skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I live in a small village in central NY and we are months away from rolling out municipal broadband.

For years, Spectrum has had a stronghold on this region with prices they set without any competition. The citizens of this region have pleaded with numerous carriers to bring better internet, but all balk at the prospect.

We finally said enough is enough and decided to rollout FTTH for every resident, without a single penny spent of tax dollar money. We've been fortunate to get enough grant money from both state and federal to get this off the ground. The service will be fully subscriber-funded and end up making the town money in several years.

There is absolutely nothing about this service that is:

1. A handout from government. You must pay for the service.

2. Expanding the role of government.

3. Increasing taxes

4. Hostile. The only hostility until now has been Spectrum bullying the competition.
This the same state that wanted to make Google a public utility?
If you're leaving the determination to the vendor, they could just avoid the deadline by claiming it is not a vulnerability. That seems like a bad incentive.

There are things that literally cannot be fixed, or where the risk of the fix is higher than the risk of leaving the vulnerability open. (Even if it is publicly disclosed!)

It seems that we're all better off when these two concerns are not artificially coupled. A company can both admit that something is a vulnerability, and not fix it, if that's the right tradeoff. They're of course paying the PR cost of being seen as having unfixed security bugs, and an even bigger PR cost if the issue ends up being exploited and causes damage. But that's just part of the tradeoff computation.
Sure, but we've been fighting this exact battle against the entrenched ISPs for decades now (think MPAA, RIAA etc DMCA notices). If the ISP is actually "owned" by the people it serves, through the process of government these issues can be addressed directly instead of through a 3rd party corporation that has no incentive to fix anything.
Some are, others are not. Some build communities, others do not. Some games are played with friends and family, and some are not.

Some fiction has artistic merit, other fiction does not.

Your views are about as up to date as “games are for kids”
ya, I can see that. I think its just the overwhelming nature of every little thing going on right now. Having a way to take a break but not completely be off the grid would be nice.
And thus DHCP snooping was born.
I recently discovered Logseq and have been loving the experience of networked notes and markdown. I feel like this is something that has been missing from my workflow that I never realized.

File format is compatible with Obsidian as well so you can move your life anywhere. And you can back up to a private github repo so you can use multiple machines. I like Logseq so much I feel compelled to donate since its main competitor is outrageously priced.
I wouldn't do this if it were just a typo, but since you did it multiple times, I thought I should inform you that you mean "lose", not "loose".
Just googling, Israel vaccination rate is 57.0%
The goal, of course, should be to train your AI partner to eventually do all the work, while you sip a beer at the pub and monitor Slack (where an AI version of you is maintaining conversations).
Not gonna lie, this is incredibly ignorant.

Just because you cannot appreciate the story telling of games, or the skill/teamwork needed to play competitive games, does not make them a waste of time.

The value of time spent is in the eye of the beholder. There are people who burn every evening/weekend playing games, and they are less happy and enriched from it. Equally there are people who spend a lot of time gaming and are much happier doing so. I can't spend a lot of time gaming atm because of personal projects, but the time I spend playing Stardew Valley with my girlfriend or competitive FPS games with my friends is invaluable.

Try opening your mind a bit please.
Based on the data from Worldometers, Hawaii is running a CFR (ratio of confirmed cases to fatalities) of 1.4% per capita which is low but not as low as say Utah, Nebraska, Wisconsin, others which remain below the US national CFR average of 1.8%. Frankly, that Hawaii did this the way it did is a scary abuse of power in my mind. As an opposite example, the UK which had and still maintains restrictions and lockdowns that are greater than the US maintains a CFR of 2.7%. If you are going to quarantine, quarantine the most vulnerable populations (if they want to be quarantined. Personally, my grandfather refuses to quarantine at all since that reduces his ability to be around his family). It seems inadvisable to quarantine a low risk population, especially as we are starting to see speculation of the negative impact lockdowns have had to the general immune response of the body to other diseases.
Competing internet providers still need to invest in last mile costs, which are prohibitively expensive (just like roads).

Why is competition the goal? Because it ultimately lowers prices for consumers? That is what municipal internet achieves.
"I have a requirement for my grill. I need to cook steaks, but I don't want to use gas or electric because of valid reasons."

"Have you considered using charcoal?"

"I don't want to use charcoal, which is potentially one of the last viable options, for unspecified reasons."
I’ve been feeling great dread lately with the direction our industry is going (has always been going tbh). This conversation gives me some sort of renewed hope though. Hundreds of people admitted hard work burned them out; seeing VCs ask to sacrifice your life for their bottom line. Realizing the role luck plays in success.

Maybe covid pushed a significant number of people past their breaking point and now their eyes are wide open. I cannot say, but I’m glad to see so many people are speaking the truth.
Steve Jobs emails Bill Gates (1998)
Hard work matters exactly as much as the dozen other factors but when you are busy working hard you don't think about those. It goes both ways. If those factors are in your favor you don't talk about them, when they are not, you pretend that they don't matter because hard work is above everything else.
That's my point about ignoring it. He immediately moves to justifying the yelling part, while ignoring the underlying logic of harm-causing.
There’s a lot of products that try to do away with programming in general such as no-code.

However, the elephant in the room is definitely a tool that can auto fix bugs - the type of bug that is usually given to a junior developer because the team doesn’t want them building features yet.
We've already mitigated that problem by not doing that anymore.
Not to jump on you but isn't the weight of the argument on the side that believes nothing is happening? If something is happening then it should occur something more then zero times and I think everyone agrees that that's the case. The question is how many occurrences greater then one is a problem. A better counter to would be to say it has happened 10 times but it hasn't happened in 10,000 such programs and there have been 500 new programs started in the last year.

Mind you I have no idea what the numbers are or should be on either side of this. I just think saying that you know of one instance where the program was not cancelled is not the best argument that there's nothing going on here.
This works for bigger studs too! The options presented for the house I'm building now are 70x200mm (about a 3"x8") stud with 200mm interior insulation and 100mm exterior. That's for a very well insulated wall, though.
A pen is expensive because it's got single serve packaging.

A vial has 1000units and lasts about 2 weeks.
That surplus income is only surplus until you have medical event, catastrophic loss, or need a major repair (roof). Ot to mention the need to save for retirement. It's those extraordinary living expenses that kneecap you.
Thanks captain obvious.
covid absolutely is a danger to kids, it's just less of a danger than to old people. the question is whether risk of vaccination is significantly less than risk of covid. we don't really know yet, but i'd surely vaccinate my kids if it meant they couldn't transmit the disease to their grandparents.
The formatting will not be pretty.

Source: I tried this.
He has no problem naming and blaming (incorrectly) Google, but cites privacy reasons for not revealing the name of the carrier. What could be the privacy implications if he revealed the carrier?
The Mobile Performance Inequality Gap, 2021 – Infrequently Noted
The proposed law was reportedly "inserted without prior public discussion," and no state senator publicly sponsored the amendment.

They aren't even trying to make an argument, since they aren't owning up to it. Maybe they were either just hoping it would sneak by with no one noticing, or they just let the ISP lobby write it and didn't bother to read it themselves.
It´s been a while since I coded some front-end. What about issues with different browser implementations? jQuery used to handle those discrepancies.
Remember too that the majority of the linux kernel isn't covered by any unit or integration tests.
I worry that when things like this happen, the real lesson legislators take away is to be be more sneaky about it next time.
I don't think we disagree?
> Why would they promote hard work if hard work didn't matter?

Hard work matters. But it isn't enough. Luck is needed to transform hard work into wealth. Line cooks work very hard.

Incidentally, YC's business model positions it extremely well vs. other VCs to take advantage of this calculus. Fund 1000s of startups full of maniacally hard working kids, and you can expect a few to also get lucky just by sheer volume. Whereas if you're only funding a few startups they may work equally as hard and never run into the luck required to succeed.
I disagree with his beliefs. I think a few of the beliefs he states for his reasoning are incorrect. Incorrect input leads to incorrect output.

Kudos to him for putting his money where his mind is, but frankly when he learns more about bitcoin and his incorrect beliefs are shattered, I'd imagine his conclusion would be altered as well.
The US (and its companies) will COMPLETELY dominate Europe in IT under the US's capitalist model. It's not going to be close I'm afraid.

The EU is busy making rules about super complex cookie banners (largely pointless - just block / expire / delete cookies browser side).

Meanwhile, I expect US (and likely chinese companies long term - see Tiktok / Zoom etc) to absolute dominate global market.

What are the big EU websites being used globally? I can think of a ton of apps and more with global usage from US and China.

Things like WhatsApp are being used for GOVT services internationally (!).

We will see how the EU's efforts plays out globally. I'm skeptical personally.
That fair. I suppose its about the same as a graduate certificate until you take the extra steps to get a degree.
Most of the code I write is not particularly innovative or novel. I'm just trying to get the job done most of the time.
it really isn't. it should be, but you'll be much better off not expecting that.
>greener future

CO2 causes the Earth to green. The future is only greener with more CO2. Of all the purported benefits of nuclear energy, this is not one of them.
Also the state government stepping in to block city governments in the name of "stopping government expansion" is actually government expansion.

Let the municipal governments dictate how they govern themselves with their own infrastructure.
I agree nothing is perfectly safe. However, I have never once in my life taken a drug, vaccine, or other medical treatment that has not completed FDA phase 3 trials. I have no interest in doing so.

All the other vaccines I have been administered had at the minimum a decade of widespread use following their phase 3 trials (and as an aside, their phase 3 trials were much longer studies than these covid vaccines are projected to be).

I've never taken a drug released under EUA.

I investigated every vaccine I took and assessed the risk/benefit ratio and elected to take them. In general, I love vaccines, and I love the medical establishment that gave me the option to elect them! However, the medical establishment seems to have thrown away the playbook on these particular vaccines. The point is, I could examine the risks of those vaccines, and since their administration was not politicized, the data was totally trustworthy. And since most were out of patent, the financial incentive to manipulate data just wasn't there. I could be reasonably informed of the risk. Since these have not completed phase 3 trial, much less have decades of history in widespread use, I have basically no long-term safety data with which to inform my decision. So, precautionary principle tells me: No, thanks!

The risk to benefit ratio is the only thing that matters to me, as I believe it should to others. My likelihood of serious impairment from covid seems very low to me, just like it seems very low to children, for instance. Further, the ratio changes every single day: The more people who get vaccinated, the lower my risk gets, as does the risk for every other unvaccinated person, making the ratio, as more get vaccinated, skew towards not getting the vaccine.
How is this newsworthy? This channel has 50k subscribers. This is nothing in YouTube subscriber numbers.
Wouldn't that be libel? Essentially the telco is saying that Google sent that ad.
I'm fairly certain that the reason for it has more to do with standardizing laptops to always have webcams and that it's expected now that work from home is a more commonly accepted thing. Also every phone has a camera. It's not like this is a new concept in hardware requirements.

Requiring cameras to laptops sounds like a better feature than having to waste time finding out "does it have a camera." Especially ensuring they have to be hi-res. Phones have had cameras forever. I don't get how the expectation that a laptop should not have a camera. It's not like it's any more invasive than the geolocation data google siphons constantly.
I don't know what point you're trying to make here. Google acknowledges that this is a vulnerability ("nice catch"), Google pushes every other company to fix vulns in 90 days (or have it publicly disclosed, which is based on the assumption that vulns can be fixed in that time), and Google did not fix it in 90 days.

If you're asking me to create a perfect framework for disclosure, I'm not interested in doing that, and it's completely unnecessary to make a judgment of this single scenario.

> A company can both admit that something is a vulnerability, and not fix it, if that's the right tradeoff.

Google's 90 days policy is designed explicitly to give companies ample time to patch. And yes, this is them paying the PR cost - I am judging them negatively in this discussion because I agree with their 90 day policy.
Sorry, that doesn't even work:

> document.getElementsByClassName('comment').style

> undefined

You'd need a for loop right there I believe.
Getting rid of code is neither good nor bad, intrinsically. A very common Code Review comment at Google went along the lines of "you could do this in fewer lines." I can show examples where that makes the code less readable and less maintainable.

Of course, if you reduce the resources the code uses AND that matters, you've done a good thing. That's the case Atkinson was talking about.
Combination of previous infection and a vaccine dose gives you better coverage, the second is less needed. (And e.g. here in Germany proof of previous infection + one dose counts as fully vaccinated)
Filed under the "okay for me not for thee" google policy.
How do the ethical calculations stack up when we account for the hundreds of thousands of lives saved?

Regardless of whether you think the vaccines are safe, they are quite clearly effective.
In the US there are usually limits on who can get on a pole to run cables to homes to provide cable based broadband. Utilities, cable TV companies, telephone companies, and municipalities. This is why people want municipal broadband. You can't just start an ISP and get on the pole with your cable.

> - Municipal broadband is a government handout. It artificially lowers prices.

There are many places where municipal broadband is at cost rather than subsidized or a hand out. With little to no competition the higher prices vs at cost can look funny.

> - Municipal broadband expands the role of government. It's an extra program for the municipality to manage.

Totally. If ISPs could get on poles to run lines to peoples homes I expect there would be a lot less of a call for them as there would be more capability for competition.

> - Expanding government programs is a tax on residents, even if they don't benefit from broadband access.

I'm not sure about this. If it's at cost or close to it than I'd be curious to see the case.

> - Municipal broadband is hostile to business. Companies cannot reasonably compete with a service that the government pumps money into.

Who can do broadband is constrained by law which is hostile to business. You can't just start and ISP and run lines to homes. That's against the law most places.

Municipal broadband is often a work around to the other hostile laws that benefit telephone companies and cable tv companies which have staked out local monopolies most places.
The wars are why you get $150K/yr instead of someone else.
There really aren't any job options in my area. I don't consider remote an option for a new job since it's much more difficult to onboard virtually. I dont have time to LeetCode due to family constraints.
Revert-to-Master
They aren't voting for their own best interests. They are voting to stop people from killing babies and stop socialism (or whatever else they are told).
This is exactly why I gave up and use word for all work documents (but not for any personal files). Colleague asked for the original word file of a PDF I sent them. Explaining that it was compiled to PDF from a LaTeX source was not worth it…
I'll quote the expression of concern, in case people don't click through your link and see it:

The journal is issuing this expression of concern to alert readers to significant concerns regarding the paper cited above [1].

Serious concerns have been raised about misinterpretation of the data and the conclusions.

The major concern is the misrepresentation of the COVID-19 vaccination efforts and misrepresentation of the data, e.g., Abstract: “For three deaths prevented by vaccination we have to accept two inflicted by vaccination”. Stating that these deaths linked to vaccination efforts is incorrect and distorted.

We will provide an update following the conclusion of our investigation. The authors have been notified about this Expression of Concern.
But the point was that the CPI doesn’t accurately track real housing costs. Do you believe housing costs have gone down relative to inflation? Housing costs relative to median income have doubled but that isn’t reflected in CPI data.
> I usually can't stand comments that are just "correlation does not imply causation," but are you sure you aren't mixing up the two here?

FWIW I didn't read the gp's comment as implying causation. I read it purely as correlation. That restaurants that use these systems are much more likely to use other cost saving "short cuts" as well. Just because someone notes a correlation does not mean they imply a causal relationship between the two. Correlation, even without causation, can still be highly useful. Lack of causation does not equate to spurious correlations[0]. You'll note that on this website that the problem isn't that one doesn't cause the other, but rather that there's no reason to suspect these factors are correlated in the first place, and that correlation does not imply connection.

[0] https://www.tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations
I heard the expression "vetocracy" not a long time ago. The set of players that can say "no" to any project is not exactly small.
I use a markdown editor (Joplin) for all my notes. It easily allows for adding unicode characters, formatted code snippets and images. Sound files, probably not.
> Is History a _useful_ degree? Is Economics? Is Politics? Psychology or Sociology?

History: often useful

Economics: can be useful, has a lot of fiction mixed in

Politics: irritatingly useful

Psychology: mostly garbage

Sociology: almost entirely garbage
I think we just fundamentally agree on whether or not it is a "moral deficiency" to be racist.

I believe it is a moral deficiency to treat someone differently because of their race. I don't believe it is a moral deficiency to have fleeting thoughts that might be racist and acknowledging that those thoughts exist but they don't make you an immoral person unless you let it dictate your behavior.

And I do believe that many white people struggle to not get defensive because they have (possibly minimal) racist thoughts even if they don't act on them. In my mind having those thoughts doesn't make them immoral. It makes them human.

I believe that I (and literally everyone) can be a racist by landing on SOME level of the continuum. But that my racism (which i believe i literally can't avoid through no fault of my own) can be overcome with being thoughtful, empathetic, and moral.

I also believe that literally everyone is racist, so that might be clouding the conversation further. (I don't subscribe to the "minorities can't be racist" theories.)

(Also, I'm just an IT guy. I'm by no means an expert on this and probably shouldn't even be commenting on this.)
Vim is great because it doesn't try to be smart.
I didn't realize just how badly Stanford (and DEI programs like the one they foisted on their employees) are screwed here.

The complaint describes (and presumable has access to through discovery) emails where the platififf were specifically told they were
"part of systemic racism and oppression" by a person in an authority position within the Stanford organization.

If they have that email in hand, it's over for Stanford. This program will be cancelled, and many other institutions will follow. It's pretty simple: if a authority at your employer calls you racist in a discoverable medium, regardless of whether this is illegal, you can force the other side to settle.

In fact that's exactly what plaintiff says:
"""The complaints, which Lewin said she hopes will be resolved out of court, demand Stanford “come into compliance” with the law by taking “concrete steps” to eliminate the “hostile environment” for Jews at CAPS"""
Good AIDS vs. Bad AIDS

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/xc3x84

Why keep your moral condemnation limited to taking health risks? What constitutes healthy behavior is very fuzzy at the edges, I would prefer to condemn people based on who they vote for, or their religion. Why would I want to support the continued lives of people who I think cause health problems in other people?
> Thankfully both Nebula and Wireguard are built on top of the Noise Framework.

> So neither is a compromise security-design wise.

Security involves much more than the crypto framework being used; just crypto requires much more than the framework. Noise could be implemented insecurely, as a basic example.
> using a SPA framework has one major benefit. It forces you to make an API for everything.

This is a drawback unless you truly need an API. YAGNI.

I've found a hybrid approach works well. Your site is mostly server side, but some individual pages have Vue and an API endpoint or two. If that mobile app or that third-party integration becomes a need, add endpoints for that particular use case.

I've gone the other route and prematurely optimized for the "what ifs" first, and it's painful when they don't happen and you're left holding all that complexity.