skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Its not a cartel, Telecom is the cartel, its just plain cheaper and more reliable to do it yourself, at scale.

This should be played against the background of a lot of transit providers being consumed into the twin blackholes of GTT and Level3.

Dealing with them is a massive massive pain. They are almost always universally incompetent.

Then there are peering agreements. In the US its all a bit wonky, as it costs to do anything. As far as I'm aware there are no coop style internet exchanges, which means that peering is prohibitively expensive.

else where, in normal land, most places are coops, which means you pay a small fee and negotiate peering directly with other peers.

Given that with the concentration of traffic around 4/5 company's datacenters it makes perfect sense to tap directly into those.

Having a complete network under your control, with your QoS working globally right up to the last mile, is a worthy goal. Being <10ms away from 90% of your customers is worth the cost.
I am a member of a facebook group for my city's ward. We had an election on Tuesday regarding some rather complicated funding mechanism for managing stormwater. Something which would have greatly benefited from some rational discussion. Instead people just spammed the group with conspiracy theories about how the city wants to steal our money and build arenas and other eccentricities. It was worse than useless. I found myself longing for the forums of old where there would have been one topic and lots of useful discussion instead of 100 posts with name calling and conspiracy.
> So far my best argument is: "Don't do it for you, do it for the team".

What concrete problems are you having that you think TDD is going to make better? Are too many bugs making it to production? Are you not writing enough tests? Are your tests poor quality?

I would have a bad reaction if somebody was trying to push TDD on to a project without objectively weighing up the benefits as TDD isn't suitable everywhere.

Instead of citing random articles, you should all work together to objectively weigh up the pros and cons for your team, then perhaps give a version of TDD a trial on a suitable small project or subproject.

If you can't convince people, maybe you're not selling the specifics of how it's going to help with the issues your team is facing or you haven't considered this aspect hard enough yet.
Seems like Waterfall with extra steps
Russian government backed trolls will use this system to spread fakes instead. Wikipedia has similar system and Russians abuse it a lot.
It doesn’t effect CentOS 7, which is what most hosting providers run on.
Currently (for the prototype), you can start contributing, but your reviews only become public once I've vetted you and given you a fact checking test.

Long term the goal is to have an open reputation score for every fact checker. I'm currently experimenting with different implementations of this, and seeing good promise.
Interesting... given that this is actually in use for the Australian Stock Exchange and the Hong Kong Exchanges, this smart contract language could become a major player and continue to get corporate adoption, especially now that it's open sourced.
right-click, open in incognito window...
Sure, but what the OP is saying is that in practice there's a massive tactical decision over whether to vote for "good" or not in a tight race, because "these candidates are equally acceptable to me" is a relatively rare situation
I'll just add that I agree with almost all of your points here, but I'm still not sure I agree that the article was being hyperbolic, I think that "it is more work for him to consume quality food/TV in the US because of what is easily available, popular, marketed etc.." is essentially his point, e.g., the title is "Why Don't Americans Understand How Poor Their Lives Are?". Is that any different than asking "why is it so much work to have higher quality of life in the US?"?
How would a reporter use this? Do you need to have an article already written/published? Does it have to be on your site?

It seems like its less for fact checking, which would happen prior to publication, than for fact proof?
>All DJing is just playing other peoples records. You're not up there with a guitar ffs

aren't you the guy that was talking about ableton a couple parts back?
These kind of posts are good publicity right? I don't see any other car company we follow so closely on the market. Tesla is the only name I can see come up again and again here, and guess what, most people on HN are the actual population that is buying teslas.
> people incorrectly focus on sprint commitments.

I think it's often the over approach from the manager/PM side: they will be looking for a methodology to have estimates and team commitment, and Scrum will be an option.

There is an awful lot of PMs who will candidly explain that they don't really care about the methodology, they just need stuff to get done and know when.
I thought this was a job offer for an engineer whose main job would be refactoring back-end code.

Turns out it's just another article about how to interview people.
I think by estimates they might mean deadlines. It’s well worth asking, as an engineer several questions like: “How complicated is this? What are all the moving parts? Whose going to need to be involved to get this out the door?”

But it’s counter productive sometimes to say “ I think feature X will be completed by Y” and then that estimate turns into a deadline.
That is bull.

Some tasks have a high degree of uncertainty. Others don't.

Back when I was using a ruby-on-rails style framework (in PHP) I would frequently get 20 hours of work estimated properly down to 15 minutes when it came to adding simple features to a web application.

If on the other hand you are trying to figure out the gap between what the documentation says should work and what actually works, that is hard to estimate.
> (...) it's probably just bad technique but it feels so stupid to have to get out of the water because of knee pain.

Get one-on-one classes! A teacher can correct most of your errors in a couple of hours, and will make a decent swimmer out of anyone in ten hours[¹]. It's a very small investment for a very large gain.

[¹] Assuming there's no fear of water involved, you can go from "I can't do one lap without stopping for air at the wall" to "I can swim 1km continuous" with 10h of classes.
I'm not advocating against that, quite the opposite! My work involves solving exactly this class of problems and good privacy ensures such behavior does not take place.

What I don't see is how changing the nomenclature to 'ownership' would solve all of this. It's like calling some statistical models AI models. You see my point?
I use it. On purpose. It's a good general purpose web server and does a good job.
http://ir.tesla.com/news-releases/news-release-details/tesla...

>we had only delivered half of the entire quarter’s numbers by March 21, ten days before end of quarter
I like having a physical book, but the ebook is nice sometimes. I typically only buy the bundle now. Physical book + non DRM ebook. The last few times have been the same price. The ebook is more convenient sometimes.

If they don't include the ebook in a suitable format I'll just pirate it.
Do ebooks cost a similar amount to print books? If you limit what you're buying to recent bestsellers and the like, sure. But many ebook sellers, including Amazon, routinely have massive sales. I've bought ebooks for $2 or $3 apiece. I don't see similar discounting for physical books unless they're secondhand and well-worn--and usually even in that case the price doesn't go so low.

I use ebooks for books I think it's less likely that I'll reread, when I can get a bargain.
Everyone has mentioned the destructive nature of some people. However I would also point out that some use a DoS as a means to cover up trails in logs and distract the admin from another type of attack.
If you're paying attention to the DoS, you might not notice any logs or alerts about someone downloading 6GB of data from your database.
That act of breaking up and organizing tasks of the same size, that's what estimation is. This feature has these tasks, historically we complete these tasks in this time, so here's a hard minimum for a completion date (which implies cost). Slap on an appropriate fudge factor for dealing with other teams, testing and burn in, and general error bounds as needed.

You've described scrum, what you're doing is scrum.
I have to agree that it's the better option.

Certainly not a 100% fail-safe solution – I see people already listing domains that were seized for various inexcusable reasons – but the Nissan.com case [0] (Nissan the car company vs. Mr. Nissan the run-of-the-mill computer sales guy) comes to mind as a classic (and fascinating) counterexample.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nissan_Motors_vs._Nissan_Compu...
I'm cautiously optimistic. I like that this emphasizes use of primary sources, but

1) Some primary sources are dubious, or manipulated. See the multiple versions of Acosta getting kicked out of a White House press briefing.

2) What happens when you have an article that repeatedly cites dubious secondary opinion pieces, but the reader accepts these pieces as fact?
Ok then - you are one! LOL
It doesn't look like "fact checking". It looks like "citation checking". More popular but wrong opinion will take over less popular but correct one.

Fact checking need a court like system, with judges. Contact me, if you interested. I have lot of real world experience with that.
For the specific case of creating software, then? I'd say the Swift Playground is (much) easier to get started with and also more compelling than hacking around with Perl on (at first) Win98 was.
As far as I can tell, it is pretty damn rare to start with. If I were to walk through the building where I work (about 300 persons, 80+ percent with college degrees), and asked everyone to name one or more paleontologists, I might find five or six who could. And frankly, I'd have a hard time myself, and I used to take an interest in the topic, and collect fossils.
Map of Writers’ Homes in the UK
man u don't understand how confusing it is living in the EU. the horrors of getting a burger and tasting beans! no way to live for anyone man!!
> I started mixing and continue to do it to this day. It's important for anyone who is djing.

Mixing clear is. The discussion was whether beat matching live matters. (you still need to quantise your tracks if you use Ableton but you do it before the gig rather than during it).

> Technical detail is what this discussion is about. I never use the term "beat matching" because it's kind of been all in one for me. However, "beat matching" does matter. You're telling me that train wrecking is okay as long as it's mixed good.

Nobody was arguing that train wrecking your way through each mix is a good thing. Nor was I arguing that we shouldn't discuss the technical detail.

> I was referring to what you said:(

> > "I've never gotten the same emotional connection with CDJs nor Ableton."*

Yes, but you ignored the first part where I discussed that I was talking about the tactile sensation rather than the musicality. That context is essential to the sentence you quoted.

> I feel like you're jabbing at me now. I wasn't trying to be disrespectful. If you want to play that game, well, we could do that all day. Not helping anyone out though.

Sorry if you feel that way - I assure you that wasn't my intention. However you're not really in a position to play the sympathy card given the tone of your posts leading up to this point.
It may have worked very well. But it will mean that because of these regulations, there will be less investment in any companies under the EU from outside companies.

Eventually, the EU will have its own companies and separated Internet. Is this really a good thing?
So says the terms of service (that no one reads).

How many people who bought those books do you think understood they were buying a revocable license that gave microsoft the right to remotely delete them from their devices?
Thanks, cattlepi looks super interesting!
Don’t make estimates, make... forecasts?
This is a novel idea, but introduces worse problems of discrimination. You should not use candidates address or commute as criteria in hiring.

I do see companies set up satellite or second offices. I do wonder if an companies of scale use proximities and travel time to influence renewing leases or moving office buildings. What do these formulas look like? What data do they use?
Farmyard, rather than bar: "we drove into a farmyard full of farmhands and hunt supporters."

> Acting like a macho tough guy and flippantly giving a library card as a press credential when you get called out is a pretty cheeky thing to do.

Flippant, yes, macho .. not exactly. It is however extremely English, this kind of whimsicality in the face of interpersonal violence. Reminds me of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digby_Tatham-Warter carrying an umbrella about the Battle of Arnhem and leading a bayonet charge wearing a bowler hat.

The British Library membership card is fantastic for this. It's almost literally saying "Don't punch me, I'm upper middle class". Given the importance of class signifiers in the whole affray, that moves him perfectly to bystander status. Probably worked better than an actual press card. Or warrant card.

But as he points out, this is an extremely routine conflict, almost as if this is what these people do at the weekends rather than have fights at football matches:

> "Then, I had the sense, it was all just like old times. The saboteur women screamed murderous abuse at the terrier-men while the terrier-men tried to knock video cameras from the women’s hands, there were scuffles and a good deal of debate about who started what, and vicious, well-rehearsed arguments about the bloody business of killing foxes. I wandered around asking if anyone happened to have seen my car keys."

(There is probably a whole other article to be written about the dark whimsy of violence that pervades this article!)
Can you at the very least expand on why it's so terrible, maybe a couple of examples so we can understand where you're coming from. All we really have is "Good God, my eyes" and similar epithets implying your stance that this is simply intellectual masturbation and hubris, but no real substance into what exactly makes you feel this reaction to the article. I am genuinely curious because I thought for what it was worth, it conveyed its point pretty well regardless of whether the guy is some big shot writer or not.
Which is why there's no restaurants in Venice.
Other than the fact that it's strong evidence that Norway doesn't give a shit about leveling your theoretical playing field in the climate change and carbon emissions game.
The user still has the account, just with a different handle.
Actually, you only need to compare one option to another. There are plenty of countries that have implemented this successfully.

My post says: we have two options (ideals or pragmatism) and a bunch of people focusing on ideals while the world burns.

To hear a response focus on ideals proves that for most emotions < real life. There are real world options, being used right now. With pros and cons. That are known. But it means taking a cold hard look at things, not feeling good about 'protecting' in an ineffective manner.
Archaeologists Discover World’s Oldest Break-Up Letter at Neo-Babylonian Site
The most common size in France (where I'm originally from) is the B-segment: Renault Clio, Citroën C3, etc. So 4.1~4.2 meters in length and 1.7~1.8 meters in width. Model 3 is much longer: 4.7 meter in length and quite a bit larger at 1.9~2 meter in width. Don't get me wrong, BMW 3-series or Audi A4 are not rare in France, but it's not the mass market.

So I don't have the beginning of a clue as to why you are laughing. If you are French then you probably live in an affluent neighborhood. I suspect you live in a different country with different car habits.
The only thing the democracy index gets right are the broad strokes. But then again, so could a high schooler with wikipedia and a free afternoon.

It's not implemented well enough to detect the fine differences between western countries.

Hate speech laws reduce the range of discourse. They suppress dissent. That's inherently undemocratic.
California accounted for nearly three-quarters of US jobs added in February
If we can all agree that "shipping" is a feature[1] and that "shipping faster" is a competitive advantage, then "shipping fast" is probably one of the first features we should invest in as a team, from leadership to private chef.

If it takes 10 people and six hours to accomplish the release of even the smallest of features, then it sounds like there's a bug with your "ship fast" feature and the team should invest some or all of its resources in fixing that. You probably can't do it over night, but you gotta chip away at it over time at the very least.

If you are looking for justification backed up by real world numbers, I highly recommend the book "Accelerate" by Nicole Forsgren, et.al.[2]

[1] https://a16z.com/2014/04/16/shipping-is-a-feature-some-guidi...

[2] https://www.amazon.com/Accelerate-Software-Performing-Techno...
"No individual snowflake ever feels responsible for the avalanche"
If you're interested in learning more - I recommend reading the book Powerhouse about the creation of the Creative Artists Agency.
I don't, unfortunately. I'm in the same boat as you. I frequent a few narrowly focused sites, and spend some time in a couple IRC channels for more general discussion, but that's not quite the same. I wish I had a good recommendation, and would love to hear one from others.
Two million servers, according to Rapid7: https://blog.rapid7.com/2019/04/03/apache-http-server-privil...
>Second, the reason they are taking positions / building their own is that there isn't a business case to build these cables without them.

They can, you know, contract it to an independent company. That's how most businesses in the world operate.

We're moving towards a world where Google can potentially control your computer (Android/Chromebook), your internet connection (Google Fiber), the backbone cables (article), your content (YouTube, etc) and your servers (to some extent). They are already entrenched in some of those markets.
You can do chelation to get rid of most of it, in most cases.
That's making estimates.
But, the alternative is the dysfunctional partisan mess we have in the US. If parties split government, nothing gets done (save a lot of finger-pointing and chest-thumping). If a single party controls government, "progress" is made, but that progress is likely to be extreme and to the displeasure of a massive portion of the electorate.
I'm happy to provide any journalist/blogger who wants to include this style of annotation on their site a js plug-in to do just that.

The whole fact checking process actually happens within the system, the facts you see on there were collaboratively fact checked by a team of 7 to 11 vetted fact checkers. So that may also provide an incentive for journalists.
I thought this was a software failure initially, but upon following the case, I have come to realize it's not. I still see plenty of people saying this is a software failure in this thread. This is not a software failure. This is a system/process failure on many level.

The plane was rushed to beat a competitor.

A mismatch between the plane & engine happened which can cause it to be off balance.

A system was added in place to correct it, but this system only used one sensor instead of 2.

The display could have displayed angle of attack which is a safety gauge, but it's optional and was charged for. $80k on a $120 million plane. It's now standard.

The display could also display a disagree light if the 2 sensors disagree, but that is also an optional feature, which will now be made standard.

The MCSA was only suppose to adjust for .5 degrees and when Boeing & FAA worked together, this was the agreed parameter, but Boeing changed it after the fact to I believe 2.5 and never informed the FAA. FAA only discovered this after the Lion crash.

This new system was not documented. It was not in the flight manual or training.

Boeing lied to pilots when they asked if there's any new system they should know about.

FAA wasn't through in certification process and allowed Boeing to sign off some things themselves.

The failure was on so many levels it's ridiculous. It's a whole collapse of a system.

Boeing, FAA, certification, QA, hardware design, etc.

If anything I won't even blame the software team much, software has no choice but to rely on the signal it's reading from the sensor if invalid. My concern is that the plane wasn't tested with faulty sensor. A happy path was followed. Testing with faulty sensor data might have shown the tug of war that would have happened between the pilot & plane. All in all, failure is across so many levels, it's terrible.
This is the perfect recipe for never delivering anything. Without release dates developers will continue building and gold plating and building and gold plating. Create your tasks, estimate your tasks, put a date out there, and hit the date. If the product has bugs, unfinished features, then so be it. Users understand flaws. They don't understand missed dates.
Bear in mind only ~45% of NYC residents own cars. Yet, we all pay taxes to pay for maintaining their infrastructure.

Everyone paying taxes to support some is fine when that thing is beneficial to society at large (e.g., public education, fire departments, welfare, etc.) I don't think driving counts as an activity that should be subsidized by the taxpayer.
is now a good time to buy? [serious]
I predicted this a year ago.
Almost as if one typeface covering every writing system on the planet isn't something you can do in just a few MB. Even a single comprehensive font for Chinese or Japanese ends up being _at least_ 12 MB if it wants to do things right.

Multiply that by some 120 writing systems, and you can see why things might get a little big if you want "one font for every language".

(which you can't, the spec doesn't allow for more than 65k glyphs, including virtual compound glyphs, per font. So I'm genuinely confused about the author's claim that they managed to put 137k glyphs in a 65k glyph space. You need multiple fonts tied together using a font family name)
The DAML landing page gives a nice overview of the unique language features:

https://daml.com/

Disclaimer: I work there. Very exciting to see it open-sourced!
What the College-Admissions Scandal Reveals
It depends on the book. A few months ago I bought "Kitcen Confidential (Anthony Bourdain). Back then ISTR the ebook was similarly priced. Now it's way cheaper.

I can go on Amazon and find ebooks that are cheaper, the same price, and more expensive than the print versions.
It would be interesting to see a follow up a year or so from now about how candidates that went through this vs. the previous process are performing.
Filing Your Taxes Is an Expensive Time Sink. That’s Not an Accident
Conditions are clearly superior to exceptions in most cases.

I don't understand the point of exceptions. It's like saying I want a status reporting feature with power and flexibility and meaning, but not that much power and flexibility and meaning.
How do people feel on a congestion fee for sidewalks. Too many people on sidewalks in NYC making them almost unusable. If you want to walk on a sidewalk during the busiest times you should pay a congestion fee. Why would we stop at just roads?
"[Andreessen Horowitz] aims to flip the venture industry on its head by acting more like a talent agency - specifically Creative Artists Agency, which became so prominent in Hollywood that it was hard to do deals without them being involved."

https://blogs.wsj.com/venturecapital/2011/01/21/why-andreess...

This being Hacker News and all, I thought the idea that a16z is modeled on CAA would have come up already.