skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So in ~5 years they've launched 5113 satellites[1]: 2 * 400 kg + 60 * 227 kg + 1665 * 260 kg + 2987 * ~300 kg + 399 * 800 kg = 1663 metric tons

So if they all burned up today it would be around a 6% yearly increase, globally? (1663 / 5200 * 5). And that's probably the most forgiving estimate I could come up with, I think your ~20% number is more accurate for future projection purposes given most of the mass was launched in a much shorter timespan.

Then the real question is what effect does space dust have on the earth's atmosphere (if any).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_Starlink_...
I'm not speaking about perfect enforcement.

But about that law, in difference to what movies love to pretend, is not about clever word tricks and nit-picking formulations.

(In court it still can be about clever arguing, including nit picking arguments if necessary.)

But code _is_ about nit picking formulations at least if we ignore documentation, naming conventions etc. but lock solely at what the code does.

Code is meant to be precise.

Law is meant to be only as precise as necessary but no more then that. Or you could say it's meant to be as imprecise as viable.

Code is about the specific case (in general).

Law is about the generic case (in general), avoiding specific cases where possible.

Code is made for machines to consume.

Law is meant to be consumed with ambiguous defined context of the situations in (human) .

This is so deeply rooted in law that I would argue it's (in general, with exceptions) not possible to translate any current laws to code without accidentally changing their meaning in a lot of subtle but meaningful cases.
The yearly updates hardly bring meaningful changes for most people.

We don’t have new gaming consoles every year, with iPhones being just as locked down, we could have new ones coming out every few years.
Well, it's never the same 20%, which is precisely why we have plugins and extensions even outside of the Linux GUI bubble. This include IDEs, browsers, office suites, media production software (e.g. VST), and of course engineering software. For a complex software product, it is never possible to include batteries for everyone.

FreeCAD might not come with enough battery to power a full workflow, but I have also seen entire engineering firm not able to work without a particular AutoCAD plugin.
I spent over ten years in the Rails community and as a result consider myself fairly well versed in the things that tend to come out of the mouth of DHH.

This particular one is very much in line with some of his other greatest hits where the more you dig into his claims and assumptions the more things don’t seem to always add up in quite the way he is presenting them.

Without going super deep on the topic, he came to cloud with his on-prem architecture choices, made very few adaptions to take advantage of what cloud is good at besides trying to slap K8s around it and then was upset that the benefits never materialised.

I can understand that being a shitty and painful experience but he is now acting as an anti-cloud evangelist of sorts while arguing against a series of constraints and choices that he picked and clearly weren’t appropriate for his business.

But now for him that’s all that cloud can ever be as it’s all he ever knew.
There are still people who can't reach 1.1.1.1.
> dumping rather a lot of plastic into the ocean

Half of that plastic is fraudulently shipped there by western 'recycling' companies. There is literally mafia that takes money of western companies, forges recycling documents.

And when a reporter goes overseas to find out id the plastic is being revycled, sometimes they don't come back.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-51176312

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/jul/23/uks-plas...
I'm guessing retirement age.
If you're going to categorise senses into the usual five, which is what seems to be going on here, then hot, cold and pain are going to count as "touch" too. Those aren't about measuring motion so this explanation doesn't seem to work.
Perhaps they could find a way to refuel the constellation?
The most salient part of the entire article for me is this line: "[...] it’s also used in medical implants, so you know that skin contact won’t be a problem." - if I hold my iPhone 12 Pro for too long I get blisters on my palm.
Fair enough. Will keep to the rules in future.

For reference I heard an off-hand comment by Perun on his channel and thought "surely the USA did not have 100 aircraft carriers", and went looking. I should reawaken my own blog, and stop using HN as my own deli.icio.us / blog.

Cheers
If a word is used with a precise formal meaning, than it is a symbol more than a word. For example, "for" in C isn't the English word "for", it is a symbol for a precisely defined operation. Someone who speaks native English couldn't understand what `for (;;){}` means.
Cloudflare is helping to research issues with this space, which is part of why they got the allocation.

https://blog.cloudflare.com/fixing-reachability-to-1-1-1-1-g...
Right, some laws are just ftp-dragged & dropped to prod, understanding that it doesn't compile yet. But if legislator managed to express the _intention_ the courts will over time add and make all test cases pass.

I'm sure the mentality of a PHP developer running a successful but insane legacy site is a better model for this than a perfect OCAML project :)
I have no personal experience with Wasmer or the people behind it. But with the things I read about them (e. g. https://mnt.io/2021/10/04/i-leave-wasmer/ crossed my path again a few days ago) would make me, to put it lightly, hesitate before building on it.
It is.
A typical enterprise might get allocated a /32, which gives them 32-bit to nicely design their network and give 64-bit to each individual network where devices are connected.

A typical ISP will get allocated a much larger allocation like a /20, which allows them to allocate a /56 for each of their customers while still having a few bits to play with.
But all starting with the same <isp_network> prefix.

With IPv4 you will have many separate fragmented networks that have no numbers in common. And this will only get worse over time.
Do LLMs need to see some information just once to answer about it? My understanding was that they need to see many examples of the same thing to be able to answer it correctly (generate text around it correctly).

Shouldn't this mean that it is safe to ask GPTs about something proprietary if it was just once because rare examples should just disappear in weights of everything else. And this also means that even GPT4 won't be able to answer any queries about obscure or rare knowledge it has seen in its training dataset.
"The look on the faces of a fresh crop of 20-something developers"... My equivalent is doing a data reformat or analysis on a big dataset that someone has been struggling with in (please excuse my language) Excel. The data owner's eyes widen and they say something like "Wow! That's so fast and simple! How come I never heard of this stuff?"

Good question about "Old". In Australia there's at least one well-defined cut-off: 75 years. If you're 75 or older:
- when you die your death isn't classed as "premature", and demographers don't assign you any "potential years of life lost"
- you're no longer invited to have screening for bowel, breast or cervical cancer screening (invites go to 50-74 year-olds)
Just so you know - you dont have to buy a new one every year.
They recover the fairings.
But now instead of reading the laws that govern my life myself and understanding them, I have to rely on some third party to explain to me what laws my representatives are voting on.
https://archive.is/fe0GB - https://archive.ph/fe0GB - https://archive.vn/fe0GB - https://archive.md/fe0GB
Wipr is great, but they're a separate thing. Wipr does not remove the nagging cookie requests
Safari's version of this feature stops working when I switch my VPN on.
Thanks for putting it in context! VSR is the only one I've read into by virtue of it having a really readable paper.
They didn't "take ownership" the range is vested with APNIC labs (check the whois record) they route it with permission and share data.
Oh wow. I've been trying to find that story for decades but couldn't remember title or author. I read it as a teenager and it left an impression. Thank you for posting!
Exactly, its the tool and not the thing itself nor the cause.
If you find a bug, it's in the optimization passes (that don't reorder and should, if you decide to do this).

At this point this is like (usefully) fuzzing your optimizer, which long term is going to be great for correctness.
Your website is delightful. I love the Recipe Creator feature on your projects page.

Your approach to using JS is like mine. I work with HTML and CSS first then sometimes add JS to progressively enhance a page (i.e. add dark mode, add hovercards on links, make emojis appear on different days of the year).
ooooh trust me that didn't solve it, the surface finds a way ;)
I did for a while on a raspberry pi. It was my home server for some months but i ended up not using it.
How to get better/faster at minesweeper
Closing museums is always a shame and a failure for a community and their administrators. Period.
IPv6 is so awful. We need a re-do.
https://archive.is/MSvj7 - https://archive.ph/MSvj7 - https://archive.vn/MSvj7 - https://archive.md/MSvj7
If we are going to have a bail. It should be high. Let's say 20% of semi-liquid wealth.

If you are homeless and have nothing maybe 5 or 50 bucks should be sufficient.
I gotta admit I don't fact check google's promoted numbers, thanks for demonstrating that I should :)
Feel free to write one if you are interested! We're big advocates of POSSE (https://indieweb.org/POSSE): publish on your own site, syndicate elsewhere. If you write a guide, add it to the wiki so others can learn.

A community member wrote a guide on how to add different social web standards to a Hugo site (https://www.amitgawande.com/2018/02/10/204300.html).
The smallest prefix that can be routed is a /24, so that's the minimum amount you can get.
Reading mode is great. Some sites can be squished for easy reading with a bookmarklet. Doesn't always work. I find it handy for reading HN threads with longer comments.

javascript:(function() { document.body.style.maxWidth='750px'; document.body.style.margin='0 auto';} )();

Expunge the justification whilst you're there.

javascript:(function(){var elements=Array.from(document.body.getElementsByTagName('*'));elements.forEach(function(element){element.style.textAlign='left';});})();
https://archive.is/AOfCL - https://archive.ph/AOfCL - https://archive.vn/AOfCL - https://archive.md/AOfCL
The keyword is "ocean-going". You can make barges or freshwater craft that are larger. But not ocean-going vessels.
It's a bummer but does it not go without saying that museums, like any institution, will come to an end at some point? I don't think that makes it a failure.
Not to mention it's trivial to leave gunpowder residue on a corpse you know was carrying...

Would hardly be the first time, just a random sample from the last 5 years:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ds6g-QyAxbw

https://apnews.com/article/gun-violence-crime-baltimore-82fa...

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/st-louis-officer-execut...

https://nypost.com/2020/01/03/nypd-cop-caught-planting-stun-...
Maybe it is tap code:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tap_code

morse code by tapping fingers is tough.
I do know that brewing tea with not-quite boiled water (70-80 degrees C) instead of boiled water 80-90 is recommended because otherwise the leaves go bitter.

Perhaps if they were using water fresh from the kettle the milk-first way was preventing the "scalding"
You need to buy a minimum of /24
Thia ain't the issue.

We fraudulently sent trash to Malasia, in breach of western and malasian laws. The local mafia and western firms forgre 'recycling' documents. The trash gets dumped in the ocean.

The mafia kills reporters and journalists thay go in to inveatigate.

Thats why China has banned plastic imports last year, it was an unpoliceable cesspool of crime and western firms were forstering crime in the developing world.
That would happen automatically, as no one would buy your products as they were too expensive, the companies would race each other to install more solar and wind, and to massively reduce their emissions.
Can some into discord explain why it's good for documentation? It seems like a dumpster fire to me.
Is that supposed to be very complex legal language? I'm not sure if this is some reference I'm missing, but it sounds relatively simple to me: it seems to be an accusation that someone is providing services dis-honestly (i.e. hiding some aspect of how the service will be performed or how much it will cost).

The full scope of what that encompasses is very hard to know, as it depends on essentially every other regulation and common law practice and precedent that applies in the particular legal jurisdiction (and which jurisdiction that is can itself be a somewhat thorny issue).

But this problem isn't solvable by code. It's part of the intrinsic complexity of the legal system.
Or just change your business practises to not emit it in the first place, suddenly installing solar panels is insanely profitable
You might be allergic, I would get that tested, but it's nothing to worry about, just nice to know. AFAIK most people shouldn't react badly to prolonged skin contact with aluminum in the range that is holding a phone.
What's your problem with the IPv6 end-user experience? Hundreds of millions of end-users are using it without even knowing what an IP is.
It's a cheap way to get a veneer of respectability. The best example of this I know of is the "National" leprechaun museum. https://www.leprechaunmuseum.ie/ . At least they had the good taste not to put it in the domain name.
It's a cluster size of n replicas, with one of the n being the (current) leader.

f failures with f+1 replicas is a cluster size of n replicas can sustain n-1 failures. n=f+1 or f=n-1. You wanna be able to sustain f failures, you need a cluster size (n) of f+1.

When there is a failure, a non-failing node becomes the leader (or there's no leader change if the current leader isn't the one that failed). A cluster size of 1 has 1 leader, and can sustain 0 failures.
it's boutique hand-derived ray tracing! very different
Pretty much. There is a “National Harbor” in Maryland which is a…real estate development? Well, it does have some boat parking too. But nothing is “officially” “national” about it.

There is a National Aquarium in Baltimore. Confusingly there was a now-defunct National Aquarium in Washington, D.C. According to Wikipedia, the two had no common origin. I say the one in D.C. had a more legitimate claim to “National” as it had some federal government roots.

Then there’s the Washington Nationals baseball team. And the Virginia neighborhood bogusly renamed “National Landing”.

So pretty much anything can call itself “national” if it wants to.
Not in this case: They also changed the amount from "5.99" to "5.99 €", so the total number of bytes went up (3 bytes for the €).
It looks great.

What is the source of data for analysis?
Do you know what was that ship for? I'll give you a hint, ocean it was not.

Ocean going vessels have to deal with stresses beyond those experienced on rivers, or lakes. This ship was probably similar to those from Nemi. That is, a semi mobile floating palace.
> I mean, the category is labeled "Sugar-frosted cornflakes" in the article. It also puts this higher in the list than granola with dried fruit, and I promise you that granola is healther than the large majority of mainstream mass-market sweetened cereals in the US. (I do get that it's a UK article, and perhaps "suger-frosted cornflakes" and "other sweetened cereals like chocolate rice cereals, or honey-nut coated cereals" are the primary sweetened cereals there, but that's not how it is in the US.)

Yes, these are the primary sweetened cereals in the UK, but I don't think they're any healthier than the US versions. Frosties seem to be nutritionally equivalent to Lucky Charms just without the off-putting artificial colours.

I think it's simply that the granola is very dense, they list a bowl as 60g vs 30g for the sweetened cereal. I tend to just sprinkle a bit on top of a bowl of yoghurt and fresh fruit.
There is a finite amount of them - 2^32, some 4.3 billion - the limitation stems from using 32-bit values to express them. We cannot have more added, as the "capacity" of the 32-bit IP address value to provide different numbers has been exhausted by "assigning" these blocks of IP space - back in the old days of the Internet, large blocks of IP space were given to large organizations (such as Xerox mentioned in the article), now cloud hyperscalers are buying them back at a premium so their customers can use it to host things.
How about not producing substandard products that need to be replaced frequently, and are tied down by yesteryear user-hostile operating systems?
I found https://github.com/oblador/hush#does-hush-accept-or-deny-per...

So neither it seems. Whatever the website does when a user doesn’t make a choice.
Some recent discoveries indicate that LLMs might remember information after seeing it only once. See e.g.: https://www.fast.ai/posts/2023-09-04-learning-jumps/
On the contrary to many other comments, I think this article is quite interesting.
As a mechanical engineer, I know moment of inertia is very important for many designs, albeit often for more functional reasons than the user’s feelings.

It is a short and quickly written article with back of the napkin maths but its good enough (and what most engineers are doing at work anyway).
And it reminds us that the spec sheet is not everything. It’s nice to have a lighter phone, but is it really what matters ?

It shows once again how Apple design teams are focused on user experience. I know they aren’t perfect and Apple gets a lot of criticism on HN (mostly deserved), but at least they are great on pushing the extra mile on this kind of things.

It reminds me of how much people were surprised about EV acceleration capability because they compared vehicles on HP, overlooking sometimes torque and often jerk curves.
The Soviets had a SS-18 mod with a single large warhead (20 or 25Mt) that was presumably intended for targets like Cheyenne and Raven Rock mountains.

Maybe the Deep Underground Command Center if that had been built might have survived that kind of strike:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Underground_Command_Cente...
Nice xenophobia there buddy
Doesn't mean they're not making them - a lot of people will buy them regardless, or get a new one from their carrier.

For Apple devices especially, this is incentivized by the culture around them - a lot of folks just want the newest.
Mixed interval training for phone holding, I sincerely hope that was a joke, but judging by the last paragraph, I'm not sure :-D
That's a bug. The proper link should be pointing to the Wasmer runtime docs. Thanks for pointing this out!
No. But rudder size doesn't linearly scale with the ship. Different types of vessels have different rudders, based on their hull and environment. And it wasn't a rudder, but a rudder pole. And size of the rudder it was supposed to be part of is under heavy dispute.
By that same token, any state progressive enough to think about law-as-code might first put in place measures to limit the length and complexity of contracts written in plain language as well.

The problem here is the length and complexity, not the language used to express the contract. And note that law-as-code would necessarily mean that a layman is fully unable to understand a contract (or the text of a law) at all. They would be fully reliant on a specialized worker to explain the code to them in plain English. Current contracts, if you have the patience to read and map them in full, are fully understandable by anyone with a good knowledge of the English language.
Make the phones 3mm thicker and put bigger batteries in them.
I get excited about all things web :D

> it was clear that social networks like Twitter and Facebook had taken over as our primary channel

There are a lot of people in the IndieWeb who care about, and are working toward, building different ways to interact on the web. I follow blogs and people with Monocle (https://monocle.p3k.io), a social reader powered by Microsub (draft spec) and Micropub (https://indieweb.org/Micropub)

I can like posts on websites in my feed then the likes show up on my bookmarks site (https://jamesg.coffee). If a site supports Webmention (https://indieweb.org/Webmention), the author will be notified that I liked their post.

I am always happy to talk about social interactions on the web -- there is so much work we can do!

> I spent time building a library of website 'cover art' too, which I cycle in periodically - typically when I post a new update to the blog. There's a lot more cleaning to do, but I'm happy to be actively iterating on the ol' website again.

I _love_ this!

> I don't think I could do a regular meetup

We have a lot of people who stop by for a meetup every month or two online. All interested in the web are welcome to come on whatever cadence suits you; whether you come once a week, month, or year! There is also a community chat if you prefer text at https://indieweb.org/discuss

(Apologies for all the links. As it may be noted, I get excited easily!)
Given the number of people now relying on Clouflare 1.1.1.1 to "get Internet" (ie using 1.1.1.1 as recursive name server), I can't imagine APNIC deciding to stop Clouflare using this range.

It seems "too late" to revert this decision. Otherwise people will experience "Internet stopped working", blaming their ISP.

APNIC may decide to keep a working DNS server on 1.1.1.1, but ethically, routing traffic to someone else than Cloudflare is not great.
The anti-hate group sued by Musk releases another damning report on X
Drone delivery service Wing stops flying in Canberra
And what is then?
> It’s going to be interesting to see how Meta chooses to implement interoperability in WhatsApp when it comes to advanced features, such as file sharing, video calls and audio messages.

It would be as bare bones as possible, unless regulations are actually mention it.
I think a colo would be happy to announce your /24, wouldn't they?
Sure, any interaction between our bodies and the universe can be considered an interaction of touch.

All of our senses involve some form of matter/energy touching us.

- Photons touching our retina cells...

- Molecules touching our taste buds...

- Air molecules touching our ear hairs...

- Some amount of matter or electromagnetic energy touching our skin...

- Molecules touching our olfactory sensory neurons...

IMO we do not describe them as all just being touch as:

1) Saying they all are touch doesn't help differentiate the different senses and how they work.

2) It's a bit too low level.

This is similar to saying there is no need for the separate disciplines of biology & chemistry because it's all just physics after all. So we might as well dump those subjects completely.

Imagine being introduced to science at school but there is only one subject, physics, so you only "eventually" learn chemistry & biology through the lens of their physical atomic interactions.

Imagine trying to describe a cell through the frame of atomic interactions and no higher level abstractions allowed.

All science being physics is far less useful than being able to step over the base level going's on and make higher level abstractions so that you work at the appropriate "topology/focus/subdivision" level for the scientific discipline in question.

Anyways that's what I thought of when considering all senses are touch, it's just a bit too low level and ambiguous to be useful.
Wow! This is so cool.

P.S. I love Billions, which at the time of writing is highlighted on your homepage.