skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That constellation doesn't even play in the same league as Starlink.

It makes some sense for Europe, but it will likely be more for government use and a few large European commercial uses. This has no chance what so ever in the larger global consumer market.

And the claim that it will exist by 2027 is utterly hilarious.

But even this small constellation is way beyond what European industry can currently do, they need to basically mobilize every European space company to do this, and all of them working together to get this working. Lets see them pull this off first.
Try words you may not like too like right wing or Trump supporter. Still work?
The problem with all these happenings is you're relying on the benevolence of our government. I would really prefer to not be beholden to how benevolent the government is feeling.

For example, President Elect Trump has plans to reinstate Schedule F and require loyalty tests for all government employees. If you post liberal content on your facebook, or maybe you fail the test even once, boom - you can't get a government job ever, because your face and identity is linked to your political leanings and those political leanings are now the Enemy of the American Government.

Or you could use this technology to automatically sort people, putting the ethnically-vague looking people into camps while they await rulings to see if they're illegal or not.

Of course this is all extreme, like fascist extreme. Suppose this doesn't come true, which is what we're all hoping for. Are you confident there will never be an evil government from now until the end of time?

If your answer is anything other than a resounding yes, then you should be opposed to these advancements on principal.
As the other commenter pointed out, this isn't restricted to strongly-typed functional languages.

Clojure has core.async, which implements "goroutines" without any special support from the language. In fact, the `go` macro[1] is a compiler in disguise: transforming code into SSA form then constructing a state machine to deal with the "yield" points of async code. [2]

core.async runs on both Clojure and ClojureScript (i.e. both JVM and JavaScript). So in some sense, ClojureScript had something like Golang's concurrency well before ES6 was published.

[1] https://github.com/clojure/core.async/blob/master/src/main/c...

[2] https://github.com/clojure/core.async/blob/master/src/main/c...
UI is quite useful to me
ChatGPT beat doctors at diagnosing medical conditions, study says
OpenAI was a nonprofit to make sure benefit of AGI was distributed equally.

I think it's plausible AT protocol allows a new level of interop/portability between services. It's also possible Bluesky burns through Blockchain Capital's money and starts doing crypto air drops like Keybase.
Realistically Starlink is not going to diagnose RF issues at your site. Microwave either works, or gets expensive fast (because you need an expensive person with expensive test equipment to properly investigate). A wild guess based on the available information is that reflections off the water surface are the cause.
If CNT (Carbon Nanotubes) are displaying similar risk factors to asbestos, what is the scale difference between these? I've never felt so compelled to eat something that could kill me.
Would they? Given the satelites are in space I would assume pirate radio loopholes apply.
I used to feel the same way, but have come around. I think it's great for small companies for a few reasons. I can spin up effectively identical dev/ci/stg/prod clusters for a new project in an hour for a medium sized project, with CD in addition to everything GP mentioned.

I basically don't have to think about ops anymore until something exotic comes up, it's nice. I agree that it feels clunky, and it was annoying to learn, but once you have something working it's a huge time saver. The ability to scale without drastically changing the system is a bonus.
No matter how many times I choose "Show less like this" on furry manga art in the algorithmic feed, I still see it show up. :(
A temporarily embarrassed Elon Musk
It's gotten entirely out of hand.

Most EU national government websites have cookie banners. Even the European Commission website has a cookie banner!

This should have been implemented at the browser level. Let the browser generate a nice consistent UI to nag EU users when visiting websites about accepting cookies and let the rest of us opt out.
Swirls and scoops: Antarctica's upside down ice-scape we had no idea existed
Who is Lichtman? Doing a web search for that name brings up many different first names in the top hits. I don't think you can consider whoever that is a "big name." And who wants "big names" on social media? Screw that, only echo chambers need "big names" to bring views.

>Its a huge problem to be imposing political leanings of the moderator on a public square because you end up creating an echo chamber which people inevitably abandon because you just won't reach enough people.

This describes the problem that X is facing. It censored heavily, and heavily penalizes politically "incorrect" posts that its owner doesn't like, creating an echo chamber that only fringe weirdos can enjoy. I don't need to see any more low-signal hate posts. Please just auto-delete anybody using copious slurs or with a username like N*iggerSlayer42069, it's not an "echo chamber" to not expose oneself to the lowest of the low discussion levels, it's an echo chamber to let those people dominate conversations while censoring technical terms I use every day in the workplace.. I don't need to go to 4chan to "broaden my horizons" and any platform owner that decides to shove that stuff down my throat will not find me on their platform any more.
What people sometimes don't understand about monopolies, specially of a new product, is that the competition, in additions to all the competition that already exists for internet, is simply not having it.

SpaceX can just asked for an absurdly high price, because if they want to sell into the broader consumer market, people aren't going to pay 1000s of $ a month to watch Netflix.
Because only 15% of China’s GDP is net exports so this argument is false. It only changes the break even point by a few years to adjust for exports and imports.
Mistakes and Successes in building the Fiddler web debugger
Didn't it spring up in response to those blameless "algorithms"?
This was dumb, but 2007 was many years past peak post-9/11 paranoia. Almost everyone who wasn't Boston PD or the media thought this was a gross overreaction to what was basically a Lite-Brite at the time. Don't forget, they were placed in other major cities across the country without incident.
I agree there's some irony to be had but I must make a correction: it revoked your license if you infringed on patents owned by Facebook. Does Facebook have patents on "add friend" buttons and "timeline"s ? (Asking, I don't know the answer)
Notice that it's the "1990s boom", not the "Clinton Boom".
For a truly random file, your 1/50 compression scheme that will make it smaller than the original will only make it smaller by 5 or 6 bits, maybe more if you are lucky, but it is an exponential, so realistically, you won't be able to save more than a byte or two, and you can't write that decompressor in two bytes.

The only way to win is to reverse the random number generator used to create the contest file, or to exploit some bias if there is one. But if the file is generated properly, most likely with some CSPRNG, good luck going that route.

The contest creator has to use a random file, any attempt to be clever will actually decrease entropy and may result in the contestant winning.
The Influencer Factory: A Marxist Theory of Corporate Personhood
> Is it the case that there exists some pathological UTM S, such that K(s|S) (the Kolmogorov complexity of s relative to S) is arbitrarily small

Yes. It’s not even that hard to create. Just take a standard UTM and perform a branching “if” statement to check if the input is the string of interest before executing any other instructions.

> Is there some way of defining a meta-complexity measure, the complexity of some UTM without a reference UTM?

Haha, not that anyone knows of. This is one of the issues with Solomonoff induction as well. Which UTM do we pick to make our predictions? If no UTM is privileged over any other, then some will necessarily give very bad predictions. Averaged over all possible induction problems, no single UTM can be said to be superior to the others either. Solomonoff wrote an interesting article about this predicament a while ago.

(A lot of people will point to the constant offset of Kolmogorov complexity due to choice of UTM as though it somehow trivializes the issue. It does not. That constant is not like the constant in time complexity which is usually safe to ignore. In the case of Solomonoff induction, it totally changes the probability distribution over possible outcomes.)
It's not actually necessary to use reusable rockets to get at a similar cost per launch. Long March 5 is at 2.8M$/ton (so less than SpaceX commercial price).

Also, 15M$/launch is not widely believed to be correct. There is much creative accounting SpaceX could be doing with Starlink (is at-cost account for booster depreciation? If so how, since we don't know how much reuse a booster can be expected to give? Or is it just the cost of refurbishment?), and since the last statement where Elon claimed 1000$ per kg actual cost, SpaceX had to raise their prices, claiming it was due to inflation - is that accurate? Most estimates I've seen are that the cost is 20-30M/launch, which would instead give 1.1-1.7M/ton.

So, it's a big advantage but not an insurmountable one.
Discussion (48 points, 7 days ago, 24 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42167453
> Open Source backend for your next SaaS and Mobile app in 1 file

What sorcery is this?

Actually seems like a well-designed framework.
How about blatant securities fraud wrt to constant pump and dump of DOGE?
I am aware it's a low orbit that clears faster, but some debris can still fly upward. And even a few years is quite enough to destroy everything in the low orbit.
The press coverage is a bit misleading. Everyone is leaving Twitter. Liberals are just leaving faster.

Keep in mind that a lot of Twitter users never wanted political content. They were there for sports, art, science discussions, etc. Some of those communities are clearly migrating.
Garmin InReach has existed already for years. It didn't take the feeling away from me and I felt more comfortable having it in my backpack just in case. Wilderness adventures shouldn't be life or death experiences.
The other really impressive part is that they also treated the workers really well during the construction. Cautionary Tales did an episode on this: https://timharford.com/2024/09/cautionary-tales-steel-and-ki...

They paid good wages but also kept a high bar on quality and performance. The workers in turn were incentivized to do a good job and gave feedback like ideas on how to improve efficiency, e.g. build an internal railroad to carry bricks up as they got higher and higher in height.
Instagram was the only social network that kept me around because it was mostly art and nice photos. Recently i caught myself scrolling past endless videos and thought, shit, I've been tiktokked. Back to scrolling through hacker news comments to rot my brain instead.
Trumpet (AKA Truth Social)?
That kinda kicks the can down the road though, because we are faced with almost the same set of questions except about the hypothetical alien life.
Consuming sex work isn’t misogynistic, by definition as it doesnt involve contempt or hate of women, sex workers have a voice too and don’t want to be marginalized by that assumption or dilution of that word

Just a view I see lacking and underrepresented in tech spaces

But if there are other things you’re referring to with that governor then definitely mention those, separately
Why Post-Only APIs are not the future of Authentication
> if that actually does happen.

There is no evidence that it does.

There are cases where such mechanisms have been proposed, but postulating such a mechanism in this case when there isn't evidence of the behavior, is uninformed speculation.
As of 11/13/2024, Consumer Reports rates Tesla as the lowest maintenance and repair costs over the first 10 years of ownership, not factoring in insurance or collision repair.

https://www.consumerreports.org/cars/car-maintenance/the-cos...
> SpaceX was just a nickname for Space Exploration Technologies Corp

It's slightly more than that: it's a legally recognized nickname for the actual entity, technically called a "Fictitious Business Name" (aka DBA, "doing business as") registered with the state.

> there is such a thing as Starlink Services LLC

One might register a bunch of shell companies in various jurisdictions, holding various assets and contracts during the course of business, for tax reasons, to limit the blast radius of liabilities and facilitate business (for example, retail gift cards, e.g. Amazon, are often issued by a separate legal entity.) I think there's a qualitative distinction there with what Berkshire Hathaway or perhaps Alphabet Inc. do with their separate businesses that are hands-off subsidiaries. It appears at the moment Starlink is very much intertwined with SpaceX and user contracts and the trademark are actually directly owned by SpaceX, so not sure what they are using that particular LLC for.
Correction - it's nothing osbcure at all, but apparently a matter of the shift that accord broadly with the L sound in Polish a few centuries ago (whereby it became "dark" and velarized), affecting a great many other words and names (like słowo, mały, etc). While in parts east and south the "clear" L sound was preserved.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ł
Is that your requirement for someone to be a NAZI ?
By far the most effective way to prevent bots is to charge for an account or service. Facebook, for example, banned billions of bots. At just 1 dollar an account, such a situation would be completely untenable. Not to mention most views are worth fractions of a cent - paying for bots wouldn't be a return on investment, so nobody would do it.

Bots are an inherent problem with free, advertisement-fueled web. If you want to get rid of them, it's trivial, but requires an re-understanding of how we use the web.
SQL recursive queries are just loops. The CTE is a UNION or UNION ALL query (well, never use UNION ALL unless you really want to loop infinitely!) where one side is the query that seeds the CTE and the other is executed and its outputs added to the CTE, and the last part is repeated until the CTE stops growing. There's just one more detail: the "recursive" side of the UNION query needs to do a JOIN to the CTE itself (thus the "recursion"), but this doesn't change the loop nature of the thing.

That's it. It's just a simple loop.

(Yes, recursion is looping. But in this case it's very clear that a stack is not needed, that the recursion is "tail recursion" if know what that is.)

The hard part lies in getting the JOIN in the "recursive" side of the UNION query right. Here's a transitive closure query:

WITH RECURSIVE closure AS (
SELECT parent, child FROM relationships
UNION
SELECT c.parent AS ancestor, r.child AS descendant
FROM closure c
JOIN relationships r ON c.child = r.parent
)
SELECT * FROM closure;

Here `SELECT parent, child FROM relationships` is the seed, and the rest (`SELECT c.parent, r.child ...`) is the recursive part of the query that gets repeated until the whole set of results from the seed and all the repetitions of the recursive part stops growing. The recursive part simply says to add to the `closure` all the children of children of tuples in the closure, but with the parents from the closure as the parents. So if this were human parent/child relationships then initially you might have your parents' relationships to you, and also yours to your children, and this will find that your parents are ancestors to your children.
Being a right wing trump supporter is an immutable characteristic like being black or gay?
> For most people, Twitter is doing better than ever.

Citation needed...

Twitter went from a highly useful daily visit for getting news in my field to being a gigantic time suck to even try to avoid the politics and low-quality posts.

>enforced community separation is so prevalent among those who are so reticent to build a border wall

Ah, so you have a certain form of politics, and its beneficial. But Is that "most people" who are on Twitter, were on Twitter, or most people in general? If I want what Twitter is serving me, I can go to any sort of right-wing forum or Fox News article comments (do they still have comments?).

But for those of us that had practical uses for Twitter that weren't partisan politics, its value has been destroyed.

And ad revenue shows that "most people" definitely do not want to be associated with such partisan politics. Twitter's past neutrality allowed all sorts of political views. Now it's become an echo chamber as the owner pushes his own strong partisan politics, and pushes to spread extremist views that may be fine on 4chan, but that 95% of people would rather never expose themselves to.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xo3z9IjGRSo

My colleague made this 3 years ago before we released our first game.

Basically we forked Godot, setup VSCode to compile it, and add new classes to a <repo>/modules/<project_name> folder and it works great. Since this video we've made a suite of macros that allow us to bind variables and methods to the ClassDB in 1 line each. Way nicer than default godot technique for adding new variables/methods.
By default WebAssembly doesn't have access to the DOM or JavaScript globals. You have full control of how it can access these things.
I don't know, I think the arthropic principle is still going really strong: It's like this because if it wasn't we would be asking different questions or not around to ask at all.

It's hard to consider something "so improbable that it must have been God" when we look out at a universe so incomprehensibly bigger that the real question becomes why we haven't evidence of it happening more.
Musk is a U.S. citizen.
I like Defguard for this https://defguard.net/
Catch me checking into a mental facility cause all the padded rooms online were taken
I wish the world hadn't consolidated around Kubernetes. Rancher was fantastic. Did what 95% of us need, and dead simple to add and manage services.
Did the Italians greenlight this?
That sounds like a legal minefield - I would point out that GDPR-style legislation exists because the legislators don't trust the industry to assess what is reasonable. So the industry would be in a position where:

1) They aren't trusted to be reasonable about user consent.

2) They are only to take action when they judge it is reasonable to check user consent.

It'd probably be a very rocky process to nail down what those words like "loophole" and "workaround" mean as the advertisers start abusing prescribed no-banner situations.
I’d argue that vested interests in oil and coal have done more to damage the US’s ability to invest like this than any regulatory red tape.

Huge parts of America hate EVs. There is endless debate about nuclear vs clean energy vs coal, which prevents any change from happening.
Care to share your IP address?
Water flows downstream. The water the Salmon were born is smells substantially the same as the water that is from up river, that chemical content will change as tributaries enter the river but you'll probably see greater variations between forks than between spots of the same river.
> I'd love to see examples of Amazon trying to enforce noncompetes at levels lower than VP, because I've never seen it.

Easy[0]. I also know a few cases where a 3rd company refused to extend an offer due to legal flagging it

[0] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7975428

> I've never seen one be competitive on actual hard currency compensation - even the hot ones

OpenAI famously was pretty generous. It’s all public data now due to lawsuits
Nah. A compliance officer at his bank filed a SAR because he was structuring wire transfers to bypass his reporting requirement. He wasn’t using state funds.

The Feds started poking around, and voilà. The Southern District of NY US Attorney was a big game hunter for politicians, so his goose was cooked.

Ironically, the lieutenant governor who replaced him came out swinging, disclosing that he did inhale, regularly had sex outside of his marriage, did cocaine and various other things. Lol.
Probably worse. Mastedon runs on self hosting, Threads has a parent company with deep pockets and is a Instgram mod at best.

Twitter burned cash for years and it could because it was new, innovative and growing quickly. Once BlueSky burns through its initial money whats the plan and why would anyone invest in it?
No, it is not a "required thing." Furthermore, a leader should set an example and be aware of how their stature keeps others from providing feedback to them about their behavior. For example, cops in many departments are taught to work at being exceptionally polite on the road, because they won't get the "you're being an asshole" feedback the rest of us do. Nobody's going to honk at them or curse them out for cutting them off.

"This isn't good enough, your code is sloppy as shit" - you're being an asshole.

"We have a coding standards and conventions round commenting and formatting. I encourage you to rework your patch with that in mind and re-submit it, because at least on cursory examination, your code looks solid."

"Thank you for resubmitting. This is much more in line with what we prefer. Now we'll be able to take advantage of the work you've done to fix this problem."
> Besides the fact that shell scripts aren't scalable…

What are you trying to say there? My understanding is that, way under the hood, a set of shell scripts is in fact enabling the scalable nature of… the internet.
The Nazi party was not socialist, it was just in the name. The Nazi party had a leftist socialist wing, which was expunged on the Night of Long Knives. Hitler himself generally stayed above such economic debates, and instead promised a sort of hazy race-based utopia that had elements of capitalism and socialism. Once the Nazis came to power, they did not try to seize private ownership of the means of production, but rather made corrupt deals with corporate powers (ironically not too dissimilar from Musk's current trajectory). When they did enact surface-level socialist programs such as consolidating labor unions into the Deutsches Arbeitsfront (DAF), it was done with incredible corruption that generally ended up suppressing labor and supporting management. As is common with extreme-right parties, Hitler basically used socialist rhetoric for its popular appeal, promising all of its advantages without the drawbacks (and similarly with capitalism). Once in power though, he did not enact socialist policies. I would not trust political entities based on their name, no more than I would trust the Democratic People's Republic of Korea to be democratic.

Musk does not have any incentive to help you and me, he has an incentive to use the government apparatuses to further his businesses. He is a good businessman who has made two very valuable companies; this does not mean he will use the government responsibly, e.g. by ensuring fair competition. As a simple example, after having relied on it for years, he is now trying to eliminate the EV tax credit because it will harm his competitors more than him [1]. This kind of regulatory capture is not good, and we should not cede government power to him or people with conflicts of interest like him.

[1] https://www.cbsnews.com/news/tesla-elon-musk-donald-trump-ev...
It's relative. Relative to the rest of the world (and China), you can still live comfortably on minimum wage.
Sounds like the future. And a good one at that. The pros far outweigh the cons. If someone can't disconnect purposefully to be with nature, then that's on them.