skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I love greyhound, I have taken it coast to coast dozens of times since the late 90's, I will be doing it again soon, I would love to see some competition.
Simpson's Paradox and the Hot Hand in Basketball
So you're admitting that it's arbitrary.
TWRP is open source, and allows you to boot into Linux. There's ChromeOS (Linux). Samsung's busy with DeX and Linux on Galaxy. There's some experimentation done with convergence elsewhere at Microsoft (Continuum) and Ubuntu. It all depends what you want to run on it.

If you want a POWER workstation and are OK with not running on x86-64 (or x86-32) then there's the Talos II workstation [1] [2]. It comes with a hefty price tag (IIRC 3,7k USD). Peanuts for a lot of US-based developers, but for many others in the world it just isn't affordable. You say 30% raw performance would be OK. This is not 1,3x more expensive than a x86-64 workstation. It is a lot more...

It also depends on your threat modelling. If you believe that Intel ME is out there, remotely exploitable by XYZ (NSA, evil hackers, ???), then a number of people and groups have a lot to worry about. Groups and people high up in chains. We're talking about developers of software, developers who build software in end user products (those are 2 large groups already), and a whole plethora of other groups which are the foundation of our society.

And it is locally and remotely vulnerable which Intel patched yesterday [3]. What I don't know is if this patch should be applied, or if it should be used to get rid of Intel ME.

[1] https://www.raptorcs.com/TALOSII/

[2] https://www.crowdsupply.com/raptor-computing-systems/talos-s...

[3] https://security-center.intel.com/advisory.aspx?intelid=INTE...
Android is bad for pretty much all threat models.

- Worried about Google? Android is bad. Google collects your data.

- Worried about the government? Since Google must obey warrants for your data, Android is bad.

- Worried about malicious third parties? Since Google has failed to patch even the Pixel line for KRACK until the December update... yeah, Android is bad. And malware through the Play Store that hits large numbers of devices is quite common.

To be clear: I greatly dislike iPhones. But Apple controls their store with a quality approval methodology, they patch all of the devices on their platform promptly going back a number of years, their business model is not built around data mining, and their privacy features have frustrated and irritated the government.

I dislike the iPhone, but if you want privacy and security, you should get an iPhone.
> If they allow their peering points with T1 providers to clog up, they are not delivering on the service I purchased.

IIRC, the proposed net neutrality regulations would not change this scenario at all. The issue is the absolute leverage that would need to be granted in these agreements for this to be true.

In this hypothetically net neutral universe, what should happen when those peering points clog up? Comcast absolutely has to upgrade those links, regardless of price? Would not upgrading these links be throttling? Would they be obligated to renegotiate their peering agreements or risk fines?

If so, I've got a killer startup idea. I'll get a modest peering agreement with comcast, then turn around and sell bandwidth to Netflix and Google for pennies on the dollar, and then turn around again and tell comcast that they have to renegotiate with me, at whatever price I want, or I'll get the FCC to bring them down. Then what? They're the ones in violation of the law, not me.

In practice, the proposed net neutrality regulations loosely say that the FCC can come in and act as a mediator in pricing agreements, when one party is (paraphrasing) "acting unfairly", which is a whole 'nother can of worms. For starters, it's completely out of whack with the intended scope of the FCC.

edit:

> As a consumer Im paying Comcast for quality access to all of the internet. Its their job to deliver on that.

No, you're not, and you never were, and it's bordering on dishonesty to make this claim. At best, you're paying comcast for the same quality access to anything that can reach their network at that same quality. Even that is arguable.
I also think Trello is a great solution for GTD. But I've always felt the need to have a clear overview of all projects (boards) so I've made this little tool https://workflow.pm
Basically it brings all your cards from all boards in a single dashboard.
Not if the library or Starbucks have an ISP with similarly restrictive policies.
Would be good to have a low performance riscv motherboard with something like a PCI bus. Then, run an x86 daughter card. Early arm systems (acorn RISC pc) could house a 486 daughter card like this, and you could run Windows on it in a box. Have one at home.
The question is which group of oligarchs would you allow this unchecked power? Personally, I'm not a fan of either, but I'd rather see competition in this area rather than government-sanctioned neutrality.
What can Android or other mobile OS users do to protect their privacy? Is there a mobile OS that genuinely takes privacy seriously, yet is easy to install and use?
Can someone who smoked a joint 30 minutes ago?

Can someone who smoked a joint a couple days ago be trusted not to smoke one 30 minutes before starting work with the concrete cutters? Trusted enough to bet your company on? (Because you know that if the worker smokes a joint just before working with the concrete cutters, and someone gets injured or killed, the owner loses the company in the lawsuit.)
It's controversial because some people believe, reasonably, that opt-in is the only ethical model for collecting potentially sensitive information like browsing history, "anonymized" or not.

Mozilla stated "Cliqz uses several techniques to attempt to remove sensitive information from this browsing data before it is sent from Firefox"[1], which is very different from "no personal data will be collected". Even just a list of domains can be enough to reveal someone's identity.

[1]https://blog.mozilla.org/press-uk/2017/10/06/testing-cliqz-i...
> No, there aren't two callable types in JavaScript. Thats precisely the point.

Yes, that _was_ precisely the point. Even though "methods" which require a context and "functions" which do not are logically two distinct types, JavaScript treats them as the same: 'this' is always present in some form. Then, since many (most?) functions _don't_ actually require a context, it allows "methods" to be called without an explicit value for 'this', which amounts to leaving out a parameter. Except that this particular parameter has a confusing default which depends on the context in which the call occurs. Contrast this with other languages where the equivalent of 'this' is either included in the function's argument list or available only to code with a special "method" type which must be called with an explicit context.

> The confusing part here is that `x.f()` is very different from `x.f`, and is most definitely NOT the same as `(x.f)()`, but more of an `(x.f).call(x)`

Yes, exactly. The behavior changes depending on whether "x.f" is treated as a method call ("x.f()") or a plain function call ("(x.f)()"). And yet the only visible difference is putting parentheses around a legal value expression, or assigning the value to a variable or function parameter before calling it. Contrast this with Lua, where the colon/method-call operator is only legal within a function call ("x:f" is a syntax error unless followed by an argument list) and there is no difference between "x.f()" and "(x.f)()".

> Other than [the difference between (x.f)() and x.f()] and the fact that the argument is always there even if you don't specify it, its exactly the same as Lua, metatables (prototypes) and all.

Agreed, though Lua also has a dedicated "method call" operator which might be considered significant. However, those differences are exactly why the Lua approach is less "magical" and easier to comprehend and work with. The underlying workings are bound to be similar since they are both Turing-complete dynamically-typed imperative languages with prototypical object systems.
Netflix already went to battle with Comcast and lost. Both parties were saying one should pay the other, in the end Netflix paid Comcast.
Yeah I was speaking in broad terms across the industry, not accounting for edge cases
In the US the internet has become a utility. You can possibly live without it in the same way that you could possibly live without running water, but to be a functional and normal member of society you need access to it. It is used for everything from communication to shopping. Giving cable companies control over what people can/cannot see on the internet or how much websites cost to view allows them to extort any one that uses the internet to conduct or attract business.

Furthermore, the internet has now become a public meeting place. Many people communicate with each other solely through the internet and voice their opinions there. Giving cable companies the ability to legally prevent two IPs from communicating is akin to preventing mail between them.

Basically, because of the ways that the internet has come to be used and the basic expectation of privacy that people have when it comes to similar things such as mail, many people would consider it wrong to remove any semblance of privacy or fairness from the internet, which is what repealing net neutrality does.
By the time you'd planned for all the tools and materials you'd need, loaded it into a kit, and shipped it off to the customer, you or the plumber probably could have just sent your business to someone more local.
The direct peer to peer connections are a patented ‘innovation’. Apple had to change FaceTime too.
There certainly was an element of punctuality that has been lost, but it goes both ways. Clients don't want to deal with this either: "Sorry it's 5:01pm. The dev will be back tomorrow morning. Enjoy being down for the next 16hrs."

I'm all-in for the kids these days sheesh comments, but if you think 'back in the day' workers had the constant availability expectation that we have in the modern era with cell phones, that's just factually incorrect. It wasn't only employees that reliably adhered to the schedule, it was also management. If that changes, both sides should accept the trade offs, otherwise you are expecting the employee to treat the schedule as sacred, while the employer treats the schedule as something which is changed on a whim.

Lazy unreliable people certainly exist, but they don't usually last that long in any role. Poisonous management practices that set people up for failure have a much longer shelf life and do more damage.
I used to ride Greyhound when I couldn't afford to fly, years ago.

There is no comparison. The bus is worse.

> cattle-car experience of air travel

Being herded in and out of a Greyhound at 3 AM by a pissed off driver is literally a cattle-car experience, and happens often.

I've only encountered smiling faces and helpful attitudes from flight attendants and pilots.

It's night and day.
I'm not sure I got all that. Could you elaborate further, please?
I highly recommend anyone take the time to study the birds that they see on a regular basis. All of yesterday I decided to film the birds in slo-mo with my mobile phone. I wasn't even sure what breed of birds I was filming but today I was back making another video. This time I knew from yesterday all about the lovely gulls I now adore and feed instead of the crows. Crows are next because they are very good at aerobatics too.

Just an idea to film the birds coupled with the stellar results you get from a mobile (okay not broadcast quality), means that today I count myself as a budding ornithologist. Today I know that some of 'my gulls' could be 30+ years old.

So here are my feathered friends from today, eating fresh wholemeal bread I baked myself:

https://youtu.be/UmxZr1aihDQ?t=4m

I would urge others to use the gadget in their pocket to record and watch back in slo-mo what the birds do. It is a whole new world.
Waste of time spending this much effort on ppl w/ entitlement issues.
Become famous and start shouting at people.
I'll second this.

If you need quick and dirty this is THE tool to use. I can think of 1/2 a dozen times where this has literally saved the day.
Would that it were so.
the media owned by whom again?
Plus, people from other parts of the country (or... other countries) will jump on the gold rush.
Flying a Drone Indoors: Top Tips and Techniques
Pretty good intro to node/express, a bit slow but definitely a good pace if you are programming along (as opposed to videos where they build something in ~10 minutes with no mistakes / go lightning fast etc.).
The neck gasket seems like the biggest issue; hard to repair, critical to the functionality and it sounds like it was designed originally as a perishable part. One of the women is carefully nursing only two spares she bought out of 10 that the company had when she used to replace them every few months.
I ran out of HN time yesterday, so here's my delayed response.

> Most modern banks also don't manage transactions with employees anymore, they use computers to transact.

so, there's some of that carbon expenditure going into computers and networks to manage these transactions? Banks also use your money to make more money for themselves, does that bother you at all? considering that this thread started out by looking at things "holistically".

In any case, my point here isn't that crypto currencies are the best thing ever, but they're definitely a step in the right direction. I hope you can see the potential in these ideas and what they're trying to achieve. Basically, we need a system that can't be defeated with fraud, if everyone was honest we could just pass around a piece of paper and ask everyone to write down how much money they have and we'd be good, unfortunately that's not the case, as I see it, most of it is a just the cost of preventing cheating, we can certainly observe the current networks and come up with better ones in the future.

> Making a human is a net increase in entropy. Burning fuel is a net increase in entropy.

> This is not a fight you can win as the amount of energy you need to expend is magnitudes larger than the amount of entropy you decreased, actually, by the law of thermodynamics, any energy you expend to reduce entropy will produce an equal or larger amount of energy as a result.
> Entropy may decrease temporarily in a locality but overall it will always increase inevitably.

so, are you suggesting that we stop reproduction and burning fossil fuels and slow down the "advance of entropy"? (or is it just bitcoin you want stopped?)

Also, "net increase" in what system?
There can be 10 people willing to spend $inf for a loaf of bread and only 5 loaves. Supply of skilled work isn't immediately elastic.
I know some people simply need spontaneity to be creative, but I think most people are fine being creative on a schedule. One of the most powerful quotes from Stephen King's book "On Writing":

"There is a muse, but he’s not going to come fluttering down into your writing room and scatter creative fairy-dust all over your typewriter or computer. He lives in the ground. He’s a basement kind of guy. You have to descend to his level, and once you get down there you have to furnish an apartment for him to live in. You have to do all the grunt labor, in other words, while the muse sits and smokes cigars and admires his bowling trophies and pretends to ignore you. Do you think it’s fair? I think it’s fair. He may not be much to look at, that muse-guy, and he may not be much of a conversationalist, but he’s got inspiration. It’s right that you should do all the work and burn all the mid-night oil, because the guy with the cigar and the little wings has got a bag of magic. There’s stuff in there that can change your life. Believe me, I know."

I think most on Hacker News would agree with this sentiment. If you aren't putting in the work how can you expect the muse to give you inspiration? You must lay the framework of creativity in your mind in order for it to strike. It is like the medium of an agar plate you use to grow critters in a lab, only in your mind you must create this medium by hard work and laying the framework. Sure inspiration strikes at times with or without this work, but (for me) it reliably strikes when I put in the work.

GTD is almost meta to this. It is just a system to keep your plate free to do your important work and prioritize your important work. It eliminates the mental clutter so you can focus on what is important. Many other productivity and self help systems all go down that same path. But it doesn't get at the core discipline of being regular and scheduled that is almost a requirement as a professional.
this isn't a right-v-left issue, it's a top-v-bottom issue.

the clipper chip was a clinton thing, the obama administration was for a long time on the fence, etc.

i will credit that the current administration is 'right', whatever that actually means these days..
Charges filed in 'Game of Thrones' HBO server breach
Google is newspeak for googol.
reminds me of this fake bomb detectors episode, also sadly from real life and not some farcical dark comedy - https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2016/07/ir...
Senior executives get paid much more than that in stock (which is how these top-paid software people get most of their money too), also $400k is just a slightly above average surgeon, not a top surgeon.

If you read my comment, I'm not really talking about blue collar workers, but more people who used to be bluecollar workers but eventually became small business owners of companies employ blue collar labor. My cousins who used to be electricians can easily make $250k/year by employing a team of <10 electricians to do the manual work. $400k/year doesn't seem out of reach at all, and they might get that just by moving business to a higher CoL area than the suburban South
There's no question who the founder of Bumble is
They can do that with or without cell phones tracking you.
Your argument would be valid if it were possible for alternate internet providers to pop up. However there isn't anything comparable to cable right now that you could call an alternative.
It's also what top surgeons get paid.

Your point is valid, but that is nowhere near the top of surgical salaries - closer to the average.
Actually that quote is incorrect. It has been widely misquoted by the main stream media for their own propagandistic reasons.

https://medium.com/@caityjohnstone/the-atlantic-commits-malp...

https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/930237935680618496
Clearly Apple's decision is based on paternalism, which most people don't appreciate when it's combined with government power. Compare:

"Clearly the ability to eliminate opposing viewpoints was a huge part of the Chinese government's decision, but was far from the only one. Stability and economic prosperity are also very important. My grandma can obey simple laws. But telling her to go to research contradictory political perspectives and decide the correct course of action is a completely different story. Not to mention how many people will just vote for the candidate that pushes their emotional buttons, and read whatever crap on Facebook and click next, next, next until they've elected Donald Trump."
Problem is the blocking of politically unpopular speech is already happening, just by the major gatekeepers of social media, Facebook, Google, Twitter etc. instead of ISP's. In fact many of the same people advocating for NN are also cheering on major tech companies censorship policies (while the tech companies still insist that they are Common Carriers and thus not liable for user posted content).

So why would right wingers or anyone else with politically unpopular opinions want to train their ire at ISP's who have no history of political censorship, when censorship is happening right now, under everyone's nose. Where are all the articles demanding Google et al become neutral carriers of information or lose their Common Carrier status? In fact, we are getting the exact opposite, with article after article posted here and elsewhere basically demanding that big tech companies censor Fake News, i.e. propaganda you don't agree with.
Community college. It's cost effective and a great way to get your feet wet. I took a welding class at my local, and couldn't believe how cheap it was.
Well, having someone over video sounds like it would have value :) (even though eventually you get a house visit), I'd love that service.

I have some exterior window blinds that need fixing, I'd love for someone to see it over a video call and get a quote before them coming.

That startup sounded great, I'm sad it failed :(
I won't, because it's not worth that to me. I pay nearly $100/mo now and the value is already borderline at that price. I guess others might feel it's worth more or that they have no choice.
Am I correct in believing the AMD variant of this is 'Trustzone'[0]? If not, does AMD have something similar?

[0]: https://www.arm.com/products/security-on-arm/trustzone
I just don't think it's fair to say that "JS programmers are just discovering concurrency".

Libuv, the I/O engine for Node.js is written in C and Node.js itself is a mixture of C, C++ and JavaScript. Plenty of other "JS programmers" including myself have also been programmers of C, C++, .NET and many other environments all of which have well defined concurrency stories. None of these people fit your profile.

> But I think you're reading more into what I said than what was meant.

Sorry, but this comment conveys no useful information to me. Your original statements were quite explicit.
I can change my cellphone provider, but there is only one ISP in my area. Competition doesn’t bring down prices when there is none.
the business culture also doesn't treat 'society itself' as some form of economic externality to be factored out of any potential equation..
Wow, 1 economist back in 1891 considered it a fallacy. You know, before the advent of modern quantitative economics as a science and all the labor econ research that's been done since then.
Now it has a wiki article that's missing citations in the most important key points.

Thanks for changing my viewpoint!
It's completely absurd. Yet, it is the one high impact case that actually happened in real life and led to the FCC imposing neutrality onto the ISPs.
My experience aligns with yours
No, the Snowden leaks showed that NSA did do something, not that it does every malicious thing that people accuse it of. How does it help anything by making unfounded accusations?

Historically, Australia has heavily interfered in PNG affairs. Should you be accused of espionage or subversion if you decide to hike a portion of the Kokoda Trail?

Would it be appropriate for Indigenous People to accuse you of attempting to steal their children, a practice that occurred until the 1970s?
This story got a laugh out of me, good show.
>So in effect these messages would only arrive 33% faster

On average, yes, but in the event where a malicious attacker completely DoSes the network with packets, the prioritized packets would be more than 33% faster than average.
I think hardware stores are maybe not the best comparison because if a hardware store was doing that then it would be pretty easy for a competitor to open a hardware store across the street and undercut the first on shovels and steal all the business.

I think this might be a better solution than a law that specifically mandates the price at which a hardware store can sell shovels, since I think that law would only address a very specific problem caused by a larger underlying issue.

I think the shovel case at least, when the market can sort something out then it's "better" to let it do so.

For Amazon/Netflix, at least on the surface, I would say that the ISP and the content provider can ask for whatever they want and whether or not they get it will be a function of how much each one needs the other. Perhaps ironically a very similar system to how internet peering currently works (the little guy pays the bigger guy for transit).
Probably because drug tests are not actually about that?