jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
At Defcon every year, we have ~10k attendees, with literally thousands of DHCP leases active, using a combination of Aruba wireless gear, and Cisco switches. We don't generally have a problem.

Good planning is key; we have heatmaps (signal strength predictions) for every venue in the conference, careful AP placement, and a butt-load of security backend to keep things running smoothly, combined with some EXTREMELY talented staff running the configurations and monitoring continuously over the weekend. The network staff shows up a WEEK in advance, and often does a preflight in April to check on any changes in the hotel (we are switching hotels this year, so there is a lot more prep this time around). Not many conferences have a dozen high pay grade network admins prepping for a full week in advance. But you cannot argue with results.

The real choke point is probably the 100Mbit link back to the ISP, but we keep upping it every year ;)
Has DJB written any documentation on his "TCP-friendly alternate transport protocol" that you mentioned above? A quick troll through cr.yp.to didn't reveal anything that matched.
"The Super Rich Technologists Making Dire Predictions About Artificial Intelligence club gained another fear-mongering member this week: Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak."

This article is immediately nonsense.
145 comments and no one has mentioned the obvious: refining diesel will increase the transport cost of goods and materials. This will add cost to the US trucking industry, which has a big lobby. And they have a valid case that increasing transport costs will hurt the economy.
Demand won't go up much. There aren't that many homeless people, nor that many starving people.

What will change is how people get a place to live and food to eat. A lot of people who go begging for it now will be able to buy it for themselves (for values of "for themselves" that include being given $1,000/month). They were eating before, and thus somebody was buying that food before, it's just happening more efficiently and less stressfully now.
Those improvements were the cause of the unprecedented growth of a relatively wealthy middle class.

Absolutely.

the luddites didn't realize the possible growth of the non-land-owning and non-hereditary base of power which, at that time, was sparse and dependent on the favour of classes above.

Again, absolutely agree. However I disagree that we can necessarily extrapolate anything useful from that fact. I just don't see it as a given that we'll see the same level of job growth coming out of this bout of "creative destruction" over the next 50 years. As you pointed out even our leisure activities are requiring less and less workers even as their variety might be growing. We're going to have to find a fundamentally new source of employment or the numbers just don't balance out.

But as I said, I'm an optimist at heart and I think we'll be fine, but I also suspect the we have to fundamentally rethink things like the meaning of "full employment" and the nature of the 40 hour work week.
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Have you read any of the above?

It's clear they didn't care, that's why I'm saying the ICO should have been informed. That would force them to give a shit.
It's frustrating to try a static site generator that doesn't just spit out a directory I can upload to a webhost. Why all the required Amazon integration?
The number of companies that send (and possibly store) plain text passwords is scary. I keep reporting them to http://plaintextoffenders.com/
This just kind of proves GP's point. Random APIs usually tell you what the RNG is, but not the why/how. Most people don't care if it's /dev/(u)random, Mersenne twister, PCG, LFSR, LCG, RDRAND, etc. They care about roughly 4 attributes:

- Is it good for crypto

- Is it fast

- Is it reproducible

- Is it portable

But fundamentally, it's about the use case and interface:

- I need secure random (strong, slow, secure)

- I need Monte Carlo (good enough, fast, reproducible)

- I need chaotic behavior for my game/stress test/back off protocol (usually can be barely random, fast, reproducible)

I think calling the last case InsecureRandom or RandomEnough is reasonable to convey "don't use me for secure purposes".
Looks like India is using a cannon to kill a mosquito. Regardless of what we think about terrorism, disabling access to entire sites companies rely on for their daily operation is simply careless.

As noted by other commented they didn't even try to resolve the situation but rather went the route of blindly blocking access.

This is a huge red flag, in my opinion, that the Internet as we know is has reached a big fork in the road and where we go from here will do are if our future will look like Biff's world in Back to the Future II or not...
OP Is not saying that the media would claim that saving their lives was a waste of money, he is saying that the media would claim that their life were never in danger in the first place.
There is no coherent notion of "for one's own sake" that includes only values or behaviours that you think are healthy and excludes only those that you think are unhealthy. I could just as easily argue that your criteria for self-expression is maladaptive narcissism.

The question of health is determined by individual outcome, not according to some a priori definition. If the outcome yields positive long-term physical, emotional or behavioural changes, then the person is healthier. This will include decisions based on status, self-expression, or anything else you may approve or disapprove of.

One could argue that perhaps status-seeking reasons typically yield less healthy outcomes when compared to self-expression reasons, but that nuance hasn't been in the discussion so far.
Reminds me of "Market Forces". Good noir corporate fiction: http://www.amazon.com/Market-Forces-Richard-K-Morgan/dp/0345...
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I saw that. But it's not that much information. Are they heating externally? Are the heating via chemical processes? If chemical, what and how?
You're right; it's 1042-S.
Exactly. In Germany it is very common to talk in terms of "Kalenderwoche" (calendar week). For planning, accounting, holidays...
UK position here, almost all card transactions use 3-D Secure[0] rather than making the user enter their PIN.

I could rant about how bad the 3-D Secure idea is, but that's another discussion entirely.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3-D_Secure
This a hundred times. Comments should always be about intent; never about what's actually happening (the mechanistic description). I don't need help understanding the code as read; I need to know WHY the code was written. So I can debug, follow code paths, skim.

A further advantage: such comments have longer halflives. A rewritten method may still have the same purpose long after all details are changed.
I will need a follow up blog title "How to be productive" or something similar.

But seriously, I can't fathom myself doing half the stuff being listed in the post in a year.
My girlfriend is vegetarian and she swears by Quorn. She had me convinced when I tried their [Quorn Roast](http://www.quorn.us/products/44/turky-roast). I wouldn't say its on par with real meat texture, but hell of a lot better than other veggie products.
"the left" - How many court cases were there? How many protests and number of protestors? You are implying that an entire ideological group thinks something which is wrong
I've once went on an Amazon-buying tape rabbit hole, and have had good luck with this store on Amazon (TapeCase) - https://www.amazon.com/stores/page/CE5D8D53-88AA-466E-BF16-5....
You can buy few different kinds of tapes from 3M cut down into normal sizes. I bought some VHB 4910 clear mounting tape, and some VHB RP25 foam mounting tape.
Here's a doc where you can read more about the different kinds, I never knew there's so many! You can then pick&chose whatever works best (say adhesion to metals or plastics, or say low resistance to solvents so that you can easily remove it etc)
https://multimedia.3m.com/mws/media/1015904O/3m-industrial-a...
The article is two years old, and one of the links, the one pointing to https://www.cpepweb.org/cpep_sm_large.html is already dead.

Thankfully the internet archive has a backup: http://web.archive.org/web/20200521151158/https://www.cpepwe...
What made you think I haven’t been helping them?
I have bad news for you.
Here's a potential algorithm: 1) Fine-tune a language model to come up with words that fit the crossword descriptive sentence. 2) Problem is reduced to a constraint satisfaction problem. Implementation is left as exercise for the reader :)
Thanks, that's very helpful.

> The rocket engine they use is too powerful to hover and move towards the destination in a slow adjustment loop. And there is no throttle control on the engine, 70% minimum which is still too powerful

I've seen this a lot, and I've also read about how many times each engine can be re-lit. Can you talk a bit about why the engines have a limited number of times they can be lit?

If there were no limit on that, I'd want to just turn the engine on and off a bunch to get the right amount of thrust to hover.
As a society we seem to weight positive harm much more heavily than negative consequences averted. It might not be the best way of looking at things but it seems to be a deeply ingrained aspect of human nature.
> a normal helicopter massively outperformed a small quadcopter.

not really. The power loading (power divided by surface of the propeller's circle) is the key factor what matters for efficiency (until of course Reynolds number - air viscosity factor - starts to change - happens when we come to Kolibri scale)

In general, helicopter with 3m long blades (6m diameter) on one 500kw turbine or something like 16 of 30kw motors with 1.5m diameter propeller (with the same number of blades as helicopter) each is pretty much equivalent. That is pretty theoretical starting point. After that we can optimize these systems in different ways. 16-copter allows to use somewhat bigger, yet less-bladed, like 2-3 bladed propellers which are more efficient than multi-blades of helicopter (and you can't really have 2 bladed rotor on helicopter). You can use ducts on 1.5m propellers - not a case for helicopter. So all this allows to increase efficiency.
What I mean is that while Python's embeddable, it wasn't designed specifically as an embeddable language in the same way that Javascript or Lua were.
It seems like they're comparing apples and oranges here...

The success and failure or Skype and Joost isn't as cut and dry as the author would like to think. There were a lot of rights and wrongs for both companies and also some luck involved with Skype being successful.
I don't get this, can anyone explain.
With the caveat that the latest OSX releases broke Atom CPU compatibility and you've really gotta pay attention to what you're doing before hitting the 'Update' button.

I run OSX on a C2Q machine I built for $450. Works great with everything working 100% except it's not quite the same seamless experience a real Mac is (I've gotta fix my sleep mode nearly every update).
Ha! I had my thumb over the flag link. I think the cartoon addresses an entire class of link bait titles that get posted to HN.
Still waiting for mine. I setup my account on the day the app appeared in the app store.
I don't think it's the DVD drive that is making this bigger. All those parts needed for a comp requires around 7 inches already and they may be just decided to have a DVD drive too.
You said a business not an industry.
SSRN is not a peer reviewed journal. It's essentially just a preprint server where anybody can dump whatever they please. So it's more like the personal blog that the parent comment referred to than a peer reviewed journal they were asking you to cite.

Please cite peer reviewed works. As an accomplished academic of 70+ years I'm assuming you are very familiar with that process.
I feel the same about web apps.

the web is great for documents and even better of collaborative documents like Wikipedia.

But the so called "thin-client" model can easily turn into a nigthmare from a privacy / individual freedom point of view.
This comment was submitted entirely using the keyboard

How did you do that? Using a specific browser extension?

I am looking for ways to use my browser with keyboard only.
> evidence, such as screen shots

This is seriously disturbing considering how easy it is to doctor screenshots - especially for web-based platforms.
Is there anything that can be done to prevent this ending up being a map that shows where people usually leave bikes? https://xkcd.com/1138/
Because surprise, surprise, most Mac users don’t give a squat about running Linux on them. This leads to a world where a lot of people have macs, and if you want to “convert” them you need to support the machines they already have.
I have recently built a product(https://www.buyitforquality.com/) to test how easy/hard it is to get new customers. It is REALLY hard. Even if you are willing to spend money on Google Ads, the result may not be satisfactory.
Given the popularity of this post, I'm wondering why no one is building a solution for cheap and efficient marketing.
Building products essentially is to solve people's pain points.
We need a better solution for such pains.
I am not doing social, but I am building a book discovery website as we speak, launching in 1 to 2 weeks. You can see a beta as I am building it here:

https://shepherd.com/

Pretty basic to start, and then going to be adding topics, search, and so on.
I recall that YouTube had a problem with pedophiles using YouTube's standard features to discover and recommend each other otherwise innocuous videos. If I'm not mistaken, it's one of the reasons why they crippled their sidebar recommendations.
Whats all this with people who think walking outside is somehow what causes the spread?

And related to that: Have experts in countries with dont-go-out-even-for-a-walk really come out and said that's "it's important that everyone stays indoors in the entire country"? I mean for such a measure you'd expect some good evidence that it works...
I don't necessarily think that its dying. There was a certain hype around Ruby on Rails for a while, and that hype seems to be on a decline. But by no means does that mean that it isn't being used widely on the web.

As with any framework, once you get really familiar with how it works, you'll enjoy the benefits. If you learn it well enough, you'll be able to take some of the concepts/philosophy from Rails and apply them elsewhere.
This guide was instrumental in letting me understand sockets and network programming. I've probably recommended it to at least a hundred other people over the years.

You have made a huge positive impact.

Thank you.
Seems like the proposal itself would be better to link to: https://fuchsia.googlesource.com/fuchsia/+/2940d6f300031e852...
The memory model is similar (a flat, linear address space). The OS APIs are quite different. Fuchsia's OS APIs are designed around an object-capability discipline. For example, almost all the syscalls take a zx_handle_t as their first argument, which means they are operations on an object the process has previously been granted access explicitly. In Linux, many OS APIs operate on the "ambient" environment rather than on a specific kernel object.

Disclosure: I work on Fuchsia.
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Don't use Alacritty, but using Kitty for a few years now I can attest that a nice GPU acclerated terminal is quite nice
That's because people's careers are tied to their Linkedin profiles, so naturally you're only going to get the most positive, shiny things being propped up on it.

This feature also inhibits sharing though, which is why Linkedin has such an artificial feel about it.
Most security software is written in C. WireGuard, OpenSSH, OpenSSL, OpenVPN, all the Software from OpenBSD folks.
Crun is being used without root privilege in most cases so it’s not a huge problem if the runtime is ever escaped.
LCD panels work by filtering out light emitted by a near-white backlight. If they are bouncing around th incoming light, they could be running it through such a panel to dynamically reduce light by color. They could then selectively add light using existing backlighting setup. Its at least theoretically possible, and I'm hoping that they've actually accomplished something like it.
#+clj
(defmacro my-macro []
(cond
(contains? *features* :clj) `(some-clojure-thing)
(contains? *features* :cljs) `(some-cljs-thing)))

If that was too verbose for you, you could of course write a `feature-case` function that looks almost identical to what you have in that example.
It looks like Chrome is already supporting this as well:

> Enabled by default in desktop Chrome 21

https://www.chromestatus.com/feature/5126747842412544
For some reason lots of people write it as "4Chan" instead of "4chan". They must feel betrayed they didn't get to capitalize the 4.
Now when you install Windows, you will get no less than two pre-installed browsers (at least for the next several versions of Windows). You will get IE and Spartan... neither of-which you can fully remove since they'll be baked into Windows like IE is now (things depend on IE specifically and don't just rely on the default-set browser)
They should eat the cost on these cars, and re-engineer the part to be easily replaced on future vehicles so that it actually is a user-serviceable replaceable part.
You are the government. Small communities running their own network is the best case for everyone. The labor required will not change so those of us with networking skills will still have work and the scale is still high enough to pay is well. As long as the wireless industry exists to provide competition I still wonder why are you worried?
He didn't go to the cops over a few ounces of grass. He went to the cops over an anonymous stranger framing him for multiple federal felonies! I strongly believe that nobody should be imprisoned for cannabis, but I still might very well go to the authorities if a stranger practically tried to get me imprisoned for theirs.
It sounded like they meant as a canopy over the streets. Even for that, I'm not sure why we would need the trees connected.
They're an advancement in emotional communication on mobile devices.

I agree that there are contexts where emoji may be inappropriate (definitely Github, I'd disagree about HN, because I think this place needs to lighten up) but they do clearly have utility for a lot of people.
PATCH on the collection.
Some places. Not all bathrooms tough. I suppose a bucket/jar to fill with water is what I'd need, and pour it down. Then, a good amount of soap to wash hands.
I was being non-confrontational.
Why do you have to do it alone? Cant you ask for another colleague to help you out on this?
She blamed it on ‘the patriarchy’, that is, essentially, traditional gender roles and expectations. Those absolutely harm both women and men. Why was the brother insecure over his height in the first place? Almost certainly because society says that men _should_ be taller.
> Are there good reasons for not taking in patients from different countries as long as capacity remains available?

I don't know about Italy but I do know that german and swiss hospitals are taking in patients from Alsace (the easternmost tip of france) which is currently very hard hit.
hahaha, you noticed?

they are more expensive. that's all. same thing is happening where i live, all other potatoes are disappearing but them russets are just staying there. but our store restocks potatoes in the morning.

pasta, noodles, tomato cans, and rice are not being restocked though.
There are huge metropolitan areas in the US that are very dense, and work places and shopping is very dense, so is mass transit. Plus a lot more routinely commute every day for work more than 50 miles one way. People also fly and drive a lot betwen cities.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_North_American_metropo...
In a scenario where we don’t have enough tests to determine who does and doesn’t have this virus, shouldn’t be we encourage more mask wearing?
> Why doesn't Google use …? Make, Ninja: These tools give very exact control over what commands get invoked to build files, but it's up to the user to write rules that are correct.

> Users interact with Bazel on a higher level. For example, it has built-in rules for "Java test", "C++ binary", and notions such as "target platform" and "host platform". The rules have been battle tested to be foolproof.

But does it give the optional custom level of control that for example CMake + Ninja provide? Or it's only high level rules?
Couldn't the same be said about manipulating a child or someone with a mental disorder? That you are tailoring the message to the recipient, that it's a smart strategy to get what you want?

I not really sure I like that analogy but what I'm trying to say is this: there is an information and power asymmetry. While one side has people working 40-hour weeks, using marketing techniques exploiting gaps in human attentiveness developed over generations, with machine learning algorithms crunching data on that person to find their most effective lever - at the other side of the table sits someone hapless and ignorant that they are the target of covert forces. No person, no matter how rational or smart or educated, can stand up to manipulation that they aren't informed about.

It's like calling sleeve cards a smart blackjack strategy. It is. It absolutely is. But the misgivings of the parent are't misgivings about the effectiveness of the strategy.

And to take it further, do we want businesses competing on who can manipulate customers into coming to them? Isn't the whole point of competition that businesses are supposed to try to make better and better products to attract business?

What you have today are identical products made overseas by child labor being sold by two stores, where the two stores compete on brand, labeling and customer advertising because at the root their product is identical. Is that optimally functioning Capitalism?
What exactly is a "single-page application"?

Wikipedia states that it "is a web application or web site that fits on a single web page with the goal of providing a more fluid user experience akin to a desktop application. In an SPA, either all necessary code – HTML, JavaScript, and CSS – is retrieved with a single page load, or the appropriate resources are dynamically loaded and added to the page as necessary, usually in response to user actions." [1]

How is this any different from any other web application?

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-page_application
I believe that the HN crowd is educated enough not to fall for cheap manichaeism. It is true that Apple is a brand that tends to polarize opinions, but if a critic against Apple is well backed I don't think that people that usually support Apple would downvote it just out of spite or loyalty.
NYT exists to promote a very specific narrative.

Sam is a speaker at their upcoming conference; https://www.nytimes.com/events/dealbook-summit

Writing bad things about Mr Bankman may also be considered anti-semetic, by some.