skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sonic has resold AT&T DSL and, more recently, FTTN services for many years. I think they also recently began reselling AT&T's fiber service in places where Sonic can't build out their own network for technical or economic reasons. See https://forums.sonic.net/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=6798 (User dane is the Sonic CEO and he's very active in the forums.) It's not Sonic Fiber if it's not $49.99 for 1Gbps. Their resold AT&T service has pricing closer to AT&Ts.

If that 1/3 figure includes resold AT&T service, that would definitely be less impressive.

I'm not too optimistic about any city-planned communications infrastructure. The "progressives" hold onto a pipe dream of a free, city-wide public network[1], and they seem to balk at partnering with private companies for this purpose. Fortunately the "progressives" usually fall [just] short of majority control of the city council, and haven't won the mayorship in over 20 years, but they still manage to throw monkey wrenches into sensible plans.

[1] There was (still is?) a master plan to bury fiber with the city's water & sewer network, but I think the city is half done with a city-wide, multi-billion dollar water & sewer refurbishment and replacement project without having buried any fiber at all. I'm sure most people in the city, including myself, would love to see a public fiber built-out, but it's just not financially viable. The city has too much on its plate, and the situation won't ever change. The self-styled "progressive" faction is all talk, and stonewall everything else with feigned outrage, much like national Republicans.
That depends on the filesystem, memory pressure, etc. Most JVM-based apps have quite a bit of filesystem I/O at startup, and a surprising memory footprint. If the kernel's page cache is mostly full of dirty pages, that's a bunch of extra disk writes in order to free up RAM for the JVM.

These startup benchmarks are typically not run with the JVM and application jars being pulled from NFS or AFS on a machine with a lot of dirty pages in the page cache. Some small sh/bash app using curl or wget to hit a REST API is going to have a lot less network and disk I/O in that case, even if bash and curl are being pulled from NFS/AFS. Many companies run JVMs from NFS/AFS to simplify deployment and management.

Also, if the OP is logged into a server running the JVM-based CLI app, they may be running it on a server JVM and getting much more eager JITting.

Maybe it's not fair to the JVM that there are lots of circumstances where things are accidentally tuned poorly for the JVM. On the other hand, there is a lot to be said for tiny apps that are pretty resilient to poor conditions. Sometimes size still matters, even on big servers with plenty of RAM and cores.
"we trying to make great products for people, and we have at least the courage of our convictions to say we don’t think this is part of what makes a great product, we going to leave it out
...
We’re going to take the heat, because we want to make the best product in the world for customers."

This part of the interview is so telling. Steve Jobs basically ignores what consumers tell him because people don't know what they want. It's like my girlfriend when she use to talk about how she wanted to date a nice guy but then ends up with an ass hole like me. People don't know what they want and if you want to win in the game you have to know what people want better than they know themselves.
It took me some time to find. October 7, 2020.
Citation needed. This is a popular narrative but I don't believe it; line count is the only thing that has been shown to be consistently correlated with bug count.
This is a throwaway account as I will be mentioning some slightly sensitive personal details.

I do not currently work in law enforcement or intelligence, but for various reasons from some years ago to the present I have been a member of one of the fusion-center-type communities which Netsential hosts. A small amount of my personal information is included in the breach as a result, but of course, this is far from the first time that's happened to me.

I think you have somewhat of a misunderstanding about Netsential's service offerings. While they do provide physical hosting, that is not their primary product, they are not used for "managing the physical servers (think Dell blade computers for instance) that these websites ran on top of" as you say in the blog post. This is only incidental. Their primary product is the software, which is not very good from either a code quality or user experience perspective, but is reasonably unique in its capabilities. They offer a completely "turnkey" solution, including for example a telephone technical support/customer service line for users of the portals that they staff and handles routine things like password resets.

They're not a hosting company, they are primarily a SaaS operation that also does some custom software development.

So it's not at all true that there's no reason to use them over a cheaper service like Azure. These organizations would need to hire some other company to develop the software if they did that, and that would end up costing them more because they'd be looking at a semi-custom project (COTS CMS solutions would partially meet the needs) rather than "just another license" with Netsential.
Well technically helicopters are propelled by explosions. :)
I worked somewhere that had that happen. The FBI showed up with Yahoo messenger logs from our IP address, they wanted to take our file servers etc (he didn’t save anything on our network, but was signing into those sites while at work)

They ended up having to come back the next day with a new warrant because he was at a branch office but their internet was from a point to point connected to the main office.

They took his pc and I provided them with a months worth of squid logs. We had just spent like $4500 on a new CAD workstation for him.

He’s still in prison.
Curious why pay $15/mo for a seedbox just to securely pirate content.

No judgement, just curiosity.
Check this out. A maker’s take on fixing this problem:

https://youtu.be/2AecAXinars
I thought it would be cement and they were ashamed to admit that. But their site says "no cement use when compared with concrete blocks". Not sure why "no" has to be a relative term, so something sneaky might be going on there.
Here you go, fixed.
Finding a conflicting pair of options/features
So: hardly anyone knows what BSD is, and nearly all of those who have used a BSD-like have done so in the form of macOS.

A giant saltation from most first world computer users being aware of Linux, to hardly anyone knowing what BSD is.

I recall the original netcraft survey being posted on Slashdot aeons ago; the joke to me always seemed to be a good-hearted chuckle at their own obscurity, much like the late Abe Vigoda spent the last 30 years of his life and career reminding people that he was still alive, even working!

Schade's few paragraphs here come across as equally gentle and humorous-he's not really aggrieved that FreeBSD is treated like a Linux distro; he would like avoid the confusion that might cause to users who end up liking it.

What, exactly, BSD users ever did to you remains a mystery; alas, I haven't the spare lifespan to want to figure that out.
It works just fine for me, but it's for my car, and I'm not in a country where Google Home is common.
I dont ever view the Master in Github as something that relates to slavery. It is like Master Key, where the secondary is change key. But it turns out I cant even use the word Master Key any more.
On the contrary I think the music industry is way better now. Curation is already handled for us by algorithms like Discover Weekly.

I’ve discovered far more songs and bands through Spotify than I would have in the pre-Spotify era. And many of these songs are ones with just a few thousand views, as alluded to in your comment.

The modern music industry allows for the best of both worlds.
That’s why I think Apple has tried so hard to break the paid news problem, is that particular ethos still lives on.
I’m currently using some Skyworks PIN and limiter diodes....or are they really Alpha Industries.

Celeretik
WJ
Stanford Microdevices
RF Monolithics
Excelics

All have been assimilated; resistance is futile.
Battle of plassey 1757
US independence 1776

study capital flows, it's not that simple. Wealth and investments crossed borders in the 1700s
SRG/eROSITA uncovers the most X-ray luminous quasar at z6 with 9 photons
I've installed Ubuntu 5 times and been unhappy every time.
I've had 2 Kiesel's semi-custom made for me. Nice guitars and both were under $1500 for made in the USA.
TY!! Very interesting and good point I hadn't thought of: internationally agreed upon synthetic words actually can give second language speakers a leg up when their native language has the same words. Kind of an inversion of the original purpose of the specialized language, which is cool. Many happy returns for your little one!
I just checked a few links sent back and forth between me and another iMessage friend, both from within Messages.app on my Mac, and the synced Messages app on my iPhone. I don't see any IPs being displayed at the end of URL strings when I copy and paste the link from the generated previews. My friend would have definitely only ever sent links from their iPhone, but often I would send mine from the Mac.

How exactly do you find these leaked IPs?
Interesting, but broken in Firefox. Could not get it to run and then I thought "maybe in Chrome..." and then got it to work.
How did you come to the conclusion AD is hugely profitable ?

Thier ROIC is 6.7%
https://www.gurufocus.com/term/ROIC/NAS:ADI/Return%2Bon%2BIn...

This is below the SP500 ROIC.

Visa / Mastercard ROIC is >20%
The only time that I ever had to worry about that was when writing drivers for the Linux kernel.
So the guy made $750,000. Whats your point ??
Huh I'd never thought of that but of course. Interesting! Girl is also an odd word like that. TY!
Did everyone with an interest here see the post here [0] a week ago about free fabbing for 130nm open-source chips?

There's certainly the possibility to do analog chips here, but it would take a big team effort.

(have only dabbled a bit with FPGAs with soft-cores, last project I used one for was ~2009: running Linux on an Altera NIOS core, where we sampled at 100 Msps from an input until we filled up the RAM, then more slowly dumped it over Ethernet to a PC)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23755693
If it’s behind NAT, anything can be used but best practice is to just the 10s
That is the entire current corpus.

It sounds like you were hitting the site whilst it was under a bit of heavy load. From my logs, about the time you posted here on HN, someone was tossing `siege` at the site, and it is not a heavyweight server.

Running certain searches do seem to be able to trigger a pathological response, however, so I'll need to look into that a bit more. Likely to do with some of the nltk stuff it uses when it tries to handle searching summaries.
It was on HBO Now, which you could get with a paid subscription. It's how I watched it in Japan.
>Even a decade ago he could see the danger in most people getting their news from un-curated, un-vetted content.

I mean it's not like fox news is vetted. All the news we get is fed through a biased lens. China filters their stuff through the government but for the United States it goes through a more complicated profit driven filter.
The simplified cost model they use was really surprising. 34% better than the complex pg one not only sounds great (incoming "simple is better" replies below) but is really nice to hear. Hopefully postgres has or will consider changing the default cost model to a simpler, more modern function that takes the current landscape into account.
That sums up our profession so perfectly I want to cry.
Twitter works for them as they can shape the narrative to their own preconceived notions.
Just write "twitter users blast X" which in reality is like 5 people.
Its a fig leaf for whatever they want to write.
The companies that Chinese VCs have invested in, in India, are also subject to Indian laws. No I don't think the Indian government can grab Chinese shares in Indian companies. That is why I'm asking what the problem is if the Chinese invest in Indian companies. To me it seems better that investments are spread between Ambani, the Chinese and all the rest rather than letting Ambani own everything.
How does a 10% weight reduction in such a tiny, light part as a piston (okay, 8 of them or something) result in a 5% output increase?
It’s not that I’m willing to put in the effort, it’s that the scale I operate at requires it. I would rather become highly proficient at SQL and use it universally with any server language than become an expert at a specific ORM.

But I don’t see how one could become an expert at writing ORM queries without knowing the underlining SQL, which means you’re putting in the time to master two languages.

I may be just be an outlier, and that’s fine. I like geeking out over SQL optimization.
Hah! We've been calling ourselves modern for the better part of 7 years. It's all in the eye of the beholder.

e.g. It's happy hour somewhere in the world. Bottom's up!
As a total counterpoint, here is a decidedly non-real-world application of Prolog: writing theorem provers in Prolog.

https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-1-4684-0357-2
I feel like we're missing part of the story here. Are we?
That's the best case scenario, considering that most customers probably don't need to connect to UK DOD. With the way IPv4 shortages are going, the more likely scenario is that some cloud provider/cdn buys that range, and sites start breaking randomly for customers.
Yep. However Chrome doesn't invert the background unless I specify it.

And as far as I'm aware, Firefox doesn't actually have a dark mode preference outside of Preview as of yet. There are plenty of addons - but they all have wildly varying behaviour.
Ask HN: Is a degree in CS worth it?
It seems like most people are now only studying javascript for a couple of months and making out the same as a person with a 4 year degree (with huge debt).

I’m just wondering is it worth it? Should everyone just go the self study/boot camp route and skip college?
Ah, I think this is where Snowpack [snowpack.dev] would come in
I must admit I was wrong when I thought that people could handle wearing masks properly. I took my first trip out in months this weekend to visit family at their house in the mountains. We stayed away from people the whole time and only went out to get groceries. When driving through the town (its a small Colorado tourist town with one strip of shops) only about 50 percent of people had masks on at all. Of those with masks most had them around their chin or not covering their nose. I know that its not as simple to get a perfect air tight fit with n95/p100 but I am not talking about that. People literally just had them hanging on their chin while in large crowds. This was during the day and after dusk. I also noticed a person at the store pull their mask down to talk or sneeze which is the time when its most important to be covered.
None of this is really that surprising. DataFoundry is a real company and pretty typical for the industry, I don't see any particular reason to suspect that they're a front. They're on the small side for the datacenter/colo sector but similar to something like PheonixNAP. While I can't say I know any of their customers personally I have gotten quotes from them in the past which were competitive but not quite the best available.

No particular technical expertise is involved in running these sorts of companies, those staff are hired. The top-level executive management is more reminiscent of commercial real estate than anything technical---it's buying land, building buildings, and putting tenants in them.

That the owners of the company have been involved in Usenet and VPN services is quite unsurprising---these are both industries that are technically simple, easy to get into, and can show a pretty quick profit. The up-front capital involved to get into them is having rack space and connectivity... things that, as owners of a colo outfit, they already had on hand. VPN services also have a high degree of customer overlap and can share infrastructure with usenet, so there is a VERY high degree of overlap between usenet providers and VPN providers---to the extent that it's more suspicious if a Usenet provider doesn't share owners with a VPN provider.
Now Resolved: FB iOS SDK Outage Causing Disruption to 3rd Party iOS Apps
Does anyone have context as to why FB finances a project like this? Is there an economic argument (ie expanding FB’s TAM by bringing more people online)? Or is there something more nuanced about better connectivity means higher quality and better converting ads? Or is this just a charitable effort?
I rebuilt a corporate network for a relatively well known CGI company around a decade ago. They had chosen to use a subnet owned by a big tech company as their internal network. Took me months to convince the CEO that a change was necessary. Ultimately they were unable to download something important that caused them to suddenly care.
> This is the second similar incident this year. [...] While we can’t guarantee a bug-free experience, we have learned from these events and continue to improve the stability of our SDK.

What did they learn, exactly? There wasn't a postmortem on the prior incident, and it would seem that no postmortem is planned for this incident, either.
Well if they actually decide to sue the customer, and get a court order, they could force the ISP to identify them. But that's way more trouble than it's worth in most cases.

And safe harbor laws mean that as long as the ISP is adhering to the notice-and-notice policies, they can't be directly sued for infringement.
Given the numerous examples of false positives / false attribution able to be extrapolated from this website's claims, I wonder if it is giving its owner(s) / operator(s) considerable legal risk.

By calling itself "I know what you download, dot com", it's potentially suggesting that "you are your IP address", thus suggesting that it is usable evidence for others to use against "you", when it actually could not be the case at all. IANAL, but this site seems legally problematic.
Thanks for taking out the ad hominem.

As for the rest, I disagree with your interpretation. It can even be argued that the Indians responded disproportionately to one guy being shoved by attacking everyone in the opposing party. Anyway we can't claim both that the Chinese murdered our troops and also that we killed more than twice of theirs than they did ours (but apparently, when we kill them, it is honourable?)
Pistons? They should also make some lightweight carbon fiber saddles for my horse and carriage.
I'm not clear that I'm reading this correctly, but it seems like the basic setup here was that Facebook had an idea for an innovative hardware solution, and made it happen by collaborating closely with a few experts in different related industries. This is notably different than how Google X does things, or how Facebook has previously worked with Aquila and such, and I wonder whether it'll catch on as a model.
Yes because it is an easy way to craft what ever narrative is desired. There are people with ever possible view point on twitter so once you have the narrative you can find the appropriate tweet to embed.

"There was large scale outrage on twitter about decision X..." followed by an embed of one of three tweets.

It would be very interesting to chart the rise of twitter citations as compared to other sources.
Change that to "This task is repetitive and tedious, we are passing the threshold where writing an automatic solution is more work than manually completing the task"

I write tests when I'm fed up with manually testing. I continue writing tests into the next program, because I'm still fed up with manually testing.

A caveat though is that I despise working on anything UI related, because it's hard to test and I despise manual testing. But that's when I delegate :-)

But thats also why its not just laziness, but lazy and intelligent -- the lazy and dumb man finds no solution, and simply drops the ball, because he's too lazy to do it.

The lazy and smart man is too lazy to do it, and gets away with it
You do make a good point that organic chemistry is going to be a far bigger deal for anyone learning medicine, a separate vocabulary for some words isn't a huge compared with all the new knowledge, and in fact a separate vocabulary from day-to-day maybe helps see things with new eyes. Also getting every doctor to agree on terms is a pretty good idea. I was thinking more for patients who want to know more about their conditions, or even just anyone reading a book who finds the word "lupine" and has to go look it up when they already knew "wolf."
Pistons move very quickly, and faster and faster as engine speed (RPM) increases. Eventually, getting the piston to change direction becomes not only a parasitic loss of power on its own, but introduces a lot of design challenges around the strength and design of the crankshaft bearings, connecting rods, and piston retention pin. Furthermore, the crankshaft should balance the weight of the pistons, so losing weight from the pistons also loses weight from the crankshaft. Reducing the mass of the pistons often adds more headroom in these components and enables the engine to reach a higher maximum operating RPM (redline), and since horsepower is a function of torque x speed (RPM), increasing redline often directly increases peak output.
And after a while now trying to read non-Blogs, I believe he was right. There is a market for a Netflix for News.
I'm a low volume and boring user. I also have <no> messaging from GitLab, so there isn't much to say.

Also, what kind of poor user behavior on my part means opening up my account for registration? Let's say that Rush Limbaugh is kicked off of Twitter for bad behavior — should I be able to claim his account?

And shouldn't the hypothetical Twitter user get an email warning them that their account is about to be opened up for public registration? I only tried to register under my own account to test whether my account had been disabled.
Yeah but doesn’t it feel like a race to the bottom? I mean, it feels like our politicians think country X is doing it so we (western democracy) better too, or risk losing global position in military/economy/etc
If someone puts great effort and cost into producing media, why would others be entitled to get the fruits of that labor for free? Game of Thrones is a luxury, not a necessity; people aren't entitled to it just because they want it and refuse to pay for it.
Reminded me of the old joke: "here's the solution, but it only works for spherical cows in a vacuum".
Well, web apps are crap on Android too compared to actual native API apps...

And of course they're crap on PC (Electron).
You have a fair point regarding not fueling a known adversary. I'm not sure about the influence part, as they have very far from a controlling share in the Indian investments I'm aware of. There is HDFC Bank, but their the Chinese share doesn't exceed 2%. Dubai I think has a larger share than the Chinese.
too hard to maintain as this is a moving number
AdamMoris
"Why not invest in space ?"
"Why not invest in healthcare ?"
"Why not...."

Such a tired line of thinking. And in Google's case it invests in most major causes.
Can we please stop using -gate as a suffix for anything on the spectrum from annoyance to full blown scandal?
No, _we_ didn't decide anything regarding the perfectly acceptable use of the word "master". The enraged mob has demanded it -- don't reward mobs.

To use the word to make light of the history of slavery is vulgar and socially unacceptable. The myriad other perfectly innocent uses of it are just fine. Personally, I have no intention of obeying any of the new rules of the new Cultural Revolution.