skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You lay out some really good challenges for establishing a decent public net

1) Maintenance. What are the challenges of maintaining? Hardware? Balancing network? Software integration?

2) Speed. What are the barriers for making fast and affordable?

3) Distance. What are the hurdles for last mile?

This has been telecom's unicorn for a long time. Fiber, wireless, satellite, cable where all promised to deliver. I think there is something with mesh networks and free software that can break this barrier. I don't know exactly what it would be but it still seems like a possibility to me.
Back in the dark ages, there were hobbyists who would order alarm circuits ($6/month) and pay for the DSL equipment on each side. This let them connect to the internet back as it was in 1992 or so.

The problem with this was that you had to know somebody who would be willing to be the other side of your connection. That obviously didn't scale very well.

Portland tried having a [free WiFi](https://www.oregonlive.com/breakingnews/2008/06/portlands_wi...) setup with antennas mounted on streetlights. The goal was to have 95% of the city covered but most people needed a signal booster to reach the antennas and very few people did that. My guess is that even if they did that the bandwidth would have been really slow.

There have been a couple of attempts to do a mesh network in Portland with hobbyists but it's really hard. People have moved from computers to phones, tablets, and dedicated devices like Rokus or smart TVs.

A tech support manager I worked with said "these people don't want to be taught how to catch a fish. They want us to catch the fish, cook it, and serve it with a smile."

Some people are OK with amateur performance - there's no internet because Betty went away for the weekend and isn't there to re-boot the router - but most people aren't.
Expecting that billions of people will simultaneously act against their incentives is madness. You can't assign collective fault to "we" who did this by making bad choices individually. It's a system that has optimized itself to this end goal.

I feel pretty good about my choices in comparison. I use an older, sock Android device, with simple wired headphones, so that particular issue with AirPods has never occurred to me. My laptop is a bulletproof old Thinkpad running Ubuntu LTS, which is likewise pretty reliable. Software that I have to use for work but that I expect to be crappy goes in a VM. I use this crappy software to the best of my ability to create other software and hardware that I expect to work reliably, and to do so for decades.

But none of those signals and "good choices" ever feed back into better choices by the titans of our industry. When an iPhone or AirPods device uses up all the recharges available in it's battery, that shows up as profit in the numbers Apple uses to make decisions.

Don't blame the victims for the situation they're prey to.
Do you want to test your strategic thinking skills? Play this board game
But everything you described needs the app to be installed. No app, no problem.
As someone who has been programming since 1984, software quality has greatly improved not declined.

The level of complexity in modern day software is orders of magnitude greater than that of even a decade ago.

What has changed is our reliance on that software. We are now so deeply embedded into our software existence we see these flaws up close.
So this is the crux of the reason they've imprisoned and tortured him for nearly a decade is it?

Makes it all the more frustrating when people try to defend what the United States Government has done to hide their crimes for which they have yet to be held accountable.
>Reversible dynamics with closed time-like curves and freedom of choice

https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1361-6382/aba4bc

Abstract

The theory of general relativity predicts the existence of closed time-like curves (CTCs), which theoretically would allow an observer to travel back in time and interact with their past self. This raises the question of whether this could create a grandfather paradox, in which the observer interacts in such a way to prevent their own time travel. Previous research has proposed a framework for deterministic, reversible, dynamics compatible with non-trivial time travel, where observers in distinct regions of spacetime can perform arbitrary local operations with no contradiction arising. However, only scenarios with up to three regions have been fully characterised, revealing only one type of process where the observers can verify to both be in the past and future of each other. Here we extend this characterisation to an arbitrary number of regions and find that there exist several inequivalent processes that can only arise due to non-trivial time travel. This supports the view that complex dynamics is possible in the presence of CTCs, compatible with free choice of local operations and free of inconsistencies.
The rule I've learned from Mr. Fruit videos is do the tasks first, then you have all the time in the world for monitors.
Where do you see 3mb? I see "4.3 MB" on the App Store page but still that's impressive.
Oof, we had a guy retire over that. In his appraisal he was dinged for not doing enough. They counted his training of new hires as 1 "point" (or whatever, the system was weird). They neglected to consider that he was training 5+ new hires in that year. He'd had enough, put in one last year to wrap some stuff up and then he was out and free.
The problem is that the article doesn't put things into context but only uses abbreviations.
I had rather the suspicion that it is again a nonsense text from GPT-3.
When writing a programming article, it should at least be clearly mentioned somewhere, e.g. in the title.
Or do you often see articles where you can only see some code without explaining which software it is about
Goyal makes a lot of people uncomfortable because he is obviously on the spectrum. Of course a lot of Free Software hobbyists are, and I wouldn’t dare to exclude myself from that. But there is certainly a feeling that it would be better for a project to use neurotypical volunteers for the public-facing aspects of development, like taking feature requests. It would save both Goyal and the people posting on the various forums a lot of rancor.
My understanding is that the Spanish knew what the ruins were because they asked around and got the answer. I think there's a difference between knowing something and formally studying something scientifically and methodically. The latter surely must involve discounting second hand testimony while valuing physical evidence. Like, I can tell you about how my father-in-law found conquistador armor in an ice cave by the great sand dunes but academically that doesn't interest anyone.

I do find it difficult to understand how any academic could believe Pueblo people weren't (culturally predisposed?) to building Chaco Canyon when we have cities like Taos practically next door.
I agree, things that change frequently need more attention to make sure you're not spending more time than you need to make changes.

Acknowledging that I'm changing the goalposts a bit, I would consider a lack of understanding about the lifecycle of an application that causes development delays an abstract form of "noticing when it fails"
The "SF Pro" font family is directly downloadable from Apple and free for personal use. https://developer.apple.com/fonts/
Thanks. I was the author of the post. Are you suggesting it is harder to bluff in online poker? Or that somehow taking the game online means bluffing doesn't work as well?

Here is a good post on bots, if you haven't seen it: https://int8.io/counterfactual-regret-minimization-for-poker...
I suspect this is a reversal of cause and effect.

Did consumers demand subscription services? Or did vendors (led by Adobe) decide to change to subscriptions to get uniform cash flow?

At agencies I have worked at all creatives I worked with would prefer to spend $200-400 and have a permanent software license. Perhaps this isn't a representative group.
I don't think there is any air defense system capable of defending vast civilian areas from drone attacks?

The closest is probably the Israeli Iron Dome, and that costs about $50M for a battery with 17km range. Great for a tiny country under constant attack, but hardly economical for good coverage of larger countries.
Finding Goroutine Bugs with TLA+
Not sure if "large enough" matters as comparing the music industry to the tech industry is like comparing a pond to an ocean.

I think the real value here is that a YC of music can fundamentally change the way the industry functions by:

- Allowing artists control over their masters/creations (equity)

- Reducing the barrier to entry to enter the music industry by providing upfront capital, and support (mentorship, music marketing & distribution)

- Concentrating talent in one area

Also if anyone is interested I'd recommend checking out this documentary by J. Cole's Dreamville[0] where a bunch of artists and producers came together in a house and built an album in 10 days (basically like a hackathon)

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-9mZLh5XU8
Surfing the Right S-Curve
I guess it depends how fussy you are. I've had several fridges/freezers/ovens that don't actually maintain the set temperature. for ovens this is merely annoying, but for fridges and especially freezers, this is a food safety issue. on fridges/freezers that have a dial instead of a digital temperature control, I've found that some just can't maintain a stable temperature, no matter how much I fiddle with them. after setting them "just right" with my own thermometer, I'll come back the next day to find an exploded bottle in my fridge or cold water in my ice tray.

books work really well until a pipe bursts in your attic. then you wake up and notice half your collection has been ruined (personal experience).
Well unlike LSD which is a partial agonist, 25i-NBOMe is a full, irreversible agonist that can be lethal in the event of an overdose. It really wasn't designed for use as a recreational drug.

It's history of discovery (as well as the 2C variants) was extremely interesting though.
Battle Royale, Time Machine Management: Copying in the Chinese Ecosystem
Well, you're either an alien or you have grown a case of Stockholm syndrome for computing :). Absolutely everything is like this. Apple sucks. So do Windows PCs and laptops. Open source software stacks. And don't get me started on modern appliances with microcontrollers in them.

Personally, I can produce a daily list 3x as long as TFA on my Linux desktop, and probably 1-1.5x as long on my Windows sidearm. The only reason I don't run my desktop on Windows these days is because Emacs isn't a proper first-class citizen there. Otherwise, my life would be much better. As much as I love Open Source, the audio, video and GUI experiences on Linux are still pretty brittle.
> How do I still know it in the afternoon if my jaw didn't meet the floor at any point?

It doesn't say people only learn when they're surprised.
The best lesson I learned from poker is the concept of "expected value". [1]

It takes some of the grief out of undesired outcomes - because you made the right decision based on the information you had, and chance just happened to not be in your favor in this case.

It affects how I make all kinds of business- and life-decisions. Chosing insurance-package on the rental car, investing in stock, trusting people etc.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expected_value
Some psychologists define two types of happiness, the “experiencing” type (enjoying a latte in the present) and a “reflecting” happiness (the joy of looking back on self improvement). They aren’t necessarily mutually exclusive
I believe that the Netflix Prize was fundamentally flawed. They have access to much better information than user rankings, especially for the online service, things like "started but not finished" or "watched all of it the day it came out" and "watched more than once".

That's much more honest feedback than user's star rankings, which can be skewed by a lot of factors: users failing to rate things, rating based on what they feel they should like rather than what they actually enjoy, the psychological anchor of the suggested ranking. It's not surprising that their existing work got most of the value out of that data.

They have much better data now, and I'm sure they're not letting anybody get so much as a glimpse.
Right. It's the curse of the name. DevOps wasn't meant to be a role, but a philosophy of working and organization. But management (and practitioners) latched onto the idea of it as a role and hosed themselves. Now you've got a 20+ year veteran developer tasked with keeping dozens of servers properly configured, secured, and operating as well.

At some point we have to accept that specialization isn't just for insects. It's helpful to have a proper sysadmin or DBA or whatever (appropriate to your domain) within the team, and not just diffuse those roles amongst the developers themselves.
> I'm curious to see if some vocal people here will still not be satisfied with anything short of a OSI-approved FOSS license.

It's almost as if the, in practical terms, near-identical standards of the OSI and FSF weren't just picked haphazardly from the air, but actually reflect the result of a thorough and detailed consideration of what features are necessary to unlock the value that OSI pursues mainly from a pragmatic angle and FSF pursues mainly from an ideological angle, and that all the elements of that standard I react in a way that there is a crisp rather than smooth falloff in achieving the sought-after value when not all the criteria are met.

> Really the only practical limitation that I can see now is if you're AWS you can't launch a competing service with Timescale

Preventing competitive services is the same thing as protecting lock-in and rent extraction. Now, that is a central purpose of copyright and the traditional focus of proprietary licensing, so that’s not a novel focus of licensing at all. It is, however, directly opposed to the central purpose and value of F/OSS to end-users as well as downstream developers, both from a pragmatic/economic and ideological perspective.

> That's a glaring short-coming of FOSS licenses

No, it's the central purpose and value of F/OSS licenses. It's a shortcoming from the perspective of prospective rentiers, sure, but that's not an incidental side effect unrelated to why F/OSS is sought by those who seek it; freedom from rentiers is the whole point.
> He was, at best, and I think this strains intellectual credulity, an unwitting Russian asset. In reality, he was likely a willing Russian asset based on the evidence.

Based on what evidence? Assange stated that "our source is not the Russian government or any state party." So I'm curious what evidence you've seen to say it was.

> ...his behavior and the timing of the leaks was morally bankrupt and actively trying to influence US elections in a particular direction benefitting a particular party.

I assume by this you mean he was trying to help Trump. Again, I don't see any evidence for this. See for example this article by Caitlin Johnstone which outlines why this isn't plausible: https://medium.com/@caityjohnstone/assange-smear-18-he-was-a...

She writes:

> In July 2016 Assange compared the choice between Clinton and Trump to a choice between cholera and gonorrhea, saying, “Personally, I would prefer neither.” When a Twitter user suggested to Assange in 2017 that he start sucking up to Trump in order to secure a pardon, Assange replied, “I’d rather eat my own intestines.”

Not to mention of course that it's now the Trump administration that's pursuing him and trying to send him to a US prison.
Are the Wealthy Starting to Leave San Francisco?
Self-interest is the dominant ideology pushed these days, but it's a choice and it doesn't have to be that way. Good luck.
Four steps to accelerate the journey to machine learning
Link goes to google login page - please don't just don't ever do this again.
> 10 minutes

And 1 second
Can U suggest a feature that I’ve been looking for in a TODO app for a long time. Tasks that are periodic but not urgent. Like changing the filters on your heating system every 6 months, adding fertilizer to the garden every 3 months, etc. Then when you have some time to spare you can easily see these kinds of tasks that you normally forget.
It's not clear to me why we're focusing on killing people in Syria.

What are we gaining from doing this?
Well then, neither is running anything other than a time stamped feed of posts from my friends, but they do far more than that already.
> never had a problem with a refrigerator

These turn of phrases make me wonder what we are really expecting from software.

I can’t imagine you never slapped the door of your fridge and it didn’t properly close. You gave it a nudge when you realized it, and it was fine, but it must have happened. And your whole food supply would be rotten if you didn’t notice in time.

Or do we monitor energy consumption close enough to realize it’s eating much more than what should be expected, the same way people complain about chrome eating too much memory ?

It can also get pretty noisy but I’d assume most people just think it’s normal.

And we put the blame on ourselves for a lot of issues (didn’t put the bottle at the right place, didn’t put the right amount of force to close, didn’t set the right temperature, forget to leave space around the fridge for ventilation etc.). But few users blame themselves for not having understood the software and worked around its weakness, we just call it broken.

That benavior is normal, but I’d take a lot of “my applicances just work” with a grain of salt.
Oh for sure, I was sarcastic, and I'm hypocritical saying this given that I've left my native country 20 years ago (mostly due to the fact that it was not an ideal country to start a business due to heavy bureaucracy and taxes). Brain drain is a result of a combination of the pull, as you said, the advantages offered by other countries and the push, limited opportunities, obstacles that exist if they stay in their own country

The US had a great advantage going on due to a combination of factors that they are reducing with their own policies.
I don't disagree. But the premise is not that getting good at making less blunders than your opponent in chess isn't fun or fulfilling. It is that getting good at making less blunders in chess doesn't transfer to real life decision-making as well as getting good at games like poker.
Software sucked in this way long before Agile, and will continue long after Agile stops being a trend.

Of course, if is is truly a result of Agile, that is only because the team using Agile wasn't truly doing it right.
The terms of "terrorism" and "Al-Qaeda" are so plastic, that no one is going to really pay attention to when the government slings them around. And let's note that the financial nerve center of AQ is the House of Saud, whom we've seemed to avoid Western wrath since 9/11.
Thanks for the feedback. I haven't considered an RV. We were thinking of getting a small camping trailer, I could use that as an office when we aren't traveling.
I couldn’t disagree more. I think you should be at a job to learn skills and gain experience which can be used to advance your career. Short term money is tangential. Also often the impact you have directly affects your compensation, especially in higher level roles, but at the very least affects your cost of living raises, eligibility for promotion, and can shape your overall outlook at the company.

I think if meetings seem useless the right thing to do is talk to your boss until you understand why the meeting is useful, or they understand why it is not useful. Your employer is not paying you to shrug your shoulders and declare you get paid the same either way
I have to disagree in the case of car engines. When I was a kid my dad and uncles spent hours each month fixing minor problems with their purely electro-mechanical cars. I don't miss carburetors or mechanical ignition timing one bit. Electronically controlled engine functions are much better both in terms of efficiency and consistency.
Indeed. On the other hand, all Mac displays and almost all external desktop displays provide the RGB pattern. Otherwise, there is still the option to disable the sub pixel antialiasing.
I’m not satisfied with your macOS glyph dilation explanations.

I don’t know the timelines involved, but my impression was that macOS’s glyph dilation has been there from the start, or at the very least waaaaay before they threw away their subpixel antialiasing. (When you wrote “sub pixel hinting”, I’m presuming you actually meant subpixel antialiasing, though feel free to correct me; but hinting and antialiasing are entirely different things, and “subpixel hinting”, which I imagine would mean hinting to subpixel boundaries (which would also seem a weird thing to do), isn’t a standard term.)

Using greyscale antialiasing doesn’t inherently make things appear thinner or thicker. The only thing that will make things appear thinner or thicker is if the antialiasing is done in the wrong colour space, typically meaning linear versus gamma-corrected.
> What updated title would you propose?

I believe, per HN policies, the most appropriate would be the title from the page: "Dogfooding Warp"
Flying swords which cut through the roof of a SUV probably give the targeted individuals something to ponder.

https://www.quotes.net/mquote/992742

"Paul Kersey:
Nothing's too good for our friends!"
No, it's bad style when you produce mass consumption content where your audience could have varying degrees of familiarity.

When you write hagiographical blog posts praising your teammates who are luminaries in the field, you write for the field. It's a sort of reverse shibboleth - you don't care for readers who know nothing and you increase the reader bond for those who do know. References (frequently to pop-culture) have a similar power. Terry Pratchett, for instance, does so very well with lots of things, including science¹.

Your invocation of the rule, actually, is an example of misunderstanding the purpose of a rule and misapplying it.
It's all about money and power, nothing about freedom, neither yours or theirs
Killing one's enemies does not necessarily make one a "murderer."