skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One of the things that distinguishes the 1Gbps to the home market in Seattle is the number of MDU specialists, and percentage of 35+ unit apartments or condos that have at least one gigabit provider in the building. I'm thinking of the AS54858 network (CondoInternet/WaveG), independent smaller player Atlas Networks, in addition to Comcast and Centurylink.

The WaveG MDU network is in a lot of places in the city which are not Wave cable incumbent territory. It started as its own independent network in areas that are traditionally Comcast/Centurylink territory around the core of downtown, capitol hill, south lake union etc and was later acquired by Wave. The Wave cable TV network was historically its own distinct thing in a different set of franchise territories within the city boundaries.

The origins of what we would call Wave in the City of Seattle are with Broadstripe. The same guys who acquired Broadstripe out of bankruptcy and glued it together with a bunch of other acquired small to medium cable MSOs on the west coast, are the ones who formed Northwest Fiber (now Ziply) to acquire the PNW assets of Frontier.

https://www.multichannel.com/news/broadstripe-writes-its-las...

Ultimately for a full understanding of what Clink and Ziply are doing and where their last mile and midddle mile networks are the strongest, one needs to have a historical understanding of the Pacific Northwest Bell network (-->USWest-->Qwest-->Clink) and the areas that were historically GTE territory (GTE-->Frontier-->Ziply).

On the topic of the city government of Seattle and its franchise agreement with CenturyLink. I don't think a city government ever has much negotiating leverage with an ILEC such as this. The clink network in Seattle is the result of 100 years of incumbent copper phone line dialtone service, clink setting its own poles in many places, and is a core part of municipal infrastructure. The city can't reasonably force the company to vacate the right of way or cease services without causing a severe impact on the residents of the city. There's no plausible scenario in which a new franchise agreement won't put be into place...
Do you walk heel or toe first [1]? I would assume that lego bricks only hurt when moving heel first since humans had to deal with stony environments for quite some time. Not that you should stop cleaning up but this could be another technology to deal with the bricks.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1086446 Barefoot Running
That's not such a relevant number because plenty of those US jobs went to automation, not to China. There are still over 12 million manufacturing jobs in the US. About 8% of all US jobs which is a significant chunk. Easily disapproving the wild exaggeration that "all of the manufacturing jobs are in China... ".
> The protocol has been criticized for omitting any mention of prewarming the pot.[6] Ireland was the only country to object, and objected on technical grounds.[7]

It is a good point.
I'm sorry, but you're completely wrong. A traditional TV station is not subject to these franchise fees. Traditional stations receive their radio frequency allocations from the FCC.

A cable provider who lays physical cables in the ground pays a franchise fee to the community for the right to lay those cables on public land. The justification for this fee was that it increased community costs (it's more expensive to lay and maintain water and sewer pipes, for example, and digging up part of the road to lay the lines will result in the roads needing to be redone sooner even if they're patched).

Netflix, Hulu, and satellite providers do not use public right of ways. Sure, you may watch Netflix over DSL provided by your cable provider, but the cable provider has already paid the fee.
I did approximately that, but with actual columns, not jsonb, and with a normal view, not a materialized view. Performance sucked on the view because of all the lookups.

So you could create the materialized view which builds the path, and then use an index on the path for subtree selection. However you might find refreshing the materialized view slower than you'd like.

The only real answer here is to build it and load it out with a representative sample of data, or a set scaled down for a smaller test machine, and finding out what the latency and throughput are like for your case. Find out what the ground truth is for you, today, on today's hardware. My tests were from 4+ years ago.
VR has the potential to reveal more about you than normal browsing history. The device knows what you are looking at (sometimes including eye tracking) and for how long. This is extremely valuable.
Or spread it around the world and run lots of interconnectors. It's always daytime somewhere in the world.
This is millions, while anything nuclear is measured in billions. And nuclear technology, including thorium, is decades old technology, unlikely to see the kind of rapid gains less mature technology frequently exhibits.
6 figure pensions for public "servants" cannot be payed by tech. They are ridiculous when SS recipients receive about $20k a year.
I don't fully understand;

> if you're at A, you can travel faster than the speed of light and arrive before B happens

But if we assume A and B happen "at the same time" and your frame of reference is closer to A than B right? As the light showing B happening is still traveling to the observer while A has already arrived.

If that's the case,

> Then, after B happens, you can travel back to before A happens.

Doesn't make sense, If the following happens:

> Traveler starts at A, jumps the wormhole to point B and immediately jumps back to A, arriving 10 seconds after leaving A.

The observer would see:

> Traveler starts at A, arrives back at A + 10 seconds and a while later, they are seen exiting and entering the wormhole at B while also being visible at A (Assuming they didn't do anything after exiting there)
It probably depends on the type of ISP you have and whether or not they use the public right-of-way. I'm going to guess that most ISPs pay it in the US simply because most folks get their internet from the phone or cable company. If you happen to have satellite internet of any sort, though, or another form of wireless, probably not.
> If it's unique, it's PII.

Ok, Ill just reuse each generated ID twice and I'm safe. The data gets only a little blurry.
If you pick "exit" it exits. If you click the close button, it just closes the window but keeps running. You can also set in settings not to run on system startup. Mac has the same behavior.
Generally speaking, no. But there are classes of problems (ex surgical robotics) where solution optimality (or at least near-optimality) is essential to having a usable and safe system.
> The amount of all nuclear waste ever produced takes up about the space of a football field

No.

Let’s be generous and use a soccer field, which is bigger than a NFL field, at 7,100 m3.

There is about 22,000 m3 of high level nuclear waste globally, according to the IAEA. That’s the really bad stuff. There’s 460,000 m3 of intermediate level (sludge, reactor cladding, etc), and 3,479,000 m3 of low level.

So yeah, considerably more than the space of a football field.

[source: https://nda.blog.gov.uk/2019/08/02/how-much-radioactive-wast...]
Any ELI5 for people who know close to nothing about NN, AI, machine learning etc?

Like, how does one letter it doesn't know how to write well make it skip/mess up the following ones too? I mean, "derail" seems a fitting description to what I'm seeing, but how?
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dude, back in the blog days I made myself as a south park character and put it on my layout as a mascot (I made this with flash). when you clicked it, it cursed.

this video brought back memories, I loved the old web.
I mean replacing machines as they break. A large cluster you can’t maintain is a poor investment.
Maybe you're being sarcastic or hyperbolic, but of course ads work. Ask anyone who advertises. It's not a billion dollar industry for nothing.

I'd say at best, they can inform you of something you need but didn't know existed, but even your "best" case is a valid use of advertising. And, yeah, a lot of advertising is noise. That's why advertisers are so interested in targeted advertising.
Could this be the reason for John Carmack leaving facebook
Why would you assume that? The Oculus system software requires you to login. Without it running no apps run, even 3rd party apps.
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of course. Also, much of the progress at least in computer vision is attributable to competitions such as Imagenet challenge. It's not my intent to downplay the importance of research or the competitions.
Apple's business model is also built around exploiting your personal data, not at the same scale sure but still. Just look at the Siri recordings scandal
I currently own a HTC Vive (+wireless) and the Oculus Go. I was planning to sell both and buy the new Oculus Quest 2. I will not do this now. Bummer.
From the article:

"compared to a similar capacity battery, it's not only half the cost, the facility has a service life of 50 years, five to 10 times longer than a battery."

It doesn't explicit say what kind of battery, but a service life of 10 years suggests Li-ion.
>Multiaxis singularities -this one blew my mind. Imagine you have a robot arm bolted to the ground. You want to teach the stupid thing to paint a car or something. There are actual singularities possible in the equations of motion; and it is more or less an underconstrained problem. I guess there are workarounds for this at this point, but they all have different tradeoffs. It’s as open a problem as motion planning on a macro scale.

This is a math problem applied to robotics, not a unique problem to robotics. If there are workarounds, then isn't the problem solved?> Factories have robotic arms and they seem to do an adequate job making cars and other stuff in spite of singularities.
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As an aside, this reminds me of the AI vs AGI debate (which I admit I indulge in being a former academic researcher in good old-fashioned AI) - almost all of the focus in modern "AI" appears to be be focused on solving specific tasks - which is completely understandable.
Might it not be more optimal to attach the individual GPU dielets onto a silicon interposer to avoid the yield issues that are inherent when making a large monolithic chip, and save some of the overheads of dealing with dead dielets? I think I read about some researchers/companies going that route but haven't kept up.
It used to work to start the Nvidia installer, let it unpack (other unpacking tools could most likely extract the archive as well) its contents, exit it and instead let Windows search the unpacked files for the correct driver by using the Windows driver selection dialog.

I'm not sure if this still works or if there are other things beside the driver that one would like to have installed nowadays.
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I like to take notes on paper however my notes are always messy. I'm not able to take notes on anything without having to go back and reorganise them, make sense of them, and add to them. Paper and pen (pencil in my case) are limited in this respect. I'd love to be able to take notes perfectly the first time but find I'll take notes and rewrite them in text (currently zim-wiki) which for me reinforces them in my mind. I can then add/change them when needed. My notes evolve over time, which means paper notes would have to be rewritten continuously with the same information with additions/deletions/expansions/etc. This is much easier electronically, especially when you version your notes (I do this with fossil in zim-wiki).

I find also pen and paper to be limited for programming notes.
Flys move reflexively don't they? They bump into walls and windows all the time.
I do not disagree with your analysis (and I certainly do not have the experience to refute it), but I think you are overlooking some things.

First, I think that J was indeed an improvement over APL. There were several irregularities in APL that were corrected in J (eg. indexing operations) and some new features that allowed new possibilities (eg: function trains and tacit definitions). This is discussed in more detain in "A Personal View of APL" (Iverson, 1991).

And, second, there are some advantages of using ASCII. Although it does not require modifying your hardware any more, using a special character set still is inconvenient. The capacity to write a J expression in any mail program, for example, is important. Being able to use any keyboard (including mobile phone keyboard apps) is important. Easily adding J code to any paper using any text editor without needing special fonts is important. I do not think these advantages are enough to compensate for the loss of expressiveness, but they are not negligible.

All that said, I understand (and partly share) your frustration.
Best of luck.

I'm 32 and just started my data science course. I'm so excited and terrified by what seems to be basic calculus and logic for others.

I'm a pentester/security guy with no formal background in anything. I was a waiter until I was 27, but always hacked and coded around a bit since I was a young kid. I've done well for myself professionally in the last 5 years, I'm good at the soft skills and speaking, but I always felt so inadequate compared to the serious engineers who did "serious" degrees. Hence why I want to get a serious degree to talk serious stuff with my ML engineer colleagues.
Depends what you're after, I guess. If all you want is a 'slave' that does some repeatable action with specified accuracy, then an automation system is just the thing. If you're after exploring the questions around what it means to be an autonomous, sentient being, then perhaps not so much and you really want to build a robot.
Ever talked to filmmakers who made stuff for/with netflix? Product placement is a real thing. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/16/business/media/netflix-co...
My point is not that it's not important. If someone comes up with a rigorous way to obtain error bars, that's great! I'll take it! My point is that trust should not and will not depend on it. How do you even quantify something like this to a layperson in order to persuade them?

Let's do a thought experiment: let's say, we had a self-driving car that's verifiably 10x better than human on average, yet does not provide "error bars". I know we don't have one now, and unlikely to have one in the foreseeable future, but bear with me here, for the sake of argument.

Would you trust it, rather than a random human Uber driver?

FWIW, I'm amazed that driving cars manually is perceived as normal every time I drive one. I can easily accelerate 2+ metric tons of metal to 100+ MPH, and get distracted, launching this deadly projectile with me inside into oncoming traffic. Most roads have _no dividers_. This does happen from time to time, lots of people die. Nobody gives a shit.

Humans suck so bad at so many things that robots will be better than them at a lot of fairly unconstrained tasks in the next decade or two. And I'm pretty certain they won't have error bars while doing what they do. Humans don't.
Pretty serious achievements. Wonder what is the demonstrated Isp and the exhaust pressure?
Well, most elements on this list would allow us to move beyond needing so many assumptions. Lots of cost could be saved if I didn't need to perfectly measure all my owrkoffsets or didn't have to spend lots of time on designing my workspace to avoid singularities. Also it would allow us to move from relatively narrow-purpose machines ("move this end effector to this position within +/-0.01mm") to much more general jobs, hence opening more to automation.
Article asserts that bitcoin transactions should be processed in a more socialist "fair" ordering, as opposed to a more capitalist style "user pays" priority based system:

"Although the fee-per-byte dequeuing policy is widely considered the “norm” for prioritizing transactions—we show that miners somehow delay a significant fraction of transactions. Such deviations undermine the utility of blockchains for ensuring a “fair” ordering that might be required for some applications."
I went through approximately same stages, and eventually found that the knowledge base is mostly useless. What it matters turned out to be my own words: my personal notes on the subjects, my worklog, my emotions etc. These bits are something you can't easily reconstruct without a right context, and keeping the context is getting harder and harder as you are getting older.
There's a really good write up of this about the font Liza: https://underware.nl/case-studies/random-vs-clever/
Most “mandatory requirements” in corporations are imaginary
If I write for example 5 letter "k" in a row (space separator), the technique used to write them varies in a way that irl wouldn't for a real human.I guess you could argue why would someone write 5 k letters.
(I won't mention that I observed the same variation when repeating the process using a name of a certain notorious organization that uses 3 k letters)
The problem is that "distance" here is not necessarily in any intuitive or useful space, and knowing if you are close to the goal may be as hard as finding the full solution. You can be quite "close" to a solution in, say, Euclidean distance over joint angles, while constraints like joint limits and collisions mean that the actual solution path will be quite long.
It makes sense to offer a service for transactions which might not get included to offer a paid accelerator:
https://pushtx.btc.com/
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Ethanol may be better suited for this:

https://www.anl.gov/article/turning-carbon-dioxide-into-liqu...
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this was so apt and it makes so much sense. a bulb just went on in my head. thanks so much for your simple and precise explanation.
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I see you have your reasons so I am not going to try to sway your opinion. But other languages I have experience with, recently, are Go and Rust and there is no better platform to code like the JetBrains IDEs. I've tried VSCode myself and I know people who were trying other platforms, VI included. It's just no comparison.

Some people have strong preferences and that's fine but for general audience I strongly advise - try JetBrains IDE for your language od choice. Try it for a month and then go back to your old tool. In my case, JB IDEs are so convenient, accurate, feature rich and just fun to use that I find going back not pleasant experience.
I’ve spotted a similar frequency of satellite transits by eye and don’t recall seeing so many as a child. Not sure if I’m more observant now or if there’s really been a marked increase.
This is interesting, it would be great to make this a general tool. Extract invariants from untyped runs to generate tests/interfaces or else. Migrations would be smoother.
How are you going from size of a field (which should be square meters) to volume (meters cubed)?

The MCG (an australian football field) is 25,000 square meters. The stadium holds approx 1,700,000 cubic metres.

"Football field" is a highly regional term.... lets not measure things in them?
Perhaps you've not yet reached an age where you frequently need to get up to pee in the night (sometimes several times) and keep the lights off to avoid disturbing a sleeping partner... ;)
They don't serve a purpose, but they still work the same. And if a second person suddenly shows up, you wouldn't suddenly bestow them with rights.
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> I rather have the government take a billion dollar cost that later turn a profit than a millions dollar cost that don't.

Surely that ought to depend on how much profit it generates. If it only generates a few millions in profit you're still down on your money.
If the person wearing the mask is not using it properly then that's not good for them. The wearer is still protecting other people from contracting the virus, if they (maybe not knowingly) have it.
Might not be DSL, but DOCSIS (coaxial), as part of an HFC system[1]. Version 3.1 can reach over 1Gbps, though that rather depends on how many people you are sharing it with.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hybrid_fiber-coaxial
This is not true.
Even companies whose IPOs are long forgotten can bring 20X returns. In a current stock market frenzy you can have 20X returns in a year. Take Overstock (OSTK). 14X return from the highs of January 2020 or 30X return from the lows of March (COVID sell-off).

Even large caps such as TSLA is almost 10X return in a year(!). It's crazy what's going on with the stock prices right now.
So, just to understand what you say correctly, I will ask: Do you think it is ethically tenable to require these VR interested, enthusiastic people to sign up to FB (known to be privacy nightmare), so that they are able to use the product they spent lots of money on? Is it acceptable to force them to do this, just because they are sufficiently interested in VR? Is it in general OK to force people to connect with a third party, which has nothing to do with the actual product?

I am not sure whether you are trying to justify this move, or whether you are questioning that it will have an economic impact or really what the point is.
Can you throw away owned real property elsewhere? The closest I can think of is not paying property taxes and hoping the state/municipality will seize the property and not come after you for the difference. If the actual value of the property is zero or negative it's difficult to come out ahead.
Exercise, and children. I also time my working day so when the times up that's me done for the day.
"According to those reports, Oracle was seriously considering buying TikTok's businesses in the US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand with investment firms, including General Atlantic and Sequoia Capital."

That's only 4 out of the "5 eyes".
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There's a FAANG office which also uses 4xx status codes, but as you would expect, 404 is missing, and 403 is permanently locked (spoiler: it's a door mounted on a wall with nothing behind it). 418, on the other hand, is decorated with whimsical teapots.
Ah, so you're saying the key difference is that Apple has allowed the sale of third party content in their product. Do you agree then, that:

1. If Apple didn't allow the sale of third party content, they would be in the same position as Epic and therefore there would be no problem?

2. If Epic allowed the sale of third party content, they should not be allowed to control what type of content is sold, nor should they be allowed to collect a percentage of each sale?
In control when you say optimal it usually just means that you solve your problem by defining a cost function which you try to minimize within constraints. For example in motion planning your cost could be distance traveled + time spent + energy used. This cost function would be written as a function of the system state (position, velocity, etc.) and control input (e.g. throttle). The control input that limits the cost function is what you're looking for.

Optimal shouldn't be equated to the absolute best way, because it's always a question of definition.
Be sure to ask the locals how often they get away with that vs. how often foreigners get away with it (especially foreigners who've paid a 5000-euro deposit and explicitly promised not to do it, in exchange for a 1-euro purchase price)
It's a lagging indicator at how good you are.
Manucturing is still a huge employer in the US.