skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unfortunately satellite phones are such niche devices that there's not really any way to do it except by buying a commercial device. Even a "DIY" device would in reality be a series of commercial off the shelf modules - unless you had those to hand then you'd need to get them delivered, which means you might as well buy a commercial satellite phone.

If for some reason you could buy the bits, you could probably piece together a communicator with a satellite modem module (https://uk.rs-online.com/web/p/rf-modules/2131335) and a microcontroller or single board computer. It seems pointless to bother though - why not just buy a Garmin or Spot for the same price.

You could replace the modem part with a software defined radio (SDR) - that's generic enough there's a distant possibility you'd find one locally in an LTE base station or some other commercial radio device. However, the software effort to implement the satellite modem protocols would be immense - basically impossible.

Satellite phones are also so niche that they'd draw a lot of attention to the user - something you probably don't want if you're in a combat zone.

A better bet would be to make use of the equipment you probably do have - cell phones, wifi access points, ethernet cables - to extend the reach of places which do have internet. That would require there to be connectivity somewhere, which you could then expand out using point to point wifi networks. You could make a long range WiFi antenna using a parabolic satellite dish and a USB wifi adapter or wifi router. If you can find cellular connection on a rooftop you could bridge it to the ground via a couple of wifi access points and a long ethernet cable.

There's also apps - eg https://briarproject.org/ - which allow for message passing over local WiFi or Bluetooth networks. Realistically there's no magic bullet though.
As a native speaker, I don't understand the distinction. If you want to achieve the goal of playing Minecraft, it is (or will become) obligatory to use a Microsoft account because Microsoft changed the rules to impose this.

Is the nuance maybe that something that is mandatory must be done even if you are not in the process of completing a goal? It's possible that Microsoft will kill the migration process at some point (either intentionally or through neglect), so maybe this must be done if you want to play again without paying again.
> “He was the perfect partner for me,” Mr. Metcalfe said in an interview. “I was more of a concept artist, and he was a build-the-hardware-in-the-back-room engineer.”

This is a very common pattern in these types of things.

Usually, the "concept artist" gets all the credit, but the one in the back room was every bit as essential as the "idea person."

In my experience, "idea people" seldom understand how incredibly valuable good "back room implementation" people are.

I'm biased, though, as that's my forté, and I have had to fend off a lot of highly insulting "idea people," over the years.

> His response was unequivocal. “Seems Ethernet does not work in theory,” he said, “only in practice.”

Ooohhh... burn
I have a new born and a 2 years old daughter. I’ll pass of course.
3G’s Sunset Takes Aging Cars and Medical Devices with It
Scaling laws in enzymes may help predict life ‘as we don’t know it’
but my second take is, wouldn't it be nice to be able
to walk around with someone on a video call?

Why?

I've played plenty of FPS games online in my life, and I "get" the power of doing things in a shared 3D world together. Also talked to a lot of people online, over IM style messengers and IRC/Slack/etc.

I just don't think the idea of strolling around a virtual world enhances the idea of messaging, at all.

It's needless skeuomorphism; the naive and terrible kind I thought maybe we'd finally ditched in the past. In what way does this enhance the concept of communication?
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Here is a post made to the site Less Wrong December 22 that begins, "Assume that you know with a high degree of confidence that Russia will invade Ukraine in February 2022," then asks for investment advice:

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/QEsqKFabffwKXAPso/

Same content with different web-site design decisions:

https://www.greaterwrong.com/posts/QEsqKFabffwKXAPso/
How about getting tri-state checkboxes?
> space heaters posing as x86 laptops

The instruction set has nothing to do with this. Apple has better numbers because it uses the most advanced manufacturing process.
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GNU Taler - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15274110 - Sept 2017 (147 comments)

GNU Taler 0.0.0 released - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11840453 - June 2016 (187 comments)

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Inmates need to be able to talk to people outside of prison, nothing should be done about it.
You're completely right, my mistake. I haven't bought a car since 2019 but my partner got one about 6 months ago and it was as you say, basically "this is the price, take it or leave it."
Until you get rootkitted from Log4J
I wonder if one could build a compelling 2D pixel-art collaboration place. The startup barriers would be so much lower, you could try and fail with lots of ideas.
There's light at the end of the tunnel. Don't fret, traveller: https://github.com/cheatcode/joystick.
Picking Fairly from a List of Unknown Size with Reservoir Sampling
Is the source code available so that others can host?
you're thinking Wade Boggs
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Cutting Russia off from the internet is a bad idea
This is going to be a big impact for a lot of our customers. The app we use only supports user/pass auth and lots of people set up special sending only gmail accounts to just get it out and not impact security of their orgs commercial gsuite stuff. Fun times ahead.
> Last year we surveyed users and asked them what they wanted out of their MDN experience… The overall theme we saw was that users wanted to be able to organize MDN’s vast library in a way that worked for them.

Really? I just wanna google for what I need and find it. I guess I'm not representative?
Honestly, I don't know right now. I just got my VR headset recently and I've been trying to find as many different interfaces as possible. Very excited by WebXR since it makes it 100x easier to iterate and experiment with different techniques, but most apps I've seen out there today are either skeuomorphic or attempting to bring screens into VR. Screens in VR can be jarring since it is difficult to gauge distance, and when pop-ups appear in front of your face it's very disorienting. It feels like we need design philosophies like material design, but for VR.

Plockle [1] shows a bit of promise; it's a block-puzzler that lets you orient blocks in space. Since it's a physics-less system, it works especially well in VR.

[1] https://plockle.com
I read it, can't see how the Russian population is to blame. And I to be blamed for the fascist my fellow Brazilians put in power? Are regular American citizens to be blamed and punished for their leaders war crimes?
> apps in a different country than the Google account

I dont think thats true. I just searched Aurora Store with "ITV Hub", as its only available in GB, and I got no results, I am in US. Even if I manually go to the app page in Aurora Store, if I try to install, it says "Download Failed App not supported".

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=air.ITVMobileP...
Agree this would (and should) raise eyebrows. If enough of a pattern it probably makes sense to spike the deal. At very least, it's going to change your risk profile.
from what i can tell, mojang is not requiring anybody to do anything. microsoft, however, is making people migrate from mojang accounts to microsoft accounts.
Appeasement of the Kremlin is exactly how we got in this mess. I am truly disgusted by some of the positions taken on this issue in the West, like the one in OP.

The world will remember.
Sorry, shall Red Cross or Doctors Without Borders also withdraw from Russia and stop acting humane and neutral because of evil and inhumane deeds of Russian state and military?

Yes. Redirect those resources to Ukraine.
If you are thinking about the Iraq and Afghanistan invasions, those were very different situations.
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When I bought Minecraft I was outside of their ecosystem. Now this crap gets forced down my throat. I guess I'm not doing the migration and just play offline/"cracked"
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Oh, sure. I don't disagree. That's how I'd do it.

But my point is that even when I last took venture money, more than a decade ago, I had some questions about how much the goal of investors was to "help the company". With the way funding trends have changed, that's an even bigger question. Which would then force me to ask: how much sense does it make for me to be more invested in the long-term future of the company than the investors are?

Personally, my behavior wouldn't change. But the more investors are in it for their short-term interests, the more they should expect to attract founders who feel the same way.
They're not telling you what's wrong, just that you're bad for arbitrary reasons that ultimately will end up boiling down to "we don't trust that you try to preserve your own privacy".
I can really recommend debugging with command-line gdb (inside a text editor, of course; we're not barbarians). The transcript that lets you look back at the past of your debug session really adds a new dimension to the debug experience that a plain IDE integration just does not offer.

(Time-travelling debuggers are OK, too, I guess)
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- "Not down, just under considerable strain. Not much I can do about that at the moment."

https://twitter.com/wellerstein/status/1497984272887599105

- "I guess it's something of a career highlight to have an article written about why my website is hard to access at the moment:"

https://twitter.com/wellerstein/status/1498490040468615176

- "If you are having trouble connecting to NUKEMAP right now (it is overwhelmed with traffic a lot of the time), you can use this authorized mirror of it:"

https://twitter.com/wellerstein/status/1498324403112882179
Comparing the old version:

https://web.archive.org/web/20210302090607/https://developer...

to the new version:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/di...

I notice that they:

- Reduced horizontal space allocated to content

- Reduced contrast (eg. code blocks have lighter gray background, compatibility table is no longer color coded)

- Increased the amount of things that don't render if you disable javascript

I'd reverse all three of those if I could.

On the good side they added a dark mode (which I don't care about but lots of people love dark mode), and they seem to have avoided the common aesthetics-over-effectiveness pitfall of adding tons of vertical whitespace.

(As an aside, I find it weird that they mention the home page in the article. In fact it's the first thing they mention. I would expect the home page to be effectively irrelevant? I only ever land on MDN via google searches and direct links to articles via stackoverflow answers. It's random-access reference material. How would someone end up on the homepage? Maybe they have analytics justifying that.)
>What was senate thinking

This is not comparable to how one gets elected to an upper house in most countries: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federation_council_of_russia#E...

These are rubber-stamping yes-men of a single party state, obedience is the only thing required, thinking is not involved.
Stock OS ships security updates on the latest major version. It means that you can only get a given patch level on the same version for a given device. CalyxOS wasn't rebased on Android 12 until fairly recently. As of January 2022 (prior to the Android 12 release), their vendor patch level was 2021-10-01 which means that at the time the OS was roughly behind 3 months in updates.

They were also shipping an outdated version of Chromium (v94) during the same period (this is important since Chromium distributions for both CalyxOS/GrapheneOS are updated through OS updates - and Chromium is whitelisted by the OS to provide the WebView, even if you happen to use another browser). Considering their userbase is privacy/security-conscious, I think they should've been aware they were more vulnerable than stock OS for a while.

Looking at their source code it's also evident CalyxOS is increasingly relying on the LineageOS codebase. Not that it's a bad thing (LineageOS has its own goals but they're not necessarily aligned with security-focused projects), but it's worth noting.
Crypto exchanges resist calls for ban on Russia transactions
"It’s a new layout engine and new rendering engine. Everything other than the JavaScript engine (SpiderMonkey) is written from scratch." https://twitter.com/FlowBrowser/status/1200098712816631809
That is, as far as I can tell, a different product.
To add on to your comment, you're also going to be paying taxes on that 11%. That 4% is looking more like 1-2% for most people.
Teaching AI to translate 100s of spoken and written languages in real time
The Javelin Is Wrecking Putin's Army
Uh oh. That's one of the main things I go to MDN for. I agree.
The last I saw it was a small bank using it to support a Fiserv ITI installation. That was ~2010. They'd been on the platform since the 70s. Were they not bought-out by a larger bank I'd expect they'd still be on that platform.
It’s nearly impossible to organize a large scale protest in Russia. All the opposition leaders were jailed or murdered and even just posting info about protests is a criminal offence. There’s also a problem with many people being indoctrinated by the state propaganda, because independent mass media is banned.

There was an ECHR decision ordering Russia to free Navalny, but it was ignored by Russian government and Council of Europe did nothing about it.
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Scientists have had a pretty good record on this, compared to the general public, industry, and policymakers. I am happy to not throw them under the bus.
Etsy is canceling the fee owned to all sellers in Ukraine
Ukraine Launches Website for Russians to Find Killed Soldiers