skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I heard a hypotheses that one reason planned economies failed was available computing power and communication speed at the time. To manually calculate how many screws each little shop will need takes an ever growing army of bureaucrats, is prone to mistakes and lags a lot.

So lots of uneven distributions (anybody growing up in USSR will know what I mean), and lots of overhead.

A modern networked infrastructure could mitigate that. A general AI could solve it (but that has its own drawbacks, great if you like your paper clips though).

Markets in a sense create that distribution system organically, but they pay efficiency costs (comparing to a strictly optimal solution). One of those operational costs is advertising.

Market has its own deficiency/glut profile too -- instead of whole city lacking butter and drowning in socks, we have individual people lacking everything evenly and others having abundance.
> I dislike that they foist a random router onto you and charge you $10 a month (and charge you if you want to return it). I also dislike that they force a landline on you and charge you another $10 on you. Who in 2019 needs a landline?

I've never used Sonic but this describes my Comcast experience completely. Frustrating that we cant get away from these trappings
Debts don't simply "disappear" because a company goes out of business. And there already exist nondischargeable debts (like "criminal penalties, fines, and restitution", or "willful and malicious injury caused by debtor", both of which should apply here).
> What kind of valuable, low-level information resources are you recommend to keep an eye on?

I'm mostly using weekly newsletters about frameworks/languages I'm interested and I read tech books as well. Also, I allow myself to check HN once in a week.

Don't use any social services except GitHub and messenger (not FB) :)

My quality of life is definitely better because of absence of any "breaking/fake news" and I find myself to be able to focus more during the day.

One think though I need to figure out some ways of another entertainment activity, maybe I should try to install some games or find fiction books I enjoy. Will it count as a low-information diet?

tl;dr try to live couple of weeks without social media / news and see how it goes
The css debugging sounds great. I've never understood why there isn't a console for css debugging in dev tools.
Off topic but I think Canterbury road in Melbourne should be open to bike traffic only during peak hour with continuation to the city from there through Swan Street.
At the point it's in the queue, it's already a composed email. Doing a file search and deleting the email file might be possible. I don't know how realistic that is though.

We built your customized email 4 hours ago. It's sitting in a directory somewhere waiting to be read and sent out to gmail. We're waiting because we already sent "X" emails to gmail addresses 3 minutes ago, and we need to wait "Z" more minutes. It might be in the list of emails to be sent as soon as the gates open up again. It might not be ready to go until another 50,000 emails before it have been sent.

So, let's say you've decided you don't want to get our emails anymore. Great. We've updated the appropriate tables. Next cron job will skip you. Now let's implement your criteria.

We've got to tell the MTA to figure out which is your email, and delete it from the queue. Hopefully we got to the MTA in time. We might not have. Remember the example I initially gave? You might be receiving the mailing 2 seconds after you unsubscribed. So we've spent some measurable time trying to prevent something that's already happened.

We don't have enough unsubscribers in general that this is going to cause a significant overhead. The thing is, I'm not even sure I can do that. Our routing application is a 3rd party commercial application that we don't have the source code to.

Not to mention, we're going to have to hop back and forth between machines as our databases are elsewhere. Not even sure they're in the same data center, now that I think about it. I really don't want to look up the NAT information to work this out for a simple internet discussion.

I'm gonna punt and say, "I dunno. I know how my part of the company works, and I'm still learning it. Maybe there's a better way to do it, and if you have information on commercial products that will do what you're stating is the desired goal, I'll do some research on them, and make recommendations to our company if they look viable."

I'm a C# developer. I'm still not quite sure how I ended up handling email. :D
The amount of money they set aside only allows for 248,000 people to claim the $125 compensation. That is roughly 0.2% of the total 147 million. Seems a bit off to me, but then again I am not familiar with these kinds of things.
They’re coincidentally offering a $125/year service that does the thing that you have to sign up for to get reimbursed the $125 dollars. So basically they’re not offering $125, they’re offering a year of free credit monitoring service. So yeah, $31 million, but they intend to recoup all if not most of it in fees, and then make money the year after when people forget to cancel.
Ask HN: Why Is Huawei Distrusted in the United States?
My initial experience with Sonic was kinda abysmal (real annoying to have to take 4 hours off work only for the tech to never show up), but it's since proven to be pretty solid (at least for DSL), and even with the tech no-show it was pretty great to just be able to text them back and get what seemed to be a response from a real person almost immediately.
You don't have to rent their modem
If you are in the Boulder area, Indra's Net is an isp that is still around. They've diversified, but last I checked still offered some dial up service to more remote parts of the area.

https://indras.net/
Are the class attorneys going to take their share in credit monitoring? What about the claim administrator that runs that website—-are they being paid in extremely valuable credit monitoring?
I seriously had to double check the URL in the address bar because I thought I was reading another FAQ from Equifax:

> The free credit monitoring provides a much better value

> You can still choose the cash option on the claim form, but you will be disappointed with the amount you receive and you won’t get the free credit monitoring.

The wording is just so... it seems to be coming directly from Equifax's PR department.
Sounds just as fake as the preceding story.

Construction liens are designed expressly for situations like this and are fairly easy to get with proof of nonpayment (generally, a timely submitted invoice registered with your local trade union, inspector's office, or similar).
in what scenario would you need an edge with two nodes rather than just making a node to represent the connection
You are exactly as much Equifax's "user" as Facebook's users are their "customers".
Good to hear Mongo would have distributed transactions. Go is awesome. I picked a t-shirt from Mongo's booth at Gophercon, nice stuff!
I would escrow it, split the escrow fee.
Its not super hard if you don't give a care about your local stack space. Just over-allocate a bunch of static arrays on your stack.

Stack variables in C99 (and most C++ compilers supporting C99) can even have a dynamic, run-time determined length. It compiles down to a "add esp, (blah)" command, if anyone is curious, so its super efficient.

I prefer stack-based allocations in my code. I only use heap-variables if I'm passing data between threads. If you need to pass data "up" your functions, then its a parameter (that is passed in on the stack). I would argue that stack-based variables are preferred in C++ due to RAII.
>we would like other countries to pay a bit more too and help shoulder the cost of R&D for new drugs and treatments.

Allowing reimportation would do exactly that by increasing (from zero) US demand for drugs from foreign markets.

EDIT: for explaining why.
Oh, please. I'm merely emphasizing the point that the promised $125 (and I saw nothing in the way of a qualification when I made my claim), was fantasy from the beginning and likely to be a very small fraction of that amount. That fact is objectionable. Your focus on a turn of phrase is unhelpful and does not contribute to the conversation at hand. HN is better than that.
> an average person from a high carbon output country needs about 600-1000 trees to offset their carbon output.

Squirrels bury between 3,000 and 10,000 nuts each fall, so each person just needs to drive over one squirrel.
Doesn't look like the radome. The radar antenna is inside the nosecone:

http://www.f22fighter.com/f22cutaway.jpg

whereas the cracking appears to be on the skin covering avionics.
'It Came from Something Awful' Links 4Chan and Today's Political Discourse
where abouts? i'm in birmingham and want to live on a lake or mountain
> 1) Managing time zones for your remote employees

A good rule of thumb is no more than nine time zone span across the company. Anything more than that becomes unbearably difficult to manage.

> Your remote employees may experience severe loneliness

One way my fully remote team tries to solve this is that each meeting starts with each person getting a chance to talk about something not work related. It takes up time, but it's worth it. It can be anything, like a TV show they just saw, or asking for advice on how to fix their broken car.

Each one-on-one starts with asking what they did over the weekend or since the last one-on-one. If the answer I hear is "worked the whole weekend", I made a point of encouraging them to do something other than work. I also try to set a good example by always having something that I did that wasn't work.

> Thank you, Texas, for $2000 in late fees for a business tax I had no way of knowing even existed.

Yep, I feel that one. We got hit at one point with a $5,000 fine from the State of New York for not getting insurance that we didn't know we had to get. Luckily we were able to prove that it wasn't necessary since our employee in NY was a co-founder, and the rule didn't apply to business owners.
As a side-note, Towed Decoys are pretty cool too:

> An aircraft-mounted control unit sends the specific signals to the decoy over a fiber-optic line. Once at the decoy, those signals are translated into radio frequency emissions. [...] For instance, the decoy can first try to generally jam a radar that is in search mode, then it can try to attack it directly to break its lock once it locks on. Then, if a missile locks on in flight, the decoy can instantly turn into a juicy target, or even targets, misdirecting the missile away from the aircraft.

https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/27185/f-35s-most-sinis...
To Fix Its Housing Crunch, One U.S. City Takes Aim at the Single-Family Home
Fascinating that they switched to a worse manual methodology.

I wonder if there is a big difference between:
a) an automation system that only the coder understands
b) an automation system that is transparent and accessible to managers

Many coders get to point (a) but the system can't actually be trusted or relied on if the original coder moves on.
These are pretty cool! However, as a person with red/green colorblindness, I can't really reliable tell which line is "tent" and which is "backcountry".

Also, does the line thickness mean anything, or is it just correlated with the radius?
Thank you. You said what I was trying to, concisely.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-l6v6Wc4y88
I got the ammonia smell/taste too - that was the worst thing about it.
I can see a case where the actual mailing is being handled by a delivery service and the ability to remove a single entry from a queued job might not be technically feasible because either the relay service is not exposing it to you or (and hopefully the actual reason) the delivery service only has the job that data stored in encrypted form and addresses are decrypted at time to send using a kms/kmip type of process.

I really don't think the possibility of receiving one more email rises to the level of needing new legislation and adding one more liability to help push people to moving all of the data and logic externally.
Recent discussion that is also relevant, “My First Fifteen Compilers”: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20408011
Hopefully of interest to HN readers, Sonic has frequent flyer miles with the EFF as being one of the best privacy-oriented ISPs around, fighting gag orders for customer information, offering VPNs, etc. - this article briefly skims over that, easy to find more info in searches. ( https://www.eff.org/who-has-your-back-2017 ) Probably one of the first all-Linux ISPs to boot. (disclaimer: I've had a Sonic account for just a bit over 24 years, I'm biased)
Nah, most of these areas are already relatively dense. All the nimbys live in places like rancho santa fe or La Jolla, which are almost exclusively homes and have some truly insane houses.

However, San Diego already has a huge traffic problem. Either they really need to scale the major highways, or get people closer to their workplace, which this is a great first step for. San Diego is awesome, but growing pains showing.
There is certainly too much advertising, and a large portion of it is the worst kind: distracting, privacy-invading, or both.

However some advertising is very good. I go to work to make money and I want to spend it ... how do I know what to buy? I like video games, an ad that tells me there's a new game coming out for a console I own is really useful to me! I'm not embarrassed to be a consumer and to be open to influence.
Since I don't generally see ads I honestly don't mind watching them the first time they come on in the rare cases I'm watching TV.

Then of course less than 10 minutes later (or 4 when I'm in America and that's just horrendous) the same ad gets shown again. That's the bit that is truly mind numbing and turns me off ads, the share the copious repetition of low information drivel.
The majority of people on this board work in tech - just because money is exchanged for a service does not mean that the service purchased is worth that money... so can many attest about terrible highly paid consultants.

Large organizations are astoundingly good at finding inefficient ways to spend money.
Of course.

But do you want to live without a house, a job, running water, electricity, internet, a cell phone, a car, etc.?

Point a gun to my head and I'd still feel like I had a better chance of getting out of that situation than opting out of credit reporting.
You're lucky that things worked well for you in spite of your poverty. Most people born into poverty are not so lucky.
Because they started out with stolen US intellectual property and were part of the Chinese state industrial cabal.
They basically counterfeited Cisco equipment for years and then eventually started making their own poor quality devices and now make higher end but somewhat low quality devices.

They've also been proven to cooperate with genocidal governments.
> “Bloat” is mainly a purity issue actually

No, it's not. Crowding out other programs is not a "purity" issue. Burning through my battery is not a "purity" issue.
Ask HN: Work session or meetup tomorrow in Seattle?
I live in Seattle and I'm not in the office tomorrow (Thursday) or Friday. Anyone want to meet up and get coffee or a beer, or work on our own stuff?

I'm trying to meet a few more people who are interested in side projects and live in the area.

I can easily meet downtown or in the north Seattle neighborhoods (Greenlake, Fremont, Ballard, Wallingford, U District). I've been living here a while so I know some good spots for beer, coffee, and food.

My email should be visible in my profile!
are you going to get it if you already claimed it?
I'm confused - I thought Republicans were the party espousing personal accountability and limited government?
Kinda odd how the article mentions'Trap Neuter Return' controversy in the USA in an article about Australia. Is TNR a thing in Australia? The article doesn't say.

In some places it's 'no big deal' if cats kill birds (sorry bird fans) but in places where feral cats would interact with threatened native species (ie. Australia/NZ) that's obviously a different story.

I was surprised last time I was in hyper bird protective NZ to see a big fat cat lounging in the sun outside, while dogs are banned in so many places there due to fears of their interactions with flightless birds.
Victuals!
Edwards-Curve Digital Signature Algorithm (EdDSA)
Which I believe is Melbourne cities long term strategy along with more pedestrian prioritization.
Here is a data dashboard from the telemetry collected via SatNOGS stations tracking LightSail2
https://dashboard.satnogs.org/d/CBwYeHSZk/lightsail-2?orgId=...
Also a question for anyone law aware - Is it possible to pursue a second class action suite against Equifax as a group separate from the initial suite with the assumption that the initial suite was negotiated in bad faith?
Large financial organizations have teams of analysts whose entire job is to relate consumer information, such as credit scores, to statistical outcomes. If the credit scores weren't giving them useful information, that would show up rather quickly.
New Zealand wasn't missed, from the opening paragraph and the first graph in the article:

> Australia has long been at the leading edge of minimum wages. The state of Victoria was the second place in the world to introduce a wage floor in 1896, beaten only by New Zealand.

What you're probably missing is the second paragraph:

> The oecd, a club mainly of rich countries, compares minimum wages around the world by adjusting for inflation and the cost of living, and converting them into American dollars.

It's adjusted by more than "convert to USD".
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Really like your story. Thanks for sharing! Really hoping that the more engineers, like yourself, that get into organizations and spearhead efforts to reduce bias, the easier it will be for non-traditional talent to break into the field.

Best of luck in your job search, and if there's anything that you think Hatchways can do to help please let us know.
When I grew up football (soccer) matches had virtually no advertising. Driving around, virtually no advertising (you gotta be kidding me regarding safety). Magazines had barely any (pages of ads is my last memory). The internet when I joined had barely any. All the free shit existing thanks to advertising is a race to the bottom. Premium brands can sneakily do such too, all in the name of profit; not the customers interest. And it's worse. Clickbait is a byproduct of it because journalism is no longer about observing, research, hear multiple angles which is all too expensive; it is about page views. Which you can observe here in linked items as well as in YouTube videos. How often do you have the phenomenon where you feel you could have summarized it shorter? Where you feel come on, get to the point. Or where you feel deceived after reading the article? All because of page views.

As soon as I got to play with AR (such as Google Glass) the first thing I will look into is filter out the shit I don'tn need.
Why don't we have the government keep track of credit history?
They also refer to it as a “breach of customer data”. That’d only be true if there was a breach of their actual customers (i.e. the companies to which they sell your financial data).
ZRNA – Software-defined analog circuits
Saplings are better at sequestering carbon than old trees are.
This use case in the article isn't about I/O at all though. Futexes are user space mutexes. Overlapped I/O and completion ports don't help you in that case.
I was wondering that too. Can anyone shed some light here?
I’m sure the lawyers get paid in cash.
It would require both allowing and people pervasively desiring Manhattan level of density of housing. I think that might be workable in San Francisco (with the desire being there). I'm not sure that level of density is desired anywhere else (as measured by people buying land and building such buildings).
Thinking of the parallels with public defense.

Basically, if you're poor, you will get a public defender. Someone who is overworked, underpaid and probably won't give your case the appropriate time it needs to develop a valid defense..

Whereas if you have money, you can afford an attorney that can spend the appropriate time to create a robust defense.
The Us’s Spy System of the Future – It’s Sentient
Free open audio book version of all the complete writings of Satoshi Nakamoto
$90bn
It doesn't seem that impossible to implement clear regulations that would significantly mitigate the overwhelming amount of aggressive advertising that we are surrounded by today.

Obviously, it wouldn't be perfect. But we don't need perfection here.

It also seems fairly obvious that there are plenty of alternative ways -- both existing currently and those that could be developed -- for informing people about various products or solutions to problems.
Great in theory but a recent post on HN made light of the fact that if your company is investigated then your personal phone can be taken off of you because company data touched it.
Yeah but certainly all of the work TSMC’s customers account for something there too. Doesn’t seem like an apples to apples comparison.
Well if I eat a salmon, then I'm actually saving the lives of all the other other fish that the salmon would have eaten if I hadn't eaten the salmon. So in that case, it's unethical NOT to eat salmon. Oh my, there's just no rest for the weary ethics student.
This

I've been fighting with Equifax and TransUnion for 5 years to remove 30 year old reports on my credit history (which are clearly not me because im less than 25 years old)
Fair enough. But, that still means that most Linux contributors are not doing it out of the goodness of their hearts and that they are getting paid for it - not volunteering.
How was the settlement only 70 million? Am I to believe that the penalty for losing someone’s social security number is now $0.75?
I use pg-promise for DB and UI is a bunch of vanilla JS.

You can get data with XMLHttpRequest inside electron from any origin and then just process the returned document with regular web apis.

Sorry, I don't have anything public.
Actually, that's an interesting thought - in areas where hookups to utilities are required by laws (usually described as "Grid Defection") for a residence to be legally occupied... if all that is true then is this opt-in really an opt-in even in an abstract legal sense - it would be illegal to reside in a detached house in the state without opting in to such a service.
> It also found that 16 out of 19 clinical staff working in the children’s emergency department noted that zoo-themed digital art, showing moving images of animals, improved young patients’ anxiety, while 15 out of 19 clinicians said it decreased their pain.

What I find interesting/odd is that the article focuses on the patients. Yet makes no mention of the art's affect on the doctors and staff
It sounds like you're still not taking seriously the fact that 5nm isn't just planned, but already well into the execution phase. It's far enough along that the worst case scenario at this point would be for TSMC's 5nm to be much more usable than Intel's first attempt at 10nm. The horizon for really serious unforeseeable problems is well past 5nm already.
And that also goes to my other point. They have the police another tool to harass people and the police ended up choking a man to death for selling cigarettes illegally that he brought across state lines.
I would join you and contribute $125 to legal costs.
I'm more disappointed that a founder answering questions has somebody jumping down their throat for a perceived slight in a tiny portion of their reply. But that's HN.
Do any ISPs still offer shell accounts?
How is this OK? The settlement to consumers was protection OR the $125. If that kills them as a company so be it.

Corporate welfare is a joke.
That would be the crazy experimental weird feature.