jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Maybe you missed it, but that's what the article mentioned. Wireless wasn't fast enough ("standard WiFi connections aren't fast enough"), so they switched to wired networks. It wasn't that they didn't know they would need a gigabit router, it's that they saturated the wireless network and upgraded to a faster wired network.
> But licensing or suing isn't leveraging their current monopoly

Using the income from monopoly A for threatening to drag players in market B (that's about to become more relevant than monopoly A) into legal wars that only the plaintiff can afford is... well... shady.

> They're suing over patents. Last I checked even monopolies could sue over patent infringement.

Unless they are using those patents to prevent competitors from competing with them. If you consider the mobile ecosystem as competition to the desktop ecosystem, you can argue they are leveraging a monopoly (because the monopolist in segment A can afford a legal battle nobody in segment B can) to prevent it from being rendered worthless by a segment they can't monopolize.
Notepad++? Or shudder regular notepad?
I bet we could design an adequately consumer-friendly self-hosted cloud-like system, if the existing attempts are inadequate (PogpPlug, AeroFS, Tarsnap, etc.)
Different definition of centralization. Coinbase may hold and control a lot of bitcoins, but they don't control the network and can't make fiat declarations if they want to ban/block someone from using bitcoin.
Both the numbers are drops in the bucket as far as federal funding is concerned. Out of a $3 trillion budget, we could have easily afforded both.

Also, to defend the ISS, there is a lot of science done there for private companies that is not made public. It is also a post where many nations get together and can really study how man will survive and cooperate in space for the long run.
Here's DARPA's press release:

http://www.darpa.mil/NewsEvents/Releases/2015/01/20.aspx

Most troubling is the new pump, which means "the teams can actually operate this robot without the need for hearing protection."

Before, I pictured the robocalypse accompanied by the combined buzz of a thousand BigDogs, but now apparently it's just going to be the sound of well-oiled actuators — mingling, of course, with screams.
There are lots of examples of governments or large organisations taking down networks with single points of failure, but far fewer examples of taking down highly distributed networks like Bitcoin.

I don't think this fight is a foregone conclusion. I think it would be difficult to write a law that would make Bitcoin illegal, without making things like MMO currencies or SSL certificates illegal.
Very cool, but why in the world would he use Instagram? All it did was crop the photo down to a square, so we couldn't see parts of the datacenter that weren't within that square.
I use trac. It has ticket/backlog management, a built in wiki, subversion integration, and it's free. I highly recommend it.
That's because -only counting taxes, nothing else- it costs your employer anywhere from 7400 to about 11000 (monthly) to give you such a salary.

100k US$ bruto is equivalent to a bruto pay (100k * 0.7 euros/dollar / 1.20 (increased costs) = 60k euro (equivalent cost for employer).

In the US, that 100k employee can spend 66000 dollars. In the EU an employee can spend, on that exact same salary the equivalent of 32000 dollars (VAT deducted so as to reflect that most US doesn't have any significant VAT or sales tax).

Yes medical stuff is mostly free, and retirement benefits are included. But you're paying > 50% tax (some of it's hidden : your employer pays directly and it doesn't count to bruto wages, but obviously it still counts on the balance sheet)

And this is ignoring VAT, which is another 20% on any amount of money you actually spend.

Oh, and, at least where I'm from, nobody's happy with their retirement benefits. It's about 80% from your average wage during your career. The killer is, of course, in inflation. Suppose you ended your career at 4000 net, after 45 years of working, at an average inflation rate of 4%. How much retirement do you get for those 60% taxes you paid ?

1532 euros/month

The best deal is simple : work in the US, retain EU citizenship and have a US private sector pension (or, say, a Swiss or Australian one, but it must be outside of the EU) + minimum pension in the EU (minimum pension is about 750 euros/month). If you own a house, of course, that 750 euros is quite comfortable. If you don't, it's basically impossible to survive on it.
These aren't my tips. Sleep doctors say don't read in bed over and over:

http://www.sleepassociation.org/index.php?p=sleephygienetips

I know it's nice to read in bed, but it's bad for sleep. It's not like you have to do everything in the list up there to get sleep, but the sacrosanct "Bed is for sleeping, only" is the #1 thing for many people.

I often read Before bed, but on the couch, not IN bed.
Hi, this is cortex.

How it played out, very short version: I got up in the morning and checked the new signups, part of my morning routine. We have to check for spammers and shills on a daily basis to keep mefi free from linkfarming and bullshit self-links and so on, and that tool is step one. The paypal info that comes with the $5 signup fee is hugely helpful for profiling likely spammers.

I noticed what looked like a signup from Adams himself; person I've heard of signing up happens now and then, it's an "oh neat" moment and that's about it, since if you're sticking to the community guidelines and participating in good faith, who you are and what you do and how anonymous you choose to be is entirely your business.

Unfortunately, what I saw when I checked out his comments since signup was weird aggressive pretending-to-be-a-third-party arguing about himself, which is really not an okay thing to pull on mefi. I talked to the rest of the staff, we sent Scott an email saying "you need to either let folks know who you are or stop having this proxy argument about yourself as if you're someone else".

Time passes, no response from Scott. Then he posts that "who thinks I'm Scott Adams?" comment. Gave him some more time, still no reply, left the "check your email" comment. Time passes, and then, still no response to us, he drops the disclosure in the thread.

If he'd chosen to walk away, that'd have been fine too, and we'd have had nothing to say publicly about what he did regardless of how obnoxious and sketchy it was. We took considerable pains NOT to out him and make it his call how to proceed.
Note the dual axis solar trackers in the field adjacent the facility. They are from Bend, OR solar startup PV Trackers http://www.pvtrackers.com/
clickable http://www.innoengineer.com
"selling the magnets... to whom I have no idea"

In those pre ceramic supermagnet days those were probably alnico magnets (aluminum, nickel, cobalt) and although you get $4/lb for scrap nickel you'll only get $1/lb or so for alnico magnets from a scrap metal dealer, today.

Where you'd get your feedstock from is a complete mystery as the scam of "recycling" by shipping used electronic to the 3rd world is pretty modern. If you could get an infinite supply of gear (rejects returned to manufacturer?), I don't think it would be a challenge to rip apart speakers of that time and generate a roughly minimum wage income.

Nickel is really quite valuable. Prices always vary but a tenth the cost of equal weight of silver is semi-stable-ish. Figure maybe a hundred times what you'll get for scrap steel. Or maybe two or three times what you'll get for copper. If there's precious metals, and semi-precious metals, I'd say nickel is just one step below the semi-precious, like wanna-be precious metal.
And I lived in a city with about 14 million people, where one building had about 3 thousand people living in it (it has its own zip code). So different it made me want to visit this town in Alaska.
Google, what the heck?

Cloud Print was THE main reason why I never fully switched away from Chrome. It was more reliable than even the "native" printing capabilities of my printer, which would randomly refuse to print, but over Cloud Print it worked every time.

It was also very convenient to send print jobs even while not at home.

Well, thanks for allowing me to get rid of Chrome entirely, I guess.
Is there a way to get in touch with you to learn more?
They don't define DELETE as idemptotent, the HTTP standard does.

It also feels very natural for DELETE to be IMHO, so I would be curious what strange thing you do
I'm not the target demographic but all I can think is: why?

The city with the most transit/for hire transportation options in the country and a business goes up around bringing in more cars and making it more convenient to do so.

Parking a car in NYC all day must be the most inefficient use of urban space possible.
Reminds me of Belarus. You have to pay fines for being homeless.

Honestly, I hope some homeless people shit in the mailbox of people suggesting such "solutions".
> We took immediate steps to stop the intruder and reinforce security.

How did they get in? and why wasn't the security "reinforced" in the first place?
Its performance is nowhere comparable to a real VNA, those VNAs made by Hewlett-Packard in the late 80s are still the golden standard for many labs.

But NanoVNA is great value for the money for anyone interested in radio electronics! For $50, almost nothing beats a NanoVNA, and it's much more effective than the traditional sweep generator setup. You get complex S11/S21 and 900 MHz bandwidth [0], good for measuring complex impedance, the insertion loss of the coax, the frequency response of filters, SWR of antennas, and even basic Time-Domain Reflectometry. The firmware is available under GPLv3 for hacking as well.

I recently used it to experiment different ferrite RF transformers for my homebrew radio receiver, and to characterize frequency response of inductors.

The only thing to beware - since it's a "almost" free hardware design (i.e. FOSS firmware + a block diagram for hardware, only the PCB layout is not available), there are a number of low-quality clones that use low quality components and don't include proper shielding. I recommend hugen79's version ("NanoVNA-H"), he is not the original designer (it was designed by edy555 [2]), but hugen79's version is currently the most common source with reasonable quality, see the picture for comparison. [1]

[0] > 600 MHz uses higher-order harmonics, and is less reliable, but still better than nothing.

[1] https://github.com/hugen79/NanoVNA-H/blob/master/doc/clone.j...

[2] https://github.com/ttrftech/NanoVNA
We don't need a profusion of operations in the core protocol. Do you need idempotence or not? Pick from one of these two things and elaborate on top of that.
Depending on what you are counting, sometimes "wrong" can be historically "right":

In Swaledale, in the North Riding of Yorkshire, sheep farmers used to, and some still do; count their sheep in a very curious fashion. Instead of One, Two, Three, Four...
they go, thus: (1)Yan, (2)Tan, (3)Tether, (4)Mether, (5)Pip; (6)Ezar, (7)Sezar, (8)Acker, (9)Conter, (10)Dick; (11)Yan-a-Dick, (12)Tan-a-Dick, (13)Tether-a-Dick, (14)Mether-a-Dick, (15)Bumfit; (16)Yan-a-Bum, (17)Tan-a-Bum, (18)Tether-a-Bum, (19)Mether-a-Bum, (20)Jigget.
Having reached Twenty, they then take a stone [or make a mark upon the ground or a piece of wood, thus the term 'a score' or 'twenty'] representing the Twenty sheep that they have counted; and if they possess more than Twenty sheep, they go for another twenty:

Yan, Tan, Tether, Mether, Pip...
Another Twenty, another stone.
Yan, Tan, Tether, Mether, Pip...
Again,Twenty, again another stone.

Jake Thackray 'Molly Metcalfe' 1971

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TiXINuf5nbI
Alrighty then, a much more social aspect.
I stand corrected!
source <https://twitter.com/paulg/status/558494900245643264>
Using dm-crypt/LUKS, there's a very fast and total wipe to execute when sensors fail.

Let's assume that /dev/sdb1 is the LUKS volume. First backup the LUKS header: "cryptsetup -v luksHeaderBackup --header-backup-file=/tmp/LUKS-header /dev/sdb1". Then encrypt (gpg -c) the LUKS-header, and anonymously stash a few copies online. This is the weak point. You must remember where at least one of them is, and also remember the passphrase.

When sensors fail, swatd runs "head -c 1052672 /dev/urandom > /dev/sdb1; sync; shutdown -P now".

To recover, you would just boot into initramfs, restore the LUKS header, and reboot.
Something that bugs me with almost every source control GUI is that there is usually no way to spawn a three way diff after a merge has been done. They might support three way merge on conflict but bang, once you save you can not get that view back. They also often don't understand that no branch was the master branch so if you diff the merged revision (diffing a single revision doesn't make sense yes but guis usually present it this way and diff it with the last revision) then you get all changes that has happened on master since the branch was created, wtf?? To see what only the branch contributed you have to manually select two revisions, diff them and then select the other revision and diff.
There's also DNT (do not track) where the standards group was disbanded[1] in early 2019

[1] https://github.com/w3c/dnt/commit/5d85d6c3d116b5eb29fddc6935...
>Except this wasn't the federal bailouts. Those are an entirely different beast. It's talking strictly about income stagnation.

Which rests on the fundamentally incorrect assumption that a dollar a rich person gets means that a poor person is a dollar poorer.
This looks very cool! I'm seeing a new wave of cloudnative CI/CD tools. What's your take on Terraform vs Pulumi long term?
I switched from Cmder to Windows Terminal after using the former exclusively for years. I really like that Cmder comes with Unix tools out of the box, but Windows Terminal is a better terminal IMO since it only does a few things, but it does them well. SSH, vim, tmux, and other complex terminal programs mostly just work. It's also much more straight forward to add new custom shells/profiles than with Cmder.

One annoyance I do have with Windows Terminal is that there isn't a nice way to open up an admin terminal. I usually just have to right click it and open as admin (could also do a shortcut, but that's basically the same thing). Not sure if it is possible, but I would especially love to have admin and non-admin tabs in the same window.
I have a 2020 Bolt, and a 2019 Model 3 Performance. In my experience the Bolt's range prediction is dead on. The Tesla overestimates by a lot. So much, in fact, that I just switched the range display to battery percentage.
2% inflation over 30 years destroys over half the purchasing power of the saved money. So no, moderate inflation doesn't encourage saving. It encourages the unbridled consumerism that has created environmental catastrophe.

Bitcoin, as a deflationary asset, encourages lower time preference, which encourages saving and real investing (generating real world value rather than paper gains), resulting in less consumerism and better stewarding of resources.
I'm not itching to type faster either, so we might be both weirdo :D

I'm using these tools to stop switching between my mouse and my keyboard all the time. It might not bothering you, and it wasn't bothering me either before I tried to spend most of my time on the keyboard.

After that, like many things in development, it's a question of preferences; but you can try and see for yourself. You don't have to buy the book for that: I've many articles about mouseless tools on my blog for free for example, and there are even more on Internet :)
I don't see how the rewrite engine would break if Haskell would be strict. Can you expand on that?
The socketed version of eMMC is called SD; it's pretty popular.
The point isn't a taxonomy of 3 types but the layout in two axes - breadth and depth of expertise. Those are quite real and useful to think about when considering hiring or your own career development.
It's because SMS works without data.

I doubt that most of the people that complain about SMS live in rural areas.
It seems to be more of a US thing. The country is so large that unless you live in a city you just won't be able to get data reliably. This leaves SMS as the only form of phone communication that isn't a voice call.
Here is another gem "It is somewhat perplexing when children are injected into the conversation as an attempt to bolster a position or as an attempt to thwart the position of another." I was hesitant to read this at first as it had nothing to do with programming. However, I am glad I did. I would recommend the HN community to read both the mail and the response. The response was well thought out, organized and calls out a few biases we carry around.
Here's a link to the abstract:

http://arxiv.org/abs/1406.4826

Here's a link to the paper:

http://arxiv.org/pdf/1406.4826v1.pdf
Specific books:

* The Cell: A Molecular Approach, Cooper

* Molecular Biology of The Cell, Alberts

Theses are the main two books in the field of molecular biology. If you want to go more specific, let me know.
Why are those professions exempt?
I do freelance writing, not coding. For me, a good service has been really helpful. The issue is finding a good one.

So maybe look around for a service, try a few out, see if anything sticks. If not, you can email me and I can talk with you about my opinions about good vs bad services and if there isn't anything like it in the coding space, maybe you have your next start up idea. :-)

Best of luck, whatever your future holds.
Exactly.

A cursory glance at the HN/YC jobs page shows 1 remote-friendly position out of 20+. Why?

I'll admit, people are probably wrongly ascribing bad intentions to PG's essay and sama's related tweets. But that's what happens when you fail to address the other options.
Artists love producing works dictated to them by consumers for twelve hours a day in Yiwu sweatshops . They love it so much.
First what we should notice is that this behaviour does not prove existence of God.

Also if we know existence of such behaviour, we can more easily protect us against groups that try to exploit this behaviour to get control over us.
Generic != Robust.

It can quite easily be the opposite, they are certainly orthogonal concepts.
Totally agree. I’ve driven nothing but CarPlay cars over the last several years (I used to rent a lot of cars), and when I drive a non-CarPlay enabled car now I’m super distracted.
Hi, check out https://www.clearstep.health/covid19 for an existing screener that we are deploying with health systems next week!
And in response, blockers could then create lists of hashes of ads (pictures) instead of URIs and block those ?
Thanks this looks very useful.
Counter opinion: I like the number because if there's a website working not quite right, I can easily see the number and disable uBlock to test out if that's the cause.
Lots of discussion about this when JWZ noticed it on his TVs: http://www.jwz.org/blog/2012/01/snow-crash-simulated/
It's such a ridiculous headline. "I want to trust him more" aka "I don't trust him".
It will, otherwise semantics will depend on which C compiler is available and ANSI C doesn't require TCO.
So Elizabeth Bathory was correct after all--ha! Take that, naysayers.
I don't think the lack of a blade is an issue. Don't most people who carry multitools already have pocket knives? Pocket knives which are often better quality than any multitool blade you're likely to find?
Some data points:

From a Forbes article:
"AWS sees networking as the critical path for cloud but also realizes that the relative cost of networking increases as server and storage prices drop rapidly. Networking is, in Hamilton’s words, “frozen in time” as the vertically integrated ecosystems generate “indefensible profit margins”. AWS’ solution is to build a custom networking hardware and protocol stack and to own their own private long haul links."

from this Forbes article: http://www.forbes.com/sites/benkepes/2014/11/25/scale-beyond...

So Amazon is really really trying to reduce the cost of Networking.

From the extremetech article:
"Analysts have pointed to server networking chips as Annapurna Labs’ main focus. These chips could be used to move data more efficiently and save power in data centers."

I think it's pretty clear why they are making this aquisition...
Do you work in a clean room? (joking).

Honestly, you're lucky. We've had nothing but problems with the trackballs at work. To be clear, I still love the software part of the UI, I just hate the trackball.

Did you ever use any of the old style blackberries?
It's an open secret that industry has always had an upper hand w.r.t funding for PhD's, and post recession, more-so, I guess. Rejecting his PhD- This guy either has plenty of guts, or is nuts. In an age where 'protests', or 'awareness campaign' for most genuine issues translates to sexualization of some kind (breast cancer awareness on FB, PETA etc ) to get the minimum possible traction- - his rejection of a hard-earned PhD puts him on really high pedastal.
Hope his rejection of phd is truly for a valid cause- wish him the best!
The Justin Bieber crowd will pick it because it's used by him, not because they particularly care about the product itself. Obviously not all his fans would value his choice over their own, but there will be many.

And sure, they're volatile, but I'm not saying that Justin Bieber is the reason their consumer-friendly approach wasn't neccesarily a bad idea, just that it currently does, and will in the future, produce more celebrity (non-verbal) endorsements (by using them).
The list of links in the Acknowledgements is great.
Mine is somewhat ready this week, but I'm kind of busy with other stuff during Thanksgiving weekend. I'll release next Monday.
I keep it in the leather thingy (don't know what it's called), maybe that makes a difference ...

I haven't used any of the old models, but now I see that I've been missing out :) My next phone will most likely be the Torch (or it's successor) as I think it combines best of both worlds.
My problem with that is, if there's more pressure to win, wouldn't you make less risky moves?
You shouldn't need to know CSS to be a great web-designer if you know the strengths and weaknesses of the platform and the process for putting stuff together. But thats just the problem - most web-designers who don't touch code don't know what works well and what's easy or hard to put together.
Having a high percentage of Medicare Patients is not enough to qualify on it's own.

"Applies to hospitals that serve a signi cantly disproportionate number of low-income patients; and
™ Is based on the disproportionate patient percentage (DPP)."

Medicare pays enough to cover care and operating overhead. It's not enough to cover significant writeoffs for non Medicare patients.
I agree with that sentiment, I don't do well under the pressure of someone leering over me as nice and comfortable as they make it. Sounds like a good startup idea. Someone (maybe I will) make a site that formalizes the contract work concept. Instead of setting up and doing a project for someone, maybe a pair programming exercise on the fly over some days that neither the interviewer or interviewee is prepared for? 'Program Tic-Tac-Toe in x language', 'find the minimum value of this array given these properties of the array'. Could make it fun. Almost like a mini-mini hackathon. I'd much rather do that for 4 hours than random probes of knowledge from 4 people over almost pure academia.
Log aggregation and admin commands were two of our biggest requested features. We're proud to have shipped these in v0.0.6.

Lots more to come in the next few releases starting with new providers (RackSpace & Digital Ocean) and enhanced Docker integration.