skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>It reminds me in some ways of net neutrality: yes, fast lanes and slow lanes have real downsides. But there's vast capex required to build the infrastructure we need. How should that be paid for?

Defending credit card fees by criticizing net-neutrality. I guess at least he’s being interviewed in the right subreddit...
Microsoft's press release the article is based on https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/mt846432.aspx
Montreal seems to be an outlier according to

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/how-does-montr...

There are also much cheaper driveable cities (e.g. Knoxville, TN) and much more expensive non-driveable cities (e.g. San Francisco, CA). Also, more realistically, you would probably be commuting to the city center if you were driving. Rent in the suburb of Florissant, MO is only $618 a month [1]. And the average gas price in St. Louis is only $2.28 a gallon [2], and insurance in Missouri costs an average of only $57 a month [3].

That brings the cost of housing down to $820 a month or $9.8k a year. I'm sure you could get a cheaper and more reliable car as well.

[1] https://www.rentcafe.com/average-rent-market-trends/us/mo/fl...

[2] https://www.gasbuddy.com/USA/MO

[3] https://www.thesimpledollar.com/how-much-does-car-insurance-...
Yah, you're completely wrong and definitely haven't talked to any ADHD adults about how it affects their life.
Interesting to see individuals show pride in the “neoliberal” label, which is usually a stand-in for “complacent”.
> whether bail-outs exist or not

lol
fun project! if you arent married to python, or the idea of writing a bunch of superfluous code (:P) fft'ing a sound is pretty trivial, and creating a sound at that frequency is also trivial from command line. i google for 15 seconds, looks like this library https://aubio.org/manual/latest/cli.html would work fine with something like

aubio notes -r $(aubio pitch myfile.wav)

would probably do it. i love python as much as the next person, but sometimes... ah well, cool project anyway!
I like to think of the fall of empires on two levels. On the level of specifics, I would suppose there are in each case generally a number of different causes, interacting in various ways.

On a more general level, empires as such are an unnaturally large and complex form of social organization, and for that reason they inevitably collapse at some point or another.
The complexity that is being referred to is social and administrative complexity, the huge military upkeep being a side effect of that.

A simple policy can still reflect a highly complex, expensive form of social organization. It's rather hard to argue that stationing massive garrisons throughout an empire is not a massive exercise in social complexity and organization.

> Diversity isn't exactly complexity. Keeping large groups together is hard,

It's difficult to argue that late Imperial Rome, with its multiple levels of bureaucracies, military and civilian, a nascent Church, along with large standing garrisons wasn't far more socially and economically complex than the societies of the invading barbarians.

And all that complexity went exactly towards 'keeping large groups together' without the benefit of a unified ethnicity or other identity.

But note that in earlier times, Rome's technological and social complexity was able to pay for itself and then some: it was able to field and man large military organizations, and the complexity brought in a profit by conquest and war booty.

In other words, size was a logical end result to earlier complexity: in order to keep the system running, Rome had to continue to grow.

Unfortunately, Rome ran out of rich easily-conquered lands and its inefficient (and complex) economy could not make the economic transition (unlike the Eastern Empire, which had richer and more densely populated lands).

Your example of stationing two-thirds of a massive standing army just to keep order is an example of just how inefficient the late Western Imperial economy must have been, and why it fell against barbarian groups that had much simpler, flatter social hierarchies based on ethnic kinship and trust.
Nfs can be slow and have consistency and locking issues under heavy write loads. Also security isn't often top notch.

It really depends on the use case.
Sure there are gov. agencies that will buy them
>But I think 85% of the issue with my ADHD is the social stigma and people who will never understand nor accept it.

You... sound like you participate in a lot of online discussion groups where the general public talks about ADHD.

I don't think this is healthy, for all the reasons you list. I mean, support groups are useful for some people, and you can have online support groups, but just like in person support groups, you need to filter so that the people who just want to insult you are not participating.

I think this is something that needs to be taught in high school; once you are out of high school? you get to pick your peers. If your peers make you feel bad about who you are, pick new peers.
Their Reddit banner links to two articles

https://miltonfriedman.hoover.org/friedman_images/Collection...

https://olivermhartwich.files.wordpress.com/2015/02/neoliber...

I guess with the aim of describing why they chose to use the word.
We are all in this world together. It is insane that corporations have been able to reap untold profits while hardly being taxed at all. These companies could not exist without the societies of the people who buy their products. They should pay taxes wherever they do business, even if fiat currency isn't changing hands (i.e., Facebook and Twitter free users) as specified here.

Good move EU. Higher taxes on megacorps will improve quality of life globally and will ensure stronger societies that are more resilient to disaster (like the 2008 crash, or even a natural disaster). Higher taxes on megacorps will increase the probabilities of stable societies with healthy middle classes. Higher taxes on megacorps will enable more people to be entrepreneurs themselves, as more people will grow up with the resources and skills to start something of their own. It's win-win-win all around.

If the megacorps want to earn more money, they should pay more tax. They'll earn more money in the long run that way.

Edit: I'd love to reply to the comments below, but all you downvoters made that impossible. I'm now banned from commenting and replying on HN presumably from some automatic downvote ban switch. Thanks for silencing the debate downvoters and HN filters. Goodbye.
SSL and HTTPS [MIT OCW]
> requiring students to live in dorms with students taking the same classes.

Hmm...my first semester at university (after transferring from community college) my roommate was the only other male sharing my major (out of 9 total IIRC). Makes me wonder if it was a coincidence?

Didn't help any, he did his thing and I did mine. Don't think we ever talked about classes even once. Think he ran off and did a semester (or maybe a year) in New York after that, when he came back one of my friends went out of their way to introduce us to each other since we were the only males in that major.

There's probably a point hidden in there somewhere.
NAND chips are needed in basically everything electronic now. Phones, tv's, watches, ssds, microwaves, cars, medical devices, and a million other products. They should have become a low margin commodity a long time ago. There is price fixing afoot but the SK president deposed for taking bribes cancelled the investigation into it, and SK let the Samsung CEO out of jail after being convicted of bribing the government so it's going to get worse before it gets better.
It's worth it for developer marketing. People are constantly googling for anything that solves their problem, so if you can post useful solutions that tie into your product, preferably with some soft of freemium hook, its great.

I have no idea how often people google specific keywords in other verticals, so ymmv.
Well, the reality is that letting the barbarians in actually did in significant part lead to Rome's downfall. They rampaged through the countryside and sacked Rome multiple times.

Rome was in a state of near perpetual warfare with the Germans for centuries. Eventually Rome became too weak to defend its northeastern borders and the Germans hollowed out what had become a rotten western empire.
The irony being that they made a map of the dark web which contains almost no part of the dark web because they couldn't find it. I, too, can run wget pointed at an onion ring network, and it would be just as unimpressive a result as this ...
What right does the EU have to tax revenue (not even earnings) from money made on non-EU citizens? I could understand an argument that they have a right to levy a tax on money created by selling services to EU citizens, but global revenues?

They mention Twitter as an example in the article, but Twitter's revenues for 2017 was $3.83 billion, and their net-earnings is mostly negative, or barely positive. So they'd be asking Twitter for money they don't even have.

This seems too crazy to pass, like the Trump tariffs, it just seems to be a footgun.
“I created Steve Bannon's psychological warfare tool”: data war whistleblower
People say that about any political affiliation they don't like.
A slightly different point of view: I work for a company whose one of our products is related to identity and access governance and we have a large number of ExtremelyBigCorps from all around the world throwing A LOT of money at it (except Oceania, I don't think we have any clients there).
Well, tax them on the money they make from EU sales then. I hardly see why the EU has a claim on revenues made by overseas companies on non-EU citizens. How about the US levy a tax on global BMW and Benz revenues?
> At the end of the day, universities are businesses trying to retain customers.

This matter-of-fact claim -- and the mindset it engenders -- encapsulates perhaps the vast majority of what's gone wrong in higher education in the past two decades or so.
once you are out of high school? you get to pick your peers. If your peers make you feel bad about who you are, pick new peers.

That's nice in theory, but it is a little like telling black people to only befriend nice white people or women to ignore all the sexist pigs. If essentially the entire world is the problem and there is a relatively small number of people that really get your issues (are really on the same page as you), acting like they just need to be choosier about their friends amounts to victim blaming.
It's about the means different political forces use to assert their beliefs on society. Both sides are capable of authoritarianism.
What Fastly has done starting from Varnish 2.x was what they needed to do, to do what they wanted to do: Build a global CDN business.

There are difference between "running Varnish on your website", "running Varnish for your web-hotel customers" and "running Varnish for some of the biggest web-properties in the world" and software and organizations always mirror each other.

For instance Fastly does not run Varnish on Solaris, FreeBSD, NetBSD or ..., they run it on whatever version on Linux they decided on, and what ever brand and model of boxes they find optimal, and therefore they their own code and changes do not need to be portable and can be tuned with laser-like precision to their hardware and kernel they use.

Even if they threw their codebase up on github, I doubt very many organizations could or would use it, because it is chock full with interfaces to Fastlys business systems, encapsulates their network strategy, and God knows what. (Remember when Y! threw Inktomi over the fence ? Not terribly useful if you were not Y!, it took years to generalize it.)

And you will find the same situation, no matter which other major FOSS based organization you look at, Amazon, NetFlix, the pink-bit-pushers, FaceBook, Twitter, Google ...

You simply don't run a huge company on vanilla software, if nothing else because your geeks can not resist the temptation to improve and optimize it to ease their own jobs.

And just to stake the "Fastly vs. Varnish project" thing through the heart at the cross-roads: Fastly is a major sponsor of the Varnish Cache Project.
You won't get far in a blinding leftist arena if you go around spitting truth like this.
As much as I’d likely end up using some sort of scripting language for something like this, being able to do it via command line is always lovely.
perhaps, but i would think that if you threw another tool (a different way to relate some inputs) at a neural net, it might figure out some way to exploit it, even if it's not clear to you or me. just like a RL agent sometimes finds + exploits bugs in the environment.
Not that I'd ever find something like Spectre but I would not want to sell it to people who use it to kill people. On the other hand, I'd like to get something for my work.

Also, I think the temptation to go black hat is a lot lower than if the choices were "nothing" vs "millions"
> I hardly see why the EU has a claim on revenues made by overseas companies on non-EU citizens.

For the same reason the US government has claim on all global income of both its citizens and corporations. [1] [2]

Corporations brought this on themselves by using accounting cleverness to "hide" billions in profits [3]. This is simply a regulatory response. Tech companies can choose not to operate in the EU as well. This gets to the crux of the problem: taxing where the use takes place, not where the corporation is located.

[1] https://www.irs.gov/businesses/income-from-abroad-is-taxable

[2] https://www.irs.gov/newsroom/people-with-foreign-income-or-f...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_Irish_arrangement
Trying not to sell myself short to potential employers.

It's a far more challenging problem to solve than anything I've encountered at any job.
> What right does the EU have to tax revenue (not even earnings) from money made on non-EU citizens?

Every right. Their government, their citizens, their laws.

> but global revenues?

These companies exist globally. They would be vastly smaller and have far less impact if they did not have EU citizens. Network effects matter and ignoring them is choosing to not understand the big picture.

> So they'd be asking Twitter for money they don't even have.

It doesn't strike me they would try to collect this retroactively!

Also, I would argue that clearly Twitter should not exist at all if it cannot pay a reasonable tax in the areas where it operates.

Edit: What right does Twitter have coming into the EU, collecting data on its citizens, earning revenues from that, and not paying tax? Seems insane to me.

Edit 2: I guess all the downvotes trigger a switch, I'm not allowed to post any more on HN I guess. Bye all.

Edit 3: To the replies below, I'm not "boxed in" by some silly argument. I'm just banned from replying.
Because after octonions there isn't anything more.
excellent way to put this.
The current global food supply from what I have heard is more than enough to support much more than the current population of the planet.

The resistance to labeling gmo foods is essentially using the poor and working class as guinea pigs. GMO will be cheaper,this means they can overprice natural foods. Poor peoplle will consume GMO while the affluent consume natural and organic foods.

A similar tend can be observed on how whole foods is mostly found in well-to-do neighborhoods and walmart is found in poor neighborhoods.

Natural foods can be grown at a rate that sustains the planets population for a very long time to come. I firmly believe this is about profit margins. At leat let the people that will be affected by it the most have a say.
https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/c3b3/9a378e6f805d6cae5b05f5...
> How about the US levy a tax on global BMW and Benz revenues?

As long as those companies are pumping out gasoline cars that pollute the air and the environment around the US, that sounds like a great idea! Those companies are unfairly creating pollutants and encouraging their customers to raise the global temperature, dirty American's air, and everyone else's, etc.

I would be pleased to see the US pose taxes on businesses that are actively harming Americans.
That's not what it means here. The label was rehabilitated by Sam Bowman back in 2016:

https://medium.com/@s8mb/im-a-neoliberal-maybe-you-are-too-b...

Basically used here to describe a politics which is fond of market-based policies but supportive of redistribution when it is necessary for positive outcomes.
So, how does this compare to RunScope and PingDom? Any other competitors out there?

What is it that differentiates this product and should make me want to use it instead?
As an answer big techs will likely break these companies into 100 smaller ones to avoid the thresholds?
"The levy would cover companies that have annual worldwide total revenue exceeding 750 million euros ($920 million) and total taxable annual revenue from offering digital services in the EU above 50 million euros."
not trying to be "that guy" but the answer to your questions is "it depends"... distribution strategies vary by market. but Normally with Niche and Technology products. (Won't leave you hanging without an example: Basecamp's main source of marketing is their blog and social media, but as a comparison Cintas (CTAS/NASDAQ) does very little blogging)
We do have control mechanisms, but they are practical measures. Data of a given type is kept in one primary location with systematic backups. Processing of that data is typically done by programs that all use a specific related module in the code to access the data so they're easy to review, except for things like email where the nature of the processing is obvious anyway. Only a limited number of people have access to the relevant code or data at all, and everyone involved knows everything that is going on and could immediately describe exactly what data we store and how it is used. The privacy policy discloses our practices accordingly. What we don't currently have is a lot of the formalities that may (or may not) be required once the GDPR comes into effect.
You are either intentionally being dishonest or you missed the point. The OP is saying that it is okay for some companies or more pointedly political ideologies to do things like this but if the leftist press or governments do not like the party and or candidate doing it then it is a problem. He should have used the work hypocrite because that is what is at the crux of this "issue"
> Every right. Their government, their citizens, their laws.

If a company doesn't have offices in your country, it's not yours.

>These companies exist globally

Well, maybe the net result is to get out of the EU then, if the costs of 3% of global revenues exceed profits.

If you don't think a company that is mostly non-profit (Twitter) shouldn't exist, I feel that's a pretty pathetic position. So you're either a very greedy, high margin profit company,or the EU says you shouldn't exist?
Why do you need a mentor for learning it? Did you already try/start to learn it?
I too want you all to stay in business.
What? You can scrape that kind of data with a simply Python application...
this is extremely true from a network security perspective for new ISP infrastructure as well. It is very "easy" to start forming layer-2 and layer-3 adjacency between things geographically distributed around a city/state sized area without much regard to security. Will create a huge amount of work to come back and fix later. Whereas if you design the architecture from the start with security in mind (how you're going to deal with your management VRFs, monitoring systems, OOB authentication, NOC and neteng access to stuff in private IP space, etc) it will be much easier to scale.
I had to read that several times and I still can't understand his argument. Perhaps the phrasing didn't come out as he intended.
True enough, but I believe what's different now is that there is significant it has taken serious root in the "informed" class as well, HN being no exception.
- You can identify trends and patterns in your traffic

- You can figure out where in the world your traffic is coming from

- It can be helpful in responding to security incidents
From that angle, the transition from Google to Alphabet was prescient.
Write your own software renderer, and learn how the principles of computer rendering work: https://github.com/ssloy/tinyrenderer

The wiki has lessons in detail: https://github.com/ssloy/tinyrenderer/wiki/Lesson-1:-Bresenh...
Congrats on the launch!

While I like the spin on blogging, could you explain how this product differs from something like https://spectrum.chat for example?
I thought the public might be a bit more skeptical.

How did they identify with certainty that they are Russian? Is there any way for someone without top secret clearance to verify this?
It is very peculiar.

Whether it is an attempt to "reclaim" the word or not, that subreddit's usage of "neoliberal" bears little relation it's usage as defined in books such as David Harvey's 'A Brief History of Neoliberalism', where it is most commonly associated with privatization, financialisation, tax cuts, the retrenchment of social welfare and rapid growth in inequality.

Critically, the neoliberal state is not 'smaller', it just prefers deficit spending to tax and prefers to funnel money to private enterprises and the military-industrial complex rather than spend it on it's citizens.

In contrast, /r/neoliberal seems to use the word to mean some sort of libertarianism-lite?
That's just a band-aid though: they're effectively gambling that data protection laws won't ever come in effect in the US and Canada, all the while locking themselves out of expanding into the EEA market.

After the Equifax thing it's not looking like a very solid bet.
There's lots of pictures shown when I go to the page, but I'm not seeing any summaries of articles. So, I would say that it is not at all like HN.

But if you want me to try it out, then I'm going to want the account named "brad". ;)
HN's most controversial topic
'You'd have to be nuts to run an ICO': The age of the ICO is coming to an end
I picked "regular 3d" in firefox and loading time went up 10x. So it seems size does matter. But 2s is not that bad, it's better then some "native" apps.
>For the same reason the US government has claim on all global income of both its citizens and corporations.

Keyword "IT'S CITIZENS AND CORPORATIONS". The US government doesn't have a claim on all global income of companies that aren't US corporations. e.g. Alibaba.

I can't wait to see your reaction when the Chinese government asks for 3% of global revenues of Siemens.
These companies are operating in the EU and generating revenues from EU citizens, why wouldn’t they pay taxes on this?

If these companies don’t want to pay tax in Europe, then don’t do business in Europe.
Many comments seem to of missed this key aspect: "Tax on tech companies to be based on where users are located"

So this is money made from EU based users and revenue they make from them.
Adrian Lamo, Hacker Who Reported Chelsea Manning to the F.B.I., Dies at 37
Let's address that when Siemens is evading taxes like US tech companies are.

I can understand employees of US based tech companies might have strong feelings about this stance. I'd encourage reflection on taxes and how they pay for societal infrastructure.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sedenion

But they're pretty weird; very few of the rules you're used to for "numbers" apply. Ditto for the further constructions.
Every goa party attracts esoteric folks- all i wanted to do is to dance to psy-trance, instead i have to listen to a half hour talk about demeter-tomatos. To be honest, if i get really bored, i start some fantasy tales myself- just to see if there is a point, those people will call me out for rambling nonsense.

One of these days, i guess.