skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I live in the midwestern US and I can get 80/20 Mbps VDSL from CenturyLink. Obviously results will vary depending on your exact location, but to say "you can't get [25Mb DSL] in the US" simply isn't true.
> Literally every company in this space have used it as a platform to grift public funds.

> they are doing this to keep on the government, the public's tit

$1B is a fraction of what SpaceX, and Morgan Stanley among others, believe they can make from Starlink: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cnbc.com/amp/2020/10/22/mor...

I think this time it really is different. SpaceX has already reduced launch cost by an order of magnitude, and if Starship is successful another 1-2 orders of magnitude. This gives them a huge advantage over other LEO constellation attempts.

I don’t think this money is necessary for their success but if the money is there for the taking why wouldn’t they take it?
I mean, a refuge w/o radio pollution, including that from my own devices.
I found a nasty XSL rendering bug for some version of IE many solar rounds ago. Took them 2 years to get back to me: "this bug is closed because that browser is not supported anymore" or something like that and "you are not eligible for a free copy of Windows X since there are no bugs". Or something like that, memory is fuzzy. But other people were getting free copy left and right for PEBKAC problems.
Haven't tried Stadia, but I can certainly vouch for GFN. The lag is comparable to consoles on TV (and in some games, better), so while it would be a handicap in PC-centric fast-paced games, I was damn impressed with it. If I had a reason to pay the $5/month premium for unlimited gameplay away from home, I certainly would.
The ISPs have tried, but they get pushback from local residents whenever they try to install the necessary network boxes at intervals down the street. They had to go out of their way to hide cellular towers as streetlamps to get the 5G rollout to happen; I remember getting two or three notices for this (each from different telcos, so the one street corner has three streetlamps and two traffic lights on one corner).

I suspect if the droughts didn't make people get rid of their green grassy lawns homeowners would be more amenable to seeing green network boxes every few houses. It looks awful in the context of concrete sidewalks, though.
Just wait. Biden is going to reverse a lot of this stuff.
If you do decide to support Linux, keep in mind you don't have to support every distro. As long as you support Ubuntu it'll probably be good enough for most people. I say this as someone who doesn't use Ubuntu, because I run Steam (and games) in an ubuntu:20.04 docker container precisely because of how many games and direct-from-manufacturer software equates "supported on Linux" with "supported on Ubuntu".

(I don't have any problems, and I get the benefit of compatibility, not cluttering my host OS with 32-bit libraries, and controlling what information the software can access from my system - no worry about it stealing my browser cookies, for example. The only problem is I have to use the Proton runtimes instead of the new "Steam Linux Runtime", because the latter requires cgroups and thus would need a privileged container, but it's very rare to find games that don't work with Proton - recent examples I came across being Chip's Challenge and Hardspace:Shipbreaker.)
Where do you work, if you don't mind my asking? The Telecom Industry is really all-encompassing these days.
No, you can't. Not puncture-resistant, durable, pneumatic tires that don't have to be changed every mile.

Not tires that don't turn into chewing gum in hot weather, or under hard braking, and don't freeze and crack in cold weather.
This would be an interesting use case for eBPF.
Solution: Paint the boxes grey.
It doesn't have to be developed by them. Just like the don't make their own cars. If some car company makes a reliable level-5 car Uber can just offer a deal with owners of those cars.
You can make a lot of things work in a lot of places. I have lived in both Dallas and Houston without a car, for example (but also Berlin, Santiago, Tokyo, so I have comparison points). If you don't have kids, and have the freedom to plan a bit around where you live and work, you won't really feel like you're missing anything. I would take a trip via Lyft twice a month to some venue that's further away than the bike/rail/bus combo could get me, but that's about all.
How does Raft handle the scenario where there’s a network split, Client One updates a value on the majority, and then Client Two attempts to read the value from the minority side?
Cyberpunk, like any other single player title is much more likely to work than games like COD, Apex or Fortnite. Most multiplayer games use some additional components like the EAC that explicitly is made to not run on Wine AFAIK. IIRC, EAC did work on Wine until Epic games patched it so it wouldn't anymore.
Police raid home of Florida Covid data whistleblower
Only because they have burned so much VC. Both Uber and Bolt charge like normal taxi companies in Stockholm and can therefore afford to pay their drivers at the same time as making a profit. And as far as I know Bolt is basically already profitable, they just copied Uber's business but reduced the administration costs and did not blow a ton of cash on self driving cars. Having their HQ in Tallinn rather than SF also helps.

There is definitely a market for a modern taxi company, but it won't be as cheap as Uber is in the US. And Uber has too large overhead.
Millions of hungry Americans turn to food banks for first time
Broadcast AM radio stations here use hundreds of kW of output power.

This is a bit bashed GPIO pin on a 3.3V microcontroller that has a max current rating of 12mA per pin. Even if that piece of wire used as an antenna here were capable of loading the pin up to its max output, it'd be something around 0.004W - and in reality it'll likely be an order of magnitude or two lower than that. That's at least 8 orders of magnitude less power, and even allowing for the inverse square radiation power pattern, this this is only gonna be detectable at single digit meters in all likelihood.

This _is_ a bad idea, spectrum noise and interference wise, but it's unlikely to have enough power at either its intended transmit frequency any of its nasty harmonics to make it outside the rooms it's in. You probably might not want to take this to hospital with you, or on that camping trip near the radio telescope, but I wouldn't think twice about firing this up in my home workshop...
or Samy Kamkar.
Presence, sure. What about legal protections around seemingly trivial daily things like bathroom use? Family planning services focusing on the needs of LGBT families? Doctors who have experience with LGBT patients, whom these patients can trust and talk to candidly? Churches that welcome LGBT members without pressuring them to change fundamental aspects of their lives? Mental health specialists that cater to LGBT needs? People who are visibly out (or trans) in the workplace and talk about their loved ones without discomfort? Support for children and adolescents with diverse identities?

There's a world of difference between "yeah, we have gay people" and being a place where LGBT people can build happy, stable lives.
> It's going to be awesome either way.

That might be a better definition of science than “It’s like messing around, but taking notes.”

I love how everyone quotes it, and SpaceX deserves the credit for making that attitude popular. But what really makes it possible is cheap cameras — so when watching a blast that is likely destroying every living thing and destroying every piece of electronic in its way, I’ll be cheering for GoPro too.
Having used Bosch software I sincerely doubt that organisation has the capability to innovate in anything software related.
More discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25326232
UX Research for API Products
Sing...

Blame Canada! Blame Canada!
It isn't a real country anyway.

(Southpark)
This is a picture of the ex-Crater Rim Road in Hawaii: https://goo.gl/maps/dTnxPHvW5ad2PtYh7

The road in question was closed as a result of a 1983 earthquake. Part of the road is now used as the Crater Rim Trail, and if you pan around a little bit, you can see just how close the trail is to the current rim of the crater. I don't know how long ago those pictures were taken, but my recollection of the road's condition circa 2005 when I hiked the trail wasn't all that much better.

While the parts of the ex-road that are now used as a trail are in decent enough condition, the parts that are not are not in any condition to be used as a path. Admittedly, this is the windward side of Hawaii (and hence very conducive to fast growth), but the usable lifespan of an unused, unmaintained asphalt road should generally be figured in the region of a few decades at most.
Yeah, though my laptop is pretty powerful too, I like running big valgrind runs and such on the work desktop so my laptop's CPU is available for running zoom (which seems to eat up whatever is available to it)
I'm sorry you experienced that, but it's not ok to break the HN guidelines like this, despite how wrong someone else is or you feel they are. If users become this aggressive with each other, this community will not survive.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Blame Canada?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOR38552MJA
This is good guidance to junior devs. I see these issues frequently from the reviewer side.

The title is super creepy though, so is the claim that "your reviewer will literally fall in love with you". I review code from my team every day, including code written by young engineers, male and female. I can't point them to this.
codetrotter is right just tune into the stream and ask questions/do some light heckling as appropriate ;)
What’s wrong with new News channels?

If we maintain the status quo, we’ll have cronies like Jeff Zucker taking the reigns of an established (fake) news organization, pushing propaganda that’s convenient for their world view all while claiming to be objective.

Refer to the CNN exposed / Jeff Zucker tapes if you’re curious to learn about how CNN decides what the narrative is.
is the cellular deadspot on 101 just north of redwood city still there?
and roller coasters.
Cheaper than a $0.39 hamburger? Where?
Sonic's fiber service uses AT&T fiber in Alameda as well. Just another data point. I have that service. It's been working just fine, though. I haven't noticed any symptoms of flipped bits or anything similar to what others are reporting here.
> Instead, we stored the images in a small Postgres database (yes, the actual image data itself), with a small Django app handling the business logic. Sexy.

Funny stuff. Pragmatic, okay... sexy.
I consider myself an ethical person and I’d have a tough time ignoring the potential for $1 million dollars. After taxes I could buy a really nice house for cash and have enough money left over to drive a new car for the rest of my life.

One option is life changing and the “ethical” side might not pay enough to buy a gaming PC. Meanwhile the executives at the companies that claim security research needs ethics are making millions of dollars selling insecure apps. It’s like a church asking poor people to tithe IMO.

I actually think it would be better if there were no laws regarding the sale of security exploits. Everything should go onto an anonymous marketplace and the companies that have affected products should have to pair fair market value for bug discoveries.

Skimping on security and guilting researchers into being ethical is a total scam.
Someone made a video how the flight might look like if everything goes well:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DdTYMry7fq0

The model is pretty current (except for the tank strapped on the side that is downwind during the drop phase) and the flight phases look reasonable as well (phases: launch, horizontal drop with flaps correcting the position and a turn to land vertically again).

If it does not... well, then this instead:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L90SVqbK5Uc

(refers to: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bvim4rsNHkQ )
Solution 2: Lift the box up, attach it to the head of the street lamp.
I don't think the EPA is the entity responsible for banning those items.
As much as I love the Space Shuttle, I wish the US had not went all in on Hydrogen Oxygen. The RS-25 are amazing engines, but we could have had operational full flow staged engines 20 years ago if we had gone down that route. Though probably not the landing part.
They also refund it if it’s a demonstrable but in the product, even if it’s a WONTFIX bug.

The only downside is the fee is now $500, not $100
I used to be on the "always use semicolons" side of this argument. Having shipped multiple projects using both methods my verdict is clear: It doesn't matter. Why it doesn't matter you ask? Because 1) I am enforcing either decision with eslint rules and 2) i write unit tests 3) code is transpiled (thus semicolons are handled perfectly at the output). Having these three in place, I have yet to encounter a single "gotcha" out of omitting semicolons.

If for any reason you absolutelly can't have these in place, better be safe and use semicolons.

Edit: for the "gotcha" explained in the link, prettier will automatically insert a semicolon before the array.
No pedestrians, no roadside construction, no bikes. I would like to see a self driving video in major city during rush hour.
This is pre-Covid:

> easily accessible nature

From my office in Palo Alto, I can ride my bicycle up Sand Hill Road, past horse farms, and then up a secluded 2000 ft (~600 meters) mountain with virtually no traffic and return during my lunch break. Or I can take a long lunch and ride out to the coast, through rolling farmlands. And I can do that virtually any day of the year, thanks to the local climate.

Most of the peninsula (which is, arguably, not SV proper) is like this, with tons of hiking within walking distance of where you live or work. The reason is that almost everything west of I-280 is undeveloped. As you ride or drive around that area, it's very easy to find a view where the only sign of humans is the road you're traveling on.

If I want to go skiing, I can leave work an hour early and drive up to Tahoe for the weekend. Or I could drive down to Santa Cruz for the day and go surfing.

Not quite "nature", but many people like to drive up to Napa for a day-trip to visit world-class wineries.

> luxury retail

Then, after work, I can walk over to my choice of Michelin starred restaurants (and I will pass multiple art galleries and branches of private banks). Granted, none of the restaurants in Palo Alto have more than one Michelin star (how gauche!).

If conspicuous consumption is your thing, San Mateo, Palo Alto, and Santa Clara each have high-end malls with practically every luxury brand you can imagine. Want to buy Ferrari or a McLaren? There's a dealer for each one within 10 miles of Mountain View.

> plenty of places all over the country that fit this bill

Many places have some of what SV offers. Very very few have everything, and I would argue that none of the cities you listed fit the bill.
3 years latter good commit messages are extremely useful, and most of the time very short ones and/or giant commits are mostly useless.

I occasionally read back multiple pages commit message I wrote and wished I dumped even more info from my brain at the time.

If you work on small and short projects, you can do pretty much anything though.

Of course it can still be unreasonable, but that's quite like anything else. But if in doubt, I would say write more; because if you really track your time in a detailed way, you will see that the marginal additional time is often shorter than you feel. And it taking 1/3 of your time may even be justified in some cases (but maybe you should write some doc in another way then).

And I would not be so sure about it not magically making you better though: it is sometimes extremely useful to just write things down, quite like it is useful to explain a bug to a rubber duck.
You Need a Physical Vault to Secure a Virtual Currency (2018)
Please do not perpetuate flamewars on HN, regardless of what other commenters are doing.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I really expected this to be metaphorical from the title. And not just any sinking ship, but the most famous sinking ship in history. Fascinating, but hard to generalize!
A few days ago I heard the phrase "I'll trade you my dead horse for your dead cow". I believe it was coined during the 80s S&L scandal, but it might be apt here.
This illustrates how unethical Google is. Google AI Ethics was just Google's attempt to obtain self-regulation of AI, but now, Jeff Dean completely destroyed their dream. At this point, governmental regulation is inevitable.
MicroStrategy to Raise $400M to Buy Even More Bitcoin
That was in jest. I assumed readers would understand that nobody's going to fall in love over proper code review technique.
When Google is beating you on chat, you know you've failed.

That's like Apple beating you on price. Or open-source beating you on look-and-feel.
This sort of aggressive posting is not ok on HN, and we've had to warn you about it many times before. Please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules in the future.

Emotions are high, everyone is affected, and people are under pressure. It's all understandable. But we need HN users to react to this by being more thoughtful and kind to each other, not less—and the only way to really do that is to work on it regardless of how badly other commenters are behaving.
https://www.reddit.com/r/VALORANT/comments/g3yqxd/comment/fn... when the anti-cheat developers dictate what you can install and run on your computer, i would argue thats invasive. Running kernel level rootkit for this purpose is also insane. These things are very easy for cheaters to bypass anyways, and only cause problems to the honest players ironically , in addition to blocking out players using wine.

The best way to handle cheating is to give the players moderation powers.
No, I’m saying there’s no single way to 100% prevent homelessness
Well, there's https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thiel_Fellowship but there aren't many of them and the funding is a few orders of magnitude less. Perhaps somewhat made up for in social network/connections.

I've wanted to read about what happened if anyone ever decided to apply Asimov's filter at earlier ages. His filter was simply having interest in particular science fiction. https://www.gwern.net/docs/culture/1963-asimov
Oh no doubt these areas will see an uptick in jobs... but they won’t be the only ones.
Happy to expand.

One of the concepts I share in the book is on the idea of viewing HTML as a relational structure. Like a database. And how viewing it in that way helps you to better understand positioning (even with CSS). Because re-framing it in this way automatically gets you thinking about your elements, and the CSS that binds them, more holistically.

The most common way that people trip themselves up when working with HTML and CSS is by becoming myopic with regard to the specific section or element they're dealing with, and not seeing the whole forest so to speak. Making them unable to see why a problem in their CSS is happening.

Or to know what they need to do to create a certain thing in their layout.

A lack of a holistic understanding (how elements relate to other elements, and how CSS fits into this), and thereby view is what causes this.

My two latest articles goes into more detail re this:

https://planflow.dev/blog/how-to-get-better-at-css

https://planflow.dev/blog/what-makes-css-hard-to-debug
Yes, as of six months ago I had to look up how to opt out of MITMing for a coworker on AT&T Fiber, so that they could use the Internet again when the remote-activated MITM feature inside the modem broke.
When has monopolizing a sector then jacking up the prices ever worked as a strategy?
One thing that has changed is federal employment protections. That's huge, opens up a lot of the country to us. Federal housing protections could be possible as well from the precedent set.
> Austin and Atlanta are not like this.

Have you been to Atlanta? It doesn't seem like you're familiar.

The Beltline [0,1], a paved multi-use trail converted from old railway, encircles the city's major neighborhoods and connects everything. It's one of the city's major features. Dozens of parks, including some of the largest -- Piedmont [2], Old Forth Ward, Grant Park, and the old Bellwood Quarry [3] where they filmed Walking Dead, It, etc. -- are all immediately accessible.

The Beltine is being connected to the Silver Comet Trail [4,5], which is a paved bike trail stretching all the way to Alabama (the nation's second longest). Light rail is also being added to the Beltline.

Outside the city you've got access to the Chattahoochee River for rafting. The Palisades [6] provide excellent river-adjacent hiking.

Stone Mountain [7], a giant granite mountain, is 30 minutes east of the city and provides excellent hiking and running.

Kennesaw Mountain [8] is 30 minutes northwest of the city and is great for hiking and dog walking.

Red Top Mountain is 40 minutes northwest, and you have a host of lower Appalachian mountains to the north.

Allatoona Lake [9] is 40 minutes northwest, where they filmed Ozark, and provides excellent boating. Lake Lanier is an hour away and is even bigger.

Atlanta isn't called "city in the forest" for nothing. We have so many trees, parks, and outdoor activities.

[0] https://beltline.org/

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BeltLine

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piedmont_Park

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westside_Reservoir_Park

[4] https://www.silvercometga.com/

[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silver_Comet_Trail

[6] https://www.atlantatrails.com/hiking-trails/hiking-east-pali...

[7] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stone_Mountain

[8] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kennesaw_Mountain

[9] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Allatoona
H1B Salaries: When to Trust the Data and when to ask questions
Android development: API has a bizarre malfunction. You hunt around the exact source version to find an obscure workaround, which might work or not. Most likely you are screwed. Plus there will definitely be one phone model, were you are definitely screwed.

iOS development: API has a bizarre malfunction. You are screwed.

Both: You have a bug free app. Until 3 years later, when half the stuff you used is suddenly broken in the OS, the other half is deprecated.
You also have this for Android:

UntrackMe Lite (Transform Youtube, Twitter & Instagram links to their free and open source alter) - https://f-droid.org/packages/app.fedilab.nitterizemelite

They should add Teddit to their inventory, I'll send them a message.
This post is about earning money, not sending it away. Exchanging time for food and shelter. Somehow that wasn't clear and I got replies tangentially related to "organizations + grant + crypto".

When I said "worthwhile", I was talking about applying for development contracts.
The stability and success of a nation in the modern world basically requires an active approach in achieving national security.

Complex obstacles require a complex approach towards solutions so it makes sense to have multiple communities working together.

And sure, horrors occur but we don't get to know what horrors are avoided.
They can't get in spies, but they can bring in a super high tech weapons platform and the manpower to install it in a public location without getting noticed?
They don't. Which is why Ubers cost only slightly less than normal taxis in markets like Sweden where Uber has to follow the same regulations as their competitors. The low prices they have in markets like the US are not sustainable.
Realtime Cloud-Rendered 3D Game in the Browser
No matter who makes the driverless cars, they will still need a network to run those cars on. I think Uber/Lyft area better off allowing thirdparty self-driving cars on their network. Waymo on other hand is trying to build its own network, but that is going to be extremely expensive proposition.