skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> What makes access to high-speed internet a privilege as opposed to a right?

What makes it a privilege is that it's a consumer service, like cable television or satellite radio. Sure it's good to have, but hardly on the same page as "human rights".

There seems to be a trivializing of human rights by the left, who have a tendency to throw everything under the sun in as a human right so they can justify expanding the government to provide said right.

Access to the court system and a fair trial? Human Right
Freedom from slavery? Human Right
Broadband internet to watch streaming videos? Not a Human Right.
It would be nice to see blog tempting services move more towards being more minimal in their resource usage. I can't blame the bloggers themselves if they aren't technical, I can only hope that themes or templates that don't over use unnecessary JS grow in popularity.
> I make bad decisions every day.

I'm not talking about daily bad decisions. I'm talking about things like: failing a college course needed for my degree program because of a bout of depression, but having parents who would pay for me to take the class again to pass it. I did that. A lot of people with professional parents have done that.

The poor and the working poor don't have that kind of safety net. The personal consequences of failure are far greater for them, and they experience those consequences at high rates, which one way they can get stuck in the rut of poverty for a long time.
Our kiddo was born 6 weeks early and spent 37 days in NICU about a year ago. Ours was much as you described, except for the last half of it she was in a room that was about the same size as a normal hospital room and her nurse was watching 3 kids instead of 2. The hospital she was at has 52 NICU beds total and every single one of them was full the entire time.

During the first half of her stay she was in the high-level NICU ward. Still private rooms but much smaller and 2 to 1 nursing coverage. While she was there there were a handful of babies on ECMO (basically external blood oxygenation), which is terrifying as a parent.
It's not random, though, that men choose different methods for attempting suicide than women. This isn't merely about access to guns--people in countries with few gun suicides also show a substantial gendered difference in success rate. And if women account for 3/4 of suicide attempts, but men account for 3/4 of completed suicides, that means that men are choosing methods that are almost 10x deadlier than women, which does demand explanation.

One theory is that things we code as suicide attempts are instead acts of self-harm intended to act as a cry for help instead of a genuine attempts to end your life. In which case, if women do have stronger social support networks that would respond to these cries for help, you'd expect exactly that kind of weird imbalance and difference in success rates.

I believe this accounts for part of the difference. Another element is that someone who attempts suicide and fails is likely to attempt to commit suicide repeatedly. If the average man attempts suicide once before succeeding, and the average woman attempts suicide three times before succeeding, even assuming equal propensities to suicide women will show up in the statistics as attempting it three times as often as men.
The body itself is the heat sink. The skin is a radiator. The blood is the liquid in a liquid cooling system (moving heat from the sink to the radiator). To your point, liquid cooling systems become _much_ less effective when the liquid stops pumping.
Tee Is Broken?
A Magnetron Tear Down
AWStats still gets frequent updates. I use it for all of my sites' nginx logs since I prefer that over anything that requires JavaScript.

https://www.awstats.org/
I'm convinced that TLDs will slowly fade away. They're not very intuitive, especially if they're not a .com and the user is not very technical. I know Google would love for search to basically replace the need for them but I doubt that'll entirely happen. But I don't think they are long for this world.
> Paul Bunyan Communications in northern Minnesota, for example, runs affordable fiber optic service deep into the country.

I'm in a city of 872k people and can't even get fiber. The fastest I can get at home, without going business, is 75mbps.
I would expect that Lisp programming wouldn't derive much benefit from an IDE.
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I'm doing something similar. I got undergraduate degrees in CS and business and worked 5 years for a large corp right out of school. I saved my money and, using a rollover for business startup, I funded my business. I'm lucky enough to have a 2-earner household and a partner that is giving me time to figure out where I want to go next. I've been on "sabbatical" for a little over a year. I've had a couple false starts with respect to the business.

In the last couple weeks I've decided that I too wanted to level-up on my hard skills but away from CS. I've never been too enamored with trying to sell a product or service that had a lower barrier to entry for competitors. Too much convincing and pitching and , uggh, selling for my tastes.

I've always been interested in Chemistry so I decided to teach myself using textbooks. I realized a while ago that if you have an interests in a subject strong enough to keep you reading and working through a textbook, you can learn anything to a high level because hiding in the pages of a college textbook is the knowledge of many decades of human discovery, engineering, and passion as well hundreds of hours of hours of lecturing, teaching, and even tests (assuming you buy the answer manual). Almost any college course you'll ever take will be a watered-down, rushed meander through a couple chapters in a textbook. If you are willing to go through those chapters, in full, and do most or all of the exercises, you can learn basically anything on your own to a undergrad or graduate (MS) level.

And if you're fortunate enough, as I have been, to be able to fund your own company, your lack of degree doesn't matter because you don't need to signal to anyone that you know what your doing because you are doing the hiring. Granted for what I'm trying to do, I will hire a person with a degree to "head up" my labs for outside credibility's sake.
I'm at 30 years of programming in C, and don't understand the comment. I've never had a problem with either curly brace placement. If a line is deleted, and that line is a curly brace, there will be a syntax error. "git diff" (or whatever you're using) will show you what lines you have deleted.

Both ways have some merit. Cuddled curly is good for ismple one-liners. Curly on next line is when the statement header is stuffed with multi-line expressions.

After all the years, I have settled on:

while (simple) {
}

while ((big || complex)
(condition && multiple && lines))
{
}

for (i = 0; i < MAX; i++) {

}

for (big_initialization;
big && step;
complex, increment++)
{
}
Do you literally mean internet access in the post office building, or are you using that as a metonym for population centers?
same situation as with any interface, you either break backwards compatibility or you don't - this is not a problem for databases to solve
As a Dane.. Denmark raises a crazy amount of pigs, most are filled with antibiotics and a lot have MRSA.
Maybe not the opinion you’re looking for but based on the info you gave I personally wouldn’t sweat over it and just move on and try to forget about it after some basic due deligence. People have this idea that ski mask hackers are hiding around every corner waiting for you to give up some special piece of information. I am of the belief that what happens online has almost no ramifications to an actual balanced human life. I do not value or respect my online identity or information. Those that do are just stressing over boogie men imho. /rant
[Disclaimer: I work at Cliqz]

Hi, I read the thread and thought the answer was good enough, but it seems that you are not yet convinced. Let me try:

1) Here there is a list of publications regarding privacy by Cliqz (including published scientific papers). It should have fairly easy to find it using a search engine :-) https://0x65.dev/pages/dissemination-cliqz.html
Hopefully, the paper will convince you that Cliqz privacy commitment is serious.

2) Feel free to monitor your own traffic to see whether or not we are tracking you.

3) Honestly, if someone tells you that anolysis means anonymous + analysis, why do you not believe it? It does not take long to find references of the name on the source code. On a separate note, as a company (Cliqz) that offers anti-tracking and ad-blocking, I can tell you that blocklists are a bit more sophisticated than that.

Hope that this will address your concerns,

[comment edited: why do you not believe it?]
Oh okay I see what you mean now, sorry for the misunderstanding.
AFAIK, in Google’s case instant answer cards come from the Google’s knowledge graph, not search results. I.e. if you see some info rendered on top of search results or on the side, most likely it’s from the knowledge graph.
The total bill for our kiddo's 37 day stay in NICU was ~$400,000 including hospital charges, doctors, and tests. That doesn't include the delivery which was billed under my wife's stuff. Her bill was ~$100,000 for a 3 week stay (high blood pressure plus other factors).

After 30 days our state's Medicaid program decided that she was a household of 1 and paid for everything our normal insurance didn't, and continues to pay secondary for everything she needs because she has a rare medical condition.
^This. Over the course of the 20th century, the vast majority of killings occurred at the hands of governments. Furthermore, it was typically governments killing their own people, not the people of other countries.

Say what will about big greedy corporations, they're boy scouts when compared to the carnage brought about by governments in the last century.
If the real estate company put it up then they can take it down too. Have a lawyer write them a nice C&D on letterhead complete with a notice that any damages as a result of their action will be reclaimed and I suspect it will be gone before you can blink.

I've upvoted this after dhimes alerted me to your post, I don't know anybody at Facebook but I suspect that if you mail legal@facebook.com that you'll get at least a rise out of them. Since the group is private I would hope that the damage at least is limited.

best of luck!
> Interesting metrics, you'd expect C to do a lot better in the line-count department than assembly.

Not necessarily if the C code is trying to reproduce, in detail, all of the externally visible effects of the original assembly language.
What rich countries get wrong about the EU budget
Instagram, Facebook, Pintrest, Youtube apps are already this thing. Tens of megabytes embedding a browser to view web content. Their traffic covers a significant portion of the entire web. All of these have a lot to gain from rendering ad blocking impossible. And for keeping people on their "platform", inside their walled garden. Right now they are shipped as native apps, which the web version will nag you about until you install it. I don't think it is so farfetched that they will try to use WebAssembly for the same.
Public good construction costs have increased for reasons other than high western labor costs.

Take for example this:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21716312

Alon Levy mainly cites the flawed design-build model where design and construction contracts are awarded to the same firm as well as the comparatively high cost of TBM use for deep stations / tunnels versus cut-and-cover construction techniques for simpler, shallow stations.
surprised the relevant powerful/time tested and highly technical participants at whichever appropriate layer of networking aren't just forcing https only. #studentquestion
I made a landing page just HTML and CSS that integrated with Hubspot forms. You can check it out: https://onefiftyone.run/assets/js/landingpage.js

There's no secret keys; it's just the guid identifying that form.
water-only diet cured bladder infection in three days

ginger (any form except powdered) works pain relief like narcotic (imported powdered garlic is chemically sterilized and hurts me - I don't do imported powdered spices)
Gitmoji Changelogs
If it's happened more than twice you should probably consider giving your current and future students information on how to handle the issues your previous students have faced. Going off the harsh language in your comment, your disdain for CRA may be showing to your students which may make you seem unapproachable.
> My relative financial poverty during my upbringing doesn't change any of that. I still attribute my success to my upbringing. Not the (lack of) money, and not myself.

And some have neither money or the good upbringing. I was privileged enough to have parents who were able to keep a full-time job (even if it was a minimum wage one) most of my life. However, I would say mine were wildly poor on every other front. In terms of their own education, ability to parent, and most every other front beyond managing a positive bank account balance - they were poor. (Didn't stop my mother from racking up over $10,000 in credit card debt because she didn't know how they worked I guess)

I would align myself with soulofmischief in terms of the view on determination. It was purely my determination more than anything that lead me to getting to where I am now. (Beyond the basics like how I didn't grow in a war torn country where clean water was a scarcity) I've hit pretty much every setback a person in a first world country could give and persevered through it. Sometimes it taking years of incredible pain for any kind of payoff. I wouldn't attribute my success to my upbringing at all and neither would anyone who knows me even a little. Not being in abject poverty probably had some minor benefits for me but considering I had lived near that for the first 8-10 years of my life, I wouldn't consider it a huge amount of consequence. In fact - I thought those years were probably more pleasant than the later years! The only difference from going from near poverty to lower middle class was the age of the house since my parents didn't have any addictions besides nicotine and alcohol. (Alcoholism is ?probably? easier to deal with than an opioid addiction - but I only know the experience of dealing with the former combined with PTSD)

A little quote from a text I recently received: "You are exceptional to be where you are given where you came from. That said, the working class chip on your shoulder will hold you back from achieving what these people can achieve. You gotta get rid of that chip. (It's that chip and the behavior it causes that puts you on the edge of being fired. You aren't behaving the way these one percenters are behaving and they want to punish you for it.)"

My point is this: Don't underestimate determination. Upbringing in all forms is very important but a person with exceptional determination can overcome so much. It doesn't mean that it's fair or that it's even worth it but it's amazing how far someone can get with the refusal to give up. Something that I'd think people here on HN would be all about since this is owned by a startup incubator...
The fancy stuff can go live in apps, it has nothing to do in a browser designed for webpages first. I mean, just compare the GUIs of VLC and YouTube!
Not easy to take it seriously when they say things like "iThing" and "Big Brother".
Nice post Jotaen but I feel you are heavily downplaying how well a mechanical engineering degree looks when switching. You have math and critical thinking skills but just needed a little time to get the fundamental computer science concepts down.

Also how does the idea of boredom come into play here? Yes self-studying is important but at what point do feel burned out and want to apply it in a real world work station?
They should add something about quoting the guidelines to this, because it's infinitely more annoying
I'd recommend using an OpenID Connect provider to authenticate if you're concerned about their practices but it's just as easy to improperly implement auth even with mainstream libraries to help you connect something like Auth.0 to your app.

e.g. Don't assume the email address is owned by the person making the claim. You can sign up for an account with an email and if it's not verified or the verification is mis-clicked or phished into being clicked the original account owner would never know the difference.

Still, at least with OpenID Connect you know your password isn't sitting in plain text.
>> As of 12/6 I am the direct and beneficial owner of approximately 334,000 shares in Twitter.

Well, that's your problem.
When you said

> With consciousness, the emergentists are not capable of pointing at the first principle, or building block.

...it sounded like there were no plausible candidates. If computation is a candidate, then it's certainly something they can point at (with the caveat that it's only a candidate and not currently testable). I think if instead you had written something along those lines and avoided the words "not capable of", then hoseja and I wouldn't have reacted.
The technical pieces are running the authoritative NS servers for the tld (lots of sites, anycast, etc), running the whois servers (not so hard anymore, now that post GDPR, they don't return much), and running the registrar facing apis that interface with the live database.

Administratively, I'm sure there's a rather enormous number of customer service requests to deal with from registrars and law enforcement/court orders. Also accounting related to the registrars.

If they were running it themselves, $25M/year seems within reason to me. Affilias can probably do it for less, because they're running a bunch of tlds, so the capital costs of operating the registry are amortizable across all of them. However, PIR could have (and should have) bid that out occasionally, so I'd guess there isn't an obscene margin here.
Thought so, that (in much less detail) was my recollection. Thanks for that.
USPS is only more "efficient" in certain areas of mail because the other players are legally prohibited from using the infrastructure: UPS and FedEx are not allowed to deliver non-urgent letters and may not use U.S. Mail boxes at residential and commercial destinations.

The USPS also has the benefit of being able to lose $7 billion per year and not go out of business, and I'd hardly say that is "efficiency".

How is any player supposed to compete against something like that?
Kubernetes as an API Standard
That's not the issue. The issue is that there is speech accompanying the malware, which should not be systematically censored. (Though any individual is free to do so for themselves.)
This project seems to use Matomo's referer blacklist, so there is hopefully some cross-pollination between the similar projects: https://github.com/ibericode/koko-analytics/commit/d53077392...

(Both are GPLv3, so there's no licensing issue or anything; Just caught my eye.)
There are a lot of purely private transactions now -- they've already taken everybody private who wants to go private.
Jumped from Chrome about six months ago and overall quite impressed with Firefox. My only complaint is that I can't seem to shake my preference for the rounded tabs and UI of Chrome...
I'm very familiar with both (and we use both) but plan caching isn't going to make that much of a difference for many scenarios. PG also has simpler planning than MSSQL anyway. I doubt you'd notice a difference unless you're extremely complex queries or a very high rate of transactions.
the penalty for using a cached plan that is no longer optimal can be devastating, I've often had to use "with recompile" to get around this on SQL Server - I don't think global plan cache is a no-brainer, the scenario you describe is probably better served by a short-lived results cache
The "cost of the toilets" here refers to the operating cost, not the fixed costs.
>Let’s just hope you’re never on the receiving end of it

Too late. I joined up with the ACLU decades ago, long before there ever was a Twitter. So I've been a pariah for a long while and it doesn't bother me. The important thing is to maintain the civil liberties of each and every person in the United States.
That’s one way, for sure. But that stock is already well known.
Strong agrimony tea blocks alpha-1 adrenal receptors and strongly fights resipiratory inflammation.

Dried yarrow underneath gauze and bandages directly against the skin to strongly reduce scarring from burns and quickly stop bleeding.

Valerian Root extract absolutely works as a GABA booster to help sleep--though it leads to tolerance by the third day in a row.

Chewing/"dipping" yarrow as an antiviral/antibacterial, especially for respiratory, oral, and digestive systems.

Ginger's great to settle stomach sickness and stimulate healthy digestion.

Strong chamomile tea's boosts sleep quality when it would already be at least "good", and improves recovery from immune system activity. It seems to reduce unhelpful inflammation too.

Garlic fights skin infections (and strongly boosts gut health, and helps in all sorts of other ways >.>) when it's chopped finely, left to sit in the air for 5-10 minutes to activate enzymes, and then cooked for just a minute (no longer) to extract active chemicals into more stable food, so they survive through digestion and don't stress the stomach.

Mahabhringraj oil daily helps avoids hair graying, and helps greatly reduce hair loss. Its 11 herbal ingredients [two primary ones--Mahabhringraj and North Indian Brahmi] are all medicinally sound, as is the 50% sesame/50% coconut oil blend in which they're dissolved.
How does using an odd spelling thwart user-tracker blockers?
I block all Tor traffic with iptables and ipset - which allows O(log n) lookup time for each request when checking it against the Tor list. I wonder if this would have been your end-all solution. http://ipset.netfilter.org/ipset.man.html
In case anyone else didn't know who he is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Galloway_(professor)
They'd have to arbitrarily download and execute code from the internet w/ out any proper checks in place; not sure Vim does that by default...
I think some folk in the west naively assumed that a wealthy populace on the mainland would get tired of corruption and rule by self appointed officials, and eventually liberalise. Harmony would be achieved this way.

Instead China is implementing totalitarianism on a first world region and the Cantonese hate it.
FWIW, the economics of .org are easy to look up in the PIR 990, as of 2017. The 990 shows ~90m in revenue with ~75m in profit - which was split 40m to ISOC and 35m to ISOC foundation (a subsidiary of ISOC).
The article describes techniques used by all search engines, not just Google. Search engines have existed before Google, and despite Google's monopoly on search, "Google clone" is a poor term to describe all search engines when alternatives with unique features (e.g. DuckDuckGo) exist.
> The only thing keeping the stores in the article in business is that they stock only a relatively small amount of cheap merchandise with no secondary market. Their total liability is so low that it's cheaper than hiring staff.

Giant Eagle, which is a huge grocery store recently started the exact same thing: https://www.beaconjournal.com/news/20190222/zap-giant-eagle-...

They've been doing it for a year, and have added stores, so contrary to what you say, clearly it works.
I understand your criticism of my second point, but notice that for your criticism to be valid, there needs to be a government involved in forcefully regulating private industry. I reject that sort of government.
Amazon caught using indepdent artist's work without license
This reminds me rather a lot of Magpie: https://journal.stuffwithstuff.com/2011/02/13/extending-synt...