skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What's the math of data caps?

The cable coming from the street to my home is RG-6. There is some disagreement between different things I've found Googling as to the maximum data rate RG-6 can handle, but it seems to not be over 1.5 Gbps.

That would put an upper limit of a little under 500 TB on how much data it could handle in a month.

The cable going from the equipment on the pole that my cable is connected to doesn't look to be any different. I can't get a good look at it to tell what it actually is.

Looking around my neighborhood and surrounding neighborhoods that's all I see. I don't see anything different connecting my area to whatever is upstream of all of us.

That suggests that a whole bunch of us as a group have a physical limit of 500 TB internet data per month. (Actually less because those cables are also carrying cable TV).

Obviously they can't serve a whole large city or region on just 500 TB aggregate data per month, so they must have something with higher capacity going out to some kind of nodes that split out into multiple connections to the lower capacity part of the network, probably a multiple level tree topology with decreasing node capacity the farther you get from the root, but I've not been able to actually find any of those nodes.

Presumably when they need more than 500 TB per month for some area they have to replace the top node in that area with a node with a higher capacity connection to its parent, and then have that node serve two or more 500 TB per month nodes. How easy or hard and how cheap or expensive that will be likely varies a lot from neighborhood to neighborhood.
Yep. It's frustrating to see the threads on HN of people talking about this as if it's only hypothetical. Like it's a change to the Linux kernel and not something that impacts thousands of people every day. I don't care about the technical mechanisms of implementation, I care about how it affects the people around me dammit.
Well, at least you didn't take the ransom and kill them anyway
I remember when folks were telling us we were being hysterical because of our concern a right-leaning SC would overturn Roe. Of course that is exactly what happened. Are these same people now telling us not to worry, they won't imprison women for getting abortions?
Do people really believe there is a difference between government and the big tech?

These companies regularly get large government contracts, it is unlikely that there aren’t deeper connections.

I don’t believe free market exists in the USA and I think it’s economy and media is almost as heavily controlled as China.
What you said and what you linked are not related. That case strengthened the interstate commerce powers
>I am assuming the Supreme Court will defer to whatever the appellate court decided because it is so open and shut.

Out of curiosity, what about the current makeup of appellate courts in this region + the Supreme Court makes you think this is going to get shut down quickly?
Love DataSketches but I was wondering if there is a way to compute datasketches across time for e.g. I want to compute the users who did X and then Y in that order. Since intersection is commutative it doesnt give an answer for time ordering.

Nonetheless the best data structure I have read over last 10 years.
Ah yeah, good point.

I've mostly used this overall pattern with something like Dataloader, where you throw away the entire cache on every request, so the GC problem doesn't crop up.
You know, they really aren't looking at the efficacy of SSRIs in reducing symptoms of depression, right?
The article gives its sources, and I can go to Linkedin myself to verify its veracity.

You're making an argument from authority that I should ignore the source since some authority said to - incidentally a source discussing how "former" CIA employees are working to censor what information I can see.
They're pivoting to including an ad-supported tier. Microsoft is on board for providing the ad-platform. I wouldn't worry about Netflix going away within the next few years. Whether it tops the markets like it did the past 10 years is another story, but I wouldn't worry about insolvency.
Succinct data structures in general are interesting. They use close to the information theoretic bound for a given problem and still support fast operations -- a decent mental model is that they're able to jump to a roughly correct place and (de)compress the data locally.

A good example is a wavelet tree. Suppose you have a text of length N comprised of an alphabet with C characters and wish to execute full-text pattern searches for patterns of length P. Once the tree is created, you can do your full-text search in O(P log C) time, and you use less space than any constant multiplicative factor of the information theoretic lower bound. Note that the runtime is independent of the original string's length.
>The US is somewhat anomalous in holding on to an ancient document and considering it sacred.

The Constitution was amended 12 times in the 1900s, the last being 1992. There are still multiple pending amendments.

And, as a Union of States, each also with constitutions and amendments, how do you treat the overall legal entity? Most developed nations are about the size of a US state - and some are slowly banding into larger groups like the EU.

So how is this anomalous? Do you have some list of developed nations rate of constitution updates? Are any of the structure like the US as a union of semi-autonomous states?
These days, I'd use Reddit for that.
Where do you turn adblocker off?
I hate any kind of advertising with a passion so the first thing I do on a fresh system after installing a browser is getting the uBlock Origin extension. Recently I realised that the only website I deliberately turned uBlock Origin off for is archive.org.

Are there any websites that you allow through your adblocker? If yes, which are they and why?
Not without resorting to SciHub, sadly. Here's someone's review, which provides a nice outline: https://medium.com/@lydiahosn/the-chemical-imbalance-hypothe...
And of course to buy new fish after the heatwave.
So I thought it was unsafe to take for hangovers due to the risk of stomach bleeding… or is it just a matter of waiting long enough after you’ve stopped drinking?
I'm speaking about groups like the NRLC and the Federalist Society who have been working towards this goal for decades. I'm sure some conservatives are opposed to the extremity of what's being proposed, but if they continue to vote Republican I'm not sure what good that does anyone.
Climate change denial, surely. Oh, it's the Grauniad.
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It's time to rethink how we share data on the Web
Same with old bird books, some of the originals have tasting notes for each of the birds they described.
Hasn't there been some issues for example with instructions of making bombs or chemical weapons? And both of those should be constitutional rights... So limiting harm to others by banning abortion information don't seem any less of overstepping boundaries.
Ha, I got that table, we had to stalk Ikea's store every day to catch it in stock and drive there immediately.

This is a tangential anecdote for inflation though, it's supply and demand here. They have a limited number so they are going to charge as much as they can for the limited stock they have.
It's nice that you brought up constitutional law, since Bill Barr, Ted Cruz, and many others were in fact constitutional lawyers.

That's why you have a self made failed coup d'etat in the US. Crazy nutjob granpas that are threatening chemical weapon attacks, collapsing governments in Europe with what seems to be a looming energy and food crisis as well as failing transportation in Canada.
Just the other day the Netherlands decided on a "climate" policy that looks very similar to the policies that caused Sri Lankas food supply to collapse.

I don't know if these people are just incompetent or just domestic terrorists, but either way it's not good. Nobody will care about your constitution when you have neither food or energy. It will just be anger and law enforcement. Already you have clashes in a lot of European cities and more than 5 times as much gun deaths in the US a year than civilians died in the Ukraine war.
Understood, thanks dang.
You can't realistically expect privacy in a public space.
Migratory monarch butterfly now endangered
I've used marketplace apps for home services, and just as airbnb, the results were often stellar and always at least pretty good.
Love me some red sparrow at the top o' the mornin'.
Ya it obviously depends on the intended goal, but caching items in a map indefinitely better be done on a set of values that is known to be limited to a certain size over the lifetime of the server or it'll lead to a memory leak.
> However — and this is the key point — the faster you move through space, the slower you move through time. The other dimensions are not like this at all: your motion through the x dimension in space, for example, is completely independent of your motion through the y and z dimensions.

Not the clearest way to think about this. The speed of light isn't the speed limit, it's the only speed. If you're not moving in space, you're moving through time at c.

So for the above example, something moving in the x-direction at c, can't also be moving in the y or z components--spacial directions are also not independent with each other.
Russia is not a terrorist state. It's a country waging a war. It's not the same. You can find it OK or not OK (I personally don't) but it's not terrorism. Many countries have done that before, France is such a country.
Here is the implementation of get_gray_xy that I used:

static uint64_t deinterleave(uint64_t x) {
x = x & 0x5555555555555555;
x = (x | (x >> 1)) & 0x3333333333333333;
x = (x | (x >> 2)) & 0x0f0f0f0f0f0f0f0f;
x = (x | (x >> 4)) & 0x00ff00ff00ff00ff;
x = (x | (x >> 8)) & 0x0000ffff0000ffff;
x = (x | (x >> 16)) & 0x00000000ffffffff;
return x;
}
static void get_gray_xy(uint64_t n, uint64_t *x, uint64_t *y) {
uint64_t gray = n ^ (n >> 1);
*x = deinterleave(gray);
*y = deinterleave(gray >> 1);
}

I don't think the gray code solution can work well for sets of different sizes because the area of indexes that you go through grows as a square.

But it does work for different number of dimensions or different number of nested loops. For 3 dimensions each coordinate is constructed from every 3rd bit instead of 2nd.

So if you have index 14, then gray code is 9 (1001) which means in two dimensions x=1,y=2 and in three dimensions, x=3,y=0,z=0.
And the increased penalty will be applied to the screwed renter as credits toward another AirBNB or will that be available as a reimbursement for having to make alternative (and likely expensive) last-minute arrangements? If there's not messaging that this penalty will go to the cancelled renter then I still don't see a reason to trust AirBNB.
This is one of those headlines that initially reads like a joke until you think of the economics of it. "cost is about 5-10% of the cost of an equivalent system built with off-the-shelf computer parts."

I wonder if this is due to the fact that the Playstation hardware is (was?) competitively priced to encourage revenue generation through games? Or was Sony simply very good at mass-producing these units?
> The first amendment doesn't have anything to say about the Internet, so it doesn't apply.

Moreover, when taking that mode of interpretation, it doesn't say anything about the States, nor does the 14th Amendment say anything about some of the rights protected against federal intrusion by the Bill of Rights.
Rockstars, wizards, ninjas, 10x people, etc.

It’s how cool people describe someone who’s a celebrity in their niche because they’re exceptionally good at what they do.
Quite a few are down for maintenance, but every hot summer, the French nuclear capacity is reduced further, due to limited cooling. They could, of course, just boil the rivers.
On the Mac, Firefox is Firefox, with Quantum and all. It's iOS where Firefox, like every other third party browser, is mostly just reskinned Safari, because third party browser engines aren't allowed due to apps being restricted from running outside code.
I tried YNAB, but I struggled to get it to work with a weekly income cadence and multiple credit cards.

I use Pocketsmith now, it has the automatic transaction import that is mandatory for me to use an app. I find the categorisation loop to be fairly easy, with a good interface for adding new categories on the fly. It can automatically categorise transactions for you, but always lets you check it over before it commits.

I don't think my situation is as complex as yours (2 people 2 mortgages, 3 income streams and an investment), but I can still see it being useful for you.

It's not super techy, but it is easy with a customisable interface. I like it.
You should know that the Bible literally has instructions for when and how to perform an abortion: https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Numbers%205%3A1...
I really like the splay tree. It optimizes itself during reads and writes such that it is optimal for a fixed probability distribution of accesses.
I think the usual technique for soldering a BGA is a lot easier.
https://hackaday.com/2021/02/28/bga-soldering-and-inspection...

At the bottom of the page you'll see a link to someone who followed your suggestion. Now that looks hard. :)
True, to a depressing degree. Especially with the modern (poisonously low) levels of trust in more-traditional sources of more-sober financial advice.

OTOH, this is the old "when the shoeshine boy gives you stock tips" signal to bail out of the market -

https://archive.fortune.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archiv...
> making 3 year olds trans and giving them genital surgery

This of course does not happen, which is what makes it such a perfect bogeyman.
>and lower courts can and do refuse to enforce laws on that basis

Courts don't enforce laws, but I get what you mean. I have no confidence whatsoever that appellate courts will do anything about these laws. There has been a willful, deliberate, strategic stacking of the judiciary starting in the early 2000s to get us to this place.

Sorry to repeat myself, but we really can't all sit back and reference our civics books as if this system is still functioning to protect us against these fucked up laws. It's over. Stare decisis is now at the whim of the political affiliation of the courts.
What religion are you talking about here? Can’t be christianity because the bible never talks about premarital sex directly. Not to mention the abortion instructions given by Moses in Numbers 5:11-31.
This is an important time to ensure your representatives aren’t making and voting for policies that take away peoples rights, even if they aren’t your rights they’re violating right now. There is no right deprivation of a minority group that doesn’t also deprive the rights of majority people in the purpose of enforcing oppression.
Agreed. The future path for this law (if it gets passed) is obvious: the South Carolina agency charged with enforcing the law gets sued in federal court, the law is likely put on hold and eventually struck down as unconstitutional. But the "chilling" effect of the law still has a serious impact, despite it being unserious legislation.
Our stories sound similar.

I led a small corp and our whole play was to declare war on high-sec mining corporations (a formal war deceleration allowed one to avoid the wrath of the "CONCORD" police force). We'd then gank them until they'd pay us a ransom to end the war.

Eventually, some of our former targets started paying us to target other mining groups that they were competing with!

It was really great fun and a set of systems that facilitated the "emergent storytelling" that so many new open-world/survival games aspire to.
To me, the bounty hunter law is reprehensible, but not as much as the motivation behind it. Those with that motivation can be treated as a single group.

And to be frank, I don't care if they're unhappy to be lumped together. Lie with dogs and all that.
Human-to-Robot Imitation in the Wild
Dear author, please read each sentence you’ve written before posting your article.
> OTAN

Pretty sure that's still on the NATO logo as the initialism of the French translation of NATO.
> it just meant more or less socially aware, particularly to the struggles of minorities. Then I tuned out for awhile and when I noticed it again it seemed to be a pejorative people like Tucker Carlson use to drum up fear

These are the same thing, and for the same reason.
Edit: I misread the parent quote.
Yes - sometimes there is a lot of wind and then it is... fine.
But actually not since then they generate too much power which can not be used (in the country) and then it is sold cheap. The main problem is it can't be stored for later use.
One interesting non-obvious use for ibuprofen is that it'll relieve some sore throat symptoms. I discovered this when I took some for a headache while I had a cold some years back.

Or maybe that was only non-obvious to me, but I sure wish somebody had told me about that 15-20 years earlier.
People don't care.

I've tracked down several popular quotes attributed to influential figures. All of them false.

And when you tell the people who are spreading them, they're just not interested. It's much more fun to believe Einstein agreed with you. Or that he was bad at maths, just like you. Or that he played electric guitar like a dude.

And, a few people will double-down. Just because you can't find a source, doesn't mean he didn't say it. Or think it. Or tell it to me in a dream.

For those of us who care about accuracy, we struggle with the knowledge that a lie is half-way around the world before the truth has put its boots on. Well, that's what Mark Twain thought anyway.

Sources:

Einstein - https://twitter.com/edent/status/854700205463261184

Feynman - https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2020/04/who-do-you-think-you-are-ki...

Tutu - https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2021/06/whats-the-origin-of-the-phr...

Tesla - https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2021/07/did-nikola-tesla-receive-no...
> there is value in publicizing the fact [...] This has consequences in how they approach treatment (medication-centric)

If anything (in my experience) people are too biased against medicine. And as others pointed out, this isn't at all evidence that medicines don't work - their efficacy is based on double-blind studies, not on chemical imbalance hypotheses.

There are many other possible mechanisms that aren't related to the environment. Publicizing studies like this beyond academia is only likely to cause confusion and unfounded anti-medicine sentiment.
Also many websites the product is not showing what it does on the front page. Many times they extol how amazing the product is. Best thing ever, customer abc built more whatamdongles with it, etc, etc. But what does your product actually do?! How would I use it? When buying a tool I am many times not buying fashion. I am buying a tool that does something. Be upfront what your tool is. If you are 1 of 5 competitors explain what your tool does that the others dont. Dont make me dig around on your site to find it or sign up for something just to look at your docs. It shows me you are not serious about helping me, other than helping money out of my wallet, and trying to setup a time to talk and waste my time.
The great firewall of China prevents most of their citizens from seeing news that isn’t the party line. And if you share it you face criminal charges. Not to mention their social ranking system.

It’s ridiculous to say the US media is almost as heavily controlled as China.
yes except after the reading Tinypilot image is all over the page, that's why I call him a marketing genius, it's not talking about the product, and it is actually aimed for the product(exposure of it)
I found a "Backwoods Surgery and Medicine" book from 1910 at my grandparent's house. Half of the pain-related guidance involved cocaine in some form.
> If we continue to try and paint each other group as a monolithic enemy other division will continue to rise and polarization will increase and the effects will be devestating.

Then perhaps the other group should not have monolithically spent decades fighting against and removing human rights from people I care about.
Depression is a common symptom after many long or difficult illnesses, perhaps especially respiratory and cardiovascular ones.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7418220/

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13054-018-2223-6

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/the-british-journal-...

There is good evidence now that severe covid (early variants at least) causes atrophy of gray matter in a variety of regions, causing, e.g. loss of smell. Not sure if this is specific to covid however.
Have a source/pictures you can link to?
I don't fuck strangers bareback.

I don't visit strangers' websites without an ad blocker.
While total economic isolation would be nice, that's never been the target. Energy exports have been allowed throughout, with Europe trying to figure out how to reduce dependency. Most of the sanctions has focused on import isolation, and that appears to be moderately successful.

That energy exports are continuing to happen to a nation that never signed on to sanctions is not evidence of isolation failure any more than an ex-boyfriend going to McDonalds is a violation of a no-contact restraining order.
It's not a data structure but a really cool algorithm. Locality Sensitive Hashing. It allows like items to be hashed to the same value. So instead of a typical hashing functions that wants to avoid collisions this algorithm tries to optimize for collisions.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Locality-sensitive_hashing