skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Larger households is a really big point. For the past few months I often have 5 simultaneous zoom calls (3 kids in school, my wife and I working) along with someone watching Netflix (our 2 year old). It's not like that all day every day, but there's a window of about an hour every Wednesday morning where that happens. Gigabit fiber has made that a complete non-issue.
In DC I moved about 8 blocks down the road, from a neighborhood wired for Comcast and Fios to one where Comcast was the only option. The Comcast only street had worse service and prices about 50% higher.
Unless you take the time to look up the license on the state website, there isn't much of a tell that the brick and mortar dispensary, or delivery service dispensary, is operating illegally. Still the same strange security process getting into the building as in a legitimate dispensary, still the same process of getting delivery (sometimes with nice web design to boot) so it certainly passes the smell test. Happen into one of these, and the prices alone will keep you going there rather than a legal dispensary down the road. Not to mention the packaging requirements of legal dispensaries—ask for an oz and you get handed 8 bags in some very annoying 'child proof' ziplocks (I opt to just cut them open with scissors) since they seemingly can't sell larger units than 1/8 oz or 100mg of edibles per package.
Does anyone actually need it? I had gig fiber but downgraded to 200mbps cable and can't notice the difference. (Except upstream is slow for uploads)
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Maybe a content-addressable P2P web where everyone has their own cache would be better as a way of distributing packages. It would spare a lot of bandwidth costs for the hosts and maybe make us less dependant on big corporate benefactors.
That's an awesome mission. More power to you! The product seems incredible.
I've been out of python for a while, why is the package name and the module name different? `install many-requests` vs `import many_requests`
I had a frustrating experience building the invoicing module for one of our applications so I built a designer for PDF templates that can be filled with content by API calls.
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Recently I got an advertisement from t-mobile (as one of their customers) about their home internet offering.

I currently have gigabit service through comcast/xfinity. Tons of stability issues, but that aside even in the best of times it's as you say.. super low upload bandwidth. And even worse they still impose a terabyte bandwidth cap on me unless I pay them an additional $30/mo.

Well, I looked into the t-mobile internet. It's an LTE router, no bandwidth cap, a flat $50/mo total... and the upload bandwidth I get is around 40-60Mb/s. Download bandwidth between 60-100Mb/s.
Yes.

Dense areas or areas with poor line of sight won't be well served by 5G home service. Long distance 5G is only marginally faster than 4G, and neither is anywhere close to the bandwidth of fiber.

Nothing is going to beat widely deployed fiber in urban areas.
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Does anyone know of a good open source, self-hosted alternative?
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I have yet to see any wireless technology match cables for reliability, and I expect 5G to be worse, not better, in this respect.
My house is wired for 10 gigabit Ethernet and I have a 1000 megabit symmetric ISP, but I find that I really just can't take advantage of this except when running Speedtest.net. Almost nobody I download from can saturate my downlink.
Such a path has to start from a set of core, reinforcing values. We often see such things in the form of religion, though I don't think that's a hard requirement; merely a natural formation that serves as a fertile place for the kind of conversations and decisions and commitments that need to be made for such a thing to happen.

The values then have to extend their way out to action; this comes in the form of positive action (pushing the new message in art and media and society, proselytizing and getting converts, debating and contrasting and encouraging dialogue) and negative action (enforcing restrictions, clamping down on things that have been marked as undesirable).

Success in this kind of effort is informed by many factors, from the raw aesthetic of the set of values and the artifacts created around it, to the willingness of adherents to sacrifice and prioritize the cause above themselves. We sometimes see this kind of thing in fledgling political movements... and sometimes in cults. Fine line between the two!

Imagine such a group got power with their message: they would have competition, and it would take a lot of work. There's a choice here: either draconian control over information (and all the negatives that go with it), or consciousness raising in amongst the population. The latter is harder, takes more time, but ultimately is the way to do this kind of thing while preserving freedom: we need to personally, individually reject negative content and work towards self-improvement and improvement in the aggregate.

You can imagine that when one side is selling sex, drugs, and rock-n-roll and your side is selling duty and self improvement, you're going to have a hard fight. In fact, this is the kind of thing that the Moral Majority and its predecessors thought that they were doing, in decades past; opining for moderate censorship in specific channels (broadcast media) to help create a wholesome environment in the hopes that it would result in mentally healthy, dutiful children.

Say what you will about their specific choices, we can agree most of that effort has been abandoned now, because the battle for the mind has been lost; people want their creature comforts, their bread and circuses, and it's insanely difficult to deny this when you have nothing that adequately fills the gap.

...

I think it could happen in a small group of people if they had space to live and grow and separate themselves from the decaying excesses of our culture. Groups like the Amish and Mennonites and some of the newcomer Islamic and Sikh communities demonstrate an ability to perpetuate and propagate their values to their children and others well. We may have lost this as we flushed religion our of our societies; perhaps this means there is a niche to fill to bring some semblance of discipline back without having to continually be at odds with our new scientific lens on reality.
TBH, I had the same thought. Theoretically if the return was that good, they would not need to break up the capital investment and manage lots of individual relationships. They could simply raise the capital they need at a very low price and have 1 relationship which would be much more efficient.

It is either a scam or an incredible investment opportunity. We will know in 3 months. If it is a scam, they will keep selling them individually. If it is an incredible investment opportunity, they will stop selling them and be funded by someone who is reading the article today. In the US, their investment proposal likely violates the law by guaranteeing a return.

I hope its an incredible investment opportunity and I hope they deliver what they say they will.
They're still an ad company at the end of the day. Now they're going to charge you and advertise to you. Win win for them.
This is a good thing. I've been having trouble weaning myself off this service, one of few Google services I still use, but now I have just over six months notice to find something different.

I'm happy to pay someone for storage, but not Google. So now I'll get on that.
Experimental 10G connection here in the Netherland. Had to upgrade all of my (home) networking gear to get this test. Have yet to max it out, though Usenet comes close every now and then.
Yes. But also keep one's own originally downloaded version, in case the newer version is messed up

And even more cool: If one could browse one's friends' sites, while everyone was offline (if their privacy / sharing settings allowed), just a local net in maybe a rural village

Edit: roadmap: "Distributed p2p web browser on IPFS" -- is that it? :-)
If you really want to seed stuff like that, look into a seed box. You can get some pretty cheaply with a fair bit of bandwidth. I have one I use for similar purposes. Seed things like libreoffice iso's and similar open source project torrents.

It costs something around $7/mo for around 3TB of transfer. That's three times the bandwidth I get with Comcast without paying an overage charge.
Thanks, but I'm more interested in what R has on time series, which Python does not.

Just checked Prophet source code and it looks like there are actually 2 implementations in the same repo: one for R and one for Python. I thought it would have been the usual C/C++ implementation with 2 bindings. I wonder why they chose to develop it this way.
I keep waiting for each new generation to offer more RAM than my 2015 MBP which has 16GB and is still going strong. How else can I run a bunch of docker containers?

But every new release is the same or worse for memory. Is there something about these new architectures that I'm missing which should negate my desire?

Why can't I get a machine with 32GB RAM for under $3k or whatever they are now?
My mother is at the same age and I set up the subscription for her and she never has to think about it. Or, you could share your subscription with your mother.
Generally people use the same amount of data regardless of what plan they have. So from the ISP perspective the backhaul is the same, and you have .1% utilization vs .05% average for the last mile going from gig to 2 gig.
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I'm trying to copy this webpage for a school project.
But is moving stuff or $5 a month cheaper? This is how iCloud got me. I pay $1 a month for space as I didn’t want to deal with figuring out what stuff on my phone I was willing to move or delete.
The tax rates on a single combined income are higher than the tax rates for the two uncombined incomes.

Tax rates aren't the same for all tax brackets. So by not being married, despite having the same actual combined income, taxes are lower because it's taxed as two lower income brackets rather than the combined higher one with a higher tax rate.
If they had taken the matter seriously, they'd not have rebuilt there. We know some Romans recognized the mountain as a volcano years before the eruption, but if there were any warnings associated with this recognition, they seem to have gone unheeded.

(Also, earth quakes are/were pretty common throughout Italy. This perhaps contributed to complacency.)
> Now consider what this suggests about Intel processors (IME) and GAFAM's software (including Raspberry Pi's firmware, ThreadX ?).

It doesn't suggest anything without evidence.
Shit ... now how do I get my photos out ???.
And please don't tell me to use rclone - never got it working properly.
I find this statement interesting. Historically scientists have a reputation for writing relatively poor code. Code that runs really slowly due to things like unintended nested loops, or striding values (x,y vs y,x). And code that doesn't handle non-happy path cases very well.

Are you saying that you trust the code more because the domain knowledge make it more likely to get the right answer then? Has general knowledge increased such that scientists' code isn't as painful as it was 20 years ago?
What do you disagree with. My point is any platform, once large enough will have to deal with it. You can't just ignore the consequences that come from ignoring it. I don't think it's an independent problem in itself - the examples I gave you are direct problems that institutions face as a result of large scale misinformation.

Just saying "I wouldn't solve that problem" doesn't contribute in understanding how one can build more open platforms in the future.
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You can fork and/or add an entry. That's why it is in the open.
Burying anger is not healthy emotionally. When you demonize emotions that a person naturally feels you demonize the person and they only internalize the pain. Do what works for you but don’t be a nuisance to everyone around you by making them guilty for things they can’t help.
The question marks for me would be:

1) Is Apple interested (and capable) making macOS into a realistic choice for servers again?

2) If not, is Apple comfortable with selling a box that most people will put Linux on? Would they put resources into a Bootcamp-esque driver package?
That's your perspective.

Believe it or not there is even a decent amount of gun owners on this side too.
The iPhone talks to its storage through NVMe, which is based on PCIe, suggesting to me that they already have the infrastructure.
Increased assurance that the proof is correct and the various standard benefits of digital over analogue data. This software automatically checks the validity of the proof (with a very small, manually verified core of code doing so), it does not automatically generate proofs wholesale. The proof itself is written by the mathematician interactively, which is still a manual process that requires skill, creativity and thought.
The android app exists but it's wonky as in sometimes the thumbnails of your photos simply won't load They are there, you just have to click on a blank thumbnail to watch the photo.
It's like obscenity: "I know it when I see it". [0]

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_know_it_when_I_see_it
Addendum: just got an email from the Apple Store Business Team about the MBP13. Here's the copy they're using (emphasis mine):

> "Need a powerful tool for your business that’s compatible with your existing systems? Let’s talk. We’ll help you compare models and find the right Mac for you and your team."

That's a corporate-focused legacy-model refresh if I've ever seen one.
CrowdSec FAQ
Riot Games: Leveraging Golang for game development
Your ping is even more impressive! I have 2ms ping wired but nearly 15ms on WiFi! Maybe I need to upgrade to WiFi 6 after all
Would anyone want to do an explain-like-I’m-in-high-school on this?
I'm not sure. Probably just hope it doesn't happen. Can't be sick if you never go to the doctors I guess.
> Kind of highlights that in this age, it's not enough to say "I'm neutral." You need to be able to say "I can guarantee that I'm neutral."

I don't believe it's limited to this age. I think this is something that extends to all ages. Only the methods of implementing it have changed. During WW2 Switzerland again put comprehensive plans in place to gaurentee their neutrality (1).

(1) How Switzerland Stayed Neutral
https://youtu.be/YeAxxMZf1O4
It's worth remembering that it was the Baltimore Sun that first reported this back in 1995.

https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/bs-xpm-1995-12-10-19953440...
https://linuxfr.org/news/crowdsec-la-cybersecurite-collabora...
Being prepared has nothing to do with it. Nobody was prepared for the Anchorage earthquake of 1964, but within minutes people had self-organized into firefighting and excavation teams, set up emergency response relays with a hodgepodge of walkie-talkies, police radio, and AM broadcasters, and within hours there was a centralized volunteer dispatch and food bank.

Relying on your neighbors in a disaster doesn't mean hiding out in their anti-zombie bunker. It means knowing that the entire community will respond together to overcome the emergency.
It depends. The thing that makes pgo good is that it bases it's compile off of analysis of runtime behavior. For that to work, you have to run the problem long enough to get a representative sample. For some programs, that can be a big speed decrease.
Slightly related question: How do you find and keep track of interesting papers like this one? Does anyone know of an RSS feed that I can subscribe to?
You wear your seat belt, right? That's obviously a risk you already take seriously, so I'd not take it for a bound on tolerance for risk.
I thought Bloomberg was into Bucklescript/ReasonML. Warring factions?!
I’m really not sure that’s true. Given a choice between “I get $10, they get nothing” and “I get $20, they get $20”, “conservatives” often choose the former.
If stable and beta used PGO and nightly didn’t and was consequently 10–20% slower, then there would suddenly be an actual reason to not use nightly! I’m not sure whether that would be good or bad.
couldn't hire a locksmith?
To me, it's a risk management problem but a lot of people just find it as a fun hobby too.

Right out of college my best friend got a job at a datacenter. He was showing me the generators and how they have 30 days of fuel on site. I asked him why 30 and not 40 (and so on), he said he asked his boss the same question and the reply was if this datacenter doesn't have power and can't get fuel after 30 days then there are bigger problems in society than accessing websites.
The author of the Metamath Zero paper is actually one of the most active contributors to the project described in the article[0].

[0]: https://leanprover-community.github.io/mathlib_stats.html
(*3 because Google can't lose your data and stores multiple copies, /x because neural compression)
They don't care more about metadata, it easier for them to collect.
It costs quite a bit of money to run something like Docker Hub or NPM. If you want something aligned software maintainers first and foremost, you want a non-profit / foundation that's got priorities aligned with the larger community and not a for-profit entity that has to justify keeping the lights on.

This is an interesting thought. Linux Foundation has a good corporate backing. FSF traditionally provided the backbone in terms of compilers and userland basics. Maybe their 21st century task (and what keeps the relevant in this age) should be such infrastructure.

Apache Foundation is also an interesting candidate for this. I think they also had a good corporate backing.
On the fractal nature of effort estimates (2016)
My uneducated guess is 10gbps already supported by the ISPs fiber equipment so why not create a premium tier option and see who pays for it. Getting a customer to pay 5x the gigabit price is great for margins.

I love fast internet and pay for 1gbps fiber but struggle to come up with scenarios where I would ever come close to saturating that connection in the next 5-10 years. 4k Netflix is 25mbps. Estimates for 8k bitrate say it'll be around 100mbps. Maybe 10 years from all my household members will be hosting their hard drives in the cloud or something and 10g will offer marginal advantages but I just don't see it right now.
I remember the frantic meetings at Yahoo when Gmail killed the market for storage upgrades. They caused an immense amount of work (more so than affecting revenue and costs; the premium quotas at least in Europe didn't generate much revenue and the quotas were there more out of fear of excessive use).

A lot of adoption of Google services was driven by not having to worry about quotas. Making quotas a concern again will pave the way for people to start competing with them by offering cheaper storage in a way people have been unable to compete with them for years.
I quite enjoyed the beginnings of this essay & the parts of assessing risk and mapping out problem spaces. But the essay seems to take a weird turn about halfway through ("3: The Prepared Lifesylte") where the author begins to give their opinion on how folks should best live their lives _in general_, under the guise of suggesting that it's a "Prepared Lifestyle".

For example:

- 3.3. Learn new skills --> supposedly this is to counteract the risk of your job market shifting ("develop useful and marketable secondary skills"), but the example list is pretty random and not necessarily all that economically pragmatic. So it just seems more like the author believes people should have hobbies...

- 3.4.5. Don't Hurt Yourself: Just in Case, Keep your Senses Razor Sharp --> Which basically says, don't drink or do drugs because that raises the possibility that you'll get hurt? I mean, absolutely it'll be crappy if an earthquake happens while you're high & sure if you're piss drunk you might do something dumb to harm yourself but if you really wanna talk about avoiding injuries... taking recreational drugs is probably like on the bottom of the list of things to worry about for anyone who doesn't have substance abuse problems. Feels a lot more like the author just being prescriptive about lifestyle choices.

- 3.6. Get in Shape ---> The author proceeds to dedicate 4/5 of this section to how (in their opinion) someone should change their diet to lose weight. There is then 2 sentences on how "being able to walk or bike for several hours is likely good enough to deal with all practical scenarios we talked about thus far". If that was really what mattered, one could recommend an actual exercise routine and probably spend less time lecturing folks on their theoretical obesity. Physical fitness is correlated with weight, but they're often unrelated. After all, plenty of regular (non-obese) people can't bike for hours at a time (myself included! I have terrible hip problems from a desk job, even though I can do plenty of pullups & work out regularly). If you want to be able to run long distances, you have to run. Same for biking. To focus on weight seems disingenuous.

...and so on and so forth.

I do wish that the author wouldn't couch their personal opinions on how others should live under the guise of disaster planning. But the rest of the article is fantastic & very well thought out.

(EDIT: formatting)
Google is also introducing a new policy of deleting data from inactive accounts that haven’t been logged in to for at least two years.

A little bit of good news, IMO. Next, they need to do like Reddit and start making "dead" account names available for re-use. (Something Reddit does for sub-reddits and which Google seems to not do for, say, BlogSpot.)

Edit: I say this as someone with old, dead google accounts I will never recover and I would rather the data be deleted than fall into the hands of nefarious third parties. Also, we bellyache about the amount of electricity used for Bitcoin as an environmental hazard, but we think Google should keep abandoned accounts intact indefinitely? Why?

All systems need some means to clean out the cruft and recycle stuff and not just permanently freeze it for people who may be dead, who may have forgotten they made that account while high that one night, etc.
Everything is on the internet - it doesn't eliminate the need from students to have a textbook of sorts.