skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Something I've been wanting to run by the HN community - would you pay anything for a backup home Internet connection? How low do you think the price would have to be to get 50-80% of your neighbors to buy it? Would $20/mo be low enough?

I've spent my career building and maintaining small, regional Internet Service providers. One of the realities of the market is that no matter how good your service is you can't get more than around 15-25% of people in an area to use your service. Most of the companies trying to do this on a large-ish scale (like Starry) are trying to break that barrier by selling wholesale contracts (like exclusive contracts to entire apartments buildings / communities) and/or by piling other services on top of the Internet service and reaching higher and higher speeds.

I have a hypothesis that a company that could go the other direction and provide a really cheap, basic Internet connection (<20$/mo, 30mbps) could gain more market share in an area specifically because it would be cheap enough to be used as a secondary Internet connection. I'm thinking of three types of customer here:

1) Very price sensitive customers who just want the cheapest thing they can get that's still usable. Maybe they have Internet access at work and use satellite TV at home and are OK with very basic Internet service at home.

2) Customers who use the service as their primary connection and it saves them enough money to add tethering to their phone plan, so if the service is unreliable they can switch to tethering.

3) Customers who have cable TV and Internet and can switch over to this service when their cable Internet is slow or down.

I'm thinking of two types of plans, one for $20/mo and one for 10$/mo + 1$/day that the service is used. These numbers mostly work out on paper as long as >60% of the homes in a community sign up to use the service and it's understood that support is going to be slow. Like, no phone support (email/text only), response times in 1-2 business days, and it might take a week to send someone out if your service is down (but we won't charge you for the time it was down.) Obviously this class of service only works if it's redundant with something else. I'm kind of thinking about it as the 'MagicJack' of Internet service - as home phone service started to become less essential (due to the redundancy of having a phone in your pocket) it became possible for a very low cost and not particularly reliable service to have a place in the market. They would not have had the strict geographic customer density constraint, though.

The cool thing is that once you get to that 60-80% market penetration you can start offering really great plans at really great prices. Like 1gbps symmetrical for $50-60/mo, 10G symmetrical for ~$250/mo.

If anyone is interested in chatting about this my email is in my profile. I'm not quite committed to pursuing it, but it's something I think about a lot and would love to get some outside perspective.
Intel doesn't yet have 10nm https://www.tomshardware.com/news/intel-says-first-10nm-desk... company also revealed that its first 10nm CPUs for the desktop won't come to market until the second half of 2021."
Right. Being discussed on HN here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24135160
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Yeah, it'd be nicer to have symmetric gigabit for less, but the gigabit pro is actual fiber to the home (it doesn't run over coax lines).

Comcast includes a Juniper ACX2100 switch for layer 2 and bringing the fiber into the house. I thought that was pretty cool. (Well 'includes', you have to pay to rent it from them.)
> As the world awaits vaccines to bring the COVID-19 pandemic under control, UC San Francisco scientists have devised a novel approach to halting the spread of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes the disease.

Not clear at all how this thing can be ready for use before vaccines become available. This is a long way before Phase 1 clinical trials, while quite a few vaccines are well into their Phase 3 trials.
I agree with you but I also think that they should have waited.

Right now is a terrible time to wipe out the gig economy. So many people are turning to it and it is creating value. Economic/employment changes like this one are best suited when the market is strong because people job mobility is higher etc.
Is the title of a thread not a summary of that thread?
It is not like it is a P2P mesh network.

Land leases are expensive for tower placement, and they need electricity and a backup generator, to power the comm. equipment and the air conditioning.

And then we can talk about HVAC maintenance.
Why dry as hot as possible? I was always told that the dry cycle was a waste of energy unless you need the dishes dry faster.
> Data dominates. If you've chosen the right data structures and organized things well, the algorithms will almost always be self-evident

What does this have to say about the careers and roles of data scientists vs programmers? A data scientists entire job is to categorize and model data in a useful way. In the future, will they fundamentally more important than coders, or will the two roles just merge?
If you look at the test in depth, the change and sample size is just terrible for getting any kind of real data.
Would love to hear from the HN community: what are some of your favorite features in managed database or infra platforms, or what do you wish more platforms offered that are still hard-to-find?
NYT Obit:

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/12/obituaries/sumner-redston...
Why would "black" taxi drivers not pick up "black" passengers? What is your obsession with color coding people? It's unhealthy and racist.
The features described are not present in any browser today. People will install any app with "the cool new thing". Never underestimate the power of mass psychology / herd behavior.
It's surprisingly readable. Good history is storytelling, and Morison was there for much of the history he relates. You could get a great picture of the variety of modern naval warfare by picking up the volumes on Midway and the Struggle for Guadalcanal.

C.S. Forester's novels, while historical fiction, are also excellent.

I'd also recommend Japanese Destroyer Captain by Tameichi Hara, another powerful first hand account. Reading Hara and Morison's accounts of a battle in which both participated is really interesting.
Why a partisan article is being discussed here?

Really.

This is material affiliated to the Labour Party in the U.K. which is associated to the International Socialist.

Why is it a subject here?
> The number of people who I've talked to who legitimately don't know what to do without work during the pandemic is staggering.

I wouldn't look at that and conclude that these people are just domesticated livestock who have no self-worth beyond their job. A lot of legitimate hobbies and even just normal socializing are completely shut down or heavily restricted in a lot of places.
Taxis have had "You can't get a ride in a poor neighborhood" for ages. If California kills Uber, we're back to the same taxis. So how exactly what is happening now helps solve the "You can't get a ride in a poor neighborhood" problem?

> Those features aren't a good faith attempt to comply with the law

There can be no good attempt to comply with this (completely terrible) law from Uber, since this law was meant to outlaw the whole business model Uber is using. Uber was founded on creating a novel working model, which didn't exist before. California decided to outlaw this model wholesale. The only "good faith attempt" from Uber to deal with it can be to stop operating in California completely. Of course the same goes for Lyft and any other company which uses "freelance employee" model.
Having some people cheat their way around it does not invalidate the law in the first place and neither does it invalidate its intention. The equivalent in Uber's system is a driver cancelling a ride after accepting it and seeing the destination, maybe claiming his car broke down on the way to the pickup location or whatever. The fact that people can pull that off also does not invalidate Uber's original attempt to make drivers accept riders regardless of their destination.
The search deal is indeed expiring in a few months, but also neither party has said whether it'll be renewed or not, so it's not yet time to assume it won't be.
as someone in ML, I see myself wanting the opposite.

ML researchers drown their algorithms in huge tables of results, effectively spending time on "how well" rather than the "what".

It often leads to things being added as long as they are better, with the conclusion of it being a gargantuan monster of models and hand-engineered changes. All with no one understanding how the whole things works as a single unit.

Flow charts are incredibly effective as the top most layer of abstraction. Does the whole process, when viewed in an end-2-end manner, make sense ? We dive into the details only if it passes that sniff test of a flow chart.

I might be missing the point being made here, but they can claw flowcharts from my cold dead hands.
Is that true in general or only when people have been lied to by their mothers in a demonstrably erroneous way?

People often say that others, usually children, require physical similarity (sex, skin colour) to be inspired. This I find very sad and highly contradictory to my own schooling.

I mean all people are broadly similar. Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin has been inspirational to me too, but we have little in common physically or socially.

Of course if a I'm wrong people should be up in arms about primary schools not having teachers representative of the broader population - success can be predicted at that point with a high degree of certainty, I gather.
I love this question.

I don't know the answer, but one part of it might be that electricity is a "commodity" that you can effectively buy from anywhere in the country, or perhaps anywhere in the world, via the power grid. Whereas for cell service you're effectively buying from one of three companies, I think. So way less competition.
All this advice against "premature optimization" has created generations of programmers that don't understand how to use hardware efficiently.

Here's the problem: If you profile software that is 100x slower than it needs to be on every level, there are no obvious bottlenecks. Your whole program is just slow across the board, because you used tons of allocations, abstractions and indirections at every step of the way.

Rob Pike probably has never written a program where performance really mattered, because if he did, he would've found that you need to think about performance right from the beginning and all the way during development, because making bad decisions early on can force you to rewrite almost everything.

For instance, if you start writing a Go program with the mindset that you can just heap-allocate all the time, the garbage collector will eventually come back to bite you and the "bottleneck" will be your entire codebase.
>> from the "employee" zone to "self-employed" in the everyday definition.

Courts are not everyday people. For decades they gave lip service to a variety of factors, but inevitably each decision turned on one question: how are taxes handled? If the employer is managing the payment or withholding of taxes, then the worker was an employee. That is changing slowly but remains very much a determining factor.
In the past, I had published a very popular blog post regarding JavaScript Face Detection and Recognition Libraries. So, in this tutorial, I’ll use a library from that list which is known as “pico.js“.

link: https://www.edopedia.com/blog/javascript-face-detection-and-...

We’ll use this JavaScript library to detect a human face in webcam feed. An interesting thing is that this library is consists of just around 200 lines of code. Meaning that it is very lightweight and easy to use inside web projects.

Basic functionality of this project:-

1- Real-time human face detection in Webcam video.

2- When face is detected then get its image from Webcam.

3- Upload the image to server.

4- Save image path in database so that we can display it later.
I'm not quite sure how this is portrayed as NIMBYism.

As a Toronto resident there was more than enough news about how well reasoned arguments from Privacy experts weren't addressed very well by Sidewalk labs.

It isn't a very trivial thing when high profile people like Ann Cavoukian resigns from the project.

Portraying it as a case of NIMBYism gone too far is just revisionist history.
We switched to cloth diapers and need to do a load every day or 2.

Hopefully this is better for the environment than disposable.
The Slashdot system won't work so well for Facebook because on Slashdot everything is public. On Facebook the meta-moderators would be either seeing only posts from their friends (defeating the purpose), or posts from total strangers that they might not want leaking out. It would break the encapsulation of your friends list.

One thing I do like about Slashdot is that they limit the total amount of score a post can get and how much each person can moderate at once. This makes it much much harder to brigade content, which is the usual problem with community based moderation.
Doing layoffs doesn't necessarily mean you don't have the cash to pay everyone, or even that you're not cashflow positive. Sometimes orgs do big layoffs amidst big hiring pushes, meaning they don't feel like their resources are allocated correctly. Sometimes layoffs are a part of bigger organizational restructuring (this is Mozilla), saying they want to emphasize certain parts of the business and downsize others. If layoffs weren't evenly distributed around the company (ie every org loses 5% vs. we just laid off all of x department), it can mean different things.
The customer (and their data) is the raw material from which products are created. E.g. an advert targeting product.
> A single implementation

I consider this one my biggest concerns about adding a Rust dependency to a core package. Especially when in https://forge.rust-lang.org/release/platform-support.html "Tier 1" is so small.
What sort of large goods do you mean? I live in central Los Angeles, a city famously reliant on personal automobile ownership, and it has never been an issue having items like furniture delivered to my door.

I do understand your larger point about a city's infrastructure accommodating the culture of its inhabitants. Taking LA as an example again, because of the widespread reliance on car commuting in the city, it's harder here to close some streets down to personal vehicle traffic, as has been done in other cities recently.
I was at a day of research presentations in January before everything shut down. One of the presentations was on using ML to identify individual dolphin speech signatures--with some degree of accuracy. One of my thoughts was that the more sophisticated navies probably already have this sort of thing pretty well developed.
This raised my eyebrow too, but then I saw that she has 6-8 people in her house and it makes sense. With 2-3 people we usually wash about 2 out of 3 days, I can see if you have that many people running twice a day.
ADUs and Rooms in owner occupied homes can be much more affordable, but people offering a portion of their primary residence to renters are subject to the same restrictions as houses that are part of a landlord's asset portfolio. Move the needle on existing regulations and landlords acquire even more housing stock and raise rents across the board.

Equity based cooperatives and land trusts should be getting more attention in Boulder, since both have solid track records of providing permanently affordable housing elsewhere. Instead, local activists are following the national trend of pushing measures designed to facilitate the large scale transfer of private property into corporate rental portfolios.
If you enjoy The Good Shepherd, The Ship is a similar book about surface combat in the Med.
Why does this strongtowns crap keep showing up on HN? All of their "evidence" is just anecdotal information, none of their claims are backed by any actual evidence, and their whole site is designed to get you to pay money to become a member and/or buy their books. It's not technical, and it's not even news.

What is it doing here?
It seems you are arguing something different, although I am having a hard time understanding what you have written. I think you are saying algorithms and data structures aren't hard, distributed systems are hard. In my experience choosing the correct data structures and algorithms in your services/programs/whatever can dramatically simplify the design of your systems overall.
I can only speak for myself, but I know a lot of people with similar goals to me - I've worked a full-time job since I was 17, and upon leaving college, have always worked 2 or more jobs (typically one-full time, one entrepreneurial venture or part-time internship to gain experience - currently I just work two full-time jobs, one of them my own company, and do some sporadic consulting as well).

I'm in my late 30's and plan on "retiring" in my early 50's. I had kids in my late 20's, so we're good there (it's been tough of course). I doubt I'll stop working and will probably switch to working 2-3 days a week for a few months at a time, or getting on a few boards of directors and being an advisor/consultant, or something like that.

I work 70+ hours/week on average and have done so for over a decade. I know this pace isn't sustainable; I'm falling behind every year that passes me while I watch 23 year olds put in the hours I used to. So for people our age, we have to put the work in now if we want leisure time later.

America is turning into a winner-takes-most society and I don't see that changing anytime soon. It will become harder and harder to be a "punch the clock" person and retire at a normal age, especially as life expectancy continues to get pushed out.
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Some things take longer, because they’re harder to do (space, AI) or the nature of the beast requires length of time outside of your control (selling to enterprises/gov, bio/pharma trials).

This feels like advice squarely pointed at something like social that’s often easy to build but hard to get market penetration.
> One similarity that unites them, however, is radical inequality. In the Soviet Union, members of the Party élite lived in a different universe than the rest of the country. They had their own neighborhoods, schools, roads, resorts, stores, and, of course, their own health-care system. This is still true. A wealthy and well-connected Russian can receive world-class medical care, while ordinary people are reduced, much like in Soviet days, to having to buy their own disposable syringes and pay cash for nursing care in the hospital.

The left-wing in the USA is in full-on live action roleplay mode (LARP). Anyone who isn't trolling cannot possibly say the Soviet Union, a country that murdered tens of millions of people for thought crimes by sending them to gulags or just shooting them in the head, is even remotely close to the USA, where our media feels free to mock and criticize Trump (as they should!), which is unlike the USSR or present communist China. My wife's family fled communism, and my father in law would read this and shake his head.

It is so unfortunate in this country that rich, educated people sip their lattes and use their Macbooks and then have the audacity to rail against the capitalist system as if it's Soviet Russia! Absolute insanity.
Reducing Latency 96% by Switching P2P Platform Skynet to a Multiplexer
>Can you provide a working example?

Literally any search that uses the "expensive" keywords[1]. "car insurance quotes" would do nicely, for instance.

[1] https://www.wordstream.com/articles/most-expensive-keywords
I am looking for extensive evidence that they backdoor their equipment and feed data to the CCP. As far as the "intellectual property" goes, it is used by the winners to kick down the ladder they themselves climbed.

The U.S. used to steal from Europe while it was developing, now suddenly IP matters a lot.

The Japanese used to steal quite a bit of IP, yet Nintendo is now super hawkish to protect its own.

Chinese companies will get overly protective of its own IP once they sufficiently develop.

All in all, is a well known circle that may signal it's time to rethink how IP is currently structured and enforced around the world.
I'm not sure you sold me on any time savings.
> UPS is not allowed to deliver first class mail to a letterbox,

So? They regularly leave packages on your porch, they'd do the same for letters.

> or at the same cost as USPS.

Which is insanely low and money-losing in many cases. And first-class mail is a declining business. Do they even want that?
Agree that Amazon won't upend the Swedish labor market model. But do they really need to do that to operate with a healthy profit?

And if they think they need to revolutionize the labor market to be profitable (enough), would they really establish a presence in Sweden then?

My feeling is they'll establish a business like everyone else and not even try to pull a Toys'R'Us.
I thought we were all about equality? Are we now not about equality? I can't keep up.

And if a woman for some sexist reason can refuse a fare, why can't a man refuse a fare if, e.g., he does not like the destination area because it is riddled with crime and he is exponentially more likely to be robbed?
I didn’t know Uber is live in Syria.
> All of their "evidence" is just anecdotal information, none of their claims are backed by any actual evidence

It's a magazine, not a peer-reviewed journal.

Sometimes that's fine. Sometimes a casual conversation about issues without a reproducible study is ok.
Those don't make any money.
If Mozilla sold devices bundled with Firefox as the default browser, Firefox would also be "multiple times more successful".
I wouldn't be surprised if they hastily retract this after PR goes AWOL. With antitrust in the works and a world of retailer hate, they shouldn't be playing Orwell cards.
I'm reminded of the old adage "I'm writing you a long letter, because I don't have time to write a short one."

(Often attributed to Mark Twain, but similar sentiments were expressed by many before him.)
Validation is everything.
Providing cell service takes at least the cost of electricity to run them. They're literally both electricity going down a wire. So yes, coal has to be mined and water reservoirs have to be created. You also have to build the equipment, and I imagine paying off that equipment's cost is more than the cost of electricity. That has to be mined, smelted, processed, worked, and assembled.
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Amazon’s quick reaction to the negative outpouring suggests they weren’t expecting it to stick but decided to float it anyway. Had they been successful, this would clearly exemplify how freedom is taken away from people - while they’re asleep. Truly disgusting.