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> he has a personal history with the founder that’s influencing his judgement unfairly

It is true that I have a history with Curtis, and that my opinions are informed by the history. Whether that's "unfair" or not is unclear, even to me.

But my opinion is not informed only by my personal interactions with Curtis. It is also informed by my having taken a fairly deep dive into the technology, and my technical background (Ph.D. in CS among other qualifications).

> If he thought Martian computing was actually about terraforming the literal planet mars he hasn’t been following it in any depth.

Not recently, no. But the technical underpinnings of Urbit have not changed. It's still based on Nock and Hoon, and so it still has all that baggage. Urbit's technical underpinnings look weird, and that makes people wonder if there might be something interesting under all that weirdness. My real central message is: there isn't. It's all BS, designed specifically to make people think it is something new and interesting when in fact it is not. It is a fraud. A sham. Whether or not it technically qualifies as a "cult" is kind of beside the point.

[UPDATE]

I originally wrote, and then deleted: "I know this because Curtis told me so, though obviously he didn't use the words 'fraud' and 'sham'." I decided that if I was going to say something like that I'd better be able to back it up, so I went back through my correspondence with him, and found this (from 2012):

> Humans are very bad - surprisingly bad - at abstract math. They are surprisingly good at mechanical, rote calculations and rote memorization. (Think of all the people who've memorized the Koran.) I design languages for the species expected to use them. Perhaps somewhere in outer space there are beings for whom denotational semantics is trivial, and integer tree addressing is bizarrely counter-intuitive. But this is not our planet. Nock does not feel like an abstraction - it feels like a machine. Play with it and you'll see what I mean.

So Nock and Hoon were not designed to deceive (or, if they were, Curtis never said so to me). They were, however, specifically and explicitly designed to fit a mental model that Curtis likened to memorizing the Koran. IMHO that is a very counter-productive goal, irrespective of the words you choose to characterize it.
T-Mobile Expands 5G Coverage to 80 Cities
I am still confused about ground station density. As I understand it, the ground stations and satellites both use beam-forming to direct their signals. Early on I heard conjecture that this would limit the number of ground stations that could be deployed in a given area. At best, this would have required splitting up bandwidth between ground stations in dense areas. Could this account for the lower than expected speeds?

I had actually gone so far as to assume that the early semi-randomness of their beta testing was partly explained by this limitation after hearing countless complaints of "my neighbor got theirs, where is mine?". I also assumed that they were going to make hybridized 5G ground stations for deployment in dense areas.

Those assumptions were dashed when I stayed at a VRBO with a starlink connection, and noticed that both the houses on either side also had their own dishes. I chatted with a neighbor, and we both ran a speed test at the same time, yielding ~90/15.
Would you restore to a decades old previous commit on a system that had been running just fine in production that entire time?

SCOTUS isn't even really the engineering team imho, they're devops. If they're there just to enforce the rules, the rules are set just as much by precedent as by the letter of the law, since precedent is what is already working. They should just keep the system running and have a strong bias for favoring the status quo.

This court isn't "conservative" in the traditional sense; I would call them hyper-reactionary.
We had a blast building this! Let us know if there are any other types of filler content that would be useful. Maybe a Figma plugin?
SBF was just tweeting last week about how their (earlier) $250m line of credit to BlockFi lets them "navigate the market from a position of strength". And now he's buying BlockFi in a fire sale. SMH

https://twitter.com/sbf_ftx/status/1539268631095152642?s=21&...
Could be. Perhaps the question was asked some time ago, received the same answer, and there were no layoffs. Consistency is paramount.
Deceptive title. Almost triggered me but this looks like a cool project. Hosting game servers isn't as trivial as it used to be.

Back in the day all you had to do was execute a command with a given config. Man, hosting Quake 3 servers was stupid easy. These days I need middlewere such as LinuxGSM in order to deploy an instance of Quake Live. Just one, though... because reasons.

I know why things are complicated these days. I really do. But it sucks
Sounds really half-assed not to make it hardware-backed. With that implementation, malware can relatively trivially steal your certificate.
Not the original poster, but yes, in a democracy I would like our elected lawmakers to do their job of making laws. I'm happy to have bills drafted by experts in the regulatory bodies. However, those experts are not accountable in any direct way to those being governed by the laws/regulations that they create. I'm still attached to the whole "consent of the governed" idea. I'm highly opposed to "divine right of the technocrats (to whom we shall all bow for their superior knowledge and genetically encoded abilities)".
this knife has further to fall
CA OSHA Votes No on Monarch Autonomous Smart Tractors
i was having a nice time griping until you showed up. Given how libertarians seem completely unconcerned with raising wages or protecting the environment it seems that amount is 0
Best headphones/mic combo I've used for running AND video meetings are the AfterShokz (now "Shokz") AeroPex/OpenRun. I've not tried the `OpenComm` but its probably also good too.

Bone conduction so there's nothing touching your ears, long ~8hr battery life, super duper light (26g).
IP addresses are publicly available in cryptocurrency networks, tied to rough geolocation, and ephemeral. Coinbase could have been collecting historical IP address logs of the networks as one idea
Setting aside the high cost of growing the constellation, I'm not sure they can just add more satellites even in theory. As I understand it Starlink has performance tradeoffs wrt to density of ground stations. Others on HN would probably know more though.
Is it? Cause a lot of stuff still happens by check even now, which literally has your name and your account and routing numbers just printed on it, which you used to order by sending all of that information via the mail to a random printing company.

I already have to trust my power company, most of my credit cards, my ISP, my gas company, and my landlord with my bank info, all of which are probably less secure and trustworthy than Pornhub...
> If you have a policy that all code must be signed off otherwise it isn't allowed to be in the commit tree of your `main`, `deploy` or whatever you prefer to call it branch, then why not just say that a reviewer makes a commit that has no changes (git allows this with the right switches), _JUST_ a commit message that includes 'I vouch for this', signed by the reviewer? And that _IS_ the review?

Git has two levels of built-in/native commit signing support. There's "Signed-Off-By" which adds a note to the bottom of a commit. Some projects use that for CLA verification. There's also GPG signing which signs a commit hash.

If you want to use that as a level of "merge request"/"pull request" reviews there's a natural commit to sign that says you reviewed an entire branch: the merge commit itself. You can make a policy of --no-ff merges in your main and important branches. You can make a policy that they are signed (using one or both of the sign off types). You can make a policy that they are signed by someone who wasn't the author of most of the branch's commits.

> What if issue tickets are text files that show up in git, to close a ticket you make a commit that deletes it. Or even: Not text files at all, but branches where the commit messages forms the conversation about the issue, and the changes in the commits are what you're doing to address it (write a test case that reproduces the issue, then fix it, for example), and you close a ticket by removing the branch from that git repo that everybody uses as origin?

There's multiple cool approaches to this that people have tried. Search for "git distributed issue tracker" and you should find some of them. Some have okay web views. There's multiple options for storing the issues. Some use YAML files inside of the branch. The neat thing about files in the branch is that you can find things about where fixes happened using basic branch diffs. Some use git "Notes" which are indeed like git commits as a first class top-level object in git's object tree. Those do have the benefit that they form their own branches outside of your code branches.

It's neat to explore what people have already tried in that area.
Starlink took govt funds and is obligated to deliver 100/20 at a minimum.

I own 2 starlinks at different locations and I can tell you 1 of those locations is consistently MUCH under that.

That being said, I am pleased with starlink at one location as it absolutely blows away the next best available option.
Democrats need to shake this notion that Republicans represent "minority rule" because it both delegitimizes our institutions and goads Democrats into overplaying their hand. Republicans won almost 1.5 million more total votes in 2016 for the House, the country's primary law-making body: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_United_States_House_of_Re.... They are on pace to win the House again in 2022 by millions of votes, like they did in 2010: https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/polls/generic-ballot.

Features like the Electoral College can lead to different incentives in close elections, but even that does not systematically favor Republicans. As recently as 2012, the Electoral College favored Democrats. Obama would have won in 2012 even if he had lost the popular vote: https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/did-democrats-get-lucky... ("President Obama won the Electoral College fairly decisively last year despite a margin of just 3.8 percentage points in the national popular vote. In fact, Mr. Obama would probably have won the Electoral College even if the popular vote had slightly favored Mitt Romney.")
ICE HSI (Homeland Security Investigations) = transnational crime

ICE ERO (Enforcement Removal Operations) = brownshirts, entirely immigration

Two separate agencies with two separate missions, and this is about HSI.
If you don't have management that "gets it", they're going to ruin the team's ability to actually be agile

BINGO! I'd posit that a LOT (maybe most) teams that claim to be using Scrum or another "agile" methodology are totally screwing the pooch for this exact reason - management doesn't really "get it" and layers all of their shitty bureaucratic nonsense on top of the core agile methodology. That's the fault of shitty managers, not the fault of the methodology.
Sooo, high speed drones with anti-missile lasers?
Isn’t that a variant of Dunning-Kruger?
I remember being really cool in the early 2k's with a Compaq Ipaq PDA, PCMCIA GPS receiver that slid into the back and TomTom maps in my car. Most devices didn't have GPS then. Damn, they go for a pretty penny on ebay. Have to go dig those things up!
the reversal of fraudulent charges is a tremendous perk of credit cards in my experience
If Russia wants to use satellites as technological weapons, I don't think they're going to ask the FCC for permission.
I don't think the name of the game is at the level of upholding consistent logic in and of itself but of defending the separation of powers granted to the three branches of government. You can think of it as analogous to programming architectural defensive tests enforcing the boundaries. This is at the level of governance design and protecting that design.
Would they provide a usable broadband alternative to the broomstick-up-butt treatment I get from the telcos?

Hell yes I'd take them. Oh they'd steal my data? Well, so does everyone on this site and the telco I have now.

Consider this, Mr Geopolitical power. Do you want the US with this weapon, or sit on our ass and let China deploy one now that SpaceX has shown how powerful it is?

This is the single greatest Western soft power weapon since the iPhone. And you're begrudging it? Come on.
One of the best PMs I have had used to be a dev. The company we were working with used a terrible Jira like piece of software I don't remember the name of, but he had the devs just use Trello. He would go through and update the other thing for stakeholders. Worked great
Honestly, after seeing what Apple was able to do with the M1, I think it's clear the top answer is performance per watt and high performance. If Qualcomm (or Intel or AMD) could deliver that same level of performance in an ARM SoC, slow emulation wouldn't be a problem. All the Arm-based notebooks I've seen are low-power and low-performance mobile parts that simply aren't fit for purpose.
> The only professional in some industries is looking at you every morning from the mirror, begging for a mercy killing.

That got dark quickly. Otherwise, so true
CoPilot has been demonstrated to lift code verbatim (including swearing comments): https://twitter.com/mitsuhiko/status/1410886329924194309

So even if it is legal to create a commercial product which outputs GPL code as its main value-add, it still seems like it could put the user in an awkward position of auto-completing big chunks of GPL licensed code into their project.
> Bone conduction so there's nothing touching your ears

I have a, possibly irrational, fear of bone conduction. I don't like the concept of the outer layer of my brain being subjected to the significant vibrations.
> I understand that being small leaves you vulnerable to the predatory tactics of big players

This, I think, is the core of why. It's not that being a medium sized publicly traded company is immoral or unprofitable - it's that in a public market your stock is priced on future earnings and choosing to be smaller than possible means your tech can be bought for cheap. If you choose to stay smaller than maybe you could be - you're leaving ROI on the table in a lot of peoples' eyes (even if you're right and you'd lose money trying to get huge). So, as your stock price drops off to reflect the expectation that you're not going to get super impressive earning growth, you start to look appealing as an alternative to developing technology for an industry giant. Why spend $5bn over 10 years to develop competing services when you can borrow $5bn today, buy atlassian, get a tax break on the debt and start making a play for market dominance with the atlassian tech?

If you want a small or medium company, staying private is a more sustainable approach.
If lawmakers leave the legislation to the Court, they can't be blamed for the outcome, and they remain free to grandstand for the cameras.
"Our mission is to increase economic freedom in the world. Everyone deserves access to financial services that can help empower them to create a better life for themselves and their families."

If you didn't thing corporate missions statements were total bullshit before...
Not really, they are being subsidized by US tax payers to provide a service and they are not meeting the terms of the contract/agreement. None of Elon's empires would be successful without US tax payers so I think the article is merely trying to hold them accountable.
Ask HN: As an URM where are the hand out jobs people mention all the time here
Not trying to bait, I've lurked here enough and I'm trying to have a good faith discussion.

As an URM who grew up in what would be considered the hood and went on to get a non-CS STEM degree (think eng/math/phys/chem,which is where my programming experience comes from) where are these jobs that people mention in anecdotal stories that URM are handed despite not being qualified?

For all the diversity companies seem to signal, and everyone seems to complain about people being given jobs unfairly, my job search has not reflected that. Might be despite my STEM degree I'm not good enough, but the lack of interviews I'm landing means I'm being filtered out from the start.

The way people make it out to be here, those jobs are handed out.

So are companies BSing? HN comments BSing? or who is getting these URM jobs?

Does anyone have any advice or willing to provide some mentorship?

Thanks, on a throw away because this is embarrassing.
I don't follow the automatic assumption that giving the info to centralised entity like a bank is bad? What is that you are fearing? And why is that more likely than Crypto sinking or going to zero, you losing your wallet key or someone hacking your wallet? Code is law - so you're left with nothing.
> Congress did grant the EPA that authority; the ruling is an objection to the principle that Congress can make broad grants of authority.

That's entirely incorrect, please read the article.
> Besides, its a terrible idea. The real effects of their rulings matter much more than the philosophy.

If that's your view, then we should just abolish courts. What's the point of having unelected legislators?
From the end of the ruling (emphasis added) [0]:

> Capping carbon dioxide emissions at a level that will force a nationwide transition away from the use of coal to generate electricity may be a sensible "solution to the crisis of the day." But it is not plausible that Congress gave the EPA the authority to adopt on its own such a regulatory scheme in Section 111(d). A decision of such magnitude and consequence rests with Congress itself, or an agency acting pursuant to a clear delegation from that representative body.

It seems pretty clear that Congress does have the authority to delegate, but that the Court ruled that Congress didn't intend to do so. This ruling places the ball firmly in Congress's court, it doesn't rule that Congress cannot act.

[0] https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/21pdf/20-1530_n758.pdf
A controversial shipping law is swaying the price of gas
Honestly, I'm surprised that managed 90Mbps. Beaming internet from satellites iis not really a great idea because you are essentially doubling the wireless bandwidth required for a given level of service. Wireless cell service has the big advantage of only needing to use bandwidth for the link from the tower to the client while satellites require a link to the client and a link back to the ground station. There's also the fact that putting a bunch of compute into a satellite is going to be way more expensive due to weight, power and cooling in space not to mention increased cosmic ray interference.
On the particular of abortion, in terms of liberty, the baby's liberty must be considered, not only the mother's.

In the general case of state vs federal sovereignty, state sovereignty is closer to the individual is and more malleable/escapable than a federal sovereign, and is thus preferable (state sovereignty was the original ideal of the United States and the founders go on at length about the benefits of this arrangement.)
that's an incoherent set of policy recommendations.

we sorely need regulatory reform that focuses less on specific, ideological goals and more on market dynamism and fairness, but your list is a mishmash of more regulation and less.

and just sugar, really? not the fertilizer industry? or farm equipment? or corn? or anything else? you fall down the rabbit hole really fast this way.

moreover, punishing old people and single parents isn't going to make us more competitive. removing the mortgage tax deduction would though, as it'd make the housing market more efficient and dynamic, fueling growth and innovation. get rid of the implicit subsidy to housing via the government-backed mortgage companies, and we'd really get somewhere.

let's remove subsidies and price in externalities across the board, not just in some ideological subset, then you don't have to finely regulate every market and commodity, which is just begging for more regulatory capture and corruption.
I am deeply disappointed in myself that I havent raised 500mil from one of the "master of the universe" VC's for a crypto vapourware project.
>What's the median for wireless internet delivery?

Who cares? If they signed up for

>100/20 Mbps speed obligations attached to its Rural Digital Opportunity Fund (RDOF) projects

they have to deliver. The article has a valid point.
Berlin prepares 'huge thermos' to help heat homes in winter
> Congress did grant the EPA that authority

This is objectively false, the supreme court just ruled that. Like it or not, they are the sole authority on said issues / decisions.
It works best when you have projects with a lot of discrete components that can be delegated/outsourced to more parties than you can keep track of. In practice, all this does is crowdsource micromanagement (IMO why everyone hates it), but it's something of a necessary evil with complex projects.

The problems arise when the "I need agile!" meme becomes reality and leaders adopt it for the sake of showmanship. If your incident responders are able to plan the incidents they'll work over the next sprint, you are clearly managing a team of saboteurs.
whereas Scrum puts too much focuses on Scrummasters and planning.

"Planning is essential, but a plan is useless." ~~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
Starlink only needs to reach 100/20 in select locations by 2028 not maintain that level of service to all US customers.

Looking at their current coverage map they likely applied specifically in low density areas so they could be largely meeting their obligations today.
Yes. Sharper Image sold one called the "Ionic Breeze".
They generate ozone, which is a problem however.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_ioniser
Talk about scope creep... and it happens here for the same reason as in business: contract inflation. The government is more than happy to throw money at contractors and the more they ask for, the more they get, generally.
In the meantime, who is putting food on the table for their kids?

People’s choices are to either start a well funded business where margins are huge and you can offer plush benefits, work for a business offering high compensation, work for the government, or do nothing at all?

Immigrants should not try their hand at restaurants or gas stations or convenient stores, tradespeople should not attempt hiring apprentices unless they can give the same compensation as big firms, etc?

> Your competition only gets to benefit from those horrible things because people like you keep telling us it's a bad thing to expect companies to do better.

I have spent many words explaining that this is wrong. The competition gets to benefit because customers will buy from the seller selling at the lowest price. It has nothing to do with people like me or their comments.

Higher paid US manufacturing did not disappear because of people like me. It disappeared because customers wanted to save money and buy cheaper goods made in countries with lower manufacturing costs.
I'm on T-Mobile's home internet. With just the modem chilling in my room, i can get about 200/20. I've bought an external antenna that I'm going to be hooking up to the modem and mounting on top of my house soon. Testing it in my front yard I was able to get 350/25. Latency/Jitter was also significantly better with that antenna.

I'm not super rural, but we have literally no other internet options, are on septic/well water, and are about 10 minutes from the nearest store by car.