louwhopley

This is incredible. The amount of embedded and mobile systems that can utilise this is big. Think vehicle (car, ship, etc) tracking, IoT devices, remote sensors in the field, even remote cameras in the field. Search and rescue devices, etc.

Lots of use-cases already proved by the more limited Iridium modules that are available on the market.

I'm however curious what having orders of magnitude more low-bandwidth devices connected to a satellite would do compared to having fewer high-bandwidth devices.

How would that affect the individual satellite's capacity?

Thanks for sharing this. It creates a clear picture of its use cases and roll out plans.

GPS is such a critical infrastructure component to modern society- knowing that a redundancy system like this is in the works is great.

There doesn't seem to be any mention of 2006's Sid Meier's Railroads! which seems to be an evolution of Railroad Tycoon.

I've played "Railroads!" for countless hours - it's an incredible game, especially when LAN'ing with others.

Any reason why this game might be left out?

Same same but different

Given the size of the booster, what corrections would placing GNSS sensors in multiple places provide to increase positional accuracy?

Eg if you space sensors 20m’s apart.

If you have the option to consider both, which visa would be the more seamless (and faster) path to green card?

L1A or O1?

(Coming from South Africa, running SaaS company with holding co in DE)

Every time an article on this subject pops up, I tend to wonder if the 2 astronauts will ever just 'call it' and go "this is enough, please send the Dragon and get us home"

...and the websockets!?

Quick shoutout to slhck for helping me debug and resolve this issue. Thank you!

tl;dr: Ran into issues because the DB was expecting a profile picture URL from Google auth (string) or NULL, but JavaScript being JavaScript tried to insert "undefined".

I do see it in the logs now. So weird, as dozens of people successfully signed up without this issue. Have added more logs now again to double down on that specific area where this issue is caused. Maybe another login attempt now will be able to uncover the gap.

Thanks for removing the permissions in Google, as that's also key in this debugging.

Mind if I send you an email to debug further there?

Thanks for the useful feedback! Totally forgot that pricing was never added to the landing page → have added to the todo list to fix up.

Where in the process did that error occur for you?

I see in the logs that an error registered, but unfortunately no detail attached. I've beefed up the logging a bit in the onboarding journey on my side to see what could be breaking here if we try again.

Mind trying to log-in/sign up again? You can use "HACKERNEWS" as a promo code, which would make the first month free.

Correct! :')

For solo-private projects, I constantly catch myself writing full commit messages even though I never read it again, and `git commit -m "."` would suffice.

That tweak would make many people happy.