skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think I got most of the answers I needed from the publication I linked above. The goal of the auction was to convert the same frequencies across the country, rather than end up with a patchwork.

To make this possible, there were three basic possible outcomes for a TV station.

1. Get bought out at a price you are happy with.

2. Keep your frequency.

3. Have your frequency replaced with something equivalent (capable of teaching 99.5% of your current potential audience)

With that last point being the key. Even if you happened to own a bit of frequency that was needed for mobile networks, it should not allow you to extract any extra money from the system since you'd just get another frequency slice instead.

How do you game this? Obviously if you own all, or almost all, of the frequencies in one geography you can just set your own price, and the third option will not trigger since there is no equivalent frequency for them to swap you with. But that's just a run of the mill market cornering scenario, and the narrative was selling this as something a lot more interesting, so there is probably more to the story than that.
A farmer friend told me that as egg production declines due to aging, feed consumption actually increases. This was among the factors that drove a soft-hearted novice chicken rancher of his acquaintance out of the business.
> are parens and other operators treated literally by default or do they need to be escaped?

> Can I use + to mean {1,} ? Can I use '?' to match 0 or 1 (common) or do I have to use = (vim)? Or maybe just {0,1}? But then should I escape the braces?

I think that's just older tools like vi and sed. Perl, Python, Java, and Javascript use a similar modern version where + and ? work, and parentheses and braces don't need to be escaped.
Let’s simply return to the 1950s, in terms of tax policy.

The rich have won to the point of not being able to fail. The idea that poor people aren't working hard enough is the most toxic thought.

If you’re a software engineer making a few hundred k a year, this isn’t even talking about you. You have more in common with someone making $10 an hour than the executives that run your companies.

Go look at some photos or drive by a food bank right now. There’s more people waiting in line outside of a single Brooklyn food bank for 9 hours in the freezing cold than there are people with enough wealth to feed every hungry person in America permanently and still come out ahead in 5 years.

I’m sick of people with no compassion outside their own family. Society is not a zero sum game. Your life would be better in a thousand ways if we provided a real safety net.
A microscope for everyone: Researchers develop open-source optical toolbox
There's nothing polite about a brush-off. It indicates a lack of respect.
Exactly. You can make a VM Golf that performs like an M3, but, in the end, it'll be a lot of work for an unreliable car.
I think this just depends on your values and moral code, and there's no clear right or wrong here.

I personally do not see a problem with using animals as food. If that's good enough for all the other omnivores and carnivores in the food chain, it's good enough for humans. There are certainly a lot of problems with the sustainability and humane-ness of our livestock farming, but I don't see "become vegetarian/vegan" as the only solution, or even necessarily a desirable one. But getting into a meat vs. no meat debate here isn't ever going to be productive, so that's all I'll say.

I had not known that male chicks are killed after birth in such numbers, and the practice does make me sad. But I also recognize that a lot of people just don't have any kind of emotional response to this sort of thing, and that's ok too. It's great that people are building new technologies to allow us to keep doing what we're doing, but with better treatment of the animals involved, and less waste.
That you hadn't heard of him was perhaps not sufficient basis for feelings of astonishment. I guess it's just surprising to people of a certain age, who overlooked the age/background of yourself and others. But I really don't think it was intended to be exclusionary or make you feel unwelcome. The down votes were probably b/c of the Michael Jordan comment. If there is a rule that every submission must have a tech, science or similar angle, it appears there are exceptions. And most people are OK with it.
Both actually. I worked at a slaughterhouse during my summers while at University.

Plants aren't strictly for eating. You use them in everything from building houses to all of the furniture in your house.

Just curious, but what would you rank the emotional capacity of a chicken? Because honestly it's basically non-existent from what I can tell.
I worked in self-driving tech. Almost every self-driving company can make such videos, but they are still waaaay too far from real self-driving, even L4.
Can we not turn Hacker News into a cut-rate Reddit? The world has enough outlets for endless culture war.
Apologies, I forgot that discussing partisan politics is discouraged here. This one just gets me riled because there's so much misinformation around it. Regardless of political party, it would benefit us all in the long run to find sustainable ways of improving access to health care.
does anyone have a link to the actual video? curious about the extent of the misinformation.
What about support string interning, any plans?
New electronic chip delivers smarter, light-powered AI – RMIT University
Coins are rarely better than bitcoin in all regards. Instead they simply offer trade-offs, making some things better and others worse. They often harm the very thing that justified bitcoin's existence: being decentralized and uncensorable.
Or being able to fully validate the transaction history with limited resources.
This took them way too long for how easy it is to add and how many headaches it would prevent.
Curious why it wouldn't start 'verifying' immediately on load? The fact that it runs in the background is really key--I'd hate to fill out an entire form, click the button at the end, and still have to wait around to submit.
These accusations are new to me.

He was definitely a drug addict, a tax cheat, an unfaithful husband, a horrible non-father to his bastard kid, and a pretty poor football coach. He likely had sex with young girls, in his wild years. But 10 or 12 seems a bit too much even for a coked-up sex fiend.
does the extremely high valuation give them capital

Only if they sell more shares. Once the shares have been initially sold, the share price can increase ten-fold but the company won't get any of that money. That's the simple, general answer to your question, anyway.
My god, the keyboard on that thing is hideous!
Duggan was nearly a decade ago though, and he pulled a gun on police when they tried to arrest him. Involved in gangland activities. It shows how messed up some of these sorts of riots are: they invariably seem to be about people who were in the process of attacking the police when they were shot. de Menezes of course is a terrible exception.
NIST AI System Discovers New Material – NIST
Given the number of people involved it seems likely. It's like the birthday paradox.
Almost every RFC writes their grammars in some form of BNF not in regular expressions. RFC are written to be understandable.

> Sure, you could make it more verbose, but that wouldn't make it easier to understand the whole of it, or why it is the way it is.

Absolutely it would. The way to understand a large thing, is to understand the smaller components and then put them together. Regular Expressions to do not compose well.
It's barely jargon. I think a lot of people know that Haskell is a pure functional language, and arrays and hash maps are both examples of functors. I don't know what a monad is, but I think it's mostly hard to parse because it's not clearly written.

I would challenge you to share this with a non-developer friend and see what they think about that statement. You should consider what your personal experiences are with something before making such rather aloof statements towards others.
> I have a hunch that people on mobile devices are inherently slower at entering their data.

In general, I use form autocomplete to fill this quickly. And on the contrary, my mobile signups are faster than desktop because the lastpass firefox extension on desktop takes longer to detect the form before the autocomplete can begin than my phone does.
If you wanted to slice at an arbitrary point, then you would either have to lose some data in the original string, move or copy the original string to make space for the extra delimiter/null character, or have set up the string ahead of time to contain the delimiter in the desired position. If you are using strtok.
Many of these ip addresses would also be shared by servers of legitimate businesses and VPNs.
> That's a weird complaint on a site about eternal disruption, eternal improvement of things that are basically fine already.

I disagree. Vegans generally adopt a hard-line, no-compromising position on things like this. That's the antithesis of a lot of what we talk about here, which is continual improvement, perfect-is-the-enemy-of-good, and making reasonable trade-offs and compromises to find better solutions.

A startup that said "We're going to build X in the most perfect, idealized way, and will settle for nothing less! We'll never ship until it's perfect" would be laughed out of town and burn through their money before shipping anything. And that's pretty much what veganism advocates for.
How does k8s replace docker-compose on local machines? I have used minikube to run a local k8s cluster on my laptop and it's terrible. docker-compose works just fine.
Creating a monoculture makes it easier to implement systems that automatically bypass the captchas, so it’s good for end users, especially people that are visually impaired, or otherwise unable to solve captchas.
It is sad to me you actually need linkers/istio for this.
EndpointSlices support topology labels which the article states is in vanilla kubernetes. Which means you can create different services for example a zone. Like "myservice-eu-west1a".

The problem is that a pod has no easy way to know what topology it is in to make the choice to go to myservice-eu-west1a. The feature for getting topology labels through the downward api is not there! A pod has no idea where its scheduled!

The only way to find out is to ask the kubernetes api, but this requires rbac, a client, libraries etc.. unacceptable! Guess what linkerd does for you?

I am glad for the feature linkerd offers as it solves a problem and I can see the benefit of perhaps doing latency based routing as well on top of this.

It just ticks me off we need something complex to do something simple: keep workloads to their own zone depending on where they are.
Give the Gift of Security
pjmlp's view appears to be that because their customers, who are not experts, don't know enough to ask for continuously tested software, they don't believe it is their professional responsibility to provide that either. This allows them to dismiss any complaints about macOS in datacenters as irrelevant.
- Why did you leave ?

- What were some of the good things about the role that you enjoyed ?

- What were the difficult things about the role that you weren't particularly good at or didn't enjoy as much ?

- If you could redo this role, would you do anything differently ? What would those be ?

- How does the company/team measure success in this role ?

- Do you have any issues recommending me against taking role ?
Hello, ironically it was me who has created that issue some years ago. I saw that http://ai./ works in a browser and wondered why chagemann.de. doesn't. The culprit was caddy, and the caddy maintainer didn't want to fix it (or apparently accept PRs fixing it). Not sure where the trolling is supposed to be at.
It was mentioned in a developer presentation with very few details as to how it worked. Apple did not go into details; the information presented here was mostly reversed by app developers and security engineers.
In case you're serious about not understanding it, the essence of hey is getting an effective email triage workflow out of the box so you only see what you're interested in and don't spend any more time managing your email (inbox zero, filter rules, etc.)
Why? It sounds like you're making the assumption that the parent's topic of conversation is already automatically toxic, and therefore impossible for reasonable people to want to discuss.
https://twitter.com/Jakesaurius/status/1331543133910396929

The circles do not move. The outer most layer of pixels however, changes color, giving the illusion that they're moving.

Once you understand how the "outer-rim of pixels" contributes to the illusion, it all makes sense.
Everyone is being unnecessarily rude to you. It really isn’t unreasonable that you wouldn’t have heard of this guy if you are some combination of an American, not a sports fan, and in your thirties or younger. However in his day he was considered one of the two best players all time in the most popular sport in the world. That resulted in a fame that far exceeded the world of sport. He also basked in the life of celebrity that ended up compounding his renown even further. He was probably at one point one of the 10 most famous people on the planet. It can therefore be surprising for people who lived through that time that other people might not be aware of him.
Amazon fires between 5-15% of engineers per year. PIP is to get you to quit. Amazon hires a TON of entry level
SDE 1 engineers to sacrifice at the altar of Bezos so more shitty employees get to stay. Lifespan of a SDE 1 whipping boy/girl at Amazon, as a result is 3-6 months.
First one to make this mine an altcoin for proof-of-work wins.

But seriously I like the idea, although it seems trivial for someone to attack a protected site by exhausting its subscription level? Are there any protections against that?
Tokyo has continuous growth, and almost no NIMBYism. While Japan as a whole has negative birthrates and restrictive immigration policies, Tokyo has neither.

The comment you’re responding to is a real, important difference between Japan’s response to growth (in the Tokyo area) and other cities and regions’ responses to growth. Handwaving it doesn’t help.
Wow, this is an awesome idea. I can imagine this could be extended to solve tasks to mine cryptocurrency. If you get attacked by a botnet, you would actually make a profit!
Most people here are familiar with concepts from occultism. Reciting quotes from kaballah would give you an illusion of superiority and downvotes.

Famous scientists give references to occultism, but they do it in a subtle way. For example, someone (Dirac?) said that it's funny how the atom is 42 orders of magnitude bigger than the planks length and 42 orders of magnitude smaller than the universe - 42 must be the key to the universe then!
What is the FOSS project you are talking about? Anything on GitHub/GitLab worth time looking into?
> Why bother with a proof of work scheme when you can just rate-limit directly?

Tad amusing after all this time people still don't understand why proof-of-work schemes exist.

Rate limiting has zero cost to an adversary. PoW has physical costs. It's in the name :)
So you imply the DoD did a Manhattan project in peace time for years and nobody suspected a thing?

Anythings possible, sure, but that clearly is conspiracy theory category.

Unless they found a working cold fusion method by chance, it would require a HUGE budget and the best of the best scientists avaiable. Who all need to keep their mouth shut and pretend fusion is still not working. For years. Not likely. Not in peace times.
I see mostly interesting thoughts so far, which I'll find almost nowhere else. There's comparatively little warring. Frankly, I think your kind of comment hurts HN more - it's essentially a self-fulfilling prophecy.
> BotStop by hCaptcha

Cool, I didn't know about this! Too bad there doesn't seem to be a strong open source option, but I'll check this out.
Just like weapons research, big government grants were risks are externalized to third parties.
I've heard of the same system in Kenya, only it's called corruption.
> Your statement "it's never enough for vegans" has two sides for me.

That's all well and good, but the only side that matters is the side that the statement was responding to: the original parent's comment that advocated for not bothering with technologies such as this, but instead moving toward an all-vegan society.

From that perspective, I think "it's never enough for [that kind of] vegan" is quite apt here.
Unless absolutely everything in the PC fails at once, you can just repair it and change components as needed. Not really doable with a Mac given that you can't buy the components from Apple.
Don't forget the part where he sells the Cology domain and trademarks to another tech startup :)

(I have quite a few friends who have some fondness for what Glitch-the-game was trying to do. Always appreciated that they open sourced the art from it: https://www.glitchthegame.com/public-domain-game-art/)
The heat? I live in Mexico City, it's basically never hot here. That game was on June 22, and according to WolframAlpha that day had a high of 15C. I don't know if that data is accurate, but I can tell you a high of 15C in June is plausible. Even if Wolfram's data is sketchy, I'd bet the high temperature on that day was somewhere between 15C and 25C.
WTF Did you see the super man like guy shooting at the sweatshop workers? This looks pretty bad...

https://imgur.com/a/CvYyBQH
They diversify, they just do it at a completely different layer than a cloud consumer.
Ask HN: What is the best code generator you have seen or created?
This or OBS for mac?

Note: OBS is not hard at all, so I might be looking for something less CPU/GPU intensive
C++ has string support in the standard library.

It doesn't have the same breadth of features as, say, Python's string class, but it's ok.

See, eg. https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/string
proof of work really doesn't work well in practice. spammers have huge farms of compute, often on residential ips, and legit users are accessing the service from a device that is often power-constrained (like a phone). you end up either hugely penalizing legitimate users, or having to employ many of the standard antispam techniques (IP/ISP reputation, captcha, rate limiting etc) on top, so the proof of work adds a lot less incremental value.
I'm let down that you tried out new presentation software live during a very important presentation.
So your solution is to technically waste electricity to replace captcha? It's for sure an interesting concept, the first point and low-end devices requiring 20+ seconds to pass are not a very good points to sell your service.
On monotonicity in relational databases and service-oriented architecture
> Incident communication should be factual and concise.

Could not agree more. It's immensely frustrating working with organisations that spend more time trying to cover up the cause of a outage to external stakeholders than actually fixing the root cause.

The same organisations tend try and blame individuals for outages.

I think both are a symptom of businesses that embrace the "blame culture"
cool stuff
The bot network will sparkle with new colors
Yes. https://www.computerworld.com/article/2571378/sco-unveils-li...
No but this post is trying to generalize on an experiment where NNs are trained with GAs which is - in my opinion - not where NN shine.
While I agree with you in general, this tool appears to rely on a kernel extension for their virtual Webcam. And that creates a lot of additional and ongoing maintenance work.
Are we at a consolidation point in terms of resource ownership and inequality? Or are we merely ascending a steep sine wave during chaotic times? I can't tell.

Things like Central Bank digital currency and authoritarian tech would suggest a solidifying of establishment power. But, then again, people are very pissed off about their lot in life - and the same tribal forces ensuring division could just as easily be what destroys this whole paradigm.
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25037600
After Admitting Mistake, AstraZeneca Faces Difficult Questions About Its Vaccine
That still tells people what you’re running, though.
"Nobody needs more than 640k of RAM"
V8+ were not publicly available, so the successors to V7 were 4BSD and System V. Hence repurposing Hoare, V7 “was not only an improvement on its predecessors, but also on nearly all its successors”.
Global warming, for one. Useless as a currency... Electronic Transactions should be faster than credit cards or exchanging cash.
Coronaviruses related to virus discovered in Japan and Cambodia
For me, transaction times and cost. Paying $2 to send $100 over 15 - 30 minutes, feels expensive and slow to me as a buyer. Sellers are used to longer clearance times and higher fees it would be more like our modern system if the seller paid the fee.
Mandatory service charges are not the solution.

It's equally disgusting.

It just shows that business owners rely on a government controlled mandatory tipping system to pay its wages.
Technology as It Should Be
cool stuff
The Bot network will have new faces))))
Maybe it does. I would consider you utterly ignorant if you didn't know anyone known by several billion people.

There was this concept of general knowledge you used to aspire to which is becoming quickly replaced by the atomization of information among tiny communities which go unaware of each other, this might end up as some postmodern version of the Middle Ages. As I'm old-fashioned I don't think that's a good idea, but folks don't tend to care about general good ideas if they find them personally unpleasant in some way, that's another recent trend.

Oh, I had to become familiar with Emmy Noether BTW, when you do Particle Physics it's hard not to. I can write down the two versions of her most famous theorem we referred to. I think the less useful one was nicely left for you to learn about from a review by Hill from 1951, but I'd have to look it up.

The great thing about having seen grown the Internet when gopher was awe inspiring as a teenager is that you know how to work with books, paper and your memory plus you know all the tricks after having been googling for 22 years. You're also aware of lots of stuff that isn't online yet and where to find it physically. Pretty cool huh? Too bad that's dying.

Do you know anything interesting about say Artin's algebra books now that we've been talking about Emmy? For instance why I'm mentioning Artin? What about that famous Hilbert's actually feminist quip involving Emmy's application? That would have been nice upper level general knowledge for instance, not limited to STEM people.
Wasn't SCO the company that took over Xenix (MS' Unix(TM)) after the forced divestiture of Unix technologies in the antitrust settlement?
D uses "phat pointers" for strings, aka a length/pointer pair. Over the years, this has proven to be simple, efficient, and resistant to errors. It means array bounds checking can be automatically done. It enables efficient slicing.

String literals also have an extra 0 appended, making it transparently easy to still pass strings to C functions like printf.
I think it’s really a middle ground. Yes, a large majority of the wealthy people did get there by working hard, and being disciplined with money. And that’s good. And if you’re really successful, you should be able to help ensure your kids are successful too, and money helps with that. You deserve that for your hard work.

But a line needs to be drawn somewhere of how wealthy you can get before it’s “too much” and has a negative affect on society. And how we can distribute a portion of that excess wealth to the people who would get the most benefit from it.

I don’t think anyone’s going to be discouraged from putting in the work to becoming a billionaire just because their billions are taxed more than their first few million dollars. That money accumulation has diminishing returns on value to self & value to society.