skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are good reasons to oppose what Comcast is doing. It would be nice if we could focus on those then, instead of the kinds of responses that have been appearing. The latter are not just unlikely to get anything to change, but are probably detrimental. The type of intellectual dishonesty present in the article, its headline, and peanut galleries like HN is the sort of thing that could end up inoculating folks like jlivingood on the Comcast end against worthwhile parts of public criticism.
This reminds me of Liu Cixins "The the body problem"-triology. If you haven't read it yet you should have a look.
The last thing I would want for an alien life is to be humane. We have not really been great in our interactions with other cultures throughout history and they were of the same species as us.
> Perhaps you should spend a little of time reading

Please don't take swipes like that in HN comments.
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Aw, come now. All those public domain fairytales and legends were struggling to gain an audience in the contemporary media landscape without a company willing to take the risk of developing a new presentation and monetizing distribution - with the mere caveat of trapping all those dusty ideas in permanent copyright. We're lucky that our new shared stories will never be I in danger of fading into unpopularity due to copyright not being able to guarantee a framework for for-profit distribution.
The simultaneous weakening of both Russia's military position and it's economic position make it far harder for Putin's cabal to persuade the masses that they are terrific managers who are making Russia great again. Whether keeping Putin comfortable should be on our agenda at all is another question of course.
A lot of this is not new information to me, but it's a great succinct summary and the design is cool (though, to be honest, I think some of the animations are a little too 'showy' and take a little too long, distracting from the content).

What I'd love to be able to do is find a way to break out of the traditional debate about this topic: One person (usually a millennial) brings up the issues the article raises, then another person (usually not, often a boomer) counterpoints with the "participation trophy" or "what about motivation" or "the Internet" responses.

But in many of these cases, both exist at once: Millennials feel entitled because they were told to be by parents who told them they were entitled, either explicitly or through teaching, because those parents grew up in a world that made those entitlements possible. As the article points out, the system is complicated. It's so complicated that both sides are right, but neither is fully comprehending the consequences.

I think the question therefore must be not "how did we get to this place and who is to blame?" but rather "what societal changes are necessary to fix it?" Presuming enough of each generation want to fix the problem, by asking the latter question rather than the former, it may be possible to effect the kind of change that will prevent the genuine collapse we seem to be racing towards.
...and yet they still line up to go to university to study humanities

instead, enroll in a community college program for anything construction related...in Santa Rosa, home builders are naming their prices. the same will soon happen in Ventura. in the Bay Area, construction tradespeople turn down work due to demand. there is work to be done that will earn you a comfortable living that does not require a university degree.
I’m one of the devs on Kobble. Thanks for the comments. When you start the app, there is tutorial information and videos on the first screen. We do agree that the landing page could use improvement.

The data model is somewhat like YouTube, except the items are not just videos. They can be bookmarks, markdown documents, or presentations (made with markdown also). It’s all built around sharing. It’s easy to share channels with other users, for instance.

Kobble also has extensive support for iOS drag and drop. If you use the multitasking capabilities of the iPad, you can just drag links or text directly into Kobble. The Kobble tree supports drag and drop also. It’s quite efficient at organising information from the web.

Cheers.
The real solution is disallowing behaviors, instead of shibboleths.

It's surprising that malicious bots aren't exploiting those things already.
Thank you, this goes a long way to explaining why some people say "but it's ${CURRENT_YEAR}" as if that were an argument.
You've been breaking the HN guidelines more than once in this thread. We've had to warn you about this before. When this keeps happening and people don't stop, we ban them, so please stop.
What's the point in testing types if the tests that check it works pass?
Not being sarcastic, but is this honestly better? There are only a few major cell providers that can roll out 5G, so it seems to me that instead of Comcast-TW-Cox we would have ATT-Verizon-Tmo.

I guess it would be easier to set up municipal ISPs, since minimal wiring would be needed. But the lack of real competition in the cell market seems to indicate that the problems are pretty similar for small startups.
The former. The problem is just that you've learned what the latter means better than the former. I'm the opposite.

Plus, the former is an absolute value where the latter is not, as far as I've been able to tell. I know that first span will always be 10pt font. I have no idea what "2" even means in this context.
I work with Python and Ruby (some Elixir.) They are strongly typed in the same way. I hardly think about types. The code just works. The only scenario in which I have to stop and think is when I get some input, for example some JSON. Is that value I have to add to this counter a string or an integer? I can cast it to integer and that's it. To be fair, sometimes an integer gets where there should be a string and boom. Still, I prefer that to having to write types again as I used to when working with C and Java. I fix the code and I don't write tests to check the types of function arguments.
Maybe I could accept some type inference, but no more string, int, generics, etc.
Typo fixed, thanks!
I wish that book had a better ending.
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And it appears to be a recruiter goldmine, the staff turnover is significantly high (so I am told).
A codebase of this size with no static type checking is not going to be fun.
The other systems you mention may or may not be arbitrary, but at least they're not circular. The reasoning "It's immoral because it's illegal and it's illegal because it's immoral" is unsound because it's circular. Disagreeing over your base set of axioms is one thing, but circular reasoning is quite another.

Under a circular legal moral system, moral progress would hinge on new understanding of old laws or else nominally morally neutral changes to the law. The other systems more easily promote moral progress via new understanding. Utilitarians can have new insights into utility functions. Religious based morality can have life experience and new cultural understandings influence their understanding and consequences of their basic commands.
it's obvious what you're describing but just wanted to point out that aerodynamic is a poor choice of words to describe an interstellar body :)
Tolerating distasteful and bigoted opinions, maybe not. Tolerating active hate from a large group against a minority? Inevitably, every single time. (By which I mean, I can't come up with a single example - I obviously haven't exhaustively searched all of history. If you have a counter example, please share)
You're completely missing my point. Today everyone is screaming at the top of their lungs that because of the repeal of NN, ISPs will begin censoring speech, while these campaigns are being financed and propagated by the very entities that engage in wholesale censorship of speech.

I actually laughed out loud today when I saw a tweet from twitter saying that NN will allow for censorship. Twitter is a festering den of opaque censorship. No one sees the irony?
True.

My care factor is probably very different to most non techies, by assumption. Then again, there's probably a bunch of things I do that would annoy(?) {them} greatly - that I'm not even aware of.
"In Michigan"

People in Michigan are getting fed up with this situation. Lyndon Township passed a 20 year millage to fund a municipal fiber network. The vote passed 2-1 with almost 50% turnout in a non-general election year. The tax will cost every $200K household about $300/year; $6000 total. That's on top of the monthly fees they intend to pay for the service.

People want good fixed broadband Internet. They are willing to pay for it. The telcos and cable operators don't care; they're happy with the customer base they have and their horizon is measured in quarters, not decades, so they're entirely uninterested in the effort and investment needed to build out such systems. They want the low hanging low effort fruit.

This NN outcome won't change any of that; whatever ambition these companies have is now focused on the windfalls they'll make from the peering agreements they're going to negotiate with Netflix et al. and none of that money will find its way to build outs.

http://www.mbcoop.org/lyndon-township/
Most of it is caught as incidentals of tests you have to write either way.

There's room for both paradigms - it's kinda silly to argue strict superiority of either because there's just no empirical evidence that having static typing or not drastically changes bug count.

If you take a look at some of the studies out there that do exist (which there are, admittedly, few, and it's a fundamentally tough thing to measure), e.g. [0], it usually tends to be the case the both typed and untyped languages show up in the realm of "least likely to produce bugs"

[0] http://web.cs.ucdavis.edu/~filkov/papers/lang_github.pdf
olau: If we're talking about great, innovative artists, I think few of them actually benefit much from the copyright system

maldusiecle: I can think of countless innovative musicians, film directors, and authors who benefit from selling back catalog that's 10-20+ years old

I'd love to see more support for both sides of this argument. My guess would be that olau and maldusiecle may not have much overlap in the list of artists that they consider innovative. I'm probably closer to olau's position: while there are artists who benefit from copyright, they tend to be the ones who have chosen to concentrate on the commercial potential of their work rather than innovation. And I'd guess that most of those who are "doing art for art's sake" would do as well or better under a much less restrictive copyright regime.
You realize that Ajit Pai was appointed to the commission by Obama right?
Might [1] be "Linear Algebra Done Right" by Axler?
http://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783319110790
I'd say the problem is that it's too European - it held onto Medieval Europe's system of serfdom and highly centralized power far too long; the agricultural riches and later oil riches in Russia made modernization less interesting. One big revolution is no substitute for ten thousand small ones.

In size (population and moreso economy) it's now not that far ahead of Germany and has China and India as neighbors/near neighbors. I'd say it is adopting the psychology of the tough small guy.
this seems like whataboutism to me.

I completely agree the tax bill is also terrible. but this conversation started around the FCC NN rules and due to _lack_ of competition anything we have is better than this form of deregulation. I'm happy to entertain a _separate_ conversation about the tax bill but I feel like you are saying because that is so much worse that NN does not matter... I believe that way of communicating is very dangerous because it can be applied to anything and everything. for example ISPs being able to store/mine and sell data on their users which was another law passed this year and caused me to donate to the eff.

my point is, I do not think you comment contributes to NN fairly by correlating the tax law as more important, I believe they are both very important.
Yes, external correction mechanisms are very helpful. Installing little snitch, monitoring wireshark and checksums helped me a lot :)
Why not? Humanity can survive famine by replacing their need for food with cybernetic implants. Potentially live underwater, why not
> It would have been a very cruel joke if the first opportunity for interaction with extra terrestrial intelligence flew past us so unceremoniously.

It won't leave the solar system (Oort cloud) for 20,000 years. I'd hope our technology improves enough to be able to catch up in that time.
It would be great for a scripting language, but for field functions I would have preferred something that's more akin to FRP-oriented language (e.g. Scheme).
And integration with Python will be an enormous help for them.
As a non-native speaker, I appreciate if somebody corrects me like this, even if they hurt a little bit. I think you wrote it in a very nice manner.
Pros and Cons of Metcalfe's Law for IT Ops
No, the claim is that the tests that "check it works" are really testing the types (as an ad-hoc type checker) and wouldn't need to be written if a sufficiently strict static type system were used instead.
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One day, you will grow old, and less-able.

You may need the kids that you blew off to take care of you.
I wouldn't mind some extra information you have on this. When I've spoken to folks at the browser vendors one-on-one, they've talked about following WHATWG, rather than the W3C standard, but usually that was in conversations that were critical of the W3C, so it was hard to tell how ubiquitous that position was.
It's called RDD. Resume driven development
I was careful to mention that I am not blowing them off.
There is also messenger.com
Ten years from now, I will.
DeepMind AlphaZero AI clobbered rival chess app on non-level playing board
A recent review on the same topic, with a more serene presentation: https://nplusonemag.com/issue-30/reviews/not-every-kid-bond-....
How about having some students be the nodes

Their job is to write down the transactions on a piece of paper.

Then have some students be miners.

They write down unconfirmed transactions and roll 2 dice. If they get a pair of 1's they can create a block and give it to the node students to copy. (Could use a photocopier to speed things up)

Then have some students be users creating transactions and such like.
Am I just a whiny bitch? :/
Have you ever walked into an interview and you're greeted at the door with "we have to at least invite 3 females to our quarters when hiring, welcome"? Well, I have at least three times and by this time I'm so traumatised by all this bullshit, that I'm working undercover freelance most of the time and it's depressing. So often they let you do some programming exercise in advance, so you can verify you're worthy to talk to. Before you show up at the office you torture yourself with questions what to wear... Do you go all professional with the suit or casual? After all you might end up with som e people in your interview, who don't even take time to shower and will great you with a layer of grease and laugh at you for your neat outfit. I had to go through that. Several times. But that's alright. I don't care about how people dress in my team. But then they'd ask questions and won't let me answer. Once there was even one guy there for no particular reason except blurping out (wrong) answers. When I asked for feedback on the code challenge they couldn't find anything wrong, so the guy just told me while going through my code "umm, your code... I don't like it.".
You have to think about the types for some small pieces of your code where those types matter. That's what hints are for. Python lets you, through type hints, only care about the typing in those small cases where it actually matters, and ignore them the rest of the time.
I know it's not quite what you're asking for, but each commit gets its own URL that you can use if you want to refer to a bit of text and know the link won't break:
https://html.spec.whatwg.org/commit-snapshots/0184feb8b468f2...
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> Labor is the source of all wealth, not government.

Neither labor nor government is the source of all wealth. There is no one source of all wealth. Not all wealth is produced in the economy, but for the wealth that is, the source of that wealth is all of the resources (including labor) that collectively go into the production of that wealth.

Furthermore, we wouldn't produce wealth if people weren't able to buy it. So in a sense, you could say that the source of wealth is spending. And in the sense that the government funds spending (through a basic income or otherwise), the government is the source of wealth.

Depending on your perspective, wealth can have different sources. But figuring out the source of wealth isn't really that important when we know how to maximize people's wealth regardless of its theoretical source.

There's a lecture I really like by economist Steve Keen where he describes his own theory for the source of wealth:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2H1LIr2NMbE

His answer is that energy (a.k.a. the sun) is the source of all wealth. That's certainly a reasonable way of looking at it that you can't really argue with. But it doesn't tell us how to improve human prosperity.

My favorite quote from the lecture:

"The theory of production has got nothing to do with the theory of remuneration."

Basically this means that how much you get paid has very little if anything to do with how much you contribute. And that's exactly the way it's supposed to be. Markets determine the prices of various forms of labor and that's fine. Let supply meet demand and don't worry about whether wages happen to line up with individual incomes that are optimal for the economy.

Getting individual incomes to prosperity-maximizing levels what basic income is for.
Dark Forest Deterence. I'd be interested to find out what % of HR readers HAVEN'T read this trilogy considering how much it comes up in conversation on these forums. I'm willing to bet it is a VERY high % compared to the average reading population.
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Maybe it's just one stage of a rocket that is slowing down?
I wanted to add that I think everyone's case is different. I had a tenure in Chicago and all of the apartment buildings I lived in were locked to a single ISP. This is very much so a YMMV.
We all remember the internet skeptics, but forget how equally wrong the people who were predicting that the internet would lead us to a global utopia by the year 2000. Extreme positions are usually wrong.

It's hard to take comparisons of an internet-based technology to the internet itself seriously. Blockchain more comparable to something like Push [1]. Mostly overhyped, some good ideas that will survive and re-emerge years later, and massive amounts of malinvestment in technologies that didn't ultimately pan out. [2]

[1] https://www.wired.com/1997/03/ff-push/

[2] https://www.wired.com/2004/05/the-return-of-push/
We might also discover that unicorns and elves are real, but I wouldn't bet our future on it.
And this is where you are getting into some really interesting stuff:

what you want to do is be an ISP and content originator. In that case you effectively are double-selling your bandwidth since eyeball networks are bringing content in while web farms are pushing content out.

Oversubscription is a reality but it transparently works only on a very large scale - which is why Verizon and Comcast should be able to provide extremely high speed connections ( they don't due to their peering and interconnect policies but that's a separate thing ).

HE is terribly oversubscribed.
Only if your income exceeds something like $90K. If they could get that kind of a job anywhere in the world, they don't need to leave the US.
"Edgy headline" - vice.com. Modern day equivalent of a tabloid newspaper in a grocery store.
But this is kind of my point: As of now, this doesn't exist.

I don't think the commit history works. It doesn't give you any indication about which changes are relevant or irrelevant and it doesn't tell anything about the larger efforts taking place.

Actually, I don't think it would even make sense to create an equivalent of the W3C diff, because there are no versions or other structures to organize the changes around - there is just a constant stream of changes. (Which is kind of the point of the living standard concept after all)
The problem is that if you go by the fact that someone somewhere has it worse then where's the motivation to change anything? Should we not be holding our societies to a slightly higher standard than what passes in the third world? You may not care, and that's good for you, but I'm sure you can appreciate that such an attitude is pretty much useless if we ever want to progress beyond a society where someone's worth is directly tied to their "quality of output" (maybe you don't).
But the society need not be based on internal oppression, to be an adversary to us: I don't think the kingdom of Castille in 1492 necessarily was a beacon of stability and lack of conflict; yet it financed an expedition westwards.
Also, perhaps the authors status in San Francisco means that any comments he makes will be more likely to get attention (and hence criticism) than in China.
Good, thanks, BUT - there is no place to publish ideas now to establish prior art for those who might of might not commercialize the idea. Why would open source peeps facilitate that? Because nearly all those ideas won't be patented or commercialized by the inventors and if they are in the public domain those ideas can't be bullshit-patented much later.

I just about popped the description of an idea there, which I wrote up in the form of a provisional patent a decade ago, but 500 words isn't enough.
Which book is that?
I'm basically in the same boat, except I thought our AI class was basically just A* and other forms of search and didn't go back to learning any of it until after university!
I think you're not interpreting the word "humane" correctly. It's possible for humans to behave in an inhumane manner. In fact it happens a lot to this day. That doesn't mean GP's definition of "humane" is wrong.
It doesn’t matter. As a public servant you serve the people, period. Your conduct matters and the perceptions created by your conduct matters.

Whatever his position on the issue, Mr. Pai is out of line for mocking the citizens that he serves. It reflects a lack of class and reinforces the perception that the FCC is not serving the interests of the people.
Excel itself is functional and reactive already, wouldn't adding an FRP language on top of that be a bit superfluous? Check out Felienne Hermans' work if you haven't already:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0yKf8TrLUOw

http://www.felienne.com/publications