skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m curious what happens with rural terrestrial broadband. Does it dry up and die or do the telecoms try to compete at a relatively high cost per customer. Many don’t have dial tone and satellite TV bundles aren’t competitive so they will likely lose the customer completely and are left with an asset that makes no money.

They might open the local loop back up to at least get rent?
Respectfully, educating stakeholders is part of your job. Until you accept and embrace that, you're likely to remain stuck in roles doing useless things.
Reading her Wikipedia page is interesting. Broward County is not the place to live if you want your vote reliably counted.
And for the most part, it doesn't matter how much money you have to spend on it. If I were inclined to offer twice as much for double the bandwidth, that's just not an option. (Not that I feel like I'm getting the bandwidth I pay for in the first place...)
Fantomas works on my Mac! My employer has been sponsoring work on Fantomas for a while now, and it's really improved by leaps and bounds over the last year. I'd recommend giving it another go.
Bankers usually, but occasionally Bardsley's if I'm around there.
> There's no reason for it to provide classes

I'm not sure I follow. ES classes predate react significantly IIRC. React may have been the first 'popular' library that made use of them extensively, but I don't think facebook should get credit for this one

> There's no reason why JSX had to be included at the same time with React

Without jsx, the value of react code is _much much_ lower IMO. I don't think it had any chance of catching on without it.

>Some people even throw Redux at the junior programmer at the same time.

Definitely agree that that is a mistake, but it also seems to be a mistake that people are long past. Not many people advocate redux these days, which I find unfortunate given how good redux toolkit makes it. That said, even without redux toolkit, it's definitely not something to throw at junior developers in their first week

...maybe week 3.
It's flagged because some liberal yoyo took one look at the title and assumes it's some men's rights advocacy bullshit. It's attitudes like this that are the reason these issues are never brought up in the media.
Similarly, IBM z15 (and LinuxONE III) mainframes have 940 MB of L4 cache (implemented in DRAM close to the external memory bus) for each 4-socket processor cluster.
Better discussion meetings with Lean Coffee
Ninety days.

"Text as a cross-application data transfer format" and the Unix Philosophy of "chains of small programs that each do a single thing well" are what lead to exploits like these.

I don't know what the proper system design is, but it isn't these two things. Disagree all you like.
It's only baffling if you didn't bother to read the party platforms. The Democratic party platform explicitly talks about removing barriers to municipal broadband as a goal, which is the only way you are going to get competition where ISPs have a monopoly. At least in the current landscape where it's cost-prohibitive for a competitor to enter a region.

Also (emphasis mine),

> Democrats will restore the Federal Communications Commission's (FCC) clear authority to take strong enforcement action against broadband providers who violate net neutrality principles through blocking, throttling, paid prioritization, or other measures that create artificial scarcity and raise consumer prices for this vital service.

Regardless of anyone's feelings broadband is not categorized as a utility. You may want it classified as such. Then ask yourself which party is likely to move in that direction.

https://www.demconvention.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/202...
Show HN: What would be an ideal developer stack for a Machine Learning engineer?
Are we overpaying? I pay less in the US for fiber Internet than I paid in France for DSL. Can “overpaying” be quantified?
This is very close to Richard Feynman's explanation of the scientific method:
https://youtu.be/kBqemHR49-c?t=33

" Guess -> Compute Consequences -> Compare to Nature / Experiment / Experience / Observation

If it disagrees with experiment, it's wrong. In that simple statement is the key to science."
Nix has a multitude of drawbacks the biggest being learnability.
> It is another matter entirely when you are hamstrung by internal process or a specific power-tripping and ignorant person in management.

That still sounds like unwillingness or inability to me.
A related phenomenon was x-ray salons, "the most scientific way to remove hair." Hundreds of these cropped up in the early 20th century, originally growing out of their use in the medical profession. Most targeted working class, immigrant women to the US. They were eventually banned but persisted underground for quite some time.

There's a good history of them in Plucked: A History of Hair Removal. https://books.google.com/books?id=LZvsCwAAQBAJ&printsec=fron...
I don't find it comforting, but to each his own.
My favorite time/productivity tracker for 2020
If that were the case, I feel like Github should have responded on 10-28, when Project Zero reached out mentioning that the deadline was approaching. If they asked for another extension then rather than just not responding, maybe Project Zero would have considered being more accommodating?
It is odd that Starlink isn’t mentioned in the article. Starlink has impressive speed and latency and the potential to compete to some degree in every market in the US. Twitter angst aside (some of which is fair but much seems to be either dishonest or ignorant, even by those who should definitely know better), SpaceX has also done a remarkably good job of addressing the light pollution problem such that the satellites are invisible to the naked eye once in operational orbit (mitigating impact on ground astronomy is something SpaceX continues to work with astronomers on). They’ve done so well, this should probably become industry regulation. And by choosing a lower (self-clearing) orbit, they’ve mitigated a lot of the concerns about space debris as well. I think their approach to these problems shows it is scalable (although IMHO we should actually codify some of these mitigation’s instead of just relying on good faith).

And thankfully, competitors exist. OneWeb has exited bankruptcy and is starting to launch again. Project Kuiper also shows promise.

I think people are still sleeping on just how big of a deal Starlink (etc) is going to be.
> When I feel generous, I chock it up to Legal future-proofing the situation. When I'm not, I call it trendchasing.

In my even less charitable mood, I'd call it copy-pasting ToS templates to avoid doing work.
We’ve Rarely Seen a Dinosaur Brain Like This Before
Pretty beautiful, without the shape distortions that usually plague population-based electoral maps.

Land doesn't vote, people do.
How about the other 4000 words below the comic?
I actually studied film and through my music experience I was always "the sound guy" programming was actually more like a hobby until it turned out I am actually not bad at it.
> I'm just saying that for some people it's hard to learn because there are so many different things packaged there that it looks like a framework.

There are many different things packaged there now. When it as released it had maybe two concepts, and you could get started with it in under an hour.

> it is rapidly moving away from my original point and your tone is becoming hostile.

The original point you presented was: "There's no reason why JSX had to be included at the same time with React. There's no reason for it to provide classes, the whole bells and whistles. They could have released just the Virtual DOM part of the library" which just makes little sense. And I never moved away from it, showing how wrong your recollection of React is.

You yourself decided to move away from it somehow deciding to talk about Redux, and how it's hard to learn React today.
Correct except,

Microsoft should have won search. They had all the tools to execute and were pretty much at the right place at the right time.

Google should have won social networking and messaging. They had the userbase and the network. Yet it's Facebook that did.

Same goes for Phones, and yet it's Apple that captured the market.
How do you know they purchase reddit accounts?
I think the key insight is to realize that money is just a distraction, it's numbers in some computers. At the end of the day we have three kind of real resources: matter (raw materials and energy), labor and knowledge.

Money is about how those resources are used. Whoever has the money can mobilize those resources for any goal of its choosing. The value can only be measure in function of what those goals are.

It's obvious that you can't choose turn a $1B yacht in insulin, but you could redirect the economy to produce more insulin and less yachts (or the other way around).

The believers in Laissez-faire, will tell you that the system, by itself, will produce the exact quantity of insulin and yacht necessaries. In other words, they think that the optimization function and the utility function are all implemented in the power of markets.

In the other side of the spectrum (a totally centralize economy), they will tell you that the optimization function and the utility function can be wrote by hand.

Personally, I think that the optimization function have to be learned by the markets, and the goal function have to be handcrafted. The economy is just a machine that really doesn't care, it will create yachts or insulin or whatever.
> I really hope Starlink lives up to the hype.

The technical aspects of it seem to be:

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/11/space...
to be fair, it seems like this is a recent relaxation of the rules? https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-45142651
I'm impressed github replied at all. I've never received a response on a github support ticket. I don't think they are even monitored.
America, your time is running out
These projects have been absolutely amazing in terms of creating open tools for FPGAs. The thing I'm most excited for is seeing the PCIe support with the
Lattice ECP5-5G devices.
You can look at case law and common law for the roots of this, even in the US. The entire point of child support (especially in cases where there was no marriage) is so that the state does not have to pay to raise the child.

I can't speak for the 3rd party institutions like lawyers being paid.
I think you are confused, I stated the last time any restrictions even remotely similar to this applied was then. But that despite those imposition on freedoms most people in say paris could go visit their parents etc. Which they cannot right now.

You seem to be acting like i'm saying this is worse when i clearly did not
Even if there exists some really well intentioned hamstrung individuals within the organization, I think it's desirable to highlight and potentially shame institution as a whole that aren't able to effectively mobilize.

What's the viable alternative?
Such posts are really annoying and meaningless to a large extent.
Even worse this proves that their own language is not stable to invest in.
I see no business value proposition too. Seems more like a bunch of folks geeking on stuff. Also heard from sources that the founder is quite an arrogant guy and not easy to work with.

It's sad that investors hedge their bets on such wonky projects without understanding how this translates into a use case.
> IBM needs to understand that if there's no easy onboarding to a platform, it becomes a legacy one, as new things are built elsewhere.

You're absolutely right. 10K is a huge amount of money to spend on a computer, even a workstation. Most startups can't afford that, so they will never run POWER hardware, and the startups of today are the big corporations of tomorrow. POWER will likely disappear just like "minicomputers" did.

This makes me think of Apple making their ecosystem increasingly more locked in and restrictive. The result is that Apple devices become increasingly less fun for developers to play with. The end result is that more developers will migrate towards Linux. These people will then be less likely to develop software for Apple.
>While it is true that if an entire organization wants something done that it will happen, it is not true that inaction by an organization always signifies unwillingness or inability. It's easy to sit on the sidelines and throw tomatoes at the parties involved. It is another matter entirely when you are hamstrung by internal process or a specific power-tripping and ignorant person in management.

The thing is, major releases and public shaming is pretty much the only thing that has a (not guaranteed) chance of moving these processes or stubborn people. Before that they learn to just delay indefinately.
We do need and can have multiple fleets up there. OneWeb has already launched a bunch of satellites, and there is enough room up there for several more, particularly as operators get better at safely operating them.
Because Net Neutrality was the angle that brings more money their way.

Net Neutrality assumes the monopoly will stay, that no alternatives are available, and that top-down control is the best bet.

If you focus on the monopoly instead, different ISPs could offer different advantages based on the consumer's requirements: gaming, video consumption, media upload, basic light browsing - you could tailor engineering costs to meet the needs of consumers, instead of one-size-fits-all baggage.
They are pretty hostile to international players setting shops.

In such a non-competitive environment, it's no wonder rent seeking is the norm.

Edit: I see the downvotes but no explanations.
An interesting trait of the balkan languages is the perceived link between the spelling and phonetics, resulting in the phrase "Piši kao što govoriš" / "Write as you speak"
If they heard from legal they need it and legal hourly rate is greater than engineering hourly rate, they will rather waste engineering time than spend legal time to save engineering time.
No we don't. The law is against insulting people, not against "saying stuff we don't like on the internet". The laws predate the internet by decades. The freedom to express your opinion is constitutionally protected, this does not cover all speech acts, in Germany and everywhere (see slander laws). Courts protect this constitutional guarantee, as several recent cases showed. Vigorously enforcing laws against insults and other speech acts that are hostile towards constructive discourse seems to me to be the only way forward when it comes to restoring a semblance of sanity to societal conversation. The social networks by themselves have proven to be utterly incapable of doing so.

The most comprehensive survey on various freedoms in the World that I know of ranks Germany at 94, ahead of France at 90 and the US at 86. (100 is the perfect score)

https://freedomhouse.org/report/freedom-world-2018-table-cou...

Freedom of speech is also a guaranteed right in the German constitution, as it is in the European Convention on Human Rights and the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union.

In every jurisdiction there are limits to the freedom of speech. This applies to the US as well as everywhere else:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_free_speech_exce...
I’ve used several learning apps with SRS for learning Chinese. I started with Anki, then tried Memrise and eventually stumbled upon a relatively new alternative - https://www.hackchinese.com/

Anki is no doubt a helpful tool. However, at some stage, I caught myself wasting a lot of time making my vocabulary cards and I noticed that my progress slowed down. It seems to me that in Memrise and Hack Chinese language learning features are implemented more effectively.

Most likely, as the article suggests, the point is that these apps were designed specifically for learning a language in the case of Memrise, and for learning Chinese in the case of Hack Chinese. Well, it’s quite reasonable to assume that spaced repetition principles work better when adjusted to a narrow goal.

Anyway, even though SRS software is very useful, I don’t think it has a superpower. I’m not sure how it works for maths and computer science, but when it comes to learning languages, you can’t reach a high level of proficiency by focusing on some relatively isolated parts of a language. Reading, listening, writing, and speaking are necessary to learn how words are used and to achieve the ability to use these words yourself. For serious learners, SRS software is important, but it’s just one tool in their toolkit.
Well hey, that's what happens when you turn streaming into cable.

I had Netflix, Amazon, and Hulu subscriptions last year.

Today, I have none of those, except for one or two video purchases I made on Amazon.

Now I'm supposed to have Disney+, CBS All Access, HBO Max, Peacock, etc., and that list will probably grow. And we're at a low point in what we consider entertainment. It's bread and circuses up the wazoo. And now I'm apparently supposed to pay more(I heard the Netflix subscription increased again).
Indeed, and I think that treating this like sports is part of the problem. Victory for your team dominates any actual effect of policy on human beings. And it's constant -- the game is going on at literally every instant, with a SuperHyperDuperMegaBowl every four years.

Our choices of elections teams are only slightly less arbitrary than our choices of sports teams. Once chosen we get a continual barrage of cheerleading for us and against our arch-rivals. It's not just the ordinary mental failings of refusing to consider things from others' point of view (while telling ourselves that we have carefully considered and rejected it). It's the continual thrill of the match, with both points for and points against creating mental rewards to cheer harder and not look away for a moment.

We'll all be healthier if we stopped looking at it like a sports match. And the first step, I believe, is to turn it off, so that we can engage with it at a greater distance, without the dopamine hits and troughs that make it so addicting.
I actually think the opposite, Google haven’t launched anything apart from Mail and maps and those were skunkworks projects...
It's hard to not think that way some times, especially when institutions like the UN seem to be corrupted
> So we're sending police at the homes of people that say stuff we don't like on the internet?

Merely describing it as "stuff we don't like" is either inaccurate or reductionist, in the same way murder could be described as "actions we don't like", or a threatening letter is "some scribbles we don't like", or child pornography is "some movies we don't like".

The German law may be vague (I don't know), but the bar seems to be higher than "stuff we don't like".

Whether it should be censored is a good question, but it does nobody any good to be reductionist about the content of the speech.
The issue comes in, especially in future medicines that only target particular genes, that you only care about the effectiveness in that limited case.
I'm in a hetro marriage, my kids come to me for 'mothering,' in about equal measure as they do to my wife.

And they did that when they were infants as well. My wife did not do well without a solid nights sleep, and I was used to oncall work, all night nursing was me. This was equitable, as well as playing to our strengths and weaknesses.

There is no reason to have iron rules of we must each do every parenting action in equal amounts, but to find equitable split of the work that needs to be done.
> I can't imagine the appeal of a closed source proprietary language

I really feel like you're focusing on the wrong thing.

To me, the pitch is that Dark is FaaS-native (meaning you don't have to bend over backwards or use complex tooling to get a good write/debug/deploy experience).

The language itself being new and proprietary is actually a drawback. They can make it very friendly and productive, of course, but the other features are what should really sell someone on using Dark.
For Hayes modems, this wouldn't (well, shouldn't) have worked, since it requires a one second pause between the last '+' and the command. It's part of Hayes' patent IIRC. I believe it was also only processed on the transmitted traffic, not the received.

What does a competing and not-wanting-to-infringe-a-patent modem company do? They just don't implement the delay, and ignore the direction of the traffic while they're at it. Problem solved! (head-to-desk, repeatedly)
Thank goodness we Americans have the First Amendment in our Bill of Rights.
Why do you call it like that? I mean, does it compare bad enough to other font libraries that you feel justified in summarizing it as "an endless shitshow"?
This is awesome. I love seeing languages benefit from existing ecosystems. For anyone interested, there’s a similar library in python called rpy2.

Rpy2 is finicky, but if you’re doing something more traditionally softwarey and want to benefit from R, I still find it easier to use a general language like python and call R than it is to use R alone and try to do things it’s not great at and doesn’t have an ecosystem for.

It’s great to see another venue like that.
What if you might consider adding some analytics later down the road, but are afraid someone will forget about the cookie banner at that point?
> even if you disagree with the content

yeah, the intention was good, but that's not how it works, unfortunately.
You may like Qubes OS, which relies on a bunch of virtual machines for security through isolation.
You turn a real engineering issue into a programming language dogma war. Really?

Dont use async-await then. Its just syntactic sugar (minus a few details that make it so ergonomic that you can do things that otherwise would be more work than they are worth). Just use plain futures. Be joyful as there will be no "colored" functions in your editor - only 10x more code (and less readable!).

I think there is a place for arguing about async await syntax and whether fibers are the better solution (try implementing them without a large runtime! Rust got rid of theirs.). Clearly, the benefits provided by continuations are worthwhile in avoiding context switches - to argue otherwise is wild. Context switches are very expensive and, in performance critical code, a huge red flag.
That would be hilarious.
> POWER will likely disappear just like "minicomputers" did.

They'll stay with the IBM i, but there isn't much AIX can do that Linux on Xeon can't do as well as. AIX is not like their mainframe business (and even there, they have surrendered to Linux).

> These people will then be less likely to develop software for Apple.

They still have a pretty good UX for developers and entry-level machines. I'll probably replace my aging Mac Mini with an ARM-based one next year or so. What will really upset me is if MacPorts is no longer supported on ARM. I hope Apple is sponsoring someone ensuring key parts of the 3rd party ecosystem are there or Macs will become second-class developer machines.
Proprietary, vertically-constrained systems are a weird thing to be nostalgic about
I mean, Chinese government had equally convincing argument as yours...

Let's not pretend that government is not erected to rule and oppress...