skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Every time Starlink comes up it’s the same argument. “It’s not meant for high population density areas”

Without the “high population density areas” it is simply not economically viable
One of those examples when religious backwards compatibility poisons the future for a much bigger user base
People will start to get more radical if things don’t change. They are starting now to deflate the tires of oversized SUVs. Later I can imagine the destruction of property which is damaging the environment and the disruption of industries like coal power plants.
Did you vote from 2004-2008? If so, you had your “say”. The USA is a representative democracy. If you elected idiots unable to do the job it’s on the royal “you”.
“…a concern for one's own safety in the face of dangers that were real and immediate was the process of a rational mind.

Orr was crazy and could be grounded. All he had to do was ask; and as soon as he did, he would no longer be crazy and would have to fly more missions.

Orr would be crazy to fly more missions and sane if he didn't, but if he was sane, he had to fly them.

If he flew them, he was crazy and didn't have to; but if he didn't want to, he was sane and had to.”
I kept my money in FR even when they were at risk because they have been BY FAR the best financial institution I've ever worked with. They gave me a mortgage rate much better than any other bank was offering. When my appraisal came in a bit lower than was required for my desired loan size, they got an exception. When I need something, I email or text one of the two people there who I know by name and they immediately take care of it. I needed a new ATM card, so I pinged my guy at FR and had a new card the next morning. The web portal is fine - basic but does everything you need and does not bombard you with internal quasi-ads like Bank of America does. When I wanted to set up a particular kind of new account I talked to one of my people there, and they explained how they would do it but basically advised I'd be better off doing it at another bank. They never tried to upsell me or push junk onto me. It's really a nice place to do business.
And in the end, though I have a meaningful amount there, it is within the FDIC limits, so a crash should turn into an inconvenience rather than a financial disaster.
I have bought CDs, cassette tapes, download from Napster, burn CDs, etc. but Vynil hasn’t really attracted attention to me. Turntable seems to be an inconvenient and overpriced device, I could be wrong though.
Literally in the first paragraph:

> As someone who has been warning about the impacts of automation for a decade now, and trying to get people to understand that automation has already been impacting us for decades, I can tell you that this nuanced conversation basically gets boiled down to "Technology is going to end all jobs" versus "Everything will be fine." Both of those are wrong. The truth as usual, exists somewhere in the middle, and comes with a lot of "it depends" asterisks.

Address the content of the article, and argue whether this basic premise is true or not. Conversations about "luddites" have been had to death and are basically worthless.

> This will all be automated away leaving those people free to pursue their most human pursuits.

Citation needed. This is all _very arguable_ and incredibly arrogant to assert over and over that things are going to be fine because in the past it was fine (for flexible definitions of fine).
A heavy portion of the spam I receive are in my personal domain email hosted on mailbox.org from @gmail.com addresses.

Most of the email to my old @gmail.com that I check once in a while are from @gmail.com and a lot of them are not even in spam folder.

I get spam from new startups (in India it’s kosher to spam) mostly in “hyper whatever segment” that I know for a fact are hosted on Google Workspaces and still no amount of marking spam or reporting seems to work.

So at least in my personal experience it’s almost entirely Google screwing email things up.
Good point. Natural gas engine would be a great practical step forward, especially since the big diesel engineering shops already develop and manufacture natural gas engines.
From the outside, it looks like he made a weird little cult and is surrounded by yes-men or yes people or whatever.
I have a handful (50 ~~ 100) of vinyl records.

Limited edition type stuff or just eclectic music I enjoy.

I bought an Audio-Technica AT-LP120BK-USB (and a cartridge, because, the one which came with my 300 record player was "trash") after I had accumulated a handful of them. Picked out the TRON: Legacy soundtrack and got it all hooked up.

For some context, I have a nice sound system which is optimized for movies/tv though I listen to a fair bit of music too.

If you're not aware, the TRON: Legacy soundtrack was produced by Daft Punk and Daft Punk was made for TRON: Legacy and TRON: Legacy was made for Daft Punk and the result is magical.

Started playing and the sound was great. Flipped over to Spotify and played the same album and the sound was also great.

Honestly, couldn't tell the difference.

Played one or two other things, but, the record player went on a shelf that day and is still there.

I still collect records, especially rare or limited ones of things I particularly like, or ones where there's something unique or special about the vinyl copy, but, I don't listen to them anymore.
Speaking from quite a bit of experience, content can matter at Gmail if it's very obviously malicious/spammy, but not usually otherwise. Metrics matter more than content at gmail.

For other filters/ISPs, content can matter a bit more, but as a general rule for consumer mailbox providers, metrics are the primary thing that affects filter outcomes.
Slightly longer and more substantial original article this blogspam was copied from: https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/50-of-vinyl-buyers-do...

Interesting trend overall. I got my dad a vinyl record for Christmas, and he only recently got a record player to listen to it. I wonder about vinyl buying vs listening demographics and how age correlates: my partner and I, along with some similar-generation friends, are avid vinyl listeners. We still use Spotify to listen to music together, either collaborative or generated playlists, and we generally set a high standard of matching the music we select to our mood, but the process of discovering and listening to records together has become one that we treat differently from digital listening. We are more forgiving and open (less “you picked this?” and more going with the flow) and have some irreverent discs that have established themselves as favorites through this process :)
"worth" is subjective. A loss of culture is a loss of culture, whether you see value in that lost culture or not. It's a part of our society's history, of which many people usually contributed to across a wide variety of skills.
The Intel QuickSync (video transcoding) capabilities in modern intel CPU's are quite powerful.
I think it was a combination of COVID and well-intentioned bad advice from school.

As high school freshmen they went home during COVID lockdown for almost two years of useless home “school”. Teachers assigned work they never graded, and others assigned work they never taught (or the students just didn’t understand). But the bar was so low that all these kids passed their classes anyway. What’s the message that sends? Certainly not that school matters.

They also heard a lot from 20-something teachers about how much student loans cost and how important it is to think hard about your major and financing. All good advice, but what my kids heard is that college is an unaffordable waste of time unless you want to be a doctor or engineer—and that’s not what they want.

But they also do seem to have some expectation that college won’t really matter for them. Maybe more changes like this one in the article will make that come true, but that seems like a risky bet.

And to be clear, I’m not complaining about the OP article. I think it’s a good thing to unwind the credential creep that has happened in hiring.
Not necessarily only for myself, but I've been using my own terminal CLI to browse and comment on HN (yes, including this comment):

https://github.com/Aperocky/hnterminal

You can also get it via `pip install hnterminal`
It’s great that musicians can sell a high cost item (vastly greater revenue vs streams per customer), but I do worry the labels are over-indulging here and heading the market towards a Funkopop like crash. Most record stores I go into have reoriented towards very mainstream new releases and overpriced ‘rare’ vintage albums. Meanwhile the more serious collectors market has moved to Discogs and Bandcamp/direct. So when the market turns on vinyl, physical stores will be the biggest direct losers. And even an average shop in the neighborhood is better than none at all.
Yup, he was PM for my team for a while (and others) before we could hire more and scale up development further. Agreed he's great, he did indeed have a ton on his plate! (Heh, I guess I don't want to forget the people across the various DX teams, most of them I worked with were pretty nice coworkers to have and I still chat with or grab meals with some.)
sure, you get to complain. but what you don't get is for your complaints to change anything. unless you have a solution for thia? because that would be great.
Safety and Liquidity Will Soon Be Prized Even More
Unfortunately not. For instance, some devices used repositories that got shut down recently (https://bye.codeaurora.org/).
sigh. While there's some exception, in general I really feel Apple makes crappy software, especially the ones that human input.

They do a much better job of unifying device experience through software.
For a slight latency cost, you could always VPN to an endpoint in the cloud with a routable IP address.
This is ignoring the extensive efforts of the USA in the 40s-70s to empower Britain's colonies and enable their self-determination. The British Empire did not exist in a vacuum.
>3,900 US-based respondents surveyed

84% of surveys aren't statistically significant (clickbait.edu)
“Do you pine for the days when men were men and wrote their own device drivers?”
https://en.m.wikiquote.org/wiki/Linus_Torvalds

This was such a great read and took me back to the days when you had to figure out the right pin configuration on your modems and write device drivers for anything that was a bit fancy on Slackware.

Thanks for the nostalgia.
Rewrite it in an actually "safe" language, like Ada.
The best part is that you can generate the QR code from your phone. It's a button in the wifi settings. Really easy way to share it from one phone to another.
> Anyone who wants to park lots of money without paying the FDIC insurance cost can buy Treasury bills/notes directly

This brings up the interesting question of what the role of banks should be. When savers have access to money market funds investing in short-term government debt (this is basically what SVB bought), why bother with the intermediary? We're also in a world of securitized mortgages where banks are just the originators. There are also mortgage originators that just do mortgages. These days, the only unique services banks provide are retail services and small business loans.
Hah, I also built this for myself, and also considering productizing it, except I realized that there's absolutely no way I want to be responsible for the situation where my service is down and people cannot get into their houses.
> the path we take depends greatly on the adoption of an unconditional, universal basic income as a steadily rising AI dividend.

In a lot of western countries, there's already a tax system, from which welfare is distributed. It's arguable whether it is sufficient, but it is currently a good enough system.

UBI, in my opinion, fails because it disincentivizes the desperate from becoming innovative. It makes it so that there's zero risk in consuming more than you produce. The only circumstance in which this is allowable must only be when there's absolutely zero scarcity anywhere (e.g., humanity achieves near-infinite, free energy). We are nowhere near that.
They were at least one of the patent owners. One of many things that soured me on the company (the rest being a series of more mainstream keyboards which deteriorated to become unusable, the last one I broke to bits when I finally gave up on it). And yeah when I had my accident it was north of $500 for the half QWERTY model, which was more than my rent at the time. The rest of their keyboards were retailing around $150.
> In part, the goal is to make sure that if Russia detonates a radioactive weapon on Ukrainian soil, its atomic signature and Moscow’s culpability could be verified,

Hypocrisy is on US and NATO, US has long had nuclear weapons stationed in Belgium, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands and Türkiye. And only Washington carried atomic bombings strikes in world history and that resulted in suffering of the Japanese people from of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

The US Energy Department is spending around $160 million this year on nuclear precautions in Ukraine and has requested a similar amount of funding for the purpose in 2024.
Probably twilio
servers use gpus for all kinds of things with no actual display. I've been looking for a decent gpu to enable hardware encoding in a freebsd jail this week myself.

Intels built-in is great for that and that makes all the sense in the world on an sbc.
Seriously… “reset the drive” is still a thing?
The spammers don't attack mail servers, but individual mailboxes.

Your personal gmail account has the same risk of receiving spam as mine, but Google has much more tools available to detect spam. For example they can easily see somebody is spamming, when large gmail accounts are receiving the same message. They can easily see which hosts are compromised proxies as they receive tons of mail, and seeing large number of e-mails sent from questionable hosts should be easy to spot.

They didn't really improve spam detection much for for a decade, because blocking small hobbyist mail servers is more likely increase their user base.

Those special farms you're mentioning, wouldn't work, if filtering would be individual per user, as it should be, because each person's mailbox is different and each person has different definition what spam is.
Where did you get 36 motorized faders without going bankrupt? Even AliExpress ones are $15/each or more!
I'm not sure what I was thinking, I must have been tired and maybe mixed up 2007 and 2017. 2007 absolutely would have been CD player central with a sprinkle of Aux/3.5mm connector every now and then.
For several years, I bought older vinyl not for the vinyl itself, but for the cover art, which I hung on my living room walls with Records on Walls: https://www.recordsonwalls.com/. Many of them have an aesthetic quality all of their own, like the gatefold of Led Zeppelin IV, or the subtle yet iconic "EKG" from Dark Side of the Moon.

It's much more recently that I acquired a turntable and a preamp, so that I can actually listen to them.
This is so easy. Increase corporate taxation. Increase the minimum corporate tax rate from 15% to 50% until taxation comes down. Prohibit share buybacks.

If necessary put in a temporary price and wage freeze. This was done under Nixon.
I definitely don't need one... but god damnit I want one.
I have bought maybe 10 or so records over the years without having a record player. It supports the band more than streaming. It is a relatively cheap physical souvenir and is a better display piece than a cd. And they usually come with a download code for the same music. Actually listening to the vinyl wasn't even much of a consideration when making the purchases.
"I happen to fund my capitalist ways with a software engineers salary, which is quite high. If I get sacked once a decade or so..."

You are not a capitalist. Capitalists, by definition, do not get sacked.

You can like capitalism, but words mean things.
I think that's mostly true. You don't get to be a billionaire by sitting there. The person who just wants to live on interest stops at $5M of principal. Meanwhile, Buffett is still going. The one exception is someone who inherits a billion and doesn't feel the need to prove themselves.
Indeed. This Why Not Rewrite It In Rust (RIIR) is absurd. I question their competency with regarding to C. I suppose they are just regurgitating each other's sentences without actually looking much into C and related tooling. That, or Ada/SPARK.
All the more reason to support right to repair
I dunno, how much of a change do you think it caused? How much does the typical actor make? I going out on a limb assuming it isn't better than the average wage. These aren't people who are savvy with monetary decisions. They're the sort of people who try to unionise to make more money and then end up living off breadcrumbs and thin soup based on the people I know from showbiz. When it comes to high wages they've done pretty much everything else wrong before joining a union, and then they unionise to continue that trend. I want to optimise my financial outcomes; a good start is copying success stories (which, again, mainly involve being flexible and responding quickly to changing circumstances) rather than trying to learn from famously-struggling actors.

The evidence here is that the job you do (software vs. actor) has a bigger influence on your pay than union-vs-non-union. The unions are allowing actors to stay in jobs where companies believe they are adding no value. We're better off in the world of software with our systems that promote people quickly moving to jobs where people think we are adding high value.

We'd literally all be better off if the free market were left to reign, kick them out and have the actors out to move into jobs where they are making a valued contribution. That is what happens in the software industry and all the software engineers I've met are making bank. Maybe some would have to move industries to something more useful than acting - seems likely, seems miserable and seems like they'd end up looking back and saying things like "yeah it sucked but I ended up making a lot more money and retiring comfortable because I learned a trade".
I bpught the Say She She vinyl off the band when they were in town (signed!). I have a turntable but the vinyl included a download album mp3s link, so I've never played the vinyl. Pretty common I suspect.

I have quite a lot of rare vinyl and a good turntable but it's a pain constantly getting up to change records unless you're in the mood.
I lived through reel-to-reel, vinyl, 8-track, cassette, CD, minidisc, and now digital files. Of those, only reel-to-reel came even remotely close to the sound quality of digital. I can now fit my entire music library onto a storage medium smaller than my thumbnail, at better quality than anything before it. I get that many people like the vintage aspect (like folks who carry around pocket watches or walkmans), but there comes a point where it crosses over from eccentric to just plain weird (like going out in a top hat and tails).
3900 is a huge sample, more than enough
Don't worry, there will be at least one distro using C and exclude Rust completely, or at least I'd hope so. Too bad the Linux kernel has Rust in it.
Very cool, is there something like this for Apple iOS phones?
> Well, until you have an algo that can mind read, "I'm not a spammer guys, gosh!" isn't good enough, I'm afraid.

Yet read-only access to websites, which by definition can't be used for spam, is also locked behind Cloudflare. The same old excuse every time - they're given a legitimate inch for security, but take a mile.

Most telling is that you don't even get heavily rate-limited access to a website without passing Cloudflare's filter. Because then your actual behavior could be used to determine if/how much of a DDoS threat you are. But that would take away Cloudflare's excuse to monitor users, so they prefer to use absolutes.
It seems pretty clear that making diamonds in a lab could and should preclude slave mining. Wasn't that the point of them?
this is me - most shows I buy a shirt and/or a record. got the DL code... play it in winamp. I have had a turntable or two but not right now - but when I do, I'll have a great collection of records to listen to. Everybody wins!
Lord... name checks out though.
> FDIC charges insurance premiums to banks

In other words: the float is finite [1]

No other source of financing? Someone mentioned "backstopped by the government". What does that mean? Unlimited credit line with the Fed?

[1] https://www.arnolditkin.com/blog/insurance/understanding-ins...
Why not just give them money though.
> the record player went on a shelf that day and is still there.

When I moved I never plugged in my amplifier and speakers for my record player because I couldn't figure out where to put them. Eventually I realized that they didn't need to be on the floor "waiting" for me to set them up -now they're in the garage while the records/player are out on display. I just listen to music via a smart speaker and streaming most days.

I still buy the occasional vinyl though. I like them as gifts because they're physical and also personal. I tell everyone to give me a record of an album that means a lot to them so I can think of them when I play it (because gifts are about emotions, even if I don't play them directly).
Samsung Galaxy S7 -- supports wireless charging. So you can still get full functionality out of the phone if the physical charging port is the only one that is broken.
I don't think that's meaningfully the case between gerrymandering, the electoral college, voter suppression, first past the post voting, and lobbying.
This guy took so much risk to make so little and got arrested even with 'perfect' opsec. He could have instead pretended to be Elon Musk on Twitter or Youtube and made way more with no risk. https://decrypt.co/54271/elon-musk-twitter-scams-rake-in-580...

How did he get compassionate release too? I thought no parole in feds, and it's not like he could have qualified for a medical waiver.
They didn't suggest it was acceptable or more acceptable either, or any other equivalent words for ok, or agreeable, or understandable, or justified, or proper, or reasonable, or...
Space is not really 3d in the intuitive sense from a packing perspective, because satellites take up orbits rather than stationary points and orbits don't pack densely. It's more like an embedded 2d space, the intuition for that being that a ring, think Saturn's, is 2d and intersects any orbit.
Anything more than hello world is full of unsafe blocks. You need it. In any case, Ada/SPARK would be the most ideal choice for a "safe" language, not Rust. So tiring.
Based on what? What user count do you think Starlink needs to be economically viable?

Napkin math time because the economics for satellites are not intuitive compared to stuff where density is better.

10% of the surface of the earth is inhabited by people. 510 million square kilometers * .1 is 51 million square kilometers. At a service density of only one user per square kilometer, that’s 51 million users for regular service.

Setting that aside, do you care to guess how much an oil rig in the North Sea will pay for Internet? And that user will put roughly the same load as Ted in SoCal will on the network.

Satellite Internet is not for people in cities, period. Starlink, viasat, whatever.
“Feels So Good”? Great album if so.
Are you genuinely confused about the mechanism which accomplishes this?
Straight to Apple jail.
There used to be trains running across just about every mile of the US. Certainly enough to make last mile delivery practical with electric trucks, or even more efficient vehicles like cargo bikes.