skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The current broadband monopolies/duopolies are strangling the US broadband markets (which lag the rest of the OECD), but I think a bell world would have been even worse (and I'm a Bell system fan!).

One good thing would be that the bell system really pursued universal service, and did its best to raise the service quality floor (e.g. they did install, or take over party lines, but also did the work to eliminate such service for individual lines). The QoS requirements in city center (how many times they are allowed to have someone pick up a phone and have no dial tone; how much capacity they needed to provision (the famous Erlang unit) and so on) were the same for almost every subscriber.

And even "disconnected" phone lines would still make a 911 call.

BUT

The flip side of what I said was true too: they didn't deploy a service unless they could tariff it and had to. They had a circuit-switched mentality and could't deal with packet-switched architectures that didn't have a tollbooth. They deployed ISDN and considered that an adequate data service.

Their regulation and tariffing also lead to mistakes. For example the price to make a call was typically fixed and regulated by state regulators. Thus calls to mobile phones were the same as non-mobile phones with the person walking around paying for the radio charge (there was less capacity) because they were the ones benefiting for the convenience. This is why mobile phone numbers look the same as fixed ones in the USA.

In Europe they went the opposite way: reciving a call on a mobile device was free (just like receiving one on a landline) while calling a mobile number cost extra. Thus mobile numbers had different area codes so the caller could tell. This lead to a huge uptake of mobile phones in the GSM territory while the US mobile providers were stuck in their old bell mentality, causing the US to be 10-15 years behind in mobile calling and SMS.
The Bill Gates Mythology in this essay is a bit odd though. No doubt a hard worker, but the claim

>"Bill Gates, for example, was among the smartest people in business in his era, but he was also among the hardest working. "I never took a day off in my twenties," he said. "Not one."

doesn't align with the facts that have recently emerged about him. [1] Maybe PG should examine selection bias and self-reporting bias a bit more before making the claim he does here.

[1]https://nypost.com/2021/05/10/bill-gates-womanizer-held-nude...
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They get posted all the time in Elixir Forum and I also see them advertised in the various email newsletters.
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> feedback loop that robs us of our independent thought by way of falling victim to laziness

This was my first thought when I saw this. I intentionally don't use predictive text whenever I can to preserve whatever originality I have left.
When it comes to the problem of targeting, one interesting and promising tech is photochemical internalisation [https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photochemical_internalizatio...], where you put the mRNA inside photosensitive molecules (and not lipids) and then shine some light on the tissue/organ where you want the mRNA delivered. Where activated by the light, the molecules then enter the cells, dissolves and deliver the mRNA.
The Norwegian company PCI Biotech has a tech they call fimaNAc for doing this with naked mRNA.

https://www.pcibiotech.no/nucleicacids

This presentation has a lot of illustrations and explanations:

https://www.pcibiotech.no/s/PCI-Biotech-SMi-RNA-Therapeutics...
Suetonius' The Twelve Caesars is the origin of much of what we now consider roman (caveat: I'm not an expert at all), it's a good read if you're interested.
One day I hope to find a music manager that allows arbitrary tagging that works just like labels in Gmail.
> When a company has a bigger revenue than most contries' gdp they shouldn't play by the same rules, they need to be held to a different set of standards.

This is the part where it stops making sense to me. I don't see why it's morally more just for a mom and pop shop to abuse workers than it is for a big corporation. If it's wrong to treat workers poorly, it should be wrong for everyone to treat workers poorly. This logic implies that the amount you're "allowed" to abuse your workers is on a sliding scale with income. Big corporations should be nice to workers, small businesses are allowed to not be nice to workers, so are businesses in poor countries allowed to be outright awful to their workers? It sounds like the start of a justification for slavery in third world countries.

You can make the argument that Amazon can afford it, and mom and pop shops can't, but I don't find that a convincing argument. It bears the same issues as above. If we establish a sliding scale, we can't simply ignore the implications at the extremes.

Personally, I think we just need to raise the bar across the board. It's bad when Amazon does it, and it's bad when small businesses do it. Small businesses shouldn't get a break on labor violations.
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I use plain text because of speed. Often I find by the time Google Docs or a more powerful editor loads, I've lost a thought or two I was going to write down, especially if it's alot of them.

Plain text takes <1 second to open and start editing.

And of course all of the code I write is plain text.
> In the real-world, we obviously wouldn’t be able to manually mark the papers, they would automatically be marked based on actual data

marked automatically by who, and why is outsourcing the information to an 'automatic' third-party a "proof"? Why should that third-party be trusted?
They don't just want a different Web browser, they want a completely different Web that is much less useful.

The difference is quite stark. You can build a different Web browser. You can't decree that henceforth all Web sites will conform to your preferred subset of Web features.

Ranting and dreaming is fine, but the title is a bait and switch.
I asked about blocking signups from nefarious people in the synapse admins room a couple months back - and I chuckled when the reply I got was 'add captcha?'

I thought it was a joke at the time.

I am glad the devs are working on security as a priority and other great features. However moderation tooling could be more user friendly, and the signup process could have some added layers of security added for sure.

what I'm thinking on the signups:
a blacklist for ips, CIDRs, email domains, maybe hostnames, maybe countries. (With option to block all minus the whitelist)

a throttle list - more than 2 signups from this grey area of ips, hosts, tor, email addys - pause them for X number of hours/days - give notice they can ask an admin to add their [thing] to the whitelist in case you have a group you want to join from some new [place] or whatever is generating dozens from [place] this week.

a whitelist - one of my sites might have comcast hostnames for ips and emails, along with gmail, proton, perhaps.

would be nice for a GUI so moderators could add to the whitelist - and super bonus if other users above total noob level could add an email addy to the list (inviting friend).

I added 16 mill 32k ips to one of my chat sites ban list today - I don't need repeated spam from isp X when I never get any real users from that country in the first place.

Terrible spam can ruin a chat community as much as anything. When I say terrible spam I mean the trolls that like to 4ch/cp and such to test your site's moderation and capabilities.

I need to ban all the ips from a few VPNs to stop this one pesky, wealthy non-stop troll - doing it server side / iptables is meh. And looking up the ips manually sucks too - but something needs to be done.

I'd put the money up on upwork to make such a (python? module) handing these things if someone would help me write up the matrix needs to make it mix it right.

This is a need - and an option to load third party block lists from various places should be a thing too.

not sure about memory requirements and if lookup for hostnames would choke a slow server or whatever - love to get more ideas to block and stop bots and abusive folks.

maybe extra questions to answer beyond captcha when signups exceed X per hour with option to add more layers of questions and answers.
(I know there is some semblence of this sort of thing baked into the homeserver.xml or whatever - and it's already a huge file to contend with - not needing more bloat, but this a need at this point)

Love to get an option to dunce (what else it is called?) - new users so they can't post X or Y (links, pics, whatever) until they have been users for at least X number of hours / days) - and maybe block anyone that was registered on 6-28/29 during the bot signup-pocalypse time).

Matrix is the best chat system I've found. Looking forward to it getting stronger.
"Prediction: AI will cause the price of work that can happen in front of a computer to decrease much faster than the price of work that happens in the physical world. This is the opposite of what most people (including me) expected, and will have strange effects"

I've been saying something like that for a while, but my form was "If everything you do goes in and out over a wire, you can be replaced." By a computer, a computer with AI, or some kind of outsourcing.

A question I've been asking for a few years, pre-pandemic, is, when do we reach "peak office"? Post-pandemic, we probably already have. This has huge implications for commercial real estate, and, indeed, cities.
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The problem is that now people dedicate time and effort to "doxing" people so there's no real way to ensure that you're safely anonymous for any extended set of interaction as a persona. Unless you're for some 4chan like system where everyone is anonymous for every message, people will invest in their online personas and will be upset or devastated if they are attacked or destroyed.

The real difference now compared to the past IMO is that as a society we haven't really internalized that will large, possibly global reach and the benefits it may bring come an associated set of dangers. The larger the audience, the larger the possible benefits of your interactions. Linus Torvalds leverages a global audience into a volunteer workforce for what is likely the greatest software engineering product of the human race to date. Another person makes a poor decision or hurtful comment or is just interpreted wrong, and is the zeitgeist of a day or two, but a day or two of almost the whole world's ire. That can have major personal and professional consequences, as we've seen.

Managing a one-on-one interaction and explaining yourself to someone is generally trivial, for mature people. Doing so for a group of 10 is harder, but also possible much of the time. For 100, adequately assuaging them all is unlikely, some will retain reservations you'll likely never know are directly related. It worsens at every level. At the point where thousands or millions of people have negative impressions of you, many will never even see counterfactual evidence to what was initially presented, and your reputation may be tarnished, possibly to a sizeable fractions of the human race, and there's not much you can do about it, because the novel situation that got information about you in front of them initially is extremely unlikely to be repeated.
That's what tests and code review is for. Truth is that if any of this kinda code gets into prod, then you got bigger problems than some arcane JS gotchas.
> Take a look at the top 10 highest valued YC startups. All their founders came from schools with less than 10% acceptance rates.

This is not true. AirBnB is the top valued company that went through YC [1]. AirBnB was founded by Brian Chesky among others. Brian Chesky went to the Rhode Island School of Design [2]. The RISD had an acceptance rate of 20% in 2020.

[1] https://www.ycombinator.com/topcompanies/
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Chesky
[3] https://www.risd.edu/about
I was looking into a device to use for on-call, intending to get a "dumb phone" that was a trade for a long battery life and a small form factor in exchange for only being able to call and text (which is all I would need anyway for on-call). A lot of "dumb phones" no longer work in the US, or are on the way out. The Punkt MP02 is one of the exceptions that has the specs I want and has 4G support. Unfortunately, while I am sure it is worth every penny, I couldn't afford the $350 price tag.
But it'll be over soon, you wait.
People's whole model of satellite internet is anchored to the limitations of what came before with satellites tens of thousands of miles up. They need to recalibrate their thinking for satellites that might be closer than the nearest fiber repeater on their wired ISP's backbone provider.
> If we report the vaccine is 99.5% effective at preventing serious illness, people will not listen to ANYTHING about being cautious and wearing a mask after they are vaccinated.

Uhm, the CDC literally told vaccinated people they don't need masks indoors or outdoors. [1] At that point it's kind of silly to say quoting 99.5% does or will a detrimental impact.

> I predict a nasty wave of COVID this fall/winter including in relatively highly vaccinated areas due to just this attitude already.

No; if it happens, it certainly wouldn't be due to this; at best ('best' for your argument), it would be due to their overriding guidance re: not wearing masks, which I mentioned above. However, I predict if this happens, it'll be due to changing circumstances like worse variants breaking through the vaccine (which the CDC admits they do not have sufficient data on [2]), not due to their current advice being bad due for current variants.

[1] https://www.webmd.com/lung/news/20210513/cdc-vaccinated-you-...

[2] https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/fully-vac...
And what happens when you're fighting an ISIS-like group, and they overrun your remote base and capture your mini-reactor? You've just given them a dirty bomb. Doesn't matter if the reactor is perfectly safe under normal conditions. They can take it apart and use the spent fuel for whatever they want.
Those are important, but nearly as much as luck. Without the luck he had in terms of timing and location it is absolutely not clear that Gates (or Jobs) would have been as successful.

This is a simple empirical observation: there are many individuals who are both more intelligent than and harder working (in the sense of this article) than Gates or Jobs and who never come to within a tenth of their success. That’s 100% luck in action.

Could Gates have been a success without intellect and hard work? Probably not. Could a number of others who were more intelligent or harder working have succeeded if they instead were in Gates’ position? Almost certainly.
> "no! forget about your preparation. The informal explanation you just gave is actually a good first class, just repeat it a bit slowly and call it a day". I knew he was fucking with me just to calm me down, but this actually gave me a confidence boost.

I don't understand why that's 'fucking with you'. Isn't that good, sincere advice?
For me it is about the approach. I like to plan very little. Plan something, but not very much.

Holiday goals, simply to have somewhere to go. They don't matter if you don't do them.

As you get to that goal, you take time to look around, maybe duck into a place here, do an activity over there. Or maybe not, and simply let life roll on by as you stroll to your destination.

I have gone hot air ballooning, day hiking, snorkelling with turtles. Wander over, have a chat, book it in for the next day or two. It is then the goal for that day and might lead to something else.

For me having a list of "places to be, things to do" means I have to be switched on, getting there and doing that, and if I don't then I have failed.

Holidays is noFail time. Allow serendipity to take charge.
Too expensive. Can probably buy several dozen nice color prints for that price and swap them manually. Sure you lose the tech / geek factor but for that eye-watering cost, I think it’s worth it.
Also, municipal broadband is often funded by issuing bonds that are paid back with revenue from providing Internet service.
I am afraid I don't have the numbers to back up my claim but when I was at university, my thermodynamics lecturer showed us a calculation that background dose from radioactive material at a coal powered fire station is higher than that of a nuclear power station. This is because of the shear amount of coal power stations burn through, and in that fuel, there is a trace amount of radioactive material that eventually gets out into the atmosphere.

I've previously worked on a nuclear licenced site and we were not even allowed to throw smoke alarms in the general rubbish due to there being radioactive material inside.
It's a brand of artificial lawn for sports arenas, plastic "grass", which has given rise to the idiom "astroturf campaign" = "fake grassroots campaign".
The famous 10 hour work week right? I am orders of magnitude more productive than my peers 50 years ago wrt programming scope and complexity, yet we work the same 40 hour week. I just produce more (sometimes buggy) code/products.
Out of curiousity: are you Irish? These patterns match some of my relatives, particularly ending sentences with "filler" words and the "th" pronounciation. I never thought about these as things that need fixing since they are just part of an accent (not suggesting you shouldn't change them if you feel like you'd prefer a different speech pattern).
and what do you archive when your page source is basically a script tag to a obfuscated js pack which talks to 20 other web services to dynamically retrieve the real data?
I really enjoy reading your comments :) Thanks! And I fully agree with you about how the restaurant restaurant should be.
We're talking about reality.
https://www.wired.com/2013/07/we-need-to-stop-focusing-on-ju...
I often think whether I could (or should) try to build something like this out of a cluster of SBCs, hooked to a bigger board by the GPIO pins and lighting LEDs depending on CPU core activity. 16 boards with 32 cores each would require 8 RPi 4's per board, plus the network cables coming out the back and a total of 64 nodes.

It'd probably be cleaner to use compute modules such as the RPi 4 CM or the Pine64 SOPINE because they pass ethernet and GPIO via the board connectors and wouldn't require more than one ethernet port per board (provided the board has its own switch) but I have no idea of how to design a switch, much less misusing the bits and pieces of one where the network cables are traces on a PCB.

Either that, or have 32 Octavo SoMs, which would allow two separate networks per board, but I'd still need to design the switches (and I have no clue as to how to do that beyond "try to make the traces of equal length").

At least the "neck" of the CM-2a has space for a very large and, presumably, quiet fan.

http://www.corestore.org/cm2a.htm
Co-Pilot is here, thanks to AI! You know what's next - Auto Pilot ... Get ready to be automated ;)
We'll see - it's been fun watching Oneweb vs SpaceX where this battle for global dominance will play out in part.

EU again seems to be focusing on basically red tape as a way to slow folks down - if you follow EU's Oneweb protests they look pretty weak. Even the near miss stuff was weak.

https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Space...

In terms of ISPs a somewhat fair point domestically. That said, internationally I see I lot more penetration of US fiber deployments (think google / AWS / Microsoft / Facebook, US based CDNs for content distro, Netflix etc etc)

Locally - ATT and Comcast both offering competitive service.

AT&T FIBER 1000Mbps connection + HBO Max™ - $60 /mo.

Comcast Up to 1200 Mbps Download Speeds $84.99 / $129

Rural is a big challenge in US. Not sure EU really has the same type of market (ie, Alaska). If so and we are getting $35/mo for gig - then that is a unique setup.

But again, internationally I do expect US companies to continue to perform OK even in the connectivity space.
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I don't think people should be so strict as to think of a general rule. There are always exceptions and sometimes there are managers that you feel like you can talk about anything with. The only things I could think of would be mental problems as I think many managers wouldn't have experience talking about these. A professional is much more suited for that. Even in this space, talking about a mental problem like burnout, might be acceptable if you have a *really* understanding and trusted manager.
Well, it should be possible to crowdsource training a FOSS version, right? There should be a SETI-at-home for training neural networks. I would donate some GPU power for sure.

SETI@home achieved 50 times the computing power of the world's largest supercomputer [0], so it might actually be the only way to train the future GPT4 or GPT5.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SETI@home#Statistics
Or maybe discovering configurability of log/debug levels via environment variables.
Packy is gaming Hacker news. Telling his friends to upvote this. He’s a sly marketer.
i do have some sympathy to the author's point but this strikes me as overly conservative. e.g. iframes have a lot of genuinely good use cases in being a completely seperate unit. e.g. try doing something like codepen without iframes. embedded widgets that need some sort of backend or a form that needs to be seperated from user-supplied html.

i'm also appreciative of things like e.g. webcam support and webrtc, since it means i don't have to run proprietary always-on applications on my actual operating system, which don't have to ask permission for anything.

and some are also just weird. favicon svg support? why do you care if favicons support one additional image format? should we get rid of jpg as well? maybe only use bmp for everything, then we can simplify things further and not have to include any complicated decoders in the browser
This is true.

However, the impact of mistakes can be largely mitigated with good source control, a rapid rollback capability and good monitoring (Loggly, New Relic?). One I figured this out, I became more fearless with my coding.

Of course, good unit tests will prevent bugs also. I consider them a must for any large, wholesale changes.
I don't know if this helps, but I've hired people in situations like this.

If somethings stands out in a resume, people will ask. But the fact it's there doesn't mean it's negative - the question is what's the story. If the resume as a whole makes sense but has a curveball I'm probably more likely to have them interviewed, not less.
Ask HN: Which open source license can I use to forbids GPT-3 model training?
Products like GitHub Copilot (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27676266) use open source code to train their "intelligent" code complete suggestions.

I want to release some open source code, but I don't want to make the mistake of training my replacement.

Are there any open source licenses that explicitly forbid use when training an AI?
Ask HN: What email client do you use on Android
Does it have good support for plain text email.

https://useplaintext.email
Fair points. But I was going less off of raw capability here and more from how I've observed these tools to be used in the wild. It was very common for most people to dump things like contact info, recommendations, random links into Apple Notes and very very rarely search for what they put in (because they forgot what they put in). So you can search — it seems like the product isn't conducive to frequent recall.