skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> HTTP/2 is something a client connection upgrades to.

to which I as a normal person on a normal phone has no control.

> Also, a design hint, if you actually want to try to build something competitive to HTTP/3

I'd need to control a major browser's code base.

Lets get one thing clear, HTTP is, has never been and almost never will be efficient. The entire HTML/JS/HTTP web is never going to be efficient. If the web was a meritocracy based on protocols, HTTP would have died a death at CERN.

> perspective of e.g. an internet backbone ops engineer.

They'd terminate the connection as close to the client as possible and palm it off to the local FAANG pop and make it someone else's problem. That and adding pop's for porn hub and torrent filters will knock out >70% of your precovid interconnect traffic.

> If you think you're so smart, write an RFC

I already work for a FAANG during the day, I'm not going to put free hours in at night. And I'm certainly not going to get involved in cross company politics.

> a point when explicit OSI-style encapsulating layering

OSI has never been correct, its a fib told to students to make them think there is any kind of order past tcp/udp. I'm talking about not putting control signals in the same TCP connection that you are shoving tonnes of data down. That's never going to scale past 70-100ms. yes its very neat, but

> zero-copy binary serialization protocols like Capn Proto from a process with direct userland Ethernet access

from the protocol level, its not actually that much different, unless you are doing some sort of multiplexing down a single TCP pipe.... now, if you trying to balance throughput and latency on the same connection, thats can be really tricky. An answer is not to use the same connection. You do what FASP does which is use UDP for bulk and TCP for control/accounting.

> like generating and streaming a JSONL

you can easily use TCP at one packet a minute, or maxing out a 10 gig link. (I know, I've written a FASP replacement.)

> semantics such that it can be downgraded to HTTP/1.1

you can downgrade 10gig-t to 10m/s that has no bearing on its performance, unless you terminate it badly. Its just a preamble, then for the life of the connection, an utter irrelevance.
Yes, you can be sure the c level suite is at least getting updates and monitoring the deal if not involved in the f2f meetings. These types of massive deals always involve back scratching as well.
Per the other sub-thread, the light and cover has different functions, and one cannot replicate the other. Depending on your needs, you might want the light and/or the cover.
> It's not splitting hairs if the expected reaction time and circumstances are so different.

No, the likelihood of incident is vastly lower in the air, but the required reaction time is not necessarily different and could easily be a lot lower, particularly if you are flying IFR. That's the whole point, much like in a car, a pilot must have eyes outside the cockpit.

Again, I'm not arguing that Tesla is right here about advertising, just that the two technologies are very similar in nature. The other big difference is the fact that pilots have to go through training and are tested on their understanding of the specific technology they control. Drivers, never have to be certified or trained on any specific vehicle.

If a pilot treats autopilot in a plane the way some people treat it in a Tesla, there would be a lot more fatalities in air travel, particularly in smaller aircraft with older technology.
FANG has seized the means of production.
Likely nothing qualifies as a medical record. The point is that CCPA creates categories of personal information that companies must inform customers of if they collect and/or disclose of.

The CCPA requires disclosure at the "category" level (https://oag.ca.gov/privacy/ccpa#collapse1d). The categories appear to be (https://reciprocitylabs.com/resources/what-are-the-ccpa-cate...). You can see that in that table, medical records are lumped under customer records category.
It also has a section "Undisputed US support"
The list of the most exciting corporate incubators and business builders
I've never understood why people used Redbox when you have to physically go to a kiosk, you're limited to whatever movies are in that kiosk, and worst of all - you rent by the night, so if you decide not to watch it, you've either got to return it, unwatched, or pay more.

Netflix still does DVD rentals, and though it's been a few years since I've used it, they had a great selection and except for some new releases just after relese, they were always in stock.
"Defense attorneys suggested the murder was a politically motivated killing carried out by sympathizers of the Khmer Rouge, but offered no evidence to support this theory.[13] Kang Kek Iew, a former Khmer Rouge official on trial in Cambodia, claimed in November 2009 that Ngor was murdered on Pol Pot's orders, but U.S. investigators did not find him credible."

More likely just murder and theft, it seems.
That's an odd way to look at things. Google, Microsoft, and Amazon are in turn reliant on Intel for the CPUs that power their cloud services. Does that put Intel in a class above them? No -- it's just companies buying stuff from other companies so they can focus on what they're good at.

* and going one step further, all of these rely on a handful of janitorial companies to operate. so maybe the ABMs of the world are in the top class?
I never call until I’ve exhausted all self service options.

I don’t need to be told every time “Did you know...you can find us online to X, Y, and Z?”

Verizon customers are paying more because they expect more, so this move by them is disappointing.
The article says "Intel and AMD license the CISC, so they’re the only ones making x86 chips". The "so" in this sentence doesn't seem to make sense since if they're licensing it then presumably others are making them. Also, AMD and Intel aren't the only ones making x86 chips since both VIA and Zhaoxin are also making them (and possibly others that I'm not aware of).
Unless I am mistaken, this study reports on Facebook’s own test of News Feed algorithms. Facebook ran the test in 2012, supposedly to determine whether posts with emotional content are more engaging. This study (published in 2014, by the way—could someone edit the title?) appears to be examining the data from that test.
you think adding code takes a long time? try removing code!
Shit I have the same scope.
He not quite the richest man on the planet - that's Jeff Bezos.

16-richest, from the last Forbes ranking that shows up on Google.
This is a cool article. I have always wondered the internals of JPEG and this has lots of details. Just as an FYI it should be a "Show HN:".

Edit: NVM! I didn't realize you didn't post this.
These sorts of deals have whole teams attached to them. If you're buying nearly a billion dollars in Google products, Google has hired people specifically to work the TikTok account.

The biggest thing I wonder when these sorts of "probably C* level" deals is how often they get negotiated for political and/or marketing reasons, and then are just handed down to staff to figure out how to make them work. I've definitely seen major shifts in third party products selected long before anyone on the tech side gets involved to find out what the implementation is going to look like. Sometimes by the time you get IT involved, it's too late and way too high level to put the brakes on something if it isn't as ideal as promised.
Capitalism doesn't aim to redistribute resources fairly. It aims to allocate them effectively. Those that find efficient means of production acquire more resources. This cause more effective use of resources available and thus more resources become available for everyone.

Yes pure capitalism fails some people and a mix of small amounts of socialism help those in need. But prosperity does far more to help the poor than equality. Extreme inequality is bad
Check out xonsh which is an application of python + that sort of idea to the problem space of shell scripting.

https://xon.sh/
Would this be that UFO-looking thing you stick in the ground outside. Or this is literally a router(box in home) that connects to what before connecting to the satellite(s)?
make an account, start marking things as not interested, including songs (you have to tap and hold to see this on android)

push like on the stuff you do.
I feel like I read something once that said when writing numerical/scientific code, traditionally there were so many weird high performance computers that were used, e.g. Crays or whatever, you'd have to be robust to all sorts of different types of FP anyway.

Nowadays maybe that sort of diversity is less of an issue? Expecting determinism in the sense you mean it just seems weird to me.
The will of some people. Of course the people that oppose you are against “the will of the people” and over the course of the “revolutionary struggle” it would be a shame if those people dissappeared.
I might not agree entirely, or even mostly, but I have seen how trying to emulate google can seriously harm applications or open source projects. Guess etcd is an example.
Oh god, I hate these foot-switched power cords. I still remember my second job, when in the middle of some work I accidentally stepped on the foot switch. Hearing the distinctive "click", I froze. At that moment, I felt like a character in a war movie, who just stepped on a land mine. Instinctively, I pulled a knife from my pocket, carefully slid it under my shoe, held the button down with it, asked a co-worker to fetch me my bag, and duct-taped the switch along with the knife.

The switch stayed that way ever since, until eventually we had to move to a larger office.
Yes if I'm remembering correctly this study was published by Facebook data science after some psych lab published a study that went semi-viral suggesting people were more unhappy when their network made mostly happy posts (which was explained by jealousy/comparing self to others).

I remember thinking both studies had limitations, the main one here being that the interpretation is a stretch and to me was obviously trying to push back on the original popular narrative.

Point being, I agree it is definitely plausible that seeing positive posts encourages more showing off rather than actual happiness. I would be interested if anyone is aware of any more recent follow-up studies?
Streaming via satellite is actually quite painful, and getting a 4glte data plan is almost always the better option over satellite (from personal experience).
When I program in Standard ML or F# I always use parentheses to make it clearer that a function call is happening.
> Kissinger's documented order was "anything that flies on anything that moves".

Wrong. That quote is a report from a direct order from Nixon.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/...
In a similar vein, Don't Think I've Forgotten: Cambodia's Lost Rock and Roll
It’s option-shift-hyphen on a Mac. And you can get at em dashes on an iOS keyboard by long pressing the hyphen. Not so difficult.
I don't understand why I can't condone bullying or rape threats. I am on the left, I hate it when the right does it too. There is this sentiment though that bulling, threats, doxing, and getting someone fired are "consequences" of free speech. Even though this is happening to people I happen disagree with, I still don't think it is right. I don't think the entire left is like this, but I never have to read to far down on Twitter before I find someone exhibiting these bad behaviors.
That word (imposter syndrome) does not mean what you think it does :)
Thats the point!

The network provides simple and easily controllable ip allocation. You don't need to do any of it, just offload it to AWS/GC/Azure.

Slam another network card/VLAN, give it a seperate ip range from the control network, and everything is handled for you, quickly, securely and efficiently.
FWIW there was some backlash at the time: https://www.wsj.com/articles/furor-erupts-over-facebook-expe...
I think the point wasn't people not having it available or not using it by choice, but people who are used to having it and now having to imagine not having it.
We had something similar at DTU in Denmark, albeit long before the times of TensorFlow and other “modern” ML.

Lane keeping was a solved problem back then.
Making a company's employees (grad students) suddenly move continents from a place they'd been living for 3 years is a pretty big harm.
I can shelter in place for 14 days to get safe.
Their radar/ultrasound has awful angular resolution. That's where LIDAR excels.

This is why Telsa cars run into trucks parked across the street. Their stereoscopic depth map is shoddy and the radar or ultrasound has awful angular resolution that can't tell the difference between an object parked next to the street and one parked in the middle of the street.

> "In the long-term, they don't win if they don't get this right."

They've been claiming they're on the cusp of getting it right in the short-term for years. So far, my cynicism has served me well.
New Joe Biden plan sees millions of jobs in aggressive climate action
> They don’t travel well, so you’re unlikely to find them fresh outside of Ontario, Quebec.

They grow in massive quantities in BC. They are a major food source for black bears and their frequently-encountered shit is packed with seeds from the berries.
You’re playing word games too. The US never armed the Taliban. Yes, the US armed anti-Soviet fighters in the 80’s and many of those fighter ended up joining the Taliban years later, but to say “the US armed the Taliban” is being dishonest.
Yes! My internet box has this and it's practical: one button turns on and off the status LEDs. They are off mostly, and on on boot or rare times I need to check the status.
"If you wanted someone who writes as many lines as possible, you should have hired a secretary."
Comp on this deal is likely less than 1 million usd.

There’s a cap to the payout a sales rep can get.
I like @syshum have access to 1 gbit fiber in my current home area.

I am excited for Starlink to be able to buy a couple arces of land much further out and still be able to have "reasonable" internet that I'm able to work remotely.
Well... wait until you see pricing. Even if it comes in at the speculated $80/month price point, many people will find it cheaper and faster to stick with their terrestrial internet. There aren't many people willing to pay $80/month for a backup connection they'll only use once every month or two. (I'm one of them, I usually have at least one Comcast outage a month, from a few hours to a few days). I'm in a bit of a celluar dead zone, I get one bar of signal from AT&T or Verizon, and only if I walk up to the second floor)
Is making a trip to the post office too much work?
The article does touch on this:

"New restrictions will also apply to use of the company's broadband kit.

Operators are being told they should "transition away" from purchasing new Huawei equipment for use in full-fibre networks, ideally within the next two years."

Not clear if this is just FTTP or whether it includes FTTC, but I doubt there's a lot of new investment in FTTC going forward.
Is there a justification for this behavior?

This makes it quite hard to "sight-read" code with reasonably-sized function names and arg lists:

do_some_thing_descriptive (some_arg_2, some_longer_arg)

[ ... other code ]

do_some_very_descriptive_thing(some_arg_2, some_longer_arg)

I imagine that each file would try to remain internally-consistent with preferring one syntax over the other.

IMO, in scenarios where a module must remain internally-consistent on its one-of-many-ways to do it, for the sake of legibility, there should be only one way to do it. Although, I'm open to hearing any good-faith arguments to the contrary!
70% of bugs patched on Windows are memory bugs (buffer overflow, use after free, etc.), linked source below. If someone could make a fuzzer that actually finds these, the nature of our constant security update world would change.
https://msrc-blog.microsoft.com/2019/07/16/a-proactive-appro...
George R. R. Martin: The World of Ice and Fire (2014)
Broadband is not just for entertainment. Almost all quality educational content has moved to (surprisingly) Youtube.
Now you're confusing people with a philosophy in the reverse direction.

Yes, there are conservatives who lean towards an inclusive, tolerant society. But in this they are at odds with the political philosophy generally called "conservatism".

The fundamental concepts of conservatism are generally at odds (to some extent) with everything you've said above. Can there be people who believe everything you've said above and call themselves conservative? Absolutely. They have a definite political philosophy, and it may overlap with conservatism in various ways, but in some critical senses, it is anti-conservative.

Conservatism as a political philosophy is not easy to characterize, but core components are generally held to include:

* a preference for the status quo (whatever that happens to be) in culture, politics, social order, religion and more.
* a belief that heirarchical societies reflect a natural heirarchy of the human condition
* a belief that shared culture is required for social cohesion
* a belief that moral relativism (or the idea that all cultures are equal in standing) is wrong
* a belief that faith-based morality (whatever faith or morality that might be) should play a role in politics
* a belief that there are good people and bad people, and that the differences are not (all) circumstantial

These things have been at the core of "modern" western conservatism since Edmund Burke, and continue to underpin the positions of media conservatives today. They were the core of "intellectual conservatism" in the 60s and 70s (Buckley et. al). They are the key beliefs that differentiate conservatism from both libertarianism and progessive ideology.

So sure, I also know people who would call themselves conservatives who don't buy into every one of these, or do so only to varying degrees. They're perfectly entitled to do that, just as I don't consider myself to be someone who agrees with every tenet of progressivism (for example). And who knows, perhaps some of their views do in fact represent a viable and sensible path forwards for society.

But to whatever extent they refute or disavow any of these ideas, they are refuting and disavowing conservative political philosophy and instead creating their own smorgasborg. This is a very American thing to do (c.f. US Catholics and their take-it-or-leave-it approach to papal edicts) and it's a fine way to live your life. But it doesn't change what conservative political philosophy is, in the same way that progressives who feel that perhaps black people should get their own country or something do not define progressive political philosopy.
That is why critiquing and opposing bad ideas is important. Idealism and altruism do not inherently improve or redeem goals or philosophies.
There is lots of evidence of the US supporting gangsters throughout the middle east and then later going to war against them. So much so, that the intelligence agencies responsible invented a word for it.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blowback_(intelligence)
I think you're underestimating how much work there is at the management level, especially in larger organizations. When management is doing their job, it won't be visible to you or your team. Things will just "align", and work well - but if things are moving smoothly in an organization with multiple teams, your management is working well.

There is a lot of systems thinking required in managing team structures, interfaces between those teams, managing communication between teams, hiring, setting technology standards & architecture, and so on (review the rest of this thread).

I do agree with your thesis though - a manager should be highly technical. I just don't think you can depend on their contribution to features & deliverables. Not because the work is "below" them, but because Engineering Management is a support role and should NOT need to choose between an IC-type task and helping unblock/support a member of their team due to a deadline :)
There are whole subeconomies that operate primarily in cash. If you think that cash is going to disappear, you're living in an echo chamber.

And more to the point, forcing every American to pay 1-3% rent on every transaction is not progress.
Vietnam's removal of the Khmer Rouge was certainly necessary and ultimately spared a lot of people further suffering, but Vietnam's 'good guy' status in the conflict is somewhat dented by the fact that they'd provided the military support to help install the Khmer Rouge in the first place [see also a lot of other 'world policing' actions...] before the Khmer Rouge decided that Vietnam was an enemy due to a mix of ethnic and ideological hatred and being on different sides of the Sino Soviet split.

The Sino Soviet split was also a big deal for international and especially Western perceptions of Vietnamese involvement at the time: China at the time not only viewed Vietnam as an enemy but also the Khmer Rouge as an ally, and even pressured other anti-Vietnamese Cambodian exile factions to involve the defeated Khmer Rouge in their government in exile.

The regime the Vietnamese installed was less spectacularly genocidal but certainly very dubious, although it says a lot about the weirdness of Cambodian realpolitik that Hun Sen, the former Khmer Rouge cadre the Vietnamese installed as deputy PM, has held continuous office since then through years of decreasing Vietnamese influence and then a transition to notional multiparty democracy and capitalist oligarchy including coalitions with his former enemies. And that's even before we get into how many times the Cambodian king switched sides...
Streaming via internet, yes, but streaming one of the 500 or so channels with scheduled programming on satellite TV is not. And totally agreed, if you've got 4G that's the way to go.
The one guy that got purged admitted to not reading an article before approving it for publication. That person would've been fired under any normal circumstance with great fanfare.
Looking at the filing, the only relation seems to be branding, i.e. they're probably looking to upsell people on wifi routers when they buy internet service (like all other providers do).
>* SpaceX will put a colony on mars, and they will only drive Teslas on mars

You keep saying some interesting things and then you say something ridiculous that makes the rest of what you say seems pretty questionable.
When he gives timelines? ABSOLUTELY it's wise.

SpaceX watchers call it "Elon Time". When Gwynne Shotwell gives you a time estimate, you can take it seriously (subject to regular engineering uncertainty). When Elon Musk gives you a time estimate, laugh it off and say "that's adorable" and recognize that it's mostly intended to keep investors happy and to put pressure on his engineers.
It's not splitting hairs to say Tesla has a level 2 system at best but Elon Musk wants you to believe level 5 might be ready by next year.
Indoor operation only. This is just a router that will probably have an external device connected to another antenna.
Starlink will be great in rural Canada where the ISP oligopoly has no incentive to provide fast internet. I am curious how it will perform in stormy weather. Does it cut out like satellite TV?
It's amazing how far Boeing has fallen. But I suppose you can diagnose the problem by looking at their leadership. Why has their leadership moved to chicago?
If your project is sufficiently popular, that's safe; otherwise maybe not.

As someone else mentioned, when a giant corp absorbs a free project, you can reasonably expect them to maintain it. If you GPL the project, that won't happen. But if it's a popular project, then if it's GPL it will attract more maintenance from people who can't free-ride on the corp's efforts.

(Note that the relevant measure of "popular" is not number of users, but number of people enthusiastic enough to actually contribute.)
Vlink: Portable multi file format linker