skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I mostly blame cable and docsis for this state of things, on top of the router manufacturers. Which is why I am happy to hear of increasing fiber rollouts.

Docsis gives the ISP the ability to control the router, but they are very bad at it and even if they aren't it's often the manufacturers who are the problem. So I always have bought my own cable modems instead of renting from the ISP. The last time I did this I went with a good Motorola, but come to find out arris has bought them out, I did some scans, notice it's vulnerable and needs and update, so I go to the arris website. Can't find the update anywhere. End up calling them and get told, even though I own the equipment, they only release updates to ISPs or "partners" and no I can't have it! Wtf!?

Docsis, even 3, is a shitty spec that needs to die.

So really the best thing you can do and what I suggest to people is to put the cable modem in bridge/passthrough mode after checking all settings, and then hit your own router.

Except most people, as the article states, just go get some crappy linksys (cisco owned), netgear, Asus, belkin, etc, which have their own set of problems. It's better with openwrt/ddwrt/tomato but there is a better way.

My favorite setup is thus:

ISP Router in passthrough

Ubiquiti edgerouter

Ubiquiti APs
> retro games pre/post crash

I've heard a few people discuss a games market crash in recent years and was very confused as I lived through that era and didn't remember anything of the sort. It was only recently that I discovered those discussing it were all American - turns out there was a "crash" of sorts but it was very localised to the US. Those of us in the rest of the world still had a thriving gaming scene. Particularly in Europe and Japan (I cannot speak for other areas with any great certainty).
> They might have a good viral marketing department, but that's none of my business.

Unsure if you are a part of the viral campaign yourself or if it was just a subtle joke...
The dutch & east india companies had "royal charters" which is essentially a monopoly license, the equivalent of a modern patent. This was the modern way of regulating industries that were thought to need regulation.

At the time (and for most of human history), foreign trade was thought of as one these.

I'm not sure the relevance, not driving at anything in particular. Cartels and monopolies have all sorts of origin stories. The biggest monopolies historically (and currently^) were formed via royal charter.

^Saudi Aramco is arguably the world's biggest company and holds a royal monopsony charter.
As someone who does have dual citizenship (UK and USA) and has been a BOA customer for over 20 years, my big question is what happens if you say "yes"? I didn't see this mentioned or discussed yet in the comments so far.
Ask HN: Any seed stage companies need early engineer?
I've been working at a growth stage companies for a couple years now but really want to go back to working at a seed stage company. I miss those early days.

I'm an experienced early engineer. Been employee #1 before and worked at several companies joining when they were 10 or less people.

I'm very entrepreneurial minded. Experience in all facets of building a startup from hiring, product, sales, support, etc.

Open to products and markets. Prefer companies that rely on technology and/or a platform for their product/service. SaaS, PaaS, IaaS, and enterprise all very much welcome. But as long as you've raised some money and make payroll, I'm possibly interested.

Email me at jobseeker072016[at]gmail[dot]com if you're interested in chatting and seeing if we can find a mutual fit.
more power to you. what you built is awesome !
Hi HN!

I'm proud to show this serverless chat demo today. Realtime updates are streamed using SSE. Fanout handles the streaming connections and Fly handles the application logic.

The Fly app is not long-running, but executes briefly whenever it needs to run.

Source & additional details: https://github.com/fanout/flychat
Yeah? Would you mind giving a quick overview?
I found my father through one, sadly he never had any other children. It would have been fun to instantly gain some new siblings. Because I first met him well into my adulthood it was interesting to learn his likes and dislikes since there's no question he didn't directly influence anything I did or didn't do.

We're both avid readers, we both like to live clutter-free lifestyles, we both like to travel. I learned to fly as a hobby and seriously considered it as a career, he was a pilot in the armed services and then professionally until he retired. We both like to go fast: I drove a late 60's Mustang in college, he had a Porsche speedster. Really the only thing we're opposed on is politics as he says "he's slightly to the right of Genghis Khan."
Former Amazon employee here.

They're cross-charged with lots of internal book-keeping. The rates teams "pay" internally are different from public pricing of course but expensive things externally are still expensive things internally. The cost-accounting used to be (3+ years ago) much more "just looking...no pressure to keep them down", but recently there's been huge efforts to bring internal AWS costs down, especially for EC2 usage. I heard rumors that much of the Prime Day fiasco this year could have been avoided if teams would have been permitted to spin up enough capacity.
These are JavaScript features, they're saying "what we've done apart from adding support for this"
Thanks for coming back :)
I will surely ask you questions once I have one in my mind.
sooo..

If one is anti-globalist, one is inherently anti-semitic?

What then does it mean to be a globalist?

And further, if defending being a 'globalist' automatically implies 'defending jews' what does this implicitly imply 'all jews' actually believe geopolitically?

the faulty logic runs deep in this line of thinking; the allegedly racist term then becomes 'the reality', which should then be protected..
Funny, the first result that you get when googling Menorah leads you to the 9 candle version....

https://www.google.com/search?q=menorah

"The Hanukkah menorah, also chanukiah or hanukkiah is a nine-branched candelabrum lit during the eight-day holiday of Hanukkah, as opposed to the seven-branched menorah used in the ancient Temple or as a symbol."

And no, the WL tweet does not refer to anything other than to WL using anti-semitic symbolism to attack a Jewish reporter, stop grasping at straws.
The most important thing is to go into your BIOS and boot loaders and turn off any delaying options. The second most important thing is to boot from a SATA SSD.

You should be able to tune it from there to get a reboot under 30 seconds.
Bug-Sized Robot Competitors to Swarm DARPA's 'Robot Olympics'
Time to read red mars again.
Between You, Me, and Google
How do you handle database connection pooling?
Helping computers perceive human emotions – MIT News
With a touch of honey
Iran BGP hijack to divert Telegram Messenger traffic
The only fair solutions are to make the SATs harder (Havard can't control this)

They can't change the SAT, but they could create a New Harder SAT and give it just to their applicants.
Not a great opinion piece with an overly-dramatic title. The forecasting failures of major world economic bodies leading up to the 2008 financial crisis were (and somewhat still are) widely examined and criticized.

> https://www.economist.com/free-exchange/2011/02/11/the-warni...

From that article a choice quote from a referenced report:

> "In the United States, for example, it did not discuss, until the crisis had already erupted, the deteriorating lending standards for mortgage financing, or adequately assess the risks and impact of a major housing price correction on financial institutions…As late as April 2006, shortly before U.S. housing prices peaked, the WEO and the GFSR explained away the rising share of non-traditional mortgages in the United States thus: “Default rates on residential mortgage loans have been low historically. Together with securitization of the mortgage market, this suggests that the impact of a slowing housing market on the financial sector is likely to be limited."

So to say that Economists still "don't get" the 2008 crisis is a somewhat heavy rose-colored embellishment of the actual state of the field.
I was merely basing on the description as given. If there's more context, it wasn't really given.
I think we are disagreeing about what it means to be meritorious. Both people should have equal work ethic. I would say that the person who has been to private school, taken hard classes, is physically fit, and a practiced debater has a higher chance to succeed at Harvard and afterward due to having better cognitive skills.

>And then to the extent that there are lots of white and Asian kids who have grown up in circumstances which allow them to signal in a way that the black girl above can't, I really don't have a problem with Harvard stepping in and fixing that.

I would say that Asian culture has done a better job, on average, of preparing its children with good study habits, work ethic, and cognitive skills than Black culture has. Thus it bothers me that Harvard who are less well prepared because of their skin color.
A few things to consider:

Is AI and robots really cheaper then manual labor for a lot of things?

How close really are we to have AI replace even simple tasks like flipping burgers? What about mopping the floor? Taking the trash?

Why do we work? What do we work for?
How much have Windows and Linux changed since 10.6. Quite a bit. But the MacOS X UNIX userland has not. It's over a decade out of date at this point. I've been increasingly running into portability problems, from missing or non-functional commands and associated command-line options, to long-fixed bugs which they haven't bothered to update. Stuff which has worked on Linux or BSD for the last 9+ years, is failing hard on MacOS. Because it's long out of date. The OpenGL deprecation is just another nail in the coffin.

What do I need to do to support the Mac Pro specifically? Well, it's a wider question than that. It's more like: will I drop MacOS support entirely, or will this have sufficiently decent specification that it's worth re-evaluating dropping it entirely. For that, I would need to know about its GPU and VRAM, max RAM, storage options, connectivity, etc. The CPU itself isn't too exciting. And on top of that, what the software support for the GPU would be like. Such as how well supported it would be by MoltenVk, and the existing deprecated OpenGL drivers. Since I will not be using Metal, I need to know if the workarounds are acceptable, or if the result will be awful.

I'm a cross-platform developer in the typical meaning of the word: cross-platform for desktops/workstations of all common operating systems. Serious visualisation software isn't for phones. If "cross-platform" means MacOS and iOS, then lord help us. iOS devices are toys in this realm. Poor GPUs, not enough memory, storage, or power. Most of Apple's Macs are also woefully underpowered, and that's the big reason for abandoning the platform, because they don't actually make a system worth having for high end usage. While they admitted they made a mistake with the Mac Pro, there's zero information about whether their replacement will be adequate for high end needs, or yet another hot mess. Will they be able to return to function over form? I'm doubtful. But without some concrete and sensible information from Apple, it's looking like complete abandonment from over here.
It’s Triangles All the Way Down: BSTs and Polygon Triangulations
Smoking was a way to preserve meat other than salting it that existed long before refrigeration.
Could you elaborate? My take is that border tensions are definitely related to trade and it's not taken lightly by any Asian nation.
What AI cannot learn and will never have is an experience of being human. It never can, as you can never have an experience of being a robot. Yes, perhaps one day you can teach it too, but it will be learned, not lived.

Where this experience reflects the most? Art and how it communicates and resonates with you, because you can connect, relate. Even if robots would learn to play jazz like Davis, Coltrane and Parker combined, I wonder if there ever will be that human feeling and reflection of player's experience and life.

Empathy may be another field. Taking care of elders or other people in need. Connecting to the experience of other, relating to it. Knowing, that your life is finite.

Maybe a way how to solve this problem is for us to become more human. Finally, one may want to add.
Keynesian Economics are the economics of political convenience. If something goes wrong, we can juice the economy by engaging in extaordinary activities which generate the illusion of wealth resulting in increased spending.

These ideas were very popular until Great Britain encountered stagflation - conditions under which both economic recession and inflation coincided and traditional Keynesian levers and predictions did not function.

Zero Interest Rate conditions are not normal. Never in this history of humanity have interest rates been held this low for so long.

I strongly recommend taking a long walk through the videos on the Mises Institute, reading Daniel DiMartino Booth and listening to several Peter Schiff podcasts.

I don’t recommend buying gold, but if you want a real critique of what is happening, listen to the leading critics and not this weirdly mangled and factually questionable Bloomberg piece.

There are many better people to learn about this from.

We are living in absolutely extraordinary times which will need with a severe economic implosion.
Looking forward to the day that TypeScript no longer needs to compile into JavaScript, and is natively supported by all major browsers.

A bit like Objective-C and C++ got free of their initial compilation model.
I don’t know how it’s possible to be read only. It needs to update things like routes and arp tables. That’s exactly the type of stuff that gets poisoned when attacked.
It seems overly simplistic to say that effective code reviews are inevitable if only you can prevent people from being rude. Certainly not a bad START, but I dare to think there may be additional ways a review can be a GOOD one as opposed to just not being a BAD one.

It's easy to forget that we're still learning how to write "good" code, and that many of our best practices continue to evolve, occasionally into VERY different things. A Code Review has to be able to identify poor practices as distinct from UNUSUAL practices, with that latter evaluated in terms of cost-benefits and not forgotten even when the costs are too high in the current project - that may be a practice to try out where there's less impact to being inconsistent. A Code Review has to balance the subjective opinions of multiple devs to try and achieve some consensus that is treated as objective. None of this is easy nor truly figured out, and not being a jerk is just one of multiple steps to accomplish.
It's not the best. I had to trawl through a bunch of documentation and filter out old info (modules became namespaces? I think?), and try different formats for the typings file. Tbh there should be a FAQ that is just: Help, the compiler is complaining about a package, how do I fix it? Also, why do I need to clone the DefinitelyTyped repo and make a PR to add a typing file? Why can't I just make an NPM package?

These are all nitpicks in light of the amazing achievement that is typechecking JavaScript. But I wouldn't mind a little more ergonomics for package typing.
Don't suffer from this myself but I saw a reddit thread on this recently. It seems that SLS-free toothpaste is helpful for many people. Some other tips in there too. May be helpful for you.

https://old.reddit.com/r/LifeProTips/comments/8zadwn/lpt_if_...
I am continually impressed by OpenAI, whenever we think that something is too difficult for our currently understanding of AI. With their Dota AI and this they have shown that more can be done with a lot less than previously thought.
Were you perhaps referring to this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqYCFRzqNoA&list=PL1n30s-LKu...? I love this series and highly recommend it to anyone interested in either of them or in Non-duality.
Well that just indicates my go to source tends to be wikipedia...
That is true (and I am well aware of this, as I do research on robotic grasping https://sites.google.com/view/task-oriented-grasp ). But, this would very hard to generalize to more complex manipulation where the object is not already in-hand etc. ; it's yet another piece of the puzzle, but it by itself does not get us that much closer to general purpose training of robust complex manipulation.
This is the first time I've come across the approach of storing database snapshots and saving them in a data lake. Do you find those snapshots are useful/used for analytics or data science end-uses, or are they more there for debugging and answering one-off questions?
Lenin, Trotsky, Data Mgmt, and the Tyranny of Knowledge and Reason
The stated goal is to design the model which is most ideal for me.

The real goal - meaning, the one which decides if I will be hired - is to design the model which is most different from others.

Since I want the job, shouldn't I disregard the instructions and instead create crazy looking calculators which aren't ideal for me but which are different enough to stand out, and thus get me hired?

As a test designer, aren't you making a bias toward hiring people who are good at gaming the system? Is that really good for the company?

Going back to my examples, which you did not address, would your team hire the "C++ programmer" who implemented the sorting challenge by using the Python/C API to write a Python program? Because that's certainly thinking outside the box. But it doesn't tell you if the programmer would be a good C++ hire.

> If you develop COBOL look for a developer that can do COBOL but hates it and would love to switch elsewhere.

What? If you want to hire a COBOL developer with the expectation of working for 20+ years at a bank, why would you want that developer to hate that job? Do you have any evidence that they will be "more efficient" at it? Why wouldn't they do the bare minimum need to do a satisfactory job, while looking for a new job on the side. And when that happens you'll need to retrain your new employee.

It seems like money down the drain.
I let the used bookstore throw away my books. There are lots of categories they say they won't accept (like computers) but I bring them all. I tell them to just give me a total price. They don't give me back any books. I really do not like throwing away books.
World’s Largest Robot Hauls Ore Through Western Australia
Recursion is hard to reason about. As a teacher, it's one of the first concepts my students have a hard time with.
Don't Forget: Age is just a number!
Yep, this is it. Russ himself admits it. He was corresponding with Sam about his ideas and thought that would be sufficient. Whereas, he should have done that with the entire community and been more explicit about where he was going.
My own theory after digging sometime into Economics is that no one seems to have a clear idea what on earth we are actually doing. We all seems to have our own theory, and they all seems to answer half of the question. And in practice none of them currently models the world we have now. And it will take a long time before any of those theory are proved to be correct this time around. May be we can finally say Keynesian is wrong. ( At the expenses of our generation )

And it makes things more complicated when people start messing around with how they measure things, and messing with formulas. Numbers like China which are inaccurate. Inflation number which are messed with by FEDs. IMF prediction model which has been wrong every time for years and it seems its only job is to please or more accurately manipulate the market mindset.
Inside the dark and disturbing world of YouTube vigilantes
Mars lost its atmosphere over a very long timescale. The current rate is something like a quarter pound per second. https://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/06/science/space/mars-atmosp...
Is the lower power usage at the same clock rate?

Is the same clock rate at the lower power usage?

These questions sound logically equivalent but to marketing they may be not. The values for 1, 2 and 3 might be taken from 3 different processors.
Scientists perfect technique to boost capacity of storage a thousandfold
Lithography for robust and editable atomic-scale silicon devices and memories
... by relying on the greenhouse effect from carbon dioxide.

And you wouldn't want to do that, anyway, since it would result in a carbon dioxide concentration too high for an eventually breathable atmosphere. What you really want there is water vapor and perfluorocarbons.

But cranking those out takes time. Mars might be warm in 1000 years.

Still, shorter than the trip to another star.
Just to inform, your shared cloudflare cert is blocked where I work. Probably want to move it to at least domain dedicated
Connect travelers with locals. Future revolution in tourism – ToGather App
Am I the only one that thinks
"function call<TS extends any[], R>(fn: (...args: TS) => R, ...args: TS): R {
return fn(...args);
}"
looks horrible?
Ah, I didn’t remember that part of it. Added to my research list, thank you.
I don't like the KaiOS philosophy of "you can't write software for your device unless we like the idea".

In order for mostly-dumb phone like that to be useful for me there are a few small things I'd need to sort out via software, but they won't allow it.

Stallman was right etc.
Not to be too negative, it's cool work, but I'd argue unlike the OpenAI result it is not so surprising this was doable with the techniques they used ; see eg this paper from Google http://www.roboticsproceedings.org/rss14/p10.pdf and this one from Stanford/DeepMind http://www.roboticsproceedings.org/rss14/p09.pdf . Yes there is the additional aspects of an object in hand, but fundamentally the techniques are the same.

Of course these works are cited in related works of paper as they should be; perhaps the OpenAI blog should also provide more context on where this stands wrt prior work, as many non-researchers may read this is may be quite misleading...
There is a reason for all those mistakes in react : it's more complex, it's harder to learn and getting it right. Also the documentation is nowhere as good.

Ease of use is a feature.
If $deity wanted man to fly he would have given him wings.

(enter Montgolfier, Lilienthal, Santos-Dumont, the Wright brothers, etc)

Flying faster than the speed of sound is impossible, there is a wall out there which will crush any plane trying to break through it.

(enter Lippisch, those British researchers who realised a moving tail can keep a plane stable across the sound barrier but for some reason were not allowed to test their ideas in practice, Bell Aerospace and Chuck Yeager)

Notice the pattern?
But unfortunatly is a bounded number. Going to see Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol with my sons just to get some tips about how to overcome difficulties. Thanks all for the positive feedback. I tried to upvote everyone, but can't do it because I replied and hn rules. Thanks folks.
Somewhat ironically, burqa's might be able to get around some restrictions because of their use in religious contexts.
Good point; some meaningful typesetting may be lost. Then again, if such a system were used, programmers would avoid writing code that made significant use of non-syntactically-relevant aspects of code. Furthermore, it might influence language designers to make documentation part of the language syntax.
WA flawlessly understood the question. It just seems to be lacking the right data.
Yup, with https://webassembly.org/

Not only TypeScript, one day we would be able to compile Haskell as well: https://github.com/WebGHC