skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some of the advantages of 5g come from using it as a home connection. My building is locked in with spectrum and I'm limited to 100mbps, despite ATT serving fiber all over town. I can't do anything about it because it would require having a telecom wire our building for their service, the equivalent of moving heaven and earth.

If I could pick up a 5g signal I could opt for that instead. It's like suddenly having an option for installing a dish instead of whatever the cable company serves you.

As far as speed, I'm not holding my breath. In a previous apartment I did actually have fiber but it wasn't the game changer I thought it would be. Downloads and streaming are capped at a point. The only way to actually use all of this horsepower I had was with bittorrent, and boy it downloaded stuff so fast that the write speed on my drive became a significant bottleneck. I even demoed Googles project stream and while that worked OK, I still got a lot of hickups and low quality stream moments that showed how far away the delivery technlogy was (AC:O was playable but there was way too much latency for a multiplayer game to stream with this technology), even if I had the very best internet on the market.
I doubt there will be any regime change, it’s just a few loudmouths on twitter overestimating the EU’s ability to bully Brazil, much like Trump overestimated the US’s ability to bully Mexico. China, Japan, India, and maybe even a post-Brexit UK will have no problem picking up the demand if Europe “retaliates”. Dictatorships thrive on this kind of conflict and mistrust.
If that truly is the distribution of demand, then the media industry should have little to fear from such dramatic copyright reform (of course they would disagree!)
This seems effective for some things but falls short in cases where things aren't so black and white (most?).
It really is the 1980’a again...
Not to mention privacy issues. I like using Square, but now my email gets sent around to any store I visit. Even with a regular credit card, they already get my full name from any transaction.

Plus with cash, you've made the payment and you're done. You don't have to check if the charge was correct, or if you bank account has enough money to cover it, or if the purchase will affect your credit utilization significantly.
That's the current plan with 5G.
one thing that makes this difficult on the internet is that people seem to assume you are arguing with them by default. I've noticed that I tend to get an argumentative followup even if I am agreeing with the OP unless I explicitly state at the beginning that I agree.

I suspect that the very structure of voting-based comment sections intensifies this. if you actually follow the etiquette, you upvote posts you agree with instead of leaving a comment to say so. on the other hand, you are not supposed to downvote comments you disagree with. this probably tips the balance enough to make the median comment be a rebuttal to OP. of course, people sometimes respond with supplemental information, but people either twist this to interpret it as an argument or take it as an implicit critique of OP for not including all the relevant information.

in the end, I don't really have any advice for you; I think it's just inherent to the medium. I personally enjoy arguing a lot, but many people I know irl do not. so I just accept the internet for what it is and get my arguing fix here and stick to lighter topics irl.
I imagine you could offer an economic incentive to give the feedback
The reality of the situation is that JavaScript was designed at a time when there was NO CLUE that it would become the de-facto client-side language for decades.

So now the ECMAScript standard is pushing JavaScript towards a "proper" language, but we need additional tools (TS, Babel, etc) to write in an even more "proper" language/syntax that will give us something that the browser still needs to understand (JavaScript).

This isn't a fun process for those of us who have been developing a long time. Look, JavaScript has classes! And modules! Ok, that's good I guess, we're getting there. But that's not learning, that's just getting closer to something we are already familiar with as software engineers.
Because it's all sophistry. The elite or corporations have no ideology or principles with which they are operating. They are machines that will say anything anyone wants to hear to make more money. And then they will stop saying it once it no longer works. Same goes with the freedom of speech rhetoric when it was found what it actually means, the elites agreed to put a kibosh on it even if the government can't.
Show HN: The all new ezInvoice v6 addresses biggest downsides of Cloud apps
Of ads in documentation and installation messages, I have the same opinion as ads in websites: performance, resource usage (network, computing, memory) and tracking are what bother me; subtle, non-misleading, generic ads don't.

I'm more concerned about overeager telemetry in software. If these ads don't come with performance/network/privacy baggage, I'm OK with them.

That leaves open the chance of libraries implementing some third party library to display ads, which then starts tracking users, etc. as happened with ads on the web, but that's another debate.

And from looking at donation pages for many well-known projects, outrage outweighs donation volume.
Previously on Hacker News ...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20774554 (65 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20767722 (7 comments)

Additionally:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20775790

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20772161
To be pedantic, the integration outside of Apple's ecosystem is available for the cognoscenti. Not for the masses.
I try to adapt to the style of the code I'm contributing to. While I do have arbitrary style preferences of my own, I think its mostly a waste of time to argue about and formatting your code like changing " to ' and vice versa. So I both hate and love these tools.
Isn't this also a facet of our "war" with the rest of the world to be at the forefront of technology? There are those that think ceding being the first in things like AI would be so detrimental to the US economy that we'd never recover.
Sphero Acquires LittleBits
What's conveniently missing from this article is that most of those rivers run through countries we are or have been shipping our plastic waste to, in order for them to recycle it. But they didn't. And it's not like we didn't know that for years already. But the trash was gone and it's a cheap solution, so why stop?
The Drugs Won't Work
> This quote advocates for wise people to never try to convince other people

Other chapters in the Tao address this objection, by emphasizing the value of humility and leading by example over cleverness and trying to beat people into submission with words.

Express yourself completely,
then keep quiet.
Be like the forces of nature:
when it blows, there is only wind;
when it rains, there is only rain;
when the clouds pass, the sun shines through.

(http://taoteching.org.uk/index.php?c=23&a=Stephen+Mitchell)

Do you have the patience to wait
till your mud settles and the water is clear?
Can you remain unmoving
till the right action arises by itself?

(http://taoteching.org.uk/index.php?c=15&a=Stephen+Mitchell)

The Master doesn't talk, he acts.
When his work is done,
the people say, "Amazing:
we did it, all by ourselves!"

(http://taoteching.org.uk/index.php?c=17&a=Stephen+Mitchell)
Yeah skewing would be definitely problematic, it might be better if it would be similar to Kaggle where people would compete with each other.
I would never tell the truth about why I leave a job. There’s nothing in it for me.
I get that you would want something local if you happen to re-watch the same things again and again. I don't, and keeping local copies of something in case I want to re-watch it is a waste of space.

Stuff being available exclusively through streaming is certainly a way to enforce DRM, but that doesn't mean people wouldn't still largely be streaming even if stuff was available for download without DRM too.
Would I be correct in stating that for 5G to be effective, the transmitter needs to be much closer to people than current towers.
Also, there are currently legal limits on how much radiation may be transmitted by cell towers.
It follows that it is not unreasonable that there may be be health effects. Arguments about China and Korea are actually quite scary because they provide justification for ignoring any health effects.
Previously on CLI ads: https://github.com/zloirock/core-js/issues/548
Of course it can be quantified otherwise hiring based on skill level for a software role would be impossible. You can look a examples of code and know someone's level and then deduce their performance based on output and quality of code. The problem is NON-technical people are the ones who want to quantify your performance! Which has been my problem for years in the software industry. If you haven't written code in years, you will be lost as to whether I'm writing good software or not, yet these are the people who rise to the top to manage the technical people and then do a horrible job because they have no idea what to optimize for.
Why doesn’t your management push back?
While not related to the issue at hand, I thought this line was particularly funny:

> Ms McClain has since returned to Earth.

Sounds like something out of a novel!
> How did you deal with it and break the habit?

It gets old.

That said, I didn't break the habit entirely. It's one of those "guilty pleasure" things. The important part is that you're otherwise pleasurable enough to be around to make up for it. Everyone has their pathological traits that others have to put up with, it's give and take.
You said, "US bills say 'legal tender for all debts', which means it's illegal not to accept cash once a debt is incurred."

This statement is incorrect.
WiFi makes it easy[ish] for consumers to firewall their IoT bullshit to inhibit spying. IoT devices with cellular radios promises to remove even this small level of control from consumers.
What can be kept? For years, centuries?
"The experiment can be further extended to a larger scale using photons from distant stars and open a new route to quantum optics experiments at an astronomical scale."

This would be interesting as a distant star would exhibit red-shift unlike something as close as our sun. So until further data such as this, we just have the single experiment. Which from my limited understanding, would give the data to draw some solid conclusions. Exciting stuff, and I could only speculate upon the results, though somebody more up upon the matter may well have some better insights.

Though it may well be a way to measure distances more accurately would be my limited take away from this. Maybe not, but certainly something going on here that will enhance our understanding of physics on all levels.
A simple rule can help with this - rephrase all your assertions as questions. Questioning instead of asserting is inherently less argumentative, is less threatening and more likely to cause the other side to seriously consider your point instead of reacting defensively automatically. It also signals that you respect their opinion, making them more likely to respect yours. You accomplish almost all the same goals as asserting, but in a gentler, more mutually respectful and ultimately more effective way.
This is advice for myself as well. A) realise the people on the other side of the chat can be anyone. Literally anyone. So don’t be offended by them or try to teach them anything. You could later find out you are jsut as wrong. B) keep composure and be nice to them. Nothing disarms a person than being nice and having manners. C) people that are usually rude and aggressive only are just defensive about their own insecurities. It might be hiding something deeper and they are using you as a reflection board.

I still have a lot of trouble controlling myself but I am getting better. I think all these instant gratification of social media has made us trigger happy; especially platforms like twitter.
No, it is not false.

The standard would have been that the slaves would have counted for representation purposes, which would have given the slave states the power to ensure slavery continued. The compromise reduced their power drastically and paved the way for slavery to eventually end.
Russia benefits from all its disinformation projects directly each time the US is distracted or wastes time discussing Russia's talking points. That is one direct negative ongoing consequence from the 5G scare propaganda.
A lot of managers are either spineless (afraid of arguing with people higher up in the food chain) or two-faced (overpromising to management because if they deliver it will look good, while simultaneously telling reports that they tried their best at reducing the workload)
Yes, I meant referenced in the code, not necessarily called during execution. It makes sense to do it in the beginning if delay is referenced. I guess it was just a small optimization that they decided to do without then.
WRT online interaction, for me it's only HN. No other social media.

In other areas of life, F2F disagreements don't happen much, if they do they can be sorted out much more easily. I don't know why.
Ethernet over Powerline LANs could also theoretically be used for those applications, since your TV, lightbulbs, etc will be running off mains power anyway.
this is in no way a piece about the GDR
this is an interesting approach that I should try to remember.
This wasn't a simulation, unless your going down the universe is a simulation avenue and this is a bug in the matrix route.
Someone should make a start up that is the original Amazon idea and just sell books.
The town I went to college in lacked an open container law from 8am->2am (mostly they didn't want people to continue drinking while bars were closed). It was....entirely fine? We'd sometimes get drinks at the bar then walk home with them and this was entirely legal.

This town had other problems but I'm not sure if this was one of them.
I live near a fresh-water lake in the middle of Europe, and decided to do this experiment with my kids a few years back .. we took a jar, scooped up some water, threw a couple small bits of algae in, and took it back to our kitchen, where we watched it daily for months.

It was extraordinary to see things growing right away .. the kids loved getting up and checking on 'the critters and the goop', as we called it.

Our patience was rewarded when I spotted a tiny hydra had attached itself to the side of the jar ..

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydra_(genus)

We watched it grow and grew, going from near-microscopic to the size of one of the kids finger nails, turning a deep and vibrant red as it aged.

There were lots of other things too, which we never got quite around to naming .. freshwater shrimps, a couple of tiny fish (which didn't survive a heat-wave also, alas) .. but eventually it became a murky mess, and we cleaned the jar out for other experiments.

This is a really neat way to teach kids about life, in my opinion. The next time we do it, we'll rig up a USB microscope and have it pointed into the depths - I have a feeling that my kids are going to find operating the microscope far more intriguing than any video game. Would be grand to discover there's a microscope out there that can be remotely moved .. we may have to cannibalise a 'light following flower robot' to rig up our own "Exploratorium"™ .. ;)
Funny you say that - my AT&T phone currently shows that I’m using “5G E”, where the “E” apparently stands for “evolution”, which means while it’s not 5G speed yet it might become that fast in the future. It’s basically marketing fraud. https://www.heapooh.com/apple-iphones-5ge-att-network/
If you get into an argument with someone and they keep coming back for more, they probably enjoy it in some way. Just make it clear that while you disagree, you still respect them as a person. You'll probably be fine.

Rarely does one get into an argument with a whole group. That's a different game that is best avoided.
Every disc video game is a blu ray, I'd chalk that up to a win.
> 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.

Why do closures make a language "serious"? To me languages are just languages. Seriousness is defined the problem you are solving. Are flight controls serious? Probably. Is yet another small scale CRUD app serious? Probably not.

There is a lot of "serious" code written in every major language. There is a huge amount of "serious" code written in C and C++, and all of this without first class functions or lexical closures.
There's also the "Skylab Controversy" - when a group of astronauts aboard the Skylab went on strike and turned off their radios to protest too long of working hours.

I assume that since most astronauts are Air Force personal, they committed insubordination, although were never tried for anything.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skylab_controversy
The US has one of the most progressive tax systems in the world already. There is no system that is more re-distributive.

If you mean the state should be larger...great...but that is something totally different. That would require significantly less redistribution, raising taxes on the middle class, and bringing people who pay no income tax into the system (this is usually a significant minority ~30%+ in progressive tax systems).

Also, the content of your post is essentially: "I want free things, and I want [group I dislike] to pay for it". Trumpish.
I find your argument a bit silly. Are you suggesting that if A is less safe than B we should not worry about B?
Seems we should worry about both!
I expect it was meant to say "lower-latency throughput".
A lot of the suggestions here are answering, "how do I argue more effectively". Some are suggesting to consider argument futile (to varying degrees).

Mostly, I want to argue when I'm angry with someone. Online, I'm becoming less and less interested in discussing/arguing with people I've never met, such as yourself. Far too often, nothing comes of it but more anger.

Slightly more interesting is if there's a common forum or issue (ie: github), but most interesting is people I've met in person.

What I'm trying to do is ask myself, am I angry with this person? If so, is it really worth engaging them this moment? (Sometimes you need to--but offline is usually better for that.)

If I do have rapport with them, and I can address my anger first, then there may be some usefulness in responding to them. But, I don't want to contribute to America's 24/7 outrage culture any more.

If you're interested, I wrote a little more about this here.

https://medium.com/@bjt2n3904/mass-shootings-dealing-with-ha...
I hope you're aware that uBeam is a scam which cannot work.
How is it considered appropriate to name this project Trotsky? Would they name a project Goebbels or Himmler?
If someone steals something that has taken $75 million to develop that might save lives, the naive take is that they are the good guy. However, if we as a society accept that theft as okay in these circumstances, the collateral damage is that companies like Ventria no longer invest large sums of money to develop these life saving improvements and then society ends up without these life saving improvements because they are never developed.

From a first order effects perspective, the person stealing the seeds is a good guy. Once you take into account second and third order effects over the long haul, people stealing these developments are undermining the system that produced them in the first place. Without that system in place, society will be worse off long term.
> It's not that I actively want to 'prove someone wrong', but part of the way I learn is through argument; expressing my disagreement in the hope that the other person will prove me wrong and I might learn something.

If you don't put this into the preamble (e.g.: for the sake of the argument) of your opinion then there's no way other parties can infer that you are seeking more information through disagreement (or something along the lines of the Socratic methods).

But people aren't punching bags for you to use in order to get to know more. Most don't like being abused and misled regarding your real intentions.

I'd deal with it by just replacing the habit of being argumentative by the habit of closing the tab and get back later to it to see if you can still add something more valuable to the conversation than adding fuel to the fire.
Counter doesnt overflow, but result of division by 55 still does :)
I think these posts are the #1 encouraged kind of item to submit to HN when you read the newsguidelines. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

So I think it is your expectation with HN that may need to change, as I would be shocked to see this content disappear. It's exactly "On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups.", the first sentence of the guidelines.
As I understand it, institutions are fleeing to dark pools because they can't trust the regular markets to stand behind the offered prices and actually execute orders.
re: IRMA

I've been thinking about negotiated disclosure since the mid 90s. Back then we called it faceted personas. In an effort to protect oneself from aggregators of demographic data.

I've gotten nowhere.

TLDR: 99% certain deanonymization will always prevail.

Not saying I'm right. I'm not particularly smart or insightful. I just try to apply ideas foraged from academia to real world problems. Alas, the times I've slogged thru the maths and algos, I'm always left befuddled. I'm just not clever enough to figure out all the attack vectors. (I'd make a terrible criminal.)

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re: Privacy by Design

That means Translucent Databases. Where all data at rest is encrypted. Just like you salt and hash password files.

This book details clever applications of that strategy to real world problems:

https://www.amazon.com/Translucent-Databases-Peter-Wayner/dp...

Mea culpa: I'm still unclear how GDPR's tokenization of PII in transit works in practice. Anyone have some sample code? And I still don't see how it protects data at rest.

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Source: Design, implemented, supported some of the first electronic medical records exchanges (BHIX, NYCLIX, others). Worked on election integrity for a decade, including protecting voter privacy (secret ballot).

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Prediction: Accepting de-anon will always win in the long run, we'll eventually also accept that privacy has a half-life. To adjust, we'll adapt differential privacy algos to become temporal privacy.
Understanding Understanding: Essays on Cybernetics and Cognition [pdf]
But it will or should bring competition to Comcast and cable companies alike!

I'll believe it when it happens.

DSL was going to break the chains of the dialup overlords.

Cable was going to break the chains of the DSL overlords.

Fiber was going to break the chains of the cable overlords.

Fixed wireless was going to break the chains of the fiber overlords.

My prediction: 5G data providers will pull the same tricks as what we have now. Pricing will be about the same as it is for legacy methods/speeds. You can only get the highest speeds and pay the highest prices even if you don't need all that bandwidth, unless you're part of a government poverty program. In which case, you'll get DSL speeds for cable prices. Signing up will be easy. Getting out of the contract will be hard. There will be mandatory fees for things you don't need or want.

It's the same group of companies. Why would we expect any different just because the delivery method has changed?
The likelihood of a US border search that turns up protest materials costing you your degree or your next 5 job prospects is essentially 0.
there is no way for him to react and cancel his limit order

Yes there is http://barclaysdfslastlooksettlement.com/