skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"In the telcos, singlemode fiber is used to connect long distance switches, central offices and SLCs (subscriber loop carriers, small switches in pedestals in subdivisions or office parks or in the basement of a larger building). Practically every telco's network is now fiber optics except the connection to the home." [1]

Specifically, AT&T has transitioned its PSTN backbone fully to SIP, which is a form of VoIP: "AT&T will exchange SIP traffic at the access border controller layer (i.e. SBCs, more specifically Acme Packet SBCs) via IP handoff at a few "strategic locations," directly peering with a select number of Tier 1 carriers. AT&T will also provide transit and direct termination through its network and support all roaming traffic to interwork with other wireless carriers" [2]

So both voice and data are going over the same fiber lines, since it's all IP (which reduces costs considerably.) We know that Room 641A was one of many QUANTUM locations, where traffic was beam-split. [3]

It seems from [4], that we have confirmation that TURMOIL and INCENSER snarf up PSTN as well as IP. Since all of that was working well before 2010, and we know TEMPORA acts as a buffer for high-volume stuff (fed by the Narus machines), and voice is IP now because of SIP, I feel reasonably confident it's getting stored at some duration at the exchanges.

1. https://www.lanshack.com/fiber-optic-tutorial-network.aspx

2. http://sip-trunking.tmcnet.com/topics/enterprise-voip/articl...

3. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A

4. https://electrospaces.blogspot.com/2014/11/incenser-or-how-n...
The Register claims that the FTC and the European Commission were looking into it.

"Last month, some of those who had complained claimed in online forums that they had been contacted by regulators, including the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and European Commission, and had been told the authorities were looking into the reports."

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/05/04/nvidia_gpp_axed/
Only that that's all I've had time to do so far. What alternative did you have in mind?
I was a postdoc in EE/CS trying to make my way into academia in Montreal. Now I work remotely for an American company and make more than most professors at the University I left.. It's unfortunate really..
California and Japan are the farthest people and ideas can travel...those who survive the journey will have been refined by it!

When those people meet those ideas at the end of said journey is when then magic happens
Marginal cost of software is and will always be zero.
I remember reading that years ago.

One day, I'd like that to be me.
Shameless clone of PUBG

Which itself is often called a clone of H1Z1. Which in turn was inspired by DayZ..
I don't know why you are being downvotes, but it is the truth. Trump admin has raised the hostility towards high skill immigration towards a different level
> ...I am uniquely positioned to assess the quality and scope of the scientific research we are discussing...

> Most on HN lack the background knowledge and training to usefully interpret a review article like this, let alone a journalistic simplification.

It seems like you can't help but belittle the audience you're replying to. It comes across as if you're saying "I'm the elite academic talking down to all of you plebs." You may have some good ideas but your tone and arrogance suck. And I think you'd be surprised by the "academic qualifications" of many of the people on HN. Many in this audience are perfectly capable of understanding the article. You're not "unique."
3.5-fold increase is nothing. People make much more than that. I have a friend who made 100k from 100$
But the differences in taxes reflect not covering health care. If you include that 20,000 a year spent on health care doesn't feel like a great deal anymore
My mistake; I assumed a Randian background as the whole "individual as smallest minority" thing is nearly a direct Rand quote. That said, if you approach it critically, I think you'll find it addresses the point you made. The reductionist philosophy that posits collective benefits as somehow exclusive of individuals is directly addressed by Hegel's political theory.
This resonates with me. In a recent stint with a Canadian startup, an exorbitant amount of attention was paid to strengthening and increasing the number of ties we had to Silicon Valley. It seems so often that the end goal is to be able to move to California.
I don't know about now, but when minimum wage was $4.75 those guys were making $20.00 an hour. It was a highly coveted job in some circles. They are starting to automate it with portable traffic lights though.
Things even (especially?) the skeeviest strip club owner doesn't want happening on the premises: drug use,drug trade, prostitution.

And the skeevier the club the more likely that some of the clientele would be involved in one or more of the above.
Wanted to add that the development costs are also significantly lower (we find on average about 30%, but YMMV) and iteration times faster. Also, deploying on an intranet is much easier - we build apps for hedge funds and banks through my consulting company, and often, they just want something deployed within their own network. With a PWA, you can just drop it on an internal server and send the relevant audience a link. Job done!
Out of curiosity, dynamic class loading seems like one of those things where you would need to embed an interpreter in the application itself. So how does one deal with such cases?
Because everyone already has a browser capable of doing that.

Because every device/os has its' own app store/ecosystem.

Because it takes a lot of effort (more than most will expend) to support even a handful of platforms with anything beyond the simplest of applications with native apps.
PUBG is almost exactly like its predecessors, so I don't know how you can level "shameless clone" at Fortnite that has the whole building mechanic.

That was a big risk compared to PUBG's conservative and incremental iteration on the existing genre.

Though these Fortnite vs PUBG arguments sure sound like the Xbox vs PS3 forum debates back in the day... I was always thankful that I didn't encounter them on HN.
There was a story on here about exactly that a few years back. IIRC the guy was a network support guy or similar, so both jobs were mostly reactive and didn't require lots of meetings or presence.
The goal of AdNauseam is to not just avoid websites profiting from ads, it’s to destroy the ad industry as a whole.

So it automatically clicks all ads your browser encounters hundreds of times to reduce the value of ad impressions.
Well, I'm mostly interested in gaming and gaming culture, so the ones I subscribe to are related to that. But either way:

General Gaming:

GamesPress
1-Up World
Wario Forums Discord
Source Gaming Discord

Gaming YouTube Related:

REGNR8
Blue Jack Generation
Snoman Gaming

Speedrunning Related:

Super Mario Odyssey Speedrunning
Breath of the Wild Speedrunning
You beat me to that comment! I grew up in California (and still live here), and I believe it because I've seen it in almost every season. To be fair, I do prefer things a bit cooler than most, but not necessarily "real" freezing winter. Of course, for those who want snow, the skiing mountains are closer than they are here in the Bay Area.

Unfortunately, this is offset by very high housing prices relative to salaries, inadequate or absent freeways, and significantly higher fuel prices, making even a "drive 'til you qualify" strategy for housing unattractive.

Is there adequate apartment stock near public transit? That could make it attractive enough for workers of a certain age, but, at least in the US, suburbs are remarkably popular for raising kids.
It should be working in the UK now.
Citizens United is especially relevant to presidential elections -- it arose directly out of the 2004 and 2008 campaigns.

"The conservative non-profit organization Citizens United wanted to air a film critical of Hillary Clinton and to advertise the film during television broadcasts, which was a violation of the 2002 Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act, commonly known as the McCain–Feingold Act..." [1]

In other words, you are wrong about Citizens United, and unpleasant about it.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens_United_v._FEC
Ask HN: What happened to the Semantic Web?
Was it a fad? Too soon? Didn't happen?
The reason you are getting an ICMP respose from 1.1.1.1 is that your router is responding. This is consistent with the explanation. If you still want to doubt it, clear all DNS and ARP tables, ping 1.1.1.1, and check the ARP entry for it. It will match the MAC of your routers inward facing interface.
The company I work for has been offering an enterprise level service like for about 8 years now: https://www.securitycompass.com/sdelements/
Seeing the world in terms of who is "on top" is a big part of the problem.
Awesome post! I kind of want to find more of these types of things (solutions to seemingly complex questions). If anyone has recommendations would love to hear
Federal and state government have the right of eminent domain, though it does not sound like it was used here. Just sounds like they offered to buy the land, and told any potential hold outs that their land would lose value if they refused.

Though, in 1943 the "ultimate power" of the military and Federal government was virtually limitless.
Honestly, I feel like writing an article about this just gives him more press.
Those IP addresses are just being assigned to their own networking equipment. Cox using the CGNAT network for that would be just as wrong as you using it. There's absolutely nothing wrong with Cox using private address space internally. If anything, there's something wrong with routing requests to private address space out your WAN in the first place.

What Cox is doing is completely appropriate and what AT&T and Cisco are doing is squatting on someone else's IP assignments.
Hmm, I don't think Mario grew to fame through the internet.
Definitely, and thank you for your perspective! I totally agree WRT FRP. I have a friend that swears by FRP on Android. I believe he uses RxJava and RxKotlin.

Something like Elm coming to Qt would be great!
Not sure if true or false to demonize unions, but I've heard stories about the horror of trade shows at union facilities where booth staff were literally not allowed to plug items into power strips within their booths - it required a service request and probably a charge.
But they rarely find themselves in the same circles.
>"What does the NSA so? Who are they protecting?

You're comitting a logical fallacy. You think just because bad things sometimes do happen to US citizens that the NSA clearly isn't doing anything....

Clearly faulty logic. I'm glad the NSA exists because there are bad actors out there and we need informed law enforcement to protect us.
I wish you'd linked to the github repo, which has the LICENSE file in it... first thing I looked for and had to click around a bit to find it.

https://github.com/Qbix/Platform
Also Canadian (Vancouver / Victoria), spend a lot of time in SF. This has also been my experience but I'm wondering if its just a big city thing in CAD.
Super Mario Maker did. It would be a shadow of its current self without Twitch + Reddit.

Dota became a cultural phenomenon, and has stayed a cultural phenomenon, solely through the internet. No internet, no dota.

It's simply mistaken.

Or do I need to prove Dota is a cultural phenomenon? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0OzWIFX8M-Y
Where would you put them? E.g. in the bay area, where you're not allowed to build regular housing and regular apartments to meet the demand, why would they let you build tiny prefab houses?

The problem isn't an inability to construct housing, it's the regulatory capture in the form of bad zoning by home and land owners that prevents the increase of housing supply. We desperately need to fix that, sadly we probably won't until things get much much worse.
In Japan, there are people whose job is to stand on the station holding a “shinkansen this way” sign.

In the US, many people get their living from holding a “anything helps, homeless vet” sign at the train station.

Coming back home from Tokyo is always a major shock.
> I should add that there is really only one class of people who not only deny their jobs are pointless, but also express outright hostility to the very idea that our economy is rife with bullshit jobs. These are – predictably enough – business owners and others in charge of hiring and firing.

A manager's job can certainly be pointless, and often is; but how could the owner's possibly be? An owner who has hired managers who operate a profitable business with minimal supervision is just a success. The managers can be perfectly happy with this situation, if they prefer a stable salary to the risky residual claim. I'm not sure the author quite believes in capitalism here.
From the same diagnostic interface:

traceroute to 1.1.1.1 (1.1.1.1), 30 hops max, 38 byte packets
1 1dot1dot1dot1.cloudflare-dns.com (1.1.1.1) 0.327 ms 0.156 ms 0.120 ms
Google embraces, extends, extinguishes
Semi-related but the new Windows update also made it impossible to disable Bing searches in the Start menu.
Banks were created to serve then-underserved communities.

Bank of America, for example, was originally the Bank of Italy, focusing on the Italian immigrant community of San Francisco.
They broke laws and are being punished as criminals. Many people of all races are punished in the same way.

I think drug laws in this country are way too harsh, but those are the laws. People should not break them if they don't want to be jailed.

Also slavery was a human problem for thousands of years, it took humanity collectively waking up to the evils of slavery to abolish it. Human governments the world over supported the instition in the past, and now they've evolved. Don't judge them today based on the mistakes of the past.
I would highly doubt they were larger within the time frame they started. Even though Twitch (Justin.tv) started back then, esports and watching video games were nowhere near as popular as they are today.

I would argue that Twitch has had a really strong role in making battle royale games popular -- they're extremely fun to watch in comparison to MOBAs which I'm starting to realize are fairly dull in the beginning but the anticipation of what happens mid-game to late game makes it exciting.
Unfortunately the title is misleading, and it makes sense that some would interpret it as supporting the sunk cost fallacy - the author is actually advocating for judging how much you should give up to get something by how much you'll value it, whereas the title has it flipped the other way.
That’s not a great example of upfront, who reads licenses or license agreements?

I’ve been using VSCode for more than a year, including pre-release versions and had no idea this was happening.

If I was asked for consent it was not very clear that keystrokes were included in the data being sent to Microsoft.

Is this GDPR compliant? I would think not, since you can’t just squirrel things away in a dense user agreement and claim you’ve met the bar.
They try their best to appear like another article on the site you're reading and they use clickbait titles. There are many similar platforms and they are all peddling junk.
How does one email Jeff Bezos?
> because electron doesnt try to look like each OS's default toolkit, your app looks the same in all 3 major OSes

That's a significant selling point actually. When I did Qt and also Swing, this was something that got me often. Making something look just right with polish gets to be quite difficult without having tons of platform specific code and logic.
> This is a company at the absolute forefront of computer science and engineering

And they do their work at a crazy intense level! /s

They're resting on their laurels in the gaming market (no new architecture since 2016) and do dominate the high throughput (and high power consumption) GPU space utilized by deep learning/AI.

But as noted by other commenters this is only part of the GPU market. Qualcomm ships a hell of a lot more Adrenos than NVidia ships Tegras. The Tegra brand is 10 years old and they haven't moved in volume until the release of the Nintendo Switch.
Not the case with all carriers. Sprint's original "4G" implementation was WiMax and was pretty darn fast for its time. The "4G" status icon meant WiMax then.
Are there any books you could recommend to learn more about why the American healthcare is a mess, how it became this way, as well as comparisons with other healthcare systems and why they work.

Could a PMR system help with some of these issues? Giving patients access to their records making it easier to aggregate data abiding with HIPAA?

I recently saw an episode of Dirty Money on Valeant. Is Valeant a good representation for most pharma companies and also a reflection of most for profit medical businesses whose primary obligation is to increase shareholder value?

What would be the best way to start aggregating and comparing prices in the USA? If it isn't possible, why do prices vary so much?
I see trouble with pursuing non-american engineers. They might move south anyways later if the opportunity comes up because the salary difference is still huge.

Lucrative perks sticks because of tax breaks like you mentioned.

I would be going all-out on #3. Having local businesses has benefits beyond just avoiding brain drain as well.

This is why it blows my mind at how little funding there is for early stage companies in Canada. I personally tried twice now already, as have several friends, and we didn't get anywhere because local investors here want you to already have a finished product with a validated business model and 10k/month in revenue. I'm sorry but the only way you stop a promising new grad from turning down a huge salary is by giving them the chance to work on their passion.

Expecting them to already have a 10k/mo business is just a big F-you. Might as well go to the states where I can at least make enough money to take some time off. And heck, while I'm there someone might even fund my idea anyways.
Google is truly scary, and I do believe now very evil. I used to be on their side, but that was long ago and I no longer have any faith or trust in Google. They are all about the dollar and are no longer get net citizens IMHO.
> heck Nvidia isn't even in one of the more popular modern consoles

I don't agree with OP, but NVidia's Tegra _does_ power the Nintendo Switch. And if you don't think it's "one of the more popular modern consoles" you haven't seen it's sales numbers.
500M sounds like a lot. It's a gigantic number.

But where call records are concerned it's not actually that big. I could pick out 100 mid-sized businesses and double that number readily. And that's not even thinking about text messages.

500M text messages. That's like 1 high school.
I did exactly this, and have been working remotely for a Californian company as of two months ago. All I had to do was open a sole proprietorship (a trivial errand) and a USD bank account (technically optional), and report in via email on my first day.

As a self-employed contractor, my costs are lower (working from home), I get myriad tax breaks, and my salary is not even comparable to what I could expect locally, even with having to pay for my own health and dental. I can't see myself ever going back to working locally. Hell, I have been thinking about moving into the mountains recently, just for the scenery.
Maybe that's why Buffett is buying more shares.
This doesn't pass the sniff test.

That's 1/10th the amount raised by Facebook IPO. Facebook, the heir apparent to Google-sized Silicon Valley domination, which everybody and their mother knew about, and which every(ish) investor wanted a piece of.

And here we have Telegram, a niche product using an experimental financing scheme and a technology that many are skeptical of. Yet somehow they convinced people to the tune of 1/10th FB?

Only way this adds up is if people bought the tokens using Bitcoin (with its very fuzzy and hard-to-liquidate value), and the SEC filing reports that towards the "amount raised."
1000 times this. We do SaaS for the Banking industry and 72% of our traffic is IE11/Win7. In May 2018.

<crytoselfincorner />
WiMax worked well for me, and I lived in an often-unserved valley. My WiMax would be consistently fast even though voice was marginal in my house.
Likely posted because problem #1 was recently on the front page:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16984815
my favorite flunky job is the one where an executive tells the flunky to print emails out on paper and put them into a big stack so the executive can ignore them later
What percentage of FANG employees pull 400k yearly? The ones i know who work there make half that.
I updated my previous comment, hope it clarifies at least a little bit. do you trust me?

hope you get notified about replies on your comments tbh. dunno how this HN thing works

okay one last thing before I'm signing off. if you want to know more about this, read this thread https://lj.rossia.org/users/tiphareth/2081841.html?thread=11...

(sorry it's half russian, half english) but the most important points are in english
Oh. Gp made it sound like it was a common thing in America.
HaxeFlixel 4.4.0
This is a compelling long read. If the subject is of interest, the movie Restrepo and this talk from Sebastian Junger [1] may be of interest, too.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wn0zEBhvwXY
Love in Kleptopia needs to be explained better. The problem can only be solved if you can afix two padlocks onto a box, and I was presuming the lock box had a single, normally shaped padlock eye, which would make such a thing impossible.

I find this happens a lot with "thought" problems: I can't solve it (and can often prove that) because the rules of the problem are inadequately explained.
A lot of climate change "experts" are paid to generate research that is biased in order to support the agenda of whoever is paying them.

Sometimes I'll see research using data that only goes back to perhaps 1970 or the 1800s for example, which is ridiculous.

Climate change is the modern day religion. I wonder if the world will end up going to war over this.

Personally I believe that humans are not capable of causing climate change, they are too insignificant in the grand scheme of things.

And if the climate didn't change, it would be a bad thing, because that would mean that the planet is dead.
It doesn't assert how they ought to be (theorists, like everyone else, may express their opinion but this is not what the theory studies). It is a study of formal systems; basically, it's formal logic under a different name: A formal system is defined, and its properties studied; another system is defined and its properties are studied, and so on.

Unfortunately, most texts on PL theory, and this one does not seem to be an exception, do not explain what a formal system is -- namely what syntax is, what semantics is, and what the relationship between them is. This leads to confusion later on.
“Passion” careers are a great example of this. Many people would gladly save the planet or do art for free, so the pay in arts and environmental protection is really low.
Show HN: Wat – Simple Python Interactive Breakpoint Library
I think this is really the key point here.

Yes, use JavaScript when it's appropriate and makes the site/app better, or when it's necessary for the thing to function. Obviously something using your camera or microphone or what not should use JavaScript and might rely on it to function.

But if the site or app is meant to do something that'd work perfectly fine without JavaScript (or with progressive enhancement and a non JavaScript fallback), make it like that instead.

When you're delivering megabytes worth of scripts and relying on JavaScript only functionality for what's essentially a blog (read, many news sites and content platforms now), something is really wrong. The people at the likes of Reddit, Wikia, Medium, and a fair few news sites seem to be trying to deliver a simple product with enough technology to launch a space shuttle.