skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Has any city / company tried to build such a network since docsis 3.1 became available? Google seems to have basically given up. This will likely be a disaster for any city that tries, Comcast will just undercut them with higher speeds than any consumer will notice a difference. And taxpayers will be left with a huge bill.
I don't think "reprehensible" applies here. We keep running old computers and old cars and we replace them as the old ones wear out. Bitcoin's ubiquity will be hard to unseat but all you can do is try to convince individual wallet-holders and merchants to use [the new more efficient coin].

Other coins have been proposed that either reduce the amount of computation (PPC) or increase the utility of the calculations (XPM). Note that those have existed for a long time and don't require an ICO. Using storage space as a (hopefully?) less energy-intensive contest to replace PoW is interesting although I suspect that Chia isn't truly novel here either.
Did you ever complain on the list, or look into why it was removed?

I'd be really curious why it was removed myself.
Why Bitcoin Price Soar to $7,900 All Time High
Was addressing the suggestion that "takeaway pizza <city name>" would provide less than optimal results under certain circumstances described in other comments in this part of the thread. For example If I lived in Omaha Nebraska on the north side of Harrison street which also is the dividing line between Omaha and Papillion a search on "takeaway pizza Omaha" might fail to include the pizza place I can see across the street in Papillion.

Personally, I would do the search on maps and not include either the city name or "near me", but the discussion was about the regular text search and I was suggesting an alternate phrasing.
"But this requirement does not apply if neither you nor any third party retains the ability to install modified object code on the User Product (for example, the work has been installed in ROM)."

In our hypothetical (and I suspect in reality), the code doing scary/concerning things sits in userspace on top of MINIX, so they'd just have to constrain their updates to that system.
A similar participation ratio has been observed across many online social community and not just Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1%25_rule_(Internet_culture)
What's wrong with how DMV is run?

My state's DMV has essentially moved to a mostly online system where you pay online and get documents mailed to you. I think the only reason to ever show up at the DMV is to take or re-take your driving test.

All the renewals are done online. I haven't been to the DMV in almost a decade.
That assumes there are enough people who care about quality of service over price to make a private alternative tenable. There is a reason why there is no private competition to municipal bus systems, even really terrible ones.
Segwit2x has been cancelled.
If Apple created unique printer driver modifications via proprietary patches on top of CUPS, they wouldn't be required to give them to their customers (nor competitors).
> flagrant use of power that doesn't necessarily compute anything.

I don't get it. Why won't you complain about monitor pixels, that don't display content using/wasting power or various unused/reserved bits transmitted every second (https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-abhi-covert-00) that also waste power. Proof of work uses energy to meet some strict guarantees.

This reminds me of complaining that SSL is computationally expensive and therefore plain HTTP is better. 10 years ago of course.
> So where's the research of how expensive nodes are and how many nodes would be lost if an upgrade to 2MB would happen? How big of a loss would be acceptable? Ideally how many nodes should exist in the network for it to be sufficiently decentralized? How much bandwidth is needed? How long can we expect our storage to last?

> There is no credible research done

That's precisely my point. Contributors have shown that full nodes are necessary to preserve the security of the network (see the links I posted), but the proposal of S2X was executed without ever engaging on a discussion to answer the very questions you are asking now.

They are good questions, and we should discuss them and we should answer them. But Jeff Garzik and the 5 other CEOs did not attempt to do this research and instead steamrolled ahead with btc1/s2x.
That's a distinction I haven't thought much about because I'm not sure I've contemplated the pure definitions. Without knowing how you mean these words, I would say starting from first principles, we optimize for liberty (at least in the US, YMMV). Then we consider factionalism, and it's usual cause: inequality (or it's mis-perception).
Apple hired the guy with the (c) on most all of it and with it he gave them control to do things like this. He is an Apple employee and he developed most of it, therefor Apple developed CUPS. A bit odd yes, but not a lie per-se.
Oh wow! Impressive
Apple owns the copyright for CUPS.

Apple employs the original developer of CUPS, which is Michael Sweet.

Apple employees (Michael Sweet) made 150 commits in the last year and a half. The next contributor has 7. He has 50k+ additions/deletions. The next contributor has 8k.

It's safe to say that Apple develops CUPS.

edit:

Michael Sweet himself in this announcement also uses the terms "Apple is excited to announce" and "we"[0]

[0] - https://lists.cups.org/pipermail/cups-devel/2017-November/01...
After doing some googling I found an article [1] that provides a somewhat more nuanced view. While it is true that around 70% of the edits each month are generated from the top 1% of users, this is only true for the top 1% of that month. When you look over a longer period the majority of edits come from users with less than 100 edits in total (which seems to be around 90% of the population).

[1]: http://asc-parc.blogspot.nl/2007/05/long-tail-and-power-law-...
The only way I can see the title ending up like this ("Apple Will No Longer Be Developing CUPS Under the GPL") is someone with a bone to pick about GPL vs Apache chose it. The title of the blog post (which should probably be the primary link, at https://www.cups.org/blog/2017-11-07-cups-license-change.htm...) is "CUPS License Change Coming". The relevant message is that CUPS is moving to Apache 2.
"But remember that this thing came out in 2011, and since then it has been replaced by the $100 Harmony Hub. The Hub, which has the same features plus new ones focused on the smart home, is what Logitech is offering to Link owners as consolation. Anyone with a Link that’s still under warranty can upgrade to the Hub for free. If your Link is outside that one-year manufacturer’s warranty, you can get 35 percent off when buying a Hub from Logitech’s store."

So Logitech is going to scrap an ancient piece of hardware that relies on expensive cloud infrastructure and they are willing to give people a newer version that does all of the same things (and more) for free, and people are complaining?

If you don't want companies to do this with cloud based hardware, you will have to be prepared to pay subscription fees to cover ongoing cloud infrastructure costs. The profits from the sale of the device don't stretch to infinity. It's just basic economics.

The other option (if you don't want cloud based infrastructure) is that you could run your own home server, but then you are going to have to worry about 24/7 connectivity, SSL, firewalls, mobile push nightmares, and all that.
Hi, author here. Happy to answer any questions on how to set up a repeatable deep learning environment on AWS and run a feedforward neural network on real Vermont/New Hampshire real estate data to predict closing prices! -Sam
No need for heavy stats here, but let's look at popular opinion of the DMV. If there is broad variance in the amount of time it takes to tackle simple issues (such as paying a fine), then I'd suggest someone look at the process, the operations, or both. A "human behavior be damned" perspective isn't going to help anyone.
Apple bought the source code and hired the creator of CUPS a decade ago. I'm sure he's aware of what the website says.
>>Big Macs are shit salty food that doesn’t make you full and spikes your glycemic load so you’re hungry again in 30 minutes.

Even if you eat 1000 calories of pure sugar, there is no way in hell you will be hungry again in 30 minutes.
Why would you want a city run ISP?
Wow, look at that steady and consistent base load generation by nuclear!
> Segwit activation in August was a blocksize increase, and a much more elegant solution than just doubling the blocks

Segwit is a technical failure as it was implemented in a soft fork as a hack. It's scaling is inefficient. Did you see the capacity increase when it got activated? It was abysmal.

https://medium.com/the-publius-letters/segregated-witness-a-...

It also decreases the security of the network:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VoFb3mcxluY

> Had this been a success it would have signaled the transfer of control of Bitcoin from the many developers and contributors to corporate banking and wall street interests. it would have been the end of decentralized crypto network open to many and the start of a corporate controlled network open to only a few.

Now who's pushing conspiracy theories?
Bitcoin doesn't replace credit card transactions or system. You have to judge it by it's actual value, not what it pretends to want to be
Please don't summon the Rust Evangelism Strike Force
This is wrong with Python 3 as well in real world use.
This will teach them the consequences of buying Logitech products when they might depend on an online component outside the owner's control. With luck, it will merely teach them the consequences of buying Logitech.
This is why it’s tragic to have the primary public gathering spaces be privately owned and controlled with little insight or accountability from the public, only accessible by car and therefore cut off from the rest of the community by an ocean of parking lots and wide pedestrian-unfriendly streets.

The mall only cares about ROI, and providing a nice space for someone to sit and read a book, play hide and seek, host a club meeting, or stage a free play has little obvious monetary value.

Whatever amenities are provided will be carefully balanced against direct extra spending they bring in, instead of abstract civic improvement.
Good point. Also, failure of the product in the US doesn't necessarily preclude it from being successful in China or other Asian markets where the cultural norms around wearables might be different.
1. Reddit. Seriously. Pictures of cats get upvoted way beyond their "technical merit".

2. A pair of shoes with storage sounds like a great idea. I believe she described how hard it is for women to find storage space when they dress up. Men's clothing have pockets everywhere, but women's clothing often don't. I don't think it's easy to find shoes with storage.

3. What's wrong with her wearing a small dress? Feminism means women can wear whatever they want. She goes into this issue in depth on her blog. She makes a fair point that the response to it is social/cultural. In China, she doesn't get the same sexually-related responses. Puritanism doesn't quite run the same over there.

4. Her perspective on the maker movement is fair and diverse. White, balding middle-aged males aren't going to have the same problems or concerns as an attractive, young asian female. What's wrong with bringing her perspective into the milieu?
the toplevel links (implementation / deployment / configuration) don't work for me, they go to say

/keratin/authn-server/docs/config.md

which is a 404 presumably instead of

/keratin/authn-server/blob/master/docs/config.md
> Young people and groups of friends don't go to the mall on their own.

They don't go at all. Because most malls nowadays (in my area, anyway) have rules saying they have to be chaperoned by an adult.
This is like the econ 101 assumptions. The public safety net is not designed for real people.

If she could declare bankruptcy, don't you think she would have? She's 80, she has heard of the concept.

The vehicle is her only shelter. Have you ever tried to pay rent with bad credit and no employment history? Not to mention, please show me a single place in all of the united states where rent is $268 per month and isn't a crack motel.
The Boulder vote was to override the ban, but the Fort Collins vote was to allow the city to grab $150M in bonds for fiber deployment. FoCo already voted to override the ban a few years ago.
It's effective enough to drive the entire marketing campaigns of multimillion-dollar businesses :)
But what're the core tech products SoftBank produces?
How long until there are so many competing brands that an umbrella app is developed to interface with all of them? It seems the inevitable nature of startup market.
DirecTV and Turner Broadcasting don't compete with each other. Making them sell one or the other makes no sense from a monopoly busting/prevention standpoint. If it was a choice between two content creation groups it would make sense.

AT&T has already invested heavily in integrating the DirecTV, DirecTV Now and U-verse TV services. AT&T has made clear that these services are key strategic assets going forward. The DoJ knows this, so it is reasonable to conclude that their goal is to force the sale of Turner Broadcasting. The question becomes why would they want to force this sale. Given Trump's statements it is more than reasonable to conclude that it is to change the ownership of CNN.
This is a well written comment which presents the other side of the inequality with sympathy and humanity. It's a shame that it's being downvoted into obscurity and it's painfully appropriate given how the prevailing mood in the real world seems to be "poor people deserve to be poor". We like to see ourselves as different in the tech community but it seems we're quite more than happy to throw our lot in with the rich and powerful in this regard.
I think it would be the only solution, because it will always be easier to manipulate your benefits than earnings.

Although we could imagine something more complex: pay taxes on (revenue - expenses to compagnies that also pay taxes).

So now if you buy a product $100 to a company paying 25% taxes and sell it $110, you pay taxes on the $10, but if you buy your product to a company in some island, you pay taxes on the $110.

Smarter: if you buy to a company that pays a 20% tax while in your country you should pay a 30% tax, then you pay taxes on ($110 - $100*(30%-20%) = $20).

Everything get more complex but it's just a bit more CPU time.
> a rich but unequal society - it's much more peaceful.

That's not true. Violence is caused by inequality. Areas where everyone's equally poor are about as peaceful as areas where everyone's equally rich. It's dramatic inequality that causes violence. This is true no matter whether you look at neighborhood level, city level, national level etc.
Yep agreed. It also may be possible that the nature of lower paying jobs makes it far more difficult to work extra hours.

As "knowledge" workers if you were treated like minimum wage employees how many hours do you actually work?

5 or 6 is usually the answer given on HN.

Source: Until early teenage years grew up poor. Still fighting the specter of
homelessness now.
Weizenbaum examines computers and society (1985)
A quick google immediately shows pages like this one [] which frets about sexism without including the words "stack" or "ranking." It has the usual citing of questionable concepts like implicit bias, or the Bloomberg article's "unconscious bias."

What I would like to know is, suppose you need to make a system in a large organization in an attempt to lay off your 10% worst employees. It's pretty reasonable to expect sexist rankings, even made by non-sexists, and to also expect beliefs by individuals, wrongly held, that their personal low rank was the result of sexism. How do you determine whether an organization's ranking system is sexist, in which direction, and by how much?

[] https://blog.impraise.com/360-feedback/how-performance-revie...

Edit: By non-sexists, I mean, like, non-garbage people.
> The last Ethereum hard fork showed how dangerous it is.

The last hard fork was on Oct 15, 2017. It did not split the chain, it went smoothly and added great new features. Ethereum has had many hard forks. Only the DAO one was controversial. Using hard forks to upgrade the network is smooth and works great.
I'm trying to understand...

"The three best proofs of space rapidly the propagated through the whole network and proofs of time servers start working on top of them."

Should that read, "The three best proofs of space rapidly propagate through..."?
it has indeed been quite successful: http://beta.speedtest.net/result/6777148187

it's like that all the time now. Never been down for longer than 15 minutes and I've never been on hold trying to get assistance. All that for $50/mo :)
Oh wow thanks, this whole time I thought that incident occurred in South Beach. Makes sense. I'm sad I'll never get to experience the "old Atlanta". I usually hear people describe it as pre and post Freaknik though.
Don't forget the Model Y. (Basically a crossover version of the Model 3. )

Ref: https://electrek.co/guides/tesla-model-y/
Yeah, I guess I should've added 'So if it takes 3 mins to compile your code .. in the C# compiler'

But either way, I'm glad you enjoyed it.

> As someone who used to spend a lot of time in C++ and LTCG I got a good laugh out of this(aside from the crashing part, ICE are always a bad thing). Our release link was ~40 minutes on each change.

A long time ago I did some C++, so I know it can take longer, although I don't think I ever worked on something with 40 min build times!
Safety Implications of Serialization Timing in Autonomous Vehicles [pdf]
> Now the million dollar question, will anyone investigate _China's_ involvement in influencing the election?

If at all, China would have helped Clinton. An isolationist like Trump is not good for China which depends on exports to the US and other western countries to fuel its growth, which China needs in turn to prevent social unrest caused by poverty.

No one will waste resources in tracking down who helped the loser of the election.
Why not normalize the rankings? It seems that at volume, that sexism should be the only remaining factor when looking at overall averages. Unless you really believe that "women are worse drivers". Normalize them to the average for each sex.
You asked a simple, straightforward question with an easily obtainable answer, which I provided. I'm not interested in the new tangent you're trying to start here, sorry.
Pretty sure that alcohol and gambling are fairly global vices...
Don't forget that the people who work at the DMV are the public, and they aren't perfect. I've had so many different sets of requirements explained to me by different people, counter clerks who wouldn't accept paperwork that was just examined by the line-keeper/ticket-giver, situations where one clerk tried to turn me away where their neighbor said "What's the problem? Here, gimme that..." and 5 minutes later everything is taken care of.
Basically it seems like this girl is attractive and reasonably competent, and is using her sexiness to entice viewers to watch her maker videos.

Then you have competent people who arnt sexy thinking - hey that's not fair, she is using an asset I don't have to gain viewership. So they feel compelled to point out the obvious.

I feel like this is sort of like why the weather person is often an attractive girl. Sure maybe she doesnt have a phd in meteorology but she understands it well, and generally people would rather take the info from her than some fat guy mumbling about advanced meteorology. And so when this guy sees people flocking to get weather updates from her, rather than tuning into his youtube channel his instinct will be to say she is using sex to sell.

When that happens I'm not sure what the appropriate response should be. I mean, here clearly this girl is using sexy videos, so it seems odd to be defensive about it. Maybe the response should be- "yeah, so? All that and I deliver informative content"
This is why it is so sad, but true.
The disconnect here is that while the "job" of a grad student is to do things like research and teaching, it's not the tuition part that is paying for that "job", it's the stipend. The stipend is already taxed.

Put another way, one could reasonably say that an entry level trainee in science is worth about $30K a year pre-tax (roughly the grad stipend at Stanford while I was there). Maybe they're even worth $50K, which is roughly what can be gotten in industry as an undergrad fresh out of college in the biosciences. They are definitely not worth $70-$80K a year (stipend + tuition at a place like Stanford), and even so we would be taxing them on a salary they're not actually seeing.

It's much better to see these waivers as scholarships, which generally aren't taxable. I don't know how the tax plan treats scholarships or financial aid, but I hope they haven't decided that those are taxable too.

If they have decided scholarships still aren't taxable then I suppose universities could call everything a scholarship and use that as a loophole. In which case this part of the tax bill is pointless, incurring a massive administrative change for zero benefit of any sort. Also some universities, particularly public universities may have regulatory issues around limits to number of scholarships they can issue or how they can decide to issue scholarships.
Why would anyone ever think they should link to off-site resources?

My guess is their only real experience with the web is a few years in college.
That's always been more of a philosophical idea than a real problem. I've been driving a few decades and don't often run into Trolley situations.
As a resident, I can honestly say that Fort Collins' city government is exceptionally well run. That's one of the reasons why we voted in favor of this.
I don’t understand why the media obsess that much about who spreads which propaganda where.

If people uncritically eat up whatever they are fed by their newsfeeds, then we are hopeless. If, however, people can consume news critically, then propaganda may merely be annoying, hardly harmful.
Yes, fair enough -- it is truly unique and difficult to compare w/credit cards.

But to further the debate, how would you evaluate it in these terms ("waste"/"extravagance")? Would you stipulate that it has value or that it at least has utility? What sort of analogy or baseline would you compare it to, so that we could evaluate how efficient or wasteful it is?
You continually assert that subsidies, lowered taxes, and regulatory exceptions haven't been regularly given to these companies. I would assert instead that it isn't difficult to find the opposite, and that all too often that money is used to further profit margins.
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