skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For anyone unfamiliar, PON means that several users will be physically spliced onto one shared fibre. In most of the deployments I'm aware of, it's 32 users per fibre. It also requires specific hardware, not standard off-the-shelf SFP modules like normal FTTH deployments.

I suggest "20 Gig" with PON should come with a massive asterisk; when you read "PON", you should think "Comcast" because you're about as likely to get the advertised speed from PON as you are from Comcast.
> It's not like putting stuff on the server side via livewire doesn't have strong disadvantages around latency etc.

It's exactly the same latency that a request to an API will have.

Obviously Livewire is not a good option for interactivity that happens exclusively in the client.
Sorry, no, this things sell well, but usually not much over platforms. They would become tough for some in case of regulation.

It's besides the point anyway, as I was talking about forcing people into difficult to finance things, give up on the place, or distressed selling. Whether that is 100k or 50k or 500k that causes that doesn't really matter at that point.
I loved the concept and a lot of the imagery but yeah the ending skewed towards funny for me rather than scary. in the same vein, i loved annihilation for the same reasons but that ending was funnier than it was disturbing.
This is a hilariously bad take.

PON works well for residential and SMB last-mile connectivity. Especially compared to the shitshow that is coaxial troubleshooting.
Corporations aren't entitled to optimality at the expense of the environment
3D Book Image CSS Generator
Similarly unusual, no? Compared to the number of people who aren't that? Of course a society that works to survive (which is to say: all of them) can sustain a few people not working. But that's not because they're culturally advanced people in a world of backward thinkers. It's because they were few.
In other words, "how do we fight spam?" Same as always -- with authentication and data analysis that's commensurate with available technology (i.e. at least whatever tools spammers have, including generative AI).

If you get past modern spam heuristics and have 10,000 phone numbers or government IDs or whatever makes for good auth these days, then kuddos. We are all fodder for The Red Queen hypothesis. The race continues.
Theoretically, yes. The insanely strong structure is the problem. The required strength is too heavy to be lifted by the vacuum.

http://cba.mit.edu/docs/papers/19.01.vacuum.pdf
UK politics astound me, you've got one of the better subways in the western world and the government is actively trying to kill it. Feels like everything since the Brexit referendum has been like a poorly coordinated orchestra trying to stop playing but it's going on for years.
It's literally the same library though
I guess it's theoretically possible, but not really on earth.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vacuum_airship
Also Bad Sisters
Chrome and Google search have their own nudges right? I get many notifications from gmail telling me to install their mail app, or from google search telling me Chrome is better.

What's the legal argument that could apply to one but not the other? Chrome has a better case of being called a monopoly in the browser space.
Pure vacuum would work[1] but Hydrogen is already very sparse at atmospheric pressure. Swapping 22 litres of air at 28 grams for Hydrogen gets you 22 litres of Hydrogen at 2 grams[2]. That's 93% of the mass gone at much the same pressure so you can contain it in an easy bag. Swapping that Hydrogen for vacuum knocks off 2 grams but you nead a much stronger (heavier) container, and risk a massive implosion in the case of damage.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vacuum_airship

[2] Quantity estimates taken from first DuckDuckGo result which didn't look ad-filled: https://socratic.org/questions/is-hydrogen-more-or-less-dens...
> "I think CS curricula should have a class that focuses specifically on these issues, on the matter of how do you actually write software?"

I agree. And for that reason, I liked these playlists: https://www.youtube.com/@MissingSemester/playlists
Finally, a useful software without the «help» of LLMs and other neural crap.
I have had Google Fiber in Austin for years and it has been horrible.

They farm so much out to third party contractors who have no idea what they are doing.

I've had so much downtime (over a month total in the last 2 years) and support just sends the same couple of guys out every time. The first time he showed up, he said that the LED on the front of the router was dim (which it wasn't, exact same from day 1) which indicates it is faulty. Not only does this make no sense, but they have replaced it 4 times with no luck.

They downgraded my plan from 2gb to 1gb to "fix" the problem which stopped the constant downtime, but significantly downgraded the quality of the connection and massively increased my latency. I've tried to get them to do anything beyond just replacing my router over and over again, but they just keep sending me to another automated system which sends out the same guy who thinks the LED being dim is the problem.

I had ATT Fiber for years before this without a single issue. And because Google Fiber basically bought out the neighborhood I have only one provider option now.

Just like everything else Google does, there is horrible support, it is as automated as possible, and if you have any kind of problem you're basically out of luck. When it works it works, but anyone who has ever had trouble with a Google product knows exactly what I'm talking about.

When they announce stuff like 20gb connections I can't help but laugh at how insane it is considering they can't get a reliable 2gb connection to one of their pilot cities they've invested billions into.
I recently jumped ship from Apple to Android after being a diehard apple user for 10+ years. So far I am enjoying no longer being constrained by Apple's ecosystem and way of doing things. Worth noting Android and OS integrations are significantly less polished, but any technical user would be able to recreate the same features. I'm now using a S23Ultra + Tab S9 Ultra.
You could do the same weird attributes thing with props in React. Does that make React's design equally poor?

I don't know how you can prevent bad component designs like this.
Confirming that I'm seeing improvements on this. Tunnels weren't working for me before but they are now.
this man has found out
Ask HN: What do you regret doing or not doing in your 30s?
Following a healthy routine and having a good work life balance are probably the obvious. Would like to learn from your experience.
It's not all sunshine and rainbows though. I've been lucky to have Google Fiber for a number of years and I still get buffering issues with YouTube and YouTube TV.
I work in games at Microsoft and FWIW it really isn't, at least not any where near our team.
I think the author was referring about the specific use-case of building a website using static file generators.

In that context I 100% agree with him that if you want to sprinkle some interactivity while keeping your content "portable" and be able to move to the next "CMS" of the future, sticking with web components is a much wiser choice, rather than embracing whatever fancy convenient feature your tool provides (like Astro's islands).

(It is good advice and a well written article btw, thank you for sharing)

I don't think he was suggesting to build your next SPA entirely with web components..
Somewhat OT, but why is it that (I'm assuming native from the accent) English narrators in Japanese produced shows seem to always have a certain recognizable ebullient tone to their narration?

[edit]

It's not just the effusiveness, but also there seems to be a high-rising terminal.
14lbs/in2 adds up fast ;)

A back-of-the-envelope calculation shows that a 100m sphere would have 600 million pounds of force on its surface area.
No "Punch the Monkey"?

https://twitter.com/meyerweb/status/1454563559577370635?lang...
Not going to therapy earlier.
The Diamond Age involves that, surrounded by 3D printed diamond. No idea how quickly nitrogen would actually diffuse across three inches of diamond with a 1-ATM pressure difference, but it sure sounded cool.
according to the people who write standards, but not the people who write browsers
Lockheed Martin Dark Ice: a quantum magnetometer geopositioning system
> shouldn't we put more blame on the ones who freely exploit loyal workers?

Problem is, there is no realistic way for that group to be able determine if what they are doing is exploitation or a perfectly fair trade without the worker telling them. That is why the onus falls on the worker. Only the worker knows their situation.

If the worker happily shows up and doesn't make it clear that something is wrong, one has to assume that the trade is considered fair. That is what the information available is telling.
That form issue is actually resolved with full cross browser support already https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/ElementInte...

Also you don’t need to pass objects as HTML attributes, I think people pick that up coming from React but the browser lets you pass around objects between components just fine by using properties
You actually can do most(all?) of this in Fossil, it just puts a big frowny face next to it, and highly encourages you to not change history, for hopefully obvious reasons.

Some of us think actual history is more important than a persons idealized representation of the past.
That's only for comments, as far as I can see you can't downvote a submission
Adding crushed rock to farmland pulls carbon out of the air
My next door neighbor was a moderately healthy dude in his 60s. Went in for an ablation, had complications, died two weeks later. All cardiac procedures are risky.
Someone inside Amazon created a slack channel for employees to publish their compensation. The results are consistent: the longer a person stays with Amazon, the lower their compensation is compared to their peers, so much so that a L6 could earn 50% less than a fresh L5. Of course, there was not enough data points for L7 and above and people who got promoted fast wouldn't suffer the slow growth of their compensation.
Can't wait for them to bring this to Austin!
Thank you! That looks promising. I would install some alternative app for messaging, but even whatsapp has a web version. I don't need much of a camera.

Calls work, but I'm not using them much.

For that I do need some reassurance :) I'll take a look to their forums to see how progress goes.
This is a nice critique of the Swift toolchain UX on Linux, but perhaps not of the server-side Swift developer experience in general. Each of these problems looks like the sort of thing that you solve quickly once and move on from.

I have recently been developing a server-side Swift application, a few months of sporadic evenings and weekends. My starting point was having a year or so of professional iOS experience and a ton of web/server/infra experience.

My experience with it has certainly been mixed, but in many ways a breath of fresh air compared to some web development ecosystems. At work I'm mostly using Java on the backend and I think Swift could be a really nice replacement for that for larger systems – the type system is better, the ergonomics are better, the developer tooling is much better at the lower end (although there's plenty of specialist JVM tooling that is better).

Ecosystem-wise, Swift has few but high quality libraries available in general. Apple's first party libraries are exceptional. Vapor is in a weird place though. Some parts are really mature and well considered for their relatively young age (e.g. parts of the ORM, async stack), others feel very early days for things that have been around for a number of years now (e.g. queues). Others feel like an impedance mismatch in the framework design – I find the Content system both too limiting and not providing enough.

Overall, I'm loving it for a personal project. Would I use it as the foundation of a new startup? Probably not. Would I use it in a iOS heavy company? Yeah probably. I think you can do productive, high-quality backend engineering in Swift, today.
If you are in danger or your child is being murdered in the next room, the police will be playing with their cell phones. Know how to defend yourself and have the tools to do so, nobody is coming to save you.
I did not start regularly using vim until about 6-8 years into my career. The switch came naturally as a result of working more heavily in shell environments. I still do most of my heavy coding in VScode.
That's something a Navy is traditionally good for, especially the US Navy with our ridiculously huge carriers. They're great at sitting off the coast and acting as a logistics hub for transferring between planes and helicopters that can get into more devastated areas. The big issue with a blimp for that for me seems to be that they're very slow and can only operate in moderate conditions both of which aren't really guaranteed in a disaster situation.
https://github.com/cheatcode/joystick#writing-a-component
This looks very useful, but what do I do with the discovered data?

Suppose I have a site that runs a search that I want to be able to automate. However, instead of sending the search term in the URL, it updates live (presumably via some API call).

Now suppose I need a one-click solution to be able to open that page and run a specific search.

Is there another Chrome plugin that would allow me to use this API data to make that happen?
It is kind of insane that I had to create a new google account just to change addresses... to another address that had actually had google fiber two years PRIOR to my existing apt...

It's insane to me that a company like Google couldn't figure this out. Also, when I created the new account I was locked out of google payments for 2 days because they thought someone was pretending to be me (after I made the new account). Huge nightmare but at least my 2G fiber works.
> What would the advantages of significantly increasing the number of representatives be?

Better representation, obviously. This is like asking the advantage of increasing the number of pixels on a screen.

How many average constituents per member is right? We're not going back to <50k constituents per member like the U.S. in the 1790s or Nordic countries today, but unclear why we can't get under 300k per constituent like Mexico or Australia.

We're an extreme outlier in OECD countries:

https://www.amacad.org/ourcommonpurpose/enlarging-the-house/...

Looking at federations instead of unitary states, Mexico has ~250k per member, about 3x better than the U.S., while Australia has under 200k per member. Germany has only a little over 100k per member.

Potential effects of better U.S. representation here: https://thirty-thousand.org

> On the other hand it's about on par with the EU parliament.

The EU is a voluntary economic union (see Brexit), the U.S. is a federation of states which may not unilaterally secede (see Texas v. White).
I worked for a large consulting company and this sort of behavior wasn't just present, it was actively sought out and rewarded. I was part of an acquisition that was slightly removed from it, but watching these absolutely toxic dynamics take place was really eye opening.
Twitch streamers and TikTok influencers
This reminds me of a tunnel outside of the Interlaken Ost train station in Switzerland. It was roughly 5 ft tall and there were many people using it as a shortcut to the train station.

If you pan through here on a Google Maps streetview you can see people making their way to the railway station:
https://maps.app.goo.gl/CzA5FVmWMbryCQFe9
8 / 10 applied to my PhD life.

As a postdoc, it now feels like somewhere around the 7th sequel to Friday the 13th. Boring and tired, but the writers haven’t gotten bold enough to get really wacky and send me to space yet.
A day in the life of AI
Having lived through a Caribbean hurricane (https://www.caymancompass.com/2021/09/12/remembering-hurrica...), I can assure you that an airship is much less potentially useful than cargo ships and ferries.

The ports were fine; what we had trouble sourcing was labourers, water, food, and building supplies.

He’d do a lot more good by repurposing a super-yacht as a passenger ferry, tbh.
people generally know to flag hot topic stories so a lot of these get caught before there's serious moderator response.
What's the point of 'playing' a game if a bot does it for you?
It probably puts you in the 95th+ percentile in distance run per week
The Fight for the Main Thread
Black Holes vs. Regular Holes
What's a difference between this and sth like GraphQL Mesh or Wundergraph?

There are no resolvers to maintain in those either but you get "standard" GQL instead of TaxiQL which I assume has much smaller ecosystem. What are the strengths of TaxiQL?
Wasn't there some fundamental web/javascript security policy change a decade or so ago that broke many bookmarklets?
That's just life as a public company.
I can press on a single button and get access to tons of remote servers without needing to use gateway. Also, the UI is much better than gateway, since it's not "included" whenever you ssh or open a websocket connection. Gateway works fine, but it's much heavier, clunkier and IME less reliable.

In contrast, almost all extensions work just fine in VScode remote, and you can sync your settings across all machines that you have without doing anything.

It's not really something jetbrains can do about it, but there's also the fact that vscode is almost a standard for one click remote dev so Gcloud, AWS and Azure integrate with it super well. I can access any machine on a single click, and open test envs too while having my settings synced on the browser too. Gateway being proprietary probably makes such integration impossible
TIL, interesting.
Does anyone know if these are expensive to manufacture at scale?

I like that they are being used for aid, but I’m curious why they couldn’t also be extended to commuter travel? Is it not cost effective?
This makes Apple One entirely not worth it. But I'm pretty biased - I opted out of even the current pricing after being disappointed with Apple Music and Apple TV. I don't want to rant about bad software, but they really need to stick to budget pricing so long as they deliver a budget experience. The iOS and TV apps for Music and TV+ feel... low quality. Sluggish, buggy, etc.

I would expect more from a company that is in control of the entire stack at play - an Apple device, running an Apple-made app, backed by Apple-managed servers...

Anyway, very happy I didn't become attached to Apple One during the trial period.
Would be cool if this shared the user found specs to create a database of API specs for the web
True. Zone 1-2 depending on topography
It can be as simple as where the business is located.

Perhaps the useful definition of a lifestyle business is one where explicitly part of business's purpose is to achieve personal non-business goals for one or more people involved. They can be tiny or fairly large, though at some point the distinction probably loses meaning.

Like the difference between a "startup" and a "new business" they can be useful distinctions but are often used sloppily.
Remember, the reward for a job well done here is the same as at a whorehouse --- you get screwed more thoroughly and more often.
Really cool, we're using a similar technique at Kadoa to auto-generate scrapers for any website. Analyzing network calls to find the desired data in API responses is one of the frist things we do before starting to process the DOM.
You can try it for free. That's the only way you'll know if it suits you.
Lexis+ AI Is Generally Available for US Customers
Posting without opinion.
Hmm, that paper is interesting, and definitely descriptions are a big bottleneck in training. But they only say they used T5-XXL in the experiments related to the paper. Who knows what Bing is actually running?
I have thrown together a minimalist extension to HTML that I think captures the core ideas of htmx, although you are right that there are still some outstanding issues that probably need additional thinking to make it widely useful:

https://gist.github.com/1cg/d1ad1ddd5f43a8a993cd9f711135edc9

Here is an example button using these proposed extensions to HTML

<button href="/example"
method="patch"
target="#divToReplace"
onClick="this.submit()">
This is an example button hypermedia control
</button>
I was born in '75, and people have been saying things like that for as long as I can remember. It seems likely to me that a substantial number of people will always feel that way. I don't know if it's more true now. I think the social implications of modern technology are still becoming apparent, even as we continue to develop and expand that tech. That could be a contributing factor, although maybe when we talk about craziness we're talking about different things, depending on which bubble we live on.
If you’re waiting for the inevitable “this is why we shouldn't centralize everything”; this is that comment.

As much as I like cloudflare and easy to use stuff, lets be a little bit mindful of the blast radius of highly centralized services which are even more complex to operate due to the scale of the deployment and problem scope.

luckily this time its just administrative interfaces and supplemental services that assist in development and that hopefully aren't used in production.

People will defend cloudflare here with the old saying “Operating at scale is hard” but simultaneously holding the opinion that operating services themselves is equally hard.

I guess the argument is that outsourcing is easier, but then you are very much out of control.

“the internet” in its practical entirety going down becomes more possible every passing day.
I think at this point it can only make it better.

There is nothing he can say that would make his fraud worse.
In a service business, sweat equity is an awesome tool, not just for paying yourself, but also for paying your early employees.

One of the biggest obstacles you face when bootstrapping is that you need employees to grow your revenue, but you need revenue in order to pay your employees. It's a chicken-and-the-egg problem, which sweat equity can help to solve, at least to a limited degree: grant some sweat equity that vests over 5 to 10 years as a form of deferred compensation, then hope that your new employee / business partner boosts the value of your remaining equity in that time-frame by some multiple that is much larger than than the value of the equity you are giving up today. Then everybody wins.

I have found this approach very successful in my own business. It also increases the likelihood that when you want to retire some day that your own employees might be able and interested in buying you out, which means that you won't have to shop your medium sized businesses to private equity groups or search funds in 20 or 30 years when you want to get out of the game.

Part of building a middle class is not pulling up the ladder after you, which means you need to aim to enrich others -- specifically others who are not already wealthy -- alongside yourself.
I thought oil was money in this metaphor.
China Does It Again: A NAND Memory Market First
Web rings and web directories are also good solutions to this makes it easy to find content you actually like.

Also maybe hackernews should do a monthly post your blog/website just like the monthly job posts.
Saying "really" doesn't make you any more credible.
Could you share how you cope with all these findings and experiences, psychologically? I have anxiety that my heart is going to stop any moment (even after stress test came back ok), hope you can share your coping mechanism is any, thanks
If Cloudflare goes down, Internet goes down.
Using Declarative Interfaces to Empower Devs to Do Ops
Nile co-founder here :)

Nice surprise to see our launch here. Happy to answer any questions...
What part of web components don’t meet the definition of progressively enhanced?