skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
France: 72 EUR / month ($80) for 2 Gbit/s down // 600 Mbit/s up (router doesn't have any SFP port though and ethernet ports aren't 2.5 Gbit/s, so it's advertized as 1 Gbit/s down per machine max)

Luxemburg: 42 EUR / month ($46) for 500 MBit/s down // 250 Mbit/s up

Fiber to the home is becoming a reality in many countries... House in France is in a very remote area and yet there's fiber even there, since a few months.

Building in Luxemburg has an impressive (and beautiful) fiber optic rack in a dedicated room, next to the garages, from which all the apartments are dispatched (new building, wired with fiber for everybody from day one).
And also reproducibility in adverse conditions without too many defects.
The disparity in service and cost is surprising.
Welcome to most politics. Crime goes up, here's a new task force that has no teeth to make any real changes...but look we did something.
That's a rather useless answer. You should link to some website for further reading or at least take a stab at what sorts of mechanisms cause harm if you really want to post something.
EDM experiments are sensitive to electric field strength and observation time.

For electrons, you can get much higher fields inside a molecule.

For neutrons, you either need a very cleverly designed crystal or a bottle with ultracold neutrons. The crystal lets you get huge fields and huge particle counts, but relatively short observation times. Ultracold neutrons let you have long observation times (100-300 seconds) but lower fields and much lower particle counts.

Protons are probably the hardest of the lot. They need external fields, but they're charged so you can't just bottle them. You're stuck with a holding ring, and needing to make all those v x E corrections.
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I did the same thing, recalling "There are Only Four Billion Floats–So Test Them All!" [0]. Except I used Python, so it took over 10 minutes:

>>> import struct
>>> count = 0
>>> for i in range(0x1_0000_0000):
... f = struct.unpack('<f', struct.pack('<I', i))[0]
... if 0 <= f <= 1: count += 1
...
>>> count
1065353218

[0] https://randomascii.wordpress.com/2014/01/27/theres-only-fou...
Yep, plus, "treating people well" is something that's truly difficult to scale. Think of any nationally size company that interacts with the public - hotel chains, airlines, etc. Everything is process layered on top of process layered on top of process, which helps define minimum standards, but no process can truly standardize how to go "above and beyond" because that's such an individual and in-the-moment thing.

Instructing dozens, hundreds, thousands of managers to treat their employees well wouldn't achieve anything. It's similar to how legal codes can't just prescribe "being a good person is legal, being a bad person is illegal". There's so much room for interpretation that it would be effectively meaningless.
Well if there is one thing we agree on, it is that disenfranchisement of felons is simply disgusting.
"Street prices" can also be surprisingly high in NYC. For example, https://gothamist.com/news/why-does-this-ham-and-cheese-cost...

But when public groups restrict data even after an FOI request, it's hard not to wonder if something foul is going on.
I have a BMW and my Apple CarPlay kept doing this to me where it would disconnect and then take like 30+ seconds to reconnect itself. When I looked for support, the stuff I read was unclear whether it was a CarPlay issue or an issue with the BMW software, but eventually it did fix itself and I rarely have an issue with it anymore (and when I do, it's more of a "blip" than a full disconnect).
0.5 gigabit (down and up) fiber for $45/mo in Michigan rural village. I could get full gigabit for $60, but it's not worth it to me.
> On a related note, can we agree that an application-programming language today should also include signed-and-unsigned "money-safe" decimal types

I’m willing to bet that this has to do with how we historically have handled monetary values which is storing and computing it in the respective currency’s fractional unit. The advantage is that you can still do math operations directly on this value (as opposed to an object that contains it) and at most you’ll be off by, in the case of the US dollar, one cent. Because we cannot represent fractional units of the already smallest unit of currency, we have to choose a value anyway to charge or dispense. Unlike, say, if we stored it in dollars as a floating point and we can start compounding errors from
the floating point type.

What interesting is that pre computers, we didn’t even treat currency values as an real decimal (for base 10 currencies) and the decimal point was simply a convenient way to store partial values. I note this because you don’t see old ledgers where they store more than 2 decimal places, therefore IMO, this was just an integer in disguise all along.

Old habits die hard?
This is a great use case for programmable money. A smart contract on a blockchain such as an Ethereum layer 2 chain could handle this openly and verifiably.
You could convert the paths in a font file into a series of triangles using some vertices as a control points for quadratic bezier curves. Then some code for laying out the glyphs in a line. Much of this could be done on a shader I think.
The public isn't though. Most people outside of twitter don't have any opinion on him.
Old cars had more maintenance requirements and were far less reliable, but repairs tended to be simpler.

For example, you may need to tune your carburetor seasonally. Old points based distributors needed the points adjusted or replaced. Simple tools like a screwdriver and a matchbook can get those two sorted.

Fuel injection and electronic ignition eliminated a lot of regular maintenance, but they are harder for the average person to troubleshoot, let alone repair.

Gone are the days where a rough idle could be fixed with a screwdriver. But so too are the days where a mountain pass requires that same screwdriver to be pulled out on the way up and the way down to adjust the fuel-air ratio.
Notably, these kernel drivers work because the cheat makers are not able to create their own kernel drivers. Microsoft requires drivers to be code signed, and Microsoft will not code sign cheating software.

Unfortunately, that also means you and I can't run our own driver code, on our own purchased machines! I find this really crappy for reasons which have nothing to do with anti-cheat. For example, I can't install modified nVidia drivers.
Can get it for as low as $48 in Sweden.
The article mentions that according to the Port Authority rules, vendors can't charge more than 10% of the street price of the equivalent products. So no, you can't charge whatever you want just based on supply and demand.

The article is trying to understand how they determine the base price.
Odds are your grand kids wouldn't want to be caught on something as uncool as facebook anyway beyond at most a mostly stale profile to throw parents and grandparents off the scent, and might only marginally have any interest for Twitter. To my son, social media means Discord; in general any platform he's likely to find me on is automatically uncool.
1 gbps download, 20 upload (I know lol) 15$
Thank you so much for setting me straight. CodeEmporium’s 10-part explainer is so great.
Depends on the quality. A ten trillion parameter model should require roughly 10 trillion tokens to train. Put another way, this would be roughly 10k Wikipedia’s or 67 Million books, Roughly 3-4 GitHub’s.

It’s been established that LLMs are sensitive to corpus selection which is part of why we see anecdotal variance in quality across different LLM releases.

While we could increase the corpus of text by loading social media comments, self published books, and other similar text - this may negatively impact final model quality/utility.
So Tesla, SpaceX and Solar City get labeled as "government funded?"
I don't think it's that strange. It's a scientific notation with the signed exponent around 0, so (barring special cases like NaN and infinite), it will be divided roughly in half around the pivot of 2^0 for both signs.
Integration for AC, radio, backup cameras, etc is coming this year.
London England, 100 MBps down, 10 up.

18 GBP / month.

Does the trick for me, I don't really send / receive large files except for the occasional ml model from huggingface.
Tell HN: Do Not Use Docusign
For the past hour I've been trying to cancel a Docusign subscription that I never even wanted in the first place.

In order to cancel my subscription I was forced to open a support case. After opening one, they're asking me for all sorts of weird things such as mandatory "feedback" and made-up "security" questions. I'm still struggling to cancel my subscription and starting to give up.

A truly unethical company with horrible practices.
What a mess. Graphcore have singlehandedly destroyed VC opportunities in Europe for the next decade or more. Nice work.
How about a ham & cheese sandwich that costs $29+tax ($31.57 total) in Upper East Side Manhattan?

I thought the large pastrami sandwiches for almost $20 was crazy before the pandemic. But for a regular size ham & cheese?

see https://nypost.com/2023/04/14/inflation-raises-price-of-ham-...
Or alternatively Twitter and Meta are the only ones not successfully lobbying for an exemption. After all, the exemptions for everyone else seem to be various last-minute amendments.
Driving is proven to be very dangerous but our government still encourages us to brave traffic every day.
I'm working on a product right now that targets this exact use case. I have contact information in my profile, I would love if you would be willing to reach out and just talk to me about your use cases. I already have a day job at a tech company, so I promise I won't try to sell you anything, ever.

https://integralcloud.io is the app.
Three-outcome Kelly criterion for p(win, loss, ruin)
This doesn't account for all the people who simply don't buy the $15 sandwich, because they planned in advance and ate at home. Nor does it account for the people who decide that a $15 beer is a better value at the airport than a $15 sandwich. The value being measured is the markup, not the full price in isolation.
There's no money in it, is why.

But it can be done to an extent. Grab a cheap external BT keyboard, a folding monitor stand, and Termux or a Scheme interpreter, or a BASIC interpreter (I haven't looked, but I assume they exist), and you're there.

I've done a lot of programming and writing on the phone that way.
When they say "they could detect a bump on the North Pole the height of a single sugar molecule" is not about the accuracy of the measurement?

If my measurement device always measures 42 it may by hyper-precise - but it won't helping me to detect a bump on the North Pole the height of a single sugar molecule nor anything else.
PDX in Oregon has reasonably priced food. I wonder what their secret is.
In London or Paris it’s $5-6 for a decent sandwich
> “B category visas certainly allow you to remotely carry out your normal work responsibilities while you’re in the country.”

Sure. But if that’s all you’re doing, then you don’t have a reason to be in the country. Entry is granted for a purpose, not as a default right (even under visa waiver programs).

That’s why you want to tell immigration officers about the meetings you’re going to have and events you’re going to attend — things that require your physical presence.

This applies to other countries too, not just the USA. I know Thailand has become more active in refusing entry to Europeans doing remote work for 3-month periods one after another, with no business contacts in the country.

Over the past three years many countries have introduced a so-called digital nomad visa for remote workers. Why would they need a new category if this were already allowed under existing tourist and business visa rules?
I mean it doesn’t do any QA on them. My banking website won’t load on Firefox for example.
Palm grease is an experiment ingredient, and exempt from FDA labeling rules.
It’s predatory incumbent firms and industries that seek to manipulate thru regulation, so it’s private sector first coming to utilize public sector for protections. So I’d say it’s pretty capitalist initially, and then a failing of government second.
It was an available. Open public medium with more open interconnectivity than anything else.

It was incredibly easy to share & relay things quickly.

Nothing else in my view comes close. Twitter had won Metcalfe's Law.

Metcalfe's law states that the value or impact of a network is proportional to the square of the number of connected users of the system.

There's places like Facebook where there's lots of users but most only connect to people they know. Blogs and email can connect people who don't K ow each other, but they have to go make the connection. Twitter has an open culture, where people reshare things, or people converse in threads, & we see those cool things & follow those other people. Twitter was the only successful self growing system on the planet.

Now the connections are all being severed & the network is dying. Such a fucking sad shame pity. This is a burning of the Library of Alexandria of our age. Also no one can afford to look into the archive anymore either so truly some dark Dark Ages shit. Absolutely tragic & monstrous, just vile villianshit.
I Am Now - Rephrase in endless styles with a tap, iOS AI Keyboard
iOS AI Keyboard - Rephrase messages, tweets in endless styles (e.g.: Shakespeare, Joe Pesci, etc add your favorites)
What surprised me was finding out that US people think that EVOO burns easily and turns bitter when fried. I found out when I was watching a youtube video from a foodie influencer, I'll see if I can find it.

Anyway, for me that's incomprehensible. I have stir fried with EVOO all my life and I have never seen it burn. The only exception is when I've accidentally, and stupidly, left the pan with only olive oil in it in full heat and went off to do something else, at which point it starts smoking and smelling bad. I have also never had it turn bitter, no matter what I've done with it. I've burned food cooked in olive oil, and occasionally the food has turned bitter (burned onions and garlic taste bitter for example; eugh) but mostly it just tastes burnt.

I've also used olive oil for deep frying and again it has never burnt on me, although lately I prefer to use cheaper oils, like sunflower oil, also because I find that deep frying with olive oil makes food taste too heavy, as if you cooked it in lard or fat (and that's not what I'm going for when I make chips or falafel, say).

So my conclusion is that people outside the Mediterranean, including in the US, just don't normally cook with good quality EVOO. I can certainly see lower quality olive oils behaving badly at high temperatures.
Because until a gormless billionaire wrecked it, it worked well for this function.
"The reason that X costs Y, is that (enough) people buy it".

It has less to do with the actual price of making the goods or service
Congrats to Tom Wilson - zero understanding of having a product strategy
Congrats to Sally Dogerty - zero understanding of how to market a product
Congrats to Nigel Toon - zero ability to build a sustainable company.

Clowns.
Typically, that’s what almost all regulations actually do. Just pull the ladder up farther out of reach.

It’s the reason companies lobby for them.
Who's the royal we here? It's great that you have personal limits. But why should "we" care about those?

Seems like a perfectly reasonable new feature to me. I'm actually looking forward to people using this to build some cool stuff. Why should that not be a thing?
More subtly, why is Newark so much more reasonable? I had a perfectly decent shot down meal at Saison and the prices were high but not crazy.
No, that's not a definition that we've just decided on for this conversation. It's a core part of what people are talking about when they talk about intelligence. Just because we can't precisely define it to capture everyone's intuitions and edge cases doesn't mean that there aren't core features to the concept that everybody agrees on. In other words, anyone who says that learning, reasoning, abstraction, and problem solving aren't a part of intelligence is objectively wrong.
While I strongly doubt that, I'll still add the end of the joke:

… and Mitchell Baker will fire all of Mozilla's engine developers and use the money saved by that to give herself another multi-million dollar salary raise.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitchell_Baker#Negative_salary...
Daddy Yankee’s Gasolina was also included
Switzerland, Init7

10/10 Gbps for 66CHF (~$70) / month.

Unfortunately my router can't firewall packets at 10Gbps so I get around 1Gbps effectively. :)
Some of them do. A lot of my programming skills come thanks to hacking on my Openmoko Neo Freerunner around 2008 when I was a teenager. A few years later I was hacking on (although definitely not as much) a Nokia N900, and these days hacking on a Librem 5 (which can even be connected to an external screen, keyboard and mouse and act as a regular GNU/Linux PC) is my job.

Both Android and iOS are designed to be locked-down consumer goods owned by the manufacturer and only used by you; they're not tools that encourage you to learn and tweak. You need to look elsewhere for that.
US pay transparency laws result in worker discontent
I have used https://privacy.sexy. I love the idea of it, but always cringe when running a batch file as an administrator from a random website.
Should be common with fiber (not PON) and copper Ethernet. Other technologies like cable, some DSL and PON (typically advertised as ftth) are designed to be asymmetrical, they use a single wire or pair to send data and the spectrum is divided so download gets more.
It’s not the way, it’s a way. Life-saving notices are often redundant to reach as wide of an audience as possible, e.g. public radio, commercial radio, sirens.
> Not supporting old hardware has major costs too: ewaste pollution.

I would not be at all shocked to find that, by volume, Android devices that vendors have refused to support with software updates over the years take up far more space in landfills.
980 down/880 up $99/month. Based out of Massachusetts, it's a good deal for this area
Mathematical information density is not the same as important. A picture of white noise is mathematically very dense in information, but only median an standard deviation are important to us.
https://archive.ph/C4DKw
It's interesting that its conclusion is totally wrong. It's closer to 2^30 than 2^24
I guess it depends on the city. I live in Austin (metro population 2.28M), and most places price sandwiches around $10 or less here.

Here’s Thundercloud, a popular chain (often described as “a step up from Subway”):

https://thundercloud.com/main-menu/

I also checked Jersey Mike’s, another familiar chain, and a regular size “original Italian” is $9.95 here.

I will say that generally Texas tends to have lower prices on food than coastal metros like NYC/SF/LA, but the airport prices mentioned in the article for NYC still seem absurd.
And for today's rant, you can also say Pi = 3 and be precise. Significant figures are a common shorthand for in-band signaling of error, but they're not the only tool and are really only useful insofar as they're pretty easy to do mental math with and relatively well known.
Maybe governments just outsourced the work?
https://earlybird.im

Helping startup people in early stage to validate ideas before investing too much time and money in product development, just crossed $500MRR after launching it 3.5 months.
Well, from the article, if you make a mildly successful multiplayer game, you better allow players to share tick-tock style videos too, or it will apply to you.

But I have no idea if the article representation of it is correct (that would be a first), and no interest on reading the original.
They should, but having a medium so naturally capable at relaying, resharing (@ or piblically) & following was a superpower. The loss here is immense.

Mastadon retains a lot of this, but honestly, the lack of search and lack of algorithmic time lines both make it vastly less usable & less enjoyable as a product.
So you can but you need to rewrite everything instead of just changing a type, and the code will look completely impossible to read.
Was able to enjoy the Business Class Lounge a few weeks back in JFK Airport. The lounge sounds almost like a steal in comparison when reading those prices.
Profit motive provides plenty of motivation without government prodding. It's all about making you stare at that device as long as possible so you watch ads or making you send payments for loot boxes. It's just amoral profit seeking behavior.

Not saying there couldn’t be government involvement just that it’s not necessary to explain this stuff.
Virgin on the extreme: businesses use wearable tech to spy on employees (2015)
Not an answer, but the search term to find discussion is “qualia” (i.e., “the qualia of pain, the qualia of blue”, etc)
> Apple as a whole only makes 21B a year from all services, and they run everything from cloud storage, to synchronization, to an App Store with a wild profit margin from fees.

Correct on "wild profit margin", but your numbers are wrong according to FY22 10-K filing[1]:

Services Revenue = $78.129B
Services Cost of Sales = $22.075B
Services Gross Margin = 71.7% ($56.054B)

[1] https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/320193/0000320193220...
Hopefully the counter-proposal doesn't involve a custom barrel jack, eh?
Am I missing something?

It says "Butter Chicken" and then all it says is: "South asian favorite!"

If that is all there is you have posted this way too early.
Cheating in online games is enough to make multiplayer unplayable if it becomes rampant enough, which as a game developer you care about. One example:

https://www.ign.com/articles/team-fortress-2-players-protest...

So having some form of preventing cheating is important. Doing it right is tricky I guess
I pay $70 for 1 Gb/s but I usually end up getting 800-900 mbps up/down when I run a Speedtest which is fine by me. I switched to centurylink fiber during the pandemic. Before that I was paying comcast $65 for 100 down / 10 up.

Seattle WA
AI Clock
Essen in Manhattan was 8 bucks.
… why should they be on the hook for something that was and should remain free, especially for an account like this. This is the same social media garbage fire that wrongly labeled the BBC and PBS and state sponsored media.
And as the other person told you already, Safari.app is not what you get if you build the WebKit source. In much the same way that you can't judge Chrome by Chromium, one is the base of the other, not the whole.
Counterstrike through the ages used to be a paid product. After a ban your whole account was locked down, so in a practical sense it used to always have a 20-50 “escrow” fee to join the pool of legitimate players. Even today the cs:go “prime” status does a similar thing.

It doesn’t seem to affect the number of cheaters in any way, if anything it leads to incentives of account stealing and underground exchanges of steam acc/keys.

Personally I feel the cheating issue is more of a side effect of games moving away from dedicated servers with communities and towards global matchmaking. There used to be well run servers that would quickly kick-ban cheating players and have a social construct that incentivizes playing nice to keep access to the good servers.

Not that practical today with all the battle royals and as with any “government” there is abuse and corruption, it wasn’t perfect but I do miss the days of servers that always had a admin online to shutdown cheaters and rules around minimum pings and bare-minimum sportsmanship in the voice chat.
France builds reactors so Germany will be buying nuclear power from France and coal power from Poland.
Billionaire Harlan Crow bought property from Clarence Thomas in undisclosed deal