skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Spectrum has had a stronghold on this region with prices they set without any competition.

> Spectrum bullying the competition.

Curious how did Spectrum bully out the competition.
The trucks: https://im-mining.com/2020/06/02/suncor-speeds-komatsu-980e-...
10 million customers is $12B revenue a year.
You don't have a pretty new PC, you have parts from a new PC mixed with parts from an older PC.

No manufacturer has shipped an mbr formatted drive in the last 5 years.
If you're in a position where you benefit financially from the extra labor of others, you would probably be incentivized to proselytize the value of "hard work".
> It was really difficult if in addition the room resembled my old school classrooms

My opinion is uninformed here, but it seems like some kind of therapy (e.g., cbt) might be helpful.

Thank you for the conversation.
Interestingly the founder of TabNine (which was acquired by Codota[0]) is currently working at Open AI (edit: comments corrected me he left in December 2020 according to his blog).
I imagine they're livid about Open AI creating a competing product.

TabNine at times was magical, but I stopped using it after Codota started injecting ads directly into my editor[1]

[0] https://betakit.com/waterloo-startup-tabnine-acquired-by-isr...
[1] https://github.com/codota/TabNine/issues/342
There can be a lot of arguments against starlink as envisioned but the reasons you gave don't seem to hold up.

> cityfolk won't really use Starlink

I don't think starlink was ever meant to replace current high speed internet.

> 5G will cover many rural areas

5G means many different things. The high speed bands don't have enough range to make them economical to build in rural areas from what I've read.

> directional WiFi (Fixed Wireless) works surprisingly well out in rural areas for 50-mile ranges

Yes, if it's directional, and the directionality is pretty narrow if you want to get any reasonable performance. I don't think it's feasible for each town to have a dedicated antenna for each house within a 50 mile radius.
It's more so engineering than science. We were absolutely certain that it was possible for a long time.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't encryption for APRS (and amateur radio in general) illegal [1]?

So if you are going for encrypted platform might as well use a less regulated frequency range.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Packet_radio
I'm sure natfriedman will be thrilled to abolish IP and also apply this to the Windows source code. We can expect it on GitHub any minute!
Cringely speculates that Starlink is getting funding from the FCC's rural broadband fund - which currently has $16bn available. Starlink is bidding on broadband auctions that the traditional ISPs won't because it'd be unprofitable for them to run cable/fiber to the residences. Which isn't a problem for a satellite operator like Starlink.

https://www.cringely.com/2021/04/20/starlink-is-a-global-isp...
The original iPhone was still a beta product. It's the iPhone 3G that was truly 2 years ahead of anything else.

I recall a lot of skeptical techies and "industry experts" still betting on the legacy players (Especially BlackBerry). Then Apple announced the 3G and the App Store and a few weeks later BlackBerry announced the Storm. The Storm was at least 2 years behind. Laggy input, no app store (some buggy device specific SDK), couldn't even connect to Wifi. The 3G just worked.

The rest is history.
> A lot of this discussion is comparing apples to oranges.

I agree that wooden houses are not comparable to reinforced concrete bridges. But the part I'm trying to highlight is that being able to easily inspect a structure is a critically important aspect of maintenance, and that most reinforced concrete is inherently difficult or impossible to inspect. The fact that exterior waterproofing is relatively cheap is only incidental.

It's not enough to overengineer a bridge and say it'll last a hundred years if you don't have a reliable way to determine when the bridge is no longer safe beyond year 70. Kicking the can down the road is not a viable long-term strategy. We're about 100 years into widespread use of reinforced concrete and are now starting to see the occasional catastrophic results.

Potting steel in concrete is done because it's cheap and easy, not because it's particularly maintainable. It's inherently difficult to inspect the structure when you build things this way.

> especially prestressed concrete

Agree. Unbonded, post-tensioned concrete (where you can replace individual strands) seems like the only reasonable approach to me, but building this way and doing all of the inspection and maintenance is way more expensive than the "do almost nothing" approach for rebar concrete. But the benefits are only realized after 100 years, so nobody has the incentive to design this way.
I'm sorry to here about some of your bad luck and run ins with office politics.

My reading of the Essay was that hard work was necessary for great success not sufficient, which would be a very different claim.
I feel for you there as I’m sick myself in a way that means even working is a challenge.

My suggestion for you and possibly advice for myself is if you can’t “travel” then move.

For me I imagine working 2 years from New Zealand outside of a city, somewhere beautiful to be a cool thing to do. You need to travel to get there but then you can stay put for the most part, doing short trips when it suits.

I think world trips are overrated. I did some backpacking in SE Asia and in some ways it feels like IKEA: a bunch of sheep following the same path around doing the same things trading money for a buzz. It’s interesting to see places but boring at the same time, everyone wants to “party”

If I had the time again I’d trade those 3 months travelling for a year in NZ, Tasmania, some parts of Eastern Europe or US and very slowly travel while working remote. Really wish I could have had that idea planted in my head.

Final thought: if you are a coder it can feel quite bad looking back on your years because most of the code you write has probably been replaced! So I cope with this by thinking of it like I am a gardener and most of my veggies have been eaten. So what? My work was useful and helped people.
Yeah that’s probably true. But I meant in the sense of it’s not roll your own crypto.
1) Please stop using fatality comparisons when talking about radiation incidents - it's disingenuous. You need to look at total impact, including negative outcomes like cancers and reduced life expectancies rather than outright deaths.

2) If your argument is "it's better than the worst alternative" then your argument is not very good. You should be comparing to power sources that are not fossil fuel-based, which is the real alternative we want to move toward
> I still, once in a while, look at the BlackBerry Passport and consider buying one...just because it's a square :)

Isn't the OS on it complete abandonware?
This is impressive. And scary.
How long has your team been working on this first release?
The purpose of my comment wasn't to discuss the efficacy of Starlink's strategy on targeting rural / underserved areas. Only to point out that was indeed their strategy. Which I think was important to highlight given your criticism of Starlink being uncompetitive in urban markets.
I've been on both Windows and Ubuntu for a while. I'd say Ubuntu has a ton more issues and requires a ton more initial configuration to behave "normally".

I don't even remember the last time Windows got in my way, in fact.
Boom Times for Lawyers as Washington Pursues Big Tech
The GOP argument is kind of highlighted here. Your city didn't have to spend any of its own money. while a business would have had to spend millions to build then to maintain. A business must have ROI and profit to survive(due to inflation). Your city doesn't need to any of that.
Pre-pandemic, some restaurants in my area started adding separate tip lines for servers and kitchen staff. While nice in theory as a way to recognize the work they do it left me feeling confused more than anything. Am I still expected to tip 15-20% or more to the server AND an additional amount to the rest of the staff? Do I split my regular tip amongst both lines? If so, 50-50 or some other breakdown.

In the end, I left my usual tip to the server and zero to the rest and left it for them to figure out, just like in every other restaurant on the planet. Servers make full, much higher than Federal minimum wage in my state plus tips, so really we should be abolishing tipping at this point IMO.
Depends on what you need to do, but asciinema is pretty much exactly that use case: https://asciinema.org/

Wouldn’t work in this case with the overlays and styling tho.
Fortunately Starlink is global so the addressable market is more like 100M customers.
> To ISPs possibly, but not all businesses. Counter point, municipal broadband will benefit many businesses by ensuring that they have high-quality fast internet

> Municipal broadband is hostile to business.

I think 'business' in second sentence means business its competing with( ISP) not business in general.

But in general it discourages any business by signaling that govt might swoop in and kill your business that you build over decades by starting it own that isnt' bound by the same pressures of market.
In some ways I can understand that as a strategy, but as a forum, HN has explicitly banned that type of response in lieu of more thoughtful dialogue.

Elon is actually a good example of why dialogue is important. You see him as a charlatan. I (with the context that I interned for SpaceX 7 years ago), see him as a flawed but impactful innovator who has pushed the state of tech forward considerably and employs 90,000 people though his two biggest companies.

Little is gained by sarcastically dismissing each others' perspectives. But by refusing to pretend that he is all bad or all good, and discussing his successes alongside his failures, we can lean into the purpose and value of HN.
He also was lucky enough to be born. If you take to absurd, you can attribute anything to luck. A lot of kids where in position like him, and none made it to number one.
but you know that this simplistic "use viridis" advice is about as sound as saying "use eslint" or "use python" or "use double precision [floating point]". All of these things may be helpful advice in many circumstances, when the audience doesn't know any better.

But, all of it lives within a one-size-fits-all mentality that more experienced users will be annoyed with (who made you the expert to know that viridis was best for my problem?).

And, it decreases the chances that new users will appreciate that this is a domain (whether it be how to code with JS, or what language to pick, or how to do numeric computations) in which the path you take depends on the where you want to go, and there are lots of places to go. Colormap choice depends on the questions you want the visualization to help answer about your data.

So, implied by "use viridis", or any ther one-size-fits-all advice, is either "you are simple", "your needs are simple", or "this domain is simple", which implies a lot more hubris than was probably intended.
Keyboardio cofounder here. Happy to answer questions.
Does something like this help for increased categorization? I have a band where we record our rehearsals and so it kind of obliterates the old Song/Artist/Album style of categorization. We add things like Session/Rendition, and want to look up "songs by session" and "songs that Steve played on in January" and things like that. We eventually started playing with Filemaker of all things, but I wonder if there's something easier and more web-based, without having to create a whole new custom web app from scratch.
That's all well and good, but 88.3m americans are only served by a single ISP. The market has resoundingly failed to work.
This creeps me out. Connect Google, Slack and Github together for one search experience? That's an incredible lot of trust. Where does all that data go? Shadowy markets? It would be an absolute kicker -- people paying for search probably are extremely high value targets.
1) you confuse me with a CS major on another thread. pick the right feud please.

2) "you couldn't have picked a worse example" HAAAA!
You are wrong. wrong wrong.
A) Do you even know what a memory leak IS and why/how it occurs?
B) Did you understand what I said regarding stack allocation and out-of-scope equals "memory gone" and how that fundamentally differs from heap-based allocation as ALL JS OBJECTS ARE!??? you are wasting my time, friend.

you are straight up copying marketing lines from node.js with no apparent understand of what a single threaded event loop even is! (it is a gui system. almost all windows-style apps since 199whatever have an event loops as ONE of it's threads. Open X-code or Visual Studio and make a generic desktop app, and add a button and make it's click handler call a method of something or other. Check a moderately complex audio visual production application for clues on just how many threads one uses and for what purposes are they separate threads, etc.)

You then mention VERTX AND GOROUTINES RIGHT AFTER EXTOLLING THE VIRTUES OF A SINGLE THREADED EVENT LOOP. GO LOOK UP WHAT THOSE 2 SPECIFIC TECHNOLOGIES USE AND DO, VERSUS A SINGLE THREADED EVENT LOOP.

Do note why single core limits exist for single hardware thread execution worlds and stop saying that interleaving tasks on a single execution core is superior to architecting synchronized activity across all cores, and do note that you are primarily referring to CRUD web-dev while positing very erm controversial positions on programming language use-cases.

Node JS is a terrible high-volume web server as all of the alleged virtues you extol are workarounds from the single threaded execution model of what was never designed to be a server language.
I will say it again: HTTP is a stateless protocol involving a request (method call) and response (what it returns)
it then goes out of scope and disappears. no memory leaks. no heap memory allocation. no malloc. no new, etc. it's just poof gone. got it? this was done on purpose by smart computer people. If you want to run each request as a separate OS process, don't blame HTTP, but the primitives were designed for efficiency.

please DO look up what heap vs stack allocation is.
please DO look up what a register vm vs a stack vm is.
please DO not confuse scripting or glue code with machine code, as the machine code of your javascript program is precisely the javascript runtime with it's execution paths being puppeted by your script language. you are literally pushing someone elses buttons and calling it computer programming. no offense, that's why it's a high level language not a low one.

when you resort to reductio ad absurdum suggesting assembler as the tool for all programming, you are not engaging with anything I have said or written here, as tools have purposes, not everything is a hammer/nail

in a way, you are not wrong, as a macro-assembler, or C or C++ or Rust or Zig or Nim etc (non garbage collected compiled language capable of outputting machine code as the final target) is the next level up from asm.

Why do you suppose that Chrome is not written in JS but rather largely in C++?
Welfare city.

You are welcome.
Seems to me that OS design is starting to be a solved problem - and Microsoft was ready with W10 to just coast for a while. It also seems (Ryzen & M1 notwithstanding) that hardware is coasting too. There just isn't much anymore that needs to be done.

Microsoft was probably content to use Windows 10 as a moat / loss leader, and make their money off Active Directory subscriptions (you pay through the nose nowadays for user accounts) and Office subscriptions.

Too bad the hardware manufacturers and resellers can't sell software subscriptions. I'd guess the hardware folks had a nice long chat with Microsoft and made it clear that the only way forward is for Microsoft to continue to use their OS to 'encourage' people to upgrade their hardware.
Thus driving the greenhouse effect further up, which drives more coastline change, which drives ...
I have the insider preview of Windows 11 running on a 6th gen i5, and it works fine. So the CPU requirements are just arbitrary. There are warnings and text that I'll be forced at some point to reinstall Windows 10 after the insider program for early Win 11 builds is done.

Fwiw, windows 11 appears to be just windows 10 with a centered taskbar and rounded corners on the windows.
> I have seen companies failing because investing so much in building infrastructure, supposly vendor lock in free (or so they thought) that they lost sight and did not invest enough building the actual product: no revenue -> party is over.

How was the stock comp for engineers at these companies?
Paul Graham makes a few points that show why medical training needs reform. There's a disconnect between hard work and income in medicine:

i. You work hard throughout residency, yet your salary is fixed. The hardest-working neurosurgery resident gets the same check as the coasting primary care trainee.

ii. Trainees are praised for their academic knowledge and their academic output, yet the highest-earning physicians are in private practice.

iii. Physician jobs in desirable areas are scarce, and they pay the least. Hard-work improves your chances of getting a job in a competitive market, but at a lower salary.
I have a Lenovo desktop with a Ryzen 4000 series APU, and the only way I can reliably install BIOS updates is to disable Secure Boot, as the other methods just never work.

It doesn't help that the Lenovo BIOS updating software is crap too. I don't know why it asks me if I want to change the serial number every time it runs (and it doesn't default to "No").
Past related threads (sans Feynman):

An Assessment of the Connection Machine (1990) [pdf] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20144863 - June 2019 (6 comments)

The Design of the Connection Machine - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16536243 - March 2018 (1 comment)

CM-200 Connection Machine 1991-1996 (2015) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15995004 - Dec 2017 (1 comment)

Connection Machine - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14942997 - Aug 2017 (1 comment)

The Connection Machine (1985) [pdf] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12281637 - Aug 2016 (59 comments)

The Design of the Connection Machine (1994) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8582686 - Nov 2014 (6 comments)

The connection machine. - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3009255 - Sept 2011 (4 comments)

Ask HN: Has anybody here worked with the Connection Machine or the Lisp Machine? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=743053 - Aug 2009 (15 comments)

(I've listed the Feynman ones at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27682314 but let's keep that Connection Machine connection off topic here, since it's by far the most-discussed.)
+1 for SonarQube. Very easy way to add value to a project without a lot of overhead.
'just need someone to write it now'
No, the pc does contain compatible hardware but by default configured in a way which is not compatible.

Even a tech savvy user then gets bored of the process to change the configuration.

Most other people will simply give up and either not use the new windows version or replace the perfectly good hardware with something else that someone else has already configured.

Now I'm also bored already just trying to explain what's going on here.
Derek Lowe's articles during covid have been a huge help trying to navigate the coronavirus hellscape we have been in. It's great to see him start to talk post-covid applications of medicine as things maybe wind down a bit. Delta+ willing
Empowering Developers to Empower the Underdog
https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/geography/guidance/g...

Of the 300-million people in the USA, 250-million live in "Urban" areas.

https://www2.census.gov/geo/pdfs/reference/GARM/Ch12GARM.pdf

By definition: this is all towns of 50,000 and above. The next big group of people are in 5,000+ person towns, which are a good target for 5G and fixed wireless internet. I've got an uncle who lives in one of these areas ("rural" for sure, but with line-of-sight to the town center so wireless / line of sight still works and so do cell phones / internet)

I think you're grossly overestimating the number of people where Starlink's $500 upfront costs + $99 / month is competitive.

Furthermore: line-of-sight is not a problem for a lot of people. Huge swaths of the USA's rural areas are extremely flat (ex: Kansas, Iowa, etc. etc.). So Fixed Wireless is reliable for many miles.
>I don't know what exactly he expected us to "see later,"

See all mentions of "Attack #2"
While true, I think his point is more about how many computers will be scrapped because non techie people won’t know to do the above and assume that they need a new computer. Then massive e-waste pile grows. Do we even know if UEFI compatible hardware and SecureBoot is enabled by all OEMs by default? I could see a scenario where that’s not true. Microsoft should have made this a suggestion and warned about why it’s better for the end user rather than forcing the issue.

I could also see “Your computer is not compatible. Get Surface Pro for XX% off at the Microsoft store!” Because antitrust and MS are a thing, historically.
Religious schools aren’t the only use of vouchers either. There are also charter schools. Charter schools can often provide specialized programs. Montessori schools seem awesome as well.
Thanks for all the talks Martin

https://youtu.be/qI_g07C_Q5I
> I have yet to find a source that gives the risk for that cohort.

The data is publicly available for many countries, e.g. here for the UK:

[1] Report on adverse reactions until 16 Jun 2021
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/coronavirus-covid...

[2] Vaccination statistics
https://www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/statistical-work-areas...

Check the table with reports and fatalities by age, and the paragraph interpreting the data. Together with [2] you can calculate the fatality rate for the 20-29 group. In the end you'll end up with a fatality rate for women age 20-19 in the range of 1:150k-300k (quick back of the envelope calculation).

> Even if it's an order of magnitude higher, the risk of a actually getting a PCR-confirmed infection is an order of magnitude lower.

The source I posted is a metastudy, computing IFR based on seroprevalence from many different countries, so PCR tests have nothing to do with it.
This is a really fascinating perspective, and contains info that I hadn't come across previously. Thanks for sharing; I'm excited to read a bit more about these points.
> Apple has something in that range in mobile phones in the US

Apple has around 49-51% of market share, with the rest being Android. This is no where near monopoly power.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/266572/market-share-held...

>I dunno, maybe they have a high market share in smartwatches too.

Nope, around 35% globally, similar US.

https://www.counterpointresearch.com/global-smartwatch-shipm...

Neither of these is large enough to likely bring a monopoly argument. I've looked over the years at cases and what is generally needed, and none have ever went anywhere with such small numbers.
ofcourse this would be possible (with just another router) but this would still result in inefficienties.

IP Fragmentation is something which you do not want (it was removed from IPv6 for a good reason). TCP does not like it when IP packets get fragmented, as this usually results in lost PDU's when there is even the slightest of packet loss. Which causes TCP to resend the PDU.
Most other people aren't going to build their own computer and try to install an alpha preview of an OS on it. It kinda sounds like you signed up for that boring work to me.