skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I live in rural Indiana and our REMC rolled it out a few years ago, 1Gbps up/down for $95.00, no additional taxes or fees. I am paying slightly more as I was paying for 6Mbps DSL, that always had signal quality issues. Maybe there are reasons the phone company couldn't do better, but it seems like the co-op's focus is on delivering good service, and not how much money they can extract from people who otherwise don't have a choice. Last I heard the telco was finally looking into FTTH (now that there is some competition?)

My installer explained that the USDA subsidized a portion of the co-op's build-out, since rural areas are often underserved by broadband providers. I don't know all the specifics but I genuinely hope that it's sustainable in the long term for them (even if the subsidies weren't there). The article indicates that the co-op (or their partner at least) has done it with FCC money, from the Rural Digital Opportunity Fund. I know there's some balance between "well it's your fault you live in the middle of nowhere" and "we must deliver broadband to every American, at any cost," but I'm glad these programs exist so there's a chance of some competition/option in currently-underserved areas.
> I tire of discussing the potential of a theory

I guess you hate philosophy or I'm misunderstanding. I derive great pleasure from thinking.
I would argue the other way around. A "professional" gets paid for a job, full stop. A "vocation" derives from "to call", or someone's "calling", as in someone's purpose in life.

Maybe our etymology is what sets us up for work-life imbalance :)
Framework still aren't shipping to a lot of countries, which is extremely frustrating.
I just watched this video today. The Amiga truly was ahead of the curve and sadly I didn't get to participate in 80s and early 90s computing much (I had a Commodore Plus/4 but that was it). Even now, I find that there is so much more to learn about that era.

The 8-bit Guy, previously The iBookGuy, has an enormous amount of retro-tech information, including a whole series about the Commodore line of computers. And he developed his own game for various Commodore systems (and also an MS-DOS game).

A little bit about him: https://www.the8bitguy.com/8bit-guy-about/

Great content, well-presented, and regularly produced videos. I find I look forward to his videos every month.
> but Linux you get the helplessness of sometimes having something break and the only answer you can find after spending half of your weekend searching for solutions is just "idk, give up and reset your entire OS"

... On Linux? That's the traditional Windows solution.
As a rule of thumb for rationality, buckets are mental models -- tools -- and can be treated as such. Drawing a dichotomy, while incomplete, can be useful given the balance between accuracy and parsimony.
The link for "nobody is born a better programmer" sets off my bullshit radar.

> The most powerful evidence for this comes from Patitsas et al ... They examined grade distributions in introductory computing courses at a large university and found that only 5.8% were actually multimodal.[0]

So people may or may not be born better programmers, the link doesn't tell us whether they are, and the most evidence they can find to support their position is that grades in 5.8% of introductory classes are multimodal, which has nothing to do with whether people are born better or worse programmers.

[0] https://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article?id=10.1371%2F...
I'm (obviously) not a lawyer.

Does "publicly accessible" also apply to websites that are totally free, but require registration (which is open to anyone)?

And even though this is in the US, do cases like these set precedents for other western nations?

asking for a friend ...
The source is about media in general, not news. This is about in line with what Nielsen reports. Keep in mind, this includes passive consumption like keeping the TV on for background noise.
> Before it was tenable to set the kinds of terms you're upset about, studios simply didn't make content available the way it is now.

Yeah it's weird why until 1998, when the DMCA's anti-circumvention became law, we didn't stream movies over our 56 kbps modems. On the other hand, we did have VHS, which could be used to rent and copy movies, or tape broadcasts. Somehow, despite the film studio's claims and failed attempts to ban them, that didn't kill the movie industry either.

> to set the kinds of terms

I already brought this up - these are not contract terms - this is law, prohibiting unlocking your own devices, reducing your rights of ownership and transferring them to the manufacturers of your devices or software, regardless of any contract terms you accept or reject.
I like the design of Guix more than NixOS, but I haven't gotten around to actually trying it. The tricky thing about GNU distros is they often make it very difficult to install nonfree packages like Discord. I don't use proprietary software very often, but when I do I prefer to have it available in my distro's package manager.

Besides that, I look forward to giving it a chance.
Which goes t to show the mass amount of this happening in India. Ilived there in 2017, drivers didn't understand what Pool was and let everyone out at the first stop.
Interesting idea, but the failure modes here are spectacular.
Probably - I think asteroid mining will give us the best picture of what's valuable in an interstellar context. If we figure out warp drive or wormholes for effectively ftl travel, the notion of value changes significantly.

Wouldn't it be terrifying if we had the galaxy all to ourselves?
Not necessarily. If memory serves GM had a V6 in the 70’s or 80’s that had offset crank journals to make each firing stroke 120 degrees apart. I think it was the 4.3
No RSS feeds for any of their pages. Really sad.

And no email. They want you to twitter at them. Lol, kids.
You can buy a seaplane and get the worst of all worlds.
It's obvious that that's not the point.

> To suggest that macular degeneration has genetic causes is to make an empirically testable proposal; to suggest that “grit” or “openness to experience” has genetic causes is to make a category mistake.

> Whatever scientific evidence emerges regarding genetic populations, it won’t explain why some students do well on tests any more than it will explain why some social scientists construct essentialist theories of intelligence.

In other words, it is as much a mistake to search for biological causes for social differences as it is to search for astronomical causes, or quantum-mechanical causes. Yes, one could easily argue it's the "underlying reason" for the differences, but they're so far removed from the thing you're trying to explain that the theoretical framework of biology/astronomy/quantum mechanics doesn't allow you to draw any meaningful or relevant conclusions.

(And Harden's guilt is a bit more than "by association": "In her efforts to assure the reader that there’s no racism here, Harden tacitly—and sometimes not so tacitly—endorses the founding axiom of scientific racism since its inception in the eighteenth century, that human races are biologically distinct.")
>> I hope the terms are near market.

What is "market" - anyone able to put tangible numbers to this?
A "hack" is just attackers understanding the mechanism of the code better than the developers and doing things that the developers didn't intend to be possible.

I don't really see how this is different.
I don’t quite get how that’s useful.
> the Telecommunications Act signed by then-President Bill Clinton in 1996, which 72% of the public didn’t even know about and no one voted on.

Bullshit. It was voted on by the House of Representatives and the Senate. Both of whose members are elected directly by the citizens of the United States. And it was signed into law by the President who was also directly elected.

There is a populist strain of political discourse that loves to point out how "you didn't have a say in this" for just about anything the government has ever done. You can make a better argument regarding administration rule-making, but trying to claim that "no one voted on" an Act of Congress... get real.
> It would risk giving away information on the capabilities of US national security assets.

Trump already did this when that Iranian something-or-another blew up (missile silo? nuclear reactor?) a few years ago, and he provided classified satellite images to the pubic

Beyond that, sure
This is not rationality, this extrapolation on your part. It would be more rational to have requested sources, or provide your own.
The most cheritable interpretation I have is they meant no one directly voted on it, which like, is not how most of lawmaking in the US works.
The 68k had become a dead end by that time, this is what really killed the Amiga platform. Meanwhile PPC was in active development (and modern versions of IBM POWER are still in development today, for what it's worth).
It's great but it's very expensive so be aware that if you are down to the level of caring about things in the single-digit percentages of your budget, something like atop once per second could easily consume that amount of resources. A lot of these stats are really not cheap at all. E.g. you may find a substantial difference in the amount of CPU time needed to produce /proc/pid/stat as opposed to /proc/pid/statm. And some of the system-wide stats are even worse.
> YC tried this years ago, I believe they found it wasn't effective

Do you have any details of this?
An easier to use BBS interface based on something open source.

(That being said, today I'd probably opt for Discourse and a nice TUI client)
Math error: should be 73x73 pixels. (2000 pixels divided by 60 to get pixels per arcminute, then multiplied by 2.2 to get total pixels)
I want to get paid up front. I'll calculate how much it would cost me to retire comfortably (starting now), and you put it in my bank account. Then you get to call me whenever.
Razer makes some nice PC laptops these days. They're even moving away from purely gaming focused machines.
> How can they source potable fresh water for lithium extraction from brine without increasing salinity at Salton Sea? Also..we are in the midst of one of our scheduled droughts.

There's a whole infographic in the article explaining this.

> Hot brine is pumped up from deep underground, generating heat which is converted to electricity. Then, lithium is extracted from the brine before the fluid is injected back underground.

Pretty brilliant, really. There's already a geothermal energy site right there, so the whole lithium mining business could potentially be powered with zero emissions.

If they really do need freshwater, there's a ton of it - the Colorado River Aqueduct goes right by the Salton Sea. In fact, that's how it was created in the first place.
And “desirable” is a fairly dynamic thing with really unequal outcomes. The people who are best able to afford it (yes the gentry, of gentrification) have shifted considerably in their preferences in the past 20 years or so, from large suburban properties to much more dense urban centers or at least close/quickly accessible proximity to them. Scarcity of actual space to develop anything increases as population density does too. Some of this desirability has shifted back since the pandemic, but I don’t think it’ll be enough to negate the non-linear price inflation that’s happened and still is. Major and medium sized cities are just growing faster than the land and policy incentives can keep up with, especially relative to overall population growth.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Bagdikian
> The counter argument to that justification of sanctions is that financial interdependence also discourages war

It discourages war because of the threat of being cut off.

If you don't actually carry the threat out, it stops being an effective threat.
I worked for the owner driver regulator of my country. People would take these jobs that they were making a loss on and not realise and be bankrupt in 6 months
Why do we even bother to give any credence at all to company PR-provided explanations like this?

They are spin doctors lying through their teeth, because literally everyone is. The culture of business writing/speaking has become so far disconnected from physical reality that it is amazing that anyone accepts these explanations at all, ever.

Like seriously, these guys have proferring casually miquetoast explanations for anything down to a science. If there is one thing you can guarantee, it's that the provided explanation simply isn't true.
Is the app restricted to a specific region? On desktop the play store says it is available to all my devices but for some reason the install button is greyed out. On the Play Store the app does not appear at all on the search.
> Most people do not get their information from the television

Uh... yes they do. Most people in your particular subculture probably don't. I don't. But the majority of "news" consumption in the modern west happens via live television.
Epistemic status: mostly joking:

So how long until the crypto speedrun of financial crises reaches, and then surpasses, the regular financial system and we see financial crises that haven't even happened yet in the regular financial system (but are likely to happen at some point in the future)?
(US) Municipal governments that deal with Real Property have similar interests: they use the imagery to help maintain assessment data.
It’s time for a new Bretton Woods
Who is the producer of the YC Podcast/Dalton&Michael series?
thoughts?
I hate philosophy.

I derive great pleasure from making my piano or guitar sound cool, writing my science fiction; experience.

I tire of debating the potential of some pet paper should future humans find fit to do something with a theory we can merely acknowledge was written.
moa.party will re-syndicate your tweets to your Mastodon account.[0] It looks extremely shady, but I've been using it for a year, and it seems to be legitimate.

To see a Twitter user on Mastodon, you can follow them from Mastodon under the account [twitter handle]@beta.birdsite.live.[1]

[0] https://moa.party/

[1] https://beta.birdsite.live/
Maybe with the TV or radio on while doing other tasks?
As a Canadian who spends a considerable amount of time travelling to the US, the difference is fairly striking.

Religion enters almost every conversation I have in the US in some way. Whereas in Canada, religion almost never comes up. If it does, it's generally a discussion on the merits where I'm talking more about history and culture. It's fascinating how two places, so geographically close can be so culturally different in this one topic.
Who is the producer of the All-in Podcast/This week in startups?
thoughts?
Are you visiting UAE often?
I didn't know pass was "GNU". I also recall it being pretty well written.
>The one thing that really is rough for me with _both_ UE and Unity is that they're both very oriented towards teams with dedicated art people who can put out assets to use. BSP-based workflows where you can quickly greybox out levels to playtest (basically giving level designers without art sense a fighting chance) are much nicer with older engines.

That's because the value proposition with most games is in their art direction and gameplay - nobody cares how you get the polygon on the screen. I wrote my own game engine for a bit but then realized that all the work once the scaffolding was complete was in creating a fun game. Turns out that I don't really enjoy level editing and 3D modeling as much, so I stopped developing the project.
Not just that, but (at least when last I needed this specific service) they had a great phone support system where you could call up and say "I need an adhesive to connect $A to $B and have these curing properties and this strength" and someone would go through their database and make a list for you.

Most companies with such a huge array of subtly different products are nowhere near so clear.
Sorry, but we had widespread movie piracy long before we had first-run movies on paid streaming services. I'm not sure how repeatedly pointing out that this stuff is the law is helping your argument. Nobody is forcing you to download content-protected MCU films.
I totally get that feeling.
Note however that immediately after an update, iOS needs to repopulate caches such as the metadata store. That can take several hours and you don’t get any kind of feedback whether it’s done.
So a direct before/after comparison may be skewed.
I believe that's the killer feature. There's no futile one-size-fits-all moderation policy that has to work for every user in existence. Instead, each server is a freestanding little community with its own values and mores, and which can decide which other servers it wants to talk to. I love that.
Panopticon.

I want worldwide 24/7 live video footage. I want with enough resolution to identify letters on a printed page on the ground. And, I don’t want it to cost the entire global GDP to make and operate.

Get cracking.
80s and 90s Sony was unquestionably the world-leading company in cutting-edge and fashionable consumer electronics. Apple usurped their crown starting with the first iPod.
I understand the low number of blimps, but it's not complicated technology-wise, and we're talking about a space company.

Let me rephrase from blimp: How about balloons? Just use more.

The failure situation of helicopters getting hit by the booster, snagging on the net, running into each other, etc seem all way worse that if blimps were doing the work. Although maybe if you had drone style helicopters it might be better, but like you said with blimps, do those exist in retail?
Think of it like a cross between Twitter and email. You can see what the local users on your server are talking about, but you can also contact users on other servers run by entirely different people.
> you can see how a car is wired by seeing which brake light comes on first as the electricity moves down the circuit to the next brake light

Suppose the loom doesn't run from brake to brake, but instead runs all the way back to the front of the car and back, for a 10 meter total run. With electricity traveling in wires at roughly two thirds the speed of light, this is just about 50 nanoseconds.

While sensitivity to slight timing differences can be acute (is there a term for the temporal equivalent of Vernier acuity?), detecting a 50 ns difference is implausible.
Interesting how similar that looks to an oil derrick
Really makes you wonder… how much more efficient things could be if we consolidated this down to just 3 companies
I've already filed for the year, so it's too late for me to check it that way.

Or, unless you're saying I should believe the marketing, but again, we're in a thread about the marketing from companies in that industry being false…
I get news from all of the providers you listed, but they don’t produce the content. The actual content is from the big media companies like CNBC, CNN, Fox News, WSJ, and NY Times.

These online media are content aggregators. They help socialize and propagate narratives, but they don’t produce narratives. They certainly amplify the echo chamber effect.
Quadratic voting only works in a case where it’s not trivial to create unlimited new identities that can work together.
And in Canada it's BCE, Corus, Shaw and the CBC that decide what's broadcast and on cable.

As others have rightly pointed out, we have unprecedented access to other services via the internet. However, Canadians are poised to lose some of that access thanks to Bill C-11; a bill fought hard for by the Canadian media cartel lobbyists.
I thought you were asking about a directory of strip clubs with maps.
> Our annual revenue from the site would put us on the list of top 100 ecommerce sites

and you're sweating a 5- to 6- digit annual expense?

> all our pricing is custom as negotiated with each customer.

> there's a huge number of products (low millions) and many thousands of distinct catalogs

Surely the business model where every customer has individually-negotiated pricing model costs a whole lot to implement, further, it gives each customer plenty of incentive to attempt to learn what other customers are paying for the same products. Given the tiny costs of fighting bots, in comparison, your complaints in these threads here seem pretty ridiculous.
Show HN: Simple iOS application. Split video on equal chunks and subtitle it
> Only the state media (NOS) is still independent

Isn't state media, by definition, not independent
The point was that for cases where Unreal 5 isn't suitable for your needs, what's the best alternative:

- Using Unity and potentially all the baggage that comes with it

- Making your own engine

Therefore the crux of the argument was to prove that making your engine wasn't as complicated as people are making it out to be.

From my perspective, the question he posed in the tweet is a valid consideration. What actually is the value added by using Unity beyond the initial section of having your engine bootstrapped?

> I sure wouldn't have my own engine spun up that fast

I'm thinking I should do as Casey has done before and put my money where my mouth is and show how long it takes me to make a 2D game engine in that same amount of time just by following HMH, but also with the ability to use existing libraries. I bet it'll be less than a week. And fwiw, I'm a software engineer at a high frequency trading firm with 12 years of self taught experience. I'm not a game developer, just an amateur who learned some things on the side. If I end up doing this, I'll reply to this comment with a link to the VODs.

And let's not forget, his target in the tweet was game developers. If they can't make a 2D game engine in 2 weeks (to be extra generous) full time work with their experience and literally just following HMH as a guide, then that's kind of surprising.
I can't let go of “The Dunning-Kruger Effect is Autocorrelation”
> I was not aware Disney and Comcast made books.

I agree with what you're saying. The title is an stretch. However, the "Big 5" book publishers own 60% of the market in the US. Two of them are subsidiaries of the six companies listed in the article, so I wouldn't underestimate the reach of the six media companies.
Web Notes with Nonplain.js
"Perception is reality". People get easily manipulated by the media on everything, it can't be helped.
Playing telephone via bird call. In one end as a song sparrow, out the other end as a Great Blue Heron.
The problem is that they only accept startups at specific times of the year.

So often you've just missed that window and have to wait 3-6 months.
Not that I know of, but ideas continue to trickle down, so I look forward to a reimplemention for Guix in the future. Something like nix-index would be great too, but all in due time, as the project admittedly doesn't have quite as many resources.

edit: to be clear, I'm taking about flakes, Guix does have plenty of mechanisms and utilities regarding direnv-esque project manifests, lockfiles, and even "inferiors" which let you install outdated packages that the distribution has otherwise moved on from by actually building and using the version of guix that the package would have been built with at the time
Right. What about salinity of the brine?
>but some evidence for it might be the immense number of people pulled from poverty under to the American rules-based international order.

And a 100x times people pushed into poverty, murdered and countries ruined because of it. I always wondered how countries like North Korea thrive and then I look at US which answers all my questions.
I loathe these kinds of security measures that make up literally impossible tasks for some people.

There should always be a break-glass. That break-glass should not be tied to a piece of hardware. That's why I don't use 2FA unless there are break-glass OTP, or I can use a generic authenticator. Authy, for example, allows me to install 2FA on my phones and desktop - no need to worry about losing my phone meaning I can't get into my accounts.

My bank on the other hand, uses Symantec VIP, which has no backup or break-glass. So my bank (the only one offering 2FA) is 1FA.