skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In KC you used to be able to get free Google Fiber at 10mbps. Free as in beer.

I never needed anything better than that to watch Netflix or program or enjoy basic internet browsering. It was awesome!

To get that out in a rural area and have it reliable is a game changer for a lot of people.
Why are the entire population just accepting the lack of democratic representation to defend their interests?
We made the decision several years ago to integrate Servo components individually rather than trying to replace the entire engine (for the reasons outpost in the blog post linked above).

We invest a lot in Gecko though, precisely because it's important to have a world-class independent engine.
> Even the "Free Weekend" play converts thousands of players that find the game fun. It makes trying out a new indie-type game feel less like a risk.

It has a free demo.

> thousands of new players try the game simply because it happens to be 15% off today or whatever

Really? Why? That's such a small amount.
100 years ago it was "common" according to WP [1]; I can't speak to whether it's still handled so cavalierly:

"The workers needed to use pickaxes to get it out, a problematic situation because they could not enter the silo and risk being buried in collapsing fertilizer. To ease their work, small charges of dynamite were used to loosen the mixture.

This seemingly suicidal procedure was in fact common practice. It was well known that ammonium nitrate was explosive, having been used extensively for this purpose during World War I, but tests conducted in 1919 had suggested that mixtures of ammonium sulfate and nitrate containing less than 60% nitrate would not explode. On these grounds, the material handled by the plant, nominally a 50/50 mixture, was considered stable enough to be stored in 50,000-tonne lots, more than ten times the amount involved in the disaster. Indeed, nothing extraordinary had happened during an estimated 20,000 firings, until the fateful explosion on September 21.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oppau_explosion
sorry, fwiw I would not have posted it if they required you to click on a verify link in the email.
I really enjoyed that summary; cool study.
Epic Games just set an antitrust trap for Apple; Tim Cook walked right into it
Doesn't Revolut have a European banking licence? It's good although they've changed the UI in the app recently for the worse.
> many thousands of dollars per GB

Which year was that? Depending on airline, I was able to use free to $20 per long haul leg sat net and stream 4K YouTube...
I think he means an amount that employees are allowed to spend to support software they rely on but not keep for themselves.
Facebook wants Apple to help them muscle their way into the lucrative online event planning market. Shocking. Even as they plan to use their monopoly to trash existing run by actual smaller services like EventBright...

Apparently all the billionaires are out looking for handouts.
Cool, it looks like this addresses one of the toughest parts of running a small ISP, which is a chicken-and-egg problem of having enough support operatives for your users, and enough user revenue to hire for support. Fortunately big ISPs have set a loooooow bar for support, but you're still facing an uphill battle against coax providers that are already in buildings, so you have to go above and beyond.
I am currently a physics student (in Germany) and have to tell you that people "throwing away their studies" is not something STEM-students are exempt from. In fact most physics students (at least in Germany) will go on and do something totally unrelated very soon after graduating. We graduate a lot more people than what are actually used in science and physics related industries. Of course some fraction of the aquired skills may also be useful in other jobs, but that applies to a lot of studies in the humanities as well.
> So ... you could chose not to do that for your parents. There's no way they would do it by accident.

If third party app stores were allowed, some vendors OPs parents need to use would likely only publish their apps on a different store. I would not enjoy helping my parents navigate going to the MS store for Office, the Facebook store for Instagram, the Google store for maps. The lack of fragmentation makes this much more approachable for them.

This is not a defence of the current system. That has many other problems.
I've had that same fear myself but it hasn't been a problem so far. It might be a problem for an academic deep into a field that isn't a fast-growing one.

My much larger site 10-15 years ago was primarily about language learning. It had some fairly niche topics I was concerned that virtually no English-language speakers would be looking for, and yet the traffic rolled in. It was a blog, though. Also, some of those topics became more popular over time. Extensive Reading and Spaced Repetition were two examples.

My current site is in my profile and it's pretty tightly focused around Elixir (roughly the 50th most popular programming language).
Mozilla famously signs contracts with firms that secure extra privacy protections for their customers. It's what they did with CloudFlare and Comcast.

If I were to use CloudFlare's VPN service of Comcast's DNS, I'd use it through Mozilla because their contracts stipulate extra protections.
Considering all the broadband expansion contracts that ISPs have weaseled out of (while still keeping government grants) I imagine we've paid for most of the infrastructure many times over. Profits aren't suffering.
> they don’t know how they’re going to receive more glass

Who is "they"?

The port is partially operational [1], Tripoli hasn't closed, and there is unofficial trade with Syria.

[1] https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/08/beirut-port-resumes-p...
Show HN: Entity Component System in C++
Thank you for your work for us. The app behaves really well these days here!
It's worth mentioning that MongoDB used to have a terrible storage engine--and it would do all sorts of stuff like this under stress.

But it was replaced with a much better engine (WiredTiger) with write-ahead journaling and checkpoints around the year 2016.
How do they tie the email you sent the request from to the account?
Do you want Canonical to just adopt whatever the new hot RH stuff as soon as it's stable?

You do want to know the alternative is stable and better for a few years before even thinking to make the change.

It's easy to laugh at the history after it took place.
> Prior to the disaster it had a good safety record and met all safety audits.

At least one thing that differs from Beirut
I appreciate you responding and that’s a nice offer.

It seems minimal, but registering with a site, worrying about spam (although I’m sure you don’t do that) and worrying about potential breach or scam (although I’m sure your security is tight) isn’t worth it for a fun game.

For minimal, spur of the moment things, I use one of the 10 things I’ve already signed up for.

It’s not so much the effort of setting up an account, it’s the existing of just one more thing following me around.

If I could give you $5 cash and get a floppy disk that would be way better :) (even though cash is impossible and nothing I have can use a floppy)
The liberal answer is always violence. See: Portland and Seattle.
+1 for Monzo. On a slightly different axis, their customer support is excellent and they invest a lot of resources, including technical ones, into making it so.
Micron Confirms RTX 3090, Will Have over 1 TB/S GDDR6X Bandwidth
I never cared much about movie rentals as a kid, however growing up in the late 1980s one of my favorite things was renting NES games from local video rental stores on the weekends (they all got into NES rentals pretty quickly).

There was always a bit of a thrill looking for a new game to play through. Each game experience back then seemed remarkably original, like new gaming territory was being traversed for the first time. Going from Ninja Gaiden to Little Nemo to DuckTales to Mega Man and so on.

The only thing better was the massive wall of games at Toys R Us. Originally they displayed the boxes on the wall (they later switched to a lame slip of paper). I vividly remember Zelda's gold box leaping out from everything else.
Try Searx[1], it's a self-hosted search engine aggregator with a few public instances.

[1] https://github.com/asciimoo/searx
That's the difference why ISPs are not like gas, water or sewer.

There are places where there are multiple fiber lines leading to one's home. I don't know about 13, but I've used to live in a place where there were 6 different providers, each with their fiber or copper (sharing the communal conduits, so it did not require constant digging to bury every single line).

Solve the inability of new providers to get to the market, and incentivize settlements to provide conduits as an utility. If any regulations are needed - it's the regulations that nullify the exclusivity agreements.

That is already proven to work in many countries that have started late (esp. post-Soviet countries) and haven't had those ancient monopolies dragging them down. What else is proven, is that no matter how hard one tries to regulate an utility, it would suck, because there's absolutely no incentive for them to improve (unless they're forced to). Competition naturally forces to stay put all the time (you screw up - your customers are gone), regulation does not - just keeping it conforming to the regulations - i.e. tolerable, just above the bottom line (customers won't go anywhere).
bales of rotting wet hay is where barn fires come from.
Oh, sorry for the confusion, I wasn't criticizing, I really enjoyed the article. I'm working with someone new to Rust at the moment and I'm passing it along to them, too.
Why didn't you use Pydantic with Django if the DRF serializers were too slow?

You can also skip the object serialization from the ORM and work with python dicts directly to significantly improve serialization performance from the database.
Raspberry Pi Project Connects 1989 Macintosh SE/30 to Internet
thanks man! I appreciate it a lot. I'll be more mindful of this next time.
FYI: You have DEBUG = True in your Django settings file.
Which has nothing to do with the feature discussed in this thread, which is to hide non-domain parts of the URL.

What you're referring to is the Signed Exchanges proposal.
You need a gimmick, something that will remind your potential audience about you at the RIGHT time.

Real life example: A firm selling paper to printers advertised by handing out self-adhesive (flourescent paper) football fixtures to printer's purchasing officers.
Most times it would be stuck on the wall next to the guy.
That was exactly what we wanted to happen!

Perhaps you could provide a free VERY useful desktop app?
Major quantum computational breakthrough is shaking up physics and maths
make sure to read this: https://pixls.us/articles/darktable-3-rgb-or-lab-which-modul...
New dt users: be sure to read this: https://pixls.us/articles/darktable-3-rgb-or-lab-which-modul...
Who said parent B has less money for education than parent B? I just said they live in a worse neighborhood for public schools.
Those services' satellites are in high orbit and therefore have very high latency (think in the 800ms range), so those seemingly fast speeds rarely result in a fast experience.
Ignoring the legal spat, it's interesting that someone is trying to direct packets at the GPU. In a way, GPUs and high-end routers have similar demands: execute the same code in parallel on huge numbers of data units - and I understand that there are also similarities in the microarchitecture. So it wouldn't surprise me if you could implement a high end router using a GPU. All those floating-point ALUs would be sitting idle, of course, so it might be an expensive solution; although the economies of scale in GPUs might be larger than routers, so it might work out. Devil is in the detail, of course.
Tesla research partnership progresses on new battery chemistry
They bought this machine off-the-shelf from an Italian toolmaker. It does not remind us of any of that stuff.
World Brain Death Project Seeks Clarity and Consensus – HSC News
Any? No, Some? Yes.

I saw a youtube video where a nazi chick literally said she didn't believe in the Holocaust, but thinks gas chambers for Jews was a pretty good idea. WTF?!

Someone standing at a podium calling for people to willy nilly execute a specific race/ethnic class, should probably be thrown in jail, or we get 1940 all over again.
Lucky the article includes ping times then.
They didn't make that up.. the satellites are literally no closer then 118ms (one-way). If you and the source/destination are directly under the satellite you may be able to get a packet + response in 480ms under most-ideal conditions. (that is four legs of transit between ground & space)

Elevation of orbit is 35,768,000 meters [1], and light moves at ~300,000,000 meters per second.

[1] https://www.hughes.com/resources/press-releases/echostar-xix...
Altought the answers so far posted are not exactly incorrect, it is also important to note that the geometry (that is, a cylinder for optical fibers) of the waveguide used influences the group velocity of the propagating electromagnetic field.

This will always end up being slower than a plane wave in the same material, usually only somewhere between 10%-90% (and this also depends on the wavelength) of the free-space group velocity.
I learned that price discrimination is about willingness to pay, which can be influenced by ability to pay but is not directly equivalent.
Some of us have notes, that we can mostly copy-paste to setup a server and it works well without magic and n·m·k images.

Last time I checked, docker swarm was accepting connections from anywhere (publish really publishes) and messing with the firewall making a least-privilege setup a PITA; docker was building, possibly even running containers as root; and most importantly - the developers thought docker was magically secure, nothing to handle.

How do you handle your security?
I saw someone in this thread mention hacking a 4g tablet plan to work as modem doing a sim swap. You could possibly do something similar by setting up 2 or 3 separate accounts so have individual data caps on each and cycle through them each month. It sounds like a hassle but could save you enough to be worth it
> there’s no way for a company to differentiate on performance, only price.

That may be true for DSL, but for new infrastructure, you could have local fiber to the nearest meet-me room, and it's then your ISP's responsibility to light up that fiber. Fiber is capable enough that the limits on performance and service will absolutely be the ISP and the equipment you hook up.
I would definitely donate to a Gozilla fork.
>Universal coherence protection in a solid-state spin qubit

https://science.sciencemag.org/content/early/2020/08/12/scie...
Oh. That is a recipe for disaster or a rapid improvement in your climbing skills. Ladders are dangerous regardless, combining them with other dangerous tools (chainsaws, for instance) sounds like a multiplication of Morts rather than an addition.
I think there's some truth to this. Mozilla has become less of a technology organization and more of a political one.

There have been quite a few instances over the past few years of Mozilla demonstrating its left leaning politics:

* The Brendan Eich situation where his private contribution to a conservative cause impacted his employment

* Baker calling a former conservative employee's views "traumatic and damaging" in their obituary - https://blog.lizardwrangler.com/2018/08/07/in-memoriam-gerva...

* The removal of "meritocracy" from the governance document in the name of D&I - https://blog.mozilla.org/careers/words-matter-moving-beyond-...

* Promoting BLM and anti-racism content via Pocket and their homepage

* Replacing "master password" with "primary password" - https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/primary-password-replac...

Agree with their positions or not, they are definitely alienating to some. Even if just delivering a great browser and getting people to use it is not their primary mission (and it's not directly if you've ever read the Mozilla Manifesto), it is the means by which they retain the ability pursue those goals.

Recall Michael Jordan's reason for staying away from politics, "Republicans buy sneakers too".
a buddy of mine is an architect. he wants to design a building with a concave facade such that when the sun is just right it produces basically a death ray. "imagine you're sitting in your office, causally glance out the window, and see a bird explode for seemingly no reason... " heh
Most of my family are now jobless. Many of them now can't afford necessary medication due to that fact.

My state's pandemic unemployment insurance site launched in May with gross security issues and had to be shut down. Thousands of workers and freelancers have yet to receive their first check.

My sister-in-law and her husband both came down with COVID and lost their jobs. They have three kids and now my partner and I are helping them financially (which we really can't afford to do).

There isn't a food shortage because corporations are forcing migrant laborers into the warehouses to work, and they're being infected and dying in higher proportions. Martyrs for the meat industry (Tyson's profits were up 600% Q1). There are human costs to "stock market is fine."

I personally am down thousands of dollars helping my friends/family/neighbors with their groceries and rents. My "rainy day fund" has long been drained and my one nest-egg land asset is probably a few months away from having to be sold to continue supporting my loved ones.

The state is on track to open schools in a couple of weeks. A recent study shows that closing schools can reduce the mortality rate per month by 58%; this research is being ignored in the name of profits. Business leaders and their cronies in the state are pushing for this to get parents out of the home and into work.

My more-rural family members flat-out refuse to wear masks and have already proclaimed that they will not take the vaccine should one become available.

You may be right that this isn't a "nation toppler," but nations are far more resilient than people. I'm happy for you that this isn't affecting you. Consider yourself lucky.
Lactobacillus plantarum strain expressing the spike protein of SARS-CoV-2
You probably won't catch the coronavirus from frozen food
Intel Details TDX to Better Protect Virtual Machines
I don't think that's quite true - so long as one is salaried, one generally doesn't get paid overtime. I had a $70k/yr salaried job once with no overtime pay.
> because basically everyone lists git these days

True! And apparently you cannot skip listing it. I recently changed jobs and was told one red flag in my CV was that I didn't list git as a tool I was familiar with. This wasn't a recruiter on a buzzword hunt, but the actual technical screener. I had explicitly removed all filler because I thought interviewers wanted to focus on the important bits... (got the job anyway, thankfully).
Yep! It is interesting though that the top 3 results for this totally not specially crafted /s query are the article (expected), this comments page (fairly expected), and then an outdated 5 year old article (not so expected).

I wonder if the overall quality of Google search would improve significantly if, for some topics where timeliness is important, they ranked things more heavily by date, emphasizing recent results.
This would probably have a decent impact on some technical searches, but I wonder how wide the applicability would be.
Link for the lazy: https://monzo.com/legal/terms-and-conditions/
The amount of uncompressed audio in todays games is too damn high.
Do you dream?

I first learnt about aphantasia maybe a couple of years ago in some corners of the net..
I can’t really imagine how it’s possible that you don’t see stuff with your mind..
To me it seems just as strange as being unable to speak while having a perfectly fine voice..

I probably have the opposite problem, when I read a book that I like I’m completely lost in that world and I’m kind of unaware of what is happening in the real world.

I remember when I had an EEG ages ago and the technician asked me to relax, and I did exactly that.
He must have noticed something strange since he asked me if I was sleeping..
It sounds like it's dead my friend. Microsoft with it's considerable resources could have pushed an open browser engine, now it's all google
I tend to be more on your side of the fence and remain skeptical.

And something that may be used as evidence for my skepticism, is why instead of firing those people, where we know a lot of them are pretty good ones, they did not relocate them instead?

Even if we suppose, they decided to not invest in things that are not considered pragmatic, more to the core of Mozilla... Even if some of them were working coding in Rust for instance.. why dont they just shut down the projects that they considered 'fancy' and relocate those amazing engineers to work into core parts?

For me it smells like something is rot on the top level, and that in turn, will lead to more bad decisions in the coming years, unless something really radical happens (Microsoft did it, so theres hope).

Edit: one more evidence that the things are somehow rot, is that money going to pay for ads (and this is exactly the path taken by Yahoo)
I have my doubts that MDN will be able to keep receiving the same level of updates with these layoffs. I'd hope they would, but that doesn't seem logical unless either contributions increase from outisde somehow (e.g. Google and Microsoft decides to add more writers for MDN), or GPT-3 starts generating those docs.

Now if MDN starts becoming outdated, someone else will fill that void. W3Schools maybe (nobody wants this), but it seems like a better opportunity for Google to swoop in and lead, to further solidify their domination in the browser space. Cynical sounding to you I'm sure, but that seems logical to me from a homo economicus business stance. I'd be happy to hear I'm missing something or wrong in some way so this doesn't happen, since after all, competition is great.
> But it will at least have overhead for larger objects.

Given that there's essentially no way to do atomic operations on larger objects (than machine-level types), all std::atomic<> for such types must involve a mutex, and are therefore guaranteed to have performance implications.

std::atomic<T> provides syntax that treats std::atomic<int> and std::atomic<MyHugeObject> in precisely the same way. This is useful, but entirely misleading if you care about performance.
To be published in the October issue of the International Journal of Biological Macromolecules.
I think AAA games do this now anyway to allow this like smaller patches and playing while the game downloads.
This doesn't address the full scope of your point, but it is worth mentioning that Chromium/Blink engineers contribute to and rely on https://web-platform-tests.org/ in order to ensure some level of conformance and interoperability.
It's a bit like chess the old fashioned way or by using a special purpose computer. If you have limited processing power your optimization heuristic becomes that much more important. At a guess Laplace was very good at choosing what to work on and how to tackle it leading to relatively few computations but all of those contributing to the result.

Our current brute force approach discards the vast majority of the results generated.
On the other hand you can play VR games from outside the Oculus Store on Oculus hardware, and I would guess the majority of VR games are actually bought on Steam, so there is clearly a choice for both consumers and developers.
Some in person classes, yes. My sister luckily only has online ones. Regarding when, I think the obvious answer should have been to cancel in person classes back in may or June.. We knew covid was here to last even then.
Colombia is still closed to all international travel.