jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> If I'm leased a 1 gigabit pipe, I want to be able to use the entire gigabit pipe for as long as I want. Limiting this with data caps is at best misleading to customers and at worse a scummy business practice.

You must understand that they can only sell you a 1gig pipe because they know not everyone will use it at the same time.

EVERY ISP in the world operates by oversubscribing their capacity. EVERY. ONE.

You want 1gig and removed data caps by law? Ok, get ready to be introduced to “boosted” bandwidth. You’ll get 1gig for the first 30 seconds of a connection then they will throttle you back. Already exists in some places including mine.
Before that it might be wise though to have the government actually provide the services that charities are providing at the moment. Paying off medical debt, investing in medical research, running UBI experiments, funding basic care for homeless or the poor or children - much if not all of this is left to philantropists and churches at the moment. For what it's worth, citizens are running fundraisers for essential services like police and firefighters - so many that fraud is so rampant that the FTC has its own advisory page (https://www.consumer.ftc.gov/articles/0085-fundraisers-calli...). Or school funding, where citizens have to raise hundreds of thousands of dollars in some instances to keep them open (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_fundraising).

Cutting tax deductions would likely eliminate a significant portion of that spending, leaving those depending on it pretty much screwed. And that doesn't even include outright shit like police funds coming out of "asset forfeiture", leading to heaps of abuse.

From an European point of view, so much of what I wrote above is... mind boggling.
> That kind of reporting is almost a niche genre at this point outside of small town papers

Oh but it’s so glorious! Here in Annapolis we’re a small city (under 50k) but as a state capital we’re able to support a pretty good local newspaper (the capital gazette). It’s so refreshing to read articles by journalists that don’t wear their politics on their sleeves.
Their Q4 2020 Earnings were pretty good. They issued downward guidance on their Q1 2021 Earnings but it looks like they don't expect to lose THAT much business.

Most of their subscriptions are yearly so most people are stuck paying them for the duration of the contract regardless of whether they ripped out their Solarwinds stack or not.
Do they still need your phone number to sign up?
CEO’s are typically quick to claim large bonuses “because of the huge responsibility I have” and even quicker to not take responsibility (and keep their bonuses) when things go wrong.
Check our SDR, you can have access to anything in the physical layer with ease these days. Like here's a fancy SDR system running as a wifi AP: https://www.rtl-sdr.com/bladerf-wiphy-open-source-wifi-acces... You'll need a proper FCC license to do much transmitting of anything on non-standard frequencies though.
It's hard to know what you don't know.
I just wish you could buy TVs with either Apple TV or Chromecast built in like we have for Android Auto or CarPlay.

(some, usually lower end, TVs do have chromecasts but they’re not super common)
In my experience, Windows 98 crashed more often, mostly due to running out of "resources". Windows 98 GUI was more complex, thus wasting more of these "resources", running out and crashing.

XP, on the other hand, practically never crashed, unless you had bad drivers. Just like Windows NT4 & 2000 before it.
That's an amazing idea. I wonder how long a player would have to play before you could train a neural net to play like them.

In a single-player game you could also create an enemy NPC that uses that same neural net, for sort of a "Dark Link" effect where you have to play against yourself. Would be awesome for chess also.

Lots of possibilities.
You're mistaken. I've edited comments a significant time after they were replied to. See the edit note on https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26187343
They use Godaddy. My goodness that’s not a good look.
Lots of libertarians like UBI; it's pretty much the smallest government you can have that still ensures a floor to everyone's quality of life. Milton Friedman advocated a negative income tax, which is similar.
The two Steves are a great example. Well, Steve W was an electronic engineer with a deep interest and understanding of electronics. But Steve J was the one who took calligraphy classes and realised that computers could benefit from multiple fonts.
>a racist, colonial power which as of 2021 still hasn't paid reparations to Haiti

Two semi-serious responses come to mind:

"Wait, which one?" or "Haiti paid huge reparations to France, isn't that good enough?"

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

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004_Haitian_coup_d%27%C3%A9ta...

"CARICOM, an organization of Caribbean countries that included Haiti, called for a United Nations investigation into Aristide's removal, but were reportedly pressured by the U.S. and France to drop their request"
I think people are deceived by Swift's syntax. It looks simple by syntactic sugar, but it's not actually any more approachable than other systems languages like C# or Java. Given that a lot of work in ML is exploratory, it doesn't seem like a good fit compared to a hackable scripting language like Python. I would bet against SwiftUI for similar reasons.
I disagree that it's "a lot" more readable. I have read a lot of camelCase code in my lifetime, and I can count on zero hands the number of times I ever had an issue parsing code due to the use of camelCase.

Keyboard remapping seems like an extreme solution, and I don't want to train my fingers in such a way that when I sit down at a different workstation that doesn't have my .vimrc I can't type rust anymore.

You don't need snake_case for contrast. You can use lowerCamel and UpperCamel to denote the same levels of significance. SCREAMING_SNAKE is fine for constants because they don't get used all that often, but rust maps the hardest-to-type case to the most-frequently-used, which in my opinion is an ergonomic failure.
Tesla still has to sell something like 21x more cars to match Toyota for example who they dwarf in market cap.

Tesla are putting their eggs into cars which are extremely hard, and batteries which will be a commodity long before Tesla can extract enough value.
Quite nice. Though it has adverts for Shutterstock which I initially took for native site content.
> The market price for a referral is negative. Businesses would normally pay to seek them out.

By threatening to withdraw from a national market, Google seem to be saying that its business model depends on getting its own users by this mechanism.

As such, it's reasonable to believe that the true market price won't remain negative.
The argument of specialist vs generalist is futile. They simple fit in distinct parts of the journey and evolution of a software product.

Generalists are highly valuable for many types of orgs and projects especially nascent projects. But sometimes you need the precise output of a specialist to achieve something.

If my business has a product that is highly dependent of let's say OpenGL, then an OpenGL specialist will generate more specific output that someone who knows a little of OpenGL and a lot of other things.

However, there's always the counterargument that generalists can compensate with their holistic view and understanding of problems throughout the whole stack. I understand this and agree with it, but I think there's a point in every innovation where the generalist contribution declines sharply. And I'm saying this as a generalist.

If you are a generalist and you feel undervalued, you're likely in the wrong project or too involved in phases of a project where your contribution can't move the needle significantly anymore.
I don't think that's what 'jacquesm is talking about. It's not about the technical term that can communicate a lot of meaning in few characters. It's about constant use of obscure technical phrases that communicate the same or less than a plain-language description, except you have to work to decipher it. It's obfuscation, in a sense similar to what a JS obfuscator does to readable code.
How can they even do it with encryption and CDNs everywhere? It's just not possible. The last trace is unencrypted domain name in TLS handshake and it'll be gone soon.
If the domain was bought after the brexit party was founded - I wonder if its ownership can be claimed by the brexit party. At least with EU domain (and domains of individual countries under EU law) this falls under this case. Meaning that if you claim domain just to sell it for profits and cannot prove you have other purpose - its ownership will be transferred to the "name owners".
I doubt that Farage would care about buying such a domain given that he knows that his party only exists due to the UK's reluctance to deliver Brexit.

He even said in a ITV interview that he would have to 'rebrand' his party after Brexit happens. So I find that it is unlikely that he would care about buying this domain especially a .com one.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18907924

Francis Rawls has been for years now.
Er, because the USA was quite happy to start a nuclear war during the Cuban missile crisis regardless of what the rest of us on the plant thought.

All because of missiles in Cuba - when the USA quite happily had similar weapons in Turkey.
What is a mkfile? A makefile for a more modern build system?
IV shot to like 900% this afternoon.

e.g. 3:37PM, $GME trading at ~$73. 2/26 $80c were around $14.

Which would you rather have?

~19 shares of GME @ $168 = $3,192 currently

1 2/27 $80c @ $168 = $1400 premium + $7400 intrinsic = ~$8,800 currently

I know which one I would grab, so long as you could promise me it would keep going up :)
If you take a bit more risk driving, you get a bit more hazard to yourself and other road users. If you take a bit more risk with COVID-19, you get an epidemic with thousands of mainly elderly people dying in an overwhelmed medical system.

With COVID-19, the relationship between risk and hazard is nonlinear in a way that doesn't apply with most personal risk choices. Analogies with driving, climbing ladders, etc. are false.
Algorand does, and also has fungible and non-fungible assets in its layer-1 protocol.
Emacs evil-mode (e.g. available in install-and-enjoy Doom Emacs, without having to learn any plugin systems) supports Vim keybindings and is not Vim.
Please be civil. Explain why you think this or don't comment.
So I've recently become a father and have done a lot of reading into co-sleep, crib, etc out of my own paranoia of being a bad father and such.

I could go on and on about the back and forth. The one thing I do want to say and point out that is many articles like this BBC one use statements like "the rest of the world" or is "common in many other cultures" when discussing co-sleep and other "older" practices.

But what percentage of the world actually practices co-sleeping? While it is indeed common in Asia and Africa, only 40 percent of documented cultures practice co-sleep regularly [1]. So it has become a minority practice in the world at large, despite the fact that many blogs or articles make it seem like Western society is strange for not doing it as much.

So instead of Western society being novel and strange, could it be that we're onto something? Saying "it's always been done this way" isn't a scientific statement. While having babies sleep in cribs is a newer practice, there is still a lot of data backing it.

There is indeed some bad research when it comes to demonizing co-sleeping (equally equating co-sleeping parents who use drugs and alcohol with those who don't). But even when controlled for those variables, it still has been shown that co-sleeping still increases the risk of SIDS when there are no hazards present, although not as much as some studies suggest [1].

As a data driven person, when I read all of this, I opted to not co-sleep. It's just what a lot of data supports, so I don't see why it still gets demonized a lot.

I'm not saying you shouldn't co-sleep. If you like it and want to do it, go for it. But I just don't understand the vilification of Western practices when it's been shown to work in many cases.

1: https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2018/05/21/6012896...
Yes quite sure thanks.

Crypto will have to grow all these other encumberances before it can become something ordinary people can use instead of a normal bank.
I love that Apple is big enough that a $3B cash acquisition (and it's biggest ever) is barely a footnote in the company's history.
I'm not convinced that you'd need a blanket in those areas ;)
40C (104F)+ regularly in summer.
Yes, working with Hollywood sucks. Either they're in development and their credit cards bounce, or they're in production and they want a new feature yesterday.
Not trying to be snarky, genuinely asking. In the context of tech, what's a product based company? What isn't?
In case of IPv6, even if the users have public IPv6 address and is in the same network, traffic does not leave the network.

So if you are sharing the same LAN, it does not need internet.

This is because the large IP address space make routing efficient, without the use of NAT.
Once someone uses "bereft" casually and correctly in conversation, I decide their opinion is probably the correct one.

Well done sir.
Don't forget BBSes and even AOL/Prodigy, Everything used to be more tongue in cheek, and required a bit of discovery to figure out.

Personally, I think it's been downhill since someone decided we needed ui/ux designers instead of sleep deprived developers who assumed it was always the (l)users fault for not being able to figure out how to use things. Sure, it has made things easier to use for the masses, but I don't care about the masses.
It is of course completely legal for the US to apply any kind of economic sanctions they desire against any Chinese company, like Huawei or any others.

Nevertheless, it is stupid, for several reasons.

One is that there are no real reasons to apply sanctions to the companies selected until now and not apply the same sanctions to absolutely all Chinese companies. As the US themselves say, all Chinese companies must obey the Chinese government and they must assist their military if ordered to, so there is no base for banning commerce with only a selected list of companies, instead of banning all.

So the only reason why it can make sense to choose just some companies for the moment is that blocking completely all the commerce with China would hurt more the US than China.

However, for the Chinese companies it is clear that these arbitrary sanctions are not correlated with any behavior that they might try to have in order to be liked by the US in order to avoid sanctions, but as long as they remain Chinese companies they may be sanctioned too at any time. So they have a single exit, to never buy again anything from the US but substitute everything with alternatives.

Sooner or later they will succeed to do that and then the sanctions would not be efficient any more. The sanctions would have been successful only if there would have been 2 possible lines of action for the Chinese companies and it would have been certain that one direction implies sanctions and the other direction means no sanctions.

In that case maybe the US sanctions would have been useful. As it is, they can just annoy the Chinese and force them to give up on buying US products, which cannot be of any benefit for the US.

The second reason why the sanctions are stupid, is that they are hurting the Chinese only because they were sudden and unexpected so they have caught the Chinese off-guard, being still dependent of various components that include parts of US provenience. All this has happened only because the US propaganda has repeated during many decades that the global free commerce is good and that everybody should not waste time and money by producing goods that might be purchased from the US either at a lower price or at a higher quality.

Now all this formerly very successful US discourse has been exposed as a pack of lies, as it appears to have been just a trap conceived to ensnare other countries to become economically dependent on the US, in order to be vulnerable to economic sanctions.

Such a trap can work only once and the time and manner chosen by Trump were not at all the best. Now all countries will try to remove their dependencies on US and the next time when the US might need to have real leverage, for a better reason than now, it will be much less likely to have enough impact.
For nearly 2 decades, vi(m) (or a vim emulator or integration layer) has been my daily editor.

I recently had an interview where I had to use some remote collaborative web application and it was genuinely a horrible experience. The main interviewer (lead for the team I was applying for) was visibly annoyed with me because, for whatever stupid reason, some of the keyboard shortcuts he kept trying to bark at me, as I was working through some truly asinine leetcode-style questions, for things like block indentation were not working on my end and I had to manually tab multiple lines, etc...

The entire editing experience threw me really hard and was so distracting that I was fumbling what would've otherwise been trivial algorithm questions for me. Despite my 15 years of professional experience and a deep understanding of their tech stack (which, of course, was not a main discussion point at any stage of my interview process -- one of many red flags for me), if you had watched this you'd have thought I barely know how to write code.

I don't know what the answer is here but I have decided, and thankfully I have the privilege of making this decision, that I am done interviewing for a while.
So like if bats are so deadly and common carriers of these diseases that could potentially jump to humans, would it be sensible I guess to pass laws who can import, trade, or come in contact with them? People owning them as pets or anything like that...it should almost just be considered a biohazard and illegal without permits.

Idk random idea...I'm by no means an expert, but trying to think ways to mitigate it.
technical take-home task is mostly time wasted for the candidate, working for hours just to be ghosted again and again, you will be selecting for people who have nothing better to do.

I'd skip that (and leetcode) entirely and during in-person chat put emphasis on discussing prior projects in detail.

As for "system design" ask a question on your current architecture, how would they approach solving a particular problem you actually have/solved, and see what questions they ask.

That's how good people who built the tech industry used to get hired in the old days (i.e. when they were not friends of friends)
I've seen the oil seep through the safety seal when left long enough, too. This was with sunflower butter rather than peanut butter, but I don't imagine their oils are that different.
I tried to open the doc for their job posting[1] before they opened it, it was locked... so I decided to look at their site.

Load the page and you're met with:
"Technology products for those who need it most. Discover what Pigeonly solves for you."

Who needs it most? Hmm... the blind? Deaf? Poor? Homeless?

The only other hint (without scrolling) is in the title, another veiled reference: "Pigeonly builds technology products for the overlooked and underserved"

Is this the best way to introduce prospective customers or future employees to the product? It sounds very dispassionate for such a benevolent cause.

Consider being more direct about the goal of helping families connect with incarcerated loved ones. The current approach is something between meek and embarrassed. You need to tell people in no uncertain terms what you do, don't expect them to scroll and read to find out.

Why not just come out and say something like "Helping families keep in touch with their loved ones during incarceration"

[1] https://docs.google.com/document/d/1SCrkYMutodHHuVPOZt32fDBh...
Why is PPTP still used and promoted?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point-to-Point_Tunneling_Protoc...
Unless it's illegal in Switzerland...
They are actually based in Zürich (I take the tram past their building each day). I don't think they do DNS though. They don't just do educational domains, though they do focus on that domain (no pun intended).
https://www.cloudmagic.com/

Try this. It builds a local index of your gmail messages. Instant gmail search (and also matches partial keywords like Greplin). No worry about exposing your data to a third party service.
According to http://openstates.org/tx/bills/83/HB3351/ and http://openstates.org/tx/bills/83/SB1659/, the bills haven't progressed any further since then, I don't know if that means they're dead, or if that's just how slowly the Texas legislature proceeds.
I'm not sure of the JS implementation in particular, but it wouldn't surprise me. Keep in mind that the security/encapsulation features of many languages (private, final, const, etc.) can be bypassed using reflection, especially in "more dynamic" languages like Javascript.
It was a fairly common thing, I think? Modern CRTs can detect out of range inputs but at one point you just had to be careful not to supply out of range frequencies. No more onerous than putting the right fuel in your car...
Given the size of reserved instance pre-payments it seems a bit disingenuous to claim you're paying around $100/month. Reserved instances are definitely the way to go if you have a steady state load that warrants them, but you do have to look at that pre-payment as part of your monthly costs to get a proper view of what's being paid.
>> "There is no way for me to immediately send $100 to anyone in the US without resorting to BTC or wire-transfers."

Not sure specifically what you mean by wire transfers but in the UK I can open my banks app (or websites), enter the sort code and account number of a person and instantly transfer them money from my account for no charge. Is this not possible in the US?
Restaurants will still say that if you wear the wrong jacket or hat. It's legal. You're free to change your clothes and come back.
One delegates authority, not accountability.
The most convenient decay source is Plutonium-238 because it does not produce any gammas during the decay which would require lots and lots of shielding to protect people. It has long half life of 87 years so a reduction in power of roughly 1% per year. However, it's weapons material - not okay for wide use. This cannot be overstated. Making nuclear weapons today is very easy when you have the requisite materials (Ted Taylor of Los Alamos used to say it would take 3 guys a few months starting from scratch). With today's off the shelf timing systems, explosives, and manufacturing, it could be even faster.

Next up is Strontium, but that is quite dangerous due to human uptake in the bones. And there's polonium - very poisonous and too short a half life to be used.

I have heard from a friend in the business of a new concept that generates desirable isotopes specifically for decay heat sources in a reactor in an encapsulated form which gets rid of any weapons material or processing of radioactive material.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioisotope_thermoelectric_ge...
Still leagues better than Linux.