skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Huh. Fair point about data rates, but then again, I'm not sure if forcing manufacturers into a single, active cable would be impossible. Standardizing a single cable type shouldn't impact the margins on cable sales - whether the cable costs $0.1 or $10, every manufacturer will have the same costs (in the limit).

> to forgo the cost savings of building cheaper passive cables when their client's devices don't even use the higher speeds the active circuitry is required for.

That's why I think standardization should disallow this very attempt at costs savings. A given device may only need a passive cable, but as a user, I want to be able to use that cable with a different device. Moreover, cables are often bought separately (e.g. replacements). It's already a huge problem with USB 2/3 - buying a cable is a lottery wrt. transfer rates and charging amperages.

(The last time I lost that lottery I happened to be in China, so I went to a local seller with a voltage measurement app, and started testing cables they offered one by one. After finally finding a cable that could push proper 2+ amps, I bought something around 60 of them, because back home, everyone sells USB cables packaged in hard plastic, so I wouldn't even be able to run this test.)
In the beginning, USB1/2 vs Firewire was a much clearer comparison.

Firewire could power a 2.5" spinning hard disk. (usb could not provide enough power)

You could hook two macs together with firewire, and turn one into a hard disk via target disk mode. (peer to peer)

Firewire could transfer video from cameras without dropping frames. (guaranteed bandwidth)

On the other hand, USB was always the cost king.

I believe there was a $1/chip royalty for firewire, and that limited its growth.

USB in practical terms has caught up.
The problem with the MS Natural is that the shape of the keyboard, as compared to standard, goes away from your fingers the farther you are away from your middle finger. Kinesis Advantage does it the opposite, meaning that your fingers have to travel less to reach all the keys.
Re:belgium, link https://zapatopi.net/belgium/#CITIZENS

Just wanted to say, the people of the Congo want to know who made up Belgium.
I have noticed a slight slow down in my own programs - around 5% compared to 1.12. Has anyone else noticed this in with their programs?
My Logitech wireless headphones don't work well with USB 3.x, they only output stereo sound.

It is required to use an USB 2.0 port to get surround sound.

USB 3.x is also unreliable to no end. My external disks, all using USB 3, only worked with the very fast speed for a week or so. Then the cable dies and it is basically just as fast as USB 2.

So, 8 years of unreliability. What a terrible record.
Does deactivating Facebook mean anything on the user side? I remember trying to delete my FB account (Which in their parlance is a different thing) some years ago and it was an oblique nightmare
Mysterious hacker news downvoting! This my preferred way of writing numbers with lots of 0s as well.
This doesn't end well.

We should use AI to help prevent warfare.
A closer look at recent HTTP/2 vulnerabilities affecting Kubernetes and others
Deflation is an economic failure. NIRP is, in my opinion, an economic failure. If cash is only a good asset class when shit is hitting the fan, that probably implies it’s not a very good store of wealth!
False equation. It is silly to compare the operation of the entire US government to a small special ops team from a 3-letter agency using a small special ops court to compel a small special ops team within a corporation to do something.

The teams that do that kind of thing are very intentionally separate from the bureaucracy.
One possible workaround may be for the President to post something outrageous on Twitter right after the shooting to distract the Media's attention.

Then again, maybe the Administration has already been doing this.
Nice cable!
I’m yet to meet someone who actually uses the hiragana layout for writing japanese.
I would posit that:

funding = charisma * suitability for capitalism

so .1 charisma score of some faceless tech exec * 1B in VC funding goes alot more than 2.0 charisma score * 50k of socially oriented funding..
> he might as well be shoving Jews into ovens himself.

In what way is this not utterly, appallingly offensive? For shame.
stomach ulcers of course exist. these things are really messy and are a source of internal bleeding. no one was "making it up" (?).

the question is one about etiology. the history suggests that the popular etiology (bacteria and probably also NSAIDs linearly cause stomach ulcers) is entirely insufficient. the questions you're asking ("we don't know what they were really suffering from") are important, but to most people these questions don't matter anymore. there is practically no medical research being done on these questions today. why bother? the "psychosomatic school" is the only school who takes the issue seriously anymore. their work is worth considering, that's my point.
Last time I looked OVH allowed IPMI access to their servers from the internet. You click a button and it gives you a JNLP which gets you remote console, keyboard/mouse and media.

https://docs.ovh.com/gb/en/dedicated/use-ipmi-dedicated-serv...
In the hands of government (and the ideologues who are in office, and the curmudgeons in mid-level bureaucracy) all of these would be used to silence political dissent.
Many universities don't require interviews. Most state schools don't.
High level descriptions of semiconductor fabrication is what scifi tech porn wants to be. Throwing an accelerator in there doesn't seem out of place. I wouldn't be surprised if they already used them for some other purposes.
I think internally for a company, it's a whole different situation. As it turns out, for us, trying to interface with an external company -- it just doesn't fit.
There are many tools that the international community has to influence domestic policy for a given country. We use economic sanctions all the time.

If the international community decided to stop buying beef and soy from Brazil, the demand would evaporate and it wouldn't be economical for them to continue their practices.
For me with the Advantage, it was a week before I was mostly back to productive and one month before it completely faded into the background. Love it though. No more pain.
VGA has the downsides of the analog signal, like ringing and smearing when you have a higher resolution running over a long cable.

DVI ended up being kind of a mess with the different connector types and ultimately fairly limited digital bandwidth.

Displayport is pretty good except everything Displayport costs 50% more than it should.
Had to read the USB1 spec in 1998 to make a HID Device using a small micro, took me over 3 weeks to get it working and was debugging shit for months afterwards. Would never go there again and for future projects I decided ignorance was bliss and just used whatever stack the chip designers supplied, I suspect that covers 99% of all devices out there.
agree - but juul will be one of the 'regulated' products since they can afford certify it, and also is a reaction to the vaping industry, and a less profitable one at that.

if big tobacco could outright ban vaping, I would wager that they would, juul be damned.
I guess the curious question is when you reflecting on it - does this constitute using your network and connections unfairly to get your job?

Should you have insisted on not using those connections and used only the standard job sites? Is this unfair to people who might not have those connections that you did? Are you perpetuating the problems with "the system"?

Definitely I could see it either way. For sure you were smart, entrepreneurial and motivated and successfully figured out how to navigate "the system".

In fact my main thought is that your comment seems like a great example of how it gets very grey about what the right thing to do is awfully quickly.
Those people exist among us and they're called homeless people.

But less glibly, I bet you would find many such people in this thread.
At the time they said that, yes, probability of impact was low. But then the probability got much, much, much higher. 10x the probability at which maneuvers are typically made. And we can't chalk it up to what or how SpaceX might have interpreted it. We know interpretation was not the problem. They freely admit that they never saw further messages because of a bug in their process, so we don't need to imagine their interpretation. The simply never knew the risk was there. Even if we were going to that extent though, clearly such an interpretation doesn't comport itself to how these things are resolved within the community of satellite operators. Which, if SpaceX made a misinterpretation, also shows a negligent disregard for how emergency resolution functions here.

I hope their ubiquitous constellation of broadband-providing satellites works well. I couldn't care less about the negligible impact it might have on visual observations of the sky-- the society enriching effects of cheap ubiquitous networks outweigh it. But they have to get basic things like safety protocols right, not iterating without such things from a minimum viable product.
It wasn't that long ago when rich dudes used import species to North America to show off their love of Shakespeare.

See flock of starlings? Thank Eugene Schieffelin and his American Acclimatization Society.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Acclimatization_Socie...
That seems worse - reducing them to raw data rather than giving them a chance to explain where they’re coming from and what they want to get out of the course?
So maybe the laptop cable would have to become thick instead of thin, to support the data rates. There's infinite number of tradeoffs you can make to shave that extra fraction of a cent, or to segment your market, but at some point somebody has to unilaterally declare, "this far, no further!". A standards body is a good candidate for that someone.
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File a bug with a repro? Chances are it'll get fixed if your benchmark is good.
The AP needs to arrange (typically with a RADIUS server) to tunnel the authentication to a remote EAP at the users institution. The local RADIUS server will discover your username (often an email address) but the other credentials used are up to the institution and only delivered there. It will often be MSCHAPv2 which is designed to authenticate Windows passwords, but it could even do X.509 client certificates.

Since TLS ends up in the picture many institutions use the Web PKI, so a typical modern device already understands how to verify that this is the right server for example@example.com to authenticate against, it's the one with a Certificate for the DNS name example.com. But yes, they can do all this with custom certificates instead and I'm sure lots do that.

Yes, you can in principle make an EduROAM service. You should probably talk to whatever higher education or further education IT body exists in your country.

Notice that only academics and students get to access the network, so unless you're either of those things you'll need to also add an escape hatch for yourself and anybody else you want using it. Offering the service to others does not entitle you to any access, it would be only a courtesy to others.
Anecdotal data point here: I happen to know for a fact that "donated" cash has gotten
students into USC as far back as the 1960's.
I can imagine on a few decades company's data center on a single square meter chip :)
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Building and maintaining a proper emergency preparedness kit is difficult. First, you need to know what items, food, and water to purchase based on your household. Second, everything expires at different times requiring you to continually replace certain items and food. Third, if you look to purchase everything at once, up front, you'll face sticker shock.

How about an emergency preparedness subscription service that allows you to pick a level of preparedness, input your household composition, and then allows you to build and maintain an emergency kit over time?

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The key has to be generated either in the app or on some server. There are no other choices really, unless you use only ephemeral keys - and that gives you secrecy but doesn't validate the other side. (And you can still copy that key) WhatsApp is e2e on all devices since 2016 and uses open whisper, which is the same encryption as signal.

Regarding the key - you have to trust the app it doesn't share it with the app authors. That's regardless of who/how implements the encryption. And it's true for iMessage as well.
The fan does generate some heat, yes. It should be no more than 15 kW/year (it uses well under 2W but the converter is a bit inefficient). The savings are expected to be around 226 kW/year (including the added heat from the fan.)
Sharp edges in what way?

I've never been stabbed by it and the corners are all rounded. The long edge running across the bottom under the spacebar is the only thing that could maybe be described as sharp but it's nothing like the edge of a piece of wood or anything sharp. I wouldn't have even noticed it after years of usage without you mentioning it. I've also never once hit it with my hands.

I also used the device on Debian without issues. It just worked out of the box. No idea about a Raspberry Pi but Google mentions others are using it without problems.

Maybe you had an older model of this keyboard?
Because delivery only takes from foods value. Takes too long. Its way more expensive. And you feed companies that really have nothing to do with your food. They drive like since they use company cars. You can't provide "right amount of immediate feedback" to chef so they can (and will) cheat on your food. The list of "why nots" can be really long. Why go delivery - you really cannot go anywhere out from whatever reason, or you are lazy(!, and that isn't really acceptable reason).
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The article discusses an internal fan in the cooling box to circulate the air inside the fridge.
>the Second Amendment makes it infeasible

that's only if you accept as default the interpretation favored by firearms activists. And in any case, even if the Founding Fathers had mass shootings in mind when they wrote the Constitution it doesn't mean it's correct or something to simply go along with. The 3/5ths of a human being bit has been dispensed with, for example.
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Actually now you can deploy your docker layers directly to lambda, so you are developing on exactly the same environment.

https://github.com/awslabs/aws-lambda-container-image-conver...
Nor Hangouts or Play Store. Photos, Phone, Fit, Settings and notifications do. Happy to see movement and hopefully the stragglers get on board soon.
Which is a horrible idea....

How many lambdas do you keep warm? 5, 10, 20? Every new connection is a new lambda instance. You're still just delaying the inevitable.

Just use Fargate if you want to stay serverless and don't want the cold start times -- well at least before today.
> USB is a great standard. Or at least, was until 2.0. [...] Unfortunately USB became too complicated with the various modes and backward tidbits

Fortune had nothing to do with it.

USB's deliberations on packets were distinctly underdeveloped. PCI's were well developed. USB got it wrong. PCI got it right. The compatibility complexity explosion in USB and lack thereof in PCIe is a direct result.

This pattern continues across every single stratum of the standard that I dug into. Why?

(Every single stratum except the app layer. As you note, PCIe does not operate there and USB does.)

> It was ahead of its time in performance

I thought USB was always in the value segment and never competed on performance. That's the stated intent and that's what I remember: it was never the fastest external port on my computer.

> If you compare the first USB standards to other standards of the era, the amount of thought that has gone into it is fantastic.

My entire complaint compares it to PCIe and notes the comparative lack of thought.

> Compare it to the clusterfuck that's Bluetooth

Agreed, Bluetooth is worse. Maybe clusterfuck is the default state of affairs.

The question, then, is if there's anything to be learned from the USB/PCIe dichotomy. Is there an Engineering Steve Jobs keeping the PCI-SIG in line? Does it have fewer members? Is having one dimension on which you do not compete in the value segment critical to maintaining overall quality? I feel like there's a case study to be had, but I don't know enough to rank the causes or generalize with any certainty.
No “returns” in directly measurable sales but all but the most unconcerned companies are going to look at interactions and ask whether they’re getting enough versus the cost, especially since the Facebook measurement scandal got a lot of attention.
Can you un-rest it for a second and tell me what you mean by that? For our purposes, a lattice is just a specialization of a vector space, and LLL is (1) not a whole lot harder to grok than Graham-Schmidt and (2) available in every serious library and in Sage, which is how people generally do this. If you have zero linear algebra, this sounds forbidding, but the fundamentals you need before tackling lattices and LLL are like, 1st semester linear algebra, and you can self-study your way to it.

Sean Devlin has talked a bunch of people through actually writing these attacks in cryptopals set 8. We talked English professors through the "number-theoretic" attacks on RSA in cryptopals set 6. It's fine if you don't want to dip into this stuff, but I'm not OK with the pretense that this intuition is somehow unattainable.

We need more people playing with these attacks, and fewer people trying to assemble new cryptosystems out of libraries they understand only from the documentation on the web page.
Maybe? Most foods are labeled that they should be stored somewhere between 4-8C.

I store insulin in the fridge so that would be too cold.
FISC/FISCR don't order surveillance, they permits it; the only compulsory powers they have are to limit the scope and conditions of the surveillance permitted, and that's binding on the government under FISA, which criminalizes certain surveillance unless authorized by FISC/FISCR.

And that's a pretty weak compulsion, since the people who are bound are the people who would ordinarily prosecute any federal crime, and they probably aren't interested in prosecuting themselves.
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I recognized this when I built my own X-effect app. For me the hardest part was simply getting started each time, so instead of "run 30 minutes", my goal was "put on your running shoes". It worked just fine because once my shoes are on I'm already in the mindset of working out. (Note those shoes were only ever used for running.)
Well we could stop ignoring the first half, the "well regulated Militia" and "security of a free State" part.

That clause doesn't sound like they mean "unlimited guns for all".

Using the context before the comma, the "people" clearly means polis, as in society, not as in the "every human with a pulse" way we use it today.

The word "person" is used twice in the BoR, both times referring to individuals. The other 3 uses of "people" clearly refer to the collective polis.

This distinction, as people not merely being a plural of person, is laid bare in the fourth amendment: "the right of the people to be secure in their persons", that only makes sense if "people" means the abstract composition.
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In the U.S. salsa has partly replaced katchup as a tomato condiment. I use it myself because I have to watch my weight and sugar intake.