming features rather than an actual game. Fascinating.
I've always been curious what the live-in cabs are like in those big US rigs. Anyone got a good article?
iirc, react-dom (a separate package) needs to access that property as well, which is why it's exposed in the first place
That’s great news, but the major projects like BiCoin and Ethereum are super expensive to do transactions.

I hope Algorand takes off as micropayments are a really nice use case and I’d like to be able to use it.

Just simple stuff like sending $20 worth on a paper wallet to niblings for their birthday. I just want to stop using cash.
I guarantee you that the US spies on Israel and vise versa. I'd honestly be surprised if there was a single country both didn't spy on. But I'd say the same about Germany, Australia, France, Spain, UK, Russia, China, and many more.
Technically diesel engines do not strictly "engine brake" because of lack of throttle plate, and thus lack of pumping losses. However that doesn't mean that it won't slow down: friction losses, heat loss to cylinder walls, etc. still occur. Surely diesel passenger car will decelerate stronger when left in gear than in neutral. Given how many pages and pages of discussions you can find people arguing whether petrol or diesel engines brake stronger, it seems pumping loss doesn't make that much difference.
Really enjoy this take on rewrites:

> Someone is likely to point out all the problems your rewrite will bring. You’ll find it much easier to convince people if you’ve already throught these through, and you bring them to the conversation yourself.

I wish more people did this!
> Of course it's perpetually September for ~~Delphi~~ HN users, isn't it? [0]

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September
I know that "cancer" isn't actually one disease, it is a cacophony of different gene expressions in different tissues.

Immunotherapies like this IMO show the real issue with "curing" the disease: there won't be a one-size-fits-all pill to pop that will work.

Instead we may need individualized/highly customized medicine. Alas this might not be in the "profit profile" of a typical pharma company. So it might cost 250,000$ to cure cancer, but it is a CURE, genetically specific to your cancer and genetics. Not a perpetual therapy like the phama execs like.

That may take an army of lab workers, or some pretty interesting lab equipment.

But the payoff is great. FORTY PERCENT of Americans will be diagnosed with cancer in their lifetimes.
People around me in real life have been more angry in general, including friends and family.

And the internet is currently experiencing a huge dump in signal / noise rate, with the noise being full of anger, looking for something to complain about, a fight to pick, a clue something wrong has been done. And that's my feeling while I'm not on facebook, instagram, tik tok, don't have a google account and read a lot of technical stuff and blogs. I can't imagine what it is for the regular folk.

I believe this is partially because the media industry is now using internet as it used tv before, and the emotional engagement resulting is the same, only multiplied in speed and intensity.

But also because of the current tensions we have with covid, and the social, political and economical consequences.

And finally because, with all that stuff going on, there is a huge trust crisis in the world. We have been exposed to so much proofs of wrong doing and manipulation attempts lately nobody expect leaders, the medias or institutions to have good intentions nor be competent. PR telling you how good big corporations and their products have been overwhelming everything, including entertainment, news, and sites like HN.

Even the scientific world is washed out with so many bad studies, so much agenda, wrong incentives, bias and conflicts of interests the last line of defense of the intellect is getting attacked. It's not just your mum on facebook. And in a site like HN, this is kinda painful to live through.

So I think it's not far fetch to feel the mood is not at his best.
Impressive story, but what did your lawyer say about making this blog post before it is a 100% fine deal?
Except they aren't evenly distributed. Stargazing skews to nighttime hours while air traffic skews to daytime hours. Not to mention coastal vs inland densities.

That is an interesting comparison though! And it'd be cool to compare with more nuanced assumptions - maybe even factor in how contrails affect things in addition to the 1:1 satellite:plane maths.
Well this is going to vary hugely by country. I think that got easier in Portugal from 2017, so I was a little lucky in that regard. I think it is also fairly straight-forward in the UK/US too. We had to pay a €700 one-off fee, and we need to fill in a report (i.e. spreadsheet) once per quarter with our total customers (and various other bits).

We also need to log netflow data due to the EU counter terrorism directive, and keep it securely. Last I heard it had been deemed unconstitutional by the EU courts, but the law had yet to be revoked.

The hardest part BY FAR, was getting the fibre connection. My advice for this is to do your research to find the available providers in you area/country. There is no fibre map for Portugal, so this was tricky. Reach out to actual people and ask for contacts at telecoms companies in your country. You are looking for Direct Internet Access (DIA). This comment of mine is a bit relevant [1]

The WISP facebook groups [2] [3] really helped me with this, and in figuring out what I need to go and learn about. Don't let those groups stress you out though. I've un-followed them now.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30128418

[2] https://www.facebook.com/groups/249134358750920

[3] https://www.facebook.com/groups/2167897793237945
Logic is not complicared in your scenario either, but merely the veracity of the variables.
Wow, rough crowd.
How does that work? If the money was moved to ETH, how did they restore the funds?
How do you explain the plethora of sub standard apps already in both major app stores then?
They were happy to cancel and refund. I don't think small claims would magically create inventory or mobolize it in my direction if it existed.

It's not anything wrong other than claiming something was in stock when it wasn't. And customer service that was useless.

That's bad service, but not really the cause of any equitable harm.
Just because you prudently plan for 400A of peak capacity doesn't mean you would actually come anywhere near using it at any given time. Part of building a house in the woods is planning for contingencies.
In addition to what others have written (mainly, loss of tumor antigen target CD19) the antigen receptor (part of the CAR) can be recognized as foreign (FMC63 on human CD19 targeting CARs is mouse origin) and the body will generate an antibody response to it. Thus, the second time CAR-T is infused, they are quickly rejected.
Somebody has deep pockets to fix such a blunder.

Where is this money coming from?

Who had enough ETH lying around to refill the bridge? They certainly didn't just buy it on the open market, that would have moved the SOLETH ratio.
Thank you! It took some iterations, but we got there :D
I think also a lot of the world is negative minded towards the challenges they're facing. Mindset/framing makes a very big difference in how challenges are interpreted and how they stress the system.

I would suggest there is a very general decrease in gratitude, humility, and an increase in entitlement.
So, the so-called low transaction fees is not standard. In essence proving itself to be a gimmick...
> anyone who manages to stay in the country long enough.

If you're talking about DACA their eligibility to change of status is also measured in decades. But you have the problem of being detained and deported at any moment during those decades of waiting.

And for point 2 you've upped the penalties to tax evasion as well. If the company you work for knows you are working illegaly or no in the US and not paying payroll taxes on it it's going to cause a lot more problems.
Is that survivorship bias here? surely people in Africa should have higher rate of the mutation. because people who didn't have it died from malaria.
this really tickles my lifelong toxic fascination with estimation + failures thereof

and also makes me believe that better estimation tools enable crowdfunding to vastly increase in scope (and have benefits within orgs as well)
This is a terrible idea.

Some American politicians have hinted at the possibility of mass amnesty for illegal immigrants, but it is an issue that is widely unpopular--partially due to how that could change the eligible voter population.

I think it is more likely that amnesty either never happens, or it is only offered to specific small groups of people.

Otherwise, America is extremely unkind towards anybody who breaks their laws--especially if your goal is to later apply for a visa or Green Card.

Finally, crossing through the southern border is not so easy. Other immigrants die when they make the journey.
I'll take my chances with modern science and medicine, thank you (even with some significant ambiguities and occasional missteps (especially WRT our environment.)

How pre historic humans survived is like how many species survive today- have a brood or litter of 10, if 3 or 4 make it to breeding age to continue your line you've done well!