skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> that presumably shows up in the logs

Ah, no. SNR problems in the shared medium is not something wathced or logged. I remember losing internet connection on heavy rains sometimes because an odd cable shorted at an underground gallery. It wasn't FTTX then, so it was not easy to find.

> You have a problem that's repeatable right on schedule.

Similar problems rooted to bandwidth scarcity happened all the time, so in a village I'm not sure there's a lot of people who can discern the difference between, ah it's slow again and Oh, I lost connection, look at that SNR value. I better write a technical report to ISP.

> It should be a no-brainer to send someone with test equipment out there to measure things in the field while the problem was happening.

Even the simplest problem, if it's happening 1 in 10.000 is not a no-brainer because, you won't think that'd happen. Especially because of an old TV.
What can we expect from first-generation Covid-19 vaccines?
Sure, I just think it's funny how people blame the "evil corporations" for the problems while humans are simultaneously unwilling to solve the problems themselves.
> Sure, and we should also not allow our tech debt to accumulate and we should follow every single best-practice religiously. Unfortunately, this never happens in any corporate environment. Even in great teams, tech debt often gets de-prioritized in the face of new requests. Newcomers to the team or those on their way out, aren’t always disciplined enough to clean up their flags after a successful rollout. And sometimes, these tasks simply slip through the cracks and get forgotten.

Yeah, you can make the same argument about any practice. If the team doesn't care, you cannot fix anything by doing or not doing any practice. A good team can suffer from a bad practice, but no practice can overcome a bad team.

Clean up your feature flags and definitely don't use a framework for it unless you are doing continuous A/B testing.
Conversely I'd say that a language that doesn't enable an IDE to provide some of the features Java does (first and foremost: call graphs) is unusable, period.
Fiber is immune to this kind of interference yes. However fiber is not immune to the ISP being incompetent and taking 18 months to figure out a relatively simple problem, so I suspect the same ISP will also manage to screw things up when it comes to diagnosing fiber issues.
If I deliver a bunch of bytes at jet@spiegel.com then that's the destination. Now you can decrypt it with your public key and get

`Have a nice day. Regards, sobani`

and see that I'm the sender.

If I'm worried about leaking my IP address, I can use something like Tor.

I'm confused why you think the sender needs to be known in any way to allow bytes to be delivered to your mail server.
Agree with you that there won't be any problems with panicking in this setup.

Although, it'll require some non-minor api adjustments: at the moment, Range's fields are public. To maintain the invariant, we would have to make them private and provide getters. Which we actually already do for RangeInclusive, because of that extra bool field. Which is an inconsistent mess :)
British government treated English (and much worse, Irish) working class like dirt too. Poverty in 19th century Britain was indescribable, even though people like Dickens tried their best to put the images into writing for future generations.
Victorian Britain was extremely classist.
Chaos! Another one, including its successor that was more Laser Squad like, Wizards something.
Designing Up Banking
Chișinău - the capital of Moldova, the poorest country in Europe - had fiber Internet back in 2008. I don't think North America couldn't afford fiber earlier too, it's just why do it when your current infrastructure works and you can milk the customers as you please due to lack of competition.
I don't think Java the language is particularly unusable without an IDE compared to eg ad-hoc approaches extending weakly-typed languages with type annotations such as TypeScript and Python (while not 100% relevant, I even refactored maven+ant driven builds into Makefiles calling plain javac *.java as recently as a couple months ago, using vim as code editor).
Over 90% of Indian techies in the US are upper-caste Indians
What if I understand what an IDE gives me (especially one from JetBrains) and _that's why_ I'm choosing VSCode/Sublime/vim? (Not for Java.)
I looked into my dongle bag and it contains: a USB-C expander thingy like you described, but with one USB-A. A hub with 4xUSB-A and a USB-C plug. A thumbdrive with both USB-A and USB-C. Two headphone dongles, one for Lightning and one for USB-C. A USB-C to DisplayPort cable for connecting an external monitor. A USB-C-to-C short cable for connecting an external SSD drive, as well as USB-A-to-C adapter for it, for when I have to connect it to a USB-A system. A USB-C to Ethernet adapter. Two tiny C-to-A adapters.

In other words, USB-C has added zero value for me, and created a need for plenty of new cables, dongles, and adapters/expanders. Relevant: https://xkcd.com/927/

If my MacBook Pro had HDMI, 2xUSB-A and an SD Card slot, and if phones/ipads had headphone jacks, I could cut the size of the dongle bag by 3/4 at least.
Indeed, baby steps. At first I thought it was CGI because of the feet-induced cognitive dissonance but then I saw the waist-level support moving in the shadow behind.

Still fascinating to see this towering thing in motion. I was never into Gundam, but Macross Plus had me hooked, and this brings back memories such as this scene:

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/SMMRs5ZIqd0/

Those YF-19 and YF-21 are still the best { variable fighters U mecha } designs to my eyes: simple, elegant, believable, futuristic yet practical.

https://opuszine.us/_assets/stills/macross-plus.jpg

In hindsight there are so many anticipatory things in Macross Plus, it’s really good SF trying to reason from first principles: AR virtual canopies, neural link operated plane, deep AI generated musical arrangement from simple human composition, Kessler syndrome, drone vs human presence on the battlefield, overall human relevance in the face of emergent AGI...
Manufacturers of cars, airplanes and high-value taxpayers moving out of socialist-dominated states... It’s going to get even worse if Sleepy Joe wins.
Fx tutorial: working with JSON in a terminal
Neat. After using Erlang for some projects, I get frustrated that more languages don't have nice interfaces for working with bitstrings.
Where i come from utility poles used to be (probably still are in fact) made out of wood and the electricians who would need to climb them in order to conduct their work would use special built contraptions attached to their legs.

https://www.finna.fi/Cover/Show?id=lusto.M011-138214&index=1...

I wonder if something like those would also work for climbing coconut trees?
People pay for 2fa and password management. Granted the model of payment for those is usually shifted, but there could have been a sold product on the store. I would pay for the Adblockers I use, but just donate instead (when possible.) I could see a lot of b2b companies selling their extensions.

Edit: I have maybe 20 extensions installed in general. Everything to killing websites ability to affect my ability to copy/paste to transcoders.
That seems fairly mainline to me, as opposite to say μClinux.
Part of the point, as I understand it, is that moderation scales more-or-less linearly because each instance is ideally human-scale (that is, maybe having hundreds of members as opposed to millions) and responsible for its own moderation, unlike sites like Twitter or Facebook which have to pay a relatively small team of moderators to moderate millions of people's communications.

There's nothing saying any particular instance will moderate, but if they don't and it becomes a problem they'll quickly find themselves cut off from federating with other instances.
Arctic sea ice decline stalls out at second lowest minimum
Java IDEs are so thorough that I learned Java from NetBeans autocomplete rather than any tutorial.

Which is not to say that my understanding of Java extends to working professionally in it; I'm a functional programmer and broadly unfamiliar with modern Java's specific patterns.
> Old copper will keep deteriorating and spending money repairing it is a waste.

Because until fiber becomes economical, you can use your existing infrastructure and keep it up for minimal expense. A carefully installed outdoor cable is extremely resilient to elements, even over long term.

Then, after a certain point, instead of running two infrastructures, you can piggyback everything to even higher capacity fiber and distribute with it only. Break it out with FTTX infra or so-called pizza boxes so, you can provide the same services with less strands and maintenance (presuming your netops team is competent).
Yed it soed.
> And democracy would help also

Democracy is when an unelected 87 year old dies and now all the laws might change for some reason. -- https://twitter.com/existentialcoms/status/13073792967894343...
It is well known that HSBC pay its fine about every 10 years just to jeep laundering money as usual.
I’d say there are countless of valid use cases where this is relevant. Maybe you normally live in (or plan to travel to, or just curious about) X country but TikTok is incapable of understanding you’re only interested in videos from there. Maybe you enjoy watching 20-something year old Asian girls dance, maybe you enjoy watching 20-something white guys skateboarding, maybe you enjoy watching guys with sixpack exercise, maybe you enjoy watching party/club videos, maybe you enjoy watching people cook cakes, etc.

YouTube and Instagram is easily capable of recommending whatever content you show interest in.. TikTok on the other hand feels like the reddit’s /r/popular experience which simply looks at your location and recommend a list of random stuff that people in same area have shown interest in (and completely fail to integrate your interests into this feed). I’m not saying there’s anything wrong with that, but all this hype about their algorithm makes no sense.
This article is full of interesting ideas and speculation, but I think it gives TikTok a bit too much credit.

I don't want to sound overly dismissive, but it's pretty clear reading this that the author has not worked on recommendation or personalization systems recently.

The high level description of how he believes TikTok works is probably accurate (I don't work there so I can only speculate), but it's not unique to TikTok. Also most of the details are probably not accurate.

Some examples:

> For its algorithm to become as effective as it has, TikTok became its own source of training data.

^This is true of nearly every recommendation system.

> If you click into a text post by someone on Facebook but don’t comment or like ... That negative sentiment is difficult to capture

You can do the same thing with comments that he claims TT does with video (dwell time threshold feature)

> As you scroll up and past many stories, the algorithm can’t “see” which story your eyes rest on.

I don't work at Twitter, but I doubt that matters very much.

Also regarding "negative sentiment" feedback from users. TikTok does not have a UI tool to say "I don't like this", but other apps do. For example, you can ask Instagram to "show me fewer posts like this".

I agree with the claim that the "one thing at a time" UI is nice for the user in a lot of ways. But as a person who builds these things, I don't think this makes much of a difference for machine learning.
That just means that 3 or more are already on the plan. With the UK gone it s not even an issue of rivalry anymore. The eu could promote this as a means to facilitate international trade, and frankly i dont see why members would disagree since it s already de facto happening
You are seeing a very different FYP than I just saw on tiktok.com.

Is TikTok a SSCly Scissor Service?

https://slatestarcodex.com/2018/10/30/sort-by-controversial/
Ask HN: Will the world ever get serious about tackling climate change?
As the title says really.

Green technologies are advancing, solar is becoming more efficient at capturing energy per square foot of panel, and wind farms are (depending on geography) contributing to large reductions in fossil fuel use in some parts of the world.

Obviously, this is only part of the equation and there are a lot of agricultural and industrial changes that would be needed too, which we haven't seen happen as of yet.

My question is in part whether or not the surface of the Earth will look like the start of Wall-E before we collectively say "yeah might be time to do something about this".

I didn't want to ask "Will the world tackle climate change in time?" because the thread would become a debate around whether or not it's already too late and I don't think I could take the nihilism of it all today. It also wouldn't be particularly inspiring or helpful.
I, on the other hand, have a totally different experience. I used tik tok for a day and was really frustrated with the not very interesting content, but after explicitly disliking a couple of videos I got an amazingly interesting stream of funny videos from there on out. Given that all the information the algorithm has is rather indirect and negative feedback compared to classic news feeds were you positively select the creators in the beginning and the huge amount of new content that comes to the platform every day, I found the training time rather short and the result really good.
> However the FTTP ONT meant I was using up an additional ethernet port on the router, and I was already short

You do not need an ONT if you have an SFP slot available. Get a suitable SFP module for your fiber type, and you can plug the fiber directly into your router.

This safes you a little bit of power, latency and space. Overall I find it to be a more elegant solution.
> SNR problems in the shared medium is not something wathced or logged

This is a problem then and should be addressed.

> problems rooted to bandwidth scarcity happened all the time

But the ISP should be able to tell whether their uplink is saturated (and actually upgrade it if it happens too often), so if they're consistently getting complaints around a certain timeframe and the uplink is not saturated during those timeframes then it must be something else.

> Especially because of an old TV

But the diagnostic procedure had nothing to do whether it's an old TV or something else. It was caused by EMI and is detectable with readily-available test equipment which indeed detected it immediately.

Furthermore monitoring packet loss at the PPP level can be done (in fact, Andrews & Arnold - a small ISP in the UK - does it) so if an ISP doesn't have this in place to detect widespread faults then something is also wrong there - why are they operating with zero visibility on their network?
And in fact he was either completely mistaken about several substantial aspects of the photographs or he committed perjury.
Why mains?
https://youtu.be/9M_OX-O9JKk
It does indeed require PartialOrd and the author has already fixed the mistake. But I wonder why PartialOrd is implemented for ().
I'd argue that Valve doesn't need exclusives just yet. By virtue of being the default PC store they get plenty of games that are not on any other store. But this will change.
If you cannot provide the network speeds to saturate the network you install, using smaller pipes, investing in uplink speeds and then replacing the infra is cheaper on the longer term because since higher speeds become the standard, the equipment gets cheaper and better built.

Telco class equipment is not exactly cheap in any standard.
There's a push in the UK over the last few years to get broadband out to the small villages, who've been stuck on pathetically slow due to their distance from telephone exchanges.

How it's being pushed out is a hodge-podge of technologies, Microwave, FTTx, Wi-fi repeaters - and mixtures of those and more. My guess is that it was the latter that was being interfered with in this case.

As to why it took so long to diagnose, well telcos being useless is pretty common (although 18 months is quite impressive).

Maybe they were just blaming the backhaul, but once that was fixed, was obvious problem was on the last-mile (and may have been different providers)
In the UK we've got two levels: the ISPs (who don't put cable or fibre in the ground) and the network (who don't provide ISP services but do maintain the cables / fibre).

In this example customers would have been calling their ISP to complain, and having to go through the layers of escalation.

Also, it's a pretty remote location. Lots of rural areas in the UK have terrible Internet. I think this is the area in Google maps.

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place/Aberhosan,+Machynlleth+S...
Not to be confused with NGX

[0] https://developer.nvidia.com/rtx/ngx
Because the goal of SEO is to be found on Google. If someone is searching on Google, they are already aware of it.
Yes, I wrote this starting by looking at how Erlang handled bitstrings which I was very impressed by. Any similarities are not coincidental!
AFAIK, Raspberry Pi was, among other goals, was designed to help poor students learn software and hardware. I am not sure how one can do this with such a huge proprietary blob.
In the comment you replied to, which qoutes the article:

> In the web space it is understandable to use an editor as web developers are typically working with dynamic languages

> But in Java, especially professional Java, you really get a lot out of a good tool
Neither did I say "everybody played through it multiple times". I stated "for me".
Chimera squad is the latest Xcom game. It's a bit simplified and you jump straight into position. It's nice to not have to spend 50 hours moving around but not everybody likes the change in gameplay.

Do NOT buy it though, the game is buggy as fuck.
Hi Richard.
I think that was Lords of Chaos? I got that game from a magazine cover tape, but wasn't that impressed (it didn't help that I had no manual for it!)
The Chinese version is called Douyin and it probably is a completely separate network.

The problem with "illegal" is that it is quickly extended to legally questionable. Defending content is not financially viable for any platform, even if you are in the right. In consequence it will be removed.

Twitter, Facebook and co currently attempt a regulatory capture and want to actually scrap their legal protections because they now have their censorship algorithm idiots demanded for some time.
If sorting by gender/phenotype/age is your squee, you might have better luck with NSFW sites.
I assume the reason for this is that speech is encoded as an internal meaning and the visible text is also encoded as meaning. When the circuit for the internal meaning fires up then the rest of the circuits are sympathetically fired as well. It also makes me assume that's why PTSD is a thing - some trigger hits the specific circuit that causes the rest of the stress response. With PTSD the process is debilitating, but in the normal course of life the process makes retrieval of information and the expression of appropriate actions easier.

Neat. I'm not a scientist and I could be very wrong however.
There was a recent discussion on this here [1]. Posting a link in case people who shared useful information in that thread miss this one.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24513514
> If the speed doesn't saturate DSL or coax standards, running fiber to every home is not very wise, even for long term.

Why not? Fiber is fast, less prone to rust, doesn't have the shared media problem of cable internet and is cheap to maintain. If the uplink gets saturated you can replace one big fiber instead of putting additional hardware in the local POP to get just a little bit more speed out of DSL.

It was economical enough to put fiber down in the 20k village where I was born about a decade ago even though there was already cable and 30mbps DSL. I can understand the US being hard to get fiber down due to exclusivity contracts with ISPs for buildings or even cities as well as the distances you need to dig to reach a city, but as far as I know the UK is not affected by any of that.
Fibre deployments are very expensive; very often it makes no sense whatsoever to deploy fibre, especially to rural communities.
Bullshit. I can develop Java just fine using a desktop PC I built cheaply in 2010. And yes, I use IntelliJ for that.
Australian conspiracy theorist ordered to pay $ for online posts
Nah, it's the PHP of the Java world: easy to spin up something quick with, but impossible to maintain.
>I think the author doesn't know what VSCode can deliver.

Can it Inline Variables yet?
Guessing up an explanation from half a planet away: if there are more palm trees than harvesting capacity, but harvesting capacity is sufficient for coconut demand, soft influence on harvesting capacity allocation will determine which coconuts get harvested. In a perfect market this would still balance out at maximising harvester income (on a low level but still), but it's easy to see that the market wouldn't be that perfect.
Working from Home in a Crisis
Show me data, the signals. Except for maybe short pauses between phonological clusters, I need extraordinary proof to accept such extraordinary claims.
Java developers seem to habitually use metaprogramming facilities that make it impossible to determine what code is calling what other code by hand, let alone using single command in an IDE. When not doing this, they are usually creating interfaces with a dozen implementations that wrap and delegate to one another. So I would very much like to know what calls what, and this is a reason I cannot use Java.
>1. Among other things, because of a dead-simple user experience that lets even grandpa post content after a few clicks. Federation, if it adds any level of complexity past the grandpa UX, would defeat the goal.

That's the point though, design for the lowest common denominator has been the modus operandi for the giants because it gets them the most profit. There is no proof that this is the way to create the most "useful" social network. Often I'm tired of the "organic spam" that users with easy access create non-stop in a lot of the communities I'm in. A technical barrier to entry isn't necessarily a bad thing in this case.
1) The above statement presented by Yahoo from The Telegraph is not about California at all, but the UK.

2) The UK had in July and August around 13 deaths per day, or in total at that time around 2% of all UK reported Covid-19 related deaths. So translated, that report says that 0.6% of all UK reported deaths were 'primarily caused by other conditions'. Let me repeat: the Telegraph story is about zero-point-six percent, i.e. less than 1 percent, of all reported in the UK.
If mask usage was strictly mandated then lockdowns would be unnecessary. Instead, the topic of masks has been pulled into a ridiculous debate.

I suspect most lockdown supporters live in a comfortable and spacious environment where they work from home. The cost of lockdown is huge for business owners, domestic abuse victims and those with mental illness. There is increasing research that points to the cost of lockdowns being greater than the benefit.
> Is there a way to federate Hacker News?

There's Lemmy https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy
> dwell time threshold feature

For me at least, tiktok.com is an infinite scroll.
Maud: Compile-time HTML templates for Rust
I've used iwantmyname.com for years and trust them. Small independent company out of New Zealand.
Yeah, funny how ISPs in rich countries can't afford infrastructure upgrades.

Until some competition shows up. Too bad Google Fiber stopped expanding in the US, i remember reading that everywhere they showed up the "traditional" ISPs suddenly found money to upgrade their infrastructure and reduce prices.