skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As someone who has been tangentially involved in this process in the past, what you describe seems super weird to me. Getting upgrades to business internet access is shockingly expensive when you are accustomed to purchasing consumer internet, but there has always been multiple companies willing to lay new cable for us at a price that is well within the budget of a multi-billion dollar company.

As a general rule, most ISPs stink, but they still are businesses. It seems strange for them to literally refuse your money. Is your office in some remote location or is there some legal restriction that prevents one of these companies from doing the work at any price?
> Although no company is perfect, at CircleCI I’ve had opportunities to grow my career in an environment I enjoy.

Small gripe. Its funny how software developers think they have a career. Once you leave a job you are basically an entry level programmer again. What I mean is if you stay somewhere 5 years using one set of technologies, you'll find that you are not qualified for the vast amount of open positions that use other new (just came about in the last 5 years) technologies. You basically have to start all over again or somehow find a team that is using the same set of technologies (which is rare). You know (React now) wait until 5 years from now when you try for a new job, there will be something else and your experience won't count only your knowledge of the hot new thing.

At the new job, the culture will be white make dominated, if not age < 32 white male dominated. So a career in software == a job in software that gets reset every time you change jobs, and there is no escaping white male domination because software is based is often blind trust and the ones with the highest probability of getting that are white males (It may be hard to swallow but it is true).

As for mentor ship, the culture of most places dictate that the most experienced mentor who that like. Females are usually excluded from this group and made to handle the bug list and given minor tasks. After 15 years they may be put in a position of leadership so that the company can save face (if the female employee sticks around for that long).
Can Companies Give Their Workers a New Skill Set?
> Also damn hypocritical of the states which regularly complain of Federal overreach to go restricting their own local governments.

Not at all. The federal government and state governments are separate sovereigns. Municipal governments are mere appendages of the state governments (and at the end of the day, the state governments are on the hook for anything bad that happens as a result of municipal decisions, e.g. Flint Michigan.)
Not the same computer, but, with a serial cable and USB adapter, a RAM module, a flash EPROM and a bit of software, a Cambridge Z88 from the same era is a nice ultra-long-battery-life laptop for taking notes or writing uninterrupted.
Love the idea and a great product. But how are you monetizing this? I can't figure from the page.
> The argument is that government, at any level, shouldn't be competing with the private sector.

My father loves to wax poetic about the CWA and WPA during the Great Depression (though they ended before he was born, so he loves the idea more than any actual experience) - his conservative heart loves the idea that if people were struggling, they could get the care they needed as long as they work for it. He doesn't believe me when I respond to his "why don't we do that?" by pointing out that modern conservatives in govt (and many beyond) would have a coronary at the idea of having publicly funded competition to businesses that would otherwise do the work in question.

End result: He's sure there's a better way but he'll support the officials that would prevent that better way. To be fair, the progressives I support have their own list of complaints with such enforced-work-for-aid programs, but I'm not the one asking for them.
I started https://ipinfo.io as a side project, and then ran it fulltime as a one-person SaaS app for over a year. We're now a team of 8, profitable, and growing quickly. We're still 100% bootstrapped, and I have zero plans to raise any outside funding.

We started with a simple IP geolocation API, which now handles over 20 billion API requests per month. We've added new data to that service, such as IP type classification (hosting, isp, or business, and soon education too), IP to company, and carrier detection. And we've also launched some other products, like hosted domain API (all domains hosted on an IP, sometimes called reverse IP), IP ranges belonging to an organization, and an ASN API. We've got a lot in the pipeline too, including some domain related offerings (see https://host.io for an early preview).

So it's definitely possible :) What sort of SaaS product are you thinking of launching? Would be happy to chat! Shoot me an email at ben@ipinfo.io
> Then are we kidding ourselves that capitalism is our best shot at a social system?

Here is a story about government granted monopolies using their influence to manipulate government entities to impede the activities of other government entities.

What "capitalism" are you asking about?

"Capitalism" isn't a generic umbrella word for all the things in the world you don't like.
Yes, this is all true... but at the time, it was still amazing! The comparison was not an Android phone, but a flip phone that could barely connect to the web... It was like night and day.
Any user with "throwaway" right in the name automatically gets ignored by me.
I continue to run the writing software Draft (https://draftin.com) all by myself. It can largely run on its own without a ton of interruption to me so I can work on other things.
I run two side projects on my own.

The first with is on auto pilot and does $800MRR. My second is called TeamCal (https://www.teamcalapp.com) and I’m actively working on it. Usually 2-3 hours/week. Its doing $1700MRR and growing.

TeamCal provides a scheduling view for Google Calendar and is used by cleaning/call center/staffing companies.

If your interested about some of the work involved, I documented part of the journey on Indie Hackers: https://www.indiehackers.com/product/teamcal
> for example the knowledge graph that Google uses, Bayesian modelling

Note how these have concrete descriptions and you don't have to call it AI—which, again, is meaningless. Correspondingly, referring to "AI" as a real thing (including calling search and modeling algorithms AI) is a red flag.

> economic and social simulation

What relation does this have to AI?
Ask HN: What is a big scale system?
300k orders a month Is in already a big scale system? If we define that large scale system requires many servers is it possible to handle such amount on single server, and all others solutions which require 10-20 servers on AWS are over over engineered.
Patriarchy is a farming-age invention.
If a billion-dollar company gives up after rolling out in that few cities, they weren't really trying. Hard to know what their goals were initially since it seems like it wasn't actually market disruption.
She doesn't work at Google, she "know[s] a lot of people from Google and/or OEMs" [0]. I'm going to have to file this under "my uncle who works at Nintendo".

[0] https://twitter.com/DroidAlexandra/status/111934958407192985...
How nice do you want your interface to be? Ssllabs won't tell you anything you can't figure out from your configuration + output of "openssl s_client" + Wireshark. If you want to test only specific things, this may be enough.
Highly recommend the book 'Wisdom of Insecurity' by Alan Watts. This article touches on the search for an immutable self but it doesn't quite make the leap that there isn't one and that the advice to "be yourself" is never going to bring any psychological satisfaction.
Hey, it's part of what makes america great, apparently. I can't wait until we get to use lead paint and asbestos again!
https://hpbn.co/transport-layer-security-tls/#leverage-early...

Establishing a connection can require several round trips, and the latency adds up. "early termination" with a point of presence near your end user makes a pretty massive difference, especially if your user isn't on the same continent. Every additional 100ms costs amazon 1% of their revenue https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=273900
Ask HN: Service to rent a movie and watch with person in another country?
Is there such a service? One person should be able to pay for both, and it doesn’t have to sync.
To tone down those tendencies in yourself that are likely to cause you to get into bad situations. For instance perhaps you love to argue, often that leads people to dislike you. Find a way to be yourself and do the things that you enjoy doing without getting contempt from other individuals and society... However, there are professions where this is impossible such as porn star for instance. If you choose such a path as I said know the implications and be willing to live with them. Recently Mia Khalifa got very angry for being called a porn star, something she did for 3 months, she claims. There is someone who was trying to discover who they were and trying things and now their entire self is based on something that they regret doing.
Never disclose things like that. It does nothing positive for you. You could endup in legal hell.

If you really want it fixed post to pastebin and the traffic will bring attention to it. But it's better to just ignore and move on.
Generation has little to do with it. It's not the librarians who promulgated those stern warnings around the photocopiers providing support for the way things are, but rather the huge companies that continue to rake in gobs of money by claiming to own pieces of our culture in perpetuity.
I would say "cherry-pick" rather than "disrupt." They thought they could pick out a handful of the most profitable markets, then only deploy to those. Sadly, they failed to do even that.
Very cool! Being an IF collector, I acquired the source code to Restaurant at the End of the Universe years ago. It's generous to call it unfinished—it's barely a game. I wasn't sure whether or not I could publish it, but it's great that this and much more are now available to everyone.

I also have some internal Infocom emails and photos and things. Not sure if posting those would be welcome by the participants since most of them are still alive.
The notion that everything that can be digitalized should be free is a pernicious notion and trivializes the effort creators put into their work. Journalists, musicians, authors, and artists deserve to be able to make a living from their work, and they can't do that if their work is distributed for free.
>ah an Android OS dev

She is in the wide sense of the term: she has made some contributions to AOSP. But only Google has actual knowledge of the future of their OS, and she doesn't work for them.
I've been following Marcus on Twitter for the last couple of years, and he's been sounding increasingly desperate lately. Regardless of whether he actually authored Kronos, I could easily see him taking the plea bargain as a way out.

I strongly feel that a malware researcher who stopped WannaCry and spends his free time making reverse engineering tutorials shouldn't go to prison because of a trojan he wrote as a teenager (assuming he really did write it).
I am pretty sure menstruation and child birth are not farming age inventions.
I’ve appreciated his explanation of dB schemas as categories.
It's because step one is "overthrow the power of capitalism to control the political system to the despite of the public" and we haven't done that yet.

Lobbying does exactly nothing when you are talking to the hand.
Most reports are that major ISPs are highly profitable. Undercapitalized local ISPs always seem to struggle, however -- as do companies like Google when they aren't serious.

I am not that excited about the satellite model.

The LEO satellites are not going to be very big or high powered. The ground terminal is probably going to be a phased-array job that costs $6000 or so. The satellite is going to be a bent pipe to Verizon, AT&T or whatever rent seeker is operating in your neighborhood. If people from NYC who can afford to smoke dollar bills to spite the cable company are using it, they'll interfere with people who don't have a choice 700+ miles away.

The LEO constellations might hark back to the pirate days of satellite when the dish cost $6000 but there was no subscription. Unfortunately the people who are behind them don't realize that normal folks aren't going to have money for an expensive subscription after buying an expensive antenna.
You're correct. Swords are almost always a sidearm and not a primary weapon. A notable exception is the sword and shield; for example the Roman legionary's gladius and scutum (and even then the pilum was thrown first). On the battlefield the samurai would use a bow or yari before his sword.

Primary weapons were generally either bows or some kind of long stick with something sharp on the end. Primary weapons and shields are both inconvenient and tacky to carry when not expecting battle, so the sidearm becomes the badge of office or nobility for the warrior class.
I wish I could find a niche :-(
> I don't have any trouble except when using docker for mac

That's... the same experience? Not "opposite", for sure.
Breached data: stats and graphical representation (haveibeenpwned source)
Hey ramraj07, I just wanted to say thanks for submitting this article!

A couple weeks ago I read a different article on Nature that claimed that "Restoring natural forests is the best way to remove atmospheric carbon" (https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-01026-8).

I added it then to some notes I've been taking, listing evidence for and against claims, which I was able to update quite a bit today using information from the article you posted: https://www.wikiclaim.org/index.php?title=Increasing_foreste...

FUD tactics are certainly an issue to keep in mind, but I do like to be able to consider all the available evidence when assessing claims. Thanks!
We don't know his actual sentence yet, do we? The article says "up to 10 years" but the actual duration will be suggested by the prosecution based on the plea, no?
This doesn't make the fundamental problem here go away: they arrested someone who was not in the United States when allegedly violated a law of the USA. The USA does not have jurisdiction over the entire world. If they thought they had a case, the right way to do this is to issue an arrest warrant and ask the UK to arrest and extradite him. If this was a thing, international travel would halt because you would need to countercheck everything you've ever done online with the laws of the country you are flying to.

Consider this fictionary tale: you fly to Budapest for a fun trip. You are jailed for posting the Soviet hammer and sickle on your Facebook two years ago -- it's a crime under Hungarian law to use that symbol. Do you think this is right?

Here's the law:

Any person who:
a) distributes,
b) uses before the public at large, or
c) publicly exhibits,
the swastika, the insignia of the SS, the arrow cross, the sickle and hammer, the five-pointed red star or any symbol
depicting the above so as to breach public peace - especially in a way to offend the dignity of victims of totalitarian regimes and their right to sanctity - is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by custodial arrest, insofar as the did not result in a more serious criminal offense.
Now we have. Is it in there?
Is it a coincidence that there has been such a large uptick in IPOs just over 10 years after the real-estate meltdown? Or did the meltdown kill off a generation of unicorns that couldn't get funding during the crunch?

It's just anecdotal evidence, but I talked to a CEO that had just closed a deal with his A round from Kliner Perkins in August or September 2008. When it came time to fund the deal, the partners at the VC firm made the capital call and the LPs couldn't fund. So Kliner Perkins called the CEO and told them they had to cancel the deal.

The CEO had to make big cuts, couldn't pay rent on the building, etc. He eventually sold the company, but I wonder if it or others would have been IPOing around 2014-2015 if they had gotten the funding they needed.
Mercurial appears to have come out at the same time as git and covers almost exactly the same usecases.
This is patently wrong. But your problem is that you don’t supply any argument to support your statement so there’s nothing to discuss.
"This isn't an official statement from Google"

Yep, he follows on with:

"About Fuchsia replacing Android, it's not a secret I leaked lol"

then...

"Also, do keep in mind how Google sometimes randomly kills projects, and starts new ones, nothing is set in stone with Google."
Nearly all US tax treaties carve out exceptions for management activities, meaning for example that if a US-incorporated company is managed in Australia, then it is subject to tax in Australia and also in the US, though they would get foreign tax credits in the US to offset the Australian taxes paid.

See the permanent establishment article of...nearly every tax treaty based on the US or OECD model tax treaties.
Maybe they just need a new business model. Google gives away plenty for free and they’re doing fine.
I think they did create the "level set" that gigabit speeds were possible. In the short term they may have spurred more competition, but in the long term they've simply caused despair in everyone except for the incumbent ISPs.
French government releases in-house IM app to replace WhatsApp and Telegram use
Capitalism based legislation is nothing new. People accept this with votes for trump so why complain. Get a maga cap and get on board.
No offense but you sound like someone who got burned.

> Once you leave a job you are basically an entry level programmer again. What I mean is if you stay somewhere 5 years using on set of technologies, you'll find that you are not qualified for the vast amount of open positions that use other technologies.

I doubt this is true for your average Java/Python/C# developer or even a powershell person.

> At the new job, the culture will be white make dominated, if not age < 32 white male dominated.

What does this have to do with anything related to the first point?

> As for mentor ship, the culture of most places dictate that the most experienced mentor who that like. Females are usually excluded from this group and made to handle the bug list and given minor tasks.

This is still true at some companies, but I think it is changing far and wide in the US. I've met some amazingly gifted female developers, some terrible. I've met amazing male devs and terrible ones too. When we become blind to that bias and we have a good diversity on a team, I find teams become pretty cool to be apart of, especially when we have a mindset of mentoring.
There is a vast gap between "able to make a living" and "able to stifle culture, censor citizenship, and lock up works for longer than a lifetime".

TBH, it's probably better to create a post scarcity society where a living isn't dependent on holding something hostage. Some variation of a basic income, that would support artists to create. But we don't have to go that far to say, copyright as it stands now is over-mighty and should have its claws harshly trimmed.
> an AI seems to always occasionally make some absolutely terrible decision that we can hardly even understand the rationale behind. This is a huge flaw. In the rare instance an AI makes a mistake, it's completely out of its mind (at least to our knowledge) and off-base.

Some of the game-playing bots have made moves which seem like garbage in the moment, only for a novel strategy to unfold in later moves. Is it possible to achieve the novelty without the true garbage?

So I guess it depends on the work being automated. AI cars should not have novel strategies, "just" follow the rules, while a strategic battle AI working with a human might be better with out-of-the-box thinking (and transparency of reasoning for the human to check).
What They Left Behind: Legacies of the Recently Departed
It's likely you've now forgotten just how much faster and more powerful desktop computers are than laptops.
I'm not sure about that. I know their site used to mention the patents. Their website says this now:

"Unicomp was started in 1996 when we purchased keyboard technology from Lexmark International and IBM. You may recall that Lexmark manufactured the high quality Model M keyboards for IBM computers and terminals prior to 1996. Many of the same people, who in 1995 helped produce millions of keyboards for Lexmark customers, continue to manufacture keyboards for us today. Our goal is to build on our heritage and continue to provide our customers with the highest quality keyboard products."

In any event, I've been very happy with their products. It's like 1988 all over again for me.
What if "the next version of Android" will run all those old .APKs on something that isn't Linux? To someone working on the OS level of present day Android this will be "not Android anymore", to everybody else it will be just another iteration, perhaps worth a little brand refresh. There's no conflict beyond semantics.
A big difference is that development of Android is done behind closed doors, whereas for Linux you can observe what is happening in public (discussions on the mailing lists for example). This means that it's essentially impossible to follow or contribute to Android development in a meaningful way. This is also reflected in the fact that there are open issues in Android with almost no reaction from any developer for years.
This is a great point, and one I think could make more sense if I (clumsily) update the saying to "Be true to yourself". I agree with the writer that most of us probably don't need to express every thought, no matter how negative or insulting, as it doesn't usually add a lot of benefit to our lives or others. However, I believe knowing what you want out of life, whether it's career, family, or hobbies, is definitely an important way to be happy. But, usually this doesn't negatively affect others.
You seem to be vigorously agreeing with me beyond the first paragraph, but I must be reading you wrong?
Just did and I think it furthers my point. Cloudflare now owns your key and the edge is now their network.

My concern is cert/key management where the edge is somewhere you have very little control over, like a cell tower, random building network, or a users house. Even with keyless, once that device is in my home, Im pretty sure that entire thing can be reverse engineered. Not easy, like probes and oscilloscopes on exposed leads hard, but physical access is pretty much game over, no?

I've worked in this space and the solution is detection and mitigation. Limit the damage to single devices, workflow the user in, look for human attack patterns. Defense is futile.
I'm not sure if there are many people that will immediately and totally disagree with the above, but here's some sad historic context:

https://www.boston.com/uncategorized/noprimarytagmatch/2013/...
This is absolutely a problem. America has a system which incites prosecutors to "win" in court rather than actually trying to serve justice, because that is how they advance. Plea bargains are a perverse way to keep this up.

Plea bargain here: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/5972658-Marcus-Hutch...

From the deal: "The government agrees to make no recommendation regarding the ultimate sentence to be imposed; however, the government remains free to take a position with respect to any fact or factor pertinent to the sentencing decision consistent with this agreement and to advise the court that the government's failure to make a sentencing recommendation should not be construed as a recommendation for leniency or severity."

The guy got screwed.
I personally rather see China find cures to illness than any companies in the Western world as the cost of those cures will be probably 10x less if discovered in China.