skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm getting back into packet radio. SDRs are making this lost art a cheap reality.
The Secret to Employees' Happiness
Nonsense! America has plenty of options for Internet, and with blazing fast speeds like 54kbps!
I have to mention, I've been on the other side of this, albeit with Time Warner.

I'd just moved into my first apartment and had bought my own modem. Tech comes, sets up the internet, the internet doesn't work. Tech blames my modem. My response is something to the effect of "give me a break", but ultimately do order a new modem from Amazon, if only so I can show the tech that two different modems both don't work.

Turns out, the first modem was defective. The second one worked fine and my internet has been great. I felt kind of crappy for arguing with the tech, when it absolutely was my hardware at fault.
Of course McKinsey has this structure. Indeed Puerto Rico recently investigated this structure and found it up to the task: https://www.mckinsey.com/~/media/mckinsey/about%20us/media%2...
ISPs in Australia give the router out for free as long as you agree to a 1 year contract.
Look on Craigslist for a mid-2000's Toyota or Honda in a college neighborhood or an area with a lot of yuppies. I don't know if this is the best way, but I've heard somebody else get a car this way.
If none of the big tech companies will step up to adopt openssl, we should put it down, like in a real pet shelter.
Is this site mobile friendly? Can't read it at all.
A graveyard
Buy a showroom car, and they'll usually give you anywhere from a 10-20% discount, depending on brand.
> I wonder how much longer we'll even have the option to use our own equipment.

Comcast already made it very nearly impossible to buy your own ATA for phone. I figured out how to do it. You had to go IN PERSON to a Best Buy with an Xfinity center (there was one about an hour away in my state). There you would pay and place your order. You would have to return in person to pick it up, then setup a provisioning appointment. As far as I could tell, aside from having an insider this was the only way they would allow you to provision your own device.

Oh yeah, and if it breaks you're out the cost.
Oh, yeah, donating a kidney halves the donor's long-term glomerular filtration capacity. They're sacrificing years of life for that decision.
I think linux to valve is mostly leverage against microsoft should they ever try to shut them out in any way. They made this quite clear at launch. Microsoft was trying to launch the windows store back then, a move that looked threatening. Of course by now we know how that worked out.

All this doesn’t mean it won’t benefit everyone in the long term, I for one would like not having to dualboot anymore.
The Anatomy of Zapier's Email Outreach Funnel
It's not like I said shorts invent illegitimate claims. They're just the most incentivized to dig it up and make it as visible as possible. In my experience it's quite often legitimate, though frequently blown out of proportion for obvious reasons.
Generally: I personally only buy from direct sales. Dealers seem simple but they are experts at getting the best price and hiding potential issues. I assume they will always be better than me at these so avoid them.

My process;
1) Find out what seems to be the most reliable car via internet.

1) Decide car and parameters like kms/prices/4WD etc. Set up search alerts.

2) Go see cars within that. I dont know much about mechanics but general condition, oil quality, log book. Any noises or other that sets a red flag. I also judge the person a bit - tidy yard I assume they look after things better...who knows if true

3) Offer $$$ - if they accept I say it's on the condition my mechanic approves and get the car a quick once over from a professional.

4) Buy car. Or reject if surprises show up.

5) Get immediate service.

Personally i'd avoid an auction as I dont know enough. If you were mechanically skilled it would probably be a reasonable gamble.
Linux performance ain't significantly worse than Windows (in fact, it's usually significantly better on pretty much every metric besides maybe GPU performance, and even that's dependent on the GPU vendor and driver/kernel version).

Meanwhile, it's been years since I've had Linux hardware compatibility issues on desktop PCs (laptops are another story, though recent Linuxen have for the most part fixed that, too). Maybe that's just because I've been conditioned to shop specifically for hardware that looks reasonably-Linux-compatible (and tend to aim for business/enterprise-grade hardware when possible), but lately I've found that pretty much everything Just Works™ (with the sole exception of printers; things are better, but still not quite at the "my grandpa can buy a random one from Best Buy and it'll work out-of-the-box" level I'd hope for).

The reason why Linux adoption is still low has squarely to do with the usual chicken-and-egg problem of there being a lack of quality software for it. The other reasons haven't been significantly relevant to most users for years now.
What is old is new...

You used to not be able to own your phone - it was leased from AT&T. That was the only option until Ma Bell was broken up in the early 80s.
I love React Hooks
Reminds me of being promoted until you fail. Growing and creeping until you fail to deliver the core service you were the best at. HN skews hard to the unicorn-or-bust mentality for some reason.
> I'm incapable of understanding the mindset the man is in - total awareness of impending death.

Seriously? Every human being on Earth over a toddler's age is totally aware of impending death. To date nobody has ever lived forever. The only question, for every human being, cancer or no, is how many years you get before you eventually die.

Modern man just makes my head shake in disbelief sometimes...
I wonder if Singapore Airlines has something new to say about the cameras in their IFE system?

https://twitter.com/vkamluk/status/1097008518685573120
Can OpenWRT not run containers? I’d argue that’s be an amazing use case similar to how my Synology NAS has a GUI and cli for running containers.

Open source router firmware having the ability to run persistent containers would be a powerful feature (such as an IPFS node).
I've ran servers at home since I had a BBS in the mid 90s. I'm not even sure how many computers I own these days...
Logic actually got some great improvements and it's one of the best value for money product out there.

- They bought Camel Audio and got Alchemy.
- They've added more nice instruments to their arsenal.
- They did a UI redesign.
- They've add ARA2.

Compare those updates to other mature products (Ableton Live, Pro Tools, Cubase) it's not bad.
People who write this kind of article grotesquely underestimate how hard these companies make this task.

I use centurylink DSL, mainly because the local cable monopolist is mediacom, and I tried mediacom for two weeks of downright insulting lack of service[1], it was the only alternative.

This[2] is the information centurylink provides about what modems are compatible with their service. Do I know whether I have ADSL, ADSL2, VDSL, GPON, or whatever the hell any of those other acronyms mean? No. Does it say so on the bill? Who knows, I haven't seen a paper bill for years, no idea when they stopped sending them. I suppose I could dig up some three-year-old piece of paper from a kitchen drawer somewhere that might say which, or that might say the unused landline number they hooked the DSL to so I can maybe try to figure out how to get into some online account (lord knows I've tried to find a username that they'll recognize to get a password reset). Or I could call them, and talk to a minimum wage, probably offshore, customer service person in a call center who might maybe give me accurate information as to which acronym I have.

Or I could not look a gift horse in the mouth. Right now, I'm sending someone a not huge amount of money per month, and I actually have residential internet service that kinda works (and when I actually need reasonable speeds I can bring my laptop to the office). Relative to the standard condition of life in our third-world situation in the United States with crooked monopolists charging people for service they don't actually provide, I feel lucky being charged for service I actually do receive. And don't feel particularly inclined to rock the boat on that.

I rather suspect a similar calculus is going through the heads of millions of American households. What we need is regulation for the monopolists, not more articles scolding captive consumers about buying their own goddamn modems.

[1] This letter sums it all up. http://paul-gowder.com/pgmediacom.pdf Needless to say, after receiving a "this is a lawyer who is clearly insane and extremely angry" letter they sent me my money back.

[2] https://www.centurylink.com/home/help/internet/modems-and-ro...
Ken Thompson was one of the original authors of Unix
Last month we made a decision to buy our own router and not rent from Comcast (Xfinity).
Then I started doing the math, and soon realized at the end of the day it might be that much better.

1 - It's unclear which is the best modem/router by doing research. Gives you the maximum speed, etc.
2 - You start reading reviews on Amazon around reliability and you see a lot of comments that basically give you doubt. It falls in two ways:
A - the model/router stopped working after a 12-18 months so they had a buy another one. Put it at same price as renting.
B - the firmware upgrade path was unclear and it could only be initiated through comcast (in some instances). Making you worry about upgrade support using a third-party product.

C - Overall issues with support. Tech support is already a pain, again as above is going to be worse with third-party products.

With modem/router price ranging from $100-200. Renting from Comcast at $120/year it means that you always have a de facto warranty. Something goes wrong with the modem/router call comcast they'll send you one or just drive to the local store and get a new one.
There is probably some savings if it all goes well. But then again is it worth my time?
> Certainly! This type of thought experiments is how much of physics progresses. But their results should be contemplated seriously. Assuming it is possible to prepare a system that works like your computer, it will immediately collapse into a black hole, because it breaks the holographic principle (and plenty of other bounds).

You are condescending.

> Similarly we can imagine what happens if FTL was possible: time paradoxes. Or if we could measure both position and momentum: UV catastrophe.

This has been done extensively and not much new can be brought to the table. Not many people talk about photonic analog computation, so indulge me.

There are people who research this field extensively (continuous variable quantum computation). Your whole argument just relies on a section from a Scott Aaronson paper. Can I ask what other research do you use as a foundation of your worldview?
Are you familiar with work of say Alessio Serafini?

You read too much theory of complexity, it doesn't have all the answers. Can I ask about your stance on say Lie theory as it relates to quantum physics and why exactly is it that Lie theory provides a good foundation reasoning about quantum phenomena?

Can we talk about anticommutavity? And infinitesimals?

> The infinity aspect is what makes Real Computation more powerful than other types of computation.

10^300 is infinity. 10^3000 is infinity. 10^300000000 is infinity. It's that you can make each atom do a lot more computation and much more valuable computation. I'm not interested in your arguments about infinity. I legit don't care, stop trying, I find the premise of the question flawed.

And last but not least it is "Real" computation. It's the limit of computation you can "fit into reality". Are you legitimately saying that current architectures are at the physical limit that reality can take? There's nothing realer than reality.

Who has actually attempted to build this computer? Like we haven't really given this a good shot. Things are impossible until they are not.
Even if it is a myth, it's a myth worth believing.
when the sysop breaks in when you’re desperately trying to brute force a NUP
It is so hard to do this because of VC money. Once you have taken the VC money success is not an option anymore. You must be super successful and ideally wipe out all competitors!

If I'd start my own startup and don't take VC money and the company makes $300k-$500k profit per year, I'd be ecstatic and happy to stay at that level forever. Maybe I'd focus more on reducing my own time spent at some point, rather than growing more.
For a VC that's the same as failing. They invest in a wide range of companies and they need to get some major cash out from the successful companies. There also needs to be an exit. That means IPO or sell the thing. The exit is needed because the fund has a set lifetime. After that the shares go to the fund investors. For years you had A16Z representing, now you got a bunch folks you never heard of. Neither you nor those people want to deal with any of that.

If you have an IPO the treadmill continues, because our economy is about exponential growth and not sustainable, steady income. That pattern is even reinforced by our tax code. Capital gains < income tax. I can defer capital gains by not selling. Don't give my dividends! Those get taxed immediately!
Show HN: A Simple State Logger to Use with React's Hooks API
Wow AA round? I'm guessing the founders had no equity left after the first 10 and were just throwing money into a pit.
For what it's worth, it bears keeping in mind that the tool that you are likely using does not report activity on any parts of the codebase that you personally don't have permission to view. Also, many teams keep codebases out of the standard code store, either in alternative self-managed version control systems or on GitHub.
You can bypass the AT&T RG:

https://github.com/jaysoffian/eap_proxy/

That said, I haven’t had any trouble with it as a router.
Note: This article was written by Steve Bellovin, a leading researcher in security and networking.
Binance Coin (BNB) New ATH Prior to Binance DEX Testnet Launch
If you come at the king, you best not miss.
Customer Data Protection and the Death of Passwords
I took GP to be speculating about a hypothetical secretly-IoT-keyboard, not the cable being discussed. Similar thoughts are explored in the comments on TFA.
I had considered that. This is common in AWS or Lab126, but I've never seen that be the case in Retail.

Edit: Missed the part about permissions, that's totally possible, but at least in publicly visible contributions, he is way behind his teammates.
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>So why do games do matchmaking based only on skill, not taking social cohesion into account? There's much more to a good gaming experience than just having skill-balanced teams.

Not enough players. Any matchmaking system requires a large number of players to be playing at once to work. People are generally unwilling to wait several minutes or more to get into a game. The problem is that this has a cascading effect: the longer your queue times the more people will quit and the longer your queue gets. Below a certain threshold the system breaks down. If you start classifying people based on criteria such as social cohesion then you increase matchmaking time even further.

There are some games that could have a matchmaking system like this. But no developer knows in the development stage that their game is going to have this kind of popularity, which means that this type of matchmaking would have to be built after the fact. At that point you risk ruining something people like about the game.

Another thing to keep in mind is that player numbers fluctuate significantly. The number of players playing at 5 am between Monday and Tuesday is much lower than the number of players playing at 7 pm on a Friday evening. You would have to change matchmaking algorithms based on time of day or activity.

You would also have to change matchmaking algorithms based on skill level. At the very top end matchmaking is going to be long due to there simply not being enough players at that rating. This can have a negative impact on the retention of players, because popular streamers usually have a high rating. Watching a stream of matchmaking queue isn't very interesting and doesn't make people want to play the game.

Then there's the question of whether you even should do this. People make friends in games. If a game introduces matchmaking on social cohesion you essentially put players into a filter bubble. We see from Facebook and Reddit that these kinds of filter bubbles aren't ideal. I think one of the coolest things that I've got from games is that I've interacted with and made friends with people wildly different from me.
I do not have the self control to make that work.

I bet I’m not alone.
Scientists Find Huge Mountains Deep Below Earth’s Surface
Warning for anyone using a customer owned modem with Comcast: Be sure you keep your receipts and original packaging.

I recently canceled service and switched to AT&T Fiber. It was actually an unexpectedly easy process. But when I dropped off my cable box at a Comcast store, they asked me for my modem. The one that I bought myself. The person taking receipt of my equipment was fine when I said I owned my modem, and just "put a note" on my file.

... then I get a collections letter, explicitly related to the "unreturned" modem. Despite having no history of receiving a rental modem, and no monthly surcharge for modem rental on any of my years-long billing history, they refused to budge. I happened to still have the original box with the serial number on it and that combined with a printout of my Amazon order from back then was enough to at least to successfully dispute the debt on my credit reports. But it wasn't enough for Comcast, and I'm sure I'll still have to pay that bill and put down a giant deposit if (when) I move somewhere that forces me back to Comcast.
http://iqcomparisonsite.com/SexDifferences.aspx

http://www.randalolson.com/2014/06/25/average-iq-of-students...

Richard Feynman is the exception that proves the rule.
Naomi Wu reported on those last August.[1] There's one on Amazon that uses GSM, but it's 2G.[2]

[1] https://twitter.com/realsexycyborg/status/103190315541447884...

[2] https://www.amazon.com/Jiusion-Listening-Surveillance-Quad-b...
I am impressed! Given the prompt “My startup”, it spit out:

1. My startup, VentureGuru, tried to read these materials to provide its clients with hints and insights that can identify strategies and efforts for laid-back software investments. The first of these has been as follows: startups focus on client satisfaction and creativity, and best practice is to set your own goals when you write these recommendations. At Netflix's rate site, Hip on Netflix I build a database that analyzes your product reviews and then produces a 360-degree snapshot of your investment.

2. My startup is made up of new people who are leading the digital consumer techno-optimism for things like networks, litigation, automated invoice processing, smart health automation, use of blockchain for VCs that have 15 or 20 people in Utah and other 40 or 50 different startups are starting to forego the digital-first business model and are making incremental money downhill from there and accepting donations instead.

3. My startup admission states: BOTTOM: American Networks DOCSIS 28 15.5 - DSL 10 40.25FLG 100 105.5SUS-US DOCSIS 28 16.5 - DSL 11 50F 300 145.5 The larger network repeater is one of the smallest, with bitrate of 2 FPS higher than a USB input like an HDS one,

2/3 were spot on, that’s amazing
OpenWRT routers may not have enough power (RAM/CPU) to run complicated server software. Also the router may be running MIPS which is not that well supported by many apps and containerization is not going to solve that problem.

Admittedly, it was a few years since I last tested this. These days I try to run any apps on a Raspberry Pi connected to my OpenWrt router
because for me, doing TSCM is only half of what I'm wanting to do.

There's a lot of wireless stuff out there, not using 802.11__ or BT specs and frequencies. Are these things secure? Probably not. Are they encrypted? Perhaps. Do they defend against replay? Likely not.

But in the end, how do we assess? Standard TSCM gear can do a good job scanning and finding peaks. But its not for protocol decoding and device assessments. My goal is to "Identify signals, categorize protocols for signals found, decode if possible, and attempt to access/exploit".
Recently, Cox had an outage in the city where my parents live. My dad, close to 70, misconstrued the situation and though it was just our modem being slow. He drove to a brick & mortar Cox shop, where a rep promptly sold him on leasing a gateway for $10/mo that would be (and I quote) "25 times faster" than the speeds we were currently getting (roughly peaking at 250 Mbps down).

Of course, my Dad, not knowing too much about this stuff, rents the new router. And of course, it doesn't solve the fact that there was an outage in the first place. I tested the new connection and while I could see _rare_ instances of faster peak speeds, for the most part it was not much faster than the old setup when sampled over time.

I really hope there comes a day when companies can be held accountable for straight up lying and taking advantage of customers who simply don't have the technical means to know any better. It really, really bothers me when my parents get taken advantage of like this and I know I'm mostly helpless to prevent it without micro-managing my dad's tech purchasing decisions.
What's the difference between truly self driving and the current self-driving?
It's made at the University of Ljubljana so educational purposes are probably high on the list of requirements.
I heard reports of people crying at their desks at Amazon, but I never witnessed that. They cried in the bathrooms.
Many of the most used online services like email and dropbox and maybe even federated social media alternatives amongst others could be well handled by home servers. I suspect they made it hard so they could be something more than dumb pipes, but instead they ceded those opportunities to google and other SaaS providers.
YouTube VR Seems to Have Been Pulled from the Go
Some of these generated images look oddly male, or at least gender-unspecific, with their longer faces, eye-nose distances and wider chins. Mixing lots of female drawings inside a gann apparently doesn't result in females in every case.
>DotA 2 used to have nicer community, until rankings were implemented, at which point the number of people who explode at the slightest error very noticeably blew up.

I disagree with the point that dota 2 had a nicer community. The game grew out of Dota 1 and many of the attitudes from that game carried over. It was standard practice for new players to be called noobs. Then there's the infamous "Welcome to dota. You suck."
I think it depends in the task, and what the interest of the various groups are. If you have 10 engineers but only 2 of them are really passionate about it, and the other 8 would rather be doing something else, but due to incentives based on their minority status, they decided it was worth the extra money, you'd probably do a lot worse than a company which had 10 engineers that were all hired based on merit.
The record for bananas eaten in 1 sitting is 30:

https://recordsetter.com/world-record/bananas-eaten-sitting/...

And the record most in 1 minute is “only” 8.