skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In it's heyday Starent equipment was excellent, but I don't think it's as good since Cisco bought them. So for MME's, S/P-GW's, etc I would use again. This was the standard that I tried to hold the other vendors to on support, upgradeability, configuration, etc. The OAM / support systems were pretty weak, but our team just didn't bother to use them, and the built in tools were better.

For DNS, infoblox appliances were good. Infoblox didn't have much experience with the GSMA DNS setup or carrier roaming, so they weren't well positioned to help us, but most the problems we had were with the GSMA specs and our partners being wonky, not Infoblox itself, so we managed to get through those issues on our own.

I never used in production, but we had Acme packet SBC's in our lab for awhile, which looked like they'd be great. But that's under Oracle's umbrella now, so probably something to avoid.

Our teams also really liked Tekelec for SS7 routing but I never used it myself. I looked at Tekelec's DRA and it looked like it was pretty good and well designed, but again it's Oracle now.

I don't have much direct experience with alcatel's stuff in production. I worked with them on a reseller agreement, so the resold equipment doesn't really reflect them, and doing some evals. Alcatel's CSCFs looked competent, but I think our PCRF team was really struggling from what I saw.

And yea, telecom is in that state, were it's jointly developed standards, but the implementations are very vendor driven. As an industry, the software all needs to be high performance, high capacity, and it's following millions of pages of standards, and then the add on's that the carriers want to do. I don't think there is much incentive for telecoms to go OSS on the telecom handling, although multiple vendors are starting to build off of OSS cloud native stuff. So it'll be interesting to see providers using kubernetes for example for a control plane and upgrades / capacity expansion. Or whether it's possible to integrate with an open tracing.

In my view, OSS for along time was way behind what the telco's were doing from a troubleshooting / high availability / services perspective. But the establishment of the CNCF and all the projects under that umbrella seem to be jumping over what telco's had as proprietary solutions. How those get merged in will be interesting to see.
Signal has always been very opinionated, for example, by requiring a phone number. But in my view these decisions have been justified by a consistent focus on verifiable security, ease of use, and very importantly "hard to mess up"ness that so much encryption software lacks.

But the decision to force users to set a pin and store their contacts in the cloud is a bad one. I'm not interested in storing any of my data in your cloud and I don't believe depending on Intel SGX makes sense.

For years I have unhesitatingly recommended Signal and it's allowed me to get many friends and relatives, some elderly or non-technical, to start using strong encryption in their messaging.

As soon as signal put up a pin creation screen that couldn't be removed I started to get calls from people not knowing what was going on. WTH are they thinking?

I understand the features that this would enable but why burn so much hard earned trust by forcing users to store their "profiles" on your servers?
> The solution is to have more common standards, make standards more accessible, and use existing standards whenever possible.

"The great thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from. "
This is awesome. Congratulations, and best of luck. I played around with the product little bit and it looks really nice.
Let's try and unmuddy the waters here a bit....

"Vaccines Do Not Cause Autism"

Are you saying that this assertion is unequivocally known to be true? No uncertainty or possibility of future conflicting discoveries whatsoever?

> In any case, the evidence-based rejection that vaccines cause a specific harm is not equivalent to propaganda that they are harmless. The existence of the compensation program is an explicit acknowledgement that they are not harmless, as well as an easier route to compensation for games than exists for most drugs.

Scope expansion is an effective form of rhetoric (which some people classify as a form of propaganda in itself). Not saying this was intentional on your part, I tend to believe it is simply an innate/instinctual ability (System 1, in Thinking Fast and Slow parlance) of the subconscious. I am surely guilty of the same thing at times.

Also: how did you come to know what everyone working for the CDC knows?
Apple and Amazon seem to have ways through which they can be proven to abuse their position and can get decoupled through an investigation.

What would be the play on FB? They own three large data silos but do they leverage one to gain competitive advantage on other? I just use WhatsApp these days, so I am not sure of this. AFAIK, they allow you to export your data like photos out of FB, so that can't be proven to lock in your data as well. So, will this investigation be limited to their algortihmic ranking for posts or matching for ads?
Visit a store in Japan.

Piece of fruit wrapped in cling film, shrink-wrapped in plastic, tucked into a foam lattice, placed into a styrofoam mold, put in a box, wrapped in paper, then wrapped again by the shop, placed in a small bag that goes into a larger bag.

Even as an American, I never really knew wastefulness until I started going to Japan.
They are both the best and worst world health organization we have. I think we kinda need a world health organization.
Agree. Math isn't as important, but things one doesn't fully grasp 'just programming' are things like internal language management (eg: garbage collection, speed difference in different algos, pointer impacts [lang dependent], call outs to other libraries, etc)

"Just throw more EC2 units at it" (which is fine and I agree with) - until a Node Js API handles 100 req/s in prod.
Chamath Palihapitiya: Why Bitcoin Will Be ‘The Category Winner’
Yes, they do.

And your second example is a very usual thing to do with them.

(The first isn't common, but is doable, it's common to use types to enforce that failure is handled, not that it fits some extra requisites.)
I guess you meant to say "finger off the scale", after carbon burners are no longer permitted to externalize environmental damage for free. If it had been collected starting when we knew it would cause catastrophe, and commensurate with the catastrophe, we would be carbon-negative by now. Clawing it back, retroactively, from those enriched by causing the catastrophe would be helpful even now.
EFF's 30th Anniversary Livestream Event – July 10th 2020
37% of all US jobs can be done from home [pdf]
Screenflow has paid for itself multiple times over- business use, personal use... I use it easily 5 to 10 times a week.
>the religious POV

There is no "the religious POV" and for some purposes, it seems practically and morally compelling to use a similar definition to what persecutors of Jews use, rather than a traditional religious one.
>The idea that it's one giant money suck for businesses with no immediate return to the economy is not really accurate - it's not a zero-sum game.

No one argues $600B wouldn't help the economy. Can you point to where I said PPP will not help the economy?

Most people are starting to understand the fraud involved with PPP and understanding those funds could have gone to individuals and the money would have found its way back into the economy just the same...only faster as its not distributed out over 8 weeks with 25% reserved for non-payroll business expenses.

Of course there are arguments for why the money should have gone to businesses as it did and not people...but you don't hear any lawmakers making those argument publicly and if you do its limited to "we are saving jobs." My argument, if you feel compelled to call it that, is that there is no proof these jobs have been saved unless delaying unemployment by 8 weeks is considered a job.
The CDC would be a better analog to WHO. We haven't heard much about them because.... Well, it's a good thing U.S. health organizations haven't also made the crisis worse with politics-ridden confusion, misinformation, and incompetence, right?
It is not true that entire loan is forgiven if the payroll percent is met. Only the actual money spent on forgivable expenses (payroll + rent + interest on some debt) is forgivable. If you read the forgiveness application this is clear.

Overall though I’d expect 75-95% of program funds to be forgiven as they have extended the time window from 8 to 24 weeks making it much easier to use all funds in a forgivable way.
A company can’t “order” you to stay overnight. Unlike the military you can walk away.
Bottom line:
How is it the WHO did not declare a pandemic until Mar 11?
TOTALLY!

Yeah, there are a lot of little tricks we do (and many more we still need to) to help defend the time. Part of the solution also involves asking the user how "aggressive" they want us to defend the time.

Sounds like you've got very relevant experience here. We're hiring btw ;)
I...hope this is sarcasm?

African people are afraid of the dark...just like little kids?

I don't understand what you're trying to say.
What gets measured gets treasured.

alternate form: The uncountable is of no account
In my experience of the same field, the only lab you can consistently trust the outputs from is Microsoft Research. I don't know if they have some kind of blind QA or something, but everything from them has worked as advertised.
Doesn't appear anyone has tried addressing before replacement - ie the simplest sed work-a-like - if you don't mind the leading ### is just:

sed -n '/^### /p'

I believe? (equivalent to grep).

Then eg:

sed -nr '/^### /s/^.{4}(.*)/\1/p'

(or without the redundant addressing, just:)

sed -nr 's/^### (.*)/\1/p'
Analogous terminology for Stock and Flow are the Garden and Stream metaphors explored in Mike Caulfield's _The Garden and The Stream: A Technopastoral_. https://hapgood.us/2015/10/17/the-garden-and-the-stream-a-te...
Why should facts exert a slow pull? In addition to any unknown constraints with neural mechanisms an overly high learning rate has been noted with neural networks as resembling schizophrenia in some ways. Plus whatvever physiological constraints limit how fast minds could change.

I suspect it effectively functions as minor anti-mindhacking measure as bizzare and dumb as it sounds. It would protect against adversarial input.

If there was no mental inertia then "false facts" which check out to all verification measures could prove quite dangerous as input which outweighs all past known could be easily exploited by bad actors to change what they "know" and exploit it from there.
The WHO declared coronavirus a global health emergency in January. Meanwhile Trump said “We have it totally under control” in January. Which of those perspectives proved true?
> A tiny drop in the bucket of the US budget to keep polio from resurging in the developing world sounds like a decent investment.

Definitely.

Can you double check the source I linked? I did and it contradicts with the wikipedia which is weird.
> In that case, Iowa is doing very badly for cases/1M.

This is interesting to me. I don't personally know anyone who has caught Coronavirus, much less been hospitalized or died from it.

If this is average or worse than average, it really makes me wonder why we've gotten so worked up about the re-opening. I assumed based on the way it's covered on the news that people were dropping like flies in other parts of the world.
I don't know about 8 miles, but you can greatly extend your WiFi range with an external WiFi antenna and a large dish.
Not a scientific article, but this blog post gives some numbers for Sweden: https://emanuelkarlsten.se/more-swedes-died-in-one-month-199....

One big question would be why they chose April 2020 as the comparison point rather than May or June -- did the number of deaths per month in Sweden actually drop?

(I haven't read the article closely, and don't have a horse in this race --- I just thought it was apropos. Feel free to tear it to shreds if appropriate.)
I've always avoided that for fear that my or someone else's editor will accidentally replace the tabs with space. Mixed is not a common configuration, these days.
I thought the period got extended to 24 weeks?
Ok, good point. We've put that in the title.
Because apparently no one remembers the other "free" fab service.

https://www.themosisservice.com/university-support

Previously MOSIS would run select a few student/research designs to go along with the commercial MPW runs, frequently on pretty modern fabs. I'm not really sure how much they still run.

(oh here is the MOSIS/TSMC runs for this year https://www.mosis.com/db/pubf/fsched?ORG=TSMC)
Also, the article is not claiming she's right, nor am I. All of what you're saying might be true, except for 1 thing:

who isn’t speaking in good faith

I have absolutely no reason to assume this is true. She could be transphobic or just misinformed, but nothing in her past suggest that she's a hateful bigot.

The evidence of that is that she talked about being a sexual assault survivor in her anti-trans manifesto

If this trauma caused her to become transphobic, is this really the best reaction?
Most people interpreted it as a horizontal flip like you did, though some cursed souls leapt to doing a vertical flip and converting it into a DAG. A horizontal flip is actually extremely simple, just check the base case, swap the pointers and recurse. Arguably easier than fizzbuzz, and imo a pretty solid interview question. A good argument for physically flipping it instead of tagging it as flipped is that localizes the operation instead of leaking a (potentially recursively) tagged tree into the rest of the application. Of course all the ink spilled about binary tree 'inversion' doesn't have much to do with the actual interview, which apparently was actually about converting from a min-heap to max-heap. Max also self-described as 'rude' w/r/t the interview, so hard to know if the heap incident was even why he wasn't selected.
"waste management makes sure that no garbage gets into the ocean"

I don't think this is the case in reality though. I live in a coastal city in a "first world" country and waste management here can't deal with seagulls getting hold of bin bags and ripping them to pieces for the food inside, scattering plastics that blow into the sea. People are also terrible at disposing of things carefully - there's plenty of plastic waste floating around after a weekend of people on the beach.
> But if a majority of females would prefer to have a female only space for something else (bathroom, gym, etc.) to what extent are they obligated to accommodate trans women in including them? How do we arbitrate between those interests?

> Interesting. Could it be that having spaces specifically for trans-* people might be more beneficial for social harmony and individual comfort than turning "female" spaces into "women's" spaces?

These are interesting questions. So I offer only some food for thought:

What's best for "social harmony" and what is just or morally right don't always agree. Keeping schools segregated was likely best for social harmony (at least at the moment), but I think we're all better off for the US having integrated schools. Ultimately, any change for the benefit of an underrepresented group will have to start somewhere, and that first change will likely cause discord in the community.

Is having trans-only and cis-only spaces good? Maybe. Is it long term problematic? Almost assuredly. I'm not saying I have the correct answer here. I don't think anyone does (note that the trans woman I'm paraphrasing wasn't, I don't think, using this argument to say that we should have trans-only spaces, but simply that they can empathize with the connection).
You're right. I think it's time to hang up my username and go learn some math.
Do you know any restaurant owners or managers? Ask them about the drop in revenue and how long it can be sustained. Ask them how many employees they had and how many they need for curbside take out. Ask if they would have fired people absent PPP. Ask if they kept people employed because of PPP.

Do you have a better suggestion? I doubt it. There are to many edge cases in business to create a program that will be perfect. So your alternative is to take the risk of mass bankruptcies. If PPP designers and law makers are wrong billions are wasted. If your approach tested and is wrong, the economy is wrecked. Decision is easy when framed that way.
LuaJIT implementation of the Smalltalk-80 interpreter and performance comparison
I like to do:

help() { cat $0 }

"May the source be with you." : )
It seems obviously wasteful to keep such businesses open where most the paying customers won't be showing up during a pandemic anyways. Why even pay to have the lights on? You need to mothball the operation ASAP and lobby for government assistance for the duration.

I was just poking at rough figures last night out of curiosity regarding when the other end of this arrives in terms of 60% herd immunity for the US. Just pulling numbers out of my ass, like 200,000,000 for 60% and an avg infection rate of 100,000/day. With those figures it's 5.5yrs before 60% gets infected. We're at more like 50,000/day last I checked, but who knows how accurate that is.

Either way, it looks like this is going to be a life of masks and social distancing for a long time. Hopefully a vaccine arrives in volume before 5+ years go by.
Taking that quote at face value: at the time, they trusted the Chinese authorities. This isn't terribly unreasonable. I think in retrospect we can say, yeah, they obviously shouldn't have trusted the Chinese authorities then, and they definitely shouldn't trust them in the future. But at the time, the idea that trusting them was a bad idea was more a thing people said than something backed by solid evidence.

Alas, sometimes large bureaucracies take a while to catch up with common sense. (See also, fax machines).

There actually is solid, undeniable evidence now, which is great! Let's see how they apply that in the future.
Your suggestion was more what i was thinking, perhaps something more limited in scope than a general processor. An application that comes to mind is an intentionally simple and auditable device for e2e encryption.
as a slight aside, i found this article very easy to read...

i appreciated the break-up every few paragraphs with a new heading and a picture or two

makes for a big contrast to "wall of text" articles that can get tiring after a pqge or so
It’s fantastic and should be used by most CLI programs. Argparse is much faster and avoids having a dependency, so it does serve a purpose.
Sfyria, an Ancient Whistling Language
>I don't know anyone who's had even a single dollar forgiven yet.

This is what I meant by political couching: Do you know any one who has paid back a single dollar?

>These are loans.

Fine care to loan me $1M and I'll pay you back 20% with interest.
That's an excellent question!

It may be worth considering that the answer may not be as significant as some might guess. GATE is an exam that tests if you're ready for graduate school. Part of being ready for a specialized field is being fluent in the vocabulary and parlance used in that field, as this enables rapid learning and smooths communication. That you can understand the ideas if they are restated and re-expressed in a form more familiar to you is not as helpful as it sounds if you cannot engage with your peers without laborious translations. Have you ever tried to discuss imperative programming with someone who only knows functional programming, or the converse?

Medical, legal, chemical, and other fields have evolved conventions of specialized vocabulary for the same reasons. They make it possible to have very detailed communications in dense, rapid ways.

Agian, you raise an excellent and wise point. There is definitely a great deal of learning vocabulary in something like this.
Human presence reduces importance of climate in driving fire activity across US
I also would like to take a look on code and all input files.
Suppose you made a list of all of the scandals or dumb things that a given state government or federal agency had been involved in, and then said it should be abolished. That's not a normal thing; nobody would take you seriously.
>You've seen the sides of the roads. You've seen the streams and rivers.

My local rivers are relatively plastic-free. Same with roads. They're not completely free of plastic, of course. Given that there are thousands of plastic bags being dispensed in my neighborhood every day and that the roads/rivers aren't being regularly cleaned, the fact that the neighborhood isn't completely filled with plastic bags makes me think that the overall disposal rate is pretty good.

Plastic litter might be the most visible externality of single use plastics, but I'm not quite sure whether tripling our co2 emissions from plastic bags is a worthwhile trade for eliminating plastic bags from our neighborhoods.
It's still irritating that Larry Page has never successfully been brought before Congress for questioning. It's arguable that the entire Alphabet/Google structure was done in part to begin the process of isolating the founders from having to testify[1], despite being the key decisionmakers in much of Google's operations over the past decade, and still technically being in control today. Every time he's been asked for, we get someone like Pichai, or even more insultingly, Kent Walker[2].

Our nation has asked Larry Page to testify many times before, it's about time we start ordering him to.

[1] https://twitter.com/ewarren/status/1202294177444302849
[2] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-09-04/google-to...
Withdrawal from the WHO takes at least a year.

which means that no, we haven't fully withdrawn from the WHO.

With luck and given the last 6+ months of polls, we have just added "unfuck this, too" to the to-do list of the first two years of a new adminstration's agenda.
I am not talking about whole world; I was talking in particular about US. It is still unclear about the final death tall of Covid, but it clearly is going to be close to a million, perhaps 2 or so. You operate with a very odd definition of Pacfifc Rim btw, USA, Canada, Mexico, Equador were all hit badly - all of them are countries of pacific rim.

Sweden is actually an excellent example of a bad policy. Economically doing as bad as their neighbors, and had enormous death toll compared to Norway, Germany, Iceland, Denmark and Finland, countries (esp. Norway) with similar culture and attitudes. Also we are in summer now, and the virus may well come back and hit Sweden with a lot bigger force, just because so much more of it there.

Not locking down during the Hong Kong flu was by the way a terrible decision. Had they introduced at least some measures, such masks and limited lockdowns the number of dead would have been much lower.

I by the way divided NY rate by 3, I counted as if all of NYC had acquired the disease. So no, .2% is reasonable expectaion, and .1% of total population of will clearly be reached within several months, it is already halfway there.
Scientists offer roadmap for studying link between climate and armed conflict