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Digital esthetics,environmental change and the subcultures of computer art(2021)
Starlink and DISH Network
Today we ask for your support in ending a lobbying campaign that threatens to make Starlink unusable for you and the vast majority of our American customers.

As recently reported, DISH Network has been hoarding spectrum for years as a strategy for preventing open and fair competition.

Most recently, DISH has been attempting to claim new rights to the 12 GHz band, which is the spectrum you currently use to download content with Starlink. Despite technical studies dating back as far as 2016 that refute the basis of their claims, DISH has employed paid lobbyists who are attempting to mislead the FCC with faulty analysis in hopes of obscuring the truth.

In reality, if DISH gets their way, Starlink customers will experience harmful interference more than 77% of the time and total outage of service 74% of the time, rendering Starlink unusable for most Americans. You can read the details here.

The FCC and your members of Congress have the power to stop this effort, but they need to hear from you.
Are you talking about capitalist or free market minarchy?
They're beaming almost 100mbps from the space to surface of the earth, to us, mere consumers, and they're the worst because they're slower than some wired solutions?

I'm seriously worried about the pollution they create for astronomers, but that's seriously absurd.

Do I need to repeat? They're beaming this from space, to your home.
That sounds like technocracy, not democracy.
Previous discussion on subject:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31885174
One can read a ruling and see how many hoops the justices jumped through to get to a particular decision.

Let me lead by saying I'm a pro choice person, and hope federal legislation is passed protecting abortion in all 50 states:

Roe V. Wade is a good example. The justices didn't find any mention of "abortion", any description of abortion, or any medical procedure whatsoever in the constitution, or any mention of "trimesters". Yet they found by using a combination of no less than 5 amendments, that it in fact was protected, and then the supreme court decided exactly how long into a pregnancy abortion could be banned. They probably had consistent logic in what they said technically, but it strained credulity too much to believe they actually thought the constitution, in the text as it was written, protected a right to abortion.

Would you agree the sword cuts both ways with regards to the statement:

> I don't believe people on this site are too stupid to realize that, I believe they prefer not to, because they support the outcomes these rulings enact.
> Viasat argued in the aforementioned filing that “even if SpaceX were to deploy a full, 4,408-satellite Starlink system, that system would fall short in satisfying SpaceX’s RDOF commitments.”

Well, if their direct competitor says so, case closed!
Check out the section "Technology-Neutral Service Tiers"
https://www.fcc.gov/auction/904/factsheet
SpaceX bid for "above baseline".
They still seem to be doing much better than other auction winners though.
It seems like they are trying to step back with this (and force the regulators to have law as well).

Given the horrifically vitriolic hate-filled partisan crap-fest we are in - it is much too late for that.
To be honest - and this is to my detriment; I have no idea how much crypto i have/ what it's worth at any given moment. So... no haha.

I participate in 30 different defi pools across tons of different protocols, have money in various excahnges, run like 10 different nodes on Eth, BTC, Sol, Filecoin, etc.

I was lucky enough to get into crypto in 2014 and treated it like a game. Started mining from my gaming rig and have been addicted since. I haven't put any money into the ecosystem besides harware (My filecoin node as $12k, gaming rig is $25k, bought 2 helios miners, bought some NGX chips for ZK's, etc.)

I used to love runescape. I would love waking up, checking my flips in the grand exchange, running dailys like farming and checking my ales, etc. As i got older, i discovered blockchain has similiar mechanics. Now it's one of my favorite things in the world to check the various defi pools available, read about different projects, leveraged trading, 'daily's and is just a distraction from my real life. work.

So in short, crypto is a game. As long as people keep taking it too seriously, they will lose the game.
but why? what advantage is there to using the slowest ledger ever created?
It's a set of rewrite rules with infinite outlook, i.e. a term will continue to be evaluated (rewritten) until it no longer changes. There are some limits to prevent recursion (4096 iterations is the typical limit), alongside ways to infer what the endpoint will be (again to combat infinite recursion). Alongside that, everything in the language is an expression, i.e. subject to rewrite rules. A function, then, just defines a rewrite rule, a constant (e.g. Pi) does the same with higher precedence than the functions, etc. So, a function can return another expression that is then evaluated until it no longer changes. For example, Sin[1] does not evaluate by default as it is exact while it's floating point representation is not, but Sin[0] does. Oh, the language is also homo-iconic, like Lisp, so that data and code are indistinguishable. I found that to be the hardest mental hurdle in understanding how wl functions.
You mean when a maintainer of Emacs setup the mirror?

https://sachachua.com/blog/2015/12/2015-12-10-emacs-chat-joh...
They were trying to raise funds at a $1B dollar evaluation 3 weeks ago. Wow
That's interesting. I feel like the whole point of implementing something as bureaucratic as scrum is specifically to have high visibility over individuals that could be slacking and keeping them in check (AKA components of a weak team). If your team is already high performing and successful I would be of the opinion that they don't need to follow the scrum framework. Although I agree with you in that I'm not sure if implementing scrum will necessarily mean that it will make a weak team successful.
It's funny that you mention Alaska, because they are the #1 overall state when it comes to Senate and Electoral College "voter power". As you said, they get the same Senate representation despite having a fraction of the population of NJ. In addition, each vote cast in Alaska counts far more towards the presidential election than a vote in NJ does.
> to a lesser extent gliders are cheating

How were they cheating? Lifters don't use ground effect at all. With a proper power supply, they have a power/weight ratio much greater than one. Does a helicopter or F22 Raptor cheat to fly?

> taking an ion propulsion system that previously only worked in vacuum

You misunderstand what this is. This ionizes air and accelerates it towards a surface with opposite charge. This design will not work in a vacuum, since it requires atmosphere [1] as a propellant. I built one of these thrusters when I was a kid using an old TV power supply. It takes some wire, aluminum foil, tens of thousands of volts, and a stomach for inefficiency (for example, the mentioned plane has a thrust of 6.25N/kW, the motor/prop on a drone is nearly 10x that). The only difference between a lifter and this is the direction of thrust, and the use of wings to supply lift, which all aircraft with a power to weight ratio less than 1.0 necessarily do. The accomplishment, and it is impressive, is the engineering to make it all light/efficient, given the terrible efficiency of these types of motors, while using the advancements in the energy density of batteries to allow it to be integrated.

> I haven’t seen anything here to convince me it’s pure parlor trick

I don't understand this. I don't think anyone is saying it's a parlor trick. It's impressive engineering. I just don't think it's accurate to say it's the first [2]. 20 years ago, there were sites with people attaching these to gliders (although, I can't find them anymore).

1. Theory of operation for the generation of the thrust: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ion-propelled_aircraft#Electro...

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ion-propelled_aircraft#cite_no...
Easy money being available after five years is also uncertain. With covid shock, then global sanction following Russian invasion, and deglobalization following in the wake of these two events, global economy is faces serious uncertainty in coming years.
I'm sorry, what? What did I just hear? It was noisy, the volume kept changing, and I had trouble understanding it. Throat mic? Seriously?

Everyone at work sounds better than that. Everyone. Most people just use the built in mics in their MacBooks and it sounds fine. Worlds better than whatever I just heard.
I applied it by way of analogy.

If you want a political analogy, politically, there is no "right or wrong". SCOTUS is not motivated by adherence to precedent, they clearly have an ideological agenda.

They are not, for example, legalizing marijuana, on the grounds that the FDA should not have the authority to schedule drugs. They chose to go after environmental regulations because they ideologically prefer capitalist interests over environmental ones. It is brazenly political, as was their overturning of Roe vs Wade.
Ya, I was thinking the same thing.

This article seems like it's written by a PR/lobbying firm for BigTelCo / Satellite providers.
> this is very much like a senior engineer going on a major refactor of a production system, causing huge breaking changes for the sake of "principles"

That's what the people with the creative interpretations on the constitution did. This is restoring to a previous commit before that happened.
Ut's literally over 100x more risky

It's clearly not, due to what the sibling commenters have been staying (people discontinuing products for reasons other than dying, etc.) I get the gist of your point but this 100x number is not just hyperbole -- it's silly.
2028 is in 6 years, which is a 40% closer than 10 years. But other than that I agree
agreed, but consolidation in this way is a property of _capitalism_, not of tech
Looks like it isn't in debug mode after all.

$ nim -v
Nim Compiler Version 1.6.6 [MacOSX: arm64]
Compiled at 2022-05-05
Copyright (c) 2006-2021 by Andreas Rumpf

active boot switches: -d:release -d:nimUseLinenoise
This isn't very surprising?

Logging the kids ages is presumably for accessing content that's age restricted.
What part of scrum in particular do you find to be overly bureaucratic? I ask, because the totality of the Scrum Guide[1] is only 14 pages, and there just isn't very much about Scrum that is prescriptive. So I have.a hard time understanding this sentiment.

Now there clearly are people doing something that they call "Scrum" which is some shitty made-up process they cobbled together themselves like Frankenstein's monster, with FSM-only-knows what kind of bureaucratic elements. But that's not pure Scrum per-se.

[1]: https://scrumguides.org/docs/scrumguide/v2020/2020-Scrum-Gui...
It's public data, but it's time consuming to get the data "ready for analysis". Instead of doing this prep work yourself, you can pay someone else (in this case Coinbase) to do that part.

source: I run a competitor to Tracer (https://luabase.com/)
Tiktok is great because they don't censor content like instagram

inb4 they don't

they do
Yes.

I thought I had an idea of what Aristotle was about. I had STUDIED several courses on Philosophy.

Then I read him. The Nicomachean Ethics.

Man, did he blow my mind.

Same with Aquinas and Nietzsche.

You cannot tik-tok a book.

You cannot tik-tok the experience of watching a movie…

EDIT: you can maybe transmit the urgency (anxiousness, whatever) about the need to read them, but little more. That is the complicated aspect of humanities.
We're not a software shop, we're a country that has deep, systemic problems with executive overreach and abuse. Analogizing to a company producing banal software trivializes the extent of the problems we're facing and abstracts away a lot of real concerns into fungible "features".
The FCC has screwed up this exact thing (repurposing satellite frequencies for terrestrial 5G) before, see Ligado né LightSquared.
Hope it doesn’t crash into anything
Which is a shame because the low-end stuff is what makes an economy tick. And is the training grounds for engineers and tradesmen.

I also think it will help us as a society if we let people work rather mundane jobs that make essential products and receive good living wages. “I make a living making the bolts that keep your fancy EV together.” Service economy be damned.

That boat has long since sailed I’m afraid but maybe we can bring it back somehow. I remain hopeful.
And not just to your home. I'm very strongly considering ponying up the money for Starlink to be able to work while camped out in the middle of nowhere.
Summary of that paper [0]. Referenced paper is linked.

[0] http://kmdouglass.github.io/posts/summary-out-of-the-tar-pit...
I just find it sad, because even Reddit got this one right. This is the most SCOTUS bootlicking ive seen in one thread and it's all done by programmers who are supposed to be my people y'know? Feels personal
> The Supreme Court stated that you could not apply handgun laws in a way that privileged one group over another.

Claiming this in the same post you accuse someone else of "deliberate misreading" is a bit funny.

New York State Rifle & Pistol Association Inc. v. Bruen goes substantially further than that.
Does any of that prevent people from dying in weather that is too hot and humid for humans? If not, I don't see how it's relevant

Like what does population growth have to do with people dying from heat? Okay so the population is growing, that didn't stop the extra deaths from happening.

Why does life expectancy matter? Obviously that's going to change rapidly in these circumstances, but again, still not changing the number of deaths
I don't trust legal solutions. They can only provide redress when someone is caught, but it's just so easy to snoop without being caught. Only possibilities are keeping the data on machines you control, or using encryption.
I imagine they mean the industry of consultants, authors, tool vendors, etc., who have a vested interest in promoting their specific interpretation of "Agile" which may or may not have much at all to do with the spirit of the Agile Manifesto.
It's not only the pollution. The world is "unwillingly" giving up space spots to a company that can use those satellites as technological weapons. What happens when a Chinese/India/Russia(Insert any non-Anglo "bad" country) decides to emulate them , I would happily bet my left kidney the _commentariat_ here would not be so happy.
The thing about libertarianism is it has done more good for more people than any other ideology.

Note that libertarianism leaves people free to care for others as much as they want to.
I think its quite fair for people to be upset about multiple justices lying about Roe being settled law.
I can't really understand why I'm fluent in various languages but not Rust... I might have found my
intellectual glass ceiling...
when it comes to the argument of bodily autonomy in regards to covid vaccinations, you're still free to not get a covid vaccine.

I think you're making it sound more black-and-white than it really was. It's true that they weren't talking about coming into your house and holding you down. But they did try to make it as close to "you can't get a job to earn money to buy food" as they could. Pres Biden did issue an EO saying that anybody doing business with the federal government, and anybody in their supply chain, must ensure that their employees are vaccinated. Given the enormous size of the federal government, this covers a huge proportion of the country. (the courts did throw this out, but not before they'd coerced a lot of people to go against their own conscience)

Further, that's as far as the politicians and regulators were able to go. I seem to recall talk in some locales (NYC?) talking about wanting to implement vaccine passports, with which local businesses would deny entry to unvaccinated people, so you can't even go to the grocery store to buy food.

And, of course, my main point was about what the masses were arguing for. I don't think you could seriously deny that a sizable faction of people were arguing that the government SHOULD do all of the above. And that's exactly what I'm saying: people are claiming to back the idea of "bodily autonomy", but for a whole lot of them, their actions demonstrate that this is much less a fundamental inalienable right than they're willing to admit today.
What a joke, Starlink is the best remote service for broadband, and there are no others. Please don't say "HughesNet" or some geosync service with a straight face.

Of course the FCC and its zombie representatives from legacy telco will be assholes to Starlink, but nothing else will actually get you service from a warzone, fire zone, a distant mountain range, central Africa, etc.

If legacy telco was in charge of starlink, the FCC would make the standards whatever they wanted.

The other telcos take years and years of rural broadband funding from Congress and just BRAZENLY pocket it and tell the American people: "Fuck you, see how much we own the government? THIS MUCH".

Starlink provides a paradigm-changing useful service and you get crap headlines straight from the lobbyist/astroturfer's mouth. Why can't we have nice things? This.

Starlink could double or triple their price and they would probably have all their subscribers filled.

Think about what Starlink means to Africa, central asia, interior australia, remote south africa. The economic/information access to those areas without tens of thousands of 5G towers and laying thousands of miles of fiber.

The amount of humans this brings silicon valley's big companies into contact with probably increased a by a billion or more. They should be sending billions of dollars to SpaceX to get the flotilla deployed ASAP.
That's a horrible argument. The Executive branch should never had default allow permissions for anything. The amount of mental gymnastic many of our current regulator bodies have used to claim more authority is already obscene.
Why? This authority was intentionally granted by a democratic legislature. If it's too broad, the act can be amended. The "technocrats" are only in control of what we have voted to let them control. The text is pretty straightforward:

> The Administrator shall, within 90 days after December 31, 1970, publish (and from time to time thereafter shall revise) a list of categories of stationary sources. He shall include a category of sources in such list if in his judgment it causes, or contributes significantly to, air pollution which may reasonably be anticipated to endanger public health or welfare.

That is explicitly delegating these decisions to the judgement of the EPA Administrator. This is extremely normal, every government agency works like this.
If it's true as you seem be indicating even in your case, then I don't see how it's being hyperbolic. "True but sad" still includes "true".
A lovely display of ideology-borne bias! Thanks for the potent demonstration!
> The feds argued that growing a plan is participating in interstate commerce. This law will stand

That's not guaranteed. Has it been challenged?
What is the equivalent of electricity being burnt in a PoS system? I am not seeing that cost. Not opportunity cost -- which also exists for mining Bitcoin -- but direct cost.
Get the birds over to SOMA and the 'loin — the decomposing fish will improve the ambient smells.
There's a fundamental misunderstanding in your question.

To begin with, Agile isn't a methodology. It's a way of thinking about development—a philosophy—that's defined at agilemanifesto.org.

There are a bunch of methods that follow the Agile philosophy. Scrum and Extreme Programming are the most well known. Extreme Programming was popular in the early 2000s, but has since been eclipsed by Scrum.

There are a bunch of companies and methods that claim to follow the Agile philosophy, but don't. SAFe ("Scaled Agile Framework") is the most well known. Additionally, because Scrum is so popular, most of the companies who claim to be "Agile" are actually using some cargo cult version of Scrum.

So you'll get a lot of people complaining about Agile, when they're actually complaining about crappy Scrum and SAFe implementations.

Personally, as someone who's been involved with the Agile community for a few decades, I would love to see Scrum replaced with Extreme Programming. My experience is that XP works much better than Scrum in practice, because it emphasizes engineering practices, whereas Scrum puts too much focus on Scrummasters and planning. Although Scrum has some good ideas, they're very nuanced, and tend to be misunderstood in a way that leads to micromanagement.

Edit, since the OP was changed:

Yes, Scrum works when done correctly. But most people don't do it correctly, because it's very bare-bones, which results in people layering their own preconceptions on top of it, most of which are distinctly anti-Agile. Additionally, Scrum pioneered the "Certified Scrummaster" (CSM) and "Certified Scrum Trainer" (CST) certifications, which were so lucrative that they attracted a lot of incompetent people into teaching Scrum. The CSM course is also too short and shallow to really teach people how to lead Scrum teams effectively, but is marketed as a panacea.

The result has been a giant garbage fire.
Okay. So you can say there is nothing wrong with that one. But someone pointed outreach to this persons tik tok profile. Which includes that video and more. Including one where he says he bought a naacp shirt so he can fit in better with "those people" at his gym in the bronx.

https://twitter.com/DNetxy/status/1541568953805406209

It's very likely that there are more racially insensitive, at best, videos which would lead to some action, like termination, taking place. It's very naive to pretend like there is absolutely nothing wrong with this persons behavior and that they were fired for not liking bodegas.
I believe cryptocurrencies are self regulating. If you want to convince me otherwise, you have to do better than just stating the opposite is true.

I'll admit that some (many even!) cryptocurrencies make claims about decentralization and security that are not based in evidence. That is fine. I don't believe that cryptocurrency itself is sufficient for freedom/decentralization/security, but that it is necessary. Not all cryptocurrencies will meet my critera, and it's even possible that none do.
There's a lot on this site that makes me question "what happened"?

Growing up on the internet (IRC, Forums, eventually HN, etc) there was always a "hacker" or "libertarian" spirit. Less government ("the man"), less regulation, more freedom, more ability to create and inspire.

Now, I see many people (often the same people) seemingly become hyper partisian when the Supreme Court saying "congress never authorized this, they'd need to to make this legal". All the recent court rulings have been very consistent that "the will of the people (congress) never approved this".

IMO you're correct, the Supreme court is partisan. However, this feels far less partisan than normal and the reasoning seems to be sound (congress never implemented this law / passed an amendment / etc). In the courts opinions will often explain how to make it a law / legal.

The shock I've experienced with the HN community is how it's been far less thoughtful as late (3-4 years) and discussions are suppressed / devolve quickly. The idea of the libertarian ethos of the "hacker" community, to me, appears dead. Now, I see a far less thoughtful, more partisan, more angry community. Even in your comment, you mention you "hate" the community (I'm assuming you mean just parts of it). It dismays me.