skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sorry, I wrote both comments and expanded on them. It's multiple things. It's costs associated with other business interests, it's logistical and operational costs, it's a whole lot of things.

My main point is that it is naive to compare a tiny isp to a gigantic one, because the tiny one doesn't have remotely as many extra considerations or costs.

Of course consumers should be concerned about costs. I personally think they should lobby for municipal ISPs! But I'm also saying you can't say "oh my internet is too expensive compared to the tiny isp". Your internet is probably accurately priced considering who you're getting it from.
New faculty titles!
OK. What is music theory about? The explanation using frequencies, ratios, etc matched my understanding of the underlying physics and their effects on human perception.
And UDP hole-punching has actually gotten much easier. It's baked into the collection of specs that make up WebRTC now, for example. https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5389

Mobile networks often don't allow UDP hole punching, and for users behind corporate firewalls, NAT is impossible. But the standards support for "try p2p, then fall back to lightweight relaying of media, then fall back to tunneling inside HTTPS" are really good, now.

So I don't really buy that Microsoft switched to centralized media relaying because of changes in deployed network architecture.

Possibly the goal is to eventually unify how Skype for Business and "consumer" Skype work. If you are selling a communications tool to enterprise customers, it does make sense to move away from p2p, because enterprise networks are generally locked down in ways that might make the decision to just skip even trying to support p2p defensible.

Or maybe it's the lure of building features you can only do on media servers (compositing, various kinds of content analysis including inserting Cortana hooks into every call, etc).

Or maybe the speculations about government pressure are correct.
> Could cut straight to the GNOME logo after that sentence. This is sort of what they do, yeah. And they do have their niche with that, which is big enterprise-y, centrally administered systems.

Does Gnome really have a niche there? I know of three places with large Linux deployments (as in hundreds of stations). None of them use Gnome -- its interaction model is so weird and foreign that getting people who aren't Linux/FOSS enthusiasts to use it difficult, painful and frustrating for everyone, users included.

All three are SuSE shops, actually. All three run KDE; one of them is more relaxed when it comes to software engineers so a couple of folks run Cinnamon, but that's about it.

The unsettling phenomenon is that most non-techie users don't need something super smart and intuitive, they want something like Windows, because that's what they've used so far to get their work done and they see no reason to learn something new.

If it's different, but approachable, they'll adjust (perhaps that's the value in customizable DEs like KDE; you can start with something that everyone's comfortable with, then they can tweak it to make it "better"). But if it's radically different and you need someone to explain them exactly why it's better and how they've been using computers wrong this whole time, that doesn't work in the real world.
Back in the 2000s - it was AI & CS (or SE) Joint Honours.

In 1st and 2nd year, you would do the same Maths and CS course as CS/SE; you didn't get an elective it was a separate AI course, which covered the basics.

In 3rd/4th year (honours years as they're called here) - IIRC you'd have to take 8 courses in 3rd (plus an individual project and a team project) and 6 in 4th and your dissertation. Depending on the degree specialisation; you had to take some mandatory courses (CS only had to do Compiling Techniques and Algorithms, AI/CS didn't have to do CT - but they had to do Algorithms and Computability and Intractability). So, the two departments were very closely aligned and then were brought together into a new department/school within the Science and Engineering faculty.

They also offer a single AI honours degree now, but the structure seems very similar to what I experienced, with perhaps a bit more freedom in 3rd and 4th year.

Interestingly, while the majority of students were AI/CS or AI/SE - they also had joint honour programmes outside the faculty - so there were a few students who were AI and Psychology as well as AI and Linguistics. I don't believe they offer this combination anymore.
> The coin thing is a hack that would probably be challenged in court,

Probably on some basis, but it would also probably survive the kind of challenge you describe.

> because it's illegal for the Treasury to arbitrarily print money, except when it's silver.

Platinum, actually, not silver. [31 USC § 5112(k)] Which is why minting the coin as a platinum coin was an essential component of the idea.
A whiteboard and imagination from the oral documentation. It's actually something I'm working on getting my team to fix sense I got here. I'm interested in this topic.
I'm not sure everyone feels the same way. When you donate to the ACLU, don't they send things like bumper stickers that people use to signal to others that they are the kind of person who donates to the ACLU?

I wonder how much of the modern identity politics framework has been influenced by the rise of modern marketing, which has an explicit focus on identity-based advertising ("I'm a toys-r-us kid!")
I have no doubt that the complexity adds to the difficulty of documenting it. But, I still think the documentation is failing when people across the industry who should be able to parse this complexity are unable to. Complexity just isn't an excuse for broadly misunderstood documentation in my opinion.
GraphQL Binding 2.0: Improved API, schema transforms and automatic codegen
Safety critical software (or even mission critical software) should not be using dynamic allocation for a few reasons.

- Fragmentation.

- Non-deterministic runtime (in the real-time cases).

- Insufficient analysis of worst-case conditions (i.e. you haven't worked out what your worst case RAM usage is, otherwise you would have statically allocated it).

IMO, the worst is the final case as it shows a lack of thoroughness in the design as a whole and brings the rest of the code into suspicion.
Fragmentation can be worked around, but not the others.
One problem with this is that a lot of the problems people experience with their Internet service (slow speeds, latency) are due to problems (overcrowding, poorly maintained infrastructure) in the last mile. Unless the municipality is well incentived to fix problems this can be even worse for the end user - the ISP blames the Muni and vice versa and nothing gets fixed.

Note that I actually agree that this is a good and maybe the best solution and is actually what I have at home (10 GB fiber on a last mile access network with multiple ISP options! In the U.S., even!) Just pointing out a risk.
Please spare us from Android vs iPhone fanboi wars on HN.
I agree that Trump and the republicans are bad on this issue, but it's not like the Dem's did anything about it when they had power in 08-10. They're exactly as complicit and wholly in the pocket of big business, just like the R's are.
Well I hope you find something that makes you happy someday. It doesn't get better for everyone but it does get better for most people.
I'm seeing Sweden as having a significantly higher population density. I have no particular reason to trust this source [1], but it's the only one I found. Why do you say Sweden is less densely populated?

http://www.nationmaster.com/country-info/compare/Sweden/Unit...
Doubtful. The cost of land here is crazy high and shipping costs affect us too. The double whammy is that it is expensive to get equipment and parts out to us. And don’t forget about labor costs.
> Shareholders are also people.

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.

Public corporations are thus more inclined to behave solely according to profit motives, making them less like people and more like undomesticated wildlife, indifferent to humanity.
This map is from Finland in 2016, and shows only a few regions have >90% 100mbps availability.

https://m.imgur.com/wU5WXBV
>that's not really cryptocurrency anymore

Why not?
> Shareholders are also people. Some shareholders are large and rich. Some are small. Some are pension funds that want their members to receive dividends and returns.

right. i didn't say i'm happy that shareholders will lose money. just that i found the trade-off acceptable. presumably most of them will get out of for-profit ISP stocks and not totally lose their shirt over it, should things start going downhill. then others will decline to invest in the first place.

if e.g. comcast were to go out of business, then that would suck, because a bunch of people would have to look for other work. i'd hope that competition would just make those sorts of companies into better citizens, and then they could stay in business, and provide a better product at a fairer price.

> And maybe I am a pessimist, but I haven't seen that many examples of government run enterprises that can be said to be well-run.

i've read many articles on arstechnica where people have extolled the quality of their municipal ISP, and bemoaned the ISP-led legislation that banned their municipal ISP.

note that i'm not saying we should outlaw private ISPs. but my strong opinion, based on all the evidence i've read, and my own personal experience, is that national ISPs (comcast, at&t, etc) use their monopoly power to the fullest extent that they can. they have terrible service, they provide a product inferior to what other countries provide municipally for less money, and they do nothing but complain to congress about how they're hurting while bragging to shareholders about how well they're doing. in short, i think they're bad actors, and i'd rather see the thing they provide treated like a public utility, which i firmly believe it is at this point.

> I haven't seen that many examples of government run enterprises that can be said to be well-run

ARPA-E is a fine example of a current government project that is well run and highly lauded. it would also be good to remember that you wouldn't have the internet were it not for "government run enterprise" (it was ARPAnet before it was "the internet").
Congrats on the release!

Would the book be updated as new features are added to Rust? I see some useful things being incorporated slowly into the language...
so this is a call center that has CRM integration? i guess it's a cute idea but the problem with call centers isn't that they didn't have the list of leads but that they're bad sales people.
All Work and No Play: Why Kids Are More Anxious, Depressed (2011)
> Lenders would be willing to make this loan

I think that is an unfounded assumption. It's hard to get an extra loan on top of a mortgage, even if you have a very good use for it. That's why passing the cost on through is not a neutral effect, but a helpful one.
I'd recommend Bancila's Modern C++ Cookbook instead, it takes you through the new features and explains how to use them.

Effective Modern C++ is part language tutorial, part series of tips, part philosophical discussion on how one should use various features. It's not appropriate as an intro to modern C++.
Scared Straight is a well-known program that has been well-studied and found to cause significant harm. "In 2004 the Washington State Institute for Public Policy estimated that each dollar spent on Scared Straight programs incurred costs of $203.51."[0]

It was based on an intuitive idea: if teenagers see how bad jail is, they'll want to do anything they can to avoid it. That turned out pretty poorly - they instead built social connections with criminals, and were substantially more likely to get involved with crime themselves.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scared_Straight!
There's an entire second major (and minor) in HCI, now :-)
Alcohol and teenage prostitutes. Really.
The real way they should benchmark their app is do similar actions on 2 identical phones in Skype and Whatsapp. Skype is slow opening up and sluggish afterwards. It gets stuck sometimes... Whatsapp is fast and flawless, in comparison.
Rubbish, email is the least disruptive tech out there. It doesn't force you to do anything. You can actually ignore it. It's the same rubbish we see with folks blaming internet/social media/notifications for not doing work. Solution is easy. Ignore them and focus! Schedule time for deep work.
A new benchmark in determining neutron lifetime
>Isn't the entire thesis of this article questioning the morality and wisdom of the mainstream left? Accusing somebody of refusing to have honest conversations and forcing their views on others is an accusation of immorality.

That's the meta-argument. But if there are any implied accusations of immorality, the immorality is associated with actions (e.g. "forcing their views on") rather than opinions held or ideas expressed.

>Sounds like instead of acknowledging any honest disagreement about what "identity politics" means, the author just goes ahead and matter-of-factly gives his definition and implies that anybody who disagrees is a racist who can't consider a member of any ethnic group as a "free-thinking individual".

I think that's a fair observation, to a point. But if you watch the video, Joe Scarborough was reacting to when the guy said "let me help you think about it then." The woman was trying to respond to his point about identity politics, and that's how he cut her off. Then Scarborough jumped in.
i immediately fell in love with dostoevsky's work (just finished my third read of TBK), but it took me a long time to get into david foster wallace - now, i think of them as very similar. DFW is known for a lot of things (long books, footnotes on footnotes, early death) but to me at the end of the day both infinite jest and the pale king (his posthumous novel) are both incredible works that ultimately deal with existentialism. what made me think of them esp. is your comparison of C&P (cynical) and the Idiot (optimistic).

to me, infinite jest is the cynical but fun work (it's about a lot, but it's a lot about how people use drugs and entertainment and tennis(!) to (unsuccessfully) distract themselves from their larger existential problems), and pale king is the optimistic but more serious work (but with a strange reason for optimism, built in large part around the transcendence of being able to tolerate crazy boredom - it's a post-modern book about IRS employees for heaven's sake. there's a good dose of "we should probably be better citizens" - one of my fave sections describes how US taxpayers view themselves as "consumers of the government" vs. "participating citizens", digs really deep)

i actually like pale king slightly more even tho it's posthumous. it's also shorter (500 vs. 1000), i'd highly recommend starting there, though since you did TBK first, maybe you can just jump into infinite jest no problem =)
"Fix"? With Medium? They replace free blogs with a site where you have to pay to read them.

People like you helping people like us help themselves.
I think it _has_ been better.

Unity has brought a lot of innovations, and it would have been a lot better to keep it around.

Gnome devs started making extremely unpopular changes that are hard or impossible to revert. Unity at least put some pressure on them to consider their users a little bit. If only for this reason, Unity's existence was a good thing even if you didn't like or didnt' use Unity.

The situation to me is similar to Chrome's dominance, with Firefox being around to be used by few people, but having the very important role of not leaving everything to one company/group/project.

I've tried using Gnome 3 but there are just a few things that drive me (and lots of other people) crazy and can't be changed. Along with the project's "our way or the highway" attitude that made me switch to Xfce. If Ubuntu keeps being based on Gnome, Gnome might keep leaking some of their great ideas to Ubuntu, which is bad IMHO.

Xfce is a little too barebone but very usable, and with an extremely positive community. Devs are normal human beings that never look down on you (from my experience)--which can't be said of all open source projects.
They don't solve the same issues at the same scales as a backpack tent.

Primarily, yurts have to be larger. They need to accommodate entire families and their livestock in harsh winter storms. That can be keeping upwards of several dozen bodies alive in some of the worst weather on the planet. Secondly, they also have to manage the searing summer temperatures/sunlight of the southern deserts, along with incredibly high wind loads. Thirdly, they have to be repairable with the very few natural resources available in rural Mongolia.

That said, regular tents probably could learn from them. Yurts are incredibly modular and flexible designs. You can combine multiple yurts into one larger one, or use them in very different environments. They're also fairly low impact, with the primary damage to the ground being sunlight deprivation and foot traffic. I doubt the design itself could be adapted to backpacking very well though. It's just fundamentally a bit overengineered for what campers require.
This is very cool! I like seeing projects like this on here, that don't necessarily have a practical use but are a way to learn more about how a system works.
Connecting brains and computers: is this a good idea?
> I wonder how much of the modern identity politics framework has been influenced by the rise of modern marketing, which has an explicit focus on identity-based advertising ("I'm a toys-r-us kid!")

The kind of tribalism to which such advertising appeals is both millennia older than modern commercial advertising and has been a regular part of religious and political propaganda for millenia, which is where modern commercial advertising got it, not vice versa.
Care to elaborate? Does one look down on the other?
Here are the Russian-made Facebook ads that tried to shake American politics
It's been pointed out that hunter gathers worked a lot less than modern humans do: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Original_affluent_society

Only after developing agriculture do societies start having 12 hours a day of work
The stable solution is almost always a partnership, with tax dollars being used to built and maintain infrastructure and private dollars being used to maintain service.

The infrastructure is the hard and expensive part.
It's a well known fact that mice and humans promdominantly share the same genome, so this research should be taken with more than grain of salt, methinks.
The Tech Giants’ Misconceived Attack on Bail Bonds
Then they should kill the business units that are expensive to run, not jack up prices on the profitable services.
What an incredibly disingenuous/malicious hit piece, and proof of exactly what they are saying, because just about every MSM piece on any one of them is a hit piece.

Let's see:

Jordan Peterson was threatened by his university, and there have been petitions to get the university to fire him. What he predicted would happen happened pretty much exactly as he predicted it to Lindsay Shepard at Laurier University.

Bret Weinstein and his wife were accosted by students wielding baseball bats, with the University refusing to protect them (the campus police was told to stand down against their will).

Groups regularly try (and frequently succeed) to shut them down.

For most of them, associating them with the alt-right or worse is ludicrous, but that is exactly the tactic used. Every. Single. Time. Never engagement with the ideas, always the personal hit piece and guilt by alleged association. The Wilfried Laurier faculty unironically said that playing a clip from the Canadian public broadcaster featuring JBP was the same as approvingly playing a Hitler clip.

And yes, the tactic is backfiring, because we now have alternative media and alternative funding sources. That doesn't mean that it's not being attempted.
They can’t repair an app that people just delete and refuse to download “updates” for (as I did after about the 4th downgrade-billed-as-update graced my phone).
> Sweden - 45.43 sq km per 1,000 people

> United States - 30.16 sq km per 1,000 people

Looks like the US is half again more dense than Sweden according to that site.
This is our experience running a WebRTC-based service that tries hard to do peer-to-peer when possible. It's usually possible, except for people behind enterprise (big company) firewalls.

But there is a big exception -- mobile networks. Mobile data networks don't allow udp hold punching. You have to relay the media.
New Chinese (non-STEM) grads have it worse, amazingly enough.

The central government demanded more graduates at any cost, threw money at the problem and they ended up with corruption, very expensive facilities and many times more graduates with questionable skills in subjects that mostly aren't yet in demand.
> [flagged] Why the Intellectual Dark Web Exists

This is an example of censoring ideas and opinions, rather than refuting them with logic and reason. It basically illustrates the point of the article.

If anyone wants this thread to continue much longer, they'd better click the vouch link.
I had to do it: http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html
I use whiteboarding too, but yeah, it's basically a snapshot / dump of institutional knowledge that resides in an individual's head. Updated my post to mention that I'm looking for something electronic / scalable
I use my phone's camera, so no.
You have to decide if you want inflation or a fixed supply? Even with a fixed supply, transaction fees eat away at the available supply (aside from hodlers) which means the value could potentially rise from scarcity. That's not good for commerce if you need a currency that needs a stable value.

If there is a government backed currency, I think there should be no transaction fees.

A USDC could also mean tax jurisdictions could be paid immediately when there is a sale. If sales tax is 10%, the state might get 7%, county gets 2%, and city gets 1%... the distribution is immediate so you have daily cash flow.
I disagree. Last mile is just bandwidth and a router, what people complain about is mostly between the last mile and the internet. Netflix slow even though your have X0+Mbit connection on a speed test? That's what people want to fix.
Short term. no relationship building
A University Degree Is Worth More in Some Countries Than Others
System76 tech support here. One of our primary principles is empowerment and enablement. I strive to teach, support, and educate individuals on Linux and hardware maintenance. We tend to have individuals handle minor repairs, as shipping a whole laptop is time consuming and exposes the hardware to the additional possibility of shipping damage or other loss. At any point in time, we are more than happy to bring a computer in and do the repair work. Unless otherwise requested, keeping a computer with an individual tends to be the best, as it allows the computer to continue to be used until the replacement part arrives.
I call in every 12 months to get this deal renewed — the "regular" price is $50. AT&T is not available in my area, except for anemic 3/1 Mbps DSL service.

I live on the border of RWC and Woodside, and have talked to neighbors in central Woodside whom Comcast does not serve and would only do so if they pay $20,000 for the wires to be run to their house. They are stuck with the AT&T DSL service. Lack of choice is undoubtedly part of the reason that Comcast can charge so much here. And it's the reason that I bought Comcast stock a few years ago: https://medium.com/@nicklum/how-my-hatred-of-comcast-drove-m...
That's not true. Gnome 3 has seen usability studies, too. See e.g. https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/usability-gnome . I won't comment on the methodology -- just saying an attempt was made :-).