skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder how population density effects price for cellular carriers. One reason wireless is expensive in the US, to my knowledge, is because much of the surface area is sparsely populated with customers requiring more wireless tower infrastructure to cover fewer people (then costs are spread across most the national or regional customer base).

In dense cities, I imagine towers can theoretically serve more people. Obviously you reach a saturation point where a tower can only serve so many people and has to be expanded but I suspect this lowers infrastructure costs. One would have to be able to handle larger "burst" demands in a densely populated area though.

On top of that, I'm not familiar with topography of India, but certain areas in the US are mountainous and as a result, require even more towers to provide coverage (for typically sparse populations). In dense cities where you have near line of sight, I imagine that increases range reducing infrastructure demands some (though this constraint may be moot based on typical tower saturation).

In India I would expect cheaper prices based on that line of reason, though I may be missing something critical (I'm no telecom expert).
It’s a waste of everyone’s time and attention to critique banal offhand comments unrelated to the conversation, which is obviously a violation of guidelines. I am clearly perfectly fine with confrontation. I am not a liberal.
I think the most important part is this quote:

>“What we found is that it’s a gain for large sophisticated investors who can afford the substantial costs of acquiring and processing big alternative data”

This is yet another example of wealth accumulating, of rich actors getting richer faster than poor ones. Without some controls on the behaviours that allow wealth to accumulate, it will further concentrate among the wealthy. I would argue that is a bad outcome.
What's your objection?

It has 12 evenly distributed lines, which are commonly used to represent the numbers on an analog clock.

It has an hour hand, a minute hand, and a second hand.

The only thing I can see that seems even a little off is that the hour hand seems slightly past the 1 mark, whereas the minute hand being on ~54 suggests it might want to be slightly before.

It seems very clock-like to me..

What gives you such a visceral reaction to it?
Disappointed that "cost" only appeared once, and neither "ticket" nor "price" appeared in the article. Ticket prices for movies at the theater are absurd. It's an experience that we've lost, and it's been buried under ludicrous consumer costs.
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Leap smear is how true time is defined in the roughtime spec.
This isn't the US, this is human nature. Or rather, "bad manager" nature. A dystopia would be where everybody was a bad manager.
I think bank apps do this less to stop you from making screenshots, and more to stop that new Candy Clash app you just installed from making that screenshot.
We know none of this so that’s a straw man and a case of whataboutism.
Yeah - and for some reason you got downvoted into oblivion for what was a really really simple/valid question. Sorry on that one =(

Welcome to HN though - it's filled with really really smart people who want to be right about everything. If I'm being honest I'm one of them too ;)

Cheers!
I disagree with this quotation.

Any fool can write words that any other fool can understand. Programmers write words that computers can understand.
Even seen the balance sheets of telcos in India. They are drowning in it and very soon it would become unserviceable. In NPA (non performing assets) India is among top 5 in the world and recently beat Italy on this dubious distinction. When all government owned banks write off this money, it is taxpayers who will be footing the bill.

> Healthcare is dirt cheap and very good.

That's news to me because afaik it is damn expensive for the income level in India.
HSMs generally support import, but not export. Keys generated on the device can't be transferred elsewhere, but you can generate the key separately and import it into the HSM while keeping a backup copy. TOTP apps generally work the same way, except the keys are always imported: you can save the secret used to configure the app (screenshot the QR code, or scan it with a regular QR code reader) and use that to set up the same TOTP on a different device.

> You have one TOTP app generate a key pair, give you the public key, which the other TOTP app uses to generate an encrypted blob out of the stored codes, which only the target TOTP app can decrypt.

Unless you somehow verify that the public key came from a "genuine" TOTP app, that's essentially the same as allowing the keys to be exported in plaintext. (User/attacker generates their own key and presents it to the TOTP app which duly encrypts its secrets in a way the user or attacker can easily decode.)
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I really don’t see a problem here. If you have some weird edge case that requires a less secure version of OpenSSHd then you should either stick with the old version or fork the new version.
> Remember the Matt Levine test: insider trading is about theft, not fairness.

While appreciating the usefulness of this quote, one should also understand that usefulness is limited by the actual enforcement of insider trading laws and insider trading doctrine generally, which does not square with the analogy. There is certainly an element of "fairness" that is being protected implicitly and/or explicitly in enforcement actions, with the purported interest of keeping the markets attractive to retail investors. On the other hand, "fairness" is undermined in cases like Enron where prohibitions on insider trading likely artificially reduced downward pressure on the price of the stock (costing investors who bought later larger losses) by disallowing folks who understood what was going on from selling the stock.
> Firefox's Profiles is similar, but then you get warnings about Firefox already running when you click a link in a non-Firefox program.

Use about:profiles to launch a process with another profile

I don't have any issue with fonts in F30, do you have a picture illustrating the issue?

https://imgpile.com/i/1JyqT1

Roboto font at 14pt, 115 dpi, default antialiasing in Plasma
Personally, I don't trust Cloudflare. There's just something a bit shady about a company that defends web sites which pretend to have Adobe Flash updaters or pretend to be bankofamerica.com as free speech.

That said, I don't imagine they could screw up NTP too badly, except, of course, logging and tracking users.

I hope they don't smear leap seconds like Google, or do any of a number of other dumb things simply because they're big enough to get away with it:

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/12/02/google_public_ntp_s...
Canada, the most affluent of countries, operates on a depletion economy which leaves destruction in its wake. Your people are driven by a terrible sense of deficiency. When the last tree is cut, the last fish is caught, and the last river is polluted; when to breathe the air is sickening, you will realize, too late, that wealth is not in bank accounts and that you can’t eat money. - Obomsawin
I agree with what you say but if a person sets up a for-profit company, their goal will always be to generate profits, not to be/do good. That's why we don't see Cloudflare supporting things like pool.ntp.org
It is a way to circumvent the paywall.
Mizuno, T. and J. Rothwell have developed an improved method of producing excess heat with nickel mesh coated with palladium. The new method produces higher power, a larger output to input ratio, and it can be controlled effectively. With 50 W of input, it produces ~250 W of excess heat, and with 300 W it produces ~2 to 3 kW. This paper is a comprehensive description of the apparatus, the reactant, and the method. They hope this paper will allow others to replicate the experiment.
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Europe has been a brewing pot for disease for a really long time. Lots of people and animals crammed together in big cities, without much sanitation. Lots of opportunities for diseases to jump from animals to humans, and to also evolve with the populations.
I've actually had the opposite experience recently, but it was a page I developed myself using FF as my primary browser, and when I switched to Chrome discovered it was very slow (>10s vs. <1s in FF). I expect it depends mostly on what the developer is targeting. As Chrome approaches monoculture status similar to IE in the 90's, devs are more and more paying attention only to it.
I agree that a lot of these things are terrible as sources of long-term distraction - a vacuous TV show might take my attention while I watch it and a bit after, but the uses of a 3D printer can set me up to nerd-snipe myself for weeks. And even in the short-term, I think they tend to bypass some of my mental 'defenses'; they're pseudo-useful so it doesn't feel like wasted time, and they're below the addictiveness level that triggers my allergy to e.g. freemium games. Addictive games and TV feel like talking to a scam caller, while almost-useful stuff feels like a really good low-pressure salesman.

That said, some of that distraction does actually pay off. (Especially if I can fight the instinct to learn about stuff that needs rarified tools or large-scale projects; I'm not going to build my own airplane no matter how cool it would be.) Being able to graft a tree, tie a fishing lure, or cut a hole with questionable tools are at least usable skills, so if I can to low-tech or relatively commonplace stuff, it's a decent way to channel the urge for distraction into some kind of utility.
You might find Fennel interesting:

https://github.com/bakpakin/Fennel

It's a lua based lisp. Technomancy of clojure fame has taken a shine to it and become a large contributor.
4 lines with unlimited data starts at $120/month at Tmobile (and goes up to $160 or $200/month if you want to add tethering and international data). If they have decent coverage where you live, you should switch.
> There is nothing at all wrong wit this, especially because it means that in the end we all get more accurately priced securities.

I believe the counter argument is only people with enough wealth to afford an account at one of these hedge funds gains an immediate advantage here. So it's yet another way "the rich get richer."

Doesn't bother me, but I can see why other people would have a problem with it. And I severely doubt more than 5% of the planet cares about whether "in the end we all get more accurately priced securities."
Which is strange because it didn't for me..
I'm more than a little surprised that Haas would publish an article that seems to indicate a complete lack of understanding of the purpose of the markets.

Better data yields more efficient markets which is what we actually want.

“Technology was supposed to level the playing field, but what I see is the fence separating sophisticated and unsophisticated investors growing higher,” says Patatoukas

As if that's a bad thing or a surprise to anyone...
Are you running Firefox Nightly? If so do you have webrender enabled? If you check about:support it should tell you.
> Ban guns

Wouldn't it make law enforcement a lot more difficult and dangerous if the police didn't have guns?

Unless you didn't mean ban guns, but rather to give them exclusively to the police and military. Is that what you're suggesting?
I've worked with some brilliant disabled or handicapped developers. I hope Gitlab and well our community to be honest will start truly making open accessible tools. I feel we push for shipping production stuff without truly understanding the cost of it. Because once something is out there it's about the next feature and not making things more accessible.
I appreciate it. I think your response has been valuable in pinpointing the main obstacle: people don't believe there is good scientific evidence that God exists. Have a good weekend yourself!
This link on the site takes me to a 404 (not sure why, I'm presuming it's a static site?): https://developers.cloudflare.com/time-services

I think it'd be nice to have some middleware hooking into the build process that curls every link at a depth of 1 to ensure that HTTP 400/500 error codes aren't returned.
> Nobody believes fences stop criminals

I agree with the thrust of your comment, but this isnt true. Measures like this do prevent some crime. When i didnt lock my car and someone stole the gift cards out of it, locking the doors would have prevented it. Just because the car is still stealable doesnt mean door locks are security theater. Putting an unlocked package cabinet for deliveries on your porch lowers incidences of theft without making it impossible.
These sort of features are really just security theater. If someone really wants to share your "confidential" docs they'll screenshot every page to do it.
The stock market is a collective guessing game. These stories suffer from survivorship bias. For every investor A you hear about who did X and was successful, there are investors B, C, and D who also did X and were not successful, and don’t get articles written about them. There are also investors E, F, and G who don’t do X and may be successful or unsuccessful.

Finding someone successful at stock picking and asking him what he did to be successful is like finding that 1 out of 1024 person who flipped a coin heads 10 times in a row and asking him what makes him such a great coin flipper.
I have the 2015 15" MacBook pro too and it has a bunch of battery related issues. Last August, I used it until the battery died. The next day I turned it on and the computer was super slow and laggy. The CPU usage was maxed out and I couldn't figure out what was causing it. I rebooted the thing, reinstalled the OS, and tried all sorts of things to reset the battery but nothing worked. I didn't use it for two weeks and then the problem fixed itself. I haven't had the issue again and am too lazy too fix it.

Since then, there's another issue that surfaced. The laptop turns off whenever it reaches 100% charge. Have to see if it's covered under this recall...but probably not knowing my luck.
Well, anyway the whole thing of having drivers there is temporary. They are just there to hold market share for these companies to let them start making money properly when the self-driving taxis arrive and drivers are all terminated in the end (maybe Uber Black will still have them). They aren't just expendable - they are a stopgap solution as a whole.
As the grandparent alluded, one 9/11 and privacy rules go in the garbage. The PBS special, "The United States of Secrets" documented this period well.
I agree, but where's this end up? Why would retail investors play a game where they're almost certain to lose?
I think you get my point and I do get yours. I don't believe in exploitation and support efforts to mitigate it.

One negative outcome of that particular regulation will be the games that start getting played to beat around that three-part test, like Walmart delegating hours just a few short of qualifying employees for benefits. We've seen this play out before and I have my doubts about its effectiveness.
Drugs is the direct medium. You can think of food, info, and status as things that we have evolved to desire, because they usually correlate highly with survival. The mechanism through which we desire them is neurotransmitters in the brain; drugs are chemicals which just happen to mimic the action of those neurotransmitters. And then money is a social abstraction we've created that can be traded for all of food/info/status, so we've learned through association to desire that too.

For a programming analogy, food/info/status are like API functions that all rely on the same kernel syscall, and then drugs hack that syscall without going through the API.
> Firefox's containers is also a poor man's version of Chrome profiles. I want completely separate _everything_. Firefox's Profiles is similar, but then you get warnings about Firefox already running when you click a link in a non-Firefox program.

Containers is solving a different problem than you have. If you have multiple profiles running, how do you want it to know which in profile to load the link? You could set your link helper in your OS to run Firefox with the --profile option, to pre-set it, if that's what you want.
It's also about the ability to say "fuck off".

People came at Guido relentlessly for adding new features, debating his decisions, trying to change the philosophy and aesthetic of the language.

The guy stood up to them for 20 years, staying polite but resolute at doing things his, at the time controversial, way.

To me, that's even more impressive than being a good language designer.
But why raise tickets though? Since they already measure CPU utilization, it's not hard to also lower priority or throttle CPU or move such VMs to a separate machine where they can't affect anyone but other heavy CPU users.
You're stealing value by profiting on information which you had some duty to protect. For example, a company executive who knows that one of the company's products is about to be recalled generally owes a duty of loyalty to the company not to profit off of that knowledge to the disadvantage of the company.
This should be the list of all telemetry currently collected: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20244271 has a better description and links.
Nothing unfair at all. Savvy investors have used many tools in the past as well. One analyst at Tiger Fund had got a job at Macy’s in NYC in the cosmetics department before making a decision on whether to have a position on L’Oreal. Unless they have time to do their homework etc.. main street investors should stick to index funds or bonds.
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One of the little quirks of x86 is that you can run 16-bit code just fine within an otherwise 32-bit process, and the Win16 API is small enough that it's practical to write wrappers for all of it that just call into the 32-bit functions. This isn't feasible for 32-bit code on 64-bit systems for a whole bunch of reasons.
Aren’t they using LEOs for this? How do they get it to hover and capture traffic patterns?

Or you might be saying having alternative methods to count traffic like cameras or other ground based counters.
I'm going to cinema to experience the movies the way, I can't experience them at home: at enormous screen, with great sound. By doing that, I'll select movies that will utilize that, and it's, naturally, blockbusters with great special effects.

I don't need to go to cinema to see drama or comedy or anything else, I can easily do that from the comfort of my own house.
I was listening to a podcast on trading where there was a quant trader as a guest. He mentioned that quant firms have been doing this for years. The guest mentioned that this is no longer an advantage in quant trading as it is common knowledge and can be done by other firms.
It's almost always a good thing when somebody uses information available to them in a unique way to inform pricing decisions, since that information will then become a factor in the public value of the asset.
I wonder if stuff like this is ever a form of parallel construction for insider trading. It sounds cool - so maybe it passes the sniff test and avoids further scrutiny?
When a company gives you access to private information (like sales figures for the next quarter), you have an obligation not to trade securities on that information, as you are essentially taking (or reducing) the opportunity of the company to trade on that information itself. However most of my information is from reading Money Stuff, so don't take me at my word.
Having multiple Firefox profile instances running triggers this issue: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/78689/fix-firefox-i...

The font issue I linked in another reply: https://twitter.com/juantreminio/status/1137563286319316992
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That's the why this isn't a perfect quote. Some proponents of insider trading laws pose that exact question and pursue insider trading violations in the interest of protecting the "fairness" of the markets.
Yeah, it just takes me straight to the paywall.
No, the longer we wait, the more expensive it will become. The population of the US is increasing and it's almost all going to cities. We should be building rail ASAP to meet the needs of now and the future.

Maybe we need federal legislation to make it less of a hassle to build a new rail line but we should focus on actually solving the problem. I don't see how thousands of 20-person electric airplanes is a scalable solution.
> No matter what fact pattern we establish

A hypothesis that matches observed data is not 'special pleading'. And even without said hypothesis, the observed 'fact pattern', as determined, among others, by this paper published in Nature [1], is that neonicotinoids are harmful.

[1] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-44207-1
Perhaps an analogy would help.

Suppose you are giving a prize for someone who guesses how many eggs you eat in the morning. If I watch you checkout at the grocery store and based on the number of eggs you buy, guess that you eat 2 eggs a day, and win the prize, that is not theft.

If however your chef who prepares you breakfast every morning “guesses” you eat 2 eggs, then that would be problematic.
My opinion is that it would be helpful to the public to know how Apple is handling the situation. Maybe they aren't obligated to inform us, and the individual is not obligated to keep us up to date either, but I would like to know how things turned out.
> it means that in the end we all get more accurately priced securities.

I am genuinely curious how that benefits me (or the average joe).
Except for anyone who needs to make a living at the industrial park.

There is a difference though between surveillance at a massive event known for both violence and family entertainment and wide area, persistent surveillance. I'm OK with a lot of cameras at stadiums, when they follow you home that's a problem.
I disabled Ghostery and (ironically) Firefox tracker protection, and I still got that same message.

If you subscribe, they still want to throw ads and trackers at you unless you pay the higher tier fee, at double the cost.

The hypocracy is thick; they're not wrong about Chrome though.
Many folks these days are deploying in the cloud, where it's difficult to deploy your own hardware. Many would see it as too costly to maintain the hardware in a separate datacenter with a fast connection to their cloud provider.

The advantage of this is that it runs on Cloudflare's network, where your cloud provider surely has a fast connection to the nearest edge.
They shouldn’t. Pick a Vanfuard fund, put your money in it, and check back in a couple decades.
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Arguably, that advantages companies that can hack that metric -- as anything they do to survive (politics) is treated as a reverse proxy for the value they bring to the market. This is why "too big to fail" and "job creator" became mantras.
They absolutely shouldn't play unless they like losing money. It is extremely hard for professional investors to beat the market who spend all day every day working on it. It is basically impossible for a collection of retail investors to beat the market. At best, retail investors are simply gambling.
Yup, it's from the Financial Times. That link should work for subscribers. Just in case, here's the FT's official link: https://www.ft.com/content/a620df08-926a-11e9-aea1-2b1d33ac3....

And for non-subscribers, this may help: open up a new Google search and type the title of the article. Then, click on the search result title that comes up and hopefully, you should be able to access it.