skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I argue going one step further, even at the loss of some theoretical efficiency.

Split layer 1 from layer 3. I want a fiber pair from my house to the central office, where I can then patch to any provider who decided to pay the cost-recovery based co-location connection fee. Basically I should be able to tell this wireline provider to plug my patch cord into service provider X and they do it within a reasonable timeframe. I pay this provider for the wire itself.

I then get provider #2 and subscribe to their IP services. Hopefully there would be enough competition (e.g. dozens) here to not have to regulate further.

Yes, this does create a middle man agency and relatively inefficient physical infrastructure (e.g. I'd be pretty anti-GPON or similar tech for this use for a variety of reasons) so in theory prices would be more. However I think if you could get back to an environment where ISPs can compete on a wide variety of merits like in the late 90's dialup ISP days you would see overall price decreases.

It would also allow for the creation of "boutique" local ISPs that can cater to certain crowds. The highly technical crowd who is happy to pay more for a clear channel ping and pipe and no other BS will be able to find a home, just like grandma who needs a cheap nicely filtered/secured internet to check her e-mail and use facetime. Basically allow for a bunch of sonic.net style ISPs to compete in most markets.

Anything short of this I think just devolves into both stagnation and rent-seeking. Even municipal provided broadband would be subject to this - many networks will likely be built out and then left to languish long-term if there is no competitive pressure.
Or we use electricity to make gas, and then burn the gas.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power-to-gas
it's hyper tiny: 502 subscriber (#502 speaking).

I like tiny channels like these. Just need a good sound and stable video and content.

GreatScott, AvE, JeruGarcia lots are simple but they give a lot. Also there's guy like Robert Murray Smith but 1) he toys with you to make you search a lot 2) the framing is too wide and sound not smooth enough. Anyway.
I'd be inclined to agree with Adam Michela when he says design systems restrain creativity. It is the industrialization of user interfaces.
Hmmmm. Solar piping that gently draws water out over long distances?
If sell a laptop bundled with pornography/livecam software and market it as a "sexual entertainment system" would any hack of that system also be elevated to the level of sex crime? Even if all the attacker saw before launching the attack was the ip address?
I can't tell if you're being passive aggressive or not.

Many, many people have pointed out that looking directly at the phone (as needed by Face ID), is NOT the only way to use a phone. Sometimes one just wants to glance down at the screen to see a notification. Watch Nilay's review and you'll see what I mean.
With how buggy iOS 11 is/was, it really does show where their focus has been.
Not that I don't believe you, but could you explain why and educate the rest of us?
I don't think that L-shaped battery can be made.

Imagine a list of paper which you need to fold into compact form. It would be really hard to fold it into "L".

Batteries made of long sheets folded then into rectangle

http://images.indianexpress.com/2017/01/galaxynote7_info_1.j...
Also, I had the impression that a blockchain is a specific type of data structure.

So, what you are describing seems like a way to accomplish behavior of this kind of data structure with a different one so you may get bettee scaling out of it.
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Steve Jobs - "People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware."
That has a different risk profile entirely.

I could always resell the video cards I bought at near cost. Buying speculative coins is another matter entirely. Further, I'm not mining ETH - if I took your advice on the coin I am mining I would have a net LOSS not gain. You should take another look at the economics of mining, I think you have a few aspects misunderstood.
Have we been reckless?

We've never had a serious accident. So maybe it's not luck, maybe there are a lot of controls that actually work well.
Having helped shepherd municipal broadband initiatives along, I'm sorry to say that your requirements are a hill too far for almost all consumers. They don't care about the level of provider selection you want, they simply want The Internet (Netflix, Youtube, Google Gmail, et al) at the lowest possible cost (and reliable to boot).

> many networks will likely be built out and then left to languish long-term if there is no competitive pressure.

Municipal broadband is accountable to its local citizens or stakeholders, depending on the model used to develop it (government owned or non-profit owned). If it languishes, it will only do so because its citizens or users allow it to.

EDIT: If you're in an area where there are only large corporate internet providers, please take up the cause for municipal or co-op broadband!

https://muninetworks.org/
You reallllly don't want to store H2 gas.

On second thought, you realllllllllllly dont want to store H2 gas.

Having worked some in welding (I considered doing it instead of programming for a while), the problems with H2 are numerous. Firstly, it seeps out of any container you put it in. And I do mean any. Hell, even glass ampules in the chemistry have a hard time sealing H2.

Another major issue, is that H2 does "fucky" things with metal. Ever heard of hydrogen embrittlement? (1) You have cracks in your metal. Well, hydrogen, being as tiny as it is, also can bond with the metal. Gets in there, makes cracks bigger. Creates weird metal acids (H2FeCO4) and they attack more metal.

And if you're storing H2 gas in a regular container, you just made a time detonating fuse, and.... you don't know the time.

But yeah, H2 gas creation may be easy, but storage is super hard and really dangerous. And unless you can get H2 in liquid form, it's pretty low power density compared to things like octane.

(1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen_embrittlement
plot twist: in 200 years, the most advanced humans will just be nomads in nature. The difference is that with proper understanding in and out (as opposed to "out" folk knowledge) they don't feel the need to rush for tech and "modern comfort"
Software bugs can be fixed with iterations but hardware....nope. Not without a recall
True. I suppose my point is that I belive that a _physical_ artifact is the only chance at this working. What if the culture that discovers it is in a "dark age" and doesn't even have the electricity to power these supposed future proof digital archives.
I never unlock my phone by picking it up, holding it in front of my face, looking at it, and then putting my thumb on the sensor.

I pick it up off my desk with my thumb on the home button and it's unlocked long before I start using the phone.

I also frequently use my phone laying flat on the desk, reaching over and just pressing the home button.
I am often of the impression that it is ok to start with many dependencies to get an application into an experimental state quickly, but ultimately this is extremely immature. As the application becomes polished over time and as there are refinements to increase performance, reduce complexity, and trim some fat many of the dependencies will go away. The reason why many dependencies peel off a maturing application is that as the programmers become more involved and aware of their knowledge domain they have to ask themselves if they can simply "do it better and faster on their own", which is likely.

Unfortunately many applications, or their programmers, never reach maturity. Also there is greater security and dependability in managing certain critical functionality more directly instead of relying upon support from a third party that may not exist with the same level of compatibility in the future.
It was still sad and bit unnecessary though. Stalin wasn't really known for his ethics.
Sure, I meant “relatively easily reproducible in portable C code”.

I may be wrong, but it’s my understanding that even given the precise rounding modes, fusing etc, the results could still differ as implementations are allowed to use varying extended precision internally (and do).

For example, as far as I know it’s difficult to guarantee identical FPU results on x86 and ARM.

[Edit to add: I guess I'm complaining about the popular implementations rather than the IEEE spec itself, but for ordinary users like me it amounts to the same thing. Overall IEEE 754 is wonderful, so it's exciting to see a proposal for something even better!]
This brings a whole new meaning to the phrase "penetration testing".
My guesses:

- Cheaper to produce / higher yields than an L shape?

- LiIon batteries have a power density <-> energy density tradeoff. Perhaps the batteries have different chemistries so as to get the best of both worlds.
In the long run, dependencies are more expensive to work with, though
programmers usually don't see it nor admit it, as language package managers
hide the initial portion of the cost (the smaller one, but much better visible).
SpaceX is going to crush both of them.
Yes, we're on the same page. It's great that you're supporting organizations and people with this.

>deciding to pivot my personal career into public advocacy or civil service

There have been worse ideas. It's worth fighting. :)

Organizations will engage in behavior if the expected risk-adjusted payoff is sufficiently large, from eroding privacy to cheating emissions tests. Unless we can change that equation we should expect to lose in the long run. This behavior is emergent, based on laws of power and organizational structure.

Organizations stand to win far more than lose, and a victory for us does not provide the same millions of dollars. They get stronger as we get weaker, and they use that strength to win people over to their position.
> CLIs predate GUIs

I'd consider the front panel of physical buttons, switches, knobs and dials of early, pre-teletype computers to be much more like a GUI than a CLI. We circled back around to buttons and sliders, with state display laid out in 2D in ways our brains enjoy.
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I get that (although probably locale-dependent: biz people in my corner of the world rarely perceive each others as "borgs" and frankly also have little reason to =) but my musing here was more towards the inevitable pendulum swing that turns the whole "hipsters-with-dogs" aesthetic is turning into tomorrow's "lame sterile" (ie 2nd-hand, motion-performing) "borgs". =)
That's true, are the pillow-perf benchmarks parallelised at all?
Who thinks Apple is a software company? Because they're wrong. Apple started off making hardware and they've always made hardware. They make software to compliment their hardware.
hmm.. Airbnb for bitcoin miners as space heaters?
Multiple differences between Samsung and Apple:

1. Samsung was a semiconductor maker, that successfully moved up to make phones. Apple was a integrator of third party chips that successfully went down to own many of the chips.

2. Apple's chips are significantly better than the competition. Partly because the chip division has a captive customer whose requirements are more apparent, plus no middlemen thanks to the vertical integration

3. Samsung's components need to serve multiple segments of the phone market, and other external customers. Apple only builds for Apple's specs

4. Every new breakthrough on the iPhone has been because of a chip that Apple alone had. From the very first iPhone's capacitive touch sensors to the new IR sensor system, no one else has the access for a couple phone cycles. Apple put out a 64 bit ARM processor even before arm had finalized the instruction set
> That is what happens when you present weak evidence.

In a perfectly rational world you would be right. That's not where we live though, is it.
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But they serve the same purpose, even if their implementations are entirely different.

So it makes sense to provide an initial explanation of one in terms of the other, in special for people who already have some mental model of what virtual machines do.
I would view the comfortable lives of humans in the developed world as a very peculiar circumstance, not as something which will persist as the norm. Life expands to consume all available resources. Humans are part of the lineage that we call life. That we are poorly adapted to modern life is just a temporary state of affairs. Though many people are opting out of large families, not all are. And the people who aren't are the future of the species.
This is an engineering masterpiece. The electrical engineer in me is mind-blown. I love the inter-PCB BGA-style interface. Standoff, connector and shield all in one component. And the component density is stunning.

Clean internal layout, relatively serviceable, structured light 3D scanning built in. You can debate whether or not Apple have made good UI decisions, but the hardware design execution here is superb.
Maybe this is a special case, but many people get frustrated with the rules for organ transplants. For example some lists forbid people over 80, those with morbid obesity, or those on long term medications from receiving transplants.

There's a few arguments here, does it makes more sense to have organs go to the highest bidder, have a list of restrictions with prioritized recipients, or just accept everyone in on chronological and have them hope for the best?
A perfect example of several congruent technologies being combined in novel ways to create something that opens up entirely new ways of working. Design systems + ML computer vision. Incredible.
>Only difference when comparing against LineageOS is that the OpenGApps package is "free".

Rather GApps (google) functionality is re-implemented from scratch and the necessary means (app signature spoofing) to replace GApps with microG is built into this LOS fork
My hat off to you. I read your critical analysis of my joke and for a few minutes thought you were serious.
Yes, I was being facetious.

However, some are arguing that this view is incorrect - there's a paper linked on the wikipedia page.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_weapons_and_Ukraine#De...
The seven of clubs actually vaguely frightened me. What an appetite.
There's an interesting article from the folks at Wired who have been attempting to fool Face ID without any success so far.

https://www.wired.com/story/tried-to-beat-face-id-and-failed...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Carmack
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“Some” is not ”often”. If there are any illusions that affect all humans, then by definition we cannot give them as examples because nobody realises they exist.

Yes, it is possible for people to know lottery odds and still play for the excitement. This does not invalidate the claim that many play the lottery with the expectation of winning, nor that people choose numbers superstitiously.
I like how this is stuff I "should know." Like something dire might happen if I don't know up front that I'm entering into a collaboration with people who prefer certain pets and food!

Although hold on, it dawns on me that they might be trying to say these are things in the actual workplace, i.e. it's loud and distracting and smells like burrito farts and (most likely unwashed) dogs. If that's the case, I actually do appreciate knowing up front. But even here they're being super vague. "I like dogs" is different from "I bring my dog to work." Is it the one or the other? Even if I wanted to bring my own dog to work, I still have no idea if that's okay. Don't make people guess!
You look at the phone to unlock it; notifications still display when the phone is locked. I believe waking up the phone just involves raising it a bit (like in the Watch), along with some light-sensor heuristic (like in the AirPods.) Or, y’know, pressing the sleep button.
Well, chess is eastern too (originated in India)
Actually, heat pump water heaters are a thing. They are also called "hybrid" water heaters.

They cost more money, but Consumer Reports says "payback time is short" (see https://www.consumerreports.org/cro/water-heaters/buying-gui... ).

They probably don't make as much sense in cold climates, but where I live, air conditioning in the summer (and spring and fall) dwarfs the energy usage from heating in the winter. So a device that makes it colder on average indoors would be a net win even if it didn't have the function of heating your water.
I am not a fan of Comcast, but I'm not switching my hard-wired Internet for satellite Internet which is high-latency and subject to weather conditions.
There's a ridiculous amount of consolidation going on the semiconductor industry these days.

Freescale (formerly Motorola) was purchased by NXP (formerly Phillips) in 2015. Qualcomm is in the process of buying NXP, although apparently there's been some difficulty getting it past the European regulators. Now it sounds like Qualcomm is going to get swallowed up by Broadcom. That's going to be a huge company.

Last year, Microchip bought Atmel, ADI bought Linear Tech, ON Semiconductor bought Fairchild, and Renesas bought Intersil. The year before, Intel bought Altera.

Any bets on the last two semiconductor conglomerates standing? I'm thinking Intel vs. Samsung. I hope whoever swallows up ON Semiconductor rebrands to the Fairchild name - there's almost something poetic about a reverse-Fairchildren split.

EDIT: I should also point out that "Broadcom" isn't really Broadcom anymore - Avago Technologies purchased Broadcom last year and took on the Broadcom name for itself. Avago was previously the semiconductor division of Agilent which in turn was a spinoff of Hewlett-Packard. Avago traces its lineage back to the semiconductor division of HP which was formed way back in 1961.
What about Intel? I thought Intel has its own wifi M.2 cards.
Here's a long but interesting read:

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/09/18/the-risk-of-nu...

The answer you are referring to is explicitly mentioned.
This is really incredible.

I've always loved the idea of "box and arrow" programming for flows, but in practice the interface was always too cumbersome -- typing was faster.

But coming up with a design language that a human can sketch and a machine can interpret really breathes new life into that idea.

Love it!
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If people are willing to pay a premium for the convenience of buying the stuff from Amazon instead of driving their ass to wallmart and looking for sales themselves, then there is definitely value being added.
How about burning it as it is produced?
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It will also allow people to quickly create projects for the unclaimed names.
Neither are particularly friendly, just Qualcomm acquired an open wifi business and only slowly bled it into a proprietary firmware driver.

Qualcomm is largely responsible for how proprietary and draconian most mobile phones are, though.
That sounds pleasant
I actually did stop reading it because it is an unpleasent experience. It is not refusal, it is simply skipping piece #15423 in every day's continuous stream of media.

Look at my screenshot. There is so much distractive disorder and tightening in layout with focus on medium's stupid aggressive buttons that the content suffers.
I absolutely agree about the benefits of reification.

In addition to creative authoring tools such as Photoshop which others have mentioned, I want to praise Microsoft's SSMS (SQL Server Management Studio). Some years ago, I had spent some time DBA'ing MS SQL Server and really enjoyed that tool. It's an extremely discoverable GUI for managing this very complex DBMS, and before every operation you perform through one of its wizards it would show you the T-SQL command it generated to perform that action, so you could review and/or script it.

I wish more sysadmin tools were like that.
> My colleague argues that it's ok for Time Warner Spectrum/Comcast to control specific areas and districts because they laid the pipe and own the last mile (when they've decided to).

They've been paid, multiple times, by varying levels of government, large subsidies with the specific mandate to improve service, increase maintenance, and so on.

And multiple times they've accepted this money and done literally nothing with it.

To the extent that Charter (I think?) was recently spanked by NY for selling packages of 50mbps, 100mbps and above... while supplying modems that were physically incapable of more than ~20mbps.
Louis CK - everything is amazing... but no one is happy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUBtKNzoKZ
That was Alan Kay

Edit:
Adding source

https://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&stor...
> one of the parties in the US lost the elections and decided to blame Putin for that.

Russian involvement was widely reported and under investigation before voting began; it was not a post hoc rationalization for election defeat (in fact, the election defeat has, AFAICT, been blamed more frequently on Comey’s interference than Putin’s; the Russian intervention and apparent active collaboration has gotten more attention because it's viewed as more serious of an set of action s, not because the losing party painted it as decisive.)
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I am actually not a huge fan of organ transplants. I have fairly strong, incredibly unpopular views of them. I have a condition that accounts for a very high percentage of lung transplants. I have been getting myself well when the world says it cannot be done, while people dismiss me and call me crazy. I am a former homemaker.

In a nutshell, I feel that organ transplants are not about the welfare of the patient. They are about doctors and scientists doing things that are cool and look heroic.

If a pathetically poor divorced single mom with special needs kids can get healthier while homeless for nearly six years, surely this is not that hard a problem to solve. People just don't want real solutions. They want expensive as hell drugs (the news-making drug for my condition costs $300k annually for an incurable condition and it only works for about 5% of the patients) and they want heroic surgeries that inflate the egos of the medical profession. They do not actually give a damn about actual health.

I seriously wish I had died instead of getting healthier. No one will listen to me. No one respects me or takes me seriously. I'm just a woman and poor, so I couldn't possibly have a clue what I am talking about.

My life remains in the toilet and I can't figure out how to help people completely for free who desperately need help. What is the point here?

But you go debate who is "deserving" of Frankensteinian surgeries and who is not in your dystopian upper class world with someone other than me. It's not really the conversation I want to have. My time would be better spent trying to make a few bucks in hopes of squeaking by again this month.

(Edited to remove gratuitous swearing. I am prone to using the F word like other people use "very".)
If I had to guess I would have said CNC equipment in an oil bath...
"They laid the pipe"

With how much in original federal subsidies? How much in annual federal subsidies? How much is the protection of monopoly provider in certain areas worth?

They (Comcast) aren't running their business with ONLY their dollars.
But these devices always exist as one part of a wider technical and human system. It seems unwise to separate the two when safety could be comprised by a failure in any part of the system.
> That must be because your studies have glaring methodology defects...

How delightful it would be to live in such a simple world.

Here's a study for you:

Handley, Browna, Moss-Racusinc, and Smith (2015) found that men are more likely to judge evidence of gender biases as low quality, and that effect is particularly pronounced in STEM fields