skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Isn’t this a step towards their hopes of trying to make it solvent? Since they still have their whole notion of selling data. Not that either of us likely believe that’ll work but hemorrhaging money like crazy would mean they are done in a matter of days vs these changes could possibly somehow let them survive longer.

Putting all that aside. What liability? From the government? They most certainly don’t have to worry about lawsuits. Anyone who wins any against them will be in a long list of creditors waiting to collect.
Defense Distributed Sues New Jersey, Los Angeles Over Legal Threats
> People used to say this about every single thing that computers can do better than people.

But computers can't do it better than people! That's what drives me nuts about this debate -- it's just accepted as a premise that either the self-driving cars are much safer than human drivers, or the path to getting them there is very close and no serious obstacles remain. Neither is true and it's not clear they will be. https://blog.piekniewski.info/2017/05/11/a-car-safety-myths-...
What's the wordpress/drupal/laravel equivalents in Node?
Ah you’re right. Thanks for the link.

I didn’t use the ASUS for WiFi, just routing. My instability had to do with ipv6 issues - it would stop broadcasting RAs if I remember correctly causing intermittent connectivity issues. I would have to cycle power every so often (month or so?)

No such issues with the edgerouter. I’m sure OpenWRT works great for folks, I just found it wasn’t the right fit for me.
I knew I was going to get something about it wrong. Thanks for the clarification. It’s just one aspect that gets focused on because... IO and that's what the article focuses on. I got wrapped up in it too.
I'm sure a rock would have better pr Ryan Kalanick
Actual communication satilies are still several tons. Cube sats are 1kg and you can toss hundreds of them with a tiny rocket. Thus the median satilite is light, but most payload capacity is taken up with big satellites.
> if we had politicians who did their jobs and demonstrated competent leadership we could sort out this mess.

This feels like the crux of the problem, but we've got the politicians we voted for. I'm starting to wonder if its even possible for the average person to vote in the long-term interests of their community against their own short-term interest. Some will... but the majority?
This is the best, most succinct, answer to do you or don’t you need an eng degree I’ve ever seen. Thank you
Oh blimey, four hours...
Wow, really? Am i reading that right, that without an active WAN connection, the internal LAN connections don't work on Google WiFi hardware? That sounds more like an "Internet appliance" than it does a router.
I built redditsearch.io -- It uses the pushshift API for the back-end. It was thrown together and barely works but hey, I'm just one guy maintaining this as a labor of love. :)
The FTC isn't bound by that and are happy to go after false advertising - neither are the creditors. Running a bankrupt company after knowing it is insolvent is one reason for piercing the corporate veil. They have a duty to minimize the loss in this situation.
Not focusing on style violations is foolish. Imagine someone submitted an English paper littered with grammatical errors and typos. It would be difficult to find the intended meaning and bigger picture. Style violations are the same, they have to be fixed before a deeper review can even take place.
For wartime use. Military convoys might need to go off-road or around road damage.
Depends on what you mean by architecture. But if you mean what you'd learn in a Computer Architecture and a Computer Org class, this course/book is good.

https://www.nand2tetris.org/
Webtorrent Desktop user here... thanks for your work!
Well, I'll concede that "bottom of the ocean" can have varying levels of difficulty depending on what part of the ocean you're talking about. But, we've sent multiple humans to the bottom of the Marianas trench and we have a (shallow) ocean bottom lab, and so far, nobody on Mars. So clearly the bottom of Earth's ocean remains easier.

As far as the asteroid strike topic - I think my point has gone over your head here. Asteroid strikes do happen, naturally. But if you put a lot of humans in space with the ability to push and pull asteroids around, the overall risk goes up by so many orders of magnitude that the risk of a natural strike is a negligible concern. I mean, study human history. A certain percentage of us, even the smart ones, are going to be batshit crazy at any given time, and every once in a while one of the crazy ones gets into power or hijacks a plane. And that's not counting the incidence of honest mistakes! JFK estimated that the probability of nuclear war during the cuban missile crisis was one in 3. As compared to an asteroid strike that happens once every 65 million years.

Friend, the greatest threat to us is ourselves.
That's a logo with a really strong idea behind it. Firefox doesn't seem to have that much meaning behind its name.
The Architecture of Open Source Applications[0].

[0]: http://aosabook.org/en/index.html
The business is obviously failing. Continuing membership at this point is begging to be disappointed.
Some ideas are so subtle that words fail to describe. In the same way lay explanations of physics lack understanding that pure equations deliver.

The trick of the philosopher is an attempt at conveying meaning with a blunt instrument.

"To cross a river you need a boat. But when you reach the other side you don’t pick up the boat and carry it."
~ Alan Watts
I don't exactly dislike the new browser logo (although I think going less circular is dumb) so much as I think it's unnecessary.

My bigger issue is that the other 9 logos don't use the same design motif beyond the colors.

The browser logo is a "fox" encircling the globe leaving a trail of fire, or speed. This is perfectly fine for a global communications tool named firefox that thinks "purpose meets performance" is it's brand identity.

but if you want to use the same design tools for the same brand identity: you need to focus on things that imply performance which none of them do except maybe a rocket. and you need them to evoke each other which, imagine for a second those were all random colored and on your phone's home screen; what about them is thematically unifying?
I think what they're describing are propaganda bots. If so, what you're asking is how does propaganda work, and is it not legitimate?
There has been a lot of interest expressed in getting this working and dependable. It's part of my plan when releasing the new API. There is A LOT of internal code managing everything. I've got terabytes of indexes alone just to handle the 5 million API requests I'm currently getting each month to the Pushshift API (I have around 20 terabytes of SSD / NVMe space and around 512 GB of ram behind this project).
No Laughing Gray Matter: Laughter, the Brain, and Evolution (2014)
I don't know about "magic." A modern smart phone might be "magic" to someone in 1860--it operates based on technologies that didn't exist back then. But by 1960, the building blocks of modern computing were already in place: digital von Neumann computers built out of transistors, radio communications, signal processing, etc. AT&T used frequency-division multiplexing of multiple voice channels in phone transmissions in 1918. The mathematical framework for modern technologies like LTE was in place by the 1950s and 1960s. Would it really have surprised anyone that transistors would continue to get smaller and faster, allowing higher complexity, higher-throughput signal processing, which would allow Facebook?
How many times does the FTC go after these sorts of things? I genuinely don’t know. My gut assumption is they won’t be going after this.
Great to see Toybox getting some attention. While I'm still not convinced that BSD-0 is the best license, it certainly encourages innovation in the space.

Wait, you're not Robert Landley!

Naming stuff: one of the hard problems of computer science.
It’s also life-shortening to suddenly and unexpectedly lost your job, especially when you’re over 40 and “retraining” isn’t really an option, or when all the other jobs have been automated away.
The Age of the Wordless Logo (2016)
NeuroMorph: A Toolset for 3D Analysis of Neurite Morphology and Connectivity
All of those things would cost more for a truck, indeed, but a truck is also worth WAY WAY WAY more than a car per mile.
A heartfelt discussion about terraforming Mars. This is HN at its most entertaining. I'm serious. Thank you!
>>I wouldn't pay through the nose for that, either. Especially when we could be putting that time and energy into not losing the PROD deployment, today, with a much better ROI.

There are certain types of disasters you can't protect against though, no matter how much money you spend. The only thing you can do is mitigate.
Yes. Voting patterns, for example, how do those change people's opinions? It would seem that the most they could do is give an impression of what comments are and are not well received. Do people base much of their opinions on that? In which direction?
If you are typical intern age and freaking out over your income over the next 4-5 years, you are also probably doing something wrong.
I checked out the page myself, and the endpoints and form fields are the exact same for me.

Also, there's some funny exposed PHP code sent along:

<?php
session_start();
?>

And some packed javascript that does nothing because it's "commented out" with <!-- ... --> inside the <script> tags, meaning it has syntax errors.
That’s an outgrowth of using ICBM’s to get stuff into orbit.

In 1961 Gagarin‘s flight was followed by Alan Shepard also in 1961 and they each required much larger payloads. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vostok_(spacecraft)#Vostok_3...
I believe that the ER-X doesn't scale to gigabit symmetric, while the EdgeRouter Lite does.
Except it isn't and it doesn't.

Extensions are still limited in countless little ways many months after the Quantum release. Every one of them makes the browser a bit worse than it was before. The claims about making extensions safer and more reliable have proven to be optimistic, with a string of problems around both instability and privacy since the big change.

More generally, I come across sites that don't work properly with Firefox several times a week these days. Chrome is the new "This site displays best at 800x600 in Netscape Navigator" and Firefox's market share has fallen so low that a lot of web developers simply don't test with it properly any more. Maybe this isn't Mozilla's fault, but realistically it is still their problem.

As for speed, while some people seem to find Quantum a big improvement in speed, it hasn't made Firefox noticeably faster than other major browsers for most day-to-day use.

I want to like Firefox. It was my primary browser for years, thanks to a combination of flexibility through add-ons, being relatively good for privacy and security, and having relatively good developer tools (all of these being somewhat related). But as someone who uses all the major browsers professionally, I can only assume that the leadership at Mozilla have chosen a strategy of trying to out-Chrome Chrome, and that is going about as well as anyone more objective might expect while still giving up almost everything that was a natural strength for Firefox before.
Sisu.ai raises $14.2M Series A from A16Z
That, I can totally agree with. But again, I strongly disagree that Plato is the best way of practicing, or even a good way of practicing (in comparison to the authors we now have access to, or perhaps had access to even hundreds of years ago, who happened to take some advantage of the thousands of years passed between themselves and Plato).
Blog vs. Newsletter and Using Them to Make Money
I don't understand what this is referring to or how this is relevant, could you state it in a simpler manner?