skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It should be noted that that's 90% of census blocks. IIUC, if one household has access to one provider, another household has access to a different provider, and no one else has any access, that's part of that 90%. If people aren't making their housing decisions based significantly on their choice of internet provider, that's not really competition.
It doesn't help that most employers are not willing to do what it takes to attract qualified employees.
Please open source this? If possible, that is.
Good old hacker news where people would rather discuss how the article was written instead of the content it contains.
I think the host should very carefully consider what his employment will be like with HQ if he signs a longer-term contract, the founder seems prone to huge mood swings. They need to get a publicist pronto.
Yes, well, a version of ROS has always been tightly paired with single version of Ubuntu, for better or worse. There is only so much bandwidth to support so much. These days, Kinetic (the current LTS) and Lunar are pretty portable to many Linux distros, but anything else is probably an exercise for the intrepid, although ros.org will happily take patches. But if you are just starting out learning ROS, then my advice is to hew as closely as possible to the documented/supported configurations. There is enough other stuff to learn to keep you busy without fighting other subtleties.
Plan fails to meet the existing standards? Just redefine the standards to fit your plan! It's so simple!
Well, now add a family to the equation and those 25 mbps are anything but enough.
Off-topic: This is one of those web sites where, each time I pan and scroll to the content, and prepare to start reading, it suddenly jumps around again. My patience ran out after the second time this happened.
I am a very happy LineageOS user. The installation wasn't difficult: you only need a supported phone and like 1-2 hour of spare time for backup, reading docs, flash and restore the apps. I suggest you to give LineageOS a try!
That's the point I was trying to make - it doesn't exist and laws at best convey the ethic that the majority does not care to oppose at the time of enactment.
A company that doesn't rely on the resources and services of society can argue that. But a company that wants to rely on any infrastructure like roads or electricity, and a landlord relying on the socially enforced theory of property, is not in that group.
Surely they know about and hate vaporware themselves! They should be ducking!
>If they did, everyone would try to work in that industry because the barrier to entry is comparatively very low.

To get in, yes there is no barrier to entry, just find a trade school or union to accept you for training.

However, the program and training is no joke. You have to have the aptitude and dexterity to do the job and complete the training.
Someone please teach Rus Yusupov how to think about the media and relate to the press. This is embarrassing. He did himself so much more harm than any profile could have done...
I must admit that I picked up on the "SR-1" typo. If this was my local daily rag article, I could forgive, but for a technical publication that is supposed to give us accurate, meaningful data, that immediately sows some distrust that the rest of the information in the article may be suspect. Grammatical errors I can forgive to a certain extent, but getting the designation of the aircraft wrong that is the feature of the article? That is sloppy editing.
> I know I understood the blue collar hatred of illegals. ... Not that its right, mind you

Honest question: why not? I have a lot of members of extended family who have gone through a LOT of pain to become legal immigrants in the US, and they hate the illegals exactly because illegals have broken the rules that they have payed so hard to follow.

If an agent A sacrifices it's profits to follow the rules and agent B just violates them, why shouldn't A hate B? (You can imagine A and B being the company who sacrifices profits to follow environment regulation and another company who just forges emission tests, for example).
I found that some earplugs from Walmart really make a night and day difference in concentration for me in noisy areas. Also makes people think twice before starting a conversation with me when I'm focused on something.
You can discriminate by gender for car insurance. From DMV:

"Why Women Pay Less for Car Insurance
The statistics tend to show that as a group, women are less likely to: Get into a car accident."

https://www.dmv.org/insurance/how-gender-affects-auto-insura...
The trouble is that the evidence is basically "Apple says they don't". Because the source code is not open, we can't know for sure one way or the other.
ISPs have already selectively blocked particular firms (until agreeing to stop in response TO FCC enforcement action), so why (freed from the threat of enforcement) wouldn't they do that but also offer the firm a way to buy their way out of it?
The founder profiled in the article just tweeted:

> Looking for a good PR agent. DM me if interested!

https://twitter.com/rus/status/933075047039856642
Well for one you can transfer money to anyone anywhere without any intermediates.
> As a non-american, what can I do to help you?

Well the EU seem to have a decent (if slow moving) record on consumer protection (PSD, PSD2, roaming, data protection, etc.) so maybe lobby your MEP

> I'm from the UK

No, wait ...
> Also, I'm fairly sure that Apple also sells data.

Can you point to a source that shows this? This sounds like a lie to me.
If said mayor never wants to see another term, I guess it's within the realm of possibility. Also, at that point, the situation is the same as now (with one organization calling all the shots) but at least it's contained to one town.
Are you using the slippery slope fallacy to argue against the existence of federal protected classes?
Directly from the article you linked:

> Even these numbers overstate the amount of competition, because an ISP might offer service to only part of a census block. The percentage of households with choice is thus even lower.

This is especially true with DSL @10mb - it’s common for DSL providers to have lower speeds for some customers due to distance limitations. Also, is 2 providers at 10mb really enough ‘choice’ to force the market to do the right thing here? Especially considering that those 2 providers are likely one of only 3 or 4 national ISPs...

I am a huge proponent of market freedom and market choices, but the system we have now has embedded natural and regulatory monopolies and duopolies - that’s the opposite of a free market.
A really interesting idea. Taking feedback from the current execution to drive future scheduling is prevalent in software. Makes sense to push it to hardware too. I wonder how apple is doing hardware managed thread scheduling in the latest processor.
Its also just kinda fun
Why would you want that? What happens if you have a fraudulent transaction? How is it reversed? What about coercion? Blackmail, etc.

By the way, you can transfer cash without any intermediaries. You literally just hand it over.

I think blockchain in general has value, however I'm skeptical of cryptocurrencies vs. a trusted intermediary and the current setup.
> 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?

It shows they'll do anything within their power, legal or illegal, in order to get at more people's data. Of course they have involvement with this, why wouldn't they?

> 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?

Bizarre points in support of your initial comment I think.
I'm glad the minds over at MIT are working on this issue, as I think it will be the most trying problem of our time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullshit#Bullshit_asymmetry_pr...

It's the reason propaganda works: people can only stand against the flow for so long before their will is broken down. If you are assaulted every day by messages, without any possibility of verifying their veracity, you will either shutdown completely, or become influenced by lies. Trust is a huge part of the human experience, and the internet has eroded that.
It's absolutely morally indefensible to refuse services because of what someone was born as.
Forcing through #NetNeutrality overturn against popular will is an Act of War, Instead of calling Congress, Maybe try Calling @AjitPaiFCC's Wife Directly at her Medical Office to voice your concerns. 202.741.2770 - Given that Mr. Pai has not performed his civic duty of asking the community's Feedback.....It's seems Theoretically Prudent to me?
Is this a joke comment, or did he actually say he left the Aurora Borealis alone? There are, I presume, many areas of physics that he didn't work in. I don't think he did much in biophysics, medical physics, or geophysics, to name a few.
This is probably exactly what the founder is frightened of. They have miscalculated badly and made Scott their brand. And Scott is free to move on as he wishes.
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That's why you use return codes not stout?!!?!
Are you suggesting the massive paper trail of buying a house could be circumvented single-handily by pseudonymous cryptocurrencies?

Money laundering is a favourite catchall term law enforcement likes to use to label something as bad while ignoring all the context around the action. There are plenty of ways to catch tax evasion and other crimes without centrally controlled currencies. This is probably one of the worst examples to support the cryptocurrency = opening the floodgates to crime narrative...
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For a single person renting out one house, they will get away with it. But for an apartment complex, they can get investigated and have secret shoppers come in and then they get in trouble for not treating the two marker customers the same.
This is largely solved with multisignature wallets. But centralized databases have this same attack vector, along with all the challenges of maintaining a database.
The "GitHub model" is very different from the original kernel-dev model of using git.

GitHub encourages you to make a bunch of smaller commits and then roll them all up into one pull request -- so the unit of change is the PR, and not so much the single commit.

In kernel-dev land, the unit of change is the commit. Sometimes larger changes will be broken up into a series of smaller commits, but in general you tend to see single-commit changes (which often come from a series of commits someone has done and then squashed down to one).
As mentioned in the reply to the sibling comment, we can't know for sure unless we have source code.
How about something along the lines of “Without net neutrality the next Netflix, Google or Facebook won’t happen.”
ROS 2.0 is under active development, with many talks on it last ROSCon.

You can follow it at https://github.com/ros2 and https://discourse.ros.org/c/ng-ros

It's going for a Beta release this December 8 [0]

Some of the main goals of ROS 2.0 are support for QoS and (small) embedded devices, Windows support

[0] https://github.com/ros2/ros2/wiki/Roadmap
This is the kind of creepy stalking behavior that Google and its apologists have normalized and seek to further extend. It's ok to need a job but no responsible individual can defend this massive, intensive and extensive invasion of people's privacy.
You can talk about the unobtainium skin, the Pratt-Whitney engines, the radar-bouncing fuselage angles but what really made it such a bad ass plane was Kelly Johnson and his team.
Presumably you’d know about how the tech press works after years running a high-profile app.

If it was a newbie founder, then maybe it wouldn’t be as crazy.
Or equivalently, miscalculated badly in treating him as a disposable contractor instead of an employee.
Is that not just the tech equivalent of "Separate but Equal"?
There would be no discussion about this if there were enough providers in the market, that would provide neutral access and market it as competitive advantage.

If net neutrality rules are thrown out, there should be more stimulus for small local ISPs - private or non-profit / municipal.
In the US, the president (wrongly) gets evaluated on the economy, as if he were the only one that controls it, and as if it responded almost instantly to his direction. It's false every time, whether praise or blame, whatever the party of the president.

In particular, in this case, the rise started before Trump assumed office, so it seems reasonable to say that no, he didn't cause it.
I've been using Mozilla based Web browsers since before the ice age - I paid for a copy of Netscape in a box from an actual shop.

Many people are unhappy with the extension situation. Mozilla have to take that into account and provide equivalent functionality fairly sharpish or face just being a chrome-clone.
No, it isn't, but nor is it reasonable for an apartment owner to establish service monopolies on their property at the expense of their renters.

What alternative would you suggest?
Virtual reality is failing at empathy, its biggest promise
Near instant worldwide transfer of funds with low fees is a big one that comes to mind. I'm invested in bitcoin and it takes, on average, an hour to move around with around $10 in fees.

Of course the fees are still high but I imagine they will come down if bitcoin wants to see mass adoption.

Immutable, anonymous, and decentralized ledger.

Those are attributes of blockchain technology rather than bitcoin itself though. It's possible another cryptocurrency (litecoin anyone?) will dethrone bitcoin as the 'currency' and bitcoin will remain a store of value.
>By the way, you can transfer cash without any intermediaries. You literally just hand it over.

Why would you want that? What happens if you have a fraudulent transaction? How is it reversed? What about coercion? Blackmail, etc.
I don't think that's actually true. How does the sender convert fiat to bitcoin, and then the bitcoin back to fiat?

There's still intermediaries involved and they're not exactly simple to use.
So why use him on all your marketing material if you are afraid of him just up and leaving?
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I had the same exact reaction as you! :-)
Right... but this thread is about employers complaining that they can't find qualified applicants. They can't have it both ways. If they want to continue to be picky, and carry on with the "No one owes you a job" bs, then they shouldn't be taken seriously when they complain about not being able to find people.
That really is dependent on use case though. In my current project, I want the most up to date data possible so no caching. In reality, it is cached locally in the browser state and soon, I will be pushing data to update that browser state (based on other users activity in the same tenancy).

I think generalizing to "we should be building progressive web apps" is harmful. You should do what is appropriate for your use case.
Thanks for the feedback. Preview is a great option for mac users but I still find it awkward for text in boxes - account numbers, for example. I'm surprised Apple hasn't added a check mark annotate option. Not everyone knows the option-v trick.
I got the point, was just trying to be a bit funny.

I imagine there are other languages around the world that share the same kind of similarities among themselves.
The scary thing will be when internet providers use the same tactics as free to play click games where they will ramp up your speed to a certain site if you pay extra for a temporary speed boost. These sort of pay per view tactics and extortion over something that we all take for granted now is what I'm afraid of. If not outright blocking of traffic for certain protocols such as bit-torrent or VPN access. Not that this is simple from a network management standpoint but with no restrictions in place one can only imagine the sort of devious tactics ISPs will use to extract extra revenue from their vassals.
That's true, but the article describes something that goes a step further. You don't even show ads to certain groups. Now, I'll agree that the distinction between having targeted ads and having targeted ads where one of the targets is basically No Ad starts to look like an odd distinction.

Furthermore pre-digital, no one would have had any serious issue in only running ads in publications known to have specific readership demographics. (Like "families" which itself is a demographic.)

And no one would have issues if these were ads targeted at specific blogs or other sites with a demographic different from almost everyone like Facebook is.
I actually didn't even notice that until you put it in quotes just now.
I work with an education start up now. Company does really well in the b2c space but we are looking into the b2b (educational institutions). Were you guys dealing with individual schools or going straight to districts/counties?
> If net neutrality rules are thrown out, there should be more stimulus for small local ISPs - private or non-profit / municipal.

If government bends to the telco desire on this, it's not going turn around and go against them by sponsoring competition for them.
This is one of the growing pains of bitcoin that will have to be worked out. You can send bitcoin to addresses that nobody holds the private keys to and those coins will be gone forever. There are likely already several hundred thousand or millions of bitcoin lost this way.

There is no reversal of a transaction, the ledger is immutable.

With all of that said, bitcoin was not created to solve crime.
That was great, you can tell he really loves telling that story. Here's an excerpt from an interview with him [1] where he discusses telling it:

> When I'm doing a talk, if I don't tell that speed check story, they run me out of town. I tried that one year, I thought, I've been speaking at this air museum for 10 years now, I'm gonna change it up this year. People lost their minds. I realized hey, Elvis has to sing Love Me Tender at the end of every show, I gotta tell that story no matter how many times I tell it.

> And there's always people who've never heard it. I told it at an FBI conference the other day, out of 800 people I swear 700 had never heard it, and they were falling out of their chairs.

[1]: https://newatlas.com/brian-shul-interview-sr-71-blackbird-pi...
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Nothing to do with DRM, the old model let extensions modify every part of the browser that could be touched via JavaScript (and since the browser UI itself is made with XUL and JS that's quite a lot of it) and even allowed using C++ to access all of the compiled guts as well. That is impossible to support sanely (every change is a breaking change to something) and is a security nightmare as well (users have no idea what an extension can do unless they read the code, if it's even available). The new model is sandboxed JavaScript that gains all potentially unsafe functionality via somewhat fine-grained permissions which means you have a good idea what an extension is capable of and know it can't do anything unexpected like grabbing random files on your disk. The downside to this model is someone actually has to think about what an API should look like and what the security implications are and then do the work to implement it. Before if someone made an API great but if not you could just do it yourself.
Yeah, that's why you use escrow, or an intermediary service. By the way, I never claimed you should use cash.
In fact, most of the criticism I have towards Bitcoin also applies to cash, as you've sarcastically pointed out.
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ROS 2.0 is rebuilding a lot of infrastructure. Plenty of development is happening; the github repos as I type this show a lot of repo updates that are minutes to days old. That said, the current state of ROS 2.0 is probably well described as "developer only". Current ROS-based commercial robots are still on ROS 1, Kinetic or even Indigo.
I finally created an account specifically to upvote this. I have created a shared folder in my laptop, running Ubuntu, with symbolic links from 2 users home directories (to avoid having data (mostly photos) stored twice) and manually fixing the group of new files has been a chore!

Thanks!!
You're changing the subject, that's not what you said above... you're taking a minor specific throttling and applying it to a large public company crippling the ISP competition of another large ISP company.

Yes, some monopolistic ISPs have engaged in specific minor throttling. What they haven't done is alienated their entire customer base by throttling the entire internet into packages. Which is an entirely different beast... and what we're talking about.
Better (targeted) advertisement.
Just to play devil's advocate, it could have seemed to the CEO as if Rogowsky approached the media instead of the other way around, and that he was trying to gain leverage ahead of the contract renegotiation. It wouldn't surprise me if their contractor agreement / NDA covered not talking to the press.

Seems to take a real stretch of the imagination not to see the CEO as in the wrong here, though.
Yeh the trouble is Advertising and Marketing where used to employing Graduates with liberal arts degrees for low wages.

With the move to digital when rigor and having tech people who really know there shit Is now important they don't want to pay the rate.
No one ever prevents you from doing your own work, it has never been illegal. You just need to get the permits and pass inspections (just like all licensed electricians / plumbers / etc do).

> I know it's meant to stop idiots from doing work that could endanger them and others

Yes, and it's a lot bigger problem than you might think. You know what you are doing, but 99% of people don't, and they will happily murder the next owner / next occupant through their own malpractice, without even thinking once about it. I've seen professional home builders screw this up and fail inspections, multiple times. It's a real and common risk.
Isn't the argument one about targeting ads to the right people? I don't need to see ads online for statin drugs. Should drug manufacturers be required to show their statin drug ads to me?
I don't think so - unless you consider an ad a service.
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That's a bad argument. There's no choice but to use roads, there's no way to create roads without government permission, there's no way to build any infrastructure without complying with myriad of expensive regulations (and for many things there are no way at all - try to build something where government doesn't want to permit something to be built) and they are paid with taxes that aren't exactly voluntary too. So the logic goes is "we control all the environment, we take money from you to create infrastructure the way we want and we ban you from competing with us - and then we demand from you compliance because you have no choice but to use the infrastructure".

If there were an option to use government infrastructure or create and use independent one, then demands on the users of the government one could be justified - our infrastructure, our rules. But instead, there is no choice and the government actively suppresses the possibility of choice arising - in this case, making some demands for using the only possibility available is hypocritical at best.
To run for office?
And that's not all, I hear they're still letting make-up advertisers to exclude users by gender.