skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Me too, nothing beats fiber if you can get it. I used to have Fios where I used to live and nothing beats it, but where I live now, you cannot get any fiber to the home, but I can get the mm-wave 5G and that is a pretty close second, the speed on my mm-wave is actually faster than the Fios I had before but now there is NGPON2 which is the new tech behind it and that can actually get you to 10Gbps. Fiber will always be faster most likely.
On the Craft of Engineering Management
Willpower and technical ability. It's a hard problem. Look at how many resources Microsoft has thrown at it with limited success.
Agree, I like to see at least an example value in the Docblock
You mean that iPhone advertisement?

Pandemic ⤵
Clubhouse ⤵
NFT ⤵

I call it the #Clubhouse Correlation.
Respectfully, I believe we have different standards of a “good trackpad.” You’re absolutely right that a premium price would command a better experience. I’m just not seeing it. System76 is selling a rebranded Clevo shell with all the issues I expressed above, with all models starting around the $1,500 price range.

The closest thing to a Mac experience on Linux I’ve experienced was a Chromebook Pixel running a chroot, and even that has its own limitations.
US Most Wanted Cybercriminal on Lex Fridman Podcast
This can be used to store data. Someone should build a filesystem that runs on top of it.
Carnelian is a GUI framework for writing Fuchsia modules in Rust
EdgeHTML really is dead, however, and that has significance considering it was an independent browser engine (also, one that applications could embed)
The internet is big, but information has shrunk. Content has been slurped into walled gardens.
The network effect, the Lindy effect, and the Schelling point. If you wanted to learn about these concepts, what is the first thing you would do? :P
Is this massive scale landslide danger an Atlantic bicoastal tsunami danger like the Canary Islands?

edit link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cumbre_Vieja_tsunami_hazard
I had to object to a few of these too. If you need an Office viewer, you can just download the office apps - unlicensed, e.g. on an iPad, you can read office files just fine.

Microsoft Edge is better than ever. They killed the last vestiges of Trident, and good riddance. And… they didn’t even kill that if you consider IE mode will survive for at least another decade, and no announcements have been made about the underlying code in Windows which will probably survive as long as COM and Win32.

Also, Microsoft Reader originally was for ebooks, it was released initially in Aug 2000. I remember it being one of the few ebook reader apps before Kindle was more commonly available.

And Microsoft Expression was created from existing software: Frontpage, Visual Studio, Creature House and iView Media all contributed to the original products. They were discontinued after a deal with Adobe to sell apps on the Microsoft Store, if I recall correctly. It wouldn’t surprise me if Microsoft asked Adobe to not make cross-platform app-building tools (e.g. Flash RIA and Flex - last released in 2012 at about the same time) in exchange for Microsoft not making creative tools. Both were feeling threatened by the other.
I've tried that but the filter seems inconsistent. I can specify a date range and get some focused results, but if I remove the date filter and search the same terms I often receive additional results that weren't previously displayed but are within the range I used.
Ask HN: How to understand theory of infantry tactics
I am neither a combat veteran, nor a military history buff, nor a wargamer. In trying to follow the news, I feel a lack of understanding of fundamentals of infantry warfare.

I've found that the US Army publishes an amazing detailed manual, “Infantry Platoon and Squad Manual” ATP 3-21.8, that they (!) make freely available for download. It's more of a how-to handbook, or a set of instructions - not exactly what I'm looking for.

There are many books on military history available, with titles like WWII / Vietnam /Civil War / Ancient Roman / Infantry Tactics, but they seem to be a lot of history and cataloguing of events and weapons, without as much big-picture philosophy.

It seems there should be a textbook that covers fundamentals that apply largely across time, with an explanatory philosopy that covers general principles, but I haven't found it yet. (Maybe something like "Infantry Tactics for Physicists," that begins with the line, "Assume a spherical soldier.")

Any recommendations?
Isn't that more or less what Yahoo was supposed to be (an index of curated links)?
Ya, it seems less that they killed it, and more so they just rebranded or released a successor product. Microsoft mobile wasn't killed, it was replaced by windows phone.
Either that, or the world will converge into a dystopia where a ruling class owns everything and working class rents and lives day to day.
My 4.5yo son often asks for "daddy's precious disk" and proceeds to faff around with the admittedly insanely difficult controls of Wipeout for longer than anyone would expect.

There is hope for the future :P
I know we're not supposed to make socks, but this one was too good to pass up.
Microsoft only sabotaged, then bought Nokia's mobile phone division. The rest of Nokia is doing fine making networking equipment and various other things.
CNN reports Russian soldiers shooting the legs of Ukranians.

https://www.cnn.com/videos/world/2022/03/26/ukraine-russia-w...
It seemed to be a rebrand or rewrite ... but it was never the same and I gave up on it.

Haven't tried it recently so cannot remember the features they dropped, but was damned annoying. Wunderlist was fine. MS Todo was basically the same without some key features that I used.

I gave up on it considering the developer timescale was snail pace...

How tf do the big boys get "todo" so wrong?

Google completely fluffed Google Tasks ... despite it having some really impressive features like "add email to tasks", best implementation I've seen of it. Which is a shame as the rest of the To do app is not worth anyones time.

MS as well ...

/endrant
They make it less open source than if the extensions were open source, or if the functionality was just part of the core system.
I don't understand how normies with JavaScript enabled manage to do anything on the internet these days. Seems content publishers have thrown usability out the window in favor of spammy tracking and manipulative marketing.
I don't think most governments in Europe could be considered "left" at all, especially not right now, but most European countries have a quite healthy and significant presence of left-wing parties in their parliaments anyway, while in the US Sanders is on the very extreme end of what Democrats (who can't really be described as left-wing on the whole) have to offer already.

That doesn't apply to every European country though. I live in Poland, where left-wing parties have struggled to enter the parliament for many years now and the main fight happens between liberal right and far right. The US scene, although different in several important aspects, appears somewhat similar in this regard. We also have some individuals in the major liberal right party that could transfer into a left-wing party without raising too many eyebrows.
Where can I read about the best solutions for backups? For nerdy people
https://about.google/intl/ALL_us/products/#all-products
No, it's due to people living on the debris fans below steep cliffs on the island, which were formed by previous large landslides.
I miss windows phone
Contrary to Google, Microsoft often provide a migration path to another of their service covering the same usecases.

Examples:

Skype For Business => Teams.

Microsoft Edge => Chromium Edge.

Windows 10 IoT Core => It's not dead ???

Office Viewer => Web Based Office

Kinect => It's not dead ???

Microsoft Anti-Virus for Windows => Windows Defender

Come on, microsoft has big flaws but backward compat/keeping old product alive is where they are one of the best in the industry.
The article compares it to them, but also mentions that the exact extent of a tsunami danger from landslides in the canaries is debated. There are arguments that the travel distance to landfall, continental shelves, and tendency towards multi-stage landslides mitigates the danger from landslides in the Canary Islands.
This is why I use mega.co.nz for all the sensitive files of my business. Google and Dropbox get the files that I wouldn't mind if they were on a bulletin board. But this is not a common practice, and the risks aren't well-known by users.
I would like to hear from any Seattle residents who are among HN readers, as to how accurate they think this article is in regards to the behavior of the City Council and former mayor. Obviously if you're not a police officer it would be difficult to know what conditions were actually like in that job, but the article also portrays a city government making some very anti-police statements, and I'm wondering how accurate that is, or if it is being taken out of context?
I am a baseball fan, so maybe other sports are different, but from my perspective: When I go to the stadium, I have a single vantage point. Oftentimes I'll have a low resolution stream going of the game where a few-second delay is optimal because I'll get to see a replay of something that happened out of my view or that I just missed. Plus, for all but the biggest plays, a replay of a close call isn't usually shown on the scoreboard.
> You wouldn't expect a good macOS experience on a random $600 HP laptop so why do you expect that from Linux?

Because we are lead to believe that Linux will run on anything. And if it doesn’t, then because it’s open source we can just add support ourselves. One of the main avenues for Linux adoption is predicated on the notion that you can install it on hardware you already own.

But those two notions are wildly unrealistic. Mac provides an outstanding user experience because of the coupling of software and hardware. It’s a lot easier to support a select handful of hardware drivers. And because of that, the system tends to work better as a whole (quality trumps quantity).

“Doing a bit of research” to find a compatible Linux laptop is not something just anyone can do. But anyone can walk into an Apple store (or buy online) and be guaranteed to walk out with a working Mac.

The number of voices working for a “Linux desktop” is staggering and no one has a unifying vision. It has been this way for decades. That’s okay. Linux doesn’t need to “win” the desktop. It just has to be useful for those who decide that they are more productive (or just enjoy) using Linux over something else.

I’d even argue that the most successful user-facing Linux projects were done by a group completely outside of the traditional Linux desktop world: Android and ChromeOS. In both cases, they were driven by a single entity (Google) where they could be opinionated as to what to keep and how things should be designed.
I also recommend Mentour Pilot (not geology related, but interesting.)

This episode (about Olympic 411) is a nailbiter: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fT6r9_wmT20
Even then, in the era of Jussie Smollet, one still cannot preclude the possibility that this article is just a shot across Elon Musk's bow.
Does it also apply to those with substance abuse problems? “Stop being an addiction.” It’s simple.
AIUI, you can physically install Linux on the Lumia phones, they're not locked down in any way. It's a matter of hardware support.
Future Combat Air System (FCAS)
Firefox would still have declined, that's kind of unavoidable with Google owning Android, but Mozilla wasn't helping here. Turning Firfox into a lame Chrome-clone by removing everything that made it unique in the first place just ensured that there was no more need to bother with Firefox. Loading the browser up with all kind of telemetry, cloud nonsense and ads also removed any desire to ever bother with it again.

I still think there is plenty of room for a privacy respecting browser in the market, but Mozilla hasn't even been trying to fill that niche in years and still claiming to do so just makes them look like untrustworthy liar.
They killed solitaire.
Clubhouse renamed to shortcut, but is otherwise still cruising. clubhouse.io now redirects to shortcut.com. Otherwise still runnin' fine.
"Fermat's Enigma" for Mathematics

"The Pleasure of Findings Things Out" for science

"How To Draw: Drawing And Sketching Objects And Environments From Your Imagination" for concept art / industrial design
Thank you for this.

Suggestion: I'm looking at the 10-14 list. When I click "Next Page", it retains the "book series" section on top and the actual next page I have to scroll halfway down the screen to see. I'm not expecting to have to skip over the book series section again to get to the next page of individual books. Difficult and confusing, at best.
I don't think so. As far as I know, other primates' arms lack our range of motion – for example, chimpanzees are unable to touch the back of their heads; that makes powerful throwing basically impossible.
Only popular to bash because Mozilla has been husked and is now a money siphon for the executives while they slowly destroy everything good about Firefox, one bit at a time.
Some very old Microsoft games are also missing. Example: Microsoft Decathlon.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olympic_Decathlon
> A few condescending comments about how you've been coding for a very, very long time - since the times when programming was done properly by experts.

To be fair, the average quality of professional development work has dropped as the number of developers has increased, the demand for developers has increased and the focus on fundamentals in programming related curriculum has decreased.

It's a necessary evil as we have no room for gatekeepers to prevent perfectly adequate developers from helping with the immense amount of work that needs to be done. The downside is putting up with obnoxious MacBook toting soydevs who think their insert hybridization of two tech fads will change the world.
Yeah? Can you post about Tienamman Square?
That's amazing. I didn't know bears could be trained like this.
1. Something needs to be done, because the article is correct that downtown is becoming worse than it has been in recent memory. Many businesses have closed and boarded up without re-opening.

Seattle is becoming SF in terms of street issues but without the vibrant SF culture to keep people going outside. Seattleites love to stay in side it seems.

2. I’ve talked to police officers in seattle - who were currently on duty- who choose to ignore reported issues because “we’re defunded. We can’t do that now”. And I know I’m not the only one who had cops tell them as much.

Why fund any police if the ones on duty don’t do their job? The SPD would rather complain about politics instead of doing their job yet they want more money?
Restic and BorgBackup really seem to be the favored solutions out there. Restic for encryption, Borg for deduplication and compression. Or maybe bacula if you want pull based backups instead of push based.

https://restic.readthedocs.io/en/stable/

https://www.borgbackup.org/

https://www.bacula.org/documentation/documentation/
With PHP 8.1 I can easily map database JSON column as an array in a model class by setting the property type as array and the database abstraction runs json_decode on array typed properties when fetching and json_encode when saving. Quite handy.
I feel similarly. I have no indigenous Turtle-Islander roots, as far as I know, except some cultural absorption having grown up fairly open-minded in northern Minnesota. I've been practicing the animate and inanimate Anishinaabemowin (Ojibwe) color-names with my child who really likes colors. I like that such distinction exists, and I'm curious what else is out there in other languages that will help me experience existence in healthier, richer ways. "In living color", if you will. There are more and more children's books in English that also include earlier languages. One of our favorites is On the Trapline, by David Robertson and Julie Flett [0].

From listening to The Blindboy Podcast I'm interested in learning some Gaeilge (Irish Gaelic) for the same reasons.

[0] library reference: https://www.worldcat.org/title/on-the-trapline/
Feature request.

All Killed by Microsoft/Google/Other projects should be required to open source them.
A lot of these pieces of software were terrible! RIP to the one's people miss I guess but.. man. I don't miss a lot of those.
That is something that I like about Google. It only takes a minute to get to what they admit to data they have collected. Also easy to dump all data and then download it a few hours later. I mostly just use paid for services (GCP, Play books and movies, sometimes Colab Pro), but Gmail is my backup email and I like to download that occasionally.

re: Amazon: I like to refresh my VPN IP address, and go to Amazon in a private browser tab to avoid being "gamed" on item pricing. I login once I have the price set.
We haven't reached a limit, no where close, natural resource supply is not limiting growth. While Moore's law is slowing, machines and productivity gains are still being made. Fusion is theoretically possible, when it happens will transform the world
I think there is an easy exclusion to be made for these types of 'too lazy to type a url' type searches (or 'weather' which is similar in getting a specific piece of data).
How to Hire Passionate Contributors in InfoSec (2017)
Microsoft Works was an amazing piece of software. Always incredibly fast, with a small footprint, and had enough features to satisfy most personal and business needs.
You left out something.

That post being replied to was started by Maria Dubovikova, a Moscow-based "political commentator" from something called the "Russian International Affairs Council."

https://english.alarabiya.net/authors/Maria-Dubovikova
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chex_Quest
and this site was killedbyhackernews.info
What about killed by Google? I haven’t seen any product enhancements in Nest or Waze in YEARS. It’s the same goddamn product when so much more could be done. I feel stupid for going so in on Nest and seeing nothing enhanced whatsoever. Not even the video access has improved.

The Silicon Valley satire over google being a place to rest and vest is very very real.
TDS is a banned domain on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=towardsdatascience.co...

It's unusual that this article got vouched.
SmartContract That Simulate AnimalCrossing (Nintendo Game)
Thanks for your response. I really hope to land a remote job with the US while I residing in Jordan. So your comment definitely is reassuring. Do you have any additional resources I can look into?
What a small reason to decide on what language to use. There are far bigger reasons to choose a language but it's your choice.
Physics & Mathematics - Anyone who seriously pursues these fields learns to embrace the challenges as beautiful and the struggle to unravel their nature as fulfilling. To do this, we embrace the beauty in nature and see the connection with everything around us. Four books come to mind.

Physics:

1. Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! (Adventures of a Curious Character) by Richard P. Feynman

2. The Universe in a Nutshell by Steven Hawking

Mathematics:

1. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences by J.A. Paulos

2. Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid by D. Hofstadter

These books brilliantly illuminate the beauty in these fields. They show you that underneath all of that complex notation and "math speak" are beautiful ideas about life, the universe, and the nature of reality. These fueled me, even in to my PhD research. I still love them today.
> It'll never reach a SERP in the future.

Why not ? A scrapper may not be able to find it, but we all have a Facebook account. You dont need an automated scrapper to create a search engine. Info can be manually curated or scrapped through web extensions
> Except that I see so much wasted effort in our industry trying to evolve just for the sake of enjoying trying new things, which I find fundamentally super inefficient

Why must it be so sufficient, with that narrow view on sufficiency. Fundamentally: If people annoy it, it is efficient in bringing joy, which in my view life should be about.

But secondly if I take the same view on efficiency: I see so much time wasted with git, so many times a repository is broken due to a bad merge or somebody doing something wrong. This can't be peak tooling.
> One Navy training manual of 1951 explained magnetic amplifiers in detail -- although with a defensive attitude about their history: "Many engineers are under the impression that the Germans invented the magnetic amplifier; actually it is an American invention. The Germans simply took our comparatively crude device, improved the efficiency and response time, reduced weight and bulk, broadened its field of application, and handed it back to us."

Does that sound "defensive" to everyone?

I don't know this area of engineering, so, to my ear, this could also plausibly be an almost admiring acknowledgement of someone else succeeding where you'd failed, combined (non-defensively) with confidence, because you had the strength or other superior merit to take it from them?
I thought clubhouse was a social media site now it's apparently:

> Project management has never been easier

> We bring the flow to your software team's workflow. Plan, collaborate, build, and measure success with Shortcut.
A lot of people don't have fiber options to begin with (especially rural users). I wonder if 5G/NR will give them better service than 4G/LTE.

I doubt wireless carriers will ever be able to seriously compete with built out fiber in the long run. Once it is there, the costs have been paid and the provider is mainly just raking in residuals while keeping the lights on.
I thought it was decided by an auction?
It's not just a rip-off, it's build directly on top of the killedbygoogle repository!

https://github.com/fabianoriccardi/killed-by-microsoft is not a fork, but it has many of the commits from https://github.com/codyogden/killedbygoogle

The earliest commits from fabianoriccardi include git messages like:
> replacing "Google" with "Microsoft", removed PressCoverage

Anyway, great code recycling at least right? It's a fun thought that the author of killedbygoogle ultimately wrote most of the code on killed-by-microsoft.

Contributor summary:
https://github.com/fabianoriccardi/killed-by-microsoft/graph...
https://github.com/codyogden/killedbygoogle/graphs/contribut...
Came here to make this point. Also, killing off products is not unhealthy. I for one am glad that eventually someone had the sense to kill off Bob. Sometimes- like for devs invested in Silverlight- it can be frustrating, but no reason to keep inferior or outdated products afloat.
The product you are talking about is called “fixed wireless access” and at least in Norway is a huge success. It makes sense because Norway is sparsely populated and this product can serve communities that are hard to reach by fiber at comparable speeds. At the same time it is both better and cheaper than satellite internet, including the spacex offerings. Spacex would make sense for even more isolated communities.

Also, 5G, at least at this point, does not offer consumers anything different compared to a good 4G. But it makes a huge difference for commercial usecases. For example, Norway wants to stop using tetra. Tetra is a network used by police, firefighters etc, which offers robust communication but at a big cost and with very limited services. With 5G they will be able to use the much cheaper public network, with modern services (e.g. video calls), while maintaining robustness and traffic isolation.
Regardless, there are many games on Steam that depend on GFWL that require herculean efforts to get to even run because they're looking for API endpoints that no longer exist.