skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, their peering policy was and still is? infamous for being vile. They even had no ports at de-cix for a long time. However as ISP regarding reliability and technological improvement they are pretty good but they won't and/or can't build new fiber infrastructure and try to make the existence for competition in this space difficult...

Politics has no good ideas and mostly follows their wishes (as with subsidiaries for copper/fiber to the curb) probably because costs for fiber to the home would be way worse - so we'll stay at 16mbit (most villages) /50mbit (if you are lucky) /250mbit (innercity / dense population districts)

Cable market is owned mostly by Vodafone and a total mess due to being crazily overbooked in most cities...

But it's not so bad, for 40-50€ you can get 100/40mbit in a lot of places
Reflections on Getting Your New Software Engineering Job
The promise of the library is that books are available for free to anyone in society. It’s a little strange that we have the underlying technology to make libraries far, far more amazing than they were in 1950, and it just isn’t permitted. Imagine the ability to borrow any book in the world, on your iPhone, immediately, for free. But due to the way copyright laws work, the rules are just totally different for digital libraries. Perhaps the world would be better off if a free digital library of books were permitted, rather than forbidden.
They are arguably using their browser dominance to prop up their search engine dominance.
Ask HN: Is there any point in getting an MBA as a SWE?
Had an animated discussion with a very young software engineer yesterday. He said he planned to go get an MBA in a few years so that he could get into management and eventually become a high level executive at a big tech company. I expressed skepticism that an MBA would be either necessary or helpful in that pursuit. Any high level engineering managers here know much about what an MBA gets you in tech?
yes her definitions are very liberal, in more ways than one
Nothing. As the saying goes, “get while the getting is good”.

If I don’t take the cheap fare today, it doesn’t buy me anything in the long run anyway. Present dollars saved are a certainty, and if history repeats, there is a reasonable likelihood of future disruption being my easy-our for an anticompetitive Uber.
> If you are travelling in the USA as long as you stick to the interstate system you pretty much get mobile data the entire way. IF you drift onto smaller highways then that is when things get very spotty outside of metropolitan areas.

Stretches of road in Utah would like to have a word with you. Specifically I-70.
What he said about The Donald is correct.

People occasionally ask about this in Ask The Donald, which is basically T_D’s “meta”, and the response from T_D regulars and mods is always the same: T_D exists solely for circle jerking.
Individuals and companies cut back spending to match income when it comes down to it... some will leverage until they no longer can, but this is generally accounting hacks in practice. The government does not do so.

The U.S. govt from the top down, and even state and local governments will create a LOT of bureaucracy that provides no added value. Beyond that, they create purchasing systems that force higher spending. When states have tried to create different systems to stop corruption in those lines, the corruption just shifts and it winds up about the same.

There are usually solutions that can work at least as well as what we have with less government incursion and less bureaucracy. Personally, I'd rather see the gov't cut most programs, and allow taxpayers to take roughly half of their own tax burdens and direct them to charities directly. Let people fund what they actually care about directly and advocate themselves.

Also, corporation shouldn't be paying taxes (except as part of trade). They should be limited in terms of holdings and un/underused asset terms and forced to payout to owners/shareholders who would then be liable for taxes. Likewise, non-living entities should have severely restricted "rights" ... this would take a constitutional amendment at this point though.
> There are no "lgbt fanatics".

https://mobile.twitter.com/roughly_speakin/status/1083520556...

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.lifesitenews.com/mobile/new...

Literally kids in bikini around men role playing as women on Netflix :
https://imgur.com/a/haqn5NY

https://youtu.be/397hRrQWa_c

Come to Berlin gay pride and enjoy kids walking among naked seniors, progress am I right?

All these are applauded by the lgbt community, publicly, every day. I don't know where you stand morally but these things are definitely way out of my acceptance zone and way past the "let people do what they want". Closing your eyes and saying they don't exists is one step under active support.

> You talk about "a man feeling like a girl", in which you're literally ignoring multiple lifetimes of study of the psychology and clinical evidence, by _very_ qualified experts in the topics who have studied thousands of cases.

I just said these people currently have a huge network of public communities to help them through whatever they go through, same for POCs, they're on the current "good side". Not sure what you're hinting here.
I too am here to sing the praises of the Great People’s Republic of China.
Up until recently, a big Canadian bank only allowed 6 character passwords, and mapped whatever you typed into 6 numbers (e.g. Aa-Dd = 0).
The best part of this is that they are being called a manipulator for not shoring up their currency artificially.
Isn't that obvious, based on society's dysfunction alone?

It's not a moral principle. It's an explanation of where we find ourselves. This doesn't mean we shouldn't keep striving for a just society, but we don't live in a just society.
Clearcut is something that is easily / sharply defined. If you only know something when you see it then that thing is by its very nature not easily defined / loosely defined. These are opposite things.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_know_it_when_I_see_it
They're nowhere near a monopoly in the U.S. (and, I would imagine, Western Europe) and Google doesn't even work in China. I'm just not seeing it.
Apple Is Giving Out Hacker-Friendly iPhones, Plots Mac Bug Bounty
I think the ideal solution is to migrate business which depend on transportation into commercial areas like it has been done in the US from the beginning (because everything could be planned from scratch without "technical debt").
Of course it is hard to convince stores to move out of the historic districts of major towns into these kind of areas, but it actually makes sense for them if they're combined with other businesses and people have to spend less time travelling around to get everything done.
I have seen it being done like that here in Europe.

The biggest argument against that around here is that eventually, all stores want to move to these new business areas which causes the town's center to lose attractiveness.
That's why it's usually difficult for city administrations to decide about the locations of individual businesses.
It's obvious that:

1. Criminal who wants to mass-hurt people would try to hurt group of people who cannot protect themselves.

2. Criminal who wants to mass-hurt people (and ready to die himself) will find a ways to [possibly illegally] acquire means to do that.

Should we disarm everyone in a hope that criminals will stop being criminals?

How many people die of knife wounds from the hands of bad guys vs. from guns? From drunk driving or road rage? Granted it's less CNN news-worthy (not mass enough). Should we stop selling knives? Cars?
Only as long as it's intolerance of real, non-contrived intolerance, which in this case it clearly is.

Intolerance of gays is real intolerance, because it can't be logically justified, and it's based on religious bigotry instead of any legitimate justification.

Contrived intolerance is the baker claiming other people are intolerant of the baker's real intolerance of gays. You're not entitled to that kind of intolerance.
Not sure why you're using the conditional tense given historical and current efforts at repression of the left.
Time for a shout-out to Lea Verou's terrific fifty-minute tutorial "Regexplained" and accompanying regex playground:

https://youtu.be/EkluES9Rvak

https://regexplained.com/
"You don't get less hate; you just bury it underground and give them they feeling like they're being persecuted. It will make the situation worse, not better."

I think the recent rise in white supremacist violence fueled by viral media on mainstream platforms like Youtube and Twitter is a pretty strong argument against this belief. Any content on such large and familiar platforms gets to borrow some sense of legitimacy, and people who consume the content have some plausible deniability. Furthermore, algorithms that favor "engagement" create the exact constrained hate-filled extremist communities you are picturing... but then actively draw users into them from the rest of the platform!

http://facebook.com/l.php?u=https://www.wsj.com/articles/how...

Having this content "above ground" is truly leading to more hate, not just making the existing hate more visible.
I don’t think the barrier to entry in a single city market is particularly high. Short of exclusivity on self driving cars I think Uber is only ever one price rise away from losing dominance in a city.
the rotating reflective polygon patent is this one https://patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/29/68/46/da50635...
I think it is even more relevant but somehow it did not get posted.
It's not really an irony. It's just one more positive feedback mechanism. Humans (contra religious stories) are ecosystem participants.
Long time nuclear waste warning messages
I live in Berlin. Mobile networks are indeed a bad joke here. Most third world countries have much better networks. I always joke that I live about 1 km from the biggest FFing antenna in Germany (the TV tower, 350m tall, a major landmark and tourist destination) and yet cannot seem to get a reliable connection. I consistently get edge only near touristic areas because all of the base stations in those areas are apparently over provisioned. E.g. on the Alexander Platz right next to the before mentioned TV Tower I get edge only. That's the very definition of an incompetent operator. There is no excuse for being allowed to get away with that poor level of service. They just don't care here. In case you are wondering, the operator here is O2. I'd switch but doing so takes quite a lot of hassle (and paper work because Germany) and there is little evidence of other operators actually doing a much better job.

To fix this, the country needs lots of investments. E.g. they lack fiber optic cables in most of the country because the state monopolist pretending to be an actual company simply chose not to invest in this and the German government was completely OK with this for decades. This probably is part of the reason why 4G sucks here because there simply is nothing decent to connect the base stations to in most of the country. Fixing this will take ages and there are very little signs of this actually happening. E.g. most of Berlin has no access to fiber optic cable even though most of former East Berlin has gone through 25 years plus of heavy construction, renovation, etc. Apparently it never occurred to anyone here that stuffing some fiber optic cable in the ground would have been a clever idea. This is a key difference with e.g. the Netherlands where they've been putting cables in the ground for decades whenever there was any opportunity to do so. As a consequence, you can get fiber to your home in most places and reliably fast 4G in most of the country. This is the case across most of Europe with the exception of Germany.

The German government meanwhile is pretty hopeless. They have a "digitization" minister even. No idea what that means but it does not seem to yield more than weird photo opportunities for politicians without any apparent clue babbling about digitization (which is an actual word they keep on using with a straight face as if it means something). Also this minister is apparently not actually responsible for straightening out the dysfunctional mess that is the Deutsche Telekom, O2, and Vodafone kartel. That apparently is the responsibility for the traffic minister: https://www.dw.com/en/germany-aims-for-faster-internet-digit....
Despite all the griping on the internet, USA is consistently top 10 in broadband speed rankings, and costs are not that different from other countries.

https://www.speedtest.net/global-index
Better yet, use wirewrapping (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wire_wrap) instead of breadboarding, so quality of the board doesn't matter. Buy a wirewrap stick (20 USD), some crappy perfboards from China (10 USD), some wires (5 USD), some long DIP headers (10 USD), and you're good to go. You may still need two or three breadboards for quick experiments.

I'm currently working on a homebrew Z80 computer. I'm at the stage of moving the preliminary designs to PCBs, but from my experience, wirewrapping is a lot better than breadboarding when you start building circuits with many signal wires. Breadboards are quick and simple at first when you can "plug and play", but it would quickly become a nightmare when the number of connections and wires exceed 200. It may be a less concern for a modern microcontroller as i2c and SPI are serial interfaces, but on a 8-bit computer, you'll hit this number really quickly, because the system bus is 24-bit (16-bit addr, 8-bit data), parallel. A bus driver using two unidirectional buffer has 24 x 2 + 8 = 56 wires, two RAM chips have 48 wires, a ROM has another 24 wires, it's already 148 wires now for a bare-minimum system without even an I/O port. It will get out of control soon. Also, a 16-bit machine will become a nightmare even quicker as they have 32-bit bus.

On wirewrapped boards, you'll never get a bad connection without any visual clue, the connection is as solid as soldering, and there are no jumper wires hanging in the mid-air to stop you from probing it using an oscilloscope. Strongly recommended, to learn more, search keywords "wirewrap electronics" at YouTube.
>Unchecked extremism compounded by more unchecked extremism inevitably leads to scenarios like the ones we’re witnessing more and more often.

sounds like blaming free speech when basically a child can get AR-15.
Can we get a less clickbaity headline for something that was announced last year? (It's Call Screen for Pixel devices.)
What % of the word uses that?
Tolerance isn't the absence of rules, tolerance is leaving some space between what is undesirable and what is forbidden.

Which is why I don't understand why people think you can't be tolerant towards intolerance. There's plenty of room between what I think counts as intolerance and what I think should be forbidden by law.
> You and I can agree that it is despicable and disgusting that people think that way. But in their minds, you are the unreasonable one. What you call intolerance to them is not that at all.

Don’t you think it’s despicable that we don’t think this way?

We’re there, killing their wives, children and friends. We’re destroying the infrastructure. But we don’t even have any particularly strong feelings about it. It’s just what’s economically and politically expedient...
It depends on the city, but there's a weird entitlement in some big, dense American cities from people who feel they have an inherent right to store their car for free or very cheap on public land, when that land is in the middle of a dense city with a ton of competing uses for public land (bike lanes, sidewalks, pickup/delivery zones, street trees, bus lanes, heck even traffic lanes). In the densest cities, these also tend to be more affluent people. Oddly, though, also usually the kind of affluent people who consider themselves environmentalist and liberal. At least that's true in NYC and DC, two cities with substantial neighborhood pushback against reallocating street parking to other uses, happening in well-off neighborhoods that are full of signs promoting liberal causes (Upper West Side NYC, Dupont Circle DC, etc.).

I can see it in lower-density, car-dependent areas, where you arguably need somewhere to park, and poorer residents of apartment buildings without their own off-street parking might be impacted. But the cognitive dissonance around being an affluent liberal in Manhattan and suing to stop a bike lane [1] because you don't want to lose free street parking in Manhattan is absurd. Of course, they're still environmentalist because they support banning straws.

[1] https://nyc.streetsblog.org/2019/07/30/breaking-upper-west-s...
My bandwidth regressed some 60x upon moving to France from Poland.
Show HN: MARQ – Turn your product returns into a growth engine
Hi HN! My name is Mark and I am the co-founder of MARQ (https://www.marqvision.com).

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MARQ is a startup founded by a small team of engineers. We built a software tool that automatically records the packing process, sends recorded videos to customers, and expedites the return dispute process. Taking videos of the packing process can prevent customers from filing false product returns or abusing generous return policy.

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Almost all of bitcoin's lifetime has been after the last recession, so I am really curious about what'll happen here.
Rush hours are unpleasant, but so is rush hour traffic.

If you compare the throughput of the rush-hour tube vs rush-hour roads, you'll find that it's simply impossible to move this many people so quickly by cars.
So that Trump's 10% sanctions may do the damage Trump wishes to do their economy... and they are like screw this we'll make our currency cheaper to offset it... And Trump is calling it no fair, which is childish, but expect no less from Trump.
Here: https://www.freedomforuminstitute.org/about/faq/which-types-...
“Senators demanding” is kind of strange. Senators have the ability to make laws that enforce new rules on the workplace. It isn’t really a “demand” if they aren’t willing or able to use their powers to make it happen. It is more like a “lazy request”.
This is getting really bad, I think we're way past the "let's just stop doing the bad thing" and into the "we need real actions to fix this thing like if it was a deadly epidemic, now"
I had a colleague who always knew, to the quarter, how long he had been working there. During the quarterly password changes, he'd increment the numbers ;)
The Rise of Niche Consumption
______ has enough monopoly power in certain categories to abuse that power to harm competition, and ______ chooses to do so.

This generalizes nicely!

What if a company has enough power in certain categories to abuse that power to harm competition, not directly for itself, but for its clients and advertisers? I'm thinking about YouTube here. YouTube has enough power in certain categories to abuse that power to harm media enterprises on the YouTube platform. Some people argue that YouTube does so to the benefit of other media enterprises who happen to pay YouTube for advertisement.
It's 2018 rather than "just revealed": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18177145

But since it's back, I'm curious - is anyone using it often? Are you happy with how it works?
I also don't hate taxes. And I agree with all of your points.

But I also hate when taxes are raised inefficiently. Don't make me pay taxes by sending me a fee in the mail and requiring me to send a check to some government office (sure, this is not a "tax" it is a "fee", whatever, get with the times). Use taxes to price in externalities. Use VAT instead of sales tax, if at all; use personal income tax in lieu of regressive sales taxes. Use land value tax rather than property tax. Redesign "well-intentioned" tax schemes which subsidize the rich like Prop. 13. Make inflation tax deductible on capital gains but also create higher capital gains brackets. Stop making people guess how much our taxes are and just tell us (specifically, the IRS already knows how much we owe so just charge us that!).

Close tax avoidance loopholes.

I also hate when my taxes are spent inefficiently. Stop with the pork barrel spending. Stop spending so much to subsidize the price of oil. Spend on transportation and renewable energy. Redirect military spending which theoretically could develop technology that could be useful for civilians, and instead fund the civilian-applicable technology directly. Fix the corrupt and broken government contracting system. Redesign welfare (for example, SSI) so that it's always in the recipient's benefit to work if they can.

We need to make our system more efficient. We in the US often pay effective tax rates on par with countries that seem to get so much more bang for their buck when it comes how those taxes are spent. I don't mind taxes in theory at all but I want to feel like I'm getting my money's worth
Do you seriously think eliminating taxation wouldn't trigger a race to the bottom? Ayn Rand was, how shall I put this ... misguided.
https://gsuite.google.com/pricing.html

Sadly this more than doubles the price of the per user package and doesn't match on features.
If the baker were only baking a cake then it would be. But these were artistic cakes with a great deal of self expression, so issues of compelled speech are forefront.

Also, I wonder if, as software devs, we'd feel comfortable being compelled to take on contracts we might object to on moral grounds, e.g. I refuse to engage in projects building weapons and surveillance systems. I'd be quite upset if I were to be taken to court for refusing the contract on those grounds.
adding management layers is just one way to solve the coordination problem caused by scaling (which you do because you think the business can become more profitable). you can also scale a business horizontally rather than vertically, but that doesn't have the property of shielding executives from their decisions, nor of centrally controlling information (which allows them to capture more of the value produced by the firm). vertical scaling is preferred by managers for these properties, not because it's how you must scale.
Was this a paid product? Was it heavily used?
They're not your lawyer. They're allowed to have a conflict of interest. Especially one that you are fully aware of going into the relationship.

I just don't get it. Do you think someone selling a generic product that only differentiates on price has some unalienable right to make money on Amazon.com? Or that some wholesaler buying branded products has an inalienable right to somehow not get squeezed out when the only value they provide is placing POs with a vendor?