skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Why is fiber to the home so expensive?

I guess it costs more than you think to hire someone to dig a hole, put something in it, and then cover it back up again.

I paid a guy almost $2000 to fix a few feet of sewer line in my front yard. Very little work to do once the old line was dug up, the main costs were in pulling various permits, renting the equipment, hiring crew, etc. Now multiply that by a few miles and $30k starts to look like a bargain.
Looks like Zuckerberg got pissed and asked an engineer to hard code some responses when people ask about him. hahaha
they do.

maybe excessively long tails are a better sign…
I forget the name of the phenomenon, and my search-fu is failing me, BUT - there is something like the "first mover disadvantage" or "innovator's curse" when it comes to infrastructure and technology.

Compare somewhere like Romania with the US. Sure, the size of the country matters, but they started their modern network buildouts WAYYYY after the US. They US was heavily invested in copper and coax. Romania was able to leapfrog our legacy technology and move straight to fiber + neighborhood based local ISP's. While both technologies performed similarly very early on, the ceiling of performance and lifetime of the line is far higher for fiber than copper or coax (barring physically destructive actions like an errant shovel.

So, in effect, they started with something can be upgraded continuously to this day. We started with something whose performance ceiling was much lower, and whose effective lifespan was over 10 years ago or more in many cases. So now that old stuff has to be maintained while doing the capex heavy infrastructure work all over again to get the new stuff in there. Meanwhile, we're still paying them every month and their shareholders are collecting their dividends, so why would they want anything to change? It's not like they're going be able to charge some insane premium for their new faster fiber lines over their old and slow coax and copper.
I'm surprised to see this is the top voted comment because it is completely off the mark in this case and anyone that has spent any amount of time reading Blind (a website dedicated to... I'm not sure what exactly) knows it.

While Facebook/Meta, Google, and others have always paid comparatively well, in the past 2-3 years the pay shot up even higher and the only price of admission is supreme obedience to "grinding LeetCode." This hysteria created an entire culture of pay chasers that congregate on that Blind website with little regard for anyhing other than compensation. These people, who I consider to be among the most toxic people in tech, have a singular focus on pay and it is not at all surprising that when put in minimal supervision environments they choose to merely exist and collect said paycheck. CEOs lamenting this are merely reaping what they sow.
I dont understand this. Wouldn't the relationships rows need to use foreign keys to know which things they apply to?
Back in the early 2000s we didn't have people actively recruiting young frustrated men into incel and far-right terrorist groups though. We didn't have people thinking it was cool and edgy to make jokes about gassing Jews. Hell even the pedo/grooming problem wasn't much of a thing. Yes there was porn and vile gore floating around and you had to take care to not fall victim to dialers changing your dial-up information to bleed your phone bill... but that was all in all harmless.

These days, the amount of utter idiocy is just unimaginable, "eternal september" style. You join some random online game discord and whoops half the talk is about rape fantasies, n-bombs and other kind of sickening behavior. Let it slip you're a girl and you'll get flooded with wiener pics, "cum tributes", disgusting fantasies, doxxing attempts, or flat out hate for standing in the way of someone. Go on Youtube, watch a couple of videos and your suggestions have antivaxx bullshit or "shocker videos". Games for children are filled with barely disguised pedos and "moderation" doesn't do shit. Not exactly an environment many people want to expose their children to.
Yeah, he was. Violence isn't some terrorism related construct invented in 2001.
The Netware backend server was it's own OS, IIRC. However on the client side, you had MS-DOS and Windows Netware clients to login to the Novell server and access the associated shared resources.
Here’s a good story about the first boot of CP/M on an Intellec-8, in Gary Kildalls own words.

http://www.retrotechnology.com/dri/CPM_history_kildall.txt
I don't disagree with the general concept of reducing/reusing, but...

>Use the rags.

... OP said your comment doesn't seem to address the inevitability of disposal. You only responded with another method of reuse, but let's be honest here - rags need to be disposed of at some point, too.
Yeah but then no one would invent anything because that's the only reason anyone does anything!

_glances nervously at FOSS, science, art, & philosophy_
> We sometimes condescendingly refer to this kind of wisdom as “folksy” or “homespun,” as if answering multiple-choice questions is real intelligence, and living a good, full life is just some down-home, gee-whiz, cutesy thing that little old ladies do.

I'm not going to address the condescending tone, but is it possible that for the grandma what otherwise seems like a poorly defined problem is actually pretty well defined because of exposure and the experience that comes from living a long life?
> But I don’t want them reading 4chan either.

I don't think access to 4chan is going to fundamentally change who your kids are.
Many of the top engineering companies (Boeing etc.) are also objectively crappy places to work at. When you're doing things at the scale of Boeing or Google, you need a lot of process, and it's just no fun to do engineering this way.
What this sounds like:

1) let's hire like mad, make every graduate engineer do the dance, and suck up every talent that might appear, and raise comp so high that no one can hire. Also acquihire like crazy, take it all in! Hey, now it's strange how we haven't had serious competition for years.

2) now that times are getting hard, let's say that the people we're dumping on the market are deadweights, bad contributors, lazy. Don't hire them, they're the worst, they dragged us down!

I thought they hired only the best! Weeks of interviews!

I'm sad for the people getting canned soon. I hope they got some money away. And that they're ready to accept -50% because I don't think there's a market for all the people Google and Facebook are preparing to get rid of, at faang comp.

We'll see but this all seems very unethical, from two unethical companies. Good luck everyone.
Do you believe that all rural citizens are republicans?
>I never really understand these articles and many of their points.

I also find theatlantic.com long-winded and pointless.
I'm really sorry about that, but how do you want people to act? That's why I don't get the whining on 'cancel culture'. Half the baby boomers generation (the middle/upper class part) keep telling their kids and others to 'vote but don't protest' and then, when told their generation controlled every vote target, 'vote with your wallets.

Unless you've never used this phrase or equivalent, you don't get to complain about cancel culture. My generation (well, the one following mine rather) is just applying the advice.

I grind my teeth everytime I hear middle/upper class people complaining at boycotts and 'cancel '. What do you want from them? They can't protest, because of violences against statues and McDonald's, They can't strike without getting teared down by most MSM(and because they need to live and nobody's donating to them anymore, except me and a couple people who remember where they came from), and they don't have representative who look like them and actually did the same job. And always, the patronizing 'haha, they can vote with their wallets'.

Well, now they do, do you want to prevent that too?
I'm panicking. That's what this article is to support, right?
Like those "Doom" articles they wrote in the 90's or the "TV" articles of the 80's
Patagonia is not 5-10x those brands, but they do promise to repair your clothes if you bring them in. So even if the quality is not necessarily much better, at least they’ll help you make your clothes last.
A recall is a bureaucratic process, not the physical travel of cars to a repair shop.

In this case, a recall is very much needed, and would be issued OTA to all the Teslas. It would 100% be a recall, and none of the cars would go to a dealership.
didn't google fiber slow down and effectively stop growing several years ago? what happened?
I think what they mean is the Netware login dialogue, on Windows. My classmate hacked our high school's network, getting him thrown out of class. I'm pretty sure he used a different method, though. He got a job working for the school. This was in the mid 90s.
I think that they should reduce as much as possible, the background services, telemetry, animations, etc to try to allow battery power to last longer, reduce service fees for internet, etc. Privacy is one issue but it is not the only one. (Furthermore, some manufacturers will include hardware kill switches, which might be able to further reduce power requirements and improve privacy and security.) Functions can still be working if the user specifically activates and controls them, though. App permissions could be done by a proxy implementation; this allows better user controls, for example you can create two separate files with the same app and the files don't know each other (and later move them using file manager if wanted), or to make it access a empty contacts list or one filled in with random data instead of the actual data.
1Gbps is $40/mo from Sonic in the Bay Area
The point with firefox focus is that the whole browser is in private mode. And even another browser, so no shared sessions or anything with your normal browser or precious interactions/sessions.

Not sure if open-links-in-apps is comparable to that, never tried it (I rather prefer multitasking than doing it from within the app anyway).
I think that dilutes the meaning of "quality" to nothing. Like if someone says "that's quality work" or a "quality engineer" I think of something specific.

For example I'd call a BMW a quality car. I wouldn't call a Lada a quality car, though it's much cheaper and has a much higher bang-to-buck ratio than a BMW.

In that sense sometimes government work has to be the highest quality, especially when it concerns security or safety. Sure it could end up being magnitudes more expensive but I'd say that's a question of efficiency not quality
I suppose I should have said it's not being talked about by any mainstream authorities or outlets in the same way a lot of women's or equity issues are (not to say porn isn't also a women's issue, it very much is, but seems to disproportionately impact men).

It is a shame that any group which advocates men's issues tends to get labeled as right-wing or incelish, which then attracts those types and makes those labels a reality. And of course many were admitedly that way from the start.

Edit:
And to add to this, being right or left leaning isn't inherently bad. And maybe this is my personal bias coming into play here, but I find that people are much quicker to associate right-leaning movements/communities as "bad" than they are left-leaning ones. Again I accept that could be personal bias and it isn't a hill I'd die on.
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You watched a group of idiots who thought they knew something they didn't, cosplaying as characters from their 5th grade social studies textbooks. Just plain ol' mob violence. There isn't anything about that day that would have been viewed differently by Twitter in a pre-2001 mindset.

Yes, some things changed after 2001 -- a media company declining to publish statements they don't want on their platform isn't one of them.
>perfectly fine clothes that's necessary

I didn't mean dispose of perfectly fine ones.

>It's only because we have too many of them.

In my case, it's actually because I'm becoming rather sphere-shaped with age, and some things no longer fit. I try to donate what I can, make others into rags (of which now I just have a giant garbage bag full of rags from the last 15 years of cutting up clothing that is too worn-out to donate -- I guess my children can deal with those when I pass).

For what it's worth, I agree with you that a focus on reducing how much we buy is super important. And, in a bit of a tongue-in-cheek way, I just wanted to highlight that there are plenty of legitimate scenarios where someone has clothes that are in decent shape but are no longer usable. And as the article highlights, I have no idea if the clothes that I drop off for donation actually make it anywhere other than a dump.
Maybe "Web3" is over.

* 2017 - the year of 3D TV.

* 2019 - the year of VR.

* 2021 - the year of Web3.

Let's check the meme department. Looking at Google Trends (US) for "NFT", "Web3", and "metaverse", they all peaked in late 2021 and are way down since then.

There are still people talking about Decentraland as if it were a big deal.[1] Right now, 401 connected users. Sominium Space is in single digits. Sandbox and Facebook/Meta Horizon don't give out numbers, but they're not huge and are probably shrinking.

I'm very interested in metaverse technology, but it's not coming from the "Web3" crowd. In China, virtual worlds on mobile are big, but they don't involve crypto.

[1] https://decentraland.github.io/catalyst-monitor/
> That's like telling the winner of a sports tournament

But Starlink didn't win the sports tournament this year, they didn't meet the performance obligations.
"I love how people want to live in rural areas to save money"

They aren't saving money, though. Everything gets weird if you live in a rural area - or heck, a small town. Sometimes housing is cheaper, sure, and then you realize that while you don't have a water bill, you do now have to get your septic system pumped regularly, keep bottled water around because your well pump doesn't work when there is a power outage, and you have to drive everywhere. I imagine that Amazon has made it slightly cheaper because you can drive less. If you don't want to drive, good luck: You can't take your bike on the fastest route and the country roads are poorly maintained.

And I'm really happy the government makes up for the utilities. You might live in the country, but if you don't have electricity and internet service, your time is going to be more isolated and miserable. Folks living in the countryside shouldn't have to be without because of crushing costs, especially when we consider that a portion these folks are producing food for the rest of us.
> We are concerned with how the public behaves.

Speak for yourself. I am not "concerned" about anything so abstract as "public behavior". All I am "concerned" about is my personal ability to keep my freedom and my choices, and by extension I am concerned about others having the same freedoms. Being concerned about "behavior" is the last of my worries.

> And names matter a lot for discoverability.

It didn't stop you from finding out about it, did it?

> you are not doing the project any favors with your attitude.

Why? Are you worried that if people see you using a phone with /e/OS you will be associated with grumpy rude graybeards?
First they came with the auto-cheeser, and I said… something because it was fucking stupid
"However, like many visions that project future benefits but ignore present costs, it requires too much coordination and too much energy to effect in the real world" ... Wikipedia, Wikidata, OpenStreetMaps, Archive.org, ORCID science-journal stores, and the thousands of other open linked-data platforms are proofing Clay wrong each day. He has not been relevant for a long time IMHO. Semweb > tag-taxonomies.
For anyone interested, this seems to be the lawsuit in questions and it has all the details people are asking for but the journalists don't include: https://digitalcommons.law.scu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?artic...
People leave for piracy

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As a heterosexual male, if females are sexually attracted to me because I own a piece of valuable virtual land, then I will buy virtual land.

Until that happens, I won't buy any.

If it happens, maybe I can finance it with a 30 year mortgage.
> That wouldn't fly today because everyone is obsessed with employee fungibility and bus factor.

Rightly so. Job hopping is much easier in the software industry now than it was when that book was written. Average tenure in software jobs is significantly lower than the average for all professions, and even that general average is only around 4 years.
This is a anonymous token. It can be used for a plethora of things, including earning passive income. If we apply this line of thinking, everyone who has ever contributed to Monero and Tor should be punished because both are widely used for criminal activity.
The enforceability of that is probably extremely weak, most plainly: does the person agreeing to the TOS have the right to grant permission to use the logos or trademarks?
I think on Android they could use Chrome Custom Tabs [0] instead of WebViews. IIRC this also protects the browser content from being accessed by the hosting app, but there is still a limited communication which is possible between the app and the tab.

[0] https://developer.chrome.com/docs/android/custom-tabs/
This is a really fascinating analysis. I have wondered why the semantic web never took off, and I am finding myself interested in being able to create data sources in a federated way. The author’s mention of Data Mesh and his own project, TerminusDB looks like what I had been looking for, for a side project.

One adjacent project I did not see mentioned is XMPP. The extensibility of XMPP comes from being able to refer to schemas within stanzas of the payload. It’s also an interesting case study on an ecosystem built from a decentralized, extensible protocol. One of the burdens plaguing the XMPP ecosystem is spam, and I wonder to what extent we might see that if the semantic web revives again.
> Part of it comes down to fact that it's harder to fire people

Yes, what I was getting at! Developers can coast and never be forced to improve or learn new skills. very very difficult to be fired.
+1 insightful. Also, Ancient Egyptian Police Had Trained Monkeys https://www.ranker.com/list/police-in-ancient-societies/mike...
One issue: I don't know about others, but personally I'm way more likely to check Ookla's Speedtest when the connection is bad, to see whether my connection got an issue. Not when it works as expected.
They appear to enjoy being angry.
It annoys me in the same way the word "utilize" in place of "use" does and for the same reasons. And yes I agree on how it should be used.

The only hill I'm willing to die on anymore is the now-accepted use of the word "literally" when the writer/speaker would be more accurate in saying "figuratively".

People love the "language evolves!" argument, but my thought is that language evolutions shouldn't be accepted if they actively make communication more difficult or less clear.
> The attacker conducted a series of sophisticated voice phishing attacks under the guise of various trusted organizations attempting to convince the victim to accept multi-factor authentication (MFA) push notifications initiated by the attacker.

This is why we need webauthn everywhere! Push notifications and friends are all susceptible to this kind of attack, webauthn is not.
They should not be named "sec". It isn't security. It is compliance.
None of my clothes are perfectly fine unless I've hardly ever worn them.

The disposal of unworn clothes is probably a result of the fast fashion industry. But other than that clothes still get worn out and need to get replaced.

I wish I could repair and recolor all my clothes to make them look decent again, but I just can't.
Former Twitter employee convicted of spying for Saudi Arabia
I'm surprised that so many people write "yeah, any in-app browser can do that - nothing to see here".

Anyone can potentially steal your wallet, so we shouldn't point out when someone actually does? Especially when there's hard evidence in article?
Thanks. It has been awful at times. On the whole though my career has been really positive, but every so often a disgruntled employee has dragged me and many others down. You’re right that engineering prowess makes up for it a lot of the time but there is a limit to everyone’s tolerance for difficult assholes.

A lot of the time the people that needed weeding out are the ones who are vocally stepping out of their core role to agitate in company forums. They are easier to identify because they at least do you the courtesy of sucking at their core competency, making them much easier to manage out. Still, it can take months to complete that process, and all the while they will be stirring about how policy X is institutionally Y-ist and a micro aggression against minority Z.
Points for making me chuckle.
replacing the prototype is important, but you need enough power in your org to be able to throw it away. 'nothing is as permanent as a temporary solution'
Edit: I was reading two different articles and got them mixed up, so I apologize. I thought I was on this one https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32411493

The rest of this post will probably be very confusing.

I understand the sentiment. However, real life is more complex than that. For example, this article in particular is talking about an area around Ann Arbor. I have a friend who lives in this area (in a rural house). He's a tech worker. His neighbor is a tech worker. His brother around the corner used to be a tech worker. I've been to the gun range near his house several times, and each time it is populated by a diverse (age, race, sex) group of people.

On the flip side, there are folks (without children) at the local school board meeting trying to have certain books removed. A council in the area recently got into trouble for misallocating covid funds as personal bonuses.

It's a constant battle, but painting everyone in a rural area with the same brush is a mistake.
I think my point was "performance" in the sense of faster response time is inherently good. All things being equal, if you have a more performant option you'll choose that. The only time you accept worse performance is in pursuit of some other metric.

On the flip side, "normalization" doesn't have that same inherent good-ness. All things being equal (including performance) there isn't any inherent drive toward more normalization, maybe because a faster performing page will have clear impact to the user while a more normalized data structure would be completely transparent to the user?
I live in the country, and a lot of farmers and even workers who have to commute would probably be hit quite hard by any spikes in fuel prices. We had already felt it when the prices were going up recently. It doesn't help that a lot of jobs that can be remote still aernt or still don't even give the option to be. We also aernt feasibly able to switch to electric at this point, as I can't tell you any nearby gas stations that allow for electric car charging.
> I've been asked by CEOs to not remove Company X logo even though there was no relationship beyond a customer account which used a Company X email address.

At best, this seems like a pretty easy way to convert them into a former customer.
Certainly not in most European countries.
> most Rails apps spend most of their time on I/O waiting for something external.

Not just Rails apps. My experience has been that every "typical" business app falls into this bucket.