skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Why do people think Sprint is so bad

Obviously every area is different, even on a block-to-block basis, but Sprint historically had the worst network density (lowest number of sites) in any area, while using the highest-band of spectrum (least propagation), while also having the least amount of backhaul (data speeds from the tower to the wider internet).

This generally resulted in them having the worst performing network in a majority of markets nationwide -- and worse by a wide margin. Think "I can't even get twitter.com to load" levels of bad performance. It was like that, in some places, for the better part of a decade straight. Sprint's cellular performance was so bad for so long, that sometimes callers couldn't even complete a single phone call. Sprint's service was so bad, it would regularly make the local evening news - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_kvT5qsi9c

Add to that, that they were later than all of their competitors in deploying broadband (which they weren't able to do themselves, and had outsourced to Clearwire to redo, who also botched the work and Sprint later aquired them and had to re-redo their work), add in that they completely botched their Nextel acquisition (which ironically had a better network than Sprint in many places -- a network Sprint promptly discarded with zero effort to reuse or recycle), add in that their phones had to have dual or even triple redundant radios for a while to handle all of their incompatible network systems (for a while there, Sprint literally sold phones that had to have CDMA + WiMAX + LTE radios running simultaneously just to get usable coverage -- which murdered battery life), add in that they were tied to legacy CDMA technology which, unlike Verizon, Sprint dragged their feet on modernizing, and you get a recipe for disaster.

The word "Sprint" is basically synonymous with "shit service" in the mind of most semi-involved cellular customer, for many of the reasons above. Even when Sprint finally started to fix some of their problems (around in 2017-2018 or so), so much damage had been done so thoroughly for so long, that the brand was basically toxic, regardless of fixes.
It isn’t that complex, most of those economic indicators show the forward looking expectations of major firms. Or in other words, the future of the economy can be seen by the decisions Wall Street has already made.

The real money is, as always, in insider trading on short-term purchases. Still, one could beat the stock index if one factored in economic cycles.
It’s US law, they don’t have a choice.
They wouldn't be the only one reviewing or reviewing at all. It would help them understand the process if they see it in action.
When I'm on my computer, I open almost all links in separate tabs. When I'm on my phone, generally I click the link and click the back button.
I also had the Sprint BYOD promo for a year since I had an unlocked iPhone 6+ at the time. The network was only very slightly worse than Verizon (mostly in and around NYC). I switched to Tello (Sprint MVNO, $17/mo for 3GB) when the promotion ended and the network quality has been the same. I only chose Tello because I already had the SIM and my plan was going to renew within 48. It's been fine.

I probably would've bought a new phone sooner but the terms were ambiguous as to whether or not switching phones (even one purchased separately and fully paid) would negate the promo or not.
I really thought the Touch Bar would grow on me, and now a year or so later it's just as frustrating and unintuitive as it was on day one.

My wife and I rarely watch television, but when we do it's on our MBP. There literally isn't a way to adjust the volume on full screen video using just the keyboard; you have to exit full screen mode (to revert the Touch Bar to its default set of buttons), and then adjust the volume slider (which is still another screen deep).

It's infuriating.
If you count Google Home, Amazon Alexa, ... as IoT, you sure a critical mass hasn't been reached yet?

There's lots of interesting niches, the overall term "IoT" and what people use it for is incredibly broad (IMHO to the point of uselessness)
CPI includes rents.
> Kosovo voted 10 years after US operation

At the moment of the US "operation" (honestly, war) those who had direct military support were some paramilitary troops attempting to escalate the conflict to the level to be taken seriously (specifically by the US) with the agenda of changing the established existing borders.

The war itself was against all UN decisions, it was unilaterally started by the US and NATO. The US fought for the right to enter Kosovo (and make its military bases there) and it won that as the result of its war, not from the UN.

The country from which those on Kosovo voted "out" was already economically destroyed by the actions of the U.S. -- the equivalent would be if Russia managed to not only control Crimea for a decade but also economically destroy Ukraine for two decades and then let the people vote if they want to stay in such Ukraine.

What do I "make up"? And how is that "better" from inhabitants of Crimea wanting to separate from Ukraine, where the political regime just illegally changed before that, exactly in the direction of suppressing politically all ethnic Russians in Ukraine? The inhabitants in Crimea and other parts of Ukraine could surely point to Kosovo as a precedent which gives them right to separate (and even get the military support for that). And contrary to the US in Kosovo, Russia already had a big military base on Crimea.
Marcus said he'd rather stay in LA : https://twitter.com/malwaretechblog/status/11448663098568294...
We’re More of Ourselves When We’re in Tune with Others
In a Lab Accident, Scientists Create the First-Ever Permanently Magnetic Liquid
AI plugin edits video
If someone tells you to walk 1,000 miles to get somewhere you need to be, would you really respond with anything except "I can't"? It's an acceptable shortening of "well that's a really long way, and it's really hot, and it would take a long time, and I don't have that kind of time, and I'm not in very good shape, and my knees are bad"
Louisiana declares state of emergency over ransomware attacks on schools [pdf]
At this point Apple should just release a mid-2015 MBPr with modern hardware and call it the "MacBook Pro Classic".
It's always fun to try to convince people there is no such thing in nature as a perfect store of value.

Houses decay, land can erode or land uses can shift destroying the social value.

If your friend asks you to help him move, next week he'll return the favor, but try going back after not talking to him for thirty years and cashing that favor it.
That’s not relevant to the point you’re responding to - the point is, if the purchasing power of your dollars went up (and assuming it’s your native currency), you don’t get taxed on it because the number of dollars you hold did not change as a result. If you are holding a different currency, it’s value goes up, and you convert it back to spend, you made capital gains and it will be taxed even though that foreign currency is not an “investment” instrument.
Lot identification actually isn't a tax-time decision; it's a transaction-time decision. If you don't identify the specific lot you're selling (or more specifically if your broker isn't given or doesn't follow instructions which lot to sell), then in general sales are treated as FIFO, which might not be surprising because that characterization leads to maximum gain in a rising market. See Internal Revenue Service Publication 550 for more. This means that the tax treatment of a stock sale is in fact fixed at the time of transaction; moreover, it's entirely automatable by standing instructions to the brokerage, which most brokerages routinely offer as a feature ("tax optimizer" or "tax-lot optimizer" or similar language).

(This of course is all US tax code, not applicable to US states or other countries.)
His dark materials seems like it was supposed to be a sort of atheist narnia, but Philip Pullman is just not as good a writer or storyteller as cs lewis was. The tv show might improve upon the books though.
They are for sure the bottom of the barrel. I threw that one in there because they have dirt cheap options.
Quantum phenomenon helps to understand limits of graphene electronics
But I want physical volume buttons, too! (The Touch Bar volume buttons aren't available at all when video is in full screen mode.)

I don't understand why it isn't an optional feature.
That was central to the plotline in the Hyperion Cantos by Dan Simmons.

I always thought they'd "realize their mistake" in the movie but honestly, the reference works either way. Humans being harvested and cultivated like we do plants or animals.

Would have made it more real and sinister if they showed someone being jettisonned IRL after an Agent takes them over in the Matrix.
Azure VM Metadata
And I've posted before, but the applications that actually have good integrations for that already have better integrations with an iPad. Logic Remote beats the heck out of Logic On A Touch Bar and is pretty much square in the same spendy-bracket.
Go to System Preferences / Extensions / Touch Bar and say "Customize Control Strip...". You will be presented a panel of options for things to drag to your Touch Bar, and your current Touch Bar icons will "wiggle". Use the mouse to drag the Siri icon from the Touch Bar to the panel (yes, this is a thing, try it!) and presto -- you've removed Siri from the Touch Bar.
Put bluntly, fuck ITAR.

I understand and applaud the intent of keeping extremely dangerous weapons out of the hands of just anybody. But the implementation is insane. Until recently, this same regulation was preventing people from freely distributing SSL libraries!

I also understand that Microsoft feels forced to act on this, but as a developer I consider it user-hostile and will investigate other alternatives. Losing access to your repositories on a whim with no chance to download backups is a worst-case scenario. This really vidates the concerns that people had when GitHub was acquired.

The US really needs to reassess a lot of its laws which heavily impact electronics - it's not just ITAR, but also things like the CFAA.

In the meantime, remember to mirror your repositories locally, because it looks like GitHub is no longer an unlikely point of failure.
Summary of article: nobody knows.

You could be conservative and be either paying the right amount or overpaying.

Or you could be aggressive, and be either paying the right amount or underpaying.

Nobody seems to know what the right way to treat these common situations, but the IRS wants you to figure it out and they’ll decide if you were right or wrong.

I did like the story’s example of buying a pregnant cow though.
Amazon Web Services is growing significantly slower than Microsoft’s Azure
I only got to this point. I couldn’t figure out the rest as I felt blocked going down that thought rabbit hole.

It can take months or years to sort out something like this in your own mind. Keeping a journal can be a useful tool.
yes they should die, stop pretending death should be avoided at all costs.
I like to post this video a couple times a year, because it's so relevant and on point.

It's also quite entertaining.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-7o9xYp7eE
This whole post has a Factorio vibe of x->y->z, I'd read a blog from this author just breaking down infrastructure.
How so? There's no "ia" there.
Sprint didn't actually earn $7.38 billion in net income from operations in 2018 (their operating income was $2.46 billion that year, their debt interest cost alone was $2.36 billion).

They got a one-time tax benefit in that fiscal year, for $7.1 billion, due to the tax law changes.

Their business is a disaster because of the debt. ~$9.5 billion in debt interest costs in the last four years.
I got my first and only (so far) tattoo at 45. I did not do so to express my difference from others, and do not have difficulty individuating myself. Nor do I care about individuating myself.

It took until I was 45 to decide on something I wanted to keep on my body forever.
The reason for the higher interest rate is due to loss and fraud costs.

Traditional loans (car, house, HELOC, etc...) can have much lower rates because if there are assets that are put up as collateral (the car, house) that can be repossessed and re-sold by the bank; while in the case of most credit card purchases there is no recourse for the issuing bank to recover the money that owed to the merchant bank.

As long as you live within your means (i.e. pay your balance off every month) a credit card can a convenient payment mechanism
If you're an absolute beginner - you don't need things to be online, just stick with local.

What do you need it to be online for?

If we want people who know web programming, basic server management on a 5$/mo VPS is something they'll need to learn, sorry.

If people want to dabble, stick with local.

If people want a business result with minimal friction - stick to instagram, facebook, medium, shopify etc. Existing platforms cover 99% of people's needs when they think they want a website. They're either trying to sell or promote something - existing platforms cover those needs very well - a website is something that fewer and fewer people will ever need to have as time goes on. This begs the question - what are people learning html/css for? Tell them the truth - we'll need fewer 'coders' in the next 30 years, either go get a real computer science degree or look for a different line of work. Just my opinion of course :)
Advanced Airflow: Scheduling Complex ETL Tasks
I have T-Mobile and travel for work frequently. A couple years ago I traveled to one of the largest metro areas in Iowa, only to get off the plane and have my TMo phone tell me that there was no service whatsoever. After a bit of research, I found out that TMo did not have any official coverage in the entire state of Iowa, and only had roaming coverage available through a partnership with Iowa Wireless (I think it's different now and there is actual coverage available in IA).

It ended up being fine (roaming was more than enough for my usage), but it did initially remind me of the feeling when I step off the plane in a foreign country and have to wait to find a WiFi hotspot to be connected again. It certainly wasn't what I expected when traveling to an area that's only ~200 miles away from one of the US's largest cities (Chicago).

edit to add: Ironically, TMobile has free roaming + data coverage in almost every single country around the world, which makes it seem a bit silly that I can take my TMo phone to rural Indonesia and get data service (which I have done, with that same phone and TMo plan) but struggle to get it in a place like metropolitan Iowa...
Gimpel Software [0] (PC Lint) has been around since 1984 or so they claim.

Lugaru Software [1] (Epsilon Editor) has been around since 1984

There are more but...

[0] https://www.gimpel.com/

[1] https://lugaru.com/history.html
This is so overkill. What if I am just moving and reporting my new address? What if I am 20 years old and never had any income?
There's still plenty of time for a burst, but it'll reach far beyond tech. Super low interest rates have created a ton of speculation globally in virtually all asset markets.

This time is probably not different.
Yes! You can see the p99 results here (we don't have an aggregated p95 measurement, so used p99): https://imgur.com/a/oQRbyBF

Both max and avg p99 latency became much more stable. Max appears to have gone down a little too.
Sure, daycares are regulated to establish certain minimum conduct. That floor is quite below what most people would want for their own child. Daycare workers are not punished merely for being inattentive, unaffectionate, etc. While there is a floor, parents shop around on many dimensions: teacher quality, activities, facilities, etc. And somehow, profit-seeking corporations deliver on those things. (The daycare my son attends is run by a big corporation with 24,000 employees. It’s much better than the government-run daycare in Virginia my daughter used to attend, though not as good as the big-name franchise daycare my daughter used to attend.)

It’s easy to be a knee-jerk cynic, but big organizations deliver great products and services all the time. Apple, for example, doesn’t build insane brand loyalty on the back of nickel and dimeing customers. You’re probably very happy with your car, your HVAC unit, your toothbrush, your bicycle, your dish soap, your mattress, stove, fridge, etc. People love Costco, Whole Foods, ALDI, Target, Trader Joe’s, etc. They love their mass-market beer, movies, cereal, burgers, etc. Even companies that people love to hate, for the most part, satisfy their customers. Nearly 3/4 of people report being “happy” with their cellular service: https://qtxasset.com/styles/breakpoint_xl_880px_w/s3/fiercew....
Misinformed article. The reason the tech bubble never burst is that

1) The largest tech businesses are actually hugely profitable. The only way they could burst is getting regulated or disrupted out of existence

2) Relative to other industries, bay area tech employees in the right employers are getting paid huge amounts leading to the largest creation of wealth perhaps of all time. This only looks like a bubble to people outside the industry because they don't understand how much this large group of people is making.

3) Yes there is still a lot of venture capital (some foreign, and most of that being biased towards only recent years) chasing large returns in a low interest rate economy, but that is only because of people chasing more #1s. And new hugely profitable businesses are still being made, like Square or Shopify or the yet-to-IPO Airbnb

It's not the acquihires. That only affects a small (relatively) number of people compared to the hundreds of thousands of very well compensated engineers at FAANG and smaller companies.
I see 3 sushi restaurants on the same street, start to extrapolate in my head, and wonder how we hadn't extinguished most edible fish species decades ago.

From what I've read and heard on the subject, my understanding is: (1) some we have (touched upon at end of Jiro Dreams of Sushi, for example), (2) we are in the process of doing so to most the rest, (3) fish farms are increasingly making up the difference.
If it's the first copy, it will just be read by Dropbox. There will not be 'write' from Dropbox that can corrupt it...
Breaking the site guidelines like that will get you banned here. Please review them: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
“If it was me, I would try medical therapy first, but it depends on how severe the pain is,” Dr. Mack said.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/25/health/neil-armstrong-hea...

If someone was 82, and a quality-of-life surgery is elected to be performed, it is always the patient and the doctors making that decision.
Surgeries can go wrong, they carry risk, heart surgery more so, heart surgery with an 82 year old even more so. Should we be holding the health care system accountable?
Even when the risks are known? Do we all of a sudden have the expectation that every open heart surgery will be successful and no one will die?
Hospitals shouldn't be rewarded for failures, but placing full blame on an organization with an impossible mandate seems a little bit unfair.
I'm going to try to convince the lead on this project to present at an upcoming Kubecon :)
Right especially given their 20-year advance understanding of differential cryptanalysis ...

My impression is the NSA of today is very different than that of the 70s and 80s.
But how much weight are they given?
> How would a package management system for C++ work?

> Would there be a centralized repository

> How would you track which libraries are compatible

> Seems like at this point it would be a herculean effort

This is not a bizarre or impossible idea.

Besides the plethora of package managers in more modern languages, there are in fact, actual real-world C/C++ package managers: Conan [1], Buckaroo [2], vcpkg [3], Conda [4], cget [5].

However, it's much like Go before its maintainers did anything: it's the Wild West and every day brings a new package manager.

Having some consensus, standardization, common concepts, or direction would help C++ adoption/usability enormously.

[1] https://conan.io/

[2] https://buckaroo.pm/

[3] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/build/vcpkg?view=vs-201...

[4] https://conda.io/en/latest/

[5] https://cget.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
Have you seen actual mx switches? I've got a handful on my desk here. Including the stems, they are ticker than my entire laptop by themselves. They just came out with "low-profile" switches, but they're still hardly thin at all. I really doubt many people would buy a laptop at least 3x the thickness of the current models.

(By the way, Cherry makes scratchy and cheap feeling switches. The low profile ones are even worse.)
> fuck ITAR.

As someone who has to deal with ITAR stuff I couldn't agree more. For example, its ok for us to mirror a bunch of open source stuff on the public internet, but we cant put that mirror on a CD and ship it overseas. What a joke.
I'm telling you, this is simply standard. As I also said, I don't know if Apple has more recently changed their policy, or sourced different screens.

Here's a quote from Asus:

"Since LCD panel is made up of millions of micro electronic pixels, if one pixel no longer functions normally, it will become a bright or dark dot. By ISO 13406-2 standards, ASUS conforms to the acceptance level between 3 to 5 defective bright/dark pixels. In order to deliver ultimate vision experience to ASUS customer, if your panel is less than or equal to the above number of dots, then, it is considered as an acceptable LCD monitor.In addition, the Premium Range of ASUS LCDs offers a unique Zero Bright Dot (ZBD) warranty.Please refer to ASUS LCD Monitor Bright/Dark Dot Warranty Table below."

Your LCD display is possibly subject to replacement if it meets the criteria outlined in Table 1:

[excerpt from Table 1]

Threshold for warranty replacement

Bright = 1 or more [pixels]

Dark = 6 or more [pixels]

And here's an older (2010) article which describes the policies of many manufacturers, including Apple.

https://www.tested.com/tech/1337-we-uncover-the-dead-pixel-p...