skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
France and Germany have lots of cheap options because they rely heavily on DSL: https://www.oecd.org/sti/broadband/1.2.OECD-FixedMobileBB-20... (see the "Fixed Broadband" tab).

70-75% of France and German broadband connections are DSL, versus 22% in the U.S. The copper networks are mostly depreciated, and copper-loop unbundling has created a lot of competition. But that's also why internet in those countries is so slow. According to Akamai, just 18% of French broadband connections are above 15 mbps, versus 48% of U.S. connections. Copper is also a complete dead-end, technology wise.

Cable in those countries is not super cheap. Kabel Deutschland's gigabit service has a non-promo price of 69.99 euro ($80): https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=de&u=https:/.... Comcast's non-promo pricing is $105, which is a bit more expensive in nominal terms, but cheaper as a percentage of net adjusted disposable income (which is 33% higher in the U.S. than in Germany).

You also need to account for differences in labor costs. Broadband isn't like an iPhone, where it's the same product made in China whether you buy it in the U.S. or in Germany. It's a service, like a hotel stay or restaurant meal. Labor to build, maintain, operate, and support the network is a huge part of the cost of broadband, and skilled labor is significantly more expensive in the U.S. than in Germany or France. That's one of the things that makes pricing comparisons between the U.S. and say Romania completely specious. You can buy a 2-ride subway ticket in Bucharest for $1.22--that doesn't tell you anything about what's a reasonable price for a subway ticket in D.C. The $10/month cost for gigabit fiber in Romania is equivalent to $80/month in the U.S.
Puzzle-solving 'doesn't slow down mental decline in older people'
I'm betting the real killer app will be a game that centers around environments with lots of liquid-solid transitions. Maybe you'd manipulate and move various liquid and gel materials around in zero-gravity, or something. Maybe an "infinidistillery" sequel to Infinifactory.

Or, come to think of it, a "Half-Life 3: Portal 3" where you use gravity+portal+various paint (and other liquid) guns, on an alien ship and in space, would make a lot of sense...
YES hate it like barkbox
White House Moves to Deport Vietnam War Refugees
Not just is it intact, but is there really an alternative ML/AI platform out there? They're still the best (only?) game in town with the full stack. And you can go buy or lease access to their parts right now and get radical performance improvements for your model training.
BetteDev Issue #79
Why should I have written ZeroMQ in C, not C++ (2012)
Was? [1]

1: https://www.nearlyfreespeech.net/services/pricing
Yep, Target.com is 2.89 with $25 free ship https://www.target.com/p/formula-409-powerful-all-purpose-cl... -- but for what its worth, the online stores are mostly loss-leaders for the big department/grocery stores trying to stay relevant against Amazon.

https://money.cnn.com/2018/05/23/investing/target-earnings/i...
It sure looks like the Greendale Community College flag to me...
My keyboard is set up in a similar manner but it adds a point of complexity. Ctrl-Shift-Arrow is harder to use since the Fn key is trying to take up a thumb.
I came here to post that same link. It was an interesting Planet Money episode.
Sure but I'm going to guess statistically they are more likely to buy something not a hammer than a hammer. Maybe "people who bought a hammer also bought...", or, you bought a hammer and nails, here is a cordless drill. I mean, why would I buy a hammer twice in a row, and after that unlikelihood, a third hammer?

If I were going to buy two hammers, I’d have put “2” in the basket in the first place. That’s the more likely scenario. I mean they are not operating blind in a vacuum. They know what I just bought. We’re not trying to guess against an unknown person with unknown purchasing history.
That's what I endup doing though. No longer directly write to ES but go into Kafka.

But taking a step back, thinking about how many components you have in the system just to make it work. Compare with Telegraf/InfluxDB/Grafana stack, which is for metrics, operate it is seamless.

That's my high hope for Loki. I hope eventually Loki can just as easy to operate as InfluxDB.
About 2700 individuals owe taxes on Bitcoin gains in Denmark
I've been listening to How I Built That with Guy Raz lately too. Also a good podcast. I spend a lot of time in my car so good podcasts help keep my sanity.
> Patients in states like Texas and Colorado have reported receiving bills for thousands of dollars from emergency departments

If you’re paying more than several hundred dollars for non-admitted treatment you’re being swindled. Outside a few treatments such as dialysis and chemotherapy anything that expensive warrants admission.
I have this substitution issue with some regularity, very frustrating. Last Friday I sent out an 'all hands' for our company with info on the job for the week of the 10th of September... even did it wrong twice in one mail.
Show HN: Build a Slack Clone with WebRTC Video Calling
Semi-related: In digital advertising you can buy ads based on the weather, at the current time, at the users location. This costs a small amount of money (advertiser pays a company for that data). So companies who know weather very precisely can sell that data. But other companies buy that same data from multiple companies, aggregate it, and claim theirs is more accurate. Other arbitrage the data. Others find average temps/etc and predict the weather.

So similar market forces are back, but fueled by advertising. The same thing happens with geographical data and million other data points.
tipping culture and minimum wage in the US is detrimental to restaurants; not the tourists buying the food!
I agree that everyone should try and read Vonnegut but don't expect everyone to enjoy it or find in it the awakening I sure did.

I think his writing really clicks with a particular type of person at a particular time in their life; if either is not quite right it seems reactions range from disinterest to hostility.

I discovered Sirens of Titan and Player Piano in high school and loved them immediately (unlike so much assigned reading) but I'm not sure I'd feel the same if I was to read them for the first time at this stage in my life. For instance, I still enjoy re-reading Hocus Pocus or Jailbird but not so much Slaughterhouse Five. I can't precisely say why, but so it goes...
crypto is not cryptocurrency
> Publishing doesn't need to be centralized like many publishing platforms are that seeks to keep users safe like the App Store.

Even the App Store doesn’t necessarily keep you safe; it’s pretty decent most of the time but malicious software sometimes slips through.
This is an actual thing??!
It's weird but even for small company you can easily generate like 50GB a day :(. Some log are very verbose and devlloper want to put a lot more context into it. JSON log is supper verbose and increase space. And people expext to query arbitrary field out of these.

Last I used(2 years ago), Postgres weren't able to keep up with it. Though I just use default RDS and didn't do anything to tune it.
I didn't take that as their implication at all. To me it was a rhetorical question of "are you really saying that it would be unethical?" with the obvious answer being no. As in not questioning the concept of ethics as a whole, but their relevance to this situation.

Do you really see this as an ethical issue? As far as I'm aware most laws around what information you can trade on aren't about morality, they're a pragmatic move to ensure a fat financial sector. By restricting the ways in which you can obtain information it opens the field for more players and more speculation. Reducing accuracy of prices in favour of robustness and liquidity.

Sure there's exceptions. One could argue that because they've made an agreement, there's a moral obligation for a company executive to look out for their shareholders interests and front-running trades that hurt them would be a dick move. Other situations though? A hedge fund buying polling information? There's no agreement they're breaking there. They're just beating competitors in a zero sum game, with the externality being that markets are more accurate than they otherwise would have been.
How is that a strawman? You never interact with non-techies that use computers? Those customers are the vast vast majority of the Windows userbase by far.
> outsiders can generate material non-public data, and thus illegally trade on it.

It does seem (more than) a little bizarre to me.

If I understand your post correctly, in Europe, I could do traffic counts at malls, conclude (correctly) something about a company's sales from that, trade profitably based on that conclusion, and be prosecuted successfully for it?

If that's the case, how should I create my own opinion about the state of a company in order to decide how much to bid (or ask) for the shares of that company? Am I just supposed to blindly make investments since any amount of private research is bound to be deemed illegal? It seems that the entire purpose of research is to generate an informed opinion which differs from the current public opinion.

We've found hedge funds placing orders with the presumed intention of deriving order volume information from sequential IDs that we inadvertently leaked in the shipping process (since fixed). My view is "good on them for thinking of it!" Is trading based on that illegal as well?
According to my napkin math that's more than the LHC's raw output, do they really need all that for factories? Seems nuts.
>So actually having a couple of years of extremely good sales is bad for companies

Why would that be bad? What does bad even mean here? Bad for the stock price?

Sales slowing down is obviously undesirable.
Do you treat your plumber the same as your parents-in-law when they visit your home?

Sometimes people decide to become family for life. Sometimes they associate for as long as necessary to complete a transaction. Sometimes something in between.
Thanks for the response.

1. Gitlab is able to migrate up to a new version, so is there anything preventing it from getting up to a certain (older) version before running the last few migrations after restore?

If I set up a new instance it’s generally one or two minor versions higher than the old instance.

2. I swear I restored from my omnibus installation to Helm based gitlab and lose all my uploads and registry images. Cannot see from the docs why that would happen any more though.

Maybe it was the opposite, with me restoring the backup to the same block storage devices, and gitlab hiccuping on the fact that all the files it wanted to restore were already there.
One of my favorite quotes by him (well, technically a character of his):

> "Be careful what you pretend to be because you are what you pretend to be."

Seems quite apropos these days (also!) in which quite a few people who've dabbled in the "trolling for the lulz!" pond have ended up drowning, metaphorically speaking.
This is a pretty insensitive comment
I like "Designing Interfaces: Patterns for Effective Interaction Design" by Jenifer Tidwell. Less of an instruction book, more of a catalogue of how you might (or might not) present some given type of information. Good for browsing through when you're feeling you haven't hit the right organizational approach/metaphor for the task at hand.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1449379702
Back in the BBS days, sysops would enter chat to say they are doing maintenance and taking down the bbs. Then you would see +++ and DISCONNECTED

For fun, I started coding ansi sequences, that would say the sysop entered chat, that the sysop was banning you for some really lame reason, and to never call back, then showed "+++" and disconnected, and then a lot pauses to make it look legit. I had fun creating ansi pranks.

BBS and Modem days, such fun.

Oh yeah. WinModems. FU.
I've come across just straightforward documents that require JavaScript to display.
But you don't have the opportunity to vote with your pocketbook at all once it becomes a government service.

Why not use the power of government to create a competitive market that would allow new ISPs to enter the market? Like making a modest investment in common conduits into neighborhoods that all ISPs can wire through?
> So they've had an upwards trend in the past.

They've had an upwards trend year after year very consistently. Except for the past 12 months.

So weight those trends accordingly.
This is great! With some small automation for maintainers, we could help with the "Don't install anything that is less than 7/14/X days old" by just pinning dependencies and regularly publishing updates just for dependency tree updates.

For most projects the dep tree is small, and this level of maintenance is low. People always hate on me for saying it, but I think this level of effort would be worth it to protect the users of my modules.
CECPQ2
> It feels like if they can manage orchestrating serverless functions they can manage orchestrating containers or VMs...

Ah, but they cannot. We have the misfortune to be stuck with them at my workplace, and it's painfully obvious that they don't test nor use the kubernetes features, as most of them are straight up broken. I have no trust in them whatsoever.
I worked on a research project that set out to answer that question:

https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.03600

We looked at a bunch of different model architectures and datasets and found that you can get speedups from larger batch sizes up until a certain point, but that point is different for different datasets and architectures. The range of good hyperparameters is also narrower for larger batch sizes, which makes tuning harder.
That whole "Blub" section reads to me as a snowglobe version of the Lisp community's long-standing failure to communicate with everyone else.

Graham starts with his "shockingly controversial statement" that "programming languages vary in power", which, I don't know that that is controversial, but OK. I'm with him that far. But he immediately loses me, because all of his exposition on this idea consists of beating around the bush, talking about characteristics of programming languages that are most definitely not the same thing as power, before moving on to this rather arrogant-sounding parable that makes it sound like he thinks of this "power" idea in remarkably similar terms to how colonial-era Europeans thought about "civilization" when it came to understanding why not everyone did things the way they did.

I would argue, on the contrary, that, when we're talking about programming languages, "power" is a characteristic that no reasonably well-traveled programmer should feel comfortable thinking of as an objective characteristic, let alone something that can be crammed into a linear continuum. Lisp has some powerful features, yes. So does C. And the differences that a Lisp fan might say make Lisp more powerful than C correspond remarkably closely to the things that a C fan might say make C more powerful than Lisp.

They're both right, too. Because any flat statement that "X is a powerful language" is incomplete. There's an unstated major premise, there - what problem are you trying to solve? That will be a big factor in determining what powers you need and don't need.

Which is why, around the time that Graham was writing this essay, I was implementing my first really big solo programming project in a mix of Scheme and C.

tl;dr: Yeah, what TFA's author said.
I don't buy my gas at those places either...
It's really shocking how terrible the selection is for professional clothing for women, it's almost like clothing manufacturers have gotten together to ensure everything fits poorly and doesn't coordinate with anything in order to drive up sales. It seems they can only get it right when it comes to designing yoga pants.
But why should a couple of good years get a company into trouble? It is inevitable that sales can not always stay as high.

I could understand if NVidia would have done some kind of investment that was only sustainable if the good times would continue the same way for a while.

But it seems to me they will just continue to make good graphics cards, as they did before. So why should they be in trouble?
California regulators consider charge on text messaging
I still prefer that complexity to having to move my entire hand from the home row to use the arrow keys. I'm very used to it now.
Headless Raspberry Pi Setup
> Still, those were (mostly?) advisors rather than front-line troops.

Initially, but that stopped being true well before Tonkin.

> Per Wikipedia, ground combat troops first came after Tonkin

Not sure which Wikipedia page you got that from but see: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_Assistance_Command,...

Which discusses, among other things, the 1964 MACV/MAAG-Vietnam reorg due to the scale of combat deployments straining the advisory-oriented command structure, and a similar issue prompting a naval command structure reorg in 1966.

(Those reports were under Johnson, but thet largely addressed strains produced by the ramp up under Kennedy.)

> Still, in no case is it reasonable to say that Truman started it.

Sure, Eisenhower or Kennedy are more reasonable.
Has been doing some chrismast light pi project for my daughter and find out about this to bootstrap pi easily.
Anecdote: I've hopped on a pot committed, 5+ device, aggressivly tuned AdNauseum bandwagon several times now, about one to two month spans spread over the past several years. I usually forget/ignore the increased background traffic for a short time then realize during a moment of inconvienient network congestion and flip back to ad-block, pie-hole, Blockada for mobile vpn etc... I have repeatedly observed a very steep increase in spam phone calls for myself (I take great effort to minimize the footprint of my personal emails across random db's) and email/social media spam for both other household members and office collegues, starting shortly after these heavy AdNauseum binges begin. Lot's of uncommon or specialized, high margin, high intent customer markets and service spam floods in. Never understood why they can stay so persistant. They often seem completely unfased, as if Google's prompt and voluntary fraud detection, disclosure and refund issuance can go entirely unnoticed. /s
When I start a project I get whatever `npm install` returns. I freeze it. And then I only change it if one of a few things happens:

1. npm warns me of security issues

2. A new feature exists that I need

3. I've profiled and am seeking performance improvements

I used to just push everything forward on a regular basis in fear that I'd fall too far behind but I stopped doing that at some point and discovered that it doesn't really manifest as a problem. Chasing bugs and features usually keeps relevant packages current. Also the discipline not to depend on too many top-level dependencies.
You mean "you don't need NPM".
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18666620
Love this quote from the NPR coverage:

> She was also on the board of many, many companies — a side effect of the woman's movement, she says. "Companies were scrambling to get a woman on the board," she explained in her oral history. "Companies were hiring the wives of people who were the presidents of companies ... You can't imagine the idiocy of what was going on."
Well, maybe because this person is doing just that, at it's scale. In the end australians are responsible for the laws they get voted so... that's probably, from an outsider's perspective the only guarantee of taking a "probably not crappy decision" imo...
Depends what you want to build. Give more details on your idea. You can implement core components and outsource rest.
You can click "parent" until you arrive at the comment you're looking for.
There are IDE-to-CF adapters so one of those and a CF card should work as a drive if no spare IDE HDD's are available.
I’ve heard the concept of a “hive mind” before but this is extraordinary.
Man I thought that guy hawking onion futures on BART seemed sort of sketchy.
Hahaha, thanks. It's funny when I sometimes get notices from new players who've said they got into it after having read all my blog and FAQs. I'm like "you just read... ALL of that?!"

(I'm happy to have started the FAQ series beyond the blog, because it's about so many other devs' RL projects as well, and we can share and learn so much more!)
There are incredible scientific advancements happening right now, using state of the art technologies. A few examples around me daily: brain machine interfaces, CRISPR and gene editing, protein engineering, etc.

If you feel like you're working on something menial, do what you can to point your arrow in a direction you find meaningful. Often times, fields like biology desperately need people with technical skills that want to work hard on important problems.
I don't know if you'll run into blockers. We on the Dart team effectively use Dart "on the server side" because all of our command line tools are written in Dart.

There are a number of external users using Dart this way too. I think it's mostly a question of expectation. If you are expecting an ecosystem like npm where there's already five thousand packages for every possible bit of functionality you could hope for, you might find things a little sparse on the ground right now in Dart.

But if you want to write most of the code yourself and just want to know if the base platform is stable and fast, then I think it will be fine.
It'd be depressing if they tried to sell you a funeral service after you let them know of your misfortune... Just avoiding this would be a big win.
Now that fits their motto of “don’t be evil.” I’m happy to read this story.
I think we see more posts about Lisp community drama than we see posts about people actually doing things with Lisp.
Software Engineering: Some Things Never Change
It wasn't man rated - yet - because of course you're flying first flights unmanned. Unlike those crazy Americans...
Sheesh! What's next? Maybe someone will register a domain to promote the use of two-ply toilet paper.
As long as they can cut back orders to fit the market without coin mining, then they will drop back to a higher point on the growth curce after the crypto surge has been trimmed.
So they whould be fine. The fantasy growth from crypto is vaporware...
Nginx has had some strange bugs under heavy load. Way back in the day, reddit used Nginx as its frontend webserver/load balancer. All of a sudden one day I noticed that it was sending 99% of the traffic to the app server listed first in the config, then 99% of the remaining traffic to the next one, and so on down the line, such that the last app server in the list (only about 10 at the time) was essentially getting no traffic. If I changed the config, the traffic pattern was still based on the config order, so it wasn't a bug in the hashing or the numerical values of the IPs of the app servers or anything like that.

Never did figure out what caused that problem. We just switched out Nginx for Haproxy and never had a problem again. :)
Early days on Facebook kept trying to get me to add my ex as a friend, they didnt understand "block" very well.
It really doesn't help your argument to compare rail and water with communications infrastructure. They have very little in common.

I struggle to think of anything they do have in common. Capital cost, operating cost, speed of innovation, the average American's interest in the level of service provided, the possibility for competition, the practicality of parallel infrastructures... does rail/water have anything in common with an Internet connection?
E pluribus anus
Um. Google would make money if you did that. At least short term. I guess if enough people joined in then advertisers would move to FB and google would lose money.
If was the Buran - the one that flew - and the roof collapsed on 2002.
I think you're confusing fuchsia and flutter. Fuchsia is a new OS while flutter is it's native UI. I don't think "uncanny" is applicable here.