skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Rewind. Why did the government grant monopolies to these companies in the first place?

To entice them to invest in their area because nobody else would.

Infrastructure isn't software development. It requires billions of dollars of capital investment. That investment isn't going to go to many areas unless it's nearly guaranteed a return, hence the labyrinth of monopolistic guarantees bestowed upon ISPs.

It's not clear to me that consumer options would flourish if you were to roll back all ISP related regulations and void existing contracts. I suspect the current system would just become more entrenched.
I see they are supporting Apache Arrow (http://arrow.apache.org/) in their result set converter, which will be nice for interoperability with other data system that use Arrow: https://github.com/mapd/mapd-core/blob/21fc39fab9e1dc2c1682b...

(I'm on the Arrow PMC)
Love this!

"ipinfo.io ratelimit exhausted. Please try again tomorrow, or run the script from your own server."

Needs a port to Linux (from .bat).
You're forgetting tax on fuel, which at 57.95 pence/litre for petrol/diesel is almost a tax rate of 100%. Unfortunately most of this money goes into the general budget rather than being used to improve transport infrastructure and/or reduce CO2 or NOX emissions.
Fair enough. I was wondering because I am basically the opposite, which was probably obvious due to the nature of the question. I like to show up late and leave late (10-6ish).
IT guy

-[6:30] : Wake up

-[7:55] : Arrive at work

-[8:00] : Check email

-[8:05] : Check support forum

-[8:06] : /r/aww+rarepuppers

-[9:00] : Frontpage of reddit

-[10:00]: Youtube vids

-[10:30]: Pause youtube to take support call

-[10:45]: Youtube resumes

-[12:00]: Lunch and nap

-[1:00] : Back to reddit/finish youtube subs

-[4:55] : God damn support call
Low Doses of ∆9-Tetrahydrocannabinol Restores Cognitive Function in Old Mice
In my short time at IBM I found the company the most conflicted about two issues, 'cloud' and 'remote work'.

When we were acquired there were lots of people we encountered who worked from home. Some more effectively than others. We also encountered buildings like the Almaden research center with long narrow hallways with offices on either side. That were apparently 'classic IBM' office space.

When I left, more and more people were being asked to work at the office, and the new offices were open plan, quite literally shoulder to shoulder, rows and rows of desks. I felt both choices were untenable for long term stability.

And as with most organizations the implementation is always at the manager level and I know that at least one manager had pretty much told their people that folks could work from home if they didn't want to make the long trek into the office, regardless of what the current policy was.

So where did that leave you? If left you with the real estate services guys following one set of rules, and managers making up their own rules to preserve morale. Not a recipe for success.

I found it very hard to engage the right people to talk about the disconnect.
I've mentioned this before, but I think it's pretty clear now that IBM is undergoing a slow-motion, manual liquidation (or winding-up). No big drama, no bankruptcy, just slowly and steadily shedding employees and buying back the stock until the whole thing goes poof.
Animals Like Beauty for Its Own Sake
ISPs are allowed to limit their services to prevent overuse. See: data caps and bandwidth limits. Net neutrality is concerned specifically with limits on usage that are not related to the amount of data used, but rather the information contained in that data.
I have been doing this for some time as well, my motivation was ignorance about Photoshop: https://epxx.co/logbook/entries/svg.html
"The economy" shouldn't have a goal. The economy consists of individuals, who all have individual goals, which may or may not align with each other. But "the economy" as a whole should have no goal.

It's like asking what the goal of "nature" should be. Nature consists of individuals who have their own goals, but nature has no goals of its own.
The jobs are mostly temp jobs not full time jobs. Bush changed how jobs are defined obama continued that with the result that 95% of jobs created since the financial cricis are temp jobs. This is a big deal in the us as it cuts of access to ex healthcare. Its very grim whats going on.
A friend whose knew someone working in Toyota HQ in Torrance, CA said that was why they moved the HQ to Texas. It was a way of encouraging unmotivated workers to quit.
Different shapes make for easier identification without looking at the coin (good for the blind, people trying to find a coin in a wallet, etc...), and are harder to fake.

It is also, apparently, a reference to the shape of the old threepenny bit.
On the power plants side, it's about costs. I don't think it makes sense to compare different plant types.

But you could take solar as an example - is it better to use up twice as much roof space/desert if the overall design is cheaper that way? Probably. Yet, all else being equal, the more efficient design is of course preferable, less stuff to install, less material usage, so technological advances tends to push for higher efficiency, I think.

On the consumer side, just look up the efficiency in what interests you. It should be easy enough to find numbers online.

If you're in the EU, most household appliances have a mandatory rating from G to A, with the least efficient appliances having a disturbing red G, while the best have a nice green A:

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

As you can see in the example in Wikipedia, the differences between the ratings are significant. When this thing started, you could buy a G fridge - I think those may have been the norm. I looked up an internet dealer right now, and the lowest rating I could find for sale is A+, with A++ being the norm. In a year or two, A+++ is probably the norm.

It has worked like the MHz wars on PC, amazing really. As long as there's competition and someone puts energy efficiency in the spotlight, things can actually change.
not a security engineer, but working at a large financial company a lot of these points hit especially 11:15 & 11:16 and 17:00 :))))
My realization from this post - basically everybody else is working harder than me.
The common response to this is that ISPs have access to everything you do (which is true), and that they could sell that (which is false).

The regulations being overturned here are ones that have only recently taken effect, and non-anonymized, non-aggregate selling of ISP data is still outlawed by the Cable Communications Act of 1984, which protects subscriber privacy is 47USC § 551[1].

Put simply, neither the most recent executive order, nor a reversal on Net Neutrality overturns that law on the federal register.

Of course, if Congress were to draft a bill that does so, the current fears would be well justified.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/47/551
Remote working kills team work IMO. I would never want to work fully remotely, and I can't collaborate as well with fully remote teammate. How do you get a whiteboard brainstorming sessions?
2 days remote / week is a good balance that fits me quite well.

Now if you don't work on hard-to-solve problem, or projects that don't require high collaboration, why not.

Edit: I should add that I've been working fully remote (500km away of the office) for almost 3 years, and then with a team split on two different continents for one year. I so much enjoy being in the office since then, even just for having lunch and coffee with anyone, and being able to stop by anyone's desk/office to unblock an issue.
None of those benefits go away if we wait until the person being cut is old enough to understand what is going to happen and to consent for it.
Walk into a lot of bars/restaurant, airports, etc. etc. and you'll have TVs in the background. I know a lot of people whose first instinct when they walk into a room is to turn on the TV. Can't stand it myself but it's very common behavior.
> people affected ... have ... even a favorable opinion of their circumcision.

Stockholm syndrome is very likely in those cases.
If you see flow as being time when someone is hammering away on a keyboard you completely misunderstand the concept. Flow is how developers avoid writing code.
Yes this is the disadvantage of traditional IP geolocation databases. They work mostly by sourcing information from RIRs and ISPs. Unfortunately for a lot of larger organizations which typically exist in internet backbone that is very inaccurate. This skews the traceroute mapping significantly.

I don't want to shamelessly plug-in stuff here but we have geolocation API which uses latency triangulation and does not suffer from those issues.

Stefan - I would be more than happy to donate the API access if you have time to integrate it. Can I email you with details ?
Profession: Web Developer/5 axis CNC programmer

Wake up: Sometime between 7 - 8, at work sometime between 8:30 - 9:30

Warm up Machines.

Plan jobs for the day.

Set up machines

Get both machines running.

Plan new jobs and design/edit prototypes in Solidworks

Program prototypes and design fixtures.

If no prototypes:
Either work on the company website or order stock or work on creating my part/job travelers

Lunch time varies, if I'm not too busy I'll have lunch if I am too busy I will skip.

Leave anytime from 5 - 10 PM
> Comcast -- though big! -- is one ISP on the internet and if you feel like you're not receiving news about things that are important to you there, you hop onto another ISP. If enough people stop using Comcast, Comcast will be compelled to

Unfortunately, for the majority of people in the US, there would only be one other choice. For me, that's AT&T. The big companies will payoff both or one isp for fast lanes, the ISP's will definitely put there service in the fast lane, if your service competes with either of them, get to pay not only the normal infrastructure costs, you now have to bribe the isp's not to throttle your service.

Facebook in the same class of monopoly as there are many other niche social networking apps built around oarticular interests. I only have two ways to connect to the Internet.

I lament that my ISP choices are limited, but not enough people even understand tech issues to care about them and certainly no one in Congress, save for a few.
John Oliver crashes FCC site
Well yeah and no one forces you to get broadband Internet either, the fact that for most people there's only one option that's often insanely overpriced is the issue.
Absolutely, we could all use a bit more focus on health in our life. I'm the same way; the extent of my exercise is taking the stairs instead of the elevator, and my girlfriend dragging me to a running trail on the weekend.
No, it shows that those people are on the fence. It says nothing of the community on the whole.

You're being disingenuous.
What are you on about? What does privacy have to do with net neutrality?
"I was trying to open a dialogue on shifting norms"

Why can't you just LARP for fun? People do stuff like civil war encampments and renn faires because they're huge fun. A LARP club that gets dressed up and dances to the waltz sounds like an unusual, interesting time.

(Edited to add, I've not been to a SCA event but would I be correct in predicting there might be a waltz at a SCA event?)
The periods (intervals between events) there would be [93, 22, 155, 112] My. That doesn't look like they're getting shorter.
Munger Says Fellow Republicans Are ‘Bonkers’ for Taking Away Bank Regulations
In fact I do not need alternatives to the JWT standard. Part of my argument is that what JWT is trying to do --- providing one overarching standard for every conceivable token authentication use case --- is simply a bad idea.

Regardless, bad engineering is bad engineering. Bad security engineering gets people hurt. It's not that JWT doesn't do the best job it could do: it's that it's a snakepit of implementation traps that create vulnerabilities. For me, the argument ends there.
Profession: Web Developer - full time, @large corp > 300 people at this office

Workday:
- Alarm goes off about 7:15, snooze until about 7:50 or 8:00.
- Quick Shower / Prep
- Commute for 30'ish minutes
- Usually at work around 8:50, make tea eat whatever snack I brought with me, check Hacker News
- Fetch / merge from upstream
- Work on whatever tickets or code review anything assigned to me
- Repeat until lunch around noon
- Go back to work an hour later. Usually I'm most productive from this time until 30 minutes before 5.
- 4:30 Shoot the shit with coworkers until 5.
- Go swim or climb after work before heading home.

I would really like to improve upon getting up and being productive in the morning before work. I'm definitely loosing out snoozing for 40 - 50 minutes a day.
Can someone tell me why OP's answer is being downvoted?
I think the generalization of "use-after-free" to "use-after-invalidation" is the most important part of this article, showing that it's more about object "lifetimes" than simply a memory management flaw. This is one reason why we can't consider "modern C++" to be memory-safe.

I wonder if this sort of vulnerability is possible in Rust, and if it is, is there a way to use Rust's borrow checker to make it impossible?
It's really amazing to see companies completely ignore the practices of other successful companies. In my career, I've seen this willful blindness hurt companies over and over again.
States that regulate capacity (certificates of need) don't really see lower prices.

Here the state even decides who can operate a CT scanner

https://www.michigan.gov/documents/mdch/CON-212_CON_Rev_Stds...
With the looming take over of the robots, why is the fast food industry still largely meat powered? I would think these establishments at their scale, would be ripe for automation, yet they aren't. Are humans still cheaper in this particular industry?
Honest and serious questions:

How do you rationalize changing your son's sexual function without his consent and despite the fact that it is possible to do the same procedure later in life, with zero mental and very little physical immediate trauma?

To what extent did you go to educate yourself on that matter, given you have no personal experience?
simply not true. The number of new jobs created decade over decade have gone down and the politicans have redefined what constitute a job, most today are temporary. You are ironically making the fallacy of the luddite falkacy. Jobs have been created in the world, not in the west. Unemployment numbers are based on temp jobs no real jobs.
>The "proof" (benchmarks, yeah, I know) is in the provided link. Feel free to shoot them down.

I just did: those benchmarks show uvloop's performance, not python's, i.e.: they're designed to minimize time spent in callback code.
Haven't worked 'for' another company in a while, but my recollections jive with the experience of many current colleagues. You're generally expected to be in the office during "working hours", but there isn't a hard "5pm cutoff" time. Someone has an urgent need at 8pm, and you don't answer the call/email/text/whatever, you're dinged as 'not a team player', and will eventually be relegated.

You're often expected to be 'on' 24/7 (as in, not always working, but ready/able to work if need be), but also have to be physically at a location during certain hours. "Vacation" time may be the exception, as long as it doesn't interfere too much with everyone else's work schedules.

I've seen some counterexamples, but they're rare enough in my circles to be the exception vs the rule.
We found that setting up Kube on AWS in a prod-ready way was sufficiently complex enough that we wrote up some docs on it: https://www.datawire.io/guide/infrastructure/setting-kuberne..., hoping it would be helpful.
Los Angeles FD has firefighters earning regular pay AND extra pay for having PTSD if you were involved in a particularly bad fire. Not sure how much that extra pay is.
>the rest of the developed world has universal coverage and healthcare

Why should every country have the same solution to healthcare? The US was formed as a democracy when 'the rest of the world' was run by monarchs. Healthcare is still a rivalrous good, and if we don't limit it by who can afford it, we will limit by some other ambiguous term like 'need.' My friend's grandma (80 yrs old) just had to fly to the US from Paris to have a surgery for which the French system deemed her ineligible (she was too old).
Most SQL databases fit in RAM cheaply (and most GPUs share memory with the CPU).
Creating construction project management templates
well, obviously this will not work for a primary account. It also adds friction the signup process, leading to lower conversion rations. But for some use-cases that may be a valid trade-off. Think dating sites, ..., stuff where knowing that a certain email is subscribed already may be embarrassing or worse (gay dating websites in certain countries).
Carnot efficiency is 1 - Tcold/Thot. You must also remember to convert temps to an absolute scale. So from your example, that is 1 - (535/1500) or 66% efficient.
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Treat Continuous Integration as your virtual user
We've measured productivity of remote work compared to in house work. I work in the public sector so it's mainly not programming, but caseworking and similar. We've found that productivity is way down when people work at home, we've however also found that allowing people to slack once in a while increases their overall performance.

The optimal results come from people working mainly at the office. Now this may be completely different for development houses, our coders are some of the most productive when working remote, IT in general is below average though.
This is so annoying, because one person implements a shitty JWT library the whole spec stupid and should be avoided? Tell that to Amazon, Microsoft, Facebook and and implementer of OpenID Connect. Somehow, they've all figured out use cases where JWT makes sense and it hasn't been a security nightmare.

JWT.io has a comprehensive list of not shitty implementations of JWT. It's literally the first page I see when I google JWT.
Profession: software "engineer" too.

[08:00] First alarm goes off;

[10:00] I'm starting to wake up

[11:00] Some quick HN checking

[12:00] Ok, off to office.

[13:00] At the office; talking with customer if needed, otherwise desperately trying to get some work done amidst noise and distractions, including but not limited to people occasionally playing board games for a break.

[18:00] All my cow-orkers in the room have finally left for the day. Time to get some actual work done.

[21:00] Ok, time to head home.

[22:00] Let's eat something quickly and go to sleep.

[02:00] That side project is _way_ too interesting; I guess I'll be waking up at 10:00 tomorrow again...

So no help from me.

The other day, one of my cow-orkers asked me, how can I bear working late hours - it must be very lonely. I desperately tried not to answer that with "that's precisely the point".
That's the worst-fitting line of best fit I can recall seeing outside of a classroom.
The Stable Marriage problem:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stable_marriage_problem

This BBC documentary ("The Secret Rules of Modern Living Algorithms") had a bit about this:
https://youtu.be/T1os88EvPc4?t=19m11s
Did you because an ISP squeezed you out of business?

If not net neutrality helped you.
This can be alleviated by meeting once a week(if all members are in the same area) or once per couple of months(for more distributed teams).

I would be very wary of companies that can't perform because physical attendance is mandatory every single day!
Nobody else does that because they're not ad-free. Regarding the more money thing, they have to still ask for more because it's financially prudent for every non-profit to have a reserve in case of emergency or bad years. They make more because their costs increase as well, and you're also mixing cause-and-effect since it's quite likely they're only making more due to such tweaks to the fundraising message. Ads in Wikipedia would be much more annoying for me personally.
> [08:00] ... work on something I procrastinated on the previous day so that I can have a good standup report

lol, me too, I'm afraid to admit. Every dang day.
Rafting trips
The SSL cert chain is broken for me.
Simple YouTube video downloader
Why Many Old Operating Systems Never Really Die
I'm not sure the amount of automation possible in 1999 is at all close to the amount of automation possible in 2017. That we have things like automated cashiers that need far fewer employees to run seems like something that would invalidate these past comparisons.
Robots are a depreciating capital investment, just like a lathe or forklift. They don't last forever and require a lot of maintenance. And there's very little standardization. If you try to sell a used robot expect to take a huge loss; it's not even remotely a liquid investment.
"Why aren't you all falling in line out of fear of this boogeyman?"
> Childish phrasing like "that bird site"

I could be wrong, but I am under the impression that the phrase "that bird site" only exists as a way around oulipo.social's self-imposed "no letter e" rule.

A consequence of federation is that people on other instances don't necessarily realize what oulipo.social is or why the posts are worded oddly. At one point I briefly ended up in an argument with somebody who was unaware I was doing constrained writing.
You are correct: I'm implying a), because the GT5 mirror look is exactly such an example.
We have our office in the capital where my co-founder also lives. I live in a smaller town outside of it. Unless I move there (which is not possible due to the prices and I like my town) one of us has to commute and from a business perspective it's much better to have the office in the capital when meeting customers etc.

Before we got the office I did 6 months from home and I was highly ineffective. Remote work is just not for me.

The commute itself is rather pleasant and I can work on the train if I wish, although I mostly use the time to read HN and relax.
Can you provide any studies on that?
If only the contributors to this massive stream of funding had checked the debunking evidence you cite - oh, hold on . . .
I use my gaming desktop as a Plex media server as well. I jut stream to various devices around the house (like the FireTV).

Works very well, even while I'm playing a game.
> I think it's better privacy tech + increased competition via elimination of local monopolies. Do we really want to depend on government to enforce privacy on the Internet

Unfortunately, if that ever hapoens it won't be any time soon. ISP's just throw lawyers at new entrants to the market who can, through legal maneuvering, delay entrance by years and fighting them will cost a fortune. There were some successes by municipalities (who voted foe their own city owned isp) but many many more losses