skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a topic that is near and dear to me - last year I attempted building my own router/firewall on an ARMv8 board (the espressobin) and I've been extremely happy with it as a DIY router solution [1]. While this sort of approach doesn't solve the larger problem of non-technical folks being fleeced by Comcast and other ISPs en masse, maybe with gradually-increasing tech literacy, projects like loading up an espressobin with a pre-imaged SD card for a home router will be a tenable option someday for more people.

From a hobbyist perspective, the router has been a dream to work with, and you can do some really weird stuff when the router is a Linux box you're in complete control of (DNS tricks, packet scheduling experiments, et cetera.) I always get a kick out of updating it periodically and seeing the latest mainline kernel loaded up (it's on 4.20.10 at the moment).

I've never studied up on home-brewing the modem/DOCSIS 3 aspect, but realistically I don't know how feasible that is in comparison to the relatively more simple DHCP/DNS/firewall parts of a typical home router.

[1] https://blog.tjll.net/building-my-perfect-router/
Is there an option to not get their router and thus waive the 1-year clause?

Otherwise what you mean is "it is mandatory to lease their router even if you have your own, and you are forced to enter a 1-year minimum contract.".
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It's probably an alien probe disguised as a random rock. It's already transmitted the existence of Earth and its coordinate back to the homeworld. Soon a supernuke will be sent at 0.99C to nip humanity in the bud.
"You'll pay it or see me in (small claims) court."
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I switched from Comcast's router to a Ubiquiti Edgerouter 6p. It's fast, easy to configure, flexible, and gets regular security updates. Overkill, but still cheaper than renting a comcast router. Adding QoS really helped as well. In particular I wanted a VLAN/dedicated port for untrusted consumer widgets (TV, Stereo, fitbit, etc).
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Right. Also the Apple cords have an entire ARM micro in them for cable authentication.
Surely, this must eventually lead to negative results? It's curious because it doesn't seem to be having any negative impact as of now.
Unless you're paying for more than 500mbps internet, you can pay $60 for a docsis 3.0 16x4 modem that will pay itself off in 6-10 months (depending on rental fee). And you can sell it if you move.
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> Amazon is a great company as consumer

as long as you love monopolies and anti-competitive behavior.
You don’t need AGI to have a problem though.

And even before we Have AGI, it may be that we have hybrid human and AI which would come earlier and be equivalent to AGI.
Don't have open office internet: run in through a proxy server so tracking can happen. People are free to use their own devices. Then, during a lunch period, open up the office internet to news sites. Social media should be used on personal devices off the clock. Not to micromanage or infantilize people, but to prevent distractions for me too. Guest internet with a simple self-registration should be a separate network (vlan & ssid) filtered for malware, hate/terror sites, illegal activity and porn.

Also, productivity requires motivation and mission. If people aren't paid enough or don't get to share in the profits, why should they kill themselves for more company-only money? Meaningful co-ops and worker profit-sharing has a chance to remedy the situation and make people care about a venture. The other part is giant organizations having BS jobs without very much to do, let dead weight type jobs accumulate because large organizations make managers look good. OTOH, smaller shops tend to be more agile and not put up with any dead weight. Perhaps a solution is a Richard Branson one: keep splitting up organizations before they get too big so they're a loose-coupled confederation of business units. Since big business pyramids drain money and agility from an organization, try not to go there.

PS: I know a former DIA sysadmin who said numerous classified researchers lost their careers by surfing for porn on known monitored networks. Why would someone do that? It seems a shop like that should have monitors in the hallways anonymously listing non-official business URLs people are visiting from classified/unclassified networks to make publicly-obvious.
Barren Realms Elite on Hermes what it was 1991.
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If you have access to the files on a device, it will index the files.
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Part of the point of solutions #1 and #3 is that they pass in exactly the same function on each render, so it's possible to avoid unnecessary rendering further down by knowing that the props are the same as before. The hooks solution will make a new handleChange closure each time, so it'll be a different function. Is there are way with hooks to pass the same function each time?
I fixed the format for you:

• https://github.com/NVlabs/stylegan

• https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.04948

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSLJriaOumA

• https://www.lyrn.ai/2018/12/26/a-style-based-generator-archi...

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ct_P3IZow0
I got onto the net in the late 90s and discovered IRC soon after. I developed several nice friendships over freenode other IRC servers. Like you said, typing on a terminal without any distractions had a uniquely magical quality.

I've put it down to nostalgia but things like slack and other popular modern tools just don't have the pull which IRC had for me.
> With React Hooks, I do not need to deal with the messy “this” coding pattern of class components. And there are no three ways to write this code.

Yep. Now there are four.

I have no specific opinion about React hooks (or about love for that matter), but “languages” with a simpler vocabulary do tend to have an advantage in the long run.
But this is Amazon so you still need to stay until 8pm.
(I worked on React.) Many people have adopted React and are happy with it, evidently because they believe the problems it creates are minor compared to the problems it fixes.

It’s rather reasonable for them to be excited about a new version that keeps (or improves!) the good parts while having fewer tradeoffs.
Where I live, we have Frontier FIOS. Frontier FIOS _requires_ you to get their "wifi router" for $10/mo even though, I quote, "you don't have to use it". There's simply no option to not get it with a new subscription, not online, not on the phone. How this is legal, I don't know.
Is it perhaps a skill that is lost with age? Everyday I see online posts made by old people that show a complete lack of critical thinking ability. These are all relatively successful people, I imagine they couldn't have made it so far in life without critical thinking.
ARM boards tend to be bad wrt getting timely security patches because they don't run the mainline kernel, and don't run a mainstream Linux distribution with a paid security team. Even relatively well supported ones like Raspbian have this problem.

My advice is to rather get a low end x86 device.
Hey, did you try the fix from http://espressobin.net/forums/topic/which-pcie-wlan-cards-ar...?

Globalscale definitely did something wrong with the PCIe setup on that board.

I wonder whether it's fixed in the new revisions?
Marvell are better than most re: upstreaming code.
This is hilarious and awesome.
They are generated by Generative Adversarial Networks.

Have you heard about convolutional networks? They are neural networks that are especially well-suited for problems that have spatial structure (such as 2D images) and translational invariance (a face is a face, no matter of its coordinates in the picture).

Generative Adversarial Networks, or GANs for short is an architecture that arranges an image-generating network and fake-detecting network in a competitive situation. That makes them co-evolve towards generating pictures that are harder and harder to distinguish from the real ones.
Maybe they backed off the policy, it's been around 4-5 years since I last used them for business phone. Thanks for the info.
Comcast roughly makes $5 profit per customer per month. Questi
fair enough. thank you for submitting :)
Not everyone enjoys the task of performing extensive research, and perhaps a 70 year old might value their time doing something else? I've also met more than one 70+ year old person who was convinced that they understood how things worked, and to admit otherwise was to display weakness/lose credibility (despite that not being the case at all). The point is, what is obvious to you may not be obvious to others, and you have no idea why they chose the route they did.
A mix of stubborn dad syndrome and not wanting to "bother" me (even though of course it doesn't), shrug. I doubt my dad's stubbornness is the core problem here though, there are countless Americans being taken advantage of by our ISPs, stores like Best Buy, etc. on daily basis.
Possibly because that person was supposed to be tech support, not sales. He came in with a problem, not looking for a purchase.
How much porn was in the dataset? The generated faces seem to have a tendency to have white goo arond the mouth...
Notwithstanding this supposed lobbying, we have four nationwide 4G networks—more competition than we have in putatively lobbying free markets like social media, search engines, and cell phone and tablet operating systems. The biggest roadblock to 5G is not lobbyists, but rather NIMBYs complaining about how small cells will clutter up the neighborhood.
I think it would be quite the day to take the hashes of Microsoft's ISO images for Windows, and compare it with the source code to check if there is government backdoors in the code.
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Pakistan - a nearly bankrupt, terrorism-infested, Islamic country - has had nuclear tech for decades. I'm pretty sure if Saudi Arabia wanted to buy nuclear tech from them it would only be a phone call and a few billion $ away.
It frustrates me to no end that there was a possibility (however small) that we could have witnessed an alien artifact passing by our planet and we missed it.
care_enough_to_explain_the_weird_underscores?
I actually like classes and using "this". Maybe I just like Object Oriented style. :)
~9%. (I didn't think it would be much of a problem since they'd be cropped down and anyway, all my previous GANs sucked too much to care about fine details.)
I'm on "Fennec F-Droid" (basically a debadged Firefox Mobile) and I too received an audio recording permission popup.
You Can’t Tell Evil Just by Looking
That thread seems to be mostly about personal failures rather than businesses failing.
Counter anecdote: I live in Manhattan and have only one broadband option: Time Warner, a.k.a. Spectrum.

Verizon offers 5/1 "broadband" DSL for twice the price, and the other two regional providers (Optimum, RCN) don't service my neighborhood (which is by no means sparsely populated).
jonpauluritis.com

I went super brutalist for fun. I may move back to a more traditional typographic setup but for the moment I think I'll keep it as is.

Note on the photography. Some of the photos are done by a friend => joevenuto.com. He's awesome and looking for interesting gigs.
>if the Facebooks and Instagrams become flooded with fake posts from the people we know. It'll become expected and mundane. This seems good for the development of a skeptical public.

This is not how people or trust networks work.

What you are looking at is a sliver of human behavior- the silver lining on the cloud.

Most people instead will be confused, believe incorrect things, get frustrated when it’s wrong and then begin to trust their gut instincts in an information poor environment.

It would be very natural for people in this scenario to switch to old school centralized trust and truth organizations like clans, states and nations.

People need to understand the world and we regularly pay money to find out truth.

Investigation takes time and when the rate at which we can make believable content outstrips the rate at which investigators can be hired to debunk it, then even courts can’t keep up - which happens today.

FurhTher by leaving it to just the courts we also are saying that the casual consumer will not have access to a safe internet.

I argued yesterday that Chinese style great firewalls seem to be the likely model for our future, as opposed to the future democracies hoped to create.
I spent a bit of money a few years back with this project and life became chaotic - since then I haven’t really thought about or hear about noflow, FlowHub, constraint based CSS, or TheGrid. I see it’s still under active development. Anybody using NoFlo in prod?
I believe the article clarifies that this system (much like its sibling, DNA database mining) is used to narrow the search space so that traditional (and comparatively more expensive) sleuthing can find the evidence needed for a conviction. The dragnet is, in a sense, more ruling people out than ruling people in.
> Comcast actually has a page for that

That page doesn't give any info other than "sign in", "type in your address" (lol), and "consider paying us rent for hardware, learn more".
Older way of showing bold or italics.
In this day and age where a single page can be tens of MBs, high speeds can be useful even subject to data caps that prevent sustained downloading st those speeds. Also, data caps grew dramatically when 4G made more bandwidth available, and the same will happen for 5G. Verizon’s home 5G service has no data cap.
Well, if they are obviously violating a Federal law, then it sounds like lawsuit time. They clearly aren't going to change by themselves.

Considering that ISPs insist on being monopolies (in the US), it shouldn't be too hard for any competent law firm to make it into a class action lawsuit.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19202830
At any reasonably sized company individual managers are going to have a lot of control over their subordinates, and their underlings aren't going to have any say pretty much at all. What are they going to do, complain to HR? HR at any large company isn't in the business of keeping people employed, it's in the business of keeping the company safe. If you rock the boat, you are now the problem. It's no wonder that all of the negative comments about Amazon boil down to either "this job was absolute shit" - bad manager from the start - or "this job was amazing and then turned to shit" - either the good manager quit/was fired by their superior for not being shit/was promoted and their replacement was garbage, or they were a sociopath that slowly turned up the heat so the proverbial frogs wouldn't notice the boil until they were cooked.

Remember, your boss is ultimately not your friend, certainly not in a professional setting. An individual contributor/manager relationship fundamentally must be adversarial, because one side holds all the power, and even if the manager breaks trust the worst thing that will happen is the IC's replacement will be less productive for a few months.

When managers have this much power over their reports and there's no way for someone to fight back against their manager, it's no wonder that shitty managers are so common. It's a situation ripe for abuse.
It has some hiccups beyond gender. For example: https://imgur.com/a/d3SfrnQ
Markdown italics maybe.
It's an excellent open question. I'd argue that relative to training it out of humans, we have a glimmer of hope of building algorithms that avoid racial bias because you can always bust an algorithm open and "examine its entrails," and the same can't be done with human thinking.

... but it's not categorically, definitely better, just more likely to be so.
It's just good housekeeping at this point. Attacks never get worse, and there have been structural problems with SHA-1 for a long time. Plus, it does make sense for a company like Microsoft with a large user base to protect against malicious insiders. While I was there, employees in the Patch Tuesday program had been approached about backdooring updates. I don't think creating a colliding update would necessarily be the vector for such a thing (and removing SHA-1 doesn't necessarily protect against it) but overall its just a good idea.
useCallback is designed for this. useMemo also helps solve the problem from another angle that previously wasn’t as accessible.

Additional reading: https://reactjs.org/docs/hooks-faq.html#are-hooks-slow-becau....
It's also how _Markdown_ shows italics.
Move to an urban area? Non-urban areas are inherently expensive to serve with infrastructure, and as we become ever more infrastructure dependent, they become an inherently less efficient and desirable proposition.
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> We are all just living to die.

Pretty sure there's more to it than that, bud. But you know that already of course. Death is a great motivator to live a life with purpose and meaning, for one. Dwelling on mortality can bring a sharp focus to your life. It's a fear that transcends all other fears which may stand in your way.
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>I had a job like yours and I grew increasingly frustrated with the lack of control and the number of people who actually made things worse in their effort to control things. This job came soon after a challenging/interesting but really bad job (crazy work hours, toxic boss).

I can relate so much, my last job was really fun and challenging, but the salary just wasn't enough (being realistic, not greedy), landed this current opportunity and I couldn't refuse at the time.

I'll probably surf until I have a nice cushion then switch full time to my/another startup.

At least I can spend a lot of time doing certifications and online classes and keep up to date.

Thanks for sharing with us
you can't even do that with their open source VSCode, since they add in branding/telemetry/licensing to the actual binaries they distribute. so you have forks that strip it out:

https://github.com/VSCodium/vscodium
This could be appropriately called Snakes on a Plane. Sorry, couldn't resist.
> However, given an existing file and hence its hash, it is not possible, as far as anyone knows, to generate a second file with that same hash. This attack, called a "pre-image attack", is far more serious. (There's a third type of attack, a "second pre-image attack", which I won't go into.)

I think the attack just described is the second pre-image attack. The second file is the second pre-image. A pre-image attack would be to start with only the hash, no file, and create a file with that hash.
Perhaps the `setText` function remains always the same. I have not checked though.
GDPR is all you need at an early stage.
Correct. OS's are converging on font rendering modes these days anyway (e.g. subpixel AA was dropped in Edge and on macOS Mojave).
Same here. I've researched the issue far enough to know that others have contacted state authorities (I'm in California) and been told that since the up-front advertising for Frontier's service lists the rental fee and states it is mandatory even if you don't use their hardware, there's nothing illegal happening and nothing that can be done.

I think it's disgusting and if anyone does hear of something that can be done, I'm in.
That's awful. My condolences :(
Consider the word that has it around to be underlined.
Hooks seem great for simple usecases but I can't see how you'd not end up with a mess once you have 3+, and since most components inevitably gain complexity, why use hooks to start with?
@OpenAI - please, research reputations systems and authorship identification, not fake news generators.
It makes sense to me... They wanted to solve issues that come from Python, and lots of languages were no-go. They were left with Swift, Rust, or C++. The determination was that C++ and Rust have unacceptable learning curves, so they went with Swift.
I think the issue is with the fact that it also forced you to use their router as it was built in, as I'm pretty sure all fiber providers require you use their hardware.
Ask HN: DigitalOcean Destroyed All My Data, Any Legal Recourse?
I will follow up with a long post documenting timeline etc and all correspondence with them (it's not that much since they never respond). I have been a (paying) DigitalOcean user for more than 2 years for personal projects, and recently convinced a start-up that I work for in Tokyo to move off of Heroku and onto Digital Ocean. Everything fine for 2 months, then all of a sudden I get user reports that the site is down. I check and my account is locked and all it says is to submit a support ticket. No warnings of an issue, not even a mail saying that they turned off instances etc, just silently they lock my account. I submit a ticket and they don't resopnd for a week, I submit another, finally after 5 weeks, yes 5 weeks, I get a response saying that I login from too many locations and the lock is now removed, but they destroyed all instances. How can this even be anything close to standard practice to without warning destroy all instances of a paying user for over 2 years?! All databases everything completely gone forever. I guess this goes to show why you should always not trust 1 cloud provider, but this is just so incredible to me that they can on a whim without warning or justification just destroy all your data, is there any legal recourse against this?
OO style definitely feels more familiar to many people.

You may find Dan’s thread on this subject interesting though — he tries to explain why neither plain classes nor plain functions are the best fit for React: https://twitter.com/dan_abramov/status/1093694465917751298.
Reminds me of Ma Bell's descendants still renting out rotary telephones to their customers into the 2000's.

http://www.nbcnews.com/id/14838642/ns/technology_and_science...
Same here. Also with Mobx all the setState problems go away.
> That page doesn't give any info other than "sign in", "type in your address" (lol), and "consider paying us rent for hardware, learn more".

Put a zip code in, no login. It will work.
And nowhere close to "Open," either. They need to change their name if they're going to take this stance.
I think that would be their (unions/minimum wages) stated purpose, though in practice, implementations have their own set of problems (e.g. unions being corrupt and acting as rent collection instead of being the counterbalance to market optimization, minimum wage being too low, etc.).
Of all places to 'spy' on folks, on a cramped airplane seems like the worst. Most people will be 1) asleep, 2) pissed off, 3) eating shitty food, 4) watching bad movies. It's likely that they decided to shove in some cheap android tablets that someone else sold them. It's unlikely that they are actively watching everyone, though the possibility of them switching on the camera to watch/record you shifting in your seat to get away from your neighbor trying to use your shoulder as a pillow is always there.
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That is just state management. The basic premise of reactjs has stayed the same.
> While I was there, employees in the Patch Tuesday program had been approached about backdooring updates.

What was the general policy about working with law enforcement to prosecute such attempts, to the extent they were traceable?
> Sure, but running it down the street is comparatively a much bigger cost.

The branch factor kills you. I had fiber installed at my house. It took half a day to run it down the main road to the subdivision another half a day to run it to the pole next to my house. Another half a day to trench it under my driveway and install the CPE. If they just ran it to the subdivision and put up a 5G base station, they could serve a couple of hundred users. It would cost far more time to actually pull the fiber to each of those same couple of hundred users.