skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Subscriptions is not generally a very useful metric. I would expect "Access" to mean that you would be able to sign up for and receive service, which might involve just a package arriving and you plug it in, but might mean people show up with a digger and spend a day running cable.

As illustration: The UK has some community owned projects which supply Internet access to otherwise under-served rural areas. The government ensures commercial suppliers don't run "spoiler" projects (e.g. when a community project announces they're coming to some village, the incumbent Telco can't suddenly remember they decided to run ultra-fast Internet to that village with a free introductory offer)

B4RN (Broadband For the Rural North but pronounced "Barn") is the most famous. They run dedicated fibre near to all the properties in a rural area, if you own some cottage in a little country village they're serving, the fibre probably runs in the grass outside your fence.

But people (probably volunteers since it's B4RN) need to come dig up your lawn and run cable to your cottage before you can actually use the service. B4RN charges a fair amount of money for this setup, although it's waived if you instead pay even more money to become a shareholder in their corporate entity. But still, the cottage would have "Access" once that fibre is outside, because B4RN have a commitment to do the install if you pay for it.

It's silly to say one cottage in a row doesn't have "Access" to B4RN's 1000Mbps symmetric Internet just because the old lady who lives there doesn't need the Internet. If you bought that cottage you could fork over the price of a Nintendo Switch and get Gigabit within a week or so.

Subscription _could_ be a good metric if we were arguing that Internet service is unacceptably expensive in specific regions and thus prices out the lower middle classes or working classes, but that's clearly not the focus of Vox's investigations.

You're right that it's important to classify "Broadband" and give some idea how fast that actually is. Certainly that's something that needs to be in the footnotes for such an article.
Actually, it is more like "Same as Ada", but with curlys (oversimplifying here).
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It actually would deal with the issue that led to the GFC.

It really wouldn't. The decisions that led to this were made by people who had access to all the data they needed to achieve better understanding, but that didn't help.

The idea that it would become trivial to distinguish between good and bad investments seems to me to be incredibly naive.
She had a pen name (+ persona?) previously, but now is dropping that.

An ebook seems like a good idea to me!
I don't get this story... Illegal grows have been going on for decades in these areas. If anything, there should be fewer now because of legalization right?
yes although can be harder to retrofit, e.g. i don't believe many of the US fiber architectures were built to be multi-tenant with (n) service providers behind 1 operator. especially because the duopoly's control most of them. enter the muni-fiber and similar projects...but built to a different commercial model...
https://health.howstuffworks.com/human-body/systems/immune/i...
Babies are hard. Real hard. It gets easier (never easy), but this phase will for sure come to an end.
I want to play too!

Here's my prediction:

Ethereum and Monero continue to grow in market cap as they work and nail a niche very well.

Bitcoin core starts to decline in about 3 months as volumes on Bitcoin Cash grow. Lightning doesn't pan out because it has strong centralizing forces so it is no better than fiat, and it will still have higher fees than Bitcoin Cash because it adds use, rather than limits it, which further increases demand, and therefore fees.

Bitcoin Cash grows as it takes the mantle from Bitcoin Core.
The market hasn't noticed that real innovation and development is taking place on this chain yet. It has adoption coming in from business that depended on the cash use-case and built for bitcoin core. Bitcoin cash also has features coming that were planned for a low-fee environment, like colored coins.

The success of Bitcoin Cash over bitcoin is an inevitable consequence as the public will prefer a store of value they can transact to one that can't be moved. If you make 20 transactions with $400 in Bitcoin Core, because of fees, it is gone! There will be more forks, but none will gather critical mass.

One or two of the newer crypto speculations delivers and succeeds. The others do not. Most of the DAG cryptos are dependent on "goodwill among men", vs. relying on greed, so if they take the spotlight, they will fall to attacks.
Er, buybacks and mergers both involve a "greater fool" (either the company itself or the acquiring company).
A quick note: while this is a good way to get a grasp on how these types work, it also exposes/implies things that are implementation details and not guaranteed. This is why we haven't put it in the docs, awesome of a resource as it is.
I think you made a slight typo, here's the real link :)

https://lobste.rs/
Sadly, Stanford isn't as commited as MIT to open their courses. Only a handful of them can be found on Coursera/Lagunita.
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I'm not a "cpu designer," but I am a computer scientist, and when I say "branch," my colleagues expect that I'm talking about an actual branch instruction.
Perhaps before your time, MS was a monopoly and you literally couldn't buy a computer without paying them, whether it ran windows or not. They sold crap at premium prices. They forced computer companies to pay a DOS/Windows license for each machine MADE, not if it ran their OS.

The used dirty tricks to sink their competitors, stole ideas, products, etc. They were the original bastards of the tech industry.

I have hated them since I was a kid...in the 80s.

This Simpsons scene summarizes things nicely:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H27rfr59RiE

https://www.wired.com/2008/06/gates-monopoly/
Look at this guys performance review information in the lawsuit and judge for yourself if you think he was only let go because of his comments.

Damore has a much stronger case without this guy.
That's incredible. What if they don't know where to start? This is the same mentality as "hackers hack, they don't ask if they are hackers".
There are multiple models, but the most common model is that central bank inflating the money supply, and manipulating interest rates caused 2003-2007 to happen. 2008 was merely the well desired correction

Regardless of it's truth value, that is not clearly the most common model.
Yes, thanks for the clarification. Continuous/background syncing is the difficult task.
McDonalds is probably the wrong example here. There are of order 500 McDonalds in NJ.
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In the Philippines, it's "cha-a" or "tsaa", which is a counter-example for "cha" being spread across land. The Philippines was consecutively under Spanish and American rule and 99% of Chinese there speak Hokkien/Min-nan yet do not use "te".

Seems the same applies to Guam as well.
Suffice it to say it isn't something that makes me a risk to the employer, but it's also more awkward to discuss than other felonies.
> never complains about anything

While convenient for others, this is not quite healthy. It's possible to traumatize a child into quiet and obedience, but times have changed and we don't approve of that anymore.
In my experience, they only repost pictures on Facebook about how motherly love is unconditional and infinite.
I think this is fair and is a sound refutation to my stance on how rigorous they should be. Your reply reads like a debearding-of-santa, which is maybe what I needed in this case.
According to NRTC [1] fiber deployments to the premises cost approximately $800/deployment. Ignoring uptake, operational expenses etc that’s $13/mo per deployment to recover cost in 5 years.

I have no idea what the average consumer pays their residential provider but I would estimate it’s over $100/mo on average. It seems like it would be fairly easy to get return in 5 years. These are numbers for fiber.

[1] https://www.nrtc.coop/rural-connect/cost-of-rural-ftth-deplo...
Not fear. Just the certainity of death.
> Online shopping doesn't work in Africa... I built and operated successful online retail in Africa

Now that's a head-scratcher! Seriously though, I hate these overbroad generalisations - obviously online shopping does work for some value of Africa. I know of people in Africa who shop, pay for and arrange delivery of second-hand Japanese vehicles all online. It's a multi-million dollar industry.

>..not because of web forms with an ability to capture localised addresses, but because of the lack of affordable, reliable logistics.

Ironically, most African countries have functional postal services that are struggling because WhatsApp has replaced letters. Online shops should partner should partner with postal services instead of trying to "revolutionize logistics" unsuccessfully. Trust me, the logistics are fine: if manufacturers can get their product to even the most remote corners of a country, maybe look into how they are doing it, instead of trying to re-invent it with a phone app.
I wonder if the title is deliberately evocative of Anton Chekhov's 'The Death of a Government Clerk'.
http://centerforfiction.org/forwriters/the-model-short-story...
The losses are real. Loss of freedom, money, time, and often the loss of your wife's figure. I get it. I really get it. (Martin Mull said, "Having children is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.")

But if I could tell my younger self one thing about those days, I'd say: Don't miss what you have by focusing on what you lost. Be present with your kids, instead of mentally withdrawn, wishing for what you could do if you didn't have them.

It could be that my younger self wouldn't get it. It could be that, without the kids making me less selfish, I never would have seen how selfish I was being. Looking back, though, my biggest regret for that time is how little love I gave to my children.
You're missing some things. For example, the APIs you can expose in Rust can encode significantly more information than a C-based one can, given the strength of its typesystem.

Of course, Rust doesn't have a stable ABI yet, but then again, neither do many OSes. We'll get there!
> there are a couple of hidden things that contribute to you feeling self-critical that aren't your fault.

This is the start of 100s of self-help books. Mainly, IMHO, because it's such an attractive pitch, not because it carries any truth.
Production will be limited to 500 vehicles, and each McLaren Senna has already been assigned to a customer.

I wonder what the point is of them marketing a product on their site of which the entire inventory is already sold. Are they after a halo effect?
I'd like to add that Latin alphabet is definitely studied in Russian schools early on, both for mathematics and for the required study of a foreign language (invariably one using the Latin alphabet).

The number of keywords in a modern programming language is not very large, and most are short, so even a beginner with no prior knowledge of English would not have very hard time using something like Python (or Java, or Pascal, or whatever they use at their school).
> Production will be limited to 500 vehicles, and each McLaren Senna has already been assigned to a customer.

This product is so exclusive, there's no way you can even think about having one!
Can you link this information? I had not known the performance reviews were made public.
> I agree with you, poster. I'm baffled as to why you felt you needed a throw-away, though.

I know, this isn't a political topic, we should be able to have a reasonable discussion :)

In any case, I like a good long-form essay on occasion - this one definitely failed to 'hook' me in the intro.
Have you read any classical history ? Thucydides records death camps in his history of the peloponnesian war.
Simply through observing narcissists rob people of their happiness to fill the the hungry void in their dark hearts
Robots. Lots and lots of robots is the answer, like 10:1 robots to humans to work 24/7 fixing infrastructure and cleaning every home and street.
I think you are correct about Rust being substantially different from C, but that's a nasty way of saying it ("you know absolutely nothing about..."). Is it really necessary to speak that way?
Not that I am a big fan of AT&T, but they have started offering fiber gigabit in Oakland over the past year. I switched from
Comcast in December. Wish Sonic or Monkeybrains would become available here.
while it's true that Rust has the potential to decrease the frequency and impact of certain types of bugs, i think the GP was saying that Rust's borrow checker is unlikely to revolutionize the way operating systems are designed and the way userspace interacts with the kernel.

the GP fails to acknowledge Rust's other features such as its type system, but i'm not convinced those will revolutionize operating system architecture either.

that doesn't mean i'm not excited about the potential of a new open-source general purpose operating system kernel written in Rust and entering the same space as the Linux kernel. it seems like a good fit for the language and an area where modernization is past due.
I've had a few discussions on this subject with my present girlfriend. (We're downtown Toronto)

I think one of the glimmers of hope is the lengthening of healthy child-bearing years as of late (in wealthy, first-world countries, anyway).

That said, the changes in your life between 26 and 30 can very well be monumental. They were for me. It's probably best not to stress yourself out about it. However if it's a real ambition, I'm sure you'll find yourself and your partner assessing different options as you go along.

Some options and paths that seem distant and unimaginable now can end up closer and more realistic. Just don't expect things to suddenly get easier. They might not (and probably won't). It's just that the possible solutions might become more apparent, and the results of your actions pursuing those goals be more fulfilling.
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> Then, shortly after the 2016 election, Gudeman expressed skepticism toward a Muslim colleague who wrote on an employee forum that he was “someone already targeted by the FBI (including at work) for being a Muslim.” Gudeman then allegedly investigated his colleague’s claim and suggested that, in the filing’s words, “something interesting” about a recent trip to Pakistan could explain why he was being targeted. The filing states that Google then fired Gudeman for accusing his colleague of terrorism based on religion.

https://slate.com/technology/2018/01/james-damore-google-mem...
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Logistic collapse is a real thing. It doesn't go away just because you hope it doesn't apply any more.

There are numerous indicators, from antibiotic resistance, to increasingly obvious climate change effects, to dead zones in the oceans, that suggest life will become harder in the future, not easier.

I see no rational reason to be confident about humanity's future until the challenges have either been dealt with, or they haven't.

That's unlikely to be clear before the middle of the century, at the absolute earliest.
> completely uncorrelated with economic activity

It's always surprising to me when (not-already-on-the-top-f-the-world) software types see virtue in gold standards. The fact that our work -- moving bits around -- produces so much economic value is an epitome of everything that's wrong with a gold standard.
Things you must know before you can understand Meltdown:

* The memory hierarchy (registers, cache, memory); really all programmers always need to know the memory hierarchy and Meltdown just sort of reinforces that.

* The basics of kernel memory management (kernel memory is mapped into userland processes and protected by page table permissions checks).

* Very basic assembly language (basically what a variable assignment and an "if" statement compile down to).

* The idea of pipelined CPUs, the idea that on modern CPUs the registers you see in assembly instructions are actually renamed from a larger invisible register file, and the distinction between instruction execution and retirement.

If you've got this I think you can just read the paper: https://meltdownattack.com/meltdown.pdf. It's really well written. In particular: I don't think you need to understand much about timing attacks. The Flush+Reload paper (you can just Google it, it'll be the first result) is also really well written, but you'll be fine in the Meltdown paper without having read it.
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That one is in straight Assembly, but actually quite interesting to follow.

Thanks for the link.
Heh, just posted the same thing... I wonder if they mean 500 vehicles annually, so that an interested party may reserve one for next year?
When you're in such a bad spot you'll look to anything for a way out.
>consider what in our genetics makes us different than cave painters 30,000 years ago

A tremendous amount has changed in that time. Height, immune system changes, lactose tolerance, blue eyes, different hair colors, digestive system changes. There's strong evidence for significant changes in IQ, time preference, and other psychological traits. A cave painter from 30,000 years ago would probably act like an undisciplined, impulsive child because of genetic predisposition to high time preference and low intelligence.

It's a myth that evolution takes millions of years. With sufficient and realistic selection pressures, something like IQ or height can shift several percent every generation. This is how there's only a few thousand years between even the most different dog breeds. 30,000 years is more than enough time for massive shifts in a gene pool.

And this is even assuming your cave painter is human. If it's 30,000 years ago, he may not be!

[1] News article on genetic changes post agricultural revolution.

>I see humans who don't reproduce as analogous to cells in the human body that don't contribute to the germ line

One basic insight of the selfish gene is that a gene can be regarded as being in several places at once if it has copies in those places. It acts as the same gene, not separate copies.

Since all cells in the body have the same genes, if you have a biological child, they all contribute to the germ line since, in terms of outcomes, they are all the same unified entity. And if you don't, none of them do.

>It's quite possible to do things that help a population or a lineage, and the multiplier effect can have more impact on the frequency of your genes than directly reproducing would.

Definitely true! Hence the human predisposition towards ethnic nationalism and tribalism.

Here's a thought: Perhaps one reason for our rising identitarian tribalism isn't just increasing ethnic diversity, but is also the fact that increasing numbers of childless people are expressing their reproductive instincts through tribal aggression instead of direct childbearing.

[1] https://www.sciencealert.com/ancient-dna-suggests-agricultur...
> How did the author of the blog post perpetuate a misunderstanding?

By misunderstanding the fundamentals of how Meltdown works - specifically, by confusing out-of-order execution with speculative execution, and then basing their explanation on that misunderstanding. My further explanation elsewhere in this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16133668
"I was spanked and I turned all right" is not a good argument, it's just defensive first reaction.

We all are very emotionally very defensive when the weird things in our culture or era are questioned. As a someone who grew up in 80's and 90's, it turns out that there are so many things that were normal that are now abandoned for a good reason.

In Finland where I live, physical punishment of children was forbidden in 1984.
In general things are better now and the new generations are psychologically and socially more adjusted.
Reminds me of this, one of my all-time favorites:

http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/juggling_with_packets.txt

Guessing date as circa 2003. Could be wrong.

As for DNS, djbdns can store arbitrary bytes in RR (e.g., TXT), as octal. For example, modified dnstxt can print formatted text stored in TXT records, with linefeeds, etc.
I see where Tolkien got his inspiration for Hobbit meals...
Brand marketing.
I have bought about 10+ machines which has windows pre-installed, but I immediately wiped to install Linux. At 50$/OEM license, thats about 500$ I have lost. Not sure I would classify that as stealing, but some people do.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bundling_of_Microsoft_Windows#...
Redox looks very cool!

It is very funny that their "Screenshots" tab is full of pictures of real computer screens:

https://www.redox-os.org/screens/
Some try to take a fundamentally 'rational' approach to life, or view it through the lens of cost/benefit, especially fiscal cost benefit. In fact I have some friends who do not want children simply because they will cost too much money.

This brand of rationality is very alien to me. It makes all the difference in the world if the child is genetically one's own child. It is not a toy or a cat. It is an emotional extension of your own being that culminates in having its own identity. It is both you and not you. I fear that if you cannot intuitively grok the difference that it makes, there is no 'rational' way to convince you that it matters.
As I commented recently on a thread about Patuá [on reddit](https://redd.it/7oly3x), the similarities between different patois are striking, even across different source languages.

In this case, you could present that phrase to any Cape Verdean person without the context, and they'd tell you it's definitely Cape Verdean creole (which is also Portuguese-based), if slightly oddly transcribed.

To give you a better idea of the similarities, a native Cape Verdean creole speaker (of the Barlavento dialect) would probably write something like: "Tud óra êl tâ bscá sarna pa coçá." The exact same simplifications of grammar and pronunciation, even though the Portuguese was mixed with completely different languages in each case. How cool is that?
I wonder if Sundar would be willing to attend Unicode UTC meetings.
I'm not sure if it's halo effect in the traditional "bring them into the showroom" sense, and it's not like their existing cars aren't lust-worthy already, but it certainly doesn't hurt to come out with something top-of-the-heap wild.

At 500 cars, I wonder if the sales even pay for the project. Then again, they get the aforementioned halo effect AND they get tech to trickle down into future lower-end vehicles.
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Unless you end mortgages entirely, there is always the risk of a property crisis spreading to lenders.
I love this! When I think about what jobs AI should encroach on -- I don't think what jobs are easy to automate. I think, what jobs CAN'T be done well be humans. Recruiting is just too big of a graph for humans to traverse alone. This looks amazing!
I can only speak for myself, but I just like kids. I'm sure some of that'll change when I have some of my own and have to start changing diapers, etc, but I think I will always inherently enjoy interacting with children.
Sorry, but that’s not entirely true. Mobile workstations (say a p15 or p17) can even equip a Xeon but they’re either throttled, have humorously short battery or a grotesque power supply and are still gimped somewhere (USBc, NVMe, GPU).

Apple made a mess of their PB but it’s not entirely their own fault, other vendors can’t offer great alternatives either l
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