"Dear HN -- I was recently assaulted by flight attendants when I tried to open the plane door at 30000 feet to get the required line of sight for my Starlink connection. I was then called a wannabe Nazi by several passengers and arrested upon arrival, although my political connections of course promptly ensured all charges to be dropped. What happened to individual freedom, and would it have helped if I had taken my gun on the flight?"
Readit Newsantithesis-nl commented on Bring Starlink on airplane in carry on, sell access? · Posted by u/dapookster
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Ah, yeah, I already wondered why these guys were suddenly back... The tell-tale sign here is admission scam emails from name-alike-domains for (mostly) Indian and (some) US colleges (with the payload being, mostly, crypto harvesters), but these are pretty noisy due to being pretty similar to earlier attempts...
antithesis-nl commented on Show HN: Appstat – Process Monitor for Windows pragmar.com/appstat/... · Posted by u/pragmar
So, yeah: I installed this, and was impressed, just because it's an .appx package. I mean, how do you even create those?
Other than that: it did not immediately crypto-lock my laptop and/or ramp up my GPU mining Führercoins, so that was good too.
Other than that: I did not really see any metrics worth of attention, so I uninstalled the app again, which seemed to work fine as well.
Thrilling stuff, I know...
> iPad Air is built for Apple Intelligence, the personal intelligence system that delivers helpful and relevant intelligence
OK, so the predominant opinion of HN seems to be that Apple is really good at marketing. So, which target group are they, brilliantly of course, addressing with this repetitive word salad?
antithesis-nl commented on Ask HN: A question about mentoring a junior developer · Posted by u/Desafinado
Mentoring really only works if the junior person actively seeks out a trusted colleague, ideally in the context of a formal program (with clear guidance on expectations and such).
What you have here, basically, is a customer abusing an API. This is extremely common: mental models of systems differ greatly, and 'getting things to work from my side' will always take precedence over 'making sure I'm not missing an alternate understanding of the bigger picture'.
But one, possibly easy, thing you can do, is make the API more abuse-resistant. Add rate limits on expensive operations that should only be used seldomly (which may be hard in the case of "a SQL object", but still), just deprecate and/or hide such functionality completely, or add convenience functions that automatically do the right thing, and promote those.
If you do decide to reach out, make sure you very clearly describe the issues you've observed in a strictly technical way ('Hi, I noticed you're creating lots of Customer objects, which is really expensive since there are manual checks by various departments involved with that later on') and clearly outline solutions ('What you might want to do instead is only create Branch objects, which are basically what you want anyway and much cheaper and bore performant').
And be mentally prepared for not getting any response, them turning things around and responding that you are the one who's wrong, or even them running to their manager telling them you're impeding their progress by having way-too-hard-to-use systems. And just shrug that off, after briefly considering whether they may have a point, and making things better, for everyone, just in case they do...
> The Trump administration is instead discussing tearing down NOAA
Nah, they're just straight out going to do that.
States are then free to sign up for the SpaceX-in-proud-cooperation-with-Starlink-and-Tesla Extreme Weather Notification Plan, which is only $420M/state/month, and will be available in, well, 2 years or, eh, so. [Announcer's voice speeds up] Not every state may be eligible for participation, see your DOGE representative for full disclaimers and details.
The premise of the article seems a bit flawed: Nigerians are not replicating hyperscalers, but more like building local Hetzners. And that is a fine idea!
A big problem for people doing this, however, is that peering is pretty much nonexistent in Nigeria (and, for that matter, most of Africa). So, traffic from, say, Airtel (where a lot of consumers are) to Globacom (which hosts a lot of major businesses), will not stay on the continent, but go via London or Marseille instead. And, also worth keeping in mind, from Lagos to those destinations, Joburg or Cape Town are actually double the distance, even though they might 'sound' closer.
So, yeah, I wish everyone involved all the best, but it will be an uphill battle. Convenience and latency make 'big tech' pretty hard to avoid, and 'strong crypto' would be my bet over 'local facilities', but, yeah...