skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What if civilizations go dark after a century or two of rapid technological progress. Look at what we're doing. The bulk of our data bandwidth is now confined to fiber optics, that leak virtually nothing to outer space. Remaining wireless comms interfere with one another, using ever decreasing power, and are designed to be hard to distinguish from noise. It's like we've enclosed ourselves in a primitive Dyson sphere.

A faint shift in the molecular spectrum of our atmosphere might be telling.
In context of 1700 starlink satellites already in orbit and 30+ launches that put them there, it’s a rounding error.

Same goes for carbon impact, etc.
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It is not that the satellites were insufficiently shielded against solar storms, it's that the atmosphere was impacted and thus their tactic of low Earth orbit didn't work at this precise moment.
I felt the same way when I had scrum imposed on me by an incompetent person. I have since come back around and implemented scrum myself to track some stuff I’m working on. It’s good for details.
I hate teams too.
Jason Donenfeld (the creator of wireguard) has a patreon by the way: https://www.patreon.com/zx2c4
The press release implies that the issue is known. They entered a safe mode just after launch, and had not yet reached an orbit from which they were able to successfully leave safe mode.
OverSight [1] is even better because it can identify the process that is accessing the webcam/mic, as well as any additional processes trying to invisibly piggyback on legit webcam/mic usage.

1. https://objective-see.com/products/oversight.html
Lidar was never in a production Tesla, however they do run Lidar cars with manufacturer plates through the streets to keep HD maps up-to-date (I imagine they contract out/buy HD maps for the rest of the US). Radar is also still fully enabled unless they're in a 3/Y with a Radar and they have FSD beta, as up-to-date non-fsd radar cars can still TACC up to 90 MPH.

*: HD maps are mainly for complicated interchanges, visualizations, and aid in not curbing the rims of the car; a few early FSD videos show what it does when it really has no map data, and it's less confident overall in turns as it tries to make out the edges of a road.
That logging will give you who/when but won’t have things like field level access logging or information about the analysis pipeline itself.

With regards to data locality, I was more thinking about running a map reduce or similar ETL pipeline.
The airlines created this problem for themselves by forcing people to pay additional for checked baggage when fuel prices were high. This is the unintended consequence of that action.

Bring back checked bags as part of the flight cost and not some a la carte race to the bottom pricing model.
Console – An Interview with Tga of Kaboomjs, a JavaScript Game Dev Lib for Noobs
> I've always found the 'next day' glow to be quite nice.

I’m not sure I’ve ever experienced the afterglow in the way many people describe it. Next day I would just feel kinda drowsy, and a bit muted and dumbed down.
That's fair but sometimes there are things I learn iteratively and fast interaction with computers comes really handy there
> But I don't see how RISC has any hope, as ARM is already everywhere

You are ignoring the very low end.

ARM requires a royalty. It's not much, but it is what it is. RISC-V requires no such royalty (that I know of).

At the lowest end kind of chips, a fraction of a penny royalty is a big deal.

Currently, those chips currently all use proprietary designs. All the tools supporting those chips are absolute trash, as expected. Converging to a single architecture that can use all the same design tools and software ecosystem would be a big win.

I view RISC-V like I view autoformatters. It actually kinda sucks, nobody likes it very much, but converging to a single point brings more benefits than holding to your own unique opinions.

Aside: If I had my drothers, I'd converge backward to something like DEC Alpha EV-4/EV-5 (21064/21164). EV-4 was good enough to provide the basis for the StrongARM architecture. The software tooling for those chips still exists even if a bit dusty. MIPS dumb-ass byte access patents have long expired so we can have real byte access instructions. And in-order execution is often a plus in the embedded world rather than a minus.
I'm typing this right now on my 11" MacBook Air (Mid 2012). It weighs 2.4 lbs, 15% less than the current Macbook Air 13.
1700 - 40 = 1660. Rounded it to the nearest integer.
> USE means that all symbols from package A become accessible in package B.

All exported symbols from package A become accessible in package B.

Also, symbols that package A itself uses from another package are not visible by using package A.

You can create an intermediate package to isolate yourself:

(defpackage foo-2019
(:use foo)
(:export this that other thing))

Now you can ":use foo-2019" and get only those four symbols from foo. The :export actually imports those symbols into foo-2019, and then marks them for export. The :use foo makes all of foo's exported symbols symbols visible in foo-2019, and this allows the :export clause to refer to them.
From the press release:

"up to 40 of the satellites will reenter or already have reentered the Earth’s atmosphere. The deorbiting satellites pose zero collision risk with other satellites and by design demise upon atmospheric reentry—meaning no orbital debris is created and no satellite parts hit the ground."

The satellites are deliberately inserted into a low orbit so that any that fail to initialize properly will get pulled down by atmospheric drag. After successful initialization, they travel to a higher orbit (where presumably deorbiting under failure is more of an issue).
"You think every homeless family gets a $7000 apartment?"

No, and it's pretty disingenuous for you to put words in my mouth.

It's not so much what HUD spends as what those individuals would need to pay. $500 is an extremely low estimate that would still mean $6k per year (assuming they live in the cheapest stuff they can find). Average costs in most cities for a studio apartment are generally over $1k, giving about $12k per year.

This is only one of the many things eliminated under the proposal. Healthcare is the real big rock and could bankrupt anyone needing substantial care. Even just premiums run from $150-300 per month for the cheapest plans (depending on various factors).
so, basically Clean Architecture reiterated.
You pay more per kwh than I do, you get rolling blackouts, and mine is nuclear energy...
The flipside viewpoint is that cryptocurrency bypasses censorability by large corporates; cryptocurrency embodies the freedoms that appear to be espoused so loudly and delightedy by "the US"^.

Guns = good

Cryptocurrency = bad

Opinions I agree with = good

Opinions I disagree with = bad

Me getting mine = good

Someone else getting theirs = bad

Censorship is the battleground issue for the 2020's.

^Apologies for the lumping of 300 million people into a single sentence description, it's for the sake of trying to make a point of the entanglement of "the US" and "freedom" - which isn't a bad thing.
Small hole in the wall stores in Harbin don’t bother putting ice cream in freezer sun the winter.
Yes! Those ads were so inspirational!
I'm reading Guns, Germs, and Steel which goes into some detail in this topic
I do that a lot already, in my dumb car.
> I also think there is a certain fear or outrage around this stuff which is fueled by "technology" or the unknown.

From other communities I could buy the "fear of the unknown" bit. But here, most of us are involved in the production of software in some form. It's not the unknown that we fear, it's the known. We fully understand what modern software is actually capable of, and we know that it's not ready for prime time in these kinds of environments.

Further, many of us have been in a chaotic public beta before, and seeing those patterns play out during a beta test of lethal machinery is really scary. Rapid chaotic iteration is fine when it's a simple SaaS product. Not so much with Tesla.
Not the developer but nice catch. const match would be null, not undefined, if the regex search does not match, right?
Ah that one is more useful.

yourcalendricalfallacyis.com should have categories. General > Generic Programming > language specific
That's part of the reason there's just so much junk flying around in orbit.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kessler_syndrome
This is nicely done, despite some nitpicks in the comments; it should be interpreted as giving a qualitative picture. The recent development not mentioned is that China is launching a massive effort to bootstrap its own EDA industry, and they've poached a number of stars from the big three, with very generous signing bonuses. This is to get around sanctions, which are starting to bite.
In scientific notation (orders of magnitude is what matters here):

1.700e3 rounded -> 2e3

1.660e3 rounded -> 2e3

Put another way: if your bill for lunch is $16.60, wouldn't you just as easily call it $17? Or even $20, if you're feeling a bit imprecise?
Or Apple...
You are actually largely in agreement with the author of the article. It just takes a a while to get there (and criticizes those conclusions from a slightly different angle).
Missing only Safari, my browser of choice
Thousands of Mazdas in the Seattle area are stuck on a single FM radio station
Of course we do. If you can get "Strong Towns and others", whatever exactly that is, to end the car pandemic, that would be a a moonshot wouldn't it? Maybe not technologically but politically and socially.

You're not the first one to have thought it's a good idea or that we should try to do something about it. It's not like it's easy and people have just decided not to.
Thanks for clarifying! This wasn't obvious, but it's clear now.

Someone downvoted my comment. Stay classy, HN.
Some further info: https://www.geekwire.com/2022/youre-listening-to-kuow-like-i...
And then the long-tail events completely wipe out decades of savings. Griddy was charging over $9/kwh last year.
Is it possible to predict a geomagnetic storm, before launching?
If you read the article, SpaceX specifically designed the process to avoid orbiting junk.
If you bet with the -1/x utility function, then the optimal strategy is to always bet about 10.1% of your money. I find this to give a good tradeoff between the variance and the rate of exponential growth.
I am surprised Apple didn't make this a closed system and compete with Square for small businesses.

Apple isn't Microsoft. When was the last time Apple created something consumer facing from scratch instead of using industry standards or market leaders if they exist? They generally don't explicitly compete with commodity businesses unless there's something unique they're attempting to accomplish. They do stuff just because they can.

They partnered with the banks to create Apple Pay.

They partnered with Goldman Sachs and MasterCard to create the Apple credit card.

Besides, it would be a huge undertaking to build out a payment platform like Square to compete with them. Of course they could have bought any number of payment processors if they wanted to if they wanted to go that route.

Stripe and Shopify already have millions of customers so it only makes sense to partner with them.

The obvious thing most people on this thread is this being the basis for Apple's cryptocurrency aspirations.

Tim Cook owns some and he said Apple as a company is looking into cryptocurrency [1]. It only makes sense that Apple will eventually support bitcoin and other transactions natively on the iPhone, peer to peer.

[1]: "Tim Cook said Apple is looking at cryptocurrency – Here’s what the company is likely to do" https://9to5mac.com/2021/12/28/comment-tim-cook-said-apple-i...
That's such a hack. Seriously, this is how we do tech in 2022?
I disable Spectre mitigations on my Linux workstation since it doesn't host VMs or browsers. I'm sure if those were enabled it'd go much slower. But either way it's pretty clear that a lot of stuff got added to the kernel since 2.6.18 that slows down process launches dramatically, then some of it probably got optimized, and the rest stuck. Would be interesting to know what it is.
Microsoft Teams does the same thing on Linux, so yeah.
What is your current belief and what new belief would you have if supplied with that evidence. We never really spelled out exactly what the claim was.

My understanding so far is that "I currently believe prohibition of inanimate objects has no effect. If supplied with this evidence, then I would believe prohibition of inanimate objects would have an effect."

edit: also under what criteria would be used to judge whether a prohibition "maintains the 4th amendment protections in US"? Any specific relevant cases? If I go hunting for evidence, I want to make sure the goalposts are not moved.
I wish everyone thought this way :/
Accidental implosion yields new measurement for ocean's deepest point
WebEx and Skype also have web browser versions. I don't know about the other ones. But you can generally use these apps without having to run an executable or install anything.
Future of Accomadation as house prices soar
It seems that Tesla’s main issue is detection, not decision making (well at least their biggest issue).

Sure, some environments like extreme weather are not being entered by most self-driving companies. However, their detection stacks in general work fine in the vast majority of places, it’s their decision making that needs work.

As others pointed out, Uber failed not because of a lack of detection of the person. Moreover, the cases where Tesla publicly fails aren’t particularly challenging for detection (daylight, good weather).
I hope you're right, and I really mean that, because I have personally made a large bet that the stock market peaked in Dec / Jan. However, I am an eternal pessimist, so I kind of assume my bet won't pay off and this new meme stock bubble economy is ACTUALLY the new normal. God I hope you're right.
>Here in London we've had zero snow this winter so far so does that mean we haven't had a winter?

If it didn't get colder than fall than it would be possible to skip winter.
This does not surprise me that it exists. I’m sure they target every conservative forum and back it up. Then when a person becomes political they cross check all of these for incriminating data.
> RISC-V seems to me to have two major opportunities.

> - Where a free ISA allows innovation and experimentation in a way that Arm would not permit.

I would say that the two major innovations of RISC-V are:

- Composability.

- Extensibility (that also fosters experimentation).

Each ARM version X.Y comes with a license and with a condition: «thou shalt taketh either everything or nothing»; RISC-V has neither a license nor strings attached and is «thou may useth only what thou needeth». Anyone who does not need SIMD or the vector processing can do away with them in the silicon. It saves the die size[0] and costs. This is the composability aspect.

Extensions planned out and/or reserved for future use (e.g. 128-bit extension of RISC-V), and the ability to add custom instructions to experiment with (and possible contribute to the RISC-V forum). This is the extensibility aspect.

Other existing open ISA (MIPS, POWER SuperH J-2? – unsure on the status of the last one) do not offer composability and extensibility capabilities, which leads me to reason that it is the major innovation(s) of RISC-V.

[0] Albeit it is somewhat fraught with the danger of creating a highly fragmented RISC-V CPU market where the software has to accommodate every possible permutation of RISC-V extensions and inject an emulation layer for extensions missing in the die.
Your framing assumes as a given that Tesla's self-driving tech will eventually succeed given a suitable buffer for human collateral damage, but there is no guarantee that this is the case and Elon's decade of falsehoods regarding the timeline and capabilities of FSD technology doesn't inspire confidence.
I believe a geomagnetic storm calls for rerouting power to the subspace accelerators backing your deflector dish, and of course sufficient impulse power to maintain an appropriate heading, not rerouting to the SIF. Please get your spaceship right. It's a technical forum!
Someday potentially we could buy/lease/rent our own satelites over satelites.com use it for personal research, photography etc.,
Not to be dick but how does this get to the front page. it's just a Wikipedia copy of some equations.
... I think I've been screwed over enough times by Google now that I would never, ever, ever, ever, ever rely on them for anything where I expect business continuity. I've done too much business with Google to ever do business with Google.

I can't imagine their cloud division ever winning with Amazon and Azure exactly because there are happy GSuite/Youtube/etc. customers like me around, making sure no one ever trusts them for anything again.
are there really no other alternatives?

did you also evaluate standalone email platforms?

is there just no commercial email provider with those features or is there not even any tech out there that solves those problems?

with shared mailboxes i assume you mean the ability for multiple people to access mails to an address and have everyone synced on responses without sharing login.
> He's also smart enough to know he'll get a better one by giving his quest visibility.

The popularity of a blog post on HN rarely translates into any material gains. At best only serves to boost one’s ego for a day. The next day everything remains the same. Such is the life of someone who seeks validation over the internet.
Overlay networks could offer a good solution here. Today if you have software on OP's grandma's laptop that starts a Wireguard tunnel to a relay host, the laptop can have a stable IPv6 address to which you can connect to. ZeroTier and Tailscale enable this as well.
The amount of money that goes to graft and consultants and "assessments" on these projects is insane. Even when you account for higher land and labor prices it shouldn't be this much. US has eminent domain, US has domestic technology, there's just no reason that its $105B when China would have built 10x this much rail in the 15 years since prop 1a was passed for that cost. 1300 km for the proposed final length, means it would have cost about $26B in China[1] at $20M/km, and it would have already been built.

[1]https://www.worldbank.org/en/news/press-release/2014/07/10/c...
A falcon 9 uses about as much fuel as three transatlantic flights, doesn't it?
I'm sure he knows the drill.

(Credit to Owl City for that one.)
Why did a log line cost money? Does GCP charge for logging?
> The carbon impact of just one launch is pretty obscene.

It really isn't. It's what, 15 aeroplane flights' worth? For the sake of bringing internet to hundreds of thousands of people? By letting people shop online or stream entertainment they've probably paid for themselves in reduced car journeys already.
Yup, spacex stuff is all LEO. Without input it all crashes into the atmosphere in a few years (3 I believe)
You’re being far too harsh. The Java char type isn’t “stupid”; really, it’s just unfortunate in hindsight. There are plenty of decisions that were stupid even at the time they were decided, and this isn’t that: people actually thought that 2 bytes was enough for all characters, and Han unification was going to work. Looking backward this is “obviously” futile but certainly not then.

C’s character type, FWIW, has a use: it more or less indicates the granularity that is efficiently addressable by the host architecture. Trying to use it for more than that is generally not that fruitful, but it definitely has a purpose and it’s pretty good at that.

Finally, speaking of unfortunate decisions, Rust happens to make one that I don’t particularly like: it lets you misalign characters (and panics), which is…not great. It would be much nicer if the view just don’t let you do this unless you specifically asked for bytes or something.
Yes to saying no. No to saying why.

It's perfectly acceptable to have an intense dislike for a piece of software, and to go so far as to discard potential roles to avoid it. But I think people may think you're a bit weird if you come out and say it. Also, I doubt it'll make any difference (decisions to use Zoom vs Teams usually come from above, and I doubt the hiring manager would feel comfortable telling his manager that they lost a candidate due to a software that the higher-ups chose...)
Yeah KDE 4 is the Gnome of KDE's.
This post is a really good illustration of UTF-8. Very clear! The key brilliance of the design is not only the embedding of ASCII in UTF-8, but the fact that nothing in ASCII can appear anywhere else UTF-8, and more generally that no UTF-8 character can appear as a substring of another character’s encoding. That means that all the byte-oriented libc string functions just work. I wrote this up recently in a StackOverflow answer with some examples: https://stackoverflow.com/a/69756619/659248
Kierkegaard being an existentialist, I was thinking along the lines of secular existentialism. I like this line of his, on the topic of Abraham’s sacrifice:

> Abraham ‘resigned everything infinitely, and then took everything back on the strength of the absurd’

“Making peace with the loss” of meaning/reason in the world seems a good secular parallel.
Uninstalled. Thank you.
Given the existence of totally free federal and state e-filing options, the situation is analogous to bemoaning sales of Coke when generic soda exists, and hoping that government soda will put Coke out of business. Now that consumers are not inhibited, what remains is a marketing problem.
Communism has failed every time its been tried but that fact is meaningless to people who demand to try it again. Same situation here, now we are dealing with a significant proportion of people that demand free speech for me but not for thee.
Wonderful! Thank you. Only if there was a way to do the same on iOS.
Woah, I wonder how much atmospheric heating of earth these storms are causing.

(A quick google of NASA suggests: it can be several gigawatt-hours of power from one event, even accounting for the bulk of it being radiated back into space.)
Well, "continued to work closely with the Space Force’s 18th Space Control Squadron" was a bit on the nose.
US married couple arrested for allegedly conspiring to launder $4.5bn in Bitcoin
You have to probably backup Reddit, and all forums that are related to views you oppose there can’t be that much organic content out there.
You got a good laugh out of me with the meow in your description.
Sure. Though in many cases these types of events are pretty low probability events.
A Falcon 9 caries just a bit more fuel than a fully loaded 777. Which is big, to be sure, but still a drop in the bucket just in terms of transportation.
I got a kick out of his role in the music video for "Weapon of Choice" by Fatboy Slim.
Yeah, Swartz's liability has been wildly misreported. He faced nothing resembling 35 years, as the prosecutors themselves acknowledged during the dispute. His own lawyer believed he was unlikely to face custodial time even if convicted given the guidelines for the charges. This has been discussed ad nauseam on HN and I'll spare you a repeat of it; the search bar will avail.
I think the correct comparison is losing one launch.

Most companies could handle that fine. That's what insurance is for.
And every other song with the least hint of cowbell, as well.