skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why is it any different than a phone line?

To ensure that all Americans can afford at least a minimal level of basic telephone service, the FCC will not allow phone companies to charge more than $6.50 for a single line.
https://www.fcc.gov/general/faqs-telephone

The Subscriber Line Charge and Universal Service Fund and Connect America Fund, and various other subsidies going back to the early 1900's were instituted to deal with all kinds of dissatisfaction of unregulated market outcomes. If people liked what the market arrived at, we wouldn't have such a complex pile of subsidies: subsidies for rural areas, subsidies for those in poverty, subsidies for hospitals and doctors, subsidies for libraries.

Today's internet is effectively becoming a superset of the telephone, and it was massively subsidized especially for rural areas. Whatever the opposite of economies of scale is, that's what telephone service looked like in rural areas if only the free market were to apply. Same for roads in rural areas for that matter.

Anyway, it might be fair to consider internet access a "basic human right" as hyperbole. It's not itself food, clothing, or shelter. But it's a means of obtaining and maintaining them. Perhaps it's a civil right to have affordable and reasonably performing internet service? It's certainly at least a civil matter, even if it's not a basic human one.
I can't decode what you're saying, sorry.
Bummer. Agreed.
> I believe you're misharacterising the issue. The trouble with technology is that well, you either have it or you don't.

Technology is always a matter of degree. Let's say I have a handloom barn making fabric and clothing. Is that already "technology"? If not, then what if I install a diesel generator to power the looms? Then I get some treadle sewing machines to replace hand-stitching? Then I get a laptop to replace hand-accounting? Do I "have technology" yet? As a handloom barn owner, I certainly couldn't have developed or manufactured a diesel generator, a sewing machine, or a laptop, yet I can buy and maintain (or just replace) them quite easily. Doing the same with robots is just a matter of degree and difficulty. Compared with getting humans to do the same work, is it worth it or not?
Everyone does have a different ranking system, but Netflix was good at predicting what I would give a movie, so my ranking system was the only one that mattered. Their special sauce in the background made it pretty accurate.

The problem with an up/down for me is that it doesn't capture an ambivalent reaction. That means transactions will tend toward the mode, imo. You will do enough to get a thumbs up, that's all.
>Not the author, but I think the proposal would be for browsers to not display scary warning pages HTTPS requests using self-signed certificates where the hostname is an RFC1918 IP address.

In this case he makes no reference to hostnames, but short hostnames (not fully qualified) are a similar case. I believe they should still display a warning, but perhaps adjust the wording. SSL certs are not just useful for validation (domain validation, exstended validation) but also for fingerprinting. Self-signed certs are not a security risk provided you confirm it has the expected fingerprint and/or install it so it appears in browser as validated.
Dancing is good for you, bla bla blahhhh. Hacker news is tiring.
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As far as personal attacks go, that was pretty mild IMHO, especially after he just finished an inflammatory rant insulting both the author and the readers of this article. Buy hey, go ahead and take my Internet points, I don't care about them.
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Memories! We had a Multiflow Trace, and a couple of guys smart enough to get good performance out of it with the help of the way-ahead-of-time compiler. Really interesting, weird machine. I hear tell bits of the compiler technology still live on.

Good times.
"No One Gives a Fuck About Climate Change" made the front page of Hacker News in June. This inspired a team to created the first Open API for Climate Data. It's a repository of carbon dioxide data as measured on Mauna Loa by NOAA.

The prototype is up and running with data from 1958 - 2017!
http://api.carbondoomsday.com
prototype frontend: http://carbondoomsday.com.

The project is open source on GitHub: https://github.com/giving-a-fuck-about-climate-change

The original blog post that inspired the project: No One Gives a Fuck About Climate Change (http://titojankowski.com/no-one-gives-a-fck-about-climate-ch...)

Would love to get your perspective and feedback! Maybe you want to follow the project on Github?
This is something that Alfred has implemented quite well https://www.alfredapp.com/remote/
What would be interesting about that at all?

Walking around with a hammer looking for ras-pis.
That's not a "think tank". It's a lobby.

The spinoff is at "https://citizensagainstmonopoly.org/".
It's not remotely new.

> A right used to mean something that was passed to you by 'your creator' because of your humanity.

No, words don't work that way. The word has always meant both of those things, some people like to use the word that way, and others have always used it in other ways because get this... words have multiple meanings and always have. There was never a time where what you said is true, you're romanticizing and simplify the past as if back then everyone just agree. Guess what, they didn't.
Aaahh, Betteridge.
I do that by right clicking a video -> open in private window.

Works wonders for click baity videos that you're likely to regret if it affected recomendations.
What are the features that make Prince XML better than headless chrome? Prince XML is not open source or cheap.
The lenticular surface doesn't have to be very thick at all and if you can print directly onto the plastic I think what you describe would be pretty straightforward to make!
It'd also be nice if immutable objects could just be shared instead of copied or transferred instead of the current situation where they are copied and then made mutable.
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> Another questions is how would you define salaries of your employees across various countries

Yes, good point. I'm incorporated in US and the remote workers are Contractors, not Employees (sorry, should've made that clear in my OP). I will be paying these contractors an agreed upon monthly or 1 time fees payable in USD.
> Or instead of iterating 5 times, you take your time and do it right on the 2nd attempt, figuring it out in 1/3 of the time. Hurrying only leads to mistakes.

In an abstract sense this is true, but there are some fields were you do just have to do it again, and again, and again. I know an exceptionally smart biochemist who routinely has 16 hour days. There's no substitute.

In my own field, someone who would later go on to win a Nobel for the work, was working on something that simply required a huge amount of time and iteration to get right. This is often the case.

This is not true in all fields, of course. I just want to caution against extrapolating from experience in one field to all PhDs, which is the sense I get from a lot of comments in this thread.
Especially at the pricing of AMD's parts, it'll cost me $400-500 for a Xeon E5-2420v2 to upgrade the E5-2403v2 in my TD340 to something more reasonable clock-speed and core/thread-wise - not to mention I HAVE to buy two of them to get full access to the PCIe lanes and memory capacity of the thing.

I think instead of upgrading this thing any more I'll just sell it and build a new EPYC system once the parts are available outside of OEM configurations. At $600 the EPYC 7281 is a steal - 16c/32t, a full 128 PCIe lanes plus four memory channels (with 2TB of memory supported) on a single socket.
I wonder if any of these Agile haters ever had the pleasure of working with RUP (Rational Unified Process) and endless UML diagrams.

Agile was a response to that trend, cutting the BS and recommending teams would focus more on software quality and collaboration and less on worthless processes. It was a cultural shift more than anything else, and a very welcome one.

Sure, lots of people tried to "sell Agile" by pushing sticky notes everywhere and replacing "Project Manager" with "Scrum Master", as if these changes alone would solve all their problems. This does not mean that Agile itself was a bad idea, it only means that anything that goes mainstream is bound to be misunderstood and misused by a lot of people.
Careful not to cut yourself on that edge.
EFF already is:
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/09/youtubes-censorship-an...

Obama Administration supported banning criticism of Islam:
https://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/un-adopts-religious-int...
I very much like the artistry of this fella's approach ;)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGJ2jMZ-gaI
Yep - non-shitty masterings are the one legitimate reason for "hi-res" audio. Even if you could downsample it to 16/44 with no perceptible difference.
Unless the subject is a rare individual ( mother Teresa, spirituality ascended personalitie etc), rarely who shelves out resources not hoping to get something in return.

Especially not a corporation in a field heavily regulated to prevent that.
I'd love to see video footage of this tech in action with humans making shoes, 'demo' vids tend to be overly simplistic. Fascinating stuff!
> In fact, the only way workaround for this for a lan-only device that is not internet accessible but still wants security on the intranet is to obtain a certificate for some website https://example.com/ and, after obtaining said certificate, modify its DNS settings so that it points to an internal IP (where a copy of the certificate is installed)

No need to change DNS A/AAAA records, have it point to an internal IP from day one and use ACME's DNS challenge to get the cert. I'll readily admit this doesn't solve the underlying problem though, and you'd presumably end up re-using the same cert on all IoT devices too which isn't ideal (a unique self-signed cert would be much better here!)
> then what is absurd about trying to negotiate the terms of that contract?

Nothing, that's rather the point I'm making, rights are not inherent, they are social agreements and are thus always up for renegotiation. You are agreeing with me.

That's not what the OP is doing, the OP is trying to claim something isn't a right because it doesn't fit his definition of the word, he's pulling a no true Scottsman on a thing saying it's not a right even though society agrees it is.
In what way, precisely, do you see the UN requiring governments to do much of anything, let alone meet this human right?
You and jloveless have been commendably open in this submission. Personally, I think that if you're not destroying someone's limited data then you're meeting what should be expected of you. Demanding that you deliver your content in a certain way is silly IMO.

Say I have a web application that displays a complex rendering of millions of constantly changing points, and for some reason it's very expensive for me to do computing. However it's easy to write some javascript that renders the millions of points on the user's computer. It's absurd to say I'm being unreasonable by streaming more data to the user instead of rendering frames and streaming video. Using my upload speed is annoying, but it's still stupid to pretend that using a website is entirely one-sided. It's like complaining about ad bandwidth.

Abuse is one thing, but this isn't categorically bad. Plus, it's really cool!
No, because the string given to eval will not be stored in the pyc – it has to be compiled on every import.
Genuine question: Aren't locks a quagmire in terms of lock management? Why start there?
This suggestion is very misguided. There is no point in using TLS if you can't authenticate the endpoint. Your encryption is but an illusion at that point.
You have obviously not been bitten by a fire ant.

Their name was not inspired by their red color, but by their burning, venomous bites which leave huge weeping pustules. If you are allergic or sensitive, it is worse.

If you had ever been bitten, you would understand the desire to kill them if you can, any way you can.

(Bonus: According to the article, the floating ant rafts are 165% more venomous than usual. I cannot imagine.)
Which progressives have embraced censorship?
You have a lot more choice in domain registrars than most people do when it comes to choosing an ISP.
It's a genre thing. Lotta dance music these days sounds wrong if it doesn't have the particular distortion of overdoing the hard limiter. Like rock'n'roll without distortion on the guitar.
Clearly this is just "business" [1].

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/oct/28/hobby-lobby-...
I found this while looking for a deeper discussion than "Apple Augmented Reality Human Interface Guidelines" [1].

[1] https://developer.apple.com/ios/human-interface-guidelines/t...
I think sports have always been war games of sorts in that they carve out boundaries of in groups and out groups. People overwhelming support the team that they identify with (geographically determined for the most part) regardless if they win a lot or lose a lot because it is not enough to win, you need to win with identity. To unleash "win at any means" is far too close to war itself which subverts the intention of the game to replace war.
Its an interesting idea. I suppose a rich, socialistically inclined country could undertake such a project, which could set off a chain of dominoes.
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First off correlation != causation.

Secondly that's not the point. If we need to edit multiple genes, genes that are also tied to other traits, that's what's driving the chance of side effect, not the increased intelligence.
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Make the carts NFC and turn Share on when you remove it. You could Tap to swap whatever gif is currently displayed on someone else's cart. That's probably easier than dirt cheap, disposable displays.
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Wouldn't it be if it were the title of a Ph.D. program? I definitely forgot the dots though.
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The price will fall for an average pair of shoes available to people earning at or below the global median income, while quality simultaneously increases. As is always the case throughout the last 200 years of well studied industrial history, this process will open the market up to a lot more customers at lower income tiers to buy for the first time or to buy more. If they could afford one pair of average shoes before, they'll be able to afford two.

Nike will keep its prices high for brand purposes.

Meanwhile, robotic shoe bots churning out 3x the number of shoes in the same amount of time, at half the price per shoe that it used to cost, will be selling to the bottom 2/3 of the planet, not to Nike customers.

Robotic manufacturing will do two big things: relocate some types of manufacturing based on demand instead of labor, and make quality goods far cheaper for countries near or below the global median income wise.
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True, but as a heuristic I it is safe to say that if you'd use integer units to represent a quantity then you should use "fewer" rather than "less". That tends to capture the majority of cases for using "fewer". Admittedly, the discrete but non-integer-valued cases are a bit more nuanced.

(And yes, I do realize that the actual definition is in terms of mass vs. countable nouns.)
In case they fix it quickly, all ey.com paths resolve to: "Error 404: Big Error"
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Fewer is for things that can be counted in numbers. Less is for non-numbered things. It's so easy that it really disturbs me when people get it wrong.

Fewer people. Fewer zoos. Fewer cigarettes. Less hatred. Less abuse. Less misuse of power.
Since you were there, what are some examples of lonely fights that Google fought for consumers, that weren't in their own business interests?
This does actually happen, possibly for several other reasons. Bought ratings often come accompanied by other ratings, whether bought or not, just to attempt to cloak the bot. This even happens in systems where there aren't any countermeasures being taken to remove bots yet - I was vaguely involved in spam detection in one and saw all sorts of cloaking behavior even before we'd turned on any sort of mitigation.
In what way are you locked into maps? Are you using that phrase to mean you're unable to switch or just that you like the product too much to switch?
The Waste produced by this device would be immense.
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> 3) Yes

https://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/un-adopts-religious-int...

How should I trust your words now?
I think that kind of stuff it much more relevant in the land of WebAssembly. It certainly makes sense there, but in normal JS, I doubt the usefulness.
Remote job listings (software, IT, etc.)
Giant spambot scooped up 711M email addresses
Sick of sudoers NOPASSWD? The tool I never knew I needed
Now that I've been using them for a few years now, I can't focus at work without them.
Not really relevant, it's not the revenue that is a problem. It's their massive network effects that are, as the author puts it, platform monopolies.

Walmart, Toyota, Apple, do not have entrenching networks that lead to a monopoly. You can just as easily go to Target, buy a Honda, or get an Android phone
>The idea of a right is that governments must work to secure them for its people.

>If so, how do you propose that privilege be fulfilled in rural communities that currently don't have internet access?

I think a lot of the noise around this issue comes down to not clearly delineating between positive and negative rights:

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=positive+vs.+negative+rights

...in the American tradition, "internet access as a right" means that that others (government, etc.) can't deprive you of whatever internet access you happen to have. Whereas other traditions interpret "internet access as a right" as something that the community needs to provide to individuals.
I run into a lot of anti-hunting folks who don't realize that we've run the deer's natural predators out of our land because those predators would hurt us, too. Creatures like bears, wolves, etc. Without nature doing its thing, deer become a hazard to themselves (overeating), a hazard to us (car/deer accidents), a nuisance (deer eating my garden) and an economic threat (deer eating a farmer's field).

Either we need natural population control like bear and wolves and accept that those predators will also eat our children, or we need human-driven population control. Also known as hunting.
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A UN diplomat who is negotiating laws.

Am I wrong?
Rotten Tomatoes is good and predicting a movie I (or others) like, but not really at "ranking". Zootopia, one of their top movies of 2016 and a 98% rating, is a good movie, but one I'm unlikely to pursue again. The Godfather (with a 99%) rating, is a movie I will pick up on Blu Ray and revisit many times. It's far more than 1% better than Zootopia.

So RT is good at predicting "should I watch this movie I haven't watched before", but bad at predicting more sophisticated habits or preferences. I wouldn't buy the Blu Ray off a RT prediction, but I would rent.

So it becomes a question of what are you trying to accomplish? For some issues up/down is a good way to solve a problem, for others it isn't.
Ask HN: Has anyone done a 'fundamental value' analysis of Filecoin tokens?
e.g. based on what a token gets you, and the current price of storage on S3, what we could estimate a range for the long term value of a token at?
Regarding Bill Nye, this makes me sad. He really was instrumental in making science fun and exciting when I was young. In his post TV life he's become just another political idealogue. Even doing as far as censuring[1] his own TV show when the science contradicts his social justice message.

Now it seems he's coming to normal people with an ax to grind. It's hard to see him not profiting from this endeavor.

1. https://thefederalist.com/2017/05/02/bill-nye-censor-transge...
Example: me

I pride myself with being able to change my mind even on topics that I have been sure about since I was a kid. (Example: laws against drugs, -based on thoughful opinions by people here and possibly elsewhere I now think we would be better of if certain drugs were decriminalized.)

On certain topics however like AGW or not there is still just a shouting match: flagging, downvoting, accusations ("sceptism is just another word for denier", "anyone who disagree is a paid shill", "questions are never real, it is the YAQ tactic")

Luckily I've met some more reasonable folks at work that kindly answered my questions about data -with data- instead of flaming me.

You see, people like me want data like metric tons of CO2 by source

- not data about how many scientists have agreed.
These are different times.
Well, as others have pointed out, it's not hard to read "think tank" as "pr firm".

Sure, but it raises the question why there's a separate "think tank" term, even more why think tanks refer to themselves as such.
Sorry, I got confused by the article. Anyway, should we compare by price or compare best Intel chip to best AMD chip? Because EPYC processors are priced closer to Xeon-W line, but have the number of cores topping Xeon Platinum :)
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I mean, they also were able to cheaply increase core count by not stuffing an iGPU into the chip. Outside of HEDT CPU's on the Intel side you have no choice on whether you get HD/Iris/Iris Pro graphics, even if you're going to put a gaming GPU in the system anyway. Meanwhile, the mainstream AM4 platform is based around the assumption you'll be sticking a GPU in already so space on the CPU die is better used for more cores.
Any idea if Glacier cheaper than Amazon Cloud Drive? I'd started using Cloud Drive when their storage was unlimited, but I'm revisiting that decision since they've added storage tiers.
As someone who writes a lot of concurrent and parallel code, I can tell you it's easier to do it if the language is not imposing artificial constraints.

Also, most kinds of concurrency models will probably require the underlying VM to support some kind of shared memory. That's what this post is about.
"Freedom of the press" doesn't mean you don't have to pay for printing presses
Freedom of speech is, as you can read in the link I provided, one of several rights, not the only right.
That a concept of natural rights exist does not mean that natural rights exist. A concept of leprechauns exists too, does that mean leprechauns exist?
> What's the point of using HTTPS on a local network?

The same reason you use HTTPS for anything else. If I can get on your WiFi network and you're using HTTP to access local servers (say your NAS) I can inject resources or capture your traffic.

> If you want to expose an IoT device to the internet (assuming you can deal with the NAT barrier), why not use a domain name like for any other server?

Many people do this, but it requires that your router supports hairpinning/NAT loopback and also that you know the option is there... many consumers and their routers do not.
An api-driven, in-kernel layer 2/3 load balancer
I think it would be weird if objects were thread-restricted by default. Concurrency is most fun when it's easy for a thread to access an object it wants.
This is so cool! The assembly GIFs really show how much work went into this. Thanks for sharing.
That can happen from anywhere. It's more likely to happen when you have people walking in off the street and filling out ballots.
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