skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would say under-investment by private holders of last-mile infrastructure holds back a lot of other business sectors as well as quality of life for people in those cities. This from a city dweller who watched the mega telecom extract profits while installed infrastructure decayed to unusable in my last neighborhood.

I recall getting sent technicians telling me, well they don't have enough diagnostic units to actually figure out this problem, but I'll switch you to another pair and you can see if that works - call us back if it doesn't.
My point is that the 'average employee', as compared to the 'median employee', is probably distorted much less than 'average shareholder' compared to 'median shareholder'.

Therefore I don't agree with you that while the average employee might be richer than the average shareholder, the median employee might be poorer than the median shareholder. If the average employee is richer than the average shareholder (which I doubt), then the median employee is probably much, much more richer than the median shareholder.
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This sounds great. Where are you? It seems like a promising place to open a business.
I really enjoyed what you've said here and I agree that the traditional finance and the wild west crypto finance world _can_ absolutely work in concert with each other.

Just liquidated BTC to cover a down payment at my local bank where I've paid off mortgages already. The VP of the loan department completely understood why I wouldn't keep my money in their bank anymore.
What turns me off about NextJS is its "opt-out" telemetry.
You have to do a bit of magic at the system level "npx next telemetry disable" to turn it off (which you can only figure out by an internet search).
This seems very disingenuous on part of Vercel.
Make it an "opt-in" or don't fricking track. Conduct a yearly survey or use some other means if you are so interested in improving the framework.
I am open to other framework suggestions.
Let's expand the title a bit:

Iteration #1: Microsoft blocks FLoC across all of GitHub Pages.

Iteration #2: Microsoft blocks Google's FLoC across all of GitHub Pages.
Last few teams did not but current team does. I can see it helpful if you’re shipping a customer-facing app, you need rough lead time on internal training (customer service), sales for competitive purposes and product for customer expectations.
> If a participating developer surpasses the $1 million threshold, the standard commission rate will apply for the remainder of the year.

And for the entirety of the following year.
The thing I find most difficult about retirement planning is that assumptions about market returns and inflation always seems to overwhelm all other factors by a large margin. I typically assume a 4% inflation-adjusted return for planning purposes (7% average return minus 3% inflation), but half a percentage point in either direction could leave me broke shortly after retirement or wealthy beyond all need.

I guess partly this is just because I'm still 30+ years from retirement, but does anyone have any advice on how to account for the incredibly wide range of possible outcomes based entirely on factors that are impossible to accurately predict?
Who are the A and B players?
This piece is largely positive about Accenture, and I have no beef with them, having never worked with them. However it is true to say that the public sector IT procurement landscape here in the UK is bedevilled by big beast companies who have only the vaguest grasp of technology, but who have successfully diversified into this lucrative sector largely on the basis of their very size being seen as making them a 'safe bet'. Of course the actual work is farmed out to undercompensated and underskilled offshore grunts.
> Everything else in the basket is clearly a fruit... but what kind?

Figs (or garlic), quince, grapes and pomegranates
Not sure if you’re talking about Berkeley Software Distribution of Blue Screen of Death but I suppose either would be right!
Examples of the fonts here:

https://www.theverge.com/2021/4/28/22407297/microsoft-office...
Cloudflare's mission is to "help build a better internet", and to that end have made a lot of opinionated decisions to increase security and performance. Where possible options are given to customers, but the opinionated way wins by default.

Examples: Turned on HTTPS for all customers, gave image compression and optimisation to all customers, moved customers to the latest TLS as soon as possible (help drive adoption), provide tools to obscure email addresses on web pages to minimise harvesting, 1.1.1.1 privacy focused DNS, etc.

FLoC is something that an opinion can easily be formed on, and where Google have said to each site operator "you must opt-out", Cloudflare can hold an opinion that default opt-out is bad for the internet and that opt-in is better... and if they make an option that defaults to adding this header but granting customers a means to toggle it off... then all Cloudflare will have done is what Google should have done... made this opt-in by default.
From rich friends' experience, that's not how it works. The bigger the fish, the more resources get thrown at it. A friend got audited and they came up with the most absurdly tiny mistakes in really complex things. It turned out they couldn't find anything they thought was more than a mistake, but their thoroughness was pretty incredible.
I don't think they were making any kind of claim about Apple's "special sauce", only that Apple has a monopoly on high-end hardware, which is true.
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Obviously most of the group did not have any real plans. But some did. There were explosives planted, maps of underground escape routes, zip ties for taking prisoners, chat messages planning and coordinating, and I suspect much more that is not released yet due to the ongoing investigations.

Looks like a dead ringer for the definition to me. It doesn't have to be -well- planned or likely to succeed.
Economics Explained is somewhat of a hack when it comes to topics outside of basic supply and demand. On the internet, every struggling business and every collectible hobby is a front for money laundering. While there is certainly a lot of money laundering and tax evasion in the high art world, that's only because they can hide their transactions behind the majority of legitimate transactions. In the case of the Salvator Mundi painting, the valuation of the painting skyrocketed because allegedly the last two bidders were both Arab princes who thought the other bidder was from their mutual rival, the Qatari royal family. $450 million was the legitimate market value if the painting to the Saudi royal family.
The fediverse presence is fairly nice!
Not sure why the assumption is that governments are incompetent until proven otherwise. Capital allocation inside corporations is more opaque and byzantine; I don’t know where this idea of corporations being more efficient comes from because I don’t think anyone that’s worked at one would say it’s efficient.
I'm simply blown away by that donations link. Here was me feeling happy about the little I give, but it really puts into perspective how much I keep for myself.
Not sure what region of Canada you are from, but as far as I can tell they just shifted from a contract model to a balance model where you amortize the cost of your phone using your monthly payments.

In the end what changes if how transparent they are with pricing, before it was 60$/month with a brand new phone and 55$ if you brought your own device, now it's. 55$/month and you can bundle a phone for 5$ more.

This is in Quebec.
You're thinking too small. Think privilege escalation and escapes.
This is already way off topic to my post I'm wondering if I'm the right person you replied to. Let's stay focused on this, because I agree with most of your points in this thread.

Apple makes money off the sale of their iPhone from the user, with Spotify's existence here being completely irrelevant. Should Spotify be granted increased monetary entitlement to their app creation because of this physical material sale between Apple and the user?
Capitalism is wildly inefficient for infrastructure, and it’s really frustrating how often we have to relearn this as a society. There’s a damn good reason why the city owns the pipes that bring water to and sewage from your house, and why the power lines are owned by a heavily regulated monopoly. The physical infrastructure to run internet to everyone’s homes should be owned by the state and responsive to the citizens it serves and not the shareholders who profit.
I remember reading something like this in Marx's first volume of Capital, where he was explaining how the labour is "self-expanding", that is, producing more than it costs to sustain (except he used work-hours in accounting). Funnily enough, if you read Marx's account closely enough, there is no unfairness in payment: what's bought is "ability to work", its marginal price in the competitive market is exactly the cost of living, and the fact that the price of the resulting product the higher is irrelevant.
The best time to sell beanie babies was when my grandmother was buying & collecting beanie babies.

I learn a lot by this sentence and I say it to myself over an over in our new and improved social media fueled world.
I worked at a retail chain for a big project led by consultants. They only made stats of others work, and reskinned old slides.

Millions were lost.
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I meant "reproducible builds" in the sense of: https://reproducible-builds.org/docs/definition/

> A build is reproducible if given the same source code, build environment and build instructions, any party can recreate bit-by-bit identical copies of all specified artifacts.
The article lacks precision in the fact that it's not necessarily "American" construction costs, so much as "why are construction costs in large American cities so costly". DC, NYC, LA, SF are not representative of how infrastructure projects are pursued in the rest of the country.

We know very well that there are orders of magnitude more bureaucratic obstacles, as well as dramatically higher labor costs, when comparing any building project conducted in Texas vs. California. New York City's municipal projects are widely-known to have dramatically inflated labor costs due to various factors, not limited to rampant corruption within unionized labor. I'm a supporter of labor unions, but a minority of unions give the majority a bad name by allowing themselves to be used as tools to enrich corrupt officials. European unions seem to be far, far less susceptible to these kinds of grifters.

There are certainly issues at the federal level as well with metrics for funding allocation, but let's not pretend that building large infrastructure in states with lower regulations is remotely as expensive as in places like California which have ridiculous levels of red tape and NIMBY empowerment. (Understood that construction in California has to take into account earthquake mitigation, but it isn't remotely enough to explain the cost deltas.)
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That's not the argument tho.

You liking Apple's ecosystem doesn't mean they aren't anticompetitive.

And really your point is kind of... weird. It's not like you don't have to go out of your way to get third-party apps on your Android phone. And you would lose nothing, if Apple did the same, maybe even more buried in hidden settings and behind disclaimers and warnings. Reads like the typical retrospective justification of any limitation Apple features.

"A single USB-C port? Yeah, I love it! Keeps you focused and mindful about peripheral devices!"

Every god damn time. Beyond bizarre.
Ex-Accenture software dev here. I'll be honest, your experience as a dev is basically subject to an RNG. You could luck out and land on an amazing project, with an amazing client, and an amazing team. Sometimes the clients, or the team, or the work itself, will sap your will to live. For a starter job, it's fine. It's a job and they aren't discriminating when it comes to graduates/undergrads (or maybe that's impostor syndrome speaking), so it's a great way to get some experience on your CV to move on to better and greater things after the 24 months is up.

Career progression for the technically-focused is non-existent. I legitimately felt like all technical functions were some sort of a vestigial growth that they haven't gotten around to removing. There are 13 levels of pay (I started at the second-lowest), and the top 8 I believe were reserved for the management track. Not a good sign if you don't like playing human politics.

After seeing how the metaphorical sausage is made within the company, I'd definitely not hire them for any technical work. You might get an amazing team, or you might get an outsourced money sink that messes up so badly that it's just cheaper to build your own in the first place. The AI and blockchain hype that you see in this comment section is (or was, in my time) an actual thing. Of course it's ill-advised to rock the boat about this on the record, so I chose not to do so.
It does: https://jamesfriend.com.au/projects/basiliskii
Huh, TIL. Although the data it collects is seemingly benign [0].

[0] https://nextjs.org/telemetry
In case you don't know, when you transfer a domain name you do not lose the remaining registration time at the your current registrar. You pay the new registrar for an additional year, and the domain transfers over good through the original expiration plus that year - just like if you had renewed it for a year at the current registrar. So if you've been putting it off to "get the timing right", don't!
> I guess I should also add that with the current web version, you can opt out of sending telemetry data via cookie preferences, and with the Premium version you choose whether or not you want your data persisted or not.

Rather than ameliorate concerns about privacy, this intensifies them. This is the approach I would expect from a megacorporation hellbent on mining my private data to death while pointing to the by-sheer-coincidence-hidden option to opt out of telemetry. And the choice to pay for the ability to not be data-mined to death.

These are the design choices I expect from a product team that regards privacy as something to be defeated and evaded. It's the sort of thing I would expect from Facebook.

Perhaps a privacy-centered approach might be worth considering? What might the user experience look like if behavior was not tracked until the user explicitly consented to just specifically that? What if the ability to upload your data was a premium option, with the local-only privacy-preserving experience the default? What data do you need to let people do incredibly personal calculations, as opposed to what data do you want?
Sure, here's some ideas:

1. Join the NYC Mesh Slack (slack.nycmesh.net) even if you're not in NYC, just to see how it's run.

2. Read Brian Hall's post, "How to start a community network": https://www.nycmesh.net/blog/how/

3. Read Graham Castleton's "Start Your Own WISP" guide: https://startyourownisp.com/

4. Look around and find folks in your area with a similar interest. If you're in or near a city of any size, I bet there's somebody who's already started or is trying to start something.
Ask HN: Is there service for creating loan schedules?
Has anybody seen a service (paid or open source) where I have API and can register a loan or a lease with different settings and interest rates and get back a loan schedule. Also I can register payments, changes to agreement etc to the said loan.

Is there such thing available?
Whatever the entry-level credential is, SWEs as a set will have a spread of productivity/capability that’s wider than the entry-level nurse.

Whatever the highest-level credential is, SWEs will have a spread that’s wider than the highest-level nursing credential (and likely wider than the ratio in the entry-level SWE range as well).
Comcast makes me sick. I spent months getting off of them and it was worth every bit of it by switching to Ziply fiber in the Seattle area. I went from this to this:

* Comcast 1000/35 Down/up to Ziply 1000/1000 down/up

* Monthly bill cut in half

* Comcast monthly data caps, to no data caps with Ziply

And that's right, Comcast gives 35 Mbps upload, if you are lucky! And data caps.
A little anecdote about municipal broadband in Sweden. Normally it's great and I love it. The ones I've seen have been run by the municipal real estate owner. They're the ones who build apartment buildings in a certain municipality but they're sometimes half privately owned.

In my current hometown they branched off a separate private company to manage the broadband.

Anyways, in a little town where I lived, a street of about 6-7 apartment buildings banded together and contacted Telia first about digging fiber to their buildings.

Telia gave them a disgusting deal which would have restricted all the tenants to the Telia ISP. They've done this before even in bigger cities where they sign a deal with one real estate company so all their buildings only have Telia.

My SO at the time actually worked for Telia but she was a clever girl because she realized you could go directly to the municipal broadband and have them dig the fiber. That way all the tenants could choose from any ISP in the country and not be restricted to just Telia.

This even raises the desirability of the building for young people who favour Bahnhof as ISP for example.
From what I see, nano has pretty much already replaced vi(m) as the standard command-line text editor in Linux (not sure about other UNIX-likes). I believe it is also available for Windows, which is nice...
Most banks will let you export a CSV but that's a pain, you have to manually download and feed it into your system on a regular basis.. having it automated with an API would be a lot better.
"Government projects and services are not evil, wasteful, or inferior, that's propaganda talking."

They can be. There just needs to be the proper balance of oversight. The lower down the government chain the projects are run, the more control the people have over them. For example, I wouldn't want federal or even state run internet, but municipal or even county internet would be easier to deal with since my voice would represent a larger share of the customers/votes and has a higher likelihood of being addressed. At the higher levels, one locality might have an issue but only represent 1% of the customers/vote, so you could end up with that minority being neglected.
thanks! yes, I like Amjad very much. Anything else coming to your mind?
Ex-Accenture dev here. The problem with Accenture teams back when I still worked there was that they had no middle ground with regards to team quality - you either got a team 50% made up of people that could (metaphorically) kill a dragon bare-handed, or you got a team that couldn't code their way out of a wet paper bag. They will either be a help, or a hindrance.
Iranian getting their centrifuges hacked probably has to do more with geography than cyber. Israel is a powerful ally. I would compare South Korea more to a US protected country than to an ally. Given the dynamics with China, the Asian region is "less controllable" than Persia.
This would require regulation of these devices, and they would have to have adequate hardware protection of the keys used to secure these Merkle hash trees.
The problem with accepting this premise is that it violates the core principle of socialism that only labour creates value. But yes, of course, if I have an orange grove and you have chickens, if we trade then the diets and nutrition of both of us improve.

Identifying imbalances in supply and demand and resolving them absolutely crates value, but that's the root of big scary nasty evil capitalism, so we can't be having it.

Not that Bezos' sums make and real sense at all either, but this critique is way off base.
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> This is a stop-gap before the web apps are rendered server side and streamed to the client. Not as HTML and JS, but as 4/8K 60FPS video, like Stadia or Xbox cloud. The reason is simple, your smartphone, tablet or laptop can already view a Netflix HDR 4K stream but still cannot render Gmail or Figma with acceptable performance.

As somebody who lives in 3rd world country, I'm still baffled why somebody keep pushing for streaming everything. It feels like they are trying so hard to fix the wrong problem while oblivious to the real problems.

The actual problems is bloated software. Gmail won't be slow if their JS didn't take 10+ MB. Figma would be much faster if they ditch Electron rewrite it as fully native application.

Not to mention the sheer stupidity of Stadia. If I use Stadia for streaming video games at 4k 60 FPS, it will eat 23 GB of my data caps per hours. I need around 20 hours to beat single player games, so using stadia will cost me 460 GB just to play one game. Here's the kicker: my entire steam library are 405 GB.
Michael Collins, Apollo 11 astronaut, has died
Do you believe that the CO2 humans have put in the atmosphere in the past century or so is the primary cause of the melting ice in the arctic? Furthermore, do you believe that the legacy automakers would have decided to do something about it on their own, without competitive pressure from Tesla? I'd also like to know if you are aware of the history of GM's EV1 from the 1990s.

I think we'd all benefit by taking a step back and looking at the big picture. In some cases, knee-jerk anti-corporate cynicism is harmful...
Someone minted 1 million Neeraj Agrawal (cryptocurrency advocate* who's big on Twitter) NFTs, sent him 999,999 without his consent, and kept the other to sell. Which leads to the interesting question, should Neeraj report the 999,999 as a gift receipt if they have some value, and is he in a bad position that the tax value of the gift is large due to the price being determined by the 1 that was sold?

(I don't understand NFTs so I may be incorrect on details).

*edited, said “VC” prior
Anybody that lives somewhere with heavy PM doesn’t need to fit test a mask. You instantly feel the difference when you put one on. They don’t block many types of pollution, but for heavy wildfire smoke they will instantly decrease the migraines when pm are above 200 or so.
Hum, bread is a very good candidate also.
Isn't Con.Ed. the one with the continuous transformer explosions because they cut maintenance to the bone?

As far as I know in Berlin they are considering re-nationalizing the waterworks because the current owner fails to adequately maintain the infrastructure.
If they can get fighter jets, tanks, and missiles from China and Russia, certainly they can get some malware.
A custom-bred form of bacteria converts carbon dioxide and hydrogen into methane. Electricity is required to generate hydrogen by electrolysis of water. Company proposes to use excess electricity from renewable sources to keep it green.
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Yes. And messages sent over SMS are not private. It's a useful thing for Apple to indicate.
At least your monopoly responds to threats by providing the service they monopolize.

In the US, step 4 becomes "pass a law banning muni efforts and lie about existing coverage", and local communities keep the same crappy, expensive service.
I don't talk about open source anywhere in my comment.

I'm simply noting that those "dangerous features" are, practically, only accessible to the people that are tech saavy enough to understand the risks.

So the "it's to protect the innocent" argument doesn't seem to hold well.