skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A lot of this is poorly informed. The reason many places can't get service isn't the number of satellites, it's the number of ground stations. The satellites don't communicate with each other, only ground stations, so there have to be some near you that the satellites can see for the entire time they're over you (either one very close to you or several farther away but surrounding you), or your signals don't have anywhere to go. The next generation of satellites will be able to communicate with each other, but they haven't really started launching in earnest yet. It may have to wait for Starship.

The proprietary connector is annoying but the antenna needs 100+ watts. Power over Ethernet doesn't support that, so the antenna connector can't use standard Ethernet. If the router additionally had a standard Ethernet port then it wouldn't be weatherproof, which was clearly a design goal. They should really have done some kind of weatherproof housing for an Ethernet connector. I expect they will on the next version.

Kessler syndrome is not going to happen because unlike their competitors SpaceX intentionally put all their satellites in very low orbit where the atmosphere naturally cleans up any debris within a couple of years. That's something uniquely enabled by SpaceX's low launch costs because it limits the useful life of the satellites, requiring frequent replacement. But it's worth it.
I just wonder where the software for it is at. Oculus is chugging along and I believe that can get quite good.
But building a impressive MMO-like 3D world/game is probably a 5-10 year endeavor and runs a high risk that it won’t be fun or novel. I guess they’ll mainly build the platforms but then they need someone to build the worlds on top of it.
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This is just wrong. I would question if you ever went on Myspace.

Facebook figured out that using your real full name in an electronic social network had huge advantages in terms of connecting your real world social network.

They killed Myspace because of the network effect the above had when people started finding their friends from high school easily online. Early on I think you even had to join a network specifically for your high school so everyone had their first and last names along with their labeling for their high school.

It sounds stupid and obvious now but before Facebook the average person didn't broadcast their first and last name on the internet.
Did you see that post from last week https://blog.polyglot.network/backend.sql-+-frontend.js-love?

You can set arbitrary headers with postgrest so you can use it to serve pages. I don't know if this is exactly what you mean but it's as close to "dbms with its own web server" as I've seen.

It's also just cool lol. Though as much as I like plpgsql and it would be hilarious to use it as a templating engine I don't really have a use for this.
Looking at it, it looks like equal parts Zombo.com and also a scam?
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You misunderstand every reply here and elsewhere. Nobody cares that you are still holding. Nobody. What you do with your portfolio is up to you.

What people do care about is telling you that no, there isn’t some shadowy cabal of hedge funds with your name pinned to a wall under the heading “number one risk to the financial system”.

Continue to hold, but please do understand you’re quite deep in a self-reinforcing grandiose doomsday conspiracy that makes you feel special. None of which have ever historically bore fruit, not for lack of waiting and money invested.
This article carries way too much water for PG&E. Sad, but I guess since we're gearing up for a net-metering 3.0[1] fight we'll see more and more articles like this one.

Here's the places where I think it misses the mark:

* The energy generation costs listed by the author actually includes rooftop solar. PG&E paid exactly $0 for you to spend $30k installing the panels, so that number is low for PG&E for a reason.

* PG&E turns around and sells your solar power to people enrolled in "Solar Choice" plans who will pay 50% more for electricity than what PG&E net metered you.

* California has a green energy mandate and rooftop solar is one of the ways PG&E can meet the mandate while offloading the entire cost of the system onto the homeowners.

* Net metering last for 1 year and after that PG&E "credits" you the wholesale value of your excess electricity, which they value at approximately 1c/kWh even though they charged other people $0.40/kWh during peak time for that power you exported.

* The CA legislator mandated all new homes are installed with solar panels. Kind of makes sense why PG&E was favorable of this bill. PG&E again has offloaded the cost of installing green energy generation on someone else.

* The monthly non-bypassable fee that the author describes as "pretty low" is actually closer to $10/month and expected to rise with NEM 3.0 to $50 a month or more. Keep in mind that PG&E has 5.5 million customers, so this number is significant.

* Grid defection is illegal in most municipalities so even if someone wanted to install a battery and go off-grid they still have to pay the $10 a month non-bypassable PG&E fees.

Net Metering 3.0[1] "fixes" the problem the author attempts to describe, but really it's a rug-pull on everyone in CA who spent tens of thousands of dollars to install rooftop solar.

Customers installing solar panels at their expense is a subsidy FOR PG&E, not the other way around despite what this spin attempts to portray.

1. https://www.solarreviews.com/blog/california-net-metering-ch...
Genealogy of Relational Database Management Systems [pdf]
Facebook is passive. It's a little weird to email pictures of your kids to your entire contact list every couples days.
afaik they are looking at other options [1]. MobileCoin is a very shady project created only to benefit creators, only 15% of coins in circulation were sold out, the rest is kept by creators [2] Moxie has personal financial interests in MobileCoin [3]:

>A year ago, Platformer was the first to report that Signal was considering adding cryptocurrency payments to the platform, and it started with MobileCoin. Signal CEO Moxie Marlinspike has served as an adviser to the MobileCoin cryptocurrency, which is built on the Stellar blockchain and is designed to make payments as anonymous as cash.

If you're interested in monero in singal check this project https://ccs.getmonero.org/proposals/vd-molly-payments-stage1...

[1] We want payments in Signal to be fast, private, and work well on mobile devices. The first payments protocol we’ve added support for is a privacy focused payments network called MobileCoin, which has its own currency, MOB. https://signal.org/blog/help-us-test-payments-in-signal/

[2] https://messari.io/asset/mobilecoin/profile/launch-and-initi...

[3] https://www.theverge.com/22872133/signal-cryptocurrency-paym...
Crypto offers stable coins (USD, EUR, KRC etc.) and non stable, volatile assets (BTC, ETH, SOL).

The original poster complained about:

A) Crypto being too volatile
B) Crypto recreating existing finance

Which seems to be a contradiction.
This bandwagon only happened because OSM gained traction, sometime in the 2010s. Sure, popularity breeds more popularity, afterwards. Even for all this, the biggest single event that boosted interest in OSM was, ironically, Google imposing far stricter gratis limits on its Maps, a few years back (2018, IIRC?)
True. Languages with static type checking probably have this easier because you'll have some warnings about differences in scopes or unused variables.
> grandfather

What do you call your dad's dad then?
These kids may not have a trust fund, but to have already bought and sold a Vancouver townhouse with enough equity to buy raw land and build a fairly baller house on it… they definitely had parental help.
IMO The tone of HN comments is teetering over the edge of decorum, similar to the atmosphere of Reddit prior to every new nadir of commentary there.

I'm not going to look through rose-tinted glasses and suggest "things were better in the good ol' days". Contrarian reactions to top posts are the bread-and-butter of a healthy message board.

However, to me it feels like the quality of these contrarian takes have gone down. People seem far more 'committed' to pushing their positions to incense others with overgeneralizing karma-clickbait. This causes the dialectic to become more of a debate instead of a deliberation, and to me the latter is far more useful and engaging.

With that said, I also know that my tastes change as I get older, so this could truly be my own delusion.
Immutability is the natural state of the past. In the real world, if I give someone money erroneously, the erroneous transfer is not "undone" but rather a new transfer that has the reverse effect of the original transfer is performed. Double-entry bookkeeping doesn't allow for penciling-in corrections. In git this is a revert commit.
You do. The good part is that WiFi roaming via 802.11r on OpenWRT is a breeze to configure and has been working flawlessly for me.
In practice local generation and storage has fewer possible customers. The grid has limits on how much can be exported from a residential substation. A generator connected to a big substation can send electricity to millions of potential customers. And a battery can receive energy from all over the grid. The local intermittency is easier to iron out when you can benefit from geographical separation, different modes of generation and different weather conditions.
Seriously? Is the boot camp predatory or were these people just doing it for the money and realized they didn't like the work?

I like boot camps as an opportunity for Junior Devs to break in but seems like they can prey on people looking for an easy payday.
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> Not sure where you are but you can often check where your money is invested and change funds

I did and I found out they just buy 3 bonds and 2 ETFs.
Very standard stuff. You can learn enough about bonds and ETFs to buy them yourselves and literally save HALF of your savings at retirement time.
The noise level of some US trucks still surprises me. Jet engine like.
Would love to hear your story and the specifics of his alternate treatment.

Thank-you for sharing your story.
A first impression of the upcoming “Briar Mailbox”
By the way, BASIC-DOS is from the same author as pcjs.
The cost of the vehicle is irrelevant for autonomy, what's important is the cost of the driver. And for a freight train a mile long, that is pretty negligable. For a taxi carrying one passenger, not so much.
Oh thank god.

Is there a multi-player cooperative version? I'll find out soon enough. If not: please add, I'll pay you.

(I don't currently have the bandwidth to make my own. Sorry.)

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I've been searching hi & low for online activities to do with my mom.

Turn-based games like Words with Friends are now beyond her kin. Especially all that freemium and social and achievement crap. Holy shit, I just want to play scrabble with my mom. But it has to be real-time, so I can keep talking to her, nudges, get her unstuck.

Mom is also really into Wheel of Fortune. Family tradition. We used to sit around, competitive, talking trash. I've tried to find Watch Party versions of any game show. Nadda.

Such a missed business opportunity. Especially with all additional social isolation.
I looooove this stuff!

I'm sure you're aware, but here's some other related works I'm a fan of.

https://esolangs.org/wiki/Turing_Paint

https://esolangs.org/wiki/Piet

https://esolangs.org/wiki/Drawfuck
In Australia, I think the default style has changed over time. Back in the 1980s, Mack and Kenworth were the dominant brands. Now there's more of a mix, with the likes of Volvo and Scania doing well, but Mack and Kenworth are still in the top 10.[1]

[1] https://www.trucksales.com.au/editorial/details/2020-truck-s...
> I try to explain to people who want me to pause a job and do something else that in my head I have this large, abstract structure of what I am trying to build, that is in an abstraction that itself is ephemeral -- it doesn't map nicely onto black boxes or pipes or anything. It is whatever works at that moment, and it requires me to tour it in my head all the time for it to exist at all.

you can send them this comic directly: https://i.imgur.com/3uyRWGJ.jpg
Extra crap = extra weight.
Extra crap = extra complexity = extra maintenance costs.
"Sophistication" does not always equal better!

More macho - what a laugh! Keep it stupid simple.
Oil tanker capable of carrying 2M barrels explodes off coast of Nigeria
Yeah, the article mentions this...

>All that being said, we must underscore that spotting a totally new and exotic aircraft design in the open at Area 51 is largely unprecedented, and for very good reason.
Seems like Mexicans are not punished for taking off the muffler or generally just using 'unsafe' vehicles.
> it can be 2-5 times the price of high quality black market weed.

Only the refillable prescription containers are 2-5 times the price. ;-)
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Teaching System 1
Aside from the obvious problem (which poor people) it is a very interesting idea to remove all subsidies (explicit and implicit). Terrifying but interesting
We’re also working on something like this, but we’re making a game around it

https://charperbonaroo.github.io/bls/#0
One reason would be that CD4 and CD8 populations undergo major changes with age. There’s a shift towards exhausted phenotype. Immune system produces fewer and fewer naive T cells in the bone marrow, thymus is less efficient in adulthood as well. I’d imagine CAR-Ts are less efficient in older adults. So getting in relapse after a decade would put a patient in a different position.
Aha! I had seen this before, and lost it. Thanks :-)
Huh. My algorithm, exactly!

I quit slashdot when basically every story started hitting 100+ comments. When 100+ comment stories were maybe once-a-day thing, slashdot was an outstanding board.

I have noticed the rule applies very widely, including on subreddits.
Thanks for this - I have what you might call champagne taste on a beer budget. I've always wanted to live in a small, but highly efficient house in the woods. You know, something that looks like it came from an architectural magazine. But I am consistently blown away by what even pre-fab homes cost. I clearly don't have the budget that the author does, but the process felt eerily similar to mine so far.

It's never mentioned how much acreage was purchased, I don't think. My mental block is anything sub 5 acres where I am looking. My current trouble is that I don't live anywhere near where the property I am looking at is. Getting there is… quite a to-do. I'm leery of putting much trust in a realtor as my eyes/ears given that 1.) the property is cheap enough that their commission will be small potatoes and 2.) they have an incentive to sell you _something_. How does one navigate that part? How much of the soil test/survey/etc was done pre-sales, how much was a contingency, or do you just YOLO it?
It’s illusory. The feeling is as old as the hills.

If you want to see some real aggressive behavior, look at HN during its first year. I was shocked. My rose tinted glasses made year one look a lot nicer than it was.
The satellites just relay signals from a customer ground station to a Starlink-owned ground station. That ground station has a wired Internet connection.

So coverage at your house is dependent on you and a Starlink ground station being in the ground track of some Starlink satellites. Because of their low altitude it's entirely possible for your house being in the ground track of satellites but the nearest Starlink ground station being outside.

At some point in the future Starlink satellites will have laser communications between each other. Then only one in that group needs to be able to see a Starlink ground station and the others can route customer signals to it.
whoa that is a mansion, not a "modern home"

I had the opportunity to stay very nice place up in BC last summer — at the price of constant fear that we might need to hop in the car and leave everything behind at any second. And this was in a fairly big town (Kelowna).

I can't imagine what the risks are for living in a place like this is...
>Where do the worn out NL semis go?

Eastern Europe.
You need to have a Euro 5 or Euro 6 diesel engine to be allowed in many Western European cities as a commercial truck. So old trucks aren't viable.
> Why is it a problem?

People need government services, the government needs money to provide them. If corporations don't pay enough taxes, individuals and small businesses need to be taxed higher. Taxes are a burden on them. We shouldn't do that.

> Why isn't government overspending ever a problem?

It is, like all the time. When is the last time you heard something like a pre-election debate that didn't bring up government overspending?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kammback

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drag_coefficient
10 years ago, I would think to myself "Man, it feels like we're headed for a civil war"; but, I didn't say anything as I wrote it off to being too focused on the present-term context. I compared the times to the 1960s, when there was a lot of unrest and division. 5 years ago, though, things seemed even worse, and I began wondering out loud if we're headed for civil war.

Now, I think we're closer than ever to a real split. Covid has exacerbated it all. People are self-sorting in terms of migrations from blue states to red states, and from cities to suburbs and rural areas.

This summer, and the elections in November, could be flashpoints of something larger and worse -- I hope we can hold it together.

As for HN toxicity -- beware items whose number of comments exceeds the votes for the article itself; it's a rough metric for how big the flames are.
But it's not that. We're not talking about training narrowly intelligent ML systems for specific problems. You're right, that's a distinct skill. We're talking about a ML system that can write code based on some higher-than-now level of human input. What that level will/could be is what we're arguing about. Whether it has to be done by some kind of programmer-like person or whether it can be a more generic user/product-owner/product manager. I.e. someone who understands the problem domain but doesn't know too much about the solution domain/technology.

Those ML/AI systems will also have to be built, coded and trained but that's a job for a very small set of people compared to the total number of end users (and the total number of developers on the market today). And, as the ML/AI field stands, it always seem to turn out that specialized algorithms that do what the ML layer cannot do, get pretty quickly eliminated by the ML layer. So most solutions always gets closer and closer to end-to-end.
Extant root parent
If others are wondering what a road train looks like:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Road_train
Who is "we"?

The vast majority of people love ad supported services. They prefer free/low cost to expensive and express this preference regularly. They don't think advertising is evil, and in fact many people voluntarily wear adverts on their own clothes.

Online advertising pays for a massive amount of stuff. If it dies, then the outcome is not "everything stays the same but somehow better". The outcome is that a lot of services we take for granted go away and either don't come back at all, or come back far worse because their market is now much smaller and only rich people pay for it.

To put this in perspective, when I worked at Google they had a prototype internal service that let you "buy" your way out of seeing ads by bidding against yourself in the auction. The idea was to allow people to pay for an ad-free internet, but without making users freeloaders on the services they used (that's ad blocking and exists already). I thought, what a great idea. I'll sign up. Result: to get rid of a just a fraction of all the ads I was seeing online (my guess, ~20% of ads I saw were served by Google) would have costed $200-$300 per month.

After seeing the scale at which advertisers were subsidizing my online experience, I lost interest, as did everyone else. Paying 4x as much as my entire normal internet bill just to see fewer ads, not even get ridding of all of them, just wasn't worth it.

The reality is that the public aren't demanding restrictions on online advertising. They don't care. They like free stuff and they've got nothing against advertisers. This is a war being waged for political and commercial reasons, dressed up as consumer protection, and if/when it actually starts to bite in visible ways, a whole lot of people are going to be mighty shocked at how upset the public will get.
> Adding an RJ45 jack directly to dishy might actually complicate the construction

It wasn't an additional jack on dishy. It was an additional jack on the router.

See here for an example of the router: https://www.androidcentral.com/sites/androidcentral.com/file... One of those ports connects to the Starlink (through another box which provides the POE), and the other is labeled `aux` and is available for LAN.

My understanding for the newer routers is there is now only the single port. The router itself doesn't appear to be weatherproof'ed in any way, and already needs to be installed indoors, so I think it'd just be the cost of the RJ45 jack (and whatever internal differences for the router).

It just...seems like it cannot be much of a cost savings.
This is kind of arguing in circles, though. A big part of the reason media is so hard on Trump is that he is classless and they were embarrassed he was their president. It's not like his public image was any better in 1990 well before he ever openly declared political ambitions and decided he was a Republican. He'd been a sideshow clown for decades. Arguably, the ridiculous level of polarization we already had is the only reason he got to where he is. Even most Republicans were embarrassed of him until he won the nomination and they rallied to the only option left that wasn't a Democrat. But thanks to having way too many candidates in the primary, he didn't need the support of "most" Republicans. He just needed more than Ted Cruz and Jeb Bush.
I feel the same way. I like the idea of boot camps giving opportunities to junior Devs to break into the industry but to sell them as equivalent to a CS degree and claim 2 months leads to a 6 figure payday seems like it leads to dysfunction.
Take a look at colorcet.
https://colorcet.holoviz.org/
But this isn't Uber or even crypto.

There are clear definitions, regulations, and penalties for operating as a dollar holding/ transferring financial institution.

Especially since the percentage paid as a fee makes it essentially a defaulted account, or at least a service not provided and funds not returned.

These types of donation accounts have a long history at brick banks of helping those in need (while taking a hefty percentage off the top). It's not a new idea.

I suspect it's more likely this isn't lack of regulation, so much as a loophole or stretched legal definition. Maybe someone here is familiar with their regulatory classification. You don't launch something like this without reasonably ensuring the feds aren't coming after you.
Why should I care about Facebook's poor monetization model? Put another way, is Facebook providing any value for which people are willing to pay?