skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
OP here. Thank you for your interest and questions.

There are a few reasons why we would like to get the public involved:

1. It's taken 20 years, 13 telecom companies and about $200B to bring mobile internet access to 600 million Indians. Broadband deployment is more expensive than mobile deployment so even napkin math gives you an idea of the magnitude of money and time it will require to truly make a dent in the connectivity of the country. If we can lower the cost of the deployment tech then we will able to lower the cost of ownership and distribution of the tech. This would be a win-win for consumers and investors.

2. A whole lot of the issues that plague the internet today, from the splintering of it into a chinese network, censorship, net neutrality and other issues comes from the fact that it's so expensive to deploy these networks that they fall into the domain of mega-corps or nation states. As a result, control of the internet falls into a few hands and we have an internet that is getting increasingly centralized. If Wifi Dabba can spread ownership of the network then we hope that it will lead to more open internet that is harder to control or shutdown.

3. You're right, we're aiming to raise only $2M from the public - 100 PoPs x $20k each. Not sure where the $13M comes from, if you could point out where you see that number, I'd be happy to rectify it.

4. We've also built a lot of safety elements into the purchase process. We're following Kickstarter-ish rules where you only have to make a $1000 deposit - the remainder to be paid only when we sell all 100 PoPs. Furthermore we offer a 100% refund in the first 12 months should you choose to change your mind at any point.
> It's a pretty typical mistake.

It's an even more typical mistake to believe that our time is the pinnacle in all respects (because of all the cool gadgets that we have). But we are not the pinnacle in all respects; perhaps the largest danger is that we are delegating all multifaceted work (which ultimately is what produces skill) to automation and/or extreme specialists, so that we can push the enjoyment button (or take the enjoyment pill) in solitude without end.

We are on a path to an 'Idiocracy' type of society which would likely have been an abomination to generations past if they were to see it.
This really blew my mind when I saw it for the first time. It still blows my mind. Amazing.
When you give your pc to geek squad to change a fan you do not forfeit your rights to your IP. Spin it as you want, but you cannot change the facts.
Edit: Feel free to share with us the signed document that the shop owner has from his customer about releasing his data. That form would help his memory about who the customer was anyway.
I’m sure it has nothing to do with this but my youngest used to chew her food forever when she was a kid. Like over a minute per bite. I inhale my food so i was glad she was taking her time, but we ultimately coached her to speed it up a little.

Fast forward a few years and her pancreas tapped out...type 1 diabetes.
Oh, I totally agree with you! Sometimes I just can help my sarcasm...
> "algorithms" as an excuse to wash their hands of even basic moderation

The algorithms ARE moderation, of sorts.
yes that is the logical conclusion if the logic also includes a provision that Amazon is always correct in its supposition, otherwise not so much.

Also I might like to get ads from other companies than Amazon, maybe it should be other companies doing the buying then....

Also of course it would have to have your understanding of your personal finances baked in so that it would make the absolutely correct decision as to what you would like to buy, but are not sure if you can afford right at the moment.

I mean I would like to get an ad for something I might like to get for my birthday and not buy it, you know the more I think about it I don't think the logical conclusion that you claim follows at all from what I stated...
Convenience/security tradeoff.

If you only care about convenience, you shouldn't be self-hosting - what if your server goes down? Much better to abstract this away and let someone else take care of it.

If you only care about security, you don't want anyone else's prying eyes anywhere near your recursively-encrypted secrets; self-host on a server that is airgapped from any publicly accessible networks.

Which of these do you care about more?
I'd love to see what it looks like when it's off - I couldn't see that in the window or the pictures. Did I miss something?
Do Cookie Banners Respect My Choice? [pdf]
Run away from any company that thinks they are family.
> I think there is an overwhelming preponderance of evidence that if the starting point is some society and it changes to be more free, the outcome is more wealth and comfort.

On issues of political economy, I always like to reverse the arrow of causality to see if that could also be an explanation.

Is it increased wealth, or economic power, that leads to more freedom? I think there's a line of thinking that the US civil rights movement was caused by blacks becoming more economically important, thought I'm not familiar with the evidence. Likewise you could argue that UK industrial growth preceded women's right to vote, and various other freedom related things that happened.

Of course it could also be a virtuous circle, they both cause each other, and sometimes one or the other is ignited by some other thing.
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Agree that the solution on the site need to be changed! Don't know Day/Hypercore - do you have a link? I couldn't find (or at least I couldn't understand what I found!)
Can't tell if you're serious, but it's true that lead was only banned from petrol in the US in 1986, and anyone older than that will have had significant exposure in their teens and childhood.

This is not a good thing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lead%E2%80%93crime_hypothesis
Anecdotal experience: when I was bodybuilding and eating 5-6 meals a day, I've found that constantly chewing on bubble gum aided my digestion and eliminated any bloating after meals.
This happened to a friend of mine with yelp.

He had hired a lawyer who did a terrible awful incompetent job.

He left an objective review on yelp which in a short time just disappeared.

(Personally I was wondering if the lawyer contacted yelp or yelp contacted the lawyer)
A motion detector for bathroom motions is exactly the level of humour I appreciate.

I’ve only just started messing with relays and overcoming the terror of 240V was the biggest hurdle - I made a ventilation system that pushes air from either outside or from above a wood burner. It has a pair of motors that open and close and they are controlled by an ESP32 - this worked better than an ESP8266 as the output voltage was 5v rather than 3v. The lower voltage seemed to crap out for some reason, probably because the relay wanted 5v.
It probably isn't legal. But who is going to pay for the fight to stop it? Mom & pop who have had their home connection used? A class action that no one but the lawyers really win anything from? The fact that most of the projects involved are in jurisdictions that make the legal process more complicated and more expensive, or jurisdictions that simply don't care as long as it is affecting other countries and not them (coughChinacoughRussiacoughcough*)?

What the market will bare doesn't just apply to product pricing.

And someone clicking through a EULA might be an argument for them having invited the use of their resources by a very similar argument to that many used to justify using other people's WiFi back when that was gloriously insecure most of the time ("but the AP broadcast its existence, effectively inviting me to join, and happily gave me an IP address to work with, how could I not believe I was welcome to use it?").
How do they know what you want to buy without extensively tracking and surveilling you? Why would you like to be surveilled all day, every day? What advert do you think would ever be worth that?
I have the same issue with my in-memory nodeJS app on Amazon AWS. Nice story, but how to FIX it?
I thought you meant the egg yolks

http://medievalnews.blogspot.com/2010/01/eggs-not-used-to-bu...
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90% of the cost of being an ISP comes from laying the core underground fiber network that serves as the backbone of the system. This usually costs anywhere from $30k - $50k per kilometre to lay because it involves digging trenches, getting permits, etc. It takes about $50M to deploy a basic network in a city like Bangalore for example - we know from our existing ISP partners that this is a reasonable figure.

The fact that we are using FSOC to replace the underground fiber is what creates the 10x in savings. It only takes a few hundred FSOC units to do the job of the fiber as the core network and is much, much cheaper.

I've added a reply further down the page that addresses why we'd like the public to be involved, I'd be happy to elaborate more if you've got more questions.
The Japanese infra came from imperial Japan prior to the conclusion of WWII so I’m not sure how “free” market I would consider that since it was more of a totalitarian command economy.
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There is absolutely no difference between a human from 6000 years ago and one today. You could be an Einstein level genius back then, and likely unable to use any of those skills other than for the optimization of your environment. Also, you likely would not be able to use the bulk of it because your education would be non-existent, so your IQ compared to someone today would be much lower even though your raw intelligence would be higher. Essentially you'd be given an exquisitely crafted very blunt knife.
Man, drugs are fascinating, aren't they?

It feels like every time I tried a new drug, it helped me understand myself more. Don't understand me wrong, I don't take a lot of drugs. My experience is limited to one night on MDMA in Ibiza, one night on shrooms in Amsterdam and a whole lot of nights on weed.

I seem to suddenly understand everything about myself and the world when I smoke weed. It really puts me into the "Everything is connected and everything repeats itself"-mood, which I've heard from LSD trips. That all that's happening is supposed to happen, doesn't matter if it's objectively or subjectively bad or good right at that moment.

MDMA made me insanely happy about myself and my surroundings for an hour. It was like feeling pure joy and happiness for an hour straight. Although I took it in Ibiza, I spent the night listening to music on the couch in the AirBNB I had rented. I read that a lof of people feel depressive and blue for a couple of days after taking MDMA. For me, it was different - I felt content and insanely relaxed for a couple of days, but in a very good way. Still 100% in touch with the world, just happy. But that effect went away in an instant which I've really felt. Went from smiling and being happy back to normal. Not sad or depressed, just normal.

I have a huge admiration and respect for psychoactive drugs. I would never consider taking Heroin, Crystal Meth etc., but I would really like to try LSD and other substances.
It also seems like THC helps me live with ADHD better than any official, legal pill.

All that being said, I don't really know how to handle drugs in the long run. I'm in my early twenties, so maybe it's normal to have a feeling of being lost and not knowing what I should really be doing with my life. I live in a nice apartment, earn good money, ride a beautiful motorbike and have a wonderful girlfriend. But except for my girlfriend, none of these things make me truly happy.

If I don't smoke weed for a long time, I seem to loose myself. But the same can be said for when I start smoking too much, too frequently. I don't even know what I'm trying to say, but reading your comment made me think about that topic :)
You do not need service workers to do what Web catalog/electron wrappers are doing:

google-chrome --app=https://example.com

firefox --ssb https://example.com (sadly requires enabling the ssb feature)

Sure, you can have a tool to create "desktop shortcuts" for the casual user, but this is not worthy of a commercial product.
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Both comments are in poor taste.

The point of the article was not about the quality of the product (cakes) but about a model of small-time abuse in which she has first-time experience. She is allowed to state the situation and give an opinion.

Secondly - comparing BBC journalists to people selling personal lifestyle as a product is insulting. Journalists are in obligation do declare "opinion pieces" if they're writing them, while influencers are basically only doing opinion pieces, and have a business model of convincing manufacturers that their opinions is worth paying for. Their positive opinion is probably worth just a bit more money (yes, that's also an unsubstantiated insult, I just like to blend in with the crowd here).
Yeah me too. Also how Julius Caesar crossed the Rhine river is amazing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNPnBVHSeZc

https://the-augustus.com/2018/11/29/how-did-caesar-cross-the...
Well check this out, thank you! I was going to before but Tasmota was so dead simple and i had all the logic offboard anyway. But I like some of the points you mentioned that would help with automation of building out new ones. Thanks!

BTW I can’t say enough good stuff about node-red for automation. It has been great. I tie it into into influxdb for telemetry and it has a nice little dashboard feature for process monitoring. All with almost zero code.
The post is about candidates' failings, presumably to help them.

The failings of interviewers are whole other, not less interesting, story.

As to your point, it is completely misplaced in that list which is list of problems with my candidates.

When I interview candidates I am expected to do my job which is to treat the candidate humanely and give back quality, actionable feedback.

Why wouldn't I be able to evaluate candidate's approach? Can he solve the problem? If his approach is so good I can't understand it why then he wasn't able to solve the problem?

Why would that happen on a problem I chose? When I put up a problem for my candidate I have already solved it in every imaginable way so I know ins and outs of every possible solution. I do that so that I can stop focusing on the approach and focus on the candidate because that is ultimately my task. I can imagine the candidate providing another solution but why wouldn't I be able to even evaluate the solution if I have spent so much effort on relatively simple problem already?

It is also important to understand, that the job of the interviewer is not to approve every good candidate. The job is to prevent bad candidates from getting hired. It is expected that some good candidates will be lost in the process and it is acceptable, because hiring a bad candidate is much, much worse than loosing a good one. If you loose a good candidate you have a queue of other candidates so the worst that will happen is you will spend a little bit more on acquisition and maybe make a little suboptimal decision. If you hire bad candidate you are tied to him/her for a long time and usually have to expend huge amount of resources before the candidate is finally let go or maybe while he/she stays indefinitely, blocking your ability to find better candidate.
I can see this influencing my next vehicle purchase.

For those who are familiar with the project - what is the security situation like?
Sorry, I wasn't being entirely serious there. I think I was getting cross thread contamination from a discussion on 1984 and was contemplating the ultimate consumerist dystopia...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Bridge
That sounds like a great way to handle it.

Of the people who take them up on that offer, how many manage to generate sales? How many generate enough sales to actually cover the costs?
To add to this: those were highly sought after specialists with a lot of privileges. This had consequences that sound strange to us nowadays.

Stonemasons were heavily involved in medieval diplomacy, since everybody in power needed them to build or repair fortresses. They could travel freely between kingdoms that were at war with each other and exchange messages between the respective rulers.
Pile driver could be as simple as an a-frame and a bunch of guys with a ropte, a pulley and a large rock. No need for such advanced gear, but it makes for a nice animation.

https://www.1st-art-gallery.com/Maximilien-Luce/The-Pile-Dri...
Whatever Happened to CryEngine?
Depends what the mechanism of operation is.

If I tell you there's a home burglary every second, and home CCTV can keep you safe - have I improved your life? Or have I created fear in you, then charged you $$$ to feel like you did before you saw my advert?
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I believe free amplification is terrible.

Why? So that poor people can't be heard?
Can every stop naming their articles like that ? The Karpathy one was justified but now it's getting annoying
I don't like this channel because it grossly misuses machinery without explaining it's real purpose.

It's just classical pop science. Do something fancy with no substance.

"It's a machine that is really good on just crushing things. It uses hydraulic pump and piston to generate huge amounts of force. And it pushes against the table, and then you're gonna put whatever you want there between the table and the piston and it's going to get crushed."

No, that's not what hydraulic presses are used for...
Dental work is also a big driver in longevity, as is washing hands by doctors.
If you use your card at an ATM there is a pin.

Also there are a different kind of card called a debit cards (or an atm card). These are not credit cards and withdraw money from your bank account. They require a pin as well.

You can use a debit card to purchase something at a point of sale - but you must give a pin. The money is taken from your bank account (and visa/mastercard are involved)

However the vast majority of point of sale transactions are credit card transactions and go through the visa/mastercard network.

I used to have a debit card (decades ago) and had one fraudulent transaction. I called my bank, they credited me the money, investigated, and then made it final.
How to manage a complex UI state with useReducer hook instead of redux
Very interesting, in regard of this man https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horace_Fletcher
who was advocating for chewing 100 times before swallowing.

"Nature will castigate those who don't masticate." he used to say
I agree that online virtual bullying mobs[1] are only a few steps[2] away from offline physical lynching mobs. Compare https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24798617 for my thoughts on how to filter for authoritarian followers of whatever political persuasion.

How can "would score high" and "accepting of divergences from their beliefs" not be disjoint?

As far as I can tell, the author is not advocating to "cure" people for not voting his way, he's advocating to "cure" people who are tempted to use the bullet box instead of the ballot box[3] to make him live their way. I'm pretty sure classical liberals, being live and let live, would score very low on this test.

Thanks for reassuring me about Dreher and Evola[4], I was introduced to them via HN, so I have no idea how widespread their thought may be offline. Agree that Toole was writing a parody version of the question of political or theoretic lives which was treated in a serious manner by Boethius in Consolation of Philosophy and Hesse in The Glass Bead Game. I wouldn't be surprised if Dr. Talc (a substance useful when changing diapers?) didn't also have elements of self mockery.

[1] did I forget to mention that apparently former CPSU members scored highly on RWA? Examples of questions I think left wing authoritarian followers might score highly on in the current context: 1, 5, 7, 17, 19, 22. Maybe for the current times the author, who notes in the first chapter that in the early twenty-first century the times of quoting Chairman Mao were long over, ought to ask about the appropriate use of Madame Guillotine?

[2] In the context of online cancellation mobs, moving from "harassment" through "punish", "maim", and "torture", on to "liquidate". To me it seems the easiest way to address mob cancellation is to only allow termination for cause, but even that wouldn't have saved the NYT editor (who had published Cotton's OpEd sight unseen).

[3] bullet box metaphor lifted from an FBI indictment. For my sanity, I should stop reading those things. (but they're horribly fascinating: over here people bring rifles to the range, not to demos.)

[4] I get Ubuntu from Evola because he's always rabbiting on about the atomisation of modernity. I'm not sure quite what he's for, as he seems to take it for granted his readers already do, but given the expressed love of hierarchy, I think he's big on social relations:

Left wing ubuntu: symmetric, transitive, and reflexive
Right wing ubuntu: antisymmetric, transitive, and reflexive

not to mention keeping relations up not only with those alive today but also with those of our Tradition.
If you chew less not as much will fit in your stomach and will feel full quicker. Digestion would also be quicker. Not sure about the sugar level though
You flatter yourself thinking that you had that much influence over my opinions. The government have done research on this and keep flip flopping on whether this will be released to the public (currently not). Doesn't that sound like a cover up to you?

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/grooming-gan...
Also important to remember that a “view” doesn’t mean someone watched the video at all. On a 5-10 min video they may have watched 30 seconds of it. A view is basically as worthy as a click - not much at all.
Note to mods: the title when submitted began with “Why”. Why did the ‘Why’ disappear?
Oh boy.

First up, for those not in the UK, Toby Young is one of the most predictable and idiotic commentators in print media in this country. And no, that's not hyperbole.

For example, he has a stock template article ready to go whenever there's any whiff of controversy on Twitter involving anything remotely "woke". He'll change a few words, hit publish and there's his new hatchet job complaining about The Youth of Today and Those Bloody Woke Leftists. Does it matter what the actual issue is? Nope!

You might think that this is an ad-hominem atatck on Young, and it partially is. But his article is just an appeal to authority, why not dismiss it on the exact same grounds.

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Now on to the actual subject matter: What is the GBD? What revelatory text have these three scientists (along with support from Dr Johnny Bananas etc. al.) produced?

It's plain, old fashioned, let-the-virus-rip herd immunity. Sacrifice some unlucky people so you don't have to bother wearing a mask.
Echoing jlongster's thoughts, I have experiences this first hand working at Tact.ai (https://tact.ai) in the sales domain, which forces us (well, at least pre-covid) to think local-first if you want to succeed.

Most salespeople are always on the go, travelling through areas of bad network, or in flights (which many salespeople consider wasted time because their tools all need a constant internet connection, and that's one of the domains where "time is money" is a core tenet). So when we started building, "local-first" was a strong differentiator for us and became a core philosophy for the company. For the app we have, 95% of functionality works perfectly well offine (except some features that need third party API interaction that we've not found a clean way to set up so far).

Sure, it's so much easier to write a webapp and then add a webview on top of it and call it a "mobile app", but the effort (syncing data which can be edited in multiple places in an local-first world is a crazy engineering challenge) that goes into building a local-first app really pays dividends in the longer run.