skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The study did not look at whether family members or other close acquaintances ended up containing measurable numbers of copies of the virus. The patients were tested and the study verified that the (altered) genetic data from the virus was excreted normally.

The virus was deliberately defective and unable to replicate, so the copies made for use in treatment are the only copies that would ever exist. This also ensures that dose control is effective, if the virus could replicate then further copies of the gene would be inserted.
The current regulations around Net Neutrality have only officially existed for that long. Previous attempts at regulation happened before that, and the principles around net neutrality were how the Internet worked for a long time until ISPs began to go a different direction.

So, we've had lowercase net neutrality for basically the entire existence of the Internet. But the uppercase Net Neutrality has only been around for a couple years, but came into existence because we were losing the lowercase version.
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You get the government your neighbors want. I'd vote in a heartbeat to raise water and sewer rates to upgrade our water systems so we could stop dumping untreated sewage into the Chesapeake Bay: https://www.baltimorebrew.com/2017/08/01/baltimore-released-.... But my neighbors won't do that. Do you think they'll be more forward looking when it comes to broadband? Or will all the retirees who dominate the voting decide that 50 mbps ought to be good enough for everybody?

Since my parents first got fiber 10 years ago, Verizon has spent a ton of money upgrading from BPON to GPON, and now is working on NGPON2. If a public utility were in charge, even if they were willing to raise the money to install fiber in the first place, there is no way in hell they'd have made those upgrades.

You can see this in practice. Here in Maryland, the only upgrade in transit service I can think of in my lifetime is running the Penn line from Baltimore on weekends. More typically, the public authorities run the transit systems on the edge of collapse. Simply maintaining existing service levels in the face of under-maintained infrastructure is considered a victory.
Definitely an interesting subject, but I would think with how heavily regulated cable and phone lines are, that California could enforce it on ISPs for their residents, at least.
California is most definitely within its rights to regulate businesses operating within the state. If an ISP wants to sell its service to CA residents, it can abide by CA laws.
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Fortunately, videos don't run on Facebook if you have Ghostery and the EFF's blocker enabled.
Hyperbole level: MAXIMUM

You could also read all the great authors in your native language in that time, or “suffer” the translations.
The average of several traits in different populations are (obviously) different. Sometimes with more than 1SD difference. OTOH variance withing the same group is bigger.
If you say this, you'll be ostracized in academia and fired at your work by mob pressure. Even Altman can freely speak about how chilling is the PC culture. Mentioning China as a place where he can speak "freely" should have been a hint to you.
Agreed. "extremist" implies some sort of ideology. If Trump has one of those, he hasn't articulated it yet.
I used to live in Frederiksberg, which is practically Copenhagen. I loved Denmark, but as with most European countries, there is a specific definition of what "Dane" means. Foreigners will always be an outsider(vastly different than living in the Bay Area). I also sensed some discomfort with "white collar" brown folks. As most of Danish interactions with brown people is limited to Doner Kebab restaurants and Afghani run grocery stores. There were very few non-white white collar workers. I also faced outright racial hostility, but thankfully those instances were very few. If you are considering a move to Denmark, think about this is an European moving to India and China. It is like expat living as chances of integrating to a Danish society will be minimal.
Crowdsourceable? If you need a couple thousand users, would it be possible to run a marketing campaign, get pre-purchase commitments of $100-200, and give some rewards to early adopters? If you raise enough funding, you're good, if not, just cancel the campaign.
Taking a break could be a new years resolution :)
A is obviously the choice here... but that's a problem if you have a lot of big fish trying to get their money but can't. The price should be tanking, but everyone is too afraid to trigger a run on the exchanges that would kill their investment. There's really no way to know if this is happening. It could have already started.
I was talking specifically about mind uploads.
A few things.

Typical laserprint paper is pulp, more especially so for recycled paper. Archival stock is rag and acid-free. Back in the day, this was required for thesis and dissertation submissions, for archival purposes -- rag paper will disintegrate in time.

The other factor, though, are the size of the sheets and how they're assembled. For blunt edge-glued paperback or perfect covers, this isn't a big deal, but a printed book is produced on signatures, which are sets of sheets sewn together, and generally in quarto (four impressions per side) format (eight impressions total including the verso). Octavio is another standard, though generally for books of smaller dimensions.

You're not going to get a sewn-book feel from A4 or US Letter sized paper. And I don't think even running up to larger A3 will quite work, you're looking at about A2 for a proper quarto. Though this is out of my depth.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_216
Congress can override the FCC using the Congressional Review Act. Simple majority in each house. The CRA also prohibits the agency from introducing similar regulations ever again. Call your Congressperson! Particularly if your members are on the Energy and Commerce Committee.
You're admitting to writing this in Notepad++ (on HN to boot) makes me feel obsolete.

I'm the type to constantly look for better tooling/editors/frameworks and get tired of "working" before actually starting the project.

You made this lovely feature-rich photo editor with Notepad++ and what seems Ext.JS and vanilla JS.

You inspired me today. Thank you.
Leaving Facebook has honestly made me a happier guy. (I left my account active, but I've removed the apps from my phone and I only visit the site about once every three months to message someone my phone number.)

Browsing the site always made me a bit angry (at the politics) and a bit sad (because someone else always seems to be on some impressive vacation). Then I'd close the browser be angry at myself for wasting time I could have invested in learning something or creating something.

My #1 fear was that I'd feel out of the loop, but I honestly don't. I've yet to have anyone mention something with a "didn't you see that on Facebook?" A friend of mine tried the same experiment and says he's also happier. If you catch yourself left with a bit of pensive sadness after using the site, try taking a hiatus and see how it feels.
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Can you elaborate on how this would fall under interstate commerce? As I see it, they'd be regulating how they treat in-state customers and their connections, not anything coming across the state-lines. i.e. They aren't saying Comcast isn't allowed to do things to a line for a customer in Utah.
exactly. before 2015, you had to pay Comcast extra if you wanted a package that included access to Google, and even more if you wanted reasonable speeds to get to your Facebook feeds

those were the golden days that created the internet. remember when Microsoft payed out to isps to close down access to altavista so they could get more users to use Bing?
Amusingly, that's also part of the lawsuit - Crytek claim Star Citizen were contractually obligated to use CryEngine exclusively. It's somewhat irrelevant, as, if they used CryEngine at all for Squadron 42, even if only for development (especially if promotional footage/beta testing/etc was on CryEngine), that remains unacceptable.
>Put it in the context of operating systems, and the guy was saying "This is the next Windows." That would be laughable.

That happened in real life!

Consider what the launch of Linux looked like:

http://www.thelinuxdaily.com/2010/04/the-first-linux-announc...

It’s reasonable to think a hobby project won’t get big, and saying it will certainly is talking a big game before it’s actually happened, but even in the OS counterexample you provided, strange things can happen.

Some side projects die, and some side project ends up taking over the majority of the server and all of the supercomputer OS market.
I deleted the facebook app 2 months ago and since then I've looked at the site like twice. Don't miss it in the slightest.
We had it in Paris and it is not a success. Cars are too slow and small for real highway use, they are expensive and especially dirty. Hopefully they will improvement on all these points
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"The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."
Nuked it when I got my new phone, shocking how little I miss it.
Firstly, Fox doesn't own that building. It's owned by The Irvine Company. The 50 acre Fox Lot next door however is stated to not be part of the Disney deal [1]. Meaning, Rupert would retain ownership of the land (valued at $1.8 Billion).

[1] https://deadline.com/2017/12/fox-studios-lot-future-disney-m...
The same things happened with Twitter and FB. There are some tweets I've seen dozens of time because the algorithm think it is relevant, but I just want the latest thank you.
Make it fair then! Bots can’t scrape LinkedIn, and LinkedIn can’t sell any consumer data to third parties.
"What people really mean when they say they want net neutrality is they want more broadband competition" (paraphrase).

No, no that is twisting it into the libertarian view that more freedom and less regulation means more competition which means lower prices and better service.

That transcript was painful to read.
> This wouldn't be a problem if ISP's weren't de facto monopolies.

And even if they weren't monopolies, they would probably collude.

Telcos in some countries, for example agree to not market services in each other's territories.
A thorough introduction to eBPF
Since no one's actually answering the question here:

- Stellar Lumens has been doing well recently, IBM recently created a bunch of Stellar full nodes and will be using it as part of a banking on blockchain project

- SALT Lending is a cool new project that has started, where people can lend out their cryptocurrency in exchange for cash. If you default, the lender keeps the coins; if you pay back, you get the coins back, even if the value had gone up

- Zclassic recently re-started active development and seems to be doing well. The main devs are trying to get the community onboard with a hard fork, and I think it could do well if it actually takes off

- Metal Pay is a solid payment processor startup that I think could do well over the next few months

It's hard to find the right thing to invest in. I'd say pick 2-3 projects and buy some of their tokens, and don't sell at a loss unless the project is doing really badly.
Design your own luck
How to block all calls on your iPhone except those from your contacts
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Yes but this isn't about presenting an argument, the one example given in this blog post is about someone working towards a goal. If that goal is unethical and the person is working towards it we should be able to call them unethical. It's not about whether Hitler is saying medical care is good, it's about whether someone working to exterminate the Jews can be called unethical.
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Why is this arrogance instead of ignorance?
See also HB 2282 in Washington State:

http://app.leg.wa.gov/billsummary?BillNumber=2282&Year=2017

http://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/biennium/2017-18/Pdf/Bills/Hou...
So true. The 5S's was like this magical switch that I could flip to chill out my screaming newborn. It was an incredible experience seeing how well it worked.
Really ? Do you openly discuss LGBT rights in Beijing ? What about rights of Uighur folks in China ? Do you discuss that in Beijing ? What about Tibetian rights ? Is that discussed ?
This is a tired trope: "American liberals aren't real global liberals, they're actually conservatives (or at best, centrists) just masquerading!"

Nothing you listed seems even slightly crazy to me, nor anything that a good chunk of American liberals would disagree with. Or a non-trivial fraction of conservatives, for that matter.
This thread is pretty much useless. It's just hundreds of "my anecdotal point beats your anecdotal point". Scrolling through at least 95% of everything I saw is either "I've lived in the following 5+ places and the Bay Area is the worst" or the exact inverse of that.

I don't even entirely understand the blog post. Did Sam see mean comments on the internet then write up something about how we can't talk about things because of said mean comments?

Something everyone, including Sam, is missing is this: everyone has different experiences than you and, more importantly, in an anonymous setting such as the internet you're going to get extreme views not necessarily representing the majority far more frequently (and more loudly) than anything that could be considered moderate. Stop giving so much of a shit what other people think.
This was an interesting read. Can anyone recommend any other Spanner literature that dives more into the design and data model?
> Is it feasible to just start running our own fiber to hubs?

It is, on the city level. Some created municipal broadband, and showed crooked monopolists and their paid shills to the door. To be clear - Comcast and their ilk fear municipal broadband way more than net neutrality rules. So expect fierce opposition, especially attempts to bribe local legislature to write laws forbidding or obstructing municipal networks.
Maybe it's closer to a No Trespassing sign, written in a language that only certain classes will understand.
Everybody does hate me. I knew it
About the wireless approach, Monkeybrains (https://www.monkeybrains.net/residential.php) in SF seems to do this. I believe I read somewhere that they're planning on replacing the wireless stuff with fiber for areas where they have high customer density. They're awesome, the service is good (except when it rains. Thanks california), it's cheap ($35) and I've been pretty happy with it.

I wonder if that could work to bootstap an isp. Obviously the wireless thing won't work in less dense areas and is subject to weather but maybe a successful business in the city could provide enough capital to expand to the suburbs.
With bare metal you pay for servers you don't use. Cloud is more expensive on the compute side but you can really scale on your usage pattern, also security on the cloud is way better that on bare metal.
I'm definitely not going to be that guy who says his ISP is the exception, but Spectrum, basically the evolution of Time Warner Cable, hasn't even dabbled in paid prioritization. Time Warner Cable didn't start fiddling with fast and slow lanes when Comcast tried it and never put out any such policy. That's why I liked living in a TWC city and not a Comcast city (ever noticed there are barely any cities that have both TWC and Comcast? That's intentional)

However, I will say that the management of TWC left once Charter completed the purchase, and as such they might start new prioritization policies and anti-net neutrality stuff. But from what I've seen, Spectrum doesn't seem to be publicly expressing interest in that stuff.
Unless I see it in a policy change on their website I won't be concerned.
(Okay now time for the part where I tell you that I am completely for net neutrality and think that Ajit Pai is a piece of excrement for gutting net neutrality laws because judging from how I worded my message it probably seemed like I supported the repeal. In short, screw Ajit Pai.)
Where do you draw the "control a woman's body" line.
Let's say a woman choose to abort on partial birth a healthy baby because she do not want it.
Is a healthy 9 months gestation newborn part of the woman's body?

You're spinning the argument and calling the other side "intolerant". You're part of the problem Altman is mentioning. Sad thing is that probably you are not aware of that.
It is quite ordinary for SV employees to be fired or "resign" after being caught participating in wrongthink. Eich is the most famous example

Eich was free to think whatever he wanted, and he spent many years doing exactly that. What he turned out not to be free to do was enforce certain ideals he held on others.
Perhaps TV ripped the social fabric even more than FB will ever do?
Maybe, or maybe there's a different way to do it if you're patient enough to wait for a new idea. I know how hard that is; I deal with it every day myself.
As with everything else, the prices will reduce over time. But to be honest: you are not the market. If you have a functioning, reliable infrastructure that isn't too expensive or PITA to maintain, you have a good enough infra and should continue using that.

If you're a startup who wants to minimize capex and quickly spin up a reliable, secure infra to host your app on to get it out of the door ASAP, you would go with cloud.

If you're a non-technical company with a small IT department that wants to have an online presence and/or build internal online tools without having to build out DC's everywhere, you would go with cloud.

I could come up with dozens and dozens more. Cloud isn't optimal for everyone, but it is VERY helpful for certain organizations.
King's extending the kingdom's library.

This sounds like a great investment for the upcoming streaming platform.

Much of 21CF content is already dubbed or subtitled. But Netflix still has the advantage of being the early pioneer, already accessible in a plethora of countries.
Facebook knows alot more about your views than the New York times does.
Well, for one it's not a physical store nor a physical entrance and there is no sign that says "Welcome". I don't think the analogy is helping to make anything more clear... It's possible it's making things more confusing.

In my opinion, the bottom line is that if LinkedIn doesn't want to serve data to this company, then they should immediately cease doing so using the many well established means available to them.

For LinkedIn to claim that following a URL and downloading the data is somehow "hacking their website" is entirely ludicrous. I understand they had a lawyer tell this company that they didn't want them to visit the URL, but I don't see how that somehow turns lawful web browsing into illegal hacking.
How much money are we talking for a mile of fiber? $6K for materials and $12K for labor? Anything else? Could you do a neighborhood for $18K?
Russia denies it's Soviet Union obligations whenever talks turn to paying reparations for Baltic States occupation or military actions in Czechoslovakia or Hungary.

Yet they love Soviet Union obligations when they don't return Lithuania's interwar embassy in Rome. Or when May 8/9 comes around :)
Are we at the point when browser-based photo editors can be suitable for advanced or professional use for something like this to succeed? I don't think we are or will be anytime soon. This limits its target audience to novice users, but they don't really need Photoshop in the browser, but something much simpler and more approachable. Maybe novice users should be a direction to consider.
definitely. we think doing this with emoji first is much better than going after VR first. this is where the market (and the data) is today. and that will help build the applications of tomorrow like VR.
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I think Bloomberg as any other online news try to come with catchy titles like this one. Apparently, it works. Look at how many comments dit it bring here on HN. :-)
That's my point. Overall this paper tries to make the case for "effectively CA" which is not real. It's a marketing tactic that basically just adds confusion to the conversation.

If you want to talk about the fantastic reliability of the infrastructure, that's a separate topic than data availability during a failure.
The reason ISPs are monopolies is because if they were unregulated, you'd have a thousand phone lines outside of everyone's house, from every single private phone network provider. You'd have a bunch of phones in everyone's houses, one for each network.

This is what it looked like before the FCC: https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--FfVBroP...

An unregulated ISP market is a safety hazard and ugly. Because of these issues, government eventually decided that only one phone company can serve each house, forcing a monopoly situation because of that. But that monopoly has to allow every other network access to that line so that callers can call anywhere. This is the origin of net neutrality.

You're never going to go back to the situation where you have a thousand different lines to everyone's houses, so you're better off regulating them properly with net neutrality.
Is that 100 up as well as down? How's the roundtrip latency to get a packet to a US server and back? In any case you have better internet than me for cheaper, and I'm two miles from downtown Bellevue, WA USA not out in the sticks of a flyover state. :(

Generally speaking though I'm also not particularly sad that this NN regulation has been repealed, I agree with the assessment that our problems are not from NN, lack of NN is merely one of many unpleasant possibilities with the current system so even if it was fully fixed there's still all the other problems, most of which have no workarounds. Lack of NN has a workaround. The fact that many employees at many businesses require using a VPN to work from home means that most ISPs will have no choice but to accept extra money to give those people unthrottled / uncensored lines that they take for granted right now as part of the base fee.
I agree with this point of view.
Even inline?

<span style="color: #000; font-face: Whatever; font-size: 10pt">Blah</span>

vs.

<font face="Whatever" size="2" color="#000000">Blah</font>
I had to wonder for a second whether I was looking at a post of mine!

A year or two ago they made the change to disallow access to messages from m.facebook.com, so I started using mbasic.facebook.com for messages. Recently they blocked the mbasic.facebook.com entirely for iPhones. It's clear that there reason is to force mobile users to install messenger, because messages are still available on m.facebook.com and mbasic if you visit in a desktop browser.

I already have a FB app on my phone, Instagram, which is more useful for messaging in my circle and less annoying. I refuse to be forced to install their app, so the only response to this is to stop using messenger. Already my messages are going unchecked and will stay that way until I get to a desktop.

The vagaries of finding content you saw minutes before, and the almost entirely random way posts and everything is organized, is frustrating too.
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If you really feel this strongly, then I would suggest you raise your kids in Hong Kong or Singapore -- any sort of Anglophonic East Asian city would be good. The situation of Asian-Americans will likely not get better in the future.