skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The main question is why US ISP market is often described as private monopoly, while in other countries there is significant market competition. Start and run small wISP is easy, these can naturally grow to bigger ones, especially when there is no real competition.

> So if you're a local government and you want to attack this problem, what are your options?

First, do not obstruct. High easement prices for fiber installations, long bureaucratic procedures for building permits for fiber installation, forbidding of overhead fiber cables ...

Ensure that for new constructions there is passive infrastructure (e.g. microducts or dark fiber) that can be leased to ISPs on per-subscriber basis.

Encourage citizens to start a local co-op working as ISP.
Goodbye password managers, hello Sniptt
Why do so many successful people self-destruct?
Good question, did some quick searching and found this: https://www.instmc.org/Festival/History-of-Measurement#:~:te....

""To weigh things early civilisations used to compare things to the weight of a set amount of grains or stones. They would use a simple balance to compare the weight of two objects. A “standard weight” could be cast from metal or other long-lasting object and kept somewhere as the officially recognized weight.""
Any scientific computing application that uses numpy, that is the vast majority of them, will not work with nuitka.
I’ve always learned that ducts add efficiency. What gives?
Notion has been free for personal use with unlimited blocks for a year or two now.
Absentee democracies where 20% or less of the eligible voting population actually vote.
Awesome art - thanks for sharing. Who is the artist? You?
> their ecosystems are much richer.

The Rust "ecosystem" can seamlessly expand to include any language with a C ABI and FFI. Solutions are also being developed to ease interop with managed platforms like Java/C#.

Contrast this with something like Go, where even interoperability with C does not come out-of-the-box and requires compromising the most desirable features in the language itself.
I've found it terribly hard to find out when and where local elections are held. Yes - the local county website has this information. But that's only useful if you already _know_ there is an election upcoming. If you don't know, you don't know to go check either.

Local communication has completely broken down. Few, if anyone, watches local TV, listens to local radio (if they haven't been replaced by Sinclair et. al) , subscribes local newspapers (if they exist). I'm not so upset at people, because they have no avenue to learn this information except word of mouth.

National politics at least has enough money to pay for ad spots. Local campaigns rarely can afford such measures.
> and to most republicans and libertarians believe none of those things are a proper role for government nor should be provided by the government

So then they are wrong.
This reminded me of this 10 year old YouTube video that creates a "duet" between that soundtrack and LCD Soundsystem's New York I Love You But You're Bringing Me Down, which served as one of my most memorable early introductions to jazz: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=huEtJw7pfLk&t=0s
Yep. Similar to OCD, ADHD has just become a scapegoat for some people experiencing normal increased energy or trouble focusing. It's just sad because of the people that feel so confident they're experiencing something but never get actual treatment/help/diagnosis and then change their life around it. This post is a great example - "I read a book and decided I had ADHD and now let it dominate my life".
A price can go negative for a physical thing which requires upkeep, but I don't see how a coin which imposes no obligations on an owner who just chooses to walk away, can have a negative price?
The Circular Business Model
They tend to score higher on agreeableness.
Neo4j raises $325M series F
I've never used a better tool for imagemaps but then again that's the only one I've ever used.
This is the 1990's view on the subject. There were several projects to address the fission leftover problem. Some of these:

- Method to Reduce Long-lived Fission Products by Nuclear Transmutations with Fast Spectrum Reactors https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-017-14319-7

- Fast-neutron reactor
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast-neutron_reactor

- Evolution of transuranium isotopic composition in power reactors and innovative nuclear systems for transmutation
https://inspirehep.net/literature/1243003

And few other things. It is possible to have nuclear power with shorter byproducts than thousands of years.
I wonder if there is a similar extension that leaves in the UTM parameters but fills them with curse words and other sophomoric junk data.
I experimented with OCaml and some of my Python code. I found that using Python with Numba enabled me to get much better performance than the same algorithm written in OCaml.

In this case, using Numba for the performance-critical aspect was trivially simple, just the addition of a decorator. And I've found that is generally pretty close to true, at least for the kinds of things where I care about performance.

That's why I'm still in the Python world rather than the OCaml world for my algorithmic work. I really like OCaml as a language and would actually prefer to use it, but Python/Numba seems to give me substantially better performance, as well as all of Python's standard libraries.

And Numba lets you turn off the GIL, so you can get multiple cores going at once.

YMMV, of course. I'm not making a general claim that would be true for everyone. But I think it may be worth mentioning that it could be true for more uses than one might assume.
You can't expect exponential progress to continue forever in the world of atoms, so I disagree with your characterisation of "bleak". After all, that doesn't happen in any other non-software industry

I don't have the knowledge to judge how much of this slowdown is due to the ITER project being international and difficult to manage, and how much of it is due to us approaching the limits of what is physically possible.

However it's good to keep in mind that our level of funding for fusion is pathetic and scientists themselves have categorised it as "fusion never"

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ab/U.S._his...
Same. Here's a Pi-based FM transmitter that uses no additional hardware except for an antenna:

http://www.icrobotics.co.uk/wiki/index.php/Turning_the_Raspb...
This. So much this. I have worked under countless team leads who are like this.

At first I thought I was just hopelessly bad at coding/following instructions, but even when I pair programmed with these folks and followed their every instruction, they'd still want to refactor all of it the next day.

Some people are just never content unless it's 100% written by them.
Scientific computing is actually a use-case I see this working well in; IMO, it's perfectly fine to have terse code that exactly matches up to equations in a longer paper that justifies correctness, etc. (as long as the paper is easy to find from the code!)
A pretty specific guess for someone we know basically nothing about!
I agree. During my last local election I sat down with the mail ballot and attempted to find information on all of the candidates. For 90% of these candidates, at best I would end up on a Facebook page with one paragraph describing their position. At worst I couldn't find anything that told me who they even were. I had to guess as to which "John Doe" was the person actually running.
People keep saying this but IME that's not how the Solaris Event Ports API works at all. The semantics of Solaris Event Ports is nearly identical to both epoll+family and kqueue. And like with both those others (ignoring io_uring), I/O completion is done using the POSIX AIO interface, which signals completion through the Event Port descriptor.

I've written at least two wrapper libraries for I/O readiness, POSIX signal, file event, and user-triggered event polling that encompass epoll, kqueue, and Solaris Event Ports. Supporting all three is relatively trivial from an API perspective because they work so similarly. In fact, notably all three let you poll on the epoll, kqueue, or Event Port descriptor itself. So you can have event queue trees, which is very handy when writing composable libraries.
You can read about stuff like that in some of the ITER technical reports. They actually want to use that neutron radiation to generate tritium, and feed that back into the reactor.

I don’t think the reactor would be scrapped, just shutdown for maintenance.
I think that's why IRON is trading only slightly below the value of the locked collateral, instead of going down to zero.
still 10x overvalued. if you go up 20x and deflate 1/2 you are still at a ridiculous level.
Funny this came out the same month as SciShow’s “Why does everything keep evolving into crabs?” Video: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wvfR3XLXPvw
This is just false. A Turing machine can emulate multiple Turing machines that communicate with each other.
Behind the Scenes of Creating the World’s Biggest Graph Database
I think I saw this exact design years and years ago in Popular Mechanics. GE's UDF reminds me of it too. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Electric_GE36

IIRC, ducted fans are almost always more efficient than open fan designs. It's curious the Celera 500L doesn't use a ducted fan along with a propeller specifically-optimized for such a configuration. (It's an ICE, not a turboprop.)

Unpopular opinion: We need to get away from FF motors, turbines, and airborne transportation unless they can be made GHG negative.
How and when did general fusion become a Besosian company ?!...
That's solar power.
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You raise a good point. I don't see maintainability and extensibility discussed very often, except for jokes about Perl being a "write only language."

The ironic part of it was I fired because of a bug in his code. One of the flags he was using was set wrong. It cost the company a contract worth a few hundred thousand dollars and since I owned the code at the time it was my fault. I didn't even try to argue because programming jobs were easy to find at the time and I wasn't sticking around to deal with their mess.
The Human Crash Test Dummy
URLs should be maintained even if the content is gone. At the very least you can give a useful HTTP return code, a permanent redirect or gone is more useful than a catch-all 404. You're either bridging old links to current links or telling visitors the old content has been removed.
That is exactly what I'm saying. How many individuals are currently on welfare? Majority is living on and consuming the goods that were produced by highly-educated and successful people without children.

The further we, as a society, distance ourselves from basic, primitive instincts (like reproduction) the more advanced we become (which is not simple or easy at all, it requires significant cognitive effort (goals, deliberate education, atheism)

Most of the pleasures that you enjoy in modernity were delivered to you by high-functioning, educated adults without children, while your children have a very high chance of becoming consuming individuals who habitually take advantage of the generosity of others without making any useful return.
The API is already available in all the major browsers, so nothing really changes with this announcement. The API itself lets you generate and manipulate audio data in a way that was impossible with just the HTML Audio tag.
New Garda powers Bill must go back to the drawing board
I doubt that FGPA will do anything else than interfacing between the AT86RF215 and the Raspberry Pi. It is pretty small in terms of the number of gates - but also cheap (around $3 at quantity).
For customer-, client-, partner-, vendor-generated complaints, I also operate on the "always assume the bug is in our code" philosophy. You don't want to go back to a customer (customer, client, partner, vendor) and tell them that it's _their_ problem until you have sufficiently ruled out evidence that it was _your_ problem. In your case above, however, I would have spent a couple of days--max--before going back to the partner and saying "Hey, we've noticed this bug, and we're still investigating things on our end, but we're reasonably confident it's not something on our end. Can you take a look?" This would have saved you months, but also demonstrated to the partner that you've done (and are doing) due diligence to investigate the problem.

But for 99% of interactions, you want to assume you're the one who screwed up. It's safer and it's better customer support.

A similar rule to this is to remove the phrase "it works for me" from your vocabulary. The client wouldn't be complaining about it if it worked for them! So you need to rule out a bug before you go back and say "Hey, actually, you're the one who screwed up." I've found that maybe only 50% of the time is it client error, and so I always operate under the condition that the customer was right until I can prove that they weren't.
The courts.
> How Much Do I need?

> You probably need less than you think. A 1Gbps fiber connection will easily serve 500-800

No thanks. I was intrigued, but ultimately I don't think my community is better served by having yet another oversubscribed Comcast-like ISP ( even though its run by individuals )
We should ask Duck Cheney’s daughter about the diversity of her party, she seems like a poster child for that.
I'm sad that the author didn't do a manual word count. If it's only 1660 words or so, it would surely take less time than it took to write this post. It would probably make the author confront the difficulty in precisely defining word count.

It turns out that a lot of things that initially seem trivial to precisely define aren't actually that precisely defined, like the length of the california coastline. This is, in my mind--and as a complete tangent--a great argument for wide programming and math education. When you're forced to be so goddamned precise all the time, it's very clear when an idea isn't fully defined.
oh, my bad, i did open the link, but jumped straight to marketing section(since it was my point of interest)
and somehow assumed it was about local small ISP's, with wireless it's not that simple, yes.

But still, it's mind blowing how horrible ISP's in US are, you would think if in some third world countries it's accessible, everyone in US should have it.
I agree with the global menu. At least Ubuntu (maybe more) gives you the option to switch between the two. I may be wrong, but I believe it's document-focused vs application-focused?

I think people who like the global menu tend to be single application users (window maximized). If you like to have a lot of smaller windows open on your desktop, then a global menu gets annoying. I also think today's larger screens (for desktop) is affecting the argument that user's find it easier to get to the menu if it's at the top of the screen.
The vast majority of contracts in (1) does not need enforcing, because it is in both parties interest (at least long-term) to perform. Yes, there is implicit enforcement to some extent, but then "non-society" which don't even have that are not pretty places to be.

On (2), sure we can find ways to have the execution fail. In fact, anything where there is not fully escrowed payment/collateral/etc. can fail to execute properly if the other side does have not what it needs to deliver/or does not make it available on chain.
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Sure, but if you both sign a legal contract to obey the outcome of the smart contract then no one owes anything, because the smart contract says that the $200M is gone.

Obviously this doesn't allow you get around laws such as warranties but I don't see why it can't be used if everyone agrees to it.
They are really giant in your face ads yet.

Imagine Billboards in the virtual worlds of your games for now. Image below if you want to see an example.

https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/tXt80SaN80Qsg6MdMlC4fvbHcUA=...
Would you do this again for your child?
An AnandTech Interview with Jim Keller: 'The Laziest Person at Tesla'
I have actually used Squeak in production for a simple web app when I was freelancing. I used https://github.com/seasidest/seaside as framework which is still going strong.

Sure that was like 10 years ago and the app is long gone but I can totally see the use for Pharo/Squeak in a green field project even today. The parts are all there. It is super easy to get started, you download an image and have an whole development system set up. No setting up the tooling, no hunting for extensions for you IDE, nope the language already comes with an IDE that is superior to anything your are likely to have ever seen.
Plato and Aristotle Between Autonomy and Oppression
I'd recommend to check Wasmer Go integration [1].

More specifically, here's how you can call Go host functions:
https://github.com/wasmerio/wasmer-go/blob/master/examples/e...

[1] https://github.com/wasmerio/wasmer-go
You could use homebrew to install powershell.
Agreed! If you can't explain WHY the design decision is the right decision, you haven't thought hard enough.

If I ever hear folks name-dropping, that line of discussion ends and we need to reign it back in to the real "choices and trade-offs" discussion that will get us a real solution, not some abstract opinions.
Shouldn't (at least) the USA have enough sub tropical geography for solar panels?
Starlink doesn’t change anything, it’s not for dense coverage. Not too much overlap with WISP. Revolutionary in other ways though.

The main problem with this way of transmitting is that you are on unregulated parts of the radio spectrum. So there’s nothing stopping someone from jamming your equipment, grinding everything to a halt, whether it’s on purpose or by accident. Maybe in practice it’s rare, but it’s too big a vulnerability for me to invest in such a business.

I was wondering about laser modems. It could never be jammed without some kind of expensive and conspicuous physical intervention. I would feel much more comfortable investing in that even if lasers were more expensive or a pain in the ass.

Not that it matters. 5G is going to put all these guys out of business.
> But at a fundamental level, why do Discord and Clubhouse need to verify my identity?

Maybe not those two, but your bank does, your insurance company does, your employer does, your business partner does.

There's a lot of places where there's trust placed in a specific citizen and their identity. The "root of trust" of being a citizen is the government, it'd be nothing new really to provide that digitally.

The proof of it being doable are the governments providing electronic ID's for decade or two now. Solving those really hairy problems hundreds of millions of Americans are struggling or encumbered by daily.
FDA inspections: Fraud, fabrication are hidden from the public and doctors
Also worth mentioning the other side -- people who regret not having children when they had the chance. Some older relatives told me they regretted their decision shortly after my son was born. I know another couple who waited until they were in their 40s to start trying to have kids (only to have a disappointing series of miscarriages).

It is a hard decision. You have limited information, especially before your first child, and you are trying to make a decision that will impact your life for at least 20 years.
The issue (in my experience) is that neither Homebrew nor Macports provide a "full fat" package management experience like pacman or even apt. Not only are they missing packages, they're missing features and are loaded with outdated builds. If Apple made a first-party package manager that didn't suck, I'd probably have a Mac on my desk today.
AI, the future of work and how to improve workforce safety and security
"Python does support parallelism, so long as you're calling into a C library to do the work"

Actually, you can use Numba to get the same effect while still writing Python. Numba allows you to simply apply a decorator to critical Python code and it is JITted into C-like performance. I do this in my code, and it has worked great for my uses.
That restriction is gone. Notion is hands-down the best note taking system I've ever seen/used.
> As for speed, that seems like an implementation issue.

At the end of the day though, it's still your issue, even if you can point at a 3rd party. Personally I'd rather have my fate in my own hands rather than wait on a "sufficiently smart optimizer"
Pure Tube – ad free YouTube clone – is now in Play Store
Infinity Bottles: The Whiskey-Nerd Hobby Every Drinker Should Attempt (2020)
They have made a lot of progress quickly. By comparison, Russia went from first manned space flight to a space station in 10 years, and the U.S. did the same in 11 years.

It should also be noted that the Shenzhou spacecraft is a licensed copy of the Soyuz with some updates.

The Chinese space station core module Tianhe is likewise a licensed, updated copy of the Russian International Space Station core module Zvezda.
Isn't the whole point of inflation that you're not supposed to hoard cash? Inflation reduces the value of your cash.

Reading TFA, I think the idea is that he's expecting the Fed to have to react to inflation by raising interest rates (despite their claim that it won't happen until 2023). They raise interest rates, assets decline, and then he can snap them up at a discount.

Am I following that correctly?
Show HN: Infra as a Code (Iac) Automation Using Ansible and Terraform – Dalang
Hey Everyone,

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Dalang is a collection of Ansible Playbooks developed for Infrastructure as a Code (IaC) automation. It automates infrastructure deployment in your multi-account AWS environment. Dalang can easily be added to any CI/CD pipeline such as AWS Codepipeline, Ansible Tower/AWS, or Github Actions.

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I believe this sort of thing is what happens when children are not taught to stand up for themselves: based on the post, the author never had a conversation with his attacker, asked for an apology, or did anything other than meekly tuck his tail. Then years later he posts this.

Being a bully is not good, but neither is being a needless victim.
As much as some may dislike this, putting in extra effort that pays off will always be looked upon positively by American society.

And I am glad for it. Honestly, I like the push/pull nature of effort as it is currently. I like that there's tension, that we have to constantly assess, "Am I doing enough?" to figure out where our personal lines are (and everyone is different). If anything, I'd suggest that we all get more assertive and confident where we draw that line, and comfortable with the consequences.

I think applying a standard "this is an appropriate amount of effort" across the board is a great way to hurt the explosive growth that we've all benefitted from these past 30 years.