skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It always surprises me how the US, as the paragon of the free market, is so comfortable with a lack of meaningful competition.

I think it's something like 70% of US households have only one 'choice' for ISP.

Then there was the discussion[0] here the other week about blitzscaling, and how it's basically "borrow money to do a land grab for monopoly, then use your money to stifle competitors".

Even the lack of preferential[1] voting contributes to a lack of choice - either vote for a major party, or your preference is irrelevant.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19094703
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instant-runoff_voting
While I understand how this could've been fun to 'try out', I can think of nothing but ways that this can be seriously abused. (atm attacks, corporate spying, ...)

Can a device like this be used do anything positive toward humanity?

Did I misunderstand something? (I'm genuinely curious!)

Edited: reworded (honest) question to be less negative.
Because it's a new game and people haven't "figured out how to play" yet.
What makes people, especially managers, to act so shittily with people working 'under' them. I can't begin to imagine how crappy a person has to be to abuse power. Humans seriously cannot handle power.
> 1 - It's unclear which is the best modem/router by doing research.

Comcast actually has a page for that: https://mydeviceinfo.xfinity.com/

> With modem/router price ranging from $100-200. Renting from Comcast at $120/year it means that you always have a de facto warranty. Something goes wrong with the modem/router call comcast they'll send you one or just drive to the local store and get a new one. There is probably some savings if it all goes well. But then again is it worth my time?

How often do you actually think modems fail? No seriously, I'd really like to know the numbers. I bet failure rates are well under 1% annually.

So what this amounts to is enabling Comcast to sell fraud. It's not a warranty, you're getting a replacement to fix an issue the modem didn't cause. You can't tell me it's much of a time saver when local stores sell modems or you could order same/next day from Amazon.
I think many don’t think of cancer cells as their cells. They’re not supporting life anymore so they don’t belong, and it’s important to get rid of them. Plus the immune system is often (not often enough) destroying the cancer(ous) cells which further indicates that they don’t belong. So it’s the rest of the cells vs the cancer cells.

It’s good that you’re trying to make the most of everyday. Best wishes.
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We only hear about the successes, but I would like to know what took your business down. Why did it fail.

Perhaps, by bringing this data together like accident investigation reports, we can find the common thread.
I like how you scoped perms to only affect netflix.com and omdbapi.com. good job! Usually when I hit install and see "read and modify your data on all sites" I go straight to nope!
You mean something like this? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolved_antenna
Comcast has a site to help determine what 3rd party modem will work with your Internet package:

https://mydeviceinfo.xfinity.com/

Sign in, it takes a look at what speed/connection you have and then will recommend a list.

Or don't sign in and just specify your address. It'll tell you the speeds available at your location. Select the speed and it'll list out the modems they officially support, including ones with phone support.

The ones that everyone I know has is the ARRIS SB8200 or the Motorola MB8600. Both support Docsis 3.0 up to something like 1.4Gbps. They're $150 or so, so you'll break even in a little over a year.
A lot of anime waifus have androgynous features (often intentionally, e.g. Felix from Re:Zero). I wouldn't be surprised if the training set included many such examples.
Thanks. I have personally been trying to understand the Visitor pattern and its implementation since a few days. But I cannot for some reason wrap my mind around it. Any good article/video to explain it?
Yes, I know that. But still a weird feeling.
mp3s from a BBS at 9600? Surely you jest. MOD and STM, with an outside chance of WAV, were more like it.
> Speaking of payments: I was actually amazed to find out how much certain union leaders make. Some of them are in the top 1%, with yearly salaries of over $400,000.

If you object that people in large-organization senior management roles can make that much, you won't believe what many corporate CEOs make. It'll blow your mind!

https://laborpains.org/:

> LaborPains is a joint blog of the Center for Union Facts and the Enterprise Freedom Action Committee.

> We expose the truth about labor unions and the pain they impose upon free enterprise.

So, basically garbage anti-union propaganda. You might as well have just linked this video https://youtu.be/ONKkoiszVSs?t=17.
Just ask them to tell you the settings, it's way faster than following along with their silly step-by-step walk through anyway.
Say rental is $8/month and approved docsis 3.1 modem is $180 to buy outright. Buying doesn't really make sense unless you will be sticking with the same ISP for at least two years. (And in two years, you might take a promo deal and sign up with another ISP; or move to a different apartment building which doesn't allow your current ISP; or your roommate or SO might decide to take care of connectivity; or technology will advance and you would want a different modem anyway.)
I’d say, That’s a bit hyperbolic. I don’t think google has launched 50 things in the past half year, and that’s the time it’s taken me to shift positions and begin to consider this question.

It’s for Games and gamers. Gamers, especially PC gamers are a very different market than your general genial HN-going techie or casual content consumer. For them a well intentioned product which may “disappear” is something they have increasingly had enough of. Further google doesn’t have the brand reach of Sony, MSFT, valve, Nintendo etc.

If it is a concern I have, then it’s a concern other gamers will have.

while I admit it’s easy to dismiss my 1 line comment as matching some sort of pattern, it wasn’t written with that history in mind. It was written spontaneously and without an agenda.
Perhaps it is a self-admission that he over-promised about a Tesla being a self-driving car in the first place?
If you are on H1B and you have a family in the country I think you need to be very careful about how you behave at work, and if your work situation sucks you better start looking for a new H1B sponsor. You can always complain later.
I'll take text-heavy over javascript-heavy any day.
I think you have errors in this regard. Because in such work, Now the probability that has been created is incredible. You have been urged to investigate on some companies who belong to the same as remove.bg, for exemple: https://clippingpathindia.com
I sometimes think that the _core_ reason companies like this take advantage of people is because people don't usually care enough to do anything about it; in other words, to care enough to help _other_ people out. I envision that in the future there will some kind of easy to use "web of trust" that people will look up before deciding to do business w/ someone. Review sites like Yelp/Facebook are just the start of this concept but I think it could eventually turn into something more robust.
Update : I got "HN hug of death" and OMDB api free limit is crossed. Working on converting it to premium.
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Another gotcha can be speed. When I was on a 50 Mbps plan I bought a 160 Mbps modem, not wanting to pay extra for the 320 Mbps model. Then Spectrum increased my speed to 100 Mbps but for some reason they would only provision 70 on my four-channel modem. Since then they must have changed their mind since I'm getting over 100, but when they bump the standard plan to 200 Mbps one day I won't be able to get it.
Hah, those times didn't quite pass.

I went to a subreddit meetup around.. 2009, I think; it was the same spirit. (And we accidentally ran into David Blaine, but that's another story).

But, more commonly, meeting up with strangers you met online is pretty much the default way of meeting people (ever heard of Tinder?).

So it seems like you are complaining about the Eternal September more than anything else :)
Wow drugs are so cool man, MDMA??? That's cool! Now let's go back to talking about tech/CS.
They did something similar to me too. I dropped off the modem, with my two small kids on hand, and forgot to grab a receipt. I figured dropping it off in person would leave no room for doubt. That was not correct.

A few months later, I'm getting threatening calls that I need to return the modem. I call them and the rep says "Oh, thanks, we will note that you returned it." So, they just send a collection notice and don't actually keep a record you have returned it inside their own systems.
We ran a hackday where we attempted to build a multiplayer snake over websockets using Django channels. I don’t think I touched on it in the write up, but websockets/tcp is the wrong choice for this kind of game.

Write up: https://devblog.kogan.com/blog/kogame-django-channels

Game: https://kogame-snek.herokuapp.com/

Disclaimer: it’s not very good. It was a one day project.
That sounds like a challenge for Matt Stonie
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The size of the generated images seems to vary. Any idea what might be the cause of this?
That's strange, I've had cable internet through Comcast at four different houses and have always used my own equipment, didn't rent theirs at all.
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I would argue that the majority of the comments/reviews are probably not made by the most informed people (just informed enough to buy their own modem). Since they're installing their own modem they may have unaddressed issues such as needing a coax amplifier, not having the modem on the right coax jack (i.e after a couple splits). They may also be complaining about WiFi speed, etc. Reading a couple independend reviews and benchmarks by reputable blogs/fourms is probably a much better bet.

Tech support is going to always suck so it's probably a better bet to just invest the upfront time to understand how _your_ modem & router works over one weekend/day and reap the time savings not dealing with support over the rest of your life.

Getting a seperate router+modem will push the cost to $150+ for the combo but you'll be able to upgrade the router independently in the future which greatly increases the number of routers you have to choose from.
>it seems to be fueled by the fact that people feel a sort of inferiority complex when they don't clear an interview or they feel they wouldn't be able to crack it if they ever gave it a shot

Some of the most talented people I've ever met have failed Google interviews. As in far, far more talented than the majority of folks I know who do work at google. No amount of bullshitting is going to convince me that Google's False Negative interviewing system is the correct one. It simply bypasses too many talented candidates even beyond the reasons generally mentioned above.

One guy in particular I know is now a CEO of a company which, ironically enough, employs several former googlers. Yes, I know Google doesn't give a shit they missed on this individual. But to mis-characterize the anti-Google-interview narrative as "sour grapes" sounds a bit like you're drinking their champagne.
> I have, however invested a lot of time learning higher math and advanced computer science topics on my own and I’d like to get a degree, but the idea of having to spending all the time and money going through undergraduate prerequisites feels like a waste for me.

If you know you can learn it yourself and you've got this far without a degree, why do you want one?
I forget how lucky we are in Minneapolis compared to the rest of the USA to have 3 ISPs and also have fiber as an option.
They list a number of them on their website that you can buy.

https://mydeviceinfo.xfinity.com/

If you want 1Gbps and phone service, they support one device: Netgear CM1150V

If you're ~400Mbps, they support four more devices:

ARRIS SBV3202
Netgear C7100V
Motorola MT7711
ARRIS SVG248AC
We are creating a content distribution platform, so potentially anyone can come and view content on our site.

What do you suggest in that case?
Frontier FIOS keeps trying very hard to charge me a rental fee for a router. That I specifically declined at the initial installation, and do not have, and do not want. And periodically, that fee comes back, and I get to spend a while on the phone with Frontier until it goes away again. (They always give some kind of "hard-wired into our system" excuse.)

Anyone have similar experiences with Frontier to report? I'd be interested in collaborating on potential actions.
Its unfortunate but at the same time its the bitter truth. The visa restrictions/dependency create a slavery system within the software industry at-least in US as far as I have seen personally. The person fighting must have received his green card by now I guess which is why he is able to come forward like this. On the other hand if some one is on short leash (PIP) like this with a H1B visa, they would spend their time and energy on finding another job before their status becomes illegal.
I have personal experience of a PIP which was personally motivated and I was naive enough to think that I had all the evidences to prove my case. At one point of time I was thinking whether to go to court or focus my energy to find a better job. As some one said earlier the HR is not for the employees, they are for the company. The management chain is more interested to protect one of they own, even if there are evidences.
I imagine that tools such as this will be invaluable for game developers of the future.
My ISP (Altice/Optimum/Cablevision) makes it very hard to use your own router or modem, despite Federal laws empowering customers to buy their own equipment if they want to. For starters, their techs will not install new service with your equipment; you MUST have their equipment installed, set up your equipment, and then travel to nowhereville to return their equipment. After doing this, I’ve had my modem bricked by Optimum for not having “the latest firmware.” No explanation given beyond that. There is no justifiable reason whatsoever to permit ISPs to rent equipment at all. The only reason they do this is so they can advertise cheaper service prices. Altice/Optimum/Cablevision markets a “$99 per month plus taxes and fees” bundle that actually comes out to $145 per month once you have added the equipment fees and taxes. They should also have to advertise total price. Good thing that the Democrats are fighting so hard for “net neutrality” which would solve this. Oh wait, no it’s wouldn’t. It just makes Netflix slightly cheaper. Great priorities!
There's a very similar thread here just last week: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19141968
Fwiw I was able to get significantly (2x) faster speeds using a fairly standard SB6141 instead of the junk shipped by Comcast, even when using a wired connection (no wifi). Their own modem was not capable of reaching top speeds provided by their plan.
I feel I am talking to a brick wall. This often happens and this is what exhausts me. You are still arguing between cloud and colo / on-prem (even ignoring that on-prem and colo is very different but w/e) and what I am saying is that there is a third option neither the article nor your reply even acknowledges.
If you quit the ISP in under two years, you can still sell your used modem for a decent chunk of change. If you actually own, you can resell it. I've done this both ways, selling one I no longer use but also buying one used from someone else. So, there's no actual reason for most people to ever pay $180.
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Caveat Emptor

Your dad has been around for 70 years. How has he not figured out not to trust a salesperson and do independent research or consult an expert (literally YOU, his son, one phone call away).
I didn't filter out male faces (no convenient way, anyway), so there are males in it. Not a ton, certainly, but at least a few thousand.
I am about halfway through upscaling them from 512px to 1024px with waifu2x.
I know people who are literally rocket scientists (most of them actually work on fighter jets) that have trouble correctly configuring video game servers. In my experience for most people trying to run any sort of server themselves is quite a hassle (I mean my work has a lot of experts whose sole job is to make sure the servers are all running correctly and they still get it wrong sometimes).
I'm new to this how "This X Does Not Exist" thing ("This Person Does Not Exist" in seems especially impressive). It seems like this images are generated through some Machine Learning Magic(TM), but could anyone here give a rundown of how it all actually works? These all seem freaky good for something generated by a computer.
I went from having to restart the FiOS router all the time to fix the WiFi to never restarting with the edgerouter/unfi ap.

Buying your own hardware cost more up front but over the course of a 2 year contract you're paying over $240 ($10 a month) for something that barely works from Verizon.
We must end the H1B.
I noticed that when I type "open ai" as a prompt and set the input to 100, the results often contain some c++ code. I wonder what all stuff the model has seen...

Also on typing "c++" I got this:
"c++: ... [15/2/2012 00:40:23 PM] Robert Gibson: and god damn they are going to chime in [15/2/2012 01:21:06 PM] Rob: changes aren't required, the server isn't involved but it's a balancing exercise. minerun does this at every level && any server leaks will be spotted minerun at all levels -- UNFI0017tom) February 14, 2012 "
This format seems to be some sort chat conversation that you will see in apps like whatsapp, if you copy a conversation.
It also hallucinated a github link at one point.
Maybe throwing all possible (and seemingly irrelevant) text formats allows it to learn the langauge better
I've always had my own modem and I've never had a problem with Comcast/Xfinity not helping me. Maybe I'm the exception.

Recently they updated my area to DOCSIS 3 (or 3.1, not sure). My DOCSIS 3.1 Motorola modem (found this out later) has a firmware bug that causes random modem lockups. Comcast went as far as replacing the cable from the telephone pole to my house in the middle of winter (it was ridiculously cold that day), running signal analyzers, and various other things before looking into the modem.

Also, Motorola Modem customer service was shockingly good as well. They sent me a free replacement modem while they worked on the firmware updates. Provisioning that temp modem was as simple as using the online provisioning.

Now, it would be nice if I didn't have to set annual calendar reminders to call them for when they increase my monthly price by 40%...
An A/B test doesn't need to attempt a "middle" option. And there's no reason to assume an androgynous name would be in the middle or in any way qualify as a "baseline".
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Fiber doesn’t use a “modem” so I’m a little curious what you’re talking about. As to “backdoors”—all fiber CPE has to have the capability to be managed from the provider side. A lit fiber is like an Ethernet cable plugged into the provider’s switch. Nobody would be crazy enough to not control both ends of that connnection. Even if you spend thousands of dollars a month for a business grade Metro Ethernet connection, the provider will install CPE that it can manage remotely, usually an L2 switch.
Here are a couple of other scenarios where having BTC works as an advantage:

1. The government doesn't know you have any money, but you are targeted in a random search.

2. The government does know you have money but doesn't know how much. Simply give them X out of Y cryptocurrency keys. They won't know you have any more.

I don't know how much exposure you have to tyrannical regimes, but they aren't as efficient as you seem to think, in that they don't really have much grasp on how much money people own, nor are able to find out instantly.

They also do care about how they are perceived and aren't going to grab some tourist and with no proof whatsoever, torture him to death because he might possibly have some cryptocurrency.
> (My font rendering reads the OS settings to determine which rendering mode to use to match the underlying OS, but I think there's no need to do that for canvas.)

Not sure I understand. Are you saying that HTML and SVG text would match the OS's font rendering but HTML5 canvas text would not?
Turned out that the winner is Snowflake.
I’ve had multiple broadband choices in every metro area I’ve lived in, too (now on my fourth in the US).

Of course, I’ve lived in parts of those metro areas that were densely populated. I.e., where a competitor could reasonably expect to recoup the cost of overbuilding. In less dense areas, the economics would be far worse.
It’s not custom. It’s a standard 802.1x certificate.
He's self representing himself for the case? Does anyone know if there is any reasoning behind this? Even lawyers aren't recommended to represent themselves... going up against Amazon's lawyers with- no offense to the author- imperfect English, sounds like it would be more of a firing squad than a lawsuit.
https://github.com/NVlabs/stylegan https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.04948 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSLJriaOumA https://www.lyrn.ai/2018/12/26/a-style-based-generator-archi... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ct_P3IZow0
Hate to tell him, the job of every HR department is to protect the company, not the employees.
How is it that React gets celebrated for “solving” problems that React created in the first place?

The entire paradigm of React keeps changing as each pervious iteration proves to be “messy” or “over complicated.” createClass? Nah that’s obsolete. Mixins and HOC - oh wait, bad idea, hooks to the rescue!

At what point do people start to call BS and say you shouldn’t build around a framework that needs to be reinvented every year or two?
>How does a device like this do anything but affect humanity in a negative way? How is the kind of 'research' remotely legal?

Here is some advice, whenever you think “there aught to be a law...” there probably shouldn’t be.

Planes would be falling out of the sky and high rises would be on fire if everyone had your sense of what types of research should “be allowed”.
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Does the site not work for anybody else from the EU on mobile? It says:

>It appears that you’re visiting us from a location in the European Union.

>We are directing you to our EU Experience.

And then it just stays on the page with that message. I guess it's an experience alright.
There are plenty of companies that have interesting projects and don't have such a toxic culture. GCP and Azure are the exact same technical challenge as AWS without all the Amazon BS.
>but Cracking the Coding Interview is an embarrassingly bad book

I like how you made this bold claim with zero justification as to why.
Bloody hell.

It's his announcement. If he feels it is a battle he has lost, well I can fully understand why, I'm not going to criticise his choice of word.

Only the title and first sentence contain an expression you heavy handedly dislike. I don't see him ruling out palliative care, or any of the other criticisms you level. The rest of the short post is a poignant summary and thanks. It's disappointing, but rather typical of HN, that the top comment and most of the comments are now around the language of cancer, not Alex, his life or work.
The site uses https for me (and the HN link is https too). It does make 3 http requests, all for gravatar jpeg files.