skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>It's my understanding that LTE and 5G are designed to scale such that the density of cell towers matches the density of the population. Thus in rural areas you have fewer high powered tower and in urban centers you would have many low powered micro towers.

None of what you said is wrong, it's just not enough.

5g is still under design. It's just a specification for minimum speed, latency etc...

The most likely way to accomplish it is through small cells operating at very high frequencies (milometer wave). The problem with high frequencies is that they don't penetrate obstacles. They require direct line of sight, A canvas awning would block the signal.

For 5g to operate at the desired speeds in high density areas, you'd need them on every street corner, and you'd still need lower frequency higher powered transmitters to act as a backup in the very likely scenario that you aren't in direct line of sight of a millimeter wave tower.

In rural areas you could just use the lower frequency higher powered towers. However, the farther from the tower you get the lower the bandwidth. Combine that with the higher noise floor you get at lower frequencies, and the fact that transmitters cover a circular area and you need a large amount of overlap.

In either scenario, rural or urban there is no good way to replace wired access. Although it would be more likely in very rural areas.

In urban areas as I've already said, the tower density needs to be so high, that you lose the advantages that people are hoping will make wireless more competitive. At that density you have all the exact same problems that lead to a natural monopoly.

>In downtown Atlanta they have ground level LTE installations with wireless backhauls at heavily traffic intersections attached to the street lights.

This doesn't solve the right of way issue at all. If you've already got to the street corner, you've already solved the right of way issue.
Getting from the road to houses isn't the difficult part. Homeowners will grant you access, they want access. It's getting to
the street corner that's a problem.
With 11 years of experience, maintaining a legacy system and writing docs does NOT sound like sr. level promo material to me. At <Equivalent BigCo>, sr. level promo was tantamount to rearchitecting an existing product, leading a team in multiple-person-years development effort.

I appreciate the message around difficulty in quantifying impact, but just putting this into practical perspective, I think OP's manager may have failed to manage his expectations around what constitutes promo material.
> "changes in the brain" is too vague to be useful.

I would hope that someone trying to do something useful concerning addiction and the brain wouldn't go by a comment on Hacker News that was posted via a cell phone.

Anyway, please see my comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16477351
Agreed, this is why I'm shunning an interview with IndieHackers too.
> if the rate of inflation were to slowly increase by one percentage point per year, for the next 30 years, what would be the right real rate of interest right now — assuming we knew this were going to happen?

the rate would increase exponentially according to the number of days between the present and the maturity date. the rate for securities that could be redeemed on demand would steadily increase, but represent the lowest rate (because you would always have the option to decide to claim your money). whereas a 30 year cd would have the highest rate in the market.
I believe they do header bidding for their own demand, but you can squeeze more revenue out of your traffic if you learn to manage your own headerbidding stack. Take a look at prebid.org and checkout the r/adops reddit. You might find some inspiration there.
> This leads to a ton of actual problems too: You get a person really really good at coding / execution but shit in big picture thinking / broad system design choices / cross team work etc. spend a bunch of time in a level. Now you have to either promote him into a spot where s/he will fail OR lose em to attrition. Either choice tends to break.

I hate this issue, and see it occur in so many companies. Why are we so opposed to simply paying more/increasing benefits of people at the same level? Why can't an "regular" Engineer just get a large raise for being an amazing Engineer, because that's what you need! Instead, they need to be come a "Senior" Engineer who also has some kind of other management-type job that they suck at.
my co is moving from managers to anon committee, because it gives managers too much unchecked power to favor/punish. the wheel goes round.
I can understand author’s motives very well.

I also started off in a corporation, it wasn’t google but it was a large organization where politics played a major role in one’s carreer. I had a very good friend, an architect who worked there for over 10 years, he was excellent in corporate politics and taught me a whole lot about it. The bottom line is that unless you have metrics to back up your claims (whatever they are), your claims mean nothing. Unfortunately, corporate culture encourages this kind of selfish attitude, where in order to get promoted you have to lick asses heavily, and the rest is just a background noise, even your performance. If you know the right people and if you have a good realtionship with them (also, if you are ‘famous’ within the company), then you will almost certainly succeed. This is how it works, almost everywhere, not just corporate environments.

It may appear that the author recklessly quit Google without having another job or even idea for a business, and I did the same thing, I had to leave, because I simply couldn’t bear the fact that I was doing better (this, obviously, is subjective) than people 2-3 levels above and my promotion was put on hold just because there were corporate rules that forbid promoting employees that have been already promoted once within 2 years time period. When I informed my manager that I am leaving, he almost panicked, as he did not see that coming and they heavily relied on my experience and skills. They offered me a promotion and over 90% raise but I simply did not care anymore, I could not work there any longer. I also quit without having another job on the horizon. As a consequence my depression and insomnia almost disappeared, I am less nervous and feel generally a lot better. Do not judge the author for leaving Google, he did the right thing for himself, even though it exposes him to a serious risk.
Wow, nice domain. I wonder how much that cost
I haven't been able to video chat using Hangouts for a long time now. Chrome on Windows 10 or Chrome on Ubuntu 17.10, I click the video button and... nothing.

Works on Android though.
It's not technically a sandbox, but monitoring syscalls is very closely related.
Instead of creating the weekly/monthly/latest G-powered chat product, why doesn't Google go all-in to leverage something like the matrix protocol?

Gmail is so successful and it leverages the universal, decentralized email protocols. For non-techy users its clear the value platforms like gmail bring. Yet, there are so many tech-savvy users who COULD be managing their own mail/smtp servers and infrastructure but instead CHOOSE to still use gmail. I think there is an opportunity here for google on chat, and it does not involve constantly designing a new chat product almost every frickin' week.

I firmly believe that google could build a single/final chat product but leverage an open (and distributed) protocol like matrix...and still win mind-share, market-share, make enough money on ads (displayed in the chat product), allow for 3rd-party integrations, etc. But, hey, whatever.
Time to update! https://sameroom.io/chat-timeline.pdf
Of patenting obvious things and aggresively defending them. Although I think you could make a strong case against the whole concept of a patent as well.
Is there an API for this, or do you plan to develop one?
Having redesigned a hospital's recruitment process to use Facebook advertising for the more "blue collar" type jobs (porters, support workers, estates type jobs as well as nurses) I can really see this working.

We got ridiculous traction in the local area. We were reaching people who had never really thought of a career at their local hospital. But a hospital isn't just doctors.

Often with Facebook we didn't actually directly hit the candidate either. People's mum, uncle, brother or friend would find the advert and pass it on.

Facebook is already successful in recruitment. Only makes sense they really target this market and provide the business tools to do it
Not all parts of the source code are available under the same license. The individual source code files include the applicable license. Doing this is fine for compatible licenses and not unusual for projects, though it can make certain things more complicated. Here's an example of what GNU says about GPL compatibility[1] - roughly meaning the whole work is published as GPL.

[1]: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#WhatDoesCompatMean
I don't think you have the full facts regarding how he behaved towards Lauren Duca.

https://www.refinery29.com/2017/08/166717/lauren-duca-martin...
I used make heavily in the 80s and 90s, but haven't much since then. Recently I started a project that had source files getting processed into PDF files, for use by humans. Since this is the 21st century, those files have spaces in their names. At a certain point, I realized that I should be managing this processing somehow, so I thought of using a simple Makefile. A little searching reveals that the consensus on using make with files with spaces in their names is simply "don't even try." In the 21st century, this is not an acceptable answer.
C is a simpler Algol, yes. It messed up the dangling-else problem, and lost nested procedures, among other things.
I share your concern.

It may not happen, though. Social networks tend toward natural monopolies. Facebook may have better features and uptime than the next best alternative (or not), but either way, social networks gain most of their utility from all the people on then.

So it's notable that linkedin survived this consolidation. I think this is because people want to keep their business and professional lives distinct. It's actually more than that. There's a comment lower about how Facebook is creepy, and linkedin is pushy. There's a very good reason those are the notable faults identified.

Think of this scenario: a programmer goes to a business meeting with some people form ops and marketing after a conference, and they have lunch or coffee afterwards. Some linkedin invites follow. It might seem a little pushy to some, not to others, but most people (from my observation) wouldn't consider it inappropriate. It's "ok" to be a bit more direct and immediate with business contacts. The same thing with Facebook might seem creepy.

I suspect linkedin or something like it will hang on precisely because it isn't a "social" network.
Yes, except here its much more extreme so that inside a certain distance (event horizon) spacetime is bent in such a way that all paths through it lead towards the singularity. That's the theory at least.
That’s awesome. I can’t watch that yet as my kid is too young for it.

Like I said, we had an interesting neighborhood... everything from a fugitive Nazi war criminal, to a crazy man with a rocket to mafia people.
A new repo, likely a new employee on a new project. I have to disagree with your statement since you don't know the context at all. If all they're given is a repo with inadequate instructions, there's not much more you can do than keep asking for general help.

Comment sounds like typical 'pull yourself up by the bootstraps', meant to put down new talent, ignoring that complex, modern dev environments have many parts that are completely out of reach for newcomers without adequate onboarding.

Like you said, why not both? The employee is already asking for help, that's their part. The manager needs to come in and assist, unless he enjoys churning his dev team.
Both Stripe and Paypal charge a small processing fee (2.9% + 30 cents).
Explanations of Primitive Cryptocurrency Concepts
We use something like this in my org, and Google has "kudos", but I've found that the problem is their usage is highly variable even within a medium-sized or (we're roughly 1,000.) On some teams, the average employee will have hundreds of these kudos, whereas on others, the average might be 1 or 2.

This was highlighted to me recently when someone in Slack noted that one person had ~50X the kudos of everyone else and asked how that happens... and they said "just go hang around in team X's channel, they'll give you a 'taco' any time your answer a query."

Given Google's promo system (where a committee looks at candidates from very different teams) this then means they'd have to try to normalize the data for it to be useful.
Thank you! I'll be sure to dig into k-nearest more as well.
Auto star all repos of specified users in GitHub
Looks cool, I've made one here https://www.buymeacoffee.com/albinowax - I'll add the button to http://hackxor.net/ shortly.

PS looking forward to cryptocurrency support!
AI can beat us at games–but sometimes, that’s by cheating
100 percent agree with your post.

Unfortunately most people I have met do not think like this.
On ios, you can set the accessibility shortcut to enable/disable greyscale quickly. Useful for when you need colour.

Settings --> general --> accessiblity --> scroll to accessibility shortcut at bototm --> choose colour filters

Enabling greyscale itself is in the display accomodations --> colour filters section of accessibility

Once enable, just triple tap home to turn greyscale on/off

At least some android systems have a similar setting.

I am not sure if this is actually affecting my usage, but I only figured this out a couple days ago. My compulsive usage is mostly text, which grayscale has little impact on.
I academia, if you're a PhD student that writes the paper, you're the "first author", but anyone who helps you do research or process data or other contributions is a "second author".

I think that's a better system, because one person may have 2 first author publications and 3 second author publications. Another person may have just 1 first author publication but 12 second author publications. So you can weigh and evaluate each person based on their assistance and contributions to others.
If someone is really paranoid about white space issues in a file you’re editing on vim, you can can always use `:set list` to display those characters.
I think you are being downvoted because your last paragraph is unnecessarily derogatory. Rather than having a preconceived mindset, I think she's being honest when concluding that it's an open question: "I cannot think of the Erdős Collaboration Graph without also thinking about who is represented and who is not, and why."

The statistical point you raise is excellent, though, and deserves more discussion. Besides being male and female, are there other characteristics which distinguish the "notables" from the "non-notables"? Statistical analysis would normally require that the two groups be exchangeable other than being "male" and "female", and we know in advance that this is not the case.

Is Wikipedia to blame if the otherwise valid criteria it chooses for notability (publications, citations) have a disparate impact on women? Probably not, but it's still a valid question of whether a different approach would produce a better societal effect, whatever that might be.
Interesting. The feature is also available on Android.
definite NO on the converse, and didn't like styles on vans. I have wide feet, so classic looks are out as converse only has them in normal width, same issue with my PF Flyers.
Maybe it's not the initiative per se. Did you name the function silliness(), runPig(), or give any other blatant display of contempt? It's dripping from your comment.

(not saying it was necessarily about something real, just that it could be)
Awesome, I'll email you!
Cosmic dawn: astronomers detect signals from first stars in the universe
The built in rule to copy 'build.sh' to 'build' and make it executable is also interesting.. confused the hell out of me
If you're doing things on the web, this extension can simulate the various types of colorblindness on any page you visit:

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/spectrum/ofclemegk...
Any bets on how their next IM app will be named? My pick is Hangouts Talk.
"We are Google and we know what is best for you. Go ahead and use it until we realize something else is best for you. Oh, and BTW if you think our UI is bad then you don't know what is best for you."
> That's a pretty obvious clone of MS Word if I ever saw it. Say what you will about patents, but this is egregious copying and I don't think it's wrong of MS to defend themselves here.

If you think this shouldn't be allowed then MS office should have never existed either. Excel is an egregious theft of VisiCalc. Microsoft Word is blasphemous copying of MacWrite. Windows's main UI concepts were entirely stolen from other OSes.
The biggest draw with Self-Employment in my opinion is setting your own hours and working at your own pace.
My guess is that the original hangouts will be deprecated, leaving:

Consumer:

- Video: Google Duo

- Messaging: Google Allo

Enterprise:

- Video: Hangouts Meet

- Messaging: Hangouts Chat
On the other hand, some things can get lost in translation. This, of course, depends on the language (and culture), and mathematics is probably the strongest example of such language (with, say, physics being the "culture").
I see similar statements to this quite frequently around this topic, and every time they strike me as quite simplistic.

If such a conflict were to ever happen (and let us pray that it doesn't), I feel that it would be quite a bit more complicated than "government brings out the big guns, game over," for several reasons:

1. This ignores the historical track record of the US military in asymmetric warfare, fighting determined foes with inferior equipment and weaponry. I'm thinking of Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, etc. Not perfect comparisons, but worth some thought.

2. It is likely that the US military would see significant desertion and insubordination in such a situation. Military personnel are people too, and many may be reluctant to go to war against their own country.

3. Every state has an Army National Guard and an Air National Guard, and many states has state defense forces. While the National Guard units are legally obligated to obey orders from the federal government, there is no guarantee of what would happen were there to actually be a domestic insurgency.

A populace armed with AR-15s may well be enough of a problem that the opposing force weakens its opposition and starts to fracture.

Again, let us all hope that nothing like this ever happens, but that shouldn't stop us from analyzing in more detail what might happen.
I can't believe this isn't an April Fool's joke - it's just too ironic! Is google really not self aware enough to see what's going on?!

My whole office is having a good laugh right now, we really cannot fathom how google can be this blind.
Wikipedia is like a subgraph of the internet. Are there good reasons for certain sites to be blocked on the net? Yes? Should I just be allowed to call you a stupid plucktwit as if I was f'in Linus Torvalds (just for illustration purposes (psyched, I'm really enjoying this(I'm not even making the turn around to illustrate the analogy to Wikipedia any further)))?

I guess deletion also serves to keep editors in check, if they don't meet quality standards. It's simply more difficult to delete a deletion-privileged user who has also a number of contributions under the belt. This is similar to police corruption, or shirky's principle.
So...CSRF tokens for everything?
This is an inane criticism. How many business services has Google released? How many have shut down? Let's get empirical here.
If anything the current crop of new graphics APIs (Metal, Vulkan, and DX12) all owes their start to AMD's Mantle project. Metal certainly didn't get the ball rolling, although it almost certainly accelerated Khronos's path to standardization & shipping (which is why Vulkan adopted Mantle as the base, to ship quicker). AMD gets that claim.

OpenGL was not stuck, either. OpenGL's AZDO project was alive & well: https://www.khronos.org/assets/uploads/developers/library/20... (just not on macOS because AZDO is GL4.2+ whereas macOS is stuck on 4.1)
I don't think so. Although it's worth noting that Google isn't big on deadlines. They set quarterly goals, but on the teams I was on, they weren't taken very seriously because it was so common to be pre-empted by other tasks. But I never got any kind of feedback that my projects were shipping too late.
Correction: Agriculture is an ecological problem. Technology is one subset of it.

A useful concept comes from the domain of navigation:

"The Art of ship handling involves the effective use of forces under control to overcome the effect of forces not under control."

- Charles H. Cotter
> Why should the fact that you've got 800k making money for you mean that you should be taxed less than someone that earned their 50k through wages and tips?

the lower rate of taxation incentivizes one to invest that money in legit investments, rather than spend it on discretionary consumption or invest it in an illicit vehicle that provides an untaxed return.

> Why should one of these market actors be taxed lower than the other?

I personally don't think they should but another way of looking at it is that people usually have to work (the enormous pile of cash came from someone somewhere, even if it wasn't the person who has it now). so theres no incentive for the government to cut the worker a tax break. but when you have money in the bank you can do many things with it. a lower capital gains tax allows the government to earn some revenue on the money and helps keep that person from spending it all on fun stuff and driving up the cost of resources with 800k worth of bids.
Changing lightbulbs are like bug fixes
It looks like they're going to switch from Hangouts Chat to just Chat.
On Android, under Accessibility, you can set color mappings for various types of color-blindness, but (at least on 7.0) you have to enable Developer Options to get access to the "simulate color space" option, which provides monochromancy.
Google actually kind of has a partial solution for this. Your performance review is not just based on manager's assessment, but you also need to gather reviews from your peers.

However, you need to strike a balance between helping out peers and having impactful projects.
Voice -> not technically IM, but forced upon people after functionality removed from hangouts (after originally being removed from Voice...)

Inbox -> Email

Gmail -> Email
I just get to the upsell landing page, despite already being signed into a GSuite account.
I don't understand the start-off of "not really". Is that in reference to the first sentence or the 2nd? I think the "1Password-autofill" protects you against phishing because if you go to a legit site, the domain will match and 1Password will autofill. If you go to a phishing site that just looks right (Unicode domain, whatever), but doesn't match exactly then the auto-fill won't happen and you'll be tipped off.
It feels like they are doing A/B testing by releasing entirely different products rather than small changes within existing products. I wish they'd pick a name and iterate on features on one product that I can invest into using for a long time (like Gmail).
Would you say it's helpful to understand the way that certain people work/think, though? I haven't yet read it, and I've seen this criticism before.
Sounds like a "nicer" rehash of the Gervais Principle. I haven't read Developer Hegemony, but from the looks of the author's blog, I would recommend "cutting out the middleman" and going straight to the source material: https://www.ribbonfarm.com/the-gervais-principle/