skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How often do you use Instagram, Snap, iMessage/SMS, WhatsApp, Messenger, or other social apps? Curious whether you get that "fix" elsewhere or if it yes/no for just FB.

Thinking about it more, all media should be in the running, from HN to Netflix, because it's really about time spent.
Amazon Prime growth is slowing down in the US, says Morgan Stanley
Sitting on 90K lines of Python here. It’s a breeze. Rarely see an error, and when I do, it’s from a third-party API failing to do its job properly (which is then successfully caught to avoid it causing problems). I’m interested in and use other stacks (mostly Elixir), but I don’t have any complaints about the language itself after 10 years.
Inside the Infamous Mirai IoT Botnet: A Retrospective Analysis
> It was merely codified by the FCC in 2015.

And 2010.

And, more generally, in 2005.
Damore was fired not because his science was flawed, but because he made himself essentially impossible to work with. Would you be "scared" if someone refuses to take a shower for months on end and a company decides to fire them?
Net neutrality is the solution to a sub problem. Content companies having a monopoly on the last mile. We should really be pushing for structural separation and ownership rules of communications infrastructure, which I suppose is the end game of net neutrality anyways.

Like roads, it doesn't necessarily make sense to have competition in the last mile space, two fibers/cables/etc running to the same dwelling. New Zealand and Australia have created infrastructure companies for creating a whole sale last mile network. Like deregulated electric or gas, the infrastructure provider is responsible for handling the physical connection while service provider provides the actual service over the infrastructure. In the case of internet in Australia, the NBN provides the fiber connection and the ISP provides network connectivity. It is even possible to have two ISPs over the single fiber.

Got a terrible ISP. Churn and burn. However, if all the ISPs are terrible, then you probably still need net neutrality.

Really, you need both. Structural separation, so at least there is some choice. Net neutrality rules, so companies can't monetize their customer.

Disclaimer: Australia's NBN is a bit of a mess due to politics, but New Zealand did it right with UFB.
> So what are the next movie franchises to get Disney-ized, like they did to Star Wars?

The Simpsons Cinematic Universe
I think you're missing the OP's point though.

It's true that you can just use some CSS to make up for the lost HTML feature, but than again you could also rewrite the HTML part.

Forgive me if I'm wrong, but I'm fairly sure that what the OP is trying to say, is that there are plenty of great websites out there, which were developed a long time ago, and for which there is no maintainer to do any work on it. Thus having HTML elements like this dropped, would make the content in a way lost.

Thinking about it some more, users can probably add plugins to add this css automatically, or some browsers might even keep those features in, but still, there will be users that don't know this, I think, resulting in a bad experience.
Source? Every single city I've lived in has such an agreement. One cable provider, one phone(DSL) provider. There might be smaller, internet only companies.
Yo también.
A hundred years ago and more, Universities (particularly in Europe) prided themselves on how different their ideas and research programs were from other Universities studying the same subject matter. No doubt the cost of travel and communication made this inevitable, but it was regarded as a high virtue. Now cognitive herding and intellectual fashion is all. Our centrally-planned science funding programs are a very big reason why.
His argument appears to be that it was too much paperwork for a startup ISP. I have to admit I have no idea if this is the case, but it seems like someone running cables/fiber across a private land should already be adept at filing out paperwork.
What If You Couldn’t Access This Page?
Pardon the eyeroll, but that's incredibly pedantic. Brewer is not being disingenuous here, he's being forthright. Spanner is a product. "Effectively CA" is what customers care about. The fact that it's "technically not CA" is only important academically, and for the very small subset of customers for whom even the very tiny chance of loss of availability is problematic.
Just do it! We 've been waiting for decades for a replacement of visual basic.
Show HN: Funnels – Use Google Analytics data to compare funnels side-by-side
Yes.

https://muninetworks.org/

https://b4rn.org.uk/

https://www.electric.coop/co-op-bringing-fastest-internet-ru...

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/exq3ne/zen-and-the-art-of...

https://www.google.com/search?q=internet+coop
Python program to solve students problem described on claymath.org
Corporate brainwashing by Verizon? I'm not fully serious, but at the same time you've gotta wonder...
>cite examples

I did, in the post you are responding to.

>>>>Do you have any examples? Or any reason to believe that the startup ISPs will bother with anyone outside of a major metro area?

>>>the Wireless Internet Service Providers Association, which represents small fixed wireless companies that typically operate in rural America

>>http://www.wispa.org/
I chuckled at this comment, but this is actually a very astute observation. I've seen it happen way too many times (and destroy many companies and people's lives) to laugh about it :(.
>A right-wing person makes a statement saying, "We need to stop allowing Muslims into this country to protect ourselves against terrorism"

>A liberal response is to say, "That is intolerant. You can't group all Muslims as terrorists. We need to be tolerant of people with different faiths"

That's a very good characterization of most liberal responses on this particular issue. It's a complete non-sequitur. The RW statement does not in any way imply that all Muslims are terrorists. The liberal response doesn't address the crux of the statement at all, it just impugns the character of the person who made it.
There's also just all sorts of other extra features you may get for free. These are things that may not be worth it for you to spend precious dev time developing, but since cloud providers can make it once and offer it to thousands of customers, it makes much more sense. You can look at the full list of GCP features [0], and it's growing every month.

[0] https://cloud.google.com/products/
so..i'll be scrolling through my feed and ill see my friend post what appears to be a video ad. I'm smart enough to know its just a facebook ad, but alot of people will be tricked and actually think their friend is endorsing a product.
>robots.txt compliance is not difficult to build. I'm fine with robots.txt violations being considered hacking.

I'm not. You can set up a server to serve different versions of robots.txt to different folks. A malicious actor could deliberately feed inputs to a specific crawler that convince it to violate the terms of the robots.txt it serves to everyone else, and then press for criminal charges against the operator of the scraper.

In a sufficiently adversarial relationship, this lets website owners turn any well-behaved site scraper into criminal activity. That's not a power we want to grant.
The paper is not talking about time, in the abstract, or simultaneity / ordering in the abstract (which indeed don't exist), but rather with reference to "timestamps". "Timestamps" are not abstract time, and as such may be ordered, compared, be simultaneous, etc.

Your comment is irrelevant and pointless since the paper is talking about timestamps.
The “everyone who disagrees with me is a paid shill because I surround myself in an echo chamber and can’t fathom of a legitimately dissenting opinion” mindset on the internet is more toxic and disturbing than actual astroturfing (insofar as it is far more prevalent at this time). It adds nothing to the discussion, stifles the sharing of unpopular opinions, and only reinforces the echo chamber. Please consider the ramifications of such accusations and in cases where you have proof, present it in lieu of the substance-less attack.
Your public lands? Under attack. Your Internet? Under attack. Your government funding? Under attack. What do you get? Nothing. Prepare to get f$cked over by your friendly republican majority.
Could a local government impose net neutrality rules as a condition for a franchise?

[edit] Or more practically, what general policy changes could a municipality make to maximize the availability of competitive free internet?
> strong, static typing is an essential feature for large scale projects

This is empirically false.

There are (of course!) good reasons to consider static typing. But, in my experience, use of static typing has never been a first-order predictor of business or technology success. It's quite possible to build considerable value with, for example, a large Python 2.x code base.

A fun, and tangentially related, talk: https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/ideology
That's very nice. I tried to go for such an example originally but I only tried __mul__ because I thought it's like in Lua where __mul gets used even if only the second operand has a custom one.
My wife make crochset things as a hobby, and she has decided to create a facebook page to share the passion and show what she made. Most of the fans are our mutual friends, but it has become sort of a side-income for her (friends like to order some of the stuff she makes). Last year she had lots of likes and orders for Christmas-themed stuff in Nov/Dec. This year all Facebook gave us was nagging to "boost" posts for money, and pay to promote to reach X more people etc. The content doesn't even reach our friends who are actively waiting to see new stuff unless we share it using our personal accounts (and even then it's nothing compared to last year). It's pay or fade away. That's why the feed becomes all sponsored stuff.
> The user should have checked their email spam folder

How about NO?
> Then what are they upset about? They're already in the best place, aren't they?

They're upset because they're food-insecure. Did... did you forget how this whole conversation started?
You think it's overblown they are performing DPI and a MiTM attack on content traversing across their network?
Red Dawn in Lapland
> We should really be pushing for structural separation and ownership rules of communications infrastructure, which I suppose is the end game of net neutrality anyways.

Right: eliminating the synergies between owning content and owning ISPs makes it so there is little reason for a firm to want to be both an ISP and a content provider; it won't instantly cause existing combined entities to split up, but firms seeking to concentrate on lines of business with natural synergies will eventually head that way.
To be fair - the guy has people literally photoshopping dicks on his face and other horrible things. This is considerably less overt "mocking" than that - and it's more at the outrage, not people individually.

Even if you think it's a horrible decision, I think he's allowed to make his case in an internet culture way.

If people get outraged enough at this, maybe this will be the impetus for people and startups to aggressively go after ISPs? You saw that happen when the T-mobile/AT&T merger failed, T-Mobile got competitive and is one of the major reasons you don't have 2-year contracts on phones anymore.

I'm not sold it's a great idea, but the people claiming Armageddon seem to be overplaying their hand.
Truffle: Ethereum Dapp Development Framework
sup bros!
This is so exciting. I feel like we're really at the cusp of a complete change in our expectations of how we treat disease, what cures look like, what they cost, and the range of improvements that can be made to people's lives.
> The FCC may very well be right that it's not their job to impose our dream portfolio of rules on Verizon (certainly, a lot of the rules people are claiming NN provided were fanciful)

That^ Too many people are trying to shove things that are covered by antitrust into net neutrality. This makes it a much harder sell.

I'm convinced many Republicans could be convinced to support net neutrality if it didn't have that extra baggage attached.

Keep it to:

1. No blocking of legal content,

2. No throttling of legal content,

3. Must deliver the speed and bandwidth that the customer pays for.
There's literally nothing partisan about this topic. The technical and academic worlds are virtually unanimous on the support of net neutrality. Even political support for net neutrality is around 83% across both parties. Don't shut down discussion because you personally feel ashamed that your party is complicit in this thing. It's not political.
For the love of god....

I'm intimately acquainted with both being poor and poor people. I have never in my life sneered at them and I donate generously to help them when I am in a position to do so. I have been poor for the majority of my life (I am not anymore) and I have seen firsthand what works and what does not.

Your government projects, ideas, and policies are a complete disaster that do nothing but exacerbate the problem.

>You need to consider that telling people to leave the geographic area that is their family home is a shitty response.

It is the only honest response. It is not what people want to hear, and it certainly isn't as comforting as what most liberals will peddle to the poor working class, but it is the honest truth (as I see it, given my experiences and education).

I'm being very blunt in this thread because I am passionate about this issue. I have seen people's lives ruined, people that I grew up with, because they were trapped in a cycle of poverty and crime because their parents refused to do what needed to be done: pack their bags and GTFO and move somewhere where it is cheap to live and where crime is low.

>You need to consider whether, perhaps, there are government policies that can help these people.

Do you realize the scale of redistribution that would have to occur so that poor people could manage to live in SV? This place is too expensive for middle and upper middle class professionals, much less the working class.

What are your great government backed ideas? Publicly subsidized housing? Have you ever lived in a government housing project? Have you been near one? If you haven't, I will gladly share with you my experiences.
> I expect Republicans to be pro-markets, even pro-big-business; I expect Republicans to favor deregulation. It is not acceptable to pursue that agenda by ignoring expert answers to technical questions, regardless of party affiliation. It is one thing to interpret facts... to simply dismiss facts that are being presented to you by experts, when you have a legal obligation to receive and consider such facts, is another matter entirely.

From where I sit, the particular observation you're making about how policy has been treated when it comes to Net Neutrality issues looks exactly like how the Republican party behaves generally. Whether it's about net neutrality, weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, climate change, stimulative effects of tax policy, health care -- it sure looks like many Republican positions are primarily arrived at and founded in the profit and power aspirations of a narrow constituency rather than observation and study, and that "deregulation" and "market-based" approaches are primarily invoked as tools or even just fig leaves where they appear useful.

Net Neutrality just happens to be one example where the audience here is predominately familiar enough with the relevant practical issues that it's easy to see.
python isn't the bestest thing in the world but it's still a massive win for them, and a massive win for excel users. VBA had too many shortcomings and led to loads of scalability problems even for medium size apps.
>I'm fine with robots.txt violations being considered hacking.

Okay. Start with something simple then - how would you define a "bot" and thus subject to your robots.txt rule?

Is my web-browser a bot? What about a proxy? What about a deaf persons screen reader?

If my web-browser pre-fetches links near my mouse pointer, is that a bot? What if it downloads the whole of an article split over, say, ten pages?

I think of robots.txt similar to posting a "No Trespassing" sign. For a private residence, it's almost not even required, yet for something like a shopping mall during opening hours, the default assumption is that anyone is allowed to be there without a specific invitation, until they are expressly asked to leave and not come back.

Trying to nail down the exact line is a tough issue.
People will tell you that instagram uses python or yelp or other big name projects use python. Certainly, type checking is not Essential to a large project the same way utensils are not essential when you eat. You can just use your hands to shove all the food into your mouth.
>> Trump is going to get everyone killed in global nuclear war related to North Korea

That's actually quite probable, because:

- both countries are openly hostile towards each other

- both have leaders that are mentally unstable and unpredictable.
> Government is the source of all wealth. So administering cashectomies is a fine way to mitigate hoarding.

Labor is the source of all wealth, not government.

> Once our Ginni coefficient is dragged back into the "democracy promoting" realm, we can talk about liberal over reach

What exactly is the democracy promoting range? How does it promote democracy exactly? The richest Americans are nearly split between democrats/republicans, so this isn't a 1 party issue.

I don't think UBI is over reach, I think it's bad policy.
Ideas being dangerous is one of the reasons that free speech is important. If they weren’t dangerous to someone nobody would bother opposing them.
> The skills that get you straight As in school are trying, being organized, dedicated to seeing things through, and being willing to work hard.

Alternatively, being good at memorizing and having a high reading comprehension. Not to forget understanding the game or simply having greater resources (past samples, etc.). Let's not pretend like good grades, especially in America, require the sought after talents of organization and work ethic.
You're wrong, but not in the way that you think.

The concept of a desktop operating system is dying.

Different distros of Linux are very capable desktop operating systems, they are fully featured and competitive with Windows in pretty much every facet. They may not be the next Windows but that doesn't matter. 95% of the use case for an OS now days is the ability to run a modern web browser.

Regardless, you shouldn't dismiss something just because it doesn't have mass adoption. Mass adoption doesn't necessarily reflect the amount of engineering and quality of the platform.

The whole Windows vs Linux debate is pretty much obsolete and becoming less relevant every day.
I'm pretty sure this is directly in response to them pulling the Youtube App from the FireTV devices.
The amount of people who argue that this tech isn't possible is astonishing! I show them it's literally happening now and they don't believe me. I show them how wireless mobile and traditional companies have plans to create wireless home broadband networks and they don't believe me. We are at the early stages of this and it's pretty clear to me that this industry is about to be massively disrupted.
Title II is a loooot more than being classified as a "utility"

Theres a lot of reports and other tasks that the ISP would have to do, but was put of 2 to 3 years since 2015.
>(spend the time writing tests instead!)

Every sufficiently large test suite will contain an ad-hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of a proper type system.
Access to dozens of services that AWS offers, that you'd want to utilize entirely on their networks ideally. That service list is only going to keep expanding. The cost for Etsy to duplicate and maintain any of those, is high. AWS is also likely to be one of the leading platforms for AI services/tools, which Etsy will no doubt want to make heavy use of in the future; that's another expensive duplication effort if they do it all in-house.

Let's say AWS has 50 services today. Etsy won't have to duplicate any of those by building & maintaining their own versions. It's an extraordinarily time consuming and expensive process to do so. The capabilities AWS can enable will get greater, while the expense to replicate on your own what AWS can do, will also climb. The extrapolated result, is that AWS & the others will perpetually take market share for the next 10+ years from do it yourself approaches. More for the software duplication expense (time & money), than the hardware/bandwidth cost difference.
Oh he totally believes it because this video shows all the truly trivial things about the Internet that makes it merely "cable TV on crack cocaine." Not the actual Internet that has been the most important force in culture and technology in a century.

To big incumbents like Verizon, your job is to eat what's shoved at you and crap cash. That's it. You're just an abstraction for these elites to buy their 5th home in Maui.
I really don't find a lobbyist organization's web site to be any more compelling than Pai's comments, sorry. They're going to offer just as much cherry-picked, agenda-serving propaganda as he is, and won't discuss the issue honestly or transparently either.
Title II was only introduced as a result of the Open Internet Order (from 2010) being overturned. Net neutrality principles have been sanctioned by the FCC since 2005; removing title II designation and moving away from these principles is a shift that should not be understated.
I'm going to cry because he mocked me
Yes let's waste our companies time and money by writing tests for things the compiler could guarantee for free!
LoWPAN on Android Things
More reasons to use free letsencrypt certs.
You do know that TCP/IP packet data delivery is handled by network protocol right? Protocol is designed to work, not to please Verizon lawyers.

Internet only works when neutral.

Here is your argument: Regulation bad - Deregulation good. Don't you think that's a bit overly simplistic?

What part of this are you missing? Either you have the Internet with protections in place or simply you don't have an Internet at all.
Your world view is AOL and Compuserv. That's what a world without NN looks like.
How exactly does one campaign a corporate violator when they only have one choice of provider?
Is ‘Oumuamua an alien spacecraft? First scans show no signs of technology
All content competes with each other, because humans still have finite time. Personally, I have gone through periods of not watching any long-form, scripted shows, and primarily watched content on YouTube about my specific interests. I have a finite amount of leisure time in the evening, and every option I have - books, shows, video games, dinner with friends, YouTube channels, etc. - is in direct competition with everything else.
Yep (including Echo Show etc).
Well, yeah, because they're talking about FB the product, not FB the company. From that point of view, "FB sucks and I'm using Instagram now" is a very valid statement.
Yeah, matplotlib, scipy and numpy are kinda no-brainers there.
I have been leaving the FB app off my phone (Android) for 2-3 years now, and I don't miss it one bit. I was running Messenger, but that's also a resource hog.

I am now using Messenger Lite, as I am in some personal friend groups (muted) that I sometimes catch up on, and I will say that it hardly uses any resources at all. Would highly recommend it for anyone who still wants Messenger but without the bloat and battery loss.