skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just to counter all the advice in this thread:

my personal website was whole 2 pages of static content (landing page with not much content + 1 blog article) until very recently, and hosted under .github.io domain (bought a custom domain only recently), and it very quickly became top-3 google search under my name.

However I think the problem here might be due to using .mk domain and Google thinking that it's not very international. Note that when you search on https://www.google.mk/?hl=mk then it shows up on the first page.

Getting .com/.net/.io and putting just a bit more unique content is probably a good way to get started. Put a 301 redirect from old domain to the new one. Put a link on LinkedIn etc. if not done yet. Then just be patient.

BTW Hello from Nice - 230 fellow here.
I would guess mining the copper would be worth it, unless this causes a huge price drop (and maybe not even then. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metal_theft: ”Some have argued that the "genie is out of the bottle" now and drops in commodity prices will not result in corresponding drops in thefts. In fact, it is possible that thefts may actually increase to compensate for the loss in value.[citation needed]”
It was originally a short-haul technology, but quickly extended by way of remote DSLAMs. Copper from the neighbourhood into the DSLAM, fiber out the back.
> A real life example is someone who feels threatened when they see someone of another race or religion

If such persons exist in the world (and we know they do), then it's not that irrational to fear "others" (race, religion). To the "other", you are also a different race and/or religion, and thus they might have negative thoughts about you, so it makes sense on some level to be more cautious around them even if you don't share those feelings.
For what its worth, the web community is currently pretty conflicted on using this approach. jQuery is often loaded from CDNs, while React (and friends) are almost always bundled into each app individually. I'd like to say there's a principled reason behind this, but I think the main reason is that the tooling (webpack, browserify) makes it simpler to embed react than use a CDN version.

Actual benchmarks are pretty mixed. If you have a cached CDN copy of react it can be a little faster. But if you get a cache miss, the extra overhead of hitting another host to load dependancies is often 10x-100x slower for unlucky users than downloading 80k(?) of additional gzipped javascript. Its especially bad with react because unless you do isomorphic rendering, your page isn't visible at all until react is downloaded.

I suspect Rust's stdlib will compress to a similar size (maybe a little bigger), and the speed saving you're hoping for won't really be worth it in practice; even if you get around the monomorphising problem.
I hold a small amount of XRP. It's not even a true Cryptocurrency as we commonly think of them but it's a nice piece of tech with good momentum in a space that could sorely use some efficiency gains.
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Does ATT have an alternate asset? As far as I know they dont run a cable network or a significant fttp network so I dont see why they would remove any broadband customers. Dial up and landline only customers I can see being moved to LTE.

I dont see anything about the USF going away so I dont see why anyone would be left behind, USF's are normally highly profitable for the telco. For the edge cases that cant receive a mobile signal with a roof mounted antenna, I guess a subsidized satellite phone will be the solution.
Love the comments in this thread. Do a search for Bitcoin (or FB/Amazon/etc.) over the past 10 years. Same comments calling for "bubble" "fundamentals don't make sense" "crash is coming" "but dotcom 2000...". Most of these commenters have not done any research and just sit on their hands typing based on their "feelings" or regurgitate others that align with their feelings.

Take note. Most people are like this. Most people are wrong most of the time.
Nope. I've tried, and I can't make your argument work. Just because you think that's a plausible way for it to go wrong, and you claim that it can't go wrong like that, I see nothing in what you've said to convince me that it can't go wrong in other ways.

You might be right that it can't go wrong like that, but why can't it go wrong in other ways?
Luckily phone companies cannot do this. Because AT&T was granted a monopoly, each state has Public Utility Commission that sets the rate the AT&T "Baby Bell" phone companies can charge:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_utilities_commission
It's rare, and they only got email subject lines, but it happens: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Aurora
As I understand it, "code licenses" like MIT and "content licenses" like Creative Commons have slightly different intended areas of application, and you shouldn't mix them. E.g. "linking" means different things for code and images.

So you'd use e.g. CC0 for an icon set together with MIT license for some javascript/whatnot code that goes with your icons.
Why would the US have roughly the same baseline safety as everywhere else in 1990, but be 2x worse today?
I find it really interesting, and I would definitely like to try it out (the article is great by the way) I am not that good at C or Haskell, so that would be a great way to improve on this too, and that would be my main objective actually. So noob question : how would I go adding some C networking libs to Carp ? Should I directly call the code from Carp (and is that possible at the time) or should I embed it in the language core and go the haskell route ? I am new to this but would really love to embark into the adventure, for learning purpose.
Rust: Khaled web assembly bleue
And the least productive.
If your idea of what man is comes from using Linux, then you really haven't had a good exposure to what good documentation can be. Try Solaris or FreeBSD.
wasm exposes "memory sections", which the module states up-front how much it wants. It can also generally call a "grow memory" function that makes this space bigger. That's it, from the direct wasm perspective.

That said, this target uses https://github.com/alexcrichton/dlmalloc-rs
Approaching the final limit -> so many Bitcoins lost -> so many Bitcoins confiscated -> the amount of Bitcoins goes down -> the demand increases -> price for one Bitcoin goes through the roof.

At least that's how I see it. Don't know jack shit about cryptocurrencies, but this seems like basic economy.
Another important goal of this strategy, given relatively short mention in the article,

> allows the telcos to eliminate old copper wholesale services like resale.

is to cut CLECs out of the circuit game, to the extent they still sell T-circuits and (more likely) Ethernet transport over telco copper through the UNE (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unbundled_network_element) facility).

Since the Telecommunications Act of 1996 (TA96), UNE rules have required incumbents to lease portions of their physical plant to CLECs at regulated rates. These do not apply to fiber. Making it impossible for CLECs to ride portions of their network to compete with them has been a major goal of pulling out copper, and has often led to it being pulled out more aggressively than it otherwise would be.
>You gonna force people to buy dollars at gunpoint?

Yes. This is the basis of 20th century American prosperity.
Power lines for the grid are generally aluminum. You'll generally only find copper in consumer goods and the walls of your house. You can get aluminum wiring in your house but there are details that require more installation expertise to do it safely so copper is used instead.
sure there is plenty of money in tourism
It's funny how event sourcing is being reinvented.

On the backend it's called event sourcing, on the frontend it's called flux / redux. Both have their own jargon.
That's not stopped people around me deciding that they want to race me into the hard shoulder because my lane is closing
The problem with this is that even if you did successfully move helium 3 to earth or LEO what would you do with it ?

A better thing to do would be to mine for metals and make stuff with it (satellites / or outposts).
Thanks for explaining further. That would actually be an interesting experiment. Who's going to run it?
That depends on (a) if you're looking at only the supplemental war funding, or if you include a share of the DoD baseline budget as well; and (b) if you're looking at gross expenditures (in which case social security is the highest expense) or net expenditures (in which case social security is currently "self-funding" through its earmarked payroll tax).
There is criminal level fraud occurring.

I am not going to throw allegations out, but I believe there will be a day in the coming years where we read stories about organized crime and pump and dumps in this space. I believe the bitcoin forks will be at the heart of this all.

Everybody is happily singing the song of crypto while the music is going. Not sure how long it will last.
So the distinction is inlining SVGs vs referring to them like you would a png with an img src=filepath.svg|png in your HTML.

It's handy to just treat them as you would images, but you lose some flexibility wrt being able to manipulate them via CSS b/c the browser now "thinks" of them like an image.

This SO post has a clever workaround (with I'm sure more caveats wrt performance, etc) that will auto-inline your svgs that you need to manipulate so you can get a best of both worlds type situation going.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/24933430/img-src-svg-cha...
I think people aren't as rich as they think they are. Let them try and cash out the bitcoins on bitfinex and discover that what they actually get are funny-money tokens called 'tether' which they can't exchange for dollars anywhere.
It depends on the computational step. Often we "just" need to compute the determinant, in which case we use a trick. In some other cases, we do only need linear solves. Exact inversion of the whole thing is often prohibitive.
That's because "Rails with performance" was one of Phoenix's selling points from day one, Phoenix was inspired by Rails and Elixir is heavily influenced by Ruby, prior to 1.3 killing the models in favor of contexts Phoenix contained an extremely similar structure to Rails MVC with less implicit conventions.
FTC Fibre to CAB and using existing coper for the drop to the house makes sense as you can get good performance with VDSL over 20MBS at a 2K yards
The entire market cap of crypto is around $250bn at the moment. The .com bubble went up to $6.7 trillion before correcting back down to 1.7tn. In todays dollars that's close to $8tn.

One can only hope this will be "the next" .com bubble -- there will be money to be made. Given the amount of liquidity that was pumped into the market by the fed, it will be interesting to see what stops this train.

The more and more you look around, money isn't worth anything anymore. Like that recent Leonardo Da Vinci painting that was sold for $450m. Assets and companies selling for a 10-12x multiple, excessive property prices in prime locations, etc. Asset prices have been driven up significantly across the board.
Ask HN: How to know if an app is modified for iPhone X
Even though most apps work on iPhone X, some still show black bars. But I don't see any information about that on the App Store page. Do you guys find a good way to distinguish such apps other than trying one by one?
Btw, is there a hn app on iPhone X recommended?
Unit testing tells you what you already know. It's kind of pointless, when you think about it (unpopular opinion). If you have a handle on your code there's rarely any need for it.
Many of the owners of copper lines have gotten huge subsidies on their switching centers. Those switching centers which often take up an entire city block are now free for land development. Hundreds of billions in land value just got "given" to the largest telcos.
Yes, basically Flux / Redux are just implementations of the underlying pattern (and yes, that's everything but new).
Certainly an opportunity for VOIP services and a router with a PSTN connection so you can plug in your existing phone will work out as a perfect solution. Such routers been around for ages, some even have DECT built in.

One avenue that could be taken by the companies to mitigate any loss of voice service. Customer would be just changing the point they plug the phone in, socket wise and that would be that.

I had a Draytek 2910vg 10 years ago doing exactly that, so very very doable. But then, that was always a solution under the existing criteria and with that, this change just allows companies to not offer that solution. Which does raise one question - will customers be able to keep their existing number and port it to a VOIP provider of their choice? That is one aspect that could of been covered in these changes. That would certainly open up the markets and in a good way.
Yes, but you only need one process per core, just like NodeJS.

Since 1.9 you can use real OS threads to achieve parallel IO, and certain parallel computations which can proceed without holding the Global Interpreter Lock.

JRuby offers completely unrestricted threading with a single process, plus a 3x performance boost, plus the advantage of an incredible amount of work put into their VM and GC. It's a really underrated option these days.

The problem with forking, is MRI Ruby is unaware what memory is actually inherited by forking, so eventually it causes the entire heap inherited from the parent to copy into the child.

I'm actually working on a patch to fix this. The solution is simple, just don't mark, collect, or allocate into inherited pages, but the implementation itself is fiddly.

What's really exacerbated this, is that most Linux distros now have Transparent Huge Pages turned on by default, and flipping a single bit in inherited causes a 2MB copy instead of a 4kb copy!
If you wanna be correct and not upset the Greeks, it's "Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia".
> Usually these small functions are also only called once. In that case especially it leads to messy, bloated code that is in fact harder to reason about, harder to maintain and less efficient besides.

the flipside is that if this approach is done well, you end up with things broken down along the natural abstraction lines you'd use, and if you trust that your small functions do the right thing (are tested themselves) and are called correctly (their callers are tested well), it tends to make it much easier to reason about the code, IMHO.

but yeah, also, sometimes larger functions and more integration-y tests are the way to go. or the above fine breakdown + unit tests + integration tests. depends on the situation, i think.
This isn't about all copper wire. It's using copper to refer to the old copper wire based POTS.
Ask HN: Serial job rejects
I'm a graduate student with 2.5 years industry experience as data scientist at SAP, I moved to US to pursue masters. I applied for summer internships at Github,Google,Schneider in machine learning. All the technical rounds went fine. The interviewer would say be all the rounds are good and we are interested. However, we re interviewing other candidates as well, we will let you know in sometime. All the interviews end up being rejected at all the places. Got last reject from github today which I was very positive about. They didn't give me feedback as well. Not sure what I'm missing. I'm in a clueless position, completely lost. What I could've probably messed up in interview? How can I improve on it.
Simple Curve Fitting with the Gauss-Newton Algorithm
... nobody would do that though. I can sell my BTC for USD on Kraken and withdraw to my bank account. And I have.
The width of the order book panel should always be the same. Which browser/OS are you using?
It mostly can, outside of browser bugs anyhow.

The browser bugs are a big complication however
I’m not sure where you got that perception, it’s certainly not the general one in my opinion. Breaking it down... Paranoid, yes. Gun-toting, usually. Aggressive, sometimes. Hillbillies is where I have to call it though. I’d argue there’s as many rich as there are anything else, if not more. I don’t know about you, but I’d be a little wary of folks preparing for a doomsday. Not saying I’d never consider it, but generally they are going to be a bunch uneasy with others, hence I’m going to be cautious around them.
I'm not confusing anything.
There are long range versions of Ethernet
"I told him about the black swan I kept on my desk as a reminder that low probability events happen with high frequency"

Uh... wouldn't low probability events happen with low frequency? Am I missing something?
This isn't reddit
He certainly wasn't. If you read his political blog (http://electoral-vote.com/), you'll find this sort of sarcasm is his hallmark.
TA96 rules mandate number portability. But you can't port a number outside of a rate centre. To put it simply, to port a number to a new carrier, the carrier has to be able to pick the call up somewhere, by way of the appropriate connections to the incumbent's "tandem" offices (think of it as a kind of hub for the spokes that are Bell central offices).

The underlying PSTN origination supply chain for the VoIP industry consists of a small oligopoly of CLECs at this point (e.g. Level3, Bandwidth.com, Verizon Business, Onvoy and all the companies they bought, etc.) and they don't necessarily have the interconnections and footprint in these same markets — most especially not the "Tier 3" plus rural markets.
The expensive parts, have specific taxes to pay for specific programs.

War on the other hand, it's just kinda, let's spend a bunch of money and worry about it later. That makes a lot of sense when you're averting genocide or actively under attack. it makes less sense when you're already funding a powerful influential state department that can impose sanctions with strong international support.

You can afford a whole lot of diplomacy for a few billion dollars, but that won't really buy you a lot of war. Also, not so many people die. Which i think is a bonus.
The annual Global Drug Survey has repeatedly found mushrooms containing Psilocybin to be much, much safer than alcohol.

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2017/may/23/study-halluc...
The point is that they won't have to do that. They won't have to do anything. They will be allowed to simply leave such people without an alternative if they want.
There's some story (that I can't find online now) about a group going on a 24 hour journey through a desert. Just before they enter the desert, a man says to them that in the midst of night, they are about to cross a river. "Take as many rocks from the river bed as you can. The next day, you all will be equally sad and happy at the same time."
The group indeed crosses a river in the night, and each of the party take a couple of rocks. Some just what they can carry themselves, some what their horse can hold.
The next day, when they leave the desert, they discover that the rocks were precious stones (or rocks with gold encased). And everyone in the group is comparably joyful about their new wealth, and comparably sad that they didn't take more rocks.
One of the most annoying bugs is Chrome’s utterly broken implementation of the Use element for SVG.

That’s one of many, but it’s one they’ve know about for years.
#sally: IRC drawing channel
> What killed the Concorde? Broadband Internet

Transatlantic flights have increased in frequency since broadband. There is tremendous value in face-to-face meetings.
My store of wealth, denominated in GBP, is no more 'real' than bitcoin, however, the issuer is a large entity, with deep and diverse global assets and the military means to protect those assets.

The GBP I hold is a promise that the issuer will go to almost any means necessary to maintain the value of my wealth in respect to its fungibility.

While there is a raft of risk associated with my wealth, it may diminish in respect of its inter currency value, it may suffer hyperinflation, as a part of my 'deal' with the issuer, they additionally provide a framework for a bank to operate, the bank has insurance, this means that a proportion of my wealth would be preserved even if the institution with which I entrusted my wealth turned out to be a bad actor.

Furthermore my currency is protected from entropy, the accounting system used to store the value of my wealth is secure, by design, and by insurance by the issuer.

In 'good times', I am rewarded for making my wealth available as capital for other users, or interest as it is known.

Bitcoin is exciting, as a follow of everything from e-gold to beenz and an original CPU miner, not to mention possibly the only person to actually profit from the first generation ASIC you have to believe me when I say I am not here to detract from Bitcoin, I'm here to say it's not a currency, it's not an asset, it's really something novel, the value is indeterminable.
Things that are utilities need to widely available. Power, electricty, water, etc. We grant monopoly status to corporations in exchange for fixed profits and guaranteed service even where not profitable. If we didn't do this, they would have block by block pricing and wouldn't serve areas for arbitrary "reasons"

Yet they still continue to shake the people down. I don't think corporations should run anything last mile. The temptation is just too great.
Actually, you should distinguish Coq from Isabelle in that respect. In Isabelle it is MUCH more feasible to separate specification and automation.
Few details here: http://jollo.org/LNT/
> USF's are normally highly profitable for the telco.

USF is paid for by a tax on telecom service which, in effect, redistributes money from telcos with more urban/suburban customers to telcos with more rural customers (and imposes a deadweight loss on the industry as a whole from the tax). AT&T probably falls into the bucket of telcos that lose rather than profit from the USF scheme.
I think good code usually results in the test suite being useless the vast majority of the time. That is, only let's say one run in a thousand of any given test should fail after adding or refactoring code, if that. Even then, the failures are usually commensurate with the changed expectations of the changed code and not indicative of a bug.
> "Apps that browse the web must use the appropriate HTML and JavaScript engines provided by the Windows Platform."

This seems like a thing that platform owners are doing more and more (iOS has a similar clause, and ChromeOS, well, uses Chrome).

Is this just purely a move to stifle competition from web apps that could threaten control of the platform? Or perhaps I am missing some nuance behind these kinds of decisions? I'm honestly struggling to find any room to give them benefit of the doubt here.
g.fast is good for more densely populated areas, which is why it'll work quite well in the UK if BT ever get around to rolling it out properly - 90% of consumer premises are within 500m of a street side cabinet.
Vyvanse, to put simply, causes your liver to synthesize dextroamohetamine (75% of adderalls active ingredients). Its effects on your body are similar to adderall. Levoamphetamine, 25% of adderalls active ingredients (what causes adderalls body high), supposedly has neurotoxic effects on the brain, lending some credence to that author's claim. Basically these amphetamines cause your brain to eject dopamine. This is contrasted with Ritalin/concerta/cocaine which act as dopamine reuptake inhibitors, preventing your brain from absorbing the dopamine thereby casing it to over produce in order compensate. Based on what I've read reuptake inhibitors aren't neurotoxic, and can actually guard against some of the neurotoxicity of adderall/levoamphetmine.
Is it possible to define whether the x's are real numbers or integers?
I guess it depends on if you see cryptocurrencies as a way to make money in the short term or if you see cryptocurrencies as the future of money. I'm firmly in the latter camp and am not looking to ever "cash out".