skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While I'm a fan of the single open network with multiple access model, I really wouldn't use nbn as an example of a government provided network, because of the politicking that went on during it's inception, the corruption that went on during it's build, the changing of horses midstream from fibre everywhere to a mix of less-capable technologies, and the way it was effectively built to be sold to the incumbent.

If you want to see how to build a national broadband network, look across the ditch at what the UFB gets you. AUD$89 for 100mbps, versus NZD$85 for 1 gigabit.

(Orcon in NZ, and TPG used in AU for comparison purposes)
The government created Silicon Valley: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTC_RxWN_xo

I have no evidence other than the sheer obviousness of it, but the ties still continue to this day. I have no doubt it is kept hidden from most employees due to the general political leanings of most Valley engineers. For instance, my work does a ton of work for the DoE and you hear them mentioned all the time. The DoD is also a customer and you never hear their name.
Oh me too! Springer had an amazing book on PIC16F84 programming that was my self taught low level coding education. Pre-Arduino, the PICs were the bomb, you could order free samples, download the compiler free, and build a programmer for like $20 in parts. Fond memories!
https://archive.is/axCvG for those who can’t read the whole article
Would you run this boxed software on your machine? Would you maintain it? How much is your time worth?
meh

IFTTT has rarely worked properly for me with synchronizations running terribly behind or not at all.

why would I pay for that, with a challenging interface and just single step actions? Zapier does just as much if not more for $15 a month.
True. But if you are a hobbyist, at the cusp of commercialization, then the MCU cost is a huge factor in total product cost.

As an example, I made a flow measurement and alarm system for my home. I used an ESP8266 development board, which is damn cheap, at about 5 USD. I successfully completed the project.

However, I decided to explore options for commercialization, and that 5 USD became a huge cost increase for my overall system. So I am now trying to designin systems with MCUs that are less than 30 cents.
I’m not sure why you’re trying to trivialize my comment. I don’t see what this has to do with Fox News, but even if it did, they often do cover stories and angles that other media with different biases do not. It doesn’t make sense to dismiss them as a source outright, given virtually all news media carry biases and virtually all have examples of misinformation.

Getting back to Portland - if you haven’t kept an eye on what’s happening there, and are denying that there are disruptive riots virtually every night in one part of the city, then you are gaslighting. There is a mountain of evidence that a group of antifa/BLM participants willfully partake in criminal activity under the guise of racial justice with regularity (example https://www.cbsnews.com/news/portland-protests-police-declar...). One of them even murdered another citizen recently (see https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/03/us/michael-reinoehl-arres...).
Ya true. I usually end up jumping around depending on use case. Matplotlib ,seaborn, plotly to name a few.
> Electric cars are expensive, too.

No, they're actually cheaper overall[1]. And even if they were more expensive, is it too much to ask to take a temporary financial disadvantage over the future of the whole planet? Or do we wish to stand on burning ruins one day and say "it was cheaper for me this way".

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VyZOLMeMYnI

> Industrial and commercial emissions overshadow residential emissions by more than a factor of four.

> The consumer market is but a fraction of the entire market.

The end consumer is always a person (with the exception of the military maybe, but even they claim to provide the service of protection to citizens). It's just that the emissions from the products you consume don't end at the electricity you use to charge them. "The industry" is just the hidden steps in the supply chain that create your products.

No company produces anything that isn't sold. If it's not sold to you directly, then it's sold to another company which uses it to create something to sell to you.

> Nobody forced Apple into implementing planned obsolescence as part of their business strategy, or into unsustainable manufacturing practices.

I don't know about Apple but I'm using a phone that is now 7 years old, still runs fine. If Apple uses planned obsolescence then maybe you shouldn't buy Apple products in the first place.
Matt Warren writes a lot of nice stuff about .NET internals and performance.
> Identifying criminals should be made efficient

This is a nightmare sentiment. No, identifying criminals should not be efficient at all. Everyone is a criminal -- whether that's speeding, jaywalking, vandalism, littering, loitering, or whatever, the last thing we need is police having more powers to point to someone they dislike and saying, "We've got footage of you doing X, comply with our demands or suffer the consequences."
The Fiction That Makes the World Go Round
I really don't get this anti-async mentality on HN. Maybe I'm doing something wrong but async is a complete game changer for me as there just so much IO wait in every project I touch.
The fact that my program has to stop and wait for something is honestly unacceptable and it's just a logical conclusion to eliminate this blockage.

I worked past 2 years with asyncio and I have to say it still kinda sucks. The syntax is overly verbose and asyncio itself can't decide what it wants to be. However it still works _good_ for the most part and there's an enormous community and effort in this!
Near-field is only a few wavelengths away when the antenna itself is a half wavelength in dimension. Otherwise you would calculate the size of the near field as a function of the physical dimension of the antenna and the wavelength: r2 = 2d^2/λ.

E.g. The radiating near field of a 2.4GHz antenna about 8 meters long would extend about 1km.

[1] - https://www.giangrandi.org/electronics/anttool/regions.shtml
Apologies, shorting-bans isn't necessarily a long-term view rule, just an example of something they could do around constraints on trading, not necessarily something they should do, just I expected some kind of trading rules to fix the real problem, which in my opinion is investor pressure, not management short-sightedness.
A private country club would certainly fall under this exemption, but a normal gym might not unless it's already qualifying for the private club tax exemption.
I live in Portland. This legislation is an obvious no-brainer; we've known since Philip K. Dick that this sort of technology is primarily meant to harm and control the populace.

As a nice side benefit, the sort of neoliberal surveillance-advertising monolith that we see in "Minority Report" is also banned.

Edit: So many downvotes! Do y'all want to use your words? It's starting to seem like HN users want to build panopticons and they're upset that we legislated that possibility away.
Have you been reading John Gray too?
> Here's the conservative libertarian response

Seems to me more like plain conservative response. Libertarian position would be to protect individual liberty against both state and societal oppression. E.g. In 'On Liberty' J.S.Mill discussed mainly societal oppression (by social norms) as it is more prevasive and insidious than state oppression.
I mean the original idea was fantastic - the network infrastructure was going to be fibre to every household in Aus (with a few exceptions for ultra-remote locations) - 1 gigabit down/up.

Then the conservative gov opposition ran a campaign (bolstered by incumbent telcos and Rupert Murdoch of Fox fame) that fibre was unnecessary and it'd be much cheaper and quicker to provide a patchwork mix of different modalities, the idea being that fibre would never be necessary.

The reality is that the opposition just needed to run on a campaign that was "not what the Gov wants to do".

Long story short, opposition won government, and ended up buying back (at a premium) a whole bunch of old copper infrastructure from the major telco whom they'd sold the infra to decades earlier. The costs of mismanagement and using such a patchwork mix blew the whole project out and here we are 10 years later with the "quicker cheaper" STILL not finished rolling out.

Where it has been deployed, it's suffering under loads that it can't keep up with - I'm currently getting 1.5 Mbs down 0.72 up.
I think he was referring to the fact that it's winter in the southern hemisphere.
That’s the popular narrative (I think Steve Jobs said that when he pulled all the clone licenses).
The clone makers thought they were taking away Apple sales , but were expanding the Mac market.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_Computing_Corporation

As a Mac purchaser in the 90s (actually a clone, a power computing model) the 10% or so savings off real Apple hardware made a difference. macs /clones weren’t cheap, but having some other manufacturers at least make them made it seem like Apple was more viable and you were getting decent value for your money.

Of course having motorola making clones and the CPUs made for weirdness, as well as the company writing the os for clones making competing hardware. Apple wasn’t doing well and I think they were trying anything to survive.

Steve Jobs sent a Rolodex card and welcomed power computing users (Like me) to Apple when they pulled the plug.

https://www.macworld.com/article/2998000/clone-wars-when-the...

And Wikipedia has more:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macintosh_clone#Licensed_Mac...
I think we have a communication hitch here:

> the whole premise here is that investor behavior prevents [survivorship] bias

WTF? How the heck is some "investor behavior" supposed to prevent you (or I, or anybody) from succumbing to a common human mistake made when analyzing data and discussing it here in the comments-section?

> You can't take the whole argument and then cast massive, glaring contradictions to the core premise as merely bias.

Back up: You're using a straw-man argument, a false version created out of black-and-white absolutes, rather than trends and high probabilities.

___________

Consider this fictional conversation:

A: "Playing the lottery is a sucker's game, you're almost guaranteed to go bankrupt."

B: "But look! These people bought a lot of tickets and won! They're multi-millionaires now!"

A: "That's survivorship bias. You're not considering the huge numbers of not-so-notable people who lost money instead."

B: "No it's a massive glaring contradiction to your core premise! You can't brush it off as bias!"
What about IFTTT (or equivalent) plus + Tasker + ClockTask?
There is nothing outside the universe. The cosmic background radiation is, in a sense, the furthest thing we can observe, which is the remnant of the big bang. And yet it is the same everywhere. So the surface of the bubble actually represents a single historical point! That implies some strange geometry! The universe may seem static on a small scale (like Earth) or an expanding sphere at a larger scale (inter-galactic), but at the universal scale something even weirder is happening. It may be more useful to think of the "expansion of the universe" as an illusion created by zooming into that singularity, which is itself fixed, even unchanging, but your inexorable motion "into" it makes it look like things are flying apart. (In this case, "you" is an astronomer looking at distant galaxies; you can't really notice this effect at human-scale, and apparently you can't even measure it at lower-than-human scale, which is why quantum gravity is ...difficult shall we say.)
My take as a hobbyist in this area:

In highly complex, long running systems, it's very difficult to know automatically when memory is no longer needed.

Reference counting, and its draconian creepy uncle malloc()/free(), require programmers to be very careful about when they free memory.

This is a life of tossing in turning in bed: Did you carefully free before you returned in that error handler?

C++ has the benefit of strict compile time analysis, and a lot of the confusing bits have sensibly been pushed to the standard container types' implementations.

Dynamic systems with diverse "types" and millions of collections of objects, especially ones that are likely to contain "cycles" and references to each other, often take other approaches that aren't as "match up the alloc() and free()"-oriented, such as periodically scanning the entire object graph and deleting stuff that couldn't be reached.

Madness! But runs like hell when the graph is small and most people won't feel the burn. An ongoing area of research.
Yeah we should, just like we do other diseases.

As the data comes in we can publish weighted risks.

For now, basic outcomes tell the basic story. People can weigh it from there.
How are these shoes different?
Your framing here is astoundingly biased and doesn't reflect what most reasonable people have understood to be the case. (That the vast majority of the violence comes from police.)

The protests aren't peaceful, but that's deliberate. "No Justice; No Peace" means something. The protesters have been non-violent, but non-peaceful on purpose. The police have consistently escalated (just like they did in Seattle.)
Indeed, often legal language is left as open to interpretation when new so that the manifestation of reality can polish it over time. This is a new venture; being imprecise about “long-term” now is, in my interpretation, the right move, because it should be refined over time based on how this all plays out.

The idea is good, in my opinion, and will develop over time to become more concrete, most likely.
> In terms of competition, we've seen plenty of alternative pop up recently such as Mattermost and MS Teams, both of which have gained popularity.

Slack has still had a net gain in users in the time that those competitors have gained users as well though, right? If everyone is gaining users, that seems like a reasonable argument against the market being saturated.
In a hereditary absolute monarchy, the son (or more rarely daughter) may feel motivated to continue to the projects of his father (or more rarely mother), out of a sense of filial duty. In principle, it seems like hereditary absolute monarchy may avoid the problem you describe.

In practice, hereditary absolute monarchy suffers from the problem of the dud heir: Marcus Aurelius is remembered as one of the greatest Roman Emperors, his son and successor Commodus is remembered as one of the worst.
If you want long term focus, invest in an index. No single company can weather every storm. Sometimes they need short term focus to survive in the long term.
I would love to see the same for some of their investments which didn't pan out.
Better for us to actually remove those laws.
The get-rich-quick scheme that cost Amazon sellers, then got them banned
Does this have the Snooze feature?
Ask HN: Why doesn't Starbucks beat local coffee shops?
Majority of coffee fans say their local coffee shops make better coffee than starbucks. If that's so, why doesn't starbucks, with all it's money and resources become better than local coffee shops. What is it missing?
> I've always been curious as to how effective a hydraulic lift could be at reducing necessary launch weight.

I suppose you'd be able to approximate the effect by comparing the delta v needed to launch from a sea-level site (Cape Canaveral, Kourou, etc.) with that needed to launch from one of China's inland sites (e.g., Taiyuan, which sits at 1500m). I have no idea whether this data is publically available, though. I'd guess the bulk of your performance improvements would come from increased engine performance due to the lower ambient pressure (~0.83 atm according to Wolfram Alpha) rather than the increased altitude, since most of the energy is needed for horizontal acceleration [0]. The increased thrust would mean lower gravity losses, but I wouldn't be able to say how much.

[0]: https://what-if.xkcd.com/58/
No problem!

I think the majority of AWS' capabilities are provided through third-party partners (e.g., Okta, like you mentioned). I don't know for certain, but I'd be surprised if those are available on GovCloud/whatever Amazon's IL5 platform is. Use of additional services also then adds in additional SLAs, potentially additional costs, increased attack surface, etc.

Also, I don't believe that Slack, GSuite, Chime, etc. are NIST 800-171/DFARs compliant, let alone authorized at IL5. The Teams in GCC is within the GCC enclave, from what I understand.

I feel like I'm starting to sound like a Microsoft salesperson (promise I'm not!), but yeah, it's definitely worth checking out.
Is it though? Mozilla would still be providing the service based in their country of incorporation and where their website is hosted regardless of where the customer is based. As long as they comply with the regulation of their host country (export restrictions, sanctions, etc) they should be in the clear.
IMO, the main difference between LTSE and a traditional stock exchange is the way votes are allocated to shareholders. Traditionally voting power is proportional to shares owned. However, on LTSE the amount of time a stock has been held is also considered.

There is no minimum holding period, but there is an incentive to hold.

A bit of a tangent: Since there is a premium in voting rights (GOOG vs GOOGL), I'm curious to see how this new voting structure might result in strange behavior by traders and investors. For example, will people use single stock futures to hedge while retaining their voting rights? Will special purpose vehicles for holding shares be created?
Sure it does. Failing to recognize someone at scale can very much impact someone's privacy. Holes in data are, in and of themselves information.

For example, if an unrecognized face was logged on 47th street, then an unrecognized face was logged on 50th, then 52nd, then 55th (where a crime occurred), then back down to 47th, you might be able to draw some patterns about where to look for your suspect even if they hadn't opted in.

Edit: Also, you are trusting that the system isn't storing markers for people it doesn't recognize. My concern would be that if I opt in later, suddenly all my past history becomes discoverable. That's a lot of trust to put in the hands of private firms (or the police), neither of which I'm comfortable holding that information.
>That's an interesting take, and not one that I think you will find in common with experts on the subject.

Many of these "experts" typically use outrage to justify their continued employment. Most of them come off as genuinely deranged to most of the people I know, so this isn't just a me thing.

>I might largely be wasting my time in attempting to educate people on the internet

You're not educating people so much as finding chances to belittle them.

>Why do you believe that uttering phrases that are fundamentally rooted and reinforce prejudice is not harmful?

You're trying to tell someone they are racist while not holding any racist opinion but for saying magic words. This is nonsensical. If black people call each other "the n word" then a word and its historical meaning and modern meanings are not necessarily linked to each other.

More empowering is, likely, accepting that a word or phrase may have had some racist element to it but removing the power of that racism (such as with black people calling each other the n word) as opposed to making it forbidden.
https://www.rfwireless-world.com/calculators/Horn-Antenna-Ca...

for instance. Put in a 3 by 5 meter aperture, and bam, 40dB on the nose.
Looks fantastic. I strongly urge you to reconsider building out an application that serves only Google though!
My impression so far is that Epic is playing a long game. And playing it perfectly. God I hope so.
it's like with banks. once they've put in a substantial amount of money, they can't pull out anymore. it's a case of "too big to fail".
Apologies, shorting-bans isn't necessarily a long-term view rule, just an example of something they could do around constraints on trading, not necessarily something they should do, just I expected some kind of trading rules to fix the real problem, which in my opinion is investor pressure, not management short-sightedness.

The rules I suggested aren't necessarily good rules, just random examples. That is, to me the most powerful driver for short term thinking isn't managerial in nature, it's investor in nature. That is, it's the short term fluctuations in market value as investor reactions to events or goals that have nothing to do with the company's bottom line or long term goals, etc. But if essentially random forces are affecting the value of your company, there will exist pressure on management to respond to that pressure. So to me the real fix is some set of rules constraining investor behavior with regards to how the stock is traded, not some nebulous honor-code among CEOs. I am not sure what the rules should be, I just picked random rules out of my butt. But I think there should be some trading constraints: if you truly want to incentivize long term vision, you have to remove the short term pressures.

Like your suggestion for a trading window every 5 years. I have no idea how well that would work, but it seems reasonable, and is the sort of thing I expected for the site, but they seem not to have anything like that in mind. Which to me means that have entirely missed the mark.
Yup that's capitalism and LACK of regulatory authority :-)
I don't know why you were downvoted, the theories you referenced sound as plausible as any other to me (but then again I tend to assume everything comes with a touch of bullshit).

The situation you described would result in a game of universal pong, in which matter is passed from one side of the universe to the other before reaching a critical point where it bounces back. Obviously I have no means of validating the "Plank star beyond the horizon" theory, but nor can anyone else can prove differently at this point.
Humans exploiting and destroying nature on unprecedented scale – report
Habituation to Horror
Bye bye IFTTT, this "subscription life" really needs to end.
> > the flu wave in 2017/18

> a whole year (or two?) of normal flu

Flu season is fall to spring, that range is (northern hemisphere) half a year. Both years are given because it started in 2017 and ended in 2018.
> Would you run this boxed software on your machine?

Yes. Would you rather have ice cream or get punched in the face?

> Would you maintain it?

If maintaining it means scheduling updates through my host's package manager or running docker pull, and not "hey it's thursday, time for a new configuration format", then sure.

> How much is your time worth?

Enough to never host Elasticsearch, not enough to go SaaS-only.
I live in Portland. I don’t live downtown where most of the videos you see are coming from, but I do live in a neighborhood very close to downtown. Over the past few months there have been a bunch of smashed windows (and presumably theft) at many of the businesses on the main street, graffiti is out of control, theft appears to be increasing as well. This is all just in my neighborhood. There are also the fires being set downtown and other violence between various battling groups. I can’t say for sure that putting more police on the streets would solve all these problems, but we need to do something. We are not headed on a good trajectory but for whatever reason it seems like our political leaders are in support of this destruction. We do need help.
> It seems that our city government is essentially giving the ok for this crime to continue

I don't know how you possibly came to this conclusion from the ordinances, but I would rethink this take.
Because Microsoft basically won't support C11.