skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They're still present. I used to answer their phone calls when I worked for our government's radio spectrum regulator, and I would patiently explain to the caller freaking out about a new tower on the hill behind their town that a) the inverse square law is a thing and b) ionising vs. non-ionising radiation.

They generally chose not to believe me and stick with the "the government is going to give us all cancer because... ...money?" narrative, but I did change the occasional mind.

And yeah, all the people who freaked out about radio towers and electrical transmission lines are now freaking out about 5G. The best bit is how an article that stated "5G could interfere with weather radar" was converted by their hive-mind panic into "5G will change the weather!!!"

I wish I was making that up.
Data caps will go away over time.

People with things like nest cameras routinely go over 1tb data cap on comcast fiber. These people started moving to att. Over time, i do expect competition to work its way, on data cap matters at least.
To be honest, this really doesn't feel like it needs to be a news story of this magnitude. It feels more like some revenge tactic of said "estranged spouse", but perhaps a better strategy here than to blow up a huge investigation over almost nothing is just to change the damn password.
There should be a moratorium on invoking evolution unless you're an evolutionary biologist. It's quite telling that whenever I read the word 'Darwin' on this site I immediately go 'aw shit, I'm not going to like this' and it never fails.
Can I market an improved version of PopSockets?
Quantum Interference Between Light Sources Separated by 150M Kilometers
It is safe to say that it is unrealistic to expect that developers in the real world audit their dependencies.

I'd imagine a feasible solution being a permission-based system (which might already exist), where programs and their dependencies do not have access to certain facilities, like the filesystem, other processes or the network, without them being declared in a manifest file of sorts. Permissions should be inheritable when explicitly specified, and a sub-dependency could not gain a permission it didn't inherit from its parent. Unfortunately this does not work so well with a shell, since the shell needs the ability to spawn arbitrary processes. At least the shell itself would not have network access, forcing it to rely on tools already installed in the system

Also, if we resort to some magical wishful thinking, then all the tools in the system follow this permission model and the package manager is aware of the permissions. You could then query the package manager for all installed software with a certain capability, like network access, disabling tools like curl and netcat.
>The "127 hours worked at Federal minimum wage to afford the median rent" is an abuse of statistics in service of a narrative. Literally 50% of all rentals are less expensive

There are tons of poor people making less than minimum wage (working less than 8 hours or on/off days/gigs (and still not counted as unemployed because of those).

People also need to pay way more than the rent alone (food, utilities, children, commuting, health costs, and so on).
This is really very cool, and makes me want to pick up Coq again. I know the set of formally verified proofs is very small as compared to traditional mathematics, but I think Coq and its cousins are vital for a future revolution in mathematics.
Caja was started at Google under Mark S. Miller, and it's the predecessor to Agoric's current sandboxing work, which is what Figma is using here.
Ask HN: Any legit reasons for non-self-service service cancellations?
Recently I've had several frustrating instances of being able to self-service signup for some paid service but then when I end up wanting to cancel it, it is not as easy. Generally in these cases you have to email them requesting a cancellation, and then they may have a follow up email requiring you to confirm more details. In a rare (and exceedingly frustrating) instance they required you to call them in order to cancel.

In my mind, this is a shady business practice which should be regulated against. If you can sign up in a self-service way, you need to be able to cancel in a self-service way. The way I see it, the businesses who do this are not proud of/confident in their product/service and want to make sure they keep some of the recurring revenue from those who can't be bothered to go through the more complicated cancellation process (especially if it is a low monthly cost service).

I would love for this to be something regulated, but at the same time large brush stroke actions are risky and can negatively affect groups you didn't realize.

I'm curious if there are any legitimate reasons why self-service account cancellation is impossible when you are also able to sign up and pay for the service on your own.
I now have the Virtual Void song stuck in my head.
Javascript is a frustrating language. On the one hand it's more "serious" than [legacy] C, C++, Java, and Python because it had first-class functions and real lexical closures from day one.

On the other, it had imprecise typing, no multiprocessing, and no access to the file system. Some of that has been fixed, but Javascript was designed by one person in a week to script web browsers and that's still painfully obvious.
JScript.Net compiles to .NET bytecode and has for the past 20 years or so.
It's not the only thing I submitted from that site on that topic that's gotten ignored and I've been given a lot of shit at times over submitting my own stuff, so I think I've never submitted anything of mine more than once because I feel like it would just be an excuse to vilify me.

I'm a woman. When I do the exact same things the guys do, it gets completely different reactions. Pointing that out fails to result in fair and equitable treatment. It just is a new reason to justify open hatred because "obviously, she's a man-hating Feminazi, just here to stir shit up."

In the face of widespread prejudice, there is no good or right answer. Being good enough is never enough. In fact, it's another reason to find you offensive.

I'm the only person who submits my writing here. There have only been two exceptions, both basically a case of people interested in gossip and shit stirring. There is absolutely no one interested in taking my work seriously.

I've been here a decade. I had a corporate job when I joined. I appear to be the only woman to have ever spent time on the leader board.

Nothing seems to ever genuinely change the fact that I'm not actually taken seriously. No one thinks I deserve an adequate income. No one sees anything wrong with continuing to exclude me and let me de facto starve while claiming it's somehow not sexism or classism.

(But let's go with your theory. I'll resubmit it. Let's see how much bullshit that gets me.)
> If the high frequency set was left out of 5Gs first round no one would have objected to the upgrade.

There's a subset that will object to anything involving radio because it's electro-magnetic RADIATION and RADIATION causes cancer!
Handover on public WiFi is generally horrible, the tech is simply not designed for that kind of use. I spend half of the day with WiFi turned off on my iPhone because it catches weak nearby signals even when they're simply not strong enough to work. iOS has "WiFi assist" which is supposed to be smart about that and fall back to a cell connection, but that simply never works in my experience.
Handing someone the key to your house doesn't imply granting them permission to enter, though?
How did you manage to get upgraded?
Is it? I don’t really see how that contradicts what op was saying.
They’re exploring an ambiguity in the question. No need to tear them down.

I feel similarly. If I’m getting a common heart surgery, I’d like to go with someone who does it every day. Reading a textbook is a negative signal that they do this frequently. (A checklist, on the other hand, is not and I’d be happy to see it used).

If I’m getting some rare surgery or there’s a complication, then seeing the doctor read a textbook makes sense. They can be very experienced overall, but not in this exact case.
Well, I'm talking about a math paper. So to me, it's the same as a code review. Someone has to go over the logic and proofs, and double check no mistakes are made.

The number of people who did and gave their approval would be a good indicator I can trust the paper.

What does a citation do that's better then this?

For experiments, or non math papers, you might need something more robust. I think mostly because reviewing the paper isn't really reviewing the full study, but only what the researcher put in the paper. So it is very hard to review methodology and details to be sure they followed proper protocols, etc. You'd need someone to have been reviewing the study as it is happening, and not just the output paper from it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_3mCDM7C8I

Graphene plus spider silk?
cars have much shorter lifecycle than housing, are mobile, much smaller, and get replaced far more often than housing.
>I disagree. The entire urbanization movement took place because housing became less and less affordable in rural areas, where the vast majority of the population was living. That push into urban areas, and everything that went along with executing that growth, brought us the best economic times we've ever seen.

For people living homeless in horrid conditions it's not "the best times", it's worse than their ancestors making their living in rural areas...

>The best thing for the economy is to have them leave to where they are now needed in 2019.

The best thing for the economy is to see people advocating the above go broke and homeless themselves. That would give some perspective to advocate better policies...
If the devs are experienced and you have confidence in tests, I like the trunk based approach WITH pair programming. Pairing takes care of review, testing ensures functionality and trunk based facilitates CD. If it is an internal project it's even better because the cost of a bug tends to be lower than public projects.
Bitcoin and the Interplanetary Frontier (2018)
In my comment, I described how piracy is coming back because of too many subscription services. It certainly isn't as simple as just being easier to use, and there are issues with what people will pay for regardless of billing model.

Spotify is barely thriving and took 13 years to make its first profit. It's precariously balanced with constant problems in artist payouts and catalogs. Netflix managed to grow by getting into the content production business but is seeing challenges there as costs rise.

And both Netflix and Spotify distribute content that can be consumed multiple times. How many times are you going to read the same article? If the answer was as simple as an HN comment, the industry would've figured it out by now.
But does it matter for you? I know it would not for me. I can certainly find counterexamples, but for me the last leg bandwidth is seldom the bottleneck. My 2c.
I'm their coworker and this is what I'm afraid of. I am haunted by the question "what if it has been our work environment that caused the move?"

I don't suppose toxic people think/know that they are toxic, so how do I find out if we are?
Yes. Just got upgraded to 5G (from 4G) for my wireless home broadband, went from 5-10Mbps average and 20Mbps peak to 200Mbps average and 380Mbps peak.

It's at least as big a jump as 3G to 4G was.

The hype is real.
Do you have a personal vendetta against clustering or something?

I don't know too much about linear algebra but I know I had to learn some when my boss wanted me to do unsupervised classification. Maybe the book just considers it a good application of the material.

What do old books have to do with what should be included in new books?
No. There is a lack of affordable housing because the economy doesn’t have a way to cope with widening gaps of productivity (not to mention systemic and historical racism).

However, the vast majority (writing from a phone on train so I’ll have to challenge you to prove me wrong rather than cite, but the statistics are clear on this) of homeless people are deep in the throes of addiction or, mentally unstable.

The working family that can’t make ends meet absolutely exists, I am not in anyway challenging that.

But, go to one of these tent cities yourself , where these exploding homeless populations exist, and it will be apparent that people are so addicted that there is not rent that would be “affordable” as their basic human needs aren’t even being met for them to be functioning in a positive economic way.

Essentially these people are sick, in a genuinely diagnosable way, and that sickness manifests in self harm. IMO, it’s pretty clear that this mass sickness (primarily the opiate crisis) is the leading cause of these exploding homeless populations.
Since I don't download uncompressed 4k video anymore, I'm personally getting practically all of the value of the internet (to me) from merely having a cheap cable connection at home. I've never been certain who 5g or fiber is really targeting. Amazon works fine, Netflix works fine, downloading an OS or language tool set isn't too heinous. High data speed to a phone is uninteresting, but YMMV. As usual, improvements become less useful on the margin.

The one use case I've run into might be robot cars, probably lower latency/higher bandwidth. I don't know enough about where the intelligence actually lives or how much in the way of inter-car communications is actually required though.
https://www.missafir.com/
Maybe it just works fast because there still are only a very limited number of users? And will speeds and latencies drop as the airspace gets more saturated?
No, the modules are the territory of the country that owns them.
> these wavelengths are absorbed near the surface of your skin or your cornea

And they'd cause a... slight heating effect. That's about it. So yeah, if you held your voice transmitting phone directly to your face for several decades, you might create enough tissue damage to up the cancer risk.

But then the radio engineers I used to work with climbed radio towers with microwave emitters putting out far far far more energy than a cellphone, and their only rule was "don't stick your head or crotch in front of a microwave transmitter as you're climbing up".
Summary: Laws banning assault weapons don't work. Laws that restrict WHO has access to guns work.

Background checks - checking for prior violent crimes for example reduces gun related homicides.

They also propose an ongoing risk assessment mechanism i.e. when a person becomes a risk, government should collect their guns.
Anatomy of the State - Murray Rothbard
The Genghis Khan thing doesn't really say much - there's a statistical near-certainty that liteally everyone today is descended from every single human that 7000 years ago (whose line didn't die out obviously).
What I want to know is whether -- as technology is supposed to -- 5G will bring me cheaper and faster cellular internet for all its hype.

No? I'm just going to burn through my data faster, and pay more to the carrier? Why am I interested then?

Isn't more access and more affordable prices the goal of the FCC as well? Why do many other countries have so much better and reasonably priced data?
How is real-world throughput across the internet?

I have a gigabit pipe that works just fine on a speed test, but most real-world usage doesn’t go that fast because of bottlenecks elsewhere.
The "network effect" lock in is real when your service is free to use. Put a price tag and suddenly it becomes much harder to keep people from leaving. The "growth at all cost" strategy is profitable for facebook & G, for other things, the market will decide what profit margin they can have (if at all)
It's available commercially. http://www.three.co.uk/5g
Just a test. Nuclear is safe again now!
Isn't that essentially what the Instagram etc. generation is deliberately doing? It goes to such extremes that their whole lives are planned around creating content for other people to consume. It's not a life I'd like to live. My thoughts and activities aren't worth less because I don't finish, polish and publish them. The best feelings cannot even be expressed using the simple audiovisual channels we have...
Or perhaps they used GeoIP: https://www.xkcd.com/713/
Would it help if instead of software "architecture," we called in software "organization?" It seems like nobody would demand "proof" if Martin was arguing that it is faster and easier to find a book in a library than it is to find a book at the dump.
This kind of neglects the fact that "rocket science" was just "harder than thought" for american scientists. Stuff started to work when they let German scientists build it.

Which is no surprise. Germany already had dozens amateur (space) rocket clubs way back in 1930, long before people in other countries were even mostly aware of the possibilty of sending rockets way up there.

The US had some catching up to do in the science department, which they accomplished in the end, though rockets loosely based on those initial designs are still in use today.

This is different to today's fusion situation, where we don't know whether there will be any better design at all - because nobody did built something that could be adapted to fit our purpose before us.
> The individual cores on Power9 are quite fast, though.

Are there any benchmarks for single thread performance there that I could see ?
In space no one can hear you...plea?

That aside, what laws govern space station citizens?
I don't think that cross-dressing for laughs was controversial unless the UK in the 70s was way more conservative than Germany or the US in the 60s.

I immediately remembered several movies with Peter Alexander from the early 60s like "Charlys Tante" or Billy Wilder's "Some Like It Hot".

Although in the latter there are several scenes going beyond "men in women's clothes are funny" and homosexual acts are evoked in the viewer's minds (but of course never actually called on screen).
I believe 5G handles congestion much better. But even if the speed drops, it will still be an order of magnitude faster than 4G. Absolutely worth it.
I remember watching the 1988 film God Bless the Child [1] with Mare Winningham as the hardworking yet impoverished mother trying to keep it together for her young daughter. It was so moving, I cried all the way through it and it has left a life-long impression.

So sad to see not much has changed in 30 years.

[1] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0095227/
Yes. And Computer Science is not a science, and Software Engineering is not an engineering.

Guides to it are more like guides to writing. Strunk and White, where is your empirical data? What's your control? Where are your PDE's?

Some also have aspects of business productivity books, with well-known common-sense ideas, like In Search of Excellence (which made up case studies, and a co-author said what's the problem?)

Even Fred Brooks' Mythical Man-Month - informed by his leadership of the massive bet-the-company "360" project at IBM - lacks data. It's still great though (in, uh... my subjective opinion, I guess).
Them Jon Ronson
My absolutely minimum is that every citizen should be able to confirm how their vote was recorded after the fact.

If we can't do that, then no system can guarantee us anything. If we can do that, then the system doesn't matter.

I'm familiar with VV. I completely agree with their position that post-election audits are critical to ensuring trust in the system. (That's a weaker version of my own requirement above.)

However, their latest policy recommendation was that we must keep hand-marked ballots, which is just bizarre to me. That's the sort of policy you endorse if you want elections to be decided by teams of lawyers debating stray marks and creative misspellings to deduce voter intent. It's a good way to let money break ties in elections, and makes me question VV's impartiality or judgment on these issues.

They have repeatedly linked to outside teams of researchers covering end-to-end verifiable systems though. A thorough read of the research notes that while there are a number of challenges to overcome, end-to-end verifiable could provide a path to secure elections.
The Amazon Fires Are More Dangerous Than WMDs
I'm a layperson like everyone else here, so I'm just going to rely on the fact that fusion research is ongoing, well-supported by government and private sector investment, and is an active area of research for hundreds or thousands of intelligent and sane institutionally supported academics, as reasonable and practical justifications for my belief that fusion is not quite as problematic as laid out in Lidsky's dated and superseded work.

However, for a sketch of how to address the talking points of the more strident objectors one encounters in the wild, one can perhaps turn to https://fire.pppl.gov/fusion_critic_response_stacey.pdf for some ideas. Cheers!
Seems even childish. Do the Earth nations really expect to have that kind of leverage against potentially hundreds or thousands of spaceships of some mining corporation?
Hmm, perhaps I should have said "How to investigate if something went wrong?".

You're right that people leaving is normal. What I'd like to be sure of is that they are leaving because of the right reasons.
This editorial was written within the context of countries. I understand why Verizon wants to get 5G before AT&T, but I don’t think the US should allocate public resources to help. If the result is that China gets 5G before the US, fine.
> Modern technology

Modern technology isn't just phones. Get a PC, a desk and a proper chair. Instantly you ve become more creative because there is more to do than swiping up.
Architecture is your chance to decide which problems will be easy and which problems will be hard.

In a microservice architecture, failure handling is easy. State management is hard.

In a centralized database architecture, failure handling is hard. State management is easy.
He may not be able to sell his watches as well with a strong currency. For one thing, if his inputs are mostly Swiss (suppliers and labor) then they too have gone up in price, so he can’t slash prices in response. And if the Swiss watches get too expensive people may start looking to buy some Japanese watches instead because they’re relatively cheaper.
I have 150Mbps right now (checked on fast.com) with 4G in Central Denver. It’s not about the number before the G, but whether the carriers are building enough infrastructure to support it.
It may seem illegal to you but no, it's actually generally not illegal.

E.g. in the US specifically, US bills say "legal tender for all debts", which means it's illegal not to accept cash once a debt is incurred.

But in most places a business owner is perfectly free to not create the opportunity for customer debt in the first place, i.e. not sell something -- whether based on form of payment ("We don't accept Amex") or quantity ("limit 5 per customer") etc.
Not worth paying for directly does not mean worthless. Nothing is free. Let me summarize is this way.

- Option 1 is to work, turn effort into cash, then spend that cash on the internet.

- Option 2 is to just go to the internet and view ads which turn your attention into cash behind the scenes in real-time.

You're still paying but advertising is a much more seamless, passive, and equally available system, and can quickly scale on-demand. So to rephrase the argument, people want the content, and they pay for it, but they mostly don't choose option 1.