skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Services and products that will utilize more bandwidth aren't being built, because they're not usable without 5G. 5G needs to become ubiquitous before we'd find out what the new applications will be.

G5 will also reduce latency a lot, which is another vector that will open new possibilities.
Is this packaged for any distros named Debian by any chance?

apt search scsch and apt search scheme provide little joy.

... hrm, apparently oldstable (jessie) only:

https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=scsh
I don't know much about F# but do you know if language has to be "expanded" to support that pipe operator?
I'm sorry, but I don't believe every possible human activity is equally amenable to "finding meaning" in. You're welcome to believe that, but I don't, and your dogged attachment to a particular interpretation of my words that justifies the dispensation of this nugget of sophomoric wisdom isn't interesting. You aren't saying anything that a reasonably intelligent person in my position hasn't already considered a thousand times from a thousand different angles.

Sorry.
I am on a MacbookPro and would love to use Firefox, however because of this never-solved bug [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1404042], I have to stick to Opera or Safari or.. Chrome (and probably I am not the only one).

Firefox is losing a lot share just because it gets our fan/cpu crazy on macbooks.
I understand the frustration on the part of the user and I dislike that we're all being forced to give up our anonymity to use these platforms... but also the tone of both emails was quite antagonistic. They may have had slightly better luck if they'd been friendlier and not attempted to school the Discord staff on how their app should behave.
I've been waiting for this in a way.

This surge in adopt is pretty classic. It feels artificially hot / running at too high temps if that makes sense.

I don't see a superior product so don't see this crashing, but Discord is going down only from here
HP 8660B keyboard module review
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That’s like saying we’re the last generation that cares about gravity. Darwinism is part of how the world works. It’s not something to be accepted or denied or supported or opposed. It’s just reality, and at most it’s a constraint to work around. If you try to fix society by pretending that Darwinism doesn’t exist, that’s like trying to build a house by pretending that mold and water damage don’t exist.
Everything hinges on the definition of "ruined."

If you take that to mean "a waste disposal plant gets built right next to your house" then you have a point.

If you take that to mean "we're replacing this single family home with a small apartment building" then you're really going too far.
Depends on what you want out of a computer. If you want a general purpose (as in write programs and run them) Plan 9 is a pretty self-contained operating system and software system if you are confident in your C and C++ abilities. I've also heard that BSD is pretty well documented internally, so if you know that system, you should be ok.

Alternatively a fun retro setup could be an apple II or a windows 98 box with Encarta disks.

As a specific distro that is directly focused on what you specified, Endless OS seems to have the Encyclopedia and other preinstalled apps for online use you were talking about.
It's frustrating to be a power user in general with these sort of 'automated lockout detection' mechanisms.

I've lost count of the number of times I've tried to log in to, I dunno, eBay or whatever, and computer says no, and I have to call some bloody line and speak to someone who hates their job and doesn't understand what I mean when I talk about IP addresses.

I wish that these services had a way to check some box and say "look, I really know what I'm doing, let anyone with the correct password/SSH key/whatever in".

If it gets hacked, _then_ I can go through all of that shit. In this case we're talking about a bloody chat server for christ's sake.
I like that for privicy reasons they won't tell you why you were banned. Whose privicy?

Does that just mean "our black box NN has banned you and we won't know or care why" ?
The economics of open source [video]
to get even more meta: can we please have a proper blockquote format on HN so that people stop doing this silly code formatting?
> Well wire-bond (within IC packages) is a form of welding, so it's not so uncommon.. Also the electrodes within a vacuum tube were all welded.

Sure, but that is inside the components. This is on the outside, after the components themselves have been manufactured.

> Also wire welding is very common (it's the main technique) in automobile wiring harnesses.

That may be so today but it certainly wasn't in the 1960's.

And even today your typical automotive boars is just soldered. Makes me wonder whether satellites and current space and possibly aircraft circuitry is still manufactured like this.
Describing Fault Domains
> I refuse to provide phone verification as I believe it is Discord's fault for flagging my account...

> I will be communicating with a couple communities with which I'm involved to explain that I am unable to use Discord

Does this person not have a phone? 'Unable' seems like a stretch. If this person said, "I don't want to provide my phone number to Discord, so I'm going to stop using it" I'd understand.

Their opening email also strikes a pretty aggressive tone -- calling Discord anal, insulting, "spit in my face" then goes on to make a number of demands of the company? I'm not super surprised the customer service rep on the other side didn't go out of their way to help.
you're really full of sh*t aren't you?
This "Space Force" is a violation of the UN treaty on outerspace. Better known as the treaty banning the militarization of space.
We should ask the french if we can borrow a guilotine and chop Trump his head off for the sake of humanity and future space activities at large.
Make XfCE 4 look like a SGI O2 workstation
Assuming you're willing to share, how did you get banned from Lyft without ever ordering a ride?
It’s sad that there is a dichotomy between building a good product and building too good of a product that you don’t get enough return customers.
I think one of the notions behind the Fowler criticism is something like this: "Early on, a bunch of people got famous as programming thought leaders, but later we all found out there were much deeper, smarter thinkers who didn't get all the buzz."

So the "early" ones might be Fowler, Uncle Bob, Beck, Grady Booch, Evans (DDD), etc.

And the "deeper" ones would be the authors of SICP, or Peter Norvig, or Chris Lattimer.

I can see where this sentiment is coming from, and there's no doubt truth to it.

I'd say SICP is _without a doubt_ deeper and more insightful than most or maybe all of what Fowler has written. From that standpoint, SICP should be more famous than Fowler, but it doesn't seem to be the case. It definitely was not the case 10 years ago.

Still, let's not throw the baby out with the bathwater. Fowler's writing has explained some difficult concepts very clearly. And he chooses topics wisely (but not perfectly in hindsight).

So yes, there are two "tiers" of "experts" about building software. Clearly there is a "tier 1" that is better, more proven, deeper, than Fowler/Martin/et al.

That puts Fowler and some others at tier 2 (or lower, all subjective of course).

That doesn't mean tier 2 is entirely worthless though. IMO far from it.
My NEO is my backup key. My YubiKey Nano 4 is my main key. I also got 2 Solo, but they only do Fido 2 (not SC) so they're not very useful for me. Though one will, once I got my next phone (will have NFC).
> It seems to me the limitations with assistants aren't voice recognition but NLP.

You probably speak English with a common American, Canadian, or British accent. Quality for common-accent English is fairly high, but is much lower for people with thick accents or who are speaking languages with smaller available training datasets. These sorts of initiatives are mostly about bringing quality up for those demographics.
You think the right set of people will check that box? And that if they do get hacked they won't cost the company a ton of resources in support/lawsuits/etc?
Libertarians are rare and far between (if you don't consider somebody who likes to smoke a joint and not be busted and hates paying taxes a "libertarian", but talk about serious libertarian views), the right is almost non-existent publicly. Of course you can split hairs and find different left viewpoints represented - after all, we have how many Democrat candidates now, twenty? More? They must have some viewpoint differences between them. These probably are represented in hitech too. But is you look for broader political diversity... not the right place to look, from my experience.
Is it respectful to make demands of what other people discuss, instead of simple [automated] avoidance of topics you personally have no interest in? I have no interest in that sort of respect.
Please don't submit comments saying that HN is turning into Reddit. It's a semi-noob illusion, as old as the hills.

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All of that sounds impressive, until you see red team pros talk about how the whole apparatus melts before the gentlest of social engineering-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JsVtHqICeKE

I'd also be concerned with leaking of mass amounts of records at once due to a security lapse on servers where it's a bit easier for grossly inadequate protections to lurk unnoticed-

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19191241

I think I've read that Google doesn't even store the original recordings, but distorts them randomly to make them unrecognizable but still intelligible by their models. That seems like a pretty reasonable way to protect people, provided they're informed and there's no link back to the original account.
> 1. Economy of expression

Funny, this list is the same one I use as to why I'm so annoyed with Clojure right now.

I inherited a mission-critical Clojure ML library my team uses for it's primary business goals. It was written 4 years ago by a research scientist- who quit 3 years ago. We know what it's supposed to do. We know that it seems to do the job well. We just can't understand the code well enough to be certain of what it's doing or how it's doing it. If this thing breaks or stops working, we're screwed.

The problem is that the author, like most of us, found great joy in writing very few characters to express very big ideas. Clojure let him do that to an extreme degree. And I'm sure if you were sitting beside the author, with him explaining these dense expressions, you would be enlightened at the elegance and beauty of this language.

Sadly, I was not.

I'm sure Clojure is a lovely language. But it lets you write a Voynich manuscript that compiles.
Point 2 in particular rings true.

...If you can't filter out your core user base with 2FA (!!!) from bullshit like recaptch then you've got real problems
I mean, in practice, the 'right set of people' just don't use the service, so you're probably right.

I've probably made about ten discord accounts with random names to join some one off server, then gone back to IRC, because it just works.
The purpose is to think better and understand more. Putting your thoughts into writing is probably the best way to organize your thinking, determine what you actually know, and further develop your thoughts on the subject.
Strange I was just thinking about this issue the other day

Discord is a bit of a haven for spammers / scammers with my own account having received messages from several hundred random accounts ( to be fair the user is normally deleted before I read the message )

As a discussion / personal curiosity point how would the HN community reccomend discord handle this level of spam going forward?
Marriage and family laws are based upon centuries-old cultural traditions that evolved and survived to the present day by virtue of promoting their own survival. That’s Darwinism. The fact that they predate Darwin is as meaningless as the fact that Earth’s orbit around the sun predates Copernicus.
In a bizarre case of life imitating art:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Porcaro#Death
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That sounded high, so I checked:

London Density 14,670/sq mi (5,666/km2) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London)

Denver Density 4,519.94/sq mi (1,745.15/km2) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denver)

London has a population density 3.25x that of Denver.

Why exaggerate when the facts are on your side? Or more specifically, why make an explicit numeric claim without confirming that it's correct?
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I dont think he was competing. ANNs and boltzmann machines in the 80s seemed was an exploratory field not really part of statistical ML. At the time people were indeed competing with logic-based AI. SVMs came later and even then i believe, NNs had a different history and were not motivated from competition to SOTA techniques like SVMs. When the success of trainig came after the mid-2000s that's when ANNs started being called "ML". At least that's my memory
Force is more aggressive than language.

In that sense, bureaucracies are aggressive by default; that they use friendly language doesn't change this.

Imagine that one day, your car locks you out, and there's a smiley face and it says "oh hey, just call this number dude". Is that any less aggressive simply because it's 'friendly'? Of course not.

In many ways it's worse - because it's almost sarcastic (it's not _really_ that way, of course, because the customer support agent in this scenario is a robot, but it sure feels like it).
The biggest thing keeping me from ever seriously learning Clojure is the JVM. Slow startup time means I'd never use Clojure for "scripts", and I certainly don't want to have to manage the JVM in production scenarios, so when would I use Clojure? If there was a native version that could produce static binaries like Go/Nim/Rust I'd be much more interested to learn it.
That's... sort of the reason the term is evocative.
> but also the tone of both emails was quite antagonistic

The customer is always right.

> They may have had slightly better luck if they'd been friendlier and not attempted to school the Discord staff on how their app should behave.

Or not. Besides, it should not matter, either they did something bad or they did not, the tone of the message may upset the recipient but when you ban someone just like that you can expect them to be upset and your first line support people should be able to take that sort of heat in stride.

Sucking up to support staff when your account has been banned for no particular reason should not be a pre-requisite for having it dealt with professionally, in fact a good first line support worker will be able to de-escalate such a situation quickly by showing some competence and making sure the user is dealt with as they should.
For the true jump table experience Tagbody / go would also work just fine for this. You can put the ‘go’s in lambdas in an array and funcall them. This sounds like fun.
Totally agree. I really feel like Racket has earned my love.
What is GUI programming like in Clojure? What libraries exist, and what paradigms are used? E.g. is it more like React or is it more like Gtk/Qt?
Quite worthwhile: https://vimvalley.com/

I have no connection whatsoever with the author, but VimValley was a great way to get into http://spacemacs.org/
「止めたかった」イエス様はじめ上層界の高級霊の方々が強姦殺人魔、明仁、文仁、徳仁、悠仁の蛮行を止めたかった、という意味です（祈）†
Bioinformatics is a quite tough subject to study as it involves 3 distinct sciences: CS, Biology and Chemistry. I would say be prepared for a lot of study.

Ideally you don't want to go all in to risk everything, try to do it part-time for the first 6 months or 1 year and see how it goes (if you are even interested).

Note though that there are few jobs in bio at the moment, and due to that, ads usually ask PhDs (who at the same time have bigger advantage over a Masters candidate, although your experience is of high importance).
1)You're not a paying user

2)You use proxies/tor which probably makes your concerns the concerns of 0.01% of the user-base.

Why should a company whose primary motive is to be profitable go so far out of their way for you, a non-paying client whose concerns represent basically none of the legitimate user-base?
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I want to be done with discord. The only value i find is the notifications when you have an @reply. Isn't there someone that has done this for freenode or other IRC ?
Tor breaks a lot of shit for me, and I dont even bother with captchas becuase it usually just flags me as a bot. So I dont think this is particularly surprising or out of the ordinary.

But yeah, discord used to be held in high standards by me and plenty of other gamers, but they have made it clear that they cannot handle tough situations, and dont really care about their userbase. Someone should start a privacy focused phone number as a service, acces to texts online and through an app. Allow people to basically have a spam phone number that they can give out to online services, but make people pay for it obviously. Like 10minutemail but long term and for texts only.
Yes. It’s shorter range too.

https://electronics.howstuffworks.com/5g3.htm
I've seen no evidence of this, and I keep track of such things. An explicit search turns up no evidence of such things. If you have evidence of such things, please share it with me (I'm easy to find @google), but in the absence of such evidence, I'm going to continue to claim that this is wholly unfounded nonsense.
Just one photo?
I find the high density makes debugging easier (up to a point) when combined with immutability. Being able to quickly stub/swap out a referentially transparent branch of the code while knowing you haven't more broadly changed behavior can be really useful. Also code density means you're more likely to be pointed to the line (or within a few lines) of where the actual problem is. This may be personal preference but I'd rather debug 1-5 dense line than 20-50 sparse lines given the equivalent code quality and functionality.
I like the idea! Tourism is a great way to fund preservation.
It becomes extremely obvious when someones sharing a link to thousands of users they have never spoken to before. Idk about how you use Discord but I can only send so many messages to so many people in a few minutes.
If you're okay with being unable to remove multiple files at once...
Please don't insinuate astroturfing or shillage without evidence. This breaks the site guidelines, for reasons that I have tried to explain at great length for years; https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme....

Someone else posting an opposing view does not count as evidence. Commenters are overwhelmingly too quick to jump to conclusions about that, and end up poisoning the threads worse because of it.
I'm rather confused by your reply and the reply to it. It rains a lot in England. Why would spraying it with water be any different from night upon night of heavy rain ?!
Writes weird posts about how some pedophilia is okay, uses tor with tails compulsively? 10 bucks says this dude goes to prison for child porn within the next 10 years.
There have been some retrospectives posted, none have really been reflected in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Persona but maybe should be. Ones I can easily find: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7364465 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13445073 https://twitter.com/benadida/status/1135716764174753798
I don't know any of the specifics of what's going on here, but phone verification is sometimes very tricky even for willing people, with a phone, and from western countries. I can't get a Lyft even when in the US because their verification system only works for US phone numbers and I have a British one!
Guessing a lot is ocean based, and plants are more efficient at getting it with higher concentrations.
I don’t understand downvotes for this.
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Dunno about GP but I had a similar experience with Lyft, which had to do with the type of card I registered to Lyft. I don't remember the specifics but my case wasn't particularly weird… I was using an EU mastercard of some kind and they decided it was a bad one so they banned me. This all happened without ordering a ride.

Had a similar experience with Uber, except that Uber actually eventually fixed it. Lyft was… unhelpful.
Thank you for this, really amazing.

Anyone have an idea how did the crab survived for so long? What did it eat?
Pray tell, what is this route for £35 off-peak, walk-up?
For privacy reasons implies either what you are suggesting or that they are contacting Discord from an email address not affiliated with the account in question.
I am more and more thinking of this as a symptom of the "Data wars." I define that as the conflict between how much data someone is willing to share in exchange for a 'free' service.

The services aren't free of course, they pay their overhead and costs by re-selling the data they collect about their users. And as other sources of revenue (like ads) have lost value the data service has filled in. And since the data buyers know that the service provider is in a weak negotiating position they keep pressing on them to get more and more datamilk out of their data cows for the same amount of money.

The pressure is on to create a low friction pay as you go service for these things that don't extract data.
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Lower latency
voice.google.com (not privacy focused, but works as a catchall number when you dont want to give out your own)
Discord's been an abusive member of the community for a long time. They distort nomenclature, mislead about their intentions, and aren't able to show that they protect personal information.

As a light and funny example, Discord doesn't comply with the OpenSSL license.
Yup, Google's Coral and NVIDIA's Jetson Nano.

https://coral.withgoogle.com/products/

https://developer.nvidia.com/embedded/jetson-nano-developer-...
> The customer is always right.

This meme needs to go away. The customer is not always right, and it's deeply unhealthy for businesses to adopt this attitude. Even very customer centric businesses do not adopt this mantra.
Anecdotally, clojure seems to have a very nice subset of the language which is easy to debug and expressive enough to solve most problems effectively and naturally.

What makes clojure exciting [for me] isn't the ability to build efficient transducers or create powerful custom syntax or build complicated value-level dispatch hierarchies (and in my experience, although they are cool and fun to use, all of these things certainly do make for code which is hard to understand and harder to debug), it's the comprehensive and easily-composable functional programming primitives, excellent built-in immutable data structures with intuitive shared interfaces, practical and (for the most part) straightforward approach to polymorphism, and sane approach to concurrency.
> That said, they're of course still enforcing their real name policy and so your general point still stands.

Last time I checked (2013?), not in Germany. Germans are allowed to use any (nick)name.
Hackers actively trying to steal passwords from Fortigate and Pulse Secure
Use a bouncer like ZNC and an app that supports it, and you can get push notifications on mentions.