skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> and a small local player I've never heard of

That's part of your problem; there is a third competitor and you didn't even try to do business with them, because they weren't one of the famously screwy companies you've heard of.

I don't envy your big two choices there, but I guarantee it'd be worse with just Comcast or (shudders) just AT&T.

A family member has a small cottage where just under half of the building is on the other side of the county line. We can only get one fixed provider there, and it's satellite, but over the county line they have Comcast and a couple other terrestrial ISPs. the situation is hilarious.

> Also, you've linked to the map highlighted at 10/1; but my understanding is that the FTC definition of broadband is presently 25/3.

Sorry! I pulled up that search from a bookmark (10/1, excluding satellite), and didn't switch the bandwidth setting back to the default.
Congrats on getting back but it's sad that this story had two be on frontpage of HN twice before they took notice and accepted their fault.

Chances of this happening again are very slim for the next guy who falls prey to their faulty moderation (ai).
I hate to be That Guy, but would this meaningfully outperform a boring, cheap forecasting method like a moving average?
Also

- One of the most popular ways for running surveys / forms (Google Forms)
In 30 years of doing consulting on 'systems' work, it's astoundingly rare to see documentation of any sort that accurately & completely represents the current running state of the system. Sometimes it's close, but more often than not it's whatever was presented to get budget before any development has started.

Occasionally, the folks involved actually believe their doco does represent reality. They are invariably wrong, sometimes in small details, usually in large ones. Tools like this are an invaluable check on reality.

> Have systems gotten so messy and complicated that we build them without knowing they're actually doing, until after they're built?

Yes, in general, at least in my world (medium size to enterprise). Agile has made this in practice much much worse.
wasn't the whole point of communication networks reducing transportation costs?
Uber is a pretty terrible name for a taxi app.
The catch being that now your bugs will be "fun" to pin down.
I wasn't saying that OSS is itself equal to proprietary software, but that it often ends up affiliated with non-free products. Products which then shamelessly continue using the OSS image to foster goodwill, even though their end users are far from having Freedom.

> that FSF leads to monopolistic SaaS companies spying on you

Erm, what? Both BSD and GPL software are similarly vulnerable to being transmuted into SaaS.

This isn't an argument about specific licenses per se. What I'm calling out is "openwashing" in general.

The FSF at least has an intellectual framework to analyze this. You don't need to license your work as GPL, but you do need to think ahead about the users of your software. Imagine using a derivative of your own work, suffering an annoying bug that you know precisely what it is, and yet being unable to fix it because a middleman has prevented you from doing so.
No, you're not.

It might be a pain to move, but it is certainly possible, and it's certainly worth the effort.
I've never worked in customer service but this seems wrong to me. I would expect that you would be able to communicate more effectively by saying the single core thing you need to say, because the more words you add, the less likely they are to miss that part, or even to not read anything in your message at all.
I wonder if they'll attempt monetizing the data or the inferences they'll garner or both?
> Windows doesn't even have a standard driver-ABI anyway

It does to a very significant degree. Windows 7 drivers from 10 years ago still work today with Windows 10. Windows 95 user software from 23 years ago will still work today in Windows 10. Microsoft cares strongly about maintaining compatibility and only removes functionality when necessary.
OP strongly implied that working with or serving the Chinese at all was a bad thing.

They're 1/5 of the world.
I was graduating high school around then. It definitely did impact teens that much. Net job growth was negative by 300K+ for over a year. More than 800K jobs were lost in November 2008 alone. Lots of stress at home, and you're more than old enough to notice. So you start reading the news, where you find lots of people were speculating about if not a great depression at least a lost generation.

Graduating into GFC was terrifying.

I'm sure some were sheltered from it or blissfully unaware, but many were very aware.
My fear with fixed link wireless broadband is that it won’t be “real” internet in the sense of a publically accessible IP.

In the case of regular cellular service, is the IP publically accessible, or is it behind a NAT of some sort? I always assumed that it was behind a NAT for some reason, but I don’t know for sure.

I like to be able to host my own services for personal use.
Mason bees are used to pollinate apple orchards.

Obviously, worth noting that the trees you're listing --- with the possible exception of plums --- are also non-native. Which doesn't make them bad, but does make this an industrial agriculture problem, not an environmental one. And industrial agriculture seems to have the honey bee maintenance problem basically under control.
I cannot upvote this enough. I've found that exercise helps; both from being healthier but also because I'm so tired I sleep through the night instead of waking up and being unable to get back to sleep.

While running I focus on form as a way of meditation. Eventually my mind will wander onto other topics; being unable to actually put my hands onto a keyword or whiteboard helps.
Why is dd fragile? I mean, yes doing so while the filesystem is mounted is like Russian Roulette, but if the filesystem is unmounted? I see that it isn't very efficient, but I never had any problems with reliability.

Silent corruption might actually be a problem, but that is something you won't solve by backing up files and directories instead of block devices. After all, a block devices backup just contains more information than the files and directories backup. The only advantage of filesystem backups is that you can easier validate if a file should have changed, but even if you detect that it changed even if it shouldn't have, you still need some kind of checksum or so to find out which version is correct.

On the other hand, if you back up the files and directories you have to care about the filesystem type and if there are special types like links, devices nodes and the like. On that side, I had enough unpleasant experiences that I am trying to avoid that trouble.

To restore single files I can simply mount the image on a loop device, so no problem there.
If there are aunts and uncles, presumably some of them are siblings of your father-in-law, as closely related as his children...

A technicality: Not sure in the USA, but over here that's not correct. Relation is measured in grades being those the basic parent-child "distance". So you're related in the first grade to your parents or children, but in the second grade to your siblings (1 grade distance from you to your parents, another one from your parents to them) so, unless the father in law has a living parent, no one is more closely related to him than his children.

So for lack of a better way of understanding, I would just ask a lawyer.
Sure, restating what someone just told you about how they are feeling "What I hear you saying is ..." can start to sound mechanical.

But consider the alternative: most people never actually get any acknowledgement of their thoughts and feelings. They are fully expecting to just be ignored and responded to with the argument that the other party was building in their head while they were talking.

The Mom was preparing GGGP to expect people to give a sh*t when he speaks, he just hasn't realized it yet.
This is becoming more of a problem, at least in the city I live. Greenspaces and public parks are being replaced with condos and apartment complexes with their own walled off private courtyards and such. Parks, little groves of trees and stuff are the kinds of places we'd hang out as teenagers a lot.
I guess hacker news is the only place where google gives their customers support.
Well, at mom and pop shops it already happens via the human worker recognizing and tracking you, without consent.
I periodically see the same content on my FB feed because well, it is NBD if I see the same update from my friend several times.

Let me assure you, it is a BFD if I get billed twice for the same trip. So I am pretty sure Uber needs quite a few engineers to make sure that their stuff works correctly every time in every market for every customer.
> perhaps they should merge and join forces?

I wish that too, the problem off course is that FSF as an organization is absolutist and that would never work.

This recent install-fest threads illustrates this vividly:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19435791
The irony is quite delicious.
Almost the right timeframe, but from my perspective the GPL2/GPL3 split is what broke everything. The GPL was a glorious hack as long as it was alone in its niche (supported by admonitions against license proliferation), but its success was predicated on it instantiating itself as a singleton. But the basic problem was simultaneously desiring (a) the ability to combine any collection of software and (b) preventing certain combinations of software. Now that we have to choose, the zeitgeist seems to have given up on (b).
They were the first delivery place with an API as far as I know.
This blocking happens on the device level? So not even a VPN connection can help?
Wow, I've never been able to get a real person at Google to review a case of supposedly breaking ToS. My Google account got suspended for "traffic pumping". I didn't know what "traffic pumping" was at the time but after looking it up, it looks like they thought I was a bot for a phone carrier trying to commit fraud: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traffic_pumping

For reference, I haven't ever used the Google account for anything like Google Duo, Allo, Hangouts, etc. There was an appeal system linked in the message saying "You broke the terms", but when I filled it out, about 24 hrs later I got a response saying "You can't appeal if you broke the terms", which seems inconsistent at best.

I managed to track down a Google support employee and basically told him "Hey, it should be obvious that I'm a real person and not a bot for a phone carrier". His response at first was "The appeal should work, let me know if it doesn't". I told him that it didn't work, and his response was "Well we're not allowed to help you if the automated system says you broke the terms. You must have broken the terms."

Happy for you getting anything out of them other than a brick wall, at least.

EDIT - To pre-empt some questions that may come up: I was using a unique, randomly generated password for my Google account. Plus, you have to be able to login to the account to see the "You broke the terms" message, so the password was definitely not changed.
Deploying with zero down time with Ansible is kinda the same as it's always been:

- Deploy to one host
- Wait for health checks to pass
- Deploy to second host.

Load balancer takes care of the rest.
> I wrote a passive-aggressive email. I posted this. I tweeted at them (first tweet ever).

A totally repeatable and transparent process indeed.
NLP for Long Tail Languages
As another commenter pointed out, Dominos is kinda the poster child for fast food companies driving growth by embracing technology. They started investing in online ordering back in 2007, and their stock has gone up more than 20x since then.

And if you look at how Dominos describes itself, they're clearly focused on technology (or at least want you to think they are). For example, half of their standard investor blurb is about technology:

> Emphasis on technology innovation helped Domino's achieve more than half of all global retail sales in 2017 from digital channels, primarily online ordering and mobile applications. In the U.S., Domino's generates over 60% of sales via digital channels and has produced several innovative ordering platforms, including Google Home, Facebook Messenger, Apple Watch, Amazon Echo, Twitter and text message using a pizza emoji. In late 2017, Domino's began an industry-first test of self-driving vehicle delivery with Ford Motor Company – and in April 2018, launched Domino's HotSpots™, featuring over 200,000 non-traditional delivery locations including parks, beaches, local landmarks and other unique gathering spots.

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/dominos-pizza-annou...
This matches my experience using the internal tools pretty well.

But hte team I was on was mostly using AWS, which meant the tooling was better.

We also had a bunch of people who wanted python instead of Ruby, so they started using python and eventually we were just a team that used python. Cool.

Apollo is probably the worst thing. Brazil, Pipelines, etc... those are mostly fine.

Amazon has done a ton with the JVM. They don't need something new, so they don't bother. That's fine.

They also do adopt other tech as needed to do things. I know people who worked in Go, because it was container stuff.

This was also one of things that gave me pause when considering interviewing with snap a while back. So many former Amazon people. Seemed like a lot of stuff was going with "just copy amazon, make it a bit better". I don't want to write java. bleh.

Anyway, this article is going to have a lot of people saying "oh no that's not right". It is. There are exceptions but overall it's pretty much bang on.

Oh and open source. My understanding is jeff doesn't like contributing back. The company doesn't like contributing back. They keep an iron grip on IP. They are ridiculous about letting employees do side projects. They fight back with every single FOSS contribution and even after some of our senior guys did a whole bunch of work it still required multiple layers of approvals and a whole bunch of hooops and an extra training course and blah blah blah blah. It's really really dumb. I find it crazy that Amazon doesn't get more flak for being probably the worst company for open source around right now.

But MS has tossed out their old CEOs, has tons of interest in making open source work well for them, and contributes loads... still get shit on.
If a message is really really important, then you don't make it short and you don't pad it with fluff either. Instead, you say the simple thing you need communicated, over and over again in different ways, together with supporting evidence. Then, anywhere their eyes land on the page, they'll understand your message.
The other famous TDA technique is persistent homology, this paper is a good intro https://www.math.upenn.edu/~ghrist/preprints/barcodes.pdf
Hmmmm. As long as this is restricted to very simple functionality, it seems fine to me. What I don't want is my emails taking 3 seconds to load because some random AMP component I don't need has to load. Also I think they are aware about the static permanence issue... Hope they have a good solution to that.
McDonald's is a massive bottom-line franchise, so enforcing new standards that cut into margin and getting paying franchisees to put their stores on board is a recipe for disaster. I wish McDonald's would improve their quality too but that is just not what McDonald's is.

Dominos has been doing well thanks to early adoption of tech and using it to integrate with customers in new ways that the competition hasn't. They proved the success in fast-food franchises with this, and now McDonald's is trying to differentiate with tech too with this acquisition.
Another article about Loyalty programs
Good to hear!

Social media is an excellent tool for publicly shaming companies, but it's sad it has come down to this.
they're already talking about intrusive surveillance such as using license plate readers.

If you drive onto their property, and McDonald's Corporation is almost always the landlord of a franchised store, are they really intruding on your privacy?
“...an anonymous Reddit commenter who is facing an abusive copyright claim from the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society, a group that publishes doctrines for Jehovah’s Witnesses.”

Sounds like the Jehovah’s Witnesses are ripping off the Church of Scientology’s playbook.
“From 2013 through late 2016, when one Davao security official estimated the IBM program stopped being in active use, Filipino human rights activists who worked closely with the Commission on Human Rights claimed to have documented at least 213 extrajudicial killings carried out by Davao death squads”

It’s IBMs fault those killings occurred when the system wasn’t being used?
I don't mean this in a trollish way, but can you show me a "rights" molecule?

Or explain what it would mean for rights to exist outside of a society?
I did. You spent most of it lecturing people who use cars. I explained to you why you were wrong to do so.
"Banking in fungible." You cannot instantly replace a bank account, transfer credit, or make changes without the help of the bank itself yet twitter can instantly be replaced by many forms of communication (SMS, Email, IRC, Talking, etc).

The network and the way communication happens on those is not the same.

So if your car is on empty and you stop to buy gas only to find that your checking and credit accounts (from the bank) have a 2 day delay, you would find that acceptable!?

Please don't misquote me. The Generally speaking part is important here. Generally speaking, I don't let my car get to a situation where I'm on empty (I think I've been in that situation once in the last 20 years). And if the worst happened, it would suck but I'd ring a friend and it would be inconvenient but that's all.

OTOH, I've had multiple meetings in the last year where my only communication has been by Twitter and we've been arranging where to meet in the minutes before via it.
from what I can see the video showed that machine separates ripe grapes in good color and shape from the rest of the mix. did you see the machine taste wine and go back to tune up its sorting algorithm?:)
Here's one. North Seattle, ballard area.

Internet options:

Comcast, cable. 2gbit down, 25mbit up.

Centurylink, adsl, 40mbit down, 0.7mbit up.

....

profit!
This advice is incorrect to recommend using type="number". On a desktop, trackpad and mousewheel scrolling while the pointer is hovering over and/or focus is within a type="number" field will alter the number within it, resulting in undetected data errors as digits off-by-one without user awareness.
ELI5 Why is this bad?
I had to do the same thing recently for my app when it was blocked from the MS App Store... We were eventually excepted again and I'm about to go through the gauntlet again and try to release ...
Man was it fast when you could come in and they had burgers in the bin waiting. They got shamed into cooking to order, and the downside is waiting; I'm never ordering a quarter pounder again since they changed those recently to take forever to cook.
Jeremy says he wrote "something very close to" the following for his appeal, how would you have written it?

> "Mommy Saver Plus was removed for 'deceptive ads' which is a little silly because there is no ads in the app. The attached screenshots have nothing to do with Mommy Saver Plus."

I think it would be a bit too easy for someone a google employee reading this to go 'he's saying he doesn't consider them ads, and ranting about the screenshots out of frustration'. That's not a reasonable thing for the google employee to do, but it is a possible one. I think I would prefer something like

> The evidence attached for removing "Mommy Saver Plus" are screenshots from a different app by a different developer. "Mommy Saver Plus" was removed for having "deceptive ads", but unlike the app in the screenshot "Mommy Saver Plus" doesn't have any ads, so clearly this was done in error.

> Please see the attached screenshot of "Mommy Saver Plus" for comparison.

> Thanks,

> <Name>
> You have to host somewhere!!! Ever gotten an abuse email from the data center holding your physical hardware?

No

This law does nothing to change that in any case. Get a (US law) DMCA takedown, and ignore it, job done.
"I can't change the outcome of self-worth destruction from my billion-dollar idea, so I'll just have to learn to accept what I can't change."

As opposed to:

"I should try to change the outcome of self-worth destruction from my billion-dollar idea, even if I think I can't or it might cost me my wealth."

Again, I am not saying that this is Stoicism. This is the misuse of Stoic principles, by declaring that wealth-generating activities as "things that can't change" and then applying Stoicism to bear the burden of the resulting harm that they "can't change".
I'm going to guess some googler saw your post on HN and gave you the special treatment through their internal mailing lists
Now is the time for an antitrust lawsuit. Google needs to be broken up. I have no problem with them making money, but not as a single entity dictating the future of technology (as a part of their platform).
It would be nice again to question why must Google control everything and whether that's a good or bad thing.
"Trust The Computer. The Computer is your friend!"

We're descending into the parody dystopia envisioned in this game.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paranoia_(role-playing_game)

In the early 90's, if I were to tell people that a mega-corporation would seek to take over all the world's information, and they would subject users to this Kafkaesque bureaucratic nightmare treatment straight out of the movie "Brazil," they'd think my brain was taken over by "Paranoia" the role playing game.
It doesn't seem that complicated to me... Someone described the NYT's journalists as "real" journalists and return0 took issue with that, saying that they're (just) "paid" journalists. The suggestion is that whether what they do is "real journalism" or not (and whether, in return0's words, they should be considered "arbiters of truth") is determined by factors beyond simply having a budget.[1]

Ie. Being paid for it is an insufficient condition for "real journalism", though it may or may not be a necessary one.

[1]. And I suppose it is implied that the NYT doesn't (always?) meet those factors.
It hasn't quite been 10 years. They had significant revenue growth after 2009 [0] And annual gross profit is the highest it's been since 2013. [1]

In the last 2 years they have seen significant revenue decrease, but primarily because they sold off a significant number of stores to franchisees, which transfers that revenue off their books [2]

That said your underlying point, that they face "headwinds" in the market right now, is correct. Competition from "fast casual" dining has eroded growth that might otherwise have gone to "quick service" outlets like McDonalds, and growth in the industry continues to strongest in the fast casual segment [3]

[0]https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/MCD/mcdonalds/reve...

[1] https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/MCD/mcdonalds/gros...

[2] https://www.marketwatch.com/story/mcdonalds-revenue-hit-by-f...

[3] https://www.restaurantbusinessonline.com/financing/technomic...
I’m curious, you redacted something but don’t talk about it. What was the alleged “disguised app” you redacted, and why might they have thought you were disguising it?

And why did you redact this fact?
Show HN: IP-Api.io – Geolocation by IP
Bypass firewalls with ICMP error messages