skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The fiber is, to my knowledge, cheaper than the equivalent copper per mile. There's bigger than you'd think costs basically every step of the way to lay a new line regardless of the medium, with the local power utility often times being a major hangup. The question is almost never about the cost of laying fiber vs laying copper, it's about laying a new line (fiber) or laying nothing (use existing copper).

You have to get permission from every land owner whose ditch/yard you need to dig up. Using poles is usually not an option because they're typically owned by the local power utility who either won't let ISPs use them at all or drastically increase operating costs to the point where it's not feasible. Power supply for actively powered equipment can be hard in lower density (ie. rural) areas (from a bureaucratic standpoint). Copper nodes can sometimes be passively powered, but there's not much in fiber optics that can outside of GPON splitters.
The midwest and much of the northeast doesn't, in general, need irrigation. It's millions of acres of rain-fed soy and corn rotation, and it'd be likely impractical/impossible to irrigate it at scale anyways. (Which is what the article seems to be about, though I question their numbers...)
That's just standard techbro ops 101.
Logging, metrics, distributed action trace.
You could also just use some known, boring technology. I was using Java Swing in 2016. It was rock-solid and unchanging. It will outlive me. Nobody is going to touch it again (all the churn is now in JavaFX). And yet! It even got HiDPI support somewhere around Java 8 or 9 (or at least, whatever they did, Swing apps now respect display scaling when at one point they definitely did not).
Well, that's kind of true! The fact checked Exceptions are inconvenient doesn't change the fact they are equivalent to returning a Result type (the implementation is obviously different but I think we don't need to mention that).

A future version of Java could totally make it more convenient, and perhaps even make the implementation cheaper such that it would not just nearly the same , but literally the same as in Rust or other similar languages.
It's log n either way.
Don't Start with Unit Tests
Sure, but less so on the core value prop for that company.
Approximately no one outside of HN only wants text emails.

And the argument that anything beyond plain text is a waste and ruins everything applies to literally every single medium out there where the written word is conveyed: webpages, magazines, printed flyers, books, etc. It's laughable to think that all formatting of any kind beyond ASCII is a waste.

If it were up to HN readers, the entire world would be so ugly and boring.
So might VP9 and AV1 (or even WebP – not too sure about the timing there), yet Google ships a software implementation of all of these with Chrome as far as I know.
My father in law lives in Yorkshire, where people regularly say hello to each other when out and about, particularly in the morning. We live in London, where this is highly unusual.

When visiting he came on our usual morning walk in the park, and said hello, good morning to someone. They were completely flabbergasted and could only muster a garbled reply through the shock.
The point of short sessions last I saw is not necessarily for technical reasons but for helping with legal reasons. That is, it means to lawyers that an authorized user could not have performed actions outside of a certain time window. This makes the discovery period for legal proceedings substantially faster.
The second best neighbor is the one you never meet.
They can just rely on technological progress.

By the time the original craft arrives, we will have solved high speed interstellar travel and will have been there for a couple generations with plenty of time to build the optical catcher's mitt.

Hopefully anti-depressants will have made similar gains, because there is going to be nothing so depressing as waking up from your 300 year interstellar nap to find out there's a housing crunch in your new star system.
Impossible to know. But in my cases from any IP with low volume.
I.e. I have a bunch of personal servers for 10+ years, there are rarely outgoing emails from them and google happily just black-hole emails from such low volume IPs.
I'm mostly curious about what you use and how you do it. It's not typical to talk about these things especially here, so it's an interesting topic.
I learned to edit on a Grass Valley that used the 8" floppies. It was the only real world experience I had with them. The only thing the system wrote to the disc was text based EDLs, and it still took forever. Get a cup of coffee slow. Best of my knowledge, there was never an upgrade for this, and it was still in use when I left in the early 2000s. This was at a time when NLEs were still considered offline quality only, and this system was used to do the final online edit from the tape sources.
Interesting, thanks! I'll try pushing it
What I’m seeing is 0.5%:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcissistic_personality_dis...

> Frequency 0.5%

https://www.therecoveryvillage.com/mental-health/narcissisti...

> Approximately 0.5% of the United States population, or one 1 in 200 people, has the disorder

Regardless, your point does appear valid about male dominated fields:

> There are significant gender differences when it comes to the prevalence of the disorder; about 75% of people with narcissistic personality disorder are men.
Why not just use

https://arewefastyet.com/
I'm mistaken then; from the block you copy and pasted I misread it to suggest only IE 9 cares about quirks. In my personal use I'd never seen it matter cross-browser before

That said, HN works fine.
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Honestly infrastructure itself like fiber to the homes should be operated separately from the ISPs. Would be far easier to have a competition if new player in town would have to only get their connectivity up to some central spot and then pay per client connected, rather than have to manage their fiber anywhere they go.
How long until they are rejected as save icons?
The real cheat of examples like this is using only existing functions. Once you add a closure with current Go syntax it goes to 11 on the hideous.

There's some chat about adding some variant of (x, y => z) to Go, though even then you're adding some more symbols to an already symbol-heavy structure and it looks even worse when you're not using x y z but (username, accountId => a few lines of username and accountId being used).
There’s a solution for this! It’s called SCIM and it lets you sync user updates from the directory so you can expire sessions when users are deactivated.

(I work at WorkOS.com which helps developers with this.)
Not the person you responded to, but I'll bite. I live in an affluent nearly all-white suburban neighborhood. I know everyone within two houses in any direction, and a few that are even farther than that. We have one recluse and one Karen, but everyone else is super laid back. It's delightful.

I've lived in a range of neighborhoods over my life, and I haven't really seen a pattern. My gut instinct is that attitude is contagious, and friendly neighborhoods have (or had) someone who spreads the love. People reflect the way they are treated.
It was actually 5x in 4 years (1.5x per year).

As you said we see 20-30% at best. And several important workloads have important slowdowns (for example coveragepy runs 30-50% slower).

The GIL is an academic problem which has little real world relevance.
I can’t be enthusiastic about anything related to space knowing that many people - especially in the USA - are homeless or are living poverty and have nothing to look forward to, and no death doesn’t count.

I’m done with all those rich people vanity projects, we have enough issues here on the ground.
>You seem to be saying that your cabin community was able to find a solution that would not be acceptable to a large telco. Why isn't that OK? Why should the large company be forced to do something they don't want to do if, by your example, other organizations are capable of servicing those communities?

Because they're also actively lobbying to kill any local co-op formation. Successfully in many states. They tried here and got shot down, then proclaimed they were going to build out fiber themselves in the co-op's targeted service area (they didn't).

There are states where they were successful in getting laws passed preventing "wasteful government spending on broadband networks" - the end result of this will be people who literally have no possible way to EVER get broadband.
I'd be surprised if this was accurate. A low-volume IP might get a temporary failure code 4xx, but that's not silent. If they accept your message they intend to deliver it, or bounce it. Perhaps your return path is defective.
Its famously determined, but I feel that a DOS CLI app isnt much of a challenge since the DOS subsystem is essentially ossified. What would be the result if, say, you tried to run something DOS-y that was demanding or an early Win16 app? Say, Zortech C++ from 1986 with the Pharlap DOS extender or Minesweeper from windows 3.1. Would they work?
Blacklists are an antithesis of an open web.

If that's where you stand, be frank that's what it is.
"Look at you! You have horses. What were you thinking?"

https://youtu.be/LyZK8k4gzyg

There's a great scene at the end of the Band of Brothers miniseries where the victorious American soldiers drive their trucks past a column of surrendered Germans with horse drawn wagons. We're fortunate that the Nazis never quite got the hang of industrial scale assembly line mass production.
What is on that exam? Do you have any source for the average education attainment in provincial China?
I wish there was a backwards compatibility option to give applications a “virtual display” which runs in a window, for old programs which only know how to run fullscreen at 1024x768.
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That vacancy rate is a bit deceptive unless you're clear what you're looking at, and why. Even when housing is conceptually "full," meaning that houses are occupied, or will be occupied very soon - there will still need to be some buffer between occupants. A house might be vacant for a few months while being sold, for example, or for a couple of weeks between tenants. But that's a different sort of vacancy than when a home is intentionally left vacant with no short-term intention of occupying it.

This is just like "full employment" is still maybe ~2% or so unemployment, because there are always a few people between jobs, but who will likely become employed very soon.

In the US, our 16M vacant homes are the former, "normal" kind. In China, the 65M are actually left vacant indefinitely with no expectation of anybody moving in soon. Not that you can't find some exceptions in both cases, but this is mostly the case.
People don't care about you nearly as much as you think. Everybody has their own shit going on.
Literally all ESPs and SMTP services have super strict anti-spam policies. The problem is it only takes 1 bad send to end up on a blacklist.

The cheapest service will always get the most attempts from spammers. You can try to detect them before they send, but the only way you know for sure that they're a spammer, is after they've already sent spam using your platform.
Yeah, there's a good argument to be made that the wire (be it fiber, coax, or whatever) itself should be treated as a public utility, since it is a natural monopoly. Several countries do operate like that.
LLMs are a different beast in the ML world.

Finetuned Palm for Medicine and Finetuned Minerva for Math all perform a good deal worse than GPT-4.

A fine-tuned smaller model is by no means guaranteed to beat a larger more general one (though of course you may get acceptable performance).

And then the necessity of fine-tuning itself is called into question plenty with LLMs.

https://huggingface.co/papers/2308.00304

https://huggingface.co/papers/2308.07921

https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.09066
Most of the year, I live in a midwestern suburb: 1/3rd of an acre lots as far as the eye can see. I go on a walk every day, but it's rare that I ever actually see a human being during said walk: Everyone is cooped up in their houses. In practice, in most of this suburban life, every bit of human interaction is planned. We drive to commerce, and there we are met by workers with constantly changing schedules, who have minimal connection to the businesses they work in. It's not impossible to make connections in this environment, but it takes actual effort. This makes work the main form of social interaction for many people around me.

Over the summer, however, I spend time in Spain. A town with a population under 200k, and yet far more dense than San Francisco. Streets are narrower, and most errands are less than 10 minutes away, on foot. The pharmacist, the baker, the workers at the restaurant, don't change very much. Since everyone walks, you really get to pass by every neighbor in the building every couple of weeks. The parks and playing ares with children are never close to empty, and people tend to have routines, so it's far easier to get to know people from random interactions. It's not uncommon to meet people you know, completely by accident, just because you walk the same streets. I might not stop at a certain coffee shop, but it has seating outside, and friends are be sitting there, and therefore I get a chance social encounter, even when I am not visiting the same business. There's benches in random streets, and people meet there, and chat on the street, so you don't even need a business as a "third place", when you have the street. Thus, getting six non-work social interactions a day becomes trivial.

Large parts of America have chosen forms of development that are naturally isolating: It's no surprise so many feel isolated!
In all of these cases except fair use, the original purchaser (library, radio station...) has already provided value to the publisher, under terms that allow you to consume it for "free."

I think you're nitpicking that you personally didn't have to provide value, someone up the chain did it for you. But that's clearly included in what OP intended, if not the letter of their words.
This looks very cool.

For the web browser version which is coming soon, will the “DirectoryTree” feature be supported? Any idea when the web view will be in beta/launch?
> not a good fit for apps requiring high performance / high scalability anyway

It's way too late to artificially limit Python's reach like this. It's already heavily used in data science and machine learning. People need performance right now for things that they are already doing in Python. We can't go back to a time when that isn't true. Now it's one of the most common use cases for Python. People are building careers on this.
So when provide.autoinsurance@fhsbsh.com sends you an email that consists of nonsense text, a sketchy link, and an unsubscribe link you want to automatically follow the unsubscribe link?

Looking at my spam folder, how about hitting the unsubscribe link in email from the alias “100_free_spins” sent from top1.povertytrap.site? There’s an unsubscribe button at the bottom.

I’m slightly impressed how that spcammer is using the email “povertytrap” but I assume it’s just by chance they hacked that domain to send spam.
Most people that come across this logo have never seen Λ before. They might mistake it for an elongated '^' or an upside down 'V' but the bulk will just see an 'A' with a missing '-'.

There is also 'V' as 'U' which is quite confusing and some others. Creative people will be creative, that's what they get paid for. It's low hanging fruit, obviously but it works because you are talking about it. And that was their goal: to get you to notice it. Mission accomplished.
I would love to be a fly on the wall to find out about the infighting that happens between various sweetener manufacturers.
You forget that the people who can afford to have a place to rent, usually are not the majority of the population of the place where the rental is located.
I live in a city that was very welcoming to tourists before airbnb, and where locals are now starting to behave in a hostile way towards non-locals, due to the affordability crisis (myself included, I had a 70%+ rent increase this month).
You can try to make yourself feel better by saying you're not the problem, but you are, and locals everywhere are starting to hate people like you.
My advice, unsolicited as it might be, is to relocate yourself to near where you're working for, as it's the economy for which you are being paid, and continue building great software, but with the world (and not yourself) in mind.
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Highly competent people may or may not be rare depending on exactly where you divide the line, but competent people in tech that are also competent to this kind of community wrangling are definitely rare, and people sharing both those competencies, with the tech competency in the right domain, who are interested in a particular community-wrangling job, and who can be trusted in it (which is distinct from either kind of competence) are often extremely rare.
If you live with a family, you don't have any security margin: an unattended computer gets the next user immediately and a lot can be done in just one minute.
See

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25618278

particularly Netscape was a good example now that I am reminded of it. Netscape was coded up by FORTRAN programmers and had a layout engine that was remarkably fast for the old HTML (stupid and smart in equal proportions.)

There was no way to retrofit it to support CSS and I think the W3C and Microsoft knew it.

Tech debt destroys programmers: there is a comment in that thread to the effect that programmers might get fired, but they also quit or go insane. I worked on a project that started when the source code repository for the previous version of the system was deleted by a developer who “cracked”. (Found that out long after I was deep in it!)

One factor is competition: Netscape had Microsoft following in its heels with a better product and the best distribution channel possible. If your firm is in a stagnant market then slow and painful development isn’t a danger to it. If a competitor comes along with something way better, you are in trouble.

A case that fascinates me is the lifecycle of communication apps, remember Paltalk or Tivejo (the fork of Paltalk I helped make for Brazil) or ICQ or AIM or MSN Messenger or CuSeeMe or GoToMeetimg or WebEx? Apps like this always seem to die and get replaced and I wonder what the underlying cause is, technical debt is one of the suspects.
Whast about text messages? We must have HTML in text message too, I think, so that we can use them more effectively.
Three ways to learn to code:

"I want to mod Minecraft, write Quakescript, automate my Blender 3D models, make my job processing spreadsheets easier, make a check which alerts me when my internet drops out or my aquarium overheats, etc.". Task based. Desire for a solution. Google tutorials for the things you need to work with and move step by step forward. Learn as you go. Doesn't want to be a rockstar, wants to build something, solve a problem, play with tech. Will learn something practical.

"I want lots of money / a new career". Search for high paying jobs in your area, find what skills they need, target tutorials on those skills. Study hard, maybe bootcamp, grind leetcode, build showcase demonstrations of your ability, as necessary. Repeat until jobs start wanting to hire you. Will learn something marketable, may learn something practical, may not enjoy it. Accountant model.

"I heard about AI ML crypto bitcoin l33tcode red teaming cybersecurity I want to be a l33t hacker omg how do I make dark mode can I do this in a week what's the best bootcamp I have a great idea for an iPhone app which will be like Facebook but without the ads, I watched 30 YouTube videos on coding last night but today I can't write FizzBuzz in React am I not cut out for this??". ADHD. Not interested in code or tech, wants to be a rockstar without interest in music or wanting to learn an instrument. Probably won't learn anything.

Even though 3 is a parody of a panicked desperate teenager looking for an ego and your question is a lot calmer, the fact that you aren't using any of the zillions of existing tutorials, or any of the zillions of existing "how do I learn to code?" questions and answers on the internet, and haven't specified anything that you actually want to build or want to work with or want to achieve, puts you most likely in group 3.

You almost can't go wrong. If you're plotting a rocket course to orbit the moon, it matters which direction it goes in down to quite fine tolerances. If you're standing still and refuse to move 5 steps in any direction until you have the 'best' direction and 'secret weapon direction finder' that's just ... well, what it needs is a psychologist not an expert direction finder.
Hell is other people. Since we're apparently doing borderline thought-terminating cliches.
uhm... honestly instead of making a tool that supports `sta` instead of `status`, I would much prefer some bash autocomplete that let me write `sta<TAB>` and get `status`
"Nobody" uses this stuff in Go. I mean I'm sure it's not literally nobody, but I'm yet to encounter even one example of someone using this stuff in the wild.

I'd love to be able to survey the authors of the dozen-ish variations on this posted over the last couple of years (most of the much less elaborate than this) and see how many of them are still using it in their real code. Again I'm sure the answer isn't literally zero but I bet it's statistically-significantly fewer than all of them.
Firefox at least stops the video from playing if it has sounds. That's so much better than the alternative.
To divert an asteroid, you’d attempt to ablate a part of it, rather than just rely on its reflectivity:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asteroid_laser_ablation

I imagine that tracking an asteroid and continuously pointing the laser array at a specific portion of it, will be harder than tracking a shiny light sail that’s continuously illuminated by the laser array—but as a whole, I think shooting a laser at an asteroid is one of our best bets, so having that array would be a good tool of planetary defense
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Didn't it happened already in the Americas and in Oceania?

And don't worry, their skin will lighten in 5 to 8 generations, and they'll be 'white' too.
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I've always been sad that my old Mac software just won't run. It's one thing for Apple to move to new architectures. Maybe that was necessary. But when the emulators break after a few years, well, that's the part that bugs me.

Microsoft's devotion to its customers shouldn't be so amazing-- it's the way that every company should behave.
This is actually a great question! The United States bankruptcy court in the Southern District of New York is the best equipped place to manage a massive bankruptcy, likely on Earth. Every complex case you've heard of is managed there. It's a huge reason for NYC's success, and they know what they're doing.

If you need to wind down your car dealership, do it in Guangzhou or Monterry or wherever you happen to be. If you need to unwind GM or Enron, you'll do it in the Southern District Court.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Bankruptcy_Court...
The thing that's actually standing out to me lately is of the OSs I use (win10 win11 osx and Linux) win11 seems awful with all the browsers I've tried having video playback bugs of the severity I've not seen in years. That is with edge, Firefox or chrome. I just don't know what's going wrong in win11 that's leaving things in such a bad way.