skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I clicked to comments to make that exact point.

Most of my gigs have been international because it's so hard to squeeze money out of Canadian companies for the work I do. I easily get paid 50-150% more with American customers than I can expect to get here, so I've hardly ever accepted local gigs for the past decade and a half. My peers in town must wonder why I never seem to be looking for work. It's not because I don't want to work with them.

Ironically, they're willing to pay American consultants those same rates because that's what Americans tend to charge, and nobody local is accepting their offers. Why not just offer local people what the industry expects, and stop trying to be so cheap just because we live here?

The companies seem to think that the talent isn't here. It is. We just know better than to accept their rubbish offers when it's easier and more lucrative to work with American or European companies.
Then force ISPs who own infrastructure to allow competitors to use it. Residents are technically the ones who own it and lease to these monopolies at the local level.

ISPs are more like Ma Bell than a free market while they keep getting exclusivity agreements from localities
It's Google code, so it cannot be trusted and should be assumed to be malicious. Calling it more privacy focused than Firefox is just absurd.
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Tor security advisory: exit relays running sslstrip in May and June 2020
Regulation does't always spur open competition and often has unintended consequences.

Separate the last mile pipe provider/operator (infrastructure) from the service providers. All service providers compete across that pipe. Traditional ISPs, niche providers, etc. I may choose 5 of them as a consumer.

It does necessitate an open, multi-tenant architecture. Let's invest there rather than investing in trying to implement a new regulatory scheme.
Soon they'll at least have 2...

https://www.starlink.com/
That's exactly the type of program I'm looking for but it only mentions LTE. The LTE coverage there is spotty and speeds aren't great, so really hoping for 5G. Plus the fine print in the terms talks about how some streaming services can't be used, but doesn't name them. If T-Mobile rolls out a program like this with their 5G network it would be amazing. I really can't imagine them trying to sell 5G phones to country folk, at least not until the price comes way down. What else would they use that 5G bandwidth for in the meantime?
Was it ? I couldn’t comprehend the writing well enough to know
>That is a good point. However one of my goals/constraints is that I want my home site to be able to connect to other personal devices, e.g. a NAS (another WIP project). My ideal vision is a simple site running on my network, backed up on some kind of cloud storage.

You could host everything on your home network but there are a couple of things you should probably know before you start: 1) Some ISP do not give you static IP, meaning its extra work

2) Security - Ideally your home network has some kind of segregation, you keep your trusted devices on one, IoT or not patchable on another for example, with firewall blocking connections from dirty network to clean one. Having externally facing website potentially having direct access to personal devices and services might be an issue from security point of view.

You can sign up on AWS/Azure or any other cloud provider for free and get free credits, which might be enough for you to learn. Feel free to ask further questions if you need to
Wouldn't duplicated textures get de-duplicated by any halfway-decent compression algorithm though? I'd assume the game is sent over the wire compressed
You are correct - there is a chicken and egg problem here wherein "Oh By Codes" are not useful unless everyone recognizes them for what they are.

Like I said - pet project. Nearly 100% of my time and effort goes to rsync.net, but we'll see ...
A podcast that is a hardware design review
Apple Is Growing Rotten to the Core: Google App Blocked from App Store (2009)
Dangerous and false Qanon-type conspiracy theory.

On a more pragmatic level, this is 1:22:17 long, fulfilling the cliche about Q followers giving you hours-long-videos to watch when you ask them for citations. Ha ha, it is to laugh.
There won't be notifications, there will be PWA limitations, there won't be background activity, you'll need to keep a tab open for it, but it won't be a bad experience.

How desperate are we to make sure one of the world's richest company continues to take an extortionate cut for the "privilege" of being on its platform? To be clear, yes, the app store adds value, exposure, payments, bandwidth. But not thirty per cent worth. Why not? For one, the MAS cut is only three per cent, ten times less.
That's one solution to not have people take it by force. You agree to a taxation scheme, which trickles down, yet you still retain most of it yourself, and it satisfies everyone. You know exactly how much to give, and you can achieve the right balance of just enough to keep everyone content.

So its way better to willingly agree to participate in a tax scheme, than being at risk of beheading from masses or poison in your drink.

There are other schemes, but it's always the same idea, you need to keep people happy enough and satisfied so they don't come for your stuff. That way, you can enjoy it in peace.

Edit: Well assuming a liberal democratic taxation system. Otherwise taxes can be a way to take even more from people at the bottom, like in feudalism, where land owners tax their labourers for the right to use their land.
Good article, but why are the titles always clickbait? She doesn't seem that “unlikely” to me, and she didn't hack the pandemic – the hacking was to do with mitigation efforts, and not the actual virus or disease.
Wow, 1000X huh. That's a lot of force multiplication.
The hiring market for more senior roles seems fairly healthy, buts seems like more junior roles are tougher. The industry started the year with fairly more jobs than heads to fill them.
Iceweasel is a thing already, isn't it?
Facebook says ‘Apple tax’ is a burden on small businesses
> volume 1300 cm^2

cm^2 is a unit of area, not volume. That said, I can't correct your numbers because I have no idea what the area of a brick means.
"Competition for thee, but not for me" is the order of the day. Outsiders and upstarts wants competition, and once they establish a majority market share, they spend and fight to ensure nobody else can do the same. Money controls everything.
Keep an eye on Cradlepoint. Their 5G modem is available on Telstra and I'm sure American carriers will be available soon.
I know of at least one "long hauler." The descriptions they give are horrific.
I'd argue that there's less need for testing in the first place when your nearest neighbors live a mile away.
In this instance the shared variable isn't x, but the internal workings of the mutex.
Illustrating RobinHood
I'm not sure about that. Have you read the writing of a recent college grad? I worked with two on a project some time ago, one with a BA in English and another who dropped out of a Mathematics degree.

The one who'd dropped out was clearer and more consistent in their writing than the BA in English. Perhaps math enforces a level of pragmatism that the humanities don't?

Anecdotal, of course, but I've seen this pattern often.
Hey, do you wanna be friends? :)
I fight that thing, tooth and nail
It is little known that the EU has already introduced provisions to form transnational (European) worker councils. The conditions are 1000 employees in total and 150 employees in at least two member countries each. Their powers are way more limited than German or Austrian worker councils though. They only have a right to be informed of company policy and its performance. Anybody knows whether N26 fulfils the size requirements?
Several of my family members work in the trades. The level of damage done to their bodies is way higher than any desk job and you can at least somewhat mitigate the damage in a desk job. My cousin is a bricklayer and has severe medical problems in his 30s (though he does earn more than me).
Incorrect. I am advocating that if you want to signify you are using the base classes method, use base. Otherwise don’t use base or this.
Local loop unbundling, as it’s called in the U.K. has definitely driven prices down for DSL, but it means there’s very little in terms of actual consumer choice. It’s basically one ISP (virgin excluded cause that’s docsis and a totally different network) for everyone, with different people you can buy service from. If anything actually goes wrong with the network, open reach fixes it, but there’s no way for a company to differentiate on performance, only price.
A mutex lock will still be modeled as an aliasing read/write of all global memory. So you’re fine.
Huawei 5G CPE Pro (if you don't mind Huawei) has good reviews, has ethernet and you can use external 5G antennas.
That’s pretty common. Once people see other people getting away with or even being rewarded for incompetence or unethical behavior they will also wonder why should go through the trouble of doing their job properly. I have seen that in companies too. Once you see a team taking shortcuts at the expense of quality and being rewarded for their speed other teams will follow soon.
I don't think multiple exciton generation (which is what you find searching for EQE > 100%) is exactly the same as the photoelectric effect. However, your point more or less stands.
After multiple bankruptcies, primarily offering nautical communication services.

https://www.iridium.com/products/iridium-go/
I don't think it is retributive. It could merely be that Facebook didn't think the risk was worth it while they were still easily monetizing Apple device users. Now that the main source of revenue is diminishing, Facebook has less to lose.
The basic strategy is always the same: you use a dictionary to identify possible words, and if there's overlap use a language model to determine the most likely segmentation. The details can be very different, e.g. Fugashi is a wrapper for MeCab https://taku910.github.io/mecab/ which uses conditional random fields, while the most popular Chinese tokenizer is probably Jieba https://github.com/fxsjy/jieba which uses a combination of word frequencies and hidden markov models.

For German, the task is much easier, since most words are already separated by spaces, so only compound nouns might be problematic, but it's rare for those to have more than one possible segmentation. (There are of course exceptions, like e.g. Wachstube, which could be either Wach-Stube or Wachs-Tube. EDIT for non-German speakers: cognates are watch-stove = guardroom, wax-tube = tube of wax.)
> was the correct use of emoji in their terms and conditions

That seems like a highly dubious way to evaluate a bank.
If someone knows - what kind of cable does the unit use out to the antenna? My COVID project is wiring the house with Cat6 and it might be worthwhile putting an enclosed drop out on the deck for the future.
Apparently Mozilla has found a way, and is laying off a bunchy of people as a result
> very hard pushback from both citizens

What are the citizens' concern(s)?

The Ars article is interesting: the place is in Ammon, Idaho, where they label themselves as right-leaning, small government. That would be the stereotypical place to not do such a project.
I'll give 3 months before Facebook starts charging individuals, or starts tracking them.
well that's because FB in is the "growth stage" for its payment platform. Its common for tech companies to provide a service at a discount or free to get traction.

No doubt FB would be taking a large cut if it becomes the cash cow that the app store is.
Again, schooling is another example that is already heavily morally loaded (the opportunity we pass on to our children may be the most important aspect of all of society) and where there is nothing even approximating an efficient market.
The making of slides (or sentences in a paper) gets easier with practice. The advisor or collaborator or you yourself being too busy is, unfortunately, not something that gets better with time. The most important thing is learning to say "no" to new responsibilities without becoming an irresponsible member of whatever organization (university, research lab, etc) you find yourself in. It's a balancing act.
Very few people need explosive grade ammonium nitrate in this quantity and also prefer a source that has no provenance, and pay some fraction of 1.3 Million list price over their established supply chain.
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Agree, I would have preferred a better title too.

And knowing her reputation in the hacker community, it is anything but unlikely to me that something like this has happened.
it's an odd way to frame Apple asking for a slice of a pie that's 100% consumers, I think that's where the disconnect is
Do you have 13 different gas pipelines leading to your home?
This news article reminds me of the beginning of the book "Mostly Harmless" by Douglas Adams.
> If we as a community care that much we can create and adopt alternate means, or choose not to use their technology.

This is the entire point of the case, that you have little to no alternative.
Again, your original claim:

> Anyone on WiFi AC or up are backdoored right now by NSA. All of them are compromised, no doubt in my mind. All the LTE. All the x86 hardware on the market. All of it.

Still _zero_ evidence of any of this. Why not post some?

You also ignore questions like..

> If SECONDDATE has been around since 2005, and they are bulk installing it on millions of routers in the US, where are the people coming out saying "I found some NSA shit on my router"? Is there a _single_ example to support this?

> Just this week a 20GB dump of private Intel source was dumped with backdoors included.
> That's the sort of thing that's going to happen again with the newly published Intel backdoors.
>> This is not even remotely true. You have to read more than just the headlines.

> If SECONDDATE has been around since 2005, and they are bulk installing it on millions of routers in the US, where are the people coming out saying "I found some NSA shit on my router"? Is there a _single_ example to support this?
Will having Starlink prevent asteroid detections from ground based telescopes?
Huge discussion from yesterday:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24139339

I know you've probably re-submitted this because you're keen and enthusiastic, but it says in the FAQ[0]:

> Are reposts ok?

> If a story has not had significant attention in the last year or so, a small number of reposts is ok. Otherwise we bury reposts as duplicates.

If everyone submitted everything twice or more, there would be less space on the "New" page for things that are genuinely new, hence the guideline that if something already has had significant attention then it shouldn't be submitted again.

Let me add, though, that it's nice work, and I look forward to seeing what you do next.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html
> Here we get to choose from literally dozens of providers

How does this work? Is it similar to all the various wireless providers that are actually just resellers for the people who own the actual infrastructure? I don't understand how you could choose to get electric or natural gas from someone else when there is a physical line that comes to your residence.
>You simply do not store that much fertilizer in a single place

Perhaps it is done, and in a port near you.

https://www.smh.com.au/national/lebanon-blast-alarms-nsw-res...

>Kooragang Island is already home to a storage facility operated by chemical giant Orica, where up to 12,000 tonnes of ammonium nitrate are stored and around 430,000 tonnes produced each year

IIRC Orica is the same company that made that stuff that was stored on docks of Beirut.
I think the article and some of the comments are not really looking at this the right way.

For most things you're probably better off "doing the work" in a celery task, regardless if it is IO bound or CPU bound. Then use web sockets just for your status updates/progress bar, instead of having your front end poll on a timer.
Thats part of it, but from what I understand there was a similar project attempted years ago that failed from what they say.
Unless the pictures on Google are wrong, a Starlink base station is significantly larger than a satellite phone and is at least as large as a field base station.

And at $2000/pop, they're at least as expensive as the equipment we're currently not randomly dropping around the globe because of the expense.
We managed it ourselves. My opinion is, if you have a clear infrastructure defined, like migrate from on-premises to the cloud, it makes sense to use their predefined infrastructure (not sure if there is a price difference). If you are still in the ideation stage, not clear what to build yet, just follow the best practices when you create new components (https://github.com/aws-quickstart/quickstart-compliance-hipa...), you can sign a BAA from aws artifact for your account.
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And lose message history of messages sent on phone? That would be terrible
Oh snap you're Ian Cutress from Anandtech!

Point taken, mine is that SuperFin isn't some node improvement so TBD on what performance gains it accounts for.
As far as I know, the current satellites don’t have any lasers for satellite to satellite communication yet. That will come in later generations.
> In your case, the problem is that the article is well reasoned and hard to argue against. Semantics are always easy to argue though. So, you argue that we must use the term "sustainability" in in the way it was used back when no one used it.

It's fascinating how you made all that up. The inner motivation of someone you've never met. The claim that I argued against the article. What I'm supposedly arguing for.

None of that is in what I wrote. It all happened in your mind.
My strategy for tokenising Chinese is brute-force: read 5 characters ahead, is that a word? No -> 4 characters, No -> 3 characters, No -> 2 characters -> Yes, copy to output, move 2 characters ahead, read the next 5, 4, 3, 2. It's very slow.

This is how humans do it though.
https://pingtype.github.io/docs/advanced.html#spacing

If you have some Chinese text that you want to read, throw it into Pingtype (my program) and it should help you to pick up the vocabulary!
https://pingtype.github.io/
I'll throw a mention in for OpenWRT too. I tether my iPhone to my OpenWRT router when I've had meaningful internet outages. I've done it using wifi and USB/lightning. Being wired is more reliable obviously. I'm sure my carrier can tell it is tethered data though. Which has its own caps/throttling.
There are several well-known forks already. But what we need is a community focal-point, where everyone who thinks to themselves, "it's a shame what Mozilla did, I want to help", ends up directing that energy into the same place.
Allen Ginsberg donated to NAMBLA[1] and people still read Howl aloud in public.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allen_Ginsberg#Association_wit...
I tested a sea of nodes representation on my toy compiler project and was unimpressed. The gist is that instead of having two graphs (one for operations, one for control flow), you just have one... but no wait you actually have to convert back into a two-graph format eventually so you don't save any lines of code at all. It makes a few algorithms slightly prettier, but most code is made worse and slower, and when you start trying to rectify the disadvantages you realize you're just doing the two-graph thing in a roundabout way and that the sea-of-nodes is a oversold meme.

Also, I remember reading an anecdote by the V8 team where they had regrets in choosing the sea of nodes representation over a more traditional 2-graph IR, but I can't find a link.
> You're smarter than Rust. I'm not kidding!

You're probably not. That's kind of the thing. Rather, it's not that you're not smarter, it's just that you're not used to doing things properly, and Rust forces you to do things properly.

"Leave me alone, I know what I'm doing" says beginner juggling chainsaws on a unicycle.

Ultimately it comes down to this: when you don't write down all the information a compiler needs to generate an artifact, you're relying on hidden, un-stated assumptions. Such assumptions are subject to change over time. Relying on them isn't smart, it's dumb. It makes you feel smart. Just check the CVE list.
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> Apple got it spot-on with Aperture, and I will forever resent them for abandoning it. Its interface and flow were basically perfect for me.

Same here. I don't even care how much it costs, I'd pay dearly to get a supported and updated version of Aperture. Whoever worked on its UI is worth their weight in gold and then some.
SO is the opposite of MDN. If you do not approach any piece of StackOverflow content with the presumption that it could be dangerously not-even-wrong, God bless you.
I love that the article focuses on interpersonal skills... too often the knee jerk reaction (as software engineers) is to view "skills" through the narrow lens of engineering (various computer science topics, competency in a language, mathematics, etc).

As I've grown I find soft/interpersonal skills to matter more and more and in many ways, now that I'm a seasoned engineer, trump the hard skills in terms of what impacts my career trajectory. I'd advise any junior/intermediate career software engineer to take the advice from this article seriously.
They at least partially did. I’m in a not-wealthy area of the Bronx and somehow managed to get gigabit Fios from Verizon. But, yeah, it’s certainly not everywhere yet.
Exactly. They're making money!
optimum is now 90 BUCKS A MONTH. for basic internet, no TV, no phone. they are owned by some corporate entity called "Altice" which basically came in and ruined whatever slightly positive features the website had, like an outage map.
It seems that these sort of devices are for sensors not generators. Higher QE leads to higher sensitivity according to the article. I would imagine that manufacturing costs would prevent any interest in making solar cells out of such devices.
Ahh, I had to look this up but you are correct.
To keep in perspective how much money we're talking here, Oracle disclosed during the 2017 lawsuit with Google that Android had generated 31 billion in revenue (22 billion profit) since its inception in 2007. Google asked the court to place that disclosure under seal [0],

[0] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-oracle-google-lawsuit/ora...
Unfortunately it seems like Starlink in particular probably won't be useful for urban areas with poor competition. I'd be interested if it were, but from the sounds of it, they won't be able to handle lots of users in a small area.
Sneak preview of a Biden presidency:

Immediate executive order from the bleeding heart liberals making it a crime to deny the homeless the right to come and use your store restroom as long as they want, sit in and enjoy your AC, regardless that you can smell them 100 feet away and all your best customers have decided to shop elsewhere . . .