skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A credential in "English" isn't the exemplar of self-indulgence that it would be in the US, where everybody already knows English and "English" as a school subject just means literature.

Knowing English in China has real, immediate financial benefits. For any given job (programmer / secretary / waitress / anything), a role that involves having to communicate with English speakers is more prestigious and offers higher pay.
If ISPs are so profitable, and the current government is falling for their lies, then ISPs are probably a great investment?

You could buy some Comcast stock (NASDAQ: CMCSA) - it's a bargain right now, down 20% in the past year. Compare vs. the NASDAQ composite index, which is up 20% in a year.

Actually, the more I look at it, they might actually be a good investment after this 2018 correction. I do not have any vested interest in Comcast, but I might make a very small investment after reading this article.
Honestly, I think we use Google docs draw more than anything else. I don't love it, but it is group editable, has a permission system, good comments, and we can just paste urls in tickets and design documents. Many engineers simply use the draw tool in confluence, too. Trying to draw in markdown doesn't work, obviously.
There are countless examples.

The US government seized all gold.

The Greek government froze accounts, Cyprus engaged in a 'bail in', governments constantly freeze accounts of 'bad' actors, payment processors will decide without cause to stop servicing clients because they are in adult content or because they are WikiLeaks.

There so many examples, it goes on and on ad nauseum.
Pi-Hole is different from using a hosts file in that, Pi-Hole returns 200 OK with empty content for any requests to the black-listed domains?
> Shareholders are also miles away from any negative impact that their companies have on the communities in which they operate -- unlike small business owners who interact directly with their customers.

If you own 1 share of a company you are a share holder. Employees are also given stock as bonuses and have the ability to buy stock at a lower cost. These are shareholders and I am sure these people are in the local economy.

I'd be willing to bet a large portion of the american public is actually invested in these ISPs whether they know it or not (Most people do not know how or what their pension / retirement funds are invested in) and depend on these companies to do well so they can have a nice retirement.
Just benchmarked a couple of web-based diagramming tools: LucidChart and draw.io

Both work, I ended up choosing LucidChart and we are now testing it with the team
What's wrong with Windows key->type "email"->Enter? That's how GNOME works.
#2 is actually significantly harder to solve, although I do think that distributing new money directly to consumers rather than to banks who are supposed to make loans to consumers would help the situation.

Inflation doesn't affect all firms equally. Excess money tends to pool at bottlenecks within the economy: industries where a single firm has monopoly power over its suppliers or customers. It ends up receiving all the new cash that is circulating within the economy, but has little incentive to pay out that cash to suppliers because they have few other buyers but plenty of competitors should they try to raise prices proportionally. As a result, prices rise upstream of the monopoly, but remain constant downstream, with the added money going into asset purchases that the monopoly firm believes will give it a bigger moat. The Fed, meanwhile, tends to look at prices downstream (in the broader economy), sees that they are remaining stubbornly low, and keeps adding money into the economy, which all collects as cash on the balance sheets of monopoly firms or asset prices for things they want to buy.

Warren Buffett has remarked on this effect in a few of his annual reports, and his entire investment thesis is based upon it. It's also why the FANG stocks have been on a tear (each of them owns a local monopoly in their consumer-based industry), and why software engineering salaries for Big Tech have been skyrocketing (on the supply-side, each of these companies isn't quite a monopsony, as engineers can choose to work for another one), and why land in the Bay Area is unaffordable (all these engineers need to live somewhere, and the supply of land is fixed). It also manifests as a plummeting velocity of money and recurrent asset bubbles, which we've also seen.

Distributing money directly to taxpayers would help - at the very least, it'd let the Fed more accurately measure the impact of new money on prices, as consumer price levels would jump immediately rather than waiting for the money to cycle back as salaries, which it never does unless they're in an industry where they have bargaining power over their employers. But ultimately, fixing it requires doing something about monopoly concentration within the economy and ensuring there's healthy price competition at all levels of the value chain.
You can already hold US dollars in digital form. You're describing exactly how banks work. The reasons that transfers cost money or people outside the US can't hold accounts are not technical.
It's perfectly possible as a Chinese person in China to enjoy a solid middle-class lifestyle based only on your ability to speak English.
Not today, but it's coming. This kind of thing does work on nightly.
9-9-6 work culture isn't horrible. In Taiwan, people usually pretends to being hardly working, no matter he or she are goofing. The boss are pleased by getting the "free" man-hours from his employers and believing this are leading to the more product outputs. Finally, if you're more hardly working, you're just possibly losting more "earn value" by yourself in some odd industries.
> candidates who don’t know what TCP is or what context switch means.

Nope, look at the curriculum again.
Parent's post for convenience: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17041413
I'm going to need a Poe's Law check on this one. Sincere or satire?
This attitude is ridiculous. It's akin to saying I'm obliged to read a whole book.
(responded to similar thought on a different thread)
> We were not allowed to work together for that problem

How do you mean?
So the real problem here is that you want a lower limit. The margin of error has the effect of occasionally lowering that limit, so you're OK with it. You're OK with police incorrectly applying the law as long as the outcome is something that you agree with.

There are a few problems with that.

1. You're not always going to agree with the way the police incorrectly apply the law and police culture and procedure is harder to change than statutory limits.

2. The margin of error works both ways. It lets some people who are over a .08 go free. And it punishes some people who are below a .08.

We should strive to remove arbitrariness from our justice system. It's not always possible but we should try for it anyway.
I agree with the EFF on a lot, but there was a dearth of numbers in this article. Does anyone know of any numbers to actually back up, for instance, the 80% claim that the writer makes regarding the cost of initial buildout? Additionally, how would that apply to each individual ISP?

The article also asserts that, "a small handful of massive and extraordinarily profitably Internet service providers (ISPs) are telling state legislatures that network neutrality would hinder their ability to raise revenues to pay for upgrades and thus force them to charge consumers higher bills for Internet access". Does anyone have an actual example where this has happened? I'd expect the author to at least throw in a link to a news article somewhere. Almost every article the author has written for the EFF is related to Net Neutrality, I'd think he'd have plenty of resources to show us.

Also, while I'm not entirely sure how EPB built their network out, Sonic is a terrible example even by the information given in the article. First of all, when almost the entire cost of starting your business is already paid for you, you're doing to have lower costs than someone who actually has to build conduit to lay fiber. On top of that, Sonic's service seems to be entirely concentrated in an extremely small, very high population density area. When you have 2000 customers on a single city block, you're going to have a lot lower costs than a company that has one customer every quarter mile.
They're very different languages, so different people like them for different reasons. Why is salt so popular today when pepper is just killing it?
>The community decides by flagging stories they think don't belong.

Yeah, but that doesn't answer my question. But I think I know the answer. Politics-oriented posts that get flagged into oblivion tend to be the ones where the facts favor the political right, and/or expose the moral or logical flaws of leftist arguments or tactics. I'm sure there have been exceptions, but this applies to virtually all of the cases I've witnessed, including this particular one.
CppCon 2017: Louis Brandy “Curiously Recurring C++ Bugs at Facebook”
I use the same criterion that people use when they use it in their day-to-day conversations. Lets not get into the definition of words. In any case its not my goal to resolve disagreement or to convince someone of something. I don't view conversations in such narrow ways. I'm only interested in having interesting conversations with reasonable folks.
"Of course it's stealing. You're violating the contract you implicitly agree to when you visit the site."

No it's not and no you aren't. Entering a public area isn't trespassing and there's no such thing as a contract you implicitly agree too.
Huh? If I exclude completely uninteresting "Racket School 2018" announcement, I have 18 words (plus some pointless images) on the first screen.

Oh, apparently I'm supposed to hover over the images to see more text. Why?!
> On the contrary, I've always felt that content to display, and in particular code to execute, on my device is my decision and mine alone.

Absolutely. I reserve the right to decide what gets displayed on my computer, and what code runs. Websites can try to serve me stuff I don't want to see, but if they do, I am well within my rights to remove it.

That doesn't stop at ads, either. I often use my ad blocker's element hider to remove all the superfluous cruft that adorns so many websites. I don't want to see your social media sharing buttons, your half-page auto-playing videos, your cluttered sidebars, or enormous footers. And I definitely don't want to see your "Open in App" buttons that occlude the lower portion of your content.

If you want to ruin your site with user-hostile design, then fine, but that won't stop me from making it usable again on my device.
Apple Pay can't just charge the credit card on file with iTunes because Apple doesn't actually store bare card numbers for Apple Pay payments. They use the card number you input to access the provider's network and get a token, which they then use to actually make transactions. The provider has to have agreed to integrate with Apple's systems to generate those tokens. They have a good write-up of how the system works here: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT203027

Key part:

> Again, neither Apple nor your device sends your actual payment card number. Before they approve the payment, your bank, card issuer, or payment network can verify your payment information by checking the dynamic security code to make sure that it’s unique and tied to your device.

Apple Pay requires tight integration with the actual Provider of your card to authorize every transaction.

For contrast, Samsung Pay works by sending the bare card number to card-reader device by emulating magnetic fields. It's exactly as if you swiped the card, which is why it works with almost every card, and almost every card reader. It doesn't have any of the security benefits or guarantees of Apple/Android Pay, though.
Many people replaced Skype with Viber as there's no spam. I have a very old Skype account with a vanity username, which results in tens of Russians adding me and wasting a few minutes a day blocking and reporting them for spam. Also, when abroad, Viber's audio codecs seem to use less bandwidth and provide better audio quality.

I actually like the new Skype very much, but the spam issue needs to be solved!

There are many fake accounts, no way to merge different Microsoft IDs, etc.

I have to agree that Microsoft by not having its full attention on Skype ruined a huge potential! It allowed many messengers to bloom when it was basically a monopoly.

Honestly, there's very little that needs to be done to make Skype better and I'm not sure why Microsoft cares less about it!
This article rings hollow with how Medium has slipped down in to the pit of unending, user-hostile A/B tests meant to increase "engagement" and sign ups. I absolutely hate medium now.
Here's another creation of this guy - check out this synth based on SID chips: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpa7AQsx7Xw
Even worse, associating blocking ads as something akin to stealing is morally bankrupt.

It's an incredibly slippery slope that leads to complete loss of autonomy for individuals.

If I refuse to read roadside billboards, am I now stealing?

If I tear up newspaper ads and throw them away, am I now stealing?

If I turn off my tv during ads on a cable show, am I now stealing?

I think any sane person would definitively say "NO!", I think it's an incredibly dangerous line of thought that associates loss of attention as theft.

Fundamentally, we have the right to choose what we pay attention to. Some sites block me when I have adblockers enabled, I think that's fine. But don't serve up your content and then complain that I choose to ignore parts of it. I have free will and autonomy.
...you consider private websites to be public areas?
> The world doesn't need more food

Yes, it does.

> America throws away half its food.

Yes, global food delivery systems are inefficient with different sources of loss in different places (and, in the US, a big one is “people buy food and don't use it”.)

In the absence of proven solutions to these inefficiencies, though, less food production means higher prices globally, which is particularly harmful for the poorest of the poor. Sure, solving the inefficiencies would reduce the needed production levels for any given price level, but the people fighting GMOs and/or products like glyphosate aren't solving the inefficiencies, they are just attacking production while diverting energy from solving the inefficiencies.

“We don't need more food” is an attitude associated with the same privilege of wealth that leads to the US throwing away much of its food.
> >- Little guarantees against traffic inspection, DNS sniffing & so on.

> How do you guarantee something like this? Let anybody in the datacenters...?

Spell it in the contract and put people in jail if they break it.
There are definitely some apps in this space but unfortunately I don’t remember any, on top of my head now
>if you write an article, you don't believe that you have the right to say "you may read this article, provided that you also display this ad"?

You have the right to say it, and I have the right to ignore it, because that's the way the Internet is implemented. You may pretend that it works differently, but until the day it works like broadcast TV, users will have the right to pull whatever content they want from servers.
How about focusing on making your firmware updates deliver via the existing, well established lvfs instead of some "not invented here" home grown bullshit, so I can use the distro I want, not Ubuntu or that other thing I never heard of before without being denied those updates?
> Also, I have never heard of such an arrangement in practice so when people refer municipal ISPs, they are likely referring to government subsidized ISPs.

Did you not read the article? EPB is a government owned company and operates at a profit. They seem to be doing a much better job providing high speed coverage to their customers than large publicly traded companies like Comcast.
Sigh, I got all excited, but then discovered this is to be used with a server, which means it fundamentally propagates the idea of "fake security" (where somebody else owns your identity, not you. Check out this explainer for more info: https://gun.js.org/explainers/data/security.html ).

This is bad design philosophy, I instead encourage everybody to use the native Web Crypto API to create accounts and do P2P E2EE encryption.

Web Auth API does look a lot easier than Web Crypto API, but it pushes the wrong message. We've taken a lot of time to make an MIT/Zlib/Apache2 Open Source wrapper around Web Crypto API that allows better user security (better than Web Auth API), short tutorial here: https://hackernoon.com/so-you-want-to-build-a-p2p-twitter-wi... .
1 GiB to store nice animated emojis from movies — check
1 GiB RAM usage when actively chatting — check
poor voice quality — check
constant, annoying and completely useless redesigns — check
"rate the call" after the each call — check

well...I only use it because I have clients and people who sit only in Skype.
You are if the author makes it a term of the sale.
Sincere.
That's essentially the way the UK market operates, albeit with one company (BT OpenReach) owning the last mile.

We have tens of companies that use their network for the last mile and then take over transit at 27 POPs over the country (unless they want to pay BT for transit as well).

And the best bit? We have an equivalent of the FCC (OFCOM) who regulate the price that BT is able to charge for access to this network, and to spur investment into faster solutions (g.fast and FTTP) they have recently reduced the amount BT can charge.

We also have the AltNets snipping at BT's heels, GigaClear, Hyperoptic, B4RN, TrueSpeed, who are rolling out full fibre networks in different parts of the country.

And all of this means prices are generally lower too - Vodafone offer 76 down 20 up using BT's national FTTC infrastructure for $34 a month for totally unlimited use, and that also includes telephone line rental.
Having graduated with the CMU CS undergrad: if I could go back in time and replace about 80% of the language theory classes that were mandated by the curriculum with regression and machine learning modeling classes, hell yes I would.

(And this is coming from someone who TA'd one of those language theory classes ;) ).
What about the large percent of the population that is invested in these ISPs without actually knowing they are? There is a large portion of the american public that has zero clue where their pension / retirement fund is being invested. What about all the employees stock that they might have purchased or were awarded as a bonus?
> tradeoffs in our operation of Kafka have lossy effects on stream-ability. Balancing costs and operational feasibility, we ask Kafka to forget older data through retention policies.

What does ' lossy effects on stream-ability. ' mean here. Stream slows down, data loss or something else?
I like Unity and did not have good impressions of GNOME.
This all sounds so familiar too. :) Is a global problem.
You have the right to possess it, and I have the right to take it by force, because that's the way physical reality is implemented. Arguing that implementation implies natural rights is a pretty silly path.
A Quest to the Core (A must-read for future system designers) [pdf]
There is definitely serious research into the causal mechanisms of homosexuality and transgenderism.
> I know Kafka kind-of sort-of provides this functionality, but it doesn’t work in practice.

How so?
That was just the “fee” without even including the spread, which was much more, often +20% depending on the exchange.

Converting $10k BTC to USD would not cost $200 in transaction fees. If that’s how much you’re paying, find another exchange as you’re getting ripped off.

Converting BTC to another crypto currency would barely incur any cost at all.
Our law does not consider those things equivalent and I bet if you went around and asked many people would not consider that equivalent either.
I didn't mention rent controlled units because I was responding to your parenthetical comment.

I think the source of displacement is change, not development. Development is a kind of change, but it's not the only change. Anyone can move into any neighborhood if they want. If they move into a poor neighborhood and change it so that it's more appealing to them and to people with more money, then those people with more money will be attracted to the neighborhood. What is your method to stop this cycle?
Which just goes to show that it is perfectly feasible for private ISPs to compete against municipal ISPs when they are mis-managed.
No, I think if creators release their content in the world it becomes the world's. If you want to set terms rent a shed in the Nevada desert, charge admission, and make people leave their phones outside.

The idea that there are "terms" when there's never even been a negotiation is absurd.
Why wouldn't north korea counterfeit endless dollars in order to get a liquid cash supply? It sounds like a pretty great plan.
> In the wrong hands, the technology could be used to unlock doors, wire money or buy stuff online — simply with music playing over the radio.

Why hide it in radio content? Couldn't they just play it out loud when I am not home?
I like it! I might just modify my postfix servers to queue up mail for a while before processing. I like your idea.
So... you're saying that society provides a more humane option so that we no longer leave children to die of exposure. Unlike in the past.
This is "by design"[0], though you should have seen it crop up in 17.04 when it became the default. I was bitten by it too and disabled systemd-resolved.

0: https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/6224#issuecomment-...
Citation please? That's not supported by any of the studies I've read or personal experience with BAC testing. In fact, pretty much everything points to walking having no affect on alcohol metabolism at all, so what you've done is spent an additional hour metabolising the alcohol, and lowering your BAC.
CoreOS Container Linux Will Be Red Hat CoreOS
Container Linux and Project Atomic, which is built around the lightweight containerized operating system, Atomic Host, will be united into Red Hat CoreOS. Breard said, "Red Hat CoreOS will preserve the best from both offerings." Ultimately, Red Hat CoreOS will supersede Atomic Host and Container Linux and function as Red Hat's immutable, container-centric operating system.

There will be an upstream community version of CoreOS, as Fedora is to Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), but that's still a work in progress. The Project Atomic site will eventually be phased away, but it won't be a dramatic move. The code itself will live on in Red Hat's container code repos.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/heres-what-happens-to-coreos-now-that-red-hat-owns-it/
It's a form a technical debt, but on a larger scale. Like all technical debt, it let's you move fast to achieve your goals quickly and get to market sooner.

And like all technical debt, eventually you may find good reasons to rewrite, redesign, rethink, in order to achieve some different goals. But you might not have been around long enough to reach that stage if you hadn't taken on the debt early on.
"X, but on a computer" was a popular way of getting new patents which generally worked in the US until the Alice Corp Supreme Court decision of 2014.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Corp._v._CLS_Bank_Inte...
> Technically impossible to give such a guarantee.

Every other service provides five nines or whatever or your money back…
Well, every two languages are different, but at least for systems programming, Golang unfortunately started to replace Python, but given how vitally important security is in that domain, Rust makes a lot more sense than Golang, won't you agree?