skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This (1) would not happen; (2) would be awful. Utilities and infrastructure are state and local issues. The states and cities that would build public broadband infrastructure are in dire financial straits and can't afford it. You invoke "government handouts," but for decades the government has been loathe to get into the business of building broadband. All the "handouts" you hear about are intra-industry transfer payments: a special tax is levied on telecom service in urban areas to subsidize telecom service in rural areas. It doesn't cost the government anything, it just moves money from mostly urban ISPs to mostly rural ISPs.

Even if there was the money for it, you wouldn't want it. Public Internet in the U.S. does not look like "fiber for everyone." Instead, it would be 25 mbps DSL for everyone. It would be that way for the same reason we build six-lane highways to far-flung exurbs while public transit in urban areas decays, and why we continue to use lead-piped water systems in order to keep water rates extremely low. Our political situation tilts things heavily toward favoring coverage over quality.

Over the last 10 years, my private-sector broadband speeds have gotten 10 times faster, even as bandwidth usage exploded. But my public-sector subway ride has gotten slower (and more jerky when they turned off automation), even as ridership went down. It seems absolutely insane to me that anyone would want to put the people responsible for the latter in charge of the former.
This seems nearly identical issue; why would you suspect the vote would differ?
If they create a profile on you the cookies it's tied to disappear when you close your browser.

If they see you with an IP address and a cookie and a moment later see that same IP with the same browser etc does something else they will correlate them. There is a whole industry around tracking people who explicitly do not consent or have withdrawn their consent to be tracked. That’s why we need GDPR.
That's what happens when you privatize the rail system.

Though as I understand it, it's still subsidized just not to the same extent as in the Netherlands. Rail is just a very expensive mode of transport to operate.
huh huh huh he said smaller micro movements...
Not the top level commenter, but my take on that would be that you can tell a lot of different stories with the same data

Maybe if it was framed this way, we might be looking into solutions to help struggling boys in lower income areas

Not that one is more or less valid than another, just that different framings of data can lead researchers to different conclusions/solutions
I'm not 100% sure if you tried to be ironic or if you really reported that the video was better in 8k than FHD.

Because actually, it can be.

Although 8k is overkill, 4k will be enough, and 1440p nearly ok on your old 1024x768 monitor. Typically video encoding does some subsampling on some color components. If you play 4k content on a FHD screen, the quality can be better because you will have no subsampling on your FHD screen, compared to mere FHD encoding (in most cases).
Concern over the "intellectual property" of indigenous people within linguistics is mainly a North American thing, and the bureaucracy put in place to ensure that you follow all these guidelines is astounding. Unfortunately, North American academics have been pushing for these ethics rules to extend to all parts of the globe, even in places where the relationship between foreign scholars and local people is not the same as for parts of native North America.

I have done linguistics fieldwork among some indigenous people elsewhere in the world under a European university. There was no requirement to appear before an ethics board before or after. There was no requirement to credit my native informants at all costs – considering that the country in question was rather repressive of these minority peoples, my informants generally did not want it to be publicly known that they were interacting with foreigners. Once I had the data, it was straightforward to publish it. I would hate to see that ease in my particular subfield disappear because of historical-political disputes elsewhere.
Comcast has disabled a throttling system that it deployed in 2008
Tether fired their auditor for _wanting to conduct an audit_, and not being willing to "rubber stamp these bank statements for us and call it good".
A personal home security system could make better use of this instead of motion sensors in each room.
I'm glad I found someone who mentioned this as I was going to. I've spent the first month and a half of my summer reading books (4 down, which is more than I've read in the past decade and a half combined) and I definitely feel as though it has helped me focus more. I've been more disciplined about really "reading aloud" the words in my head as opposed to when I was younger I kinda just skimmed and didn't really take in what I was saying.

Edit: should say outside of assigned readings for school work. Which tend to lean technical and are never fully read from cover to cover.
For example, if they are expecting to find someone with several hostages, and they only find people lying in bed...
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You also have to account the rise in population, which translates to higher demand. Not sure Japan had similar Demand/Supply to SF before bust.

The average annual gain in SF since 2010 came to 11,173 persons, and the median is 10,824. The overall population increase of 78,593 amounts to an estimated spike of more than 9.75 percent. For comparison, that’s a higher year-over-year increase than seven of the ten most populous counties in the country, including number-one ranked Los Angeles County (up 0.1 percent since 2016), Orange County (0.4 percent), and San Diego County (0.6 percent).

Breakdown of how the city has grown since the last full census in 2010, with SF’s official population of 805,770 at the time:

2011: +10,524 (816,294)
2012: +14,112 (830,406)
2013: +10,486 (841,270)
2014: +11,988 (853,258)
2015: +13,062 (866,320)
2016: +9,783 (876,103)
2017: +8,260 (884,363)

1. https://sf.curbed.com/2018/3/26/17165370/san-francisco-popul...
That was a quote. There was a link behind the quote.
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Creating billions of dollars’ worth of value with a ridiculous perpetual-motion fake-dollar-printing machine is a real innovation.

Creating money by printing is not a new thing. Making people believe that the money you've created with whatever hocus-pocus is real and that investment X will just spew money indefinitely is not at all a new thing. It is one very standard old thing.

That by itself doesn't prove bitcoin is this. But in analyzing investment that's rocketing up in value, one should remember that what Hyman Minsky called "speculative finance", ie, bubbles, should not be excluded or treated as "something really weird". "Are X many people really that foolish?" Well, how often has this happened before? There is an answer to that question.
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wish there was an open version of this.
Publishers of text, as a whole, do not prefer RSS to other options to serve the same purpose. That's not a criticism, just a comparison. It means that given the choice, which publishers mainly are, they opt for things that aren't RSS.
How does that solve the problem of attracting talent?
Everyone needs to stop using "crypto" to mean "cryptocurrency".

I thought this article was going to be about cryptography, not more hype for dunning-krugerrands.
Sure it is. It commoditizes trust, making audit logs easily accessible and cheap for many many companies. Besides, which auditing company do you trust?
I live in a city with multiple providers. Some lucky ones even have choice of FIOS, along with fast cable from two providers and slower DSL.

It doesn't matter for cord-cutters and people like me, who just want to pay for a $30 / month 100 Mbit internet connection without TV, cable, wireless data, HBO, etc. I've lived in several countries outside the US (including 'developing' ones, and this seems possible everywhere but N. America).

None of the providers will sell a $30 / month vanilla internet connection. Either you can get the absurd $20 / month 1Mb down (which they were required to provide for low-income families) or the next higher speed includes Cable, premium channels, rental boxes, etc. You aren't getting out of it without paying $60 / month which ends up being $70 after all the taxes and fees, increasing to $75 next year, etc.
I suppose the argument against it is that you're not normalizing something across browsers... you're changing it? Right?
*Will somebody please get the article and mansplain it to me?
>To make matters even worse, their "index" comprises of only 4 coins!

Not to mention that coins are highly correlated, so buying some tiny amount of eg. BTC is enough diversification already.
> In order to do that, the congress has to change the law so the ISPs have to share the cables they own in a building like phone lines,

No can do. We already had that law and it was revoked in the Brand X decision.
The idea that the industry should self-fund universal coverage is massively distortionary. If we want everyone to have electricity and broadband (an admirable goal), that's fine. The government should build electricity and broadband to places that don't have it (and I'd posit they should do it in a cost efficient way, e.g. with wireless).

Forcing the places that do have it to subsidize the places that don't have it, however, is incredibly destructive to competition. It prevents smaller entrants, and entrenches incumbents. Those are the only entities that can afford to both operate an infrastructure business and run a money-losing government service on the side. It is, in fact, why we're in this mess to begin with. It was municipalities that granted cable franchise monopolies (before that was made illegal), to ensure universal build-out.
No longer able to edit so replying to myself: Taken from another post of mine about widevine 7 months ago where we was discussing why the RaspberryPi couldn't support 1080p Netflix (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15594460 and a link to the comment chain to make it easier for anyone reading - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15586844)

> As far as I understand it there are 3 security levels to widevine Level1 being the highest and 3 being the lowest.

> Level 1 is where the decrypt and decode are all done within a trusted execution environment (As far as I understand it Google work with chipset vendors such as broadcom, qualcomm, etc to implement this) and then sent directly to the screen.

> Level 2 is where widevine decrypts the content within the TEE and passes the content back to the application for decoding which could then be decoded with hardware or software.

> Level 3 (I believe) is where widevine decrypts and decodes the content within the lib itself (it can use a hardware cryptographic engine but the rpi doesn't have one).

> Android/ChromeOS support either Level1 or Level3 depending on the hardware and Chrome on desktops only seems to support Level 3. Kodi is using the browser implementation (at least when kodi is not running on Android) of widevine which seems to only support Level 3 (So decrypt & decode in software) and therefore can not support hardware decoding. But that doesn't mean that hardware decoding of widevine protected content can not be supported on any mobile SoC. Sorry if I gave that impression.

> When a license for media is requested the security level it will be decrypted/decoded with is also sent and the returned license will restrict the widevine CDM to that security level.

> I believe NetFlix only support Level 1 and Level 3, which is why for a while the max resolution you could get watching NetFlix on chrome in a desktop browser was 720p as I believe that was the max resolution NetFlix offered at Level 3 and we had to use Edge/IE(iirc) to watch at 1080p as it used a different DRM system (PlayReady) and why atm Desktop 4k Netflix is only currently supported on Edge using (iirc) Intel gen7+ processors and NVidia Pascal GPUs (I don't know if AMD support PlayReady 3.0 on their GPUs as I don't have one so not really had the desire to investigate, I'm guessing that current Ryzen CPUs do not as they currently don't have integrated GPUs).
Huh, my bad. I read up on it and thought I hadn't missed anything but I guess I stand corrected. Thanks, I'll correct the article.
Yeah, I think it's more what lgats suggested, and simply that they have a naturally impermeable building in the middle. Not even the cabinets, more the metal shelving up to the ceiling and such. I also notice that my current phone does a terrible job of falling back on the much more long distance 3G, so maybe that's part of it.
Yes and no. ODBC on Windows may (or may not) be provided by the Microsoft JET driver, which can be considered a database unto itself. Specifically, there is a separate ODBC driver for Go that usql supports, which is what this is reflective of. I actually edited the above after posting to remove a double entry for PostgreSQL and MySQL, as there are two different Go drivers for each of those databases (4 in total) that are well supported by the community.
> Norway probably has the worst urban sprawl in Europe.

In Finland, the dispersed nature of residental communities – along with strong public transportation links to allow people to commute elsewhere – is an intentional choice: the idea is that quality of life is higher if there is more greenery and open space. Does Norway not have a similar approach?
>This issue is remarkably similar to the problem with the Ring Smart Doorbell – it was impossible to revoke another high privilege users permissions.

This is given as an unhyperlinked throwaway comment, but my interest is piqued. Does anyone have a write up on this?
That's probably it. Perhaps I want some decorative brushed aluminum sheet metal instead of drywall...
Who pays the toolmakers?
Did macroeconomics give up on explaining recent economic history?
And how much money are you bleeding running that machine 24/7?
You have to remember that the denser you install towers, the shorter and less obtrusive they need to be. I.e., you don't need to be nearly as high if you only need line of sight over one mile instead of ten.
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There is no such thing as AI, there's only machine learning

That's a pretty bold assertion given that the field of AI has a history[1][2][3] stretching back 60 some odd years. What's your basis for making the claim that there is "no such thing as AI"? And for that matter, why would you make a bright-line distinction between "machine learning" and AI in the first place? Most people consider ML a subset of the broader AI rubric, meaning ML is AI.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dartmouth_workshop

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_artificial_intellig...

[3]: https://aitopics.org/misc/brief-history
I have always been strongly opposed to CSS resets and global CSS styling rules in general. There really is bo need for it if you know how to isolate your classes correctly. Some Atlassian plugins create global styling rules and they tend to break things.
> When I play minecraft I don't want it to be relegated to some sub-chip because it isn't trusted.

Why not relegate the trusted stuff to a sub-chip then? (i.e. TPMs in desktop PCs, or iOS' "secure enclave")
This analogy isnt complete though because it doesnt take into account network health. Its easy to make a cryptocurrency, but hard to build a network large enough to defend against various attacks. There are many, man coins out there suseptible to double spending - bitcoin is the most secure, and this security adds some value in itself.
Fwiw, I'm actually pretty folksy.
Cookies are the basis of session management.

They are one technique. In, oh, 1996, we did this by simply generating a unique URL for each user. If you wanted to stay logged in you bookmarked it, and if you didn’t you... didn’t. It was right there to see in the address bar as well, no sly hiding it in HTTP headers.
The stack-based API is the trick that allows Lua to have much saner memory management than the alternatives. Unlike Python, C code using the Lua API does not need to manually keep track of reference counts. Unlike Ruby, Lua's garbage collector is accurate and can be coded in pure and portable C.

I agree with you that needing to keep track of the stack size is a pain though. I also wish it would just grow on demand as needed. That said, when you are doing things "by hand" the default stack limit of 10 slots per function call frame is often enough. It could be worse :)
Having discussed this with a couple of friends off of here, I should add some evidence of the tracking[0]. I agree with lgats sibling comment that this is likely just a function of the construction of the building and not outright illegal jamming.

[0] https://www.walkbase.com/blog/wi-fi-analytics-in-retail-stor...
1% chance of changing the world for the better says nothing unless you also specify how much better.

Local bakery makes world a bit better, but not really worth if you needed a whole power plant to run it (intentionally ridiculously extreme for demonstration purposes).
Everyone is worried about video and rightly so, or maybe is just being used as an example, but my question is: Could ISPs prevent in any way Software Updates? Could they block (for example) a patch that would fix a bug allowing them to mim web requests to inject lets say, ads?
> So don't do that. If you can run tensorflow on your device, you can call out to a local process.

Not from a webapp (without jumping through a dozen other hoops.) With tensorflow.js, you can do (for example) pose estimation, or face detection, or audio recognition, right in the browser without sending data to a remote server.

> But that's not a good reason. It's just a reason.

Yes, of course it's a reason. The point is that it can be a good reason in many cases.
So your premise is multiple companies, with ultimately a decade of preparation, regulatory effort, and build-out, are set to spend billions of dollars on a non-market. All because they just didn't understand physics can't be beat.

Oh sure, amazon_not, I'll take your word for it. Since when does SpaceX know what they're doing.
Right. What it really boils down to is a private entity more efficient at delivering a service than the 10% or so profit margin it requires to operate. The more profit margin a company requires, the more efficient over a government implementation it needs to be; so if a company requires a 20% margin, it needs to be 20% more efficient to break even with a government run entity of the same nature.

There are other aspects such as a company can't run without a profit and proper cash flow for nearly as long as a government entity can, because the government entity is subsidized. Also a government entity is much more susceptible to political winds (budget cuts) than a private entity may be.
PNAS? I've never seen this short form before. What does it mean?
I think they're saying "SEQUEL", which is the widely accepted/recognized pronounced mononym for "SQL".
What about when you're stuck away from the internet, say in an airplane without WiFi?
This is not a new discovery. It's known as the Flynn effect. [1] It initially was the observation that IQ scores were constantly increasing over time. This was one of big correlations in support of intelligence being driven by environment. Our environmental conditions were improving, and so was our IQ.

But then sometime starting around the mid 90s it began to reverse in developed nations. And by reverse, I mean IQ's began declining - not approaching some sort of asymptotic 0 level of growth. So, if we normalize for age, an average person born in the 70s will have a higher IQ than an average person born in the 90s.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flynn_effect
"You should be able to figure out what is a scam and what is sovereign through data." Right but wouldn't a tool to help people learn this help?
Why aren't we seeing more MITM attacks if this is the case? I'd imagine it's trivial to MITM a PDF download and riddle it with malware. Why would the botnet not fully exploit the router?
I see Coinbase as "the Netscape of crypto". They're the company that is making it easy for ordinary people to get involved with trading or holding crypto assets, basically the on-ramp to the cryptocurrency world.

Ironically, Coinbase sees themselves as "the Google of crypto". Having worked at Google, this seems nonsensical to me. Google was built at a much later time in the dot-com boom, when the Internet had expanded so much that you couldn't have a single on-ramp to it, you needed a satellite overview (in this particular case, literally) to make sense of it all. IMHO the Google of crypto hasn't been invented, because the market for it doesn't exist yet. (Conventional wisdom is that currency is a winner-take-all market, in which case the market for "the Google of crypto" will never exist, because the industry will never get complex enough that you'd need one. I'm not entirely sure that conventional wisdom is correct in this case, though.)

Elph sounds much more like "The Macintosh of crypto" - both because of the app store they're building, and because their focus is on making things that are currently complicated point-and-click.
why are you trying to apply your irrelevant experiences with other groups even as you complain about americans doing so to you?
...unless said docker container is running an app server that has direct access to your database.
It raises the cost (excluding everything but salary, which is unrealistic) of a full time minimum wage worker by 0.9% per year. Add in the additional costs of an employee and that percentage drops even further.

It was also targeted at the top 3% of companies or something.

This was a paltry tax. If you want to convince me otherwise I want hard numbers, not "oh but the low profit minimum wage employers".
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You can use kerberos for authentication, and also encrypt traffic [0].

> krb5p Use Kerberos for authentication, and encrypt all traffic between the client and server.

[0] https://wiki.debian.org/NFS/Kerberos
Good comment, I just have one picky edit (attached to a story I enjoy). You wrote, "during a bull market, when the price started to decline."

It's the opposite. Bull markets are when price starts to increase. Bear markets are when price starts to decline.

Years ago, I had an amazing macroeconomics professor named Alex Kelly. Dr. Kelly was an amazing educator with an incredible sense of humour, a penchant for telling the truth as he saw it, and genuine glee when he'd see students start to understand his material.

I'll never forget the class where Dr. Kelly stood up, did his impression of a bear standing on his hind legs, growling and pushing down the market. Then showing the converse, snorting like a bull and pushing up the market.

Afterwards, he did his usual shrug, reached into his pocket to fish out his everpresent Rolaids, quipped "now if anyone gets that wrong on the midterm..." and shook his head menacingly.

Dr. Kelly could flat out teach and I quote him to this day.
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I get this reaction. But it's worth remembering that, to a great extent, today's sensitivities are reactions to extremely callous treatment of native peoples in the past--including by scientists and other researchers (such as unauthorized exhumations for archaeological study). I also wouldn't conflate the researchers' willingness to allow the descendants of these people to control the recordings with stinginess on the part of those descendants in sharing them with the world.

"Enlightenment" likely has nothing to do with it.