skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My parents have been trying to get high speed internet for years. They're in a semi-rural, but suburbanizing area. They are surrounded by houses that have cable, but their house is older so it doesn't have it.

They had microwave for a while, but it didn't work in bad weather, and then the trees got too tall. They've finally resorted to paying the cable company thousands of dollars to bring cable to their house. It's such a ridiculous opaque process though that my mom basically has to stalk cable vans in her area and give the tech an earful to get status updates. The good techs know how shitty the process is, and one even gave her his personal phone number. However, it's not his department, so his ability to make things happen is limited.

She made the payment back in November, they got permits in January, and she hasn't heard from them since. I asked about how to get this done on DSLReports a while back, and the answer was to just keep calling them over and over and over, because every now and then you'd find someone with a clue.
Stanford engineers create shape-changing, free-roaming soft robot
> But I'm not sure what this will do to Open Source in the long run. I don't think WSL users will care a lot about the ideals of the Free Software people and I'm not sure whether the Free Software people will love to maintain code for people who don't give a fuck.

People who care about the ideals of the free software people have always been a genuine minority group. You might be using the terms interchangeably, but it's why the term "Open Source" exists.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/mar/15/uk-cov...

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/health
I think the point is to protect things like remote desktop, zoom, etc from being pushed out by netflix traffic.
Like I said, the whole thing was very tragic. But suicide is not a normal response. Schwartz had deeper problems and he wasn't "driven to it" by a soulless DA, as you say.
This is very cool. I wonder how many great ideas need something like this, between $0 outside money and VC millions to take off.

Side note: Tyk is an awesome company. I've used their API gateway for a few years. Awesome open source core/enterprise paid model.
It's a neutral exchange. Note that it doesn't give the whole story; really big players like Netflix may have hardware directly in some of the ISPs and bypass the exchange completely.

The US doesn't have many significant neutral exchanges, but here's one: https://www.seattleix.net/statistics/
which involves sending them documents and even selfies.
This is true, and not only for US regulation-related reasons. They also removed multiple political writings about people criticising their authoritarian governments as well as games with sexually explicit content (but no images).
What’s the point of rationing something that costs a hundredth of a cent per GB?

You get 10TB of bandwidth for a dollar. Once average usage per subscriber goes over that, then we can talk.
Silicon Valley here. My options are 20/1 DSL or cell. I chose cell.
At a glance, I would think someone was programming using just regular expressions. Or maybe speech-to-text translation of line noise.
Please don't be unnecessarily condescending on this forum. They're asking a simple question.
>and they're themselves have stopped providing this service //

Is it them, or is it overselling by ISPs?
Is there a Coronavirus (Covid-19)?
Is there a Coronavirus disease (COVID-19)?
YouTube's Bandwidth Bill Is Zero. Welcome to the New Net (2009)
Wow! What a mature, thoughtful response \s

Only the first and last sentences actually addressed the topic, the rest was just an angry emotional attack on those who think differently from you. Hope you're feeling better now.
> They reinstated the account 1hr after official appeal.

Yeah, because it got traction on HN and Twitter. Pretty much the same happened to somebody else just three days ago, and, wouldn't you know it, after their rant [1] made it to the HN front page [2], Github finally reacted to the appeal after having spent a week ignoring it.

If you expect to ever have troubles with GitHub, you better have a following or some luck to be posting at the right time.

[1] https://medium.com/@catamphetamine/how-github-blocked-me-and...
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22593595
Finland at least has uncapped mobile connections up the wazoo. Also the highest amount of mobile data per head in 2016 at least: https://cdn.statcdn.com/Infographic/images/normal/11448.jpeg

Edit: same for 2018 as well: https://www.statista.com/statistics/956188/monthly-mobile-da...
I wonder if there is a problem with this because it requires you to have an Amazon account and such to do it. There is now a much higher barrier of entry for random people to access small amounts of data. And no longer have direct http links. You have to use the CLI / SDKs once requester pays is on there.
Find a swap meet, and you'll find gold buyers.

Maybe bring one or two levels of armed backup, however.
This is interesting, would YouTube cut the quality too? If no, does this mean Netflix has much higher traffic than YouTube?
I don't think C++ generates more efficient packets than Ruby.....
That made me grin widely and think a bit, too. Thanks for posting.
I really do not like the default UI in ip. You have to remember a lot of weird stuff to get useful information. The default listing is compressed, hard to read, and noisy. Then I saw someone who had these aliases:

alias ipa 'ip -br -color a'
alias ipl 'ip -br -color link'

Night and day! I try to not use the aliases because I'm often on servers without them, but the options for brief and color with the command to list adapters or links at the end it one all sys admins should memorize. It returns output that isn't terrible.
No more a disaster than managing multiple VMs that have their own set of installed packages that you need to securely update regularly.
The EU commission stopped them providing 4k, not netflix
Here are the AMS-IX stats: https://www.ams-ix.net/ams/documentation/total-stats
These new drives are using a different technology (though NVME is not proprietary), in a form factor that we've seen on the PC for awhile. They offer much more throughput than normal 2.5" form factor. They're attached to the PCI bus, not a separate disk controller on the motherboard.
> If Github kicks me off and I can migrate easily to GitLab, have I been "deplatformed?"

Most definitely you have. Especially if the reason and process used by GH is likely to also be in use at GL.

> Is it morally correct to tie Github's hands from locking someone's account if they're using their git repo to host CP?

The relevant question is: is it constitutional. In the U.S. I believe the answer would be a solid "yes" as to a Federal statute that adds due process protections for this, no different than with the many many Federal and State laws and regulations that have created civil justice recourse for specific kinds of torts.

Morality is a different issue, and it's much too easy to flip your question on its head: is it moral to deplatform people if doing so damages their ability to earn a living?

Indeed, there's no need to frame this as a moral question, and it's arguably foolish to do so. It is and should be only a question of policy, politics, and constitutional law.

Regarding politics, mine is a political argument.

Regarding policy, I think it's a good idea to give "little people" some minimal protections from "big people". This is quite standard around the world. There are going to be policy details to debate, but writ large, this is a no-brainer.

I already address the very likely U.S. consitutionality of such a policy.

> We're getting there, but pulling it off is going to require a level of international cooperation that is rarely seen (and tends to give a few key players a lot of power; if we do this, I hope everyone's excited to be living under the US's notion of what morality looks like. Or Europe's. or China's).

No. This can be done in each country w/o internaltional cooperation. Granted, GH might pull out of France, say, if they don't like French laws, and so on. But U.S. business will not leave the U.S. over this.
Should members of Congress be allowed to vote remotely during a pandemic?
K is a vector language. There is indeed some overlap in ideas with Mathematica and Lisp, but it draws most heavily from APL. There are a handful of decent open-source or at least freely available interpreters online:

https://ngn.bitbucket.io/k.html
While I don't disagree with your definition of reproducibility, I want to point out that very few papers would satisfy that criteria, regardless of their use of a closed- vs open-source software.

Here is a recent example: Imperial College COVID-19 response team published an article[1] where they modeled different effects of non-pharmaceutical interventions, such as suppression and mitigation on the number of infected, deaths, etc. This is a very interesting result, but it's impossible to replicate their results in practice without contacting the authors, as their methodology is not enough to reproduce it.

While someone else[2] posted their own model that is very well documented and fully reproducible by anyone with a $230/year personal license.

While theoretically [1] is high science and [2] is not, in my own opinion [2] is better than [1]. I would love more science to be done and discussed that way. Ideally, using open-source software, but in practice, using Wolfram Language, in that case, is already good enough in my opinion.

PS. I'm not affiliated with Wolfram Research in any way.

[1] https://www.imperial.ac.uk/media/imperial-college/medicine/s...

[2] https://community.wolfram.com/groups/-/m/t/1901002
It is kind of unrelated to this, but I am asking maybe somebody could help me. Do you guys know where can I read and learn more about the details of the Netflix network? I looked at their technical blog, but I wanted something more detailed and technical. Is there something like Netflix research papers (e.g. Google published Bigtable IIRC).
It's just the amorphousness of life seeping in. People want more things in more contexts, which will always expand scope of the things they use.
Who pays for the Windows licenses? Do I have to provide my own when setting up the VM?
It may be best to no longer think about pandemics as a 1/100 year event.
On average, yes, probably. But both the US and Europe have areas (especially rural areas) with very poor coverage, and in much of Europe most people are staying at home at the moment, to a much greater extent than in the US.
I haven’t read this in detail, but a few things stand out. In the write up, you say it compares better than bitwise radix sort. You need to compare against an optimized byte-wise radix sort which is by far the fastest sort for decent sized arrays of integers. The second claim that skyline sort somehow sorts an array of size a faster than two arrays of size n does not make sense. That implies that the time per element goes to zero as the size goes to infinity. That would be faster than O(n), which is what radix sort is, i.e. constant time per element for larger arrays.

It sounds like this is just a variation of counting sort or bucket sort optimized for a small number of unique values.
No, it's not a cost issue. But I suspect that it was a consequence of meeting fixed cost reduction targets, and being something where cutting had no immediate impact.
Here in Berlin my DSL connection has been awful since the social distancing began. And many of my friends have complained of similar problems. Frequent disconnections, broken up zoom calls. Though ironically the streaming has been fine from both Netflix & Amazon.
GameStop instructs employees to ignore law enforcement and not shut down
>>Roast some carrots with cumin and coriander and top it with chopped cilantro!

Wait, coriander and cilantro are just names for the same plant. It's like saying roast them with parsley and top it with some chopped parsley.
> There are too many problems with the AV industry to detail here [...] The biggest, however, is that supervised machine learning doesn’t live up to the hype [...] It’s widely understood that the hardest part of building AI is how it deals with situations that happen uncommonly, i.e. edge cases. In fact, the better your model, the harder it is to find robust data sets of novel edge cases. Additionally, the better your model, the more accurate the data you need to improve it. Rather than seeing exponential improvements in the quality of AI performance (a la Moore’s Law), we’re instead seeing exponential increases in the cost to improve AI systems

This is exactly the problem with data hungry machine learning approaches, specifically deep learning (and that’s without even mentioning the compute resources necessary to learn). The only way to circumvent that is plausibly apply better inductive biases, and fundamentally rethink what the field considers important.
In practice, “high tolerance” is used to mean “tight tolerance”. “Tight” is more commonly heard, at least in the US.
I performed the exact opposite migration at $DAYJOB recently - swapping an internal text-based protocol to HTTP (over a local IPC pipe).

The main benefit was we could suddenly reuse all the codegenerated routers/docs/authentication from the HTTP ecosystem. It significantly simplified/standardised our IPC layer and reduced the "weirdness" in the codebase.
oh for fucks sake, go away.
An action that is an honest mistake isn't disgusting; it is simply a mistake. We all make mistakes. Anyone who makes no mistakes is not doing anything useful.

What matters is doing the right thing after the mistake is discovered. I agree that the canned HR response wasn't acceptable, but that is not all that happened. GitHub quickly restored the project - and that was the most important issue. In addition, GitHub has now posted an apology, and has also said that they will try to figure out how to prevent its recurrence in the future.

THAT is exactly the right way to handle a mistake: fix the problem, say sorry, and try to prevent its recurrence. Good show. I am actually impressed with GitHub's response to this!!

I get the impression that part of your complaint is that "flagging" itself is disgusting. If that's the case, your ire is completely misdirected. This is required by US law for anyone doing business in the US. If you don't like it, that's fine; complain to the US Congress, who create the US laws. GitHub is simply doing what it must do. In the US, and in most of the western world, the rule of law is still a thing (and a good thing it is!). Please point your disagreement at those who are responsible for it.
There is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coronavirus_disease_2019
That has its own set of challenges -- now you have to design your game so that the battery indicator doesn't cover up an important part of the game. Also, what if the OS allows it to be configurable location/size, etc.
> The US healthcare system is notably fragile, not formidable.

Citation needed. I've seen numbers that suggest the US has 2.5x ICU beds per capita compared to European average. It also costs 3.6 _trillion_ dollars a year. Surely at least some of this money contributes to it being less "fragile"?
I'm not angry, I'm just disappointed. So many students and future programmers use Windows Home (I did as a kid), and Microsoft would throw away the opportunity for them to play around and lock them in. Now I can't imagine using Windows Home to program.

$100 seems pricey for a text editor, my friend. Is it IntelliJ or PyCharm? Why not VSCode + Sourcegraph?
Tesla makes their money selling cars, and Autopilot sales are non-refundable. They get paid even if they don't deliver, so I'm not sure how much they care other than keeping the hype alive.
No mention of authentication or encryption? I can’t believe that everyone is either using HTTPS with either client certificates or plain HTTP authentication, or using IPsec (or some form of IP tunneling) to make encryption transparent to the application.
It's a theory both ways. You are choosing to believe they are wrong in that assumption.
If operating systems had ever provided security strong enough to run untrusted code, we wouldn't have needed to. It's really a failing of operating system security. Even today no operating system provides an application sandbox as strong and versatile as the browser.

Platforms have fallen back on walled gardens (app stores) with centralized control of all code execution to compensate for the deficiencies of their security models. I don't want a future where the only apps I can run have to be signed and approved by Apple ahead of time. The web is the escape hatch.
It's not like the employees of Netflix are the downtrodden proletariat. This company that spends billions on content can afford a few refunds.

Now if this was a similar comment directed at a co-op that had fallen on hard times, then your comment would be more appropriate.
With wsl Microsoft is trying to poach MacOS users. And Apple cares about open source about as much as Microsoft
That's all well and good until they get sued by people who paid $7.5K each for FSD and never got it.
> Updated title: Open-Access JSTOR Database Accessible to the Public

> Correction: 19:42, March 19th, 2020

> A previous version of this article incorrectly stated that JSTOR had made previously unavailable ebooks and journals accessible to the public for the first time. In fact, the materials in question have been available to the public for some time. The headline, subheading and body of this article have been updated to reflect this information.

What’s accessible here is open access in the first place. I don’t see evidence of anything being opened up additionally as a response to the pandemic. Move on, nothing to see here.
Its not a whitepaper, but look into OpenConnect, since i believe thats how they serve a majority of traffic

https://openconnect.netflix.com/en/
I haven't delved that deep into containerland but to me, it seems the main downside of using k8s is the complexity of set up and maintenance.

I'm not sure what's stopping people from developing tools to make the whole containerization process invisible to developers who don't need that much control. I'm sure stuff like that already exists/is being worked on, and I don't know why it shouldn't work.
This is a new and surprising way to argue for corporations against people using a pressing external issue.
I have to imagine that this is to mitigate problems with bandwidth intensive low level networking equipment that is performance sensitive, not application level code. That equipment typically runs code in the languages you mentioned.
A few months ago there was blog post posted here from a guy making movie reviews. In the blog post he described how he managed to get 4k Netflix screenshots on his Chromecast. The effort he made was enormous and involved reverse engineering the Netflix data protocol (I probably worded this wrong).

When doing that he found out that Netflix streaming in 4k isn't actually 4k.

Again not exactly sure how this worked but that was the result. And he put some kind of device between the Chromecast and the TV.
And at the end of the post he shared his top movies of the year or in the previous post.

Does anyone know what I am talking about? I've thought about this pist several times in the past weeks.
Citation needed. In the UK...

"UK broadband companies say they can cope with increased demand as many more people stay at home during the coronavirus crisis."

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-51870732
Best approach is just cancel Netflix (saying this was the reason) and go back to the torrents -- they will still have the best quality.

They are lowering quality (of service or the catalog size, not always video) and keeping or increasing the prices for a while. Using a global pandemic as an excuse is just a new low.
It's perverse because it's harmful to both Netflix and the ISP's customers. The only reason ISPs get away with it is because they hold a monopoly on their user's internet access. If ISPs were subject to competition it would be a no brainer to host a Netflix cache within their network.
It’s still bullshit.
Yes, they do. If you are suggesting they should do what those employees did and quit in protest (which for a company would be to shut itself down), then I guess you are right they don't HAVE to comply with US law... but they do if they want to continue to exist.
Does the current coronavirus pandemic assist you in promoting a teleop model? I'm not sure how much human to human contact there is in the business.
What I mean by incentive is the concrete, day-to-day purchasing decision incentives. I know why it might be a good idea, I just don't know how people could accomplish it.
Isn't this sort of rationing exactly the thing that anti-Net Neutrality advocates have been warning about?
> This is pure speculation

> Expect this to continue

I'm not expecting anything to continue based on "pure speculation."
Is there anyway JSTOR can get the stolen items back though? JSTOR should either go to the police and request that they help them get the stolen items back. Or maybe talk to their insurance company, they might help to compensate them for their losses. But a helpful idea; if Swartz stole something and then put copies of that on a website that is freely accessible, I would suggest just copying it, so that both him and they have the same thing. That's a great thing with the digital world, everyone can have copies of things. I am surprised Swartz stole something when he could just have copied it. I'm guessing he is a older individual that don't know the possibilities of modern day technology to make copies.
There are claims that the US has started doubling up ventilator use. https://twitter.com/drchethansathya/status/12407287691926937...
An updated guide to the coronavirus drugs and vaccines in development
Reinstall Git properly. I use it every day on Windows with no issues.
Obama was forced into broad brush cost reductions.
I'm still angry over the ridiculous overcharging of Swartz and his suicide. I hope Carmen Ortiz never gets another job in law enforcement or politics again, ever, and I shall donate to any primary or general election opponent of hers if she ever runs for any office higher than dog catcher.
Consider that in the US testing has barely started and even then there are a ton pre-conditions to get tested. Any “scary growth curve” of any absolute number you see is almost certainly a reflection of how much tests are being done. More tests means more confirmed results which means a nice scary looking curve.

If you start with a hypothesis that this virus is already in widespread circulation and possibly has been for a while (which is the simplest explanation, mind you), odds are good many people already had it or have it right now.

Only way to prove/disprove if it is widespread is by testing a random sample of the entire population. Something we aren’t doing in the US.
Third-Person Effect
Containers are like front-end frameworks: they are great tools to have, and solve certain problems better than the previous options, but there is a tendency among advocates to assume they are the only tool in the toolbox.
In the U.S., it's common for "coriander" to refer to the seeds, and "cilantro" to refer to the stems and leaves.

Not trying to justify that practice, just explaining.