AgentK20

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il y a 4 heuresdiscuss

Simultaneously though, those 80% of Americans that live in cities/within the typical commuting distance of a metropolitan area are also the ones that are usually serviced by at least one broadband or fiber provider. Because of this:

- Having slowly-increasing pressure on those often-monopoly broadband/fiber carriers because people have the option to swap to Starlink, adds competitive pressure for them to improve their service, reduce prices, etc

- The remaining 20% of the population that lives on the 60-80%+ of the land who currently have terrible options, but fit well within the density restrictions of current-gen Starlink satelites, suddenly have options

il y a 3 moisdiscuss

Unfortunately it’s a race to the bottom in most of America: If you pass such regulations locally or in your state, the data centers will simply choose to not build in your area of authority (county/state). Unless we were to pass sweeping, nation-wide regulations (which this administration is aggressively against because they believe we are in an AI arms race with China), those regulations/bans just drive the data centers elsewhere.

il y a 4 moisdiscuss

Fair point.

I guess it (network-level filtering) just feels like a dragnet solution that reduces privacy and security for the population at large, when a more targeted and cohesive solution like client-side filtering, having all apps that use web browsers funnel into an OS-level check, etc would accomplish the same goals with improved security.

il y a 4 moisdiscuss

How does ECH make it impossible for parents to control their children's access to computers? Sure they can't block sites at the router level, just like your ISP won't be able to block things at the ISP level, but you (the parent) have physical access to the devices in question, and can install client-side software to filter access to the internet.

The only thing this makes impossible is the laziest, and easiest to bypass method of filtering the internet.

il y a 7 moisdiscuss

“concerns about confidentiality or respect for the persons family” Sooo clearly you didn’t even click the link, given this is a post BY the family to raise awareness of scummy corporate behavior. While discussing mental health and self harm can be distressing, this post seems totally in-line with other HN discussions calling out malicious corporate behavior?

il y a 7 moisdiscuss

Oh, very cool. TIL. Thanks!

il y a 7 moisdiscuss

Uh.....what planes are you on where you, the passenger, can simply "pull down the oxygen mask"? Also, wouldn't the P95 only help with particulates (e.g. soot), but not with the actual toxic fumes?

il y a 7 moisdiscuss

Really that's the problem - Anticheat. Sure, at this point most games work on Linux. The problem is, most people don't play most games. Most people play a handful of games, and where the players go, the cheaters follow. In response, the game studios deploy more and more aggressive anticheat measures, ultimately breaking the tiny minority of people who would've otherwise been able to play the game on Linux/Proton.

Take a look at https://areweanticheatyet.com at some of the biggest games on the planet, and how most of them don't support Linux or Proton.

il y a 7 moisdiscuss

CVE 10.0 is bonkers for a project this widely used

il y a 8 moisdiscuss

And here we see a system that was already stretched to the breaking point BEFORE the shutdown, put under an incredible strain and failing. A more robust system can handle sudden shocks, but when you’ve spent years whittling away at it there’s no slack.

il y a 8 moisdiscuss

Still seeing issues on the OAuth flow despite a "a fix [having] been implemented". Looks like whatever happened probably trashed the session database since it's forcing Claude Code to re-auth.

il y a 9 moisdiscuss

The market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent.

il y a 9 moisdiscuss

I don’t think most people are arguing against the concept, or even implementation, of the system as developed. Obviously it’s both a publicity stunt and beta test as they learn how to build and operate a tunnel system like this. The concern is that much of the environmental harm that’s being done (according to the EPA) is repetitive, and that The Boring Company (TBC) actively pledged to hire an environmental inspector three years ago and is now being fined for having not done so. Given that, who knows how many violations that don’t leave a permanent mark are going unnoticed.

Do you think that they are going to ignore environmental laws for JUST this project, or do you think that is their modus operandi? I’d be happy to have a tunnel system installed near my home, even if there’s temporary disruption during the construction process. What I wouldn’t tolerate is active, and unmonitored (by TBC’s insistence on “self-monitoring”), pollution occurring near my home. Fines only cover so much, and un-polluting something after the fact costs far more than the fines that are being levied and, when it comes to pollutants that harm humans (like improper disposal of chemicals from digging, as they have been fined for), you can’t just “undo” the human harm with a fine.

il y a 9 moisdiscuss

There were tens of thousands of riders _when you were there?_ Or there were tens of thousands of riders over the lifetime of the system?

Most videos I've seen recently show a system that, while functional, typically only has a handful of vehicles running simultaneously, each with carrying capacity for one party of up to 3 people.

il y a 10 moisdiscuss

It’s not that it lowers the maximum voltage that the charge controller/inverter can handle. It’s actually that the panels become MORE efficient in the cold temperatures, resulting in a (potentially unconsidered by end-user) increase in voltage, overwhelming the downstream BoS components.

il y a 10 moisdiscuss

Who knows! Minecraft continually loops through resurgences in popularity every few years. That said, I more meant there's an immense amount of inertia in the existing ecosystem, so even ignoring future years: simply launching a "generic Minecraft server" with all the usual bells-and-whistles to run a community of 20-100 people is a tall order.

il y a 10 moisdiscuss

Definitely interesting to see continued innovation in this space after so many years. At Hypixel Minecraft we forked Spigot (another modded Minecraft platform) back in late 2014 to be able to rip out a bunch of vanilla mechanics that we knew that we wouldn't need for our workloads and optimize the interactions with other pieces of our infrastructure, while still maintaining full compatibility with our existing Java plugins.

Honestly the biggest uphill battle that Hyperion is going to face is rebuilding the decade-plus of existing Java plugins and functionality that have become ubiquitous in the Minecraft ecosystem, like Permissions, Anti-grief, Anticheat, etc which have had decades of man-hours invested into perfecting their functionality. Some of this can likely be ported and knowledge reused, but _someone_ is going to have to actually do the heavy lifting of porting it into a language that has a (relative to Java) higher learning curve.

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