skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It appears you are doubting that they will eventually launch their 2.0 satellites with an order of magnitude more bandwidth. It's not like they haven't delivered in the past...

The constellation is still growing quickly, they just passed 3000 launched Starlink satellites. By the time they go past the 9.000 satellites or so they should have Starship ready and kick their launch volume into overdrive. Have the 30,000 extra satellites (on top of the 12,000 already approved ones) even been approved yet?

> Higher-bandwidth birds just moves the bottleneck.

What does that even mean? There is no reason to believe they can't launch enough powerful satellites to reach faster speeds in those rural areas.
I always wonder this with engineering channels. Where are these people getting thousands of pounds for each project? It must really cut into their earnings.
To clarify my meaning: a game is never declared "done", with the apparatus of the project moving on to create a new game.
Yeah, which is pretty incredible from PR perspective and I can't believe Amazon let that happen in the first place.
Pocket is the reason I chose the Kobo, how can the others miss that feature, it's not like people just read books nowadays.
Where do they show up? Never seen one.
No dishes, Phased Array ar flat
DOE digs up molten salt nuclear reactor tech, Los Alamos to lead the way back
Using satellites to uncover large methane emissions from landfills
Sure, a law could state it's illegal, but that surely wouldn't shut him down.
Because healthcare as a service does not come even close to satisfy the conditions required for perfect competition.

Without going too much in detail, the "customers" cannot have perfect information regarding the treatment or course of action that's most convenient for them at a given moment, and they cannot freely decide when (or often whether) to make use of the service or not—"It's probably best I get appendicitis now that I can afford it rather than wait until next year".
That is also an interesting attribute, and for similar sociological reasons.
Why would you settle for less as species if you could get it?
I would have loved to enhance some open code of Sid Meyer's Alpha Centauri...
Happy that you're interested. Sadly though, as this community has decided to not have a neutral stance towards new technology, I doubt these efforts will ever be talked about. Instead, the algorithm will serve up a few more NPC-compatible "blockchain is bad" posts. Bon appetite
Not sure how much it is about entitlement, probably rather users angry at the bait & switch. Companies offering the world for free, getting users to expend the effort to move to their service, and then suddenly changing the entire structure and expecting users to pay.

If you offer a service for free, you should be able to keep offering that for free (with paid upgrades instead of removing functionality from a free tier/removing the free tier entirely).
The numbers are not as bad as GP implies, but still quite bad:

In 2017, blacks represented 12% of the U.S. adult population but 33% of the sentenced prison population. Whites accounted for 64% of adults but 30% of prisoners. And while Hispanics represented 16% of the adult population, they accounted for 23% of inmates.

Another way of considering racial and ethnic differences in the nation’s prison population is by looking at the imprisonment rate, which tallies the number of prisoners per 100,000 people. In 2017, there were 1,549 black prisoners for every 100,000 black adults – nearly six times the imprisonment rate for whites (272 per 100,000) and nearly double the rate for Hispanics (823 per 100,000).

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/04/30/shrinking-g...
I thought the video said they removed his colon? Wouldn't that pretty much make flare ups physically impossible?
Larry Ellison is 77

Bill Gates is 66

Jeff Bezos is 58

I think they're doing ok.
> The Remarkable ... has this fantastic warm backlight

It doesn't have a backlight at all!
Ha, funny you say that. Last time I was at Everest Base Camp nearly everyone had an e-ink kindle. The long battery life and light weight are ideal for long isolated stretches in the Himalayas.
You can't get that from voting patterns: Resistance to government spending and handouts depend on where you are putting the money.

I haven't actually met a farmer that is opposed to farm subsidies, for example.

And I think there is a hint of ignorance when it does benefit them: The local ISP finally giving a rural location higher-speed internet probably did so because they received government money or have brushed up against government regulations that require them to upgrade in the countryside as well as urban areas - yet the government spending goes unnoticed.

I'll add that the US is a 2 party system in practice, so the reasons for voting conservative vary greatly and you can't really take voting a certain way as "against handouts" when it is easily other issues that prompts the vote.
I think these are exceptionally interesting questions, and may suggest the solutions would include redistribution of the benefits of increased productivity from the capitalist class to society as a whole (a reversal of the trend we've seen since the 1970s in the "west").
This could lead to never finishing anything. OP is asking about how to get through the infamous "valley of death". Just stopping is not necessarily the right action.
Boffins rate NPM and PyPI package security
A "boffin" is a scientist in informal British English usage (as often used in the Register headlines)
Found this less convincing than expected. They seem to mostly base the criticism on (a) it's cheaper to use non-blockchain equivalent for the use cases they could think of, and (b) some point in the blockchain equivalent process generates a need to trust another party.

It seems to me that block chains will win at the things they are good for a bit the way git won at version control: decentralised systems just require lower overheads and less barrier to entry in general, so people just automatically use them.

It's fine to point at legacy use cases where all the trust relationships are already established. Those are living off fully amortised costs. But new systems do not have that benefit and for that context, you are faced with a proposition of having to set up a whole lot of new trust infrastructure and associated processes.

So for example, if you were setting up a library today and there were no pre-existing library systems out there. You might want to maintain a history of who borrowed each book, so you know who last had it. You will either have to establish a whole legal entity to become the owner of the books, electronic systems to track them and administer everything, and everyone will have to agree on its governance, who controls it and most importantly, trust them implicitly not to tamper with the transactions.

It'll be a whole lot of work. So why would you do all that work when you can opt for a block chain with literally no overheads?
You guys are getting paid?
> Yup, else they might try to decide to wait it out and build their own bomb

I don't believe this thought crossed the mind of military planners, even the most pessimistic ones. Japan by mid 1945 was reduced to rubble, with nearly zero serious industrial capacity and under a maritime blockade. I think the best they could do is to continue as a semi-destroyed agrarian society with just enough guns and cold weapons to impose unacceptable casualties on would-be occupants - and in that state they would probably be able to last for quite a while. But obtaining a nuclear weapon of their own was out of the question for Japan.
My favorite is the standing mat :D
There's a specific, cheaper version (10 euros cheaper in France) that has ads in.
Nah, Lisp had GC in 1960 already. McCarthy invented the mark & sweep GC.

Lisp I Programmers Manual, 1960

https://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/LISP/book/LISP...

Chapter 6.3, Page 95, The Free-Storage List and the Garbage Collector
My Kindle doesn't show ads, because I didn't buy the version that shows ads. I have never had a book deleted from my Kindle by Amazon.

There was a single instance of a couple of George Orwell's books being removed from user devices in July 2009. Customers had the purchase price they paid refunded. It was done because the company selling those books didn't actually have the rights to sell them. Afterwards, Jeff Bezos apologised and described it as "stupid, thoughtless, and painfully out of line with our principles". It is therefore unlikely to happen again.

Given the commercial structure of Amazon e-Books, does it make sense to buy something that gives you as a reader more rights (e.g. when you die)? Perhaps. But I know what I've got into, so has every other Kindle owner on Earth.

You do you, but your stated premise against Kindle is at best a little inaccurate and outdated, and at worst comes across perhaps a little hyperbolic.
Thing is, GDP is a lousy measure of growth. Japan is undergoing a contraction and fossilization of its social structure.

Interestingly enough, the same is happening slowly in USA and UK, and then after a big space everywhere else. Note the anti-immigration and austerity rhetoric, where what is needed is a major social change, considering of some attempts to level the playing field and prevent the current corporate and political aristocracies from emerging again.

Aa for rural drain, it's been happening everywhere, mostly because for some reason we do not pay farmers enough, nor the systems we made allow even groups of then to be self sufficient.
Linux 6.0 to arrive soon, along with performance gains
Can't believe there is such a thing of having an Ereader with ads. Ok it's cheaper but come on, that really shows us how low they think of us. I can understand for a free product but for something you pay ... like seriously!
Cambodia’s Cyber Slaves
Stats say Chinese researchers are not deterred by China's vulnerability law
> Yup, else they might try to decide to wait it out and build their own bomb. They were so much against surrendering many committed seppuku or regular suicide when it happened and those were regular people.

The declaration of war by the Soviet Union decided the end of the war. Japan wouldn't have had time to build their own bomb and they would have surrendered anyway.

In fact it is not even proven that the bombings had any meaningful impact to the decisions to surrender. If the Japanese didn't surrender after having whole cities firebombed, it is insane to think the atomic bombings would have had any more impact on moral.

The US did not use the atomic bomb for humanitarian reasons, to end the war earlier or other such other lies. They did it a a show of strength, targeted at the Soviets.

It is sad that even after so many years, the same propaganda lies get repeated. Why are people still defending the use of the atomic bomb?
His point was that it's not the electricity consumption (e.g. PoW mining) itself that pollutes.
Calls to ban gamebird release to avoid ‘catastrophic’ avian flu outbreak
or perhaps they are just fed up with bowing to a government that doesn't work for them? The USA was founded by terrorists too, from the POV of Britain...
Wow 43 out of 50 is rather high. I fell under the the suggested threshold of 32 and got 29.

I have similar memories of my 20s trying to learn how to behave in a social setting. But I also remember things clicking at some point and that part of the world stopped requiring so much effort.

Thank you for sharing. I hope you're able to get your diagnosis.
This comes down to a striking difference between what we might call "fashion" norms and "formality" norms that's often lost on people who don't naturally conform to either.

It's semi-widely understood that fashion norms are purposefully exclusionary, that changing routinely and unpredictably imposes ongoing costs that keep outgroups out.

"Formality" norms are not like this. They don't tend to change particularly quickly (though which norm is preferred in a given "context" can change if the context flip-flops), and they're not normally intended to be hard to "follow". They substitute for formal induction as a way to signal that, yes, while I don't actually know any of you, I share enough basic culture with you that we can reasonably expect to be communicating with other in ways that we both know how to deal with. (This is something you get to feel strongly when you try to work your way into doing business with people with whom you don't share enough basic culture to reasonably expect to be communicating on the same wavelength.)

And yes, some people do get left out that the rigors of the norm, but the alternative to having formality norms isn't that everyone is now willing to deal with everyone else. If people aren't openly advertising what social protocols they're ready to speak, you're still going to have to negotiate them once you get to the meeting, with substantial chance of failure. The alternative looks more like refusing to deal with people who you can't find someone you trust to vouch for, which, well, is indeed what tends to happen when trying to do business cross-culturally.
This is not really correct.

First, some software is updated frequently in RHEL, including podman. RHEL 8 was released in 2019 and it has podman 4.0.2 from earlier this year.

Second, even software that isn't updated often, or at all, in the base system might have newer releases available as modules. For example there are recent versions of Python in RHEL 8, with just the basic runtime so that you can use pip to install more packages.

Third, the RHEL kernel is updated much more than the corresponding LTS releases. The RHEL 8 kernel is closer to 5.15-ish than to the nominal 4.18 release from which it was forked. Pace for backports has slowed down a bit, but there's interest in keeping the kernel up to date because people are running RHEL 9 containers on the RHEL 8 kernel.
wouldn't you just put all those things into a contract and put the contract into the blockchain along with their signature as proof?

You seem to be arguing that blockchain has to magically solve real world physical problems, but paper contracts don't do that either. You still end up in court. Its just a question of how you are substantiating they really signed the contract.
It's a very clear trade off - you get the device for less money, but you get ads. How is this "how low they think of us"?????
I was hoping to see design mockups of UIs with unrealistically short text or avatars featuring beautiful people photographed by professionals (and not poorly lit selfies or anime characters).
Like the GP, I'm not in love with DM hypothesis and wouldn't mind something else. I also used to think the same as you. But DM explains a lot of disparate effects, in ways that MOND does not.

The best-well known effect is the "missing mass" in rotating galaxies. Well recently we found galaxies that look like they have no dark matter in them - i.e. they behave as you would expect from classical gravity/centripetal force arguments [1]. So while you can tweak General Relativity to match some of the effects in typical galaxies, you would then expect the results to hold in all galaxies. The "outliers" are easily explained by Dark Matter - they just don't have it for whatever reason.

The simulations of Universe formation, sure have their limitations, but look much worse without DM.

Galaxy clusters look like they have unexplained mass in them. Crucially, this isn't only from observing their rotational speeds (so like galaxy rotations) but also from looking at the strength of gravitational lensing they induce. This is as compared to fluid-dynamics-y calculations of gas temperature, pressure etc.

Bullet cluster is another interesting case [2]. It is the result of a collision of two galaxies. In such cases, you expect (a) the stars to "fly through" each other, as they are basically point masses and only interact gravitationally, but (b) the gasses and dust to collide. In this case, most of the mass is in fact gas and dust, so it should be distributed in the middle of the cluster (having just had an inelastic collision). But in fact observed mass is where the stars are, further out of what looks like center of mass.

[1] https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-01410-x
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullet_Cluster
I thought it was going to be about NIC descriptors [1].
I think we can say that descriptors is not very descriptive without context...

[1] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/36625892/descriptor-conc...
When Steam removes a game, it means they no longer sell it, but they don't remove it from your computer nor stop you from downloading it if you already adquired it.
While not exactly like Pocket, there are services that can send web articles to your Kindle. I work on one called Push to Kindle: https://www.fivefilters.org/push-to-kindle/
Teams doesn't have functional copy pasting. No company has a worse track record on engaging user experiences.

Sure they might be able to make a thing that is technically "metaverse" whatever that even means, but I sincerely doubt they will get anyone besides their enterprise client base actually using it.

They seem to be able to milk never ending money out of low standard enterprise consumers though so who knows, maybe it will flop by and still make them a ton of money
I like this game a lot, I did not know it was open source! After playing Factorio I find this refreshing. I am happy I paid for something Open Source <3
Once we build and make stuff truly not on earth it will decouple. The trade never reaches earth then, so overall human economy expands but not earth's (or only a little, ie high value trade, maybe even take some high waste energy processes off earth if energy from dropping product back is less).
The human economy could be much larger but not all parts of the human sphere would necessarily trade with each other materially.

Edit: "materially" in the sense of stuff. Some data from a nearby star could still be highly valuable, but exchanging stuff over lightyears might rarely be efficient.
2.4Ghz covers more area.
Games generally don't use copy on write, but they do often explicitly pipeline processing to happen across multiple frames (usually by manually copying the necessary data from sim "owned" memory to render "owned" memory, but varying amounts of double buffering is also used). This was especially true after the transition to multi-core but before the many-core regime of today. Transitioning from a single threaded engine, it was easier to run effectively a single-threaded simulation frame and a single-threaded render frame in parallel than to fully multithread everything. Graphics APIs took a while to support multithreading, as well.

These days game programmers have gotten experienced enough to get closer to fully saturating all cores in both the simulation and render steps, so you sometimes no longer see the two full frames of latency there.

> 16.6 (GPU is rendering the previous frame, current frame is cached)

Not entirely sure what this is about. Maybe some sort of triple buffering is being employed as a way to reduce hitches? If you push the engine really close to the 16 ms limit for each stage of your pipeline, sometimes something out of you control, like the OS deciding to do some heavy background work, will push you over your limit. Without the extra buffer, you will miss your vsync and the user will perceive a very disturbing judder.
"- Why is it called Sun and has a black hole logo?

A black hole is a collapsed sun, do be a stickler. Have fun and enjoy."

So it's not connected to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Sun_(symbol)?
Typically, yes - but they have also removed games from user libraries, preventing them from ever downloading the game again - exactly like Amazon has done in that one instance with an eBook.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/2013/12/30/steam-remov...

My point is - OP said that "once is enough" - well by that metric, I'm asking if they also don't use steam, because Steam has done exactly this at least once in the past.
Wait until you figure out printed books (paperbacks) come with ads too ...
I'm trying to learn category theory. It's not the kind of thing you can learn the way this article suggests. I find learning new abstractions rather difficult especially at the level of category theory. If anyone has any tips I'd love to hear them.
What’s more important, bad press or paying users? Sure, not everyone will pay and some users will leave but those that stay might make up for it.

My point is that launching with a free tier and applying limits later has been an effective monetization strategy for many successful startups.

Gitlab might be a special case because of open source projects; providing a service and then asking for money from people that in many cases work for free does feel a bit pointless.
Why are Tech Communities Important?
In this hypothetical scenario, it would all be dirty, but you would have no way to pinpoint which funds are associated with which illicit activity. At this point it becomes hard to levy any specific charges: "you are hereby charged with either breaking into a $100M bank vault, or fleecing grandma for $10, but we aren't sure which exactly."

In practical terms it might not matter, the funds would just be frozen. But it is still a form of money laundering that obscures the true source of the funds.
> obsolete 10 year old versions

Talk about hyperboles. RHEL 8 is from 2018 and has had considerably more updates than Ubuntu 18.04. In fact some packages might even be newer than what is in 20.04.
Personally I followed the rootfs way of installing Fedora to WSL2. It was simple enough and worked fine (including podman). I found no reason to use external tools / scripts / modified distros.

Sadly, some anti-cheat tools in games still refuse to work with WSL2 (they hate Hyper-V, I guess it's been used as attack vector), so back to VMware Player on my personal workstation and using terminal to open Linux shell.
Did you seriously just tell entire countries "have you tried not being poor?"
They're only on the lock screen, never when you're actually reading. I've had the same ad for years (because I use the device with Wi-Fi off) and have no idea what's on it since I never paid any attention.
While it is actually ridiculous for the games you mentioned, it makes sense for certain FPS/Racing games. Plus, common asset sharing isn't the only thing. Distributed infra for certain cross game modules also make a lot of sense. I wrote[1] a small post summarizing all possible use cases of putting game assets/game itself on-chain.

[1]https://rnikhil.com/2022/06/27/web3-gaming.html
I had just bought an apartment in 2008, but I didn't care about it at all. No one I knew bothered with economics except having enough money for rent and hedonistic activities.

I think the same applies to the general public today. Most people in the west have enough, and have seen the markets go up and up for so long that they have forgotten, or never experienced, severe downturn. I think it will blow up worse than 2008.
The only way your claim of "as little work I can do" is accurate is that if you spent one minute less working, it becomes the trigger point where you'll get fired.

But it sounds like you're just a normal corporate worker who does exactly what is stated in your employment contract and no more (and no less) -- but I suppose you should know that there are many people who do much less work than is formally required and get to keep their job.

There is a pain threshold for most managers to fire an employee. They have to spend time and money on recruiting and training a new replacement, so in theory if the cost of you slacking off is lower than the cost of finding a replacement, they might not actually fire you.
> - Or does an all powerful benevolent compassionate God actually considers babies and toddlers an acceptable collateral damage?

Have you not actually read a bible or quran?

Of course the all-powerful God considers babies and toddlers acceptable sacrifices for the greater good of more worshipers[1].

Not saying that I do, but a significant minority probably does.