skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What's the benefit or use case of running serverless on-premise? Isn't the whole ideal of serverless is that you do not maintain servers yourself? Instead of specific Lambda/FaaS solution for on-prem, could we not just use docker package the function in startup script to achieve the same?
What's absurd about that concept is that it supposes that there's a day coming when people who haven't already bought Bitcoin will want it so badly that they'll be willing to enrich people who are buying in now. I think people who bought in a year ago will be the ones who can claim that sort of reward, at best.
Sorry but none of what you said really makes sense.

1) Websites work using FQDNs. ISPs can just throttle on that irrespective of whether the traffic is encrypted or not or what web technology is used. VPNs make that traffic somewhat hidden. But we could just see those banned outright unless you purchase a "business plan".

2) Apple, Microsoft, Google etc have already implemented the modern web. They have deviations in certain areas but there isn't some magical technology that makes it "modern".

3) The small guys absolutely will be hit the hardest. You will pay more as Netflix, Hulu etc are asked to pay more and it translates to higher subscription prices. Likewise you are going to see the richness and diversity of the web suffer as it becomes harder for startups to compete.
It's always easier to assume that your argument is being dismissed because the other side is ignorant or intolerant. As dang points out in a sibling comment to yours, it seems to be universal.

I've found most of HN willing to dive fairly deep on any topic as long as you remain respectful and don't present your self unwilling to actually reconsider your opinion. The problem is that all too often, assholes don't realize that how much an asshole they are comes across very clearly in how they present themselves or their ideas, and many people don't like interacting with assholes. The other problem is that we're all assholes sometimes.
Honoring the robots.txt file is voluntary and ignoring it should in no way be considered hacking. I would go so far as to say that any activity that someone could engage in, simply by loading a URL, should in no way be considered hacking.

Not only does it make it way too easy to prosecute software developers, it really devalues the term "hacking".
It begs the question why Google Cloud and not MS Azure or Amazon's AWS?

Could it be a price break they got, and also the AI advantages of Google Cloud's offerings? I am sure that played a big part.
I mean, that's my guess. Just trying to interpret GP.
You're exactly right and I have no idea why you've been downvoted.
Why would an ISP charge for netflix to deliver their content, when they can just throttle netflix and offer their own content. Go big or go home.
Oh I disagree wholeheartedly.

We're in the sh*tshow we are today not because of a lack of ideologies: Libertarian, Conservative, Liberal, Progressive, Evangelical, Green, and on and on... So clearly, there's no lack of 'convincing ideology' for any single individual's belief system and ideals.

The problem as I see it, is that the majority of people have retreated into their ideologies and just started tossing grenades and stones behind their respective walls, rather than having dialogue, understanding, and compromising.

And if your counter is that we're just lacking an even BETTEREST ideology that somehow rules them all, I think that's fallacy. Ideology is neither the solution, nor the problem.

It's the fact that ideologies have become ending points, rather than starting points of discussion. Which leads me back to my original point that we need leaders who will govern by listening to ideas, facts, counterpoints, and making tough compromises and decisions based on that.

EDIT: spelling
I better get some credit card debt then ;)

More seriously I have a 3.5% mortgage. Interest is not tax deductable. So roi is almost 7% pretax paying that bad boy down.
This is off topic and we definitely don't need what will happen if we go there.
Except, as described later in this thread, WHATWG HTML, the spec that is actually implemented is decidedly not versioned and changes from day to day. It's likewise discouraged from keeping old user-agents. (See e.g. chrome's and firefox' aggressive update and support policies.)

From what I understand, the WHATWG's policy regarding archival is "well yes the format is constantly changing but we'll try REALLY hard to not make too many breaking changes."
Yes, it is feasible: https://dbiua.org/

There are lots of local groups doing this around the country already in underserved areas as well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1B0u6nvcTsI
With Net neutrality repealed say hello the blocking sites like this one .. well without a vpn.
You have an unusual definition of "friend" then... But I'm not gonna tell you who to hang out with.
It sounds like sama just discovered that sacred cows are different in different locations. The experience of discussing whether women are are predisposed to avoid tech careers, or the problems associated with ethnic minorities, as a wealthy American speaking with Chinese startup leaders and other expats is probably different from that of speaking to a US audience. I suspect part of the reason is that the wider US audience is more likely to include ethnic minorities, politically active gay people, and ambitious women in tech[1]. I doubt a discussion of Chinese sacred cows would be as open - in fact, I doubt most westerners without expat experience could even detect the absence of many locally controversial topics from the discussion.

PC stifling of speech often gets laid at the feet of politics and academia, but the hyperbolic increase in thought-policing really seems to be a tech-related phenomenon intersecting with corporate priorities. There are a lot of people outside of tech and SF who are willing to discuss hard topics as long as everyone is willing to have skin in the game.

[1]although I acknowledge that there are a lot of women in Chinese tech and that the social dynamic is different, and suspect that they are more receptive to the idea of sex differences in occupational preferences.
Holy moly, it’s actually possible right now!

It wasn’t there before, but you can assign multiple certs to a front end now, and it works as you expect (tested with SSLLabs.com).

Great, thanks! :)
which may or may not be constitutional.
> I've yet to have anyone mention something with a "didn't you see that on Facebook?"

Any chance this is because you don't know what you've missed, and hence you don't talk to people about them?
> If you can somehow convince your HOA to let you put up a tower.

You don't have to convince them, let the FCC do that. I lived in an area with a heavy handed HOA. The only decent broadband was a WISP. They had a few go rounds with the HOA, but they can't regulate antennas. In the end the WISP put a tower on my roof - I never heard a word. They may try, but they don't have authority to regulate it.
It'll be interesting to see how that goes, whether other progressive states adopt similar rules, and whether we end up for some time in a country where some states are much more attractive to internet users and startups.
Going to go out on a limb here and say the very fact the FCC exists leads one to assume this is one of things delegated to the federal government -- at least in their opinion.
If you want to be an accepting person, you have to first decide who it is you are wanting to accept. If you are simply wanting to be as accepting and tolerant as you can possibly be, then it would seem that you would want to accept as many people as possible. That would suggest that you would rather accept the >30% of the country that considers homosexuality unacceptable than the <15% that actually is homosexual. In other words, you would prefer the status quo, which is to say, you would choose to be conservative.

Almost everyone is happy to tolerate everyone who doesn't try to interfere with them, their preferences, and their beliefs. Racists are generally happy to tolerate black people as long as they sit in the back of the bus, use their own drinking fountains, and remember to say 'sir'. Even racists tolerate those who tolerate them.
It is an oligarchy though. just because Trump has an official position now doesn't mean he didn't have much more political power than other citizens before that. just listen to how he speaks about senators and congressfolk, who will "do anything for campaign contributions"
> you have a flawed assumption that the big telcos that own the tower and backhaul

Most cell towers are owned by a third party (not a big telco), and they'll lease to anyone if you have the cash, and the site has the capacity (physical space, weight/wind requirements, etc). You can lease from American Tower, Crown Castle, SBA, etc.

The existing backhaul is often owned by existing monopoly telecom providers. But not always. And competitive non-big-telco commercial operators will often install service to a site for you, if you are willing to pay for it. For example, I'm looking at a cell site in Michigan right now, that's deep in AT&T territory, but Sprint fiber is actually the installed backhaul provider, and four other commercial providers will install service there for a price.

You can know all of this upfront, before you sign anything, so there's very little risk in terms of tower space or backhaul availability. People have been doing this for decades now, it's not as ill-defined as it might seem.
Let me introduce you to 2001, the year we had five presidents in the span of a couple months: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/December_2001_riots_in_Argenti...

The perceived notion that people have to resign for "what they say or think" in the US is overblown.
The stock market has risen for the past century. I think history doesn't agree with your statement.
SAD.....
Citation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenth_Amendment_to_the_United_...

If it's true for handguns, it's true for the Internet. I say Californians might have a shot at this (as would any other state)
Ask HN: What's your favorite tech talk from 2017?
Now that the year is (almost) over, what do you think are the must-watch tech talks from the past year?
I know you have real points but bringing them up in this way in this discussion is just going to create a flamewar. That may be part of the problem you're articulating but it's also a fact, and we have to have a fire department here or the place will burn up. So please don't.

We have no choice but to work within the window of tolerance of the body of this community. I don't mean 'tolerance' in the virtue sense but in the physical sense of excessive stimulus triggering meltdown.
Many retail companies avoid AWS because they see Amazon as a competitor.

Source: work for a retail company, we went with Azure.
What do you set your thermostat to?
I went to my sisters graduation at Northwestern where Stephen Colbert was the keynote speaker. I don't see a difference between the antics of Colbert and Yiannapoulos other than what tribe they represent. One is a keynote graduation speaker, one has riots that prevent them from speaking on campus.
The same way Gun-Free School Zones fall under the Commerce Clause, but with less of a stretch of the imagination.
This is great, I wanted to make something like this once but never got round to it.

Mainly because the pricing calculator from AWS is pure trash
Synthesizing and manipulating 2048x1024 images with conditional GANs
These are not "monopoly agreements" (which are illegal). If you actually read them, you'll see each one says it's "non-exclusive." E.g. http://charmtv.tv/sites/all/themes/charmtv/pdf/comcast-franc....

What not offering telephone or television service gets you is avoiding the need to negotiate with the city for a television franchise. These agreements are usually stuffed with grab-bags for the municipal government (e.g. per-user fee, 5% of revenue off the top, offer XYZ public-access channels, build out to XYZ neighborhoods). All of this is imposed by the local government, not the FCC.

If you just want to run an ISP, build out where you think you can make a profit, and don't want the city to skim off the top, you can avoid that by not offering television or phone service. On the other hand, not offering television makes it hard to compete. People really do care about television service. I lived in an apartment building in Baltimore that had both cable and FiOS. FiOS was internet-only, because Verizon couldn't get a television franchise in the city. I found out I was the first one on my floor (of dozens of apartments) that had subscribed to fiber since the building was built 4-5 years before. All because people really love their television bundles. (There is a reason Google Fiber offered television service.)
Nice to see Haskell on the list.
So your solution is to spend money to move somewhere else? Government of the rich, for the rich, by the rich :-/
You're not wrong, except that no one has a time machine, so...

But I feel ya'.
It's interesting this xkcd seems to be making the point that complaining about the increase in pace from the previous generation is as old as time itself. This conclusion is plausible, however I would be interested to hear opinions from earlier than the 1800s. If you consider the past 300 years in the span of human evolution, it's miniscule. On that timeline the 1800s seem much more closely related to modern day. My point being that decreasing attention span could still be considered a relatively 'recent' phenomenon.
I use this and love it because I still communicate with a lot of people via Messenger. I'd delete my FB except I've got a ton of logins to other apps that use it, unfortunately. This blocks the news feed completely.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/news-feed-eradicat...
I struggle to think what you could even trade with Russia besides gas/oil and other natural resources. I'm sure Estonia is hard at work with renewable power sources so Russia will just fall behind even further. One day the Baltic countries won't even need Russian gas.
Orange clown --> Racist

Henchmen --> Fear-mongering

Public Education --> We still have it.

Mental Health programs --> Still have 'em.

Insect Biomass --> It's almost as if having 7B humans on the planet has consequences. But sure, rabble rabble, it's all Reagan's fault.
Not me, authors I may read.
Anyone hear about Hempcrete? Concrete made of Hemp that also traps Co2?
Apparently their optimization strategy failed to engage in this instance.
Open Access to the Internet Should Be a Right
Pai has specifically claimed the FCC can pre-empt State-level Net Neutrality initiatives.

AFAIK, however, that's up to an appellate court to decide, which hasn't happened yet. (Another comment in another thread cites the recent case the FCC lost regarding its ability to pre-empt municipal broadband — see TN, NC v. FCC — which is probably somewhat dispositive.)

EDIT: also: "delegated to the United States by the Constitution". Note the emphasis. The FCC can assert all the authority it wants, but absent an Amendment to that effect, or a specific ruling on that question by a "court of competent authority", I don't believe the matter is nearly as settled as you suggest.
Ask HN: How would you “try out” companies when internships aren't an option?
I never got the chance to intern as a programmer at big companies, as I never majored in Computer Science. But I'd like to get that experience of getting a feel for their workflow and environment before I really commit to one.

Such as, applying for several companies that you have an interest in. But your school years are well behind you, so you can't apply to internships. However, you would want to them out for a few months without needing a long-term commitment, learn the ropes of how they do their work internally. Can you substitute internships with proposing short-term contract work for them, explaining your terms and expectations?
I'm curious how this could impact the cryptocurrency space. If the government is effectively showing willingness to hand the Internet over to moneyed interests, does that damage the assumption that the Internet is a failsafe medium for cryptocurrency networks to operate? Should we also fear the banks using similar leverage to protect their interests if it looks like cryptocurrencies stand a reasonable chance of circumventing their oligopoly?

Anybody counting on the Internet for their disruptive future plans should hear this message loud and clear.
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The point of the LLC or Corp is that if someone sues your business, they can't come after your personal assets. In the parent's case, this is their vested shares of startupcorp. A separate entity limits your risk.
https://stratechery.com/2017/pro-neutrality-anti-title-ii/
>The vagaries of finding content you saw minutes before, and the almost entirely random way posts and everything is organized, is frustrating too.

I've found it nearly impossible to search for anything on Facebook that isn't a person, and even that is difficult.
No, that is not my suggestion.
I just went to mbasic.facebook.com from my iPhone and it worked? I didn't login because I don't use facebook, does it block you after you login?
FCC failed to preempt local state laws that ban municipal broadband. How is that different? Or FCC only can do it when serving monopolists?
To your point about someone already doing it, this is roughly what I was thinking although with a more global focus:

https://teleport.org/cities/

https://teleport.org/cities/portland-or/

https://teleport.org/compare/portland-or-vs-raleigh-vs-los-a...

Seems like it was founded by former Skype employees and recently acquired by a Relocation/Move coordination company.
Just to make sure I understand, conservatives said that it would be a disaster if the ACA signed into law?

Assuming that is what you meant: just because that was not true doesn't mean that NN is not important. Granted, there is some fear mongering and worst-case thinking going on, but in the end I think that there is valid reasoning behind NN fears, just like the claims about the ACA were provably exaggerated at the time.

This kind of reminds me how the Iraq war is being used to sow distrust of the intelligence services now. Because there were mistakes made during a republican administration that was hell-bent to go to war in Iraq, we shouldn't trust them now when there is immense agreement about the Russian hacking and propaganda campaign.
Routing happens dynamically, but it very probably doesn't touch an ISP's pipes until very close to the "last mile" — especially when you're talking about the smaller ISPs who don't even have an inter-state presence.
I haven't kept up with Autolib (first large city-wide car-sharing program) - it's been over 5 years now, but it's hard to find progress reports.

Can anyone who lives in Paris give us an insight into how things are going?
The greatest thing I did was delete Facebook off my phone. Here are the benefits I discovered:

- I didn't miss anything. Turns out there wasn't any real quality content on there anyway.

- My battery lasts 2x longer.

- I seem to be happier. No joke. With all the rage articles and click bait headlines gone, I am far more happier.

- I am way more informed now. I visit allsides.com and get the news there. I quickly get up to speed and find well written articles that inform me about what is really going on.

- I am more productive. Without all the garbage Facebook puts out, I have more time to get actual work done.

- I feel accomplished. I go home feeling more accomplished. I am happier, more productive, and more informed. It is a win-win-win all around.
It's failing for your point of view. Don't conflate that with democracy failing as a whole.
It's probably the course book that the professor or department wrote for the specific course because they couldn't find a textbook that covered the material they wanted in the way they wanted. A lot of courses at U of M had them in the 90s; you'd buy the course book from a local printer's shop as a tape-bound, soft-cover book. They were very nice because they covered exactly what you needed using the same language as the professor. It was like having notes you could read before the lectures.
Netflix, Google and others voice frustration with net neutrality vote
> Unfortunately, our disease-specific drug approval process does not scale and prevents us from realizing the benefits of these techniques and technologies.

On the other hand, something which is exceptionally well known to work should also attract huge and immediate capital to do the proper tests. Even for rare diseases, a sure thing would be funded.

I think the difficulty is more about procedural or cell based cures vs. drug-based cures or treatments. The system is set up for the latter, but is not comfortable with the former.
Are you sure they have the original size from 10 years ago? I think they may have been saving space/bandwidth back then by only keeping resized versions.
We synthesize idealized ephemeris time via a cohort of atomic clocks. Google's TrueTime tracks this along with the local uncertainty. This allows Spanner to explicitly wait out uncertainty windows, establishing a single externally consistent order to all possible observers, even in the presence of hidden communication channels.

This is the whole point of the system, and what the article covers.

What you're saying about time isn't even exactly true in the general case where we need account for relativity. While observers of clocks in different locations may not agree on clocks alone, they will agree on the total spacetime interval.

In any case, accounting for relativity is only necessary in high precision radio frequency systems operating between ground and orbit like GPS. And even then we can still track the frequency and phase offsets of the oscillators in real time and establish their relationship to idealized ephemeris time.

So yes, the sentences in the article DO make sense.

EDIT: at least the ones concerning time and consistent orders due. The words about effectively CA are ... not great.
> but you all need to get active and fix your ISP problem and create a free market.

I, for one, think this is excellent advice and eagerly await the United Stated dedicating itself to becoming a free market someday.
Couldn't we just give everyone health insurance for free and then raise their tax a lil bit?
Building a mesh network* is a much cheaper, more realistic alternative.

Also, with regard to your point about "starting an ISP", I don't know the legalities and IANAL, but NYC Mesh goes out of their way to state that they _are not_ an ISP - there's probably a reason for that.

- https://nycmesh.net

- https://www.alliedmedia.org/dctp
>We are very effective at breeding, especially with the help of science and technology.

In what sense? Our production rate is substantially lower than most other animals; mothers-to-be are made weaker than other animals during the process; the threat of death in childbirth for both child/mother is hardly the lowest of other animals

We have a relatively high population now, but its hard to imagine that its due to an efficient breeding process; rather our survival rate post-birth, lifespan and our phenomenal ability to edit the environment to increase resource production to support higher populations are likely better explanations

Put a pair of rabbits in a room and a pair of humans, with all needs met. We're not even competitive
How does it earn money?
Things you can't say in San Francisco:

- Gays are about 3% of the US population. Higher in a few big cities, lower in rural areas. Transgenders, maybe 0.4%.

- About half the US population supported Trump. His supporters have legitimate complaints.

- Average US Asian IQ: 105. Average US white IQ: 100. Average US black IQ: 85.

- "Medical marijuana" is a joke.
Until it snows
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