skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
- This is a more niche product (just due to sheer numbers). Therefore, supporting it for each user will have higher overheads.

- Competition is expensive, e.g. BGAN at $284/GB of data transfer or more, while offering lower speeds (700 Kbps for a $6.5K Cobham Explorer 710, Vs. 350 Mbps for this).

- Competition likely won't be able to directly compete on offering for a while.

The next step will likely be commercial aircraft over the ocean. "Because they can [charge this]" is obviously the primary reason, but if you go look at what is available in this space right now, this isn't nuts, far from it.

Internet over the ocean is an incredibly hard/expensive problem. You cannot directly compare it to over-the-land offerings where the consumers are 1:1M.
I think that offshore is Q4 2022, though very hard to tell from those colors in the coverage map. Really unhelpful visual design there!
not exactly color cycling per se, but you might be able to achieve a similar animation effect by overlaying an svg turbulence filter over a mask of the waterfall, like described here[0]

unfortunately the dynamic displacement mapping is not very performant and this technique is hard to pull off on mobile devices

[0] https://redstapler.co/realistic-water-effect-svg-turbulence-...
"$5,000/mo with a one-time hardware cost of $10,000 for two high performance terminals."

Definitely aimed at the champagne caviar, St Barts crowd rather than the hard scrabble, cruiser on a fixed income.

In other terms, Iridium Go is still the best value around and truly global for the time being.
I'm getting tired of this charade that this is the first time the big tech dragnet is being used to harm those caught in it. They've been handing data over to foreign and domestic law enforcement for a long time [1], including for what would be constitutionally protected speech in the US [2,3,4,5], so I'm sure they'll be able to handle a few extra requests - I don't see why there would be a "mess".

[1] https://nypost.com/2021/06/23/how-big-tech-created-a-data-tr...

[2] https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/20/world/europe/germany-36-a...

[3] https://www.theguardian.com/law/2014/jun/13/jail-someone-for...

[4] https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/09/geofence-warrants-thre...

[5] https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-56364...
That in and of itself is not a signifier of mismanaged funds.

Without knowing what much they should cost, there’s no way to know what the roads should look like.

Americas sprawling land use is extremely expensive to maintain.
I think you mean Ghislaine Maxwell's clients. Those guys are all too big to jail.
I see what you’re saying, but it seems impossible to prove it literally cannot happen if you just assume every safety system we put in place all fail at once, which is _possible_ I guess.

We live with worse tail risks daily though: we have nuclear weapons in the center of Europe (could be misused, there could be an accident, etc.), we have labs that handle or create deadly pathogens (there could be a leak, etc.), we live near volcanoes or in earthquake/tsunami prone areas, and of course we are living through climate change with unknown tail risk (to crops, to temperatures, etc.).

If you accept that sort of question with no real probability of happening (“what if 5G renders us all infertile because we misunderstand high frequency radio waves?”, “what if the flu vaccine produced this year kills us all?”), you can’t really do anything. It’s impossible to prove a negative, we have to deal with expected values given our knowledge.
1. Believe me I know the appeal of a hard technical problem. PhD in Vision here. :)
2. Military drone tech as such? Yes, billion-dollar industry.
SOC2 - the thing your CTO tells you important but does everything in their power to ignore.
> Definitely aimed at the champagne caviar, St Barts crowd rather than the hard scrabble, cruiser on a fixed income.

More like: commercial and military vessels
They’ll still be dead to you. ;)
Duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32014622
And vaccinations seem pretty long term not doing anything useful.
Definitely subsidizing the losses in the consumer business. Without Starship Starlink is on a path to bankruptcy like the companies that came before.
She's going to be 80 when she gets out of prison.
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But in terms of budget, whatever your budget is, as long as its finite it will always be a zero sum game between "mostly civil" and "mostly military" applications, fuzzy as that line is of course.
Slightly different, but in a past life working in a field the company had extreme access to people's homes, we definitely weeded out some people who should not be given access to a strangers home using background checks.

Again, they're not ideal, and there's a large social concern of a permanent record like that, but you have a duty of care if your customers are trusting you.
For a lot of shops, yes. Don’t SOC2 if that’s you!
So, two reasons?
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> The flâneur is traditionally depicted as male and is a figure of urban affluence and modernity since he has the free time and ability to wander detached from society, with no other purpose than to observe contemporary society with keen interest.

I used to walk around a lot on the weekends with no destination in mind. However, after my transition from male to female, I realized the truth of this quote from the article. This sort of aimless strolling is mostly available to men. Although I still enjoy walking around, and prefer to live in a walkable city, I usually have a destination in mind. Invisibility in public space is no longer afforded to me. Now I am a target for eyes and unsolicited comments, and occasionally aggressive behavior. The heightened awareness of risks to my safety has somewhat diminished the joy of flânerie for me.
This is my first comment but I have read this site daily since I created the account in March. I felt that my experience would be a valuable addition to the thread and I am not attempting to speak for all women. I'm sorry if it came off that way and I am genuinely happy that you haven't had this experience. This site seems to be a bit of an echo chamber sometimes so I thought I'd offer a differing opinion.
How do people square climate change and violent currents across EU rivers with Nuclear installations so close to such rivers (for instance the Blayais power plant)? I am genuinely curious. Is the idea that we will build stations that can withstand such forces? It's not just warming rivers, but also notoriously unpredictable conditions and our inability to make up an accurate model of what might happen. If someone has a study that takes this angle I am happy to read it.
The purpose of the private right to action was to get around Roe/Casey prior to the Supreme Court overruling both cases. The law was specifically designed to evade judicial review.

As a private plaintiff, you can typically sue a state official that is charged with enforcing a law in federal court on constitutional grounds. SB8 is written in such a way that state officials are barred from enforcing the law. Thus, it is effectively impossible to challenge in federal court because there is no state official that enforces the law, only private citizens, and thus there is no proper defendant.
Wait, what screenshots?
> Interesting. I didn't know that coverage was limited. I assumed satellite == pretty much all of earth.

The low orbits that give Starlink its low latency compared to geostationary satellite internet services also mean that each satellite can only see a small part of the earth at any given time. This is why they need so many satellites to provide reliable coverage.

Right now each satellite has to communicate directly to a uplink station, so it's only possible to provide coverage to areas where a satellite can simultaneously see the user and the uplink.

This is where SpaceX's planned inter-satellite link capability comes in to play, they claim they will be able to use lasers in a free-space optical network (think fiber without the fiber) to relay data directly from satellite to satellite, allowing service more than a single hop from a uplink station. This will also hypothetically allow for direct user to user connections over the satellite network that do not traverse the terrestrial internet, which would be huge for both military and business applications. Lots of words have been written about intercontinental high frequency trading for example.

Supposedly every satellite launched in 2022 has the capability but as far as I'm aware it hasn't been openly demonstrated to work yet. Making it work reliably within a single orbital ring is a hard problem and the claimed ability to cross-connect between adjacent rings is an absurdly hard problem. Neither are impossible, but I'll believe it when I see it.
The section on storage that literally starts by pointing out that a renewable only or nuclear only plan would both require storage?

And then lays out multiple solutions, including 20Kwh of EV battery storage for every person which must have been basically science fiction at the time of writing but now sounds entirely boring and inevitable for reasons entirely separate from power storage.

Yeah I'd say that holds up pretty well, but I'm still not seeing the problem it apparently poses for today's world of cheap renewables?

We need and want to produce lots of green hydrogen for non-burning purposes. That fits perfectly into the demand response idea he lays out in reasonable detail. So why do you seem to think pumped hydro storage was the only solution he mentioned?

Even with his dated view on PV prices, he raises the possibility of importing hydrogen:

> "Solar photovoltaics were technically feasible for Europe, but I judged
them too expensive. I hope I’m wrong, obviously. It will be wonderful
if the cost of photovoltaic power drops in the same way that the cost of
computer power has dropped over the last forty years."

What a great quote to look back on from a future where his hopes came true.
Pedant mode on (this is standards after all) - ISO 13485 is medical devices in general. You'll end up tacking on something like IEC 62304 for medical software and software in medical devices.
They say there are too few Windows 7 users to justify support. But the way they measure that is with the automated usage reporting. Here's the problem with that, people using Windows 7 are still doing so because they don't like sending automated usage reports. They're not going to show up in your telemetry. In addition to that, because this is a retro game application, the reason to stick with Windows 7 may be to preserve compatibility with older games. Knowing that the operating system is unsupported and lacking in security, one would be wise to only use it in offline mode. That means, again, your application won't be sending automated usage reports.

I don't doubt that Windows 7 usage is dwindling, but it's largely a self-fulfilling prophecy as developers miscount the size of their legacy user base which makes the application break on older systems and then the users either stop updating which means developers see fewer users in their metrics. It's unfortunate that the Dolphin team couldn't see the value in continuing legacy support and even more unfortunate that it's Qt's fault they had to abandon it.
> In the presence of competition "optimal for owner" equates to "optimal for the system at large"

I'd humbly suggest that the system is comprised of more than mere owners.

> There's wide-ranging literature on why companies exist [1]

Indeed. Are you suggesting they describe examples of firms that don't produce, and never intends to do so? I'd be very interested to learn about them, as I'm surprised to hear someone imply The Theory of the Firm describes organizations without output.
Part of the selling point for me was the cheap cloud storage of video clips and ease of setup & accessing the live views and recordings.
> Temporarily back up with nuclear

I think the assumption that we can build nuclear baseload capacity faster than storage solutions is... just that. An assumption. Needs citation.
Antarctica is maybe 4000 people and some penguin shit.

Why does it matter if they are covered or not?
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I think volume is almost deceptive. It seems like we’re doing useful compression, but if we’re not careful we introduce complexity and indirection that is not based on actual needs. So we essentially code ourselves into a corner.

There are circumstances when your version is actually better: when pizza_base has a real meaning in your domain, outside of the code representing it. The chefs, accountants and so on use the term day to day, and might even have specific pricing or techniques around it. Then pizza_base is an actual thing that you want to represent in some way.

However it could also just be a function, which derives from pizza_base from your raw data. Like is_pizza_base(). I would prefer that in general.

There is nothing wrong with dumb, raw, data. It gives you leverage and frees you from coupling.
> I doubt it’s a good strategy to put all our eggs in a photovoltaic basket.

This is why I still support nuclear despite the cost.

Although…

> But PV is inherently intermittent and unless you massively overbuild capacity you’ll always face a weather threat.

isn't strictly true. In a magical alternative reality where we can do mega-projects and can ignore geopolitics, antipodal power grids are technically fine, much cheaper than batteries, and don't need any backups.

(I'm not sure how easy/hard it would be to make one without such assumptions, only that it takes a minimum of about one years' global aluminium production, so treat it as merely an interesting though experiment at this point).
Forging DNS is one way to gain a "special" reputation for an ISP.
Scientists found a new hole in the ozone layer that may affect 50% of people
Starlink RV is only currently meant to be used while stationary and can't track while in motion, which is why the hardware is identical to the home unit. They're supposed to be coming out with new hardware that allows use while in motion. It was only a week ago that the FCC approved the application for "vehicles in motion."[1] It will be on airplanes as well, soon.

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2022/06/30/fcc-approves-spacex-starlink...
We definitely don't do the minimum! Our goal was to keep the scope manageable so the Type 2 certification goes smoothly. The side effect of this is that the things we _did_ put into scope are things we expect to do really well.

Preventing access to sensitive data is important. None of the top ten ways we try to solve that include "background checks", though.
>Valve hasn't had scandal after scandal of them abusing user data in egregious ways.

Any real examples? Scandal after scandal implies there should be many, but in recent memory I can't think of FB directly abusing user data besides it being repeated as truth on HN.
This. You'll lose more money in lost clients than SOC2 will cost you. It is only really expensive the first time you do it - after that if you just follow your own procedures the annual audits are pretty easy. And yes, being able to just reply to those security questionnaires (do you have armed guards in your data center?) with "see SOC2 report" is gold.

Of course if you are in an industry were clients don't ask for soc2, don't do soc2.
c++ just understands that the only purpose you could e using it for is "struct foo".
if you have a function "int foo()" as well, then you'll still need the struct tag(which really is necessary because you can do things like call structs like functions)
I wonder what Inmarsat or Viasat bill for comparable service and terminals.
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I agree that there is a second part, conditionally. It Implies that you would not have run if you had not been pulled over- which is true!

The same holds true for Russia. They would not have demanded payment in rubles if they had access to Swift.

The problem is that people confuse conditionality and moral justification.

I would not have run if they never pulled me over is no more of an excuse then I would never have shot him if he didn't look at me weird.

Something can be conditional and true but still a bad reason.
So you’re saying diversity of opinions is a threat to diversity?
The key skill is to distinguish between harmful repetition, harmless repetition and beneficial repetition.

Say you have two templates (web pages). They are conceptually independent and serve two different business purposes. Yet in terms of their structure/content/whichever, they have about 20% in common.

Somebody obsessed with DRY would now elevate that 20% into some reusable module, after which both templates use it and the repetition is gone. Feels clean.

In reality, you didn't solve a real problem whilst you created a new one. Now individuals/teams cannot independently edit these templates as they need to understand and check the dependency tree. It no longer is simple, there's no piece of mind.

Next, inevitably somebody is going to request changes impacting that 20% and before you know it and after cutting lots of corners, you end up with this freak component that changes output based on some flag.

It's taken me 20 years to come to this conclusion: the negative effects of (too much) DRY (it increases complexity) show up in every single project and make code harder to understand and change. Meanwhile, the negative effects of allowing (some) repetition are mostly theoretical and more often than not a benefit, not a negative.

I mean it. This is coming from an ex-DRY fan boy. The DRY principle makes us eager to connect dots that really aren't connected and shouldn't be connected.
That’s a very fair argument.

One consideration that comes to mind is if the scale necessary for operating nuclear is much greater than the examples you cited?

Thinking out loud, without taking a stance on either side, it seems we would need to scale nuclear power to the hands of many lesser qualified people than in the cases you mentioned, which would push the tail risk much harder.

That said, I haven’t thought deeply about the comparison here. If we need heavy magnitude of power, then we are bound to have to accept the risk of disaster as such concentrated power centers inevitably become unstable.
Still super cheap compared to what yachts are currently doing
Incredible engineering. Just a bit saddening that it's being used to wage war instead of something that more generally benefits society.
It’s only five boat units a month and ten boat units for setup.
It’s no where near worth it for me because normal phone/wireless data works well where I sail (in addition to iridium network fwiw) - the prices would need to be at least an order (orders) of magnitude cheaper for me to even consider it. Not sure about parent comment though.

Boat ~~ bust out another thousand

Edit: I took parent comment as a joke but ya never know
> There are two new defendants charged in the scheme, Craig Miller and Derrick Taylor

I want to know how much money it cost the PRC to buy these guys.

Doubt they were doing it for ideological reasons in the usual MICE (money, ideology, conscience, ego) formula.
I don't think there is a moral debate about developing autonomous military drones in China.

These self-restrictions based on morality regarding the development of military drones is really something only some western nations do. Other countries, if they reach the capabilites to develop them, they just do.
fearless ignorance is the only way i can be comfortable in a tech role. being open and honest about things you don't know lowers the pressure for everyone around me. i truly think it helps my team work together to all improve their knowledge, not staying quiet when a "smart" person is talking through complex things. part of my leadership skills, lower the bar so we all move forward together.
How is having a Roblox account listed alongside a Tiktok/Twitter account an indicator of CSA? I'd expect this to be a dragnet of all Roblox players who are 16+ and most likely to be legitimately engaged in networking/social media.

If you really want to find the CSAs, I'd suggest looking for the accounts openly soliciting vague "donations," and links to Amazon wishlists. Still a bit noisy (e-begging is not inherently e-whoring, but there is significant overlap).

Outliers might include links to P2P payment sites (Coffee, Paypal, Patreon, GFM, etc. Assume BTC these days too) but in general kids have limited banking mobility, and large sums of money discovered by parents erroneously attract drug trafficking suspicions-- whereas material items draw no legal attention, can be anonymously delivered by Amazon, and can be successfully attributed to "friends."

Also, be suspicious of your kids' friends-- even IRL ones. The only thing more deplorable than a pedophile's own grooming efforts are when they manage to turn their victims into recruiters. The trust is already there on account of a proxy. All it takes is a scenario along the lines of "your dad won't buy you an iPad? I have a friend online who will..." and the rest is history.
I largely agree with the previous poster. If a single brief yaml file is too complicated, you're asking for too much from your tooling. I've seen hideous configuration management systems that did 1/100th of what kubernetes can do. There is some additional complexity around containers which is not a k8s complexity issue, and there are advanced features that most devs will never need to touch. Regardless, I'll take the complexity saved by k8s over custom built tooling or oversimplified PaaS any day.
It's better than InMarSat, or any other regional fixed satellite communication system big time
Always amused at people citing our inability to predict the future as evidence that their view of the future is inevitable.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-62064506

"He cited cases in which people linked to Chinese companies out in rural America had been digging up genetically modified seeds which would have cost them billions of dollars and nearly a decade to develop themselves."
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A lot of enterprise-scale companies won't even consider your SAAS if you don't have SOC/ISO, but many can certainly make it without those companies as customers.
+1 for Svelte/SvelteKit. Svelte's DX feels like you are just using JS, CSS, and HTML - but you get all the new hottness of the other framework packages as you need it.
Commercial and military vessels have contracts with Iridium/Inmarsat etc for mission critical stuff.

An extra box which based on current coverage map provides GSM level coast-only coverage of unproven reliability doesn't hold much appeal, even factoring in how expensive satellite broadband is.
When does the mega sunspot or whatever hafta fire a large mass ejection at us, and how strong would it have to be, to cook most of humanity?