jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
5G is mostly an advertising gimmick at this point. I've studied the 5G engineering documentation and there are some good ideas in there but it's not going to give most consumers anything fundamentally better than what they have now, even when it's built out. And even then it won't help rural consumers get better internet. And since it's coming from the cell providers everybody expects they'll just game it as yet another monopolistic revenue extraction tool.

Contrast with Starlink which will help rural consumers get better internet and introduce real competition into the marketplace, and the advantage is clear.
Yup, also, as someone who's done sustained 60+ (maybe even a month of 80+), there's very little room for creativity. It works ok for pursuing the solution to that one clear, looming problem.

I much prefer 5hrs/day of focus, arriving at the office refreshed, excited, and creative.
By setting very high fines for those who don't comply?
It is good to see regulation that diminishes the chance of monopolies or abuses. I don't know if current safeguards help such guarantees.

What could be interesting are economic incentives. For example, social networks profits could be taxed and part of the money acquired could be applied on independent de-centralized services. Imagine the impact if just a small amount of facebook profits were donated to wikipedia.
While I agree with your outrage, 68F is 20C, that’s a hot summer day in the UK; check this historic weather data for Heathrow Airport[1] for example, 5 months recorded a temp over 20C in 2020 and usually 4 or 3 in earlier years.

That isn’t a temperature you can reasonably describe as “freezing”. I’m not used to having a thermostat that high even in winter, it’s getting hot and stuffy that warm.

[1] https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/pub/data/weather/uk/climate/sta...
What about port 80 and 443?
don't know about you but my dishwasher's shortest program is ~30 minutes - if price of electricity changed every minute, i just wouldn't care because it'd be pointless.
> Even a sixth grader knows it's not censorship to choose to not hand your megaphone to an asshole or troll

If you give your megaphone to everyone by default (ie: anyone can sign up for Twitter), but then take it away from certain people you don’t like, it’s censorship. Even if you tell people ahead of time, “hey, you can’t use this megaphone to say X”, and then take it away when they say X, it’s still censorship.

It might be justifiable, it might not be, but it’s definitely within the definition of censorship and if you can’t start there, you’re arguing in bad faith to avoid uncomfortable connotations.
Probably since i have heard that Google is not licensing anybody except the big brands at the moment
There's a single PDF on the page but there's a request to not link directly to it.
a 50% non-vesting partner with an 18+ year lock-up

That doesn't sound like it's likely to end well.
Don't ask me why but I hate pdfs. That's why I am on a crusade to have all free ebooks in one single html file, whenever possible.
Reminds me of this: http://urbanlegends.about.com/od/sex/a/gold_digger.htm
Here we converge on agreement. Thanks for your patience.
Sorry. I wasn't clear enough, I actually meant that as a blame towards ad copy, not the image itself.
I grudgingly concede that there might be some genuine kind of inter-browser standardization politics around Apple coding demos labelled "HTML5" using CSS, markup, and backend quirks specific to their (mostly open source) browser.

But is there any honest argument at all that these demos, regardless of how letter-of-the-law standards compliant they actually are, are not categorically more open, standardized, and web-centric than Flash?
Here's another: https://hypothes.is/
I currently pay about $120 per year for 1 TB of storage through Google Drive. I use about 850 GB of that. After using all the various popular cloud drive services, I can say this isn't about $ per GB anymore. $120 per year for 1 TB is such a low amount of money that it becomes meaningless.

The next hurdle they need to overcome is sync speed. When you're dealing with that much data (especially when made up of many tiny files like JPGs) it becomes a significant engineering challenge. The sync speed with some services can slow to a crawl. In my own use, Google Drive and DropBox have been the best. OneDrive (formerly SkyDrive) was unusable at certain file counts. I haven't tried Amazon though. I would give it a shot if I go over the 1 TB mark but would probably not try it just to try to save $60 per year.
I'll be adding that shortly - thank you.

Edit: now added.
Dropbox user experience hasn't changed that much over the years.

Amazon, Google and MS are after users to absorb them into their other products and then merge or drop those products years letter.

My Dropbox account still works the same after all those years, I can't say the same of Google Drive/Doc SkyDrive/OneDrive/LiveMesh/etc.

> It's the whole Jobs thing with 'you're a feature, not a product.'

I'd turned that the other way. Dropbox is a product while Google, MS and Amazon's dropbox-like offers are a side-feature of other business.

edit: Then there is the `brand` argument. Dropbox is solid.

Note: I am not convinced those arguments are valid in the business space but this is how I think it pans out for most `standard` users (free and paying).
There is a code pad that unlocks the door in case the pilot(s) don't answer the requests to open the door via intercom. The code does not however unlock the door immediately but activate a light and a beeping sound inside the cockpit for 30 seconds. Within this time frame the pilots can either decide to open the door immediately or to overwrite the unlocking, which locks the door for 5 minutes. This is to prevent attackers from entering even if they threaten to kill the crew member and thereby pressured them to enter the code. If the pilots don't react during the 30 seconds the door unlocks.
HealthCare.gov is definitely NOT fixed or "revived" yet. I was trying to register for healthcare for the Feb 15th deadline and there were errors after errors. At the end, after hours of trying and waiting on hold for the tech help-line, I was not able to register at all and missed the deadline. The help-line's answer was, we are still working out the kinks, please print out the PDF and fill it out manually. It's still a disaster-show.
Regarding 2), you do it via Value Added Modeling. You build a statistical predictor of student performance (based on standardized test scores) then measure Performance = Avg(Actual - predicted).
Regarding function pointer arrays, I'm doing something in labrea (http://github.com/dustin/labrea) where I need to make what is effectively an FFI call from C to C where I know the number of arguments, and their types, but I have them in the form of an array of unions.

For example, if I need to call read, it's basically an invocation of a function with a 4 byte, 8 byte, and then 4 byte argument (on a 64-bit system). I have a union argument type that represents 32-bit and 64-bit parameter types at the same time. I make a call like this:

rv = abstractInvoke(&fun, args);

which, depending on arity of fun, invokes something like this (auto-generated):

rv = abstractInvoke(fun, args[0], args[1], args[2]);

That three-arg function looks roughly like this (calling my argument type ``a_t'' to abbreviate):

a_t abstractInvoke(struct ftype *fun, a_t a0, a_t a1, a_t a2) {
static a_t (*allfuns[])(const void*, a_t a0, a_t a1, a_t a2) = {
invoke_3_4_444, // 0
invoke_3_8_444, // 1
invoke_3_4_448, // 2
invoke_3_8_448, // 3
invoke_3_4_484, // 4
invoke_3_8_484, // 5
// [...]
invoke_3_8_888, // 15
};
return allfuns[fun->offset](fun->orig, a0, a1, a2);
}

I generate all of the functions by arity and types and then compute an array offset of them ahead of time (so read has an offset of 5 since it returns an 8 byte value and its arguments take a 4 byte, 8 byte, and then 4 byte value).

Without this trick, I'd have to use very non-portable assembler to do the same invocation (OK, I'd use libffi or dyncall's already prepackaged very non-portable assembler, which I may end up with anyway) to make this function call.
http://usabilityhub.com (including http://fivesecondtest.com) was originally a free app. We introduced subscriptions in August. It's now getting close to being able to support two of us full-time. At the moment, we're both still doing consultant work to fill the gaps. I would certainly think in the next 6-12 months it'll be covering both of us. We're entirely self-funded from 3 years of contracting/consulting.

If I have a tip for anyone, the consulting/startup pairing works wonderfully well....especially if you're in demand. I can turn paid work on and off as needed depending on what we're working on.
What about log in -> edit site -> publish? Edit site being direct manipulation of the content.
Copy-free contiguous subsets of arrays are fairly simple but often convenient. If you want elements 5 through 33 of big_array, you just get a pointer to element 5, and keep track separately of the length. A common case is where you split an array into two non-overlapping subparts, in which case, if you no longer need the original, you can treat each subpart as if it were a separate array. Saves the work of allocating two new arrays for the split parts, which is necessary in many other languages. Useful for efficiently implementing things like decision-tree learners.
Please have a look at what we do at http://grabcad.com/ - may be there are some ways for future cooperation. We're based in Estonia, saw you guys are Finnish :) You can ping me at jk@kaljundi.com.
We can't have standardized foreign language or art tests?
When you compare Qwant's Web-results with the results from Bing you will notice that they are the same.
> It's a few stores which accept many forms of payment and a bunch of people who use a little bitcoin but not for anything vital.

You clearly don't yet understand Bitcoin. No, the network is all the people mining Bitcoin with ASIC's that create the security necessary to prevent double spends.

Pretty much everything else you said is wrong.

> If Apple, Google, Facebook, Amazon, PayPal, etc. launched a payment system it'd have more users than Bitcoin on the day it launched.

Irrelevant, users don't create the security necessary to prevent doubles spends; miners do.

Quite simply, you need to study more, you don't understand distributed crypto-currency yet. You think it's easy to replace bitcoin with an alt coin, you have no idea what you're talking about.
I actually appreciate the non-affiliate link. I'm possibly as capitalist as the rest, but I appreciate the recognition of self interest by anyone who removes the affiliate bit from the URI.
I think doing it out of the public eye might have stopped premature use and implementations. Inconsistencies really had to be avoided, but without much of a concrete draft, implementations like Microsoft's sort of derailed the effort.
Most startups with "millions of customers" can also trivially shard their traffic so it can effectively run on a bunch of largely-independent boxes, with some added redundancy for reliability's sake. No need for anything more complex.
I don't question what people in $DEPARTMENT are doing all day. I question why $DEPARTMENT exists at a company that's a single trick pony.
I’m tempted to install Win95/98 on it, run Borland Delphi 4 from 1998 on it, and develop a UI in fraction of the time and resources it takes on the Web.

The result will probably still run on modern Windows, too
Ah. Right. Rounding errors and other floating point issues. Guess I should have my coffee before reading HN. headdesk
Microsoft sees Facebook's success, thinks "I'd hit that", and decides to make yet another island where products can languish under the hot hot sun. And coconut trees.

I've gotta say, I think Steam has them beat here, except it doesn't have a Microsoft logo on it, so of course they can't support it.
I assume this is related to my point, though, that most people aren't going to college because they care about something but rather because they are expected to. They then wind up picking something easier somewhat at random and can't get a job because of it.
They don't, though.

You have two sets of incomplete data. One from public research, where some of the data is missing, and one from private research, where nearly all of the data is missing.

Which do you base policy on? Doing nothing, by the way, is also making a policy decision.

I will also point out that changing the rules post-facto, like we're doing here, is like asking an open source project to verify that every single contributor to it has consented that the project migrate to a new, incompatible license.
The American healthcare system seems really broken. Requiring private donations to function instead of the state paying just sounds bonkers.
this is unrelated to snake oil, also this was for people already infected to help SARS

also most readings on the topic are from ncbi/pubmed or springer books
Reading bs release after bs release from intel about their 10nm “successes” makes you tired of their stuff. The number of times they denied problems etc
What do you mean? There are many areas of math where providing a proof matters.
Always invest in the one that's increasing faster than the other one.

I'm not saying you can do it without knowledge of the future. I'm responding to the (correct) observation above that it isn't possible to beat the market average while it's rising, no matter what you do, even if you do have knowledge of the future -- as long as the only options you have are "buy the index" and "sell the index".
I know that Intel has major issues with 10nm, but I don’t know exactly what went wrong.

Can you educate me?

I’m particularly interested in how management sabotaged the ability to get 10nm to work.
Very small, but that's not a useful measure. For astronomy, remember that bright, fast-moving objects will leave sizable streaks in images that halo a lot[1]. OTOH, intensity varies with time and satellite height. With regards to how much space we have, note that a satellite is taking up an orbit, not a point, and it's a lot harder to fit things in those safely, since they have a tendency to overlap.

[1]: https://nationalastro.org/news/starlink-satellites-imaged-fr...
China sent 90 tons of plasma to Italy? I don't understand. A ton is 1000 liters. A single blood donation is usually 500ml , not sure how much plasma that would produce. But this means that they had at least 180K donations which seem implausible. Could someone please explain?
I would think the typical HPE customer (e.g. us) buys servers and uses them for between 3-5 years, before buying new servers. The old (out of warranty) servers might be discarded, or might be reused as test hardware.
It's the drive firmware. Drive firmware bricks the disk because the disk is soldered into the drive.

It doesn't need to be continuous. Total operation is the metric.
You can replace "do their fucking job" with

"do their damn job" (a word 'like "fuck"', in some sense, but one that people are less likely to be seriously offended by[1])

"do the job they are being paid to do" (stress the key point with words and typography)

"do their job -- you know, the thing Google is actually paying them to do" (words with a bit of sarcasm)

and to my mind all of these options have similar intensity. I don't personally mind "do their fucking job" (at least, I don't mind the swearing; I think the point being made is probably unsound, but that's a separate matter) but it's not by any means the only way to get the point across.

[1] Which is rather odd, if you think about it -- you'd think eternal torture was a nastier thing to have brought to your attention than sex -- but I guess sex is more hard-wired into our brains and few these days believe in eternal damnation.
> wants to ensure that universities, governments and companies outside the United States can help develop its open-source technology

Read as:

> wants to ensure that China...

Let me see if I understand this correctly. US tax dollars funded (in part, via UC Berkeley) this technology, and now this organization is moving outside of the US specifically so that it can work with China in ways that the US would not appreciate. And we (“we” being an audience almost entirely based in the Occident) are all cheering this on?

Do you think they are worried about that US blocking them from working with Oxford, or with the Spanish government? This is because they got money from Alibaba.

Is this the same group that was defending South Park and bashing on the NBA just weeks ago?

Gimme a fuckin break.
That's a very coincidental reason to go for a 3 year warranty.
I'm sure it's just a crazy coincidence...
> It's a hugely privileged position to be in, and the idea that it comes with exactly zero responsibility to Rest of World is nonsensical.

and tell me if you also spend a portion of your income on donations to under-developed countries. Because that's what you're asking the billionaires to do - altruistic giving.

I m of the position that if they legitimately made their money (i.e., nothing illegal), they are entitled to spend it however they see fit. It's _good_ if they spend it on altruism - but it's not an entitlement that i expect of them.
Author here, my bad, forgot to set it to public ^^;;
They should, but they won't. The closest thing we might get is deregulation, but meaningful deregulation is just as far away as the idea of a government-run network.
Pretty sure Americans buy their beer in ounces. 330ml is very popular in New Zealand and the UK.
It's sort of like the opposite of a shibboleth. It's a sibboleth! If you say it, you get stabbed!
I've actually opened a game with long loading times and alt tabbed out, because I knew it would take a while. I booted up another game to play a little bit until the first game finishes loading. 3 hours later I was done playing and realized that I was supposed to play game #1.
In all fairness every exchange ever that I've come across always quite explicitly says 'don't ever do that'.
While a lot of big democoders went on the start famous computer games companies, it's interesting to specular what happened to all the crackers of that same era? Sadly my guess is that they all joined the NSA.
We are not even close to discovering the cure for aging, so worrying about how it will change society is very premature.

Until we can get a C eelegans worm to live for years, we are not remotely close to stopping aging.
If experience is all that matters than the industry could be a lot better if we would not let the 40+ software developers disappear to management. Instead they should get payed better to keep them?
Okay, then why are people responding to me at the bottom of the log when I haven't said anything in it?
because GitHub's uptime of 99.9912% isn't good enough for you?
Even during this attack we were able to push and pull to our projects off and on.
https://status.github.com/graphs/past_month
I am not against new ways of querying RDBMSes but until today SQL seems the most simplest and clean way to do it. Most realistic solution will be not to abstract SQL but develop a new query language for relational datasources (on same level with SQL).
I am pro abstractions that simplify things (like TCP) and against naive abstractions ignoring the basic aims of layers under. TCP simplifies things, Clojure-QL complicates them.

PS: The article that you suggested is written by a guy that tend to speculate over his point of view without taking in account the reality. In all modern RDBMSes queries having (a=b and a=c and b=c) will be simplified by query planners (Oracle and Postrgre do it) so there will not be any difference in performance.
I think that is the estimate for the warm intergalactic medium; within galaxies, densities are more like 100-1,000 H atoms / meter at their most sparse.

So intergalactic space is “crowded” compared to, say, the vacuums at CERN, but quite “spacious” compared to the outer space between stars in a galaxy (and certainly compared to the space between the Earth and the moon).

I guess I’m not sure what an “appropriate” density would be :) 1 measly ice-cold hydrogen atom within a cubic meter is slim pickings.
Archive link: https://archive.is/u4I1a
> This would benefit from a "select all/none" option for the regions.

Yeah, that would help. I'll add this.

> Also, adding spot pricing would be SUPER helpful!

Unfortunately spot pricing is not available in the bulk pricing API, which is what I am using here. But there does seem to be a separate API to get the spot pricing history - I will try to use it.
Just use a strong password and save it in a password manager.
> There's no need to track this as anything other than a continuation in a long history of collective groups of humans doing what they do.

That's fair and accurate as far as it goes, but it doesn't really negate the need to oppose this particular continuation of said history, any more than it negated the need to oppose eg Prohibition or the Spanish Inquision when those were happening.
The article sounds like you enjoyed building the system you put together, and I think that's probably a seriously undervalued aspect of why someone might take on this kind of work.
Honestly, I feel like much of what you don’t like applies to other industries as well and is not tech specific... human nature..
Maybe they're hoping the community creates the framework-specific implementations?
> you get paid a huge amount of money to do a moderate amount of work

AWS would like a word with you.
Given that all his attention was riveted to the phone, I wonder how much input he had in the FireTV product? Maybe the hands-off approach just worked better.
OK, i'll take the bait. To use the outhouse analogy, i actually prefer the outhouse, because i get a bit of fresh air and exercise on the way, and there aren't kids and flatmates bothering me through the door while i'm having a crap, and.. no, the analogy is broken.

I could perhaps afford an iPhone what-have-you (even though i am a poor PhD student -- maybe you have a point), but i genuinely like the fact that my phone lasts really long between charges and that i am not even tempted to have FaceApp or TwitBook, etc.

If my life was arranged a little differently (read: more stability) i wouldn't even have a mobile at all, but for the moment i can't rely on having only a home phone.
What's your experience with migrations? Non-trivial ones where SchemaUpdate doesn't work..
US definition of Ultralight requires that engine-off stall speed be at most 45km/h, and max speed at most 102km/h at full power in level flight.

flynano's "landing speed" is 70km/h, and "cruising speed" is ~140km/h, so it's not going to happen as an ultralight in US. It will probably be classified as an LSA (light-sport aircraft), which makes more sense, but requires a pilot's license.
Migrations aren't a particularly solved problem in .NET imo. (Bad previous experience with nhibernate and migrations of our team member made us skip it)

Currently, we are using MigratorDotNet (it meant writing sql to define Up and Down manually). We ended up with a custom implementation for doing the orm. (battle scars and hence the above question)

Yes, I do understand the impedance mismatch for true orm mapping but I sincerely hope to avoid "doing this by hand" until absolutely necessary.
The runtime invocation is particularly nice for live debugging. You navigate in and out of program scope (using cd) and view variables in scope (using ls). It is all very smalltalk-ish.
As far as I understand the original posting, you can download any file from Dropbox's servers if you know its Dropbox hash, which apparently is a sequence of SHA256 hashes of 4MB blocks.

If you have a sub-4MB sensitive file, and you publish its SHA256, and the Dropbox protocol applies the hash function in the same way as file hashing tools (e.g. doesn't include a tag meaning "this hash is computed particularly for Dropbox deduplication" into the SHA computation), yes, then apparently people can download your file.

However, I rarely see SHA256 checksums along with download links; more SHA1 and MD5.