skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The two-tiered market of high-speed cable and lower-speed DSL broadband has given way to a free-for-all, forcing adoption of more disruptive strategies by incumbents and new entrants alike. The result is increased competition between providers and among cities and regions eager for game-changing private investment.

In which alternate universe is this happening? Certainly not in the United States. How many residential locations have a choice of more than two data providers? Yes, there's wireless, with "Unlimited", "Premium Unlimited", and "Extra Premium Unlimited."
The complexities of cyber sovereignty in Chinese airlines over Australian skies
I agree that the problem isn't "the company should or could have done something to detect and eject the murderer-to-be", there's always going to be a few individuals with extreme behaviour, and in any given instance it might be tricky to prevent that, even if companies or organisations are aware of the risks and acting in good faith to minimise them.

I agree with your characterisation of the problem:

> to the clients, it is promoted as a taxi service and to the drivers, it is promoted as a dating service.

The company is misrepresenting what the nature of the interactions between drivers and clients in its marketplace. This misrepresentation predictably increases the risk to women who use the service --- it should not be surprising that a service that allows drivers to see photos and share tags of clients before they agree to take rides structurally and predictably offers more opportunities for abuse. This is frankly pretty foul. I hope the company continues to get hammered for it.

For example, suppose didi was an online dating service, and clearly and unambiguously advertised itself as a dating service to all parties involved. How many women would choose to go on a first date with someone they'd never met before by getting a ride in their car? You're obviously going to be far, far more at risk and unable to get away if the person turns out to be abusive than if you meet in a more public location.
Yes, it’s from Cato, but really it’s a whirlwind tour of what’s wrong with the system from a group that has no dog in the fight. But the democrats and republicans are very, very invested. If you are skeptical, read the book, and then make your decision. It has thousands of citations, it is more academic than opinion.
Because many times it's just about being proactive and getting things done ASAP because having your client find out first is bad.

I also prefer not starting my day with a fire. I'd rather do it off-hours.
Lots of ways

1. You can inspect HTTPS traffic by installing a trusted MITM cert on your device - no jailbreaking necessary.

2. You can inspect the libraries provided by the owners of tracking endpoints to see what they collect and transfer.

3. Decompiling app bundles is usually pretty effective, and you can download them straight from iTunes.
Landlord exclusivity agreements are not illegal, but they’re also only really an issue for large multi-dwelling units. Only 17% of housing units nationwide are in a building with more than four units (and 70% of housing units are single family homes or mobile homes). It’s just not a driving force outside a handful of the largest cities.

You can also add a layer of conjecture, that there are cities that have more competition because lobbying power is weaker. What makes you think Kansas City or Provo or Austin or Atlanta fit into this category more so than Mountain View? And it’s not like most of Silicon Valley is “already well served by multiple providers”—why not build there? I think it’s obvious that the answer to that is not “lobbying” but “blue state cities make it an expensive pain in the ass to build anything including fiber.”
You may argue that the solution either way is to build more, but I think its important to take problems on at their source. The debate about supply and demand just seems to be the wrong level of abstraction when there's a more sociological root cause for pulling up the ladder.

> "Or rather, the fewer poor people around tends to mean rich people find it even more desirable."

If we don't address this, it will be impossible to convince people to build more, no matter how blue in the face people get about supply and demand charts.
Could you make sand from rock with water jets?
Well that and he hasn't been running the company for a while. He stepped down as CEO in 2013. This is very similar to Bill Gates leaving Microsoft (who Ma has actually mentioned as an influence).
The company could sponsor a working VISA. It takes a fair amount of paperwork but it's doable.

Remember that you're competing against 300 million Europeans who can move to and work in London overnight. You better have a great profile to be worth the hassle. Forget about low level roles and smaller companies.

Let's ignore for a minute that the parent was not Russian. Having a Russian number is a red flag that the candidate may be abroad and not have the right to work in the UK. It's definitely screened out by HR.
Good point. Could the fda just run the trials? That would be interesting.
>local control

Local control is elitism: the people who are local to desirable places control everything that matters. Justifying that by saying the rest of us have "local control" over our Rust Belt garbage dumps and third-world hellholes is worse than the doctrine of Separate But Equal.

Democracy means it is not only the rich who vote on taxation, not only the business owners who vote on regulation, not only the defense contractors who vote on foreign policy, even though each is the primary stakeholder in their respective issue. In the same way, it should not only be the homeowners in desirable cities who vote on access to those cities.
Makes me wonder. Can the usps file for patents? Can they have trade secrets? What about trade marks?
The Fine Line Between Government and Data Privacy
The Skillfulness of Virtue: Improving Our Moral and Epistemic Lives
Nothing wrong, just not science.
> tenants

Tenets.

> states should regulate their internal commerce

That idea was invented at a time when the fastest way to travel or communicate was by horse. In the age of the automobile, the airplane, and the internet, there is barely any such thing as "internal commerce" any more.
I build content driven websites as part of my job (not my favourite part by any means). I’ve most certainly “heard of Big O” - something they teach you in the first year of any university-level computing course.

Don’t be a dick.
I have only briefly started with my kids, but I have tried two methods so far.

The first method was with my 12yr old. She wanted to learn programming so I got her signed up on Exercism.IO in the Python track. She did pretty well but then lost steam (actually we both kind of did) within a few weeks.

The second method I used was with my 14yr old. She had a science fair project that required a VOC sensor. We planned the project, ordered the pieces and then coded an Arduino sketch together.

I personally feel like method two had the best results. Project based learning, in general, seems to hold the attention of both the student and the teacher far more effectively. Further, I think we often forget that programming is a tool; a means to some end. If that end is something we strongly desire to achieve we will be more willing to trudge through the somewhat dry and boring aspects of introductory programming.

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Very nice of them not to blur out the email recipient's address at the bottom of the email :)
Don't use Roku if you care at all about privacy. Their privacy policy specifically calls out that they do visual content identication on everything you watch and sell that to anyone and everyone they can.
I live in Overland Park, KS where Google Fiber has ground to a halt. About 1/2 the city is wired, but there is no ETA on the rest.

AT&T has been deploying fiber where Google was, but that seems halted too.

Spectrum is just garbage. While they offer 300 Mbps downstream, the upstream is 20.

I at least have 100/5 from CCI, but their infrastructure is going to shit with reliability problems.

Fiber is really the only way, with true symmetrical 1000/1000. DOCSIS is shit, as well as DSL variants.

I can tell you mmWave is going to be shit too. It’s only useful for line-of-sight, which rules out mostly everywhere here due to trees.
I’m confused. On iPhone you control which apps get location data. You also get warnings on the top of the screen when an app is using your location.

How are these apps getting around that?
It sounds like it's going to be exciting times in the field of chip design.
You're partially right. When you see someone be charged an outrageous amount for something that should be fractionally cheaper, that's a different reason. You see, hospitals mark up prices astronomically so that when they make deals with insurance companies, they can say that they saved xx% of the cost. Which looks good to them, and the hospitals don't loose that much making deep discounts. Then goes in a poor sucker with no insurance who has to pay full price.

Example:

Hospital price for a bandaid: $100

Blue Cross says they want 80% discount

Hospital says ok

Blue Cross looks good because of how much money they saved

Hospital still makes good profit
RF guy here doing mnWave circuitry. Don’t count on it. A simple tree will ruin your link, as will rain. 6 GHz doesn’t have near the capacity. One DWDM fiber channel has +100 GHz bandwidth; that’s where it’s at. Leave wireless for what it’s good for; mobility. It sucks for real capacity.
My company analyzes iOS and Android apps en mass, using static and dynamic analysis. We've partnered with several major universities to provide data like this about apps. If any reseachers are interested in this data, please feel free to reach out.

For location in particular, we see which location collection permissions the app has, as well as indirect methods like Bluetooth and Wifi. We also see the commercial integrations, like the companies named in the article.
It's the Cato Institute, it's supported by the Koch Foundation, and the Koch Brothers are supporters of economic and individual liberty. Whoever is supported by someone's money is not going to argue against their dearly held viewpoints.

An interesting question that a scientist would ask: how does that book argue against price caps and monopsony buyers, considering that that approach works extremely well in the civilized world. Health expenditures in all other OECD countries are about 1/4 of what they are in the US.
I don't know if it's possible anymore, but one way used to be that the app would send a list of every wifi network it could see. This can be used to calculate your position surprisingly accurately, in most places in the world.
You won't get floating point simd of any kind without the ffastmath flag on gcc, msvc, or llvm or probably anything.
The federal government exerts considerable influence over housing by directing transportation/infrastructure grants and mortgage subsidies/guarantees. Historically and currently, that influence has been focused on engineering a sprawled-out, suburban model. It could do a 180 if we asked it to.
Or perhaps the NSA et al hired you because they are desperate to get people off Tor.
the author claims that the real motivation of eu copyright regulation is jealousy and fear, because they don't know how computers work.

better to read this eff article instead:
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/09/why-whole-world-should...
Apple v Amazon: Battle of the titans
I would appreciate it if the conversation could refrain from disrespecting people they disagree with, such as calling people "NIMBYs" as an epithet. I don't think it's a helpful label - it is more of a tribal/disrespect marker.
If you read the article, they do all ask for your location, but say they will use it non-nefariously.
The article says these are apps that have asked for location permission for other purposes (like homes.com, which presumably uses location services guide you to real estate?).
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17929379

20+ points
Christian Science hospitals would be pretty cheap.
If we make perfect the enemy of good, there's no end to what we can filibuster to committee.
Yeah it's the "Every variable and register is defined by one and only one expression combinational circuit)" part that confuses me, since he seems to use that to support the endorsement of synchronous design. But maybe I'm just reading it wrong though.
The EFF is just astroturfing,

https://thebaffler.com/salvos/all-effd-up-levine

>A solution for a few outliers doesn’t really influence the big picture.

There's nothing stopping anyone from buying a Purism 5. If someone doesn't care about their privacy, they don't deserve it. Freedom isn't free, and all that.
Moving is incredibly hard though, it takes year plus to adjust to a new fab.
Ok next time I will write a research paper and post it here as a comment defining cat and human suffering and then after that you will ask but what about suffering in mollusks: "Suffering in humans and cats is not concrete!". I know that HN attracts a crowd that likes to cherry-pick any sentence and treat it as a line of code just to put out a contrarian point of view but come on. Moving goalposts? Nobody mentioned animals you were the one that moved the goalpost.

To be able to be mindful you need consciousness first, to have that you have to be a human. Sorry, either don't move the goalpost and bring animals in, or prove that animals are capable of managing their stimuli with mindfulness.

I'll break it down to you. You receive an input (emotion) and with mindfulness you realize that you ('you' the human, not 'you' the cat) do have a say on how to act based on it. That is all.
They're not getting around that, users are giving them permissions to location data.

From the article:

> Almost all require access to a user’s location data to work properly, like weather and fitness apps, but share that data often as a way to generate revenue for free-to-download apps.
> It cost them a pretty penny to get here but cash is literally pouring in for Tesla right now.

And also pouring out, they are losing a massive amount of money every quarter.
I think Sean Carroll has a point:

http://www.preposterousuniverse.com/blog/2009/06/17/timeless...
>"The overall goal: to ensure at least 100,000,000 Americans had access to broadband speeds of 100 Mbps by 2020. As it turned out, providers blew past that milestone as early as 2016."

First gripe....why oh why could they not make that goal for a symmetrical 100Mbps and not just focused on the DL speed.

If the push is to 5G, I'd welcome it, if the mobile carriers opened ports on consumer plans. I've cherished my coveted unlimited iPad data plan with att used in my mifi with a yagi that points right at the service tower. It regularly sees over 250Gigs a month (check my twitter for that pic).
Especially for FP instructions, where compilers are heavily restricted by the standard and IEEE754 semantics. Vectorization often changes the order of operations and since FP math is generally not associative.

For integer operations, auto-vectorization is more prevalent since everything can be reordered more freely. clang especially auto-vectorizes a ton of stuff even at -O2.
Farmer’s Fridge Stocks up with $30M
I just ran QEMU in my web browser and I feel really weird.

On the one hand, VNC suddenly just became obsolete. On the other hand... Ubuntu Core is playing with getting Webkit-GTK running directly on top of DRI (via Wayland), and I hope like mad there's never an alternate reality where Chromium takes the place of X11... eep

(I mean it already kind of has, with Electron :S)
I use Evernote (for notes) and Dropbox (for files). What helps me to stay on top of things is that I write everything in Evernote myself and then add the references at the bottom.

First, that helps me to rephrase knowledge in my own words (except for quotes, of course), which is good for retaining knowledge.

Second, I use tags and note links that help me to navigate through pieces of knowledge.

Third, I only store files in Dropbox, with a very well-maintained folder structure.

I don't clip stuff in Evernote and don't just copy/paste. I think that bloats the whole thing up and makes it unnavigable.
Hey, I’m curious in this data as a hobby. Is there a cost or restrictions to the dataset? Thanks!
https://www.theverge.com/2018/7/25/17614930/apple-iphone-201...

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/14nm-processor-intel-short...

> That ramp is occurring as Intel is also bringing production of its 14nm XMM 7560 modems online for Apple during the second half of this year. The new Apple contract, which consists of millions of modems for iPhones, will certainly be a top priority at Intel's fabs.
That seems like a very small town, is there enough demand for the machine?

Are there any good resources on how fiber lasers work? I have a co2 laser 200W that's pretty good for all things non-metal and would be interested in getting a fiber one, alignment seems like a breeze, but the prices for the fiber lasers start at $100k or so.
One model suggested is we let people take the money they put into health insurance and instead put it into a health savings account. Given that family plus employer pays about $20k per year for a family of 4, the value adds up quite quickly. Then you let the family take as income any amount they don’t spend. This encourages frugality and price shopping for routine procedures.

Additionally, the government should backstop everything with catastrophic insurance as is done in Switzerland, so if cancer hits you don’t go destitute.

Also, we should drastically expand retail medical care, with advertised prices, as it has routinely been shown to reduce costs through competition and price shopping (LASIK, Botox, vasectomies, etc. all prove this out).

They go in great detail about pharmaceuticals and the suggestion that a prize based system would be better than the current system of the government paying for all the research and then letting a private company gouge the consumers who paid for it with tax dollars.

The book is very detailed, if you are interested in this subject I highly recommend it. Keep an open mind, clearly neither the American left or right has solved this issue and this book is very refreshing.
> Perhaps, ultimately, the emotional dimension of time is not the film of mist that prevents us from apprehending the nature of time objectively.

Perhaps the emotion of time is precisely what time is for us.

The application of sufficient Time and Space can solve almost any problem. If 2 groups are in conflict, putting 10 light years and 100 million calendar years between them often removes the ability to conflict.
From what I've read, SAT scores show larger deviations for males than females, which is probably as close to IQ as you're looking for. The effect is consistently there, although it's not huge.

Of course you could argue there could be confounding factors here too, like how boys and girls might be treated differently by teachers.

You can browse some of the raw data here:

http://media.collegeboard.com/digitalServices/pdf/research/2...

https://collegereadiness.collegeboard.org/pdf/sat-percentile...
Google also wildly underestimated the cost of burying fiber in Austin's just-under-the surface limestone.
> I mean, he smoked pot with Joe Rogan while recording a shitty podcast - so what?

SpaceX holds large federal contracts. Federal contracts above a certain amount requires companies to follow federal drug laws. It doesn't matter that MJ is legal in CA, SpaceX could lose all of its contracts.

If Tesla has any large government contracts (no sure it does) then it would apply similar.
Pretty much. Shelters are either provided by charity or the local government, and state/federal money is only for very sympathetic classes like women with infant children.
I was not referring to any single event in my initial comment. I'm just looking at all the press I've seen in recent months (maybe years) and I can't resist the impression that there's this negative undertow that seems manufactured.

Maybe it's subjective.
> have more lenient requirements

I guess those jobs have stricter requirements.

If I turn up an hour late for my white-collar office job, nobody cares (not that I do that.)

If someone turns up an hour late for their blue-collar warehouse job, they get fired.
For context (I assume) - this article is making the rounds:

https://quillette.com/2018/09/07/academic-activists-send-a-p...
OK then, how about the navy? Germany has 6 submarines.
It's more than imperfect it's practically useless in its current state. It provides exactly 0 proof of identity or trust. It's basically "oh, you're advertising an SSID with <name>? I'll connect to you and we can make up a trust after that".
I got a Lenovo Carbon X1. I have to charge it as often as a phone, and smart sleep settings make it seem like it's always on. I can just leave the IDE open, so it loads in 0 seconds.
Quantum computers are analog devices that operate at varying levels of fidelity. Timelines usually refer to how long it takes to get to the next performance node, not how long it takes for a quantum computer to exist at all. They exist, are programmable, and are often accessible to third-parties. Plenty of sources conclude that independently. Many institutions, Rigetti Computing included, have built functional quantum computers.
Elon Musk filmed smoking weed
So how do for example blind people who cannot drive find work?
> The article credits Google with these deployments, but makes no effort to show that the pace of these projects, which were already in the pipeline, somehow accelerated after Fiber.

Do you live in an area that was targeted for a Google Fiber rollout? I do. Weeks after Google announced our area was getting fiber — BAM! AT&T and TWC dropped prices and raised speeds dramatically . Not long after that AT&T had run FTTH to a significant number of households. Previously that had been unheard of in this area. Google most certainly lit a fire under their asses.
You can watch the video here: https://youtu.be/ycPr5-27vSI
Rust came just in time. A low-level language like those of old, but without the undefined behaviour and terrible tooling.
One thing to keep in mind is that ip addresses provide a pretty good location too. Even without GPS data, they at worst know what city you are in, probably down to the house depending on the ISP
How ever will we cope.
I mean, it's almost like Elon is a simple human like the rest of us.
Only he's worth billions, and I'm barely worth more than my 2001 Toyota Yaris.
So you discard a book before reading it, relying on etiquettes? How tribal.
Is programming not defining something with software - encoding physical actions (math) as wordy descriptions (art)?
And if everything was going well we would be talking about how hip he is, but it isn't.

When you've said you will take your company private at $420 a share, then completely back track and admit you weren't and get investigated by the FTC you invite more scrutiny than usual.

#420 #YOLO #BLAZEIT is not a good way to run a company that has three months of funding left.
It's gone up in the developing world. It hasn't gone up in the US. Infrastructure that the common man relied on is crumbling or is just gone, ie Flint water, and the rich are just importing everything they need to themselves
I mean how many other "celebs" smoke and just dont do it in an open venue....why single him out.....
So what? You know how many people in high positions have smoked weed or used lsd, or "insert drug here", who cares...
My first engineering job out of university was 12 hours a day, 7 days a week, 3 weeks on 1 week off. And it wasn't even a endeavour I particularly believed in, and it wasnt in a location I particularly wanted to live. I don't regret the time I spent there, and would certainly consider doing something similar again if it was somewhere I wanted to live and something I wanted to do. With a company like Tesla, there is so much talk about the work hours, I don't think anyone can honestly take the job and be surprised they end up working more than 40 hours a week.