skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> How do see the chances for other competitors to be able to catch up with SpaceX/Starlink?

I like to remind people that it’s actually SpaceX who is still catching up to legacy providers of space-based connectivity. As I mention in the footnotes, my wife’s grandfather was working on commercial comms satellites in the 60s! Starlink will probably become the biggest provider of space-based internet connnectivity soon, but I think when HughesNet still has more subscribers today (Hugheswho?).

And their principle competitor among the new disruptive LEO constellations is Amazon. Famous pushovers.

I don’t think there will be one winner, just as the history of comms in space has shown there likely won’t be. But by owning launch, SpaceX has a large advantage. Thing is…Amazon has its own infrastructure advantage (AWS). Will be fun to watch it play out.

> And are there some other challenges than congestested space and congestested frequency spectrum, when there will be several competitors in space?

Space is not that congested, imo. A huge satellite is the size of a Cessna. LEO is hundreds of kilometers above the Earth’s surface. Even if it were only a few thousand feet above the surface, if you imagine 10,000 Cessnas flying around the surface of the Earth, they aren’t super likely to run into each other. But I’m no expert.

What I do know is the current procedures for handling conjunction events are scarily shoddy and there’s a lot of room to improve (fear not, a ton of people are working on it).
These have been common in North America for large trucks operating in snowy places for decades - school buses, dump trucks, etc.

Handy because you don't have to stop/get out/interrupt service - just flip a switch and you've got improved traction!
A broken clock being right twice a day and all that.

Prior to becoming Pope, Benedict did lead the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith which was responsible for covering up the child sex abuse scandals of the Catholic Church in Ireland. In addition, while he was Pope, someone high up in the church instructed the Irish part of the church to stymie the government's efforts to investigate said child abuse scandals which resulted in threatened expulsion of the vatican ambassador[1] (recalled by the vatican before it came to that), the closure of the Irish embassy to the Vatican[2] and a public condemnation by the Irish government[3].

What is much less up for debate is that Benedict and his sucessor Francis (who to be fair, has not had the same pre-papal track record as his predecessor) were fairly elected leaders of the catholic church by its own mechanisms.

Also don't take this as approval or support for the guy's reactionary views of what he thinks catholicism should be.

[1]: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-14281441

[2]: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/ireland-closes-embassy-to-vat...

[3]: https://www.irishtimes.com/news/kenny-condemns-vatican-respo...
Nope, not seen this one, though there are many similar such specification languages. This one looks a bit overly verbose?

I suppose someone could write a description of https://github.com/aardappel/treesheets/blob/master/TS/docs/... in that specification language to give parsers in many languages. May not be as easy as it sounds with the embedded PNGs and compression etc.
Every year I read Shannon's paper, and every year I realize I have no idea WTF he was talking about.
Sorry if I gave the wrong impression when I mentioned the OSS angle... My (hindsight: almost meaningless) point was that the whole "open / vs closed source ideology" doesn't matter. You could contribute to the Donald Trump C# repo for all I care... It's the contribution that matters to me.

If an "amateur" (or whatever) programmer can contribute to OSS... That means so much! You list the implications very well, so thank you.

I try to hire based on ability, not qualifications (welcome to Arbitrary Definitions 101?).

Boils down to: if you work at a gas station, and get a PR merged into the Linux Kernel... Yeahhhh... We can talk about that senior dev position ;) Is five weeks vacation okay with you?
FWIW, they're also specialists in expensive and reliable ruggedized watches (G-Shock, especially the higher-end variants with compass, GPS etc).
11 days solo Yukon wilderness. Full 6 hrs
You're missing the whole point again, which is that by leaving the company, you don't have to produce as much revenue or value for you, yourself, to RETAIN the same amount of money as income.

Yes, a company should fire you of you reduce production by 25% and require the same payment. But the whole point is that all these people are figuring out they don't need the company for their income as much as the company needs them for the revenue they produce.
This twitter account is quite wild. Timeline of dunking his frozen store bought pizzas (still in bag) into hydrogen peroxide to

“kill the coranavirus” before putting them into long-term freeze, then getting mad & @‘ing the pizza company’s twitter account upon liquid ingress to aforementioned packing…

This is what has come of the cool thing (bitcoin - twitter user is a core dev to my knowledge) I learned of as a tween, well over a decade ago.
> Of course it's not necessarily a full replacement

I'd actually say: Not in the slightest. A type system just rules out illegal input values[0] but it won't ensure that your business logic is correct.

And even that[0] is not entirely correct because, most of the time, a type system just rules out some illegal values but not all of them, because it cannot represent all possible constraints. Gary Bernhardt discussed this whole type checking vs. tests debate at length here: https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/ideology
I read “Deep Survival” a few years ago pre-pandemic and was pleasantly surprised it wasn’t a book of survival stories. The main takeaway for me was that sure, nature doesn’t care if you live or die, yet surviving in modern life is an illusion - a papering over of the brutal, unfeeling and inescapable “nature.”

The author wrote of survivors coming home after a harrowing near-death experience and realizing that survival is one day at a time, even in the comfort of your own home. Once you taste true survival it may haunt you. Survival is an easy concept with subtle and deep physical and mental consequences.

Kind of reminds me of David Foster Wallace’s “This is water” - https://youtu.be/eC7xzavzEKY
Well so basically the original thinking was that if electromagnetic waves travelled through a medium, then they would have a constant speed relative to this medium. As such, an object moving relative to this medium would measure different speeds for waves in different directions. No such effect was found, despite doing such things as measuring when the Earth was going in a different direction around the Sun.

These results decreased belief in an aether (though more complex experiments were needed to falsify the possibility that the Earth was dragging aether with it). Additionally, a series of length / time dilations were proposed for moving objects to explain the bizarre fact that the speed of the any light was measured the same regardless of the relative movement of the measuring observer. At this point Einstein stepped in and explained the theory of Special Relativity and how speeds don't add linearly and distances and times don't transform as one would naively expect under Galilean relativity. It was a really a generalization of the previously proposed Lorentz transformations that returned to the idea that all movement was relative. The spacetime that transforms in this way is called "Minkowskian".

Eventually after this, Quantum Mechanics developed into Quantum Field Theory, which is inherently relativistic and embedded in Minkowskian spacetime. In this view, electromagnetic photons are just excitations of the quantum field. Things basically came full circle and the quantum field is essentially an aether as envisioned all along. The difference is that it is relativistic / Minkowskian, and as such doesn't have a particular reference frame in which it is "not moving".

Note that even before the development fo QFT, this is what Einstein was saying: "More careful reflection teaches us however, that the special theory of relativity does not compel us to deny ether. We may assume the existence of an ether; only we must give up ascribing a definite state of motion to it, i.e. we must by abstraction take from it the last mechanical characteristic which Lorentz had still left it. We shall see later that this point of view, the conceivability of which I shall at once endeavour to make more intelligible by a somewhat halting comparison, is justified by the results of the general theory of relativity."

Einstein's whole letter is a great read: https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Extras/Einstein_ether/
Yeah, my best guess is that he was owned for a while and the hackers managed to pivot into everything owns. The plan was probably to backdoor bitcoin core, but after luke-jr detected his server being compromised the hackers figured they were burned and decided to run off with whatever bitcoin they could get from him.
I don't know about controlling the metaverse, but my personal theory is that AI will be dominated by computer-integrated primate brains, possibly genetically modified.
>At the risk of murdering this dead horse there's a reason nobody positions duffle bags of cash as the future of finance no matter where located

I think you're conflating "someone who is defending crypto in this particular instance" with "someone who thinks bitcoin will take over the world".

>I mean this guy is already demanding the FBI get involved when the FBI's position is you should just put it in a bank account and not need to call us in the first place.

Yeah, I think we're in agreement here that he was acting like an idiot.
See hgsgm's comment. Just because the test predicts outcomes doesn't mean what it's testing is causing the outcomes.
Bitcoin core developer is the nuttiest of bitcoin users? The whole point is that he should be the one of most knowledgeable exemplary users.
This is such a cynical, unhelpful response. Someone asked HN for recommendations for text-to-speech software. I provided a recommendation and explained my use-case. I wasn't trying to grow my audience by posting this comment. I was trying to explain how I combined two new AI technologies to create a new offering. Of course I could be wrong, but based on my decade-plus experience on Hacker News, I think that this is precisely the kind of project PG intended to be discussed here when he created Hacker News.
Compared to American healthcare? Yes, it is amazingly low regulation.

I would suggest thinking about it as "better regulation" than "low regulation". American regulation is Kafkaesque. A better system is needed.
umm, what makes you think that meeting people will solve your lack of interest?

in any case, what about going to a conference? or joining a local group on meetup.com?
Mostly for legacy reasons... my KeepassXC Android ssh setup predates setting up syncthing. I suppose I could change it to syncthing but it works well as is and there's no real reason to.
I find it no more convincing that the whole notion of Bitcoin being some kind of covert CIA (Mossad, FSB, ...) money laundering operation in the first place. If we're willing to go there in the first place, then we should admit that none of the obvious cues are likely to be truthful.
> don’t come from privilege.

Most people don't. That's all the more reason to stand up for yourself.

> if you has issue with elon or Tesla, fine.

So.. you have no issue with Elon or Tesla exploiting the ignorance of poor people like you? You desperately defend them not just in spite of what companies like them have done to you, but because of it?

There's no value in advocating further submission to companies like these. I'd say you've got a responsibility to educate other workers about their rights, precisely and especially because you have the lived experience of being a victim of this kind of unlawful conduct.
These have been around for decades. Additionally, a lot of “braking” with these bigger trucks is “engine braking” like jake brakes, compression release, exhaust release, etc.

Can slow a lot by “simply” letting the jake engage.

We use them on our fire trucks, engines, tankers, etc, here in New England. Some of these apparatus way upwards of 30ton.
Honestly would prefer if it was audio-only. Too many ways to glean clues otherwise.
Why Not Mars
Secret keys are backed up in order to recover the data in the event of device loss, and master passwords are used to prevent data access by an attacker with disk access, including access to device backups in the cloud. Am I misunderstanding, or are you just accepting that the data gets lost or breached in those situations?
And exams.

Learning is one thing, being tested on facts and trivia is totally something else.
Lots of research doesn’t have an immediate practical application. That’s okay. It can still be interesting, and it may prove practical down the road.
Before I used password managers I would just keep a monolithic text file with all the relevant information for sites and password and also keep notes. I was using vim encryption at the time. This was a bad idea because the vim encryption doesn't really follow cryptography best practices for example the encryption isn't authenticated.

The first password manager I started with is LastPass in 2014 when it was recommended to me by a password security expert in academia. I used a memorable human generated passphrase with enough twists to get about 80 bits of entropy, so if my old encrypted data is in the wild (doubtful), I'm not really concerned about the recent breach.

I've since been all in on 1Password since 2017 after LastPass was getting progressively worse and I sought out a new password manager. I've examined the security design whitepaper and most of the choices when it comes to cryptographic protocol design is pretty good, no real homebrew and should stand the test of time, but there's still better choices that can be made about protocols such as PAKE that'd be better in 2023. Anyways, 1Password UI is pretty good.

I also make backups of 1Password using the command line interface incase they decide to kick me off their systems or something happens where I can't make payments for years. The backups are then encrypted using the scrypt tool.

If I was to get off password managers completely, I wouldn't bother with these password management tools like Keepass etc. as they constrain you to their UIs and don't do an adequate job of doing things like browser autofills. I'd rather just go back to a plaintext file and encrypt/decrypt with scrypt or age.
All you've said is the same thing I already said, but you spelled out the "opportunity cost" part of the equation separately, while I assumed everybody knew that was part of the consideration and didn't need to be spelled out.

Obviously the entire thing has a big "in their assessment" caveat around it too. This is also* part of the problem, not anything that negates what I already said.
The average person also isn't a prominent bitcoin core developer who holds 200 BTC. If you're as exposed as this guy, I think it's fairly reasonable to at least follow the most basic of security advice.
A two-wheel drive vehicle with an open differential is limited in acceleration by only one wheel (the drive wheel with the least traction). However, braking is always the combined effect of all wheels.
As others have said, he for whatever reason had a completely lazy setup for someone who develops for Bitcoin Core. He doesn't even use a hardware wallet or use a separate computer for his BTC bag or other sensitive data.
Sure, but IMO this is well over the line.

OP's project is really cool and would make for a great Show HN. This thread is just the wrong place for it.
And reaching Australia from Asia by island-hopping is much easier than reaching NZ from Australia.
Money isn't the only measure of value either, though. If they thought they were ending up better off on the whole, they would come back.

They've clearly concluded they're better off now than before, across whatever factors matter to them, so again, the reality wasn't living up to the theory.
Socrates’s “all I know is that I know nothing” and “know thyself” more and more reveal to me something new about life, philosophy, and the nature of being.
>”So.. you have no issue with Elon or Tesla for exploiting the ignorance of poor people like you? You desperately defend them not just in spite of what companies like them have done to you, but because of it?”

Not my point at all did not defend elon or tesla. you English better than mine and think that much obvious to you. Sad that you continue this strawman posts and anger because someone say something not fitting your agenda.
Thank you, for the pointer and the followup.
I would say it's worse than no test, because it discourages refactoring. Any alterations would make the test fail, even if it still does what it's supposed to do.
Very cool! What kind of tech are you using to make this?
I've played around with finetuning stable diffusion + using spectrogram-to-waveform and back algorithms, but never landed on anything high quality.
I am aware that there are problems with the books, even some serious ones. But I find that hardly surprising from a book that references a 1000 other scholarly works. But the reason you can critique the book effectively is because he references where his claims originate from.

In the language of this essay [1], Graeber's work is legible, Harari's not at all.

[1] https://acesounderglass.com/2022/02/07/epistemic-legibility/
Lasers work to the ground better than your implying. ,

Modern laser communication ground stations are designed or bring designed incorporating adaptive optics to significantly improve their resilience to atmospheric turbulence. Clouds remain an issue but most laser communications networks are designed with multiple ground stations to ensure sufficient good weather to provide continuous communications. Also several laser communications providers are designing their systems using relay satellites either MEO or GEO to serve as the space to ground really, centralising the higher power space to ground laser link and more expensive optics, and simultaneously placing them higher up enabling better ability to switch between multiple ground stations in the event of cloud disruption.

The laser communication industry is very small still but it’s growing as ground stations get more standard and economical, with commercial units available for both space and ground sides, for a couple of years now.
Yeah, I agree with that. It really depends on what you're interrupting with. The devil is in the details and the substance, IMHO.

A long time ago, I read a convincing take--it might have been in some kind of pop psychology tractate along the lines of "Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus"--that likened ideal interruption mannerisms to snatching the ball from a teammate in basketball.

If you take the ball from a teammate and then turn around and use it to make a 3-point shot from mid-court, nobody's got a problem with that, and they'll happily let you do it again. (That's a "good point"). If you take it and fumble it into the crowd, different story.

I don't know if that's something one can literally deploy, or if it's just pithy verbiage that sounds good. But it tends to be how I (aspirationally) do the interrupting and how I register others' interruptions. Whether it's annoying really depends on what the merit of what was actually said once they preempted the prior conversational execution path. :-)
You might be able to compensate for that in the calendar track?
100%,those are excellent, but didn't exist when it first clicked for me. Being in university now must be great having such access to explanations that really get to the root of a concept
Not your standard instructables, I must say. I don't think there are too many people that have the right skill set and access to the tools and materials required to build this, however. Amazing work.
Well, maybe you’re just not smart enough to understand those Instagram genius comments. Even smart people can be dumb.
I hope so. I wrote a whole article about it: https://joemorrison.substack.com/p/open-all-of-the-satellite...

Even Maxar is starting to deeply discount old imagery via their ARD program: https://twitter.com/marcpfister/status/1541858657473744898?s...

RIP Open California, but at least Planet gives away their monthly mosaic of the mid-latitudes now via their partnership with NICFI (non-commercial use): https://twitter.com/planet/status/1435229673882017794?s=46&t...
GNU Prolog is an excellent choice for everybody. I once considered switching back and forth to SWI if I ever needed some convenient module GNU lacks. The need never really arose!
Oh I do think the theory is valid.

It's currently cobfirming that the pre-covid reality of work wasn't living up to the balance in the theory where everybody ends up better off.
Enjoyabe.

Still, I can guess the languages of 2/3 of the songs without hearing a word, by various letters on the screen (Hebrew, Japanese, Korean, Nepali, Hindi, Arabian, often Turkish, Kazakh, Chechen by their special letters). Faces and style often help more than the sound, too. (My highest score in solo mode without a timer is 104 so far).

Death metal tracks, highly distorted hip-hop tracks, ethereal choral track are usually hardest to determine.

Besides, it's a nice intro into various kinds of music all over the world, and across many decades. Worth playing just for that.
He probably run a full node and an LN node on his server, to contribute to Bitcoin network. This requires storing wallet.dat on the server, and keeping non trivial amount of coins in it.
>Bitcoin core developer is the nuttiest of bitcoin users?

In this case you can substitute "nuttiest" with "most lazy".

>The whole point is that he should be the one of most knowledgeable exemplary users.

In this case it wasn't because of lack of knowledge, it was something else (eg. laziness/apathy/cockiness). Kind of like how most people know that they should eat less and exercise more, but don't.
This is the content I am looking for in 2023.
What's a good conference? I've tried several local meetup groups with no luck..

Sharing what I've learned or helping someone else or working together is a strong motivator for me. I am interested in the problems but it's easy for me to get distracted and say 'no one cares' if I'm doing it alone.
Imagine googling “open source text to speech software” and you get a link to Apple Podcasts for children’s stories. That would be wild!
Makes good entertainment.
> There are things Chomsky might be able to convince me of, but effects preceding their causes isn’t among them.

Sorry. Kennedy administration says otherwise in their internal memos released to the public via FOIA requests. This may not fit the worldview that you constructed in your head, but reality is what it is. In between what the Kennedy admn. itself says and your 'interpretations', I'll go with the former. Thanks.
> > that evidence strongly suggests that we are not in one

The unemployment part can't indicate current state either because it usually doesn't spike until months afterwards. We can easily be in a recession with unemployment still being low.
Recruitment also costs a lot. There is the visible fee when you use headhunters or even ads. Bur there is the not visible cost of internal effort (that could be used elsehwere) and lower efficiency before everyone gets onboarded.
> Not my point at all did not defend elon or tesla.

Yes it did. Trying to claim there is some kind of conspiracy against Musk or Tesla, and further claiming that forbidding discussion of wages is no big deal because other companies also do it, is an attempt at defending and minimizing the problem.
Seems likely there's a Japan/US difference here