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> Twenty years ago, basic phone service from Verizon was $15/mo. Now it's $75. The only success is for the investors that successfully looted the public networks.

Pre-deregulation, local telephone service was artificially cheap because carriers were required to cross-subsidize it from long-distance charges. So the price of phone service 20 years ago was never really something that was economically feasible standing alone. Moreover, as copper subscribers are dwindling, the per-subscriber cost of maintaining the whole network is rapidly increasing.

Standalone copper phone service, makes no economic sense. When a storm knocks down a telephone line, the truck roll costs the same whether you're delivering $15/month phone service or $150/month triple play. (And these aren't gig-economy workers doing that repair--the average Verizon union employee receives $130,000 in wages and benefits: https://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/14/business/verizon-workers-...) The cost of the truck roll, moreover, is now amortized over far fewer paying subscribers in the neighborhood, versus back when everyone subscribed to copper landline service.

Verizon will sell you 100/100 FiOS for $40/month ($55/month after the 12-month promotional period ends). Combine that with VoIP and Netflix/Hulu, and you're paying a lot less than you used to back in the day for local phone + long distance + cable TV.
I did the same thing around 2 years ago, going from 5x 7.5h days to 4x 7.5h days, taking a 20% pay cut in the process.

The extra family and side-project time I get has been well worth it.

I honestly don't feel like I'm any less productive, my employer is getting a pretty good deal!
Well given that the article is about defending science from politics, I'd imagine it would extend to removing politics in all senses of the word from science.
The last time I studied it closely was over a year ago, but at that point:

1. Periscope emphasizes directly writing SQL.

2. Looker hides the SQL behind "developer mode" and emphasizes clicking dimensions and measures.

3. Periscope supports R and Python somehow, though I haven't used it.
>That have biases because
Where are you pulling this causation from?
As is so often the case with articles about Tesla the headline is completely misleading. No cars are getting bricked. Tesla fixes that problem by replacing the bad board but they won't replace the bad chip on the board and they won't sell the chip separately. Other manufacturers don't generally do that either.
I hope not, because not all terminals support unicode, not all applications do, etc. Also, as the author mentioned, it is hard for the layman to understand how to pronounce it. Why they did not name it "thrangrycat", I do not know. All though, that almost seems worse than the emoticon option.
Problems with an SD card is that it will wear out even faster than an eMMC due to lack of FTL, and also friction fit instead of soldered connections means the part is susceptible to wiggling out of the socket and also corrosion between the contactors.

Not sure of the benefits of an SSD over an eMMC. Guessing the former will have a more sophisticated FTL and other things.
> The initial pre-Fukushima plan to exit nuclear was solid. What ruined it was the blind actionism post-Fukushima.

I have a feeling even with the pre-Fukushima plan we would have the same situation now. The thing was that the CDU never committed themselves to the plan. And the energy industry always hoped that one day there will be a CDU-led government that just kills the plan.

So, since the government didn't force them to, they never prepared for the case of the nuclear shutdown actually happening. And when the CDU-led government killed the exit plan it seemed for a short time that their calculations were right. And then Fukushima happened and for the most part we were back to where we were before.

Yes, there was some blind action, but despite stories about all the changes the post-Fukushima plan didn't diverge markedly from the pre-Fukushima plan. Only difference was that the energy companies couldn't hope that a new government will save them since all parties agreed that the exit should happen.
Paywalled. Any bypass?
From a brief read, I think it reads in flight data not necessarily cached, so flushing cache won't help unfortunately.
I do not want the government to possess the tools for dragnet surveillance for the same reason I don't want the cops kitted out like they're navy seals or the army stockpiling chemical weapons.

No amount of dragnet surveillance will change the fact that going hard on petty crime is politically unpopular in SF. If it really was an issue SF wanted to solve they would solve it with or without facial recognition.
I think your post clearly shows that it is a question of semantics.
The orphan car problem is a serious issue with non-Teslas, too, but I will personally stick to repairable vehicles. You know what you'll never, ever have trouble finding parts for? A Mustang or an F150. Corvettes. Carollas. All of the ubiquitous cars will have parts produced for a seriously long time.
Really? First of all you don't miss what you don't know or are you miserable now because you are missing out all those fantastic "things" which are going to be there in a thousand years? Also those inventions are what brought us to the brink of climate disaster - okay, maybe your children will be the lucky 1% having a good time on the moon but talking on a broader scale the rest will suffer or simply not get that old - just like back in the hand-ax days.
But people DO claim that wind, solar and hydro are 'green' or 'carbon-neutral' or 'carbon-free' energy sources, so it's fair to hold nuclear to the same standards. And nuclear more than meets those standards.

Only enforcing those standards for nuclear feels like an isolated demand for rigor.
How many hours do they spend mindlessly browsing Netflix though and not actually watching anything? And is that better?
Humans don't naturally optimize down to the byte level, be it a whole foods cashier who takes an extra 30 seconds to bag your groceries, an airline who's pilot needs to use the restroom and delays takeoff, or whatever other situation where convenience takes precedent.

When and how often should human hours be spent to optimize machine hours? Sometimes clearly, but should they always? Where is the line? I think these questions define the whole javascript bloat problem, there is no clear answer so it varies company-by-company and developer-by-developer to the detriment of all involved.
They were not elected, but it was not for that reason.
> Linux users should apply kernel and CPU microcode updates as soon as they are available from their distribution vendor, and follow any guidance to adjust system settings.

Canonical says that they have those for 14/16/18.04 [1]. But possibly more interesting is the fact that this disclosure has been so well synchronized. How do the relevant players decide what the threshold is for informing other tech companies? How does everyone know what policies that the constituent companies use to prevent early disclosure or unintended disclosure to 'somewhat-less-trusted-employees'? Is this all coordinated by US CERT?

[1] https://blog.ubuntu.com/2019/05/14/ubuntu-updates-to-mitigat...
What I've heard anecdotally is that the union contracts for the linemen are written in terms of copper wire. Since fiber optic is not copper, AT&T is doing everything they can to get rid of the union guys and their expensive paychecks.
Why investors can't wait to buy into Uber, a company that's never made money
What action, with the objective of reducing the politicization of science, could be taken that could be construed as "non-political?"
Disabling hyper-threading is highly unlikely to produce a 30% performance hit. Most highly optimized software disables or avoids hyper-threading because doing so increases performance.

Hyper-threading tends to benefit the performance of applications that have not been optimized, and therefore presumably are also not particularly performance sensitive in any case.
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I'll give you that the per-subscriber costs of copper will naturally go up as it's phased out. On the other hand, when I was in a different market that still had a functioning CLEC, for $40/mo I had a nice copper landline and VDSL2 (12/2 Mbit compared to Verizon's 3/384).

> Verizon will sell you 100/100 FiOS for $40/month

No, no they won't. That only happens in areas with functioning competition. You seem to be sorely missing this.

In order for FIOS to be built out in most areas, Verizon would require public money. Why should that infrastructure then belong to privately-owned Verizon rather than staying with the public entities that paid for it?
The article is a thin layer, I agree, but it adds the bit that people are mostly responding to.
If your state doesn't have a compatible DL it may be worth it to get a passport card.

(I like them because they don't have an address on them. Less info leaking every time I buy a beer)
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For every major story, there's always a TechCruch blogspam at the top of the index, sometimes with less votes than the actual sources they're duplicating.

Just add "sponsored" in front of it and get it over with.
> It's illegal to not let the state know where you habitually sleep (state ID/driver's license requirements).

Today I learned the government expects me to sleep in my PO Box.
Also, SHA-2 underpins Bitcoin; it's the ultimate billion dollar pot of gold. SHA-2 is perhaps the most exhaustively researched (both publicly and privately) cryptographic hash because of this.
Is there any particular reason you're not using an adblocker?
I mean "mean" parents, not median parents. Sure, there's no-screen policy parents, but those feel (citation needed!) like a less common occurrence than "some" or "unrestricted" screen parents.

If no-screen parents only represent 10% of the total population, they're not going to do as much pulling the number down as you might think. There's no way there's an equal distribution on this stuff among between "none" and "some" so they won't weight as heavily towards lowering the curve. Also, it's a pretty wide age range. What people allow a 2 year old vs a 5 year old to do/consume is a world apart.

There's all sorts of things that go into it. I agree, without deep diving into methodology, these numbers are a whole lot of "but what does this actually MEAN"?
EU may ban plant-based products from using meaty names like burger
In the UK almost everyone gets a passport as a baby and never lets it lapse for the rest of their lives. Seems like a basic bit of freedom to have.

I assumed Americans would want the same kind of basic freedom to move between countries?

You'd get a really funny look if you were suddenly asked to go on a business trip to the US and you said you didn't have a passport yet. Not sure why it wouldn't be the same if you were in the US and asked to go on a business trip to the UK.
Not necessarily. This is more like Meltdown in that it involves one context just outright accessing data in a completely different context, and AMD chips seem to be totally immune from that attack. Any chip with a microarchitecture that actually enforces the architecturally-guaranteed checks, rather than ignoring them and fixing the results up later, can avoid such attacks.

Spectre, on the other hand, is harder both to fix in hardware and to attack because the victim context is itself tricked into speculatively executing code using attacker-supplied data that leaks information - it uses inherent properties of speculative execution rather than any kind of hardware bug, but it's only exploitable if there's some victim code that does exactly the right kind of processing on attacker-supplied data.
US Passports are not especially cheap and expire after 10 years, so if you have no international travel plans it doesn't make sense to get one.

I recently got some for my kids for an upcoming trip and it required me to take time off of work to visit the Post Office during a narrow window when the passport clerk is there, whom we had to pay for her services, to then mail off each passport application individually along with original birth certificates and another check to get the passports a couple of months later. Both parents had to be at the post office to process the application. It's a pretty awful process.
Between the title and the first paragraph, there is a prominent 'like on Facebook' button, so the subtext is pro-Facebook no matter what is written in the article.
I agree with you but honestly "code" is synonymous with "zero day vulnerability"
That a person buying medicine for personal use from abroad could be considered 'abuse', just goes to show how sickeningly skewed in favor of corporations the system is.

There was recently a story on HN of a journalist's home raided to identify his source. Perhaps that is the kind of system abuse that is called for - sending SWAT teams to the homes of each of the CEOs, board-members, and major shareholders, and ransacking them for any signs of wrongdoing, while holding the accused in handcuffs.

It happens every day to regular people for non-violent crimes in the US. Why should the rich have a different law-enforcement system? Yet this call for equal treatment sounds almost extremist...
It's not hard, they don't want to do it, they want loud commercials to get your attention.
Yes, technically I could. But in reality, I have more than one task on my plate and a well-managed company will have figured out how to set the deadlines to maximize the amount of work they get for their money.

However, this is one of the things I ask about when I'm interviewing for a position -- if the company keeps track of hours rather than paying for work product, then it's not likely to be a good fit for me. So, my experience is not random chance and may not be representative of the industry as a whole.
"Is it time to just write an X86 API on top of GPUs and get rid of CPUs?"

How many days are you willing to wait for your computer to boot?

GPUs aren't "better" that CPUs, they're different. Between the two, CPUs probably make better GPUs than GPUs make CPUs, but it's a tough call; neither of them are very good at the other!
Polynomial division: Is this trick obvious?
Emulators don't tell the whole story. Sometimes features depend on the physical game, as in the case of mario tennis and the n64 transfer pak https://youtu.be/QbRkBTMRxZQ?t=653
How is that a bad thing?
> Nobody has time for rewinding

VHS could be stopped where you wanted to stop. Who hasn’t played the frustrating dance where streamed video buffers, plays some other part or jumps back to where you were.
VHS rwd and ffw buttons just worked.
The mobile gaming data economy
FeX: Forum Explorer – Rethinking how we interact with threaded conversations
MLB Moving from Trackman to Hawk-Eye Tracking System
The New World of Gallium Nitride
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I understand the need to exercise freedom, and I do this when in line for TSA. I opt for hand-screening usually.

But I don't see what the point is in not answering where you visited. I'm pretty sure they already have this information so there's no point in hiding it, in my opinion. Plane tickets, hotel bookings, credit card usage, etc all will tell an easy tale as to where you were and what you did.
alternative non-paywalled writeup https://www.sporttechie.com/mlb-ball-tracking-technology-sta...
Why coal ash and tailings dam disasters occur
Yet employment levels are at historic highs. Clearly, something is working well after the tax cut.
The potential for abuse and false positives is just too high, and that class of failure mode is invited by the very mechanism that makes facial recognition effective: broadness of coverage.

IMO what SF needs is beat cops. What I want is a city where it feels like your actions might have consequences. Like there are actually police who are there to help citizens and intercept criminals – fast, and non-apathetically. That's what SF doesn't have.

Everything between broadway and townsend on the Y axis and the embarcadero and van ness on the X axis should have, at minimum, a beat cop per 4x4 block area. Doing laps all day, meeting and integrating with the community, and enforcing the law – lowering the time and variance between violation and consequence, instead of promoting the perception that you can mess around and 9 out of 10 times the cops are going to be too distracted to care.

Ditto for the mission.

When I lived in SOMA, just under the loin, the liquor store guys knew who all the baddies were. They knew their faces, their MOs, where they hung out... nobody cared. The police presence in SF is so ethereal and abstract. It was so disappointing. The people on the street have the answers, and they're not exactly a sophisticated group. But it seems like the system just doesn't want to interface with the population at that level.

I want old fashioned preventative community policing, not high-tech post-crime people monitoring.

There's a court system component, as well. My understanding is that the courts just don't have the bandwidth to enforce the law in all cases, so they have to let the small stuff slide, which just creates a system with no consequences for petty crime. SF's situation is very unsurprising when viewed through that lens.
you sure about that link? he's talking about a core that didn't have SMT and is ranting, in general, about errata existing and wildly misrepresenting their impact

never mind that most errata are conditional until the ucode patch load, but that particular rant has nothing to do with HT
Agile in HR Has Arrived: and It’s Growing Fast
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/may/11/big-te...
Someone needs to create a new social network that will import the data blob that Facebook creates when users request all their data.

In fact, this new social network will automatically request all your data, download it, and import it for you if you enter your Facebook credentials.

Double fact, this new social network runs on top of a blockchain and you keep the keys and from this point forward, you control access to your data and all future data added to the site.

If you control the keys, its your data. If you don't control the keys, its not your data.
In case anybody interested in graphic lambda calculus, there are 5! X 5! = 14400 possible alternatives for the beta rewrite only. So it beats me why among all the possible calculi in CS the lambda calculus is special. I made a page which gives random alternatives http://imar.ro/~mbuliga/betarand.html
Bought a bunch of these during my last trip to Japan. They're really tasty, sweet without being overly sickening ala milk chocolate. Glad to see them make their way stateside.
Depends on the "Let's Play" quality.
Most I've seen are just garbage. Only a handful of channels are actually playing these games without curse words or social commentary
Thanks! We've merged these.
I don't know, but here's a very similar stat from 2009 that makes it sound like this is only for TV: https://www.nielsen.com/us/en/insights/news/2009/tv-viewing-...

New findings from The Nielsen Company show kids aged 2-5 now spend more than 32 hours a week on average in front of a TV screen.
I hadn't personally heard of it before but just from a cursory overview it doesn't look like something that would be easily implementable in the place of twine.
If we were to do anything instead of Twine it would probably be to just build our own front end as Twine itself is handling very very little of the generation.
Or open source RISC-Vs
(MemSQL CTO here)

You're right, MemSQL doesn't support foreign keys as of yet, but none of these benchmarks require foreign key support. Two of them (TPC-H and TPC-DS) are a set of complex SELECT queries where foreign keys are not relevant at all. TPC-C is a write heavy benchmark, but the specification doesn't require foreign keys to be maintained (the data model does indicate the foreign key relationships though)[1].

These are unofficial benchmark results (not independently verified by TPC), so our interpretation of the specs may not be 100% correct, but I think we got it right as far as foreign keys are concerned.

[1] http://www.tpc.org/tpc_documents_current_versions/pdf/tpc-c_...
Except they don't if the car is out of warranty, which (at least in Canada) is 4 years or 80,000 km.

I don't think this is just me but I believe cars should be able to last longer than 4 years and not get bricked by fault of the manufacturer and then not at least easily give me the ability to fix it myself if they won't.
> We're talking about employment here. Masculine vs. feminine has nothing to do with job performance except in maybe porn or something.

That seems like a baseless assertion to me, what makes you so certain that masculinity or correlated factors have no effect on job performance for male CEOs?
Gravity Falls -- yeah! I can't stand Spongebob, but are there other shows like GF?
So you could advertise a coding educational product during commercials of a late-night talk show, that talk about the educational benefits of the product?
You have this strange assumption that people are supposed to find something wrong with surveillance projects.

> Working on surveillance projects is rather embraced and you even receive strong social support for it.

That's right, because there's nothing wrong with it.

> So I don't get how do you compare it to the US!

Because I'm not comparing surveillance projects, I'm comparing modes of speaking.

> Whereas in the US you would have a hard time to convince people to work on surveillance projects and even then often people end up having a hard time with their moral values even when they are not directly doing anything wrong.

Because it's quite obvious to the ordinary Israeli that surveillance projects save lives, so obviously they would want to work on it.

The US isn't under quite the same level of attack, although it's far from clear there is supposed to be something wrong with it in the US either.
Ultimately cloud providers don't want revenue, they want profit. Except in some perverse cases (like cost-plus-percentage contracts), it's not generally in a business's interests for their costs to go up.

Even if there's no opportunity to switch away, eventually you bleed your customers dry and put them out of business. You will typically always aim to price your offering at the equilibrium point where loss of custom increases faster than the increase in profit, and vice versa.

One situation in which an increase in your costs can be good, is if the same increase applies more to your competition. But, in this case multi-tenant cloud is hit harder than the competing alternative of private infrastructure.
> It is not as if you can do much other than surf the internet with it.

You can run Android apps and run Linux programs.
My kids made breakfast for Mother’s Day. During breakfast, I had them explain all the steps to my wife. One of them said they opened the “Ghost man roll”. Wait, what?? “You know daddy, the roll with the Ghost man on it”, thinking for a moment - oh, that’s the Pillsbury dough boy. A once classic American icon is now unnamed in the current generation. All thanks to NetFlix.
Would be cool to see a source for that one. Theo de Raadt is a hardliner whom I don't always agree with, but I'd like to know how visionary he actually was in this case (quite a bit by the looks of it).
Both Sides of the Culture War Are Partially Wrong About Islam
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here is the primary source:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19911715
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Even if porting in your DL from another state?

Wouldn't that violate the driver's license compact? (IANAL)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Driver_License_Compact#States_...