skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you're referring to this article from Ars today, it's misleading: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/07/ajit-pais-fcc-wa.... Here are the proposed rules: https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/DOC-351867A1.pdf.

What Ars is worked up about is footnote 14, which revises 47 CFR 1.717:

> 14 We also clarify rule 1.717, which addresses informal Section 208 complaints. See 47 CFR § 1.717. In addition to wording revisions that do not alter the substance of the rule, we delete the phrase “and the Commission’s disposition” from the last sentence of that rule because the Commission’s practice is not to dispose of informal complaints on substantive grounds.

Contrary to the Ars article, the FCC is not "drop[ping] unofficial complaints." The current wording suggests that each complaint will result in an investigation and a "disposition" (i.e. formal agency decision). In reality, the FCC does not necessarily start an investigation and reach a formal disposition in response to every complaint. Rather, it handles informal complaints exactly how you'd expect an agency to handle informal complaints--based on the complaints, it may or may not initiate an investigation and an enforcement action. But it is not obliged to investigate and formally dispose of each and every complaint. The wording update simply reflects that.

A "formal" complaint is not just an "official" complaint. It is a lawsuit in the FCC: https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/47/part-1/subpart-E. The telecommunications provider is required to show up and defend the lawsuit, there are motions, briefing, discovery, etc., and if a violation of the law is found, the respondent can be held liable for damages to the complainant. The filing fee reflects the fact that a formal complaint initiates court-like proceedings in the FCC.
I sometimes wonder- if you have a superconducting "pipeline" along the earths rotation direction could those countrys where the sun is still "up" power those where the sun already has set?
An AR 15 lower is not explosive or a dangerous chemical. It’s no more dangerous than any other couple pound hunk of metal. But common carriers choose not to transport them even though it’s safe and legal.
I'm moving from programmer to more of an devops / architect role because I can't focus on building high quality code in noisy open offices.

Devops and architect stuff is a whole lot easier to do with open office since you don't have a million things in your head at once.
Defensix Update
Not just a broad tree, but a labyrinthine broad tree where you are basically traversing a maze of choke points
> I guess what upsets me is that I feel like to be successful I have to be less myself. I think you might feel this too based on what you said

Actually, my point was the exact opposite. The "awkward me" isn't the real me. It's the version of myself that I constructed in order to survive my seriously dysfunctional childhood raised by a mother with a PhD from Harvard in child psychology who was deliberately trying to interfere with my socialization. For example, making me skip a grade, I was a small kid, so I ended up in junior high a foot shorter than all of my peers. Another great example is making me take a job closing down a pool from 9-10pm every night during high school, with the express purpose (unknown to me) of ensuring that I wouldn't be able to hang out with friends at night.

My point is, my entire sense of self had been constructed for me, but it was a false one. After many years, a deeper version of myself has emerged, one that's more true in some sense. From the perspective of my old self, this new self is "fake", and vice versa. Based on the available data, I've concluded that the real me is actually just fine, and all I needed to do was a few decades of therapy/yoga/psychedelics/meditation/breakdowns in order to come out of my shell.

In your case, I would be careful about wishing that society would work around your communication preferences. If by preferences you mean "I want to be able to violate social norms around eye contact and politeness and get away with it", then I'd say it would be more constructive for you to change, rather than society. I'd also note that if you're in a position of power, like someone's boss, or even the prized developer, this puts you in a privileged position to break social norms because there's a risk to whoever dares to call you out. Don't be one of those bosses, or one of those developers.
This made me sad.

Not your fault, I asked for it.

Thanks
That was really funny. Thanks & kudos.
> Dirty

By coal standards?
I'm a fan of Apache Airflow for large, complicated ETL processes especially those with depth and breadth in their dependencies.
It was good, but the IBM beam spring ones were better. They still beat anything else, before or since.

I've played with J, but APL, with the symbols, feels nicer.

Even though it's almost impossible to dictate code to someone when pair programming.
Drugs eat up a tiny fraction of total medical cost. If you dig into the breakdowns of where money is spent, and look at other countries, you'll find we are more expensive at every step. This includes doctor and nurse salaries, and litigation costs. It includes forcing drug companies to lower costs, which will reduce R&D since many rare conditions need high cost drugs to cover the R&D to bring a drug for a few people to market. It includes forcing everyone to pay into the system, so the insured aren't paying the medical bills of the uninsured emergency visits, which is proving difficult to do. It would involve denying care to those costing too much, which we do to some part, but not like many countries.

If you want to make our costs similar to other countries, we'd need to lower costs at each place, including doctor and nurse salaries (which will be politically impossible), cap litigation (which consumers complain about), and dozens of other components.

There is no one area that is the cause. It's death by 1,000 papercuts.
One thing that seems to have changed is informal complaints won't be looked at by people at the FCC but will go directly to the ISPs. Meaning the FCC won't be monitoring for any issues and only care about formal complaints
You could just fudge the numbers a little bit and have the system say "~X human, ~Y bot followers".
They were evolutionary dead ends. The C was discontinued a while ago. Both the SE and the X are being killed off this year in favor of just the iPhone 11 and 11 Plus and keeping the 9 around as an "inexpensive" model.
s/neckties/hoodies/g

He doesn’t wear neckties except for at senate judiciary hearings...
Why don't developers and startups like collabs?
There were lots of jokes about OS/2 being just half an OS.
Firstly, Congratulations for launching DIRT.

>If the data is incorrect, anyone can challenge the data and earn tokens for identifying these inaccurate facts.

How do you moderate censorship or conflicting information ?
if someone uploads my personal info, without my consent. How do I get to purge it ? From the current model, it seems like I ll have to pay money to "request" purging my own data.
Yeah. That's his problem - it's not "to make matters worse" (as OP writes) it's the entire issue.
Agreed. Without some alternative form of energy in the morning and evening we may have already reached the saturation point of solar energy. See the Duck curve [1].

Once the heavily regulated energy market has time to adjust to market conditions you are going to see this energy surplus during the day being adjusted for. Where solar panels make economic sense today they may not tomorrow when energy prices for mid-day use plummet due to oversupply.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duck_curve
Please don't post ideological rants to HN. We're looking for substantive comments here. That means comments that contain information rather than rhetoric.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Also from the article:

>There's a city-specific reason why San Francisco has stuck with wood rather than swap over to metals, and the answer lies in looking up. The high-voltage cables and wires that guide the city's (oft-maligned) public transport system Muni, and trolley cars crisscross above nearly every street, mean that ladders made of conductive elements are generally just too dangerous to use.

>"I think there's a lot of fire departments that went aluminum and wish they could go back to wood but it's too expensive," Braun says. "There's only two ladders manufacturers in the states—and we're one of 'em. We only make our own ladders and can barely even keep up with what we have."
With regards to #2: You should study the "duck curve" and "nessie curve".

In particular, in Solar-heavy situations, the peak energy is now 5pm. When the sun begins to set but there's still a large demand of electricity.

Batteries in today's form cannot solve the duck curve. So the only reasonable situation is to use natural gas plants to supply the grid with power. Future batteries need to be built more efficiently and cheaper to deal with the many Gigawatts and Gigawatt-hours (both power AND energy capabilities need to grow) to deal with the future duck curve and/or nessie curves.
I'm an independent developer. What would it cost me to use this, once you've fully launched?
No. Vanilla React just give you the option to store state of any size in any component.
Cool!

Feedback: If it's called quote of the day, then why does it change on refresh?
> How are you supposed to verify someone’s identity online without going through a laborious and expensive process

In Poland they have ceded the identity verification to banks since they do this anyway when you open an account and are quite diligent because, well, they are banks :)

If I need to send on-line communication to the government which requires my identity to be confirmed, I can sign it by going trough my on-line bank as if I were making a money transfer (login, password, 2FA using sms code).
Now you’re right back where this started - accounting for the cost of batteries.

Oh, and my stomach says dinner is most definitely not irrelevant.
A new comment system won't cure any of their ailments. So long as Pai and other industry lobbyists remain at the helm of the very organization that polices them, nothing will change. This is true for every agency of this administration. A coal lobbyist is running the EPA. A cable lobbyist is running the FCC. etc etc.
So its not just $225, its $225 + the tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars for your law team, to file a complaint to a government agency run by lobbyists of the industry it would be judging. Thats some banana republic shit.
Yes, but only with a constitutional amendment.
If a hostile controls a DNS server, you are hosed anyway.
Agree with most of your points. These high deductible plans were supposed to encourage a "free market" approach to healthcare that would bring down costs, in that... "If I as the patient am paying out of pocket I will be responsible with the money". The problem is most doctors didn't get the memo, they continue with their pricing strategy, so that consumers of healthcare are not able to shop around. I don't mind if high deductible plans are the solution or if socialized medicine is the solution, as long as the end result is that health Care costs come down to what the rest of the developed world pays.
The same way you know the prestige of say, the NY times. Just reputation, developed by consistently meeting certain standards.
TCRs work well when the information is both objective and verifiable. Using Etsy as an example, you can usually tell if a piece of jewelry is hand vs machine made. However, in the listing tags of Etsy sellers, there are sellers who misadvertise machine made goods as handmade. Etsy sellers have internal chat boards where they call out repeat offenders for misleading advertising. Honest sellers who are making the effort to make their jewelry by hand are the ones hurt by the misleading behavior of others.
I really like make! I use it almost every day. I like it for the structure and simplicity. I don't use it for everything. I plan to use it for the foreseeable future.

Why do I like make over shell scripting (sometimes) is that enforces structure. Shell scripts can turn into a real hairball.

When I did ruby I really enjoyed using rake.
I used to live in Milwaukee without a car.

It wasn't as easy as it is in Chicago, but it's also not so much harder that I'd call someone crazy if they thought it was worth getting to pay half as much in rent.
"(by which I mainly mean: too many people like DeGoes will shout you down rather than trying to help you)."

Proposition for discussion (i.e., I don't necessarily believe this, but I don't necessarily not either): The biggest challenge facing languages and their communities that focus on correctness is that the very personality types that are willing to focus on them are also statistically much more likely to be, ah, potentially less suited to the sorts of compromises and engineering discussions that are necessary to make a personal language than other more pragmatic communities. The sort of relatively uncompromising spirit necessary to swim upstream against the current general consensus of very pragmatic programming nearly entirely unconcerned with academic-type correctness is, well... uncompromising.
> You don't need 1:1 storage for solar production...

You seem to be referring exclusively to solar photovoltaic.

Solar thermal generation has quite a different, evening-friendly, distribution curve.
One thing that may be relevant is that I was never introduced to debugging in university at all. You were expected to just invent useful techniques on your own. Without any exposure, it is hard to justify learning that over any other topic you feel like you aught to be learning.
I saw one of those Ethereum scambot dopplegangers on a high profile tweet that was verified. Really looked awful and definitely caused more damage since people are trained to trust it.
Bob Bruninga has written and researched this a great deal. He's pretty well known and respected. He feels grid tie is the way to go for homes (no batteries). Lots of great info here:

http://www.aprs.org/off-grid-maybe.html

http://www.aprs.org/solar-now.html
[Video Podcast] Interning in NY, SF, Toronto, Waterloo
Me too! I was blown away by the 3d structure of the paint on the canvas. Completely changed my appreciation for the work.
Because total load on the power grid peaks at 8 PM when solar is providing nearly 0% of the power [1].

This means that no matter how many additional solar panels you add to the system, you are not displacing a single fossil fuel plant. Sure it's good that those plants are running nominally fewer hours per day per additional solar panel, but the cost to own, operate, and maintain the panels is roughly constant.

This results in the effect of increased prices for fossil power in a way that can't be offset by solar.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duck_curve
I'm glad they're looking into fixing their comment system, but:

Fake. Not fake. The comments wren't a vote -- they were comments. If anything they should be used to add ideas to the mix. Things that may have been overlooked. People who might be impacted but haven't been considered. And smart, well-meaning people should've synthesized those into useful and not useful piles to help inform their decision.

The core problem is that Ajit Pai was determined to ignore all signal from people who supported Net Neutrality.
Beware the Founder-Dictator
Is technology hijacking our minds?
I don't really have a 'team' as such these days (the joys of corporate silos) - I don't work in a vacuum, but the others that I interact with are spread out over the country, so I generally work from home 3-4 days a week. The office is open plan, and quite noisy on a 'busy' day, but a lot of my peers also work remotely several days a week, so most of the time its not too bad.
"These ladders last decades"

Then literally this entire process is a complete waste of time, because they will never stay at any moisture content over this time period.
Absolutely. Look at Long Island, NY. There are a number of communities with the wealth to transition to professional fire brigades, but the property taxes are already high and the political leanings run conservative.
Instagram has a similar issue as well. It's brain-dead to buy fake followers, have them simulate interaction with your posts to push you higher in the algorithm ranking, and bots are the majority of the user-base from what I can tell. And they have no intention whatsoever of fixing that.
Firefox on iOS provides an integrated experience for logins and filling those logins into browser forms automatically.

The team is currently working on autofill from Lockbox into other apps: https://github.com/mozilla-lockbox/lockbox-ios/issues/486. This will only be available in iOS12 when that ships.

Are there other kinds of integration you see as valuable?
Interesting, detailed and well-presented. Well done. My son loves this game. I'll show him the hardest ones you generated.
> Every citizen can generate cryptographic certs that they can verify their identities with, even anonymously.

We had one problem. Now we have two problems.
"I bet the expert woodmakers doing this job have very good reasons. Reasons that you haven't thought of..
Seriously, these people are experts. They probably know their job, really, really well."

This is just a random appeal to authority.
If you would like to be constructive, please be constructive.

First, there is one person doing this. Or was. It was Jerry Lee, who recently retired. He did it for 30 years.

In fact, for giggles, i reached out this morning, and Jerry Lee says he is not an expert by any means in any of this. He was just a pattern maker who thought he could be helpful. He had no particular expertise in this when he started, and he would argue he is in fact, not an expert.

When I asked, he said they just didn't need to do it faster.

So it turns out no, they aren't magical experts trained in the artisanal art of ladder making with information passed down from the ages, and no, there are no magical reasons that only the wood cognoscenti have thought of.
Sorry.

They just use the forestry handbook data and info like everyone else!
This is wrong. The article even mentions this. Look at Bell Labs
The North American grids will need to start growing again, if electric vehicles become common.
You would need different math for star forts such as Palmanova (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palmanova), or for 17th century Amsterdam, with its radial grid (https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=1_XUR_LAcsSSE9Lmx2S...)

Such a circular grid has the advantage that it is easy to find its center.
Consider the impact of 9/11. Prior to that, FDNY was of course well-liked, but not to the incredible degree it is today. The role they played in the response, and the heavy losses they suffered when the towers fell, resulting in a huge outpouring of grief, support, thanks, etc. It's still going today. Other fire departments perhaps benefit a little from that, but not to same degree as FDNY.
I'm the guy who can't be bothered to understand complexity, because it doesn't interest me.

I could put my brain to work, figuring it out, but it's hard and not satisfying. I feel satisfied when I understand code right away because it's written by a clean code programmer.

So guess I'm lazy guard or something. I could also be incompetent though. :)
C++ programmers already have to worry about cache timing and sizes to make secure code (both data and code), have to worry about how integer overflow works (hardware dependent for signed), have to worry about data sizes, have to worry about integer shifting and how it varies across hardware, have to worry about relative speeds between multiplication, division, subtraction, and addition on your hardware to avoid timing attacks, and on and on. This is just another case where C/C++ makes it very hard to write secure code.
I had the opposite reaction to the writing quality on display, and therefore to the magazine's fate.
In biology this would be the red queen phenomenon. Wolves bring down the rabbit numbers, wolves starve, rabbits flourish, wolves flourish, wolves devour rabbits, and so on.
I imagine there would be other systems (state-owned and private) that use the FTP server, and maybe in a way that changing protocols is inexplicably full of friction. I wonder why the elections server, assuming it only contains records legal to distribute to the public, is even password protected. Maybe it was a policy when govt bandwidth was scarce. California, for example, has campaign finance data on a public webserver: https://www.californiacivicdata.org/

And the FEC has an API, but has long had the data hosted on public FTP: https://classic.fec.gov/finance/disclosure/ftp_download.shtm...
Using Apple’s New Controls to Limit a Teenager’s iPhone Time
My feeling is that this is either an illusion ("it will work out somehow") or a sham ("let's milk the crypto craze").

No answer to the question why selling votes should result in more accuracy. Buzzword Bingo. An overly broad approach. Lot's of social proof but thin on content. This reminds me of all those ICOs we see these days.

Looking forward to read the whitepaper. But somehow I have the feeling it will either never come or it will be just another marketing brochure without technical details.
We have a loooong way to go before cost of living in southern California is offsetting energy prices in Ohio.
They have Discord https://discord.gg/PAMQWkr
yes and no. Most people do live that way by choice, but they don't really realize they are making a choice. You need to pay rent, but very few people live in the cheapest apartment they can find. You have to pay bills, but you can make them much cheaper (it means you hang out in local parks because there is no TV, internet, and you avoid even so much as turning on a light). You need to eat, but beans and rice are cheap.

How much savings you need is an open question of course. To live as above without income doesn't require a lot of savings, so you start saving less and add some luxury.
Please don't break the HN guidelines, which ask you not to insinuate astroturfing or shillage without evidence. This is a particularly toxic variant of that poison, and it's important not to use it here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
It was probably you I heard about it from! Submission upvoted. ;-)
Interesting idea. How will this handle legal take-down requests ? Backed by DMCA, GDPR, and so on.
So what happens when the starters design something that just doesn't work?

How are they getting feedback without finishing?

Finishers are actually the ones I want starting the project.
Public opinion matters but were these comments anything more than a symbol for headline clicks?
You can separately unfollow retweets from accounts that do that too much.
This. The number of people I follow are in the low double digits. I follow them because they are industry leaders and it is how I keep up on the latest news and new technology in my field. The new algorithms are showing me tweets from days ago or just skipping tweets completely. There should be an option to see in order or by algorithms.
Being 63 years old and a resident of new england, I have amnesiac longing for the old manufacturing of my youth. It really was a much dirtier environment. I can remember my Dad parking the new Chevy near a factory for a few hours and it was covered with some type of soot. There are still remnents of the old days. Mill comlplexes largley empty and river bottoms with "heavy metal" that is best left undisturbed. 20 years ago, I couldn't conceive the area surviving as a service economy. We have survived and I hope we continue without dirty manufacturing.
We use Salesforce Marketing Cloud (formerly ExactTarget) for multiple lists totalling around 2M subscribers.
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> Solar does line up with peak consumption.

Not true according to [1], which shows peak consumption around 19:00, just as solar production drops to 0.

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